ask about his problem and inform him
that Erlan is ready to talk with him again. Now go back to Erlan
to give him the turkey and tell him about the nautilus spell.
Lastly, talk with Jervis, who is usually in the writing table
area, and get the ingredients for the light spell.
Return to Illumar and tell him about each of the ingredients that
you learned. This will end the quest for creating a magic scroll.
You then need to spend 5 learning points to learn the create
scroll skill. Tell Illumar you are ready and he gives you the
Rune of light and tells you to create a light scroll (start Q The
test of Master Illumar). Go to a writing desk (Illumar calls them
Rune tables) and create a light scroll. You can buy blank scrolls
from Caspar. Go back to Illumar with your newly created scroll
and you pass his test. He will now sell you scrolls, blank scroll
parchment and Runes for creating other scrolls.
Take the time to create some of the scrolls you might need. Some
essential ones are nautilus transformation, telekinesis and
levitation. A useful one is conjure skeleton, which summons a
skeletal companion, Fred, to help with the tougher battles.
Q Mutual aid
Talk to Jervis and ask him to train you in hunting skills. He
won't do this until you give him a Create Illusion scroll and two
blank scrolls (buy blank scrolls from Caspar).
Q Assist the Warriors of the Order in Harbour Town
If you are following this guide (and you should), you have been
to Harbour Town before the monastery, and you will likely have
already done this quest. When you speak to Ignatius about the
tests of the masters, you will get the choice to say that Master
Pallas has not given you a test and Ignatius will say the matter
is closed.
Q A worthy weapon
After you tell Ignatius that you have completed all of the
Master's tests, he tells you to get a worthy weapon (staff). Go
to Karlsen the smith and you will get a fighting staff. Return to
Ignatius. Now you are ready to be initiated as a Warrior of the
Q The initiation
When you have finished all the Masters' tests and have gotten a
new staff (Q A worthy weapon), you can begin the ritual to become
a Warrior of the Order. Talk to Ignatius to start the process,
and then talk to the Inquisitor in the Hall of Flames. The
Inquisitor will ask you a series of questions. It doesn't matter
how you answer except each will enable you to choose an increase
in one of your stats. Once the ritual is over, your ability to
use magic crystals (fire, ice or magic bullet) will increase by 1
point and you will get some new spiffy robes.
Q Follow the inquisitor
Now the Inquisitor instructs you to follow him to a Big Gate -
the entrance to the Volcano. Along the way he will stop
occasionally to fill you in on some background information. When
you finally reach the Gate, ask the Inquisitor about getting back
easier and he gives you a teleportation stone (Volcano Keep)
(starts Q teleport stones). You will begin chapter 2, The
Inquisitor's Plan.
CHAPTER 2 Quests
You basic goal in Chapter 2 to is to find the 5 crystal disks
that will open the gate. The Inquisitor has given one of the
disks to Cyrus, but it is broken. You must find a way to repair
this disk and find the other four. You will also be given the
quest to find the Teleportation Stones that allow you to move
instantaneously around the island. There are 14 Stones.
Q Teleport stones
This quest begins when you receive the first teleport stone from
the Inquisitor (Volcano Keep Teleport Stone). There is no one to
report to, your quest log will update as you find each of the 13
other teleport stones. When you find each one, its teleport
location will appear as a green dot on your teleport stone quest
map. Most of the stones are found in the possession of lizardmen
very near to the point that the stone will teleport you to. The
14 stones and where you find them are listed below, in no
particular order.
Teleport Stone name - location of stone
Harbour Town - Commandant Carlos in Harbour Town
Bandit camp - Fincher in Bandit Camp
Volcano Keep - Inquisitor Mendoza at the Big Gate to the volcano
Eastern Volcano Cave - lizardman not far from entrance to cave
East Coast - roaming lizard band near Jasmin's & Rufo's camp
Eastern Temple - lizard priest (mystery of eastern temple quest)
Northeastern Temple - lizard priest (Cyrus is late quest)
Northern Temple - roaming lizard band outside temple
Plains Temple - roaming lizard band, just outside of the temple
Southeast Coast - roaming lizard band along southeast road
Southern Ruin - roaming lizards; ruins near Tilda's farm
Southwestern Ruin - roaming lizard band ruin near starting beach
Western Ruin - roaming lizards; ruins near path to bandit camp
West Volcano Cave - undead priest (Titan Helmet quest)
The main goal of chapter 2 is to find the 5 crystal disks and
open the portal into the volcano. Return the disks to the
Inquisitor. Most quests in this chapter are designated World
quests, regardless of who gives you the quest.
Q Crystal disks for the Inquisitor
Inquisitor Mendoza will ask you to find five disks scattered
throughout the island. When you talk to Mendoza about the disks,
you will learn that only Eldric, a Druid, can repair the broken
disk that the Inquisitor gave to Cyrus (start Q Cyrus is late).
Ask where to find other disks and he tells you to see Severin at
Tilda's farm (start Q The golden delivery). He also mentions that
Don Esteban has a disk in his possession and you should have no
problem getting that disk. To find all 5 disks, you need to do
the following things and/or complete the following quests: 1)
Talk to Don Esteban; 2) The mystery of the eastern temple; 3)
Cyrus is late; 4) Where is the golden delivery? and 5) Off to the
west coast.
You have been taught crystal magic to level 1 during your
initiation. To increase your levels of crystal magic, you need to
be trained by the Masters. Master Ignatius will train you in fire
crystal magic. When you inform Master Vitus that you are ready to
begin study of crystal magic, he will instruct you to see Master
Pallas to learn more about frost crystal magic. Master Vitus will
teach you about projectile magic (magic bullet). You already have
a fire crystal, but you need to obtain a Frost Crystal and a
Magic Crystal.
Q The magic bullet (projectile magic)
You will be able to increase your use of magic bullet from Master
Vitus, but before he agrees to teach you, you'll first have to
acquire one. You should have found one in a locked chest in the
library (see Q The test of Master Ignatius). There is another
Magic Crystal in Druid Eldric's chest.
Q The frost crystal
Master Pallas will increase your abilities in the use of Frost
Crystal magic. To do so you will need to pay him 1000 gold coins.
You can reduce the cost by bringing him a bog body's heart (cold
heart) which will lower the cost by 250 coins and you can lower
the cost by another 250 coins if you give him a small sapphire.
You likely have killed a number of bog bodies by now and you will
find a small sapphire during the Thieving gnomes quest. Pay him
and Pallas will give you the frost crystal and then be willing to
increase your ability in its use.
The Quest for the 5 golden disks (these do not have to be done in
this order).
Disk 1
Getting the disk from Don Esteban is simple. Just ask him, but
offer some inducement (he can keep all of the gold he finds in
the temples his men are excavating
Disk 2
Q The mystery of the eastern temple
Now talk to Fincher and ask him to give you a teleportation stone
for the bandit camp. He will also tell you that he is worried
about the Eastern temple and asks you to see what is happening
(starts Q Mystery of eastern temple). He will put a marker on
your map for you to follow.
Make you way to the eastern temple and talk to Maliko just inside
the entrance. He will enlighten you about the situation in the
temple. Talk awhile and you will start Q Find Danilo the fighter.
Drop through the trap (hole in the floor) just behind Maliko and
in the corridor below you will find Dirk. Talk to Dirk and begin
Q Find an exit to the eastern temple quest. Just beyond Dirk, to
the right, is a hole in the wall with a ghoul inside the chamber
you enter. The chest here has a nautilus spell if you forgot to
bring some


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Singular solution, in mathematics, solution of a differential equation that cannot be obtained from the general solution gotten by the usual method of solving the differential equation. When a differential equation is solved, a general solution consisting of a family of curves is obtained. For example, (y′)2 = 4y has the general solution y = (x + c)2, which is a family of parabolas (see Graph). The line y = 0 is also a solution of the differential equation, but it is not a member of the family constituting the general solution. The singular solution is related to the general solution by its being what is called the envelope of that family of curves representing the general solution. An envelope is defined as the curve that is tangent to a given family of curves. If the singular solution is an envelope, it can be found from the general solution by solving the maximum (or minimum) problem of finding the value of the parameter c for which y has a maximum (or minimum) value for a fixed x, and then substituting this value for c back into the general solution. In the example given, y has its minimum value for each x when c = -x, giving the singular solution as indicated.
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The marathon is instituted in commemoration of the renowned long distance run coming from Marathon to Athens in ancient times. The actual distance for the very first modern Olympic in 1896 is about 40,000 meters. Because marathon race intervals have been preserved, the world record time has slipped by more than 30 %, from 2:55:18 to the recently set record of 2:03:38. Exploring the advancement of times and the factors that contribute to a runner's success is important whether you are in the middle of your first marathon training or seeking to observe what are the ideal marathons to see.
An athlete who breaks a record doesn't always mean that he actually breaks the world record time. The International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) needs to ratify and approve it first. This particular international athletic governing panel only began documenting marathon world record times in 2004, and they have founded strict, continually-evolving regulations regarding precisely what events and times count as world stats. A lot of records are not accepted since the standard regulation which was made in 1921 is not followed like the exact distance and the way it should be measured..
One of the most recent changes to the criteria include disqualifications of competitions for inclusion in world record data according to elevation drops, tailwind, or whatever they label "artificially fast time" aspects. Because of this, a record-breaking 2:03:02 time in the Boston Marathon by Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya was recorded as "fastest marathon ever run," but not as a world record breaking time.
Similarly, despite the fact that most women have been running modern marathons since the 1896 Athens Olympics, whenever Stamata Revithi unofficially ran the men's marathon course the day after the standard competition was held, the IAAF continuously make adjustments to what is approved women's marathon times as world record settings. For a woman's world record to be recorded it should happen in an allwomen's event and that's exactly what should happen in January 2012. To date the best time clocked by a woman in a marathon was made by Paula Radcliffe in the 2003 London Marathon and the time was set to 2:15:21.
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Researchers from Japan's Kyoto University and Osaka University have demonstrated that spin currents can travel more than half a micrometer on a thin doped-germanium sheet. Up until now this has only been demonstrated in very low temperatures (below 225 Kelvin).
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To investigate the genetic mechanism of mercury accumulation in maize (Zea mays L.), a population of 194 recombinant inbred lines derived from an elite hybrid Yuyu 22, was used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for mercury accumulation at two locations. The results showed that the average Hg concentration in the different tissues of maize followed(More)
Arsenic (As) is a toxic heavy metal that can accumulate in crops and poses a threat to human health. The genetic mechanism of As accumulation is unclear. Herein, we used quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping to unravel the genetic basis of As accumulation in a maize recombinant inbred line population derived from the Chinese crossbred variety Yuyu22. The(More)
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NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund up to $24 million per year for four years to establish six to eight investigator-initiated Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence. The centers will improve the ability of the research community to use increasingly large and complex data sets through the development and distribution of innovative approaches, methods, software and tools for data sharing, integration, analysis and management. The centers will also provide training for students and researchers to use and develop data science methods.
Biomedical research is increasingly data-intensive, with researchers routinely generating and using large, diverse data sets. Yet the ability to manage, integrate and analyze such data, and to locate and use data generated by others, is often limited due to a lack of tools, accessibility and training. In response, NIH launched the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative in December (2012). This initiative supports research, implementation and training in data science that will enable biomedical scientists to capitalize on the transformative opportunities that large datasets provide. The investigator-initiated BD2K Center of Excellence funding opportunity is the first of several BD2K funding opportunities to be announced in coming months.
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Applicants responding to the BD2K Center of Excellence funding opportunity announcement should identify a research topic and propose research in data science. They should develop approaches, methods, software and tools for data integration, analysis, database development and management and visualization and modeling to address important research questions. The products from this R&D will be shared and distributed broadly to the research community. The centers are expected to interact as a consortium that cooperatively builds on individual research efforts.
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Philippine folk dance is one of the Philippine cultures that incorporate influences from immigrants and conquerors while at the same time maintaining their own national identity. The dances of the Philippines were developed while Filipinos were working in the fields, celebrating feasts, harvests, births and weddings.
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Philippine Folk Dance
Here's the list of popular Philippine Folk Dances from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao:
A. Philippine Folk Dances from Luzon
The Banga or pot dance is a contemporary performance of Kalinga of the Mountain Province in the Philippines. This dance illustrates the languid grace of a tribe otherwise known as fierce warriors.
Maglalatik was originally performed in Biñan, Laguna as a mock-war dance that demonstrates a fight between the Moros and the Christians over the prized latik or coconut meat during the Spanish rule, this dance is also shown to pay tribute to the town's patron saint, San Isidro Labrador.
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3. Pandanggo sa Ilaw
Pandanggo sa Ilaw - The word pandanggo comes from the Spanish dance "fandango"characterized with lively steps and clapping while following a varying ¾ beat. Pandanggo requires excellent balancing skill to maintain the stability of three tinggoy, or oil lamps, placed on head and at the back of each hand. This famous dance of grace and balance originated from Lubang Island, Mindoro.
B. Philippine Folk Dances from Visayas
Tinikling means "bamboo dance" in English. The dance imitates the movement of the tikling birds as they walk between grass stems, run over tree branches, or dodge bamboo traps set by rice farmers. Dancers imitate the tikling bird's legendary grace and speed by skillfully maneuvering between large bamboo poles.
The Kuratsa is highly favored by the Waray people of the Eastern Visayan region in the Philippines. Strictly speaking, The Kuratsa must be done the amenudo; that is, only one couple dances it at a time. the Kuratsa is however, very different in the manner of execution to the Mexican counterpart.
3. Mazurka Boholana
Mazurka Boholana is a Spanish-inspired ballroom dance from the Bohol province of the Philippines. Although the mazurka is the Polish national dance, it was wildly popular throughout Europe in the 19th century and even in colonized lands overseas.
C. Philippine Folk Dances from Mindanao
The Itik-Itik is a dance from Surigao del Norte, in which the movements of a duck are imitated. An itik is a species of duck.
The Maranao dance called Singkil is in the repertory of all Filipino dance troupes. In 1958 the Bayanihan Dance troupe started with a simple version and has since developed it into a theatrical and stylized spectacle to the point of its becoming the troupe's signature piece.
Performed at Tausog weddings in Jolo, the Kandingan consists of figures and steps based on classical and traditional Indian dance forms. Dancers perform with slightly bent knees turned outward, fingers held stiffly together with the thumb outward and apart.


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text: A truck loaded with cannonball watermelons stops suddenly to avoid running over the edge of a washed-out bridge (see figure). The quick stop causes a number of melons to fly off the truck. One melon rolls over the edge with an initial speed vi = 8.0 m/s in the horizontal direction. A cross-section of the bank has the shape of the bottom half of a parabola with its vertex at the edge of the road, and with the equation y2 = 14x, where x and y are measured in meters. What are the x and y coordinates of the melon when it splatters on the bank? How do you find the angle out of Y2=14x?


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Dr. Berthold Laufer (left) with two men and one boy. All in Chinese costume or dress. Hankow, ca. 1904. Tea cups and pipe on table. © The Field Museum, A98299
Berthold Laufer (_PHONE_), curator of Asian Anthropology from 1908 to 1934, was a pioneer in the study of Asian cultures. With a doctorate in oriental languages from the University of Leipzig, Laufer was a sinologist who was fluent in more than a dozen languages, many of which were non Indo-Eurpoean. Polymath and polyglot, his interests seemed unbounded and his linguistic skills unequaled. For information on his work and collections at The Field Museum, click here.
Laufer was born in Cologne, Germany. At a young age he was interested in music and the arts. He dreamt of becoming a dramatist, until discovering his passion for archeology in his early 20's. His family's wealth afforded him a good education and in 1893 he attended the University of Berlin where he first studied Oriental languages. For more on Laufer's life and career, click here.
Late 19th century woodblock print tryptich depciting women viewing cherry blossoms, purchased by Berthold Laufer during his 1910 Blackstone Expedition. © The Field Museum, A112784c


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Debit and credit cards contain account numbers which consist of many digits. When purchasing items online, you are often asked to type in your account number. Because there are so many digits, it is easy to type the number incorrectly. The last digit of the number is a specially generated check digit which can be used to quickly verify the validity of the number. A common algorithm used for verifying numbers is called the Luhn Algorithm. A series of operations are performed on the number and a final result is produced. If the final result ends in zero, the number is valid. Otherwise, the number is invalid.
The steps performed in the Luhn Algorithm are outlined in the flowchart below. Two examples are provided.
The flowchart for the algorithm with the steps outlined in the adjacent text.
Example 1:
Number: \(135792\)
Reversal: \(\textcolor{red}{2}9\textcolor{red}{7}5\textcolor{red}{3}1\)
\(\begin{aligned} A&=\textcolor{red}{2+7+3}\\ &=12\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(\begin{aligned} 2\times9&=18\\ 2\times5&=10\\ 2\times1&=2\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(\begin{aligned} B&=(1+8)+(1+0)+2\\ &=9+1+2\\ &=12\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(C\) does not end in zero.
The number is not valid.
Example 2:
Number: \(_PHONE_\)
Reversal: \(\textcolor{red}{7}8\textcolor{red}{9}7\textcolor{red}{5}3\textcolor{red}{1}\)
\(\begin{aligned} A&=\textcolor{red}{7+9+5+1}\\ &=22\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(\begin{aligned} 2\times8&=16\\ 2\times7&=14\\ 2\times3&=6\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(\begin{aligned} B&=(1+6)+(1+4)+6\\ &=7+5+6\\ &=18\\ \end{aligned}\)
\(C\) ends in zero.
The number is valid.
The number \(1953\,R8T9\,467\) is a valid card number when verified by the Luhn Algorithm.
\(R\) and \(T\) are each single digits of the number such that \(R\) is less than \(T\). Determine all possible values of \(R\) and \(T\).


The Structure of Production
Why Are Gold and Commodities So Darn Volatile?
By Mark Skousen, Editor, Forecasts & Strategies
Why are commodities and commodity stocks so volatile? Commodity speculating is not for the faint of heart, and many investors give up on gold, silver, and mining stocks because they can lose 40-90% of their value in a short period of time. Gold's recent drop from $1,900 to $1,200 is a case in point. You have to expect a volatile market.
The reason why commodity prices vary so much can be found in an understanding of Austrian economics, the free-market school that is endorsed by Doug Casey, Rick Rule, and many other commodity experts. As developed by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek in the 20th century, the Austrian school of economics explains why commodity prices are so volatile.
Austrian economists call it "the structure of production." As a follower of the Austrian school, I wrote a book titled The Structure of Production (New York University Press, 1990). Rick Rule told me he loves the book and has bought hundreds of copies to give to his clients.
Austrian economists emphasize the structure of the economy—the structure of interest rates, production, employment, and inventories. It is a complex theory, but the basic idea is that price volatility depends on how far away the product or service is from final consumption. Consumer prices are the most stable, producer or wholesale prices less stable, and commodities are the furthest from final use; therefore, those prices are the most volatile. You can see this difference in the graph below, where the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is far more stable than the RBA Commodity Index.
Take oil and gasoline, for example. Oil is far removed from final use (gasoline) and has varied from $30 to $140 a barrel during the past ten years… and yet the gasoline price (final consumption) is far more stable, varying from $3 to $4 a gallon.
But there's a silver lining in this story. While commodity prices are far more volatile, it also means that commodities and commodity stocks can be much more profitable on the upside… if you buy right. And with commodity prices down 40% or more (with oil being an exception), now may be a great buying opportunity.
Mark Skousen Editor, Forecasts &
You must understand the structure of production if you invest in any cyclical business (and what business isn't cyclical?). Understanding time is critical in investing. After the over-building in 2005, the housing bubble needed time to clear away mal-investments. All the demand pumping, interest rate manipulating, and subsidies could not change that process. I highly recommend Skousen's book.
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As is well known, in the development process of program, the time consumed to remove and correct the error is usually greater than time spent in coding. Therefore, a friendly debug environment can save a lot of time. In this respect, VB.NET and SQL are two extremes that the former provides almost a perfect Debug environment, while the latter nearly provides no error debugging tool.
R language and esProc as two development tools for computation and analysis are both capable to debug to some degree. We will study on their differences in this respect.
Let's kick off by making ourselves familiar with the debugging environments of both R (take R Studio for example) and esProc from their respective interfaces:
R Studio Debugging Environment:
esProc's Debugging Environment
Let's compare the basic functions.
Break point: For R, the break point is set by inserting browser () into the codes. Users have to remove these statements manually once debugged, which seems to be back to the cherished old times of using BASIC to code when Windows was not invented, impressed us with a strong feeling of reminiscence. In those days, removing the stop break point statement is even an important job before releasing codes. By comparison, the break point style of esProc is similar to that of VB.NET and other alike modern programming languages. By clicking the button or pressing shortcut keys, the break point can be set to the cell in which the mouse cursor is located. This is nothing special.
Debug command: with the same style of break point, debug command of R is input from the console, including to resume running,n to go run the next statement, and Q to exit the debug mode. In addition, there are also functions like trace/set Break point/debug/undebug/stop.It is important to note that it would be best not to have any variable named after c, n, and Q in the codes. Otherwise, accidental conflicts will occur.
Regarding the procedure control, esProc is no different than VB.net and like programming languages for just requires click(s) on button or shortcut keys to implement, not requiring users to memorize any command, as we all know.
Variable watch: The variable watch window of R language is on the right, in which all current variables will be listed. On clicking it, a new window will prompt to display the value of this variable. Alternatively, R language users can also enter the fix(variable name) at the command line window as shown below. In the right bottom corner of esProc user interface, there is a similar variable list. Seldom do esProc users use this list because esProc does not require users to specially define the variable name. The name of cell is taken as the variable name by default, and thus users can simply click the cell to review the variable value.
One thing to notice is that R is friendly to display the variables of Frame format. However, it is comparatively not so friendly to support the irregularly-structured variables that we can say it is unreadable at all, as the below typical List for example:
esProc does a much better job in this respect. For the same data, in esProc, it is represented by drilling through the hyperlinks:
Then, let's compare some more advanced functions, and start from checking the Immediate Running first.
As for esProc, a cell will be calculated immediately and automatically once codes are entered into this cell. Therefore, the developers can view the execution result immediately and adjust the code for re-run on conditions. This style can speed up the development speed and lower the probability of errors, allowing the green hand to become familiar with it quickly. R Studio provides the similar means that more resembles the "immediate window" of VB, that is,user's type in codes at a command line window and run immediately. If it is run correctly, then copy the codes to the formal code section. Judging on the whole, R is less convenient than esProc in this respect.
Finally, let us discuss the function to debug the functions separately.
R users can use the debug(Function Name) to debug the functions separately and directly so as to modularize in development and implement the large-scale test. esProc users,on the contrary, are not allowed to debug the function separately, which is a pity more or less. However, the debug function of R language has not implemented the true "separate" test. Its working principle is actually to add a browser () command prior to the function to be debugged, still requiring running all codes before entering the function to debug.
From another perspective, such computational analysis software is rarely used for the large-scale development and test. There is not much significance and value for its ability to debug function separately.
Through the above comparison, we can see that both R and esProc provide some debugging functions. In which,esProc is performing better in terms of convenience and usability.


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This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to start a row with a yarn over. This technique is sometimes used in lace patterns to create an eyelet at the beginning of a row. It can be a little confusing but really is pretty simple.
To start a row with a yarn over, just move the yarn in front of the needle before you knit if doing a knit stitch, or move your needle in front of the yarn before you purl if doing a purl stitch.
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A number of legends of female samurai warriors exist in the history of Japanese armor. While much literature describes these female warriors who donned armor and fought on the battlefield, there are very few extant examples. In the late Muromachi period, do-maru and haramaki armours with large breast plates and small waists began to appear. These types were probably made for men of small stature and were shared by both men and women. These types were called hime yoroi (princess armor) in the later period. The social restrictions of the samurai class would have greatly limited a woman's freedom, thus it must have been extremely rare to produce female armor. The Oomishima shrine in Japan contains a do-maru yoroi armor as an Important Cultural Property as it is believed to be the only existing female do-maru armor in Japan. The shrine's tradition claims that this do-maru armor was worn by Princess Tsuru in the battle of Oomishima in the tenth year of Tenmon (1541). Compared to a haramaki armor which opens traditionally from the back with a seita (back plate) which covers the open area, this armor has a seita on the front. This armor is consequently called a semaki armor. The semaki armor should therefore be considered an extremely rare discovery of an unusual female armour.
The following are studies of the armor's exceptional characteristics:
Firstly, the size of the head-protecting section of the helmet is remarkable. Compared to the size of the do, it is substantially bigger and shallower. This enlargement of the helmet size can be attributed to the fact that female warriors had more hair than their male counterparts. The crown area of the helmet utilizes the style of the Kamakura period which allowed space for male warriors to place their mage (topknots).
In addition, unlike a haramaki armor which normally requires assistance to be put on, this armor can be worn without help from the back, similar to a kimono. To spare women from immodest embarrassment and taking into consideration the importance of ease in wearing, this design must have been invented. The breast plate can be easily adjusted and the design allows female warriors to remove it when necessary in order to take rest from the battlefield.
Thirdly, the reverse of the do - composed of small plates - is covered with deerskin, not only to beautify every aspect of the armor but also to allow for a silk kimono to remain undamaged when worn underneath. Behind this extraordinary finishing of the do reverse there must have been the intention of presenting a female warrior as both a noblewoman who could wear a valuable kimono as well as adding grace to her death when her armor was removed.
The red menpo adds a heroic and determined character to the armor with the elegant shortened mustache. The contrasting color of the armor and the mask is rather feminine.
The kote (arm guard) also exhibits a female characteristic. Generally, a kote has a cover on all five fingers. However, the kote of this armor has no cover on its thumbs. As women generally have a weaker grip, this cover-less design enables female warriors to take a firm grip of their swords. This delicate design is particular to women.
The neck plates and sleeves also represent a Japanese view of women. Japanese tradition defines the ideal for women as 'not stretching out nor going forward'. Men's behavior is based on the reverse idea of stretching oneself out to be seen as large as possible. For example, when women sit formally, their knees have to be placed together while seated. Contrarily, men have to extend their knees in order to exhibit their manhood. In keeping with these Japanese customs, the neck plates of this armor are called sudare (curtain) shikoro and the sleeves sudare sode. The reference above explains the reason why this armor has long sleeves.
Lastly, the maedate has a bon-ji and half moon in gold which symbolizes Daikokuten as the wearer's guardian deity. Daikokuten is known as a Goddess of Battle and War in Buddhism, while in Japan since the Heian Period she has been considered a deity of the household. A household deity seems to be appropriate for a female warrior. Daikokuten in Japan is also associated with wealth and prosperity. This large maedate conceals the size of the helmet and exhibits the wearer's pride and self-awareness as a female warrior.
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5 Strategies to manage activity storage costs in Dynamics 365
Storage of activities in Dynamics 365 can become costly, especially if large amounts of data are stored. Activity storage refers to customer activities, such as emails, appointments, tasks and other interactions, within the Dynamics 365 environment.
The cost of storing activities can vary depending on the Dynamics 365 plan you use, the number of users, the number of activities generated, and the length of time you choose to store the data. As data accumulates over time, it can increase storage requirements and potentially result in higher costs.
Consider the following 5 tips to effectively manage activity storage costs:
1 Data interest policy
Define data retention policies based on your business needs. For example, you can choose to keep certain types of activities for a specific period of time and then delete or archive older data to reduce storage space usage.
2 Clearing and archiving policy
Review and clean up unnecessary or obsolete activities regularly. Archiving historical data to a separate storage system can help cut costs while still maintaining access to older records. Microsoft recently announced that they are moving the Description column of emails older than 12 months to unstructured Azure Blob storage. This will actually reduce your database storage and increase your file storage, which will help many organizations reduce costs. For larger organizations, however, this may be limited because you cannot currently change the threshold, and the search options are not ideal. We have developed custom solutions for our customers that can get around these limitations by using Azure Cosmos and Virtual Entities.
3 Use monitors
Monitor storage consumption and volume of activity to identify unexpected spikes or trends. This can help you prepare for potential cost adjustments and optimize the use of storage.
4 Optimize activity tracking
Track only essential activities that add value to your business. Reducing unnecessary tracking can help control storage growth.
5 Consider different licensing options
Depending on your organization's needs, educate yourself about different Dynamics 365 plans and licensing options to find the most cost-effective solution.
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If neither parent/person(s) with parental responsibility gives permission, you can apply for a court order. However, you will have to demonstrate to the court that you have tried to work out your differences with them.
*A deed poll is a legal document which enables you to officially change any part of your (or your child's) name: you can add a new name, remove an existing name, change the spelling of your names or even adopt a completely new name altogether, the choice is entirely yours.
Using a deed poll enables you to get all documents and records, including your passport, driving license and bank account, updated to show your new name.
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In mechanical engineering, a fillet // is a rounding of an interior or exterior corner of a part design. An interior or exterior corner with an angle or type of bevel, is called a "chamfer". Fillet geometry, when on an interior corner is a line of concave function, whereas a fillet on an exterior corner is a line of convex function (in these cases, fillets are typically referred to as rounds).
- Stress concentration is a problem of load-bearing mechanical parts which is reduced by employing fillets on points and lines of expected high stress. The fillets distribute the stress over a broader area and effectively make the parts more durable and capable of bearing larger loads.
- For considerations in aerodynamics, fillets are employed to reduce interference drag where aircraft components such as wings, struts, and other surfaces meet one another.
- For manufacturing, concave corners are sometimes filleted to allow the use of round-tipped end mills to cut out an area of a material. This has a cycle time benefit if the round mill is simultaneously being used to mill complex curved surfaces.
- Radii are used to eliminate sharp edges that can be easily damaged or that can cause injury when the part is handled.
Fillets can be quickly designed onto parts using 3D solid modeling engineering CAD software by invoking the function and picking edges of interest. Once these features are included in the CAD design of a part, they are often manufactured automatically using computer-numerical control.
Different packages use different names for the same operations. CATIA, Vectorworks, Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks refer to both concave and convex rounded edges as fillets, while referring to angled cuts of edges and concave corners as chamfers. Unigraphics and CADKEY refer to concave and convex rounded edges as blends. Creo (formerly Pro/Engineer) refers to rounded edges simply as rounds. Other 3D solid modeling software programs outside of engineering, such as gameSpace, have similar functions.
Smooth edges connecting two simple flat features are generally simple for a computer to create and fast for a human user to specify.
- Visualization, modeling, and graphics for engineering design By Dennis Kenmon Lieu, Sheryl Sorby, Page 6-31


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Essential Job Functions: 1. Provides assistance in completing application and enrollment documents.
2. Reviews student applications by analyzing credentials, computing GPAs, reviewing support documents such as transcripts, and preparing application packages for admissions decisions.
3. Collaborates with admissions colleagues, academic advisers, financial aid officers, and residential life personnel to create an effective yield team and ensure a smooth transition from inquiry to enrolled student status.
4. Participates in promotional activities, including educational fairs, career days, open houses, or special events to present programs to prospective students.
5. Inputs status of significant admission decisions into database.
6. Maintains student data integrity and confidentiality.
7. Sorts or classifies information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.
8. Compiles, sorts and verifies the accuracy of data before it is entered.
9. Compares data with source documents, or re-enters data in verification format to detect errors.
10. Stores completed documents in appropriate locations.
12. Locates and corrects data entry errors, or reports them to supervisors.
13. Answers questions about records or files.
14. Keeps records of materials filed or removed, using logbooks or computers and generate computerized reports.
15. Answers telephones, directs calls, and takes messages.
16. Greets persons entering establishment, determines nature and purpose of visit, and directs or escorts them to specific destinations.
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Greasewood ecosystem in Pine Valley, Nevada with the Roberts Mountains in the background.
Greasewood Greasewood ecosystem near Pine Valley, Nevada © Louis Provencher/TNC
New Paper Defends Greasewood and Other Undervalued Ecosystems
Scientists from The Nature Conservancy in Nevada introduce the concept of biodiversity potential to assess the value of these ecosystems
Who cares about greasewood? We should, as it's an undervalued and extreme ecosystem that has economic value and policy implications, scientists from The Nature Conservancy in Nevada argue in a new paper published this month.
In "All Systems Are Equal: In Defense of Undervalued Ecosystems," author Louis Provencher and co-authors Laurel Saito, Kevin Badik, and Sarah Byer write that it's time to recognize the biodiversity potential of greasewood and other misunderstood ecosystems that are not considered biodiversity hotspots. Biodiversity potential questions whether the degradation of ecosystems like greasewood with seemingly low number of species compared to more species-rich or socially valued ecosystems is acceptable. According to the authors, it's important to recognize the biodiversity potential of these undervalued systems, as their soils, hydrology, and climates create unique assortments of adapted species that cannot be replaced by other or more species from other ecosystems. In other words, undervalued systems are more significant than they appear.
The Nature Conservancy in Nevada mapped Nevada's indicators of groundwater-dependent ecosystems (iGDEs) last year, which cover at least one-tenth of the state, and found that greasewood was the largest iGDE type and makes up almost a third of iGDEs in Nevada. It is also found in California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and other western states. Phreatophytic (plants with roots that can tap into groundwater) systems like greasewood are often indicator species for groundwater located near the ground surface. But if groundwater is pumped to the point where the water table drops and taproots cannot reach it, the plants will become stressed, wilt and eventually might disappear. GDEs like greasewood may be disregarded in favor of economic uses for water, but this has policy implications: they could be subject to groundwater withdrawals that could be litigated, subject to NEPA decision-making or other regulatory mechanisms, or reviewed by a state engineer for approval or denial of water right applications.
"As surface water supplies become scarce, pressures to develop and use groundwater can lead to water table declines that can affect greasewood ecosystems," Provencher said. "Understanding the groundwater needs to sustain greasewood ecosystems and being able to model ecosystem transitions of these systems will help us to consider how to maintain groundwater sustainability that supports social, economic and environmental needs for water."
Greasewood ecosystems may also be disregarded in favor of a transition to another ecosystem with more biodiversity, but they aren't easily replaced. Few species other than those present in greasewood ecosystems can survive the saline to sodic (salty or containing sodium chloride) soils they grow in. Instead, the loss of greasewood ecosystems, which are a naturally effective fuel break, could encourage the spread of invasive non-native plants like cheatgrass, which creates a wildfire risk.
Greasewood covers 2.2. million acres of Nevada and is typically found in elevations of 3,800-5,800 feet in valley bottoms where summer temperatures reach into the hundreds. Pronghorn, mule deer, black-tailed jackrabbits, golden eagles and more than 100 invertebrate, reptile, and small mammal species depend on these ecosystems. The loss of these ecosystems not only increases fire risk, but also drops the biodiversity potential, as species such as golden eagle would lose habitat and have to travel further for their preferred prey, jackrabbit.
"Greasewood ecosystems in Nevada have historically been deemed 'less valuable' than other ecosystems based on species richness and past cultural values," the authors write. "However, some greasewood ecosystems may be near or at their biodiversity potential (that cannot be replaced by another ecosystem) and therefore worth conservation protection."
Director of Conservation Ecology, The Nature Conservancy in Nevada


Flamingo nXt
easy rendering for Rhino in Windows
Product Materials and Lights
This tutorial shows how to render a Rhino model using nXt. The model includes some images that will be used as decals and a material library.
Support files for this tutorial can be downloaded here...
The tutorial covers:
 - Inserting materials from a library
 - Adding a decal to the rendering
 - Adding a spotlight to the rendering
To begin:
 1. Open the model Rackmount Start.
 2. Renderthe model.
 This model is setup to add materials out of a material library.
 3. To activate the material library press on the Material Tab and the Folderbutton:
 This opens the location of the Material Libraries for NXT. Each material is a separate file in a series of standard directories on your hard-drive. Navigate to the folder called Stereo Materials that you downloaded with the Rhino model.
 Unlike previous versions of Flamingo, once a material is assigned to a model, it is stored within the model. In this model we will assign the materials to separate layers. Do this by Opening the layer control and then dragging the materials to the layer.
 4. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a decal:
While this is a good start, the face of the rack unit would benefit from decal graphics that mark the controls.
A decal is a way to apply a single bitmap to an object. It can be used to apply labels and images to objects in the scene.
 1. Select the face of the stereo.
 2. On the Properties dialog, change the dropdown to Flamingo nXt Decals.
 3. On the Properties dialog, Flamingo nXt Decals press the Addbutton.
 4. Select the bitmap Label.png.
 5. On the Decal Properties dialog, make sure the Projection is Planar, and then press the Placebutton.
 6. Place the decal by snapping to the Lower Left Endpoint, then the Lower Right Endpoint, and the Upper Left Endpoint on the front of the face, the press Enter.
 This will place the label correctly on the face of the rack unit.
 7. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a ground plane:
Next step in the tutorial is to add a ground plane for the unit to sit on.
 1. To do this, go to the Environment tab, Ground plane section, check Enabled.
 2. Press the Material button and select Reflective Base for the ground plane material.
 3. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a spotlight:
A next step might be to add a spotlight on the rack system to vary the lighting a little. The lighting in studio mode is controlled by an HDRI file, but we can also add another spotlight to the rendering.
 1. Insert a Spotlight that highlights the face of the stereo.
 2. Render the model.
 The spotlight draws attention and interest to the front of the unit.
To depth of field:
For small studio objects it is sometimes nice to add depth of field to accentuate the depth of the object.
 1. To do this, go to the Render tab, Depth of field section, check Enabled.
 2. Set the Focal distance by pressing the button, and snap to one of the LED lights. This will set the point in the scene that is in focus. The Strength slider adjusts the focus in front of and behind the focal point.
 3. Render the model.
 Depth of field can take a few passes to resolve. The first few passes might be rough in appearance. The final image should look like this:
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A family has six children. If this family has exactly two boys, how many different birth and gender orders are possible?
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See hidden / saved password in your Browser.
If you tried to sign in to any accounts using any browser like Google Chrome or Internet Explorer …etc, you will note that the browser offers to save your password to remember it in next time.
Indeed, It's a useful feature if you are using your PC. but sometimes, it let you forget your password 🙂 Because you're so used to not enter it each time you use your account. So
How can you know the saved password if you forgot it?
- Open your account using the browser that your password saved.
- Click F12 to open the Developer Tools.
- Use the selector arrow (ctrl+shift+c) to inspect the password field,
- In left side page, the password field should be selected like below.
- In right side page, the "Password" field code has been selected.
- Double click on "Password" in the type attribute
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UC Training for End Users: It Matters
UC Training for End Users: It Matters Training will increase the return on your investment and make your workers more productive.
Last week I was speaking with an IT manager about his company's usage of unified communications and the benefits UC produces. When I asked about specific capabilities, such as screen sharing and federation, he mentioned that he's the only person in the organization who uses these, because he hasn't trained the workers at the company on how to use these features.
This got me thinking: Should we have to train people on how to use a UC system, or should it be intuitive and simple enough to not require any training? We don't have training for our mobile phones or even tablets; they're generally intuitive enough to figure out on our own or, in the last resort, by reading the manual.
Think about using Facetime on an iPhone or Mac versus using a video system in an enterprise. The former is easy to figure out, but an enterprise video system is generally more complex and rarely obvious.
The fact is, UC is more complicated than most consumer-oriented tools, and it typically requires end-user training in how to use some of the more advanced features and functions. We can debate whether UC systems are too complex and whether vendors should simplify their solutions, but IMHO, the answer isn't to "dumb down" UC; instead, we need to make sure that training is a part of every deployment.
A couple years ago, a colleague and I conducted a study for a company that had deployed UC across its organization to determine the effectiveness of its UC training program. We spoke with end users at the company both before and after the training, as well as some workers who had not gone through the training. Most of those surveyed agreed that while the UC solution is intuitive enough to start using without training, those who went through the training, even if they had been using the system, found that their usage of UC capabilities increased. Those that had already been using UC found that the training showed them features and functions that they hadn't known about previously, and they began to use capabilities they were already familiar with more frequently.
All of the interviewees felt that the training was worthwhile. Even though most workers quickly figured out how to use presence and IM, click-to-call, and use other basic capabilities, many of them did not use the more advanced features prior to the training, such as teleworker, screen sharing, and more advanced collaboration and mobile capabilities.
Adoption, to a great extent, is driven by training. In any organization, there are technically-savvy people who "get it" but for the rest of us, end-user training is a key step in getting UC's advanced features and capabilities utilized. Not surprisingly, unless someone understands the value that UC brings, they're not as likely to integrate it into their daily routine.
This is especially true when integrating UC to business processes; and the end-user training needs to include both the "hows" and the "whys." Several of the study participants noted that they would welcome business productivity training, and that it would be better to have training that helped focus people on business productivity rather than just how to use a feature.
Bottom line: To get the most out of your UC system, integrate training into your implementation plan. Conduct the training before the deployment and on a periodic, ongoing basis. Training delivers a positive double-whammy: It will increase the return on your investment and make your workers more productive.
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reader Ramanujan said...
Dear Lubos, Thank you for your answer. Now suppose that instead of being put back to sleep, after a minute she is simply told, 'it's T/t'. So in the other three cases, it is exactly the same as the previous modified protocol, she gains the same information after one minute.
So, if she is told (which is 1/4 of the time), then it's 100% that it is T/t. If she is not told (3/4) then it's 50% that it is M/t and 25% each that it is M/h and T/h. This seems to give a total probability of.25*1 +.75*.5 =.625 that she is in one of the tails cases. The thirder calculation would give.25*1 +.75*.333 =.5.
reader Luboš Motl said...
What you wrote was meant to be
P(tails) = P(toldTT) P(tails|toldTT) + P(notToldTT) P(tails|notToldTT)
wasn't it? But this formula makes no sense because it doesn't express her subjective probability of "tails" at any single well-defined moment, neither by objective time nor by subjective time.
You're summing probabilities at "a" moment when she's told something with "a" moment when she's not told something, and these are not mutually exclusive because assuming "tails", she is both told (on Tuesday) and not told (on Monday).


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Computer Multi Control (CMC) Deliver Comprehensive IT Monitoring
As a data center's size grows, so can the complexity of the equipment needed to monitor environmental conditions and control access. Rittal's CMC III system solves this problem by using a CAN bus to support serial connection of multiple monitoring sensors to a central point.
The system collects numerous essential metrics, making them available for further processing by the network management system and allowing IT managers to monitor all data center environmental conditions from a centralized position. However, the CMC III also acts independently, automatically initiating countermeasures and triggering alarms or notifying designated personnel, for example.
CMC III systems can handle large-scale IT applications; a compact version is also available for use in smaller systems and single-enclosure applications. CMC III systems can be integrated into virtually all control centers via the OPC (Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control) protocol to make the data collected available at higher management levels.
CMC III System Sensor Options
Two important sensors are integrated as standard equipment into the CMC III Processing Unit: an infrared sensor that monitors the enclosure door and a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of the inflowing ambient air. CMC III system configurations can also accommodate up to 32 other sensors, including sensors for:
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Before starting the collection of eye tracking and other biometric measures simultaneously, also known as co-registration, it is necessary to ensure that the setup will allow the synchronization of the data streams for later analysis. There are two main types of co-registration setups. The first type uses only one software to record all data steams simultaneously. With this setup, the software ensures the synchronization of data streams and therefore the user does not need to take care of it. The possibility of using this type of setup will be mainly determined by the availability of a co-registration software to be compatible with the biometric and eye tracking systems that are going to be used. In the second type of setup there is one dedicated recording software for eye tracking data and a different one for the other biometric data. Since the recordings are done independently and usually with different computers, we need a method to ensure that the recordings will be accurately synchronized in time. In this article, we are going to focus on this second type of setup and the main method for ensuring a good timing synchronization between biometrics data: shared events.
Shared events are triggers or events that were produced and registered, theoretically, at the same time by your eye tracking system and biometric system. These events will be used as known common points in time between your data streams and will allow their synchronization and analysis after the recording.
Timing accuracy of shared events
What we mean by timing accuracy of the events is the ability of the setup to send and receive a shared event as close in time as possible in the eye tracking and the other biometric data streams. The timing accuracy needed will depend on your intended application and what biometric data you are recording together with eye tracking data. For instance, in the case of EEG, the timing accuracy to timestamp common events should be as high as possible, in the order of one to few milliseconds. This is mainly due to the high temporal resolution of EEG (brain responses are measured with millisecond accuracy). Eye movements, usually categorized as artifacts in the EEG data, are also measured with millisecond temporal resolution. It is important to be able to align the eye tracking data and EEG data with high timing accuracy, so that the eye movements registered in the EEG and eye tracking data are perfectly aligned and the results derived from the synchronized data are correct. On the other hand, if we want to co-register Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) together with eye tracking, the timing accuracy of the shared events is not as crucial as in the case of EEG, mostly because of the high latency of the skin conductance response to an event (1 to 4 seconds).
The timing accuracy of the events highly depends on the capability of your setup to send and timestamp them in both data streams with high timing accuracy. Tobii Pro recommends that you always check the event timing accuracy of the method you choose to send and timestamp your shared events. For example, by making a co-registration recording where you send events to all data streams at known intervals and then check the time distribution of those events. If you are interested in co-registering EEG, you can also use tools like the EYE-EEG plugin (EEGLAB), which will output information about the synchronization quality of your co-registration recording.
Sender is the method you use to send the events to your data streams. The most common options are:
Receiver is the device that receives and timestamps the events in each data stream. There will be one receiver for eye tracking and one for the other biometric measure. The receivers can be:
Event types are the means and signal characteristics of your events. There are two main types of events used when high timing accuracy is needed:
The main information of a shared event is the time when it was timestamped. This is what will allow the synchronization of our data streams. However, usually events can also contain numeric information in the case of TTL and any string information in the case of TCP/IP. It is quite advisable to send your events at specific points of times during your presentation. In this way, your events will contain three types of information:
This approach is quite useful if you want to analyze your data separately (eye tracking data in the eye tracking software and other biometric data in a dedicated software with appropriate biometric analysis tools) as both data streams will contain all the experimental information related with trial onset times.


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Webb School of Knoxville Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf has been named a 2015 Science Communication Fellow by Dr. Robert Ballard's (discoverer of the Titanic) Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), and in September, will set sail aboard the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus during its 2015 scientific expedition. The E/V Nautilus is one of only two ships in the world dedicated to ocean exploration.
Beckendorf joins the Corps of Exploration aboard E/V Nautilus as they use remote operating vehicles (ROVs) to explore the ocean floor and sea life off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He will stand watch alongside scientists and engineers, as well as participate in live interactions with shore-based audiences via Nautilus Live (_URL_
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Beckendorf's involvement will help immerse Webb School students in real-world science and engineering. While Beckendorf is on the Nautilus, eighth grade engineering and robotics teacher, Miller Callaway, will lead Webb students in building, designing and testing their own underwater ROVs; and learning how and why ROVs can be used in ocean exploration. The students will stay in close contact with Beckendorf through email, the Nautilus Live website and Skype-type calls directly to the ship.
Beckendorf was one of 28 educators and 26 students from around the world to be selected by the OET to join the Nautilus Corps of Exploration during its six-month expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, Galápagos Islands, and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The selected educators and students hail from schools, universities, science centers, aquaria, and non-profit organizations in 25 states in the United States, and five countries. As a Science Communication Fellow, Beckendorf is charged with the responsibility of engaging students and the public in the wonders of ocean exploration, sharing discoveries from the expedition, as well as inviting others to learn aspects of daily life aboard a working exploration vessel.
"I am both thrilled and humbled to have this exciting opportunity to be a part of bringing real world ocean science, engineering and exploration to the students at Webb School and to students of all ages across the globe," Beckendorf said. "Although Knoxville is miles from Earth's ocean, it still has major effects on Tennessee, and the people in this landlocked state significantly impact the ocean," he continued. "I hope to excite students with the opportunities that exist for them in the ocean sciences and help them think deeply about the connections between Earth's ecosystems."
The OET was founded in 2008 by Ballard to explore the ocean, seeking out new discoveries in the fields of geology, biology, maritime history, archaeology, physics, and chemistry while pushing the boundaries of STEM education and technological innovation.
"One of the major goals of our Nautilus Exploration Program is to inspire the next generation of explorers in STEM fields," said OET Executive Vice President, Dr. Katy Croff Bell, in an OET release, "so we are very excited to provide educators and students with the direct experience of ocean exploration, while allowing them the opportunity to share their experiences far and wide with their peers."
The public, scientists, educators, and students can join Kirk Beckendorf's seagoing adventure via streaming video on the Nautilus Live website (_URL_
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Kastelli Kissamou, which in 1966 was renamed to Kissamos, is a small picturesque town built in the gulf of Kissamos or Myrtilos, between the peninsulas of Gramvousa and Spatha. The name derives from the Venetian fortress Castel Chissamo that was built there, remains of which still exist.
The first fort of Kastelli was built by the Genoese pirate Enrico Pescatore on the site of the ancient Kissamos, in the early 13th century, and was one of the 15 forts fortified by the Genoeses after 1204 AD. When the Venetians expelled Pescatore, the fortress fell into their possession. Then, they restored it and it became the defensive military center of the region.
The shape of the fort was asymmetrical pentagon and, like all the Venetian fortresses, it included quartering areas, prisons, churches and a well. Since the early revolutions of the locals, the fortress of Kastelli Kissamou became a target of the rebels. When in 1262 the Cretans, with the help of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, rebelled against the Venetians, they tried to occupy the castle, but failed.
Kastelli, like all bourgs on the island.During the revolutions of 1333 and 1341, the Venetians destroyed the settlement (bourg) that had developed around the fort, but later decided to rebuild it. From then on, the settlement was named
In 1538, the fortress was destroyed by the pirate Barbarossa and was repaired in 1554. In 1583, the Castel Chissamo had 845 residents and in 1630 it had 35 cannons. In 1595 it was completely destroyed by an earthquake, but was rebuilt in 1635 by Lorenzo Contarini.
In 1646 the Turks besieged the fort, which fell after the betrayal of the commander Giovani Medici, who gave up because the fortress had been severely damaged and most of his soldiers died of plague. The Turks repaired the fort immediately and started using it.
In 1692, during the first Cretan revolution under the commands of the Venetian admiral Mochenigo Aloisio, the rebels occupied the fortress, but it lasted for a while.
Thus, during the Ottoman occupation of Crete, the fortress was the center of many revolutionary activities. In 1821, the fort was used for imprisoning the Bishop of Kissamos Melchizedek Despotakis. From there, the Turkish mob dragged him to a square, for hanging him. When the revolution was generalized, the 1800 Turks of Kissamos found refuge in the fortress, which was besieged by rebels and two ships coming from Hydra island (near Athens).
In February 1823, during the preparation for the landing of the new General Head of the Cretan Revolt, Emmanuel Tombazis, the rebels organized the clearing of Kissamos and Selino provinces, forcing the Turks to seek protection in the fort. Thus, the ship Terpsichore arrived at the port of Drapanias, transferring Tombazis and 600 Greek volunteers from the mainland of Greece. The Greeks besieged the fort till May 25, 1823, when the Turks surrendered the fort and their weapons. The Greek flag was raised after centuries in Crete, but it lasted for a while…
The Turks moved to Chania, where they regrouped and returned to Kissamos. After a fierce battle, they managed to regain Castelli. In 1825, the fort returned into the hands of 900 Greeks, who came from Monemvasia, Peloponnese. They were initially heading towards Gramvousa fort fort, but the bad weather and the information that there were only 20 guards in Kissamos, led them to the siege the fortress at Castelli. However, after 3-4 days, 2000 Turks arrived in Castelli and reoccupied the fort.
During the great revolution of 1866, the fort was again a target of the rebels, led by Skalidis. The fort was besieged by the Colonel Vyzantios and the Major Froudarakis, but the siege stopped when the latter was killed. In 1897-8, the story was repeated, but the Turks were rescued by the Great Powers (Austria-Hungary, France, the German Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the Russian Empire, and the United Kingdom), the "protectors" of the Cretan people. Today, the remains of the fort, most of which are remnants of the Turkish buildings, still stand in some places and remind us of its great past
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Check to see if a file or directory can be accessed (extended version)
_TAG_ _TAG_ int eaccess( const char * path, int amode );
- The path to the file or directory that you want to access.
- The access mode you want to check.
This must be either:
- F_OK — test for file existence.
or a bitwise ORing of the following access permissions to be checked, as defined in the header :
- R_OK — test for read permission.
- W_OK — test for write permission.
- X_OK — for a directory, test for search permission. Otherwise, test for execute permission.
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The eaccess() function is an extended version of access(). It checks if the file or directory specified by path exists and if it can be accessed with the file access permissions given by amode. However, unlike access(), it uses the effective user ID and effective group ID.
- The file or directory exists and can be accessed with the specified mode.
- An error occurred (errno is set.)
- The permissions specified by amode are denied, or search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix.
- An invalid value was specified for amode.
- Too many levels of symbolic links or prefixes.
- The length of the path string exceeds PATH_MAX, or a pathname component is longer than NAME_MAX.
- A component of the path isn't valid.
- The eaccess() function isn't implemented for the filesystem specified in path.
- A component of the path prefix isn't a directory.
- Write access was requested for a file residing on a read-only file system.
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The silver roughy or Mediterranean slimehead (Hoplostethus mediterraneus) is a small deep-sea fish species belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae). It is found widely at depths of 100 to 1,175 m (328–3,855 ft) in the Atlantic, ranging from Iceland and Georges Bank in the north to South Africa and Brazil in the south, including the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico. It is also found in the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea.
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