How Does CC Work?
Correspondence Chess
US Chess Correspondence Chess (CC) is a great way to improve your game and have fun. You don't even have to leave home! You can play CC either by sending moves through the post office or through an electronic network. Since the majority of newcomers to CC choose to play by mail, let's concentrate on explaining how that format works.
US Chess correspondence play requires the use of algebraic notation (AN), unless you and your opponent agree to another form. AN is easy to learn, simple to use, and useful for enjoying chess columns and chess books. If you don't already know AN or need to brush up, click here.
As a newcomer, you must indicate on the tournament entry form your approximate playing strength. This enables us to pair you approximately with your opponents. Four rating levels are available. Class A: very strong; Class B: strong; Class C: Intermediate; and Class D: Novice. If you just learned how to play chess, you are considered a Novice. If you know how to play and write notation and are familiar with all aspects of the game, we suggest Class C.
When you receive your pairing sheet (as described below), regardless of which Class you noted, your rating will appear as "0000," When your first game is finished, we calculate your rating based on your result. If you're interested in the details of how the CC rating formula works, see our Correspondence Chess Ratings Explanation.
You now have a chess rating! Each Correspondence Chess game is rated as soon as it's finished. You may wish to enter more CC events, so having a chess rating will be helpful in matching you with new opponents.
As explained in the ratings explanation page, there are two rating formulas. If you have 25 or fewer games rated, you have a provisional rating. If you have more than 25 games rated, you have an established rating. Master level is achieved through performance.
You choose which event you wish to enter. You can play against one opponent, three opponents, or even six opponents. Tournament entry fees vary depending on the tournament format and the prizes involved.
For example, let's assume you're already a US Chess member and you want to enter a Class Tournament in which you play against three opponents. (That's the maximum we recommend for beginners.) Once you submit your entry fee (currently $10), we pair you with three other players with the same playing strength, according to the approximate strength you indicated on your entry form.
All four of you are sent a copy of the same pairing sheet. Players are given numbers 1 through 4, and playing assignments are noted accordingly. The pairing sheet includes the name and addresses of your three opponents, as well as a tournament crosstable (explanation below). You will play a total of six games -- two against each of your three opponents, once as White and once as Black. After receiving the pairing sheet, note what player number you are assigned. Refer to the pairing chart and see whether or not you have to mail your first White moves to any of your opponents.
It's possible that you are assigned Black for all three first games. In that case, wait to receive a White move for Game A from your three opponents. After you receive each opponent's first White move, respond with your Black move. At the same time, send your first White move for Game B on the same postcard. After the first moves have been exchanged, you will be sending two moves each time; one move for Game A and another for Game B.
Along with your pairing sheet, you will receive information regarding CC rules, chess notation, rating calculation, and game-result reporting slips.
Please read the rule booklet as soon as you receive the pairing sheet. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Alex Dunne, US Chess Correspondence Chess Director, PO Box 367, Sayre, PA 18840 or email Alex at: [email protected].
If you are asking, "How do we keep track of time?" -- it's easy. We allow 30 days of reflection time to make every 10 moves. Unused time can be carried forward to the next 10-move series, which allows you plenty of time later in the game when you want to ponder a position!
If you receive a move from your opponent today and you get your reply move postmarked the same day, you used zero days of reflection time. If your reply is posted the next day, you used one day, etc.
Move-mailing postcards are also highly recommended*. You can record moves for several games. Fill in the information blanks for each move transmission, and the other information that we require be sent with each move. A blank diagram is printed on the reverse side of the card. (You don't have to diagram the position with each move transmission, however.)
Example: Today's date is 9/6/06. The section number is 06CD101. If you're sending your first move as White, you wouldn't have a card from your opponent. Thus, you won't be noting any postmark. "Received date" is the date you received the tournament pairing sheet/opponent's move. If you receive and sent your reply move on the same day and your postmark is also the same date, your reflection time is zero days. Let's say your reply date is 9/7/06. "My time," meaning your reflection time used on the move, would be one day -- provided you receive a postmark date of 9/7/06. Your total time would be one day, since this is move 1. "Your time" refers to the reflection time your opponent used. Since this is move 1 of Game A, there's no need to fill in these blanks. (However, if you were on move 2, you would have to give an account of what your opponent's reflection time calculation as of this move.)
Game A: Since you're playing White, your name goes in the blank box above "White" and your opponent's name goes in the blank box above "Black." Below the box labeled "Game A," under "Move no.," write "1." In the next blank box to the right, note your first move; for example "e4." This is all you would send at this time, because you can't send a move for Game B until you receive your opponent's first White move for that game.
You may be asking, "Why so many blank boxes to write just one move for each game?" Once you receive your opponent's move, you're required to note what your opponent's move was, along with your reply. This enables your opponent to be sure you understood and noted his move correctly.
"If" moves are also an option. These are moves you offer based on your opponent's acceptance of certain moves. Newcomers are not advised to use "if" moves.
Once your move-mailing card is filled in, write the names and addresses, put on the correct postage, and pop the card in the mail!
The crosstable allows everyone to keep track of the game results. Since we have discussed Class tournaments, let's continue by filling in a crosstable for a Class tournament. (double-round robin format)
You'll recall that in Class tournaments, you play two games with each opponent.
The top four lines of the crosstable are for Game A results and the lower four lines are for Game B results. Let's say you're player number 2 and you beat player number 1 in both games. Refer to the player numbers to locate the appropriate result boxes in which to write the game result. A win is noted by a "1." A loss is a "0" and a draw is "1/2."
You should now have a better understanding of what CC is, and some idea what items you'll need to purchase to help keep your game records accurately. When you receive your pairing sheet, you will have a better idea who sends the first move to whom! You've also found out how to write chess moves and how to achieve a chess rating.
Well, that about covers it! We suggest you read through all of the information you've received. We're more than happy to answer any questions. Just give us a call! Now, let's play some chess by mail!
US Chess has expanded our correspondence chess tournament offerings, check the events page for a list of what is available. Please visit our Online Store to purchase entries and supplies. Please feel free to e-mail the Correspondence Chess Director, Alex Dunne using [email protected] to receive a free information packet on Correspondence Chess.
For entering an event please use our online tournament entry program located at and click on, "Register for a Tournament." You can also mail your entry to: US Chess, Attn: Joan DuBois, P.O. Box 3967, Crossville, TN 38557 or call our tollfree number: 1-800-903-USCF (8723), ext. 531.


Jennifer Jefferson, Colorado School of Mines, [email protected]
James Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines, [email protected]
Paul Constantine, Colorado School of Mines, [email protected]
Reed Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, [email protected]
Ryan Howard, Colorado School of Mines, [email protected]
In this notebook, we'll be summarizing the active subspaces-based uncertainty quantification on an integrated hydrologic model, presented in [1].
Weather and climate conditions are very dependent on energy fluxes into and out of the land surface. For example, evaporation and its eventual precipitation are dependent on latent heat fluxes (which redistribute water between land and the atmosphere) and sensible and ground heat fluxes (which determine the land surface and subsurface temperatures). It is difficult to directly measure such quantities, so hydrologic models have arisen to estimate these fluxes and their effects. These models can be complex, requiring 10 to 50 input parameters, and many of these parameters are difficult to measure accurately. This introduces uncertainty, and the effect of this uncertainty on model output is important to understand the model's efficacy.
The Integrated Hydrologic Model
Integrated hydrologic models combine elements of groundwater and land surface models, accounting for water flow in saturated and unsaturated subsurface regions and variation in water table depth. These models should represent natural systems more realistically than the alternatives, but they have been historically less well studied. We'll be using the ParFlow-Common Land Model (PF-CLM) and studying 19 of its land surface parameters and how they relate to the heat fluxes. The PF-CLM is a set of PDEs and algebraic equations that can be numerically approximated to obtain estimates of latent, sensible, and ground heat fluxes. The 19 parameters we study are described in the table below.
Variable Name distribution (U(min, max) or LN(mu, sigma))
Maximum Dew on Canopy dewmx U(.05,.15)
Leaf area index (maximum) lai U(1, 4)
Leaf area index (minimum) lai0 U(0.05, 3)
Stem area index sai U(0.5, 4)
Leaf and stem orientation index xl U(−0.3, 0.4)
Leaf dimension dleaf U(0, 0.16)
Leaf reflectance (visible light) rhol_vis U(0.06, 0.13)
Leaf reflectance (near infrared light) rhol_nir U(0.35, 0.55)
Stem reflectance (visible light) rhos_vis U(0.3, 0.4)
Stem reflectance (near infrared light) rhos_nir U(0.5, 0.6)
Leaf transmittance (visible light) taul_vis U(0.01, 0.09)
Leaf transmittance (near infrared light) taul_nir U(0.1, 0.45)
Stem transmittance (visible light) taus_vis U(0.15, 0.25)
Stem transmittance (near infrared light) taus_nir U(0.3, 0.4)
Field capacity fieldcap U(0.3, 1)
Wilting point wiltpt U(0.1, 0.3)
Aerodynamic roughness length (bare soil) z0m LN(−8.83, 1.47)
Aerodynamic roughness length (grass) z0m LN(−5.11, 0.52)
Soil color soilcol U(1, 8)
Water table depth (below surface) watertable U(−10, −1)
Two domains were simulated: a single column domain and a tilted-v domain, a primary difference being the absence (single column) or presence (tilted-v) of lateral water flow. Each domain was run with uniform cover of bare soil (which takes only the final 3 parameters) or grass, totaling 4 simulation classes, one for each combination of (single column or tilted-v) and (bare soil or grass). The simulations require several atmospheric inputs, for which meteorological data from the Little Washita watershed in Oklahoma was used, and subsurface parameters were set to nominal values since we are only concerned with sensitivity to surface parameters.
Active Subspaces
We'll be using active subspaces to study the relationship between the PF-CLM's 19 parameters and our quantities of interest (latent, sensible, and ground heat). The active subspaces methodology identifies important directions in the input space, along which the output changes more than in the orthogonal directions (see [2] and [3] for more details). The important directions are defined by the eigenvectors of a matrix computed from the gradient of the output with respect to the parameters. We don't have direct access to this gradient for the PF-CLM and using a finite difference approximation would be computationally infeasible (requiring 19 additional model evaluations per gradient sample), so we use the following algorithm to identify the single most important direction in the input space: for $M$ sets of inputs $\{\mathbf x_i\}_{i=1}^M$ and corresponding outputs $\{f_i\}$, use least squares to find the coefficients, $\hat a_0$ and $\hat{\mathbf a}$, of the linear model $f_i = a_0 + \mathbf a^T\mathbf x_i$; the important direction in the input space is $\hat{\mathbf w} = {\hat{\mathbf a}}/{||\hat{\mathbf a}||}$. If we observe a tight univariate trend when plotting $f_i$ vs $\hat{\mathbf w}^T\mathbf x_i$, we can reasonably approximate $f(\mathbf x)\approx g(\hat{\mathbf w}^T\mathbf x)$, where $f$ represents the quantity of interest as a function of the inputs and $g$ is a function constructed from the pairs $(\hat{\mathbf w}^T\mathbf x_i,\ f_i)$.
[1] J.L. Jefferson, J.L. Gilbert, P.G. Constantine, R.M. Maxwell. Active subspaces for sensitivity analysis and dimension reduction of an integrated hydrologic model. Comput. Geosci., 83, 127-138, 2015
[3] P.G. Constantine. Active Subspaces: Emerging Ideas for Dimension Reduction in Parameter Studies. SIAM, 2015.
We'll now code up the analysis using the Python Active-subspaces Utility Library. We'll only be presenting the single column domain; for the details of the tilted-v domain, see [1]. We'll also be using updated model evaluations compared to [1]; because of this, the figures presented will look slightly different than in the paper. The significant conclusions are the same.
In [1]:
import active_subspaces as ac
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pn
%matplotlib inline
Read the data (inputs and outputs) from files and order the inputs as we want.
In [2]:
_TAG_ input parameters
inputs_bare = pn.read_csv('SC_ScatterParameters_bare.txt', sep=' ')
inputs_grass = pn.read_csv('SC_ScatterParameters_grass.txt', sep=' ')
_TAG_ ordering of the paper
ordering = ['dewmx', 'lai', 'lai0','sai', 'xl', 'dleaf', 'rhol_vis', 'rhol_nir',\
 'rhos_vis', 'rhos_nir', 'taul_vis', 'taul_nir', 'taus_vis', 'taus_nir',\
 'fieldcap', 'wiltpt', 'z0m','soilcol', 'watertable']
inputs_grass = inputs_grass[ordering]
ordering = ['z0m','soilcol', 'watertable']
inputs_bare = inputs_bare[ordering]
_TAG_ dataFrames to matrices, use log(z0m) instead of z0m
X_bare = inputs_bare.as_matrix()[:,:]
X_grass = inputs_grass.as_matrix()[:,:]
X_bare[:,-3], X_grass[:,-3] = np.log(X_bare[:,-3]), np.log(X_grass[:,-3])
_TAG_ of parameter labels
in_labels_bare = inputs_bare.keys()
in_labels_grass = inputs_grass.keys()
_TAG_ outputs
outputs_bare = pn.read_csv('ScatterSummary_bare.txt', sep=' ', header=None).as_matrix()
outputs_grass = pn.read_csv('ScatterSummary_grass.txt', sep=' ', header=None).as_matrix()
_TAG_ = latent heat, SH = sensible heat, GH = ground heat
LH_bare, LH_grass = outputs_bare[:,0], outputs_grass[:,0]
SH_bare, SH_grass = outputs_bare[:,1], outputs_grass[:,1]
GH_bare, GH_grass = outputs_bare[:,2], outputs_grass[:,2]
outputs_bare = [LH_bare, SH_bare, GH_bare]
outputs_grass = [LH_grass, SH_grass, GH_grass]
out_labels = ['Total Latent Heat', 'Total Sensible Heat', 'Total Ground Heat']
Normalize the uniform inputs to the interval $[-1, 1]$ and normalize the normal inputs (log(z0m)) to


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Haynes, Roger (1995) Infrared fibres in astronomical instrumentation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
For several years multi-object spectroscopy systems have been available for carrying out survey work in the visible region, but until very recently there has not been a system for the near infrared region. This thesis describes the design, manufacture and commissioning of the first multi-object fibre system for near infrared spectroscopy. SMIRFS (Spectroscopic Multi-object Infrared Fibre System) is a prototype system that has been designed at the Department of Physics in Durham to couple the Cassegrain focus of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT) to a cooled long slit infrared spectrograph (CGS4). Two different fibre bundles are available, each containing 14 fibres. One bundle is made from zirconium fluoride fibres, for K band spectroscopy and the second bundle is made from silica fibres, for J and H band spectroscopy. During the design process of SMIRFS a number of issues were addressed. These included; the characteristics of infrared fibres, in particular their throughput and FRD, atmospheric features in the near infra-red and suitable sky subtraction techniques, fibre preparation and evaluation, the use of microlenses for coupling slow focal ratio beams with fibres, and the thermal emissions from the warm material of the instrument. These, along with the design, manufacture and testing of the SMIRFS are described in detail, including the fibre evaluation results and estimates for throughput, instrument thermal background derived from the commissioning run data. Finally, there is a brief discussion on the development of infrared fibre system for astronomy.
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|Award:||Doctor of Philosophy|
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Printed wiring board (PWB) interconnect inductance can make or break the performance of a power supply. A large interconnect inductance can raise the high-frequency impedance of a gate drive circuit, impacting efficiency, or it can degrade the effectiveness of filter capacitors. In this Power Tip, we examine some simple formulas for interconnect inductance in free space and over a ground plane. We will find that the ground plane significantly reduces trace inductance and is critical for optimal performance in power supplies.
The simplest trace to consider is a rectangular conductor in free space. A formula for its inductance is shown in Figure 1
. Note that the inductance is a strong function of length but has a logarithmic relationship to the width of the conductor. While the recommendation of making a conductor as wide as possible to reduce its inductance is substantiated by the expression, the benefit of wide conductors is diminished by the logarithm. This is clearly shown in the table, which contains some sample conductor widths and calculates the resulting inductance of a one-inch-long conductor. For instance, a 10 mil (0.25 mm), 2 oz (1.8 mil or 0.07 mm) conductor has an inductance of about 24 nH, if it is one-inch (25 mm) long. If its width is increased by 50 times, the inductance only drops by a factor of four due to the logarithm in the expression.
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Figure 1: Inductance of a free space conductor has a logarithmic relationship to width.
Ground planes in circuit boards are used to ease routing, minimize the ground voltage variation, provide electrical and magnetic shielding, control impedances, and to help cool the components. Additionally, they provide the opportunity to reduce the inductance of circuit conductors in the PWB. Figure 2
presents a simple formula for the calculation of a conductor over a ground plane. The expression shows linear relationships between inductance, conductor height over the plane and its length. So to a first order, minimizing the separation of the conductor and ground or increasing the conductor width lets you drive the inductance toward zero. The table presents some sample calculations that can be compared with Figure 1
. For instance, we found that a 0.10-inch-wide conductor in free space had an inductance of 14 nH per inch. That same conductor placed over a ground plane of a two-sided board (0.06 inches thick) would have 3 nH per inch. That is a 5:1 reduction in interconnect inductance, which translates into faster gate drives, more effective filtering capacitors and reduced circuit losses from proximity effects. The table also shows that with a six-layer board where the dielectric thickness is reduced to 0.01 inch, the inductance is reduced by another factor of six. Clearly, when routing boards, you will want to put your ground layers as close to the board surface as possible to minimize inductance connecting the components on the surface.
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Figure 2: Inductance of conductor over plane can be driven arbitrarily small.
To summarize, inductances of conductors on single-layer boards are high due to the lack of a ground-plane layer. This can be mitigated somewhat by routing conductor pairs together. However, ground planes offer the ability to make order of magnitude reductions in this stray inductance, which will result in lower impedance signal paths. This can provide improved efficiency with improved gate drives, better electromagnetic interference (EMI) performance due to improved filter performance, and lower crosstalk due to lower impedance nodes.
Please join us next month when we discuss a second look at snubbing the flyback converter.
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About the author
is a senior applications manager and distinguished member of technical staff at Texas Instruments. He has more than 30 years of experience in the power electronics business and has designed magnetics for power electronics ranging from sub-watt to sub-megawatt with operating frequencies into the megahertz range. Robert earned a BSEE from Texas A&M University and an MSEE from Southern Methodist University.

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At the crux of Luttrell's creative process is the universal relationship our bodies and minds have with chaos and the means in which we attempt to control it. Identity Thef is a series of work that questions if progress within a system is really a change for the better or if it is an epidemic causing an inevitable breakdown due to our obsession with moving forward.
The process, which lends to the subject matter of the works, begins with internet-based images of patents - the blueprints of ideas - creating the byproduct of our highly technical world. These images are then transferred onto paper, replicating the same way in which information is reproduced and how quickly and easily it becomes entangled. What results are meticulously layered paintings that form new relationships and meanings while questioning how chaos manifests itself within these worlds.


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Mandatory Volunteering
B1,B2 level
In this lesson, the students will have a receptive skills lesson to practice reading for gist and detail comprehension with the help of unblocking key vocabularies in the text.
Abc True or False Statements
Abc Scanning Questions
Abc Matching tasks hand outs
Main Aims
 - To provide gist and scan reading practice using a text about mandatory volunteering in the context of schools
Subsidiary Aims
 - To provide clarification of adjectives and nouns in the context of problems wit mandatory volunteering
The ss will talk about what volunteering is by having a photo of volunteered people on the board.
The ss will scan the text to have some main ideas by trying to answer the questions.
Ss will have to evaluate the sentences to decide whether they are true or false.
The teacher reflects some photos on the board that the ss study at the beggining of the lesson to guess the meaning of them to practice vocabulary.
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What is a School of Living Traditions?
A School of Living Traditions (SLT) is one where a living master/culture bearer or culture specialist teaches skills and techniques of doing a traditional art or craft. The mode of teaching is usually non-formal, oral and with practical demonstrations. The site maybe the house of the living master, a community social hall, or a center constructed for the purpose.
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Who teaches at SLTs?
It is the culture bearer or master or specialist. This term refers to the individual who is recognized to possess the skills and techniques in doing a particular traditional art or craft. He shall be responsible in teaching his craft to a group of learners and shall ensure that his/her students learn the craft.
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It is limited to the young people from the same ethno-linguistic community.The establishment of Schools of Living Traditions (SLTs) is in response to UNESCO's call for the preservation of cultural heritage by preserving it in a living form, ensuring its transmission to the next generations (the other approach being the recording of it in a tangible form and conserving it in archives). While there are various facets of cultural heritage that can be transmitted to the next generations, this program would like to specifically focus on the transmission of indigenous skills and techniques to the young. It aims to encourage culture specialists/masters to continue with their own work, develop and expand the frontiers of that work, and train younger people to take their place in the future.
The program for the establishment of SLTs is also anchored on the mandate of NCCA to:
(1) conserve and promote the nation's historical and cultural heritage by encouraging and supporting the study, recognition and preservation of endangered human cultural resources such as weavers, chanters, dancers and other craftsmen, as well as the conservation and development of such artistic, linguistic and occupational skills that are threatened with extinction; and
(2) preserve and integrate traditional culture and its various creative expressions as a dynamic part of the national cultural mainstream by helping set up or encourage, monitor and subsidize companion systems at the regional, provincial and local levels, intended to develop traditional cultures such as arts/crafts centers, preferably in community settings apart from the usual museum settings, where exponents of living arts and crafts can practice and teach their art and enrich contemporary designs.Specifically, the program aims to identify aspects/components of traditional culture and art considered to be important to a cultural community that should be imparted to the young so that these aspects can be perpetuated.
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What is the meaning of the 'the water-wraith was shrieking' in "Lord Ullin's Daughter"?
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This quote is part of a general description of the storm that is raging over the water which characterises how dangerous it was to go out on the ferry boat and to leave the safety of land. In this stanza, one of the key features is the way that the storm is personified, and this is certainly something that describing it as being the result of a "water-wraith" helps achieve:
By this the storm grew loud apace,
The water-wraith was shrieking;
And in the scowl of heaven each face
Grew dark as they were speaking.
Note how heaven is given a "scowl" as it is imagined as some kind of angry person, paralleling in fact the anger of Lord Ullin at his daughter's elopement. The "water-wraith" helps convey the violence of the storm and its impact on the water, because not only does it help imagine a supernatural being causing the turmoil but it also conveys the intensity of the tempest through the picture of this water-wraith "shrieking," with the use of onomatopoeia here enacting the sound of the water as it is churned and whipped by the elements. What is key is that even though the storm is described to be so ferocious and so intense, Lord Ullin's daughter would gladly face that than the anger of her father.
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|Golden Gate Highlands National Park|
IUCN category II ( national park)
|Location||Free State, South Africa|
|Area||340 km2 (130 sq mi)|
|Governing body||South African National Parks|
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, Republic of South Africa, near the Lesotho border. It covers an area of 340 km² (131.3 mi²). The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, especially the Brandwag rock. Another feature of the area is the numerous caves and shelters displaying San rock paintings. Wildlife featured at the park includes mongooses, eland, zebras, and over 100 bird species. It is the Free State's only national park, and is more famous for the beauty of its landscape than for its wildlife. Numerous paleontology finds have been made in the park including dinosaur eggs and skeletons.
Geography and climate
"Golden Gate" refers to the sandstone cliffs that are found on either side of the valley at the Golden Gate dam. In 1875, a farmer called J.N.R. van Reenen and his wife stopped here as they travelled to their new farm in Vuurland. He named the location "Golden Gate" when he saw the last rays of the setting sun fall on the cliffs.
In 1963, 47.92 square kilometres (11,840 acres) were proclaimed as a national park, specifically to preserve the scenic beauty of the area. In 1981 the park was enlarged to 62.41 km² (15,420 acres) and in 1988 it was enlarged to 116.33 km² (28,746 acres). In 2004 it was announced that the park would be joined with the neighbouring QwaQwa National Park. The amalgamation of QwaQwa National Park was completed in 2007, increasing the park's area to 340 km² (84,016 acres).
The park is 320 km (200 mi) from Johannesburg and is close to the villages of Clarens and Kestell, in the upper regions of the Little Caledon River. The park is situated in the Rooiberge of the eastern Free State, in the foothills of the Maluti Mountains. The Caledon River forms the southern boundary of the park as well as the border between the Free State and Lesotho. The highest peak in the park (and also in the Free State) is Ribbokkop at 2,829 m (9,281 ft).
The park is located in the eastern highveld region of South Africa, and experiences a dry sunny climate from June to August. It has showers, hails and thunderstorms between October and April. It has thick snowfalls in the winter. The park has a relatively high rainfall of 800 mm (30 inches) per year.
The park is an area of rich highveld and montane grassland flora. It has more than fifty grass species and a large variety of bulbs and herbs. Each of these species has its own flowering time, meaning that veld flowers can be seen throughout the summer. The park also has Afromontane forests and high-altitude Austro-Afro Alpine Grassland, which is scarce in South Africa. The ouhout Leucosidea sericea, an evergreen species, is the most common tree in the park. Ouhout is a favourite habitat of beetles and 117 species occur on these trees in the park. The Lombardi poplars and weeping willows in the park are introduced species, but are kept because of their cultural and historic connection with the eastern Free State. Other exotic species in the park, for example wattle and bluegum, are systematically eradicated.
Instead of reintroducing one of the "Big Five" into the park, the sungazer lizard and water mongoose were reintroduced. Twelve species of mice, ten species of carnivores, and eight antelope species have been recorded in the park. The Grey rhebuck and the mountain reedbuck were present when the park was established.
Over 210 bird species have been observed in the park, including the rare Bearded Vulture and the endangered Cape Vulture and Bald Ibis.
Snakes and fishes
Seven snake species, including the puff adder, mountain adder, and rinkhals are found in the park.
Geology and palaeontology
The geology of the park provides very visual "textbook" examples of Southern Africa's geological history. The sandstone formations in the park form the upper part of the Karoo Supergroup. These formations were deposited during a period of aeolian deposition towards the end of the Triassic Period. At the time of deposition the climate of the area the park covers was becoming progressively drier until arid desert conditions set in, resulting in a land of dunes and sandy desert, with occasional scattered oases. The deposition of the sandstones ended when lava flowed out over the desert 190 million years ago.
The following sequence of geological formations are visible in the park (starting from the bottom): the Molteno Formation, Elliott Formation, Clarens Formation, and the Drakensberg Formation. The yellow-brown Golden Gate and Brandwag cliffs are made up of the Clarens formation. The layers in this formation are 140 to 160 metres (460 to 520 ft) thick. The Drakensberg formation comprises the basaltic lava that flowed over the desert. It forms the mountain summits in the park. On Ribbokkop it is 600 meters (2000 ft) thick. The Elliot Formation is a red mudstone where many dinosaur fossils have been found.
The oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered were found in the park in 1978. The eggs were from the Triassic Period (220 to 195 million years ago) and had fossilised foetal skeletons of Massospondylus, a prosauropod dinosaur. More examples of these eggs have since been found in the park. Other fossils found in the park include those of advanced cynodontia (canine toothed animals), small thecodontia (animals with teeth set firmly in the jaw), bird-like and crocodile-like dinosaurs.
Accommodation in the park is available at Glen Reenen and Brandwag Rest camps. Caravaning and camping sites with all amenities are available at Glen Reenen camp. The hotel was formerly part of Brandwag camp, but since its recent refurbishment it is managed separately by SANParks as Golden Gate Hotel. The nearest town to Golden Gate Highlands National Park is Clarens (17 km to the west), but Phuthaditjhaba is also easily reached via a good tar road, driving through the access gate to the east of the park.


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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.
Triangle Search: When is 8p+1 a triangle number?


3 "lat" see below latitude (degrees)
4.693100 field 4 "lon" see below longitude (degrees)
20.0 field 5 "gpsalt" see below altitude (meters)
14.0 field 2 "temp" see below temperature (degrees Celcius)
3.88 field 1 "vcc" see below battery voltage (volts)
For Cayenne encoding, the UKHAS sentence starts with the node name, sequence number and time. The fields following after that are simply all fields as they appear in the Cayenne message. I recommend to put the GPS position *first* in the cayenne message. Typically you would put in the Cayenne message: GPS position (latitude/longitude/altitude), temperature, battery voltage.
The field 1C8A is the CCITT-CRC16 over the characters between $$ and *, interpreted as bytes using US-ASCII encoding
Listener cache
The cache keeps track of when listener information / telemetry was sent last. This makes it possible to avoid sending the listener information / telemetry with each payload telemetry document, reducing the load on the server.
Listener information / telemetry is sent only:
 - when this is the first time we are sending something for this listener
 - when it has been more than X minutes ago that we sent listener information / telemetry for this listener, where X is typically 10 minutes or so.
Helpful links
From a conversation on _TAG_:
20:24 < adamgreig> there's a) a python library that's a lot easier to read
20:24 < adamgreig> but b) basically the gist is you just PUT to with some stuff
20:24 < adamgreig>
20:24 < adamgreig> so you have a new string, you take the sha256 hex digest of the base64 encoded raw data
20:25 < adamgreig> you PUT to that URL with that ID
20:25 < adamgreig> and you include that JSON struture with your callsign/details
C implementation of the interface between the client and the habitat server
list of habitat JSON schemas
JSON examples
MQTT data
Over MQTT, it looks like this:
 "app_id": "ttnmapper",
 "dev_id": "mapper2",
 "hardware_serial": "0004A30B001ADBC5",
 "port": 1,
 "counter": 587,
 "payload_raw": "g3ybWXkTef8BH1EOzAK1\/wEA5wQT",
 "metadata": {
 "time": "2017-08-22T00:36:18.674804288Z",
 "frequency": 868.1,
 "modulation": "LORA",
 "data_rate": "SF7BW125",
 "coding_rate": "4\/5",
 "gateways": [
 "gtw_id": "eui-008000000000b8b6",
 "timestamp": _PHONE_,
 "time": "2017-08-22T00:36:18.345616Z",
 "channel": 0,
 "rssi": -120,
 "snr": -7,
 "rf_chain": 1,
 "latitude": 52.0182,
 "longitude": 4.70844,
 "altitude": 27
Tracker configuration for the TTN-HAB bridge software
 - setup your LoRaWAN device for use with TheThingsNetwork
 - create a payload configuration document on the webpage
 - download, configure and run the ttnhabbridge software
Setting up the tracker for TTN
Find out the LoRaWAN EUI of your tracker:
 - specifically for the SodaqOne, the EUI (LoRaWAN hardware address) is shown at startup of the tracker
 - perhaps just make up your own, if you don't use an RN2483?
Make up your mind about which binary payload format you are going to use: I recommend the 'cayenne' payload format. It's relatively flexible and is an actual standard. It is supported by ttnhabbridge without needing customisation. You need to put in at least the GPS coordinate in your cayenne message. If you have it available, I would also put in the battery voltage and temperature in it.
Create the TTN application and register your tracker with TTN:
 - Create an account on TTN,
 - Go to the TTN console and create a new application, or select an existing application you want to add the device to.
 - create a new node/device, the name needs to be equal to the habhub payload name (but cannot use uppercase characters)
 - In the device settings screen:
 - under 'Device EUI', fill in the EUI of your LoraWAN tracker
 - under 'Activation method' choose ABP
 - disable option 'Frame Counter Checks'
 - click Save
Copy the network credentials back to your LoRaWAN tracker:
 - this means the "device address", "network key" and "application key"
 - in case you use a SodaqOne serial debug console, type the following:
 - copy the Network Session Key from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'key='
 - copy the App Session Key from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'app='
 - copy the device id from the TTN console and type in the SodaqOne serial debug console 'dev=' (is this right?)
 - configure the following additional settings in the SodaqOne:
 - enable GPS: 'gps=1'
 - set GPS fix interval: 'fi=1'
 - set GPS fix timeout: 'gft=30'
 - set num coords to upload: 'num=1'
 - set min GPS satellite count:'sat=1'
 - enable ABP mode (disable OTAA): 'otaa=0'
 - disable ADR: 'adr=0'
 - set spreading factor 7:'sf=7'
Creating a payload configuration document
The payload configuration document allows habhub to decode the UKHAS sentence back into meaningful data items, like which fields contain latitude, longitude, altitude, etc.
 - Go to the habhub habitat website and create new payload document
 - under 'payload name' fill in the callsign (e.g. 'ttntest1'), this has to match exactly with the TTN node name
 - add a parser configuration, using the new format wizard
 - enter the following example string: $$ttntest1,64,20:41:10,52.022100,4.693100,20.0,14.0,3.88*1C8A
 - the fields are the following:
 - sentence id
 - time
 - all of the Cayenne fields in the order they appear in the Cayenne message.
 - click save
So, this contains the basic position information, plus two fields for temperature and battery level.
Configuring the TTN-HAB bridge software
 - get the release zip/tar file and unzip it in some place
 - make sure you have Java 8 installed
 - In the bridge configuration properties file (, fill in the following
 - with the name of your TTN application
 - with the key of your TTN application (you can find this in the TTN console), typically starts with "ttn-account-v2."
 - ttn.payload.encoding with the type of payload encoding you use
 - you can probably leave the other settings at their default value
 - start the bridge software from the command line, either using the.bat file (for windows) or the.sh file (for Linux)
 - if you use Linux with systemd, you can use the ttnhabbridge.service file to run it as a service, see instructions inside this file


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Solution to puzzle 75: Car journey
Skip restatement of puzzle.A car travels downhill at 72 mph (miles per hour), on the level at 63 mph, and uphill at only 56 mph The car takes 4 hours to travel from town A to town B. The return trip takes 4 hours and 40 minutes. Find the distance between the two towns.
Let the total distance travelled downhill, on the level, and uphill, on the outbound journey, be x, y, and z, respectively.
The time taken to travel a distance s at speed v is s/v.
Hence, for the outbound journey
x/72 + y/63 + z/56 = 4
While for the return journey, which we assume to be along the same roads
x/56 + y/63 + z/72 = 14/3
It may at first seem that we have too little information to solve the puzzle. After all, two equations in three unknowns do not have a unique solution. However, we are not asked for the values of x, y, and z, individually; but for the value of x + y + z.
Multiplying both equations by the least common multiple of denominators 56, 63, and 72, we obtain
7x + 8y + 9z = 4 · 7 · 8 · 9
9x + 8y + 7z = (14/3) · 7 · 8 · 9
Now it is clear that we should add the equations, yielding
16(x + y + z) = (26/3) · 7 · 8 · 9
Therefore x + y + z = 273; the distance between the two towns is 273 miles.
A unique solution is possible because the speeds are chosen so that a round trip over a sloping section of road takes the same time as that over a flat section of the same length. Had we chosen to write down an equation for the round trip, the answer would have been immediately apparent.
Source: From A to B, on flooble :: perplexus
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Last month I spend some time on migrating an Azure PAYG subscription to an Azure CSP subscription. It seems like moving around some resources between resource groups is not that complex but I ran into some issues during the move which made me write down this post.
Before we start with the actual migration you should first draft a plan based on the different type of resources in you Azure subscription. I have used the following approach:
In this step we collect all the information of the current subscription. You can use the following tools and steps to get the information:
- Use the Azure CSP Migration Assessment tool. This will give you a good overview of which resources can be migrated, which require some extra action and which cannot be moved. The output is something similar to this:


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Gather churn prediction insights with the Streamlit app¶
This app serves as an example of how to present the drivers and predictions of your Datarobot model using a Churn prediction use case. Building a churn predictor app using Streamlit and DataRobot is a great way to leverage the power of machine learning to improve customer retention.
The first step in building a churn prediction model is to collect and prepare your data. This typically involves gathering data on your customers' behavior, demographics, and usage patterns. Once you have your data, you can upload it to DataRobot and let the platform do the rest. After training, DataRobot provides detailed insights into the model's performance, including feature importance, model validation, and accuracy metrics.
Once you have a model that you're satisfied with, you can generate predictions on new data using DataRobot's prediction API. This workflow assumes that you have already generated these predictions and saved them as a CSV file.
To create a Streamlit app for churn prediction, you will need to import the necessary libraries, including Pandas, NumPy, Streamlit, Plotly, and PIL. You can then read in your prediction data and set up your Streamlit app's page configuration.
The app itself should allow users to specify criteria for viewing churn scores and top churn reasons. You can accomplish this using sliders and other interactive elements.
A workflow of this process for building a Streamlit app using DataRobot predictions can be found in the churn Streamlit app GitHub repository. This workflow can be adapted to present insights from other classification or regression models built in DataRobot.


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|74LS14||Hex Inverters with Open-Collector Outputs|
An open collector is a common type of output found on many integrated circuits (IC), which behaves like a switch that is either connected to ground or disconnected.
NOT gate is a digital circuit that has a single input and single output. The output of NOT gate is the logical inversion of input. Hence, the NOT gate is also called an inverter.
Logic NOT Gates are available using digital circuits to produce the desired logical function. The standard NOT gate is given a symbol whose shape is of a triangle pointing to the right with a circle at its end. This circle is known as an "inversion bubble". Logic NOT gates provide the complement of their input signal and are so called because when their input signal is "HIGH" their output state will NOT be "HIGH". Likewise, when their input signal is "LOW" their output state will NOT be "LOW". As they are single-input devices, logic NOT gates are not normally classed as "decision" making devices
Boolean Expression Y = A'
"If A is true, then Y is false"
This NOT gate produces an output Y, which is the complement of input, A.


text: Drool may be gross, but it's a powerful fungus fighter, according to new research. Biologists collected saliva samples from sedated moose (Alces alces) and European reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). They also grew red fescue, a grass that the two animals commonly munch on in Sweden. The scientists then conducted two experiments. They added the saliva to test tubes teeming with colonies of the fungus Epichloë festucae, which often lives within the grass and helps produce toxic chemicals to ward off ravenous grazers like livestock, and also to recently trimmed grass infected with the fungus. The latter simulated how grass gets ripped and doused with slobber when it's been chomped on by a herbivore. Compared with fungi samples treated with water, moose and reindeer saliva slowed the growth of the fungi. When applied to clipped grass, moose drool reduced the production of the toxic chemicals between 41% and 70%, whereas grass that was not treated with saliva actually doubled in its release of toxic chemicals, according to a study published online today in Biology Letters. The results suggest that large mammalian herbivores have evolved the ability to fight back against plant defenses to either detoxify their greens or curb venomous chemical production.


Our Story
The story behind Dr. Joe Explains
When Dr. Joe Explains founder, Abby Hofmeister, developed a medical condition that baffled doctors, the lack of information left her bewildered and wrought with anxiety. Abby's greatest source of comfort came from her father, Dr. Joe Hofmeister, M.D. (yes, he's a real person) who was particularly good at breaking down complex medical jargon to make things easier for her to understand. Information became Abby's greatest source of comfort, and a father who knew how to explain it—her greatest resource.
From this experience grew a new purpose in Abby's life—to become that same source of comfort, information, and clarity for others struggling with the stress, fear, and anxiety of a medical condition. Together, the father-daughter duo assembled a team of medical, educational, and communications experts collectively known as Dr. Joe Explains.
Dr. Joe and Abby Hofmeister
Inspired by Abby's story and the first-hand experiences of so many others, our team creates informative materials that patients and loved ones can use to take control of the things they can and accept the things they cannot. Our materials use common language and storytelling to make information more relatable and easier to understand.
By turning accurate medical information into compassionate, everyday conversations, we provide a sense of direction, nurture confidence, and equip others with the knowledge and courage to make the best possible health decisions.
What began as a simple act of caring between a father and his daughter has grown into an important resource that's helping to improve the quality of life for so many others. From one patient to another, one parent to another, and one doctor to another—we look forward to becoming a part of your care and support.
In the same way that a father can make the world feel a little less scary for his daughter, Dr. Joe Explains makes medical care less scary for patients, caregivers, and loved ones.


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Kullakar Rice is rich in antioxidant and has higher zinc content when compared to white rice. Kullakar regenerate cells and energizes the body.
Alternative Names: Kullakar Rice |Red Rice | Red Idly Rice | Unpolished Rice
- Packed with vitamins and minerals.
- Regulates blood pressure
- Helps control Blood sugar levels when consumed on regular basis.
- Energizes brain, nerves and body.
- Kullakar Rice helps in weight loss as it contains complex carbohydrates, which takes times to digest
- Increases bone strength
- Helps relieve constipation.
- Some of the common recepies made of Kullakar Rice:
- Kullakar Idly / Dosa
- Kullakar Puttu
- Kullakar Salad
- Kullakar Sweet Pongal


text: Pale smartweed is an annual weed. Its leaves are alternate and lance-shaped. The first five to seven leaves have white matted hair on the underside. Later leaves have tiny yellow glands dotted on the under surface. It may or may not have a purplish blotch on its upper surface. It is the most abundant and persistent species of smartweed.


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A gas-cooled reactor (GCR) is a nuclear reactor that uses graphite as a neutron moderator and carbon dioxide (helium can also be used) as coolant. Although there are many other types of reactor cooled by gas, the terms GCR and to a lesser extent gas cooled reactor are particularly used to refer to this type of reactor.
The GCR was able to use natural uranium as fuel, enabling the countries that developed them to fabricate their own fuel without relying on other countries for supplies of enriched uranium, which was at the time of their development only available from the United States or Soviet Union.
There were two main types of generation I GCR:
The main difference between these two types is in the fuel cladding material. Both types were mainly constructed in their countries of origin, with a few export sales: Magnox plants to Italy and Japan, and a UNGG to Spain. Both types used fuel cladding materials that were unsuitable for medium term storage under water, making reprocessing an essential part of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Both types were, in their countries of origin, also designed and used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, but at the cost of major interruption to their use for power generation despite the provision of online refuelling.
In the UK, the Magnox was replaced by the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR), an improved Generation II gas cooled reactors. In France, the UNGG was replaced by the pressurized water reactor (PWR). More recently, GCRs based on the declassified drawings of the early Magnox reactors have been constructed by North Korea at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.
Gas-cooled reactor types include:
- Heavy Water Gas Cooled Reactor (HWGCR)
- Gas-cooled reactor (graphite moderated)
- Advanced gas-cooled reactor
- Gas-cooled fast reactor
- Gas turbine modular helium reactor, General Atomics design : He-cooled, Graphite moderated
- High temperature gas cooled reactor
- Pebble bed reactor
- Very high temperature reactor
See also
|This article about nuclear power and nuclear reactors for power generation is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|


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Don't just teach kids to count. Teach them what counts most!* Classrooms around the country now have the opportunity to do just that.
In response to requests from teachers and administrators to meet a "kindness gap," the 21 Day Kindness Challenge has launched its newest program, the 21 Day Kindness Challenge: Classroom Edition. The organization's new classroom kindness program provides teachers with 21 days of lessons, projects, activities and team meetings that teach kindness, compassion, appreciation and caring.
"Teachers asked for it, and we listened!" says Justina Bryant, founder and president of the 21 Day Kindness Challenge. "Teachers were asking for help to change the culture of their classroom." Our 21 Day Kindness Challenge: Classroom Edition provides them with all the materials and tools they need to create a kinder, more inclusive, classroom environment."
Studies have shown that students and teachers reap the benefits of teaching kindness in the classroom.
Teaching kindness has the following results:
The 21 Day Kindness Challenge: Classroom Edition is perfect for K-6 classroom teachers, youth groups, preschools, home-schools, or any small group-based learning environment. This program is a comprehensive, four week program that includes step-by-step weekly theme-based activities to emphasize kindness, caring, appreciation and gratitude. Students and teachers will develop the habit of being kind. The program also dovetails with many of the standards set by Common Core curriculum.
"I'm very excited to launch the 21 Day Kindness Challenge: Classroom Edition. I know our children can change the world, we just need to show them how to be kind, effective and proactive leaders," said 21 Day Kindness Challenge Founder, Justina Bryant.
In the words of Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
*Quote by Karen Salmansohn. _URL_
Our 21 Day Kindness Challenge: Classroom Edition is now available!
Note From the Founder
Hello. I am the founder of the 21 Day Kindness Challenge Program.


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- For Teachers
Meaning: Go somewhere different or do something different
Example: Work's getting on top of me; I need to GET AWAY FROM it.
Meaning: Start to talk about something that is not relevant to the discussion
Example: I think we're GETTING AWAY FROM the point herewe need to concentrate on the main ideas.
Other Phrasal Verbs
We have 66 phrasal verbs with 'GET'


Proposal 2 assumes that the benefit of an index (improved
 seeking performance) outweighs the disadvantages (incomplete demuxer
 implementations that cannot seek when the index is absent).
 The disadvantages of Proposal 2 are:
 1) Redundant, non-structural information. Having a non-authoritative
 index increases the opportunity for mux and demux implementation
 bugs. There will certainly be cases in the wild where the index
 does not agree with the stream. This disagreement isn't possible
 if there's no non-structural or redundant seeking information.
 2) A front-positioned index breaks the Ogg 'everything is always a
 stream' model, as a front-positioned index necessarily requires a
 second pass.
 3) Experience in multiple containers show that implementors will
 tend to implement index-only seeking [and even tell users their
 files are 'broken' if the files don't contain an index].
 The advantages of Proposal 2 are:
 1) Latency. Indexes can be generated for consumption models like the
 web where seeks can be very high latency, and reducing the seek
 number to 'always only 1' is a boon.
 2) A tail-positioned index would preserve the streaming model and
 keep time-to-first-frame low by avoiding a large index in the
 header at stream startup. The index can be grabbed from the
 stream tail asynchronously.
 3) Coarse-grained indexes can be used as a mechanism to inform
 bisection search, still resulting in fewer seeks while also
 reducing the index overhead in situations where this overhead is
Proposal 3: Bisection search with threaded backreference
 Proposal 3 makes use of bisection seeking as above, but rather than
 using an index, adds an auxiliary backreference structure threaded
 through the stream in order to eliminate the second stage of the
 bisection seek. The bisection sarch algorithm always short-circuits
 at step 5:
 seekpoint based on known stream duration and simple linear
 2) Seek and capture a page
 location based on DTS of captured page
 first with a time stamp immediately preceeding the desired point
 the desired point.
 we're finished.
 5.b) If we need to seek to a backreference, the auxiliary
 backreference structure gives us a hard byte offset to seek back
 The proposed threaded backreference mechanism would append a single,
 variable-length-encoded byte offset to the end of each page after
 the packet data. This addiiton would modify the capture criteria
 such that capture must account for the optional, unsignaled field.
 After reading packet data, demux framing would have to check for
 either a capture pattern, or a backreference followed by a capture
 Variations of this proposal could also include bisection hints to
 further reduce the order of complexity of the bisection search.
 As I see it, this middle of the road approach is a compromise
 without real advantages. In its favor:
 1) Streams that make use of backreferences (most AV streams) would
 avoid the second bisection search, always reducing the average
 number of seeks by a little more than one.
 However, there are significant disadvantages.
 1) Like Proposal 2, the threaded backreference mechanism means
 seeking makes use of two ~ unrelated mechanisms instead of one.
 The threaded backreference increases mux and demux complexity.
 2) The average seek number drops from ~ 4.5 physcal seeks to ~ 3.5.
 This is not a significant improvement given the additional
 compexity. Proposal 2 is simpler, similar overhead, and drops
 best case seeks to 1.
 3) Like proposal 2, the additional backreference offset is
 redundant, non-authoritative, and non-structural.
In short, this mechanism has the disadvantages of Proposal 2 (in addition to being weird) but does not deliver as much advantage as Proposal 2.


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South Dakota Celebrates Native American Day
It's Columbus Day in the United States, but it's Native American Day in South Dakota.
The state Legislature in 1989 approved the change proposed by then-Gov. George Mickelson. South Dakota is the only state that celebrates Native American Day on Columbus Day.
Dani Daugherty grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She tells the American News that Native American Day is a time to recognize the resiliency and the contributions of native peoples.
But others have mixed feelings. Standing Rock Sioux member Gordon Tree Trop says he remembers being teased by classmates when he was growing up because he had his "own day."
Meanwhile, the Crazy Horse Memorial plans to celebrate Native American Day on Monday with a weather permitting mountain blast and a free buffalo stew luncheon.
Other activities and programs include Native American singers, dancers, artists and storytellers, the South Dakota Symphony's Lakota Music Project and an educational program.
The memorial is a mountain carving in progress that will honor Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Work on the sculpture began in 1948.
South Dakota is the only U.S. state that celebrates Native American Day. Others observe the day as Columbus Day.
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This is a simple idea that could save many lives. By cabling large towers together a spider web of escape roots could be created by zip lining to an neighboring building. This would allow people to escape a fire and allow the fire fighters to come in from above with hoses and equipment. Other advantages could be discouraging air born impacts, adding structural safety in the advent of an earth quake and possible adding a physical communication link with in the web itself. Key personal could be trained in advance to deploy the system on one roof for evacuation while another group receives people on the lower structure. The hazard of fire increases with the age of the building and most of our cities are at risk and this could be an answer. The harness for holding people could be made from many different materials like nylon and stored on the roof in large numbers. This might sound like a crazy idea but if you are living or working in a tower this might save your life someday.
This is an idea I came up with after 911.


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Yung-Joon Jung, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Jin-Goo Park
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College of Engineering. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
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As surface contamination by submicron particulates becomes a critical issue in semiconductor industry, efforts have been made to develop noncontact effective laser-based cleaning techniques. The laser shockwave cleaning (LSC) process is one of the promising techniques that has been demonstrated to be effective for inorganic particle dry removal. In the cleaning process, the surface is not directly exposed to irradiation of laser beam, which eliminate the possibility of potential surface damage. In addition, a relatively large area can be cleaned by a single laser pulse. However, even though this technology has those distinct advantages, LSC technique has a difficulty in removing organic particles, which removal mechanism hasn't been found yet. Recently, the laser shockwave cleaning technique has been combined with ultraviolet (UV) laser for organic particle removal. But, when UV laser cleaning is used in this hybrid approach with LSC, optimization is required to ensure damage free cleaning. This is required whenever a new surface is used.
The reason for ineffectiveness in organic particle removal using LSC has been investigated. The shock wave pressure is sufficiently strong to deform soft particles such as organic particles increasing the contact radius between the particle and the substrate, which leads to higher adhesion force. The deformation of organic particle occurs during LSC process has been verified with high angle SEM images of 300nm PSL particles exposed to laser shockwaves. For theoretical calculation of the contact radius between 300nm PSL particles and Si substrate, the shockwave speed has been measured using newly designed two-probe beam deflection method and The Maugis-Pollock theory is applied. The predicted contact radius agrees with the experimental measurements. Removal moment ratio of PSL particle and silica particle has been also analyzed when applying LSC. It shows that silica particles can be easily removed by LSC, while soft (PSL) particles smaller than 1ìm in diameter will be harder to remove. It has been also verified experimentally with three different sized PSL particles such as 300nm, 600nm and 2μm. The removal efficiency of 2μm PSL particles is more than 90%, while in the case of 300nm and 600nm PSL particles, they are 30% and 60% respectively.
In order to remove organic particles, a wet laser shockwave cleaning (WLSC) technique has been refined successfully for wafer scale cleaning as well as for more efficient particle removal. This technique utilizes the advantage of using water to reduce the adhesion force by an order of magnitude, utilize the double layer repulsive force, eliminate the capillary force encountered in dry LSC and increase the drag force by increasing the medium density (by three orders of magnitude). In order to evaluate cleaning performance of the wet laser shockwave cleaning technique, removal of either organic particles or inorganic particles using different size particles have been investigated and compared to original LSC. Complete WLSC removal of 300nm PSL particles as well as 280nm silica particles was achieved. In addition, 28nm PSL particles were successfully removed by WLSC. The removal mechanism for wet laser shockwave cleaning has been investigated using computational fluid dynamics as well as shadow-graphic photography. Removal moment ratio for PSL and silica particle removal using WLSC has been also analyzed and compared to experimental results, but it shows the disagreement between them in the case of PSL particles. Based on the assumption that the water could be compressed due to the shockwave pressure perpendicular to the substrate leading to a decrease in the water film thickness, the removal moment ratio has been reanalyzed. As a result, it has been shown that when the thickness of the water film decreases to less than 1μm, 28nm PSL particles can be successfully removed.
Kim, Tae-Hoon, "Nanoscale particle removal using conventional and hybrid laser shockwave cleaning" (2010). Mechanical Engineering Dissertations. Paper 13. _URL_
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Human Rights Due Diligence
An Exercise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction?
In its recently released General Comment (GC) No 24 the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) makes a crucial point: It establishes that regulation imposing Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD), although having potential extraterritorial effects and impacts, does not imply the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction. But is this really the case? This contribution will verify whether this position is rooted in International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and if it finds echo in doctrinal opinion.
The GC No 24 provides also that '[t]he obligation to protect entails a positive duty to adopt a legal framework requiring business entities to exercise HRDD'. In this vain, a critical issue arising from the domestic regulation imposing HRDD concerns its international effects, since it will shape the behavior of companies abroad, leaving place for discussions about the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Determining Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Under general international law, the lawfulness of extraterritorial jurisdiction has been largely discussed. Equally, scholars have been debating the existence of extraterritorial obligations under IHRL. Despite that less attention has been given to the question under which conditions a state's act can be classified as extraterritorial (at p. 97). Indeed, this question is challenging, given that there is no consensus about the concept of extraterritorial jurisdiction. Under IHRL such question gains special importance, given that extraterritorial jurisdiction enacts not only the possibility of legitimate exercise of jurisdiction, but also the duty to comply with legally binding obligations.
It is necessary to define some clear criteria that can be used to verify if extraterritorial jurisdiction is being exercised. By applying these criteria to the models of HRDD regulation, it would be possible to verify if the existing models effectively exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction, or if they don't.
Under general international law, one criterion to identify extraterritorial prescriptive jurisdiction is to distinguish between direct and indirect extraterritoriality. An act that is classified as indirectly extraterritorial regulates a conduct which takes place inside the state's territory and has mere indirect effects abroad. The typical example is a restriction to enter the country, addressed to persons or products – in such cases, the conduct which is regulated occurs within the territory (the entry into the country), despite the undeniable effects abroad. On the other hand, an act should be classified as directly extraterritorial, and consequentially, as exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, when it directly regulates a conduct abroad. Simply put, the domestic regulation provides a legal consequence for the conduct wherever it occurs, including outside the state's borders. Moreover, concerning prescriptive jurisdiction, the classification of an act as extraterritorial is an interpretative question, and requires an individual analysis of each act or regulation.
Evaluation of General Comment No 24
The elucidation in the GC No 24 regarding the regulation of human rights due diligence and extraterritorial exercise of jurisdiction is very welcomed. Nonetheless, a more detailed elaboration on the subject would be very useful. As it was seen above, the question of extraterritorial exercise of jurisdiction remains controversial and one important source of this controversy is the absence of consensus between scholars over a clear criterion permitting the classification of States' acts as exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction or not.
Accordingly, a better method could have been developed to identify the limits between territorial and extraterritorial jurisdiction in the light of the reasoning presented in the report of the Special Representative on Business and Human Rights Professor Ruggie in 2010. The construction of a clear method would be in the interest of States that would have a better understanding of the extension of their obligations and it would help to trace the limits of non-interference. It would also be in the interest of civil society, since it would help to clarify obligations under IHRL, thus allowing them to pressure the States to comply with international engagements. For business, as it has already been said, the clarification of the issue will certainly contribute to legal security, and thus it would also be in the interest of corporations.
It is indeed regrettable that the GC No 24 did not explore this relation in order to shed more light and guidance to states regarding this issue – especially on the possible links between HRDD, parent company or group liability and potential exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
HRDD and a Treaty on Business and Human Rights
The open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group established by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 is currently working on the negotiation of a legally binding international instrument on Business and Human Rights. As a work in progress, the negotiators should bear in mind that in the present globalized economic context the only possible exercise of sovereignty is sharing sovereignty. In this context, extraterritoriality should be regarded as a tool of cooperation among States rather than a source of conflict of interests and sovereignty friction. More than that, it should not be seen as a simple binary concept. In this context, the clarification of concepts and criteria concerning the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction is a key point and it deserves more attention from the doctrine and from the Working Group. A new treaty on the subject of Human Rights and Business should carefully consider this question.
All considered, human rights due diligence plays a central role in the promotion of human rights and it should be incorporated in a new treaty. It is important to bear in mind that even if human rights due diligence is imposed according to a model of regulation that does not exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction, it will have extraterritorial effects, and it will indirectly influence the behavior of companies abroad. Hence, it is important to take steps towards a multilateral treaty that harmonizes unilateral measures, building an acceptable balance between state sovereignty and business' interests, and, the most important, promoting and assuring the respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights.
Clarissa Valli Buttow is a Master Student in International and Compared Law at the University of Lausanne.
Cite as: Clarissa Valli Buttow, "Human Rights Due Diligence – An Exercise in Extraterritorial Jurisdiction?", Völkerrechtsblog, 25 July 2018, doi: 10.17176/20180719-112851-0.


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For a triangle $ABC$ in 3D (each point has x, y, z coordinates) is it possible to generate uniform random points on the triangle from only the following data:
Normal of the triangle plane $N = \vec{\text{AB}}\times \vec{\text{AC}}$
Normal of the $AC$ edge plane $U = \cfrac{\vec{AC} \times N}{| \text{N} |^2} $ and $d_u = -U.A$
Normal of the $AB$ edge plane $V = \cfrac{ N \times \vec{AB} }{| \text{N} |^2} $ and $d_v = -V.A$
The two edge normals U and V are calculated such that $\vec{U}.B + d_u = 1$ and $\vec{V}.C + d_v = 1$ (As of yet I don't have the reputation to post an image so of the arrangement but will as soon as I can).
If this cannot be done with the available data what is the minimum amount of extra data required to generate the uniform random points (e.g. A, B, C)?
I am aware that the you can generate uniform random points on a triangle using the vertex $A$ and edges $\vec{AB} = B - A$ and $\vec{BC} = C-B$ as follows:
$S = A +\sqrt{R_1}\vec{AB} + \sqrt{R_1}R_2\vec{BC}$
Where $R_1 \text{and} R_2$ are random numbers between 0 and 1.
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There is no such thing as an "$AC$ edge plane". – Christian Blatter Jan 8 '12 at 12:09
It may have some other name however the peer review journal I am reading refers to it as such. It is the plane which the edge AC lies in which is perpendicular to the triangle plane – cubiclewar Jan 8 '12 at 20:42
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The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. The kilogram, also known as the kilo, is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water. 1 Kilogram is equal to 2.20462262 pounds (Lbs). The abbreviation used for kilogram is 'kg' and for pound is 'lb'.
There is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference between kilograms and pounds. Kilograms denote mass, but pounds denote weight, the force a mass exerts against a barrier in the presence of an acceleration field acting perpendicular to the barrier.
Calculate and convert the given value of kilogram into pounds.
KG into Pound = 44 Kilograms
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I'm trying to cluster an unknown set of data with a replicator neural network. The number of clusters is determined by the number of neuron units in the middle layer, multiplied by the number of steps in our step function responsible for the middle layer activation. The only information provided, is that the feature size vector will be 10. However there are no information about the number of possible clusters. The final goal is to detect anomalies with the neural network.
How do I approach this task? I'm not sure how much neurons and steps I should be using. I believe I can limit the neurons to about 4, as it should be usually less than half the input neurons. However I'm not sure how the network is going to perform on a lot of steps. Perhaps to many neurons won't hurt, as for my understand neural networks cluster, compared to k-means, independent from the number of clusters, while a number to small might damage the anomaly detection by limitation?


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If I have a triangle with the coodinates A(0,0) B (30,0) and C (30,40)
Is the centre of gravity 1/3 of the base and 1/3 of the height?
would this make it (10, 40/3)??
The area of the triangle is
You now need a triangle such that
The ratio of the main triangle's height to the base is
You need to have or
The center of gravity will occur along the triangle with the x coordinate equal to 21.2132.
You will need to do the appropriate calculations for the y coordinate.
You want to cut the large triangle so that the upper or smaller triangle is half the area of the larger triangle.


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If you've painted a ceiling, you know the annoyance of drips: an initially smooth coat of paint collects in spots that dribble onto the floor. The drips come from a gravity-driven instability in the paint, which physicists have modeled for various liquids and surface tilts. Now Ruben Tomlin of Imperial College London and colleagues have added an electric field into the mix. Their mathematical modeling and simulations show that a strong enough field could stop the drips, an effect that might be used for thin-film cooling or to make uniform coatings in precision manufacturing.
The team's starting point is a flat slab coated on its underside with a viscous dielectric liquid like oil. In 2015, researchers studied such a setup by tilting the slab and letting the liquid run, finding they could predict the tilt angles at which drips would occur. The Imperial team approaches this problem anew. They derived a set of equations for the film's surface contour that incorporate not only surface tension and gravity, as in the 2015 study, but also the effect of an electric field applied parallel to the substrate. This field introduces stresses at the film's surface, which have a stabilizing effect akin to that of surface tension.
Based on their equations, they determined that drips appear roughly when the liquid surface transitions from being "convectively" unstable (in which a disturbance in the liquid ripples away) to being "absolutely" unstable (in which the disturbance remains localized). The researchers predicted that a relatively high field strength would be needed to prevent drips for a 2.5-mm-thick film tilted to 60° degrees below horizontal. But they think lower values might suffice in other cases that are of technological interest.
This research is published in Physical Review Fluids.
Jessica Thomas is the Editor of Physics.


Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea
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Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea refers to laws created by the government of South Korea to prevent the import and distribution of media from Japan. These laws were a reaction to the decades-long Japanese occupation of Korea. As a result, South Koreans had no legal access to Japanese media at all until the 1990s. As of 2018, there are still several laws restricting broadcasting of Japanese media in South Korea.
Immediately following the end of the Japanese rule of Korea, on August 15, 1945, South Korea enacted the Law For Punishing Anti-National Deeds (반민족행위처벌법), which was followed with many other laws over the decades restricting the broadcast and distribution of records, videos, CDs, and games from outside the country. While the laws did not specify any specific country, the intent of the laws was primarily aimed at Japanese media.[1]
Revisions to the laws[edit]
On 20 October 1998, manga and other publications were allowed to be imported for the first time.[2][3] Films that were joint Japan–Korea productions, or had won an Academy Award or an award at a major international film festival (Cannes, Berlin or Venice), were also allowed to be screened in theatres.[4][5] Animated films continued to be banned.[6]
In September 1999, Japanese music was allowed to be performed in venues not exceeding 2000 seats, and non-animated films that had won an award at any international film festival were allowed to be shown.[7][6][5]
In June 2000, the limit on seats in live performances was lifted, and animated feature-length theatrical films that had won one or more major international film awards were allowed to be shown, as were all films with a 12+ or 15+ rating. These films could also now be screened on cable and satellite television. Computer, online and arcade-style video games were allowed to be sold, and sporting events, news programs and documentaries were allowed to be broadcast on television. Music recordings and CDs with no Japanese lyrics, such as instrumental music or songs sung in other languages, was allowed to sold.[6][7]
On 1 January 2004, all Japanese films were allowed to be shown in theaters, and all Japanese music and video games could be sold by retailers.[4] For satellite and cable television, programming now allowed was lifestyle information programs, educational programs, Japanese music, Japanese films (those screening in theatres), and television dramas that were Japan–Korea productions or had a 7+, 12+ or general rating. For terrestrial television, allowed programming was lifestyle information programs, educational programs, non-animated Japanese films (those screening in theatres), television dramas that were Japan–Korea productions, live broadcasts of Japanese singers' concerts in South Korea, and Japanese singers appearing on Korean programs.[6]
Laws remaining in place[edit]
It is still illegal to broadcast Japanese music and television dramas over terrestrial signals in South Korea.[8]
In February 2011, the Korean censor indicated that they might consider lifting the ban in the future.[9] In August 2011, a single Japanese song was broadcast in South Korea as part of a trial program.[10][11]
In 2014, the Korean-language song "Uh-ee" by Korean band Crayon Pop was banned from broadcast by KBS because it contained the Japanese word pikapika in its lyrics.[12][13] However, SBS MTV and SBS funE allowed it.[14]
 1. ^ 中村知子 (Tomoko Nakamura) "韓国における日本大衆文化統制" (Control of Japanese popular culture in Korea) Archived 2011-12-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese). Ritsumeikan University. March 2004. (English translation)
 2. ^ "[어제의 오늘]1998년 일본 대중문화 1차 개방 발표" (in Korean). The Kyunghyang shinmun. 19 October 1998.
 3. ^ <연말특집:聯合通信선정 '98 국내 및 해외 10대뉴스>-① (in Korean). yonhapnews. 10 December 1998.
 4. ^ a b Demick, Barbara (28 December 2003). "South Korea Makes Way for Anime". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-07-05. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 5. ^ a b "Minister proposes allowing Japanese dramas into Korea". The Dong-a Ilbo. February 25, 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 6. ^ a b c d Suzuki, Hitoshi (2004-03-15). "Ban Lifted on Japanese Popular Culture in South Korea". IIST World Forum. Institute for International Studies and Training. Retrieved 2016-07-05. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 7. ^ a b Kim, Elisa (July 22, 2000). "Korea loosens ban on Japanese pop culture". Billboard. Vol. 112 no. 30. p. 68. Retrieved July 7, 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
 8. ^ "韓国政府による日本文化開放政策(概要)" (Open-door policy of Japanese culture by the Korean government – Overview) (in Japanese), Embassy of Japan in South Korea, 30 December 2003. (English translation)
 9. ^ 韓国、日本ドラマ解禁に積極姿勢 (Positive attitude Korea, Japan to ban drama) (in Japanese), 西日本新聞 (West Newspapers), 24 February 2011. (English translation)
 10. ^ 日, 정치인까지 反한류 감정에 편승 (Politicians capitalize on the emotions of the Korean Wave) (in Korean), chosun.com, 1 September 2011. (English translation)
 11. ^ 「韓流偏重批判に考慮を 自民・片山さつき議員が民放連に要請 ("Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Satsuki Katayama NAB requested to "take into account the criticism obsessed Hallyu") (in Japanese), J-Cast News, 31 August 2011. (English translation)
 12. ^ Yonhap News. ＜芸能＞韓国アイドルの新曲 日本語使用で「放送不適合」 2014/04/03
 13. ^ Ashcraft, Brian. "Korean TV Network Bans Pop Song for Using Japanese". Kotaku. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
 14. ^ "[HD] 140408 Crayon Pop - Uh ee @ SBS MTV The Show". YouTube. Retrieved 2014-04-08.


I am graduating in two days and still haven't received a grade in one of my classes. The chances that I do not pass the class are low but it isn't out of the question. I am also on the edge of latin honors and my grade in this class will determine where I land.
The official due date for the grades is early next week but I would really like to know if I am actually graduating before I walk. Could I e-mail the professor asking him what my grade in the class will be?
If it matters the last assignment was due a week ago.
 - What are Latin honours? – astronat Apr 27 '18 at 6:51
 - _USER_ Magna and Summa Cum Laude – case Apr 27 '18 at 7:32
If you're concerned about your grade, then you can try to send a polite email. However, you may also want to check if there's a policy whereby grades for graduating seniors need to be turned in early (which may or may not be the case, given the need to make sure students can graduate.
If not, the grades might not be ready, if the submission deadline has not yet passed. (But how can they schedule graduation before grades are due?)
Also, the answer may depend on how large the class is: the bigger the course you're worried about, the less likely the grades will be ready early.
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