same family + drag + overlapp
 - Hey guys,
 if you could help me with my problem, I would appreciate it very much.
 Short description: Ten squares, all in one family with one family behavior: drag'n'drop. When you drag one square over another, call the action (in this case: restart layout).
 Problem: Version 1 is not working. Version 2 (same as version 1, but the order of event and sub-event has been inverted) is working, but I think it is way more performance-heavy and I also cannot use in my project since I need to call an 'else' later.
 Could you advise me on how to make version 1 work? Creating another family with another name, but with the same objects as in the first family is not an option.
 Thank you.
 Here is the.capx:....capx?dl=0
 - Wel, you read those events wrong. Forget for once that "IF THIS THEN THAT" dinosaur.
 In event 2. You pick the square that is dragging. Not one square more. Not one square less. So at this moment the List Of Picked Objects contain that ONE object. The dragged object.
 For each following condition, this is the PREVIOUS PICKED OBJECTS LIST. Until you forget that list by making a new top level condition.
 So, If you gooing to look for that overlap as you do. You have ONLY ONE object picked. That condition is only true when that object overlaps itself. Wich is kinda impossible.
 In event 5 you Pick All the Squares that overlap another Square. For each following condition, this is the PREVIOUS PICKED OBJECTS LIST. So the next event looks in that list (the list of all squares that overlap another square) and filter out of THOSE... the square that is dragging. If it finds on, the conditions is TRUE.
 Your calculation is also wrong. For the last one its (10 * 10) - 10. Look in the debugger.
 For the first one it is obvious (10 * 0) + 1. Again look at the colission checks in the debugger.
 - Thank you for your fast reply, 99instances.
 1.) Sorry about the debugger thing. I used the debugger in the bigger project (from where I extracted this problem from) and the number of checks per tick kept changing without me doing anything so I got confused. Should have looked at the debugger for this example project too.
 2.) Ok, so you are saying that after line 2 the Previous Picked Object List consists of only the one square that is dragging. But now let's say in line 3, I would change it to the following:
 This seems to work, so even though the circle is not on the Previous Picked Object List, it is still considered for this condition. Then why in this version
 all the instances and objects of the square family are not considered for this condition? Yes, they are not on the Previous Picked Object List, but neither is the circle. Is it because - in constrast to the circle - they have been excluded in line 2 from being considered for subevents after line 2? Why is that? I mean what is the reason for Scirra to have made it like that?
 3.) Hmmm. This doesn't bring us closer to the solution I think. I have to go work in the garden now, I will check back in later when I have come up with a solution or to see if someone else has found one.
 - Yes, the circle is unreferenced. It is not previous picked. So it just adds the circle to the previous picked list.
 An other way to understand this is.. to state that for the circle it is the first 'top event'. So its previous picked list was forgotten.
 Read this:
 It is way more clear then i can ever explain it. You are not the only one. A lot of beginners are using Contruct the wrong way. And i, me myself, still fall in that trap. Why i dont consider myself as a avid user.
 But serious, once you got the hang on picking objects, the system is absolutly beatyfull.
 Now you would ask, how do i forget a picked list? Just make a new top level pick event. A function is very handy, it is a top level event.
 On more thing on optimizing. You captured that there are loops behind the scenes. If you make a condition like 'pick by comparisation' it loops behind the scenes trough all the specified objects and compares them to what you want em them to compare to. Those loops are just inevitable. And to be honest, dont worry about them to much.
 Unless they look for overlaps and collisions. Those are performance eaters.
 I have Two examples for you. This one should explain what happens. How it picks. It is importand to understand this.....capx?dl=0
 This one showes a way to minimize collission dedections. It comes down to make 'behind the scenes loops' that dont check for overlaps/collissions. So, forget all the other optimizing you have read about. (that statement gonna make me public enemy nr1, hehe)....capx?dl=0
 Check the debugger and enjoy a collission dedection of only ONE every tick.
 Do i recoment this? I dont know. Construct is supposed to be easy. This aint easy coding for most.
 You seem to understand those things.
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 - Hehe okay I see. Like I said in the first post, I'd rather not have two families with the same content just for workaround purposes because then everytime I create or delete a new object I have to remember to do it in two families. But I guess this is the best solution at the moment. You can even put the whole code segment in a group that becomes active on Drag Start and becomes deactivated on Drop so that it only uses resources when in fact a dragging is in process. Thank you!
 I suppose you can prove that? Getting the collsions check/dt under the 90 while dragging this way? And having a working logic?
 - LOL, you just set my own dragging solution active/non active. Its k, dude.
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It's a wonderful thing when people make interesting data sets available to the public. When Thomas Jones wrote a paper in Econometrics about the growth of US retail giant Walmart, he made the data he collected about every Walmart store opening in history (location and date) available to the public. Since then, several people have used different techniques to visualize the data.
Biostatistician Corey Chivers used the R language to create this animation of the growth of the mega-retailer over time:
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As the college prepares for its sesquicentennial, South Hall will celebrate its 130th anniversary.
It is the only Cornell building constructed in response to a student petition. The issue was discrimination:
the college was offering women, but not men, the option of rooming and boarding
The Cornell Boarding Association (CBA) or Gentlemen's Boarding Hall—Old Sem was the
Ladies' Boarding Hall—opened in January or February 1873, having cost about $8,000. It included
22 double-occupancy rooms, each with two windows and a wood-burning stove. The top two floors
had eight rooms each. The first floor had six student rooms and a two-room suite for the cook.
When engineering professor Sylvester Niles Williams and alumna Mary Fancher Williams married
in 1876, they moved in as houseparents. Their son, Sylvester
Vernon Williams, Class of 1901, was born in the building in 1883.
Living conditions were less than ideal as evidenced in 1877
when four residents fired three revolvers and a shotgun at rats.
Another rat was caught in the cook's trap. Two rows of outhouses
descended downhill from the back of the building until 1916.
Because of the CBA's strict rules and faculty supervision, it
failed within a decade to attract enough roomers to remain viable.
It was gradually converted for academic use by the principal of the
Cornell high school, the commandant of cadets, and the departments
of geology, biology, engineering, psychology, Greek, archaeology,
English, French, German, chemistry, history, political science,
education, and secretarial training. The art department was
the first to occupy more than one room. Between 1882 and 1892, it had two studios, a gallery, and
a bedroom for the art teacher. The next major tenant was the Conservatory of Music. As an academic
building, it was first called Art Hall, then Conservatory Hall and, after 1906, South Hall.
Today it is home to English and politics.
South Hall was built
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housing. Within a
decade, men wouldn't
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strict rules and
In the 19th century, the building sheltered a natural history museum. One night, pranksters
broke in through a window and stole some of the taxidermical specimens. The next morning,
Cornellians crossing the campus saw a bear in a tree, an alligator in the fountain, and various
stuffed birds on branches.
The basement originally contained a kitchen, dining room, two cellars, and a room for the
kitchen maid. In 1898, the YMCA installed the first on-campus baths and showers for male students
here, and in 1914 the college set up a shop with 18 benches for manual training. For many
years, Cornell's Hillside Press was quartered here and students printed on the Rogers electric press,
among other items, the college's renowned literary magazine, The Husk.
Late one evening in March 1940, after the janitor had locked the outer doors of South Hall,
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Peep Facts
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Who invented the wonderful candy known as Peeps?
Sam Born. Sam Born began selling Peeps in the early 1920′s. He sold them in a small grocery store he owned, under a sign that read "Just Born".
In what city did Peeps first appear?
New York City. Peeps quickly became his most popular item.
Where are Peeps made since 1932?
Bethlehem, Pa.. In 1932, Sam Born moved his company to a larger facility in Bethlehem to keep up with the growing demand.
How long does it take to make a Peep?
6 minutes. In 1953, it took 27 hours. The original process was done by hand, compared to today when machines do much of the work. Today, you can make your own Peeps, with an at home kit available from Just Born!
What color is the most popular Peep?
Yellow. We all love the little yellow chicks! After yellow, the favorite color arepink, lavender, blue, and white. The flavor, in most cases, is not changed by the color. It is simply food dye
How many Peeps are made each DAY in the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania factory?
4.2 million. That is a lot of Peeps.
Peeps aren't as bad for you as you might think. A single Peep has how many calories?
32. Peeps have 0 grams of fat too. Let's face it though, a Peep is just a hunk of sugar coated sugar.
What holiday is the largest orgy of Peep buying?
Easter. Peeps are now available year round. You can find bat Peeps for Halloween, hearts for Valentines Day, and even Christmas tree Peeps. A Peep for every occasion!
According to surveys, how many Peeps does the average adult eat in a sitting?
5. The way to eat a Peep is totally personal. Some eat the head first, another the tail. Others, myself included, poke holes in the wrapping to let them get stale. You can bake with Peeps, microwave them,freeze them, even order a pizza with Peep topping. Anything goes.
A box of unopened Peeps should be discarded after 1 year.
False. The shelf life of Peeps, if stored properly, is years. In 1 million years, someone will dig up a pack of Peeps, and they will probably be edible!
[HT: FunTrivia]
By the way, I don't like Peeps.
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Words of wisdom
We have just finished celebrating our Bangla New Year 1424. Thus, I felt the need existed to acquaint readers about the role played by adages in our lives.
Proverbs, adages, or "bochons" are short pithy sayings in common use. In origin, they belong to the same stage of ethnic and racial history as ballads and folk songs, and are sometimes related to the fable and the riddle.
Bochons and proverbs are found all over the world in every ethnic community. They provide an insight into the effects of cultural conditions, language, and local variations on expression. They form part of codes of behaviour, and exemplify the use of the sayings in the transmission of tribal wisdom and rules of conduct. Often, the same adage can be found in many variants. This process is similar in the case of Bengali adages.
In Bengal and its adjoining regions, bochons transcended boundaries and found expression with comparative similar meanings in other languages and dialects spoken in the Indian States of Orissa, Assam, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu, and also in Nepal.
Another common element in the proverbs and adages of Europe and that of Bengal is its fondness for homely imagery. This is so, because, in both instances they originated from rural sources. In Europe, they refer to pot and kettle, sheep, horse, cock and hen, cow and bull, dog, and the events of everyday life. In the case of Bengal, the adages and bochons refer to domestic animals and economic activities involving daily life.
All bochons and adages, however short they might be, have a singular characteristic: They generally have philosophical content and connote a special meaning. Such expressions are usually formulated on the basis of broad experience and not on emotion.
They are mental in character and social in nature. As a result, some Bangla linguists refer to adages as being "crystallised forms of human experience."
Bangla adages normally have dual meanings -- a literary and an inner meaning. Normally, the importance of the bochons lies in the significance of the symbolical meaning. As a consequence, sayings with metaphorical quality are more easily recognised as proverbial. This is what distinguishes it from an idiom. From that point of view they are really signposts and in a manner of speaking "fragments of an elder wisdom."
Bengali proverbs and bochons normally consist of a descriptive element that contains a topic and a comment. Based on common sense, they have in the villages of Bengal over the years, assumed the unwritten status of morality. They also reflect the ethos and, in more ways than one, the cultural identity of the people of this region.
Bangla adages usually have a theme and a distinct meaning. Some of them rely on the contradictory nature of the construction while others are comparative or complementary in nature. There are proverbs and bochons that deal with principles of social science, politics, and even economics. There are also bochons which deal with the weather, weather patterns, the supernatural, flora and fauna, and also the importance of astrology in daily life.
A careful analysis of the early economic history of Bengal indicates that farming and being associated with agriculture was considered very honourable
Mohammad Hanif Pathan, in his publication Bangla Probad Parichiti realistically identified the difficulties associated in the collection and publication of proverbs. He also correctly explained the significant factor of adages being based on oral tradition.
This creates its own dynamics and practical day-to-day interaction. It also moulds collective experience and helps in the evolution of terminology and idioms.
A historical appreciation of Bangla bochons and their relevance to rural Bengal would, however, be incomplete without reference to our ancient seer Khana.
Sayings of Khana form part of this country's traditional agricultural norms. They also constitute, in a manner of speaking, a body of suggestions regarding public health.
For many centuries, these have contributed towards understanding of this country's evolution in civilisation and culture. In Khana's bochons, most of the references are to paddy, bananas, and various types of vegetables. They are sometimes also philosophical in content. In her rhythm and prosody, Khana appears to be mostly under the influence of a particular period of medieval Bengali grammar. Another distinct feature is the great similarity between Khana's sayings and proverbs in Uriya in Kanara, Telegu, and Nepali.
This association between bochons and Bangla as a language has old roots. Different excavations carried out in 24 parganas, Mednipore and in Birbhum in the present day Indian State of West Bengal have indicated clear evidence of a continuing civilisation rich with agricultural knowledge.
A careful analysis of the early economic history of Bengal indicates that farming and being associated with agriculture was considered very honourable. Numerous references exist in Khana to the important role that farmers played in the economic history of Bengal. This was also evident in the poetry of the famous medieval poet Mukondoram, particularly in his work "Chandimongal."
Khana particularly noted more than once "goru, joru, dhan, ei tine rakhe maan," "jar golai nai dhan, tar abar kothar tan," and "jar nai goru, shey shobar horu." In all these sayings, Khana underlines the importance of having healthy farming animals and farm implements, for, essentially, these were, and still are, the factors for creating wealth in a rural household.
Surveys conducted in the near past in different districts of Bangladesh have revealed that though the inhabitants have not formally read about Khana, her adages, practiced locally, continue to have an unconscious impact on their daily lives.
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The St. Cloud Library Got Its Start – On 'This Date In Central Minnesota History'
ST. CLOUD - June 8th, 1865 – The Library Association was formed. This would lead to the formation of the St. Cloud Public Library.
On this date 146 years ago, eight women met at the house of Mrs. Z.H. Mores house to discuss the allocation of recently donated books to the new town of St. Cloud. This was the very first meeting of the Library Association, then called the Reading Room Society. The formation of this group was the stepping stone for the creation of a public library for the town. At the very first meeting dues were set to ten cents a meeting and that money would go to the purchase of more books. On that day a counsel was also elected. It was decided that Mrs. Charles Bridgman was to be the president and Mrs. L Cramb was to be the vice president.
The ladies met every other Thursday at various members' homes in the early afternoon and their husbands would join them for supper and discussions after the workday was over. The women of the library association had emigrated from the East coast and had gone to the best boarding schools around. The group wanted to bring their educational backgrounds to the small pioneer town of St. Cloud. After dinner the association read from their own personal libraries and gave prepared talks to continue their education and their pursuit of building a public library where everyone could come and read.
The Reading Room Society was known for their outstanding fundraisers such as outdoor readings, concerts and art shows. With these great skills of fundraising, the Reading Room Society gathered nearly two hundred books – all for public use. The next question was where to put all of these books. The books traveled from home to home for a period of time. It was not until 1883 when the Reading Room Society found the perfect spot for "The St. Cloud City Library" on Fifth Avenue and St. Germain in the back corner of the Edelbrock Building. The St. Cloud City Council adopted this resolution in April of 1883: "That a public library under the provisions of the general law of the state, be established to be known as the St. Cloud Public Library. This was the 7th public library created in Minnesota. On Friday, May 11, 1883, the Directors of the Library Association met to turn their library over to the new city board and then the Library Association adjourned permanently. After only seven years, the room in the Edelbrock building had grown too small for the growing number of books which had reached over 7,000 books. By 1894 the library had moved to three very open rooms in the West Hotel on Fifth Avenue and First St. Sadly, on February 8th, 1901, a fire started and consumed the West Hotel, along with many of the library books and records.
This great tragedy did not stop the Reading Room Society. The day after the fire Mr. Alvah Eastman, the husband to the current Society president, wrote a heartfelt and urgent letter to the well known philanthropist Andrew Carnegie asking for his help to rebuild the library and replace the lost books. Almost immediately, Mr. Eastman heard back from Carnegie who wrote that he would put up $25,000 for the building of the library if the city of St. Cloud could come up with $2,500 annually for maintenance. The work to find the land and raise the money was done in great haste and on October 3rd, 1902 the Carnegie Library was erected on Fifth Avenue and Second St., where the current Wells Fargo building now sits.
The library stayed in this location until moving to a new building downtown St. Cloud in 1979. This location served the community for nearly 30 years until the newest St. Cloud Public Library building opened its doors in 2008. This beautiful building and the long history of the library in St. Cloud speaks volumes for the importance citizens of Central Minnesota place on literary education.
This story in our "This Date In Central Minnesota History" series was written by Stearns History Museum Volunteer Kate Kaluza.


WELCOME to E-Learning, where you will find everything that you need to know on behalf of Defined swimming Terms, Code of Conducts and extra info. Please feel free to browse through, to better understand our daily lingo.
"On the top, we're going to descend 5 x 200 on 3 minutes, with an even split."
If that sentence made no sense, it may be time for you to brush up on your swimming vocabulary! What follows is a list of commonly used swimming terms so the next time you talk to your children or venture onto a pool deck you'll blend right in!
50: 50 metres; a common repeat distance.
100: 100 metres; a common pace distance.
400: 400 metres: a longer distance common in many endurance workouts.
Short course: A 25-metre/yard pool where four lengths (or two laps) equal 100 metres/yards.
Long course: A 50-metre pool where two lengths or one lap equals 100 metres. Also referred to as Olympic distance.
Length: Distance swam in one direction in any given pool.
Lap: Distance swam up and back in any given pool.
Set: A grouping of distances comprising part of a workout or drill; 5 x 100 is a set that is 500 metres long; 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 is a set that is 1,500 meters long.
Interval: The time given to complete a certain drill. A 2:00 interval for 100 metres means that if the swimmer can swim 100 metres in 1:40 minutes, the swimmer will have 20 seconds of rest before repeating the next one.
Repeats: The components of a set: 5 x 100 is a set of 100 repeats.
Threshold: The maximum time a swimmer can hold, or repeat, for a given distance during a highly aerobic set.
Pace: The time per repeat.
Negative Split: Completing the second half of a distance faster than the first half.
Even split: Completing both halves of a distance at the same speed.
Descending: Increasing one's speed incrementally during a set distance (She is descending her one-mile race by 100 metres).
On the top: Starting a set on the 12 o'clock (or 60-second) mark on a poolside pace clock.
On the bottom: Starting a set on the 6 o'clock (or 30-second) mark on a pace clock.
Tapering: Paring down workouts (in length and intensity) to allow the body to recuperate and be rested for the weeks or days leading up to a race.
Pull Buoy: Flotation device used to stabilize the legs and correct body position in the water.
Band: A rubber band used to bind ankles while wearing a pull buoy; prevents kicking and helps keep legs together (and buoy from slipping).
Paddles: Plastic hand-disks used to maximize an upper-body pulling workout. Available in several shapes and sizes depending on the swimmer's skill and preference.
Drag suit: A baggy, nylon unisex swimsuit, worn over a regular practice suit to add resistance to everyday training.
Stretch Cords: Dry-land workout using rubber stretch cords to strengthen muscles used in all four strokes.
3:1: Breathing pattern where the swimmer takes one breath for every three strokes; this is a bilateral breathing pattern (breathe on both left and right sides).
2:1: Breathing pattern where the swimmer breathes once for every two strokes (breathe on one side only).
Circle swimming: Swimming in a lane in a standard counter-clockwise direction, up the right side and back down the left. Often when sharing a lane.
Catch-up stroke: Special drill where basic crawl (freestyle) is altered so that each arm catches up with the other before completing the next stroke (one arm is stationary above the head, in beginning-stroke position, while the other completes a full stroke rotation)
Sculling: Special drill using only hands (not arms) to scull through the water; arms at sides, with wrists whipping back and forth in a waving motion (designed to develop feel for the water).
Vertical kicking: Special drill executed in deep water where one kicks in a vertical position with arms crossed over chest, or extended above head for various intervals/sets.
Some consider the butterfly to be the most beautiful of the strokes. It features a simultaneous recovery of the arms over the water combined with an undulating dolphin kick. In the kick, the swimmer must keep both legs together and may not flutter, scissor or use the breaststroke kick. Both hands must touch the wall simultaneously on the turns and the finish.
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Swim Canada - National governing body of competitive swimming in Canada.
Swim Ontario - Governing body responsible for the organization and regulation of amateur swimming in Ontario.
swimrankings.net - Worldwide searchable database for swimmers personal best times.
Swimming World Magazine - Monthly online swimming magazine.
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Windsor Aquatic Club
Parent and Swimmer Code of Conduct - Updated January 2019
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The goals of the Windsor Aquatic Club are to develop a strong team and community spirit founded upon teamwork and good sportsmanship. Our Club must strive to project an image that will make all of its members proud of the team and of the sport of swimming, and to represent our community responsibly when at home or traveling.
Parent Code of Conduct
 1. Demonstrate good sportsmanship by conducting myself in a manner that earns the respect of my child, other swimmers, parents, officials and the coaches at meets and practices. This includes making sure that my child/swimmer is punctual at practices, meets and team events.
 2. Respect others, their property, the aquatic facilities and accommodations at our home facility and during travel events.
 3. Ensure my child/swimmer is aware of and abides by the Swimmer's Code of Conduct.
 4. As a club member, represent the Windsor Aquatic Club by supporting the swimmers, coaches and other parents with positive communication and actions.
 5. During competitions, questions or concerns regarding decisions made by coaches or meet officials are only to be made to the coaching staff after the session is completed and in an area off the pool deck.
 6. Remain in the area designated for spectators both at swim meets and during practices.
 7. As a parent, I will not interrupt or confront the coaching staff on the pool deck during practice or meets. I will not coach or instruct the team or any swimmer at a practice or meets (from the stands or any other area) or interfere with coaches on the pool deck.
 8. Use respectful and non-threatening language (including gestures) in all communications.
 9. Obtain consent from the Head Coach prior to enrolling my child/swimmer in any additional competitive swim training during the Windsor Aquatic Club season.
 10. Regularly monitor email communication from the Windsor Aquatic Club and submit requested forms in a timely manner.
 11. Pay my child/swimmer registration and meet fees by the expected due dates.
 12. Ensure that my mandatory Family Participation Requirement obligations are met.
 13. Refrain from actions that violate the Criminal Code, the Human Rights Act and the Swim/Natation Canada harassment policy.
 14. Maintain self-control at all times.
Know my role: Swimmers Swim / Coaches Coach / Officials Officiate / Parents Parent
As a parent of a swimmer and, thereby, a member of the Windsor Aquatic Club, I understand that a breach in the Code of Conduct can result in disciplinary measures considered appropriate by the Board of Directors and may include suspensions or expulsion from the club.
Swimmer Code of Conduct
Please note that it is the parents responsibility to make sure that your child/swimmer is aware of and abides by the Swimmer's Code of Conduct.
 1. Swimmers are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that shows respect for fellow swimmers, coaches, lifeguards, all officials and facilities, and everyone's personal property, at all times.
 2. Swimmers are expected to attend work-outs scheduled by the coach and to be on time. If they know in advance that they will be missing a practice session, or will be late, they must inform the coach.
 3. Swimmers are expected to refrain from acting in a way that could result in injuries (no horseplay) during dryland, in the pool, in locker rooms and on the pool deck.
 4. Bullying (a form of repeated, persistent, aggressive behavior that is directed at an individual(s) that is intended to cause (or should be known to cause) fear, distress, and/or harm to another person's body, feelings, self-esteem or reputation) in any form will not


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September 21, 2020
UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark for Android devices
Machine learning is powering exciting new features in mobile apps. Many smartphones now have dedicated hardware to accelerate the computationally intensive operations required for on-device inferencing.
Today, we're launching the UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark, a new test for measuring the performance and accuracy of dedicated AI-processing hardware in Android devices.
The benchmark uses a range of popular, state-of-the-art neural network models such as MobileNet V3, Inception V4, SSDLite V3 and DeepLab V4. The models run on the device to perform common machine-vision tasks. The benchmark measures performance for both floatand integer-optimized models.
The benchmark runs on the device's dedicated AI-processing hardware, with the Android Neural Networks API (NNAPI) selecting the most appropriate processor for each test. The benchmark also runs each test separately on the GPU and/or CPU for comparison.
UL Procyon benchmarks are designed for professional users. The AI Inference Benchmark is for hardware and software engineers who need independent, standardized tools to test the quality of their NNAPI implementations and the performance of dedicated AI hardware in Android devices.
Smartphone running the UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark app
 - Benchmark and compare the AI inference performance of Android devices
 - Tests based on common machine-vision tasks using state-of-the-art neural networks
 - The benchmark measures both inference performance and output quality
 - Compare NNAPI, CPU and GPU performance
 - Verify NNAPI implementation quality and compatibility
 - Use benchmark results to optimize drivers for hardware accelerators
 - Compare floatand integer-optimized model performance
 - Simple to set up and use on a device or via Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
Row of five smartphones showing results from the UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark
Results and insights
The UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark provides a range of useful results, metrics and insights. Use the main benchmark score to compare the AI performance of Android devices. The score breakdown helps you compare the performance and quality of different processors with integer and float models. The in-app ranking list shows you how a device compares with other smartphones.
A chart for each test shows the inference time with NNAPI and other processors, making it easy to see the difference in performance. A hardware monitoring chart shows you how the device's temperature, battery charge level and memory use changed during the benchmark run. You can also check the outputs from each model to ensure the hardware is returning the correct results.
The UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark is easy to install and run with no complicated configuration required. You can start the benchmark on the device or via ADB. You can view benchmark scores, charts and rankings in the app and export detailed result files for further analysis.
Available now
The UL Procyon AI Inference Benchmark is available now. Site licenses for professional users start at $1,495 (USD) per year.
Look out for more UL Procyon benchmarks coming soon
Procyon is a new benchmark suite from UL that's designed specifically for professional users in industry, enterprise, government, retail and the press. Each UL Procyon benchmark is developed for a specific use case and uses real applications where possible. UL works closely with its industry partners to ensure that every Procyon benchmark is accurate, relevant and impartial. Flexible licensing means you can pick and choose the individual benchmarks that best meet your needs. Find out more at
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Study of Mole Astrology for Men and Women
If we look at it normally then moles are nothing but simple pigmentation on the skin due to some reason. But astrologically when we study them, they all have a certain characteristic attached with them which influences our lives. Moreover, their placement has different significance based on the gender. This post studies the significance of placement of moles on different body parts for men and women. So let us explore this interesting topic to find out the science behind it [...]
Moles on Body To Worry About
We all have moles on our body but as a matter of fact, it is not necessary that all these moles are something that have relation with our destiny or define our character. Rather there are a few which are a matter of concern for us. Skin cancer has become one of the most common forms of cancer, especially in the United States of America and if something is not done immediately to prevent it then 20% of the United [...]
Relationship Between Zodiac and Moles
When we talk about astrology, we discuss stars and planets; their effect on our lives and how change in their position and equation completely changes our lives. It is believed in astrology that different parts of the human body are influenced by different stars. In the study of moles i.e. Moleoscopy, all these mysteries are deeply studied. This post unfolds the connection between zodiac signs and moles. But before studying that let us have a look at the relationship between [...]
Unfold Your Destiny with Clues Given by Moles
Moles are dark colored marks present on the skin. These pigment concentrations have interesting significance in Indian and Chinese astrology. They are considered important in predicting the future of a person. These are clues of your destiny which reflect your destiny which emerge as a result of planetary positions and signs in your life. The interpretation of moles depends upon their shape, size and color along with their placement on the body. Red, homey and green colored moles are considered [...]


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The Deodar Cedar grows in acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, well drained, clay soils.
The Deodar Cedar tree makes an excellent specimen tree for landscapes because of its pleasing shape and attractive silver-green coloring. The tree also makes a fast growing and soft wind screen and has been successfully used as a street tree with the lower branches pruned for pedestrian traffic.
An excellent evergreen with graceful pendulous branches. Pyramidal form when young, wide-spreading and flat-topped in old age, often reaching 70' in height. (zones 7-9)
The Deodar Cedar provides nesting sites, cover and food for mammals and birds such as the woodpecker.
The Deodar Cedar tree can become an immense tree in its native Himalayan habitat. There, at approximately 4000 feet, it has been known to reach 250 feet in height. Commonly, it is smaller and has been called "the most graceful Cedar" by Michael Dirr, noted tree expert and author. It is no wonder that its name, Deodar, derives from Sanskrit that translates to "timber of the gods." This beautiful tree, with its interesting branching pattern and drooping tips, attracted the eye of plant fanciers early in history. It was introduced to Europe in 1822 and to the United States nine years later.
Normal moisture requirements; good drought tolerance.
The leaves are needle-like with sharp tips. Blue-green or sometimes silvery, 1 to 2 inches long and usually borne in clusters. Needles are shed in late spring as new growth appears.
The fruit is oval; 3 to 6 inches long; dry and hard.


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The example of fissile metamorphic slate illustrated here came from along Curve #149 on Track #2 of the Sierra grade where it had fallen from the excavated face of Cape Horn. Originally formed under the sea over 200,000,000 years ago during the Mesozoic era as sedimentary rock, it was eventually lifted up and slowly changed into its present form over millions of years by heat and pressure exerted on it from below by pools of molten magma rising through the earth's crust. When this underlying magma finally cooled it became one of the some 200 granite plutons which now make up the sierra nevada batholith.
The original Cape Horn grade, as located by resident engineer Lewis M. Clement, was a narrow ledge just barely wide enough to support the single track it carried. Constructed in 1865-66 by the CPRR's industrious crews of Chinese workers, it was literally "carved" out of the rock using hand drills and black powder, and by filling in a number of deep gullies between the outcrops. (The SP finally widened the grade to its present contour in 1929.)
Unlike the extremely hard granite underlying the mountain, the surface metamorphic rock is relatively soft and fractures easily. For that reason pieces large and small tend to continuously slough off the wall above the track. This is especially the case along Curve #149 on the West side of Cape Horn where the excavated wall is the highest and steepest.
To help avoid damage to passing trains and prevent potential derailments caused by falling rock, the inside of Curve #149 is protected by an electric rock slide detector fence to warn the crews of approaching trains of debris on the track. To help minimize major delays caused by larger falls, Maintenance of Way crews from the UPRR also periodically trim rock off from above the grade which has been loosened by weathering.
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USGS Geology Topographic Maps of Cape Horn – Cape Horn Formation (fissile clay slates)
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Temperature change in the Alps and their sub-regions according to different emission scenarios
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Regional statistics: G = Greater Alpine Region, A = Alps, NW = north-western Alps, NE = northeastern Alps, SW = southwestern Alps, SE = southeastern Alps, H = higher than 1 500 m.
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How to ensure family businesses remain afloat after death of founders
By Mworia Kaibung'a | May 12th 2021
Kenyan family businesses employ over 60 per cent of the workforce and contribute over 50 per cent of GDP. Moreover, family businesses employ a sizeable population. Owing to this, stakeholders including the government, founders, employees and others should strive to ensure that these businesses transition seamlessly from one generation to another.
It has been established that only 30 per cent of all family businesses sustain good performance in the second generation, 12 per cent to third generation and a paltry 3 per cent get to fourth generation, leading to poor inter-generational transition. Death of these businesses is, obviously, against the will of the founders who would have wished they exist infinitely. In the recent past, poor performance in family businesses has been reported in Kenya particularly among the SMEs. Tuskys, a retail chain that is in its second generation is a good example.
Knowledge Transfer strategy has introduced a new way of sharing resources and experiences. It has created a framework of concrete preserve of tacit and explicit knowledge that emphasises the value of ideas and experiences. Business founders and experienced managers must cultivate the culture of sharing knowledge or create a repository for continuity of business.
A key issue to addressing performance challenges in family-owned businesses is knowledge transfer. Understanding the nuances of family businesses is vital to their performance. Since the founders are the brains behind these businesses, they automatically become the vision carriers. Subsequently, the founder brings in employees, sons, daughters and other family members to help in running the business as it grows.
Dissemination of knowledge by founders to these other stakeholders ensures smooth running of the business in current and subsequent generations. The knowledge aspect is diverse; from where to get raw materials, where to sell products and credit partners, etc. Lone understanding of such aspects may be counterproductive to the business especially if the founder/vision carrier dies or is incapacitated. Multiple employees understanding different aspects of the family business is key to its survival.
The growing importance that knowledge has acquired suggests the need to think about how organisations process their knowledge bases; how they create and develop new knowledge, share and transmit it. Kenyan family-owned businesses should endeavour to ensure knowledge is well disseminated to ensure flawless transition. It's imperative for would-be successors to understand the nuances of the businesses before it's too late.
A good case study is Apple Inc. where Steve Jobs by design prepared Tom Cook to take over the business. Today, Apple is performing better than during its first generation period.
Other notable cases include the Ndegwa family businesses, the Kenyattas, the Mulleys, Bidco, Sarit Centre and Naivas. The turbulence that has hit family businesses such as Tuskys, the Michukis, Karumes and Kirimas after the exit of the founders could be attributed to failure to acquire businesses knowledge, among other reasons.
Family businesses should have structured knowledge transfer strategy such as training sessions, codification, personalisation and mentorship. Moreover, they should cultivate a culture of organisational learning.
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Using Presto Auto Scaling with Graceful Decommission - Amazon EMR
Using Presto Auto Scaling with Graceful Decommission
Amazon EMR release versions 5.30.0 and later include a feature you can use to set a grace period for certain scaling actions. The grace period allows Presto tasks to keep running before the node terminates because of a scale-in resize action or an automatic scaling policy request. For more information about scaling rules, see Understanding Automatic Scaling Rules in the Amazon EMR Management Guide. Presto graceful auto scaling prevents new tasks from being scheduled on a node that is decommissioning, while at the same time allowing tasks that are already running to complete before the shut down timeout is reached. Queries that are running will complete execution before the node is decommissioned. Auto scaling is not supported on instance fleets.
You can control how much time to allow for Presto tasks to complete after an auto scale shut down request is received. By default, the shut down timeout for Amazon EMR is 0 minutes, which means that Amazon EMR immediately terminates the node and any Presto tasks running on it, if required by a scale-in request. To set a longer timeout for Presto tasks on Amazon EMR to allow running queries to complete before scaling down a cluster, use the presto-config configuration classification to set the graceful-shutdown-timeout parameter to a value in seconds or minutes greater than zero. For more information, see Configuring Applications.
For example, increasing the graceful-shutdown-timeout value to "30m" specifies a timeout period of 30 minutes. After the shut down timeout period ends, the node marked for decommissioning is forcefully terminated if it is waiting for query tasks to complete, and the query fails. If the query tasks finish in five minutes, the node marked for decommissioning terminates at five minutes, provided other YARN applications have completed execution.
Example Presto Auto Scale Configuration with Graceful Decommission
Replace the graceful-shutdown-timeout value with the number of minutes appropriate for your setup. There's no maximum value. The example below sets a timeout value of 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
[ { "classification": "presto-config", "properties": { "graceful-shutdown-timeout": "1800s" } } ]
PrestoDB graceful decommission does not work on EMR clusters where HTTP connectivity is disabled, such as when http-server.http.enabled is set to false. PrestoSQL does not support graceful decommission at all, regardless of the http-server.http.enabled setting.


Scoring system
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The scoring system is the logic used by Metascore software to evaluate proposals and perhaps also a users reputation system.
This is a preliminary description of how the scoring system will work. As Metascore develops, this may change substantially.
Proposal scoring
Proposals and debate
Anyone can make a proposal within a community, and for each proposal there is a debate. Each debate consists of posts by users, either in response directly to a proposal, or in response to other posts. Each post may be rated by any user as they please. Presentation of posts can be filtered by different factors, among them the rating they are given by the community. There is no limit on the number of proposals for any particular issue, nor on the complexity or simplicity of a proposal.
How proposals become policies
Each proposal is scored by users, if they wish to do so. Users may assign positive or negative scores to proposals, and may assign synthesis scores (see below). A proposal becomes and remains remains policy for as long as it can maintain a consensus score and is not contradicted by a law from a higher government (as decided by the courts of that higher government). In order to prevent overly-frequent transitions in policies, once a policy attains a consensus score, the threshold for removing the consensus score is raised somewhat (Schmitt trigger).
Synthesis scoring
In addition to scoring proposals, users may also provide a synthesis score in relation to two or more other proposals. The synthesis score reflects how effectively (in their opinion) the proposal synthesizes the other proposals, providing a proposal which they feel addresses the conflicting concerns of the proponents of the other proposals. In the consensus scoring, below, a synthesizing proposal effectively "steals" points from the proposals that it synthesizes.
Consensus scoring
A consensus score is a formula consisting of the positive and negative scores assigned to a proposal, and any synthesis scores applied to or against that proposal. Each of these scores is weighted by each user casting the scores. The formula for determining the consensus score will be crafted such that a proposal which does not have significant support from the community will not become a policy. To become a policy, a proposal must have a significantly higher score for it than against it, and must not be significantly synthesized by another proposal.
User scoring
Note that there has been significant dispute over the utility of user scoring. We will accommodate user scoring in early versions of Metascore and see what sort of effect it has when used in real-world systems.
User score
Each user has an overall sum score, which starts with a base score and is modified by ratings of one's posts, ratings of one's self, one's ratings of others, and various weighting factors. A user who registers as an individual person (as opposed to an anonymous e-mail address) is granted a very large multiplier bonus. Validated registration will not be possible until guiding nonprofit organizations are created and funded.
Post score
Each message one posts is scored by readers of the post who wish to score it. Those scores are then weighted by the reader's own overall score, and the reader's score in that topic and region.
Community factor
Each user has a score factor for each community. Being a registered member of a community gives one a large bonus in that community. Each post one makes in a community gives one a small bonus in that community, weighted by ratings of one's posts in that community.
General features of scores
User rating is essentially the quantification of trust. Similarly, item rating is essentially the quantification of support. Interest (in contrast to support) can be calculated by summing the number of users watching the debate. Ratings may have the following properties:
Ratings are static
Whenever anything is scored, all variables are calculated by their present values. A later change in a value does not affect that score. For example, if a reader with a low score rates a post, then later that reader accrues a much higher score; their rating of that post does not change with their own score. They can, however, re-rate a post, which would then override their previous rating.
Time deprecation
Each score degrades over time such that one tenth of the original score is subtracted each year, and after ten years, the score is removed entirely. The math for this subtraction will be constructed such that a diminishing score does not negatively impact a rating; only that it counts less and less as time progresses. Users may re-cast any score, which resets this deprecation.
Procedure for discussions.
Resolution: None.
Deadline: None.
Title: Metascore's scoring system
Author: Metagovernment
(Explanation of the problem.)
 - This very issue exposes a weakness in all of the current proposals; regardless of whether it's weighted or not, each proposes a simple yes or no. However, not all issues (notably including this very one) can simply be relegated to yes or no. In such an example (which may happen more often than not), we might instead allow voters to rank the 9 proposals, or their favorite three. Or, in another hypothetical, they might answer "Of the available US$50000, how much should we allocate to purchasing the new playground equipment?" and vote with their dollars. --Aaronwinborn 02:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 - The problem with ranking available proposals is that they have to first be organized, ie: there needs to be some logical grouping of proposals within which the proposals are comparable. That kind of structure lends itself very easily to this kind of issue (what type of scoring system) but not very well to a more general question (should we raise taxes). It's possible to organize proposals by tag, and we could even have an 'issue' or 'problem' tag that organizes proposals by the problem meant to be solved, but, as with many things, each proposal will likely be an attempt to solve several problems at once (perhaps to their detriment). And, if a proposal has a very high rating with respect to one problem but a low rating with respect to another, it may be hard to tease out which components of a proposal are positive and which can be thrown. Leading to the possibility of someone taking a proposal apart into pieces (all related to the same question) in which a user may rate variations of the same proposal very similarly. It might be useful to impose some kind of structure on the proposals -- like, perhaps, have proposal-like objects that serve no function other than to identify a problem or issue. Users can vote on these 'issues' as to their relative importance. This would have the benefit of soliciting proposals with a purpose, organizing content, and allowing people to brainstorm collectively before a good solution is known. It would also facilitate a greater variety of scoring mechanisms, like that Aaron mentions above. At the same time, not every proposal would lend itself to this kind of structure, and so the structure may become limiting. Thoughts? --Jacki Buros 20:04, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Proposal 1
Title: Nuanced, recursive scoring
Author: Ed Pastore
Users and proposals would each have a score in relation to each tag assigned to them. The score is an amalgam of the scores given to the proposal or user by other users. This is the original mechanism proposed on the Metagovernment website.
Users can assign a score of anywhere from -10 to 10 (where 0 is equivalent to a vote of "present" for quorum purposes).
Possible advantages and disadvantages of this system are presented below.
Builds consensus, scales well
In a system where there can be many, many competing proposals all attempting to address a single issue, users need a way to give nuanced support for proposals. If users are restricted to only voting for or against each proposal, then they either have to only vote for the proposals they feel are the very best, or they have to vote for many proposals, including ones they do not really like. Both scenarios create barriers to consensus.
User scoring allows increased participation
If users themselves do not have scores, then again people are restricted to on/off states. People either are fully allowed to participate in a community, or may not participate at all.
If instead users have nuanced user scores, then everyone can be allowed to participate in every discussion, and the user scores can act as a mechanism for mediating participation. Otherwise, how would a convicted criminal be allowed to participate in a community? Do they have to be completely excluded, or can they just be given a low score? Likewise, how can small children be allowed to participate in their community? Do we have to use an arbitrary cutoff like the age of 18? With a nuanced user score, absolutely everyone can participate, and the scoring system provides a natural balance to that participating.
 - Though a problem with a -10/+10 score would be does a final talley of 1 pass a measure where 10,000,000 voted -1 and 5,000,000 voted +2 with the tie breaker of +1? --Aaronwinborn 01:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
This issue is less problematic as the trust network becomes interconnected/robust and where voting is mapped to level of personal commitment (see logarithmic suggestion below). But at some level, with whatever voting system, there is no getting around the wildly swinging balance at the center of a deeply polarized issue. (Such behavior should be an automatic flag to send the proposal to a synthesis area for further review.) Marcos 02:11, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 - Suggest logarithmic voting is more natural (and scales better) than linear (although it should be noted that many voting systems often describe and


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The Catskill Mountain House
was a famous hotel near Palenville, New York
in the Catskill Mountains
overlooking the Hudson River Valley
, built in 1824. In its prime, from the 1850s to the turn of the century, it was visited by three U.S. presidents (U.S. Grant
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and Theodore Roosevelt
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The Mountain House's site, the "Pine Orchard," had long been famous for its panoramic views up and down the Hudson Valley and even beyond to the east. John Bartram
and James Fenimore Cooper
had both written about it in different contexts.
Artists and writers had discovered the Catskills some time earlier. Shortly after it was constructed, the Mountain House and its surroundings became a favorite subject for Washington Irving
and artists of the new Hudson River School
, most notably Thomas Cole
. Cooper advised his European audience, "If you want to see the sights of America, go to see Niagara Falls
, Lake George
and the Catskill Mountain House."
The hotel was built in 1823 and opened a year later by a group of merchants from nearby Catskill
on a plateau with sweeping views of the Hudson Valley on one side and two lakes on the other side that provided water and recreation.
In 1839, Charles Beach
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Re: [TowerTalk] Conductive Concrete and Grounding
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Conductive Concrete and Grounding
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:55:21 -0500
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> This is difficult for me to comprehend. Either is current
is flowing in one
> direction or the other.
> Are you saying that there are multiple waveforms?
It isn't *stationary* DC. Ignoring the reversals in
polarity, lightning has a rapidly rising and constantly
changing waveform with a great deal of high frequency
energy. That's why we hear it on VLF through HF radios for
thousands of miles, and can even hear it on VHF and higher
at shorter distances.
That's why a DC block that passes HF and why a shunt feed on
a grounded tower does very little (if anything) to reduce or
eliminate lightning damage.
That's why we have to treat it like a radio frequency
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This seems to me to be nonsense, not a contradiction. Presumably, the way this is laid out, the first three statements are the hypothesis, and the fourth is the conclusion. Because Phil being gone and John being dead have nothing to do with Tim having bread, it seems to me that this can be reduced to
Tim has bread ==> Tim doesn't have bread
This is not a contradiction. If Tim has bread, then it is not true that he doesn't have bread, so the first statement does not imply the second. If Tim indeed doesn't have bread, then the first statement isn't true, so any statement at all could be appear as the conclusion, and the implication would be true, but meaningless.
BTW, in English, we don't say someone has "a bread": we say someone has bread or has a loaf of bread.


Layered rendering part 2, it helps solve many problems… :-)
As part of Qt 4.5, we added QGraphicsItem::opacity. Which is great! But it doesn't work as well as it could. We're receiving a few comments about how this implementation could work better. Trouble is, in Qt 4.5 we only have two ways of rendering: direct, and indirect ("cached", e.g., ItemCoordinateCache). And in order to apply opacity, you really need full composition support... :-/
Here's a rundown of the trouble with today's opacity support:
 - The current behavior modifies the input opacity of the painter
 - you can override this opacity on a per-item basis (intentionally or not!)
 -...and each primitive (line, rect, pixmap) you draw with QPainter will be composed one at a time inside the item (which is bad!)
 - The behavior is slightly different depending on whether you cache an item or not.
 -...if you use caching, the offscreen pixmap is rendered with an opacity, whereas the item itself doesn't have any opacity set on its painter.
 - Each item applies opacity locally, and even though opacity propagates to children, each item is still rendered by itself, cause each item to be transparent (as opposed to rendering one subtree as a whole with an opacity)
All these problems could have been solved if we treated opacity as an effect that you can apply to one layer as a whole, instead of on each item. I think this is how opacity should work in the first place... but that's how it goes sometimes. But fear not, we can fix this in a later release! :-)
To illustrate the current behavior, here's what you get if you construct a scene with four items, each a child of the previous item, in colors red, then green, then blue, then yellow. Logical structure in hypothetical markup:
Rect {
 color: red;
 rect: QRectF(0, 0, 100, 100);
 child : Rect {
 color : green;
 pos: QPointF(25, 25);
 opacity: 0.5;
 child : Rect {
 color : blue;
 pos: QPointF(25, 25);
 rotation: 45;
 child : Rect {
 color : yellow;
 pos: QPointF(25, 25);
 scale: 2x2;
This will in Qt 4.5 render the following output:
Opacity, in Qt 4.5
What's important to notice here is how all elements are transparent; so you can see the blue through the yellow item, the green through the blue item, and the red item through the green item. But the yellow item doesn't actually have any opacity assigned. It inherits opacity from the green item (opacity: 0.5).
By rendering the "green sub-tree" into a separate layer, we can combine all items and apply one uniform opacity as part of composing these items together. In my last blog I wrote about off-screen rendering. This work has progressed and is in quite a usable state (although the code is really ugly). It works! The rendering output for the same application as the above looks like this:
Opacity, in Qt 4.6
The essential difference is how the "green sub-tree" is treated as if it had one _combined_ opacity. The yellow item, for example, isn't transparent by itself at all. You can't see the blue through the yellow. By "collapsing" the subtree into a single layer we can both avoid unnecessary rerendering of items (i.e., if you move the green item around, the children are not repainted, not even from cache). Which is pretty cool!
(We get this at the cost of allocating and spending an extra pixmap, and the first time we render there's an extra level of indirection.)
But there's even more applications to this technique... :-) With code for handling explicit composition of layers, we can now use pixmap filters and shaders to compose one layer onto another. And this is very useful for any future effects API we might add to Qt in general. Imagine applying a gaussian blur effect to the layer represented by the green item. The result is below:
Opacity w/blur, in Qt 4.6
The result is very neat; the whole layer is blurred before it's rendered. You don't get funny artifacts that might have occurred in overlapping regions if each of the items was blurred individually.
Now none of this gives any mind-blowing screenshots (at least not yet), but it's an important step that provides faster rendering of subtrees (as sliding and transforming a complex graph of items ends up just being matrix operations on a single pixmap/texture, and in software this prevents overdrawing), a more accurate processing of the opacity property of QGraphicsItem, and it makes it very easy to apply fancy composition effects to groups of items.
Questions: Should layers be explicitly defined, or implicitly handled by logics inside Graphics View? In the example above, I've used the opacity property to detect whether an item's subtree should be rendered into a separate layer or not. This is easy to do and very clear/unsurprising. But what if you want to collapse a subtree for performance reasons? An alternative, or possibly an additional approach would be to add an explicit setting: QGraphicsItem::setLayer(true) or setCacheMode(QGraphicsItem::DeepItemCoordinateCache). I'm torn. Experimentation and feedback will show (yes I know I need to push this code out, once our SCM goes public this will be much easier!).
There's also the problem with these darn flags QGraphicsItem::ItemIgnoresParentOpacity and QGraphicsItem::ItemDoesntPropagateOpacityToChildren. There's no way to make these flags work with a layered rendering approach. But are these flags very important, or could we just (*cough* *cough*) disable/deprecate them? ;-)
Finally I still haven't found out how to handle ItemIgnoresTransformations. The most probable solution is that these items are automatically rendered into a separate layer.
Happy hacking! :-)
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Modeling CO2 Storage Pipeline Routes in the United States
Carbon capture technology offers the potential for the United States to continue the widespread use of coal to generate electricity in a carbon constrained economy. This study examines potential configurations of a nationwide carbon capture and storage network by integrating work on the capture, transportation, and storage aspects of such a network. Modeling conducted with the Department of Energy's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) model provided data on which plants will retrofit or be built with carbon capture technology in the future. A cost surface and several models were developed using geographic information system (GIS) software to site new plants and connect all carbon capture plants to geologic storage basins throughout the United States.
Several network scenarios with different levels of foresight and government pipeline construction assistance are examined. Building a trunkline increases the overall length of the pipeline network. Assuming all pipelines are the same diameter, initial cost estimates indicate that building a trunkline network is more expensive than allowing plants to connect to storage sites on their own. More detailed information on pipeline diameter is needed to develop accurate cost estimates of different pipeline network configurations to further inform decision makers.
School Location:USA - North Carolina
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:co2 pipeline routing storage pipelines
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Which of the following drugs can be safely prescribed in pregnancy? (AIIMS Nov 2009)
Drugs safe during pregnancy
Placental drug transport depends upon
- Unionized drug transportation> Ionized drug like thiopentone > Highly ionized drugs (SCh, d-tubocurarine).
- Exception - Salicylates are almost completely ionized at physiological pH, even then fetus level is high because the small amount of salicylate which is not ionized is highly lipid soluble.
- 250 - 500 - Cross placenta easily, depending upon their lipid solubility and degree of ionization
- 500 -1000 - Cross placenta more difficulty
- > 1000 - Cross very poorly
Heparin is a very large polar molecule, so unable to cross the placenta. Though, an acidic drug by nature it should remain unionized in the low pH of placenta. But the drug is a bulky molecule with polar character. Therefore, it fails to enter the blood placenta barrier.
- P- glycoprotein transporter pumps back into the maternal circulation a variety of drugs, including cancer drugs (vinblastine, doxorubicin) and other agent (digoxin). Inhibition of this transporter may cause drug accumulation in the fetus.


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A novel technique for the numerical simulation of hot collision-free plasma; Vlasov Hybrid Simulation.
Journal of Computational Physics, 108,.
This paper presents a highly efficient and stable algorithm for the numerical simulation of collision free plasma. This algorithm has been successfully used to numerically model non linear electron cyclotron resonance in VLF band radio waves in space, and has produced good simulations of radio emissions such as 'dawn chorus' and 'triggered VLF emissions'. The algorithm fills the phase box with simulation particles which represent phase space trajectories. Particle trajectories are followed forwards continuously in time without restarts, and these particles are followed until either the simulation ends or the particles exit from the phase box. Liouville's theorem tells us that distribution function F is conserved along these trajectories, and so F is known at the phase space points represented by the particle positions. No phase space volume is associated with these particles. At each time step F is truly interpolated, and not distributed from particles to the regular phase space grid, solely for the purpose of calculating plasma charge and current fields. For this operation a cheap low order interpolation is useable. The algorithm is simple, robust and highly efficient. There is NO diffusion in phase space whatsoever, and fine structure is merely undersampled and does not cause any instability problems. Regions of phase space where F=0 are cost free as no particles need be provided. The algorithm readily accomodates situations where phase fluid flows into or out of the phase box. The method has been successfully applied to the numerical modelling of the triggering of VLF emissions
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Fractionated drilling wastes originating from shale gas exploration in the Baltic Basin in Pomerania were subjected to the measurements of mean activity concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs).To better understand rock structure and texture, the X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM) observation were used. To compare activity concentration of radionuclides in bulk wastes...
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Dry reforming of methane (DRM) is an eco-friendly method of syngas production due to the utilization of two main greenhouse gases—methane and carbon dioxide. An industrial application of methane dry reforming requires the use of a catalyst with high activity, stability over a long time, and the ability to catalyze a reaction, leading to the needed a hydrogen/carbon monoxide ratio. Thus, the aim of the study was to investigate the...
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Medford School District Pathways are an opportunity for all students to connect and engage in the high school experience by choosing courses that are offered for their concentration of interest. Pathways now has its own webpages! You can learn which courses are offered, which clubs you can join, and find out more about the career options and job connections associated with your concentration choice.
Similar to a college major, students pursue an area of concentration in a pathway of their choice by taking classes they enjoy and becoming involved in a related club, extra-curricular activity, and job shadow or career internship. Pathways help students prepare for their futures by exploring potential career paths and earning college credit and/or industry certification while still in high school.
What Pathways are offered at the Medford School District? Starting as early as the freshmen year, students will begin an area of concentration in one of the following Pathways: Academic, Career and Technical (CTE), or Visual and Performing Arts.
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How do you make healthy fried vegetables?
Are fried vegetables healthy?
What veggies are in stir fry?
Stir fry ingredients
Broccoli, snow peas and the bell peppers do not take as long to cook. Vegetables: red bell pepper, yellow bell peppers, sugar snap peas, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, baby corn, water chestnuts.
How many calories are in a cup of stir fry vegetables?
One serving of Chinese StirFried Vegetables gives 87 calories.
Do you need to boil vegetables before frying?
When a food is blanched properly, the flavor, color, texture, and nutritional value is preserved. … Before incorporating into a quick-cooking recipe such as a stir-fry, blanching will soften vegetables that take longer to cook like broccoli and carrots.
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Is fried vegetables better than no vegetables?
While deep-fried foods are often thought to have no nutritional value, a study published in the journal Food Chemistry revealed vegetables are healthier when fried in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) than when boiled in water.
Are fried carrots healthy?
What vegetables do you stir fry first?
Stir-fry onions first, then add hard vegetables such as carrot and broccoli. Quick-cooking vegetables, such as snow peas, leafy greens and bean sprouts, should be added towards the end of cooking.
Can you add frozen vegetables to stir fry?
Tips for stir-frying frozen vegetables
There's no need to thaw the frozen vegetables before cooking. … Heat up the pan on high heat before adding the vegetables. When it just begins to smoke, add your oil and start frying. Stir the frozen veggies around frequently so they thaw quickly and cook evenly.
What do you eat with stir fry?
What to Serve with Fried Rice and Stir Fry
 - Fried Rice Sides. We've talked about the basics of choosing side dishes. …
 - Vegetables. Try steamed or roasted broccoli, brussels sprouts, or green beans. …
 - Fruit. Fresh cut oranges or pineapple can serve as a side/dessert. …
 - Egg rolls, dumplings or spring rolls. …
 - Salad.
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How many calories are in deep fried vegetables?
How many calories does one serving of Veg Crispy have? One serving of Veg Crispy gives 615 calories. Out of which carbohydrates comprise 211 calories, proteins account for 44 calories and remaining calories come from fat which is 360 calories.
How many calories is vegetable stir fry?
After adding a cup of grains to your veggies, a serving of vegetable stir-fry now has 255 to 272 calories. Including whole grains also adds about 40 grams of carbohydrate, which is great for energy but may be too high if you're on a low-carb diet.
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How do you stir-fry vegetables without getting soggy?
5 ways to improve your stir-fries and banish soggy veggies forever: Going Vegan
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 2. Use the right size wok or skillet for the job:
 3. Make sure your veggies are washed and completely dry before cooking:
 4. Cut veggies to the right size:
 5. Make sure your wok is hot before oiling it:
Should you boil broccoli before frying?
Boiling water for 2-3mins. Drop immediately into cold/ice water to stop the cooking. Remove and add to pan to stir-fry. I've done it both ways but I've honestly found this the best in achieving tender broccoli that absorbs some of the flavors around it.
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To review the gender equality work in schools and preschools in the Nordic countries, the Nordic Council of Ministers initiated a study presented in this report (in Swedish).
The study was carried out by researcher Mia Heikkilä, and her results show that the gender equality work differs among the Nordic countries, including in intensity. The countries with clearly formulated gender equality objectives in national steering documents for schools and preschools tend to display active gender equality work at the local level. Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland lack such clearly formulated objectives. The Danish national curricula address democracy and equal treatment, but not gender and gender equality specifically.
One purpose of the study was '… to distribute knowledge about how teachers, preschool teachers and school staff work with gender equality in a number of schools and preschools in the Nordic region.'
Another purpose was '… to spread good examples as inspiration for further gender equality work in school and preschool.'
The report is mainly based on interviews and gives examples of how teachers and school staff work with gender equality. The book is intended to inspire educators to initiate or reinforce gender equality at the local level.
Conference on gender equality in school and preschool
Within the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, a Nordic conference on gender equality in school and preschool was held in May 2013. At the conference, teachers, researchers and experts lectured on topics such as recruitment of male preschool teachers, norm criticism in textbooks and other teaching materials, and gender equality work in school and preschool.
Gender balance in academia
During the Norwegian Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2012, a conference was held on the gender balance in research. The Nordic Council of Ministers also published this report (in Swedish), which describes the gender equality challenges in academia but also successful initiatives and proposed actions.
Gender awareness in teacher training
During the Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011, a conference was held on gender awareness in teacher training: Nordic Challenges, Future Possibilities – Gender Awareness in Schools and Teacher Education. The conference stressed the importance of teacher training that provides teachers with tools to challenge hierarchies and gender inequality in school.


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Definition of Orono
1. Noun. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orono
Literary usage of Orono
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891 by Joseph Williamson, Maine Historical Society (1896)
"Catalogue of the officers and students of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Orono, Maine. 1868. Bangor: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer...."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1846)
"NOTICE OF Orono, A CHIEF AT PENOBSCOT. BY WILLIAM D. WILLIAMSON.... JOSEPH Orono, the subject of this sketch, was, for a long time, the well known chief of..."
3. Fifty Years in the Northwest: With an Introduction and Appendix Containing by William Henry Carman Folsom, Elijah Evan Edwards (1888)
"Orono, a post office, was established at Orono in 1850. Tfie office was merged into the Elk River post office in 1853. This post office, with the mills..."
4. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"The following contribution to this report was submitted by WM Munson, of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Me.: COOPERATIVE BREEDING OF SMALL..."


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I first discovered Umeboshi vinegar several years ago when I was cooking a lot of vegan/vegetarian food. It came in handy when I needed some 'of the sea' flavor. This very salty liquid (technically a brine) still has a place on my pantry shelf today, where I add it to recipes like Chickpea of the Sea
or sprinkle it over steamed vegetables.Umeboshi vinegar (also called ume plum vinegar) is the by-product of the umeboshi making process. Umeboshi are those red, pucker-up delicious pickled fruits used in many Japanese dishes. These fruits, called ume in Japanese, are often referred to as plums but are technically more closely related to apricots.
Traditionally the ume are dried and then preserved in a salt brine with purple perilla (shiso) leaves that add a bright red color. These days, some brands use red dye in place of the leaves as well as less salt, which can prompt the use of artificial preservatives. The Eden brand, which is widely available in the US, uses the traditional method. The ume fruits are pressed and the liquid that comes out of them is bottled up for use as a condiment.
Umeboshi vinegar is used widely in Japanese cooking as a seasoning. It's tossed with steamed vegetables and sprinkled over sautéed greens and rice. In the US, it first became popular outside of Japanese communities in the 1970's when people began exploring macrobiotic and Japanese cooking. The vinegar is super salty, with a sour, fruity flavor. It is quite unique and can be creatively applied to vegetarian and vegan dishes where a sea-like or fish flavor is desired. Some people use it in place of fish sauce, although its flavor is fruitier and brighter to my palate. Be careful to adjust any salt in your dish, as often the addition of umeboshi vinegar will be enough.
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text: By Durrell Nelson. Discussion of cookies found in Nauvoo in the middle to later part of the last century. The history of leavening agents is explained. Especially described, is the elaborate picture cookies of Germany called springerle. Several local families either have the molds used in the baking of these cookies or remember having known their family to have owned such molds.


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Let me back up.
DAO naming is hierarchical in nature, sort of like the DOS path. And like DOS, you can refer to an object using a fully qualified name or a semi-qualified name. In DOS, a fully qualified name would be like this:
If you are already in a folder, you can refer to the file by its semi-qualified name:
TEST.MDB In the same way, you can refer to an Access object by its fully qualified name:
or if you assume the default DBEngine (which we almost always do), the default Workspace, and default Database, you can refer to the table by its semi-qualified name:
If you look at the fully qualified name like this:
you can see the DAO hierarchy levels more easily and how the dot separates them. (Much like the "\" in DOS.)
The dot also serves to separate an object from its properties and methods, which can also be thought of as another level in the hierarchy. So I can refer to "TableDefs!Table1.RecordCount". RecordCount being a property of Table1.
The bang (!) separates objects from the collections which hold them, thus it separates "Table1" from the collection "TableDefs" and the object "c:\msoffice\access97\test.mdb" from its collection "Databases".
Since most objects are defined by you, and since levels of DAO hierarchy are defined by Access, we get the rule of thumb named earlier.
DAO Naming Rules:
- The dot serves to separate one level of the DAO hierarchy from another in a fully qualified object name.
- The dot also serves to separate an object from its methods and properties. (This, by the way, is the principle use for most people).
- The bang serves to separate an object from the collection in which it is contained.
But this isn't really the end of the story. When using class modules in Access (like Forms and Reports), the Bang and Dot behavior is slightly different. To find out more, read my post: Bang Vs. Dot in Forms.


Fire destroyed a third of the houses in Delft.
May 3, 1536
The great fire in 1536, probably caused by lightening, in turn caused the people of Delft to re-build their city with stone instead of wood. It also meant that few current buildings pre-date the fire. Much of medieval Delft was lost, including Leeuwenhoek's Hippolytusbuurt neighborhood between the Stadhuis and the Oude Kerk. Both of them, built of stone, survived the fire. The city archives stored in the Stadhuis did not survive, however, which is why the timeline of events is so sparse before then.
The gates stick out into the singel more than in reality. At either end of the Oude Delft gracht, the double gates of Rotterdamse/Schiedam and Haag/Wateringse are not clear. At the top, the Waterslootse Poort doesn't have its bulwark yet. The four windmills in the top corner are all aimed toward the winds coming off the North Sea. Along the bottom, the Duyvel's Gat looks as though it gives water access, and the Koepoort looks as though it doesn't. In the bottom left corner (southeast corner of the city), Leeuwenhoek's boyhood neighborhood lay untouched.


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I don't have a clear view of how the Kumori Language is pronounced yet, so you have to be patient, okay.
How can you come up with an orthography before you know what the pronunciation is like? I've never seen anyone conlang like this before.
Well, it seems that you really want to know the pronunciation of this language. It is still a work in progress I am afraid, so you will have to be patient. What I do know is that it is similar to how you pronounce words in the Arabic language with some words having a French flavour in them too. Some words can also have a special mark called d'ael that looks similar to an dot, that is placed over the first letter of the word. That signifies that the word should be spoken in a whisper-like voice. It is not uncommon to see these marks in traditional poems for example. I hope that this helps.


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