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Q: Windows CE - RegisterWindowMessage WM_DECODEDATA doesn't work I'm working on simple application for windows CE to scan barcodes.
I have device: CP9700 and this document: 9700 .NET Programming
There is a simple application which implememt barcode scanner in Appendix II (pages 277 and 278).
I have prepared project in VS2008 and copied program from appendix II.
When I run it on my device I can't catch "WM_DECODEDATA" message.
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong ?

A: First check the return value of RegisterWindowMessage (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644947%28v=vs.85%29.aspx for details), if it is 0 you need to use Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() (from System.Runtime.InteropServices) to get an error code. The error codes can be looked up in winerror.h of the installed WMx SDK.
The basic sampe app does not check return codes :-((
YOU should check the InitReader return code (see page 22 of the doc).
Please also check if the DLLs are being copied.
   The following happens when decoded data comes about,
    A decode event broadcasts when the reader decodes data.
    The thread waits for the decode event, and the decode data can then
    be obtained.
   For example,
    while(true) {
     dwStatus = WaitForSingleObject(handleEvent,INFINITE)
       b1 = Reader.ReaderEngineAPI.GetDecodeType();
       b1 = Reader.ReaderEngineAPI.GetDecodeData(ref tmp, tmp.length());
    }

Reader DLLs are accessible within the OS directory at the following
  paths. Before developing your applications, copy the necessary files
  from the mobile computer via ActiveSync connection.
  \Windows\Reader_Ce_Net.dll
  \Windows\ReaderDll_CE.dll


Set against the backdrop of a town's annual snowmobile race, Northern Light interweaves captivating stories of recession-era America. The lives of three families change profoundly in the north woods of Michigan, where winters are unforgiving, jobs are hard to come by, and the line between living life and merely surviving is razor-thin.
This is a cinematic, observational documentary that explores the American working class experience through character-based storytelling. As snowmobile racers and their families pin their hopes to a 500 mile-long test of endurance, small triumphs and giant sacrifices are made along the way.
Dysfunction and hardship permeate the cold, but this harsh setting often becomes an incubator for community and familial intimacy. Northern Light explores this disparity through the eyes of remarkably strong men and women, their stories told in richly styled portraiture. From a frozen corner of the country emerge three American families.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan means a great deal to me. My father grew up in Saint Ignace, and my family has lived there for five generations. I've always been fascinated by the region's frozen landscape and the lifestyle it fosters.
I spent two years in Michigan filming Northern Light. My filmmaking partner, Lisa Kjerulff, and I began photographing three families who were about to compete in the Sault Ste. Marie I-500, an annual snowmobile race in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
This race was unlike anything we'd ever seen–a rich and dramatic community gathering and an undeniably cinematic spectacle. Snowmobiles hurtled at breakneck speeds around a mile-long oval track of pure ice for 500 miles. A crowd of thousands stood on giant hills of snow, transfixed throughout the morning and into the freezing night. We quickly discovered that beyond the loud, explosive action of this race was a community marked by genuine devotion and hard work–breakfasts before dawn, prayers before dinner, and naps after the night shift.
We continued to film after the race, capturing intimate portraits of these families as they were making it through the day. As we kept filming, the effects of the financial crisis took hold of the country, and the lives of Walt, Marie, Emily & Isaac and their families began to change profoundly.
We became captivated by their dramatic and unexpected stories. We decided to craft an observational film that tracks the intertwining lives of these three families–no interviews, no explanations, just the drama of life unfolding in the present tense.
We stayed in each family's home and cooked dinners together. We shared many warm holidays. Emily, Isaac, Walt, Becky, Nick and Marie and their families invited us into their lives with a level of trust and honesty that still amazes me. They allowed us to create an emotional film that immerses the viewer in the changing lives of working class Americans.
Throughout the production of this film, I was humbled by the stubborn work-ethic of the families I came to know. Walt woke before dawn to drive his eighteen-wheeler to Alabama, Texas, and Pennsylvania. In the span of a single day, Marie worked the early shift at Walmart, picked up extra hours as a cleaning lady, cooked dinner for her children, and studied for her exams late into the night.
The families of rural Michigan are the inheritors of pioneers and homesteaders; ruggedly independent and determined, living with hope in an unforgiving environment and retaining a spirit of self-reliance I can know only by example. I'm amazed by the footage we've captured–its quality not created by any technique, but found, in the genuine and generous nature of three compelling American families. I'm proud to have shared this experience with them.
"Northern Light" contains more than one competition, but what it's really about is the difference between trying to win and trying not to lose.


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Das Kraftwerk Donauwörth ist ein Laufwasserkraftwerk der Mittlere Donau Kraftwerke AG an der Staustufe Donauwörth und wird von der LEW Wasserkraft GmbH betrieben. Das Kraftwerk ging 1984 in Betrieb und ist Teil der Donau-Staustufe Donauwörth bei Stromkilometer 2511,84.

Technische Angaben

Das mit zwei Turbinensätzen ausgestattete Kraftwerk ist ausgelegt für eine Ausbauwassermenge von etwa 200 m³/s. Zwei Kaplan-Turbinen treiben zwei Generatoren mit einer Nennleistung von je 4,25 Megawatt mit einem entsprechenden Regelarbeitsvermögen des Kraftwerks von 54,8 Millionen kWh im Jahr. Das Sollstauziel, also der angestrebte Wasserspiegel des Oberwassers, liegt bei 403,7 m ü. NN. Das Wehr der Staustufe besteht aus drei Feldern und dem links angeordneten Krafthaus. Am rechten Ufer befindet sich eine Bootsschleuse.

Die Turbinen stammen von Escher Wyss und drehen sich mit ca. 100 Umdrehungen pro Minute.

Weblinks

 Rhein-Main-Donau AG

Einzelnachweise

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Laufwasserkraftwerk in der Donau
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Bauwerk in Donauwörth
Erbaut in den 1980er Jahren

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My mom asked me to make her a small bag that she could use while traveling.
I was happy to oblige. This is my second attempt. My first version are always invariably a prototype - meaning that there is always something to fix or make better.
If I were to make this again, I would reverse the zippers so that the zipper pull is on the right side of the bag and add a third zipper for even more places to store things.
The bag measures 8" wide by 9.5" high. Perfect for holding a passport, some cash, and a souvenir or two.


Rachel Eugster - Bear & Co.
Rachel Eugster's professional life involves the frequent switching of hats. Happily, this production of Macbeth allows her to wear three of them at once: as music director, actor, and singer. As a music director, Rachel particularly delights in creating formidable vocal ensembles, and she is thrilled to be working with this amazingly talented cast. As an actor, Rachel was most recently seen as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, both Bear productions at the Gladstone, and as three different men (a prelude to Banquo!) in the Three Sisters production of Anton in Show Business, also at the Gladstone. Last summer, she appeared at the Ottawa Fringe Festival as Æmilia in the premiere of her first original play, Whose Æmilia?, whose central character might—or more likely, might not—have been Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
Rachel is a founding member of Bear & Co., and of Dragon's Tea Trio. Wearing yet another hat, she is also the author of the award-winning picture book The Pocket Mommy (Tundra/Penguin Random House).


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It's no secret when Manning gets mad
Manning didn't appreciate the way Philip Rivers was shown on the jumbo screen to draw jeers
It's no secret when Manning gets mad Manning didn't appreciate the way Philip Rivers was shown on the jumbo screen to draw jeers Check out this story on coloradoan.com: http://noconow.co/1wujjkE
AP Published 11:17 p.m. MT Oct. 26, 2014 | Updated 11:20 p.m. MT Oct. 26, 2014
In this Jan. 12 file photo, San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, left, and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning greet each other at midfield after the Broncos beat the Chargers 24-17 in an NFL AFC division playoff football game in Denver. (Photo: Jack Dempsey/AP )
ENGLEWOOD – It's all fun and games until Peyton Manning gets mad.
Twice in a span of five days, Manning's attention to detail was on full display, from scripting his own celebration of his record-breaking touchdown throw against San Francisco last weekend to calling out an overly exuberant scoreboard operator during Denver's 35-21 win over San Diego on Thursday night.
Manning wasn't happy that he had to hush the fired-up crowd at Sports Authority Field himself while the offense was trying to run out the clock. He also didn't appreciate the way Philip Rivers was shown on the jumbo screen to draw jeers.
On Friday, coach John Fox said the scoreboard operator made an honest mistake in trying to fire up the fans during the fourth quarter.
"Look, you're never perfect. I'm never perfect," Fox said. "Our product sometimes comes under attack, and rightfully so. But all it all, it's about the fans. They have a great experience. Sometimes it's not perfect. You're going to make mistakes and that happens.
"We've moved on. We had a real big win, a nice big spotlight, and now we're on to New England."
The Broncos, like every other team in the league, have enhanced their stadium experience in recent years to combat the big screen TVs that allow many football fans to stay home and watch games from the comfort of their man caves.
In Denver, that includes a giant HD scoreboard in the south end zone that shows facts and figures, retweets and replays — and of course, larger-than-life shots of players on the sideline.
Manning and Rivers were alternately shown Thursday night after Antonio Gates' TD grab with 9:31 left in the fourth quarter made it a two-touchdown game.
Phillips was shown on his sideline first, and the crowd jeered. He looked up and laughed.
Then, Manning was shown on Denver's sideline and the crowd cheered.
It went back and forth like that a few times:
"Yea! … Boo! … Yea! … Boo!"
Asked about it after the game, Rivers said: "I really don't know how to respond to that other than if you had told me when I was 10 years old they would show me in front of 75,000 and get booed and Peyton on the same clip and get cheered, I'd say that's pretty awesome."
Manning said he thought it was disrespectful to Rivers.
The Broncos quarterback had an even bigger problem with the scoreboard operator for showing Denver's defenders, including Von Miller, Aqib Talib and Chris Harris Jr. dancing to "Jump Around" on the sideline after the 2-minute warning when the Broncos offense was on the field trying to run out the clock.
The fans joined in the fun and were too loud for Manning's teammates to hear him.
Manning and center Manny Ramirez both motioned for the crowd to be quiet, frantically flapping their arms. Right tackle Paul Cornick was whistled for a false start and Manning could be overheard on the referee's microphone saying some choice words about that.
Two plays later, Manning had to call a timeout. Then, the drive stalled and the Broncos (6-1) had to punt with 28 seconds left.
Manning was still stewing after the game.
"I'm not sure what he's doing, he's playing music and showing players dancing and getting the crowd fired up when we have the ball. I don't think we should be doing that," Manning said. "I don't think we should be showing their quarterback on the sideline. I thought that was disrespectful."
The Broncos certainly took their quarterback's complaints to heart while also coming to the defense of the scoreboard operator.
"I think you take everything seriously, but at the end of the day, it's not going to be perfect," Fox said. "There are people working really hard. We're all trying to do what's best for the organization and sometimes it's not perfect. That's the way of life."
You can bet the next time Manning has the ball in the closing minutes in Denver, however, that the only thing on the giant screen will be the team's animated mascot "Thunder" admonishing the crowd to "Shh!"
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The revised Code is less prescriptive and more principles based and as such leaves scope for interpretation. There is no longer a 'one size fits all' approach where schemes will avoid the scrutiny of the Regulator provided they do not hit certain 'triggers'. Each funding plan will be and should be unique to that scheme, and the circumstances of the sponsoring employer.
The Regulator recently held a series of sessions providing an overview of the changes implemented by the new Code and working through a practical real-life example to show how the principles should be applied in practice. The sessions were well attended and attendees originated from a variety of backgrounds including independent Trustees, member nominated Trustees, sponsoring employers and pension professionals.
Presenters on the day also originated from a variety of backgrounds including covenant assessment, actuarial and law, providing a holistic view of the Code from a variety of perspectives.
The sessions began with an introduction to the new changes, focusing on the need for Trustees to fully understand the level of risk inherent in scheme funding plans from the level of prudence contained in the technical provisions basis, to the level of risk in the investment strategy and the strength of the employer covenant. Risk should be assessed as a whole across all strands of a funding plan and if Trustees believe that they are exposed to a significant level of risk then they should mitigate this risk accordingly.
Delegates worked through a case study based on a scheme in the process of completing an actuarial valuation, a range of investment strategies had been proposed, and as such, a range of recovery plans had been proposed with varying investment return assumptions. The sponsoring employer was considering further investment in the business to support growth and had suggested paying lower contributions to the Scheme initially to support this growth strategy.
The new Code promotes employer investment and understands that a strong employer is the best support for a scheme, however this flexibility should not be used as a tool to defer contributions and Trustees should have a robust due diligence process in place to ensure any deferment of contributions is the best option for the scheme.
– Trustees should understand and quantify the risk they are exposed to should this investment not materialise. A decision should be made as to whether or not the employer is strong enough to absorb this risk and if not, mitigation should be put in place.
The Regulator will ask for evidence of the analysis Trustees have carried out in setting funding plans to ensure the level of risk exposure is acceptable.
Trustees should ensure they have a robust governance process in place to document any decisions taken, should the Regulator call for evidence.
In summary, Trustees should understand the strength of the employer covenant and ensure the level of risk exposure in the funding plan is consistent with this. Trustees should document all analysis and decisions made, and where there are uncertain risks, ensure there is a robust monitoring structure in place to take action should experience not turn out as expected.
For a summary of the Code of Practice 3 for funding defined benefit pension schemes read our recent blog highlighting the key changes.
Technology plays a key role when implementing a robust monitoring structure, watch our new defined benefit scheme management video for more information on how you can do this.


That's the sole prompt Xbox One masters will need to control the console's newly announced Youtube . com app. Naturally, you'll have to put in "play," "temporarily stop," or "rapidly forward" commands to truly manipulate a youtube video, but you have the idea.
The Google-owned company and 'microsoft' are out with details with regard to YouTube on Xbox One particular, and people should be very happy to know that from day one, the brand new console can have a dedicated indigenous app.
Clips inside 1080p will flow over the iphone app, and it facilitates channels and also subscriptions. YouTube on Xbox live will also display trending videos, so users is able to keep up with the newest in regions like Audio and Sports.
Thanks to Xbox kinect, the app also supports touch commands.
The Xbox One particular launches Comes to an end at 14 a.meters. local moment, meaning we're less than 36 hours far from Microsoft's latest landing inside 13 marketplaces.
If the characteristics seem somewhat basic to start out, Xbox said it and YouTube are working on bringing better functionality on the app, which includes Snap method.
The app will continue to work all areas were the actual Xbox 1 and Youtube . com are available, apart from Austria, Ireland in europe and New Zealand. However, Microsof company said it will likely be available in those places "inside coming days."


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A motoros sárkányrepülés a gyalogosan hegyről, vagy csörlőzéssel indított gyalogos sárkányrepülés továbbfejlődött változata.
A fejlődést a motorizáció adta, mely már megjelent a gyalog sárkányozás esetében is, ott még mint kis teljesítményű segéd-motoros gyalogsárkányról beszélhettünk.

A nagyobb fejlődési különbség, hogy az ún. motoros sárkányok már egy trájkra, azaz 3 kerekű alumínium szerkezetekre szerelt nagyobb teljesítményű benzinmotoros megható légcsavaros egységgel rendelkeznek, amelyben a pilóta (és utasa ) a sárkány szárny alatt függesztve helyezkedik el. Ezt hívjuk inka szerkezetnek. A motoros sárkány szárny kormányzása is a sárkány szárnyhoz viszonyított súlypontáthelyezéssel valósul meg.

Esetünkben a pilótának a háromszögkormányrúdon keresztül az egész függő trájk, és a saját súlyát kell kibillentenie a szárny repülési alapállapotából és így irányítania a kormányzással. A szerkezetben nincs kormány-áttétel így tehát a kormányzási erők az összes felszálló tömegtől és a szárny felületétől és aerodinamikai tulajdonságaitól (például: méret, profilforma) és a légköri viszonyoktól (szél, turbulencia, termik) függenek.

A 3 fő egység

 Sárkány szárny,
 Trájk,
 Motor és légcsavar

Nem csak a motorizációval fejlődött a sárkányozás, hanem a szárnyak fejlesztéseivel is.
A sárkány szárnyban több, "beépített védelem" garantálja a biztonságos repülést, ezek:

 "S" profil (jó vitorlázó képesség)
 Latnihúrok (hanyatt esés, szárny ballonosodás megakadályozása)
 Szárnyvég határoló rudak (ezek a rudak sárkányrepülő gép átesési sebesség elérése esetén átlag kb. 40 m-es zuhanás ideje alatt megnövekvő sebesség miatt visszadöntik a szárnyat és a trájkot vízszintes repülési sikló pályára.)

A profilok változatossága és a változó méretek más és más aerodinamikai tulajdonságokkal ruházzák fel a sárkányrepülő szárnyait.

Általánosságban elmondható, hogy mint más repülőgép esetében is, itt is nagyon fontos az összes felszálló tömeg-szárny felület aránya. Minél kisebb a szárny felülete adott súlynál, általában annál kisebb kormányerővel irányítható a sárkányrepülő.

Kedvelt szerkezeti kialakítások

1 személyes sárkányrepülő esetén a 14-15 mm2-es szárnyak (BB-01 Bence, C15 sexy, topless)

2 személy esetén a 16-19 mm2 (C17, CXM, BB02-Serpa, BB03-TRYA) (magyar gyártók)

A trájkok
A nevének megfelelően 3 kerekű, háromszög elrendezésű, orrfutós, alumínium-magnézium ötvözetből álló könnyű rácsos szerkezetek, melyeket a pilótát, az utast, és a meghajtó egységet fogják össze és a szárnyhoz kapcsolódnak.

A motoros sárkányrepülő földön való irányítását a pilóta az elől elhelyezkedő orrfutó lábkormányzásával valósítja meg. A levegőben pedig a "háromszög-rúddal" irányítja a sárkányrepülőt.

A trájk maga lehet:

-Nyitott trájk: burkolat nélküli, ezt a verziót a minimális súly végett szeretik

-Normál trájk: a rács- szerkezetet egy felülről nyitott géptest, ún. "bálna" fedi. Ezen géptest anyaga jellemzően kompozit műanyag, melyen szélterelőként plexi van a trájk orrkúpjára építve. Ez a légterelési tulajdonságaival kedvezőbb a fentinél.

-Zárt burkolt trájk: kevésbé elterjedt forma, itt a trájkot felülről nagyobb, kinyitható, oldalt a háromszög-kormánynál nyitott plexivel szerelik fel, hogy télen, hidegben ne érje szél a pilótát és utasát.

Ez utóbbi zárt típus kifejezetten ritka, ugyanis a szárny háromszög_kormánya "útban van". Valamint elveszi a sárkányrepülés lényegét, hogy nem egy zárt kabinban repülünk, hanem szabadon körülölel a levegő, a menetszél a pilótát és az utast egyaránt, a felhők és az elemek karnyújtásnyira vannak tőlünk. Nem is beszélve a szabad kilátás nyújtotta látványt, és szabadság-érzet élményt.

A hideg ellen kisebb-nagyobb, megfelelő magasságban elhelyezett plexi darabok elhelyezésével és a trájk orrkúpjának szigetelésével, valamint az orrkúpba elhelyezett motorhűtővíz fűtőtestbe keringtetéssel lehet védekezni.

Általánosságban elterjedtebb módszer beöltözni pufajkába, és megfelelő többrétegű téli ruhaneműt használni.

A nyitott trájk miatt a pilóta és utasa bukósisakban ül többpontos biztonsági övvel a trájk üléseihez kötve.

A motorzaj miatt a pilóta és az utas a bukósisakba beépített headszettel, úgymond  intecomon keresztül beszélget egymással, illetve ezen keresztül a szintén az interkomba bekötött reprádió AM frekvenciájú sávján is a többi repülővel és földi irányítókkal.

A motoros sárkányrepülő trájkja könnyen, gyorsan (kb. 20 perc alatt leszerelhető a szárnyról, és a szárny szétszerelésével (kb. 30 perc-1 óra) és becsomagolásával máris szállítható kisebb utánfutón is személyautóval, majd a következő helyszínen ugyanennyi idő alatt aránylag gyorsan, és BÁRHOL, bármilyen megfelelő talajon, (betonterület, megfelelő rét, kaszáló) összeépíthető és újra repülhető. Ezen tények szintén hozzájárultak a motoros sárkány elterjedésében, népszerűségében.

A motoros sárkányrepülés kezdetben a hazai gyalog sárkányos egyletek klubtagjaiból, egykori honvédségi pilótákból, és hasonló érdeklődésű körökből, repülést szerető, vagy addig csak repülésért rajongó emberekből állt, akik megunták a gyalogsárkány cipelését a magas starthelyekre, és saját erőből szerettek volna akár a rétekről felszállni, és szabadon repülni. Ekkor nyugati mintára először gépészek és rep-mérnökök a házi garázs-műhelyeikben kezdtek maguknak Al-Mg csövekből Trabant motorral és saját légcsavarokkal trájkokat és szárnyakat készíteni, amelyek már alkalmasak voltak a biztonságos repülésre, hívhatjuk őket az "Ős" trájkoknak, azt a kort pedig a pilóták "hőskor"-nak emlegetik.

Magyarországi sárkányrepülő-gyártás

A hivatalos motoros sárkányrepülő gyártás 1981-ben kezdődött: a lanyhuló államhatalom nem akadályozta már, hogy nyugati mintára egy csapatnyi elszánt lelkes sárkányos élükön Molnár Zoltánnal megalakítotsa a Halley Kft.-t. Itthon ők kezdték gyártani az első hivatalosan is használható, Ultrakönnyű repülőgépet, a motoros sárkányrepülőket. Az Egri székhelyű cég Apolló néven kezdte gyártani trájkjaiat, melyekben a kezdetekben Trabant, Horizont és Rotax motorok adták a hajtást. A cég saját S-profilú szárnyakat varrt. Hivatalosan minősítették a motoros sárkányrepülőiket, ezzel engedélyt kaptak a felszállásra.

Velük együtt indult Bogdola János, aki kisebb házi manufaktúraként Bajai székhellyel kezdett motoros sárkányrepülőket gyártani, s a két cég kiváló minőségű, és megbízható termékeivel vált világszerte ismertté.

Magyarországi szabályok
A motoros sárkányosok még a rendszerváltás előtt elérték, hogy hazánkban is megszülessenek a nemzetközileg is szabályzott Ultrakönnyű repülés szabályai. Ez annyit tesz, hogy az ultrakönnyű repülő szerkezettel rendelkezők szabadon használhatják a gépeiket repülésre bizonyos kritériumok alapján, és a nagygépes repülésre vonatkozó szabályok, nem teljesen, vagy nem mindig kötelezőek rájuk.

Különbségek a nagygépes repülés szabályaihoz képest:

 Nem ellenőrzött légtérben szabadon repülhetnek, nem kötelesek előre bejelenteni a repülésüket, nem kötelesek reptervet leadni a kisgépes földi irányításnak, és számukra a repsávos rádió használata sem kötelező.

Berepülhetnek azonban ellenőrzött légtérbe is, de ilyenkor kötelező számukra is a repsávos rádió használata, és távrepülés esetén ajánlatos leadni az irányítónak reptervet, majd rádión bejelentkezni és kommunikálni útközben az irányítóval és a többi repülővel. Cserébe a motoros sárkányos nincs egyedül, hanem számára is él a földi mentési szolgálat baj esetén, és hamarabb megtalálják őt.

Napjainkban a legtöbb motoros sárkányrepülő valamely sportreptér klubjának a tagja, és gépét a reptér hangárjaiban tartják, nyitott állapotban. Léteznek kisebb klub-ok, társulások is, amelyek kisebb reptereket kisebb hangárokat építettek, és onnan szállnak-fel-le.

A motoros sárkányok is jellemzően a Magyar Motoros könnyűrepülő-szövetség tagjai, így a gépekre megfelelő biztosítással, és megfelelő jogosítvánnyal (ún. A1, A2, PPL1, PPL azaz sportpilóta jogosítvánnyal rendelkeznek.)
Akadnak olyanok is, akik sárkányukat szétszerelve, a garázsban tárolják, és egy közeli helyről, rétről, vagy szomszédos reptérről szállnak le-fel.

Az országszerte elszórtan lakó és tevékenykedő sárkányosok több helyszínen évente többször találkozót szerveznek, és már útközben is, a helyszínen is együtt, kötelékben repülnek.

A magyarországi motoros sárkányrepülő férfiak és nők számos hazai és külföldi ultrakönnyű repülő versenyeken vettek részt az évek során.

Külföldi légi bemutatókkal is több csapat bizonyított már, mint például a MAC team, amelyik Abu dhabiban a Maidan lóverseny pálya avatásakor húzta a csillagszórót az égen, és ezzel bekerült többek közt a National Geographic tv-filmjébe is.

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Dahlen, J., Antony, F., Li, A., Love-Myers, K., Schimleck, L., and Schilling, E. B. (2015). "Time-domain reflectometry for the prediction of loblolly pine and sweetgum moisture content," BioRes. 10(3), 4947-4960.
Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) can be used to predict the moisture content in porous materials, including soil, and is an exciting tool that could be used to measure the moisture content in wet-stored wood. Three-rod probes with 127 mm- or 152 mm-long rods were inserted into 62 loblolly pine and 34 sweetgum saturated bolts. The bolts were air dried over a span of five weeks. TDR waveforms and moisture content were periodically recorded. In total, 534 and 482 readings were taken for the loblolly pine and sweetgum bolts, respectively. An algorithm in R was written to automatically analyze the apparent length of the TDR rods. Calibration models were developed between moisture content and X (apparent length / actual rod length). A three-parameter logistic model was developed for loblolly pine (R2=0.64) and sweetgum (R2=0.84). The process was repeated using shorter bolts and 152 mm-long rods, resulting in improved models for loblolly pine (R2=0.99) and sweetgum (R2=0.97). Overall, TDR and the algorithm written to analyze the waveforms were accurate in predicting moisture content and could be used to monitor moisture in wet-decks.
Forest industries in the Southeastern United States frequently store tree-length logs in wet-decks to ensure a year-round supply of wood. Water is continuously sprayed over the logs to maintain water saturation, providing the anaerobic conditions necessary to prevent fungal degradation of the wood (Zabel and Morrell 1992). Fungal growth is minimized when there is less than 20% air in the cell lumen (Zabel and Morrell 1992). Forest product industries are continuously working on developing and testing methods to improve the efficiency of water usage in wet-decks. Measuring log moisture content, and thus controlling water usage, is an area of interest towards this end. However, commercially available tools that measure free water as compared to bound water in wood are limited (Bergman 2010).
where Ka is the apparent dielectric constant, X is the square root of the apparent dielectric constant, Lais the apparent length of the reflected TDR signal, and L is the actual rod length. As moisture content increases, the apparent length, and therefore the X distance, increases (Jones et al. 2002). A calibration model is needed to explain the relationship between X and the moisture content of the material of interest. The third-order polynomial model developed by Topp et al. (1980) is a universal model that has been applied to a wide range of soils. However, work on wood has shown that different species require different models (Hernandez-Santana and Martinez-Fernandez 2008; Schimleck et al. 2011).
Though previous works showed TDR as a potential method to measure wood moisture, some challenges still need to be addressed before fully implementing this technology in wet-decks. Schimleck et al. (2011) conducted research on TDR and concluded that the method could reliably predict moisture content. However, the apparent length was determined visually through interpretation of the waveform, and thus the method could have been subjected to personal measurement error, particularly if multiple users collected data. Digitizing this waveform is important for precise translation of TDR waveform readings to wood moisture content, as well as to enable the technology to be used by a wider variety of operators. Additionally, previous research used a Tektronix TDR cable tester that has not been manufactured since 2001. This research was conducted to automate the TDR waveform processing using a relatively low cost and portable E20/20 step TDR from AEA. The specific objectives were to automate analysis of TDR waveforms to calculate apparent rod length, and develop calibration equations to compare X (the apparent length divided by the actual rod length) to the moisture content for loblolly pine and sweetgum bolts.
An E20/20N step TDR from AEA Technology, Inc. (Carlsband, CA) was used throughout the project. The system is a cable testing unit and not specifically designed for moisture content measurement. For each moisture content reading, a digitized waveform with 1920 data points was saved in a text based format, and exported onto a computer for analysis.
Studies conducted on wood have used two-rod probes (Hernandez-Santana and Martinez-Fernandez 2008; Shimleck et al. 2011). Three-rod probes were used throughout this study because the 2-rod probe configuration is a balanced signal design which does not mimic the unbalanced nature of coaxial cables where the positive signal is surrounded by ground. As a result, excessive noise could be introduced in the signal that leads to inaccurate readings (Zegelin et al. 1989; ASTM 2000). Some consideration was given to using a 2-rod probe with a custom built balun to minimize noise (Spaans and Baker 1993). However, this approach was abandoned because the 3-rod probes were constructed with greater consistency than what could be achieved in the laboratory using the balun approach. Probes were constructed using 3 mm stainless steel rods soldered to 75Ω RG6 coaxial cable with the outer rods connected to the ground wire on the coaxial cable, and the middle rod connected to the coaxial cable lead and encased in a water-proof epoxy resin. The reader is referred to Evett and Ruthardt (2014) for a general primer on probe construction.
Sixty-two loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) bolts from 17 trees and 34 sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) bolts from 5 trees were collected. The diameters for the loblolly pine bolts ranged from 150 mm to 460 mm, and sweetgum bolts ranged from 200 mm to 500 mm in diameter. Bolt heights were approximately 4600 mm. The bark from each bolt was peeled, and the bolt was soaked in water for a minimum of 2 weeks to achieve saturation. After soaking, a 127 mm rod length probe with 3 stainless steel rods was inserted into each loblolly pine bolt, and a 152 mm rod length probe with 3 rods was inserted into each sweetgum bolt. Three pilot-holes were drilled into each bolt to ensure rod straightness and a tight fit to minimize air gaps. The probes were installed on the tangential face. Cable length was approximately 1.5 m from the TDR to the probe head, and the TDR distance was set from 0 m to 6 m, and thus 1920 data points were recorded between 0 m and 6 m. The measuring setup is shown in Fig. 1. To better illustrate the setup, the probe is not fully inserted into the bolt.
Fig. 1. Time-domain reflectometry measuring setup; the probe is not fully inserted into the bolt to better illustrate the setup.
The bolts were dried under ambient air conditions for up to 5 weeks. Periodically, the bolts were weighed, and a TDR waveform was recorded along with each weight measurement. More measurements were taken at the beginning of the drying cycle than at the end because of the initial high rate of water evaporating from the bolt surface after the soaking process. When the moisture content fell below the fiber saturation point on the ends and outer diameter of the bolts and the moisture stabilized, the probes were removed from each bolt and the bolts were oven-dried at 103 °C until a constant weight was achieved. After oven-drying, the moisture content of each reading was determined on an oven-dry and green basis; the oven-dry basis is used throughout, except where noted. A total of 482 and 534 readings were taken on the sweetgum and loblolly pine samples, respectively.
where Vreflected is the voltage of the reflected signal, Vincident is the voltage of the sent signal, ZL is the measured impedance (output from AEA unit), and Z0 is the cable impedance (typically 50 Ω or 75 Ω); ρ will range from -1 to 1 and is commonly used for soil moisture content measurement (Tektronix 2001). The AEA unit displayed the measured impedance and thus the y-axis was converted to ρ (rho) using the above formula.
Fig. 2. Typical time-domain reflectometry waveform. Xp is the signal entering the probe head from the coaxial cable, X1 is the signal leaving the probe head and the starting point for measurement of the waveform, X2 is the signal at the end of the rods using the inflection point of the rising curve method, rho is unit-less.
Because the raw TDR data contained noise, the data was first smoothed using the Savitzky-Golay function (Savitzky and Golay 1964) in the signal package of R with a 2nd degree polynomial and a window size of 111 points (Signal Developers 2013). Each graph was truncated to aid in finding the start and stop distances for the apparent length calculation. The cable length between the TDR and the probe was approximately 1.5 m. The overall plots were truncated approximately 0.29 m (1.21 m) before the beginning of the probe (~1.5 m), and approximately 1.55 m (3.05 m) after the beginning of the probe. The stop distance to the end of the rod (X2) was found by truncating the data between 1.21 m and 3.05 m and then finding the distance point (X2) that corresponded to the maximum rho value of the smoothed 1st derivative plot, i.e., the inflection point of the signal. The start distance of the rod (X1) was found by truncating each plot from 1.21 m and the X2 point of each individual waveform and then finding the distance point (X1) that corresponded to the minimum rho value of the smoothed 2ndderivative plot, i.e., the local maximum point of the signal prior to the inflection point of the rising waveform (Fig. 3).
Calibration models and plots were developed in R using the RStudio (2014) interface and SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute, USA). The effect of bolt diameter was compared to the initial moisture content with analysis of variance on both species and a significance value of α= 0.05. The response variables of oven dry moisture content and green moisture content were modeled against the explanatory variable X (apparent length/actual rod length) using linear and non-linear approaches.
Starting moisture content values ranged from 41% to 162% for the loblolly pine samples and 89% to 130% for the sweetgum samples. Starting moisture content varied significantly with bolt diameter for loblolly pine (p-value = 0.0002) but not for sweetgum (p-value = 0.371). A total of 480 and 526 moisture and TDR readings were taken on the sweetgum and loblolly pine samples, respectively. The plots of bolt diameter versus measured moisture content taken throughout the study are shown in Fig. 4. The minimum MC% for loblolly pine and sweetgum was 15% and 32%, respectively.
All of the TDR waveforms were visually checked to determine whether the algorithm was accurately finding the appropriate X1 and X2 distances. The algorithm worked properly for all samples collected in this study, but it may be preferable to use a greater distance setting on the TDR and thus collect fewer data points in the region of interest. This would reduce the level of smoothing that is required to obtain usable derivative information.
For both species, a non-linear model relationship was observed in plots of the data. Based on the shape of the plots, three non-linear models were explored using a mixed effects model. The models were the Gompertz growth model, the Chapman Richards model, and the three parameter logistic model. The final model was selected based on the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and the residual variance. An R2 was calculated for the selected models but because the models were nonlinear the R2 values were considered pseudo R2.
The plots (Fig. 5) and the data show a general trend of decreasing X values as moisture content decreases. However, there was a relatively large amount of spread in the data points.
The plots for oven-dry basis and green-basis moisture content are shown in Fig. 6. Overall, the plots (Fig. 6) and model results for sweetgum are much better than the loblolly pine results.
The relationship for loblolly pine (R2= 0.62) did not match the relationship for sweetgum (R2= 0.84). The authors hypothesize that the lack of accuracy in the model was primarily due to the height of the bolts (4600 mm) for both species, as well as the shorter rod length (127 mm) for loblolly pine compared to sweetgum (152 mm). Both cases would result in the TDR sampling a relatively small fraction of the actual wood, which could cause inaccuracy if the moisture content of the TDR reading was not representative of the whole bolt. Generally, soil moisture content literature recommends a minimum of 150 mm rods for most soil types, and work on models related to wood moisture content has shown that longer rods yield a lower error in determining the distance of the reflected signal (Schimleck et al. 2011). While a longer rod length is desired for accuracy purposes, it also limits the bolt diameter that can be used for TDR analysis. To determine if improvements could be made, a new set of loblolly pine bolts from 39 trees, and sweetgum bolts from 39 trees were collected. The height of the bolts was reduced from 4600 mm to 2500 mm, and the probe length for all bolts was 152 mm. A total of 194 and 192 waveforms were recorded for the pine and sweetgum bolts, respectively. The three parameter logistic model estimation coefficients and their p-values, are shown in Table 2.
Overall, the reduction in bolt height and increase in rod length improved the accuracy of the model, as shown in Fig. 7 and Table 2. The results for loblolly pine are now similar to the models developed for sweetgum.
The updated models (Table 2) exhibited similar performance to the original sweetgum model (Fig. 8).
The increase in model performance during the second phase is likely due to the TDR sampling a higher volume of wood within the bolt. Soil TDR probes are frequently built with 30 cm rods, which would sample even greater volumes of wood. However, these types of probes would be difficult to install in wood, and would also require large diameter trees, unless the probes were installed in the cross-sectional face. The authors installed the probes in the tangential face, which allows for greater flexibility during installation. While different wood types will require different models, the three-parameter logistic model worked well for both loblolly pine and sweetgum and thus serves as a good starting point for future work.
The models developed for this work have improved performance over models developed by Schimleck et al. (2011). The improvement in performance is likely due to the algorithm written that calculates the apparent length, as well as using 3-rod probes that have reduced noise compared to 2-rod probes (Zegelin et al. 1989). The algorithm developed in this research will allow for adoption of TDR by the forest industry. While there are numerous handheld tools that are available to measure moisture content below the fiber saturation point, there is a lack of tools available for field use to measure above the fiber saturation point. TDR could be adopted for other uses, including monitoring the moisture content of bridge members and poles.
Time-domain reflectometry in combination with custom built probes was effective for measuring the moisture content in wood above the fiber-saturation point when using the derivatives algorithm developed for this project.
To develop accurate calibrations, it is critical that the TDR measure a representative portion of the wood. Longer rods and shorter bolt heights result in the TDR measuring a more representative portion of the wood, leading to strong calibration models.
The non-linear three-parameter logistic model shape worked well for both loblolly pine and sweetgum, and both species had models with an R2 greater than 0.97.
The authors are grateful to the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. and its member companies for their financial support, as well as their donation of the bolts used in this study.
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Article submitted: February 13, 2015; Peer review completed: June 14, 2015; Revisions accepted: June 19, 2015; Published: June 23, 2015.


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Wade says he hasn't spoken to Riley since leaving Heat
Andrew Joseph
Dwyane Wade will make his return to Miami on Thursday since joining the Chicago Bulls this offseason. As a player who played 13 seasons and won three championships in Miami, he absolutely should expect a warm reception.
But there still may be some awkwardness.
Wade keeps in touch with his former Heat teammates, but he hasn't spoken to Pat Riley in months. Wade said via USA TODAY Sports:
"I've kept in touch (with) everybody there, besides Pat," Wade said. "From the owners on down. It's nothing but respect, and I have no hard feelings. I understand what Pat is, he's a competitor. I've been knowing him for 13 years so I expect no different."
While speaking to the media ahead of Chicago's game against the Hawks on Wednesday, Wade made similar comments, explaining why he hadn't spoken to Riley since leaving the Heat.
Via ESPN:
"I think you guys know, I haven't talked to him. It's as simple as that. I think I've been very open and honest about my respect and love with Pat. I've been honest that I haven't spoken to him since the season ended."
Wade signed a two-year deal with his hometown Chicago Bulls worth $47 million.


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Retirement housing: dream or nightmare?
Retirement housing, also known as age-exclusive housing, is one of the fastest-growing property sectors in the country, and now that there are more over-65s than under 15s, it can only grow further.
These developments are heavily marketed with widely-advertised open days, seductive show homes, and ever-smiling sales reps. They promise much: instead of rattling around in an otherwise empty and maybe falling apart family home, you can buy a brand-new flat in a landscaped, purpose-built development designed to cater for your every need.
The developments offer both protection and independence. You have your own lockable front door and can come and go as you please, yet at the same time you are part of a community. There is a friendly manager on duty, and you have no need to fear a fall or sudden illness because all homes are fitted with a 24-hour panic button. And if you want guests to stay, you can simply book the separate guest suite.
Sounds fantastic, doesn't it?
Unfortunately, as an increasing number of residents and their relatives are now discovering, specialised retirement housing often comes with very serious downsides. For one thing, it doesn't behave as other housing; all sorts of charges may be levied that you would never have to pay with an ordinary flat. And the biggest sting in the tail is that a percentage payment, known as a transfer charge, may be payable back to the developer on the sale of your home.
For years, residents in retirement developments have accepted these elements as aspects of the 'standard lease' or contract they signed on buying the property, and they simply paid up. But now, a pressure group has been formed to challenge these charges, and the Office of Fair Trading is looking seriously into the matter.
"We felt the matter of exit fees needed investigating," said OFT spokesperson Frank Shepherd, "and we are of the opinion that they constitute an unfair and non-transparent contract." In February 2010, the OFT obtained an undertaking from McCarthy and Stone, a major player, that they will remove exit fees from future and existing developments. But there remain many other companies in this sector, and they have so far not followed suit.
Exit fees, however, are not the only problem. The whole sector urgently needs investigating and regulating, according to Melissa Briggs, co-founder of the newly-formed Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation (CARLEX). She believes that many of the charges stem from pure greed and are nothing more than an easy way of exploiting a vulnerable group of people. "McCarthy and Stone, for instance, present themselves as ethical providers of the 'happy, carefree retirement experience' but once in, residents become confused and frightened by all the extra charges," she says.
"You buy into a dream and all too soon it becomes a nightmare as you are forced into paying charges you don't understand and which are never part of an ordinary lease. Exit fees, at between one and five per cent of the sale price, are something invented by the developers, and are not part of normal leasehold practice. No service whatever is provided for this fee.
"Then there is often collusion between insurers, brokers and managers to inflate premiums and commissions. There is rarely any competitive tendering for building and other maintenance contracts, and these are often awarded to subsidiaries of the developers. Developers frequently use their own managing company and so again, this is not put out to competitive tender. Plus, it allows oppressive treatment of elderly tenants.
"Residents may have to pay extra, on top of their service charges, to have a light socket moved, to park their car in the car park and to bring a mobility aid into the building. Peverel, one of the biggest operators in the business, also instructs their House Managers to remove any information on notice boards which may be critical of the company. To us, this is censorship of the worst Soviet Union type.
"Although there are a number of companies in this highly profitable housing sector, they all operate a cartel so that there is no real choice, and they are all in collusion with each other. Elderly residents are kept in the dark about what really goes on, and we are exposing and bringing it to light, with the aim of bringing retirement housing in line with other leasehold properties.
"We are also campaigning for full refunds where charges have been imposed that leaseholders, in their ignorance and fear, have simply accepted. Although retirement properties are easier to manage than others, having few neighbour disputes, no mortgage defaulters, few arrears and quiet, compliant owners, service charges are always significantly higher, and can be as high as £700 a month. High charges and non-competitive tendering are really a licence to print money.
"Before long, millions of us will be in retirement housing and as a matter of extreme urgency there should be a properly-funded regulator with prosecutory powers to enforce a strong code of conduct. At the moment, because of the high and ever-rising charges and exit fees, these properties are very difficult to resell. And charges keep adding up on unsold flats."
Sidebar One:
What you may have to pay extra for:
Using a car park space, as a yearly rental of up to £250;
Covering rent, utilities, telephone charges, etc, on the House Manager's flat;
A transfer fee on sale;
Services you simply don't get such as window cleaning;
Non-competitive buildings insurance and building contracts;
A 'permission' charge to make small alterations in your flat, or to sublet;
High, and non-competitive, charges for the Careline service;
Using the developer's own estate agency to sell the flat, at higher commission than usual.
Sidebar 2:
You are entitled by law to manage the building yourself, under Right To Manage legislation, rather than using the developer's own company.
You can challenge the charges at a Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, to see if they are 'reasonable';
Join Carlex and add your voice to the campaign.
Carlex: Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation: PO Box 697, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 9NG. http://www.carlex.org


For the purposes of this analysis, infant abductions are defined as any abduction of a child under six months of age. This type of abduction can take various forms; from a noncustodial parent abducting the infant, to a stranger abducting the child from the hospital, home, or a public place.
As the nation's clearinghouse about missing and sexually exploited children, NCMEC maintains statistics regarding the number and location of infant abductions related to healthcare and provides technical assistance and training to healthcare and security professionals to prevent infant abductions from occurring in their facilities. NCMEC also provides evidence-based guidance about how to respond when an infant abduction occurs and technical assistance to law enforcement during and after an incident.
NCMEC has developed a list of characteristics from an analysis of 325 missing infants related to healthcare occurring from 1965 through September 2018, in the United States. However, there is no guarantee an infant abductor will fit this description.
Usually a female of childbearing age who appears pregnant.
Most likely compulsive; most often relies on manipulation, lying, and deception.
Frequently indicates she has lost a baby or is incapable of having one.
Often married or cohabitating; companion's desire for a baby or the abductor's desire to provide her companion with "his" baby may be the motivation for the abduction.
Usually lives in the community where the abduction takes place.
Frequently initially visits nursery and maternity units at more than one health care facility prior to the abduction; asks detailed questions about procedures and the maternity floor layout; frequently uses a fire exit stairwell for her escape; and may also try to abduct from the home setting.
Usually plans the abduction, but does not necessarily target a specific infant; frequently seizes any opportunity present to abduct a baby.
Frequently impersonates a nurse or other allied health care personnel.
Often becomes familiar with health care staff members, staff member work routines and victim parents.
Often demonstrates a capability to provide care to the baby once the abduction occurs, within her emotional and physical abilities.
Often targets a mother whom she may find by visiting health care facilities and tries to meet the target family.
Often plans the abduction and brings a weapon, although the weapon may not be used.
Often impersonates a health care or social services professional when visiting the home.
As the nation's clearinghouse about missing and sexually exploited children, NCMEC maintains statistics regarding the number and location of infant abductions and provides technical assistance and training to health care and security professionals in an effort to prevent infant abductions from occurring in their facilities. NCMEC also provides evidence-based guidance about how to respond when an infant abduction occurs and technical assistance to law enforcement during and after an incident.
Our publication, What Parents Need to Know, provides tips for expectant parents for keeping their newborn safe while at the hospital and in their transition into their new life at home.
Team Adam is a rapid response unit made up of former and retired law enforcement professionals which can be deployed directly to the scene of a child's disappearance to offer assistance to investigators and families in cases of critically missing children.
Coping with the experience of a child abduction demands courage and determination on the part of the victim, parents and guardians, and other family members. NCMEC offers victim and family support through a team of dedicated professionals who work with law enforcement and families to provide reunification assistance and referrals. NCMEC can also locate short and long term support for families through local victim advocates and mental health agencies.


Before and after last week's Panorama programme on Stakeknife, we have been told by commentators, politicians and others that the inquiry into the affair will be uncomfortable for the IRA.
You mean that was in doubt!?
If that saga was to turn in on the people who infiltrated the IRA rather than those who ordered murder, it would be the latest legacy madness.
With the extended deadline for the Stormont talks, unionists now have a bit of time to think hard about mooted legacy structures and get them right before it is too late.


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Гай Мини́ций Фунда́н (; умер после 123 года) — древнеримский военный и политический деятель из плебейского рода Минициев, консул-суффект 107 года.

Биография
Гай происходил из знатного плебейского рода Минициев. В неустановленное время он служил военным трибуном в XII «Молниеносном» легионе, который дислоцировался в Каппадокии. После Миниций был зачислен в сенат, где прошёл весь путь cursus honorum: стал квестором, народным трибуном, претором, а позднее — и легатом XV «Аполлонова» легиона.

Благодаря одному упоминанию в сохранившемся военном дипломе, обнаруженном в Реции и датированном 107 годом, известно, что в это время Миниций являлся консул-суффектом; его коллегой по должности значится некто Гай Веттенний Север.

В 122—123 годах Фундан исполнял функции проконсула провинции Азия. В то время он получил ответ на письмо о христианах, посланное своим предшественником Квинтом Лицинием Сильваном Гранианом Квадронием Прокулом императору Адриану.

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Миниции
Родившиеся в I веке
Военные трибуны
Квесторы
Народные трибуны
Преторы
Легаты
Римские консулы II века
Проконсулы Азии
Умершие во II веке


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Ho Foods debuts as a full-time restaurant today at 110 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.
As previously noted, chef-owner Richard Ho, who has worked at Blue Ribbon Sushi's Brooklyn and Columbus Circle locations for eight years, is behind this venture, which took part in several pop-up events in recent years. His speciality is Taiwanese beef noodle soup.
His idea was to mimic actual beef noodle shops where the soup, he says, is usually just complimented by a single hot side and rotating vegetable sides. Here, the menu will be rounded out by extras like pork rice and a few sides, including homemade soft tofu with century egg, sweet soy, and bonito. Down the road, he plans to introduce Taiwanese breakfast. "It's super carb heavy. It's delicious," he says, pointing to sweet and savory soy milks and sticky-rice rolls that bundle crullers, pork floss, and other fillings.
The smallish space was home to Porchetta until November 2016.
Fourteen fifty for soup!? How much for just a spoonful?
A dollar fifty for extra spicy?! That's 3oz of red pepper flakes. 3oz!
Seriously, I'll have mine with extra tendon, please. Nothing says Mmm Mmm Good like a little extra tendon loving care.
landlords ripping them off so now we get ripped off.
I'm all for my kin making this area more into the East Asian Village, but those prices... In Taiwan, you can get at least five bowls for the same price. At least half of this has to be rent.
This Ho would like to thank everyone for keeping it classy and not making any "Ho" jokes.
Ho's gonna have to turn lots of tricks to afford that food.
Glad to see I am not alone in the horror at the crazy food prices. Used to be so easy to get great food inexpensively here.


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I've been fascinated by computer games for as long as I can remember. In fact, almost all of my early computer knowledge came about because I wanted to play games. When I was in high school, I had some success writing simple games of my own. I didn't realize it at the time, but I learned much more about programming by fiddling with Game Maker than I did from my high school computer science teachers.
A lot of time has passed since then and I now work as a software engineer. Most of the systems I work on don't look much like games. They have web pages, piles of forms to fill in and users with a job to do. There are real world consequences, like money being invested, home loans being approved, or invoices being sent.
That said, throughout my career, I've maintained an interest in what game engineers are doing. Although I'm currently building applications in the financial space, I often find useful solutions in game engines.
Here are four key concepts that have helped my problem solving.
Let me tell you the story of a problem I had to solve: We needed to build a questionnaire whose questions changed based on previous answers. For example, we needed different information from someone saving for their retirement and someone saving to pay for their children to attend university. To further complicate matters, our system was a multi-tenant system, and each tenant was likely to have their own sets of special requirements, including different questions or a different order of questions. I needed something that would not only work for the specific example in front of me, but could be rapidly customized for other questionnaires. This was quite a change from questionnaires that I'd worked with before, so I wasn't sure how to approach it.
The Witcher 3 is a game that has a ridiculously large number of conversations all of which can take multiple paths. Piotr mentioned that modelling them to a graph scaled well for him.
This was more a case of inspiration than discovering some novel game method. Graphs are a common enough data structure, and I'd expect to see them in all computer science books on data structures. What I haven't personally seen before is a computer science text suggesting using graphs to model conversations.
Data structures, and the algorithms that act on them, are abstract. Examples from other domains make them easier to visualize and use.
How do you publish a new version of a web application without having downtime? For some places I've worked at, unfortunately, the answer was that you don't. People would need to come into work in the middle of the night, shut down the application, swap in the new version, and start it up again. This isn't much fun for the person doing the deployment or for customers. Can we look to a game design pattern for a better solution?
One of the design patterns you'll encounter in games programming is double-buffering. When you're drawing a scene in a game, you typically start by clearing the whole screen. Then, you draw each object in the game world onto the screen one at a time. Computers can draw very fast, but not fast enough to avoid a flickering effect as the background is drawn over everything.
Double-buffering solves this problem by maintaining two virtual screens, the titular double buffers. There's the front screen the user can actually see. Meanwhile, the program can draw whatever it wants to the back screen without the user seeing any flickering. When the back screen is fully drawn, you swap the front and back screens without the end user ever seeing a half-drawn image.
If you replace screen with server, then you might see where I'm going with this. Double-buffering bares a striking resemblance to blue green deployments.
In blue green deployments, you have two instances of your web application running: one that users can see and interact with, and one that you can deploy to. The application still needs to be shut down, but it happens on the back server so your users don't see it which means you can deploy new features at any time of day. After the server that you're deploying is done starting up, you can even take the time to click through and make sure everything is working before swapping the real users to it.
Programming problems are not bound to their business domain. Design patterns from unrelated systems could still be useful to yours.
Software performance is a funny thing. It won't matter at all for the vast majority of your software engineering pursuits. Modern computers are so fast that most of your code will be fast enough without changing anything. However, if your code is taking long enough that people have to sit idle while waiting for it, performance suddenly becomes exceedingly important.
Now, how can a look at game engines help with this? To maintain the illusion of smooth motion, a game engine needs to update all of the objects in the game world between 30 and 60 times per second. This gives only 33 milliseconds to update everything, and if you don't meet those performance deadlines, the game becomes unplayable.
Once, a client had a legacy system they used to generate PDF reports. It was pretty slow. When they were pushing to get work done, they hit a button and the server spent the next half hour on generating a massive PDF file. This was a major bottleneck for the company, because everyone who wanted to generate PDFs got in each other's way. At crunch time, this means they were working late nights waiting for their reports to be ready. When I took a close look at the source code under a profiler, I found that almost all of this time was spent on a single line of code: A font file loaded from the hard drive every time text was drawn into the PDF.
Understanding why some programs are faster than others often involves an understanding of the hardware that those programs are running on. As Mike Acton from Insomniac Games will enthusiastically tell you, our software runs on real physical hardware. This helps us assess what it takes to make the code on that hardware run fast.
Going over a network connection to hit another server.
Next time you're waiting on a loading screen in a game, know that it's currently loading data from the hard drive into RAM so that once you're playing, the game will be fast.
To fix my performance issue, I loaded all of the resources that I needed for the PDF into memory before starting to generate the PDF. The font was fetched from the hard drive and put into RAM once, the same way that you would load the resources for a level in a game. Having the font ready, rather than going to the hard drive every time, took their half hour wait down to a few seconds.
When I first started my personal website, the cost of hosting was a concern for me. I didn't have any readers, I didn't have any content, and I didn't want to lock myself into something expensive that might not work out. When you're paying for hosting an application on the internet, you're really renting time on a computer that's sitting in a data center somewhere. If your program needs a high-end computer, it's going to be expensive. If your program can run on a glorified potato, then hosting is cheap. It was in my financial best interest to ensure that my website didn't need much by way of computing power.
The original Crash Bandicoot games had a similar dilemma. Visually, they wanted to provide a busy vibrant world, but the PlayStation consoles at the time had limitations. One of the tricks that the team at Naughty Dog used was heavily preprocessing their levels: When the game was running, the engine knew which polygons it didn't need to draw. The camera that followed Crash around the levels was on a fixed path, so when they compiled a level, they could calculate what was visible from every point on the camera's path. If you ever wondered why those levels had so many gentle curves, hills, and leaves in the middle of the path, it was to obscure the path in the distance and limit the number of polygons on the screen. The time they spent waiting for their compile process to run was obscene, taking up to 12 hours to run, but the end result was that they could pack more detail into their levels than any other game of the time.
Back to my website, I use a static website generator called Jekyll. When my blog is deployed, it doesn't have any dynamic content. Whenever I need something dynamic, like an index page or the same navbar appearing on every page, it is processed when I compile the website on my computer. Since my web server only needs to allow static files to be downloaded, I can get away with paying for the cheapest hosting package I could find.
Think about what extra steps you could take during compilation to simplify your program when it's running.
I once worked on a project for an importer. They needed to photograph and catalog all of the products that they had available for import, so that they could take it to their customers. One of the challenges was that all of the photographs needed to be cropped to the same shape. One option would have been to force the end users to learn a program like Photoshop just to do the cropping, but we wanted to let them do their whole workflow without leaving our web application.
There are many games that run in web browsers. They're one of the easiest types of games to share, since I can drop a link into an article like this, and just by clicking the link you could be playing Cubxer. Back in the day, web browsers could only support this with extensions like Adobe Flash Player. In the last few years, this has been shifting to a standard HTML element called a 'canvas'. An HTML canvas is a box in a web page where you can take direct control over the pixels being drawn.
Scale the image to fill the canvas. Remember that the canvas and the image may be different shapes, so it may need to be padded.
Track what the user is doing with their mouse. If they click and drag on the canvas, draw a rectangle on top of your image following the mouse cursor.
When the mouse button is released, note the top left and bottom right pixel locations of the cropping rectangle the user just drew.
Redraw the image to the canvas, taking into account that you need to discard anything outside of the cropping rectangle.
If the user is happy with the change, save the cropping rectangle. You can recreate the cropped image at any point from the original image and the cropping rectangle.
It was a bit more work for us to develop this functionality, but it was worth it. Our users didn't need to install or use other applications to get their work done.
Sometimes it simplifies thing to just take direct control of the pixels being drawn.
The point that I'm driving towards is that game programming, while being focused on delivering a different type of product than most corporate systems, is still relevant to programming those corporate systems. The resources for learning about game programming will teach you relevant skills outside of games programming.
Game development applications like Game Maker can be an excellent way to introduce people to programming. I know that for me personally having a red ball that I could move around the screen was more interesting when I was learning programming than something that could only print "Hello World" in a terminal.
Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory: Good overall resource for how game engines work. Contains interesting insights into console game development.
Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom: A solid programming design patterns book, with a focus on how the patterns are used in games.
Unreal Engine: If you sign up as a developer on Unreal Engine's site, they give you full access to the source code. It's a massive, intimidating codebase, full of interesting lessons.
Mozilla Developer Network: Game Development: Mozilla's hub for technologies for writing games on the web. This is also useful for any other multimedia applications on the web.
GDC's YouTube Channel: Game Developer Conference's recordings. Behind the Scenes of the Cinematic Dialogues in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Diablo: A Classic Game Postmortem are good examples of interesting talks.
Game Maker: A tool for making games, aimed at people with minimal programming experience. Can be a good introduction to programming.
Red Blob Games: Articles explaining algorithms used in game development, with wonderfully interactive example.
Making Crash Bandicoot: The story of the making of Crash Bandicoot. The story is full of art, technology, and even a little Lisp.
Justin Worthe is a software engineer with an interest in music, games, good coffee, and using programming to get stuff done. He can often be found trying to find ways to play with all of these interests simultaneously. In the meantime, you can catch him on Twitter or Github.


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package com.cloud.agent.api;

import com.cloud.agent.api.to.VirtualMachineTO;

public class PrepareForMigrationCommand extends Command {
    VirtualMachineTO vm;

    protected PrepareForMigrationCommand() {
    }

    public PrepareForMigrationCommand(VirtualMachineTO vm) {
        this.vm = vm;
    }

    public VirtualMachineTO getVirtualMachine() {
        return vm;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean executeInSequence() {
        return true;
    }
}

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2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan Specs and Review – Chevy is infusing some brand-new life right into its small Chevrolet Sonic Sedan with an aesthetic freshening and some extra technology functions for 2017. Still offered in hatchback and Chevrolet Sonic Sedan kinds, the 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan embraces an appearance comparable to its crossover equivalent, the 2017 Chevrolet Trax Premier Review, which additionally was revitalized previously this year. The hood, front fascia, and the fronts lights are brand-new, and the Chevrolet Sonic Sedan likewise takes on optional LED accent lights and a smaller sized grille.
Disclosed at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, the present Chevrolet Sonic Sedan is a little aging as compared to its primary rivals, yet that really did not quit it from being a best-seller that brings brand-new, more youthful consumers to the brand name in the United States But, while Chevrolet isn't really intending on abandoning the currently six-year-old Gamma II system, the Chevrolet Sonic Sedan obtained a considerable transformation in advance of the 2016 New York Auto Show.
Contrasted to last year's design, which additionally acquired a couple of nips and tucks, the 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan Specs and Review is miles in advance in terms of exterior style. Strong enhancements were run inside as well, where a brand-new infomercial system and the most current connection innovations are readily available.
The 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan Specs and Review covering is totally brand-new for 2017 and utilizes the very same designing hints seen on the just recently revealed 2017 Chevrolet Cruze Review, Trax, and Bolt EV. The brand-new grille is flanked by revamped headlamps that no longer attribute round lights.
Both versions obtained comparable changes around back, with the most fascinating attribute being the brand-new taillight collection. The bumper is likewise brand-new and showcases sportier lines, a diffuser-like component, and a set of slim red lights. The Sonic obtained 4 brand-new exterior colors: Orange Burst Metallic, Brimstone, Cajun Red Tintcoat, and Arctic Blue Metallic. All informed, the brand-new style brings the Sonic in line with the remainder of Chevrolet's small schedule and offers it a much more high end look.
This is where the 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan Specs and Review rollovers unmodified, including the very same set of four-cylinder powerplants as the previous version. The conventional engine coincides 1.8-liter four-cylinder ranked at 138 horse power and 125 pound-feet of torque, while the optional 1.4-liter turbo-four provides the exact same 138 equines and 148 pound-feet of spin.
Leading rate is limited at 108 miles per hour for both the hatch and Sonic sedan. The 1.8-liter ought to return 26 mpg in the city, 35 mpg on the freeway, and 30 mpg integrated, while the 1.4-liter needs to be excellent for 29 mpg in the city, 40 mpg on the freeway, and 33 mpg incorporated.
Chevrolet has yet to release images of the Chevrolet Sonic Sedan brand-new interior, however it did claim that there is a brand-new scale collection integrating an analog speedometer, for "a greater level of improvement" and a brand-new guiding wheel. Apart from that, the brand name does not claim a word regarding the cabin's style, which leads me to think that very little has actually altered with this upgrade. We'll figure out even more when the Chevrolet Sonic Sedan debuts at the New York Auto Show.
For beginners, the brand-new version obtains a power vehicle driver's seat, which makes it the first in its sector to supply this attribute. Chevrolet additionally consisted of keyless access and beginning. Perhaps one of the most vital enhancement to the Chevrolet Sonic Sedan is the seven-inch touchscreen powered by a brand-new infomercial system created to sustain the most recent connection innovations. It consists of 4G LTE with Wi-Fi hotspot that enables guests to attach as much as 7 suitable tools to high-speed, cordless Internet and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. The last is yet one more segment-exclusive attribute.
Do not anticipate much of a prices adjustment for the modified 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan, either; the 2016 version began at $15,220 for a manual-transmission sedan LS and varied approximately $22,370 for an RS with the automated in either body design.
Anticipate to see the 2017 Chevrolet Sonic Sedan Specs and Review in car dealerships this loss.
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Did you miss your Initial Enrollment Period for Medicare?
Health insurance is a little like car insurance. For car insurance, you pay a fee to the insurance company and they pay a portion of the costs if your car is wrecked. It works the same way with health insurance. You pay a fee, the insurance plan will pay for a portion of your costs of visits to the doctor, emergency room and hospital stays, medical tests, and prescription drugs. Health insurance companies offer several types of plans that cover different health services.
Visit www.nativeexchange.org to get more information.
2. Why would I want to buy health insurance for my family? I thought the Indian Health Service was the place I could get health care for my family.
Affordable Care Act insurance program will provide you and your family with more choices for services and providers of services. Not only will you have more options about where you receive your health service, but this will also allow you and your family to see a provider sooner rather than later. If you enroll in a health insurance plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace, you can still get (or keep getting) services from the IHS, tribal health programs, or urban Indian health programs. In fact, your IHS or tribal clinic will be able to bill your insurance and be able to make up for some of the underfunding, which may lead to maintaining or expanding services to your community.
3. How will this help if my child needs counseling or treatment for emotional problems or substance abuse?
4. I'm a citizen of a federally recognized tribe. What does that mean in this process of health insurance enrollment?
For AIs/ANs with health insurance, there is never any cost sharing (also called a co-pay or co-payment) when you get your services from your tribal or IHS clinic.
If you qualify for Medicaid or CHIP—and you're eligible for or have received services from the IHS, tribal health programs, or urban Indian health programs—you will not have to pay Medicaid or CHIP fees, enrollment fees, and out-of-pocket costs. Indian trust income is not counted when determining Medicaid eligibility.
To get more familiar with these protections and benefits, please visit https://www.healthcare.gov/if-im-an-american-indian-or-alaska-native-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-marketplace/.
5. What is a Health Insurance "Marketplace" and how do I get to it?
A Health Insurance Marketplace is where individuals can buy health insurance for themselves and their families; small businesses can buy health insurance for their employees, and tribes can buy health insurance for their citizens. There will be Health Insurance Marketplace, also known as an "Exchange," in each state operated by the state or federal government— for more information go to www.healthcare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596 (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).
People at your tribal or IHS clinic can help you access the Exchange website.
You will be asked a few questions to help in qualifying you and your family for the best insurance choices.
The information you provide will assist the Health Insurance Marketplace team to determine if you are eligible for Exchange plans or other programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP.
Information from your federal income tax will be used to determine whether you qualify for programs that reduce or eliminate the cost of health insurance, like Medicaid and Medicare.
After you see what programs are available, you can decide whether you want to enroll.
Enrollment can be done on the website, by phone, or through an enrollment counselor at the tribal or IHS clinic.
6. What benefits will my family and I have with this insurance?
Click here to download this One-sheet for for information.


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Robust ESD performance is challenging for many companies making new designs. Certus was founded by ESD engineers, and our results speak for themselves. Not only do we address standard ESD requirements such as HBM and CDM, but we also provide on-chip solutions for standards such as system-level IEC 6100-24-2 and Cable Discharge Events (CDE). Many of our standard IO designs exceed 2KV IEC. Certus also supports solutions for EOS.
Certus works closely with our clients to provide custom solutions affordably and with fast turnaround. By leveraging our large IP database spanning geometries from 180nm to 12nm and applications from low-voltage CMOS to HV, we likely have a starting point from which we can affordably create the variations you need. Our building-block design style easily enables us to create configurations to fit a variety of cell sizes, aspect-ratios, pad arrangements, and packages.
Specialty IO solutions are our strength. We hold 3.3V-5V digital & analog solutions in native 1.8V processes. We offer >20V switches in standard low-voltage CMOS technology, allowing for their direct integration with high-voltage analog, sensors, RF and MEMS solutions. Our full-custom RF and analog libraries target robustness, noise, distortion, low-capacitance, increased ESD, and more. We even have TSV (through-silicon-via) IOs. Whatever your application requires, we can probably make it!