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So a turning point in November, and a seemingly important one. Unfortunately, given the action of the month, this could be referring to the high or the pre-election low.
With the weekly turning point I showed earlier, I think the timing is good to get in. Trading the DIA was a miserable experience, so I'll be trading the SPX and hoping the same applies.
Grading the previous months, July was a major top / success. The downtrend blew threw September (which isn't as big of a bar) until it got to the larger November bar. November had both a high and a low (pre-election) so I guess that means we don't know where it goes next.
Like the Dow, the gold Sept turning point is iffy. July was a major top/hit, with sept being just a bump up that didn't last. I suppose you could call it a turning point. Nov say a major crash so will that low hold until January? That looks like it will be the biggest turning point of them all.
If gold drops additionally until January, I'll look for a 900 something buying opportunity, because this might be a major bottom.


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Dubai Police has disclosed some of the ambitious and truly revolutionary and innovative measures they plan to introduce to the policing sector in the UAE. Director General of Artificial Intelligence at Dubai Police, Brig. Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi outlined some of the applications it has in the pipeline at the Intersec Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Conference which was held at the Dubai World Trade Center.
In a detailed and fascinating presentation, the Director General of Artificial Intelligence at Dubai Police said the future represented an exciting opportunities for introducing different methods to policing in the country, and claimed that Dubai would serve as a shining example to the rest of the world. He revealed that Dubai Police plans on introducing 'smart' police stations that would be unmanned, fully automated and open 24-hours a day.
Brig. Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi said, "The Smart Dubai Police Station represents a new era for policing in Dubai. These police stations will be unmanned. You won't find any police officers sitting in the station. Privacy is very important to us all and some people can be daunted by the prospect of visiting a police station to report an incident. They can be afraid of communicating with police officers. However, the Smart Dubai Police station allows you to do everything by yourself. The station is open 24-hours a day and offers all the services you require through an automated system."
In addition to this, it was disclosed that the Dubai Police force have developed a smart application that was specifically designed to help those with special needs and citizens and residents who are blind. The application is easy to navigate and allows users to request emergency help at the touch of a button and also enables them to make calls much easier.
The proactive and ambitious Dubai Police department have also partnered with SIRI and announced they will integrate a new Virtual Intelligent Assistant system to replace the traditional call center service currently in place.
Al Razooqi said, "We've also partnered with SIRI in order to integrate our services with SIRI for the Dubai Police Application. This new collaboration will allow users to pay fines, report a crime or an accident or request emergency help. We've also introduced a Virtual Intelligent Assistant system to replace our call center. You will be able to interact with it through voice and this will significantly reduce the current waiting times to speak to a police officer as the new system will be entirely automated."
The Director General declared that in Dubai nothing is impossible and said the force was gearing up to introduce driverless cars and RoboCops to the streets of the city. The robot police will be tasked with the responsibility of monitoring car parks and will also be utilized to patrol some of the busiest and most important areas in Dubai.
Al Mazooqi said, "There is nothing impossible here in Dubai. People have heard about RoboCops in the movies, but in Dubai we plan on making that a reality by deploying RoboCops across the city. Robots will monitor parking areas in the city and will be also be deployed to monitor certain places within Dubai. Some people think the introduction of RoboCops is some sort of futuristic nightmare, but they're here to assist and help and our main objective is to improve our services in order to make Dubai the safest and happiest city in the world."
One of the main gripes with those living and working in Dubai is urban congestion. There are a number of no-go areas at certain times. However, Dubai Police are working closely with the RTA in an effort to resolve the traffic woes that have plagued the city.
Al Mazooqi added, "We're working closely with RTA in order to tackle the traffic issues in specific areas of the city. We're aware that there are certain bottlenecks which are proving problematic and troublesome, but AI can help us analyze traffic patterns and will give us the opportunity to predict what the traffic is going to be like. We will also work with them in relation to traffic accidents to establish the nationality of the drivers involved, the cars and the driver's age in order to compile and submit reports on accidents quicker."
The AI chief at Dubai Police also jokingly quipped that data has indicated believe it or not that ladies have the lowest accident rate in Dubai, before confirming it is keen to accelerate the deployment of autonomous cars into the city. He added, "We will introduce driverless cars across the city. The driverless vehicles will have the capabilities to read plate numbers and it can also convey real-time information back to the control and command center.
Brig. Khalid Al Mazooqi concluded his brilliant in-depth presentation by making the astonishing claim that he estimates that by 2040 most of the crimes in the city will be committed by machines.


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Q: Event Process.Exited outlives its object life after re-instantiation in a while loop I've detected a certain behaviour in my code that I'm unable to explain and even though it's working fine, not fully understanding what's going on is really bothering me.
The script below creates and runs n_total processes of notepad but only allows a maximum of n_cpus notepads running at each time. In the beginning, n_cpus processes are launched and the rest only begin if the one or more running notepads terminate. Each notepad process can be terminated by the user simply by closing its window which triggers the event Process.Exited in the code. Now, inside the loop, the variable p is re-used to instantiate the class Process every time a new notepad is required and every object p subscribes to the event Process.Exited by p.Exited += p_Exited; Consider that we have n_cpus = 3 and run the code until it generates those 3 simultaneous notepads. I would expect that only the last instance p would fire the event since I'm re-using p and p.Exited belongs to the object, but no... No matter what notepad I close, the event is fired and a new notepad appears. What's going on? Is there some kind of objectless list of delegates EventHandler that remembers every process I create?
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

class Program
{
    // Summary: generates processes for "n_total" notepads allowing for a maximum of "n_cpus"
    //          notepads at each time. Every time a notepad closes another appears until all are run.
    //          A single variable "p" instantiates the class "Process" and the event "p.Exited"
    //          updates the number of running processes "n_running".

    static int n_running = 0; // number of notepads running each time
    static void Main()
    {
        int n_cpus = 3;
        int n_total = 3 * n_cpus;
        int i_run = 0;

        while (i_run < n_total) // Process generating routine until all are run
        {
            if (n_running < n_cpus) // Only a maximum of n_cpus running at each time
            {
                n_running++;
                i_run++;

                Process p = new Process(); // A new object per process
                p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
                p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/c notepad.exe";
                p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                p.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
                p.Exited += p_Exited; // Is this associated with a particular object "p", right?
                p.Start();
            }
            else Thread.Sleep(1000); // Waits 1s before checking for new terminated processes
        }
    }

    static private void p_Exited(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        n_running--; // Updates the number of active processes. Triggers new future processes
    }
}

A: The OS seems to do that for you because you enabled raising events via EnableRaisingEvents = true.
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*https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.exited#Remarks

*https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.enableraisingevents.

A: I think you are possibly making a couple of faulty assumptions here:
Variables are not objects, they are references to objects. When you assign an object to a variable (via new or whatever), you are not "replacing" or otherwise removing or deleting the object that was previously referenced by that variable. If there are no more references to the previous object it might be garbage collected at some point, but the object still exists and there could be other things keeping it "alive" (by containing a reference to it). Some compiler optimizations can even cause the opposite to happen: an object can get garbage collected before the variable that references it goes out of scope if the compiler determines that the variable is not being used again.
The event pattern is probably the single largest source of "memory leaks" in C# because many developers fail to realize that when you register an event, the lifetime of the object being listened to is now expanded to the lifetime of the listener (because the object being listened to, now has a reference to the listener, this reference causes the garbage collector not to collect the object). Since your p_Exited is static, all of the Process objects you create are now "rooted" (will not be garbage collected) until you unregister the event.

the variable p is re-used to instantiate the class Process

You aren't even actually "reusing" the p variable. It is declared within the scope of the loop, so every time through the loop, p is actually a "brand new" variable. This becomes an especially important distinction when it comes to closures (even the C# language team got this wrong).

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Later in life, he loved fishing the most, especially with his family in Marathon, FL. Ralph worked hard (too many hours) his whole life and generously gave back to his community in many ways (Rotary Club, Elks, ASA Umpire, local Oktoberfest, etc). Ralph was known by many as "Buda", a man who kept his word no matter what, a self-educated man, a fierce competitor and friend, a bull, a teddy bear, a leader, a person you could always come to for help, a man who professed the 6 "P's", our Patriarch, and most of all a selfless and dedicated family man. Ralph is survived by his wife of 52 years Patricia "Trish" A. Schaffer (Wigmore), daughter and husband Denise and Timothy Swick, son and wife, Ralph and Rhonda Schaffer III, son and wife Joseph and Yulia Schaffer. Ralph was predeceased by sister Roberta Powell and survived by sister Diane Jackson and brother Bruce Schaffer.Ralph is survived by 11 grandchildren (Larissa and husband Jason, Bradley, Kyle, Sarah, Anthony, Ashlee, Sydney, Nikkie, Kahlan, and Samantha) and 4 great-grandchildren (Raelyn, Kensley, Nolan, and Felix) and predeceased by his best friend (Bacardi). Family and friends may visit from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on February 16, 2017 and 11:00 am to 2:00 pm on February 17, 2016 at Ingersoll-Greenwood Funeral Home, 1201 Central Ave, North Wildwood, NJ 08260. Interment following at Cold Springs Presbyterian Cemetery, 780 Seashore Rd, Cold Springs, NJ. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that in the spirit of Ralph, you please take the amount you would spend on flowers or donations, and please place into your savings account. In that simple act, you honor him! Celebrate his life by living yours with hard work, generosity, love, and a joke for a friend. Condolences at http://ingersollgreenwoodfh.com/#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }...
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Motorola Cliq – New Android Phone By Motorola
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Motorola introduced on Thursday new phone using Google Android operating system and is intended to capitalize on the popularity of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
The mobile, the first result of its partnership with Google, is considered by Wall Street as the last great hope to revitalize Motorola's mobile business, which recorded losses and lost market share to rivals such as Apple's iPhone 3GS.
The model, which uses Google's Android program, has mini-keyboard down and five megapixel camera. It is designed to simplify the management of contacts and messages of social networking sites over the telephone, the company said.
His name in the United States will be Cliq, and will exclusively for T-Mobile USA, owned by Deutsche Telekom in the fourth quarter.
In the rest of the world will bear the name of Dexter. France Telecom's subsidiary Orange plans to market in the UK and France, Telefonica in Spain and will sell America Movil in Latin America, Motorola said.
The company has reorganized its mobile arm around Google's Android system, hoping that its partnership with Internet giant will help it regain market share.
The central piece of the company is developing its MOTOBLUR software that integrates contacts, emails and text messages, notes and photos as well as social networking, making all these sources of information in "easy to manage flows.
Motorola sees as key step MOTOBLUR compared with competing models such as HTC's Android and Samsung Electronics.
Motorola's announcement was expected as an act of survival for the company, which has canceled other models planned for this year to focus most of their development resources on devices with Android.
ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden said that while these characteristics would be important to the success of any smart phone today, do not engage in radical improvements to features already present in models such as the Palm Pre and HTC Hero, both smartphones, ie, with functions similar to those of single computer.
Burden said he was impressed by the role of backup MOTOBLUR, but noted that not enough to make success of Motorola phones.
"It has to do something else because that will not only make people run out and buy this phone," he said.
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1. Source of light : An object which emits light, is called a source of light. For Example : Sun, torch etc.
2. Luminous objects :These are the objects which emit their own light.
3. Non-luminous objects :These are the objects which do not emit light of their own. Such a body becomes visible when light falls on it. For example, the moon, the planets etc.
4. Pinhole camera :It is a device which forms a photograph-like image of a bright object on a screen.
5. Transparent objects :Those objects which allow all the light to pass through them are called transparent objects.
6. Opaque objects :If an object completely stops all the light falling on it, it is an opaque object.
7. Translucent objects :Some objects allow only a part of light falling on them to pass through, not all of it, such objects are called translucent objects. For example : a single thin sheet of paper.
8. Ray of light : A straight thin beam of light from a source to an object is called a ray of light.
9. Obstacle : An object which comes to the path of the light is called an obstacle.
10. Shadow :Opaque objects do not allow light to pass through them and cast dark patches behind them. These dark patches are called shadows.
11. Formation of a shadow
(i) All the opaque objects seem to form a dark shadow of their own.
(ii) We need a source of light, an opaque object in the way, and a screen to see a shadow.
(iii) Screen. This is a screen on which the shadow is formed. It may be a butter paper or simply ground.
(iv) Shadow give us some information about shapes of objects.
(v) The colour of the opaque object does not affect the colour of the shadow.
(vi) All the space behind the opaque object, into some distance behind it seems to be filled with the shadow.
12. Image formed by a pinhole camera
(i) Images formed by a pinhole camera are upside down. Here is a picture showing the ray paths of light, from an object far away to a pinhole, and then to screen.
(ii) When sunlight passes through the leaves of a tree, the gaps between the leaves act as the pinholes. These natural pinholes cast nice round images of the sun.
13. Rectilinear propagation : Light travels in a straight line. It is called rectilinear propagation of light.
14. Mirror : A smooth shining surface, which rebounds the light back in same or in different direction is called a mirror.
15. Reflection of light :When a ray of light falls on a smooth and polished surface, whole of light is return back in the same medium. It is called reflection.
16. Image formation by a plane mirror :We are able to see images through a mirror. Image formed by a mirror (flat) has following features :
(i) Reflected image retains the colour of the object.
(ii) Image is erected but laterally inverted.
17. Lateral inversion : Right side of the object appears as left side in the image formed by a plane mirror. For example, if we show our right hand, image in the mirror will show its left hand.
18. In a mirror, if you see another person, surely the other person can also see you in that mirror.
Q.1. Rearrange the boxes given below to make a sentence that helps us understand opaque objects.
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Q.2. Classify the objects or materials given below as opaque, transparent or translucent and luminous or non-luminous :
Air, water, a piece of rock, a sheet of aluminium, a mirror, a wooden board, a sheet of polythene, a CD, smoke, a sheet of plane glass, fog, a piece of red hot iron, an umbrella, a lighted fluorescent tube, a wall, a sheet of carbon paper, the flame of a gas burner, a sheet of cardboard, a lighted torch, a sheet of cellophane, a wire mesh, kerosene stove, sun, firefly, moon.
(a) Transparent objects : Air, water, a sheet of plane glass.
(b) Translucent objects :A sheet of polythene, smoke, fog, a sheet of cellophane, a wire mesh.
(c) Opaque objects :A piece of rock, a sheet of aluminium, a mirror, a wooden board, a CD, an umbrella, a wall, a sheet of carbon paper, a sheet of cardboard.
(d) Luminous objects : A piece of red hot iron, a lighted fluorescent tube, the flame of a gas burner, a lighted torch, kerosene stove, sun, firefly.
(e) Non-luminous objects : Include all (a) Transparent objects (b) Translucent objects (c) opaque objects and moon.
Q.3. Can you think of creating a shape that would give a circular shadow if held in one way and a rectangular shadow if held in another way?
Ans. Yes, there are many things which give a circular shadow if held in one way and a rectangular shadow if held in another way. For example : a cylinder, a circular disc, etc.
Q.4. In a completely dark room, if you hold up a mirror in front of you, will you see a reflection of yourself in the mirror?
Ans. No. In a completely dark room no image will be formed, because image by a mirror is formed due to reflection of light from the object and since there will be no light in a completely dark room, no image will be formed.
ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Q.1. Name sources of light that are not hot.
Ans. Tubelight, jugnu.
Q.2. List four natural sources of light.
Ans. (i) Sun, (ii) Stars
(iii) Fire (iv) Jugnu (Firefly)
Q.3. Write down four man-made sources of light :
Ans. (i) Candle (ii) Oil lamp
(iii) Electric bulb (iv) Torch
Q.4. Does the fire emit light?
Ans. Yes, fire emits light.
Q.5. Define luminous body.
Ans. The objects which emit light of their own are called luminous bodies e.g., the sun, the stars etc.
Q.6. What are translucent objects?
Ans. Those objects which allow only a small part of the light rays to pass through them are called translucent objects. These are the objects through which one cannot see properly.
Q.7. What are transparent objects?
Ans. Those substances which allow light rays to pass through them completely are called transparent objects. One can see clearly through these objects.
Q.8. Define opaque objects with example.
Ans. Those materials which do not allow light to pass through them, are called opaque. Example : wood, stone etc.
Q.9. Classify the following into transparent, opaque and translucent objects :
Wax, spectacles, a heap of salt, a stone, dense smoke, wood, skin, balloon rubber,
membrane of a table, blood and milk.
Ans. Transparent objects are : Spectacles, and membrane of table.
Opaque object is : A stone, wood, a heap of salt, dense smoke.
Translucent objects are : Blood, milk, wax, skin, balloon, rubber.
Q.10. Close your eyes while looking toward bright sunshine. Now cover the eyes with your palm still keeping them closed. Do you notice any difference? On the basis of this experience, state whether your eyelids are transparent, translucent or opaque.
Ans. On the basis of the experience we observe our eyelids are opaque.
Q.11. Sometimes, you are able to see the Sun or the Moon behind the clouds. What can you say about the ability of such clouds to transmit light?
Ans. We may say that cloud behaves as transparent object.
Q.12. How will you convert a transparent glass sheet into a translucent sheet? Suggest any two ways to do it.
Ans. (i) By smearing a thin layer of oil we may convert a transparent glass sheet into a translucent sheet.
(ii) By covering one side by butter paper.
Q.13. Define reflection of light.
Ans. When a beam of light strikes with a smooth surface, the whole light is return back into the same medium, it is called reflection of light.
Q.14. Define Pinhole camera.
Ans. It is a device which forms a photograph, like image of a bright object on a screen.
Q.15. Define screen.
Ans. Screen is a butter paper on which images are formed.
Q.16. Give five examples of luminous objects.
Ans. Sun, stars, electric bulb, burning candle, firefly etc.
Q.17. On what factor does the proportion of light that enter an object depend?
Ans. Optical nature of the object.
Q.18. How are moon and planets visible to us through they are not luminous?
Ans. Because they reflect light from the sun.
Q.19. What is an obstacle?
Ans. An object which comes to the path of light is called an obstacle.
Q.20. Give examples of two substances through which light does not pass?
Ans. Wood and bricks are substances through which light does not pass.
Q.21. Whether a shadow is two dimensional or three dimensional?
Ans. Shadow is not just the two dimenstional outline that you see on the ground. All the space behind the opaque object up to some distance behind it, seems to be filled with the shadow. (See Fig. 11.2).
Q.22. What we need in order to see a shadow?
Ans. We need (i) a source of light,
(ii) an opaque object in the way of light and
(iii) a screen
Q.23. Define Lateral Inversion.
Ans. Phenomenon of changing left to right and right to left by the mirror, while forming images is called lateral inversion.
Q.24. What happens when light falls on a mirror?
Ans. Mirror is silvered on one side, so it does not allow the light to pass through it. It reflects almost whole of the light falling on it.
Q.25. Define 'Mirror'.
Ans. A smooth shining surface, which rebounds the light back in same or in different direction is called a mirror.
Q.26. Why is silver glass used as a mirror?
Ans. The silvered glass has a smooth surface and the smoothness helps in forming clear image. Silvering makes it shiny and the shiny surface helps in reducing the absorption.
Q.27. Imagine a situation where air is opaque. Write down what would happen in your notebook.
Ans. If air were opaque, then we could not see the things in the room or even very close to us.
Q.28. While standing before a plane mirror, if you move your right hand, which hand does your image move?
Ans. If we move our right hand, our image will move left hand. It is because in a plane mirror our "left appears right" and "right appears left". This is called lateral inversion. Hence we can say that the plane mirror forms laterally inverted images.
Q.29. Can you think of a situation where we can see the path of the light?
Ans. In dark room we can see with torch light which goes straight. Similarly, dust particles become visible when light enters the room through fine hole.
All these examples indicate that light travels in straight line.
Q.30. Give two examples of substances through which light passes easily.
Ans. Glass, water, etc. are substances through which light passes. The substances through which light can pass are called transparent substances.
Q.31. Under what special conditions, light does not travel in a straight line?
Ans. If the size of the object in the path of light is very small (0.0001 cm/less) the light bends at the edge of the object. Thus in such case, light does not travel in
straight line.
Q.32. Does the direction of shadow change during the day? Does the length of shadow also change from season to season?
Ans. Yes, the direction of shadow changes as the sun changes its position during the day. The length of the shadow also changes from season to season.
Q.33. What change in the path of light takes place when light falls on a shiny surface? What is this called?
Ans. The light comes back in the same plane, when light falls on a shiny surface.This is known as reflection of light.
Q.34. How many reflected rays can there be for a given single incident ray falling on a plane mirror?
Ans. For one incident ray, there is only one reflected ray.
Q.35. If we are sitting in a room, we cannot see people sitting in the next room. Why is this so?
Ans. If we are sitting in a room, we cannot see people sitting in the next room because of opaque wall made of bricks between the two rooms.
Q.36. Is the glass used in spectacles transparent or opaque? What would happen if it were not so?
Ans. The glass used in spectacles in transparent. If it were not transparent, then we would not be able to see through spectacles.
Q.37. Why do objects in a room become visible even if sunlight does not enter it?
Ans. The objects in a room become visible even if sunlight does not enter it, due to the scattering of light. The air around the objects allows this scattered light to
pass through it and we can see the objects.
Q.38. What is reflection?
Ans. When a ray of light falls on a smooth and shiny surface, the whole of light is sent back in the same medium. It is called reflection. Mirrors do not allow even a small amount of medium light to pass through them. Mirrors show regular and complete reflection.
Q.39. How does light travel from one point to the other?
Ans. Light from a source of light spreads in all directions and reaches from one point to another point.
Q.40. Why is the image formed in a pinhole camera inverted?
Ans. In a pinhole camera image formed is inverted because the object is between radius of curvature and focus.
Q.41. State any one difference between stansparent and translucent materials.
Ans. In translucent materials only a small part of the light rays may be transmitted. Whereas in transparent materials light is transmitted almost completely.
Q.42. What is scattering?
Ans. When light falls on a rough and average shining surface, it is turned back in different directions. It is called scattering. The light rays are sent back in different directions due to uneven surface.
Q.43. What does an object do the light that fall on it?
Ans. It may allow the light to pass through as a glass sheet does. It may completely cur off the light from passing through by absorbing light, as the opaque bodies do. The object may scatter the light incident on it.
Q.44. Why do we need a shiny surface for reflection?
Ans. The extent of reflection depends upon the shine and smoothness of the surface. More is the shine and smoothness of the surface, more will be the reflection. That is why, mirrors reflect most of the light falling on it. Hence, for reflection, shiny surfaces are required.
Q.45. What are the characteristics of image formed by plane mirror?
Ans. Characteristics of images formed by plane mirror are :
(i) Plane mirror forms erect image.
(ii) Image formed is of the same size as the object.
(iii) The distance of image from the mirror is equal to the distance of object from the mirror.
(iv) It is virtual, it can't be obtained on a screen.
(v) Image is laterally inverted.
Q.46. What is shadow? How is it formed? How does the colour of an opaque object affects the colour of the shadow?
Ans. A shadow is a dark outline or image cast by an opaque object that blocks light coming from a source of light. It is formed when light hits the opaque object which does not let the light pass through. Everywhere else around the opaque object, the light continues in a straight path until it bounces off the ground or wall behind the object. The wall or ground behind the Opaque object is the screen. On this screen is a dark patch, or shadow, with the same outline as the object surrounded by light. The colour of the opaque object does not affect the colour of the shadow that we see.
Q.47. Give the set up of an experiment to show the rectilinear propagation of light.
Ans. We need : Three pieces of cardboard of the same shape and size, a thick nail, a candle, matches, a knitting needle or a similar long thin stick.
Take the three pieces of cardboard. Place them one on top of another and make a hole in the middle of all three using a thick nail.
Stand the three cards up on the table, each a short distance away from the next. You can keep them upright by placing them between books, notebooks, blocks of wood, etc.
Take a candle which is of the same height as the holes in the cards. Light the candle and place it in front of the cards .
Adjust the cards until you can see the flame of the candle from the other side.
We see that the light of candle is visible only when the holes on cards lie in a straight line and if we disturb any of card then the light of candle disappears.
Thus on this observation we can say that "light propagates in a straight line."
Q.48. What are the differences between a shadow of a flower and its reflected image?
1. A shadow gives only a rough idea of the shape of a flower.
2. It has no colours.
3. Formed by the absence of light due to blockage by an opaque object. 1. Image gives exact shape.
2. It tells about the colour of flower.
3. Formed due to reflection of light.
Q.49. Here capital letters of English Alphabet are given. Encircle the letters which will not show lateral inversion on facing a plane mirror.
K M N O P Q R S T U
Ans. A B C D E F G H I J
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
Q.1. Match the following items given in Column A with that in Column B :
Column A Column B
(a) Transparent
(b) Opaque
(c) Translucent
(d) Luminous body
(e) Shadow
(f) Image
(g) Reflection
(h) Lateral Inversion (i) Region of absence of light.
(ii) Scattering back of the light by shining surface.
(iii) Object through which one can see clearly.
(iv) Object through which one can not see at all.
(v) Formed due to reflection by mirrors.
(vi) Object through which we cannot see clearly
(vii) Phenomenon of changing left to right.
(viii) Produces light of its own.
Q.2. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words :
(i) An object or material could be opaque, transparent, translucent or ………. .
(ii) This is a …………… on which the shadow is formed.
(iii) A ……………. Is a dark outline of an opaque object that blocks light coming from a source.
(iv) Image formed by a pinhole camera is ……….. .
(v) Image formed by a plane mirror is ………… .
(vi) In a plane mirror our left hand looks like right hand. This phenomenon is called …………… .
(vii) …………….. objects cast no shadow.
(viii) Opaque objects cast …………. Shadows in morning and evening while …………. shadow at noon.
(ix) Light travels in a ……….. .
(x) Shadow is ……………. .
Q.3. State whether the statements given below are True or False :
(i) A torch bulb is a luminous object.
(ii) Light travels in a straight line.
(iii) Image formed by a plane mirror is inverted.
(iv) Light gets reflected when strikes a shiny surface.
(v) Transport substances reflect all the light falling on them.
(vi) All the shining bodies in sky have their own light.
(vii) Jugnu (Firefly) is a living luminous body.
(viii) When screen is far away from the objects the shadow will have no penumbra.
(ix) A reflected image gives us more information about the object than a shadow.
(x) In a mirror, if A is able to see B, B also see A.
(xi) Objects around us seem to have different ways in which they interact with light.
Q.4. Choose the correct option in the following questions :
(i) Light travels in
(a) Straight line (b) curved line
(c) zig zag line (d) randomly
(ii) When an opaque object comes in the path of light it forms
(a) An image with colours (b) shadow
(c) black and white image (d) depends on the colour of the light
(iii) Which type of objects allow light to pass through them?
(a) Translucent (b) Opaque
(c) Transparent (d) Penumbra
(iv) Which is an example of a translucent object?
(a) A thin sheet of paper (b) A thin glass slab
(c) A thin iron sheet (d) All of these
(v) Bouncing back of light from shining surfaces is called
(a) Reflection (b) Refraction
(c) Bending (d) Dispersion
(vi) What is lateral inversion?
(a) Image becomes inverted
(b) Image bends laterall
(c) Right of the object appears left of the image
(d) All of these happen
(vii) Which letter of english alphabet will not show lateral inversion?
(a) I, O, U (b) N, Z, X
(c) I, X, E (d) A, E, I
(viii) Which is a device to image the sun?
(a) Plane mirror (b) Pinhole camera
(c) A straight pipe (d) Glass slab
(ix) Which of the following is a cold source of light?
(a) Firefly (b) Tube light
(c) The sun (d) Electric bulb
(x) Out of these which one is not a man made luminous body.
(a) Electric bulb (b) Burning candle
(c) Firefly (d) Oil lamp
ANSWERS TO OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
Q.1.Match the items in Column A with Column B :
(h) Lateral Inversion (iii) Object through which one can see clearly
(i) Region of absence of light.
Q.2. Fill in the blanks :
(i) luminous (ii) screen (iii) shadow
(iv) upside down (v) erect (vi) lateral inversion
(vii) transparent (viii) big, small (ix) straight line
(x) Three dimensional
Q.3. True/ False :
(i) True (ii) True (iii) False (iv) True (v) False
(vi) False (vii) True (viii) False (ix) True (x) True
(xi) True.
Q.4. Choose the correct option :
(i) (a) A shadow is formed when an opaque object comes in the way of light.
(ii) (b) A shadow is formed when an opaque object comes in the way of light.
(iii) (c) Opaque objects do not allow the light to pass through them while translucent object allow only a part of light to pass through them.
(iv) (a) Glass slab is transparent and iron sheet is opaque.
(v) (a) When a ray of light fall on a smooth and polished surface, whole of light is return back in the same medium, It is called reflection of light.
(vi) (c) Right side of the object appears as left side in the image formed by a plane mirror.
(vii) (a) Z and E will show lateral inversion.
(viii) (b) Sun can be imaged by using a pinhole camera.
(ix) (a) Firefly (Jugnu) emit short bursts of light due to photochemical reaction, which take place in its body temperature.
(x) (c) Firefly (Jugnu) is a natural luminous body.


NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, disclosed this Thursday when he received the Governor of Yobe State, Alh. Ibrahim Geidam at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
Briefing the Governor and his entourage on efforts to increase the tempo of exploratory activities in the Industry, Dr. Baru stated that modalities were on to open up all the basins in the country to prospective investors.
"We are on target and we are looking at the prospectivity of the whole basins of Niger Delta, Chad, Anambra, Benue Trough, Benin, Sokoto and Bida. We are focused on delivering on these basins in line with our mandate," Dr. Baru affirmed.
The GMD said preliminary exploratory activities had indicated some signs of hydrocarbon in eastern Yobe of the Chad Basin, adding that once the Corporation received security clearance, the 3D seismic data acquisition in the area would continue as scheduled.
Dr. Baru noted that modern technology would be deployed in the exploration of the Yobe section of the Chad Basin similar to that deployed in the Borno side of the Chad basin.
He revealed that exploratory activities executed in the Benue Trough in the 1990s had indicated presence of hydrocarbon in the region, adding that attempts which were made under Production Sharing Contract arrangements had involved Shell, Chevron and Agip, which had drilled a well each in the region.
He added that already the NNPC had identified some leads and prospects that are going to be tested through drilling ahead of the resumption of the Chad Basin exploratory activities.
Earlier, Yobe State Governor, Alh. Geidam, said his visit was informed by the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari's government to increase Nigeria's oil reserves through exploration of oil and gas in the Chad Basin, adding that the policy direction of the Federal Government was of interest to the state because the basin covers a large area including Yobe State.
"My visit is a follow-up to our request on exploration of oil in the Yobe section of Chad Basin. The assurance which you gave that the exploration for hydrocarbon deposits in part of Yobe State was being considered has reinforced our resolve to work with you on diversifying the sources of national economy for improved revenue generation," Alh Geidam stated.
Alh. Geidam said he appreciated the critical role of the Oil and Gas Industry in the national economy, stressing that the reforms introduced by Dr. Baru since assumption of Office had created unprecedented developments in the industry.
The Yobe State Governor listed the gains of the reforms to include stemming the incessant scarcity of Petroleum products, increase revenue accruable from the Oil and Gas Sector to the Federation Account and the leap in the contribution of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas to the national economy.


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Do you believe in love?
By Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
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Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered freely by trees and other green growing things. You can't see air, but it's always available for you.
Love is a lot like the air. It may be hard to see - but it's in you and all around you.
In the press of life - dealing with hassles in personal relationships and bombarded with news of war and other conflicts - it's easy to lose sight of love, and feel you can't place your faith in it. But in fact, to summarize a comment from Gandhi, daily life is saturated with moments of cooperation and generosity - between complete strangers! Let alone with one's friends and family.
Love is woven into your day because it's woven into your DNA: as our ancestors evolved over the last several million years, many scientists believe that love, broadly defined, has been the primary driving force behind the evolution of the brain. Bands of early humans that were particularly good at understanding and caring for each other out-competed less cooperative and loving bands, and thereby passed on the genes of empathy, bonding, friendship, altruism, romance, compassion, and kindness - the genes, in a word, of love.
Nonetheless, even though the resting state of your brain - its "home base" when you are not stressed, in pain, or feeling threatened - is grounded in love, it's all too easy to be driven from home by something as small as a critical comment in a business meeting or a frown across a dinner table. Then we go off to a kind of inner homelessness, exiled for a time from our natural abode, caught up in the fear or anger that makes love seem like a mostly-forgotten dream. After a while, this can become the new normal, so we call homelessness home - like becoming habituated to breathing shallowly and forgetting the richness of air that would be available if we would only breathe deeply.
So we need to come home to love. To recognize and have confidence in the love in your own heart - which will energize and protect you, even when you must also be assertive with others. To see and have faith in the love in others - even when it is veiled or it comes out in problematic ways. To trust in love that's as present as air, to trust in loving that's as natural as breathing.
The Practice.
Take a breath. Notice how available air is, how you can trust in it. Notice the feeling of being able to rely on the air.
Bring to mind someone who loves you. Feel the fact of this love - even if it is, to paraphrase John Welwood, a perfect love flowing through an imperfect person. Can you feel your breath and body relaxing, as you trust in this person's love for you? Can you feel your thoughts calming, your mood improving, and your heart opening to others? Let it sink in, that trusting in love feels good and refuels you. Then if you like, do this same reflection with other people who love you.
Bring to mind someone you love. Feel the reality of your love; know that you are loving. As in the paragraph just above, absorb the benefits of recognizing and trusting in your love. Try this with others whom you love.
Scan back over your life and notice some of the many times when there was love in your heart - expressed one way or another, including generosity, kindness, patience, teamwork, self-restraint, affection, and caring. Appreciate as well that there have been many times when you wanted to love, were looking for someone or something to love (friends and good causes, too, not just romantic partners), or longed for more love in your life. These are facts, and you can trust in them - trusting in the lovingness of your heart.
In situations, open to your own lovingness. Privately ask yourself questions like: As a loving person, what is important to me here? Trusting in love, what seems right to do? Remember that you can be strong - and if need be, create consequences for others - while staying centered in love or one of its many expressions (e.g., empathy, fair play, goodwill). What happens when you assert yourself from a loving place?
Tune into the lovingness in others, no matter how obscured by their own homelessness, their own fear or anger - like seeing a distant campfire through the trees. Sense the longing in people to be at peace in their relationships, and to give and get love. What happens in a challenging relationship when you stay in touch with this lovingness inside the other person? Notice that you can both feel the lovingness in others and be tough as nails about your own rights and needs.
Don't sentimentalize love or be naïve about it. Trusting in love does not mean assuming that someone will love you. It means confidence in the fundamentally loving nature of every person, and in the wholesome power of your own lovingness to protect you and touch the heart of others. It means coming home - home by the hearth of love.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books include Hardwiring Happiness (in 14 languages), Buddha's Brain (in 25 languages), Just One Thing (in 14 languages), and Mother Nurture. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has several audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he's been an invited speaker at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.
Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University and served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center for nine years. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 109,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.


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Outgoing Planned Parenthood head says rights are 'at risk under this government'
April 16, 2018 · 3:45 PM EDT
By Jasmine Garsd
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks at a "Stand Up for Women's Health" rally in April 2011. After more than 12 years as the head of Planned Parenthood, Richards is stepping down.
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
It's hard to remember a time in which there wasn't a furious national debate over abortion rights and the future of Planned Parenthood.
It seems every week, there's news of a new abortion restriction or proposal: Mississippi just approved the earliest abortion ban in the country at 15 weeks; Iowa is considering a ban as soon as the fetal heartbeat is detected. Several states, including Nebraska and Arizona, have attempted to defund Planned Parenthood. Last week Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law a bill that could strip Tenncare (Tennessee Medicare) funding from Planned Parenthood after federal approval.
For the last 12 years of this debate, Cecile Richards has been many things to different people. As the president of Planned Parenthood, she's been described by some as a "mass murderer" and others as a "genius." Richard's time at Planned Parenthood has been rife with controversy.
There was a very public spat with the Susan G. Komen foundation. And then in 2015, an anti-abortion activist group secretly recorded video footage showing one abortion clinic making fetal tissue available to anti-abortion activists posing as researchers, which led to an intense Congressional hearing. A few months later, a deadly shooting at a clinic in Colorado led to questions about how much Planned Parenthood could really protect patients.
Richards recently announced that after 12 years, she's stepping down, which shocked some: Many activists feel under attack like never before and that this is the time to step up the fight. Anti-abortion activists celebrated but lamented Richard's legacy. And this month, Richards' book, "Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead — My Life Story," was released by Touchstone.
Across Women's Lives reporter Jasmine Garsd recently caught up with Richards.
Jasmine Garsd: I think for a lot of people, in liberal environments, the presidential election felt like they came out of nowhere. There's been so much talk about echo chambers — liberals only hearing each other and conservatives in their own bubble. You grew up in Dallas, Texas, in the 1950s and '60s. Do you feel surprised by what's happening now? Do you feel like you understand this conservative movement in a way maybe someone raised in a liberal environment wouldn't?
Cecile Richards: You know, I traveled for Secretary Clinton as a volunteer and I spent a lot of time around the country, where I knew this race was going to be very tough ... Of course, I think we were all shocked that this country would elect Donald Trump as president. But I also knew how hard it was going to be for the first woman candidate because I'd seen that with my mother when she ran for governor of Texas. (Richard's mother is Ann Richards, former governor of Texas.) Women are expected to be everything to everybody. They are judged so much more harshly.
I did grow up in Texas, which was a conservative state, but it was a very live-and-let-live state. And that isn't what I see with this government or this president. This is much more totalitarian, authoritarian government. That's not the Texas I grew up in. Certain news services, Fox News, in many of these small towns in rural America, that's the only news source. The president has clearly gone after the media. Record numbers of people now say they don't trust the media. That didn't happen by accident. This is an intentional attempt by this government to discredit sources of information that people have counted on for decades.
I think it's distressing to see a government taking aim at its own citizens, whether it be women, LGBTQ people, Muslims, immigrants from other countries. But I think, as we've also seen in the US, it has galvanized a generation of activists like we've never seen before.
I wonder if there's a sense among Americans who are not reproductive rights activists, that you'll always be able to get an abortion in this country. That there will be legislators who will try and make it impossible, states where it will be more difficult, but that reproductive rights are here to stay.
Well, the most recent polling I've looked at undercuts that. There is a very high understanding and awareness among women in particular that their ability to access reproductive health care, and that their ability to make their own decisions and control their own bodies are really at risk under this government. And that has never happened before.
I think you're right, that before the election people assumed that there were some restrictions on abortion access or birth control, but that by and large people could access services if they needed them. That is no longer true. And I think it's because of the attack Speaker Ryan and this president made, particularly on Planned Parenthood that raised the consciousness level among American voters.
We're living in the era of #MeToo and #TimeIsUp. What role do you think men play in the conversation about reproductive rights?
It's interesting just even at Planned Parenthood, men play a bigger role than ever before, even as patients. I mean it's sort of the fastest growing population coming to us for healthcare, young men. And to me that's a really good sign, because as we know, sexual and reproductive health care isn't just a women's issue.
And I do think that when you poll men in America, they are as supportive of reproductive rights as women. But we just have to make it more salient as a voting issue. Where I feel I see change, and really I feel hopeful, was at the historic women's marches in the US, the biggest women's marches we've ever seen in recorded history, it was the number of men that showed up. And the number of men who were there because they now — and I think this is a generational change — they now believe that their daughters should have every opportunity that their sons have. And that is a shift in this culture.
One thing you mention in your book is that the US has always been a model of civil rights struggles to the rest of the world. What do you think about what is happening now and what impact it will have on other countries?
There's no way to overstate the disruption in global relations and how people view the US.
I'm specifically concerned about the impact of our policies and attitudes towards women and toward reproductive health care. You know, the first act by this president was not only to reinstate the global gag rule, but actually to expand it. It's a law that prevents global family planning organizations from getting any funding if they even mention abortion, even in countries where abortion is completely legal. And now for the first time, that includes organizations that are working to combat HIV and AIDS and ZIKA. It is devastating.
And so, unfortunately, now we at Planned Parenthood have to not only continue to support the programs that we do in Africa and Latin America, but also be the eyes and ears on the ground, to communicate back to office holders in the US about the devastating consequences of our policies, on the health and safety of people everywhere.
I mean, it's really discouraging. We saw here in the US, right after this president was elected, we had a 900 percent increase of women trying to get into Planned Parenthood, to try and get an IUD that would last folks for several years. Because they were fearful that access to birth control would be lessened or even eliminated. And now we're seeing that [with] Planned Parenthood Global … women have been lining up by the thousands to get birth control under programs that have been slated to be cut. I mean, there is nothing pro-life about a policy that is basically going to threaten the well-being of some of the most vulnerable women in the world.
As I'm sure you've been following, there have been massive mobilizations in parts of Europe, Latin America, for the legalization of abortion. Do you think there is something for American activists to learn from movements abroad?
What lasting democracy is, to me, is grassroots democracy. You know, a right is only as good as it is enforceable. And that's what we're seeing in the US of course: that politicians have been eroding a right that many women assumed that we would have forever.
But in fact, we have to be even more vigilant today, and recognize and lift up the fact that there is completely unequal access to reproductive health care in the United States of America and even the progress we've made at reducing unintended pregnancy and teen pregnancy in the US, and reducing abortion rates, it has not been equally felt. So today, if you are a young woman of color, if you are a young woman of low income, if you are a young woman who happens to live perhaps in the southern United States, your access to care and your ability to make progress and live your life as fully as you want, it's different.
So it has been incredibly exciting to see not only the mobilization of people all over the world standing up for reproductive rights, abortion rights, but I think to begin to see that in the US as well. When I started at Planned Parenthood 12 years ago, I heard from women a lot, of a certain generation, saying "where are the young people? This is a right we fought for, and we won. But now it's sort of taken for granted." And that's one of the consequences of the Trump administration: No one is taking it for granted anymore.
Why step down now?
I've been an organizer all my life. I've been at Planned Parenthood for 12 years. And part of my … I guess my commitment as a social justice leader is to invest in another generation. And to also be willing to make space for them. I feel like it's important to not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk. I have been an activist my entire life, and I will continue to be an activist. I will be cheering along the sidelines for the next presidents of Planned Parenthood, and proud to do so.
This interview was condensed and edited for clarity.
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Shisa: Okinawa's Guardian Lions
Jesse Whitehead
Okinawa has strong historical links to Chinese culture, and many traditions were brought to the island chain. One such import is Shisa (シーサー) which are guardian lions that protect houses and entrances from evil spirits. These days there are many varieties of Shisa all over the prefecture.
If you take a walk through any residential area in Okinawa, you will soon notice that almost every house and apartment has a pair of Shisa at it's entrance. The female Shisa is said to have it's mouth closed, which "keeps in the good" while the male Shisa's mouth is open to scare away evil spirits. Shisa are also found on most non-residential buildings such as schools, hospitals, businesses and even shopping malls.
In recent years, Shisa have become somewhat of a novelty with many "crazy" designs created with tourists in mind. A short walk down Kokusai Street (the main tourist strip in Naha City) reveals a wide range of trinkets, t-shirts and mini, gift-sized Shisa. Although some of the designs are not the most authentic, they are still very impressive and add to the fun atmosphere of Kokusai Street.
If you are interested in finding some truly authentic Shisa there are plenty still dotted around the island. A stone Shisa on the edge of Madanbashi Village, just south of Naha, is referred to locally as "Iri-nu".
According to legend, a giant monster used to regularly attack the people of Madanbashi. One day, when the King was visiting the village an attack happened. A local priestess instructed the King to hold his Shisa-figurine-necklace (which he had received from a Chinese diplomat) up to the monster. As he did so, a powerful roar could be heard throughout the village and three boulders fell from the sky pinning the monster down by its tail. The monster was unable to move, and eventually became Gana Forest. The people of Madanbashi placed Iri-nu Shisa facing the forest to protect against any future attacks. Each year, on August 15th of the lunar calendar, people offer fruit, steamed buns and prayers to Iri-nu, asking for the safety and health of Madanbashi residents.
The oldest Shisa in Okinawa is located in Tomimori Village, and has a similar story. Long ago Tomimori experienced many house fires, said to have been caused by the strength of nearby Yaese Mountain. In the 16th Century the Tomimori Shisa was placed at the edge of the village facing the mountain in order to prevent these disasters and protect the local people.
The Shisa has had an active existence and was even caught up in WWII. Japanese soldiers hid behind the Shisa to defend their position and deep bullet holes from crossfire between American and Japanese troops can still be seen today.
So, when you're in Okinawa, be sure to keep an eye out for these important cultural artifacts! They will pop up in some unexpected places, and the more unusual and interesting Shisa in the markets can make great gifts! Happy Shisa spotting!!
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package com.hp.autonomy.aci.content.ranges;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.Arrays;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

public class DateRangeTest {
    @Test
    public void range() {
        final String minString = "2017-05-12T12:58:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime min = ZonedDateTime.parse(minString);
        final String maxString = "2017-05-12T12:58:01Z";
        final ZonedDateTime max = ZonedDateTime.parse(maxString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{" + minString + ',' + maxString + "}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(min, max)).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void rangeWithMillis() {
        final String minString = "2017-05-12T12:58:00.123Z";
        final ZonedDateTime min = ZonedDateTime.parse(minString);
        final String maxString = "2017-05-12T12:58:01.456Z";
        final ZonedDateTime max = ZonedDateTime.parse(maxString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{2017-05-12T12:58:00Z,2017-05-12T12:58:01Z}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(min, max)).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void wideRange() {
        final String minString = "0000-01-01T01:01:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime min = ZonedDateTime.parse(minString);
        final String maxString = "3000-03-03T03:03:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime max = ZonedDateTime.parse(maxString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{0000-01-01T01:01:00Z," + maxString + "}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(min, max)).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void fieldWithColon() {
        final String minString = "2017-05-12T12:58:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime min = ZonedDateTime.parse(minString);
        final String maxString = "2017-05-12T12:58:01Z";
        final ZonedDateTime max = ZonedDateTime.parse(maxString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{" + minString + ',' + maxString + "}:A_FI%3AELD",
            new DateRange("A_FI%3AELD", Arrays.asList(min, max)).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void rangeNoMax() {
        final String minString = "2017-05-12T12:58:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime min = ZonedDateTime.parse(minString);
        final String middleString = "2017-05-12T12:58:01Z";
        final ZonedDateTime middle = ZonedDateTime.parse(middleString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{" + minString + ',' + middleString + ",.}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(min, middle), true).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void rangeNoMin() {
        final String middleString = "2017-05-12T12:58:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime middle = ZonedDateTime.parse(middleString);
        final String maxString = "2017-05-12T12:58:01Z";
        final ZonedDateTime max = ZonedDateTime.parse(maxString);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{.," + middleString + ',' + maxString + "}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(middle, max), true, false).toString()
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void rangeNoMaxNoMin() {
        final String middle1String = "2017-05-12T12:58:00Z";
        final ZonedDateTime middle1 = ZonedDateTime.parse(middle1String);
        final String middle2String = "2017-05-12T12:58:01Z";
        final ZonedDateTime middle2 = ZonedDateTime.parse(middle2String);
        assertEquals(
            "FIXEDDATE{.," + middle1String + ',' + middle2String + ",.}:A_FIELD",
            new DateRange("A_FIELD", Arrays.asList(middle1, middle2), true, true).toString()
        );
    }
}

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Currently Reading: Alex Varkatzas Appears To Be Warning Fans Atreyu's New Single Is 'Fake Heavy'
Alex Varkatzas Appears To Be Warning Fans Atreyu's New Single Is 'Fake Heavy'
Oct 14th, 2020 - 9:32am Posted by wookubus
Former Atreyu frontman Alex Varkatzas has been sharing some suggestive hashtags via his Instagram stories as of late. Among the hashtags he's posted are '#fakeheavy', '#justwaitandsee' and '#conartists'. These hashtags have appeared without any proper context, but all three have followed Atreyu's tease of a new song yesterday, the snippets of which appeared to focus on the heavier aspects of it.
That song, "Save Us" is slated to debut this Friday, October 16th. It will be the band's first since officially parting ways with Varkatzas late last month.
if hearing the new Atreyu clip yesterday had you thinking they'd returned to their metalcore roots, ex-singer Alex Varkatzas says it ain't happening pic.twitter.com/uRpniplXyA
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Q: Laravel: Is it possible to log stack trace every request? I want to log every request with a full stack trace on laravel. Just like laravel error exception tracing. Is there anything available on laravel or any third-party packages?
We already use laravel telescope, but the telescope doesn't give us full stack trace.tracing

A: Stack traces are bound to PHP exceptions (or errors, warnings, etc) as they trace the way through your application execution stack up to this particular exception.
So you need to decide for a good point that is deep in the stack where your application logic as already been executed. In that place, just throw an exception, catch it and use the report() helper to log the exception.
E.g. you can't just throw this at the end of public/index.php
try {
    throw new \Exception('my breakpoint');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    report($e);
    return false;
}

because the stacktrace would just consist of one line (as the exception is thrown at the top level).
You could try creating a new middleware that throws this exception and make that middleware last in your request middlewares.


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EUMETSAT utilises a variety of formats for product dissemination and distribution. The most commonly used types are listed below.
HRIT
High Rate Information Transmission (HRIT) is a standard agreed upon by the members of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) for the dissemination of data originating from geostationary satellites to users via direct broadcast. HRIT data are typically disseminated at speeds up to 10 Mbps.
The general formats are defined in the HRIT Global Specification, whereas individual satellite operators may customise the format in order to fulfil the needs of a specific mission.
EUMETSAT uses HRIT to encode Level 1.5 SEVIRI image data. These data have been corrected to remove all unwanted radiometric and geometric effects, geolocated using a standardised projection, calibrated, and radiance-linearized. Ancillary information is provided in the data's header and trailer.
The full description of the implementation of HRIT for Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) is provided in MSG Ground Segment HRIT Mission Specific Implementation. Specific details concerning the image data are described in the MSG Level 1.5 Image Data Format Description.
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a machine-independent, self-describing, binary data format standard for exchanging scientific data. It is designed for platform independent, self-describing data storage, with the intent that users can understand the data without the need for external resources and access it efficiently in its entirety or in portions.
The NetCDF format is governed by the Unidata programme at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Because the format is very flexible, several conventions have arisen with the goal of ensuring that data can be easily exchanged between different members of the same community. One notable example can be found in the collected the Climate and Forecast (CF) Conventions and Metadata. Where possible, EUMETSAT adheres to these conventions when producing data encoded in NetCDF.
Further information on the use of NetCDF at EUMETSAT can be found on the NetCDF format for Data Centre products web page.
Unidata software for reading and writing data NetCDF.
SENTINEL-SAFE
Sentinel data products are distributed using a Sentinel-specific variation of the Standard Archive Format for Europe (SAFE) format specification. All the information relevant to the product is gathered into a single package. Inside this package, the specific objects containing measurement data are encoded in netCDF format.
Naming convention: The prefix of the product name is the concatenated product type code, e.g., 'SR_2_WAT', and timeliness code, e.g., 'NRT'.
SENTINEL-SAFE is designed to manage any kind of data and data can be contained in a single file or in multiple files.
Using the SENTINEL-SAFE format, information can be categorised in two main categories:
Data: the information contained in the product which causes the existence of the product itself.
Metadata: stored information which is not data.
A SENTINEL-SAFE format product contains the following components:
Manifest file: an XML document conforming to the XFDU manifest file specifications. It contains the definition of the information package map, wrapped metadata objects, wrapped data objects and references to the files containing the metadata and data objects.
Binary or XML files: the data or metadata object contents. Currently, in the SAFE core specifications, only two types of files have been identified, i.e. binary matching MIME octet stream definition and XML documents.
XML schema files: the representation information of the data held by a SAFE format product. To represent the binary information, the SAFE format also defines specific mark-ups to annotate XML schema documents, providing information on the physical structure (SDF mark-ups).
The size of an SRAL/MWR product will depend on the type of measurements it contains. The Altimetry L2 product includes three data files — Reduced, Standard and Enhanced — which can be ordered/delivered together ('all') or separately.
The Sentinel-3 Toolbox consists of a rich set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of OLCI and SLSTR data from the Sentinel-3 mission.
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a format designed for use with large amounts of hierarchically organised data. It is commonly used by producers of large amounts of environmental data, especially when this data is gridded.
HDF is maintained by the HDF Group. Information on the HDF format can be found on their website. The HDF Group also provides software for reading and writing HDF files.
The Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) is the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) standard binary code for observational data. It is designed for efficient exchange and storage.
The BUFR format is governed by WMO and defined in the WMO Manual on Codes (WMO Publication Number 306, Volume 1, Part B, 1995 Edition, plus Supplements). The Manual on Codes defines the basic structure of the BUFR format. Data encoded in BUFR can be decoded through the use of tables which map binary encodings to their meanings. The Manual on Codes and tables defined by WMO can be found on the WMO website.
Data producers can define proprietary table entries for local usage. This capability was used in some EUMETSAT cloud analysis (CLA), global instability index (GII), climate data set products, and IASI level 2 products using BUFR Master Tables version 21 and below. Since migrating to use Master Tables version 31 and above, only entries governed by WMO are used. This makes it possible for users to use EUMETSAT BUFR products without requiring local configuration changes. Mappings between the old and new ways of encoding data are set forth in detail in Migration guide: Local EUMETSAT descriptors to WMO descriptors for IASI Level 2 BUFR products. EUMETSAT BUFR tables can be downloaded in various common formats from the Vocabulary Manager.
Several software libraries are capable of decoding BUFR. These include ecCodes, pybufrkit, wreport, trollbufr, and BUFRdisplay and BUFRextract.
GRIB is WMO's standard binary format for exchanging gridded data. It exists in multiple editions: GRIB Edition 1 (GRIdded Binary) is still in existence, whereas this edition of GRIB has been superseded by the more general GRIB Edition 2 (General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary Form). Both editions of GRIB are designed for the timely dissemination of large volumes of gridded data.
Many weather centres use GRIB to encode the outputs of their numerical weather prediction models.
Like BUFR, GRIB is governed by WMO and defined in the Manual on Codes. As well as the table entries defined by WMO, EUMETSAT uses or has used additional entries specific to EUMETSAT. These entries are detailed in Local GRIB tables used at EUMETSAT. EUMETSAT GRIB tables can be downloaded in various common formats from the Vocabulary Manager.
The most actively developed library for encoding and decoding GRIB is ecCodes by ECMWF.
XML/CAP
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose language designed to be easily readable for both humans and machines. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the exchange of data across different information systems, particularly via the internet. The XML specification is governed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), further details are on the W3C website.
XML can be customised to meet the demands of a specific user community by the use of schemata, which define a limited vocabulary which can be used when encoding data. One such schema is the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
CAP is a general alerting protocol adopted by several communities who produce and distribute warnings. It is used by EUMETSAT to alert users to possible threats to life or property due to volcanic ash or fire.
CAP is maintained by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and is recommended for use by the International Telecommunications Union. The CAP specification can be found on the OASIS website.
McIDAS
The Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) uses a proprietary data format for the analysis and visualisation of meteorological data, including satellite data. McIDAS is maintained by the Space Science and Engineering Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Information about the system
Information about the software
AHRPT
Advanced High Rate Picture Transmission (AHRPT) is a standard agreed upon by the members of CGMS, for the dissemination of data originating from low earth orbit satellites to users via direct broadcast. AHRPT data are typically disseminated at speeds greater than 500 Kbps.
The AHRPT global definition can be found in the Global Specification by CGMS. Information on the mission-specific implementation for Metop can be found in the Metop Direct Readout AHRPT Technical Description.
Satellite series
Meteosat satellites have been providing crucial data for weather forecasting since 1977.
Metop satellites provide detailed global observations of the atmosphere, oceans and land
Missions developed for the specific needs of the Copernicus Programme.
Jason satellites continue a time series of mean sea level rise measurements dating back to 1992.
We offer a portfolio of data access options that allow users to view imagery and access and download data.
EUMETSAT makes a set of interactive tools and software programs available to users.


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We talked about my journey from the scientific world to my work in the intuitive field, the healing power of animal communication and we talked a bit about the use of flower essences for animals. Thirty minutes were passed before I knew it! You can listen to it here.