Here are pictures of the build to date.
Glad to hear you are near the end of the build. Bet you can't wait to get it done (are they ever fully done?) We need final pictures.
I will post pictures after we get back from Harlan. It always will need a few more mods. It's just done for now.


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Sober memes are thriving in addiction and sobriety communities despite the popularity of viral drug and alcohol jokes
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Social media is rife with memes about young adult tendencies including over-eating, over-drinking, and obsessing about someone who didn't text back.
Online communities of those struggling with addiction and recovery gather stories of progress and triumph on hashtags and accounts that are often serious and deeply personal.
In addition to the serious side of posts about sobriety, accounts like @sobergrind on Instagram delight followers with the funny and often unflattering reality of life in recovery.
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"It's funny how drinking 8 cups of water a day seems impossible but 7 beers and 5 shots in two hours goes down like a fat kid on a seesaw," reads a screenshot of a tweet pictured on Instagram.
Out of context, the post just sounds like a crude punchline to justify binge drinking. But on the Fat Jewish's page, which is 10.4-million followers strong, it struck a relatable note for many, earning more than 400,000 likes.
Memes thrive across social media for their ability to recast less-than-ideal everyday behaviors into funny and relatable nuggets that can be shared with friends in two clicks.
Pages that aggregate memes hit the sweet spot for followers who want to laugh and commiserate about struggles with food, love, money, and substance abuse without getting too serious.
But intense obsessions with food, alcohol, and drugs pose a serious threat to social media users dealing with alcoholism and other addictions. Not only do they sometimes glorify substance abuse, but they can serve as triggers for addicts.
Accounts that recycle material that makes light of obsessing over food, alcohol, and romantic partners creates a dangerous echo chamber that can encourage unhealthy behavior, says Alexa Cook, the therapist behind @sobergrind, a meme page that plays on the funny side of the often unflattering reality behind getting sober.
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"[Mainstream meme pages are] not helping people, they're keeping people sick," Cook said. "They're fun and funny and even I share them with my friends, but we need something different, in my opinion. Our culture needs to be healthy."
Cook's page is one part of the online community of sober social media users and has drawn an audience of more than 30,000 followers with a more lighthearted and realistic touch than the serious and personal posts found under the hashtag #soberlife.
The account came from Cook's own experience with sobriety and grew as she posted what she found funny.
"One of my friends started a meme account and it's always inspiring shit and I was like I don't need inspiring s—," Cook said. "I don't need your f—— positive energy, I'm feeling my emotions and humor is a huge coping tool I use."
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In the comments on her page, users leave gleeful emojis and tag their friends. In real life, mental illness and addiction can be difficult or embarrassing to discuss, and memes have been credited with bringing conversations about mental health into young peoples' reach.
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To those who haven't entered recovery or committed to sobriety, Cook's page might seem niche, but widespread rates of alcoholism and addiction mean huge adult populations could relate.
As many as 12.7% of American adults currently suffer from alcohol use disorder, or alcoholism, and 29%, or 73 million, will meet the criteria for such a disorder at some point.
Some who have committed to sobriety through recovery programs take their lifestyle public online, posting to hashtags including #sober #sobriety #soberliving #12steps, #alcoholicsanonymous, and #soberlife.
In addition to earnestly celebrating the milestones along with one's recovery, Cook says the intersection of humor and reality can break through in the toxic cycle of addiction and the rollercoaster of recovery and she often gets overwhelmingly positive feedback from her followers who thank her for posting and share their own stories with her.
"Humor works for people," Cook said. "When you're stuck in your head, we want to break that pattern as soon as possible…'I'm hopeless, I can't,' we want to shake that s— off and humor's a good way to not take ourselves so seriously, at least for me."
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Q: Azure yml pipeline being triggered on change to repository resource used for templates I currently have an Azure DevOps yaml file set up to release our project to its necessary environments. In this file, I reference a repository that holds our template files we use within the company.
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  repositories:
  - repository: templates
    type: git
    name: 'Project/Repo'
    ref: 'refs/tags/x.x.x'

trigger: none

What is odd is that today I made a change to the template repository, and it triggered a build in all our pipelines that use this repository as a resource.  I have a trigger set to none, so why is it being triggered with a change to an outside repository?
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Corte UCLA es una jugada estratégica de carácter ofensivo, utilizada en baloncesto desde su invención en todas las categorías, y cuyo objetivo es romper y desajustar una defensa individual bien posicionada. En ella intervienen todos los jugadores del equipo, y permite varias posibilidades para entrar a canasta o continuar con otro movimiento ofensivo. A pesar de ser una jugada sencilla, tiene un alto grado de eficacia gracias a su variabilidad.

Su nombre proviene de las siglas de la Universidad de California Los Ángeles, cuyo equipo fue el primero en llevar a la práctica el corte UCLA en la década de los 60. Sin embargo, muchos piensan que el nombre debería ser "corte Wooden", en honor al mítico entrenador de los UCLA Bruins en esa época, John Robert Wooden.

Historia
En 1969 abandonaron el equipo tres jugadores importantes de los UCLA Bruins: Lew Alcindor, Lynn Shackelford y Kenny Heitz. Sin un pívot dominante, John Wooden tuvo que olvidarse del ataque high-low y volver al poste alto como referencia de ataque mientras preparaban la temporada 1969/70. Más tarde, Wooden decidió que tenía también la posibilidad de jugar con poste bajo como prioridad, con el objetivo de atraer a los defensas exteriores hacia esa zona y crear situaciones de tiro exterior. Fue así como nació la jugada pass from guard to guard to forward, conocida como corte UCLA.

Desarrollo del corte UCLA

La jugada comienza con el base en posesión del balón, pasándolo al alero. Tras pasar el balón, el base va a cortar sobre el pívot, que se encarga de bloquear en el poste alto. Si el alero no puede pasar al base después de haber hecho el corte, puede pasar al pívot para que lance a canasta desde la línea de tiros libres.
En caso de que el pívot no pueda  tirar, la jugada continúa con un bloqueo del alero al base en el poste bajo, dando al pívot la posibilidad de jugar con cualquiera de sus compañeros:

Si pasa al base, que ha salido del bloqueo del alero, el base puede ejecutar un tiro exterior o pasar al alero para que avance a canasta.

Si el pívot pasa al alero, que acaba de bloquear al base, el alero puede avanzar a canasta como en el caso anterior.

También puede darse la vuelta para pasar al ala-pívot para que entre a canasta.

Si no ha podido pasar a ningún otro compañero, pasa al escolta para que busque al ala-pívot, o para que pase al alero después de que este haya subido a la línea de tiros libres gracias al bloqueo del pívot.

En este último caso el alero puede intentar pasar al pívot o al ala-pívot, y si tampoco es posible, puede pasar al base para que todos recuperen sus posiciones y volver a empezar la jugada desde el inicio.

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Terminología de baloncesto

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Defending the Fire (in production)
Since the beginning of time, Native American Warriors have navigate a unique cultural and spiritual path, relying on the tenets of the Warrior in ancient and modern warfare. The lessons of the Warrior are universal; the spirit of the Warrior survives, even in the face of conflict.
With a focus on the spiritual and historic journey of Native American Warriors, Silver Bullet Productions will present the story of the Warrior, the importance of cultures in modern quests, and the lessons of War through the lens of these cultures. The characters will be elders and historians from New Mexican tribes and Native veterans of World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq conflicts. Grounded in research and guided by voices of men and women in our armed forces, the documentary will reveal the distinct motive, preparation, conflict, and healing of tribal soldiers.
Lessons from The Warrior have yet to be revealed in film media. What makes a Warrior and how might this be revered in Native communities? What elements of the ancestral Warrior continue to influence military conflict, command, and commitment? What lessons of the Native American Warrior experience can shape conflict resolution and healing today? Does the ancient Warrior continue to exist in modern times?
The stories that honor the Warrior, rather than glorify War, deserve to be told with dignity, compassion, and integrity.
Please join the Pueblos, tribes, and concerned donors in supporting this educational film. To find out more please contact Silver Bullet Productions at 505-820-0552 or pampierce@silverbulletproductions.com.
Major Funding Provided by San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
The Club at Las Campanas grant
It's About Time Online Event, Available through Jan. 31
2019 Governors' Award
Sandia Pueblo Student Workshop
Sovereignty: A Staged Reading, September 2019
Awards – A Thousand Voices
Awards – Canes of Power
Awards – Defending the Fire
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L'Anna-Rosa est un ancien caboteur à voile norvégien gréé en ketch à hunier ou .

Son port d'attache est le Port-musée de Douarnenez.

Histoire
Anna-Rosa  a été construit au chantier naval Gausvik en 1892 au fond du fjord norvégien de Hardanger. Ce caboteur à voile a servi au commerce de la rogue et de la morue séchée sur les côtes européennes durant de nombreuses années comme beaucoup d'autres galéasses norvégiennes. Ce type de navire livrait la rogue aux ports sardiniers bretons comme Douarnenez jusqu'au début des années 1960 ; ces œufs de morue étaient destinées aux chaloupes qui s'en servaient comme appât pour pêcher la sardine.

Gréé en ketch, il rivalisait avec des trois-mâts de l'époque. Dans les années 1970, il a été désarmé et reconverti à la plaisance en subissant quelques transformations.

En 1991, il est acquis par le Port-musée. Il fut accompagné par son sister-ship le Anna-Kristina (ex-Dyrafjeld). Sa valeur patrimoniale est en rapport avec l'histoire du port de Douarnenez et de la sardine. Il resta longtemps en réserve du musée avant de pouvoir être restauré au chantier naval Yves Tanguy de Douarnenez durant quatre ans. Le  il retrouve l'espace à flot du musée pour que l'équipe technique du musée  lui redonne son profil originel avec ses espars et ses aménagements intérieur et du pont.

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Notes et références

Liens internes
 Port-musée de Douarnenez
 Sister-ship : Anna-Kristina

Liens externes
  Anna-Rosa - Site Port-musée
 Anna-Rosa - Site voilier à 2 mâts
 Restauration

Nom de bateau
Bateau de pêche
Ketch
Bateau norvégien
Bateau français
Bateau lancé en 1892


Will Grapegrowers and Consumers Accept GMO Wines?
Would you drink fluorescent green wine? Most molecular biologists-in-training experience their first taste of genetic engineering by transferring a jellyfish gene into (harmless) Escherichia coli, making the bacteria glow green under UV light. One slow day this past winter, my lab-mates and I contemplated the ramifications of transferring that same gene into Vitis vinifera. Fluorescent green wine? Fluorescent green wine! Oh, wait a minute. Do we seriously want such a thing? And has someone already done it?
Glowing grapevines are already a reality, though it is the leaf, not the grape, that glows, and the plants are a research tool, not a commercial endeavor. Unbeknownst to most of the wine-drinking world, GMO (genetically modified organism) wine—made with grapes grown from grapevines that have had non-native genes inserted into their genomes—is likely to be on shop shelves in the foreseeable future. This should not be much of a surprise, really. Most of the American corn and soybean crops are already genetically modified. In the US, food products containing GMOs need not even be labeled as such. The question is: will the uncommonly traditional and restrictive wine industry accept GMOs with the same aplomb as other food industries have?
Dr. Dennis Gray, a professor of developmental biology at the University of Florida and father of the glowing grapevine, speculates that industry and consumer acceptance may be the most difficult part of bringing genetically modified wine grapes to market. Dr. Gray and his research group have successfully modified—"transformed"—both wine and table grape varieties with genes that make them more resistant to problem fungi and pests. Expressing a specific gene from chardonnay in a Thompson Seedless variety, for example, dramatically improves its resistance to fungal diseases like powdery mildew or sour-bunch rot. The group has had success with a variety of Vitis species, including popular vinifera. The work is motivated in part by the goal of profitably growing grapes in Florida, an endeavor historically plagued by unmanageable Pierce's Disease, but Dr. Gray sees benefits for growers of both wine and table grapes everywhere.
Gray's group works with a technique called cisgenetic engineering, which means that they engineer grape plants with genes from grapes rather than, say, genes from corn or bacteria or jellyfish (save for those research-only green-glowing vines, that is.) Not only can specific genes be transplanted from one grape variety to another, expression levels can be boosted for genes that might ordinarily be active only part of the time or at low levels. In contrast to traditional breeding, this means that specific traits can be selected without impacting other desirable characteristics (in theory, at least), and the work can be done much faster than traditional breeding, too.
Will the fact that only grape genes are being used make a difference to opponents of genetic modification? Maybe, but it is not likely to pacify everyone. Both the Australian wine industry and the California-based Wine Institute have issued public statements against the use of any genetically modified organisms, which would include Dr. Gray's cisgenetic vines. Other researchers are also working on GMO grapes, and some have received clear indications that their work isn't welcome. Just last August, members of an activist group called "The Voluntary Reapers" ravaged an experimental GMO vineyard in Colmar, France. The vineyard, capstone to a French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) project to engineer grapevine fanleaf virus-resistant vines, was utterly destroyed. The same vineyard was attacked and damaged, to a lesser extent, in November of 2009. Genetic engineering experiments on grapevines by the INRA had been authorized for five years, ending in 2010, and it appears that the Institute has not pursued an extension.
Beyond grapes, yeasts and bacteria used in winemaking are potentially subject to genetic modification, too. One genetically modified yeast, ML01, has already hit the market courtesy of Dr. Hennie van Vuuren at the University of British Columbia and via distributer American Tartaric. Approved for use in the US, Canada, Moldova, and South Africa, ML01 harbors two bacterial genes that enable it to perform malolactic fermentation. Ergo, this nifty little yeast can drive both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation simultaneously, shortening processing time and eliminating the need for a separate malolactic culture. For winemakers, it means less time and less expense. For consumers, ML01 promises to reduce levels of biogenic amines, a prime suspect implicated in the dreaded "wine headache" (for more detail, see Tom Mansell's great piece here.) Because bacteria used for malolactic fermentation are a potential source of biogenic amines, eliminating the need for bacteria may be helpful. Anything that shortens processing time, too, shortens the window of opportunity for spoilage by organisms that can also elaborate biogenic amines.
Some people are less likely to have hissy-fits over GMO microorganisms versus GMO plants, but the principles at work are the same, and there are some concerns over ML01 and its future kin. The widespread use of commercial active dry yeast already means that the makeup of yeast strains found hanging around in wineries is changing; once a yeast strain is introduced, it is likely to take up residence and become part of the microflora of the winery. GMO yeast with hyper-competitive reproductive and survival abilities could, in theory, make native (i.e. non-commercial) yeast strains endangered species.
Is this a problem? Anyone with a general interest in preserving biodiversity has to answer with an emphatic "Yes, it is." We often don't know what we've lost until we've lost it, and more often than not, we don't ever know what we've lost at all.
Microbiologists, let alone the average consumer, may not even know if or how close that danger lies. Even though ML01 has been around since 2003, its use is shrouded in a fair bit of secrecy. No winery advertises that they use it, and its distributor won't discuss its client list. Wineries' fear of backlash—from consumers, or fellow wineries, or both?—apparently outweighs the potential marketing benefits of advertising that a particular wine may cause fewer headaches. Then again, calling attention to that feature in one wine might induce a customer to think that other wines from the same producers that don't bear the same claim are more likely to cause headaches. This brings up an interesting problem, i.e., that it is difficult for an objective third party to collect field data on how much ML01 reduces biogenic amine levels in practical use. Another interesting point is that the eight year-old ML01 is still the sole genetically engineered yeast approved for enological use. Is this for lack of demand? Technical issues? Or out of fear that "they" do not want GMOs in wine?
Perhaps the most interesting question, at least from a philosophical point of view, is how GMO wine—grapes or yeast—fits into the current enological dynamic. On the one hand, interest in sustainable, biodynamic, organic, green, and/or low-intervention winemaking seems to be at an all-time high. On the other hand, research and technology from ivory towers like UC Davis are constantly making it easier to produce a good, clean, flaw-free product. GMO wine, clearly a product of the second trend, would seem to contradict the first. I, for one, (and perhaps I am excessively scrupulous) would have trouble calling wine that incorporated engineered grapes or yeast a "natural" product. Conversely, however, GMOs could enable winemakers to use fewer chemicals both in the vineyard and in the winery. Dr. Gray's mildew-resistant grapes could translate to less spraying. ML01 could reduce spoilage and, therefore, potentially reduce manipulations intended to prevent or redress spoilage problems. Ways to reduce chemical use inevitably make the green/biodynamic/sustainable crowd happy.
The winemaking and wine-drinking communities are not facing these questions yet, but it will not be long. Genetically engineered wine grapes already exist and production needs only be ramped up to a commercially-viable scale. The two major hurdles to be crossed before GMO grapes hit the US market are scaling production up to a commercially-viable scale and approval by the FDA. At that point, of course, it is up to individual vignerons whether or not they wish to grow GMO vines. But is this a decision that wine drinkers should be permitted to make for themselves, too? In the US, foods containing GMO ingredients need not be labeled as such, but products that eschew them can voluntarily boast "No GMOs" Should wine be treated in the same way as any other food product? How many consumers would show preference for a wine certified GMO-free?
Green-glowing wine might have a small market amongst the indie-wine-drinking-raver crowd, but I doubt it would ever take off. What do you think?
Erika Szymanski was blessed with parents who taught her that wine was part of a good meal, who believed that well-behaved children belonged in tasting rooms with their parents, and who had way too many books. Averting a mid-life crisis in advance, she recently returned to her native Pacific Northwest to study for a PhD in microbial enology at Washington State University. Her goal, apart from someday having goats, is melding a winery job to research on how to improve the success rate of spontaneous ferments. When tending her Brettanomyces leaves enough time, her blog Wine-o-scope keeps notes on why being a wine geek is fun.
In addition to my anti-GMO involvement, I also run a wine club. This will be very interesting to see. The people who drink wine just to drink it will probably not care & welcome anything unusual. Those who are actually into wine appreciation will most likely not appreciate anything affecting vines that are hundreds of years old.
Funny, we were just talking about GMO wine the other day. We think we can clean up on some farmland for cheap, use resistant modified rootstocks, and produce a lovely product. I proposed to do it as a CSW–community supported wine. It has a real future with people who actually understand the science and the benefits.
We were noticing the Jeep ad recently that used "genetically engineered" as a marketing phrase, so it may be that consumers are more ready than some people want to believe on the opposition.
Mary, I read the blog post you linked, and you make some interesting points. I completely agree that many people who are afraid of GMOs are poorly educated on the subject. The truth is, however, that many very well-educated people have valid concerns about the long-term implications of GMO agricultural products on genetic diversity, food safety, human and environmental health, and ecological balance. You review only one facet of a many-faceted issue on your post. I hope that the scientific and larger communities engage in a broader and public debate before we as a society embrace an unchangeable path.
PLEASE! Do a background on the Monsanto, Round Up, and Pharmacuedical company that is a part of the Monsanto world wide disaster. Also, follow the money. Look at the India reports, the Agent orange disaster they created that they claimed was "Safe". Along with the many other law suits. Check out the massivly growing rates of cancer and the pandemic episode of Autism in our country since GMO food has been introduced. Do you think it is just coincidental that Monsanto's people are being placed in the top positions in FDA? Check out the exploding watermelons in China. Befeore you decide on GMO foods, just please consider what other countries are saying. My son is battleing a terrible cancer that used to be very rare and is now becoming very common. That is only one of the cancers that are now growing in incidence at an alarming rate in the US. Incidently, the company that is developing the drugs to treat these highly tumorous cancers is owned by exactly who I thought it would be. The meds only cost $10,000-$13,000 a month for the medications. Of course there are hospital bills that go with their delivery in infusions amounting to about 60,000 a month. They are Gene and Protien specific drugs. Is'nt that interesting now that we have almonst all foods invaded with GMO Genetically altered protiens and genetically altered genes in our food? I will personally drive an extra half hour just to shop to avoid these GMO foods. Also, the mice in the France study did not get tumors until eating the GMO food for about 4-6 months. Many countries are now banning GMO foods and a ban on growing them. They are also causing environmental disasters everywhere. PLEASE read reports from India. I will never touch GMO grapes or wines and everyone I know has realized the dangers to health and environment.
Most of the resistance stems from concerns about genetic contamination, but it should not. Grapes have been "cloned" for centuries. A bud of a desired variety is grafted onto a rootstock that can resist soil pests. No grapes are grown from seed except in a breeding program. Chardonnay grows next to Cabernet and there is never an issue of contamination. There are only wild grapes in the US and Middle East, but that has never been an issue except that diseases can move back and forth.
Last fall I wrote about the destruction of the fanleaf virus experiment in France. In that case, only the under-ground rootstock was "GMO" and it just expressed the coat protein of the virus that was already present at that site.
Grapes are cloned. There is absolutely no issue with genetic contamination!
@Erika: well, if you really cared about biodiversity you would oppose all farming–because that's a giant assault on biodiversity, on purpose. But if you are going to farm (and I do support farming), using fewer chemical pesticides is high on the top of my list of good things for the planet–and for non-target species. Better yield with less waste is also up there, to reduce the amount of land used for farming and to feed more people.
Many of the "many-faceted" issues around this topic are actually nothing to do with GMOs, and many people falsely condemn them because of their tunnel-vision on that, when many of the concerns are related to other aspects of agriculture.
Mary, my worldview says that humans are called to be stewards of the earth, which means caring for it and using it responsibly. As with most things, it's a matter of respect and balance.
Back to GMOs, I must say that I seriously doubt that the majority of anti-GMO concerns are unrelated to GMOs. Can you give us a few specific examples?
Monocultures are often claimed to be an issue of GMOs, and they were an issue long before GMOs. Food safety is not a GMO issue. Human and environmental health–please show me where this is a GMO issue–with actual scientific sources and not just crap off of some website. And ecological balance–what component of this is unique to GMOs?
Please illustrate (with credible sources) the GMO-unique aspects of this.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the GMO yeast ML01 is not approved for use in the South African Wine Industry.
Gerard, thanks for the correction.
Steve, while an awful lot can be done with ordinary yeast selection, developing an enzymatic functionality that isn't found in the genus requires engineering for all practical purposes. My guess is that's a main reason why ML01 is the only GMO yeast currently on the market.
Mary, you know as well as I do that what you're asking for is a lot of work. I'm away from my source materials for the summer, and I have faith that no matter what sort of evidence I provide, you have already made up your mind and have no intention of changing it. For that matter, your own website makes plenty of statements that aren't substantiated with the sort of information you are asking me to provide. If I have time come mid-August, I'll get back to you.
My own website where? Can you be more specific about these unsubstantiated claims? If you refer to the link I gave where we were engaged in a discussion–that's not my site–just like here, we are discussing things and this site isn't mine either….?
I'm asking for a lot of work for you to substantiate your claims that GMOs have all these awful and unique problems–which are not common to other aspects of agriculture? Your article makes the claims. What part of the world are you in where you don't have access to the sources?
I'll keep checking in–sorry to be making you do all that hard work of backing up your claims.
Still mid-August. Don't be shy.
Like cork vs screw cap the take off for consumers most probably will depend largely on timing and cost. If GMO wines can provide same quality for lower prices then casual drinker generally won't know the difference however, for old faith-full's and those in the industry of wine appreciation GMO will most probably always stir debate.


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Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems can be extremely large scale (millions of nodes). Nodes in the network join and leave continuously. Experimenting with a protocol in such an environment it no easy task at all.
PeerSim has been developed to cope with these properties and thus to reach extreme scala- bility and to support dynamism [1].

PeerSim source code can be downloaded from [http://peersim.sourceforge.net](http://peersim.sourceforge.net/).

## Setup

Here there are 2 steps you need to follow in order to run an experiment using EpTO-related protocols:

1. `git clone https://github.com/robzenn92/peersimTutorial.git`
2. `cd peersimTutorial && make all`

The configurations written in `src/main/resources/newscast_ed.cfg` will be loaded.

However, other configuration files are available and can be found in `src/main/resources/`.

## Protocols

![EpTO Flow Schema](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robzenn92/peersimTutorial/master/EpTO-flow.jpg)

### References

[1] PeerSim HOWTO:
    Build a new protocol for the PeerSim 1.0 simulator.
    Gian Paolo Jesi

### Resources

Here there are a list of useful links

[1] http://peersim.sourceforge.net/tutorial1/tutorial1.pdf

[2] http://peersim.sourceforge.net/newscast/newscast.pdf

[3] http://peersim.sourceforge.net/tutorialed/tutorialed.pdf

[4] https://www.slideshare.net/SijoEmmanuel/peer-sim-p2p-network-58734298

[5] http://www.cs.unibo.it/bison/deliverables/D12-13.pdf

[6] http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5040/h16/assignment-3/

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Pilot omvat de eerste twee afleveringen van de Amerikaanse televisieserie Lost. Het eerste deel bevat flashbacks rond Jack, het tweede deel rond Charlie en Kate.

Deel 1
Jack Shephard ontwaakt gewond en gedesoriënteerd in de jungle. Hij ziet een golden retriever door het struikgewas lopen. Jack herpakt zich enigszins, vindt een kleine wodkafles in zijn zak, en begint dan door de jungle te rennen. Plotseling staat hij op een schitterend strand, dat ontluisterd wordt door het wrak van Oceanic vlucht 815. Jack is chirurg, en dus legt hij zich meteen toe op het verzorgen van de gewonden die hij ziet. In een korte tijd weet hij een man onder het puin vandaan te halen, helpt hij een zwangere vrouw en reanimeert hij Rose.

Als de eerste schok voorbij is zondert Jack zich af om zijn eigen wonden te verzorgen. Hij ontmoet Kate, en vraagt haar de wond op zijn rug te hechten. Kate vertelt Jack dat het vliegtuig tijdens de crash in tweeën is gebroken. Terug op het strand houdt ze Jack nauwlettend in de gaten terwijl hij een zwaargewonde bewusteloze man verzorgt. Andere overlevenden, zoals Michael en Walt bespreken ondertussen wat er met de lijken in het wrak moet gebeuren. Sawyer kijkt ongeïnteresseerd toe. Sayid organiseert vervolgens een opruimactie, en Hurley verdeelt de maaltijden die hij uit het vliegtuig heeft kunnen halen. Shannon weigert de chocola die haar broer Boone haar aanbiedt, omdat ze elk moment verwacht gered te worden.

Die nacht worden de overlevenden opgeschrikt door harde, grommende geluiden uit de jungle, waarbij ze diverse bomen zien sneuvelen. 's Ochtends besluit Jack dat het uitzenden van een noodsignaal de grootste kans om te overleven biedt. Hiervoor hebben ze de zender van het vliegtuig nodig, die nog in de cockpit zit. Kate zegt dat ze in de jungle rook heeft gezien, en gaat met Jack en Charlie op zoek naar de cockpit. Tijdens hun zoektocht breekt er opeens een regenbui los. Wanneer ze de cockpit vinden blijkt deze op zijn kant te staan, zodat ze zich via de stoelen een weg naar de cockpit moeten banen. Daar vinden ze de piloot, nog steeds in zijn stoel. Terwijl Charlie de wc ingaat wordt de piloot wakker met een hersenschudding. Hij vertelt Jack en Kate dat het toestel zes uur na vertrek alle radiocontact had verloren. Na een koerswijziging richting Fiji was het toestel in turbulentie terechtgekomen. Tegen de tijd dat het vliegtuig neerstortte was het ruim 1.500 kilometer afgeweken van de oorspronkelijke koers.

Op het strand woedt ondertussen ook een flinke regenbui, en een groepje overlevenden schuilt in het wrak. Daar zegt een Koreaan, Jin, tegen zijn vrouw Sun dat ze altijd dicht bij hem moet blijven. Terwijl de meeste overlevenden schuilen voor de regen zit John Locke buiten alleen op het strand, met zijn armen uitgestrekt.

Het gesprek tussen Jack, Kate en de piloot wordt onderbroken door dezelfde grommende geluiden als ze die nacht hebben gehoord. Als de piloot probeert te ontdekken wat ze horen wordt hij door het cockpitraam heen naar buiten gesleurd. De drie anderen pakken hierop de zender en rennen ervandoor. Charlie komt ten val; Jack gaat terug om hem te helpen, terwijl Kate doorrent. Als het wezen verdwenen is komen de drie weer bij elkaar, en zien het bebloede lijk van de piloot in een boomtop liggen.

Deel 2
Jack, Kate en Charlie gaan terug naar het strand. Kate vraagt Charlie wat hij op de wc deed, en Charlie antwoordt dat hij misselijk was. Uit een flashblack blijkt echter dat Charlie tijdens de vlucht drugs gebruikte, en door de turbulentie zijn drugs was kwijtgeraakt.

Walt is in de jungle op zoek naar zijn hond Vincent, en vindt een stel handboeien. Terwijl Sayid met de reparatie bezig is, vertelt hij Hurley dat hij een communicatieofficier was in de Iraakse Republikeinse Garde. Hij weet de zender te repareren, maar kan geen signaal krijgen. Samen met enkele andere overlevenden gaat hij met de zender landinwaarts, in de hoop vanaf hoger gelegen gebied een beter signaal te krijgen. Tijdens hun tocht worden ze aangevallen door een ijsbeer, maar Sawyer schiet hem dood. Hij zegt dat hij het pistool had gevonden bij het lijk van een federale agent. Sayid beschuldigt Sawyer ervan dat hij een gevangene was, die door de agent bewaakt werd. In de verwarring pakt Kate het pistool van Sawyer af, en haalt met behulp van Sayids instructies het magazijn eruit.

In een flashback naar de laatste momenten van de vlucht zien we Kate met de agent praten. Dit is de man naar wie ze in het eerste deel zat te kijken, terwijl Jack hem verzorgde. Kate blijkt de handboeien om te hebben die Walt in de jungle had gevonden. Zodra het vliegtuig in de turbulentie terechtkomt wordt de agent door een koffer bewusteloos geslagen. Kate maakt de boeien los, en doet de agent een zuurstofmasker op alvorens haar eigen masker te bevestigen. Op dat moment breekt de staart van het vliegtuig af.

Op het strand komt de agent bij, en vraagt Jack: 'Waar is ze?'. Sayid heeft intussen een signaal, maar het wordt geblokkeerd door een boodschap in het Frans die steeds maar herhaald wordt. Shannon vertaalt de boodschap: 'Ik ben nu alleen, alleen op het eiland. Kom alsjeblieft. De anderen zijn dood. Het heeft ze vermoord. Het heeft ze allemaal vermoord.' Uit berekeningen blijkt dat die boodschap al zestien jaar herhaald wordt.

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 Dit is de duurste pilot-aflevering die ABC ooit heeft gemaakt. De grootste kostenposten waren het kopen, vervoeren en aankleden van het heuse vliegtuig dat gebruikt werd als wrak. De aflevering kostte tussen de 10 en 14 miljoen dollar.
 J.J. Abrams won een Emmy voor het regisseren van deze aflevering.
 Wanneer de vliegmotor ontploft is er een zwarte flits in de richting van de motor te zien. Veel fans dachten dat dit "het monster" is. De producten zeiden later dat het een fout gerenderde computeranimatie was, de flits had een stuk schroot moeten voorstellen dat van het vliegtuig wegvliegt.

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I'm on a plane again, this time on my way back home from a two-week safari adventure in Tanzania.
Henry Miller once wrote, "One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things." In Tanzania, the people we saw on the streets, met working at our resort, and served as our guides were all living examples of the importance of community in a world that, in my experience, seems to reward independence and the strength to go it alone. In villages that some might see as disadvantaged, I saw joy, hope, and love. Among a people who lacked money for what we Westerners might consider their most basic needs, they seemed to want little. By focusing on community and honoring nature, everyone around me seemed to be living fully—together. This overwhelming sense of community was infectious.


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In their last home game, the Lionesses ran out 1-0 victors against Watford Ladies thanks to a last-gasp penalty winner from skipper Naomi Cole.
Villa are currently three points and two places above Millwall in the League table and the Birmingham-based side eased to a 2-0 success when the two teams last met in May.
is confident her team can do just that saying: "We are looking forward to this game and we know how we want to set up against them, after we lost 2-0 earlier in the year.
"It has been a big year in terms of squad turnaround and for us a high mid-table finish would represent a great success. Ideally we would love to finish fifth or above but we will have to beat sides like Aston Villa to get there."
Visitors Villa have found their scoring touch since the mid-summer break, netting in each of their last nine matches, but have only taken one point from their last three league outings.
Visiting midfielder Sherry McCue is hoping her team can take advantage of Yeovil's postponement, and move up to fourth in the table, but she knows her side are in for a difficult afternoon at The Den.
Sherry said: "We prepare for every game as it comes, but we know Millwall will be a difficult away trip.
"They are a strong side who love to compete, but that's our game so we're looking forward to it."
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The Dow closed today above 13,000 for the first time in 3 years. As it did twice last week and on Monday, the Dow poked through the 13,000 level in intraday trading on Tuesday but then dropped back down toward the end of the day before a final surge that pushed it up to about 13,005. The S&P 500 Cash index closed above it's high-water mark to settle at 1372.18.
Monday morning the Dow Futures entered a 30 point trading range @ 10:30AM CST and have remained inside of that range with the exception of a few short lived spikes for the past 34 hours. To put this in perspective, a 30 point range on the Dow Futures is equivalent to a 3 point range on the S&P 500. It just so happens that the top and bottom of the trading range are both CFRN Weekly Trading Zones.
The emini chart above is hourly. Each candle represents one hour of trading on the 24 hour Globex clock. The emini charts below are volume charts. Through the use of volume charts CFRN Partners are able to see how price reacts in and around our Weekly Trading Zones. When the market approaches a Zone we expect price to either be rejected or accepted. However, in most cases what we see first is consolidation. On the hourly chart above you saw price consolidating between 2 Weekly Trading Zones. The charts below will highlight the consolidation we've seen at both the top and bottom of the range inside the Zones themselves. This is typical behavior and one of the first things we teach in our Live Emini Trading Room.
The spring is coiled pretty tightly here. One would naturally assume that since we closed above the 13,000 mark on the Dow that the blast off will most certainly be to the upside. I won't discount the possibility. Do however, observe the fact that after a week of attempting to close above the key psychological level we did so with more of a whimper than a wallop. Whichever way she breaks, we have laid the foundation for some very nice volatility up ahead. Volatility equals cash flow.


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How long I've wanted to shoot underwater! When girls in pretty dresses are combined with the weightlessness of water the results are elegant and ethereal. But shooting underwater is costly as it requires expensive purpose-built camera housing (around $2k) or an underwater point and shoot, which is cheaper (around $500) but offers less control. You can hire equipment but I've heard too many horror stories and the one rental company I spoke to said they couldn't afford the insurance. It's also a very physically demanding experience for both the model and photographer. All this AND I'm the only person on my street without a pool (which I sadly discovered while browsing Google Earth). So I'd love to do an underwater shoot some day but for now my options are limited to Photoshop. Please keep in mind this is an advanced tutorial.
The following process is an amalgamation of tips from this video, other underwater tutorials found online and my own experimentation in Photoshop.
Next you'll need to create the top of the water. You can do this using stock photos (for example, waves at a beach) by going to Edit>Transform>Distort and playing around with the perspective handles, but I'd found a tutorial on how to create water from scratch that I wanted to try.
At this point I made sure my subject was perfectly cut out and placed her above these effects.
Create rays of light by making a new layer and using your marquee tool to select the top half of the image. Press d to set your colour swatch to default and then go to Filter>Render>Clouds once again. Next go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold and use the default setting, press OK. Press Ctrl/Cmd D to get rid of the selection. Now go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur. Take your amount to 100. Choose Zoom and Best and drag the centre point to the top of the box. Click OK. Press Ctrl/Cmd F a few times to repeat the effect. Change the blend mode to soft light and the opacity to about 50%. Use Ctrl/Cmd T and move your rays so they look like they're coming from the spot light you created earlier. Add a mask and use a soft brush to paint out the rays wherever you don't want them.
I had no clue how to create the girl's reflection so I created some tricks of my own. First I duplicated my subject layer and converted it to a Smart Object with Filter>Convert for Smart Filters. I then went to Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical and used Edit>Transform to move the reflection where I wanted it and dragged the top middle handle to make it quite squat. After playing around with all Photoshop's filters I found I got the best result with Filter>Distort>Wave and played around with the sliders until I got a result I liked. Because I applied this as a Smart Filter I was able to apply and change the results as much as I liked.
To create the shimmers of light I created a new layer and filled it with black. Then I went to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. I chose Gaussian and Monochromatic and set the amount to about 35%. Now I went to Filter>Pixelate>Crystallize and made the Cell Size 160. This is similar to how we created snow last tutorial. Now go to Filter>Stylize>Find Edges. Press Ctrl/Cmd i to invert the layer. Choose Filter>Distort>Ripple and make it about 300. Then Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and just apply a little to make the edges less severe. Change the blend mode to screen. Zoom right out of your document and pres Ctrl/Cmd T and make this layer larger. Clip this layer to the subject, change the opacity to 60% and mask it out where you don't want it.
The bubbles were added using a screen blending mode and then I clipped a levels layer to the bubbles to get rid of any lingering background. You could also use a bubble brush to create the bubbles.
I used a few curves layers clipped to the girl layer to introduce some bluey green toning and then darkened the bottom of her body. I also desaturated her skin tones and dragged the highlights down to dull them slightly. A good trick I learnt recently from Glyn Dewis is to make the opacity of your subject layer 95% so the background shows through ever so slightly and tones your subject to match the scene.
Adding textures is optional but I thought the scene looked too flat without them. I added various bokeh textures and overall colour toning to give depth to the water.
[caption id="attachment_2286" align="aligncenter" width="297"] Final toning and textures[/caption] And we're done! It's definitely a lot of work but the more effort you put into it the more realistic your final result. And not a single camera was harmed.
The poses for both photos were photographed in my backyard wearing a $10 dress I found through a Facebook "garage sale". Little known fact, I studied six different types of dance as a child and I finally got to use some of this training in my photos. Unfortunately my body is no longer primed for this kind of activity and my legs hurt for days. In Photoshop I was hoping to recreate the particular look used in this Adam Attoun photo. 'I Tried to Drown my Sorrows' started out with this in mind but by a happy accident when I opened a vase photo to use the bubbles I noticed how great the girl looked inside the glass, so this image took on a life of its own and was very quick to complete. To create 'Rosewater', I began by following along with the video tutorial posted earlier to see if I'd like the result which I did, so she ended up being in a bluey/green scene rather than black because the colours grew on me. I always planned to have flowers floating in the water so I shot some miniature roses in a vase and was most annoyed to discover that roses float so I had to poke them into the water with a gardening fork. Despite being miniature the roses still look way too big for the scene, ruining all my convincing underwater scene building but I like how they look and am happy with the final photo regardless.


There is absolutely no doubt that Oprah received spectacular ratings thanks to her popularized Lance Armstrong interview. So, in the same spirit of revealing the truth to the world, Ms. Winfrey needs to consider dedicating a full show on vaccine safety.
Until the time Jenny McCarthy received a major air time at Oprah's show, there was a fringe link between autism and vaccines. But thanks to the September of 2007 interview with McCarthy and to a greater extent Andrew Wakefield, Oprah was able to reveal to the world the erroneous link that exists between autism and vaccines. Oprah, rather than hosting a show to with a similar kind of balance, she instead opted to read just a brief statement issued by CDC countering the 45 minute interview of a fighting mother against the whole world. Regardless of whether by chance or by design, the vaccine book by Dr. Bob Sear was published the following month and as they say, the rest is history.
The rates of vaccine plummeted, there was a resurgence of reportable diseases and pediatricians groaned everywhere. In addition, millions of dollars also were spent for re- studying vaccines in the efforts of trying to prove many skeptics out there that vaccines are quite safe. Now, the problem is that the crux of many vaccine warriors like McCarthy is that the beliefs they have regarding vaccines are propped merely by just conspiracy theory and not common sense or science.
A new study available to us now tells us that children in America are woefully behind their immunizations. According to a study that was done for a period of more than four years, it was evident that about half of the 300000 children involved in the study were under vaccinated. And this exists irrespective of the fact that numerous scientific evidences have proved that vaccines are very safe. The society has sacrificed millions of dollars trying to prove something, which was known already. The money would have been used better in studying autism causes or testing therapies. Most of the research has been funded by the government and it is the people who paid with their tax dollars.
We are not complaining about tax money being spent on research, but the fact that it is used to prove something which we already know. For this reason, Oprah should consider dedicating a show on vaccine safety. Oprah can thus user her popular broadcasting platform for attracting attention to the incredible comprehensive look on vaccinations by the Institute of Medicine. Their study concluded that there are no serious concerns related to adhering to childhood immunization schedule. Oprah always wants truth and that is what she got from Lance and communicated it to the public. She can contribute greatly to inform the world the truth about vaccines.


Dallas shut Florida out in the first meeting this season, 3-0. The Stars have taken points in four straight in this series, going 3-0-1 and allowing 1.50 goals per game.
Florida lost to Anaheim on Sunday, 3-2, following a four-game winning streak in which the team averaged 5.00 goals. The Panthers' 71.4 penalty-kill percentage in March ranks 28th in the NHL.
Aleksander Barkov had two assists last time out and has 13 assists during his six-game assist streak. He is one of four NHL players to total at least 13 assists in a six-game span this season.
The Stars have taken 41 and 46 shots on goal in their last two games, respectively. Since the New Year, their only other game taking at least 40 SOG came on January 2.
The Stars and their opponents have combined for 3.38 goals per game in March -- no team in any month this season has had a combined goals per game mark under 4.10 (Stars in January).
Jamie Benn has scored 10 goals in 14 career games against the Panthers (0.71 per game), the third highest scoring average all-time against the franchise (minimum 10 games; Mario Lemieux, 0.87; Pavol Demitra, 0.78).
The Stars (37-29-6, 80 points) are just two points out of third place in the Central Division and two points up on Arizona -- and three ahead of Minnesota -- in the Western Conference wild card race with 10 games to go in the regular season.
That makes every point important. Dallas was able to fight back and earn one point in Sunday's 3-2 shootout defeat to Vancouver on Sunday, and that point looms large.
"Loved our effort, a lot of our execution was good, and we made a lot of plays," Stars coach Jim Montgomery said afterward. "We generated numerous opportunities to win that game. We just weren't able to finish. So, a lot of good things; just wish we had two points."
Jamie Benn and Taylor Fedun scored the Stars' goals in regulation play in the loss to Vancouver, the latter coming with 3:50 to play in the game.
Heading into Sunday game Dallas, and Toronto were the only two teams in the league that hadn't gone to a shootout this season -- now, it's just the Maple Leafs. It was also Montgomery's first as an NHL coach.
"Obviously a little weird, the first one," Dallas center Tyler Seguin told NHL.com. "Personally, I'd like to go three-on-three until someone scores. I've never loved the shootout. I've loved three-on-three. That's how it is right now. It was a good overtime."
Winger Blake Comeau and goaltender Ben Bishop did not play for Dallas on Sunday, both due to lower-body injuries. Both of the players are considered day-to-day, according Montgomery.
Florida (32-28-12, 76 points) heads to Big D on the heels of a 3-2 loss at Anaheim on Sunday in the second game of a road back-to-back. The defeat snapped the Panthers' four-game win streak and left them eight points behind Columbus for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Evgenii Dadonov and Aaron Ekblad had Florida's goals in the loss, with Ekblad's tally early in the third period tying the game. The Panthers strafed Anaheim's defense with 71 shots attempts and ended up with a 39-22 advantage on shots on goal.
"The guys played hard," Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. "We were a little bit sluggish at the start and got better as the game went on. We had our chances, and we hit four or five posts. We didn't get our bounce tonight, but definitely the effort was there."
Florida is 9-4-4 over its past 17 games, but the loss to Anaheim was a real killer, especially with time running out in the season.
"It's tough -- we couldn't afford a loss tonight, but it happened," Panthers winger Jonathan Huberdeau said. "It's tough to swallow. We had our chances, and they didn't go in. That's what hockey's all about."
With two assists against the Ducks, Huberdeau moved past Viktor Kozlov's franchise record for most assists in a single season with 55. He had the primary assists on both Dadonov and Ekblad's goals to set the team mark. Huberdeau already has a career-high 78 points this season.
Dallas defeated the Panthers 3-0 on Feb. 12 in Sunrise, Fla., in the teams' only other meeting this season.


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Ku Band
The Ku band (Kurtz-under band) is primarily used for satellite communications, particularly for editing and broadcasting satellite television. This band is split into multiple segments broken down into geographical regions, as the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) determines.
The Ku band is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies ranging from 11.7 to 12.7GHz. (downlink frequencies) and 14 to 14.5GHz (uplink frequencies).
The most common Ku band digital reception format is DVB (main profile video format) vs the studio profile digital video format or the full-blown Digicipher II 4DTV format.
The first commercial television network to extensively utilize the Ku Band for most of its affiliate feeds was NBC, back in 1983.
The ITU Region 2 segments covering the majority of the Americas are between 11.7 and 12.2 GHz, with over 21 FSS North American Ku-band satellites currently orbiting.
Each requires a 0.8-m to 1.5-m antenna and carries twelve to twenty four transponders, of which 20 to 120 watts are consumed (per transponder) for clear reception.
The 12.2 to 12.7 GHz segment of the Ku Band spectrum is allocated to the broadcasting satellite service (BSS). These direct broadcast satellites typically carry 16 to 32 transponders.
Each provides 27 MHz in bandwidth and consumes 100 to 240 watts each, accommodating receiver antennas down to 450 mm (18 inches ).
The ITU Region 1 segments of the Ku spectrum represent Africa and Europe. (11.45 to 11.7 GHz band range and 12.5 to 12.75 GHz band range are reserved for the fixed satellite service (FSS), with the uplink frequency ranging between 14.0 and 14.5 GHz).
Ku Band Difficulties
When frequencies higher than 10 GHz are transmitted and received in a heavy rain fall area, a noticeable degradation occurs, due to the problems caused by and proportional to the amount of rain fall (commonly known as known as "rain fade").
This problem can be combated, however, by deploying an appropriate link budget strategy when designing the satellite network and allocating a higher power consumption to overcome rain fade loss. In terms of end-viewer TV reception, it takes heavy rainfalls in excess of 100 mm per hour to have a noticeable effect.
The Ku band's higher frequency spectrum is particularly susceptible to signal degradation, considerably more so than C band satellite frequency spectrum, though the Ku band is less vulnerable to rain fade than the Ka band frequency spectrum.
A similar phenomena called "snow fade" (when snow accumulation significantly alters the dish's focal point) can also occur during Winter Season.
Also, the Ku band satellites typically require considerably more power to transmit than the C band satellites. However, both Ku and Ka band satellite dishes are smaller (varying in size from 2′ to 5′ in diameter.)
Ku Band Satellite Service Downlink Usage Frequency Range
The Ku band downlink uses frequencies between 11.7 and 12.7GHz.
The Ku band downlink frequencies are further subdivided according to their assigned use:
Ku Band Usage
Downlink
Fixed Satellite Service 11.7 – 12.2GHz
Broadcast Satellite Service 12.2 – 12.7GHz
Services that can be found on the Ku-band include educational networks, business networks, sports backhauls, tele-conferences, mobile news truck feeds, international programming, various SCPC (Single Channel Per Carrier) transmissions of analog audio, as well as FM audio services.
If the user already has an operational C-band system in place, he/she can retrofit it to accept Ku band frequencies.
In order to do so, users need to obtain a Ku-band LNB, a C/Ku band feed-hon, plus some coax cable for the Ku-band LNB.
As for the coax cable recommended, RG-6 is optimal for low loss in the 950-1450 frequency range, which is what Ku-band LNB processes. However, if RG-59 is the only viable option, it will work in a pinch.
Ku Band Dish Antenna Compatibility
If the user has a solid dish, he/she should have no problem converting from C band to Ku band.
However, with a mesh dish, if the "holes" in the mesh are greater than a quarter inch, the chances of computability are not in the user's favor due to the fact that his/her dish will not reflect Ku-band signals properly.
Therefore, the user should strongly consider upgrading to either a solid dish or a mesh dish in which the hole size is under 1/4." Ideally, the dish should be 1 piece (or at least very few pieces). A 4 section dish is more optimal than an 8 section dish.
The fewer the sections, the more accurate the parabola shape is and the more difficult it is for the dish to become warped (the smaller the number of seams the better). As far as dish mounts go, the H2H (Horizon-to-Horizon) dish mount is more desirable than a polar mount.
This is due to the fact that the Ku-band demands that the dish antenna system is well targeted and able to closely follow the orbital arc, which the H2H mount does quite admirably when compared to a polar mount. Also, bear in mind that the user will be adjusting both the azimuth and elevation, which can be a bit tricky occasionally.
Importance of Satellite Antenna Dish Parabola
The dish's parabolic shape is of critical importance as warpage causes signal degradation via mis-reflection, seriously down grading overall system performance. Some tape and string is all that is required to do a quick warpage check.
Anchor a piece of string that is stretched as tight as possible, "north" to "south" across the dish face and edge to edge. Do the same thing again with another piece of string, only "east" to "west" across the dish face at 90 degree angles. Make sure that both strings are tight.
If the strings come together anywhere but the direct center, the dish has sustained warp damage and needs to be bent back into proper parabola shape for optimal performance. If they connect in the center of the dish, it is likely that the dish is not warped.
Therefore, use either the tri-supports or quad supports as they will greatly assist in keeping the Ku-band feed horn highly stable, even in high winds.
When the button hook feed moves in the wind, Ku-band reception can easily drop out. By putting guy wires on the button hook feed, the user will create the much needed support in the event that the user is unable to obtain a tri support or quad support.
LNB (Low Noise Block)
An LNB (Low Noise Block aka LNC- Low Noise Converter) is used for communications (broadcast) ...
Azimuth is a measurement at an angle used in the spherical coordinate system. To find ...
SCPC (Single Channel Per Carrier)
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Waheeduddin
How to received Ku band signals of NSS6 (95ºE) in Jeddah
don't have ku band video signal anymore…did they shoot down?
samin
Thank you for your helpful article. I have a question; you mentioned :"the Ku band satellites typically require considerably more power to transmit than the C band satellites", the question is, isn't it a merit? I mean considering the same size of dish, a ku band apparatus is able to receive higher amount of information; the received signal has a higher power, therefore it is intenser. Please guide me.
More power means higher cost… and every part of a satellite is extremely expensive.
More power doesn't mean more information, it just means more power.
have any bangla channel ku band in meddle east
how are you. I am arafat from bangladesh. i have downlink frequency (3790), satellite apstar 2R. i want to know how i calculate uplink frequency from downlink frequency (total procedure). thank you.
Arafat,
add 2225 to 3790 and that would be 6015 MHz it is uplink freq.
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QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)
Rainfade
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Where to See Free Satellite Images
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Kategorie-Archiv: Islamofascism
Hillary Clinton: the best way of combating terror was to "reach out to the world" in order to "understand" people living in foreign countries.
There's a war on for your mind!
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com –
Another bright idea from the woman who just won't shut up
If you thought Hillary Clinton would stop talking any time soon then think again.
The defeated presidential candidate told a fundraiser for a youth program that the best way to stop terrorism was to "understand" other cultures and their food.
Hillary defended London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the man who once represented 9/11 Al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, called moderate Muslims "Uncle Toms" and said terrorism was "part and parcel" of living in a major city.
Clinton said that Khan, who has called for Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK for a state visit (while actual terrorists from Syria are free to return), had shown "steady, determined leadership".
Hillary said the best way of combating terror was to "reach out to the world" in order to "understand" people living in foreign countries.
"Getting to know one another. Learning about the experiences, the lives, the cultures, the religions, the food," she added.
One wonders what kind of "cultures" Clinton is referring to? Maybe the 'culture' of Bacha bāzī, where elderly Muslim men dress up young boys as girls and then rape them? Or could she be referring to female genital mutilation? Another expression of Islamic 'culture' now endorsed by imams living in America.
"This is not a time to lash out, to incite fear or to use tragedy and terror for political gain," said Clinton, a comment obviously aimed at Donald Trump and anyone else who has correctly identified political correctness and tolerance of Islamism as creating a fertile ground for terrorist attacks in the west.
Maybe Hillary is right. Maybe we don't need to arrest the thousands of jihadists who walk our streets. Maybe we don't need to stop terrorists who have fought alongside ISIS in Syria and Iraq from returning to the west.
Maybe we just need to get a better grip on the dietary habits of Muslims.
Who knew it would be this easy to stop suicide bombers, rampaging knifemen and jihadists who plough vehicles into crowds of people?
https://www.infowars.com/hillary-way-to-stop-terrorism-is-to-understand-other-cultures-their-food/
Why we are losing to jihadists and suicide bombers
salisburyreview.com
Execution of Homosexual by Islamists ("Catfur")
Let me try to explain why we are losing to the jihadists and suicide bombers.
For 1400 years Islam has made war on the West. Mohammed commanded from the very first that Muslims were to seek conversions at the point of the sword. There are 300 verses in the Koran urging the killing of Jews and Christians wherever these might be found. Islam's aim was always the conquest of Europe. A strategic pattern emerged in which Muslim armies would attack and threaten conquest, only to be driven back, and there would follow a period of relative peace and quiet before a renewed insurgency.
There were many such insurgencies and incursions, but let me mention just a few of the most significant:
In AD 732 a Muslim army of as many as 200,000 men was defeated by the Christian Charles Martel at Tours. If that battle had been lost, all Europe would have fallen to militant Islam .In 1565 the relief of the Siege of Malta, by a Christian alliance, ensured that the Mediterranean did not fall into Muslim hands and so give them a toehold in southern Europe
Following the defeat of the Muslim Turks by the Knights of St John at Malta in 1565, there came the Battle of Lepanto on 7th October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including its territories of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire.
There was that other 11th September – 1683 when Christian armies under Jan Sobieski arrived at the gates of Vienna and defeated the last substantial Muslim incursion: the last, that is, before the one which we face at present.
The most notable thing about all these life and death conflicts is that the victors were Christian princes and Christian soldiers. But now Europe has discarded Christianity, our churches are empty and new mosques are proliferating throughout the continent. Where our Christian forefathers repulsed the invaders, our modern leaders pay them to come in – in their millions. The character of Europe is thus being radically altered, in fact Islamised as Islam marches into the vacant space left by departed Christianity. We are left without the political will to repel these militant imperialists. More importantly, we entirely lack the moral and spiritual qualities required of us to defeat them and drive them out.
Islam is certainly a vile and detestable ideological cult, but at least its adherents believe something. They pray fervently. They fill their mosques regularly and often spill out into the street for lack of space. So European leaders build more mosques until what was once an incursion of an alien culture becomes an occupation. In thirty years' time the great cities and towns of what was once Christendom will resemble the impoverished, wasted and filthy townscapes of the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yes, the Muslims passionately want to come to Europe, but to do what? To turn Europe into the sorts of hellholes from which they have emerged. If you want a preview of what this will look like, visit parts of east London, Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Rochdale, Oldham and a dozen other locations which have been turned into ill-kept Muslim ghettoes. Here with impunity – because the police will never intervene for fear of being accused of "Islamophobia" – they operate sharia, ill-treat their womenfolk and some drug and rape underage white schoolgirls. These ghettoes are beyond the law.
Europe lacks the intellectual, moral and religious resources to resist the Muslim takeover. Listen to the words of our political leaders after each succeeding atrocity – and cringe. They talk about "our values" and "our spirit." What values are these? What spirit is this? Only the values and spirit of democracy, diversity and political correctness; of rampant, gaudy consumerism in which millions buy more and more things for which they have less and less purpose; the decadent spirit which animates our gadgeteered menagerie of ubiquitous pop music, electronic games and mindless chatter.
Churchill said, "We will fight them on the beaches…we will fight them on the landing grounds…we will never surrender." What, metaphorically speaking, might our present leaders' version of his resounding words sound like? "We will fight them in the chat-rooms…we will fight them on Facebook…we will fight them with Bakeoff and Strictly Come Dancing…we will fight them in teeny boppers' pop concerts…we will fight them with our 'roadside shrines' and with our downloads of sub-musical trash. And above all we will fight them with our policy of pre-emptive self-abasement, appeasing editorials in all our newspapers and our confessed hatred for all that was best in the history of our nation and continent."
Our today's leaders cannot add, "We will never surrender" – because we have surrendered already.
Our culture is numb, effete, dead from the neck up. When Muslims show us their magnificent and crowded to overflowing metropolitan mosques – packed with fervent worshippers – we shall show them our cathedrals, empty of everything except failure, bad debts and the blundering tourists. And then we may show them our infantilised modern architecture which has turned the City of London into a species of Disneyland. We shall show them our meretricious installation "art" – art replaced by advertising and the contents of the junkyard that is Tate Modern.
The Muslim zealots constantly cry, "Allahu Akbar! – Our God is greater than your God!" They are right, for Europe now has no gods except the public display of fornication, the celebration of deviant sexuality – blessed by what's left of the church, by the way – and wall-to-wall trivial entertainments. Everyone is encouraged to cultivate "self-esteem." But the banality of our "lifestyle" is not something to esteem and a sane person would despise it.
Our immediate responses to each succeeding Muslim atrocity say all there is to say about the shallowness and feebleness of European civilisation and culture: a Martian visiting Manchester would be justified in thinking that the sole purpose of terrorist slaughter is to restore the flagging industries of counselling and psychobabble, and the markets in teddy bears and floral tributes.
Our leaders claim "We will never be defeated." But we are defeated already. European civilisation is not in its death throes: it lies dead in its mouldering shroud. And we failed even to give it a decent Christian burial.
Peter Mullen
http://salisburyreview.com/articles/peter-mullen-for-1400-years-islam-has-made-war-on-the-west/
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Islam; The Coming Universal Religion ?
It's me can't you see
Edo Pivčević's latest book Man is a Rational Animal has just been published in America.
It has become commonplace for Moslems who recoil in horror from the Isil-Daesh atrocities to insist that Islam is a 'religion of peace'. Even a British Prime minister has described it as such in the British House of Commons. No doubt they all earnestly desire it to be so. But if 'peace' means being ready to allow space for beliefs contrary to one's own to be expressed and flourish, then this is difficult to reconcile with the ferocious diatribe in the opening chapters of the Koran against the 'unbelievers' – meaning principally Jews and Christians – who, it is alleged, have 'monstrously corrupted' God's message as revealed by their own apostles from Abraham to Moses and Jesus.
The entire Koran is conceived primarily as an indictment of what Mohammad and his followers saw as a scandalous vitiation and debasement of God's revelations in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospel. The Jews are accused of hypocritically professing allegiance to the all-embracing Abrahamic faith while at the same time trying to make it serve their own ends and 'debarring others from the path of God'. They 'disclaim' responsibility for executing Jesus while actually 'wanting him to be killed'. In addition, they engage in 'usury although they were forbidden it', and 'cheat others of their possessions' (4:158). As far as Christians are concerned, they are guilty of sacrilegiously proclaiming Jesus to be the 'Son of God' and of having fabricated the absurd doctrine of the Trinity, which violates the principle of monotheistic faith.
But the main underlying charge laid against both Jews and Christians is that they have turned God's message into something very close to a tribal ideology, designed to serve their own sectional interests. The Jews see themselves as God's favourite nation and a cut above the rest, and the Christian world, while ostensibly preaching the message of universal love and brotherhood, has become inextricably entangled with the beliefs and traditions of Greco-Roman civilisation, and is trying in effect to foist western values on the rest of humanity.
As against such 'monstrous' distortions of the faith the message of the Koran is that one should submit unconditionally to one God, who, it is claimed, stands above everything and everyone, and punishes or rewards Jew or Gentile alike. It is blasphemous to think of such a God as furthering any sectional interests or being susceptible to being swayed by offerings or entreaties. God cannot be attributed any human-like characteristics, and any attempt to portray him, or explain his actions, in human terms is an act of sacrilegious idolatry, and by far the worst sin one can commit.
Nevertheless, God, it seems, has some very specific things to say about how humans should conduct their lives. These are all listed in the Koran, which is said to be a verbatim account of what he, God, had revealed to Mohammad in a dream through the Angel Gabriel, and – as one is being menacingly told in the very first sentence – is a 'book not to be doubted' (2:1). Those who refuse to accept, or deliberately go against, God's 'revelations' as set out in the Koran will be punished most severely, for God is 'mighty and capable of revenge' (3:4). Admittedly God is also 'compassionate and merciful', but his mercy and compassion, it seems, extends only to those who are prepared to repent and submit to his will. The unbelievers who decline to do so will become 'the fuel of Hell'. This in particular applies to Jews and Christians, who are the 'vilest of creatures' (98:1). They are 'servants of Satan' and the duty of all believers is to be 'ruthless' to them, while being 'merciful to one another' (48:29)
Note that 'being ruthless' here is meant literally, not just as a figure of speech. 'Believers' – God, through his prophet, tells the faithful – 'make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous' (9:121). This is an essential part of the message, and is a duty no-one can shirk. For '…if you do not go to war, he [God] will punish you sternly, and will replace you by other men' (9:37). Appealing to conscience is not an option. One should put aside any qualms one might have about killing recalcitrant unbelievers. Nor should one hesitate to lay down one's own life in defence of the faith. True believers, one is being told, 'will fight for the cause of God, they will slay and be slain [italics added]. Such is the true promise which He [God] has made them in the Torah, the Gospel and the Koran'(9:111). One should accept this unconditionally and act accordingly, for 'idolatry is more grievous than bloodshed' (2:189; 2:216).
In other words, there can be no 'fraternisation' with non-Moslems. Indeed the Holy Book explicitly warns believers against making friends with infidels. 'Believers do not make friends with those who are enemies of Mine [God's] and yours.' (60:1). As to who the main enemies are, here the finger once again is being pointed at the same old bogeys. 'Take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends' – the faithful are told. 'They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number' (5:51) – and joining their ranks is virtually the same as apostasy, which is a 'treason' punishable by death.
At the same time, God's munificence in rewarding the faithful knows no bounds. Whereas unbelievers will fry in Hell, the believers in afterlife will dwell in 'high Pavilions' in gardens 'watered by running streams', with abundant fruit and drink, surrounded by 'bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches' (37:48). Indeed, says the Holy Book, the 'dark-eyed houris' will be 'theirs' as a 'guerdon for their deeds' (56:6) – which suggests all manner of alarming possibilities. Significantly there is no mention what rewards, if any, await the female devotees of the faith, apart, that is, from being able to enjoy wearing expensive jewellery. Which, perhaps, is not all that surprising, considering that the Koran declares men to have a 'status above women' (2:226) and generally as being 'superior' to them (4:34).
But the bashful, dark-eyed virgins seem to be just an added bonus, for God demands unconditional submission, not just compliance in exchange for reward. This includes a commitment to restore the Abrahamic faith to its original purity and wage war against all those who have perverted its message. When Mohammad came on the scene endless religious squabbles and rampant factionalism were convulsing the Judeo-Christian world. There were long standing theological disputes about predestination, the nature of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, among many others, which invariably spilled out into the political sphere and frequently led to bloodshed. Faced with such a situation Mohammad saw himself as a reformer with a mission to defend God's original message from what he saw as 'evil misrepresentations' at the hands of both Jews and Christians. Not unlike Martin Luther, who nine centuries later tried to rescue 'the true core' of the Christian doctrine from the idolatrous clatter of the Roman church, so Mohammad too tried to wrench the genuine Abrahamic faith from what he saw as the clutches of the heretics. The only problem was that – as often happens in similar circumstances – his initial reformatory motivation soon escalated into a fanatical zeal, which was murderous in intent and brooked no dissent.
At the same time, Mohammad was anxious for Islam to be seen as the only genuinely 'universal' religion. Both Judaism and Greco-Roman Christianity, as he saw it, had become too insular to be able to carry God's message successfully to everyone, or, for that matter, to incorporate into their teachings the customs and social norms which in other cultures had existed for centuries. The Jews and the Christians, he was saying, had used the traditional Biblical message merely to further their own sectional interests, and had turned what ought to be a universal faith into a parochial idolatry. Such a heresy, he thought, was serious enough – and threatening enough – to justify taking up arms in order to uproot it.
All this is like the stance which the mediaeval Christian church took against the non-Christian world, including the world of Islam. It too waged a war against the unbelievers in the name of the 'catholic', ie 'universal', faith. Nevertheless there is an important difference. For whereas the proselytising Christian ecclesia militans has gradually become less strident, for the established Church was taught a severe political lesson during the Age of Enlightenment. The French revolution laid the foundations of the modern secular state; Islam still seems to be a long way off from our own rationalist awakening.
(All quotations are taken from the translation of the Koran by N J Dawood, 1999.)
This article is in the current edition of The Salisbury Review. (Paper and Digital Versions – subscribe)
http://salisburyreview.com/2017/03/islam-coming-universal-religion/
What Muslims Really Think
Explosive Belt.
A survey was conducted by ICM Research for the Channel 4 documentary, "What British Muslims Really Think," which aired on April 13 2016. The 615-page survey found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathise with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts. Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists. In addition, 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations. Gatestone Institute


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NEWS BRIEF: Urban Smart Growth CEO meets with neighborhood residents following zoning hearing
Marywood signed an agreement with Urban Smart Growth in January 2018 that allows the company 13 months to decide if they want to purchase the Marywood South property. Photo credit: Manfid Duran
Brooke Williams
Urban Smart Growth CEO Lance Robbins met with concerned neighborhood residents on Wednesday, following a Scranton Zoning Board meeting that deferred action on a variance request from the company for 30 days.
Urban Smart Growth signed an agreement with Marywood last January, which allows the company 13 months to do its due diligence before agreeing to officially purchase Marywood South.
Robbins and his partners are in the process of getting a project off the ground that would convert the Marywood South property into apartments, a restaurant and more if the company purchases it from the university.
The board tabled the variance request for the only building on the property that's located in Scranton after neighborhood residents raised concerns such as safety, parking and traffic issues.
Robbins said in an interview with The Wood Word that the meeting was productive.
"I think we were able to come to some sort of accord as to what's going to happen," Robbins said. "They really just wanted us to ensure that we're serious about the development and that we're not going to just build a bar on the property and leave."
Robbins said overall, he feels satisfied with the meeting's results and hopes Urban Smart Growth will be able to move forward with the project. The Scranton Zoning Board meets again on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
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Xaltocan è stata una città-Stato precolombiana ed un'isola della valle del Messico, situata al centro del lago di Xaltocan che faceva parte di un sistema lacustre che comprendeva anche il lago di Texcoco. Il sito fu originariamente fondato dagli Otomi, ma nel XIV secolo un'alleanza tra Tepanechi e Mexica cacciò gli Otomi dall'isola obbligandoli a trasferirsi a Otumba, Metztitlan e Tlaxcala. L'isola di Xaltocan fu poi ricolonizzata dai popoli di lingua nahuatl.

Descrizione

Xaltocan è nota per essere stata abitata in età post-classica. Ceramiche ed altri reperti databili a quel periodo sono stati trovati durante gli scavi archeologici effettuati sul posto. Si pensa che sia stato un centro di potere in grado di pretendere il pagamento di tributi dalle altre città-Stato dell'area.

La fondazione di Xaltocan viene descritta in alcuni documento mitico-storici, Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca e Annali di Cuauhtitlan. Secondo gli Anales i Xaltocameca (abitanti di Xaltocan) erano tra le tribù Chichimeche che abbandonarono il mitico luogo d'origine, Aztlán, al seguito di un capo chiamato Quauhtliztac ("Aquila bianca"). LHistoria identifica anche i Xaltocameca come appartenenti al gruppoetnico degli Otomi. In questo documento, scritto da Ixtlilxochitl, il primo capo dei Xaltocameca viene chiamato Iztacquauhtli, che significa sempre "Aquila bianca" in lingua nahuatl.

Nel XIII secolo Xaltocan fu coinvolta in una lunga guerra con la città-Stato Nahua di Cuautitlán. Xaltocan fu inizialmente la più forte, ma attorno al 1395 il re di Cuauhtitlan, Xaltemoctzin, si alleò con Tezozomoc di Azcapotzalco ed ai suoi tributari, i Mexica di Tenochtitlán, riuscendo infine a conquistare Xaltocan. Gli Otomi fuggirono a nord verso le città otomi di Metztitlan e Tlaxcala, mentre ad altri fu permesso di ricolonizzare le terre di Texcoco nel posto che fu poi chiamato Otumba, "Luogo degli Otomi".

Nei successivi 100 anni il sito fu ricolonizzato dai popoli Nahua. Dopo che la Triplice alleanza azteca ebbe sconfitto i Tepanechi di Azcapotzalco, Xaltocan divenne sottomessa agli Aztechi, e fu obbligata a pagare tributi a Tenochtitlan, soprattutto sotto forma di coperte tessute. Nel 1521, durante la conquista spagnola, l'esercito di Hernán Cortés razziò Xaltocan bruciandola fino alle fondamenta.

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Bibliografia
 Nigel Davies, The Toltec Heritage - from the fall of Tula to the rise of Tenochtitlan, 1980, University of Oklahoma Press
 E.M. Brumfiel e M.G. Hodge, Interaction in the basin of Mexico: The case of Postclassic Xaltocan, 1996, Arqueología mesoamericana: homenaje a William T. Sanders
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