When Lindsey brings Addisyn to me for photos, I always know it's going to be fun – she just has natural beauty inside and out, and she's always up for anything. I wanted to try some new lighting setups in-studio and I knew this would be a perfect chance.
Fate would have other ideas, of course.
As we were setting up, getting ready to start, I had a more or less catastrophic failure of some lighting equipment. Long story short, after some struggling, we had to scrap my ideas for the afternoon's images and come up with something else.
Luckily, I live in a gorgeous neighborhood. We loaded Addisyn up and went a few blocks down to the local park, where she continued to rock the shoot, as she always does.
In addition to the dress above (which I have probably photographed on at least 6 clients – it's so pretty), we scooped up another dress from my rack that I hadn't even had a chance to photograph yet. Of course it was absolutely gorgeous on her!
Thank you to Lindsey for always entrusting Addisyn's images to me – and especially thank you to Addisyn, who was a total champ! (Seriously, it had started to rain in the photo below, and we had to make a break back to the car.) I can't wait until next time.
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Hook back at fly-half for Wales
James Hook returns to the fly-half slot as Wales look to make it three wins in a row in the Six Nations tournament at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
Hook played at halfback and guided Wales to an impressive victory over Scotland at Murrayfield last month, but it was Stephen Jones who wore the No.10 shirt in the away win in Italy on February 26.
This time, Jones is on the bench, with fit-again Scarlets centre Jonathan Davies returning to midfield alongside Jamie Roberts after Hook deputised for him against Italy 10 days ago.
Another change from the game in Rome sees a recall for Cardiff Blues winger Leigh Halfpenny, who is preferred to the unlucky Morgan Stoddart, a try-scorer against England and Italy.
Wales coach Warren Gatland has otherwise kept faith with the team that edged the Italians and that means scrum-half Mike Phillips and No.8 Ryan Jones both will win their 50th caps.
The team announcement had been scheduled for Thursday to assess the state of various injuries, but Gatland brought this forward by 48 hours.
He will choose two from three back-five forwards - Rob McCusker, Andy Powell and Jonathan Thomas - after fitness checks on Thursday, while there is a confirmed place among the substitutes for Sale scrum-half Dwayne Peel.
Gatland will break the Wales coaching record of 35 Tests in charge on Saturday, eclipsing Alan Davies'mark. Ireland though, have only lost once in Cardiff since 1983.
"This is a crucial game for us as a win will keep us in the Championship mix and take us into that final round with everything still to play for," Gatland said.
"But it is also a big game for Ireland, who are in a similar position to us going into this match."
Addressing the fly-half issue, assistant coach Robin McBryde challenged Hook to justify the faith shown in him.
McBryde said: "The debate at fly-half will continue long after the Championship is over, but we have gone for James on this occasion.
"James provides a running threat and we will be looking for him to show he can control the game as well and help us play in the right areas."
Of Halfpenny's recall, McBryde added: "Leigh had a good run out for the Blues at the weekend, we know all about his pace and what he offers around the field as well as being solid under the high ball and giving us a long-range kicking option.
"Morgan misses out, but he has done nothing wrong and we know he can be relied on if we need him from the bench."

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QUINCY, Mass. (September 20, 2017) – The Western New England University volleyball team opened Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) play with a 3-0 (25-10, 25-9, 25-12) victory at Eastern Nazarene College on Wednesday evening at Lahue Physical Education Center.
• Senior outside hitter Alona Kornberg (Fair Lawn, N.J.) led the way for the Golden Bears, hitting .550 with 11 kills and no errors in 20 attempts. She also added 11 digs, three aces and one block assist.
• Sophomore setter Caitlyn Sibiskie (Rockfall, Conn.) also recorded a double-double with 29 assists and 11 digs to go with two kills and two aces.
• Sophomore middle blocker Cassandra Holmes (Ellington, Conn.) hit .444 with nine kills, three digs and two blocks.
• Freshman outside hitter Jenna Meacham (Millington, Mich.) paced the Lions with eight kills and nine digs.
• Western New England set the tone for the match early in the first set, establishing a 9-1 lead en route to a 25-10 triumph.
• The Golden Bears hit a blistering .548 in the second set with 17 kills and no errors in 31 attempts. Leading 10-5 early, Western New England pulled away with an 8-0 run that featured kills from four different players on its way to a 25-9 win.
•.Eastern Nazarene held an 8-7 advantage early in the third frame, but the Golden Bears won nine of the next ten points with the help of five Lion errors to claim a 16-9 lead. Holmes recorded four kills late in the set to help seal the sweep for Western New England.
• The Golden Bears hit a season-best .370 with 39 kills and just five errors in 92 attempts.
•.Kornberg's double-double is her second of the season, with the first coming in last Thursday's five-set loss at WPI.
• Western New England, which is now above .500 for the first time this season, has won 12 consecutive sets following last week's loss at WPI.
Both teams will be back in action on Saturday, as Western New England (7-6, 1-0 CCC) hosts Wentworth at 2 p.m., and Eastern Nazarene (6-7, 0-1 CCC) travels to Curry for a tri-match with the Colonels and Bay Path.


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Judge Blocks Drilling Plans In 2 States, Citing Bird Habitat
Written by Associated Press on June 17, 2021
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has halted plans for oil and gas drilling on vast areas of Wyoming and Montana, citing concerns about a sagebrush-dwelling bird.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management didn't adequately consider how the drilling would affect the greater sage grouse, nor an option to defer drilling in the bird's prime habitat, Idaho U.S. District Judge Ronald E. Bush ruled Wednesday.
Bush ordered more study of potential effects on the bird before drilling may proceed.
The drilling would occur on over 600 square miles (1,500 square kilometers) of federal land scattered across the energy-rich states. The Bureau of Land Management auctioned off hundreds of leases in sage grouse habitat in four sales in 2017.
Sage grouse are a chicken-sized, primarily ground-dwelling bird whose numbers have fallen significantly from the millions that inhabited the U.S. West in frontier times. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined in 2010 that the bird deserved special protection but said in 2015 that conservation efforts led by Wyoming made that unnecessary.
The environmental group that sued over the leases praised Bush's ruling.
"This ruling sends a very strong message that the BLM can no longer lease public lands for fossil fuel development without weighing the outcomes for sensitive lands and wildlife," Erik Molvar, executive director of Western Watersheds Project, said in a statement Thursday.
BLM spokesman Brad Purdy declined to comment, citing agency policy not to discuss ongoing litigation. The agency's allies in the case included the Western Energy Alliance industry group and the state of Wyoming, where Republican Gov. Mark Gordon was weighing whether to appeal.
"The governor is dismayed by Judge Bush's ruling but is pleased that the leases have not been vacated," Gordon spokesman Michael Pearlman said by email.
The ruling comes amid a federal oil and gas leasing moratorium imposed by President Joe Biden's administration while it studies the effects on climate change.
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Q: Singleton function description I searched but didn't find any normal information for Java Singleton functions or classes , So can anybody explain why I need them? What is he difference from other functions?

A: Singleton pattern is used for classes that should only exist by one instance. The purpose of the singleton and its values should be consistent throughout the entire application.
Singletons are commonly used for special environment variables, database connections, factories and object pools.

A: Singleton is used to create only one instance of the Object
public class Singleton {

    private static Singleton uniqueInstance;

    // other stuff
    private Singleton()
    {

    }
    public static Singleton getInstance()
    {
        if(uniqueInstance == null)
        {
            uniqueInstance = new Singleton();
        }
        return uniqueInstance;
    }
    // other methods
}

This is the simple example to make you aware og the singleton pattern

A: Sometimes it's appropriate to have exactly one instance of a class: window managers, print spoolers, and filesystems are prototypical examples. Typically, those types of objects—known as Singletons
There is nothing like Singleton function , we usually use Singleton Classes
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A: ok this classes has only one object. for making a class Singleton, make the constructor     private and define a static method to get the class object like this
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Q: How to Add Two Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes Let the stochastic processes $U_t$ and $V_t$ be defined by the stochastic differential equations, we have: $$ dU_t = [ -aU_t - w_0 V_t]dt + BdW_t$$
$$dV_t = [-aV_t + w_0 U_t ] dt + Bd [W_t]_1 $$
where where $W_t, {W_t}_1$ denote two independent Wiener processes and $a, ω_0, B$ positive constants
To start my question I need to find $R_t^2 = U_t^2 +V_t^2 $ I then need to derive the stochastic differential equation for $R_t$, then I can begin with the rest of my question.
My lecture notes don't have any information on how to do this and I can't seem to find any online, does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
I would be grateful for any help you can provide.

A: Apply Ito's lemma to $U_t^2$ and $V_t^2$ :
$$d(U_t^2)=2U_tdU_t+d<U_t,U_t>$$
$$d(V_t^2)=2V_tdV_t+d<V_t,V_t>$$
We have
$$d(U_t^2)=2U_tdU_t+B^2dt$$
$$d(V_t^2)=2V_tdV_t+B^2dt$$
$$d(U_t^2)=2U_t\left([ -aU_t - w_0 V_t]dt + BdW_t\right)+B^2dt$$
$$d(V_t^2)=2V_t\left([-aV_t + w_0 U_t ] dt + Bd [W_t]_1\right)+B^2dt$$
We add the two equations because we have
$$dR_t^2=d(U_t^2)+d(V_t^2)$$
$$dR_t^2=-2a(U_t^2+V_t^2)dt+2B^2dt+2B(U_tdW_t+V_td [W_t]_1)$$
We introduce the process $$dX_t=\frac{U_tdW_t+V_td [W_t]_1}{\sqrt{U_t^2+V_t^2}}$$. We have $$d<X_t,X_t>=dt$$ because $W_t$ and $[W_t]_1$ are independent. By Levy's theorem, $X_t$ is a Brownian motion.
We can rewrite
$$dR_t^2=-2a(U_t^2+V_t^2)dt+2B^2dt+\frac{2B}{\sqrt{U_t^2+V_t^2}}dX_t$$
We define $Y:=R_t^2$,  $R_t=\sqrt{Y_t}$
Thus,
$$dR_t^2=-2aR_t^2dt+2B^2dt+\frac{2B}{R_t}dX_t$$
$$dR_t=\frac{1}{2 \sqrt{Y_t}}dY_t+\frac{1}{2} \frac{-1}{4}Y_t^{-\frac{3}{2}}\frac{4B^2}{R_t^2}dt$$
$$dR_t=\frac{1}{2R_t}\left(-2aR_t^2dt+2B^2dt+\frac{2B}{R_t}dX_t\right)+\frac{1}{2} \frac{-1}{4}(R_t^2)^{-\frac{3}{2}}\frac{4B^2}{R_t^2}dt$$
Finally,
$$dR_t=\left(-aR_t+\frac{B^2}{R_t}-\frac{B^2}{2R_t^5}\right)dt+\frac{B}{R_t^2}dX_t$$


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New proposed indicators to monitor the post-2015 education framework
13 May 2015 (updated on: 3 February 2022 )
By: Albert Motivans and Manos Antoninis
By Albert Motivans, Head of Education Statistics, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Manos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report.
The post-2015 sustainable development agenda, including the education goal, has received praise for its ambitious and universal scope. The challenge now lies in developing a solid monitoring framework, which can be used to track progress towards the targets while helping to focus international efforts on areas that might be left behind.
This blog presents the proposal – by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) established by UNESCO – for a set of indicators to monitor the post-2015 education targets. This proposal will be presented at a special session of the World Education Forum in Incheon on 20 May. The proposal complements the draft Framework for Action on Education 2030, which will be debated at the Forum.
The TAG proposal includes 42 thematic indicators that could be used to monitor education progress globally. Ultimately, it is expected that about six to ten of these indicators will be selected by the United Nations Statistical Commission to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, while the broader set of indicators proposed will be used to monitor progress towards the 10 education targets under this Goal.
The proposal incorporates feedback from a public consultation, which took place between November 2014 and January 2015, on a discussion document put forward by the TAG. Almost 200 organizations and individuals from 67 countries participated in the public consultation, which provided a rich array of feedback from representatives of civil society, academia, development partners, governments and other stakeholders. The submissions are available online and a summary of the comments is presented in the proposal. This blog lays out some of the key feedback received
New indicators resulting from the consultation
As a result of the consultation, the proposal contains some new indicators, while other indicators were revised. For example:
Three new indicators were added to better capture inequalities not only in education results but also in education systems (e.g. related to language of instruction, targeting of resources to disadvantaged populations, and the share of education expenditure borne by households).
Three new indicators were added to capture the need for curricula to focus on education for sustainable development: global citizenship education, HIV and sexuality education, and human rights education.
Two new indicators were added to capture the availability of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in schools.
Photo: Binh Duong/UNESCO
A new indicator was added on the availability of infrastructure and materials for people with disabilities in schools.
A new indicator was added on the number of attacks on students, personnel and institutions. In addition, the need to monitor the educational participation of children and adolescents in conflict situations, in particular among refugee and displaced populations, was recognised.
Equity, learning and education quality – more indicators please!
There was a broad consensus that equity is a key focus of the post-2015 education agenda. Participants in the consultation stressed the need for more indicators about disparities in learning opportunities, as well as in education inputs and processes (e.g., trained teachers, school conditions, etc.). It is important to note that the TAG proposal recommends disaggregating every indicator where feasible by at least three individual characteristics that allow scope for global comparisons (i.e. sex, location and wealth). Ideally, further disaggregation to the extent possible is encouraged.
Another major concern raised in the consultation was how to measure learning outcomes in basic education. Some felt that the focus on two subjects (reading and mathematics) was justified, whereas others argued that it was too limited. Current measures of reading and mathematics levels are more widely available and allow for greater comparability across countries. Yet the TAG also strongly encourages efforts to develop measures for other subjects, as well as to complement these measures with those on quality inputs and processes.
The consultation also underscored the different views that exist on the use of national or international standards to measure learning. The TAG believes that, in order to monitor the success of the post-2015 agenda, it is necessary to develop a shared international understanding of what competencies children and adolescents need to acquire at each education level drawing on a common standard.
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The World Education Forum will mark a milestone in this process. Discussions and modifications are not over, however, and will continue, notably ahead of a Ministerial-level meeting organized by UNESCO in November 2015 and the 47th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2016.
We must recognise that the proposed indicator framework is very ambitious. The international community is not ready to begin implementing this framework without making considerable efforts, mobilising the resources needed to reinforce national capacity, and coordinating at the international level. The indicator framework can serve as guidance for Member States and development partners and as a roadmap to produce the data needed to help ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities.
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14 May 2015 at 7:38 am
We must recognise that the proposed indicator framework is very ambitious. The international community is not ready to begin implementing this framework without making considerable efforts, mobilising the resources needed to reinforce national capacity, and coordinating at the international level.Health Information companies
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Dr Darol Cavanagh says:
I have posted this in another forum:It is pleasing to see the focus on teachers. However one must be aware that teacher and teaching are disjunctive concepts and that there are therefore many pathways to quality teachers and teaching. One training package will not be sufficient. This was tried at the competency based movement years ago and failed miserably. I have written extensively on this and assessment at the public level. Monitoring i.e. national assessments is another minefield of pseudo science.
I add this piece to address some of the other issues. It is critical to any monitoring process that all participants are on the same page ,specifically what(precisely) is being measured. Words such as "quality" have political, social, emotions, academic, economic, connotations as does the word curriculum which itself is a statement within a desired political framework. In the west it is within a democratic framework and all that entails with reference to access, equity, disadvantage etc etc. Many orientations outside the democratic umbrella have other definitional umbrellas for decision making with regard to the various definitions.. So the basic statements concerning definitional aspects of monitoring, curriculum, teaching, basic eduction etc need to be carefully spelled out. I for one would have a definition of basic education for sustainable development wrapped up in the following highly sophisticated set of subjects as they are economic performers in recessions etc namely music, art, craft, drama, enterprise, political activism. and so one. Language and mathematics as key indicators of a cultural uplift with sustainability as as a key indicator to monitor fall very short.
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Health Officials Warn This Could be The Worst COVID Surge Yet in Texas
Chris Austin
Chris Austin Published: August 18, 2021
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With the news of Texas Governor Greg Abbott testing positive for COVID-19, health officials are warning the current COVID surge could be worse than anything seen yet.
The latest surge of the virus has also caused new cases and COVID-19 hospitalizations to rise with record speed to just below their January peaks, as the highly contagious delta variant rips through the unvaccinated community at a rate up to eight times faster than earlier strains, officials said.
"We are entering the worst surge in sheer numbers," said Dr. Mark Casanova, a palliative care specialist in Dallas and a member of the Texas Medical Association's COVID-19 Task Force. "This is the fourth round of what should have been a three-round fight. We do have very sincere concerns that the numbers game is going to overwhelm us."
The latest surge has put a strain on the availability of ICU beds in the state.
Out of nearly 12,000 people hospitalized with COVID in Texas on Monday, more than a quarter of them are in the state's ICU beds. At the end of last week, at least 75 Texas hospitals reported that they had no ICU beds available for patients — and more than 50 additional facilities said they had just one bed available at some point during the previous week.
Most of the shortages are occurring in major metro areas, near the Gulf Coast and in the eastern portions of the state, where vaccination rates are among the lowest in the state.
The report from the Texas Tribune goes on to say tents are being erected to handle COVID patient overflow at a hospital in Houston.
Governor Abbott's positive test came back despite the fact he has been fully vaccinated, but he said on Tuesday that he doesn't have any symptoms associated with the virus. He says the vaccine is likely the reason he does not feel any symptoms.
The governor has come under fire for upholding no mask mandates across the state, but he has never told people not to wear a mask. He has also gone on record encouraging Texans to get vaccinated as well.
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If you can't stand "The Heat," then you must not appreciate good dance music.
Nick Reeve's single starts off slow but once the beat kicks in, you'll want to clap along throughout. Not only is the beat infectious, but the hook is catchy too. With a bit of an 80's feel, the track combines both modern and retro sounds.
Nick Reeve is a London based singer/songwriter but you can't classify him based on this one track. You might be surprised to find out that he's a talented pianist who performs at private events. He's also a producer who creates playlists for equestrian dressage. Not being able to play in venues this past year, hasn't stopped him from sharing his music.
In addition to preparing for the release of "The Heat," Reeve has been performing virtually at a weekly piano bar request show.


KUWAIT CITY, July 10: Police are looking for a Jordanian for swindling two compatriots, reports Al-Rai daily. Th e suspect reportedly convinced his victims to invest their money in a business and promised quick returns within three months. Two men swallowed the bait and the man escaped with KD 8,000.
Meanwhile, a Nepalese expatriate sustained injuries when he was stabbed by another during a quarrel between them in Fintas area. According to security sources, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received information about an injured Nepalese man lying in a lot in Fintas area, securitymen rushed to the location with paramedics and found him in a pool of his blood. They rushed him to the nearest hospital for treatment. Investigations revealed that he was stabbed by a compatriot during a quarrel between them. A case was registered and further investigations are ongoing to find and arrest the suspect.


I'm performing at the Grand Opening of the Phoenix Theater, which is taking over the old Brave New Workshop student union. I've always loved the space and I'm thrilled about having this new venue around — we're already looking at booking future shows there for Story Arts of Minnesota.
Join us at the Phoenix for the first public welcome of this newly reborn performance space. Doors open at 4:00pm for socializing and tours. Performances start at 5:00pm and continue every hour on the hour.


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FC Sporting Neapolis Mugnano is een Italiaanse voetbalclub uit Mugnano di Napoli die speelt in de Serie D. De club werd opgericht in 1936 als Football Club Sangiuseppese en in 1997 hernoemd tot Pro Sangiuseppese. In 2006 ging de club failliet, werd ze overgenomen en kreeg ze een andere naam; FC Sporting Neapolis.

In 2009 werd de club naar Mugnano di Napoli, een voorstad van Napels, verplaatst.

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La Croce al merito per la prodezza (in polacco: Krzyż Zasługi za Dzielność) è un'onorificenza statale polacca istituita il 7 marzo 1928 dalla Repubblica Polacca.

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all we got it each other by ghost mice Indiana duo Ghost Mice recently dropped a nine-track release titled All We Got Is Each Other via member Chris Clavin's Plan-It-X Records. It is available for purchase as either a vinyl LP or a cassette by way of the label's website.
"[These] songs are all about our friend Sam. She's not with us anymore. They are also about mental illness..."
Considering the personal weight of the statement, it should come as no surprise that Ghost Mice put a particularly heavy emphasis on their lyrics. Their combination of a highly lyrical focus with an energetic folk punk styling strikes me as something that might please fans of last year's Andrew Jackson Jihad album.
Listen to the release in its entirety above by way of Ghost Mice's Bandcamp or the widget above.


THIS IS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED IT TO BE! UP IS DOWN, DOWN IS UP, AND ICE HOCKEY IS THE ONE WITH THE DAMN PLAYER SELECTION!
As you may remember, I posted a Pre Game with my mind's eye not being able to distinguish between Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel. Well, dear reader, as you can tell from the headlines… was I wrong. So very wrong.
Whoa whoa whoa… when you lose a fight YOU'RE DOWN A PLAYER!?!?!?!
MUAA HAA HAA, stupid Calgary!
In short, Blades of Steel is a very solid game. It's just not the game I remembered… not in the least. The controls were also a weird adjustment for me.
My first few plays didn't go phenomenally well (this image is of the CPU scoring… which it did a lot of), but that's not a game issue. It's entirely my lack of skill + total and utter loss and how I had misremembered this game. I'll definitely be playing more Blades of Steel.
And stay tuned for my Game the Game for Ice Hockey!
This entry was posted in game-the-game, games and tagged blades of steel, gaming the game, hockey, ice hockey, nes, nintendo, review, sometimes i'm partially wrong on February 7, 2014 by forsoothed.


James Taylor III, 20, of Vivian, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the March 30, 2016 slaying of James Carroll.
A man facing a possible mandatory life sentence for the conviction of second-degree murder instead confessed to manslaughter before a Caddo Parish district judge Monday.
James Taylor III, 20, of Vivian, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the March 30, 2016 slaying of James Carroll. Taylor pleaded before District Judge Brady O'Callaghan, where his trial for second-degree murder had been set to begin. The pleading to the lesser charge was accepted after consultation with the victim's father. Carroll, 24, was shot by Taylor at a Vivian apartment complex following a dispute. Taylor fled to Shreveport, where he was captured and arrested.
Taylor, who has a 2015 conviction for aggravated assault with a firearm, was sentenced to 35 years in prison at hard labor without the possibility of probation, parole or reduction of sentence.
Prosecutors were assistant district attorneys Monique Y. Metoyer and Ron Christopher Stamps. Taylor was defended by Stephen Glassell.


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The purpose of this glorious vision is to unveil Jesus Christ. Since He is spirit, He is hidden from our physical eyes. In order for Him to become visible to us, we need to see Him spiritually. Just as the Christ was hidden in the physical Jesus, so He is now hidden in those who have been born again. The unveiling of the Christ within us takes place when we recognize our union with Him and His nature becomes our nature. All fleshly thinking and actions have to be overcome. In this vision we see what God does to rid us of all our fleshly reasoning and ideas.
Understanding this vision makes us aware of God's eternal power within us, and brings us encouragement in the midst of apostasy, difficulties and trials. It takes us out of the natural realm and brings us into the spiritual realm - into the precious results of the internal workings of God in us. John saw the saints who had overcome the nations - and these nations symbolize all the opposing forces that are raging in the carnal mind against Christ. He saw them receiving the fulfillment of the promise of reigning together with Christ. Only those who have overcome the nations within them can reign over the nations of this earth. They will reign in righteousness and truth, and the inhabitants of this earth will enjoy peace!
This book was written by John, the youngest of all the apostles. When he began to follow Jesus, he was probably no more than 16 or 17. He outlived the other apostles. John did not believe in the pantheon of Roman gods, so he refused to bow to the emperor, and was probably accused of being an atheist. It is said that they tried to kill him by boiling him in oil. When that did not work he was banished to the island of Patmos - a very small rocky island in the Mediterranean - to eke out a living as best he could. There was no way of escape. Living conditions were extremely difficult, especially for an old man, probably on the edge of his nineties! Although many claim that his exile entailed hard labor in the island's quarries, this is not recorded. Neither do we know how long he had been on the island when he received this revelation from God. John was freed in October of 96AD after Domitian's death. Apparently he returned to Ephesus after his release.
Scholars say that the Greek in this book is not as good as the Greek in the rest of the New Testament. There are both similarities and differences in the Greek from John's previous writings, and the dissimilarities may be due to the fact that the subject matter is very different. The images in this exciting and strange drama were hard to describe, and John had to write fast and had no time for grammatical corrections. Before his banishment he may have had people around to correct his Greek whenever he wrote anything official, but on this island there was no one to help him. Some scholars think that John may have dictated what he saw to a secretary, but there is no scriptural evidence to substantiate this.
As John was meditating on God, he was suddenly taken out of his surroundings and shown vision after vision of such strange and unfamiliar scenes that he could not find words to describe them, so he needed to compare them with familiar things!
Since this vision was signified to John, its message is contained in symbolism, and therefore it is not to be understood literally. The symbolism has to be simple enough for saints to comprehend, yet difficult enough to hide it from pagans, emperors and the religious hierarchy, for if they could understand it, that would make it even worse for the Christians. The true message needs to be hidden from the uninitiated and revealed to the initiated! So the code that unlocks the interpretation of the symbols must be so simple that Christians can receive the key, but so mysterious that even the most self-righteous pagan cannot understand it. God did not give Jesus Christ a message that is too difficult for Christians to understand. Those who are being persecuted for their faith need to understand this message.
Symbolism gives us a deep and wide scope of understanding with just a few words. The explanations given in revelation are very brief in comparison with what could be written, but the symbolism tells us so much more than words can express.
A blessing is promised to all who understand and heed the message of this book, so it must apply to Christians of that time as well as to Christians in every generation. A message that does not apply to everyone cannot bless everyone. If we view these visions as prophecies of future historical events, we will miss the blessing this book is intended to bring us. If these events are taken out of their symbolic meaning, they do not apply to everyone in every generation; they would only apply to those who live in a certain future time in history. If we interpret these visions according to our own ideas, it becomes very scary. However, it is for every Christian in every generation, not only for those living thousands of years down the line.
Our interpretation has to unveil Jesus Christ. We are not looking for a physical Jesus, but for the corporate, spiritual Christ. Christ is not complete without His body - the church. So the unveiling of Jesus Christ takes place through the inward processing that rids us of all our fleshly thinking. This brings us into oneness with His thinking, and Christ receives a church without spot or wrinkle. The signs and symbols reveal the workings of Christ in the individuals that form the bride of Christ! Everything is brought into the light of Jesus Christ.
There is a reason for placing this book at the end of the Bible, for it is filled with allusions to the books that precede it. The various symbols have a direct or implied reference to another part of the Bible. For example, it mentions the new Jerusalem. In Galatians 4 we read about the Jerusalem that is in slavery with her children, and the Jerusalem that is above - the free Jerusalem. When we learn the significance of Jerusalem in the Bible, we have the key to its meaning in Revelation. The same thing holds true for Babylon, the beasts, the witnesses, the serpent, etc. The Bible gives us the key.
The characters and events have symbolic meaning. To interpret the symbolism we need to draw from both the Old and the New Testaments, and heed any explanations given in the text. 1 Cor. 10:3-4 is a good example in showing us how Old Testament events symbolize spiritual realities. Paul wrote, "And all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ." The manna symbolizes the bread of life that we have in Christ, and the water from the rock symbolizes the living water that Christ gives us. To interpret this vision correctly we need to be willing to let go of our preconceived ideas, and receive the Holy Spirit's understanding.
Eastern people feel at home with symbolism. They often think in symbolism, and convey ideas symbolically in speech, writings and paintings. The symbolism that Chinese art embodies was explained to us by an artist when we were teaching in China. This gave us a greater appreciation of their paintings. Likewise, an understanding of the symbols in Revelation is necessary in order to receive the promised blessing. The drama enacted before John is not for entertaining us, but for teaching us spiritual realities.
Most of the born-again believers in the first century did not own a copy of the scriptures, but the teaching they had received would clue them in to the meaning of the symbols. The Holy Spirit has to reveal its spiritual meaning. If a Roman would read this book, he would consider it stupid because he did not have the key to unlock the code. The code is only revealed to those who have learned to see spiritually and have learned to listen to the teaching of the Spirit.
The Spirit teaches us that beyond our natural world, there is a real world where Jesus Christ is central, and we are caught in a tension between the two worlds. Since the natural world still seems very real to us, it is very difficult to relinquish this idea. Yet this is a prerequisite to understanding this book. Here we see that everything is based on the salvation we have in Christ; everything finds its fulfillment in Him. It teaches us that we do not have to despair in the midst of difficulties and affliction, for Christ is our provision in every situation. Drawing on His power makes us overcomers. God wants us to rest in this glorious fact!
An unveiling displays what is already in existence. Every Christian throughout the ages must experience this unveiling. What a relief it is to know that the unveiling of the Christ in us does not need any great accomplishments on our part, for that would be self- effort. The unveiling takes place through our submission and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ. As we receive truth and walk in obedience to truth, the manifestation of the Christ will take place. We are not trying to anticipate what Christ will do historically, but we are observing what He is accomplishing in His saints! The salvation that Christ has completed is now being worked into His saints.
Our mind needs to be transformed so that it can come into agreement with the mind of Christ. There is an ongoing battle in us if we do not believe the mind of Christ within us. This has nothing to do with a great battle between Jesus and the devil, for the latter has already been defeated! Our carnal mind is ever in opposition to the mind of the Spirit, and tries to rule us forcefully and persuasively. This book teaches us that we have to be cleansed of all our carnal thinking and learn to live in the obedience of faith!
Revelation teaches us to interpret what is happening within us in the light of what needs to be accomplished in order for us to be conformed to His image! We view the present in the light of the end. The sufferings we have to endure are needed to produce the finished product! It is like sewing a dress - every cut and stitch is made with the finished product in mind. To the uninitiated, the cutting up of beautiful material looks unreasonable, wasteful and destructive, but when the finished garment is on display, it looks gorgeous! So the Master is working in us - some things are painful and often misunderstood, but the end result is beautiful!
This vision is divided into seven visions, yet it is one vision. The first is in chapters 1-3; the second is in chapters 4-7; the third in chapters 8-11; the fourth in chapters 12-14; the fifth in chapters 15-16; the sixth in chapters 17-19; and the seventh or final vision in chapters 20-22. These visions are not to be viewed as occurring consecutively; they are all part of one vision, and each one gives us light on a certain aspect of the unfolding of Jesus Christ to us and in us. These visions reveal that Christ is our protection against all evil, and that victory is ours in Him. It ends with the church and the Spirit in full unity proclaiming the same message of invitation for all to come! The Lord reigns! Hallelujah!
The numbers in Revelation are also symbolic. For example, seven is the number of divine completeness. This number is repeated again and again: seven visions, seven stars, seven Spirits, seven churches, seven golden lampstands, etc. Just like seven different colors are needed to complete a rainbow, so there are seven aspects needed to complete the whole. We know there is only one Holy Spirit, but here we have seven Spirits - the seven Spirits are the Holy Spirit in His totality.
If we overlook the fact that this message was symbolized to John, many fanciful and carnal interpretations will result. These interpretations may be given in all sincerity, but that does not make them right. A natural interpretation supports a futuristic view of natural events that take place in apostate Christianity. So Napoleon, Mohammed, Hitler, Mussolini and Sadat, in turn have been seen as the Antichrist - but then they all died!
In spite of the fact that these predictions were all wrong, many Christians quickly forget that fact, and continue in their fanciful predictions. Their lack of repentance is illustrated in one of the great Pentecostal evangelists of the past, who wrote a book that "absolutely proved" that Mussolini was the Antichrist. The day after Mussolini died, instead of offering an apology to the world and admitting his mistake, the evangelist thanked God that he had sold all the books before Mussolini died. After Sadat died, a Christian bookstore sold the book that proclaimed Sadat as the Antichrist, for half price without explaining the reason for its reduced price. We took advantage of the sale and felt tricked when we got to that part. The once popular book, "88 Reasons Why Christ Will Return In 1988" is now obsolete. All these popular carnal ideas were wrong! All the various ideas about the mark of the beast as an actual number are also wrong.
Many expositions of Revelation are concerned with future events - events that are to take place during the end-time. Have you ever wondered what is meant by "end-time"? Are they events that take place just before time ends, and there is only eternity, or are they events that shall precede the so-called "second-coming" of Christ? I say "so-called" because Christ has already come a second time at Pentecost. In 2 Cor. 3:17 it says, "The Lord is the Spirit." Since the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost, Christ came again in the Spirit at that time. Every coming again is now over and above the second time!
Notice also that the Bible does not mention a "second-coming". This designation has been coined by the carnal mind of man. The only reference to a second appearing (not a second coming) is in Heb. 9:28. "So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him." He is not appearing to deal with sin a second time. In His glorious priesthood He appears to us for salvation. Time and again He appears to us to bring us encouragement, understanding, etc.
There is a difference between appearing and coming, but the translators have not been careful in their translation of these words. A research of these words in Strong's or Young's Concordance reveals this. The scriptures say Christ will come again! He has come again, for He lives and abides in us; He is here, for He has promised never to leave us or forsake us; He comes again in those who have been changed into His image. Every time we receive a new revelation of Christ, He comes to us in our awareness. The Spirit (Christ) is omnipresent; He fills all things. He is always with us and He never leaves us nor forsakes us. So how does He come again? Because we are not always aware of His presence, He can only come to us time and again in our awareness of Him. Whenever He manifests Himself to us in revelation and in power, we say He came to us. And of course, He did!
It grieves us to say that most Christians do not recognize that Jesus is no longer physical. In 2 Cor. 5:16 we read, "Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer." The only way we can see Him in physical form is when He is revealed in the overcomers. It is to our advantage that He has come again in the Spirit! Now we can all have fellowship and communion with Him at the same time. We don't have to go to Jerusalem and stand in line for years and years to have a ten-minute meeting with Him!
This revelation of Jesus Christ was not only for John, but for all the bond-servants of Jesus Christ. A bond-servant is someone who desires to remain a slave because he loves his master. (Ex. 21) This book is written to those who love Christ to the point of being willing to stand up and be counted, and if necessary, to die because of their allegiance to Him. They are His love slaves forever!
Becoming a Christian at that time, truly meant being a slave of Jesus Christ. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. (Acts 11:26) The name, Christian, was given them by pagans. The pagans heard them talk about Christ, and that they belonged to Him exclusively - they were His slaves, so they nicknamed them the Christianos - the slaves of Christ. ANOS at the end of a word simply means "the slaves of". The pagans used it as a derogatory term.
A witness had a martyr mentality; that is, he had already faced the issue of death. Therefore the idea of martyr and witness was never separated. In those days (as in some countries today) those who became witnesses of Jesus Christ, faced the fact that they would most likely suffer persecution and death. They considered this eventuality before they were baptized.
Over the years the word "witness" has degenerated and lost its martyr mentality. The thought that we might be forced to exit this world as a punishment for being baptized, would never enter our minds. To us witnessing means giving a testimony about Jesus. To the early Christians it meant things like the loss of a job, loss of a home, probable torture, death or banishment - as in the case of John.
The first century Christians were under great persecution, and needed sustenance and the comfort of the Holy Spirit. They were not interested in a world figure posing as an Antichrist. They were not toying around with future events that Christians are so concerned about today. They may have had a better understanding of the fact that the natural mind is anti-Christ than most Christians do today. Since God promised a blessing to everyone who reads this book and heeds its words, it cannot be about things that only apply to those who live in the far-distant future. Unless it applies to all people in every generation, that would be a mockery!
Nowhere in the New Testament do we see people becoming Christians in order to escape hell or to go to heaven after they die. They didn't even think in those terms. They had a wonderful perspective of the greatness of the salvation God had provided for them. They believed that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, and that life in Christ was worth more than physical life! If we say we believe, but our actions don't reflect that belief, it is only a mental belief - not a heart belief.
This letter was written to seven churches that were on the mainland over which John had been the pastor and overseer. Though there were many other churches on the mainland, these seven were very strategically placed. The seven churches are listed in the order that a messenger from John in exile on Patmos would have visited them. From Patmos he would have crossed over to Ephesus, and then taken a circular route ending in Laodicea. After the church had read the letter, it was in a position to pass it on to the next church. In most cases these churches stood at the head of a valley, or at a pass beyond which were other churches.
To understand the Christians who lived at the time this book was written, it is helpful to know a little about the historical context. >From history we learn that the Roman emperors had brought a lot of good, like roads and civilization. The people were happy to respond by worshiping Caesar. This became a long-standing custom in Rome, but the enforcement depended on the emperor and his officials in the far-flung empire.
This book was written approximately 95 A.D. At that time Domitian was the reigning emperor of the Roman empire. He was fanatical in his insistence that emperor worship be strictly enforced. He insisted that the people had to proclaim him as their lord and their god. Emperor worship was intended to bring cohesion to the empire. Some emperors were not as concerned about it as others, and under their rule the Christians had an easier time. Domitian was assassinated in September 96AD. He was also the last of the twelve Caesars.
Christians refused to stand before a statue of the emperor, and say, "He is lord." In fact many of them would simply say, "Jesus Christ is Lord." They also preached that "Jesus Christ is Lord and God." That not only annoyed Caesar, but it made him so furious that he arrested Christians, imprisoned them and fed them to the wild beasts.
Christians living on the mainland of Asia at that time were noted for being jobless and homeless. Their civic rights were taken away, and they were called traitors, third-class citizens and considered to be lower than slaves. They were bullied and thrown out on the streets, and many had to live in caves. Many lost their lives; if they were not killed, they died of hunger.
It was in Pergamum that emperor worship was first instituted, and therefore the most fanatical about it. Here the very first temple was built in honor of a Caesar. They also had many patron deities. For example, every blacksmith had to worship the same patron deity in order to become a blacksmith. If the patron deity was Venus, their worship of Venus included all kinds of immorality and sexual orgies. If Christians refused to participate in those things, and this part of the ceremony was overlooked, they still needed to worship the emperor in order to get a job. When we visited Japan a number of years ago, remnants of this custom were still visible by the altars that adorned the yards of some people's homes.
Understanding the symbolism will bless us by unveiling the power and greatness of our Lord Jesus Christ and His wonderful salvation! Let's keep this in mind as we study these visions.


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Cody Andrew Miller III (born July 30, 1971), known professionally as Troy Montero, is a Filipino-American actor.

He was born to an American father of German and Irish ancestry, and a U.S.-born Filipina mother.  In 2008, he and girlfriend Aubrey Miles had a baby boy named Hunter at St. Luke's Medical Center Quezon City. and his daughter Rocket Miller in December 14, 2018.

Montero is the brother of KC Montero and Colby Miller.

Filmography

Television
 Huwag Kang Mangamba (2021) TBA (Kapamilya Channel)
 Wattpad Presents: Captivated by Tyrone Greene (2017) Sebastian Greene (TV5)
 A Love to Last (2017) Michael (ABS-CBN)
 A1 Ko Sa 'Yo (2016) Ken (GMA Network)
 Karelasyon (2016) (GMA Network)
 Wagas (2016) Dr. Rob (GMA Network)
 Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw (2013) Aldrich (ABS-CBN)
 Talentadong Pinoy (2010) guest judge  (TV5)
 Dog TV (2010) guest  (Solar TV)
 Showtime (2010) guest judge {hurado} (ABS-CBN)
 Front Act (2008) guest (TV5)
 Auto Extreme (2005) guest  (Solar TV)
 Sa Dulo Ng Walang Hanggan (2001) Hector Soriano (ABS-CBN)
 Dear Mikee (2000) guest  (GMA Network)
 Keep on Dancing (1998–2000)

Movies
 El Presidente (2012) Frederick Funston
 Binibining K (2006) Will
 Super B (2002) Edgar
 Eto Na Naman Ako (2000) Vince Madrigal
 Dito Sa Puso Ko (1999) Rams
 Bakit Pa? (1999) Bryan
 Delivered (1998)
 Empleyada (1998) (TV)

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1971 births
Living people
20th-century Filipino male actors
Filipino male television actors
American male actors of Filipino descent
Filipino television personalities
American people of Irish descent
American people of German descent
American emigrants to the Philippines
21st-century Filipino male actors
Filipino male film actors
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities


NTSA - 2014 Scholarship Information Now Available!
2014 Scholarship Information Now Available!
In its ongoing mission to support the vision and philosophy of Dr. Suzuki, the North Texas Suzuki Association is pleased to announce the details of the 2014 Scholarship Auditions.
Two scholarships in the amound of $300.00 will be awarded to teachers who wish to attend a summer Suzuki Institute as a teacher workshop participant. Teachers must be current members of the SAA and NTSA.
Please review the information letter (download below)carefully, for additional information.


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Isham Warren Garrott (1816 – June 17, 1863) was a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Garrott was killed during the Vicksburg Campaign before his commission as a brigadier general was confirmed by the Confederate Senate or delivered and became effective.

Early life
Garrott was born in either Anson County or Wake County, North Carolina in 1816. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then studied law. In 1840, he moved to Marion, Alabama where he practiced law. Garrott was a member of the Whig Party and a Mason. Garrott was also an incorporator of the Marion and Alabama River Transportation Company and President of the Board of Trustees of Howard College. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1845 and 1847. Garrott served as an elector for John C. Breckinridge's failed 1860 Presidential Election campaign. Alabama Governor Andrew B. Moore sent Garrott to North Carolina as a commissioner to enlist his home state's aid in joining the secession movement.

Civil War

When the Civil War began, Garrott formed the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment, serving briefly as its lieutenant colonel) from September 16, 1861, to October 7, 1861, and thereafter as its colonel. The brigade was stationed in Mobile, Alabama during 1861 and 1862. Garrott's brigade was sent to Mississippi as part of General Edward D. Tracy's brigade. Garrott took part in the Battle of Port Gibson and the Battle of Champion's Hill. Garrott was killed by a Union sharpshooter on June 17, 1863, shortly before being promoted to brigadier general. His commission to rank from May 28, 1863, was received at headquarters after his death. Because of his death, his posthumous appointment was not confirmed by the Confederate Senate.

According to Warner's footnote, Garrott was buried under the window of a friend's {Finney} house in Vicksburg and remains never moved {letter from Garrott's wife}. What happened to Garrott was the following: A Confederate undertaker's list/map of CS burials in Vicksburg was lost-although partially found years later. This list reported a "Colonel Garnet" of the 20th Alabama-although gravesite plot unknown. Apparently, Garrott was reburied in Vicksburg's Cedar Hill/Confederate Cemetery; however due to the misspelling of his surname and incorrect rank-his Generals commission was received after his death-apparently lead to reporting that his remains were not moved from his first burial place. Thus the NPS listing for Garrott now has his correct rank/surname but no grave number. A stone marker for him stands in Soldiers Rest Confederate Cemetery, ironically located in the Cedar Hill (Old Vicksburg City) Cemetery.

Legacy
Fort Garrott near Vicksburg was named for him. The fort did not fall to the Union Army in battle because the planned final assault on Confederate positions scheduled for July 6, 1863 was avoided due to Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's surrender of his army to Major General Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863.  Sons Of Confederate Veterans Camp 764 Marion,Alabama Named In His Honor.

See also

List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate)

Notes

References
 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. .
 Solonick, Justin S. Engineering Victory: The Union Siege of Vicksburg. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. .
 Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .
Web biography

External links
Short Web biography for Garrott.

1816 births
1863 deaths
People from Anson County, North Carolina
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STIHL significantly improves plant reliability with versiondog
In large, heavily-specialized production facilities, such as those belonging to STIHL, it is vital that both management and maintenance are able to keep track of all aspects of their production. Thanks to versiondog, time-consuming searches for data and documentation have long since become a thing of the past.
At STIHL manufacturing facilities, maintenance is organized into two divisions. Each division has its own maintenance team, who use their extensive technical expertise to monitor and maintain the plant's daily operations. Situated above them is a central maintenance pool, which is made up of a team of specialists whose job it is to support the on-site teams if there are any time constraints or when specialized know-how is required. Due to their geographical proximity, the maintenance teams working at the Waiblingen and Ludwigsburg facilities are able to exchange ideas and share experiences with greater ease. That isn't quite the case with the STIHL maintenance teams located in Switzerland, the USA, Brazil and China. However, the lack of frequency is made up for by the quality of the exchanges; when they do take place, they are run in the form of workshops and by in-house staff who make production equipment for the company.
Designing and making their own production equipment for use in both in-house and external facilities is what gives STIHL one of its most important competitive advantages. According to Thomas Ruppmann, who has been involved in the design of production facilities at STIHL since 1991, it is an invaluable advantage for operations – certainly from the point of view of maintenance – that "the plant constructors are in-house and readily available. When we build our own plants then we are responsible for them for their entire service life. This means that, from the planning stage to the manufacturing stage, it is in our interest to ensure that the quality of the machinery is as high as possible so that it will pose few problems in the future." The aim is to ensure the greatest possible utilization of plant capacity.
Thomas Ruppmann has been a versiondog user since the very beginning: "We always carry out user management in twos, then we create a backup job and check to see that the system continues to run as it should." They are supported by central IT, who are also responsible for ensuring the availability of the network infrastructure and server. Ruppmann previously worked with an older version control system called VersionWorks and later helped the company to transition to versiondog. He describes his experience of working with the AUVESY software tool: "It is a convenient, easy-to-use tool, that helps us greatly in our daily-work."
At the beginning of the backup era, data management was not yet a problem, at least not when it came to the task of looking for the latest software version, Ruppmann explains. This was due to the fact that there were large programming devices which were wheeled into the production areas.
As such, "it was always clear where the data was," Ruppmann recalls. However, as the task of backing up data began to involve the use of portable data storage devices, especially USB sticks, it began to get more difficult. There was a risk of misplacing data storage devices. Even so, the manufacturing and production environment were still always well organized. As such, the reason for introducing versiondog in 2009 did not so much stem from a need to reduce time spent looking for the latest software version. Rather, it was part of an ongoing endeavor to optimize processes. This was an area in which "we also wanted to become better."
Bit by bit, versiondog was implemented across all machines and in all areas of production. Today, at the STIHL headquarters in Waiblingen, there are around 220 users who work with versiondog. Even though production facilities constitute the focal point of versiondog's work, the software is not only involved in production. Even the building services engineers work with the software. They use it as much for managing circuit diagrams as they do for ventilation and light controller programs. It also helps those involved in quality assurance testing.
The requirements of these areas vary, hence the reason why access rights are allocated differently; for the information needed by the facility management is different to that required by maintenance. It is thus important that versiondog is able to be used to manage access rights. In the area of production line construction, access rights are highly restricted, particularly where highly-specialized knowledge is involved. So running production is not the point where STIHL starts using versiondog, as Thomas Ruppmann explains: "We are already using the system when we make production equipment in order to archive intermediate stages of construction." Every now and again, during the commissioning stage of a plant, it can come to the attention of the team that a section needs to be re-programmed. On such rare occasions, it is beneficial if they are able to go back to a previous version.
versiondog, a multifunctional tool
Ruppmann: "I can certainly say that we have found a tool with which we are able to access all necessary information about the plant on the spot. This ease of access frequently helps to reduce downtimes at the plant." With the help of an extensive WLAN system, it is possible to use versiondog not only to access program versions of individual PLCs, but also electrical and pneumatic circuit diagrams, which the maintenance team also refer to as "Quicktipps". It is possible to access instructions and documents of both common and not-so-common devices from all production areas.
The versiondog project was first given the classic task of backing up PLC software. The more the team's confidence in using the application grew, the more possibilities the software revealed. One aspect that is very much appreciated is the fact that it is possible to integrate important editors so that people can work in a familiar environment. "All we have to do is define the directories and project tree structure. There is no need to additionally program the system in order to do this," Ruppmann explains.
"versiondog is a well-rounded tool that has helped us simplify our work immensely. Functions such as version compare are even better than the solutions offered by individual device manufacturers. This is what makes versiondog so attractive!"
Thomas Ruppmann, department of electrical design at Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
Now all STIHL production facilities in Germany have implemented versiondog as part of their data management strategy. This encompasses approx. 3,000 machines and 7,600 components. Each production facility has set up three components as standard: software (controller programs), circuit diagrams and documentation. If needed, it is possible to add additional sub-directories/components, for instance, for robots or tightening system controllers. The term "documentation" can be used to mean a wide-variety of different things, i.e. PDF files and Excel spreadsheets; in-short, everything to do with control technology which can be saved in a file format. Since the introduction of versiondog approx. 46,000 versions have been created and checked in. The best thing is that the software does not require a lot of memory. The amount of storage required on the server amounts to less than 1.5 GB.
This level of compression raises the question as to whether unzipping these directories might take too much time and cause delays in resuming production after a stoppage. The short answer is 'no'. This is because at STIHL only the latest version is checked out by default in order to save time. "What's more," says Ruppman, "the process of carrying out a comparison of a S7 unit, for example, is very quick."
The versiondog Factory Floor Status is a very useful WebClient add-on that enables users to see the status of all devices and equipment that are integrated in the versiondog system according to a number of device-specific monitors such as installed firmware, MLFB numbers, force values, RAM use and cycle time. Factory Floor Status is not yet in use at STIHL, though Ruppmann admits that it sounds like a very interesting solution for managing large numbers of components. "We would be happy to have the opportunity to test it sometime," he says.
Devices are backed up at STIHL on a daily basis in order to ensure that the latest production data is always available. Backups enable the detection of unintended changes. As backups are run in the background, they do not have to be constantly monitored. When anomalies are detected, members of the appropriate team will receive immediate notification via email. STIHL is known for its quality-orientated approach to work. This can also be observed when it comes to data management – the latest version is always used. Updates are carried out in a timely manner.
Thomas Ruppmann would like to emphasize that he rarely has to get in contact with the AUVESY support hotline. "The system is stable and very intuitive to use." In his opinion, the fact that they rarely have to contact support speaks volumes about the quality of the product. The fact that versiondog is simple to use is also reflected in the time and effort needed to train new users. It only takes a short amount of time for new team members to be able to use the system. In the team, the acceptance of the software is generally very high. According to Ruppmann, his colleagues see the benefits every day in their work, now that all important data is centralized and available everywhere and at all times.
When asked what kind of financial benefits have been observed, such as return on investment, Ruppmann replies that, "it is very difficult to quantify the benefits of versiondog strictly in terms of euros, because a lot of the added value is seen in soft factors. From a subjective point of view, versiondog has certainly helped to simplify things." In his words, at the point of procuring versiondog, reducing financial costs was not the primary objective. Rather, it was the need for clearly organized and traceable documentation. Reducing costs has been an additional benefit. "The effort involved in searching for the latest software version has disappeared entirely. We always know where we need to go." In addition, it is possible to rely on regular backups to ensure that the latest controller version is always stored. As a result, data storage has been simplified and uncertainty has been removed. Thanks to the centralized data storage that versiondog brings, there is no longer any risk of data storage devices going missing. For Ruppman it is clear: "versiondog is a well-rounded tool that has helped us simplify our work immensely. Functions such as version compare are even better than the solutions offered by individual device manufacturers. This is what makes versiondog so attractive!"
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Sherpa is the X-ray satellite Chandra modeling and fitting application. It enables the user to construct complex models from simple definitions and fit those models to data, using a variety of statistics and optimization methods. The issues of constraining the source position and morphology are common in X- and Gamma-ray astronomy. This notebook will show you how to apply Sherpa to CTA data.
Here we will set up Sherpa to fit the counts map and loading the ancillary images for subsequent use. A relevant test statistic for data with Poisson fluctuations is the one proposed by Cash (1979). The simplex (or Nelder-Mead) fitting algorithm is a good compromise between efficiency and robustness. The source fit is best performed in pixel coordinates.
This tutorial has 2 important parts 1. Generating the Maps 2. The actual fitting with sherpa.
Since sherpa deals only with 2-dim images, the first part of this tutorial shows how to prepare gammapy maps to make classical images.
We first generate the required maps using 3 simulated runs on the Galactic center, exactly as in the analysis_3d tutorial.
It is always advisable to make the maps on fine energy bins, and then sum them over to get an image.
np.logspace(-1, 1.0, 10), unit="TeV", name="energy", interp="log"
Since sherpa image fitting works only with 2-dim images, we convert the generated maps to 2D images using make_images() and save them as fits files. The exposure is weighed with the spectrum before averaging (assumed to be a power law by default).
In principle one might first want to fit the background amplitude. However the background estimation method already yields the correct normalization, so we freeze the background amplitude to unity instead of adjusting it. The (smoothed) residuals from this background model are then computed and shown.
/Users/jer/anaconda/envs/gammapy-dev/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sherpa/instrument.py:723: UserWarning: No PSF pixel size info available. Skipping check against data pixel size.
Fit all parameters of this Gaussian component, fix them and re-compute the residuals map.
When adding a new source, one needs to check the significance of this new source. A frequently used method is the Test Statistics (TS). This is done by comparing the change of statistics when the source is included compared to the null hypothesis (no source ; in practice here we fix the amplitude to zero).
The criterion for a significant source detection is typically that it should improve the test statistic by at least 25 or 30. We have added only 3 sources to save time, but you should keep doing this till del(stat) is less than the required number.
Keep adding sources till there are no more significat ones in the field. How many Gaussians do you need?
Use other morphologies for the sources (eg: disk, shell) rather than only Gaussian.
You could read over the examples there, and try to apply a similar analysis to this dataset here to practice.


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Dinner on board, night at anchor.
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