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If you drop molten glass into a bucket of cold water, it cools into a weird tadpole shape: a round head with a long, thin tail. It's called a Prince Rupert's Drop, and no matter how hard you hit the head with a hammer, it won't break. But if you nick the tail even slightly, the whole drop explodes into tiny shards of glass.
That's because the cold water cools the outside of the drop very quickly — so quickly that even by the time the outside is solid, the inside is still molten. As the inside cools, it causes the solid outer layer to contract around it. The resulting stresses actually strengthen the glass — except for the tail, which is too thin to have inner and outer layers to balance the stresses, so it's a weak point.
And if you nick the drop's tail, it doesn't just break, it explodes into tiny pieces, so fast that you can't really see it happen in real time. One instant, the glass is there; the next, it's gone. You can watch it happen at 130,000 frames per second in this video.
What's a Prince Rupert's Drop good for? Researchers have used Prince Rupert's Drops since the 17th century to study material failure and elasticity. Geologists are also interested in these funny glass tadpoles, because similar structures often form during volcanic eruptions.


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This chapter contains an overview of the C++RTL specific data types and constants. A brief explanation of each data type along with sizes is provided.
Basic Data Types and their Sizes
This section lists the basic data types used in C++RTL APIs, indicating the size of each.
- mqbyte - Data defined to occupy 8 bits (unsigned).
- mqchar - Data defined to occupy 8 bits.
- mqshort - Data defined to occupy 16 bits.
- mqint - Data defined to occupy 32 bits.
- mqlong - Data defined to occupy 64 bits.
- mqfloat - Data defined to occupy 32 bits.
- mqdouble - Data defined to occupy 64 bits.
All required public constants are categorized and declared in common_def.h according to JMS specifications.
Messaging related constants are required while creating sessions and sending messages to a queue or topic on the FioranoMQ Server.
Following are the possible values of the acknowledgement mode that can be used while creating a TopicSession or a QueueSession:
- _TAG_ AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE 1
- _TAG_ CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE 2
- _TAG_ DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE 3
Following are the permissible values for the message delivery mode that can be used in publish or send call. The persistence of a message is decided using these constants:
- _TAG_ NON_PERSISTENT 1
- _TAG_ PERSISTENT 2
Following are the string representations of the various message types that can be sent by a C client to the FioranoMQ Server. A call of MSG_getJMSType returns one of these values:
- _TAG_ JMSMESSAGE "Message"
- _TAG_ BYTESMESSAGE "BytesMessage"
- _TAG_ STREAMMESSAGE "StreamMessage"
- _TAG_ MAPMESSAGE "MapMessage"
- _TAG_ TEXTMESSAGE "TextMessage"
Following are some of the permissible values for message priority that can be used in publish or send call:
- _TAG_ MinPriority 0
- _TAG_ MaxPriority 9
- _TAG_ LowPriority 0
- _TAG_ NormPriority 4
- _TAG_ HighPriority 9
The C++RTL adheres to the following naming convention for you to easily identify the classes, constants and member functions with the corresponding definitions in JMS specifications.
As defined in JMS specifications

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Co-Training for Domain Adaptation[PDF] [BibTeX]
Domain adaptation algorithms seek to generalize a model trained in a source domain to a new target domain. In many practical cases, the source and target distributions can differ substantially, and in some cases crucial target features may not have support in the source domain. In this paper we introduce an algorithm that bridges the gap between source and target domains by slowly adding both the target features and instances in which the current algorithm is the most confident. Our algorithm is a variant of co-training, and we name it CODA (Co-training for domain adaptation). Unlike the original co-training work, we do not assume a particular feature split. Instead, for each iteration of co-training, we add target features and formulate a single optimization problem which simultaneously learns a target predictor, a split of the feature space into views, and a shared subset of source and target features to include in the predictor. CODA significantly out-performs the state-of-the-art on the 12-domain benchmark data set of Blitzer et al.. Indeed, over a wide range (65 of 84 comparisons) of target supervision, ranging from no labeled target data to a relatively large number of target labels, CODA achieves the best performance.


Is 2ms Response Time Good for Gaming [A Recommended 144Hz Monitor]
If you are in the market for a gaming monitor, response time and refresh rates are two of the most important things you'd look for. If you've been using a 16ms or 8ms gaming monitor before now, getting anything lower, either a 5ms or 2ms will show a remarkable difference.
But in reality, is 2ms response time good for gaming? I'd be answering that and sharing my top choice when it comes to a gaming monitor that will be providing you top-notch performances.
Yes. A 2ms response time is good for gaming. With a 2ms response time coupled with a decent refresh rate, you will notice a remarkable improvement in the gaming experience, including how smooth, fast, and responsive-to-control your gameplay is.
First, let's begin by talking about what response time is, and just why you'd need to consider the response time of a gaming monitor before you commit.
Response Time Definition in Gaming Performance Testing – What Does 2ms Response Time Mean?
Response time (ms) in gaming is defined as the amount of time it takes from the time a person makes a request or calls a control to the time the request receives a response. It also refers to the speed at which the monitor transits from one color to another and from one shade to another.
Is 1ms Response Time Good for Gaming?
So let's say you are playing a high FPS game. It's expected that the in-game character responds to your command as soon as you hit the specific command. So generally, the lower the response time of a gaming monitor, the better the gaming experience.
The best response time for a gaming monitor is 5ms and below. With 2ms or even 1ms, you are sure to be in the sweet spot. If you have ever had to game with 16ms gaming monitors and then switch to a 5ms gaming monitor, you'll surely see a remarkable improvement.
2ms Response Time Vs. 1ms
A 1ms response time and a 2ms response time are technically the same. While you get similar performances, 1ms response time remains the top option for gamers. And if gamers are using it a lot more, then there's a chance it trumps a 2ms gaming monitor.
2ms and 1ms gaming monitors have almost similar pricing, so if you're in it for a monitor that will last quite some time, then why not just invest in a high-quality 1ms gaming monitor.
2ms Vs. 4ms Response Time
While it doesn't show a remarkable difference unless you're coming from 1ms response time, you should be able to use any of these two and be just fine if you're a casual gamer. You should remember that a 2ms response time is a lot better than a 4ms response time, and you'll always enjoy gaming with a 2ms response time monitor over a 4ms response time monitor if you're a pro gamer.
Response Time Monitor 2ms Vs. 5ms
Generally, I'd not trouble myself with anything from 5ms and below. 5ms is presently the standard for most gaming monitors, with 2ms being the top of the range set. Yes, 2ms vs. 5ms has a noticeable difference, and when gaming with a monitor with a response time of 5ms, you'd sure see a slower response time when compared to a 2ms monitor.
But this is mostly noticed when you deliberately look for the difference, for the most part, most casual gamers get away with 5ms response time monitors.
2ms Vs. 6ms Response Time
6ms response time is too low for most gamers. While most gamers will easily get away with 5ms response time gaming monitors, 6ms is simply stretching things too far. You will surely see a noticeable difference between 2ms and 6ms monitors. Always shoot for 5ms response time and below, better yet, shoot for 2ms and 1ms for optimal performance.
8ms Vs. 2ms Response Time
2ms response time trumps 8ms anytime. If you're serious about gaming and getting the most out of every gaming session, especially if you're into shooter games and others that require high FPS, then a 2ms gaming monitor will improve your efficiency. 8ms response time isn't good enough for games and gaming consoles these days.
2ms Response Time Monitor – Gaming Monitor with 2ms Response Time
If you are looking for a high-quality gaming monitor with 2ms response time, then you should try the ASUS VE248H 24 inches Full HD monitor.
2ms Response Time TV
If you are looking for a high-quality high response time TV for gaming, I will recommend the TCL 55S425 4K TV. You get an amazing refresh rate, amazing response time, and great color and picture quality.
Samsung Monitor 2ms Response Time
If you are looking out for a good Samsung monitor with 2ms response time, either for work or gaming, the Samsung 850 is one of the best options on the market. You get amazing quality, excellent performance for both work and gaming, and a great build.
IPS Monitor 2ms Response Time
The LG 27GL83A-B is one of the best IPS gaming monitors with healthy response time. You don't just get 2ms, you get an amazing deal. A 1ms gaming monitor for the same price you'll find a gaming monitor with 2ms response time.
See also cheap gaming monitors for PS4.
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What's the audit scheduler?
One great feature within audIT.app is the ability to schedule an audit, but what exactly does this mean?
Part of the Standard is that you need to:
 1. Risk assess how often you do the audits
 2. Schedule the dates in advance
The audIT.app will automatically do the risk assessment for you (this happens on a monthly basis), so this covers item 1.
audIT.app schedules your audits based on the outcome of the risk assessment – so you can show the auditor the dates are set in advance.
When the audit date is due audIT.app then emails the auditor to remind them they need to complete an audit.
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It is known that thiol-containing compounds form monolayer membranes on a gold surface via chemisorption from organic solvents in terms of a strong connection ability between thiol and the metal. Here we prepared different kinds of thiol-containing lipids and fabricated monolayer membranes on the gold disk electrode whose surface structures were similar to biological membranes. Responses of this lipid-coated electrode to odor substances were examined by an electrochemical method of a cyclic voltammetry. Blocking ability for the redox reaction of Fe(CN)63− was found to change upon adsorption of odor substances into monolayer membranes. The order of threshold values to detect the odorants was β-iononeβ-citralβchloroform≦n-amyl acetate; this order was the same as that in the human olfactory sense. The present study indicates that the monolayer membrane of thiol-containing lipids can be useful as a transducer of an odor sensor.
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- Physics and Astronomy(all)


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Love this super easy, super pretty idea from The Glitter Guide Collaborating with Hey Look! Simply apply spray glue or double-sided tape to desired object, and sprinkle with glitter. Presto, cute little centrepiece!
Glitter Votive Jars
- glass jars, vases or simple drinking glasses
- paper glue or spray glue
- double-sided tape
- glitter powder in the color(s) of your choice
Instructions for the glitter votive:
-Apply paper glue or spray glue to jar. You can make shapes or simply apply it all over.
-Sprinkle the jar with a good amount of glitter. Make sure you don't leave any glue spots uncovered.
-Tap on the glitter particles carefully, then shake off excess glitter and you're done.
-Place a votive candle in the jar or use it as vase
Instructions for the sparkle-striped votive:
-Stick double sided-tape strip onto jar as shown in the picture. You can use tapes of different widths if you like, and apply several stripes per jar.
-Sprinkle generously with glitter then clean off excess sparkles.
-If you want your stripes to be of different color, place 2nd strip of tape on votive only after cleaning off the glitter from the first stripe. Repeat step 2 and you're done.


Place:Asquith, Saskatchewan, Canada
Coordinates52.15°N 107.233°W
Located inSaskatchewan, Canada (1906 - )
Contained Places
Asquith Cemetery
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Asquith (2011 Population 603) is a town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 20 minutes west of Saskatoon. It became a village in December 1907.
Asquith became a village In December 1907, and a town Aug 15, 1908. [The Asquith Record] It was named for Herbert H Asquith (Lord Asquith) who was the British Prime Minister at the time of incorporation.
Asquith is located within the physical boundaries of the Rural Municipality of Vanscoy No. 345, but is independent from it. A sign at the entrance to Asquith includes the statement "Center of the British Empire" but the origin of this claim is unknown.
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Asquith, Saskatchewan. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.


text: Physical separation of reactions by interactive multicompartments in biological cells is an attractive motif to design efficient microreactors that create biomimetic cascade reactions. We present an aqueous compartment with three different subcompartments that comprise of silica nanoreactors with encapsulated enzymes, namely, β-glucosidase, glucose oxidase, and peroxidase, providing a model cascade reaction in confinement. The encapsulated enzymes retain their activity as the substrate can reach the active site and the silica shell further protects the enzymes from external stresses, such as heat and proteolytic degradation. We demonstrate the biomimetic cascade reaction in between the compartments ("organelles") inside of an additional microconfinement (water-in-oil emulsion). This strategy will allow us to design efficient multicompartmentalized reactors for further biological and organic reactions.


Welly Walk Thursdays
Kitted out in welly boots we take the children on a weekly walk around the village to help them connect with their local surroundings and embrace the great outdoors! Jumping in muddy puddles, building dens, climbing through bushes, exploring the woods or visiting a local farm – Welly Walk Thursdays are all about adventure!
During this time outdoors the children will be given a task or activity to complete, such as making a stick person, collecting different coloured leaves or searching for seasonal items – perhaps a conker or a tadpole!
These outdoor trips always provide a lot of fun and wonder – but they also develop practical skills such as listening and communication as the children learn the importance of staying safe and keeping together as a group.


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a closer look at the inverse ellc plot. The inverse means that I successively remove the lowest separation data point in the set and recalculate the max_probability and its corresponding ellc. So the left-most point on the graph represents the ENTIRE dataset, and therefore should equal the right-most point on the NORMAL martin graph. (which it does)
contour plots at varying max-sep
this is the normal contour plot, for all data
this contour shows what the probabilities are when the maximum separation in the data set is 10kpc. this ammounts to roughly 60 total data points.


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It has been suggested that in the presence of astigmatism some individuals make cyclic changes in focus over the astigmatic interval to obtain better visual performance. The aim in the present study was to identify such cyclic accommodative behavior and to characterize the variability of the response in the presence of astigmatism. The dynamic accommodation response in the presence of induced astigmatism was recorded objectively with an infrared optometer in seven young adults. Astigmatism led directly to increased accommodative variability in certain individuals. In two of seven participants there was evidence for aperiodic cyclic accommodative responses between different portions of the astigmatic interval. However, the amplitude of these tracking responses was much smaller than the astigmatic interval.
- accomodation response
- vision sciences


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$text_to_search = "example text with [foo] and more";
$search_string = "[foo]";
if($text_to_search =~ m/$search_string/) print "wee";
Please observe above code. For some reason I would like to find the text "[foo]" in the $text_to_search variable and print "wee" if I find it. To do this I would have to ensure that the [ and ] is substitued with [ and ] to make perl treat it as characters instead of operators.
Question: How can I do this without having to first replace [ and ] with \[ and \] using a s/// expression?
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I would say get into the habit of using the qr// construct for regular expressions and escaping special regex chars if literal is needed. Quotemeta will quote ALL special regex chars. If you just want to find a literal string in another, use index() instead. – sln Jan 6 '11 at 17:01
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Use the quotemeta function:
$search_string = quotemeta "[foo]";
print "wee" if ($text_to_search =~ /$search_string/);
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Use \Q to autoescape any potentially problematic characters in your variable.
if($text_to_search =~ m/\Q$search_string/) print "wee";
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++. Merely for completeness: You could use the quotemeta function for a similar outcome: $text_to_search = quotemeta "example text with [foo] and more"; /$search_string/ But this will change $text_to_search, rather than quotemeta'ing only inside the regex. – Hugmeir Jan 6 '11 at 15:20
_USER_: That's why you want to quotemeta the substring to search for instead. See my answer. – Platinum Azure Jan 6 '11 at 15:28
Whoops, yeah, my bad. – Hugmeir Jan 6 '11 at 15:31
As guys already written you can use quotemeta (\Q \E) if you Perl is 5.16+ but if below you can simply avoid using regexp at all.
for example by using index command
if (index($text_to_search, $search_string) > -1){
 print "wee";
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Definition of Abdominal cavity
Abdominal cavity: The cavity within the abdomen, the space between the abdominal wall and the spine.
The abdominal cavity is hardly an empty space. It contains a number of crucial organs including the lower part of the esophagus, the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, and bladder.
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New Capabilities are introduced in the AppFramework as a part of AppStudio 2.0. These capabilities are not provided natively by Qt. Following capabilities are currently in beta
These capabilities are currently in Beta. What does that mean?
What it means is that we are looking forward to your feedback, the use cases, what you like and what you want us to improve upon. It also means that if you choose to implement these plugins in Production App. Future changes may affect your app may require additional changes to support these functionalities in your app.
1. Local Notification - This is a new plugin added to the AppFramework. It provides developers the ability to implement in-app notification to end users such as an alert, message or geotification. When the Local Notification gets triggered on the client device the Notification icon appears in the Notification bar which is same as the application icon. The Notification icon cannot be customized or modified. Users may choose to have one or multiple notifications within the app. Every notification scheduled has a corresponding id available to distinguish between multiple Local Notifications.
Note:- An app running within Player or AppStudio Desktop (AppRun) will show the notification icon of Player or AppRun respectively when triggered.
How to implement Local Notification in an AppStudio App?
- Use the following import statement
import ArcGIS.AppFramework.Notifications.Local 1.0
- Enable the "Local Notification" capability within the AppSettings of the App
- Use the component "LocalNotification" which takes three input parameters to schedule a notification
- Title – The title of the message
- Message – The description of the message
- Time (in seconds)- Time after which the notification will be triggered on the end user device.
- bool supported (read only)- Returns a boolean if the device supports local notification.
Note: This property is supported on Android API 19+ versions.
- object schedule(string title, string message, int timeInSeconds) - returns a Variant object which is id of the scheduled notification
- Title - The title of the message as string value
- Message -The description of the message as string value
- Time (in seconds) -Time after which the notification will appear on the end user device as int
For e.g. 5 seconds means the notification will be triggered in 5 second
var id = notification.schedule(title, message, duration)
- bool clear(object id) -This method will clear the pending notification from the list of scheduled notifications
- object id - The id of the notification to be clear.
- Returns bool - Indicates whether the notification is cleared from the list of scheduled notifications.
bool success = notification.clear(id)
Note: It will return false for invalid inputs and for notifications which have already triggered.
- void clearAll() - This method clears all the pending (yet to be triggered) and active (already triggered) notifications along with badge numbers for iOS apps.
- triggered(object id) - This signal is emitted when the local notification is triggered.
- object id-It takes an id of the scheduled notification.
2. Vibration (Singleton) - New plugin added in AppFramework with AppStudio 2.0 version. This allows developers to enable vibration within an app. It is a non visual feedback or alert. Common use cases to provide vibration are to indicate an event such a message received or finished creating a model making a network request or just an alert etc.
Note: Currently, there is no way to provide number of seconds as an input for it to vibrate. On android device, it will vibrate for 1 second and on iOS it will use the system default.
How to implement Vibration in the AppStudio App?
- Use the following import statement
import ArcGIS.AppFramework.Notifications 1.0
- Enable the Vibration capability within the AppSettings of the App
- Call the Vibration.vibrate()
- bool supported - Returns a boolean value indicating whether your device supports vibration or not.
- void vibrate() - Method call to initiate a vibration on the client device from the app. The device will continue to vibrate for system default vibration settings (in seconds) or until the app is closed.
3. Background Location - New capability has been introduced to AppStudio 2.0 which allows the apps to use location data in background mode. Some of the common use cases using this capability are logging location data using position source, or trigger a notification, geo-fencing etc. This capability is currently available for mobile platforms only as this is already supported on desktop.
How to implement Background Location in the AppStudio App?
- Enable the Background Location capability in AppSettings of the App
You can monitor the state of the application using the following property
4. Promises - Often while creating your apps, you may want to make something happen after something else is done. You may want to want to make an asynchronous request and perform something on completion of the request. Or you may simply want to execute set of operations in a particular sequence. Promises can be used to manage such asynchronous computation, allowing for separate processes to continue in parallel.
Promises are a pattern that helps with one particular kind of asynchronous programming: a function (or method) that returns a single result asynchronously. One popular way of receiving such a result is via a callback. Promises provide a simpler alternative for executing, composing, and managing asynchronous operations when compared to traditional callback-based approaches. The Promise object represents the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation, and its resulting value.
A promise can be in one of 3 states:
- Pending - the promise's outcome hasn't yet been determined, because the asynchronous operation that will produce its result hasn't completed yet.
- Fulfilled - the asynchronous operation has completed, and the promise has a value.
- Rejected - the asynchronous operation failed, and the promise will never be fulfilled. In the rejected state, a promise has a reason that indicates why the operation failed.
When a promise is pending, it can transition to the fulfilled or rejected state. Once a promise is fulfilled or rejected, however, it will never transition to any other state, and its value or failure reason will not change.


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Wind down and loosen up
What's the difference between "wind down" and "loosen up"?
Dictionary says: wind down - to rest or relax after a period of activity or excitement, and, loosen up - to relax and stop worrying.
So, for example, if you're nervous about something at work, or before an exam, you must "loosen up", and if you have been working hard, mm, digging ground, or playing football, and you want to relax, you should "wind down"?
Wind down isn't related to "nervous", when "loosen up" like a.. "calm down"?
And what is the past form of loosen up, loosened up?
Thanks in advance
Lets see the difference if any:
Wind down:Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation.
Wind loose:Become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner.
I think they are different.
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How to Stop Voice From Changing When Nervous
Nervousness can have a negative impact on how you speak
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If you are nervous when you are speaking, that can cause a noticeable change in your voice tone. A shaky voice conveying nerves can be a big issue, whether you are making a public speech or having an important one-on-one conversation. Conveying nervousness in your voice tone or body language can reduce your chances of success in anything from a job interview to a date.
Step 1
Convey confidence when you speak. Rather than concentrating on not messing up, aim to project confidence and authority in your voice tone. This makes you seem more knowledgeable and lends more weight to the points you are making. Motivational speaker and communication specialist Rachel Green cites voice volume as a major factor in confident communication. Green says that confident communication is easy to hear, but quiet speech can convey nervousness.
Step 2
Put energy and effort into your diction and pronunciation when speaking. A common sign of nervousness is when your words fade away or sound mumbled at the end of a sentence. Common sounds that can waver when you are nervous include the sounds of the letters T, D and K. Practice repeating a phrase like "bake the cake," emphasizing clarity at the start and end of each word.
Step 3
Practice your speech. Tape record yourself giving the speech, them listen for for clarity in your voice and identify where certain words or letters convey nervousness. Continue to practice and to gain confidence as you improve.
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Use body language and posture to display confidence. According to the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, research shows that when you communicate with others, words convey only 7 percent of your feelings, while body language conveys 55 percent. Slumped shoulders and slouched posture can convey nervousness when you are speaking. Practice speaking into a mirror or have a friend watch you speak, then note if you convey nervousness with any posture or twitching motions. Practice repeatedly, and gain confidence from improvements you see.
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The biggest erogenous zone for women is not between her legs but between her ears. Stimulating her body is the easy part. Stimulating her mind shows her what you are really made of. There are many different ways to stimulate a woman's mind so try different techniques. Study, listen and understand your woman and her every need. When your woman grows accustomed to one technique, change things up. Add to your list of things to do to continue stimulating her mind. Each woman has her own unique ways of being stimulated. Be creative and enjoy exploring your options.
Although there are many ways to stimulate a woman's mind, I have compiled a list of 10 ways that will definitely get you started. Please feel free to add to this list in the comments section.
1. Take Charge Women look up to men who are willing to take charge as the leader. Not only wear the title of leader but men who are willing to follow through as the leader and make things happen. Most women embrace having a take charge person that she can trust to lead, direct and follow through.
2.Intelligence Broaden your topics of conversation by studying and researching the things women are interested in. Talk to her outside of bedroom topics. Discuss your life, goals and dreams. Challenge her thinking with new perspectives. Express yourself and articulate your emotions. Instead of groping her and/or being overly sexually explicit about your desires, find other intelligent ways of expressing your desires to her. Express to her she is worth the extra effort and she stands out from the rest.
3.Listening Skills When communicating with a particular woman do your research and find out what her interests are. Listen to her and make mental notes of the certain things she likes or things that make her smile. Listen to what she talks about most often. If she tells you she really likes a certain scent on you, wear it more often. If she tells you she likes a particular food, visit those places for your dates. Take the time to really listen to her and take mental notes. She will tell you exactly what it takes to stimulate her mind. If she doesn't tell you right away, continue striving to earn her trust. Find ways to get her to talking while you patiently listen and take mental notes.
4.Observation Pay attention to the details of her life. What perfume is she wearing? Or has she mentioned a favorite scent? What is her favorite food? Is she a homebody or like large crowds? Pay attention to the small details of her life. Once the details of her life are revealed, do things to show her you are interested in her life. Don't ask her if you should, just do it and do it just because… What are her favorite television shows, designer handbags, shoes, favorite movies, favorite artists, favorite celebrities and/or genre of music. Broaden your knowledge on certain topics. Venture into different places to travel, things to see or people to meet in order to mentally stimulate your woman's mind.
5.Mannerism Show some manners. When you go out on dates with your woman, sit facing the door. Facing the door shows her you have her back. Also when escorting her out, be sure to walk on the traffic side. This shows her you are her protector. When you show her you are a gentleman by opening doors, being respectful and just showing old school charm; this can also stimulate a woman's mind.
6.Pure Emotion When you speak from the heart and are not afraid to share your innermost secrets with her, this shows that you trust her. This stimulates her mind and causes her to trust you with her innermost secrets. Openly express your emotions with her.
7.New Experiences If you frequently visit rhythm and blues venues, try something different. Maybe Jazz/Blues, Country/Western, Caribbean, salsa, piano bars, poetry night or something she hasn't experienced before. Be creative.
8.No Pretending A woman can sense when you are not who you claim to be. Boasting about your six figure salary and all of your exquisite tastes will not stimulate a woman's mind. Maybe a gold digger's mind but not a woman seeking a true partnership. Research diverse topics and share your knowledge with her. If a woman senses you are running game, she will shut down and not trust you. All mental stimulation is lost. Be truthful and honest.
9.Earn Her Trust When a woman has the confidence in her man that he is a problem solver; she begins to let her guard down and trust you more. She opens up her heart to you, knowing you have her best interests in mind. She feels protected and safe. She knows you are safeguarding her heart. She can share things with you that the world doesn't know. She can lean on you for strength when she is weak and you will catch her.
10. Sense of Humor Find ways to make her laugh. Find her unique sense of humor and keep her laughing. Laughter soothes the soul and will stimulate her mind.
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This paper considers a problem of distributed tracking with consensus on a time-varying graph with noisy communications links. A distributed tracking with consensus algorithm is proposed to handle a time-varying network topology in which every node generates own local tracking estimates and communicates over noisy links. The conditions on the connectivity graph are established so that distributed consensus can be achieved in the presence of noisy communication links when the graph topology is time-varying. The steady-state performance of the proposed distributed tracking with consensus algorithm is analyzed and compared with that of distributed local Kalman filtering with centralized fusion. Simulation results and performance analysis of the proposed algorithm are also given.


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This video gives basic information on Using the HALT "Halt Program of Task" instruction in the Do-more Designer software. It presents information that is commonly missed by users. This WILL NOT be a complete tutorial for the instruction but rather a supplement to the help file and customer experience.
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This instruction is used to Halt the operation of a Program or Task code block. Typically this instruction is used by some type of supervisory code that would terminate the execution of another Program or TASK. Now I do say Task, here, and this instruction can work for task but a non-yielding Task only runs for one scan, so it would make more since to just not execute Task instead of using a Halt instruction on it. Now the Halt instruction cannot halt the operation of the Main Program.


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Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award
Recognizing the importance to aeronautics of scientific endeavors in the field of medicine, the Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award was established in 1940 to honor the memory of the American physician, John Jeffries, whose scientific investigations were published in a "Narrative of Two Aerial Voyages" in 1796. This annual award is generally at the International Conference on Environmental Systems.
Nomination Deadline: 1 October
- Full Name: Mr. Victor S Schneider
- AIAA Citation: For leadership in developing cooperative bone densitometry research in conjunction with the medical evaluation of cosmonauts from long-duration flights on the Russian space station MIR


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Falmouth Facts and Figures for 2016
Again our A*-C pass rates in English and Maths are more than 10% higher than the National Averages. 73% of Falmouth School students attained a C or higher in English and Maths compared to the National Average of 58.7%.
Achievement in the 'best 8' progress measure is significantly above national averages at 0.3, and one of the highest in Cornwall.
Our 'Attainment 8' score of 54.8 is also much higher than the National Average of 49.
Progress in the Core subjects of English, Maths and Science is also significantly above National Averages. 25% of the Year 11 students achieved the English Baccalaureate compared to the Cornwall average of 18%.
Our 5A*-C including English and Maths again puts us as one of the top Cornish Schools.
Falmouth College Facts and Figures
Over 70% of grades achieved by Falmouth Sixth Form students were at A*, A, B and C grades at A2 level and 50% of the grades awarded are A* A B.
Falmouth Sixth Form achieved 100% pass rate in vocational courses.
Outstanding achievers at A level included: Poppy Faithful A*AAA (Royal Holloway - Politics and International Relations), Gareth Willetts A*AAAA (Exeter - Mathematical Sciences) Georgia Christophers A*AB (Cardiff - Physiotherapy), Charlotte Reburn A*AAA (Exeter - Medical Science), Charlotte Emsden AAA (Exeter - Medicine), Esther Martin AAB (Leeds - English Literature and Theatre Studies), Alex Pinhay ABB (Plymouth - Midwifery).
Did you know?
- 84% of students achieved A* - C in Science.
- 100% of students achieved A* - C in Triple Science.
- A* - C grades at Falmouth School have risen sharply even though nationally, grades were lower.
- 73% of students achieved 5A* - C including English and Maths – our highest percentage ever!
- 83% of students gained an A* - C grade in English – our best results ever.
- 80% of students gained an A* - C grade in Maths – our best results ever.
- All Falmouth School students made more than expected progress using government measures.
- 10 Students gained 10 or more A* or A GCSE grades.
- Falmouth College students go on to top universities including Exeter, Cardiff, Leeds.
- 78% of all Falmouth College grades were A* - C.
- Falmouth College students gained a combined number of 65 A*, A or distinction grades.
- Every student studying BTEC Medical Science at Falmouth College achieved a distinction – the equivalent of an A grade.
- Falmouth School results are (in the top 3 in Cornwall) significantly above the National average.
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Graphing the solution set of all Mars Venus conjunctions in the Davison Chart
Now here's a dandy celestial mechanics problem for you. Given the elliptical orbit position of Mars and Venus in one individual's natal chart, graph the solution set of all possible Mars-Venus positions that will result in Mars-Venus conjunction in the Davison chart.
Sound like absolute gibberish to you? It won't if you are somewhat familiar with astronomy of astrology. You know that the bodies of our solar system orbit the sun according to an eliptical pattern, ergo it is possible to determin their location at any given time. Conversely, it possible to determine the calandar date and time when they will reach precisely these positions. This is just about perfectly predictable, celestial mechanics being what they are.
The Davison Harmonic means chart simply takes the position of two natal chart bodies (his Mars and her Mars) and averages them together. If his Mars is at 180 degrees (00 Libra) and her Mars is 00 degress (00 Aries) together they wind up at 90 degrees (00 Cancer). That's it folks. There is no more magic to it than that. You just add th two positions and divide by two. It's so easy a caveman could do it.
You do the same thing with Venus. You do the same thing with the Sun. You do the same withing Mercury. You do the same thing with Jupiter, etc. This is how Davison chart is made. It's nothing more than the average position of two charts.
Now what about this Mars-Venus conjunction thing? As we have recently learned, according to the principle of synastry, a Mars-Venus conjunction in Davison chart is considered the strongest possible sign of sexual attraction. It doesn't necessarily mean the two of you will ultimately marry or be happy together, but it does signify ultra-massive sexual attraction. More points are awarded for this aspect than any other possible aspect.
Given a fixed location of Venus and Mars, it should be possible to graph a solution set of all possible variable Mars-Venus combinations that will produce a conjunction between Mars and Venus in the Davison chart. Given the various positions in the solution set, it should be possible to calculate a real calandar date when each of these positions actually occured.
Given a graphed solution set, we should be able to compute a set of dates. Given a set of dates, we can apply a date rang to eliminate impossible or undesirable prospects. I doubt you would want to date some one 50 years older or younger than yourself. I doubt you could date someone born in 1809. All crazy dates would need to be filtered out by simply selecting those within an acceptable date range. It's just one SQL statement folks
Select * from VenusConjMars where Birthdate between '' and ''
There you would have it.
Now the real trick is to graph the solution set of all positions that produce a conjunction, and then use celestial mechanics to compute the date. This is where the math turns brutal. I am sure there is one guy in NASA reading this blog right now who is chuckling and laughing "Oh that's so easy a caveman could do it." Yeah, like anything else, it's easy when you know how. I didn't do so well in the complex mathematical modeling class.
Further, a conjunction between Mars and Venus in the Davison chart tells us nothing about the Sun signs. It also tells us relatively little about the Mars and Venus relate to each other between two Natal charts. I can easily imagine a bunch of scenarios where you might line up Cancers and Sagitarrians who have poorly aspected Mars and Venus signs, just because a Davison conjunction occured. The point is simple: A bunch of other comparisons will also be necessary to ferret out a really great candidate.
Want an example? If you read my last blog entry, carefully, you noted that the highest possible score for me is an Aries female born on 4/13/1979. She has a score 532. By no means is Aries considered a good match with Virgo. Now this particular Aries may well be, but wouldn't you prefer to look for a more ideal candidate? Maybe you would and maybe you wouldn't. The question goes to temperment.


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many a teacher vs many teachers
I've seen this kind of construction before so I know it's not a grammatical mistake or a typo on the publisher's part. (Besides, I'm not proficient enough to point out mistakes made by publishers) But I don't know why the author chose to use'many a teacher' as opposed to'many teachers'. Can anyone provide an explanation for this?
One much talked-about educational theorist in the Rogersian tradition is the well-known Brazilian educator Paolo Freire (1970), whose seminal work, Pedagogy of the Opressed
, has inspired many a teacher
to consider the importance of the empowerment of students in classrooms.
Re: many a teacher vs many teachers
Both mean the same thing...
Originally Posted by HaraKiriBlade
many a teacher is a rather old way of writing and not used much any more.
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Today on this page, we are going to talk about the laptop battery not charging problem. The problem is when we plug the charger to the laptop, it doesn't charge the battery. It shows the error at the right-bottom corner "Plugged in, not charging".
It would be a really very frustrating and embarrassing situation when you couldn't find the solution of the problem like this. To fix this specific issue, you don't need to apply any huge solution for this. It will be done with a simple trick. We are going to share a tested method to resolve this issue.
We have found its proper solution to fix this specific problem. Please follow the following step-by-step guide to know how to fix it.
laptop battery not charging issue
Error Message: "Plugged in, not charging"
How to Fix "plugged in, not charging" Error
The following methods are for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and Servers operating systems.
 1. Boot your laptop without the battery and then Reinstall Battery Drivers.
 2. Run the Battery's Troubleshooter.
 3. Restore the computer's BIOS to its default settings.
 4. Check your laptop's power adapter is connected properly.
 5. Check the power adapter is not faulty.
 6. Check the Battery Report to diagnose it.
Method 1: by reinstalling battery driver
 1. Take out the laptop battery from the laptop.
 2. Then connect the laptop charger to the laptop's charging port.
 3. Now, turn on your laptop by pressing the power button. The laptop should be booting up because it gets the power from the charger directly, without a battery.
 4. Go to the control panel when your laptop is up.
 5. Go to Device Manager.
 6. In the device manager, double-click on the "batteries". When you double-click on that, you'll get two options (you might get more than two). You need to uninstall all of them under batteries one by one right-clicking on that.
 Uninstall laptop batteries drivers
 7. After that, shut down the laptop.
 8. Put the battery in the laptop again.
 9. Now, start your laptop.
Your problem should be fixed. It will not show you any error message regarding your battery. It will start charging your laptop battery again, and your battery percentage will grow up.
If you found this article helpful, please let me know by leaving a comment. If you have any doubt or not solved your issue then leave a comment, we'll answer your comments there.
Additional methods to fix plugged in, not charging issue.
Try the following techniques if the above first method did not work for you. In the 90% cases, method #1 works.
Method 2: By using Windows Power Troubleshooter
 1. Click on the start button and click on settings.
 2. Click on Update and Security.
 3. Click on Troubleshooting from the left-side pane.
 4. Select the power option from the right-side pane. Then click on "Run troubleshooter". It will be starting for troubleshooting your battery power problem and fix it automatically.
 Sometimes this method will work for you. If it doesn't work, then try the next method.
 Power Troubleshooter
Method 3: Restore BIOS settings to default
 1. Turn off your computer and boot it up into bios. Make sure your laptop is turned off completely.
 2. After turned off, press the power button of your laptop and the continuously press the F10, Delete key from your keyboard to enter BIOS settings. Your bios open key might be different according to your computer laptop's manufacturer.
 3. After getting the bios settings page, press the "F9" key to set default from your keyboard. I will be asking you to save the settings. After that select "Yes" using arrow keys and press enter key to save settings and reboot the computer with default bios settings. After this, your problem should be fixed. If it did not work, then go to the next step. Click here to get more help with it.
 bios set as default
Method 4: Connect charger properly
Here I'll show you how to check your laptop's power adapter is not loose. Here are three different points to check on your laptop's power adapter to ensure that it is not loose and connected properly.
 1. Check the power cable that connects to the laptop's adapter for damage. Remove the input power cable from the adapter and check the plugin socket on the adapter. The input power cable should fix firmly into the socket on the adapter.
 check the power cord
 2. Check the output power cable that starts out from the other end of the adapter. This cable is fixed to the adapter and cannot be removed. Check the output cable for signs of damage at the point where it is fixed to the adapter. The output cable should be firmly attached to the adapter and should not wiggle at that point.
 3. Check the power supply point on the power cable that runs from the adapter to the laptop. This power adapter pin should fit perfectly into the laptop charging port.
Method 5: Check the Power Adapter
Try to use another laptop's charger. If it works for you then the problem is in your charger, please replace it. If it doesn't fix the problem after replacing the charger, then replace your battery.
check the power supply
Method 6: Check Battery Status
Hey there. In the following text, I will explain to you, how to check your laptop's battery, to see if it is dead/faulty or not!
Your battery, no matter how well you will treat it, will eventually die. This can come suddenly, but some indications can warn you about your battery performance and condition in advance.
Normally, Windows will automatically warn you if your battery reaches a low capacity level. On your standard battery icon, will appear a red X-mark indicating, that your battery is already at a critical point.
While this procedure is a passive one, there are other ways to check your laptop's battery active. The first one is the easiest one, you just install a tool, which informs you automatically on your laptop's battery status.
The second way to check if your laptop's battery is faulty (dead) or not is divided into some steps, listed below:
 1. Press Windows key + X both together or right-click on the Start Menu and then click on Command Prompt (Admin) option.
 2. Type: "powercfg/batteryreport" in the command prompt window and press enter button from your keyboard.
 3. Once you press enter button, the command will execute and the battery life report will be saved to the following path: "C:\Windows\System32\battert-report.html
 4. Go the saved path: "C:\Windows\System32\battert-report.html" and open up the report.
 The second section will show you all the information about the battery (like if it should be checked or replaced).
In this article, we have seen all the possible methods to fix the "Plugged in, not charging" issue. Hopefully, you liked it. Please share your experience with us in the comments section below.
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 1. when in plugged in the charge my laptop but not charging my laptop this problem had occurred much time, then I pilled in the charger notification comes out that plugged in but battery no charging, so then I just followed their steps then I resolved this kind of problem.
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Ecology, Environment and Conservation Business
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Natural Resource Modeling
New natural resource modeling study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Foggia
March 13th, 2010
"In this paper, we propose a model describing the commercial exploitation of a common renewable resource by a population of strategically interacting agents. Players can cooperate or compete; cooperators maximize the payoff of their group while defectors maximize their own profit," scientists in Foggia, Italy report.
"The partition of the players into two groups, defectors and cooperators, results from the players' choices, so it is not predetermined. This partition is decided as a Nash equilibrium of a static game. It is shown that different types of players can exist in an equilibrium; more precisely, depending on the parameter values such as resource stock, cost, and so...
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object opened explicitly.
- There is a limitation on selecting enumeration type values in the EDCS_Attribute_Value type when the class that it resides in is a or .
In the case of the , it is only a problem when the aggregate has an EAC of type enumeration and the user tries to select 'Enumeration' for the EDCS_Attribute_Value in the , otherwise the EDCS_Attribute_Value behaves normally.
In the case of the , it has a requirement based on the'state_tag' field of the or object that the is being used as a link object for. The EDCS_Attribute_Value has the same problem in this case when it comes to selecting the 'Enumeration' type for the .
Both need to query another object to get their EACs, then query the EDCS to get the applicable EECs.
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- Recommended minimum CPU speed for Intel based machines is 650 MHz.
- Recommended minimum RAM for all supported platforms is 128 MB.
- Minimum disk space required is 30 MB.
- Focus requires a JRE (Java Runtime Environment), version 1.6 or later, installed and set-up prior to its use. The JRE is include with the Windows version of Focus and can be installed along with Focus if selected. Unix users must download and install the correct JRE for their system from Sun. Follow the download and installation instructions on their site.
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows
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To install Focus, extract the contents of the compressed file downloaded from the SEDRIS Tools website.
Use the "tar" and "gzip" commands to extract the application substituting "focus_file.tar.gz" for the appropriate filename:gunzip -c focus_file.tar.gz | tar xf -
If you have the latest GNU tar installed, you can use the following command instead:tar xzf focus_file.tgz
To run Focus, open a terminal then change directories into the newly created Focus directory. Type "run_focus" to start the application.
To install Focus, run the focus setup.exe downloaded from the SEDRIS Tools website.
To use Focus, run the application from the Start Menu or by accessing the Focus.exe from the install directory.
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See Users Guide.
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This section describes the following environment variable that are available for users to configure the SEDRIS runtime environment. The default values should be sufficient for most users:
This variable allows the user to specify, at a high level, the amount of memory to use. Its allowed values are SMALL, MEDIUM, and LARGE. The default setting is SMALL. Each of these three choices will set the default values to the subordinate memory model environment variables SE_RAIF_MAX_OBJECT_CACHE_SIZE and SE_STF_BLOCK_CACHE_SIZE
This variable specifies the path(s) where the SEDRIS resolution (*.rsl) files reside. There can be more than one resolution file in the paths provided. The default path is where the running application resides.
Please refer to the SEDRIS documentation for more detailed information about these particular variables.
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Questions, comments, and bug reports should be sent to _EMAIL_.
If you are an associate, please send email to _EMAIL_.
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These links require Internet access.
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How do I remove and replace a laptop key or keycap?
Note: This document is also meant for general reference and may not apply to your laptop. If you have a desktop computer, see removing keys from a desktop keyboard steps.
Notice: Before removing any of the keyboard's keys, make sure the computer is turned off, or at the very least locked so nothing is mistakenly typed as it could cause other problems.
Removing keycap
 1. Laptop keyboard key retainerTo remove the keycap from a keyboard place your finger nail, small flat-head screwdriver, or knife under a corner of the key and gently pry the keycap up and away from the laptop.
 2. In many situations, the key only snaps out partially. If the keycap is still attached to the laptop use your fingers to remove the keycap completely.
 3. Once removed you should see the key retainer (scissor-switch) still attached to the laptop with the pad in the middle. If needed, this too can be removed from the laptop by placing the flat head of a screwdriver or a knife's edge under a corner and gently twisting until it pops off.
Replacing the keycap
Tip: If you need a new keyboard key for you laptop, has a great selection.
 1. With the key removed, carefully observe the metal hooks on the keyboard where the old key used to be.
 2. Orient the plastic hinge (new or old) so that the holes line up with the metal hooks.
 3. Insert the smaller plastic piece, usually referred to as a cup, evenly into the center of the retainer.
 4. Replace the keycap and press evenly on all four sides.
Additional information


Kids' Choice Awards Quizzes | Ashley Judd Quiz: Judd-ge how well you know Ashley!
Can you earn your wings in this KCA trivia quiz? Test your knowledge on Ashley Judd and her movie "The Tooth Fairy!"
Tags: trivia2011 KCA
 - What is the name of Ashley Judd's character in "The Tooth Fairy?"
 - What is Ashley's nickname?
 - Ashley is fluent in what language?
 - When Ashley is stressed out from her busy acting career, what does she do to relax?
 - What was Ashley's birth name?
 - Ashley's mother and sister are both what?
 - What are the names of Ashley's on-screen children in the movie, The Tooth Fairy?
 - What scene in The Tooth Fairy is Ashley's favorite?
 - How tall is Ashley?
 - Ashley has a dog named _____ and a cat named______?
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CR-39 is transparent in visible spectrum and is almost completely opaque in the ultraviolet range. It has high abrasion resistance, in fact the highest abrasion/scratch resistance of any uncoated optical plastic. CR-39 is about half the weight of glass and index of refraction only slightly lower than that of crown glass, making it an advantageous material for eyeglasses and sunglasses lenses. A wide range of colors can be achieved by dyeing of the surface or the bulk of the material. CR-39 is also resistant to most of solvents and other chemicals, to gamma radiation, to aging, and to material fatigue. It can withstand the small hot sparks from welding. It can be used continuously in temperatures up to 100 °C and up to one hour in 130 °C.
In the radiation detection application, raw CR-39 material is exposed to proton recoils caused by incident neutrons. The proton recoils cause tracks, which are enlarged by an etching process in a caustic solution of sodium hydroxide.
The enlarged tracks are counted under a microscope (commonly 200x), and the number of tracks is proportional to the amount of incident neutron radiation.
Effect of alpha-particle energies on CR-39 line-shape parameters using positron annihilation technique.(Polyally diglycol carbonate )
Jul 01, 2006; Polyally diglycol carbonate "CR-39" is widely used as etched track type particle detector. Doppler broadening positron...


$key, $member ); =head3 sunion my _USER_ = $r->sunion( $key1, $key2,... ); my $elements = $r->sunion( $key1, $key2,... ); # ARRAY ref =head3 sunionstore my $ok = $r->sunionstore( $dstkey, $key1, $key2,... ); =head2 Commands operating on hashes Hashes in Redis cannot be nested as in perl, if you want to store a nested hash, you need to serialize the hash first. If you want to have a named hash, you can use Redis-hashes. You will find an example in the tests of this module t/01-basic.t =head3 hset Sets the value to a key in a hash. $r->hset('hashname', $key => $value); ## returns true on success =head3 hget Gets the value to a key in a hash. my $value = $r->hget('hashname', $key); =head3 hexists if($r->hexists('hashname', $key) { ## do something, the key exists } else { ## the key does not exist } =head3 hdel Deletes a key from a hash if($r->hdel('hashname', $key)) { ## key is deleted } else { ## oops } =head3 hincrby Adds an integer to a value. The integer is signed, so a negative integer decrements. my $key = 'testkey'; $r->hset('hashname', $key => 1); ## value -> 1 my $increment = 1; ## has to be an integer $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 2 $increment = 5; $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 7 $increment = -1; $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 6 =head3 hsetnx Adds a key to a hash unless it is not already set. my $key = 'testnx'; $r->hsetnx('hashname', $key => 1); ## returns true $r->hsetnx('hashname', $key => 2); ## returns false because key already exists =head3 hmset Adds multiple keys to a hash. $r->hmset('hashname', 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'); ## returns true on success =head3 hmget Returns multiple keys of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hmget('hashname', 'key1', 'key2'); =head3 hgetall Returns the whole hash. my %hash = $r->hgetall('hashname'); =head3 hkeys Returns the keys of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hkeys('hashname'); =head3 hvals Returns the values of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hvals('hashname'); =head3 hlen Returns the count of keys in a hash. my $keycount = $r->hlen('hashname'); =head2 Sorting =head3 sort $r->sort("key BY pattern LIMIT start end GET pattern ASC|DESC ALPHA'); =head2 Publish/Subscribe commands When one of L or L is used, the Redis object will enter I mode. 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Messages published into one of them will be received by Redis, and the specificed callback will be executed. =head3 unsubscribe $r->unsubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Stops receiving messages for all the topics in C<_USER_>. =head3 psubscribe my _USER_ = ('prefix1.*', 'prefix2.*'); $r->psubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Subscribes a pattern of topics. All messages to topics that match the pattern will be delivered to the callback. =head3 punsubscribe my _USER_ = ('prefix1.*', 'prefix2.*'); $r->punsubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Stops receiving messages for all the topics pattern matches in C<_USER_>. =head3 is_subscriber if ($r->is_subscriber) { say "We are in Pub/Sub mode!" } Returns true if we are in I mode. =head3 wait_for_messages my $keep_going = 1; ## Set to false somewhere to leave the loop my $timeout = 5; $r->wait_for_messages($timeout) while $keep_going; Blocks, waits for incoming messages and delivers them to the appropriate callbacks. Requires a single parameter, the number of seconds to wait for messages. Use 0 to wait for ever. If a positive non-zero value is used, it will return after that ammount of seconds without a single notification. Please note that the timeout is not a commitement to return control to the caller at most each C seconds, but more a idle timeout, were control will return to the caller if Redis is idle (as in no messages were received during the timeout period) for more than C seconds. The L call returns the number of messages processed during the run. =head2 Persistence control commands =head3 save $r->save; =head3 bgsave $r->bgsave; =head3 lastsave $r->lastsave; =head2 Scripting commands =head3 eval $r->eval($lua_script, $num_keys, $key1,..., $arg1, $arg2); Executes a Lua script server side. Note that this commands sends the Lua script every time you call it. See L and L for an alternative. =head3 evalsha $r->eval($lua_script_sha1, $num_keys, $key1,..., $arg1, $arg2); Executes a Lua script cached on the server side by its SHA1 digest. See L. =head3 script_load my ($sha1) = $r->script_load($lua_script); Cache Lua script, returns SHA1 digest that can be used with L. =head3 script_exists my ($exists1, $exists2,...) = $r->script_exists($scrip1_sha, $script2_sha,...); Given a list of SHA1 digests, returns a list of booleans, one for each SHA1, that report the existence of each script in the server cache. =head3 script_kill $r->script_kill; Kills the currently running script. =head3 script_flush $r->script_flush; Flush the Lua scripts cache. =head2 Remote server control commands =head3 info my $info_hash = $r->info; The C method is unique in that it decodes the server's response into a hashref, if possible. This decoding happens in both synchronous and pipelined modes. =head3 shutdown $r->shutdown; The C method does not support pipelined operation. =head3 slowlog my $nr_items = $r->slowlog("len"); my _USER_ = $r->slowlog("get", 10); The C command gives access to the server's slow log. =head2 Multiple databases handling commands =head3 select $r->select( $dbindex ); # 0 for new clients =head3 move $r->move( $key, $dbindex ); =head3 flushdb $r->flushdb; =head3 flushall $r->flushall; =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following persons contributed to this project (alphabetical order): =over 4 =item * Aaron Crane (pipelining and AUTOLOAD caching support) =item * Dirk Vleugels =item * Flavio Poletti =item * Jeremy Zawodny =item * sunnavy at bestpractical.com =item * Thiago Berlitz Rondon =item * Ulrich Habel =back =head1 AUTHORS =over 4 =item * Pedro Melo =item * Damien Krotkine =back =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Pedro Melo, Damien Krotkine. 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When should you use
CType and when should you use
DirectCast and which one performs better? The short answer is:
DirectCast is twice
as fast for value types (integers, etc.), but identical for reference types.
The first thing to understand is that
DirectCast are not the same thing. Only
CType can convert the underlying object
to a new instance of an object of a different type. For example, you want to turn an integer into a string. Since an integer doesn't inherit a string, a new instance
String object must be created in order to store the number as a string.
CType can do this,
DirectCast cannot. Note: There are other ways
to do this too such as the
Convert.ToString method or
Dim MyInt As Integer = 123
Dim MyString1 As String = CType(MyInt, String)
Dim MyString2 As String = DirectCast(MyInt, String)
CType do have in common is their ability to convert an object to a new type based on inheritance or implementation.
For example, if you have a string but it is stored in a variable of type
Object, you can use
CType to treat that variable
as an object of type
String because type
String inherits type
Object. In this case, the underlying data in memory is not actually changing,
nor is any processing happening on that data.
Dim MyObject As Object = "Hello World"
Dim MyString1 As String = CType(MyObject, String)
Dim MyString2 As String = DirectCast(MyObject, String)
The danger: You must know what type you are dealing with before using
DirectCast. If you have a variable of type
Object and you
DirectCast to treat it as a
String, you'd better be sure that variable actually contains a
If an integer somehow found its way into that variable, an exception will be thrown.
A way to check in code if
DirectCast will work is by using the
If TypeOf MyObject Is String Then
So, assuming you are doing a conversion based on inheritance or implementation, you have a choice:
CType. Which is better?
DirectCast. According to the.NET documentation:
DirectCast does not use the Visual Basic run-time helper routines for conversion, so it can provide somewhat better
The included project runs a performance test on each scenario:
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Controls, Strings, and custom classes, whereas Value types are types like integers, doubles, and custom structures. Here are the results; the numbers are in milliseconds
for 1 million iterations:
DirectCast on a reference type:
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DirectCast out performs
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Acid-fast stain
The acid-fast stain is a laboratory test that determines if a sample of tissue, blood, or other body substance is infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis and other illnesses.
How the Test is Performed
Your health care provider will collect a sample of urine, stool, sputum, bone marrow, or tissue, depending on the location of the suspected infection.
The sample is then sent to a laboratory. There, some of the sample is placed on a glass slide, stained, and heated. The cells in the sample hold onto the dye. The slide is then washed with an acid solution and a different stain is applied.
Bacteria that hold onto the first dye are considered "acid-fast" because they resist the acid wash. This type of bacteria is associated with tuberculosis and other infections.
How to Prepare for the Test
Preparation depends on how the sample is collected. Your health care provider will tell you how to prepare.
How the Test will Feel
The amount of discomfort depends on how the sample is collected. Your health care provider will discuss this with you.
Why the Test is Performed
The test can tell if you are likely infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis and related infections.
Normal Results
A normal result means no acid-fast bacteria were found on the stained sample.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal results may be due to:
Risks depend on how the sample is collected. Ask your health provider to explain the risks and benefits of the medical procedure.
Reynolds J. Differential staining of bacteria: acid fast stain. Curr Protoc Microbiol. 2009; Appendix 3: Appendix 3H.
 - Call 911 for all medical emergencies.


How can I reduce TinyPilot's latency?
On a well-provisioned local network, TinyPilot achieves 100-200 milliseconds of latency on its video stream. On slower networks or across the Internet, you may experience higher latency. This article includes steps you can take to reduce TinyPilot's latency.
Why does latency increase?
To stream video, TinyPilot uses the MJPEG streaming format. This protocol achieves low latency, but it consumes significant bandwidth.
Reducing TinyPilot's bandwidth and latency
To reduce TinyPilot's bandwidth usage, you can tune its video streaming settings. From the main menu, select System > Video Settings.
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Adjust the frames per second (FPS) and video quality settings and apply them to test the latency under the new settings. Latency will reduce as you lower the FPS and JPEG quality.
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Can you tell your Rock Pipit from a Meadow Pipit?
Meadow Pipit vs Rock Pipit
When you first spot a Pipit you might be forgiven for thinking you have spotted a small thrush of some kind
At the time of writing this article (mid March) the Pipits have started their mating flight. You can usually hear their song first - a repetetive "twit" which gradually speeds up (accellerando if you're a musician) should help you spot them as they energetically fly on an upward trajectory into the sky. Then at a certain calculated point they stop flapping and lock their wings and tail feathers gliding down to the ground like a paper plane. When they do this their song suddenly changes into a downward scale with longer "tweet"s like an electronic toy that has suddenly run out of battery. Now both the Rock Pipit and Meadow Pipit show off in this way. If the feet are visible you can also spot their super long hind claw.
Pipit hind claw
The most common Pipits are the Meadow Pipit and Rock Pipit
The Rock Pipit is larger and stockier built. The general impression is a scruffier grey/brown diffused colouring, Depending on the time of the year the beak and legs can be dark coloured (but not always!)
The Meadow Pipit gives an impression of a slender more 'graceful' look. It is a more yellow/brown colouring and the markings are much cleaner defined - a bit like a Song Thrush. The legs and beak are never dark with a yellow/orange tinge.
The other thing that will help you is location. Rock Pipits are never more than a few hundred metres from the edge of the sea often picking their way through the seaweed. If you see a Pipit more than half a mile from the sea you can almost certainly say it is not a Rock Pipit.
So why not test your knowledge and have a go at this quiz...
Try the Rock Pipit or Meadow Pipit Quiz
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A console applicaton, such as a telnet emulator, needs to implement a console window for the user to type commands. It is not that easy to code everything that a text editor does. Windows' edit control does everything for us, so why do not use it?
The following example indicates how to do this. CConsoleBox derives from CEdit. By customizing several standard behaviors, it works like a console.
Above is a demo to show how to use CConsoleBox. What the user types will be converted to upper case and echoed back at the console.
The user can call back previously typed commands by pressing the Up/Down keys.
Note: Not all "key combinations" and "Windows command messages" are implemented. You need to write your own code to do what you want.


Jurisdiction Risk
Definition of 'Jurisdiction Risk'
The risk that arises when operating in a foreign jurisdiction. In recent times, jurisdiction risk has focused on banks and financial institutions who are exposed to the risk that some of the countries where they operate may be high-risk areas for money laundering and terrorism financing.
Jurisdiction risk can also refer to when laws unexpectedly change in a jurisdiction an investor has exposure to.
Investopedia explains 'Jurisdiction Risk'
Jurisdiction risk is generally believed to be higher in countries that have either been designated as non-cooperative by the Financial Action Task Force, or have been identified by the U.S. Treasury as requiring special measures due to concerns about money laundering or corruption. Because of the punitive fines and penalties that can be levied against a financial institution that is involved (even inadvertently) in money laundering or financing terrorism, most organizations have specific processes to assess and mitigate jurisdiction risk.
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Dark chocolate is high in antioxidants and can be lower in sugar than other treats. Add in a handful of nuts and this will satisfy any snacking cravings you may have. Just remember, centenarians view sweets as celebratory foods. They are conscious about their decisions to indulge in sugar and eat it in moderation.
Yield: 12-16 clusters
1 cup toasted almonds, walnuts or pecans, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup dried cherries or chopped dried fruit, coarsely chopped
6 oz dark chocolate (60%-70%, or higher), finely chopped
¼ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp espresso powder, optional
1. In a medium bowl, toss together the almonds and the dried fruit. Line a baking sheet with waxed or parchment paper.
2. Melt the chocolate in the microwave on low power or until melted, but not thick. It may take from 1-2 minutes depending on the power of the microwave. Or use a double boiler to melt the chocolate. Stir in the fruit, nuts and cinnamon. Add espresso powder if desired.
3. Drop by teaspoonful for clusters, or pour onto parchment paper lined baking pan and spread evenly. Refrigerate until firm and store in air tight container in refrigerator.


I'm looking for a solution for a certain problem. I have two sets of vertically evenly-spaced circles with equal gaps between circles in each column. I would like to know a way to find a point to achieve a perfect snap of both columns, so that they form an "interlocking" pattern.
I have a feeling it has to do with tangents, but the best I can do is to run a script that builds tangents between two circles. I tried it and I can't see a way for it to be helpful. I also tried googling for a solution, but none of the keywords that I used yielded a helpful result.
I tried drawing an equidistant line between two vertical circles, snapping another circle (1) to the bottom circle (2), and rotating it (1) so that its centre snaps with said line, but it's far from elegant. The cursor floats and I can only get a snap if I do that 15 times, checking how far the center point is from the line.
Reference image attached (right element is snapped manually and not in a perfect way): enter image description here
Many thanks!
Draw the circles one on top of each other then use the rotate tool (r. Yes rotate tool not selection tool), move the pivot to center of each successive circle and rotate.
Alternate approach use numeric input in linetool and draw a zig zag with length of 2 times radius (or sum of different radiuses). Then move circles to snap centers to zigzag corners.
If you have trouble figuring angle to use darw a circle at first position with double the radius and find intersection with horizontal line.
Thats mathematics for you.
 - PS sorry no computer at hand so no pictures – joojaa Oct 4 '20 at 12:42
 - Thanks! All it took was drawing two circles with 2x radius, aligning them with two vertical circles and the point of intersection is what I'm looking for. Thanks! – Jerry Oct 4 '20 at 13:48
 - _USER_ you should consider accepting the answer if it solved the problem. Otherwise the webpage stops working correctly. But no hurry. – joojaa Oct 4 '20 at 15:58
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Let $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_1$ be two simple closed curves in a closed surface $S$.
What is the maximum Euler characteristic of a compact properly embedded surface $\Sigma \subset S\times [0,1]$ such that $\partial \Sigma = \gamma_0 \times \{0\} \cup \gamma_1 \times \{1\}$?
Of course, in order for such a surface $\Sigma$ to exist, the two curves $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_1$ must represent the same class in $H_1(S,\mathbb Z_2)$. Note that $\Sigma$ may be non-orientable.
If $2n$ is the minimum geometric intersection number of $\gamma_1$ and $\gamma_2$, it is easy to construct a $\Sigma$ with $\chi(\Sigma)\geqslant \chi(S) - n$. Is there a converse estimate of this kind? Do we have $\chi(\Sigma) \leqslant -n$ when $S$ is a torus?
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what is the "geometric intersection number" and why is its minimum even? – Vivek Shende Feb 14 '11 at 23:48
_USER_ : The geometric intersection number of two curves $x$ and $y$ on a surface is the minimum of the set of numbers $#(x' \cap y')$, where $x'$ and $y'$ range over curves homotopic to $x$ and $y$. In the case at hand, this has to be even because the mod $2$ algebraic intersection number of the two curves in question is $0$, so mod $2$ there have to be the same number of positive intersections as negative intersections. – Andy Putman Feb 15 '11 at 2:21
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Here is a graph $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$ associated to a surface and homology class (similar to the 1-skeleton of the curve complex): For a fixed class in $x\in H_1(S;\mathbb{Z}_2)$, consider isotopy classes of embedded multicurves representing the homology class $x$ (one may assume no components are parallel and there are no trivial components). Make this collection the vertices of the graph $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$. Connect two vertices $A, B$ to be adjacent in the graph $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$ if $A\cup B$ are disjointly embedded, and after removing all parallel curves of $A\cup B$, the remaining components bound a pair of pants or a twice-punctured projective plane (this second can only happen if $S$ is non-orientable). I'm not sure if such a complex has been defined before, but there is a somewhat analogous complex defined in the integral homology case by Bestvina, Bux, and Margalit. Also, this is related to a technique of Hatcher-Thurston to undertand surfaces in two-bridge knot complements.
I claim that the maximal Euler characteristic of a surface bounding $\gamma_0\times 0 \cup \gamma_1\times 1$ is the negative of the distance between $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_1$ in $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$. Put the product metric on $S\times [0,1]$, and make $\Sigma$ into a minimal surface with respect to this metric (Theorem 6.12 of Hass-Scott). Then $S\times t, t\in [0,1]$ gives a foliation by totally geodesic surfaces, and by the maximum principle, they can be tangent to $\Sigma$ in only saddle tangencies (see an argument of Hass, we will assume things are perturbed to be generaic). Thus, for all but finitely many $t$, $S\times t$ meets $\Sigma$ in a finite collection of curves, giving rise to a vertex of $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$. As one passes through a tangency point $S\times t_0$ (assuming things are generic), the intersection changes by a saddle move, giving a surface in $S$ of Euler characteristic $-1$ bounding the curves before and after the tangency. There can never be a closed trivial curve occurring, because this would give rise to a center tangency. Thus, each saddle tangency gives an edge between the adjacent vertices of $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$, and therefore $\Sigma$ gives a path between $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_1$ in $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$. Conversely, any such path gives rise to a surface.
Of course, there will be many geodesics connecting $\gamma_0$ and $\gamma_1$ in $\mathcal{G}(S,x)$, given by any Morse function on $(\Sigma, \gamma_0,\gamma_1)$ with only index 1 critical points, and I don't expect the distance function to be easy to compute (probably one should use normal surface theory to compute it).
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In your definition of the graph is it equivalent (and perhaps easier) to say that $A$ and $B$ and joined by an edge iff they are related by a saddle move? – Kevin Walker May 18 '11 at 21:59
yes, that's equivalent - in fact, as one varies the parameter t, one will see a movie isotoping multicurves with finitely many saddle moves. – Ian Agol May 18 '11 at 22:07
Thanks Ian. Does $\Sigma$ need to be $\partial$-incompressible to guarantee that one can find a minimal representative, or is incompressibility enough? In fact my question was motivated precisely by normal surface theory: in some cases normal surfaces of highest $\chi$ are "seen" by quantum invariants by using the techniques described in a (nice) paper of Frohman - Bartoszynska arxiv.org/abs/math/_PHONE_ and I was wondering whether this minimal distance between curves could be computed by using some Turaev-Viro invariant. – Bruno Martelli May 19 '11 at 14:35
This is Theorem 6.12 of Hass-Scott: ams.org/journals/tran/1988-310-01/S0002-9947-_PHONE_-6/… – Ian Agol May 19 '11 at 15:55
For orientable surfaces of genus at least $2$, pretty sharp bounds are obtained in the unpublished PhD thesis of Ingrid Irmer, which is available here.
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Nice reference, thanks! – Bruno Martelli Feb 15 '11 at 8:24
The thesis deals with oriented curves and surfaces, but probably the same techniques apply in the non-oriented case. – Bruno Martelli Feb 15 '11 at 14:00
Let $a$, $b$ and $x$ be curves on $S$ such that
 - $a$ and $x$ intersect once,
 - $b$ and $x$ intersect once, and
 - $a$ and $b$ have a large algebraic intersection number.
(I assume that $S$ is orientable.) Then there is a surface $\Sigma_a$ connecting $x$ and $x+2a$ with $\chi(\Sigma_a) = -1$ and a similar surface $\Sigma_b$ connecting $x$ and $x+2b$. Combining $\Sigma_a$ and $\Sigma_b$ we get a surface of Euler characteristic $-2$ connecting $x+2a$ and $x+2b$. Thus the geometric intersection number of two curves does not give a lower bound on the complexity of a surface joining them.
(In your original question you ask if $\chi(\Sigma) \le n$, but $n$ is positive and $\chi(\Sigma)$ is negative, so I assume you meant $|\chi(\Sigma)|$.)
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Thank you (I have corrected the sign) – Bruno Martelli Feb 15 '11 at 8:24
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name: pesca version: 4.0.1 synopsis: Proof Editor for Sequent Calculus description: Pesca is a program that helps in the construction of proofs in sequent calculus. It works both as a proof editor and as an automatic theorem prover. Proofs constructed in Pesca can both be seen on the terminal and printed into LaTeX files.. The user of Pesca can choose among different versions of classical and intuitionistic proposition and predicate calculi, and extend them by systems of nonlogical axioms. The implementation of Pesca is written in the functional programming language Haskell. category: Theorem Provers, Compilers/Interpreters license: GPL license-file: LICENSE author: Aarne Ranta maintainer: Aarne Ranta homepage: build-depends: base>3, process build-type: Simple data-files: README, doc/geometry, doc/lattices, doc/manual.tex, doc/proof.sty tested-with: GHC==6.8.2 executable: pesca main-is: Editor.hs hs-source-dirs: src other-modules: Axioms, Calculi, Interaction, Natural, PrelSequent, PSequent, PrSequent, Sequent ghc-options: -Wall ghc-prof-options: -prof -auto-all


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Taman Nusa is a cultural park that aims to offer a comprehensive information on the cultures of Indonesia's various ethnic groups in an attractive and interactive way, while enjoying the natural beauty of Bali. Its mission is to provide a conservation, didactic and recreative means for both domestic and foreign visitors to accurately understand the depiction of Indonesia.
Situated on 15 hectares of land, visitors are invited to explore and experience Indonesia's journey throughout the ages beginning from the prehistory, bronze age, kingdoms, and an archipelago of Indonesian cultures. The journey continues to the early national era, independence, modern times and finally to the nation's future.
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text: Laser chemical vapor deposition (LCVD) is a modification of conventional CVD using a laser heat source. The film growth characteristics differ considerably from conventional CVD in several ways, however. The use of an optical heat source means that the optical properties of the film/substrate system must be considered, e.g., for metals deposited on absorbing substrates, the film thickness and diameter may "self-limit" in some cases because the deposited film reflects most of the laser energy. On the other hand, the small area heated in LCVD results in a different diffusion geometry and access to higher surface temperatures than are achievable when large areas are heated. For favorable reactant systems, these enhancement effects can yield fast deposition rates and line deposition scan speeds greater than 10 cm/sec. This paper will review results of pulsed and cw LCVD of predominantly metal films using visible and infrared lasers.


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 Files are not "in memory" and have no direct address. However in modern operating systems and processors with virtual memory capability it is possible to memory-map a file such that it appears to be in addressable memory.
 Once memory mapped, you can read and write a file with random access as if it were memory, under the hood the OS handles the transfer of data and mapping between the filesystem and RAM. Your systems swap-file works like this, but you can create your own memory mapped file as well. Like the system swap file, you can have a larger virtual space that you have physical RAM available, and like the system swap-file doing so will be considerably slower than physical RAM.
 Memory mapped files can also be used as a means of sharing data between multiple separate processes.
 The API for memory-mapped files varies between operating systems.
 The basic Win32 API and a detailed explanation can be found here though the article is quite old, it still stands. More or less the same informaton, but with perhaps a poorer description of the details can be found here. The.NET framework provides a more modern API described here
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Abstract The ecological impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) on phenological events such as reproductive timing is increasingly recognized. In birds, previous experiments under controlled conditions showed that ALAN strongly advances gonadal growth, but effects on egg-laying date are less clear. In particular, effects of ALAN on timing of egg-laying are found to be year-dependent, suggesting an interaction with climatic conditions such as spring temperature, which is known have strong effects on the phenology of avian breeding. Thus, we hypothesized that ALAN and temperature interact to regulate timing of reproduction in wild birds. Field studies have suggested that sources of ALAN rich in short wavelengths can lead to stronger advances in egg-laying date. We therefore tested this hypothesis in the great tit (Parus major), using a replicated experimental setup where eight previously unlit forest transects were illuminated with either white, green, or red LED light, or left dark as controls. We measured timing of egg-laying for 619 breeding events spread over six consecutive years and obtained temperature data for all sites and years. We detected overall significantly earlier egg-laying dates in the white and green light versus the dark treatment, and similar trends for red light. However, there was a strong inter-annual variability in mean egg-laying dates in all treatments, which was explained by spring temperature. We did not detect any fitness consequence of the changed timing of egg-laying due to ALAN, which suggests that advancing reproduction in response to ALAN might be adaptive.
Artificial light at night, in interaction with spring temperature, modulates timing of reproduction in a passerine bird


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The article offers a generalized study of continuous question-answer pairs in common-practice tonal music. These include continuous periods (with dominant-version consequent or other consequents with non-tonic beginnings), most but not all cases of the hybrid theme type compound basic theme + consequent, and many but not all statement-response pairs in sentential presentations. In question-answer pairs, the first ending is less stable than the second, but it need not be a cadence. Various aspects contribute to the evaluation of each specific case, including caesuras, motivic parallelism, symmetry, internal organization, unit length, independence of the hyper-unit, and melodic closure.
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Travel Series: Kagoshima, Japan, Jikuya Shochu Distillery
Jikuya Shuzo
Address: 1427 Hirakawa, Satsuma, Satsuma District, Kagoshima Prefecture _PHONE_, Japan
Phone: +81 996-54-2507
Maiko Jikuya is one of the very few female Toji (distilling meister) in Kagoshima (and Japan!) and the fourth generation Toji of Jikuya Distillery, a family run business that was established over 100 years ago. It is located in a small town called Satsuma in Kagoshima prefecture of Kyushu. The warmer southern regions such as Kagoshima, are more suitable for distilling Shochu rather than brewing Sake.
Since we visited in June, there was nothing going on at the distillery. They still make Shochu seasonally, which means that they wait for the sweet potato harvest in the fall, and the season continues from fall to winter. Shochu can be made from a variety of different ingredients but the most common are barley, sweet potato and rice (you can also find Shochu made of buckwheat, sesame, carrot, Kokuto, Kuzu and many more!). The main ingredient is not the only importantas in Sake making, the Koji and water play a vital role in making quality Shochu.
While Jikuya only makes sweet potato Shochu, they play around with different types of sweet potatoes and different types of Koji, which is what affects the aroma of Shochu. Koji is the national fungus of Japan, which is used for making Shochu, Sake, Miso, soy sauce, Mirin, and rice vinegar. It is used to inoculate steamed rice, barley or soy beans, which is then used as a sort of fermentation starter. For Sake, it is the type of yeast that influences the aroma, but for Shochu, it is the Koji that influences the aroma and overall character. All three types of Kojiwhite, black and yellow, are used in Shochu making, but in Sake making, breweries use mostly yellow Koji types. When yellow Koji is used to make Shochu, the result is a very floral and light spirit. In both Sake and Shochu, Koji is what breaks down the starches into fermentable sugars.
Sweet potato (Imo) Shochu is an acquired taste in my opinion, but I was surprised when I tasted the Shochus at Jikuya. When I think of a typical Imo Shochu I think of super funky aromas and a rich, caramel-like finish on the palate, but Maiko makes a lot of delicate, floral and fruit forward shochus that are quite feminine yet powerful. Jikuya ages their shochu in huge clay pots (Kame) for at least a year to be able to label them as Kame Shochu. We were lucky enough to try some young Annou Imo Shochu straight from the pot (so it was cask strength as well). I was amazed at how smooth it was.
We were also lucky to try their raw spring water (dug up from 40 meters underground) from Mount Shibi (pictured in the background). This is the water they use to make their Shochu. This water was ridiculously soft, with a full body. Apparently Mizuwari (half Shochu half water) and Oyuwari (half Shochu half hot water) made with this water is something special but unfortunately we did not get to try…
It would have been more interesting to visit during the busy season but in retrospect it was probably good that we went during the down season because Maiko actually had time to show us around! Jikuya only has 11 employees! I am always amazed at how small many of these Shochu distilleries and Sake breweries are. I hope that Jikuya's shochus will be available in New York soon!
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For those times when Windows completely freezes and you can't even open the start menu, you can also restart your computer from Task Manager instead of just powering the machine off.
Doing a hard reset isn't as healthy for your computer's internal components, this method would be preferable if possible.
There are two ways you can bring up Task Manager:
- Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on Task Manager.
- Hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up Task Manager
Once you are in Task Manager, you can restart a hung process in the processes list, or you can click on Shutdown \ Restart to restart your computer.
Pretty simple tip, but very useful