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Cognitive Decision Entities for Cooperative Management in Networks of the Future (CoDECoM) is a collaboration project between DAI-Labor and Huawei, funded by Huawei's Innovation Research Program (HIRP). CoDECoM targets an efficient implementation of a knowledge plane based on distributed cognitive nodes and a distributed decision making solution, to address the problem of lacking efficient methods to re-configure the network for a highly dynamic environment. The project intends to design cognitive agent and converged control/management agents and to evaluate cognitive functions in the network nodes that collaborate to provide dynamic management (operation) and resource optimizations based on operator policies.
Within this research direction, CoDECoM proposes:
- A new cognitive node architecture consisting of two sub-components – The cognitive agent takes part in a distributed control process with all other agents on the end-to-end service path. It incorporates the network operator policies in making optimal decisions. The converged control/management agent implements reconfigurable routing based on the decisions of the cognitive agent.
- An efficient implementation of the knowledge plane based on a distributed peer-to-peer storage on individual network entities – Access to the knowledge plane will be through an efficient implementation of publish-subscribe paradigm. The organization of knowledge, as well as the subscription to contents will be through low-weight ontologies, which allow efficient establishment of meaning across different domains.
- A network-application interface gateway – An important part of the knowledge plane information comes from the applications. Furthermore it is important for the applications to describe their requirements to the network entities. CoDECoM's simple network API will serve for this purpose.
- A testbed on which diverse application scenarios can be tested – The node architecture and integration of CoDECoM components will be tested on a proof-of-concept demonstrator.


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The Tuscobia Trail is a symbol for the development of Northern Wisconsin and is owned by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Conceived as a railroad line in 1899, construction lasted for 15 years, concluding in 1914 when the rail-line reached Park Falls. For nearly 70 years, the rail, known as the "Omaha Line", served as the lifeblood for the area through logging and farming opportunities, as well as the service industries that developed along the route.
By the 1940s, the decline of the railroad was apparent with logging no longer viable. In 1967, the dismantling of the old wooden bridges began. Citizens surrounding the old railway were interested in turning the grade into a functioning trail system that would serve as a representation of the area's history and provide an opportunity for people to learn about the area and experience the beauty that is available along the route.
Development of the 74-mile Tuscobia Trail to its present use began in
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The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories
Delaware Public Archives
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Email: [email protected]
Repository URL: _URL_
Repository code: dear
Repository description (extant): The Delaware Public Archives is one of the oldest public archives programs in the country. Created by the General Assembly in 1905, the Archives cut the ribbon on its current home on December 7, 2000.
The mission of the Delaware Public Archives is three-fold:
1. To identify, collect, and preserve public records of enduring historical and evidential value;
2. To ensure access to public records for present and future generations of Delawareans; and
3. To advise and educate in the creation, management, use, and preservation of public records
The Archives holds more than 95,000 cubic feet of government records and historical documents.
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UC, SEISS payments and automatic reclaims
Sabrina Dubash describes universal credit (UC) regulations which deal with coronavirus-related payments for the self-employed and with new rules on treating a claimant as having reapplied for UC.
The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown measures have drastically affected income for the employed and the self-employed. As a result, the government introduced schemes to help employers retain their employees/staff and provide interim replacement income for both the employed and self-employed during this difficult time.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CRJS) was introduced for employers to claim their employees or workers furloughed pay, and the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) was introduced to assist the eligible self-employed with the sudden loss of profits.
Amendment regulations (The Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-Employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020) No.522 (the 'Amendment Regs') came into force on 21 May 2020.
The regulations ensure that a self-employed UC claimant who is also an employer and who receives payment under the CJRS scheme (ie, for her/his employees) does not have that money treated as her/his own income or capital. They also make wider provision about the treatment of SEISS income and reclaiming UC after having excess income (for all claimants, not just the self-employed).
How does UC deal with SEISS income?
Regulation 2(1)(a) of the Amendment Regs provides how SEISS income should be treated, together with regulation 57 (self-employed earnings) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (the 'UC Regs 2013'). SEISS income is to be treated as 'earned income' received at Step 1 of the calculation of self-employed earnings in the assessment period in which it is received.
SEISS payments have only been paid since May 2020. Therefore, those eligible for the SEISS and awaiting payment have likely claimed UC in the interim period to assist with the sudden loss of income.
Regulation 2(1)(a) also provides that the SEISS income will be treated as income in the assessment period in which it is received, which means that self-employed UC claimants will not encounter overpayments for the periods they received UC, when they re-ceive their SEISS payments.
Regulation 2(2) provides that any payment to a self-employed claimant that is a grant or loan to cover expenses or the loss of trade due to the coronavirus outbreak is also to be disregarded for 12 months from the date it is received. This clarifies how payments received under the CRJS or the new loans and grants introduced – such as the Small Business Grant Fund, Retail Hospitality and Leisure Grant and Bounce Back Loan Scheme – will be treated for UC purposes.
Reclaiming UC
Regulation 3 of the Amendment Regs amends the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 No.380 and inserts a new regulation 32A:
'Reclaims of universal credit after nil award due to earnings
32A.—(1) This regulation applies where— (a) a claim is made for universal credit, but no award is made because the condition in section 5(1)(b) or 5(2)(b) of the 2012 Act (condition that the claimant's income, or joint claimants' combined income is such that the amount payable would not be less than the prescribed minimum) is not met; or (b) entitlement to an award of universal credit ceases because that condition is not met.
(2) The Secretary of State may, subject to any conditions the Secretary of State considers appropriate, treat the claimant (or joint claimants) as making a claim on the first day of each subsequent month, up to a maximum of 5, that would have been an assessment period if an award had been made or, as the case may be, if the award had continued.'
In practice, this amendment means that where a UC claim is not awarded or has terminated due to excess income ('the old claim/award'), then for the next five assessment periods immediately following, a claimant may be treated as making a new UC claim without having actually made one.
The advantages for claimants here is that where previously UC claims ended due to excess income and/or the surplus earnings rule applied,1Reg 54A Universal Credit Regulations 2013 UC claims would terminate due to excess income and the claimant would have to reclaim within six months for any surplus income to start to deplete.
The automatic reclaim for five assessment periods that follow the 'old claim/award' means that any surplus income can start to deplete from the next assessment period that follows and any entitlement to UC arising from reduced income can be made sooner. Note, however, that if the surplus earnings rule is engaged, that will continue to apply to the automatic reclaim.
Any excess income will do…
The explanatory memorandum to the Amendment Regs2legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/522/pdfs/uksiem_20200522_en.pdf states that the purpose of the regulations is to clarify how the SEISS and CRJS income is to be treated in the case of self-employed UC claimants. It says that regulation3Available at _URL_ government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8 91880/adm10-20.pdf (ie, automatic reclaims) is intended to apply only with reference to excess income following payment from the SEISS and CRJS schemes.
However, regulation 3 in fact affects all claimants whose UC claim ends due to excess income, regardless of whether they received income from the SEISS or CRJS. The regulations use the words 'earnings' and 'income', and do not specify that this income needs to be SEISS or CRJS income.
Official guidance indicates that automatic reclaims will apply in any excess income case. ADM Memo 10/203 provides examples of how the regulations will be enforced in practice to UC claims that ended due to excess income and again no reference is made to the effect that the income must derive from SEISS or CRJS payments.
A further disparity between the regulations, explanatory memorandum and the ADM Memo 10/20 concerns whether UC claims/awards that ended due to excess income before the Amendment Regs came into force on 21 May 2020 would be covered.
The official guidance says that such claims/awards are covered. ADM Memo 10/20 provides examples of how UC claims that ended due to excess income before 21 May 2020 will also be subject to the automatic reclaims for five assessment periods that follow. However, there is no specific mention of this in either the Amendment Regs themselves or the explanatory memorandum.
Following from the specific wording in the regulations and the DWP guidance, advice to claimants would be that any claim that ended due to excess income should be covered by these amendments and the automatic reclaims for up to five assessment periods they provide for.
CPAG is interested in hearing about cases where the amendments apply and how they affected your client's claim. Please email the UC London Advice Service at _EMAIL_. For more information about the service, see our website.


The Inventor
Survival. Brilliance. Obsession. The untold story of modern medicine.
The Inventor is a true story inspired by the life of Herman Margulies, a brilliant, but obstinate holocaust survivor who leaves Poland in search of a better life in the United States. With an unwavering spirit of hope, he overcomes the pain of his past and builds an accomplished, yet un-applauded career as an inventor, revolutionizing modern medical devices. Later, he pursues his passion as an artist, and despite his professional success, his personal life is overshadowed by eccentricities and his obsessive lifestyle with the women he loved.
In the end, will his obsession outweigh his wisdom?
In pre-production in association with CALIFORNIA PICTURES
Abandoned, inspiration behind The Inventor
"No matter what you do, do it with a passion" Herman Margulies


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The last naval battle between France and England for the possession of the North American continent occurred in 1760 in the Bay of Chaleur. The French flotilla was made up of three ships: the Machault, the Bienfaisant and the Marquis de Malauze, sent from France with supplies and backup for their troops stationed on the St. Lawrence.
The English were on alert to prevent the arrival of supplies to Quebec and upon learning of the presence of French ships in the Restigouche estuary, the English prepared an attack. The battle that ensued is the subject of a national museum, the Battle of the Restigouche National Historic Site in Pointe-à-la-Croix. This archaeological site provides an important window onto the culture of 18th-century North America.
The Battle of the Restigouche National Historic Site is located at the mouth of the Restigouche River, at the far end of Chaleur Bay. An interpretation centre built in front of the battle site exhibits the remains of an 18th-century French frigate recovered during underwater archeological excavations. The site is managed by Parks Canada.
After resting for more than 200 years at the bottom of the Restigouche estuary, the wreck of The Machault has finally revealed its secrets.
Thanks to underwater archaeological excavations conducted from 1969 to 1972, a large collection of artifacts was uncovered, which have added to knowledge of the battle and the type of trade occurring between France and the colony during this period. A set recreates the interior of this ship and a film relates the events of the naval confrontation.
The most popular interpretation activity is the demonstration of loading of one of the cannons recovered from the wreck of The Machault.
A scenic lookout offers a view out over the Restigouche River and the site of the battle as well as Campbellton, a city in New Brunswick. A number of picnic tables have also been made available to visitors who wish to enjoy the area a bit longer.
Early June to mid October: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Reservations required during off season.
Commercial Group, per person: $2.95
School Groups, per student: $1.95
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Golden Gifts to a Sea God: The Broighter Hoard and Its Mysterious Golden Boat
The golden treasure called the Broighter Hoard was found at the site of Lough Foyle, near Limavady in Northern Ireland at the end of the 19th century. Its discoverers couldn't believe their eyes when they made the magnificent find. The treasure is now exhibited at the National Museum of Ireland, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast has replicas. The gorgeous artifacts continue to be symbols of ancient Irish culture.
A Magnificent Discovery
The wonderful treasure had been underground for many centuries. But one day in February 1896, Thomas Nicholl and James Morrow were double ploughing (one plough following the other to increase the depth) when they discovered the hoard. The golden treasure was found 35 cm (14 inches) underground.
Map showing the location of Lough Foyle.
Map showing the location of Lough Foyle. ( Public Domain )
They took the treasures to their farm and Thomas Nicholl's future wife, Maggie, washed them. At that moment, they still didn't know that they were holding a golden treasure hoard in their hands. When they finally realized the treasure's value, all the most precious pieces had already been taken by the man who had hired them. J. L. Gibson sold the treasure to the local antiquarian, while another part of the hoard was sold by Morrow's sister to a jeweler.
Eventually, a portion of the hoard was sold to the British Museum for 600 pounds. The artifacts were dated back to the 1st century BC. They caused fights between museums and institutions for a few decades.
The Shining Iron Age Boat
The golden hoard included several impressive artifacts. The most surprising of them all is a golden boat which weighs 85 g (3 ounces). The ship is 18.4 cm (7.25 inches) long and 7.6 cm (3 inches) wide, it has two rows of nine oars, benches, a paddle rudder for steering, and rowlocks (oar locks). Although researchers didn't give this artifact much attention at first, with time they found out the boat is the key to the hoard's mystery. It seems that the hoard was a votive deposit to a deity, probably the god Manannan mac Lir - the famous master of the sea.
The smaller parts that made up the model of the boat. 1. Boat hook 2. Mast yard 3. Steering oar 4. Small grappling iron 5. Forked implements 6. Square ended oars 7. Oars.
A bowl is another interesting item in the hoard. The artifact is rare because it is a model of a cauldron and made of one piece of gold. The cauldron's use is uncertain, but it could be another part of the votive hoard - traditionally cauldrons were important elements of pre-Christian rituals. The one discovered in the Broighter hoard is 5.1cm (2 inches) deep and 8.9 cm (3.5 inches) in diameter.
Moreover, two torcs made of golden bars were unearthed in the same place, as well as two chain necklaces made with techniques characteristic to the Romans or the Middle East (but not the Celts.) The technique is known as loop-in-loop. All the goods suggest the reason behind the hoard, but an impressive golden neck ring was the last part of the puzzle.
The boat, bowl, and part of a torc.
The boat, bowl, and part of a torc. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
An Incredible Torc Provides the Answer
A large tubular neck ornament has a special place among the golden treasures. The torc is 19 cm (7.5 inches) in diameter. It is decorated with incised and raised ornaments and has buffer terminals (flat ends). Horse and bird motifs appear on the artifact, which is unique due to its traditional association. It is believed that neck rings like this are related to Celtic deities and kings. This item answers the question of why someone had buried the treasure. It also suggests that the hoard could have been associated with the sea god Manannan mac Lir.
Manannán mac Lir sculpture by John Sutton at Gortmore.
Manannán mac Lir sculpture by John Sutton at Gortmore. ( CC BY-SA 2.5 )
As Richard Warner explained:
"Once we accept the probability that the hoard was a ritual offering to a sea-god much comes into focus. For a start, the presence within the hoard of the model boat makes sense, as do the non-Irish elements (the loop-in-loop necklaces). We might suppose that merchants were foremost among those whom appeasement of a sea-god was necessary. In early Irish mythology, the chief god associated with the sea was Manannan mac Lir -Manannan'son of the sea' – an Irish (not necessarily Celtic) equivalent of the Roman Neptune and the Greek Poseidon. In 1981 I thought I was the first to suggest that he was the god for whom the hoard was intended. In fact, this god was first posited by a certain L. Horton-Smith, a 'friend of the court' in 1903 in reply to Farwell's query as to whether there was such a thing as on Irish sea-god. Manannan was the chief pagan Irish god of the underworld, of water, and of corps, and is supposed to have possessed a huge cauldron – which brings the model cauldron in the hoard to mind. He was thought by the later Christian Irish monks who wrote down old pagan tales to have been an ancient merchant who lived on the Isle of Man."
The Broighter hoard still holds some mystery, but researchers believe that they are ready to answer most questions about it. However, it is necessary to remember that some of the artifacts from the hoard have been lost.
The torc and bowl.
The torc and bowl. ( Public Domain )
Ireland's Golden Treasure
Now, the hoard is recognized as a national treasure. Its golden pieces are some of the most important symbols of Ireland's ancient history. The tale of the god from the Isle of Man and the treasure which nobody expected to find is one of the most fantastic stories in Irish archaeology.
Top image: The golden boat from the Broighter hoard. Photo Source: CC BY-SA 3.0
By Natalia Klimczak
So is it the bowl or the boat? that would be filled with lake water, then poured down directly between the torc filling the other vessel. Thus blessing the water to be drank after, or then poured back into the lake for a safe travel.?
Is there by chance, another artifact missing?
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Matthias Eck and Jan Hadenfeld
An automatic algorithm for fairing B-spline curves of general order is presented. This work was motivated by a method of Farin and Sapidis about fairing planar cubic B-spline curves by subsequently removing and reinserting knots. Instead our new algorithm is based on the idea of subsequently changing one control point of a given B-spline curve so that the new curve minimizes the integral of the squared l-th derivative of the B-spline curve. How to proceed, if a tolerance is given and must be kept, is also discussed.
Computing Supplementum 10, Geometric Modelling, Springer, 1995, 129-147.


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Cornelius de Pauw (_PHONE_) was a Dutch geographer and philosopher, who, although he never visited the continent, was considered a leading expert on America and in that capacity he was a contributor to the Diderot's Encyclopédie. In a 1768 book[1305] he claimed that the location of Atlantis had been in Central America.
DePauw cites Pliny to explain the Egyptian habit of counting lunar cycles as 'years'.
He also referred to the apparently exaggerated lifespans of the biblical patriarchs explaining that it was widespread in the Middle East, and further afield, to name a dynasty or family after its founder and attribute the total years of its reign to that founder.[1576.258]


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You can enjoy the distinctive scent and silvery color of eucalyptus without planting an invasive variety that becomes a monster tree. "Silver Drop" eucalyptus (Eucalyptus gunnii "Silver Drop"), perennial in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 and 10, is used as an annual in most climates, where it grows 24 to 36 inches tall and its stems of round silver-gray foliage are often used in cutting gardens. Where the plant is perennial, it can grow up to 30 feet tall, but you can maintain it as a compact shrub with annual pruning.
A quick examination of your "Silver Drop" eucalyptus in late winter before new growth begins can prevent problems later. The thin stems are somewhat brittle, and broken stems can lead to dieback below the break it you don't clip damaged growth down to at least the next bud below the damaged area. Depending on the size of shrub that best suits your garden, you can just cut back below any areas of winter dieback -- blackened tips at the ends of stems -- or prune the entire eucalyptus back to within 2 to 6 inches of the ground annually. This type of pruning is called coppicing.
Pinching back the growing tips on the eucalyptus as it grows encourages fuller growth with more stems. Pinching means you are removing the dominant bud at the end of the stem, either with your fingers or pruners. Usually at least two new stems grow below the cut. Information for professional growers of "Silver Drop" eucalyptus recommends pinching at least twice for the most attractive plants, and that's good advice for gardeners as well.
Summer and Fall
Pruning is not necessary in the summer and fall, except for any broken or dying branches as you notice them. You can clip stems in any length you need to use in floral arrangements as the plant grows. Remember, the plant doesn't differentiate picking from pruning and pushes out new growth below the point you cut. When you live in a climate where your "Silver Drop" usually sees some winter dieback, hold off harvesting eucalyptus stems a month or so before temperatures usually drop to give new growth a chance to harden off. Eucalyptus does not respond to cooling temperatures with slower growth or a dormant period, so it keeps producing tender new growth until stopped by frost.
Annual pruning down to the ground is key to keeping the attractive color and form of your "Silver Drop" eucalyptus. Only the juvenile stems produce the round, silvery leaves. Mature stems produce elongated, willowlike blue-green foliage that is not as distinctive.
- Proven Winners: Silver Drop Eucalyptus Gunni
- The Columbus Dispatch: Plant of the Week - Silver Drop
- The Growers Exchange: Briscoe's Seeds for Thought - The Importance of Pruning
- The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority: Eucalyptus for Cut Foliage
- Royal Horticultural Society: Eucalyptus: Pruning
- Univerisity of Illinois Extension: Pinching and Pruning
- Proven Winners: Eucalyptus Gunni - Cultural Data
- University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service: Plant of the Week - Hardy Eucalyptus
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dmgbuild accepts, as one of its arguments, a settings file. This is in fact a Python script, which means anything you can do in Python code, you can do in your settings file. This makes it easy for you to customise the behaviour of dmgbuild.
Each of the available settings is documented below; all of them are optional; the dmgbuild program has defaults for those that matter. The default values are visible from within your settings file, if you want to examine or alter them rather than replacing them completely.
If any -D key=value settings have been made on the command line, they are visible in a dictionary named defines within the settings file.
Disk Image Settings
If defined, overrides the output filename specified on the command line. The command line value is the default value.
If defined, overrides the volume name specified on the command line, which is the default value.
Specifies the format code for the final output disk image. Must be one of the types supported by hdiutil on the build system; currently the list includes
Code Meaning
UDRO Read-only
UDCO Compressed (ADC)
UDZO Compressed (gzip)
UDBZ Compressed (bzip2)
UFBI Entire device
IPOD iPod image
UDxx UDIF stub
UDSB Sparse bundle
UDSP Sparse
UDRW Read/write
UDTO DVD/CD master
DC42 Disk Copy 4.2
RdWr NDIF read/write
Rdxx NDIF read-only
ROCo NDIF Compressed
Rken NDIF Compressed (KenCode)
For disk images you intend to distribute over the Internet, you should probably stick to 'UDZO' and 'UDBZ'.
If defined, specifies the size of the filesystem within the image. If this is not defined, dmgbuild will attempt to determine a reasonable size for the image.
If you set this, you should set it large enough to hold the files you intend to copy into the image. The syntax is the same as for the -size argument to hdiutil, i.e. you can use the suffixes 'b', 'k', 'm', 'g', 't', 'p' and 'e' for bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, exabytes and petabytes respectively.
Content Settings
A list of files (or folders) to copy into the image. Each of these is copied to the root of the image; folders are copied recursively. e.g.:
files = [ '/Applications/' ]
A dictionary specifying symbolic links to create in the image. For example:
symlinks = { 'Applications': '/Applications' }
Specifies the path of an icon file to copy to the volume. You can either specify this, or as an alternative you can use the badge_icon setting.
As an alternative to the above, if you set badge_icon to the path of an icon file or image, it will be used to badge the system's standard external disk icon. This is a convenient way to construct a suitable icon from your application's icon, e.g.:
badge_icon = '/Applications/'
A dictionary specifying the co-ordinates of items in the root directory of the disk image, where the keys are filenames and the values are (x, y) tuples. e.g.:
icon_locations = {
 '': (100, 100),
 'Applications': (300, 100)
Window Settings
A string containing any of the following:
Example Meaning
#3344ff Web-style RGB color
#34f Web-style RGB color, short form (#34f = #3344ff)
rgb(1,0,0) RGB color, each value is between 0 and 1
hsl(120,1,.5) HSL (Hue Saturation Lightness) color
hwb(300,0,0) HWB (Hue Whiteness Blackness) color
cmyk(0,1,0,0) CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) color
goldenrod X11/SVG named color
builtin-arrow A simple blue arrow image (retina enabled)
/foo/bar/baz.png The path to an image file
The hue component in hsl() and hwb() may include a unit; it defaults to degrees ('deg'), but also supports radians ('rad') and gradians ('grad' or 'gon').
Other color components may be expressed either in the range 0 to 1, or as percentages (e.g. 60% is equivalent to 0.6).
For no background, specify None instead of a string value.
Each of the above controls the display of one of the standard window elements. All of them default to False.
The width of the Finder sidebar.
The position of the window in ((x, y), (w, h)) format, with y co-ordinates running from bottom to top. The Finder makes sure that the window will be on the user's display, so if you want your window at the top left of the display you could use (0, 100000) as the x, y co-ordinates. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be possible to position the window relative to the top left or relative to the centre of the user's screen.
The default view for the window; should be a string containing one of:
View name
Whether or not to show icon previews for the contents of the disk image (defaults to False)
Set these to True to force inclusion of the icon/list view settings respectively. By default, dmgbuild will only include settings for the default view type.
Icon View Settings
If set, indicates that the Finder should arrange the icons in the icon view according to the specified field. Allowable settings are:
Field name
Any other value disables automatic icon arrangement (which is the default, since the main use-case for dmgbuild is building application distribution images, where icon positioning is an important part of the design).
Specifies the grid offset for automatic arrangement.
Specifies the grid spacing for automatic arrangement.
As of Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Finder checks to make sure that grid_spacing is less than 100. If it is over that value, it will reject the saved settings.
An (x, y) tuple specifying the scroll position; this is only relevant if you position icons outside of the window area.
Specifies the position of the icons' labels. Choose 'bottom' or 'right' (defaults to 'bottom').
Specifies the point size of the label text. Default is 16pt.
Specifies the size of icon to use. Default is 128pt.
If arrange_by is not set, a dictionary mapping the names of items in the root of the volume to an (x, y) tuple specifying their location in points.
List View Settings
In list view, the following columns are available:
Field name
Sets the size of the icon in list view. Default is 16pt.
Sets the size of the text in list view. Default is 12pt.
Specifies the scroll position, assuming there are enough items to make the view scroll.
Specifies which column the Finder should sort the display by. Defaults to 'name'.
If True, formats dates using words like "Today" or "Yesterday" where possible; otherwise they will be displayed as a full date. Defaults to True.
If True, forces the Finder to compute all of the item sizes; normally this is set to False because it can be expensive calculating the sizes of deeply nested folders. Defaults to False.
A list or tuple of strings containing the names of columns, in the order you want them to appear.
A dictionary specifying the width, in points, for each of the columns. There are default widths for every column, so you may not need to set this variable in practice.
A dictionary specifying the sort direction (either 'ascending', or 'descending') for each column. Again, there are individual defaults for each column, so you may not need to touch this unless you wish to override the default behaviour.
License Settings
dmgbuild can attach license text to your disk image; this will be displayed automatically when the user tries to open your disk image.
Note that license text is either RTF, or it must be encoded in the legacy Mac encoding matching its language; dmgbuild will try to do this, but the built-in set of codecs in Python doesn't cover all the Mac encodings, so in some cases you will need to encode the data and use a byte string.
If defined, a dictionary specifying the details of the license to display. It has the following keys:
Key Optional Value
default-language No The name of the default language to display if there is no license matching the system language.
licenses No A dictionary mapping language names to license text (either RTF data or plain text).
buttons Yes A dictionary mapping language names to a sequence of user interface strings.
Supported languages are:
English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Hebrew, Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Icelandic, Maltese, Turkish, Croatian, TradChinese, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, Estonian, Latvian, Sami, Faroese, Farsi, Persian, Russian, SimpChinese, Flemish, IrishGaelic, Albanian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Yiddish, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Belorussian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, AzerbaijanAr, Armenian, Georgian, Moldavian, Kirghiz, Tajiki, Turkmen, Mongolian, MongolianCyr, Pashto, Kurdish, Kashmiri, Sindhi,


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|The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: BlackBerry.|
BlackBerry is a line of mobile phones made by the Canadian company BlackBerry (originally known as Research In Motion, or RIM, NASDAQ:BBRY). It does many different things like a computer but is small enough to fit in someone's hand. It is a mobile phone; it makes calls without wires. It can access the Internet as well. It also has a calendar and camera, and can send text messages. The BlackBerry started out as a pager and later turned into a mobile phone. The BlackBerry has a PIN which is a eight character hexadecimal identification number which is given to every BlackBerry phone. The President of The United States Barack Obama uses and supports the BlackBerry.
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Monsoon is believed to be the best time for planting trees and the time between June-end and August is supposed to be the most appropriate as by then, the earth, which is dry and parched due to the scorching summers is able to absorb moisture and becomes more conducive for planting.
Then again, if planted between this period, the issue of water supply to these newly planted saplings or seeds is solved to a great extent because of the continuous rainfall in the monsoons.
So plant a tree this monsoon and contribute to a greener earth.
Let's stop global warming by planting trees
- Please do not wait for government or NGOs to plant trees
- Sowing seeds or planting trees does not cost much
- Just collect seeds of Shatavari (Asparagus), Bel, Peeple, Tulsi, Mango, Lemon, Jamun, Neem, Custard Apple, Jack fruit etc.
- Dig 3-4 inches hole in open space, roadside, footpaths, highways, gardens or in your society or bungalow compound
- Bury these seeds in each hole with soil and then water them every two day in summer
- In rainy season need not water them
- After 15 to 30 days small plants will be born
- Please nurture them and ensure they grow big


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GEW concluded the first of its bi-annual Spectrum Monitoring and EMC training courses at its Cape Town facilities during the week of 9-12 May 2017. The four-day knowledge-building course was attended by 27 delegates from both the regulator and industry, and focused on regulatory issues, measurements in accordance with ITU-R specifications and EMC principles. The combination of theoretical and practical sessions help facilitate a greater understanding of the core ITU standards and industry best practices. The course presented key spectrum monitoring and management themes, such as:
- Real-time radio spectrum monitoring and measurements techniques
- ITU-R measurements and industry best practices
- Frequency assignment and occupancy analysis – Frequency Band Occupancy (FBO) and Frequency Channel Occupancy (FCO)
- Measurement systems training (half a day outing with practical demonstrations)
- Spectrum management and its supporting role in a monitoring network
- Understanding EMC fundamentals and principles to reduce interference
- EMC Coupling issues and its prevention.
Remaining current with the industry best practices insures a solid knowledge base on spectrum monitoring and spectrum management. This training course helps educate industry professionals to keep them at the forefront of spectrum monitoring and spectrum management operations. For information on future courses, please visit our Spectrum Monitoring Training page.


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As Canadian painter Jock Macdonald (1897–1960) began to experiment with abstraction in the 1930s, he created a series of paintings he called "modalities," something he defined as "thought idioms in nature" or "expressions of thought in relation to nature." Of these, Fall is the most monumental. Despite his decision to keep these experimental works secret—he had recently returned to Vancouver after over a year dedicated to painting and living off the land in Nootka Sound—Macdonald remained preoccupied with his search for a uniquely personal abstract expression in his work. Like many of the others from this period, Fall, one of several "modalities" representing the seasons, is strongly geometric, linear, and decorative in style and composition.
The central motif of the painting is a triangle that appears to aspire to the heavens. Its elongated peak seems to continue its upward ascent beyond the horizontal element of the frame. Abstract forms are disposed evenly across the surface. The only suggestions of representation are the curvilinear Art Deco designs of tree, leaf, and butterfly. The complicated colour harmony suggests autumnal richness. Calling on his experience as a textile designer, Macdonald succeeded in creating a stage in which every element is strongly tied to the surface of the canvas. In the pattern of the central striated area in the lower third of the canvas, however, the painting speaks to the infinite and timeless world—the fourth, fifth, and sixth dimensions—which Macdonald sought to capture in his art.
This Spotlight is excerpted from Jock Macdonald: Life & Work by Joyce Zemans.


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Empire of Dogs
Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue of Hachiko outside the station. The story of Hachiko reveals much about the place of dogs in Japan's cultural imagination.
In the groundbreaking Empire of Dogs, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines the history and cultural significance of dogs in nineteenthand twentieth-century Japan, beginning with the arrival of Western dog breeds and new modes of dog keeping, which spread throughout the world with Western imperialism. He highlights how dogs joined with humans to create the modern imperial world and how, in turn, imperialism shaped dogs' bodies and their relationship with humans through its impact on dog-breeding and dog-keeping practices that pervade much of the world today.
In a book that is both enlightening and entertaining, Skabelund focuses on actual and metaphorical dogs in a variety of contexts: the rhetorical pairing of the Western "colonial dog" with native canines; subsequent campaigns against indigenous canines in the imperial realm; the creation, maintenance, and in some cases restoration of Japanese dog breeds, including the Shiba Inu; the mobilization of military dogs, both real and fictional; and the emergence of Japan as a "pet superpower" in the second half of the twentieth century. Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people—especially those with power and wealth—use animals to define, regulate, and enforce political and social boundaries between themselves and other humans, especially in imperial contexts.


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Status change means Dutch Antilles no longer exists
The Dutch Caribbean dependency the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist with a change of the five islands' constitutional status.
Curacao and St Maarten have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, joining Aruba, which gained the status in 1986.
Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba are now autonomous special municipalities of the kingdom.
The Netherlands retains responsibility for defence and foreign policy.
The Dutch government will also have initial oversight over Curacao's finances under a debt-relief arrangement.
Collectively, the islands had amassed a debt of around 2bn euros (£1.75bn; $2.8bn), most of it owed to the Netherlands.
The smaller islands of St Maarten, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba said the debt was mostly run up by Curacao, the largest island and de facto capital of the former Netherlands Antilles.
Curacao complained that it was carrying too much of the financial burden for the federation, especially for Saba, St Eustatius and Bonaire.
Tourism, petroleum refining and offshore finance are the mainstays of the islands' economies.
The Dutch colonised the islands, alongside Aruba, in the 17th Century. The territory, once called the Dutch West Indies, became the semi-autonomous Netherlands Antilles in 1954.
The new status, which came into effect on Sunday, followed referendums over the past few years in which Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire and Saba opted to leave the federation while St Eustatius supported the status quo.
None of the islands voted for independence.


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Any process involved in the controlled movement of a bacterial cell which is dependent on the presence of type IV pili. Includes social gliding motility and twitching motility
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Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 Developer's Guide
Setting Up a Client Identity
Some of the Access Manager components such as SAML, User Management, Policy, require an identity for the client. The client application reads configuration data to identify the client. You can set up the identity for the client in one of two ways:
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Some of the configuration attributes (such as password) are encrypted and stored in the data store as an Encryption/Decryption Key. If such attributes have to be decrypted by the client, the property must be set, and must be the same as that of the Access Manager Server.
This value is generated at installation time and stored in the following file:
To Set Username and Password Properties
The following properties can be used to set the username and password that can be used by client SDK to obtain the configuration parameters. The authenticated username should have permissions to read the configuration data for SAML and User Management.
For scenarios where plain text password would be security concern, an encrypted password can be provided using the property: com.iplanet.am.service.secret.
If an encrypted password is provided, the encryption key must also be provided using the property: am.encryption.pwd.
To Set an SSO Token Provider
Set the following property: com.sun.identity.security.AdminToken
This provides an implementation for the interface, which returns the following single sign-on (SSO) token: com.sun.identity.security.AppSSOTokenProvider.


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Learn to Give Feedback without Criticism
- Overcome the dread about writing performance evaluations
- Trust your capacity to meet challenges when offering feedback
- Become excited about creating a learning culture in your organization
- Learn how to receive feedback without defending yourself
Listen to a sample audio snippet.
This 5-session telecourse recording is designed to support you in learning what makes giving and receiving feedback challenging and how you can turn these experiences into opportunities for learning, connection, and effective functioning. Listen to telecourse participants work with real-life examples, making the learning practical and immediately applicable. Each session focuses on a different theme and includes a worksheet to prepare for the session.
- Session 1 – Why Is Feedback Important and What Makes It Hard?
- Session 2 – Mastering the Motivation to Contribute
- Session 3 – The Building Blocks of Useable Feedback
- Session 4 – Meeting Challenges with Empathy
- Session 5 – Opening to the Gift of Others' Feedback


Tiger's Eye Meaning and Healing Properties
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If you're an avid collector of gemstones or simply like to pick up a crystal here and there, the tiger's eye stone is one item you'll want to add to your collection. With its gold, brown, and black color tones laid out in exquisite patterns, the tiger's eye stone is a unique one you'll want to collect.
Known for its powerful wealth and success components, the tiger's eye stone is used for many other reasons as well.
What Is Tiger's Eye?
Tiger's eye is formed by altering crocidolite when quartz dissolves it. As for the color, iron oxide is what gives it the signature color that makes it easy to identify this stone.
This gemstone is found in areas where heat and dry air are readily present. Some of the locations where tiger's eye is mined include India, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Brazil, Spain, and the United States, to name a few.
Tiger's eye has a smooth luster to it and is a 6.5-7 on the Mohs hardness scale.
three smooth and polished tigers eye stones
History of Tiger's Eye
Tiger's eye has a unique history. The ancient Egyptians adored the stone for its eye-catching color scheme. These individuals said the stone equated with divine vision and used it for the eyes of their deity statues. The Egyptians also used the tiger's eye in jewelry for its protective qualities.
The Romans favored tiger's eye gemstones for its protective attributes as well. The gemstone was put to good use as protection when heading into battle.
Meaning of Tiger's Eye
As you might have gathered, tiger's eye is a protective stone that has strength as a main characteristic. As with the tiger who rules the jungle, the tiger's eye stone represents courage and the wearer can embrace this meaning. The different colors also symbolize strength in varying degrees.
The tiger's eye stone has a watchful eye and mystical quality to it. These qualities both work together with the overall strength characteristic of the tiger's eye.
Tiger's eye is also helpful with balancing and clearing emotions. If you want a mind that's calm or a disposition full of peaceful qualities, tiger's eye is your go-to stone.
Healing Properties of Tiger's Eye
Gemstones and crystals are known for their healing properties and tiger's eye is no different. With its strength components, you can use tiger's eye to heal you of the things that bother you and affect you in different ways.
Here are some ways the tiger's eye stone can be used for healing purposes:
- Offering insight into difficult situations
- Providing focus
- Protection from negative energies
- Offering good luck
- Deepening one's state of meditation
- Help with grounding and centering one's energy
- Mental clarity
- Freedom from fear
With all these healing properties, it's no wonder that the tiger's eye stone is a popular healing item. Add in the fact it has a vibrant and unique color and you have a gemstone that everyone wants in their collection.
How to Use Tiger's Eye
Tiger's eye can be put to good use in many ways. From wearing it as a pendant around your neck to keeping the stone in your pocket, you can embrace the powerful healing components of the tiger's eye stone.
If you want to have your tiger's eye stone on you wherever you go, wearing it in a piece of jewelry is an easy way to do so. You can buy tiger's eye pendants, tiger's eye rings, tiger's eye bracelets, and many other unique jewelry pieces adorned with this stone.
Feng Shui
Feng shui is the practice of using space and the layout of your home or office to create a balanced energy environment. This can be done by using gemstones and crystals in the practice of feng shui. Tiger's eye is an especially useful stone for feng shui purposes.
The tiger's eye gemstone can be used to keep moods grounded, make fears dissipate, and attract good luck. Overall, it's an excellent stone for providing a safe environment to your home or office. With its protective qualities you can see why tiger's eye gemstones are often used for the purpose of feng shui.
If you want to tap into the protective attributes of a tiger's eye stone, place it by your front door or by a window. This will add a feeling of security to your home and be an essential part of your feng shui layout.
The tiger's eye stone can also be used for meditation purposes. When you meditate, use your tiger's eye gemstone to help you connect to your purpose and path. As you meditate, hold the stone in your hand and let the healing powers and focus be the result of using the tiger's eye with your meditation.
You can also wear your tiger's eye as jewelry or place a tiger's eye gemstone on the table next to you as you meditate to let its powerful energy guide you in your spiritual meditations.
Chakra Cleansing
The tiger's eye gemstone is used in conjunction with the root, solar plexus, and sacral chakras. Tiger's eye can be used to dispel negative energy when used with the root chakra. When used with all three chakras, a tiger's eye gem will help to provide safety and strength to the holder as well as enable them to feel grounded.
This gemstone can also be used with the third eye chakra for enhancing psychic abilities as it's known for its mystical qualities.
Use the tiger's eye gemstone when engaging in a chakra cleansing and you will feel better in many different ways and reap the benefits listed above.
Table Displays
Sometimes you might want to display your tiger's eye gemstone right out in the open. With a larger tiger's eye gemstone, you can display this beautiful item in your home or office for all to see.
You can place the gemstone on a table by itself or add a few other crystals and gemstones to the collection for a decor item with an added powerful energy.
Carry the Loose Stones
You might find that keeping a tiger's eye stone in your pocket or purse as you go about your day is an ideal notion. By doing so, you can carry this good luck, focus-oriented stone with you wherever you go.
If you need some added energy throughout the day, simply take out your tiger's eye and hold it for a minute or so to recharge your strength.
single tigers eye stone
How to Care For Tiger's Eye
When you purchase your new tiger's eye gemstone, you want to be sure to keep it looking as lovely as possible.
Caring for your stone is easy as can be. Simply let it sit in water with a little bit of soap for a short while. Then, rinse off your tiger's eye stone and you'll find that it's clean, recharged, and ready to be put back to good use.
For a more in depth energy cleansing, place your tiger's stone outside at night every so often and let the moonlight cleanse your beloved gemstone. This will provide excellent recharging qualities for your stone.
When you want to put your tiger's eye aside, such as safely storing a piece of tiger's eye jewelry, make sure to place it in a small felt bag or separate jewelry box compartment so it doesn't get damaged if put in with other items. You want your tiger's eye to be in the best shape possible for years to come.
Pursue Success with Tiger's Eye By Your Side
Tiger's eye is a gemstone with an excellent meaning and wonderful healing qualities. When you have a tiger's eye necklace or loose tiger's eye gem to take with you wherever you go, you'll feel confident and protected as you face each day.
When it's time to buy a tiger's eye gemstone, consider the following:
- Do I want to wear it or carry it?
- Do I want a small stone or larger display?
- What color scheme am I looking for, more yellow or more brown?
- What jewelry items do I often wear that I could add a tiger's eye stone to?
- What is my gemstone budget?
- Do I want to collect other stones to display beside my tiger's eye gemstone?
As you consider these items, you'll be able to choose the right type of tiger's eye gemstone to add to your stone collection. You might even want to collect a few different types of tiger's eye stones, especially if you're really interested in this type of gemstone.
When you buy your tiger's eye gemstone, think of the many ways you can use your new item. You can take up meditation or engage in chakra cleansing and watch the tiger's eye work its powerful energy magic. You'll find that having this gemstone by your side gives a new outlook and helps you in various areas of your life to achieve what you've been looking to do all along.
Explore the tiger's eye products and choose the one that is most suited for your lifestyle. You'll find that adding this lovely stone to your collection is not only a good idea for its powerful energy but lovely aesthetics as well.


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Natural Resources - Factors Affecting Productivity Improvement
The manner in which countries use the resources at their disposal is of major importance, although an absence or lack of a specific resource may be overcome through ingenuity. By using the human resources at its disposal, countries lacking in such vital resources as coal and steel have become immensely powerful in other areas, ie the Swiss banking and Japanese Consumer Electronics Industries. Other such resources which require proper management include land, energy and raw materials.
Government and infrastructure
Many of the ways in which government policy affects the organisation have already been discussed, and as stated, to ensure productivity growth on a national basis requires the government to be aware of possible policy methods which will help industry.


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Beyond the aetiology debate: the "great LSD scandal" at Newhaven Private Hospital & the social foundations of mental health legislation in Victoria, Australia
AuthorLomax, Megan Kristine
AffiliationSchool of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Document TypePhD thesis
Access StatusOpen Access
© 2017 Dr. Megan Kristine Lomax
This research presents a case for the extension of existing analyses of Australian psychiatric scandals beyond the conclusion that such events are an inherent feature of the profession by virtue of its failure to resolve the aetiology debate. A mid-century impasse in the aetiology debate – the continuous shifting over time of professional commitment between organic and environmental aetiologies of mental illness – has been identified as the catalyst for the emergence of the therapeutic paradigm of eclecticism that fostered the deep sleep therapy and 'Therapeutic Community' programs that were central to Australia's two infamous psychiatric scandals at Chelmsford and Townsville, respectively. While these two affairs were enduring the scrutiny of commissions of inquiry, the recommendations of which translated to the legislative reform of mental health services in the states of New South Wales and Queensland, a third such scandal was unfolding at Newhaven Private Hospital in Victoria involving the "injudicious use" of therapeutic LSD. By the late 1980s and early 90s, a number of former "patients" of Newhaven emerged claiming that they had never suffered any mental illness and that the LSD they had received had not been administered for therapeutic purposes but rather as a recruitment tool for a fringe religious sect known as The Family that had commandeered the hospital and the loyalty of a number of its staff. What constituted the scandal at Newhaven, however, was the fact that these activities continued unchallenged despite the implementation of statutory regulations – the Poisons (Hallucinogenic Drugs) Regulations 1967 – designed specifically to protect against the abuse of therapeutic hallucinogens. Having avoided any formal inquiry of its own, the Newhaven case represented not only a compelling narrative history opportunity, but also a test of the robustness of the prevailing argument that such scandals emerge as a consequence of the profession's failure to achieve consensus on the aetiology of mental illness against the implication that inadequate legislation facilitated the abuse. Using the case of Newhaven as a working example, this research analyses the historical mental health legislation of Victoria and parliamentary debates to construct a legislative history of the aetiology debate and confirm its role in the emergence of psychiatric scandal, arguing that the Poisons (Hallucinogenic Drugs) Regulations 1967, and indeed mental health policy more broadly, were in fact products of the debate. Furthermore, it demonstrates how, far from being insulated within the profession of psychiatry, the debate itself was informed by wider prevailing social, cultural, political and economic trends. The abuse of therapeutic LSD unfolded under permissive regulations which reflected the permissive nature of broader mental health policy embodied in the Mental Hygiene Acts and their signature initiative of deinstitutionalisation. This permissiveness was a symptom of the underlying atmosphere of eclecticism that characterised mid-century psychiatry in Victoria as it sought to accommodate simultaneously the biological and social bases for the eugenic and community-based measures, respectively, that developed in response to the co-emergent social forces of the 'mental hygiene' and 'anti-psychiatry' movements.
Keywordshistory; psychiatry; LSD; mental health; legislation; Victoria; hallucinogens
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Intercollegiate Athletics Governance
Reduce the NCAA's Power
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) functions as a cartel. One of the most significant ways to check the powers of the NCAA is to form a body of composed university presidents from each conference and division, former college student-athletes, and professional coaches to vote to approve, modify, and/or reject rules and decisions rendered by the NCAA. Essentially, this new body would have line-item veto power over the NCAA. For rules and decisions of the NCAA to be vetoed, this new body would have to arrive at a two-thirds majority agreement. By creating this new governing body, the NCAA's current absolute power would be eliminated. Although this is not a panacea to the problems in intercollegiate athletics, it does provide critical oversight for the NCAA.
A governing body with real oversight powers over the NCAA is needed. When the NCAA recently evinced that it cannot abide by its own rules during the investigation of the University of Miami, no substantive consequences ensued. The reason why no consequences followed for the organization is there's no oversight body in place to address the NCAA.
The NCAA constantly produces rules and decisions that aren't beneficial to student-athletes and the schools they attend. Although the NCAA markets itself as a zealous advocate for student-athletes, the organization's marketing is completely phony. If the NCAA was serious about being an advocate for student-athletes, then it would supply student-athletes with all the resources they need to be successful academically and would allow student-athletes to receive stipends.
Higher education administrators, students, student-athletes, fans, alumni, and policymakers must federate to call for an oversight body for the NCAA. An oversight body for the NCAA would help to improve phenomena in intercollegiate athletics and significantly benefit student-athletes and the schools they attend.
If you care about student-athletes and reforming intercollegiate athletics, then you will join the effort to institute a new oversight body for the NCAA.
Antonio Maurice Daniels
University of Wisconsin-Madison


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Why is my D5/D5s/D5s Pro robot not connecting to WIFI?
1) Make sure you are using the correct password for your 2.4GHz network. Verify that the password was entered properly, with no typos.
Modern routers typically use two frequency bands, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Ultenic robots can only connect to 2.4GHz networks. They do NOT work with 5GHz networks.
How to find out if your router is dual-band:
Look up the model on the manufacturer's website.
Check the SSID name. If 2 networks are being broadcast from the router, it is most likely a dualband router.
If there are duplicate SSIDs, confirm that the MAC address associated with the SSID corresponds to the Wi-Fi Access Point. The instructions for finding the MAC address will be in the Administration section of the Wi-Fi Access Point user manual.
An issue known as band steering occurs when both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks have the same SSID. This can cause connectivity issues when setting up connected devices.
We recommended giving the networks separate names to prevent band steering problems.
2) Firewall settings may block certain ports. Check your home connection technology such as router settings. T
he following ports should be open or whitelisted:
- 80 (http) • 443 (https)• 53, 55055 and 55056
Please check the user manual for your router to verify the instructions on configuring firewalls.
3) Router placement makes a big impact on robot connectivity. Try placing the router centrally, so coverage is uniform throughout the house.


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Photo Date: 1983
Photo Number: 084 081 001
The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant is located in south central Ohio, approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Portsmouth, Ohio, and 112 kilometers (70 miles) south of Columbus, Ohio. The site is situated on a 1,483-hectare (3,708-acre) federal reservation
approximately 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) south of the Village of Piketon. Construction of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant began in late 1952 to expand the Federal Government's gaseous diffusion program already in place at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Paducah, Kentucky. The facility was built to increase the production of enriched uranium at rates substantially above the other two facilities because highly-enriched uranium was required for use in nuclear submarine reactors, and low-enriched uranium was needed for commercial nuclear power plants. The first process cell went online in September 1954. A gas centrifuge uranium enrichment program was initiated in the early 1980s at Portsmouth. However, full operation was never implemented for the centrifuge process. Since 1991, the plant has produced only low-enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants.
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Translation of mountebank in Spanish:
- [literary/literario] embaucador, (masculine, feminine), charlatán, (masculine, feminine)Example sentences
- Additional evidence indicates that it was a term used among medical mountebanks in Tudor times.
- The word toady comes from 'toad-eater': a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
- There had always been mountebanks and charlatans operating in the public squares, but they now dominated the marketplace.
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Crianza is a term which refers both to the process of ageing wines, and to a category of wines, vinos de crianza, which have been aged for a minimum of two years, first in barrels or the more modern stainless steel tanks, and then in the bottle.


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The Ardolf Science Center, home of the Chemistry Department and the Nutrition Department
The Chemistry Department at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University strives to provide an excellent education in chemistry within a liberal arts tradition for a variety of learners. We design our program to help students understand that chemistry is a way of thinking about how matter is constructed, organized, and functions. In accord with the Benedictine tradition of these two institutions, we build this chemical foundation in a context that helps students become scientifically responsible citizens, with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will allow them to be successful in scientific or non-scientific professions. We accomplish this by providing students with a variety of learning opportunities such as formal courses with integrated laboratories, hands-on experiences with modern instrumentation and computers, research projects and seminar programs. We carry out this mission in an atmosphere of support and encouragement for both students and staff.


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Suppose $p = 2^n - 1$ is prime. Show that $n \: | \: 2^n - 2$, or equivalently $n \: | \: p - 1$.
With hint: The order of any element in this field divides $p-1$.
Example: $n=7, \; p=127 \:\Rightarrow\: 7 \: | \: 126$.
I don't have any progress that seems to lead to a proof, but here are some of my ideas:
 - Because $p$ is a Mersenne prime, $n$ must be prime
 - Use Fermat's little theorem
 - Show that $2^n - 2 \equiv 0 \mod n$
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You have mentioned ingredients that lead to a proof. As you point out, the number $n$ must be prime, so we can use Fermat's Theorem.
There are a couple of different versions of Fermat's Theorem. Each version is not difficult to derive from the other.
Version 1: If $n$ is prime, then for any integer $a$, we have $a^n \equiv a \pmod n$. This says directly that $n$ divides $a^n-a$, which is exactly what you want to show, in the special case $a=2$.
Version 2: If $n$ is prime, and $n$ does not divide $a$, then $a^{n-1} \equiv 1 \pmod n$.
In your case, $n$ is odd, so if $a=2$, then $n$ does not divide $a$. It follows that $n$ divides $2^{n-1}-1$, and therefore $n$ divides twice this number, which is $2^n-2$.
However, you were given a hint which enables us to bypass Fermat's Theorem. So probably you were expected to argue as follows.
Since $p=2^n-1$, certainly $p$ divides $2^n-1$, so $2^n \equiv 1 \pmod p$. That implies that the order of $2$ in the field $\mathbb{Z}_p$ is a divisor of $n$. But the order of $2$ is exactly $n$, since $n$ is prime, and therefore the only divisors of $n$ are $1$ and $n$.
The order of any element of the field $\mathbb{Z}_p$ divides $p-1$. Since the order of $2$ in this field is $n$, we conclude that $n$ divides $p-1$, that is, $n$ divides $2^n-2$.
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You said "$p$ divides $2^n-1$, so $2^n \equiv 1 \pmod p$". How does this step work? – Nayuki Minase Feb 27 '12 at 6:31
_USER_ Minase: We say that $x\equiv y \pmod m$ if $m$ divides $x-y$. Take $x=2^n$, $y=1$, $m=p$. Since definitely $p$ divides $2^n-1$ (in fact is exactly equal to $2^n-1$), we have $2^n\equiv 1 \pmod p$. – André Nicolas Feb 27 '12 at 6:38
Ohh right, I understand now. I guess I'm not comfortable enough with modular arithmetic that such an elementary fact slipped past me, heh. – Nayuki Minase Feb 27 '12 at 6:40
Alternate explanation: $p$ divides $2^n-1$, so $2^n-1$ divided by $p$ leaves no remainder, thus $2^n-1 \equiv 0 \mod p$. – Nayuki Minase Feb 27 '12 at 6:42
_USER_ Minase: I can see why it is puzzling, in a sense it is *too simple. One expects to have to work a bit to show that a congruence holds. In this case, there was no real work involved. – André Nicolas Feb 27 '12 at 6:44
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Simpler answer:
Let $n \in \mathbb{N}^+$ be arbitrary. Let $p = 2^n-1$.
Clearly, $2^n \equiv 1 \mod {2^n-1}$. Moveover, $n$ is the smallest power where $2^n \equiv 1$. Thus the order of 2 in $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ is $n$.
Now if $p$ is prime, then Fermat's little theorem guarantees that for any $a$ (except 0), $a^{p-1} \equiv 1 \mod p$. Furthermore, the order of $a$ divides $p-1$.
$a=2$ has order $n$, therefore $n$ divides $p-1 = 2^n - 2$, as wanted.
Complicated answer:
Fact: $x^{ab} - 1 = (x^a - 1)(x^{(b-1)a} + \ldots + x^{3a} + x^{2a} + x^a + 1)$. So for the special case of $2^n-1$, if $n$ is composite then $2^n-1$ can be factored. By contrapositive, if $2^n-1$ is prime then $n$ is prime.
Fermat's little theorem: If $q$ is prime, then $\forall a \in \mathbb{Z}, \; a^q \equiv a \mod q$.
Now, $n \: | \: 2^n - 2$ is equivalent to saying that $2^n-2$ is a multiple of $n$, or $2^n-2 \equiv 0 \mod n$.
We established that $n$ must be prime. By applying FLT with $a=2$, we get $2^n \equiv 2 \mod n$, which is easily equivalent to $2^n - 2 \equiv 0 \mod n$.
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Hint $\rm\: prime\: P,\: A^P\!\! = 1 = A^K\!\Rightarrow A^{(P,\:K)}\!\!=1,$ so $\rm\: P| K\ $ [if $\rm (P,K) = P$]$\:$ or $\rm\: A\! =\! 1\:$ [if $\rm (P,K) = 1$]
For further detail see this question: If the order divides a prime P then the order is P (or 1).
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Why are all your variables in uppercase? – Nayuki Minase Mar 2 '12 at 5:05
_USER_ It makes expressions in exponents easier to read. – Bill Dubuque Mar 2 '12 at 5:25
Other than that, I'm sorry but I don't understand your argument at all. – Nayuki Minase Mar 2 '12 at 6:34
_USER_ Do you not understand the proof in the hint, or do you not understand how it applies to your case? – Bill Dubuque Mar 3 '12 at 1:08
I didn't understand how your answer fits with my question. Please see the other answers as examples of proofs that I did understand. – Nayuki Minase Mar 3 '12 at 23:33
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Paul French writes: > Hello All, > > we have an issue where derby takes a long time to startup. Anything > from minutes to hours. > > We are running derby on J9 on a windows mobile 6.5 > > It seems to be due to the fact that devices are being powered off and > so derby is not shutdown cleanly. > > Question is, what is derby doing to recover? Why so long? Even when we > start the application cleanly, do nothing, power off the device and > then on again, it can take a very long time to make the first database > connection vie the embedded driver. Hi Paul, During recovery, Derby replays all write operations performed after the last checkpoint and finally undoes all the operations performed by transactions that hadn't been committed at the time the database was taken down. If the database is shut down cleanly, a checkpoint will be invoked, so that there should be nothing to do in the recovery phase on the next start-up. If shutting down the database cleanly isn't an option, one way to reduce the recovery time is to increase the checkpoint frequency. Then there should be fewer operations to replay on the next start-up. This can be achieved by setting the (undocumented) database property, which specifies the maximum number of bytes of transaction log before a checkpoint is triggered. The default is 10MB. The minimum value accepted is 100000 bytes. However, you say that you see that recovery takes a very long time even if no operations were performed the last time the database was running, in which case there should be no operations to replay. Does the database's log directory contain many and/or big files? The files in that directory contain the transaction logs that need to be replayed on recovery. If there are many files there, it might be that you are running with log archive mode enabled (typically used when taking backups), which prevents old log from being deleted. You can check if that's the case by looking at the file in the database directory and see if it contains "". -- Knut Anders


Could you tell me if there is any difference in meaning between the following questions?
What do you expect of your partner.
What do you expect from your partner.
For of, I think that this is the most relevant meaning:
typical or characteristic of
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used to show the place where someone or something starts
What you expect of somebody relates to the way they are, and the way that they behave, without reference to your involvement in that behaviour.
What you expect from somebody relates to what you personally get from them, both in terms of material things and their behaviour.
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Parents are gifted with the role of primary instructor and example for their children in the Christian faith. Congregations can come beside these key people with encouragement and support. LCMS Youth Ministry's research found today's active LCMS young adults likely saw a high level of faith practiced by their parents. Whether parent, guardian, grandparent or other family structure, youth will tend to emulate worship and congregational involvement of adults in their lives. As good examples, parents/guardians help teens prioritize faith development by encouraging worship, prayer, and Bible study, especially during times of transition. Engaged parents do not need to be cultural experts, but they should understand the influences on their child's life. They should be active listeners and learners around their child's interests and gifts. Engaged parents understand their child's vocation at each stage of life. In all of this, congregations can provide training, older mentors and peer support for parents as they seek to raise faithful youth.
- How do you help support parent(s) in their vocation as primary faith teacher?
- How have you seen parents have an impact on the faith lives of youth?
- Do you know parents/guardians/grandparents who may need extra support and encouragement? How can you help them in their vocation?
For Youth Ministry Leadership
- Does your youth ministry communicate to parents that they are the primary instructor and example for their children?
- How does your youth ministry help train and empower adults to have faith conversations, including questions and doubts, at home?
- How does your youth ministry train parents to understand their child's vocation?
For Congregational Leadership
- How does your congregation impress on parents the importance of their own faith life, worship, and leadership on their children?
- How does your congregation help parents understand the spiritual, mental, and emotional development of their child through different ages and life circumstances?


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Bananas Injected With Hiv-Infected Blood Revealed After 10 Year Old Boy Contracts The Virus
A 10-year-old boy who had eaten a banana his mother purchased at a Walmart in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was rushed to the emergency room due to fever, chills and fatigue just seven days after consumption. After a thorough examination, blood tests and scans the young boy tested positive for the HIV virus. His mother obviously in shock. However, the 10-year-old child was not the only one admitted to the hospital for the same issue. Eight children, all under the age of 17, have been diagnosed as HIV-positive. What is the one thing they have in common? Purchasing bananas from The Tulsa, Oklahoma Walmart.
According to the parents, they submitted several foods their children had been eating to doctors for testing, along with documenting the different places they had visited within the month. They found that all 8 children had consumed bananas from the superstore. The facility, LHC Laboratories, tested the bananas which all came up positive containing the HIV virus. Researchers are still trying to understand how the virus could have entered the bananas, stayed active, and infected the children through consumption.
In the meantime, bananas are being pulled off the shelves in Walmart stores across the United States. According to many media outlets, the CDC is encouraging Americans to discard any uneaten bananas and to contact your doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms:
- Night sweats
- Muscle aches
- Sore throat
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Mouth sores
These symptoms could be an indication that you have contracted the HIV virus and need to seek medical attention immediately.


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1. A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something: signed a pledge never to reveal the secret; a pledge of money to a charity.
a. Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.
b. The condition of something thus given or held: put an article in pledge.
a. Delivery of goods or personal property as security for a debt or obligation: a loan requiring a pledge of property.
b. The contract or transaction stipulating or involving such delivery.
4. A token or sign: "fair pledges of a fruitful tree" (Robert Herrick).
5. A person who has been accepted for membership in a fraternity or similar organization and has promised to join but has not yet been initiated.
6. A vow to abstain from alcoholic liquor: ex-drinkers who have taken the pledge.
7. Archaic The act of drinking in honor of someone; a toast.
v. pledged, pledg·ing, pledg·es
1. To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise: pledge loyalty to a nation; pledge that the duties of the office will be fulfilled. See Synonyms at promise.
2. To bind or secure by a pledge or promise: pledged themselves to the cause. See Synonyms at devote.
3. To deposit as security; pawn.
a. To promise to join (a fraternity or similar organization).
b. To accept as a prospective member of such an organization.
5. Archaic To drink a toast to.
1. To make a solemn binding promise; swear.
2. Archaic To drink a toast.


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Green building facts
- Buildings consume 32% of the world's resources including 12% of fresh water and 40% of the world's energy (7).
- In Australia commercial buildings produce almost 9% of our national Greenhouse gas emissions (8).
- To make way for the new Law School the Edgeworth David building and the Stephen Roberts lecture theatre were demolished in 2006. Over 80% of the materials from these buildings were recycled including the valuable copper from the roof of the lecture theatre
The new Law School Building
7. "Environmentally Sustainable Buildings: Challenges and Policies" OECD (2003)
8. "Australia State of the Environment Report" Department of Environment & Heritage (2001)


Do prescribed fires kill wildlife?
Rarely are wildlife directly killed by a prescribed fire. Most wildlife are able to leave an area before it burns. Fossorial species retreat underground as the fire passes. However, there are some species, such as those that are less mobile, that are more susceptible to direct mortality. Generally, reptiles and amphibians are more at risk than mammals or birds. Fire can indirectly impact wildlife either positively or negatively by changing plant community composition and structure.


Focus: Economic Botany
Focus: Economic Botany
Economic botanists explore the interface between people and plants to describe the cultural uses of plants, explain the origin of specific useful plants and develop strategies for the sustainable use of plant resources. Ever since its founding in the late 19th century, The Field Museum and its scientists have studied the great variety of ways that people use plants. In fact the Museum's first Curator of Botany, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, had a special interest in economic botany and tropical plants which resulted in a direction and influence that continues at the Museum today.
The Natural Products Initiative aims to revitalize the tradition of economic botany at The Field Museum and to highlight the essential contributions of the plant world to our everyday lives.
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Christopher Peacocke is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Click here to listen to our conversation with him.
In this episode, Christopher Peacocke discusses what it is to hear an emotion in a piece of music. Even instrumental music seems to be emotionally charged–minor chords, for example, usually have a melancholy ring to them. But it isn't entirely clear why this should be. What it is about certain combinations of notes that makes them feel a certain way?
Christopher Peacocke argues that hearing an emotion in a piece of music can be likened to what happens when we think metaphorically. A tree in a painting might strike the viewer as having subtly humanoid features, for example. In this case, the viewer is seeing the depicted tree metaphorically as a person. Similarly, when we hear sadness in a piece of music, we are hearing the music metaphorically as a vocal expression of sadness.
Our guest concludes by noting how this theory of musical emotion can be used to explain the difference between romantic, classical, impressionist, and expressionist music.


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Feel free to add your idea or elaborate on an existing one. This listing is intended for prospective contributors, Google Summer of Code students, and others interesting in becoming part of the Mylar developer community. Also see: bugs marked helpwanted.
- Provide lightweight workflow actions (e.g. trigger a commit when a bug is closed). This involves adding workflow support to the Tasks framework and implementing task editor actions for for workflow (e.g. check-box for performing commit, action for running task context tests). Query current wofklow bugs
- bug 152415: add a buddy list to ease task assignments and CCs.
- bug 161877: improve duplicate detection mechanism and heuristics.
- Provide wiki integration. This involves providing mechanisms for rich editing and viewing of task repository comments in wiki format, potentially adding wiki editing.
- Improve the new user's experinece. This could involve creating a welcome page, cheat sheets, and streamlining the process of going from installing Mylar to having a task repository.
- bug 116487: create performance test harness
- Identify key performance bottlenecks and address existing performance bugs.
Structure bridges connect Mylar's task context model and task-focused UI to domain-specific tools and artifacts. Note that some bridge implementations fall out of the scope of the Mylar project itself and should reside in the projects that they integrate with. For documentation see: Context API
- bug 162558: C/C++ via CDT (_URL_
- bug 150772: RadRails (external)
- bug 176804: PHP via PDT (_URL_
- bug 167456: PHPEclipse (external)
- bug 161829: Texlipse Latex (external)
- bug 144564: AspectJ (external)
- bug 111700: active folding for WTP XML editor (_URL_
- bug 170894: create an example connector project to be used by integrators as a template. This connector should be simple, for example, it could provide integration with a local comma-delimited value (CSV) as the repository.
- bug 170395: create PDE wizards for automatically generating task repository connectors. These would be similar to the current PDE wizards for creating plug-in projects.
- Integrate with the Maven tasks plug-in (external)


Portal:Conditioners directory
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Welcome to the COLLADA conditioners portal
A collection of links and articles describing COLLADA conditioners and related tools
A conditioner takes a COLLADA document and performs some kind of operation on it in preparation for its use for a specific purpose or with a specific application.
Related tools
 - COLLADA Refinery is a GUI-based application for creating content pipelines for 3D assets using modular components called conditioners. A pipeline consists of conditioners that pass their resulting documents to the next conditioner.
Can I add a conditioner to this directory?
See instructions for adding to the conditioners directory.
List of COLLADA conditioners
Geometric processing
lines2linestrips Changes all lines into linestrips.
linestrips2lines Changes all linestrips to lines.
Optimizer Rearranges the order of triangles to maximize the cache hit rate for vertices indexes. It works for triangles only.
Triangles2lines Changes all triangles to lines. Duplicate lines might be created.
Trifanner Changes all triangles to trifans.
Tristripper Changes all triangles to tristrips.
Deindexer Rearranges vertices indexes so that each Vertices will reference the corresponding Position, Normal, Texcoord with the same index number. The size of source for position, normal, and texcoord might increase.
Detrifanner Changes all trifans to triangles.
Detristripper Changes all tristrips to triangles.
Polygons2lines Changes all polygons to lines. Duplicate lines might be created.
Polygons2polylists Changes all polygons to polylists.
Polygons2triangles Changes all polygons to triangles.
Polylists2lines Changes all polylists to lines. Duplicate lines might be created.
Polylists2polygons Changes all polylists to polygons.
Polylists2triangles Changes all polylists to triangles.
Axisconverter Converts documents between Y_UP, X_UP, Z_UP.
Packager Collects all dae, image, and other resource files and compresses them into a zip file.
coherencytest Checks whether a COLLADA document is properly composed or coherent.
copyrighter Adds or overwrites the copyright text from a text file.
daestripper Removes all elements of a specific tag from a document. (For example, remove all .)
filename Searches for all resource file references and adds string prefix.
imageconverter Searches for all the images that a document uses and converts them to your desired supported image format. It uses Dev iL image library for image conversion. You must provide the file extension of your desired image format.
kmzcleanup Kmz files created by previous versions of sketchup are not coherent. This conditioner adds the missing elements, such as , to fix the kmz file.
COLLADA Contest entries
CgToGLSL Creates a profile_GLSL out of your existing profile_CG COLLADA effect. This includes shader source compilation using NVIDIAs Cg Compiler.
FxCleaner Optimizes COLLADAFX data by merging redundant effects, or deleting unnecessary parameters.
VertexCacheOptimizer Optimizes COLLADA geometry data by reordering the indices in the triangles section.
Example conditioner example entry.


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Next: Acquiring the Information Up: Integration with Web Servers Previous: Integration with Web Servers
The DFP approach to web personalization is based on providing relevant information to a sophisticated on-line decision engine. This subsection distinguishes between the raw data that can be obtained easily and higher-level semantic information, such as used by the Decision Flow in the example of Section 3.
At a minimum, the on-line decision engine should have access to the following kinds of information. We are not suggesting that all of this data will be used in each decision, but that it should be available if deemed relevant.
- History of customer clicks: This includes not only the web requests that the customer is making, but also the the navigation path being followed around the site, the times spent at each page, and the entries made into any forms.
- Web server responses: The response of a web storefront to a customer may be very important in understanding the customer experience. For example, to determine frustration stemming from difficult searches, it is important to know about both the number of searches performed and also the sizes of returned answers.
- Enterprise data: A broad variety of stored information may be useful to the personalization. At a minimum this will include accessing information resulting from bulk statistical analyses and information on inventory and availability times. If the customer has been identified then customer profiles and recent customer histories can also be incorporated into the personalization process.
There is also a higher, semantically rich kind of information that can be helpful as input for the decision engine. This will include information, for example, about the category of page being accessed by the customer (e.g., search request, search answer, catalog entry, shopping cart), or the intent of a page (e.g., that it includes a promotion or indicates that a certain catalog item is out of stock).
Indeed, an important part of installing a DFP system, or any web personalization system using on-line decision support, will involve creating or determining a model of the web site, that incorporates relevant models of customers, the intent of their activities on the site, the business value of those activities, indicators that a customer may abandon a transaction, etc. The example of Section 3 provides a starting point for such a model, but a variety of other factors may be brought into play. This model will be clearly visible in the program driving the decision engine, and will help to guide the kinds of information that need to be passed from web server to decision engine.
There is a trade-off between attempting to automatically infer semantically rich information from the HTML passed between customer and web server vs. manually incorporating that information into the web page generation so that it can be obtained easily by the decision engine. Attempting to infer this information automatically typically involves parsing the HTML; it will involve the development of special-purpose code and be computationally expensive. Further, its success will depend on how direct and uniform the relationship is between the actual HTML content of the web pages and their intent. On the other hand, incorporating code into the web page generation that captures the semantically rich information puts an additional burden on the web site developer, both at creation time and during maintenance. A site such as Amazon or Yahoo could have thousands of pages, some static, others generated dynamically via server-side scripting languages such as ASP/JSP, or CGI-scripts/servlets. It will be a huge effort to modify all executable scripts to add the MIHU functionality.
Sophisticated web authoring environments such as Microsoft's FrontPage or Allaire's ColdFusion Studio provide hooks so that web site authors can easily incorporate semantically rich information into the HTML generated by their code. Thus it would be straightforward for site developers to extract high-level semantic information to be passed to the Vortex engine. However, if the site has not been built using such tools, we expect that early adopters of our personalization technology will opt for parsing the HTML, and will use only some of the information actually available.
Next: Acquiring the Information Up: Integration with Web Servers Previous: Integration with Web Servers Rick Hull


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Since ancient times, spices have been considered as very powerful ingredients because of their numerous medicinal properties. Black pepper is one of those spices whose properties never cease to amaze us. Especially when used as an essential oil, this one-of-a-kind spice can do amazing things for your overall health and well-being.
THE BENEFITS OF BLACK PEPPER ESSENTIAL OIL
This essential oil has antibacterial, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, carminative, diuretic, laxative, stimulant, and antiseptic properties. These are only some of the advantages of consuming it on a regular basis:
- Fight off infectionsthe antibacterial properties of this oil can treat insect bites and infections. When regularly consumed, it will cleanse the arteries and decrease the risk of atherosclerosis.
- Prevent damage caused by free radicalsblack pepper is known to have the antioxidant properties that can prevent or treat free radical damage and thus, protect you from liver and heart disease, but cancer as well.
- Soothes the stomach– black pepper can increase the hydrochloric acid secretion and thus, better the digestion. Having a healthy digestive system is vital for prevention of colic, diarrhea, and constipation. It will also prevent intestinal gas and encourage sweating and urination, which will result in expelled toxins from the body.
- Benefits the neurological health– one of the main compounds of black pepper, piperine, can lower cognitive malfunction and memory problems.
- Brings respiratory relief– black pepper has the power to alleviate sinusitis and nasal congestion since it can dissolve mucus and phlegm stuck in the respiratory tract.
- Good for the skin– black pepper can treat vitiligo, a condition that causes certain areas of the skin to become white. This is because piperine encourages pigment production.
- Contributes to weight loss– the outer layer of peppercorn contributes to a breakdown of fat cells, which is great for shedding fat and losing weight in a completely natural way.
THE 3 DIFFERENT WAYS OF USING BLACK PEPPER ESSENTIAL OIL
The benefits of black pepper essential oil are conditioned by the way you consume it. Some of the ways for consumption are inhalation, topical application, or ingestion. When inhaled, it will relax the mind and body and lower mental stress and the stress associated with quitting smoking. If you take it orally, for example, by adding it to barbecues, steak sauces, etc. this essential oil will cause urination and sweating, which are great for the body because it removes toxins through these processes. Black pepper will also stimulate bile production in the stomach and result in healthy digestion. When applied topically, together with carrier oil, black pepper will relax the muscles and reduce cramps and pulls. It will also encourage the removal of uric acid from the blood which is great for people who suffer from rheumatism, gout, or arthritis.


YouTuber Makes a Folding Bike and Now So Can You
The video shows steps by step instructions to making a folding bike that are surprisingly easy to follow.
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and such is the case for Laura Kampf, a YouTuber that found herself unable to travel on a train in Germany due to having her bike with her. Kampf did some further research and discovered that you can take a bike with you on a train if it is folded.
She then decided to make her own folding bike. How did this YouTuber make such a bike from a regular bike? With a lot of creativity and some heavy duty tools.
First, she used chain saws to cut the bike in two. Then, using parts of a bike chain, she connected two rectangular pieces of metals.
She used those two pieces to connect the two parts of the bike together in a way that they can actually fold. How ingenious! She even installed some locks to keep the bike perfectly in place when it is put on bike mode.
The end result is a folding bike that can be carried anywhere as a folded accessory. Watch the video to see this incredible transformation. Do you think you can make your own folded bike?
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