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The present invention refers to a collapsible wind and/or sunshade screen. In particular it relates to such a screen of an easily portable make which is handy to take along on excursions to the country side, either when hitch-hiking or skiing, on a car trip or with any other vehicle etc. It is a primary demand that such a collapsible screen be of low weight and great stability, as well as easy to handle when taken along, in opening up or shutting up after being used, and, if so desired, it should be readily fixed to any foundation, such as the ground proper, ice and snow, or the like. Furthermore, it should require as little space as possible. These demands are in all essential parts fulfilled by the screen in accordance with the invention.
Briefly stated, the screen in accordance with the invention includes a screen sheet and a stand supporting the sheet. The stand includes a hub and a pair of outer ribs and an intermediary rib kept together at one end at the hub. The ribs are pivotly carried by the hub on axles in parallel relationship and at least approximately perpendicular to the portion of the screen sheet adjacent the hub. The screen includes means interconnected between the outer ribs and the intermediary rib for releasably maintaining the sheet in a fixed stretched condition. |
ResultMaps: visualization for search interfaces.
Hierarchical representations are common in digital repositories, yet are not always fully leveraged in their online search interfaces. This work describes ResultMaps, which use hierarchical treemap representations with query string-driven digital library search engines. We describe two lab experiments, which find that ResultsMap users yield significantly better results over a control condition on some subjective measures, and we find evidence that ResultMaps have ancillary benefits via increased understanding of some aspects of repository content. The ResultMap system and experiments contribute an understanding of the benefits--direct and indirect--of the ResultMap approach to repository search visualization. |
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Searching for table names and columns names in the database
Hi all.. i am new to oracle database and try to retrieve all the column names and tables names for a particular number (column value from one table). I am using following two different queries but getting no results and no errors. any help??
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Haskell: Check if all conditions are true. If they are return true otherwise false
I was writing some Haskell this afternoon and I have a list of conditions that must be satisfied. If they are all true I want to return true, if one of them is false then return false.
I have a method that is working but I was just wondering if there is a better way to implement it for readability/efficiency.
Here is what I have:
checkMatch :: Person -> Person -> Bool
checkMatch seeker candidate
| gender candidate == preferedGender seeker
&& gender seeker == preferedGender candidate
&& minAcceptableAge seeker <= age candidate
&& maxAcceptableAge seeker >= age candidate
&& minAcceptableAge candidate <= age seeker
&& maxAcceptableAge candidate >= age seeker = True
| otherwise = False
Gender is defined as:
data Gender = Male | Female (Eq)
So I just aligned the &&'s and |'s to make this look a little better but I feel there has to be a better way, but can't seem to come up with anything searching Google.
Thanks in advanced!
A:
You can lose the guards and use and to check your conditions:
checkMatch :: Person -> Person -> Bool
checkMatch seeker candidate = and [
gender candidate == preferedGender seeker
, gender seeker == preferedGender candidate
, minAcceptableAge seeker <= age candidate
, maxAcceptableAge seeker >= age candidate
, minAcceptableAge candidate <= age seeker
, maxAcceptableAge candidate >= age seeker
]
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[Risk of cardiological interventions].
The risk of cardiac interventions has to be assessed in relation to the possible benefit and in comparison to the natural history and to alternative interventions. The relationship between complications (mortality, morbidity) and age, severity of the disease, gender and technique on one hand, and between risk of the intervention versus risk of uninfluenced natural history on the other, are discussed. Diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic interventions are presented separately; the benefit needs to be defined differently for each: diagnostic accuracy or symptom relief, improved quality of life and survival, and prolonged life respectively. Finally, it is stressed that the choice of an intervention is not only dependent on the determinants of risk, but also on the availability of a certain method, operator experience, cost and, last but not least, patient preference. |
Q:
How can I make comments in a /DIV (to indicate what it closes)
I'd like to be able to leave a comment inside of a closing </div> indicating what it goes with.
Could I just do </div comment="blah blah"> ?
Is there a better way?
A:
Attributes are not comments. End tags may not have attributes. Comments may not appear inside any tag.
You can put a comment after a tag.
</div><!-- blah blah -->
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VB.NET: Check box list: *after* ItemChecked
The check box list has an event called "ItemChecked" or something, which triggers when an item is about to change its checked status.
So, it is before the check occurs.
I couldn't find an event that occurs after the item has changed.. I want to execute some code only when an item is checked or unchecked.
A:
The CheckedChanged event occurs after the checkbox is checked or unchecked.
Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckedChanged
MsgBox(CheckBox1.Checked)
End Sub
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Q:
SVN-add and undo-add, what for?
I am new to SVN. SVN-add is here to 'prepare a file to be integrated in SVN', right? But if I want it to effectively be integrated in the version control, I have to commit it (tick the box when I do SVN-commit). So why would I undo-add (if add has no consequences before I validate the file integration after commit)?
Also, could you indicate me some good references for use of SVN?
Thanks and regards.
A:
You've added a file and then decided that you made a mistake and you really do not want to add it to SVN. So you undo the add (i.e. revert the change in your working copy) before commit.
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["boolean", "#t"],
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Checks for booleans.
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I have a customer that has one of the "old" Vinotemp / EdgeStar units that measures the same as an EdgeStar unit inside but is a Vinotemp. It has the little plastic tabs in the slots that the standard units donít have. I vaguely remember there being discussions in the past about "knocking" them out but would rather have someone who has done it describe how they did it. If you have done it could you please respond here so I can pass on the information and also have a place to point people in the future with the same question.
It's pretty hard to screw up. I hit down with a hammer and they popped right off. I hit in a couple times and it too more off, but still not too much. It made me nervous hitting in though so I hit down on the vast majority of them.
It's pretty hard to screw up. I hit down with a hammer and they popped right off. I hit in a couple times and it too more off, but still not too much. It made me nervous hitting in though so I hit down on the vast majority of them.
Just get a pair of pliers or a hammer and gently knock them off... once you get one or two down the rest are quick. I think I used my hands and just snapped them off to make sure I didn't break anything. |
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Hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOC) in soils and groundwater can pose significant health risks, particularly if aquifers which feed the water supplies of population centers are threatened. Current remediation methods for treatment of soil and groundwater include air stripping, vacuum extracting, carbon containment, incineration/oxidation and bioremediation.
Air stripping and vacuum extracting are dispersion technologies which extract vapors (the words vapors, VOCs and gases are generally used interchangeably throughout and, unless clearly understood otherwise, are intended to have the same meaning) from the soil and vent the contaminants to the atmosphere. While these techniques are relatively inexpensive and can prevent or reduce groundwater contamination threats, they are environmentally undesirable because they merely change the medium of the pollution (from soil to air). Venting is controversial and its use in the future is likely to be limited by stricter air quality regulations.
Carbon containment is a collection technology in which vapors from vapor extraction wells or other VOC sources are passed through carbon (or other adsorbent) filled canisters to adsorb the VOC's. Collection technologies prevent or limit groundwater contamination by reducing the contaminant level and can be cost effective for certain flowrates and contamination levels. However, containment is not a destruction technology; the VOCs collected require removal and subsequent disposal. Also, containment is not universally effective, as some VOCs have low adsorptivity.
Incineration involves high temperature burning of waste streams from soil or air-stripped ground water for destruction of VOCs. Incineration is highly controversial, often achieving only incomplete destruction, and is costly. Incomplete destruction can produce products more hazardous than the original contaminant and has the potential of releasing them to the atmosphere.
This current state-of-the-art has led to the present invention, which achieves safe and effective destruction on site for a wide variety of VOCs. |
Peptide mapping by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography employing silica rod monoliths.
In this paper, a general procedure is described for the generation of peptide maps of proteins with monolithic silica-based columns. The peptide fragments were obtained by tryptic digestion of various cytochrome c species with purification of the tryptic fragments achieved by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic methods. Peak assignment of the various peptides was based on evaluation of the biophysical properties of the individual peptides and via mass spectrometric identification. The performance of several different monolithic sorbents prepared as columns of identical cross-sectional dimensions were investigated as part of these peptide mapping studies and the data evaluated by applying solvent strength theory. These studies revealed curvilinear dependencies in the corresponding relative resolution maps. These findings directly impact on the selection of specific sorbent types or column configurations for peptide separations with silica rod monoliths. Moreover, the influence of variations in the amino acid sequence of the cytochrome cs were evaluated with respect to their effect on intrinsic hydrophobicity, the number of experimental observed tryptic cleavage sites, detection limits of the derived fragments in relation to their molecular size, and the chromatographic selectivity and resolution of the various peptides obtained following enzymatic fragmentation of the parent protein. Finally, the scope of these approaches in method development was examined in terms of robustness and efficiency. |
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Q:
Long-lived connections (asynchronous server push) with Apache/PHP/Javascript?
I come from more of a Java background. In the last year or two, it's become somewhat popular to do server push over HTTP using long-lived HTTP connections in Comet. It's an extremely useful technique.
So I'm curious what the equivalent is with Apache + PHP + Javascript? One option I see is just using straight AJAX calls (eg with jQuery) but I don't really know how Apache handles them or how I can implement such a thing on the serverside with PHP. Any ideas? Any good resources on this kind of thing?
A:
You can use Comet programming techniques in PHP. I think a good place to start is this post, describing how to implement Comet in PHP.
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Harpreet Bajwa By
CHANDIGARH: Shaken by a spate of drug related deaths in recent weeks, people in Punjab are now taking it upon themselves to catch drug peddlers and smugglers in order to stop the supply of ‘chitta’ to the youth.
In villages across several districts, people are resorting to thikri pehra, or community policing. Even the police and government authorities have approved the idea of community patrolling. The reason is simple: the locals are aware who the addicts and the peddlers are.
The idea is not new. Since the 1960s, people of the state, particularly in villages, have been doing thikri pehra to protect themselves from anti-social elements and securing their locality. Such community patrolling gained prominence about a decade ago when robbers of the dreaded Kala Kachha gangs operating in Punjab and Haryana use to strike in the villages and semi-urban areas, looted and killed people. Then, people started patrolling their localities at night and at times caught these robbers
and handed them over to the police.
Now, the same has been started to catch drug peddlers and now technology is also being also used by the group of volunteers doing thikri pehra. They are using mobile phones to communicate and when they catch a drug peddler, they make a video and put it on the social media.
This community policing is gaining ground in particularly in the border districts of Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Moga, Jalandhar and Fategarh Sahib. In Taran Taran, after a video of a young boy taking drugs went viral, the thikri pehra volunteers tracked down the peddler, who was a girl in her twenties, caught her and handed her over to the police.
“We give thikri pehra in our village day and night. We have formed teams and each and every individual who comes to the village is verified. If someone unknown comes to the village, the antecedents of the individual are verified. If we are satisfied, then the person is let in the village. Such to the strict checking, now the peddlers are not taking the risk to enter our village and this is the story of many other villages also,” said one youth.
Extending support to the initiative, Additional DGP Harpreet Singh Sidhu, who is the chief of Special Task Force on Drugs, said, “We welcome public support in the efforts of the state government in its comprehensive action against drug abuse. We also request them to provide information to the police.
“However, their action should not go beyond the law to vigilantism or taking law into their own hands. Any person caught committing an offence in front of the public should be handed over to the local police immediately,” Sidhu added. |
Q:
Checkbox (or SOMETHING) to activate a row in Google Sheets
My wife runs a dance school, and occasionally needs to calculate the average age on a given date of a group of dancers. I'm not having a problem with the age calculation and averaging, but I wish to add a feature:
My sheet has all dancers in her company listed. Currently, we copy them all, paste to another sheet, and then delete the ones not included. That's a PITA, so instead I'd like to be able to put a checkbox in the first column, that when checked, would INCLUDE the associated age column in the calculation. So, she could just go down the list, click the included dancers, and it would calculate the average JUST for the selected ones and ignore everybody else.
Honestly, at this point, I have ZERO idea of where to start to do this and need a gentle push in the correct direction. Assume I'm an idiot and know almost nothing.
A:
Here's an example sheet with the new checkbox feature to illustrate the function:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8LJyS10yi1HIa2MNHCbWUJPso9QAit3i0cO8A-Uw3A/edit?usp=sharing
I placed the formula above the "Age" column (Column C), and the Checkboxes in Column A:
=iferror(AVERAGEIF(A3:A,TRUE,C3:C),"NO DANCER'S SELECTED!")
This also displays an error message in case no dancer's are selected.
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Increased in vitro phosphorylation of rat liver nucleolar proteins following triiodothyronine administration.
It has been shown that triiodothyronine (Ta) administration to thyroidectomized rats induces an increase in the in vitro net 32P uptake into liver nucleolar proteins. Such an increase depends on a stimulation of the nucleolus-associated protein kinase activity and not on a lower dephosphorylation rate. |
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* Copyright (c) UNA, Inc - https://una.io
* MIT License - https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
*
* @defgroup UnaTemplate UNA Template Classes
* @{
*/
/**
* @see BxBaseCmtsServices
*/
class BxTemplAuditServices extends BxBaseAuditServices
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
}
/** @} */
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“The question to ask your students is not ‘Did you do the homework?’ Instead, it’s ‘How did you do the homework?’”
I heard these words this summer from Kevin Mattingly, an educator I deeply admire (and the creator of the EdX course on the Science of Learning). They struck me the minute I heard them, because they helped me to see that I had assumed that students knew how to reach texts in Philosophy or Religious Studies – an assumption that no longer strikes me as a good one.
How can we help students reflect on their own thinking? How can we make their thinking — and their learning — visible to them? These questions are at the heart of engaged teaching, and I’ve been using some resources from Harvard’s Visible Thinking Routines in an effort to help students do this work.
During a weekly faculty mindfulness group I’ve been participating in this year, a colleague mentioned that he showed the film “Into the Wild” to his students. Usually he shows this film to his 12th grade students in a class on identity, but he also showed it to his 9th graders this spring. The results, he said, were quite positive. After learning about Christopher McCandless’s story — donating his trust fund to Oxfam, cutting up his credit cards, heading to Alaska — several students wrote him inspiring emails late at night, clearly moved by this example.
Things do not end well for McCandless, of course. And while there are some parts of his life to value, it’s also an important cautionary tale. But my colleague’s comments came as I was teaching a unit on Marx, gender, and advertising and resonated with some of my experiences there.
We started a new term today. There were some great moments in the department as we all began our new courses: a colleague explaining a priori knowledge to two students in the context of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (!), which they are pursuing in an independent project. A discussion with a colleague about how to incorporate Ferguson into my course on Nonviolence this winter, with special attention to the role of religion: it can help people create narratives of hope and it can provide theological justification for the status quo. Students in class writing and talking about ideas of freedom and enchainment using Rousseau’s saying that “humans are born free but everywhere they are in chains.”
Reza Aslan is a historian of religions who happens also to be a Muslim. While these two identities can lead to confusion in certain members of the media (see this interview here), those matters are not the primary focus of this post. Instead, I want to use a recent interview Aslan did with CNN to illustrate the ways in which he utilizes a cultural studies approach to Religious Studies. Continue reading → |
On Ramsey properties of classes with forbidden trees
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On Ramsey properties of classes with forbidden treesLet $\F$ be a set of relational trees and let $\Forbh\F$ be the class of all structures that admit no homomorphism from any tree in $\F$; all this happens over a fixed finite relational signature $\sigma$. There is a natural way to expand $\Forbh\F$ by unary relations to an amalgamation class. This expanded class, enhanced with a linear ordering, has the Ramsey property. |
Q:
Why does the average mind act to fulfill his desires?
Let's consider the following experiment: We tell a human to choose between two things, one is a "tasty" dish, and the other is a dish that doesn't is flavorless. Those two dishes have the same nutritional value. We also tell him that the first dish is unhealthy.
A priori these two things aren't very different, both are different forms of food that the human needs. However why will an average mind prefer taking the "tasty" dish, even do he was told that it is unhealthy? If he used his brain and thought about it for a moment he would have chosen the second dish, but he didn't, and privileged to fulfill his desire.
In the neurological sense, we can interpret this result as that the average mind prefers making acts that will let him produce some molecules such as the Oxytocin.
But why does the average mind fixes his life goal to act such that the "welfare" molecules such as Oxytocin be produced?
A:
Human beings operate on a foundation of instinct with an overlay of rationality. We can, to a certain extent, override our instinctual preferences with rational decisions, but doing so in any particular situation isn't a given. In general, our instincts act towards our benefit, but in a much less fine-grained manner than rationality, so there's always going to be gray areas where instinct pushes in one direction and rationality in the other.
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The need for increased software application portability (i.e., the ability to execute a given software application on a variety of platforms having different hardware, operating systems, etc.), as well as the need to reduce time to market for independent software vendors (ISVs), have resulted in increased development and usage of managed runtime environments.
Managed runtime environments are typically implemented using a dynamic programming language such as, for example, Java, C#, etc. A software engine (e.g., a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Common Language Runtime (CLR), etc.), which is commonly referred to as a runtime environment, executes the dynamic program language instructions. The runtime environment interposes or interfaces between dynamic program language instructions (e.g., a Java program or source code) to be executed and the target execution platform (i.e., the hardware and operating system(s) of the computer executing the dynamic program) so that the dynamic program can be executed in a platform independent manner.
Dynamic program language instructions (e.g., Java instructions) are not statically compiled and linked directly into native or machine code for execution by the target platform (i.e., the operating system and hardware of the target processing system or platform). Instead, dynamic program language instructions are statically compiled into an intermediate language (e.g., bytecodes) and the intermediate language may be interpreted or subsequently compiled by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler into native code or machine code that can be executed by the target processing system or platform. Typically, the JIT compiler is provided by a runtime environment that is hosted by the operating system of a target processing platform such as, for example, a computer system. Thus, the runtime environment and, in particular, the JIT compiler, translates platform independent program instructions (e.g., Java bytecodes, C# bytecodes, etc.) into native code (i.e., machine code that can be executed by an underlying target processing system or platform).
In order to allow programmers to dynamically allocate memory without being concerned with memory management issues, dynamic programming languages such as, for example, Java, C#, etc., use a garbage collection memory management system to allocate and free memory. The garbage collection memory management system will allocate and free memory from an area of the heap known as the managed heap. The managed heap is allocated and placed within the heap during the system initialization phase. In the prior art, the managed heap is placed near the top of the heap; immediately below the stack region. |
Before the end of the movie we saw Kouzuki did posses different body parts inside jars in his basement. It's a possibility that he had chopped her into pieces after she hang herself and showed it to Hideko. In other words, if she tried to run she would suffer the same fate. That might be a possible answer for how the uncle killed her aunt. The aunt killed herself clearly visible in the movie but it is a possibility that the uncle chopped her dead body into pieces.
One of the reasons for her suicide might be an encounter with the octopuss that is also in the cellar. The uncle had books with images of women having sexual intercourse with this animal so maybe the aunt had also alife or dead in front of Hideko.
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This is a video from Youtuber exurb1a trying to explain quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, the quantum zeno effect, as well as a handful of other quantum mechanics theories in five minutes, with the use of ducks. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that ducks don't help me understand anything. Try penguins next time. Also, geese will attack you for bread and your mom will have to pick you up and carry you back to the car.
Keep going for the video.
Thanks to Dev, who agrees the best way to explain things is with candy, like in elementary school math class. |
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use crate::formatter::CustomFormatter;
use protobuf::descriptor::FileDescriptorSet;
use protobuf::CodedInputStream;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use serde_json::ser::Serializer;
use serde_protobuf::de::Deserializer;
use serde_protobuf::descriptor::Descriptors;
use serde_value::Value;
use std::io::Write;
pub struct PqDecoder<'a> {
pub descriptors: Descriptors,
pub message_type: &'a str,
}
impl<'a> PqDecoder<'a> {
pub fn new(loaded_descs: Vec<FileDescriptorSet>, message_type: &str) -> PqDecoder<'_> {
let mut descriptors = Descriptors::new();
for fdset in loaded_descs {
descriptors.add_file_set_proto(&fdset);
}
descriptors.resolve_refs();
PqDecoder {
descriptors,
message_type,
}
}
pub fn decode_message(&self, data: &[u8]) -> Value {
let stream = CodedInputStream::from_bytes(data);
let mut deserializer =
Deserializer::for_named_message(&self.descriptors, self.message_type, stream)
.expect("Couldn't initialize deserializer");
match Value::deserialize(&mut deserializer) {
Ok(x) => x,
Err(e) => panic!("Couldn't decode message: {}", e),
}
}
pub fn write_message(&self, v: Value, out: &mut dyn Write, formatter: &mut CustomFormatter) {
if let Err(e) = v.serialize(&mut Serializer::with_formatter(out, formatter)) {
panic!("Couldn't serialize message: {}", e);
}
}
}
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Q:
ZFS filesystem vs ZFS pool
ZFS pool may consist of datasets(file system, snapshot, etc..) or volumes. ZFS volume is like block device, but I am do not understand difference between pool and filesystem. When I created pool1 via zpool create pool1 sda sdb sdc and than zpool create pool1/fs I can see two new lines in df -h output with pool1 and pool1/fs. The same in zfs list output. Now, I can copy files into pool and into fs. I can set dedup or compression on both. So what is the difference? Why should/shouldn't I crate filesystem in pool? Please include some example of usage if possible.
A:
A pool is a collection of disks, where you can store filesystems and volumes. When you create one, you also get one base-level filesystem that all the other filesystems you create will inherit properties (such as compression algorithm to use, etc.) from.
A filesystem is something that you can write files into, and they all use storage from your pool to write their data. Usually you group logically similar data into the same filesystem, since that way you can treat all that data the same w.r.t. compression, snapshotting, etc. You can share filesystems to other computers over the network through NFS.
A volume (aka a zvol) is a fake disk that uses storage from your pool to write its data. It's kind of like one big file, except that you can also do compression / snapshots / etc. to it directly instead of through a filesystem that contains it. Typically you would only create volumes if you are running a VM. Although I believe you can create a pool based on a group of zvols (a pool within a pool), in general that is not a good idea (it's useful for testing by ZFS developers, though). You can share volumes to other computers over the network through iSCSI or FibreChannel.
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In a conventional filling machine for filling a can with a beverage, such as beer or soft drinks, the cans are fed by a star wheel conveyor to the filling machine and individually positioned on a surface of a rotating turntable beneath a filling head. With the can positioned on the surface, a cylindrical tulip is moved downwardly and seals against the upper edge of the can.
The conventional filling machine also includes a bowl or reservoir which is spaced above the supporting surface and contains the liquid or beverage while the headspace above the liquid contains carbon dioxide.
In the typical filling operation, the can which is sealed against the tulip is initially purged with carbon dioxide from the bowl for a predetermined time period to flush air from the can. A vent tube and a filler tube are mounted concentrically within the tulip, and after purging with carbon dioxide, liquid is introduced from the bowl into the can while the gas from the can is vented into the headspace of the bowl through the vent tube. The liquid will rise in the vent tube to the liquid level of the bowl, and in the conventional filling machine the liquid is blown from the vent tube using gas from the filler bowl headspace. The gas is then released from the headspace of the can to the atmosphere by an operation commonly referred to as "snifing".
The conventional filling machine has certain drawbacks. The carbon dioxide which is used to purge the cans is not pure carbon dioxide but is contaminated with air or oxygen due to the fact that the gas vented to the headspace of the bowl contains some air and the headspace gas is then used for purging during the next cycle. The oxygen contaminant in the carbon dioxide can could cause flavor deterioration of the liquid or beverage being canned.
A further disadvantage of the conventional filling process is that the liquid drawn upwardly within the vent tube is removed by blowing gas from the filling bowl through the vent tube into the can, or alternately, blowing out the vent tube after the can has been removed from the filling head. In the former situation, the blowing of the vent tube with the headspace gas from the bowl can cause foaming of the product as well as incorporation of gas within the product, while blowing the vent tube after the can has been removed from the filling head results in product loss.
In the conventional filling machine, the vent tube is fixed to the tulip with the result that the tulip, by necessity, has a relatively long stroke of movement which adversely affects the overall speed of the filling operation.
As the gas in the filling bowl is used to pressurize the can in the conventional machine, the liquid level in the bowl is critical and determines the fill height of liquid within the can.
With the conventional filling machine there is a slight amount of residual liquid remaining between the valve or screen and the lower end of the filling nozzle which is commonly referred to as "after run". While the "after run" is normally within fill tolerances, the liquid level cannot be precisely controlled due to the "after run". |
Hydraulic components can fail or prematurely wear as a result of thermal shock. In the context of a hydraulic system, thermal shock occurs when hot hydraulic fluids are directed to cold hydraulic components. The rapid localized heating of the cold components can cause individual subcomponents of the hydraulic system to expand at different rates and undesirably contact each other.
A known method of preventing machine failure due to thermal shock is to gradually warm the components of a hydraulic system by manually directing hydraulic fluid through the entire system even before activating the cold components. This method avoids hot fluid being delivered to cold moving components. The effectiveness of this method is limited by the machine operator's ability to recognize the conditions that may cause thermal shock, and to remember to warm up the various hydraulic components before using them. There is a need in the art for improved, and more reliable, methods and systems for preventing machine failure due to thermal shock. |
Ebola has been in the news for the past few months and it has taken on more urgency in the US as cases have arrived from outside the country Within the past week, transmission to two healthcare workers outside of Africa has been reported. Dr. Prabu Selvam, an intern at the Wright-Pratt Emergency Medicine Residency, provided the resources for today's episode on Ebola. In this short episode we will discuss appropriate screening for Ebola, it's signs and symptoms, lab abnormalities, how to confirm infection with laboratory testing, treatment of Ebola, and how to properly isolate patients with this disease. While now is not the time to panic and think that every fever and sniffle is Ebola, we should certainly be aware of how to properly screen, diagnose, and treat this deadly disease. |
I agree with RedState. Harris is making a big mistake - both personally and for the GOP - by staying in this race. It was apparent to this pundit from Harris' early appearances on Hannity and O'Reilly that she was not going to come close to winning against a vulnerable Nelson. This has little to do with the issues and more to do with the candidate. Harris has seemed awkward at best this election cycle, and questions regarding her campaign haven't helped things. Of course, the White House assisted the Florida GOP early on to clear the field of any other Republican challengers to Harris, so I guess there is plenty of blame to go around for this colossal blunder. |
import AuthenticationContract from '../../../../build/contracts/Authentication.json'
import { browserHistory } from 'react-router'
import store from '../../../store'
const contract = require('truffle-contract')
export const USER_LOGGED_IN = 'USER_LOGGED_IN'
function userLoggedIn(user) {
return {
type: USER_LOGGED_IN,
payload: user
}
}
export function loginUser() {
let web3 = store.getState().web3.web3Instance
// Double-check web3's status.
if (typeof web3 !== 'undefined') {
return function(dispatch) {
// Using truffle-contract we create the authentication object.
const authentication = contract(AuthenticationContract)
authentication.setProvider(web3.currentProvider)
// Declaring this for later so we can chain functions on Authentication.
var authenticationInstance
// Get current ethereum wallet.
web3.eth.getCoinbase((error, coinbase) => {
// Log errors, if any.
if (error) {
console.error(error);
}
authentication.deployed().then(function(instance) {
authenticationInstance = instance
// Attempt to login user.
authenticationInstance.login({from: coinbase})
.then(function(result) {
// If no error, login user.
var userName = web3.toUtf8(result)
dispatch(userLoggedIn({"name": userName}))
// Used a manual redirect here as opposed to a wrapper.
// This way, once logged in a user can still access the home page.
var currentLocation = browserHistory.getCurrentLocation()
if ('redirect' in currentLocation.query)
{
return browserHistory.push(decodeURIComponent(currentLocation.query.redirect))
}
return browserHistory.push('/dashboard')
})
.catch(function(result) {
// If error, go to signup page.
console.error('Wallet ' + coinbase + ' does not have an account!')
return browserHistory.push('/signup')
})
})
})
}
} else {
console.error('Web3 is not initialized.');
}
}
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Q:
How to include a text file for reading and writing?
I want to include a file (which contains key-value-pairs) in an android app. I need to have write-access to the file, so I can not put it in raw or assets.
How can I do this? In standard java, I would just have put it in the project root.
A:
You would want to read and write to the internal storage of the device. getFilesDir() gives you the file object for your app's private internal storage. And as per the note in the documentation here, if you use MODE_PRIVATE with openFileInput or openFileOutput, the file will be private to your app only.
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Q:
function parameter not in scope in function body?
I am working through some exercises to learn me some Haskell (for greater good).
The following is my attempt at a BubbleSort:
bubbleSort :: [Integer] -> [Integer]
bubbleSort xs = let
(state, bubbled) = bubble True xs
in
if not state
then bubbleSort bubbled
else bubbled
where
bubble :: Bool -> [Integer] -> (Bool, [Integer])
bubble changed [] = (changed, [])
bubble changed [x] = (changed, [a])
bubble changed (a:b:as) | compare a b == GT = (fst bubble False (a:as), b:(snd bubble False (a:as)))
| otherwise = (fst bubble (changed && True) (b:as), a:(snd bubble (changed && True) (b:as)))
This errors out on the final line (in the otherwise clause) with: Not in scope: 'a'
I'm honestly not sure whether I'm just very tired or I'm missing something very fundamental but, as far as I understand, a should be in scope, given that it was passed in as part of the (a:b:as) pattern?
Is that not correct?
A:
Your otherwise case is fine, but not this case: bubble changed [x] = (changed, [a])... a is not in scope.
import Data.List (sort)
import Test.QuickCheck
main :: IO ()
main = verboseCheck isValidSort >> verboseCheck idempotent
isValidSort, idempotent :: [Integer] -> Bool
isValidSort xs = sort xs == bubbleSort xs
idempotent xs = bubbleSort (bubbleSort xs) == bubbleSort xs
bubbleSort :: [Integer] -> [Integer]
bubbleSort xs = let (state, bubbled) = bubble True xs
in if not state
then bubbleSort bubbled
else bubbled
where
bubble :: Bool -> [Integer] -> (Bool, [Integer])
bubble changed [] = (changed, [])
bubble changed [x] = (changed, [x])
bubble changed (a:b:as) | compare a b == GT = (fst $ bubble False (a:as), b:(snd $ bubble False (a:as)))
| otherwise = (fst $ bubble (changed && True) (b:as), a:(snd $ bubble (changed && True) (b:as)))
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#ifndef _BAR_H_
#define _BAR_H_
void bar(void);
#endif //!_BAR_H_
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Pneumocephalus secondary to cerebrobronchial fistula formed by a ventriculoatrial shunt. Case report.
A case is presented in which the atrial tip of a ventriculoatrial shunt formed a fistulous connection with the bronchial tree in a child. This resulted in acute bronchopneumonia, pneumocephalus, and ventriculitis. Pneumocephalus was created by an artificial respirator forcing air along the shunt tract during treatment of bronchopneumonia. Sudden death was related to transtentorial herniation. The diagnosis of a cerebrobronchial fistula should be entertained in shunt patients with respiratory distress and radiographic pulmonary densities unresponsive to antibiotics. |
<?php
namespace Frozennode\Administrator\Fields\Relationships;
class HasOne extends HasOneOrMany {
}
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Crackles: recording, analysis and clinical significance.
Crackles are short interrupted breath sounds usually associated with pulmonary disorders. According to present opinion, a crackle is generated when an abnormally closed airway opens during inspiration or closes at the end of expiration. The timing of crackles in breathing cycles can be assessed with phonopneumography, their duration with time-expanded waveform analysis, and their pitch with analysis of frequency spectra. The timing, pitch and waveform of crackles are different in pulmonary disorders reflecting different pulmonary pathophysiology. This review deals with the genesis, auscultation, recording and analysis of crackles, with an emphasis on modern signal-processing methods. |
Creating "living" polymer surfaces to pattern biomolecules and cells on common plastics.
Creating patterns of biomolecules and cells has been applied widely in many fields associated with the life sciences, including diagnostics. In these applications it has become increasingly apparent that the spatiotemporal arrangement of biological molecules in vitro is important for the investigation of the cellular functions found in vivo. However, the cell patterning techniques often used are limited to creating 2D functional surfaces on glass and silicon. In addition, in general, these procedures are not easy to implement in conventional biological laboratories. Here, we show the formation of a living poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) layer that can be patterned with visible light on plastic surfaces. This new and simple method can be expanded to pattern multiple types of biomolecule on either a previously formed PEG layer or a plastic substrate. Using common plastic wares (i.e., polyethylene films and polystyrene cell culture Petri-dishes), we demonstrate that these PEG-modified surfaces have a high resistance to protein adsorption and cell adhesion, while at the same time, being capable of undergoing further molecular grafting with bioactive motifs. With a photomask and a fluid delivery system, we illustrate a flexible way to immobilize biological functions with a high degree of 2D and 3D spatial control. We anticipate that our method can be easily implemented in a typical life science laboratory (without the need for specialized lithography equipment) offering the prospect of imparting desirable properties to plastic products, for example, the creation of functional microenvironments in biological studies or reducing biological adhesion to surfaces. |
The present invention relates to a tool box comprising a body with bits received therein and a cap mounted to the body. The body has an engaging recess for receiving a bit so that the tool box can be used as a screwdriver or the like.
A conventional tool box generally includes a large box comprising a base and a cover which is pivotally connected to the base. The base and the cover each have a plurality of recesses defined therein so that many types of bits and tools are received in the tool box. However, such a huge tool box is inconvenient to be carried with the users because it is too heavy and occupies a large space. Some screwdrivers receive bits in a handle thereof and the user picks one bit from the handle and engages the bit on a shank of the screwdriver. Nevertheless, the bits make the total weight of the screwdriver too heavy which is inconvenient to be used. Besides, in order to receive the bits in the handle, the length of the handle has to be prolonged.
The present invention intends to provide a tool box that receives bits in a body thereof and a cap is movably mounted to the body. A bit can be engaged to a top of the body and a positioning means in the body secures the cap while using the tool box as a bit tool.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tool box and comprising a body having an board and a post extending from the board. A plurality of passages are defined through the post so that bits are received in the passages. An engaging recess is defined in a distal end of the post for engaging with a bit. A cap is movably mounted to the body and a hole is defined through a close top of the cap so that the bit extends through the hole and is engaged with the engaging recess.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a tool box wherein bit are received in the tool box and a bit is engaged with the tool box to be used as a screwdriver.
These and further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more obvious from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which show, for purposes of illustration only, several embodiments in accordance with the present invention. |
Left Bank is a New York bistro inspired by Greenwich Village and influenced by European sensibilities. Its architectural details—a landmarked building in Manhattan's historic district, with large bay windows on both sides of the entrance—reflect the venue's unpretentious style of cooking and service. Left Bank's offerings are inspired by local farmers, recipes of bygone days and the relationships that the venue's proprietors have with their guests. The restaurant showcases its devotion to serve simple, wholesome, delicious food and drink to all its customers—whether locals or visitors.
Left Bank is a New York bistro inspired by Greenwich Village and influenced by European sensibilities. Its architectural details—a landmarked building in Manhattan's historic district, with large bay windows on both sides of the entrance—reflect the venue's unpretentious style of cooking and service. Left Bank's offerings are inspired by local farmers, recipes of bygone days and the relationships that the venue's proprietors have with their guests. The restaurant showcases its devotion to serve simple, wholesome, delicious food and drink to all its customers—whether locals or visitors. |
Rare Matt Bonner Dunk Contest Footage
As if there was any question doubt about the legend that is Matt Bonner. Here is unreleased footage for his submission to participate in the dunk contest. I guess the league wanted to keep it far and give other guys some chance so they denied him. #BOOMSHAKALAKA!
(P.S. - Judging by the recent crazy posts on the forum as of late, this was only a joke and NOT the real red rocket.)
And are you sure that's Matt Bonner and not Chase Budinger, cause he's on the list of guys that fans vote in. For a second when Isaw his name I thought ESPN confused the Three Point and Slam Dunk people, lol. |
The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the great dramas of the twenty-first century. China’s extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already transforming East Asia, and future decades will see even greater increases in Chinese power and influence. But exactly how this drama will play out is an open question. Will China overthrow the existing order or become a part of it? And what, if anything, can the United States do to maintain its position as China rises?
Some observers believe that the American era is coming to an end, as the Western-oriented world order is replaced by one increasingly dominated by the East. The historian Niall Ferguson has written that the bloody twentieth century witnessed “the descent of the West” and “a reorientation of the world” toward the East. Realists go on to note that as China gets more powerful and the United States’ position erodes, two things are likely to happen: China will try to use its growing influence to reshape the rules and institutions of the international system to better serve its interests, and other states in the system — especially the declining hegemon — will start to see China as a growing security threat. The result of these developments, they predict, will be tension, distrust, and conflict, the typical features of a power transition. In this view, the drama of China’s rise will feature an increasingly powerful China and a declining United States locked in an epic battle over the rules and leadership of the international system. And as the world’s largest country emerges not from within but outside the established post-World War II international order, it is a drama that will end with the grand ascendance of China and the onset of an Asian-centered world order |
Austin: Brunch and Learn
"Until a person gets themselves healed, they will be TOXIC to every person who tries to love them..." Are you aware of how your options will improve once you clear your internal clutter and fall in love with YOU? Join us for this Brunch & Learn event hosted by Singles & The City Founder, OhSoStefanie and Dallas' top relationship wellness Counselors. Click here for more information. |
Q:
How to find the HTTP Post URL and parameters of a website to parse in Android
I am trying to interface multiple accounts into a single one. I mean, consider you sell your own stuff at Sites A, B, C, D. I am trying to develop an app, such that the user has to enter his credentials in the settings screen, and from then on, the app automatically logs into each of the site, and parse the HTML to get the balance.
The issue here is, I don't find any API for any of the sites. So Can i open the source of the Login page, and use it to find the HTTP Post URL and the username and password field name tags and use it as normal post? Will it login? Have you ever tried such thing.
You help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nithin
A:
Use Firebug in Firefox or (Tools->Developer Tools in CHrome) to find out what is sent as POST parameters & then simulate the same in java.
I wrote a simple script to send SMS using a website and wrote on howto simulate logins. You can have a look at it here. It uses python but gives an idea of how is it done.
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Recently, electronic devices have been developed to use various functions that are related to applications. For example, electronic devices (e.g., smart phones) may receive information that is related to the configuration of the electronic device from a server, and the electronic device may be configured based on the received information.
Electronic devices have recently been developed to use various functions. The electronic devices are provided with a display unit in order to more effectively utilize the various functions. For example, current smart phones adopt a display unit (e.g., a touch screen), which senses a touch, on the front side thereof.
In addition, a wide range of applications (or “apps”) may be installed and executed in the electronic devices. Various input means (e.g., a touch screen, buttons, a mouse, a keyboard, sensors, etc.) may be used to execute and control the applications in the electronic device.
The above information is presented as background information only to assist with an understanding of the present disclosure. No determination has been made, and no assertion is made, as to whether any of the above might be applicable as prior art with regard to the present disclosure. |
Q:
Java: Serialize & DeSerialize ArrayList
I have a class Book(), Author() and a class CollectionOfBooks()(where I stock all the books in an ArrayList). Then I have my interface where I have a menu where I can add/list/remove/search books. Everything works fine. But, I also want to save my books in a file when I exit the program so when the program ends I call this method(BooksIO() is the class for serialize&deserialize):
public void exitProgram() throws IOException{
System.out.println("Program shuts down, cya!");
BooksIO.outputFile(); // to save my books to the file
}
I am not sure if the books are saved because when I start the program the books don't show up:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
UserInterface menu = new UserInterface();
BooksIO.inputFile(); // get the books from the saved file to the library
menu.run();
}
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, can someone help me?
The class for Serialize & DeSerialize :
public class BooksIO {
public static void outputFile() throws IOException{
CollectionOfBooks library = new CollectionOfBooks(); //where the books are saved in an ArrayList
FileOutputStream fout=null;
ObjectOutputStream oos=null;
try{
fout = new FileOutputStream ("stefi.ser");
oos=new ObjectOutputStream(fout);
// I try to save my library to the file
oos.writeObject(library.Books);
System.out.println("Serializing successfully completed");
for(Book c: library.Books){
System.out.println(c.toString());
}
} catch (IOException ex){
System.out.println(ex);
}finally{
try{
if(fout!=null) fout.close();
if(oos!=null) oos.close();
} catch (IOException e){
}
}
}
public static void inputFile() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException{
CollectionOfBooks library = new//where my books are saved in an ArrayList of type Book CollectionOfBooks();//where my books are saved in an ArrayList of type Book
ObjectInputStream ois = null;
try{
FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("stefi.ser");
ois = new ObjectInputStream(fin);
// try to get my books from the file and save it in the library
library.Books = (ArrayList<Book>)ois.readObject();
System.out.println("Deserializing successfully completed");
for(Book c: library.Books){
System.out.println(c.toString());
}
}catch (ClassNotFoundException e){
System.out.println("The class for this type of objects"+
"does not exist in this application!");
throw e;
}finally{
try{
if(ois!=null){
ois.close();
}
}catch (IOException e){
}
}
}
}
A:
Right at the top of your outputFile() method, you are initializing a "library" variable to a new (presumably empty) CollectionOfBooks, and then serializing that.
What you want to do instead is pass the application's instance of CollectionOfBooks into the outputFile() method, and serialize that.
Also, while others may disagree, I find Java serialization to be a bit clunky, and it has some odd edge cases that you need to be aware of. I personally wouldn't use it unless I had to for some reason - I'd use a JSON serialization library, like perhaps GSon, instead.
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·BUG: If you’re pretty far into the game and
your game ends from a fast-moving alien wrapping-around the screen and killing
you, the graphics on the title screen will sometimes become corrupted. {Scott
Stilphen} |
Q:
super() type functionality on ORM CFC
When I use CF9's ORM feature and generate an explict setter for my ORM CFC, is there anyway to call the default funcitionailty of the ORM CFC after i have done the work needed in the method. For example i am looking for something like this. Obviosuly the code will not run , and super is the wrong concept since the ORM CFC isnt inherting anything, but thats the type of functionality I am looking for.
public void setMovie(String movie){
if(movie == "inception"){
ORMCFC.super().setMovie("Greatest movie ever made")
}else{
ORMCFC.super().setMovie(movie)
}
A:
In your model CFC for the ORM you can specify additional "decorator" functions.
component persistent="true" table="Movie" schema="dbo" output="false"
{
/* properties */
property name="MovieNo" column="MovieNo" type="numeric" ormtype="double" fieldtype="id" ;
property name="Name" column="Name" type="string" ormtype="string" ;
/* decorator */
public void function setMovie(name)
{
if(name == "inception"){
setName("Greatest movie ever made")
}else{
setName(name)
}
}
}
Otherwise if you need to (using your example) setMovie() you will need to do an EntityLoad or create a new entity to set a value to.
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Super Junior's Leeteuk spends a quiet holiday season with his family
The idol updated fans and said that he spent a simple Christmas with his family, and that his end-of-the-year will also be quiet, spending quality time with his pet Koong-E. Leeteuk posted a heartwarming photo with his mother and sister, as well as several photos of his loving dog. |
Summer-like atmosphere pervades Bordeaux (PSV.nl)
It may be almost October, but today it felt like this was Bordeaux at the height of summer. The historic centre of the vineyard town had not been hit by football fever yet, although PSV fans gradually found their way to the city centre.
Bordeaux is a wonderful city, with many classic squares, columns, gates and ancient buildings. There is not a genuine football atmosphere pervading the city; the Bordelais do not exuberantly present themselves as Girondins de Bordeaux fans. The PSV faithfuls came gradually trickling in and were having a good time in one of the many crowded outdoor cafés, while the sun was shining brightly.We will present the starting line-ups about one hour before the game kicks off.
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Dirac equation in curved spacetime
In mathematical physics, the Dirac equation in curved spacetime generalizes the original Dirac equation to curved space.
It can be written by using vierbein fields and the gravitational spin connection. The vierbein defines a local rest frame, allowing the constant Dirac matrices to act at each spacetime point. In this way, Dirac's equation takes the following form in curved spacetime:
Here is the vierbein and is the covariant derivative for fermionic fields, defined as follows
where is the commutator of Dirac matrices:
and are the spin connection components.
Note that here Latin indices denote the "Lorentzian" vierbein labels while Greek indices denote manifold coordinate indices.
See also
Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space
Dirac spinor
Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime
Two-body Dirac equations
References
Category:Quantum field theory
Category:Spinors
Category:Partial differential equations
Category:Fermions
Curved spacetime |
Imbalances, or what are conservatively defined as differences in microflora, between the afflicted and unafflicted, are implicated in serious and disabling health issues. The most impactful of these issues are autism, and obesity. It is easy to imagine that the skinny folks who eat what most consider to be a terrible diet have a wonderful internal factory of a microbiome that is cleaning up after their careless ways. While on the other hand, the obese person taking up space next to them on the subway may be doing everything possible to be healthy and minding their calories, and yet the flora in their guts is undermining their every healthy mouthful and calorie burned.
Some may prefer an alternative to ignoring little bacteria which are managing our love of pastries. Like eating live active culture yogurt, fecal transplants are a thing now, and studies have followed the effects of implanting the fecal matter from thin people with a good range of microflora into obese people who have a narrower range of microflora including types that are very detrimental to wellbeing. Some who are satisfied with this alternative practice just stop there, and there are people who regularly implant the fecal matter of healthy thin people into their guts, without realizing they can probably achieve the same effects by sourcing a wide range of microbiota and keeping them flourishing with a prebiotic type of dietary fiber.
Earlier studies were more hesitant to open up with boldly worded declarations about the role of the gut microbiome for human health. We have come a long way from hesitating to understand how our health is impacted by unseen billions of organisms which reside within our digestive system, and which are directly responsible for our health and wellbeing. |
Best Cellulite Treatment
Cellulite is a condition in which the skin has a dimpled, lumpy appearance. It usually affects the buttocks and thighs, but it can occur in other areas too.
It is one of the skin problems that may appear in different areas of the body such as hips, buttocks, thighs, legs, and abdomen. This has an appearance like the peel of an orange that makes your skin become rough.
This is very common to a woman that is why most of them are using different anti-cellulite treatment for their cellulite to fade away. Treatments can either be in a form of surgery or creams, but it is advisable to choose the one that can answer your needs.
Surgeries are more expensive than the other kinds of treatments, but some would not guarantee that it may work.
Below are some of the anti-cellulite treatments that are commonly used by most people who have problems with cellulite in their bodies:
Plastic surgery. This is considered an effective treatment for cellulites and is very risky for the skin knowing that the procedure is invasive. There is a greater possibility that the procedure would go wrong because the foreign substance is injected inside the body.
It is also commonly called as lipo plasty which is responsible for helping the areas of the body to reshape and slim down by means of removing fat collection surplus. This also helps in improving the body’s contour as well in enhancing the self-image of the patient. Liposuction is an anti-cellulite treatment that treats fat pouches on the inner knees, thighs, ankles, and waist.
This is the procedure wherein the fat is first liquefied and removed on the body. This is helpful in reducing the problems when it comes to cellulites and is applied only on affected areas and heats fat layers of the skin. The result is the fat would be dissolved and would also help diminish the cellulites then fades away.
Creams for anti-cellulite that are organic. This is considered to be the safest way that is used as an anti-cellulite treatment. There are different creams that are available in the market and safe to use for treating the problems regarding the cellulite that ruin the appearance of the skin. On the other hand, it is still advisable to choose the kind of cream that is suited on you types for better and fast results.
Home remedies. Home remedies are also very helpful such as proper diet. You may include eating foods that are low carb because these help in improving the blood circulation which in turn increases the skin’s smoothness. Fresh vegetables and fruits are also advisable to eat for they help in preventing the fat deposits of cellulite development. Proper exercise is also a must in order to burn body fats as well as prevent the accumulation of cellulite in a certain place.
Anti-cellulite treatment is very helpful especially for those people who want their skin to have a good appearance and become free from the cellulite that really ruin the way their skin looks like. Knowing that there are various treatments that are available, it is needed that the right treatment should be chosen wisely for the betterment of your skin.
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Cellulite is a common skin condition that causes a dimpled, “orange peel” or “cottage cheese” appearance. Cellulite is caused when fat cells below the skin surface expand. The fat cells push upwards resulting in an uneven skin surface. In addition the collagen bonds within where the fat cells are located and are stretched causing further unevenness to the skin’s surface.
Cellulite is commonly classified in four stages by using the Nürnberger-Müller cellulite scale. Cellulite most commonly appears on the abdomen, thighs, and buttocks. To determine the level of cellulite, you must first perform a pinch test. Pinch the skin of your outer thigh, buttocks or abdomen between your index finger and your thumb and look for dimpling.
Stage Zero is when no dimpling or orange peel is seen on the skin when you are standing.
Stage One is when no dimpling is seen on the skin when you are standing, but when you pinch your skin you have bumps and lumps.
Stage Two is when you can see dimpling or orange peel appearance when standing, but not when you lie down.
Stage Three is when you can see dimpling both when you are standing and lying down.
Both men and women have cellulite but it appears more frequently in women due to the types of fat and connective tissue that women have. There is no clear cause of cellulite but the most popular theories include hormonal factors, genetics, diet and lifestyle factors.
The most common treatments are creams and lotions that claim to break down the fat. The effectiveness of these solutions is mild at best since they cannot truly change the fat cells. Lymphatic massages are effective in treating cellulite but the results are often short term. Over the past decade, non-invasive therapies and minimally invasive therapies have emerged that target the subcutaneous tissue.
Healthcosmo’s skin smoothing anti-cellulite solutions minimize the fat cells in the target area and strengthen & regenerate the collagen fibers. The lowering of the volume of the fat cells allows the skin to go back to its initial form and the strengthened collagen fibers ensure that the skin has the elasticity it requires.
Organic Anti-Cellulite treatments are safe, fast, effective, and suitable for all skin types and will not interfere with your daily routine. Results are both immediate and long-term. |
Social media once again has backfired for a celebrity. And this time it's Nicki Minaj. The rapper posted a video to Instagram of a "conversation" she was having with a woman.
In the short clip, the rapper tells the woman, "Come here," and laughs at her. But the woman is not to be laughed at. According to several Miami locals who commented on Minaj's video, the woman is mentally ill and well known in the area because of her mental-health issues.
Several commenters on Minaj's Instagram post questioned why she would even think the video was funny. And the Miami division of the National Alliance on Mental Illness issued a statement: "Nobody would make fun of a cancer patient, and mental illness is an illness like any other." |
Return, as html or as a template variable, a Django form to add or remove
a bookmark for the given instance and key, and for current user.
Usage:
{%bookmark_formfor*instance*[using*key*][as*varname*]%}
The key can be given hardcoded (surrounded by quotes)
or as a template variable.
Note that if the key is not given, it will be generated using
the handler’s get_key method, that, if not overridden, returns
the default key.
If the varname is used then it will be a context variable
containing the form.
Otherwise the form is rendered using the first template found in the order
that follows:
Use this just like the bookmark_form templatetag.
The only difference here is that it always render a form template
(so you can’t use the as varname part), and the form template
is rendered using an AJAX request.
This is useful for example when you want to show add/remove
bookamrk interaction for authenticated users even in a cached template.
Return as a template variable a bookmark object for the given instance
and key, and for current user.
Usage:
{%bookmarkfor*instance*[using*key*]as*varname*%}
The key can be given hardcoded (surrounded by quotes)
or as a template variable.
Note that if the key is not given, it will be generated using
the handler’s get_key method, that, if not overridden, returns
the default key.
Return as a template variable all bookmarks, with possibility to filter
them by user, or to take only bookmarks of a particular model and
using a specified key. It is also possible to reverse the order
of bookmarks (by default they are ordered by date).
Usage:
{%bookmarks[of*model*][by*user*][using*key*][reversed]as*varname*%}
Examples:
{# get all bookmarks saved by myuser #}{%bookmarksbymyuserasmyuser_bookmarks%}{# get all bookmarks for myinstance using mykey #}{%bookmarksofmyinstanceusing*mykey*asbookmarks%}{# getting all bookmarks for model 'myapp.mymodel' in reverse order #}{%bookmarksof'myapp.mymodel'reversedasvarname%}
Note that the args model can be:
a model name as string (e.g.: ‘myapp.mymodel’)
a model instance
The key can be given hardcoded (surrounded by quotes)
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Negative-lens field expander for patients with concentric field constriction.
An oversized, negative-power spectacle lens may be used as a field expander to improve mobility and general orientation ability of patients with peripheral field loss but intact central vision. The device is inexpensive and simple to use for brief spotting periods. |
Q:
Is there a windows equivalent to kill -STOP (or Ctrl-Z)
I'm looking for a way to suspend a program under windows in the same way as kill -STOP would do for Linux.
There seems to exist something using powershell, but apart from that in a "vanilla" windows? Preferably working for a program that has not been launched via a command window
A:
As Axel Kemper answers in comments to original post, resmon.exe is a builtin solution that does a pretty similar job
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Video: Wis. police fatally shoot fleeing suspect
Police were cleared of any wrongdoing for killing the suspect, as they feared for the safety of their officers and community
By Shaun ZinckBeloit Daily News
BELOIT, Wis. — Two Beloit Police officers fired on the fleeing vehicle driven by Darrius Lowery-Baptiste because they felt one of the officers and other citizens in the downtown commercial district were in immediate danger, according to reports compiled by the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation.
Police had been conducting surveillance of Darrius Lowery-Baptiste on the day he was fatally shot by officers, according to interviews given by the officers to state investigators.
Video of the incident was captured by the dash-camera of a Beloit squad car arriving on the scene just as it unfolded. The video shows one unmarked police vehicle in the front and another in the back of Lowery-Baptiste’s vehicle, a white Ford Taurus, attempting to prevent him from fleeing. Officers in the two vehicles had been watching Lowery-Baptiste and engineered the blocking maneuver in an attempt to take him into custody. |
My People is the Enemy
About-
"It was to Harlem that I came from the Harvard Law School. I came to Harlem to live, to work there as a lawyer, to take some part in the politics of the neighborhood, to be a layman in the Church there. It is now seven years later. In what I now relate about Harlem, I do not wish to indulge in horror stories, though that would be easy enough to do." In this extraordinary and passionate book, William Stringfellow relates his deep concern with the ugly reality of being black and being poor. As a white Anglo-Saxon, Mr. Stringfellow does not try to speak for African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the Harlem ghetto, but, as a lawyer, he graphically underlines the failure of the American legal system to provide equal justice for the poor. And, as a Christian who lived for seven years on what the New York Times called the worst block in New York City, he challenges the reluctance of the churches "to be involved in the racial crisis beyond the point of pontification."
Endorsements & Reviews-
"Few white men have shared such experiences; certainly none has expressed them so eloquently, or ominously. . . . The most disturbing document since James Baldwin's 'The Fire Next Time'. . . . It is neither shouting nor scare journalism. It is a map of hell that might explode tragically at any moment."
--William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle
"A worthwhile contribution to the American conscience at a time when it has at last decided to admit its shame. . . . Recommended to the policy makers who are charged with the practical expiation of this guilt."
--Michael Harrington, the New York Times
"Stringfellow has written a layman's sermon that cries out against both the churches and the people, in the manner of biblical days."
--Associated Press
Contributors-
William Stringfellow
Bio(s)-
William Stringfellow was a practicing attorney and a prominent Episcopalian layman who frequently contributed to legal and theological journals. After his graduation from Harvard Law School, he practiced some years in the East Harlem neighborhood in New York City. He was a visiting lecturer at several law schools and lectured at theological seminaries across the country. Stringfellow authored more than a dozen books, including 'A Private and Public Faith', 'An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land', 'Conscience and Obedience', 'Count it All Joy', and 'Instead of Death'. |
A case of an upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to a ruptured dissection of a right aortic arch.
We report a case of severe upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage with a rare underlying cause. The patient was unconscious when he was admitted to the hospital. No chest radiogram was performed. Routine diagnostic measures, including endoscopy, failed to reveal the origin of the bleeding, which was believed to originate from the esophagus secondary to a peptic ulcer or varices. Exploratory laparotomy added no further information, but contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography (MSCT) of the chest showed dextroposition of the widened aortic arch with a ruptured type-B dissection and a consecutive aorto-esophageal fistula (AEF). The patient died on the day of admission. Noninvasive MSCT angiography gives rapid diagnostic information on patients with occult upper gastrointestinal bleeding and should be considered before more invasive conventional angiography or surgery. |
Utilization of mutants to analyze the interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and its naturally root-associated Pseudomonas.
A model system based on the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Ws ecotype and its naturally colonizing Pseudomonas thivervalensis rhizobacteria was defined. Pseudomonas strains colonizing A. thaliana were found to modify the root architecture either in vivo or in vitro. A gnotobiotic system using bacteria labelled with green fluorescent protein revealed that P. thivervalensis exhibited a colonization profile similar to that of other rhizobacterial species. Mutants of A. thaliana affected in root hair development and possible hormone perception were used to analyze the plant genetic determinants of bacterial colonization. A screen for mutants insensitive to P. thivervalensis colonization yielded two mutants found to be auxin resistant. This further supports a proposed role for bacterial auxin in inducing morphological modifications of roots. This work paves the way for studying the interaction between plants and non-pathogenic rhizobacteria in a gnotobiotic system, derived from a natural association, where interactions between both partners can be genetically dissected. |
To cope with the high cost of memory access, modern architectures provide a large number of general purpose registers. These registers offer a dense set of short term storage within the CPU to avoid accessing memory. Unfortunately, short term values cannot always take advantage of these registers. There are situations known to cause this behavior, for example: register pressure causes values to be spilled and filled from memory, registers must be demoted across function calls, and compilers are not able to disambiguate pointers and conservatively keep the values in memory to guarantee correctness. While a variety of techniques to reduce these restrictions have been proposed, they have not seen widespread adoption. This is likely because of the required changes to the programming interface. The most common architectural approach used in modern out-of-order processors is not to prevent the situations listed above, but instead to speed up the short term spills via a sophisticated load-store-unit (LSU) in conjunction with a high bandwidth L1 cache.
Besides serving as a device for high speed memory access, the LSU is also used as storage for speculative data. Stores cannot commit to memory until they become known valid architectural state, typically at the head of the reorder buffer. While effective, many LSU designs are considerably expensive, featuring comparator matrices, storage registers, ordering logic, scheduling logic, and requiring the L1 cache to be multi-ported with low latency. Many of these components share similar functionality to the point of redundancy with other pipeline components. An example of this redundancy is the storage of a single value being potentially duplicated in the register file, LSU, cache, and main memory. Another example is the ordering of memory operations being maintained by both the reorder buffer and the LSU.
The present technique seeks to address these issues. |
Taiwanese investment in mainland China and Southeast Asia started to
boom in the late 1980s. The financial sources of this overseas investment
included funds from parent companies, domestic banks in the parent country,
local banks in the host country, banks in other regions and other sources. These
funds were used as investment capital and working capital. All of these
financial activities are related to the location or size of firms and to their
operational performance.
A thorough survey of Taiwanese investment in mainland China and Southeast Asia was executed and the following results are derived. Whether the
investments are in mainland China or in Southeast Asia, most of the funds are
from the firm's parent companies in Taiwan. The most frequently adopted
financial channels were domestic banks or a third-country bank in Hong Kong.
The Taiwanese investments in mainland China rely more on their parent
companies for working capital than do those in Southeast Asia.
Probit regressions were used to find out which factors determined the
sources of Taiwanese investment in mainland China. The results show that
larger parent companies have a greater tendency to provide overseas affiliates
with investment capital and working capital than do smaller ones. The results
also show that overseas affiliates with higher profit ratios find it easier to
obtain funds from banks. Companies in areas other than south China have
more connections with local banks and a higher degree of equitization of
machines and technology.
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Taiwanese firms have made many overseas investments, especially since the late 1980s, when economic relations between China and Taiwan started to increase
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To stabilize the molecular structure of the electronic components on the production line and to improve the qualified rate of the electronic components in the ultrasonic cleaning industry, effectively prevent the harm caused by the volatilization and volatilization of the expensive detergent. |
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Rockwell, Washington
Rockwell is an extinct town in Adams County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
The community was named for there being a well dug into rock near the town site.
References
Category:Ghost towns in Washington (state)
Category:Geography of Adams County, Washington |
Community care for the severely mentally ill: a review.
This article considers the wide range of health policy initiatives designed to provide a framework for the provision of mental health services in the community. It is important that psychiatric nurses understand both the development and content of these policies as they have clear and important implications for their clinical practice when caring for the severely mentally ill on a day-to-day basis. |
[Nasosinusal inverted papilloma. A case report].
The AA. report a case of inverted nasosinusal Papilloma diagnosed and treated surgically, at their Hospital, through a combined approach paralateronasale and Caldwell-Luc. Review of the bibliography. |
Q:
What is abstraction?
I see abstraction in processes.
I see abstraction in data.
I see that abstraction is losing the unimportant details.
I see that abstraction is giving a group of elements a name and treating them as one unit. (But I don't know why that is considered abstraction. So, please I need clarification on this particular point)
I know there are also levels of abstraction, and although the name implies something, I don't have a practical example, and I can't think of a specific one I'm confused about the definition of abstraction.
Can somebody write a comprehensive article? Scratch that. Can somebody give a comprehensive answer?
EDIT:-
Thank you for your answers.
However, I was looking for a generalized answer.
For example, I'm reading an article in which procedures are considered abstractions.
However, here the answers are about abstract classes in C# and Java, (until now.)
Thank you again.
A:
Abstraction is the technique of hiding implementation. At it's core there's not much more to that answer. The bulk of meaning to abstraction come from how and why it is used.
It is used for the following scenarios
Reduce complexity. (Create a simple interface)
Allow for implementation to be modified without impacting its users.
Create a common interface to support polymorphism (treating all implementations of the abstracted layer the same.
Force users to extend the implementation rather than modify.
Support cross platform by changing the implementation per platform.
A:
Quite simply, abstraction is the art of limiting your dependencies. The less you depend on, the more abstract you are. For example, if you write a DirectX renderer, then you're abstracted from what graphics card vendor and model you're running on. If you write another layer, you can be insulated from what OS you're running on.
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AC Milan finalise Poli deal
The San Siro side have at last completed the signing of the Italy international after protracted negotiations with Sampdoria came to a successful conclusion |
Ammonia: Out of My Barn!
Have you ever entered a barn only to be assaulted by the noxious fumes of ammonia? Your eyes water, your nose waters, your throat closes; you might be tempted to sneeze just thinking about it. Imagine then what it must be like for horses confined in an enclosed space with poor ventilation. Where can they go to breathe sweet, fresh air?
Ammonia buildup can affect a horse’s respiratory health and performance. The most severe exposures have potentially fatal consequences. Ammonia buildup is preventable with sound management practices. Stalled horses exhibit more signs of upper and lower respiratory inflammation than pastured horses. A well-ventilated stable flushes stale air out and allows fresh air to enter. Thus, a stable that can “breathe” has less ammonia, odors, and humidity.
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tony stilano and trev spackneys both own , live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in melbourne .
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Blood rheology near a stagnation point.
Blood rheology at a stagnation point is studied in views of microhemorheology. Special emphasis is put on the effect of both non-Newtonian and unhomogeneous properties of blood on the fine structure of blood flow impinging on the wall. It is shown that "non-flow" region exists just at the stagnation point due to the non-Newtonian viscosity when its yield stress is large enough, compared with the viscous stress far from the wall. When the yield stress becomes negligibly small, RBC and plasma behave individually near the stagnation point; RBC is deviated from the plasma streamline and impinges on the wall. Finally, a microhemorheological factor of legional metabolic disorder is discussed on basis of the fine structure near a stagnation point. |
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Our great state of Queensland has today announced the resurrection of the economy, by finally green-lighting the Adani mega-mine.
With the state, like much of the country, floundering economically, facing rising unemployment and the raft of socio-economic issues that come with it, the final approval of the coal mine in the Galilee Basin comes as a huge boost today.
“This is a great win for the working people of Queensland,” explained Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
“The turning on the first sod of earth will signify the first step in reinvigorating the evaporated local industry and natural environment ravaged by recent climate events,” she said.
“With it, the rate of unemployment will be halved, the ice epidemic will be solved and the drought crippling farmers on the coal face, pardon my pun, will be broken.”
“Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. By creating a handful of FIFO jobs that will in all likelihood last as long as the average career of a professional rugby league player, Queensland’s economy has been saved.”
Her sentiments were echoed by lead economist at the Institute of Public Affairs, Tim Bolt.
“This is a fantastic win for working class people, not for large capitalist interests and a few FIFO workers.”
“Regardless of the fact that most of our export markets for coal are going to completely disappear in the next couple of years, this mine will keep putting food on the table for this economy.”
“We’ll probably be able to talk those greenie lefties in India and at the large multinational banks overseas into funding more investment in coal-fired power long term anyway.”
“And if that falls through, we’ve still got China, who we can definitely rely on.”
“On top of that, State and Federal government’s are investing in long term policies that foster sustainable, long term, and economically viable industries that provide employment for the people of this country.”
“So we certainly be in the situation we are now, where no one knows what to do to fix the economy so we all pretend like a coal mine owned by an Indian billionaire will solve huge structural issues across the board.”
“We once rode on the sheep’s back, benefited from a purring automotive industry, coasted on the great property boom and enjoyed the benefits of a natural wonder off our shores;”
“Now we’ll fly off the coin from a mine providing a handful of blokes the opportunity to buy a new jetski or Maloo and regular rounds of White Eggs.”
“That’s the next few years sorted, so long rising unemployment.” |
Q:
Checking if Characters in Strings Match Up Within a Dictionary
I'm trying to see if a key and its value in a dictionary share any common letters. Both the keys and the values are strings and I know I can access the characters in the strings using the .characters method but I'm not sure how to check to see if any of the characters in one match any of the other characters in the other.
For example, if I had a dictionary of pets as:
var pets = ["cat" : "dog", "rat" : "snake"]
Comparing "cat" and "dog" would return true because no letters match but comparing "rat" and "snake" would return false because they shared an "a".
I'm pretty new to coding so it might be something very simple that I haven't learned yet.
A:
I would create a Set of the characters, and then get the common letters by finding the intersection of this set with the other words' characters. If the intersection is empty, then there are no letters in common, and vice versa.
Here's how that would look:
extension String {
func hasLettersInCommon(with other: String) -> Bool {
let selfLetters = Set(self.characters)
let otherLetters = other.characters
let commonLetters = selfLetters.intersection(otherLetters)
return !commonLetters.isEmpty
}
}
var pets = ["cat" : "dog", "rat" : "snake"]
for (key, value) in pets {
print(key, value, key.hasLettersInCommon(with: value))
}
prints:
rat snake true
cat dog false
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Q:
道の先に makes no sense for me
this is my first question and I want to thank in advance all the people willing to help. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
Context: I am translating a song, and 道の先に (at the road's end), when I try to translate word by word, saki ni(先に) means "Ahead of". Saki by itself (先) is translated as "First".
My Question: What is the reason that a word meaning "First" becomes "End" when used as a an adverb after a no(の) particle.
Is this one of those cases when "It just is" or is there a reason which is important to understand?
Thank you very much, and I apologize if my question was silly.
A:
先 (saki) can also mean "destination" (行き先), "tip" 矢先, "front", 先に "before" or "ahead".
Think of it as "ahead" or things that are in front of you, then the "end" of an arrow can also be seen as the tip. As in English where you can say "the wrong end" of a thing, which could also mean its tip or its butt depending on which angle you're looking at it. So if it refers to something you do first, you do it ahead of other things. If it refers to the "end" of something it also refers to something that lies ahead.
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Video Today, Simplified Claim Tomorrow
The goal of any insurance policy in the event of a claim is to “make whole” the insured. The concept is that your insurance should put you back to the way you were before you had the loss – not better off, and not worse off – the same. The devil is in the details, however – how do you recreate the way you were at the time of the loss? How do you tell your insurance carrier exactly what was lost, and in what condition it was? How do you show them the valuables that were stolen, or the quality of the workmanship after a fire or flood or theft?
Q. How do you show your insurance carrier what needs replacement after the loss rendered the item unrecognizable, lost or stolen?
A. You have video and Inventory of your possessions BEFORE the loss!
If you want to protect yourself from a future claim, prepare today for the unthinkable. There are two key things you can do ahead of time to make your life easier after a loss: take videos and pictures, and make an inventory.
Your phone likely has an amazing camera and video camera. Take a walking tour video of your house, describing each item as you video it. Break the video up into rooms, and save each individually, making it easier to find a particular item. Take pictures and videos of valuables, those items that will be harder or more expensive to replace. One of a kind items? These are the most important items to document, and they should be listed on your Valuable Articles policy (as discussed in our blog from Monday). Still, collect details on these items as well – the appraisal, where and when you purchased it, price, and pictures or images of the object.
These videos and pictures will often auto backup to the web, but you should always manually store the images to the web so you can get them in an emergency, even if your computer or cell phone is destroyed, lost or stolen. There are several options for this – you can email yourself the pictures and videos if you use a web mail program (Google, Yahoo, etc). Even better, store them in the cloud using one of the free storage options (Google Drive, Apple iCloud and Microsoft OneDrive are all good examples of free cloud storage options). Should a claim arise, you now have video evidence of what you have in your house, making it easier for you AND the carrier to “make you whole”.
Once you have your video documentation, make up a home inventory to go along with it. Write down everything you have in your house that you would want replaced, should there be a claim. For more expensive items, get serial numbers and model numbers (to go along with the video evidence you just created). Where and when did you get it? How much did you pay? Information is so important – the more you have, the easier it will be when it comes time to discuss the claim with your insurance carrier. The website http://www.knowyourstuff.org/ is an excellent resource for creating your inventory, and this portion of their site gives you amazing insight into the process if how and what to inventory. Read about what you should do here, from Know Your Stuff, or watch the video on Youtube. You can also simply create a spreadsheed using Excel, again saving the file to the cloud for access in the event of a claim.
Remember – after a loss is too late. Take the time to inventory, in list and image, before the need arises. As with all insurance, the best case scenario is you never need to use these images, videos and lists. It is the best possible outcome. |
The time has come — you’re off work, your computer is all fired up and ready to deliver those Cyber Monday online shopping deals… or at least, you thought it was, but it won’t connect to the internet. No deals for you. That’s the experience many Time Warner Cable customers had last night, with many in the Midwest reporting widespread outages.
Internet service providers take your money and promise to send you speeding along an information superhighway, dangling the carrot of fast connection times to get your business. And according to an annual report card by the Federal Communications Commission, while Verizon and Cablevision are the leaders in providing advertised speeds, it seems most ISPs are getting better at being more consistent on delivering the goods as well.
United Kingdom Internet users won’t have to suddenly shut their eyes in shock when “accidentally” happening upon a pornographic web site, if the Prime Minister can figure out whether or not the government can just block all porn. For its citizens’ sakes, of course.
Pessimists see broadband internet subscriptions eventually shifting to a pay-per-gigabyte-usage model, much like what we’re seeing in the wireless realm. That may turn out to be accurate, but at least industry heavyweight Comcast isn’t yet shoving things in that direction. The company says it currently has no plans to move to a tiered billing system.
Rachel, who had recently moved, called AT&T for help with her DSL line, but was told she’d have to call a different number because her account originated in a different state. She’s discovered that her cell phone’s area code forces AT&T’s system to transfer her to the wrong customer service center.
In jumping from Comcast to AT&T for his internet service, J figured he was stepping up in the world of customer service. But he was actually switching over to a company that operated against the rules of capitalism. Try as he might, he could not get this phantom business to hook him up with service and take his money. For he was ordering service from a company that operated in… the Twilight Zone.
Robert wanted out of his Verizon FIOS contract when he made a move and made sure his new home was not in the coverage area. Despite his reasonable assumption that he would avoid an early termination fee, Verizon stuck him with an ETF specifically because he’s moving to a non-Verizon area.
“When AT&T provides broadband service by speed, it will do so in discrete, non-overlapping tiers,” Quinn said in written testimony. “We will strive to provide service within the speed tier purchased by the customer and, if we find that we are not providing service within the ordered speed tier, AT&T will take action either to bring the customer’s service within the ordered tier or give the customer an option to move to a different tier.” |
Image sensors are semiconductor devices capable of converting electric signals into optical images. Image sensors are classified according to their various types, which include the charge coupled device (CCD) type and the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) type. A CMOS image sensor (CIS) includes pixels arranged in two dimensions. Each of the pixels includes a photodiode (PD) component, which converts incident light into an electric signal.
As semiconductor devices become more highly integrated, image sensors become highly integrated. Accordingly, the corresponding pixels are scaled down, and the resolution becomes better.
However, existing image sensors have not been satisfactory in every respect. Therefore, it is a challenge to form a reliable image sensor. |
NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample
Phoenix Mars Lander used its robotic arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
Test results will be compared in coming days to the results from the first Martian soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory two weeks ago. That laboratory is part of Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer.
The main activity on the lander's schedule for today is testing a method for scraping up a sample of icy material and getting it into the scoop at the end of the robotic arm. Photography before, during and after the process will allow evaluation of this method. If the test goes well, the science team plans to use this method for gathering the next sample to be delivered to Phoenix's bake-and-sniff instrument, the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer.
The Phoenix mission is led by Peter Smith of The University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, located in Denver. International contributions come from the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark; Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. |
Q:
What is the most efficient / effective way of washing up
For say a family of two parents and two children, what is the most efficient/effective way of washing up? Perhaps the answer is 'get a washing machine', but for those without one for whatever reason do people have preferred methods for washing up.
For after an evening meal to wash all dishes and cooking equipment, things to consider:
Amount of water used
Order of washing things
Amount / strength of washing up liquid required
Amount of time it takes
Cleanliness of the dishes when viewed once they're dry
A:
There are actually “housekeeping classes” - or were back in the days when our mothers (or grandmothers) were young. And that was way before dishwashers were ubiquitous household items.
A lot of the “rules” become easier to understand if you keep a few points in mind:
“Fresh” dishes will be easier to remove that caked on, dried food.
Hot water will help in loosening food residue faster, except for very few exceptions.
All dishwashing liquid will “bind” particles and this get “used up” as you keep washing the dishes. Therefore you should remove as many residues as possible before actually putting an item in the sink - either scrape it off or rinse it off.
So what was your grandma taught?
Scrape your dishes/pots, pour out whatever is in your glasses and cups.
Put some hot water in your (clean) sink, add the amount of dishwashing liquid recommended for a full sink. Read the label, depending on the brand and concentration you will probably need between 2ml and 7ml. In a pinch, use “a squirt”.
Add glasses, start washing. Rinse the clean glasses (just let the water run into the sink) and put them upside down to drain.
Continue with the plates.
Silverware is next.
Pots and pans are last, they are typically the “dirtiest” items.
You may notice that if you have a larger pile of dishes that the foam will collapse and at worst see grease spots floating on the water. Then empty the sink and continue with fresh water and soap. (If you have lots of pots and pans, you can pre-wash them in the “old” water.)
For drying,
Drying with a clean(!) dish towel will give you optically better results, especially if you have hard water, which can leave stains. Note that some towels can leave lint, so choose lint-free cotton or, even better, linen.
Air-drying is less effort, but means you’ll have the dishes stacked up at the sink for a while.
So to sum it up work from delicate to robust, from cleaner to greasier. Replace the water if necessary.
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Worldwide Web (WWW) sites are commonly known as "servers" while the computers that are used to access information stored on the servers are commonly known as "clients." A WWW site on the Internet produces a chronological log of requests from clients on the Internet. The protocol of the WWW is stateless, meaning that there is no sustained connection between the client and server. Typically, a WWW site contains numerous "pages" of information, and all the pages are interconnected by hypertext links to form an directed graph of pages.
In most instances, a client will first access the "home page" of a WWW site, and then will access a sequence of pages at the site via the hypertext links between those pages. In addition, each page at a WWW site can include references to numerous files, typically image files, that must be downloaded onto a client computer (i.e., a user's computer) before the page can be viewed. When a client computer requests a page that it has accessed via a hypertext link on another page, the "browser" software used on the client computer to access the WWW site will first download that page to local memory. Next it determines from the information In the requested page what additional files, if any, it needs from the server in order to complete the generation of the image for the page. It then downloads the additional files needed to complete generation of the image for the page, and then finally generates the page image for the user to view. Thus, to view a single page, the browser running on the client computer may request and download numerous files from a WWW site. Therefore, the number of object requests in the WWW site's access log file (often called "hits") will typically greatly exceed the number of distinct client sessions in which clients are accessing information from the WWW site.
The widespread use of gateways makes the access logs of WWW sites even less accurate, in that the access requests from numerous clients are routed through one or a small number of gateways to the WWW site. As a result, requests listed in a WWW site's access log where the gateway is the listed requestor may actually represent numerous distinct client sessions, even though the requests all come from the same client computer (the gateway) and even if those requests are received over a relatively short period of time that would otherwise be consistent with a single client session.
A second phenomenon, called caching, further reduces the accuracy of WWW site log files. Caching is the temporary storage of the files for recently accessed WWW pages. Most gateways make extensive use of WWW page caching so as to reduce the number of object requests that need to be issued to WWW sites, especially during peak usage periods when many users of the gateway are requesting the same WWW pages.
Statistically, certain WWW pages tend to be much more popular than others, especially the home pages of popular Web sites, and those pages tend to be cached by gateways, as well as other computers, thereby greatly reducing the number of object request entries in the corresponding Web site log files compared to the number of client sessions actually accessing those popular pages. Note that many client sessions handled by gateways will access Web pages from gateways' caches, and thus the true entry point object requests for those sessions will often not appear in the corresponding Web site log files. Furthermore, for client sessions that access only the most popular pages at a Web site during peak usage periods, it is quite possible that all the accessed pages will be cached pages, and thus no object requests at all for such client sessions will appear in the corresponding Web site log files.
Web page caching is performed not only by gateways, but also by many local area networks as well as by individual desktop computers. As with caching by gateways, such caching tends on a statistical basis to reduce the number of log file entries for the most popular Web pages.
It is an object of the present invention to convert Web site log files into expanded log files that compensate, on a statistically accurate basis, for object requests not included in the site log files.
It is another object of the present invention to generate expanded Web site log files that accurately represent the relative distribution of actual client requests for the different objects at a Web site and to thereby overcome the log file inaccuracies caused by object caching by gateways, network servers and other computers.
It is a further object of the present invention to assign object requests in the expanded log files to synthesized client sessions so as to represent, in a statistically accurate manner, the number of client sessions accessing a Web site and the distribution of objects accessed by those client sessions.
Another object of the present invention Is to generate analyses of Web site usage based on an expanded log file that represents in a statistically accurate manner the information access patterns of the clients of the Web site. |
[Pulmonary edema due to shock, fat embolism, disseminated intravascular coagulation and post extracorporeal circulation].
The appearance of lesional edema in the region of the alveolar wall constitues the initial phenomenon of involvement of the pulmonary parenchyma during shock lung, fat embolism, DIC and post perfusion lung syndrome. The alveolar septum reacts in a monomorphous manner to these various agressions, although the responsible physiopathological factors are numerous and varied. The lung in E.C.C. represents a vertiable experimental post-agressive lung. It has been studied in man from the clinical, radiological, hemodynamic and anatomopathological standpoints. The modifications found enable one to better understand the etiological factors intervening in the other post-agressive lungs. |
Facebook search can find a lot of cool things, like every photo you've liked, friends who share interests, friends who share restaurants, and maybe even your next wife! (?) But it could also completely destroy someone's existence. Should we?
The threat here is very basic: people (perhaps yourself or someone you know) liked things on Facebook. Lots and lots of things. They've added information about themselves over the past half-decade that's been buried until now—our clicks were fossilized. But with the new search, it's possible to dig things up with so much ease, it's like telepathy. Creepy, threatening telepathy, depending on who you ask—if you unearth something someone forgot about herself but voluntarily disclosed long ago, is it a privacy violation?
We'll leave that face-stroker for another day. For now, let's be practical: you can find dirt on Facebook people like never before. Dirty, dirty dirt.
Some damning examples for you to plug in:
My married friends who like OkCupid
My male friends who like Hot & Naughty Teens
My friends who like pictures of wives of my friends
Or forget friends—what about simply "People who have jobs in United States and like PORN XXX Models"? That query yields so many results that Facebook can't keep track.
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If you get results for any of these things, is it indisputable evidence of something? No. But should you tell someone anyway? Quite possibly.
It Isn't Like IRL
Just because it's using a dazzling new search that works faster than a crack team of ten human researchers on a caffeine drip, Facebook search isn't above or beyond regular Life Rules. In fact, it's a hell of a lot tricker than real life.
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Facebook provides zero context. Zero. There's absolutely no way to tell if your friend's boyfriend liked something five years ago, yesterday, ironically, or not at all—maybe their asshole roommate did it. Going to your friend saying her boyfriend likes OkCupid on Facebook is going to cause an electrical hell-storm of an argument. And possibly (probably?) for nothing. Who knows what any of us did when we were single, and free, and foolish, living outside Facebook search's all-seeing eye. These are the kinds of fights that can end in breakups for no reason at all.
But racism? Yeah, bring up racism. Bring up racism, and sexism, and anything for which there might not have been a time when it was OK. Liking the KKK headquarters on Facebook wasn't OK just because he was in college.
But destroy bigoted strangers, why not
For the same reasons it's probably unwise and unjust within your own personal sphere, assuming the worst of strangers and penetrating their careers and families is rash. But racism, sexism, and homophobia? Fire at will. If someone is spreading hate in the world, will that world be better off if you send an anonymous message to their employer? Probably not. Will it mean one less horrible person with money to spend? Maybe. Will it inflict suffering upon the life of a stranger? Probably. Will it make you feel better? Probably not. Can you live with yourself after? Maybe!
But once you've got the power to uncover bad people, it's going to be agonizing to resist taking effortless shots at strangers you instantly hate.
User Manual is Gizmodo's guide to etiquette. It appears as if by magic every Friday. |
Q:
Why doesn't my view reload?
So I have two search bars, a couple of buttons and a tableView below those (yes, all these) in one view. And I also have a navigation bar on top of it all with a back button.
For a particular operation, I remove all search bars, buttons and I display only one uitableviewcell in my view.
If I press edit, I want the whole view to be reloaded, not just the tableView but I want the view to have the search bars and buttons and the navigation screen.
I did [self.view reloadInputViews] in the IBAction of the edit button. Control goes here, but the view is just not reloaded. Why?
A:
I do not know how I get the answer myself right after posting it here on StackOverflow. Sorry for the trouble guys (sigh!)
I did [self viewDidLoad];
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Strike the Blood
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(Author),
Tate
(Artist)
In order to spy on and erase this, "fourth primogenitor," the government-owned Lion organization has decided to send an attacking magician, "sword shaman" to complete the task. Yet unknowingly, the one who was selected to spy was actually a trainee "sword shaman" girl - Himeragi Yukina |
Mode-I fracture in a nonlinear lattice with viscoelastic forces.
We study mode-I fracture in a viscoelastic lattice model with a nonlinear force law, with a focus on the velocity and linear stability of the steady-state propagating solution. This study is a continuation both of the study of the piecewise-linear model in mode I, and the study of more general nonlinear force laws in mode-III fracture. At small driving, there is a strong dependency of the velocity curve on the dissipation and a strong sensitivity to the smoothness of the force law at large dissipation. At large driving we calculate, via a linear stability analysis, the critical velocity for the onset of instability as a function of the smoothness, the dissipation and the ratio of lattice spacing to critical extension. This critical velocity is seen to be very sensitive to these parameters. We confirm our calculations via direct numerical simulations of the initial value problem. |
National focus on the AIDS epidemic has-stimulated an urgent need to prevent our blood resources transmitting a multiplicity of blood-borne viruses (BBVs), including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), non-A, non-B hepatitis virus (NANBHVs), hepatitis B virus (HBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I/II, variants of HIV, and several other viral agents whose importance has not been fully recognized. Assessment of adsorption for virus or chemical inactivation in the experimentally infected units of blood components and plasma products is envisaged by using HIV as a prototype in vitro cultures and viral gene detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). |
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Embattled Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), a leader of the #MeToo movement in California, is struggling to campaign for re-election after being hit by sexual harassment and misconduct allegations earlier this year.
Garcia returned from a voluntary three-month leave of absence last week during a legislative investigation into her alleged misconduct.
“It is incredibly difficult for her to be an effective representative,” Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times or Garcia’s reelection bid. “She can only do floor votes. She has no power in committees, which is where all the power is.”
Garcia represents the heavily Democratic 58th Assembly District and is facing off against six fellow Democrats and a Republican.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Garcia is “facing a well-funded opposition campaign from typically Democratic allies and damaged relationships with many of her colleagues in Sacramento.”
During her return to the Assembly on Friday, Garcia was met by female protesters who stood silently with shirts that spelled out “RESIGN” in red, according to local CBS News coverage.
Breitbart News reported in February that “Garcia reportedly slept with fellow lawmakers in order to get information out of them, allegedly spoke graphically about her encounters, and allegedly urged fellow lawmakers to play ‘spin the bottle’ after a political fundraiser.”
She has denied any wrongdoing.
In March, Garcia acknowledged that she had made a homophobic comment about former Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and apologized.
She was recently cleared of charges of groping a male staffer, but her accuser is appealing that finding, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter. |
This AV Club oral history of Airplane! is great for a lot of reasons, but to my mind, the best part is the story behind the “I speak jive” bit. This might be the best gag in a movie full of fantastic gags, and it turns out that–like with a lot of wonderful things that look effortless–a bunch of work went into it.
So the ZAZ guys had an idea for the bit–two guys speak jive, and it gets interpreted by a woman who looks like she’s a ’60s sitcom mom–which is inspired. But it was the actors, Al White and Norman Gibbs, who honed the joke to make it immortal:
Al White (“Second Jive Dude”): I went in for my first audition, and then when I came in for the callback, that’s when I met Norman [Gibbs, a.k.a. “First Jive Dude”]. We basically met while we were waiting, and it was just a matter of both of us seeing what the other was doing and feeding off each other. He seemed to be doing all the talking, and I just started thinking, “You know, if we both try and talk at the same time, it’ll just get in the way of what should be accomplished with two people working together.” So I just pulled back and fed off of him and responded, and then I jumped in when I could. And I guess we blew ’em away, ’cause we got the part!
D. Zucker: When they did it for us in the reading, we cracked up. We just thought they were great. There was no question that we were going to cast them.
J. Zucker: In the original script, we just wrote, “Mo fo, shi’ man, wha’ fo’.” I mean, it was just nothing. And when Al and Norman came in, we apologized profusely and explained that that was the best that three Jewish guys from Milwaukee could do.
White: I looked at the script and couldn’t make hide nor hair of the actual verbiage. [Laughs.] But I got a sense of what they wanted. They wanted jive as a language, which it is not: It’s a word here and a phrase there, originated by the jazz musicians back in the 1920s. So we had to first understand what they wanted, and then Norman and I tried to work together on it, but we couldn’t seem to gel on what we each wanted to do, so I said, “Well, okay, you work on yours and I’ll work on mine.” So what I did was, I went and got a couple of books—one was on black English by J.L. Dillard, and another was on black language—and I just saw what they had in standard English and tried to come up with what I felt was jive. I tried to jive it down, if you know what I mean, using actual words and actual meaning. So what we ended up saying does mean something. It’s not a bunch of gibberish or whatever. It did actually mean something.
Just to give you an example, in one of the scenes I say, “Mack herself a pro, slick! That gray matter back, lotta performers down, not take TCB-in’, man!” So “Mack” was taken from one of these books—the black English book, I think—and means to “to speak.” “Mack herself a pro,” she said she was a pro, or professional. “Slick,” that was his name I gave him. “Gray matter back,” I needed a word to jive down the word “remember,” but I didn’t find it in either of the books, so I said, “Well, let me see: ‘gray matter,’ that’s the thinking part of the brain, and ‘back’ for remember back. “Gray matter back.” And from there I’m just saying that a lot of performers stayed down and weren’t taking care of business on the technical side… man! [Laughs.]
When we got to the set and sat down, I said, “Okay, what do you have?” And Norman went over exactly what he had, and I went over what I had, and then I said, “Oh, okay, well, when you get to that part where it says, ‘See a broad a booty yak ’em,’ I’ll come in with, ‘Lay ’ down and smack ’em, yak ’em!’” So we gelled it together right there, just before we shot. Jerry came over and said, “You guys ready?” or something to that effect, and we said, “Yeah!” So we shot it, and he came back and said, “Can you throw a ‘man’ in there or something?” We said, “Yeah, we’ll throw a ‘man’ in there.” [Laughs.] Jerry was the only one who spoke to us, because David and Jim were in the back, watching on the monitor. But after every take, Jerry would go back and confer with David and Jim, and then he’d come back and give us whatever notes all three of them had come up with. So a lot of work went into it, but if it came off like it was easy to come up with it, then we did our job! |
Q:
Hibernate default joining for nullable many-to-one
I have a hibernate mapping like this in a ProductDfn class
@ManyToOne( fetch = FetchType.LAZY, optional = true )
@JoinColumn( name = "productTypeFk", nullable = true )
public ProductType getProductType()
{
return productType;
}
Note that the relationship is defined as optional (and the column is nullable).
When doing HQL something like this
select p.name as col1, p.productType.name as col2 from ProductDfn p
An inner join is used to join ProductDfn to ProductType as hibernate generates the explicit SQL join from the implicit join in the select clause.
However when doing the above when productType is null (in the DB) no row is returned because of the inner join. For this relationship I would like to have hibernate default to doing an outer join (because the relationship is optional) so I would get a "null" back for col2 rather than no row at all.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks.
A:
An inner join is used because you've explicitly listed p.productType.name in your select clause. This wouldn't have happened were you just to select ProductDfn since your fetch is set to LAZY.
If you only need to retrieve those two properties you'll have to explicitly specify an outer join in your query:
select p.name as col1, ptype.name as col2
from ProductDfn p
left join fetch p.productType ptype
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In an Internet of Things world, smart buildings with Web-enabled technologies for managing heat, lighting, ventilation, elevators and other systems pose a more immediate security risk for enterprises than consumer technologies.
The increasing focus on making buildings more energy efficient, secure and responsive to changing conditions is resulting in a plethora of Web-enabled technologies. Building management systems are not only more tightly integrated with each other, they are also integrated with systems outside the building, like the smart grid.
The threat that such systems pose is twofold, analysts said. Many of the Web-enabled intelligent devices embedded in modern buildings have little security built into them, making them vulnerable to attacks that could disrupt building operations and create safety risks.
Web-connected, weakly protected building management systems also could provide a new way for malicious attackers to break into enterprise business systems that are on the same network.
The massive data theft at Target for instance, started with someone finding a way into the company's network using the access credentials of a company that remotely maintained the retailer's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In Target's case, the breach appears to have happened because the company did not properly segment its data network.
Such issues could become more common as buildings and management systems become increasingly intelligent and interconnected, said Hugh Boyes, cybersecurity lead at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a U.K.-based professional organization promoting science and engineering.
"It creates some interesting challenges for enterprise IT," Boyes said. "They need to know there are some increasingly complex networks being put into their buildings that are running outside their control."
As one example, Boyes pointed to the growing use of IP-enabled closed-circuit security cameras at many buildings. In some cases, the cameras might be used instead of a motion sensor to detect whether someone is in a room, and whether to keep the lights or heat turned on.
In such a situation, the camera, the lighting and the heating systems would all need to be integrated. Each of the systems could also have Web connectivity linking them with an external third party for maintenance and support purposes. "You quickly get into a situation where a network that was just inside the building goes to locations outside the building," Boyes said.
It's not only heating, lighting and security systems that are integrated in this manner. An elevator manufacturer might stick smart sensors on all the elevators in a building to detect and spot a failure before it happens. Or a building manager might have technology in place to monitor and conserve water use in a facility.
Many of these technologies will have a connection out of the building and over an IP network to a third-party supplier or service provider, Boyes said. Often the data from these systems is captured not only for real-time decision support but also for longer-term analysis.
Exacerbating the situation is the fact that many of the communications protocols for building automation and control networks, such as BACnet and LonTalk, are open and transparent, said Jim Sinopoli, managing principal at Smart Buildings LLC.
Device manufacturers have adopted these protocols for product compatibility and interoperability purposes, Sinopoli said. However, the openness and transparency also increase the vulnerability of building automation networks. |
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