This tensile module (compression as option) for the SEM (and a limited selection of “Atomic Force Microscops”) fits on the sample stage just like an oversize specimen. The test objects should be 20 to 60 mm long, not thicker than 5 mm. The tensile lead screws of the load frame are threaded with right and left pitches at their opposite ends.

MRTG is an excellent tool for graphing most network related things like bandwidth usage, ping latency etc. I’ve been running mrtg for the last three years graphing the network usage on our Cisco WAN routers amongst a few other things. I’ve always wanted to get some stats on how our AntiVirus Email gateway is performing.

To mitigate the economic effects on society of the COVID-19 outbreak, several measures have been taken. The measures are intended to provide greater security for those affected by the pandemic by limiting the spread of the virus, combating the effects on businesses and jobs and providing financial security and transition opportunities for those who become unemployed.

SketchUp is great. Not only is it free, but it supports Ruby as a scripting language, and provides plenty of interesting APIs and reasonable (though not very well inter-linked) documentation too. It’s long been discussed, in conjunction with Google Earth, as a potential virtual world, and rival to Second Life. While it will be fascinating to see how that develops.

In the framework of the international conference « The European Pilgirmage Routes for promoting sustainable and quality touism in rural areas», the second meeting of the network EUNeK will take place on December 3rd 2014 in Florence.

Slopes of virgin snow away from the marked pistes are a paradise for freeriders, yet they are also a habitat for many wild animals. Inevitably, there will be conflicts between the interests of nature and humans. For example, people participating in winter sports may startle hibernating animals or cause damage to protective forests with their equipment.

William A. Barnett, Getting It Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xxxiii + 322 pp. $35 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-262-51688-4. Reviewed for EH.Net by J. Peter Ferderer, Department of Economics, Macalester College.

On 17 July 2019, the US Senate approved the 2009 protocol amending the double taxation agreement (DTA) in the area of income tax between Switzerland and the USA. It is a milestone in the tax relations between Switzerland and the USA by introducing the exchange of information upon request in tax matters between the two countries according to the international standard.

The United Nations came into being in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish.

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