Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, (Tuesday, July 13th, 2010) - PPC Ltd. has welcomed four new employees, who will work alongside current staff members to strengthen the quality and level of service experienced by customers. Gregory Thomas, Edwin Taylor, Douglas Ruse and Vincent Riviere have all been hired to various departments within the company.
Gregory Thomas is a native of South Caicos and began his professional career with PPC as a Journeyman from 2001 to 2006. He furthered his education with Devry University in Miramar Florida and obtained an Associate of Science Degree in Electronics and Computer Technology, and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Technical Management. Upon his return to the Turks and Caicos, Gregory rejoined PPC on June 1st in the new position of Junior High Voltage Plant & Substation Electrician within the Electrical and Maintenance Department.
Jason Forbes began with PPC on April 19th 2010 as a Labourer in the Materials Management Department. Jason has a bright career ahead of him at PPC. He brings with him seven years of site management experience from previous work in the construction field and also possesses a certificate in business management.
Edwin Taylor joined PPC's Human Resource team on May 17th 2010 as the Senior Human Resource Officer. Edwin will be influential within this field, having worked as a civil servant for 13 years in various positions with the last being the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive. Mr. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management with a concentration in Human Resources and is one year away from obtaining a Professional Human Resource Certification (PHR).
Douglas Ruse brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise, having thirty five years engineering and management experience. A native of British Columbia, Canada, Douglas has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA). He has held various positions within Fortis British Columbia including Engineering Manager and Manager for Planning. Douglas commenced his employment with PPC on April 15th in the position of Manager, Transmission & Distribution Design.
Vincent Riviere has been employed with PPC Ltd since May 25th as a High Voltage Plant and Substation Electrician within the Electrical and Maintenance Division. Vincent hails from Dominica and has over fourteen years of experience in the electrical profession. He has a Diploma in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering and has also completed training in Power Plant Management, Accident & Incident Investigation and Hazard Identification and Management.
In welcoming the new employees to the company, CEO, Eddinton Powell, stated "We are confident that the skills, experience and work ethic that Gregory, Edwin, Douglas and Vincent bring to PPC will work to enhance the capability of our organisation; and is aligned with our overall strategic objective of becoming the best utility company in the Caribbean."
Photo Caption: (Left to Right): Gregory Thomas; Vincent Riviere; Jason Forbes; Sonia Williams, promoted to position of Executive Administrative Assistant to the CEO; Douglas Ruse and Edwin Taylor.


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Spending the night on the Serbia-Hungary border with refugee women
By Priyali Sur / Sep 6, 2019 / Leave a comment
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 | Priyali Sur | INTERNATIONAL
Many of the 3,000 refugees who spent last night on the Serbian side of the Roszke Horgos border are women and children.
Hungary shut its border with Serbia on Tuesday, saying that refugees had to apply for asylum from a transit center before entering the country. Hungarian authorities said that criminal proceedings would be launched against any migrants found crossing the fence illegally and that they could face up to 10 years in prison.
Meanwhile, the thousands of refugees remain trapped, spending the night on the Serbia-Hungary border in hopes that it would soon be opened. Many have been on the road for weeks, with little food and water and poor sanitation conditions. The women I spoke to seemed exhausted.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees are fleeing war in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, according to news reports. NBC reported that "more than 190,000 … have been recorded entering Hungary from Serbia this year, many of them having crossed the water from Turkey to Greece."
Here, some photos of life on the border as the refugees wait—and hope.
At first glance, the scene at the Roszke Horgos border looks like a junk yard. Look closer and you see men, women, and children wrapped in tinfoil to stay warm through the night.
A Syrian woman holds her baby as she waits for aid workers to fix her a tent for the night.
Amal and Hasna are restless, shivering and unable to sleep. As two of the oldest women in their group, they have ensured the others stay warm while they try to fight the cold.
Nisreen shies away from the camera as she prepares for the night. She says she has spent 4,000 euros to get this far and will wait for as long as it takes for the Serbia-Hungary border to reopen—but she will not go back.
Carin, 58, and her daughter, Samar, 17, have fled Syria and are trying to get to Germany. Carin begins to cry when she tells me about her husband and son whom they left behind, but says there was just enough money for the women to leave. Hopefully, she says, the men will join them later. Samar wants to study in Europe. Both women are hesitant to reveal their faces, fearing consequences to their family back home in Syria.
This woman fled Syria two weeks ago with a group of women. She says her legs are swollen. The women in the group, she says, hope the men in their families will be able to join them soon.
Sumaiya, 18, and her little sister are traveling with their aunt. She says she hasn't taken a bath for more than two weeks and is getting a skin allergy. She says she avoids going to the field in front of her tent, where the men frequently go to urinate. Sumaiya is almost in tears—there is no bathroom near her.
Abeer, 27, quit her job in Syria as an accountant manager to travel to Sweden with her mother. She doesn't want to face the camera, but wants to show off her hair, which, she says, was impossible in Syria because she wore a hijab.
All photos by Priyali Sur.
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Embassy of Sri Lanka, The Philippines – Official Website
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The Kingsbury wins World Luxury Hotel Award
Why Invest in Sri Lanka
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Ceremonial Commencement of Work for the Year 2020 by the Staff of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Manila
The ceremonial commencement of work for the year 2020 was held at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Manila on the first working day of the year. Following the given agenda, the oath/ affirmation of the public service was read by the Staff.
In her message to the staff, H. E. Shobini Gunasekera, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Philippines, explained the importance of the Embassy's work in Sri Lanka's national policy framework, Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour. She motivated the staff to ponder on the goals of the policy as each of their individual work ultimately contributes to its success.
Further, Ambassador Gunesekera shared her positive outlook for the new year. She expounded that 2020 brings opportunities and hope for fulfillment, peace and purpose. She encouraged the members of the staff to continuously strive to improve themselves not just for their professional work but as individuals with goals and aspirations.
The celebration was concluded with a sumptuous lunch of Sri Lankan and Filipino delicacies.
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Humor does not need to be knee slapping funny to be effective in your public speaking skills. Here is a mild form of humor you can add to your presentation. Alliteration is a public speaking skill that is the repetition of the same first letter or the same first sound in a group of words, or in a line of poetry.
You can find alliteration used in titles and advertisements all the time because it tends to catch your ear and eye. Catching attention of your audience is part of using your public speaking skills. One of my humorous public speaking topics is titled 'Pranks for Profit: Confessions of a Paid Practical Joker'. It has four 'p' sounds.
Your public speaking skills in this area can heighten the glow, or soften the blow.


Mum's shop, The Dining Room Shop, has some special treasures hidden away in the china section. Plates with optical illusions in them, hidden faces and so on. They're very rare, and when I used to work there as a (usually sulky) teen I'd spend ages staring at them, working out not how to find the riddle, but why the person who designed it had chosen that particular face.
'Joge-e, or "two-way pictures," are a type of woodblock print that can be viewed either rightside-up or upside-down. Large numbers of these playful prints were produced for mass consumption in the 19th century, and they commonly featured bizarre faces of deities, monsters or historical figures (including some from China). Only a few examples of original joge-e survive today. Here are a few.
'This print by Kuniyoshi (c. 1852) depicts Hotei (Laughing Buddha) and Shoki (a character from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"). When viewed upside-down, Hotei becomes Asahina (a character from a popular novel of the time) and Shoki becomes Zhang Fei.
'This woodblock print was published by Ezakiya Tatsuzo (c. 1842). Left to right, top to bottom (upside-down image described in parentheses): 1. Small tengu (Gedo, an evil person), 2. King Zhou, Shang Dynasty (Guan Yu), 3. Wind god (Thunder), 4. Nyudo (Pair of frogs), 5. Tengu looking up (Tengu looking down), 6. Tofu Kozo (Mitsume Kozo), 7. Onamuchi-no-mikoto, Shinto god of nation-building, farming, business and medicine (Iruka-no-omi), 8. Cao Cao (Shoki, Zhang Fei), 9. Mikenja (Ghost of Mirin).
'This print by Kuniyoshi (c. 1852) shows a Daruma and Tokusakari (a character from a famous Noh play). Viewed upside-down, the Daruma becomes a Gedo (an evil person) and Tokusakari becomes Ikyu (a character from the famous play "Sukeroku").
'Created by Yoshitora, 1861. Left column (top to bottom): 1. Fukusuke, god of merchant prosperity (Frog), 2. Evil man (Ebisu, god of fishermen and good luck), 3. Fukurokuju, god of wisdom and longevity (Tanuki, racoon dog with giant scrotum). Center: 4. Ikyu (Foreigner) , 5. Okame (Dekusuke), 6. Gedo, an evil person (Asahina). Right: 7. Hotei, Laughing Buddha (Yakko), 8. Earth god (Mountain god).
'Created by Yoshitora, 1862. Left column (top to bottom): 1. Tadafumi (Gedo, an evil person), 2. Hunter (Frog), 3. Small tengu (Big tengu), 4. Bad guy (Bad guy). Center: 5. Two-horned demon (One-horned demon), 6. Kasane, possessed female character in famous Kabuki play (Ugly man), 7. Daruma (Daruma). Right: 8. Foreigner (Ainu), 9. Nio guardian (A-un guardian).


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Business Observer Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 2 months ago
Airport Rescue and Firefighter Simulator
Complex broke ground earlier this year.
by: Mark Gordon Managing Editor
Project: Airport Rescue and Firefighter Simulator
Location: Fire Training Complex, 2597 Airport Road, Punta Gorda, Charlotte County. (Can be seen from Interstate 75, next to the 345,000-square-foot Cheney Bros. food distribution faculty.)
Cost: $9.4 million
Size: 3.9 acres
Builder: Wharton-Smith Inc., Sanford
Architect: Wilder Architecture, Tampa
Courtesy. Construction for the Airport Rescue and Firefighter Simulator in Charlotte County began in January.
Project details: Known in aviation and emergency management lingo by its acronym, ARFF, the simulator can replicate a variety of airplane fires for training purposes. "The whole thing is the exact size of an actual aircraft," says Mike Nunez, a project manager with the North Port office of Wharton-Smith. "You will be looking at a real, live aircraft."
Amenities of the simulator project, according to a fact sheet from Charlotte County, the client, include a large training pad, restrooms with showers, a covered seating area and a control room. Structures, beyond a fuselage that replicates an Airbus 320, include a propane storage area and a concrete burn pit for training.
When completed, the simulator will have the capacity to have real fires burning — up to seven at one time at temperatures of 3,000 degrees. The fires can range from the cockpit to the cargo bays, so firefighters can train on techniques and protocols across all potential scenarios. Fire training is required once a year for fighting fires on an aircraft with props, such as an engine or brake system fire, according to county officials. Training on an aircraft fuselage fires requires training every three years.
Cool factor: One of the coolest parts of the simulator, which broke ground in early 2021, says Caryn Huff, a project executive with Wharton-Smith, is how rare it is. The nearest official ARFF is in Denver, which the construction and design team checked out in person. "We wanted to put our eyes on it," Huff says, "so we could have a better idea of what we are building."
"There aren't a lot of these in the U.S., or even the world," adds Nunez, estimating there's between 15 and 20.
That makes it not just a training site, but also an economic development engine for Charlotte County, which can bring in other fire departments from Florida and beyond. "This is really neat," Huff says, "because Charlotte County can become the place to go for ARFF training."
Challenges: One of the more unique parts of the project, say Nunez and Huff, is also one of the coolest: the intricacies of all the wiring and infrastructure underground that form the backbone of the simulator. Nunez likens it to a bowl of spaghetti. "That's something you don't see on a normal construction project," Huff adds.
It goes 10 feet deep at some points, and, with lines of gas and chemicals, required a tremendous amount of 3D and building information modeling (BIM) to map out, says Nunez. "That took a lot of planning and a lot of meeting with a lot of people," he says.
Like many other projects, the Wharton-Smith team hasn't escaped supply delays and materials shortages. That particularly includes a weathering type of steel, called Cor-Ten steel, that forms the backbone of the airplane. County officials, in the fact sheet, updated Oct. 29, say the Cor-Ten vendor, Alpine Metals, has secured the steel and production of phase II of the simulator parts has begun. The simulator is expected to be completed by May.
The Cool Construction issue is, like it sounds, a deep dive into the more unique projects being built in the region — in what's obviously an unusual time. Read about more of the coolest by clicking the links below:
Climate First Bank, new branch
Legacy Trail Extension
Lovers Key State Park Welcome & Discovery Center
Motor Enclave
PopStroke
The Banyan Hotel Fort Myers, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee
Sunshine Urgent Care
Builders couple single family and townhomes with the affordability and benefits of an apartment
Community developer is confident going into the new year


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How Do Synthetic Diamonds Grow?
Natural diamonds are forged by tremendous pressures and temperatures deep underground. But synthetic diamond can be grown by nucleation, where tiny bits of diamond "seed" the growth of bigger diamond crystals. Scientists at Stanford's Linear Accelerator LAB (SLA) have seen for the first time how diamonds grow from seed at an atomic level and discovered just how big those seeds need to be to kick the crystal growing process into overdrive. The results explain how nucleation proceeds not just in diamonds, but in the atmosphere, in silicon crystals used for computer chips, and even in proteins that clump together in neurological diseases.
But interestingly, he says, "despite the widespread use of this process, the theory behind it had never been tested experimentally because observing how crystal growth starts from atomic-scale seeds is extremely difficult.
In fact, scientists have known for a long time that the current theory often overestimates how much energy it takes to kick off nucleation. They've come up with potential ways to reconcile the theory with reality, but until now those ideas have been tested only on a relatively large scale (such as with protein molecules), rather than at the atomic scale where nucleation begins.
To see how it works at the smallest scale, Melosh and his team turned to diamondoids, the tiniest possible bits of diamond. The smallest ones contain just 10 carbon atoms. These specks are the focus of a DOE-funded program at SLAC and Stanford where naturally occurring diamondoids are isolated from petroleum fluids, sorted by size and shape, and then studied. Recent experiments suggest they could be used as Lego-like blocks to assemble nanowires or "molecular anvils" for triggering chemical reactions.
The latest round of experiments was led by Stanford postdoctoral researcher Matthew Gebbie. He's interested in the chemistry of interfaces—those places where one phase of matter encounters another, such as the boundary between air and water. It turns out that interfaces are incredibly important in growing diamonds with chemical vapor deposition (CVD), a popular method for making synthetic diamond for industry and jewelry.
To grow diamond in the lab with CVD, tiny bits of crushed diamond are seeded onto a surface and exposed to a plasma—i.e., a cloud of gas heated to such a high temperature that electrons are stripped away from their atoms. The plasma contains hydrogen and carbon, the two elements needed to form a diamond.
This plasma can either dissolve the seeds or make them grow, Gebbie says, and the competition between the two determines whether bigger crystals form. There are many ways to pack carbon atoms into a solid, but it all must be done under just the right conditions; otherwise you end up with graphite, commonly known as pencil lead, instead of sparkly diamonds.
Diamondoid seeds give scientists a much finer level of control over this process. Although they're too small to be seen directly even with the most powerful microscopes, they can be precisely sorted according to the number of carbon atoms they contain and then chemically attached to a silicon wafer, so they are pinned in place while exposed to a plasma. The crystals that grow around the seeds eventually grow large enough to be counted under a microscope.
Although diamondoids had seeded the growth of diamonds before, these were the first experiments to test the effects of using seeds of various sizes. The team discovered that crystal growth really took off with seeds that contain at least 26 carbon atoms.
Even more important, Gebbie says, they could directly measure the energy barrier diamondoid particles must overcome to grow into crystals.
"It was thought that this barrier must be like a gigantic mountain the carbon atoms could not cross. In fact, for decades there's been an open question of why we could even make diamonds in the first place," he says. "What we found was more like a small hill.


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Diamonds are the best ever gemstones that any person can hardly resist. Not only their striking appeal, but their supreme qualities also contribute to this. Needless to say, diamonds are available in a number of varieties when it comes to their shapes, size, cut, color, carat weight, etc. Obviously, the most rare and notable ones are colored diamonds, which are sure to attract the attention of each and every person instantly towards it.
Colored diamonds are available in a number of varieties such as red, pink, blue, black, green, yellow, brown, etc. Out of these, natural vivid blue diamonds are one of the rarest and most enchanting options. In fact, it is adored so much because of its rarity and appeal. No wonder, most of the popular diamonds in the history are blue colored stones. Of course, the value of blue diamonds tends to become more as they go up in the color intensity and carat weight scale.
Blue diamonds, which are shrouded in elegance and mystery, are often associated with luxury, prestige, classiness, royalty, passion, etc. However, since diamonds of darker blue shades are the rarest ones, they will be really expensive. If you are concerned about your budget, but want to flaunt a vivid blue diamond, you may go for a treated or color enhanced blue diamond. Such diamonds can be purchased at affordable rates.
Colored diamonds usually get their color because of the presence of certain impurities in their chemical structure. When it comes to blue diamonds, it is because of the presence of boron atoms. Note that boron is one of the rarest minerals that you can find below the Earth's crust. To be precise, only 0.001% of the Earth crust contains boron.
Technically, when the quantity of nitrogen atoms is low in a diamond during its formation, and some boron impurities hit it, the stones will get a natural bluish tint. As the amount of boron impurities go up, the color intensity of the diamond will also go deeper, in turn, making the blue diamond more valuable.
You may notice that some blue diamonds tend to exhibit a secondary hue as well, such as grey or green. Here, the green color occurs because of irradiation or the presence of nitrogen impurities. In the case of grayish blue diamonds, they get the secondary hue because of the presence of hydrogen impurities.


The hypothesis has been tested that evolution has resulted in lower thermal emissivity of eggs of birds breeding openly in cold climates than of eggs of birds that nest under protective covering or in warmer climates. Directional thermal emissivity has been estimated from directional-hemispherical reflectance spectra. Due to several methodological difficulties the absolute emissivity is not accurately determined, but differences between species are obvious. Most notably, small waders of the genus Calidris, breeding in cold climates on the tundra, and in most cases with uniparental nest attendance, have low directional emissivity of their eggshells, about 0.92 when integration is carried out for wavelengths up to 16 mu m. Species belonging to Galloanserinae have the highest directional emissivity, about 0.96, of their eggs. No differences due to climate or breeding conditions were found within this group. Eggs of most other birds tested possess intermediate emissivity, but the values for Pica pica and Corvus corone cornix are as low as for Calidris. Large species-dependent differences in spectral reflectance were found at specific wavelengths. For instance, at 4.259 mu m the directional-hemispherical reflectance for galliforms range from 0.05 to 0.09, while for Fratercula arctica and Fulmarus glacialis it is about 0.3. The reflection peaks at 6.5 and 11.3 mu m due to calcite are differentially attenuated in different species. In conclusion, the hypothesis that evolution has resulted in lower thermal emissivity of bird eggs being exposed in cold climates is not supported by our results. The emissivity is not clearly related to nesting habits or climate, and it is unlikely that the small differences observed are ecologically important. The spectral differences between eggs that nevertheless exist should be taken into account when using infrared thermometers for estimating the surface temperature of avian eggs.
Nilsson, A. M., Roos, A. & Wilson, H. R. (2014). Homogenisation or scattered transmitted light in an integrating sphere using a highly diffusing film on the entry port. In: : . Paper presented at Colloquium optische Spektrometrie (COSP 2014), Berlin, Germany, 17-18 March, 2014.
Two surface materials for reducing absorptivity of heat radiation from fires have been investigated. The first is VO2, which is a thermochromic material. When the temperature of a VO2 surface increases over a certain temperature, it switches, ideally, from infrared (IR)-absorbing to IR-reflecting. VO2 window coatings are still on a research level, yet to be commercialized. In this study, VO2 powder available on the market was investigated. The thermochromic effect could be identified but was not large enough to significantly improve the fire properties of treated surfaces. Some thoughts concerning how to improve the performance of VO2 are discussed. The second investigated material is indium tin oxide (ITO), which is a so called low-e coating, which means that it has low emissivity and absorptivity in the IR part of the spectrum. ITO is spectrally selective in the sense that it transmits visible light while reflecting a large fraction of the IR radiation, which is a rare property for surfaces in general but a typical property of thin electrically conducting non-metallic films. It is shown that the application of ITO to poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) significantly improves its fire properties. ITO coating is a mature technology already in widespread use today in the electronics industry.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA.
Tubular daylighting systems are designed to guide light to the building's core using a highly reflective pipe. The intensity of the transmitted light is essential for the performance of the system. For the qualitative perception of the provided illumination, the color of the delivered light is also an important aspect. For highly reflective mirror light pipes, spectral variations are generally assumed not to affect the color of the transmitted light. Here, spectrophotometric measurements and ray tracing simulations of mirror light pipes are used to verify this commonly made assumption. The characterization methods employ spectral evaluations for both direct and diffuse incident light. The color properties are evaluated for mirror light pipes with a length to diameter aspect ratio of up to 16, using the CIE chromaticity diagram and CIELAB coordinates. For the xy chromaticity diagram, a larger color shift was noted for different illuminants than as a result of the optical properties of the reflective material. Using the CIELAB coordinates, a small color shift was noted for light incident at low solar altitudes. Overall, highly reflective films with spectral variations of a few percent do not markedly affect the color of the transmitted light.
SmCo thin films have been grown by magnetron sputtering at room temperature with a composition of 2-35 at.% Sm. Films with 5 at.% or higher Sm are amorphous and smooth. A giant tunable uniaxial in-plane magnetic anisotropy is induced in the films which peaks in the composition range 11-22 at.% Sm. This cross-over behavior is not due to changes in the atomic moments but rather the local configuration changes. The excellent layer perfection combined with highly tunable magnetic properties make these films important for spintronics applications.
The dehydrogenation process of hydrogenated switchable mirrors using magnesium-nickel alloy thin film was studied in situ using spectroscopic ellipsometry. Ellipsometric angles Psi and Delta of the switchable mirrors varied drastically as a result of dehydrogenation, which is a transformation from transparent to reflective states. The process was analyzed by dividing into the following three phases. The first phase was the dehydrogenation process of a thin Mg4Ni layer with several nanometers at a hydrogenated Pcl/Mg4Ni interface. The second phase was the dehydrogenation processes of the hydrogenated Mg4Ni layer, which proceeded from the Pd/Mg4Ni interface to the substrate. The final phase was the desorption process of hydrogen, which was absorbed in Mg4Ni as solid solution and the dehydrogenation process was terminated.
Dept of Production Engineering, KTH, Stockholm.
Laboratory of Biophotonics, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryssland.
Large-scale and cost-effective manufacturing of ceramic micro devices based on tape stacking requires the development of inspection systems to perform high-resolution in-process quality control of embedded manufactured cavities, metal structures and defects. With an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system operating at 1.3 mu m and a dedicated automated line segmentation algorithm, layer thicknesses can be measured and laser-machined channels can be verified in alumina ceramics embedded at around 100 mu m depth. Monte Carlo simulations are employed to analyze the abilities of OCT in imaging of the embedded channels. The light scattering parameters required as input data for simulations are evaluated from the integrating sphere measurements of collimated and diffuse transmittance spectra using a reconstruction algorithm based on refined diffusion approximation approach.
Wilson, H. R., Nilsson, A. M., Bretschneider, J., Hoffmann, T., Hutchins, M. G., Jonsson, J., . . . van Nijnatten, P. A. (2012). Transmittance of patterned solar glass panes results of a measurement roud-robin by ICG TC10.11th ESG Conference. In: : . Paper presented at Annical meeting of the EU Society of Glass, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 3-6 June, 2012.
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The spectral absorptivity of 62 products has been measured in the wavelength region of 0.3-20 mu m. Effective absorptivity for fire-induced heat radiation typically lies in the range of 0.75-0.95. It was found that the effective absorptivity varies significantly with the temperature of the heat source. This has implications on the heating of a surface. The effect is more important when the absorptivity is used as input for calculations of ignition temperature and thermal inertia. It was also found that the absorptivity of radiation from fires for products exposed to irradiation in many cases decreased with increased exposure time. This is surprising since, for example, wood that is darkened when exposed to heat obviously has a higher absorptivity in the visual part of the spectrum than fresh non-darkened wood. The reason that was identified for this is because the absorptivity in the IR drops, and measurement results are given which clearly illustrate this.
We report on a detailed study on the optical and electrical properties of Au films made by sputter deposition onto glass substrates with and without transparent and electrically conducting layers of SnO2:In. The Au films had thicknesses up to 10.7 nm and hence spanned the range for thin film growth from discrete islands, via large scale coalescence and formation of a meandering conducting network, to the formation of a more or less "holey" film. Scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy demonstrated that the SnO2:In films were considerably rougher than the glass itself, and this roughness influenced the Au film formation so that large scale coalescence set in at a somewhat larger thickness for films on SnO2:In than on glass. Measurements of spectral optical transmittance and reflectance and of electrical resistance gave a fully consistent picture that could be reconciled with impeded Au film formation on the SnO2:In layer; this led to pronounced "plateaus" in the near infrared optical spectra for Au films on SnO2:In and a concomitant change from such two-layer films having a lower resistance than the single gold film at thicknesses below large scale coalescence to the opposite behavior for larger film thicknesses. Our work highlights the importance of the substrate roughness for transparent conductors comprising coinage metal films backed by wide band gap transparent conducting oxides.


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More Highlights From Empire's BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Coverage
The latest issue of Empire Magazine, which covers Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, is out now. And we continue to receive more and more info on the movie from this issue.
Batman-News has shared some more interesting details from the issue. What did The Dark Knight Trilogy director Christopher Nolan think about Zack Snyder helming the new reboot of Batman? Who else did Snyder meet with for the Batman role? When did Warner Bros. begin to discuss the idea of a Batman/Superman film? All that and more can be found below.
Zack Snyder sought Christopher Nolan's blessing before committing to Batman v Superman. Nolan gave the blessing, but according to Snyder, the filmmaker found it a "little bit hard" to let go. Nolan said, "Well, we don't own these characters. When you're done making Batman movies, someone else will."
Before Ben Affleck was cast, Snyder met with Josh Brolin and Richard Armitage about playing Batman. Brolin has been particularly vocal about these meetings afterwards, admitting that talks didn't work out (obviously). Meanwhile, Armitage was also a reported contender back in 2013, and he was my personal favorite for the role. But, I am now 100% behind Affleck.
Affleck was hesitant about taking the role, however. Apparently, would have turned it down if Batman v Superman was just a sequel to The Dark Knight Trilogy. Clearly it's not, and Affleck loved Snyder's take on Batman enough to commit to the role for several movies.
Bruce Wayne was present in Metropolis when Superman and General Zod threw down in Man of Steel. During the battle, a Wayne Enterprises building was destroyed. There, Bruce "…lost people he was very close to during the destruction. People he could call family."
Before being cast as Lex Luthor, Jesse Eisenberg met with Snyder for a different role in Batman v Superman. However, Snyder was so impressed with Eisenberg – largely due to his Social Network performance – that he cast him as Luthor himself. Apparently, Lex is "…witty and charming in public, but full of rage behind closed doors."
When Batman v Superman was announced, many fans criticized the concept, claiming that Warner Bros. was only doing this because Man of Steel underperformed at the box office – or some nonsense like that. However, talks of making Batman v Superman the next movie began just weeks before Man of Steel was released. Snyder previously admitted that the idea began as a Bruce Wayne Easter egg, before expanding to having Superman fight Batman in the next film.
Henry Cavill was in outstanding shape in Man of Steel, but he went even bigger for Batman v Superman, gaining a whopping 30 pounds of muscle. Additionally, when Cavill would disagree with Snyder about the psychology of Superman, "…they would both do push-ups until someone gave in." Sounds fun.
For even more Batman v Superman tidbits – including Cavill's Clark Kent, a "hands-on" Alfred and where Bruce Wayne currently resides – head over to Batman-News at the link above.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is scheduled to hit theaters March 25th. The second installment in the DC Extended Universe stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter and Gal Gadot. Zack Snyder directs from a script by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer.
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A core principle of good forecasting: look back twice as far as you look forward. In considering the future of spatial change, cities, and the built environment, this principle naturally brings me to consider the role of cultural heritage and cultural memory in informing futures thinking. The recent Urban India 2030: History, Technology, and Community for Sustainable Urban Futures symposium in Mumbai did this very well in two ways.
Led by Dr. Jyoti Hosagrahar, the theme reflected upon the predicament of many of India's cities characterized by the "paradoxical landscape of global modernity and desperate poverty, grand technological projects and religious festivals" and asked how globalization and technology "can and should" intersect with history and heritage to re-imagine the city. This narrative arc thoughtfully situated the conversation away from the hackneyed polemic of choosing between cultural heritage conservation or new development and rather towards the everyday negotiations in the city that lead to insightful actions. The other remarkable aspect of this symposium was the outstanding cross-disciplinary panel that included, among many noteworthy individuals, Columbia University GSAPP Dean Mark Wigley, SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers) Founder-Director Sheela Patel, and the visionary architect-activist P.K. Das, offered alternative views for exploring the relationship between cultural heritage, futures thinking, and decision-making in the present.
One interesting proposal that emerged was by architect and director of the Kamla Raheja Vidyandhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) Aneerudha Paul. We may often think of cultural heritage as monumental and static, but much of the architecture of India's historic cities is far less glamorous and aging. In Mumbai, this reality is compounded by the lack of government funds, poor tenants, and frozen rents. Despite the dilapidation and disrepair, Mumbai's historic neighborhoods make up a vast network of unique communities and cultural practices, housing bazaars as well as small scale craft industries. Private redevelopment initiatives have often had disastrous effects on the local communities. Paul argues that Mumbai's domestic architecture is home to a complex socioeconomic network that he calls "intangible complexities". He calls for an "index of the intangibles" that maps the typologies of movements, networks of organization, and inter-activities tethered to the historic physicality of inner-Mumbai.
An index like this can be a powerful lens to gaze at once into the multiple contexts of everyday life. While I am curious about the indicators Paul and his team will select for their index, how the indicators are weighted, and how the index is eventually applied, I am thinking more about the communicative and transformative capacity this index can have on redevelopment processes of a city like Mumbai. In this way, among others, Urban India 2030, hosted a constructive conversation about possible future trajectories of the historic city.


The standard for shelf filing applications. These folders feature a single ply or two ply end tab with scored tick marks for easy application of color coded labels. The undercut front panel helps aid in the application of individual labels or computer driven labels and helps makes the label stand out for extra readability.


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Prometheus é um aplicativo de software livre usado para monitoramento de eventos e alertas. Ele registra métricas em tempo real em um banco de dados de séries temporais (permitindo alta dimensionalidade) construído usando um modelo HTTP pull, com consultas flexíveis e alertas em tempo real. É um projeto código aberto originalmente criado na SoundCloud em 2012 e agora é mantido independentemente de qualquer empresa.

Finalidade
Prometheus foi usado pela primeira vez internamente na SoundCloud, onde foi desenvolvido, para monitorar seus sistemas. A Cloud Native Computing Foundation possui vários estudos de caso de outras empresas usando o Prometheus. Entre elas estão o serviço de hospedagem digital DigitalOcean, o festival digital DreamHack e o serviço de migração de email e contatos ShuttleCloud. Separadamente, a Pandora Radio mencionou usar o Prometheus para monitorar análise dos dados.

Conferências
Uma das principais conferências relacionadas ao Prometheus é a PromCon, que tem como objetivo conectar usuários e desenvolvedores do Prometheus de todo o mundo para trocar conhecimentos e experiências.

 PromCon 2016, 25 e 26 de agosto, Berlim, 80 participantes (esgotado)
 PrometheusDay 2016, Seattle
 PromCon 2017, 17 e 18 de agosto, Munique, 220 participantes (esgotado)
 PromCon 2018, 9 e 10 de agosto, Munique, 220 participantes (esgotado)
 PromCon 2019, 7 e 8 de novembro, Munique, 220 participantes (esgotado)
 PromCon 2020, 14 - 16 de julho, Online
 PromCon 2021, 3 de maio, Online
 PromCon América do Norte 2021, 11 de outubro, Los Angeles
 PrometheusDay Europa 2022, 17 de maio, Valência, ~400 participantes
 PrometheusDay América do Norte 2022, 25 de outubro, Detroit
 PromCon 2022, 8 e 9 de novembro, Munique

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Penn State's run to the Rose Bowl last fall used an explosive offense featuring the strong-armed and fearless Trace McSorley and a host of big-bodied wide receivers to pick up chunks of yardage and score long touchdowns. Chris Godwin's Rose Bowl performance -- nine catches, 187 yards, two touchdowns -- exemplified that.
Justin Shorter appears to fit the mold of another Penn State game-breaking wide receiver. The 6-foot-4, 213-pound wide receiver from South Brunswick (N.J.) has emerged as one of the nation's top prep talents at the position in the nearly 11 months since he committed to the Nittany Lions.
Shorter is one of two Penn State commits who will be competing at The Opening in Beaverton, Ore., later this week, and the event's format, culminating in a 7-on-7 championship, should give Shorter the chance to showcase his talents.
He was as impressive as any of the prospects at The Opening Regionals event held in New Jersey on Sunday.
Shorter will be one of 29 wide receivers at The Opening, a group that includes eight of the top 10 receivers in the 247Sports composite rankings. Five-stars Terrace Marshall, Jalen Hall, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Brennan Eagles and Justyn Ross will all be there, while Shorter is the highest-ranked four-star at No. 6 in the rankings.
Shorter is the only wide receiver in Penn State's class currently, but he'll be competing alongside four-star Solomon Enis of North Canyon (Ariz.), another Nittany Lions target.
With so much talent in one place, it's a perfect opportunity for Shorter to show where he stacks up nationally.
Just now entering his junior season, Shorter already stands at 6-4 and 205 pounds with blazing speed and long strides that can make opposing defensive backs look like they're standing still.
Shorter will compete for Mach Speed in The Opening's 7-on-7 tournament, and he'll be suiting up alongside some names that are familiar to Penn State fans. Hylton (Va.) running back Ricky Slade, the other Penn State recruit at the event, will be on the team, while Enis is one of the wide receivers Shorter will work with.
Shorter's quarterback might turn the most heads, though. Five-star Justin Fields is one of Mach Speed's two quarterbacks, and they'll be teaming up weeks after Fields decommitted from the Nittany Lions. The Georgia native is being pursued by a number of top programs in the southeast, and a return to Penn State seems unlikely. But it will be a quick glance at what could have been during the tournament.
Shorter will also be teammates with four-star linebacker Jack Lamb of Great Oak (Calif.), another Penn State target.
The Opening is the most anticipated national recruiting showcase in the country and the culmination of a spring of regional events, where 166 of the nation's top high school football players earn their spots in the finals.
Shorter enters The Opening as a four-star recruit, the No. 1 player in New Jersey, the No. 6 wide receiver nationally and No. 39 overall prospect in the Class of 2018. He impressed at The Opening's New Jersey regional, and he has the potential to be the country's top wide receiver by the time National Signing Day rolls around in February.
Shorter committed to the Nittany Lions in August and appears to the best wide receiver recruit of coach James Franklin's tenure with the Nittany Lions.
Shorter's athleticism and size should give him plenty of chances to fill up a highlight reel in both the individual drills and the 7-on-7 tournament. This is Shorter's chance to show how he stacks up directly with the nation's five-stars. He can prove he belongs among the elite with a strong showing, so how he compare with the likes of Marshall, Hall, St. Brown, Eagles and Ross will be worth watching.


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Динилизия () — вид вымерших змей, единственный в роде Dinilysia. Жила во времена мелового периода (сантонский век) на территории современной Аргентины.

Динилизия достигала длины 2 м, тело было цилиндрическим в сечении, задние ноги не были заметны. Длина черепа составляла 8 см, он был весьма массивным, надвисочная кость выдавалась за задний край черепа.

Эта змея охотилась на более мелких животных, однако не брезговала и детёнышами динозавров или яйцами, если такие можно было достать.

В массовой культуре
Dinilysia patagonica появляется инкогнито в документальном сериале «Прогулки с динозаврами». Именно эта змея приглядывалась к детёнышам тираннозавра и шипела на них. В съёмках фильма участвовал обыкновенный удав.

Примечания

Вымершие змеи
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Пресмыкающиеся мелового периода
Ископаемая фауна Южной Америки
Фоссилии из меловых отложений Аргентины
Фоссилии, описанные в 1901 году


Online students who feel a closer connection to the university are more likely to persist in their studies and succeed. But how do we help students who are physically located all over the world connect to Penn State like the residential students do? That was the goal for Liam Jackson and Richard Brungard of PSU's World Campus. Their solution: a monthly podcast for World Campus students.
World Campus serves over 12,000 students online; most of them are older non-traditional students. The average age for undergrads is 33; for graduate students it's 35. And of all of Penn State's many campus, World Campus sees the largest proportion of its graduating students join the alumni association.
The popularity of podcasts is growing. Thirty-six million people download podcasts daily as of 2013, and that number has more than doubled since 2012. Many communicators have moved on to the "sexier" social platforms, but podcasts are still solid and growing.
There is no one best practice for creating podcast, except to know your audience and then be consistent. For World Campus, their audience are working students with families; the podcasts needed to meet those needs.
Jackson played clips from a sample podcast; segments include news and updates (resources and policy changes), a trivia section that shares aspects of Penn State culture, tradition ( I love this idea); then an interview with a member of the Penn State community: an administrator, alumnus, professor. They promote the interviews in advance to allow students to submit questions. The interviews are aimed at the online audience. For example, when Brungard interviewed the women's basketball coach, he asked her what advice she has for athletes on how to manage their time wisely, and how that advice might apply to working students who are studying online.
More people download on iTunes than listen on website (mobile) Other metrics include the students who submit questions.
Each podcast sees an average of 166 downloads in its first month, but each episode also keeps getting downloaded even seven months later. This longevity caused them to changed up the content so they don't include time-sensitive or calendar event stuff.


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Tag Archives: Joel Oppenheimer
Lessons: Selected Poems Joel Oppenheimer (edited by Dennis Maloney & introduced by David Landrey) White Pine Press / Buffalo, New York
In Black Mountain Days, the engaging autobiographical account of the early 1950s at Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker described his fellow student Joel Oppenheimer as that "fierce-featured poet from the Bronx and refugee from Cornell, whose father owned a luggage shop in mid-Manhatten". When Oppenheimer wrote a short biographical note for the concluding pages of Donald Allen's 1960 ground-breaking anthology The New American Poetry, in which he was represented by five poems, he wrote:
"Born for the Depression, but too young to remember any suffering. Too young for WWII – in school and 4 F during Korean. Consequently, having missed the 3 major social calamities of my time, I am always feeling just a little guilty. Now living in NYC".
There is a clarity in these phrases of self-accounting as well as a wry touch of humour. This is the man who, in a little anecdote told me some years ago by Jeremy Prynne, caused the Zukofsky family a certain amount of consternation. Prynne and Oppenheimer had paid a visit to the Zukofsky home and Joel, being of some considerable physical size, started to throw his arms about in energetic enthusiasm. According to Prynne, Louis Z. was terrified for the safety of the little ornaments with which the flat was decorated!
Dennis Maloney's new selection of poems by Oppenheimer brings the extravagant and dedicated figure of Oppenheimer back into focus and David Landrey's introduction directs us to some very good reasons why the poet who bridged the world of North Carolina and New York should be read again now. Landrey writes about simplicity in Oppenheimer's work not as being opposite to complexity but as being more connected to what Emerson wrote in his 1836 book-length lecture Nature:
"When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of idea is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires – the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise – and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults."
At Black Mountain College Charles Olson taught the value of limpidity and Rumaker recalled soon after leaving there a letter he wrote to Olson in September 1956:
"Four years ago or so when I first read your work (mostly in Origin) I thought you were straining after an impossible chaos – that it was whimsical, meaningless, sensationally tricky. But what was necessary was a correction of my ear. I didn't see the form, I didn't hear the limpidity of your thought and feeling, your rhythm – what you were always after me for, limpidity, telling me that night over the dishrack to go to Williams, as I did, and found, as I find now the same in you, in all I've read of you."
Oppenheimer's short poem 'The Gardener' first appeared in Robert Creeley's magazine Black Mountain Review 4, Winter 1954:
"on the left branch, a
blossom. on the
top branch, a blossom.
which child is this.
which flowering
of me. which
gold white bloom.
which the force of my life."
Of course there is Williams in this but there is also a delicately thoughtful contemplation which is entirely Oppenheimer: an awareness of one's self, a throwing open of one's arms. Zukofsky might have had justification for his touch of anxiety! In 'Chaos' from the 1994 collection New Hampshire Journal there is a further contemplation of the relationship between the poet and his creations:
"CHAOS is where
we come from
FORM we reach
then fall back
into chaos
to start again
INCOHATE
means beginning
comes from the root
TO HARNESS
getting into harness
is just the beginning
how we plow and
what we plant
determines the field
determines
what feeds us
to fall back
to grow again"
This is a fine poem which focuses on the link between the present and the future recognising the way in which we can learn from what we have created: this is poetry which has a sense of newness, a sense of the future and yet it contains a limpid grasp of where ideas come from, a humility. It recalls for me that early Olson poem 'These Days' which I am so fond of quoting:
"whatever you have to say, leave
the roots on, let them
And the dirt
Just to make clear
where they come from"
In his 'Poem for the New Year 31 December 1973' Oppenheimer describes being strangled by Medusa in a nightmare from which he struggles to awake. As he puts it "i am saved / by the old poet, he helps me / break loose". The old poet is Charles Olson who had died some three years before but whose teaching would continue to have a major effect on American poetry.
Ian Brinton, 12th May 2017
Posted in American Poetry, Books and tagged Charles Olson, Dennis Maloney, Jeremy Prynne, Joel Oppenheimer, Louis Zukofsky, Michael Rumaker. Bookmark the permalink.


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Former paramilitary members, who voluntarily demobilized during Alvaro Uribe's government, have shown discontent with their frail judicial circumstances. Close to 800 of them are facing jail sentences, and they ask for solutions—or else, will they rearm?
The Santos administration hopes to set up a Truth Commission in which paramilitaries vouch to confess their past crimes and never to repeat them, and in return, their legal troubles will take second stage.
In turn, the perpetrator is forced to pay reparation damages to victims or to contribute community work in the victim's community. If the perpetrator returns to delinquency, he will again face judicial proceedings.
When negotiating the demobilization of the paramilitaries, the government offered the exclusion of prosecution in exchange for disarmament, restitution of victims and full cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office.
The number of these demobilized paramilitaries is fuzzy: some reports say there are 17,000, others put the count at 51,000. According to the Santos government, there are 31.671 demobilized paramilitaries, and 15.087 demoblized FARC.
I am a skeptic: Truth Commissions generally happen in countries where the conflict is over, not in a situation where there is a possibility the perpetrator will rearm. Confessions that come from a Truth Commission generally are not used in a judicial proceeding. However, this Truth Commission will reportedly sign "truth accords" with the each of the former paramilitaries and after studying their cases advise the Prosecutor General's Office about whether to prosecute or to drop the pending charges.
It seems this initiative is wanting to be rushed through Congress at great speed without big thought on its legacy and its implications.


What have you done with the life I gave you?
Have you ever read about a Near Death Experience, also known as NDE?
Its when someone dies and goes to Heaven and returns to tell their story. I have always been fascinated with this subject and over the last few years, I have read hundreds of stories online and read a few books about NDE's. Youtube is filled with hours of people telling their stories.
Its mid-February, and I'm sure most everyone is sick of winter, but spring will be here before you know it. That makes me wonder how many people know or care about how we get our seasons. This is something that has fascinated me ever since I was a kid.
To many people, the word "introvert" has a stigma attached to it. Some will translate this word to weird, stuck-up, arrogant, depressed, recluse, mad, unhappy, and hermit.
But if you say the word extrovert, people think, the life of the party, outgoing, friendly, and happy.
From the day we are born, one thing we will all do is age. With all the inventions of mankind, we have not figured out a way to stop the aging process. Lord knows the money Americans spend each year to try and slow the process down. But no matter what you do, Father Time will eventually show up in that reflection in the mirror.
If you're a book reader like myself and have read about what goes on in Third World Countries, you may have come to the same conclusion as I have. We Americans are a spoiled bunch.
I am often amazed at the reaction I get when I'm talking to someone and tell them I had a "perfect childhood." They poke and prod and tell me "no way, there had to be a time when it wasn't so perfect." Well, I'm sorry, but it was perfect.
Like many Americans, I embrace technology. The cell phone and internet are on the top of the list for most people.
I have often wondered how I got along without the internet for 35 years before this mysterious thing crept its way through our telephone lines.
Last night I was helping my son, Jake, with his homework and came across the word "militia," although the dictionary says it is pronounced |məˈliSHə|. Really? Then why wouldn't it be spelled with an SH?


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Excel is an accountant's device. What tool do we use much more? We have our general ledger apps, ERP programs, email, term, etc.. As for me personally and most other attorneys, Excel may be your most useful tool we have.
Make sure you keep up to date with all the changes which have occurred. If the company you benefit doesn't make use of the newest Excel, go get it on your own personal use. I am hearing more and more tales about accountants being asked in job interviews that this question: Exactly what version of Excel does your company use? After the applicant says 2003, the interviewer cites that this app has changed a lot in the brand new 2007 launch, and implies that the applicant is obsolete using the equipment he is utilizing.
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Man Killed in Big Rig Collision
Los Angeles, CA -- A man has died in a collision with a big rig early Tuesday morning.
The crash happened on the 405 Freeway around 4:00 a.m. A big rig was traveling at unsafe speeds for the road conditions.
Craig Zackery, 49, did not notice the stopped traffic ahead, causing him to rear-end the 2014 Dodge Journey in front of him.
The driver of the Dodge died from his injuries on the scene. Police have not released the identity of the driver pending the notification of the next of kin. The passenger in the Dodge, Chevette Pugh, 32, suffered severe injuries. EMTs transported her to a nearby hospital.
Police issued a SigAlert for many lane closures on the 405 Freeway. The alert that had closed three lanes lifted around 11 am.
Investigators have ruled out drugs and alcohol as causes of the accident. Police have not said if there was an arrest.
Starpoint Law expresses its condolences to all those affected by this tragic accident. Semi-truck accidents are commonly tragic and require a lot of time for investigation. If you or a loved one has been injured in a Semi-truck accident contact us today to discuss your case.
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Q: Using ng-transclude doesn't seem to work well in a table I created a simple directive that is used to display some text in a  when there is no table data (i.e. "No results found" ) takes up the entire row of the table.  Before I just had static text in the  but now I want to be able to put any DOM into it.  I tried adding ng-transclude to my directive but now it is rendering the element in a strange way.
Here is my directive:
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<ng-transclude></ng-transclude>
',
        link: function (scope, elem, attrs, ctrl) {
            var span = angular.element(elem).parents('tbody').siblings('thead').find('tr').children().length;

            scope.colSpan = span;

            scope.$watch(attrs.skNoResult, function (list) {
                if (list.length) {
                    scope.hasResult = true;
                } else {
                    scope.hasResult = false;
                }
            });
        }
    };
}]);

It basically just keeps track of the data set (array) and checks the length to see whether or not there is any data or not. If there is then we display this row with ngIf.
My html just looks like this

Here is my text I want to transclude into my directive

The problem is that the transcluded text is being inserted into the DOM as just a textNode and is appearing above the
 rather than inside of it. Any idea why this is happening?

A: I believe the reason you are seeing this is not because of Angular but rather the browser seeing that it is invalid html inside a
 as it is expecting  and as a result it moves this content to above the table BEFORE Angular even gets a chance to run and do the transclusion. You can easily test this by removing any Angular code and just leave the HTML and you'll notice the outcome is exactly the same.
Here is a workaround that you might be able to use:

  Here is my text I want to transclude into my directive

And the directive:
app.directive('skNoResult', ['$rootScope', function () {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    replace: true,
    transclude: true,
    template: '

	',
    link: function (scope, elem, attrs) {
        var span = angular.element(elem).parents('tbody').siblings('thead').find('tr').children().length;
        scope.colSpan = span;
    }
  };
}])

Note that the element usage of ngTransclude, i.e. <ng-transclude></ng-transclude> is only available from Angular version 1.3.0-beta.16 and above. If you are using a 1.2 release you need to use the attribute usage as in the example above

Here is a working demo.

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Join us for an encore of the first episode of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! Our guest will be Mary Shields. The program will air on June 17th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. We will also add a streaming link to this page after the program airs.
Mary Shields is the author of Barnicle and Husk: The Adventure Begins chapter book, and Barnicle and Husk: The Beginning pre-reader. The books are the first of a historical book series on America's founding story for children ages 7-11. The first book focuses on Wampanoag culture and history through the eyes of the main characters, a story not previously told in a children's book.
Mary is also the founder of Shields Design Studio, the firm that created Plymouth 400's branding materials and website. Shields Design and Barnicle and Husk are Plymouth 400 Founding Signature Sponsors.
This episode will be presented in two 15 minutes segments:
Guests: Karen Rinaldo and Kevin Doyle, authors of In the Wake of the Mayflower
Guest: Jayne Talmage, Executive Editor of Duxbury – Our Pilgrim Story – A 2020 Perspective .
Join us for the Episode Four of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! The program will air on March 11th and March 18th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. After the program airs, you can view the episode here.
Episode 4 will be presented in two 15 minutes segments:
In 2019, Karen Rinaldo and Kevin Doyle joined their love of history and art in their book In the Wake of the Mayflower. The book was launched with the timing of the 400th Commemoration of the landing of the Mayflower on Cape Cod. It is scheduled for a second printing in 2021 for the 400th Commemoration of the First Thanksgiving in 1621. The book has also been requested to be translated into Dutch.
In 1994, Rinaldo, also an artist, received a commission for "The First Thanksgiving – 1621," a painting that was unveiled at Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1995 and exhibited at Plimoth Patuxet Museums for more than 20 years. It is currently on loan at the Museums on the Green in Falmouth, MA.
Guest: Jayne Talmage, Executive Editor of Duxbury – Our Pilgrim Story – A 2020 Perspective
A Duxbury resident for over 40 years, Jayne Talmage has had a life-long interest in New England History and architecture. She is the Executive Editor of Duxbury – Our Pilgrim Story – A 2020 Perspective.
Published by Duxbury 2020, Inc., Duxbury Rural & Historical Society, and the Alden Kindred of America, the book is a collection of essays about early leaders and Mayflower passengers who settled "Across the Bay" in Duxbury.
Two years in the making, twelve local historians put forth new perspectives. Readers will discover new artifacts from a 1960's dig at the Alden House Historic Site, follow Native American paths through Duxbury's Town Forest, and learn the centuries-old politics surrounding the Old Burying Ground, and more.
Join us for the first episode of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! Our guest will be Mary Shields. The program will air on January 21st and 28th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. We will also add a streaming link to this page after the program airs.
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The minimalist lines of the wine cellar open onto large glass windows that highlight the best Italian and foreign labels. The aim of our cellar is to preserve the art of wine's precious features, though continuous monitoring of temperature and humidity.
Our professional staff will provide assistance in choosing the wine that better suits your taste from our extensive wine list or will recommend special and unique combinations to create surprising contrasts and alchemies.
A complete selection of over 200 exclusive labels including the Champagne collection- from Dom Perignon to Ruinart, from Laurent Perrier to Moet Chandon and the prestigious Krug – and the ever-present selection of Proseccos and wines produced in the Classical Method.
The list of white wines is a journey along the Bel Paese, from Valle d'Aosta to the lands of Sicily. Chardonnay grapes, Ribolla, Malvasia, Vermentino, Turbiana, Sauvignon, Vermentino or Insolia offer the aromas and the flavors of Italy in a glass.
Likewise, our range of red wines, full-bodied and opulent, covers every region from the north to the south of Italy. Sangiovese and Barbera, two of the most popular Italian grape varieties, are definitely the star attractions, right alongside less popular wines such as Teroldego, Nebbiolo, Cabernet, Nero d'Avola and Syrah.
A selection of rosé and dessert wines like Recioto della Valpolicella or Picolit provide the perfect end to any meal.
Spectacular and sophisticated, the wine cellar is the perfect setting for private events and conferences, the ideal location for wine tasting or workshops dedicated to the prestigious art of wine. Entering the cellar to choose a bottle and sampling wines in the corner overlooking the labels provides our guests with a truly unique experience. The staff at Mediterra will also be happy to assist you in planning dedicated wine tasting events and enjoyable samplings.


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called to discipleship in Jesus Christ, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we commit ourselves to grow in faith, affirm our gifts, support one another in our callings, engage in ministry and action, and promote healing and wholeness in the church, the society, and the world.


Dolce Gusto Coffee Pods - A delicious mug of milky Dolce Gusto coffee, all in one capsule. Ideal for breakfast.
A delicious mug of milky coffee, all in one capsule. Ideal for breakfast.
This is delicious coffee with milk, all in one capsule. The ideal morning drink.


The tech industry is undeniably dominated by straight white men (much like the rest of the world, surprise surprise).
If you're coming into this industry and don't match that description, you're going to have some extra challenges. Your hardships may range from the mildly annoying to cry-in-the-bathroom-at-work heartbreaking.
I don't want you to be caught by surprise, but the most important thing I want to tell you is that in the end, it doesn't matter. If this is what you want, you can do it. If you're curious and persistent, you can have the career you want in tech and no one can stop you.
Imposter syndrome is the phenomenon of feeling inadequate, or like a fraud, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. It's so pervasive, even the white dudes suffer from it (they just hide it better). If you feel like a fake, it's not because you are one, it's because this industry moves so fast, there's no way anyone can learn it all. That's OK. Focus on the problems you want to solve and the people you want to help. Learn what you need to do that. It's the people who think they know everything who probably aren't learning.
Who Am I and Why Am I Telling You This?
I'm a 42 year old Black lesbian, living in the one of the whitest large cities in the U.S, and making a living in tech. And if I can do that, you certainly can.
You don't have to be young. You don't need to be a 'digital native'. I went back to school at age 34. I graduated from college in 2011. If you read the mainstream tech publications, or hell, even a few job ads, it might seem like only programming 'ninjas' and 'rock stars' can make it in this industry. But that's completely false.
I've only been doing this for a few years. I can name plenty of people who are better programmers than I am. And yet, I have a successful freelance web development business. I've spoken at conferences and given presentations to hundreds of people. I get to decide who I work with and make my own schedule, which is the dream I had when I got into this industry.
To get to this point, I have had to go over some bumps in the road. I started my career as an intern, and then employee of a small specialized agency. There I found both amazing mentors and some truly clueless attitudes and behavior from some of my coworkers and my boss. Especially my boss.
He also tried to convince me that I didn't need a degree and I should drop out of school to come work for him–two months before graduation.
You will meet people who underestimate your talent, your worth and your ambition because of preconceived ideas they may have about your gender, race, sexuality or some other attribute. You are not dependent on those people for your success. You will find just as many (if not many more) other people who are grateful for your skills and the value you provide them.
As important as it is to develop your coding skills, it's equally important that you develop a supportive network of people around you, who can be there for you during your journey.
Pic from iUrbanTeen, bringing together underrepresented teens for educational tech programs.
I spoke with a few awesome programmers from diverse backgrounds to learn about their experiences getting in to tech as members of underrepresented or marginalized groups. Their experience level ranges from one to 13 years in the industry. Some are independent contractors, some work for companies, some have their own startups.
I asked them a few questions. Here's what they had to say, and their advice for you.
What do you wish you had known prior to coming into the industry?
Anonymous: I wish someone would have told me that imposter's syndrome is much harder to deal with than actual coding problems.
Tiffani: I wish I had known that being a black woman in tech (who's actually technical) would make some people uncomfortable and how to deal with that and still succeed. I also wish I had known how to be a better advocate for myself, initially.
My first internship was at a large (un-named) tech company with a team of 6 or 7 white guys back in 2005. I really was the diversity/token hire. That made things awkward.
My team members would make jokes and do other things that now I can look back and see were totally offensive, but I was 19 and didn't really know any better about speaking up or have anyone I felt comfortable turning to. I didn't know about various affinity groups that could have been sources of support.
It taught me, however, to believe in my skills and never be swayed by somebody who needs to believe (for whatever reason) I don't know what I'm doing. I admit that at certain moments I gave in to their low expectations to my own detriment. Never again, however!
Lindsey: Salary negotiation and how to assert myself, but even more so that confrontation is okay and not something I should be afraid of.
Ashe: It would have been nice to know that a lot of your job is making friends with the right people, which is where many people get opportunities.
Finding people to vent to and people who will remind me that I am actually good at things when my impostor syndrome hits me hard has been super important.
The most important thing is finding other people who have dealt with this or are working to make things better.
Lots of escapism in the form of books, video games and comics.
I keep a tight group of supportive people around me–some who work in tech and some who don't– that have shown me the ropes and have helped me in the moments where I've needed to vent or figure out how to handle some iffy situation.
Have really good friends that understand the problems I face every day. It's nice to have people that I can rant to and not have to convince them of anything, they just understand. I found and connected with a few different women-focused hacker groups in my area.
In situations where I'm not vulnerable, I become a squeaky wheel. I advocate for others when I can.
I left the agency world and now my usual workday is from my home office with one or more cats cluttering up the keyboard. I don't deal with day to day BS that happened in an office dominated by white men.
Knowing how to make, and design software gives you a tremendous amount of power in society. Personally, the journey of learning how to code has taught me how to become more analytical.
I love programming. It's something I do for fun outside of my job and I love that I can do something I love and get paid for it.
For the most part, I love what I do and I love the people I've met here.
Money. I feel I could succeed in a lot of environments, but the money plays the biggest role. Tech's compensation feels outsized compared to anything else I know. Another huge element is the ability to work around physical disabilities I experience; tech jobs come with a ton of accessibility and flexibility.
I wanted a career that gave me independence. I'm married to a nurse who works odd hours. Now that I have my own business, I can arrange my schedule to spend more time with her.
I choose to stay in tech despite moments of awkwardness because I'm extremely good at what I do, I enjoy learning new stuff, and I've helped a ton of people. Those things have far outweighed any pockets of discrimination or exclusion I've run into. I always seem to encounter more people that appreciate my contributions than those who don't.
I have a direct relationship with most of my clients and my goal is to help them reach their goals. When I succeed, they are extremely grateful. My work has a direct, positive effect on their lives and their businesses.
What do you want to say to people from marginalized communities who are entering the industry?
Don't lose sight [of] why you enjoy programming, and don't let other people's antiquated paradigms stop you from entering the field of software development.
Have faith in yourself. Don't let the privileged undercut your worth. That's a tough message to bring home, but it's the most important.
Finding a mentor or someone who will be there for you when stuff gets tough is extremely important and I would highly recommend finding that/those person(s) before you even enter the industry.
Find people who have your back and understand where you're coming from. It took me far too long to meet and connect with other marginalized people and it's done so much for my mental health and outlook.
Tiffani: Stay the course. Keep hacking. Do NOT give in to low expectations. You're going to encounter some pushback from people who perceive you as a threat and as somehow lessening their power and influence. That's fine. Fundamentally, people don't like change even when it'll benefit them in the long run. That's not a problem you should concern yourself with as there are tons of others you can solve with your new skills! There are people who will welcome you with open arms if you seek them!
The outpouring of goodwill you encounter from doing that will far outweigh anyone's efforts to undermine your skills and contributions.
So there you have it, my lovelies. The upper echelons of this industry may have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new world, in which the tech world looks a lot more like the rest of the world. But opportunity is here for you and you are needed.
Pic from Black Girls Code.
If there's one thing you should understand by now, it's that you are not alone, even if you're the only $diversity in your company, your meetup, your hacker group. There are more resources, groups, companies, founders, doers and makers than ever before. Build your support network both in person and online. Below is a partial list to get you started.


Damian the red-tailed boa plotting his covert plan of cage escape.
I gave my ball python Xiaoyu her rat and went on to Damian the red-tailed boa's cage to present him with his. With rat in hand I approached his cage, and then nearly dropped the rat on the ground. He wasn't there! As I stood there with my mouth hanging open, a hundred things raced through my mind. When did he take off? Where could he be hiding? Why did I never get around to buying locks for his cage lid? How was I going to explain to my boyfriend that he had escaped?
While I was fairly certain of his presence when I had come home that evening, I was 100 percent sure that he was there the night before, as I always pass by his cage and say hello when I get home. This made his absence seem even more baffling.
I gingerly broke the news to my boyfriend, to which he angrily exclaimed, "That's it! No more snakes, and that's final!" With that, he went off to bed. I then began a brief hunting session, uncovering of course, nothing. Flashing back to when I had lost my python, I didn't spend too much time looking, but instead started moving plants to relative safety. I even put a couple of them in the sink, to try and avoid total plant annihilation, like last time.
The next morning, very little was disturbed, only a couple of strategically placed strip light boxes, balanced on their ends, had been knocked over. Wednesday came and went and no other signs could be seen of this 7 pound, 6 foot serpent. It appeared as if my boa had taken on an undercover mission that I was not privy to. Once again, my condo had proven that it could conceal the largest of beasties without the slightest hint of their lurking presence.
It was not until Thursday night, while I was at work, when the snake finally showed up. I got a call from my boyfriend who said that he found him in the living room, behind the bamboo tree, coiled around a stack of magazines. My boyfriend then had to chase him around, as Damian "snaked" in and out of different things. Then he had to wrangle him into a snake bag, because he couldn't get him back into his cage. Luckily, there were no injuries to my snake, boyfriend or any plants. I was also able to successfully feed Damian the next night.
I have now purchased locks for his cage that should contain him until I move him to his much larger final enclosure. While living at my condo, I will refrain from getting any new snakes, and have run out of space, anyway. But just wait until I move into a house … I'll be unstoppable!


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Veronica Youngblood Considering Insanity Defense in Deaths of Two Daughters
Catherine Douglas Moran August 29, 2019 at 9:55am
Veronica Youngblood, accused of murdering her two children in Tysons, may undergo a mental health evaluation, according to news reports.
Youngblood was arrested in Loudoun County and charged with murder after police found two girls with gunshot wounds in their Tysons apartment last year, Tysons Reporter previously reported.
The 5-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, and the 15-year-old died at the hospital.
The incident happened after a custody dispute between Youngblood and her divorced husband, WTOP reported.
In May, a Fairfax County grand jury indicted Youngblood with two murder charges, according to news reports.
The state attorney said Youngblood is considering an insanity defense, adding that her client has had mental health issues before, including suicide attempts and "a trauma background," WTOP reported.
WTOP also noted that the judge agreed to delay the Nov. 4 trial. A new trial date has not been set.
Photo courtesy FCPD
Morning Notes
Vernon Miles January 18, 2019 at 9:35am
Dense Fog Advisory for Fairfax Co. — "A Dense Fog Advisory has been issued until Noon today for portions of the region. If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you." [Twitter, Twitter]
State Offices, Courts Closed Today — Courts and DMV offices are closed today across Virginia for the state holiday known as Lee-Jackson Day. More closures are planned Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Vienna Ash Trees Devastated by Insect — A "Vienna Town Council agenda item on Jan. 7 revealed a harsh truth: An invasive insect called the emerald ash borer utterly has laid waste to the town's ash trees. The insects have killed every ash tree in town, Vienna Parks and Recreation Director Leslie Herman told the Council." [InsideNova, Tysons Reporter]
McLean Double Murder Suspect Arrives in Fairfax County, Due in Court Tomorrow
TysonsReporter.com November 20, 2018 at 1:00pm
UPDATE: Detectives arrive at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center with double murder suspect Megan Hargan. She was extradited from West Virginia. Megan Hargan is expected to be arraigned Wednesday morning for the murder of her sister and mother. https://t.co/JRJrJj1iL2 pic.twitter.com/Uupwk3jQz6
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) November 19, 2018
The following article excerpt is from our content sharing partner, FairfaxNews.com.
Detectives arrived [Monday] at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center with double murder suspect Megan Hargan, who was extradited from West Virginia. Hargan, 35, is expected to be arraigned Wednesday morning for the murder of her sister and mother.
Helen Lorena Hargan, 23, and her mother, Pamela Denise Hansen Hargan, 63, were found dead on July 14 in a home in the 6700 block of Dean Drive in McLean. They had both been shot. Fairfax County detectives arrested Megan Hargan near her home in Monongalia County, West Virginia, earlier this week.
The bodies were discovered by officers after a 9-1-1 call reporting someone in the home might have been killed. Detectives determined early in the investigation that the scene was staged to appear to be a murder-suicide.
Read more at FairfaxNews.com
Starbucks Bomb Threat Suspect Due in Court Next Month
TysonsReporter.com November 7, 2018 at 12:00pm
A man accused of threatening to blow up the Starbucks in the Yorktowne Shopping Center, in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County, is due in court for a preliminary hearing next month.
David Velasquez, 28, is facing a felony charge of making a bomb threat in connection with the Saturday afternoon incident, which prompted the evacuation of the cafe and surrounding businesses. His preliminary hearing for the bomb threat charge is scheduled for Dec. 19, court records show.
If convicted on that charge, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
Velasquez is also charged with being drunk in public. It's the 10th time he's been arrested and charged with being drunk in public in Fairfax County so far this year, according to General District court records.
More on the bomb threat from a Fairfax County Police Department press release:
A 28-year-old Fairfax man is facing charges for threatening to bomb a Starbucks in the Yorktowne Shopping Center around 4 p.m. on Saturday. David Velasquez was drunk and passed out inside the Starbucks, located at 8104 Arlington Boulevard when an employee woke him and asked him to leave. Velasquez refused and said he had a bomb in his backpack that would explode in two minutes. He then went inside the bathroom and would not come out.
Employees immediately evacuated the business and called 9-1-1. Our officers arrived and asked adjoining business to evacuate as a precaution. Negotiations were attempted for almost 70 minutes before Velasquez finally walked out of the front door and was arrested. Due to his level of intoxication, Velazquez was taken to an area hospital to be medically treated. Velasquez was then taken to the Adult Detention Center, where he was charged with threats to bomb or damage buildings , and being drunk in public. He was held on no bond. Our Explosive Ordinance Division responded and examined the backpack, which did not contain any hazardous items.
Tysons Child Murder Case Scheduled for Trial This Week
Vernon Miles October 31, 2018 at 3:30pm
Veronica Youngblood, accused of murdering two children in Tysons, is scheduled to go to trial this Friday (Nov. 2).
Youngblood was arrested in Loudoun County and charged with murder after police entered an apartment in the 1500 block of Lincoln Circle and found two children with gunshot wounds.
One, a five-year-old girl, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was taken to the hospital where she later died.
While authorities did not release the names of the victims, in accordance with Virginia law, it was widely reported that Youngblood was the mother of the children.
Because the case involved crimes against children, it will be prosecuted in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, according to an employee in the clerk's office.
Youngblood will be represented by a public defender. Whether the case is open to the public will be at the discretion of the presiding judge.


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Q: Select all results with all rows set to true I have a Devices (unique elements) and a DeviceTests tables. For each device from Devices there's a max of 6 different DeviceTests. These tests can be true, false or null. The type of those tests goes from 1 to 6.
I'd like to extract all devices with no errors for tests: 1, 2, 3 and 6. Ths is my current query:
SELECT
    Devices.*
FROM
    Devices LEFT JOIN DeviceTests ON Devices.Imei = DeviceTests.Imei
GROUP BY
    Devices.Imei
HAVING
    BIT_AND(Result IS NOT NULL OR (Result IS NULL AND TestType IN ('4','5')) AND
    !BIT_OR(Result IS NOT NULL AND !Result);

A: Assuming that DeviceTests.Result is NULL when the test has no errors. I dont' really get why you would use HAVING, BIT_AND and BIT_OR functions. You have a where clause that is supposed to present you with options to set conditions upon the dataset.
SELECT Devices.*
FROM Devices
LEFT JOIN DeviceTests ON Devices.Imei =  DeviceTests.Imei

WHERE DevicesTests.TestType IN ('1','2', '3', '6')
AND DeviceTests.Result IS NULL
GROUP BY Devices.Imei
ORDER BY DeviceTests.Id ASC

I am also assuming that you have a column Id in your DeviceTests table and you want to sort ascending by test ID, if you don't, then you'll get an error


This plugin for the Indigo Domotics home automation platform that allows you to execute any AppleScript command on the Indigo server or any other Mac on your network remotely. Essentially, if you can do something via AppleScript then you can use Mac Commander.
The plugin also allows you to create custom AppleScript scripts directly in the plugin just as you have been able to in Indigo. While not as robust as the Indigo editor it is still fully functional and allows you to either code from scratch or copy-and-paste your AppleScript code directly into the plugin for use.
Mac Commander is not all about AppleScript, it's about any means of controlling remote Macs, including utilizing shell commands when AppleScript has no function (such as for rebooting computers or putting them to sleep). While AppleScript is a large part of Mac Commander it is only a part.
While version 1.1.0 and prior required having a Mac Commander device in Indigo, version 2.x forward allows you to either create a device in Indigo or never create a device and perform all functions of this plugin as actions, eliminating the need to have lots of virtual devices in your Indigo setup.
In order to utilize this plugin on a remote Mac you will need to enable Remote Login and Remote Apple Events on the remote Mac in the Sharing Preferences for that Mac. This is not needed if you are only going to use this plugin to control your Indigo computer.
This requires Indigo 7 to run but there is a legacy version that is no longer updated (but still fully functional) that supports Indigo 6 and earlier.
The AppleScript Handler plugin was created as a means for users to run AppleScripts as Indigo phases out AppleScript support. That plugin is now rolled into Mac Commander and will be sunsetted.
This is the legacy version of the plugin if you are using Indigo 6 or earlier. All new releases will require at least Indigo 7 to run.