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Dirichlet Regions for Three Points:
The loci of circle intersections trace the boundaries of three Dirichlet regions, each containing one of the points A, B, C. The Dirichlet region containing A, for example, is the set of points P which are closer to A than to any of the other points B or C. It follows that the boundary between two Dirichlet regions is the set where distances to two of the points A, B, C are equal and less than the third distance. Finally, the corner or vertex is the point where the 3 distances to A, B, and C are equal. We recognize this as the circumcenter of triangle ABC. Since the circles have the same radius. The points on the circles have the same distances to the corresponding centers, so the intersection points of two circles are equidistant from two of the three points A, B, C.
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text: Simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provide complementary structural and functional information. Recent developments in continuous infusion functional PET (fPET) have shown promising results to track dynamic changes in brain metabolism. Although fPET provides opportunities to investigate functional metabolism in the brain, the temporal resolution still remains a major challenge compared to functional MRI (fMRI). In this work, we use anatomical MRI information modeled as a Bowsher prior to improve the sensitivity of fPET at higher temporal resolution. We validate our MRI-assisted fPET analysis framework using both in-silico and in-vivo experiments.

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Low soil nitrogen and phosphorous levels are among several constraints limiting crop productivity in southwestern Ethiopia. The dominant soil types in the region are acidic nitosols that are often low in plant available phosphorus. Most farmers cultivate maize with minimal external inputs, hence resulting in sub-optimal yield levels. The effect of applying tithonia biomass and phosphorus fertilizer on agronomic efficiency of phosphorus, growth characteristics and yield of maize was investigated in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Tithonia (Tithonia diversifolia) biomass and Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) were used as organic and inorganic sources of phosphorus respectively. Significant treatment differences (P < 0.01) were observed for most of the parameters studied including agronomic phosphorus use efficiency and grain yield. Agronomic phosphorus use efficiency increased from 45 at the sole TSP to more than 125 when combined with tithonia biomass. The sole application of tithonia biomass resulted in 127% yield increment over the control, and combined application of 50% of the maximum rate of tithonia and 50% of the recommended rate of fertilizer resulted in grain yield increment of 88% over the control. Given the very high amount of tithonia biomass required to supply the recommended rate of phosphorus, the combined rate of tithonia biomass and inorganic phosphorus fertilizer (at 50% of the maximum rates), appears to be cheaper and appealing to smallholder maize producers in the region. The result therefore underscored the need to allot more resources and attention in exploring locally available and cheap sources of plant nutrients which could augment crop productivity in face of the mounting input prices which are prohibitively high for smallholder maize producers of the region.
Keywords: Agronomic efficiency; Biomass; Maize; tithonia diversifolia; TSP


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Senator Siewert, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved business of the Senate notice of motion no. 3—That the following matters be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 September 2010:
 (a) what compensation payments are made by Commonwealth, state and territory governments to people adversely affected by government policies, legislation or unlawful actions;
 (b) what is the legal basis for payments, what defines their size and are there variations between the legal basis and amounts paid between state and federal governments;
 (c) what are the principles on which compensation payments should be based in order that they are proportionate, appropriate and easily understood; and
 (d) what opportunities are there for national coordination to ensure equity and consistency where people have been adversely affected by similar government policies, legislation or unlawful actions.
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How are franchise territories defined?
Franchisors define trading territories using a variety of criteria, but let's look first at how they should be calculated.
An established business will be able to assess its historical performance to work out what its market share has been, given an area containing a certain number of customers for the product or service. Bear in mind such customers could be defined simply by total population, population of a certain age profile, number of owner-occupied homes of a certain type, total number of small businesses, number of a particular type of business, or even number of households with gardens, young children or pets.
Once the business has worked out how many potential customers are needed to enable a franchisee to meet its targets, it knows how many potential territories there are in the country.
It's then a question of defining the boundaries of these territories, and this is often best done by using postcodes, as it is possible to acquire data that outlines how many of a certain type of customer exists in a particular postcode. Add together enough postcodes to get the desired number in a territory, then repeat the exercise however many times is necessary to map out the entire country, though note that circumstances change and the method should be kept under regular review.
Less sophisticated franchisors have been known to simply rely on county boundaries, local authority regions or Yellow Pages areas, but these tend to produce areas of unequal potential.
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Sample Preparation Activities
Checklist to Help Select & Plan
Your Environmental Project
Sample Action Activities
Sample Reflection Activities
Sample Celebration & Reflection
Trees for Service
How to plant a tree
How to construct a time capsule
Sample Lesson "Trees
Selected classes will develop a service learning partnership with
a local Forestry Board and the local department of natural resources
forestry service. This service learning activity will consist of
three parts. Cooperating students will:
a Time Capsule
2. Plant a Tree
3. Take the Tree Pledge
Trees help refresh our air, shade our homes, and reduce crime in
our neighborhoods. Many of Baltimore's street and communities need
trees, especially where sidewalk tree wells are empty. Harbor City
students recognize this need by planting a tree(s) on school campuses
and neighborhood streets. Our urban community needs volunteers to
help reforest this environment by identify sites, planting trees,
and maintaining their well-being.
Outcomes: Students will
- Gain an understanding of how the urban environment needs
trees for its citizen's health and safety.
- Demonstrate how to plant trees.
- Learn that their efforts will improve the community as a
whole, including real estate prices.
- (Baltimore) demonstrate the concepts of civic virtue and
common welfare as outlined the Baltimore City Social Studies
- (Maryland) meet the 1997 Maryland graduation requirement
regarding service learning.
Lessons could include video, readings, guest speaker, and discussion.
Handouts will include a description of the service learning activity
as well as a permission form for the students to have signed by
their parents. Information will be dispersed for their time capsule
that will be interred with the tree planting as part of the dedication.
Activities for the Action and Reflection portions of the service
learning activity will be discussed.
Students will travel to a predetermine location and plant a tree.
Students will be instructed as to the proper method of planting
a tree. It has been prearranged that the tree for planting will
have been delivered at the predetermined site.
Part I - Using the materials selected by the students, a
time capsule will be sealed. This time capsule will then be interred
with the tree as a record for future generations as to why, when,
and who planted this tree.
Part II - (Baltimore) Students will be informed of other
famous Baltimore City trees, e.g. the Al Capone, Pope John Paul
II and Frederick Douglass trees that were planted earlier in our
Part III - Students will all recite the Baltimore City
Forestry Board's Tree Pledge that will encourage students to be
responsible for the care and upkeep of their tree.
Certificates of service learning hours will be presented to student
participants and photos and film will be shown for the enjoyment
and evaluation of the students.
Environmental Film. For additional resources contact the Maryland
Student Service Alliance.
- permission slips
- TV, VCR, camcorder, camera
- time capsule
Service learning, tree well, civic virtue, common welfare, citizenship.
Baltimore City Forestry Board, Baltimore City Forestry Department, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and Maryland Department of Natural
Materials: one length of 4 inch PVC drain pipe, two caps
PVC (4 inch), one bottle of PVC glue
- Purchasing materials or seek donations from a construction/plumbing
- Cut 4" PVC pipe into an 18" length. A hand saw is adequate,
sometimes construction/ plumbing companies will cut to length
for school projects.
- Glue one PVC cap on to the end.
- Place material to be saved into the open end. Seal by glueing
and placing the second PVC cap on the open end.
- Bury sealed Time Capsule in the tree pit when planting.
I promise to:
- Properly match tree to planting site. Be wary of planting
invasive or non native species. Check with local Department
of Natural Resources.
- Have adequate tools available:
- Spade shaped shovels
- Picks and pry bars for hard soil or rocks
- Tree cart or wheel barrel for large size tree.
- Stakes and wire retainers with rubber hose supports
- maul or stake driver
- Dig planting hole twice the size of the tree ball.
- Remove and discard wire and or other wrapping from tree ball.
- Gently place tree ball in ground and file with dirt. Top
of tree ball should be even with the ground line. Be careful
not to place rocks or other debris into backfill.
- Backfill dirt and gently tamp to remove air pockets.
- Drive stakes into ground approximately six inches beyond
the digging area.
- Secure tree trunk to the stakes with wire retainers making
sure the rubber hose supports prevent the tree bark from being
scraped. Remember to remove stakes and supports after one year.
- Water Tree
- Place mulch over digging site and tree base.
- Have students take the tree pledge.
- Photograph or film tree planting for reflection and celebration
activity and or media coverage
To be thankful for the fresh air and the shade this
tree gives us.
To water this tree when it is needed.
To watch over this tree so that no harm comes to it.
On my honor so help me!


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Knight of the Flying Hunt is a prestige class of Faerûn whose members act as the defenders of Nimbral. While protecting Nimbral, these noble soldiers answer to the mysterious Nimbral Lords. They dedicate themselves to the inhabitants of Nimbral while enforcing the lands local laws.
Most knights are humans who were previously fighters or rangers. A few clerics and paladins manage to the join the ranks of the Flying Hunt, but they are extremely uncommon because of the religious overtones.
- Flying Mount, Storm and Greater Storm Armor
- At various times throughout their career, knights of the Flying hunt recieve progressively more powerful suits of armor. This begins with Flying Hunt armor when joining their ranks, Storm armor and Greater Storm armor for the most experienced knights.
- Pegasus Mount
- All knights receive a trained pegasus to serve them in their duties. It remains with its rider until it has been slain or dismissed.
- Armored Ease
- Knights are trained in the skill of moving easily in their rather cumbersome armor.


Laowai Comics: And What Do You Do?
Laowai Comics
Laowai Comics is a periodic webcomic. Beijing Cream is proud to debut its Thursday comic every week. Our intrepid artist is taking the rest of the summer off, so enjoy this one for a while! Full archives here.
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 1. mike
 the real joke is that they're all English teachers… they just do the 'interesting/cool' thing in their spare time. You honestly think a "Life Coach" can get a 签证 in China? That's rich.
 2. Claus Rasmussen
 How come being English teacher in China is such a low status job?
 I don't hold (Western) teachers in high regard, but I would say that working in China is a step up compared to working in a public school.
 3. Gar
 Anyone I know who is a trained English teacher, always qualifies it:
 "I'm an English teacher…. English literature"
 "Oh, I teach English language"
 And anyone who's a non-English teacher equally qualifies it: "I'm a teacher"
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A Comparison of Drivers for Azure Cosmos DB
The metrics in this article are from the most up-to-date drivers available as of July 2019.
In this article, we compare the performance of the CData ODBC Driver for Cosmos DB to the equivalent native driver, looking at two measures.
First, we compare read performance, measuring the amount of time it takes to query an Azure Cosmos DB instance for data and process the result set in some way. We find that the CData Driver is at least three times faster than the native driver.
Next, we compare the resource usage of each driver for read queries, focusing on CPU and network usage. This is used to explain the underlying cause of better performance from the CData Driver. We further extend this test to see how both drivers scale as more server resources are added to CosmosDB (by configuring Read Units (RUs) in Azure Cosmos DB settings).
The Data
In order to provide a reproducible comparison, we copied the sample restaurants dataset made publicly available by MongoDB, Inc, repeating the dataset until we built a database with 10 million records. The relevant details for the table queried are below:
Table Number of Rows
restaurants 10,000,000
ODBC Driver Read Performance
First, we tested the related performance of the drivers by running the same two queries for each driver:
 1. SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT 25000
 2. SELECT * FROM restaurants
To simulate actual processing of the data from Cosmos DB, we read the values of every field in each row. The times required for each product to process the results are in the table below.
ODBC Query Times by Company (in milliseconds)
Rows Queried CData Software Native
25,000 1,441 (+382%) 6,945
10,000,000 437,526 (+203%) 1,325,441
As you can see in the results, the CData ODBC Driver handled large result sets significantly faster than the native driver, processing the largest dataset three times faster.
ODBC Driver Resource Usage
After testing the read performance, we decided to run a separate test to measure and compare resource usage, looking specifically at network and CPU usage. The charts below were found by running a sample C program and using Windows Resource Monitor (we ran two instances of Resource Monitor so we could capture the CPU usage and network usage simultaneously). For the resource usage test, we looked at two separate use cases, based on allocated Read Units (RUs) in Azure Cosmos DB. We limited the results to 2.5 million rows.
1. Querying a Large Number of Rows with Minimum RUs
For the initial comparison, we ran a query for a large number of rows, with the minimum number of RUs (400) in Cosmos DB: SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT _PHONE_
CData Driver
Native Driver*
* Note the change in scale for the Network graph.
From the graphs above, we can see that when the RUs are set to the minimum, both drivers retrieve data and then pause in the retrieval, due to rate limiting based on the allocated RUs. However, the CData Driver appears to process the data while retrieving it, whereas the native driver appears to retrieve the data and then process it. Additionally, with the minimum RUs set, the CData Driver peaks at pulling data in between 30 and 40 Mbps, where the native driver peaks between six and seven Mbps (note the scale change for the native driver). The higher rate of data retrieval indicates that the CData Driver is making better use of the network bandwidth and results in faster query processing times for the CData Driver.
2. Querying a Large Number of Rows with High RUs
For the second comparison, we ran a query for a large number of rows, with high RUs in Cosmos DB: SELECT * FROM restaurants LIMIT 25000000
CData Driver
Native Driver*
* Note the change in scale for the Network graph.
When we set the RUs to a higher value (3500), the performance of the CData Driver improves dramatically and the differences in how each driver utilizes available resources become more pronounced. Based on the graph, the CData Driver maintains the pattern of retrieving and processing the data simultaneously but is retrieving much more data per second (around 70 Mbps), fully utilizing the allocated RUs. The native driver sees little-to-no improvement in performance with higher RUs, continuing the pattern of first retrieving the data and then processing the data separately. The native driver retrieves the data at the same rate (around 7 Mbps) as when the RUs were set to the minimum value, showing no indication of utilizing the allocated RUs.
The CData Software driver regularly proves to be faster than the native driver, particularly when dealing with large data sets and with a high RU allocation. Our developers have spent countless hours optimizing the performance in requesting data and processing the results returned by the Cosmos DB database, capitalizing on the RUs allocated to a system. This engineering means you get the best performance possible based on your allocated RUs. Download a free, 30-day trial of any of our Cosmos DB drivers and experience the CData difference for yourself.
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A primary school in Oxford has devised storytelling hopscotch patches as a way of helping KS1 and KS2 pupils' writing skills.
As part of the Talk to Write initiative, Oxford's Storytelling Museum has come up with a unique way of encouraging pupils at Pegasus Primary School to relate fairytales, using hopscotch in the playground.
Situated in a deprived area of Oxford, seven fairytales on different flagstones have an inspiring effect on pupils to retell and then, in pairs, write down the fairytales they land on.
Headteacher, Gill Hudson, believes the game to very popular and explains how it has helped raise standards in creative writing significantly.
Judy Clark, the talk advisor from the National Literacy Trust, discusses the importance of talking prior to writing.
A lively explanation of Pie Corbett's techniques of Hear, Map, Step and Speak
Introducing the work of the Story Museum in Oxford
A useful guide to good strategies to use when following the talk to write initiative launched in 2008


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Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) is an extension of traditional behavioral consultation in that parents and teachers, with the assistance of a consultant, are joined to identify and address child-related difficulties collaboratively. This article presents a background review of the conceptual and empirical grounds for CBC. A case study of the use of CBC with a young student manifesting an irrational fear of sleeping in his bedroom at home is presented. Specifically, procedures and outcomes of each stage of CBC are described. Considerations for interpreting and using case study results are also presented.


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Though never saw it on screen the Drone ship was supposedly an adapted warbird. But what does the normal warbird look like?
First lets look at the Drone ship:
Let's logically assume the green fins, and holographic pins are the modifications that leaves the black shape below as the main body of the warbird. What do you think? i know the drone ship was a reuse of the Flea ship from Voyager but it's the only thing we have. their must have been at least a proto-warbird class in the 22nd century.


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Over at Scientific American, E. Paul Zehr, author of Becoming Batman, explains why nobody could be Batman for very long. Even if you didn't get your back broken by Bane, just the wear and tear of jumping across rooftops and punching criminals would wreak havoc with your body after just a few years. The most Bruce Wayne could hope for is a career of similar length to that of an NFL player.
And here's a simple chart to show just how much Batman would be screwed after a few years:
The basic point of this figure is that very large loading events-getting crushed in Bane's powerful arms-need only occur once to cause significant injury. Other events-repeated impacts during fighting or even the strain of training-accumulate over time so that after many repetitions an injury occurs.
Tissues that are being strained-particularly those with poor blood supplies like tendon, ligament, and cartilage-are not able to fully repair themselves before another big event. Like getting bashed around. Or even just training over and over can create repetitive strain injuries. Injury can happen anywhere on that continuum.
Muscle and bone are biological tissues that have mechanical properties that help explain some of the weird things that seem to happen to us when we are injured. In mechanical terms "stress" means forces applied to a material while "strain" means the change in length or size of the tissue to which the force is applied. Basically repeated stresses lead to strains.


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 Pomsies can help a young child develop nurturing skills. When the toy feels cared for over time, it even rewards its owner by developing rainbow-colored eyes.
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Suppose one has two locally finite quasivarieties $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{W}$.
Further suppose that:
 1. $\mathcal{V}$ is a variety.
 2. The finite algebras $\mathcal{V}_f$ are dually equivalent to $\mathcal{W}_f$.
Does it follow that $\mathcal{W}$ is also a variety?
Background: This question fits into the area of 'Natural duality'. I am hoping someone can provide a counterexample, or perhaps provide additional conditions.
Here is a way to manufacture such examples. Let $\mathcal{V}$ be a locally finite variety such that (i) $\mathcal{V}$-epis are surjective, (ii) $\mathcal{V}_f$ has an injective cogenerator $A$. Define the algebra $B$ to have the same carrier as $A$, its finitary operations between all $\mathcal{V}$-morphisms $A^n \to A$. Further define $\mathcal{W} := \mathcal{Q}(B) = \mathbb{S}\mathbb{P}(B)$ to be the quasivariety generated by $B$. Then $\mathcal{V}_f$ is dually equivalent to $\mathcal{W}_f$ via the contravariant hom-functors for $A$ and $B$, endowed with additional algebraic structure.
e.g. Let $\mathcal{V} = \mathsf{Vect}(\mathbb{F})$ for a finite field $\mathbb{F}$ and take $A = \mathbb{F}$. Then $\mathcal{W}$ is essentially $\mathcal{V}$ again, where every linear combination of variables is viewed as an operation.
Here is a counterexample.
Let $A = \langle \{0,1\}; d, s\rangle$ be the algebra on $\{0,1\}$ whose defining operations are the discriminator operation $d$ on $\{0,1\}$ and the "switch" ($s(0)=1$, $s(1)=0$). According to the NU Duality Theorem of natural duality theory, $A$ is dualizable, and the topological quasivariety dual to $\mathcal V:=SP(A)$ is $\mathcal W:=S_cP(\langle \{0,1\}; s, {\mathcal T}\rangle)$, where $\mathcal T$ is the discrete topology.
I am allowing the empty algebra, else the duality doesn't work out perfectly (empty is dual to singleton in both directions).
It follows from Jonsson's Lemma that $\mathcal V:=SP(A)$ is a variety, but it is easy to see that $\mathcal W_f$ is not the finite part of a variety. $\mathcal W_f$ is the finite part of the quasivariety of $\mathbb Z_2$-sets having no fixed points, while the variety generated by $\mathcal W_f$ contains all $\mathbb Z_2$-sets.
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How many bytes does a terabyte equal?
Roughly 1 trillion bytes. Webopaedia is a good Web site that lists a variety of computer terms and terminology.
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The Port of Stockton is committed to environmental stewardship and enhancement of the Delta and surrounding communities. The Port is currently unveiling and implementing a program that identifies opportunities the Port could engage to enhance the Delta. The Delta provides drinking water for two-thirds of the state of California and acts as a habitat for more than 70 fish species and abundant wildlife. The Delta provides a key resting or wintering spot along the Pacific Flyway for migrating bird species. The Port understands the importance of maintaining this delicate environment and providing a habitat for wildlife within an ever-growing population.
The Port of Stockton is committed to improving the region's quality of life by balancing environmental enhancement with the economic benefits of Port activity. This commitment is reflected in the Port's Delta Environmental Enhancement Program which aims to enhance air quality, water quality, and wildlife habitats in the Delta and surrounding communities.


text: Criterion of the synchronization (CS) of cells division for S. typhi population is proposed. The criterion is based on the assumption of the normal distribution of cells with different generation time in the population after stressor (shock) action. CS is equal to the ratio of the dispersion of the generation time of cells in the population to the average generation time of the whole population and determined from the parameters of the mathematical model. The quantitative values of the parameters of the mathematical model were obtained by the minimization of error between the calculation and experimental data. CS was used for the evaluation and choice of the optimum stressor action in the synchronization of the division of S. typhi.


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The aim of this study was to examine the conscious processing hypothesis as an explanation of the anxiety/performance relationship. The study was designed to identify conscious processing performance effects while controlling for an alternative attentional threshold explanation identified in previous research. Participants completed 60 golf putts. They completed 3 blocks of 10 putts in single task, task-relevant shadowing, and task-irrelevant tone-counting conditions. Each set of 3 × 10 putts was completed in low and high anxiety conditions. Anxiety was elevated using an instructional set. Self-reported effort and spectral analysis of heart rate variability were used to examine the patterning of effort across the different putting conditions. Findings indicated that performance was impaired in the high anxiety shadowing and tone-counting conditions, supporting an attentional threshold interpretation. Spectral analysis of heart rate variability indicated that potential compensatory increases in spectral power in the high frequency band associated with dual-task putting in the low anxiety condition were absent in the high anxiety tone-counting and shadowing putting conditions, partially reflecting the performance findings. No effects were found for self-reported effort. Taken together, the performance and heart rate variability results support an attentional interpretation of the anxiety/motor performance relationship.
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- competitive state anxiety
- golf putting
- spectral analysis


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The Sunda flying lemur [Galeopterus variegates], also known as the Malayan flying lemur, is a species of colugo, tree-dwelling mammal. The Sunda flying lemur is found throughout Southeast Asia in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
The Sunda flying lemur is not a lemur and does not fly. Instead, it glides as it leaps among trees. It is strictly arboreal, is active at night, and feeds on soft plant parts such as young leaves, shoots, flowers, and fruits. It is a forest-dependent species. The Sunda flying lemur mainly forages in tree canopies. The Sunda flying lemur can also be seen licking tree bark of selected tree species to obtain water, nutrients, salts and minerals.
After a 60-day gestation period, a single offspring is carried on the mother's abdomen held by a large skin membrane.
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Nine-Game Crystal Draughts Dice
Use this to add chance operations in your Crystal Draughts games. Each roll of the dice gives pseudo-random results for four elements.
The first element chosen represents one group from among three groups of three game boards. The values possible are A, B, or C.
The second element chosen represents one game board from among a group of three game boards. Values are A, B, or C.
The third element chosen returns one molecule from all the molecules on one game board. The possible values are A–F and a–f. There are twelve possible choices.
The last element is the atom on one molecule. Possible results are a, b, c, or d.
Each roll of the dice gives you the specific atom on a nine-game-board configuration. Use only the elements you need to for your game.
To understand the notation for the Crystal Draughts game space, read the game manual here.


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After you click on Lessons… or after you enter a new teacher in wizard, the following dialog will appear:
The same dialog appears when you are editing lessons of certain Class.
Each line represents one lesson. Displayed data: subject, class(or classes in the case when he/she teaches joint classes), lesson duration, number per week, groups in a specific class, classroom, cycle and more teachers.
Double click on each line to edit the lessons properties.
At the bottom there are buttons for adding, editing, or deleting a contract.
As in other lists you have the option of sorting the list by clicking on the column headers. Using the maximize icon at the right upper corner you can maximize the window to full screen.
Using CTRL or SHIFT you can select more lessons and delete them or copy to another class/teacher.
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December 4 is a very special day for the mining industry. This is the feast day of Barbara, Patron Saint for Miners and Blasters, and globally for all the professions that relate to fire (firemen, fireworks specialists, etc.)
From her tragic story, which appeared later to be a legend, "the belief became widespread that Barbara could control lightning and other manifestations of flame and fire. (...) Miners later developed the use of gunpowder for disintegrating rock, involving manifestations similar to thunder claps and lightning flashes. This led to their need for special protection against accidents from the use of explosives (...)" (Source: The Legend of Saint Barbara, Patron Saint of Mines in Infomine.com)
Saint Barbara remains a vivid part of mining traditions and heritage. In Europe, a statue of Saint Barbara always stands at the entrance of a tunnel construction site. A lot of mining countries still honor Saint Barbara, from Latin America to Asia. Many extraction sites have been named after Saint Barbara (Compania Minera Santa Barbara S.A. in Chile, Complejo Minero Santa Bárbara in Mexico, Barbara Experimental Coal Mine in Poland, St Barbara's Southern Cross in Australia, etc.), thereby keeping alive the reputation of Saint Barbara as our patron saint.


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nodetable is the fundamental table for open street map. Each node consists of a longitude (
lon) / latitude (
lat) pair and thus defines a geographical point on the surface of the earth. The original schema has a few more attributes, such as
version. I am not interested in these, so I don't load them:
Tables way and node_in_wayEach "line" (such as a street or border etc) on open street map is an ordered list of nodes. Open Street Map calles them ways. Ways are also used to define areas in which case the last node equals the first node in the list.
First, I need a table just to store each way. Again, I am not interested in attributes such as
changeset, so I just load the way's
node_in_wayrelates nodes and ways:
Tables relation and member_in_relationOpen Street Map allows to relate multipe nodes and ways (and even relations) in a relation:
Each member (that is either node, way or relation) is listed in
Thus, exactly one of the attributes
is not null:
Table tagFinally, there are tags. A tag is a key (
k) value (
v) pair that can be assigned to nodes, ways or relations. Often, the values for specific keys define what an object is. As in
member_in_relationexactly on of
relation_idis not null.
ERDHere's the ERD for these tables:
The ERD was created with dia from pbf2sqlite-erd.dia.
Loading the pbf to a sqlite dbIn order to run the script, a pbf must be obtained, for example with download-switzerland-pbf.py.
Then, this pbf can be loaded into a sqlite db on the command line with
The script is on github: pbf2sqlite.py.Parsing an Open Street Map pbf file with Python


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Initial motivation of mentors in formal youth mentoring relationships
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Brumovská, Tereza J., & Brady, Bernadine. (2021). Initial Motivation of Mentors in Formal Youth Mentoring Relationships. Child Care in Practice, doi:10.1080/_PHONE_.2021._PHONE_
The paper presents results of a phenomenological longitudinal qualitative study undertaken with mentors associated with the Big Brothers Big Sisters programme in the Czech Republic. Ten mentors were interviewed during the first month and after 5 and 10 months of their mentoring involvement employing phenomenological in-depth semi-structured interviews. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was subsequently applied using QSR NVivo software for data analysis. This paper reports the findings of an IPA analysis of one of the central theme of mentors' experience, common to all interviewed mentors: initial motivation to volunteer in formal youth mentoring relationships (FYMRs). The findings of the IPA analysis are discussed using the framework of self-determination theory (SDT) with its continuum of autonomous and controlling motivations. As a result, we argue that the initial motivations of mentors can be assessed according to the level of autonomy in mentors' motivation, in other words, congruence of their motivations with the authentic self. We argue that the level of congruence of mentors' motivation with the authentic self can be considered as the quality feature of the mentors' motivation. We conclude that, in theory, this feature has an impact on the subsequent dynamics and perceived satisfaction of formal youth mentoring relationships. We recommend that the mentors' motivation, and specifically, the level of autonomy in mentors' motivation to volunteer with socially disadvantaged children be assessed in mentoring programmes as a qualitative feature in mentorś training and recruitment.


An international egg thief is on the run in South America after Brazilian authorities lost track of his whereabouts. He had been released on bail after being arrested for the theft of four exceedingly rare albino falcon eggs.
Zimbabwean Jeffrey Lendrum, 55, has gained global notoriety for his daring escapades in which he has grappled his way down cliff edges and even hung out of helicopters in order to get his hands on highly valued falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients, according to The Times.
His most recent heist took place in Patagonia, Argentina, where he managed to scoop the aforementioned albino falcon eggs. He was caught at an airport in São Paulo heading from Chile to Dubai after an anonymous tip-off but then vanished when released on bail to appeal against his sentence.
Lendrum, a former Rhodesian SAS man, was jailed in 2010 for stealing 14 peregrine falcon eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($86,000) from nests in south Wales, the UK and is still believed to pose a threat to falcons on the British Isles.
Andy McWilliam, investigations officer for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: "I think he's been coming to the UK on an annual basis and taking peregrine falcon [eggs]. There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East."
Mr McWilliam interviewed Lendrum before he was jailed in Britain and admitted he had a grudging respect for a "worthy adversary". He said: "I remember we found notebooks and diaries among his possessions. I kept them because I was so impressed.
"He was visiting Sri Lanka during the breeding season of a bird called the black shaheen, a breed of peregrine falcon. The notes had details of most sites he had visited, including military activity in the area. He goes into detail on security at the airport: how often they search people and if they have X-ray."
It is reported that peregrine falcon eggs can fetch more than £5,000 each. The peregrine is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds of up to 242mph. The birds are protected by British law and by the Convention on International Endangered Species.


text: Optimal path queries are queries to obtain an optimal path specified by a given criterion of optimality. There have been many studies to give efficient algorithms for classes of optimal path problem. In this paper, we propose a generic framework for optimal path queries. We offer a domain-specific language to describe optimal path queries, together with an algorithm to find an optimal path specified in our language. One of the most distinct features of our framework is the use of recursive functions to specify queries. Recursive functions reinforce expressiveness of our language so that we can describe many problems including known ones; thus, we need not learn existing results. Moreover, we can derive an efficient querying algorithm from the description of a query written in recursive functions. Our algorithm is a generalization of existing algorithms, and answers a query in O(n log n) time on a graph of O(n) size. We also explain our implementation of an optimal path querying system, and report some experimental results.


text: A method for estimating the sideslip angle of a Formula SAE vehicle with torque vectoring is presented. Torque vectoring introduces large tire longitudinal forces which lead to a reduction of the tire lateral forces. A novel tire model is utilized to represent this reduction of the lateral forces. The estimation is realized using an extended Kalman filter which takes in standard sensor measurements. The developed algorithm is tested by simulating slalom and figure eight maneuvers on a validated VI-CarRealTime vehicle model. Results indicate that the algorithm is able to estimate the sideslip angle of the vehicle reliably on a high friction surface track.


The pitch of a tone is considered to consist of two components: the rectilinear component of height and the circular component of chroma, or pitch class. In an experiment employing simultaneous sequences of Shepard tones, it is shown that tones in different positions on the chroma circle differ in height when generated under the same spectral amplitude envelope. Further, the directions of these differences remain constant when the envelope is centered at different positions along the spectrum, resulting in clear differences in the overall heights of the patterns.
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I came across a recipe for buttermilk yeast bread which includes:
pinch of ginger (helps activate the yeast)
I tried searching around for more information about that, and the best I came up with was this "ask a scientist" question which suggests that it's some unknown compound(s) that somehow affect the yeast's growth - and that cinnamon inhibits it.
Does anyone have any more information? How strong is the effect? Are there any other things which similarly affect yeast growth?
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Dextrous malt or malted barley increases gluten formation without extra yeast. With regards to ginger I don't know. – justkt Feb 12 '11 at 17:21
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From Cookwise, there's a table given from Wright, Bice and Fogelberg's "The Effect of Spices on Yeast Fermentation" from Cereal Chemistry, March 1954. where amount is the grams of the given spice with 2 grams of sugar and 1 gram of yeast in 30 ml of water, and the change in yeast activity is measured in ml of gas increase in 3 hrs. Here's the section for ginger:
Amount Change in Yeast Activity
0.1 + 87
0.75 +172
1.0 +136
2.0 + 72
Of course, cinnamon shows an even larger increase at the 0.1 gram addition (+103), it just starts hindering at larger increments.
update : and to answer the second part of the question; Cookwise only listed a few additives (cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, dry mustard, nutmeg, and thyme), and they weren't all tested in the same amounts; the only two that were inhibiters were cinnamon in larger amounts, and dry mustard (for which they only had one point). It's possible that there was more in the original article, as the lead-in to the table said "The accompanying table shows the effects of some of these spices".
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Very interesting--and I would note that the ginger appears to hinder production at higher volumes like cinnamon does. I wonder if what the spices at low volumes are adding is digestible free amino nitrogen or some kind of fatty acid--both of which are great yeast nutrients--but at larger volumes their other constituents come into play. – bikeboy389 Feb 15 '11 at 15:51
_USER_: they don't have enough data points. The benefit decreases for the amounts they tested, but it's not a hinderance in the amounts tested, where the yeast actually produced less gas. (which occured at 1g of cinnamon added, and 0.25g of mustard) – Joe Feb 15 '11 at 16:27
I don't think the Ginger helps activate the yeast. In fact, ginger has anti-fungal properties, and as yeast is a very simple fungus, it seems very unlikely to particularly thrive in the presence of ginger.
I don't think it's reputed to be outright bad for yeast like cinnamon is, but it is supposed to kill other fungi.
I also looked into the chemical components of yeast nutrients for brewing (baking and brewing yeast being so similar as the be almost indistinguishable in most uses), and couldn't find anything listed as a desirable nutrient that matched up to what ginger brings to the table.
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I did expect someone might say "that's an old wives' tale; it doesn't do anything," but I wasn't expecting it to be harmful to the yeast! Interesting! – Jefromi Feb 14 '11 at 21:40
Yeast grows at an exponential rate until its fermentation poisons catch up with it and start inhibiting growth. Ginger acts as a buffering agent in small quantities. Very small quantities. A buffering agent controls the pH of the dough. As long as the dough pH remains within a certain range, yeast will continue to grow at an exponential rate. The effect of small amounts of ginger added to the dough can shorten rise time approximately 50 percent. it also improves the quality of the rise, giving smaller, more consistently sized bubbles. The key here is very small quantities. I never use more than a pinch, added to the initial proofing of the yeast mixture.
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Users have the functions GetAppInfo(AiHighestDispValue) and GetAppInfo(AiLowestDispValue) to determine the highest and lowest values that are currently displayed on a chart. These are useful for positioning custom text on the chart, and also to determine which indicators are close enough to the price action to warrant their display on the chart. With the highest and lowest values known, users can code the vertical position of text as a percentage of total vertical height, to maintain the relative position of the text as the price range on the chart varies.
Similar functions GetAppInfo(AiLeftDispDateTime) and GetAppInfo(AiRightDispDateTime) are available to determine the leftmost bar and the rightmost bar DateTime. However, these are more awkward for use in positioning text horizontally on a chart, since the position must be converted to an "offset" number of bars for the functions Text_New(Date(Offset), Time(Offset), Price, "Text To Display") and Text_SetLocation(Text_ID, Date(Offset), Time(Offset), Price).
If the number of bars displayed on the chart is known, then the offset for the leftmost bar is also known. Once the offset of the leftmost bar is known the user could position text on a chart as a percentage of the horizontal time range as conveniently as the vertical position can now be specified. This would allow the text to maintain it's relative hozontal position if the chart were resized or the density of its bar spacing were altered.
The indicator custom text displays the input parameters used to generate the Bollinger ribbons. The input parameters of this indicator have specified that this custom text should be positioned at the 50% horontal time range of the chart. After function _BarsDisplayed calculates the number of bars displayed in the above chart, the horizontal midpoint bar offset is easily calculated so the custom text can be correctly displayed.
This text will automatically maintain a center position on the horizontal axis, regardless of the size of the chart or the bar spacing density.
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Although a binary search method would be faster, it is questionable whether the additional complexity would be warranted, as the _BarsDisplayed function is called once and only once when the chart is either loaded or refreshed.
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Skip to comments.Discoveries might reveal origins of Southeastern N.C.'s first inhabitants
Posted on 05/10/2010 4:19:52 AM PDT by Palter
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | A local captain and his crew have discovered a unique rock and nearby artifacts that might help reveal how the first people came to Southeastern North Carolina thousands of years ago.
Geologists said the rock, called black chert or novaculite, was previously thought to only be available in vast quantities in the mountains of Arkansas. Zulu Discovery, a local underwater exploration company, found a very dense version of the rock dozens of feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Wrightsville Beach. Chert was used by the first people in North America, called Paleo-Indians, to create the stone tools they needed to survive.
The discovery of black chert off local shores could rewrite America's prehistory by supporting a theory that Paleo-Indians might have come to the continent via a coastal route rather than by land, said Phil Garwood, a geology instructor at Cape Fear Community College who first identified the local rock as chert. The exact route Paleo-Indians followed will always remain a mystery, but clues have come in the form of the tools they left behind.
This is a piece of the puzzle, Garwood said.
In collaboration with CFCC, Zulu Discovery founders Capt. Jim Batey and his son Rusty Batey hope to find grants and other sources of funding to continue their research and exploration of the areas where they've found the rock and artifacts. The Bateys don't want to reveal the exact depths or locations of their finds, fearing the disruption by other divers of their efforts to study the material.
Continuing their research, Zulu Discovery and CFCC met with state geologists and an underwater archaeologist recently to present their findings and get some advice on what to do next.
Kenneth Taylor, chief of the N.C. Geological Survey, was one of those geologists.
One of the things about it, when you look at samples of chert very, very hard, very, clear chert, that has to come from Arkansas. There's not an outcrop of this stuff in North Carolina, Taylor said, explaining the prevailing theory. Now there is. If there are archaeological artifacts that prove its first peoples' or native peoples'... This is outstanding. It's outstanding. It then says that they had a ready source nearby.
The rocks weren't underwater thousands of years ago.
It's offshore today, but it wouldn't have been covered by the ocean at that time because the ocean didn't come that far inland, Taylor said.
Not just a piece of cement
The North Carolina black chert, dubbed SeaViculite by Zulu Discovery, was found by accident.
Zulu Discovery diver Kevin Rooney picked up the unusual rock last summer as he searched underwater ledges for shark's teeth and fossils.
He brought it up just to see what it was, just to bring it to the surface and analyze it, Rusty Batey said.
At that time, no one suspected it was anything special.
We just thought it was a big square piece of cement, Rusty Batey said.
It wasn't until several months later, when Jim Batey got tired of seeing the rock in his yard, that they got their first clue to the rock's significance. Jim threw it to Rooney, telling him to get rid of the cement-colored stuff, when a piece of it broke off, revealing a lustrous black interior.
I knew it was something that needed to be looked at. It was so unusual, said Jim Batey, who added that he'd never come across anything like it in his 45 years of deep-sea diving.
Jim gave it to Tim Shaw, a marine technology instructor at CFCC, who showed it to Garwood.
If there's one rock in the world I know, it's chert, said Garwood, who studied chert in Australia. Chert is a sedimentary rock, believed to have formed when the shells of ancient, microscopic sea creatures fused together, Garwood said.
People might have been picking up those rocks for years and they just didn't know what it was, Taylor said. It took showing the find to someone who knows rocks, like Garwood, to make the significant connection, Taylor said.
Garwood said the SeaViculite is being analyzed by a laboratory at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., and so far the lab has found an 85 percent probability that the SeaViculite is the same material used to make tools found in Southeastern North Carolina.
The artifacts Zulu Discovery has found near the underwater chert sites and identified by Garwood include an ornament called a gorgot, a scraper used to clean hides, a knife and a stone used to start fires.
Rusty Batey said he's mailed at least 30 samples of the SeaViculite to flint knappers people who make stone tools and others for examination.
Jim Batey said the crew plans to take an archaeologist from the state's Underwater Archaeology Branch to one of their chert sites. In addition to showing him the sites, they want the archaeologist, Nathan Henry, to examine a possible artifact that looks like it might be a pot of some kind. A video shot underwater by Zulu Discovery's Video Ray Pro III remote operated vehicle shows a half moon shape wedged under a ledge. The Zulu Discovery diver didn't want to try to pull out the potential artifact, fearing it's destruction.
The question of whether parts of the chert locations need to be preserved as culturally significant sites is another reason Zulu Discovery is working with the state and college on the project, alternately called Operation Chert and Project SeaViculite.
This may be a very significant site archaeologically if indeed it turns out there is cultural material associated with the rock, said Richard Lawrence, director of the state's Underwater Archaeology Branch.
We don't want to disturb a site if it's an Indian site, Jim Batey said.
The company has not yet determined whether mining the chert, which would require permission from the federal government, would be a profitable venture. In addition to its historical value, chert has commercial value, including its ability to sharpen knives, surgical instruments and wood carving tools.
We don't know where it's going to go right now, Jim Batey said.
The company plans to continue exploring the SeaViculite sites they've already found and look for more.
You could make your projectile points for the next whole year by wintering over at that location, Taylor said, of the large pockets of chert already found by Zulu Discovery. That's incredibly fascinating.
Zulu Discovery owner Jim Batey holds a piece of North Carolina black chert that his crew found off the North Carolina coast.
'supporting a theory that Paleo-Indians might have come to the continent via a coastal route rather than by land'
And this tells us how people came to North Carolina?
What am I missing?
"What else floats on water?"
Wasn't Mayberry in NC?
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These guys might be about to make fools of themselves. Chert was used for ballast. It was also used to pave roads. For all they know, it could have washed out to sea in a nor'easter back during the depression, or was dumped by a ship during the Civil War.
LOL! Your question shows an awareness of NC cue but falls short.
Eastern. And you say Eastern or Western, not East or West. :]
The first BBQ came to the US from Haiti via North Carolina. Barbeque is actually a Carib Indian word for roasted human arm.
And now, you know the rest of the story.
Or, it was dropped overboard by Indians say, 600 years ago while they were out fishing, geeze.
Well, now, I beg to differ.
The pit cooking method was taught to the very earliest English colonists, there are descriptions of pit cooking methods taught by the Croatan and the Powhatan. The sauce is a survival of Elizabethan "catsup" which was a vinegary sauce with herbs and spices. It's the first authentically American food, being a fusion of English and native. It really should be our Thanksgiving dinner, imho. Far more authentic than that sanitized and romanticized tale of our putative Pilgrim Fathers, those Johnny-Come-Lately communards, lol.
I've been a history buff with a nack for odd or forgotten history for years, and one of those odd bits is the origin of southeastern pit-cooked barbecue. I've never in my life heard this NC-by-way-of-Haiti cannibal cuisine tale before in my life, and I've actually researched it for years.
If you're pulling our legs, you're doing a pretty good job of it. If you're not, please source, starting with the etymology of "barbeque" from Haitian Creole. Bar-beek, like Martinique? I'm just baffled.
The Carribean connection to NC was Barbados and Cuba, not Hispaniola. Pit cooking was widespread before Haitians ever conjured their voodoo demon and slaughtered their overlords in their sleep back in the late 1700's.
For once, I


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As I know, there is no difference in meaning between the following two sentences.
 1. It is not important for you to eat good food.
 2. It is not important that you eat good food.
But I believe that there is a little difference between the two sentences at least because the letters in them are different.
Does anybody know the difference?
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It's more than the letters that's different. Do some research online and tell us what fun you had. Homework is a must. – Kris May 30 '13 at 6:11
I just want to remind OP in your about-me: "I am a English teacher in Korea..." As an English teacher, maybe, you'd better be more careful of grammar than other people. – Stan May 30 '13 at 13:21
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The first sentence specifically implies that eating good food is not important for you. This means there is someone for whom it is important that you eat food. That "someone" might be the person who is telling you this thing.
In the second sentence the specific reference is not provided to whom it is not important that you eat good food i.e. it simply means that it is for sure not important to anyone that you eat good food. Consider this sentence-It is important that we have better medical facilities in our country. This means it is important for all and not specifically for anyone.
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Out of context the sentences can mean the same but are partially ambiguous. Do you currently eat good food or not? This is not clear. But whichever is true, eating good food is unimportant.
However, only the second sentence allows a second interpretation, namely:
 - You currently eat good food, but the fact that you do is unimportant.
A statement with this meaning might continue:
 - It is not important that you eat good food; it is important you were born of the right parents.
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What does the name Anemone mean?
The different meanings of the name Anemone are:
 - Greek meaning: Wind
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The meaning of the name "Anemone" is different in several languages, countries and cultures and has more than one possibly same or different meanings available.


thicknesses along the rod's shaft. The underlying notion is to use something narrow enough to go inside the groove but big enough to sharpen the whole curve.
This geometry is effective, as the serrations on the edge are of various widths. And that you will apply that part of the rod, which fits the serrations. In simple words, you can find the exact size that goes with the form of each serration for sharpening it precisely. Before selecting a rod, ensure that the rod's diameter is of the same size or smaller than the size of the grooves.
Sharpening rods are made using diamond, steel, and ceramic. Although the rod's body is usually of stainless steel, the other two are used for layering to facilitate different levels of sharpening.
The rods made fully of steel do not actually sharpen the serrated blade but hone it. This is because the steel rod is identical to the steel knife in terms of hardness. On the other hand, diamond rods come with a diamond-layered exterior that proves to be too hard to sharpen with.
While a diamond rod can sharpen a serrated knife, it can end up sharpening some teeth well while leaving some dull. Further, it is tough to achieve an even outcome with a diamond surface, as it is highly abrasive. After all, sharpening a serrated knife is a bit more delicate task than sharpening a straight-edged knife. However, a medium-abrasive diamond rod can help you achieve the goal safely.
Thus, of all, the ceramic rod is recognized as the best type of serrated knife sharpener that is not that expensive and is versatile enough to sharpen almost any knife.
At times, a ceramic sharpening rod is also confusingly termed as ceramic sharpening steel. However, the build material should be ceramic. A ceramic rod is harder than other sharpening rods. Designed to fit into the indentations, the rod sharpens individual serrations while focusing on a single tooth at a time.
It works by discarding the unwanted blade particles. You are really discarding a thin coat of the blade's material to reveal a new sharp edge. This is just like sharpening a pencil, during which you remove the core and wood to get a fresh lead point.
This is important to know, as it informs that you need something harder than the blade to sharpen. Ceramic is harder than steel. A high-polished ceramic rod is required for sharpening or honing a serrated edge. For harder materials, it should be made with at least 1500 to 1800 grit.
Following are the steps to use a ceramic rod against wide, narrow, and short grooves:
 1. Locate the blade's side that is beveled or serrated. This side inclines down a bit just before the notches, which is the bevel. You will be applying the rod only to the beveled edge.
 2. Position the rod in one of the gullets and select a suitable angle. The bevel's angle can be your guide here. The suitable angle between the blade and the rod is usually between 13 and 17 degrees.
 3. Move the sharpener to be compatible with the diameter of the gullet. In the case of a tapering rod, place it in the gullet such that its diameter is identical to or a bit smaller than that of the gullet's size.
 4. Sharpen the targeted gullet by passing the rod along it to make a few short strokes. Move-in a single direction with gentle pressure but away from the edge and toward the spine. Do spin the rod as you move it so that you get an even grind. Gently slide the rod away from you and stop when its diameter is identical to the gullet's width. Otherwise, you will end up expanding the gullet.
 5. Look for burrs, also known as metal shavings. For this, pass your fingers over the length of the groove's rear. If you feel them, it means that sharpening has occurred sufficiently after a few strokes.
 6. Repeat the steps for each indentation or gullet. For a groove of different size, change the tapered rod's position such that it fills the gullet.
 7. Remove the burrs. To do so, rub the rear of the knife using a fine-grit sandpaper sheet.
 8. Sharpen a straight-edged area, if any, using a whetstone.
A few rods, especially the ones used in a kitchen, are big. They are not useful for handling small serrations. In this case, a small rod is required to fit inside the serration. Most such rods are tapered.
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A triangular sharpener is a special sharpening tool featuring two triangular rods of ceramic, one designed for fine sharpening and the other for medium sharpening. There can be even other rods designed for honing or finer sharpening.
Such a sharpener is useful for sharpening a serrated edge, as the triangular rods work just like the normal ceramic rod. One such famous sharpener comes from Spyderco. Herein, the rods facilitate easy access to each groove while consistently retaining the desired edge angle.
They are positioned at an angle, forming a V shape at 40 degrees. Due to this position, the tapered rods are ideal for sharpening blades having V-shaped grooves. The sharpening process is almost like the ceramic rod one, except that you move the edge back and forth rather than spinning it. Just place the knife straight while moving it up and down the tool.
Thus, this procedure removes the tough job of selecting the right angle. On the flip side, these rods cannot precisely fit the groove's width. Thus, it is essential to find the size of the grooves before investing in a triangular sharpener.
Electric Sharpeners
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Another common type of sharpener used for serrated edges is an electric one. A couple of electric sharpeners can sharpen both serrated and straight edges. For buying a model that can handle a serrated edge, it is usually a matter of considering the sharpening slots or stages it has and the ability to accommodate a serrated edge.
Using this sharpener is all about ease of use and speed. For sharpening a serrated portion, all you have to do is just pass the blade through the dedicated stage; the rest is done by the device.
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In the case of an electric model with a belt, you sharpen by passing the blade's rear along the belt to polish the grooved edge for restoring it to the original grind. The best part of a belt sharpener is that even a naïve can get a razor-like sharp edge. As the belt turns, it grinds the edge incessantly to give an amazing sharpness in no time. A few of these belt models come with guides to set the right angles, keeping guesswork at bay.
Just keep in mind that not all electric sharpeners can sharpen a serrated edge. While serrated edge sharpening is easy once the right angle is known, selecting a reliable electric sharpener is a critical task.
If you choose an electric model that is not designed to sharpen serrations, you will end up damaging the edge as well as the sharpener, an awful outcome for anyone who invests in a costly device. Yes, electric sharpeners are costlier options than ceramic or triangular rods.
It is also not true that there are no reliable electric models that can sharpen serrated knives. What needs to be inferred is that one is required to remain careful while choosing and working with an electric sharpener.
The biggest benefit of electric sharpeners is that they consume less time to sharpen a serrated edge than any other traditional method. However, you cannot expect them to give you full control over its working. You cannot control the amount of material that is discarded from the edge.
If an electric sharpener removes much edge material, you will lose a gullet each time you sharpen the edge. Sharpening too often will simply convert the serrated edge into a plain one, which means you lose all grooves!
What About Using Stones for Sharpening Serrated Edges?
A traditional sharpening stone such as a whetstone or an oil stone is used to sharpen most knives. These stones usually come in a rectangle shape. While they are ideal for sharpening the smooth, even edges found on most kitchen knives, they end up making the serrations dull or remove them to give you a plain edge. Thus, stones are preferable for serrated knives. The only exception is a file or a round barreled oilstone that can reliably sharpen a serrated edge.
Just like any other knives, serrated knives become blunt over time. This can result in unlikable fraying at the cutting spot. It is possible to sharpen serrated knives, although it is different from sharpening straight edges. If done with normal sharpeners, it can result in misalignment of the gullet. Further, aggressive sharpeners can discard the metal fully.
Thus, there are serrated knife sharpeners for handling these edges safely. Although restoring serrated edges can be overwhelming, it can increase the lifespan of them even without maintenance. Only the right tool and proper care are required.


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Standard fuzzy systems suffer the "curse of dimensionality" which has become the bottleneck when applying fuzzy systems to solve complex and high dimensional application problems. This curse of dimensionality results in a larger number of fuzzy rules which reduces the transparency of fuzzy systems. Furthermore too many rules also reduce the generalization capability of fuzzy systems. Hierarchical fuzzy systems have emerged as an effective alternative to overcome this curse of dimensionality and have attracted much attention. However, research on learning methods for hierarchical fuzzy systems and applications is rare. In this paper, we propose a scheme to construct general hierarchical fuzzy systems based on the gradient-descent method. To show the advantages of the proposed method (in terms of accuracy, transparency, generalization capability and fewer rules), this method is applied to a function approximation problem and the result is compared with those obtained by standard (flat) fuzzy systems.


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January 23rd, 2013, 01:13 PM
My file generator does not work after building with py2app
My script generates a file and places it in in a directory. When I run it in IDLE it works perfectly. When I build it in py2app, it does not create the directory nor does is create the file.
from Tkinter import *
from decimal import *
def __init__(self, parent):
self.parent = parent
""" Create widgets to get file name, size and type. """
# create instruction label
text = "Enter file size and name"
).grid(row = 0, column = 1, columnspan = 2, sticky = W)
# create a label and text entry for the size of a file
text = "File size: "
).grid(row = 1, column = 0, sticky = E)
self.calc_ent = Entry(self, width=12)
self.calc_ent.grid(row = 1, column = 1, sticky = W)
# create a label and text entry for the name of a file
text = "File name: "
).grid(row = 2, column = 0, sticky = E)
self.type_ent = Entry(self, width=12)
self.type_ent.grid(row = 2, column = 1, sticky = W)
# create a label File extension
text = "File extension:"
).grid(row = 4, column = 1, sticky = W)
# create variable for single, extension
self.option = StringVar()
# create radio buttons, extension
options = [".txt",".pdf", ".xml",".zip"]
row = 5
for ending in options:
text = ending,
variable = self.option,
value = ending
).grid(row = row, column = 1, sticky = W)
row += 1
# create variable for single, MB|MiB
self.variable = StringVar()
# create a label MB|MiB radio buttons
text = "MB or MiB:"
).grid(row = 4, column = 2, sticky = W)
# create radio buttons, var
variables = ["MB", "MiB"]
row = 5
for var in variables:
text = var,
variable = self.variable,
value = var
).grid(row = row, column = 2, sticky = W)
row += 1
# create a submit button
text = "Generate",
command = self.create
).grid(row = 9, column = 1, sticky = W)
self.message_txt = Text(self, width = 45, height = 2, wrap = WORD)
self.message_txt.grid(row = 10, column = 0, columnspan = 4)
""" Assign variables based on user input. """
# get values from the GUI
size = self.calc_ent.get()
name = self.type_ent.get()
var = self.variable.get()
opt = self.option.get()
_TAG_ if size is not a string with a regular expression
check = re.compile('\d+(\.\d+)?')
if check.match(size) == None:
message="Please enter a float (9.2) or an integer (3). Strings are not allowed."
directory = "output/test_files/"
d = os.path.dirname(directory)
if not os.path.exists(directory):
check = os.path.abspath(name)
with open(name,"wb") as output:
output.truncate(size * 1024 * 1024)
with open(name, "wb") as output:
output.truncate(size * 1000 * 1000)
root = Tk()
root.title("File creator (c) David Baak")
app = Application(root)
January 24th, 2013, 01:38 PM
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January 24th, 2013, 01:49 PM
The issue is not that the GUI does not work, the issue is that everything seemingly works, but my app does not generate the file/directory as it does in IDLE.
Originally Posted by Dietrich
January 30th, 2013, 02:24 AM
Thought I'd post and let you know that you're not alone. I've written a small Python program to create svg files from user input - works fine in IDLE and creates the svg file, but after compilation the app won't create the svg file. I'll keep looking and post here if I find an answer.
January 31st, 2013, 08:46 AM
Aha, so I am not alone...keep me posted if you find out what the solution is. It is py2qapp related but there seems no logical, straightforward answer.
Originally Posted by razzerman
February 12th, 2013, 01:11 AM
Just a quick update. Still no joy with py2app, but tried with pyinstaller (which is cross platform). Still no joy on the Mac side, but got the app to compile and run as it should on the Windows side - which was good news (and offers a glimmer of hope!).
Still working on the mac side...
February 21st, 2013, 10:44 AM
Success! Finally got the Mac version to work. I was hoping the app would know where to put the created file. It didn't. Had to add the following:
Works just fine now.
February 24th, 2013, 01:05 PM
Well done finding out
The only issue is that it works on your own mac but if you install the app elsewhere it will not work because your path is hardcoded.
But OK, at least it does something, more than it did before.
March 5th, 2013, 04:24 AM
I didn't point out that I only got it working with PyInstaller, not Py2App (which still refuses to work).
I looked through your code and noticed you already had the paths specified (more elegantly than my brute force method).
March 5th, 2013, 04:35 AM
Then it seems it is a stupid py2app bug no one knows how to solve. I asked on stack overflow, but one knew the answer either...
Originally Posted by razzerman
March 12th, 2013, 05:54 AM
More good news - it does work now with py2app. Updated to py2app 0.7.3, and it worked fine (as long as path exists leastways).


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The Square of Heavenly Peace is the symbolic center and political heart of Beijing. On this square, Tian'anmen Square, located apart from the gate of the Forbidden City, is the immense mausoleum of former leader Mao Zedong.
The square measuring 880 by 500 meters and has a total area of 440,000 sqm oppervakte ware a million people can come together. In the middle of the square stands the Monument to the People's Heroes.
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The READING HELPER is available in yellow, red, green, blue, aqua, pink, purple, orange and clear. The yellow and blue READING HELPERS are available in 3 sizes. The standard window (8mm) is used for tracking 1 line while the wide window (16 mm) is used for larger print as well as tracking 2 or 3 lines at a time. They are both 7" in length. The standard long READING HELPER is 8.5" in length with an 8 mm window and is used with wider pages.
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7" long (all 9 colors)
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I would swear that years back I saw a definition of the word bury and it contained a noun, not only a verb. If my memory serves me well, the noun meaning was associated with church. Today I cannot find even a trace of a noun bury — only verbs. Could anyone definitely confirm or deny such noun exists, please?
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The suffix -burg in Old English signified a habitation like a town or village and would have been pronounced -bury, which is how Cantwaraburg became Canterbury. – Robusto Nov 6 '12 at 20:46
_USER_ In Swedish, a close relative of English, a similar thing happens. The cider called Kopparberg almost sounds like 'Kopparbarry' on a Swede's tongue. I live in a city called Edinburgh, which in Scotland we call 'Edinburra'. – Iain Elder Nov 7 '12 at 2:10
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For the noun bury, wiktionary shows "A borough; a manor". The OED shows similar meanings: "A manor-house, or large farm ; a specialization of the OE burh, byrig 'an enclosed or fortified place' which still survives in many local names..."."
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I just leafed through several pages of Google Books results for a bury and the bury, but I never saw a single instance of this usage. I did find a preponderance of rabbit/ferret references though, so I've extended my answer... – FumbleFingers Nov 6 '12 at 22:07
Among other interesting answers, this one corresponds with what I've remembered. Thank you all for your insights! – Artur Nov 6 '12 at 23:04
Dictionary.com lists one noun for bury:
Nautical. housing (def. 8a, b)
So it's listed as a synonym for a nautical term: housing.
Here's the definition for housing :
(8.) Nautical.
a. Also called bury. the portion of a mast below the deck.
c. the doubling of an upper mast.
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I'm reading a book entitled At Home in France by Ann Barry, and there is a reference to a letter by the former owners of the house identifying some of the furniture and items left in the house after it sold to Ms. Barry. One item is an "Eton bury" and it is later defined as an oak cabinet with a top drawer. Perhaps because you can secretly hide things inside, hence "bury" them?
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International Livestock Research Institute Newsletter | April 3, 2013
Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide meat consumption that occurs there (map by Worldmapper). Meat consumption per person is highest in Western Europe, with nine of the top ten meat-consuming populations living in Western Europe (the tenth in this ranking is New Zealand). The most meat is consumed in China, where a fifth of the world population lives.
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- M2M content in Eclipse DemoCamps
- List of potential M2M events for Eclipse to participate
We would like to organize a series of M2M webinars to highlight the vision and solutions of the M2M working group. The Eclipse Foundation would host and promote the webinars. We will need speakers to volunteer to provide the content.
- Webinar 1: What is M2M?
- Provide an overview of what is meant by M2M, use cases, technical challenges and what the IWG hopes to accomplish.
- Speaker: Arlen and Benjamin
- Webinar 2: Anatomy of an M2M Application
- Speaker: James and Marco
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- Provide an introduction to MQTT, why and when people should consider using it and steps to getting started.
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- Webinar 3: Developing with Lua
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Study Suggests Women More Likely To Have Nightmares
New research suggests women experience significantly more nightmares than men and have more emotional dreams.
There was no difference in the overall number of dreams reported, said researcher Dr. Jennifer Parker of the University of the West of England.
Previous research has shown women tend to have more disturbed sleep than men.
Changes in a woman's body temperature during her monthly cycle have been linked to such sleep disturbances.
"It has been known for a long time that pre-menstrual women report more vivid and disturbing dreams," said Dr. Parker, a lecturer in psychology.
"The consistent finding in this research was that women report more unpleasant dreams than men."
The women who took part in the study were much more likely to report dreaming about very emotionally traumatic events such as the loss of a loved one.
"In terms of processing emotional information, women may be more prone to taking unresolved concerns into their sleep life." Parker added.
"The research showed a gender difference but what is difficult to pick out is whether women are having more nightmares or remembering them better," said Dr. Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre.
He said the results fit in with what's in the literature, as women's sleep tends to be more disrupted and they have more insomnia.
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This study investigates the effectiveness of China's corporate governance reforms in the year 2002 on firm performance. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between good firm performance and board characteristics that capture boards' monitoring and resource provision abilities before and after the corporate governance reform. This study firstly examines whether the Chinese corporate governance reform in year 2002 has caused changes in board characteristics, then the study relates the measurements for good firm performance to board characteristics that represent boards' monitoring role (i.e., director independence, CEO-chair duality, concentration of directors appointed after the CEO, and director share ownership) and resource provision role (i.e., board size, directors on multiple board, director tenure, and frequency of supervision board meetings). The study uses a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to calculate a firm economic efficiency score as the main measurement of firm performance. For sensitivity analysis, traditional measurements including share returns, return on assets and Tobin's Q have also been applied to consolidate the findings. The study provides evidence that China's corporate governance reforms in year 2002 has resulted in changes regarding to the number of independent directors on board, CEO-chair duality, director tenure and frequency of supervision board meetings. Those changes are towards enhancing investor protection and improving firm performance, which the evidence is consistent with the prediction that the year 2002 corporate governance reforms will change the corporate governance factors of Chinese listed firms. However, inconsistent with the agency theory and resource dependence theory predictions, this study shows that board characteristics do not have a significant relationship with firm economic efficiency score. The additional tests of using traditional performance measurements also shows corporate governance factors before and after the reform do not influence firm performance. These findings point to a significant problem. It would seem that China's corporate governance reform in year 2002 has made Chinese listed firms simply obeys the governance code, rather than fully utilise it. Therefore, the corporate governance reform in the year 2002 has enhanced the corporate governance factors, however failed to improve firm performance. Therefore, the findings have implications for regulators in emerging economies, that the corporate governance code should be developed and modified based on the specific characteristics of a countries economy, rather than simply following the developed countries' regulatory system.


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This is a typical use case:
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A child is sliding ona sled at 1.7 {\rm m/s} to the right. You stop the sled by pushing on itfor 0.70 {\rm s} in a direction opposite to its motion. If the massof the child and sled is 32 {\rm kg}, what average force do you need to apply to stopthe sled? Use the concepts of impulse and momentum.


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 - If a farmer is moving his animals cooperate by keeping out of the way, follow any directions that the farmer gives you.
 - Busy traffic can be a hindrance on country roads to visitors, local people and wildlife so drive slowly and, if at all possible, leave your car at home; maybe cycle or take public transport.
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The illustrations below show more sophisticated patterns made with
the contact method Beginners should first practice the falling
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method is used when you want to vary the thickness of the lines.
Hold the cone as you would hold a pen, with the tip in contact with the surface and at an
angle of about 30 to 45 degrees. Draw lines as though you were drawing on paper with a
pen. Control the thickness of the line by adjusting the pressure of your thumb. Squeezing
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