Nickname : I generally go by Ruby. My actual name is Matthew, so I'll generally reply to that as well as Matt. Oh, the sweet coincidence.
Age : 420. Nah, just messin'. I'm 15.
Things you like : Well first off, I make the best poutine anyone has ever seen in the history of the world. I also really like birds and fish, they're just so cool! I'm also super into Pokemon, hence the name 'RubySapph'. I play piano, write, and do art as well. I also like myself because I'm so rad. The coolest.
Things you dislike : I don't generally dislike many things. The colour yellow I don't like, though, and seafood is gross. I also am super scared of the dark. I sometimes sleep with the lights on, it's that bad!
How did you find the project : Haha oh jeebies I gotta be honest. I found the I Am Matthewian project around April and instantly fell in love. Anyway, after seeing their last video was 2 years ago, I got super bummed out. I was rewatching things such as the old 'Canada, Eh!' show among other favourite videos that brought my mood up. Naturally, to see if this project had any sort of continuation, I went into 'super extreme stalker mode'. I stumbled upon a user called 'Project Canada' on Tumblr after 4 whole hours of relentless searching (and snack breaks) and knew my journey to find a project using the same creative characters and awesome quality had been completed.
Who's your favourite character in the project : I come from a family of Quebecois people. My whole dad's side and a friend of mine named Jean. I love Quebec a lot and I am visiting Montreal at some point. So, naturally, my favourite character should probably be Quebec. Nah, surprise. I actually really like Ontario. My favourite province both in the project and in real life.
Do you want to work in the project :Possibly at some point. However, I don't think I have a wide option of work opportunities. I'll explain that momentarily.
If Yes, With What?: As aforementioned at some point, I do art. I love it a lot. However, I bought my first digital tablet around almost 2 months ago. I'm used to drawing Pokemon and cats, mostly. I don't trust myself enough with digital art to work as an artist here. I also play piano, although where that comes in handy at all I'm not sure. However, I have an interest in acting and experience with public speaking and the like. The only issue is that any voice acting role that I could think of for a split-second has been claimed. If anything opens up, I'll be glad to try to step in!
Others : I've got a lot to say and I'm sorry for that. Also, I can be narcissistic and super egotistical a lot, so tell me if I need to tone that down ever.
Credit : I don't have an avatar. Thus my credit goes to Invisible-Man.
Welcome to the forum, RubySapph!
Why that name? Is it because you play Pokemon (Omega) Ruby or (Alpha) Sapphire?
Welcome to the official forum, fellow pokemon enthusiast!
You can now post everywhere on the forum!
Yo, thanks for the welcome, it's super appreciated by me. Nice to meet you. Do you mind me just calling you 'Nova'? If you do, I'll just stick with your full username.
Hoenn is my favourite generation, and I really like the Ruby and Sapphire games. Was originally going to be RubySapphire because that's nice and plain, but it was long. So instead it became RubySapph.
Access to the whole forum, aw yiss! I need a Zelda soundtrack. Like the one where you open a treasure chest? Yeah, that one.
You can call me Nova, NovaB, NSxNB (my name is a mix of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), or NB.
I also have fond memories of Ruby and Sapphire (I played Ruby back in the day, and now have Omega Ruby). My starter was Torchic for both RSE and ORAS. What was yours?
Howdy from Western Canada -tips hat-! Welcome to the forum, Ruby!
It would be awesome if you want to work for the project. The list of available characters and the audition faq isn't up yet (I will be bugging Eli about it when she's back from Europe- I have it written up and I am in the process of streamlining it for the forum). At this point in time, we really desperately need a main VA for Quebec and Newfoundland. For understudies, the open positions are as follows: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan.
Anyway there you have it, haha. Have fun!
My starter was always Mudkip. I named him Tony. No idea why.
Western Canada. Hello from the midwestern USA. You're so far away, jeebus.
Well, I've got a Quebecois buddy, Jean. Probably mentioned him at some point. If not, then surprise, I have a Quebecois buddy and I lovingly call him Jean because Jean-Francois is long. I already know what the accent sounds like (vaguely because I haven't seen Jean for months upon months), so I'll have to look into that, thanks!
I'm curious, does this website have a policy on how long you need to be on the website before you can audition? I know that some projects require that you be active on a website for a week, sometimes a month, until you can audition for anything. Is it that way here? I never saw anything for or against it, so I want to know that. If so, I can wait it out until the 1st or the 24th of July, no biggie.
I think my voice is permanently lowered solely thanks to voice acting.
aw yeah another pokemon fan!
and to answer your question: you can audition anytime you want. I actually auditioned before getting to the forum. so yeah. I would be really great to have you as a voice actor and we desperately need a Quebec VA. I'm pretty sure you would be great for it and I can't wait to hear it too.


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*MySQL: 5.5

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*PHP: 7.0 * / 5.6

I import some csv file with 20 000 lines and when i'am in dev env. it takes 40 secondes and in production [ Tie well ] 10 minutes.
We have removed the material cause, cache , ans charge cause. -> [MySQL has treat 5 billion of requests in 45 seconds -> prod machine].
Actually the export sql file is 1.3 Go -> in prod.
We use Prestashop Db class to do the request.
If you have any suggestion !!
Thanks !!

A: Since you're using ISAM you may disable indexes before insert.
See MySQL disable & enable keys

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Mazkeret Batya
Mazkeret Batya Train Station
3,000 sq. m.
Mazkeret Batya Train Station covers an area of about 3,000 square meters and will be located on the railway line Beersheba - Lod - Tel Aviv, designed to connect Beersheba metropolitan with Tel Aviv metropolis.
The station is designed to serve, among others, the towns of Mazkeret Batya, Kiryat Ekron, South Rehovot, Gedera and the joint employment area of Mazkeret Batya and Gezer.
With the expansion of Highway 411 to a two way road, with two lanes in each direction, the station will also serve the residents of South Rehovot with a shorter driving time to it than the time required to cross the western side of the city towards Rehovot station.
Separated into three main areas: passenger hall, administrative area and technical area.
Good orientation – clear passenger traffic towards the platforms, unimpeded and at the same level.
Reducing the feeling of being "below the tracks" by opening large windows and garden areas.
Better and faster crowd flow - Security Check- tickets purchase- tickets check.
Functional array that includes among others:
Preventing bottlenecks in the ticket office area.
Location of station manager room - in relation to the hall.
Borderline functions with dual front facade to the controlled area and to the non-controlled area - such as a cafe, toilets.
Design Principles:
Organized place for entrance control facilities, automated ticket machines and others.
Niches for posters and advertisements.
Location of protected spaces - underground passage between the station and the docks area plus an uncontrolled protected space with a dual purpose use which also serves as a staff club.
Optimal gross-net relations.
Finish materials with high wear resistance which characterizes train stations.
Finish with sustainability and aesthetics suitable for both inside and out.
Platform roofing for maximum protection from weather.
Dynamic design that simulates linear movement at the station and cover both platforms.
Preparation for a future Command and Control structure as an integral part of the station building.

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© 2023 by Odette Farrell
I paint out of a necessity to communicate and connect with others, to denounce that which gives pain and to share that which gives joy.
My first source of inspiration was the human figure, as a door to the many layers of human identity. I was attracted to the naked body as a manifestation of self in its purest form, away from the prejudices that the outside world inscribes in our bodies. Later, through abstraction and colour I was then able to appeal to emotion, intuition and the world of the subjective, which helped me in my attempt to answer the enigma of identity.
My last paintings and sculptures address the imminent threat that our ecology is facing today.
I am very enthused by the majestic Ginkgo Biloba tree, a beautiful living fossil that has been on earth around 270 million years. I was very shocked and sad to realise that this magnificent being so resilient since the time of the dinosaurs is now an endangered species, facing extinction.
I believe that art has the special ability to speak to us in ways we are not even aware of and that this power that art has will make a more lasting impact on people, because art supersedes language and rationality through its immediacy.
Due to my history of displacement, I explore the politics of identity and its intersection. I address issues such as identity, migration, ecology, memory, and loss.
ODETTE FARRELL
Tree of Life (2019)
Portfolio (2003-2019)
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From conference keynotes to INSET days to a quick chat.
All of our Associates are very flexible when it comes to making sure our clients get what they want, how they want it and when it suits them best. From memorable and effective INSET days to twilight sessions, from keynote presentations to motivational workshops for students (and their parents), we will work with you to make sure you get value for money and a session that makes a lasting difference - guaranteed or you pay nothing.
The traditional INSET day is much-maligned part of the school calendar and rightly so in many cases.
Over our twenty years, Associates from Independent Thinking have spoken at pretty much every sort of conference.
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When Independent Thinking was first set up in 1994, its primary purpose was to lead Events for young people.
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Highlights of the Jamboree included a grand review on Pennsylvania Avenue by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be an Arrowman, troop hikes around Washington, D.C. to all of the government buildings from the White House to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and even a trip to Mount Vernon. A Jamboree favorite was climbing the steps to the top of the Washington Monument.
Participation by the OA was very limited and primarily focused on a few things done to promote and spread the word about the OA. Urner and Louise Goodman got an aerial view of the Jamboree from a blimp. The National Executive Committee of the OA also sent a letter to each Scout Executive asking them to stress to OA members attending the Jamboree to not swap or exchange Order of the Arrow insignia. It is unknown if anyone followed this admonishment. Since that time the trading of OA emblems has become a staple activity at National Scout Jamborees.


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Undergrad CS student Natasha Rozario uses machine learning to optimize operating room efficiency
On March 17, 2020, Queen's Park declared a state of emergency under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act to protect the health and safety of individuals and families in Ontario. Among the measures was the cancellation of elective procedures — surgeries scheduled sometimes months in advance — to create capacity for hospitals in case they experienced a massive surge in COVID-19 patients.
In memory of our colleague, Professor Emeritus (Richard) Bruce Simpson, 1940–2020
Computer Science Professor Emeritus Bruce Simpson of Waterloo, Ontario, passed away on December 11, 2020 at Freeport Hospital in Kitchener. Bruce had been living with Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia for several years.
PhD candidate Sangho Suh uses comic strips to teach coding
Cheriton School of Computer Science PhD candidate Sangho Suh and his colleagues have found a way to use comic strips to teach coding to novice learners.
Coding strips use comics to present programming concepts in a more accessible way. They chose comics because it is a medium well known for its ability to explain complicated concepts and processes effectively through visual storytelling.
Cheriton computer science students reimagine the hockey fan experience
With COVID-19 preventing hockey fans from watching games in person this year, the University of Waterloo, Rogers Communications, and Sportsnet are seeking new ways to enhance the experience of watching hockey from home. They recently partnered to host the Sportsnet Hockey Hack, a virtual hackathon that challenged Waterloo students to design applications using 5G technology to deepen and enrich fan engagement.
Cheriton computer scientists create a Nifty solution to a catastrophic network fault
Partial network partitions are a peculiar type of network fault that disrupts communication between some but not all nodes in a computer cluster. And for what has recently been found to be a surprisingly catastrophic source of computer system failures, partial network partitions have not been studied comprehensively by computer scientists or network administrators.


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In Astro by Brian Koberlein 10 January 2014 0 Comments
I've talked quite a bit about planets around other stars, known as exoplanets. Most of the exoplanets we've discovered are Neptune-sized worlds, but we've found exoplanets smaller than Mercury. But in terms of size, that is about our limit given current technology.
Given what we understand about our own solar system, we would expect that these exoplanetary systems also have smaller objects, including asteroids and comets. We haven't observed any exo-asteroids, but we have detected exocomets. This is pretty remarkable, since most of the exoplanets we've discovered are through things like transit data and the like. We have only imaged a few of the larger exoplanets, and then only as a small blur.
So how can we detect comets around other stars? Even though comets are much smaller than planets, they vent dust and gas when they are active, which produces the coma and tail of a comet. It is the vented gas that we can detect.
For example, an upcoming article in Astronomy and Astrophysics looked at data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). The main goal of HARPS is to measure the Doppler motion of stars, and to do that it needs to make good observations of the line spectra from stars. These line spectra can be used to "fingerprint" the various elements and molecules that exist in the star.
In this case the data was from a star known as HD 172555, which is a young star where a planetary system is still forming. This means it still has a disk of gas and dust around it. The HARPS telescope looked at line spectra from this circumstellar disk, and the team found that a few of the spectral lines were transient. Sometimes being visible in the spectrum of the star, but not seen at other times. When the team measured the Doppler shift of these transient lines, they didn't match the overall Doppler shift of the star. This means the lines were not due to some change in the star itself.
The most likely explanation is that these transient lines occur when gaseous material passes in front of the star, thus absorbing some of the starlight at particular wavelengths. This is exactly the type of thing you would expect if a comet passes in front of its star. Thus we have observational evidence of comets around other stars.
One of the interesting things about the exocomets detected so far is that they are all part of young solar systems. We typically think of comets as icy remnants from the formation of our solar system, the leftover bits that never became part of planets. That's true for the comets of our system, because ours is an older solar system. But as a planetary system forms, clumps of dust and ice form into comets and protoplanetary asteroids, many of which collide to form planets over time.
These exocomets are not remnants of an old solar system, but rather the seeds of new ones.
Paper: Flavien Kiefer, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, et al. Exocomets in the circumstellar gas disk of HD 172555. arXiv:1401.1365 [astro-ph.EP] (http://goo.gl/8BHKBt)
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New Jersey State Law requires that New Jersey colleges and universities maintain records of students' immunization against measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and hepatitis B. All full-time students are required to complete and return to the Office of Admissions the Immunization Record Form that is found in the student's acceptance packet. Full-time students (enrolled in 12 or more credits) must submit proof of a second MMR booster vaccination. Students born before 1957 are exempt from this regulation, and under certain circumstances, students may be exempt because of medical or religious reasons; however, they must provide documentation in order to substantiate such exemptions. The College does not provide immunizations.
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The Fiat Doblo presents an enjoyable driving experience. The suspensions cope expertly with bumpy roads and grips well to tight corners. The 2.0-litre diesel sits at the top of the range and has flexibility if not great speed. The 1.6-litre diesels, in 89bhp and 104bhp are pacey enough as well as affordable. There is also a 1.4-litre petrol unit available which presents better economy. Book a test drive for a surprisingly thrilling driving experience.
The diesel engine presents the best economy for the Doblo, with the top choice offering an impressive 10mpg more than the petrol engine at 54.3mpg. Servicing will also prove cheaper with the diesel as it is only necessary every 21,000 miles. It is also worth considering the space offered in the Doblo at the price asked. A real bargain.
At entry level, the Active version come with electric front windows, remote locking and CD players plus 16-inch alloy wheels, ESP (Electronic Stability Programme), Hill Holder to make hill starts easier. Dynamic is the next trim up and adds air conditioning with pollen filter, height adjustable front seats with armrest and lumbar support as well as a handy extendable luggage cover. With the Eleganza models you get electric folding door mirrors, an adjustable rigid parcel shelf, leather steering wheel and gearstick, plus audio controls on the steering wheel.


Over the last few years Venezuela has through its PetroCaribe oil and development facility provided an economic lifeline for most Caribbean Basin economies; extending support in a manner that no other country has been willing to replicate. It is therefore scarcely surprising that the outcome of the recent election in that nation has resulted in varying levels of uncertainty in virtually all 17 PetroCaribe member states.
As is well known, President Maduro's ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) lost control on December 6 of the country's National Assembly with the opposition coalition, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) taking 112 of the parliament's 167 seats.
This slim super-majority potentially offers the country's opposition the opportunity to undertake far reaching reforms. They could dismiss recently appointed Supreme Court judges, change the country's 1999 socialist constitution, restructure institutions such as the election board, remove ministers, and even approve a recall election against President Maduro in 2016 if they were able to obtain the 4 million signatures needed to trigger a referendum.
These are of course domestic issues that only indirectly touch the Caribbean, but they have also resulted in concern about how Venezuela's newly elected legislators will respond to the deep-seated production problems of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the continuing fall in the global oil price ‒ down to US$37.79 per barrel and still falling as this is being written ‒ and by extension, the future of the PetroCaribe programme.
According to some Central and South American publications an urgent review of the agreements between Caracas and PetroCaribe beneficiary nations is to be undertaken. In a telephone interview with La Prensa, the centre-right Nicaraguan newspaper, the Secretary General of MUD, Jesús Torrealba, said that they "will refine and revise the agreements on oil, given the ailing economic situation facing Venezuela".
"Faced with such criticism as we live with in Venezuela, for us it is clear that we must seek the redefinition and re-orientation of some agreements that fit the current reality of Venezuela," Mr Torrealba was quoted as saying. "These exercises in international solidarity literally take away the bread from the mouths of Venezuelans to help some brothers abroad. It would be important to verify whether in fact these dollars, that drop of oil that is not directed to hospitals or Venezuelan schools, is reaching those who need it", the MUD leader told the publication.
That said the opposition's bigger initial concern is more likely to revolve around falling production and inefficiencies at PDVSA and the implication this has for turning around the country's failing economy.
Although estimates vary, the PetroCaribe programme is believed to have cost Venezuela about US$2 billion a year in lost income in the period from 2011-2013, although the subsequent more recent fall in the price of oil and a significant reduction in the volume of oil supplied to Cuba have significantly lessened the subsidy element of PetroCaribe in recent years.
The greater likelihood is therefore that, at most, the new legislature may only seek a variation in the terms of the existing PetroCaribe arrangement as it is likely that ‒ Cuba apart ‒ many MUD legislators will want to retain the regional economic and political influence that PetroCaribe has delivered should they win the presidency in three years time.
Some PetroCaribe member nations such as Haiti, and for different reasons Cuba, might be disproportionately affected by any precipitate end to the programme, but the low world oil price, the Caribbean's diversification into renewables, and the external support now available to create a new regional energy matrix, suggest the region should, if it wishes, be able to effect a challenging but achievable energy transition out of PetroCaribe.
That said a bigger issue for nations such as those in the Eastern Caribbean would be a loss of the development component or any change in the longer term PetroCaribe related investment and infrastructural support programmes that are underway, or the more recent new programmes that President Maduro has been discussing regionally and with individual Caribbean heads of government.
Far more potent, however, are the political and economic issues within Venezuela that could indirectly touch the whole region if there is gridlock between the legislative and executive branches of government and this were to lead to internal instability.
Following the election, MUD's leadership have focused on what is practical, establishing working committees; on requesting information from the directors of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), the National Statistics Institute (INE), the state-run oil company PDVSA, and the Ministry of Finance, in order to establish accountability, enable the questioning of ministers and to obtain better understanding the state of the economy in order to control budget implementation.
It is an approach which would seem to suggest that, if it can retain coalition unity, MUD may choose to tread lightly and avoid any early direct confrontation, especially in relation to the PSUV's populist policies. However, opposition leaders have also indicated a number of domestic issues they want to remedy rapidly when they take control of the National Assembly in January, including the granting of an amnesty for prisoners held for political reasons; an issue that could lead to an early confrontation.
President Maduro has made it clear he would not sign any such change into law. He has also warned the country's powerful military in a speech on December 12 that the country was "facing a large-scale crisis, a counter-revolutionary crisis that is going to generate a power struggle". "This is no time for cohabitation or coexistence with the bourgeoisie", he said.
There are many other potential flashpoints: the executive branch of Venezuela's government may not accept that MUD has a super majority in the National Assembly; the present view of the Venezuelan military is unclear, as is the effect of the loss of control of the National Assembly may have on existing divisions within the PSUV; the MUD coalition may not hold; a variety of external actors may seek to play a role; the border controversy with Guyana, which has almost all-party support in Venezuela, may escalate; and plunging oil prices could result in new internal social tensions if the economy deteriorates further.
The Caribbean should prepare for what may be a long, bitter and at times ideological struggle.


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Q: iOS Simulator executing app, but "crashes" when pressing on "Button" On Xcode 6 Beta 2, I have built an app with 2 viewcontrollers.

You can see that the action of "Button" is to open the second ViewController.
But when pressing on "Button", theres a focus on Xcode, and shows me this screen:

And highlights the green code-line.
How can I fix it?
**Notice, I havent wrote any code what so ever, just created the Storyboard.
Console:
2014-06-26 01:05:54.957 ColorMatcher[878:11914] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException', reason: 'Could not instantiate class named ADBannerView'
*** First throw call stack:
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    0   CoreFoundation                      0x00447646 __exceptionPreprocess + 182
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x01d728e3 objc_exception_throw + 44
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x0044756d +[NSException raise:format:] + 141
    3   UIKit                               0x010f53c0 UINibDecoderDecodeObjectForValue + 317
    4   UIKit                               0x010f5768 UINibDecoderDecodeObjectForValue + 1253
    5   UIKit                               0x010f527b -[UINibDecoder decodeObjectForKey:] + 371
    6   UIKit                               0x00caf579 -[UIView initWithCoder:] + 867
    7   UIKit                               0x010f5566 UINibDecoderDecodeObjectForValue + 739
    8   UIKit                               0x010f527b -[UINibDecoder decodeObjectForKey:] + 371
    9   UIKit                               0x00f64b31 -[UIRuntimeConnection initWithCoder:] + 189
    10  UIKit                               0x010f5566 UINibDecoderDecodeObjectForValue + 739
    11  UIKit                               0x010f5768 UINibDecoderDecodeObjectForValue + 1253
    12  UIKit                               0x010f527b -[UINibDecoder decodeObjectForKey:] + 371
    13  UIKit                               0x00f63927 -[UINib instantiateWithOwner:options:] + 1164
    14  UIKit                               0x00d9274d -[UIViewController _loadViewFromNibNamed:bundle:] + 270
    15  UIKit                               0x00d92ff4 -[UIViewController loadView] + 295
    16  UIKit                               0x00d93222 -[UIViewController loadViewIfRequired] + 72
    17  UIKit                               0x00d9377b -[UIViewController view] + 35
    18  UIKit                               0x013daed5 -[_UIFullscreenPresentationController _setPresentedViewController:] + 75
    19  UIKit                               0x00d6af51 -[UIPresentationController initWithPresentingViewController:presentedViewController:] + 113
    20  UIKit                               0x00d6b005 -[UIPresentationController initWithPresenting:presented:] + 48
    21  UIKit                               0x00da0564 -[UIViewController _presentViewController:withAnimationController:completion:] + 1952
    22  UIKit                               0x00da3061 -[UIViewController presentViewController:animated:completion:] + 333
    23  UIKit                               0x00da31e2 -[UIViewController presentModalViewController:animated:] + 57
    24  UIKit                               0x0124df79 -[UIStoryboardModalSegue perform] + 271
    25  UIKit                               0x0123b8e6 -[UIStoryboardSegueTemplate _perform:] + 217
    26  UIKit                               0x0123b962 -[UIStoryboardSegueTemplate perform:] + 116
    27  libobjc.A.dylib                     0x01d8579d -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:withObject:] + 84
    28  UIKit                               0x00c45fe2 -[UIApplication sendAction:to:from:forEvent:] + 99
    29  UIKit                               0x00c45f74 -[UIApplication sendAction:toTarget:fromSender:forEvent:] + 64
    30  UIKit                               0x00d72876 -[UIControl sendAction:to:forEvent:] + 69
    31  UIKit                               0x00d72c93 -[UIControl _sendActionsForEvents:withEvent:] + 598
    32  UIKit                               0x00d71efd -[UIControl touchesEnded:withEvent:] + 660
    33  UIKit                               0x00c952da -[UIWindow _sendTouchesForEvent:] + 874
    34  UIKit                               0x00c95db5 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 791
    35  UIKit                               0x00c5bc29 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 242
    36  UIKit                               0x00c6b5e2 _UIApplicationHandleEventFromQueueEvent + 20518
    37  UIKit                               0x00c40cc5 _UIApplicationHandleEventQueue + 2154
    38  CoreFoundation                      0x0036bfaf __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
    39  CoreFoundation                      0x0036134d __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 253
    40  CoreFoundation                      0x003608a8 __CFRunLoopRun + 952
    41  CoreFoundation                      0x0036022b CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 443
    42  CoreFoundation                      0x0036005b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
    43  GraphicsServices                    0x03d943ca GSEventRunModal + 192
    44  GraphicsServices                    0x03d94207 GSEventRun + 104
    45  UIKit                               0x00c446e5 UIApplicationMain + 1526
    46  ColorMatcher                        0x00002ae1 top_level_code + 97
    47  ColorMatcher                        0x00002b1b main + 43
    48  libdyld.dylib                       0x022b3ac9 start + 1
    49  ???                                 0x00000001 0x0 + 1
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libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
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A: You need to link with the iAd library.
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Susanne Kriemann is an artist living and working in Berlin. She studied under Joseph Kosuth and Joan Jonas at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and attended the 'programme de recherché' at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Currently, Susanne Kriemann is a visiting scholar at Parsons The New School of Design, New York City (Fall 2015). She is a long-term advisor at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL), where she continues her on-going exploration of research and artists' practice. Together with Aleksander Komarov, she founded the artist initiative AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz (www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de). The works of Susanne Kriemann are represented by Galerie Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam and Galerie RaebervonStenglin, Zürich.
Susanne Kriemann has presented her work internationally. Her 2008 work '12 650 000' was included in the 5th Berlin Biennale in the Neue Nationalgalerie. She was the recipient of the GASAG Art Prize in 2010, for which she presented material from her extensive series 'Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory' in a solo exhibition at Berlinische Galerie (catalogue). This work was also exhibited at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2009), Kiosk Gent (2010), RaebervonStenglin Zürich (2010), CAG Vancouver (2010) and Kunstverein Braunschweig (2012). Her work 'A silent crazy jungle under glass' was shown in 2011 at Kunsthalle Winterthur, in 2012 at Kunstverein Braunschweig and in 2013 as 'Modelling (Construction School)' at Arnolfini in Bristol (catalogue). Her most recent work 'RAY' was shown in 2013 at 21er Haus in Vienna. It was also included in group shows such as 'The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology' at the MCA in Chicago (2013), the exhibition of Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße at Kunsthalle Bremen and 'Allegory of the Cave Painting' at ExtraCity Kunsthal (both 2014), as well as 'Images That Speak' as part of the Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver (2015). In 2014, she also conceived 'ALUMINIUM GLAS LINOLEUM STAHL' at ADN Pförtnerhaus, Berlin. 'Pechblende' (2014-2016), her newest work, is concerned with documenting the fundamental invisibility of nuclear radiation in conjunction with conceptualizing a future timeline of nuclear waste. 'Pechblende' will be exhibited at Prefix ICA in Toronto as well as at Schering Stiftung, Berlin in Spring 2016.


The Lake Effect – Find You in the Sun – A daughter's slow waltz with her mother's dementia.
the downwind side of the Great Lakes.
that won't make it out of there.
emptying shelves of substance and sustenance.
the calendar of Old Man Winter.
sparing Westerners as they cluck about their luck.
and forcing shovels from their bins.
are returned to service for the next round.
digging out their dignity, only to lose it again.
It is hard to be happy here.
for the kindness that comes.


Introduction of angular supplanting detectors, overview of selsyns and resolvers, the rule of a resolver and resolver to digital transition techniques are discussed in this chapter.
The most of import demand in the modern control system, instrumentality and computing machine engineerings is the measuring of rotor shaft angle. The mechanism of any machine or procedure or monitoring system manfully depends on its rotating shaft. To let the stage inversions and to enable the control of any modern control system, the measuring of the rotor shaft angle topographic point a major role..
The techniques of the mechanisms for change overing shaft rotary motion to linear gesture extend the utility of shaft angle feeling. Shaft angle is used in the measuring and control of place, speed and acceleration in many systems ; many different sets of these parametric quantities must be sensed and/or controlled. Therefore, shaft angle transducers are of import elements in modern control technology.
Over the old ages, many different signifiers of shaft angle transducers have been developed. On the footing of their physical design, these angular transducers can be classified into two chief groups.
A phototransistor or other light?sensitive electronic device counts lines on a crystalline disc mounted to the rotating shaft. The most common of these devices are incremental and absolute encoders.
Inductive angular transducers are built like little electrical motors, where inductive yoke between a revolving portion ( the rotor ) and a stationary portion ( the stator ) generates signals bespeaking shaft place. Resolvers and selsyns are the most common devices.
Optical transducers, particularly incremental encoders have found broad applications because their digital end products can be easy processed by both distinct logic and microprocessors. Nevertheless, optical transducers have a figure of features that make them less than optimal for many applications. The built in semiconducting materials in optical transducers are used to magnify and arrange the digital end product signals. These semiconducting materials are sensitive to temperature and the LED visible radiation beginnings normally employed are susceptible to aging.
Furthermore, applications that require an absolute end product signal require absolute encoders, which are complicated and expensive. Since encoders are typically connected to a shaft holding its ain bearings, the user must pay for the 2nd set of high quality bearings in the transducer every bit good as a flexible yoke to link the two shafts. In many applications, particularly brushless servo motor commuting or flux vector control of AC initiation motors, the extra length of the optical encoder 's shaft, bearings and yoke is excessively long, so the optical encoder can non be used.
On the other manus, inductive transducers such as selsyns and resolvers are per se absolute and necessitate no semiconducting materials on the transducer itself and the natural end product signal can be transmitted over distances of more than 100 metres. In add-on, since they consist chiefly of Cu and steel, resolvers are virtually insensitive to temperature over a broad scope. Because of no sensitive electronics or optics are employed, resolvers are frequently supplied in an unhoused or pancake constellation and can be mounted straight to the shaft whose place is to be measured. Cost and length nest eggs are realized by the user since no shaft?to?shaft matching or excess bearings are required.
The truth of the angular place influences the system efficiency, but besides the torsion control for optimal impulsive esthesis. Such angle detectors need to be able to work in rough environments, be accurate, safe and dependable.
In most control applications, chance ruinous failure and the chance of failure is intolerable. In both failures, selsyn and resolver detectors are unchallenged. They do non depend on traveling electrical contacts for signal unity, do non float with clip, and even utmost temperature alterations have negligible consequence on their public presentation.
Resolvers and selsyns have been in usage since before World War II in military applications such as measurement and commanding the angle of gun turrets on armored combat vehicles and war vessels. Machine tool and robotics makers use resolvers and selsyns to supply accurate angular and rotational information. These devices excel in demanding mill and air power applications necessitating little size, long term dependability, absolute place measuring, high truth, and low noise operation.
A modern conventional diagram of a selsyn is shown in Fig 1.1. The synchros employ individual twist rotor that revolve inside fixed stator. In the instance of a simple selsyn, the stator has three twists oriented 1200 apart and are electrically connected in a Y-connection [ 1-3 ] .
In operation, synchros resemble revolving transformers. The rotor twist is excited by an AC mention electromotive force, at frequences up to a few kilohertz. The magnitude of the electromotive force induced in any stator twist is relative to the sine of the angle, ? , between the rotor spiral axis and the stator spiral axis. In the instance of a selsyn, the electromotive force induced across any brace of stator terminuss will be the vector amount of the electromotive forces across the two connected spirals.
where ? is the shaft angle.
Because selsyns have three stator spirals in a 1200 orientation, they are hard than resolvers to fabricate and are dearly-won. Today, selsyns find decreasing usage, except in certain military and avionic retrofit applications.
A resolver is a place detector or transducer which measures the instantaneous angular place of the revolving shaft to which it is attached. It is absolute over a individual bend ; the resolver was originally developed for military applications and has benefited from more than 50 old ages of uninterrupted usage and development. It was non long earlier legion industrial sections recognized the benefits of this rotary place detector. In typical applications, the resolver detector provenders rotary place informations to a decipherer stationed in a Programmable Logic Controller ( PLC ) that interprets this information and executes bids based on the machines ' place [ 4 ] .
The resolvers are derived from the fact that they operate by deciding the mechanical angle of their rotor into its extraneous or Cartesian constituents [ 5 ] . From a geometric position, the relationship between the rotor angle ( ? ) and the Cartesian constituents is that of a right trigon, as shown in Fig 1.2.
The frequence response of resolver is shown in Fig 1.3 and is similar to that of a transformer with a high escape reactance. Corner and peak frequences depend on the electric resistance of the single detector. Most resolvers are specified to work over 2 V to 40 V rms and at frequences from 400 Hz to 10 kilohertz. Angular truths range from 5 arc-minutes to 0.5 arc-minutes.
The frequence response of a resolver is similar to that of a transformer with a high escape reactance. Corner and peak frequences depend on the electric resistance of the single detector.
A resolver is a rotary transformer where the magnitude of the energy through the resolver twists varies sinusoidally as the shaft rotates. A resolver control sender has one primary twist ( i.e. the mention twist ) and two secondary twists ( i.e. SIN and COS Windings ) . The mention twist is located in the rotor of the resolver, the SIN and COS Windings in the stator. The SIN and COS Windings are automatically displaced by 900 from each other. The cross subdivision of brushless resolver and conventional diagram of its control sender are shown in Fig. 1.4 ( a ) and Fig 1.4 ( B ) severally. In a brushless resolver, energy is supplied to the mention twist ( rotor ) through a rotary transformer.
In a control sender, the mention twist is excited by an AC electromotive force called the mention electromotive force ( Vr ) . The induced electromotive forces in the SIN and COS twists are equal to the value of the mention electromotive force multiplied by the SIN or COS of the angle of the input shaft from a fixed nothing point. Therefore, the resolver provides two electromotive forces whose ratio represents the absolute place of the input shaft.
where ? is the shaft angle. Because the ratio of the SIN and COS electromotive forces is considered to disregard any alterations in the resolvers ' features, such as those caused by aging or a alteration in temperature. An extra advantage of this SIN and COS ratio is that the shaft angle is absolute. Even if the shaft is rotated with power removed, the resolver will describe its new place value when power is restored.
Fig 1.5 shows the conventional diagram of brushless resolver control transformer. A resolver control transformer has two input stator twists, the SIN and COS twists and one rotor end product weaving. The rotor end product is relative to the sine of the angular difference between the electrical input angle of the inputs and the mechanical angular place of its shaft i.e. the electromotive force induced into the rotor is relative to Sin ( ?- ? ) , where ? is measured from some mention shaft place called nothing. The 3-wire selsyn end product can be easy converted into the resolver tantamount format utilizing a Scott-T transformer.
Fig 1.6 shows the resolver mechanical follow up servosystem. The bid angle is established by the shaft place of the control sender. When the servomotor has reached the commanded place, the control transformers end product is zero and the motor Michigan.
Both control senders and control transformers are unidirectional devices i.e. control transmitters makers specifications are merely valid when the electrical input is the rotor, and control transformers specifications are merely valid when the electrical inputs are the stator.
Stationary transformer theory is the footing of resolver design. The schematic of stationary transformer is shown in Fig 1.7. An AC electromotive force is applied to the primary twist ( EIN ) of a stationary transformer and a relative end product is developed on the secondary twist ( EOUT ) .
The proportional is based on the ratio of bends on the secondary to the primary, known as the transmutation ratio.
In a resolver, the Fe nucleus for the primary and secondary are two multi toothed lamination tonss, one being stationary ( stator ) and one which rotates ( rotor ) . The conventional diagram of resolver is shown in Fig 1.8. The end product electromotive force is affected by alteration in the place of the secondary twist relation to the primary twist.
As the rotor turns, the amplitude of the secondary electromotive force alterations by modulating the input bearer. Secondary twists are ever placed with their axes at right angles. This establishes two separate end products holding a sine and cosine relationship.
The resolver consists of one mention twist and two feedback or end product twists. The transmutation ratio from the mention weaving to the two feedback twists varies with the place of the resolver rotor. The mention twist is fixed on the stator and is magnetically coupled to both stator end product twists through the twists located on the rotating shaft. The arrangement of the mention and end product twists with regard to the shaft of a resolver is shown in Fig 1.9.
The two end product twists are placed in quadrature on the stator to bring forth two AC signals 900 out of stage [ 6 ] . An tantamount cross sectional position of the resolver with angular place of the rotor, , with regard to the twists and the associated signals are shown in Fig 1.10 ( a ) and Fig 1.10 ( B ) severally.
where is the angular place of the shaft of the resolver and ? is the transmutation ratio invariable between rotor and stator twists. These two end product signals Vs1 and Vs2 are called as quadrature signals. As the excitement or the bearer signal Vp is an AC signal, the end product electromotive forces from the two stator twists are amplitude modulated ASin ( wct ) , as shown in Fig 1.8 ( B ) . As with amplitude modulated signals, the spectrum of Vs1 and Vs2 are indistinguishable and symmetrical to the excitement frequence. The spectrum of Vs1 and Vs2 is shown in Fig 1.11.
The rotor angle, can be extracted from ( 1.8 ) utilizing a suited Resolver to Digital Converter ( RDC ) .
Resolvers are extensively used in applications that demand instantaneous, accurate and high declaration information angular place or velocity. A resolver 's parallel end products have been modulated by rotor excitement signal and an RDC is ever adopted to retrieve the angular place in digital signifier.
Resolver to digital convertors ( RDCs ) are widely used in automotive and industrial applications to supply motor shaft place and/or speed feedback. The block diagram of resolver and RDC system is shown in Fig 1.12.
In these applications, a resolver is excited with the sine moving ridge mention signal. The resolver excitement mention signal nowadays on the primary twist is transformed into two sinusoidal, differential end product signals: the sine and cosine. Amplitudes of the sine and cosine signals depend on the existent resolver place, transmutation ratio of the resolver and the excitement signal amplitude.
The RDC at the same time samples both input signals in order to supply digitized informations to the digital engine, known as Type II tracking cringle. The Type II tracking cringle is responsible for the place and speed computations.
The RDC transforms the resolver end product signals into digital representation of the angular place. When combined with such convertors, resolvers can supply digital end products with up to 22 spot declaration and system truth to 18 spot are accomplishable.
RDC performs two basic maps: demodulation of the resolver format signals to take the bearer, and angle finding to supply a digital representation of the rotor angle.
The two resolver end products Vs1 and Vs2, as in ( 1.6 ) are in consequence amplitude modulated signals at the mention frequence. These signals are demodulated or converted by one of the undermentioned methods to obtain precise shaft angle place [ 7 ] .
The purposes of each technique are similar, to supply a digital end product proportional to the rotor place. The information contained in the two resolver signals is sufficient to specify unambiguously the place of the rotor relation to the stator over the full 3600 of rotary motion. All transition techniques use the two parallel signals to bring forth a digital end product. The differences between the assorted convertor methods is in the declaration available, the velocity at which the shaft can be rotated and still keep the designed declaration and the sensitiveness of the system to the unwanted deformation of the resolver signals [ 8 ] .
Direct Angle Technique: Direct angle method is besides called as Arctangent or Inverse tangent method. In this method, the rotor twist is excited by an alternating signal and the end product is taken from the two stator twists. Both end products have about the same clip stage angle as the original signal. However, their amplitudes are modulated by sine and cosine as the shaft rotates.
The block schematic of angle extraction utilizing arctangent method is shown in Fig 1.13. The resolver secondary signals represent the sine and cosine of the rotor angle, as in ( 1.6 ) , the ratio of the signal amplitudes is the tangent of the rotor angle. Thus the rotor angle, , is the arc tangent of the sine signal divided by the cosine signal.
The execution of arc tangent is a bit more complicated. Executing a division and an arc tangent is non fiddling in an embedded system and particularly in the minute where the signals due to the bearer are indistinguishable zero of ( 1.9 ) is non applicable [ 8 ] . Beginnings of mistake for this method are the resolver truths and, if used, the convertor truth and declaration.
The direct angle technique estimations of the unfiltered rotor angle without any velocity information. Therefore, for a concluding application, a velocity computation with smoothing capableness should be added. Further, the four quadrant arc tangent consequences in angles between -1800 and 1800. Thus the figure of bends is non tracked [ 10 ] . Furthermore, it is unfastened cringle technique.
Phase Analog Technique: The two stator twists are excited by signals that are in phase quadrature to each other. This induces a electromotive force in the rotor weaving with an amplitude and frequence that are fixed and a clip stage that varies with shaft angle. This method is referred to as the stage parallel technique. It has been the most widely used technique since it can be converted to bring forth a digital signal by mensurating the alteration in stage displacement with regard to the mention signal. The truth of this type of angle transmittal is determined by the truth to which the nothing traversing intervals can be measured. Beginnings of mistake for this method are noise generated by the environment of the resolver. This causes the nothing traversing point to be undetermined and produces fluctuations in the excitement. Any fluctuation of the amplitudes or clip stages of the two excitement signals straight influences the clip stage of the end product signal. This method is used merely for slow rotational velocities ( 20 RPM is a typical upper limit velocity for a declaration of about 10 of discharge ) .
Sampling Techniques: When utilizing this method a sample is taken of the sine and cosine end product signals of a rotor excited resolver at the extremum of the mention input amplitude. These are converted to digital signals by an parallel to digital convertor. The resulting digital words are used as a memory reference to lookup the shaft angles in a processor. The trouble with this attack is its inability to cover with noise. If a noise perturbation occurs on the signal lines at the clip of sampling, a incorrect shaft angle place consequences. If the noise causes merely a individual incorrect reading, the base on balls set frequence of the thrust systems acts as a filter with small ensuing mistake.
Tracking cringle or Angle Tracking Observer Technique: The tracking transition technique overcomes all the troubles described in the old three methods. This method yields smooth and accurate appraisals of both the rotor angle and rotor velocity.
Modern convertors are cost competitory with other methods and supply superior truth and noise unsusceptibility. It uses the ratio of the sine and cosine stator outputs that are excited by a rotor. Since the resolver acts as a transformer, any excitement wave form deformation or amplitude fluctuation appears in the right ratio on both sine and cosine and has small consequence on truth. A tracking convertor contains a stage detector. Therefore, frequence fluctuation and incoherent noise do non impact truth. Tracking convertors can run with any mention excitement, sine or square moving ridge, with merely minor truth fluctuations. Common manner rejection is achieved by the isolation of the resolver.
A block diagram of typical RDC with tracking control cringle is shown in Fig 1.14. The two end products of the resolver are applied to cosine and sine multipliers. These multipliers incorporate sine and cosine search tabular arraies and map as multiplying digital to analog convertors. Get down by presuming that the current province of the up/down counter is a digital figure stand foring a test angle, . The convertor seeks to set the digital angle, , continuously to go equal to and to track, the parallel angle being measured.
to within one count. Hence, the counter 's digital end product represents the angle. The latches enable this information to be transferred externally without disrupting the cringle 's trailing.
This circuit is tantamount to a type-2 servo cringle because it has two planimeters. One is the counter, which accumulates pulsations ; the other is the planimeter at the end product of the sensor. In a type-2 servo cringle with a changeless rotational speed input, the end product digital word continuously follows or tracks the input without necessitating externally derived convert bids and with no steady province stage slowdown between the digital end product word and existent shaft angle. An mistake signal appears merely during periods of acceleration or slowing.
The tracking RDC provides an parallel DC end product electromotive force straight relative to the shaft rotational speed. This is utile characteristic if speed is to be measured or used as a stabilisation term in a servo system, and it makes extra tachometers unneeded.
Because the trailing convertor double integrates its mistake signal, the device offers a high grade of noise unsusceptibility ( 12 dubnium per octave rolloff ) . The net country under any given noise spike produces an mistake. However, typical inductively coupled noise spikes have equal positive and negative traveling wave forms. When integrated, this consequences in a nothing cyberspace mistake signal. The ensuing noise unsusceptibility, combined with the convertor 's insensitiveness to voltage beads. Noise rejection is farther enhanced by the sensor 's rejection of any signal non at the mention frequence, such as wideband noise.
The transition system needs merely a sine and cosine map alternatively of the division and the arctangent functionality.
A 2nd order noise stamp downing filter is built in.
Double Converters: Double convertors are used to encode the resolver of multispeed units. One channel, the harsh part of the convertor, is connected to the individual or harsh velocity subdivision of the resolver. The other channel, the all right part, is connected to the all right velocity subdivision. The harsh channel supplies an approximative non-ambiguous rotor place to the detector. When the end product mistake of the harsh channel beads below a preset threshold, the crossing over sensor switches the all right channel mistake signal into the detector. The mistake angle is multiplied by the velocity ratio of the resolver. This increases the electromotive force sensitiveness and enables the servo system to seek a more accurate nothing. The convertor will go on to utilize the all right mistake signal for uninterrupted trailing. The basic truth and declaration of the convertor is hence divided by the velocity of the resolver.
Accuracy is the most of import parametric quantity associated with resolvers. It can be measured in different ways. Among them the following are by and large used.
Accuracy is measured by looking each weaving individually, comparing existent and theoretical electromotive force values.
Accuracy is specified as inter axis mistake, the angular divergence of void places at 00, 900, 1800 and 270 & A ; deg ; . It is expressed in arc-minutes or arc-seconds. The lower the inter axis mistake, the more accurate the resolver. There are 60 arc-minutes in one grade, and 60 arc-seconds in one arc-minute. Hence, one arc-minute is equal to 0.01670.
Linearity mistake: It is a step of the nonconformity of the secondary electromotive force over the full scope of rotary motion. It is expressed as a per centum of the secondary electromotive force at the maximal jaunt. In general, the more additive, the more accurate.
Voltage sensitiveness or electromotive force gradient is the end product electromotive force expressed as a map of the shaft angle in mV/degree. This parametric quantity is specified at a shaft angle of 1 & A ; deg ; . It can be calculated by multiplying the end product electromotive force at maximal yoke by the sine of 1 & A ; deg ; .
The truth of the rotor angle and velocity appraisals greatly depends on characteristics of the RDC. Particularly, RDC truth, declaration and set of possible operation manners are important for accomplishing the higher truth appraisals [ 11 ] .
It is the ratio of end product electromotive force to input electromotive force when the end product is at maximal yoke. Practical TRs are normally between 0.1 and 1.0. TRs greater than 1.0 are possible, depending on the design of the unit. Common values for TR are 0.454, 0.5 and 1.0.
Phase displacement is expressed in electrical grades, and defined as the clip stage difference between the primary and secondary electromotive forces at maximal yoke. Generally, individual velocity resolvers have taking stage displacements between 0 and 20 & A ; deg ; .
Null electromotive force is the residuary electromotive force staying when the in-phase constituent of the end product electromotive force is zero. When primary and secondary twists are perpendicular, there should be no electromotive force induced in the secondary twist. However, mechanical imperfectnesss, weaving mistakes and deformations in the magnetic circuit cause some electromotive force to look in the end product weaving at the lower limit coupling place. The void electromotive force comprises three constituents: in-phase, quadrature and harmonics. The in-phase cardinal constituent is an angular inaccuracy that can be cancelled by re-nulling the rotor, thereby presenting an mistake. Quadrature cardinal constituent is 900 out of stage with the in-phase constituent and can non be nulled by rotor rotary motion. The harmonic electromotive forces consist preponderantly of the 3rd harmonic, which is three times the excitement frequence. Null electromotive forces are specified as entire void electromotive force, which is the sum of the quadrature cardinal and harmonics. Depending on size, input electromotive force, and input frequence, the entire void electromotive force is about 1 to 3 mV/V of input electromotive force. The cardinal void electromotive force is normally somewhat less than or equal to the entire void electromotive force.
Resolvers can be used to transform co-ordinates from one system to another. Spacecraft and aircraft normally require pitch, swerve, and axial rotation to be transformed back to Earth mentions. One resolver readily handles a two axis transmutation whereas three resolvers are needed for managing three axes.
Resolver ironss are besides employed to work out trigonometric jobs and for stage shifting. Using a balanced RC web and a stable frequence beginning, resolver based stage shifters can accomplish 0.250 truth or better.
Through the development of machine development, builders and system planimeters likewise, agree that the resolver transducer is unsurpassed in its ability to reliably supply rotary place informations in the rough industrial environments.


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Don't Call Them Mr. Mom: More Dads at home with kids because they want to be, Washington Post, June 5, 2014
"Back in the 1980s, 'Mr. Mom' was a way to describe a man who was taking care of children, because that was seen as women's work," said Al Watts, president of the National At-Home Dad Network. "But now there's been a great change in society. And there's a great term for a guy who takes care of his kids. It's 'Dad.'" Read more…
What's Behind the Rise of Stay-At-Home Dads? BBC News, June 5, 2014
Through its annual conference and its active social media presence, the group helps dads connect and offers advice on the same types of things about which moms confer – nappy rash, teething pain, and playground politics. They also provide moral support. Read more…
Number of Stay-At-Home Dads Growing But Remains Relatively Small, Deseret News, June 5, 2014
The fathers who stay home to care for their family was the fastest-growing demographic over the last two decades. Read more…
5 Things Moms Can Learn From Stay-At-Home Dads, Piedmont Parent, June 1, 2014
It's a sunny afternoon, and the park is full of kids. Toddlers whoosh down the slide. Parents rock babies in their arms. It's the usual routine, except for one thing: Each parent is a man attending a stay-at-home dads playgroup. This 200-member organization, based in the Triangle, gathers regularly to socialize and share child-minding responsibilities. Read more…
A Growing Trend: The At-Home Dad, Windy City Live, May 12, 2014
Brian Dykes and his wife Cathi chat about their decision to keep one parent at home, and how it is benefitting their young daughters and their family as a whole. Watch the segment here…
Father Builds Support Network for At-Home Dads, Womenetics, April 21, 2014
There's a big misconception out there that stay-at-home dads lose their jobs and that's why they do it. But the vast majority of us choose to stay at home. It's a decision we make, and it's something I've seen many times in the network (Mike Stilwell) started. Read more…
Census Estimate of Stay-At-Home Dads Doesn't Tell the Whole Story, Shriver Report, February 28, 2014
The men over at the National At-Home Dad Network have a far more inclusive definition than the U.S. Census does. Their definition is based more on the role a parent plays in raising their kids, and less on whether or not they contribute to the household income. Read more…
The New Face of Fatherhood, Parents Magazine, February 5, 2014
Let loose 200+ guys for a weekend in New Orleans—sans wives, partners, and kids—and you may expect the equivalent of a Judd Apatow plot. And there we were, doing what guys do: welling up at moving descriptions of father-child bonding, discussing how we can be better fathers, and dissecting how the role of dad is reflected in our broader culture. Read more about the Dad 2.0 Summit…
Do-It-Yourself Dads, Chicago Tribune, February 2, 2014
As his 1-year-old son napped on a recent afternoon, stay-at-home dad David Wallach scrambled to find time to work out, install a sink, do laundry, clean the playroom and get dinner started. But while the Northfield dad has learned to improvise, he acknowledges that he doesn't quite do things the way his wife, a leadership development team director, would do them. Read more…
How Even the U.S. Census Underestimates Stay-At-Home Dads, Good Men Project, January 31, 2014
Why are they getting it so wrong? It's because they are only counting stay-at-home dads who are completely out of the workforce and have no immediate plans to return to the workforce. I think that number is still low, even with those caveats. Read more…
'Selfie,' 'Twerk' and 'Hashtag' Top Annual Most Annoying Word List, Huffington Post, December 31, 2013
And enough already with "Mr. Mom," a reference to fathers who take care of kids. It's also the name of a 1983 movie starring Michael Keaton, although many stay-at-home dads these days don't like the movie stereotype of a clueless male.
"There were almost as many nominations for 'Mr. Mom' as 'selfie' and 'twerk,'" Tom Pink, spokesman for Lake State Superior University, said. Read more...
No More Mr. Mom, Boston Globe, August 28, 2013
Carew, a part-time IT project specialist, is the primary caregiver for his two children. He's among a growing group of dads who are primary caregivers, a trend attributable to many factors: the prevalence of telecommuting and flexible work arrangements, job loss among men during the recession, and the evolving generational desire of fathers to become more active participants in their children's lives. Read more…
Men Can't Parent? Grow Up, Orange County Register, August 21, 2013
Stay-at-home dads fight against the stereotype that Pop is a bungler when it comes to domestic duties. Read more…
Prince William and Dads Everywhere Show 'Mr. Mom' is Outdated, CNN, July 24, 2013
"1983 was Mr. Mom's Year. It's 2013. Just call me dad," Chris Bernholdt, stay-at-home father in Devon, Pennsylvania, writes on his blog, "DadNCharge."
The National At-Home Dad Network, which provides support and advocacy to its members, has even launched a campaign to banish the term, citing a Wall Street Journal declaration: "Mr. Mom is dead." Read more…
At-Home Dads Joining Forces and Shattering Stigmas, CBS News, June 14, 2013
But some perceptions have apparently not changed. According to a recent Pew survey, a small majority of Americans are still not comfortable with the notion of a stay-at-home father: 51 percent of respondents said that children are better off if a mother is home and doesn't hold a job; just 8 percent said the same about a dad. Read more…
Stay-At-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms and Making It All Work, NPR, May 15, 2013
Mostly, the Heisey-Groves and others say they are doing what works best for them to create happy lives for their children. And they hope to change long entrenched attitudes about the proper role of mothers and fathers. Read more...
No More Mr. Mom, RetailMeNot.com, March 5, 2013
Daddy bloggers fight for their right to parent – and big brands listen… Even more, they're starting to get serious about finding out how and what men buy. Frozen food maker Farm Rich gave a grant to the National At-Home Dad Network to fund a study on the changing roles of stay-at-home dads, and Dove Men+Care is supporting research at Boston College about the changing roles of fathers. Read more…
Don't Call Him Mom, or an Imbecile, New York Times, February 24, 2013
The National At-Home Dad Network, a nonprofit group that had a booth at the (Dad 2.0 Summit), puts it this way in its literature: "Dads do not parent like Mom, nor are a replacement for her when she's not home." Read more…
Don't Call Him 'Mr. Mom,' Christianity Today, February 7, 2013
When strangers see a dad and his kids at the grocery store, library, park, or pool, they make a remark like, "Oh, you're babysitting today." My husband developed a standard response: "No, I'm being Dad." He was gracious, but it was puzzling and offensive to think caring for one's own children could be called babysitting. Read more…
At-Home Dads Make Parenting More of a Guy Thing, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2013
Mr. Mom is dead. At least, the pop-culture image of the inept dad who wouldn't know a diaper genie from a garbage disposal has begun to fade. In his place, research shows, is emerging a new model of at-home fatherhood that puts a distinctly masculine stamp on child-rearing and home life. Read more…
Dads Caring for Their Kids: It's Parenting, Not Babysitting, The Atlantic, Jan. 23, 2013
When Kevin Kruse is spotted out with his children, people often ask if he is babysitting. Despite the frequency of the inquiry, it still makes the Princeton history professor bristle. "No, 'babysitting' is what you do with other people's kids," Kruse said. "These are my own kids, so it's called 'parenting.'" Read more…
A Chat with a Modern At-Home Dad, Working Mother Magazine, January 11, 2013
…stay-at-home fathers are mobilizing to build greater legitimacy and acceptance. Read more…
Stay-At-Home Dads Are Not as New as You Think, Oxford University Press, Jan. 8, 2013
What is almost universally assumed in these discussions is that stay-at-home dads are new. They aren't. Read more…
Navigating Playdates with Stay At Home Dads, MakeItBetter.net, October 2012
A stay-at-home dad calls to schedule a play date for the kids—can you get them together without "dating" him? (NAHDN Note: YES! Most at-home dads aren't interested in dating moms) Read more (especially the comments)…
Latino Dads Stay Home While Moms Work, NBCLatino.com, December 13, 2011
According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, one-third of Latino dads with wives who work outside the home are now stay at home fathers. Read more…
Stay-At-Home Dads: The Radical Choice to be a Traditional Caregiver, RoleReboot.org, October 25, 2011
Close up, these dads sounded less like models for a new brand of enlightened masculinity (although many probably are), and more like throwbacks to traditional at-home motherhood. And, in many ways, they were performing a traditional-role reversal since moms are still the prototype in the at-home caregiver universe. Read more…
Happy to be a Stay At Home Dad, Redbook, September 28, 2011
Stay-at-home dads are forming groups all over the country. We spied on four of them – and learned a lot about men, kids and love. (Groups featured in Washington DC, Kansas City, MO, Austin, TX and Portland, OR) Read more…
Time to Rethink Your Message: Now the Cart Belongs to Daddy, Advertising Age, January 17, 2011
Survey finds 51% of men are primary grocery shoppers but few believe advertising speaks to them. Read more…
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After missing the entire last wave season and the first two fronts of this year, today was especially sweet! Awesome, smooth waves. The kind you can catch near the jetty and link together all the way to the pier on a good run. I lasted nearly an hour and then started losing grip on the boom because my hands are out of practice. So now I know what to work on when I can't get on the water. Surprisingly, the rest of my sailing didn't feel rusty and the rest of my muscles felt fine. I felt like I never stopped. I was turning where I wanted to on the wave and making my tacks and jibes. I slid out on my fin a few times...oops. Wish I had brought my little board. I also really need to find where I stored my wetsuits. I got cold. Gordon made it down just in time for the front! He loaned me a top. Matt, Mike, Larry, also came out, and I wish I'd known that Vanessa and Chris were sailing with Olivier further up the beach to learn the waves, because I didn't recognize them and would have gone to say hi.
Above all, though, it was sad seeing how destroyed the town still is. Despite the fun day it felt sad driving through the destruction.


A disabled veteran from Newark will be getting a new home, all thanks to Habitat for Humanity and AT&T.
Sgt. Adrian Simmons served 10 years in the Army and was discharged after sustaining injuries while serving in Panama. Following his return from service, Simmons had difficulty securing a home and applied to the Habitat for Humanity program.
With the help of volunteers and financial contributions from AT&T, the home will be built on the 100-block of Hawthorne Avenue in Newark.
"Home ownership is the fabric of the community and homeowners and our Habitat partners are thrilled to be part of the Habitat family," says Habitat for Humanity Newark Chapter CEO Jeffrey Farrell. "Homeownership is great because they become really invested in the community."
AT&T will also give Sgt. Simmons one year of free home security services when the house is complete.


Registration is now open for SFA's last open-group course this year: The Sustainability Fundamentals, Term 3-2018, will be running from September 17th through November 30th. No previous training is required to participate. Sign up now to secure your space!
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We sought to relate Eden to the hierarchy of grain evident at a macro and micro scale evident throughout West End, and also to the wider subtropical context. The scale of Eden steps down from Commercial to residential – to the point where ground floor units have courtyard gardens addressing the public realm in a traditional townhouse fashion.
This visual connection with context and sense of place within and around the site is further enhanced by the use of the landscaped "urban Breezeway" that acts as the buildings access spine and contributes to the permeable grain and "alleyways" of the masterplan. Users are not able to leave or enter the building without being aware of the sub tropical environment that is an intrinsic part of SEQ culture - lush atrium landscaping contrasts the hard edge urban location.


US market indices are at all-time highs in anticipation of tax and regulatory reform. Corporate income taxes and regulations affect the current and future earnings or cash flows (earnings after accounting distortions are removed) of companies, while investor taxes (i.e. dividends and capital gains) affect how much investors are willing to pay for those cash flows. With respect to the first part of this statement, taxes and regulatory compliance costs are expenses, so reducing them results in a direct increase in cash flows. As for investor taxes, it is helpful to consider that investors discount these cash flows. Future dollars aren't worth as much as current dollars, so they are discounted. The rate at which they are discounted is sometimes referred to as investors' required rate of return. This required rate of return encompasses the fact that investors want to be compensated for (1) the taxes they will have to pay, which are primarily dividend and/or capital gains taxes, (2) inflation (if they are paid back in dollars that are worth less, they will require more of them), and (3) risk. With President Trump elected with a platform of lower corporate taxes and less regulation, and a Republican congress making that more likely, it makes sense that investors would bid up stock prices in anticipation of lower corporate taxes and less regulation. And since markets were probably expecting Hillary Clinton to win, and Clinton's platform contained slightly higher investor taxes (dividend and capital gains), it makes sense that the market would be re-pricing that (i.e. incorporating lower dividend/capital gains taxes) as well.
There are risks out there, which the market sees as well as you and I, but right now it looks like the market is not weighing those risk too heavily. Another way of saying that is that right now the markets aren't expecting (and pricing) that the risks will disrupt production and exchange, upon which wealth creation depends. Chief among these risks, I would say, include (1) the risk of a global trade war, (2) the risks of further disunity in Europe (i.e. French presidential elections in April, Brexit fallout, resurgent debt problems, etc.), (3) the risks of increased belligerence from countries such as North Korea and Iran (as accurately predicted by former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice here in San Antonio a few months ago). I think a lot of people would put the potential for impetuous actions on the part of President Trump as a fourth risk.
What about the economy keeps you up at night? To be honest, tax and regulatory ambiguity are highest on my list, because I think the best way to achieve a dynamic and innovative economic environment is through a relatively clear and stable tax and regulatory environment. External "shocks" are always a concern (North Korea/Russia/Iran events, China economic/financial shocks, European election/debt events), but overall I think economies can deal with those uncertainties if policy (tax and regulatory) uncertainty isn't thrown into the mix. That doesn't mean we won't have recessions, which are caused by unforeseen shocks, it just means that recessions shouldn't turn into prolonged depressions if policy "churning" is limited. And prolonged depression is what would keep me up at night.
What will be the economic impact on Texas with border wall construction? I would say it will be similar to any other large public works project, i.e. a positive for the state/region where the project takes place, negative (or at the expense of) for the other states paying for it. So I look at it as a zero-sum affair in which Texas gains what the other 49 states lose in payments. Economic benefits would likely be highest for border towns and materials/engineering firms in Texas in general and south Texas in particular. Like most public spending projects, I think the impact will be positive but transient. That's over-simplifying a bit, as there are positive and negative spillover effects (the negatives of reduced cross-border flow of goods and services, but also the positive of perhaps more property rights security, etc.), but that's how I look at it.
How long after implementation will it take for trade protection to be felt in the system? Think about it like this: prices lead quantities. All trade restrictions have winners and losers, so I expect the winners (companies that compete with imports) will see stock price movements fairly quickly, as will losers (i.e. companies that source goods and services from overseas). But it really depends upon what legislation is actually passed and implemented, and that should take a while. As for the impact on the actual flow of goods and services (i.e. quantities), that depends upon markets (i.e. supply and demand responsiveness or "elasticities") in the sectors affected. Sometimes companies can pass on higher import prices to customers; other times they can negotiate with foreign sellers who push the burden backward to their own workers and suppliers through lower wages/prices. Believe it or not, economists don't know this in advance…it reveals itself over time, sometimes over a year or two depending upon the nature of the industry (i.e. the amount of fixed costs, asset specificity and mobility…things that take as too far afield!).
Are you expecting higher inflation in the future? As far as inflation goes, the concern is that, as the economy expands, the excess reserves in the banking system (created "out of thin air" through the fed's asset purchase or quantitative easing programs) will get loaned out too quickly. That is, the money supply will expand because each dollar loaned out increases the money supply by a multiple of that dollar due to the nature of fractional reserve banking (you borrow $100 to purchase something, the seller deposits that $100 in her bank, which then holds some on reserve and loans the rest out, say $90, to someone else who then buys something else, the seller of which deposits that into his bank, which holds some on reserve and loans the rest out, etc.). So whether or not we get too much inflation (above 2 or 3 percent core inflation for a sustained period) depends upon the ability of the Federal Reserve to control or hold in place those excess reserves (which are held on account at the fed). Ben Bernanke asked Congress for and received in 2008 the ability for the Federal Reserve to pay interest on bank reserves held at the fed for just that reason, i.e. so the fed could control the excess reserves and the rate at which they are loaned out. Specifically, banks won't loan out excess reserves if they can receive the same interest payments risk-free from the fed. That's a degree of control over the money supply that the fed didn't always have, and that's why I have above-average confidence that the fed can keep inflation from breaking out in a damaging way. However, it is true that we have never been in a situation quite like this (with $trillions in excess reserves due to asset purchases), so no one can say that they know for sure what the outcome will be. But my confidence is supported by experience thus far - inflation has been below target for 8 years, and many economists had forecasted hyperinflation during that period which never materialized. They didn't get the "interest on reserves" part.
What about the national debt? I think the better research (including research I was involved with in the 1990s) indicates that government debt itself is a poor predictor of economic performance. It is the incentives in the economy that matter the most. That's why you've had countries in trouble and debt default with varying debt burdens. Demographics will push our unfunded liabilities (debt burden) up substantially in 5 years or so due to Medicaid and Social Security obligations. But I expect that it will be worked out through things like means testing, (the more you have the less you get, regardless of how much you have paid in), alternative inflation adjustment mechanisms for future obligations, and adjustments to age and other eligibility requirements.


This mobile app solution is brought to the Sri Lankan market by Commercial Bank in partnership with Wells Digital Infrastructure (Pvt) Ltd., and SwiftPass Technologies Co. Ltd., a leading electronic payments solutions provider which facilitates Commercial Bank's acquiring of 'WeChat Pay' transactions in Sri Lanka.
Interested merchants can request the Bank to provide them with the special POS device. Once this is in place, visiting customers can choose multiple 'WeChat Pay'payment methods to make payments through QR codes. This solution also enables them to view the value of their purchases and pay for them in Yuan or any major currency of their choice, without losing out on currency conversion rates, the Bank explained.
'WeChat' is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps with over 1040 million monthly active users and 600 million monthly active 'WeChat Pay' users, specifically. 'WeChat Pay' also sees 600 million daily transactions effected through its system.
The only Sri Lankan Bank to be ranked among the world's top 1000 banks for eight years consecutively, Commercial Bank operates a network of 266 branches and 830 ATMs in Sri Lanka. The Bank has won multiple international and local awards in 2016 and 2017 and 20 international awards in the first eight months of 2018.