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 notice to airmen; an official announcement circulated to the aviation industry warning them of new high structures, such as cranes, that are being built
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The success of a chiropractic practice is greatly influenced by the strength of its team. In the quest to provide exceptional patient care and build a thriving practice, the hiring process is one of the most critical steps. Among the positions that require utmost care in selection is that of an associate chiropractor. Finding the ideal candidate who not only possesses the requisite clinical skills but also fits seamlessly into the practice's culture can be a challenging task. In this blog post, we'll explore strategies to help chiropractic practices navigate the hiring landscape and discover the perfect associate chiropractor.
1. Define Your Ideal Candidate:
Before embarking on the hiring journey, take the time to clearly define the qualities and qualifications you seek in an associate chiropractor. Consider factors like experience, clinical expertise, soft skills, and alignment with your practice's mission and values.
2. Leverage Online Resources:
Today, many specialized job boards and platforms cater specifically to healthcare professionals, including chiropractors. Websites like Healthpair offer a dedicated space for chiropractic job postings and can be an excellent starting point.
3. Collaborate with Chiropractic Associations:
Chiropractic associations often provide job boards and resources for both employers and candidates. Reach out to these associations, as they can be valuable in connecting you with qualified chiropractors who are actively seeking positions.
4. Develop a Comprehensive Job Description:
Craft a detailed job description that outlines the responsibilities, expectations, and qualifications for the position. Be clear about the role's scope and the contributions you expect from the associate chiropractor.
5. Implement a Rigorous Interview Process:
The interview process should be multifaceted, including both clinical assessments and behavioral interviews. In addition to assessing clinical skills, delve into the candidate's soft skills, such as communication, empathy, teamwork, and patient-centric care.
6. Conduct Thorough Reference Checks:
Reference checks are an integral part of the vetting process. Contact the candidate's references to gain insights into their work ethic, professionalism, and interpersonal skills.
7. Assess Cultural Fit:
The importance of cultural fit cannot be overstated. Evaluate whether the candidate aligns with the culture of your practice and shares its values and mission. This alignment is essential for maintaining a harmonious work environment.
8. Offer Opportunities for Growth:
Demonstrate your commitment to the candidate's professional development by offering opportunities for continued learning and skill enhancement. Show how they can grow within your practice and advance their career.
9. Provide a Competitive Compensation Package:
Ensure that your compensation package is competitive and commensurate with the candidate's skills and responsibilities. Competitive compensation not only attracts top talent but also fosters long-term commitment.
10. Set Expectations Clearly:
From day one, set clear expectations regarding performance, responsibilities, and practice goals. Open communication about expectations and goals will help the associate chiropractor integrate smoothly into the practice.
11. Mentorship and Onboarding:
Consider implementing a mentorship program to provide guidance and support to new hires. An effective onboarding process helps the associate chiropractor adapt to the practice and its procedures efficiently.
12. Monitor Progress and Seek Feedback:
Regularly assess the performance of the associate chiropractor and seek feedback from both staff and patients. This feedback loop is crucial for continuous improvement and adjustment.
13. Maintain Open Communication:
Foster an environment of open communication where team members can share their concerns, ideas, and feedback. This ensures a positive work atmosphere and promotes long-term commitment.
Navigating the hiring landscape to find the ideal associate chiropractor is a journey that requires time, effort, and careful consideration. By defining your ideal candidate, leveraging online resources, and implementing a rigorous hiring process, you can increase your chances of discovering the perfect fit for your practice. Remember, a well-selected associate chiropractor not only enhances patient care but also contributes to the growth and success of your practice.

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I'm working to develope a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS)
and one of the big problems I had was to write an easy algorithm to zoom a portion
of a map.
First of all I tried to use Server Side Maps, but I found that they need a
Perl script with too many lines of code. So I came to phpbuilder and found an
article from Rasmus Lerdorf : Creating
Dynamic Images with PHP that shows how useful PHP and the GD library could
be for that purpose. Thanx Rasmus!
I'll explain a method to zoom a portion of an image by using PHP and gif files.
The first step is to generate a map in its big size (in my example a 747x360
pixels gif called caligran.gif), then I resize the map to its small size
(200x96 gif called cali.gif). It's very important to work with gif files
because GD library can manipulate only those image types.
We need three files to work besides the gif images. The first file called map.html
has the small map and its code is:
The principal purpose of this file is to transmit the coordinates where the
user clicks on the small map.
Here, the most important tag is
On a browser that supports this tag, the image is displayed. Clicking
on any part of the image is equivalent to clicking on a Submit button. If
is mapa, the values mapa_x and
mapa_y are transmitted
to ampliacion.php3 through normal form and URL encoding. These two fields
contain the coordinates where the user clicked.

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When a food writer can't taste.
I read a headline this past weekend "When a food writer can't taste" which got me thinking about brand strategy and marketing strategy. How does a food writer approach an assignment when s/he can't actually taste the food? (How did Beethoven compose after losing his hearing?) Had the food writer the ability to taste prior to losing the sense, the experience would be muscle memory-driven. Of course the writer would need to know how the meal was prepared, the ingredients and the amounts. And watched preparation technique. It would also help to watch people eat the food to understand tastes, aromas and textures.
Sadly, a good deal of strategic work in the market today is perfunctory. It lacks the hand and design of someone who has actually tasted the product or product experience. Often there is a reliance on the muscle memory of other assignments. A reliance on demographics — and then the work is driven by nothing more than a media insight. jean-georges
Just as creatives know when the work is done, so do planners. Planners need enough time to mine insights, experience those insights and learn deeply about their meaning. Put that level of learning into your brand plan and you are, then, ready to start tasting. Peace.


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Reverse Logistics (RL) is a full member of a Supply Chain. As such, it must contribute by adding value to the latter. Moreover, firms are now supposed toprove they are citizens socially responsible for their acts and their consequences on the environment. We present in this article a conceptual framework in which RL is a source of competitive advantage. A qualitative
study identifies the corresponding concepts. We offer the basis of aquantitative study on the required means for a RL to create a competitive advantage in a supply chain. Among the recommendations of the article, we can mention top management's involvement, dedicated information systems and collaboration with other links in the chain.
F. Brach, X. Brusset, Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle vol.33(1), pp 33-53, (CNRS4), 2014.
Reverse logistique, supply chain management, étude qualitative


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Scientists get to the bottom of a big sheep mystery
By Tim Friend, USA Today
15 September 2002: After a 10-year search, scientists have found the gene that causes certain sheep to have big, muscular bottoms. The discovery may sound odd, but experts say it may shed new light on why some people seem destined to be obese while others are natural-born muscular speed skaters. More important, the method used to find the gene also could be used to locate genes for disorders such as autism, bipolar disorder and some cancers, says Randy Jirtle, professor of radiation oncology at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
During fetal development, the big-bottom gene (called callipyge, Greek for ''beautiful buttocks'') shuts down production of fat cells. With few fat cells, energy is converted into bulky muscle. It is possible a disruption in the same gene or its region in humans could load a person with extra fat cells from birth.
The story of big-bottomed sheep began 20 years ago when a farmer observed a young ram in his flock growing muscular, oversized buttocks, a result of a naturally occurring mutation. He reasoned that if flocks of such sheep could be bred, they would yield more meat per animal. The ram was bred with normal females and, as predicted, they produced big-bottomed lambs, some of them females. But when the big-bottomed females were bred to normal rams: no big bottoms. That defied traditional patterns of inheritance, Jirtle says, but no one knew why.
Ten years ago, scientists began hunting for the big-bottom gene, but traditional methods found nothing. Finally, U.S. Department of Agriculture geneticist Brad Freking, who led this study, obtained DNA from inbred offspring of the original ram, decoded it and compared it with DNA from normal sheep. Among more than 450,000 letters of code, he found a single letter out of place; from that mutation, scientists tracked down the genes. Usually they find a gene first, then look for mutations.
The gene was invisible to standard gene-hunting methods because of the strange inheritance pattern observed 20 years ago. That complex and poorly understood pattern is called imprinting. Normally, people inherit two copies of their genes -- one from the mother, one from the father. That way, if one copy goes bad, the good copy can do the work. With imprinting, only one copy works to begin with; the other copy is essentially bound and gagged. A single mutation can completely knock out gene function.
Imprinting already is associated with at least three serious genetic disorders and is probably linked to many more, including autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome. Scientists have searched for genes for these disorders without any luck. If they start looking with imprinting in mind, the genes might be revealed. The same may hold true for cancer.
As for the big-bottomed sheep, all that muscle and no fat make the meat tough and dry. No one wants to buy them.
''All that meat and not a bite to eat,'' Jirtle laments.


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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
Translation of content on this website is performed by Google™ Translate, which performs automated computer translations that are only an approximation of the original content. The translations should only be used as a rough guide. MSU does not and cannot guarantee the accuracy of the translations generated by Google™ Translate.
At times of national, international, or campus community crises, students welcome time to share their responses and concerns in class. The resources below provide guidelines and suggestions for faculty in leading classroom discussions at these times and integrating these issues whenever possible into the context of the course or discipline.
Teaching in a Time of International Crisis: Focus on Haiti (Michigan State University, Office of Faculty and Organizational Development).
Provides resources for responding to the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath.
"Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Focus on Hurricane Katrina" (Michigan State University, Office of Faculty and Organizational Development).
Contains online resources specific to dealing with Hurricane Katrina in the classroom, but also links to more general resources on teaching in a time of crisis, such as a crisis booklet from Western Kentucky University.
Discussion Guidelines (University of Michigan, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching).
This site contains links to guidelines for classroom discussions about the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the war in Iraq, the Tsunami in 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and other controversial or tragic incidents. Guidance and suggestions for classroom activities are general enough to provide valuable resources to draw on during any time of crisis that impacts the classroom.
Teaching in Times of Crisis (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching)
More guidelines and resouces for classroom discussions of a local, national, or international crisis.
"In the Eye of the Storm: Students' Perceptions of Helpful Faculty Actions Following a Collective Tragedy" by Therese A. Huston, Seattle University, and Michele Di Pietro, Carnegie Mellon University. In To Improve the Academy, Vol. 25, September 2006, 207-224
Surveys of faculty actions and student's preception are followed by analysis of most helpful reactions and implications for dealing with future crises.
Guidance for Instructors Leading Classes in the Wake of 9/11/01 (Ohio State University, Faculty and TA Development).
Although designed for discussions of 9/11, the strategies on this web page offer useful methods for guiding discussions about other crises as well.
"Tragedy in the College Classroom: A Reference Guide for Faculty" (Western Kentucky University, Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching).
This site deals with tragedy that affects the classroom community such as the death of a student or faculty member. Links to other sites provide guidelines for dealing with students' distress. WKU Faculty Reports describe ways faculty and students dealt with two different classroom tragedies.
Guidelines for Class Participation (Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan).
This link provides guidelines that can be used to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect and collective inquiry when discussions are held in times of crisis as well as other occasions.
Responding to Crises (Professional and Organizational Development Network)
Resources and useful links gathered by the POD Network for faculty dealing with classroom responses to campus and national crises.
Guidance for Instructors Concerning Class Discussions About the War in Iraq (University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching)
Useful information about how to assess if unplanned discussion is appropriate, issues to consider, suggestions for a planned discussion, and links to further resources on the war.
Responding to the Tragedy at Virginia Tech: Identifying and Responding to Students in Crisis (MSU Office of Faculty and Organizational Development)
This site contains links to MSU resources for faculty dealing with students in distress.
Campus Emergency Response, Communication, and Classroom Safety (MSU Multi-Lilly Workshop October 11, 2007)
Prepared by the Emergency Management Unit at Michigan State University, this PowerPoint presentation contains information on police response to emergencies at MSU and explains what faculty should do if they are involved in an emergency situation.
H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu)
Information and Frequently Asked Questions regarding the H1N1 flu virus.


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GeoKraft India Map with States, Capitals and Union Territory Eva Foam Jigsaw Puzzle – Educational Learning Toy for Boys and Girls
GeoKraft States of India is a creative, fun and educational toy that ensures hours of fun learning while enhancing geographical knowledge. This puzzle comes with India Map outline frame alongwith Tags and Stickers. Start putting the state pieces in the correct location to complete the map using the User Guide. The pieces, are cut in the respective shape of the states, which fit snugly to each and create a perfect scaled model of the India's political map. Using this puzzle, your child can not only learn the name and location of states, but also the relative size of states. Apart from improving geographical knowledge, the puzzle also helps in improving problem solving skills and motor skills. Unlike regular jigsaw puzzles, where fixing of pieces becomes monotonous and repetitive, this map puzzle, with different shapes and sizes of each piece, keeps your child playfully engaged for a much longer duration. The puzzle is also very popular as a return gift for birthday for kids in the range of 4- 6 years. Geography has never been so much fun before!
·SOLVE TO LEARN LOCATION: This learning & education toy consists of 1 EVA foam frame puzzle, with precisely cut 25 State & Union Territories shaped puzzle pieces that will help the child learn the locations of the States of India.
·STURDY & SAFE: All the pieces are made of 8 mm EVA foam and snugly fit to form the India map.
CONTENTS: 1 Foam Puzzle Frame, 25 Puzzle Pieces, User Guide and Colouring Sheet


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| "I once thought I could save the world... now look at it"
— Spoilers for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided follow!
|"Welcome to Golem City, clank!"|
|- A policeman|
Útulek Complex or Útulek Station, nicknamed Golem City, is an enclosed city on the outskirts of Prague, Czech Republic. It was originally built by the Santeau Group to offer temporary housing to Prague's working class. Following the Aug Incident in 2027, the complex quickly devolves into a ghetto for the mechanically augmented.
The Útulek Complex served as temporary housing for augmented workers that flowed into Prague during the period of economic growth under Žofie Růžička's pro-corporate government, which relied on an augmented workforce to fuel the economic growth.
After the Aug Incident, which resulted in Žofie Růžička's death and a transition of power to a new anti-Aug government, the Czech Republic cancels Santeau's contract and seizes control of the Complex. The government then declares that the Complex would henceforth be used as permanent housing for unlicensed Augs. The Complex soon earns the nickname "Golem City."
The conditions in Golem City eventually degrade into something comparable to a prison camp. In 2029, the police artificially restrict the amount of Neuropozyne distributed in the city. In doing so, they establish a way to control the augmented population living there who need the drug to survive. State police patrol Golem City and ensure that its residents live in a constant state of fear.
In 2029, Golem City serves as the headquarters of the Augmented Rights Coalition, after its leader Talos Rucker relocated from Stuttgart sometime in 2028. By the time Adam Jensen visits Golem City, ARC activities are evident all around the Útulek Complex in the form of propaganda posters depicting Rucker and featuring various revolutionary slogans. Loudspeakers around the city broadcast messages from Rucker, such as denouncements of violence as a solution to oppression.
Lower Residential AreaEdit
- Police Station: A police station with several holding cells and an armory. On the upper level, in Block 01, Tibor Sokol is being held, and his brother Dušan Sokol is in a more heavily guarded solitary cell on the lower level.
- Mír ("Peace") Flats
A market area where various daily goods are sold. Fruits ("ovoce") and vegetables ("zelenina") are prominently displayed with signs made from fluorescent light tubes. On the floor below this, on the east side, Entity runs a shop that Jensen can interact with.
- ARC Residential Area
- Talos Rucker's office
Ty Zahrada ("The Gardens")Edit
Large outdoor roof gardens, open to the sun, in which fresh fruit and vegetables are grown.
- According to the Art of Deus Ex Universe, the Útulek Complex was inspired by the real-world Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. The Walled City was a tightly packed collection of buildings with a large population density. Like Útulek Complex, the quality of life for residence was poor and the city experienced high crime rates.
- The word útulek is Czech for shelter or refuge; obviously referring to Útulek Complex's supposed function as a refuge for augmented people.
See also Edit
- Golem City computers
- Golem City pocket secretaries
- The Rucker Extraction (mission walkthrough), for annotated maps of the Útulek Complex
- Maps without annotations:


sndloop — A sound looper with pitch control.
This opcode records input audio and plays it back in a loop with user-defined duration and crossfade time. It also allows the pitch of the loop to be controlled, including reversed playback.
asig, krec sndloop ain, kpitch, ktrig, idur, ifad
idur -- loop duration in seconds
ifad -- crossfade duration in seconds
asig -- output sig
krec --'rec on' signal, 1 when recording, 0 otherwise
kpitch -- pitch control (transposition ratio); negative values play the loop back in reverse
ktrig -- trigger signal: when 0, processing is bypassed. When switched on (ktrig >= 1), the opcode starts recording until the loop memory is full. It then plays the looped sound until it is switched off again (ktrig = 0). Another recording can start again with ktrig >= 1.
Example 431. Example
asig in ; get the signal in
ktrig line 0, 1, 1 ; trigger signal
aout,krec sndloop asig, 1, ktrig, 4, 0.05 ; rec starts at 1 sec, for 4 secs 0.05 crossfade
printk 1, krec ; prints the recording signal
 out aout
The example above shows the basic operation of sndloop. Pitch can be controlled at the k-rate, recording is started as soon as the trigger value is >= 1. Recording can be restarted by making the trigger 0 and then 1 again.
Author: Victor Lazzarini;
April 2005
New in Version 5.00


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Feature: #78169 - Introduce "Translation Source" field for tt_content¶
See Issue #78169
The new database field
l10n_source for tt_content table has been introduced together with a new TCA ctrl configuration
translationSource field contains an uid of the record used as a translation source, no matter whether the record was translated in the free or connected mode.
The new TCA configuration
translationSource contains column name, similar to the
$GLOBALS['TCA']['tt_content']['ctrl']['translationSource'] = 'l10n_source';
The new field solves few issues:
- There was no way to detect whether a record was translated using connected mode or free mode.
If a record has value > 0 in the
l10n_parent) field, it means it was translated using "connected mode". If the
transOrigPointerFieldis 0 but the
translationSourcefield is > 0 it means it was translated using "free mode". If both are 0, it means the record was not translated but created manually.
- TYPO3 allows to use a record in non-default language as a translation source. In this case the information about the translation source was lost.
translationSourcefield always contains an uid of the record used as a translation source.
- In some places
t3_origuid) fields were misused as a translation source. Now these places can be refactored to use the
translationSource and other existing fields¶
l10n_parent) - "translation parent" - this field contains uid of the record in the default language representing the same content. The
translationSourcefield can contain a uid of the record in non-default language.
t3_origuid) - "copy source" - this field contains uid of the record, current record was copied from. It might be equal to
translationSourceas localization is a copy internally, but often it is different.
See following test scenarios to see how data is handled in details.
Introduction of the new field is a base step for further refactorings, e.g.
- it opens a way to implement features like "reconnecting" free-mode translations back to the "connected mode"
- replace usage of the
t3_origuid with the
t3_origuid is misused for language handling purposes (e.g. in LocalizationRepository)


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An end-stop occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. In that sense, it's the opposite of enjambment, which will encourage you to move right along to the next line without pausing.
Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
See how the lines each have their own units of sense? And they each end in a punctuation mark that indicates a pause. These, Shmoopers, are end-stopped lines. In fact, "Bright Star" is mostly end-stopped, with only two examples of enjambment. Check out the poem, and see if you can find them.


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Fundación Centro Canario del Agua
The Centro Canario del Agua Foundation (FCCA) is an independent and non-profit organization whose objective is the research and development of innovative products for water treatment. It was founded on December 14, 1998 by the General Directorate of Water of the Canary Islands Government, the Insular Water Councils of the seven islands and a series of private companies with interests in the Canary Islands water sector.
The FCCA carries out and promotes R&D work autonomously and in combination with public institutions and private companies.
The FCCA conducts applied research mainly in the following areas:
- Equipment for remineralization of desalinated waters
- Design of filtering and draining floors
- Optimization of reverse osmosis plant control
- Treatment of hard water and rich in silica
- Improvement of desalinated water quality


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, I used a custom property to expose that field rather than further complicate the query. The code below shows a public property that provides a result based on the other data in the class if it was never explicitly set, but returns the explicit value instead if one was provided.
Private _referencedtable As String
Public Property ReferencedTable() As String
Dim result = _referencedtable
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(_referencedtable) Then
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(References) = False Then _
result = References.Substring(0, References.IndexOf("(")).Trim
Set(ByVal value As String)
_referencedtable = value
For each custom class, be sure to override the ToString() method to provide a useful display when used in any grid or list. Simply return the field or calculation of your choice based on its class. See the code below for the ToString() method for the DatabaseObject class that provides the Schema.ObjectName value as its display value.
Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
Dim result As String = String.Empty
If Schema.Trim.Length > 0 Then result += "[" & Schema & "].["
result += Name & "]"
Finding the index of a particular entry in a List (Of Items) is very easy with the FindIndex extension method if you use a lambda expression. Below is the code for the IdentitySeedRowIndex function that uses a lambda expression to find the index for the particular Schema.TableName value passed into the function.
Public Shared Function IdentitySeedRowIndex( _
IdentitySeedTables As List(Of IdentitySeedFields), _
SchemaTable As String) As Integer
Dim result = -1
Dim index = IdentitySeedTables.FindIndex(Function(x) x.SchemaTable = SchemaTable)
If index > -1 Then result = index
Enjoy, but Use with Caution
Be sure to carefully review the generated SQL script before running it, removing any tables from the script that you wish to retain data. Be sure that you have the right server connection and the right database selected in SQL Management Studio before running it. Finally, be sure to back up the database before running the script, just in case.
I have needed a utility to efficiently "empty out" a SQL Server database several times over the last few years and also have talked to other developers that agreed such a utility would be helpful. I present such an application here in this article for your use. Since it generates explicit actions in a script, it is very easy to see exactly what will happen and have a good comfort level with those actions before running it. I hope this utility enhances your professional toolbox.
Please let me know your experiences using this application, including any enhancements that you think would be useful. Would you like the code placed somewhere that you and other readers could contribute to enhancing it? Enjoy!


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Since the introduction of our gaming services in 2018, we've been proud to launch innovative new game experiences with developers like you. While we remain dedicated to supporting the developer community, we've made the difficult decision to wind down the service due to limited adoption.
As of October 18, 2021, we will no longer enable new customers for Google Maps Platform gaming services. Current users will have continued access until December 31, 2022. During this time, we will continue to provide support and fixes for major bugs and outages.
This guide provides an overview of how the various gaming services APIs were implemented, so that you can leverage the key concepts to create your own solutions. The Transition Guide includes the following pages:
- Playable Locations API design overview provides an overview of the concepts behind the Playable Locations API, which you can use to generate your own set of playable locations using an alternate data source.
- Developing your own back-end for the Unity SDK shows how to use Maps SDK for Unity with the Semantic Tile API example server.
- Semantic tile proto and example server
shows how to use the protocol buffer interface in
semantictileapi.proto, so you can implement your own backend, using an alternate source for mapping data without having to rewrite your entire game.


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Effects of the Mono Winds
August 30, 2012
Tioga Road near Mono Pass Trailhead
Dramatic evidence of the regional phenomenon known as the Mono Winds can be seen just off the Tioga road near the Mono Pass Trailhead. Numerous trees are down in this area, having been blown down last winter. When a high pressure system is over the Great Basin, the clockwise movement of air pushes up and over the Sierra and picks up speed as it rushes down the western slopes. The rugged topography funnels some of that air, further increasing the speed and intensifying localized effects. The Mono Winds can easily reach 50 mph and in extreme cases exceed 100 mph. It is likely that the wind that knocked these trees down was funneled by the Tioga pass and continued down the Tioga road. Most of the downed trees are near the road and lying parallel with the road. The weather patterns that cause the Mono Winds occur from October to April but are most common in December and January.


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Two UW–Madison researchers build ties with Indonesia
It took a trip halfway around the world to bring two University of Wisconsin—Madison scientists together.
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks and climate scientist Dan Vimont had never crossed paths on the Madison campus due to their very divergent areas of study. But they landed on common ground at the Kavli Indonesian-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, held July 11-15 in Solo, Indonesia.
Co-organized by the Indonesian and U.S. National Academies of Sciences, the symposium brought together a mix of young American and Indonesian scientists from a range of fields — nanotechnology to earthquakes — to discuss globally relevant research and to foster collaborations between the two countries. The UW–Madison researchers were two of just nine U.S. scientists invited to speak.
The Frontiers of Science symposia have promoted connections between young scientists since 1989, with increasing importance placed on international relationships with scientists in Europe and Asia. The Indonesian-American symposium began in 2011 in response to the Obama administration's call for stronger ties with scientists in predominantly Muslim countries.
"The goal is to get people talking — to help Indonesian scholars develop their scientific infrastructure and to get more Americans involved who might have an interest in working there," says Hawks.
Vimont, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a climate researcher in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, discussed international food security in the face of changing climate, a critical concern in a country whose rice imports in a bad growing year can equal roughly a fifth of the total global rice market. Hawks, a UW–Madison anthropology professor, spoke about human evolution and genetic variation.
Both met potential future collaborators and came away with a stronger appreciation of the research needs and opportunities in Indonesia. In addition to the scientific sessions, the participants attended cultural events and local tours, and Hawks was able to spend a day at a nearby dig with an Indonesian paleontologist.
"I see science as a unifying theme for bringing people together," Vimont says. "These symposia are a piece of a broader effort to use science as a way to encourage development."


Sentence Examples with the word bend
With each bend of the highway they found breathtaking views.
Corps (Thielemann), 23,900, in the bend of the river Meuse, headquarters Ciney, and disposed in the area Dinant-Huy-Ciney.
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The great bend of the river affords easy irrigation, and the surrounding country is covered by a network of irrigating canals, even the paved streets of the town having streams of cool water running through them.
In the vicinity is the Karolinen canal, which cuts off a bend in the Danube between Lauingen and Dillingen.
Indianapolis (169,164), Evansville (59,007), Fort Wayne (45,115), Terre Haute (36,673), and South Bend (35999) In the same year there were 14 cities with a population of less than 35,000 (all less than 21,000) and more than 10,000; and there were 21 places with a population of less than 10,000 and more than 5000.
The Arno, which has its source in the Monte Falterona, one of the most elevated summits of the main chain of the Tuscan Apennines, flows nearly south till in the neighborhood of Arezzo it turns abruptly north-west, and pursues that course as far as Pontassieve, where it again makes a sudden bend to the west, and pursues a westerly course thence to the sea, passing through Florence and Pisa.
The Nan-shan highlands abut upon the highlands of the Chinese province of Kansuh, and near the great northward bend of the Hwang-ho they meet the escarpments by which the Great Khingan and the In-shan ranges are continued, and by which the Mongolian plateau steps down to the lowlands of China.


Have a look at our YouTube video for a quick walkthrough of Orchest! 💪
This quickstart will follow an example explaining how to build data science pipelines in Orchest and touches upon some core principles that will be helpful when you get to building your own pipelines. The example pipeline will download the sklearn California housing dataset, explore the data, train some classifiers, and in the final step collect the results from those classifiers.
The resulting pipeline from this quickstart.
Please refer to How Orchest works to get a more in-depth explanation of concepts within Orchest.
For the impatient
As Miguel Grinberg would say: "If you are the instant gratification type, and the screenshot at the top of this article intrigued you, then head over to the Github repository for the code used in this article. Then come back to learn how everything works!"
To get started with the pipeline in Orchest you can import the GitHub repositories URL _URL_ through the UI:
Your first project
To start, make sure you have installed Orchest and started it:
# Make sure to be in the root-level orchest directory.
./orchest start
For the quickstart we will create a new project named quickstart. After creating the project, you will see that it does not yet have any pipelines.
All code in this quickstart is written in Python, nevertheless, we do also support other languages such as R.
Get California housing data
The logical next step is to create the first pipeline called California housing and open the pipeline editor. This will automatically boot an interactive session so you can interactively edit the Python script we create (the other steps will be notebooks!):
 1. Create a new step by clicking: + new step.
 2. Enter a Title and File path, respectively Get housing data and get-data.py.
The changes you make to the pipeline (through the pipeline editor) are saved automatically.
Now we can start writing our code through the familiar JupyterLab interface, simply press edit in JupyterLab (making sure you have the step selected) and paste in the following code:
 1import orchest
 2import pandas as pd
 3from sklearn import datasets
 5# Explicitly cache the data in the "/data" directory since the
 6# kernel is running in a Docker container, which are stateless.
 7# The "/data" directory is a special directory managed by Orchest
 8# to allow data to be persisted and shared across pipelines and
 9# even projects.
10print("Dowloading California housing data...")
11data = datasets.fetch_california_housing(data_home="/data")
13# Convert the data into a DataFrame.
14df_data = pd.DataFrame(data["data"], columns=data["feature_names"])
15df_target = pd.DataFrame(data["target"], columns=["MedHouseVal"])
17# Output the housing data so the next steps can retrieve it.
18print("Outputting converted housing data...")
19orchest.output((df_data, df_target), name="data")
As you can see, we have highlighted a few lines in the code to emphasize important nuts and bolts to get a better understanding of building pipelines in Orchest. These nuts and bolts are explained below.
First we start with explaining line 11 in which we cache the data in the /data directory. This is actually the userdir/data directory (from the Orchest GitHub repository) that gets bind mounted in the respective Docker container running your code. This allows you to access the data from any pipeline, even from pipelines in different projects. Data should be stored in /data not only for sharing purposes, but also to make sure that jobs do not unnecessarily copy the data when creating the snapshot for reprodicibility reasons.
Secondly, line 19 showcases the usage of the Orchest SDK to pass data between pipeline steps. Keep in mind that calling orchest.transfer.output() multiple times will result in the data getting overwritten, in other words: only output data once per step.
To run the code, switch back to the pipeline editor, select the step and press run selected steps. After just a few seconds you should see that the step completed successfully. Let's check the logs to confirm, the logs contain the latest STDOUT of the script.
Remember that running the code will output the converted housing data, in the next step we can now retrieve and explore that data!
Data exploration
Now that we have downloaded the data, the next pipeline step can explore it. Create another pipeline step with Title Data exploration and File path explore-data.ipynb, and connect the two pipeline steps.
You can get the code for this pipeline step from the explore-data.ipynb file in the GitHub repository.
Maybe you already noticed the imports in the previous step:
import orchest
import pandas as pd
from sklearn import datasets
These dependencies are satisfied by default, because the environments are based on the Jupyter Docker Stacks which already contains a number of common data science packages. In this data exploration step however, we make use of Vaex to showcase how environments let you install additional packages.
Go to Environments in the left pane menu and inspect the Python 3 environment. Here you can see that pip install vaex is added to the Environment set-up script.
Finalizing the pipeline
To end up with the final pipeline, please refer to the For the impatient section to import the pipeline. You can also build the pipeline from scratch yourself!
A successful pipeline run of the final pipeline.
The interactive session does not shut down automatically and thus the resources will keep running when editing another pipeline, you can shut down the session manually by clicking on the shut down button. Of course all resources are shut down when you shut down Orchest with./orchest stop.


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Focus on life cycle costs is one of the most important success criteria in PPP projects as – in contrast to conventional construction projects – low construction cost is not the only major factor. On the contrary, operating and maintenance costs are at the forefront of such large projects.
Here too, KMG partners can contribute with their considerable know-how and have, as early as the tendering phase, strived to optimise the M51 Kliplev-Sønderborg motorway project such that life cycle costs with the chosen construction technologies are not only optimised during the concession's life span but also for decades thereafter. KMG's offer thus not only reduces construction costs through innovative solutions but also ensures lower life cycle costs which are sustainable beyond 26 years. All in all, the technologies chosen by KMG will reduce life cycle costs by more than 40% in comparison with a typical Danish motorway.
Motorway concessions are highly complex projects, which consist of several phases. The phases range from initial ideas on project optimisation, assessment of the project baseline and goal formulation through project monitoring and actual construction to subsequent monitoring during the operating phase. A high degree of cooperation is required if such a complex process is to succeed. Often, cooperation between the parties involved in a project simply entails exchanging results. Proposals are prepared for individual project goals without any coherent, unifying consideration of the various project goals. Through its planning of the project, KMG will ensure that solutions are attained for the various project goals which contribute to the overall objectives. This approach is characterised by:
- Overall consideration of the project goals and integration of technical, financial, social and relevant environmental criteria
- Close communication between project participants
- Long-term consideration of the motorway's total life cycle
- Simulation and assessment of various construction techniques
- Interdisciplinary planning and cooperation between the parties involved
A motorway's life cycle consists of the total duration of the planning, construction, operating and maintenance phases. The costs incurred during the life cycle that can be directly linked to the project thus constitute the life cycle costs.
By comparing life cycle costs for various construction methods, it is possible to find the most economically favourable variant in relation to the total life span. The objective of planning is to optimise the life cycle costs, i.e. the construction costs plus the discounted consequential costs (the life cycle costs' cash value). Cost optimisation of the entire life cycle is only possible if consequential costs are included during the planning of infrastructure systems. A precondition is that the costs are transparent, i.e. that costs can be specified within the framework of the planning process as initial costs or consequential costs.


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Current all-orders proofs of factorization of hard processes are made by extracting the leading power behavior of Feynman graphs, i.e., by extracting asymptotics strictly order-by-order in perturbation theory. The resulting parton densities and fragmentation functions include nonperturbative effects. I show how there are missing elements in the proofs; these are related to and exemplified by string and cluster models of hadronization. The proofs rely on large rapidity differences between different parts of graphs for the process; but in reality large rapidity gaps are filled in.
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Add a Related data custom field
The Related data custom field gives you the possibility to relate one content item to another. Then, you can make related items to be displayed as a link on the frontend.
EXAMPLE: You have a dynamic module Authors. The module will store information about different authors. Create a page where you drop the Authors widget. Open the News module and created a custom field of type Related data and Data type Authors. In the backend, when you create a news item, you see the custom field added. There you can choose an author that will be related to the news item. Then, you add the Authors field to the widget template of the News widget. When you open the site and click a news item, you will see the details of the news item and the link to the author's details.
To add a Related data custom field, perform the following:
- Perform procedure Create custom fields » Step 1 to Step 5.
- In Data type dropdown box, select the data type which you want to relate.
You can select dynamic data types, built-in data types, and pages.
For example, you can relate Events to News or Pages, or you can relate them to a dynamic type, created with the Module builder.
- In Source, select the provider where you want to store the related media items.
- Click Continue.
- Under Interface widget for uploading or selecting items, select the widget that you want to use in the backend to select the related item.
Depending on the data type, it can be a content or page selector.
- In Label input field enter the label of the selector.
This label is displayed when you create a content item in the backend.
For example, Related items.
- In Instructional text, enter instructions or explanatory text for the custom field, if needed.
- Select the This is a required field checkbox, if you want to make the custom field mandatory.
- Under Display selected items on the frontend using..., select the widget that you want to use to display the selected data type on the frontend of your site.
By default, the Simple link widget is used to display related items. When you click the link, the system take you to the default page for displaying the related data type. For more information, see Locations of content items: Canonical URLs.
For example, if you are creating a custom field for the News module that is data type Authors. The link to the author will be displayed with each news item. When you click it, the system takes you to the default page for displaying authors.
You can also use the built-in widget of the content type for which you are creating the custom data field.
For example, if you are a custom field for the News module that is data type Authors, you can use the News widget to display the authors.
- In Label input field enter the label of the link that will be displayed on the frontend.
For example, See authors details.
- Click Done.
The new field appears in Custom fields section.
If you want to delete a custom field, click.
- Click Save changes.
- Insert the custom field in the respective widget template.
For example, if you want to relate News to Author, you must insert the Authors custom field in the widget template that you use to display news items.
For more information, see Create and edit widget templates.
NOTE: When you delete an item that has related data custom field added to it, you can choose to display a warning message. This way, you can avoid breaking links from other content items or pages.
To do this, perform the following:
- Click Administration » Settings » Advanced.
- In the tree on the left, click RelatedData and select Display a warning message to prevent users from deleting items that are related to another items checkbox.
- Save your changes.


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What do you think what is record?
Our electronic definitions web site has answer for that as well:
is a collection of related items of data treated as a unit for processing (e.g. one
line of an invoice may form a record). This is called a logical record where
it is necessary to distinguish it from the record as held in computer storage
which may also include control information (the physical record).
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 1. Consider a smooth projective surface $S\subset\Bbb P^N_{\Bbb C}$ which is a complete intersection of hypersurfaces of degrees $(d_1,..,d_{k\ge2})$ with $d_i\ge2$ for all i. Is it true that for such surfaces $c^2_1\le 2c_2$? (i.e. much better than BMY) At least asymptotically (i.e. for high enough $d_i$'s)?
Let $td_2$ be the top-dimensional Todd class, i.e. $td_2=\frac{c^2_1+c^2}{12}$. The inequality as above can be written as $c_2\ge 2^2td_2$.
 1. More generally, let $X\subset\Bbb P^N_{\Bbb C}$ be a smooth complete intersection of dimension $n$. Let $c_n$ and $td_n$ be its top-dimensional Chern and Todd classes. What are the known inequalities on $c_n$ and $td_n$? (I would like to have smth like $c_n\ge 2^n td_n$)
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I'd expect that there'd be a formula for $c_1$ and $c_2$ in terms of the degrees $d_i$ and then one could just check the resulting inequality directly. – Noam D. Elkies Jul 8 '11 at 17:35
You can find these formulas in Bart-Peters-Van de Ven, Chapter V – Francesco Polizzi Jul 8 '11 at 21:10
Yes, certainly, for a complete intersection in $\Bbb P^N$ the Chern and Todd classes can be computed explicitly. But the formulas are quite messy. I need the bound: $(-1)^n(c_n(X)-1)\ge 2^n(-1)^n\Big( td(T_X) ch(\mathcal{O}_X(-1))\Big)_{top.dim.}$ After computation of both sides I get some messy school-type inequality. No idea how to prove it in general. But in many numerical cases (of low dimension and codimension) I verified it. I wonder, is there some (indirect?) way to prove the bound without proving this numerical inequality? – Dmitry Kerner Jul 9 '11 at 12:03
An additional question. Suppose $S\subset\Bbb P^N$ is a smooth surface, "close to being a complete intersection". For example it is ACM or better arithmetically Gorenstein or even smth better. Do such surfaces satisfy the bound as above? An example not satisfying the bound would be of interest too. – Dmitry Kerner Jul 9 '11 at 12:05
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By the formulae in [Barth-Peters-Van de Ven, Chapter V] one has, for a surface which is complete intersection of type $(d_1, \ldots, d_{n-2})$ in $\mathbb{P}^n$: $$c_1^2(X)= \big(\sum d_i-(n+1)\big)^2 \prod d_i,$$ $$c_2(X)=\bigg[\binom{n+1}{2}-(n+1)\sum d_i+\sum d_i^2 +\sum_{i < j} d_id_j \bigg]\prod d_i.$$
Then one obtains that the inequality $$c_1^2(X) \leq 2 c_2(X)$$ is equivalent to $$n+1 \leq \sum d_i^2,$$ and this is of course almost always true, since the right-hand term is $\geq 4(n-2)$. So the answer to $1.$ seems to be yes.
ADDED. Actually, this is also written in the book by Barth-PetersVan de Ven. In Chapter V, at the beginning of the Section "The Geography of Chern Numbers", they say:
" The simplest examples, like complete intersections and double coverings of $\mathbb{P}^2$, pratically always yield a point of $D_1$ [where $D_1$ is the region in the $(c_1, c_2)$-plane given by $c_1^2 \leq 2c_2$]. Indeed, for a long time only few examples were known of surfaces with Chern pairs $(c_1^2, c_2)$ in $D_2$ [i.e., such that $2c_2 < c_1^2 \leq 3c_2$]."
For your question in the last comment, instead, the answer is clearly no if $S$ is ACM. In fact, every smooth surface $S$ with $H^1(S, \mathcal{O}_S)=0$ is ACM for some embedding in the projective space. Now take for instance a fake projective plane. It satisfies $p_g(S)=q(S)=0$, so it is ACM, but $$c_1^2(S)=3c_2(S).$$
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The square should be inside the parentheses, not outside. This is precisely the inequality in the work of Tsen and Lang. – Jason Starr Jul 9 '11 at 17:16
Uhm, I've made the computation again and I find the same result: just use $\sum d_i^2 +\sum_{i \neq j} d_id_j = (\sum d_i)^2$. But maybe I'm making some silly mistake... – Francesco Polizzi Jul 9 '11 at 17:50
The expression $(c_1^2-2c_2)/2$ is the second graded piece of the Chern character. The Chern character is both additive for short exact sequences and multiplicative for tensor products. Combined with the Euler sequence, it is easy to compute that the Chern character of a complete intersection $X$ in $P^n$ of type $(d_1,\dots,d_c)$ equals $(n+1)e^H - 1 - \sum_i e^{d_iH}$, where $H = c_1(O(1))$. In particular, $(c_1^2-2c_2)/2$ equals $1/2(n+1-\sum_i d_i^2) H^2$. So $c_1^2-2c_2$ is negative if and only if $n+1 < \sum_i d_i^2$. This is all done explicitly in my papers with de Jong. – Jason Starr Jul 11 '11 at 12:50
An easier way to see that the square has to be inside is to consider the case when the integers $d_i$ equal $1$. Then the "complete intersection" is really just a projective space of lower dimension. So you can compare your formula to the Chern classes of projective space (which are easy to compute from the Euler sequence). -- Best. – Jason Starr Jul 11 '11 at 12:53
Ok, thank you very much. I will check again the computation. Best. – Francesco Polizzi Jul 11 '11 at 12:55
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Yeast Intermediary Metabolism
By Dan G. Fraenkel, Harvard Medical School
© 2011 434 pp., illus. (138 b/w), appendix, index
The intermediary metabolism of small molecules is the meat and potatoes of cell function. The pathways and modes of obtaining energy, degradation and utilization of exogenous organic nutrients, and formation of the building blocks of the main macromolecules were a major focus of research in biology from the turn of the 20th century into the 1970s. Other matters have come to prominence, but the field is active, with interesting problems that are central to biology and medicine. Molecular biology developed through the use of one bacterium, Eschericha coli, with the saying Whats true for E. coli is true for elephants. In recent years, an analogous workhorse has been the eukaryotic microbe bakers yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in many studies of cell biology common to multicellular organisms. This book explains metabolism as based on Saccharomyces. The topics include central metabolic pathways; catabolism; fermentation; respiration; biosynthesis of small molecules including cofactors; the metabolism of lipids, polysaccharides, and storage molecules; inorganic ions; transport and compartments; the global analysis of metabolism; and issues of metabolic toxicity. It can be used in courses and as a reference book for research investigators.


TY - JOUR T1 - Do family physicians know the costs of medical care? Survey in British Columbia. JF - Canadian Family Physician JO - Can Fam Physician SP - 263 LP - 270 VL - 50 IS - 2 AU - Allan, G Michael AU - Innes, Grant D Y1 - 2004/02/01 UR - _URL_ N2 - OBJECTIVE To determine the cost of 46 commonly used investigations and therapies and to assess British Columbia family doctors' awareness of these costs. DESIGN Mailed survey asking about costs of 23 investigations and 23 therapies relevant to family practice. A random sample of 600 doctors was asked to report their awareness of costs and to estimate costs of the 46 items. SETTING British Columbia. PARTICIPANTS Six hundred family physicians. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Estimates within 25% of actual cost were considered correct. Associations between cost awareness and respondents'characteristics (eg, sex, practice location) were sought. Degree of error in estimates was also assessed. RESULTS Overall, 283 (47.2%) surveys were returned and 259 analyzed. Few respondents estimated costs within 25% of true cost, and estimates were highly variable. Physicians underestimated costs of expensive drugs and laboratory investigations and overestimated costs of inexpensive drugs. Cost awareness did not correlate with sex, practice location, College certification, faculty appointment, or years in practice. CONCLUSION Family doctors in British Columbia have little awareness of the costs of medical care. ER -


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In conventional reading most of time is spent moving the eyes, not really reading the word.
Serial reading allows a faster reading (with the same or better comprehension) because the eyes are kept almost fixed, while the text is displayed.
Additional features of this application:
1) The speed is increased automatically (if you want).
2) Tries to put together symbols and words.
3) Complex words have a bigger time on screen
4) Automatically Save the line you're reading, letting you to continue after a pause.
5) Allows you to pause the reading, just touch the word that are being displayed.
- Fixed bugs when saving the positioning in the file
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Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the tremendous energy of the 1920s. Donald Miller details the story of Manhattan's growth and transformation in the roaring twenties and the brilliant people behind it. His book Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America looks at everyone from Walter Chrysler to William Paley, Elizabeth Arden and her rival Helena Rubenstein, who all shared ambition and a drive to fulfill their dreams in New York. He explains how Manhattan became the social, cultural, and commercial hub of the country.


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Nicol and Schear win best paper award
By Jenny Applequist, Information Trust Institute
July 3, 2008
- Prof. David Nicol and grad student Nabil Schear won the Best Paper Award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation.
- The paper, entitled "Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows," studies the possibility of providing protection to network traffic by tunneling it inside synthetically generated traffic.
- The paper was presented at the PADS workshop in Rome, Italy.
A paper co-authored by ECE Professor David M. Nicol and his student Nabil Schear has brought home the Best Paper award from the 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2008).
In the winning paper, entitled "Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows," the authors explore the possibility of providing protection to network traffic by tunneling it inside synthetically generated traffic. The approach creates additional costs and has the potential to increase delivery time of the traffic so much that it renders the system unusable. Therefore, Schear and Nicol studied ways to analyze the characteristics of real traffic that can be carried by cover traffic without impacting a user's perception of his or her interaction with the Internet. Their work combined simulation and analytical modeling in an innovative way. Simulation was used to generate measurements of traffic behavior, and then the measurements were used to validate the separately developed analytical models that study how much time the traffic will take and whether the scheme can keep up with demand.
"Our paper shows that it's possible to take measurements from real or simulated traffic and use them to estimate parameters for an accurate analytic model of tunneling, without the measurements or simulations having any notion at all of tunneling," the authors explained. "The nature of our problem allows for an interesting and useful decoupling of models."
Nicol is the theme leader for Critical Infrastructures and Homeland Defense research in the Information Trust Institute at Illinois. His main research interests are in high-performance computing, modeling and simulation of large-scale systems, networks, and cyber security. Schear is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois, with a focus on research in systems, networking, and security.
The Best Paper award was presented at the PADS workshop, which was held June 3-6, 2008 in Rome, Italy. The workshop series that became PADS began in 1985 and has since become a leading forum for presentation of research findings in all aspects of simulation technology. The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Simulation, the IEEE's Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation, and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).
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OmniHTTPD File Corruption and Command Execution Vulnerability
OmniHTTPD is a compact Windows based web server by Omnicron Technologies. OmniHTTPD has various features including multiple domain support, keep-alive connections, supports virtual IP and non-IP servers and standard CGI support.
Due to the implementation of'statsconfig.pl' multiple vulnerabilities exist in OmniHTTPD. It is possible to corrupt various known filenames and execute arbitrary commands. By appending a known filename to the 'cgidir' form variable accompanied with a null argument, the known filename will be corrupt. In addition, it is possible to execute commands on the target server. This is due to statsconfig.pl creating a perl script on the file. When the perl script is created, user supplied data (the mostbrowsers form variable if it is present) is written directly to the perl script file. If an attacker sets this value to semi-colon separated perl commands, they will be executed when statsconfig runs the script. This can result in an attacker gaining interactive access on the victim host with the privilege level of the webserver/cgi process.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to complete comprimise of the host or denial of service.
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Don't forget to wash your cantaloupe
Here are the details on the listeria outbreak and recall of cantaloupe by the Colorado-based Jensen Farms.
I never washed the outside of my cantaloupe before slicing it until I learned that you should a few years ago. Just a reminder the next time you're slicing up some of the fruit. The contaminates can be brought from the rind onto the flesh of the melon by the knife you use to slice it.
Jennifer Gish
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 That's good advice. I never thought about washing a banana before peeling it until I saw someone doing it. Imagine how many hands could have touched it before you did.
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 My teacher used to wash ALL fruit with soap and water. Supposedly, there are harmful ingredients on just about all fruit. I'm not sure what's on a banana, but I believe it's along the same lines (bacteria, etc.).


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Heuristic for Solving NP Planning Problem
Continue from last post about NP-Problem. Today, I am going to study a planning puzzle which is a type of NP-problem.
In fact, planning problems are NP-Hard (Scary).
Disclaimer: This post is for self-study and for research purposes only. I reuse some of the content from third party website (the Bus-Driver-Planning Puzzle). If it caused any unintended troubles to whatever party, please leave comment below and I will remove the post.
The Bus-Driver-Planning Puzzle
This is a real life puzzle according to the creator. It looks something like this:
 - There are three bus lines: Line 1, Line 2, Line 3
 - You must allocate two drivers per line per day. One for the morning shift and one for the late shift.
 - A driver can only do one shift per day; early or late.
 - There are eleven bus drivers: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K. Some are only qualified to drive on Line 1, 2 or 3, while some are qualified to drive on a combination of two of those lines. Find the qualifications under each driver name in the Shift Planning form.
 - Every driver is entitled to days off. Days off are indicated with dark gray nodes in the Shift Planning form. You can't assign shifts on days off.
 - Some drivers prefer to take particular days of the week off. This is indicated by light gray nodes in the Shift Planning form. These are preferences, rather than rules.
 - Drivers may prefer to work an early or late shift on particular days. The yellow nodes in Shift Planning form indicate shift preferences.
 - Most drivers dislike working too many late shifts. Therefore, the late shifts should be distributed as fairly as possible among the drivers. You should aim to assign exactly 4 late shifts to each driver over the two-week planning period.
 - According to an agreement with the Transport Workers Union, a driver must not be assigned a late shift followed by an early shift the next day.
 - According to a second agreement with the Transport Workers Union, a driver can only work no more than three consecutive late shifts.
Planning Puzzle
An Example of the Planning Puzzle
You can earn and lose points in the following way:
Respect a single shift preference +3
Respect a single driver day-off preference +4
For each driver allocated a long rest (3 or more consecutive days off) +5
For each unassigned shift -20
For each late shift followed immediately by an early shift in a single driver's schedule -30
For every after the third consecutive late shift assigned to a single driver -10
For every late shift assigned that is not equal to 4 -8
Here is the problem…
Given the above puzzle, how would you approach it? In fact, the above puzzle is intended to be solved with optimum solution (a score of 162) within an hour MANUALLY. In other words, you need to assign the tasks to the driver one by one to fill in the colorful puzzle in the example above (see image above).
Knowing that this problem is NP-hard, which means there is almost an infinite number of feasible solutions in the search space, finding the optimum solution MANUALLY is nearly impossible. Hitting the jackpot/lottery has higher chance than finding the perfect solution.
However, there are people who scored a full 162 scores for it. Is it luck? Possible. From time to time, there are people who hit the multi-millions jackpot. Are they skillful? Not sure. Are they lucky? Sure yes!
The only way to know whether those who scored 162 scores are really skillful is to ask them to solve several puzzles in a row and see if they can still maintain full scores for every puzzle. However, this still cannot rule out the possibility of luck since in life, there are people who got strike by lightning more than anyone else.
How to approach the NP problem
Having a near-optimum solution for a NP-hard problem is good enough. This avoids the need to exhaust all the possible solutions to find for the optimal one which might take up the whole universe time.
With the above knowledge, we can devise a heuristic solver to tackle the problem. Heuristic is an experience-based, quick and dirty way to come up with a near-optimal solution. With a little bit of luck, sometimes, it can also achieve an optimal solution.
Heuristic for the NP Planning Problem
Firstly, we need a model to represent the problem. The puzzle's input (the constraints of the puzzle like the drivers' preferences and the resources like which driver drives which line, etc) and output (the assignments of each driver) need to be encoded in a way that a computer can handle (The actual implementation is not exposed to allow imagination for the readers).
Then we need an evaluation function that can evaluation the quality of the solution. It allows us to know whether solution A is better than solution B. This function is obtained via the information from the table with points above.
Thirdly, our goal is to maximize the score. The most straight forward way to achieve this is to pick a task from a pool of available tasks and test-assign it to all the drivers for every day and evaluation the assignment to find the maximum score before assigning the task to a specific driver on a specific day. Then continue until no more task can be assigned.
With this approach, we will usually arrive at a local maximum and stuck there. To overcome this, we need to inject certain randomness to the solver by randomly unassign certain tasks from certain drivers and rerun the previous step to reassign the tasks back to drivers with the highest score. And do this infinitely.
Heuristic Random Solver
Heuristic Random Solver
The animation above shows the successive highest scores found (the animation is run at a one-second cadence) for the same puzzle in the example at the beginning of this article. The heuristic solver hit a maximum score of 148 (out of 162) after running for about 1 hour and 17 minutes.
An interesting thing to mention is that different run of the solver will return different high score at different duration. For example, sometimes, it will produce a score of 147 in under 30 minutes, however, on other times, it needs more than one hour to return the same high score. Thus the non-deterministic nature of the solver.
Another thing to note is that, given enough time to run, the solver will hit the jackpot one day. For example, for certain puzzles, it can hit a score of 154 after running for a few hours. If given enough time, it should be able to find the optimal solution.
Heuristic Random Solver (faster animation)
Heuristic Random Solver (faster animation)
This is a faster animation of the same algorithm running on the same puzzle. It allows us to "see" and have an idea of the evolution of the solution. We can practically see how the solution is forming gradually.
There are two kinds of constraints for the puzzle: hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are constraints that you must follow. Soft constraints are constraints that are OK not to follow, however, they will cost penalty.
In this puzzle, hard constraints are:
 - day off which no driver can work on that day
 - the line that a driver can drive
Soft constraints are:
 - the drivers' preferences
 - the penalties like driving late shift for 3 consecutive nights, having late shift followed by early shift, having number of late shifts not equal to 4
If you think about it, hard constraints are actually a good thing to have since it limits the search space. We have less to search. However, what make things complicated are the soft constraints. We don't know whether to satisfy them or not. But we cannot ignore them else we won't be able to find the near-optimal solution.
It is a bad idea to turn the soft constraints to become hard constraints hoping that it can reduce the dimensions of the search space. Doing this will make the solver unable to even assign all the tasks to the drivers. This is a key learning that I had.


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In this program we are going to make an excel sheet and
set the fonts of text values, set its size. We can also set the name of the
The packages we need to import are java.io.*,java.util.*,org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet,org.apache.poi. hssf. usermodel. HSSFCellStyle, org.apache.poi.usermodel.HSSFRow, org.apache.poi.usermodel.HSSFCell, org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel. HSSFWorkbook and org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFFont.
extends java.lang.Object and is used to represent a font used in workbook.
This also provides various methods to set various font properties on
In this example we are using following key points:
This method is used to set the height of the text.
This method is used to set the font name.
This method is used the to set text as Italic.
This method is used to set strikeout on text.
This method is used to set font on cell style sheet.
The code of the program is given below:
The output of the program is given below:
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[I regret that quoting a dubious internet source from an ex-colony that has managed to boldly* mangle the English language, grammar and spelling does not prove anything. Claymore is of an age and education where he should know the difference and I expect is abjectly ashamed of his error.
I stand corrected. It would seem it's a common mistake and myself and Claymore have made it.
From the Oxford English
"There is a distinction in meaning between infer and imply. In the sentence the speaker implied that the General had been a traitor, implied means that the speaker subtly suggested that this man was a traitor (though nothing so explicit was actually stated). However, in we inferred from his words that the General had been a traitor, inferred means that something in the speaker's words enabled the listeners to deduce that the man was a traitor. The two words infer and imply can describe the same event, but from different angles. Use of infer to mean imply, as in are you inferring that I'm a liar? (instead of are you implying that I'm a liar?), is an extremely common error.
I thought a 'comms' man would know. One is TD the other is RD. Back to basics.
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News & Events
Capping Pipes Saves Wildlife
Concerned about the discovery of accidental bird deaths in California State, Missourians are taking action to eliminate similar hazards in the ShowMe State.
Workers at Audubon California's Kern River Preserve discovered the remains of hundreds of dead birds in a 20-foot-long pipe that had rusted and fallen over. Victims of the irrigation pipe, which had been in place more than 50 years, included bluebirds, woodpeckers and kestrels, along with lizards and other small animals that had gotten inside and were unable to escape. The death trap was part of an abandoned irrigation system.
Following the macabre discovery, Audubon staff began noticing similar hazards on their preserve and neighboring land. They found dead animals in pipes ranging from 1 to 10 inches in diameter and set to work removing or capping the pipes to prevent further carnage.
Missourians have discovered similar carnage here and are looking for ways to prevent further damage. Solutions include capping exposed vent pipes or fence posts or covering the open ends with hardware cloth. Removal is an option for obsolete pipes. See ca.audubon.org/ workinglands-pipes.php for more information.
About a month before the California revelation, MDC also had discovered a pipe problem and was re-examining the design of fishing-line disposal bins provided for anglers at popular fishing spots. The bins consist of PVC pipe mounted vertically on posts with caps on the bottom and uncapped elbows on top. Anglers place scrap line in the pipe, preventing it from becoming a hazard to wildlife.
Tree swallows and prothonotary warblers have been found dead and entangled in fishing line inside similar receptacles in other states. MDC is retrofitting line-recycling bins with covers with slits that still allow insertion of used fishing line without letting birds get inside. The covers are made from tire inner tubes or rubber roof sheeting held in place by pipe clamps. See mdc. _URL_ for details.
Deer, Turkey Harvest Wrap-Up
Missouri hunters had good success during the 2011–2012 fall deer and turkey seasons, proving that Conservation makes Missouri a great place to hunt. They checked 52,671 deer during the four-month archery season. That is 24 percent more than in 2010. Archers also checked 2,923 turkeys, an increase of 34 percent from the previous year. The fall firearms turkey harvest was 7,077, a 19-percent increase from 2010.
Hunters age 6 through 15 checked 2,193 deer during the late youth firearms hunt Jan. 7 and 8, bringing the 2011–2012 firearms deer harvest to 238,921. That is a 3-percent increase from the previous year.
The combined archery and firearms deer harvest was 291,592. That was up 6 percent from the previous year and virtually identical to the past 10 years' average of 252,029.
Expenditures by Missouri's more than 500,000 deer hunters pump $690 million into the state's economy each year, generating more than $1 billion of overall business activity and supporting more than 11,000 jobs.
MDC staff works with you and for you to sustain healthy wildlife. To learn more about the types of assistance available to private landowners, visit mdc.mo.gov.
Missourians Await Return of Martins
Hundreds of purple martins are on their way back to Missouri, and the Purple Martin Conservation Association (PMCA) needs your help finding them.
John Miller, a PMCA member who monitors purple martins in the St. Louis area, says he and other martin aficionados banded more than 800 martin nestlings in St. Louis, Licking and Marshall last year. They need to know when and where those birds return to Missouri in order to learn more about the birds' survival and movements.
The banded martins will arrive here a little later than older birds, trickling in from late April through early June. Previous banding studies (published at purplemartin.org) showed that only 10 to 20 percent of purple martin fledglings return to their natal sites. Most return to within 30 miles of where they hatched. However, a small percentage ends up hundreds of miles away. A female martin banded at a colony near Jamesport in 2009 turned up the next year in Jenera, Ohio, 650 miles from its birthplace.
Each of the martins banded in Missouri last year carries two bands, a silver federal band and a colored Missouri band that can be read with a spotting scope. The bands bear the letters "MO" and numbers. N aturally, people who maintain martin houses have the best chance of spotting one of the banded birds.
If you spot a banded martin, contact the Missouri River Bird Observatory at _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_ to report the sighting and learn the origin of the bird.
Help Bash Trash in April
Missourians care about keeping their state clean, and the annual N o MOre Trash! Trash Bash, co-sponsored by the Missouri departments of Conservation (MDC) and Transportation (MoDOT) each April, helps them act on that caring. The Trash Bash is part of the two agencies' ongoing No MOre Trash! statewide anti-litter campaign. During the entire month of April, people pick up litter all across Missouri from roadsides, parks, neighborhoods, rivers, streams and other places.
"This is the 10th year of No MOre Trash! In Missouri," said Stacy Armstrong, MoDOT No MOre Trash! coordinator. "Through the years, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have picked up more than half a million bags of trash as part of April Trash Bash activities," she said. "Now that's a lot of litter!"
MDC No MOre Trash! Coordinator Joe Jerek added that littering isn't just ugly, it hurts wildlife, is illegal and costs Missourians millions of tax dollars each year.
"Animals get tangled in litter, such as plastic six-pack holders and fishing line, and it can kill them," Jerek explained. "Litter also poisons wild-life and can cost a litterer up to $1,000 in fines and one year in jail."
MoDOT spends more than $5 million each year cleaning litter from Missouri's roadsides, while MDC spends almost $1 million a year to clean litter from conservation areas and other MDC locations.
Last year more than 157,000 bags of trash and many more truckloads of debris were collected by thousands of volunteers during April. Volunteers included MoDOT and MDC employees, Adopt-A-Highway volunteers, Stream Team members and members of the public and community groups.
Anyone can report their activity at nomoretrash.org and get a free lapel pin for their efforts. "Besides the recognition, we all get a little exercise, some fresh air, and a cleaner place to work, live and play," Armstrong said.
Photo Tip of the Month: Zoom Lenses
In last month's photo tip we said that great wildlife photography requires more than just long zoom lenses. While that is certainly true, this month's phototip is devoted to why those long zoom lenses are also very helpful. The goal of good wildlife photography is to show a particular critter up close and personal, and because most wildlife tends to take offense when we get too close, a telephoto or zoom lens is vitally important.
Long lenses also have the added bonus of compressing the "depth-of-field." That is, the distance in front of and behind your subject that is also in focus is very short, so there is little else that is also in focus competing for attention with your subject. In the example image, you can see how the background is so out see how the background is so out of focus it becomes a diffuse backdrop that really helps the subject stand out.
Long lenses can, of course, get very expensive. Various things affect the price, and you have to weigh your budget against the features that are important to you. G enerally, the more money you spend the lenses get sharper, longer, have better auto-focus and other electronics, and have wider apertures. This last item is helpful because it means you can shoot in lower light conditions, or use faster shutter speeds to better freeze the motion of your subject.
This all assumes you have a camera with interchangeable lenses. If you want to take wildlife photos with your point-and-shoot, you can do so, but you have to understand the limitations. You will not be able to take photos like the pros. But, to increase your chances of getting a decent shot, be sure to purchase a point-and-shoot camera with the longest optical zoom possible. Do not be lured by the promises of digital zoom. Digital zoom essentially works by cropping your images, which degrades quality. Some point and shoots now come with as much as 21x optical zoom.
75th Anniversary of Conservation Photo Contest, Enter Now!
Remember to get out those cameras and search those photo files for your best images that
celebrate the natural wonders of Missouri and the 75-year legacy of MDC. A full list of rules and guidelines can be found on our website at _URL_. Entries will only be accepted via Flickr, an Internet photo sharing service. If you are not on Flickr, it is easy to join. Just go to our 75th anniversary photo contest Flickr site for more information: _URL_ groups/mdc75thanniversary/. When you add photos to the contest group in Flickr, the photos MUST be tagged


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Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: a multi-site assessment
Woodcock, B.A.; Bullock, J.M.; Mortimer, S.R.; Brereton, T.; Redhead, J.W.; Thomas, J.A.; Pywell, R.F.. 2012 Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: a multi-site assessment. Biological Conservation, 155. 50-58. 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.05.013Full text not available from this repository.
Although grasslands are crucial habitats for European butterflies, large-scale declines in quality and area have devastated many species. Grasslandrestoration can contribute to the recovery of butterfly populations, although there is a paucity of information on the long-term effects of management. Using eight UK data sets (9–21 years), we investigate changes in restoration success for (1) arable reversion sites, were grassland was established on bare ground using seed mixtures, and (2) grassland enhancement sites, where degraded grasslands are restored by scrub removal followed by the re-instigation of cutting/grazing. We also assessed the importance of individual butterfly traits and ecological characteristics in determining colonisation times. Consistent increases in restoration success over time were seen for arable reversion sites, with the most rapid rates of increase in restoration success seen over the first 10 years. For grasslands enhancement there were no consistent increases in restoration success over time. Butterfly colonisation times were fastest for species with widespread host plants or where host plants established well during restoration. Low mobility butterfly species took longer to colonise. We show that arable reversion is an effective tool for the management of butterflycommunities. We suggest that as restoration takes time to achieve, its use as a mitigation tool against future environmental change (i.e. by decreasing isolation in fragmented landscapes) needs to take into account such time lags.
|Programmes:||CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 onwards > Biodiversity|
|CEH Sections:||CEH fellows
|Additional Keywords:||arable reversion, calcareous, grassland enhancement, mesotrophic, functional traits, recreation|
|NORA Subject Terms:||Ecology and Environment|
|Date made live:||12 Sep 2012 15:38|
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To investigate the effect of Hemidesmus indicus
extract on activities of human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro
Materials and Methods:
The total extract of the raw herb was obtained by methanol: isopropyl alcohol: acetone extraction and used at different concentrations. Human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were isolated, stimulated to proliferate using phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), with and without different concentration of herbal extracts. Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity and immunoglobulin (IgG) secretion from cultured PBLs were studied with the herbal extracts and appropriate controls.
Results: Hemidesmus indicus
extract stimulated the cell proliferation at 1 mg/ml concentration significantly, after 72 h in culture. Viability of extract-treated PBLs was also maintained after culture. The extract increased the IgG production from cultured PBLs, when used at 1 mg/ml concentration. It also increased the ADA activity of PBLs after 72 h in culture.
An immunomodulatory activity of H.indicus,
related to IgG secretion and ADA activity, is revealed during the study. The herbal extract has shown to promote the release of IgG by lymphocytes and also the ADA activity after 72 h of culture.