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Exploring the Sun
June 1st, 2009	| by Jennifer Crites | Published in Features, May 2009, Multimedia | 1 Comment
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles called Working Conditions, about the unusual environments in which some University of Hawaiʻi faculty conduct their scholarly work.
A 2006 expedition takes eclipse watchers to Libya's WawAnNamous, or Valley of the Mosquitos
The clock ticks quickly for the Institute for Astronomy's Shadia Habbal. In all of 2008 she had just one minute and forty-nine seconds to complete her field experiments.
That's because Habbal, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomer, conducts her research during the brief span of a total solar eclipse.
She and her team travel to remote parts of the planet to study the sun's corona—its outer atmosphere, which is only visible on Earth when the moon blocks 100 percent of the sun's light. For reasons scientists have not yet discovered, the corona is much hotter than the sun's disk, reaching temperatures of a million-plus degrees.
The intense heat strips elements of their electrons, ionizing them. These ionized elements fly off into space on the solar wind, a phenomenon that affects astronauts, space stations and shuttles, communication satellites and even the earth's magnetic field.
"Our magnetic field is like an umbrella," Habbal explains. "It protects us but can get pushed around by a gust of wind, exposing us to rain, or in this case, to energetic particles in the solar wind that zap instrumentation and disrupt communications."
Total solar eclipses occur every year and a half. Each creates a shadow band barely a few hundred kilometers wide across Earth's surface. To see the corona, viewers must be within this band.
In 2008 that requirement took Habbal, her team and their 800 pounds of specialized cameras, telescopes and other equipment to China's Gobi Desert. The sensitive equipment was set up in a tent with a portable AC unit and a large window flap that could be opened for viewing.
"We pitched our sleeping tents on the sand," says Habbal, "but the cooks pitched their tent on two aluminum bed frames raised above the sand—because they knew there were scorpions."
Working in diverse locations, Habbal has learned to expect surprises.
In China, a taxi collided with her bus, the team was left without food for 24 hours, and driving rain threatened to sink the scientific undertaking. "The clouds parted just minutes before the eclipse," she says, relieved, "and conditions were perfect during totality."
Not so in Mongolia. A snowstorm obliterated any chance of seeing the eclipse. In India, however, the 42-second event was spectacular, says Habbal, "with streamers seemingly shooting out to infinity."
Habbal flirted with danger in South Africa when three rhinos charged her walking party. "They were like small mountains. I thought that was the end of us," she exclaims. She's grateful for the animals' excellent hearing—just five yards from the group, the rhinos stopped and turned around when the guide tapped on the wooden handle of his rifle.
On the way to the Zambia, Africa, site in 2001, at the end of the rainy season, Habbal's party drove for eight hours through Kafue National Park on a road filled with deep, muddy potholes. When they reached a checkpoint and opened a window for the guard, a swarm of tsetse flies flew into the jeep.
"It was awful," says Habbal. "They just stick to you. We had to keep swatting them for miles."
The eclipse site was on the banks of a river filled with hippos, so guides constructed showers using inverted buckets filled with river water.
"There weren't enough tarps, so our pit toilets were open on the side facing the savannah. We called it the toilet with a view," Habbal says, laughing. "We never went there at night because we didn't know what would be lurking," she adds.
During the Syria 1999 eclipse at ʻAyn Dīwār, a village at the border with Turkey and Iraq, the temperature reached 120°F on the concrete roof of a government building where Habbal's team had set up their tents and equipment.
"We couldn't take a shower during the day because the water was literally boiling," she says.
In her study of the sun's elements, Habbal has investigated several spectral lines of iron.
One is FeXI. "It's existence has been known for some time," she explains, "but nobody had observed and photographed it because it's near the end of the visible spectrum—borderline infrared—and the technology wasn't available."
Habbal made the first recorded image of FeXI during the 2006 eclipse working from a tent in Libya's Sahara Desert.
A year earlier, she had scouted the area off-road with a Tuareg guide. "The first night it was bitter cold," she recalls. "We camped at a beautiful oasis where the palm trees were buried all the way to just below their heads, and the sand was finer than on any beach."
The next day they passed a changing landscape of dunes, rocky outcrops, and an extinct volcano surrounded by a salt lake, high grass and black sand known as Valley of the Mosquitoes.
When they arrived at a flat, featureless area, the guide said, "This is where you want to be." Habbal's GPS coordinates confirmed that they were at the exact spot she had requested, and her guide had not used GPS.
"We were in the middle of nowhere. I don't know how he found it or the oasis at night with only the jeep's headlights," she says in amazement, "but his people were once nomads, and he told me that it's enough for them to go to a place once and they never forget how to get there."
At eclipse time, Habbal's team was transported from Tripoli to the site in Libyan Air Force C-130 planes and helicopters. "Everything we asked for, they delivered," she says. That included generators, liquid nitrogen, internet and phone lines, water for showers and even an unrequested flock of sheep.
Habbal's eclipse observations have answered many questions but more remain.
She knows from FeXI and other irons that heavy elements are temporarily trapped in certain regions of the sun's magnetic field and have trouble escaping with the solar wind.
"They're not getting enough energy to push them away from the sun," she says, "so the question is, what's holding them back?"
Habbal is determined to look for answers no matter where the quest takes her. Each finding, she says, will provide another clue to our understanding of the sun and the solar wind.
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Habbal and her team watched the 2009 eclipse from the Enewetak Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, where temperatures climbed over 100 degrees during the day. They will give a presentation on the expedition at 12:30 p.m. July 29 in the Institute for Astronomy auditorium in Mānoa.
While still in the field, Habbal reported that everyone is happy with the experiments, and though there were a few clouds, most of totality was fully visible from their location. (In much of China, where many people went to watch the eclipse, the view was obscured clouds, drizzle, rain and smog.)
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory donated space for the team at its whole-body radiation counting facility, constructed as part of the cleanup of the Marshall Islands. While there, some of the team took a boat to Runit island to view the large concrete cap placed over the soil and waste cleaned up from the islands.
Food and water were brought in to minimize exposure to bio-accumulated radionuclides in local produce and water.
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Q: elasticsearch, get frequency and number of element I have an index with this kind of document:
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*how many times each class is taken (I know all the possible classes)

I've seen that metric aggregations are possible, and that what I want to do is possible. But I am a newbie with es and I did not succeed to make things up with this.
May anyone help ?

A: I would suggest indexing the data differently.  Have 1 document that represents the student taking a single class.  Something like:
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  studentID: 123,
  studentName: "foo bar",
  classID: 111,
  classType: "physics"
}

This will allow you to much more easily do the aggregations you're looking to do.

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I add 1/2 cup of crushed ice because I like the texture it gives to the blended smoothie. In summertime, I may use more than I'd use in the winter.
Now add 1/2 cup of Power Up. The amount of Power Up should match your metabolism and how active you are. I'm quite active, typically 50-60 minutes of endurance activity a day, so I use 1/2 cup. When I'm trying to lose a couple of pounds, I cut back to 1/3 cup. Marsha has 1/3 cup in her meal replacement smoothie.
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By Paul Beasley
When it comes to duck hunting, we're more accustomed to hunting puddle ducks like mallards and wood ducks in fields and marshes. We all grew up hunting them in Ontario, in fact, and had a great time doing so.
When it comes to diver and sea duck hunting, we've only had the opportunity to hunt them a few times. But one thing we can tell you is hunting these fast flying ducks during the late season, when they are most abundant, is possibly the most fun a waterfowl hunter can have.
This year, we had the opportunity to hunt with Feed the Adrenaline Outfitters in South Eastern Ontario. They hunt a very large area of Ontario and spend a lot of time scouting to find the best places to go hunting. Since ducks are migratory animals, scouting is crucial when it comes to having a good duck hunt.
Our first hunt with Feed the Adrenaline Outfitters happened in early November. We were lucky to be joined by friend and NHL Analyst Brian Burke on this hunt.
After driving through a pretty heavy snowstorm, we arrived at Rideau Breeze Marina & Cottages, where we met up with the Feed the Adrenaline Outfitters crew and would be spending the night ahead of our hunt the next day. We enjoyed a great meal before prepping our gear and getting some rest.
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Before we knew, it the sun was rising and the ducks were starting to fly. We loaded our guns, and Dan and John from Feed the Adrenaline Outfitters got on the calls.
It was a cold morning with the wind chill almost hitting -20°, but the island was protecting us from the harshest wind. Strong winds are important for most waterfowl hunting, but especially for diver ducks. So even though it was cold, we were eager and happy to be out hunting.
We soon had our first flock of ducks quickly fly by us on our left and make a hard bank once they spotted our decoys. Then they put the landing gear down and came right in like they were reading the script. We jumped up at Dan's call to take them, and we dropped a few very pretty common goldeneyes.
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This time Paul joined us, and we made the one and half hour drive up to Picton. For this hunt we would be hunting on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. We arrived at Merland Park Resort and got settled into our cozy cabin for the night.
The next morning, we drove to the meeting location and met up with Dan and John from Feed the Adrenaline Outfitters. After a bit of walk, we arrived at our hunting location, this time on a large rocky point that jetted out into the big body of water. The blind was setup and ready for us before we even arrived, so we were able to help Dan and John with setting out the lines of decoys. Once set and legal light arrived, we unpacked our guns and got them loaded.
As the sun broke the horizon, it revealed all the ice-covered trees that surrounded the point. The winds were fairly strong, and we could see lots of ducks flying and rafting up in the distance, which got us excited.
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HomeLaw and orderMalawi President Mutharika must stop intimidating the judiciary
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By Patseni Mauka
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In what appears to be a desperate attempt to widen his dictatorship from the executive branch of government to the judiciary, President Peter Mutharika has warned Malawi judges 'to be fair'.
At the swearing in ceremony of three new High Court judges at Sanjika Palace, President Peter Mutharika warned the judiciary not to interfere with the responsibilities of other arms of government; executive and legislature.
According to media reports, Mutharika said, "as the Head of State I respect the independence of the judiciary but let me be clear that all over the world, the independence of the judiciary does not mean that the judiciary is government in itself."
He further said, "parliament should do its work of making laws, the judiciary should interpret them while I implement them. The judiciary should be making its judgments without interfering with the other arms of government."
The warning to the judiciary is the latest evidence that Mutharika is feeling restrained from becoming a full uncontrolled dictator.
His warning is coming after a series of court loses in recent significant cases.
The most significant loss was when on 3rd February, 2020, the Constitutional Court nullified the May 21, 2019 presidential elections on the basis of what it described as widespread, systematic and grave irregularities.
Mutharika was the beneficiary of the nullified election. The nullification made him just a temporary president as the country waits for the court ordered fresh election to be held within 150 days from the judgement day.
The second loss was when the Constitutional Court threw out Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and Mutharika's application for a stay order of the enforcement of the judgement the court delivered on February 3, 2020.
This loss was soon followed by another loss at the Supreme Court of Appeal when MEC's appeal to be granted a stay order against the judgment that nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election was dismissed.
These losses were so painful to Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) followers to the extent that they organized what they stupidly called 'marches for justice' where they ferried hundreds of people from the southern region villages, dressed them in DPP regalia and paraded them in the cities.
In the marches, DPP called the judges ' corrupt' among other insults. To cement what his followers said in the wrongly called marches for justice, Mutharika last week challenged the judiciary "to be impartial and accountable in its work."
He also said "Malawians expect expeditious and impartial judgment. Malawians expect judiciary of high and unquestionable integrity. Judgment means acting fairly without fear or favour."
This is incredible coming from a leader of a party whose known member was caught red handed trying to bribe the Constitutional Court judges to get a favorable judgement.
Businessman Thomson Mpinganjira was arrested on allegations that he attempted to bribe judges hearing the presidential election case at the Constitutional Court.
He is waiting for commencement of his case. Having failed to bribe the judges and after losing the election case, it's hypocrisy of the highest order for Mutharika to act holy and intimidate the judges.
If at all Mutharika is interested in fairness, he should start with the branch of government that he leads.
He should start with instructing the police to deal with his DPP cadet thugs who always wreak havoc and get away with it.
Yet opposition members are arrested at the slightest hint of breaking the law or not breaking the law at all.
Only then will all Malawians respect his call for fairness. But we know Mutharika is not interested in fairness.
His call for fairness is a call for the judiciary to act according to his wishes, just like most of the government departments that are controlled by the executive.
Mutharika is just trying to do everything to remain in power. At police, capital hill and MEC, he has succeeded in putting puppets that disregard Malawi laws to maintain his grip on power.
However, he has failed to do so at Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and the Judiciary.
These are the two sectors that have protected Malawi's democracy so far. We are yet to see the effect of the changes he has made at MDF.
I doubt he is going to succeed because MDF is a solid and highly disciplined institution that can not just change behaviour because of a few changes in it's leadership. As for the judiciary, Mutharika should just forget about it.
This is the last institution that would endorse his dictatorship. Others have tried before and failed.
The insults that his party has poured on the judiciary have just made it worse.
Reading recent judgments, it is clear that the judiciary does not want to be part and parcel of raping our sacred laws.
Mutharika conveniently issued the warning to the judiciary with a focus on the presidential elections appeal case which starts on April 15th, just a week after his attempt to intimidate the judges.
Mutharika and his legal team are expecting another loss at the Supreme Court.
The temporary president's verbal diarrhoea directed at the judiciary is a desperate attempt to look all powerful.
The truth is that under the Malawi constitution, he is not the almighty. Mutharika is an expired law professor who thinks he can teach the judiciary how to do it's job.
But being a retired law professor leading a pack of wolves (proudly calling themselves witches) is totally different from being current judges of the Malawi courts.
The judges are familiar with their job, read Malawi laws everyday and are not afraid to make rulings according to the law and available evidence. Mutharika and DPP are fighting a losing war.
The sooner they realize this, the better for the political situation in the country.
The temporary president should stop intimidating the judiciary in any way.
Malawi will never go back to dictatorship.
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A  is a Japanese tool thought to be originally derived from the masonry trowel. The two widely recognized variations of the kunai are short kunai (小苦無 shō-kunai) and the big kunai (大苦無 dai-kunai). Although a basic tool, in the hands of a martial arts expert, the kunai could be used as a multi-functional weapon. The kunai is commonly associated with the ninja, who used it to gouge holes in walls.

Design
A Kunai normally had a leaf-shaped wrought blade in lengths ranging from 20 cm to 30 cm and a handle with a ring on the pommel for attaching a rope. The attached rope allowed the kunai'''s handle to be wrapped to function as a grip, or to be strapped to a stick as a makeshift spear; to be tied to the body for concealment; to be used as an anchor or piton, and sometimes to be used as the Chinese rope dart. Contrary to popular belief, kunai were not designed to be used primarily as throwing weapons. Instead, kunai were primarily tools and, when used as weapons, were stabbing and thrusting implements.

Varieties of kunai include short, long, narrow-bladed, saw-toothed, and wide-bladed. In some cases, the kunai and the Nishikori, a wide-bladed saw with a dagger-type handle, are difficult to distinguish.

Uses
The kunai was originally used by peasants as a multi-purpose gardening tool and by workers of stone and masonry. The blade is made of soft iron and is left unsharpened because the edges are used to smash relatively soft materials such as plaster and wood, for digging holes, and for prying. Normally, only the tip is sharpened.

 Weapon
Many ninja weapons were adapted from farming tools, not unlike those used by Shaolin monks in China. Since kunai were cheaply produced farming tools of proper size and weight and could be easily sharpened, they were readily available to be converted into simple weapons.  As a weapon, the kunai is larger and heavier than a shuriken and with the grip could also be used in hand-to-hand combat more readily than a shuriken.

As with ninjutsu, the exaggeration persistent in ninja myths played a large role in creating the popular culture image of kunai. In fictional depictions of ninjas, the kunai is commonly portrayed as a steel knife that is used for stabbing or particularly throwing, sometimes confusing it with the shuriken.

Masonry
The kunai'' was used in masonry to shape stonework.

See also
 Dart (missile)
 Entrenching tool
 Flechette
 Hori hori
 Shuriken
 Tantō
 Tent peg
 Throwing knife
 Trowel

References

Sources

Further reading

Gardening tools
Japanese martial arts terminology
Ninjutsu artefacts
Mechanical hand tools
Throwing weapons
Weapons of Japan

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Was that picture really the Amazon or just a tributary? If the former, it had to be close to the source, right?
According to the story its on the Amazon itself near the town of Santarem, so it seems its not a tributary nor near the source.
The river is miles wide though, so I guess it could still be flowing happily a mile or so wide while there are hundreds of meters of stuff like the photo to each side.
Thanks, that makes some sense. Up here in North America, we call those river fingers that tend to separate out "ox-bow" lakes.


The Vault | Hero's Path | Character Creation | Some other ideas | Gibberlings 3| NWN Podcast | Transition to Hordes… | Community Expansion Pack | Persistent Worlds.
Bioware seeded a community site, http://nwvault.ign.com/. This has a login and profile, and a portfolio, which allows you to bookmark various resources, including portraits, hakpaks and modules. It is the site for all module publication.
and its predecessor, Shadow Lords, and this is a link to Part 1.
I found a multiplayer game, called Baba Yaga's Hut. Maybe one day.
I put both Aribeth's Revival and Redemption on the system.
In September 2011, I started, The Book of the Loremasters – Chapter I: Dark Age.
The Vault has a nearly made it page, called the Overlooked Module list.
The Last Inn, by CoolLew. Written for children. See also The Last Inn on this site. Bugged!
I also tried Dweller in the Darkness which is well written about, but bugged as far as I can tell, the Witch in the Wood wouldn't speak to me.
When I transferred this article from the Snipsnap bliki to here, it became clear that the Hero's path's home had been lost after the Bioware Forums' hack. I found Berliad's Blog, which pointed at the old Bioware forums, and started to look for a new location for the list, I found it, several years later; the new vault has recovered the thread, the Hero's Path.
In order to play Journey of a 1000 miles, I needed a 12th level character and so found the Pretty Good Character Creator / Customizer (PGC3) powered by IGIPE and Boutique du Temps. used +PGCC to create a character for "Journey…", I'll let you know how awesome, the generated character is when I am done. I have also tried Boutique du Temps, which is very expensive! I also found The Lion's Head Tavern, which has an Inn and a shop, where you can buy pretty much what you want, Armour, Weapons, Magic and more ordinary stuff. This pretty much allows you to create and equip a character for any adventure/module. (It may well be the basis of re-awakening my interest in the game).
There is a thread at g3.net called What are some of your favorite NWN modules?. It includes recommendations for the following.
Hex Coders, by Stefan Gagne, …modern civilization is one of prosperity and safety, with all magic legally controlled by a monolithic business called the Cathedral Corporation. As part of the underground magic movement known as the Hex Coders….
Sanctum of the Arch Mage. This is their site, it has a Vault page also.
HotU is meant to be played using your character from SoU, despite meeting the NPC's from Neverwinter Nights. These two adventures are meant to help you obtain the additional levels between the end of SoU and the beginning of HoU. Shadohaunt which may even give you a narrative; the module is jolly well reviewed on the 'vault'.
Shadohaunt, which I have commented on here….
A bunch of enhancements on which several/many modules are based. There are two versions.
Version 2, CEP Version 2, the nwnvault page.
Version 1, this is the CEPv1 for NWN 1.68.
This one's called Ansalon – The World of Krynn and is set in the Dra|gonlance world.
This one's called the Higher Ground.


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Q: How to group rows of consecutive dates sql server I have a sql table that contains data as follows:
CREATE TABLE #mytable(
   Resource    VARCHAR(14) NOT NULL
  ,PB          VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL
  ,Quantity    NUMERIC(14,2) NOT NULL
  ,Start_Date  VARCHAR(11) NOT NULL
  ,Finish_Date VARCHAR(11) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',16011.172,'2-Jan-2021','2-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',102794.7967,'2-Jan-2021','4-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',1720.878774,'2-Jan-2021','2-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',13558.22633,'2-Jan-2021','2-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',7764.452475,'2-Jan-2021','3-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',36510.98833,'3-Jan-2021','4-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',24459.19598,'4-Jan-2021','4-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',21713.47076,'4-Jan-2021','4-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',13547.40874,'4-Jan-2021','4-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',27231.77234,'4-Jan-2021','5-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',104022.7492,'4-Jan-2021','6-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',6449.903233,'5-Jan-2021','5-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',10220.21966,'5-Jan-2021','5-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',2694.762301,'5-Jan-2021','5-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',126261.2533,'5-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',36918.74602,'6-Jan-2021','7-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',113440.8759,'7-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',2922.42253,'9-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',3350.48394,'9-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',7349.647811,'9-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
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INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',11175.69388,'9-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',1934.254711,'9-Jan-2021','9-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',53541.27895,'9-Jan-2021','11-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',3367.272434,'10-Jan-2021','10-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',3716.841168,'10-Jan-2021','11-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',404.8054109,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',27308.51547,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',245.6034221,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',415.0741536,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
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INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',1283.883699,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',241.7214407,'12-Jan-2021','12-Jan-2021');
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INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',1066.020068,'25-Jan-2021','25-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#2','pb12',11919.38042,'25-Jan-2021','25-Jan-2021');
INSERT INTO #mytable(Resource,PB,Quantity,Start_Date,Finish_Date) VALUES ('Equip#1','pb12',16511.07877,'25-Jan-2021','25-Jan-2021');

I would like to group the Quantity by consecutive Start and Finish dates belonging to the same Resource and PB. that is if StartDate <= Previous FinshDate or StartDate = Previous FinshDate+1, then the records should be grouped. However, if StartDate > Previous FinshDate+1, then it should constitute a new record.
for example
    and Start_date2 = 6-Jan-2021 and finish_date1 = 7-Jan-2021```
These two records should group together and output a single row with
 ```Start_date = 2-Jan-2021 and finish_date = 7-Jan-2021```

Similar
  if Start_date1 = 2-Jan-2021 and finish_date1 = 5-Jan-2021
    and Start_date2 = 4-Jan-2021 and finish_date1 = 7-Jan-2021

However
     if Start_date1 = 2-Jan-2021 and finish_date1 = 5-Jan-2021
    and Start_date2 = 7-Jan-2021 and finish_date1 = 9-Jan-2021
These two records should group together and output a different rows because the StartDate2 isnt contained in the period of the first row.

I have tried a few examples on SO, but the closes I get is the below code

 ;WITH t AS (
  SELECT  Start_Date d,MAX(Finish_Date) as EndDate ,SUM(Quantity) as qty , PB, Resource,
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Start_Date,PB,Resource) i
  FROM #mytable

  GROUP BY Start_Date,PB,Resource--,StartDate
)
SELECT  Resource AS Equipment, PB,SUM(qty) as Quantity,  MIN(d) as Start_Date,MAX(EndDate) as Finish_Date
FROM t
GROUP BY PB,Resource,DATEDIFF(day,i,d)
order by Equipment;

With the above code, my SQL results in the below result set :

Equipment   PB  Quantity    Start_Date  Finish_Date
Equip#1 pb12    150359.63   6-Jan-2021  9-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    208680.58   4-Jan-2021  9-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    102794.80   2-Jan-2021  4-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    115992.47   23-Jan-2021 25-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    66586.40    22-Jan-2021 23-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    126176.94   18-Jan-2021 21-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    198756.61   14-Jan-2021 18-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    80570.33    13-Jan-2021 14-Jan-2021
Equip#1 pb12    56331.12    12-Jan-2021 13-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    250749.75   4-Jan-2021  9-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    36510.99    3-Jan-2021  4-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    39054.73    2-Jan-2021  3-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    12688.94    25-Jan-2021 25-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    142076.41   20-Jan-2021 25-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    82193.66    18-Jan-2021 20-Jan-2021
Equip#2 pb12    57351.74    16-Jan-2021 18-Jan-2021
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Can anyone assist.  http://sqlfiddle.com/#!18/5b261/1/0

A: As per your requirement, first, need to select the result with Previous_FinshDate in the same row, and based on your condition set flag and group by.
Please find the following 2 queries for the detail list and group by sum for the final result.
-- Details query---
select * from (
select *,

case when (convert(date,Start_Date) <=convert(date,Previous_FinshDate)
        or convert(date,Start_Date) = dateadd(dd,1, convert(date,Previous_FinshDate))) then 1 else 0 end as flag,
case when convert(date,Start_Date) > dateadd(dd,1, convert(date,Previous_FinshDate)) then 1 else 0 end as flag1

         from (
select Resource,PB,Quantity,convert(date,Start_Date) as Start_Date,convert(date,Finish_Date) as Finish_Date,
      LAG(convert(date, Finish_Date), 1,convert(date,Finish_Date)) OVER(
       ORDER BY Resource,convert(date, Start_Date) ASC) AS [Previous_FinshDate] from (
select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Resource,convert(date, Start_Date)) row_num,*
from temp1
) g
) k
) g

And check final result.
-- After sum and group by

select Resource AS Equipment, PB,SUM(Quantity) as Quantity,  MIN(Start_Date) as Start_Date,MAX(Finish_Date) as Finish_Date,flag from (
select *,

case when (convert(date,Start_Date) <=convert(date,Previous_FinshDate)
        or convert(date,Start_Date) = dateadd(dd,1, convert(date,Previous_FinshDate))) then 1 else 0 end as flag,
case when convert(date,Start_Date) > dateadd(dd,1, convert(date,Previous_FinshDate)) then 1 else 0 end as flag1

         from (
select Resource,PB,Quantity,convert(date,Start_Date) as Start_Date,convert(date,Finish_Date) as Finish_Date,
      LAG(convert(date, Finish_Date), 1,convert(date,Finish_Date)) OVER(
       ORDER BY Resource,convert(date, Start_Date) ASC) AS [Previous_FinshDate] from (
select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Resource,convert(date, Start_Date)) row_num,*
from temp1
) g
) k
) g
group by g.Resource,g.PB,g.flag


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You might find a career in public administration rewarding if you enjoy working as a team with others to reach a common goal, problem solving, and interacting with the public. A Master of Public Administration or Bachelor of Arts of Public Administration degree will help prepare you for an exciting and rewarding career in public administration.
What's the Bottom Line?
For any career in public service, you will need a solid education and a firm commitment to service. By choosing a career path that fits your own unique abilities and aspirations, you will be building a foundation for a rewarding career in public service.
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Author : Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
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— Leopardstown RC (@LeopardstownRC) February 5, 2022
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🥊 Run Wild Fred vs Stattler
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Stattler impresses in the Ukraine Appeal National Hunt Chase to run out a ready winner for Patrick & @WillieMullinsNH @CheltenhamRaces #TheFestival pic.twitter.com/CUHIXZlK90
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) March 15, 2022
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And all of this was caused by a software bug in an Ohio power plant. It wasn't even a cyberattack.
Cyberattacks on industrial control systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are no laughing matter. They're some of the most dangerous attacks imaginable. According to current Dragos research, the Xenotime cyberwarfare group is ready and willing to attack the U.S. power grid. At this point, it's more a matter of 'when' rather than 'if' such an attack happens.
Along those lines, let's talk about Stuxnet. Stuxnet was a very specifically designed worm that targeted programmable logic controller (PLC) specific vulnerabilities. The malware targeted power facilities in Iran, and its code was so obscure that it stumped many malware reverse engineering experts for quite some time.
From David Kushner at IEEE Spectrum:
"Recognition of such threats exploded in June 2010 with the discovery of Stuxnet, a 500-kilobyte computer worm that infected the software of at least 14 industrial sites in Iran, including a uranium-enrichment plant. Although a computer virus relies on an unwitting victim to install it, a worm spreads on its own, often over a computer network. The worm's authors could spy on the industrial systems and even cause the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart, unbeknownst to the human operators at the plant."
Once Stuxnet hit, the cybersecurity field finally started to take cyberwarfare and industrial cyberattacks more seriously.
Xenotime – the Next Stuxnet-Like Threat?
Dragos has been researching the Xenotime cyberwarfare group since 2017, and have surmised that they currently pose a Stuxnet-like threat to America's power grid. In theory, they could even take down the electricity supply across the whole of the United States.
Xenotime first came to the researchers' attention through their Saudi Arabian oil and gas facility ICS cyberattack with Trisis malware. From there, Xenotime's attacks spread to oil and gas facilities elsewhere in the Middle East.
When cyberwarfare targets ICS systems, we're talking about very carefully targeted operations. It takes the resources of militaries to pull off this kind of planning. Extensive research and fingerprinting are done on their targeted facilities and the most minute details of their software and computer equipment. Often, supply chains are infected through vendors, so equipment specifically made for a certain facility can be infected with malware before it is installed. These are often advanced persistent threats (APTs) which go on lurking for years, often undetected.
After the Trisis attacks of 2017, Dragos has observed Xenotime engaging in external scanning, network enumeration, and open source research of both European and North American targets. Now it appears they're targeting America's power grid.
From the Dragos report:
"In February 2019, Dragos identified a change in Xenotime behavior: starting in late 2018, Xenotime began probing the networks of electric utility organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere using similar tactics to the group's operations against oil and gas companies.
Multiple ICS sectors now face the Xenotime threat; this means individual verticals – such as oil and gas, manufacturing, or electric – cannot ignore threats to other ICS entities because they are not specifically targeted. As such, a key element in defense against sophisticated, expanding threats is understanding threat behaviors and methodologies, beyond simply indicators of compromise."
Mitigating Future ICS Cyberattacks
What can industrial utilities do to make threat groups like Xenotime less likely to be successful? How can we help protect America's power grid and save human lives?
Threat intelligence specific to ICS is more important than ever before. Procuring greater visibility into ICS systems and their networks is an absolutely vital starting point. Network activity must be thoroughly monitored and meticulously logged. Process-specific data and network events must be watched carefully. All industrial and computing assets must be identified, as they're all vulnerable.
As adversary methodologies evolve over time, unique threat behavior patterns emerge. These trends all have to be identified so that ICS systems can effectively harden their security. Cyberwarfare groups like Xenotime are highly advanced; the challenge is to be even more highly advanced.
The Dragos report notes:
"While none of the electric utility targeting events has resulted in a known, successful intrusion into victim organizations to date, the persistent attempts, and expansion in scope is cause for definite concern. Xenotime has successfully compromised several oil and gas environments which demonstrates its ability to do so in other verticals. Xenotime expressing consistent, direct interest in electric utility operations is a cause for deep concern, given this entity's willingness to undermine fundamental process safety in ICS environments, placing lives and environments at great risk."
Dragos emphasizes that the observed behavior is an expansion, a proliferation of the threat, and not a shift – oil and gas entities must still grapple with this adversary's activity. While unfortunate, the expansion should serve as a clear signal to ICS operators, not only in oil and gas or electric utility operations, that the time to plan, implement, and enforce security standards and response processes in industrial environments is now.
I also see the benefit in ICS-based utility entities across the world sharing intelligence, internationally and between possibly competing corporations. The public sector must be involved in much the same way. Defending against threats like Xenotime absolutely must be a collaborative and cooperative effort to prevent future mass societal chaos.


Here we go! The 6 hr drive felt like an hour, good times! Stopped at Road Runner Sports and bought some stuff. Got orthotics so we'll see how they play out….later. Not tomorrow.
The outfit because any proper blogger fills space with their outfits.
We had awesome pasta for dinner at Noli Cafe that I found on Yelp. I love Yelp!


Not sure how exciting Texas Motor Speedway's 600-kilometer IndyCar race was overall since 'DJ WillyP, aka Will Power led for over half of the race before getting busted for speeding, again! Whilst I totally feel the pendulum 'O momentum has swung 'Brittany's (Nico Rosberg) way, as the German served further notice to his exalted team-mate Lewis Hamilton that he won't go quietly into the F1 landscape in regards to who'll probably become this year's Formula 1 world champion.
Meanwhile Up North eh! Where its GURR-REAT! To hear that F1 and Oh 'KanaDuh have inked a new 10-year contract extension to keep the Formula 1 circus returning to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Il Notre Dam until 2024!
Better yet was Rosberg capturing Pole position "Fair 'N Square" over Hamilton, as the Mighty Merc's appeared to be on their way to another intra-team scrum for victory, while "TWINKIEBOY," aka Seb' Vettel threw down a flyer of a lap to unbelievably wind-up P3 ahead of the two impressive Team Willy' Boyz with Daniel "Ricky" Ricciardo's 'Seester Red Bull sixth.
Thus on a purely sentimental angle, as I've said before, I want Nico Rosberg to be crowned world champion this year and thus naturally wanted him to win the race, as he didn't endear himself any further to Hamilton with his start to the race, yet firmly held off the charging Brit throughout.
Then I erupted loudly in glee over Hamilton's retirement - when he'd used up his brakes, while Rosberg's car was suffering the very same mechanical maladies on the same lap.
thus with a wounded racecar, Rosberg appeared to potentially be a sitting duck and I found myself torn between him winning the race and rootin' for Checa' (Sergio Perez) to claim his maiden F1 victory for the Minnowesqe Force India team, all the while with fingers crossed chanting for Felipe Massa to overtake the two Red Bulls tantalizingly close ahead of him with just a few laps remaining, before chanting for Ricciardo who'd finally gotten ahead of the slowing Perez who was struggling with failing brakes! As Ricciardo completed the pass for the lead just prior to a massive race ending shunt involving Perez and the somewhat hapless Massa.


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