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Thermal Fluid, Steam, & Glycol Process Skids
Thermal Fluid Systems, Inc. offers custom design of thermal fluid, steam, and glycol process skids, providing heating and cooling operations and accurate control of temperatures to ± 1°F (0.5 °C). Heating media includes thermal fluids such as Chevron, Dowtherm, Essotherm, Texatherm, and Therminol, along with steam and glycol. Cooling media includes water, chilled water, air, and other methods. The process skids are composed of controls, secondary loops, pumps, and valves. Customers can choose from field installation or pre-built assembly, as well as customized mounting or completely skid mounted units.
All custom-engineered process skids are built to exacting standards, upholding the rigorous industrial regulations for quality and functionality. Our designs are flexible, meeting the particular specifications for customer applications. All products uphold the rigorous standards of quality and performance set by industry regulatory boards, including ASME, FM, and ASI, along with our internal quality assurance protocols.
Thermal Fluid Skid System
Our customized thermal fluid skid systems are used in a wide variety of industries to provide thermal energy for process heating, space heating, or cooling. Thermal fluid skid systems consist of a pump, heater, and cooler connected by piping to a heat exchanger. The pump circulates the thermal fluid through the system and is heated or cooled as needed by the heater and cooler.
Thermal fluid skid systems are an efficient and cost-effective way to provide thermal energy for a variety of applications. Thermal fluid skid systems are easy to install and maintain and can be customized to meet the specific needs of your application.
Glycol Skid System
Glycol skid systems are used in a variety of industries to provide a safe and efficient way to transfer glycol from one location to another. A few key components make up a glycol skid system, and understanding how each one works is essential to ensuring the system runs smoothly.
- Pump: The pump is responsible for moving the glycol from one location to another.
- Piping: The piping is responsible for connecting the various components of the system, and it must be made of materials resistant to corrosion.
Different types of pumps, tanks, and pipes can be used in a glycol skid system. It is essential to consult with an expert to determine which type is best for your specific application.
Glycol skid systems are an essential part of many industries, and understanding how they work is crucial to ensuring that they operate correctly. These systems are designed and built with a variety of different components, each of which plays a vital role in the overall operation of the system. Pumping glycol from one location to another. and connecting the various components together with piping are all essential aspects of these systems. Consulting with an expert to ensure that you select the right components for your specific application is necessary to ensure that your glycol skid system runs smoothly.
For more information about the design and supply of custom thermal fluid, steam, and glycol process skids or the other value-added capabilities available, please see the table below or contact us directly.
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The AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (AeB) is a mature software bundle that has been under development since 1999.
The AeB, which is freeware, does not require Adobe® Acrobat® Professional to build an AeB document, and yes, it works for pdftex and dvipdfm.
The AeB contains support packages for
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writing interactive exercises and quizzes (with or without solutions)
inserting Adobe® Acrobat® form elements
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An extensive set of examples and detailed documentation of usage accompanies the distribution. Many educators world-wide are using AeB to write educational materials for publication on the Internet. Why not you?
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The high vibration levels inside a tire have the potential to generate electrical power using vibration based energy harvesting techniques. In this paper, the feasibility of using an inertial vibrating energy harvester unit to power a sensor module inside the tire is assessed. The harvester unit is adapted to the tire vibration spectra and the superimposed acceleration signal. First prototypes demonstrate power generation capabilities sufficient enough to transmit tire sensor data multiple times per minute. To optimize the harvester performance with changing dominant tire vibration frequencies, a novel artificial neural network (ANN) based closed loop system capable of ensuring broad band operations has been proposed. By presenting a batteryless power supply unit, the proposed system addresses one of the key challenges in the realization of the intelligent tire concept.
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|This popular port is a living museum and a window to America's seafaring past.|
Mystic's lifeblood has been the sea since its settlement in the 1600's. Some 600 vessels were built on its shores between 1784 and 1919, and most of its citizens were shipwrights who worked their farms in the summer and spent the rest of the year building the sloops and schooners that plied the rich New England waters as well as those of the southern states and the Caribbean.
Long an important fishing and whaling port, Mystic changed in 1838 when George Clark and Thomas Greenman set up their shipbuilding business on what would become the site of the Mystic Seaport Museum. Over the next 40 years, the Greenman yard launched almost 100 vessels, including sloops, clipper ships, and steamboats. The nearby Mallory shipyard, now the museum's restoration yard, also built clippers and steamboats.
American's inexorable tie to the sea is nowhere more evident than in Mystic. It's one of my favorite destinations while cruising in New England, and after you stop by, it will surely become one of yours.
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This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.

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Note: If you want to email on a one-time basis, see the emailing section under Managing and Running Requests.
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Optimising capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) habitat suitability through alternative management regimes in Scottish plantation forests
Capercaillie numbers in Scotland are declining rapidly and it is accepted that improved habitat management would make a key contribution to any future recovery. In order to do this, managers of commercial forests need to consider the trade-offs between timber production and improved habitat for capercaillie. This research involves the development of a decision tool that uses optimisation methods to systematically investigate this issue. A model that links forest sub-compartment (management unit) characteristics to capercaillie habitat suitability was constructed. Eleven experts evaluated 32 images representing pre-defined forest habitat types. These habitat types were derived using only data available from Forest Enterprise forest inventories and yield models, therefore, they may be predicted directly for any similarly inventoried forest. The Delphi process allowed the experts to reach a consensus regarding the area dependent habitat suitability functions for each habitat type. Following a field validation of the model, the functions were incorporated in a GIS based forest inventory. This allows capercaillie habitat suitability to be calculated for each sub-compartment in a forest. A spreadsheet model was then developed to calculate the timber volume per hectare for possible alternative silvicultural regimes for each sub-compartment. A linear programme then selects the harvesting options for each sub-compartment that return the highest possible score for the forest, five years post management, whilst still meeting specified timer output requirements for the current five year planning period. Two forests representing a conservation forest (Glenmore) and a commercial forest (Inshriach) were selected for case studies. When applied to a range of management scenarios, the model dramatically enhanced habitat suitability whilst allowing timber output targets to be achieved. Various output data, including names of practical use to forest managers are presented.


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About Project Euler
What is Project Euler?
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is to provide a platform for the inquiring mind to delve into unfamiliar areas and learn new concepts in a fun and recreational context.
Who are the problems aimed at?
The intended audience include students for whom the basic curriculum is not feeding their hunger to learn, adults whose background was not primarily mathematics but had an interest in things mathematical, and professionals who want to keep their problem solving and mathematics on the edge.
Can anyone solve the problems?
The problems range in difficulty and for many the experience is inductive chain learning. That is, by solving one problem it will expose you to a new concept that allows you to undertake a previously inaccessible problem. So the determined participant will slowly but surely work his/her way through every problem.
However, as the problems are challenging then you may wish to view the Problems before registering.
"Project Euler exists to encourage, challenge, and develop the skills and enjoyment of anyone with an interest in the fascinating world of mathematics."


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Faculty engage in projects with students and teachers throughout Middlesex and Essex counties. Currently, much work is focused on science, technology, math and engineering education (STEM). The UTeach Undergraduate STEM Teacher Preparation program partners with Lowell, Dracut, Chelmsford, Billerica, Greater Lowell Regional Technical High School, and Methuen.
Associate Professor Michaela Colombo, through a grant funded by the US DOE, (PETALLs - Preparing Educators to Teach All Language Learners) works with the Lawrence Public Schools preparing administrators, teachers and para professionals to effectively work with second language learners.
The Principal Preparation program engages with school districts to ensure that new principals are ready to assume the demands of the role. A group of Leadership Fellows from Lawrence, Billerica, Boxborough and Methuen meets regularly with faculty to ensure that our program is current.
Our Elementary Teacher Preparation program partners with several schools in Lowell so that our students have opportunities to use immediately the knowledge and skills they are learning and reflect on their practice.


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Mental functions are influenced by states of physiological arousal. Afferent neural activity from arterial baroreceptors at systole conveys the strength and timing of individual heartbeats to the brain. We presented words under limited attentional resources time-locked to different phases of the cardiac cycle, to test a hypothesis that natural baroreceptor stimulation influences detection and subsequent memory of words. We show memory for words presented around systole was decreased relative to words at diastole. The deleterious memory effect of systole was greater for words detected with low confidence and amplified in individuals with low interoceptive sensitivity, as indexed using a heartbeat counting task. Our observations highlight an important cardiovascular channel through which autonomic arousal impacts a cognitive function, an effect mitigated by metacognition (perceptual confidence) and interoceptive sensitivity.
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Ella Sharp Art and History Museum (Hillside Farm)
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Hillside Farm
1840s; 1857; 1967–1968 Peter F. Hurst Planetarium, 1968 exhibition gallery, 1987 Mildred I. Hadwin Center, Dabbert and Fleming. 3225 4th St.
This community cultural complex is made up of a nineteenth-century farmhouse, historic buildings moved onto the grounds, and a twentieth-century art center (Mildred I. Hadwin Center), planetarium (Peter F. Hurst Planetarium), and gallery (Exhibition Gallery). They stand in a park setting on the Hillside Farm site. The site was acquired by Abraham Wing of Glens Falls, New York, in 1855 and it passed through the Dwight Merriman Family to their daughter Ella Sharp (1857–1912). Within a short time the Merrimans and Sharps expanded the farm to more than six hundred acres of pastures and meadows and developed its reputation for its dairy and livestock herds and its orchards. Additions were wrapped around the north and west sides of the farmhouse. The house was then crowned with a three-story Italianate tower topped with a belvedere to form the appearance of the present-day museum.
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Ella Sharp Art and History Museum (Hillside Farm)", [Jackson, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—,
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Develop Apps Programmatically
Design and edit apps programmatically by coding their layout and behavior using MATLAB functions. Use this method if you want extra control over the structure of your code.
uifigure function creates a figure that is specially configured for app building and serves as the container for your user interface. UI figures support the same types of modern graphics and interactive UI components that App Designer supports. Using the
uifigure function is the recommended way to create new apps programmatically.
If you create apps using the
figure function or export a GUIDE app to a MATLAB file, you can continue to develop, run, and edit these apps, but they will not take full advantage of the features and UI components that are available with UI figures.
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The chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata) has heart-shaped leaves and colorful foliage, and often it is grown in pots or other containers. Although it is sold as an ornamental plant, it is an invasive species. When planted in an uncontrolled area, it quickly takes over the space and suffocates other plants. If chameleon plant is taking over your flowerbeds and you want to destroy the plant, then using a chemical herbicide may not be an option. The best way to destroy the chameleon plant is to remove it manually, but several rounds of removal may be necessary to eradicate the plant. Chameleon plant is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 11.
Dig up all chameleon plants, including their roots, by using a shovel or trowel, and remove them from the soil. Place the removed plants and all of their parts in a bag or wheelbarrow.
Rake the soil to locate chameleon plants' rhizomes and other parts of the plants, and remove them from the soil. The plants' broken pieces left in soil can form roots.
Dispose of the collected plant material by incineration, or take them to a landfill or transfer station. These disposal methods prevent the possible spread of the invasive species.
Remove all new chameleon plant growth as needed. It can take years for complete removal of the species from an area.
Things You Will Need
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Create a Recursive Hierarchy Group (Report Builder and SSRS)
Applies To: SQL Server 2016
In Reporting Services paginated reports, a recursive hierarchy group organizes data from a single report dataset that includes multiple hierarchical levels, such as the report-to structure for manager-employee relationships in an organizational hierarchy.
Before you can organize data in a table as a recursive hierarchy group, you must have a single dataset that contains all the hierarchical data, You must have separate fields for the item to group and for the item to group by. For example, a dataset where you want to group employees recursively under their manager might contain a name, an employee name, an employee ID, and a manager ID.
In Design view, add a table, and drag the dataset fields to display. Typically, the field that you want to show as a hierarchy is in the first column.
Right-click anywhere in the table to select it. The Grouping pane displays the details group for the selected table. In the Row Groups pane, right-click Details, and then click Edit Group. The Group Properties dialog box opens.
In Group expressions, click Add. A new row appears in the grid.
In the Group on list, type or select the field to group.
In the Recursive Parent list, enter or select the field to group on.
Run the report. The report displays the recursive hierarchy group, although there is no indent to show the hierarchy
Click the text box that contains the field to which you want to add indent levels to display a hierarchy format. The properties for the text box appear in the Properties pane.
If you do not see the Properties pane, click Properties on the View tab.
In the Properties pane, expand the Padding node, click Left, and from the drop-down list, select .
In the Expression pane, type the following expression:
=CStr(2 + (Level()*10)) + "pt"
The Padding properties all require a string in the format nnyy, where nn is a number and yy is the unit of measure. The example expression builds a string that uses the Level function to increase the size of the padding based on recursion level. For example, a row that has a level of 1 would result in a padding of (2 + (1*10))=12pt, and a row that has a level of 3 would result in a padding of (2 + (3*10))=32pt. For information about the Level function, see Level.
Run the report. The report displays a hierarchical view of the grouped data.
Creating Recursive Hierarchy Groups (Report Builder and SSRS)
Filter, Group, and Sort Data (Report Builder and SSRS)
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GlasWeld Environmental Impact
Windscreen repair and Glass Scratch Repair has a positive environmental impact. At GlasWeld, we are committed to helping reduce glass waste in our landfills.
By decreasing the amount of glass that goes into landfills, and reducing the need for new glass manufacturing and transportation we can all make a positive environmental impact.
Did you know...
Glass takes more than 1 million years to decompose in our landfills.
In Europe, 9 million windshields are replaced annually. At an average weight of 25 pounds each, this equates to about 225 million pounds of waste per year.
Glass takes more than 1 million years to decompose in our landfills - Repair Dont Replace
Windscreen glass is difficult to recycle because much of the glass is 2-ply laminated and contains a PVB layer that must be separated. Integrated heating elements or radio antenna are often embedded within the windshields and cannot be returned to the glass furnace for reworking. British Glass, Glass Manufacture: A Mass Balance Study, 2005.
The transportation of glass, which is a relatively heavy product, throughout the supply chain results in high levels of transport-related CO2 emissions. Advances in Glasses and Glass-Ceramics, Frost & Sullivan, 2006.
Glass manufacturing is a high-temperature, energy-intensive activity, resulting in the emission of combustion by-products (sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxides) and the high-temperature oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen. Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Glass Manufacturing, World Bank Group.
It takes 15.2 million BTUs of energy to produce one ton of glass. The manufacturing of one ton of glass can generate as much as 385 pounds of mining waste and 28 pounds of air pollutants. Like the production of other materials, glass manufacturing and usage has negative impacts on the environment. The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.
Thousands of repairs can be carried out for the equivalent environmental impact of 1 replacement.
Why are we bringing these points to light? The more that we all participate in reducing the use of raw materials and the energy needed to produce glass, the better off our environment will be, making glass repair the only environmentally friendly option.
Why Repair?
Repairing a windscreen costs significantly less than replacing them, and can potentially save you hundreds of pounds.
Glass repair is also far less time consuming and can be done on the spot – in addition to being far more environmentally friendly.
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However long you own your vehicle, GlasWeld® guarantees its workmanship. This is in addition to your statutory rights.
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If you are not satisfied with the repair or there is a problem with the windscreen repair in the future we will endevour to resolve that problem or refund your money.


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defender personality
Love only grows by giving love. One can only have more for oneself by sharing it with others.
Brian Tracy
The defender's personality type is unique in some ways, as many of the collective traits can conflict with individual characteristics. Defense lawyers are usually meek but can become contentious when it comes to protecting their family or friends. They are calm and reserved, but have well-developed communication skills and robust social relationships. They strive for security and stability, but can be remarkably open to change, provided they feel understood and respected. Like so many other things, the Defender's personality type is more than the sum of its components. The way they use their strengths defines what they are.
Defenders are true altruists, and respond to kindness with greater kindness and kindness. They work with enthusiasm and generosity for the tasks and the people that are close to their hearts.
This personality type certainly deserves to make up a very large part of the population at almost 13%. Defenders follow established traditions and have a desire to do good. They find themselves in areas with an awareness of their own history, such as medicine, science, and community service.
Defenders, especially the temperamental ones, are often extremely meticulous. Though they put things off, you can always count on them to get their job done on time. Defense lawyers take their responsibilities personally. They do what they can to exceed expectations and bring joy to others, at work and at home.
You have to see us with your own eyes
Defense attorneys must be careful to let others notice their efforts. Defense lawyers tend to understate their achievements. While their kindness is valued by many, cynical and selfish people could take advantage of the dedication and humility of the defenders to shift work on them and then pass that work off as their own merit. To maintain their confidence and commitment, defenders should know when to say no and stand up for themselves.
Strangely enough, although introverted by nature, defenders are very social creatures. They use their excellent memory not to store data and trivia, but to remember people and details about their lives. Defenders are very generous with gifts. They use their imagination and natural empathy to express their generosity in a way that touches hearts. This is certainly the case with regard to their peers, whom the defense lawyers often consider personal friends. In their families, however, this form of affection is particularly evident.
Whenever I can, I'll protect you
Defenders are a wonderful personality type. They seldom sit idle while a good cause goes unfinished. The defenders' ability to communicate with others on a human level is second to none among the introverts. Often times, they use their communication skills to maintain a caring, happy family. The joy they gain from this is a gift for everyone involved. Defenders are never comfortable in the spotlight and can feel guilty about taking credit for the team's work. However, when they can ensure that their efforts are recognized, defenders find a sense of satisfaction that people of other personality types can only dream of.


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What Is The Jain Culture?
What is the influence of Jain culture.
The Indus valley civilisation of Mohenjodaro and Harappa highlights the relic of Jain culture. Certainly, we cannot refute that there has been a fine deal of communal effects on both the currents of Indian culture. Actually, Indian culture is an amalgamated culture. The two chief currents in the stream of Indian culture are Brahmanism and Shamanism. They have significantly influenced each other, and thus, added to the amalgamated Indian culture. It is true that they have some correspondence and particular common principles, but it is evenly true that they have their own individuality, and marked distinctions.


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Sea Urchins on SpongeBob
Sea Urchins are animals that appear in SpongeBob SquarePants. They inhabit Jellyfish Cave. They appeared in a few episodes including Nature Pants, Pre-Hibernation Week, Your Shoes Untied, and No Hat for Pat.
In Squidward's School for Grown-Ups, a much more bigger and brown sea urchin is seen throughout the episode sleeping on Patrick's face thought to be a beard. It later woke up due to Patrick's tears and left. It is, by far, the only sea urchin that could actually talk.
The Sea Urchins make their largest appearance in the episode Eek! An Urchin. It started out as one urchin causing trouble at the Krusty Krab. The situation was so bad that even Plankton decided to help (by using a robot and even dressing as a female urchin). It was eventually discovered that there were many sea urchins hiding under the stove. SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs eventually got them out but SpongeBob ended up putting them back into the Krusty Krab again.
A Sea Urchin also appears in Plankton's Pet where it, along with a Guard Worm and a Sea Monkey were released from their cages at the Pet Store and attempted to attack SpongeBob and Plankton. However, the Sea Urchin and the other animals were scared back into their cages by Spot. Like with the one from Squidward's School for Grown-Ups," this Sea Urchin has a mouth and two eyes.
As seen in the episode Eek! An Urchin, the sea urchins are shown to have a crafty side to them. They manage to move around and dodge all of SpongeBob, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton's attempts at catching them. They
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also have mouths and seem to talk in their own language. The Sea Urchins even have superhuman strength as only one urchin managed to drag SpongeBob across the floor while being trapped in a bucket and even pick up Mr. Krabs by the end of the broom, spin him around, then slam him numerous of times.
Only in the episode Squidward's School for Grown-Ups, there was a sea urchin that could actually talk. It also had eyes (which even the sea urchins from Eek! An Urchin don't have).
 - Unlike sea urchins in real life, they climb and bite fish, and they don't have spines to hurt them.
 - Unlike in other episodes, the sea urchins that appear in the episode Eek! An Urchin are blue instead of black. They are also bigger and rounder.
 - Both the brown sea urchin from Squidward's School For Grown-Ups and all of the blue urchins from
 The brown urchin from Squidward's School for Grown-Ups.
 and Eek! An Urchin are all male since the brown sea urchin had a male voice and called SpongeBob (who was dressed as a female viking) a "cutie" and the blue sea urchins all feel in love with Plankton dressed as a female urchin (named Planktonella).
 - Funny, both of these types of urchins are classified as male due to them thinking a male character is really female.
 - As seen in the episode Growth Spout, sea urchins can actually be eaten as one of the foods Mr. Krabs takes from Squidward's fridge was Pickled Urchins.
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Mining Publication: Technology News 453 - Navigation and Control of Continuous Mining Systems for Coal Mining
The primary focus of the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) is to make mining safer and more healthful for mine workers. The USBM research program is developing technology that will allow computer-assisted operation of mechanized equipment normally used in underground room-and-pillar coal mining, while permitting workers to be located away from the hazardous coal extraction area (the face). Advanced navigation and control technologies are being developed for underground room-and-pillar and highwall coal mining that can be applied to commercially available mining equipment. The technology being developed uses off-the-shelf components, minimizing the effort required to adapt it to mining equipment. Because the new developments are completely modular, only the modules required in a particular application need be used on the system.


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I have modified the value of net.core.rmem_max with sysctl, and now I would like to set it back to its default value.
If I reboot, net.core.rmem_max will go back to its default value (because it is not overridden in /etc/sysctl.conf), but can I know this value without rebooting?
Ideally I should have run sysctl net.core.rmem_max to read the value before modifying it, but I forgot...
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This is not possible in general: the kernel does not retain the original values (at least under Linux it doesn't, and this is probably true of other unix variants). The value of the setting is stored in a variable; when you change the setting, the memory containing the variable is irreversibly updated.
For most settings, the initial value of the variable is a constant that is determined at compile time and stored in the kernel binary. So you could, in principle, inspect your kernel binary to find the default value. You would have to locate the symbol corresponding to the setting you're interested in, and follow the address of that symbol in the kernel binary. Booting your kernel in a virtual machine would be less work.
For most settings, you can look in the kernel source — kernel/sysctl.c and other files. You'll see definitions like
 .procname = "rmem_max",
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(in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c), from which you can trace the initialization of the sysctl_rmem_max variable. While this one is initialized from a constant, it takes quite a bit of reading C code to expand.
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On my OpenBSD machine, /etc/sysctl.conf lists a bunch of default sysctl values, but this list is not exhaustive.
Probably the best way is to read the sysctl code or ask a friend who is running the same OS for his values :)
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Books: Around the World in 80 Trades
The trading of goods is the most traditional and ancient type of economy and is still used by many cultures around the world. In Around the World in 80 Trades (MacMillan), cultural exchange and fair-trade economist Conor Woodman puts his negotiating skills and bargaining wits to the test against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. Going all in, Woodman sold his house to finance this extraordinary journey that sees him trading camels from Sudan for coffee in Kenya, trading the coffee for South African red wine, and using the proceeds to purchase Chinese porcelain. Inspired by the various encounters along his route, Woodman concludes that, regardless of geographical, language, or cultural differences, the values of profit remain the same. Part travel writing and part journal of an undercover economist, Around the World in 80 Trades takes the reader on a journey of discovery of cultural exchange and the human story of how the complex modern macroeconomic system came to be: face-to-face exchange.


Australian Medicare Number Validation
Australian Medicare card numbers consist of 11 digits structured as follows:
First digit should be in the range 2-6
Digits are weighted (1,3,7,9,1,3,7,9)
Issue Number
Indicates how many times the card has been issued
Individual Reference Number (IRN)
The IRN appears on the left of the cardholder's name on the medicare card and distinguishes the individuals named on the card.
The IRN is not always considered part of the card number, but it is essential that it be included on Medicare claim forms.
It can be hard to find a definitive reference to the algorithm on the Medicare site. At the time of writing it could be found in this document:
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// ValidateMedicareNumber
// Checks medicare card number for validity
// using the published checksum algorithm.
// Returns: true if the number is valid, false otherwise.
// Note - this expects 11 digits including the IRN.
// To validate numbers without IRNs, change the length
// check to 10 digits.
// Source:
// Author: Guy Carpenter
// License: The author claims no rights to this code.
// Use it as you wish.
function ValidateMedicareNumber($MedicareNo)
 $medicareNo = preg_replace("/[^\d]/", "", $MedicareNo);
 // Check for 11 digits
 $length = strlen($medicareNo);
 if ($length==11) {
 // Test leading digit and checksum
 if (preg_match("/^([2-6]\d{7})(\d)/", $medicareNo, $matches)) {
 $base = $matches[1];
 $checkDigit = $matches[2];
 $sum = 0;
 $weights = array(1,3,7,9,1,3,7,9);
 foreach ($weights as $position=>$weight) {
 $sum += $base[$position] * $weight;
 return ($sum % 10) == intval($checkDigit);
 return false;
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Package-Specific Context Entries
This example outlines how to create package-specific context entries.
The Context Panel provides easy clickable access to many commands in Maple. In Maple's user interface, when your cursor is on either input or output for 2-D math expressions (or output from 1-D math expressions), context-sensitive operations can be found in the Context Panel on the right side of the screen.
In order to make sure that as many people as possible can access commands in your package, it is important to consider adding one or more of your commands to the context-sensitive infrastructure. The following example will show you how that's possible.
First, start with a package that you have authored.
Here is a quick example of a package module that has three exports:
squared: a procedure that takes an integer and squares it
cubed: a procedure that takes an integer and cubes it
parsestring: a procedure that takes a string and attempts to parse it
Here is the output of the package exports.
Adding Context Panel Entries
There are several important parts of building individual entries for the context panel.
Most importantly, you want to know:
WHAT to call the entry; the label to show in the context panel
WHICH command you want to use; the command to apply when the label is clicked
WHEN to show the entry; under what type conditions the option is shown
HOW you will help the user use it; the tooltip to help describe what the command does
The command to add an entry to the current context-sensitive infrastructure is called ContextMenu:-CurrentContext:-Entries:-Add.
Here is a short example of using the command where you add an entry to the context panel that negates a boolean value:
"Negate", _TAG_ to show
"not %EXPR", _TAG_ to apply
boolean, _TAG_ conditions
'helpstring'="Negate the expression"): _TAG_ to show
Try clicking on the output below and using the "Negate" option from the context panel.
Using "Negate" gives the following:
The most important part of specifying a context panel entry is determining WHEN to show it. Typically, you should try to show context-sensitive entries whenever Maple detects input that is of the same type as is expected for your routines. For example, the above module expects type integer for the procedures squared and cubed, and type string for the procedure parsestring.
Here is another example using the module above. In this example, you will add a new entry called "Square" that is shown for an integer input.
"Square", _TAG_ to show
":-MyPackage:-squared(%EXPR)", _TAG_ to apply
integer, _TAG_ conditions
'helpstring'="Square the expression"): _TAG_ to show
Click on the output below, then use the "Square" option from the context panel.
Using "Square" gives the following:
Since the example for cubed will be similar to squared, you can skip that and do one more example for the parsestring procedure.
"Parse string", _TAG_ to show
":-MyPackage:-parsestring(%EXPR)", _TAG_ to apply
string, _TAG_ conditions
'helpstring'="Parse the string"): _TAG_ to show
Adding Context Panel Entries to a Package
Next, add the entries for each of the procedures created above to the code for the package module. For a package implemented as a module, new and relevant context-sensitive entries can be created inside the module's ModuleLoad export; this will cause the new context panel entries to be automatically created upon the first invocation or use of the package.
Before adding the entries for the procedures to the package module, make a copy of the current context panel. You can now freely customize the copied panel.
Note: The added entries will not be visible in the Maple context panel until you execute the Install command.
pCM := ContextMenu:-CurrentContext:-Copy():
Queries can be useful while determining when to show your context-sensitive items. New context panel entries can be configured so as to only appear under specific circumstances - such as when the package is loaded (using with).
Add a query to test if your package is loaded or not:
"Is MyPackage Loaded",
member( ':-MyPackage', packages() );
The AddMultiple command adds multiple entries in one call:
'helpstring'="Square the expression" ],
'helpstring'="Cube the expression" ],
[ "Parse string",
'helpstring'="Parse the string"],
'submenu'=["MyPackage"], _TAG_ a sub-folder for MyPackage
'active'="Is MyPackage Loaded"); _TAG_ active option tests whether some condition is met( i.e. if "Is MyPackage loaded"? );
The Install command adds the entries to the context panel:
Next, load the package to activate the entries:
Finally, you can put this together in the original procedure, creating a package that contains its own context-sensitive panel code. In order for the context-sensitive code to be available when a package is run, it is required that the code for the actions are added to the ModuleLoad section of the module. If a ModuleLoad local or export is present, then this procedure is called when the module is read from the Maple repository in which it is located (in the code below, this is done manually by calling ModuleLoad() ).
When MyPackage is loaded, the ModuleLoad section is initialized, making the commands available in the context-sensitive system.
Thus, clicking on 3 now shows a submenu for "MyPackage" as well as several available commands.
There are more examples that discuss package authoring and context panels in Maple, including:
Creating a New Package Workbook
Adding an Entry to the Context Menu Module
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Community living: President can make motions, vote
President is permitted to make motions and cast votes
Q: Is an elected president allowed to make motions and vote?
A: This is a commonly asked question. Thinking that the president does not vote or make motions is incorrect. In fact, if you read the section on "Voting, Chairperson" in Robert's Rules of Order, it says: "The presiding officer, if a member of the assembly, can always vote in the case of a ballot at the same time other members do."
Thinking that the president only votes in case of a tie is wrong. The same is true if the president needs to make a motion or seconds a motion.
My recommendation is that the president asks other directors (at a board meeting) or members (at a members meeting) to make the motion. However, in some situations, it is important that the president make the motion and they would vote on the motion.
Most documents let board enter private property to make repairs
Q: A house in our gated community has been abandoned and the mortgage holder has not yet foreclosed on the property. The board has sent at least two certified letters to the last known address of the previous owner informing him that the lanai screen is broken, and the letters were returned marked not deliverable.
We are concerned about our HOA's responsibility if a child or pet wanders onto that property through the broken screen and falls into the pool. Since it is still private property, must we have a court order to allow us to go onto that property to repair this hazardous condition?
A: What you are referring to is called "Self-Help." Most documents allow the board to enter private property to make repairs. In this situation you describe, it involves making the property secure against a possible "attractive nuisance," which refers to objects or things on the premises that might attract children and therefore pose possible danger or harm.
There are two actions that I suggest. The first is to send a certified letter to the bank holding the mortgage, informing them of the problem. Ask them to make the necessary repairs or allow the board to enter the property and make the repairs.
The second action is to have your attorney send a letter to the previous owner. That letter should be a demand letter to make the property safe and should state if they do not make the repairs, the association will enter and make the property safe at the owner's expense.
Consult an attorney for further guidance.
Get creative with technology to let absent owners serve on board
Q: In a recent column you stated that part-time residents or landlord owners could serve on a board of directors. We are a small community with several homes rented and some owners who use the home as a vacation home. We do not have a clubhouse or common area building to hold our meeting. We meet at a local library where we would not have access to a speakerphone. How could any absent owner be informed of the needs of the association and serve on the board, much less serve as an officer?
A: Sometimes you must be creative. With today's electronic gadgets, there are several methods you can use.
Most libraries have wireless systems available. Using a laptop computer, there are several communication systems available to make connections with out-of-town directors. There are telephones that plug into computers, as well as Skype, which is a program used online that functions as a telephone and videophone. Cell phones can be used as a platform and serve as a speaker phone.
The problem is for the directors living out of town to keep advised of the necessary work and operations.
I would not restrict a person living out of town if they were willing to study and provide advice on solutions to problems. This can be done by e-mail and other electronic transmissions.
These solutions can be solved with limited expense and most of the equipment could be found from owners in your community.
The key words are communications, staying informed and a willingness to dedicate the time necessary.
Holding more than one officer position isn't a good idea
Q: Is it permissible for one person to hold the office of president and treasurer at the same time? I think the board should not let this happen — the board has other directors and we can have one person for each position. Why is there a need for our directors to allow this to take place?
A: The source for this answer can be found in your documents rather than the statutes. More than likely if your documents address this situation it would be in your bylaws, but most documents do not limit this situation.
It is not a good idea for a person to hold two officer positions, but in some situations it is necessary. The directors should not appoint one person to do most of the work unless there is no other option.
If directors do not have the time to serve as officers, they have two options. The first is to resign and let another owner fill the vacancy. The second is to engage professional management to do the work, and then the directors and officers would only need to supervise the manager's work.
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The YubiKey is a device that adds a layer of security to logging into online accounts. Google engineers are experimenting with YubiKeys and other schemes for added protection.
CREDIT: From "YubiKey NEO - World's first NFC enabled one-time password tokenM" by Yubico on YouTube
Google is working on small devices — including one designed as a ring — that people would need to log onto all of their online accounts, Wired reported. Such devices could add a layer of security to online email, banking and other accounts, but they could also add another necessity for people to carry around in their purses or wallets.
Google's security team are experimenting with extra log-in hardware because they thought passwords aren't enough to deter hackers anymore, Wired reported. Because of the increasing sophistication of hacks, everything that is now password-protected might in the future require some kind of personal key, too, the Google researchers thought.
Google has experimented with YubiKey, a small card that plugs into computers' USB ports. They also imagined that tomorrow's Internet keys could be built into rings or smartphones, which would eliminate the need to carry around an extra device. The jewelry and smartphone-based keys could work with a tap.
One of the major challenges now is to convince other websites to agree to a unified log-in system.
Google's ideas for increasing the security of online accounts are alternatives to another popular idea, adding biometrics such as iris or fingerprint scans to people's personal devices.


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The Revel & Riot website has many resource documents for community education and community building for LGBTQ organizing, education, and advocacy.
We provide a collection of resources on our website – everything from information about anti-oppression, transgender health, internalized homophobia, and LGBTQ art history. Every resource we have comes with references for further reading and links to other organizations where additional support can be found. We believe that the LGBTQ fight for equality is bound to all other struggles for social, economic and environmental justice and we try to reinforce that vision through our resources.
You can find the resource documents here : _URL_
Some of the topics they cover are:
- LGBTTIQQS2AA+ Definitions
- LGBT Art History
- Internalized Homophobia
- Coming Out
- Transgender 101
- Marriage Equality
- Suicide Prevention
- Transgender Health & Transitioning
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 1. scalper(noun)
 "he got theater tickets through a scalper"
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 1. scalper(Noun)
 One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
 We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: u201CNeed any tickets?u201D
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 A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
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 one who, or that which, scalps
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 same as Scalping iron, under Scalping
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 a broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market
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 a person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets
 5. Scalper(noun)
 a person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper
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Goldenberries are native to cooler areas of Europe and Western Asia. They are delightfully tart, and a good source of vitamin C. Golden berries were very popular in Britain in the 1800s, when local clubs would have golden berry bake-offs and contests to see who could grow the biggest golden berry. Golden berries can also be called Inca Berries, Golden Berries or Cape Gooseberries. Dr. Oz has declared that Goldenberries may help fight belly fat!
Natural Goldenberries, can also be called Inca Berries, Gooseberries or Cape Gooseberries. Packed with nutrients, these tasty tart berries make an especially healthy snack. Great for baking in pies, tarts, puddings or even spicing up a fruit salad. Dr. Oz has declared Goldenberries to be one of his top belly-blasting foods!


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Deliver to ///banana. lives. torn: shifting human behaviour in the battle for the last mile
This session will explore how the battle for the last mile has changed (voice, autonomy, automated route planning, traffic data etc) with the advent of machines - with a spotlight on China as part of the talk. The personal story is a case study about our experience in what3words of shifting long-entrenched behaviour as the battle for the last mile hots up, looking at China, the West and emerging markets and how the trends towards voice and automation/machines are changing things we've taken for granted for so long. One particular bit of insight would be working with huge corporates as a tiny startup and the challenges/learnings there.
Key takeways include:
- An exploration into the challenges/pitfalls and learnings when large, old companies come up against new tech
- -Why there is a need for a shift in human behaviour: how things aren't always the way you'd expect (the importance of user data). And suggestions on how this can be done in an organisation
- some insight of China vs the West with relation to final mile and the risk of us getting left behind. What can we learn and how can we implement these changes to ensure our businesses in the West are able to innovate and survive?


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At the most case scenario, companies migrate leads from RD Station to Pipedrive when attends certain aspects of a MQL. This automation create or update a lead on RD Station every time that you create a new deal on Pipedrive.
- 1. Pluga keeps an eye on every deal created on your Pipedrive.
- 2. When this occur, we will create or update the lead on RD Station.
- 3. Remember: when you create your automation, you can define the event name of the lead converted. [example: "novo_deal_pipedrive"], what helps you to include this lead in a certain automation pipeline on RD Station!


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The Tutoring Program exists at IST since the academic year 2003/04, being pioneer in Portugal in the development and implementation of tutoring activities adapted to the reality of Portuguese Higher Education.
In 2011, the book Monitoring and Tutoring Program: eight years promoting integration and academic success at IST (not translated) was edited by IST Press. This book presents, describes and quantifies the work developed over the first 8 years of the Program's existence.
The quality of the work developed by the Tutoring Program was distinguished in 2013 by the European Observatory on Good Practices in University Strategic Management, as a Good Practice in the European University context.
Tutoring Program Goals:
- Monitor students' academic path
- Support the transition from secondary education to higher education
- Soft skills training
- Early identification of academic failure situations
- Training and guidance for students with high academic performance
- Support activities related to Course's Coordination
- Promote professors teaching skills
- Contribute to improving the quality of teaching at IST
In the year in which the GATu (current NDA) celebrated 10 years dedicated to promoting the success and academic integration of university students, the 1st edition (sold out) of the book published in 2011, Monitoring and Tutoring Program: eight years promoting integration and academic success at IST (not translated) was launched.
You can download the book in Portuguese here:
- Part 1: Framework of the Tutor in the Theories of Development and Academic Self-Regulation (PDF, 32KB)
- Part 2: Institutional Framework of the Tutoring Program (PDF, 13KB)
- Part 3: Tutor Support Office – Description and Evaluation of Activities (PDF, 27KB)
- Part 4: Assessing the Activities of the Tutoring Support Office (PDF, 21KB)
- Part 5: The Challenges of the Tutoring Program for the Future (PDF, 12KB)
- Annex: Chronology (PDF, 2KB)


Having voted 7 months earlier in favour of banning descriptive terms as 'buttery' and 'creamy' for purely plant-based products, the European Parliament withdrew draft legislation (the famous Amendment 171).
Implications of Amendment 171 were that the following would be prohibited:
 - Familiar packaging formats like a carton for plant-based milk alternatives, or a block of plant margarine;
 - Visual depictions of plant-based foods if they could be judged as "evoking" or "imitating" dairy – for example, an image of a milky swirl on a package of oat drink;
 - Science-based green claims that compare plant-based foods to dairy foods, like "half the carbon emissions of dairy butter," across all communications including digital and social media;
 - Allergen information like "does not contain milk;"
 - Descriptive terms like "creamy," "buttery", "use like cooking cream" or "vegan alternative to yoghurt;"
The major advocates for Amendment 171 belonged to the European diary industry. What exactly drove the Parliament to drop the draft legislation remains unclear, aside the growing resistance from plant-based makers and consumers. More than 450,000 consumers signed the public petition against the Amendment. Opponents also included WWF, Greenpeace, the European Consumer Organisation and Greta Thunberg.


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Taphonomic changes in response to cold temperature exposure are not well characterized. Specific changes, both macroscopic (recovered animal skeletal material) and microscopic (lamb bone segments experimentally exposed to five different cold treatments), were assessed using thin sectioning and light microscopy. Macroscopic taphonomic changes could not be exclusively attributed to cold climate exposure. In contrast, two types of microstructural cracking damage, longitudinal and osteon cracks, were caused by exposure to cold. The type of cold exposure, such as freeze-drying versus just cold, could in certain instances, be distinguished based on the type and prevalence of the cracks. These findings demonstrate that microstructural cracking can be used as a taphonomic indicator of cold exposure. They also suggest that the type and prevalence of this damage could be used to distinguish between different types of cold exposure.
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Do you remember the kind of curious thoughts you had as a child? Did you muse on nature, people, and what you were having for dinner, all at once? Or have you been enchanted by a child of your own having these whimsical thoughts? Now you can do so again: watch the introductory video for A Rainbow in my Pocket!
There are so many questions and thoughts that chase through your mind! Why is the sky blue? Why do the ants queue in such a straight line? Why are some words kind and some words harsh?
How do you put a rainbow in your pocket?
The meaning of this beautiful story is hard to chase down – just like a rainbow! But it expresses something of the nature of keeping your mind free; of how the thoughts of children rush in and out of their minds with breathless rapidity; and how their wishes for themselves and the world around them are simple and tender, and should be cherished.
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A psychiatrist who has received international recognition for her research on the neural basis of primate social cognition, Leslie Brothers, M.D., offers here a major argument about the social dimension of the human brain, drawing on both her own work and a wealth of information from research laboratories, neurosurgical clinics, and psychiatric wards.Brothers offers the tale of Robinson Crusoe as a metaphor for neuroscience's classic (and flawed) notion of the brain: a starkly isolated figure, working, praying, writing alone. But the famous castaway of literature, she notes, came from society and returned to society. So too with our brains: they have evolved a specialized capacity for exchanging signals with other brains--they are designed to be social. This can be seen in the brain's sensitive attunement to the meanings of facial expressions and physical gestures and the way it assigns mental lives to physical bodies--a feat we too often take for granted. Brothers describes fascinating case studies that show that certain kinds of brain damage can destroy a patient's ability to interpret faces, leaving him or her with the sense that they are surrounded by zombies. She takes us down to the level of the individual neuron, exploring the response of brain cells to social events. Perhaps most important, she connects neuroscience, psychiatry, and sociology as never before, showing how our daily interaction creates an organized social world--a network of brains that generates meaningful behavior and thought. Our emotions and our sense of self have no existence outside of a social context. Brothers conducts her argument with grace and style. By broadening our approach to the brain, this groundbreaking book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the human mind.
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A book which should help to shift the paradigm of consciousness from isolationist to interactivist, "Friday's Footprint" is a masterpiece in challenging the old ideas of brain science. We naturally think of consciousness (and mind) as isolated objects like our brains, but that is too limiting a perspective, given the almost completely social nature of the mind. Language and social interaction have conditioned us well, meaning that there is no longer any point in trying to put our finger on "consciousness" when it is just as much "out there" in society as inside our heads.
Some people particularly fearful of change may want to hold onto their belief in the representational notion of truth (that one's opinion can somehow "correspond" to a "reality" out there), but Dr. Brothers leaves no room for such beliefs in the socially-conditioned brain: "Language simply embodies the shared beliefs and practices of the community of language users." (p. 101) We're simply acting out narratives and roles, which is normal, but let's not assume that such socially acceptable terms as thoughts, emotions, self, mind and so on really have a separate, definite existence.
Dr. Brothers' book requires as much of a shift in one's thinking as it did the brain researchers who discovered socially responsive cells; as it does those "believers" in the strict objectivity of science who must realize that science is socially and culturally influenced; as it did Robinson Crusoe, alone for years when he finally found proof of the existence of another human being: Friday's footprint.
This book is only a collection of loosely coupled facts. Dr. Brothers doesn't show a coherent theme in his book. Although he seems to be saying that the human brain research should be pursued in social context, he doesn't give me strong evidence -- only some incomplete arguments.
He is swaying between materialism and social constructionism. For example, when talking about "mind theory," in chapter 1 he supports the materialism but in Ch 7 he supports social constructionism. He says the research that combines the two perspectives is a new paradigm but then he just stops right here. Nothing is further explained when I am looking forward to it.
Ch8, the chapter of emotion, is especially strange. He keeps saying that the current emotion research fails but gives no evidence. His logic is that emotion is a socially constructed category so emotion should not exists in "scientific researches." If this logic is true then why he supports the research of "mind theory," which, in his view, is also a socially constructed category?
This book is confusing and incomplete. Besides, his seemingly main theme, that human mind is both a social product and creator of social behavior, is not a new perspective, either (e.g. Maturana's structural coupling theory). I don't think this book is suitable for picky readers.


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mdfind(1) BSD General Commands Manual mdfind(1)
 mdfind -- finds files matching a given query
 mdfind [-live] [-count] [-onlyin directory] [-name fileName] query
 The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given
 metadata query. The query can be a string or a query expression.
 The following options are available:
 -0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunc-tion conjunction
 tion with xargs -0.
 -live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the number of files matching the
 query. When an update causes the query results to change the number of matches is updated.
 The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C.
 -count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the
 matching items.
 -onlyin dir
 Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified.
 -name fileName
 Searches for matching file names only.
 -literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpreta-tion. interpretation.
 -interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into
 the Spotlight menu. For example, the string "search" would produce the following query
 The following examples are shown as given to the shell.
 This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "image":
 mdfind image
 This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAuthor metadata attribute:
 mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'"
 This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "skateboard". The find
 continues to run after gathering the initial results, providing a count of the number of files that
 match the query.
 mdfind -live skateboard
 To get a list of the available attributes for use in constructing queries, see mdimport(1),
 particularly the -X switch.
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A bloom filter uses a hash function (or many) to generate a value between 0 and m given an input string X. My question is how to you use a hash function to generate a value in this way, for example an MD5 hash is typically represented by a 32 length hex string, how would I use an MD5 hashing algorithm to generate a value between 0 and m where I can specify m? I'm using Java at the moment so an example of to do this with the MessageDigest functionality it offers would be great, though just a generic description of how to do about it would be fine too.
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Usually you implement a bloom filter or hash table for speed. MD5 is aimed at collision resistance and cryptographic security, and is consequently very slow compared to other functions. You should look for other functions to use (but the answers below apply regardless of your hashing function) – Slartibartfast Aug 5 '10 at 3:45
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You should first convert the hash output to an unsigned integer, then reduce it modulo m. This looks like this:
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
// hash data...
byte[] hashValue = md.digest();
BigInteger n = new BigInteger(1, hashValue);
n = n.mod(m);
// at that point, n has a value between 0 and m-1 (inclusive)
I have assumed that m is a BigInteger instance. If necessary, use BigInteger.valueOf(). Similarly, use n.intValue() or n.longValue() to get the value of n as one of the primitive types of Java.
The modular reduction is somewhat biased, but the bias is very small if m is substantially smaller than 2^128.
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Thanks for your answer :) – dangerstat May 9 '10 at 17:38
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Simplest way would probably be to just convert the hash output (as a byte sequence) to a single binary number and take that modulo m.
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Hi Dav, cheers for the reply could you flesh out an example of "just convert the hash output (as a byte sequence) to a single binary number" thanks :D – dangerstat May 2 '10 at 12:59
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Negueruela, I.; Reig, P. and Clark, J. S.
The nature of 1WGA J1958.2+3232: a new intermediate polar.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 354(1) L29-L32.
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We present low and intermediate resolution spectroscopy of the optical counterpart to the recently discovered pulsating X-ray source 1WGA J1958.2+3232. The presence of strong HI, HeI and HeII emission lines together with the absence of absorption features rules out the possibility that the object is a massive star, as had recently been suggested. The observed X-ray and optical characteristics are consistent with the object being an intermediate polar. The double-peaked structure of the emission lines indicates that an accretion disc is present.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Ambient Gaming
Interesting article from The Guardian Gamesblog:
Would you play a game that required no actual input from you, but responded directly to things you did every day? Where your in-game progress was mapped to your real-world movements, or your success against enemies was matched to how often you made a phone call?
This is the strange world of Ambient Gaming, a movement tied to Zero-Player Gaming. Titles like Progress Quest or the newly released Ambient Quest incorporate no actual interaction between the user and the game at the time of play, but play themselves out purely based upon the natural, ambient lifestuff that players engage in when away from the computer.
Progress Quest is a game where the player's only interaction with the computer is to start the role playing game going. Ambient Quest is slightly more "interactive"; the number of steps a player takes per day controls the number of spaces she or her moves in the game.
-- Ambiently gaming
I've been wondering for a while if there wasn't room for "mini-ARGs". Gamemasters (who could be players or AI or both) would serve as intermedaries between game data and participants. Actions would be recorded via email, text messages or web. A site would serve as a neutral space for common information. Essentially PBEM with a twist.
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Why is My Refrigerator Ice Maker Not Working?
broken refrigerator ice maker
Ally Appliance Repair provides refrigerator repair in Hempstead, including services to repair ice makers that are not working. Learn about some common ice maker failures below:
Refrigerator ice makers are possibly one of the greatest inventions ever. This is a small luxury a lot of people might take for granted. Refrigerator ice makers are simple machines that do not feature a lot of complex parts that could go wrong with them.
As with any appliance repair, there are a few basic things that need to be reviewed before thinking the worst. And, it's nice to know, if needed, you can replace your ice maker without replacing the entire refrigerator, dependent on the model. First, let's discuss some of the reasons for an ice maker breaking.
When your ice maker is making ice but it is not dispensing the ice cubes it is usually means there's a mechanical problem vs. an electrical problem. This happens when shifting food around in the freezer, you could shift the control switch up or down. Most of the time the ice maker might get blocked with something, possibly a piece of ice. So, check to see if there's something blocking this part from working properly.
Before starting the steps of clearing out the freezer, ensure the ice maker is on. This is done by moving the control arm down. Sometimes, moving food around in the freezer unit might put it into the off position. If the control arm is clear, then there could be ice stuck inside the ice maker or it's not receiving a good connection.
Check the Control Arm
When the switch is down and there is ice but it's not dispensing it, there could be an electrical or mechanical problem. This will need a bit more troubleshooting. Ready to begin? First, we must check the electrical connection. This can be unplugged from behind the freezer when moving or shifting the freezer contents.
To check this, unplug the fridge and pull from the kitchen wall. Turn off the water supply. Locate the valve on the rear of the inside of the freezer. Essentially this is what connects the ice maker into the freezer unit. Be sure that it's actually plugged in properly.
After that, remove all of the ice that is in the ice maker itself. This can be accomplished by adding a little water to help get any ice that is inside of there out.
Once done, restore power to the refrigerator and then turn on the ice maker. It might take the solenoid a few seconds to engage and fill the mold. When the mold is 100% full, wait around 4-5 hours or so to see if you've solved the issue.
Check for Frozen Lines
Other ice maker problems that might cause your ice maker to not produce any ice are frozen lines. The water lines have been clogged with frost. This is an easy fix.
Unplug the freezer and locate the shut off valve. Turn the water off and then grab a hair dryer to warm the water line or just let the freezer sit shut off for a couple of hours until the line is thawed.
There are some models that feature a water filter that can freeze or ice over. For these cases, locating the water filter is the first step. Then repeat what was done for the frozen water line.
If an ice maker is not making large enough cubes of ice, there is a problem with the settings. To adjust the the ice maker settings, take the top part of the cover off and locate a simple control that displays plus and a minus symbols. For this process, you could need a flat head screwdriver.
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How German Households Use Electricity
Fully a quarter of the electricity used in the average German household now goes for information, communication, and entertainment electronics. That's the principal finding of a survey commissioned by several German energy agencies. Fifteen years ago it was only 7%.
"There has been a very noticeable increase in recent years in the number of devices, the amount of time they are in use and the size of the screen," said Jan Witt, director of the Association for Efficient Application of Energy, an organization of the power industry, that co-sponsored the study.
Computer use in the household averages nearly five hours a day, the study showed. And then there are such things as the router, printer, satellite receiver, antenna amplifier, fax, and modem. These devices often use power for standby even when they are idle. Of the average 3,091 kWh used annually per household, Witt reports, 760 kWh go to these devices.
The study also showed that refrigeration and freezing equipment uses 50 to 70% less power than it did 15 years ago. It then took 23% of household power, compared to 16% with today's efficient devices.
Below is a pie chart, showing exactly where the energy use goes in each household.
Pie Chart Translations:
- 24.6% TV/Audio and Office
- 16.1% Cooling and Freezing
- 13.8% Clothes Washing, Drying, Dishwashing
- 12.9% Hot Water
- 9.7% Cooking
- 8.5% Lighting
- 14.4% Miscellaneous (Climate, Wellness, Garden, and Other Electrical Devices)
Ted Shoemaker is a now-retired writer and editor based in Frankfurt, Germany.
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What is PEER?
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13 Apr 2015
Nora Knox
PEER stands for Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal and it is a dynamic, adaptive rating process designed to measure and improve sustainable power system performance; it's also modeled after LEED.
A growing number of stakeholders, electricity suppliers and utilities are exploring how quality can help ensure that smart grid efforts are successful. PEER is the only available measurement tool designed to help the industry apply quality principles to grid modernization.
PEER is administered by the Green Business Certification Inc.
How PEER works
By looking at power systems across four outcome categories PEER allows all stakeholders to both evaluate and set the standard for system performance that best meets customers' needs.
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Three Preschool Crafts Teaching the Ten Commandments
Teaching students about the Ten Commandments can be tough. After all, how many preschoolers understand the words "covet," "adultery," or "idolatry." These three fun crafts can give students something tangible to help them relate to these important laws.
This craft is perfect for students who are just learning their numbers. Cut out two "tablet" shapes by rounding the top edge of a piece of paper. Give each student two tablets and help them write the numbers 1-5 on one tablet and 6-10 on the second tablet. Then let them decorate their tablets with art supplies. Help them to tape the two tablets together when they're finished, and let them act out Moses coming down from Mount Sinai carrying the tablets. They can even act out Moses throwing down the tablets after seeing the golden calf.
Draw a Commandment
Have students draw a picture of their "favorite" commandment of the Ten commandments. These seem to be the easiest (and safest!) for students to draw:
·Commandment 2: Do not serve idols.
·Commandment 5: Honor your father and mother.
·Commandment 6: Do not kill.
·Commandment 8: Do not steal.
·Commandment 10: Do not covet (desire) what someone else has.
Scroll of Commandments
Write or type the commandments on a piece of paper and make enough copies for each student to have one. Show them how to tear the edges of the paper. Then make a strong mixture of tea and allow it to cool. Help your students dip their papers into the mixture and lay them out to dry. (Be careful – the mixture will stain!) When they dry, show students how to roll them into the shape of a scroll and use a paper clip to keep them rolled for a day or two. When you remove the paper clip, the paper will look like an old scroll, yellowed with age.
These preschool crafts will bring the story of the Ten Commandments down to your students' levels. Try them out, and see how your students become engaged in learning about the commandments.


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by Günter Merk
Translation by Peter Meinlschmidt
Over the years, many beer stein collectors have turned to occupational or trade-related steins as collectibles. Collecting occupational steins can be regarded as an independent specialty, similar to collecting regimental, Mettlach or character steins. Criteria have evolved regarding the assessment of scarcity and value, just as they have with other categories of steins. The first trade-related steins date back to the last decade of the 19th century and their evolution ended abruptly with the outbreak of WWI. Only a few occupational steins bear dates in the 1920s or 1930s. Generally, when dates are found on occupational steins, they indicate time spent in school training for the occupation. These dates usually are between 1895 and 1914.
Steins of this type were primarily made of porcelain, but examples are known to exist in cream stoneware, gray-blue stoneware, and glass. Occupational steins made completely out of pewter are rarely found. The manufacturers and distributors of occupational steins were for the most part located in southern Germany.
The first occupational steins were hand-painted with very simple stein bodies. As the customers eventually demanded better quality products, these simple hand-painted steins were quickly dropped in favor of transfer decorations. This process was generally adopted and, eventually, the only steins for sale were manufactured with steel-engraved transfers. Hand-painted steins were discontinued altogether. The Mettlach steins known as the Occupational Series, numbered 2719 through 2730, were also made to fulfill the demand for steins picturing the occupation of the owner.
Two expressions are usually found on occupational steins. They are: (1) Hoch lebe, followed by the name of the occupation, and (2) Eher soll die Welt verderbeu, als vor Durst ein, followed by the name of the occupation and finally, the word sterben. The presence of either of these expressions enhances the desirability of an occupational stein.
Today, occupational steins are being collected according to the scarcity of the trade and the scenes depicted. The most frequently encountered occupations include farmer (Landwirt), butcher (Metzger), brewer (Bierbrauer), baker (Bäcker) and blacksmith (Schmied). The intermediate range includes cabinetmaker (Schreiner), carpenter (Zimmermann), cheesemaker (Käser or Schweizer) and dairy farmer (Senner). The scarce occupationals include trades such as shepherd (Schafer), gardener (Gartner), shoemaker (Schuhmacher), etc. Subgroups of common trades, such as specialist blacksmith (Hammerschmied) and winegrower (Winzer) are also scarce.
As a general guideline for assessing occupational steins, the following considerations should be taken into account. Occupational steins from trades in which income was formerly good to very good are found more frequently. Trades in which income was low (including miners and fishermen) are rarer, and therefore usually obtain higher sale prices.
The scarcity of the occupational stein is not the only factor determining its value. The pictorial representation of the respective trade is also important. Steins with action pictures command higher prices than those merely adorned with a trade symbol. Along the same lines, beer steins depicting common trades, but adorned with rare and particularly colorful scenes, are also greatly sought after. Finally, quality plays a role with regard to sales price.
Many occupational stein collectors will only purchase drinking vessels with full panoramic scenes, rather than steins with lids having pictures only on the ceramic inset. During the last three years, prices for rare occupational steins have increased considerably and some have even doubled, though common trades have remained fairly stable. Overall, prices for occupationals can be viewed as stable with a tendency toward an upward trend.
*Reprinted from The Beer Stein Journal, February 1995, by permission from Gary Kirsner Auctions.


Teacher strike over academy row
Teachers at a school in Haringey are going on strike today, in protest against plans to turn it into an academy.
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Anti-academy protest outside school
Teachers, who have gone on strike in protest against plans to turn their school into an academy, were joined by parents as they demonstrated outside the school today.
Up to 40 parents attended the protest at Downhills Primary in Haringey.
Sarah Williams, 40, who has two sons at the school, said:
"There is absolutely no evidence that a change in structure improves children's educational outcomes.
"When the process first started I thought it was about improving the school, but as we've got further along I've realised it's all about [Education Secretary] Micheal Gove's ideologies that the only way to improve is to introduce profit.
"If you look at the figures, this school was already improving, and there's absolutely no reason why the school can't continue to improve if left the way it is."
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BACKUP is different than REPLICATION because backup saves a copy of data for a long period of time. Replicas are updated frequently and quickly lose any historical state. Data Replication is written in a format that is understood by your database and applications. Disk Backup needs to be written in a format that is understood by the backup applicationwhich in the case of a disaster would require a restore of the data in order to access it. Replication is transparent to the end user. In the case of a disaster a failover of replicas is hidden as much as possible.
Load balancing - Load Balancing is different than task replication since it distributes a load of different computations across machines and allows a single computation to be dropped in case of failure. Load balancing does however use data replication (multi-master) internally to distribute its data among machines.


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In the summer of 2012, four Princeton students traveled to Koidu, Sierra Leone, looking for a community to partner with for a new Engineers Without Borders project. Senior Michael Showak and junior Christine Feng acted as project co-managers.
Video stills courtesy of Caden Ohlwiler, Class of 2015
Video feature: Engineers Without Borders, Sierra Leone
Posted January 28, 2013; 12:00 p.m.
Dorma is a small village in the heart of the Kono District of Sierra Leone, which was ravaged by the country's civil war that concluded in 2002. It lies about two miles from the center of Koidu, the district capital, and is surrounded by rice fields where many of its residents farm.
A group of four students working with the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-Princeton) were in Sierra Leone last summer to talk with local citizens and leaders about opening a new program. In this video EWB-Princeton participants talk about their partnership with the village of Dorma to address a few of the basic needs of the community. The students noted that the village has seen little continual effort for a redevelopment of infrastructure in the postwar decade.
Play the "Engineers Without Borders, Sierra Leone" video.
"The community lacks infrastructure that we would view as essential — clean water and basic sanitation — not from a lack of interest, but from a lack of resources and opportunity," said senior Michael Showak, a chemical and biological engineering major who served as project manager of EWB-Princeton's Sierra Leone team. "We're hoping to be able to work with them to offer our knowledge and engineering skills to assist them to reach the goals they have for themselves."
The program will work to improve quality of life in the community. Most pressing is the need for clean and consistent drinking water. To access water during the dry season, when wells often run dry, residents dig pits in the swamps where they grow their rice. Even when the well produces water, it is highly unsafe to drink.
"During our visit, we tested the well water they drink for contaminants and found high levels of bacterial contaminants — something that would never pass WHO [World Health Organization] water quality standards," commented junior Christine Feng, an operations research and financial engineering major.
Showak, who led the project along with Feng, said that the team consisting of about 20 Princeton students and a professional mentor has a number of challenges to address as they begin to design the system. Students are working on designs of wells that are operational all year long and eliminate contamination issues. The group plans to return in August to finalize technical measurements and help with the formation and training of a group of community members who will oversee the project.
"Working on an engineering project halfway around the world is a large undertaking," Showak said. "Luckily, we have great partners within Dorma who are eager to make the partnership work."
The Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders was established by two undergraduates in 2004 and has completed projects including a library in Ghana and a sanitation system in Peru. Although many of its 90 members are engineering majors, the chapter draws students from across the University. It is supported by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton Environmental Institute, Grand Challenges Program and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.


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Cooling water discharged from a power plant during winter conditions can form a mixture which is denser than the ambient cold water. The cooling water then sinks to the bottom. Such sinking plumes have been recorded during plume surveys outside power plants discharging in brackich or fresh waters.
A threedimensional matematical numerical model is used to describe the sinking plume. The model runs show that the turbulence in the ambient water affects the sinking considerably. In rough weather conditions with strong turbulence the cooling water is well mixed from the surface to the bottom. A vertical wall (thermal bar) separates ambient water from cooling water. The warm water does not go very far from the outlet. During periods with low wind velocities (little turbulence in the ambient water) the model simulates both the initial floating plume, the sinking and the final spreading along the bottom.
Three runs are presented. One with straight coast and flat bottom. In this model configuration tests with different mixing coefficients were performed.The next run presented shows the small changes that occur when a simple bottom
topography is introduced in the model. The final case is one with a complicated coastline and bottom topography.
The model is shown to be a valuable tool in the process of judging the frequenecy and duration of sinking plumes and the size of bottom area outside a powerplant that will be affected by cooling water.


Watershed Management
Redmond City Council approved the Citywide Watershed Management Plan on December 3rd, 2013. The primary goal of the plan is to focus resources and efforts into specific watersheds (5 total) to recover in-stream habitat within decades. This will include capital investment planning, design, and construction, in addition to programmatic efforts.
2013 Redmond Watershed Management Plan – Final
Washington Department of Ecology has approved Redmond's Citywide Watershed Management Plan as an alternative approach to stormwater management minimum requirements detailed in NPDES Municipal Stormwater Permit.
Washington State Department of Ecology Approval Letter
Using a watershed approach to achieve healthy aquatic habitat has been a long-standing policy detailed in the City of Redmond Comprehensive Plan and is recognized by stormwater and surface water restoration practitioners as the recommended approach to accommodate healthy streams in an urbanized landscape.
The stormwater utility is now in the process of implementing the plan. This includes developing transparent tracking systems, detailed engineered implementation plans for select watersheds, effectiveness monitoring development, and regional collaboration on this approach.
Contact: Andy Rheaume, Senior Watershed Planner
 Public Works Department, Natural Resources Division
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What is a watershed?
What is a Watershed
A watershed is an area of land -- regardless of size -- where snowmelt and rainwater drain from higher areas into lower lying areas and then into a single water body; such as a wetland, stream, river, lake or ocean. Watersheds are separated from each other by elevated features such as ridge tops, hills, or roads.
When precipitation increases rapidly and surface water flows across flat or impervious areas, it can cross over watershed boundaries. For example, if the upper Sammamish River Valley experienced a 100-year storm, stormwater runoff would most likely flow across the boundaries of the City's smaller watersheds and flood areas of the Sammamish Valley floor.
Interesting Facts About Redmond's Watersheds
 - The City of Redmond has designated approximately 87 different watersheds, either wholly or partly included within city limits.
 - The smallest of these watersheds is 1.6 acres; the largest is 1,685 acres.
 - The majority of the city watersheds (approximately 66) occupy less than 200 acres; another 13 occupy between 200-400 acres; and only eight watersheds are larger than 400 acres in size.
 - Total Impervious Surface (TIS) as a percentage of total watershed area, varies among these watersheds from a low of 2% to a high of 89%.
 - Only two of the 87 watersheds have less than 10% TIS. Twenty-seven watersheds have 10-40% TIS; and the remaining 58 watersheds have impervious surfaces exceeding 40%.
(Large-scale land cover data is available for all of Redmond's watersheds on King County's website: King County Land Cover 2001)
Why Focus on Watershed Management?
What is a Watershed
In the past, project development and land management decisions have often been approved project-by-project, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction and regulation-by-regulation. This singular approach does not identify the significant cumulative impacts to watershed functions and processes when viewed as small, seemingly harmless, projects.
What happens when, instead, you look at things from a watershed perspective? Because so many watershed functions and processes are closely interrelated, it becomes harder to look at a single project or management issue in isolation. Landscape linkages become more obvious and several issues can be dealt with together--cumulative impacts to a wider area become clearer and may be addressed in a more equitable and cost efficient manner.
Adopting a broader watershed perspective encourages the development of solutions to environmental issues that can satisfy several regulatory requirements simultaneously. For example, compliance with the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, or possible hazardous waste and toxics cleanup. Watershed plans will also enable us to make better choices about how to plan, maintain, and construct our drainage systems so they can better meet the community's many needs.
Watershed management solutions can only be effective with support from policymakers, elected officials, and the public. These groups are encouraged to adopt a long-term, broad-based watershed perspective.
What does stormwater have to do with watersheds?
What is a Watershed
As urban areas grow, we dramatically alter the way water flows through developed areas. As natural vegetation is replaced with impervious surfaces (roads, parking lots, buildings, and rooftops), runoff from rainfall increases, flushing sediment and pollutants into nearby wetlands, streams, and lakes. This in turn impacts our surface water quality--one of the toughest environmental challenges facing all cities. Redmond has adopted a watershed management approach to address these environmental challenges.
Using the watershed as our vantage point, we can craft better stormwater management techniques and meet the needs of businesses, residents, and wildlife.
What watersheds does Redmond manage?
What is a Watershed
Historically the US Geological Survey, Washington Department of Ecology, and King County have monitored the larger main-stem rivers and streams in Redmond (Sammamish River, Bear and Evans Creeks), as well as Lake Sammamish. When Redmond started its water quality monitoring program in 1995, it focused on the smaller streams and watersheds that drain into these larger water bodies.
Redmond's Watershed Map
What is a Watershed
Watershed Map
The Watershed Map provided above identifies the 20 watersheds, and associated water bodies, within Redmond's city limits. Each watershed is color coded based on the strategy needed to restore a healthy water body in each watershed. Green color coded watersheds are in good shape, yellow watersheds are the most likely to become healthy with investment (programs and projects), orange watersheds are likely to become healthy with investment over a longer period of time, and red watersheds are heavily impacted and will take substantial time and investment to become healthy. No water body will be allowed to get worst, but improvements to existing impacts will be focused as much as possible in the yellow color coded watersheds.