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Surveillance systems currently deploy a variety of devices that can capture visual content (such as CCTV, body-worn cameras, and smartphone cameras), thus rendering the monitoring of the video footage obtained from multiple such devices a complex task. This becomes especially challenging when monitoring social events that involve large crowds, particularly when there is a risk of crowd violence. This paper presents and demonstrates a crowd violence detection system that can process, analyze, and alert the potential stakeholders when violence-related content is identified in crowd-based video footage. Based on deep neural networks, the proposed end-to-end framework utilizes a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to deal with the (near) real-time analysis of video streams and video files for crowd violence detection. The framework is trained, evaluated, and demonstrated using the most recent dataset related to crowd-violence, namely the Violent Flows dataset. The presented framework is provided as a standalone application for desktop environments and can analyze video streams and video files.


Bhimashankar to Kalyan distance, location, road map and direction
Bhimashankar is located in India at the longitude of 73.54 and latitude of 19.07. Kalyan is located in India at the longitude of 73.16 and latitude of 19.25.
Distance between Bhimashankar and Kalyan
The total straight line distance between Bhimashankar and Kalyan is 44 KM (kilometers) and 183.57 meters. The miles based distance from Bhimashankar to Kalyan is 27.5 miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Bhimashankar and Kalyan may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road.
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Bhimashankar is located around 44 KM away from Kalyan so if you travel at the consistant speed of 50 KM per hour you can reach Kalyan in 0.88 hours. Your Kalyan travel time may vary due to your bus speed, train speed or depending upon the vehicle you use.
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I would like to seek help from all experts in VB.NET (VB Language) regarding copying file from source folder to destination folder.
I have a files named YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.txt. Now i want to build a small project to copy those file to destination folder. The project should work in following manner:
 1. Check Computer Date
 2. Look for the file in destination folder similar to computer date and then copy that file to destination folder. For example:
 Let say Computer Date is 26/12/2012. When the program starts, it should check the computer date and then look for the file named 20121226*.txt. If the file is present then it should start copying else it should give a message saying the file does not exists.
 3. It should create log file storing the copy information.
Can any one help me how to have above feature in my project.
Till now how far you wrote code for this? You want someone to write code for you?
That is not a question, that is a specification. As stated above, show what you have tried and described what is giving you problems.
For the date use the Date.Today() function.
To take the date from the format dd/mm/yyyy and put it in the form ddmmyyyy you will need to build a new string like this Date.Today.Day & Date.Today.Month & Date.Today.Year
To check if a file exists you need to use the System.IO.File.Exists(path) function
Hope this helps. Should be enough to complete your task


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Development Of A Location-factor-matrix For Sustainable Business Locations
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M. Pajones, T. Steiner, N. Hackner-Jaklin
Modern company strategies show that the issue of sustainability, for example in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, became a significant aspect. However, related to the process of location planning, companies do not take sustainability into consideration. In consolidation of strategies in business economics, key objectives in spatial development and traffic planning, a sustainable business location should be generated. As no definition of the term "sustainable business area" exists so far, an inevitable step for further development is to create one, which is presented in this paper. Another aim is to identify essential location factors, which have an impact on the economic-, ecologicaland social sustainability of business locations. A qualitative analysis of interdependencies demonstrates the substantial connections between these factors. In the course of an organized workshop, experts in freight logistics, spatial planning, traffic planning and sustainability discussed the essential location factors and their impact on sustainability. The output was a so called location-factor-matrix for business locations. In a next step, the interdependencies among the defined location factors and their roles in the system have been indicated with the help of the impact matrix by Vester. Another substantial step further along the line will be the development of sustainability criteria or indices, which allow a classification of the business location. These findings will be an essential input for a location-factors-based evaluation and planning system.
sustainability, location factors, sustainable business location, sustainable development, sustainability dimensions, impact matrix

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Hi there,
I know that power law decay can be expressed as the combination of multiple single exponential decays (or another way of saying it is that if there are multiple timescales in a decay process, when there is no dominant timescale, then power law behavior emerges). Empirically, it's fairly easy to see that this is the case (and see _URL_ for an example of expressing power law decay as a sum of exponentials). However, I'm trying to understand *why* this is the case. Does anybody have an intuitive explanation for why power law decay contains multiple exponential decays? Thanks!


Open-Sourcing Our Netdiag Crate
Will Glozer -
Kentik Labs is happy to announce the release of our first open-source Rust crate, netdiag, which provides scalable, asynchronous, implementations of a number of low-level network diagnostics including ping, trace, and a custom diagnostic we call knock. Netdiag is at the core of our synthetics product which monitors application and network performance using a global network of public and private agents.
Netdiag is built on top of tokio and the raw-socket crate. Diagnostic instances are Send and Sync so concurrent tasks can share the same underlying open sockets and state. This provides for efficient execution of many concurrent diagnostic tasks. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported for all diagnostics.
The following async code snippet from netdiag's ping example demonstrates using Pinger to stream ping results:
let pinger = Pinger::new(&Bind::default()).await?;
let ping = Ping { addr, count, expiry };
let stream =;
while let Some((n, item)) = {
 match item? {
 Some(d) => println!("seq {} RTT {:0.2?} ", n, d),
 None => println!("seq {} timeout", n),
Pinger::new takes a Bind reference that allows using a specific IPv4 and/or IPv6 source address. This can be useful on a host with multiple routable interfaces.
let pinger = Pinger::new(&Bind::default()).await?; returns a Stream of Some(Duration) or None results to indicate no response was received before the expiry time elapsed. StreamExt.enumerate is a convenient extension to Stream that returns the current iteration count in addition to the next value.
let stream =;
Writing async code in Rust is quite pleasant in general, however it isn't uncommon to run into ergonomics issues around pinning. stream must be pinned via futures::pin_mut prior to calling
Pinger and the ping module implement the classic ping diagnostic which uses ICMP echo request & reply packets to estimate round-trip-time (RTT) and packet loss to a host.
Ping is a simple and well-known diagnostic tool that gives a reasonably good view of network latency and packet loss in the general case. However it may not accurately reflect application performance as ICMP traffic can be handled differently than typical application protocols such as TCP and UDP.
Tracer and the trace module implement the classic traceroute diagnostic which sends UDP, or TCP, packets with an increasing time-to-live (TTL) to determine each hop in the route between source and destination. Examining latency and packet loss for each node in a route can help pinpoint network performance issues.
The netdiag trace implementation discovers multiple paths between source and destination by sending multiple probes per hop while varying the packet header. UDP probes increment the destination port for each probe while TCP probes increment the sequence number instead to allow targeting a specific destination port.
Unix implementations of traceroute usually default to sending UDP probes, however networks may block, rate-limit, or otherwise alter the profile of UDP traffic. TCP probes can bypass some or all of these issues.
Knocker and the knock module implement a custom diagnostic which performs a partial TCP handshake to estimate RTT and packet loss. Knock can provide a more accurate view of application performance since most application traffic uses TCP and networks often block or rate-limit ICMP traffic.
IPv4 & IPv6
IPv4 and IPv6 support for ping is relatively simple. ICMP raw sockets do not need the IP header when sending, and the ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 echo packet format is identical. However the ICMP type differs, the ICMP checksum must be calculated for ICMPv4, and a IPv4 raw socket receives the IP header while a IPv6 raw socket does not.
IPv4 and IPv6 support for knock & trace is more complicated. Sending and receiving TCP & UDP packets with an IPv4 raw socket require encoding & decoding the IP header. With IPv6 raw sockets the kernel manages the IP header and ancillary data is used to send and receive IP fields such as hop limit and destination address.
The raw-socket crate supports ancillary data via CMsg and the control buffer passed to the send_msg & recv_msg methods of RawSocket.
Rust at Kentik
Rust is one of the core languages used for systems development at Kentik. We rely on a significant amount of open-source software and are happy to be able to contribute back to that community. Our netdiag crate is in active use in hundreds of locations worldwide, powering tens of thousands of active diagnostic tasks, and we hope others find it useful too. And if you are a programmer interested in Rust or any of the topics covered in this post, we're hiring!


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The meaning and origin of the expression: Donkey's years
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What's the meaning of the phrase 'Donkey's years'?
A very long time.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Donkey's years'?
It turns out that, although Donkey's years is now the more commonly used slang term when meaning 'a long time', donkey's ears, has been used that way too (although not very often) since at least the early 20th century. The English humorous writer Edward Verral Lucas used the phrase that way in his novel Vermilion Box, 1916:
The clue there seems to be that Lucas write comic stories. 'Donkey's ears' wasn't used until well after the date that 'donkey's years' had become established in the language and was only ever a jokey alternative form.
So, having found 'donkey's ears' to be a side-show, we now come to when and how did 'donkey's years' originate? It is now used as Cockney rhyming slang and the assumption that is made by many is that the expression was coined as such, making the rhyme between 'ears' and 'years'. That assumption is very likely to be wrong. Three things count against it.
1. It isn't backed by any known evidence.
2. The expressions use as Cockney rhyming slang is long predated by it being used in being used with no CRS connection. The first example of the expression 'donkey's years' that I can find in print is from The Salisbury Times, July 1876:
Didn't you ask him how long it had been in his possession?
I can't recollect that. I might have done so.
Didn't he say for years and years and donkey's years?
This is getting on for a hundred years earlier than any use of 'donkey's years' as rhyming slang, which isn't found in print with a rhyming slang connection until the 1950s.
'Donkey's years' is certainly in use as Cockney rhyming slang now but the evidence points to it being a back-formation, that is, an existing phrase that got taken up as rhyming slang later.
Donkey's yearsDonkey's years may have been chosen as a synonym for a long time simply because donkeys are long-lived animals. Lively Laddie, a donkey who had lived up to his name for many years while plying his trade on Blackpool Pleasure Beach was, until his death at age 62, a contender for the 'oldest living quadruped' title.


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How to Load Multiple Files in Parallel in Azure Data Factory - Part 1
By: Koen Verbeeck | Comments (7) | Related: > Azure Data Factory
At our company we're using Azure Data Factory as the orchestrator for our data pipelines in Azure. We need to load flat files from various locations into an Azure SQL Database. The schema of the flat files can change per type of file and even the delimiter changes sometimes. Manually creating a dataset and a pipeline in ADF for each file is tedious and time consuming. Is there a better way to do this?
In Azure Data Factory, a dataset describes the schema and location of a data source, which are.csv files in this example. However, a dataset doesn't need to be so precise; it doesn't need to describe every column and its data type. You can also use it as just a placeholder for the.csv file type in general. For example, if you have two.csv files, the first with the comma as delimiter and the second one with the semicolon as delimiter, you can still use the same dataset. You only need to put a parameter on the definition of the delimiter.
Furthermore, using the For Each activity we can loop over metadata and load multiple files in parallel. When you combine both features, we can create a metadata-driven pipeline where we will load multiple types of flat file dynamically. In this tip, we will lay out the architecture for such a solution.
We're going to load 3 files stored in Azure Blob Storage into an Azure SQL DB. The files contain data about the top 250 movies. The first file contains the first 100 movies, using a semicolon:
The second file contains the next 200 movies, also with a semicolon:
The third file contains the last 50 movies. However, the file was created on a different system and there the comma was used as a delimiter:
The three files are stored inside an Azure Blob Container. The first two in a virtual folder called semicolon, the last file in a virtual folder named comma.
This is our source data. To be able to drive our data factory pipeline dynamically, we need metadata. This metadata is stored in a table using the key-value pair method. This allows us to story any type of metadata in the table. The table has the following schema:
CREATE TABLE dbo.Metadata_ADF( ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, SourceType VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, ObjectName VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, ObjectValue VARCHAR(1000) NOT NULL );
To load the files, we need the following metadata:
- The location in the container, aka the virtual folder.
- The delimiter used
- The destination table name
The following SQL scripts inserts the metadata into the table:
INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('BlobContainer','semicolondata','semicolon'),('BlobContainer','commadata','comma'); INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('Delimiter','semicolondata',';'),('Delimiter','commadata',','); INSERT INTO dbo.[Metadata_ADF] ( [SourceType],[ObjectName],ObjectValue ) VALUES ('SQLTable','semicolondata','topmovies_semicolon'),('SQLTable','commadata','topmovies_comma');
The destination tables are created using the following DDL:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[topmovies_semicolon]( [Index] [BIGINT] NULL, [MovieTitle] varchar(500) NULL ); CREATE TABLE [dbo].[topmovies_comma]( [Index] [BIGINT] NULL, [MovieTitle] varchar(500) NULL );
The ADF Pipeline
Step 1 – The Datasets
The first step is to add datasets to ADF. Instead of creating 4 datasets: 2 for blob storage and 2 for the SQL Server tables (each time one dataset for each format), we're only going to create 2 datasets. One for blob storage and one for SQL Server. For each dataset, the relevant attributes will be updated dynamically at runtime by parameters. Let's start with the blob dataset.
In the ADF editing environment, click on the ellipsis next to the datasets header to add a new dataset:
Choose Azure Blob Storage as the data store:
In the next screen, you need to choose the format of your data, which is DelimitedText in our example.
At the time of writing, this is new functionality. In older tips, such as Connect to On-premises Data in Azure Data Factory with the Self-hosted Integration Runtime - Part 2, you can see this step is not present when a dataset on blob storage is created.
Next, we need to specify a name and if the first row contains headers.
For the Linked service, you can either choose an existing service or create a new one (an example is given in this tip). In the next screen, click on Browse to choose the container.
Using the dialog, navigate to the correct container.
Once the dataset is created, go to the Schema tab.
Here we can specify the metadata of the columns. It might be possible that ADF automatically picked up some metadata about the columns, if a file was present. Since we want a truly dynamic dataset, we're going to clear all metadata.
For this to work, the destination table needs to have the exact same columns as the source files. Next, we add some parameters to the dataset in the Parameters tab. We need a parameter for the folder and a parameter for the delimiter:
In the Connection tab, we can assign the parameters to specific fields of the configuration. When you click for example in the Directory field, a link will appear to add dynamic content.
When you click on this link, you can simply select the parameter from the list:
This will add an expression to the text box at the top:
Click Finish to go back to the connection tab. Similarly, we can add a parameter for the delimiter. But first we have to check the Edit checkbox, so the dropdown changes into a text box.
When both parameters are assigned, the connection tab should look like this (observe there's no value specified for the file name):
We also need a dataset for our sink, which is SQL Server. Add a new dataset and choose Azure SQL Database as the data store:
Specify a name for the dataset, create a linked service or choose an existing one and do not import the schema. The table name can be left empty.
For this dataset, we need to create one parameter: the table name.
In the Connection tab, choose Edit beneath the table, specify dbo as the schema and add the parameter in the second box as the table name.
This concludes the first part of the tip. We have created a key-value pair table in SQL Server holding all of the metadata. This metadata will populate the parameters of the datasets we created. Stay tuned for the second part of this tip, where we will create the metadata-driven pipeline which will copy multiple blob files to a database at once.
- To get started with Azure Data Factory, check out the following tips:
- You can find more Azure tips in this overview.
- Download the files here from this tip.
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Published: 31 October 2012
UQ research leads to smarter sewage management
Scientists from UQ's Advanced Water Management Centre have found a way to curb the cost – and smell – of sewage transportation.
Professor Zhiguo Yuan said bad smells were only one cost of transporting sewage.
"Bad pipes caused by hydrogen sulfide corrosion are another more noxious side-effect that costs the Australian water industry around $100 million a year," Professor Yuan said.
"Our plan is to change all that by applying to the pipes a once-a-week dose of environmentally friendly free nitrous acid (FNA).
"This will be good for both the environment and our senses."
Currently, expensive chemicals are used to deal with the inevitable smells and corrosion caused by unwanted biofilms that grow on the surfaces of wastewater infrastructure.
Apart from the cost of the chemicals, the existing "solutions" create further problems in the sewage treatment and reclaiming process, as it becomes yet another chemical to be neutralised.
"Our challenge was to find an affordable chemical that didn't harm the environment," Professor Yuan said.
The FNA kills the organisms that create the smells and corrosion, and is then removed itself by the microbial community living within the sewage pipes.
"The pipes won't rot, nor will they smell, and should actually last the 100 years they were designed for, instead of the sometimes only 10 years they currently do," Professor Yuan said.
Building on work conducted over the past decade, Professor Yuan and his team of engineers and microbiologists recently made the ground-breaking discovery that, at parts per million level, FNA is a strong biocidal agent, causing cell-death and biofilm disintegration.
"This was a very exciting breakthrough and allows us to turn our technology into a valuable business," he said.
UniQuest is managing the commercialisation of the FNA technology under the start-up company, Cloevis Pty Ltd.
Cloevis and the research team have recently demonstrated the technology in a real sewer line in southern Queensland and are now looking towards further commercial trials of the technology in both Australia and the US.
The research team is also looking at how FNA can be adapted for the control of other types of biofilms.
For the reseach team:
Professor Zhiguo Yuan (07 3365 4374, _EMAIL_) or Sandra Hall (07 3346 7209), _EMAIL_)
For Cloevis Pty Ltd:
Tony Keating (07 3365 4037, _EMAIL_)
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"The Army Is Like A Family": Memories Of A Cold War Army Spouse
Mary Lou McClellan
Mary Lou McClellan grew up in Parma, Ohio. Her mother was a shop owner and her father was in communications. In the summer, she and her siblings loved to ride bicycles to the local swimming hole and swim all day, enjoying sandwiches their mother packed. In 1950, she married George McClellan, who had enlisted in the Army, completed his service, and then commissioned from Ohio State ROTC. In 1952, she and her two-month-old daughter flew to Germany to join her husband, who had traveled ahead. Their first assignment in Germany lasted until 1956, and during this time another daughter was born. Stints at Ft. Benning, Georgia, for the Advanced Course, and Monterey, California, for Russian language school followed, as did two more children, both boys, one born in Georgia and one in California. The family returned to Germany in 1958 and spent two years in Oberammergau for additional Russian language training before being stationed in Berlin, with occasional duty at the Potsdam House. In 1961 she lived through construction of the Berlin Wall, and in 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, her last daughter was born. In 1964, when George was assigned to Korea, Mary Lou and the family returned to Parma, Ohio, and lived near extended family. From 1965 to 1966, the family lived in Thailand, assigned to the Thai Military Academy, where Mary Lou taught English. After George returned to the States, they relocated to West Point, where George taught in the Department of Earth, Space, and Geographic Sciences until deploying to Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. After returning from overseas, the family was reassigned to the Military Academy. In this interview, she focuses on her life as an Army spouse during the Cold War. She describes living in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s, the children attending German Schools, and various aspects she liked about German culture and society. She recalls being spied on by the Soviets, experiencing major world events, and various periods of unrest in Germany. She discusses living in Thailand and enjoying a vastly different culture. She reflects upon her time at West Point and its close-knit community. Finally, she highlights changes she observed during her decades as an Army spouse.
conflicts Cold War Vietnam War
topics Military Families Life After Military Teamwork PTSD West Point History
interviewer David Siry
date 23 September 2020
name Mary Lou McClellan
specialty Army Spouse


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A research conducted by Gallup reveals that Singaporeans stand as the less emotional nation in the world, while Filipinos are their absolute opposite.
Over 150 countries have been involved in Gallup's direct or telephone interviews. The survey started in 2009 and ended in 2011, with about 1,000 people over the age of 15 have been interviewed, Live Science
People were offered five positive emotions (enjoyment, smiling and laughing a lot, feeling well-rested, being treated with respect and learning or doing something interesting) and five negative ones (sadness, anger, physical pain, stress and worry) and were asked to say whether or not they had felt these emotions throughout the previous day.
Making an average between the countries' inhabitants and the number of people who gave an affirmative response to the given emotions affecting them, researchers concluded that Singaporeans were the most emotionless people studied.
Only 36% of Singaporeans manifest these emotions on a daily basis.
Singapore was followed by Georgia, Lithuania, Russia, Madagascar and Ukraine in the top of the less emotional countries.
At the opposite side of the list stood the Philippines, with 60 percent of inhabitants declaring to be experiencing these emotions daily. After the Philippines come Salvador, Bahrain, Oman, Colombia, Chile and Costa Rica. (See full list of most and least emotional countries here
Researchers have also made a hierarchy considering the negative and positive emotions separately.
It turned out that North Africa and countries in the Middle East register the highest level of negative emotions, with Iraq, Palestinian Territories and Bahrain standing on top of the list.
Meanwhile, Latin America comes first in terms of positive feelings, with Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela on top.
Although the relation between a country's economic status and its population's level of negative feelings experienced appears clear in the hierarchy above, researchers say that even with a substantial melioration in this field the problem might not get solved.
Singapore can be given as example: with one of the lowest unemployment levels in the world and one of the highest gross domestic products, it is still a people with very few positive feelings.


Quick Answer: What Is Short For Gregory?
What does the name Ryan mean?
Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish origin, and is used by both males and females.
It comes from the Irish surname Ryan, which in turn comes from the Old Irish name Rian.
Popular modern sources typically suggest that the name means "little king" or "illustrious", but the original meaning is unknown..
What does Gregory mean in the Bible?
The name Gregory comes from the Greek Gregōrios, derived from the verb "gregōrien" meaning 'watchful, vigilant'. … The name was adopted by early Christians heedful of the Biblical passage located in 1 Peter 5:8, "Be sober-minded; be watchful.
Who is Gregory in Romeo and Juliet?
Gregory is a minor character in the play. He is of the house of Capulet, and a friend to Sampson. Gregory confronts Sampson about the fact that he complains, yet does not act on the fact that he hates all Montagues.
What does the name Kimberly mean?
The given name Kimberley is derived from place of Kimberley, in Northern Cape, South Africa. … This place name is derived from two Old English elements: the first is the feminine personal name Cyneburg, which means "royal fortress"; the second element is lēah, which means "woodland" or "clearing".
What is Greg a nickname for?
Greg is a name that's been used primarily by parents who are considering baby names for boys. Short form of Gregory. Greg Kinnear, actor.
What nationality is Gregory?
Gregory (surname)OriginWord/nameGreek, Latin, Celtic, RussianMeaningSon of "Gregory" or "Gregor"Region of originEngland (Derbyshire), Scotland (Highlands)Other names1 more row
What is the female version of the name Gregory?
I found several female versions of Gregory, actually: Gregoria (this name has already been mentioned – it's the most popular one, I think) Gregorina. Gregorine.
Who is Gregory FNAF?
Gregory is the implied child protagonist of the upcoming game Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach.
Is Greg a male or female name?
Gender Popularity of the Name "Greg" Boy or Girl? Greg: It's a boy! Since 1880, a total of 75,845 boys have been given the name Greg while we have no record of any girls being named Greg.
Is Gregory a unisex name?
The name Gregory is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "vigilant, a watchman".
What kind of name is Greer?
Meaning: Greer is a girl's name of Scottish origin that means "alert or watchful.
How do you spell the name Greg?
The surname is of Scottish origin and is derived from a shortened form of the personal name Gregory and Greg. As a given name, Greig is of English and Scottish origin. This name is a short form of the names Gregory or Gregor. In some cases it is derived from the surname of the same spelling.
What does the name Gregory stand for?
The masculine first name Gregory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius", which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgórios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from Greek "γρηγoρεῖν" "grēgorein" meaning "to watch").
What does the name Gregory mean in Hebrew?
Gregory is a common masculine first name and family name. It is derived from the Latin "Gregorius," which was from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Gregorios), which was derived from "γήγορος" (gegoros) meaning "watchful, alert". … Because of this background, it is also a very common name for saints.
What name means a gift from God?
Is Gregory a Russian name?
Grischa (alternatively spelled Grisha or Gricha) is a short form for the name Gregory or Grigorij, and sometimes for the name Georgi as well, used in Russia and some other Slavic countries, including Ukraine and Bulgaria. The "sha" ending is a typical short form in the Russian language for names.


- Question: Hellllllllllo! Just wondering if 1 cigarette takes off 11 minutes of someone's life the oldest person ever (Jeanne calment-122) smoked until she was well over 110. If she never smoked what are the chances of her living quite a while longer?
 Asked by amckeswick to Robyn on 19 Mar 2020.
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 Robyn Kiy answered on 19 Mar 2020:
 This is a really interesting question that has made me stop and think!
 The statistic about 1 cigarette taking between 7 and 11 minutes off a life is an estimate of the average time a cigarette takes off a persons life. This doesn't mean that this will be the same for every person! Other elements such as lifestyle (e.g. diet and exercise) and genetics can influence the health of a person, and thus their life expectancy. For example, it is possible for someone who smokes 5 cigarettes a day but eats healthily, exercises regularly, and has a low-risk job to outlive a non-smoker who leads an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle (although this isn't guaranteed, of course!).
 It is likely that Jeanne Calment's genetics provided her with an element of protection from the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
 Based off the assumption that cigarettes reduce life expectancy, it may be possible that without smoking Jeanne would have lived longer! However, if Jeanne Calment was not susceptible to the damage caused by smoking, it may also be possible that never smoking would have no impact on the time of her death.
 Unfortunately, I couldn't predict the exact chances of her living longer if she hadn't smoked. However, as we know that smoking does reduce the life-expectancy of the average person, it is definitely possible that Jeanne Calment may have lived longer had she not smoked!


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The University of New Orleans (UNO) was one of the first universities to receive a Disaster Resistant University (DRU) grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Within a year of starting the DRU planning initiative at UNO, Hurricane Katrina struck the area on August 29th, 2005. This catastrophe provided a meaningful (albeit unwelcome) opportunity to evaluate the plan, learn, and redesign as needed post-Katrina.
The presentation will provide a brief history of the development of UNO's DRU planning process pre-Katrina. This will be followed by a brief description of the impact of the hurricane on the UNO community…its physical plant, its operation, its students and its faculty. Certainly, the long-term recovery process of the university presented many challenges, and the author will briefly cover how and why various courses of action were developed. We'll give a candid assessment of what worked, what didn't, what we could have done better, why some measures were effective, and what we should have done differently.
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Present danger can occur at anytime throughout the life of a case and must be assessed on a continual basis. A determination must be made if immediate protective actions are necessary to protect a child and the level of intervention required to keep the child safe.
- Assess if present danger exists during any contact with a child to determine if an immediate, significant and clearly observable behavior or situation is actively occurring and is threatening or dangerous to a child.
- When present danger exists, identify and take immediate protective action(s) necessary to create child safety.
- When assessing Present Danger in a Family Assessment Response case. Document present danger and protective actions through the Present Danger Assessment at least once during service delivery.
- In all other programs, document all protective actions taken to manage or control present danger in a FamLink case note using the protective action activity code or through completion of the Present Danger Assessment.
- When children in DCYF care and custody are determined to be in present danger in licensed or unlicensed care, children are removed from that placement. Notify intake per the Intake Process and Response policy.
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Aspirin dose and thromboxane metabolism in African American stroke patients
Purpose:To evaluate thromboxane metabolism in African American stroke patients on different doses of aspirin. Methods:Consecutive African American patients within 3 month of non-cardioembolic stroke and not being treated with anticoagulation were recruited. Antithrombotic therapy at the time of sample collection was not prespecified and varied according to the practice patterns of the different attending physicians who treated the patients during their acute stroke. The thromboxane metabolite 11-dehydrothroboxane B2 (11-DTB2) was measured by enzyme immunoassay in random urine samples collected at the time of enrollment. Results:99 patients were enrolled but 15 could not give a urine sample at the time of enrollment. Data on the remaining 84 patients were evaluable. There were 49 men and 35 women aged 36–87 (mean 62) years. Based on antithrombotic treatment during sample collections, we divided patients into four groups: no aspirin N=16 (no antithrombotic drugs N=4 or ticlopidine N=12), aspirin 81–325 mg/d N=19 (81 mg/day N=1, 325 mg/day N=18), aspirin 650 mg/d N=19, aspirin 975–1300 mg/d N=30 (975 mg/d N=2 and 1300 mg/d N=28). After log transformation of the 11-DTB2 values the geometric means in the no aspirin, 81–325 mg/d, 650 mg/d, and 975–1300 mg/d groups were 1355, 912, 758, and 731 pg/mg creatinine, respectively. Based on one way ANOVA, the mean 11-DTB2 concentration was significantly different between the 4 groups (p=0.03). There was a significant negative relationship between aspirin dose and 11-DTB2 concentration (Pearson Correlation, r = -0.26, P=0.02). Conclusion:In African American stroke patients thromboxane production appears to be progressively inhibited by aspirin doses up to 650 mg/d. The clinical significance of this effect by aspirin doses ≤650 mg/d remains to be determined.


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Rita Colwell, Public Health Champion, Wins Stockholm Prize
Dr. Rita Cowell. Photo courtesy of University of Maryland.
Rita Colwell, Ph.D., distinguished professor from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, has been named the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate.
Colwell's pioneering research on the prevention of waterborne infectious diseases has helped protect the health and lives of millions.
Colwell, 76, is widely recognized as one of this century's most influential voices in science, technology, and policy associated with water and health. She has made exceptional contributions to control the spread of cholera, a waterborne pathogen that infects 3 to 5 million people and leads to an estimated 120,000 deaths each year. Through her groundbreaking research, innovations and decades of scientific leadership, she has defined our current understanding of the ecology of infectious diseases and developed the use of advanced technologies to halt their spread. Her work has established the basis for environmental and infectious disease risk assessment used around the world.
"Dr. Rita Colwell's numerous seminal contributions toward solving the world's water and water-related public health problems, particularly her work to prevent the spread of cholera, is of utmost global importance," noted the Stockholm Water Prize Nominating Committee in its citation.
Colwell has shown that certain bacteria, including the causative agent for cholera, can be present in natural environments in a dormant stage that could revert to an infectious state under the proper conditions. As a result of her work, scientists are now able to link changes in the natural environment to the spread of disease. Colwell was the first scientist to research the impacts of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases. She has also developed models to track and predict disease outbreaks, using remote sensing technology and satellite models.
H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will formally present Dr. Colwell with the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize on September 9 during the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm. The Stockholm Water Prize is a global award presented annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute. The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate receives US$150,000 and a crystal sculpture specially designed by Orrefors.


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Definition of Phytolaccaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, Order Caryophyllales, Order-chenopodiales
Member holonyms: Genus Phytolacca, Phytolacca, Agdestis, Genus Agdestis, Ercilla, Genus Ercilla, Genus Rivina, Rivina, Genus Trichostigma, Trichostigma
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1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"phytolaccaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 213. 1836. POKEWEED FAMILY. Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or trees) with alternate entire mostly exstipulate..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"3, t. iii, 1887, p. 238 and pi. i. —Volkens, in Natürl. Pflanzenfam., iii. Teil, Abt. ia, 1893, p. 135. phytolaccaceae...."
3. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"phytolaccaceae), a perennial herb (Fig. 85) indigenous to eastern North America, and naturalized in the West Indies and southern Europe...."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"Carpels 1 or 3 or 5 or more (some phytolaccaceae), free from the calyx (exc. some Chenopodiaceae), more or less connate with each other (exc. some..."
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MLOC Data Files
This section discusses the details of the data files that support mloc. It also provides download links for all data files that are required in any installation of mloc, and also for some optional files that may be useful. This section follows the recommended directory structure for an mloc installation. All data files reside in subdirectories of the tables directory in the mloc working directory.
The only function of this directory is to hold custom crustal velocity models, but you also have the option of storing them in the cluster directory itself. The only difference is the pathname of the crustal model file assigned with the lmod command in the command file. My convention is to give crustal models the filename suffix ".cr" but you can name them any way you like.
My strategy is to keep most custom crustal models with the individual clusters (same directory as the event data files) because that is the only place they will be used. I reserve the tables/crust directory for crustal models that may be used across many clusters. It is nearly mandatory to develop a custom crustal model for any cluster that is undergoing a calibrated relocation, but it's usually not possible to place strong constraints on a crustal model for an uncalibrated relocation study, so a reasonable regional or global model may be used. In particular I store a model (ak135.cr) of the crust and upper mantle from the 1-D global model ak135 (Engdahl et al., 1998) in this directory. This is normally the starting model for a new cluster, from which a cluster-specific model is developed through trial and error. Specifically, I make a copy of ak135.cr, rename it for the intended cluster and move it to the cluster directory.
The file simple.cr provided below is an example of the simplest possible crustal model (one layer crust of constant velocity over a pseudo-halfspace upper mantle) which, nevertheless, would provide a good fit to many datasets after adjusting the velocities and crustal thickness.
The details of the file format for crustal models and many aspects of working with crustal velocity models are discussed in the Crustal Models section.
- simple.cr: a simple crustal model file (<1 KB, view or download)
- ak135.cr: crustal model file for ak135 (<1 KB, view or download)
Corrections to theoretical travel times for the ellipticity of the Earth are a standard part of traditional earthquake location programs because the location is usually based mainly on the fit of (corrected) theoretical travel times to observed regional and teleseismic phases. The corrections are usually on the order of a tenth of a second. For a calibrated location in mloc, however, these corrections are irrelevant since only the relative times of regional and teleseismic phases are being used to determine the absolute location of the cluster (i.e., the hypocentroid). Nevertheless, ellipticity corrections are made in mloc with the same algorithm used in Bob Engdahl's single event code (i.e., the EHB catalog), based on the Dziewonski and Gilbert (1976) representation with further work by Brian Kennett and Wim Spakman.
Ellipticity corrections are based on a single data file:
- tau.table.zip (52 KB, download)
The map plots (e.g., the base plot) produced by mloc can display faults (command fmap). The data files follow the format for GMT, with coordinates given in the order longitude, latitude. They can be stored in this directory or in the cluster directory itself. Data files that cover a large region are probably best stored here. The example is a file of major faults in Turkey.
- turkey_faults.dat.zip (19 KB, download)
Two types of data are stored in this directory (in sub-directories) for use in plotting: color palettes and digital elevation models (DEMs). These are only used for the map-like plots, e.g., the base plot.
The default color palette for showing topographic data in mloc plots is topo.cpt. It works well in most circumstances, but there are many others and GMT documentation includes detailed instructions about designing your own.
- topo.cpt.zip (1 KB, download)
The map plots in mloc do not display topographic information by default, but it is usually quite helpful in establishing a geographic or seismotectonic context for a calibrated cluster. Display of topographic information is controlled by the command dem1, which also selects between two digital elevation models, depending on the argument to the command:
- etopo1 = ETOPO1 1 arc-minute gridded topography and bathymetry. The data file that should be stored for mloc is ETOPO1_Bed_g_gmt4.grd.gz. The compressed file is 383 MB and it will unzip to 933 MB.
- globe = GLOBE 0.5 arc-minute (~1 km) gridded topography. There are 16 tiles covering the earth that can be downloaded from the website. If you are working in a particular area you only need the corresponding tile. Each tile is ~60 MB zipped and unzips to 270 MB.
mloc presently supports a third global DEM called GINA (30 arc-second topography and 2 arc-minute bathymetry), however the GINA DEM has been removed from distribution and the gina option for the command dem1 will probably be removed in an upcoming version.
The files for each DEM should be put in an appropriately-named sub-directory of /tables/gmt/dem, ETOPO for ETOPO1 and GLOBE for the GLOBE tiles. If you will use only one DEM, it should probably be ETOPO1, since it is a single file covering the entire Earth and includes bathymetry. The GLOBE model is very good for land areas but if your map crosses a tile boundary mloc falls back to using ETOPO1.
In addition to the ETOPO and GLOBE sub-directories to /tables/gmt/dem (which are required for those DEMS), you may wish to create a sub-directory to hold high-resolution DEMs for specific clusters. These are referenced by the command dem2 but the argument to this command is the pathname of the file relative to the mloc working directory so you could just as well store it in the cluster directory. If you choose to store them under tables/gmt/dem a name like "custom" or "hi-rez" would be appropriate. The creation of these high-resolution DEMs is covered elsewhere.
The ~.kml file that is a standard output file of mloc uses icons in five colors for earthquakes at different depths. The icons are in PNG format and must be stored in this directory.
- kml.zip (62 KB, download)
One of the more important aspects of using mloc is the use of empirical reading errors, estimated for each station-phase pair from the actual data. For the first run (at least), when those estimates are not yet available, mloc uses a set of phase-specific default reading errors, read from a file named psdre.dat in this directory:
- psdre.dat (143 bytes, download)
Current values in this file are listed in the table:
|Phase||Reading Error (s)|
The user can edit this file to change the default values or to add or remove phases.
This directory holds several data files related to seismograph stations, especially the geographic coordinates and elevation for a given station code. The most important file here is the master station file (master_stn.dat), which is meant to carry information only on stations in the International Registry of Seismograph Stations (IR) at the ISC. The reason for this policy will become clear(er) when the user encounters the full suite of problems related to station codes and the strategy used in mloc to manage conflicts. In some cases the precise coordinates (especially elevation) of a station from the IR are over-ridden by more trusted information from other sources, but non-IR-registered stations should be handled with supplemental station files (command sstn), not entered into the master station file.
The other two data files in this directory are related to specific commands:
- bdps.dat: a list of seismic stations that are suspected of reporting bogus depth phase readings. Specifically, it is suspected that station operators take focal depths from preliminary locations by agencies such as the NEIC, and report depth phase arrivals taken from theoretical travel time calculations. The command bdps takes the pathname of the file relative to the mloc working directory so it does not have to be stored here, but this is the natural place for it.
- neic_stn.dat: This file is used by the command nsmd which causes a search to be made for station codes that were not found in the master station file. It is only needed (possibly) if an arrival time dataset includes data obtained from the NEIC. Many stations of the U.S. regional networks that report to the NEIC use codes that conflict with stations registered in the IR, and for that matter, with each other. NEIC solves this problem by carrying FDSN network codes along with station codes (and a lot more) in their metadata server and location software. This data file is a recent download of the entire contents of the metadata server, so a search for a given station code may well return multiple hits from different networks. The strategy used in mloc to manage these issues is discussed elsewhere.
- master_stn.dat.zip (635 KB, download)
- bdps.dat.zip (2 KB, download)
- neic_stn.dat.zip (2.1 MB, download)
Supplemental station files (command sstn) may be stored here also, especially


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An unassuming coin with a human head on the heads side and a canine shaped head on the tails side. It is shiny and is about the size of a 50 cent coin. In the corner of the coin there is a small stamp that declares it "GNDN". The coin itself holds a strong magnetic charge that is activated when the coin is moved quickly. This movement usually manifests in a coin flip. The polarity of the field changes depending on which side is face up. Heads up the coin attracts metal within a radius the size of a small room and can form a large tower if left undisturbed for a period of time. Tails up the coin repels metal as soon as it comes into contact with the surface the coin is currently laying on. Currently resides in the tunnels of the Warrens. Though, there may be others scattered about.
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1.1 This test method is used to develop test data from which the susceptibility of polyolefin geomembrane sheet material to stress cracking under a constant tensile load condition and an accelerated environmental condition can be evaluated.
1.2 This test method measures the failure time associated with a given test specimen at a specified tensile load level. Results from a series of such tests utilizing a range of load levels can be used to construct a stress-time plot on a log-log axis.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The inch-pound units given in parentheses are provided for information only.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Orbit Logic has delivered scheduling software to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to optimize NOAA ground terminal contacts with MEO satellites equipped to receive search and rescue distress alerts.
The solution helps improve the timeliness and location accuracy of distress alerts received by the satellites, leading to faster and more effective responses by rescue personnel. Orbit Logic's delivered solution will include STK Scheduler for contact schedule optimization, STK Pro for system modeling, STK Coverage for Dilution of Precision (DoP) computations, as well as a custom software plug-in to coordinate computations and generate updated contact schedules on demand.
There are a growing number of MEO satellites equipped to receive search and rescue distress signals. Distress signals received by the satellites get relayed to NOAA ground terminals, which send the signals on to appropriate rescue organizations. The number of MEO satellites on orbit now exceeds the number of NOAA ground terminals, so decisions need to be made about which satellites the terminals should point at to receive relayed distress calls.
Orbit Logic developed a COTS-based solution that uses STK Pro and STK Coverage to compute DoP for all possible satellite contact combinations, then passes this information to STK Scheduler. STK Scheduler uses this information to generate ground terminal pointing schedules optimized to provide the best possible geolocation accuracy of distress signals. STK Scheduler models the system as a set of prioritized communications tasks with weighted preferences for resource (satellite) combinations over time. Scheduler generates a new, optimized contact schedule within seconds, allowing for quick updates as conditions change.


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 By Dr. Peter Dobias, DVM
 It is very apparent from nature that living organisms are extremely capable of selecting nutrients that they need and throwing away the ones that are in excess. The body does it without any outside regulation and with ease.
 synthetic vitamins
 How many supplements are too many?
 The problem of excess nutrients only arises when synthetic chemicals are offered instead of food-based concentrates and supplements. These supplements including synthetic vitamins and minerals can correct symptoms of severe deficiency - for example scurvy - Vitamin C deficiency and Beriberi vitamin B1 hypovitaminosis.
 However, synthetic non-food based supplements can create severe excesses and overdoses. Good examples are fat soluble vitamins ADEK or overdoses of minerals in chemically manufactured mineral supplements. I frequently see this in dogs' hair mineral test results.
 The body needs real food!
 The body is designed to process food-based nutrients and not chemicals which can easily create a state of excess often expressed in agitation, heat production and digestive problems. These are the main reasons why I only recommend naturally-fermented vitamins, probioticsplant-based minerals and naturally sourced omega oils that are powerful, yet gentle and can be managed by the body well.
 A simple example is the difference between taking a cheap synthetic multivitamin that commonly causes stomach upset when taken on an empty stomach and a naturally fermented multivitamin that usually does not cause such symptoms.
 Nature never measures the exact amounts of vitamins and nutrients in food. It just provides nutrients that are natural and non-synthetic.
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Slice off the stem of a whole, clean, mushroom. With a small teaspoon (1/8 or 1/4 teaspoon), or small melon baller, scoop out the inside of the mushroom. Fill with prepared stuffing or favorite dip.
Mushroom Preparation | Mushroom Cooking Tips
The mushroom is just one of a very large, diverse group of organisms called fungi. It is similar to a plant but lacks chlorophyll, so they cannot produce food for themselves through photosynthesis.
Begin by cutting a circle around the stem of the pepper.
Carefully pull out the stem and ribs.
Remove the remaining ribs by scraping with a spoon.
Wash the pepper in cold running water to remove any remaining seeds.
Stuffed pasta consists of fresh pasta sheets that are stuffed with a filling. After the filling has been added, the pasta sheets are folded over and sealed, or another sheet is placed on top and the edges are sealed.
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habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, which is probably named from Old English ellern 'elder tree' + wudu 'wood'. from the Old English personal name Ælfweald, composed of the elements ælf 'elf' + weald 'rule'. In the British Isles this spelling is now found predominantly in northern Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Heywood, Elford, Henwood, Redwood, Elton, Wood, Yarwood, Cawood


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Lion in the Streets is a two-act play with sometimes violent and terrifying incidents engulfing the audience with its representations. Isobel, a ghost, must watch as others make life-altering mistakes in an urban setting. The imaginative style of the narrative, as each twist and turn becomes painfully obvious, accentuates the repetitive cycle of an urban lifestyle.
Judith Thompson conceived this play as a radio play and invites the audience to experience each extract as it occurs. The seemingly detached, even random occurrences are linked as Thompson uses Isobel to wander between scenes much as she would if she was passing-by. In this way, the play develops its purpose as Isobel seeks to find her murderer and thus "ascend" into heaven.
The "lion" is in everyone and, when exposed, has the potential to explode or "roar" when internal and external forces collide. The metaphor of the lion in the streets - it can threaten but it is also representative of the power within us to overcome indicates stark contrasts. The contrasts also indicate Thompson's style. The living Isobel was an immigrant child who did not blend into her surroundings and ultimately pays the price for that and the deceased Isobel - a ghost - goes sometimes noticed and sometimes unnoticed.
This style of Thompson's in Lion in the Streets exposes the conflict between the inner self and that which people expose to the outside world. Thompson effectively destroys any illusion of a safe environment. The audience is drawn in to the play, willingly or otherwise and the theatrical and dramatic representations complete the picture.
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I've got a fixed solution space defined by a minimum and maximum float which has no divisible slice.
You then have 0..N Gaussian distribution probability sets which I need to combine.
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 1. Method to define probability set with a numeric range (not sliceable) and 0..N Gaussian functions
 2. A function which can generate a random number in the range as defined by the calculated probabilities.
Also I know it is possible that some combinations will generate a zero solution space.
Now I'm thinking the way to do it is take the normalised probability density functions and multiply them to get a new space then normalising the result. I just can't seem to break it down into algorithmic form.
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You would probably be better off asking this at math.stackexchange.com? – bummzack Aug 15 '10 at 10:59
I thought about that, but I'm mostly concerned with how to do it algorithmically. A pure maths solution would help but not be the answer. – Kimau Aug 15 '10 at 11:05
Then maybe try stackoverflow.com? It looks like a generic programming problem, I don't see the word "game" in your post anywhere (not that it's a requirement but that's a pretty good sign that you might want to look elsewhere) – Ricket Aug 15 '10 at 15:41
I need help with some terms, like no divible slice, zero solution space, normalized probility density. – Jonathan Fischoff Aug 15 '10 at 16:20
Hmm. the top hit for "divisible slice" on google is this question. Then a number of documents where "divisible" and "slice" occur next to each other, but are part of different sentences. You might want to explain that one, as it's obviously not uniform usage. – drxzcl Aug 16 '10 at 7:45
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First let's make sure I understood your question correctly:
 - You have a probability function that is expressed as a sum of N parametrized one-dimensional gaussians, each with different mean and standard deviation.
 - You want to generate stochastic variables according to this distribution.
Is this correct?
If this is the case, I reccommend you use a variation of rejection sampling. The recipe is quite straightforward, but you might have to iterate a bit before you get an answer out of it. This is the basic outline.
 1. You generate a uniformly distributed random number in your desired interval, x.
 2. You calculate the value of your probability distribution, p(x)
 3. You generate another uniformly distributed random number between 0 and 1, q
 4. If q < p(x), return x
 5. If not, start from step 1.
No matter how large the temptation, do not re-use q for different iterations.
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I cannot use this method because as I stated a floating range is non-divisible (not sliceable). So sampling is impossible. I already use this method for enumerations which are possible to sample. Also I've taken advice and moved this question to Math Stack math.stackexchange.com/questions/2584/… – Kimau Aug 21 '10 at 8:13
Ok, let's move there. – drxzcl Aug 21 '10 at 15:53
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Origin Energy were preparing for the listing for sale of the entity, Lattice Energy, to the open market. They required high-performance low-latency Cloud VM infrastructure and Cloud Storage to support their critical and performance demanding Geosciences applications and data sets.
- The first requirement was to rehost the Geosciences platforms, so that Lattice Energy could run the system in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Storage as a Service (STaaS) environment.
- Then to provide high speed, low latency connectivity with redundancy, between the Digital Sense Kenmore Data Centre and Lattice offices in Milton, Qld.
- Leverage advanced VMware NSX routing and firewall capabilities within the Digital Sense Public Cloud to meet complex networking and strict security requirements.
- Provide professional ongoing support services to Lattice Energy.
Origin Energy faced many challenges that were addressed as key outcomes:
- Origin Energy were unfamiliar with a Hybrid Cloud environment and the extra layer of complexity introduced by this integration of physical and virtual environment was a new challenge to the IT team.
- The detailed routing and security firewalls required to connect and isolate multiple disparate networks, including several private cloud connections.
- An IaaS environment hadn't been in operation at Origin before, and this was the first move into Cloud for these challenging workloads.
- A parallel connection to AWS was needed for the backup and disaster recovery.
- Multiple suppliers were involved, and Digital Sense had to liaise with Telstra to ensure an integrated network connection.
- Finding a partner who could help in the testing, design, configuration phases and who could provide ongoing support services to Lattice Energy.
Digital Sense demonstrated the superior networking knowledge needed to ensure that the various components of the overall system were communicating seamlessly, and that data was flowing efficiently across different platforms and locations.
"5 years ago I wouldn't have considered having 40 staff access 50 terabytes in a datacentre that was 15 kms away….but Digital Sense gave us the confidence to step into this new IaaS world".
– Randall Taylor, Chief Geophysicist for Lattice Energy.
Key project outcomes
- Timely transition of the Geosciences capability to a virtual environment for the sale of the Lattice entity.
- All systems and data operating efficiently off-site.
- Maintained a productive workforce in Milton – the change was almost transparent.
- A cost-effective and flexible native NAS and VM data storage solution.
- Large reduction in the need to manage physical hardware.
- More control over the backup solution which was managed by a previous supplier – now provided through Digital Sense across the AWS gateway.
- Provision of Virtual Machine support services including Patching, Operating System Monitoring and Anti-Virus.


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a measure of risk used when the standard deviations for multiple projects are approximately
A measurement of the extent to which the returns on a given stock move with stock market.
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An additional required deposit to bring an investor's equity account up to the initial margin
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Definition of rebury in English:
verb (reburies, reburying, reburied)[with object]
- No one has yet requested to have relatives re-interred at Gorton, Manchester General or Phillips Park cemeteries, which means all the others will be reburied at Bury.
- Jay found the sovereigns, either in the lighthouse or in the garden, and he buried or reburied them in the garden.
- 'There is also the question of how long somebody should have been buried before we can consider removing or reburying their remains in this way,' he said.
- reburial noun
- Example sentences
- The group also wants the government to contribute to the costs of the exhumations, including DNA testing and dignified reburials.
- The figure was revealed today as the row over reburials took a new twist when town hall chiefs offered a compromise.
- Relatives of many of the people buried say the town hall should pay for private reburials.
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Graph and digraph embedding problems.
This thesis is a study of the symmetry of graphs and digraphs by considering certain homogeneous embedding requirements. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the chapters that follow. In Chapter 2 we present a brief survey of the main results and some new results in framing number theory. In Chapter 3, the notions of frames and framing numbers is adapted to digraphs. A digraph D is homogeneously embedded in a digraph H if for each vertex x of D and each vertex y of H, there exists an embedding of D in H as an induced subdigraph with x at y. A digraph F of minimum order in which D can be homogeneously embedded is called a frame of D and the order of F is called the framing number of D. We show that that every digraph has at least one frame and, consequently, that the framing number of a digraph is a well defined concept. Several results involving the framing number of graphs and digraphs then follow. Analogous problems to those considered for graphs are considered for digraphs. In Chapter 4, the notions of edge frames and edge framing numbers are studied. A nonempty graph G is said to be edge homogeneously embedded in a graph H if for each edge e of G and each edge f of H, there is an edge isomorphism between G and a vertex induced subgraph of H which sends e to f. A graph F of minimum size in which G can be edge homogeneously embedded is called an edge frame of G and the size of F is called the edge framing number efr(G) of G. We also say that G is edge framed by F. Several results involving edge frames and edge framing numbers of graphs are presented. For graphs G1 and G2, the framing number fr(G1, G2 ) (edge framing number ef r(GI, G2 )) of G1 and G2 is defined as the minimum order (size, respectively) of a graph F such that Gj (i = 1,2) can be homogeneously embedded in F. In Chapter 5 we study edge framing numbers and framing number for pairs of cycles. We also investigate the framing number of pairs of directed cycles.


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From the use of hot and cold packs to new forms of narcotics, James Roush, professor of clinical sciences, is studying ways to lessen pain after surgery and improve care for small animals, particularly dogs. He is working with the clinical patients who come to the College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Health Center.
Because humans and dogs experience some diseases in similar ways, his research may improve how doctors and physicians understand human health, too.
"Several of our projects have human applications, particularly one involving intra-articular prolotherapy," Roush said.
Here's a closer look at three of Roush's current projects:
* A recent project with Ralph Millard, former Veterinary Health Center resident, focuses on ways that hot packing and cold packing affect tissue temperature in beagles and beagle-sized dogs after surgery.
After surgery in both humans and dogs it is common to put a cold pack or hot pack on tissue to prevent and reduce swelling. How long the pack is used and what type of cold or hot pack is used depends on the type of injury and surgery. Roush said that no studies have looked at how deep in the tissue the packs affect temperature and how long the packs must be applied so that the tissue reaches a desired temperature.
The researchers studied the temperature and tissue depth that hot and cold packing affected and the time it took to reach that temperature.
"We found that you don't really need to cold pack anything longer than 10 minutes because there is not a great change in temperature after that," Roush said.
When tissue is cold packed, it will stay cold for a while after the ice pack is removed. But when tissue is hot packed and the pack is removed, the tissue temperature will return to normal much more quickly. Leaving the hot or cold pack on the tissue longer than 10 minutes will extend the time that the tissue stays at the same hot or cold temperature, Roush said. There just will not be a great change in temperature after 10 minutes.
The same technique of hot and cold packing after surgery is also used in humans. Although more research in humans is needed, Roush said there is a strong possibility that a similar 10-minute time frame for hot and cold packing may apply to humans as well.
The research appears in two upcoming publications in the Journal of Veterinary Research.
* For another project, Roush and Matt Sherwood, Veterinary Health Center resident, are using a mat system to study lameness and osteoarthritis in dogs. When dogs step on the mat, it measures the pressure in their step.
The mat system is a useful clinical tool for evaluating and developing treatment of lameness, Roush said. Roush and Sherwood are using the mat for measuring lameness and determining in which leg the lameness is worse.
"We've designed the study to help improve osteoarthritis treatment," Roush said. "We will also use it to measure clinical patients when they come in for regular checkups. We can measure their recovery and a variety of other aspects: how they respond to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, how they respond to narcotics or how they respond to a surgical procedure that is designed to take that pressure off the joint."
* Roush also is working with Marian Benitez, Veterinary Health Center resident, on an analgesic pharmacology study. Rose McMurphy, professor of clinical sciences, and Butch KuKanich, associate professor of anatomy and physiology, are also involved.
The researchers are studying the effectiveness of a painkiller used to treat dogs and researching potential alternatives to the drug. The same drug also is commonly used to treat pain in humans.
"To achieve the drug's effect, the dosage in dogs is much higher than in people," Roush said. "It also may not be a very good analgesic in dogs. We want to see if there is an alternative that requires smaller doses and does not have not as much of a discrepancy for patients."
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Layered Fabric Materiality
Layered Fabric Materiality in Architectural FRP Surface Elements.
Fabrics have particular material qualities, ranging across aesthetic values to unique structural capacities. At the basis of this research stands the term Fabric Materiality (FM), coined to represent the totality of qualities, attributes and techniques associated with fabric materials, which potentially interface between disciplines as a basis for transfer of technologies. Applied to the field of architectural FRP, its integration in design and fabrication is expected to remove current barriers for wider architectural application, tightly linked to the reliance on moulds. Following prior experimentation with FM integration in linear elements, this paper describes its potential in FRP surface elements, obtaining stiffness and introducing three-dimensional articulation by fabric manipulation and self-organisation. A multi-layered surface element is outlined, as a porous matter-structure of partial lamination, to potentially be resilient architectural skin.
Conference paper: IASS Annual Symposium 2017 "Interfaces: architecture. engineering. science", September, 2017, Hamburg, Germany


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Simple: To figure out which way something is threaded, figure out why it's threaded that way.
The reason for thread directions on rotating objects with lateral load
In general, the thread direction is NOT chosen so that friction from the rotating shaft will tend to tighten things. If that were the case, pedals would be left-hand threaded on the right side and vice-versa.
Rather, it has to do with precession. If you hold a pencil loosely in your left hand while you move the end of the pencil around in a circle with your right hand, the pencil will tend to rotate in a direction opposite of the direction you're rotating the end.
When you pedal a bike forward, the right pedal is moving in a counter-clockwise (or anti-clockwise, on the other side of the pond) direction, relative to the pedal shaft. This produces the counter-intuitive (anti-intuitive on the other side of the pond) effect of driving the pedal shaft in a clockwise direction -- rightie-tightie.
For the same reason, English-threaded bottom bracket cups have a LEFT HAND thread on the right side, and vice-versa. (The sneaky French and Italians just use Loctite and right-hand threads on both sides.)


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Fort Saint Vrain
Fort Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent, St. Vrain Company, and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte River, about 20 miles (32 km) east of the Rocky Mountains in the unorganized territory of the United States. This area later became part of the State of Colorado. A historical marker notes the place where Old Fort St. Vrain once stood, today at the end of Weld County Road 40, located about seven miles north of Fort Vasquez, Colorado. Among those who helped to establish the fort was Ceran St. Vrain, after whom it was named.
William Clark, governor of the territory, granted the Bent, St. Vrain Co. a license to trade on November 8, 1836. Like neighboring forts, the structure was built as a two-story adobe structure whose walls encased an interior courtyard. It accommodated trade with Native American tribes and mountain men engaged in fur trapping. It resembled the adobe building and plaza reconstructed at Fort Vasquez and Bent's Old Fort.
Marcellin St. Vrain, Ceran's brother, managed the trading post. He employed such notable people as James Beckwourth, a mountain man, and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, who was born to Sacajewea during the _PHONE_ Lewis and Clark Expedition. She helped guide the expedition with her husband, the trapper Toussaint Charbonneau.
After the Taos Revolt in 1847, the St. Vrain brothers both returned to St. Louis. After Ceran St. Vrain sold his shares of the Bent, St. Vrain Co., William Bent became sole proprietor by 1849. Bent moved to Fort St. Vrain temporarily before building a new Fort Bent in the Big Timbers area.
- Whiteley, Lee; The Cherokee Trail: Bent's Old Fort to Fort Bridger; Lee Whiteley; 1999; Johnson Printing; Boulder, Colorado; ISBN 0-_PHONE_-1-7
- Brotemarkle, Diane; Old Fort St. Vrain; Diane Brotemarkle; 2001; Johnson Printing; Boulder, Colorado; ISBN 0-_PHONE_-0-4
- Ubbelohde, Carl; Benson, Maxine; Smith, Duane A; A Colorado History: Third Edition; 1972; Pruett Publishing Co; Boulder Colorado


Bidens have orchid named after them in Singapore
SINGAPORE - US Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill received a customary Singapore honour Friday - an orchid named after them - as they paid an official visit to the tropical city state.
Singapore has long used orchid naming to recognise international leaders, with high-profile political figures including Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher having blossoms at Singapore's National Orchid Garden.
The Bidens were feted at a ceremony at the 63-hectare (155 acre) garden, where a new hybrid orchid, Dendrobium Joe and Jill Biden, was named in their honour.
The vice president signed a symbolic "birth certificate" officially naming the orchid, one of many new varieties constantly being developed in Singapore.
"Mr. Prime Minister, never did I think in my wildest dreams that I would have an orchid named after me and my wife," a smiling Biden told Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong.
"That was beyond any expectations I ever had as a child or an an adult."
VIP orchid-naming first took root in 1957 during British colonial rule when a variety was named after Anne Black, the wife of London's high commissioner to Singapore.
Singapore is a leading exporter of orchids and its national flower is an indigenous violet-hued variety called the Vanda "Miss Joaquim".


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Towards a Work-Related Turnover Risk Management in Manufacturing SMEs
Authors: Svenja Korder, Dominik Breuherr, Gunther Reinhart
Abstract: The shortage of skilled workers in Germany caused by demographic change steadily increases. In the manufacturing sector, this situation leads to difficulties filling vacant positions and thus to extended vacancy periods of jobs in companies. Therefore, the turnover of skilled workers becomes a problem, especially in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, as individual positions are not filled redundantly. High costs due to temporary workers or the rejection of orders can be the consequences. Turnover research has been conducted for a long time, but there is a lack of a standardized method to capture the turnover risk of skilled workers. This paper presents an approach for the systematic assessment of turnover risk in manufacturing work. The method is based on an employee survey. The results are transferred into a risk matrix in order to derive the level of risk for work-related turnover of individual employees. To ensure a cost-, personneland time-efficient implementation in the operations of SMEs, the method will be transferred into a software application. In this way, the turnover risk can be made transparent. The user can select specific measures evaluated according to manufacturing-specific performance indicators. These measures should help SMEs prevent the turnover of critical specialists and avoid high costs caused by long vacancy periods of jobs.
Keywords: Risk assessment, Employee Turnover, Human-centric Manufacturing, Work system
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Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure: Delete Cloud Instance
An adversary may delete a cloud instance after they have performed malicious activities in an attempt to evade detection and remove evidence of their presence. Deleting an instance or virtual machine can remove valuable forensic artifacts and other evidence of suspicious behavior if the instance is not recoverable.
Routinely check user permissions to ensure only the expected users have the capability to delete new instances.
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Limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
The deletion of a new instance or virtual machine is a common part of operations within many cloud environments. Events should then not be viewed in isolation, but as part of a chain of behavior that could lead to other activities. For example, detecting a sequence of events such as the creation of an instance, mounting of a snapshot to that instance, and deletion of that instance by a new user account may indicate suspicious activity.
In AWS, CloudTrail logs capture the deletion of an instance in the
TerminateInstances event, and in Azure the deletion of a VM may be captured in Azure activity logs. Google's Admin Activity audit logs within their Cloud Audit logs can be used to detect the usage of
gcloud compute instances delete to delete a VM.


10 Genius Decorations Inspired by Train or Train Track
Toy trains and tracks are really fun. When I was a child, my biggest dream was to have a toy train set I would always enjoy playing with them. Most children love toy trains, but they are not only for playing, there are a lot of brilliant DIY home decorations and garden projects inspired by train set. If you are a train lover and want to make something unusual for your kid's room or decorating projects, then you are on the right place to be.
1. Make train tracks out of pool noodles, its sprinklers will let your kids love to play outside in the sun.
Source: play-trains.com
2. Train bed is perfect for a boy's room:
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3. Dining table made of wood tiles with railroad tracks for food trains:
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4. Make a train track along front yard walkway. You don't need much more stuff to build it, just tape with electrical tape and voila:
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5. Simply use several packs of aluminum loaf pans and a roll of electrical tape to make a snack train:
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6. Set the wooden railway together with chalkboard to the wall for your daily MEMO:
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7. Made from old wine barrels to small logs, these DIY train planters will improve the look of your garden:
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Or you can build a garden bed like a train:
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8. Suspended train track. Is it a cool way to decorate a bedroom or a playroom ceiling:
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9. DIY wall train track is perfect for a train themed playroom:
Get tutorial for above project from here ====> babymakingmachine.com
10. Create a wooden rail track and mini houses in your garden to give hours of fun to your kids:
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Maya Bernstein, Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, discusses her vision of Jewish Education for the 21st Century, one which encourages the development of "Jewish educational activism". She describes how hevruta learning can be a model for how this type of ethical education can proceed.
She suggests that the process of Hevruta learning can inform and enhance the Jewish ethical activist classroom in the following ways:
- Responsibility for the Other
- Ideas are Multi-faceted and Complex
- Deliberate Partnering – Paving the Way for Critical Relationships
- Cultivation of Compassionate Listening
- Movement between Intellectual Discussion & Personal Contemplation
- Nature of the Educational Relationship
"Hevruta is a powerful tool in facilitating the movement from study to action, and thereby helping Jewish wisdom stay relevant and agile in today's world. Jewish education can contribute invaluably to the challenge of striving to define and create an ethical global community. In our Jewish educational environments, we must ensure that we train the next generation to engage in this process, armed with a set of values, texts, and tools unique to our tradition. The philosophical methodology behind hevruta learning to create ethical educational environments should be considered as one vehicle to help ensure that the Jewish education our children receive is one that will stay with them for a lifetime, and inspire and challenge how they behave as human beings in this world."