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Moleskine's latest pen and notebook instantly digitize scribbles
The Smart Writing Set syncs notes and drawings with an app
JavaScript Frameworks in 2016
As JavaScript's popularity continues to grow and with it, the surrounding ecosystem of modern libraries & tools, it can sometimes be hard to keep-up, leading to what some describe as JavaScript Fatigue.
The world's most popular internet speed test finally drops Adobe Flash
Good news: as Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, has finally begun testing a HTML5 version of the service and it's better than ever.
The "tech bubble" is only a B2C problem
Silicon Valley is preemptively reacting to a 'bubble' that hasn't popped a bubble that only exists in the business-to-consumer (B2C) tech world.
Artist sells other people's Instagram photos for £60,000 a piece - without their permission
You might want to check to see if your portrait is one of them. Richard Prince finds eye-catching posts from the popular photo sharing app and prints them out at a giant scale.
YouTube's new fan funding feature lets you donate to your favorite channel owners
YouTube is strongly rumored to be launching a subscription-based music service soon, but the Google-owned video site has quietly introduced a new (and far lower-key) payment service that lets viewers send donations to YouTube channel owners.
The Surprising Power of Small, Stupid Goals
You've almost certainly heard the popular Les Brown quote "Shoot for the moon - even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." The idea here being, if you set really huge goals for yourself, even if you don't achieve them, you'll still achieve some pretty awesome things.
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Gmail Just Made Unsubscribing From Annoying Emails a Lot Easier
Decluttering your Gmail inbox just got a lot easier. Google announced it would move the unsubscribe button to the top of messages in Gmail to make it easier to unsubscribe from newsletters, social media notifications and other promotional emails.
This is priceless, for sure I will smile back to you no matter what
This is how to change the world nowadays. Cheer up y'all…..Thank you Coca-Cola for the smile.
What do you do when you see a Google Street View car?
Google Street View features some pretty cool things. But it's also ripe for pranksters who get wind of a Google Street View car in the area. Two mechanics from Edinburgh, Scotland, staged a fake murder, with one chap posing over a motionless body while wielding a pick axe.
H.R. Giger, Surrealist Artist and 'Alien' Designer, Dead at 74
Surrealist painter Hans Ruedi Giger, whose designs inspired the creature in Alien and whose otherworldly and often grotesque art graced album covers for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and Danzig, died Monday, following hospitalization for falling down the stairs in his Zurich home. He was 74.
Couple social network Between makes it easier to buy gifts by launching an e-commerce store
Between is teaming up with local Korean partners such as 10×10 and Wincube Marketing to launch a gift shop for couples, where mobile coupons will be issued for them to redeem their presents.
Box begins rolling out its Notes service to all users
Box announced today that its Notes service has emerged from beta and will roll out to all users by early June. Once the feature has been added to your account, a Notes button should appear in your dashboard.
At TechCrunch's Disrupt NY conference, Grace Choi, founder of Mink, presented a desktop printer that will change the way we buy makeup. "The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bullshit," said Choi at the start of her presentation.
Awesome Dad Builds 180-Foot Backyard Rollercoaster For His Kids
Clearly, being a parent is not easy. As a matter of fact, from the looks of it, you have to go above and beyond every so often to keep the family intact. Take Will Pemble, for instance.
Nokia announces a $100 million fund to invest in automotive technology and services
Nokia may have finally offloaded its device and services division to Microsoft after its $7.2 billion deal was completed last month, but it is starting May with an interesting announcement: it is launching a fund that will invest $100 million in connected car startups.
RunKeeper's new Goal Coach feature taps user data to tailor your fitness objectives &training plans
Prennially popular GPS fitness-tracking app RunKeeper has offered training plans for a while already, but with an update rolling out today for its iPhone app, the company is introducing a new feature that aggregates data from across the platform to personalize training plans and goals.
Google Maps Pokémon Challenge
The Google Maps team has launched a new Pokémon Challenge that lets anyone with an Android or iOS device catch the critters.
Because Some Days You Just Want To Customize Your Pizza On A Giant Touchscreen Tabletop
Chaotic Moon co-founder Ben Lamm says he "remembers when it was cool to go to Pizza Hut" with his family and play Ms. Pac-Man on the classic arcade table.
Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
What does a company do to convince potential customers that its product is genuinely waterproof? Well, aside from saying so on the packaging, it can sell the product already immersed inside a bottle of water.
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LinkedIn makes a move into China after hiring a president to head up its efforts there
It looks like LinkedIn will soon make a concrete move into China as it revealed today that it has appointed Derek Shen, the founder and former CEO of Chinese Groupon-like group-buying site Nuomi, as the president of LinkedIn China.
Implemented the new feature on my site
A long-requested feature is here. ExpressionEngine 2.7 has came and includes a new fieldtype that allows authors to use grouped fieldtypes to publish any number of rows of related content within an entry
Why Canada Is a Testing Ground for Apps
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Flee from zombies and giant boulders with the Race Yourself fitness app for Google Glass
Fitness apps seem like a perfect fit for Google Glass, given that the head-mounted computer is devoid of wires and requires a minimal amount of input from your digits.


Jacob Adler, piano, and Tony Obr, modular synthesizers, present final works by composers written just before their deaths.
An RSVP is required for this free event at the Kerr Cultural Center box office. For more Information, go to the Kerr website.


This post will show how to create a basic custom SI5 shape that is linked to your SI5 database and displays the chosen property fields for the product associated with the shape. Instructions are written for Visio 2010 but notes will indicate if something is different for Visio 2007 users.
Note: In Visio 2007, select Tools->Options then click the Advanced tab and check the "Run in developer mode" box.
Create a stencil to store your shape in. In the Shapes window, click More Shapes then select New Stencil, either US unit or Metric.
Note: In Visio 2007 select File->Shapes->New Stencil.
When the shape opens for edit, it will look like a blank document. Use the drawing tools in Visio to create your shape and add a Text box. In this example, I created a purple box w/ a green circle and added the word "Text" to the textbox so it is visible.
On the Insert Section form that opens, check "User-defined cells" and "Shape Data" then click OK.
Close the ShapeSheet window and you will be taken back to the window with your grouped shape.
Repeat steps 8-9 to insert a new section, except on step 9 you only need to check User-defined cells.
Note: if your text overlaps your shape as shown above, do not ungroup the shape to correct! This will wipe out all the work you did in steps 8-18. Instead, while the text box is still selected (vs. the entire grouped shape), simply move the box where you want it.


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Relationship of WSMO to other relevant technologies
W3C Member Submission 3 June 2005
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/SUBM-WSMO-related-20050603/
http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMO-related/
Jacek Kopecký
Jos de Bruijn
Dieter Fensel (WSMO WG co-chair, WSML WG co-chair)
Michael Kifer (WSML WG co-chair)
Rubén Lara
Holger Lausen
Dumitru Roman
James Scicluna
Ioan Toma
Copyright © 2005 DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, BT, The Open University, and SAP AG. All rights reserved.
This document is available under the W3C Document License. See the W3C Intellectual Rights Notice and Legal Disclaimers for additional information.
This document contains brief descriptions of the relationship between WSMO and other selected relevant technologies.
This document is a part of the WSMO Submission.
By publishing this document, W3C acknowledges that DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, BT, The Open University, and SAP AG have made a formal submission to W3C for discussion. Publication of this document by W3C indicates no endorsement of its content by W3C, nor that W3C has, is, or will be allocating any resources to the issues addressed by it. This document is not the product of a chartered W3C group, but is published as potential input to the W3C Process. Publication of acknowledged Member Submissions at the W3C site is one of the benefits of W3C Membership. Please consult the requirements associated with Member Submissions of section 3.3 of the W3C Patent Policy. Please consult the complete list of acknowledged W3C Member Submissions.
WSDL
WS-Policy
WS-BPEL, WS-CDL
SWRL
OWL-S
SWSL
WSMO Implementations and Tools
The Web Services Description Language [WSDL] is used to describe the message formats and simple message exchanges (operations) provided by Web services. A WSDL description of a Web service has the following three layers:
Abstract interface, which contains one or more operations, the simplest units of communication with the Web service. Operations involve one or more messages according to one of an extensible set of message exchange patterns. The format of messages is usually specified using XML element declarations, most often in XML Schema [XMLSchema].
Protocol binding, which specifies how the messages contained in an interface can be serialized on the wire for exchange over a certain network protocol. WSDL provides two predefined options for bindings - SOAP and HTTP.
Service endpoints - a set of addresses together with the appropriate bindings, where a Web service makes available a single interface.
A WSDL description of a Web service can be seen as a syntactical contract - it specifies what formats of messages can be sent to (or by) the Web Service and what formats of messages, if any, can be sent as replies or faults. On the other hand, WSMO describes functional and behavioral aspects of Web services. Specifically, where WSDL talks about what kind of data can be exchanged, WSMO specifies what the results of those message exchanges will be. In this regard, WSMO and WSDL are fully complementary specifications.
Work is currently ongoing on specifying the grounding of WSMO in WSDL. The grounding will describe the concrete relationships between a WSMO description and a WSDL description of a Web service. In particular, we envisage that WSMO descriptions will be used for discovering and automatic composition of Web Services, and when a Web service is discovered, the grounding to the WSDL description will specify which WSDL interface and operation(s) will provide the requested service and where the Web service is physically located. WSMO grounding will also specify how an invoking agent working on the semantic level of ontology instances should construct the XML messages described in WSDL, so that they can be sent to the service. Similarly, the grounding will specify the reverse process of interpreting the XML messages coming from the service as ontology instances on the semantical level.
Future work in the WSMO family of specifications, describing semantically the choreography interface of a Web service, will also be grounded to WSDL and thus specify the possible ordering(s) or operation invocations on one or more Web services.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration [UDDI] is the name of a group of Web-based registries that contain information about a business or other entity and its technical interfaces (or APIs). UDDI registries are used for publishing and discovery of Web services.
The core component of UDDI is the UDDI business registration, an XML document used to describe a business entity and its Web services. Conceptually, the information provided in a UDDI business registration consists of three components: "white pages" including address, contact, and known identifiers; "yellow pages" including industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies; and "green pages", the technical information about services that are advertised by the business. Green pages include references to Web service descriptions, as well as support for pointers to various file and URL based discovery mechanisms if required. [UDDIWP]
UDDI discovery is based on keywords or fixed standard taxonomies, whereas WSMO discovery uses any of the semantics included in the WSMO description of a web service. It may be possible to register and query WSMO descriptions in UDDI registries or it may prove advantageous that a specific WSMO repository is created with more natural querying capabilities. This question is yet to be investigated. Currently WSMO does not impose any registry type.
Web Services Policy Framework [WSPolicy] allows the description of specific Web services metadata (so-called policies) used for expressing the capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of Web Services.
In our position paper for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services [Arroyo et al. 2004], we introduce a classification for capabilities and constraints on Web services, most importantly the application-dependent distinction between functional and non-functional properties. For a meaningful use, the authors would constrain policy assertions to describe only non-functional capabilities, constraints/requirements and other general characteristics, i.e. policies should not be used to describe the functional aspects.
The WS-Policy specification suite defines policies for simple general purposes like indicating languages and specifying general message preconditions, and more importantly an accompanying WS-Security Policy specification also defines policies for security requirements. Because many major companies of the IT industry either authored or support WS-Policy, we expect to see many more practical policy assertions being published. While it is expected that Semantic Web services will ultimately represent such policy assertions as logical conditions, even in their XML form they can usefully complement the Dublin Core non-functional properties currently used by WSMO.
Web Services Business Process Execution Language [WSBPEL] is a language and metamodel for specifying business process behavior based on Web services. Processes in WS-BPEL export and import functionality by using Web service interfaces or using extensions that point to other programming interfaces. WS-BPEL is meant to be used to model the behavior of both so-called executable and abstract processes. Executable business processes model actual behavior of a participant in a business interaction. Business protocols, in contrast, use process descriptions (called abstract processes) that specify the mutually visible message exchange behavior of each of the parties involved in the protocol, without revealing their internal behavior.
Web Services Choreography Description Language [WSCDL] is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of parties by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal. The Web Services Choreography specification is targeted for composing interoperable, peer-to-peer collaborations between any type of party regardless of the supporting platform or programming model used by the implementation of the hosting environment.
WSMO complements the orchestration and choreography specifications: using semantic technologies Web services can more easily be discovered and composed into the various processes; and one step further, semantically described placeholders can be put in the processes, for automatic discovery of suitable Web services.
Grid computing aims to provide the computational power and data management infrastructure necessary to support the collaboration of people, together with data, tools and computational resources. [Foster and Kesselman, 1999] The most common problems that Grid addresses are computationally hard and data intensive problems in science and engineering, along with resource sharing and virtualization in complex networks.
A closer look at Grid computing shows that it has a many points in common with Web services. Basically both Web services and Grid computing use the concept of service and both architectures have the same underlying design principles provided by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Latest directions in Grid and Web services (like WS-Resource Framework - WSRF) try to provide a common base for building Web services in Grid environments. We expect that this convergence will continue and will result in Semantic Web Services for Grids.
Semantic Web services promise to solve the remaining problem of proper support for machine processable semantics, as currently human intervention is needed to actually discover, combine, and execute services. Semantic Web Services technologies will provide a fully mechanized infrastructure for using domain-specific Grid services.
The relationship between WSMO and OWL, including a mapping between them, is covered extensively in the document on Web Service Modeling Language.
The Semantic Web Rule Language [SWRL] is an extension of OWL which adds support for Datalog-style rules over OWL DL ontologies. Instead of arbitrary predicates, SWRL allows arbitrary OWL DL descriptions in both the head and the body of Horn rules, where a unary predicate corresponds with an OWL class and a binary predicate corresponds with an OWL property.
While a subset of SWRL falls inside standard Logic Programming, a SWRL knowledge base easily goes beyond this fragment, because the straightforward combination of rules with OWL DL axioms leads to immediate undecidability of the language.
On the one hand, this means different expressivity than standard rule languages restricted to Horn rules only. The advantages of common rule languages like Datalog which provide a fragment of first order logic where efficient reasoning support for certain tasks like query answering is the focus are lost. Thus, SWRL is not implementable on top of efficient rule engines and does not allow for efficient query answering.
On the other hand, the strict use of OWL atoms in SWRL rules imposes unnecessary syntactical restrictions on first order logic which are not motivated by computational aspects; it is not possible to use predicates with an arity higher than 2 and function symbols are disallowed.
In contrast, WSML aims at defining strict syntactical variants: On the lower end the intersection of a Description Logic and Horn rules is marked by the WSML-Core variant whereas full freedom of a first order language is available in WSML-Full on the upper end. In between, WSML-Flight and WSML-Rule mark syntactic variants which are efficiently implementable on top of existing deductive database and logic programming engines.
WSMO and OWL-S are the two major efforts whose purpose is to specify semantic information for Web services in order to enable automatic service discovery, composition and execution. However, there are substantial differences between these approaches (cf. [Polleres & Lara, 2005]).
WSMO is based on the Web Service Modeling Framework (WSMF) which separates the elements needed to describe services into Ontologies, Web services, Goals and Mediators. WSML is the language used to describe all of these elements. OWL-S facilitates the description of services in terms of four different ontologies. The upper Service ontology links to the Profile, Service Model and Grounding ontologies. The Profile defines some non-functional properties of the service and exposes some of the functionality by referencing Inputs, Preconditions and Results from the Service Model. The Service Model describes the behaviour of the Service in terms of processes and control constructs. The Grounding binds processes, inputs and outputs in the process model to some transport protocol described in a WSDL document. The major concrete differences are explained in the following paragraphs.
A first significant difference between the two approaches is that OWL-S does not separate what the user wants from what the service provides. The Profile ontology is used as both an advertisement for the service and as a request to find a service. In WSMO, a Goal specifies what the user wants and the Web service description defines what the service provides through its capability.
In OWL-S, the non-functional properties in the Profile ontology (such as the service name, human-readable description and contact information) are not explicitly based on standard metadata specifications. WSMO recommends the use of widely accepted vocabularies such as Dublin Core [DublinCore] and Friend of a Friend vocabulary [FOAF] metadata. Also, non-functional properties can be expressed in any element in WSMO, whereas in OWL-S this is restricted to the Profile ontology.
In OWL-S, the Service Model does not make a clear distinction between choreography and orchestration. It is not (at least explicitly) based on any formal model, albeit that there are external works defining the formal semantics of OWL-S processes. The Process ontology defines Atomic, Composite and Simple processes. In Composite processes, control constructs such as decisions, forks and loops can be used to model a workflow. OWL-S defines only one Service Model per service, hence there is only one way to interact with the service. In WSMO, the choreography and orchestration are specified in the interface of the Web service description. A choreography describes the external visible behaviour of the service and an orchestration describes how other services are composed in order to achieve the required functionality of a service. Because we expect that there could be more than one way of interacting with a particular service, WSMO allows the definition of multiple interfaces for a single service.
To define logical expressions, OWL-S provides the choice between SWRL, DRS and KIF. By leaving the choice of the language to be used to the user, OWL-S contributes to the interoperability problem, rather than solving it. Furthermore, the interaction between the inputs and outputs, which have been specified as OWL classes, and the logical expressions in the respective languages, is not clear. Furthermore, DRS does not have a semantics associated with it and KIF is not web-compliant. WSMO provides a family of layered logical languages (see Web Service Modeling Language) which enables us to combine conceptual modeling with rules on only the required expressibility level, allowing descriptions to stay more explicitly within efficiently computable fragments.
To facilitate linkage of heterogeneous resources between one another, various kinds of mediation are required. For example, a service might need to make use of an ontology specified in OWL rather than WSML, requiring mediation (in this case ontology mapping) for the purpose of describing this service in WSMO. In our opinion mediators are a key element in describing Web services and therefore WSMO explicitly defines them in the conceptual model. OWL-S does not explicitly address the issue of mediation: it is considered to be handled by the underlying infrastructure.
To summarize, OWL-S is clearly more mature in certain aspects, including the choreography and grounding specifications. However, WSMO provides a more complete conceptual model as it addresses aspects such as goals and mediators.
SWSL is another recent proposal for a language for describing Semantic Web Services. SWSL has two parts, a rules language and a process ontology. The SWSL-Rules sublanguage is closely related to WSML-Rules. Both languages are largely based on F-logic and they mostly share the logical expression syntax. However, the two groups have pursued complementary goals. WSMO was focused on the end user and developed a "conceptual syntax" for top-level descriptions of services, which we believe might make the specifications easier to read. WSMO also paid special attention to the issue of OWL compatibility. To this end, we defined WSML-Core as a subset of both OWL and WSML, which will serve as a common ground for ontology interoperability. In contrast, SWSL's focus was on extending the functionality of their rule-based language. In particular, SWSL-Rules supports meta-reasoning with its HiLog and reification extensions. It also supports prioritized defaults and classical negation by incorporating Courteous Logic Programming.
On the process description front, WSMO and SWSL are more divergent, but they nonetheless cover complementary parts of the problem space. WSMO has focused on describing Web service choreography through ECA rules, which are viewed as abstract state machines. In contrast, SWSL has developed a first-order PSL-based process ontology, which allows the description of process orchestration as well as message exchange among processes. Further work is needed to determine to what extent the two approaches can be combined.
The first version of the Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) which is part of this submission has been available since June 2004 at the SourceForge portal. Apart from WSMX which marks a reference architecture and implementation for a WSMO compliant execution environment there already exist several other ready-to-use implementations and tools for WSMO to be briefly introduced here.
The Internet Reasoning Service (IRS-III) is an infrastructure for publishing, locating, executing and composing Semantic Web services, organized according to the WSMO framework, developed at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK, within the DIP project.
WSMO Studio is a Semantic Web Service editor compliant with WSMO and based on SWWS Studio. The WSMO Studio will be available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins that will allow easy reusability and extension from 3rd parties. WSMO Studio is being developed jointly by OntoText Lab and DERI Innsbruck within the DIP project.
wsmo4j is a Java API and a reference implementation for building Semantic Web services applications compliant with WSMO. Like WSMX, it is also being developed as an Open Source project jointly by OntoText Lab and DERI Innsbruck.
The WSML Validator is an online service (also available as a SOAP Web service) able to validate WSML documents in the normative syntax. It is developed by DERI Innsbruck.
The work is funded by the European Commission under the projects DIP, Knowledge Web, InfraWebs, SEKT, SWWS, ASG and Esperonto; by Science Foundation Ireland under the DERI-Lion project; by the FIT-IT (Forschung, Innovation, Technologie - Informationstechnologie) under the projects RW² and TSC.
The editor would like to thank to all the members of the WSMO, WSML, and WSMX working groups for their advice and input into this document.
The authors would further like to thank Frank Leymann for his valuable input.
[Arroyo et al. 2004] S. Arroyo et al.: Web Service Capabilities and Constraints in WSMO, position paper for W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, 2004, available at http://www.w3.org/2004/08/ws-cc/wsmo-20040903
[DublinCore] S. Weibel, J. Kunze, C. Lagoze, and M. Wolf: RFC 2413 - Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery, September 1998, available at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2413.txt.
[FOAF] D. Brickley, L. Miller: FOAF Vocabulary Specification, available at http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
[Foster and Kesselman, 1999] I. Foster and C. Kesselman: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, published by Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
[Polleres & Lara, 2005] A. Polleres, R. Lara (editors): A Conceptual Comparison between WSMO and OWL-S, WSMO Working Group working draft, 2005, available at http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d4/d4.1/v0.1/.
[SWRL] I. Horrocks, P.F. Patel-Schneider, H. Boley, S. Tabet, B. Grosof, M. Dean: SWRL: A Semantic Web Rule Language Combining OWL and RuleML, 2004, available at http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-SWRL-20040521/
[UDDI] T. Bellwood (editor): UDDI Version 2.04 API specification, OASIS standard available at http://uddi.org/pubs/ProgrammersAPI-V2.04-Published-20020719.htm
[UDDIWP] UDDI Technical White Paper available at http://www.uddi.org/pubs/Iru_UDDI_Technical_White_Paper.pdf
[WSBPEL] Web Services Business Process Execution Language, specification developed in OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel
[WSCDL] N. Kavantzas, D. Burdett, G. Ritzinger, T. Fletcher, Y. Lafon (editors): Web Services Choreography Description Language, W3C Last Call Working Draft available at http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-cdl-10/
[WSDL] R. Chinnici, M. Gudgin, J-J. Moreau, J. Schlimmer, S. Weerawarana (editors): Web Services Description Language Part 1: Core Language, W3C Last Call Working Draft available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/
[WSPolicy] J. Schlimmer (editor): Web Services Policy Framework, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-policy.asp
[XMLSchema] H. Thompson, D. Beech, M. Maloney, N. Mendelsohn (editors): XML Schema part 1: Structures, W3C Recommendation, 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/

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The cursors can be used as ruler to mark specific areas in the graph. Additionally, they can be used to perform measurements on the displayed signals. Measurement results are shown in a special value window which is opened using the special value window button on the graph toolbar. When the value windows is opened and the listed measurements require cursors which are not switched on, these cursors will be switched on automatically.
The popup menus of instruments, channels, sources, I/Os and sinks are rearranged to give a more convenient overview of the available properties and actions. Current property values have been added to the menu items to give a better overview of the settings of the object. Opening a popup menu of an object can now also be done by selecting the object in the object tree and then pressing the Windows menu key .
Properties and actions of multiple selected channels, sources, I/Os and sinks can now be set and executed together. When multiple objects are selected in the object tree, the popup menu shown for the combination of objects, when the selection is right clicked, will only show the properties and actions that all the selected objects have in common. When changing a property, it will be changed for all selected objects, when activating an action, it will act on all selected objects.
When you have e.g. an Average I/O and a MinMax detector I/O and you want to stop both after 8 measurements, click the Average I/O and then click the MinMax detector I/O with the Ctrl key pressed. Then right-click the selection or press the the Windows menu key and select Stop after Count from the popup menu. This property will now be set for both I/Os.
A new option is added to the setting Start after loading settings for oscilloscopes and generators: As loaded. When this option is set in the oscilloscope settings orgenerator settings, the scope and generator are started according to the settings that are stored in the set file that is loaded.
Version 1.33 of the Multi Channel oscilloscope software can be downloaded from the Multi Channel oscilloscope software download page.


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Straight Money Line: The easiest bet is staking on one player to win a match.
Spread: A spread of the number of games is used in most matches
Over/Under: This is wagering on the total number of games that will be played in a match
Futures: This type of odds tend to accompany major tournaments and international team competitions.
Live Betting: Tennis can be a high intensity game, therefore live betting at Betzest can provide all of the fun and excitement of being a player in the match yourself.
Tennis Betting Tips
Betting on tennis is just like betting on any other sport. Here are the most important factors that should be considered before betting on tennis:
Recent Form: The key factor to consider before making a bet is how fit are the players for the upcoming match. Factors like long distance traveling and playing for days at a time can have a negative impact on some players, while other player may be more resistant to this factor.
Surface: Tournaments take place on 3 different types of surface – hard, clay and grass. Certain players are better on a certain surface while others may be good on all 3
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There will always be winners and losers and obviously upsets will always happen. We are continuously reminded of that with every tournament that passes. Tennis has always been a game of many angles and there are plenty of angles in tennis betting as well.
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Is this an 8 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3?
Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It's due out by the end of the month.
Now it looks like Samsung might have a slightly larger, slightly more powerful model in the works as well.
SamMobile reports that a Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is in the works, featuring an 8 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU.
The larger is expected to have a 4450mAh battery, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean software, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, and optional 3G HSPA+ connectivity.
It'll be available with 8GB to 16GB of storage, and like most other Samsung tablets, there's a microSD card slot for additional storage, as well as front and rear cameras.
This wouldn't be the first time Samsung released devices in different sizes, but using the same name. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 came in both 7 and 10.1 inch sizes, and the Galaxy Note family includes models with 5.5 inch and 10.1 inch screens.
Samsung hasn't confirmed the existence of an 8 inch Galaxy Tab 3, but SamMobile says it'll launch in June.
I think the screen proportions look a little funny, don't you?
its not the screen its the home button that making it funny.


Lalbarra is a town in Madhya Pradesh. It is in the Balaghat district, in the Jabalpur division. The summers in Lalbarra are very hot but the winters are pleasant. Some of the cities near to Lalbarra are Wara Seoni, Balaghat, Seoni and Gondiya. Jabalpur is also very close to Lalbarra.
The official language of Lalbarra is Hindi. Marathi is also spoken here.
The people of Lalbarra celebrate festivals such as Navaratri and Deepawali with great enthusiasm.
Lalbarra is quite scenic. National parks such as Pench and Kanha are often visited by tourists. The forest belts of Seoni, Bhandara and Kawardha are also important tourist spots.
The airport closest to Lalbarra is the Jabalpur airport which is at a distance of 91 km from it.
The stations closest to Lalbarra are those of Samnapur, Dhapewara, Titwa and Charegaon. The closest major railway station is at Jabalpur.
Balaghat has the bus station that is closest to Lalbarra. Some of the best tour operators in this region are Pawan Travels, Padmavathi tours and travels, Shri Shankar Travels and Khushi Travels. Utilising a bus ticket booking coupon can save your money when you buy your tickets.


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Tag Archives: Apocalyptic Fiction
Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna
Apocalyptic Fiction, Dystopia, Love, Relationships, Thriller
I simply cannot resist an apocalypse story. Especially one grounded in real life, rather than fantasy / horror tropes. So Breakdown was a must!
It's very different from the usual premise. A virus wipes out a critical portion of the world's population, meaning that the survivors have to painstakingly reconstruct society (oh, how I loved the 70s TV series, Survivors!). But Hanna's tale takes a slightly offbeat perspective.
Former rock star Chris is in America with his wife and child when the plague starts, and it takes him years to get back to England to see if his family have survived. Terrified that he will discover that they perished, he postpones the last lap of his journey, instead falling in with a family in Portsmouth, helping to run their smallholding. Chris is traumatised by his experiences, but through his new found friend Pauline, who was a therapist before the plague hit, he starts to process his memories and feelings and begin to feel like a human being again. But is their relationship just one of therapist and patient? And when it comes to the crunch, who will Chris choose?
Breakdown is a love story, albeit one in an extreme situation. What I enjoyed was that Hanna told the tale from Chris's point of view in retrospect; we learn of the terrible things that he has endured, but we don't experience them directly, so the horror of the situation remains containable. The breakdown of society is mirrored by Chris's personal breakdown, and the novel charts the reconstruction of both community and self. For readers who enjoy psychology, this is fascinating, although it may disappoint those who want a brutal, survivalist narrative. Ultimately this story is about normal people, and the healing power of relationships, rather than dystopian gloom; I found that I cared about Chris and Pauline, and the final section where their happiness is thrown into doubt was very tense for me. It made me think about what really matters in life, and how the choices we make at every stage of our own journey impact on others. Breakdown is a thoughtful, poignant novel, and an intriguing one to add to my collection of apocalypse narratives.
Rating: ***
47North, 2012, ISBN 9781612184111
A bit of light reading and some heavy weeding…
Apocalyptic Fiction, Children's fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Humour, Psychological Thriller, Science Fiction
Well the blog has taken a back seat for a while as the summer ramped up… I've been juggling some major garden renovation with allotmenting, which has kept me outside in the sun far too much! I can advise that trying to grow a lawn from seed in the hottest few weeks of the year is mission impossible, and trying to not get evicted from the allotments is a recipe for a bad back, and very nearly a trip to casualty, as the garden fork went straight through my shoe and miraculously, in between my toes…. But I have fitted in some reading and I have a bumper crop of strawberries, so a successful summer!
I tried a bit of sci-fi first, The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Corgi, ISBN 9780552164085). It's an intriguing idea – an infinity of parallel worlds which you can step into with the aid of a makeshift machine, and the consequences of a mass exodus from Earth, with a billion different human societies being set up. Add to this a sentient computer in the form of a vending machine, and strange creatures that appear to be migrating across the worlds, running away from something, and you have a humorous and imaginative tale. I did however start to lose interest towards the end which was a shame, and I'm not sure I'll be picking up the sequel.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 9780857207258) grabbed my attention much more. It's the story of a very slow apocalypse told by 11-year-old Julia. The rotation of the Earth has started to slow and the days are getting longer. At first it's exciting, but eventually society begins to fracture, and people become either real-timers – attempting to live according to their Circadian rhythms – or follow the Government directive of adhering to the 24-hour clock. The disintegration of life as we know it is writ on a very small and human level; there's no horror here, just the pain of ordinary existence slowly being taken out of the individual's control. Very powerful and thought-provoking, and a different kind of apocalypse indeed.
I finally decided to tackle Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate, ISBN 9780007230204) on my Kindle whilst on holiday. In case you've been on Mars, it's a tale of the Tudors told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell. It was very interesting but with a large cast of characters I never really engaged with it to the depth I'd hoped to. I think it may be a book I'll revisit one day so I'll say no more at this point.
I was quite impressed with Hollow Earth by John Barrowman and Carole E. Barrowman (Buster Books, ISBN 9781907151644); this children's fantasy had some good scary moments and John has clearly been paying attention to what children love in Doctor Who. Two siblings have the ability to manipulate reality through drawing – but those who wish to bind these powers are after them, and the monsters of Hollow Earth are straining to be unleashed… Good fun.
One story that really gripped me was The Magpies by Mark Edwards (CreateSpace, ISBN 9781483911892). This self-published story is really powerful, telling a tale of neighbourly aggravation that goes way beyond the usual arguments about boundaries and barbecues. Jamie and Kirsty move into their dream flat and are welcomed by downstairs neighbours Chris and Lucy. But soon the neighbours are complaining about noise, sending threatening letters and taping the couple in their bedroom. As the campaign gets more and more extreme, Jamie and Kirsty's relationship comes under increasing pressure, leading to a shocking finale. Very tense and for anyone who's experienced problem neighbours, frighteningly plausible… Good stuff.
Okay, back to the allotment for now!
The Last Policeman by Ben Winters
Apocalyptic Fiction, Crime, Detective, Murder, Mystery
Now here's an intriguing twist in the detective genre! The Last Policeman is Detective Hank Palace, and he's investigating the suicide of an insurance salesman, which he is convinced is really a murder. But it's difficult to get anyone to care about his case, as an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth, and there are only six months left for the human race…
This is an unusual novel which in many ways is a straightforward detective story – a dedicated cop, beset by family troubles, surrounded by incompetence, following a case mired in conspiracy and replete with red herrings. But set that in a pre-apocalyptic scenario and it starts to question human nature way beyond the norm – not just "why do people act in such a way?" but also "how would you react to imminent, inescapable doom?". And characters' complex reactions to the asteroid are integral to the development of the investigation and the big reveal. Just how would you react – would you go into denial, stay at your post, get high on drink or drugs, join a cult offering salvation? The concept neatly messes with characters' motivation so you as the reader can take nothing for granted. The rules have subtly, inevitably changed.
I really liked Hank's character – his single-minded determination to do the right thing, his compassion, his dry perspective. I really, really wanted the resolution to the murder mystery to save the world, but that would be too simple, and as there are two more forthcoming novels about Hank Palace, I fear that he will be staying at his post until the inevitable end of days… The Last Policeman is a very good genre-bending read and I'll certainly be following gumshoe Hank's fortunes in the sequels. As for what I'd do if there was six months left – well that would be telling!
Check out the website at http://thelastpoliceman.com/. Rating:***
Quirk Books, 2012, ISBN 9781594745768
Copy provided by the publisher for review
"Then" and "Out of Breath" by Julie Myerson
Adolescence, Apocalyptic Fiction, Horror, Thriller
Two by the same author today…
I confess that by the time I finished reading Then late last night, I was pretty much a nervous wreck. It's my own fault really – my taste for apocalyptic fiction doesn't make for pleasant dreams. This story is one that is uncomfortable to read but compelling, and it's definitely affected my mood all day, as I contemplate the full horror of it. It's narrated by a nameless woman who lives in the wreckage of contemporary London, hiding, with other survivors of the global environmental catastrophe, in a ruined office building. Her experiences have traumatised her so much she has no memory of her life before the disaster, except for fragments that appear in the form of hallucinations. She often can't remember who her companions are, and the days are jumbled and confused, her sanity blown completely away. But through the wreckage of her thoughts the reader can start to pull together the truth about what has happened to her, and as the picture starts to coalesce, the absolute horror is revealed. Although you can foresee some of it, the force of the ending is breathtaking, and leaves you reassessing everything that has gone before. This is genuinely a book that will haunt you – the style is simultaneously dreamlike yet immediate, like the sudden wearing off of morphine to unleash the agony of evisceration. Unforgettable, horrible, and deeply moving – I'm glad I read it, and I recommend it, but make sure you feel strong enough first. Rating: *****
Vintage, 2012, ISBN 9780099554721
And here's one I read earlier… Out of Breath is a magical, tragic story of lost innocence.Thirteen year-old Flynn has an unhappy home life, so when her brother Sam gets into trouble, she's quick to persuade Sam to run away with her and Alex, a homeless boy she's encountered at the bottom of her garden. What she doesn't bargain for is Alex's friends – the irrepressible six-year-old Mouse, and Diana, who has quite literally just become a teenage mum. They're on the run from a "bad man", and when the group find refuge in an abandoned cottage, Flynn starts to fall deeply in love with Alex. But the dream starts to fall apart and Flynn is forced to confront the terrifying reality of their lives. Like Then, the prose has the feel of a dream, creating an involving, compassionate story where you really care for the characters; the reader can see the signs of the impending nightmare well before Flynn, which makes it all the more compelling. Jullie Myerson is an accomplished author and I'll definitely looking out for more of her work. Rating: ***
Vintage Books, 2009, 9780099516163
A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
Apocalyptic Fiction, Dystopia, Thriller, War
Reproduced with kind permission of Little, Brown Book Group
It's been a long while since I was gripped by The Wasp Factory, and thought it was time I returned to Iain Banks. A Song of Stone caught my attention as a post-apocalyptic tale – I've long been fascinated by such stories, having been hooked by the 70's TV series Survivors and the 80's adaption of Day of the Triffids as an impressionable child.
The story is told by a man fleeing his castle in the midst of a un-named war. Abel and his wife Morgan are captured by a band of soldiers led by the fierce and ruthless Lieutenant, who insists that her troops take over the castle. What follows is a battle for power as the Abel tries to subvert the Lieutenant's authority, and she tries to topple everything he's ever believed in. The results are shocking, gruesome, and inevitable. Abel's very educated, privileged background makes him a not entirely sympathetic character; although his world has been invaded, as he tells his story it becomes clear that the rot and decay in the castle is not simply the result of the war, but of the system that caused it – and the rot in heart of him is inextricably linked to the stones within which he's sought to protect himself.
This is a thought-provoking novel and the ambiguity surrounding the war gives it resonance, as it could be equally set in the distant past or the far future. While the violence is graphic, it is finely judged to create a sense of collapse in society and morality, and as such does not seem gratuitous. Like The Wasp Factory, this is a challenging book, and while disturbing in its concept, in execution it is both gripping and haunting. Rating: ****
Abacus, 1998, ISBN 9780349110110


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Manhattan - Midtown
Image size 11 5/8 x 17 11/16" (29.5 x 44.8 cm).
Publisher : Signed and dated in pencil. This is the second Washington Square Arch dedicated in 1895 and modeled by Sanford White after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The arch sits in Washington Square Park which is at the southern end of Fifth Avenue. The first arch, a wood and plaster temporary arch, was erected over Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square Park by William Rhinelander Stewart. He raised the funds to erect the monument celebrating George Washington's inauguration. The temporary arch was so popular with the public that a permanent arch was started in 1892. The two statues of Washington were added in 1918.
Inscribed "2/90."	20th Century Subjects , New York City , Manhattan - Midtown


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At the 2017 Seafood Expo North America (SENA), SFP organized a meeting with octopus suppliers to explore industry interest in pre-competitive work on octopus fisheries sustainability through a Supply Chain Roundtable (SR) model.
At SENA 2018, the SR was formalized with four participants. The SR was reconvened at SENA 2019 and grew to 11 participants.
Even though the scope of the SR is global, information gathered from industry and NGO participants helped to define a set of priority countries for the SR to start working on first, while also suggesting a deeper market analysis to expand the geographic focus of the group in the future. Mauritania, Morocco, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Peru were identified as the most likely areas to see sustainability initiatives emerging, due to existing interest, market leverage, and availability of national connections with different stakeholders.
Until last year, little progress had been made on octopus fishery improvement efforts (only 0.01 percent of global production is sustainable: Western Asturias Octopus Traps Fishery of Artisanal Cofradias), and efforts to engage the international supply chain were just beginning.
Over the last year, initiatives were launched and key fisheries are moving into improvement initiatives with the support of this supply chain roundtable. The key to reaching T75 is engaging Chinese and Vietnamese fisheries, which in turn requires engagement with their domestic markets, as well as export markets in Japan and South Korea.
At present, the roundtable focuses on a number of octopus fisheries found worldwide.
The SR is exploring opportunities in the Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, Portugal, and Spain.
An overview of the octopus fisheries covered by the SR can be found here.
The SR welcomes additional participation of market-based buyers of octopus, especially those sourcing from Vietnamese and Chinese fisheries.
Octopuses can be a difficult resource to manage, due to their biological characteristics (e.g., high natural mortality, sensitivity to environmental conditions). Typical management measures, such as seasonal closures and minimum size limit, may not be adequate for sustainable use of some species of this group.
Establishing management for octopus fisheries will be difficult in some regions. The artisanal and geographically distributed nature of the fisheries requires a co-management approach, which in many countries will require investments in basic fisheries management, such as initiation of data gathering, capacity building, monitoring, assessments, formal identification, and licensing of fishers, etc.
A relevant volume of octopus is caught as bycatch in bottom-trawling fisheries known to have significant environmental impacts.
Gather further knowledge on sustainability status of relevant octopus fisheries by developing FishSource Profiles (EU – Spain and Portugal; Latin America – Peru; South East Asia – China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia) and identifying a portfolio of management best practices for octopus fisheries.
Support fully operational FIPs in Mauritania, Mexico, and Madagascar.
Catalyze FIPs in Morocco, Indonesia, and the Philippines – including a model for improvement work in small-scale octopus fisheries.
Expand SR participation into Southern Europe, Japan, and South Korea.
Join letters of support for Mauritania, Morocco, Mexico, and the Philippines to motivate national stakeholder to engage in improvement initiatives and launch FIPs.
Connect with your vendors in Morocco, Mauritania, Mexico, and the Philippines to be part of the improvement efforts underway.
Facilitate SFP introductions to South Korean and Japanese companies.
Invite further participation by like-minded industry.
Support and engage suppliers on existing FIPs.
If you would like more information about the Supply Chain Roundtable or wish to support it, please contact Pedro Ferreiro or Carmen Gonzalez Valles.
This briefing provides an update on progress, activities, and news in the areas of interest to the SR. It also indicates any actions and further support needed.
Please find an overview of fisheries identified in the T75 Octopus Sector Report, including those currently not necessarily prioritized by the SR, here.
Update: SR members sent a letter of support to Mauritanian stakeholders requesting the release of the documents required for the FIP to be uploaded into FisheryProgress.
Further support needed: Connect with Mauritanian vendors to keep momentum going for an implementation meeting in Q2.
Update: A consultant was chosen and hired. He met with management authorities and scientific institutions during January to foster engagement on the FIP process. A national stakeholder meeting took place on February 21 during the Agadir Seafood Show in Morocco. SR members sent a letter of support for the FIP to Moroccan octopus stakeholders.
Further support needed: Support SFP to expand industry outreach during Brussels Seafood Expo. Join the letter of support and contact Moroccan vendors (same action as Mauritania).
Update: A TOR with Juan Manuel Caudillo was agreed and signed for facilitation of the Yucatan octopus FIP stakeholder meeting and drafting of an action plan. SR members sent a FIP support letter to Yucatan octopus FIP stakeholders. A meeting of Yucatan octopus stakeholders took place on January 16, with industry, scientific institutions, producers, NGOs, and buyers present. A report on the stakeholder meeting was developed and shared with stakeholders. Signing of the Yucatan Octopus FIP MoU took place during Seafood Expo North America in Boston in March.
Further support needed: Support to expand FIP industry outreach.
Update: Tinker proposal has been finalized and submitted for foundation review.
Update: SR members sent a letter of support for a FIP to Philippines octopus stakeholders. A workshop was held in the Philippines with UNDP and national stakeholders, including government institutions and national industry. There was agreement on the launch of a basic FIP and creation of a national cephalopods exporters association (31 participants). SR member Panapesca recorded a video to motivate Philippine stakeholders to engage in a FIP. Philippine exporters participated in the Global Octopus SR meeting in Boston to promote the FIP.
Further support needed: Support industry outreach for expansion.
Update: TheCephs and Chefs project initiative of the Algarve Octopus Fishery (Portugal) was presented at the Global Octopus SR meeting during Seafood Expo North America in Boston in March.
Further support needed: Develop a letter of support to Algarve octopus fishery stakeholders for FIP initiation.
Update: TheCephs and Chefs project initiative of the Galicia Octopus Fishery (Spain) was presented at the Global Octopus SR meeting during Seafood Expo North America in Boston in March.
Further support needed: Develop a letter of support to Galicia octopus fishery stakeholders for FIP initiation.
Relevant news: TheYucatan Octopus FIP stakeholder meeting report has been finalized. For Peru, the Tinker proposal has been finalized and submitted for foundation review.
Further support needed: Make sure Mexico-based producers participate in the Collective Action Group to work on improvements in policy at the national level.
SFP is in the process of identifying buyers of octopus from Target 75 priority fisheries in North American, European (Spain, Portugal, Italy), and Asian markets.
Update: The supply chain for the US market,Mitsui Foods/D&E/MarGalicia, formalized their participation in the SR.
Further support needed: Facilitate introductions to Korean and Japanese buyers, as well as to other industry companies interested in current pre-FIP efforts.


Aristomenes was a hero of the Second Messenian War against the Spartans, and for hundreds of years was the favorite folk hero of Sparta's enemies throughout Greece. Aristomenes is credited with great valiance and bravery in his wars against the Spartans, and numerous dramatic escapes and other escapades. At one point he was said to have been captured by the Spartans and thrown into a deep cavern to be left for dead. He survived however, and according to legend escaped by following a fox out of a hole. The Second Messenian War occurred during the period of 648 to 631 B.C. For the first seven years it involved a series of pitched battles that went badly for the Messenians, although Aristomenes personally achieved great slaughter against the Spartans, and thrice celebrated a sacrifice indicating that he had personally slain over 100 enemies. The last eleven years involved the siege of a mountain fortress, called Eira, in which the surviving Messenians were holed up. After numerous dramatic episodes, it is told that Aristomenes either perished in battle, or escaped with his family to become a prince on the island of Rhodes.
720 BC End of First Messenian War. Much Messenian land is lost to Sparta.
648 BC Beginning of Second Messenian War.
Aristomenes fights three battles against the Spartans; offers sacrifice after each for killing 100 enemies.
642 BC Aristomenes and followers holed up in Eira, a mountain fortress.
Aristomenes is taken prisoner and thrown into Keadas, a deep rock cavity. Survives fall and escapes.
631 BC Fortress of Eira, refuge of Messenians for 11 years, finally falls to Sparta.
631 BC Aristomenes is taken prisoner again, but escapes with help of maiden, flees to Rhodes.
Aristodemus King of Messenia, and early champion of the first Messenian War.
Damagetes King of Rhodes. Offered his daughter in marriage to Aristomenes.


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Q: Google Cloud Functions warmup time Do we know what the warmup/cold-start time is for a function on the new (still beta as of now) Google Cloud Functions? Or the timeout before it cools down again?
I've been trying Azure functions in the per-use mode, and it's been ridiculously bad - seemed inconsistent but I've seen 30 seconds, and it seems to be about 5 minutes of no-use before it cools down again.
I'm assuming Google's functions have the same issue, but I don't see even preliminary documentation on those time periods. The answer seems to be a "ping" every X minutes to keep it alive, but knowing what that X should be would make a difference in billing.

A: There is an interesting blog post by Mikhail Shilkov, published in August 2018. At this time and based on his experiments, the minimum alive period observed for Google Cloud Functions (GCF) is 3 minutes:

As a consequence, using X=2 should be enough to keep a single function warm and ready to serve a request. However, in that case, you should ask yourself whether it is still relevant to use a serverless solution such as GCF.

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Wexford Bus Child Safeguarding Statement & Policy
Wexford Bus transports children every day on public bus and school transport services. Keeping children safe whilst in our care is of paramount importance to us. The Directors and employees at Wexford Bus understand that they have a duty and responsibility to safeguard children and support their general welfare and safety, promoting the protection of children in line with our Child Safeguarding Policy.
In accordance with the requirements of the Children First Act 2015, Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children 2017, and Tusla Guidance on the preparation of Child Safeguarding Statements, the directors of Wexford Bus Board have agreed the Child Safeguarding Statement set out in this document.
Wexford Bus directors have adopted and will implement fully and without modification the recommendations from Tusla Children First Child Safeguarding guidelines as part of this overall Child Safeguarding Statement.
As per the guidelines and recommendations: The Transport Manager will be the first point of contact for all concerns or issues regarding Child Safety.
The directors of Wexford Bus recognises that child protection and welfare considerations permeate all aspects of their public transport and school transport services daily and must be reflected in all the company's policies, procedures, practices and activities. The company will adhere to the following principles of best practice in child protection and welfare.
The company will:
recognise that the protection and welfare of children is of paramount importance, in parallel with all other considerations, and in line with all health and safety obligations,
fully comply with its statutory obligations under Schedule 1 point 8 in the Children First Act 2015, and other relevant legislation relating to the protection and welfare of children,
fully co-operate with the relevant statutory authorities in relation to child protection and welfare matters,
adopt safe practices to minimise the possibility of harm or accidents happening to children and protect workers from the necessity to take unnecessary risks that may leave themselves open to accusations of abuse or neglect,
fully respect confidentiality requirements in dealing with child protection matters.
The company will also adhere to the above principles in relation to any adult with a special vulnerability.
The following procedures/measures are in place:
In relation to any member of staff who maybe the subject of any investigation (howsoever described) in respect of any act, omission or circumstance in respect of a child using our services, the company adheres to the relevant procedures set out in Wexford Bus disciplinary and grievance procedure which can be found in the employee handbook.
In relation to the selection or recruitment of staff and their suitability to work with children, the company adheres to the statutory vetting requirements of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 to 2016 and to the wider duty of care guidance set out in relevant Garda vetting and recruitment circulars published by Tusla.
In relation to the provision of information and, where necessary instruction and training to staff in respect of the identification of the occurrence of harm (as defined in the 2015 Act), the company:
Has provided each member of staff with a copy of the company's Child Safeguarding Statement
Ensures all new staff are provided with a copy of the company's Child Safeguarding Statement
Encourages staff to avail of additional relevant training
Encourages directors to avail of relevant training
The company maintain records of all staff and Board member training.
In relation to reporting of child protection concerns to Tusla, all company personnel are required to adhere to the procedures set out in the mandated reporting procedures under the Children First Act 2015,
In this company, the directors have appointed the above-named designated contact person as the 'relevant person' (as defined in the Children First Act 2015) to be the first point of contact in respect of the company's child safeguarding statement.
In accordance with the Children First Act 2015, the directors have carried out an assessment of any potential for harm to a child while using our services. A written assessment setting out the areas of risk identified and the company's procedures and policies for managing those risks is attached as an appendix to these procedures. The following Wexford Bus policies are particularly relevant to this Child Safeguarding Statement and the associated risk assessment:
Wexford Bus Code of Behaviour
Bus Eireann's Code of Conduct for School Bus Drivers
Guidelines for Discipline and Procedures for dealing with Alleged Behaviour on School Transport
Dignity at Work Policy (section 33 in Wexford Bus Employee Handbook)
Crisis Management Plan
In addition the following procedures support our intention to safeguard children availing of our services:
Child Safeguarding Statement and Policy will be displayed on our public website.
All existing staff will receive a copy of our current Child Safeguarding Statement and Policy.
All new employees will be provided with a copy of our Child Safeguarding Statement and Policy.
Procedures for reporting child protection concerns are documented in our Policy.
Recruitment and Selection Process will include Garda Vetting, where applicable.
Recruitment and Selection Process will seek assurance from applicants that there are no known circumstances that would prevent them from working with children or vulnerable adults.
Child Safeguarding will form part of Driver Induction Training.
Wexford Bus Drivers will be issued with our Code of Conduct and comprehensive Drivers Handbook
The various procedures referred to in this Statement can be made available on request by the company.
This statement has been published on the company's website and it is readily accessible to parents and guardians on request. A copy of this Statement will be made available to Tusla and the Department if requested.
This Child Safeguarding Statement will be reviewed every 3 years or as soon as practicable after there has been a material change in any matter to which this statement refers. A checklist to be used in undertaking the review is included at Appendix B. The company will put in place an action plan to address any areas for improvement which might be identified in the review. The directors shall decide to inform company personnel that the review has been undertaken. A record of the review and its outcomes shall be made available, if requested.
This Child Safeguarding Statement was adopted by the Wexford Bus Directors on 9/08/2019
Tulsa General Enquiries: Phone: 01 7718500 Email: [email protected]
Wexford Garda Station: Phone: 053 9165200


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Sonic Mania (August 15th 2017, Christian Whitehead, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch) - The New Classic
By Ryannumber1gamer, July 23, 2016 in Green Grove Zone
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Super Saiyan time!
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Still, I don't find it fair to be US only. Even if it is something different at least give us something. I will still buy it but COME ON, its 2016.
Sega DogTagz 3,517
Never Let it Die! Keep Drawing Archie Characters!
Sold. SOLD. SOLD.
I was kinda hoping for a Genesis gamepad, but I can't knock this box set in the slightest. I will happily throw all my money at this. I wonder what mania will retail at if the Collectors Edition is only $69?
FFWF 4,530
As far as I'm aware, it's not all that unusual for collector's editions and pre-order gifts to differ between America and Europe simply because the different arms of the publisher are effectively separate companies and don't work together by default. If Sega Europe isn't already working to bring this CE to Europe, quietly and on its own schedule, then the outcry today might move them to do so, but it's true that they don't appear to be particularly interested in most of Sega's usual output.
Marcello 10,978
Too Cool For This Planet
SEGA Europe doesn't do much these days. It wouldn't all too surprising if we don't get this.
Radiant Hero Ike 4,352
And then there were none?
Pre-ordered the CE, woo!
Can't wait to try and single out my voice in the SEEEEGGGAAAAAAAA easter egg thing they've got! XP
kimplix 471
I got my pre-order down for the PC version. Honestly, I'm very happy to see a Collector's Edition made, but not that surprised it's NA/CA exclusive (even if we can import it online). Generations had its share for Europe Exclusivity when it released 5 years ago, so Mania getting the treatment for both North America and Canada is no surprise at all what so ever. I don't mind the importing fees, but I'm glad to have it down.
I'll also pre-order digitally through Steam as well (Since SEGA and Christian Whitehead deserve every single penny I have), but I can't wait for it to arrive on May 31st
Linkabel 2,150
A real human bean and a real hero
Now that I think about it, for the people that are importing this. Don't you have to buy the game twice? If I'm remembering correctly, the PS4 and X1 codes are region locked, aren't they?
Not sure about Steam though.
1 minute ago, El Driver said:
Steam is mostly any region what so ever depending where you buy it. PS4 and XB1 codes are as far as I'm censored.
I don't mind about pre-ordering twice at all both digitally and physically.
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Cyrus 4,039
△ M U S I Q U E △
Unrelated but it just hit me how funny it is that the first new Sonic game in a long time to be extremely close to how the classic games look and feel isn't on a Nintendo console (as of now)
Joy 2,760
There's always a way to turn things around! To find the fun!
Wound up pre-ordering my own copy anyway. The price actually wasn't awful, even considering the shipping fees to the UK (Here's hoping it's enough to keep customs happy) and in any case, there's no harm sitting on it even if I change my mind before the release.
Ruki185 231
Well this is kind of interesting.
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Niko 49
Dear Light Speed Dash, plzwork ty.
1 minute ago, Ruki185 said:
Nothing major, still interesting tho, apparently they rushed it?
He said 'wrong platform lineup' which COULD mean there are more platforms yet to be announced.
Or am I just understanding it wrong?
Yeah, by the way he said it, it's kind of hard to understand. I thought there were some platforms that they missed out on and I googled it and they didn't miss out or anything? So what else could that mean?
I guess they could hint more platforms here. I mean, I'm expecting smart phone releases anyway.
Oh right, that might actually be the case here, considering Christian Whitehead is working on it aswell..Hmm...
Diogenes 42,235
At Least There's Mania
I don't think he's hinting at anything; the page for Mania's collector's edition (the first link) simply has all the wrong platforms listed at the bottom of the page.
e: edition, addition, where is my head today
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Oh, I didn't even look at the website, I just looked at the image. Lmao. Nevermind then, sorry!
Yeah, what it meant was stuff like Xbox 360 and PS3 were (or are) listed at the bottom.
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In case it changes, so people understand, the site they linked to lists the platforms as 360, PS3, Wii U, Wii, 3DS, IOS and Android. That's what Stealth is getting at.
Also, from the site:
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It's a cool pic, but I wished they would've gotten someone to draw something new instead of using Classic Sonic stock art #12 again. There's definitely artists in the Sonic community that can pull the old style (Spaz is one, he did a good job on the Archives covers.)
Same complaint with reusing the Sonic 1 box theme.
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Lucid Dream 1,313
Is it just me or does Sonics fists have too much of a size difference? His right fist is double the size of his left fist. The distance between his fists aren't that large.
TheOcelot 11,172
Retro Master
Yeah, PS4, Xb1 & Steam are the only platforms announced so far.
The bit at the bottom of the page is a general listing of different platforms SEGA release games on. SEGA need to make sure they update their sites more often
Jango 5,531
Whoa with it.
For does wondering if the code is region locked, it is. But on the PS4 you can create an account anywhere, simply google an adress. I for one, have an european PS3 account, and my adress is at the Buckingham Palace ? Since it's digital only, there's no problem.


General Terms and Conditions of Sale and Delivery of Rijk Zwaan India Seeds Private Limited.
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A wedding in Carden Park – Jonny and Tami – Carden Park Hotel, Chester – blueskyjunction wedding photography – documentary rocks!
WOW! What a day it was spent with Jonny and Tami photographing their wedding in Carden Park Hotel, Chester.
The wedding venue was set on 1,000 acres of countryside and as a photographer, it is awesome to spend your day photographing in such a beautiful location.
The couple were so chilled out and the relaxed documentary photography style fit perfectly with the day to capture all of the wonderful natural moments.
It was lovely to meet all of Jonny and Tami's amazing and very interesting family and friends.


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