How do visually impaired swimmers know where their opponents are?
Paralympic champion Brad Snyder and tapper Brian Loeffler explain their tricks in the pool. 28 Apr 2017
Tapper taps a visually impaired swimmer on the head
Tappers let visually impaired swimmers know when they are approaching the end of the pool. Once the swimmers recieve the tap, they know when to turn.
"The most interesting dynamic to me is that after the race, we don't find out the outcome for quite a while because we can't see the scoreboard"
With raging adrenaline and muscles propelling their bodies at high speeds toward a wall, visually impaired swimmers need to know – exactly – when to turn.
Otherwise, they would collide with the wall.
This is where the swimmer's tapper comes into play.
A tapper is a person who lets the swimmer know when they are approaching the end of the pool by "tapping" them either once or twice.
Timing, the swimmer's preference and repetition, repetition, repetition, are all important, as five-time US Paralympic champion Brad Snyder and his tapper Brian Loeffler explain the tricks and techniques to visually impaired swimming:
1. How do you manage to swim in a straight line?
Brad Snyder: Practice, practice, and more practice … and even then, I still veer off course. That being said, the ways I attempt to stay straight are by always training with symmetry in mind, both in and out of the water.
I try to train so that my body is strong on both sides, and that I am employing both sides equally. Even still, I still notice differences in strength from one side to the other. So I note these differences and compete with that awareness.
I have modified my arm recovery, dragging my fingers along the surface of the water so that if I veer off course toward the lane line, I will hopefully detect the lane line with my fingers, allowing me to correct course before I crash and lose precious time.
2. How do you know (if even) where your opponents are?
BS: I don't! That's the magic of blind swimming. We are not really racing each other so much as we're racing ourselves.
3. How do you know if you are first, second, third, etc.? Or does that matter?
BS: I don't! I often imagine that I am behind so that it's easier to dig down deep towards the end of a race!
4. When a tapper taps your head, what does that tell you? How do you know when to turn for another lap?
BS: The tapper taps my back, not my head. When I get the tap, I immediately turn. We feel as though this eliminates any potential errors in stroke counting or whatever else. I try to simplify things as much as possible, so our strategy is 'tap, then turn!' Nothing else!
5. Have you been a "tapper" before you worked with Brad? What are some differences among athletes and their tapping preferences?
Brian Loeffler: Before I coached Philip Schultz who was a 2008 Paralympian. … That's where I had my first experience and really learned how to tap.
There are other nuisances with tapping. There's no official [tapping device].* It's not a standard piece of equipment. It's a really homemade device. Some people use long fishing poles. Brad would tend to use a cane that we could fold up to transport easily and it usually had a tennis ball at the end.
What also varies for each person is that some people like to be struck on the head. And some people like to be struck on the back. Brad likes the back. Philip likes the head.
6. What is key between a tapper and the swimmer?
BS: Consistency. It helps the tapper to know my race strategy and what pace I will be coming into the wall. It helps me if the tapper taps at the same point every time. When we get on the same page, the turn should look exactly like an able-bodied swimmer's turn. You shouldn't even be able to tell that I'm blind.
BL: I think it's really important to have a tapper you trust because you're swimming at a fast rate into the wall and you have to know that the tapper is going to tap you, and at a point where you're not too far away or close to the wall.
Some other folks like a long tapping device like 14 feet long. So they get to tap further out and take a couple of strokes before they flip in. Brad's preference is to be closer so that it's more immediate and he knows when to flip.
7. What else is important for a tapper on the pool deck?
BL: You have to just focus on your swimmer. Don't get distracted with what's going on in the race, where they are in the race or where their competitors are. Don't look at the stands. Your sole job is to focus on them and gauge their speed. It's very much like a relay takeoff. You have to anticipate how fast they're moving, and when the point is when they want to receive the tap.
I think some other things tappers might be afraid of when they're starting out is being too timid. … They need to be struck fairly hard. They would rather be struck hard and feel the tap rather than question oh was that a tap? Or was that a bump on the lane line?
Tappers also can't communicate with the swimmers. No words of encouragement or strategy.
8. What other facts should we know about how visually impaired swimmers swim?
BS: The most interesting dynamic to me is that after the race, we don't find out the outcome for quite a while because we can't see the scoreboard. It's excruciating to sit in the pool, listening to everyone cheer, hoping it's for you, but not being sure.
(*) While there are no set length regulations in the current rulebook, all tapping devices must be deemed safe by the Technical Officials at all international World Para Swimming competitions (rule


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The Japanese word for "clockwise" - 時計回り - also involves clocks. What was the Japanese word for 時計回り before 時計 became commonplace? I see that 右回り is given as a synonym/definition for 時計回り in some dictionaries; is this what was most commonly used in olden times?
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Noun: [右]{みぎ}ま
Verb: 右へま
は ＞ わ back then.
Even today, 「右まり」（は changed to わ over time） is a far more intuitive word than 「[時計回]{とけいまわ}り」 for native speakers. The only time I myself used 「時計回り」 and 「[反]{はん}時計回り = "CCW"」 often in my life was when I was working for a machine manufacturer. Even then, I was using 「右まわり」 and 「[左]{ひだり}まわり」 outside of work.
According to this source _URL_ the term 時計回り was also used with sundials, and though the length and time of sunlight varied with seasons, the direction didn't, so 「時計回り」was always in use.
This link _URL_ presents the other versions 「右回りと左回り」.Clockwise is 右回り.
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 - _USER_ Well, to be fair, I hadn't considered sundials, which I imagine would have been in Japan since before historic times. If sundials were called something like 時計 even before the introduction of mechanical clocks, then it would make sense that 時計回り would have been used for a long time. It looks like sundials are called 日時計 today, but I don't know whether they were called that in the past or if the name is sort of a "back-formation" from 時計 as in "mechanical clock". – senshin Jan 18 '15 at 8:15
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Auditing digital assets. The inspection staff will select audits for review where transactions in digital assets are material to the financial statements and will review how the audit firm identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement, including valuation issues.
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Hydronic baseboard heaters evolved from the old hollow cast iron radiators to today's trendy and beautiful and stylish baseboard heaters.
Hydronic baseboard heaters are long and relatively slim and provide a simple, cost-effective alternative to warm up your home.
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Hydronic baseboard heaters are common in many homes.
However many people do not know the technical aspect of the hydronic baseboard heater.
Basically a hydronic baseboard heater uses the same principle of radiation like the sun to warm up your home.
The baseboard heater contains a heating element surrounded by a metal tube. The metal tube is filled with water.
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convection baseboard heaters are other baseboard heaters that typically resemble hydronic baseboard in terms of design characteristics.
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1. "Oude kaas": old cheese.
"Oude kaas" has a much sharper flavour than the standard "jonge kaas" (young cheese). Also its structure is crumblier. Types of cheese that are somewhere in-between are "jong belegen", "belegen" and "extra belegen".
2. "Oudejaarsavond": new year's eve.
Literally this word translates to "old years eve", I guess it is just a different way of looking at it!
3. "Hoe oud ben jij?"
("How old are you?)
4. "Een oude bok lust nog wel een groen blaadje."
("An old goat still has taste for a green leave.")
This saying is used to describe the interest shown by old men in young women.
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It is common in informal speech to replace the 'd' in 'oude' by a 'w': 'ouwe'. Compare "ouwe snoeperd" in DWOTD 29. Snoep.
However, replacing 'd' by 'w' is only done with adjectives that have 'oud' at their core.
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Outage Probability and BER of the Ground to Train Communication Link of a Curved Track in Raining Turbulence with Pointing Errors
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We model the outage probability and bit-error rate (BER) for an intensity-modulation/direct detection optical wireless communication (OWC) systems for the ground-to-train of the curved track in rainy weather. By adopting the inverse Gaussian models of the raining turbulence, we derive the outage probability and average BER expression for the channel with pointing errors. The numerical analysis reveals that the rainfall can disrupt the stability and accuracy of the system, especially the rainstorm weather. The improving of the shockproof performance of the tracks and using long wavelength of the signal source will improve the communication performance of OWC links. The atmospheric turbulence has greater impact on the OWC link than the cover track length. The pointing errors caused by beam wander or train vibration are the dominant factors decreasing the performance of OWC link for the train along the curved track. We can choose the size of communication transmitting and receiving apertures to optimize the performance of the OWC link.
KeywordsGround-to-train, curved track, inverse Gaussian model, optical wireless communications, raining turbulence
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Barbed Wire in a Tree, a picture puzzle
While hiking a wooded trail today, we came across a piece of barbed wire running right through a portion of the tree, about 4 feet above my head. Shot a picture of it, you can see above.
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 1. Mashplum | PUZZLE MASTER | Profile
 The wire was part of a fence and the tree grew around it. The fence was taken down but the piece of wire was left stuck there.
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 This link should give an idea:
 3. cheddarmelt | Profile
 The wire was there first, and the tree grew around it.
 4. Shawn | PUZZLE GRANDMASTER | Profile
 Fruits & nuts grow on trees, but barbed wire grows IN trees, usually deciduous hardwoods. Your tree is a rare find, as most free-range wire-producing trees were harvested by the late 1800′s. Sadly, twisted-iron trees now exist only in captivity on large farms. With only ~50 square meters of living space per tree and no international protection groups, their natural nomadic longings go largely unfulfilled. Heartbreakingly, the very barbed wire that is harvested from the trees is used to secure their enclosure; a fence made from the soul of the fenced.
 Such a sad twist of irony.
 5. engjs1960 | Profile
 The tree grew around it.
 6. Falwan | Profile
 Could't see it very clearly..
 Maybe a branch that looks like a barbed wire!
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 Probably, several years back, the tree was part of a property line, and had the barbed wire either wrapped around it or nailed to it. As the tree grew, the tree also grew around, and eventually encased, the barbed wire, in addition to lifting it much higher off the ground.
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Difference between Vitrified Tiles and Ceramic Tiles
Key Difference: Vitrified tiles are made from a mixture containing clay and elements like silica, quart and feldspar, whereas ceramic tiles are simply made from clay. The clay can also be referred to as earthen clay. Thus, they primarily differ in their compositions.
Tiles enhance the beauty of floors and walls. Various options are available in the market and they often confuse the customer while making a selection. Types of tiles have their own set of advantages and disadvantages and thus, it tends to be really frustrating sometimes to conclude something after making the comparison. Vitrified and ceramic tiles are often compared, as they both are widely used, and therefore this article is stating the differences between these two types of tiles.
Vitrified Tiles have got the name from vitrify which means the process of making a glass or something similar to a glass. The tiles that are made using the method of vitrification fall in the category of vitrified tiles. This tile is known for its capacity to absorb water and also for being stain resistant.
Vitrified tiles are composed of a mixture containing clay and elements like silica, quartz and feldspar. Due to the presence of such ingredients, the mixture melts on applying a very high temperature and a glass substrate is formed throughout the tile. These tiles are non-porous tiles that have a glassy texture. Vitrified tiles use a dye that is mixed with the clay before setting it on fire. This dye makes the color consistent throughout the tiles. Therefore, if the surface of the tile chips off, then a similar color is exposed underneath.
On the other hand, ceramic tiles are plain clay tiles. The process simply involves molding the clay into the shapes of tiles and then cooking them inside a kiln. The heat forms the hard structure of clays. Later, the tiles are coated with glaze so that they become water resistant.
A variety of colors are also applied in order to obtain a large selection of tiles. As they are made by a mixture of clay and water, therefore they are not very strong. These tiles are also very porous and thus absorb water easily. In order to make them resistant to water they are often glazed. The glaze is used as a protective shield.
Therefore, vitrified and ceramic tiles primarily differ in the composition. Due to this composition difference, various factors of distinction tend to originate. Vitrified tiles are made of a mixture of clay with elements like silica, quart and feldspar. Therefore, when the mixture is baked in high temperatures, then the elements of the mixture fuse together and make a glass type product. These tiles are thus, very strong, durable and resistant to water. On the other hand, ceramic tiles are just made from the earthen clay. Thus, they do not form a glass type substance. These tiles must be glazed in order to obtain an external protection layer. The biggest advantage of ceramic tiles is that they have a natural and earthy look in comparison to the artificial look of vitrified tiles. Some of the differences are listed belowVitrified Tiles
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Clay with silica, quartz and feldspar
Earthen clay
Smooth and glossy
Comparatively rough and external glaze is applied for the glossy look
Comparatively weaker
With or without grout joint
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Water absorption
High resistance to stains, low water absorption rate
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Comparatively difficult
Easy to fix
Comparatively expensive
Comparatively low-priced
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Comparatively more
Comparatively more(after coating with glazes)
Comparatively less(without coating with glazes)
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Phyllidiopsis krempfi is considered to be rare on Okinawa as I have collected only four individuals as of mid August, 2000. Although I'm suggesting the species is rare here, I suspect that I've seen others, erroneously assuming they were of more common species. There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the best reason is that many Okinawan phyllidiids are very commonly seen here and I've tended in the past not to pay much attention to the group.
The closest appearing Phyllidiopsis species on Okinawa is P. pipeki, with similar mantle and rhinophore coloration, but Brunckhorst (1993) points out that P. krempfi is very tuberculate with many multicompound tubercles, whereas P. pipeki has sparsely scattered single and compound tubercles. Also, an apparently consistent feature seen in P. krempfi is the presence of the two black primary longitudinal lines which extend around the rhinophores and join at a point anterior to the rhinophores.
I have a second page showing two separate images of an additional 50mm animal collected from 69m. The second of these two images show the animal feeding on a thin brown sponge (the small brown sponge was growing on the surface of the larger yellow sponge). This phyllidiid stayed on the sponge following its collection, transport, and subsequent photography hours later; I can only assume that it was more than just a bit hungry.
As of mid-July, 2007, the following eight described species of Phyllidiopsis have been featured on the Okinawa Slug Site:

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Green Supply Chain Design: A Lagrangian Approach
Merrick, Ryan J.
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The expansion of supply chains into global networks has drastically increased the distance travelled along shipping lanes in a logistics system. Inherently, the increase in travel distances produces increased carbon emissions from transport vehicles. When increased emissions are combined with a carbon tax or emissions trading system, the result is a supply chain with increased costs attributable to the emission generated on the transportation routes. Most traditional supply chain design models do not take emissions and carbon costs into account. Hence, there is a need to incorporate emission costs into a supply chain optimization model to see how the optimal supply chain configuration may be affected by the additional expenses. This thesis presents a mathematical programming model for the design of green supply chains. The costs of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were incorporated in the objective function, along with the fixed and transportation costs that are typically modeled in traditional facility location models. The model also determined the unit flows between the various nodes of the supply chain, with the objective of minimizing the total cost of the system by strategically locating warehouses throughout the network. The literature shows that CO2 emissions produced by a truck are dependent on the weight of the vehicle and can be modeled using a concave function. Hence, the carbon emissions produced along a shipping lane are dependent upon the number of units and the weight of each unit travelling between the two nodes. Due to the concave nature of the emissions, the addition of the emission costs to the problem formulation created a nonlinear mixed integer programming (MIP) model. A solution algorithm was developed to evaluate the new problem formulation. Lagrangian relaxation was used to decompose the problem by echelon and by potential warehouse site, resulting in a problem that required less computational effort to solve and allowed for much larger problems to be evaluated. A method was then suggested to exploit a property of the relaxed formulation and transform the problem into a linear MIP problem. The solution method computed the minimum cost for a complete network that would satisfy all the needs of the customers. A primal heuristic was introduced into the Lagrangian algorithm to generate feasible solutions. The heuristic utilized data from the Lagrangian subproblems to produce good feasible solutions. Due to the many characteristics of the original problem that were carried through to the subproblems, the heuristic produced very good feasible solutions that were typically within 1% of the Lagrangian bound. The proposed algorithm was evaluated through a number of tests. The rigidity of the problem and cost breakdown were varied to assess the performance of the solution method in many situations. The test results indicated that the addition of emission costs to a network can change the optimal configuration of the supply chain. As such, this study concluded that emission costs should be considered when designing supply chains in jurisdictions with carbon costs. Furthermore, the tests revealed that in regions without carbon costs it may be possible to significantly reduce the emissions produced by the supply chain with only a small increase in the cost to operate the system.


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GOSHEN, Utah – Archaeologists have struck gold at a dig near the town of Goshen about 35 miles south of Provo: the largest Fremont Indian structure ever excavated.
Brigham Young University anthropology professor Jim Allison says the 850-square-foot structure is unique because it served as a communal area that brought the entire village together.
He says it has yielded "a layer of prehistoric trash" that included common items such as arrowheads, broken pottery, corn cobs and animal bones.
Allison, who oversees students' work at the site, says radiocarbon dating shows it probably was occupied between 1025 and 1100.
The Fremont Indians inhabited sites in what are now Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Colorado between 700 and 1300. They're known for pottery, figurines, moccasins and their use of farming.


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RICOH's Image Enhancement technology expresses the beauty of the property or facility
Increase the resolution of images while preserving the details
Correct the brightness of dark images while maintaining the highlight details
Intelligently removes image noise delivering incredible quality
RICOH's original image processing technology delivers stunning automatic enhancement
A 360 ° camera has the advantage of capturing the entire scene and allows the user to see wherever they like but when the image is enlarged its resolution decreases comapred to a regular digital camera
With the advancements in image processing technologies of digital cameras that RICOH has been producing for many years and letting AI learn a dataset that pairs 360-degree images from RICOH THETA with high-quality images from RICOH GR digital camera, we have developed an intelligent image processing technology that greatly enhances the quality of an image
This technology was presented by Ricoh Group researchers at the OmniCV (* 2) workshop at CVPR2020 (* 1), a major international conference on computer vision, held on June 15, 2020. We announced the result of our activities on super-resolution technology for 360° images using AI.
* 1: The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. A prestigious computer vision and pattern recognition conference regarded as one of the most influential in its field convenes thousands from the Global AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Community.
* 2: Explanation of Omnidirectional Computer Vision in Research and Industry


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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide with over 1 million new cases diagnosed each year. Advances in treatment and survival are likely to have increased lifetime costs of managing the disease. Cost-of-illness (COI) studies are key building blocks in economic evaluations of interventions and comparative effectiveness research. We systematically reviewed and critiqued the COI literature on CRC.
Methods: We searched several databases for CRC COI studies published in English, between January 2000 and February 2011. Information was abstracted on: setting, patient population, top-down/bottom-up costing, incident/prevalent approach, payer perspective, time horizon, costs included, cost source, and per-person costs. We developed a framework to compare study methodologies and assess homogeneity/heterogeneity.
Results: A total of 26 papers met the inclusion criteria. There was extensive methodological heterogeneity. Studies included case-control studies based on claims/reimbursement data (10), examinations of patient charts (5), and analysis of claims data (4). Epidemiological approaches varied (prevalent, 6; incident, 8; mixed, 10; unclear, 4). Time horizons ranged from 1 year postdiagnosis to lifetime. Seventeen studies used top-down costing. Twenty-five studies included healthcare-payer direct medical costs; 2 included indirect costs; 1 considered patient costs. There was broad agreement in how studies accounted for time, but few studies described costs in sufficient detail to allow replication. In general, costs were not comparable between studies.
Conclusions: Methodological heterogeneity and lack of transparency made it almost impossible to compare CRC costs between studies or over time. For COI studies to be more useful and robust there is need for clear and rigorous guidelines around methodological and reporting "best practice."


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2002-2003 Governance Implementation Task Force
2002-2003 Annual Report
Summary: The Governance Implementation Task Force reviewed progress made in the development and delivery of chapter benefits, a proposed schedule and process for the deployment of a chapter network, a proposed chapter agreement, and refinements to the criteria for chapter status. The task force also reviewed proposed changes to the ACHE Bylaws for 2003.
The Governance Implementation Task Force was established to oversee the activities of ACHE staff in implementing the recommendations of the 2000-2001 Governance Task Force and to consider further efforts needed to implement the direction of that report. The task force met August 29, 2002. A summary of the task force's activities follows:
PROPOSED GOVERNANCE AND CHAPTER DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE
The task force reviewed and approved a proposed schedule of activities needed from September 2002 through November 2003 to provide the policies and infrastructure to support the formation of ACHE chapters.
REFINEMENTS TO THE CRITERIA FOR CHAPTER STATUS
The task force reviewed and approved proposed adjustments to the previously approved criteria for chapter status. The changes were made to clarify the criteria and add new criteria felt to be needed in order to insure a positive working relationship between ACHE and prospective chapters. The changes also adjusted the window of time by which the chapter must comply with several of the criteria. The revised criteria were placed on the fall district meeting agenda for discussion by Regents and demonstration group liaisons.
PROPOSED CHAPTER AGREEEMENT
The task force members carefully reviewed the contract language proposed by ACHE legal counsel for the contract between ACHE and the prospective chapter. They made a number of detailed suggestions which substantially changed the content and form of the contract. The task force asked ACHE staff to revise the contract with the assistance of legal counsel and distribute it to the demonstration groups for review and comment.
CHAPTER FORMATION PROCESS
The task force considered the issue of how to go about the formation of chapters. They endorsed using a market planning approach to identify geographic service territories for all prospective chapters in each district. They concluded that this process holds the best probability of resulting in the orderly allocation of viable member markets among existing affiliated groups and would aid in identifying those parts of the country where new organizations are needed. The task force recommended that the approach be reviewed at fall district meetings with Regents and demonstration group liaisons.
The task force reviewed changes to the American College of Healthcare Executives Bylaws that will be considered at the 2003 Council of Regents Meeting. Those changes address the following issues:
- Provide for ACHE Chapters
- Make the Board of Governors the primary legislative body representing the affiliates; the Council of Regents will then serve as an advisory council
Powers that must be transferred from the Council of Regents to the Board of Governor to effect this change are the powers to:
- Make all policy decisions
- Approve all proposals pertaining to dues and assessments
- Approve all changes to the Regulations Governing Admission, Advancement, and Recertification
- Approve all changes to the Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation
- Approve all changes to the Code of Ethics
- Designate Districts
A marked up copy of the American College of Healthcare Executives Bylaws reflecting these changes can be found in the 2002-2003 Bylaws Committee Report.


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How-to: Migrate Accounts From One Server To Another (cPanel)
Hello. I am writing this tutorial because this is a solid method I have used in the past for easily migrating cPanel accounts from one server to another. Using this method, you can transfer accounts from an old server, to a new one, help customers from another host move to your host, etc. This method is very simple, and does not even require root access on one end of the migration. I have found the "Transfer Account from another Server" tool in WHM to not work so well, and break often, so I have used this method.
-cPanel on both servers
-WHM access on the new server (one that the accounts are being moved to)
-root access on the new server
Throughout the instructions I will refer to the server your are transfering the accounts from as the "old server", and the server to are transfering the accounts to as the "new server".
1. Log into WHM of your new server and create a new account called "restore", or anything you like for that matter. Remember the FTP address, username ('restore', in this example), and account password. We will need these for later.
2. Log into the cPanel account you are wanting to transfer on the old server.
3. Click on "Backup >> Generate/Download a Full Backup".
4. Once here, select the backup destination to be "Remote FTP Server".
5. Enter your email address for verification, follwed by all of the FTP account information for "restore", which we created on the new server.
–Remote Server: new server's address
–Remote User: restore
–Remote Password: restore's password
Then, click "Generate Backup". This may take some time to backup the files, depending on how large the account is. You should receive an email provided in the above info once it is complete.
6. Now, log into SSH on your new server.
7. Type in the following commands:
After running the list command above (ls), you should see the tar file of the account on the old server. This means that you have successfully sent the file via FTP to your new server.
8. Now move the tar file to your new server's /home directory with the following command:
mv tar_file_name /home
9. Now, log into WHM on your new server and navigate to "Backup >> Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file"
Once here, you should see the old account's username under "Possible cpmove archives found:".
If you do not, log back into SSH and be sure that the account's tar file has been moved into /home.
10. Type in the account name in the text field in WHM, which is proceeded by "Enter the username for the account you wish to restore:".
11. Click "Restore".
12. Repeate process for additional accounts.
That's all there is to it! I have found this way to work alot more sufficiently for moving accounts from one server to another. Hope you all enjoyed!


Variable Speed Circulation
The topic of variable speed hydronic circulation has been something of a mystery for many in the industry. In 2004, Taco introduced the world to a full line of residential variable speed circulators. Even though that was five years ago, some are still grappling with this "new" technology.
Taking a closer look at the concept of variable-speed pumping, Taco trainer John Barba and professional contractor Bill Riley explain when it's best to apply the technology, where you'd use it and what the key benefits are.
The Universal Hydronics Formula
The purpose of a variable speed circulator is to automatically adjust its speed based on heating load demands, or how many BTUs are needed in a structure. To understand how it does that, let's take a quick look at the universal hydronics formula, which states that GPM is equal to BTUH divided by delta-T, multiplied by 500.
Let's define the terms.
GPM is gallons per minute. That's the flow rate needed to deliver the required amount of BTUs.
BTUH or BTUs per hour, or the required amount of heat for a house, or zone, at any given point in time. We all know that outdoor temps or the number of people in a home will alter the BTU load.
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How do i keep a form on top of others
The Form class represents a window within an application. This includes dialog boxes, modeless windows, and Multiple Document Interface client and parent windows. In VB6 you can use a Win32API call to SetWindowPos to get a form to always stay on top. This has been simplified in VB.NET by setting Form's TopMost property as TRUE.
A topmost form is a form that overlaps all the other forms even if it is not the active or foreground form. You can use this property to create a form that is always displayed in your application, such as a MessageBox window.
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The MFAH, The Rienzi Collection, bequest of Caroline A. Ross
An inscription on a slip of paper found behind J. T. Mitchell's sweet portrait of two young children identifies the sitters as the twins Elizabeth Mary and Augustus William Hillary.
As was typical for the time, the twins are depicted wearing almost identical clothing--long muslin dresses with blue ribbon sashes. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both boys and girls wore skirts until male children were "breeched," or given trousers to wear, at some point between the ages of 4 and 6. The artist has taken care to distinguish their genders: Elizabeth, her head covered by a lace bonnet, cradles a fluffy lapdog in her arms while Augustus gathers his sister in a protective embrace. The miniature's excellent state preserves the original coloration of the children's rosy cheeks and dramatic blue background.


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Over time, the submersible probes used to measure levels in water and wastewater often get covered with stubborn deposits such as algae and mussels, which can disrupt the measurement process. Attempts to remove these deposits mechanically can also very easily destroy a sensitive stainless steel sensor membrane. This is where the LMK 808 plastic submersible probe from BD|SENSORS, with its robust capacitive sensor made of highly pure ceramic, really comes into its own - and it is being exhibited for the first time at HANNOVER MESSE 2017.
Since it is not sensitive to deposits, the LMK 808 is ideal for level and gauge measurement in water and wastewater applications. The secret to its success is the heart of the probe - an extremely robust, virtually maintenance-free capacitive ceramic sensor. This, combined with a plastic casing, makes the submersible probe resistant to aggressive and abrasive substances and therefore virtually indestructible. Any contamination can be easily removed without damaging the membrane. Moreover, BD|SENSORS has relocated the overvoltage protection mechanism from the cable to the detachable probe head and developed effective protection against cables being bitten through - thus ensuring that even the supply cable is effectively protected against damage. The LMK 808 combines measurement precision with long-term stability and minimal maintenance outlay.


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The etymology of the name Philéole
What does the name Philéole mean and where does this name and our slogan "Make the wind your friend" come from?
Philéole is the contraction of two words that come from ancient Greek. The first is Phil, from the ancient Greek φίλος, phílos, which means "friend, person who loves". The second is Eole. In Greek mythology, Aeolus, Αἴολος, Aíolos, is the master and steward of the winds.
Make wind your friend!
History of Philéole
The history and creation of Philéole; where we got the idea to produce a mini wind turbine.
Philéole arose from the desire to use the force of the wind with bio-based and ecological means. The wind is everywhere around us, with different forces, stable or turbulent. It is present in all countries and in all types of environment; whether it is an energetically isolated environment to a hyper-connected urban environment, whether it is a marine or terrestrial environment.
In 2014, after several months of development, studies, models and prototypes, the concept of the Philéole mini wind turbine emerged. The mini wind turbine is tested in a wind tunnel at the University of Liège, in the Vrije University of Brussels and at the Von Karman institute so that Philéole can present a successful product: a bio sourced wind turbine for independent and renewable, urban energy production. and domestic, respectful of nature, biodegradable and recyclable.
Initially, Philéole focused on the production of the mini nautical wind turbine: ready to serve sailors in France and around the world, the Philéole mini nautical wind turbine attached to the top of the mast of the boat, in full wind, collects energy whatever the wind direction at sea, at anchor, in winter.
A few months later, Philéole decided to expand the possibilities of using its mini wind turbine. With its patents for Europe and the world, the Philéole mini wind turbine is now a unique product in a limitless market; ready to collect energy from the roofs of country houses and tiny houses, city buildings, or any place where the wind blows.
Every day, the Philéole team seeks to improve the performance and design of its vertical wind turbine to offer a unique and successful product.
Our main goals
The primary goal of Philéole is energy independence and ecology. By offering a unique product, Philéole wishes to take advantage of the elements of nature for independence in the production and consumption of energy. To push the ecological side further, Philéole decides to produce its mini wind turbine out of corn starch and aluminum; two elements that are either biodegradable or recyclable.
Most wind turbines available on the market pick up winds that blow at high altitude and require extensive earthworks. Today, Philéole focuses on the energies developed by light airs, turbulences and currents. Philéole wishes to use this energy and make it available to sites located outside the distribution networks.
Philéole team members
Graduated in industrial design at La Cambre. Founder of a line of high-end furniture in steel and micro-concrete and of an art gallery. Maxime works on the design of wind turbine structures, optimising the design for production and reducing the ecological impact of wind turbines. He likes to be part of sustainable solutions for a better future for all.
Graduated in mechanical engineering at UCLouvain. Passionate about aeronautics and wind behaviour. Grégoire puts his skills at the service of Philéole to dimension the mechanical parts of the wind turbines, to define the performances of the wind turbine, to check that the wind turbine works in an optimal way and respects our requirements and those of the customers.
Diplômé de l'Université de technologie de Delft, c'est un passionné de l'aéronautique


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Generalization, Specialization and Aggregation in DBMS
Speculation Specialization and Aggregation in DBMS are deliberation systems used to model data. The reflection is the instrument used to shroud the unnecessary points of interest of an arrangement of articles.
For instance, vehicle is a reflection that incorporates the sort's auto, jeep and transport.
In this way, the two deliberation instruments used to model data:
- Speculation (Specialization is the opposite procedure of Generalization)
Generalization in DBMS
Speculation is an abstracting procedure of review sets of items as a solitary general class by focusing on the general attributes of the constituent sets while stifling or overlooking their disparities.
In basic terms, Generalization is a procedure of removing normal attributes from two or more classes and joining them into a summed up superclass. In this way, it is a base up methodology as two or lower lever substances are consolidated to shape a more elevated amount element.
The normal qualities implies here properties or techniques.
Notation of Generalization
Generalization is represented by a triangle with a line.
Generalization is an IS_A relationship
Example of Generalization:
For instance, a Part_Time Employee and Full_Time Employee element sets can be summed up as EMPLOYEE substance sets;
- The Full_Time_Employee is a speculation of the substance set Faculty and Staff;
- The Part_Time_Employee is a speculation of the substance set teaching and casual.
Bike element is not appeared as it doesn't fulfill conditions for a subtype in light of the fact that it has every one of the credits normal to all vehicles. In this way, there are no ascribes particular to cruisers. Further, MOTORCYCLE does not have a relationship to another substance sort.
Specialization in DBMS
Specialization might be seen as the opposite procedure of Generalization. Specialization is the abstracting procedure of acquainting new qualities with a current class of items to make one or all the more new classes of articles.
In basic terms, a gathering of substances in specialization can be classified into sub-bunches in view of their attributes. So it is a top-down methodology in which one larger amount substance can be separated into two lower level element. It characterizes one or more subtypes of the supertypes and framing supertype/subtype connections.
In the above case, Faculty and Staff acquires the characteristic pay of the substance set Full_Time_Employee and last mentioned, thus acquires the properties of Employee. In this way, Faculty and Staff is a specialization of Full_Time_Employee and Full_Time_Employee is a specialization of Employee.
Additionally, Teaching and Casual acquires the quality Wage of the element set Part_Time_Employee and last mentioned, thus acquires the traits of Employee. Along these lines, Teaching and Casual is a specialization of Part_Time_Employee and Part_Time_Employee is a specialization of Employee.
Aggregation in DBMS
Conglomeration is the procedure of ordering data on an item, in this way abstracting a larger amount object. So, an element Person is inferred by amassing the qualities name, house_no., city and government managed savings number(SSN).
Another type of total says that it is abstracting a relationship in the middle of articles and survey the relationship as an item. Along these lines, in Figure below, the Enrollment relationship between substances understudy and Course element can be seen as element REGISTRATION.
In simple terms, Aggregation is a process when relation between two entities is treated as a single entity.
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Icosahedral quasicrystalline (i-phase) Mg44Al15Zn41 and related Frank-Kasper (cubic approximant) phase powders, which were produced by mechanical alloying from the elemental powder mixture and subsequent heat treatment, respectively, have been hydrogenated with hydrogen gas at a temperature of 573 K and a hydrogen pressure of 4.2 MPa. The hydrogen solubility limit for both powders is almost the same and was estimated to be about 16 at%, and no crystallographic structural dependence was found for the hydrogen solubility. The approximant phase powder was structurally stable after hydrogenation but the i-phase powder decomposed into the approximant and MgZn2 intermetallic phases. Hydrogen desorption occurred at temperatures above about 600 K for both powders and was accompanied by the evaporation of zinc. The kinetics of the hydrogen desorption as well as the zinc evaporation were slightly different in each powder because of the formation of the MgZn2 phase in the i-phase powder after hydrogenation.
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You can search text currently in the Command Window. This includes text that is currently visible on the screen, as well as text that is in the scroll buffer.
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To search for specified text in the Command Window, on the Command Window title bar, click, and then select Find. The Find dialog box opens. The search begins at the current cursor position. MATLAB® finds the text you specified and highlights it.
MATLAB beeps when a search for Find Next reaches the end of the Command Window, or when a search for Find Previous reaches the top of the Command Window. If you have Wrap around selected, MATLAB continues searching after beeping.
To search for the specified text in other MATLAB desktop tools, change the selection in the Look in field.
You can increase the amount of information available in the Command Window so that more text is available for searching. Be aware that doing so requires more memory. On the Home tab, in the Environment section, click Preferences. Select MATLAB > Command Window, and then increase the setting for Number of lines in the command window scroll buffer.
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 Initiate a forward incremental search.
 Initiate a backward incremental search.
 An incremental search field appears at the bottom of the Command Window. For a forward search, the text F incSearch appears. The F indicates a forward search.
 2. Begin typing your search term.
 When you enter lowercase letters in the Inc Search field, incremental search looks for both lowercase and uppercase instances of the letters. For example, if you enter b, incremental search looks for b and B. However, if you enter uppercase letters, incremental search only looks for instances that match the case you entered.
 3. Perform incremental search actions using the following keyboard shortcuts.
 ActionKeyboard Shortcut
 Complete a partially highlighted string of characters.
 Find the next occurrence of a string of characters.
 Remove characters from the Inc Search field, back to the last successful search
 If you search for a string that does not appear in the Command Window text, Failing appears in the incremental search field.
 4. End incremental searching by pressing Esc (escape), Enter, or any other key that is not a character or number.
 The Inc Search field disappears. The cursor remains at the position where the text was last found, with the search text highlighted.
Find Text in the Command History Window
You can find text in the Command History Window that matches the case. You also can search for text at the beginning of or anywhere within a command.
 1. In the Command History window, type in the Search field. To display the Search field if is not visible, click, and then select Find.
 The Command History window searches backwards and selects the previous entry that contains the sequence of letters you typed.
 2. Find the previous or next occurrence of the entry with the up and down arrow keys, respectively.
 3. Press Esc to clear the search.
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We are developing a Java web application using Spring, Hibernate and MySQL.
I want our application to automatically backup the MySQL database daily; is there any way to accomplish that with Java code?
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u may use one facility of mysql that can be rollback the data of your database – Dhaiwat budh Sep 9 '12 at 17:44
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This is easy to do.
 1. Write a script to create the backup using the "mysqldump" tool available at _URL_ - Google "mysql backup unix/windows script" to find some examples.
 2. Use a task scheduler to run this script. On UNIX this could be "cron", Windows as a "task scheduler". Best to do so at times when the app is under low-usage.
It is worth while putting some backup file cycling into the script so that you keep, say, every backup from the last week and delete the rest.
Also remember to backup to a physically different disk from the database itself so you have a backup if the disk dies.
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You can user Quartz-scheduler to schedule the backup, take a look here on how to schedule an automatic Hibernate backup.
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A Hexapod platform is a six-legged robot with six degrees of freedom. Also known as a Stewart–Gough platform, its principal advantages are a high load-to-weight ratio and the ability to precisely position heavy loads. Disadvantages include limitations on the range of motion.
The Stewart–Gough or Hexapod platform consists of six extensible legs connecting a fixed base to a movable platform. The platform is capable of moving with six degrees of freedom, three translational and three rotational. The Inverse Problem in robotics, calculating the actuator coordinates (leg lengths) for a given platform orientation, is straightforward in this situation. Simple geometry is all that is needed to express the rotation and translation matrices. In a nutshell, the nominal platform coordinates of the legs are rotated and translated by the desired values. Then the leg lengths are calculated by simply taking the norm of the difference between the base and platform coordinates for each leg. This Demonstration uses homogeneous coordinates to combine the rotations and the translations into a single matrix operation.


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Love making best thing to stop mind wandering
People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they are doing, a study revealed today.
Researchers at Harvard University found that people's minds wander on average 46.9 per cent of the time, when they think about things that aren't going on around them.
Participants in the survey, which analysed behaviour recorded on an iPhone web app, said they were distracted no less than 30 per cent of the time during every activity, except making love, when they were more focused than usual.
The research, published in the American journal Science, also showed that mind wandering typically made people unhappy.
People were at their happiest when exercising or engaging in conversation, but least happy when resting, working or using a home computer.
Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, the authors of the study, found that the 2,250 volunteers spent time thinking about past, future and hypothetical events while going about their daily lives.
"Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities," said Mr Killingsworth, a doctoral student at Harvard. "This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present."
The participants, aged between 18 and 88, were asked to select one of 22 general activities and record how happy they were while doing it, as well as whether they were thinking about their current activity or something else.
Mr Killingsworth said: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.
"Mind wandering is an excellent predictor of people's happiness.
"In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged."
The app can be downloaded for free at _URL_.
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Given that p is prime, when is 8p+1 square?
Let 8p + 1 = k2. As LHS is odd, k must be odd; let k = 2m + 1.
Therefore 8p + 1 = 4m2 + 4m + 1, leading to 2p = m2 + m = m(m + 1).
As m and m + 1 are consecutive integers, one of them must be even. However, after dividing through by 2 we can see that LHS is prime, so RHS must be prime. This can only happen when m = 2; that is, p = 3.
Hence 8p + 1 can only be square when p = 3.
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This document presents a roadmap for developing sport and physical activity among Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous Long-Term Participant Development Pathway is a reference for those who work with Indigenous participants in sport and recreation. It has grown out of the understanding that mainstream models for sport development do not necessarily align with Indigenous needs or experiences. As such, this document tries to address that gap by outlining the key elements that need to be considered when planning, developing, and implementing programs for and with Indigenous peoples and communities.
For more information on the accompanying workshop, please click here.


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Although corn (or maize) is considered a whole grain, when referred to in powder form, corn flour is not considered to be the same as whole grain flour. Whole grain flour typically refers to wheat flour derived from grinding whole grain into flour.


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Permanent Marker Pen or indelible marker
A permanent marker or indelible marker is a type of marker pen that is used to create permanent writing on an object. In general, the ink comprises a main carrier solvent, a glyceride, a pyrrolidone, a resin and a colorant, making it waterproof. It is capable of writing on a variety of surfaces from paper to metal to stone. They come in a variety of tip sizes (ultra fine to wide), shapes (chisel point, bullet tip, and wide bristle), and colors (metallic, or ultraviolet reactive). Like spray paint, these markers contain volatile organic compounds which evaporate to dry the ink. Permanent marker is another name for "waterproof" marker. They have a potential for abuse as a recreational drug.
Permanent Marker Pen
These markers are generally used on hard, non-porous surfaces because instead of staining they form a surface layer that can be removed by high-pressure cleaning or paint thinners and organic solvents such as acetone, xylene, or toluene. Isopropyl alcohol, ethanol, and ethyl acetate are preferred cleaners when used indoors, as their fumes are much less hazardous than toluene and xylene, the main components of paint thinner, or longer-chain hydrocarbons found in mineral spirits. Other common non-polar solvents include benzene, turpentine and other terpenes (which constitute essential oils of many plants with strong scents), most others, chloroform and dichloromethane, hydrocarbon fuels, and diacetone alcohol, among many others. Note that most of these solvents are very flammable, and/or their concentrated vapors are harmful to health.
Some markers are designed to be long-lasting, for instance by having two inks, one specialized to resist solvents, and one specialized not to fade.These can be available in refillable form.
A permanent marker can also be removed by drawing over it with a dry erase marker on non-porous surfaces such as a whiteboard as dry erase markers also contain a non-polar solvent. Most dry-erase board cleaner solutions also contain effective organic solvents like 2-butoxyethanol to erase the pigment.


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The Canvas panel serves as a container for a collection of child elements and allows positioning its children using exact coordinates (in WPF Units).
You can specify the following attached properties for a child element of the Canvas, to control how the child element is positioned.
- Left – Distance between left side of element and left side of canvas
- Top – Distance between top side of element and top side of canvas
- Right – Distance between right side of element and right side of canvas
- Bottom – Distance between bottom side of element and bottom of canvas
If you don't specify values for any of these properties for a child element, it will be positioned in the upper left corner of the Canvas.


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Sandinistas co-founder Tomas Borge dies in Nicaragua
The last surviving founder of the left-wing Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, Tomas Borge, has died aged 81.
Borge helped to create the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1961.
In 1979, the Sandinista revolution overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza and Borge served as interior minister in the new government of Daniel Ortega.
US President Ronald Reagan saw the revolutionaries as a threat and backed the right-wing Contras in the civil war that followed.
An estimated 30,000 people died in the fighting which lasted a decade and wrecked the country's economy.'Transcendental figure'
Borge was born into a poor family and dedicated himself to the struggle against the Somoza family, which had run Nicaragua for 40 years.
He received military training in Cuba before he helped to found the Sandinista movement.
The organisation was named after Augusto Cesar Sandino, who fought against US intervention in Nicaragua in the 1930s.
Borge became the powerful interior minister in the Ortega government of the 1980s, where he imposed censorship on the media and was accused of human rights violations.
However, he denied accusations that he was responsible for expelling and harassing clergymen during the war.
The Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990.
Congressman Jacinto Suarez was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying Borge was "a transcendental figure in Nicaraguan history".
But the news agency also quoted Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, who said of Borge's later life: "After 1990, I have the sense he gave up his revolutionary ideas... He ended up a tragic-comic figure".
Borge's final years saw Daniel Ortega return to government - he won presidential elections in 2006 and again in 2011.
Borge was admitted to hospital earlier this month for a lung infection and underwent surgery.


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Conference on Censers in Bern, organised by Beate Fricke together with Ittai Weinryb
The burning of incense is one of the most pervasive religious practices today and throughout history. The fragrant smoke filling the air can be witnessed in any tradition, whether polytheistic or monotheistic, whether in the Ancient Near East, Modern US, or Medieval Europe. Censers are ubiquitous among religious paraphernalia, and on a truly global scale. Surprisingly, however, little scholarly attention has been given to censers and the rituals they facilitate. In this conference we propose to explore these commonly used yet seldom studied objects from a comparative perspective. This investigation entails consideration of the material fabrication of censers themselves and their subsequent significations, as well as the role of the incense itself as it vaporizes in the course of religious ceremonies. By comparing we aim to unveil resemblances and differences across various religions that at the same time can give evidence to the particularities of a specific tradition. Through these objects we also hope to interrogate dominant narratives in Art History defined by exclusive categories like "the era of art" or by retrospectively defined periods or artistic developments aligned with dynasties.
The study of censers is particularly timely in the fields of History of Religion, History of Art, Archaeology, material culture and Anthropology, and not only for filling gaps in the objects' documentation. The combination of the solid censer and the ephemeral smoke produced by the burning of incense offers a fertile ground for examining questions central to these fields of study regarding the relation between the material and the immaterial, and between artifacts, biotic substances, and codified practices. Centering on the censer thus not only places the object in a constellation of other religious artefacts, but also relocates the importance of rituals that have long been placed at the margins of the study of religion, art, and ritual. Emerging from this, we hope, is a better grasp of the role of sensorial elements in the fostering of the devotional practices of world religions. Acknowledging the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the profound questions provoked by the censer as object and as site, the project aims to unite scholars from different fields of study in an exploration of the censer and its materiality, ontology, and presence.


Getting Interfaces to COM Object
IUnknown and IDispatch Interfaces
When you invoke the actxserver or actxcontrol functions, the MATLAB® software creates the server and returns a handle to the server interface as a means of accessing its properties and methods. The software uses the following process to determine which handle to return:
 1. First get a handle to the IUnknown interface from the component. All COM components are required to implement this interface.
 2. Attempt to get the IDispatch interface. If IDispatch is implemented, return a handle to this interface. If IDispatch is not implemented, return the handle to IUnknown.
Additional Interfaces
Components often provide additional interfaces, based on IDispatch, that are implemented as properties. Like any other property, you obtain these interfaces using the MATLAB get function.
For example, a Microsoft® Excel® component contains numerous interfaces. To list these interfaces, along with Excel properties, type:
h = actxserver('Excel.Application');
MATLAB displays information like:
 Application: [1x1 Interface.Microsoft_Excel_9.0_
 Creator: 'xlCreatorCode'
 Parent: [1x1 Interface.Microsoft_Excel_9.0_
 ActiveCell: []
 ActiveChart: [1x50 char]
To see if Workbooks is an interface, type:
w = h.Workbooks
MATLAB displays:
w =
The information displayed depends on the version of the Excel software you have on your system.
For examples using Excel in MATLAB, see:
Custom Interfaces
The MATLAB COM Interface supports custom interfaces for the following client/server configurations:
Limitations to custom interface support are:
 - Custom interfaces are not supported on a 64-bit version of MATLAB.
 - You cannot invoke functions with optional parameters.
Once you have created a server, you can query the server component to see if any custom interfaces are implemented using the interfaces function.
For example, if you have a component with the ProgID mytestenv.calculator, you can see its custom interfaces using the commands:
h = actxserver('mytestenv.calculator');
customlist = h.interfaces
MATLAB displays the interfaces, which might be:
customlist =
To get the handle to a particular interface, use the invoke function:
c1 = invoke(h,'ICalc1')
c1 =
Use this handle c1 to access the properties and methods of the object through this custom interface ICalc1.
For example, to list the properties, use:
 background: 'Blue'
 height: 10
 width: 0
To list the methods, use:
 Add = double Add(handle, double, double)
 Divide = double Divide(handle, double, double)
 Multiply = double Multiply(handle, double, double)
 Subtract = double Subtract(handle, double, double)
To add and multiply numbers using the Add and Multiply methods of the object, use:
sum = Add(c1,4,7)
sum =
prod = c1.Multiply(4, 7)
prod =
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When you paste content into a Word doc you have some pasting options.
(If you do see the pasting options button see this.)
One of the options is to
Keep Text Only when pasting content. See what can happen if you choose this setting as a default pasting option.
If you 're content includes pictures Just say you want to post some content that does not just have text, but maybe it has pitches to. If you have set some default pasting options and have chosen to keep text only, your pictures will not be included in the pasted content.
Pasting Tables same thing happens when you try to paste a table into a Word document but have default settings that let you paste text only. The table will be converted to ugly paragraphs and text.
Bulleted or numbered list having though keep text only option also discards bullets and numbering. This isn 't usually a big deal as you can just select the entire list and click on the Bullets button. The list is usually restored easily. It is when you have really big lists with more than one line in them that it starts to get confusing. So be warned, if you choose to paste text only your lists will need to be redone.
To keep the bulleted lists when pasting do this:
1. Click the Microsoft Office Button Button image, and then click Word Options.
2. Click Advanced, and then scroll down to the Cut, copy, and paste section.
3. Select the Keep bullets and numbers when pasting text with Keep Text Only option check box.
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Latha Mabrin
Latha Mabrin was a Bajoran male who lived during the mid-24th century.
During the Occupation of Bajor he was a member of the Shakaar resistance cell at that time under the command of Shakaar Edon. He was a very violent man, acting as both a smuggler and an arms dealer, but after the occupation ended in 2369 he found the Prophets and became a Vedek.
He was murdered by Silaran Prin in 2373 via a small hunter probe while leading a ritual in preparation of the Days of Atonement at the Calash Monastery. (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")
Latha was played by actor Matt Roe.
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