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Assaye is a small village in the Jalna district of the state of Maharashtra in western India. The village was the location of the Battle of Assaye in 1803, fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company.

It became the first real victory for the young general Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Here he commanded a vastly outnumbered combined force of British and Sepoy regiments against a mixed modernised and tribal Maratha army. He always described this as his greatest military victory.

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Villages in Jalna district

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When a developer wants to construct a building he engages a Design Team - and Architect, a Structural Engineer, a Services Engineer and a QS. When the rest of the design team has finished designing it is our job to measure it up and tell them how much it is going to cost.
During the course of a project we monitor the costs against the original budget, sometimes we administer the contract, we advise how much the contractor should be paid and when the job is done we settle the final account.
The past six weeks we have been preparing a tender. This is the point where the client sends out the design to contractors and after a time they come back with their price to construct the project. A big part of a traditional tender is the billing. This is when the QS sits down with all the drawings and measures up the quantities to enable pricing.
The one we are doing at the moment is "without quantities" which means the contractors get a blank bill. The purpose of the exercise is firstly to interrogate the drawings and make sure that they can be priced, secondly to produce the blank bill and lastly to enable a pre-tender estimate to be completed (giving a benchmark against which to measure tenders).
The problem with billing is there are dozens (and dozens) of drawings, specifications and all sorts of other information that has to be taken on board. It takes several people a lot of time. Half an hour ago I finally finished my measurement (hurrah!). Sadly I'm not done yet as I still have to finish preparing the preliminaries document - this is the instructions that underpin the entire contract and it runs to well over a hundred pages.
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Q: Möbius transform calculation, over an annulus I started learning about Möbius transformations in my Complex Analysis textbook. This question appeared as an exercise (no solutions are provided, sadly):
Let's say you have a Möbius transform that maps the annulus $r<|z|<1$ to a region bounded by two circles (for the sake of example take $|z|=1$ and $|z-1/4|=1/4$). Is this enough information to figure out $r$?
What I've tried: Trying to figure out what different compositions of Möbius transforms will affect in here. I was thinking taking the inverse somehow would be a good idea but I couldn't find my way around the details of how I'd do this.
I'm stumped, so an explanation of how this is possible would be great. Thanks!

A: Yes, $r$ is determined by the other doubly-connected region $\Omega$ (even if we do not restrict ourselves to Möbius transformations or to domains bounded by circles). A high-tech explanation involves the concept of conformal modulus, see Conformal maps of doubly connected regions to annuli.
Here is a low-tech approach which still does not rely on solving for the Möbius map. Let $L$ be a line of symmetry of $\Omega$; in your example it's the real line. Its image under  a Möbius transformation onto $r<|z|<1$ is a line (or circle) $L'$. Since $L$ is invariant under inversion with respect to either boundary component of $\Omega$, $L'$ must be invariant under inversion in the circle $|z|=1$ and under inversion in $|z|=r$. Since the composition of two latter inversions is the scaling map $z\mapsto r^2z$, it follows that $L'$ is a line through the origin $z=0$. Composition with a rotation ensures that $L'$ is the real line.
Now recall that the cross-ratio is preserved by Möbius transformations. The line $L$ crosses $\partial \Omega$ at four points: in your example they are $-1,0,1/2,1$. The line $L'$ crosses the boundary of $r<|z|<1$  at the points $-1,-r,r,1$. Therefore, the cross-ratios of these quadruples are equal:
$$(-1,0;1/2,1)=\frac{-1-1/2}{0-1/2}\cdot\frac{0-1}{-1-1}= \frac32 \tag1$$
must be equal to  $$(-1,-r;r,1)=\frac{-1-r}{-r-r}\cdot\frac{-r-1}{-1-1}=\frac{(1+r)^2}{4r}\tag2$$
Hence $r=2-\sqrt{3}$.
Added: One can do without the knowledge of cross-ratio. The  Möbius map sending $0,1/2,1$ to $-r,r,1$ is described by the equation
$$\frac{z-1/2}{0-1/2}\cdot\frac{0-1}{z-1} = \frac{w-r}{-r-r}\cdot\frac{-r-1}{w-1}\tag3$$
Since we also want $w=-1$ at $z=-1$, equation (3) yields the equality of (1) and (2). Incidentally, (3) also gives a formula for our Möbius map, should we want to have it.

A: First solve this exercise: Given two non-intersecting circles you can find an inversion that makes them concentric.
Use for this that if two points are inverse of each other with respect to a circle and some other inversion is applied, then their images remain inverses of each other with respect to the image of the circle.
This will allow you to make the region in the target an annulus. Then bring it to the origin by a translation, and by a dilation overlap it to the known boundary of the annulus in the source. If they don't completely overlap, invert with center the origin and radious the known boundary of the annulus in the target to exchange the order of the boundary (which one is inside and which one is outside). The radius of the other boundary gives you the value of $r$.
Still, computing the transformation is not the most efficient way if you are interested only in computing $r$.

A: Do you know any hyperbolic geometry? My first thought with such a question would be to first map the circle of radius $1$ to the vertical line going through the origin and then note that a Möbius transformation which fixes this line is a dilation (ie the original Möbius transformation is conjugate to a dilation). It is then easy to determine what this dilation must be to map the image of the circle of radius $r$ to the image of the corresponding circle of radius $\frac{1}{4}$.

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Le parc national d'Arthur's Pass est situé sur l'île du Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Créé en 1929, il est l'un des parcs nationaux de l'île du Sud et le troisième du pays.

Une route, la State Highway 73, passe par le village d'Arthur's Pass et le col d'Arthur's Pass lui-même, dans les Alpes du Sud, à une élévation de .

Le parc est régi par le Department of Conservation, qui gère dans le village un dépôt et un petit édifice abritant un office de tourisme et d'administration.

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Étant situé au centre de la ligne des montagnes, le parc abrite plusieurs hauts cols des Alpes du Sud, dont Harman, Waimakariri Col (ici « col » est un mot māori), Arthur's Pass, Goat, Tarahuna, Worsley, Minchin et Harper. Le mont Rolleston ( m) est le plus haut pic situé entièrement dans le parc.

On y trouve également la source du Waimakariri ainsi que plusieurs affluents de celui-ci : les rivières (Bealey, Poulter , Hawdon , Crow  et Anti Crow ). Y coulent aussi plusieurs affluents du Taramakau, dont la rivière Otira, la rivière Deception et Otéhake.

Tourisme
Le parc est populaire auprès des néo-zélandais, qui vont y faire du trekking, du ski et de l'alpinisme, mais moins qu'aux autres parcs du pays parce que le terrain y est plus difficile. En effet, le parc a son propre domaine skiable. Il y a une piste pour 4 téléskis.

Une ligne de train partant de Christchurch (côte est) traverse le parc et s'arrête à Otira. Cette ligne va jusqu'à Greymouth (côte ouest).

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Parcs nationaux de Nouvelle-Zélande

Liens externes

  Site très complet sur Arthur's Pass maintenu par un habitant des environs

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Q: Trouble connecting to composite USB serial port I have a composite USB device that emulates a sound card and a serial port.  The sound card portion works as expected, however I am having  trouble trying to communicate with the COM port of this device.  The issue seems to be that the com port is not being assigned (or I don't understand how it is being assigned).  Running dmesg yields the following info regarding this device when plugged into the port:
01  [   55.328014] usb 8-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd

02  [   55.497033] usb 8-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1fc9, idProduct=400f

03  [   55.497038] usb 8-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

04  [   55.497042] usb 8-2: Product: TONE GENERATOR+CDC

05  [   55.497045] usb 8-2: Manufacturer: CIE Engineering Inc Tgen4

06  [   55.497048] usb 8-2: SerialNumber: 0001

07  [   55.528800] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

08  [   55.529499] cdc_acm: probe of 8-2:1.2 failed with error -22

09  [   55.529526] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm

10  [   55.529529] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

I've added 'line numbers' to the log above for reference.
Line 01:the new device being plugged in to USB bus 8 device 2.
Lines 02-06: various config info for the card
Line 07: recognition of the virtual 'sound card'
Line 08 shows an error with the virtual com port (cdc_acm)
Line 09 shows the registration of a new virtual com port
Line 10 shows the ACM driver load.
The error message shown in line 8 is 'EINVAL' or an 'invalid argument', but lines 9 and 10 seem to indicate that a driver was 'registered'. The behavior I was hoping for was that a com port would be assigned @ ttyACM0 but that doesn't happen.  Examining the com ports before and after the device's insertion shows no new tty* ports.
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Received my black platform Havaianas from Ebay! Yay!
Going to bed and sleeping.. ahh.. sweet, sweet sleep.
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Your website must be comfortable and easy to explore. The tools and sections like search have to be intuitive and efficient. Remember that you are emulating the physical shopping experience and enhancing it, therefore your site has to be top-notch.
There are some easy points to achieve this. First, make sure your website loads fast. Customers can get distracted easily, so if your site takes too much time to load, they will simply go elsewhere. Another thing you need to be sure of: Your website is responsive to mobile devices. With the advancements of technology nowadays, more people are using their mobile devices to surf the internet and to do their online purchases.
Remember that your main goal is to maintain your customer's attention and keep them interested. If there is too much text explaining your product or service, too many videos, or too many images cluttering the page, then they may lose their attention to what you are actually selling. To avoid this, try applying the 'less is more' strategy. Cut out the excessive content that overloads your audience with too much information. Aim for quality content over quantity.
Now that you have your customer's attention you need to make sure they choose you, and in order to choose you they must trust you. Your customer reviews will help you build this trust and portray a professional image to your new clients. Internet shopping has seen a lot of scams, so everyone is very careful when choosing an online store. The fact that real people are talking about their experience with your company will provide a connection that will feel more real to new buyers.
As you may know, everything comes through the eyes first, therefore you need to choose wisely which images you will put up as the storefront of your business. Using poor quality pictures may show you don't care enough for your business. On the other hand good, clear professional-looking pictures will give you status and will show a quality storefront for your products and or services.
One thing to remember is that your clients will always want to see pictures of whatever they may be purchasing.
Product photography is something you should consider. Professional photos for your website will encourage customers to trust you while creating a concept around your product or service, and can even make them feel like they are in a physical store.
5. Customer service is a must!
TIP: After they fill out the form, it should optimally inform customers when will they be contacted back (12 hours, 1 to 2 days), remember that it is important to make them feel special.
Another great option is to install a live chat for your customers to interact with you. This will improve their shopping experience greatly. Also many times solves any doubts they may have. Also, it can be a window for you to receive feedback or suggestions about your products, your website, or prices.
Stand out and be different from the rest of the companies in your industry. Nothing stays the same forever. Changing the look of your website or adding new images will keep your customers coming back for more.
Most importantly, always give the best customer service.
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Fort Reno and the Indian Territory Frontier
Texian Iliad
Wilderness of Hope
Plague Among the Magnolias
The Light of the Home
Riding for the Lone Star
Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico
Nassau Plantation
Winchester Warriors
American History 1800-1899
Savage Frontier, 1835-1837
Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (Volume 1)
Stephen L. Moore
Narrated by Jim D. Johnston
Available from Audible
Book published by University of North Texas Press
This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers. Stephen L. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San Jacinto and later battles at Parker's Fort, the Elm Creek Fight, Post Oak Springs Massacre, and the Stone Houses Fight. Of particular interest to the reader will be the various rosters of the companies, which are found throughout the book.
Stephen L. Moore is a sixth-generation Texan and author of volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, covering the years 1835-37, 1838-39, and 1840-41.
"Volume I provides a fascinating in-depth look at the origins of the Texas Rangers and how they contributed to the early settlement of Texas. Whether the reader is an historian, genealogist or just someone who enjoys the early history of Texas, the reprint of this book will be eagerly welcomed."
—Donaly Brice, Texas State Archives
"Moore has pulled together scores of elusive sources to account for the names and actions of hundreds of individuals whose deeds have been heretofore passed over in silence or haste by historians. His reconstructed muster rolls of companies whose original records have been lost are alone worth the cost of this book."
—James E. Crisp, author of Sleuthing the Alamo
"Moore maintains his focus throughout, guiding the reader through the maze of administrative problems of a fledgling nation in almost constant conflict. It is a must read for all who appreciate the struggles of early Texas."
—Chuck Parsons, coauthor of Captain L.H. McNelly, Texas Ranger
"An exhaustively researched study of the pervasive violence that confronted the newborn Texas Rangers even in colonial days."
—Kent Biffle, Dallas Morning News
"Carefully researched and accessibly written ... [an] absolutely fascinating study of the Texas Rangers prior to the Mexican War."


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Bethlenfalvi Paál Árpád, Paál Árpád Antal István (Budapest, 1889. április 15. – Budapest, 1943. április 9.) botanikus, növényfiziológus, egyetemi tanár. A növényi hormonok élettani jelentőségének világviszonylatban is első kutatói közé tartozott.

Életútja
Paál Árpád és Dávid Anna fia. A budapesti tudományegyetemen szerezte meg bölcsészdoktori oklevelét 1911-ben, amelyet 1912-ben tanári képesítéssel egészített ki. 1912-től 1914-től további tanulmányokat folytatott Európa több egyetemén (Bécs, Nápoly, Lipcse). 1915-től 1921-ig a földművelésügyi minisztérium szervezeti kereteibe tartozó Növényélet- és Kórtani Állomáson alkalmazták mint fizetés nélküli, majd rendes asszisztenst. Ezzel párhuzamosan 1918-ban magántanári képesítést szerzett a fővárosi tudományegyetemen "A növények érzékenysége és mozgása" című tárgykörből. Később véglegesítették az oktatási intézményben, 1922 és 1928 között adjunktusként tanított, majd 1929-től haláláig az általános növénytani tanszék vezetője, egyúttal az általános és rendszeres növénytani intézet igazgatója volt nyilvános rendes tanári címmel. Halálát szívizom-elfajulás, szívkoszorúér-elmeszesedés okozta. Felesége Solt Mária Jozefa volt.

Munkássága
A magyarországi növényélettani kutatások korai történetének meghatározó alakja volt. Főbb kutatási területei a növényi hormonműködés, az ingerületélettan sejtszintű folyamatai voltak. Behatóan foglalkozott a fototropikus ingervezetéssel, azaz a növények fény hatására történő görbüléses mozgásjelenségével, és leírta az auxin fitohormon, illetve egyenlőtlen megoszlásának a folyamatra gyakorolt hatásmechanizmusát.

Szervezőmunkájának volt köszönhető az első haza növényélettani intézet megalakítása. Részt vett a Magyar Természettudományi Társulat munkájában, 1935–1938-ban a választmány tagja, 1937-től 1940-ig pedig az egyetemes szakosztály alapító elnöke volt.

Főbb művei
 A légritkítás hatása a geotropikus ingerfolyamatra. Budapest. 1911.
 Növény-sejttan. Budapest. 1937.
 Növény-szövettan. Budapest. 1939.
 Növénymorfológia. Budapest. 1941.

Jegyzetek

Források

Magyar botanikusok
Magyar növényfiziológusok
1889-ben született személyek
1943-ban elhunyt személyek


Thanks to ongoing and fantastic support from Granada CF Communications Director Javier Rufete, I was able to make the trip to La Manga Club near Cartagena, last week to observe the second-phase of pre-season preparations with the team.
Morning sessions started each day at 10am, lasting around three hours, with evening sessions starting at 6:30pm or 7pm and lasting for two hours. Each session would usually begin with some jogging and stretches to warm up, before moving on to some ball work and passing drills. This would then be followed by agility and movement, tactical and positional work, finishing with mini-games and warming down.
Of particular interest to me was the positional and tactical work. At this stage Anquela looks to have plenty of options available to him. With several players who can adopt multiple positions and roles, it's hard to pin a favoured formation on the team at this stage. That said, rather than being rigidly in favour of one shape or strategy, Anquela looks to be aiming at flexibility. 4-5-1, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 around what looks to line up initially as a 4-4-2, were all shapes I saw in action. Perhaps most impressively though, was whilst the back four remains a constant, the midfield and attack are always mobile and moving fluidly.
Although I'd had the opportunity to see most of the new signings in action during friendlies against Córdoba CF and Real Jaén, this would prove a great opportunity to observe how they trained and worked with the rest of the squad.
What struck me first of all, is how quickly the new players have settled into the existing group. Whilst players such as Floro Flores and Gabriel Torje know each other well from Udinese, the other new arrivals have also adapted quickly and been well received.
Not once did I observe any disagreements, arguments or differences of opinion. Everyone is pulling in the same direction and keen to impress. Undoubtedly a large part of this is due to the sense of unity amongst the players, the coaching staff and manager Anquela. Early signs of a very strong team spirit and it has already been mentioned to me by players, how comfortable they feel working with their new manager.
During the Thursday training sessions, it was pleasing to see midfielders Fran Rico and Hassan Yebda begin more intense running and a brief spell of ball work. A chat with physio Alberto Lara confirmed that Fran Rico was close to his return. Hassan Yebda is a good two months away from match action, but ahead of schedule, having expected to be out until late November, following his anterior cruciate ligament injury last February. Goalie Roberto also looks like he's now fully recovered from his back operation.
In attendance for the evening session on Thursday, were Club President Quique Pina and Sporting Director Juan Carlos Cordero. Keen to ensure things were progressing well, both spent time talking to players, coaching staff and manager Anquela. Afterwards, both even found the time to play a game themselves, with family, friends and staff.
Aside from the training sessions, there were more friendly matches arranged.
The first game on Friday was against Selección AFE, a squad of players currently without clubs, assembled and supported by the players association. The tie ended in a one-all draw and whilst Granada CF never really saw the game as more than an additional training session, the AFE team gave a very good account of themselves. Hopefully plenty of scouts were watching, with the match also televised on Marca TV, which will see as many of them as possible, offered opportunities at clubs.
On Saturday, Granada CF played Segunda side Hércules, who made the short trip from Alicante. I'd had the opportunity to watch Hércules play out a 1-1 draw with fellow Segunda side Real Murcia, a couple of days earlier. Hércules had looked a good footballing team, but they were no real match for Granada CF, who were now playing with much more intensity and focus.
The match ended in a comfortable 5-1 victory for Granada. Antonio Floro Flores scored a brace with two powerful strikes. Iriney scored from close range after the Hércules defence failed to deal with a deep cross. Darwin Machis deftly chipped over the Hércules keeper. Dani Benítez burst through the defence at speed and slotted the ball home. Quality assists lead to quality finishing, that was often lacking last season.
With the final squad for the season ahead yet to be decided, there's still places up for grabs. At this stage, it seems as though Granada CF have completed their transfer business early and quickly. A stark contrast to last summer, when they were fighting for signings right up until transfer deadline day. This allowed very little time for a much changed squad to gel. This season, the team is much better prepared.
Whilst it's impossible to rule out any further additions just yet, with plenty of days left in the transfer window, I suspect it will be players leaving that forms the most activity. Anquela has some tough choices to make, when he trims squad down to twenty-five players.
Whilst it's always difficult to pick individuals for specific praise, I do feel the need to draw attention to young Venezuelan striker Darwin Machis.
Only two years ago, he was playing futsal, before being spotted and given a chance with Venezuelan league side Mineros de Guayana. Having quickly impressed their coaches, he was given first team games and ended last season with 16 goals in 36 games. This promptly attracted interest elsewhere and several clubs from Europe made contact. Amongst those interested were Inter Milan, who made very strong approaches. Ultimately though, he and his agent felt a move to Granada CF was the best option.
As a player, Darwin Machis is still a rough diamond, to use the cliché. He's full of ability and has a great eye for goal, but after such a short time playing professional football, still has much to learn. This isn't lost on him though and not only is he fully appreciative of the opportunity ahead, but fully understands the hard work and effort required. Highly professional, focused and with both feet firmly on the ground at such a young age, he certainly has a bright future ahead of him.
Overall, this is a much stronger squad at Granada CF than last season. Though everyone at the club is keen to state "permanence" in La Liga as the priority, this is an ambitious club and a hungry group of players. There's every reason to believe the club can keep progressing and pushing higher.