Picking First Bots in War Robots: Theorycrafting
A quick review…
War Robots is a control-based mech game that focuses on getting certain strategic points and holding them in order to grab a win.
In other words, positioning, gaining early advantages and taking advantages of enemy mistakes as well as utilizing opportunities are just as important as mechanical skill and strategic acumen.
The team who gets the early advantage is generally more favored to win the entire matchup than a team who has to catch up since the very beginning of the map.
Why is it important?
One of the most important parts of playing War Robots is realizing that you have a limited amount of resources (namely, your robots and their weapons) and that you need to utilize them carefully in order to get the maximum efficiency out of them and hopefully, be able to use it to significantly contribute towards a possible win for a team.
So obviously, with this concept of play in mind, getting with your best foot forward seems to be the key towards winning most games; after all, many of the strategies used by top players and clans in War Robots include one form or another of the "hard push" at the beginning of the match, which requires the use of the best robots and firepower that is already available to the player in question!
This is where "take care of your pick" comes into play, as many of the good players will go for picks that can do multiple tasks: For instance, people will pick robots like the Strider and Pursuer in order to take good positions and possibly capture places on the map while still being a threat by the merit of the weapons that they carry.
The theory
The Art of War, as well as other strategic books, put importance on the need for having the initiative in battle.
Getting a good (possibly multi-purpose) robot at the beginning allows the player to have confidence in facing the enemy as well as gain certain concrete advantages, which will allow the player to have an easier time throughout the rest of the game (or if the team's cognitive abilities allow for it, win the game immediately.)
How does it work in practice?
Generally, players pick one out the following types, depending on the map or situation:
 - Their strongest bot (think of a Spectre with Shocktrains, probably Haechi or Bulgasari if the player feels confident to run it)
 - Fast beacon capper (Kumiho, Stalker, Gareth, Pursuer, Strider, Hellburner; possibly the Haechi and Galahad if one extends the definition liberally)
 - A long-range robot (Butch, Fury, Natasha and their respective loads come to mind – but then the Bulgasari and Spectre can carry Scourges…)
 - Anything with Hydras – especially with MK2 – and if you are having a ton of Spectres on the enemy side
If you actually think about it, you'll be mostly ahead if you pick robots with energy weapons (i.e. Magnum, Taran, Shocktrain, etc.) for the reason that only the Bulgasari, Gareth, Lancelot and Galahad (we definitely don't count Bulwark and the rest of the house in this category…) have physical shields that can block the damage dished out by plasma or energy weapons.
The rule of thumb is that people will pick mostly any one of the types above unless it's Team Deathmatch, where they will go out the gates with their best robots possible (which are mostly Spectre/Bulgasari/Pursuers.)
For instance, when faced with Death Button Griffins (back in the days when these setups were still a thing), one can always go to the strengths of the Plasma Griffin or any robot that has a plasma or energy-weapon based variant, for the woefully low engagement range of the setup makes it extremely susceptible to kiting tactics.
As for robots with physical shields, one couldn't go wrong with the RDB Griffin (or the RDB Spectre). Better yet, having a long-ranged Fury (read: Dragoons, Tridents, Zeus, Tempest, Trebuchet) would be a deadly sight for those robots who hide behind their steel scales or otherwise! Even the Noricums and Zenits are already annoying…especially if you have "soft" robots like the Spectre…
And when facing the ubiquitous Shocktrain on robots such as the Spectre, Haechi and Bulgasari, never forget that there are many choices for destroying the menace of these robots. A Bulgasari is best countered by rockets, while a Haechi would not survive an engagement with energy weapons such as the Scourge, Zeus, and the rest of the energy-firing pack.
What are the effects of this?
Getting a very good first pick that completely counters the enemy would allow players to do one or more of the following:
 - Trade efficiently (i.e. take down two to three bots before you are killed)
 - Get good positions and force the enemy to play out of their comfort zone
 - Spread the momentum through getting multiple early kills (while your friends are busy racking up the damage, snipe those crippled bots out of the game)
 - If the robot is fast enough (i.e. Dash family/Pursuer/Strider/Hellburner), then one can end the game right there and then by getting four to five beacons, potentially sealing the deal in 3-4 minutes)
The first-pick principle only works effectively in a battlefield with diverse hangars and weapon styles; this will almost never work in a battlefield that already has 12 maxed-out robots armed with the Shocktrain or the version of the most overpowered weapon that the game can equip for the robot in question.
The exception is that if the clan knows how to counter the Shocktrain carriers effectively, which, in this case, a well-placed Pursuer (or any other fast robot in particular) could tip the balance massively in one's favour.
In addition, some players may have a capper as their first bot and four powerhouses as their – just as first picking is a strong hand to play, counter-picking is another way to approach War Robots, especially when the enemy (i.e. the first-picker) actually has a one-dimensional hangar (full midrange, full brawler or 4 robots of one setup).
Personal Experience
The author is currently a Master 2 player at the time of writing and through the usage of robots such as the Kumiho, the player is able to capture at least two beacons, destroy light robots outright and pressure enemy players to commit resources to kill the "space creator."
If the team is smart enough, they would usually go push from all other sides, ensuring a quick victory.
Most of the time, proper knowledge of War Robots weaponry has allowed the writer to overcome obstacles that are otherwise unfair on paper.
The obvious exceptions are the times when the author faces clans like KOR (the full stack and one of the game's superteams, no joking here), which in this case…blame the matchmaker for placing me into a very unfair match.
Choosing a proper first pick in War Robots goes a long way. It allows the player to provide multiple tactical options on the field, as well as create space for the team to have early advantages and create an opening for the team to win outright.
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STUDY ON SUBSYNCHRONOUS RESONANCE PROBLEM IN SERIES-COMPENSATED TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
Chengbing He, Dongchao Chen
School of energy, power and mechanical engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
The series capacitor compensation technique can improve the transmission capability of transmission system; however, it may cause subsynchronous resonance (SSR) which will seriously influence the safe operation of large turbo-generator shafts. Aiming at a series capacitor compensation transmission system, the transient torques of SSR is simulated in different compensation degrees and unit load levels. Based on the modified segmentation Prony algorithm (MSPA) proposed in this paper, the characteristic frequencies and damping parameters are identified and analysed. The MSPA, complex Morlet wavelet and time-frequency contour map are integrated and used in analysis of transient torques of SSR in time-frequency field. The results of study show that the transient torques develop towards divergence direction and the frequencies of SSR (converted to the rotor side) in negative damping area move towards into low frequency area with the increasing of the compensation degree. With the increasing of the power output, the torque values of each shaft section will increase, but the dominant oscillation mode will not change. The increasing of power output can make the damping effect slightly change and the trend of the change develops towards the direction that is not conducive to restrain SSR.

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Peter Grimes
opera by Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten. It was first performed in 1945. It is generally thought to be the most important British opera of the 20th century. It is about a community in a small fishing village in the east of England in the 1820s. Peter Grimes is a fisherman who feels that the people do not want to have anything to do with him. He wants to make lots of money so that he can marry and get people's respect. In his obsession with catching as much fish as possible he is cruel to the boys who help him (his apprentices), and they die. At the end of the opera Grimes drowns himself.
Britten wrote the main part (Peter Grimes) for his life partner Peter Pears to sing.
There are three acts, and the opera starts with a prologue and ends with an epilogue. Some of the scenes are joined by continuous music, and some of this is often played separately in concerts. This music is known as the Four Sea Interludes.
History of its compositionEdit
When World War II started Britten and Pears went to America to avoid the war. In 1941 Britten started to feel homesick because he read an article by E.M.Forster about George Crabbe, a poet who had lived in the same part of England that Britten came from. Britten started to realize that, in order to compose well, he had to go back to his own country. Britten and Pears returned to England in 1942.
The conductor Sergei Koussevitzky asked Britten to write an opera based on a poem by George Crabbe. The poem, called "The Borough", was about the story of Peter Grimes. The village in the poem was fictitious, but it was very much like Aldeburgh where Britten later made his home. Britten asked Montagu Slater to write the libretto based on the story of Crabbe's poem.
The opera was first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London on 7 June 1945 by the company which later became English National Opera. The conductor was Reginald Goodall. Pears sang the title role.
The first American performance was in 1946 at Tanglewood conducted by Koussevitzky's pupil, Leonard Bernstein. Britten dedicated it to Koussevitsky's wife.
Role Voice type Premiere Cast, June 7, 1945
(Conductor: Reginald Goodall)
Peter Grimes, a fisherman tenor Peter Pears
Ellen Orford, a widow, Borough schoolmistress soprano Joan Cross
Auntie, landlady of The Boar contralto Edith Coates
Niece 1 soprano Blanche Turner
Niece 2 soprano Minnia Bower
Balstrode, retired merchant skipper baritone Roderick Jones
Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley, a rentier widow mezzo-soprano Valetta Iacopi
Swallow, a lawyer bass Owen Brannigan
Ned Keene, apothecary and quack baritone Edmund Donlevy
Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist tenor Morgan Jones
Rev. Horace Adams, the rector tenor Tom Culbert
Hobson, the carrier bass Frank Vaughan
John, Grimes' apprentice silent role Leonard Thompson
The first young boy who was an apprentice to Peter Grimes has already been killed. He was at sea for three days without water to drink. An inquest is being held to decide whether Grimes is guilty of the boy's death. The people all seem to think he is guilty. The judge decides that the boy's death was an accident. However, he says to Grimes that he should not get another apprentice. Grimes is very angry at being told this. Ellen Orford, a school teacher, comforts him. In their beautiful duet Ellen and Peter sing at first in different keys, but finally sing together in the same key.
Act 1Edit
The scenery shows the Moot Hall, the Boar Inn (the village pub) and the church. People are saying "Good morning" to one another, especially the Slave Master who says it many times. The fishermen start work mending their nets. Keene tells Grimes that he has found another apprentice for him. He is a poor boy who lives in the workhouse. Nobody wants Grimes to have another apprentice. Hobson, the cart man, refuses to fetch him. But Ellen supports Peter. She sings to the crowd: "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (meaning: "You all have faults so do not criticize"). Hobson goes off to get the boy. A terrible storm is coming.
The scene now changes to The Boar Inn. It is very noisy inside. Bob Boles gets drunk and wants to make love to the landlady's nieces. The storm is still raging outside. Grimes comes in. People are shocked, but Grimes does not notice. He sings and song about human fate: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades". The tune is in the orchestra in canon while Grimes sings very simple lines of music. People are embarrassed, so they start to sing a round: "Old Joe has gone fishing". It has three tunes and has seven counts in a bar. The boy is brought in and Grimes takes him off in spite of the storm.
Act 2Edit
The opening of the next act is peaceful. It is Sunday morning. People are in church, and now again we hear the singing coming from the church. Ellen talks to the boy. She is horrified to see he has a bruise on his neck. Grimes says it was an accident. He gets annoyed that Ellen is worried about the boy and runs off with him. The people of the village have noticed and march up to Grimes's hut. The scene ends with a peaceful contrast: a duet sung by the two nieces.
The orchestra play a beautiful passacaglia which links to the next scene. Grimes is accusing the boy of "telling stories". Then he starts to feels guilty about the first boy's death. He hears the villagers coming and tells the boy they have to go fishing. He pushes him out onto the rocks and the boy falls to his death. When the villagers arrive at the hut they find it empty.
Act 3Edit
Act 3 opens with music describing moonlight at night. People are dancing in the Moot Hall. People are very merry. Mrs. Sedley tries to tell people that Grimes is a murderer, but they do not listen. People then start to leave, saying "Goodnight" to one another (especially the Rector). Balstrode is walking with Ellen. He tells her that Grimes's boat is in, but Grimes cannot be found. A boy's jersey has been washed up on the shore. Ellen sings an aria "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness". It is a moment of stillness in the drama.
A short interlude based on one chord leads to the next scene in which people are looking for Grimes. Grimes drags himself onto the shore. He seems to have gone mad. We hear a foghorn (played by an off-stage tuba) as he sings. Balstrode tells Grimes that he should go out to sea in his boat and sink it.
The opera ends with an epilogue in which the scene is the same as the beginning of the opera. Someone says that a boat has been seen sinking out to sea, but no one is interested. The people have forgotten Grimes, and continue their lives without him.
 - 1958: Peter Pears (Peter Grimes), Claire Watson (Ellen Orford), James Pease (Balstrode), Jean Watson (Auntie); Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Benjamin Britten - (Decca)
 - 1978: Jon Vickers (Peter Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen Orford), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie); Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis - (Philips)
 - 1992: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Peter Grimes), Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford), Thomas Allen (Balstrode), Patricia Payne (Auntie); Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink - (EMI Classics)
 - The New Kobbe's Opera Book, ed. Earl of Harewood and Antony Peattie; London 2000; ISBN 0 09 _PHONE_


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Museum of Natural History's Written In Bone Exhibition
Left Image: 17th century human skeletal remains from an archaeological site near Annapolis MD.
Right Image: Reassembly of the bones took place in scanning studio, part of a forensic reconstruction of the individual for a museum display. Kari Bruwelheide,
National Museum of Natural History; and Jane Cox, Anne Arundel County Archaeologist did the reassembly. This was then scanned by Vicky Karas and Mel Wachowiak.
Left Image: Screenshot of virtual reconstruction of skeletal remains.
Right Image: Partial assembly of replica of 17th century human skeletal remains from an archaeological site created from scan data by Chris Hollshwander and Caroline
Thome of Smithsonian Office of Exhibit Central.
CNC milling of smaller scale replica overseen by OEC Modelmaker Chris Hollshwander.

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Ajrakh: Part 5: Web of connections
Ajrakh's web of connections
It takes a village to raise a child, goes the old saying. Well, it takes a village to make Ajrakh as well.
Using wood blocks to create designs on fabric is a technique that goes back centuries. Ajrakh belongs to this class of crafts. It originated in Sindh and came into Gujarat.
Step 1: Let us begin with the wood blocks. Ajrakh block carving is itself a highly specialised craft. Today there are just a few Ajrakh block carvers in Pethapur, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The wood that is most suitable comes from local indigenous trees such as babur (Acacia farnesiana), keekar (Acacia arabica) and sisham (Dalbergia sisso). The main trunk of the tree is cut into square blocks of a particular size. Then comes the carving of the design. Negative areas are skilfully carved out to make a wood block that is used for printing.
Step 2: Saaj. The cotton cloth is torn, traditionally by hand, into lengths that are specific and suitable for use. This cloth is soaked overnight in a mixture of soda, castor oil, water and animal dung (cow, camel or goat) to dislodge the starch. The next day, the fabric is watched in running water. The fabric is beaten with a mallet until it is cleaned of starch and other impurities.
Step 3: Kasanu: The next step is to dip the fabric in myrobalan (harda) solution. This prepares the fabric to absorb colour. The solution is made by mixing dry myrobalan powder with castor oil and water.
Step 4: Kiryana: The outlines are drawn. A mixture of gum arabic with lime and water is made into a thick paste. This lime is the main resist with whitening powder, which helps ensure a smooth texture without any cracks and makes the surface impermeable. The same pattern is repeated on the other side of the fabric if the Ajrakh needs to be a double sided one.
Step 5: Kat: Iron acetate is used for the black patterns. It is made by fermenting iron scrap with water, gram flour or besan and molasses for 10 days. This is boiled further to make a thick emulsion by adding tamarind powder and edible oil. This gives a dark black colour. Alum is added to get a greyish tone. If the background of the fabric has black colour, it is painted black using a brush instead of printing the background with blocks.
Step 6: Pah: A mixture of tamarind seeds, alum and water is boiled to make the printing paste red in colour. Since alum is colourless, usually some red colour is mixed in so that the colour is visible and the blocks can be properly aligned. This red colour will wash out. The printed area/alum will develop red colour when the fabric is boiled in alizerine or madder.
Step 7: Gachh: Millet flour is mixed with water and boiled till it becomes a paste. This paste is then mixed with fuller's earth or clay, alum and molasses until all the ingredients are thoroughly dissolved. This thick paste is spread over the fabric and ground cow dung or ground saw dust is sprinkled immediately over it. The fabric is dried under the sun for a few hours. Areas which need to be resisted from the next process of indigo dyeing are printed with this resist paste.
Step 8: Bodaw: The Indigo vat is a deep earthenware pot sunk into the ground. Indigo, lime, soda and dates are the ingredients for making indigo dye. The fabric is carefully pleated and dipped in the vat in parts. The folds are slightly opened to ensure even dyeing. The fabric is taken out, slightly squeezed and spread under the sun. Oxidation takes place in about 20 minutes. The fabric is then folded and rolled into a large bundle ready to be washed the next morning.
Step 9: After indigo dyeing, the fabric is washed to degum the resist print. This will remove the excess indigo, clay, sawdust and other colouring materials which may not have penetrated the fabric's fibre. The fabric is thoroughly washed in running water and laid flat to dry in the sun.
Step 10: Rang: A solution of alizerine (madder), alum and water is boiled in a large container. The fabric is dipped into this boiling solution along with dhawai phool or Woodfordia fruiticosa. The fabric is boiled in the solution until the desired red colour is achieved. Then the fabric is washed, squeezed and dried in the sun.
Step 11: Minakari: To achieve two shades or darker shades of indigo and read, a process called Minakari is followed. This literally means repeating the work So that the earlier steps are repeated to make the shade darker.
Thanks to Abduljabbar Mohammad Khatri for explaining and providing this content.
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What does "dogged" here mean? I have no idea
I tried looking up dogged in a dictionary, and found several meanings, but none of them seemed to make sense in the context of this article:
Having the meaner qualities of a dog; malicious; mean; contemptible; surly.
Having the pertinacity of a dog; silently obstinate; unyielding.


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Date: 18 July 2012 at 02:48
Gibraltar has become the world's first Wikipedia City. At a press conference on Wednesday morning, Minister for Tourism, Neil Costa, delivered a presentation on the online Gibraltarpedia project.
Gibraltarpedia involves a multi-lingual online Wikipedia pack on the Rock's rich flora, history and culture. The idea for this project came from local Wikipedian, Tyson Lee Holmes, who read about the first Wikipedia town in Wales. Monmouthpedia is a comprehensive Wikipedia page-based record of its own cultural heritage. Professor Clive Finlayson has since been working with the Tourist Board and with Wikimedia UK to make Gibraltar the world's first Wikipedia City.
The articles will be written by a mix of locals, academics, historians and Wikipedians from around the globe. Minister for Tourism, Neil Costa, said the project would revolutionise the way we narrate our culture and demonstrate our cross-section of different communities in a virtual way.
It's estimated that nearly 500 million people a month will have access to all this information on Gibraltar. The process of creating WiFi hotspots on the Rock is underway and Gibraltarpedia applications will be available for download on smartphones. This will make the articles accessible to visitors at different tourist attractions.


Albanian National Archives
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The Albanian National Archives (Albanian: Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit or A.Q.SH) is the official archives of the Republic of Albania. It maintains important papers about Albania. It is in the city of Tirana and has smaller archives around the country. It was started in 1949.[1] It used to be ran by the Party of Labour of Albania, who ran the country. They were Communists. They stopped running the country in 2001 and the Swiss Federal Archives had to help the Albanian National Archives become up to date, because it's collections were damaged and the archives had no computers to help people find papers it has. By 2004, it's collections were fixed and it had computers and people could easily find what they were looking for.[2] The archives had many very important historical documents, including the Codex Beratinus,[3] Codex Beratinus II,[3] and version of the New Testament called the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript.[4] In 2011, the archives started working with the World Digital Library, who puts the archives photographs and books on their website so more people can see them.[5][6]
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Deputy Municipal Manager
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Fax : _PHONE_
This cluster is responsible for inter-alia the following:
- Lead and manage the provision of basic services within ELM. Provide operations and maintenance support in the provision of basic services across the Municipality.
- Develop and monitoring Service Level Agreements and other service delivery contracts in conjunction with relevant line management, external contractors and other key stakeholders.
- Report on risks pertaining to basic service delivery, and recommend remedial actions.
- Provide Council and the MM with relevant data and information pertaining to service delivery programmes' status, challenges and opportunities.
- Water and Sanitation (Metsi a Lekoa)
- Roads and Storm Water
- Waste and Landfill Management
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With the help of energy analysis suggested by McLaughlin and Scott for the sine-Gordon equation, evolution of kink velocity modeling the propagation of a local conformational perturbation along the DNA molecule under the simultaneous action of dissipation effects and special nonstationary external fields is investigated. For a harmonically time-dependent external force, the kink velocity is characterized by oscillations about a rather monotonically decreasing trend expressed by an explicit analytical formula. The trend velocity coincides with the results of calculations of the kink velocity averaged over the period on different time intervals. Similar results are obtained for a nonstationary force in the form of a step function. A numerical analysis, in particular, demonstrates that the trend velocity changes its behavior for certain values of rectangular pulse duration.
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Pori (Puffed Rice) has been mentioned in various Tamil literatures as an offering to Hindu deities.
- Offerings of pori and jaggery made to Vinayagar (Lord Ganesh) are mentioned in the Tiruppugazh, a 15th century anthology of Tamil religious songs, written by Tamil poet Arunagirinathar.
Puffed rice is used in breakfast cereals, snack foods like puffed rice cakes, and is also a popular street food in some parts of the world. It is an ingredient of bhel puri, a popular Indian chaat (snack). It is also used in temples and gurdwaras as prasad (an offering).
Pori is offered to Hindu gods and goddesses in all poojas in the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Pilgrims of Sabarimala often pack puffed rice in their Irumudikettu along with jaggery meant to be offered to Lord Ayyappan. Tamil saints say that Lord Ganesh loves pori, so it should be offered to him without fail. Pori production has been the main family business for centuries among many villages around Namakkal, Avinashi in Tamil Nadu.
In Telangana, as a snack typically given to children, puffed rice or bongulu is made into ball with jaggery syrup or bellam pakam.
Mudhi is a staple food of people of Odisha. northern Odisha, especially Baripada, Mayurbhanj district is significant for the production of Mudhi, where throughout the state it is eaten in breakfast. NGOs have taken forward initiatives to engage village women of northern Odisha for producing Mudhi. Intellectual property rights (IPR) Cell of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) has decided to bring out Geographical indication (GI) registration of Mudhi.
A traditional puffed rice called muri (sometimes spelled mouri) is made by heating rice in a sand-filled oven. Muri is to rice as popcorn is to corn. The processing involved makes rice less perishable. Muri is a staple food in many parts of Rayalaseema, North Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh. Jhalmuri or Masalamuri or Bhelpuri is a very popular preparation made from muri.
Puffed rice is referred to as mur-mure in some parts of India. In many parts of Rayalaseema, North Karnataka uggani along with Mirapakai Bajji (Chilli Bajjis) are popular.In Mithila area, "murhi" is had with "kachari"-fried potato/onion chops, fried fish or with mutton curry."Jhal-murhi" and "Murhi-Bhuja" are also very popular snacks in this area.
|Chinese||米香(pinyin:mǐ xiāng),大米花(pinyin:dà mă huā)|
|Czech||pufovaná rýže / burizon|
|German||Puffreis / Reiswaffel|
|Gujarati||Mumra or Mamra|
|Hindi||Murmure / Parmal / Laee / Laiyaa|
|Kannada||Churumuri, Kalle Puri, Puri, Mandalu or Mandakki and Aralu (Poprice)|
|Kazakh||кіртілдек күріш ("kirtildek kurish")|
|Macedonian||експандиран ориз (ekspandiran oriz)|
|Marathi||Kurmure / Murmure|
|Nepali||Murai / Bhuja|
|Polish||Ryż dmuchany / preparowany|
|Russian||воздушный рис ("vozdushny ris")|
|Kosli language (Sambalpuri)||Bhuja|
|Telugu||Maramaralu or Moorilu [Costal Andhra] or Bongulu [Telangana]or Borugulu(as called in Rayalaseema)|


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Background: Atrial fibrillation(AF) is a kind of persistent arrhythmia that can lead to serious complications. Therefore, accurate and quick detection of atrial fibrillation by surface electrocardiogram (ECG) has great importance on further treatment. The practical ECG signals contain various interferences in different frequencies, such as myoelectricity interference, power interference and so on. Detection speed and accuracy largely depend on the AF signal features extracted by algorithm. But some of the discovered AF features are not well distinguishable, resulting in poor classification effect.
Methods: This paper proposed a high distinguishable atrial fibrillation feature - the frequency corresponding to the maximum amplitude in the frequency spectrum (MAiFS). We used the R-R interval detection method optimized with mathematical morphology method and combined with the wavelet transform method for analysis. According to the two features - the MAiFS and R-R interval irregular, we can recognize AF in ECG signal by decision tree classification algorithm.
Results: The data used in the experiment comes from the MIT-BIH database , which is publicly accessible via the web and with ethics approval and consent. The dataset contains 23 annotated ECG records, each of which is approximately 10 hours with a sampling rate of 250Hz and a 12-bit resolution with a range of 10mv. Based on the input of time-domain and frequency-domain features, a supervised classifier is constructed by using decision tree algorithm, and the data obtained from the above experiments are brought in to carry out a 5-fold cross validation test, the accuracy of classification reaches 98.9%.
Conclusions: The frequency corresponding to the maximum amplitude in frequency spectrum in the normal signal is concentrated and the fluctuation is weak. But the frequency corresponding to the maximum amplitude in frequency spectrum in the atrial fibrillation signal is divergent and irregular. The decision tree algorithm can detect the normal signal and AF signal with 98.9% accuracy.


we are presenting our comments in a fair light. However, at this time there appears to be some key differences between these modules and what we are proposing with Maestro.
One consistent difference is that the idea of assigning a user a task does not exist, instead site users do something which triggers and action to occur. With Maestro, site users will initiate a new process (example request office supplies), and then other site users will be assigned tasks to complete in the order required. Users assigned tasks will be able to access them from their task console and may have only 1 task or possibly many for various other and different workflow instances. The types of the tasks in the other modules are essentially to complete a content type. With Maestro other task types exist such as to review submissions, approve or reject submissions, or answer other interactive questions such as assigning subsequent workflow step owners and changing the workflow routing. Workflow admin's have the ability to cancel workflow instances (projects) or re-assign task owners.
While all three of the modules compared in this section are quite powerful, there is a common drawback with all of them that really separates Maestro. The main difference between Maestro and the other modules can be summed up in one line: rather than waiting for site actions to occur and acting on them, Maestro drives the site actions to occur.
1.3.1 Workflow
The Workflow module, when combined with the Actions module, has the ability to create basic workflows. It can create "pseudo-tasks", which are represented by the state of the workflow. For example, if the task was to create a form, the state of the workflow would be "Create a Form", rather an a generic "Draft" or "Initiated" state.
The Workflow module integrates well with the Actions module, which is almost required to create a working process. Since workflows are built around content types in the system, the workflow module is well suited to facilitate site content creation.
Unfortunately, as we will see with the other modules, the Workflow module is based more around site actions and site content types rather than defining standard processes that get executed. Instead of a specific user being assigned complete a task as part of their job, it is up to the user to create a content type in the system, at which point the system will direct the lifecycle of that particular content type.
Maestro aims to build business project information, where multiple content pieces come together to form a project. Arbitrary documents can be uploaded and site users are actively assigned tasks which they can easily see in their task console. While Maestro will integrate with site content types, its purpose is not to build site content, but rather facilitate a company's procedure to complete work.
The Workflow module also lacks in conditional task abilities, it does not have any metric reporting, and has a clunky interface to create a workflow, which are all areas that Maestro will improve upon as well.
1.3.2 Workflow NG
Workflow NG is a more developed workflow solution which can handle certain conditional logic, and integrates well with other modules. However, it is no longer supported for future releases of Drupal as it has migrated to the Rules module. All of its strengths and weaknesses are similar to the Rules module, so lets leave it at that and jump straight into the Rules module comparison.
1.3.3 Rules
The Rules module is a great module to track system events and act on them. You can build up a workflow based on system events, so, for example, a form is created, that event is trapped and signals the next task to be created. You can define a ruleset in the Rules module which allows you to group related rules and execute them in order, to simulate a workflow. Rules is well suited to define a workflow to built site content and to act on site events.
However, similar to the workflow module, it does not support the creation of a standard "task", such as requiring a user to complete an action. Like the Workflow module, it waits for an action to happen, such as a new site content to be created, then performs actions on that, where as with Maestro, a process is defined to assign site users to create the content, and metrics are stored to track how long certain tasks have taken to execute.
With rules, there is no way to know what tasks are assigned to you, unless you set up an action to email the task owner on task assignment. The lack of a task console and a project dashboard page is another area that Rules lacks that Maestro will improve upon. Again, like with the Workflow module, Rules relies on system content types as the means of executing a workflow, where Maestro helps facilitate the building of business project information.
1.4 Planned Integration with Drupal Modules
1.4.1 Actions
Integration with the actions module is key. There are a number of different opportunities to integrate with the Actions module. Number one, we plan to include an action that launches a new workflow when trigger is fired. That will allow, for example, when a site user is created, launch the workflow that defines all the things that need to happen when adding a new employee to your company, like setting up their email address, etc.
Another key opportunity for integration is inside each different task type. On both task creation and task completion we will have the opportunity to execute an action, such as sending an email, or publishing a content type. The main purpose of this would be to send task notifications to users, however by integrating it into an action it makes that extensible.
The final area of integration into actions will is that we will have a task type that waits for a trigger to occur. So, if the workflow requires a user to be created, then the "new user created" trigger is fired, the workflow will continue on.
1.4.2 Tokens
For email notifications, tokens will be used to change out values like username, etc. It's important to be able to send out email notifications for task assignment but also send out task reminders, task alerts as to an identified contact for escalation if task not completed in x days and also task completion notifications. Our present workflow solution allows these different notifications and notification rules like sending the initial task reminder after 5 days and then every day, send an escalation to the initiator of the workflow after 10 days if task not completed. Being able to customize these notification email messages using tokens will be supported.
1.4.3 Rules
Maestro will be initially lightly integrated into Rules, where there will be an opportunity within Rules to create a rule which launches a new workflow. That again will allow a workflow to be launched after a specific site action has occurred.
In Closing
We would like to include the Drupal community in the development of this application, and include your ideas and feature requests as well. While initially we want to get this up and running in Drupal all feature ideas and feedback on how to properly integrate into Drupal will be considered in the initial port, and subsequently implemented in future releases.
This post contains the initial section of the Maestro spec and our plan is to publish the additional sections over the coming weeks which will get into more technical detail. That detail though is dependent on our initial high level spec and ideas/questions proposed in this document and why we are anxious for community input.
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Looks cool!
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Hi - I encourage you to discuss your project thoroughly with fago, the maintainer of Rules. You may find a way to build an add-on to rules or otherwise collaborate on that. Plus you may benefit from his experience with this type of module.
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Is this intended to be d6 or d7 stuff? I'd suggest you to do any serious development in d7 now, it will make sure it plays well with d7, but much more important you can leverage lots new great d7 stuff, mostly entities + improved fields.
In d7, I'd suggest making your workflow task a fieldable entity, therefore any entity can be easily categorized by adding a taxonomy reference field. In d6, you can't.
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Yep, it's a rules engine, no workflow engine. You can use it to build workflows, but there is no definition that drives the workflow. But having such a workflow definition (-> entity) which allows reacting on its changes / applying changes to it makes much sense to me. Anyway, I'm working on integrating web services with rules-7.x-2.x such that this enables one to create distributed workflows.
Generally for d7 and simple workflows, I think it makes also sense to leverage the group module. Assigning the a group to an entity, let's say a node would represent a state of the node. Such we could have a group for "drafts, needing work", "drafts, needing review" and maybe also for published nodes. Then you can assign people to the groups that are allows to edit the group's content + approve it such it goes a step forward + you can define group based permissions. This is fine for usual editorial workflows, e.g. alfresco does it that way.
Assigning a task to a single user has some similarity to usual case tracking system, such as open atrium. So it might be useful to integrate with something like that, or not.
You could implement this notificiations with Rules. Questionable is just how the UI should look like. With rules 7.x it's easy to integrate existing UI components of the module somewhere else though.
Our intention is for D7
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Thanks for the quick reply fago. Our intention is to make this a D7


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They later employed some of their null-gravity combat training during the expedition to combat Tchar, after he activated a gravity neutralizer in the Skorr temple, forcing those on the expedition to "fly and fight as a Skorr." (TAS: "The Jihad")
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We have the following AddUser method which adds a new record to the database using EF:
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We have a Customer table and a User table and in User table we have customerid as a foreign key.
In the USER table we have Firstname, Lastname and CustomerId fields, we get the firstname, lastname and customerid (dropdown list of customers) details from the user, create the Customer object with customerid we get from the user and pass all of these to the AddUser method, but what happens is that the User gets inserted into the database and also a new Customer is inserted into the Customer's table (with a new customerid), is there any way of stopping this?
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You need to set the EntityState of the Customer to Unchanged.
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A design review applies most commonly to new construction projects. Since mistakes in the design phase are the most costly to rectify, Design Review services makes sure that the design meets the intended functionality, performance and cost objectives of the data center.
The goals of the Design Review are mainly to:
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Hurlbert's Pebbling Page. Forcing (mathematics) Forcing is equivalent to the method of Boolean-valued models, which some feel is conceptually more natural and intuitive, but usually much more difficult to apply. identify with, and then introduce an expanded membership relation involving the "new" sets of the form.
Forcing is a more elaborate version of this idea, reducing the expansion to the existence of one new set, and allowing for fine control over the properties of the expanded universe. Change in the average geodesic distance of a graph when flipping a single edge. Is there a way to determine how the average geodesic distance between nodes of a graph will change just by flipping (1) a single edge without having to traverse the whole graph like in the Djikstra algorithm?
I'm currently doing this by expensively copying the graph, changing the edge, and then calculating the average geodesic distance of the new graph (using Dijkstra's algorithm) and subtracting it from the average geodesic distance of the original graph.. Is there a more clever way to to this? Cesar A. Hidalgo, Homepage.


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Miles Kellerman, DPhil student, has published a new article presenting the 'Marketing Structure Hypothesis'.
Public agencies outsource a wide variety of tasks to nonstate actors, or what can be referred to as regulatory intermediaries. In certain circumstances, these agencies may seek to disempower those regulatory intermediaries by reclaiming, duplicating, or transferring the outsourced task. When will these disempowerment attempts be successful? This article presents the Market Structure Hypothesis, which contends that the level of competition between regulatory intermediaries will, all things equal, determine whether disempowerment attempts succeed. To test this hypothesis, this article examines the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's attempts to acquire the independent capacity to conduct nationwide trade surveillance in the 1980s (Market Oversight Surveillance System) and 2010s (Consolidated Audit Trail). Evidence derives from archival materials, a Freedom of Information Act Request, and 60 interviews in Oxford, London, Toronto, New York City, and Washington, DC. The empirical results corroborate the hypothesis' expectations, contributing to our understanding of public‐private partnerships and shedding new empirical light on an understudied topic of securities regulation.


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The development of a higher education project in Psychology involves creating structures to carry activities such as practical training, teaching and scientific research, thus the Faculty of Education and Psychology has created a psychological consultation service. The CUP allows activities closer to the professional practice for students, supporting their development stage and advanced training programs in the area of psychological intervention. In addition, it contributes to the development of research lines, allowing systematic and more efficient monitoring of intervention processes. Finally, the CUP of the Catholic University in Porto embodies a strong connection to the target community, providing psychological support through cooperation protocols with entities as well as private users.
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Why should I Hire a Lawyer if there is a Real Estate Agent or a Mediator involved in my House Purchase?
One of the reason is because the Real Estate Agent is not responsible by law for legal issues or urban verifications in the property purchase in Italy.
The Real Estate Agent's responsibility in Italy is limited to the intermediation work linking the buyer and the seller. This task will be carried out through the normal diligence which simple consists in the performance of aforementioned service referred to a broker with medium capacity.
Therefore, he is not responsible if in the closing phase of the notarial deed he didn't informed and alerted the buyer on the fact that the chosen property was subject to urban issues and that issue wasn't allowing its marketability.
The damages requested to the mediator were huge, in addition to the down payment (Caparra) also the damage for the non-purchase of another property that would have been optioned if the promissory buyer had known from the first moment the urban differences.
Therefore, the mediator has the obligation to inform the parties of the circumstances known to him, all those things of which he became aware in carrying out the assignment, and also of all the circumstances that could have been acquired by a mediator with only medium professional skills, with the use of normal diligence. Definitely, not legal skills or obligations.
However, nothing can be claimed about the responsibility of the Real Estate Agent with regards to the control and verification of the mortgage deeds and the urban situation.
The Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) has repeatedly reiterated that in the ordinary diligence is not required that the mediator does any of the technical-legal investigations, such as, for example:
 - the mortgage and land registry surveys;
 - the verification of the urban situation;
 - the assessment and the check in the Real Estate Registers;
 - the freedom of the property subject to negotiation from transcripts or prejudicial registrations;
 - or even the urban planning examination.
In this regard, the same Court refers to a very long jurisprudence composed of dozens of sentences that have affirmed the same principle.
Therefore, the Court condemned the promissory purchasers who had turned to the Real Estate Agent to be compensated for damages above mentioned because of the differences found they could not be part of that level of elementary knowability for which the estate agent would not provide justifications based on his personal lack of knowledge.
Different fate would have had in the case in which the mediator received an express assignment from the promissory buyer (with specific and more expensive remuneration, different from the commission) to carry out mortgage-cadastral or urban planning surveys, his obligation to fulfill the task is clearly outlined, and he could have civil responsibility in the hypothesis that the job was not well done.
It follows that if Real Estate Agents do not check the urban situation, they have no responsibility whatsoever, except that they have failed to communicate the information known, or in any case elementary diligence, while if the Estate Agents received an express assignment with specific and more expensive remuneration he has to provide information of a mortgage-cadastral or urbanistic nature assuming the particular responsibilities of the case, but still he is not a legal professional.
In conclusion, prudence requires to abstain from reckless steps and to delegate everything related to your real estate transactions in Italy to a professional Trusted Lawyer.


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Ceylon birdwing description
The Ceylon birdwing is one of the largest butterflies of Sri Lanka (2). Like most other Troides birdwings, the male is adorned with bright golden-yellow markings on the hindwings, which contrast starkly with the velvety black forewings and interjecting black veins (2). The female is larger than the male, and has a different arrangement of yellow markings on the hindwing, and pale stripes on the forewing (2) (3).
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- Pupa of a butterfly.
- A species or taxonomic group that is only found in one particular country or geographic area.
- Stage in an animal's lifecycle after it hatches from the egg. Larvae are typically very different in appearance to adults; they are able to feed and move around but usually are unable to reproduce.
- An abrupt physical change from the larval to the adult form.
- The process of becoming a pupa, the stage of an insect's development, when huge changes occur that reorganise the larval form into the adult form. In butterflies the pupa is also called a chrysalis.
- CITES (January, 2006)
- Sunday Observer: Nature's jewels at Sinharaja (July, 2006)
- Haugum, J. and Low, A.M. (1985) A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. Scandinavian Science Press, Klampenborg.
- Troides darsius (July, 2006)
- The World of Birdwing Butterflies (July, 2006)
- Yen, S.H. and Yang, P.S. (2001) Illustrated Identification Guide to Insects Protected by the CITES and Wildlife Conservation Law of Taiwan. R.O.C. Council of Agriculture, Taiwan.
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Ceylon birdwing biology
The Ceylon birdwing is most active during the morning and early afternoon (3) (5). The butterfly feeds on the nectar of flowers such as Hibiscus, Poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) and Bougainvillea (3), and the larvae found on the leaves of Aristolochia plants (3) (6).
Orange-yellow eggs are laid singly on the young leaves and shoots of the Aristolochia food plants, which are then voraciously devoured by the young caterpillars after hatching (3) (6). Feeding upon these plants also serves as a defensive mechanism as they contain certain chemicals that make the caterpillars toxic and therefore unpalatable to most predators (7). The caterpillars eventually pupate and undergo metamorphosis into adult butterflies, and maintain these toxic chemicals in their tissues into adulthood (7). The chrysalis of this species is dark brownish-yellow, or greenish-yellow in some individuals, and its leaf-like appearance helps camouflage it amongst the vegetation from potential predators (3). Troides birdwings typically pupate on the twigs or stems of plants close to the larval food plant or on the food plant itself (3).Top
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Ceylon birdwing habitat
Occasionally observed in lowland cities (5), this species survives today mainly in its primary habitat of thinly wooded mountain forests, throughout the island with the exception of the far north (4). The Ceylon birdwing has been recorded from sea-level up to an elevation of 2,000 metres, but is now less frequently seen in the lowlands (5).Top
Ceylon birdwing status
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).Top
Ceylon birdwing threats
The principal threat to Troides butterflies is deforestation (6). The Ceylon birdwing is under considerable pressure from an expanding and encroaching human population, and from habitat destruction associated with human development (4).Top
Ceylon birdwing conservation
The Ceylon birdwing is listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meaning that any international trade in this species should be carefully monitored (1). However, more needs to be done to help preserve its fragile habitat, including the Aristolochia food plants on which the larvae rely, if the long-term future of this stunning native butterfly is to be safeguarded (6).Top
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Coherence Incubator projects are shipped both as a pre-compiled jar as well as java source. The compilation and run-time of the Incubator projects only depends on a JDK version greater than 1.5 and Coherence greater than 3.5.3.
While you may use your preferred way of building the source, we have an example below showing how to build the source using Apache Ant.
Downloading Installing and Configuring Apache Ant
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 2. Uncompress the downloaded file into a suitable folder (let's call this /your/path/to/ant)
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 8. From a shell prompt (in a Terminal Window) you should now be able to execute the following command (from any path) to determine the version of Ant you have just installed: ant -version
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If you're using Eclipse (or another IDE) it's recommended that you upgrade it to use the latest Apache Ant release you've just installed. Here's how:
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Below you will find an ant script that you can use to build the Incubator projects.
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When students provide their registration information in My AP when first enrolling in a class section, each student is assigned a unique, alphanumeric code known as an AP ID.
A personalized AP ID label sheet is shipped for each student included in your school's AP Exam order.
Students place AP ID labels on their paper exam materials, connecting their materials with the registration information they've provided. Once an AP ID is assigned to a student, it remains their AP ID every year they take an AP course or exam. Students will receive a new AP ID label sheet with their AP ID each year they take AP Exams.
For AP Chinese and AP Japanese Exams, students don't place their labels on anything because the entire exam is administered online, but they'll need to refer to their AP ID label sheet so they can enter their AP ID on the student information screen at the beginning of the exam.
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Jólan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool defies the forces of nature as it is pulled by a
Jólan van der Wiel's Gravity Stool defies the forces of nature as it is pulled by a "magnet machine"
Jólan van der Wiel defies gravity
Gerrit Rietveld Academie graduate uses super strength magnet to make uniquely shaped furniture
Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has been developing furniture made using a unique combination of magnetic plastic and gravity to create objects that are as strange as they are beautiful. Van der Wiel studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, an institution renowned for its highly conceptual and experimental approach to teaching and which routinely encourages its students to push the boundaries of design. It was during his time here that he created the process by which his amazing magnetic creations are born. He placed iron shavings and liquid plastic in a bowl below a magnetic block attached to a pulley and lowered it slowly until the magnetic force prompted the mixture below to rise upwards in jagged stalagmite-like formations towards the magnet. These crystalline constructions would then become the legs of his Gravity Stools. The video below, shot by Miranda Stet, poetically demonstrates the process taking place.
"Departing from the idea that everything is influenced by gravitation, a force that has a strongly shaping effect, I intended to manipulate this natural phenomenon by exploiting its own power: magnetism," the designer explains. "The positioning of the magnetic fields in the machine, opposing each other, largely determines the final shape of the Gravity Stool."
Jólan van der Wiel, Gravity Stool (Purple)Jólan van der Wiel, Gravity Stool (Purple)
The organic appearance and unique formation of each stool is connected to the growth of natural organisms. "The forms and products are characterised by the freakish and organic shapes so typical of nature itself." His innovative approach to design has just won him the prestigious [D3] Contest for young designers at the imm Cologne Fair. Van der Wiel's product was chosen from 689 entries from 44 different countries.
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Defining and interpreting OTUs
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The otutab command generates an OTU table by mapping reads to OTUs.
OTU table output
See OTU table output options.
Normalizing the table
After generating the table,I recommend using the otutab_rare command to normalize all samples to the same number of reads.
Query dataset
The query file can be in FASTQ or FASTA format. Every query sequence must be labeled with a sample identifier. The fastx_get_sample_names command can be used to check that your sample names are formatted correctly.
Query sequences are typically raw reads, i.e. reads after paired read merging, if applicable, but before quality filtering. Low-quality reads and singletons can often be mapped successfully to an OTU, so including them accounts for a larger fraction of the reads (see OTU coverage). The fastx_uniques_persample command can be used to find the unique sequences and abundances for all samples. This compresses the input data and makes the otutab command somewhat faster but probably not as much as you might expect (typically, the compression is only ~2x).
OTU database
The search database is either a set of OTU sequences or "ZOTU" sequences, i.e. denoised sequences. Each query sequence is mapped to the closest database sequence. Ties are broken systematically by picking the first in database file order. A udb database can be used. Database sequences must be labeled with OTU identifiers. The database file is specified by the -otus or -zotus option. Use -zotus if the OTUs are denoised, -otus otherwise.
Identity threshold for mapping
The -id option sets the minimum fractional identity. Default is 0.97, corresponding to 97% identity. Denoised OTUs also use a 97% identity threshold by default to allow for sequencing and PCR error. See defining and interpreting OTUs and mapping reads to OTUs for discussion.
By default, reads are assumed to be on the same strand as the OTU sequences. You can use -strand both to search both strands.
Other output files
Standard output files are supported for reporting hits.
The -mapout option specifies a tabbed text file name with two fields, 1. read label and 2. OTU label. You would get the same output by using -userout with -userfields query+target with -top_hit_only.
The -notmatched option specifies a FASTA filename for sequences which are not assigned to an OTU.
The -notmatchedfq option specifies a FASTQ file for unassigned sequences (input must be FASTQ).
Multithreading is supported.
usearch -otutab reads.fq -otus otus.udb -otutabout otutab.txt -biomout otutab.json \
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An important feature added in Adobe AIR 1.5 is support for an encrypted local database. Previously, AIR applications could use a local database, but the database files are readable by any application, making them inappropriate for any use in which security is a concern. On the other hand, AIR has always supported an encrypted local store (that is, an encrypted text file), but that option provides none of the handy database functionality. As of AIR 1.5, your AIR applications can have the best of both worlds, by storing data in an encrypted database.
In this article, I'll start by highlighting the key points and minor differences of working with encrypted databases in an Adobe AIR application, versus working with unencrypted databases. From there, I'll get into the more important subject of using an encrypted database in the most secure method possible.
Creating and Using an Encrypted Database
Before getting into the code, you need to understand two things:
- As with any system that uses encryption, the same encryption key must always be used.
- Although you can later change a database's encryption key, you cannot retroactively encrypt an unencrypted database (or unencrypt an encrypted one, for that matter). In other words, the database must initially be created in an encrypted format.
Creating an encrypted database starts with a File object that represents the database file on the computer, and an SQLConnection object through which all queries will be executed:
var db = air.File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('example.db'); var conn = new air.SQLConnection();
Next, you establish the error and open-connection handlers; then, open the connection using open() or openAsync(), with the latter generally preferred.
To create the database, provide the mode SQLMode.CREATE as the second argument to either method:
conn.open(db, SQLMode.CREATE); conn.openAsync(db, SQLMode.CREATE);
That code works for unencrypted databases, but for encrypted ones you need to add the encryption key as the fifth argument to open() or the sixth to openAsync():
conn.open(db, SQLMode.CREATE, false, 1024, key); conn.openAsync(db, SQLMode.CREATE, null, false, 1024, key);
The key in that code is the important addition for an encrypted database. The encryption key must be a ByteArray object that's 16 bytes in length (it's therefore a 128-bit key). To create that object, you can do this:
var key = new ByteArray(); key.writeUTFBytes('ActualPassword16');
First, an empty ByteArray object is created, and 16 bytes of data are written to it. Note that the length of the provided string—ActualPassword16—is 16 characters long, each of those characters requiring one byte.
Once the database connection has been opened with the associated key, you would run a CREATE table SQL command on the database, and then insert records as needed. Subsequent uses of the same database merely need to use the same key but open the database using either SQLMode.READ or SQLMode.UPDATE, depending on what actions will later be taken. Attempts to connect to an encrypted database with an incorrect key will trigger an SQLError or SQLErrorEvent with an errorID of 3138. The generic error message will be File opened is not a database file (it actually is a database file—it just can't be decrypted).
This approach (hard-coding the key into the application) will work, but doesn't provide much security. There are two problems with this approach:
- The source code of an AIR application is viewable on the user's computer. With a little bit of effort, a malicious user could find the encryption key and then be able to unlock the database.
- Even if no one knew how to pick through the application's source code, anyone able to run the application—in other words, anyone with access to the computer—will effectively have access to the database as if it were not encrypted in the first place.


Brno - Freedom Square
This is probably the most important square in Brno and is the imaginary center of the city. In the past, it was known as Lower Market or the Great Square. It has a roughly triangular layout and was first mentioned in the 13th century. Even in the Middle Ages, this was considered "uptown", where rich burghers and noblemen built their stately homes.
The last major reconstruction of the entire area took place in 2006.
Brno - pocket guide with maps
Brno on the map
Mary. Freedom Square


Scrapbooking with Sea Glass and Netting
Create a nautical theme by embellishing scrapbook pages with sea glass and coastal netting.
Coastal Netting Pockets
Coastal netting is fine, loosely woven hemp that's very versatile. It's available in a variety of colors and adds a natural, textural accent to scrapbook pages. You can fashion it into pockets for displaying special greeting cards, postcards, brochures, maps or other memorabilia. Here's how to make them:
Materials and Tools:
coastal netting (or any type of netlike fiber)
¼-inch-wide double-sided scrapbook tape
card stock
glitter or embossing powder (optional)
1. Apply scrapbook tape along the bottom edge of the cardstock, allowing the protective cover to remain.
2. Apply two strips of scrapbook tape to the back of the card stock to secure the ends of the netting.
3. Cut a length of netting and press it to the tape on the front of the card stock to secure.
4. Fold the netting over the card stock and adhere the ends to tape on the back of the card stock.
5. Sprinkle glitter or embossing powder over the bottom edge of netting to cover any exposed adhesive, if desired.
Sea Glass Mosaics
Sea glass, aka beach glass, is a popular scrapbook embellishment. Besides simply decorating pages with it, you can use an engraver to carve title letters into the surfaces of pieces. Here's how to work with it:
Materials and Tools:
sea glass
1-inch-wide double-sided scrapbook tape
card stock
engraver (optional)
1. Cover one side of sea glass with scrapbook tape and trim it even with the edge of the sea glass. Note: Be sure the entire surface is covered with tape, or it will show through.
2. Arrange the sea glass into a mosaic pattern on the page, or use them for a page title, engraving letters into the pieces with an engraver.
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700-Kilometer Megaflash Sets New Lightning World Record
Lightning over Porto Alegre, Brazil. Thiago B Trevisan/Shutterstock
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed a phenomenal lightning strike that split the sky in Brazil in 2018 has set the new world record for the longest lightning bolt.
Reaching 709 kilometers (440 miles) long – about the distance from New York to Charleston, WV – the "world's greatest extent for a single lightning flash" was recorded on October 31, 2018, in southern Brazil, the WMO's Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes announced.
That wasn't the only flashy record-breaker the UN's weather agency announced though. The record for the longest duration of a lightning flash got smashed too, thanks to a 16.7-second-long "megaflash" that occurred over northern Argentina on March 4, 2019.
Both new records have wiped the floor with the previous record-holders by more than double. The previous distance record was 321 kilometers (199 miles) recorded in Oklahoma in 2007, and the duration record was a mere 7.74 seconds over Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, in August 2012.
"These are extraordinary records from single lightning flash events," said Professor Randall Cerveny, chief rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes for WMO, and co-author of the study confirming these findings in Geophysical Research Letters. "Environmental extremes are living measurements of what nature is capable, as well as scientific progress in being able to make such assessments. It is likely that even greater extremes still exist, and that we will be able to observe them as lightning detection technology improves."
Satellite image of record extent of lightning flash, Brazil, October 31, 2018. WMO
Previously, lightning was tracked using data from ground-based sensors called Lightning Mapping Array networks, which detect radio waves. However, lightning scientists acknowledged there was an upper limit to the scale of lightning that could be traced using these, and tracking more extreme lightning would require a scale-up of the technology.
In 2016, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched the world's first lightning-mapping satellite to operate in geostationary orbit, tracking Earth's weather from 36,000 kilometers (22,300 miles) above us. This means that not only can we monitor Earth's weather 24/7, but as increased lightning activity is usually a good indicator of tropical cyclones and thunderstorms, forecasters now get a more accurate idea of what's coming.
It was this lightning-mapping tool, operating on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), that recorded the two new records.
Satellite image of record duration of a lightning flash, Argentina, March 4, 2019. WMO
There are many different types of lightning. Lightning always accompanies thunder and they both happen at the same time, but as light travels faster you often see the lightning before you hear the thunder. Most lightning starts within a thunder cloud and then either stays in the cloud or travels through air, either to another cloud or to eventually hit the ground. Both record-breaking flashes occurred from cloud to cloud, without touching the ground, but why were they so powerful?
There are two hotspots in the Americas where mesoscale convection systems – thunderstorms that combine into large clusters, or "superstorms" – form: the Great Plains in North America and La Plata basin in South America. These superstorms occur on a scale that allows for extraordinary megaflashes. Now that we have the technology to monitor and observe these megaflashes, it's highly unlikely these new records will stand for long though.
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Japan is much richer than South Korea because Japan has a GDP (per capita) of: $24,900 and South Korea's GDP (per capita) is: $16,100. The difference between the GDP of both countries is: $8,800. With this information, it shows how much money there is for every person in the country. So with this money, they might buy things that are expensive. For example, the number of televisions that are sold in is: 86.5 million and the number of television that are sold in South Korea is: 15.9 million. This shows that obviously there are richer people in Japan than South Korea because more people spend money on televisions. Plus, they may buy more than one television set for
their household because they may have a big family to entertain.
Japan's Birth Rate is 10.04 births (per thousand people per year) and
South Korea's Birth Rate is 14.85 births (per thousand people per year). This shows that South Korea is poorer than Japan because it's birth rate is higher than Japan's. This could be due to problems such as needing a big family to earn more money for everyone. This shows that Japan have enough doctors and hospitals to perform abortion to women who do get pregnant. Also, Japan encourages people to use contraception to prevent pregnancy. Japan's Death Rate is 8.34 deaths (per thousand people per year) and South Korea's Death Rate is 5.93 deaths (per thousand people per year). This shows that South Korea may have more doctors to help cure people with their illnesses.
Japan's Population is: 126,771,662. South Korea's Population is: 47,904,370. Even though Japan's birth rate is lower than South Korea's and Japan's population is larger than South Korea's, it shows that more people may migrate to Japan, as it is a richer country to live and work in.


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Indicators of Progress
Our progress toward a just and sustainable community creates shifts or changes in four areas:
- Shifts in Collective Identity and Action: Social change has begun when groups are able to impact the political and economic decisions that affect their lives. Collective identity and action demonstrates a community's voice and power. Headwaters looks to organizations to engage community members and deepen and strengthen their involvement in community affairs.
- Shift in Engagement and Sustained Interaction: Lasting change requires having the power and the unified organized force to shift political and social agendas. To demonstrate these shifts Headwaters supports collaborative and collective efforts that unite and expand social agendas.
- Shifts in Institutions and Policy: Progress toward social change can be observed in changes in rules, laws and practices. To bring about social change Headwaters supports efforts to change, reform and transform existing policies and institutions.
- Shift in definitions or framing of issue: Transformative change comes about when our society understands and acts within a new paradigm or worldview. To bring this about, Headwaters supports organizations that are shifting cultural beliefs, norms, traditions and practices that shape political meaning.


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Maze algorithm is now much faster with cleaner path results. Create random vector mazes (labyrinths) in After Effects. mazeFX can also generate a unique solution with effect controls to fully control the appearance of the maze. Finally, it can use masks to control each maze's shape and place all of the needed parts in a single shape layer or create separate shape layers for each part of the maze.
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mazeFX is a tool for Adobe After Effects, specifically designed to create random vector-based mazes (labyrinths). mazeFX is able to generate a unique solution for each maze and also create the appropriate effect controls, to take full control of the appearance of the maze. Finally, it has the ability to use masks to control the shape of each maze and also can put all of the needed parts in a single shape layer or create separate shape layers for each part of the maze.
mazeFX is a native After Effects tool and does not require or depend on any extra plug-ins.
mazeFX - circuitFX - Bundle
mazeFX - start end options
mazeFX - start end options
You can select between multiple position options individually for the Start & End points
of the generated solution path.
mazeFX - less paths
older versions v1.40 and newer
The speed and efficiency of the maze generation algorithm is vastly improved in version 1.40.
mazeFX now produces over 60% less vertices and path shapes!
On the above example of a 30x30 (900cells) maze, the new algorithm generated
579 paths instead of the 1801 paths the old version did.
mazeFX v1.1 - bezier masks
v1.0 v1.1 and newer
Old versions of mazeFX supported only masks with linear points/vertices. If your mask(s) contained any
bezier (curved) points, it would just be ignored. From v1.1, mazeFX supports bezier masks natively!
 mazeFX v1.1 - null helper
mazeFX can now generate a null helper layer that is attached at the tip of the solution
path and follows its position.
The main purpose of this new null helper is to make it easier to parent any layer to the tip of the solution path.
This option is only available in After Effects CC2018 and above.
You can easily adjust the the X and Y grid dimensions,
for a more dense or scattered pattern.
grid controls
 mazefx grid
 mazefx - filled boxes
 mazeFX start/end walls
Combining mazeFX with standard AE effects, produces interesting results.
Below are examples of using mazeFX along with
Polar Coordinates (Effect Menu > Distort > Polar Coordinates)
and CC Sphere (Effect Menu > Perspective > CC Sphere).
 You can use mazeFX as a good starting point for designing simple maze game-maps.
The examples below where created by generating separate shape layers for each part of the maze.
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mediaFX custom effect
mazeFX creates the appropriate effect controls to allow you full control over the appearance of each maze.


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Definition of tinta. Meaning of tinta. Synonyms of tinta
Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word tinta. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word tinta and, of course, tinta synonyms and on the right images related to the word tinta.
Definition of tinta
tintaTent Tent, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L.
tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf.
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or
Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
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[en] The efficiency of the transmission of surface plasmon waves by use of a dielectric diffraction grating is discussed. The Kretschmann device allows us to obtain a surface plasmon resonance that consists of an absorption peak in the reflection spectrum. When surface plasmon resonance occurs, the TM-polarization mode of the incident electromagnetic wave is neither transmitted nor reflected. The procedure to transform an absorption peak into a transmission peak is described. Transmittivity of 68% is obtained for a simple structure that consists of a thin-film layer of Ag coated on a volume diffraction grating and embedded between two dielectric media. The results presented herein were obtained by numerical simulations that were carried out by use of an algorithm based on the rigorous coupled-wave theory.
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text: The europe gas turbine market size is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 2.8% during the forecast period, 2021 – 2028. The growth of the market is attributed to impact of the shale gas revolution. A gas turbine is also called a combustion turbine. It is a type of continuous and internal combustion engine. The main elements of gas turbine engine are upstream rotating gas compressor, combustor, downstream turbine, and turbine electric generator.


FAQs Welcome to the Antioch-Chichibu Sister City Program
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Home | Our History | Visiting Japan | Culture | Be a Delegate | Be a Host | FAQs | News
Q: Where is Chichibu (秩父市)?
A: Chichibu City is located in Saitama prefecture (roughly equivalent to a State in the US), on the main island of Japan (see map). Present population of Chichibu city is approximately 69,000. The city was formally "incorporated" in 1950, but Japanese have lived in this area for thousands of years.
Interestingly, like Antioch, there is a river that runs through Chichibu – the Arakawa River - and Mount Buko rises south of the city center. These geographical similarities are part of what initially prompted Chichibu to be proposed for a Sister City in Japan. For more information see this wikipedia link.
Q: How old does a student have to be to visit Japan through this program?
A: The minimum age is 16. Please see information for interested delegates for more information.
Q: Are vaccinations needed to visit Japan?
A: No vaccinations are needed, although making sure you are up-to-date on your regular vaccinations is recommended. More health information can be found online through the CDC Travelers Page.
Q: What is the time difference between Chichibu and Antioch?
A: Chichibu is 17 hours "ahead" of Antioch, that is, at 7:00PM Monday in Antioch, it is Noon Tuesday in Chichibu. Communication between the two cities is convenient from 3:00 PM Antioch time (8:00AM the next day in Chichibu) to 7:00 PM Antioch time (12:Noon the next day in Chichibu).
Q: How difficult will it be to "navigate" in Japan; do many Japanese speak English?
A: Delegates are most often with their host family and/or the delegation who will help them navigate about Japan.
Delegates should also always have the contact information for the group leader on hand in case the need for additional help should arise.
Smart phones with translator aps are very useful, however, due to the radical difference in sentence structure between the Japanese language and English, these aids are often not as easy to use as one would hope.
Many Japanese we meet in our visits speak some English, as English is taught starting in the third grade. Interestingly, their written English is generally superior to their spoken English, as English is often learned from books, with less stress on verbal communication. Sometimes communication between delegates from Chichibu and their hosts in Antioch is easier by writing notes.
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Q: How can I get money in Japan?
A: Currencies can be exchanged at either airport. In the visit of 2015, the exchange rate was more favorable at the Narita Airport in Japan.Note that most of the costs to delegates (food, lodging) will be covered by our host families. For personal spending (Ice cream? Souvenirs?) Yen will be needed.
Japan is a cash-based society so you will want to have cash on you at all times.
Once in Japan, you can get cash 3 ways:
 - Use your Visa Delta/Cirrus/Plus (check the back of your card for these logos) debit card to get from a CashPoint/ATM machine. These can be found at the local post office, some 7Elevens, and there are some Citibank ATMs as well. There is usually an English option on the menu once you enter your card. Make sure to notify your bank that you will be withdrawing money from Japan, or they may freeze your card.
 - Use Travelers Checks and exchange at the airport or at the local bank counter.
 - Exchange cash at a JUSCO store (big grocery and department store). They often have money exchange machines (dollars to yet) on the first floor.
Most large businesses and restaurants will accept credit cards, but you will use cash for smaller businesses
Keep in mind that any time you exchange dollars for Yen, you are selling your dollars and buying Yen, and there will be handling fee for this service (often 3% of your purchase or withdrawal) in addition to the exchange rate, which is "bundled" into the nominal exchange rate. This bundled fee results in the difference between the nominal rate of yen per dollar and dollars per yen. You can view the current exchange rate online through Google or Xe.com and your credit card and bank will let you know their additional service charges
Here is a link to interesting information regarding costs in Japan.
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Q: Will my cell phone work in Japan?
Example: AT&T Pay-per-Use
 - Without international package: $2.50/min
 - With international package: $1.69/min + $5.99/month
A: Maybe. Most newer smart phones will work in Japan on international roaming. Check with your cell provider for rates and prices.
Renting an international sim card before you depart will allow you to use your phone in Japan. There are several options online for this, including PicCell Wireless. However, for trips less than 2 weeks, International roaming and calling cards may suffice. You can use a calling card bought in the U.S. or buy one in Japan. Often you can find calling cards at the airport or at 7-Eleven in Japan.
Example: Mobil 1
 - Using WiFi: free text, calls to the US, internet surfing.
 - Using WiFi: calls to non-US numbers, including Japanese numbers: $0.20 per minute.
 - Non-WiFi calls to the US: $0.20 per minute
International Data roaming plans are for a very small amount of data, and you can rack up VERY large bills quickly if you use it too much. It is recommended that you ONLY use data when connected to WiFi; you can disable data in your phone settings. It does not cost anything to connect to WiFi and you can do that from any hotspot.
3G service is standard in Chichibu.
Texting will likely be at no charge.
"Being Smart About Phone Fees Overseas" NY Times
Q: How do I call to Japan from the U.S.
A: The Country Code for Japan 81. From most phones, dial 011+81+phone number.
For example, the City of Chichibu phone number is 0494-22-2211. From the U.S., you would dial: 011+81+274+494-22-2211. As you see, you drop the "0" from the number given in Japan. When calling a Japanese number from inside Japan, you would use that "0." Toll-free numbers in Japan begin with 0120 or 0088. See _URL_ for more information.
How do I call to the U.S. from Japan?
A: The international access number when calling from Japan is 010; and the US code is 1.
From most phones, dial 010+1+area code+phone number.
For example, the City of Antioch phone number is _PHONE_. If you are using a Japanese-based calling card in Japan, you would dial: 010+1+_PHONE_. See _URL_ for more information.
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Other useful links:
Department of State Japan Consular Info Sheet
Centers for Disease Control Japan Travel Page
Japanese Consulate, SF:
US Embassy, Tokyo
More Questions?
Send your question to Antioch-Chichibu helpers
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Nepomuk provides a number of kioslaves in order to integrate better with KDE.
The NepomukSearch kio-slave is the most prominent kio-slave. It's main job is to answer search queries.
The Nepomuk KIO slave is responsible for the nepomuk protocol, and is a simple forwarding slave. It's main purpose is to analyze the relevant resource and either return the resource (if possible) or construct a query, and forward it to the nepomuksearch kio slave.
The timeline KIO slave shows file which have been modified in a specific date range.


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Definition of medullar
a. - See Medullary. 2
The word "medullar" uses 8 letters: A D E L L M R U.
No direct anagrams for medullar found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after medullar (in bold), or to adellmru in any order:
y - medullary
All words formed from medullar by changing one letter
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