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In computer programming, an entry point is a memory address, corresponding to a point in the code of a computer program which is intended as the destination of a long jump, be it internal or external.
Usage customs
In most of today's popular computer systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Unix, a computer program usually only has a single entry point. In C and C++ programs this is the
Historically, and in some contemporary legacy systems, such as VMS and OS/400, computer programs have a multitude of entry points, each corresponding to the different functionalities of the program. The usual way to denote entry points, as used system-wide in VMS and in PL/I and MACRO programs, is to append them at the end of the name of the executable image, delimited by a dollar sign ($) i.e.
directory.exe$make. The Apple 1 computer also used this to some degree. For example an alternative entry point in Apple 1 BASIC would keep the BASIC program useful when the reset button was accidentally pushed.
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How many animals can you find in the jungle? Post your responses below!
A fun brain teasing exercise that will amaze you! Follow all the instructions carefully.
Instructions: Count the number of F's in the following sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
How many F's did you get? For the correct answer and an explanation please scroll down. Continue reading

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Nullx is audio/video/subtitle transcoding server
C++ Python CMake
Nullx is a transcoding server which converts input audio/video files (with multiple tracks) into h264/aac/mov_text format and optionally uploads resulted files into elliptics storage.
Nullx spawns a pool of processes using ribosome::fpool each one transcodes media file using ffmpeg. If process crashes it will be automatically restarted.
Transcoding is asynchronous, server will reply to client after it is completed. If elliptics upload options are not specified in the request, server will send transcoded file to client in reply.
Server config options
tmp_dir - temporal directory where input and resulted files are stored during transcoding. transcoding_workers - number of transcoding processes, default value is 16.
Elliptics upload options
If request contains following headers, transcoded file will not be returned to client but instead will be written into elliptics.
X-Ell-Groups - groups in the format 1:2:3 where transcoded file should be written. X-Ell-ID - hex ID (128 bytes, if less, the rest will be filled with zeroes) of the key to upload. Alternatively you can specify X-Ell-Bucket and X-Ell-Key - bucket (namespace)/key pair of the key which will be used to upload transcoded file into elliptics.
Also you can specify additional metadata headers, which will force server to upload some metadata of the transcoded file into elliptics. X-Ell-Metadata-Groups - groups in the format 1:2:3 where metadata for transcoded file should be written. X-Ell-Metadata-ID or X-Ell-Metadata-Bucket + X-Ell-Metadata-Key - which key should be used to write transcoded file metadata.


text: Experiments were performed to examine how human granulocytes process the chemotactic peptide N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe after stimulation by the same peptide. Purified human granulocytes were stimulated with 50 nM N-formyl-Met-Leu-[3H]Phe at 37 degrees C for various times, washed, lysed by N2 cavitation, and fractionated by isopycnic sucrose density gradient sedimentation. The major subcellular fractions identified were plasma membrane, Golgi, granules, endoplasmic reticulum, and mitochondria. After 1 min of stimulation, radioactivity was found only in the plasma membrane (sedimentable) and cytosol (soluble) fraction. At 5, 10, and 25 min, radioactivity also appeared in a sedimentable, low density fraction (25-28% sucrose) enriched in galactosyl transferase activity and containing Golgi structures. The accumulation in the sedimentable fractions was maximal after 5 min but continued to increase linearly in the cytosol fraction. Incorporation of radioactivity into cells or membrane and soluble fractions was 60 to 85% specific and was inhibited if incubation with N-formyl-Met-Leu-[3H]Phe was performed at 4 degrees C. 80-90% of the radiolabel in the plasma membrane or Golgi-containing fractions remained sedimentable despite freeze thawing or sonication. Solubilization of these fractions in Triton X-100 followed by Sepharose 4B column chromatography revealed that the radiolabel eluted in the void volume. Our results are consistent with internalization which proceeds by passage of an occupied receptor in a high affinity, supramolecular complex from the plasma membrane to the Golgi followed by accumulation of peptide in the cytosol.


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As I mentioned in a previous post, Business Strategy: Soft-drinks Industry Analysis, I'm taking the fifth course, called Business Strategy, of Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization from the University of Illinois on Coursera. This course is taught by Deepak Somaya, Professor of Business Administration.
This is a four-module course, one module per week, and at the end of each module, we have an assessment: to write a case study analysis about a given topic. In the first week, I had to write a hypothetical memo to the CEO of Uber, suggesting a new mission statement. In the second week, I had to write a hypothetical memo to Warren Buffet to suggest to increase or decrease the investments on Coca-Cola Company. Now, in the third week, I had to answer two questions about the internal competitive advantage of Starbucks.
These assignments demand a couple of hours to get it done, due to the amount of information and analysis that is needed. However, it gives you amazing insights while analyzing real cases and practicing what you just learned.
Write a memo to the Starbucks CEO with an internal analysis of the competitive advantage of Starbucks. Include a brief activity analysis (based on either a value chain or value network approach) and/or a resources and capabilities analysis to clearly highlight two key issues for the CEO:
- What main internal features/ strengths (sets of activities or resources/capabilities) is Starbucks' competitive advantage built on?
- What barriers to imitation (or replication) exist that will ensure that Starbucks' competitive advantage will be sustained in the long run?
To: Kevin Johnson
From: Daniel Salvagni
Subject: Starbucks Competitive Advantage Analysis
The purpose of this memo is to analyze the main sets of activities, resources, and capabilities that give Starbucks a competitive advantage. In a second moment, evaluate the actions Starbucks takes to avoid imitation and replication aiming for sustained competitive advantage.
Starbucks' main product is the experience of drinking a good quality coffee in a place where the customer hangs out with friends and family. It's a coffee shop, also know now as the third place, apart from home and work. It started in 1987 with one coffee shop in Seattle, emerged from the U.S. west-coast Italian-style dark roasting tradition, to grow to 24.000 shops in 2014.
Quality coffee production depends on different factors, from growing the brewing, such as the variety, the region where it's grown, how it's roasted, grounded and packed, and blended and served. Starbucks covers every single step from this value chain. Starbucks controls the quality from the coffee beans at the farmer level, how they dry the coffee and the logistics until it gets to the coffee shops. It also guarantees that almost 100% percent of the coffee is ethics-sourced.
At the other end, Starbucks ensures that its human-capital resources are well-trained and well-paid, rewarded and have the chance to grow within the company. This is confirmed when comparing the turnover rate of baristas from Starbucks to its competitors.
Nevertheless, the sources of competitive advantage we find in Starbucks can be explained by its own history, small events in cultural behavior that introduced coffee as an affordable luxury, strategic choices and, well, a bit of chance.
Starbucks history is unique and can be traced back to a tradition, which means that the coffee served in a coffee shop is a result of an intrinsic knowledge that started in the early stages and it's spread all over the company. Besides, Starbucks was able since the beginning to produce quality coffee and, over the years, enhanced its process and made it scalable worldwide. Besides, a mix of chance, changes in cultural behavior of coffee consumption, and managerial foresight that saw, for example, in the tv show Friends, this trend happening, allowed the company to grow exponentially.
Moreover, Starbucks has technological resources to ensure that the roaster machines will roast the coffee precisely as required. It has the know-how to repeatedly produce and serve the best coffee. Besides, it enjoys a product reputation and brand loyalty in its relationship with the consumers.
In summary, Starbucks has a competitive advantage in the capability to add value while creating an experience for the consumers in the coffee shops. Besides, he know-how to offer quality coffee on a worldwide scale isn't commonly available to other firms.
By having a unique history, Starbucks also has a tacit knowledge within the firm about all their processes, which gives the firm an outstanding barrier for imitation or replication. It's not clear, from outside, from where the company performances come from since the beginning, the starting point. Besides that, its complexes process of combined activities to ensure quality in a value chain are, in theory, inimitable. Finally, the human-capital management ensures that the company doesn't lose talented workers to the competition. All these factors combined allow Starbucks to have a long-lasting sustained competitive advantage.
Although the firm has all the attributes to keep on going for a sustained competitive advantage, durability and relevance might be a threat for the future. How can Starbucks keep coffee as relevant as it's nowadays? It might not depend only on the firms' actions, but also, again, on whether or not this cultural behavior may change. Besides, how long can Starbucks keep the activities and resources aligned and combined to deliver the best product? Again, it might not depend exclusively on the firm's actions. Local regulations might change for farmers adding barriers in the supply chain of the firm.
Nevertheless, Starbucks will have the necessary knowledge to overcome the threats of durability and relevance and when faced.


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Magnetic resonance imaging
Peroneus longus hypertrophy
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Abstract Enlargement of the peroneus longus muscle is a common occurrence in patients with forefoot pes cavus, and may contribute to the cavus deformity. The present study compares the morphology of up to five lower leg muscles from 17 patients with forefoot pes cavus with those of normal muscles. Eight cases had an identifiable neurogenic cause for the cavus. In four cases of hereditary motor-sensory neuropathy, the tibialis anterior showed more severe damage than the peroneus longus. In two cases of cerebral palsy, fibre atrophy and increased oxidative enzyme activity were observed. In nine clinically idiopathic cases, the histological appearances ranged from normal to generalised fibre atrophy or hypertrophy in individual muscles. There was a trend for the mean fibre area to be greater in peroneus longus than in tibialis anterior in six of the idiopathic group of patients. The muscle cross-sectional area on magnetic resonance imaging was correlated closely with the mean fibre area measured on tissue sections. In idiopathic forefoot pes cavus, fibre hypertrophy in peroneus longus (relative to tibialis anterior) may contribute to the cavus deformity. Muscle fibre hyperplasia may contribute to the peroneal muscle enlargement in Friedreich's ataxia. In none of the cases was peroneus longus enlargement due to fat or fibrous tissue replacement.
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Shungite Pendants and Jewelry
Shungite Pendants
In our online store there are 4 types of shungite pendants.
Shungite geometric pendant
The first type is pendants of various geometric shapes. As is known From the Chinese teachings of Feng Shui, each geometric shape carries its own energy. These shungite pendants have two polished surfaces and a string of waxed cotton. The thickness of each pendant is about 4-5mm. We cut each pendant from a single piece of shungite stone. So, it's not a pressed mold, it's a solid piece of real stone. Above all, each necklace has its own name and is designed to represent the aspirations or inner beliefs of a person.
Pendant as a talisman
The second type of shungite pendant is Mandala. These talismans have an engraved pattern and are positioned as a talisman on the way which is important for a person.
Silver Shungite Pendant
The third type is pendants made from a single raw piece of silver shungite stone. Unlike classic pendants, these pendants have a silver color and have not been subjected to any processing. The shape of these shungite pendants is such as was found in nature and has not been changed. This makes them even more unique.
The fourth group is a processed black stone which is placed in a metal decorative frame. This metal frame has a protective coating of silver and rhodium, which prevents this decoration from corrosion.
Pendants for humans
The pendant is probably the oldest of jewelry that man has come up. Previously, in the form of pendants used bones or stones. In the primitive era, people wore pendants, denoting their gender, showing prosperity and position in society. Also the suspension performed the role of magical mascot as a symbol of luck, prosperity, and luck. Moreover, each pendant has its own energy.
Rare black stone Shungite
This amazing mineral is one of the rarest on the our planet. One of the most amazing and unusual abilities of this black stone from Karelia is the ability to absorb waves negatively affecting people and animals. These waves are formed as a result of everyday human life and the use of modern household and electronic devices. In addition, it helps to fight geopathogenic phenomena.
Uniqueness of each necklace
Each pendant has a unique additional pattern in the form of inclusions of Pyrite and Quartzite. Pyrite has a Golden color. Quartzite has a whitish color. These two minerals are essential part of the present Shungite stone.
As a result each necklace is unrepeatable as human fingerprints. The inclusions of Quartzite on the polished surface are almost imperceptible.
In conclusion, we would like to note, that all our Shungite pendants and amulets made by hand. Therefore, the size and weight of each product may vary slightly.


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Words With Regive In Them | 5 Scrabble Words With Regive
A list of words that contain Regive, and words with regive in them. This page finds any words that contain the word or letter you enter from a large scrabble dictionary. We also have lists of Words that end with regive, and words that start with regive.
Regive is a playable Scrabble Word!
The highest scoring words with Regive
Want to go straight to the words that will get you the best score? Here are all the highest scoring words with regive, not including the 50-point bonus if they use seven letters.
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FAQ on words containing Regive
What are the best Scrabble words with Regive?
The highest scoring Scrabble word containing Regive is Caregivers, which is worth at least 16 points without any bonuses. The next best word with Regive is caregiver, which is worth 15 points. Other high score words with Regive are regives (11), regive (10), and
How many words contain Regive?
There are 5 words that contaih Regive in the Scrabble dictionary. Of those 2 are 7 letter words, 1 is a 6 letter word, 1 is a 10 letter word, and 1 is a 9 letter word.


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The Power of the Stop Shot (Part 2)
The Power of the Stop Shot (part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we defined the stop shot and all its wonderful benefits. You learned to use the stop shot to calibrate your stroke, stop the cue ball, and control the slide in the early stages of position play. I promised you that once you were able to execute the stop shot from any distance at any speed, then you would always be able to predict which direction the cue ball is going. By now, I'm assuming you've had the opportunity to shoot hundreds, maybe thousands of stop shots. Have you mastered it yet? Are you able to consistently get that cue ball to slide and stop at the point of contact? If you've grasped the concept of a sliding cue ball then you're ready for part 2.
In this lesson, we will use the same speed and tip position that we learned, to execute a stop shot, to cut shots. Before, when the shot was lined up straight in, the cue ball had nothing to do but to stop. It transferred 100% of its energy into the object ball. Now, if you apply that same speed and tip position to cause a sliding ball at the point of contact, you can predict which direction the cue ball will be traveling.
Where is Whitey Going?
As a basic rule of thumb, when the cue ball is sliding at the point of contact with the object ball, you can trust it will travel at an imaginary perpendicular line from the line of which the object ball is traveling.
This diagram illustrates the direction the cue ball slides when it contacts the object ball. Obviously, the more extreme the cut angle, the less energy the cue ball transfers to the object ball. Therefore, the cue ball will come off at a greater speed. To keep that cue ball on the perpendicular line while controlling the speed, the same theory applies that we used with the stop shot.
To achieve the same results, LOWER SPEED = LOWER TIP POSITION.
All position play begins with understanding the slide zone. When you know which direction the neutral cue ball is going, you can manipulate that line simply by aiming higher or lower. Aiming above center causes a rolling cue ball and moves the line forward, above perpendicular. Aiming lower to cause backspin brings the cue ball backward below the perpendicular line.
When you're able to control the rock, not only does it mean you can play better position for your next shot, but think how handy it will be when you need to avoid a scratch or break out a group of balls. These fine points are what keep players from finishing a run out.
Things to Consider
- How clean are the balls? If the balls are dirty they will act as gears upon contact and cling together for a fraction of time before the cue ball slides on the perpendicular line. Likewise, if the balls are newly washed, they can become much more responsive. If the balls were just cleaned, you may want to aim a little higher than you would think or bring your speed down.
- How worn is the cloth? Slippery, new cloth will also make a surprising difference. When a table is freshly recovered, the cue ball tends to slide in place, even though it may be rolling. Therefore, this will shift the slide window. You'll need to bring your speed down to achieve the desired results.
- Is the cue ball actually sliding at the point of contact? Playing with the Aramith Pro Cup Measle Cue Ball helps you see exactly where the cue ball is sliding at various speeds and distances. You can also easily identify if you've inadvertently hit too high or low based on the cue ball's response after it contacts the object ball.
- Did you cheat the pocket? Object balls can still go in even if they don't enter the center of the pocket. Whichever side of the pocket the object ball enters will shift the perpendicular line of the cue ball. This can be used to your advantage when you need to create more or less angle but always be specific with exactly where you intend to pocket the ball.
Understanding how to adjust your speed and tip position to manipulate the slide zone will help you predict the path of the cue ball.
The next time you're in the mile high area and looking for a Denver billiard instructor, be sure to look me up.

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'Recommendations to enhance the use of personhood tools to improve clinical care across sectors'
was created by the Behavioural Supports Ontario Lived Experience Advisory Members. The purpose of the Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) Lived Experience Advisory (LEA) is to unite individuals with lived experience across Ontario who share a common vision to improve care for older adults living with dementia, complex mental health, substance use and/or other neurological conditions and their families. To learn more about the Advisory or to join, please visit the Dementia Crossroads Website
Upon the advisory's inception, a priority goal surfaced to develop recommendations to enhance the use of personhood tools in different clinical care sectors (i.e., the "Personhood Tools Project"). Members voiced that when caring for someone living with one or more of the conditions listed under BSO's target population, it is essential to remember them as people with their own values, interests, preferences and histories. Information about someone's personhood provides them with a voice regarding their care preferences and needs in cases where they may no longer be able to verbalize their wishes.
The sharing of elements related to one's personhood can also assist staff across all sectors in building relationships, providing personalized care, and developing care plans that are tailored to the individual. In the context of BSO, information about an individual's personhood assists in identifying potential triggers and/or causes of responsive behaviours along with strategies to reduce their incidence and better support the individual through non-pharmacological interventions. The BSO LEA Members also suggest that leveraging personhood information in clinical care across sectors can reduce stigma, foster respect, increase safety, enhance empathy, promote care continuity, and improve the overall care experience. Ultimately, the members of the advisory saw how providing information related to one's personhood could be a vehicle to improving the delivery of person and family-centered care while also emphasizing dignity across all sectors.
On this webpage, you will find the recommendations which you can download in PDF format. This page also includes web links to all of the Recommended Personhood Tools mentioned in the document as well as other related resources. If you have implemented one of these tools or another personhood tool in your organization, we would love to hear from you! For more information about this initiative or to share how you use one or more of these tools, you can contact Sharon Osvald, BSO Lived Experience Facilitator at _EMAIL_


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About the Network
The University Network for Collaborative Governance (UNCG) is made up of college and university centers, institutes and programs that engage in service, scholarship and teaching to build the capacity for collaborative governance.
The University Network for Collaborative Governance (UNCG) envisions a future where collaboration fosters our collective ability to understand and address the challenges of our times, and in the process, to reimagine and sustain our democracy. In that envisioned future, collaborative governance -- informed by practice, scholarship, and teaching, -- fosters a vibrant, equitable and resilient society and advances the common good in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories of the US, and other countries.
The University Network for Collaborative Governance champions collaborative governance by supporting and strengthening a network of faculty members and professionals from college and university centers, institutes, and programs that engage in collaborative governance practice, scholarship, and teaching.
In March 2008, the inaugural meeting of the Network was held in Atlanta, Georgia. Members of the Network adopted the Charter and identified objectives. In 2018, at its annual meeting in Portland, the Network unanimously adopted its Strategic Directions for the next ten years.
Network members have adoped a common set of principles that its members agree to adhere to in their organizational operations, functions, and practices. The principles reflect a commitment to maintaining the integrity and excellence of the programs and practices of these centers.
Each center has or will have an organizational charter or set of policies that articulates the principles as well as appropriate policies and standards to guide their practices.
About Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance refers to community and public policy decision making processes and structures that enable participants to work together to enhance their communities and shape sustainable public policy decisions. Collaborative governance does this by engaging participants collectively and constructively across the boundaries of the public, private, and civic sectors to leverage the unique attributes and resources of each for the greatest impact. The collaborative approach to governance can encompasses any method, model, or process that is deliberative and consensual including civic engagement and service, public engagement, collaborative network management, public consultation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, collaborative public management, dispute resolution, and negotiation.
We have collected the most widely used definitions that encapsulates collaborative governance.
- Advance teaching, research and outreach in public deliberation, collaborative problem solving and multi-party conflict resolution;
- Share knowledge, information and best practices among members;
- Assist universities in shaping and adapting their research, teaching, and community engagement to enhance their effectiveness;
- Acquaint university leaders, policymakers, and the public with the role universities can play in carrying out collaborative governance practices;
- Provide linkages between university centers and leaders interested in using collaborative governance practices;
- Promote policies that support the use of best practices and systems for collaborative governance.
UNCG STATEMENT: Addressing the increase of violence in public spaces in the U.S.
The work of the Association for Conflict Resolution's Environment and Public Policy Section and the University Network for Collaborative Governance fosters opportunities for diverse voices to be heard, and for all to participate in shaping the decisions that affect our lives. We are sobered and saddened by the fact that violence, hate crimes, and intolerance have reached crisis levels in the United States. In opposition to intolerance and indifference to those harmed by this crisis, we consider robust, honest dialogue to be essential to our democracy. By robust and honest dialogue, we mean sharing our own insights and listening to those of others with respect, compassion and recognition for one another's humanity. Rather than avoiding conflict or ignoring injustice, robust dialogue promotes constructive confrontation, allowing us to surface and address these issues directly to produce healthy, sustainable, and just outcomes.
As conflict resolution practitioners, we are on the front lines of strong emotions and impulsive actions in a polarized environment. We reject physical and structural violence as a means to express hate, disagreement and dissent, or as a strategy for achieving outcomes. Instead, we commit ourselves, as organizations and individuals, to encouraging respectful discussion, facilitating the inclusion of diverse perspectives in public dialogue, and striving to create an environment conducive to constructive and brave discourse. To that end, we hope that the following tools and resources at this link are helpful in making this happen.


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The science of swing is a matter of much debate and, while no one can be exactly certain what is the source on any given day, the end result is sideways movement, often significantly greater than that produced by seam bowlers. It is also generated through the air as opposed to off the pitch like seam bowlers. The key factors in producing swing are the following:
- Uneven wear on the ball - This is achieved by polishing one side of the ball incessantly during the day, while the other side continues to experience wear and tear. The result is a disparity in the aerodynamic qualities of either side.
- Raised seam of the ball - The position of the ball is absolutely pivotal.
- Speed of delivery - Without going into the specific science of turbulent flow as against laminar flow, swing bowling requires reduced pace, with medium fast and fast medium bowlers (and even medium pacers) taking advantage as a result. When combined with a raised seam and differences in the quality of either side of the ball, sideways movement is generated in the direction of the turbulent side.
- Grip on the ball - See below.
- Weather conditions - Particularly significant in England, the weather can improve or damage the chances of swing. Overcast or humid conditions are generally conducive to swing bowling, while beautiful sunshine can render the bowler much less effective.
There are two stock deliveries of the swing bowler which pertain to the grip and the raised seam of the ball:
- Out-swinger - To achieve an out-swinger, the bowler must hold the ball with the rough side placed on the left and grip it with a vertical seam and the first two fingers on either side of it. During the delivery, the bowler then angles the seam slightly left. The result is that the ball swings towards the off-side and away from the right-handed batsman (hence the alternative term 'away swinger').
- In-swinger - Again a vertical seam is necessary but the first two fingers must be across the seam angling slightly towards the right (the leg side to a right-handed batsman). The seam must then be angled towards the right before release, giving the ball a chance to move into the right-handed batsman (towards the leg-side).


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The Ecology and Permitting Branch assures that KYTC maintains compliance with the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. The Branch obtains several types of Clean Water Act permits/approvals including Section 404 permits from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Section 401 Water Quality Certifications from the Kentucky Division of Water, and Individual Kentucky Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (KPDES) permits from the Kentucky Division of Water for construction impacts not covered under the General KPDES permit for Construction Activities. The Branch is also responsible for coordinating with the US Fish and Wildlife Service regarding Endangered Species. Consultation is required to assure that proposed highway projects will not have an adverse effect on federally listed threatened and endangered species.
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Recent research has revealed that self-referential processing enhances perceptual judgments — the so-called self-prioritization effect. The extent and origin of this effect remains unknown, however. Noting the multifaceted nature of the self, here we hypothesized that temporal influences on self-construal (i.e., past/future-self continuity) may serve as an important determinant of stimulus prioritization. Specifically, as representations of the self increase in abstraction as a function of temporal distance (i.e., distance from now), self-prioritization may only emerge when stimuli are associated with the current self. The results of three experiments supported this prediction. Self-relevance only enhanced performance in a standard perceptual-matching task when stimuli (i.e., geometric shapes) were connected with the current self; representations of the self in the future (Expts. 1 & 2) and past (Expt. 3) failed to facilitate decision making. To identify the processes underlying task performance, data were interrogated using a hierarchical drift diffusion model (HDDM) approach. Results of these analyses revealed that self-prioritization was underpinned by a stimulus bias (i.e., rate of information uptake). Collectively, these findings elucidate when and how self-relevance influences decisional processing.
Bibliographical noteOpen Access via Springer Compact Agreement
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Zend Framework 101: Zend_Log
Creating Your First Logger
To begin, I'll show you how to create a basic file-system logger. To achieve this we must instantiate the
Zend_Log class, then add a writer to this object. We will use a writer that writes log messages to the file system.
The class we use to write log messages to the file system is
Zend_Log_Writer_Stream. This class accepts the path where the log messages should be written to as the first argument to the constructor.
Listing 1 shows an example of creating the logger and adding the writer to it. You can either add the writer when instantiating
Zend_Log (such as
new Zend_Log(new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream(...))), or as shown in the following listing.
require_once('Zend/Log.php'); require_once('Zend/Log/Writer/Stream.php'); $logger = new Zend_Log(); $writer = new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream('sample.log'); $logger->addWriter($writer); $logger->log('sample message!', Zend_Log::INFO);
The above listing concludes by calling the log() method on the
Zend_Log object. This records a message to the log. Listing 2 shows an example of how the log file appears after this code is run.
$ cat sample.log 2009-04-11T14:47:20+09:00 INFO (6): sample message!
In the next section I'll cover the recording of events in greater detail.


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Behalf Of Dick Fischer
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 3:14
Modern fruit trees, critics point out, certainly were not in existence
before fishes. That seems to be true, but these verses say nothing about
"modern" fruit trees. In English, fruit trees bear edible fruit; apples,
pears, cherries, and so forth. The Hebrew term includes seed-bearing trees,
and shade trees that do not bear edible fruit. 5
Apple trees, for example, do not date to the Upper Silurian, but the
"fruit" of any plant is its yield. Conifers were among the first land-based
vegetation, and calling them "fruit trees" is consistent with the Hebrew.
Dick, As I documented, conifers are NOT among the first land life forms.
Conifers do not appear until the Carboniferous which is about 300 myr ago.
Simply repeating the false claim, this time from your book, does nothing to
make the claim true. Cite a single paleontology article in which conifers
are found in the upper Ordovician (which is older than the Silurian) which
is where fish are first found.
for lots of creation/evolution information
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Some symbols of friendship include yellow roses, pine trees and pandas. Yellow roses are considered a symbol of friendship (as well as joy) because of their color, which is bright, cheerful and pleasant without the romantic or passionate connotations of other rose colors.Continue Reading
The panda and pine tree are both traditional Chinese symbols of friendship.
Given its evergreen nature, the pine tree, which is revered in traditional Chinese culture, symbolizes friendship in the face of adversity. Meanwhile, as a symbol of lasting friendship, the panda also symbolizes harmony (because of its black and white pelt, which is reminiscent of the yin and yang) and peace (because of its gentle demeanor and, in contrast to other bears, its vegetarian diet).Learn more about Symbolism


The unexpected benefits of projects: evaluating Maker Monday commissions
The unexpected benefits of projects: evaluating Maker Monday commissions
We recently evaluated a project for BCU's Maker Monday initiative, identifying the extent to which four new commissioned pieces of work delivered to expectation. The criteria for evaluation were identified from the original proposal documentation and as such, it was quite clear what we would need to be exploring, largely through interviews but also in observing the project in progress and existing project data. However, in doing so we were also able to provide the project team with some additional findings that were unexpected but welcome. As part of the purpose of such an evaluation is to identify best practice and recommendations for similar future projects, this is always useful.
Some of these findings came about because of the nature of the project. It involved four artists working with partner organisations in Birmingham – as they varied in their disciplines and approach, but also in being humans who will address a brief differently, it was useful to be able to identify the freedoms that they were afforded in taking the brief in their own directions. Some artists were able to work more independently, while others desired more guidance. Some partners took on unexpected roles, while other artists appreciated the consistency and space they were given in their work.
This open approach to our research is important, Yes, the key priority is to evaluate against any specific criteria as the basis for the work, but to also understand and appreciate the supporting narratives and look for the unexpected successes or other outcomes of the work. Where our report will inform other reports that Maker Monday are required to make for their funder Arts Council England, we can hope that such findings can be included and valued.
Photo credit: Maker Monday event, with permission from Alexa Hartwell
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The carbon footprint of a single email is negligible, but new research from ICF International and McAfee shows that the 62 trillion spam emails sent each year waste 33 billion kilowatt hours of power, or enough to power 2.4 million homes. The majority of energy is wasted at the end user's computer in sifting through messages to find and delete spam.
There's a relatively easy solution to this massive energy suck: install a spam filter or use an email service like Gmail that provides a built-in filter. If everyone took that simple step, it would be the energy equivalent of taking 2.3 million cars off the road. That's unlikely to happen, but there are immediate benefits for companies that take the initiative for spam filtering. According to ICF, a single business user spends 28 kg of CO2 on spam email each year. Removing spam from that person's email equation would be the same as eliminating 93 km of driving. For a 1000-person company, it's the same as taking five cars off the road.
We're far too reliant on email for communications to completely stop using it, and that's a good thing. The carbon footprint of email is nothing compared to the energy required to transport physical mail--not to mention the paper wasted on mailed letters. But if we can significantly cut our carbon footprints by switching to spam-filtering email services or installing free software, why not?
|Emissions for spam (kg CO2-e / yr)|
|Spammers Harvesting addresses||<1%|
|Spammers Creating Spam Campaigns||<1%|
|Zombies/bots sending spam||<1%|
|Non-bots sending spam||<1%|
|Internet (excluding mail servers) transmitting spam||2%|
|Incoming mail servers processing spam||1%|
|Users searching for false positives||27%|
|Users viewing/deleting spam||52%|
Table courtesy of Cody Taylor, ICF International.
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Genifuel Corporation has facilities in the Western United States.
While aquatic biomass can be grown almost anywhere, the optimum growing location depends primarily on climate (warm and humid all year is best), availability of reasonable amounts of water, availability of a large land area which is not used for other purposes, and proximity to infrastructure for transport of energy (either natural gas or electricity).
If the Genifuel process is used to remediate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes, including coal-fired electric generation, then our growing facilities will be located near the industrial plant.
Our licensing partner, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is located in Richland, WA. This US Government facility is operated by Battelle for the United States Department of Energy


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A Guide to the William E. Howard Papers, _PHONE_
William Eager Howard was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1877, the son of Dr. Henry Peyton Howard (_PHONE_) and Lucy Evelyn "Lee" Weir (_PHONE_). Following his father into the medical profession, William graduated from the University of Texas Department of Medicine in Galveston (now the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) in 1897 and began his practice in San Antonio. A noted eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist and eye surgeon, Dr. Howard settled in Dallas, where he practiced until his retirement in 1942.
Also like his father, a Mexican War and Civil War veteran, Dr. Howard served in the military, participating in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. He also traveled throughout Latin America and once represented the United States at a medical meeting in Mexico City at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dr. Howard's family ties to Texas inspired his interest in the state's history, and he developed an extensive collection of books, documents, and autographs related to Texas and Mexico. Toward the end of his life, he donated portions of his collection to several institutions in Texas. His donation of over 2,000 Texana items to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library became the core of its collection; the Library was established in 1945 in part to house his materials.
Dr. Howard married Augusta T. Muller (_PHONE_) in Galveston, Texas, on 1900 May 6. The couple had two children: Catherine Lee, who married Loughton Thayer Smith, and Harold P. Dr. Howard died in Dallas on 1948 February 21.
Campbell, Camilla Boykin. "William Eager Howard - A Short Biography." San Antonio: Carleton Printing, 1961.
William E. Howard biographical file, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.
Utterback, Martha D. "William Eager Howard." Handbook of Texas Online. _URL_
Utterback, Martha D. "Henry Peyton Howard." Handbook of Texas Online. _URL_
Consisting of a small body of professional and personal material, the William E. Howard papers document some of the highlights of his career as a physician and his avocation as a historical researcher and collector.
Howard's correspondence is a mix of letters concerning professional organizations and activities and letters exchanged with historians and book and document dealers. A number of letters were received in connection with pamphlets published by Howard.
A small body of pages removed from a scrapbook contains additional letters, clippings, and printed items associated with Howard's activities. Other clippings in the papers are on more general topics. One of Howard's publications, a calendar of his Texana collection, is part of the papers in manuscript and printed galley form, each displaying corrections and annotations. A few transcripts of historical documents and some notes and printed items are also in the papers.
Another source on Howard's extensive book and document collection is found in three bound volumes containing copies of forms that describe items he submitted to the Texas Centennial exposition for exhibit in Dallas in 1936. The forms include a brief description of each item, including its date and information on its condition. Many of the items were later included in Howard's donation to the DRT Library.
No restrictions. The collection is open for research.
Please be advised that the library does not hold the copyright to most of the material in its archival collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to secure those rights when needed. Permission to reproduce does not constitute permission to publish. The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright, literary property rights, and libel.
[Identification of item], William E. Howard Papers, _PHONE_, Col 5190, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.
Gift of William E. Howard, circa _PHONE_.
Processed by Warren Stricker, 2002 February.
Finding aid edited and encoded by Caitlin Donnelly, 2011 February.
Detailed Description of the Collection


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The discoveries in Mkhambathi Nature Reserve on South Africa's Wild Coast were made by scientists and volunteers from Earthwatch during an eight-day period in 2008. The scientists were working in partnership with Eastern Cape Parks, the government organisation that manages the protected areas in the Eastern Cape Province.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Michelle Hamer of the South African National Biodiversity Institute and the University of KwaZulu-Natal explains the significance of the findings: "These discoveries are important because they highlight just how little we know about our biodiversity, even in a relatively well studied country like South Africa. This particular area is also threatened by the construction of a major motorway nearby and by mining of the dunes in the adjacent area. There is also a lot of pressure to develop tourism infrastructure inside the reserve. This means that many of these species could have disappeared before they were even discovered by scientists."
Dr. Hamer says: "At least if we understand the importance of the area in terms of its invertebrate fauna, then we can try to protect it. Will it make a difference to anyone if these new species go extinct? We don't know for sure, but we do know that every species that is removed from an ecosystem results in some weakening of the ecosystem. This could have an effect on the cleanliness of the water or on soil fertility, for example."
Executive Vice President of Earthwatch, Nigel Winser, says: "These new discoveries by Michelle Hamer and her field assistants confirm the rich biodiversity of this grassland ecosystem. Systematic surveys of flora and fauna such as these, underpin long term management strategies for habitats under threat and Earthwatch is proud to be supporting this invertebrate research over many years. Such findings give a boost to conservation commitments in South Africa."
The scientists confirmed 18 new species of invertebrates, but suspect that another 18 might also be newly discovered. A report, highlighting the important information about the invertebrates of Mkhambathi, was presented to Eastern Cape Parks scientists earlier this year for use in their conservation planning and management strategies. The new species are currently in the process of being named, described and illustrated by scientists at museums and other research institutes in South Africa.
Earthwatch has supported Dr. Hamer's research in South Africa for seven years. Dr. Hamer says: "We have also collected new species on other expeditions in South Africa, but the large number collected in such a short time at Mkhambathi is quite unusual. Many of the species we collected seem to be unique to a small area in or around Mkhambathi."
She adds, "Mkhambathi has enormous potential for ecotourism, providing economic benefits to South Africans through this. Conflicting pressures may, however, result in the destruction of key habitats and subsequently the biodiversity of the reserve. Collecting data is critical in any motivation for continued conservation."
Earthwatch scientists in South Africa have discovered 18 new species of invertebrate including spiders, snails, millipedes, earthworms, centipedes and true bugs.


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Dives (Latin for rich).—The word is not used in the Bible as a proper noun; but in the Middle Ages it came to be employed as the name of the rich man in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Luke, XVI, 19-31. It has often been thought that in this lesson on the use of riches Christ spoke of real persons and events. The "House of Dives" is still pointed out in Jerusalem; but, of course, if such a house ever existed, it must have long since disappeared.
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Using a wireless phone depends on the activity of the plane. The use of cell phones during flight is banned by the FAA and the FCC. As soon as the plane starts to move, cell-phone use is forbidden. For more information about the FAA regulations on
cell phones and why cell phones are banned during flights, check out this explanation from How Stuff Works.


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You'll need to be using an Apple device (Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) and the device's OS (operating system) needs to support the use of AirPlay.
1. Turn on the projector/tv and choose the appropriate input for the Apple TV/AirPlay.
2. Connect to Westside's wi-fi network and make sure Bluetooth is on.
3. Choose to AirPlay from your device.
-Click on the AirPlay menu icon in your menubar (near the date/time and wi-fi icon). The AirPlay menu icon looks like a rectangle with an up-arrow at the bottom. If you don't see the AirPlay menu icon then open your System Preferences, click the Displays icon, and checkmark the box at the bottom for "show mirroring..". If you're using MacOS 11 or newer then open the System Preferences, then open the Dock & Menu Bar settings, click on Screen Mirroring from the left-hand column, checkmark the box to "Show in Menu Bar" and select "always" from the drop-down box.
-select the name of the Apple TV you want to connect to (the name will be displayed on the projector/tv screen)
-use the options in the AirPlay menu if you want to change between mirroring your screen or using the AirPlay screen as an extended desktop screen.
-depending on how old your device is you'll either swipe up from the bottom of the screen or down from the upper-right corner to open the Control Center
-choose Screen Mirroring (Might also say AirPlay)
-select the name of the Apple TV you want to connect to (the name will be displayed on projector/tv screen)
4. Enter the AirPlay passcode seen on the projector/tv screen if your device asks for it.
5. When done using AirPlay disconnect from AirPlay using the AirPlay menu on a Mac or the Control Center on an iOS device.
Problems? - Quit (not just close) any app/application that you don't need running during AirPlay use. If you must use Chrome, limit the number of tabs you have open in Chrome.


text: Few studies assess the effects of recreational fishing in isolation from commercial fishing. We used meta-analysis to synthesise 4444 samples from 30 years (1987–2017) of fish surveys inside and outside a large network of highly protected reserves in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia, where the major fishing activity is recreational. Data were collected by different agencies, using varied survey designs and sampling methods. We contrasted the relative abundance and biomass of target and non-target fish groups between fished and reserve locations. We considered the influence of, and possible interactions between, seven additional variables: age and size of reserve, one of two reserve network configurations, reef habitat type, recreational fishing activity, shore-based fishing regulations and survey method. Taxa responded differently: the abundance and biomass inside reserves relative to outside was higher for targeted lethrinids, while other targeted (and non-targeted) fish groups were indistinguishable. Reef habitat was important for explaining lethrinid response to protection, and this factor interacted with reserve size, such that larger reserves were demonstrably more effective in the back reef and lagoon habitats. There was little evidence of changes in relative abundance and biomass of fishes with reserve age, or after rezoning and expansion of the reserve network. Our study demonstrates the complexities in quantifying fishing effects, highlighting some of the key factors and interactions that likely underlie the varied results in reserve assessments that should be considered in future reserve design and assessment.


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Deducting or Amortizing Start-up Costs and Organizational Costs
It's important to properly account for start up costs.
Starting a new business venture can be exciting. Whether you are forming your first company or expanding into a new area, it is important to properly account for start-up and organizational costs. The rules concerning these costs are different for income tax purposes and for financial reporting under US GAAP.
For those companies reporting under US GAAP, Financial Accounting Standards Codification 720 states that start up/organization costs should be expensed as incurred. However, it is important to identify the costs as incurred because some particular costs may fall under other code sections and require specialized treatment.
The income tax treatment is different. Consult with your LaPorte tax advisor to determine if you can take an immediate deduction or if the cost must be capitalized and amortized (spread out) over a period of years. Typically, it depends on the type of cost and the amount invested, but there are other IRS regulations that may apply.
Start-up Costs
The IRS defines start-up costs as amounts paid or incurred for creating an active trade or business, or to investigate the creation or acquisition of an active trade or business. Start-up costs include amounts paid or incurred in connection with an existing activity engaged in for profit, and for the production of income in anticipation of the activity becoming an active trade or business. Start-up costs include:
 - Advertisements for the opening of the business.
 - Salaries and wages for employees who are being trained and their instructors.
 - Salaries and fees for executives and consultants, or for similar professional services.
Start-up costs do not include deductible interest, taxes, or research and experimental costs. These costs are considered separately for tax purposes, as well as:
 - Costs related to obtaining licenses and other qualifications to get into the business.
 - Costs of buying business assets such as a building, equipment, or vehicles.
Organizational Costs for Partnerships or Corporations
Organizational costs are expenses related to forming a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company (not a sole proprietorship). These may include legal, management, consulting, accounting and filing fees.
The costs for issuing and marketing interests in a partnership or corporation such as brokerage, registration, and legal fees and printing costs do not qualify as organizational costs. The IRS considers these "syndication fees" which are capital expenses that cannot be depreciated or amortized. You also cannot claim a loss on syndication fees.
Deducting or Amortizing Start-up and Organization Costs
Start-up costs can be capitalized and amortized if they meet both of the following tests:
 1. You could deduct the costs if you paid or incurred them to operate an existing active trade or business (in the same field), and;
 2. You pay or incur the costs before the day your active trade or business begins.
In the first year you are in business, you can deduct Up to $5,000 in start-up costs provided you've spent $50,000 or less This deduction must be made in the first year you are actively in business. The balance over $5,000 must be capitalized and amortized over the applicable number of years.
If you incurred more than $50,000 in start-up costs but less than $55,000,there is a phase out of the $5,000 deduction. For example, if you spent $52,000, your deduction would be $3,000 and $49,000 would have to be capitalized and amortized.
Should your startup costs be greater than $55,000, you do not qualify for an immediate $5,000 deduction, but you would capitalize those costs and take the amortization expense as a deduction each year.
Since the IRS separates startup costs and organizational costs, you can also take a deduction up to $5,000 for organizational expenses (up to $50,000). These costs must be incurred before the end of the first tax year your company is in business. The same IRS rules apply to organizational expenses between $50,000 and $55,000, as well as over $55,000.
If you do not expect to make a profit in the first year you are in business, you should consider amortizing the full amount of start-up and organizational costs over 15 years. This will allow you to minimize taxes in years where you make more money. For example, if your start-up costs are $30,000, you could deduct $2,000 per year for 15 years instead of taking the $5,000 deduction in year one.
There are many other IRS rules that need to be taken into consideration on the tax treatment of start-up and organizational costs. The professionals at LaPorte work on a substantial number of initial year returns annually where we analyze how start-up and organizational costs need to be treated for income tax purposes. For additional information, contact a member of the LaPorte Tax Services Group.


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E*lec'tro-mo"tive (?), a.
Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Electro-motive force Physics, the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential.
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What does BROG mean in Guilds?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand BROG in the Business field in general and in the Guilds terminology in particular.
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What does BROG mean?
- a pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick


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China released a five-year plan last week, upgrading its food safety regulations, Food Safety News reports.
The new plan, developed by the country's Ministry of Health, sets out to update existing standards, write new ones, and in general close loopholes and abolish ambiguities.
The framework was announced on the heels of China's Food Safety Week.
Despite the spate of China food scandals in recent years, the country has more than 2,000 national food regulations and more than 2,900 industry-based regulations.
"Many of the regulations are overlapping or contradict each other, since multiple government agencies were given the responsibility of compiling their own standards years ago," said the government in a statement.
The plan calls for coordination between 14 different government departments, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Agriculture, to complete reviewing and revamping the existing standards by 2015.
"The government will prioritize safety standards for dairy products, infant food, meat, alcohol, vegetable oil, seasoning, health products and food additives so as to specify limits for dangerous ingredients in these foods," according to the release.
"Moreover, the government will make special efforts to set standards for testing various contaminants, food additives, microorganisms, pesticide and animal drug residue in food production by 2015."
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Reject Incoming Calls with a Phone Number Block List
The easiest way to reject incoming phone calls from specific phone numbers is to create a "virtual block list". The block list can then be used to filter incoming calls; automatically hanging up on any blocked numbers, and forward other callers as normal. This guide walks you through the process of setting up a virtual block list with sample code for Twilio Functions.
Block list sample code
Here's our phone number block list sample code:
exports.handler = function(context, event, callback) {
 // List all blocked phone numbers in quotes and E.164 formatting, separated by a comma
 let numberBlock = event.block || [ "_PHONE_", "_PHONE_" ];
 let twiml = new Twilio.twiml.VoiceResponse();
 let blocked = true;
 if (numberBlock.length > 0) {
if (numberBlock.indexOf(event.From) === -1) {
blocked = false;
} if (blocked) {
else { // if the caller's number is not blocked, redirect to your existing webhook twiml.redirect(""); }
callback(null, twiml);
When your Twilio phone number responds to incoming calls with this Functions script, the code looks at the phone number detected in our incoming call request, and compares it to the list of blocked numbers in Line 3. If the incoming call is from a blocked phone number, the call is rejected. If the incoming call is not from a blocked phone number, the script redirects to another URL for TwiML.
Here's what you'll need to modify:
Line 3: Update [ "_PHONE_", "_PHONE_" ] with the phone numbers you want to block calls from (in E.164 formatting).
Create a block list Function
 1. Access the Manage Functions page in Console.
 3. Select the Blank template, and then click Create
 4. Edit the Function's Properties fields:
 5. Edit the Function's Configuration fields:
 - CODE: Copy and paste your modified code (see the Block list sample code section above).
 6. Once your Function's fields are correct, click Save
Set your phone number to use your block list function
 1. Access the Active Numbers page in Console.
 2. Click the desired phone number to modify.
 3. Update your phone number's routing:
 - ACCEPT INCOMING: Voice Calls
 - A CALL COMES IN: Function
 - DROP-DOWN MENU: Select your block list function.
 4. Click Save when finished.
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My updates to rawNumbers.php for Nagvis
At work I utilize Nagios to monitor our systems and Nagvis to display things in a visual way on a large screen monitor so we can see whats it going on at a glance. One of the gadgets we use quite a bit is the rawNumbers.php by Sascha Runschke. Now while it works well at what it does, which is displaying data as a number in image format, it is very limited with customizations. Nagvis gives you the ability to pass options in the gadget_opts field so that you can choose what you want to display. What I have done is to add some extra functionality to the gadget to allow you to modify the following
* divide = divides the perfdata by this number.
This allow you to set the divisor for traffic data which is in bps to show as MB/s. As an example, your perfdata is _PHONE_,4Bits/s and you use divide=_PHONE_, then rawNumbers will display 3.5 as the output
* datauom = shows this as the uom instead of the perfdata, showuom must not be set to 0.
This is a fairly simple change that allows you to change what displays after the value. For example, you might want to show Hz for Hertz or C for Celsius after your values. Note that showuom must not be set to '0' or whatever you set here will not display.
* showuom = <0|1> default = 1 shows the unit of measure.
This allows you to turn off the display of the unit of measure so it does not display.
* string = s s is a string the perfdata label has to contain
This allows you to choose what to display if you have multiple perfdata in the array. It is handy when displaying traffic counters. You would set string=traffic_in and string=traffic_out to get both in the inbound and outbound traffic data to show. Replace traffic_in / traffic_out with your own perfdata names of course.
This example uses gadget_opts of:
In: showuom=1 divide=_PHONE_ datauom=Mb string=traffic_in
Out: showuom=1 divide=_PHONE_ datauom=Mb string=traffic_out
Here is another example from a UPS. These use divide=10 to format them correctly.
Download the below file and extract the contents into your nagvis gadgets directory. (likely something like /usr/share/nagvis/share/userfiles/gadgets) Be sure to back up the original files first in case something goes wrong.
Hopefully these changes will come in handy for someone else.


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Commercial Greenhouse Market to Showcase Continued Growth in the Coming Years
The global commercial greenhouse market size is estimated to be valued at USD 29.6 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 50.6 billion by 2025, recording a CAGR of 11.3%
According to MarketsandMarkets, the Commercial Greenhouse Market by Product Type (Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers & Ornamentals, Nursery Crops), Type (Glass greenhouse, Plastic greenhouse), Equipment (Heating systems, Cooling systems), and Region – Global Forecast to 2025″, size is estimated to be valued at USD 29.6 billion in 2020. It is projected to reach USD 50.6 billion by 2025, recording a CAGR of 11.3% in terms of value. The growth of the market can be attributed to the rising demand for food due to the growing population and climate change, which affects the yield of crops. Also, growing knowledge about commercial greenhouse technology for higher yield will provide various growth opportunities for the commercial greenhouse market in the coming years.
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Commercial Greenhouse Market
Commercial greenhouse horticulture began by using soil as the base for all plants due to its easy availability and less initial infrastructure costs. Commercial greenhouses offer different types of covering materials such as glass or plastic roofs, and frequently glass or plastic walls. It is an emerging application with high growth potential, which uses several technologies such as heating systems, cooling systems, ventilation systems, LED grow light, communication technology, irrigation system, and control systems, among others. Heating and cooling systems are the major equipment in the commercial greenhouse market. The increasing population and demand for food in developing regions such as the Asia Pacific are boosting the growth of the commercial greenhouse market. The growing requirement for fresh food in the Middle East has helped create an opportunity for urban farming in this region. The increasing trend of rooftop farming and the rising population are the two major drivers for the market.
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COVID-19 Analysis
As coronavirus has spread worldwide over the past few months, the pandemic has witnessed unimaginable devastation with the loss of thousands of lives and millions of confirmed cases of the disease. Globally, people are self-isolating and staying away from public places and events to avoid contracting or spreading the disease. The COVID-19 outbreak is negatively impacting the overall supply chain in agriculture, and, in turn, the commercial greenhouse market. Due to this outbreak, the entire world is experiencing lockdown situations. Many growers have lost distribution in stores and are either cutting back on stock or closing their doors completely. The demand for shipping and truck companies is increasing extensively. However, the supply is very less as fewer people leave their homes for errands and purchases. Consumers' have panic-purchased from grocery stores and retailers, making the businesses constantly make shipments to replenish their shelves. However, the supply-chain disruption have resulted in many growers in the greenhouse industry find themselves struggling to send their stock out. Furthermore, countries worldwide are witnessing a lockdown, and mandatory social distancing announced by the government authorities to curb the transmission of the outbreak, resulting in restricted and delayed imports and exports. This poses a drawback for commercial greenhouse suppliers, as their supply chain is not equipped to cater to the customers.
Drivers: Higher yield than traditional methods
The adoption of greenhouse farming gives more control over the environment where crops grow. If producers can manage the temperature, the irrigation process, the air humidity, and the light efficiently, they can have a good yield. By having that much control over the growth of crops, farmers keep them healthier and can predict how much they are going to harvest. The ability to control the environment helps farmers to grow flowers, vegetables, and fruit crops all year round. Growing crops in the safe environment of a greenhouse can improve the genetics of the plant, leading to the growth of healthy varieties. It also needs less water than in an open field. Also, producers do not rely on bee pollination and can utilize all the chemicals and pesticides they use to control diseases and any other vulnerability in plants. In an open field, there are locusts, other animals, and insects that can threaten the quality of the produce.
By equipment, the heating systems is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period
Heating systems are considered as one of the vital requirements for the effective production of plants in commercial greenhouses. Systems that provide constant temperature control and do not discharge any harmful material is contributed to the growth of the plants. A heating system is a process for maintaining the temperature at the desired level. These systems can be centrally controlled or distributed. Often, greenhouses use radiant hot water heating systems for internal heating during cold weather conditions. These heating systems use mixing valves to control the temperature of heating pipes as they can effectively regulate the temperature of heating pipes by flow control.
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The North America region is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period
The North America region is expected to witness the highest growth rate during the period projected. North American growers formerly used traditional techniques to create a controlled environment within greenhouses. These techniques included insulated greenhouses, the use of hot water piping systems to increase the temperature in greenhouses, and conventional lighting technologies such as high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps and metal-halide (MH) lamps. In the last decade, commercial greenhouse growers in North America gradually began switching to automation technologies to enable plant growth throughout the year. Commercial greenhouse technologies are becoming increasingly popular in urban areas to facilitate the supply of fresh vegetables to grocery stores.
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Richel Greenhouse (Eygalieres, FR), Argus Control Systems(British Colombia, Canada), Heliospectra AB (Gothenburg, SE), Rough Brothers Inc. (Vine Steet, Cincinnati, US), Logiqs BV (Maasdijk, NL), Lumigrow, Inc. (Emeryville, CA), Certhon (Poeldijk, Zuid Holland, NL), Hort Americas (Bedford, US), Agra Tech, Inc. (Pittsburg, US), Nexus corporation (Northglenn, Colorado, US), Top Greenhouses, Poly-Tex, Inc. (US), Stuppy Greenhouse (US), The Glasshouse Company Pty Ltd (Australia), Omni Structures International (Canada), Europrogress (Mirandola, ITA), DeCloet Greenhouse Mfg. Ltd. (Canada), Luiten Greenhouses (De Lier, ZH, NL), Sotrafa (Spain), Ammerlaan Construction (Netherlands), and Nobutec B.V. (Netherlands)
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My informant has been sailing since the age of 10. When she was first learning how to sail she was taught the phrase "Tiller towards trouble." The tiller is the stick that controls the rudder, which controls the direction of the boat. Steering for children is one of the hardest tasks when learning sailing, as it is counterintuitive. When you turn the tiller to left you go right and vice versa.
When teaching kids, if they begin moving towards the dock, they are told to push the tiller that way as well, and they will begin to move away. Of course this is not soley used for children, it can be used for adults when they are first learning.
"Tiller towards trouble" is a simple phrase which uses alliteration, making it easy to remember. The use of the word trouble, a key word in a child's vocabulary, adds to its memorability as well. Sailing is an activity that requires a bit of bravery as one must face the ocean, open water, waves, and wind. One must be brave to turn towards trouble, to learn how to avoid it, and in doing so, will become a better sailor.


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William, with his son, in the desert
William Miles was a member of the Assassin Order and the father of Desmond Miles.
William lived with his family in a desert community, sometimes taking his son on trips through the barren wasteland surrounding their home. During one such trip, when they were watching an eagle in flight, William warned his son to always be careful of the "vultures", referring to the Templar Order.
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Storage and uploading Manuals
If the belts are to be stored for a long period or in extreme climate:-
- Protection from direct sunlight or extreme temperature is recommended.
- Belts should be kept suspended on a belt stand rather than being rested on the floor.
- Belts should be ideally stored indoors in a temperature range of to +/- 25˚C.
- If covered storage is not available, the original packing must be retained. Additionally, the belt should covered with black polyethylene for UV and ozone protection.
- While storing the belt, it must be rolled at an interval of six weeks to distribute the permanent deformation of the belt.
- The belt rolls should be adequately secured by fixing wedges/ chucks or a similar method to prevent the rolls from moving as this could cause injury.
Unloading of Conveyor
When unloading belts, it is important to consider the following factors :
- Ease of unloading.
- Safety in unloading.
- Prevention of damage to the belt should be dependent on the weight, size and type of packing of the roll, belts are often unloaded using cranes (outdoor / indoor) and in the case of lighter belts with forklifts.
- The best way of unloading the belt from the transport vehicle is to insert a solid steel bar in the center core and then lift with a strong cable. (Load rating and condition of cable to be checked prior to use! )
- Care to be taken so that hoist cables do not damage the outer wrapping or the belt edges.
Depending on the weight, size and type of packing of the roll, belts are often unloaded using cranes (outdoor / indoor (E.O.T.)) and in the case of lighter belts, with fork lifts.
In the case of belts being unloaded using cranes :
Always use a spreader bar. Never apply sling around the circumference of the belt. Belt should always be moved by lifting rather than rolling.
Care & Maintenance
It is of utmost importance that regular belt inspection is conducted to locate damage on the covers or belt carcass. This is necessary to protect and prolong the value of the belt, which is a high capital cost item. We therefore advice that an inspection procedure be devised by every user, broadly covering the following :
- Regular Inspection of Idlers, pullies, lagging and rollers.
- Checking for spillage and material build up under the belt structure.
- Check and rectify any belt tracking problems.
- Regular replacement of skirt rubber, belt cleaner blades, e.t.c.
- Monitoring of belt take up tension.
- Off centre loading area - adjust the chute and loading condition for centre loading.
- Misaligned belt edges - Trim off the edges approaching tail pulley.
- Belt not joined square-Re-splice the belt.
- Build Up of Material on idlers and pulleys - Clean and maintain and check for spillage and carry back of material.
- Uneven Wear of Pulley lagging - relag the drum with new good quality rubber lagging or ceramic lagging.
- Misalignment of head/tail pulley - recheck pulley alignment to ensure that they are level and with their axis at 90° to the intended path of the belt. Head and tail pulleys should not be shifted in an effort to center the belt with the exception of the snub pulleys. Worn pulleys must be replaced.
- Worn lagging – uneven wear of lagging causes mistracking and therefore should be replaced in a planned maintenance program.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wanghee \Wang*hee"\, n. [Chin. wang yellow + he? a root.] (Bot.) The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks. [Written also whanghee.] [1913 Webster]


Deer Sport Puffy Coats To Keep Them Warm in Winter
We see deer all winter long. How are they not freezing when the temperatures dip down, down, down? White-tailed deer are adapted to deal with everything Illinois' weather throws at them.
Deer have fur coats designed to keep them warm in winter. (Photo via Shutterstock)
In the winter, they insulate themselves, just like your house is insulated. To do this, they start growing thicker fur in the fall. They actually have two types of fur: a softer, downy fur that sits next to their skin and keeps them warm and longer guard hairs. These guard hairs are hollow, just like a straw. Why? Because air gets trapped inside each hair as well as all around the guard hairs. That air gets warmed up by the deer's body heat and is trapped all around the deer. Imagine it like a warm blanket. In fact, think about how you warm up at home under the blankets. One blanket is good, but two is better. It's not just because of the extra weight. It's because you are capturing air between the blankets and warming that air up with your body heat.
Deer are not the only animals trying to keep themselves warm in a blanket of air. Keep an eye out for birds that are fluffing up their feathers to trap in warm air. And otters don't just rely on their blubber; they also trap a layer of air in their fur to keep them cozy. Beavers do the same thing. You would think that with all the cold water they would freeze, but beavers stay comfortable by trapping warm pockets of air in the fur next to their skin. This is how they can dive underwater all year long. Further away from Will County, polar bears also use the hollow fur strategy.
We are learning from these brilliant animal adaptations. Have you noticed all the puffy coats people wear in winter? Smoosh a puffy coat between your hands. See how it deflates? Yep, we're using air pockets in our puffy coats! Scientists are even working on wet suits that mimic semiaquatic diving animals like beavers and otters. They are trying to lock in air next to the suit as divers go underwater. Basically, furry wet suits are in our future!
The real killer in winter is not so much the cold; it is the damp. Animals like deer need to make sure to keep dry. They do this with oil that coats their skin. And just like their air insulation, deer are not the only animals who do this. Birds, otters, beavers and more also rely on oils to seal out the moisture.
Again, we can learn from these animals. When you are outside running around it is important to make sure you are dry. You are more likely to get hypothermia from being wet than cold. This is why you should wear layers. That way, you can pull off your outer layers when you get warm from moving around. You do not want to sweat, get damp and then catch a chill. Don't forget sweat-wicking fabrics to help you stay warm and dry.
Deer and other animals are masters of surviving winter. By learning from them and using their methods, we, too, can enjoy all that cold weather has to offer!


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Wat Chedi Luang (Wat Chotikaram)
Wat Chedi Luang houses the largest chedi in Chiang Mai. The temple is located right in the middle of the city and was built in the reign of King Saen Mueang Mak, the seventh king of Mengrai Dynasty. The 98-metre tall and 54-metre wide chedi was built in the reign of King Tilokkarat. The construction was completed in 1481. In 1545 the chedi was collapsed due to an earthquake during the reign of King Jiraprapa. The chapel in the front was built by Chao Khun Uba Lee Poramacharn (Sirichantathera) and Chao Kaeo Navarat in 1928. The magnificent methodological serpents ramble from the entrance of the chapel to its door on both sides.


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in terms of tax revenue, a COUNTRY is made up of its registered COMPANYs and its registered PERSONs.
registered entity that earns revenue for their COUNTRY of registration
registered entity that earns revenue for their COUNTRY of registration.
As you can see, both these registered entities earn revenue for their COUNTRY of registration. But there's a BIG DIFFERENCE in the tax burden of these two entities called RUNNING COSTS.
We all know what the running costs of a COMPANY are: assets (property and equipment) & liabilities (wages, amenities, loans etc...) A COMPANY can deduct these values from their gross earnings before being taxed: this is known as pre-tax profit.
Well, if the legal definition of COMPANY and PERSON are so alike, why are PERSONs not allowed to deduct their 'running costs' before they are taxed on their earnings? Yes, there's a P.A.Y.E. pre-tax 'allowance' for a registered PERSON so let's do the accounting with some generous figures to see the unfairness.
PERSON (with pre-tax allowance)
earns £25,000 p/a
pre-tax allowance £5,000
£25,000 earnings - £5,000 pre-tax allowance = £20,000
P.A.Y.E. contribution 25% of £20,000 = £5,000
Now, let's apply the pre-tax PROFIT trick to a PERSON'S tax calculation
PERSON (with running costs)
earns £25,000 p/a
running costs (rent/loan £10,000, transport £1,125, utilities £1,000, food £4,000) p/a
£25,000 -£10,000 -£1,125 -£1,000 -£4,000 = £8,875
tax contribution 25% of £8,875 = £2218.75
Wow, LESS THAN HALF THE TAX BURDEN per PERSON - isn't that amazing!
And saving a PERSON a couple of thousand pounds isn't even the point of this exercise. The point is, it's GROSSLY UNFAIR to tax one revenue-contributing entity one way and another revenue-contributing entity completely differently. Imagine if COMPANYs had to cover their own running costs, the way PERSONs are asked to do?
You know? Fair's fair.


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Beeches and oaks
Beeches and oaks are best known for their edible fruits. From an oak tree's acorns to the nuts of beech and chestnut trees, these fruits are part of the diet of many animals, including humans. Also recognisable are the alternately arranged, and often lobed, simple leaves and the seperate male and female flowers (catkins). Beeches, oaks and their relatives make up this family of flowering plants that can be deciduous or evergreen and grow either as trees or shrubs. There are around 1,000 species, the majority being oaks, with a wide distribution predominately in the broadleaf forests of the northern hemisphere.
Scientific name: Fagaceae
Rank: Family
Common names:
Beech family
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The following habitats are found across the Beeches and oaks distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.
Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web
When they lived
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Underwater Foundations for a Jack-up Bargeby Eldon L. Abbott, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade &, Douglas Inc, United States,
Stephen J. George, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade &, Douglas Inc, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Foundation Engineering: Current Principles and Practices
Abstract: Innovative underwater foundations were developed to provide a solid base for the legs of a large jack-up barge needed by General Dynamics to transport heavy components from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where they are fabricated, to Groton, Connecticut, where assembly is completed. A deep layer of soft soils at the Quonset Point shoreline required either the construction of expensive deep foundations for the barge or the use of unconventional reinforced earth technique to improve the soft soil layer and support the barge loads. General Dynamics elected to go with the innovative reinforced earth solution. This is one of the first underwater applications of the soil reinforcement technique patented by the Reinforced Earth Company.
Subject Headings: Underwater foundations | Soil stabilization | Barges | Jacking | Offshore structures | Soil strength | Layered soils | Innovation | North America | United States | Connecticut | Rhode Island
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 00:48 GMT 01:48 UK
Racist crime action 'underfunded'
By Dominic Casciani
BBC News community affairs
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Action to prevent racist violence and crime is being underfunded and undervalued, according to a new report.
Researchers claim that the government takes race crime seriously but not enough is done to prevent it happening. The Runnymede Trust, a think tank, spent two years studying how British society tries to prevent racism and prejudice.
It warns that debates over integration are ignoring serious and ingrained problems over hate crimes.
Researchers from Runnymede, a body that specialises in studying equality, looked at measures designed to prevent racist crimes taking place.
While public bodies were now working much more closely in targeting racist crimes after they had happened, largely due to the fall-out from the Stephen Lawrence murder, they were still failing to prevent them happening in the first place, the team found.
There needs to be intervention before racist violence happens... if we really want to eliminate racism, we need to work in that soft area, where it hasn't happened yet
A racism mediator, interviewed in the report
Those who were trying to work directly with perpetrators of racism, such as young people convicted of race-related offences, said they found it difficult to gain support for their work, even though it was arguably doing the most to directly challenge prejudices.
Sarah Isal, author of the report, said: "While the government has come to terms since the Lawrence Inquiry that there needs to be better support for victims and more work in bringing to justice perpetrators of racist crimes, there has not been enough of a commitment to prevention."
"All of the good programmes that we have highlighted in our report are good projects, but they need more support and leadership from central government."
Ms Isal said that innovative schemes which had a track record in challenging the underlying prejudices behind racist crimes, particularly arts or theatre-based schemes linked to schools, needed more support.
These subtle but complex projects often did more to generate the debate needed among young people than they were given credit for, she argued.
She added that schemes that attempted direct mediation between victims and perpetrators of racist behaviour were also successful, but often not taken seriously enough.
Lawrence criticisms
Between 2003-04 there were 4,179 prosecutions for racially-aggravated crimes, of which a quarter were assaults or harassment charges. The Crown Prosecution Service recorded a 13% increase in such crimes over the previous year, although it is difficult to say whether this means an increase in the actual number of crimes, or an increase in the numbers of people reporting a crime.
Last week, Doreen Lawrence, speaking to the Observer newspaper, attacked the Home Office's recent work on racism, saying that people within black communities felt that ministers had lost interest in the work called for by the inquiry into her son's killing.
Prejudices: Work targeting racist attitudes undervalued, says report
The Observer reported that a key committee overseeing the recommendations of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry had been disbanded.
The Home Office has declined to confirm this, saying only that it met last month, but its conversations were private.
Responding to the report, Home Office minister Paul Goggins said: "The government deplores all hate crime and considers these kinds of crimes not just an attack on the individual but on the whole of society.
"Our commitment to race equality is as strong as ever and there will be no let-up in our driving forward the improvements still needed.
"Over the next five years the police will improve the way they handle such incidents and promote the reporting of incidents.
"Government, together with the Stephen Lawrence Steering Group, will work to ensure that everyone in Britain has access to an effective racist incident helpline."
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The Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta's mission is to enrich appreciation of the Alberta experience by collecting, preserving, displaying, and promoting the region's Ukrainian heritage in a creative and engaging museum environment:
- by developing and maintaining a collection of artifacts, archival materials, and books that focuses on the Ukrainian experience in Edmonton within the broader context of the city, Alberta, Canada, Ukraine, and the world; and
- by providing a public service, educational opportunities, and cultural resources to the local community and visitors to Edmonton through exhibits, school programs, special events, and research facilities.
The objectives of the Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta for future growth are:
- To house the collections in a building suitable for their exhibit and storage;
- To implement a conservation program;
- To develop interpretive exhibits, including permanent, temporary, and traveling;
- To focus on the urban Ukrainian experience in Alberta, Edmonton most specifically, as well as the overall theme of a story line;
- To work in cooperation with other organizations to pursue future goals;
- To give all visitors the opportunity to appreciate the Ukrainian heritage;
- To expand the collections in accordance with acquisition policies; and
- To expand the public profile of UCAMA.