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The term appreciation when used in the context of investing usually refers to an increase in the value of a particular asset. In the case of diamond jewelry, appreciation occurs when the value of a piece increases over time due to several different factors, such as supply and demand, inflation, and scarcity. Investing in diamond jewelry can make a great financial decision because diamonds tend to hold their value over long periods of time and can even appreciate in certain conditions.
Factors Affecting Appreciation – Reasons Why Diamonds Increase or Decrease in Value
Diamonds naturally appreciate or depreciate depending on a variety of factors. Supply and demand is one big factor when determining the worth of diamonds. When there's too much abundance, prices decrease. Similarly, if there's not enough availability for high quality stones then prices tend to be higher. Variables like technology advancements, geopolitics, and fashion trends can also affect gemstone prices. Scarcity is another major factor impacting diamonds' appreciation; rare gems are usually more expensive than those that are more common. Likewise, new discoveries or mines opening up will affect how much diamonds cost. Additionally, inflation plays an important role too; as the dollar weakens in purchasing power due to currency-wide inflation rates going up, so does the cost for certain items like gold and diamond jewelry rise in tandem with it.
Types of Diamond Jewelry Appreciation
Diamond jewelry can appreciate in value, meaning that over time the same piece of jewelry will be worth more. This appreciation is driven by a variety of factors such as rarity, demand, and inflation. Rarity: Diamonds are rare gemstones, as natural diamonds are formed deep below the earth's surface, making them less common than other gemstones like sapphire or rubies. Demand: As the worldwide market for diamond jewelry grows, so does the demand for diamonds and prices tend to increase proportionally. Inflation: When prices rise due to an increase in general prices across all services and goods due to the lack of purchasing power of currency then diamonds often experience similar increases in value. Appreciation Over Time: As mentioned above, factors like rarity and demand usually cause significant appreciation over time because more people will compete for a given limited supply—driving up prices. Therefore, with proper care and maintenance, diamond jewelry can even become more valuable with time.
Factors that Affect Diamond Jewelry Appreciation
Market Factors: As with most investments, diamond jewelry appreciates or depreciates in value depending on the current market. If prices are rising and demand is high, then you can expect to see your diamond jewelry's value increase. However, if prices are low in the market and demand is low, the value of your jewelry may drop correspondingly.
Cultural Influences: Diamond jewelry is steeped in symbolism and has long been associated with love and marriage, making it a desired and highly sought after item for many cultures around the world. This can have a direct effect on its appreciation potential. For example, some traditional Indian wedding sets featuring diamonds tend to show very strong appreciation potential due to their cultural significance.
Supply & Demand: The law of supply and demand states that if there is an increase in demand, but no corresponding increase in supply, then the price will rise – this applies just as much to diamonds as it does to oil or other commodities. Certain diamond shapes such as round brilliants often become more valuable when they become rarer; if a large period of time elapses between two similar stones offering identical specifications being made available to the market.
Rarity : A diamond's rarity directly impacts its appreciation potential. If a piece of natural rough contains certain characteristics such as clarity or size that make it rarer than other pieces of its type; these factors greatly contribute to a higher appraisal value when compared against more common stones with similar characteristics.
Quality: Ultimately though, quality is the most important factor impacting diamond jewelry appreciation potential; no matter what shape takes preference at any given time. It stands to reason that larger diamonds with better cut-grades will always be worth more than those rated lower than them on both counts – so investing in high-quality diamonds is always something sound advice for anyone looking for sustained investment returns from their purchase over time!
Care and Maintenance to Increase Appreciation
Diamond jewelry can appreciate and gain value over time. While the appreciation of diamonds can vary and is usually less than other forms of investments, caring for a diamond piece will help increase its value. Some of the best ways to ensure long-term appreciation are proper cleaning, storing, insurance, and repairs, as needed.
Cleaning jewelry frequently keeps your diamond pieces looking sparkly and attractive. Getting your jewelry professionally cleaned on a regular basis not only increases the visual appeal but also helps retain any existing stones or enhance their longevity.
Storing precious gems properly can also help preserve their quality. Storing in an airtight box filled with velvet-lined compartments can protect from everyday dust that may otherwise dull a jewels sparkle. It's best to store each piece separately so that larger pieces don't scratch smaller ones. Keeping away from exposure to heat and cold temperatures is critical too since extreme temperatures can damage the integrity and weaken metals used in settings or mountings.
Jewelry Insurance is something to consider so that you are protected if you lose a stone or if something happens to the piece itself such as damage or theft. Insurance companies offer policies which provide coverage for up to several times an item's appraised value depending on the policy you choose. Knowing that your jewelry is insured provides added peace of mind while ensuring that your beloved pieces remain appreciated and valuable should something unexpected arise.
Finally, making sure any necessary repairs are done quickly by a qualified professional jeweler keeps everything in working order and maintains protection against damage due to daily wear & tear or exposure to elements like water, heat or cold temperatures etc In some cases, these repairs may even restore a diamond's original sparkle! Taking care of any small issues right away before they become bigger problems makes for much more cost effective resolution down the line should anything happen at all — it's just good preventative upkeep here!
Appreciable Diamond Jewelry Assets
Yes, diamond jewelry does appreciate. However, it depends on several factors such as the quality and size of diamonds, the metal used to make the jewelry, market trends and demand for particular colors of diamonds and metals. Many people view diamond jewelry as an appreciable asset because investing in it can be more profitable than keeping money in a bank account. There are several key pieces that should be held for investment purposes, such as rings and necklaces featuring larger diamonds or highly-prized settings. For those looking to maximize their return, they should research cut types (princess cut vs round), color grading (D-F) and clarity scales (IF-SI3), all of which will play a large factor in determining the value of a piece of diamond jewelry. Additionally, exploring different avenues of selling – such as private buyers or auctions – could result in higher returns for those selling diamond jewelry.
Strategies for Investing in Diamond Jewelry
Yes, diamond jewelry can appreciate in value over time as long as it is of good quality. The key to realizing a return on investment (ROI) is to purchase jewelry that meets the standards for investment grade items. These are commonly classified as prime gems and limited editions or rare antique diamond pieces. To meet these criteria a piece must have superior craftsmanship, high clarity, excellent cut and color rating, certificate from the Gemological Institute America (GIA), and an origin free of conflict diamonds. Additionally, the buyer should research current market conditions to place an appropriate price tag at the initial purchase. With these factors in consideration one can acquire an asset expected to appreciate in value over time.
When selling diamond jewelry it's important to be knowledgeable about its provenance so that its value can be accurately assessed. An appraisal evaluation is often necessary which should be conducted by a GIA-certified gemologist prior to listing the item for sale. Delivering accurate counterfeit assessments with up-to-date diamond grading reports will help maximize any appreciation potential when it goes into the marketplace and help make sure your piece is not discounted due to suspicious grading or false information about its origins. Furthermore, buyers should also do their own research into current prices for similar jewelry pieces when selling their item within the same region or far away from home; there tends to be regional pricing differences even when working within the same country or international markets. To meet these criteria one must be sure to identify reliable trades providing accurate information on resale prices plus certifications detailing gemstone identity and origin details – all this combined will ensure maximum ROI potential over time if properly managed asset. Taking these steps should ensure your diamond jewelry asset portfolio is adequately protected against depreciation while maintaining critical provenance details needed for authenticity results required on any high-end luxury item transaction before making such investments with either cash or financing alternatives available online today.
Investing in Secondhand Diamond Jewelry
One of the most appealing factors in investing in secondhand diamond jewelry is that, because diamonds are durable and last for a long period of time, the pieces may appreciate in value over the years. As with any investment, there is a chance that some diamonds may depreciate; but it's likely that the piece will be worth more after it has been purchased than did when bought. Additionally, while diamonds tend to stay relatively consistent, they have seen incredible appreciation over time—with prices on some rare colors and sizes rising substantially due to their rarity. Because of this, buying a used diamond piece can not only provide cost-savings today but could potentially prove to be a great investment if you choose to resell it later. Furthermore, many diamond dealers offer certificates of authenticity which are essentially warranties of quality and value assuring the customer that their purchase corresponds to the stated price. These certificates also help buyers maintain their investments for future resale by attesting to genuine craftsmanship and increasing marketability.
Investing in diamond jewelry can be a smart way to increase the value of your assets, as diamonds generally appreciate over time. However, there


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Marvel at the beauty of contained lightning in a scientific sculpture!
The detail of intricate branches and the natural beauty of fractals are displayed in wondrous creations created by powerful particle accelerators and an electron beam of 3Ð5 million electron volts.
These Lichtenberg Figures are fern-like branching patterns permanently captured within crystal clear acrylic plastic.
Each is uniquely created by carefully trapping and discharging multi-million volt regions of electrical charge inside acrylic. The complex, permanent figures are created when the trapped charge suddenly escapes in a brief, lightning-like discharge, leaving behind permanent 'fossilized' tree-like branching chains of microscopic fractures.
Displayed on LED light boxes, sold separately, the sculptures reflect light like microscopic mirrors, highlighting the awesome aesthetic of dielectric physics. The base pictured for the Cyldrical figure is item# 30850-69.
Lichtenberg one of a kind creations are available in three different sizes, so you can choose the one best suited for your home or office display!
Watch the demonstration here as to how these acrylic displays were created-
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To define help text for adaptor properties in an IMDF file,
Help element. You can include only one
in an IMDF file and it must be a child of the root node.
As children of the
Help node, you create
that contain the help text for a particular property. You use the
AdaptorHelp element to specify which property
the help is associated with.
You can optionally include device-specific content in the help
text. This text appears only when a particular device is selected.
Use one or more
DeviceHelp nodes to add device-specific
help to an
AdaptorHelp node. You use the
DeviceHelp element to specify when the text
should appear. You can also create see also references for your property
The following example outlines how to use these elements to create property help. The words in italics represent text that you must define.
 Help text Device-specific help text References to other properties ...
The following table summarizes the tags you can use to define help. For more information, see these topics.
Defines the help section in an IMDF file. Must be child
Defines the online help for a property. The Help node can contain one or more AdaptorHelp nodes.
Specifies device-specific text in property help. This
element is optional. An
Defines the see also line in property help. This element
is optional. An
The purpose of using a
Help element in an
IMDF file is to create help text for device-specific properties. A
user of your adaptor can display the help text at the command line
The following example shows how a user displays the help text
for a device-specific property using the
To see how to create this help in an IMDF file, see Creating AdaptorHelp Nodes.
The items in this list correspond to the numbered elements above.
Device-specific properties are properties
of the video source object. The example creates the video input object
and then uses the
getselectedsource function to
get a handle to the video source object.
The example uses the
to display a list of device-specific properties.
to display help for one of the properties of the video source object.
The first line of the help lists the name of the property with its constraints, such as range and permission.
The text of the help appears exactly
as you enter it in the IMDF file. You include the text after the
The See Also line
is created by the
This section describes how to create help text for a property
using the set of help tags defined by the IMDF DTD. The following
example shows the IMDF entry for the
displayed in User Scenario: Viewing Property Help. The example sets the
AdaptorHelp tag to the name of a property.
 Specify the brightness, also called the black level. Brightness describes the difference in intensity of light reflected from or transmitted through an image independent of its hue and saturation. For some devices, the value is expressed in IRE units * 100. For other devices, the units are arbitrary. Refer to the device's documentation for information. Depending on the acquisition device, this property may have an associated mode property allowing this value to be controlled automatically by the device, or for it to be manually configured. BrightnessMode.
To include help text that only appears for specific devices,
In this example, the help text contains three device-specific
sections. Note how the example sets the
DeviceHelp property to the name of a device.
 Enables the strobe output and its timer. Upon enabling the strobe output, it will start detection of triggers and generate output as appropriate. Consult your hardware manual for a detailed description of the strobe output. See also StrobeMode, StrobeDuration, StrobeDelay, StrobePolarity, StrobeAlignOnHs. See also StrobeMode, StrobeDelay, StrobePolarity. For the PC-RGB, StrobeEnable only enables the timing circuitry. The strobe output must still be enabled with the StrobeOutputEnable property. See also StrobeMode, StrobePolarity, StrobeDelay, StrobeOutputEnable.

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The nation's first crested ibis chicks to be born in the wild since 1976 are being watched over by a pair of the endangered birds on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, the Environment Ministry said Monday.
If the their development proceeds unhindered, they will likely leave the nest in about 40 days.
The parents — a 3-year-old male and 2-year-old female — were raised at an ibis conservation center on the island and released into the wild in March 2011. They were found to have built a nest on March 16.
The ministry said it confirmed the chicks' birth via a remote camera placed near the nest but that footage of the eggs actually hatching was unavailable because the camera broke. On Sunday, a monitoring team from the ministry set up another camera 40 meters from the nest that was able to take about 12 hours of footage from 6 a.m. showing one of the chicks being fed, officials said. The other two were confirmed safe Monday.
The crested ibis (scientific name Nipponia nippon) is registered as a special Japanese natural treasure. The last true Japanese crested ibis, a female named Kin, died in October 2003. Japan has been trying to reintroduce the species into the wild since 2008, after successfully getting a pair received from China in 1999 to breed in captivity. All of the crested ibises in Japan now are Chinese birds ortheir offspring, and a total of 76 have been released since September 2008.
Their breeding period runs from February to June and peaks in early April. A female typically lays about four eggs per season, and both adults take turns caring for them for about 28 days.
In 2010, the ministry confirmed that some released ibises had laid an egg, but an actual hatching hadn't been confirmed until this month. Experts believe this is because infertile eggs are laid more often by birds in the wild than in captivity, and incubation is often halted due to food shortages.
The birds are also very wary and tend to abort incubation if they are stressed. In the past, some eggs fell out of the nests and others were eaten by crows.
The Japanese crested ibis once inhabited most parts of Japan, but the population fell dramatically after the Meiji Era (_PHONE_) because they were overhunted for their beautiful feathers and because of environmental degradation and agricultural chemicals ruined their homes and food supply.


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People Born in the
People Who were Born in the 1950s
A list of famous people who were born in the decade of the nineteen fifties. The 1950s start from the 1st of January 1950 and finish on the 31 of December 1959.
Famous People Born in the 20th Century - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
See also: Famous Peoples Birthdays, Famous Peoples Star Signs, Famous Peoples Chinese Zodiac Signs
Ascension Gateway> Spiritual Quotes> Famous People> Twentieth Century>
Famous People Born in the Decade of the 1950s
Spiritual Guide> Famous Inspirational Quotes> Famous Personalities> 20th Century> Famous People that were Born in the Fifties


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Child-resistant packaging is regulated by the Code of Federal Regulations in Title 16, Part 1700 as part of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). The purpose of this act is to protect young children (under 5) from poisonings and deaths due to open containers of hazardous products.
A package that is child-resistant should be difficult for children under 5 to open or obtain a harmful amount of the contents within a reasonable time. It should not be difficult for the average adult to open and use properly.
In order for a package to be considered child-resistant, it must be tested with children. A total of 80% tested must not be able to open the package within 10 minutes of testing. Similarly, when the packaging is tested by adults, 90% have up to 5 minutes to open and close the package so that it is child-resistant again.
What products require child-resistant packaging?
The commission of the PPPA sets rules that require child resistant packaging for specific products used in or around the house such as:
- The products present a risk of serious injury or illness to children under 5 who are able to open the packages of products and drink, eat, or handle the contents.
- The technology exists or can be developed to produce child-resistant packaging for products, that the packaging can be used with modern mass production and assembly techniques, and that the packaging will adequately protect the integrity of the product and not interfere with the product's intended storage or use.
Child-Resistant Required Packaging of Household Products
- Chemical & Cosmetic Products
- Mouthwash Products
- Drugs & Dietary Supplements
- Liquid Nicotine Containers
Exceptions to the Rules
A manufacturer can package one size of a regulated product (non-prescription) in regular packaging that is not child-resistant. The label of the packaging must include "This package for households without young children" or in smaller packages "Package not child resistant."
Learn more about packaging options for child-resistant required products from our packaging consultants.


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Revit provides a general mechanism for giving each element a set of parameters that you can edit. In the Revit UI, parameters are visible in the Element Properties dialog box. This chapter describes how to get and use built-in parameters using the Revit Platform API. For more information about user-defined shared parameters, see Shared Parameters.
In the Revit Platform API, Parameters are managed in the Element class. You can access Parameters in these ways:
- By iterating through the Element.Parameters collection of all parameters for an Element (for an example, see the sample code in Walkthrough Get Selected Element Parameters).
- By accessing the parameter directly through the overloaded Element.Parameter property. If the Parameter doesn't exist, the property returns null.
- By accessing a parameter by name via the Element.ParametersMap collection.
You can retrieve the Parameter object from an Element if you know the name string, built-in ID, definition, or GUID. The Parameter[String] property overload gets a parameter based on its localized name, so your code should handle different languages if it's going to look up parameters by name and needs to run in more than one locale.
The Parameter[GUID] property overload gets a shared parameter based on its Global Unique ID (GUID), which is assigned to the shared parameter when it's created.


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 xyScreen = tformfwd([x, y], tform);
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 yScreen = xyScreen(2);
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 xScreen = min([xScreen 1]);
 xScreen = max([xScreen 0]);
 yScreen = min([yScreen 1]);
 yScreen = max([yScreen 0]);
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 laser.x = [laser.x(:); xScreen];
 laser.y = [laser.y(:); yScreen];
% Plot the tracked laser positions.
set(laserFig, 'Position', smallFigPos);
plot(laser.x, laser.y, 'r*');
% Close the laser figure.
% Stop the acquisition, remove the object from memory,
% and clear the variable.
clear vid
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Gilson supplies everything you need for testing hot-mix asphalt mix designs, including all of the preparation methods and tests to determine binder content, strength, durability, and physical characteristics.
- Marshall Testing is the most widely used method for measuring the load and flow rate of asphalt specimens. Gilson supplies everything from Marshall Stability Systems, to Compactors, molds and more.
- Specific Gravity products and equipment comply with required standards, and are used with the Rice Test in determining specific gravity of asphalt and assuring quality of asphalt mixtures.
- Ignition Furnaces offer an accurate, efficient and environmentally-friendly way to measure asphalt content in hot-mix asphalt samples.
- Gilson Quartermaster Asphalt Sample Divider separates large hot-mix asphalt samples needed in Superpave specifications for quality control analysis.
- Extractors, Filter Paper & Solvents determine asphalt binder content. Extractors are available in Reflux, Centrifuge and Vacuum models.
- Asphalt Wheel Trackers accurately evaluate rutting, fatigue cracking and moisture susceptibility for hot and cold asphalt mixes.
- Superpave Heavy Duty Oven is built to handle the heavy loads and rough use from Superpave gyratory molds and large samples.
- Superpave Gyratory Compactors evaluate asphalt mix design while preparing compacted specimens for further testing.
- Asphalt Mixers are available in portable and industrial-grade laboratory models for thorough sample mixing and blending of materials.
- Draindown Basket is a simple test to find the level of binder separation during production, transport and placement of asphalt mixes.
- Hveem-N-Beam Tester accurately displays live load, peak stress and load rate for Hveem asphalt testing, R-Value testing of soil samples and recorded flexural testing of concrete beams.
- Specimen Measurement tools include easy-to-use digital calipers and diameter measuring tapes for accurate specimen measurements.


This question was tagged with the tag. However, I thought the term "statistics" were tied to attribute, ability scores, or any other numbers and traits which systematically specify the character's strength and weaknesses in RPG context, and there is a question which fits this meaning.
Since there is no tag wiki and there are both kinds of questions, here I present a question. What does tag mean?
 - Is it tied to mathematical statistics, as the first question is tied to?
 - Is it tied to statistics on a sheet, as the second question is tied to?
 - Is it supposed to mean something else, or a combination of multiple candidates?
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 \$\begingroup\$ Statistics as a tag is iffy and ambiguous. A tag wiki entry would be best. It should be about the math; stuff on sheets is called many ambiguous things, and the only time we'd generalize it would be times where a general "records" tag would perhaps be more appropriate. \$\endgroup\$ – Kyle Willey Feb 20 '14 at 4:04
 - \$\begingroup\$ Worth noting: 8 of the existing questions tagged statistics refer to math/probability. Only one refers to a character's attributes. \$\endgroup\$ – AceCalhoon Feb 20 '14 at 14:18
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 \$\begingroup\$ _USER_ That's an interesting statistic. ducks \$\endgroup\$ – BrianH Feb 21 '14 at 19:53
I propose we make a tag synonym to and take it off entirely from questions that don't fit (they can probably just have the relevant system tags, or or whatever else).
 - \$\begingroup\$ Good point, since I couldn't think how different [probability] and [statistics] are, but I doubt whether I have such a privilege. \$\endgroup\$ – Arle Camille Feb 20 '14 at 4:08
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 \$\begingroup\$ For our intents and purposes they're identical. Technically, statistics mostly ignores probability and is more about data presentation, but from a game perspective probability is the only part of statistics we care about, and it's more true to the common-language usage. \$\endgroup\$ – Kyle Willey Feb 20 '14 at 4:11
 - \$\begingroup\$ [mtg:character-creation] Umm, clearly I use the MTG tag way, waaaay too much (on B&CG). \$\endgroup\$ – Alex P Feb 20 '14 at 4:21
 - \$\begingroup\$ _USER_ Hmm. The questions I can think of as falling under the actual concept of "statistics" are few and far between. I'm imagining something like a "What percentage of D&D organized play characters are casters?" >.> \$\endgroup\$ – Alex P Feb 20 '14 at 4:24
 - \$\begingroup\$ Yeah, we don't really do real "statistics", and really only care about it in the context of probability, since people usually don't come to rpg.se to ask about organized play stuff. \$\endgroup\$ – Kyle Willey Feb 20 '14 at 5:33
 - \$\begingroup\$ How about rather merging [probability] into [statistics], as probability is one aspect of RPG-wise statistics we look for? \$\endgroup\$ – Arle Camille Feb 20 '14 at 7:12
 - \$\begingroup\$ _USER_ Well, our probability questions aren't really about statistics, for the most part. And going probability->statistics doesn't solve the problem of having the "statistics" tag on questions about, like, Constitution modifiers. \$\endgroup\$ – Alex P Feb 20 '14 at 13:19
The math kind. You could contribute to clarification by submitting a tag wiki.
We have [probability] too which is somewhat redundant with that...
For "character stats" - if that's even a valid tag, and I'm not really sure it is - we could put in something else, perhaps [ability-scores], but I am not sure it's really a valid tag.
 - \$\begingroup\$ Character stats are usually single game related; if it's related to something like character sheet design, a record-keeping tag would be better, and if it relates to a single game it should be kept relevant to that game, as Fate, d20, and Shadowrun (to name three games off the top of my head) each keep wildly different attributes that should be measured in different ways. \$\endgroup\$ – Kyle Willey Feb 20 '14 at 4:10
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Using Stream's Real-Time Messaging API with Amazon Translate
Is your chat going global? Worry less about the language barrier when you pair Amazon Translate with our real-time messaging API.
When powering a chat product in a global environment, multilingual support should be top-of-mind. Doing so allows you to ensure that the communication barrier between yourself and the user on the other end is not broken.
Adding multilingual functionality to Stream Chat is easy with the support that Stream provides. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the inner workings of building multilingual chat with Stream Chat and Amazon Translate.
Here is a preview of what you will build at the end of this tutorial:
You can also find the complete code of this tutorial on GitHub.
To follow along with this tutorial, you will need to have the following:
 - A basic understanding of JavaScript
 - A basic understanding of Vue.js
 - You should also have Node installed on your system (version 8.9 or above — preferably the latest 12.x) and a basic understanding of Node
 - You should have yarn installed on your system
 - Have an understanding of how Vue sends data from a child to its parent component.
If you have all the above ready, then let's get started!
Set up the Client App – Create a New Vue App
Using the Vue CLI, we can easily create a new Vue app.
Accessing the URL displayed on your terminal will take you to a Vue default page.
Get Your API Keys
Stream Chat Keys
To start using the Stream Chat API, you need to have an API key. Create an account here or log in if you already have an account.
Then, from your dashboard:
 - Create a new app using any convenient name.
 - Fill in the App Name
Finally, submit the form by clicking on the Submit button to create the app
Once the app is created, you will be provided with a few options within your dashboard. Select Chat to go the Stream Chat dashboard.
Finally, create a.env file in the root directory of the project and add your Stream keys:
Remember to replace and with the correct app keys you have noted above.
AWS App Keys
Amazon Translate uses advanced machine learning technologies to provide high-quality translation on demand. We'll use the service to translate text from one language to another.
Now, head over to the Amazon website and create an account or log in if you already have an account.
 1. From your console, head to the My Security Credentials page:
 1. Click on Continue to Security Credentials for the pop that comes up.
 1. Click on the Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) tab and then click on Create New Account Key button.
 2. Copy your Access Key ID and Secret Account Key and then update and placeholders respectively in the.env file.
Set up the Server
We'll be using Node to power the server.
Create a new directory named server in the root directory of the project. Then open up a new terminal and then change your current directory to the server directory.
Next, install the following dependencies that we'll need for the server:
The above dependencies include:
 - express - A Node framework we are using to build our server
 - aws-sdk - AWS Translate Node SDK
 - dotenv - An npm package for parsing configs from.env files
 - cors,body-parser, anddotenv (all excellent npm packages)
Next, create an Express app by creating a new file named app.js to the server directory and then add the following code to it:
In the code above, after importing the packages that we have installed,
 - We created anExpress app using const app = express()**;**
 - Next, we initialize the Stream Chat SDK
 - Then finally, we created an endpoint - / (**app.get('/',…**) for testing to know if the app works. So, if you visithttp://localhost:3000/, you will get a message — { hello: 'World!'}
To initialize the Stream Chat SDK, it requires a valid token. Create a new endpoint for creating a token.
Next, create a new endpoint for translating messages:
To translate a message, we'll send a POST request to this endpoint passing along the language code of the language that we want to translate to (targetLanguage) and also the text that we want to translate (text).
Also, we are setting the SouceLanguageCode to auto so that the language is automatically detected.
The result of the request is a JSON object containing the translated text.
Finally, start up the server:
If it starts successfully, you will see a message printed to the terminal - "Node app listening on port 3000!"
Building the App Interface
For brevity's sake, we'll divide the app into four components:
 - Messages.vue - for listing messages
 - Login.vue - displays the login form
 - Channels - for listing channels
 - InputForm - renders a form for adding new messages
Create the files Messages.vue**, Login.vue**, Channels.vue, and Login.vue files into the src/components directory.
To keep the component file as minimal as possible, I have added all the CSS of the components to a single CSS file. Create the CSS file asApp.css in the src directory of the project and then add the below styles to it:
The Login Component
We are using the login form to get the username of a user which we'll use to generate a token for that user. Then the token is used for initializing the Stream Chat SDK. The username is meant to be unique for identifying users.
However, for simplicity sake, we are not doing real authentication. This is the better place for you to authenticate your users in your database if you want to limit access to only the users that you know.
Now, update the Login component with the below code:
The Messages Component
Next, add the messages component for listing messages for a given channel:
Here, we are passing the array of messages for a given channel as props to this component. Also, using the messageDirection function, we determine the direction to place a message to either left or right depending on who sent the message.
The InputForm Component
Next, add the code that defines the InputForm component for adding new messages:
The Channels Component
Next, add the code that defines the channels component:
In this component, we are listing the channels that we have on our app. Also, we added a form for creating a new channel.
The App Component
Finally, bring all the components together by replacing the content in the src/App.vue file with the below:
In the preceding code,
 - We import all the components that we have created and render them to the template section.
 - If authenticated is false, we render the login component else we render the chat interface.
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Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24964; PubMed Central: PMID: 26094789
Background: The purpose of this study was to determine whether DTI changes in the brain induced by a thoracic spinal cord injury are sensitive to varying severity of spinal contusion in rats.
Methods: A control, mild, moderate, or severe contusion injury was administered over the eighth thoracic vertebral level in 32 Sprague-Dawley rats. At 11 weeks postinjury, ex vivo DTI of the brain was performed on a 9.4T Bruker scanner using a pulsed gradient spin-echo sequence.
Results: Mean water diffusion in the internal capsule regions of the brain and pyramid locations of the brainstem were correlated with motor function (r2 = 0.55). Additionally, there were significant differences between injury severity groups for mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy at regions associated with the corticospinal tract (P = 0.05).
Conclusion: These results indicate that DTI is sensitive to changes in brain tissue as a consequence of thoracic SCI.


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Dominic O'Brien (10 August 1957) is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books. He is the eight time World Memory Champion and works as a trainer for Peak Performance Training.
He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorise a pack of 52 playing cards in less than three minutes on the BBC television programme Record Breakers. To memorise numbers, O'Brien developed the mnemonic Dominic system, which is similar to the Major System. He has written books about memorisation techniques such as How to Develop a Perfect Memory, Quantum Memory Power, Learn to Remember, How to Pass Exams, The Winning Hand, and The Amazing Memory Box.
He gives lectures, and has been seen on television programmes such as The Human Body.
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How to cook chicken feet
Is it healthy to eat chicken feet?
Even without providing much meat, they're high in collagen — the most abundant protein in your body. This collagen content may help relieve joint pain, aid skin health, and prevent bone loss. Although chicken feet are often deep-fried, using them for a bone broth is a healthier preparation method.
How long do you boil chicken feet?
1 Boil chicken feet initially for 5 minutes at a hard boil : Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil. Put the chicken feet into a large stock pot and cover with boiling water. Boil for 5 minutes. 2 Drain, rinse, and cut off and discard the tips of the claws: Drain the chicken feet completely.
Do you have to peel chicken feet?
Chicken feet usually come with the outer yellow skin removed, since the same scalding process that removes the feathers also removes the outer skin on the feet. If the feet come skin on, you can simply clean them, or you can remove the skin. To peel : scald the feet in boiling water for 20-30 seconds.
Do chicken feet taste good?
They're known all over the world and taste just like other parts of the chicken, but the texture might take a little time for you to get used to. Unlike other parts of the chicken, the feet have very little edible meat — it's mostly just skin and tendons. If they're not cooked properly they can be chewy.
Is Chicken Feet good for high blood pressure?
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Scientists in Japan have identified four proteins in chicken legs which appear to be effective in controlling high blood pressure, a study has said.
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Is chicken feet bad for cholesterol?
One hundred grammes of boiled chicken feet contain 19g protein, 15g fat and 84mg of cholesterol. It is considered a high-fat food. Furthermore, the fat has a high content of saturated fat.
Can chicken feet cure arthritis?
You may have heard of pet owners who are religious about feeding their old arthritic dogs chicken feet as a source of chondroitin and glucosamine. Chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine extracted from boiled down cartilage help reduce joint pain and inflammation.
What can you do with chicken feet?
Deep-fried chicken feet makes good use of this oft-ignored body part. They're easy to make – all you need to do is simmer them first in a water bath with some garlic, sugar, soy sauce, and cinnamon. This will tenderize them and make them easier to fry.
How long do chicken feet last in the fridge?
Raw chicken : You'll need to either cook or freeze it fast. According to recommendations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, raw chicken will only keep in the refrigerator for about 1-2 days. (Same goes for turkey and other poultry.)
What is chicken feet broth good for?
Chicken feet may seem intimidating, but they are full of broad-spectrum nutrients like glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid, amino acids, and trace minerals. This gelatinous-rich concoction is gut healing, soothes digestive trouble, and can support healthier skin and nails — much like grass-fed collagen.
Is serving someone chicken feet disrespectful?
Is serving chicken feet inherently disrespectful? No, but it depends on who you're serving it to. It's not something you would serve to American guests and present as a delicacy. It's by no means a delicacy in the DR.
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Is there meat on chicken feet?
Chicken feet are cooked and eaten in many countries. After an outer layer of hard skin is removed, most of the edible tissue on the feet consists of skin and tendons, with no muscle. This gives the feet a distinct texture different from the rest of the chicken's meat.
How do you clean chicken feet fast?
1 Use a fairly blunt knife to scrape off the skin on the top section of the chicken feet. 2 Dip the part of the feet that still has skin in hot (but not boiling) water for 30 seconds. 3 Peel off the remaining skin completely.
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Australian inventor of 'black box' recorder diesSYDNEY (AP) — David Warren, an Australian scientist who invented the "black box" flight data recorder, has died, defense officials said. He was 85.
SYDNEY (AP) — David Warren, an Australian scientist who invented the "black box" flight data recorder, has died, defense officials said. He was 85.
Warren, who died Monday, came up with the idea for the cockpit voice recorder after investigating the crash of the world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, the Department of Defence said in a statement. He thought it would be helpful for airline accident investigators to have a recording of voices in the cockpit.
He designed and constructed a black box prototype in 1956, but it took several years before officials understood just how valuable the device could be and began installing them in commercial airlines worldwide.
Warren was born in 1925 in a remote part of northeast Australia. In 1934, his father was killed in a plane crash in Australia.
He became the principal research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1952 to 1983.
"Dr. Warren's flight data recorder has made an invaluable contribution to safety in world aviation," the defense department said in a statement.
In 2002, Warren was awarded the Order of Australia — among the nation's highest civilian honors — for his work.
Warren is survived by his wife Ruth, four children and seven grandchildren.


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The Institution for Feeble Minded Youth Farm is nominated to the National Register under Criterion A on the state level for its association with social history. The Institution, now known as the Beatrice Developmental Center, was established in 1885 for the care of the developmentally disabled. The Farm buildings represent a period of the Institution's history when it was largely self-sufficient with the majority of dairy, meat, and produce raised and processed by residents and staff. The period of significance, c.1930 -1947, encompasses the construction of the buildings. The Farm is also significant as the only known complex of its type in the state which provided a dormitory for residents engaged in the farm work. Additionally, the Farm is eligible as a separate because of its significant association with the evolution of institutional treatment for the developmentally disabled. The farm retains a high degree of integrity in terms of buildings and setting; it is the only known extant example of a farm complex historically associated with a public institution.


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Graduation day is one of the proudest moments in students' academic careers. Diplomas are symbolic of hours spent honing skills and working on assignments and, ultimately, success in the classroom. High school diplomas represent an opportunity to go on to higher learning or a trade, while college degrees indicate young people are ready to begin their professional lives.
Many graduates are excited about the prospect of receiving their diplomas. Once in hand, the document can be put on display. The following are some unique ways to showcase diplomas at home or at work.
One of the classic ways to display a diploma is in a frame. Many businesses offer customized framing where the frame material and the matting can be chosen. Some grads may want to include a photograph of the school or a picture of the graduate above the diploma. Graduates also may want to select a frame and mat that coordinates with school colors.
Create a shadow box
Consider displaying the diploma with other mementos from school. A shadow box is a large, deep display frame that can house items that are thicker than photographs or papers. Items such as a graduation tassel, medal or other award, a varsity jacket patch, or a program from a school performance or awards ceremony can be placed in the shadow box.
Create a photo wall
Display the diploma among other framed photos from school activities. This can elicit a trip down memory lane every time the wall is viewed. Some families may want to display their diplomas together, especially if multiple family members attended the same school.
Make a work of art
Various online art vendors can turn the diploma into different works of art. For example, engravers can laser engrave the diploma onto a wooden plaque. Then the diploma can be displayed in one location and the wood plaque in another.
Place it under glass
Display the diploma beneath the glass top of a coffee table. When entertaining guests, the diploma can make for a unique conversation piece.
A school diploma is worthy of recognition. There are various creative ways to display these documents that reflect the hard work and success of their recipients.
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With hardwoods, the story is quite different. Hardwoods are sold by the board foot, which is a calculation of the cubic size of the board. A board foot is 12 inches by 12 inches by 1 inch, or one-twelfth of a cubic foot.
To begin, one must first understand the thicknesses of hardwoods. Typically, board thicknesses will be listed in fourths:
- 3/4 =.75 inch in thickness
- 4/4 = 1.00 inch
- 5/4 = 1.25 inches
- 6/4 = 1.50 inches
- 7/4 = 1.75 inches
- 8/4 = 2.00 inches and so on...
(length x width x thickness)/144
All of the dimensions in this formula are in inches. For instance, a 10-inch wide, 3/4 board that measures 96-inches in length would come out to five board feet: (96 x 10 x.75)/144 = 5
In another example, a 6/4 board that is 8 inches wide and 6-feet long (72 inches) would be six board feet: (72 x 8 x 1.50)/144 = 6
If you know the board feet measurement of each board and you know how much the lumberyard charges per board foot, you can determine the cost for that board. For instance, if the two boards above were oak, and you know that the lumberyard charges $18 per board foot for oak, in the first example above, the cost for the board would be $90 (5 BF x $18 per BF = $90).
In the second example, the price for that board would be $108 (6 BF x $18 = $108).
It's important to verify the price per board when you buy or sell lumber, because some yards like adjust to round numbers. In other words, if you try to buy three boards of oak that measure out to 6.72 BF, 5.69 BF and 7.71 BF, the lumberyard might try to round each board up to 7, 6 and 8 respectively. This seemingly minor adjustment would end up costing you an additional $15.84 over the actual BF prices for the three boards.
When going to buy hardwoods, don't be afraid to challenge their measurements. It doesn't hurt to keep a small calculator in your pocket and calculate the prices to check their figures. Most lumberyards will calculate it properly, but as you can see, just a small rounding can end up costing you quite a bit in the long run.


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Definition of synchronic in English:
Concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time: synchronic linguistics Often contrasted with diachronic.
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- Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
- From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
- One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.
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- Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
- Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
- Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
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In this work, we present a new system for the determination of dissolved carbon dioxide (from 7.2 ppm to 425,6 ppm) in aqueous environments. Microfluidic technology has been incorporated in sensor design to reduce the volume of samples and reagents. Moreover, a detection system has been integrated in the chip, consisting of a white light -emitting diode as a light source and a high -resolution digital colour sensor as the detector, which are able to detect changes in colour produced by the reaction of the sensing chemistry and carbon dioxide in water. The optimised parameters found for the system are: flow rate 0.6 mL center dot min(-1), integration time 30 s and the time for pumping of solutions was 3 min, obtaining a LOD of 7.2 ppm. The CO2 response, reproducibility, precision, and stability of the sensing chemistry have been studied and compared with those obtained using bench-top instrumentation (i.e. a spectrophotometer), obtaining good agreement. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The ratio of activities of a solute, A in an aqueous/organic system will remain constant and independent of the total quantity of A (hence [A]_{org} \propto [A]_{aq}), so at any given temperature:
(K_D)_A = {(a_A)_{org} \over(a_A)_{aq}} \approx {[A]_{org} \over[A]_{aq}}
Thus, the conentration of A remaining in an aqueous solution after i extractions with an organic solvent can be found using:
[A]_i = ({V_{aq} \over V_{org} K_D + V_{aq}})^i [A]_0


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- tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
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The nyctitropic movement of plants affords another example of daily periodicity.
As an example of this, I give a record (Fig. 27) obtained with a specimen in which nyctitropic movement was very pronounced.
The extent of the nyctitropic movement varies in individual cases; in some it is slight, in others very large.
The description of this Nyctitropic Recorder will be given in the next paper.Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919
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Let $X$ be a closed irreducible subvariety of projective $n$ space. Let $k$ be the dimension of a maximal linear subspace not intersecting $X$. Then one can define $dim(X)=n-k-1$ (see Harris page 134). Why is $dim(Y) < dim(X)$ for two properly contained such varieties?
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This is also mentioned in Shafarevich (p.71), but the development may be different. The dimension of an irreducible quasi-projective variety $X$ is defined as the transcendence degree of the function field of $X$. Then the fact that one can equivalently define dimension as you mention is proved as a corollary of the following theorem: If a form $F$ is not $0$ on an irreducible projective variety $X,$ then $\operatorname{dim}(X_F)=\operatorname{dim}(X)-1.$ This is a bit of a work-around though, maybe you prefer a direct geometric proof!
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The way in which Harris phrased this conclusion made me think that there should be a very easy direct proof from the definition I gave. – Wuggletruggle Jul 19 '12 at 19:01
I agree, I just happened to be holding Shafarevich when I saw the question. – Andrew Jul 19 '12 at 19:17
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Known locally as gwal-y-filiast – kennel of the greyhound bitch - this single stone chamber is all that remains of a once much larger burial monument. The name may come from a variant of the Arthurian legend of Culhwch and Olwen, which appears in two fourteenth-century Welsh texts, but the site itself is very much older dating from the Neolithic period, some 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.
St Lythans is a type of monument known as a chambered long cairn and was originally covered by an earthen mound, probably similar to that found at its close neighbour, Tinkinswood. Although the stone chamber is conspicuous as you approach it from the road, the remains of the cairn – or mound – are barely discernible. It seems to have been about 24 metres (80 feet) long and 11 metres (35 feet) wide with the chamber occupying the eastern end. The chamber now consists of three upright stones with a capstone weighing up to 35 tonnes. How long it was used and who was buried here are questions that remain unanswered but finds of human remains and pottery recovered from the site some time before 1875 were recorded by the antiquarian, J. W. Lukis.


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>240VAC is correctly denoted as SPLIT single phase. It is NOT two phase.
>It is simply a centertapped, 240VAC single phase line from a single phase
>Two phase denotes a phase angle difference of 180 degrees. The sum of all
>phases in any system must always equal 360 degrees. The standard home
>electrical system in the US is two phase, 180 degree difference( two times
>180 equals 360). Each phase is 125 volts RMS to neutral, and 250 volts RMS
>from phase to phase.
when testing the house wiring with my O-scope.. the 120V shows a single
sine wave... when testing the 240 system it shows 2 sine waves ( had to
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so how does a single phase get "split" via a center tap transformer to
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Zynaptiq Unveil
Reverb Removal Plug-in For Mac & PC By Bill Lacey
Published February 2013
Zynaptiq Unveil.
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There's more to Unveil, though, than just dropping it on a track and pressing a magic button. Before delving into its intricacies, it's worth considering what reverberation is. Perhaps because we are used to being able to apply it artificially, we often tend to think of reverb as being a singular entity. We add it, we take it away, we boost it, we lower it. Reverberation is really the result of a complex combination of factors: the shape and distance of surfaces, the acoustic properties of their materials, and so on. Unless you're sitting in an anechoic chamber (a room designed to be free of reflections), sound will bounce off the surfaces and be reflected back to the source. The reflections arrive back at the source at different times and amplitudes, but are generally too closely spaced to be perceived as individual echoes. Instead, they blend together perceptually in a way which defines for the listener the unique acoustic character of the physical space, and which gradually decays over time as the reflections progressively lose energy. When we look at Unveil, then, we need to consider what it has to deal with, and our expectations need to reasonable in accordance with the task at hand. Is our aim to remove all traces of reverb, or just some of it?
Technically, Unveil brings a fresh approach to the problem, not relying on gate/expanders, de-noising or phase-cancellation methods. Instead, it uses a "pattern recognition and proprietary de-mixing engine" to separate the reverb component — or 'background' signal — from the foreground component. It can operate in mono, stereo, or up to eight-channel surround if your CPU can handle the load. It is designed, in theory, to affect only those sounds that "do not appear to contribute a significant amount of information to the signal". Zynaptiq's documentation wisely says "reduce" rather than "remove", and this it can accomplish to varying degrees, depending on what you throw at it.
Getting Into Focus
This spectrogram shows the same dialogue file before (left) and after (right) processing with Unveil.This spectrogram shows the same dialogue file before (left) and after (right) processing with Unveil.
Unveil has a refreshingly unique interface that adds a few new items to your plug-in vocabulary. Thankfully, hovering the mouse over a control will reveal a small tool-tips window to explain the relevant operation. The most important, and the first, of a series of five spherical controls is labelled Focus. In essence, this controls the degree of reduction or boost in the amount of reverberation present in the signal. Higher values, towards the right side, remove reverb, while lower values attenuate the direct sound and increase the level of reverberation. Zynaptiq recommend having this set at its maximum when adjusting other parameters, so that the changes are more obvious, then backing it off until you achieve the effect you want.
If you're having trouble getting Unveil to 'lock in' on the reverberant sound, there is a bank of 10 sliders just above the Focus control labelled Focus Bias. These allow for more direct, frequency-specific targeting of the effect: set the Focus control to the centre so that the signal is unprocessed, and move the sliders to exaggerate or ignore frequency ranges where the reverb is more or less prominent.
Additional control parameters allow further refinement of the algorithm. To simplify, t/ƒ Localize helps manage 'pumping' artifacts or high-frequency oscillations, while t/ƒ Refract determines how much time the algorithm takes before reacting — the longer the time, the better the sound but the greater the chance of reverb slipping through — and t/ƒ Adaptation is used to tailor the analysis to match the release time of the reverb tail. Finally, the Presence control is used to restore lost high-frequency content. The Transient Threshold switch allows the user to specify that some transients should remain unprocessed, which can help retain impact. I/O Diff lets you audition a volume-compensated difference between the input and output signals, so you can hear what Unveil is 'throwing away', while the large display represents this difference visually, along with a representation of the Adaptation setting.
Lifting The Veil
I prepared a number of scenarios for testing Unveil: an on-camera interview recorded in a large garage with very reflective surfaces; an interview recorded using a camera-mounted mic; a mix with an absurd amount of artificial reverb applied to vocals and instruments; and a drum loop with too much live room sound mixed in.
Film and television location sound recording has been one area, in particular, that has been in need of an effective tool to reduce excessive reverberation. Both of my tests with dialogue were extreme examples of typical problems faced in location sound recording, and Unveil did a pretty good job of reducing excess reverberation in both scenarios. It also had a tendency to remove background environmental sound ("room tone"), though, and further tweaking was required to find the right balance. Anyone with experience in restoration knows that you often need to use more than one tool, and in this case using a tool such as CEDAR's DNS or Spectral Repair in conjunction with Unveil can yield a more satisfying result than pushing Unveil too hard on its own.
When using Unveil on a mix, there are a lot more variables to contend with, but I was able to reduce reverberation to make the mix sound more acceptable. It was necessary to employ a lighter touch in this situation. The drum loop was a little harder to work with than I anticipated. Finding the best balance between reducing reverb and preserving the transients on the hi-hat and ride cymbals took a little longer than expected. Taking the time to tweak the Focus Bias sliders made the difference.
Unveil is pretty effective at doing more than just reducing reverb. It's also relatively good at removing'mud' from recordings, and even at separating the reverb signal from the direct recording, which could be useful for up-mixing or game sound states. Unveil can boost or reduce high-frequency 'grit' in recordings, and match reverb amounts across different dialogue takes, and you can use it to move background sounds into and out of focus, to better match camera perspective.
Overall, Unveil is a worthy addition to any post-production sound kit and is unique in its ability to isolate reverb from the foreground signal, but it requires some understanding and practice to use properly. To that end, it comes supplied with a number of presets for specific situations that serve as good starting points. It's pretty CPU-intensive, and will no doubt stress all but the most powerful systems. In film and television applications, it may be more effective to adapt a strategy where users treat individual clips and print the results, rather than leaving it live on a multiple tracks and automating the parameters. High buffer settings in your DAW are a must!
The point at which Unveil appears to remove all reverb is the point at which the source starts to sound unnatural, lifeless and sometimes beset with processing artifacts, depending on the signal. Overdoing it with Unveil may produce results not unlike the improper use of noise-reduction software, and it's not all that difficult to make something sound worse than when you started — but sensible application, especially in conjunction with other tools, can yield exceptional results. My only worry is that once film and television directors discover how it can bail them out, best recording practices may be abandoned on location and we'll have even worse audio to contend with!
 - Very effective at isolating reverb for manipulation.
 - Has some useful creative applications in addition to its main function.
 - Easy-to-use interface with helpful visual feedback.
 - Modestly priced.
 - Can take to time to master.
 - Heavy load on CPU.
 - Over-use can produce obvious artifacts and lead to sterile-sounding material.
Zynaptiq Unveil is a solid weapon for film and television engineers to employ against poorly recorded location sound. The fact that it goes beyond that is a bonus. Spending time learning to use it properly should yield gratifying results.
€399 including VAT.
Published February 2013


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Consider the Source: Why Was Maitreya Too Fat to Sit in Full Lotus?
In the great Buddhist grottos at Dunhuang, the unequalled repository of Buddhist statues and art in China's far west, certain Buddha figures do not sit in full lotus as one might expect. Nor do they stand erect, another common posture. Instead, they sit with their legs crossed at their ankles, a puzzling, rather uncomfortable looking position. The Chinese scholar Gu Zhengmei argues that this posture is a sure sign that these statues represent Maitreya Buddha, the "Buddha to Come" who is said to appear in the world when all have forgotten the dharma. He claims that it is consistent with discoveries of Maitreya images not just at Dunhuang, but also in Greek-influenced Gandhara, where the first icons of the Buddha were found.


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Paid revision courses: time for a boycott
- By: Grant S Nolan
They message me more than my girlfriend does, I see their shiny leaflets plastered on the student union's walls, and one plucky company representative even had the audacity to give a quick sales pitch after a lecture. Exam season is looming, and paid revision courses are everywhere.
Medical schools have been around for centuries, educating bright eyed students. They teach us everything from approaching an unconscious patient in the street, to explaining the stomach ache one gets after being kicked in the balls.* Medical societies often provide revision events and proactive students have long formed their own revision groups; testing each other and working together through indecipherable lecture notes. So what gap are these revision courses plugging?
That question becomes even more relevant when you consider the staggering cost of these courses. With recent tuition fee changes to £9000 a year, medicine can already be unaffordable for those without substantial


"refresh" control button serves to reload (manually refresh) the current state of notification plugin;
 - "enable auto refresh"/"disable auto refresh": serves for activating/deactivating the auto refresh of notification plugin status information; if enabled, then the current state will be refreshed in every 5 seconds;
 - "deactivate job/activate job" button is used to deactivate/activate the job if it should not run; a deactivated job will not be started automatically, nor can be started manually
 - "logs": in case that you want to check the notifications plugin events, or if any problem occurred during the sending of notifications emails, click on this control button and you will be redirected to the corresponding monitoring page, where the last run of the plugin will be pre-selected, and the corresponding run events will be displayed.
 - "edit" control button is used to change the name of the notification job and to specify the node where the job should run;
 - With the arrows mark (Documentation118.1) at the right side of the status bar the user may collapse or expand the progress information about the job's running. The status bar's last state is always stored, and the last state will be opened by navigating to the page again.
Under the status bar the following sections are configured:
 - Scheduling settings: This configuration option is common both for SMTP and Exchange server transport types. The administrator can choose here an already existing notification scheduler from the list, or create a new one. Notification emails will be sent at time, which is set here. New notification schedulers can be also created (or edited) by selecting the "system" tenant in the right upper menu of the Central Administration user interface, and configuring the schedulers on the Schedules page (System tab => Tenants group => option Schedules on the ribbon, refer to screenshot below).
 - Notification settings: The administrator can choose right here, if the SMTP server or Exchange provider will be used to transfer notification emails.
 In both cases, the
 From address – the email address of the real sender
 Administrator addresses – the recipient addresses
 text boxes must be filled. It is also a possible to send notification emails on behalf of somebody else. The condition for that is to have on behalf permissions on the mailbox of this second user. It is recommended to send a test email via the "Send test email" button to check, if everything works correctly.
 The page displays different configuration sections based on which transport type is selected in the Notification settings section. If "Use Exchange Server" is selected, then the EWS settings must be configured; if "Use SMTP server" is set, then the SMTP server settings must be configured. SMTP server is used if the organization doesn't have Exchange Server.
 Screenshot A: Exchange Server used
 Screenshot B: SMTP server used
 - EWS settings: The following parameters are needed for EWS connection:
 Exchange server type, Exchange server interface version: the type and version of the Exchange provider which will send the notification emails.
 EWS URL (received from the Exchange provider)
 Keep connection alive: If it is turned on, then the connection between contentACCESS and the Exchange server is cached, which increases the performance. If the Exchange is load balanced, some requests can land on another Exchange which causes errors in contentACCESS. In these cases unchecking the keep alive option will destroy the connection after each request and will rebuild it on the next request.
 User name, Password: Finally enter the User name (email address) and password of the EWS user that can be applied to connect to the Exchange server.
 - SMPT server settings: the following parameters are needed for the STMP connection:
 Host – name of the SMTP server (like:,, …)
 Port – the SMTP port of the SMTP server. There are some recommendations and standards. Usually the port 25 is used for SMTP (or 2525). But because this protocol is vulnerable, the port is usually blocked by firewall. The secure SMTP port is either 465 or 587. The port 587 is usually using TLS (Transport layer security).
 Enable SSL – based on the SMTP server it is possible to enable SSL (recommended)
 User name, password: authenticated user on the SMTP server (required)
 Use the Send test email button to verify if the notification emails are working properly.
 - Resource settings: under worker thread count, at the bottom of the page you can set the count of simultaneously sent notifications.
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Pay PDA! You can easily pay us and have our services or products without any delay. Select the suitable method and follow the instructions.
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We accept your payments via Internet. PayPal, Master Card, Visa or any type of bank transfers are always acceptable. Just contact us and take the secured web page to pay PDA. Do not type any detail anywhere before accessing our secured web page.
Safety tips for online payments
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- Double check all details of your payment before confirming.
- Before entering payment details on a website, ensure that the link is secure, in three ways:
- There should be a padlock symbol in the browser window frame, which appears when you attempt to log in or register. Be sure that the padlock is not on the page itself … this will probably indicate a fraudulent site.
- The web address should begin with 'https://'. The 's' stands for 'secure'.
- If using the latest version of your browser, the address bar or the name of the site owner will turn green.
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The way of connection : journeys with the map of loss
Date of Award
Doctor of Psychology
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
Profesor Alison Garton
This research is a journey our destination is an increased understanding of The Map of Loss (Snyder. 1999) and the potential it offers for connection and growth. The Map of Loss is a simple. easy to remember picture that explains complex psychological processes everyone goes through during life. Creating metaphors using pictures. creative activities and everyday language. The Map is a unique approach to understanding life. The Map presents a visual guide to the importance of balance in our lives. and provides us with an opportunity to realise connections between our actions. thoughts. feelings. and beliefs and the meaning we attach to our experiences. The Map is a means of understanding the process of change it is about making life real. about bringing together. linking and embracing our humanity. In undertaking this study I have utilised a mix of method. principles and practice, with the aim of providing an interpretive portrayal of lhe processes and adaptations of The Map. The purpose of the study was to explore the qualities of The Map of Loss. to identify the important features. aspects and theoretical underpinnings of The Map. which have not been written about before. The locus was on understanding why and how prolessionals (collaborators) were using The Map in various settings with differing populations.
Jackson, B. N. (2007). The way of connection : journeys with the map of loss. Retrieved from _URL_


How to Write an Anniversary Announcement?
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Tips for Keeping your Poultry Hydrated During Hot WeatherPosted: August 15, 2018
Water is essential in your poultry surviving the hot weather. Here are some tips for keeping your poultry hydrated during the summer months.
- Position water containers in the shade. If water is too hot (or too cold) chickens will not drink enough to keep egg production up.
- Adjust waterers to shoulder height. This will help keep the litter dry.
- If food, bedding or feces gets into drinking water, change it.
- Ducklings and goslings need access to fresh, clean drinking water. However, they love to play in water and will quickly soil it. Use a water dispenser that allows only their bills to enter. Put distance between their feed and water dispensers to prevent cross contamination.
- Grown ducks need access to water at least one or two inches deep in order to groom themselves.
- Ducks and geese do not require swimming water, but they must always have fresh drinking water available.
- Baby turkeys sometimes need extra coaxing to drink water. One trick is to put a few bright-colored marbles in their water. When they peck at the marbles, their beaks will slip into the water. Pretty soon, they'll get the hang of it. Remove the marbles before the birds get enough to swallow them.
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One of the world's most technologically advanced floating nautical survey platforms has been anchored off Birch Bay for the past few weeks collecting data to update national nautical charts.
The Rainier, one of the research ships in the Pacific fleet of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), is in the middle of a mission collecting data to update NOAA's nautical charts for the Strait of Georgia. Its work will eventually take it up the coast of Alaska.
The data will provide more information on the shoals in the vicinity of Cherry Point, which is the largest tanker port in Washington. This information will be helpful to the Puget Sound pilots who steer large tankers through the sound and the Strait of Georgia. The area has seen changes in vessel traffic recently due to the increased capacity of the facilities at Cherry Point, according to the NOAA website for the ship.
The Rainier, originally launched in 1967, is 231 feet long and weighs about 1,500 tons. It can house a total of 25 crew members and stay at sea for 22 days at a time. For more information on the Rainier, visit the ship's website.


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Definition of garage
- garage Noun A building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- garage Noun A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
- garage Noun A petrol filling station,
- garage Noun An independent automobile repair shop.
- garage Noun A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
- garage Noun A type of electronic dance music.
- garage Verb To store in a garage.


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Additional (or sixth) mouse button.
Use this for detecting mouse button presses. The "5" mouse button is the sixth button on the user's mouse if this additional button exists. Unity defines this as the "5" Mouse button, as the mouse Button numbering begins at 0.
using UnityEngine;
public class Example : MonoBehaviour { void Update() { //Detect if the extra mouse button is pressed if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Mouse5)) { Debug.Log("Mouse 5 "); } } }


Bunyan and Banjoes (with CD)
Bunyan and Banjoes is an enchanting potpourri of folklore, songs, Indian legends, recipes, history, and other Michigan-based activities. This volume includes stories about how maple sugar is made; the history of the early fur trade, mining, logging, and automobile industries; the building of the Mackinac Bridge and the Soo Locks; the sad loss of the steamer Chicora; as well as several songs adapted to sign language. CD of songs included.


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1. a large number of things or people considered together
- a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
2. an informal body of friends
- he still hangs out with the same crowd
Sentences with crowd as a noun:
- After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
- There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
- That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
1. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
Similar word(s): herd
2. fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- The students crowded the auditorium
3. to gather together in large numbers
- men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
4. approach a certain age or speed
Similar word(s): push
Sentences with crowd as a verb:
- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk


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How to effectively remove exhaust gas from fire engines with special exhaust pipes? While needing a flexible solution that disconnects the system from the fire truck at call-out? This question Geovent receive from a customer.
The British Air Force uses American fire engines at their airports and these require a special solution to remove exhaust gas when the fire engines are started on call-out. This avoids the firefighters being exposed to the polluting exhaust gas.
Both the design of the nozzle and the position of the exhaust pipe were a challenge, but also that the nozzle has to be flexible during the call-out. At the same time, the customer wanted the solution to be operable from the ground, despite the size of the fire engines.
In a close cooperation with the customer, Geovent developed an arm on which the special suction head is mounted. The length of the arm allows the solution to be operated from the ground. An electromagnet is placed on the arm and is connected to the fire truck. When the fire truck leaves the fire station, the power to the magnet is switched off and the system is disconnected. This makes the solution both efficient and flexible, and solves the customer's challenges to full satisfaction.


What is a price floor? Examples of binding and non-binding price floors.
Price floors are common government tools used in regulating. A price floor means that the price of a good or service cannot go lower than the regulated floor. A minimum wage law is the most common and easily recognizable example of a price floor.
To intuitively understand a price floor, imagine dropping a rock in your house. The rock cannot go lower than the floor because it will hit it and stop. The same concept holds with prices and a price floor. The price cannot go lower than the price floor. Where this gets tricky is that a BINDING price floor occurs ABOVE the equilibrium price. It may be confusing to have a floor above something, but if you think it through it makes sense. If a rock wants to fall from an altitude of 50 meters to an altitude of 20 meters, than the floor must be above 20 meters in order to be effective. If the floor is at 10 meters, the rock (price) can fall to 20 meters with no problem.
Economics classes want students to be able to recognize the difference between binding and non binding price floors. Consider the example of a minimum wage law in California. Imagine the minimum wage is $8.00 per hour. If a company wants to pay someone $10.00 per hour, than there is no problem because this price is above the floor. However, if a company wants to pay an employee $6.00 per hour, than the there is a problem because this amount is below the price floor. The latter example would be a binding price floor, while the former would not be binding.
Note that the price floor is below the equilibrium price so that anything price ABOVE the floor is feasible. Another way to think about this is to start at a price of 100, and go down until you the price floor price or the equilibrium price. If you hit the price floor first, it is binding. However, if you hit the equilibrium price first, the price floor is not binding is not.
Since our original price floor of $4.00 was ineffective, what happens if we increase the price floor to $10.00? This will raise the price floor line on the graph above the equilibrium price level. You can now see that the equilibrium price is BELOW the price floor, so it is not possible for the equilibrium price to be attained. This means that suppliers (labor) are willing to supply a higher quantity than originally supplied (because of the higher price) and consumers (firms) are going to demand a lower quantity than originally demanded. This results in a surplus (unemployment) because quantity supplied is higher than quantity demanded. As long as the price floor is present, there will be a surplus in the market, and some of the suppliers that are willing and supply their labor will not be able to find a job (a firm willing and able to hire them at the price floor price).
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Haraldsen is a PhD student at the department of coaching and psychology and The Norwegian Research center for children and Youth Sport. She is teaching educational science at the teacher education in performing arts at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Teaching and supervision topics of educational psychology, educational philosophy, didactics and educational sociology. Main areas are aesthetic learning and competence, curriculum theory and identity. The PHD project at NIH is focusing on motivation and talent development.
Teacher education and educational science, Talent development, Motivation and motivational climate.
Professional dancer and dance teacher.