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Joseph D. "Joe" Jordan
November 14, 1935 - January 14, 2021
Joe Jordan passed away January 14th at his home surrounded by his loving family. Joe was born on November 14, 1935 in Butte, Montana to Ruth (Sullivan) and August (Gus) Jordan. Raised in uptown Butte, he attended McKinley grade school and graduated from Butte Public High School in 1953. He then attended the Montana School of mines and eventually started working at F & S Construction as they began work on what was to become the Berkeley Pit. He worked his way up from an oiler to a foreman then helped to start General Constructors eventually becoming General Manager. During this time he was also involved with Greyrock Trucking in Anaconda. After leaving General Constructors he and Rosemary started Jordan Contracting, Inc. based in Anaconda, MT and continued there until his passing. He took great pride in the company he created and the work they accomplished. Early on, Joe saw the need for a company to help perform reclamation of the scarring left by mining in the Butte and Anaconda area and developed long lasting relationships with the agencies and companies involved in the cleanup helping them meet their cleanup goals while providing work and income for countless employees and businesses in the area. Some of his favorite projects were the Old Works Golf Course, the Granite Mountain Foreman's Park, "Rails-to-Trails" walking trails in Butte, Opportunity Ponds Reclamation, Silver Bow Creek Streamside reclamation, Smelter Hill, Washoe Park and the Warm Springs Ponds. All of his relationships, both business and personal, were successful due to Joe's impeccable integrity which was at the core of his being. He always gave 110% whether it involved work, sports or family. His work ethic was surpassed by none and he played just as hard; enjoying water and snow skiing, snow machining, flying, handball, racquetball, pheasant hunting, golf and was a standout on his college football team as well as a member for many years of the Butte Elks Lodge, #240. He also loved playing cards whether with family and friends or with his poker buddies and was always up for a game of Acey-Deucy. He enjoyed time with family and especially when they were all together at yearly Christmas Parties and at his cabin on Flathead Lake. "The Lake" was one of the few places he would ever "unwind" but even then the relaxation usually involved a "project" of some sort or another. Friends, kids and grandkids all have stories of "relaxing" with Joe and ending up exhausted but with a feeling of accomplishment. He was truly happy when he was busy and best friends Phil and Doc were always willing accomplices on many of his projects. He married Jeanne (Dooris) on September 17, 1955, had three children then later divorced. In October 1982, he married Rosemary and also gained a daughter and son at the same time. Joe was a very private man with a huge heart and supported many local charitable organizations and projects for the betterment of his communities including the lighting of the Anselmo Headframe, the Copper Chute slide in Anaconda, Jeremey Bullock Soccer fields, and many others. He also gave from his heart to many people that we will probably never know about given his humility. Joe was preceded in death by his sister Dorothy Lou Jordan, father Gus Jordan and mother Ruth Jordan and stepson Kevin Strickland. Survivors include wife Rosemary Jordan, sister Shirlee Tibbetts, children Judy Vukasin, Jill (Steve) Trestik, Jerry (Denise) Jordan, Kim (Lynn) Proctor, grandchildren Tristan Vukasin, Bryden (Becky) Vukasin, Graysen (Kristin) Vukasin, Courtlan Vukasin, Skylar Vukasin, Makenna Vukasin, Mandie (Jephren) Perez, Sammie Trestik, Ian (Shaina) Jordan, Rachael Jordan and Andrew Jordan, Ashley (Kevin) Tripp, Zachary McCarthy, eight great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Due to the Covid pandemic private family services will be conducted. A public memorial service will be conducted at a later date and will be announced. Express condolences at www.wayrynen-richards.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Shriners, World Museum of Mining or the charity of your choice. We can't wait to see you again when you will greet us with "What can I get you to drink?"
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
Tim Harford, Author, The Data Detective
Amanda Glassman, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Join Tim Harford and Amanda Glassman as they discuss Harford's new book, The Data Detective. Already a bestseller in the UK, the book uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. Harford discusses Covid-19, how we view the world wrongly, global inequality, and problems with data quality.
Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of "How To Make the World Add Up" / "The Data Detective", "Messy", and the million-selling "The Undercover Economist". Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less", the iTunes-topping series "Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy", and the podcast "Cautionary Tales". Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.

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Ulmus × brandisiana Melville & Heybroek  is a naturally occurring elm hybrid found across the Kashmir region, arising from the crossing of Ulmus chumlia and the Himalayan elm, Ulmus wallichiana.  The hybrid was formally recognized by Melville and Heybroek after the latter's expedition there in 1960.

Description
The leaves are intermediate in shape between the two parents.

Pests and diseases
Not known.

Cultivation
The tree is not known to have been introduced to the West.

Etymology
The tree is named for Sir Dietrich Brandis, the first Inspector General of Forests appointed to the sub-continent, and author of Indian Trees published in 1906. The name was earlier used by Schneider as the specific name for what was later sunk as a subspecies (xanthoderma) of the Himalayan Elm U. wallichiana. To add to the confusion, specimens of what was later named U. chumlia were treated as U. brandisiana by Augustine Henry.

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Metals recycler TSR has unveiled its new facility in southern Poland - the company's second in the country. The acquisition should 'strengthen the business in southern Poland', according to TSR's chairman Edwin Leijnse.
Poland's ferrous scrap market amounts to around 6 million tonnes per year, of which some 1 million tonnes is exported primarily to Germany and the Baltic countries. With 150 branches in Europe and 2400 employees, TSR generates an annual turnover of more than Euro 3bn, handling and trading more than 8 million tonnes of scrap annually.
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A new report examining the challenges and opportunities for gasification of waste has been published by the American Chemistry Council.
The report indicates 21 demonstration gasification facilities currently are operating in the United States and 17 commercial-scale sites are under development.
US WEEE recycler E-Waste Systems has signed what it calls a "teaming agreement" with Ghana-based Community Waste, saying that it represented the first partnership of its kind in Africa.
Nielson also says the agreement will help prevent the landfilling of electronic scrap on the African continent.
Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has organized a one day workshop for stakeholders on solid and liquid waste management in the context of flooding.
The workshop was aimed at creating awareness and promoting information-sharing on how to dispose of waste in sustainable manner. Speaking at the workshop, NEMA head of operations Jediel Apollos said flood is inevitable but the most important thing is taking a drastic action towards reducing its impact.
Singapore is planning to build a fifth energy from waste plant to cope with the increasing amount of solid waste.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) put the new EfW project out to tender.
There are four EfW plants currently running in Singapore, the oldest being at Tuas, which became operational in 1986.
The new plant is expected to be completed by 2018. With a capacity of at least 2,400 tonnes per day, it will be the second-largest plant in the country.
Furuya Metal, a Japanese precious metal product manufacturer, has opened a new plasma pyrometallurgical facility to recycle platinum group metals from spent catalysts.
The Direct Current (DC) plasma technology was supplied by Tetronics International, a UK-based specialist in the use of DC plasma technology for the recycling of metals the treatment of hazardous wastes.
The technology uses ultra-high temperatures to melt, gasify or vaporise any waste material, in order to treat, recover or generate valuable commercial products.
A recycling program operated by Australian brewer Coopers Brewery has boosted South Australian charities.
The program was introduced in 2006 to recycle materials such as cardboard, glass, aluminium and old machinery that were previously disposed of at a cost. Since then, recycling has raised more than Au$380,000 (£221,350), all of which has been contributed to the Coopers Brewery Foundation.
Brazil's National Institute of Ferrous Scrap Companies (Inesfa), has presented some policy proposals to Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign to support the growth of the sector.
The aim of the document was to highlight the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs operating in the sector. If the proposals were implemented, they would contribute to increasing competitiveness and generate more employment and income possibilities, claimed Inesfa.
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Electrical and optical properties of boronated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C:B)
B. Kleinsorge, A. Ilie, M. Chhowalla, W. Fukarek, W. I. Milne, J. Robertson
Tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C) is a predominately sp3-bonded semiconductor with a band gap of order 2 eV. It can be doped n-type using nitrogen but no successful p-type doping has been reported until now. On the other hand, it has recently been shown that the incorporation of boron reduces the intrinsic compressive stress of ta-C, while still maintaining its high fraction of sp3 sites. This paper reports a detailed study of the electrical properties of boron-doped ta-C (ta-C:B). The ta-C:B films are deposited in a filtered cathodic vacuum arc system using a pressed cathode of graphite and boron powder. The composition and structure of the films are examined by electron energy loss spectroscopy. We find that the room temperature conductivity of the films increases by five orders of magnitude with a boron concentration from 0 to 8%. The conductivity activation energy decreases for the same boron concentration, while the E04 gap remains constant. N-type silicon/ta-C:B heterojunctions show a rectifying behaviour as a function of the boron concentration of the films. The films show photoconductivity. The combined results indicate p-type doping of ta-C.
Diamond and Related Materials
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Kleinsorge, B., Ilie, A., Chhowalla, M., Fukarek, W., Milne, W. I., & Robertson, J. (1998). Electrical and optical properties of boronated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C:B). Diamond and Related Materials, 7(2-5), 472-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0925-9635(97)00238-0
Electrical and optical properties of boronated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C:B). / Kleinsorge, B.; Ilie, A.; Chhowalla, M.; Fukarek, W.; Milne, W. I.; Robertson, J.
In: Diamond and Related Materials, Vol. 7, No. 2-5, 02.1998, p. 472-476.
Kleinsorge, B, Ilie, A, Chhowalla, M, Fukarek, W, Milne, WI & Robertson, J 1998, 'Electrical and optical properties of boronated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C:B)', Diamond and Related Materials, vol. 7, no. 2-5, pp. 472-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0925-9635(97)00238-0
Kleinsorge B, Ilie A, Chhowalla M, Fukarek W, Milne WI, Robertson J. Electrical and optical properties of boronated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C:B). Diamond and Related Materials. 1998 Feb;7(2-5):472-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0925-9635(97)00238-0
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Big Finish Review: Class – Volume 1 & 2
Posted on September 13, 2018 September 16, 2018 by indiemacuser
Class is back. This time in audio form courtesy of the good folks at Big Finish. All the gang is back, even though in this case in different groupings. Some which we haven't seen together as often which is really exciting. I always felt Class had so much potential in its original TV run. I enjoyed the one series it got and knew if it had a second series it would work out a few kinks and become the show it could be. In fact when I interviewed Greg Austin he mentioned a few ideas they had to shape up a second series. Where as these first two sets from Big Finish are set during the first series. Do they create the feel of the TV show whilst still delivering a few tweaks to make it even better? Well, let's look at the stories…
Gifted by Roy Gill introduces us to Thomas (Rhys Isaac-Jones). A young man with real potential. Lucky for him he meets Mab (Deirdre Mullins) A lady that knows just how to bring out his potential, but at what cost? And what about when she offers to bring out the potential in Ram (Fady Elsayed) on the football field? Meanwhile April (Sophie Hopkins) meets Thomas and finds out the truth behind Mab's promises.
A really strong opener, sensibly starting us off with a pairing we are more used to before going into some different groupings of the cast. You get right into the sweet, but sometimes awkward new relationship between Ram and April. Having the story start with Thomas it gives us a good opening to re-meet the stars of the show. Mabs being a creature that works from potential taps nicely into Rams worries about being able to still play football with this artificial leg and speaks to that fear a lot of us get when we are young and first realise it's possible not to make it; even if you are good at something. Gill's script also gives a great feel of the sinister world of Mab. Great performances from our two guest players.
Life Experience by Jenny T Colgan see's Ram and Tanya (Vivian Oparah) on work experience at Sevelin Laboratories. Tanya can't wait to get into the scientific research and share her ideas with the scientific elite… Ram wants lunch. But both get more than they expect when a living experiment is let loose in the lab.
Colgan is always a great writer and here she take a classic Sci Fi idea of an experiment gone wrong that's set loose and puts a nice spin on it. This is a great showcase to reintroduce Tanya and Vivian Oparah hasn't lost a beat in the performance and is nicely matched with the "couldn't give a stuff about science" Ram. Giving Fady Elsayed some really nice comedy moments along with the drama. Great supporting cast which gives the returning cast good stuff to play off.
Tell Me You Love Me by Scott Handcock rounds up volume 1 in rare style. Charlie (Greg Austin) and Matteusz Andrzejewski (Jordan Renzo) are just getting used to their new found love, but Charlie is struggling with giving in to it as much as Matteusz. They need to talk. The only problem comes when they can't stop talking, literally. Suddenly their personal problems could become deadly and when Quill (Katherine Kelly) gets stuck in the mix the three end up in a race against the clock to all shut up!
This is such an imaginative and economical story. The action takes place with our core 3 cast alone (aside from a brief guest turn at the end). Each in turn talking non stop, with some really nice techniques of them talking over each other where needed. It's a real actors story by Handcock. The relationships between Charlie & Matteusz and Charlie & Quill are perfectly exemplified here, each with their share of tensions and things needing working out. Events forcing them to face things they would usually avoid. To create something so tense with so few elements is a gift.
The second set starts with Everybody Loves Reagan by Tim Foley. April is trying to create a new "buddy group" at Coal Hill, but no one is biting. Just as she's packing up new student Reagan (Taj Atwal) comes along praising her great idea and lending an ear. However when Reagan gets friendly with everyone else April feels a little pushed out. Ram & Tanya thinks she's being jealous. After all, they've known Reagan for years… haven't they?
Another story that taps into feelings we all get at times at college. Is the new person more popular than us? Do our friends want to really be our friends.. basically, are we enough or is someone else better? Props to Atwal as Reagan who rides the line between being everyone's friend and an impending sense of menace below the surface, which helps that it's so well written that way by Foley. Hopkins as April shows why this character is the heart of the Class team; even when she doesn't always get the love back.
Now You Know… by Tim Leng
In classic Class style from the TV show, people are being savagely attacked in mysterious circumstances. Tanya and Matteusz find themselves investigating and uncover a mystery that goes back decades.
This was a tough listen for me… not in a bad way. It deals with bullying and being an outcast, something I along with so many others experienced at school. It's so well told as to bring the feeling right back, but with a positive light put on it with friends sticking together. I never would have thought of putting Tanya and Matteusz together, but as a gay immigrant and a young genius student, who as a black young woman will have seen her share of discrimination, these two are the perfect pair to face bullying and to stick by each other to help each other through in a way I only wish I had experienced bullying. Something quite cathartic in this for me. I'm sure if you haven't experienced bullying you can still enjoy the story as is, but if you have I think you'll experience this on the level I have. I really hope the youth of today do stick together like this.
Our last story, In Remembrance by Guy Adams is a real showstopper to this series of sorts. Ace (Sophie Aldred) comes to Coal Hill on the trail of a Dalek, one she's been on the trail of for sometime. She is met with Quill and Charlie in a classic Doctor Who crossover. As if this wasn't story porn enough, when Charlie is sent back in time to where the Dalek came from he meets a young Ace and a setting classic Who fans will be very familiar with. Sophie Aldred doing a wonderful job of youthing up her voice.
I've enjoyed all the stories in these 2 sets, but this is what you want from the final tale. Sophie Aldred doesn't miss a beat coming into this new side of the Whonivese. The interaction between her and Katherine Kelly as Quill is electric. Ace talking of what the Doctor did to change her life and Quill facing this with cynicism. Usually you know the former companion would win round the disenfranchised but given Quills actions are not in her own hands it's not so straight forward which gives this dynamic a new level.
Charlie being lost on his own in the past also gives the character a chance to stretch out on his own and face challenges his otherwise might not rise to meet. All this and who doesn't love Nick Briggs as a Dalek?
Scott Handcock as director along with an awesome set of writers and actors has taken the the mantle of Patrick Ness's creation and expanded it in a way they never got a chance to on TV. Most shows need a second series to work out the kinks and find the real direction it needs to go in and these days it's hard to be given the time to have that chance. I think it's sensible to start off within the first series and work with the world we are familiar with.
However if these boxsets are successful (as they deserve to be) then I hope we will see in effect a "series 2" to TV Class in audio form in the way that Torchwood has recently had continuing adventures with "Aliens Among Us". If nothing else as the cast gets older it might be hard to sound between 14 and 17 forever.
I like the different configurations of members of the cast together; getting to expand what the show can be, again as I'm sure they would have on TV given time. I would like to see in the future a complete Class reunion as it were, but it's understandable this isn't always possible with schedules and it's nice when you do this to really get everyone together.
I had only a small concern after the unconventional way Class was realised, with Big Finish also choosing to do something different with the release method. Where the TV version was released online first and then really late night on TV, being released much later in the US pretty much encouraging piracy, I believe this contributed to soft numbers of viewers. Big Finish has released both sets on the same day. I'm sure this is a calculated idea, but I wouldn't want sales to be less as a result of asking people to buy 2 new products at once. That being said the stories are so good as to encourage the second purchase, if not bought at the same time.
If you were a fan of Class before, I think you'll enjoy what they have done in this world. If you weren't, please give it a go again and hear what they have done to flesh out the world. Where as Doctor Who is great at using Alien parallels to show what's going on with our own society, Class has taken what goes on for a lot of us at school / college and used other-worldly experiences to make them as large as they feel. 10/10.
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ADNOC awards $1.21bn EPC contract to SKEC for world's largest underground oil storage project
Published: 28 February 2019 - 6:30 a.m.
By: Carla Sertin
ADNOC is building the world's largest underground oil storage project, with a capacity of 42mn barrels of crude oil, in UAE emirate Fujairah, a global industry storage and trading hub. It awarded a $1.21bn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to South Korea's SK Engineering and Construction Co (SKEC) for the project.
SKEC will construct three underground storage caverns, each with a capacity of 14mn barrels, deep below ground level.
"Importantly, developing this strategic oil storage mega facility in Fujairah will also support and further enable our broader trading ambitions, strengthening our ability to respond efficiently and competitively to the needs of our customers, while also providing ADNOC with greater flexibility to proactively respond to market needs and commercial opportunities," ADNOC Group CEO Dr. Sultan Al Jaber said.
Works commenced in 2018 and the first phase of the ADNOC Fujairah Underground Storage, involving the construction of an access tunnel, has been completed. When complete in 2022, the ADNOC Fujairah Underground Storage will be one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world and able to store three different types of crude oil, providing ADNOC with increased flexibility to export crude through Fujairah's Arabian Sea oil terminal.
The EPC contract award followed a tendering process that included a rigorous assessment of how much of the contract value would support the growth and diversification of the UAE's domestic economy through ADNOC's In-Country Value program. ADNOC says up to $600mn (50%) of the contract spend will feed back into the UAE economy through ADNOC's In-Country Value program.
In November, ADNOC signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) to explore storing ADNOC crude oil at ISPRL's underground storage facility at Padur in Karnataka, India. This agreement followed the arrival of the final shipment of the initial delivery of ADNOC crude to be stored in another ISPRL underground facility in Mangalore, earlier the same month.
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"When [canvasers] identified medical needs or homebound folks, they would give us a call and we would provide our own care to go climb the stairs and make house calls to folks. Checking on someone or going around making prescriptions. We evacuated some people to the hospital if people needed to go. The main concern when we got here was 'were people dying on the up on the 20th floor because there's no one checking on them and they can't get down?'"
"Volunteers would say, 'oh, she doesn't need that much stuff. People are lying to get more stuff and hoard it,' which is upsetting to see, especially because in the beginning, there were more donations than we could have ever given away. But pretty quickly sort of all these internal politics and--- maybe what I would think of as fear of people who are poor or fear of people who need stuff, you know? That was all coming out and being expressed in ways that weren't great by volunteers. So it's hard to talk to people in their apartments and feel like we didn't have the capacity to bring them things, but also knowing that they were going to come and have to wait in a line that you would not want anybody to have to wait in."
" I'm trying to remember from social media my perception at the time. The only thing that comes to mind specifically is the sort of the needs hashtag that had come up that I think was effective at both highlighting needs and also getting people to respond to those needs. And I think I was surprised by the effectiveness of the hashtag in doing that because a hashtag can be a pretty blunt tool given that anybody can use it for any purpose that has nothing to do with the hashtag itself. And it's also very limited in terms of how much data it can contain in a tweet, for example. But I was pretty impressed with how that was able to manage so much of the communication load in a very informal way."
"Spaces where it was free reign, where the community could organize what it needed, as it needed, seem to create the opportunity for resiliency and health. Here with the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, there with churches -- mostly churches and like a couple of businesses. I've never thought so well of churches. ... The thing that the churches gave to us was space to organize and assess our needs and then deliver upon them. And there are no other spaces like that, no other spaces like that."
"One of the things we've been starting to explore is helping to develop worker cooperatives because there are so many unemployed people with skills ... I'm really excited about the opportunity to give- to create jobs for people, to create a livelihood that doesn't involve the existing system and doesn't involve people being exploited by people, people making opportunities for themselves."
"And it was pretty frightening, because a disaster takes place and an inevitable outcome is that a lot of organizations that don't normally communicate with each other are going to communicate with each other, which is abide by the nature of a disaster."


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Heinrich Christian Boie ( - ) est un écrivain holsteinois.

Biographie

Né dans la ville de Meldorf dans le Holstein (appartenant personnellement au roi du Danemark), Boie étudia le droit à l'université d'Iéna. En 1769, il arriva à Göttingen où il devint l'un des plus grands esprit du « Dichterbund » ou « Hain » de Göttingen. Le talent poétique de Boie était certes médiocre, mais sa connaissance de la littérature, son goût et son jugement étaient exemplaires.

Il fonda avec Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter le Göttinger Musenalmanach en 1770, qu'il dirigea et édita jusqu'en 1775, quand, avec Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, il publia Das deutsche Museum qui devint l'un des meilleurs périodiques littéraires de cette époque. En 1776, il devint secrétaire du gouverneur militaire de Hanovre, et, en 1781, fut nommé administrateur de la province de Süderditmarschen en Holstein.

Il faisait partie du Cercle d'Emkendorf, salon littéraire de la comtesse von Reventlow, au château d'Emkendorf. Il est mort à Meldorf.

Notes
 Il ne faut pas le confondre avec Heinrich Boie (1794-1827), naturaliste holsteinois.

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Étudiant de l'université d'Iéna
Étudiant de l'université de Göttingen
Naissance en juillet 1744
Naissance à Meldorf
Naissance dans le duché de Holstein-Glückstadt
Décès en mars 1806
Décès au Schleswig-Holstein
Décès dans le duché de Holstein
Décès à 61 ans


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Pyknometer är ett instrument för att bestämma densiteten hos fasta eller flytande ämnen.

Funktion
En pyknometer är vanligtvis gjord av glas, med en åtsittande slipad glaspropp med ett genomgående kapillärrör, där luftbubblor kan lämna apparaten. Denna anordning möjliggör att noggrant mäta en vätskas densitet med hänvisning till ett lämplig arbetsmedium, såsom vatten eller kvicksilver, med hjälp av en balansvåg.

Om kolven väges tom, full av vatten, och full av en vätska vars relativa densitet önskas, kan den relativa densiteten av vätskan enkelt beräknas.

Partikeldensiteten av ett pulver, för vilket den vanliga metoden för vägning inte kan tillämpas, kan också bestämmas med en pyknometer. Pulvret fylls då i pyknometern, som sedan väges, vilket ger vikten av pulverprovet. Pyknometern fylls därefter med en vätska med känd densitet, i vilken pulvret är fullständigt olöslig. Vikten av den undanträngda vätskan när pulvret åter fylls i kan sedan bestämmas, och därmed den relativa densiteten av pulvret.

Det finns också en gasbaserad utformning av en pyknometer känd som en gaspyknometer. Den jämför förändringen i tryck som orsakas av en uppmätt förändring i en sluten volym innehållande en referens (vanligen en stålsfär med känd volym) med ändringen i tryck som orsakas av provet under samma betingelser. Skillnaden i tryckförändringen motsvarar volymen av provet jämfört med referenssfären, och används vanligtvis för fasta partiklar som kan upplösas i det flytande mediet i pyknometern med den konstruktion som beskrivits ovan, eller för porösa material, som vätskan inte till fullo kan penetrera.

Källor

Bra Böckers lexikon, 1979

Externa länkar
https://web.archive.org/web/20160306222631/http://www.asfaltskolan.se/metoder/fasmetoder/fas228-98.pdf

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Q: NSDate month addition and subtraction I have a class that holds an start date and an end date, normally initialised to the firt and last second of the month.
The following function works correctly going from Nov 2010 forwards into December and back again however going backwards from November ends up with startDate set to

2010-09-30 23:00:00 GMT

Ie. a month and an hour ago.
Strangely the endDate is still correctly set to

2010-11-01 00:00:00 GMT

And going forward a month from this incorrect date also results in the correct time and date.
Is this a bug or am I doing something I shouldn't be ?

-(void) moveMonth:(NSInteger)byAmount { // Positive or negative number of months
    NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

 NSDateComponents *components = [[[NSDateComponents alloc] init] autorelease];
 // Update the start date
 [components setMonth:byAmount];
 NSDate *newStartDate = [cal dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:[self startDate] options:0];
 [self setStartDate:newStartDate];

 // And the end date
 [components setMonth:1];
 NSDate *newEndDate = [cal dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:[self startDate] options:0 ];
 [self setEndDate:newEndDate];
}

SOLUTION: Answer correctly pointed out this is a DST issue
If you want to deal in absolute times and date then using the following avoids any DST being involved.

    NSCalendar *cal = [[NSCalendar alloc ] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
    NSTimeZone *zone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"];
    [cal setTimeZone:zone];

A: It is probably not a bug but something related to DST changes in October-November period.

A: It would be easier to just grab the month and year of the current date, add/subtract the number of months difference, then generate a date from those new values. No need to worry about Daylight Saving changes, leap years, etc. Something like this ought to work:
-(void) moveMonth:(NSInteger)byAmount {
    NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
    NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

    // we're just interested in the month and year components
    NSDateComponents *nowComps = [cal components:(NSYearCalendarUnit|NSMonthCalendarUnit)
                                        fromDate:now];
    NSInteger month = [nowComps month];
    NSInteger year = [nowComps year];

    // now calculate the new month and year values
    NSInteger newMonth = month + byAmount;

    // deal with overflow/underflow
    NSInteger newYear = year + newMonth / 12;
    newMonth = newMonth % 12;

    // month is 1-based, so if we've ended up with the 0th month,
    // make it the 12th month of the previous year
    if (newMonth == 0) {
        newMonth = 12;
        newYear = newYear - 1;
    }

    NSDateComponents *newStartDateComps = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
    [newStartDateComps setYear: year];
    [newStartDateComps setMonth: month];
    [self setStartDate:[cal dateFromComponents:newDateComps]];
    [newDateComps release];

    // Calculate newEndDate in a similar fashion, calling setMinutes:59,
    // setHour:23, setSeconds:59 on the NSDateComponents object if you
    // want the last second of the day
}

A: Here is a way to do it properly. This method returns a new NSDate after adding/subtracting month "byAmount".
-(NSDate*) moveMonth:(NSInteger)byAmount {

    NSDate *now = [NSDate date];

    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
    [components setMonth:byAmount];

    NSDate *newDate = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:now options:0];

    return newDate;
}


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Ruth Rosique
Gifted with a beautiful voice, a brilliant technique and shine on scene, the andalusian soprano Ruth Rosique finished her singing classes in the Conservatorio Superiore di Musica in Valencia with Ana Luisa Chova and furthured her studies with Victoria de Los Angeles, Donald Sultzen, Emma Kirkby, Kamal Khan, Manuel Cid, Elena Obraztsova and Angelo Capobianco.
She has performed major roles in the following operas : Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and L ́incoronazione di Poppea by C. Monteverdi, B. Galuppi's L ́Olimpiade, Orfeo e Euridice by W. Gluck, Ottavia Restituita and Il Prigionier Superbo by G.B. Pergolesi, Andromeda Liberata and Atenaide by A. Vivaldi, F. J. Haydn's Orfeo e Euridice, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Die Entfürung aus dem Serail, La Finta Giardiniera and Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart , La Scala di Seta, Il Turco in Italia and Il Viaggio a Reims by G. Rossini, Massenet's Werther, Roméo e Juliette by C. Gounod, La Boheme by G. Puccini, La Sonnambula by V. Bellini, Delibes' Lakmé, Falstaff by G. Verdi, Die Frau ohne Schatten by R. Strauss, Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Orphée aux Enfers by J. Offenbach, The Rape of Lucretia by B. Britten, Der Kaiser von Atlantis by V. Ullman, Die sieben Todsünden by K. Weill, Moses und Aaron et Pierrot Lunaire by A. Schöenberg, Elegy for Young Lovers by H.W. Henze.
She has sung in the most prestigious theatres like the Liceo in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, The Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, Le Capitole in Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre in Bordeaux, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, in the Tokyo Opera Center, in Carnegie Hall in New York…
Ruth Rosique has collaborated with prestigious conductors like Michel Plasson, H. Rilling, O. Dantone, F.M. Sardelli, C. Hogwood, R. King, Christophe Coin, Paul Goodwin, J. C. Malgoire, C. Rousset, A. Marcon, A. Florio, E. López-Banzo, C. Spering, J. López Cobos, Victor Pablo, A. Tamayo, E. G. Asensio, J. Pons, S. Mas, M. Roa, L. Hager, Yves Abel, Pinchas Steinberg, Jeffrey Tate, Fabio Luisi, etc.
Ruth Rosique develops her concert work as a soloist and a member of various chamber and baroque groups, such as The Kings Consort, Harmonia del Parnás, Ensemble Barroque de Limoges, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Al Ayre Español, Venice Baroque Orchestra, El Concierto Español, Cappella Neapolitana Antonio Florio, I Virtuosi Italiani, Accademia Bizantina and Capella de Ministrers.
She has recorded more than 20 Cds and DVDS with several record companies (Dynamic, EMI, Naïve…).
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DEATH: JOHN W. EASTMAN
SHARE DEATH: JOHN W. EASTMAN
John W. Eastman, 66, died October 11, 1931 at his home in Wamego, Kansas. He was formerly from Salt Lake City, Utah.
He was born November 17, 1924 in Herriman, Utah, son of Sara Forman and Alonzo Eastman. Mr. Eastman was an Army Veteran of World War II, and served in the Phillipines. He worked at Kennecott Copper Mines from October 1954 to his retirement, December 1975. He was a member of the LDS Church. He was married to Donna Rieb in 1954 in Salt Lake City; later divorced.Survived by one daughter, Mrs. Kirk (Charla) Douglas, Wamego, Kansas; one grandson,
Adrian Douglas, Wamego, Kansas; three stepchildren, Venus Miller, Bullhead, Ariz.; Sandy
Houston, Roosevelt; Chirelle Yarbro, Truman, Colo.; two brothers, Heber Eastman, Whittier, Calif.; Arch Eastman, Riverton; three sisters, Mrs. James (Leila) Bennett, Medford, Oregon; Jessie Sharp, Midvale; Pearl Merley, Sandy. He was preceded in death by his father, Alonzo Eastman, May 8, 1933; his mother, Sara Forman Eastman
Johnston, Jan. 28, 1978; his sister, Ora Faye Anderson, March 4, 1982.
Services will be held Thursday, 2 p.m. at Redwood Memorial Estates, 6500 South Redwood Road, where friends may call Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. Memorial contributions to Lupis Foundation, 1717 Massachusetts Ave #203, Washington D.C. 20036.
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Does the latency management replace the original audio engine?
No, it's an extension to the original audio engine but it doesn't replace it. With Studio One 4.0 the user has control over multiple latency levels: standard-latency audio processing, independent Dropout Protection to avoid audio dropouts and low-latency monitoring for virtual instruments. With Dropout Protection set to "Minimum" and low latency monitoring for instruments unchecked, the audio engine works nearly the same as before but with added stability.
Does it reduce CPU load in my songs?
Basically, yes. While overall CPU load and likelihood of audio dropouts are significantly reduced, the total amount of data that needs to be processed is still the same. It's just better distributed. So, while it's possible to load more plug-ins and virtual instruments, the CPU and processing limits are still set by the available CPU performance, quality of drivers and audio I/O hardware used.
Audio Processing Setup parameters are globally stored. Ideally, you only need to set these parameters once to find the best settings for your specific system. However, if your recording and production setup and environment changes, it may make sense to adjust audio processing settings.
In the Studio One mixer, a small "Z" at the bottom of the output channel fader indicates the availability and type of monitoring. Blue stands for low-latency hardware monitoring, Green for low-latency software monitoring. The mode is set in the Audio>Processing preferences panel ("Use native low latency monitoring instead of onboard DSP"). Low-latency monitoring still needs to be activated by clicking the "Z" button on the respective output channel(s).
No. You need to keep in mind that different plug-ins have different latencies . Only plug-ins that add less than 3ms latency to the audio path can be used in the software low-latency monitoring signal chain. Plug-ins with higher latency are no longer audible on the monitoring path. In addition, Pipeline effects, analyzer-type plug-ins and FX Chains which incorporate Splitters are excluded as well. In addition, Pipeline effects, analyzer-type plug-ins and FX Chains which incorporate Splitters are excluded as well.
Also keep in mind that due to their CPU load, some CPU-hungry plug-ins may cause CPU spikes when used at the lowest available buffer setting.
What about DSP powered plug-ins (like UAD Apollo) or outbound effects connected through Pipeline?
Are there any side-effects of using high dropout protection settings?
Besides the obvious performance improvements, using high Dropout Protection settings leads to some latency or lag on level metering or any other real-time audio displays such as spectrum or loudness meters, as well as gain reduction meters. The higher the Dropout Protection, the lower the update rate on these meters. There's no impact on audio timing thanks to the dynamic latency compensation in Studio One.
In a world of powerful CPUs and low-latency audio interfaces, the biggest advantage of DSP-powered audio interfaces is the quality of their effects plug-ins. A hardware DSP based system has a clearly defined but also clearly limited amount of processing power. Native processing adds flexibility to the system. In a modern DAW such as Studio One, both types can be safely and reliably used side-by-side.
The multiprocessing and CPU cores parameters in Preferences/Audio Setup have been removed because Studio One now manages all multi-core and multi-processing related functions as part of Dropout Protection. For Dropout Protection to work, the application needs full control over these parameters. The upside of this is: there are less functions to deal with when setting up an audio device while Studio One dynamically optimizes CPU efficiency for low latency monitoring and plug-in processing.


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Sigur Ros 'Takk' 2xLP + 10"
Critically acclaimed Icelandic band Sigur Rós reissue Takk… on their own label Krunk. Their award winning highly lauded 4th studio album features the singles and fan favourites Glósóli, Hoppípolla and Sæglópur. Pressed on 2 x 12" and including a single sided etched 10" this beautifully packaged record is composed of a debossed
gatefold sleeve with a single die cut page that holds the 10". Takk… has been out of print for over a decade in the UK and is sold out world-wide. The record went Platinum in the UK and gold in the US.
Takk… - Sigur Rós's fourth album and the one where they finally got happy, albeit in their own inimitable and deeply inscrutable, north Atlantic way. This is the record that gave the world 'Hoppípolla', a song which cemented Sigur Rós's reputation for being the go-to band for anyone wanting a sense of wonderful possibility in their film/TV show. The record also harboured moments of definitive Sigur Rós drama in singles Glósóli and Sæglópur, and high beauty in Sé Lest and Svo Hljótt.
Takk…. - which means "thank you" in the band's native Icelandic - quickly became the band's biggest selling album around the world, fuelled by Hoppípolla's usage in the BBC's Planet Earth nature series. Sung in a mixture of Icelandic and the wordless Hopelandic, Takk… was recorded by the band with producer Ken Thomas in 2005 at their Sundlaugin studio in the Icelandic countryside. The vinyl record comes packaged on 2 x 12-inch, plus 1 x one-sided etched 10-inch single. The album artwork is the original debossed and die-cut sleeve, with printed inner bags, all done to the band's exacting specifications and pressed on heavy weight vinyl.
Catalogue number: 0190296852848
Label: Krunk
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class Connect extends AbstractOperation
{
    /**
     * @var int The op code.
     */
    public $opCode = 2;

    /**
     * @var string the name of the client library.
     */
    public $clientName = "OrientDB PHP";

    /**
     * @var string the client version.
     * @todo extract me from composer.json
     */
    public $clientVersion = "0.0.1";

    /**
     * @var int the maximum known protocol version
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    public $protocolVersion = 19;

    /**
     * @var string the username to connect with.
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    /**
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    public $password;

    /**
     * Write the data to the socket.
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    protected function write()
    {
        $this->writeString($this->clientName);
        $this->writeString($this->clientVersion);
        $this->writeShort($this->protocolVersion);
        $this->writeString(''); // client id, unused.
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        $this->writeString($this->password);
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Uganda Bill to Drop Death Penalty, Life Imprisonment for Gays
December 9, 2009 by Andy Towle
Some sort of anti-gay bill will be presented to the Ugandan parliament in two weeks, but it won't include the death penalty or life imprisonment as penalties, according to Bloomberg:
"The draft bill, which is under consideration by a parliamentary committee, will drop the two punishments to attract the support of religious leaders who are opposed to these penalties, Buturo said today in a phone interview from the capital, Kampala.
Ugandan lawmaker David Bahati presented a private member's bill on Oct. 14 which sought the death penalty and life imprisonment for gay people in the country. The Ugandan government supports the bill because homosexuality and lesbianism are 'repugnant to the Ugandan culture,' Buturo said. Still, it favors a more refined set of punishments, he said.
In addition to formulating punishments for the gay people, the bill will also promote counseling to help 'attract errant people to acceptable sexual orientation,' said Buturo."
A "refined" set of punishments in addition to forced conversion. Wonder what that means. Castration? Caning? A year-long internship with Rick Warren?
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Will God Destroy America?
Onan Coca
I want to address evangelical Christians in particular. So, if you're not religious or agnostic or even a-theist, this post might make you guffaw. I expect that. But, I'm writing to Christians who don't remember their first birthday but will never forget their second.
YouTube channels sprang up like dandelions these past three years warning us of martial law, FEMA camps, the end of the rule of law, an EMP attack, and others catastrophes too numerous to mention here. Preachers, especially, warned darkly that America was coming to an end. If God did not spare Sodom, he wasn't going to let America slide further into wickedness.
Why, the rapture and the Antichrist were just around the corner.
We heard about blood moons, Shemitah, Year of Jubilee, all harbingers of America's doom unless 2nd Chronicles 7:14 became the prayer on every Christian's lips.
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But, since June one year ago, those voices have faded away faster than the Pharisees who dropped their rocks.
What changed? Where did all the doom-and-gloomers go?
Today, other voices replaced the prophets of doom. Hank Kunneman, Joseph Prince, and others no longer obscured by the purveyors of end times prophecy. These new, Christian, voices are telling us to calm ourselves. Do not become hermits hiding behind ramparts with enough guns and ammunition to start WW III.
These preachers are telling us to put on the whole armor of God and watch as He raises a standard against wickedness in high places.
These voices tell us to stop listening to the Spirit of Fear, a spirit prominent in America since 9.11, because God is in control, not Obama. Obama's schemes are going to disintegrate before his very eyes.
There can be no real change in America–indeed, in the world–with the same people running things. Corruption is rampant, but political, economic, and judicial corruption is now in the process of being exposed.
Leftists are being removed from power in Argentina, in Brazil, and in Venezuela. This is only the beginning of Leftwing sorrows. Expect another famine to descend on North Korea. Kim will be overthrown and, possibly, executed. The new leaders that replace the Kim Dynasty will open talks on reconciliation and reunification. The Korean War will finally come to an end.
China will undergo an unprecedented upheaval. Three hundred million Chinese Christians, now largely underground, will come to the surface. The corrupt communists that have ruled China since the Long March will be removed almost as easily as Yeltsin displaced the Politburo.
The globalist cabal, those intent on destroying national sovereignty, erasing borders, and subjecting every human being to global government—these geniuses forgot one thing. The God of Israel ordained nations and set borders. He offered his opinion about one-world government back when everyone on the planet spoke the same language.
Humpty Dumpty will never be put together again–not by man. One builder dreamed of a tower that would reach unto heaven. Might God use another builder to thwart a 21st Century recurrence of that same dream?
God has raised up a standard against such schemes. I don't believe He inspired the founding of America 240 years ago for no good reason. Although the Worldwide Left has bruised a lot of heels over the past century, God is about to crush their heads.
Why? Why now? Turn to Matthew 24:14.
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
If America is destroyed, how will the Word of God be preached as a testimony to all nations? If the Internet and freedom of speech are censored and controlled, how will God reach people in those distant nations?
I believe God inspired the creation of the United States for two purposes, one seen, and one that remained unseen for nearly two centuries. America was raised up for just such a time as this, to spread the Word around the world through all means possible. Two, the United States was to defend Israel against those that would destroy her.
Do you really think God wants to destroy people? God draws people to Himself, not through wrath, but through Grace. He could destroy America, but He could raise up a standard to destroy America's enemies, both foreign and domestic—and return this nation to the rule of law.
Who or what might be the standard God will raise up against His enemies? Who is not timid and does not faint? I know a lot of you are squirming right now. How could God possibly use him?
How did God use Noah who had a weakness for wine?
How did God use Jacob who schemed his way through life until he dared wrestle with God and lose?
How did God use someone he called a man after his own heart, knowing he would commit adultery and murder?
God can use anyone, and often, he uses the simple to confound the wise.
So, if God intends to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, where will the missionaries come from? England is a has been for a century. Europe? You'd have to explain the concept of God to them before you could even begin to explain Jesus Christ.
Africa? There are more Christians in Africa than Muslims, but the continent lacks the resources of America.
Who but the United States of America has the wherewithal to send millions of reapers to the final, last days, harvest?
Can we do it now? Apart from Swaggart's SBN, which is in many nations but not yet in every country, we Americans are wholly unprepared. The enemy has whittled us down to match sticks. As we are now, America is utterly unprepared to either bring in the last harvest of history or to defend Israel against the Persians.
No, if America is going to be what God intended all along, He is going to have to make America great again.
Onan is the Editor-in-Chief at Romulus Marketing. He's also the managing editor at Eaglerising.com, Constitution.com and the managing partner at iPatriot.com. Onan is a graduate of Liberty University (2003) and earned his M.Ed. at Western Governors University in 2012. Onan lives in Atlanta with his wife and their three wonderful children.
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On Saturday, August 16, 2014, the Children's Museum of the East End (CMEE) will host an Arabian Nights Gala to benefit their ongoing capital campaign.
From 7 till 11 p.m., the Museum will take on a Moroccan-theme, which will feature fire dancers, casino games, mini golf, belly dancers, Middle-Eastern cuisine and music by DJ Hesta Prynn.
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Turris Software
Software developed for Turris OS
Foris
Updater-ng
PaKon
Ucollect
Significant software not developed within the Turris project
Knot resolver
Netmetr
Obsolete and gradually replaced software
Turris OS is based on the Linux distribution OpenWRT, which is developed primarily for routers. The Turris project adds additional software to this operating system to extend its default functionality.
This article describes what software is in Turris OS beyond OpenWRT. This is not a complete list of added packages, but a list of larger projects that Turris OS adds to OpenWRT. You will find a description of the added software, what function the software has in Turris routers, links, source codes and history of releases, including a list of changes.
This section describes software, which is developed directly by Turris developers and is not part of OpenWRT.
Foris is a web interface developed specifically for Turris routers. Its purpose is to offer a simple router setting without the advanced knowledge of OpenWRT and Turris OS.
If you find any error in Foris, please let us know at GitLab.
Additionally, Foris features can create users themselves. For this purpose, we have prepared the Turris plugin for tutorial.
One of the objectives of the Turris project is to increase the security of the routers by using them regular firmware updates. Updates are automated by Updater, since Turris OS 3.7, Updater has been upgraded to a new generation - Updater-ng.
Technical documentation: https://turris.pages.labs.nic.cz/updater/
Version History and Changes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/updater/updater/tags
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/updater/updater/issues
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/updater/updater/commits/master
PaKon is an add-on software for monitoring the activities of all devices on the local network. This service records and provides statistics on device access from internal to external networks.
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/pakon-light/issues
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/pakon-light/tree/master
Ucollect is a daemon that collects and sends network traffic records. It must be installed and enabled by the user. You can find out more about Ucollect in the article dedicated to data collection.
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/ucollect/issues
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/ucollect/tree/master
Nikola is a tool that analyzes logs from the firewall. It records and sends information about packets captured on the firewall.
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/nikola/issues
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/nikola/tree/master
Turris routers use the BTRFS file system to record the status of all files at a given time (so-called snapshots). This lets you take all files to the state they were at when the snapshot was created. This enables the user to simply return to a functional configuration or to temporarily return to an earlier version of the system. Schnapps is a tool, which simplifies this process.
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/schnapps/issues
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/schnapps/tree/master
The Turris routers feature a set of LEDs that can be controlled by Rainbow.
Source codes for Turris Omnia: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/rainbow_omnia/tree/master
Source codes for Turris 1.x: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/rainbow/tree/master
In this section, we describe software that is not developed exclusively by Turris developers, and its use exceeds the scope of the project. Yet for different reasons, it is still a significant part of the functionality of Turris routers.
Knot resolver is the default DNS resolver for Turris Omnia, which uses caching, forwarding and DNSSEC.
Official site: https://www.knot-resolver.cz/
Documentation: http://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Reporting errors: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/issues
Syslog-ng is a system log management tool.
Official site: https://www.syslog-ng.com/
Source files: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/commits/master
Error Reporting: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues
Set of tools for managing and creating Linux containers. User documentation for LXC within Turris OS can be found in in the article dedicated to LXC. Other officially untested guides made by our users are in the community documentation.
Official site: https://linuxcontainers.org/
Source codes: https://github.com/lxc/lxc
Error Reporting: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues
Haas is an SSH honeypot service. It is a fully public service not bound to Turris routers, so that users with devices other than the Turris routers can also use it.
Official site: https://haas.nic.cz/
Error reporting: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/haas/proxy/issues
Netmetr is a tool for active connection speed measurement.
Official site: https://www.netmetr.cz/
Source code of the Turris script: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/turris-os-packages/blob/test/cznic/netmetr/files/netmetr
This software even though it can still be found in the router is already considered obsolete and either gradually replaced or withdrawn without compensation. This group of software is no longer being actively developed and reported errors are given much lower attention. Possible that bugs may never be fixed.
Majordomo is a tool for visualising router traffic. It is currently being replaced by PaKon.
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/luci-majordomo/tree/master
Nuci is a Daemon for accessing UCI configuration over a network using the Netconf protocol.
Source codes: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/nuci/tree/master


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