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Author Interview: Helen Scheuerer
Today on the blog, we decided to host an author interview with Heart of Mist author Helen Scheuerer. But before we get to the interview, let's get to know her a little bit!
Helen Scheuerer is a YA fantasy author from Sydney, Australia. Heart of Mist is the first book in her high fantasy trilogy, The Oremere Chronicles. It explores themes of identity, belonging, loyalty, addiction, loss, and responsibility. After writing literary fiction for a number of years, novels like Throne of Glass, Elantris, The Queen's Poisoner and The Queen of the Tearling inspired Helen to return to her childhood love of fantasy. Helen is also the Founding Editor of Writer's Edit (www.writersedit.com), an online literary magazine and learning platform for emerging writers. It's now one of the largest writers' platforms in the world. Helen's love of writing and books led her to pursue a Bachelor of Creative Arts, majoring in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong and a Masters of Publishing at the University of Sydney. Helen now works as a freelance writer and editor, while she works on the second book in The Oremere Chronicles.
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Heart of Mist Excerpt
Bleak's gut clenched as she vomited onto the dirt that spun before her. And again. And again. She lay there on the ground, a line of sick and phlegm still dangling from the corner of her mouth. Her body heaved several more times and bile burned the back of her throat. Gods, she felt like rubbish, and the sound of people clanging about their daily business was doing nothing for her pounding head.
She had returned the night before from yet another failed quest to find herself a healer in Heathton. It had been her fourth journey to the capital in a month, and the seas had been savage. Her small sailing boat had been thrown about as though it were a child's toy. She had only just managed to moor in the docks before the storm fully hit, and she'd promptly made her way to the local tavern. It had only taken her a quick four pints of their watered-down ale and the last of her silver to remember that their brews did nothing to cure her problems. With no coin left to spend, and her condition still pulsing wildly, it had been back to the warehouse, where her home-brewed mead had burned its way through her body, drowning out the voices and her most recent shortcomings.
Interview!
1. When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
I've known I wanted to be a writer since I was about seven and wrote my first story. I think I was around 9 or 10 when I was first "published" in the school newspaper. For someone who's usually got a terrible memory, I can remember that moment vividly, and what it was like to see my name in print. I don't think I've wavered from that dream since!
2. What inspired you to write Heart of Mist?
I was actually in the middle of finalising edits on a literary fiction novel when I started Heart of Mist. The edits for the lit fic book were driving me mad, and I just wanted an escape.
In hindsight, I'd lost sight of why I loved writing. My editor and I had very different visions for the book. I was reading a lot of YA fantasy during this time, I was completely addicted. And then, I guess you could say I had a bit of an epiphany: why aren't I writing what I love reading?
Not long after, I signed up for NaNoWriMo with some writer friends, and about 6 weeks later, the first draft was complete!
3. In your opinion, what is the hardest part of the writing/publishing process?
Ahhh dear, this is a tough one. There are so many challenges that come with this industry, but there are also always challenges that are unique to the book you're working on…
For Heart of Mist it was that I'd gone from writing a standalone, contemporary lit fiction novel to a fantasy series. My experience with writing series was pretty limited. As an early teen I'd written a 'trilogy' but they were really just three notebooks with a short story in each. For Heart of Mist, I had to consider the storyline of a full-length novel but also of the overarching plot as well. Trying to look at the big picture like this can be really overwhelming at times.
Another challenge was getting my head around the fact that I'll be with this world and these characters for four years, and that publishing a book per year is an incredible challenge in itself. It can be hard to manage the stress, your time, and the biggest one for me - the guilt. The guilt that comes when I'm working on something else, when I let down friends and family because I'm too anxious about writing… However, I'm very lucky in that I'm surrounded by such supportive people.
4. How did you go about getting your novel published? (I.e. What advice to you have for aspiring authors?)
I'd encourage all authors to consider all publishing options before limiting themselves to just one path.
While breaking into the industry can be really difficult, there's not just one gateway any more. There are so many options that authors can experiment with, in order to get their work out there. It really depends on the author and the book they're writing.
For me, I'd been involved in the industry for years before Heart of Mist was even an idea. I'd been running an established writing and publishing website for years (Writer's Edit www.writersedit.com), had completed a Masters of Publishing and had my literary fiction manuscript signed with a publisher. All these experiences gave me a unique insight into the industry, and what I thought could and couldn't work for Heart of Mist.
Through Writer's Edit, we already had a small press that had published three creative writing anthologies (Kindling Vol. I, II & III), and so the natural step was to set up Talem Press - a fantasy imprint.
I received offers and a lot of interest from bigger publishers in Heart of Mist, but ultimately, decided that the best thing for me as the author and the book itself, was to opt for the independent route.
5. What other authors do you look up to for ideas and inspiration when writing?
Haha, this could be a very extensive list! I'm absolutely addicted to the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon at the moment. I've just finished Voyager (the 3rd book) and am just in awe of her ability to create such addictive characters and vast storylines.
A guilty pleasure of mine is Sarah J Maas, who's written the Throne of Glass series and A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy.
The work of Sabaa Tahir and V.E. Schwab can be equal parts intimidating and inspiring...
6. Do you have any new books coming out in the near future/what else would you like to write about?
Well, after Heart of Mist is released on August 31st, the second book in The Oremere Chronicles will follow in 2018, with the third due for release in 2019.
However, in between each of the books, the publication of short prequel stories will continue. These prequels have had a great response so far, and I love writing them!
You can get the first two for free here -> http://bit.ly/2szZpYl
About Heart of Mist
Title: Heart of Mist
Author: Helen Scheuerer
Publisher: Talem Press
Publication Date: August 31st, 2017
We'd like to thank Helen for stopping by our blog today and answering our interview questions. She's super sweet and it was a fun experience, and you should definitely add Heart of Mist to your TBR if you haven't already!
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One of the benefits of living in a Christian country is the freedom we enjoy to eat anything and everything. We enjoy this freedom because we are a Christian nation, rooted and grounded in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, who abolished all the dietary laws of Judaism.
I set off a bit of a firestorm over the weekend by tweeting out a simple message, that the fact we openly serve and sell bacon in America is further evidence, nay, proof, that we are a Christian nation by history, heritage and values. For stating this obvious and uncontestable fact, I was attacked and pilloried by the New Yorker from the left and Reason.com from the libertarian right.
But it is a perfectly legitimate question: Why are we are free to openly sell and serve bacon and all kinds of pork products, when they are verboten where kosher and halal law is in force? Easy. It's because we are a Christian nation and not a Jewish or Muslim one.
American restaurant chains in Israel are forbidden to serve pork products, so good luck getting your Sausage McMuffin with Egg. None of the major supermarkets in Israel, which must stay kosher to stay open, sell pork products.
And of course in Muslim lands halal rules make pork forbidden. Even lapsed Muslims often carry with them a lifetime aversion to pork products.
While there are, of course, places in Israel and Muslim lands where kosher and halal are observed more in the breach than in the observance, the fact remains that the law is the law. The law may be ignored with a wink and a nod, but it's still the law.
But not in America. Why is that? The gastronomic freedom which Christian countries enjoy and Jews and Muslims do not is rooted in one verse of Scripture: Mark 7:19, which says of Jesus, "Thus he declared all foods clean." Instantly Jesus set aside all Jewish dietary restrictions (as well as all halal restrictions prospectively).
It is what comes out of a man that defiles him, said Jesus, not what goes into him. That Christian value has undergirded our culinary mores as a people since our founding, just as Israel has been kosher since 1406 BC and Muslim lands have been halal since 632 AD.
This principle that all foods are clean (or permissible), is underscored in Acts 10 when Peter receives a vision from heaven in which he sees a sheet lowered from heaven filled with Jewishly-unclean animals. When Peter refuses God's directive to "rise, Peter, kill and eat," God rebukes him: "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean" (Acts 10:15, NIV).
In Galatians 2, Paul rebukes Peter for withdrawing from table fellowship with Gentile Christians because they weren't observing Jewish food restrictions. And Paul makes clear in Romans 14 that food is now a matter of individual choice and conscience for the Christian, not dietary law.
In 1 Timothy 4, Paul grants expansive nutritional liberty to Christians, and by logical implication, to Christian nations. "Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer" (1 Timothy 4:4-5).
Enormous pressure is being put on America to honor kosher rules in our prisons and impose halal rules everywhere. In Vermont, a restaurateur had to pull down a sign advertising his bacon because one Muslim objected. The restaurateur cited "safety" concerns if he did not comply. In Vermont!
A poor customer in a KFC restaurant in Australia was subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse by a Muslim cashier for being religiously insensitive enough to ask for bacon on her chicken sandwich.
Bottom line: dietary rules in any culture are rooted in religious principle. Jewish nations have restrictions because of Judaism. Muslims nations have restrictions because of Islam. Christian nations have no restrictions because of Christianity. I, for one, am grateful to live in a Christian nation. And atheists who love their ham and eggs have reason to be grateful too.


With the announcement of the death of the longtime political conspiracy theorist, sometime U.S. presidential candidate, and convicted fraudster Lyndon LaRouche today at the age of 96, I learned upon reading up on his biography that in the 1990s, among his varied initiatives was an advocacy for alternate tuning: he argued (and got a bunch of notable classical music figures to sign on to his organization's statement) that the A above middle C should be pitched not at 440, as is the standard these days, but at 432, a frequency that LaRouche called the "Verdi pitch", because that 19th century composer had once identified it as the optimal tuning for A4.
Of course, as the Wikipedia article on concert pitch reminds us, A has often been set at frequencies well above and below 440 Hz --by as much as a minor third-- and while that has been the standard for much of the 20th Century, even today there are minor variations in some major orchestras, and a different standard entirely for period ensembles.
That got me to wondering: what is the standard in drum corps? And have there been corps who deviate from the standard?
... A has often been set at frequencies well above and below 440 Hz --by as much as a minor third-- and while that has been the standard for much of the 20th Century, even today there are minor variations in some major orchestras, and a different standard entirely for period ensembles.
IMO, the above edit was all that was needed. Anyway, whatever the choice of tuning frequency of A, the marimbas and other mallets used matters. Some are pitched at 440, some 443, some even 445. They cannot change pitch frequency. However, like brass instruments, tempature will impact the frequency produced.
Ah, good point! So before there was a pit, was it the tuning of the bells that set the pitch for the rest of the corps?
IMO, the above edit was all that was needed. Anyway, whatever the choice of tuning frequency of A, the marimbas and other mallets used matters. Some are pitched at 440, some 443, some even 445. They cannot change pitch frequency. However, like brass instruments, temperature will impact the frequency produced.
anyone ever doing band Championships in Scranton in November will agree!
Yes, I can be overfond of long convoluted sentences.
Just for fun, here's the famous first sentence of William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!
From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.
But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
Older brass instruments are evidently pitched differently. When I get the one restoration finished, I'll need to figure that stuff out. Maybe have a different set of valve crooks/tuning slide made eventually or something. I really don't want to take a saw to it, which I know some cats have to their horns.
And yes, tuning to what can't be tuned is the smart way to go.
Didn't he run for office from prison at one point? It seems that I remember something about that, but my memory has a few...holes.
Regardless you should always tune your mellos a couple cents sharp.


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Did I mention the food at Cardon?
The best part of the food they made and served us at Cardon was that it was fresh local ingredients cooked over an open grill - nothing too too fancy - although they did make some pretty spectacular meals and all of them were just right.
This fish on the grill was delicious. First Oscar put down foil on one side and then spread with some butter. Next he put the fish on and clamped down the grill cooking it first with the foil side up to get some nice grill marks. Then he finished cooking it foil side down. When almost done he made a mixture of mayonnaise, yellow mustard and a little soy sauce which was drizzled over the fish. Finally it got topped with some fresh cooked tomato salsa - It was great! I was a little leery of the yellow mustard - I'm a dijon girl myself - but I would have never guessed if I hadn't seen it happen. All served with rice and a fresh salad it was a perfect meal. The second time we had the fresh pargo was below and when I saw it on the menu "Curry Fish" I wasn't really looking forward to it as I was picturing some sort of overcooked stew - but no! It was the fresh fish grilled again then topped with a tasty curry sauce and to lighten the dish some raw julienned carrots and beets! I'm telling you the food was amazing!
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The three Harris County patients are two boys younger than 2 and a woman who is between 25 and 35 years old. Measles vaccinations rose from 200 per day in January 2018 to 600 per day in January 2019.


I hope your joking about that paperweight you listed from ebay.
most people just make their own heatshield and yes, they do make quite a big difference in stand still traffic.
I laugh at ppl buying them.
I am going to put a turbo kit on from Az dyno I was just wondering what all of you thought would be good upgrades for the engine. diamond pistons etc... to make the engine last awhile. What all would you do if money was not an issue.
Depends on how fast you want to go.
"What all would you do if money was not an issue". Is this not the case? If money is no issue than i don't know what pistons to go with. I got diamond pistons. Those should work fine. I would bore it sleeve it, I would Buy titanium rods and shave the crank. balance the engine . THis could quite literally keep going and going and going...........no i simply undersand what you mean. IF you want 400whp its recommended to get forged rods and pistons. If you are going to be under that get custom pistons, main bearings and stronger rod bolts. someone else can fill in or recommend something else i missed.
OK lets say you did want over 400whp what would you do to the engine to make it handle the horse power.
Buy Suneils car. It already does 400 wheels and will save you months of hassle.
Yes I saw that car on e-bay but it didn't meet the reserve. That car is awsome and the buy now price was only 18k. The only problem is I already have a 99csvt with only 26k miles on it.
I already did it once and sold it to The Ford Guy on these forums. Here is a quick break down.
That's $13284 plus labor and other misc stuff you will need. Sell your car and buy Suneil's.


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These two bands, poles apart in every respect imaginable, illustrate, through two specific songs and two different approaches, how changes in tone, texture and mood within the same piece can serve to elevate the merely good to the sublime. The songs in question are Peste Noire's 'Ballade cuntre les anemis de la France' from the album of the same name, and Guns 'N Roses' 'Rocket Queen' from their much lauded classic Appetite For Destruction.
Peste Noire's album came some ways off trail from their early black metal work, reveling in a macabre mixture of folk, medieval, vaudeville, raucous marching music and the sparsest sprinklings of conventional genre stylings. On first listen little more than a bawdy mess excreted over a particularly debauched weekend, this album gradually reveals a strong sense of poetry and an aching yearning for simpler times. Boasting a trebly, deliberately analog tone, the song 'Ballade cuntre les anemis de la France' goes through a prolonged martial prelude, richly accented with a wispish melody from the fair grounds, centered around arpeggios, faint lead noodling, and a beat like the thudding footfall of giants. From around the 4:00 mark, however, the song changes tack; staying in melancholic key but generating a marked difference in atmosphere, dripping with pathos and an all too palpable, unfulfilled longing. Intensely melodic yet far more sophisticated than 'Rocket Queen's naivete, Peste Noire capture the essence of the living experience itself.
Not a little has been said about Guns 'N Roses' seminal debut, bringing as it did with itself a heartfelt honesty from the streets, warts and all, rarely seen in mainstream music, and which has somehow survived the cynical ravages of time. Where Peste Noire aimed at lofty ideals borne in forlorn environs, Guns 'N Roses hinted at an inner desolation in the midst of rampant degeneracy. Both records are romantic in the true sense of the word, lyrical in thought and sound.
Album closer 'Rocket Queen' builds up to its coda with a suave, serpentine grace, telling the story of a strumpet with typical lack of tact. Based around a knifing main riff with a dominant low end that opens up into a forceful chorus, the song also features an extended jam without vocals in the penultimate moments before the 1-2-3 bridge that ushers in one of the most memorable, unforeseen transitions in popular music. After the many tales of sordid and adult urban life that have gone before, the acoustic, major chord progression is life-affirming, promising renewal and rebirth in a rain to wash away the grit. Disjointed from the main body of the song as a completely stand alone piece, it somehow manages to convey a sense of closure to the entire recording. It tugs at the heart in the most obvious, scheming manner and gets away with it laughing all the while, in the process enhancing if anything the overall experience.
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La 7.ª edición de la Copa de Italia de Ciclismo de 2013 fue una serie de carreras de ciclismo en ruta que se realizó en Italia. Comenzó el 16 de febrero con el Trofeo Laigueglia y finalizó el 13 de octubre con el Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli.

Forman parte de la clasificación todos los ciclistas profesionales que forman parte del UCI WorldTeam, Profesional Continental y Continental sin límite de nacionalidad estableciendo un sistema de puntuación en función de la posición conseguida en cada competición y a partir de ahí se crea la clasificación.

La Copa constaba de 21 carreras italianas en las categorías 2.HC, 2.1, 1.HC y 1.1 del UCI Europe Tour, excepto las que declinan estar en esta competición.

Sistema de puntos
En cada carrera, los primeros 20 corredores ganan puntos y el corredor con la mayor cantidad de puntos en general es considerado el ganador de la Copa de Italia. Se llevan a cabo clasificaciones separadas para los mejores jóvenes (sub-23) y el mejor equipo. La clasificación para los mejores jóvenes aplica para corredores sub-23 y aplica el mismo baremo de puntos de la clasificación individual.

Clasificación individual

Clasificación por equipos

Carreras puntuables

Clasificaciones Finales

Individual

Jóvenes

Equipos

Referencias

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When it's time for a new bathtub, you might instinctively begin to look for a sale in the home supply store flyers that arrive in your mailbox. While buying a new tub is certainly one avenue that you can explore, another idea is to refinish an existing tub. This isn't generally a job that you want to tackle on your own. Instead, hire a remodeling contractor who has experience with this work and can show you before-and-after images of other tubs that he or she has refinished. Here are three instances in which you may wish to consider this type of project.
An average bathtub should last a very long time, provided that you take good care of it. If you have a tub that is relatively new but has become damaged, it can be a good idea to have it refinished instead of try to replace it. There are many reasons that a bathtub can get damaged, but a common one is due to scratches from pets. For example, if you wash your pet dog in the bathtub repeatedly, its nails could leave scratches in the bottom of the tub — especially if the animal is anxious during the bathing process and trying to claw its way out of the tub.
If you favor a rustic or shabby-chic design style in your home, you might frequently scour antique stores and other such vendors to look for items. In your shopping outings, you may come across an old tub that you feel would be a perfect addition to your home. But, if it's an antique, it may not be in the condition that you favor just yet. For example, if it's a cast iron tub, it could have areas of rust around its surface. You can get around this problem by having your remodeling contractor refinish the tub for you to bring it up to standard and give it the look you desire.
Sometimes, you may want to dramatically change the look of a bathroom, and you may find that your existing tub no longer suits your redesign. For example, if you're going from a cream-colored bathroom to a white one, a cream bathtub will not look right. Instead of going to the expense and hassle of replacing the bathtub, a simple solution is to have a contractor, such as from Albrecht & Son LLC, refinish it in the desired color.


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Social and Historical Conditions Influence Black Women's Fibroid Management Decisions
WASHINGTON, DC (June 10, 2021)—Black women are disproportionately affected by uterine fibroids, and a new study published in Women's Health Issues reveals some of the factors that influence their decisions about fibroid management. The authors found that Black women's decisions about fibroid surgery were influenced by social and historical conditions as well as by concerns about fertility and cancer and by interactions with clinicians and social networks.
Women's Health Issues is the official journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, which is based in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University.
Brianna VanNoy, first author of the study, completed her MPH and previously worked at Milken Institute SPH with Dr. Ami Zota, Associate Professor at Milken Institute SPH and senior author of the study. They analyzed interviews of 37 Black women who enrolled in a larger study about environmental exposures and uterine fibroids among women in the Washington, DC area. All of the interviewed women had decided to undergo either a myomectomy (surgical removal of fibroids while preserving the uterus) or hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), and they described their experiences of seeking treatment and deciding on those procedures.
Study participants expressed frustration at receiving less information about their diagnoses from their providers than they expected; some responded by finding other doctors or seeking treatment information from online sources or their social networks. Some wondered why their providers immediately recommended hysterectomy without suggesting less invasive options first, or questioned if providers' recommendations were different for Black patients. "These views may be rooted in the historical legacy (e.g., forced sterilizations) and contemporary reality (e.g., Black maternal mortality) of inequity against Black women, and may influence how Black women navigate health care settings," VanNoy and her co-authors explain.
Participants noted that fibroids are particularly common among Black women, and some had expected the diagnosis given their race or family history. When deciding how to manage their fibroids, participants appreciated advice and support from members of their social networks, though one woman reported encountering stigma: "like 'you're half a woman, what's wrong with you?'" The authors note that in addition to fertility concerns, which many participants expressed, a few feared that fibroids could become cancerous—despite the fact that fewer than one percent of fibroids are malignant.
"Because social networks and community norms may influence how women conceptualize fibroids and approach treatment, it is important that clinicians and institutions partner with communities to disseminate culturally relevant information on fibroids care and management," VanNoy and her colleagues recommend.
"As health care providers and their organizations work to address structural and interpersonal racism, it is essential that they hear from patients about their experiences," said Amita Vyas, Editor-in-Chief of Women's Health Issues and associate professor of prevention and community health at Milken Institute SPH. "We hope that providers who treat patients with fibroids will consider these findings and use them to improve the quality of the care they give."
"Black Women's Psychosocial Experiences with Seeking Surgical Treatment for Uterine Fibroids: Implications for Clinical Practice" has been published in the May/June issue of Women's Health Issues.


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Category talk:BBC
I added all of the languages used on the internet by the BBC world service, so now this page lists the name of the BBC in many languages. The BBC has world services in Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Spanish, Persian, French, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Burmese, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Kirundi/Kinyarwanda, Russian, Sinhalese, Somali, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, and Chinese. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:45, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Also BBC has a news site in Japanese WhisperToMe (talk) 05:52, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Discontinued BBC World Service languages include Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, German, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Thai WhisperToMe (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
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The new native functionality of Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker's commercial Containers-as-a-Service product, tackles deployment and management of an orchestrator for Docker containers increasingly dominating the market at its layer of the container stack.
Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes announced his company's embrace of Kubernetes in kicking off the DockerCon Europe conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Docker offers an alternative to Kubernetes in Docker Swarm and had previously done little to support Kubernetes. However, the San Francisco-based startup that reinvigorated application containers never saw the Swarm and Kubernetes orchestration technologies as competitive, Banjot Chanana, Docker's director of product management, told CRN.


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• Since operating system process are heavy weight process so they take lot of time for control jumping or context switching.
• Due to this when more requests are given CGI based web application more operating system processes will be created on one per request basis and performance of website will be degraded (That means web application becomes non scalable web application).
• If application is giving same performance irrespective of increase or decrease in number of clients / no. of requests is called as scalable application.
Operating System managed process P1 representing the web server startup t1,t2,t3,t4 core threads started on servlet program related object representing request given by clients.
• The control jumping between threads of a process takes very much less time when compare to control jumping between to separate processes, so we can say thread based server side technology gives better performance when compare to process based server side technologies.
• The web application that is developed based on thread based server side technologies is scalable application.
• servlet program is a single instance multiple threads based java component of java web application as shown above, that means if 100 request are give to single servlet program then the servlet container create only one object for that servlet program class but starts 100 threads on that object representing 100 request as shown above.


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SME Home About	Press Room Press Releases 2018	SME and Rapid News Publications Ltd Expand Partnership to Further Serve Industry
SME and Rapid News Publications Ltd Expand Partnership to Further Serve Industry
April 05, 2018 by SME Communications
(DEARBORN, Mich., and CHESTER, U.K.) – SME and owner of the TCT Group, Rapid News Publications Ltd, have today announced two new events under the RAPID + TCT banner. The new events — RAPID + TCT West and the RAPID + TCT Executive Strategy Summit — will leverage the two organizations' collective industry knowledge and global networks to drive even greater development and adoption of key design-to-manufacturing technologies across all industries.
RAPID + TCT West is an organic extension of the RAPID + TCT brand and addresses the growing need for true coast-to-coast coverage. RAPID + TCT West will take place on the West Coast annually, allowing the original RAPID+ TCT event to cater to the larger U.S. market. The first edition of RAPID + TCT West will take place in Santa Clara, California, Oct. 9-10, 2019.
The RAPID + TCT Executive Strategy Summit, taking place in Palm Desert, California, Oct. 17-18, 2018, will be the forum for executive leaders who want to learn more about the real-world challenges and impacts that the latest technologies can have on manufacturing today. The RAPID + TCT Summit will help guide investment decisions, provide insight into maximizing ROI and keep executives on the same page as their workforce.
Part of the RAPID + TCT mission is to remove barriers to information around cutting-edge, design-to-manufacturing technologies. These new event launches allow easier access to state-of-the-art knowledge for communities across the U.S., from the shop floor to the boardroom.
"As additive manufacturing technology continues to grow in capability and importance, it's our responsibility to reach manufacturers and share our knowledge and understanding of how to fully leverage this technology," said Debbie Holton, vice president of Events and Industry Strategy at SME. "We're proud to be bringing two new opportunities to the U.S. that influence unique audiences including decision makers and end-users. Our partners at TCT share our mission of building awareness and expertise in additive manufacturing, and we're excited about expanding our partnership and building on our teamwork."
Emerging technologies such as additive manufacturing (3D printing) and other 3D technologies are enabling manufacturers to reduce time to market, produce stronger and lighter parts, improve efficiency, reduce waste, cost and emissions, and create products and geometries that could not be created before. Increased awareness of the real benefits of using advanced manufacturing technologies will encourage more companies to adopt these technologies, which will ultimately improve their ability to compete on the global stage.
"This is a strategically important and exciting move for both of our organizations," said Duncan Wood, chief executive, Rapid News Publications Ltd. "Our relationship with SME is built on a shared vision, which is why it works so well. The combination of our two teams working on RAPID + TCT has delivered superb results, and we're delighted to be expanding our combined efforts into these two new events. Having heard so many engineers lament the lack of support and understanding for new technology adoption from executive leadership, we felt it was time to address these concerns, opening more opportunities for our clients, and of course helping our readers and visitors inside their organizations."
SME and TCT joined forces in 2016, combining nearly 30 years of insights and experience to develop the RAPID + TCT event. It is this successful partnership that has paved the way for two exciting new events.
Learn more at this year's RAPID + TCT taking place April 23-26 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Register to attend at rapid3devent.com.
SME connects manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, sharing knowledge and resources to build inspired, educated and prosperous manufacturers and enterprises. With more than 85 years of experience and expertise in events, media, membership, training and development, and also through an education foundation, SME is committed to promoting manufacturing technology, developing a skilled workforce and attracting future generations to advance manufacturing. Learn more at sme.org, follow @SME_MFG on Twitter or facebook.com/SMEmfg.
About Rapid News Publications Ltd & TCT
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Secret 'Ghost Army' Could Finally Receive The Recognition It Deserves
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Recognition for the Ghost Army is long over due.
May 29, 2021, saw the U.S. House of Representatives pass a bill that would honor veterans who served in a unit known as the "Ghost Army." Sponsored by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster and Republican Rep. Chris Stewart, the Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act is now set to go to a vote before the Senate.
Many may not be aware of the Ghost Army and its work to aid Allied efforts against Germany during the Second World War. This is something the House is aiming to change, as this unit was instrumental in many Allied victories during the course of the war.
Artists joined the fight
Those who served in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops weren't typical soldiers. They came from less conventional backgrounds and held careers in art, sound engineering, makeup artistry, photography, and architecture. They were sought for their creativity, and a total of 1,100 men joined the unit between 1944 and 1945.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Photo Credit: U.S. Navy photo / Wikimedia Commons)
The unit's origins aren't fully known. It's rumored the idea came from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., an actor and naval officer. Inspired by the special forces installations in England, he's said to have lobbied those in higher positions to create a unit whose sole purpose was deception. The request was granted and the Ghost Army was formed.
Visual deception was the name of the game
The goal of the Ghost Army was to trick enemy forces into believing Allied units were stationed where they weren't. Their illusions also aimed to make these forces appear larger and more powerful than they really were. Essentially, they were charged with creating the right atmosphere to make themselves appear omnipresent.
The visual effects were the charge of 603rd Camouflage Engineers. They utilized rubber tanks and dummy planes, and often blended these fake vehicles in amongst real ones. The aim was to intermix them, with the fake ones given purposefully poor camouflage, so vital equipment was less likely to be targeted.
Ghost Army Patch (Photo Credit: US Dept of Defense – Dept of the Army / Wikimedia Commons)
The visual deception also applied to the physical appearances of both equipment and soldiers. They would dress themselves up as other infantrymen — logos and all — and paint the insignia of other units onto their fake tanks and artillery.
Some even drove around in looping convoys, intended to give the impression an entire unit was being transported. In reality, there were only three individuals in the vehicle: a driver and two soldiers at the rear.
The ghost army used their acting skills to dupe spies
Along with staging fake battle scenes, the unit spent time staging interactions intended to confuse and intimidate Axis soldiers.
Inflatable tank in England, 1939 (Photo Credit: Roger Viollet / Getty Images)
Traveling between villages in France that were known to house spies and informants, they dressed themselves up as Allied generals and officers. They would then go about their daily activities, such as drinking in pubs and speaking with girls, where they would let "slip" false intel about battle plans and unit positions, under the guise of having loose lips and too much to drink.
Sonic deception
The Ghost Army was able to effectively stage their battle scenes with the help of the 3132 Signal Service Company. With the aid of engineers at Bell Labs, the unit traveled to Fort Knox to record military sounds and noises on wire recorders. This included sounds made by infantrymen, tanks and artillery units.
Inflatable tank modeled after the M4 Sherman during Operation Fortitude in Southern England, 1944 (Photo Credit: Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty Images)
The sounds were mixed in a theater in order to match whatever atmosphere was needed. They were altered to portray different weather events and distances. The soundtracks were then played on the battlefield through amplifiers and speakers mounted on half-track vehicles. The efforts were so effective that the recordings were heard from as far as 15 miles away.
Radio deception was also in their wheelhouse
The importance of radio to the spread of information was not missed by the Ghost Army. The 3132 Signal Service Company created "spoof radio," where actors impersonated radio operators from real units.
They also mimicked the idiosyncratic methods of morse code used by those operators who were departing. This helped them to create the illusion that Allied units were in areas they had actually already departed.
Axis Sally (Photo Credit: Federal Bureau of Prisons / Wikimedia Commons)
These efforts were so authentic-sounding that they fooled many, including radio broadcaster Axis Sally. She was an American living in Germany who was hired by Joseph Goebbels to amplify state propaganda to those in the U.S.
Her primary focus was the denunciation of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the British, and the Jews. The Ghost Army managed to trick her into believing a division of Allied troops was preparing for battle at a spot where no troops were actually stationed.
The end of the war
The unit returned to America upon the end of the war in Europe. While it was initially believed they'd be sent to aid the fight against Japan, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki soon put an end to that conflict.
At discharge, the unit had served four armies across five European countries, staged over 20 battlefield deceptions, and was present for five campaigns, including D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Rhine's Operation Plunder.
The Ghost Army is credited with saving approximately 15,000 to 30,000 American lives during WWII. Despite their heroic efforts, however, they were never formally honored by the government, due to the classified nature of their work. As such, they were unable to publicly speak of their exploits during the war.
The Pentagon denied the unit's existence until 1996, when all related documentation was declassified. Now, 25 years after that declassification, here's hoping this latest House bill gives these men the recognition they rightfully deserve.
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bluecat57 says:
Truth is stranger than fiction. Olde Wisdom from Thee Frugal Curmudgeon
Apparently, Dr. Seuss was part of the war effort as well, doing illustrations. On our side, you moron, he was NOT a racist. (that's meant to be funny and au courant.
It is amazing all the patriotic things that the people of all countries on both sides did to support their nation.
http://braceroarchive.org/about – When America really needed migrant workers. They came. They left.
Many American families went to live or work with relatives that had farms during the war years. Both my parents did that. I have only heard snippets of their adventures.
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Q: Qml: pass argument as part of URL when loading components from files Is there a mechanism to pass URL arguments in Qml and extract them later?:
StackView.push("Page.qml?#label2);

Regards,

A: You can "pass arguments" when creating an object from a component.
StackView.push(component.createObject(null, {"someProperty" : someValue}))

So you can use an auxilary component to facilitate that:
Component { id: component; url: "Page.qml" } // or
property Component component: Qt.createComponent("Page.qml") // or
Component { id: component; Page {} }

Or if you don't want to pollute with extra stuff, you can directly:
StackView.push(Qt.createComponent("Page.qml").createObject(null, {"someProperty" : someValue}))

Lastly, not a good idea to have your StackView named StackView, I mean in QML neither properties nor ids can begin with uppercase character.

A: No need to create an object manually. Just do this
stackView.push(Qt.resolvedUrl("qrc:/U/R/L/item.qml"), {someCustomProperty: 0})

A: This is NOT worked:
navigationBar.push(Qt.resolvedUrl('qrc:/Pages/BookListPage.qml'), {argument:'test'})

But this is worked (to create an object):
navigationBar.push(Qt.createComponent("qrc:/Pages/BookListPage.qml").createObject(null, {argument:'test'}))

A: Actually according to the QT docs ([http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-stackview.html][1]) the recommended way is to pass a property list containing at least the the following minimum entries to the push function ():

*

*item: this property is required, and holds the item to be pushed.

*properties: a list of QML properties to be assigned to the item upon push. These properties will be copied into the item at load
time, or when the item will become the current item (normally upon
push).

so we get
    navigationBar.push({item: Qt.resolvedUrl("MyRectangle.qml"), properties: {"color" : "red"}});

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BMW Group UK and Soper of Lincoln joined forces with Arena Group to review solutions for internal processes and communications to deliver improved productivity and efficiencies.
I'm saving one person per year simply to chase sales paperwork. We can be better, smarter and make the job more interesting.
Andrew Tullie
A collaborative approach
Soper of Lincoln were looking to eliminate as far as possible, the cost of producing, storing, archiving and destroying paper documents. They stepped up to be a pilot site for other potential BMW UK retailers.
All parties collaborated closely to understand requirements, ensure effective integration with manufacturer platforms and dealer management systems including CDK Drive, and explore where wider improvements could be made.
One such improvement was the agreement by BMW Group UK for digital signatures to be accepted for audit purposes. This enabled a significant step forward in the ability of retailers to transform ways of working, eliminate unnecessary paper, and introducing even more efficiencies.
Andrew Tullie, MD of Soper of Lincoln selected to work with Arena Group applying their mstore for automotive platform across key operations in the business.
Meeting key business objectives
"The big one for me is the amount of documents that we amass and feel that we need to store. It's an immense amount of dead paper," confirms Andrew. "The room it takes up and cost of on- and off-site storage is significant, and the productivity lost is immeasurable. Combine that with the GDPR and audit obligations, and all of a sudden we're very exposed."
Part of Andrew's motivation for change has been to transform the dealership's environmental footprint with a new water recycling scheme and solar energy system combining with the paperless approach.
Soper's throughput of cars for service previously generated around 125,000 sheets per year. Combined with hefty paper-based deal packs for car sales, an incredible 670 trees were previously used per year for paper. This will be reduced by an estimated 95% by converting to digital to get the same job done.
Digital Working Dealership-wide
The mstore platform has enabled transition to digital working right across the dealership with efficiencies introduced to sales, aftersales, HR, affinity and more.
Recent collaboration with the BMW Innovation project delivered a ground-breaking Workshop Control development inspired by Kanban agile working. The traditional wallboard is replaced by a digital T card system accessible on-screen anywhere by multiple users, keeping the whole aftersales team on track and focused on chargeable hours and customer service. Technicians no longer have to step away from their ramp to query workshop control, pick up paper print outs or chase parts.
"When you see mstore's digital workshop job board, you see the volume of WiPs that we're handling and it's mind blowing. You just wonder how you ever did it before," explains Andrew.
"For the technicians it's definitely a time saver. They absolutely love it. The amount of time that we can recoup by using the system through productivity and the amount of money that we can regenerate - it's invaluable to the business."
Jason Child
Soper BMW
Precipitating positive behavioural change
Andrew has been an advocate for streamlining retail operations and sees the real benefit in going beyond a scan and store to archive. "There's little mileage in scan and store, you plaster over the cracks. You need to change the process, and that's when it becomes exciting."
Digitising the sales process with mstore for automotive has precipitated a welcome change in behaviour at Soper that has delivered massive productivity improvements with a majority of paperwork filed correctly and time taken chasing largely eliminated.
"I'm saving one person per year to simply to chase sales paperwork," confirms Andrew. "It's changed the dynamic in the sales process to be more proactive and thorough than before. We can be better, smarter and make the job more interesting."
"The mstore system has changed our world; it's helped to move mountains and made our lives so much easier. This whole project has been an evolution in how we work at Soper."
Siobhan Hall, administration supervisor confirms; "We love it! It makes the job a lot easier. We can't fault it. Everything is instant now, we're not waiting for files to come upstairs. Everything is more transparent. We can see what action is required, click into it, write the narrative of what exactly is needed and it's actioned downstairs. Sales managers can see where things are. Accounts can see there are missing documents."
"Sales guys have really taken to it. If there's a query about a deal, the sales team can see everything. A sales manager can handover in the salesperson's absence."
Delivering an impressive ROI
Andrew opted to work with Arena Group. "I wanted to do it properly so I opted to work in partnership with a provider who understands document management. When you speak to Arena you realise what's possible. Someone turns the lights on, and that's when the cogs start whirling. They're intelligent people which fills me with confidence, so I have no doubt that it will deliver what it says on the tin."
A rapid return on the retailer's investment with the nett ROI over 7 years is expected to be over £300,000.
"There's huge efficiency savings which will be immeasurable," concludes Andrew. "The knock on in addition to efficiency savings will be solid GDPR compliance, more efficient audit processes including remote auditing, and dealer manufacturer health checks."
"I anticipate benefits in the longer term to reallocate resource and become better at something else. Storage costs go, offices become tidier, communications flow easier, and we're bringing our workplace into the 21st century."


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Methane is a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas that has caused about a third of global warming to date (IPCC AR6 2021). As global temperatures increase, several natural systems risk passing tipping points with global, societally destabilizing consequences (Armstrong McKay et al. 2022). Because of methane's potency and fast-acting warming effect, methane mitigation—encompassing both emissions reduction and removal—has a high potential impact to lower peak warming when paired with achieving net-zero, and then net-negative, CO2 emissions. While technical solutions exist for the majority of anthropogenic methane emissions, and these should be deployed rapidly, significant additional research and innovation is required to develop additional mitigation options, across emissions reduction, point-source methane removal, and atmospheric methane removal. Atmospheric methane removal methods, if developed, would play an important and unique role by being able to accelerate the removal of historical and rising natural emissions as well.
Methane has always been emitted from wetlands, termites, and other natural sources. However, anthropogenic emissions have more than doubled natural methane emissions, placing the earth's climate at risk (Saunois et al. 2020). Moreover, evidence is emerging that even "natural emissions" from wetlands are starting to increase as a result of human-caused warming.
Methane is relatively short-lived in the atmosphere, as atmospheric methane is converted ("oxidized") to CO2 and water over an average of a decade, primarily by natural chemical detergents in the air and by soil bacteria. The conversion of methane to CO₂ has a beneficial climate impact, as a methane molecule is 43x stronger at warming the Earth than a molecule of CO₂ (IPCC AR6 WG1 Chap 7 Table 7.15). Historically, annual methane emissions roughly balanced natural methane destruction and atmospheric methane levels remained stable. Today, elevated methane emissions as a result of human activities are causing methane to be added to the atmosphere faster than natural destruction of methane can remove it (Jackson et al. 2020). So far, methane levels in the atmosphere have more than doubled since pre-industrial times, and are now rising at record rates (NOAA Press Release 2022).
Restoring methane to preindustrial levels would decrease warming by around 0.5°C compared to today (Abernethy and Jackson 2021); methane mitigation is thereby essential to minimize temperature overshoot, but safe temperatures can only be achieved if CO₂ and other greenhouse gas emissions also hit net-zero, and our carbon budget is not exceeded. Methane and other short-lived climate pollutants play a different role in warming than CO2 and other long-lived climate pollutants, and should not be treated interchangeably in any policy context (Allen et al. 2022). Because methane warms so powerfully for the decade it is in the atmosphere, it has a particularly strong influence on near-term warming. In contrast, CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, cumulatively driving long-term warming. To stop the upward march of CO₂-driven warming, and the resulting crossing of tipping points, CO2 emissions must be reduced and eventually CO2 levels stabilized to safe levels via atmospheric removal (called carbon dioxide removal, or CDR). Significant atmospheric methane reduction (through methane emissions reductions and possibly atmospheric removal) alongside fast restoration of safer CO2 levels through both CO₂ emissions reduction and carbon dioxide removal—jointly achieving net-negative emissions—and similar treatment of other greenhouse gasses would limit peak temperatures, is an important part of every low-1.5°C-overshoot-consistent scenario, and would minimize the length of time above 1.5°C warming (Dreyfus et al. 2022). All of these benefits would decrease the risk of natural feedbacks and tipping points that accelerate warming before atmospheric CO2 can be restored to safe levels¹ (Armstrong McKay et al. 2022). If methane-emitting natural sources accelerate (as they are predicted to), large-scale atmospheric methane removal, if developed, could help reduce the negative impacts and slow or prevent feedback loops.
To realize the potential of methane mitigation to shave peak warming substantially, in addition to deploying known approaches to methane emissions reduction, the world needs to develop new approaches to both reduce methane emissions and remove legacy methane from the atmosphere, fast.
Humans now cause around 60% of annual methane emissions, primarily from livestock belches, extraction and distribution of all fossil fuels, manure management, rice growing, landfills, and wastewater treatment (IEA Methane Tracker, 2021). While viable methods for reducing methane emissions from most of these sources are known today, only an estimated 57% of projected 2030 human-caused methane emissions can be eliminated with current technical solutions, even if cost wasn't a factor (Ocko et al 2021). In addition, current proposals to prevent or remove natural methane emissions, which have increased as warming has progressed, are speculative and untested.
It is therefore critical that there be support for research into new methods to avoid methane emissions (including methane emission destruction or utilization) as well as methods for atmospheric methane removal (Jackson et al. 2021, Ming et al. 2022). Methods for methane emission destruction (or utilization) that could operate at low-concentrations and atmospheric methane removal are particularly early-stage and underfunded. While high-concentration concentrated sources of methane can be partially² destroyed by flaring, a majority of remaining sources emit methane at concentrations below the levels that can be combusted. Methods are being researched that might apply to point sources with medium methane concentrations (e.g., a coal mine ventilation shaft), area sources with low methane concentrations (e.g., the area above a rice paddy), or the open atmosphere where methane concentrations are very low, currently around 2 ppm. Proposals usually involve catalysts, oxidizing radicals, or methane-consuming organisms, which may be in controlled environments, on building surfaces, or in soil, water, or air.
Some of these proposed methods, if proven and scaled, could be game-changers in terms of peak warming – potentially reducing peak temperature by multiple tenths of a degree Celsius (Abernethy and Jackson 2021). But these methods are underexplored, with copious unanswered scientific questions. Concerted funding and validation for methane removal approaches are needed to provide the world a set of tools that could, if deployed in parallel and in addition to rapid CO2 cuts, minimize 1.5°C overshoot.
¹ Abrupt thaw of permafrost, which may occur between 1.0 and 2.3°C of warming, may result in an increase of 0.2°C over 100-300 years, while collapse of the permafrost, which may occur at between 3 and 6°C global average warming or ~9°C regional average warming, may result in an increase of 0.3-0.4°C additional warming over 25 to 100 years (Armstrong McKay et al. 2022).
² Unfortunately, recent studies have found that many combustion sources still emit significant quantities of uncombusted methane. Flaring technology must also be improved.
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For many people, it is the most congenial car of a new era: The Beetle! The successor to an automotive icon. Its world premiere took place in April 2011 in New York, and it was launched on the market in October. Since then, the sportiest Beetle ever has been ready to perform – with up to 147 kW / 200 PS in power. And because all Beetle versions are tuned for agility, versions with less horsepower (from 125 kW / 170 PS in America, from 77 kW / 105 PS in Europe) are still simply fun to drive – mile for mile, kilometre for kilometre. Now, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Volkswagen is showing that this sportiness can also be transferred to a Beetle with pure electric drive. The E-Bugster was specially designed for this mission: a two-seat Beetle speedster, 85 kW in power, 0 to 60 mph in 10.9 seconds, with zero emissions yet the sharpest of proportions.
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The central electric module of the E-Bugster has an innovative design; it weighs just 80 kg. The energy for powering the electric motor is stored in a lithium-ion battery whose modules are housed in a space-saving location behind the front seats. The battery's energy capacity of 28.3 kWh enables a range of at least 110 miles (180 km) in the urban world. And even in an enormous country like the USA, for the majority of commuters this distance is sufficient to drive to their workplaces and return home. Since the Volkswagen has a quick charging function, the battery can be 'refueled' within 35 minutes at suitable charging stations. At home, the battery of the E-Bugster can also be charged from the 120-Volt outlets that are usual in America (or from 230-Volt outlets in Europe). The interface for the charge cable is located below the normal 'fuel door' position near the C-pillar.
Thanks to a new Combined Charging Systems – which was developed in cooperation with German carmakers Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen as well as American partners Ford and General Motors / Opel – the E-Bugster can be 'filled up' via an interface using any of the available charging modalities. Possible are:
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