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To effectively amplify the voice of members to policy makers to better help them understand what is happening in the field and offer sound policy recommendations, AACTE partners with other organizations to highlight the importance of certain issues.
For example, AACTE is a member of the Committee for Education Funding (CEF). CEF was founded in 1969 with the goal of achieving adequate federal financial support for our nation's educational system. The coalition is a voluntary, nonprofit, and nonpartisan group. AACTE is one of more than 100 member organizations that represent the full spectrum of education—early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, higher education, adult and career education, and educational enhancements such as libraries and museums. CEF's current campaign is "5 Cents Makes Sense," which calls for 5 cents of every federal dollar to be spent on education. The campaign's official hashtag is #5Cents4EdFunding.
AACTE is also a member of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights' Education Task Force. The Education Task Force works to ensure children in grades K-12 and students in higher education experience positive school climates, are safe in their academic environment, and have equitable access to high-quality educational services. Together, the members of the task force developed a comprehensive list of priority legislative initiatives that strive to protect and expand students' civil rights, as well as remove barriers to education for historically marginalized students.
Another important coalition is United We Dream, which is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. They partner with organizations like AACTE to support legislation and policies that allow DREAMers, undocumented individuals who were brought to the United States as children, to pursue their education and/or work legally in the United States.
These are just a few examples of the nearly 20 coalitions AACTE is a part of. Each of these organizations play an important role in advancing AACTE's legislative agenda and, by participating in them, we ensure that our voice—and yours—is at the table when important decisions are made.
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What does the color teal in branding look like, feel like? What color combinations create modern palettes?
Color Teal: Meaning and How to Use It in Branding
From teal blue to teal green: color palettes, and how to use the different types of teal in design.
Color teal: meaning
The color teal is a relatively young color—the first recorded use of teal as a color name in English was only in 1917. It is named after the Eurasian teal, a duck with a teal-colored stripe on its head.
Although a mix between green and blue of equal parts and really a color of its own, teal often gets pulled into the green color family. Historically, green pigments for paints and fabric dyes were hard to extract from nature and not often used in clothing and heraldic arms. While green could have been mixed with blue and yellow pigments, there was a deep dislike to mixing different substances due to distrust in alchemy. This medieval precursor of chemistry transformed matter by combining elements seemingly through magic. The superstitious convention vanished only during the early Renaissance and new copper greens were discovered by German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in the late eighteenth century. [1]
The color teal and its lighter shaded sister colors turquoise, cyan, aqua, and light green aren't primary colors and are therefore not considered basic. A deep teal is calm, sophisticated, and knowledgeable, similar to the dark greens that you see in old libraries. Teal is relaxing; it can be found in nature combining blue skies and green fauna. When brightness is added to teal, or less black is used in the mix, teal becomes turquoise, aqua, cyan, or when there's less blue, it turns into light green. These lighter shades of teal are younger, clearer, and more invigorating because they remind us of the shallow waters of sunny places.
[1] Clair, Kassia St. The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
color palette from teal blue to teal green
Top: Monochrome color palette from cyan to teal. Teal is mixed from cyan plus 50% black. Bottom: Analogous color palette that shows the colors next to teal: blue and green.
The color teal with white that lightens the color and makes it look duller. In contrast, if black is added to a color the darkness increases. These processes are called tinting (adding white) and shading (adding black).
The teal color values: from teal blue to teal green
When using the RGB color model like any screen does (a TV screen, a computer screen, a phone), the colors red, green, and blue (RGB) are being added and they create yellow, cyan, and magenta when they overlap and are being mixed. Cyan is composed of 50% green and 50% blue. In the CMYK color model (anything that gets printed on e.g. a home printer), if 50% black is added to cyan you'll get the color teal. Teal has an RGB value of 0/128/128 or 0% red, 50.2% green, and 50.2% blue, and its HEX color value is #008080.
The more blue is added to the RGB value, teal turns into a teal blue and if green is added to teal, it turns into teal green.
examples teal for fashion, clothing, B2C
What does teal look like when used as a brand color for fashion labels, as B2C products or in branded spaces? Teal is sophisticated when used sparingly or when used boldly. It pairs well with neutral tones like white, beige and browns. Teal in form of texture carries well as velvet, a thick linen, or chenille. All photos courtesy of Unsplash.
examples teal as brand color for travel and art
The color teal lends itself for being used in travel and lifestyle branding—teal marries elegance, nature and depth. A modern palette that includes teal can use blue and green, brown, orange, and gold. Teal stands out when paired with muted colors like brown or desaturated blues and makes for a strong companion when used alongside a vibrant orange.
examples teal in branding for wellness and fashion
Teal communicates calm, comfort, and knowledge. Its sister colors aqua, cyan, and turquoise have less black and are therefore fresher and younger.
Industries and famous brands that use the color teal
In branding, the color teal is commonly used in electronics, sports, entertainment, communications, and creative sectors, and, when used in lighter and brighter tones, in children-related industries.
Teal had its high times during the 90s, especially in sports branding but was superseded by blue again in the early 2000s. While blue is often listed as Western people's most favorite color, a comprehensive 2016 publication shines a light on research showing that people have color preferences based on contexts such as clothing, furniture, or general designs as well as personal experiences and cultural backgrounds.
In the process of finding a brand color palette, branding agencies spend a lot of time choosing exactly the right shades. The strategic place to start is to take a look at the common brand colors in your industry first. As a second step, select a color based on what your closest competitors are not using. The reason for that is "brand positioning"—the way the customer thinks of a brand. Good brands stand out—they're known for something relevant in their field. Considering that, the color teal might be a great strategic choice because it's not used very often; it makes the brand more memorable in the eyes of the customer.
famous brand logos teal and turquoise
Famous brands that use teal and its lighter color versions aqua, turquoise and light green: Siemens, Canva, GoDaddy, Tiffany & Co., Pampers, Clinique, TikTok, Deliveroo, and Bausch + Lomb.
Traits of teal
After looking at your competitors' brand colors and selecting a few colors that are not being used and may also fit your direction, pick a final color based on the general emotion you want to convey. Teal's positive traits are healing, friendliness, invigoration, clarity, creativity, and calm. Teal's negative traits are aloofness and unreliability.
Then build a palette from there: In modern branding, one bold brand color—which may or may not be complemented by up to three secondary colors—does well.
And if you're on a tight budget or if you're still testing product-market fit, Mojomox is the modern way to design your brand identity online for free. Create color palettes and designer-quality wordmark logos fast with customized details that fit your brand.
teal color palette using monochrome and analogue colors
Teal within a monochrome (shades of teal) and analogous (neighboring colors in a color wheel) colors blue and green. These types of color palettes create a deep, monochrome look.
teal color palette using complementary colors
The color teal with complementary colors such as orange and brown. Complementary colors are on opposite sides within a color wheel. They create a strong contrast.
teal color palette using complementary colors
Teal paired with muted complementary colors (top), and analogous colors green and blue with more brightness (bottom two rows). These palettes create a more vibrant look.
Modern color palettes including teal
Above we selected a few modern color palettes that include the color teal. For custom palettes try a color palette tool like Adobe Color. It lets you generate colors that work well together and you can test them for readability and accessibility.
Mojomox lets you create modern wordmark logos and color palettes online for free.


Recover data by restoring an Azure SQL database
Testing and validating the restore capability and procedures is a critical piece of a recovery strategy. By testing the restore process, you validate that your backups are successful. You also familiarize yourself with the process and options available for recovering a database. This helps to ensure a quick and successful recovery of data when needed.
Here, you'll learn how to restore an Azure SQL Server database from automated database backups.
What you can restore
Automated backups in Azure SQL Database copy databases to blobs in read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) accounts on the schedule that you specify. If you want to restore one of these backups, you must create a new database to contain the restored data. You can't restore a database over an existing database.
You can create the database on the same server where the backup was taken or on another server with these options:
 - Create a new database on the same SQL Database server recovered to a specified point in time within the retention period.
 - Create a database on the same SQL Database server recovered to the deletion time for a deleted database.
 - Create a new database on any SQL Database server in the same region recovered to the point of the most recent backups.
 - Create a new database on any SQL Database server in any other region recovered to the point of the most recent replicated backups.
How restore works
To complete a restore, Azure copies the database from the storage account to the Azure SQL Database server that you specify. In a point-in-time restore, SQL Database follows that by applying transaction logs to the restored database, up to the time you chose.
The length of this process varies widely. It depends on the database size, the transaction logs, network bandwidth, and the number of concurrent restore operations. Most restore operations finish in less than 12 hours.
The only way to know how long your restore operation takes is to perform a trial restore. It's good idea to perform trial restores occasionally to time them and to ensure your complete backup and restore strategy works as you expect.
Perform a point-in-time restore
You can perform database restores by using the Azure portal, PowerShell, or the Azure CLI. If you're performing a point-in-time restore on the original SQL Database server, you can choose:
 - Database replacement. If you want to replace the original database with the restored one, make sure you specify the same compute size and service tier as the original. Then rename the original database and give the restored database the original name by using T-SQL ALTER DATABASE commands.
 - Data recovery. If you want to retrieve data from the restored database to mitigate an error, you don't need to rename the original and restored databases. Instead, use T-SQL commands to extract the data that you need from the restored database. Then insert the data into the original database.
Both of these options begin with the restoration of a database backup from storage. To recover in the Azure portal, select the Restore button on the database overview page, and then specify the time to restore to.
In PowerShell, use the Restore-AzSqlDatabase cmdlet to execute restorations. In the Azure CLI, use the az sql db restore command.
Restore a deleted database
If a database is mistakenly deleted, you can restore it from backup to the deletion time by using the Azure portal or PowerShell.
In the portal, go to the database server's Overview page. Then, in the Operations area, select Deleted databases. You can specify a point in time up to the deletion, and then select OK to recover.
Perform a geo-restore
Azure SQL Database automatically replicates backed-up databases to datacenters in other regions. If the database in the original region is unavailable, for example because of a datacenter outage, you can restore from one of these replicated backup copies. You can restore up to the point in time when the backup was made. The latest backup might not have fully replicated to your region, so you might lose some recent changes.
To perform a geo-restore in the Azure portal, add a new database to an Azure SQL Database server. Then in the Select source drop-down list, select Backup, and choose the backup to restore from.


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Cimetidine reduces the production of
stomach acid. It helps prevent stomach and intestinal ulcers and treat
existing ones. It can also soothe stomach and esophageal inflammation
and decrease gastric and esophageal reflux. Cimetidine is used in cats,
dogs, horses, and sometimes other animals, including ferrets, rabbits,
small rodents, reptiles, swine, and cattle.
Benefits of Cimetidine:
- Treats current stomach
and intestinal ulcers
- Helps prevent stomach and
- Treats gastritis and esophagitis
- Treats some hypersecretory
- Decreases stomach acid production
- Reduces acid reflux to promote
comfort and prevent internal damage
- Makes your pet more comfortable
- Prescribed for use in a
variety of animals
Use of Cimetidine varies based on the
type of animal, body weight, and the condition for which it is being
used. Use only as prescribed by your veterinarian. Tablets are given
by mouth. Administer the exact dosage prescribed at the prescribed frequency
and for the prescribed duration. Follow all veterinarian-provided instructions.
Store out of the reach of children
Keep Cimetidine at controlled room
temperature, protected from light.
It is a violation of Federal Law
to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.
Cimetidine prevents and treats abomasal,
duodenal, and gastric ulcers, as well as esophagitis, stressand drug-induced
erosive gastritis, uremic gastritis, duodenal gastric reflux, esophageal
reflux, and certain hypersecretory conditions. The basic mechanism by
which Cimetidine works is blocking the action of histamine in the stomach,
lessening acid production.
Cimetidine requires a prescription
from your veterinarian.
Cimetidine is only for use in animals
for which it has been prescribed. Not for use in humans.
Do not allow children to handle or
Review all package directions and warnings
Keep this product out of reach of children
and animals. Do not use or store in or near open flame or heat.
Cimetidine is intended only for use
in animals that have a prescription for the medication. Do not use in
other animals or humans.
Administer Cimetidine exactly as prescribed
by your veterinarian.
CAUTION: Not for use in animals
with hypersensitivity to cimetidine. An allergic reaction requires immediate
veterinary care. Signs may include itching, rash, hives, facial swelling,
cold limb, seizures, shock, or coma.
Use with caution in elderly animals
and in those with impaired liver or kidney function.
Cimetidine may interact with a number
of supplements and medications. Make sure your veterinarian knows everything
your pet takes, and always consult before giving your pet any new supplement
This medication can lower the white
blood cell count.
Give Cimetidine 2 hours before or after
antacids and other drugs your veterinarian has approved.
An accelerated heart rate or breathing
may indicate an overdose. If you know of or suspect an overdose, seek
emergency veterinary attention.

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This paper utilises computerised textual analysis to explore the extent to which both firm and country characteristics influence mandatory and voluntary risk reporting (MRR and VRR) variations both within and between non-financial firms across Germany, the UK and the US, over the period from 2005 to 2010. We find significant variations in MRR and VRR between firms across the three countries. Further, we find, on average, that German firms tend to disclose significantly higher (lower) levels of risk information mandatorily than UK (US) firms. German firms, on average, tend to reveal considerably higher (lower) levels of VRR than US (UK) firms. Our results document that MRR and VRR variations are significantly influenced by systematic risk, the legal system and cultural values.We also find that country and firm characteristics have higher explanatory power over the observed variations in MRR than over those in VRR.
- automated content analysis
- firm and country characteristics
- mandatory and voluntary risk reporting variations
- repeated measures multilevel analysis

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text: Mercy High School, originally named Our Lady of Mercy Academy, was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1882. During its early years, Mercy Academy educated children in grades K-12. As the need for a quality, Catholic education grew, so did our schools in the region. Catholic schools were formed in Chico, Redding, and Oroville. In 2017, to ensure a robust future, these school were reorganized as the Northern Valley Catholic Academies.


obic, i.e. water repelling, whereas the -COOgroup is hydrophilic, i.e. water loving. Therefore, RCOO ion orients itself in such a way that -COOend dips in water and the group R stays away from water.
-COOgroups of different RCOOions tend to stay away from one another due to like charges,whereas the R-groups try to approach each other to form other to form a bunch. This leads to the formation of a micelle as shown in the figure. Micelle formation in soap solution
Thus a soap micelle is a negatively charged colloids particle in which the negatively charged -COO groups are arranged in a spherical manner at the surface, while the hydrocarbon chains point towards the centre.
The -COO groups present at the surface of the micelle get surrounded by Na+ ions which tend to drag the micelle in the bulk of the solution. A micelle may contain as many as 100 molecules or more.
The cleansing action of soaps: Soaps are used for cleaning dirty clothes. Clothes become dirty due to the deposition of dust and oily or greasy substances. Water is not capable of wetting oily or greasy substances. However, the hydrocarbon residue R of the soap anion (RCOO) can do so. When a dirty cloth is dipped into a soap solution, the hydrocarbon residue R of RCOO ion dissolves the oily or greasy dirt and encapsulates it to form a micelle.
When the cloth is rinsed with water, the micelles carrying the oily or greasy dirt get washed away.
The cleaning action of detergents such as sodium laury sulphate, CH3 (CH2)11SO4Na+ or sulphonates of long chain hydrocarbons is similar to that of soaps. In case of detergents, the polar groups are sulphate (–SO4) or sulphonate (-SO3) groups.
Question 1: Cheese is a
a. sol
b. gel
c. foam
d. emulsions
Question 2: Which of the following colloid is an example of solid foam?
a. gem
b. rubby
c. glass
d. lava
Question 3: Colloidal syems in which the dispersion medium is air are called
a. aerosols
b. benzosols
c. aquasols
d. micelles
a. macromolecular colloids
b. micromolecular colloids
c. associated colloids
d. micelles
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The objective in Music Interpretation Parameters is to visualize a song through typography, graphics and imagery. A chosen song was to be displayed though the collection of materials and manipulating their image through a projector. Projected images of those materials yielded a variation of results, including wide ranges of colors, shadows, and highlights of the specified materials.
To create metaphors and visuals for the song by Ellie Goulding-Love Me Like You Do from the movie Fifty Shades of Grey. A feather was chosen to represent the soft and light feeling of the song. The projected images of the feather were used to develop a visual style that reinforced the overall tone of the song.
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Aircraft maintenance is key for safe and efficient aircraft operations. While most studies propose cost-efficient maintenance strategies, the safety and efficiency of these strategies need to be quantified. This paper proposes a formal framework to assess the safety and efficiency of maintenance strategies by means of agent-based modelling, stochastically and dynamically coloured Petri nets, and Monte Carlo simulation. We model an end-to-end aircraft maintenance process, considering several maintenance stakeholders. We apply our framework for aircraft landing gear brakes, and use a Gamma process to model the degradation trends of the brakes. The numerical results show that applying data-driven strategies reduces the number of inspections by 36%, while maintaining the same level of safety as in the case of traditional time-based maintenance strategies. Furthermore, in order to discuss the possibility to substitute all inspections by sensor monitoring, an advanced data-driven strategy using prognostics is considered. Overall, our proposed framework is generic and can readily be applied to assess the safety and efficiency of the maintenance of other aircraft components and maintenance strategies.
- Aircraft maintenance
- Gamma process
- Landing gear brake
- Stochastically and dynamically coloured Petri nets


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Decimals: Terminating or Repeating?
Date: 01/26/2001 at 15:10:31 From: Seegee Subject: How to tell if decimals are terminating or repeating? How can you tell just by looking at a fraction whether, in decimal form, it will terminate or repeat? My math teacher said there was a way, but I don't see how. Please help.
Date: 01/26/2001 at 15:49:23 From: Doctor Greenie Subject: Re: How to tell if decimals are terminating or repeating? Hi, Seegee - If a decimal fraction terminates, then it has a name like one of the following: " ____ tenths" " ____ hundredths" " ____ thousandths" " ____ ten-thousandths"... " ____ millionths"... " ____ ten-billionths"... etc., etc. When you write these numbers as common fractions, what is special about the denominators? The answer to that question should be a big hint toward the answer to your question, but it won't give the complete answer. For example, here are a couple of fractions whose decimal representations terminate but that don't have names from the "infinite" list above: 3/4 (=.75) and 5/8 (=.625). So why do these two have terminating decimals, while a fraction like 1/3 does not? It is because the first two can be written as equivalent fractions with names from the list above, while the fraction 1/3 cannot: 3/4 = 75/100 = seventy-five hundredths 5/8 = 625/1000 = six hundred twenty-five thousandths but you can't write 1/3 = a/10 or = b/100 or = c/1000 or.... where a, b, c, or any other of the numerators are integers. I have still only hinted at the precise answer to your question. If you can't quite figure out the whole answer after studying what I've written, you can find the complete answer in the Dr. Math archives. Click on the "Search the Archives" link on the main Dr. Math page and use "repeating decimal" or "terminating decimal" as the phrase to search for (do not use quotation marks, but be sure to click on the button that makes the search engine look for the entire phrase instead of the individual words). The search will provide you with links to several pages where this question is discussed. - Doctor Greenie, The Math Forum _URL_
Date: 01/26/2001 at 15:32:14 From: Doctor Rob Subject: Re: How to tell if decimals are terminating or repeating? Thanks for writing to Ask Dr. Math, Seegee. The fraction will terminate if and only if the denominator has for prime divisors only 2 and 5, that is, if and only if the denominator has the form 2^a * 5^b for some exponents a >= 0 and b >= 0. The number of decimal places until it terminates is the larger of a and b. The proof of this lies in the fact that every terminating decimal has the form n/10^e, for some e >= 0 (e is the number of places to the right that the decimal point must be moved to give you an integer, and n is that integer), and every fraction of that form has a terminating decimal found by writing down n and moving the decimal point e places to the left. Now when you cancel common factors from n/10^e = n/(2*5)^e = n/(2^e*5^e), it may reduce the exponents in the denominator, but that is all that can happen. - Doctor Rob, The Math Forum _URL_
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to create Instru Pointer I could just do I could just do something like that. I m t p t r And then there's are variable name equals AM Sunday and now I can just do a ask risk A equals 50. As usual, ask rece PT r equals 50 as usual. My mistake. We can pilot. Now you can see that works fine. So here we've typed deaf and inched your point of so you can see that it's a little more understandable now than I and she I nt ask Chris PTR So there's all sorts of clever things you can do with the pre process er, because type definitions are are resolved a compile time, not run time 25. Booleans Explained: So we're not gonna discuss Pauline's, and you're probably wondering why I haven't discussed them yet. While the reason is is because see doesn't come with a leans built in. In other words, it's not a primitive type, essentially to access billions and see you need to include ahead of file. So include STD bull dot page. This will now allow you to do things like this. So what this does this creates an ABC variable, and the ABC variable is equal to true. So what we can now do is we can access false and true in C so I can do things like if ABC Prince F A B C is true. If I now compile that ABC is true, I can see that if I said this to false, I can pull out now I can see nothing so you can clearly see that by include including STD Bulldog Page. It defines a macro, a definition called false, this equal to zero. So much like when I showed you how to define things in the pre process. Of course, in the pre process a lecture, you can see that false is equal to zero, and true has a definition that is equal to one. So you use BA leans in situations where there's only two values. 01 true or false yes or no? 26. Unions: so unions are a fantastic feature built in to see on what they allow you to do is they allow to share memory regions with multiple variables, essentially, by changing either one of these variables will affect them all because they all share the same memory region. There are many reasons why you would use unions, particularly in low level code. So let's now create a union. I'll explain as we go along Union, my union, but a semi colon at the end instead a Sharpie. So now in here do union my union, ABC an hour ago abc dot a equals 50 and then do a b c dot b equals 20 and I want us to output A and B So we're going to go and do that now. And what you're now going to see is, if we can Paula and run that you're gonna see 2020 now, why is that? Because both variables in here share the same memory region. So when we set insta a to 50 on, then set Sharpie to 20 we overwrite the memory invariable A because they are sharing the same memory. So that is fantastic feature. If I was to do something like zero x f f f f f f f path on This is Hexi Decimal, By the way, this is how you do hex, decimal and see. And then in here we we keep that is 20. If you now change thes toe X on X this will print now Hex Hexi decimal values for us If we now compile it again, can we run that you don't see f f f f f f f u C f f f f f f F 14 and then the hex equivalent of char B is 14. So by getting rid of this that by getting rid of this, completely removing it Onda we compile that again. You know, see that both a and B equal to f f f f f f f because they share the same memory region. So you can also define unions in structures as I've done here and you'll notice that we can now do Esther A equals 50 s stop b equals 20 on that will perform exactly the same way as I just showed you and obviously above the union here you can have other variables such a Z, whose memory location is not shed 27. Hex And Binary: Hello and welcome. So we're now going to discuss how to use Hexi decimal and binary in the C programming language. So, firstly, if we go back to the asking table, you can see decimal value on a hexi decimal value next to it decimal value. Hexi decimal value. All that this is is the way the computer displays it to you. Everything in a computer is binary. The decimal numbers you see here are just the way it displays that to you. That's all that it is now. That is an important thing to note anything you see, if its capital a a capital B, it is all just ones and zeros on the fact you see A is because this table, the asking table associates those binary bits with our pixel bits. So it knows which character to display on the screen to you. Now, Hexi Decimal is no different. It's just a way of showing a decimal in a different in a different format. So you used decimal and hexi decimal to express binary values. It's all the same things. Okay, so go back to visual code on. I want us to create a variable on set it to a Hoechst s more value. So go in such a equals zero x zero x means the we're gonna We're about to express a hexi decimal value. So the compiler one, when it's compiling your code, should read that value as Hexi Decimal that that's what it's saying. So if we do do X 20 in here, you've Now you've now set a 20 x 20 on. If you do print, if we're gonna output this so I can show you the difference A. Now this will be output. It is decimal, right? So let's now open that up on compile it. So back to cmd cd paste that in GCC main dot c Dachau dot ford sash main and then Dumaine you can see 32. So what this means is Hexi decimal zero x 20 is decimal 32. Now watch this. You can do percent X here to display hex decimal values. So now if we provide a again so a will be output is intra first and then is Hexi decimal Next. If we now compile that again and run that you can see 32 20 So twenties are Hexi decimal value 32 is the decimal equivalent. But let's go back to what I was saying earlier. The thing is, Hexi decimal on decimal and binary. They all equal the same thing. That's how it works. Zero x 20 is no different from our 32 decimal. This this is just the way the computer displays it to you. It is all just binary of the end of the day. It is not decimal. It is no accident. Zimmel. Everything is expressed. His binary on the computer can render it to us in decimal or hacks a decimal, and that is so important to know. So hacks a decimal 20 is exactly the same as decimal 32. It's just being displayed to us differently. The equivalent at the binary level. And that is what you need to know. Let's now discuss how to write binary values and see. So if you do zero p _PHONE_ And then get rid of this final zero input one. We're gonna change this to a child and put a semicolon there. So as you know, there are eight bits and bytes, so we should have a pet CIA 123 full 5678 Yes, we do. So make sure the final zeros of one. Now we need to compel that I'm running that again so we can see the binary one is Hexi decimal one on decimal one. So to do binary, you stop with zero B decimal zero b. Everything after is by knowing binary values. So if you now get rid of this and put a zero, this should be too, which it is. Put a one here, so it's 11 at the end, and it should be three, which it is. So that is how you can assign binary in the C programming language. You simply start with a zero B and then the rest of the numbers i o binary value. The 1st 0 here means nothing. The following zeros and ones are the value. So the following after the big So I hope that explains hex decimal and binary in C. I know I haven't discussed how the hex numbers on binary numbers how they can be, how you can understand them, But that's because that I assume you already know this. This is a C programming course I'm t I teach you how to use them in the programming language so you can look that up simply. Binary is based to, and Hoechst Estimate is based 16. 28. Comments: So in this lecture, we're going to discuss commenting up until this point, I haven't discussed commenting because I've been wanting to get most of the hardest stuff out of the way. So commenting allows you to basically write comments for yourself to make code a little easier to understand. So, for example, this is a comment. So by using to forward slashes, you say to the compiler, this entire line is not code. It's a comment for myself to understand. My co better on the compiler won't compel this if you did slash slash into a equals 50 it doesn't get compiled is a common. So that's one type of comment you can. You can use new lines at two. You can


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Testing the operation of all door and window contacts, and motion detectors.
Step 1: Verify that the alarm system is in "READY" mode. Do not arm it!
Step 2: Open each protected door or window, one at a time.
Step 3: Check that the keypad displays the door or window you are testing is open.
Step 4: Close the respective door or window. The keypad should display "ZONE OPEN".
Step 5: Repeat this procedure for each sensor in the system.
Testing the signal transmission to ADT monitoring center.
Step 1: Call ADT Customer Service at 03-9236 1827 and ask that your alarm system be placed in "TEST" mode. Be ready to give your monitoring account number and password to the operator.
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Step 3: Turn off your system and reset it to "READY" mode.
Step 4: Verify that the signal was received by the Monitoring Center.
Step 5: Call ADT Customer Service at 03-9236 1827 to take alarm system off test.


How to Safely Solder Joints onto Piezo Transducers
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When working with piezos, soldering is a skill that must be mastered. So what is soldering? Soldering is the the process of fusing different types of metals together by melting solder using a hot iron. This process creates a permanent connection between the different components.
In this post, I'll give you an overview of how to safely solder onto piezos with silver electrodes and the more difficult nickel electrodes. I'll take you through the process for both silver and nickel step-by-step, and if you'd like to follow along visually, you can watch my video where I demonstrate how to solder a good joint onto both silver electrodes and nickel electrodes.
How to Solder onto Piezo Transducers Video Tutorial
This post is based on a series we do called Tip Tuesday where we explore piezo applications and tips to help you better use and understand piezoelectric materials. Check out our video tutorials page for more. And if you have an idea for a tip, please don't hesitate to leave a comment or contact us directly.
video of soldering onto piezo transducers
What Materials You Need to Solder onto Piezo Transducers
The first thing you need to do to make a good solder joint to a piezo transducer is pick a piezo. I'm choosing between two: one is the easy kind that has a silver electrode. The other is the more difficult kind that that has a nickel electrode and is typical of the type sold by The nickel electrode is only 1000 angstroms thick (an angstrom being 10 to the minus 10 meters) and this has given some people trouble.
The next thing you'll need is some paraphernalia that's very useful for making good joints. Aside from the piezo, the next most important thing is to have some flux. Flux is available in many different places. If you're going to do a lot of this, we have two kits available that have flux, some solder, and a few sample pieces of piezo so you don't have to practice on any good parts you bought.
 - Silver Kit
 - Nickel Kit
piezo kit with solder fluxOur KIT-005 Solder & Flux Kit for Silver Electrode
Other materials you'll need:
 - Small plastic cup - A small plastic thimble cup is needed to put a few drops of flux in. Remember that you only need a small amount.
 - Toothpicks - You only need to apply a very small amount of flux by direct contact. Toothpicks are the perfect size to help you do this.
 - Water - You'll need some water to wash off the flux of the solder joint immediately after you make it.
 - Solder - Of course, you're going to need some solder. You should use small diameter solder (tiny solder, don't use the big fat stuff!). We also recommend that you use the RoHS (stands for Reduction of Hazardous Substances, normally spoken ROHS-HAS) compliance solder that has no lead. There's nothing wrong with any of the joints and it works just as well as the old tin lead solder does. If your prototype ends up working, then it's going to go into production and you're going to have to figure out how to use the stuff anyway so just get it and use it. Better sooner than later, engineers!
 - Flat working surface - It would also be good to have a nice flat working surface, like a small, handy stainless steel plate and a small piece of blue tape for holding things together.
 - Soldering iron - If you watched the video that's at the top of this post, you'll have noticed that I had a very nice digital soldering iron with a kind of probe on it, which is about a 10 watt probe. That's really all you need to make a good joint. Using a big, think solder iron will ruin the joint. It's also unnecessary to have a digital soldering iron, but it helps to know what the temperature is if you're trying to follow directions. In any case, even if you don't have a digital one you will need to be able to control the temperature of the iron somehow or other, so take that into consideration.
 - Wire - Now, you can't just solder any old kind of wire to a piezo. If it's too thick, it will be stiff. When you pick it up afterwards or stress it in any way, the wire has a lot of leverage on that tiny joint you've made and it will break the joint, you'll lose your contact and you'll have to do it all over again.
 The wire I used in the video is about a 32 gauge wire and that's about right for most piezo projects. In special cases, you might need something thicker, but this is a very good option and it's very flexible.
 - Wire stripper - You will also need a tool that can do some stripping. It is possible to do this with a razor blade, but it's a lot more tedious. With the wire stripped, you'll just take off a tiny amount of the insulation. The reason for that is when you have a nice, long piece of bare wire that's multi-stranded, the melted solder wicks back up into the twisted wire where it solidifies and makes a stiff rod and you have a leverage problem all over again.
wire stripper and stripped wire
To give you an idea about what my setup looks like, I've included the image below:
how to solder joints onto a piezo transducer set up
Safety Considerations for Soldering
It is good practice to do your soldering in a ventilated area. In still air, the various volatiles that are created during soldering rise straight up into your breathing zone. The volatiles contain evaporated flux which is slightly acidic, cooked resin components, and even lead and tin if you don't use ROHS "no lead" solder. Some laboratories will have a portable solder fume hood available which will divert the updraft away from the work zone. That's the Cadillac solution.
Another common safety practice is to place a small, low velocity fan (such as those found in computer cabinets) on the bench with a horizontal flow directed across the area where the joint is to be made. That's the Volkswagen solution.
A nice write up by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on soldering safety, which is much more general, can be found here.
How to Make a Solder Joint
Silver Electrodes
Now that you've acquired all of your materials, it's time to make a solder joint. I recommend starting the silver electrode as that's the easy one. It's clean, white and is generally easier to solder. In fact, you don't really need any any flux. Usually you can treat this a lot like you would a circuit board.
One technique that works fairly well is taking the soldering iron, getting a little tiny bead about the size of the joint that you want to make on the tip, and you tend the spot where it's going to be. Then you take the wire that you've pre-stripped to a very short amount and you pre-tend the wire. Then you touch the wire to the little blob on the piezo, and that's it. It makes a good joint. It's a lot like a circuit board where you're depending on the flux that's in the solder.
good joint on silver electrodeExample of a good joint on a silver electrode
Nickel Electrodes
If you're working with a nickel electrode, it has to be treated entirely differently. If you were to do the same procedure as a silver electrode, it would simply not stick.
The nickel piezo I use in the video is only 1000 angstroms thick and is very lightweight, so it definitely needs to be held in place with tape so it doesn't slide. Even a slight breath will cause it to move.
To begin, take one of your toothpicks and wet the tip. Then, put a small dot of flux right where you want the joint to be. Now, take your wire and strip a little bit off the tip, taking care not to leave very much wire exposed. Next, dip the wire into the flux. Now you've got the flux dot where you want it to go, you've got flux in the strands of the wire, and you have a soldering iron. Put a bead on the soldering iron that is about the same size as you want the joint. Then, lay the wire right on top of the piezo where you want it to be. Take that solder blob, the wet solder blob, and push it down on the both of them. When you hear a little hissing sound, it's done, don't leave it on any longer than that. Then, take a look at your work and then immediately put it in the water.
Now, if you're in the lab, you don't use a cup of water. You can use a cup if it's on the bench, but if you're near a sink you could put a vessel in it and put your multiple pieces in there and let water dribble into it for about 15 minutes to clean them.
The purpose of the water is to stop the action of the flux. It is a mild organic acid, its water soluble and it's very safe, but it's not safe for electrodes. If you leave it on the electrode, they'll eat it away. So, always, always, wash your joints as soon as possible.
nickel electrode solder jointExample of a good joint on


Calling Arbitrary Functions In EXEs: Performing Calls to EXE Functions Like DLL Exports
When reversing or fuzzing an executable, being able to run an arbitrary function with controlled data is extremely helpful. Through iteratively playing with the function's parameters and examining the output, we can better understand the function's logic.
A dll (Dynamic Linked Library) with our target function would allow us to conveniently review and test the function as we wish. The only problem is that usually the function we want to examine resides in an exe, not a dll. Converting¹ an exe to a dll is a solvable challenge. After all, both an exe and a dll share the same PE (Portable Executable) file format So let's explore, how can we convert¹ an exe to a dll?
¹ "convert to DLL" = fundamentally behave like a DLL.
Step 1: Modify The File Header
The OS differentiates between an exe and a dll by their "Characteristics" field in the PE header. A dll has the IMAGE_FILE_DLL (0x2000) flag set, while an exe doesn't. So to solve our first problem, we'll turn this flag on.
Fig 1. Comparison Before And After Setting The IMAGE_FILE_DLL Flag
Step 2: Patch The Entry Point
After a PE file is loaded, the file's entry point code is executed, which is set by the AddressOfEntryPoint field in the PE header. For exe files, the entry point is wrapper code that calls the "main" function, but for dll files, the entry point is the "DllMain" function that behaves differently.
main()'s purpose is to perform and manage the core functionality of the executable. However, DllMain's purpose is to only perform minimal initialization and then return immediately.
Return Value
A successful exit from main() is indicated by returning 0. Conversely, a successful exit from DllMain() is True (any non-zero value). If DllMain() returns False (0) when we try to load it, the OS fails the load with error code 1114 "A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."
Function Prototype
The entry point of a.exe isn't called with any parameters on the stack. Instead, the code at the entry point that wraps main() uses Windows functions to prepare main()'s arguments (argv, argc, and envp) as seen in Figure 2:
The Patch
The good news is we can correct these 3 discrepancies between the exe and dll entry points with one simple patch: overwrite the code in the exe entry point to simply "return 1".
Fig 3. New Entry Point Code
Fig 4. Overwriting The.exe Entry Point With The Patch
This patch changes the Entry Point code to "return immediately with a successful code and clean the stack variables."
After this step, we are done patching the target file :). We will now focus on writing the code invoking the call to our new "DLL".
Step 3: Invoke The Call
Now that we have a file that behaves like a DLL, we can load it with LoadLibrary(). LoadLibrary() will load our modified exe into our process's address space and run the Entry Point code.
Calculating RVA
Next, to call our target function we need to calculate its RVA (Relative Virtual Address), the function's offset from the base of the file. This is done by simply subtracting the function's offset (the address as it appears in IDA) from the program's Image Base (can be found using any PE viewer).
Fig 5. Finding The Image Base Using A PE Viewer
As seen in Figure 5 above, my example exe's image base is 0x400000.
Fig 6. Finding the target function's offset with IDA
And as seen in Figure 6, my target function's offset is 0x401040.
By subtracting the Image Base form the target function's offset we compute that the function's RVA = 0x401040 - 0x400000 = 0x1040.
And here is the result running the code:
Fig 8. Succesfully Running Our Patched Executable As A.DLL
Closing Notes
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Improving Implementation
Something I didn't mention in this post for the sake of brevity is that usually complex programs have some initialization done before they reach certain functions. For example, a logging function might expect the computer's hostname to be in a certain global variable before it runs, and will crash if it's not.
 1. One thing that is confusing me is that if I try to follow this step by step with another editor, for instance, I'm trying to use Dev-Cpp, the binary formed is completely different. The EntryPoint symbol specially, and I haven't figured it out how to do this with the binary generated here. Could you try to do the same thing but compiling using Dev-Cpp?
 2. Sure :)
 I'll get to it when I free up a bit. I'll update when I have something 👍
 3. WOW, that took a surprising amount of debugging but I found the fault:)! Devcpptools compiles it's executables without a dynamic base by default. You can use a tool such as CFF Explorer and view the DLLCharacteristsics field* (under NT Headers>Optional Headers) and see that the "DLL can move" flag* is not set. This means that the executable only "knows" how to load to one address. Therefore, if we try to load the executable to a process where that address is already taken, for example by our invoker.exe, the dll will fail to load, giving the error 487-ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS.
 This can be fixed by ensuring our invoker.exe isn't loaded to the address our target dll wants to load to too (which is 0x400000). In the compilation process of the invoker exe, we can set a controlled image base instead of the conflicting default. I wasn't sure how to do this in devcpptools (I'm sure it's somewhere in the options though), so I used visual studio to compile the invoker and set the image base to 0x800000. In VS, the image base address can be set in the project properties > configuration properties > Linker > Advanced > Base Address.
 After compiling the invoker with a new address, loading the converted devcpptools exe as a dll worked! :D
 Also, if you intend to use the stub entry point code ("mov eax, 1; ret 0xC") from the blog, ensure you're compiling both the invoker and target exe to 32 bit
 Let me know if any other problems arise in your experiments! ;)
 * the field names misleadingly include "DLL", but they apply to EXEs and other PE files alike
 4. How to deal global variables relocation and tls table,crt library relocation.
 5. Is there a tutorial how to modify a non exported function to Export tables.
 6. You don't need to deal with any relocations :)
 Since we're using LoadLibrary, the loader automatically takes care of relocations for us.
 If there are any initialization functions that need to run before the code, just call those functions first.
 7. Is it possible to load this dll(exe) from memory directly without storing on the disk first.
 8. You can add a dll export with CFF Explorer. Just go to the exports table and add an entry :)
 9. If you want to load your custom dll from memory, I recommend just keeping it as an exe and using a custom loader such as:
 If you want to load the converted dll anyway, then you could "reverse" the patches in memory (converting it back to a exe), and then use the loader (linked above)
 10. Wouldn't it be easier to use Frida? It can call any function given its memory address, change its args, etc
 Nevertheless, great article and thank you (:
 1. Thanks for the kind words!:)
 Frida could indeed be a great alternative, depending on the requirements. Patching the exe has zero runtime performance overhead, which means this method could be utilized in fuzzing and other performance hungry applications. I don't know how lean the frida overhead is. In addition, patching the binary requires no runtime support, which could be useful for environments where you don't want to install Frida. Nonetheless, Frida is a viable alternative in many cases
 Hope I gave some perspective about when to use each method :D
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Fire-Fighting Aircraft FAQ
What types of aircraft are used in wildfire suppression?
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What is the material dropped by aircraft at a fire?
The answer is found on the following page:
What is the difference between an air tanker and a water bomber?
Air tankers are land-based aircraft which leave the base with a load of fire retardant and must return to the base for additional loads. Water bombers are amphibious aircraft that skim over large water bodies and scoop up water which is then dropped on the fire. The B.C. Forest Service uses air tankers almost exclusively.
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If you follow the apex line of the recently deployed monuments of
Arctic Henge in
Raufarhöfn in northern
Iceland from this vantage point, you will see that they point due north.
A good way to tell is to follow their apex line to the line connecting the end stars of the
Big Dipper, Merak and Dubhe, toward
Polaris, the bright star near the north
spin axis of the Earth projected onto the sky.
By design, from this vantage point, this same apex line will also point directly at the
at its highest point in the sky just during the
summer solstice of Earth's northern hemisphere.
In other words, the Sun will not set at
Arctic Henge during the summer solstice in late June, and at its
highest point in the sky it will appear just above the aligned vertices of this modern monument.
The above image was taken in late March during a
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At-risk of poverty rate 2015
This map shows the share of the total population with a disposable income below 60% of the national median disposable income after social transfers in the Nordic Region in 2015.
The experience of a person being at risk of poverty is relative to the society that directly surrounds them, as is manifest by having less monetary resources that one's peers to maintain well-being.
The red shading indicates regions with an at-risk-poverty rate of 10% or more in 2015. The darker the red, the higher the at-risk-poverty rate. The yellow shading indicates municipalities with an at-risk-poverty rate lower than 10% in 2015. The brighter the yellow, the lower the at-risk-poverty rate.
Sweden has the highest share of people living in a household at-risk-of-poverty (15.1%) followed by Finland (12.8%), Denmark (12.1%), Norway (10.9%) and Iceland (7.9%). Regional variations are somewhat more difficult to discern compared to the other health and well-being indicators. This is in part caused by the higher administrative scale that is shown for Sweden compared to Denmark, Finland and Norway, as well as the lack the cross-border dimension in this indicator. It is notable however that municipalities within the metropolitan areas of larger centres like Oslo and Copenhagen show higher percentages of the population being at risk of poverty. This reflects the reality of higher income variance in metropolitan areas, which can be an important factor causing segregation and social exclusion, and further reinforcing negative effects on well-being.
Metropolitan areas also face higher variance in housing structure, with more single person households than rural areas and small and medium sized towns. Coupled with high rents, this leads to a burdensome cost of housing and risk of poverty. The capital region of Finland shows a much different picture and is in fact an outlier with lower percentages of people at risk of poverty compared to the rest of the country.


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The 'ergonomic' bent-handle shovel is not new to the market, and is a far more popular choice than the traditional straight-handle shovel. However, despite its popularity, why doesn't the ergonomic shovel render the traditional straight-handle shovel obsolete?
The two shovels are designed to provide mechanical advantages in different situations. The bent-handle shovel is designed using the principles of biomechanical stress to the low back for pushing tasks. When push force is applied as the hands move vertically from the hips, either above or below hip level, the off-axis forces create increased strain to the low back. The user applies push forces through the midsection of the trunk to avoid unnecessary low back strain. However, this mechanical advantage is optimal only for pushing the snow, not lifting.
If you have ever used the bent-handle shovel, you may have noticed that the angle of the shaft positions the load such that it is difficult to raise the shovel blade end. When you attempt to lift the shovel, to clear the top of a snow bank for example, the front hand often must lift higher than is required with a traditional handle because of the angle of the shovel shaft. The front hand also bears more of the overall weight due to an inefficient lever created by the handle design. The traditional shovel handle is straight and allows for more optimal hand positioning for easier lifting.
So the next time you are out for a marathon of shoveling, go easy on your back and use the straight-handle shovel for lifting and the bent-handle shovel for pushing. Selecting the right tool for the task is important…even for snow shoveling.
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Yodeling – it's all in the voice.
Yodeling had its origins in the call from mountain to mountain, the communication from Alp to Alp. Recognisable from the very first few notes, this Alpine music has the love for nature and home as its central themes.
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Yodeling is a form of singing that involves singing with repeated changes in pitch from the chest register to the head register without using words that mean anything. As described this way, yodeling is spread worldwide. It is especially in mountainous and inaccessible regions that natural yodeling communication forms have developed in order to communicate from one hill to the other or to bring in the cows. Although yodeling was probably being used back in the Stone Age, the choir singing of the yodeling songs only developed in the 19th century.
Yodeling songs of the natural yodelers
When a solo yodeler starts to sing a slow sequence of notes, the other yodelers hum along with the appropriate tone, and provide a spontaneous melody – resulting in natural yodel singing. In this primitive way, in the various mountain regions of Switzerland, one-to five-part yodeling songs are sung without words. In the Muota Valley, the "Jüüzli" is sung with two or three voices, while the Appenzell "Zäuerli" and "Ruggusserli" are polyphonic natural yodels that are often spontaneously improvised. During festivals and special occasions polyphonic natural yodels are often accompanied by talerschwingen or bell shaking (small Alpine bells). What makes the natural tones of the natural yodel so special is the eleventh tone, the natural tone, or alphorn Fa. This unique tone in C major is neither heard as "F" nor as "F sharp" but is somewhere in between. For many people, this "Fa" can be hard to get used to because since the 18th century, when "well-tempered" tuning was introduced, this sound has disappeared from the usual tone series.
Yodel choirs and yodel songs
In Switzerland and the other Alpine countries, yodeling developed into song in the 19th century. The yodel song, now with a two, three and four-part harmony, and usually accompanied by a "Schwyzerörgeli" (accordion) is the genre most favoured by yodelers in associations. In 1910, these merged into the Swiss Yodeling Association. Each year they perform in front of the jurors in regional and cantonal yodeling festivals and every three years in a national yodeling festival. The songs are about the mountains, nature and home, and also include issues such as freedom and independence. Since 1971, spiritual yodeling songs have also been sung at festivals. Today there are about 2,000 compositions of Swiss yodeling songs, mainly in German, but also in French. Yodeling is now no longer really practiced in the Italian and Romansh-speaking areas of the country, and if so, predominantly German-language songs are sung.
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Religion and National Identity in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey on the relationship between religious and national identity in Eastern European and Eurasian countries, noting changes in the way that religious identification has influenced national identity since the fall of atheist fundamentalism with the USSR. For religious and belief minorities—now including atheists—the relationship can be a troubling one, particularly as resurgent nationalism in the region has been accompanied by xenophobia and religious discrimination.
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70% (Orthodox-majority) / 57% (Catholic-majority)
Average among countries who believe majority religious identity is very or somewhat important to national identity
Percentage within Orthodox-majority countries who believe Orthodox religious identity is very or somewhat important to national identity
Percentage within Catholic-majority countries who believe Catholic religious identity is very or somewhat important to national identity
Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe (Pew Research Center | May 2017)


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Things to do?
Climbing the lighthouse and breathing in the salty, clean air is a must. You've come a long way so why not!
Best place for your photo?
At the marker close to the lighthouse which indicates the official dividing line between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean.
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Wasserstein Random Forests and Applications in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
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We propose a new family of Random Forests that can be used to estimate conditional distributions and we highlight its applications on the estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects. We first provide a brief introduction on Breiman's original RF. Then, we present a reformulation using some simple equivalence between empirical variances and Wasserstein distance of empirical measures, which heuristically indicates that Breiman's splitting criterion can be used to obtain conditional distribution estimates in both univariate and multivariate cases. Additionally, respecting the samephilosophy of Breiman's construction, we propose some variant splitting criteria that are more dedicated to the conditional distribution estimation problems. Some preliminary theoretical connections will be revealed, along with various numerical experiments. We expect that the same methodology may also inspire more general supervised learning algorithms such as Boosting and Aggregation, to make them suitable for conditional distribution estimation.


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dc.contributor.advisor Rapmund, Valerie Joan en Hsu, Shu-Chun, M.A. en 2009-08-25T10:53:15Z 2009-08-25T10:53:15Z 2009-08-25T10:53:15Z 2005-11-30 en
dc.description.abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the processes of individuation and connection in mother-daughter relationships, and describe how these relationships may or may not be facilitated by the intervention of reflections and joint narratives. This study used social constructionism as the epistemological framework and involved in-depth interviews with three mother-daughter pairs. Hermeneutics was used to analyse the data. The participants' experiences were recounted through the researcher's lens in the form of themes that characterised their relationships as well as interactional patterns. Participant's experiences of the research process, and what the researcher believed were helpful and unhelpful behaviours in her interaction with each mother-daughter pair, were discussed. A comparative analysis was also undertaken between the common themes identified in the stories of the mother-daughter pairs and the literature. The information gained could assist women as well as professionals in understanding and respecting mother-daughter relationships in their specific contexts. en
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Our customer was commissioned to engineer a biogas plant in the Chinese hinterland. They knew that the plant would have to be fully functional the moment it was completed. Increased on-site personnel costs were not an issue but if the biogas plant was not operational immediately then there would be a problem.
The main issue was that the area designated for the plant could experience temperatures of almost 40°C in summer yet the permissible temperature difference for cooling the bio elements is only 2 Kelvin. If cooling doesn't function correctly, the microorganisms will die and the entire system will stop working.
Our task was to optimize the heat exchanger in such a way that it would function efficiently despite the low temperature difference.
Heat transfer at a temperature difference of only 2 kelvin is challenging. Additionally, we would have to deal with the non-continuous drive system operating at the plant.
As a first step, it was important to clearly define the task so we analyzed the R & I flow chart as well as the planned mass and energy flows in detail. This resulted in a heat exchanger design with a pipe length of a few hundred meters just as the customer had foreseen.
Therefore, we decided to take a step back to the drawing board and rethought the entire process control of the biogas plant from the ground up. Did the heat exchanger really need to be so large? Surely there was a more elegant method?
With the help of a TRIZ process we developed a range of potential solutions to present to the client. We adopted some approaches from sewage treatment plants and others from classical process engineering. We identified the limiting factor – heat transfer occurring on the outer side of the pipes – and began intensively planning how we could improve it.
The customer implemented the following solution: the geometry of the storage container was adjusted according to our specifications in order to attain a higher flow velocity. To achieve this, agitators were utilized to further improve the pipes' external heat transfer rate.
This not only saved the customer investment costs but also ensured that the biogas plant was guaranteed to function, even under harsh conditions.
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A wetsuit or wet suit is a garment sometimes worn by swimmers, surfers and divers for warmth. It may be made of rubber, lycra or neoprene. It typically covers the whole body except the head, hands and feet and is usually quite close-fitting, acting like a catsuit.
It differs from a drysuit because water can get between the garment and the person's skin, forming an insulating layer.
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This definition will make a series of rectangular cells move in the z-direction and scale based on their distance from point attractors. Finally, they will loft together to form the modules.
By using the "Spatial Deform (Custom)" component you can deform a freeform surface. You have to define a space syntax of points and forces. First, give the moving points and related forces to the space syntax and then define some points which are fixed and have no movement.
The Splop component Wraps geometry onto a surface. Basically, you can distribute a geometry on a surface by using the Splop component. The Geometry will not be deformed as it is transformed if You activate the Rigid option.
In this exercise file, you can learn how to scale a series of boxes by using the range and graph mapper to produce a non-linear distribution.
In this grasshopper definition a way of creating a desired number of arcs will be demonstrated using the 3 point arc component. In order to do so, 3 sets of points will be required. One set is only one point in the center which all arcs are connected to.
In this definition by using a parametric helix and modeling a series of triangles on the path you can make spiral spikes. You can also change the graphs to get different results.
In this grasshopper definition, by defining a planar module and mirroring it by one of the module's edge as the mirror plane, you can create aggregation model from this recursive loop.
In this grasshopper definition by choosing a random point inside a rectangle and creating a loop which constantly cuts the rectangle from a point vertically and horizontally you can have a parametric subdivided model.
In this grasshopper definition first we scatter a series of random points inside a brep and then generate random vectors to cut the brep with the related planes. Finally you can move the pieces away from each other.
In this grasshopper definition by training a neural network using boundary curves (representing a function in an urban scale) you can use it to recognize the function of any given closed curve.
In this grasshopper definition by using the lunchbox plugin you can convert a csv file into a pie chart
In this grasshopper example file you can define a sphere and use the TSP(travelling salesman problem) component from the Leafvein plugin as a space filling algorithm.


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A Higher Education Fable
Once there was a school on the top of a steep hill. Because it was on a hill, it was called Higher Education.
Everyone who worked at this school had been taught by the teachers in the school down the hill. But because they were now up the hill, they did think a lot about the teachers down the hill. Most of the teachers down the hill were women and most of the teachers up the hill were men.
There were several different students who went to the Higher Education school.
The younger students who went there Continue reading "A Higher Education Fable"


Kay F. Jahnke _kfj@yahoo....
Wed Nov 9 03:16:12 CST 2011
Hi group!
in brief: I'm looking for an efficient way to evaluate B-splines generated by
scipy.signal.cspline2d() at arbitrary float coordinates to interpolate image
I am doing image processing and need a method to interpolate an image at
arbitrary float coordinates. Scipy.signal kindly provides a fast and efficient
routine to calculate spline coefficients, but the module seems not to adress
using this spline for interpolation.
I have written some code to calculate the interpolated value at arbitrary
positions, but this code is cumbersome and slow - I have to calculate the
value of the basis function 8 times (I suspect that takes a good while using
signal.bspline(), haven't done any measurements), plus a fair bit of matrix
manipulation to pick the relevant window of spline coefficients to multiply
with the basis function values - my code (without any frills or checks,
just to convey the basic idea) looks like this:
# assume the spline coefficients are in a 2D array 'cf'
# and (x,y) is the position to interpolate at
def cf_matrix ( cf, x, y ) :
 return cf [ x - 1 : x + 3, y - 1 : y + 3 ]
def base_matrix ( x, y ) :
 x0 = x - floor ( x )
 y0 = y - floor ( y )
 rng = arange ( 1, -3, -1 )
 xv = rng + x0
 yv = rng + y0
 xb = signal.bspline ( xv, 3 )
 yb = signal.bspline ( yv, 3 )
 xx, yy = meshgrid ( xb, yb )
 return xx * yy
def interpolate ( cf, x, y ) :
 m = cf_matrix ( cf, x, y )
 b = base_matrix ( x, y )
 return sum ( m * b )
obviously this is fine to use for a few hundred points or so, but for real
images it's not practical.
In Scipy.interpolate, there is scipy.interpolate.bisplev() to evaluate the
splines generated by scipy.interpolate.bisplrep(), but these splines are of
the more general form with arbitraryly spaced knot points, therefore the
relevant data structures contain the knot vectors, and I assume that all sorts
of performance gains that could be derived from the fact that the splines from
the signal package are using equally-spaced samples are inapplicable in the
general case.
I'd appreciate suggestions on how to proceed or hints at what I'm missing.
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INFLUENCE OF DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS ON PREFERENTIAL FLOW PATHWAYS IN A GLACIAL AQUIFER SYSTEM
MODPATH was used to track the pathways of 100 particles released as line sources at five depth intervals with documented 1,4-dioxane concentrations along the boundary of the contaminant source area. Pathways for 100 realizations of each ensemble were combined to produce cross sections showing the frequency of particles passing through individual model cells along transects spaced at 1 km intervals downgradient of the line source and adjacent to the hypothesized groundwater discharge location along the Huron River approximately 8 km from the line source. Results revealed dispersion of preferential flow pathways related to stochastic K variability proximal to the line source, followed by increasing channelization into preferential flow pathways related to the deterministic hydrostratigraphic framework farther downgradient. Differences in the spatial distribution of particle pathways observed between the ensembles of SIS and SGS ensembles increased with increasing travel distances. These results suggest that the relative influence of deterministic versus stochastic components of hybrid models depends upon the scale of the flow and transport problem under investigation.


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are oranges named orange because they're orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange
which came first: the orange or orange
Orange was first used to refer to the fruit around 1300 but not used as a color word until around 1540.
then what was the colour called before then
there was no colour everything was in black and white


Does existing lease hold your land?
Ethan Vessels Marietta Attorney Published:
MARIETTA -- Landowners are abuzz about leasing their land for shale production. New leases are typically paying royalties greater than the traditional 12.5%. New leases now come with up-front "bonuses" just to sign the lease. Some "bonuses" have reached as high as $5,000 per acre.
But, what if there is already a lease covering your land? The leases typically in place will preserve all of the oil and gas rights to the lessee to the center of the earth. So, if there is an existing gas lease, the landowner usually cannot re-lease the same property.
The question is: How long does an oil and gas lease endure? Most existing gas leases contain a habendum clause that specifies the duration of the lease. These leases have a primary term ranging from a few months to several years. This means that the lease, at a minimum, exists from the signing date until the end of the primary term.
Then, most leases have a secondary term. Most state that the lease will continue "so long as oil or gas is found in paying quantities" or similar words. This means that the lease continues as long as the lessee is profitably producing the well.
However, questions arise.
How much is "paying quantities"? Ohio courts have not provided a firm cutoff. Courts have held that zero production is not "paying quantities." Courts look to see if royalties have been paid to the landowner. Even small royalties are often sufficient to establish "paying quantities."
But….royalty means royalty. Some shallow producers are sending out small checks claiming to be royalties, but they are nothing but small checks. A true royalty should verifiably be correlated to the production from the property. Random small checks, unrelated to actual production, are not royalties.
Gaps in production? If production declines or stops, the operator has an obligation to restore production. The oft-quoted saying is that "the law abhors a forfeiture." So, courts will not fault an operator for stopping production for several months to get the well producing again. Several years is another matter.
What can the landowner do to cancel an unproductive lease? The first method is the statutory forfeiture. Under Ohio law, the landowner can send a notice via certified mail to the lessee declaring that the lease is void.
If the lessee fails to respond, and after thirty days from receipt, but before sixty days, the landowner can then file an "Affidavit of Forfeiture" with the county recorder's office. This notifies all potential lessees that the land is free of the lease that previously held the property.
Usually, however, the lessee responds. By statute, the lessee can file an "Affidavit of Production" or "Affidavit of Non-forfeiture" with the recorder's office. This nullifies the landowner's attempt to cancel the lease.
The only remaining option is to file a lawsuit. The landowner sues the operator/producer. The landowner asks the court to declare that the lease is expired because gas or oil is not being produced in paying quantities. Ultimately, the court will conduct a trial to decide whether the production satisfies the terms of the lease.
If the court sides with the landowner, the Court will issue an order directing the county recorder to cancel the lease. If the court sides with the operator, the lease remains in effect.
Is all of this worth it? Ten years ago, probably not.
Today? Yes, it is. As a landowner, you may be wrongfully barred from reaping the benefits of the new leases -- simply because the existing lessee claims "production." It is worth checking.
Disclaimer. As with all articles on legal issues, this article is intended for educational and informational purposes. The reader should not rely on this article as a substitute for actual legal advice regarding his or her particular case. You should consult an attorney regarding the specifics of your situation.
Ethan Vessels is an attorney in Marietta, Ohio with the firm of Fields, Dehmlow & Vessels, LLC. His firm is actively representing landowners throughout East and Southeast Ohio regarding oil & gas lease forfeiture actions, as well as royalty disputes and other oil & gas matters. Visit for more information.
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How to roleplay a Death Knight
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How to Roleplay a Death Knight
So, you want to RP the warriors of death that instill fear into the living? There are a few things you should consider.
1.Which Generation of Death Knight are you? (There are commonly 3 but a fourth is possible.)
2.Is it possible and likely that your race would become a Death Knight during that generation?
3.Why would your Death Knight wander in society?
The Generations of Death Knights
Death Knights come in different varieties. The first generation being the death knights of Gul'dan who were made from Orc souls infused in Stormwindian knights bodies. The second generation being the Death Knights corrupted by the Scourge during Arthas' rampage before he became the lich king. And the third generation is the Death Knights of Acherus, hinted in the game to be former Argent Dawn Members, but your backstory can be whatever you want, as long as it works. The possible fourth generation that was mentioned, was discovered during Eastern Plaguelands when Gidwin Goldbraids was kidnapped and almost turned into a death knight by some higher ranking remaining scourge. Aurius Rivendare fits into this category.
How the Death Knights Act
Despite popular belief, Death Knights are not cold, cruel, mindless beings. Take Thassarian for example. Death Knights are in most ways exactly how they were before they became what they are now. They search for a purpose, now that the Lich King is dead, but it's not hard to find one with the current conflicts going on between the Alliance and the Horde.
Death Knights are normally solitary in nature but might summon a minion if they prefer a pawn to use. Death Knights have varying morals, some willing to raise even the most holy of paladins from the grave as their minion.
Unique Qualities of Death Knights
The first generation's abilities are undefined as far as their necromantic powers, the second generation pretty much shares the same powers as the first generation. The Fourth generation possibly different powers.
A unique quality of generation three is that they require a Runeblade to use their magic, contrary to game mechanics a Runeblade is necessary for all their powers. And the saronite armor they don is mostly unpierceable (See Adamantine) and can absorb magics and reflect them back after awhile, this armor is exclusive only to the Undead who can resist Yogg'Saron's whispers. Death Knights have a constant addiction to slaughter and hurt others, sadism a common trait in their kind.
Generation two and four Death Knights do not require a runeblade to use their powers. Generation Three Death Knights need the Runes in their Runeblades to use their powers, although game mechanics doesn't show it. Razuvious tells you a Death Knight can't fight without his Runeblade. This is mainly because third generation Death Knights use Vrykul Rune Magic, while second generation Death Knight use Necromancy, Shadow, Blood or Frost magic.
Anyway, some generation two Death Knights (Those who got a Vampiric Runeblade) are extremely weaker without their Runeblade, as it stores their soul and power. This is the case of Arthas, but not all of generation two Death Knights use this kind of Runeblade or a runeblade at all.
Contrary to belief (Mostly due to game mechanics), Death Knights are Undead and cannot be living for long using their dark powers. Those who take up the Runeblade and use its powers eventually lose their lives to the dark magics and become Undead, as Arthas lost his soul to Frostmourne and was turned Undead. The other way a Death Knight could become a Death Knight other than to become Undead from corruption, is to be killed and raised by a powerful necromancer into a Death Knight. As Death Knights you can manipulate the life you siphon from others to make undead minions or pull your enemies to you, or just strangle them. The Death Knight being Undead is immune to effects of poison, disease, bleeding, as you need to be living in order for those things to really affect you. Death Knights also have a vulnerability to light and holy land as shown at Light's Hope Chapel where the land weakened the Death Knights of Acherus.
Death Knights usually have allegiance to the leader of their current faction. Those free from the scourge or Old Horde likely suit their own needs and crush all opposition, Death Knights when it comes to authority can range from devout to possibly traitorous and as far as personality range from irritable to cold and rational.
Death Knights of the third generation are all the humanoid races. Each one being either a member of the Argent Dawn or a former warrior of the Horde or Alliance, or any other threat to the Scourge. The 2nd Generation consists of only humans and a few high elves or Dwarfs. The first of only human (Orc soul) knights.
The Worgen Death Knights are the former minions of Arugal who fled from him only to die by the hands of the scourge and be raised into their armies, but these are a rare commodity among the Death Knights, not being as abundant as the other races to be turned. Also, Pandaren Death Knights are extremely rare, as only a few of them were traveling around the world before the Lich King (Athas) was defeated.
Death Knights typically have pallid skin and eyes of varying colours, from grey to black to blue. The first generation have red or grey or black, the second generation typically green, to black, to blue. The third generation typically has only blue eyes. Dwarf death knight would usually have blue facial and scalp hair.


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The study of Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) is crucial to test our understanding of binary evolution and its application to many astrophysical phenomena, such as short gamma-ray bursts, X-ray transients and, more important, Supernovae Ia, our yardsticks for measuring distances. Yet, the predicted major component of the present-day CV population, the so-called "period bouncers" (CVs containing a white dwarf and a degenerate donor), has not been detected, highlighting a major discrepancy between theory and observations.
We present here CHiCaS, the Compact binary HIgh CAdence Survey, which will perform three hours of uninterrupted time series photometry over 136 square degrees of the sky with JAST/T80Cam. By the end of next year, this program will deliver one minute cadence lightcurves for $\simeq 2.5$ million objects as faint as $g \simeq 21.5$, along with full colour information. Via detection of their eclipses, CHiCaS will finally, and unambiguously identify the predicted large population of period bouncers. The identification of the missing population will provide an observational support for the current models for the mechanisms of angular momentum loss in compact binaries, which also describe the evolution of all kind of binaries.
CHiCaS will also offer a complete and unbiased view into the short term variability of thousands of binaries, eclipsing systems, pulsating stars and CVs in the period gap, which will allow to improve our knowledge of these objects and to carry out additional tests on CV evolution.


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Hello,All,
I have concern about objects name and interesting know about how it is working
Let assume I have a bean of user information AND I am creating new object (new user) from servlet User user=new User(...)
but object name is the same for per request,so what will happen If at the same time two object with the same name created is Data overwritten?
And if other code start to manipulating an object, Is it separating true object
Does exist a method to avoid concurrency?


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Dorset Vermont Barns
Vermont is a small town located within Bennington County in the
southwest corner of the state. The landscape is characterized by a
mountainous terrain with valleys cut by numerous rivers and streams.
The town was chartered in 1761 as part of Benning Wentworth's New
Hampshire grants. Since the late 1700's, agriculture has been an
important part of the town's history. Ranging from small-scale
subsistence farming, sheep raising and wool production, dairying and
others, the history of Dorset encompasses many agricultural themes. The
purpose of this website is to document the evidence of Dorset's
agricultural past that is still visible on the landscape today.
work here is not intended to be a comprehensive representation of all
the agricultural structures or themes in Dorset, but rather a starting
point for local residents and volunteers to conduct further
investigation into the town's agricultural past. If you have
information about a structure on this site or one that does not appear,
or maybe you are just interested Vermont's barns in general, then you
are encouraged to check out the resources on this website and get
involved with the Vermont Barn Census.


How Long Before Get To Yellow Belt Karate?
How long does it take to get belts in karate?
How long does it take to go from a white belt to a yellow belt?
How do you get a yellow belt in karate?
A yellow karate belt is awarded when a new student has demonstrated that they are opening their minds to the practice of karate and to their sensei's teachings.
You might be interested: FAQ: When Did The Karate Kid Come Out 2010?
How good is a yellow belt in karate?
The yellow belt is representative of one's energy. In this mastery, the student has gained greater control over his body's energy. Stability is the symbol of an orange belt. Karate practice includes basic postures, punches, blocks and kicks.
What is the most useless martial art?
The 5 Least Effective Martial Arts
 - 5) Sumo.
 - 4) Capoeira.
 - 3) Shin-Kicking.
 - 2) Aikido.
 - 1) Tai Chi.
Is red belt better than black?
What belt comes after yellow in Taekwondo?
Belt Ranks at Akula Taekwondo
Color Rank
Yellow Belt 9th GUP
Orange Belt 8th GUP
Green Belt 7th GUP
Blue Belt 6th GUP
Is Red Belt higher than black belt?
How many stripes do you need for a yellow belt?
All students will be required to have all six (6) stripes on their belts before their test.
Can you skip belts in karate?
You might be interested: Quick Answer: How To Become Ninth Dan In Karate?
What does a yellow belt in karate mean?
Yellow Belt − It symbolizes the first ray of sun light. In karate its meaning is that now the student's mind is open to accept more possible techniques and methods. Orange Belt − This light is an indication of spreading of light on the earth.
What is the lowest belt in karate?
What are the stages of belts in karate?
Is purple belt higher than black?
Does karate have a pink belt?
While pink is not an official designation in the martial arts scale, it does have special significance here. He has been conferring pink belts to kids and adults in order to promote cancer awareness and reduce some of the fears that go along with the group of diseases that sparks such fear and raises so many questions.
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