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Разделяемая библиотека или общая библиотека — это файл, который предназначен для совместного использования программами. Модули, используемые программой, загружаются из отдельных общих объектов в память, а не копируется компоновщиком, когда он копирует один исполняемый файл для программы.

Совместно используемые библиотеки могут быть статически связаны, что означает, что ссылки на библиотечные модули разрешаются, и модулям выделяется память при создании исполняемого файла. Но часто связывание разделяемых библиотек откладывается до их загрузки.

Некоторые старые системы, например, , Multics, также имеют только один формат для исполняемых файлов, независимо от того, являются ли они общими. Они имеют файлы общей библиотеки того же формата, что и исполняемые файлы. Это даёт два основных преимущества: во-первых, для каждого из них требуется только один загрузчик, а не два (наличие отдельного загрузчика приносит дополнительную сложность). Во-вторых, он также позволяет использовать исполняемые файлы в качестве разделяемых библиотек, если у них есть таблица символов. Типичные форматы комбинированных исполняемых и совместно используемых библиотек: ELF и Mach-O (оба в Unix) и PE (Windows).

В некоторых более старых средах, таких как 16-битная Windows или  для HP 3000, в коде с общей библиотекой допускались только данные на основе стека (локальные), или другие существенные ограничения были наложены на код разделяемой библиотеки.

Разделяемая память

Код библиотеки может совместно быть в памяти вместе c процессами, а также на диске. Если используется виртуальная память, процессы будут выполнятся в физической странице ОЗУ, которая отображается в разные адресные пространства процессов. Это имеет свои преимущества. Например, в системе OpenStep приложения часто имеют размер всего несколько сотен килобайт и быстро загружаются; большая часть их кода находилась в библиотеках, которые уже были загружены операционной системой для других целей.

Программы могут осуществлять совместное использование ОЗУ с помощью независимого кода, как в Unix, что приводит к сложной, но гибкой архитектуре. Это гарантирует, что с помощью различных приёмов, таких как предварительное отображение адресного пространства и резервирование страниц для каждой разделяемой библиотеки, имеет большую вероятность совместного использования. Третьим вариантом является , используемое  и его преемниками.

В некоторых случаях разные версии разделяемых библиотек могут вызывать проблемы, особенно когда библиотеки разных версий имеют одинаковые имена файлов, и используется для разных приложений, установленных в системе, для каждой требуется определённая версия. Такой сценарий известен как DLL hell, названный в честь Windows и OS/2 DLL. Большинство современных операционных систем после 2001 года имеют методы очистки для устранения таких ситуаций или использования «частных» библиотек для конкретных приложений.

См. также
 Виртуальная память
 Повторное использование кода
 Библиотека (программирование)

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Lewis Hamilton wants more action from Formula One on human rights issue
By Philip Duncan, PA F1 Correspondent
Lewis Hamilton says Formula One bosses must follow through with plans to clean up the sport's image on human rights.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton begins his title parade in Bahrain on Sunday, the first of two races on consecutive weekends in the Gulf Kingdom.
Earlier this week, Amnesty International UK described Bahrain's record on human rights as "shocking". Sixteen human rights groups have written jointly to F1 chairman Chase Carey challenging F1's role in "sportswashing the Bahraini Government's human rights abuses".
Lewis Hamilton secured his seventh world championship with victory in Turkey (PA Wire)
Hamilton received a copy of the letter on his arrival at the Bahrain International Circuit on Thursday. Thirty cross-party MPs also wrote to Carey voicing their concerns.
F1 recently announced a deal to race in Saudi Arabia for the next 10 years, starting from 2021. The sport has faced criticism for staging rounds in China, Russia, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi – the latter will host this season's finale on December 13 following the Bahrain double-header.
"The human rights issue in so many of the places that we go to is a consistent and a massive problem," said Hamilton ahead of Sunday's race in Manama.
"This year has shown how important it is, not only for us as a sport, but for all the sports around the world, to utilise their platforms to push for change.
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"We are the only sport that goes to so many different countries, but I do think as a sport we need to do more. We have taken a step in that direction but we can always do more.
"Some steps have been put in place for the countries we go to, but it is important to make sure that they are implemented in the right way and it is not just a saying that we are going to do something, but actually seeing action taken. That is going to take work from us all in the background."
An F1 spokesperson said: "We have always been clear with all race promoters and Governments with which we deal worldwide that we take violence, abuse of human rights and repression very seriously.
"We have made our position on human rights clear to all our partners and host countries who commit to respect human rights in the way their events are hosted and delivered."
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Hamilton wrapped up his record-equalling seventh world championship in Turkey earlier this month.
The 35-year-old is now expected to receive a knighthood in the New Year Honours.
Hamilton said: "It is a surreal experience to hear your name mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, that with all the things going on in the world they have a moment to acknowledge the work I have done.
"As far as I am aware, there is a lot of talk, and I have not thought a lot about it, but it would be an incredible honour. There is no greater honour than your country recognising you with such an award."
Regarding his sixth title in seven years, Hamilton said: "It has been bad in the sense that I have got a lot of messages and I am trying to catch up. People are probably wondering why I have not got back to them.
"It hasn't sunk in yet, probably because we are still racing, and I have one eye on the job."
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FRANKFURT — Germany does not expect fans to be allowed back into Bundesliga matches until next season. Games in all major European football leagues have to be played in empty stadiums due to the second wave of coronavirus cases leading to a tightening of pandemic restrictions across the continent. Christian Seifert, CEO of the the top two men's leagues in Germany, said he presumes there will be no change to the policy before the end of the season. "In any case (of a fan return), not in a significant number. If we had ruled out games without fans from the start as some people demanded, the system would have collapsed," Seifert said in comments published Sunday by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. "And no one at (the league) or the clubs wants to have games without fans either. However, we still have them because they are the only permitted option for hosting games, and presumably we will have them until the end of the season." Germany started the 2020-21 season with a six-week trial in September and October of limited numbers of fans allowed at games, up to 20% of the stadium capacity depending on the local coronavirus case numbers. The trial was part of a wide-ranging deal between German state and federal politicians and was not extended after the number of virus cases soared across the country. The last major soccer nation to bring back fans was England, which allowed small numbers of supporters at some games last month in a scheme that was shut down weeks later as the country entered a renewed lockdown. "The focus now is on completing the season," Premier League chief executive Richard Masters told broadcaster Sky on Friday. "We don't know when fans are going to be allowed back. It's difficult to guess. "Obviously we're hugely optimistic that by the start of next season the vaccination programme will have returned this country to some sense of normality and we can have fans back from the start of next season." Games in Italy, Spain and France are also being played without spectators. ___ More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports The Associated Press
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Labor & EconomyJune 27, 2020
Confronting the Black Labor Crisis
"'We need a society where anti-racism is hard-wired into every policy and practice," says labor economist Steven Pitts.
United States of InequalityNovember 12, 2019
'Middle-Class Joe' Biden May Be in Trouble With U.S. Workers
The Democratic frontrunner's mixed economic record leaves him vulnerable to progressive opponents.
Labor & EconomyAugust 19, 2019
No Seat at the Table: Steven Greenhouse on Labor's Silenced Voice
Co-published by the American Prospect
A veteran labor reporter finds hope for unions in boycotts, minimum-wage campaigns and strikes.
Judging JanusNovember 14, 2017
Can Unions — and the American Middle Class — Survive the Supreme Court's Janus Decision?
For the past year Capital & Main has produced a wide range of coverage of Janus v. AFSCME. Below we offer a comprehensive primer on the case, its origins and its potential implications.
Judging Janus: A Timeline of the Right's War on Workers
Co-published by AlterNet
A Supreme Court case that could topple the power of California's unions has been a perfect storm gathering for 40 years.
Labor & EconomyJuly 17, 2017
Loyalty Down: Rick Wartzman Discusses How Business Leaders Betrayed the American Workforce
The biggest reason for the decline of unions, says author Rick Wartzman, is because "companies have set out to beat the hell out of them. Corporate America has really ground down organized labor through means both legal and illegal."
Labor & EconomyJanuary 25, 2017
State of Resistance: Labor Will Double Down in Trump Era
As workplace protections have come under attack, California has created labor-organizing models to resist attempts to erode labor standards and impose right-to-work measures.
Culture & MediaNovember 19, 2015
Rebel With a Cause: Joe Hill's Legacy
If legendary labor activist Joe Hill were alive today — and some contend that he is — he would have plenty to say about the state of the American worker. And the country, if it listened, would have plenty to learn.
Hill, who was executed in Utah 100 years ago this month, was an unapologetically radical union organizer whose rough-hewn songs and poems matched the brutal working conditions endured by tens of millions of Americans in the early 20th century. While his lyrics might at first sound anachronistic to contemporary audiences, their underlying spirit speaks directly to the experiences of far too many in our often unforgiving 21st century economy.
"Would you have freedom from wage slavery… Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free," from Hill's 1913 anthem "There Is Power in a Union," could easily have been inspired by the thousands of truck drivers who haul goods to and from the nation's largest port in Los Angeles.
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Labor & EconomyOctober 7, 2013
New Supreme Court Term: Be Very Afraid
For the past seven days America has watched a government shutdown unfold, courtesy of the Tea Party-controlled House of Representatives – a moment of political vaudeville more worthy of the description "circus" than "theater." Beginning this week, however, we may be in for the start of a truly Grand Guignol event befitting the Halloween season.
That's because the Supreme Court will hear several key labor cases this term, along with yet another plea from billionaires to be allowed to purchase a larger share of the electoral process. Just as the shutdown has battered the economy and harmed countless Americans through its curtailment of Headstart programs, the closing of federal parks and suspension of government health programs, so could damage be done to the national welfare by a handful of pro-business decisions by the high court. If the present conservative majority continues to vote within its ideological groove,
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Culture & MediaSeptember 13, 2013
10 Ways to Change How People See Unions
Lazy. Out of touch. Greedy. Self-serving. Thuggish.
Chances are you've heard a union member or leader called one of these things (and in all likelihood, more than once), and it made your blood boil. The unfortunate truth is that misconceptions, stereotypes and all-out lies seem to be dominating the public discussion and perception of labor unions, even among some progressives. We in the labor movement know that unions stand for the working class as the sole and vital counterbalance to corporate greed and excess…but no one else seems to have gotten the memo.
That disconnect—between what we actually do and what others think we do—is the impetus behind yesterday's action session at the AFL-CIO Convention, entitled "10 Ways to Change How People See Unions." Featuring AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, AFSCME's Chris Policano and Brandon Weber of Upworthy's Workonomics, this exciting session focused on reintroducing unions to America by focusing on what we actually do every day for working families.
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Culture & MediaSeptember 2, 2013
Labor Day News of the WEIRD
Why are so many Americans wary of labor unions? Unions are, after all, good for everyone who works for a living. In occupations with a high rate of unionization all the workers get paid more, even employees who aren't in a union. As rates of unionization have fallen, so has compensation. One might expect unions to be all the rage with anyone who ever put in a hard day's work. But this is not always the case, particularly in the United States.
Americans have WEIRD attitudes towards unions – as in, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The Canadian behavioralists who coined this acronym were interested in how sweeping generalizations about human psychology and economic behavior might be incorrect if they were based on only one kind of (WEIRD) people, and reviewed a number of cross-cultural studies to make their point. To scholars at the University of British Columbia,
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Culture & MediaAugust 27, 2013
An Activist's Page-Turner
Last Saturday's commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington spotlighted the power of grassroots activism. But it was no exercise in nostalgia. Activists are pushing for social change across the nation, and I discuss dozens of these campaigns in my new book, The Activist's Handbook, Second Edition: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century, officially released today by UC Press. The book thoroughly revises and updates the 1996 edition, which the late Howard Zinn praised as "enormously valuable for anyone interested in social change." The new edition adds my analysis of the strategies used by social movements around immigration reform, gay and lesbian rights, the Keystone XL Pipeline, school "reform" and other campaigns that really took off in the past decade.
While some believe the past 15 years have weakened the power of grassroots activism against big moneyed interests, I disagree. In fact, in writing the new book I realized that activism has increased since the original edition,
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Culture & MediaAugust 8, 2013
Should Labor Organizing Be a Civil Right?
Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker Voice, by Moshe Z. Marvit and Richard D. Kahlenberg, was released last year to critical and academic acclaim but not nearly enough attention. The book, whose authors are both fellows at the progressive think tank the Century Foundation, lays out a simple, brilliant idea: to amend the Civil Rights Act so that it prohibits discriminating against workers for attempting to organize a union.
We recently had a chance to pick the authors' brains about the inspiration for the book, how the legislation would work and why this is an idea whose time has come.
Feldner-Shaw: For those who haven't heard about it, can you briefly describe the premise or thesis of the book?
Marvit and Kahlenberg: As the title suggests, the book Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right makes the argument that labor activities are a civil right and should be treated as such by our laws.
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Wanted: A Labor Movement for the Young
You've probably heard it from a colleague, or maybe from a friend or family member:
"Kids these days… they're just too ambivalent to care about labor unions or workers' rights."
But as it turns out, that's just not true. Young people are actually big fans of unions. Fully 61 percent of young people view labor unions favorably – and that's more than 10 points higher than the national average, according to a new Pew poll. In fact, young people are the only age group that views unions more favorably than they view corporations.
But despite the overwhelming support young people have for unions, they're far less likely to belong to one. Harold Meyerson writes in the American Prospect:
The irony for unions —and in theory, the opportunity—is that the youngest Americans are the least unionized.
» Read more about: Wanted: A Labor Movement for the Young »
Labor & EconomyJuly 9, 2013
New Polls Show Rising Approval of Unions
Gallup and Pew concur: Just over one-half of Americans approve of labor unions.
In late June, the Pew Research Center released the results of its biennial poll on unions and corporations, and reported that 51 percent of Americans had a favorable view of unions—up from just 41 percent in 2011, the last time Pew popped the question. Pew's new number is almost identical to Gallup's, which found that 52 percent of Americans approved of unions when it last asked that question in August of 2012. Gallup polls on union approval every year and has reported a 52 percent approval rating each of the past three years. Before then, union approval had hit an all-time low for Gallup surveys, with just 48 percent in 2009.
(This post first appeared on the American Prospect and is republished with permission.)
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Why Aren't Unions More Appealing to the Public?
As the number of American public- and private-sector workers belonging to a labor union reached an all-time low this past year, many of us sat on the sidelines scratching our collective heads, wondering why. Academics and economists will say it's because the type of work Americans do is changing and, as we shift from a manufacturing to a service economy, union jobs in factories (those that haven't already been offshored) are being replaced by nonunion desk jobs. However, ask an average employee or person on the street why fewer workers belong to a union than a generation ago. They will most likely say it's because unions have lost their relevance, are outdated concepts or that they aren't needed.
But how can the latter be true when the mean real wages of American workers are lower than they were in the 1970s, around the time that union manufacturing jobs began globally migrating south and to Asia?
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The New New Haven
How a union of Yale employees aligned itself with community activists and won control of a beleaguered city.
This article and illustration originally appeared in The American Prospect.
Major Ruth became a civic leader because he made a promise to his neighbor, Brian Wingate. Both had moved to the Beaver Hills section of New Haven, Connecticut, in 2003. A neighborhood of aging single–family homes that had seen better days, Beaver Hills had been targeted by the city for a housing–rehabilitation program, and, with the zeal of new arrivals, Ruth, a manager at the local utility company, and Wingate, a custodian and union steward at nearby Yale University, sought to involve themselves in neighborhood–improvement ventures. That proved harder than they had anticipated. Although New Haven aldermanic districts are tiny, encompassing no more than 4,300 residents, Ruth and Wingate couldn't find anyone who could identify,
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Labor & EconomyJune 7, 2013
In Defense of Unions
There are many similarities between the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s and the union movement that preceded it in the early decades of the 20th century. Both met with hostility, opposition, and violence. Yet today we look back on the former with gratitude and admiration, while the latter is either forgotten or distorted in our collective memory.
Hard-fought union gains have become part of the fabric of our society: the eight-hour day, elimination of child labor, and safer conditions are but a few of the benefits that unions have secured for all of us. Yet unions have been broadly demonized, and the gains they have won are slipping away.
I'll be the first to admit that unions have their issues. Nevertheless, I am grateful that my husband and I have been loyal union members all of our adult lives (I am a teacher; he is a Teamster).
» Read more about: In Defense of Unions »
Labor & EconomyFebruary 28, 2013
State of the Unions
For all the talk of saving and rebuilding the middle class, no public official from the President on down has mentioned the U-word. The U-word? "Unions." From the 1930s through the '70s, unions turned working-class jobs into middle-class jobs. Hourly wage earners organized themselves into unions that could fight for livable wages, health and retirement benefits, safety rules, job protection and on-the-job respect. These became such national standards that even in the historically right-to-work states in the Deep South, many of these principles prevailed.
But for three decades those work standards have been under attack, wages have dropped — with benefits cut or stolen. Why is this happening? Because union membership declined as free trade agreements shipped those jobs off-shore, as business mergers stripped workers of health care, and as strategic corporate bankruptcies took away their pension funds. Workers have been asked to "give back" in order to keep their jobs from vanishing,
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California Unions' Growth Bucks National Trend
Last week's annual national union membership numbers were eye-opening, and well, pretty depressing. The relentless attacks on unions nationwide have caused overall union density to drop to a startlingly low 11.3 percent. The share of union members as part of the workforce is the lowest it's been in 97 years. That's not just bad news for unions, that's really bad news for everyone.
According to the Center for American Progress:
Without the counterbalance of workers united together in unions, the middle class withers because the economy and politics tend to be dominated by the rich and powerful, which in turn leads to an even greater flow of money in our economy to the top of the income scale.
But despite last week's bad news on a national level, there were silver linings. Not the least of which is the trend here in California.
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Manfred Symphony
A collection of all of Tchaikovsky's symphonies and ballet suites from the rich archives of Deutsche Grammophon.
All the performances have been justifiably critically appraised. This volume includes Tchaikovsky's final symphony, the 'Pathétique' and the tone poem 'Romeo and Juliet' – both recorded by Claudio Abbado in the early 1970s – as well as a rare recording of the 'Manfred Symphony' by Yuri Ahronovitch and Ferdinand Leitner's bright 1959 account of the 'Capriccio italien'.
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Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'*
Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy-Overture+
Wiener Philharmoniker*
Boston Symphony Orchestra+
Capriccio italien, Op. 45
Ferdinand Leitner
Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
Yuri Ahronovitch
Recording Producers: Wolfgang Lohse (Capriccio italien); Karl Faust, Rainer Brock (Romeo and Juliet); Rainer Brock (Symphony No. 6); Cord Garben, Heinz Wildhagen (Manfred Symphony)
Balance Engineers: Werner Wolf (Capriccio italien); Günter Hermanns (Romeo and Juliet); Günter Hermanns, Volker Martin (Symphony No. 6); Heinz Wildhagen, Gernot Westhäuser (Manfred Symphony)
Recording Locations: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany, 27 May 1959 (Capriccio italien); Symphony Hall, Boston, February 1971 (Romeo and Juliet); Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, Austria, 1 & 3 October 1973 (Symphony No. 6); Watford Town Hall, London, UK, 30 January and 1 February 1977, with organ of Herkulessaal, Munich, synchronised in March 1977 (Manfred Symphony)
Remastering Engineers: Chris Bernauer (CD1); Michael Beier (CD2)
'[Abbado] provides a strong impulse throughout, and the second subject of the first movement sounds remarkably fresh, with radiant sounds from the strings.' (Symphony No. 6) Penguin Stereo Record and Cassette Guide
'Abbado's is a noble reading … A performance to live with: its spellbinding qualities increase with familiarity. The recording is splendid, very brilliant as well as full' Penguin Stereo Record and Cassette Guide
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The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is opening its community exhibit entitled Design An Ad Contest in the Museum's Advertising Department Offices. The exhibit will display the hard work of students in grades 4-12 who live in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio that participated in the Fort Wayne Newspapers 2017 Design An Ad Contest. The winning ads were published in the Design An Ad special section on April 26, 2017.
This exhibit is composed of advertisements designed by students who chose the National Historic Landmark. There were a list of rules the students must follow, and the artwork that followed shows originality. The exhibit is being featured as part of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum's new strategic plan to create new, interactive exhibits in order to include those in the community.
"We're so excited to have these works of art on display. We can't wait to welcome the students and their families in to the Museum," said Visitor Experience Manager, Kelby Park. "Hopefully it will be an experience they will always remember." The Advertising Department Offices highlight the hard work of the advertising campaigns used to promote Auburns, Cords, and Duesenbergs; these advertisements were as fantastic as the automobiles themselves. The hall includes the original advertising offices of the Auburn Automobile Company and whose ads were some of the first to sell a lifestyle with automobiles. The Design An Ad Contest exhibit will be on display through Labor Day Weekend so the students may enjoy their work and be nationally recognized for their creativity.


Home / More about flow meters / What is a flow meter calibration system?
A flow meter quantifies the speed at which gas or fluid moves across it. Professionals who specialize in testing and measuring often rely on flow meters wherever the measurement of accurate flow is imperative. There is a wide range of applications (not limited to) such as utilities, energy, HVAC, agriculture, aerospace, the pharmaceutical industry and clean water production. In all these applications, accurate calibration of a flow meter to make necessary measurements is vital. Consistent calibrations ensure that the flow measurement is giving measurements, which are correct and in sync with the listed specifications.
When engineers and scientists talk about calibration, they are referring to traceable standards to correct or establish specific factors to an individual flow meter. The calibration process requires that the meter tested is matched with the master standard flow meter in the laboratory.
Flow meter calibration is vital to obtaining precise and consistent flow measurements. An exact flow measurement is what is required in some crucial processes that occur all around the world such as transferring fuel to a different custody, producing clean water and generating electricity.
However, it is important to note that even high precision flow meters can easily deter from calibration. Similar to technological gadgets, the performance of all flow meters reduces over time. Parts may break down or wear out. Flow meters are also affected by dirt from the media that flows across them as well as corrosion. A flow meter can become easily damaged from impact, improper installation, and variations in procedures.
What are some standard best practices of flow meter calibration?
Standard best practices of flow meter calibration ensure that the measurements obtained from testing are accurate and reliable. The process of calibration is applicable for all test equipment, not just flow meters.
The standard used to calibrate the flow meter must be precise enough to undergo calibration. The rule of thumb is that the standard must be at least four times more exact than the unit under test or UUT. However, keep in mind that this will vary according to the requirements of the standardization.
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The rate of flow between the calibration standard and the unit under test should be in a stable state. The flow rate of the UUT and the standard are related in real time during standardization; therefore the system flow must not vary with time.
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Pelin Esmer is indisputably one of the most talented of the new generation of directors in Turkey. Her first feature-length documentary, "Oyun" (The Play), was an outstanding creative documentary that followed the lives of a group of women in a southern Mediterranean village who were preparing a theatre play on women's rights. Her first feature-length fiction, "11'e 10 Kala" (10 to 11), was a meditative study on old age, memory and class conflict through the daily life of an old man who collected practically anything and everything.
"Gözetleme Kulesi" (Watchtower), Esmer's second feature-length fiction, but which should be considered her third feature, shows that the female director has harnessed and chiseled her directing style even further in what is a delicate character study that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. And that's not to mention that the film received several awards at the 2012 Adana Altın Koza (Golden Boll) Film Festival, including best director and best actress.
Set in northern Anatolia, close to the Black Sea region, the film starts with an overnight bus trip. We see the young Seher (Nilay Erdönmez), the bus hostess, as she moves from one passenger to the next, robotically asking at which town they will depart. Seher stays in a small, decrepit room at the bus station from which her bus line takes off. Inhabiting the same space is the owner of the bus line and a bus driver, two older men who try to take her under their wings. Seher is a literature student at a university but has taken a break from her studies and seems direly bored as she goes on one bus trip after another. So, what is this young woman, who has higher aspirations in life, doing here in the middle of nowhere all by herself?
Then there is someone else, too, who has chosen a life of isolation: Nihat (Olgun Şimşek), a silent but soft-natured man, arrives in the town to take the post of forest guard, which will require him to stay in a watchtower atop the highest hill in the forest. There is something in Nihat's face and an occasional abruptness that tell us he has some deep-seeded demons of his own.
It isn't long before these two lost souls run into each other, but Esmer allows due time for us to explore each of them separately and, through parallel editing, insinuates that these two characters may not be so different from each other. It is Seher, though, who is the most interesting character of the two and who experiences a literal and figurative transformation that leads us follow her actions with compassion and empathy.
I do not want to reveal a very important plot point but, suffice it to say, Seher's self-induced isolation is not arbitrary and has much to do with a recent traumatic event that will eventually lead her to become ostracized from her family and community even though she was the victim. In the very conservative society of this country, it is not difficult to understand that the right over her own body does not and cannot belong to her. When Seher finally does decide to make her own choices and defiantly takes control over her life, it will not be at all easy, because even though she may choose to make her own well-being her priority in life, she will have to carry the burden of knowing this choice was made over the well-being of another. This is where Nihat comes in, as he confronts her and cajoles her about "making the right choice" after he takes Seher into his secluded watchtower. Nihat may think that he is doing the right thing, but perhaps it is his tragic personal past that selfishly pushes him to meddle in Seher's life.
The ensuing sequences of the two characters in the watchtower confirm there is a capable and meticulous director behind the camera who sensitively sews a multilayered universe in which emotions of guilt, disgust, compassion and catharsis mold together through the dynamics of these two individuals. Esmer's style manages not only to explore these issues on a human scale, but her visual choices make it clear how these two people, despite the unique nature of their shelter, far away physically from the clutches of other people, are still trapped within the confines of a society that judges and scrutinizes human actions and reduces complex situations to black-and-white judgments. Hence, it is not at all a surprise that the watchtower they take refuge in, despite its initial comfort, is, lo and behold, a metaphor for a big brother societal morality planted on a citadel looking down on human beings as if they were only small, inconsequential spots in an endless landscape.
"The Watchtower" is a beautiful film that is intensely acted and directed and which succeeds in exploring the complexities of human nature without ever pointing a judging finger. Instead, it craftily protests absolutist moral judgment. Furthermore, its determined choice to stand by its female character is one of the most subtle yet empowering acts of activism that have come out in recent Turkish cinema.


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Planned Parenthood Arizona is proud to participate in a nationwide campaign with MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation and to officially unveil "GYT: Get Yourself Tested," a campaign to increase testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among those under 25 years of age.
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Being tested on an annual basis is a healthy habit for anyone who is sexually active. From April 1, 2009 to April 30, 2009 Planned Parenthood Arizona will offer discounted STD testing every Tuesday and Wednesday. Patients can pay $20 for gonorrhea and chlamydia testing; and, for an additional $5 they can also have HIV screening done.
From OMG to LOL, acronyms saturate young people's everyday vernacular, acting as common methods of communication. Playing off mobile and Web slang, GYT is an easy way for young people to talk about sexual health and getting tested for STDs. GYT will help young people internalize the risk of STDs and eliminate taboos and stigmas surrounding STDs and STD testing.
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Texas Heritage
T he American Civil War (or, as many of us call it, the 'War of Northern Aggression') was fought, mostly, over states' rights. Southern states wanted to secede from the union, and Northern states objected, causing the deaths of about 620,000 soldiers. To put that number in perspective, roughly 644,000 American soldiers have died in all other U.S. wars combined.
Now there's a group called the Texas Nationalist Movement, comprised of Texans who want the Lone Star State to secede from the union.
Honestly, I don't know whether that's good or bad. I know the United States needs Texas more than Texas needs the United States, but I'm against secession unless there is no other choice. The move might not start another civil war, but it would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
During polarizing times such as these, I think it's a good idea to pause and remember our heritage, and consider how we got here. And there's no reason we can't have fun at the same time.
So . . .
Texas was colonized by Stephen "Moses" Austin, who put up flyers all over Tennessee, Kentucky, North and South Virginia, and Germany, to advertise the cheap land here. He did this because 1) he was a genuinely good guy who wanted to help his fellow man; and 2) he needed to get enough immigrants down here to fight against Mexico in the battle of the Alamo, the battle of San Jacinto, and the Milagro Bean Field War.
He did pretty well, managing to recruit some very good actors, such as John Wayne, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, and Richard Widmark. These guys, along with a bunch of extras from Tennessee (the "Shoot Me State") on March 6, 1836, unsuccessfully defended the Alamo.
Actually, the Spanish mission's real name was the Mission de San Antonio de Valero. After the battle, the Texans tried to encourage more people to join their army by shouting, "Remember the Mission de San Antonio de Valero!" but it just didn't flow. So, they decided to call it the Alamo instead.
Though many people don't realize it, the Alamo changed hands several times during the months leading up to the 13-day siege in late February and early March of 1836, when the movie cameras were finally set up. The Mexican army would take the mission, and the Texans would take it back, and it went back and forth like a ping-pong ball.
It got so confusing that, at one point, the Mexican army decided to take a break and spend a couple of weeks on the coast. While they were gone, the Texans took the mission away from themselves three times.
But the defenders of the Alamo had bought the Texas army some valuable time, time it needed to prepare to defend itself, time it needed to organize its forces and plan its strategy, time it needed to figure out which way to run from the Mexican army. For the answer, the Texans turned to their colorful and enigmatic leader, General Sam Houston State University.
After conferring with his colonels, his lieutenants, and a fairly reliable podiatrist, Gen. University declared that the Texans would run east, because of the Mexican army being to the west, the Gulf of Mexico being to the south, and Comanches being to the north
Everyone agreed this was a good choice, since they had to go that way to get to the site of the Battle of San Jacinto anyhow, which was scheduled for April 21, barring bad weather. The Runaway Scrape was on.
Texans abandoned their homes, leaving hot food on their tables, hot coals in their hearths, and hot footprints on the roads. The new Texas government relocated several times, with the army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (the "Napoleon of the West") hot on their tail. They ended up in Galveston, where they buried what was left of the national treasury (three dimes and a quarter) on the beach. Their voting machines were all damaged by salt water, so President David G. Burnet decided to send them to Broward County, Florida. They're still in use today.
The Texas army, meanwhile, kept going east, looking over its shoulder once in a while, but seldom slowing down. Gen. University finally called a halt when he got to the San Jacinto River. He consulted his program to find that his men were to be deployed to the north side of the battlefield, but were not yet allowed to bathe.
When Santa Anna arrived, he was not happy that the only seats left were on the south side, near the picturesque, mosquito-laden swamp. He complained, and was allowed to bring in some reinforcements as compensation. Partially mollified, he decided to take a nap.
Which, of course, was when Gen. University decided to attack. His 910 men ran across the meadow, charged into the 1,265 Mexican soldiers, killed 630 of them, wounded 208, and routed the rest. Nine Texans were killed and 30 wounded. The country of Texas was born.
We finally joined the union in 1846, but for ten years Texas was a nation. It could become a nation again, maybe without bloodshed, but not without a lot of pain, problems, and resentment. I think we should stay in the union as long as we can stand it.
Besides, with the quality of the actors we could scrape together for a remake, the movie just wouldn't be the same.
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Philip Case 03 June 2021 https://www.fwi.co.uk
Bovine TB
Livestock diseases
Badger cull 'exit strategy' raises TB disease control fears
Philip Case 02 June 2021
The government has confirmed it will no longer issue licences for intensive badger culling from 2022, as part of efforts to tackle bovine TB in England.
And the practice will end completely in 2026 when the present Natural England cull licences expire, apart from when emergency intervention is deemed necessary to control local disease outbreaks.
Confirmation that culling will be phased out in favour of vaccination – both in badgers and cattle – was made by Defra on 27 May following an eight-week consultation which sought views on the next stage of its strategy to eradicate the disease in herds by 2038.
See also: Next phase in Defra bovine TB strategy explained
The announcement has been met with anger and frustration from organisations both in favour of and against badger culling.
Wildlife organisations want an immediate end to culling rather than a phasing out and farming groups are fearful that it will become impossible to control TB in cattle herds.
Three things we learned from Defra's response to its TB consultation
Licensing of new intensive culls set to end after 2022 following a "significant reduction in the disease"
Work on badger vaccination, increased cattle testing and development of cattle vaccine "to be accelerated".
A five-year badger vaccination programme in East Sussex has been awarded £2.27m of government funding; results of the trial will help inform future vaccination policy.
Wildlife groups
Since culling started in 2013, more than 140,000 badgers have been removed to control TB levels in wildlife.
The Wildlife Trusts estimates a further 130,000 badgers could be killed within the next four years.
By the end of the cull, 300,000 out of an estimated population of 485,000 badgers may have been culled.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust chief executive Jo Smith says the organisation is "extremely disappointed" at the decision by Defra secretary George Eustice not to call an immediate halt to culling.
"If a further 130,000 animals are killed within the next five years, we could lose 60% of England's badgers. This is desperately sad," said Dr Smith.
The RSPCA, meanwhile, branded culling "both inhumane and ineffective".
NFU
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has lambasted the government over plans to phase out badger culling in favour of vaccination.
The NFU said it did not support the measures because it went against the science and evidence, which shows badger culling is an effective measure to control the spread of bovine TB, alongside other controls.
NFU deputy president Stuart Roberts accused the government of ignoring its own peer-reviewed evidence in the Downs report that showed badger culling in Gloucestershire reduced TB incidents by 66%.
"It also ignores its own evidence in its consultation which showed the current strategy, which includes badger controls, delivered reductions in TB incidents in cull areas by 51% after four years," he added.
Mr Roberts said the government "should be making decisions based on the science and evidence, which clearly shows that badger culling is effective in controlling the spread of this disease".
The NFU also pointed out that the Animal and Plant Health Agency's own analysis of the Badger Vaccine Deployment Project (2010 to 2015) – one of the largest badger vaccination trials conducted – concluded that vaccinating badgers "had no effect on cattle bovine TB incidence".
Farmers are very concerned that the decision to end culling could have far-reaching affects on their ability to keep TB out of herds.
Dairy farmer Phil Latham, who milks about 500 Brown Swiss pedigree cows near Nantwich, Cheshire, has likened the government handling of its bovine TB strategy to its approach to the coronavirus pandemic – ignoring scientific evidence.
"If there was anything to learn from Covid, it was the government's ability to ignore the facts and play politics with a disease – and this is exactly a parallel for this latest phase in its bovine TB strategy," Mr Latham told Farmers Weekly.
"There are sources closer to Boris Johnson than Defra who are determining policy. This is just an urban elite thinking they know better."
Mr Latham described ditching the culling policy, which the government itself has acknowledged is working, for a five-year badger vaccination field trial in East Sussex – an alternative method which is unproven – as "absolutely bonkers".
He cited the previous badger vaccination project carried out at Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire (Carter et al, 2012), as evidence that badger vaccination is unproven.
"The initial findings of the first year were that 53% of those badgers had TB. At the end of the four-year period, 31% of badgers had TB. But when you compared that to the control group, 33% had TB," he said.
"As a dairy farmer, I only need one infected badger to infect my cows, then my herd will be put under restrictions.
"There is no evidence – yet – that vaccinating badgers reduces cattle TB."
Cattle vaccine
Defra says work to develop a cattle vaccine and an associated Diva diagnostic test, which can differentiate between infected and vaccinated cattle, is under way.
Field trials are expected to start in June in England and Wales. If successful, the government hopes the project will deliver a deployable cattle TB vaccine and Diva test by 2025.
Defra acknowledges that intensive badger culls "have effectively helped reduce bovine TB rates by half in certain areas".
Official government statistics show that 27,810 cattle were slaughtered in England last year due to bovine TB – an 11% drop on the previous year.
Over the same period, 1,872 new herd incidents were recorded (down 8% on the previous year).
But although the government says culling has led to a "significant reduction" in the disease, Defra secretary Mr Eustice insisted "no one wants to continue the cull of a protected species indefinitely".
"That is why we are now building on this progress by accelerating other elements of our strategy, including cattle vaccination and improved testing, so that we can eradicate this insidious disease and start to phase out badger culling as soon as possible," he said.
Badger vaccination
Rosie Woodroffe, a wildlife expert at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), said Defra policy has indicated for some time that badger vaccination is regarded as "an exit strategy from culling".
Therefore, Prof Woodroffe said it was "unfortunate" that Defra had not placed greater investment into trialling vaccination some years ago.
Without this investment in alternatives to culling, she said it was unsurprising there was scepticism about the move to badger vaccination.
But she added: "Badger vaccination should reduce the numbers of infected badgers without lowering overall badger numbers.
"The territories remain intact, so the vaccinated badgers themselves do the job of keeping out the infected badgers.
"With fewer infected badgers, each remaining in a small territory, the risks of TB transmission to cattle should be reduced.
"And, of course, vaccination also protects badgers from TB transmitted to them by cattle, reducing the risks of transmission back to cattle."
James Wood, a veterinary epidemiologist with more than 25 years of experience, who is head of the Department of Veterinary Science, University of Cambridge, said: "There is evidence that vaccination does lower the rate of TB infection in badgers.
"It is therefore quite reasonable to expect that it should lower cattle transmission, but it is not clear by how much."
Prof Wood, who also serves on various Defra boards, including the new Bovine TB Partnership, added:
"If we said that we can't do anything on the ground unless there is clear evidence of it working, then policy could never change or adapt."
He also noted: "Further, badger culling is not being stopped completely, or immediately."
Case study: The Harvey family, dairy farmers, Cornwall
Fred and Jack Harvey © Fred and Debbie Harvey
A dairy farming family that lost a fifth of its herd to bovine TB is urging the government to "follow the science" in its policymaking.
Fred Harvey and his son Jack, 18, run a dairy herd of 125 milking cows and 100 youngstock, and also rear all their own calves in Bodmin.
In January, they lost 26 cows following a positive TB test. Faced with a shortfall of about £6,000 a month, they set up an online fundraiser, which raised more than £8,000 to help keep them afloat.
"We were so grateful to everyone who donated money to us. It really made a difference," said Fred.
They now face a nervous wait to see if the herd is TB-free; the cows will be blood tested for the disease in June, followed by a routine skin test in July.
Fred said: "Defra must make sure that vaccination is ready and working before it stops option one (culling).
"There is no problem moving to option two (vaccination), provided that it is tickety-boo."
He added: "The government needs to forget whether an animal is furry and cuddly and looks nice. If it's ill, it's ill. The cows I lost to TB looked beautiful, but they were carrying the disease. It's no different."
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