On March 26, the opening of Wuxi Branch of Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (referred to as "Xinrui Hospital") and the opening of a large-scale expert clinic were launched. More than 20 clinics of the Shanghai Ruijin Hospital team were fully open, and nearly 100 people from Wuxi and surrounding areas came to the hospital and became the first "experiencers" of the hospital. Huang Qin, Mayor of Wuxi, Yang Weiguo, Party Secretary of Ruijin Hospital, Qu Jieming, Dean of Ruijin Hospital, Liu Xia and Wang Jinjian, municipal leaders of Wuxi, and Zhang Mingkang, Secretary General of the Wuxi Municipal Government, attended the event.
Xinrui Hospital is a non-profit hospital managed by the Xinwu District Government and entrusted by Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in accordance with the standards of tertiary medical institutions. The hospital is located at 197 Zhixian Road, Xinwu District, with a total construction area of 155,500 square meters and a fixed number of beds of 501. At present, the hospital has a total of 29 clinical departments and nearly 500 medical staff. The clinical department heads and executive directors of the hospital are all served by the medical experts and backbones of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. More high-quality experts will be introduced from Shanghai as the hospital develops and patients' needs grow. It is hoped that through the scientific management and cultivation, the hospital will gradually establish a relatively complete discipline system and talent echelon, complete the development process from "blood transfusion" to "blood production", and better radiate the high-quality medical resources of Shanghai to Wuxi and surrounding areas.


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Britney Spears apologized to Alexa Nikolas for yelling at her and "traumatizing" her on the set of "Zoey 101"
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Britney Spears apologized to Alexa Nikolas for yelling at her and "traumatizing" her on the set of "Zoey 101"
Earlier this year, Jamie Lynn Spears alleged in her memoir: Things I should have said that she Zoey 101 her co-star Alexa, who was 12 at the time, was spreading rumors about her. Jamie said he then turned to her older sister Britney for "guidance."
Jamie said "a very pregnant Britney" and then came on set and talked to Alexa about the rumors. Alexa has since denied spreading rumors about Jamie.
"Britney wasted no time getting to the point. 'Are you making fun of my sister? Telling lies and spreading rumours? You shouldn't do that!'" Jamie Lynn wrote in the book. "Britney told her that she wouldn't keep her job if she continued to treat people that way."
But Alexa confirmed that Britney did, in fact, talk to her in a trailer. This is what Alexa had to say:
Alexa said that a talent coordinator took her to a trailer because Britney and Jamie wanted to chat with her. Initially, she was hoping that Britney would help mediate the tension between her and Jamie.
Instead, Alexa said Jamie ran to the back of the trailer. "Suddenly, [Britney] She started yelling at me," Alexa said, before reminding listeners that Britney has, in fact, apologized to her ever since.
Alexa said that Britney was put in a horrible situation because she was told that Alexa was abusing her sister. "She was like eight months pregnant, so she was hormonal too," Alexa said. "I remember her rubbing her belly while she was screaming. She was very unhinged in a way that it felt like someone was manipulating her. I see Jamie back there, scared to go upstairs, letting her sister do all of her…"
"I have an adult yell at me and tell me I will never work in this industry again," Alexa said. She then revealed that she vomited after leaving the room.
This week, Britney apologized to her again for the incident. "I was heartbroken to see your interview about your experience in the business," Britney wrote in a post. "I know it's been 15 years of what you're sharing, but trust me. I know it still matters. Even though I apologized to you personally just out of 'gut', my heart at the time didn't know how incredibly good my family was with the LANGUAGE! ACTING!"
"My sister was literally like my daughter growing up so I apologize for my ignorance for yelling at you when I obviously had no idea what was really going on."
"The way you spoke gave me strength and inspiration, but I'm writing this to you today because I'm sorry I hurt your feelings! You should tell Nickelodeon to kiss your ass!"
Alexa seemed genuinely touched by Britney's most recent apology. She posted this on Instagram, thanking the pop icon for her sweet words. "I'm sitting here crying with my jaw on the floor. Thank you for watching and listening. Thank you for apologizing. As you know, I forgive you. You have always been my biggest inspiration and strength since I was 6 years old." ancient."
Truly, what a lesson in forgiveness and responsibility. Props to Britney and Alexa!
You can watch the full Alexa podcast interview here.
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11:00 AM Friday Oct 19, 2018
Loopline Olives grove. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
Extra virgin olive oil is made to be sloshed not drizzled and Wairarapa's award-winning producers want more Kiwis to get the message after the region's continuing success in the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards.
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With the combination of dedicated growers and its unique climate, Wairarapa has evolved into a leading olive-growing and extra virgin olive oil-producing region.
On Saturday night in Masterton, Wairarapa producers took out the top five medals in the annual Extra Virgin Olive Oil awards.
Di and Colin Hadley of Left Field Olives. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
But the industry is still growing.
Increasing consumers' knowledge of the health benefits and uses of the green oil is the key to it flourishing alongside the region's other high-profile bottled product, wine.
Not enough people know extra virgin olive oil is the only oil rich in polyphenols, one of nature's antioxidants.
It is believed to reduce cholesterol levels, is a natural source of vitamins A, E and K, benefits brain function, and acts as an anti-inflammatory.
Colin and Di Hadley have been living the Mediterranean olive-growing dream for the past 18 years.
Their Martinborough-based grove and business, Left Field Olives, is considered 'boutique' with about 450 trees planted on a 4ha piece of Martinborough land.
Colin said the couple found their niche in the industry through trial and error.
The industry had experienced some "growing pains", like the country's wine industry some 40 years ago, he said.
Colin described it as a "serrated edge" combination of producers – made up of boutique and large commercial operations, as well as those still searching for their spot.
But he narrows the industry's biggest challenge down to struggles selling extra virgin olive oil in New Zealand due to the lack of understanding of the "fantastic" product.
"It all comes down to education, it's a deep-seated view with New Zealanders that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil.
"It's nonsense — you can cook with it," he said.
While travelling in Europe recently, the couple got an appreciation of the quality of New Zealand's olive oil.
"The country is producing oil at a quality you'd get from the best producers in Tuscany," he said.
Extra virgin olive oil is a staple in the Mediterranean diet that has been used for cooking for centuries, he said.
"It's very versatile and fantastically healthy … it's one of the most underrated products of our era," Colin said.
The regular comments Colin and Di hear from consumers during market days and taste-testing sessions are mainly spurred from the misconception of the product.
"People come along and they say, 'oh we will only buy a bottle for the summer' sort of thing, and 'of course we only drizzle this good stuff on the lettuce'.
"And you think 'oh goodness no this is for sloshing not drizzling'."
When they planted the first trees, they worked on the basis they would not get a decent crop for about seven years, but on the fifth season they were already producing, and by the seventh they had won a 'best in show' award.
"It's patchy, you have some years that are average and below average – like most agriculture enterprises.
"We strive to break even, and that can be a struggle, but there is a lifestyle element to it," he said.
Colin puts the success down to a handful of factors.
Wairarapa sits in a unique band of climate and geology giving the trees a good balance between young volcanic soils and hot summers.
"We have to do it on quality. That's why we keep going in those awards."
The Left Field Tuscan Blend won Best in Class for Boutique Intense Blends, and a gold medal, this year.
Their Barnea Blend was awarded a Silver Medal for Boutique Mild Blends.
No secret to being the best
If Mark and Kate Bunny, of Loopline Olives, knew the secret recipe to producing their award-winning extra virgin olive oil, they would keep it very safe, they say.
Alas, there isn't one.
The combination of good Wairarapa soil, sunshine hours, climate and water determines the quality of olive oil, Mark said.
Harvesting at Loopline Olives. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
On Saturday, Loopline Olives were the first producers to take out both Best and Reserve in Show, while Juno, from Greytown, who took out Best, and Reserve in Boutique in this year's Extra Virgin Olive Oil awards held on Saturday night in Masterton.
But before buying the rural Masterton grove, now 900 trees, in 2009, the couple, who were in their mid-50s, didn't know much about olives as former sheep and beef farmers.
Mark admits, "I had never had an olive by itself, and probably never had olive oil".
Moving to the property, Mark even considered removing the grove altogether.
But after almost a decade, the olives are still there, though they agree the industry is still young, similar to the wine industry some decades ago.
"It started out as hobby growers … but I think every grower is trying to look at it on a commercial basis now," he said.
The Bunnys believe the general public's knowledge of extra virgin olive oil's health benefits and what it can be used for is low but improving.
Television cooking shows were enhancing the presence of the oil, Kate said.
The Bunnys do most of their cooking with the oil whether it's in baking, on deserts or soaking meat in it before cooking.
Kate said the word is "slosh" when it comes to using the oil.
Mark and Kate Bunny at the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards on Saturday night. PHOTO/BECKIE WILSON
They did not know the power of their high-quality oil until entering their first round of national awards in 2014 – they won Best in Show for the Picholene.
Their entire grove of four varieties is now award-winning having taken out medals at Saturday night's awards.
Mark considers the Loopline oil similar to a single-malt whiskey — "We don't blend anything with it, it is what it is."
Kate said the Olives NZ medals on the bottles were crucial in marketing and selling.
Wairarapa was known for its medium-sized groves with growers focused on producing a high quality, artisan product, said Olives New Zealand [Olives NZ] chief executive Gayle Sheridan.
The region is home to consistent award winners at the annual awards hosted by the company, and this year's awards were no different.
"Growers report that having a gold or silver medal is viewed very favourably by the consumer and indeed many gold winners will sell out of product by Christmas," Sheridan said.
More professional
The olive oil industry is "at the beginning of being great", says Martinborough's Dali Oil producer Ross Vintiner.
Dali won gold and best in class for Dali Frantoio, in the Commercial Mild section of Saturday's awards. Dali Picual won a gold medal for Commercial Intense Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Vintiner said the industry is attempting to become more professional with new Ministry for Primary Industries food safety regulations a welcome development,
Ross Vintiner with his partner, Andrea Stewart, during olive harvesting. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED
Vintiner was there at the beginning of the industry when he planted Barnea olive trees on a property in Gladstone in 1989, though that didn't work out as the industry was only just budding.
Vintiner has since worked in the wine industry, and he too makes a comparison with the olive oil.
Just like other producers, Vintiner said the consumer's knowledge of the oil "has a long way to go".
"But the wine industry has managed to educate, so so can we," he said.
Current producers are typically at the older end of the age scale having invested in the industry on the late 1990s to 2000s, planting their first olive trees, "as part of the Tuscan dream".
"A lot of people are in there for the love of it and the enthusiasm around the products – it is a real challenge for most growers," he said.
Vintiner said "everyone faces the costs and issues" just like any agricultural venture.
One olive tree at a time
New Zealanders consumes approximately four million litres of extra virgin olive oil annually of which the New Zealand produced product makes up less than 10%, according to Olives New Zealand.
Dali Oil picual olives. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
But that has not always been the way.
In 1835, olives were growing in Northland, before various attempts were made to establish a thriving industry, but it didn't take-off until the 1980s, the encyclopedia said.
The industry's late uptake is attributed to the fact most New Zealanders were unfamiliar with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine and culture, that the varieties grown yielded low and were not suitable for extracting oil, and lastly, imported olive oil and table olives were cheap to buy instore.
Commercial olive-growing began in Blenheim when Gidon Blumenfeld imported new cultivars from Israel in the late 1980s, the encyclopaedia said.
In the 1990s, oil from the Blenheim olives received the highest rating of 'extra-virgin'.
Once it was known that New Zealand could produce high-quality olive oil, interest in growing olives blossomed.
Extra virgin olive oils have to be certified before being marketed as the top quality.
To qualify for the Olives New Zealand Certification, the oil must meet specific requirements including bottling and labelling standards as well as the chemical and sensory criteria based on the International Olive Council (IOC) standards.
Growers' tips for dining with a slosh of extra virgin olive oil
-On toast
-Drizzled over vanilla ice-cream with a dash of salt
-Whipped in porridge
-Cooked with fish, poultry and red meat
-Baking
-With pastas
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Q: R data.table flag first record that passes threshold per group The data set is mileage data from vehicles (it's in a data.table). There are many VINs (vehicle ID #'s) and many records per VIN. I am trying to flag the record where where the mileage (column named "mi") surpasses 400,000 for each vin. The end goal is to count how many vehicles pass the 400k mi threshold in each month.
The data table is named "d". I attempted to create the flag with the following code  (this is similar to the code I use to flag the first and last records for each VIN except I use unique(d$vin) in place of mi>=400000):
d[,flag.400k:=0L]
d[mi>=400000L,flag.400k:=1L,mult="first",by=vin]

Here is the result for one vehicle. It flags every record where mi>=400000 instead of just the first record where mi>=400000
                 vin  msg.month       mi flag.400k
 1: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 392278.1         0
 2: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 394218.0         0
 3: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 396853.0         0
 4: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 399803.6         0
 5: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 400120.6         1
 6: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 402425.7         1
 7: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 405176.6         1
 8: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 407490.1         1
 9: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 410755.9         1
10: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-04-01 411009.2         1

This is what I would like to happen:
                 vin  msg.month       mi flag.400k
 1: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 392278.1         0
 2: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 394218.0         0
 3: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 396853.0         0
 4: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-02-01 399803.6         0
 5: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 400120.6         1
 6: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 402425.7         0
 7: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 405176.6         0
 8: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 407490.1         0
 9: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-03-01 410755.9         0
10: 1M1AQ08Y2DM000000 2016-04-01 411009.2         0

I feel like there is simple that I am missing but I have tried quite a few different approaches and can't achieve the desired result. Please help.

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Kathavatthu (Pāli), literally «Points of Controversy», is one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka. This work was compiled sometime in the 3rd Century BCE, its authorship traditionally attributed to the venerable Moggaliputta Tissa in his role as leader of the Third Council.
The Kathavatthu was compiled in order to clarify the various points of controversy regarding Dhamma that had arisen among the schools of Nikaya Buddhism. These disputes had provided the rationale for the convening of the 3rd Buddhist Council by King Ashoka, and recorded the answers that were deemed orthodox by the assembled senior monks. There are 23 chapters dealing with some 216 controversies in the form of dialogues in a logical method. Each chapter contains questions and answers by means of which the most diverse false views are presented, refuted and rejected.
The inclusion of the Kathavatthu in the Abhidhamma Pitaka is something of an anomaly. First, the book is not regarded as being the words of the Buddha himself- its authorship is traditionally attributed to Moggaliputta Tissa. Second, the subject matter of the Kathavatthu differs substantially from that of the other texts in the Abhidhamma. Scholars sometimes point to the inclusion of the Kathavatthu in the Tipitaka as an indication that the Pāli Canon was more 'open' than orthodox Theravadin tradition has indicated, and as illustrative of the process of codifying new texts as canonical.


Last week's DDoS attack on Dyn that shut down portions of the internet was fuelled by bots created from hacked connected devices, like internet-connected cameras and DVRs, but can also theoretically include connected routers and printers. While there isn't exactly a fix for this problem, IoT Scanner is a tool that can at least tell you if a device in your house is creating a vulnerability. In the case of last week's attacks, the botnet was created by taking control of a bunch of different connected devices that still had the default passwords in use. To scan if you have such devices in your network, Bullguard Security created IoT Scanner. Head to the site, click the scan button and IoT Scanner looks for open ports on your network.
If IoT Scanner comes back saying that your network can be breached, that means some device that's connected to your Wi-Fi network has an open port that makes it accessible from the internet. This could be on purpose if you're running a server or have some other device that you can access from outside your home network. If you're not doing that and IoT Scanner says your network can be breached, then it's a good idea to dig in and see which device has that open port.


Last week I sat down with Cedric Michel, co-founder and CEO at Pollen AM. The French company is the developer of the Pellet Additive Manufacturing (PAM) system, the technology at the core of the Pollen AM Pam Series P FDM 3D printing technology and also used in company's Pam Series M metal 3D printers.
The Pollen AM Pam series P. Photo via Pollen AM.
Pollen AM was founded in 2013 by friends Cedric Michel and Victor Roux. Michel had his first experience with 3D Printing while a student at Imperial College in 2001.
At the time, operating a 3D Printer was more significantly more complex and costly than presently. However, the Pollen AM CEO understood the potential of a technology that granted him the freedom to make almost anything.
This initial excitement led to a desire for building a business in the 3D printing industry. By 2009 Michel was brainstorming with Victor Roux on how they could contribute to the 3D printing revolution. It took them 4 years to refine their ideas and to create Pollen AM in 2013.
Michel's vision is founded on the benefits of using pellets, rather than more widely used filament, as the feedstock for an additive manufacturing production factory. He explained that pellets are significantly cheaper than traditional 3D printing materials, plus they easily available in a wide range of formulations and of superior quality.
Despite the obvious benefits, direct use of pellets is relatively rare. Leading to some claims that designing a system to run on the more expensive filament products is a way for early developers to recoup initial investments.
By using pellets as the feedstock for their 3D printers, Pollen AM believes they have a tremendous opportunity. Over the past 4 years the company has invested time in developing the right machine to extrude pellets into quality 3D printed objects. This has not been an easy task, and Michel acknowledged the difficulties in bringing to market the right machine.
Given the limited number of FDM 3D printers running on pelletized feedstock, it is fair to say that Pollen AM is not alone in experiencing this difficulty. Italy's WASP is one company that has developed such a 3D printer – the DeltaWASP 3MT. More recently we covered the launch of the Titan Robotics Atlas.
The Pollen AM Pam series M. Photo via Pollen AM.
The Pollen AM Palm P additive manufacturing system is the result of the company's perseverance. The 3D printer uses 4 extruders, allowing for multi material 3D printing. During our conversation Michel was keen to highlight the versatility offered by the pellets, that allow the Palm P to 3D print objects at 40 shore A softness.
Currently Pollen AM operates from its facility on the outskirts of Paris, at Ivry-Sur-Seine. Total headcount is 10 full time employees and 2 part time. Pollen AM is also working with manufacturing and R&D partners located in France. To finance its development Michel decided in 2013 to raise funds from professional investors with strong industrial and financial expertise. As of today the company successfully raised EUR2.5M over 5 rounds. Pollen AM's promising technology and successful execution has attracted some high profile private investors including Bruno Maisonnier and Serge Verdier.
Bruno Maisonnier, is the founder and former CEO of Aldebaran Robotics, which was acquired by Softbank in 2013 for $100M. More recently Maisonnier started Another Brain and raised EUR10M in February 2018. Maisonnier is an active investor. Serge Verdier is the current CFO/COO of SARIA Industries (France), a large foodstuff company part of the SARIA Bio-Industries AG & Co group of companies.
Besides the private funds raised in the last 5 years, Pollen AM has received significant French public money from grants. Michel told me that the company should be in a good position to raise institutional investment from large industrial groups in early 2019.
The Palm P is now in full commercialisation at a starting price of circa EUR 20,000. The Palm series M will be released in the next 12 months.
Cedric was delighted to share with me the recent contract for the delivery of 10s of Palm P 3D Printer to a significant small appliances manufacturer to fully equip one factory to produce spare parts for dishwashers, vacuum cleaners and other small appliances. The delivery is expected by the end of the year. We will report further on this news in the next months.
Other customers include a sportswear manufacturer, and companies in the aerospace and medical sectors. During the next 6 months, Pollen AM will deliver a 10 Palm P 3D printers to Another Brain.
Featured image shows the Pollen AM Pam series M. Photo via Pollen AM.


The consultation RIS is still in development. ECCA are going through the regulatory sign-off processes and revising content based on their advice. A draft is anticipated to be ready for public consultation in the first quarter of 2016.
When reviewing efficiencies of Australian and NZ cabinets on offer versus European MEPS levels and their groupings of cabinets, there are some types of cabinet that may need to be improved considerably. To compensate for this ECCA are investigating (amongst alternative options) offsetting the implementation dates (e.g. 2 years behind Europe) and/or making the least efficient cabinets comply first (pending approval of these options).
ECCA expect to do further analysis of the market, based on submissions from this consultation RIS, before submitting a final plan to Ministers.
Check testing of RDCs and Refrigerated Storeage Cabinets (RSCs) based on the proposed European MEPS levels and regulations are planned.
Europe has updated the ISO 23953 (display cabinet) standard, and developed several other draft standards for sub-sets of cabinet types that are currently all classified under AS 1731. These standards and their progress are to the right. Note in Europe – the European Commission can call up draft standards if the final standards have not been finished by the planned implementation date for their MEPS.
The professional/storage cabinet Ecodesign Regulations [MEPS regulations equivalent] are published. The display cabinet MEPS are due to be completed by end of 2015. There has been a lot of debate about the regulations and some changes made recently.
FprEN 16754 (Artisan Gelato and ice cream machinery - Performance characteristics and energy consumption) has just gone through a formal positive vote.
FprEN 16764 (Soft ice cream machines - Performance and evaluation of energy consumption) also just been formally approved.
Latest update of EN23953 (display cabinets) also just gone through formal approval.
prEN 16825 (Refrigerated storage cabinets and counters for professional use — Classification, requirements and test conditions) is progressing to formal vote.
prEN 16838 (Refrigerated display scooping cabinets for gelato - Classification, requirements and test conditions) is progressing to formal vote.
prEN 16902 (Commercial beverage coolers - Classification, requirements and test conditions) waiting for result of formal vote.
prEN 16901 (Ice cream freezers - classification, requirements and test conditions) awaiting further information on progress.
There is just available a new approved vending machine standard (BS EN 50597 2015), note: beverage vending machines are not part of this RIS.


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# Automated Tests

## Unit tests with PHPUnit
- [Unit tests - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#unit-tests)

## Functional tests with PHPUnit
- [Functional tests - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#functional-tests)

## Client object
- [Working with the Test Client - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#working-with-the-test-client)

## Crawler object
- [The Crawler - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#the-crawler)

## Profile object
- [How to Use the Profiler in a Functional Test - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing/profiling.html)

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- [Accessing the Container - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#accessing-the-container)

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- [Testing Configuration - symfony.com](https://symfony.com/doc/5.0/testing.html#testing-configuration)

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В торфяниковых памятниках встречаются различные объекты, имеющие органическую природу

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 остатки древней растительности,
 останки древних животных,
 мумифицированные останки людей (так называемые болотные люди).

Процесс торфообразования
Образование торфяниковых памятников — длительный процесс, связанный с заболачиванием водоемов (главным образом озер) и низменностей. К этому типу понижений относятся долины рек и лощины. В нижних слоях торфяников может присутствовать пресноводный ил — сапропель.

Простейшая схема заторфовывания местности выглядит следующим образом:

 Начальная стадия. Заболачивание суши или зарастание водоема, поступает достаточное количество грунтовых вод, формируются низинные болота с богатой растительностью.
 Вторая стадия. Происходит нарастание торфа, снижается грунтово-водное питание. Образуется болото переходного типа. Первый признак таких болот — появление сфагновых мхов.
 Третья стадия. Образование верхового болота. Водопитание здесь осуществляется за счёт атмосферных осадков. Эдификаторы болот — сфагновые мхи. Они могут быть с редким древесным ярусом.

Иногда развитие торфяника идёт по другому сценарию. Тогда болото будет состоять преимущественно из переходного, или даже из верхового типа торфов.

По мере накопления торфа образуются торфяные залежи, которые могут иметь прослойки. Развитая торфяная залежь представляет собой органогенное горное образование мощностью 6-8 метров, в отдельных случаях — 10 метров.
Современные торфяные залежи представляют собой молодые поверхностные образования, возрастом около 12 тысяч лет.

Консервационные свойства торфяников
Торфяник отличается рядом факторов, способствующих сохранности органических материалов:

 обилие влаги со слабой проточностью замедляет испарение влаги из органики;
 низкая теплопроводность торфа дольше сохраняет низкие температуры;
 бедность торфа минеральными питательными веществами, затрудняющая деятельность растений;
 наличие в ряде слоев антисептических веществ, затрудняющее деятельность разлагающих микроорганизмов;
 наличие в глубинных слоях токсичных веществ, затрудняющее деятельность разлагающих микроорганизмов;
 отсутствие доступа кислорода на глубине свыше 15 сантиметров, затрудняющее деятельность разлагающих микроорганизмов.

Обилие влаги в торфяниках, лишенных доступа грунтовых вод, обусловлено их высокими абсорбентными свойствами и низкой водопроводимостью.

Влажность торфов составляет 90-95 %, несмотря на некоторые колебания, значения которых могут снижаться до 45 %. В торфах различных видов вода в течение 40 суток поднимается не более чем на 15 сантиметров, в то время как в минеральных почвах — более чем на полметра.

Сфагновые мхи имеют капиллярную структуру
(гиалиновые клетки) с хорошими абсорбирующими свойствами. Слаборазложившиеся сфагновые торфы способны поглощать до 1700 % влаги от сухой массы, а сильноразложившиеся — до 500—100 %.

Сфагнум обладает высокой гигроскопичностью, стерилизованный, он действует в три раза
интенсивнее гигроскопической ваты. Благодаря этому сфагновый торф способен поглощать даже водяные пары.

Недостаток кислорода в торфяниках связан с обилием влаги и её слабым передвижением. По мере
накопления воды в торфе вода вытесняет и замещает воздух; иногда при уменьшении уровня воды в торфе образуются безвоздушные полости. Это значительно затрудняет деятельность разлагающих микроорганизмов:
актиномицетов, плесневых и дрожжевых грибов, которые относятся к аэробам.
Кислород сохраняется лишь в поверхностных слоях, где содержание его незначительно (12 мг/м3). Доступ кислорода к верхним слоям торфа увеличивается в редкие периоды его пересыхания, мощность такого слоя составляет от 0,15 до 1 метра, и уменьшается с течением времени. Отсутствие кислорода препятствует не только разложению органики, но и другим окислительным процессам (образованию ржавчины, патины и т. д.)

Активность аэробных разлагающих микроорганизмов обусловлена также климатическими особенностями. В более сухие периоды жизнедеятельность их становится интенсивнее, они размножаются быстрее, вследствие этого откладываются торфа более высокой степени разложения. Во влажном бореале активность аэробных микроорганизмов была понижена.

Низкие температуры на болотах связаны с моховой растительностью, обладающей плохой теплопроводностью, температура в корневом слое растений всегда ниже на 3-4 градуса. Низкая теплопроводность торфяников ведет к образованию на них ночных заморозков, температура нижних переохлажденных слоев и верхних нагретых — не выравнивается. Весной торф оттаивает медленно, раннее наступление и позднее прекращение заморозков приводит к тому, что существовать на болоте могут только растения с непродолжительными фазами развития, такие как сфагнум.

Наличие в сфагнуме фенолов, которые подавляют деятельность микроорганизмов, ведет к замедлению разложения органики на торфяниках. Антисептическая способность сфагнов такова, что они используются в медицине как перевязочный материал при гнойных ранах.

В целом, процессы разложения в сфагновых торфяниках, несмотря на значительное замедление, не прекращаются даже в глубоких слоях залежи (до 6 м), близких к вечной мерзлоте. Выделение метана из нижних слоев и образование сероводорода свидетельствует о медленных процессах вторичного разложения без участия кислорода. В данном случае деятельность микроорганизмов гораздо менее активна и протекает за счет продуктов раннего разложения органических остатков другими микроорганизмами.

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Ceremony naming the Chanen Interfaith Chapel at the 2010 Bright Lights, Shining Stars Gala.
Pictured from left to right: Arthur G. Dobbelaere, Ph.D., Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Midwestern University; Herman Chanen, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Chanen Construction; Steve R. Chanen, President & Chief Operating Officer, Chanen Construction; Jeanne Y. Chanen, Attorney; Kathleen H. Goeppinger, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, Midwestern University. Exterior view of the new Chanen Interfaith Chapel.
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Three wars later, there's no end in sight to the cross-border violence between India and Pakistan. Why exactly are these countries fighting each other and is there any hope for peace?
Just last week, violence erupted at the Wagah border crossing which separates India from Pakistan. A suicide bomber killed more than 50 people and injured more than 100 at a widely popular military ceremony that takes place daily at Wagah, a major trade thoroughfare. The blast occurred on the Pakistani side of the border, in a nearby car park adjacent to the highly guarded border crossing.
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A few terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility for the attack, including Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a group that recently split off from the Pakistan Taliban. A spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar said this attack served as a retaliation for those killed at the hands of the Pakistani army in North Waziristan. Others are speculating that the attack was a deliberate attempt to derail India-Pakistan relations even further. Although Indian officials initially planned to suspend the ceremony following the attack, it went forward as normal on Monday.
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Retirement planning for federal employees is unique. As a Federal Employee, you know you have one of the most complex benefits systems around. I also think it's one of the best, if you can learn to navigate all of the rules, regs and unique twists and turns.
Over the years I've had the opportunity to help my clients, individual federal employees, through the entire retirement process.
On thing I've learned over the years is that Federal Employees really do have unique needs when it comes to financial planning for retirement. And these are needs that most generic retirement financial planning doesn't address.
Over the years, I've found that many of the recommendations in standard financial planning for retirement make sense for most private sector employees.
But when applied to federal employees – might cause them to lose out on some of their best federal benefits.
What's Different About Retirement Planning for Federal Employees?
What are some of the unique considerations Federal Employees need to think of when doing their financial planning for retirement?
But – as a Federal Employee you also have to navigate one of the most complex benefits systems in the world. And if you make the wrong choices, you could miss out on some of your best benefits.
And you'll also need to take responsibility for keeping your own records – as Federal Employees can also encounter more issues with getting credit for time worked towards their retirement than most private sector employees.
As a Federal Employee, one unique challenge you'll have in financial planning for retirement is handling how your retirement income may start, stop and change along the way.
Most financial retirement planning calculators are designed for private sector employees – whose retirement income is pretty straight forward. It starts at a certain time, and then keeps going. And it might be increased by a small percentage over retirement – but there really aren't any dramatic changes.
But if you're a FERS – your retirement income will start, stop and change in unique ways. This creates unique 'gaps' in your retirement income that most calculators can't computer.
You need to understand how your federal retirement income will change, and how you will fill your 'gaps'. Determining how you fill your 'gaps' is a critical part of financial planning for retirement.
As a Federal employee, you have access to some unique investment and benefits choices.
With the Thrift Savings Plan, you have a tremendous tool to help you accumulate retirement savings. Not only does the TSP have some of the lowest fees around, you have simple, straight-forward investment choices in the different TSP funds. And you just can't beat the TSP match for FERS.
And while it's true that most of the TSP funds can be 'mirrored' by choosing other indexes, the G Fund is a unique investment choice available only inside of the Thrift Savings Plan.
Being able to keep FEHB into retirement is a *HUGE* benefit in and of itself. But not only do most federal employees qualify to keep FEHB coverage after they retire – the government will continue to pay up to 72% of the premium. That is almost unheard of in the private sector.
I don't think I can adequately explain in a paragraph just how amazing this benefit is to your retirement. But not everyone is eligible to continue FEHB into retirement. Make sure you will be eligible to keep your *BEST* retirement benefit.
For CSRS federal employees, you may be eligible for one of the most unique benefits of all, the CSRS Voluntary Contributions Program (CSRS VCP).
Unfortunately, there is no equivalent in the FERS retirement system to the VCP benefit – and I've never come across anything like it in the private sector. To learn more about the CSRS VCP, check out our page on CSRS Voluntary Contributions.
These are just a few of your unique benefits to consider when doing your financial planning for retirement. And of course, there's more to know about the benefits we've just discussed.
Let's look now at a few of your benefits that stack the deck in your favor when it comes to financial planning for retirement.
As a Federal Employee, you have some excellent benefits. And some are so good that they really do give you a head start when it comes to financial planning for retirement.
Not only do you have an excellent pension, as a FERS or CSRS, your ability to continue FEHB coverage into retirement is a phenomenal benefit that makes it possible to retire sooner than most.
And for FERS, the FERS Supplement can provide extra income that helps make retirement easier to plan for.
Federal retirement benefits are so complex and unique – it's important to approach them in their own light.
Very few financial professionals really understand your federal benefits.
So when many financial professionals look at federal benefits – they try to compare them to a benefit in the private sector that they are familiar with.
And this might be a fine place to start – but if a professional isn't fully familiar with the quirks of federal benefits – it can lead to faulty assumptions and bad recommendations.
So you have some amazing federal retirement benefits – but you also have some important responsibilities.
As a federal employee, you have to navigate one of the most complex benefits programs around. And if you make the wrong choices, you could miss out on some of your best benefits.
When you are doing your financial planning for retirement – you need to remember your unique benefits.
And *YOU* need to understand them – because many financial professionals don't.
If they don't understand your benefits – they could be making recommendations that don't make the most of your benefits – or worse, they could make recommendations that make sense for 'most people' but that make you lose out on some of your best federal retirement benefits.
Another reason for *YOU* to understand your benefits is that when you use most financial calculators – they won't compute your benefits correctly. And you need to know enough about your benefits to spot those problem areas so you don't make retirement plans based on incorrect calculations.
Your federal benefits are just one piece of your financial puzzle. It's important to understand your benefits – and then understand how they fit into your broader financial picture.
Because the areas of your financial life are all connected – and decisions you make in one area really do affect the other areas. And if you make decisions by looking only at one 'piece of the pie' at a time – it can create unintended side effects for other areas.
This is why it's so important to understand your federal benefits from a financial planning perspective.
This is what I help my clients with – and this is what I want to help you with.
Find out more about how I help my federal employee clients.


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IBM's Condor, the world's first universal quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits, is set to debut in 2023. The year is also expected to see IBM launch Heron, the first of a new flock of modular quantum processors that the company says may help it produce quantum computers with more than 4,000 qubits by 2025.
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While quantum computers can, in theory, quickly find answers to problems that classical computers would take eons to solve, today's quantum hardware is still short on qubits, limiting its usefulness. Entanglement and other quantum states necessary for quantum computation are infamously fragile, being susceptible to heat and other disturbances, which makes scaling up the number of qubits a huge technical challenge.
Nevertheless, IBM has steadily increased its qubit numbers. In 2016, it put the first quantum computer in the cloud anyone to experiment with—a device with 5 qubits, each a superconducting circuit cooled to near absolute zero. In 2019, the company created the 27-qubit Falcon; in 2020, the 65-qubit Hummingbird; in 2021, the 127-qubit Eagle, the first quantum processor with more than 100 qubits; and in 2022, the 433-qubit Osprey.
IBM expects to build quantum computers of increasing complexity over the next few years, starting with those that use the Condor processor or multiple Heron processors in parallel.Carl De Torres/IBM
Other quantum computers have more qubits than does IBM's 1,121-qubit Condor processor—for instance, D-Wave Systems unveiled a 5,000-qubit system in 2020. But D-Wave's computers are specialized machines for solving optimization problems, whereas Condor will be the world's largest general-purpose quantum processor.
"A thousand qubits really pushes the envelope in terms of what we can really integrate," says Jerry Chow, IBM's director of quantum infrastructure. By separating the wires and other components needed for readout and control onto their own layers, a strategy that began with Eagle, the researchers say they can better protect qubits from disruption and incorporate larger numbers of them. "As we scale upwards, we're learning design rules like 'This can go over this; this can't go over this; this space can be used for this task,'" Chow says.
Other quantum computers with more qubits exist, but Condor will be the world's largest general-purpose quantum processor.
With only 133 qubits, Heron, the other quantum processor IBM plans for 2023, may seem modest compared with Condor. But IBM says its upgraded architecture and modular design herald a new strategy for developing powerful quantum computers. Whereas Condor uses a fixed-coupling architecture to connect its qubits, Heron will use a tunable-coupling architecture, which adds Josephson junctions between the superconducting loops that carry the qubits. This strategy reduces crosstalk between qubits, boosting processing speed and reducing errors. (Google is already using such an architecture with its 53-qubit Sycamore processor.)
In addition, Heron processors are designed for real-time classical communication with one another. The classical nature of these links means their qubits cannot entangle across Heron chips for the kind of boosts in computing power for which quantum processors are known. Still, these classical links enable " circuit knitting" techniques in which quantum computers can get assistance from classical computers.
For example, using a technique known as " entanglement forging," IBM researchers found they could simulate quantum systems such as molecules using only half as many qubits as is typically needed. This approach divides a quantum system into two halves, models each half separately on a quantum computer, and then uses classical computing to calculate the entanglement between both halves and knit the models together.
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While these classical links between processors are helpful, IBM intends eventually to replace them. In 2024, the company aims to launch Crossbill, a 408-qubit processor made from three microchips coupled together by short-range quantum communication links, and Flamingo, a 462-qubit module it plans on uniting by roughly 1-meter-long quantum communication links into a 1,386-qubit system. If these experiments in connectivity succeed, IBM aims to unveil its 1,386-qubit Kookaburra module in 2025, with short- and long-range quantum communication links combining three such modules into a 4,158-qubit system.
IBM's methodical strategy of "aiming at step-by-step improvements is very reasonable, and it will likely lead to success over the long term," says Franco Nori, chief scientist at the Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory at the Riken research institute in Japan.
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In 2023, IBM also plans to improve its core software to help developers use quantum and classical computing in unison over the cloud. "We're laying the groundwork for what a quantum-centric supercomputer looks like," Chow says. "We don't see quantum processors as fully integrated but as loosely aggregated." This kind of framework will grant the flexibility needed to accommodate the constant upgrades that quantum hardware and software will likely experience, he explains.
In 2023, IBM plans to begin prototyping quantum software applications. By 2025, the company expects to introduce such applications in machine learning, optimization problems, the natural sciences, and beyond.
Researchers hope ultimately to use quantum error correction to compensate for the mistakes quantum processors are prone to make. These schemes spread quantum data across redundant qubits, requiring multiple physical qubits for each single useful logical qubit. Instead, IBM plans to incorporate error-mitigation schemes into its platform starting in 2024, to prevent these mistakes in the first place. But even if wrangling errors ends up demanding many more qubits, IBM should be in a good position with the likes of its 1,121-qubit Condor.
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Tanzania's Anglican Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa yesterday hinted that the local church would oppose the mother church's approval in England of the ordination of women and gay members as bishops.
Archbishop Mokiwa said he had written an official letter to the global head of the Anglican Church, Dr Rowan Williams, to express his misgivings and demand that he provides leadership to prevent a potential break of the communion over the matter.
In a televised interview on state television yesterday, Archbisop Mokiwa said synod would soon meet to deliberate on the twin controversies before making its final stand official.
However, he said the Tanzanian synod had in the past voted 99.9 per cent to oppose this matter.
I am personally not opposed to women preachers among faithful and they have done our church proud, but when it comes to matters of the collar that is a different thing.
The archbishop was commenting on reports that the Anglican headquarters in Canterbury on Tuesday approved the thorny issue of ordaining women as bishops. It also approved recognition of gay clergy.
These two issues have threatened to split the Anglican faithful the world over down the middle, with some countries already forming a breakaway movement following more disagreements at a recent church meeting held in Israel.
They launched a conservative movement called Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Foca) at the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gavcon) in Jerusalem last month.
Foca includes evangelical Anglican bishops from the United Kingdom and the United States as well as archbishops from South America, Australia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, who have threatened to completely cut ties with Dr Williams, accusing him of failing to act for the interest of a majority and keep the church united.
Archbishop Mokiwa said the announcement of the approvals had come at a difficult time for the Anglican faithful. "The church is deeply polarized, the decision has come at a very bad time and is like adding paraffin to already burning fire," he said.
On ordination of women, he said: "The problem is not the women but the Bible teaching is against the norm of making them put on the collar. It is an idea that is being forced on us due to gender and human rights otherwise among our followers we value women's contributions."
He said the church is undergoing a fundamental phase right now that could redefine its history, saying such deep divisions led to falling of churches in the past. "I however earnestly feel the Canterbury leadership should stand up and counted by acting to the interest of ensuring the church remains intact.
"I have already written a letter requesting for an appointment with the leadership (Dr Williams) to express my misgivings as the youngest of all the 38 archbishops," said Archbishop Mokiwa. He said all Bishops had not been consulted to make a binding decision.
He admitted that gay question was a big community problem that existed and needed urgent attention to prevent its negative and immoral influence on society.
"This is a big sin that will kill the society. It is affecting the youth and even those in leadership and high public offices. We need to confront it openly," he said and added: "It is also an issue within the Catholic, Lutheran and Islam faiths that however are quiet on it."
The Tanzanian church, he said, would not be affected financially if it cut ties with the mother church if no agreement was reached over the two issues.
"It is not about aid or financial support. I have not received any foreign funds as a church in Dar es Salaam as our faithful have enabled us run the church and spread the gospel without problems.
"We are therefore going to fight this war from within and I will not keep quiet to lead the youth in telling Canterbury to stand up and respond to this leadership challenge."
Archbishop Mokiwa who last week told The Citizen that he would not wish for the church to break, said members should not lose hope and fight from inside to bring desired changes.
"I am appealing for calm among our faithful as the church prepares to respond to this problem. It is what I can now describe as a face to face war with the devil," he said of the 77 million strong Anglican faithful worldwide.
He noted that most Tanzanian Bishops were currently in Britain where they attended the churches Bishops meeting and were expected back soon. The final straw could come during the general Lambeth conference later in the year.


Power TAC Developers - Restrict amount of Energy bought at wholsale market.
Restrict amount of Energy bought at wholsale market.
we´re a student team of the university of augsburg and are trying to develop a broker for several research reasons.
As we are quite unexperienced with such projects, we do hard with coding. So we started with changing the Sample Broker.
We need to limit the amount of energy a broker can buy, so that one broker can´t supply 100% of demand and some customers have to choose worse tarifs. We suppose to have to change the MarketManagerService - class, but have no idea how to limit the cumulative amount of energy bought with the severel orders for one timeslot. Are there any methods we just haven´t seen yet, or do we have to implement this on our own?
Re: Restrict amount of Energy bought at wholsale market.
I'm not sure why you don't want one broker to supply 100% of demand. In a one-broker game, (against the default broker), you would certainly expect your broker to supply 100% of demand.
Perhaps you are confused about the recent change that's intended to prevent a single broker from cornering the wholesale market? The energy supply in the wholesale market is, on average, 2-3 times the total demand. In the highest peak-demand cases we have seen, it is still something like 150% of total (net) demand. So the restriction on broker market position is with respect to the wholesale market, not the retail tariff market.
So my recommendation is that you focus on predicting customer demand for your current (or anticipated) portfolio over a horizon up to 24h, and design a trading strategy that ends up with a minimum-cost market position that matches the expected net demand (consumption - production) within your portfolio. That would require predicting market prices over the horizon, and buying/selling as your predictions change. Note that your wholesale market orders need not specify a price, if you are more interested in buying or selling a specific quantity than you are in getting a particular price.
We have implemented two brokers competing against each other, and want to handicap one of them.
We are trying to implement a pricing modell inspired by the Paris Metro Pricing, so we need two tarfis (we decided to implement two brokers instead of one broker with two tarifs) with the same parameter setting, except the price. As for both tarifs the cumulative energy for alle transcriptions of one tarif is limited, some of the consumers should have to sign up to the more expensive tarif, as they can´t be deliverd by the cheaper one.
So your idea of setting the maxprice willing to pay at the wholesalemarket sounds good to me, i´ll find out the necessary parameter to reach our expected demand. However, as the prices aren´t constant, we will have some fluctation of capacity. There is no possibility to limit the capacity of one broker to a given value?
There is currently no way to specifically limit the number of subscriptions to a particular tariff, but there is an easy way to limit the period of time over which customers can subscribe to a tariff, by specifying the expiration date/time. This is explained briefly in Section 3.1 of the game specification. If you review Section 4.1 of the game specification, you will see that customers have an "inertia" that limits the probability of evaluating tariffs in any given timeslot. Inertia is very low at the start of a game, but rises rapidly over the first day or two. New tariffs are published every 6 hours, and most (probably all) customers only evaluate tariffs every 6 hours. So if you set the expiration of your tariff to 13 hours in the future, it will only be open to new subscriptions for two evaluation cycles. If you don't get enough subscriptions during that interval, you can issue another with identical terms for another 13 hours, and so on. This should give you a decent level of control over subscription volume.
We actually want to limit not the subcriptions but capacity of the broker, as it would be interesting to simulate how customers react on a lack of service. Therefore it is necessary that the opportunity to change tarifs exists for the customers.
Could it be possible that the price-limitation for offers at the wholesale market doesn´t work? The standard setting is, that offers go up to a maxprice of 70€/mWh, but simulation shows transactions up to around 300€/mWH.
Interesting idea. However, the brokers do not control the grid. All customers are connected to the same grid, and power flows when they turn switches on. As a result, brokers cannot limit the supply available to customers. Their responsibility is to balance supply and demand within their customer portfolios. If a brokers fails to buy as much energy as its customers use in a given timeslot, the grid operator (the Distribution Utility) makes up the difference and charges the broker a balancing fee.
Prices in the wholesale market are not limited. The supply curve is roughly quadratic, and the clearing price depends mostly on overall demand. There is a fair amount of randomness in the shape of the supply curve, and broker behavior can affect prices. For example, some brokers have bought up most of the supply, driving prices up, then attempted to re-sell it before its delivery time for higher prices than customer demand would have produced. It's easy to lose a lot of money doing this, and hard to make a profit -- but not impossible.
your explanations helped a lot to understand what happens behind. We have to rethink our model now - in the existing form it won´t be possible to simulate in powerTAC.
i have one more question concerning the market transactions.
Is my interpretation of regular trading and balancing fees right, if you look at the image?
The maxprice willing to pay were 70 €/MWh.
Why do the balancing fees (or the left side, if these are other transactions) have such a discrete structure?
I don´t expect any linearity, but the fees seem to have quite random values.
Balancing fees are a function of overall imbalance and a broker's individual contribution to the imbalance. The main reason for the volatility in the cost is the volatility of the overall imbalance. Since imbalance is the net of (consumption + exports) and (production + imports), random errors in broker predictions of consumption and production within their customer portfolios can have a big impact on imbalance. Also, energy prices in the balancing market are substantially higher than in the wholesale market, and are strongly affected by the size of the imbalance. Note that a broker is always better off being having an individual imbalance with the opposite sign from the overall imbalance, because they are actually contributing to the solution. For that reason, balancing fees can be positive. Partly for that reason, and partly because brokers both buy and sell in the wholesale market, I don't understand why you labeled the graph the way you did.
Okay i got your point, i understood how the fees work.
But i have no idea why the shown transactions, falsely named as distribution fee, appear.
I have limited the price to 70 €/MWh, so i don´t expect any market transactions of my broker ("low" in the graph) for higher prices. But there are transactions up to around 300 €/MWh. So where do they come from?
There is a cut in the graph, it is kind of continuous from 0 to -70 as expected. That should be the regular market transactions, matched by offer and call.
But can you explain me the transactions i see for higher prices (-70 to -300 €/MWh)?
Or rather: are it the transactions for the fees, and i just made the mistake, that there could be other transactions for the fees outeside the labeled area. So just the labeling was wrong?
I'm afraid I really could not tell you what's happening here without looking at the server logs. Unfortunately, I would not have time to do that for the next 3-4 days, but I would be willing to spend some time on it after that. You would need to point me to the logs from the game that produced this plot.
i´m very interested to a explanation of this transactions.
If it´s easier for you: just run a simulation with the Sample Broker on your own, there should appear the transactions.
If it turned out that it are indeed the distribution fees, i wonder why they are listed under "wholesale market transactions".
If i can help you with my server logs, just let me know.
I am not sure I understand your question. If it is why these transactions show up on a display in the old visualizer under "wholesale market transactions" I cannot tell you. That visualizer is badly out of date, and I have felt for some time that some of the displays are mis-labeled and hard to understand. We are no longer maintaining it. A completely new visualizer is being used for the tournament; it is still a bit spare and we are working on additional displays for it. In the meantime, You might be better off analyzing games using the log-analysis tool. There are a number of example scripts under powertac-tools/logtool-examples, along with some python and r code that applies these scripts over multiple games, and works with the data extracted by them.
so i´ll concentrate on analyzing the server-logs.


Read this today on Sina.com.
But anyway, it was a short translation exercise for me.
So this year, other than Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, there will be one more Chinese player in NBA; and he is Jeremy Lin Shuhao, from Harvard University, a player that the Golden State Warriors signed over the post season. From not being picked in the Draft, to joining the Dallas Mavericks for the Summer League, and then to be signed by his hometown team Golden State Warriors, every move of Jeremy Lin Shuhao in the NBA had been closely followed, and attracted more eye-ball attention by Chinese all around the globe.
Therefore special correspondent from Sina Sports conducted the following exclusive interview on Jeremy Lin Shuhao recently.
Sina Sports: When the locker room was opened for the press, we could not find you all over the places; you were not practicing on the court, and you were not resting in the locker room. With the help of players of the Golden State Warriors and your Media Relationship Manager, I only came to know that you had gone to the temporary chapel specially set up within the arena. So prior to the game commenced, you specifically went to the chapel to pray. Is this your habit prior to every game you play?
Jeremy Lin: Yes, I usually pray quietly for 15 minutes before each game I play. I had been doing this since I was in college. But unlike NBA, there were no special little house set up for this purpose in NCAA. So I just sat aside by myself quietly, and prayed for a little while.
Sina Sports: How did you start playing basketball when you were a kid?
Jeremy Lin: The 3 brothers of us had been influenced by our father, and we all love basketball. You can count my father Lin Jieming (林杰明) as my first mentor/coach that enlightened me onto the road of basketball. My elder brother Joshua (Lin Shuya 林书雅), even though he no longer plays basketball now, represented his school team when he was in high school. My younger brother Joseph(Lin Shuwei 林书纬) is still studying in high school, but already applying for scholarships from various universities. I wished my brother could have better luck than I, because when I graduated from my high school, I only got 2 letters of acceptance from 2 Ivy League universities: Harvard University and Brown University. I was sort of compelled to choose Harvard.
Sina Sports: Ivy League universities normally won't give scolarships to students, right?
Jeremy Lin: Right ! Therefore in the eyes of the others, Harvard is such a famous elite university. But as for me, it is a choice out of no choices.
Sina Sports: But you have now a resume that alot of people would envy. You had majored Economics for 4 years at Harvard; you've got a 3.1 GPA (Grade Point Average); even though your results seemed just a bit above average, it was not an easy feat for a student like you that had to play basketball all year round for the university. Will you consider entering the graduate school in future?
Jeremy Lin: When my basketball career ends, I think I will strive to receive specialized training to become a pastor, and work for a non-profit making organization.
Sina Sports: Why is there such an ideal?
Jeremy Lin: I think I was nurtured by my parents; they are very devout Christians.
[While I was doing this interview with Jeremy Lin Shuhao, he suddenly told me: "Let's move out to another place so as not to disturb the others." So we changed spot and leaned on the wall by the entrance door to continue our interview. Of all the players I had interviewed in the past, he seemed to be the only one who is so considerate of others' feelings. He looked so humble and modest beyond his age, not easily got carried away by external gains, and at the same time, not easily saddened/frustrated by personal losses. This summer, even after missing being picked at the Draft, he said everything was under God's arrangement, and he could accept it.
Sina Sports: Alot of netizens over Internet are concerned whether you will play on behlf of the Mainland or Taiwan in future?
Jeremy Lin: As of now, I have yet to think about such possibilities. I can understand some Chinese, but I seldom speak any. I had gone back to Taiwan a few times before, but I have never visited the Mainland. But Nike has already arranged for me such a visit; I will visit mainland China for my first time sometimes next year.
Although Jeremy Lin has already signed a contract with the Golden State Warriors and became the very first NBA player out from Harvard University, as a professional basketballer, waiting ahead of him is still alot of hardships and trials.


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PCSK9 inhibitors reduced lipoprotein(a) levels and that patients starting with higher Lp(a) levels appeared to derive greater absolute benefit from taking PSCK9 inhibitors (including Evolocumab), according to the latest analysis from FOURIER (Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research With PCSK9 Inhibition in Subjects With Elevated Risk) trial. The results were presented at the 86th Annual Congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society.
The study was conducted by Michelle L. O'Donoghue, from Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues to evaluate the role of PCSK9 inhibition on lipoprotein(a) concentration.
Lipoprotein(a) is a type of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, and large amounts of data support the link between higher levels of lipoprotein(a) and an increased risk of cardiovascular events. Atherosclerosis patients with higher baseline lipoprotein(a) levels have a 26 percent greater risk of coronary death from heart attack than patients with the lowest lipoprotein(a) levels. To date, there have been limited therapies available that can effectively reduce lipoprotein(a) levels and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events.
The FOURIER trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, which evaluated adding evolocumab to the treatment regimen in over 27,000 patients with high LDL cholesterol levels.
Evolocumab was found to significantly reduce Lp(a) levels and reduce risk of cardiovascular events.
Patients with the higher baseline lipoprotein(a) levels benefited the most from evolocumab treatment, with a 24 percent decrease in the risk of heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.
Patients with lower baseline lipoprotein(a) levels had a 15 percent reduction in risk with evolocumab treatment.
The study (FOURIER trial) was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.


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Two men were arrested for arranging meetings with victims selling property on different marketplace websites – then robbing them at gunpoint.
At 3:24 p.m. on Nov. 11, 2017, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to the Villa Del Rio apartment complex located in the 3800 block of South Nellis Boulevard to investigate a report of shots fired. A man and his teenaged child said they had been the robbed and shot at by the suspects. Neither of the father nor son was injured.
LVMPD Southeast Area Command Patrol Investigations Section found out the two victims had put an item up for sale and had arranged a meeting with a potential buyer. The buyer requested the victims meet him at the Villa Del Rio apartment complex. The victims were flagged down by the suspect in the parking lot who was with another male.
During the transaction, the suspect pulled out a gun and demanded the property. The adult victim ran and the suspect fired multiple rounds from his handgun, but missed the man. The teenaged victim had remained in the car, but when the shots were fired, he got out of the car and ran. The suspect then turned and fired at the running teen. At least one of the rounds fired went into an apartment where another teen was at home. That teen was also uninjured.
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