Race #1 of the 2013 season is in the books. We had 37 cars for the season opener, with racers traveling from as far away as New Jersey to race at the Madhouse. We truly have one of the premier racing clubs in this country, and I am proud to be a part of IQSR.
Matt Hilber took the wins in the Sportsman and Super Late Model races. Jeremy Brawner took home the checkers in the Sprint Car race, and Gregg Grahn takes the season opener in the Bush Class. Congrats to all the winners. I don't have photos of the winners this week.
I will send out an email update on the situation with the Park as soon as I have more information.
I want to send out a big thank you to Cookie and Tina for taking over the booth for me this year. It is a big responsibility, and I really appreciate them doing this for me and for the club.
Our next scheduled race is May 11th. Bring mom out to the track and celebrate mothers day with us at the Mini-Madhouse!


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Der Sender Disney Cinemagic war ein spezieller Sender für von Disney produzierte Filme. Der Sender ging am 16. April 2006 in England auf Sendung. Er ersetzte gleichzeitig Toon Disney in England. Am 28. März 2013 wurde er hier durch Sky Movies Disney ersetzt. Disney Cinemagic gab es in einer SD-, wie auch in einer HD-Version. Am 4. Juli 2009 ging der Sender das erste Mal um 12.00 Uhr bei Sky Deutschland auf Sendung. Der Sender war auch über die Plattform Telekom Entertain und in der Schweiz via Teleclub zu empfangen. Die deutsche Ausgabe von Disney Cinemagic war die einzige auf der Welt, die neben Toon Disney gesendet hat. Zum 1. Oktober 2019 wurde der Pay-TV-Sender eingestellt.

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Der Sender Disney Cinemagic sendete in England, Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal und in der Schweiz. Im Dezember 2011 startete in Italien ein Programmfenster auf Sky Cinema Family, das am Wochenende täglich 5 Stunden sendet.

Deutschland
Disney Cinemagic startete am 4. Juli 2009 bei Sky Deutschland mit einer normalen und einer HD-Version. Anders als die Ableger in anderen Ländern, ersetzte Disney Cinemagic nicht Toon Disney, sondern kam als zusätzlicher Sender hinzu. Seit dem 29. Februar 2016 sendet Disney Cinemagic 24 Stunden täglich (zuvor von 12:00 Uhr bis 24:00 Uhr), wobei hauptsächlich Filme laufen werden, lediglich die Serien Abenteuer mit Timon und Pumbaa, 101 Dalmatiner und Neue Micky Maus Geschichten werden ausgestrahlt.
Am 1. Oktober 2019 wurde der Sender eingestellt und durch Sky Cinema Special HD ersetzt.

Frankreich
Disney Cinemagic startete am 4. September 2007 mit einer Time-Shift-Version (Disney Cinemagic +1). Genauso wie in England ersetzte er Toon Disney. Disney Cinemagic HD ging am 30. November 2008 auf Sendung.

Spanien
Disney Cinemagic ging am 1. Juli auf Sendung. Auch hier ersetzte Disney Cinemagic den Sender Toon Disney.

Portugal
Disney Cinemagic startete am 1. Oktober 2008 und Disney Cinemagic HD im Januar 2009.

Italien
Ab dem 3. Dezember 2011 läuft jedes Wochenende ein Programmblock auf Sky Cinema Family

Programm
In bisher allen Ablegern wurde das Programm sehr einfach gehalten. Es liefen im Durchschnitt 15–17 Filme pro Tag. Zwischen den Filmen liefen Disney-Serien, allerdings mit wenig Vielfalt.

Auswahl der Filme, die auf Disney Cinemagic UK liefen
 101 Dalmatiner Teil 2 – Auf kleinen Pfoten zum großen Star!
 Das große Krabbeln
 Goofy – Der Film
 Bärenbrüder
 Cars
 Himmel und Huhn
 Dumbo
 Der Glöckner von Notre Dame 2
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 Lilo & Stitch 2 – Stitch völlig abgedreht
 Triff die Robinsons
 Die Monster AG
 Mulan
 Mulan 2
 Tierisch wild
 Wall-E
 Cap und Capper
 Cap und Capper 2
 Bernard und Bianca
 Bernard und Bianca 2
 Aristocats
 Ratatouille
 Pocahontas
 Pocahontas 2: Reise in eine neue Welt
 Oliver & Co.
 Fluch der Karibik
 Disneys Große Pause: Die geheime Mission
 Ein Königreich für ein Lama
 Ein Königreich für ein Lama 2 – Kronks großes Abenteuer

Auswahl der Serien, die auf Disney Cinemagic UK liefen
 101 Dalmatiner
 Abenteuer mit Timon und Pumbaa
 Barbaren-Dave
 Chip und Chap – Die Ritter des Rechts
 Doug
 Darkwing Duck
 Goofy und Max
 Groove High: Die Tanzschule
 Käpt'n Balu und seine tollkühne Crew
 Kuzco's Königsklasse
 Hercules
 Kim Possible
 Disneys Große Pause
 Lloyd im All
 Lilo & Stitch
 Pepper Ann

Auswahl der Serien, die auf Disney Cinemagic Deutschland liefen
 101 Dalmatiner
 Abenteuer mit Timon und Pumbaa
 Neue Micky Maus Geschichten
 Aladdin
 Kuzco's Königsklasse
 Micky Maus (Zeichentrickserie)
 Rapunzel - Für Immer Verföhnt
 Lilo & Stitch (Fernsehserie)
 Descendants – Verhexte Welt

Auswahl der Filme, die auf Disney Cinemagic Deutschland liefen

 Descendants – Die Nachkommen
 Albert aus Versehen
 Coco – Lebendiger als das Leben!
 Toy Story
 High School Musical
 Cars 3: Evolution
 Aristocats
 Camp Rock
 Cheetah Girls – Wir werden Popstars!
 Descendants 2 – Die Nachkommen
 Prinzessinnen Schutzprogramm
 Zombies
 Halfpipe Feeling

Schwestersender
 Disney Channel
 Toon Disney
 Disney Junior
 Playhouse Disney
 Disney XD

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 Liste der Kinderfernsehsender

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 Disney Cinemagic Deutschland
 Disney Cinemagic Vereinigtes Königreich
 Disney Cinemagic Frankreich
 Disney Cinemagic Spanien

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Disney-ABC Television Group
Pay-TV
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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) hopes to meet with the Japanese government to seek an easing of its 100% testing regime for Philippine banana imports, after inspectors found unacceptable levels of chemical residue in one shipment last year.
"We are meeting with banana sector leaders in Davao tonight," Mr. Piñol said in a text message sent to BusinessWorld.
In a social media post on Saturday, Mr. Piñol said that he will deal with the request made by the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association, Inc. (PBGEA) to intervene with the Japanese government to expedite the entry of bananas from the Philippines.
PBGEA sought DA's assistance in convincing the Japanese government to accept Philippine reassurances of compliance with its residue testing requirements to scale back the 100% testing regime imposed in August to one that tests samples.
Japanese inspectors found traces of the insecticide Fipronil beyond the maximum limit set by the Japanese food safety standards.
The association's members export 50% of their harvest to Japan.
PBGEA said the testing regime could hurt Philippine exports particularly during Golden Week in Japan, which runs between April 28 and May 6, when many inspectors could be on holiday.
"Mr. Secretary, may we ask for your personal intercession in addressing the issue of… MRL (maximum residue limit) of Philippine bananas exported to Japan. May we ask you to please lead a delegation to Japan to settle this issue which if not addresses will affect our exports especially during the start of the Golden Week Holiday which starts April 26. Your presence will surely make a big difference," Stephen Antig, executive director of PBGEA said in a letter to the DA.
Mr. Piñol said that he will present to the Japanese officials the new standards and processes implemented on the Philippine side to ensure MRL norms are not breached.
"My suggestion then to the PBGEA is that there are [spraying] practices that are available [that comply with Japanese standards]," he said, adding that alternatives are available but some planters will try to get by with the banned methods.
Mr. Cayanan was speaking Sunday at an event in Manila.
According to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data for the fourth quarter, banana production rose 0.6% year-on-year to 2.42 million metric tons (MMT). Davao Region accounted for 37.3% of the total or 904,130 metric tons (MT). This was followed by Northern Mindanao at 20.3% or 492,250 MT, while South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, General Santos (Soccsksargen) accounted for 13.8% or 335,110 MT.


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Pornhub has released a new series titled 'Pornhub Literacy 101'
The celebrated founder of The Sex Ed directs glamorous series of public service announcements for the premiere adult entertainment site encouraging healthy engagement with adult content and porn literacy.
Pornhub, the world's leading adult entertainment site, announced a collaboration with Liz Goldwyn, founder of The Sex Ed, a platform dedicated to sex, health, and consciousness education, to bring Pornhub audiences an important six-part video series designed to encourage wellness and healthy engagement with adult content, entitled 'Pornhub Literacy 101'.
Directed by Goldwyn, an acclaimed author and director whose credits include the documentary Pretty Things as well as the forthcoming book Sex, Health & Consciousness, Pornhub Literacy 101 is a comprehensive guide for Pornhub's 100 million+ daily visitors as to how to best and most safely interact with the platform, while underscoring Pornhub's continued and unparalleled commitment to trust, safety, and transparency.
"It's important to me and to The Sex Ed to open up dialogue around sex, health, and consciousness to the widest possible audience, and who better to partner with to do so than Pornhub, whose analytics reveal an audience that rivals those of the top mainstream streaming giants?" said Liz Goldwyn. "As a researcher and educator in the sexual wellness space, I have known for years of Pornhub's cutting edge technologies and safety practices, which far outweigh those of platforms many of us use on a daily basis. So, it was a no-brainer to collaborate with Pornhub on this series of PSAs"
"Society needs to engage critically with pornography, especially as it exists at the nexus of media, entertainment and technology." adds Goldwyn. "Pornography is ingrained in all these aspects of our lives and having porn literacy is the first step to having the skills to process and understand our own and collective relationship with adult content. This means talking about the very things we tend to want to avoid, like cybersecurity, the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images and videos, and what performers themselves have to say about working safely in their business."
Shot in a highly stylized setting referencing the Golden Age of cinema, Pornhub Literacy 101 features some of the adult industry's biggest stars, including Pornhub ambassadors Asa Akira, Kira Noir, Natassia Dreams, and Pornhub Aria, as well as Pornhub models Emily Willis and Ricky Johnson. In addition to Phantom Planet frontman Alex Greenwald creating music for the series, famed costume designer Heidi Bivens styled the project to reference the lexicon of Golden Age Hollywood with a contemporary twist. Bivens produced looks that are timeless and classic, with a hint of nostalgia.
"Liz's focus on sex, health, and consciousness education through her podcast and platform The Sex Ed creates opportunity for all to learn and explore their sexuality in a safe and equitable way," said Heidi Bivens. While designing costumes for Euphoria, I was impressed by the show runners' openness to casting adult film actors in roles which they might not usually be considered for and treating them with respect and dignity. Liz's work to shift the public consciousness surrounding sex and health promotes safe spaces for people to explore these topics and helps to humanize those involved."
Pornhub Literacy 101 is the first visual representation of Pornhub's core values: consent, freedom of sexual expression, authenticity, originality, and diversity. Pornhub Literacy 101 provides further transparency and education around how users interact with the platform and emphasizes the priority Pornhub places on cybersecurity, trust, and online safety, which includes a zero-tolerance policy for the sharing of any non-consensual images. The series also reveals the rigorous, industry-leading safeguards dedicated to keeping Pornhub a safe space for content creators and the community at large.
Each installment of Pornhub Literacy 101 is between 2-4 minutes and an episodic overview includes:
Lesson 1- What Is Pornhub with Kira Noir
Learn how Pornhub has set the industry standard when it comes to preventing illegal and unwanted content from being uploaded onto its adult video sharing platforms.
Lesson 2- How Does Pornhub Support Its Community with Asa Akira
Pornhub's Sexual Wellness Center is a robust platform offering the latest in health advice, sexuality research, and resources to healthy and secure approaches to various kinks, unconventional sexual practices, and so much more. Viewers will also learn about Pornhub's philanthropic arms, raising money for a range of global initiatives including sex worker activist communities.
Lesson 3- How does Pornhub support models with Ricky Johnson
Find out the tools Pornhub models have at their disposal to swiftly eliminate unwanted content and more.
Lesson 4- How does Pornhub keep its community safe with Natassia Dreams
The importance Pornhub places on support, trust, and safety are reviewed with tips on how content creators and performers can further enhance their safety on the site.
Lesson 5- How does Pornhub keep its platform safe with Emily Willis
Get to know how seriously Pornhub takes the sharing of non-consensual images and the strong measures it has in place to ensure the safety of its community and protect the platform from unwanted content.
Lesson 6- What is Pornhub's stance on trust and safety with Pornhub Aria
Attempts at uploading non-consensual materials are an unfortunate reality that all user-generated platforms encounter. Learn how Pornhub's safeguards are designed to catch unwanted content.
The series is now available at Pornhub.com and Pornhub's official YouTube channel.
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Meteorites | Article about Meteorites by The Free Dictionary
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meteorite,
meteormeteor,
appearance of a small particle flying through space that interacts with the earth's upper atmosphere. While still outside the atmosphere, the particle is known as a meteoroid. Countless meteoroids of varying sizes are moving about the solar system at any time.
..... Click the link for more information. that survives the intense heat of atmospheric friction and reaches the earth's surface. Because of the destructive effects of this friction, only the very largest meteors become meteorites.
Classification of Meteorites
Not until the early 19th cent. did scientists fully accept the fact that meteorites came to the earth from outer space. Since then many studies have been made of their composition and crystalline structure; the use of microchemical analysis, X rays, and the mass spectrograph has facilitated such work. The age of meteorites can be determined by measuring their radium and helium contents. Some meteorites might be fragments of cometscomet
[Gr.,=longhaired], a small celestial body consisting mostly of dust and gases that moves in an elongated elliptical or nearly parabolic orbit around the sun or another star. Comets visible from the earth can be seen for periods ranging from a few days to several months.
..... Click the link for more information. ; others, small asteroids whose orbital paths crossed that of the earth. Geochemical analysis has shown that more than 170 known meteorites are of lunar origin and more than 100 are of Martian origin. One of the Martian meteorites—known as ALH84001—is believed by some scientists to show evidence of there once having been primitive bacterial life on Mars, but most experts disagree with this conclusion. The lunar and Martian meteorites are thought to have been broken away from the moon and Mars by the impact of large asteroids.
Three general categories are used to classify meteorites. The siderites, or irons, are composed entirely of metal (chiefly nickel and iron). The aerolites, or stony meteorites, show a diversity of mineral elements including large percentages of silicon and magnesium oxides; the most abundant type of aerolite is the chondrite, so called because the metal embedded in it is in the form of grainlike lumps, or chondrules. The siderolites, which are rarer than the other types, are of both metal and stone in varying proportions.
As a meteor speeds through the atmosphere, its outer surface becomes liquefied; the friction of the atmosphere finally reduces its velocity (if the meteor is not large), and the surface cools and solidifies into a dark, smooth crust. Lines of flow in the hardened surface can indicate its motions in flight. Cone-shaped meteorites show that one end was directed forward. Others, which are unevenly shaped, probably spun while falling. The smallest meteorites, dust-sized particles known as micrometeorities, may pass through the atmosphere without heating up due to friction because of their very small mass.
Formation of Craters
Friction with the atmosphere has little effect in slowing down a very large, fast-moving meteorite. When it reaches the earth, it strikes with tremendous force and becomes buried beneath the surface. This sudden impact causes great compression, heating, and partial vaporization of the outer part of the meteorite and of the materials in the ground; expansion of the gases thus formed and of steam produced from groundwater causes an explosion that shatters the meteorite and carves out a cratercrater,
circular, bowl-shaped depression on the earth's surface. (For a discussion of lunar craters, see moon.) Simple craters are bowl-shaped with a raised outer rim. Complex craters have a raised central peak surrounded by a trough and a fractured rim.
..... Click the link for more information. in the ground. Such a crater is the huge Meteor (or Barringer) Crater near Winslow, Ariz. Some 190 impact locations have been identified on earth. The largest known impact craters, each estimated at 80 mi (130 km) or greater in diameter, are located at Vredefort, South Africa, Chicxulub (off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula), Mexico, and Sudbury, Ontario. The concentration of craters is much greater on the moon and Mars because they lack an atmosphere capable of burning up—or reducing to small meteorites—all but the largest meteors before they reach the surface. The fractured rock of buried impact craters may act as a trap for oil and natural gas rising from deep underground, as is the case with Chicxulub.
Notable Meteorites
Mexico's Chicxulub crater is believed to be the site of a meteorite impact so immense that the resulting environmental changes caused or greatly contributed to the mass extinctionmass extinction,
the extinction of a large percentage of the earth's species, opening ecological niches for other species to fill. There have been at least ten such events.
..... Click the link for more information. 65 million years ago which the dinosaurs did not survive; other meteorite impacts also may have contributed to the mass extinction. In 1908 in the Tunguska Basin in Siberia a meteor that was probably a stony asteroid about 100 ft (30 m) in diameter completely disintegrated before hitting the ground, so no crater was formed; however, all the trees were flattened and wildlife killed in an area 30 mi (50 km) in diameter, more than half the size of Rhode Island. The Hoba meteorite, the largest known at an estimated 60 tons, rests where it was discovered, near Grootfontein, Namibia, in 1920. Among the exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City are three large meteorites brought from Greenland by R. E. Peary (one, called Ahnighito, weighing 36 1-2 tons) and the conical Willamette meteorite, weighing about 14 tons, found (1902) near Portland, Oreg. In N Mexico a number of meteorites have been found weighing a ton or more each. Siderites weighing more than a ton have been discovered in Brazil, Argentina, and Australia.
See K. Mark, Metorite Craters (1995); O. R. Norton and D. S. Norton, Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters (2d ed. 1998).
(mee -tee-ŏ-rÿt) Interplanetary debris that falls to the Earth's surface. The first documented one was the stone that fell near Ensisheim, Alsace in 1492 but it was not until 1803 that meteorites were accepted by the scientific community as being extraterrestrial. One that is seen to hit the ground is known as a fall; one that is discovered accidentally some time after having fallen is termed a find. Roughly 6 falls and 10 finds are added to the list annually. About 3300 hit the Earth each year; the majority go unrecorded, falling in oceans, deserts, and other uninhabited regions.
Meteorites can be crudely divided into three types: stony meteorites, which subdivide into chondrites and achondrites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. Iron meteorites have densities of about 7.8 g cm–3 and contain on average 91% iron, 8% nickel, and 0.6% cobalt. Stony meteorites have densities about 3.4 g cm–3 and on average contain 42% oxygen, 20.6% silicon, 15.8% magnesium, and 15.6% iron, no other element exceeding 2%. Stony-irons are intermediate in composition. The relative percentages of each type are shown in the table. The fall percentages give a reasonable approximation to the actual meteorite population of the Solar System. However the fragile carbonaceous chondrites mostly disintegrate on entry.
The largest iron meteorite that has been found is the 60-tonne Hoba meteorite, the largest stony meteorite being 1 tonne, part of the Norton County, Kansas achondrite. The found meteorite might represent only a small percentage of the in-space mass of the body. Meteorite entry is accompanied by a brilliant bolide, the meteorite usually being retarded to free-fall velocity at a height of about 20 km. It hits the ground at about 300 km per hour. The surface of the meteorite can easily be heated up to several thousand kelvin during entry. This usually produces a black glassy fusion crust, which covers the meteorite. Most meteorites fragment on entry, scattering pieces over an elliptical area: the carbonaceous chondrite meteorite Allende, which fell in 1969 in Mexico, scattered 5 tonnes of material over an area 48 km long by 7 km wide.
Meteorites are named after the nearest topographical feature to the fall point. Recognizing meteorite finds relies mainly on analysing chemically for the presence of nickel, which is present in all iron meteorites. Etched and polished irons also show Widmanstätten figures. Stony meteorites contain nickel-iron particles that can be extracted magnetically from a crushed sample.
Meteorites bring to our notice a type of rock existing in the Solar System but different from anything that occurs in the outer shell of the planet Earth. Studies of the chemical elements and compounds and the minerals present in meteorites allow their origin and history to be better understood; isotope ratios of given elements can give absolute ages. Most meteorites are believed to be fragments of asteroids. Two problems arise: firstly, meteorites seem to have had only a short exposure to cosmic rays; secondly, the dynamics by which a meteorite gets from the asteroid belt to the Earth's orbit is nontrivial, mainly relying on the orbital eccentricity being pumped up by gravitational perturbation when the semimajor axis approaches one of the Kirkwood gap resonances. The carbonaceous chondrites are thought to originate as parts of cometary nuclei. The ages of meteorites have been obtained by radiometric-dating methods and have been estimated at up to 4.7 × 109 years. This indicates that meteorites were formed at about the same time as the Solar System.
an iron or stone body that falls to the earth from interplanetary space; meteorites are the remnants of meteoroids that have not been completely destroyed in their passage through the atmosphere.
General information Meteorites are subdivided into three main classes: iron, stony-iron, and stony. However, a continuous gradation between classes is observed. Meteorites are characterized by an angular shape with smoothed out protrusions, a thin molten crust, and distinctive pits called regmaglypts. The interior of stony meteorites have an ashen gray color; less often the interior is black or nearly white. Numerous small inclusions of white nickel-iron and the bronze-yellow mineral troilite usually can be seen; fine dark gray veins are often present. Stony-iron meteorites contain much larger inclusions of nickel-iron. After polishing, the surface of iron meteorites takes on a mirror-like metallic luster. Occasionally there are falls of meteorites that have a more or less regular conical (so-called oriented) shape or a polyhedral shape resembling that of a crystal. These forms occur as a result of the action of the atmosphere (fragmentation and ablation) on the meteoroid during its passage through the atmosphere.
Meteorites are named after the town or geographic object nearest to their point of impact. Many meteorites are found by chance and are designated as finds; those that are observed during their descent are designated as falls.
Meteorites range in size from a few millimeters to a few meters, and the weight from fractions of a gram to tens of tons. The largest unbroken meteorite—the Hoba West iron meteorite, found in southwest Africa in 1920—weighs about 60 tons; the second largest—the Cape York iron meteorite, found in Greenland in 1818—weighs 34 tons. About 35 meteorites whose weight exceeds 1 ton are known.
As a result of the fragmentation of meteoroids, meteorites fall in groups, each consisting of tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual meteorites. Such falling groups are called meteor showers, and each shower is counted as one meteorite. The Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite shower, with a total weight of about 70 tons, fell in Primor'e Krai, 'USSR, on Feb. 12, 1947. A phenomenon, possibly caused by the fall and explosion of what is known as the Tunguska meteorite, was observed still earlier, on June 30, 1908, in central Siberia. Each year no fewer than 1,000 meteorites fall to the earth. However, many remain undetected because they fall into the seas and oceans or in sparsely inhabited areas. In the course of a year, only 12-15 meteorites find their way into various museums and scientific institutions throughout the world (see Table 1).
Up to Jan. 1, 1974, 146 meteorites (falls and finds) had been collected in the USSR.
Table 1. Number of meteorites recorded as of Jan. 1, 19661
1 After M. Hey
Iron ..... 43 584 627
Stony-iron ..... 12 58 70
Stony ..... 724 0413 1,137
Total ..... 779 1,055 1,834
Phenomena accompanying falls of meteorites Descents of meteorites to the earth are accompanied by visual, acoustic, and mechanical phenomena. A bright fireball, called a bolide, accompanied by a tail and emitting sparks, races rapidly across the sky. A trail in the form of a streak of dust remains in the sky along the path of the bolide. The trail, initially rectilinear, quickly curves under the action of air currents, which move in different directions at different altitudes, and assumes a zigzag shape. At night, a bolide may illuminate the terrain for hundreds of square kilometers. Explosion-like sounds occur a few tens of seconds after the bolide disappears and are followed by a roaring sound, crackling, and a gradually fading rumble, which are caused by shock (ballistic) waves. Along the projection of the bolide trajectory on the surface of the earth, shock waves sometimes cause the ground and buildings to shake, windows to rattle and even crack, doors to open, and other effects.
The appearance of a bolide is caused by the entry into the earth's atmosphere of a meteoroid whose velocity reaches 15 or more km/sec. Air resistance causes the meteoroid to decelerate, and its kinetic energy is transformed into heat and light. Consequently, the surface of the meteoroid and the air shell around it are heated to several thousand degrees. The matter of the meteoroid is brought to a boil, evaporates, and in the molten state is partially carried away by air currents and is dispersed into tiny droplets, which quickly solidify to form tiny balls of meteoric dust. The dust trail of the bolide is formed from the products resulting from this process, called ablation. A meteoroid becomes luminous at an altitude of about 130–80 km, and at 20–10 km its speed is usually greatly reduced (see Figure 1). In
Figure 1. Diagram of the trajectories of meteorites in the earth's atmosphere
this part of the path, called the arrest region, heating and vaporization of the meteoroid (or its fragments) cease, the bolide disappears, and the thin molten layer on the surface of the fragments rapidly solidifies, forming a fusion crust. Microscopic examination reveals the crust's complex structure, reflecting the effects of exposure to the atmosphere; grooves, scattered drops, and a porous or slag structure of the crust are frequently observed. After passing through the arrest region, the dark fragments of the meteoroid, which are covered with a hardened crust, plummet down to the earth under the influence of gravity. While falling, they cool and, on reaching the ground, are either warm or hot, but not incandescent. Upon impact with the earth, the meteorite forms a depression, whose size and shape depend largely on the rate of fall. There are about 40 recorded cases of meteoritic impacts with buildings, but no significant damage occurred.
Chemical composition Meteorites contain no chemical elements that are unknown on the earth; nearly all the known elements have been found in them. The most abundant chemical elements in meteorites are Al, Fe, Ca, O, Si, Mg, Ni, and S. The chemical composition of certain meteorites may deviate significantly from the norm. For example, the Ni content in iron meteorites ranges from 5 to more than 30 percent. The average content of precious metals and rare elements (per 1 ton of meteoritic matter) is 10 g Ru, 5 g Rh, 10 g Pd, 5 g Ag, 3 gm Os, 5 g Ir, 20 g Pt, and 5 g Au. It has been established that the content of certain chemical elements is closely related to the content of other elements. Thus, for example, it has been shown that the higher the Ni content in a meteorite, the lower the Ga content. The isotopic composition of the many chemical elements found in meteorites has been shown to be identical with the isotopic composition of the same elements of terrestrial origin. The presence of radioactive chemical elements and their decay products in meteorites has made it possible to determine that the age of the matter that makes up meteorites is 4.5 billion years. In interplanetary space, meteorites are exposed to the action of cosmic rays, and stable and unstable cosmogonic isotopes are formed in them. The cosmic-ray exposure age of meteorites, that is, the duration of their independent existence, which varies from a few million years to hundreds of millions of years, has been determined from the content of cosmogonic isotopes. Measurement of these isotopes also makes it possible to determine the terrestrial age of an old fall, that is, the time interval that has elapsed since a particular meteorite impacted with the earth, which may be tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
The content of cosmogonic isotopes in meteorites and the presence of the tracks formed by high-energy particles make it possible to study variations in the intensity of cosmic rays in space and with time and to determine the original mass of meteorites (prior to striking the earth).
Mineral composition In contrast to the chemical composition, the mineral composition of meteorites is distinctive: a number of minerals that are unknown or that occur very rarely on the earth have been found in meteorites. These include schreiber-site, daubreelite, oldhamite, lawrencite, and merrillite, which are present in meteorites in small quantities. In recent years, several dozen new, previously unknown, minerals have been discovered in meteorites. Many of these have been named after meteoriticists, for example, farringtonite, ureyite, niningerite, and krinovite. The presence of these minerals indicates the unique conditions of formation of meteorites, conditions that differ from those under which terrestrial rocks were formed. The most common minerals found in meteorites are nickel-iron, olivine, pyroxenes—anhydrous silicates (enstatite, bronzite, hypersthene, diopside, augite), and, occasionally, plagioclase.
Some meteoritic minerals, for example, lawrencite, are highly unstable under terrestrial conditions and quickly combine with atmospheric oxygen. As a result, abundant oxidation products appear on meteorites in the form of rust spots; this leads to the disintegration of the meteorites. Crystalline cosmic water is present in some rare types of meteorites, and small grains of diamond are found in others, which are just as rare. The latter are a result of an impact metamorphism to which the meteorite has been subjected. Various gases that occur in different quantitative ratios have been identified in meteorites. The mineral composition of meteorites convincingly attests to a common origin of various types of meteorites.
Structure The surfaces of most iron meteorites, when polished and etched with a solution of nitric or some other acid, display complex patterns, called Widmanstatten figures. They consist of intersecting bands with bright narrow bordering strips. Polygonal fields are observed in some intermediate areas. Widmanstatten patterns appear as a result of the varying action of the etching solution on the surface of the meteorite. Nickel-iron consists of two mineral phases: kamacite, with a low nickel content, and taenite, with a high nickel content. Therefore, the bands, which consist of kamacite, are etched more strongly than the fields, which are filled with a fine mechanical mixture of kamacite and taenite grains. The narrow strips bordering the bands consist of taenite and do not submit at all to etching. The band-lamellae of kamacite in meteorites lie along the planes of an octahedron. Therefore, meteorites in which Widmanstatten patterns are observed are called octahedrites. Encountered less often are iron meteorites that consist entirely of kamacite and, on etching, reveal thin parallel lines, called Neumann lines. The internal microstructure of such meteorites shows a crystalline structure resembling that of a cube, or hexahedron. Therefore, these meteorites are called hexahedrites. Iron meteorites (ataxites) that do not display any pattern are encountered just as rarely; they contain the greatest amount of nickel.
Stony-iron meteorites (pallasites) resemble an iron sponge, whose cavities are filled with the transparent yellow-green mineral olivine. Another type of stony-iron meteorite, called mesosiderite, when broken, shows abundant inclusions of nickel-iron in the primary stony mass.
Stony meteorites are subdivided into two main groups: chondrites and achondrites. Chondrites are meteorites with distinctive globules, called chondrules, ranging in size from microscopic grains to the size of a pea. The chondrules are apparently rapidly solidified drops. Chondrites constitute about 85 percent of all falls of stony meteorites. Achondrites, a much rarer group, are meteorites that contain no chondrules.
Origin The most widespread opinion is that meteorites are fragments of asteroids. It has been established that meteoroids move in elliptical orbits similar to those of asteroids. A large number of small asteroids, with diameters much less than 1 km, constitute a group intermediate between asteroids and meteoroids. As a result of collisions among the moving small asteroids, there occurs a continual process of the fragmentation of small asteroids into smaller parts, which supplement the meteoroid content of interplanetary space. Meteorites constitute samples of solid matter of extraterrestrial origin that are accessible to direct study and that provide diverse information on the early stage of the formation of the solar system and on the system's subsequent evolution. Thus, the study of meteorites, which reveals more and more new facts, has great cosmogonic significance. It is also important in the study of the deep regions of the earth.
Some researchers also classify tektites as meteorites; tektites are distinctive glassy bodies that are found in different localities on the earth's surface. However, the conditions of the formation of and the nature of tektites distinguish tektites from meteorites.
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"We suspect meteorites made it to the ground because the fireball ended very low in the atmosphere, just to the west of Bancroft, and slowed down significantly," Western University professor Peter Brown said in a (https://news.westernu.ca/2019/07/fireball-space-meteor-ontario/) statement .
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The find is being analyzed by scientists as a possible meteorite.
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C'est un travail de longue haleine qui s'adresse a tous ceux qui veulent mieux connaitre ce monde fascinant, il vous permettra non seulement de differencier, de classer et de nommer les meteorites mais egalement de comprendre leurs origines.
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Most meteorites that do reach Earth fall in the sea or remote areas.
it came from outer space! Meteorite that crashlanded on village goes on show at museum in USA
About Aerolite Meteorites, Inc.: Aerolite Meteorites is one the world's top meteorite businesses, owned by Geoff Notkin of Science Channel's award-winning adventure series Meteorite Men.
Historic Meteorite, Not Seen in Public for 20 Years, Now on Display in Denver
Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.
Fire in the sky: Was it a meteorite or satellite?
This significant acquisition will allow scientists and researchers to study the chemical and mineralogical differences of asteroids and meteorites, contributing to our scientific understanding of these objects.
Australia : Rare meteorite to stay in Australia
Two more meteorites discovered between 1956 and 1958 were taken to the UK for study purposes.
Oman takes possession of prized meteorite
He said that the retrieved samples are stone meteorites, noting that such meteorites have scientific value and contribute to studies and research.
Scientists collect fresh meteorites fallen in Sudan's White Nile State
Searching a Swedish quarry, researchers discovered a new variety of meteorite that may have originated from the same cosmic collision that formed L chondrites, which make up around 40 percent of all known meteorites.
Missing "extinct" meteorite found in Sweden
Most meteorites come from asteroids, which are rocky objects primarily found in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Planetary scientists, including Ed Scott at the University of Hawaii, Manoa's Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, have found that a significant number of these altered meteorites have ages clustering at 100,000,000 years after the solar system's birth--the true age of the moon-forming impact, they maintain.
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For my last post of the year I decided to compile a list of my most popular book reviews written within the year of 2016.
I read a total of 74 books over the past twelve months, with 23 reviews being written. As you can see, I don't review all the books I read. I don't really have a formula to which books I do review here on my blog, and which I don't, however I would say I tend to write reviews for the books I want to shout about and recommend to others.
Below is a list of my ten most viewed book review posts from 2016.
WISHING YOU ALL THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS, WITH WONDERFUL READS TO BE HAD!


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What is NeuConnect?
Plans for the very first electricity link between Great Britain and Germany take a step forwards
A new project to power tens of millions of homes has taken a step closer to becoming a reality, as plans for NeuConnect – the first direct power link between Great Britain and Germany – were submitted to Medway District Council. The planned interconnector would provide around 700km of subsea cables passing through UK, Dutch and German waters to form an 'invisible highway' between the Isle of Grain in Kent and the Wilhelmshaven region in Germany.
Following the submission of the application, Medway Council will examine NeuConnect's application before it is decided upon by the Council's Planning Committee in Spring next year.
NeuConnect is a privately-financed £1.4bn electricity interconnector project which will link two of Europe's largest energy markets for the first time.
The cables will allow up to 1.4GW of electricity to move in either direction; enough to power tens of millions of homes over the life of the project.
The project's proposals have been developed by an international, experienced consortium with a proven track record in delivering large-scale energy projects.
Christophe Vanhove, NeuConnect CEO, said: "We are pleased to announce that NeuConnect has reached a significant milestone and recently submitted an application for the UK part of an electricity interconnector between Britain and Germany.
NeuConnect would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who were involved in the consultation process for these proposals, and will continue to engage with all relevant stakeholders as the project continues to progress."
The submission of the application comes after NeuConnect held two public consultations in the Isle of Grain during June of this year, alongside a public information event held in November 2018. Overall, a total of 50 local people turned out to learn more about the proposals first-hand. 100% of respondents stated that they had found these consultations useful in addressing their concerns.
These consultations informed the development of NeuConnect's proposals in the vital areas of visual, noise and traffic mitigation as well as means of reducing the impact of construction on the local environment.
To find out more about the project, residents can contact the NeuConnect Community Engagement team via freephone on 0800 298 7040 or email neuconnect@communityfeeedback.co.uk.
The source language (English) in which the original website text is published is the official and authorised version. Translations are included for better understanding but only the original language version is legally valid. Therefore, please compare translations with the original language version. © NeuConnect Interconnector 2019. © NeuConnect Interconnector 2020. site by BECG


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Diamondbacks 3, Cubs 1
After last night's tire fire, it was good the Diamondbacks righted the ship tonight. Good pitching, good defense, timely hitting. This wasn't your daddy's 2013 Diamondbacks!
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The Diamondbacks got their offense moving early, scoring in the first inning, then cruising the rest of the way with the lead. Adam Eaton, suddenly mustache-less, took a walk to lead off the game. Aaron Hill stepped up and slammed a double into center, allowing the speedy Eaton to run through Matt Williams stop sign and score. The Diamondbacks would eventually load the bases with two more walks, but couldn't extend their lead.
In the bottom of the fourth, Arizona scored another run off back-to-back ground rule doubles from Wil Nieves and Chad Pennington. The lead was extended even further in the bottom of the fifth, as Aaron Hill launched a solo homer to lead off the inning.
Wade Miley wouldn't need anymore offense than that, and in fact was just what the non-existent baseball doctors ordered after last night's extra inning debacle. Torgo watched the house while the Master was away, going 7 2/3 innings and giving up only 1 run on 5 hits and 3 walks. He also struck out 4, but really the most significant thing, after pitching a fine game, was going deep enough that the beleaguered bullpen wouldn't have to work as much.
Dodgers are losing at press time, so there's a possibility the D-backs could move into within a half a game of first. Let's all root for the Reds.
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If you are not familiar with the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint created way back in 2005 by Guy Kawasaki, here's how it goes: The most effective PowerPoint presentations should contain no more than 10 slides, last no longer than 20 minutes, and feature font no smaller than 30 points.
Now, it's been a while since this rule has been all the rage, and with PowerPoint no longer being the only viable option to deliver media-rich presentations, we have to ask ourselves if this rule is still effective as it once was.
The verdict? Kawasaki's rule is still as relevant as ever. Here are just some of the reasons why we should still stick to it.
Most people make the mistake of not being able to reduce their sales pitches, proposals, or ideas into short and punchy presentation that contain around 10 slides. We say around 10, because each case is specific, and you may have to bend this rule a little bit, without breaking it.
Rather than cramming as much text as you can into your presentations, you should create a strong outline and include only the most essential points, and deliver the rest yourself. A great example of this would be Steve Jobs' keynote presentation at MacWorld 2007, which is still one of the most brilliant examples of how it should be done.
His slides features very little text, and when they did, it was often a sentence or two. But the audience was captivated by his speech and his ideas. This is why the 10-slide rule will always work: Because of you. It has nothing to do with PowerPoint, or whatever app you use to present your ideas.
The 20-minute aspect of this rule is arguably the least flexible aspect of it. It's hard for people to sit down and listen to something for more than an hour without their focus wandering somewhere else. This is the reason why most classes are 45 minutes long.
Why only 20 minutes then? Well, you still have to set up everything, present your ideas, with still enough time left to answer questions, which leaves you with roughly 20 minutes for the presentation itself.
You've probably seen at least one of the universally acclaimed TED Talks, which are an excellent example of how much information can be delivered within a short of amount of time. Check out the now legendary Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk on how school are killing creativity. He had the audience in stitches, yet he was still able to present numerous cutting-edge ideas in less than 20 minutes.
The 30-point rule is there is because of the limitations of our eyesight, and that one is pretty much set in stone. In fact, the only way you can go from there is up, especially if you are presenting your ideas in front of a large auditorium. You want the person in the back to be able to follow the presentation the same way as the person sitting right there in front of you. Make it an equal experience for everyone.
And if you're thinking that there is not much you can fit onto a single slide using a font larger than 30 points, you would be right, but you're not supposed to anyways. You are the vessel for your ideas, not your computer, nor PowerPoint. It's you who the audience will listen to.
Remember that you goal here is to present ideas, not an entire project, so focus on featuring one or two important points. There is reason why it is called PowerPoint, not PowerEssay!
As you can see, the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint is still every bit as effective as ever, and it's applicable all over the board, as evidenced by our examples. Whether you are using PowerPoint, or some of is alternatives, such as Prezi, or Haiku Deck, it doesn't matter, because those are just the tools of the trade.
The real reason why this decade-old rule is still effective is because of the people.
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ORLANDO, Fla., February 2019 – Christina Pappas, district sales manager with The Keyes Company in Miami, has been installed as 2019 treasurer of Florida Realtors®, the state's largest professional association with 187,000 members. "Our leadership team is dedicated to building a better Realtor through our many professional education and training programs," she says.
"We know that technology is one of the keys to serving sellers and buyers effectively, and we help our members stay connected as their customers"
A leader in regional, state and national real estate organizations, Pappas is a board member of the Miami Association of Realtors and chair of its Young Professionals Network Leadership Board. She has been a leader in the Women's Council of Realtors, serving as education and events co-chair.
Pappas has also been a director of the state association, a member of various state committees and forums, and a liaison and a director of the National Association of Realtors. In the community, Pappas is a trustee of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce and of the Chamber South. She is a Cornell Alumni Admissions ambassador, a United Way Young Leader executive committee member and former Young President's/World President's Organization Next Generation Liaison for Miami.


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Khashoggi killing: US issues travel bans against 16 Saudis - The Guardian
Move comes as state department tries to fend off criticism over reaction to killing of Saudi journalist, as The Guardian reported. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has issued travel bans against 16 Saudi Arabians, including a former aide to the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as he tries to fend off bipartisan criticism of the state department's reaction to the killing of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state department designations make the 16 individuals and their immediate family members ineligible for entry into the US. A list released on Monday includes Saud al-Qahtani, a former aide to Mohammed, and Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, who was part of the crown prince's entourage on trips abroad. The names had already been announced publicly, but Monday's designation tells those affected that their family members are also at risk of being subject to a travel ban. Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, sparking a global furore. He had written critically of Mohammed in columns for the Washington Post before he was killed. After denying any knowledge of Khashoggi's death for weeks, Saudi authorities eventually settled on the explanation that he was killed in an operation masterminded by former advisers to Mohammed, denying that the crown prince himself was involved. Mohammed was conspicuous by his absence from the state department's list. The Trump administration's support for Saudi Arabia has been a point of tension with Congress since the killing of Khashoggi, who was based in the US. Lawmakers from both parties have criticised Donald Trump for not condemning Saudi Arabia strongly enough for the killing. Earlier this month, Congress gave final approval on a resolution to end American military assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, in a sweeping rebuke to the US president's foreign policy. Last week, it was reported that Saudi Arabia is within months of completing its first nuclear reactor, after it emerged that the US department of energy had granted seven permits for the transfer of sensitive nuclear information by US businesses to the Saudi government. Tempers flared last week in a confrontation between Pompeo and the Democrat-run House foreign affairs committee, when legislators demanded to know why the administration appeared to be shielding a Saudi regime responsible for wholesale human rights abuses, mass civilian deaths in Yemen and the murder and dismemberment of Khashoggi. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, told Pompeo: "If you cannot trust a regime with a bone saw, you should not trust them with nuclear weapons." The Guardian


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Greens election candidate granted bail for charges of paying to watch child sex abuse video
5:15pm Jun 10, 2020
A Greens federal election candidate who allegedly paid to watch and direct the live stream of a child being sexually abused in the Philippines has been granted strict conditional bail.
Jonathan Doig, who stood for the Greens in 2019 against Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the seat of Cook, was arrested after he allegedly paid a known child abuse facilitator so he could watch in real time the abuse of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
The 57-year-old software engineer appeared via video link in Sydney's Central Local Court on Wednesday.
Jonathan Peter Doig leaves Sutherland Police Station in Sydney, Wednesday. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) (AAP)
Doig is accused of paying more than $120,000 over 10 years to about 97 separate beneficiaries in the Philippines.
Prosecutor Sandra Lo said Doig had been conversing daily with the teenage victim since December 2019 until his arrest.
Ms Lo alleged the pair exchanged more than 350 videos.
She said Doig's connection to the Philippines meant he posed a risk to the community. Detectives allege there are more victims.
"The internet means ... he has unlimited access to vulnerable children," Ms Lo told the court on Wednesday.
Doig, a Greens federal election candidate who allegedly paid to watch and direct the live stream of a child being sexually abused in the Philippines has been granted strict conditional bail. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) (AAP)
But Doig's defence lawyer said he had no criminal convictions and was willing to relinquish all electronic devices if granted bail.
"His wife is prepared to allow him to return home and will monitor his conduct," barrister Gregory Stanton said.
Mr Stanton said the nature of the case meant that if granted bail, Doig's online presence would be under "a most diligent and constant scrutiny."
Magistrate Margaret Quinn granted Doig bail on strict conditions including that he report three times a week to Sutherland Police Station, have no access to internet devices and give up his passport.
Doig is banned from being alone with anyone under the age of 16 outside his direct family.
"Any matter dealing with child sexual offences of pornography, whether it's in or out of Australia, is abhorrent," Ms Quinn told the court.
Doig faces charges of procuring a child to engage in sexual activity outside Australia and both soliciting and possessing child abuse material.
Two of the charges come with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, while the other carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.
He's scheduled to appear in court again on August 4.
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Beresheet Lunar Lander - SpaceIL by alonmln is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
This is Beresheet, the Israeli lunar lander made by SpaceIL.
Beresheet is a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander. Its aims include promoting careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
I have made and printed this model to celebrate this scientific achievement, and so anyone could have a small reminder of what the human race can do.
I have printed this model in 2 parts. First only the top disc, and then the rest of the bottom, this way I didn't need to add supports next to the 4 fuel tanks.
Please note that if you resize it, the smallest part is the rods connecting the platforms and the legs, and if they are too small the print might fail.
Glue the top disc to the bottom - the 4 fuel tanks might be higher than the poles, so either glue to them or sand them down a bit.
Downloaded a bunch of photos to get as much visual coverage of Beresheet as I could. I also read articles about it to understand it's size and shape.
Using the images as a reference I calculated the estimated size of Beresheet.
I used Fusion 360 to make the model. The source file is included.
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Get the credentials of the current user from the HTTP client via the HTTP protocol.
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Set the response header to prevent caching of the page by the browser.
Set the value of the specified attribute in the ServletContext (application context) of the servlet associated with the specified HttpServletRequest.
Set the value of the specified attribute in the Session associated with the specified HttpServletRequest.
Write a friendly error message to the HTTP client.
Write as an XML stream to the HTTP client all information available to a servlet.
Get the credentials of the current user from the HTTP client via the HTTP protocol. If the HTTP client did not already send them as an HTTP header or if blnRejectCurrentCredentials is true, return null to the calling routine. Before returning null, if blnAskClientIfNecessary is true, send a response to the HTTP client asking it to re-issue the HTTP request with the credentials. If the HTTP client is a Web Browser, this may cause it to prompt its user for credentials before re-issuing the request.
request - The HttpServletRequest object used to get the HTTP headers from the HTTP client.
response - The HttpServletResponse object used to tell the HTTP client to re-issue the HTTP request. Can be null if blnAskClientIfNecessary is false.
strRealm - String to pass to the HTTP client as the "realm". If the client is a Web Browser, it may show this string to its user when prompting for credentials. Can be null if blnAskClientIfNecessary is false.
blnRejectCurrentCredentials - Boolean specifying whether to reject any credentials already in the HTTP headers.
blnAskClientIfNecessary - Boolean specifying whether to allow any interaction with the HTTP client that may cause it to prompt its user for new credentials.
Credentials object containing the credentials, or null if no credentials are available yet.
IOException - When an I/O error occurs trying to tell the HTTP client to re-issue the HTTP request with credentials, or when an error occurs trying to decode the credentials sent by the HTTP client.
Get the uppercased username of the current user from the HTTP headers of the specified HTTP request. If the username is not already contained in the HTTP headers, return "". Do not interact further with the HTTP client, attempting to determine the username.
String containing the username, or "".
request - The HttpServletRequest to get the parameters from.
request - The HttpServletRequest to get the headers from.
request - The HttpServletRequest to get the cookies from.
request - The HttpServletRequest object to get the value from.
strName - Name of the parameter.
true if present; false otherwise.
Null or the parameter value.
strDefault - Default value to use if no parameter value exists.
Returns the int value of the parameter with the specified name, getting it from the specified HttpServletRequest object. If the value cannot be interpreted as an int, an exception is thrown.
NullPointerException - When the specified value cannot be interpreted as an int.
Returns the int value of the parameter with the specified name, getting it from the specified HttpServletRequest object. If the value cannot be interpreted as an int, the specified default value is returned.
intDefault - Default value to use if no valid parameter value exists.
strURL - URL to connect to.
Reader connected to the URL.
IOException - When an I/O error occurs reading from the URL.
credentials - Credentials to use in connecting.
request - The HttpServletRequest object of the servlet.
request - The HttpServletRequest object.
Full path of the directory, ending in a path separator (typically "/") for the native file system, as returned by java.io.File.separator.
servlet - The HttpServlet object.
strName - The attribute name.
Get the int value of the specified attribute from the Session associated with the specified HttpServletRequest. If any error occurs (no Session, no such attribute, attribute value not an int, etc.), return the specified default value.
intDefault - Default value to use if an error occurs.
servlet - The HttpServlet object defining the servlet.
Write as an XML stream to the HTTP client all information available to a servlet. Format of XML is as shown in getInfoAvailableToServlet.
response - The HttpServletResponse object of the servlet.
IOException - When an I/O error occurs during interaction with the servlet, request, or response.
strMessage - A String to put in front of the error message.
throwable - The Throwable containing the error message.
response - The HttpServletResponse object.
Set the response header to indentify the response content as a file download, specifying a default name for the HTTP client to use when saving the file. When the HTTP client is a browser, it typically prompts the user with a "File Download" dialog, asking whether to open the file or save it to disk. If the user chooses to save it to disk, the browser typically pops up a "Save As" dialog, allowing the user to choose a location. The filename specified here is the default filename used within the user specified directory. If the user chooses to open the file, the browser typically invokes the application associated with the filename extension. For example, a ".csv" extension might cause the browser to invoke Microsoft Excel.
strFilename - The name of the file.
Return a short human-readable abbreviation for the Web browser that is identified by the specified user agent string, which should be the full string value of the HTTP "user-agent" header from a common Web browser. This is useful for logging, summarizing, etc, but does not carry as much info as the full header string. Header strings that differ in terms of exact version number, OS, modes, etc., may generate the same abbreviation.
strHttpUserAgent - The full string value of the "user-agent" header from a common Web browser.
Abbreviation for the user agent string. If the browser and/or OS is unknown, the value of strUSER_AGENT_UNKNOWN may occur as portions of the abbreviation. Examples: FF2.x-Lin, SFx-Mac, UNK-Win, UNK-UNK, etc.
Is the path to the folder in which the servlet associated with the specified request is installed. It always ends with a path separator (typically "/") for the native file system, as returned by java.io.File.separator.
This allows different web apps, or even different versions of the same web app to be installed on the same server, each using its own config file.
Since the config file resides in the servlet's folder, this also allows the config file to be deployed as part of a WAR file.
Is the value specified by the strPrefix param.
Can be any string, including one that contains path separators, (typically "/"), which allows for config files in deeply nested subfolders of the servlet folder.
Can even use the parent folder notation (typically "../") for config files the reside outside the servlet folder, but can be found relative to it.
Is the name of the server, as returned by request.getServerName().
This allows multiple config files for multiple servers (perhaps the development, test, and production servers) to be deployed in a single web app, with each config file being found correctly.
Is the value specified by the strSuffix param.
Like prefix, it can be any string.
strPrefix - The prefix to use, or null or empty string.
strSuffix - The suffix to use, or null or empty string.
blnUsePathToServletFolder - If false, the path to the servlet folder and its trailing path separator are omitted.
blnUseServerName - If false, servername is omitted, so the prefix is immediately followed by the suffix.
Fully qualified config file name.
Get the fully qualified filename of a config file. The filename is built as: path_to_servlet_folder/prefixservernamesuffix Calls getConfigFileName(HttpServletRequest, String, String, boolean, boolean) specifying true for the 2 boolean parameters.


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Q: colormap with pandas dataframe plot function I have data from multiple sites that record a sharp change in the monitored parameter. How could I plot the data for all these sites using value-dependent colors to enhance the visualization?
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import string

# site names
cols = string.ascii_uppercase

# number of days
ndays = 3

# index
index = pd.date_range('2018-05-01', periods=3*24*60, freq='T')

# simulated daily data
d1 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))
d2 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))+2
d3 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))-2
data=np.concatenate([d1, d2, d3])

# df = pd.DataFrame(data=data, index=index, columns=list(cols))
df.plot(legend=False)

Each site (column) gets assigned one color in the above code. Is there a way to represent the parameter values to different colors?
I guess one alternative is using colormaps option from scatter plot function: How to use colormaps to color plots of Pandas DataFrames
ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12,6))
collection = [plt.scatter(range(len(df)), df[col], c=df[col], s=25, cmap=cmap, edgecolor='None') for col in df.columns]

However, if I plot over time (i.e., x=df.index) things appear not to work as expected.
Is there any other alternative? or suggestion how to better visualize the sudden change in the time series?

A: In what follows I will use only 3 columns and hourly data in order to make the plots look less messy. The examples work as well with the original data.
cols = string.ascii_uppercase[:3]
ndays = 3
index = pd.date_range('2018-05-01', periods=3*24, freq='H')

# simulated daily data
d1 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))
d2 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))+2
d3 = np.random.randn(len(index)//ndays, len(cols))-2
data=np.concatenate([d1, d2, d3])

df = pd.DataFrame(data=data, index=index, columns=list(cols))
df.plot(legend=False)

The pandas way
You are out of luck,DataFrame.plot.scatter does not work with datetime-like data due to a long standing bug.
The matplotlib way
Matplotlib's scatter can handle datetime-like data but the x-axis does not scale as expected.
for col in df.columns:
    plt.scatter(df.index, df[col], c=df[col])
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()

This looks like a bug to me but I could not find any reports. You can work around this by manually adjusting the x-limits.
for col in df.columns:
    plt.scatter(df.index, df[col], c=df[col])

start, end = df.index[[0, -1]]
xmargin = (end - start) * plt.gca().margins()[0]
plt.xlim(start - xmargin, end + xmargin)
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()

Unfortunately the x-axis formatter is not as nice as the pandas one.
The pandas way, revisited
I discovered this trick by chance and I do not understand why it works. If you plot a pandas series indexed by the same datetime data before calling matplotlib's scatter, the autoscaling issue disappear and you get the nice pandas formatting.
So I made an invisible plot of the first column and then the scatter plot.
df.iloc[:, 0].plot(lw=0)  # invisible plot
for col in df.columns:
    plt.scatter(df.index, df[col], c=df[col])

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