eta^1_1{\wedge}\eta^1+ \eta^1_2{\wedge}\eta^2) +e_2 (d\eta^2 + \eta^2_1{\wedge}\eta^1+ \eta^2_2{\wedge}\eta^2) +e_3 (\eta^3_1{\wedge}\eta^1 + \eta^3_2{\wedge}\eta^2) $$ Looking at the $e_3$-coefficient in this equation and applying Cartan's Lemma, we see that there must exist $h^{ij}=h^{ji}$ such that $\eta^i = h^{ij}\ \eta^3_j$, which, substituted into the second equation, says that $\det(h) = \pm 1$.
Now, let $S_\pm$ denote the surface in the $3$-dimensional space of symmetric $2$-by-$2$ matrices that consists of the matrices with determinant $\pm 1$. ($S_+$ is a hyperboloid of 2 sheets, while $S_-$ is a hyperboloid of 1 sheet.) Let $h:P_g''\times S_\pm\to S_\pm$ be the projection onto the second factor. Set $\eta^i = h^{ij}\eta^3_j$ as $1$-forms on $P_g''\times S_\pm$ and consider the pair of $2$-forms $$ \Upsilon^i = d\eta^i + \eta^i_1{\wedge}\eta^1+ \eta^i_2{\wedge}\eta^2. $$ The formulae derived so far show that $\Upsilon^i = \pi^{ij}\wedge\eta^3_j$, where $\pi^{ij}=\pi^{ji}$ are $1$-forms defined by the relations $$ \begin{pmatrix}\pi^{11}&\pi^{12}\\\\ \pi^{21}&\pi^{22}\end{pmatrix} = dh + \begin{pmatrix}\eta^1_1&\eta^1_2\\\\ \eta^2_1&\eta^2_2\end{pmatrix} h + h\begin{pmatrix}\eta^1_1-\eta^3_3&\eta^2_1\\\\ \eta^1_2&\eta^2_2-\eta^3_3\end{pmatrix}. $$ Moreover, the equation $\det(h)=\pm1$ and the normalizations made so far imply that $\mathrm{tr}(h^{-1}\pi)=0$.
These equations show that, on the quotient manifold $Q = (P_g''\times S_\pm)/G_3$, which is a bundle over $\Sigma$ with $2$-dimensional fibers, there is an ideal $\mathcal{I}$ that is locally generated by a pair of $2$-forms that pull back up to $P_g''\times S_\pm$ to be independent linear combinations of the $\Upsilon^i$, and that the integral surfaces of this ideal that are transverse to the fibers of $Q\to\Sigma$ represent solutions to our problem. When $\det(h)=1$, the above relations show that this is an elliptic ideal, while, when $\det(h)=-1$, this ideal is hyperbolic. In either case, the ideal is involutive, with Cartan characters $s_1=2$, $s_2=0$.
The Cartan-Kähler Theorem now applies, at least when $g$ is real-analytic, to show that there are local integral manifolds transverse to the fibers of $Q\to\Sigma$. In the hyperbolic case, a smooth version of the Cartan-Kähler theorem guarantees local solvability while, in the elliptic case, there are existence theorems (basically coming from the theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves) that guarantee existence of local solutions. Thus, the equations are locally solvable if $g$ is smooth.
Anyway, that's a sketch of an analysis of the nondegenerate case. The point is that the original determined system of three equations for three unknowns is not formally integrable, but, in the generic case, it can be prolonged to either an elliptic or a hyperbolic system that is involutive and hence formally integrable.
One should still do the case when the rank of the differential of $g$ is $1$, and one should look for a way to reinterpret the system $\mathcal{I}$ as a single scalar equation of Monge-Ampere type, to which more standard PDE methods would apply. There may even be a way to linearize this equation as either an elliptic or hyperbolic single scalar equation, but that would require more thought than I have had time to put into it so far.
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_USER_: Many thanks, this is beautiful. It also seems to work in the more general case of an orientable $m$-manifold $M$ and an immersion $f:M‚Üí‚Ñù^n$ by using $$\rho(f) = f_{x_1}\wedge\dots\wedge f_{x_m}\otimes dx_1\wedge\dots\wedge dx_m \in\Omega^m(M,\Lambda^m \mathbb R^n).$$ One can use the Hodge star or not. But note that it takes values in the subset of decomposable mutlivectors in $\lambda^m\mathbb R^n$, so the Pluecker relations hold. (see (4) in _URL_-lon.pdf why it plays no role in the the $\Lambda^2 \mathbb R^3$ case). – Peter Michor Apr 24 '13 at 6:35
_USER_: You are welcome; it's an interesting system and was a fun exercise. Of course, you are correct that the Plücker relations play no role in the $3$-dimensional case for a surface, but $\Lambda^2(V)$ is still not just any old $3$-dimensional vector space, as it carries a canonical orientation, which, as it turns out, is the source of there being two kinds (elliptic and hyperbolic) of nondegenerate $\Lambda^2(V)$-valued $2$-forms on a surface $\Sigma$. – Robert Bryant Apr 24 '13 at 12:40
_USER_: I should have remarked on your generalization to immersions of $m$-manifolds into $n$-space: Yes, of course you do need to deal with the Plücker relations when $1 < m < n{-}1$, but, just as serious is the fact that, when $m(n{-}m)+1 > n$, this equation (even with the Plücker relations assumed satisfied) will be overdetermined, so there will be local obstructions to solvability. One sees this already for the case $(m,n)=(2,4)$, where prescribing the map $\rho$ is 5 equations for 4 unknowns. – Robert Bryant Apr 24 '13 at 13:05
My favourite bit is where he says "... I'm too lazy...". – Ben McKay Apr 24 '13 at 19:43
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Lots of Top 10 lists were revealed during the last weeks of 2012. San Juan Basin Health concluded its own counting down of top health issues in Archuleta and La Plata counties.
Over the last six months, a series of public and internal meetings have been held and an online survey conducted to help prioritize the plethora of legitimate entries.
"We heard voices of over 150 people that are invested and interested in our community's health. Eighty-five responded to the online survey," said Molly Gutilla, doctorate public health student intern who coordinated the prioritization process.
All public-health agencies in Colorado are charged with creating a Public Health Improvement Plan in 2013. The completed health assessment and selecting of a top priority(s) were the first steps.
After obesity, priorities include mental health, substance abuse, clean air and water, and oral health. Most people found it incredibly difficult to choose between these. Interesting conversations took place among staff and community members about what is most important and immediate concern to the community, what was already being done or on its way, which evidence-based strategies could be implemented and what strengths public health could bring. So, for example, San Juan Basin Health is already implementing an effective public-health strategy to improve oral health through its Southwest Smile Makers program in the schools, and that's a reason why some people ranked it fifth.
After combining votes in Archuleta and La Plata county meetings, obesity ranked as the top health issue. Many factors went into people's decisions. One key seemed to be obesity's effect on so many other health issues down the line; if addressed, it could help reduce associated health risks and decrease need to access care. This is exactly what public health traditionally has done and should be doing.
Historically, we have responded to health problems by looking upstream at the root causes and worked to address them whether it was advocating for sewage systems or safe drinking water or reducing smoking. Our health problems evolve and change over time. While there are plenty of professionals working to help individuals cope with and overcome their health conditions, public health is charged with identifying and addressing the reasons why so many are getting sick or injured to begin with. Obesity is a perfect example – public health can play a key role in decreasing its prevalence.
While obesity came out on top of public-health issues, access to care was the overwhelming No. 1 need "screamed" by people. This multilayered problem needs addressing community-wide, with some actions required on a higher political-economic level. Even so, it will be included into the Public Health Improvement Plan.
"It's not our plan, it's a plan for community health and will include strategies to address obesity and access to care," Gutilla said. "Over the next five years, it'll take collaboration from community partners and ultimately most everyone to turn it into action."
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Cabin in the Wood
There many famous hunting property in NSW, like Barraba, Bendemeer, Bingara, Binnaway, etc. Usually people stay with camping in wildlife, but not few site that provide you a shelter or maybe a small house/cabin for stay. This articles is for you who own cabin in the wood or for people who might plan to hunt for their weekend and renting old classic cabin in the wood. Some important thing to remember is usually property like this is very old, so for you and your beloved family safety you have to read this long articles to find out what might be wrong in this old cabin could be.
Danger of Asbestos
Asbestos is a fibrous material that was used, mined and imported into Australia for construction because of its many uses and properties. Like i said earlier, mostly property in the wood or some resort for hunter built long time ago mostly 80's, that why we need to more concern about this because old property usually using this dangerous material in their house. However, when asbestos or asbestos-containing products are broken asbestos fibres can be released into the air, these fibres can very easily be inhaled, when inhaled asbestos fibres can cause scarring and abrasions on the lungs, these cuts and abrasions can cause a variety of diseases including:
Asbestos get you Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Asbestosis or fibrotic lung disease
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
- Testes Cancer
- Pleural plaques
- Pleural thickening
All of these diseases are chronic, progressive and as of yet are incurable, the only methods we have to defend against all of these asbestos-related diseases is prevention and education. This is why it is essential to know your stuff when it comes to asbestos and how to identify asbestos.
Types of Asbestos
- Tremolite Asbestos
- Actinolite Asbestos
- Anthophyllite Asbestos
- Chrysotile Asbestos
- Amosite Asbestos
- Crocidolite Asbestos
After types of asbestos is can be sorted into two categories:
Friable: Friable asbestos is loose and easily broken this type of asbestos is considered high risk because it becomes airborne easily, this type of asbestos is best to be removed or enclosed until removal is possible.
Non-Friable: Non-friable asbestos is hardier and less likely to break this type of asbestos is considered low risk because it is less likely to become airborne, this type of asbestos can be encapsulated.
Where Is Asbestos Found?
Asbestos can be found in many places as it had a variety of uses when it was used, some of these places include but are not limited to:
- Piping (Water)
- Piping (Sewage)
Testing for AsbestosProfessionals
The best way to know if you have asbestos on your property is to get it professionally tested. Accredited professionals can come to you for this, they can take samples safely of any suspected asbestos and deliver them to a NATA accredited laboratory for proper testing, Asbestos Testing Perth. This testing is often complete in under 24 hours however multiple samples may take longer to fully test. When testing is complete, your asbestos professional will contact you and inform you if they have found any asbestos, talk you through any risks you may currently face and then discuss your options for dealing with the asbestos in a safe and quick manner.
Options After Testing
- Leaving the AsbestosBelieve it or not, some asbestos can be left, if the asbestos is in a good enough state and undetached, then it poses no risk or harm to you. Asbestos is only dangerous when the fibres are airborne and can be inhaled, however, it is recommended to check on the asbestos regularly and be extra careful around it to ensure no breakages or damage.
- EnclosureEnclosing the asbestos involves an accredited professional enclosing the asbestos in an airtight container to be sure no fibres are released into the air to be inhaled. This is not a long-term option for people generally as the structure can get in the way of your space and needs. This is a good option if the asbestos is dangerous and you need to be on the property doing other things if you want to think over your options or have to acquire the money for another option.
- EncapsulationEncapsulating asbestos involves a professional using a sealant to seal the asbestos both on the surface and within the asbestos to ensure that if the asbestos is broken that the fibres will remain bonded and not become airborne. This is often a popular option for roofs as its often cheaper than a full removal and replacement and as a bonus can give the appearance of a fresh coat of paint. This method can also be used for asbestos that would be too hazardous to remove.
- RemovalLastly, the most chosen option and well known of course would be a removal. Though it may be expensive, removal can be a popular option as it removes all risk from asbestos. However, the cost of asbestos removal is varied in every place. For instance, the asbestos removal Canberra cost differs from the one in Brisbane.
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There are a range of types of greenhouses that a person can build; however, there are commonly two basic types. There is a dome type tent, as well as the traditional greenhouse structure. Both of which can be constructed from relatively simple materials. The building process of the greenhouses can vary, depending on the materials and supplies that the individual is able to obtain, as well as the specific design type they build.
A greenhouse is able to retain the sun's heat to provide a warm, humid climate for plants to grow in. Furthermore, a greenhouse also magnifies the sun's rays for the plants so that they are able to produce more chlorophyll, and grow larger and more lush. In the case of dome tents, they are not necessarily as humid, because of openings on both ends of the tent. These types of greenhouse tents also provide an amplification of the sun's rays to help boost plants growth and virility.
In order for an individual to construct a dome greenhouse tent, they can obtain some PVC piping to form a square base to their tent. The PVC pipes can be connected with PVC elbows; as far as the shape of the tent base, it can be made into a rectangular shape, and can be built according to the size that the person will need to accommodate the plants that they would like to have in their greenhouse.
Next, the person can add curvature to the tent by constructing an end to each side of the base rectangle; PVC pipes, or similar materials may be bent from one angle, of one side of the rectangular base, to the opposing side of the rectangular base. This will construct macaroni-shaped foundation ends on both ends of the rectangular base.
After the base of the greenhouse tent has been constructed, along with the foundation ends, a straight ceiling PVC pipe may be connected from each side of the end foundations, along the top of the tent to create a top base for the material to be connected, so that a tent may be formed. After the base and sides of the tent have been constructed, a clear plastic-type material may be draped over the construction and secured into place. Afterwards, the plants may be put into the greenhouse.
As far as a standard greenhouse is concerned, there are many different designs that can be constructed by people. However there are some basic types of designs that people can choose to build their greenhouse by. A basic greenhouse design is in the style of a shed, with double-paned window walls, and ceilings. This allows plenty of sunshine, as well as humidity to enter the greenhouse to increase the plant's photosynthesis productions.
A standard greenhouse might be built by a person constructing a basic shed, according to the guidelines that a shed would be built. However, in between the floor joists, people can install large wall windows, which will serve to let light in. The wall windows should be properly proportioned, and installed into the framing of the shed to ensure that they hold well. When it's time for the roof to be installed, there might need to be some re-enforcement done to the top structure base of the shed to ensure that it can support the ceiling window panels.
After the panels have been installed into the shed walls and ceilings, they can then be sealed properly by using caulking. Afterwards, many people might also install a water line to the greenhouse for easy convenience, or for those who might want to connect their water supply to hydroponic, or auto-watering containers or systems. After the greenhouse has been finished, the individual might want to incorporate shelves, or proper structures to put the plant's containers on so that they can grow.


Hospitalist Service Benefits Everyone. But How Much?
Dr Wes opined about his interpretation of the benefit a hospitalist service can offer its hospital. I hope to set a few of his opinions straight and explain that the reality is not all that meets the eye. Let me clarify several things as I see them from a hospitalist service in the trenches. When you present $268 as the bottom line, you miss out on a whole lot of other lines that an excellent hospitalist service brings to the table.
Lets start with that $268 figure. Let us assume that a 300 bed hospital is always full. Let us assume the average hospital stay is 5 days long. How many admissions or diagnosis related groups (DRGs) can a hospital collect in a year? A 300 bed hospital at maximum load will have 109,5000 patient days. If the average length of stay is 5 days, that represents 21,900 admissions to the hospital or DRGs.
Now imagine if all those 21,900 DRGs, all were taken care of by internists. Then the following year, all of them were taken care of by hospitalists. What is the savings from a well run hospitalist service? That total is $268 * 21,900 or 5,869,000 dollars. Almost six million dollars could be earned by a hospital if all medical admissions once cared for by community internists were instead cared for by a hospitalist service. Obviously in a hospital, not all admissions are handled by internists. Some are surgical, some are observation, some are family practice, so the benefit in direct resource utilization is not quite as high.
Now let us take my hospitalist service for example. Let us use a daily census of 75 as an example. If you plug in this same data, and assume a LOS of 5 days, then our hospitalist service will see on average 5475 DRGs a year. If all were previously admitted by community internists, that $268 just became 1.5 million dollars a year in direct costs savings from resource utilization. So what may seem like chump change, is in fact a huge chunk of change in the tight margins of hospital economics.
Now, this $268, is actually the smallest benefit by far to the hospital. Imagine a full hospital system. If your hospital is at maximum capacity and payment is based on DRG, then the quicker you get them out, the more room you have to admit other patients of higher potential margins from Medicare. The reason it pays to get medical patients out as quick as safely possible is because medical admissions generally loose money to a hospital system. So even $268 per DRG is a WIN-WIN.
But let us go back to the length of stay benefit of 0.4 days. Let us dissect that number. Imagine again our 300 bed hospital at maximum load. Let us again imagine a LOS of 5 days. That gives 109,500 patient bed days. If the average LOS is 5 days, that gives 21,900 DRG payments. Hospitals are paid on diagnosis related groups (DRGs), so if you are in the hospital for 2 days or 20, they get paid the same (with some minor adjustments). Let us just use a DRG payment of $5000 for simplicity.
Revenue for that hospital for the year would be 21,900 * $5000. Or $109,500,000, without the hospitalist service. Now let us imagine if the hospitalist service admitted every single patient to the hospital and was able to shave just 0.4 days off the hospital stay. How many DRGs could a hospital collect in that year?
Well, at a LOS of 4.6 days instead of 5, at a 300 bed hospital, at full capacity, that equates to 23, 804 DRGs, an increase of 1904 DRGs. Let us use that $5,000 average DRG payment (which would actually go up as better paying procedural admissions were made possible with open beds) and you see that a hospital can collect an additional $9,520,000 in DRGs based solely on a decrease length of stay of less than 1/2 day per patient, if a hospitalist service had their mittens on every patient brought into the hospital.
This is where the actual direct costs savings come into play. By allowing the hospital to optimize their staffing (the nurse will get paid the same whether there are 21K or 23K DRGs, every additional DRG is pure profit to the hospital. Making beds available for those elective total knees and bypass surgeries increases the average DRG payment, the stuff that drives profit.
All of this is the result of The Medicare National Bank's fantasy land economics and has resulted in skewed incentives for the development of specialty based procedural hospitals which can, in the long run improve quality and decrease costs. Unfortunately, it also puts an unfair burden on full service hospitals which require the skewed economies/DRG reimbursement of procedures to make up for my money losing pneumonia admissions.
$10 million dollars a year. That's how much a hospitalist service could bring to the table. If you imagined a hospitalist group getting 4 million dollars a year in support to see all 300 patients every day in the hospital (at maximum efficiency that would require a group of about 40 docs ), the yearly return on investment of 4 million dollars is 250%, starting at year one. The per doc support would be about $100,000.
Can you think of any other business decision that result in immediate 250% ROI? I can't. That's why hospitalist services and hospitalist compensation are in demand.
This is a simple run down on why a hospitalist service makes sense and why administrators that get it are willing to support a WIN-WIN solution. The benefits don't stop at money. I can't tell you how many times I have had nursing staff tell us they are so glad we are here. We are much more accessable in emergencies. The ER loves us because we are there to improve throughput in the ER. The specialists love us because we can quickly do floor consults for routine management of medical problems like diabetes and hypertension and to quickly evaluate a decompensating surgical patient.
The primary care docs, whose patients we see at their discretion, love us because we see their patients for them, we do a great job and we allow them to increase their office practice with 100% paying customers. Families love us because we have time to talk to them and to give them the time of day. Our satisfaction surveys are routinely higher from all comers.
Your point about finding a new doctor is well taken. But I must also remind you that this fragmentation of care occurs among all specialists that we work with as well. Every week the ID, the cardiologist, the GI, the nephrologist and even the surgeon changes. They go through their week of hospital rotation and then their partner comes on.
To single out a hospitalist service is in my book unfair. A changing service is universal in hospitalized patients. As far as "bonuses and production", the last time I checked, salary compensation based on length of stay was illegal. If you think about it, this is actually counter intuitive, and the opposite of what you suggest. The longer you hold onto patients, the more RVU's you will generate and therefore more production and more money. But also less benefit of the length of stay, and therefore less benefit of the program in general. That's why I am a staunch believer in a well run private practice hospitalist program where the administration understands the value hospitalists bring to the table.
Let the private practice hospitalist service sort out the details reimbursement/staffing/bonuses/benefits. The hospital's only job is should be to ensure that their hospitalist group survives and thrives. The benefits will come to the bottom line and to all those around it.
I can assure you in my 5 years of private practice, there has never been one patient I have ever discharged where I felt it was based on any type of financial reward to me. I discharge a patient when I feel they are medically stable. My malpractice risk doesn't afford me to practice any other way. In a well run program the limitations are mostly overcome. The transfer of information is quick, between hand offs, between hospitalist and primary care doc.
The one trade off of having a hospitalist vs primary care doc? Well, we are not their outpatient doc. You have correctly stated that fact. But we are highly professional doctors who can efficiently care for very sick people. And do so quickly. I once had a consult at midnight on a surgical patient for "high blood pressure." Hypotension causes me to jump. So does unexplained hypertension in a young one. It was presented to me as non urgent, but when I saw the patient, that night, it became quite clear to me the patient was in florid alcohol withdrawal. I had, in fact had the patient intubated that night. There is nothing that compares to the bed side evaluation, something outpatient doctors are not available to do at all hours of the day.
So the trade offs are all relative.
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Positive Words That Starts With F. You know sometimes when you want a word in a particular sentence but just can't think of exactly the right one? You don't have all day (or year!) to go through the dictionary but just need someone to give you a few ideas. Here we have a list of inspirational adjectives and nice words that start with the letter F. This is a great resource for teachers, quizzers or even people writing appraisals. It's also very useful for crossword compilers or enthusiasts.
Positive Words That Starts With F
Have a look at our list of positive F words.
Meaning: Something that is excellent or with a glamorous edge.
Example: 'You look simply fabulous, darling.'
Meaning: Someone who is true to their word and is loyal in allegiance.
Example: 'Josh has always been a faithful friend.'
Meaning: When something is really good, great or you like something a lot.
Example: 'Last night's roast dinner was absolutely fantastic.'
Meaning: When someone finds something really interesting.
Example: 'The ancient artefacts were fascinating.'
Meaning: Someone who wears clothes or goes places that are considered stylish.
Example: 'The fashionable clothes were really expensive.'
Meaning: A word that that describes clothing as striking or colourful and usually showy.
Example: 'The man's clothes were rather flamboyant.'
Meaning: Someone who doesn't hold grudges and is able to forgive.
Example: 'The woman had a very forgiving nature.'
Meaning: A word that can mean clothing of an unconventional style.
Example: 'The band wore funky clothes during the concert.'
Meaning: When plants grow luxuriantly or something ends on a high note.
Example: 'The flowers were sure to flourish by the spring.'
Meaning: Something without faults or problems. Something that is perfect.
Example: 'The car's bodywork after the re-spray was faultless.'
Meaning: Someone who isn't scared of anything or a specific thing.
Example: 'The fearless family swam with sharks in Australia.'
Other positive words beginning with the letter F include:
F Words that are Positive
Hopefully our list of positive words with F helped with your project! Whether you were looking for 'good' words, 'nice' words or 'inspirational' words. We have compiled one 'positive words' for every letter in the alphabet. Have a look at our lists of suggestions for positive words starting with the letter of your choice.
It's great to have a dedicated list without you having to scour the whole dictionary!


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Data Sharing: Storage as a Strategic Tool
By Scott Hansbury
Today's skyrocketing volumes of corporate data traffic present a potential gold mine of competitive opportunity. As storage technology evolves to incorporate advanced capabilities such as data sharing, it is emerging as an unexpected strategic tool for tapping this opportunity.
True data sharing is an important component in the evolution away from traditional storage architectures toward intelligent storage networks. In these environments, data sharing enables the seamless sharing of information between heterogeneous systems. In addition to saving costs and streamlining operations, data sharing provides investment protection by enabling a new class of capabilities that use existing storage equipment. Most importantly, it enables companies to use data already flowing through the corporation as a competitive resource for generating new revenues and increasing customer satisfaction.
"The center of computing is moving to content. When you become contentor data-centric, you're focusing on organizing data, protecting and authorizing access, and finally supplying the data in a variety of formats and speeds," says Robert Gray, an analyst at International Data Corp., a research firm in Framingham, MA. "Applying the storage version of Metcalfe's law, the potential business value of this data is proportional to the square of the number of people who have shared access to it."
As networks become the primary source for business communication and information distribution, data sharing will enable customers to do more than just keep pace with increasing volumes of data traffic. Efficiently integrating storage systems and anticipating and adjusting to increased capacities, peak usage periods, and points of failure across the network will help make data available as a strategic competitive resource.
While analysts are predicting a return to a centralized model of data storage, it is clear that today's approach must redefine storage for the network age. Yesterday's "glass house" data centers must be replaced with centralized storage tailored to meet the needs of distributed networks. This means creating intelligent storage networks that enable heterogeneous computing and storage resources to work together, giving users access to any information, anytime, anywhere, and facilitating the managing, distributing, and protecting of business-critical information across networks. Storage systems must scale to match the power of the data server, and disk and memory performance must keep pace with improvements in network and processing speeds.
Intelligent storage networks enable heterogeneous consolidated storage for multiple types of Unix, Windows NT, and mainframe systems. As part of intelligent storage networks, data sharing merges the benefits of network computing with data center reliability.
With data sharing, customers can buy a single large storage device and connect multiple, heterogeneous servers to one piece of storage equipment, streamlining operations and lowering total cost of ownership. This saves precious processing cycles that can be used for high-value tasks, while ensuring that enterprise information is always current and easily accessible.
In addition, data sharing allows different levels of privilege. For example, it can allow only the owning platform to modify (write) the data, or it can allow read and write by all platforms one at a time, or it can allow "concurrent data sharing" where all platforms can either read or update data simultaneously.
Data sharing enables data created by any host to be immediately accessed for faster, more accurate decision making. And because the shared data is current rather than copied, customers save time and money by eliminating transfers and duplication of data.
In contrast, traditional storage architectures do not have the capacity to make the best use of corporate data. For example, with traditional storage architectures, resources such as disk arrays and tape libraries are attached directly to servers that own, and do not easily share, large amounts of data between heterogeneous platforms. These platforms can be worked together--but only in piecemeal fashion, and mainframes and associated storage resources often reside completely outside of this network.
The new model of centralization will exploit underlying distributed computing architectures with "network-intelligent" storage solutions that transfer greater data loads, streamline data access and distribution, and handle more complex information types, such as digital video. For companies with large investments in mainframe-based data centers, intelligent storage solutions provide the best of both worlds--the performance and efficiency of a distributed computing environment and the reliability and manageability of centralized shared storage.
With storage requirements expected to continue growing rapidly in the foreseeable future, storage solutions must have built-in functionality for advanced data management. Data storage becomes even more critical with the increased use of the Internet and the thin-client computing model. Remote and dataless clients must be able to search for and retrieve data quickly, with consistent and acceptable response times.
As users continue to distribute information across networks, the demand for reliable, scalable, intelligent storage solutions will continue to grow. By enabling heterogeneous computing and storage resources to work together, data sharing technology will be a major factor in the role of intelligent storage networks. And in today's data-intensive corporations, this capability will be a key factor in remaining competitive.
Scott Hansbury is director of storage software marketing and engineering for Sun Microsystems' Storage Business Unit, in Mountain View, CA.


Steps to Create Interactive Prototype
Creating an interactive prototype for websites or applications provide the best way for designers, developers, and project managers to visualize their final product. However, getting the right interactive prototype tool is the most crucial step and should not be taken for granted. This is because a program can make or break your prototyping experience. If you have been looking for the best way to create interactive prototypes, then this article is your home. In this article, we shall give you a detailed guide on how to create interactive prototypes for your project.
The Best Tool for Creating Interactive Prototype
Wondershare Mockitt is an outstanding design, prototype, and collaboration tool you can think of now. This tool is equipped with a plethora of top-notch features that make it edge other same purpose software. The ability to create interactive prototypes with speed, ease, and efficiency explains why scores of people around the world value this tool.
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Use the rich UI assets and templates library to create designs for diverse industries. These templates lessen your design process as you don't have to start from scratch. You can create your template and asset library and reuse them anytime you need them. Use the several inbuilt widgets, edit them, and put them in your widget library. The collaboration features are outstanding. You can collaborate with team members in real-time and co-edit your project to accelerate the development. Once you are through with your prototype, you can preview on PC, mobile, or offline and share it with members to see your design in real action.
 - The cloud feature makes the project accessible anywhere and anytime.
 - It supports real-time collaboration and co-editing.
 - It has plenty of UI assets and Templates that speeds the design process.
 - It supports interactive prototypes with the help of animations, gestures, action, and transition features.
How to Create an Interactive Prototype
Step 1. Create a Project
Visit Mockitt website and log in using your credentials. When the main interface is displayed, hit the "Create > Prototype" button. And then you can select a specific device by selecting the options provided under the device drop-down icon. Or you can create from templates.
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Step 2. Add New Screen for Your Interactive Prototype
Now the program will display a prototyping window. To make it interactive, you should add more screens so that they can be linked with objects of different screens. To add screens, click the "+" button. Add as many screens as defined by the nature of your program.
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Step 3. Add Widgets and Icons to the Interactive Prototype
Once you have added the target number of screens, add the needed screen objects such as buttons, text fields, which shall be used for interaction. Drag the widgets into the Canvas and begin drawing your shapes. Use the Build-in Widgets, My Widgets, and Icons to make design your UI elements accordingly. You can edit these widgets and save them to your widgets library so that you can reuse them the next time you require them.
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Step 4. Create Object and Screen Interaction
The core part of the interaction is linking your screens and objects. Once your design is satisfactory, click on the screen object and drag the circular handle that appears on the right side of the object. Drag it to the respective screen that the object should link. To link another object to another screen, repeat the same procedure. Do it across other objects and screens that ought to link.
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Step 5. Preview the Prototype Interactive Project
Now that you are done with the connection, it is time to preview what you have done. Simply hit on the "Preview" tab and interact with your prototype. If it is not working as need, just go back and fine-tune the connections and design.
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Video Guide on How to Create Interactive Prototype
Video on How to Create Interactive Transition between Screens
Video on How to Create Interactive State
Useful Tips for Making Interactive Prototype
Creating an interactive prototype does not solely rely on your expertise but also myriads of other factors. Without the right tips, you can easily plunge into a prototyping disaster. But who wants to fall into such mayhems? No one. The following are some of the useful tips for making an interactive prototype for your project.
1. Use Templates
There is no need to build from scratch when there is an assortment of templates suitable for diverse industries. Just choose the right templates, edit them, and prototypes with speed and ease. Starting from scratch wastes much time and remember time is of the essence. Wondershare Mockitt, for instance, offers plenty of templates and UI assets that are ideal for different types of industries.
2. Choose the right tool
There is no good feeling as finding a tool that efficiently translates your idea into a useful prototype. While other softwares are known to complicate the process, choose tools that have elegant and seamless prototyping interfaces. The program should also be affordable and offer plenty of useful features for prototyping.
3. Test Severally
Once you have completed creating your prototype, you must now test it. Testing is not doing it once and forwarding for implementation. This doesn't seem right, as the project should be rigorously tested. Conducting tests will help identify hidden flaws both in cosmetics and functionality. Such faults may have a devastating effect on the product once it is deployed in mass. In a nutshell, testing will save the cost that would be incurred if errors go unnoticed to the final product.
4. Take Feedbacks Seriously
Feedbacks come from team members, clients, or customers in general. These people give feedback as per their taste. Remember, you are designing a product to fit the customer, and therefore his/her response is invaluable. The good thing is that several prototyping tools offer collaboration features. For example, Wondershare Mockitt allows users to collaborate in real-time and co-edit the project. This way, you can obtain the feedback directly and discuss it together for a satisfactory design.


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Change names of vehicles
Tools: VC GXT Editor
Tutorial author: FunGt
This tutorial explains how to change the names of the vehicles that appears when you get into any of them.
- Run GXT Editor and on File box insert the GXT file location, for example:
- If the path is correct, click Load and the file will be opened into the Editor.
- The vehicle names are located in MAIN and they are alphabetically ordered on the right box.
- Click on any vehicle name and in the bottom box will appear the name.
- Edit this name as you want, then click Apply and Save.
C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA Vice City\Text\american.gxt


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Concerto for Orchestra
Although a concerto
is usually a piece of music
for one or more solo instruments
pitted against an orchestra
, several composers
have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra
. This title is usually chosen to emphasise soloistic and virtuosic treatment of the instruments of the orchestra.
The best known Concerto for Orchestra is the one by Béla Bartók (1943), although the title had been used several times before.
Concertos for Orchestra (in chronological order)
Goffredo Petrassi made the concerto for orchestra something of a speciality, writing eight of them since the 1930s.


Knowledge Base - Technical Articles
Technical Article Problem: Polygons are divided in tiny strips when exported to EPS, PDF, SVG, or AI Illustrator
Article ID: 29950
Bug Id: N/A
Software: ArcGIS - ArcEditor 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS - ArcInfo 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 ArcGIS - ArcView 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS Engine Runtime 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS Server 9.0, 9.0.1
Platforms: Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP
When opened in an external editor like Adobe Illustrator,.EPS,.PDF,.SVG, or.AI export files display some large polygons divided into separate pieces.
For example: This map contains a polygon with a large number of vertices. This screenshot shows the polygon selected in ArcMap: -show me-
[O-image] ArcMap Polygon Dicing Selection Screenshot
Selecting the same polygon in the resultant.AI file exported from ArcMap and displayed in Adobe Illustrator shows that the polygon has been split into smaller pieces: -show me-
[O-image] Adobe Illustrator polygon dicing screenshot
This is called polygon dicing, and it occurs when drawing or exporting polygons that have more vertices than a certain threshold. For.PDF,.EPS, and.SVG formats, the default threshold is 5,000 vertices. For the Illustrator format,.AI, the default threshold is 8,000 vertices.
The purpose of polygon dicing is to:
- Speed up on-screen drawing and
- Prevent interpretation failures when files with large polygons are opened with older software or on a machine with limited resources.
Solution or Workaround
Reduce the effect of polygon dicing by simplifying the polygon data or exporting at a lower resolution. If this is not possible or does not help, increase the vertex threshold at which polygon dicing occurs.
 These steps only apply to ArcGIS version 9.0 and later.
 The instructions below include making changes to essential parts of your operating system. It is recommended that you backup your operating system and files, including the registry, before proceeding. Consult with a qualified computer systems professional, if necessary. ESRI cannot guarantee results from incorrect modifications while following these instructions. Therefore, use caution and proceed at your own risk.
 1. Start the Windows Registry Editor by navigating to Start > Run, typing regedit and clicking OK.
 2. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Export and and then select the registry key 'ExportObjectsParams'.
 3. The ExportObjectsParams registry key contains a MaxVertices registry value for each of the five vector export formats:
 The number in the registry data field determines the maximum number of vertices a polygon can have before the exporter will dice the polygon into multiple parts.
 Change the value to a higher number by double-clicking the registry data icon, changing the edit window to 'decimal' mode, and entering the higher number in the text box. The changes will take effect the next time a map is exported to that format.
 To find the optimal value for your workflow, you may need to experiment. Higher limits typically cause slower display and edit times in Illustrator and Acrobat.
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I found that if polygons are displayed with a non-zero value of transparency in GIS they will export into these strips. Setting transparency to zero on the Display tab solves the issue. You can then apply a transparency to your polygons in Illustrator. If you have other items as a basemap, such as satellite imagery or a topographic raster (DEM or hillshade), I also recommend exporting each as separate Illustrator files (i.e. export just the polygons, just the imagery, then just the DEM/hillshade. Then rebuild these elements that you exported as separate Illustrator files into one, master Illustrator file. Using copy/paste-in-front makes layering the items in the appropriate spatial location. It's a few extra, but quick, steps that I've found to provide the desired results.


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The Education Library at Wayne State University has a long and storied history. From its beginning at the Detroit Normal School to its final merger with the general library, the Education Library has been at the heart of not only Wayne State University, but also in the development of the College of Education. This paper chronicles the history of the library, and the people who created it, from its very beginning to its final place among the volumes of the Purdy/Kresge Library.
Library and Information Science | Other Education | Other History
Alteri, Suzan A., "From Laboratory to Library: The History of Wayne State University's Education Library" (2009). Library Scholarly Publications. 5.


Cities and the Maker Movement
17 Feb 2018
What is the Maker Movement?
The Maker Movement is a cultural development of artisans and small manufactures who create, craft and develop new and interesting ideas and products. The products can be categorized by the three "B"s: Bags, Brews, and Bots. "Bags" represent all products that someone might wear, such as, jewelry, clothing, purses, belts, etc. "Brews" represent all products that someone might consume. Of course this includes crafts beers and wines, but it also includes jams, cakes, beef jerky and other specialty food and beverages. "Bots" represent technology creations. This could be anything from mobile apps to robots.
How did the Maker Movement start?
A few tipping point events:
In June 2005, Etsy launched their online platform for artisans to sell their crafts. This was one of the first tipping points that helped hobbyists and crafters sell their products beyond their local craft show or flee market, exponentially increasing potential customers.
In February 2009, Square, Inc. was launched. Finally, small artisans had a convenient, on-site or online, low cost way to collect credit card payments.
In September 2012, The New York Times reports that the "Made in America" label is regaining popularity, with more consumers buying domestic, local goods they feel represent "old-school craftsmanship, even luxury."
Why is the Maker Movement important to cities?
The United States has an estimated 135 million makers. These makers are increasing economic activity, repurposing previously underutilized and blighted spaces, improving products and services in local communities and selling their products globally bringing dollars, from around the world, into the community in which they reside.
What can Cities do to support the Maker Movements and Local Makers?
 1. Review zoning and ordinances to be artisan friendly. For example, in which zoning would a craft brewery locate in your community? Does your zoning allow for the brewing and local sale of the products? Where would a small clothing design business locate. Does your zoning allow for the manufacture, assembly and shipping operations, as well as a local retail presence? Many cities even have a specific artisan manufacturing zone definition.
 2. Create Makerspaces/Incubators/Accelerators to support the entrepreneurial spirit of the movement, provide valuable technical, marketing and administrative assistance and help small manufacturers scale their small business from home-based to a commercial or industrial location.
 3. Evaluate your business-friendly environment. It should be a friendly, efficient process to start a business in your city. Are your permits available online? Can you pay with a credit card? Are the staff at City Hall and your local economic development offices knowledgeable about the license and permit requirements. Do you have the contact information readily available for any additional resources such as the Secretary of State's office? How does a business know what incentives might be available? Are those incentives easy to apply for and utilize?
Embrace the Maker Movement and encourage a culture of entrepreneurship in your city!


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In the intricate world of corporate environments, office ranking plays a pivotal role in shaping the professional landscape. Whether you're just starting your career or have climbed the ranks, understanding the dynamics of office ranking is crucial for success. This article delves into the various aspects of office hierarchy, the factors influencing ranking, and how individuals can navigate this complex terrain.
Office ranking typically follows 강남오피 a hierarchical structure, with employees organized into different levels based on their roles, responsibilities, and seniority. This structure helps establish clear lines of authority, accountability, and communication. Common designations include entry-level positions, mid-level management, and executive leadership roles. The hierarchy is often depicted as an organizational chart, illustrating the reporting relationships and chains of command within the company.
Factors Influencing Office Ranking:
- Experience and Expertise:
- Seasoned professionals often find themselves in higher-ranking positions due to their wealth of experience and expertise.
- Specialized skills and knowledge in a particular field can contribute significantly to climbing the corporate ladder.
- Performance and Achievements:
- Consistent high performance and notable achievements distinguish individuals and contribute to their upward mobility.
- Companies often reward employees who exceed expectations with promotions and increased responsibilities.
- Education and Qualifications:
- Educational background and qualifications, such as degrees and certifications, can be key factors in determining office ranking.
- Some roles may require specific educational credentials for progression.
- Leadership and Management Skills:
- Individuals who demonstrate strong leadership and management skills are often earmarked for higher-ranking positions.
- The ability to inspire and guide teams can significantly impact one's standing within the organization.
- Networking and Relationship Building:
- Building strong professional networks and relationships within the organization can open doors to new opportunities.
- A positive rapport with colleagues, superiors, and subordinates can enhance an individual's standing in the office hierarchy.
Navigating the Corporate Ladder:
- Set Clear Goals:
- Define your career objectives and set achievable goals to guide your professional development.
- Continuous Learning:
- Stay updated with industry trends and invest in ongoing education to enhance your skills.
- Performance Excellence:
- Consistently deliver high-quality work and strive to exceed expectations in your current role.
- Effective Communication:
- Develop strong communication skills to convey ideas, collaborate with team members, and present yourself as a confident professional.
- Seek Mentorship:
- Find mentors within the organization who can provide guidance, support, and valuable insights into career progression.
- Embrace change and be adaptable to evolving work environments and responsibilities.
Office ranking is a multifaceted aspect of professional life that requires a combination of skills, experience, and strategic planning. By understanding the factors influencing office hierarchy and employing effective strategies, individuals can navigate the corporate ladder with confidence and achieve their career aspirations. Ultimately, a proactive and goal-oriented approach will contribute to personal growth and success


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10 DAYS OF INTENSE FOOTWORK TRAINING
Develop a slick explosive footwork for fighting. Hold your ground and throw punches with more power than ever before. Move with catlike agility and razor-sharp quickness. Develop rock hard muscles in your legs and core. Out move all your opponents!
I and my brother Brian (dance champion), share the secrets to dancers footwork training in this special 10-day intensive training program. 4 hours of instructional video and a 24-page workbook to improve your footwork skills.
Learn OVER 100 special footwork drills dancers use to develop core and leg strength, improve balance awareness, and move their feet with blinding speed, power, and precision!
Want amazing balance and slick footwork?
- CATLIKE BALANCE – hold your ground with superior technique and stronger leg muscles!
- FASTER FOOTWORK – attack and escape with blinding speed!
- INCREASED PUNCHING POWER – stronger muscles and improved movement technique increases punching power!
Why would a fighter want to train like a dancer?
Dancers have the best balance and footwork of ANY ATHLETE in the world. They train 10 hours a day doing nothing but balance and footwork. Imagine a typical ballet dancer trained from the age of 4 for absolute perfection. By the time he is 18, he is leaping through the air, spinning on one foot, and making it look easy. Hours of stretching, brutal exercises, intense footwork drills, and superhuman displays of speed and power.
You may be shocked to know great boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and today's Vasyl Lomachenko had a dance background. Mike Silver (boxing historian and author), mentioned in his popular book "The Arc of Boxing", that the perfect body for a boxer was that of a dancer's, with long smooth toned muscle. As a fighter, you might not care to wear tights and spin 10 times in a row, but you might want to know how dancers trained. What techniques did dancers use for such great balance? How did they develop those huge calves? What special footwork drills did they do all those years in training?
It's no secret that classical dance training can be the hardest type of physical training in the world. A dancer's body is completely sculpted from head to toe for smooth, powerful, and seemingly effortless movement.
Watch some videos of my former dance teachers:
- Ivan Terrazas – old video of his INCREDIBLE foot strength
- Gabriel Misse – INSANE foot speed and precision
- Brian Nguyen – watch my brother FREESTYLE on the street
- there are dozens more I haven't listed…
The PROBLEM with typical boxing footwork drills
The footwork drills you see in boxing gyms and MMA gyms today are flat out ineffective. The majority of them are too easy or simply not organized in any logical manner. Where are the drills for stretching? Where are the drills for developing balance awareness? And finally, where are the drills for developing muscle conditioning and coordination?
All you see now is shadowboxing, jump rope, ladder drills, cone drills, and maybe some hip-twisting running exercises and that's it. Footwork drills nowadays are too simple, too boring, and STILL don't teach fighters how to balance and move their bodies. There is no systematic way to develop and challenge their bodies to move better.
Today's footwork drills are still missing:
- Awareness drills – how to develop great balance awareness and control of your neutral axis.
- Complete conditioning of the legs – not just calve muscles and agility drills (missing internal leg muscles)
- Lack of slow motion work – to increase control and coordination, rather than simply raw speed & power
- Do not target "footwork muscles" effectively
What's in the "Dancer's Footwork for Fighters" training program?
You'll get access to a comprehensive 10-day training program with 4 hours of video. You'll learn many new footwork techniques, exercises and drills each day to completely transform your lower body and improve your fighting footwork! This is a proven training routine used by dancers for generations.
Think THICKER, STRONGER, FASTER legs.
You'll finally have completely developed leg muscles for increased leg strength, coordination, and control throughout a wider range of motion. You'll get access to an advanced training routine for superior balance awareness and rapid footwork skill development. You'll develop a stronger and MORE FUNCTIONAL core to generate MORE POWER IN ALL BODY MOVEMENTS.
You'll stand heavier, move faster, and punch harder!
Access to a dance champion's knowledge
You will get access to one of the greatest resources in footwork training through my brother, Brian Nguyen, the USA TANGO CHAMPION. He has trained with the best in the world and won numerous dance competitions with his footwork skill and ability. He is a highly-regarded tango dancer and performer around the world. He charges over $100/hr for private lessons and is always booked in every city that he visits.
And Brian Nguyen will be sharing his secret drills and training methods in this special course. You will learn…NOT 10…NOT 20…but OVER 100 FOOTWORK DRILLS. Brian and I will start you off slow with the fundamental techniques and basic exercises (Days 1,2,3). Then work our way up to the more intense exercises (Days 4,5,6,7). And finally, we'll finish with the impossible exercises (Days 7,8,9,10). You will get technical demonstrations and theoretical explanations every day.
This special footwork training is HARD.
The drills and exercises are ridiculously hard, and painful. This course is not intended for the casual fighter. If you don't even like jumping rope, this course is not for you! I recommend this training only for serious athletes or people with a rabid curiosity.
The average person won't even get past DAY 5. If you're looking for a challenge and really want to take your footwork to the next level, this will give you the best footwork in the gym!
The 100+ footwork drills range from simple, to complicated, to hard, to painful, to the impossible. Many of you reading this will NEVER be able to do all of them. But nonetheless, your footwork speed, precision, and agility will improve tremendously if you put in the work.
If you can survive these workouts,
fighting footwork will be easy.
Here's what you get…
INTRO – equipment and warm-up
- a rundown about OPTIONAL helpful equipment
- how to use a stick and resistance bands for footwork training
- how to maintain your body with a foam roller, stretching, foot massage ball
Day 1 – developing axis awareness
- how to stand straight and find your neutral axis
- increase core presence using hip & leg position
- using the calves to connect to the ground
- increase leg strength, sharpness, and coordination
- strengthening the core while in movement
- breathing technique for body movement
- becoming heavy for balance
Day 2 – developing axis control
- warming up the hips and calf muscles
- moving your axis with balance
- exercises for calf strengthening and feet coordination
- holding the core while in the air (jumping exercises)
- how to develop "active feet"
- 2 simple tips to develop balance awareness (throughout your day / when you're not training / outside of the gym)
Day 3 – basic body movement and feet activation
- slow movement footwork techniques (increase body awareness)
- using the heels to increase grounding and step strength
- using the toes to increase control, changing direction and speed
- how to turn the body with control, power, and relaxation
- using the upper body to help the lower body
Day 4 – leg strengthening and hip stabilization
- advanced slow movement footwork technique (increase strength & balance)
- moving in geometric patterns (maintaining balance while pivoting)
- staying heavy in movement
- controlling weight change (to prevent falling)
- stabilizing the hip during movements
Day 5 – feet and core strengthening
- strengthening the "gripping muscles"
- how to "lift" the body up and down (without losing the core)
- footwork drills stressing the core
- coordination jumping drills
- using the core to move and stabilize your body
Day 6 – foot speed and explosive footwork
- advanced footwork drills (speed, power, precision, core control)
- raw speed drills (maximum speed footwork exercises)
- explosive footwork drills (speed and power)
- painful calf footwork exercises (working all sides of the calves)
Day 7 – leg strengthening, balance and coordination
- one-legged footwork drills (strengthening the standing leg)
- one-legged pivot drills (core and foot strengthening)
- two-legged pivots (balance and coordination)
Day 8 – core strengthening, speed, and power
- advanced pivoting drills (controlling the free leg during pivots)
- slow pivoting drills (increase strength and control)
- core-twisting exercises (insane core strength, speed, and power)
- understanding how to use the core twist
- the best kinds of core exercises
Day 9 – advanced balance and coordination
- advanced core drills
- advanced spinning drills
Day 10 – really REALLY HARD STUFF
- THE IMPOSSIBLE! 😉
PS: Got questions about this footwork guide? Leave a comment below or send me an email and I'll answer it right away.


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Another, small but significant, data donation secured from the BBC was a set of "BBC Thing" identifiers for news topics (for example, this one for Iran). Added to Wikidata using P1617 (BBC Things ID), they plug the relevant items more tightly into the web of semantic, linked, open data (here's the same ID's BBC linked data for Iran).
Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM). See also How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata


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η Hydrae (eta Hydrae)
η Hydrae is a variable main-sequence star in the constellation of Hydra.
η Hydrae visual magnitude is 4.3. Because of its moderate brightness, η Hydrae should be easily visible from locations with dark skyes, while it can be barely visible, or not visible at all, from skyes affected by light pollution.
The table below summarizes the key facts about η Hydrae:
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of η Hydrae
η Hydrae is situated close to the celestial equator, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of η Hydrae are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky map below shows the position of η Hydrae in the sky:
Visibility of η Hydrae from your location
Today's η Hydrae (eta Hydrae) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):
Digitized Sky Survey image of η Hydrae
The image below is a photograph of η Hydrae from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of η Hydrae is -0.019 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.001 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.
Distance of η Hydrae from the Sun and relative movement
η Hydrae is distant 466.38 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 17 kilometers per second.
Spectral properties of η Hydrae
η Hydrae belongs to spectral class B3 and has a luminosity class of V corresponding to a main-sequence star.
The red dot in the diagram below shows where η Hydrae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.


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Ever made an edible Jello rainbow? Although rainbow Jello takes several hours to assemble, the process is simple and it's a great snack for the kids. Here are the steps to make your own rainbow Jello.
Makes approximately 10 servings; double if necessary.
- 1 cup whipped topping (optional)
- 1 small box of each Jello color: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple
Make Rainbow Jello
1Prepare one batch of Jello according to the directions on the packet. For an authentic rainbow effect, start with red and work your way upwards through the color spectrum (or choose purple and work downwards).
- If there is a "quick chill" method involving ice cubes, use that method.
2Fill the bottom of each cup with the first batch of Jello. Make the levels even for the nicest effect, then set the leftover Jello aside.
3Place the pan in the refrigerator for approximately 15 minutes to set.
4Mix a few tablespoons of whipped topping into the leftover Jello mix if desired. If you don't want whipped layers in your rainbow, skip this step.
5Remove the cups from the refrigerator and place a thin layer of the opaque mixture onto the first color if desired. Again, skip this step if you'd prefer not to include whipped cream in the Jello.
6Repeat the steps above for each color, allowing for approximately 15 minutes of refrigerator time between every layer. Garnish with a dollop of whipped topping if desired.
Can I put it in the freezer?wikiHow ContributorYou can, but you may end up with a different texture, and the taste is not as good.
- Though this recipe recommend a 15-minute set time per layer, the actual time will vary based on the temperature of your refrigerator. Before applying additional layers, touch the topmost layer to see if it has set; if it's firm to the touch but still sticky, it's ready for the next layer.
- If the opaque layer starts to set up before you get to spoon it out, place in the microwave for a moment to reconstitute it to a slightly liquid state.
- You may substitute vegan gelatins such as agar or vegetable gums.
- Adding fruit to this recipe, while interesting, disrupts the "rainbow." If you want to make multi-colored Jello fruit salad, go for it! (But don't add pineapple, papaya or kiwi unless it is cooked, because fresh versions contain an enzyme which might prevent the Jello from setting). If you want to make edible rainbows, stick with the recipe.
- Water that is heated in the microwave can overheat and erupt when handled. Always wait for bubbles before you open the door. If you don't get bubbles after a reasonable period of time, do not open the door or reach in until the water has had ample time to cool. Alternatively, just heat it over the stove.
- Jello is not a vegetarian dessert. Gelatin is a protein produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the bones, connective tissues, organs, and some intestines of animals such as cattle and horses.
Things You'll Need
- Ten 10-ounce clear plastic cups
- A cake pan or tray large enough to hold the cups
In other languages:
Español: hacer gelatina arcoiris, Deutsch: Regenbogen Wackelpudding machen, Português: Fazer Gelatina Arco íris, Italiano: Preparare le Gelatine Arcobaleno, Русский: приготовить многослойное желе «Радуга», Français: faire une gélatine arc‑en‑ciel, 中文: 做彩虹果冻, Bahasa Indonesia: Membuat Jelly Pelangi
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become active when it rains. Bring along a magnifying glass to look along sidewalks, in the grasses, or under rocks and pieces of wood to find worms, beetles, slugs, snails, roly-polies, ants.
6. Wet and Wild Obstacle Course. Kick a ball around cones, walk the river logs (Step-A-Logs Balance Beam), jump the river (two jump ropes laid on the ground in a V-shape), toss soggy foam balls into a bucket, and go mountain climbing in the rain (Cones and Poles — thread a pole horizontally through medium or high level holes in two cones to make a crossbar (mountain) for climbing (stepping over).
Jump, run, walk, kick, dance, toss, throw are all active verbs that encourage active play.
Head outside and have some rainy day fun!
Obstacle Courses = A"maze"ing Fun!
The Super Daring Obstacle Course:


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| < April >
|Normal Max/ High Temperature
|Min/ Low Temperature
|Average Daylight per day
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Nida in April is cool at 4.9 °C (40.82 °F).
- Afternoons can be a little cool with average high temperatures reaching 8.4 °C (47.1 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally very cool with an average low of 2.3 °C (36.1 °F).
- The variation/ range of diurnal mean temperatures in April is 6.1 °C (11 °F).
- The weather in April is dry. A mere 33mm (1.3in) of fluid falls.
- The shortest day is 13:02 long and the longest day is 15:12 long with an average length of 14:08.
Check the distance to and compare the Nida April averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Weather Trend Graph for April in Nida, Lithuania
Navigate to April Weather in Locations Surrounding Nida:
- Riga, Latvia - 257.4 kms (159.9 miles) NE
- Liepaja, Latvia - 130.4 kms (81.1 miles) N
- Birzai, Lithuania - 255.7 kms (158.9 miles) ENE
- Telsiai, Lithuania - 109.6 kms (68.1 miles) NE
- Siauliai, Lithuania - 162.3 kms (100.9 miles) ENE
- Klaipeda, Lithuania - 48 kms (29.8 miles) N
- Laukuva, Lithuania - 84.9 kms (52.7 miles) ENE
- Raseiniai, Lithuania - 134.7 kms (83.7 miles) E
- Silute, Lithuania - 28.4 kms (17.6 miles) ENE
- Ukmerge, Lithuania - 237.7 kms (147.7 miles) E
- Kaunas, Lithuania - 185.9 kms (115.5 miles) ESE
- Kybartai, Lithuania - 135.6 kms (84.3 miles) ESE
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Your camera has a scanning rate of 525 lines and 60 frames/second, which is about the same as a standard television set.
What is Frame Rate?
Frame rate is the measurement of how quickly an imaging device produces frames, or unique consecutive images. Frame rate is most often expressed in frames per second.
In order to produce an image, electron beams have to scan the entire frame of the image, going from left to right and top to bottom at an extremely rapid pace. When more lines are scanned, more detail is captured, thereby increasing the quality of the image.
The frames per second for the X10 Camera is 60 consecutive images produced per second which, in combination with the transmission rate of 525 lines, creates a high quality final image.


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05/18/2014 08:46 am ET | Updated May 18, 2014
The hundreds of suckers on an octopus's eight arms leech reflexively to almost anything they come into contact with — but never grasp the animal itself, even though an octopus does not always know what its arms are doing. Today, researchers reveal that the animal's skin produces a chemical that stops the octopus's suckers from grabbing hold of its own body parts, and getting tangled up.
Octopus arms have a built-in mechanism that prevents the suckers from grabbing octopus skin," says neuroscientist Guy Levy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the lead author of the work, which appears today in Current Biology. It is the first demonstration of a chemical self-recognition mechanism in motor control, and could help scientists to build better bio-inspired soft robots.
To find out just how an octopus avoids latching onto itself, Levy and his colleagues cut off an octopus's arm and subjected it to a series of tests. (The procedure is not considered traumatic, says Levy, because octopuses occasionally lose an arm in nature and behave normally while the limb regenerates.)
The severed arms remained active for more than an hour after amputation, firmly grabbing almost any object, with three exceptions: the former host; any other live octopus; and other amputated arms. "But when we peeled the skin off an amputated arm and submitted it to another amputated arm, we were surprised to see that it grabbed the skinned arm as any other item," says co-author Nir Nesher, also a neuroscientist at the Hebrew University.
And when the researchers presented amputated limbs to their former owners, the octopuses often behaved in an unusual way, dancing around their limb and rubbing it, but not attaching any suckers. (Intact octopuses also displayed this behaviour toward amputated arms.) When an octopus spotted the exposed flesh where the limb had been severed, it sometimes grabbed the flesh, but then held it only with its beak and only by the exposed flesh — as if it were licking its wounds. The rest of the limb was left dangling freely, untouched by the other arms.
Identity parade
The research also shows that octopuses are able to identify their own arms, even after amputation, says Binyamin Hochner, another neuroscientist at the Hebrew University, and the principal investigator in the study, as "they grabbed amputated arms of other octopuses as food items significantly more often than their own arms". In many of those cases they actually ate the severed limb. Octopuses of this species, Octopus vulgaris, are known to be cannibalistic.
Octopuses' brains don't constantly monitor the exact position and motion of all of their arms; this would be very difficult because each arm has almost infinite degrees of freedom. Instead, each arm has its own'motor controller' — a set of neurons that can control its motion independently of the rest of the body.
But sometimes the brain does step in. The fact that octopuses did eventually grab an amputated arm, but that a severed arm would never touch an octopus, suggests a conflict between what the arm is 'programmed' to do and what the brain sometimes decides to do. "We believe that the decision of the brain is much more complex and perhaps even involves high-level cognition," says Levy.
The findings also demonstrate that vision is not the dominant sense for the octopus, and that chemical sense and touch are vital, says psychologist Jennifer Mather of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, who was not involved in the study. "It gives us a window into the central-peripheral coordination that makes up an octopus's motor control," says Mather.
But the study is "just a start", she adds. "The tests are pretty crude. We don't know anything about the chemicals themselves... We don't understand either the type or the location of the interactions between central and peripheral control. But we can see where we should look."
This story originally appeared in Nature News.
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Careful spectra, correlation and coherence analyses of low-frequency fluctuations in global geopotential height data are presented. Attention is paid to proper statistical assessments. The main points are:
1) one-to-two month oscillating quasi-stationary wavetrains have recently been reported in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere troposphere, as far south as the edge of Antarctica. However, only weak correlations were observed with the supposed tropical forcing region, leading to the question of whether the wavetrain is a response to tropical forcing or possibly due to in situ instabilities on 1-2 month time scales. The present paper clears up this enigma with analyses of other tropical datasets which reveal clear correlation between low latitude source regions and the SH extratropical troposphere.
2) An earlier investigation found strong correlations between 1-2 month oscillations in the upper stratosphere and tropical troposphere, yet no vertical propagation was found directly above the tropics. This is explained in the present work with evidence of temperature fluctuations propagating initially quasi-horizontally towards higher latitudes from the Indonesian tropical troposphere, along the bottom of the tropopause to near 35 degrees south. At this latitude, stratospheric winter westerlies allow vertical propagation of the 1-2 month perturbations up to the middle stratosphere where the wave train arches equatorward and upward to the stratopause.
3) Finally, Eliassen-Palm flux diagnostics for the SH stratosphere reveal that while the 1-2 month perturbations occasionally cause significant forcing of the zonal mean wind U-bar, on the long term average only about 10% of d(U-bar)/dt can be attributed directly to these low-frequency eddies.


Intermittent poor performance when the MDB's are getting messages from MQ queues
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You have MDB's driven by messages from WebSphere MQ queues. Intermittently the MDB's experience a delay where it may take up to sixteen seconds for the retrieval of each message. There is no gradual degradation. The MDB's are running fine one minute, then they will experience these delays and then resume normal processing. The MDB's will usually only experience these delays for a short time, usually 30 seconds or less, before they start retrieving messages in a matter of a few milliseconds again.
A review of MQ and MQ JMS traces at the time of the delays reveals that the messages were on the queue and available at the time when the MDB's were experiencing a delay. The MDB's are doing a browse of the messages prior to doing a MQGET to remove the message from the queue. The delayed messages have a priority of 5 in the MQ message descriptor (MQMD) while most of the messages being browsed have a priority 0 or 4, which are lower priorities.
The observed delay is that the thread which is doing MQGET is using the MQGMO_BROWSE_NEXT option and it has browsed to a later point in the queue than the point where the priority 5 messages were committed. Each browsing thread from the MDB's has a browse cursor whose position in the queue dictates the next message that thread is able to get. Messages committed to the queue before the browse cursor's current position are not gettable by that thread until it issues a new MQGET call using the MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST option. The browse cursor is then reset to point at the start of the queue and therefore the higher priority messages are now visible to the browsing thread.
The delayed messages are successfully delivered after the browse thread uses MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST. The time delay is accounted for by the application making MQGMO_BROWSE_NEXT + MQGMO_WAIT calls at a time when the browse cursor has moved past the priority 5 messages.
Here is an example to illustrate the concept of how a browse cursor works and why these delays are occurring. Suppose that a priority queue contains the following sequence of messages:
Message A priority 4
Message B priority 4
Message C priority 3
Message B was put onto the queue after Message A, hence why it appears second. Messages at the same priority are stored in arrival sequence. Now suppose the queue is opened by a single application which then issues a get with MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST. The application's browse cursor is pointed at Message A and MQ returns a copy of Message A in the application buffer. Since this was a browse call, Message A remains on the queue.
The queue now looks like this:
Message A priority 4 <-- application browse cursor
Message B priority 4
Message C priority 3
Now suppose that a second application opens the queue for output and puts a new message (D) onto the queue at priority 5. In an MQ priority queue, 5 is a higher priority than 4 so this message is added at the start of the queue.
The queue now looks like this:
Message D priority 5
Message A priority 4 <-- application browse cursor
Message B priority 4
Message C priority 3
When the browsing application issues its next get with MQGMO_BROWSE_NEXT then its browse cursor moves down to the next message on the queue after the current position and the application is given a copy of Message B.
The queue now looks like this:
Message D priority 5
Message A priority 4
Message B priority 4 <-- application browse cursor
Message C priority 3
Even though Message D is earlier in the queue and has not been seen by the application yet, the design of MQGMO_BROWSE_NEXT is to move down to the next message in the queue. The browse continues in this manner until the browsing application reaches the end of the queue. At this point, the application receives reason code 2033 (MQRC_NO_MSG_AVAILABLE) and therefore knows it has reached the end. So it then issues a get with MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST again, which resets the browse cursor to the top of the queue and so now it will get a copy of Message D.
The performance delay in this case was accounted for by the time it took to browse the remainder of the queue before re-issuing a get with the MQGMO_BROWSE_FIRST option. During that time, the higher priority message sat at the top of the queue without being processed until the browse first call was issued.
Resolving the problem
There are various strategies for handling the situation differently, and so avoiding the symptom.
One simple option is to change the queue to be a First In First Out (FIFO) queue. You can do this using runmqsc to "ALTER QLOCAL(QNAME) MSGDLVSQ(FIFO)". This would cause messages to be delivered in arrival sequence instead of priority.
From an application server perspective, there are a couple of options available to help ensure messages are processed in a more timely manner.
1. Reconfigure the application server to use non-ASF mode. Using non-ASF mode changes the mechanism that the application server uses to get messages so that, rather than performing a browse of the queue, it simply issues MQGET calls. This means that MDB's will always be given the message that is currently at the top of the queue. More details about non-ASF mode, including how to configure the application server to use this mode of operation, can be found in the following developerWorks article titled "When to use ASF and non-ASF modes to process messages in WebSphere Application Server".
2. Change the custom property eoqtimeout. When scanning the queue for a message, once the queue agent reaches the end of the queue, this is the length of time it waits before going back to the top of the queue and beginning a new scan. Information about how to change this timeout value can be found in the technote titled "How to modify the Generic JVM Arguments and Java system properties for a WAS server".
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MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IBM have announced the recent completion of the first course in the United States structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), the microprocessor that powers the new PlayStationÂ®3 computer entertainment system.
During the four-week Independent Activities Period course in January, students not only learned about the new microprocessor, they designed and implemented projects to run directly on PlayStationÂ®3 consoles. The student team with the best project--a 3-D version of the classic pong game--later presented its work and discussed the experience at the Game Developer Conference in March.
The course, which focused around introducing parallel programming to students, was taught by Saman Amarasinghe, a professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Rodric Rabbah of IBM.
"The fact that students--with no background in parallel programming or the Cell Broadband Engine--were able to get their projects done from scratch in just about one month largely goes to show the capability and determination of our students, coupled with the availability of a robust toolchain for Cell development," said Amarasinghe.
Throughout the course, students became familiar with the Cell/B.E. and how its design choices compare to other emerging architectures. Students also formed small project teams and participated in a course-long project to develop applications to run on the Cell Broadband Engine using the IBM Cell SDK available from IBM developerWorks.
"The Cell Broadband Engine is going to be an underlying architecture that has the potential to be included in a wide range of industry applications and solutions in the future," said Rabbah. "This course was able to break down the details of a highly complex microprocessor and challenge students to see where the performance, power and versatility could be applied outside of gaming. Based on the feedback we received from the students, it was a tremendous success."
A web site hosted by the Computer Architecture Group at MIT posts information on the course, including lectures and recitation plans. It has been visited more than 100,000 times since the completion of the course.
IBM and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with sponsorship from Sony, plan to jointly offer the course again in 2008. More information can be found at _URL_.
IBM is also currently hosting a first-of-its-kind programming contest--the Cell University Challenge--for college and university students in 25 different countries, offering cash prizes and awards for the most innovative applications of the Cell Broadband Engine. All information on eligibility, rules and requirements, and entry applications can be found at www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/students/contests/cell/index.html.


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Racemate, a mixture of equal quantities of two enantiomorphs, or substances that have dissymmetric molecular structures that are mirror images of one another. Each enantiomorph rotates the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light through a characteristic angle, but, because the rotatory effect of each component exactly cancels that of the other, the racemic mixture is optically inactive. The name is derived from racemic acid, the first example of such a substance to be carefully studied. Racemic acid, or, more properly, racemic tartaric acid, is a mixture of equal amounts of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids; it is customarily designated dlor (±)-tartaric acid.
The process by which an optically active substance is transformed into the corresponding racemic modification is known as racemization; the converse process, by which a racemic modification is separated into the two enantiomorphs, is known as resolution. The ease with which an optically active compound can be racemized varies within wide limits. For example, racemization of an optically active paraffin hydrocarbon is extremely difficult, but that of lactic acid is easily accomplished. In all instances, however, it is presumed to occur as a result of a reversible transformation of the dissymmetric, optically active substance into an unstable, symmetric one incapable of optical activity; the reverse transformation back from this inactive intermediate is as likely to give one active enantiomorph as the other, so that an inactive mixture results. See also enantiomorph.


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