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module 4 data missing when accessing vehicle codes via OBDII/OBDI...?
I have a Acton CP9135 OBDII (about 9 or 10 yrs old) does not talk to the vette. Do you know specifically what if any Harbor freight cheapies talk obd 1/1.5 ?
but the monitor extended versions will work. if you have the proper cartridges.. and cables..
the OTC genesys will also work.. again with the proper cartridiges..
thats almost as good as the electronic data supplier salesman coming in and offering their computer data system.. and the will free up all that space those manuals are taking up.. first time you need info for an 82 or earlier.. you will be kicking your self.. as its NOT there.. they may have fixed that..
electronic info also requires you to PAY each month..
my friend has a serious repair shop... he has the newest wingdings... i ask him for ONE page of print out one time.. he handed me 3/4 inch of paper.. and still did not find the info i needed..
oh... i forgot to post the link..
tell you what.. take a one or two week subscription to eautorepair dot net..
or buy a complete factory service manual..
i ran across this ... its what a live data stream looks like..
this is kinda what you might be seeing also..
bet you wish i fit on airplanes..
oh.... sorry.. HF will accept it back if you really want to..
could be the coolant temp sensor.. AZ SU102 kit..
there is a way to check that fairly easily..
could be the oxygen sensor/ you can see the sensor voltage sweeps with a digital volt meter.. 0.1 to 0.9 volts.. and you can pull a vacuum hose off to check.. see if it swings in one direction.. give the throttle a kick goes in the other..
by the way... where do you live at????


The blank "index.html" files in the folders (images, scripts etc..) help prevent internet users from directly accessing the files on the server where your website is hosted. It stops the browser showing the directory listing for the individual folders.
The problem is not with every host as some hosts automatically add blank index files to the folders that don't already have them and other servers simply don't permit access to directory listings and return a 403 restricted access report if someone tries to access the folder.
An example (if you don't have an empty index.html in your folders) can be found on Google: search for "index of" and click the results.
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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

namespace fastq_io {

class FastqWriter {
public:
	FastqWriter();
	virtual ~FastqWriter();

	void Open(const char * filename) {
		os_.open(filename);
	}

	void Close() {
		os_.close();
	}

	operator void*() const {
		return static_cast<void*>(os_);
	}

	bool IsEnd() const {
		return os_.eof();
	}

	int Write(const std::string &header, const std::string &sequence,
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private:
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Other Social Deduction / Hidden Traitor Games
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
Blood on the Clock Tower
Blood on the Clock Tower is a social deduction game that is similar to the game of werewolf (also known as mafia). Both games involve players taking on hidden roles and trying to deduce the identities of other players in order to achieve their goals. However, there are a few key differences between the two games
A Larger Variety of Roles
In Blood on the Clock Tower, there are many more roles in the game, each with their own unique abilities. Unlike werewolf, every player gets a unique role. This adds more complexity and variety to the game.
A Larger Number of Players
While werewolf can be played with as few as six players, Blood on the Clock Tower is designed for a larger number of players, typically 10 or more. This allows for more players to be involved in the game and makes the social deduction aspect even more challenging.
The "Whispers" Phase
During each round of Blood on the Clock Tower, players can get up and form smaller groups of two or more players and discuss matters in private. This whispers phase allows evils to plot amongst themselves, or for villagers to share information with players they trust whilst keeping their identity somewhat hidden. This adds an extra layer of potential deception and information for players to look out for.
The Dead Can Vote
Being "killed" in Blood on the Clock Tower isn't the end of the game for you. You can still get involved in the discussion (and whisper phase) but your night power no longer works. You also get one more vote to use at your discretion which can help tip the balance for your team if used at the correct time.
Secret Hitler
Unfathomable
Shadows over Camelot
3-7 Players, 60-90 Minutes
The aim of the game is to complete various quests on the game board before time runs out and the kingdom is over run. After each player takes their turn they draw from a game deck which advances various threats. In effect, it feels as if you are playing against the board game itself.
Shadows over Camelot has an interesting take on the hidden traitor mechanic: there might not be one. During setup, 1 traitor card is shuffled into X loyalty cards, where X is the number of people playing. It's entirely possible for none of you to draw the traitor card and instead all draw a loyalist card. Which makes those arguments you have with each other all the more fun post game when you realise everyone was telling the truth afterall!
Werewolf Setups
Six Player Werewolf Setups
Other Social Deduction Board Games

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Data Protection Authorities' Opinion Paves Way For Adoption Of EU-US Privacy Shield
EU, Privacy & SecurityBy Heather Greenfield April 13, 2016
Brussels — European Data Protection Authorities today issued a non-binding opinion on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the new framework for transatlantic commercial data transfers. The Chair of the Article 29 Working Party, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, called Privacy Shield a "major improvement" and a "great step forward" from its predecessor, the Safe Harbour. The Working Party did…
President Obama Signs Judicial Redress Act – Key To Improve Transatlantic Trust
EUBy Heather Greenfield February 25, 2016
Washington – President Obama late yesterday signed an important bill into law which will extend some privacy rights to citizens of certain allied countries including European Union states. Specifically, the Judicial Redress Act will give European citizens the right to review and correct inaccurate information about them held by U.S. federal agencies under the U.S.…
CCIA Welcomes New EU-U.S. Data Transfer Framework
EUBy Heather Greenfield February 2, 2016
Brussels — Negotiators announced a political agreement today on a new "Safe Harbour" framework that will allow for commercial data flows between Europe and the United States. Commissioner Jourová presented the agreement to the College of Commissioners today which gave it its "green light". The Article 29 Working Party will examine the new agreement, called…
New study examines EU and U.S. privacy protections
EU, White Papers & ReportsBy Christian Borggreen January 25, 2016
A new report by law firm Sidley Austin, released today, compares EU and U.S. privacy laws and find them "essentially equivalent". The recent Court of Justice of the European Union ruling declared that a new Safe Harbour framework requires a finding that the level of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in the U.S. is…
European Parliament Adopts Digital Single Market Report: Positive Report Shows Direction European Union Must Take
EUBy Heather Greenfield January 19, 2016
Strasbourg, France – Today the European Parliament adopted an 'own initiative' report "Towards a Digital Single Market Act". The report sets out the Parliament's view on how to build a Digital Single Market. The report covers a wide range of topics from ecommerce and skills to platforms and digital content. The Parliament lays out a…
CCIA welcomes new senior EU appointments
EUBy Heather Greenfield December 15, 2015
Brussels, BELGIUM — The European Commission announced today that Finnish civil servant Tiina Astola will be appointed Director-General for Justice and Consumers as of 1st February 2016. Astola will take charge of implementing legislation on data protection and finalising a new Safe Harbour framework for commercial data transfers between Europe and the United States. The…
A Legal Snippet in Germany Could Mean … Seven Words Maximum
Blog, EU, Patent Reform & Copyright, Taxes & TradeBy CCIA Staff October 29, 2015
Brussels – In our report on digital trade barriers yesterday for USTR CCIA cited issues from Internet censorship and data transfers to fair use and copyright issues like Germany's snippet tax. The push by Germany publishers to be able to charge search engines and others for displaying small amounts of text has been working its…
Digital Single Market: A Reality for Millions of Internet-enabled Businesses
Blog, EUBy CCIA Staff October 14, 2015
Brussels, BELGIUM — An integrated, functioning Digital Single Market (DSM) is reality for a huge number of European businesses. This is the conclusion of eBay's newest study "Empowering People and Creating Opportunity in the Digital Single Market" which reveals that an impressive 93% of businesses using eBay in Europe to engage in cross-border commerce. The…
Major Industry Groups Call For Guidance And Transition Period After Safe Harbour Ruling
Brussels, BELGIUM — More than 20 major industry groups are today sending a joint letter to European Commission President Juncker following the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) recent invalidation of the EU Safe Harbour Decision. The letter calls for a harmonised implementation of the judgment, legal guidance, and a sufficient transition period…


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Kobe Bryant high school footage to be auctioned on July 23
The footage is from the media library of Stu Ross, who produced "High School Sports Show," a syndicated weekly television series seen in 35 cities.
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Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant tragically passed away in a helicopter crash in January. - Getty Images
Kobe Bryant's time in high school will be showcased when about 22 hours of footage of the late basketball star playing games and giving interviews will be sold on July 23 by the auction house Profiles in History.
About 60% of the Bryant footage is of games involving the Lower Merion Aces from the Philadephia suburbs.
Ross' library includes 130 hours and more than 700 athletes, including LeBron James, Tom Brady, Michael Phelps, Ryan Braun, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal. The footage will be sold in one lot, and the auction house estimates the price will be $250,000 to $350,000.
Bryant, a five-time NBA champion and 18-time All-Star, died in a helicopter crash on January 26. He was 41.
The auction will take place at Profiles in History in Calabasas, outside Los Angeles.
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Products / 1 and 2 Corinthians
David W. J. Gill (Author), Moyer V. Hubbard (Author), Clinton E. Arnold (General Editor)
Discover: ·How the springs at Hierapolis help us understand why Jesus described the church at Laodicea as "lukewarm" ·The background and circumstances of certificates of divorce in Judaism ·How Jewish dietary laws provided a powerful metaphor for God's acceptance of the Gentiles Brimming with photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It's like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries await you that will snap the world of the New Testament into gripping immediacy. Things that seem mystifying, puzzling, or obscure will take on tremendous meaning when you view them in their ancient context. You'll deepen your understanding of the teachings of Jesus. You'll discover the close, sometimes startling interplay between God's kingdom and the practical affairs of the church. Best of all, you'll gain a deepened awareness of the Bible's relevance for your life. Written in a clear, engaging style, this beautiful set provides a new and accessible approach that more technical expository and exegetical commentaries don't offer. It features: ·Commentary based on relevant papyri, inscriptions, archaeological discoveries, and studies of Judaism, Roman culture, Hellenism, and other features of the world of the New Testament ·Hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and line drawings ·Copious maps, charts, and timelines·Sidebar articles and insights ·"Reflections" on the Bible's relevance for 21st-century living
Written by leading evangelical contributors: Clinton E. Arnold (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen), General Editor S. M. Baugh (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) Peter H. Davids (Ph.D., University of Manchester) David E. Garland (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) David W. J. Gill (D.Phil., University of Oxford) George H. Guthrie (Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Moyer V. Hubbard (D.Phil., University of Oxford) Ralph P. Martin (Ph.D., University of London, King's College) Douglas J. Moo (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) Mark L. Strauss (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) Frank Thielman (Ph.D., Duke University) Jeffrey A. D. Weima (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Michael J. Wilkins (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) Mark W. Wilson (D.Litt. et Phil., University of South Africa) Julie L. Wu (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) Robert W. Yarbrough (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen)
David W. J. Gill (DPhil, University of Oxford) is sub-dean of the faculty of arts and social studies and senior lecturer in the department of classics and ancient history at University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom. Moyer V. Hubbard (DPhil, University of Oxford) is an assistant professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, Los Angeles, California.


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Ontario Town meeting June 13, 2022
Supervisor Frank Robusto opened the Ontario Town Board meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. The meeting was held at the Ontario Town Hall, while also being streamed via Zoom conferencing. All Board members were in attendance.
The minutes from the May 23, 2022 Regular meeting were approved in addition to monthly Departmental Reports, which are all available upon request from the Town Clerk's Office.
Supervisor Robusto announced the AUD (Annual Update Document) for 2021 was filed and it is available on the Town's website https://www.ontariotown.org/ .
The Court Clerks were authorized to attend the NYS Magistrates Association of Court Clerks Annual Conference to be held in Albany, New York. The Conference will run from October 16, 2022 through October 19, 2022 at a cost not to exceed $2033.00.
Payment Application #1 to HMI Mechanical for WWTP (Wastewater Treatment Plant) Improvements for $13,062.50 was authorized and Payment Application #2 to Concord Electric Corp for WWTP Improvements for $2073.85 was also authorized.
The Board resolved to establish a Capital Fund for the Kenyon Road/Culvert/Bridge Replacement Project in the amount of $670,400.00.
The Board resolved to approve an hourly raise up to $19.46 per hour for the Court Bailiff, Steven Crane, due to completing firearms training. The raise will be retroactive to the date of completed training.
It was resolved to advertise for an Accountant with Municipal experience at a starting pay range of $60,000.00-$80,000.00 plus benefits. It would be a provisional appointment until a Civil Service test is given.
Thaddeus Mapes and Russell Smith were both approved to fill the currently vacant positions of Water/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators. Mr. Mapes will be a lateral transfer and Mr. Smith will commence employment on or about June 16, 2022, at the base starting rate of $17.62 per hour plus incentives in accordance with the CSEA, Lo-cal 1000 AFCME, and AFL-CIO Agreement.
The bills were paid as audited.
The Board entered Executive Session at 9:07 PM to discuss a personnel matter and collective bargaining. The Board reconvened at 9:44 PM and the meeting was adjourned at 9:45 PM.
By: Caroline Grasso
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Australia selects NASAMS air-defence system
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Raytheon Australia has been selected to supply its National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) for the Australian Army by granting First Pass Approval for the Land 19 Phase 7B project.
That was reported byaustraliandefence.com.au.
The tender will be released to Raytheon Australia in the first half of 2017 to develop its highly successful National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) for the ADF. Raytheon will be the Prime System Integrator (PSI) for Army's future GBAD capability.
Minister for Defence Senator Marise Payne said the project is the first step in the development of the Australian Army's contribution to the ADF's Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Program announced in the 2016 Defence White Paper.
The Government will invest up to $2 billion in the system which will provide the inner most layer of Australia's enhanced integrated air and missile capability. Raytheon's proposal for second pass consideration by Government will be based upon the Raytheon/Kongsberg NASAMS capability that is fielded in seven nations, including the US and Norway. The system can utilise different launchers, radar technologies and missile types for a range of different ground based air and missile defence missions.
In collaboration with Defence and CEA Technologies, Raytheon Australia will also investigate the option of the Medusa system; an incorporation of Australian AESA sensor technology into the proven baseline of NASAMS.
NASAMS (Norwegian or National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System) is a distributed and networked medium to long range air-defence system. NASAMS was the first surface-based application for the AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile).
The NASAMS has been exported to the United States, with the NASAMS 2 upgrade having been exported to Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Oman, and Chile.
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U.S. Navy newest aircraft carrier begins aircraft compatibility testing
The U.S. Navy newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) departed its homeport of...
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For me being REAL brings about thoughts of authenticity: being true to our personal beliefs, and narrowing the gap between who we are on the inside, and how we represent ourselves on the outside. It's about recognizing the value of your individuality, and courageously showing it off . . .


In spring 2013, Janelle Sadarananda (Classical Civilization, '13) and Miriam Hiebert (Chemistry, '14) worked alongside professional conservator Chris Wilkins (Central Virginia Archaeological Conservation) to consolidate and preserve the remains of Ti Ameny Net and her coffin. Time, transportation, and a lifetime of dust and wear received during her time at the University of Richmond had resulted in a number of structural concerns which the conservation process set out to address.
Each of these identified issues was addressed individually, and material and chemical options for each task were identified and tested prior to implementation. The first issue addressed was that of the unidentified white deposit on Ti Ameny Net's skin. While the deposit was clearly not organic in nature, its exact identity was unknown. After testing it was determined that ethanol was the best option for removal. Cotton swabs were used for this purpose and each ethanol soaked swab was discarded after one rotation on surface of the skin. Samples of the crystalline substance were saved for chemical analysis.
Cleaning of dust and debris off the surface of Ti Ameny Net was done using a vacuum with a hose attachment that had been covered in cheesecloth. A soft brush was used to push dirt and debris off the surface and toward the hose. All collected material was stored for future analysis.
The most time-consuming task was the re-attachment of linen wrappings to Ti Ameny Net's neck, torso, and limbs. The procedure used was obtained from the conservation literature with a few alterations made at key areas that presented unique difficulty, on a case-by-case basis. The adhesive used for this procedure was a 5% solution of methyl-cellulose, chosen both for its long term stability and more importantly its solubility in water which allows for easy reversal of the process if the need should arise. The methyl-cellulose mixture was painted onto the surface of pieces of Japanese tissue paper and allowed to dry. Once completely dry, a piece of the tissue was cut to the size and shape of the loose bandage that it was being used to adhere. A humidifier was then used to re-activate the methyl-cellulose in between the bandages, taking care to avoid any excess moisture in the process. The layers were held together using weights or strips of silk, depending on the orientation of the site, and allowed to dry over night. Some sites required multiple rounds of this procedure to fully re-adhere to their correct location on the body. This process took nearly two weeks to fully complete.
cleaning the surface of dust and dirt build up.
re-attaching loose fragments of paint and linen to the surface.
concealing the work that had been done during stabilization.
Cleaning of the coffin's surface was done in a similar manner as had been done on the mummy. Ethanol swabs were used to remove grime build up, while care was taken to ensure that the varnish layer over the paint remained unharmed. Vacuuming was also used to remove larger, loose debris. Similarly, the reattachment of loose linen was done following the same procedure that was used previously on the mummy.
The surface of the coffin was badly cracked. Some cracks affected only the gesso layer while others went deeper into the supporting wooden structure. While some cracks presented a bigger risk than others, all left the coffin structure vulnerable to insect attack or and changes in humidity. A paste made of glass microballoons mixed with an adhesive was injected into the cracks to seal and stabilize them. The filled-in cracks were then painted over with acrylic paint to match the field that they intersected.
Samples collected during the conservation process were analyzed by a variety of scientific methods in 2013-2014, by Mimi Hiebert ('13) and Megan Hoerrner ('14) in the Gottwald Science Center on campus and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. For a summary of the tests and results, their poster for the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium is included here.


I teamed this with some asparagus tips and smoked tofu and it was just perfect for my comfort food craving!
This recipe will make enough for about 4 portions (2 if you're very hungry!) and is ok to refrigerate and reheat, just add a little water when you microwave so it doesn't get too stodgy.
Start by finely chopping the onion and crushing the garlic. I also sliced the courgette and tofu into small chunks. Over a low heat soften the onion and garlic.
Add the rice and make sure it's thoroughly coated with the oil, onion and garlic.
Turn up the heat to medium and add a ladleful of the vegetable stock. Stir until the stock has been absorbed by the rice then add another ladle of stock. Repeat this until all of the liquid has been absorbed.
While the rice is cooking, grill the asparagus until softened then slice into centimetre chunks.
Once the rice has cooked, add the vegetables and tofu and stir until mixed in and warmed.
Serve in a massive bowl, sprinkle with parmesan and feel cozy from the inside!
Looks good to me. :) We rarely can find courgette in my part of world (Malaysia) and I've not tasted one before.
They have quite a mild flavour - I'm sure you could replace them with squash or aubergene as they have similar textures and don't have an overwhelming flavour. I imagine some roasted green or red peppers would also be delicious in a risotto!


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Texas police chase may be linked to Colorado prison chief's death – Ed Lavandera reports
Police in Colorado are taking a "strong look" at whether a suspect shot dead by police in Texas is the same man wanted in the killing of Colorado's prison chief. The man was gunned down after a wild chase in a car that was similar to one seen leaving the Colorado home where Tom Clements was shot dead as he answered his door.
CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera has more live from Decatur, Texas this morning. "The chase started when a Sheriffs Deputy tried to the Cadillac over on a remote stretch of Texas highway," Lavadera reports. "Deputy James Boyd was shot twice in the chest, but he was wearing a bullet proof vest and is expected to survive. That triggered a long high speed chase."
Lavandera says "The Denver Post," quoting federal and state officials, identified the suspect as 28-year-old Evan Spencer Ebel, a parolee from the Denver area. "The Post says Ebel is the focus of the investigation into the murder of Tom Clements, the director of Colorado's prison system. In a press release Thursday night, El PasoCounty investigators in Colorado did not deny the accuracy of the reports but instead criticized the leak of Evan Ebel's name by law enforcement sources."
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Quiz: Who killed who in 'Game of Thrones'?
Well, this is it. 'Game of Thrones' and its final season is nearly upon us.
Seven seasons down, just one more to go. And there has been hundreds murdered, killed, assassinated, you name it - it's happened. We've picked our favourite deaths from across all seven seasons of 'Game of Thrones' but can you remember who killed these characters in our flip chart quiz?


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This book focuses on the use of various predictive or condition-based maintenance tools and methods intended to highlight the loss of electrical energy in industry. It also provides many quick tips for energy savings, often at little or no cost or capital outlay. The author has broad experience as a consultant to industry and is an editor for Plant Engineering magazine.
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* What is a Lean, World-Class, Production System?
Unlike any other text of its kind, Materials Selection and Applications in Mechanical Engineering contains complete and in-depth coverage on materials of use, their principles, processing and handling details; along with illustrative examples and sample projects. It clearly depicts the needed topics and gives adequate coverage with ample examples so that ME students can appreciate the relevance of materials to their discipline.
Featuring the basic principles of materials selection for application in various engineering outcomes, the contents of this text follow those of the common first-level introductory course in materials science and engineering. Directed toward mechanical engineering, it introduces the materials commonly used in this branch, along with an exhaustive description of their properties that decide their functional characteristics and selection for use, typical problems encountered during application due to improper processing or handling of materials, non-destructive test procedures used in maintenance to detect and correct problems, and much more. Whats more, numerous examples and project-type analyses to select proper materials for application are provided. With the use of this unique text, teaching a relevant second-level course in materials to ME majors has never been easier!
* Covers all aspects of engineering materials necessary for their successful utilization in mechanical components and systems.
* Defines a procedure to evaluate the materials performance efficiency in engineering applications and illustrates it with a number of examples.
* Includes sample project activities, along with a number of assignments for self exercise.
* Keeps chapters short and targeted toward specific topics for easy assimilation.
* Contains several unique chapters, including microprocessing, MEMS, problems encountered during use of materials in mechanical components, and NDT procedures used to detect common defects such as cracks, porosity and gas pockets, internal residual stresses, etc.
* Features commonly used formulae in mechanical system components in an appendix.
* Several tables containing material properties are included throughout the book.
Written primarily for those responsible for the reliabilty of equipment and the production operation, this innovative book centers on developing and measuring true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The author demonstrates that true OEE correlates with factory output, providing a methodology to link OEE with net profits that can be used by reliabilty managers to build solid cases for improvement projects, and draws on his own experience by presenting successful improvement applications in every chapter. Additionally, it will help practitioners better understand Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and develop an effective foundation to support Reliabilty-Centered Maintenance (RCM).
The first 'how-to-do-it' book in English, it is written specifically for professionals in product engineering, manufacturing engineering, and value engineering; and the managers of these professionals, including plant managers, production managers, manufacturing executives, and research and development executives. It will also be useful to manufacturing, marketing, and management people concerned with product improvement, innovation, and improving their company's competitive position. Value analysis tear-down can be applied in many service and other industries, as well as in manufacturing; wherever there are physical components to be improved or invented.
* Discusses selection, education and training of manufacturing people.
* Covers the features of shop equipment including machines and fixturing.
* Provides the latest information available on the efficient machining of titanium.
* Explains machining of difficult features along with recommended courses of action to minimize warpage and part distortion.
* Includes discussions on benching and sanding of parts.
* Covers cutters and cutter coatings.
* Describes efficient and lean practices, along with some frugal metrics for measuring progress.
* Features the author�s thoughts on inter-company sharing of machining technology.
* Offers tidbits of useful information from the author�s toolbox and memorable experiences from his world of machining.


Victoria Day marks the beginning of summer, and we are so ready to participate in several months of glorious weather. We've ditched our warmer clothing for tank tops and flip-flops, but there are so many other reasons to love summer. Here are a few great things about this beautiful season.
Who doesn't love being woken up by a symphony of melodic birds at 4:30 am? It makes you want to get up and plan your day. With all the extra daylight hours you can get more accomplished much earlier so you can spend lots of time basking in the sun and doing other fun summer activities.
The supermarkets and farmers markets are bulging with a variety of fresh sweet and juicy summer fruits and vegetables. Cherries, peaches, berries, watermelon, corn, peas, green beans and many more fresh fruits and veggies are here to satisfy our taste buds and enhance our meals.
Getting a chance to picnic in your favorite or secret getaway spot with the family is refreshing, rejuvenating and relaxing. No phones, no traffic, no people, no noise, no worries!
Finally a break from the shackles of homework. Kids have a few months of freedom to sleep in, hang out with their friends, and just have fun.
Summer is the best time to hit the road and explore new locations whether it be hiking a mountain trail in Switzerland or canoeing in Banff.
Camping is a great way to get out of the house and reconnect with Mother Nature. It's fun to pitch a tent, play games, go swimming, read, go for longs walks and roast marshmallows.
Jumping into and submerging yourself in a warm body of water is beyond therapeutic. It feels great to float with the waves and soak in the ocean experience. Go snorkeling, parasailing, windsurfing, or just hang around the beach and make sandcastles.
There is something about eating ice cream, popsicles and floats during the hot steamy summer months. It's refreshing and immensely satisfying.
Each city or county will host their own fair or carnival that includes rides, decadent food, music, entertainment and midway games where you can win some fabulous prizes. Some of these fairs may or may not include a parade, but if they offer this attraction, you must attend.
Whether you're walking in public parks or admiring a private yard, it's enjoyable to ogle the beautiful gardens they've created. I love the plethora of colorful and scented flowers along with fountains, statues, walkways, bridges, and so many other creative features.
Your 10 best reasons are all the stuff I like about summer as well. I'd have to add – no bulky winter clothes to the mix.
Another thing I love about summer are all the fun festivals and BBQs. My cats also love sunbathing on the deck.
Our area has a huge amount of fruit stands selling peaches, nectarines & plums at really reasonable prices this time if the year… love that!
I agree entirely with these 10 best things, I'd also add colour. In winter we live in a mostly black and white world, in spring when everything comes to life we get tons of colour and that warms my heart.


The river offers the opportunity to fish for local fish species, take a canoe ride or cool off in the shallows. A picnic area next to the weir on the banks of the river features a public BBQ, rotunda and toilets. Lions Weir is a delightful spot to relax where the river has been dammed creating the 'Lions Weir' in the Hotham River and making it a year round haven for water birds and fish.
A fish ladder (series of rock pools) has been built adjoining and up to the top of the weir wall to enable fish to swim upstream in the spawning season.


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Thanksgiving Movie Releases 11/22-11/25
Did you know that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost all had secret powers beyond their ability to turn certain days out of the year into festive occasions? In 'Rise of the Guardians', these legends of childhood dreams and fantasies must team up together and take on the evil spirit known as Pitch in order stay in the hearts and beliefs of children everywhere. http://www.riseoftheguardians.com
Based on Yann Martel's incredibly creative work of fiction, 'Life of Pi' ponders the meaning of life through the eyes of a son of a zookeeper who survives a shipwreck by escaping on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan…and a giant Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Adapted for the screen and directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), 'Life of Pi' stars Suraj Sharma, Irfan Khan, Tabu, and Adil Hussain. http://www.lifeofpimovie.com
In this reimagining of the classic 1984 Patrick Swayze film, 'Red Dawn' explores the extent to which our nations citizens would give up in order to maintain peace and happiness in America. As foreign paratroopers invade cities all across America, common civilians must pick up arms and combat the villainous foes in guerilla style home front warfare. Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, and Isabel Lucas star, with Dan Bradley handling directorial duties. http://www.reddawnfilm.com
A love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife and partner Alma Reville (Helen Mirren). The film takes place during the making of the iconic movie maker's seminal film Psycho. Also starring Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston and Toni Collette. Based on the book: "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" by Stephen Rebello. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975645/


As I mentioned yesterday I recently developed a persistent infection of part of my brewing setup. Thee batches that passed through my primary fermenter ended up infected (based on aroma/taste/texture); in the final beer I was able to confirm the infection directly by examining a wort sample in which I observed chains of highly elongated rod-shaped bacteria.
For those who don't read DNA, that the sequence of Bacillus subtilis's ribosome. This explains…well pretty much everything. Bacillus are spore producing species and their spores are very nearly indestructible – they can survive transient exposure to bleach, are pretty much impermeable to sanitizers like starsan, and can even survive short period of boiling! Moreover, their spores stick to surfaces like crazy-glue, making them near-impossible to remove. The persistence of Bacillus spores, but killing of the vegetative (growing) form after sanitation, would lead to the situation I've experienced – stuff fermented briefly in the container appears normal until weeks after packaging, while beers fermented for longer periods show signs while still in the primary.
← If at first you don't succeed, throw everything out and try again!
At least now you can have a nice warm and fuzzy sense of closure as you mourn for your lost batches I suppose.
More a sense of shame than closure. You'd think after nearly 20 years in the lab I'd be able to manage the rather plebeian task of not cross-contaminating my cultures.
For shame- I can't count the number of safety weenies who told us no food or drink in the lab fridge! Ya'll need one of those signs like we have. The good news is you now have a near-definite source and can fix things accordingly. And nuke from orbit your old bucket and anything else that touched the contaminated brews. Sounds like a right nasty piece of work that bacteria.


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Q: Custom back button has extra unwanted space I'm developing a Xamarin.iOS application with two supported languages i.e. English and Arabic. I want to use a custom back button. The button is placed in the navigation bar, however, it has some extra space which I want to get rid of.
Below is the code that I have used to add the button
var leftBarButton = new UIBarButtonItem(UIImage.FromBundle("IcArrowLeft.png"), UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, (s, e) =>
{
    DismissViewController(true, null);
});

Refer to the below screenshots of the result. I want to get rid of the space marked in red

Below is the image that I'm using as the back icon

A: You can create a custom navigationBar as you want .
public class xxxViewController: UIViewController
    {
        public override void ViewWillAppear(bool animated)
        {
            base.ViewWillAppear(animated);

            NavigationController.NavigationBar.Hidden = true;

            double height = IsiphoneX();

            UIView backView = new UIView()
            {
                BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
                Frame = new CGRect(0,20,UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, height),

            };

            UIButton backBtn = new UIButton() {

                Frame = new CGRect(20, height-44, 40, 44),
                Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(18),

            } ;

            backBtn.SetBackgroundImage(UIImage.FromBundle("IcArrowLeft.png"),UIControlState.Normal);
            backBtn.ImageEdgeInsets = new UIEdgeInsets(0, -10, 0, 0);
            backBtn.TouchUpInside += BackButton_TouchUpInside;

            UILabel titleLabel = new UILabel() {
                Frame=new CGRect(UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width/2-75, 0,150, height),
                Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(20),
                Text = "xxx",
                TextColor = UIColor.Black,
                Lines = 0,

            };

            UILabel line = new UILabel() {

                Frame = new CGRect(0, height, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 0.5),
                BackgroundColor = UIColor.Black,

            };

            backView.AddSubview(backBtn);
            backView.AddSubview(titleLabel);
            backView.AddSubview(line);

            View.AddSubview(backView);
        }

         double IsiphoneX()
        {

            double height = 44;

            if (UIDevice.CurrentDevice.CheckSystemVersion(11, 0))
            {
                if (UIApplication.SharedApplication.Delegate.GetWindow().SafeAreaInsets.Bottom > 0.0)
                {
                    height = 64;
                }
            }

            return height;
        }

        private void BackButton_TouchUpInside(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DismissViewController(true, null);
        }

        public override void ViewWillDisappear(bool animated)
        {
            base.ViewWillDisappear(animated);

            NavigationController.NavigationBar.Hidden = false;
        }

    }

ou can set the property of title , backButton and navigationBar as you need (such as text , color ,BackgroundColor ,font e.g.)

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Athletes target medals at junior championships
COACH of Beatrice Misilingi and Christine Mbonga, has said that despite the two female athletes having the potential to win medals at a major event such as the Olympics, the aim for this year is to win medals at the rescheduled World Athletics U20 Championships (Junior World Championships) in Kenya.
The championships will bring together the world's finest athletes under the age of 20 and will be held at the Nyayo Sports Complex in Nairobi, Kenya from August 17 to 22.
Misilingi qualified for the 100m, 200m and 400m while Mbonga qualified in the 400m and 800m for Kenya.
The event which was set for last year was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Misilingi, who is turning 18 this year, holds the Namibian record in the 100m, 200m and 400m races and is already being compared to legendary sprinter Frank Fredericks.
Her record in the 100m is 11.38 was attained last year December, to equal Globine Mayova's record she achieved in 2013.
In the 200m, Misilingi is currently holding the record with a time of 22.94, a record she surpassed last year after she broke Mayova's 23.34 record set in 2013, while Misilingi has also broken Tjipekapora Herunga's 400m time of 51.24 to her current two records she achieved last year, first in Nairobi and in Pretoria.
Last Saturday, Misilingi who has already qualified to the Tokyo Olympics later this year in the 400m, could not surpass the 22.94 record in Swakopmund at Athletics Namibia grand prix leg 1 on March 13 after clocking in a time of 23.94 in the women's 200m.
She also failed to replicate her 100m record after finishing the women's 100m heat in a time of 11.79.
Mbonga who is yet to qualify to the Tokyo Games was using the grand prix as an opportunity for her to qualify, however she could only clock 51.59 in the women's 400m despite winning the race.
Speaking to Confidente Sport, Henk Botha, coach of the two athletes said they will be looking at the Junior World Championships as a starting point for success, although he said that the Olympics Games always remain a priority.
"Olympics are a big thing for us. The target for Beatrice was to see that we can get her as close as possible to the finals at the Olympics. For Christine it is to win medals at the world juniors championships, as both girls have qualified for the event.
"Beatrice in the 200m … we will be working on that so that she qualifies to the Tokyo Games in the 200m since she has already qualified in the 400m. For Christine a kid who is 17 years of age, it is excellent to get 51.59.
"I had a discussion with the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) so that we go train in Europe for like 14 days. We are planning such a tour end of April before we leave for the United States for another training camp," said Botha.


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My Karoo has a flush back with no screws, only the mount in the middle. The back of the Karoo in this video has a plate down at the bottom which houses the SIM. There must be multiple Karoo backplates.
It was not possible to install a sim-card to the karro, the sim slot is mechanical very poor.
I think the sim-tool is designed for another item?


Inland Technology's SMART Interactive Whiteboard transforms teaching at Murrurundi Preschool.
Murrurundi Preschool is a community-based centre that caters for 3 - 5 year olds. The Preschool offers early childhood educational programs for children in the Murrurundi rural area in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales.
Preschool Director Donna Hopkins runs an interestbased program tailored to their children's individual needs. The program was paper-based until three years ago, when iPads were introduced as a learning accessory – but Donna explains that trying to crowd 10-15 children around such a small screen had proved challenging.
The team has been looking at introducing new technology to assist with learning and development, but funding had been scarce.
Inland Technology had previously provided the preschool with a printer, and it was through their existing connection that Donna and the school's team of educators learned about their interactive whiteboard. The school managed to obtain partial funding for the whiteboard through a grant obtained via the education department, and the preschool committee was able to raise the remaining funds.
The whiteboard's lesson programs can even incorporate related YouTube videos, which have been pre-chosen and are safe for the children to view. And connecting apps to the board, Donna and her team of educators can more effectively teach their kids everything from learning left from right, to core body strength lessons so they're able to sit comfortably for longer periods of time.
THE CHILDREN ARE DEVELOPING QUICKER SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS TECHNOLOGY.
On an individual level, Donna also says that the whiteboard has been a great method for supporting kids who have specific interests, enabling them to really drill down and explore a subject they find fascinating, while still working for the needs of the class as a whole.


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Regis Jesuit High School is pleased to offer our community of 11,000+ alumni this dedicated part of our website where you can stay connected with fellow alumni and all those who made your Raider experience so memorable. The alumni website also enables you to stay informed of special events and programs that provide you with the opportunity to reconnect with former classmates, and the chance to make new connections.
If you have any questions or would like to learn about ways you can get involved with your alma mater, please don't hesitate to contact me at pmiller@regisjesuit.com or 303.269.8047.


Lubbock National Bank offers an unsecured Texas Flex Credit Line, which will enable you to make yourself a loan simply by writing a check. Use it whenever you need cash. You can pay off higher interest credit cards and save money. Contact a Lubbock National Bank loan officer near you.
Credit limits are based upon annual income and current liabilities. Subject to credit approval.
The Texas Flex Credit Line is as flexible as you want it to be. Our credit line is a personal line of credit under which you may qualify for as much as $50,000* at an interest rate of 3.5% over Wall Street Journal Prime Lending Rate**. Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is paid on average daily balance.
Write a check on your Lubbock National Bank checking account for more than your balance. We will advance the money you need automatically, in increments of $10.00 into your checking account.
Transfer the funds you need via internet banking.
Each month you will receive a statement of your Lubbock National Bank Credit Line account activity. Repayment is 2.5% of the outstanding balance or $25, whichever is greater. If you choose, your minimum monthly payment can be automatically drafted from your checking account. You may pay all or part of your credit balance at any time without penalty. There is a $20.00 annual fee.
* Credit limits are based upon annual income and current liabilities. Approved credit levels will range from $500.00 to $50,000. Subject to credit approval.
** The variable rate used in the Lubbock National Bank Credit Line Agreement will be equal to the Wall Street Journal Prime Lending Rate in effect on the last day of the month plus 3.5%, and will change and be effective as of the 1st day of the month following a prime rate change.


MORAY Council is backing Keep Scotland Beautiful's national Spring Clean, as part of the Clean Up Scotland campaign.
In 2017 Moray taxpayers spent more than £10,000 cleaning up fly-tipping, and issues with littering and dog fouling remain.
Moray Council is providing litter picking equipment to those organising and taking part in litter picks to clean up the area, and will uplift and safely dispose of all litter picked up through organised events.
Cllr Graham Leadbitter praised residents taking part in Clean Up Scotland events in Moray.
"A big thanks has to go out to all those organising and participating in litter picks. As a council we manage litter and street cleaning because it has an impact on our community. Not only is it unsightly, but it can impact on our environment and our health. It can sometimes feel like a never-ending challenge but we put thousands of hours each year into keeping Moray beautiful.
To find out more, or to get involved, visit www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/local-environmental-quality/clean-up-scotland/get-involved/organise-a-clean-up.


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By Carter Evans CBS News May 3, 2017, 8:06 PM
Massive fireball after dramatic small plane crash caught on video
Dramatic plane crash
LOS ANGELES -- A fiery plane crash in Washington Tuesday was captured on dashcam video.
The video shows the plane flying low and slow. It clips some power lines, then a stoplight and bursts into flames before hitting a busy street.
Bystanders quickly extinguished the flames.
"That's probably the closest I've ever come to really thinking like 'this is the end,'" said witness Amanda Hayes.
Witness Amanda Hayes CBS News
Hayes' van was clipped by the plane's wing.
"It looked suspiciously low and couple seconds later I was like it's too low, it collided with the telephone pole, hit the ground. It exploded and hit all the cars in the line including our van," she said.
Officials believe the Piper Cherokee likely experienced engine problems right after takeoff from Paine Field airport in Everett, Washington.
"As he was losing power and couldn't restart he began to descend rapidly and saw that Harbor Pointe Boulevard was a clear and open roadway," said Officer Myron Travis.
Both people aboard the plane walked away from the crash, including Justin Dunaway, who is now working with investigators.
Alex Abbassi CBS News
Former airline pilot Alex Abbassi says the pilot's split-second decision to head for the road instead of turning back to the airport likely saved lives.
"He definitely made the right decision," Abbassi said. "Usually anything less than a thousand feet is not going to be enough altitude for pilots to go back and land on the runway they took off from."
So the roadway became the runway, and not one person was seriously injured on the ground.


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504 Pages | 54 black-and-white; 12 color
Biology of Ticks Volume 2
Edited by Daniel E. Sonenshine and R. Michael Roe
The most comprehensive work on tick biology and tick-borne diseases
Multi-authored work offers a diverse and truly international perspective
This second volume covers tick ecology, genetics and genomics, tick-borne diseases, tick control and rearing tick colonies for experimental study
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This edition is multi-authored, featuring the research and analyses of renowned experts across the globe
Biology of Ticks is the most comprehensive work on tick biology and tick-borne diseases. This second edition is a multi-authored work, featuring the research and analyses of renowned experts across the globe. Spanning two volumes, the book examines the systematics, biology, structure, ecological adaptations, evolution, genomics and the molecular processes that underpin the growth, development and survival of these important disease-transmitting parasites. Also discussed is the remarkable array of diseases transmitted (or caused) by ticks, as well as modern methods for their control. This book should serve as a modern reference for students, scientists, physicians, veterinarians and other specialists.
Volume I covers the biology of the tick and features chapters on tick systematics, tick life cycles, external and internal anatomy, and others dedicated to specific organ systems, specifically, the tick integument, mouthparts and digestive system, salivary glands, waste removal, salivary glands, respiratory system, circulatory system and hemolymph, fat body, the nervous and sensory systems and reproductive systems.
Volume II includes chapters on the ecology of non-nidicolous and nidicolous ticks, genetics and genomics (including the genome of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis) and immunity, including host immune responses to tick feeding and tick-host interactions, as well as the tick's innate immune system that prevents and/or controls microbial infections. Six chapters cover in depth the many diseases caused by the major tick-borne pathogens, including tick-borne protozoa, viruses, rickettsiae of all types, other types of bacteria (e.g., the Lyme disease agent) and diseases related to tick paralytic agents and toxins. The remaining chapters are devoted to tick control using vaccines, acaricides, repellents, biocontrol, and, finally, techniques for breeding ticks in order to develop tick colonies for scientific study.
Biology of Ticks 2nd Edition
Volume 2. Ecology, Genomics, Disease and Control
Chapter 1. Ecology of Non-nidicolous Ticks
Sarah E. Randolph
Chapter 2. Ecology of Nidicolous Ticks
Jeremy S. Gray, Agustín Estrada-Peña, and Laurence Vial
Chapter 3. Tick Genetics, Genomics and Transformation
Jason Meyer and Catherine A. Hill
Chapter 4. Host-Tick Interactions
Stephen K. Wikel
Chapter 5. How Ticks Control Microbes: The innate immune response
Wayne L. Hynes
Chapter 6 . Tick-borne Protozoa
Adalberto A. Pérez de León, Edouard Vannier, Consuelo Almazán, and Peter J. Krause
Chapter 7. Tick-borne Viruses
Patricia A. Nuttall
Chapter 8. Tick-borne Rickettsioses I (spotted fever group and other selected rickettsia)
Kevin R.Macaluso and Christopher D. Paddock
Chapter 9. Tick-borne Rickettsioses II (Anaplasmataceae)
Holly D. Gaff, Katherine M. Kocan and Daniel E. Sonenshine
Chapter 10. Other Tick-borne Bacterial Diseases (including Lyme disease, relapsing fever
and Tularemia)
Nicholas H. Ogden, Harvey Artsob, Gabriele Margos and Jean Tsao
Chapter 11. Tick-induced paralysis and toxicoses
Agustin Estrada-Pena and Ben J. Mans
Chapter 12. Development of vaccines for control of tick infestations and interruption of pathogen transmission
Jose de la Fuente and Katherine M. Kocan
Chapter 13. Acaricide Research and Development, Resistance and Resistance Monitoring
Felix D. Guerrero, Adalberto Pérez de León, Roger I. Rodriguez-Vivas, Nick Jonson, Robert J. Miller and Renato Andreotti
Chapter 14. Tick Repellent Research, Methods, and Development
Brooke W. Bissinger and R. Michael Roe
Chapter 15 Tick control: Trapping, Bio-control, Host Management and Other Alternative Strategies
Howard Ginsberg
Chapter 16. Tick Rearing and in vitro Feeding
Sandra A. Allan
Dr. Daniel E. Sonenshine is an eminent professor (emeritus) of Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia USA.
Dr. R. Michael Roe is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Entomology at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina USA.
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Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe
Peter J. Hayward and John S. Ryland
The Oxford Handbook of Invertebrate Neurobiology
John H. Byrne
Biology of Spiders
Rainer Foelix
Precious Heritage
Bruce A. Stein, Lynn S. Kutner, and Jonathan S. Adams
Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean
T. R. McClanahan, C. R. C. Sheppard, and D. O. Obura
Spiderwebs and Silk
Catherine L. Craig
Long-Term Dynamics of Lakes in the Landscape
John J. Magnuson, Timothy K. Kratz, and Barbara J. Benson
Richard C. Brusca, Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore
Mineralised Plant and Invertebrate Remains
Wendy J. Carruthers, David N. Smith, and James Turner
David O. Norris and James A. Carr
Assembling the Tree of Life
Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue
Animal Evolution
Maximilian J. Telford and D.T.J. Littlewood
Functional Morphology and Diversity
Les Watling and Martin Thiel
Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae
Tyler Carrier, Adam Reitzel, and Andreas Heyland
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The team at CreditFix created a credit scoring system using alternative data to help underbanked... [+] consumers access financing. (Photo credit: DFS Lab)
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Owais Zaidi was sitting in traffic when a dilapidated-looking cab pulled up next to him. The cabbie asked to borrow 1,000 Pakistani rupees so he could get his tires changed, explaining that a market loan would cost him nearly 50 rupees a day in interest. Zaidi was moved by the man's plight, and he gave the money as charity rather than a loan. But the encounter got him thinking about the millions of underbanked consumers in Pakistan who face predatory lending practices.
"The guy looked genuine so I gave him money, but it really bothered me how the poor are exploited," Zaidi said. "Based on my experience consulting with banks, I know how straight-jacketed they are in their policies as well as thoughts."
Zaidi decided to do more than help this one cabbie. In 2016, he founded CreditFix, a credit marketplace that draws on alternative data to assess creditworthiness among unbanked consumers. The company will launch a pilot program in Pakistan in August with 50,000 potential customers, Zaidi said. CreditFix's platform will use borrowers' work histories, mobile top-up records, and utility payments to generate credit scores that will then be visible to lenders who use the marketplace.
"The core goal of CreditFix is to facilitate the underserved and unserved segments of the population in getting access to fair credit, primarily for revenue generating assets," Zaidi said.
CreditFix's launch was aided in part by Digital Financial Services Innovation Lab (DFS Lab), a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that supports fintech startups in the emerging markets of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. DFS Lab provides companies with grant money and is developing an investment model as well. However, the ultimate goal is to connect startups with investors who can provide advice and funding as these early-stage businesses evolve. The organization offers regular mentorship, along with access to resources such as Amazon Web Services and marketing and mobile app support through the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). DFS Lab aims to provide the types of support that are vital to startups and are often lacking in developing markets.
"In Silicon Valley, it's still hard, but there's a whole really rich ecosystem that happens -- networking, mentorship, an ethos and community around being an entrepreneur," said DFS Lab Director Jake Kendall. "Those elements are really missing in developing countries. It's very hard to connect with people who are at the global frontier."
Access to qualified, experienced investors can prove particularly important, because predatory investors are prominent in emerging markets, according to Kendall. In some instances, the investors don't understand the startup space because they're coming from vastly different industries. In others, they're focused solely on making money off the companies rather than helping them grow sustainably. The team at DFS Lab tries to prevent such failures by getting quality companies in front of investors who can genuinely assist them.
The DFS Lab accelerator selects participants based on the quality of their concepts and their business backgrounds. Entrepreneurs who boast records of success stand a good chance of being selected, but people with significant industry expertise are considered as well. The thinking is that they can learn how to run a business, but that their experience in their fields will help them create viable, resonant products. And those products must have far-reaching applications. "They're solving not just local problems, but [creating] global solutions," Kendall said.
More on Forbes: Why India's Fintech Startups Are Flocking To Disrupt The UAE
Once teams are chosen, DFS Lab conducts an audit to identify their needs and introduce them to experts who can help them address those areas. "We work really intensively with them on launching and scaling a business," Kendall said. "Our goal in all of this is to get them to a point where they can take venture capital funding."
DFS Lab Director Jake Kendall meets with entrepreneurs in the accelerator's 2017 bootcamp cohort in... [+] Sri Lanka. (Photo credit: DFS Lab)
Zaidi credits DFS Lab with helping to build CreditFix into a viable company. "They bring out their experience working in multiple markets, which has helped us redefine our approach to addressing the problem," he said. "The initial grant they provided was key to [achieving] sustainability and taking it to the level that it becomes attractive to investors." CreditFix has received $100,000 in funding through a local fintech challenge and will pursue VC funding after its beta launch. Zaidi said the Pakistani market is "a big enough challenge for the time being." But he hopes that once CreditFix's platform reaches critical mass there, they'll be able to expand into other countries.
SERV'D, an India-based startup that also participated in DFS Lab's accelerator, holds a similar outlook. The company created an app that streamlines work agreements and payments between domestic workers and the clients hiring them. "Currently we are operating just out of India. However, this concept scales horizontally and vertically ... and we can also expand geographically to countries that have similar employment and socioeconomic environments," said Seema Joshi, director of customer experience and operations at SERV'D.
SERV'D's fintech platform emphasizes accountability and structure in the unorganized domestic workforce, Joshi said. Rather than relying on verbal agreements, service providers and their clients can access SERV'D through their phones to document work arrangements and transmit payments. One of the company's goals is helping unbanked workers create traceable work and income histories that will allow them to access formal financial products, such as loans to cover medical expenses or home financing. The digitized system verifies users through their national identification numbers, reassuring consumers that the service providers they hire are above-board.
Joshi suggested that DFS Lab's approach to developing markets could serve as a model for other accelerators and incubators. "Incubators that bring tech and domain expertise together can play a key role as more startups take on some of the challenging problems for financial inclusion," she said.
In addition to running the accelerator, DFS also operates a tech initiative that examines how advanced systems can help underserved communities. "We want to take high-potential technology and apply them to the critical pain points we're seeing," Kendall said. The use of chatbots is one promising area, particularly among populations that have little access to digital services or must travel far distances to obtain financial and government resources.
"Low-income populations are put in situations where they're trying to deal with formal systems that are designed to help them in not very user-friendly ways," Kendall said. Chatbots allow businesses and service organizations to "proactively be on their side" by enabling them to contact providers without needing to spend entire days traveling or having to confront corrupt officials, according to Kendall. Rather than find themselves being bribed during in-person meetings, they can sign up for services via chatbots that work on both feature phones and smartphones, reducing costs and opportunities for exploitation.
With two billion adults still without bank accounts throughout the world, the need for innovative financial services is real. DFS Lab and the startups with which it works have a real opportunity to help meet that need by emphasizing the unique circumstances of underserved consumers in emerging markets.
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William Blake Crump (26. srpnja 1922. – 15. prosinca 2010.), poznatiji kao Blake Edwards, američki filmski redatelj, producent i scenarist, oskarovac.

Rođen je u Tulsi, Oklahoma, kao sin kazališnog redatelja. Filmskim radom bavi se od 1942. i režirao je 38 filmova.
Počeo je kao glumac i scenarist za radio, pišući scenarije za velike radio zvijezde.
Gotovo svi njegovi filmovi su komedije, jedina iznimka je film "Dani vina i ruža".

Poznat je po jedinstvenom smislu za humor.
Od najznačajnijih suradnika, to su Jack Lemmon, Dudley Moore, William Holden, Peter Sellers, Audrey Hepburn, Bo Derek.
Filmovi po kojima je poznat: serijal Pink Panter, Doručak kod Tiffanyja, Micki i Maude, Desetka, Victor/Victoria, Pucanj u mraku, Zabava.

Počasnog Oskara za svoj rad i doprinos filmskoj umjetnosti dobio je na dodjeli Oskara 2004. godine. Uručio mu ga je Jim Carrey.
U govoru zahvale nije spomenuo Sellersa, iako su snimili 6 filmova zajedno.

Ženio se dva puta. Od 1969. žena mu je oskarovka Julie Andrews. Ima petero djece od kojih je četvero glumilo u njegovim filmovima.

 Američki filmski redatelji
Dobitnici Oscara za životno djelo

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Abel Head Shanghai Pierce. Courtesy of Dorothy Sloan Books. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
The Rancho Grande House before it was burned down. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Pierce Ranch Sign. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
PIERCE, ABEL HEAD [SHANGHAI] (1834–1900). Abel Head (Shanghai) Pierce, cattle raiser, the son of Jonathan and Hanna (Head) Pierce, was born on June 29, 1834, at Little Compton, Rhode Island. He had a few winters' schooling in a one-room school at Little Compton before 1848 or 1849 when he was sent to St. Petersburg, Virginia, to serve a quasi-apprenticeship in the general merchandise business of his uncle, Abel Head. In June 1854 young Pierce stowed away on a schooner bound for Indianola, Texas. Discovered, he was put to work handling cargo. He landed first at Indianola and then at Port Lavaca where he met Richard Grimes and went to work on the Grimes ranch splitting rails. Pierce soon began to acquire his own cattle which he registered and branded AP. He served in Augustus C. Buchel's Confederate cavalry during the Civil War, returned to find his holdings evaporated, but continued in the cattle business, branding on the open range. He married Fanny Lacey, daughter of William D. Lacey, on September 27, 1865. They had two children. Pierce and his brother, Jonathan E. Pierce, organized a partnership and established the Rancho Grande on the Tres Palacios River in Wharton County in 1871. The town of Pierce in Wharton County was named for them. The Pierces branded a B originally, then BB, then UU, and finally D. Later partnerships of various types were formed with J. M. Foster, Allen and Poole, B. Q. Ward, and Daniel Sullivan.
Abel H. Pierce's Letterhead, dated April 27, 1886. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Brahman Cattle at the Pierce Ranch, circa 1906. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
After some difficulties in Matagorda County and the death of his wife and infant son, Pierce converted his cattle into gold and went to Kansas for an eighteen-month stay. Back in Texas, he began buying land until he acquired 250,000 acres and formed the Pierce-Sullivan Pasture Company of which he was president. The company sent thousands of cattle up the northern trails and shipped thousands by rail. In his efforts to solve the mystery of Texas fever, Pierce experimented in removing ticks and concluded that the ticks caused the fever. He toured Europe in search of a breed of cattle immune to ticks, and returned without a definite solution but with the conviction that Brahman cattle were most likely to be immune. In 1875 he married Hattie James. In the early 1890s he commissioned sculptor Frank Teich to create a marble statue of himself. A 6'5" likeness was eventually placed atop a ten-foot granite pilaster which was itself mounted on a ten-foot piece of gray granite. The structure later marked his grave. In 1900 Pierce lost more than $1.25 million in the Galveston hurricane of 1900, in a bank failure, and in the purchase of the Gulf Island Railroad. On December 26, 1900, he died from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried in Hawley Cemetery near Bay City. After his death the Pierce estate imported Brahman cattle from India which furnished Texas with the base stock from which large herds of Brahmans have grown.
Abel Head Pierce Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Galveston Daily News, December 26, 1900. Houston Post, November 28, 1943, March 26, 1944.
Handbook of Texas Online, Chris Emmett, "PIERCE, ABEL HEAD [SHANGHAI]," accessed April 23, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpi08.
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VTT Summer of Changemakers: Research Trainee, Nuclear Energy Solutions
Let's make science work for hope next summer! – VTT Summer of Changemakers traineeships
Let's face it, 2020 was a mess. But this summer, we can make a change for the better. Join a community of world-class problem solvers, tackling the greatest challenges of our time. Together, we can turn these challenging times into a hopeful future. Apply now for the VTT Summer of Changemakers traineeships.
Do you want to start changing the world for the better next summer? Are you all about science and technology or passionate about business and people? Would you like to develop your skills and use them to tackle the greatest challenges of our time?
VTT Summer of Changemakers 2021 is looking for you. We offer over 30 truly meaningful summer traineeships, where you get to challenge yourself and build your career in a community of brilliant minds. We are one of Europe's leading research organisations. We turn global challenges – from climate change and resource sufficiency to industrial renewal and smart healthcare – into sustainable growth with the latest and best tools of science and technology. Now, we are looking for passionate changemakers – you – to join us as summer trainees.
Do you want to be the next Research Trainee in Nuclear Energy Solutions?
In our team, we are providing new technologies and versatile services for safe and cost-efficient use of present and future nuclear power plants for a carbon-neutral society by combining VTT's and our partners' knowhow.
With us, you will be participating in innovation ecosystems or other large international co-operation projects in the field of SMRs (small modular reactor) concepts, hydrogen production with nuclear energy, nuclear waste management, or decommissioning based on your study and work experience and interests.
What would your responsibilities include?
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Who we are looking for?
To succeed in the position, you have following background and skills:
2-3 years technical studies at University level, at least basic studies of Nuclear Energy
Fluent written and oral English
Interest towards Nuclear Energy.
The ideal VTT Changemaker is a curious mind, who is eager to develop and take on new challenges. We appreciate ambition and willingness to learn over having all the answers or skills ready when you start. You are also a team player with strong collaboration skills who wants to drive positive impact in the world.
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All VTT Summer of Changemakers traineeships are paid and the duration is usually between 3 and 6 months. The exact starting date can be discussed. Positions are filled as soon as we find the right candidate.
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This is a simple game in which players roll dice and move about the gameboard attempting to collect the items that ET needs to phone home. Along the way you'll have to hide ET from your parents (using his clever Halloween disguise) and go on the magical bicycle ride through the skies (with the use of special Elliot cards). The object is to be the first player to get ET to the three-dimensional spaceship that sits in the middle of the board.


Milon in Washington DC: Fulfilled Feedback.
What did I do and what did I learn? Those are questions my professor want me to answer for the Internship Journal that I'm writing for class. But, that is also what I constantly ask myself as I leave the office at M Street every day.
This Thursday evening, I realized to appreciate the great value of feedback. As I was waiting for the light to shift to white for me to cross the street and walk towards my building, I evaluated the day as having been very good. And why is that? Because today consisted of two meetings and a lot of useful feedback.
Working with the one same project for a long time can feel like running around in a circle. Have we not touched upon this before? What more can we do? Enter: feedback. For the questions you can answer, you realize that you have done some good research. For the questions you cannot answer, you realize that you can always improve.
It becomes obvious what the heart of the story is and the small cracks appear for you to fix. It's rewarding as well as stimulating. So keep on working and ask for somebody's opinion on what you have achieved.


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Il popolo Rukai (caratteri cinesi: 魯凱族) è una delle etnie di aborigeni taiwanesi. Essi vivono nelle montagne a sud dell'isola di Taiwan, e all'anno 2000 la loro popolazione ammontava a 12.084 individui. I Rukai sono il quinto gruppo tribale più ampio di Taiwan, costituendo circa il 3% della popolazione aborigena. A causa dei luoghi impervi in cui vivono, i Rukai vengono chiamati anche Tsarisen, che vuol dire "popolo che vive sulle montagne".La loro lingua, il Rukai, fa parte della famiglia delle lingue austronesiane.

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Sweden is a nation proud of its historical roots yet one of the fastest at adopting new trends. While we look abroad to make sure we don't miss out on anything new, we are most proud of our domestic innovations. While we travel abroad to find the sun, we all agree Swedish summers are the best. We are open to foreign influences-but prefer that others follow our lead when it comes to important issues such as equality, human rights and sustainability. This is Sweden sorts out the phenomena that shape Sweden today, and arrives at a nation that is sometimes surprising and sometimes exactly what you would expect.


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05-13-2017 Ned Brown: San Juan Islands
March 13, 2018 March 31, 2018 editor1
Geology of the San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands record geologic growth of the western edge of North America by very active plate tectonics, which added exotic terranes ~400 to 100 million years ago. These terranes came from distant origins—Asia, Greenland, and the ancestral Pacific Ocean. The terranes moved through the ocean realm; they accreted by subduction at the continental edge, perhaps in N. California, at depths of 20-30 kilometers or more. These old rocks were then exhumed and transported north in a "forearc sliver" along the continental margin. They eventually collided with and stacked up on the south-facing edge of Wrangellia (Vancouver Island) and on the south end of the active Coast Plutonic Complex (a magmatic arc). At this point in San Juan Islands evolution, ~ 100 million years ago, the major tectonic elements were pretty much as they are now: The Islands were composed of stacked thrust sheets on the southeast edge of Wrangellia, and major plutonism emplacing younger rocks in the southern B.C. Coast Mountains.
An additional element to this tectonic wreck was the 100-65 million-year-old marine Nanaimo basin, surrounded by Wrangellia to the west, the San Juan Islands lying south, and the Coast Plutonic Complex on the east. A several kilometer-thick section of marine sands, conglomerates, and shales accumulated. These beds are rich in fossils, including a Tyrannosaurus dinosaur bone from Sucia Island. Distinctive cobbles give evidence of when the San Juan Islands terranes arrived. Sucia Island's distinct horseshoe shape is a result of later folding into a syncline.
Unconformable on the Nanaimo Formation are the subaerial river-deposited sandstones, shales, and conglomerates of the Chuckanut Formation, ~60-50 million years old. These sediments accumulated to a thickness of some six kilometers (!) in a subsiding basin marginal to the coast. Fossil palm trees and crocodile footprints point to a tropical setting. Interestingly, the Chuckanut Sandstone is the major building stone for Port Townsend's old masonry buildings.
Finally, during a period ~ 20,000 to 15,000 years, ago the San Juan Islands were overrun by a mile-thick glacier flowing south as an extension of the continental "Cordilleran Ice Sheet" lying mostly in Canada.
Born and raised in Excelsior, Minnesota, Ned Brown attended Dartmouth College (A.B., 1960), the University of Otago, New Zealand (M.Sc., 1961-62 supported by a Fulbright scholarship), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1963-66) with his field area in New Zealand.
He was employed as a Geology Professor at Western Washington University from1966-1999, then was appointed as an Emeritus Professor. Over these years he supervised ~30 M.S. student theses, nearly all in the local region.
His geology research interests include metamorphism, structure, plutonism, plate tectonics while working extensively in the San Juan Islands, North Cascades, and Coast Mountains of southern B.C.
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Amazon EventBridge: a new era of SaaS integration
Amazon recently announced EventBridge to much fanfare. Although, in truth, it's a rebranding of the existing CloudWatch Events service, along with some new features. But rebranding might be exactly what this old dog needs!
You see, CloudWatch Events is a powerful service that had been badly marketed by AWS. Its primary function is to deliver system and user events in real-time. You know, like an event bus. For some reason, it was marketed with the CloudWatch "brand". A brand that is mainly associated with service monitoring. As such, most AWS users only know CloudWatch Events for simple cron jobs. Even though it is capable of capturing user-published events as well as system events from other AWS services, and delivering them in real-time to a vast array of targets. For large enterprises that prefer to centralize their application governance, CloudWatch Events can also deliver events across AWS accounts. This allows you to monitor activities in all your AWS accounts from a single place.
All of these capabilities are still there for EventBridge. But they have been extended to support custom events from AWS's partners such as DataDog, OneLogin and PagerDuty. This opens up an entirely new way to integrate with these SaaS platforms.
Previously, you would have to rely on webhooks. Which involves all the usual overhead of building, running and maintaining APIs. Now all that becomes somebody else's problem! AWS is going to look after the plumbing around ingesting these partner events. You can handle these events using Lambda functions, or forward them to one of the other supported targets.
You can have multiple targets for the same event. For example, when DataDog sends an alert event to EventBridge you might wish to handle the event with a Lambda function and execute auto-remediation pipelines and runbooks. At the same time, you can also send the event to a Firehose delivery stream so you can query these events with Athena later.
You can also augment these partner events with custom user events from your application. Following the previous example, the Lambda function can also publish custom events to EventBridge. These events might describe the auto-remediation steps that were taken. Since all these events can be forwarded to a Firehose delivery stream, you can build up a complete audit trail of everything that happened. What alerts were triggered? What did the function do in response? And what was the result of these actions (in the form of other system events such as EC2 instance terminations, etc.)?
In recent times, the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has opened up new ways of integrating with SaaS platforms using functions. Auth0 Extend is a prime example of that, allowing customers to handle events by shipping their own code to Auth0. However, these functions often need to communicate back to the customer's home base, that is, their own application running in AWS.
EventBridge takes things a step further and brings the partner events closer to your application. AWS takes care of the event ingestion so you can focus on the things that will add value to your business.
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Can homoeopathy cure Hepatitis C?
To my knowledge, so far, not a single documented account of the successful treatment of Hepatitis C has been published in any standard journal on homoeopathy though claims of treating it successfully abound.
Every case in homoeopathy is a new case, quite different from all identical cases though they may bear the same disease-name as homoeopathy does not treat the disease name e.g. Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Malaria, etc. Homoeopathy provides symptomatic treatment, basing its prescription on the signs and symptoms of the patient, as narrated by him or his attendants, observed by the physician and the findings of the investigation reports. Given this fact, I feel, homoeopathy should be able to treat an individual with Hepatitis C. That is why, I advised you to consult Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry.
You are right, homoeopathy does not attempt to kill the virus nor can it do so. It aims at strengthening and fortifying the defence system of the body so that the virulence of the virus is staved off. To what extent such attempts are successful, I am not in a position to say with authority as such cases require long term monitoring and once the patient gets better, one loses sight of him forever, never knowing to what extent and for what duration did the treatment hold good?
1. Ask the specialist about the success rate of Interferon course.
2. Ask him if all the lab values would return to normal?
3. If the lab values return to normal, for how long will they hold good?
4. Request him if he can give you names of his former patients who have fully recovered under Interferon course?