Happy Easter! We are now in what is my favorite season of the Christian calendar. I have great child-hood memories of new pants, shirt and tie for Easter Sunday and the expectation of an Easter Egg Hunt at my grandparents' house. The family would get together and eat in an overcrowded kitchen with uneven tables shoved together with the noise of too many voices talk-ing at once. I hope you have hold of some special memories too.
Little did I know, as I sat in the midst of my cousins and the grownups that there were the deep cares of the world just outside the kitchen door. Youth can be such a special time of confidence, ignorance and unbridled joy. In the protection of those you love, it is easier to deal with the uncertainties of life. When I look back at photos of those years, things seem much simpler.
In the spring of 2018 the world seems to be moving much faster and to be more unsettled, but I doubt it. We as a nation and the world itself have gone time and again to limits of insanity and conflict. The storms come through in forms of new technology, philosophy and some form of idealism that tends, in human hands, to cause great distress and destruction. Like a hurricane or northeaster, trouble and crisis come, making life more difficult and uncertain. It is easy to get discouraged.
There are two things I wish to remind you of this Holy Season. The first is that God would have us re-member the joys of youth and to accept Him with the faith of a child. In the uncertainties of the future, we are always within His presence, at His table, receiving His attention. The second, is that even when the storms hit and we face the wind, snow and hardships, the sun still shines above the storm. The storms of life are not eternal. God is, Christ is, and in Him we are.
Finally, let us remember that Jesus went to the cross and beyond by never losing faith. He faced His storm and got through it. He didn't get bitter, cynical or jaded by the experience. As a matter of fact, He became all the more loving. This Easter season and its meaning defines us as Christians. We listen to, and seek, a higher understanding and authority. It defines our behavior and shapes our responses to the craziness just outside the door. Many will look at us and not understand why we do what we do but that's ok. Many didn't understand Jesus nor why He did what He did. We do things differently because we listen with open ears, see with open eyes and seek with open hearts. We know a deep and fundamental truth has been shared with us giving us the power to see beyond the storms and to never lose faith.
After several delays, the date is finally set. At this meeting the leadership for 2018 will be approved. You will also be asked to vote (using a paper ballot) for the class of trustees for 2020. The candidates selected by the Leadership Committee are: Marilyn Gillespie, Marlene Martin and Josh Marlow.
The large 2018 planning calendar is in the Teller's Room. Please fill-in any and all meeting dates. Our Lutheran friends use the calendar as well, and filling it in will help avoid conflicts of use. Please use the markers provided next to the calendar. Thank you.
God is always able and available to help us because God is always accessible because He is always with us.
Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problems how big God is.
God fills our heart with peace when we pour out our heart to Him.
Focusing on the good things in our lives may benefit our bodies, but directing our thanks to God benefits our souls. The act of giving thanks causes us to recognize the One who provides our blessings.
Compassion is understanding the troubles of others, coupled with an urgent desire to help.
Begin each day with confidence because God is with you. Realizing His constant presence will help you see more of Him in the events of your life. His love and strength will keep you going.
The cycle of giving starts with the gracious giving of God, God's ultimate gift of his son; then the generous giving of those who have received from God, then the giving of thanks from those who have received from God, through others.
It's easy to let discouragement sap our energy and joy. God can help us reject all agents of discouragement from our lives and give us comfort and strength.
People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.
We fight the sin of prejudice when we let God's love for us find full expression in the way we love and treat each other. Looking up to Jesus prevents us from looking down on others.
The next meeting is April 12. Remember, the Rummage Sale is fast approaching. Many women are needed to help set-up and sell.
April is pasta and sauces month. Please add your donation to the red shopping cart at the back of the sanctuary.
Nickles return center has informed me that due to a concern about black mold, cans & bottles must be rinsed and drained. Otherwise, they will be unable to accept them. Please help me out by taking care of this before you place items in the box at the back of the sanctuary.
Bruce Barnard: P.O. Box 246, Rainbow Lake, NY 12976.
Evangelism, Outreach and Missions is one his emphases (Veteran's breakfast).
Eric would like to explore little vignettes on the local radio station.
Eric plans to invite the Lutherans to join us at least two times each year.
Some communication hasn't been working the way we would like. When Eric is away, no one should be bothering Claudia, the Church Council chair is the person to go to.
Pledge and identified giving along with plate offering is $2,666 better than last year.
Special Appeals for fuel at $655 is $540 better than last year.
We received $7,900 to cover the cost of the purchasing pew cushions for the sanctuary, balcony and choir loft. A down payment of $4,050 has been spent.
Salaries are $2,732 less than last year.
Our fuel expense in January is $2,325 greater than last year reflecting cold weather and increased cost per gallon.
Repairs and Maintenance is over last year by $673 with the largest item being work on the lift totaling $490.
We continue to be current on our Ministry Shares payments.
Our current income is $4,532 under our current expenses at this time. This is normal as our heating bills are higher during the winter months but last year income was $7,003 under current expenses at this time so are ahead of last year.


Dom Francisco de Almeida, known as the Great Dom Francisco, was a Portuguese nobleman and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and in the wars against the Moors, in 1503 he was appointed as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India. Almeida is credited with establishing Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean, before Almeida could return to Portugal, he lost his life in 1510. His son Lourenço de Almeida too was killed in the Battle of Chaul in 1508, as was customary for men in his social circle, he joined the military at an early age. In 1476 he took part in the Battle of Toro, he fought in conflicts in different parts of Morocco and in 1492 participated in the Christian conquest of Granada on the side of the Castilians. In 1505 King Manuel I of Portugal appointed Almeida, in his mid 50s, with an armada of 22 ships, including 14 carracks and 6 caravels, Almeida departed from Lisbon on 25 March 1505. The armada carried a crew of 1,500 soldiers, the flagship was the carrack São Rafael captained by Fernão Soares.
Almeida rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered African coastal waters again at Sofala, in July 1505 they employed 8 ships to attack and conquer the ca 4,000 strong population of this harbour town. Because of the harbour that the town provided, sufficient for anchoring ships up to 500 tons. For this purpose Pêro Ferreira and a crew of 80 soldiers remained in the town, in August 1505 the Portuguese arrived at Mombasa, a coastal port further north. The city with a population of about 10,000 was conquered in heavy combat against the troops of the local Arab sheik, the city was plundered and torched. The Portuguese were assisted in this attack by a Mombasa enemy, the same month a caravel of Almeidas fleet captained by John Homere captured Zanzibar island and claimed it for Portugal. Francisco de Almeida left Portugal with a fleet of 22 vessels with 1,500 men, on 13 September, Francisco de Almeida reached Anjadip Island, where he immediately started the construction of Fort Anjediva. On 23 October, he started, with the permission of the friendly ruler Kōlattiri, Francisco de Almeida reached Cochin on 31 October 1505, with only 8 vessels left.
Its main industries are agriculture, dairy farming, livestock and tourism, which is becoming the major service activity in the region. In addition, the government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service, the main settlement of the Azores is Ponta Delgada. There are nine major Azorean islands and a cluster, in three main groups. These are Flores and Corvo, to the west, Terceira, São Jorge and Faial in the centre, and São Miguel, Santa Maria, and they extend for more than 600 km and lie in a northwest-southeast direction. All the islands have volcanic origins, although some, such as Santa Maria, have had no recorded activity since the islands were settled, mount Pico, on the island of Pico, is the highest point in Portugal, at 2,351 m. The Azores are actually some of the tallest mountains on the planet, measured from their base at the bottom of the ocean to their peaks, which thrust high above the surface of the Atlantic. The climate of the Azores is very mild for such a location, being influenced by its distance to continents.
Due to the influence, temperatures remain mild year-round. Daytime temperatures normally fluctuate between 16 °C and 25 °C depending on season, temperatures above 30 °C or below 3 °C are unknown in the major population centres. It is generally wet and cloudy, the culture, dialect and traditions of the Azorean islands vary considerably, because these once-uninhabited and remote islands were settled sporadically over a span of two centuries. However, these kinds of structures have always used in the Azores to store cereals. Detailed examination and dating to authenticate the validity of these speculations is lacking and it is unclear whether these structures are natural or man-made and whether they predate the 15th-century Portuguese colonization of the Azores. Solid confirmation of a human presence in the archipelago has not yet been published. The islands were known in the century and parts of them appear in the Atlas Catalan. In 1427, a captain sailing for Henry the Navigator, possibly Gonçalo Velho, rediscovered the Azores, but this is not certain.
Tordesillas is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located 25 kilometres southwest of the capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 704 metres. The population was c.9,000 as of 2009, the town is known for its Toro de la Vega festival during which a bull was slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot. Animal rights groups repeatedly tried to stop this from taking place, the bull is at least five years old when hes killed and is allowed to live in a large property to keep him territorial, unlike other animals who are killed for the butcher at one year of age. The mayor of the town, backed unanimously by the opposition, the bulls slaughter had come to be inextricably associated with the name of the town, overshadowing its rich monumental and historical heritage. The town is located on the Douro River although the river is not navigable up to Tordesillas, there are railway services to Salamanca, Ourense and Valladolid. There are highway connections to Madrid,182 kilometres to the southeast, the provincial capital is linked by four-lane highway.
Because of its important highway connections Tordesillas has become a transit hub. The economy is based on services — especially connected to tourism —, wheat has long been the traditional agricultural product. The town is served by hotels with a parador, four three-star hotels, one two-star hotel. There is a camping site, there is an abundance of restaurants —27 in total — with the Parador restaurant having a three star classification. North of the town there is a valley formed by the Douro. The Roman Turris Sillae, built on the hill of Siellas, was the bulwark of the line of the Duero during the Reconquest. In 1262 it received its charter from Alfonso X the Wise, the town began to be favored by the royal family and nobility, above all after Alfonso XI built a palace. In the 15th century the town hosted several meetings of the Cortes, during the skirmishes between Henry IV and the nobility the city supported the monarchy, and again during the clashes between the Catholic Monarchs and Joanna La Beltraneja in 1476.
Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici, was Pope from 9 March 1513 to his death in 1521. The second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the Florentine Republic, following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the Sacred College. Early on in his rule he oversaw the sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran. In 1517 he led a war that succeeded in securing his nephew as duke of Urbino. He only narrowly escaped a plot by some cardinals to poison him and he is probably best remembered for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peters Basilica, which practice was challenged by Martin Luthers 95 Theses. He seems not to have taken seriously the array of demands for reform that would quickly grow into the Protestant Reformation. His Papal Bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, simply condemned Luther on a number of areas and he did, grant establishment to the Oratory of Divine Love. A significant patron of the arts, upon election Leo is alleged to have said, Since God has given us the papacy, under his reign, progress was made on the rebuilding of Saint Peters Basilica and artists such as Raphael decorated the Vatican rooms.
Leo reorganised the Roman University, and promoted the study of literature, poetry and he died in 1521 and is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. He is the last pope not to have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy. Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici was born on December 11,1475 in the Republic of Florence, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. From an early age he was destined for an ecclesiastical career and he received the tonsure at the age of seven and was soon granted rich benefices and preferments. Meanwhile, he received an education at Lorenzos humanistic court under such men as Angelo Poliziano, Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino, from 1489 to 1491 he studied theology and canon law at Pisa. On 23 March 1492, he was admitted into the Sacred College of Cardinals and took up his residence at Rome. The death of Lorenzo on the following 8 April, however and he returned to Rome to participate in the conclave of 1492 which followed the death of Innocent VIII, and unsuccessfully opposed the election of Cardinal Borgia.
The Kingdom of Valencia, located in the eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon. When the Crown of Aragon merged by dynastic union with the Crown of Castile to form the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Valencia was formally created in 1238 when the Moorish taifa of Valencia was taken in the course of the Reconquista. It was dissolved by Philip V of Spain in 1707, by means of the Nueva Planta decrees, the boundaries and identity of the present Spanish Autonomous Community of Valencia are essentially those of the former Kingdom of Valencia. Shortly after, in 1233, Borriana and Peniscola were taken from the بلنسية Balansiyya taifa, a second and more relevant wave of expansion took place in 1238, when James I defeated the Moors from the Balansiya taifa. He entered the city of Valencia on 9 October 1238, which is regarded as the dawn of the Kingdom of Valencia. The Treaty of Almizra established the line of Aragonese expansion in the line formed by the villes of Biar and Busot.
Everything south of line, including what would be the Kingdom of Murcia, was reserved by means of this treaty for Castile. He led important rebellions in 1244,1248 and 1276, during the first of these, he briefly regained Muslim independence for the lands South of the Júcar, but he had to surrender soon after. During the second revolt, king James I was almost killed in battle, during the third rebellion, Al-Azraq himself was killed but his son would continue to promote Muslim unrest and local rebellions remained always at sight. James II called Jaume II el Just or the Just, a grandson of James I, the campaign under James II was successful to the point of extending the limits of the Kingdom of Valencia well south of the previously agreed border with Castile. His troops took Orihuela and Murcia, at the end of the process, four taifas had been wiped out, Alpuente and Murcia. The new territories would be only to the king. This development was part of a growing trend evident in the Middle Ages and it is by this historiographical approach that the repopulation of the Kingdom is assessed today.
John II, the Perfect Prince, was the king of Portugal and the Algarves in 1477/1481–1495. He is known for re-establishing the power of the Portuguese throne, reinvigorating the Portuguese economy, and renewing his countrys exploration of Africa and the Orient. As a prince, John II accompanied his father in the campaigns in northern Africa and was made a knight after the victory in the Conquest of Arzila in 1471, in 1473, he married Leonor of Viseu, an infanta of Portugal and his first cousin. Even at an age, John was not popular among the peers of the kingdom since he was immune to external influence. The nobles were afraid of his policies as king. After his official accession to the throne in 1481, John II took a series of measures to curtail the power of the Portuguese aristocracy, as one of example of the measure he took, he deprived the nobles of their right to administer justice on their estates. Immediately, the nobles started to conspire, letters of complaint and pleas to intervene were exchanged between the Duke of Braganza and Queen Isabella I of Castile.
In 1483, additional correspondence was intercepted by royal spies, the House of Braganza was outlawed, their lands confiscated and the duke executed in Évora. His widow, Isabella of Viseu, Johns cousin and sister-in-law, in the following year, the Duke of Viseu, Johns cousin and brother-in-law, was summoned to the palace and stabbed to death by the king himself for suspicion of a new conspiracy. Many other people were executed, murdered, or exiled to Castile, including the Bishop of Évora, following the crackdown, no one in the country dared to defy the king and John saw no further conspiracies during his reign. A great confiscation of estates followed and enriched the crown, which now became the dominant power of the realm, facing a bankrupt kingdom, John II showed the initiative to solve the situation by creating a regime in which a Council of Scholars took a vital role. The king conducted a search of the population and selected members for the Council on the basis of their abilities, Johns exploration policies paid great dividends.
Statue of Setúbal poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage in a city square.
Romantic depiction of Cabral's first landing on the Island of the True Cross (present-day Brazil). He can be seen on the shore (center) standing in front of an armored soldier, who is carrying a banner of the Order of Christ.
A carrack, 14 of which Almeida employed in his voyage to the east.
Almeida's patron, Manuel I of Portugal.
Inscription of Johannes Ruysch, 1508. The Isle of Demons further north may be Antillia's old companion, Satanazes.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was used to disseminate to the political community the first-ever French Constitution.
The Jikji is the earliest known book printed with movable metal type in 1377.
In 1549, the Captaincy Colonies of Brazil were united into the Governorate General of Brazil, where they were provincial captaincies of Brazil; Luís Teixeira, 1574.


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Elon Musk News - Issue 89
Note From The Curator
The top three stories in this issue of Elon Musk News Premium are:
Tesla in Talks to Set Up Electric Car Factory in Shanghai
Tesla replaces head of Autopilot with OpenAI's neural net researcher
SpaceX Sets Up a 'Weekend Doubleheader' of Droneship Landings
In just over an hour SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first of two Falcon 9s this weekend. The second launch is scheduled for Sunday at 13:25 PT. If successful, this back to back launch will be SpaceX's shortest ever window between launches. I will have all the details in Tuesday's issue. You can also catch the action live as it happens at space.com/webcast.
This issue also has some big news on the Tesla front, as well as news from South Korea that they want a Hyperloop in 4 years, Elon Musk's ascension to Glassdoor's top 100 CEO list with a 98% approval rating, and much more!
Thanks so much for being part of this community and enjoy issue 89!
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Zach says: The BulgariaSat-1 launch is scheduled for just over an hour from now. You can watch the livestream at spacex.com/webcast.
SpaceX will attempt to launch and land two Falcon 9 rockets this weekend on either sides of America, setting up the the tightest launch schedule in the company's history and offering the public a chance to view two droneship landings in three days. On Friday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch as early as 2:10 p.m. from from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to put a Bulgarian satellite into orbit. The first-stage booster of the above Falcon 9 will attempt to land upright on the deck of Of Course I Still Love You, about 8-10 minutes or so after launch.
On Sunday, another commercial satellite launch (technically 10 new satellites part of Iridium's NEXT communications network) will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California, using a different Falcon 9. After sending off the sats, the rocket will attempt a landing on Just Read the Instructions, a different droneship in the Pacific. Sunday's Iridium satellite launch is scheduled for 1:25 p.m. Pacific.
SpaceX tests Vandenberg Falcon 9 amid schedule realignment
SpaceX has static fired a Falcon 9 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base ahead of a mission to launch the next set of Iridium NEXT satellites. Confirmation of a good test came via SpaceX on its social media channels, based on the results of the "quick look" data. The SpaceX team will then head into the Launch Readiness Review (LRR) ahead of the Sunday launch attempt with the window opening at 13:25 pm local time. SpaceX has the ability to continue the flow towards launch, despite the schedule change with the BulgariSat-1 pre-launch flow, due to two separate launch teams for its two – currently active – launch sites.
SpaceX's mystery "Optimus Prime" drone ship robot spotted testing ahead of BulgariaSat-1 mission
"Optimus Prime" is a measure to more rapidly and safely secure first stages after landing aboard drone ships. The primary reason for this robot existing is to better ensure the safety of those working aboard active drone ships. Removing the requirement for people to be aboard a barge with an unsecured 50,000 kilogram rocket that has a tendency to explode violently after falling over.
It is currently unclear whether the robot is intended to be a precaution only used in high seas or a tool to be used for every autonomous spaceport drone ship recovery. But the fact that it was seen conducting tests aboard OCISLY just a day before SpaceX's static fire test for the upcoming launch of BulgariaSat-1 indicates that the upcoming launch may be the robot's first truly operational test. It is also possible that SpaceX may simply choose to recover the stage and bring it back to port before conducting tests with the robot and an actual Falcon 9 S1 aboard OCISLY, with this latter option forcing less reliance upon a currently unproven (but nevertheless rather simple) technology.
Tesla is in discussions to establish a factory in Shanghai, its first in China, a move that could bolster its efforts in one of its major markets even as it further lifts China's position as a builder of electric cars. In a statement on Thursday, Tesla said it needed to set up more overseas factories to make cars that customers could afford. Such a strategy is a must in China, which charges steep tariffs for imported cars.
"To better serve the Chinese market, Tesla is in the process of discussing about the possibility of setting up a factory locally with the Shanghai government," a spokeswoman, Duan Zhengzheng, said in a statement. "Per our previous negotiations, by the end of this year, we will have a much clearer plan for our localization. Tesla has always been devoted to cultivating the Chinese market."
Tesla has replaced its Vice President of Autopilot Software Chris Lattner with Andrej Karpathy who will serve as the company's new Director of AI and Autopilot Vision. Lattner, a former 11-year Apple veteran who joined Tesla less than six months ago has departed the company, citing that the role was not a good fit him. "Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all. I'm interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!" says Lattner through his Twitter account. A Tesla spokesperson echoed the sentiment, telling Teslarati that "Chris just wasn't the right fit for Tesla, and we've decided to make a change."
Karpathy, who prior to joining Tesla worked at Google's DeepMind and was a respected research scientist at Musk's artificial intelligence OpenAI nonprofit, has extensive experience training neural networks and working with deep learning AI. "I like to train Deep Neural Nets on large datasets." reads Karpathy's Twitter profile. In his new role as Tesla Director of AI and Autopilot Vision, Karpathy will report directly Elon Musk, and work closely with chip expert and Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Jim Keller on advancing Tesla's self-driving technology.
Tesla Model S P100D owner sets record 560 mi (901.2 km) drive on a single charge
Steven Peeters had a dream for his Tesla Model S P100D, to break the world record for longest trip in an electric vehicle on a single charge. "My first line of thinking was 'this is going to be a piece of cake', because we have a big battery. But when doing a few test runs, it turns out to be a lot harder to get the power consumption so low you can actually drive these vast distances." Peeters said.
The two discovered that 40 kph was the ideal speed to take on this challenge. They also decked out their Tesla with a sign saying "TEST" since they were driving slowly for most of the journey. After 23 hours and 45 minutes of nonstop driving, the men arrived to their charger, making it 559.98 mi (901.2 km) on a single charge, breaking both world records and zooming past the 900 km mark. "We had fun along the entire way, but it is a very long drive," Peeters said.
Tesla is talking to the music labels about creating its own streaming service
Music industry sources say the carmaker has had talks with all of the major labels about licensing a proprietary music service that would come bundled with its cars, which already come equipped with a high-tech dashboard and internet connectivity. Label sources aren't clear about the full scope of Tesla's ambitions, but believe it is interested in offering multiple tiers of service, starting with a Pandora-like web radio offering.
The bigger question: Why doesn't Tesla simply integrate existing services, like Spotify or Apple Music, into all of its cars from the start — especially since Tesla already does a deal with Spotify for Teslas sold outside the U.S.? "We believe it's important to have an exceptional in-car experience so our customers can listen to the music they want from whatever source they choose," a Tesla spokesperson said. "Our goal is to simply achieve maximum happiness for our customers."
Tesla Model 3 design is "pretty much final," plus new insights from a batch of high quality photos
Zach says: These are some of the best photos of the Model 3 I've seen. I highly recommend checking them out!
Photos come from multiple posts on reddit by You You Xue who spotted the Model 3 at the San Mateo supercharger and got several high quality photos. Xue said he spoke to the employee who was driving the car, and that the employee stated that the car is pretty much the final design before the first delivery (not a direct quote from the employee, but Xue's summary of the conversation).
One thing to note is that the cockpit and steering wheel looks the same as it did in the other recent batch of photos we saw of them, so if this is pretty much the final design, then it's likely that we'll end up with a rather conventional steering wheel design on the finalized vehicle. It's still possible that it might change, but looking less likely as we get closer and closer to release.
Tesla is starting Model 3 battery cell production at Gigafactory 1 'right now'
Tesla has confirmed that it started production of the new Model 3 battery cell at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada over the weekend – an important step toward launching the production of the Model 3. Tesla said that it aimed to start the production of those vehicle cells during the second quarter and Tesla's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, JB Straubel, confirmed this weekend that the production of the cells has started at Gigafactory 1.
Tesla has designed a new battery module and pack architecture to use the 2170 battery cells in the Model 3. The cells are manufactured by Panasonic, while Tesla is in charge of manufacturing the modules and overall battery packs. Everything is done under one roof at Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in Nevada.
Tesla Model S, X has no plans to use 2170 battery cells, says Musk
Elon Musk confirmed Monday that Tesla has no plans to use its new 2170 lithium ion cell in the Model S and X. The news flies in the face of past assumptions that Tesla would convert all of its vehicles to the new cells being produced at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada.
Why maintain two battery standards? With the production lines for Model S and X well established at the Fremont factory and the factory already bursting at the seams just to accommodate Model 3 production, it is likely that Tesla is simply out of space at the Fremont factory. Reworking the factory to accommodate a different battery specification would add value in the long term in supply chain simplification, but is likely too much headache for too little return for the time being.
Tesla scores victory in Arizona as judge rules to allow direct sales in the state
Tesla has scored a victory in Arizona after a judge ruled that an existing law believed to prohibit auto manufacturers from selling direct to customers did not apply to Tesla. Tesla pursued and obtained an automotive dealer license – a standard license traditional automotive dealerships are required to hold in order to sell vehicles – from the Arizona Department of Transportation following the ruling.
Tesla previously believed that a supporting law prohibited direct sales to customers even with the dealer license so the clarification from the judge that direct sales would be allowed with a run of the mill automotive dealer license came as quite a relief. The victory came after multiple failed attempts by Tesla to change state law to allow direct sales through the legislative process.
Tesla sales model gets relief in North Carolina in surprise late-session bill
A new North Carolina bill has the potential to turn Tesla's luck around in the state, allowing it to operate its own dealerships. North Carolina House Bill 617 was originally written in April to provide guidelines for temporary automotive sales permits for antique and specialty vehicles, but was reintroduced on Wednesday with a broader scope. The new writing of the bill largely does away with the antique vehicle scope and instead provides guidance for manufacturer-owned dealerships as long as they sell only electric vehicles or have no other traditional dealer franchises.
Tesla is not explicitly stated in the bill but the writing makes it clear that it was written with an intent to allow Tesla to sell its vehicles directly to consumers in North Carolina. The bill has not been voted on yet but is expected to be put up for a vote in the coming days.
The Mayor of L.A. Just Mentioned Tunneling and Elon Musk is Stoked
Elon Musk's Boring Company looks like it has a potential client: the city of Los Angeles. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Sunday said "Like many other cities have, I'd love to see maybe even with the new tunneling technology that people like Elon Musk is looking at, whether we could have a quick and direct route from LAX to Union Station."
It didn't take long for Musk to catch wind of the clip and clearly he's into the idea. He tweeted "Promising conversations with @MayorOfLA regarding tunnel network that would carry cars, bikes & pedestrians. Permits harder than technology."
South Korea Wants To Fire Up A Hyperloop In Just 4 Years
South Korea's bullet trains whisk people from Seoul to the city of Busan, 200 miles to the southeast, in a bit less than three hours. Apparently that isn't fast enough, because the government wants to build a hyperloop that will make the trip in just 30 minutes. The government caught hyperloop fever in January, when it asked Hanyang University for help figuring out how to make Elon Musk's vision of vacuum tube transportation work.
In a deal announced today, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will contribute some of the know-how needed to successfully fling people through tubes at near-supersonic speed. "We are ready to build," says CEO Dirk Ahlborn. "The biggest showstopper is regulation." Clearing that hurdle shouldn't be much trouble for the government of South Korea, which wants this thing up and running in four years.
Elon Musk ranked in Glassdoor's Top 100 CEOs list, 98% approval rating from employees
Musk's employees at SpaceX just propelled him to a new accolade, 8th place in Glassdoor's Top 100 CEOs list. The ranking is decided by anonymous entries from employees. Musk came in with a 98% approval rating among his employees, shattering the average CEO rating of 67%.
Musk's ranking comes solely from SpaceX, as his Tesla and Neuralink did not meet all the requirements to be considered for the list. "I'd say focus on signal over noise," he told Glassdoor. "Don't waste time on stuff that doesn't actually make things better." Musk's approval rating indicates that there are good things in store for SpaceX, which also ranked as Glassdoor's 40th best place to work this year.
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This guide provides information across seven topic areas designed to assist the implementation of the SCforH approach in your association.
Each area explores why the particular topic is worthwhile and how you can achieve the recommendations associated with it.
If you want to get more detailed information on any topic you can click the respective icon within the model or to click the concerned topic on the left bar. The respective topic appears in red letters and is replenished with subtopics. With a click on the subtopics you'll get direct access to more respective documents.
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Reel-y? 280-pound catfish reportedly caught in Italy's Po River
By Greg Botelho and Joseph Netto, CNN
Updated 8:37 PM EST, Wed February 25, 2015
Is this 280-pound catfish real? Fisherman provides proof
Dino Ferrari snaps photos of a 280-pound catfish he says he caught in Italy
It took him 40 minutes to reel in the fish, according to his sponsor
Catfish come in all varieties, shapes and sizes, some big and some small.
And one downright gigantic, apparently now swimming in a river in Italy.
That's the fish story being told by Dino Ferrari, who reeled in a 280-pound (127-kilogram), 8.75-foot-long catfish last Thursday along the Po River, said Davide Valla, who is with Ferrari's sponsor company Sportex. (The sponsored fisherman wouldn't say exactly where he caught the big fellow, choosing to keep his favorite spots secret.)
Assuming the world isn't being hooked, this would not be the first time someone has caught a whopper of a catfish and lived to tell the tale.
In fact, it wouldn't be the biggest catfish ever caught. That would be a nearly 342-pound lau-lau (or piraiba) type of catfish snared in 2009 in Brazil's Amazon region, according to the International Game Fish Association.
Heck, it's not even the biggest catfish ever snared in Italy. That honor goes to a 298-pound wels catfish – which is reportedly the same variety caught by Ferrari – also from the Po River. And Ferrari didn't necessarily bring his fish in alone, with stories linked from Sportex's Facebook page indicating that twin brother Dario was by his side.
One thing that makes the latest Po River catch unique is that it was done with a spinning reel, said Valla, who called it a record for such fishing tackle. It took Ferrari 40 minutes to bring in the fish, then bring it to shore, his sponsor said.
Once it was on land, the Ferraris snapped some photos and weighed their catch. But they didn't dig in, savoring it with fresh bread, cheese and a glass of pinot grigio.
That's because this fish story has a happy ending for the star of the show: the catfish. According to Valla, Ferrari released his big catch back into the river.
Teen hooks massive blue marlin off Hawaii coast


text:
Q: How to send formatted/HTML message in Nebular chat? I am using the Nebular chat component and it is working fine.
But I am unable to send HTML message in that. Such as
Hello world
Hello World
Can you please help to achieve this in the nebular chat?
Edit 1
This is sample code for send message :
this.messages.push({
      text: "Hello world",
      date: new Date(),
      reply: true,
      type: files.length ? 'file' : 'text',
      files: files,
      user: {
        name: 'Jonh Doe',
        avatar: 'https://i.gifer.com/no.gif',
      },
    });

Output: Hello world
For sending HTML message I have tried below code
this.messages.push({
      text: Hello World,
      date: new Date(),
      reply: true,
      type: files.length ? 'file' : 'text',
      files: files,
      user: {
        name: 'Jonh Doe',
        avatar: 'https://i.gifer.com/no.gif',
      },
    });

Output :Hello world

It is printing HTML character in the message

A: Edit 2:
Ok, I got the problem. Nebular wants just string for message. So there is no way to send HTML styled text. But you can find the element and replace it with styled one on ngAfterViewInit.

Old Answer
Have you tried something like this?
https://github.com/akveo/ngx-admin/blob/master/src/app/pages/editors/ckeditor/ckeditor.component.ts
Edit 1:
import { Component } from '@angular/core';

import './ckeditor.loader';
import 'ckeditor';

@Component({
  selector: 'ngx-ckeditor',
  template: `
    <nb-card>
      <nb-card-header>
        CKEditor
      </nb-card-header>
      <nb-card-body>
        <ckeditor [config]="{ extraPlugins: 'divarea', height: '320' }"></ckeditor>
      </nb-card-body>
    </nb-card>
  `,
})
export class CKEditorComponent {
}

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package org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker;

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasItem;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;

import java.util.List;
import org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.GroupAlsoByWindowParDoFnFactory.MergingCombineFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.VarLongCoder;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.testing.TestPipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Combine.BinaryCombineLongFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Sum;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.FixedWindows;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.WindowFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.WindowingStrategy;
import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import org.joda.time.Duration;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/** Tests for {@link GroupAlsoByWindowParDoFnFactory}. */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
@SuppressWarnings({
  "rawtypes" // TODO(https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/20447)
})
public class GroupAlsoByWindowParDoFnFactoryTest {
  @Rule public TestPipeline p = TestPipeline.create().enableAbandonedNodeEnforcement(false);

  @Test
  public void testJavaWindowingStrategyDeserialization() throws Exception {
    WindowFn windowFn = FixedWindows.of(Duration.millis(17));

    WindowingStrategy windowingStrategy = WindowingStrategy.of(windowFn);

    assertThat(windowingStrategy.getWindowFn(), equalTo(windowFn));
  }

  @Test
  public void testMultipleAccumulatorsInMergingCombineFn() {
    BinaryCombineLongFn originalFn = Sum.ofLongs();
    MergingCombineFn<Void, long[]> fn =
        new MergingCombineFn<>(
            originalFn, originalFn.getAccumulatorCoder(p.getCoderRegistry(), VarLongCoder.of()));

    long[] inputAccum = originalFn.createAccumulator();
    inputAccum = originalFn.addInput(inputAccum, 1L);
    inputAccum = originalFn.addInput(inputAccum, 2L);
    assertThat(inputAccum[0], equalTo(3L));

    long[] otherAccum = originalFn.createAccumulator();
    otherAccum = originalFn.addInput(otherAccum, 4L);
    assertThat(otherAccum[0], equalTo(4L));

    List<long[]> first = fn.createAccumulator();
    first = fn.addInput(first, inputAccum);
    assertThat(first, hasItem(inputAccum));
    assertThat(inputAccum.length, equalTo(1));
    assertThat(inputAccum[0], equalTo(3L));

    List<long[]> second = fn.createAccumulator();
    second = fn.addInput(second, inputAccum);
    assertThat(second, hasItem(inputAccum));
    assertThat(inputAccum.length, equalTo(1));
    assertThat(inputAccum[0], equalTo(3L));

    List<long[]> mergeToSecond = fn.createAccumulator();
    mergeToSecond = fn.addInput(mergeToSecond, otherAccum);
    assertThat(mergeToSecond, hasItem(otherAccum));
    assertThat(otherAccum.length, equalTo(1));
    assertThat(otherAccum[0], equalTo(4L));

    List<long[]> firstSelfMerged = fn.mergeAccumulators(ImmutableList.of(first));
    List<long[]> compactedFirst = fn.compact(firstSelfMerged);
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged, equalTo(compactedFirst));
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged, hasSize(1));
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged.get(0)[0], equalTo(3L));

    List<long[]> secondMerged = fn.mergeAccumulators(ImmutableList.of(second, mergeToSecond));
    List<long[]> secondCompacted = fn.compact(secondMerged);
    assertThat(secondCompacted, hasSize(1));
    assertThat(secondCompacted.get(0)[0], equalTo(7L));
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged, equalTo(compactedFirst));
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged, hasSize(1));
    assertThat(firstSelfMerged.get(0)[0], equalTo(3L));
  }
}

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Right to start writing Java programs you need to download the Java Software Development Kit (SDK) from here at the sun.com site. Once you have that done you may what to use an IDE, one good one for Java is JCreator, you can use it for free.
Now open up the IDE/Text Editor and enter the following for the Basic Hello World Example!
The first starts the public class.
This way with just the print, makes the cursor not return. I'll upload some pictures later, but when you run it you'll understand.
Hope this helped any questions just ask.


text:
Powerball jackpot soars to $320M
Drawing to be held Saturday night
Viola Mourton buys a Powerball ticket every day. But with a $320 million jackpot that could grow in the next few days, she's upping her chances Thursday and buying several at her local convenience store."It's just a chance to win big money," said the 51-year-old secretary from Ottumwa, Iowa. "I'll probably buy a couple today because it's so high. But it only takes one to win."That could be the game plan for others around the country. No Powerball winner yet? No problem. That just means a bigger jackpot for the rest of us.Lottery officials said no ticket matched all the numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. Three tickets won the $1 Million Match 5 prize. But it means the current $320 million jackpot could swell before the next drawing on Saturday.The jackpot is the sixth highest in history, but it could grow depending on sales at the end of each day, said Mary Neubauer, spokeswoman for the Iowa Lottery, one of the founding Powerball states."I think it has reached the water cooler level," she said. "It just starts to buzz."No one has won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket for the $217 million jackpot.The largest Powerball jackpot came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets - one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man - and the jackpot was split.Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket - $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006."We've seen a little more traffic than we usually do. Saturday will be the busy day," said Abbey Locatis, a customer service clerk at a central Omaha grocery store that sells more Powerball tickets than any other retailer in the state.Saturdays and Wednesdays get a bit harried when the jackpot exceeds $300 million, she said.How does the store handle the crush of ticket buyers?"We just keep printing them," Locatis said. "We usually have three people behind the counter, so we're able to keep up."The search is on for the next lucky winner or winners. Neubauer said there's universal appeal to the possibility of winning the top prize."Everybody starts to tune in when the lottery gets to this level," she said. "It gives you a mental break from the day -- something else to think about than day-to-day life activities."
Viola Mourton buys a Powerball ticket every day. But with a $320 million jackpot that could grow in the next few days, she's upping her chances Thursday and buying several at her local convenience store.
"It's just a chance to win big money," said the 51-year-old secretary from Ottumwa, Iowa. "I'll probably buy a couple today because it's so high. But it only takes one to win."
That could be the game plan for others around the country. No Powerball winner yet? No problem. That just means a bigger jackpot for the rest of us.
Lottery officials said no ticket matched all the numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. Three tickets won the $1 Million Match 5 prize. But it means the current $320 million jackpot could swell before the next drawing on Saturday.
The jackpot is the sixth highest in history, but it could grow depending on sales at the end of each day, said Mary Neubauer, spokeswoman for the Iowa Lottery, one of the founding Powerball states.
"I think it has reached the water cooler level," she said. "It just starts to buzz."
No one has won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket for the $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets - one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man - and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket - $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006.
"We've seen a little more traffic than we usually do. Saturday will be the busy day," said Abbey Locatis, a customer service clerk at a central Omaha grocery store that sells more Powerball tickets than any other retailer in the state.
Saturdays and Wednesdays get a bit harried when the jackpot exceeds $300 million, she said.
How does the store handle the crush of ticket buyers?
"We just keep printing them," Locatis said. "We usually have three people behind the counter, so we're able to keep up."
The search is on for the next lucky winner or winners. Neubauer said there's universal appeal to the possibility of winning the top prize.
"Everybody starts to tune in when the lottery gets to this level," she said. "It gives you a mental break from the day -- something else to think about than day-to-day life activities."


text:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:id="@+id/recycler_item_poster_imagebtn"
        android:src="@android:drawable/btn_default"/>
    <!-- changed to be relative to poster width -->
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="90dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/recycler_item_poster_title"
        android:gravity="center"/>
</LinearLayout>


text:
package com.amazonaws.services.opsworks.model.transform;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
import com.amazonaws.Request;
import com.amazonaws.DefaultRequest;
import com.amazonaws.http.HttpMethodName;
import com.amazonaws.services.opsworks.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.Marshaller;
import com.amazonaws.util.BinaryUtils;
import com.amazonaws.util.StringUtils;
import com.amazonaws.util.IdempotentUtils;
import com.amazonaws.util.StringInputStream;
import com.amazonaws.protocol.json.*;

/**
 * SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest Marshaller
 */
public class SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequestMarshaller
        implements
        Marshaller<Request<SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest>, SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest> {

    private final SdkJsonProtocolFactory protocolFactory;

    public SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequestMarshaller(
            SdkJsonProtocolFactory protocolFactory) {
        this.protocolFactory = protocolFactory;
    }

    public Request<SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest> marshall(
            SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest) {

        if (setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest == null) {
            throw new AmazonClientException(
                    "Invalid argument passed to marshall(...)");
        }

        Request<SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest> request = new DefaultRequest<SetLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest>(
                setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest, "AWSOpsWorks");
        request.addHeader("X-Amz-Target",
                "OpsWorks_20130218.SetLoadBasedAutoScaling");

        request.setHttpMethod(HttpMethodName.POST);

        request.setResourcePath("");

        try {
            final StructuredJsonGenerator jsonGenerator = protocolFactory
                    .createGenerator();

            jsonGenerator.writeStartObject();

            if (setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getLayerId() != null) {
                jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("LayerId").writeValue(
                        setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getLayerId());
            }
            if (setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getEnable() != null) {
                jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("Enable").writeValue(
                        setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getEnable());
            }
            if (setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getUpScaling() != null) {
                jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("UpScaling");
                AutoScalingThresholdsJsonMarshaller.getInstance().marshall(
                        setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getUpScaling(),
                        jsonGenerator);
            }
            if (setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getDownScaling() != null) {
                jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("DownScaling");
                AutoScalingThresholdsJsonMarshaller.getInstance().marshall(
                        setLoadBasedAutoScalingRequest.getDownScaling(),
                        jsonGenerator);
            }

            jsonGenerator.writeEndObject();

            byte[] content = jsonGenerator.getBytes();
            request.setContent(new ByteArrayInputStream(content));
            request.addHeader("Content-Length",
                    Integer.toString(content.length));
            request.addHeader("Content-Type", jsonGenerator.getContentType());
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            throw new AmazonClientException(
                    "Unable to marshall request to JSON: " + t.getMessage(), t);
        }

        return request;
    }

}


Use node.remove() to delete an element from a node tree. We use an HL7 node tree as an example, but the function works for all node trees.
Note: You may also want to look at the table.remove() function to delete elements from Lua tables.


Aryan Sharma is a talented child actor, dancer and choreographer in Indian television, and is known for his role as Chotu in ' Diya Aur Baati Hum', which airs on Star Plus.
His debut on television was Ladies Special. He then appeared as Bunty in SAB TV's ' Ring Wrong Ring', before bagging the role of Chotu in Diya Aur Baati Hum. Chotu is an employee and close friend of the illiterate boy Suraj, and Aryan's portrayal of the character has won many hearts and accolades. He also appeared in Nayi Soch Ki Talaash Aamir Ke Saath and Saas Bahu Aur Saazish.
Aryan has been dancing since he was 8 years old, when he would watch dance shows on television and would try the steps at home. He joined formal classes and is very comfortable with the Bollywood style of dancing.
He even choreographs dances for his schoolmates every year and for a festivals and functions in his society. He plans to showcase his talent on dancing shows and would be delighted to be a contestant on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa or Nach Baliye in the not-so-distant future.
Just like his character Chotu, he loves watching movies and is very naughty. He also enjoys eating rasgulla, and playing cricket and video games and his favourite actor is Amitabh Bachchan. He finds the right balance between school and acting and sometimes studies on the sets. His favorite subject is History and if he wasn't an actor, he would like to grow up to be a fighter pilot.


Coming Home - A Kiowa Legend.
Long ago before the Comanche had the horse or the gun, winter was very hard on the people. Deep snows hid the tracks of the animals and made it hard for the hunters to travel. It was especially hard when the snows came early.
So it was the winter that the snows came before the leaves had fallen from the trees. The people did not yet have sufficient stores laid in, and the elders would only shake their heads when asked what was to be done. Soon it was apparent that many would not survive to see the spring.
Every day the hunters would set out in the darkness of the early morning. And late each evening they would return with empty hands; half-frozen and exhausted from pushing their way through the ever deepening snow. Yatenah`te was always the first hunter to leave and the last to return. Being the youngest and strongest of the hunters, he pushed himself to go farther and to stay out longer than anyone else.
At first Yahtenah`te hunted the plains surrounding the camp. Then he journeyed to the foothills. And finally entered the Wichita Mountains in his search for game to feed his people. And so it was that he became lost.
Yahtenah`te tried to retrace his steps but the wind and snow had covered his tracks. He tried traveling North, South, East and West in hopes of finding a landmark that would lead him back to the village. But no matter which way he went, he remained lost. Days turned to weeks and weeks into seasons. As the years passed the memory of his village never left him, and he searched first one valley and then another in hope of finding the way back.
One day Yahtenah`te sat by a stream looking at his reflection. His hair had now grown thin and white and his weathered face was wrinkled with age. As the thought on his life alone, he noticed to his amazement that the lines and creases on his face matched the hills and valleys of the mountain. He searched the furrows around his eyes and saw the summer range of the mule deer. In the creases of his chin he saw the steep bluffs of the central range, where he had lured many bison to their death for food and hides. Then he noticed a line he did not recognize from the terrain. Wondering if this was a place he had never seen before, he collected his weapons and set out.
Early the next morning he reached the mouth of a broad, shallow ravine that he had never seen before. As he followed it, he could hear distant voices. And on the wind he was sure he could smell the smoke of a cook fire. Turning a bend in the ravine he saw his village in the distance. Painted tepees. Children running and laughing. Men tending and repairing their weapons. Women preparing food. He knew in his heart that this was his village.
Yahtenah`te paused. He thought of his years alone. Of his journeys in the mountains. Of how the Fingerprints of the Creator are upon us all. And how we are each given all the gifts we need in this life. Raising his arms to the sky, he gave thanks to the Creator. And returned Home.


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Keeping your dog or cat up-to-date with their vaccines is an important part of pet ownership. Because we are committed to the health of your animal, we want to make sure your dog or cat gets the right immunizations at the right times in their life. Vaccines stimulate the animal's natural immune system by introducing a small amount of an inactive virus. If your pet is ever exposed to the live virus, he or she already has the antibodies in his or her system to fight off the disease.
The three-year vaccine includes the standard vaccines common to your animal, plus any specific vaccines for the particular breed. For dogs, we can also provide a one-year Bordetella vaccine, which prevents kennel cough. Dogs who are exposed to other dogs, for example at dog shows, kennels or dog parks, should be protected against this ailment.
We are here to answer all of your questions about the vaccines we recommend. Please ask our technicians about the importance of protecting your dog or cat, and we will be glad to discuss the benefits and risks of all the vaccines we provide.
Begin as early as 6 weeks of age and repeat every 3-4 weeks until 16 weeks of age. Booster at 1 year after completion of initial series, then every 1 to 3 years depending on risk.
Begin as early as 8 weeks of age and repeat in 3-4 weeks. Booster at 1 year after completion of initial series. Continue annual boosters for those cats at risk of exposure.
Given by Dr. Stephanie at 12 weeks. Revaccinate one year later, and then every 3 years.
* Distemper combination vaccine includes panleukopenia, rhinotracheitis and calicivirus. Consider inclusion of Chlamydophilia for cats at risk of exposure.
Combination vaccine*: Depending on assessment, vaccine may start at 6 weeks.
Leptospirosis: include leptospirosis in the combination vaccine where leptospirosis is a concern, or if traveling to an area where it occurs.
Rabies: Given by Dr. Stephanie every 3 years after initial booster.
Recommendations vary depending on the age, breed, and health status of the dog, the potential of the dog to be exposed to the disease, the type of vaccine, whether the dog is used for breeding, and the geographical area where the dog lives or may visit.
*A combination vaccine, often called a 5-way vaccine, usually includes adenovirus cough and hepatitis, canine distemper, parainfluenza, and parvovirus. Some combination vaccines may also include leptospirosis (7-way vaccines) and/or coronavirus. The inclusion of either canine adenovirus-1 or adenovirus-2 in a vaccine will protect against both adenovirus cough and hepatitis; adenovirus-2 is highly preferred.
**Some puppies may need additional vaccinations against parvovirus after 15 weeks of age. Consult with Dr. Stephanie.
Bordetella and parainfluenza: For complete canine cough protection, we recommend Intra-Trac III ADT. For dogs that are shown, in field trials, or are boarded, we recommend vaccination every six to twelve months with Intra-Trac III ADT.


Thanks! M-core_2.0 0001 seems to be more recent than the last 1.85 on the EB-85A. I think I'll order this one (if it's still in stock)!
Hello, I've been working no my autopilot for a while. The idea is to create a unit that serves as stabilization (with thermophiles) and servo-controller. Input for this unit is the roll and pitch angle (right now using rc-transmitter). Input could also come from uart, so a wireless digital transmitter or another microcontroller (with gps connected) can steer it. The whole thing runs on a PIC16F877 and was packed into only 2k code :-) More information, photos and movies on my website: http://tom.pycke.be Comments and suggestion appreciated!
For Sale: Etek EB-85A 5Hz GPS Modules. CHEAP!
Last week I did a test with the 10mW from rc-tech. I used the rc-cam patch antenna on the receiver side. Most of the time I flew about 900 meters far, but unfortunately i was too enthousiast, and i was going further and further... Until my motor-batteries ran out! A bit paniced, I was disoriented and started flying in the wrong direction. Then I had too much noise on the controls of my plane (with an ACT digital dual conversion receiver), however, the image still remained perfect without any noise, and i could see my plane crash into a potato field. After an hour of searching I found my plane about 1250 meters from the starting site. Thumbs up for thomas: your patch antenna performed a lot better than the rc-tech patch that came with the camera setup (i think it had a wrong polarisation). The rc-tech transmitter and receiver are brilliant! With the stock antennas they go about 500 meters with some occasional noise, but with a good patch (and a good person pointing it ;-) ) I could go to the limits of my rc-transmitter without any signs of noise. Does the receiver have some special sensitivity compared to other receivers?


text:
Trailblazing Mars
NASA's Next Giant Leap
Pat Duggins
"Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who knows what trails this book will help blaze. Read on."--Bill Nye the Science Guy® and executive director of The Planetary Society
"From the Mariner probes of the 1960s to the rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity, " from fanciful human travel in science fiction to realities for human exploration in the future, this book places into context the lure of the red planet and our desire to know it better."--Roger Launius, Senior Curator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
"Mars may be the destination, but the book is really a study of the people who have taken us as far as we have come. Duggins has written a marvelous book, sure to inspire our imaginations and remind us that all space travel ultimately arises from human ingenuity."--Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American Imagination
Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles--both technological and financial--have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream.
Award-winning journalist Pat Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back. They'll have to grow their own food, find their own water, and solve their own problems and emergencies without hope of rescue or re-supply. Mars travel will be more challenging and hazardous than settling the Old West--but we were not witness to the fate of the Donner Party on CNN.
Can the technological hurdles be cleared? Will the public accept the very real possibility of astronaut death? Should a mission be publicly or privately funded? Is the science worth the cost? These and many other questions are answered in Duggins's exciting new book.
Pat Duggins is news director at Alabama Public Radio and author of Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. He covered more than 100 space shuttle missions for NPR, starting with the 1986 Challenger accident and including three hours of live coverage following the 2003 loss of Columbia.
"Duggins covers all the important milestones in the exploration of the red planet with a succinct understanding of manned spaceflight, where it has been -- and where it could go. The truth Trailblazing Mars covers in incredible detail is that we as a species are capable of settling another world -- we just have to choose to do so.
--Cape Canaveral Space Program Examiner
"Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles- both technological and financial- have kept human exploration of the Red Planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream. Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back."
--Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin Issue 124
"A good introduction to NASA history and plans for the future, and will be of interest to general readers."
--CHOICE, vol. 48 no.7
Well written. Keeps the fire of exploration going, looking out to the day when humans will make the trailblazing trek to Mars. The message of this book, at least to this reader, is that Mars is surely NASA's next giant leap - and not taking that bounding step would mean squandering a heritage of space exploration and discovery - fueled by human ingenuity and curiosity.
--Coalition for Space Exploration
Armchair astronauts will relish this.
--Book News, Inc. (booknews.com)
"Duggins' book shows it would take deep political willpower for anything as expensive, dangerous and inspiring as a journey to Mars. It would take a giant leap."
--St. Petersburg Times
Digs through the history of space exploration as well as the various issues associated with the exploration of Mars. . . . [and] takes on a broad range of issues.
--The Space Review
Other PAT DUGGINS Books
Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program


Eifell Tower might be in the Modern Day. We can see the base of it on a poster with a zeppelin in the background. Sure it might be a simple poster but in the ''Behind Closed Doors'' video there is a model of Notre Dame and right after it an Eiffel Tower one. It was said that the models helped in building Notre Dame, maybe it's just for the comparison, but still, this and the poster... see by yourselves.
Now probably the most interesting discovery of the author: An (probably incomplete) list of coop missions, with their names. So be sure that they will be at least 12 of them. Now for those who don't want to be spoiled on these, I recommended not looking what is following.
So, that is all he had for us, next he'll dig up into the gameplay, will update if anyone interested.
This is a great find, good job to you and ItsxF! Eager to see more! Also, what makes you say Elise is Arno's "girlfriend"?
Hot lovely bourgeoise chick with luscious lips, she's either his sister or his girlfriend, most probably his girlfriend, hope she dies.
I like Elise's hair. Cool find on all the info -- this game is going to be (hopefully) amazing!!!
Aww meanie. Why would you want her to die? We've already seen a girlfriend die in the Assassins hands(Christina and Ezio). As long as they make her interesting and not a typical bland character no reason for her to die.
Perhaps she's also an assassin? We have nothing to go on with Elise, and I doubt the sister role simply for the fact they don't share any physical traits (However there could be a number of reasons for this). Considering she is named I imagine her playing some role in the Narrative but I wouldn't just slot her into girlfriend. Like I said perhaps she's an assassin? Maybe they'll go and have Arno learn how to be an assassin from her (that'd be something I don't think the series has done) or possibly another Caterina ish character.
Does anybody of you know when will be available the part 2 of IGN Documentary?
Elise, due to her being named has a role at the very least a very small one.
modern day in paris would be interesting, but how would we be playing us then, unless we make our own characters?
Nice find. Seems a higher chance the Eiffel Tower is in the game somewhere. Probably a tutorial mission although very possible it could be in the modern day. Playing in a modern Paris while roaming historical Paris might be interesting.
Elise looks cute although her lips make me think she got collagen injections, got stung by a bee, or was sucking a lemon. They look too short width-wise and too large height-wise for her face, but could just be the angle.
While Arno and Elise don't share many traits, you can't really throw out them being related. If they're half siblings, that can easily explain not sharing traits. Children often resemble their fathers and some children might not have any visible traits of their mothers (effectively being a mini clone of their father), or they're a throwback to a previous ancestor. Arno could just be a dead ringer for his father while Elise is a feminine version of her own father. Or the two are just cousins which also explains the differences. Genetics can be rather entertaining at times, and truth is often stranger than fiction.
Elise is Connor's future wife.
It would be nice for Connor to find the love of his life, I just hope that person he finds is someone who makes him happy with a great personality, that's what Connor needs in his life.
Elise seems like a fine gal.
edit: Oh **** I just realized Elise is that princess from Sonic 2006, they even look kind of similar.
I'd be willing to bet that the reason there is a model of the Eiffel Tower there is for scaling.
I like Elise's character design, she looks cute as apposed to downright hot and sexualised.
According to an interesting argument I read the other day, is not sexualization if the character has a personally, accomplishments and importance to the story, in that case is just sexiness.
Well maybe I'm into that? Ever think of that?
A big yes to the female Templar.
Elise looks pretty awesome as well. Great character design.
Looks like Arno's eyes are green with a hint of brown. Good, at least no full brown eyes. We already had to many AC protagonists with brown eyes.
so.. his eyes are hazel?
In before feminists begin to complain about a female being a templar and all the assassins being males.
Feminists need to complain about the lack of female targets, how come we almost only get to kill men.
This is true, +1 for you. Then again, I always killed the fat women civvies in AC:R for being fat. They deserved to die as I thought they were stealing food from poorer people.
So I was doing a public service.
I consider myself a feminist and I agree with this.
Eiffel Tower might be in the Modern Day. We can see the base of it on a poster with a zeppelin in the background. Sure it might be a simple poster but in the ''Behind Closed Doors'' video there is a model of Notre Dame and right after it an Eiffel Tower one. It was said that the models helped in building Notre Dame, maybe it's just for the comparison, but still, this and the poster... see by yourselves.
This is making me excited about the MD... if it's there. I wonder if we're going to have a third person MD protagonist or the "floating camera thing" again?. Either way, it will be interesting to see.
Oh maybe he bought the blade illegally off the internet.
Tweeted this to the unbelievably attractive PR rep, ubi Tessa, regarding the Eiffel Tower: "It's going to be featured, just not in the historical part." And she faved it.
Holy crap, UbiTessa is hot!
She just gained a follow!
Was there an actual time we got to assassinate a woman? Aside from the ugly 1 dimensional aveline's mama?
Altair and Ezio both stayed their hand. But i think it made sense in context considering it was probably deemed wrong to kill women back then.
I'm sure there is more, you just need to know where to dig.
God, it would be hilarious if after all the hubbub about sexism in Unity, the grand Templar mastermind was a woman.
With regards to female targets, Ezio kills at least two of the female Templar agents/MP characters in ACB/R.
Can I ask though, that we not go too far the other way (joking or otherwise) in response to perceived feminism? The last thing we need is to create extremes!
Only women I remember killing was that Witch from Bloodlines, those females agents of Cesare, Madeleine from Liberation and that Chinese female pirate in AC4.
So the only real notable one is Madeline.
This is well beside the point, but the Dark Oracle looks like Desmond in drag.
That old Templar chick is so hot.
Elise could do with some make up though.


Posted at 8:06 am on July 8, 2013 by Lori Z.
People having the best year ever: NY Post and Daily News headline writers.
Indeed. The announcement that disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer plans to run for New York City comptroller has upped the hilarious factor. And the New York Post is on it!
Subtle? We don't need no stinkin' subtle!
An instant classic RT @barneykeller: The NY Post wood tomorrow is going to be a monster.
Yep. An early win for the New York Post. More please!
Pics: Did NY Daily News out-post The NY Post with headline 'In the line of booty'?


Ten, somewhat interconnected short stories about bad young ladies who get what's coming to them. A series of naughty young women endure the sting of the cane.
An anthology of Domestic Discipline stories, where naughty young women are made to lift their skirts, always with knickers down to take a good dose of either cane or slipper.
"I write pulp, without apology, where the heroes are larger than life, and the heroines are always stunningly gorgeous. While at the same time I seek to transcend that very same pulp-ish inclination with philosophical and metaphysical journeys meant to bring your mind to the edge of an abyss. This is fairly typical of those who play in my genre."


This paper deals with the research of the role of social networks in the acquisition of information and knowledge in the education of high school students with visual impairment. The sample includes 32 respondents, 17 female and 15 male, of all visual impairment categories, from the physiotherapists, legal-technical, and PTT departments. The aim of the research is to determine whether high school students with visual impairment use the Internet and social networks at school for learning and work, in which teaching subjects they use them most, whether they use them in leisure and social activities. The preliminary results lead up to the conclusion on the use of social networks in the educational process, the acquisition of information in different teaching areas and subjects, as well as the social activities of high school students with visual impairment. The importance of introducing the social networks into the wider educational activities of the surveyed students was emphasized.
ŽIGIĆ, Vesna. SOCIAL NETWORKS AND EDUCATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS. ФИЛКО / FILKO, [S.l.], p. 203-211, jan. 2019. Available at: <http://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/fe/article/view/2666>. Date accessed: 22 apr. 2019.


Eva has the story of the closing in The Free Times, and it appears the biggest blow to the place was the SCE&G lunch crowd's recent departure from downtown. I hope that doesn't have any other knock-on effects in the Vista.
As usual with anything on the west side of a street, these pictures are not great as I never get out early enough to have the sun behind me. Unfortunately, I also missed the neon sign being lit. The last time I saw it on, I was driving somewhere and couldn't stop to take the picture.
UPDATE 3 November 2009: Added "Kinch's" to the post title based on the comments.
UPDATE 9 April 2010: For whatever reason, someone turned on the sign the night of the 6th, so I got some pictures of it lit up and have added them at the front of the pictures.
Also, the Doc's on Rosewood went under after the move.
Good old Doug Goolsby. He must have had a special relationship with the Swimming Pool Q's because the very first place I saw them was at Greenstreets in the early '80s or so when it was actually on Greene Street. The last place I saw them was at Greenstreets when it was briefly in that funny mall on the corner of Harden and Gervais.
This place will always be Kinch's to me.
Wonder what it was before that?
Have to admit I've never heard of "Kinch's". Restaurant? Club? Retail?
Kinch's was a lunch joint that had pretty good fried chicken.
That is sad. That is where I had my promotion to Captain dinner. Good food, they also had a stand at the now-defunct 3 Rivers Music Fest.
ted - From 1989 to 2001 I worked in the AT&T building basically across the street from Kinch's and it was always packed at lunch on weekdays with downtown staffers and the legislature crowd. There were photos signed "to Kinch" from many legislators and elected officials -- and pro golfers -- all over the walls. It almost achieved Capitol Cafe status, and probably would have if Kinch had kept it open at night. He was a golf nut, though, and as soon as the lunch rush was over he was outta there. Kinch had a great staff and great food, particularly chicken.
In the afternoons you'd see a long row of UPS trucks parked outside because when the drivers finished their shift at 3:oo they met there.
Doc's had awful press after the tainted drink fiasco. This was when a non English speaking employee confused lye with salt and rimmed several glasses with lye. You can only imagine what happened after the drinks were served. This was enough to keep more than a few people away from the place.
Whatever happened to Cogburn's Grill in West Columbia/Cayce? The used to have a place on Sumter Street near the Baptist Hospital before they moved across the river.
These a sign up on the little complex at Jim Casey's (next to the Kangaroo) on Rosewood indicating that Doc's will be opening there "Friday," but I don't know how long the sign has been up.
There was a story in The State about that a while back. If it's still not open, they're late as the plan was for 2 Jan 2010.
Best fried chicken around. But if "Pearl" called your ticket you better get up to the counter fast or she'll be hollering your number again.
Ha! Found it! The name that I was mis-remembering was the "Sub Center." That's what it was called in 78 and 79, at least. I don't know when it started or ended, though.


Presenting song teaser of latest punjabi song Khaas Gall sung by Monty & Waris feat Ginni Kapoor while lyrics are penned by Daljit Chitti. The music of new punjabi song is given by Prit. The video of new punjabi song is directed by Teji Sandhu. The Full Video is set to release on 8 November 2017. Enjoy and stay connected with us !!


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Q: Static resources (images) Tomcat or Nginx server Give me the right way. I have nginx server (list 80port) which proxy to tomcat server (for ex 8080port). I need to get static images in my spring app. I got something like this:
1) map images on tomcat server (aliease) or Context docBase
2) map static on nginx server
3) create another sub domain for ex images.mysite.com and work with him.
And also what will be better?

A: Performance:
Nginx is a great webserver and at the moment is the best when talking about serving static content. You can referr to benchmarks available online, or benchmark it yourself.
Subdomain/Separate domain for  static content:
By using sub/separation for static content, you will eliminate cookies on static content, reduce http request/response size and will have better performance.
You will also increase the number of parallel downloads that the browser can perform. This will reduce your page load time.
This will increase your costs if you have ssl enabled, you need a certificate for your sub/separate domain too.

A: There is no universal right way.
If you have a low traffic site: Use what you can set up quickest. Don't worry, if you are running into performance problems, they won't be due to this decision but due to other aspects of your solution.
If you have a high traffic site: Start with the easiest setup (same as before). Then measure where your performance problems are. Again, most likely they won't be due to the delivery of static content, but whatever your biggest performance problem is: Fix it, rinse, repeat. If static content delivery makes up for an improvement of 0.5% of performance, while another factor makes up 20%, guess where you should invest your time (hint: it's not static content delivery)
In this regards I'm totally with Klaus Groenbaek's comment: Building a complex system that's harder to maintain without having some justification (measurements) showing the advantage of the complexity is preposterous.
Unless you identify an actual performance bottleneck in your own system, optimize for maintainability, build the simplest possible system.


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What Seafood is in Season Right Now?
This flakey white fish is a chef's best friend, and it's soon to be yours, too. Cobia migrate from the Gulf all the way up the shores of the East Coast, which means Florida fisherman are pretty busy during Cobia season! Whether it's thrown on the grill, baked or pan fried, Cobia has a rich, sweet flavor that might be the best the sea has to offer.
We might have tuna on the Marker 32 menu all year, but its peak season falls in March. This is the month when the tuna fishing is abundant and the fisherman's wallets are a little thicker. yellowfin tuna (ahi) is harvested in the beautiful blue waters of Hawaii and can weigh as much as 400 pounds. A unique characteristic of ahi tuna is that it can be served raw or cooked, both offering completely different textures. But no matter how this trophy fish is cooked, the flavor is mild and works well with strong flavors, such as soy.
These fish might not be the prettiest, but boy do they taste good! Although there are over 300 different species of grouper, we tend to stick to just a couple: red, black and yellow edge. Grouper can be compared to a cross between halibut and bass, with an unmatched mild flavor. Fun fact: grouper changes from female to male as they age. We might just have helped you win your next round of trivia! You're welcome.
King mackerel is a fish that's featured in sport fishing tournaments just as often as it's served on a dinner plate. When prepared correctly, this fish can go head to head with the incredible flavors of sheepshead or flounder. Kingfish must be eaten extremely fresh because of the abundance of oils in its skin. Some people also refer to this type of fish as amberjack, but regardless of the name you use, this fish's sweet, rich darker meat is a favorite around these parts.
This is one of the fastest fish in the sea and is a popular sportfish because of its mean fighting instinct. But along with it's skills in the ocean, sailfish often make their way onto menus around this time of year. The filets are often large and requires proper brining before cooking. If you're in the mood for seafood skewers, sailfish should hands down be your fish of choice.
We're so excited to fire up the stove and cook up some of our seasonal favorites for you. There's nothing better than fresh seafood, a gorgeous view of the intracoastal and a romantic dinner in an intimate restaurant. Swing by Marker 32 any time this March to hear our seasonal specials!


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POOR YOUNG CHILD FALLS FROM A CLIFF....AND SURVIVES!
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Wonderful cleaning followed by a tragic ending.


The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited officials said that only half the number of buses were plying on Thursday.
PUNE: Pune saw itself getting totally shut almost with the absence of public transport hitting commuters, especially those having landed at the Pune airport, hard on Thursday.
The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) officials said that only half the number of buses were plying on Thursday. "The agitators damaged a bus at Swargate while three buses were damaged at Bibewadi. Presently, we are operating around 600 buses, which is less than even half of buses which ply on normal days," an official said.
At the Pune airport, several passengers saw themselves getting stuck. Passengers complained about massive fleecing on part of some cabbies as the Ola and Uber services were minimal. Some drivers were found charging about Rs 1200 to go to Aundh-Baner from airport. They are part of app-cabs, but have are not using them. A man was asked to pay up Rs 2000 to be dropped at Magarpatta, as a form of "insurance" against any damages. The people found themselves stuck at the airport for over two-three hours before finding any transport.
The local trains from Pune saw very thin crowd and the ST bus stands wore a deserted look too with no buses plying from Pune. Even the private luxury buses to different places from Pune didn't ply with authorities stating that they had not booked any tickets for Thursday in the wake of the bandh.


This new interpolated method of polling Modbus registers optimizes data retrieval of important values (ex. low fuel, high temperature) according to YOUR prioritization.
DPS recently developed a new way to prioritize the polling of thousands of Modbus registers. This helped one of our clients monitor hundreds of registers spread out over several devices while focusing primarily on the few that matter the most.
You may not need to process large amounts of Modbus. But what DO you need? Remember that we can customize a solution that will directly meet your unique needs.
DPS can develop custom firmware to meet your very specific technical requirements.
Your new firmware functions will run on our proven hardware and benefit from our remote-monitoring expertise.
For best results treat us like your engineering department. Just tell us what you want.
Modbus masters and Modbus-processing RTUs monitor alarms by means of a process called polling. In essence, the RTU requests a value (a "register") on one of your remote devices. If the register indicates a problem (low fuel, high temperature, etc.), then an alarm is set on the RTU to tel you that something is wrong. After a register has been polled, your device repeats the process for the next register in the polling queue.
Once your RTU has polled all registers it is monitoring, it has completed what we call its polling loop. Depending on how many registers your RTU is polling, the amount of time it takes for your RTU to complete its polling loop will vary.
For example: say your RTU is monitoring a total of 1200 registers across several remote devices. It takes your RTU approximately 1 second to poll each register. The amount of time it will take for your RTU to complete its polling loop is 20 minutes (1 second x 1200 registers = 1200 seconds / 60 seconds = 20 minutes).
In the example above, each of the registers is polled once approximately every 20 minutes. You may be satisfied with this. It's likely, however, that you are more concerned with some alarms than others. After all, every device has a number of conditions upon which the proper functioning of the device depends. A generator will cease to run if it overheats, for example. Knowing the running temperature of your generator is thus more important to you than knowing an obscure device statistic.
One of our clients was concerned about this, so we developed an Modbus-polling RTU with a prioritized polling function. With prioritized polling, you can group your registers into different priority categories. Your highest priority registers will be polled most often by your RTU, while the registers with a lower priority are polled less often. This ensures that issues which could potentially be catastrophic for your devices are detected before its too late.
Example: You've grouped all 1,200 registers into four separate categories, each with a different priority ranking. In Group 1 you have 20 registers. These are your highest priority registers, so you want them polled at least once every 5 minutes. Group 2 has 280 registers that you want polled at least once every 30 minutes. Group 3 has 400 registers which you want polled once every hour. Finally, Group 4 has 500 registers which you want polled once every 2 hours. These are your lowest priority registers.
In the above example, your RTU would begin its polling loop by polling the 20 registers in Group 1. At a rate of 1 register / second, it would take your RTU approximately 20 seconds to poll all of the registers in Group 1. Because your timer for Group 2, set to 1800 seconds (30 minutes), has not expired, your RTU will return to Group 1 and begin the polling process over again. The RTU will poll Group 1 roughly 6 times before the timer for Group 2 expires and the RTU turns to polling the 280 registers in this lower priority group. To poll each register in Group 2 would take roughly 280 seconds (about 4 minutes and 40 seconds). The RTU then would return to Group 1 and poll those 20 registers just before the 5 minute timer for that group expires. Phew!
Again, a problem emerges. Once Group 3's polling timer expires and your RTU turns to polling the registers in this group, it will take roughly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to complete its process. In the meantime, Group 1's timer has expired and your most urgent alarms are left further down the queue than they should be.
The problem is worsened once 2 hours have elapsed and your RTU turns to polling the registers in Group 4 which would take approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds.Your polling timer for Group 1 has been expired for 3 minutes and 20 seconds at this point. This may not seem like a lot of time, but consider that the registers being monitored in Group 1 are your most important variables. You begin to assume more and more risk the longer these registers remain unmonitored.
Group 1 registers are polled several times before Group 2�s polling timer expires. Once Group 2�s polling timer expires, the RTU stops polling Group 1 and polls Group 2 before returning again to Group 1. Depending on how many registers are in Group 2, the amount of time before the two red sequences could be longer than your specified polling settings.
All of these delays stem from a simplistic polling algorithm, where a large group is started and completed without considering higher-priority registers.Do you really want to risk having your generator damage and site downtime because your RTU was not smart enough?
With a DPS Modbox, you need not assume this risk. Theengineers at DPS have developed an algorithm that ensures that each of the registers being monitored by your RTU will be polled before each of your group polling timers expire.
Rather than repeatedly polling Group 1 registers until Group 2's polling timer expires, theModbox will spread out the polling of each Group 1 register across the time period that you've allotted for that group.
Returning to the example above, with 20 registers in Group 1 that need to be polled once every 300 seconds, the Modbox determines that it will poll one register in Group 1 every 15 seconds (300 seconds / 20 registers = 15 seconds / register. The Modbox then uses the intervening time to poll registers from the lower priority groups. After 5 minutes, the Modbox will restart its Group 1 polling loop and, once again using the intervening time, continue its polling of your lower priority registers. Should the Modbox have enough time to get "ahead of schedule" in all 4 groups, it will cycle through each group, polling a single register from each in turn. When a Group next needs a poll to stay "on schedule", the normal prioritizaion logic will resume.
The Modbox's smart prioritized polling process spreads the polling of Group 1 registers out over the entirety of the time slot allotted to the group. In the intervening time, lower priority registers are polled. Rather than wasting time unnecessarily repeating Group 1's polling loop (and subjecting it to long waits while polling the other groups), the Modbox maximizes efficiency by only polling Group 1 registers once during the group's allotted time period. It uses the time freed up by this process to poll lower level registers.
After the Modbox completes its entire polling loop, you can access the "Stats" pagein the web interface. IThis will tell you how long it took for each group to be polled. This allows you to reorganize your register groupings to optimize the Modbox's polling process.
The firmware solution described above was customized for one of our clients. Allow DPS to do the same for you - no matter what you need. Call DPS today at 1-800-693-0351 and tell us what to build next.