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The universal forwarder
The universal forwarder is a separate Splunk Enterprise executable whose sole purpose is to send data from a host or other forwarder to a Splunk Enterprise indexer.The universal forwarder replaces the Splunk Enterprise light forwarder. Instances of full Splunk Enterprise and the universal forwarder can co-exist on the same system.
For information on deploying the universal forwarder, see "Universal forwarder deployment overview".
How universal forwarder compares to full Splunk Enterprise
The universal forwarder only forwards data. Unlike a full Splunk Enterprise instance, it cannot index or search data. To achieve higher performance and a lighter footprint, it has several limitations:
- The universal forwarder has no searching, indexing, or alerting capability.
- The universal forwarder does not parse data, except in certain cases.
- The universal forwarder does not output data via syslog.
- Unlike full Splunk Enterprise, the universal forwarder does not include a bundled version of Python.
Scripted inputs and Python
Full Splunk Enterprise comes bundled with Python. The universal forwarder does not. Therefore, if you use scripted inputs with Python and you want to use those scripts with the universal forwarder, you must first install your own version of Python. If you have been using calls specific to Splunk Python libraries, you cannot with the universal forwarder, because those libraries exist only in full Splunk Enterprise. You may use other scripting languages for scripted inputs with the universal forwarder if the target host supports them (for example, PowerShell on Windows Server.)
How universal forwarder compares to the light forwarder
The universal forwarder includes only the essential components needed to forward data to other Splunk Enterprise instances. The light forwarder, by contrast, is a full Splunk Enterprise instance, with certain features disabled to achieve a smaller resource footprint. In all respects, the universal forwarder represents a better tool for forwarding data to indexers.
When you install the universal forwarder, you can migrate from an existing light forwarder that runs version 4.0 or greater. See "Migrate from a light forwarder" for details.
Compared to the light forwarder, the universal forwarder provides a better performing solution to forwarding. These are the main performance differences between the universal forwarder and the light forwarder:
- The universal forwarder puts less load on the CPU, uses less memory, and has a smaller disk footprint.
- The universal forwarder has a default data transfer rate of 256Kbps.
- The universal forwarder cannot be converted to a full Splunk Enterprise instance.
Note: The light forwarder has been deprecated in Splunk Enterprise version 6.0. For a list of all deprecated features, see "Deprecated features" in the Release Notes.
For information on deploying the universal forwarder, see the topics that directly follow this one.
For information on third-party Windows binaries that the Windows version of the Splunk Enterprise universal forwarder ships with, read "Information on Windows third-party binaries distributed with Splunk Enterprise" in the Installation Manual.
For information about running the universal forwarder in Windows Safe Mode, read "Splunk Enterprise Architecture and Processes" in the Installation Manual.
Types of forwarders
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0


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Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles
Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles, Life is full of challenges. To enjoy the fruits of joy you have to face the obstacles. Obstacles are part and parcel of your life.
They seem good especially when they improve your strength, ability and will power. You realize this fact later when you have conquered the obstacle.
Without obstacles life is incomplete. When you get things done smoothly without much effort, you will stop giving your best.
As a result, you would stop improving, and your progress in life would be stuck at a point. Therefore to face obstacles in life is a part of the improvement process.
When you face obstacles and defeat them the better of you comes out. When obstacles come naturally and are not triggered, it's good to have them.
Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles In Love Life
However, that is not the case all the times. People around us create obstacles in our path as well. These are triggered obstacles that trouble you the most. You can handle natural obstacles as they are not frequent and are not high scale ones.
Conversely, the triggered obstacles are quite destructive and intense. Compared to natural obstacles triggered one are frequent. Furthermore, these obstacles start to affect you physically, mentally and emotionally.
As a result of which peace and prosperity from your life are diminished. You start feeling low and depress and consider yourself worthless. Besides that, there is a feeling of being trapped in a web of obstacles.
There can be many examples of such triggered obstacles in your daily life. Say, for instance:
Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles In Marriage
- Any Obstacles in the path of love marriage
- Hindrance in the way of promotion
- Blockades in the form of growth
- Obstacles that affect your family
Generally, you consider them as natural obstacles in the first place. However, when their frequency and intensity increases then only you feel uneasy. In such situations acting later can be critical for you.
You don't know who is triggering these obstacles. What are his intentions? Why does he want to harm you? To what extent he has planned your downfall? As a result of these doubts, you feel unable to act.
Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles In Life Vakratunda Mahakaya
How can you act when you don't know the culprit? Even if you can perform what actions can be taken? How can you reverse the course of such obstacles? These questions are bound to be raised in your mind.
You need something useful and precise. A solution that can deliver results quickly. A sustainable solution. Moreover, a solution that you can execute on your own.
The possibility of finding such solutions seems distant. However, to your surprise, such a solution exists. Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles is that ultimate solution.
It is the Ganesh mantra to remove the barriers that have the potential to bring you that desired results. Ganesh mantra to remove the barriers can dismantle those triggered obstacles in your path.
The Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles brings you prosperity. Lord Ganesha is known as "Vighna Harta" which means destroyer of obstacles. As a result of performing the mantra, you would start feeling calm and composed.
Ganesh Mantra To Remove Obstacles In Job
Performing the Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles is one long term and effective solution for all your worries. Ganesh mantra to remove the barriers when completed with faith creates a positive vibe around you.
Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles coupled with your faith and dedication can do wonders. The mantra can be your ultimate guide to a happy life.
Ganesh mantra to remove the barriers brings down all those obstacles that are there to harm you. So, keep the faith and perform the mantra with pure heart and mind. Results would always be in your favor.
Ganesh mantra to take away obstacles
If you are performing the mantra for the first time, take guidance from an astrologer. You can also consult the priest (Pujari). By consultation and advice, you would get valuable insights in regards to the performance of the mantra. This would be fruitful especially in enhancing the efficacy of your performance of mantra.
Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles is a holistic solution that works in tandem to the problem. The mantra in particular targets the root cause of obstacles. Besides its efficacy, the mantra adopts a simple course of action to brings peace and prosperity to the performer.
The mantra generally works by:
- Acting on the source of obstacles
- Diluting the effect of negative energy on you
- Creating a web of positivity around you
- Bringing peace into your family
- Blocking impeding threats
- Bringing calmness to your heart and mind
- Strengthening you for future challenges in life
Thus, the mantra, in conclusion, caters the problem comprehensively. Make sure you perform the mantra with purity of purpose at sight. If you have evil intentions then, in this case, the mantra would go futile.
The process of performing the mantra
To perform the mantra effectively, you need to know its process in the first place. In addition to your faith, the process is a vital element in determining the efficacy of the mantra.
Sticking to the process of mantra is key to derive desired results. The process to perform the Ganesh mantra to remove obstacles is as follows:
- To begin with, take a bath
- Dress in neat and tidy clothes
- Take Mala in your hand
- Now, recite the mantra:
"Vakratunda Maha-Kaaya Surya-Kotti Samaprabha Nirvighnam Kuru Me Deva Sarva-Kaaryeshu Sarvadaa"
- Recite the mantra for 101 times
- Use the mala to ensure the right count of recitation
- Now recite the mantra:
"Aum Ekadantaya Viddhamahe,
Tanno Danti Prachodayat"
- Again recite this for a total of 101 times
- Regularly perform these mantras
Other Ganesh Mantras
* Clean yourself in the first place
- Recite the mantra:
"Om Gam Ganapataye
- Recite the mantra as much time as possible in a day
- Recite the mantra:
- Now, recite the mantra:
- Recite these mantras sitting at a place with peace
- Try to recite these mantras 10 to 15 minutes daily
- Regularly recite the mantra:
"Om Namo Siddhi Vinayakaya
Sarva kaarya kartrey Sarva vighna
prashamnay Sarvarjaya Vashyakarnaya
Sarvajan Sarvastree Purush Aakarshanaya
Shreeng Om Swaha"
- Finally, recite the moola mantra:
"Om Shreem Hreem Kleem
Glaum Gam Ganapataye
Vara Varad Sarvajan janmay
Vashamanaye Swaha Tatpurushaye
Vidmahe Vakratundaye Dhimahi Tanno
Danti Prachodyat Om Shantih Shantih Shanthi"
By the grace of God and the strength of your faith results would come instantly. All the obstacles in your path would vanish. You would enjoy a peaceful life. Above all keep your faith intact in Lord Ganesha.

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14 Jun Get More From Your Core: Applying Artificial Intelligence to CT, Photo, and Well Log Analysis with Virtual Core
What: Presentation, demo, and Q&A with Brendon Hall, Director, Energy Solutions Group, Enthought
- Oil and gas industry professionals who are looking for ways to extract more value from expensive science wells
- Those interested in learning how artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques can be applied to core analysis
Other Blogs and Articles on Virtual Core:
- Scientists Use Enthought's Virtual Core Software to Study Asteroid Impact
- Weatherford Labs and Enthought Collaborate to Analyze Chicxulub Crater Core Believed to be Tied to Dinosaur Extinction Event
- The Latest Features in Virtual Core: CT Scan, Photo, and Well Log Co-visualization
- Geophysical Tutorial: Facies Classification using Machine Learning and Python
Geoscientists and petroleum engineers rely on accurate core measurements to characterize reservoirs, develop drilling plans and de-risk play assessments. Whole-core CT scans are now routinely performed on extracted well cores, however the data produced from these scans are difficult to visualize and integrate with other measurements.
Virtual Core automates aspects of core description for geologists, drastically reducing the time and effort required for core description, and its unified visualization interface displays cleansed whole-core CT data alongside core photographs and well logs. It provides tools for geoscientists to analyze core data and extract features from sub-millimeter scale to the entire core.
In this webinar and demo, we'll start by introducing the Clear Core processing pipeline, which automatically removes unwanted artifacts (such as tubing) from the CT image. We'll then show how the machine learning capabilities in Virtual Core can be used to describe the core, extracting features such as bedding planes and dip angle. Finally, we'll show how the data can be viewed and analyzed alongside other core data, such as photographs, wellbore images, well logs, plug measurements, and more.
What You'll Learn:
- How core CT data, photographs, well logs, borehole images, and more can be integrated into a digital core workshop
- How digital core data can shorten core description timelines and deliver business results faster
- How new features can be extracted from digital core data using artificial intelligence
- Novel workflows that leverage these features, such as identifying parasequences and strategies for determining net pay
Presenter: Brendon Hall, Enthought
Director, Energy Solutions Group


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Research and projects
The Institute research projects in large numbers and diversity are operated; probably nowhere else in Germany, the history plays such a large role as a research as to the Humboldt University. Some of these research projects are as a qualification (PhD or habilitation) followed by employees; projects are increasingly financed by external donors (external funding). This gives young scientists and young researchers the opportunity to work as a historian researching and continue to qualify.
Increasingly important to large research networks such as the Collaborative Research Centres (CRC), in which historians work together with scientists from other disciplines and pursue long periods of time on minor issues. In an informal setting, there are thematic research areas, which represent the common interests of different departments and eras, such as migration history, the history of media, images and linguistic communication, violence, or Berlin. Scientists conduct research on these topics from different eras and regions independently, but are in constant communication with each other.
The projects described below represent a small selection of the numerous projects and are intended to illustrate the thematic, regional and epochal facets of research at the Institute for Historical Sciences.

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How do I transfer a ticket to someone else?
If a guest requests that a purchased ticket be transferred to someone else, just follow these simple steps below:
1. Open the RSVPs tab in the toolbar to the left of your event page.
2. Find the attendee to edit.
3. Click the pencil icon, which will appear towards the right side of the purchase information.
4. Within that pop-up, enter the Edit Attendee tab.
5. Update the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address.
Pro-tip: If you would like an email notification (with ticket) to be sent to the guest, select the checkbox for "Send email with ticket to user upon save."
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Extending approximately 650 km from east to west, the Nullarbor Plain runs from the south-western coast of South Australia to south-eastern Western Australia. It is bordered by the Great Australian Bight where it ends in steep cliffs. Its maximum altitude is about 200 m. Rainfall on the Nullarbor Plain is less than 250 mm a year and there is little surface water as most of it drains through porous limestone to form sink holes. Those, in turn, flow into underground caverns where subterranean lakes are formed. Discoveries of fossil bones and shells indicate that at one time the plain was part of the sea bed.
The Nullarbor is crossed by the Trans-Australian Railway (the train which traverses the route from Perth to Sydney is known as the Indian-Pacific after the oceans it conjoins) which contains the world's greatest length of straight track (479 km).
The first European to cross the Nullarbor Plain from east to west was Edward Eyre in 1841. The trek in the other direction was made by Alexander and John Forrest in 1870.
Despite a lot of belief that the plain's name is an aboriginal name, it actually comes from the Latin, meaning "no trees" (null arbor).


does the above code look like? It looks like ordinary imperative synchronous code. Read this value, then read this value, then read this value. Except it's not synchronous, and it's not imperative. It's functional and asynchronous. We've taken our building blocks, and composed them into a piece of very readable code that makes it completely clear exactly what we are doing.
Now in case you're not 100% sure about the above syntax, the values to the left of the <- signs are the results of the iteratees to the right. These are able to be used anywhere in any subsequent lines, including in the end yield statement. Underscores are used to say we're not interested in the value, we're using this for the expect iteratee since that just returns Unit anyway. The statement after the yield is a map function, which gives us the opportunity to take all the intermediate values and turn them into a single result.
So now that we understand that, let's rewrite our quoted iteratee to support escaped quotes. After reading our quote, we want to peek at the next character. If it's a quote, then we want to append the value we just read, plus a quote to our cumulated value, and recursively invoke the quoted iteratee again. Otherwise, we've reached the end of the value.
def quoted(value: Seq[Char] = IndexedSeq[Char]()): Iteratee[Char, String] = for {
 _ <- expect('"')
 maybeValue <- takeWhile(_!= '"')
 _ <- expect('"')
 nextChar <- peek
 value <- nextChar match {
 case Some('"') => quoted(value ++ maybeValue :+ '"')
 case _ => Done[Char, String]((value ++ maybeValue).mkString)
} yield value
Now we need to write an iteratee that can parse either a quoted or unquoted value. We choose which one by peeking at the first character, and then accordingly returning the right iteratee.
def value = for {
 char <- peek
 value <- char match {
 case Some('"') => quoted()
 case None => Error[Char]("Premature end of input, expected a value", Input.EOF)
 case _ => unquoted
} yield value
Let's now parse an entire line, reading until the end of line character.
def values(state: Seq[String] = IndexedSeq[String]()): Iteratee[Char, Seq[String]] = for {
 _ <- dropSpaces
 value <- value
 _ <- dropSpaces
 nextChar <- takeOne
 values <- nextChar match {
 case Some('\n') | None => Done[Char, Seq[String]](state :+ value)
 case Some(',') => values(state :+ value)
 case Some(other) => Error("Expected comma, newline or EOF, but found " + other, Input.El(other))
} yield values
Now, in a similar way to how we parse the values, we could also parse each line of a CSV file until we reach EOF. But this time we're going to do something a little different. We've seen how we can sequence iteratees using flatMap, but there are further possibilities for composing iteratees. Another concept in iteratees is enumeratees. Enumeratees adapt a stream to be consumed by an iteratee. The simplest enumeratees simply map the input values of the stream to be something else. So, for example, here's an enumeratee that converts a stream of strings to a stream of ints:
def toInt: Enumeratee[String,Int] =[String](_.toInt)
One of the methods on Enumeratee is transform. We can use this method to apply an enumeratee to an iteratee:
val someIteratee: Iteratee[Int, X] =...
val adaptedIteratee: Iteratee[String, X] = toInt.transform(someIteratee)
This method is also aliased to an operator, &>>, and so this code below is equivalent to the code above:
val adaptedIteratee: Iteratee[String, X] = toInt &>> someIteratee
We can also make an enumeratee out of another iteratee, and this is exactly what we're going to do with our values iteratee. The Enumeratee.grouped method takes an iteratee and applies it to the stream over and over, the result of each application being an input to feed into the the iteratee that will be transformed. Let's have a look:
def csv = Enumeratee.grouped(values())
Now let's get a little bit more creative with enumeratees. Let's say that our CSV file is very big, so we don't want to load it into memory. Each line is a series of 3 integer columns, and we want to sum each column. So, let's define an enumeratee that converts each set of values to integers:
def toInts =[Seq[String]](
And another enumeratee to convert the sequence to a 3-tuple:
def toThreeTuple =[Seq[Int]](s => (s(0), s(1), s(2)))
And finally an iteratee to sum the them:
def sumThreeTuple(a: Int = 0, b: Int = 0, c: Int = 0): Iteratee[(Int, Int, Int), (Int, Int, Int)] = Cont {
 case Input.El((x, y, z)) => sumThreeTuple(a + x, b + y, c + z)
 case Input.Empty => sumThreeTuple(a, b, c)
 case in @ Input.EOF => Done((a, b, c), in)
Now to put them all together. There is another method on enumeratee called compose, which, you guessed it, let's you compose enumeratees. This has an alias operator, ><>. Let's use it:
Finally, if an iteratee consumes a stream, what produces a stream? The answer is an enumerator. An enumerator can be applied to an iteratee using its apply method, which is also aliased to >>>. This will leave the iteratee in a cont state, ready to receive more input. If however the enumerator contains the entirety of the stream, then the run method can be used instead which will send the iteratee an EOF once it's finished. This is aliased to |>>>.
The Play enumerator API makes it easy to create an enumerator by passing a sequence of inputs to the Enumerator companion objects apply method. So, we can create an enumerator of characters using the following code:
val csvFile = Enumerator(
And we can feed this into our iteratee like so:
val result = csvFile |>>> processCsvFile
And our result in this case will be a future that is eventually redeemed with (5, 7, 9).
Well, it's been a long journey, but hopefully if you're an imperative programmer, you not only understand iteratees, you understand the reasoning behind their design, and how easily they compose. I also hope you have a better understanding of both functional and asynchronous programming in general. The functional mindset is quite different to the imperative mindset, and I'm still getting my head around it, but particularly after seeing how nice and simple iteratees can be to work with (once you understand them), I'm becoming convinced that functional programming is the way to go.
If you are interested in downloading the code from this blog post, or if you want to see a more complex JSON parsing iteratee/enumeratee, checkout this GitHub project, which has a few examples, including parsing byte/character streams in array chunks, rather than one at a time.


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A Public Enemy's Life in the Fast Lane
The National Archives is known for maintaining and preserving documents like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. But among America's historic documents, there are also records of bank robbers, bootleggers, and gangsters.
In this week's "True Crime at the Archives" spotlight is America's first public enemy—John Dillinger.
A cunning and sophisticated bank robber, Dillinger led a string of violent robberies during his short yet infamous criminal career.
So why did auto theft prove to be his most costly crime?
It all began in 1933, when Dillinger was paroled from the Indiana State Prison after serving eight and a half years for robbing a grocery store. Within months, Dillinger organized a group of his closest criminal associates and began a notorious crime spree.
From September 1933 until January 1934, Dillinger and his fellow outlaws managed to evade law enforcement. And while Americans struggled during the height of the Great Depression, the gang stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Midwestern banks.
After a robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago turned violent, national publicity intensified. The gang then fled to Arizona, where they were caught by local police on January 23.
Dillinger was extradited to Indiana to await trial for the murder of a police officer. But while he was sequestered in what officials called an "escape proof" jail, Dillinger deceived two guards and broke out.
Then the infamous bank robber made a crucial mistake.
Dillinger fled the jail in a stolen car and drove from Indiana to Illinois. That placed him in violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, which made it a Federal offense to transport a stolen motor vehicle across state lines.
The Federal charge enabled the FBI to lead the nationwide manhunt. Director J. Edgar Hoover made Dillinger's capture the FBI's top priority. Hoover sent his top lieutenants to the Chicago field office, where agents used an informant to locate the country's top public enemy.
FBI agents planned to catch Dillinger outside of Chicago's Biograph Theater on the evening of July 22. But as he left the theater, he reached for his gun. Several agents opened fire. Dillinger was shot three times before being pronounced dead at 10:50 p.m. on July 22, 1934.
For more information about John Dillinger and Chicago's notorious organized crime syndicates, visit the National Archives at Kansas City for their exhibit "They're Not Going To Get Me: Crime in the 1930s."
Posted by Gregory Marose on March 14, 2012, under - Great Depression, Unusual documents.
Tags: 1933, 1934, bank robbery, Biograph Theater, car theft, Chicago, Dillinger, FBI, Federal crime, Hoover, Indiana state Prison, John Dillinger


Tamra or Tamera. I always thought Mara would be a good nickname.
-- pksteph 3/31/2011
Spelled "Tamora," she is the villainous Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare's tragedy, "Titus Andronicus."
-- mothwing 6/27/2011
Also a popular Ukrainian name. [noted -ed]
-- Lesia 2/22/2012
The name Tamara was given to 201 baby girls born in the US in 2012.
-- Oohvintage 7/17/2013
"Tam-ruh" is the most common (and, in my opinion, the proper) pronunciation of this name in North America. Why isn't that pronunciation listed?
Tamara's my aunt's name, and that's how she pronounces it. I've never met a Tamara who pronounced it any other way.
-- harry_sent_me 8/13/2013
A classy, beautiful name. :-)
-- justsomegirl 4/7/2014
Tamara does not mean'spice' but 'tin', in Sanskrit.
There is another word, Tāmara (long a), listed in the Monier-Williams dictionary as meaning 'water' or 'ghee', but it is from a very in-credible source (it only shows up on one document which collects rare or unusual words).
However, Tāmara (again, long a) is also a word in the Dravidian languages of South Indian, where it has the more poetic meaning of 'lotus'.
-- skolaidhe 1/21/2015
I once had a classmate named Tamara, who pronounced it "tuh-MARE-uh." I feel so sorry for her, because our substitute teachers never pronounced her name correctly! Most substitute teachers thought it was "TAM-er-uh," though one teacher thought it was "tuh-MAR-uh." The teacher would always say Tamara incorrectly, and then the entire class would say, "tuh-MARE-uh!" It seemed hilarious at the time.
-- Anonymous User 2/2/2015
I've known lots of Tamara's. It reminds me of "tomato".
-- Espy 4/14/2015
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What is MAG
The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) is a Council of Governments (COG) that serves as the regional agency for the metropolitan Phoenix area. MAG is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for regional planning in the Maricopa region. MAG provides regional planning and policy decisions in areas of transportation, air quality, water quality, and human services. When MAG was formed in 1967, local elected officials recognized the need for long range planning and policy development on a regional scale. They realized that many issues such as transportation and air quality affected residents beyond the borders of their individual jurisdictions. MAG was founded in the spirit of cooperation. MAG members believe that by uniting, they can solve common problems, take an active role in long range regional issues and address concerns that affect all of the communities.
Purpose of MAG
The MAG By-Laws contain an underlying concept for the organization:
"The Maricopa Association of Governments is based on the principle that cities, towns, counties, and Indian Communities, which are closest to the people, should exercise the basic initiative and leadership and should have the primary responsibility for addressing those local problems and needs which require action on an area-wide or regional basis."
The Articles of Incorporation for MAG state that the association was formed to do the following:
- Provide a forum for discussion and study of regional problems of mutual interest to the governments in the region.
- Ensure, through cooperation and the pooling of common resources, maximum efficiency and economy in governmental operations, which will provide every citizen with the utmost value for every dollar.
- Identify and comprehensively plan for the solution of regional problems requiring multi-city, town and county cooperation.
- Facilitate agreements among the governmental units for specific projects or other interrelated developmental actions or for the adoption of common policies with respect to problems that are common to its members.
- Attain the greatest degree of intergovernmental cooperation possible in order to prepare for future growth and development of the region.
In the greater Maricopa County, local government cooperation in the early 1960's resulted in the implementation of the multi-city sewage treatment plant at 91st Avenue. This regional activity occurred prior to federal and state initiatives and incentives for regional planning and cooperation. In 1962, changes in federal policy required more local and state involvement. As a result of changes in the Federal Aid Highway Act, cooperative transportation planning occurred with the creation of the Valley Area Traffic and Transportation Study (VATTS). As part of the federal government decentralization initiatives, federal regions were established to bring federal programs closer to the people and incorporate greater review of federal programs through the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
Because of these changing federal policies requiring more local planning and review, and due to the demonstrated success of previous regional efforts, the local governments in Maricopa County formed MAG in 1967 as a nonprofit corporation to act as the vehicle to address areas of common regional interest. At the first meeting of MAG, the consensus of the Regional Council was that the areas of water, air pollution and solid waste disposal were of primary concern. It was also agreed that there was a need for the standardization of building materials and for public works specifications. In addition, the transportation planning efforts begun with VATTS were incorporated into the scope of MAG's work. Several key events in the early history of MAG are outlined below:
- Regional cooperation was encouraged by success of multi-city sewage system in the early 1960s.
- The 1962 Federal Aid Highway Act required regional transportation planning, which resulted in the formation of the Valley Area Traffic and Transportation Area Study (VATTS) on March 12, 1965.
- The 1965 Federal Housing Act Amendments and 1966 Metropolitan Development Act provided legal and financial impetus for a full-fledged regional agency.
- MAG was formed in 1967 by concurrent resolutions from its member agencies to foster regional cooperation and to address regional problems.
- VATTS was incorporated into MAG in 1967.
- Executive Order 70-2 established six Planning Districts in Arizona in 1970.
- MAG designated as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) by the governor in 1973.
- MAG designated as the Water Quality Planning Agency by the governor in 1975.
- MAG designated as the Lead Air Quality Planning Agency by the governor in 1978.
- MAG designated as the Solid Waste Planning Agency in 1979.


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Engine management for Flex Fuel plus compressed natural gas vehicles
Ethanol has been used in Brazil as a passenger vehicle fuel since 1979. Until the year 2000, vehicles were made to run exclusively with either gasoline or ethanol. The MultiFuel engine control module (ECM) was developed allowing vehicles to use fuels with any ethanol percentage, relying only on the existing oxygen sensor as opposed to an add-on ethanol sensor for the percent ethanol evaluation. The use of tank fuel level information allowed for far more robust ethanol percent detection and improved drivability. Four years later, compressed natural gas (CNG) capability was integrated into the MultiFuel technology. Prior to that, vehicles using CNG normally required a second ECM. The MultiFuel integrated with CNG capability is known as the Tri-Fuel system. It uses only one ECM, seamlessly controlling both liquid (ethanol blends and gasoline) and CNG fuels with little power loss, and excellent drivability and fuel consumption. This paper will present both the MultiFuel and Tri-Fuel technologies.
KeywordsBiomass Combustion Methane Dioxide Corn
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Ripclaw is the name of a comic book character from Top Cow Productions. He is also a member of the Cyberforce.
Not much is known concerning Ripclaw's past. Many people believe that he is with the Apache tribe. Although it is true that he spent much of his youth with the Apache, it is also true that he spent just as much, if not more time, with the Cheyenne. He has also lived among the Navajo and the Lakota Sioux. He is in fact descended from a primitive woodland tribe that lived thousands of years ago in what is now the Northeastern United States. He left home after he began to develop his mutation, and injured a fellow student during a martial arts training session. Ripclaw questioned his father over his hands, and his father became evasive, and became enraged when Ripclaw pressed on with his questions, asking his father about why his skin was much paler than that of other students. He left home, seeking answers, and ended up on an American Indian reservation, where he stumbled into a fight and was knocked unconscious. He was found by a powerful shaman, who taught him about his ancestors.
They went through a ceremony where Ripclaw experienced a joining and conversing with the spirits of his ancestors and the spirits of the land, who told him that he was Robert Bearclaw, and not Robert Berresford, as his father had always told him. The spirits told him that he was to be their warrior and that he was to lead the Indian People back to the greatness of spirit that they once had. When he finished the ceremony, involving tribal flesh hooks and war paint, the shaman marked him with his blood, and this became the red markings over his skin, reminding him always of the pain and truth of the ceremony that he had been through. He was raised primarily by the shaman after that, who taught him how to use his special talents. This was explained early in the Cyberforce Vol 1 comic series, when Ripclaw's healing factor began to reject the cybernetic implants, and he was put under a heavy anaesthetic, and remembered his early teenage years.
Again, he has a murky past, but one thing that is known is that he spent a lot of time at Cyberdata as a S.H.O.C. He ended up at Cyberdata after he attacked the son of a local sherrif who had raped a young Indian girl. Ripclaw was shot, and ended up at the sherrif's jail, waiting to be delivered to the courts, only there was someone at the bar who witnessed Ripclaw's mutations, and contacted Cyberdata. They then removed his hands and replaced them with cybernetic replacements. Robert was also romantically linked with Misery before she betrayed his team and he joined Cyberforce.
Ripclaw is definitely the strong, silent type, the quintessential loner, not very sociable, no fun at parties, but definitely the guy to take if you are going on a hike through the woods. He's highly intelligent, introspective, very well-read, and eminently knowledgeable especially with regard to past and present Native-American cultures. He has a strong sense of right and wrong and embodies all the classic virtues of honor, sincerity, respect and compassion. The other members of Cyberforce often look up to him for moral guidance and emotional support.
Crossover Appearances
Outside of his own short lived on-going series and cyberforce, Ripclaw has been seen in a number of other comics. He was seen in The Darkness affianced to Jackie Estacado's former love interest. Another major appearance for him has been his reoccurring team-ups with WildC.A.T.S. member, Warblade, a superhero with very similar powers. He was also the main villain in the JLA/Cyberforce crossover between DC Comics' Justice League of America and the Cyberforce which was published in 2005.
It was later revealed that this was in fact not Ripclaw at all, but a clone concocted by the alien ship in which he was buried in Antarctica. This clone was created by the ship in an attempt to heal and resurrect Ripclaw but the ship was unable to heal him, creating instead a polar opposite of Ripclaw, who set out to destroy and kill everything that Ripclaw loved. The ship tried again to resurrect and heal his body, and succeded, thus enabling the original Ripclaw to return as a good character in Cyberforce Vol 2, issues 1 and 2.
Most recently, Ripclaw and Cyblade were featured in a crossover with Wolverine and Psylocke, an interesting teaming as the two X-Men are commonly acknowledged as the basis for the two Cyberforce cyborgs.
Powers and Abilities
 - Metamorphosis: Ripclaw is a cybernetically-enhanced Native-American metamorph who has the ability to assume certain animalistic attributes, most notably the teeth and claws of a bear. This physical transformation defies any kind of scientific analysis, but seems to involve some sort of manipulation of unstable molecules. One of the most amazing aspects of this unique ability has been the miraculous discovery that was made after the tragic loss of both hands. The bionic replacements Ripclaw received from Cyberdata became so much a part of him that they too could assume the appearance of claws just like his real hands had done. In issue #19 of the second series, Ripclaw exhibited the ability to manipulate his claws into normal human shape, and then back into claws, but this has rarely been replicated in later issues, so it is unclear whether this was artistic licence taken by the writer or if it is simply not addressed in subsequent issues.
 - Astral Projection: Ripclaw is also able to enter another plane of existence -- one that he interprets as being a world in which spirits dwell. It is not known how he is able to accomplish this, but it seems to involve some sort of heightened sensitivity which allows him to sense things just beyond the physical boundaries that define what we know as reality.
 - Psychometry: He can get psychic impressions from what he considers to be the spirits. This psychometric like ability allows him to gain impressions from things, such as an Aztec ceremonial axe that had been used as a murder weapon.
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Wasike wants to purchase some property from his old cousin, Onyango. Their mothers are sisters, he says and that since Onyango is undergoing some financial constraints, it is important that if he is going to sell to relieve his constraints, then his property must stay within the family.
However, purchase of property comes in with other expenses: legal fees, stamp duty, and such other fees.
Wasike's biggest issue is that he does not want to pay stamp duty because he is really buying from his cousin, who is family. Yes, they are not close, but they are "really family", Wasike constantly says. In his opinion, it is unfair for the government to tax transactions between family members.
Taxes and death, Benjamin Franklin said, are the only certain things in this world. This shows you how difficult it is to evade a tax, or even to be exempted from paying a particular tax. It must indeed be under very special circumstances.
What is tax?
Tax is compulsory contribution to state revenue. Tax is levied/imposed by the government, and payment of tax is a civic duty.
What are the types of taxes?
There are two types of taxes: direct and indirect taxes. Direct taxes are those that a tax payer pays directly to the government, such as stamp duty. Indirect taxes are taxes which the tax payer remits to the government indirectly, such as value added tax.
All about stamp duty
Stamp duty is a tax levied on executed instruments. In simple terms, it is tax levied on documents. Stamp duty is usually paid in the country where one seeks to enforce the said document.
The law regarding stamp duty in Kenya is detailed in the Stamp Duty Act Cap 80, Laws of Kenya.
The documents for which stamp duty should be paid, the amount which should be paid, and who should pay the named amount, are mentioned under the schedule to the Act. For example, under the schedule, it is stated that stamp duty of 250 shillings on a bill of exchange payable on demand or at sight or on presentation or within three days after date or sight shall be paid by all persons executing the bill. Also, among many examples, stamp duty of 200 shillings on a document appointing a new trustee must be paid by the appointer.
The rate of stamp duty payable on the transfer of land is either 4% or 2% of the value of the property for properties in town/city/municipality or out of town/city/municipality, respectively. The government relies on the full disclosure of the parties to the transfer to disclose the value of the property, but the same is assessed and determined by the government valuer, before a definite amount of how much stamp duty to be paid is ascertained.
For example, when I purchase a house from Agrace, we shall both execute a transfer form and declare that I have paid and Agrace has received 100 million shillings for the house. To pay stamp duty, the amount is prescribed by the government valuer through a valuation process. He values the property subject to the current market value of the property in the area where it is located. If the market value of the property is 120 million, and the property is located in Upper Hill, Nairobi, stamp duty will be 4% of 120 million, which is 4,800,000shillings. The stamp duty would be lesser if the property is valued at 120 million and is located in Butere, Mumias (an out of town location). Stamp duty payable would be 2,400,000 shillings.
Exemption from stamp duty
There are instances where stamp duty may not be paid. This is however subject to the law, and to confirmation by the collector of stamp duty. Those instances are:
 1. Transfers between associated companies
any instrument for which it is shown to the satisfaction of the collector that the effect thereof is to convey or transfer a beneficial interest in property from one company with limited liability (the transferor) to another such company (the transferee); and that either one of such companies is a beneficial owner of not less than ninety per centum of the issued share capital of the other company; or not less than ninety per centum of the issued share capital of each of the companies is in the beneficial ownership of a third company with limited liability; and that the instrument was not executed in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement where under the consideration for the conveyance or transfer was to be provided directly or indirectly by a person other than a company which at the time of the execution of the instrument was associated with either the transferor or the transferee; or the beneficial interest in the property was previously conveyed or transferred directly or indirectly by such a person.
 1. Transfers relating to real estate investment trust
This exemption only applies real estate investments trusts authorized under the Capital Markets Act (Cap 485 A. It must be shown to the collector that:
 1. the effect thereof is to convey or transfer a beneficial interest in property from one trustee to another trustee or to an additional trustee;
 2. The effect thereof is to convey or transfer a beneficial interest in property from a person or persons for the transfer of units in the real estate investment trust.
 3. Exemption of building societies' documents
No rules of a building society registered under the Building Societies Act (Cap. 489) nor any copy thereof nor any receipt, nor any entry in any book of receipt for money deposited in the funds of a building society, or for any money received by any member, or his executors, administrators, assigns or attorneys, from the funds of a building society, nor any transfer of any share, nor any bond or other security to be given to or on account of a building society, or by any officer thereof, nor any order on any officer for payment of money to any member, nor any appointment of any agent, nor any certificate or other instrument for the revocation of any such appointment, nor any other instrument or document whatever required or authorized to be given, issued, signed, made or produced in pursuance of the Building Societies Act (Cap. 489), or of the rules of a building society, shall be subject or liable to or charged with any stamp duty or duties whatsoever: Provided that this exemption shall not extend to a mortgage, nor to the release or discharge of a mortgage.
 1. A conveyance or transfer, or an agreement for a conveyance or transfer, operating as a voluntary disposition of property shall not be chargeable with any duty, if the conveyance or transfer is in favour of any body of persons incorporated by special Act and that body is by its Act precluded from dividing any profit amongst its members and the property conveyed is to be held for the purposes of an open space or for the purposes of its preservation for the benefit of Kenya; or anybody of persons established for charitable purposes only or the trustees of a trust so established
 1. Transfer between spouses
Other transactions exempted from stamp duty are:
 1. an instrument executed by or on behalf of or in favour of the Government in any case in which, but for this exemption, the Government would be liable to pay the duty;
 2. a bill of exchange, cheque or promissory note drawn or made in Uganda or in Tanzania and accepted and paid or presented for acceptance or payment, or endorsed, transferred or otherwise negotiated, in Kenya, if the bill of exchange, cheque or promissory note has previously been duly stamped in Uganda or Tanzania;
 3. a power, warrant or letter of attorney granted or to be granted by the Managing Director of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, and a power, warrant or letter of attorney given by any depositor in the post office savings bank established under the provisions of the Kenya Post Office Savings Bank Act (Cap. 493B) to any other person, authorizing him to make a deposit of a sum of money in the savings bank on behalf of the depositor or to sign any document or instrument required by the rules of the savings bank to be signed on making the deposit or to receive back any sum of money deposited in the savings bank, or the interest arising therefrom; a receipt or an entry in a book of receipts for money deposited in the savings bank, or for any money received by a depositor or his executors or administrators, assigns, attorneys or agents, from the funds thereof; and a draft or order, or an appointment of an agent, or any certificate or other instrument or document whatsoever, required or authorized to be given, issued, signed, made or produced in pursuance of that Act or of any rules made thereunder;
 4. a transfer of shares in the stock or funds of the Government, the Organization, the Authority, the Government of Uganda or the Government of Tanzania;
 5. a conveyance or transfer of any stock or marketable security in any company incorporated in Uganda or Tanzania, if the conveyance or transfer has been duly stamped in accordance with the law of the territory in which the company was incorporated;
 6. an instrument for the sale, transfer or other disposition, either absolutely or by way of mortgage or otherwise, of a ship or of any part, interest, share or property of or in a ship;
 7. a bond given by a public officer for the due execution of his duties;
 8. a will, codicil or other testamentary disposition; and
 9. Instruments for the sale or transfer of land for the construction or expansion of educational institutions: Provided that stamp duty shall become


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Invented back in 1695, stopwatches are still used globally to measure time with highly accurate precision. The devices are mostly used in sports and science, but there are lots of ways to use a stopwatch in the modern world.
- What does a stopwatch measure?
- What is a stopwatch used for in science?
- What is a stopwatch used for in sport?
- What is the difference between a stopwatch and a timer?
What Does a Stopwatch Measure?
A stopwatch measures the amount of time that's passed between two events. It does this using the stop and start buttons. When the start button is enabled, the stopwatch will begin tracking the time. It'll keep tracking until you click stop. Stopwatches usually have a digital screen in the center of the two buttons. This screen shows the amount of time that's elapsed.
A handheld stopwatch will usually display the time taken in minutes, seconds, and one-hundredth of a second. For even more accuracy, some stopwatches will record time down to a millionth of a second!
Typically, a stopwatch can measure the time passed in three ways:
- Cumulative: How long it takes between one event and another, e.g., the time taken for an athlete to go from the starting point to the finish line.
- Laps/splits: How long it takes between a series of events, e.g., the time is taken for an athlete to run each lap.
- Cumulative and laps/splits: How long it takes between a series of events and in total, e.g., the time taken for an athlete to run each lap and the entire race in total.
What Is a Stopwatch Used for in Science?
Since science is all about research, investigation, and understanding, knowing how long something takes is important. Scientists will typically use a stopwatch in kinetics (both chemistry and physics) and experiments to determine three things:
- Reaction: The time it takes before an event occurs.
- Speed: The time something takes in general.
- Velocity: The speed of something traveling in a particular direction.
What Is a Stopwatch Used for in Sport?
Stopwatches have always been important in the sporting world. Technology has improved significantly since the first stopwatch was invented, and nowadays, it's possible to record time as close to the mark as possible. Within the sports industry, the devices are most used for three reasons:
- To measure performance and determine rank: How long it takes an athlete to run a 100m sprint. The time taken will be used to determine first, second and third place.
- As part of training: An athlete will use a stopwatch when training with their coach to track their performance and progress.
- During gameplay: Soccer matches will use a cumulative and lap/split stopwatch to calculate any extra time needed due to pauses during gameplay.
Since sporting events are highly competitive, every second (and millionth of a second!) counts, so time must be recorded as precisely as possible. The difference between first and second place for two athletes could be as little as 0.0001 of a second.
What Is the Difference Between Stopwatches and Timers?
While stopwatches and timers are very similar in nature, they have two main differences:
- A stopwatch counts up from zero, whereas a timer counts down to zero.
- A stopwatch measures the time taken between two events, whereas a timer measures a certain period of time.
For example, if a meal takes 10 minutes to cook, a timer can count down and sound an alarm when those 10 minutes have passed. However, if you want to see how long it takes to cook a meal, it's better to use a stopwatch since you can start it when you begin cooking and stop it when you finish cooking.


Soapbox Art & Science Oxford is being sponsored by P2i: We catch up with CTO Dr Stephen Coulson about supporting science outreach
Soapbox Art & Science Oxford is generously supported by P2i. Dr Stephen Coulson is the CTO and founder of P2i, the global leader in liquid repellent nanotechnology, delivering hydrophobic nano-coating solutions that provide the highest levels of liquid repellency. Headquartered in England, P2i operate in 19 countries across 5 continents with 148 employees globally. P2i support the Global electronics industry by integrating nano coatings into existing manufacturing lines and have to date processed over 200 million electronic devices in mass produciton. We caught up with Stephen about his involvement with Soapbox Art & Science.
SS: Stephen, what is your background and how did you come to found P2i?
I'm a chemist by training and after completing a PhD at Durham University, I took up a position with my sponsor, Dstl, to complete the application for military use. As it is a very visual technology, with water beading up and rolling off any surface, it was easy to engage Venture Capital interest and we finally spun out P2i at the end of January 2004.
SS: What attracted you to Soapbox Science?
I like the informal and interactive approach that is being taken that makes it highly accessible for all.
SS: Why is it important for researchers and companies to make their work accessible to the public?
There is so much going on in the world where certain areas are often carried out behind closed doors and don't have a loud enough voice. Soapbox Science will help increase awareness of what can be achieved by better understanding the world we live in.
SS: P2i has expanded globally, as has Soapbox Science! If you could bring Soapbox Science to one city or region where you work, where would it be and why?
Although not a specific location, I think initially it needs to take place in regions where they have the infrastructure in place to convert the interest generated by Soapbox Science into increased intake of women into STEM subjects. From this platform there will be an argument for more infrastructure to be created in regions of lower employment with the correct demographic to drive further intake and future employment.
SS: The Oxford event will see art mix together with science, does P2i work in any cross-disciplinary ways and could you describe the value in reaching out to other sectors?
Cross-fertilization of ideas is the main source of innovation so is a necessity that we have followed from day one.
SS: And finally, if you were stood on a Soapbox telling people about your work, what is the one thing you would hope they would take away with them?
Science can make the impossible come true to better people's lives, and anyone can do it.
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It's rare that scientists see the good in invasive species. But at Washington University's Tyson Research Center, researchers have discovered something positive about a non-native mosquito.
Tyson's 2,000 acres allow faculty, staff, and students from all over the globe to study a variety of environmental disciplines, including sustainable operations,
They discovered that the native mosquitoes were susceptible to a species-specific type of parasite that greatly impaired their development. But when the non-native species was present, it reduced the prevalence of the parasite in the native mosquitoes from 72-90% to 13-27%. This occurred through something called "encounter reduction." Simply put, the non-native species ingests the parasite before it reaches the native species.
Kim Medley, director of the Tyson Research Center and a leading expert on mosquito research, notes that studies like these can broadly inform how infectious disease manifests and changes along with changes in biodiversity. The concepts can then be applied to numerous systems, including infectious disease in humans.


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How To Prepare A Pressure Cooker To Bake Cake
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Have you ever tasted a pressure cooker cake? It tastes as amazing as an oven baked cake; the only difference is that you have to prepare a pressure cooker to bake cake instead of an oven.
The pressure cooker creates pressure and heat from the steam is built in it. By cooking in pressure cooker one not only gets tasty food to eat but also saves on cooking time.
However, there are two ways to bake a cake in pressure cooker; sand way and the water way.
It is up to you, the method you want your cake to be baked as cake made by both these methods are soft and delicious.
The most important part in baking cake in a pressure cooker is to first prepare a pressure cooker to bake cake. So, here is what you need to do:
 - Take a pressure cooker, big enough to contain the baking pan.
 - Wash it firmly with soap solution. The cooker should be free of odor before a cake is baked or else it may spoil the cake's taste.
 - Wipe it with a clean towel.
 - Now, remove the whistle of the pressure cooker. We do not make use of the whistle while baking cake. The vent is let open so that the steam can disperse.
 - If you want to bake cake with sand method, put some sand on the cooker's base not more than an inch. This method is recommended if you do not have a baking stand to keep the baking pan. This helps the baking pan by not letting it touch the surface of pressure cooker.
 - If you have a baking stand for baking pan, follow the water method for baking. Pour water in the pressure cooker, at least one and half inch up from the bottom. Now keep the baking stand in the cooker.
 - Place the baking pan filled with the cake batter on the sand or the baking stand, depending on your method.
 - Put the lid of pressure cooker, without the whistle and let the pressure cooker hear for 45 minutes on low flame.
The cake will be ready; you can check it by putting a toothpick or a knife.
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Tracking a Swinging Target with a Robot Manipulator using Visual Sensing
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Original versionModeling, Identification and Control. 2016, 37 (1), 53-62. 10.4173/mic.2016.1.5
In this paper we develop a method for loading parts onto a swinging target using an industrial robot. The orientation of the target is estimated by a particle filter using camera images as measurements. Robust and accurate tracking is achieved by using an accurate dynamic model of the target. The dynamical model is also used to compensate for the time delay between the acquisition of images and the motion response of the robot. The target dynamics is modeled as a spherical pendulum. To ensure robust visual tracking the position of the target mass center is estimated. The method is experimentally validated in a laboratory loading station with a swinging conveyor trolley as target, which is commonly used in industry.


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This Demonstration illustrates the formation of time-averaged Moiré fringes. The horizontal axis represents the amplitude of harmonic oscillation ; the vertical axis, the longitudinal coordinate. The stationary Moiré grating is shown at. Time-averaged images of the Moiré grating are shown at increasing amplitudes of oscillation. The parameter controls the number of discrete time nodes in a period of the oscillation used to integrate the dynamical process. Double-exposure fringes are produced at ; time-averaged fringes are produced at. You can choose the type of the Moiré grating—it can be harmonic, stepped, or stochastic. Moreover, you can observe two digital images. The first is the time-averaged Moiré image and the second is the filtered image in which time-averaged fringes are shown in high contrast. Interesting time-averaged patterns can be observed whenever a regular Moiré grating is replaced by a set of random numbers uniformly distributed in the interval. Those patterns can reveal certain properties of the random number generator used to construct the stochastic Moiré grating.
(Research Group for Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Dynamical Systems)
Theoretical relationships governing the formation of time-averaged Moiré fringes are discussed in the references.
 M. Ragulskis, "Time-Averaged Patterns Produced by Stochastic Moiré Gratings," Computers and Graphics, 2009, 33(2), pp. 147–150.
 M. Ragulskis, L. Saunoriene, and R. Maskeliunas, "The Structure of Moiré Grating Lines and Influence to Time-Averaged Fringes," Experimental Techniques,33(2), 2009 pp. 60–64.
 M. Ragulskis and Z. Navickas, "Time-Average Moiré—Back to the Basics," Experimental Mechanics, 49(8), 2009 pp. 439–450.
 M. Ragulskis, A. Aleksa, and R. Maskeliunas, "Contrast Enhancement of Time-Averaged Fringes Based on Moving Average Mapping Functions," Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 47(7-8), 2009 pp. 768–773.
 M. Ragulskis and A. Aleksa, "Image Hiding Based on Time-Averaging Moiré," Optics Communications, 282, 2009 pp. 2752–2759.
 M. Ragulskis, A. Aleksa, and Z. Navickas, "Image Hiding Based on Time-Averaged Fringes Produced by Non-Harmonic Oscillations," Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 11(12), 2009. doi:10.1088/_PHONE_/11/12/125411.


can write: $$\frac{df(x;dx)}{dx} = f'(x).$$
All of this, however, should come with a few remarks.
It is clear that these notations above do not constitute a definition of the derivative of $f$. Indeed, we needed to know what the derivative $f'$ meant before defining the function $df$. So in some sense, it's just a clever choice of notation.
But if it's just a trick of notation, why do I mention it at all? The reason is that in higher dimensions, the function $df(x;dx)$ actually becomes the focus of study, in part because it contains information about all the partial derivatives.
To be more concrete, for multivariable functions $f\colon R^n \to R$, we can define a function $df(x;dx)$ of two n-dimensional variables $x, dx \in R^n$ via $$df(x;dx) = df(x_1,\ldots,x_n; dx_1, \ldots, dx_n) = \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}dx_1 + \ldots + \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_n}dx_n.$$
Notice that this map $df$ is linear in the variable $dx$. That is, we can write: $$df(x;dx) = (\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}, \ldots, \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_n}) \begin{pmatrix} dx_1 \\ \vdots \\ dx_n \\ \end{pmatrix} = A(dx),$$ where $A$ is the $1\times n$ row matrix of partial derivatives.
In other words, the function $df(x;dx)$ can be thought of as a linear function of $dx$, whose matrix has variable coefficients (depending on $x$).
So for the $1$-dimensional case, what is really going on is a trick of dimension. That is, we have the variable $1\times1$ matrix ($f'(x)$) acting on the vector $dx \in R^1$ -- and it just so happens that vectors in $R^1$ can be identified with scalars, and so can be divided.
Finally, I should mention that, as long as we are thinking of $dx$ as a real number, mathematicians multiply and divide by $dx$ all the time -- it's just that they'll usually use another notation. The letter "$h$" is often used in this context, so we usually write $$f'(x) = \lim_{h \to 0} \frac{f(x+h) - f(x)}{h},$$ rather than, say, $$f'(x) = \lim_{dx \to 0} \frac{f(x+dx) - f(x)}{dx}.$$ My guess is that the main aversion to writing $dx$ is that it conflicts with our notation for differential $1$-forms.
EDIT: Just to be even more technical, and at the risk of being confusing to some, we really shouldn't even be regarding $dx$ as an element of $R^n$, but rather as an element of the tangent space $T_xR^n$. Again, it just so happens that we have a canonical identification between $T_xR^n$ and $R^n$ which makes all of the above okay, but I like distinction between tangent space and euclidean space because it highlights the different roles played by $x \in R^n$ and $dx \in T_xR^n$.
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Cotangent space. Also, in case of multiple variables if you fix $dx^2,\ldots,dx^n = 0$ you can still divide by $dx^1$ and get the derivative. And nothing stops you from defining differential first and then defining derivatives as its coefficients. – Alexei Averchenko Feb 11 '11 at 2:30
Well, canonically differentials are members of contangent bundle, and $dx$ is in this case its basis. – Alexei Averchenko Feb 11 '11 at 5:54
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I never made any reference to differentials in my post. My point is that $df(x;dx)$ can be likened to the pushforward map $f_*$. Of course one can also make an analogy with the actual differential 1-form $df$, but that's something separate. – Jesse Madnick Feb 11 '11 at 6:18
Sure the input is a vector, that's why these linearizations are called covectors, which are members of cotangent space. I can't see why you are bringing up pushforwards when there is a better description right there. – Alexei Averchenko Feb 11 '11 at 9:12
I just don't think pushforward is the best way to view differential of a function with codomain $\mathbb{R}$ (although it is perfectly correct), it's just a too complex idea that has more natural treatment. – Alexei Averchenko Feb 12 '11 at 4:25
My favorite "counterexample" to the derivative acting like a ratio: the implicit differentiation formula for two variables. We have $$\frac{dy}{dx} = -\frac{\partial F/\partial x}{\partial F/\partial y} $$
The formula is almost what you would expect, except for that pesky minus sign.
See _URL_ for the rigorous definition of this formula.
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Yes, but their is a fake proof of this that comes from that kind a reasoning. If $f(x,y)$ is a function of two variables, then $df=\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}dx+\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}$. Now if we pick a level curve $f(x,y)=0$, then $df=0$, so solving for $\frac{dy}{dx}$ gives us the expression above. – Baby Dragon Jun 16 '13 at 19:03
Pardon me, but how is this a "fake proof"? – Lurco Apr 28 '14 at 0:04
_USER_: He meant $df = \frac{∂f}{∂x} dx + \frac{∂f}{∂y} dy$, where those 'infinitesimals' are not proper numbers and hence it is wrong to simply substitute $df=0$, because in fact if we are consistent in our interpretation $df=0$ would imply $dx=dy=0$ and hence we can't get $\frac{dy}{dx}$ anyway. But if we are inconsistent, we can ignore that and proceed to get the desired expression. Correct answer but fake proof. – user21820 May 13 '14 at 9:58
I agree that this is a good example to show why such notation is not so simple as one might think, but in this case I could say that $dx$ is not the same as $∂x$. Do you have an example where the terms really cancel to give the wrong answer? – user21820 May 13 '14 at 10:07
I don't know. Assume dependence on a third dummy variable with respect to which everything is constant so that the lhs is really a partial? – asmeurer May 13 '14 at 17:45
It is best to think of $\frac{d}{dx}$ as an operator which takes the derivative, with respect to $x$, of whatever expression follows.
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This is an opinion offered without any justification. – Ben Crowell Apr 30 '14 at 5:20
What kind of justification do you want? It is a very good argument for telling that $\frac{dy}{dx}$ is not a fraction! This tells us that $\frac{dy}{dx}$ needs to be seen as $\frac{d}{dx}(y)$ where $\frac{d}{dx}$ is an opeartor. – Emin May 2 '14 at 20:43
Over the hyperreals, $\frac{dy}{dx}$ is a ratio and one can view $\frac{d}{dx}$ as an operator. Therefore Tobin's reply is not a good argument for "telling that dy/dx is not a fraction". – user72694 Dec 15 '14 at 16:11
Typically, the $\frac{dy}{dx}$ notation is used to denote the derivative, which is defined as the limit we all know and love (see Arturo Magidin's answer). However, when working with differentials, one can interpret $\frac{dy}{dx}$ as a genuine ratio of two fixed quantities.
Draw a graph of some smooth function $f$ and its tangent line at $x=a$. Starting from the point $(a, f(a))$, move $dx$ units right along the tangent line (not along the graph of $f$). Let $dy$ be the corresponding change in $y$.
So, we moved $dx$ units right, $dy$ units up, and stayed on the tangent line. Therefore the slope of the tangent line is exactly $\frac{dy}{dx}$. However, the slope of the tangent at $x=a$ is also given by $f'(a)$, hence the equation
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Cannabis has long been used and revered for its many benefits, from its widely acknowledged medical applications to its commonly accepted ability to help people relax. And now, with the list of states and countries legalizing marijuana usage for all purposes growing rapidly, we've finally reached a tipping point where cannabis is achieving a level of mainstream acceptance and usage, especially among artists. Many established and aspiring artists are looking to cannabis use to aid in their creativity—whether that's to expand the imagination, connect disparate ideas, take artistic risks, or myriad other ways to create and generate work.
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Origin of the Name Hannegan
The ancient history of the name Hannegan
was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives.
Over the centuries Surnames developed a wide number of variants. Different spellings of the same name can be traced back to an original root. Additionally when a bearer of a name emigrated it was not uncommon that their original name would be incorrectly transcribed in the record books at their new location. Surnames were also often altered over the years based on how they sounded phonetically and depending on the prevailing political conditions it may have been advantageous to change a name from one language to another.
Variants of the name Hannegan
include O'Hannigan, Hanegan, Haneghan and Hanagan. This name in Irish is O'hAnnagain and the latter variants are the anglicized forms of this. This sept came from Counties Waterford and Tyrone.
A sept or clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. Irish septs and clans that are related often belong to even larger groups, sometimes called tribes.
An early recorded reference of the name occurred in 1556 when a John Hannigane, County Waterford, obtained his liberty. A generation later the name is recorded among Jurymen and Trade Guild officials in Dublin and Inishowen. The name is later recorded as a principal Irish name in the Barony of Decies, County Waterford in the Census of 1659. In modern times this name and its variants are chiefly found in Counties Dublin, Waterford and Tyrone.
The Hannegan coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Hannegan descendants.


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As we enter the coldest months of the year, many Safe Routes to School Programs are put on hold due to the challenges of winter walking and cycling. Cold or icy and snowy conditions can often seem like insurmountable roadblocks to a program's continued success. However, this does not have to be the case.
In this 60 minute webinar, Taylor Lonsdale the State SRTS Coordinator for Montana, will provide an overview of the issues associated with winter walking and cycling and discuss why it is important to keep your SRTS program running through the coldest months.
Jenna Zdunek, Health and Wellness Director for the Marquette, (MI) YMCA, will then explain how the Sandy Knoll Elementary School SRTS Program was able to overcome the administration's fears associated with winter walking. She will also discuss how the School is addressing the problem of snowy sidewalks with their "School Shoveling Project. "
And finally, Kerry Ott, the Manistique Community Coordinator - Strategic Alliance for Health, Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, will provide two specific examples of how to make the challenges of winter walking fun and positive through the use of creative programs like their "Golden Shovel Award," the "Scoop and Sculpt," and snow removal flash mobs.
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This webinar is part of the Safe Routes to School Webinar Series, developed by America Walks and the National Center for Safe Routes to School.
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Use the adverb imperiously to describe a manner that is domineering and authoritative. Shouting, "Sit! Stay!" imperiously might work well on the dog, but it won't necessarily work on your friends.
Imperiously comes from the Latin word imperare, which means "to command." Other words from this same root include empire, emperor, imperial, and imperative. Like imperiously, all of these words retain some sense of command in their definitions. When you were three, you might have imperiously announced to your toys that they must come to life immediately, or you would banish them to the dark wasteland known as the closet.


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POPCORN SAFETY TIPS
- When selling popcorn in your neighborhood always have an adult or buddy with you.
- Never enter a stranger's house without an adult.
- Keep checks and cash in a separate envelope with your name on it.
- Always walk on the sidewalk whenever possible.
- Never sell at night.
- Always be courteous.
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Ten ways to make a popcorn sale.
- Ask your parent to be the first to buy popcorn.
- Ask your relatives to buy popcorn. (Married brothers and sisters)
- Ask your neighbors to buy popcorn.
- Ask the parents of your friends (not in Scouts) to buy popcorn.
- Take a popcorn order form to your place of worship and ask people to buy popcorn during coffee/fellowship hour (get permission first).
- Ask your parents if they can take a popcorn order form to work and ask their co-workers to buy popcorn.(They may need to get permission first.)
- Ask your patrol or den to schedule a "Super Sale Day". This is a day when your fellow Scouts select a neighborhood and go door-to-door as a group to ask people to buy popcorn.
- Ask a parent or fellow Scout to go door-to-door with you in your neighborhood to ask people to buy popcorn.
- Ask your parents or relatives if they give out gifts during the holiday season. If yes, ask them to consider giving out popcorn (in a tin decorated for the holidays) as a holiday gift.
- ALWAYS WEAR YOUR UNIFORM!
Customer Check List
- Religious Friends
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- Married Brothers & Sisters
- Parent's Work
- Unit Leaders
Don't forget last year's customers. Make sure you kept your sales form from last year and ask each of them to buy again.
Have a parent in your pack or troop that owns his/her own business? Do they send Christmas gifts to employees/customers? Ask them to send popcorn this year.


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What does "no explicit time dependence" mean in this context? :
A symmetry of the KdV is given by $$\tilde x=x, \tilde t=t+\epsilon, \tilde u =u$$ as there is no explicit time dependence in the KdV.
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In Physics, the notion of explicit time dependence denotes equations where the time parameter t occurs "freely" and not only as a $\frac{d}{dt}$. So an equation of the form $v(x)=a_0t+v_0$ is explicitly time dependent, but $a(x)=a_0$ is not.
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Thank you, Dominik. Just to confirm my understanding of your explanation: the partial derivative wrt $t$ does not count as explicitly time-dependent, only an actual factor of $t$ in the equation does? – Henry Nov 24 '12 at 19:59
That's right. Another commonly used word for this is that the equation is autonomous, a word which for unfathomable reasons doesn't appear in the wikipedia article on differential equations. – Harald Hanche-Olsen Nov 24 '12 at 20:24
Thank you, _USER_-Olsen! – Henry Nov 24 '12 at 21:45
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text: What are the underlying worldviews and beliefs about the role of science in society held by students enrolled in a college-level, general education, introductory astronomy course (Astro 101)—and are those beliefs affected by active engagement instruction shown to significantly increase students' conceptual knowledge and reasoning abilities related to astronomy? To help answer this question, we administered Cobern's (Cobern 2001) Thinking About Science Survey Instrument (TSSI) to an Astro 101 class in the spring 2011. The TSSI probes students' beliefs about the relationship between science and many aspects of contemporary society. In this paper, we analyze the 442 pre-instruction and 294 post-instruction student responses we received to the TSSI. Many students select responses to the TSSI's items indicating they have positive views about the role of science in society. We also see a slight increase in the number of positive responses preto post-instruction. While there are limitations to the inferences one can draw from responses to a Likert scale survey such as the TSSI, this work nevertheless provides an important first step in a larger project to understand and affect the worldviews of general education, introductory astronomy students. To better interpret the significance of these results, we conclude by comparing the TSSI data to preliminary data from a related study in which we collected students' written responses to a series of provocative, open-ended prompts on the relationship between science and society.


You should override Object.Equals() and also implement the
IEquatable interface.
By default, Equals() on a reference type checks to see if the objects refer to the same
location in memory. This may be acceptable in some circumstances, but often, you'll
want to provide your own behavior. With value types, the default behavior is to reflect
over each field and do a bit-by-bit comparison. This can have a very negative impact
on performance, and in nearly every case you should provide your own implementation
of Equals().
struct Vertex3d : IFormattable, IEquatable
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hierarchy so they have an opportunity to check their own fields.
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What is Advanced DD (Direct Drive) Inverter?
Advanced DD (Direct Drive) Inverter operation enables a further reduction in noise and energy demands.
The use of a 56-pole Neodymium Direct Current Brushes Motor produces high torque power while maintaining a whisper-quiet operation.
How does Nano Micell Shower work?
Nano Micell transforms regular detergent into highly concentrated detergent that penetrates into clothes more quickly and acts more effectively on dirt and stains. A 2-way cyclical pump assists the process by spraying the concentrated nano-size detergent evenly over clothes.
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Your washing machine might be faulty. Please call our Gokujou helpline.
How to reduce the coarseness of my clothes?
You may use the 'soft' program, add softener and use 'fuzzy' program for drying.
Why is the 'Tangle-Free' operation not working?
There are several possibilities:
1) Tangle-Free mode is not turned on.
2) Laundry is overloaded.
3) Tangle-Free operation will not be available if the program is set on 'Rinsing' or 'Spinning' mode only.
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The lint (drying) filter may have come off or blocked. Alternatively, you may use the 'Silent' operation.
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The laundry may be overload. Try to reduce the load. Laundry might be entangled. You may want to use the 'Tangle-Free' operation.


Bible Verses Like John 21:15
Bible verses related to John 21:15 (similar cross-references)
Matthew 26:33 - Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. (Verses like Matthew 26:33)
Mark 14:29 - But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. (Verses like Mark 14:29)
Isaiah 40:11 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. (Verses like Isaiah 40:11)
Matthew 26:35 - Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples. (Verses like Matthew 26:35)
John 1:42 - And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. (Verses like John 1:42)
Genesis 33:13 - And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. (Verses like Genesis 33:13)
2 Samuel 7:20 - And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. (Verses like 2 Samuel 7:20)
2 Kings 20:3 - I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. (Verses like 2 Kings 20:3)
Psalms 78:70-72 - He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. (Verses like Psalms 78:70)
Jeremiah 3:15 - And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (Verses like Jeremiah 3:15)
Jeremiah 23:4 - And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. (Verses like Jeremiah 23:4)
Ezekiel 34:2-10 - Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. (Verses like Ezekiel 34:2)
Ezekiel 34:23 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (Verses like Ezekiel 34:23)
Matthew 10:37 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Verses like Matthew 10:37)
Matthew 25:34-45 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. (Verses like Matthew 25:34)
Luke 12:32 - Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Verses like Luke 12:32)
Luke 22:32 - But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. (Verses like Luke 22:32)
John 8:42 - Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. (Verses like John 8:42)
John 13:37 - Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. (Verses like John 13:37)
John 14:15-24 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. (Verses like John 14:15)
John 16:27 - For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. (Verses like John


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Ofcom has published a consultation document detailing various approaches to the enforcement of TV advertising schedules. The consultation is designed to explore the options available to the UK regulator in securing "effective and consistent enforcement of rules on the extent to which television programmes can be interrupted by advertising."
The consultation also proposes changes to the current scheduling rules to make them clearer and easier to follow, as the document states. "Although European law specifies the number of advertising breaks permitted during certain programmes, it does not specify the approach that national regulators like Ofcom should take in enforcing these rules. Broadcasters have argued strongly in favour of different approaches. In this document, we set out our view of the advantages and disadvantages of each possible approach."
Patrick Mitchell, Legal Director at DLA Piper, explained to TVBEurope that while both Ofcom's own Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising (COSTA) and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive place restrictions on the insertion of internal advertising breaks within programmes, based on factors including the "scheduled duration" of the programmes in question, neither actually define the term.
"The consultation primarily focuses on a choice between four different methods of calculating a programme's 'scheduled duration'," he writes. "Under the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) Approach method, a programme's scheduled duration is based on the EPG listing – i.e. from the scheduled start time of that programme until the scheduled start time of the next. This means that both the programme's editorial content and any material broadcast during the breaks (e.g. advertising, programme trails, etc) are included in the scheduled duration. This is the traditional method for calculating a programme's scheduled duration.
"With the Broadcasters' Transmission (TX) Logs Approacha programme's scheduled duration is calculated on information obtained from the TX logs, which provide detailed records of the start and end times of each programme, along with the timings of internal breaks. This in turn provides three possible ways to calculate the scheduled duration:
"a) the programme slot – i.e. from the start of one programme until the start of the next, including all programme, advertising and promotional material transmitted in-between;
b) editorial content plus internal breaks – i.e. from the start to the end of the programme including editorial content and all material shown during internal breaks; or
c) editorial content alone – i.e. from the start of the programme to the end of the programme excluding advertising and promotional material broadcast in internal breaks."
The consultation is open until 10 October with Ofcom expected to issue a statement in early 2015. You can access the full consultation from Ofcom's website. To read more from Patrick Mitchell and the rest of the team at DLA Piper, you can visit DLA Piper's Media Sport and Entertainment blog.


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FTIR-spectroscopy at low temperatures: cool samples – most accurate measurements
The lower the sample temperature, the sharper the absorption bands
This holds true for many spectroscopic applications. Partially, because excited states are either less occupied or not occupied at all. This is why measurements at low temperatures may enhance the outcome and result in higher sensitivities. However, integrating a cryostat into the spectrograph can be quite a hassle.
Chosing the right hardware can well ease the task, particularly when a proprietary spectrograph is to be used.
One application for FTIR-spectroscopy at low temperatures is the determination of concentration levels of doping materials on the basis of the absorption spectrum. For precision measurements which are required with weakly doped materials, the sample must be cooled down to only a few kelvin.
The CiS Research Institute for Microsensor Systems and Photovoltaics in Erfurt, Germany, has peformed this type of measurement on aluminum-doped, multi-crystal silicon at 10 K.
By correlation with four-point resistance measurements, the calibration of the FTIR-absorption bands on aluminum concentration could be expanded to > 1015 cm3. This allowed measurements of the aluminum concentration in compensated silicon (codoped with boron, phosphorus and aluminum) 1.
For the experiment, a Cryostation was inserted in the sample chamber of the proprietary FTIR-spectrograph Tensor 27 from Bruker. The compact Cryostation features a closed helium cycle and the sample chamber has various windows to facilitate the combination with a variety of spectrometers. In addition, the sample chamber can easily be accessed, which makes sample mounting a piece of cake.
- K. Lauer, C. Möller, T. Bartel, and F. Kirscht, "Low-temperature FTIR investigation of aluminum-doped solar-grade silicon," Energy Procedia, vol. 55, pp. 545-551 (2014)


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