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A Liverpool pub that has become 'a legend among sailors the world over' now stands empty and largely forgotten in the city centre.
The Nook pub on the corner of Griffiths Street and Nelson Street in Liverpool's Chinatown became world famous when its name was spread by traveling businessmen and sailors in foreign ports during the maritime heyday from the city.
Since 1940 it has also been known as the Chinese Local, a plaque attesting that it is fixed to its Nelson Street facade and has been called "Britain's only Chinese pub".
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Although the presence of Chinese in Liverpool dates back to 1834, it was in the 1860s that the first Chinese immigrants began to arrive thanks to Alfred Holt & Co, better known as the Blue Funnel Shipping Line, trading with the Far East and employing a large number of Chinese sailors.
Boarding houses were opened in the Pitt Street area near the docks, where Chinese sailors could stay with compatriots who spoke the same language.
During the May 1941 Blitz, German bombs wreaked havoc in Chinatown, destroying Pitt Street, Cleveland Square and Fredrick Street. This caused the Chinese community to move further inland to Nelson Street, Great George Street, Upper Parliament Street, Duke Street and Berry Street – areas of the city we now associate with Chinatown.
During Liverpool's heyday as a trading port, The Nook became a meeting place for seafarers and a hub for the local Chinese community.
However, it didn't just cater to Chinese sailors and the Chinese community, The Nook was a pub with a cosmopolitan reputation where sailors from all over the world rubbed shoulders with its regulars.
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From 1945 to 1974, The Nook was run by an Irish owner called Eileen Jones – one of the most respected and well-known licensees in town.
She was known to have an amazing collection of wide-brimmed hats and wore a different one every night – a fashion choice more likely to be spotted at Ascot than serving behind a bar.
In 1967, Eileen Jones was also crowned "Queen of Chinatown" by the Liverpool Press Club. Originally from County Cork, she came to Liverpool in 1930 with her husband and they originally owned a pub on Pitt Street.
In an article about Chinatown's dwindling population from its pre-war heyday published in the Liverpool Echo in 1974, the legendary landlady was quoted as saying: "To me it exists more than ever. My place is their only meeting place. It is a home for many and always will be."
When she died later that year, her funeral, which was attended by more than 200 mourners, was also echoed under the title: "Chinatown 'Queen' Dies".
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The Nook passed into the hands of his son, Colman Fitzgerald, who carried on the pub's tradition of calling the time in English and Cantonese.
In a pub review in 1974, The Nook was described as: "[A] sailor's pub which counts among its regulars sailors from all over the world, but especially Chinese sailors, and the local Chinese community. If you call you will find the customers not only scrutinizing but downright friendly. The decor is oriental, with willow-like patterns on the tables, walls and lanterns, but the vibe is Scouse."
After being in the same family for 40 years, the keys to the pub were handed over to new management in 1985.
The pub's sad decline was documented in another Liverpool Echo review in 2008, when it was recently reported to resemble an 'abandoned bomb shelter'. But it was still "a lovely place full of character and characters".
After a pub facelift, the same review described how the portrait of The Nook's most famous owner "the feisty Mrs. Jones" is now gone, while the "gigantic world map showing the ancient maritime trade routes of yore has disappeared." also disappeared, collapsing during renovation."
After having its license suspended in 2009 when counterfeit cigarettes and vodka were found on the premises, Liverpool's once world-famous and most cosmopolitan pub has closed its doors.
In 2014, there were plans to convert the now derelict and condemned building into a living museum on Nelson Street. The plans involved creating a place where people could walk around and tell their stories, adding to the archives of the oldest Chinese community in Europe.
Unfortunately, the plans have yet to materialize and The Nook is empty. A sad elegy to a once legendary pub whose reputation for hospitality has crossed the oceans.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary define the word Extortion as obtaining (as money) from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or unlawful use of authority or power.
In order for musicians to get paid copyright collectives began to appear in the 19th century. These collecting societies were formed to ensure that those who create copyrighted material are able to collect the money they are due. In its simplest form the member musician hands over control of his/her economic rights to the collecting society. The collecting society then has the mandate to collect the dues. Once collected these funds are dispersed among the members.
In most (at least European) countries the collecting societies have established themselves as a central part of the socio-economic system. They are powerful interest groups which ensure that they (and in extention their members) are catered to by the political-legal system. By entering into agreements with trade organisations the collecting societies now have established the right to collect money from all businesses that play music, show tv etc to their customers.
Rasmus at Copyriot has written an interesting piece on the way in which collecting societies manage to collect money. In Sweden the most active collecting societies are SAMI and STIM which are able to collect money for any music played in places of business where customers gather.
So large everything from: hotels with music in the lifts, small pizzerias whose music annoys you while you wait for your delivery, hairdressers, businesses that play cheesy music while you are on hold and cafÃ©s with music nobody listens to. They are all required to pay to the collecting societies.
Rasmus even relates an event where a policeman at a demonstration in Germany wrote down all the songs played and sent the list to the German collecting societies who promptly sent the organiser a bill. Swedish law would work in the same way. The policemanâ??s superior stated that the policeman had gone too far but the bill still has to be paid. (link to story in German).
The Spanish Case
In 2005 the main Spanish collecting society (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores – SGAE) â?? sued Ricardo AndrÃ©s Utrera FernÃ¡ndez, the owner of Metropol, a disco bar located in in Badajoz for not paying SGAEâ??s license fee of 4.816,74 â?¬ for the period from November 2002 to August 2005 for the public performance of music.
On February 17th, 2006, the Lower Court number six of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain, rejected the collecting societyâ??s claims because the owner of the bar proved that the music he was using was not managed by the society. The music performed in the bar was licensed under CC licenses that allows that public display since the authors have already granted those rights. Specifically, the judge said:
â??The author possesses some moral and economic rights on his creation. And the owner of these rights, he can manage them as he considers appropriate, being able to yield the free use, or hand it over partially. "Creative Commons" licenses are different classes of authorizations that the holder of his work gives for a more or less free or no cost use of it. They exist as â?¦ different classes of licenses of this type â?¦ they allow third parties to be able to use music freely and without cost with greater or minor extension; and in some of these licenses, specific uses require the payment of royalties. The defendant proves that he makes use of music that is handled by their authors through these Creative Commons licenses.â?? (quote from CC)
The full text of the decision (in Spanish) is available here. The Spanish case sets a new precedent in that it confirms that the collecting societies can only collect if the music played is made by members of collecting societies.
Copyright Activists Needed
What needs to be done? Hairdressers and cafÃ© owners are probably not the most tech or Internet savvy. So to help them the basic idea is to set up a website filled with CC licensed music and easy howto instructions on how to use the music either online or by downloading and creating CDâ??s.
Aside from music arranged by genre, technical information on how to use it, the site should include legal information explaining why the users will no longer have to pay money to the collecting societies.
This copyright civil disobedience could potentially become the most important method for affecting change in the copyright system since it attacks the purse of the collecting society. In addition to this the scheme is legal. This last point does not make it less civil disobedience since the organisation of the site is a form of protest against the extortionary powers which the collecting societies have collected.

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Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Uncontacted Tribe in Peru
Indigenous people and trees are in peril due to illegally-logged mahogany destined for the floors and high-end furniture of American homes. Loggers are operating in the supposedly protected lands of uncontacted tribes deep in the Peruvian Amazon. A new report details how illegal mahogany loggers are flouting international law and endangering the livelihood and health of tribes that have little resistance to any diseases that may be brought by outsiders. Mahogany is an endangered tree protected by international law; 80% of Peru's mahogany exports go to the United States.
The Upper Amazon Conservancy states that until the US government takes a strong stand and rejects questionably-sourced Peruvian mahogany, trees and the tribes are at risk of disappearing. Loggers forced contact with the Murunuhua tribe in 1996; over 50% of them died in the ensuing years, mostly from respiratory infections. This video shows a tribe member who survived first contact:
The NGO Survival International estimates that there are 15 uncontacted tribes left in isolated areas of the Peruvian rainforest.
In March 2010 at an international meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), Peru was given six months to enact legislation to address the illegal mahogany trade. Repeated attempts to stem the flow to protect both the species and the indigenous people have failed and abuses are rampant. In June, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeted Peruvian President Garcia, saying, "The United States and Peru are working together to protect the environment, to move toward more sources of renewable independent energy to fuel the economy here in Peru." Let us hope that we do not put a short-sighted quest for economic progress ahead of the protection of endangered trees and endangered tribes.
Take Action
Write your congressman, member of Parliament or other government representative, or the President of Peru, urging protection of uncontacted tribes and of their lands. A sample letter can be found here:
Photo: Recently-contacted Murunuhua tribe member, Peru.
 (c) Chris Fagan, Upper Amazon Conservancy via Survival International
Used with permission.
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John S.
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Have a copy of the letter that I will print and mail today, thanks.
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Milian Correa5 years ago
What a shame that those we trust to protect the people are the ones doing the most harm. Why can't those who respect and are trying to protect our planet be left in peace. The country is run by greed and stupidity.
Jewels S.
Jewels S.5 years ago
It is hard to stay hopeful while learning what greed is doing to our world. But education about this problem is the first step towards stopping it. I will spread the word to all I know.
Jonathan Y.
Jonathan Y.5 years ago
Just great, another place where people live peacefully, minding their own business, in balance with the planet, and a giant corporation comes in to destroy their lives.
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Pauline Cousins5 years ago
The majority are supposed to protect the minority, whats gone wrong. There are many endangered species and tribes out there, why should mans greed be allowed to put them at further risk.
Pat J.
Pat J.5 years ago
God it is frightening to think of what men do in the name of greed. The way we are going we wont have a planet left just a desert with no oxygen to breathe, We need the rainforest to survive. Why is there such ignorance in the world?????
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Nellie K. Adaba5 years ago
That is not good. Modern people don't know how to take care of nature and the environment. Everyone must go back to their more early and primitive to be in tune and in harmony with nature, save the planet and the world...
Deb L.
debbie Lewis5 years ago
Endangered things are supposed to be protected.
Lois K.
Lois K.5 years ago
It is not only animals that are endangered, but humans, as well. Hundreds of tribes have become extinct, and many more are in danger of doing so, because of logging, mining, and ranching that result in their homeland being destroyed.
Rudolf Affolter
Past Member 5 years ago
All the wealth in the world and more will not be enough John.


rsu.sep.rsvarse {epiR}R Documentation
Surveillance system sensitivity assuming representative sampling and varying unit sensitivity
Description
Calculates the surveillance system (population-level) sensitivity for detection of disease assuming representative sampling and varying unit sensitivity.
Usage
rsu.sep.rsvarse(N = NA, pstar, se.u)
Arguments
N
scalar integer or vector of integers the same length as se.u, representing the population size. Use NA if unknown.
pstar
scalar representing the design prevalence.
se.u
vector of numbers the same length as N representing the individual unit sensitivities.
Value
A vector of surveillance system (population-level) sensitivity estimates.
References
MacDiarmid S (1988). Future options for brucellosis surveillance in New Zealand beef herds. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 36: 39 - 42.
Martin S, Shoukri M, Thorburn M (1992). Evaluating the health status of herds based on tests applied to individuals. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 14: 33 - 43.
Examples
## EXAMPLE 1:
## A study has been carried out to detect Johne's disease in a population of
## cattle. A random sample of 50 herds from a herd population of unknown size
## has been selected and, from each selected herd, a variable number of animals
## have been tested using faecal culture which is assumed to have a diagnostic
## sensitivity in the order of 0.60.
## The number of animals tested in each of the 50 herds is:
set.seed(1234)
ntest <- round(runif(n = 50, min = 10, max = 30), digits = 0)
ntest
## Calculate the herd level sensitivity of disease detection, assuming we've
## been provided with no details of the number of animals in each of the 50
## herds. Assume a within-herd design prevalence of 0.05:
herd.se <- rsu.sep.rs(N = NA, n = ntest, pstar = 0.05, se.u = 0.60)
range(herd.se)
## The herd level sensitivity of detection varies between 0.26 and 0.60.
## Calculate the surveillance system sensitivity assuming a herd-level design
## prevalence of 0.01:
rsu.sep.rsvarse(N = NA, pstar = 0.01, se.u = herd.se)
## The surveillance system sensitivity is 0.20.
[Package epiR version 2.0.38 Index]


Do This Exercise to Improve Your Photography Lighting Skills
Practice makes perfect. Consider football players practicing before a game. While practicing, they do all kinds of things that they wouldn't do during an actual game. In practice sessions, they push themselves and their skills to their limits, because they want to improve their skills, agility, strength, and decision making. As a photographer, you should do the same. In the following video, photographer Mark Wallace from Adorama takes you through an exercise to help you stay on top of your photography game:
To understand how to have better control over lighting as a photographer, Wallace takes you through an exercise similar to what classic painters used: a still life. By shooting still life, you will have a better understanding of how to control specular highlights, shadows, and the direction of light. So follow along and start practicing.
Setup for Still Life Photography Practice
For the practice session, Wallace has the following setup:
 - Leica M10 camera with a 50mm lens, set at f/8 for greater depth of field
 - At the other end of the camera, he has some tomatoes, apples, grapes, and a glass pitcher with potpourri. Note that the fruits, vegetables and the glass pitcher are shiny and have specular highlights.
 - The setup is lit with big windows on the side, and one incandescent light on the top.
Exercise to Control Specular Highlights
Since the items that Wallace has chosen are very shiny, they show off reflections of the light source (specular highlights). The first exercise is to control those specular highlights, as they can be very distracting and difficult to deal with even in post. Here's what Wallace does to control the specular highlights:
 - First off, he starts by taking a photo of the fruit and vegetable setup just using the ambient light. This gives him an idea of how the specular highlights appear in the image.
lighting practice with ambient light
 - Taking inspiration from the classic master painters, he approaches the situation with the idea of getting rid of ambient light by closing the windows.
 - He uses a Profoto B2 with a soft box to light the subject. To avoid specular highlights, he places the light setup close to and behind the subject, also making sure that some amount of light is spilled in front of the subject.
 - He then meters the light by pointing the light meters toward the light (and not the camera) and takes the photo as per the reading to get the following result:
lighting practice using still life
Notice the reflection of chairs on the edges of the glass.
The image looks a lot better. However, there are still specular highlights on the glass due to the reflection of the chairs. By getting rid of the chairs, the result is further improved. Notice how being aware of your surroundings can help you in figuring out issues with your photos.
still life lighting exercise
If you look closely, you can still see the light stand behind the subject. Wallace uses a black cloth to cover it up while using a 12 second timer to delay the shutter release.
lighting practice with still life
Using a black cloth to get rid of the light stand
lighting practice activity
The light stand is not visible anymore.
Retouching Still Life Images
Once satisfied with the image, Wallace opens it up in Adobe Lightroom and makes use of adjustment brushes to make local corrections. Here is what he does in post:
 - Add some front light to the underexposed areas (tomatoes, grapes, and apples).
 - Make the background more seamless by reducing the exposure on the edge of the cloth.
 - Get rid of the table legs by reducing the exposure.
 - Add some clarity.
 - Experiment with vibrance.
Once happy with the adjustments in Lightroom, he opens up the image in Adobe Photoshop. In Photoshop, using the Analog Efex plug-in, he experiments with various presets until he's happy.
how to practice photography lighting
While retouching, don't over stress yourself. Feel free to experiment and play around until you're happy with the end result. Remember that you're practicing and learning skills that you will use next time you're on an actual photo shoot.
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Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Differential psychology is concerned with the study of individual differences in humans. The science of psychology studies people at three levels of focus captured by the well known quote: "Every man is in certain respects (a) like all other men, (b) like some other men, (c) like no other man" (Murray, H.A. & C. Kluckhohn, 1953). Differential psychology focuses on this second level of study.
For example, think of a group of students taking a typing test. Some students will work very slowly, typing fewer sentences, but making few errors. Other students will work very quickly, typing much more while making more errors. This is an example of an individual difference in speed/accuracy tradeoffs. Some individuals will work fast with lots of errors and others will work slowly with few errors, even when they are given the same instructions.
Typical areas of study in differential psychology are personality, motivation, intelligence and ability, interests, values, self-concept, self-efficacy, and self-esteem (to name just a few). There are few remaining "differential psychology" programs in the United States, although research in this area is very active. Current researchers are found in a variety of programs, including educational psychology, industrial psychology, and social psychology programs.
Prominent differential psychologists: Phillip Ackerman, Cyril Burt, Raymond Cattell, Lee Cronbach, John B. Carroll, J.P. Guilford, Lloyd Humphreys, Arthur Jensen, Richard Lynn, Richard Snow, Robert J. Sternberg, L.L. Thurstone.
References & BibliographyEdit
- Buss, D.M., & Greiling, H. (1999). Adaptive Individual Differences. Journal of Personality, 67, 209-243. Full text
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The Fourth Arab Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference
09-12 April, 2017 Algiers, Algeria
Houari Boumediene University of Sciences and Technology (Algiers)
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
The General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSDT)
Planetary Sciences section of the Arabian Géosciences Union, Arab Union Astronomy of sciences and space ( AUASS), Geophysical Society of Algeria (SAG) & YES Algeria
Under the patronage of the Rector of USTHB , and the General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSDT)
THE FOURTH ARAB IMPACT CRATERING AND ASTROGEOLOGY CONFERENCE
The USTHB (Faculty of the Earth sciences, FSTGAT) in partnership with DGRSDT, the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS), the Planetary Sciences section of the Arabian Géociences Union (AGU) and the Algerian Chapter of the Young Earth Scientists Network (YESdz), co-organized the 4th ARAB IMPACT CRATERING AND ASTROGEOLOGY CONFERENCE. The Opening Ceremony of this conference took place on 09th, April 2017 at USTHB university . More than 25 presentations and posters were given by researchers and Phd students in the field of imapct cratering and astrogeology on 9th April. The field excursion was performed in the impact crater of MAADNA (TALEMZANE) located in Hassi Dellaa (South of Laghouat) on 10th, April 2017.
This conference comes after successful meetings of the third AICAC, 2014 and the 77th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, 2014 hosted by the Faculty of Sciences, Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco.
This conference will aim primarily at establishing cooperation between different groups specialized in the field of impact cratering, meteorites, Astrogeology and researchers from the Middle East and North Africa considered among the richest part of the world in impact craters and meteorite collection. The conference provides opportunities for Arab researchers to meet other experts of the analysis of terrestrial impact structures and meteorite collections and will promote exchanges about the most advanced techniques for the characterization of shocked material. The conference allows increasing awareness particularly in Arab countries, where meteorites and impact craters are relatively abundant. The objectives are to stimulate the meticulous documentation concerning impact craters, to promote new research in Astrogeology and Meteoritics, and to enhance interest among universities and scientific institutions in the Arabic countries.

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Arts and education
The following organisations and links will be useful to those interested in arts and education and working with young people. The Arts in Wiltshire blog hosts current information on resources, training and opportunities relating to arts and education and Youth Arts.
Arts Awards support young people who want to deepen their engagement with the arts, build creative and leadership skills, and to achieve a national qualification.
Through Arts Award at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels, young people aged 11-25 can explore any of the art forms including performing arts, visual arts, literature, media and multimedia. The award builds confidence, helps young people to enjoy cultural activities, and prepares them for further education or employment.
Wiltshire library service is an Arts Award Supporter and provides activities and resources to support young people on their award journey.
Arts Council England aims to make sure that every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts. Artsmark is the national programme that enables schools, further education colleges and youth justice settings to evaluate, celebrate and strengthen a quality arts offer in order to raise achievement and aspirations.
Artsmark aims to make sure that children and young people are able to develop their artistic capabilities, experience and engage with a range of art forms. It is developed in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department of Education and Ofsted.
Visit the Artsmark website for more information about the programme.
Cultural Learning Alliance - champions a right to art and culture for every child
The Wiltshire and Swindon Education Partnership (W&SCEP) aims to improve educational, cultural and social outcomes for children and young people through broadening effective interaction between cultural organisations (including arts, heritage and libraries) and schools, in places where it is most needed. It is a response to the Cultural Education Challenge set by Arts Council England.
When the Cultural Education Challenge was launched, hundreds of organisations and individuals from the region gathered to develop a plan. In 2017 the executive partners emerged to deliver the plan. These are:
- Create Studios Swindon based in Swindon, a digital and media organisation
- Pound Arts Trust based in Corsham, a multi-art form organisation
- Prime Theatre based in Swindon, theatre for and by young people
- Wiltshire Creative based in Salisbury, a pan arts organisation bringing together Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury International Arts Festival and Salisbury Arts Centre
- Wiltshire Music Centre based in Bradford on Avon, a music venue
- Wiltshire Music Connect based in Bradford on Avon, the music hub for Wiltshire
- Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre based in Chippenham, an heritage organisation
Six school leaders, representing both primary and secondary levels, have been recruited as Cultural Champions to develop this relationship. As key stakeholders in the partnership they are advising on and supporting solutions to the cultural provision challenges that school face. They are actively encouraging innovation and collaboration between cultural providers and schools and participating in developing the following outcomes:
- More schools engaging in cultural activity
- Legacy of skills, understanding and capacity within schools to continue engagement in longer term; and capacity within cultural organisations to meet schools and pupils needs
- Schools enabled to make more informed choices about which cultural providers to engage with and on what basis
- Improved understanding and interaction between providers and schools
During 2019 and 2020, the W&SCEP will develop a number of initiatives to enhance cultural education. It will engage with more Cultural Champions with special areas of interest and will provide opportunities for schools to engage in innovative education activity that promotes health and wellbeing. Cultural education providers will take part in training that will encourage arts award engagement, support inclusion and work more effectively with SEN/D and deaf children and young people. Additional resources and professional development opportunities for all those involved in cultural education will be developed including case studies and conferences. W&SCEP will be exploring the longer term impact as a central hub for cultural education and its sustainability through a partnership membership model.
Part of Wiltshire council's commissioning, performance and school effectiveness team, Wiltshire Music Connect, our music education hub has a strategic overview of provision and providers across the county and provides support and resources to those who deliver music services. It can also connect anyone wanting to learn to service providers all across Wiltshire, including former music service tutors now working on a freelance basis.
Wiltshire Music Connect also provides training & support and subsidies for young musicians.
This charter was developed by Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership which facilitated youth arts opportunities from approximately 2000 to 2017. The Youth Arts Charter PDF can be found in the downloads section.


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Director of Maintenance
Aviation Search Group •
The Director of Maintenance (DOM) serves as regulatory Director of Maintenance (DOM) in accordance with CFR 119.65(a) (4) and has overall authority and responsibility for maintenance and alteration functions.
- Provides managerial authority and is the accountable manager for all processes of the Maintenance Departments including Quality Department, Maintenance Control, Parts Department, Line Station Maintenance, Technical Support, Technical Publications, Maintenance Training and Maintenance Records.
- Promotes safety throughout the organization as mandated through Company policies identified by executive management.
- Provides overall authority for all aircraft technical standards and acceptable deviations from Company maintenance policies and procedures that are not detrimental to airworthiness.
- Monitors maintenance performance against Company policies, procedures, and standards, and provides recommendations to improve safety of operations and productivity of the entire operation.
- Prepares the annual budgetary requirements for all maintenance departments.
- Provides overall authority and oversight of the CASS program in the implementation of appropriate corrective actions agreed upon by the CRB.
- Works in direct liaison with the DO in scheduling maintenance of Company's aircraft, coordinating changes of maintenance schedules with all concerned, and all modifications changes required by flight operations.
- The primary FAA contact for matters regarding the Maintenance Department as described in this position description.
- Ensures that adequate staffing, facilities, tooling, and equipment are available for maintenance of the Company aircraft for the 121 and 135 certificates.
- Responsible for the maintenance of aircraft, engines, and components in the manner prescribed by the AAIP, manufacturers' maintenance and overhaul manuals, service bulletins, ADs, Engineering Orders, and applicable CFRs.
- Provides written requests to the FAA for addition or deletion of aircraft to the Ops Specs and SAS.
- Responsible to review and approve contracts related to maintenance assets and outsourced vendors.
- Liaison with outside customers to ensure contractual requirements pertaining to each agreement are executed.
Must hold a current A & P license 121.378(b) and meet supervisory and experience requirements under CFR 119.67(d) and 119.69(d) to be the accountable manager.
Experience in a 121 and 135 environment.
Have at least 3 years of maintenance experience on different types of large airplanes with 10 or more passenger seats , 1 year of which must have been as maintenance inspector; and
Have at least 1 year of experience in a supervisory capacity maintaining the same category and class of aircraft as the certificate holder uses.
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On the Secrecy Capacity of 2-user Gaussian Interference Channel with Independent Secret Keys
- On the Secrecy Capacity of 2-user Gaussian Interference Channel with Independent Secret Keys
- Sinha, Aditya; Mohapatra, Parthajit; Lee, Jemin; Quek, Tony Q.S.
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- Lee, Jemin
- Issue Date
- 15th International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, ISITA 2018, 663-667
- This paper considers the problem of secure communication over a 2-user Gaussian interference channel (GIC) with shared key of finite rate between the transmitter-receiver pair with strong secrecy constraint at the receiver. The main contributions of the paper lies in obtaining a novel achievable scheme which uses a combination of one-time pad, stochastic encoding and superposition based coding scheme, and outer bound on the secrecy capacity region of the 2-user GIC. The main novelty of the derivation of the outer bound lies in the selection of the side-information to be provided to the receiver and using the secrecy constraints at the receiver. The results highlight the role of secret key in the encoding of messages to enhance the system performance in interference limited scenarios. © 2018 IEICE.
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Civil Eng. Department, Univ. of Minnesota
In the present paper, a 3D numerical model has been applied to predict the flow hydrodynamics around power intakes within the Dez dam reservoir. The Dez dam is a 203 m high, double arch concrete dam which is constructed by Italians in 1962. Since then, sedimentation in reservoir
has continued and since the dam does not have bottom outlet, the reservoir bed level is raising by a rate of about 2.5 meter per year. The power intake invert level is in 270 m asl and on the basis of 2007 hydrography results, the reservoir bed level has reached the level of 260 m asl that means the sediment level is just 10 meters below the power tunnel intakes. The applied three dimensional model is a finite volume model, which can model curvilinear and non-orthogonal domains and uses the fully 3D time averaged Navier Stocks equations. For incorporating the effects of turbulent flow in computations, an advanced turbulent model, named k −w model has been applied. The present model results for flow field around power intakes show that for the present conditions (sediment level of 260 m and intakes level of 270 m ) some limited amount of
sediments is entering power tunnels and if no rehabilitation measures is considered, more sediment will enter the power tunnels in the coming years.


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I've been trying to trace the development and different names of In 6 from 1923 on, but I'm getting confused around 1935.
From what I've read, In 6's earliest name was: the Inspectorate of Motor Transport Troops (Inspecktion der Kraftfahrtruppen). Then it changed to the Inspectorate of Mechanized Troops and then (maybe) on 1 Jun 1934 to the Motorized Combat Troops Command. On 27 Sep 1935 I think, it was renamed Panzer Troops Command. And in 1938 it was renamed the Inspectorate for Motor Transport Troops and Army Motorization (Inspecktion der Kraftfahrtruppen und für Heeresmotorisierung). At some point, (1943 maybe) it became the Inspectorate of Panzer Troops - I think.
If someone has the history of when the names of In 6 changed, and what they were changed to, I'd greatly appreciate it.
If not, how about what it was called in 1940, prior to the battles in France and Low Countries?
Chris From NY

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above example, the function "sprime" represents a family of functions of the variables parametrized by the parameter .
The anonympus function
 @(x, t) sprime (x, t, k)
is a function of only where the parameter is 'frozen' to the value it has at the moment in the current scope.
Distance between points
Problem
Given a set of points in space we want to calculate the distance between all of them. Each point is described by its components . Asusme that the points are saved in a matrix P with N rows (one for each point) and D columns, one for each component.
Solution
One way of proceeding is to use the broadcast properties of operators in GNU Octave. The square distance between the points can be calculated with the code
Code: Calculate square distance between points
[N, dim] = size (P);
Dsq = zeros (N);
for i = 1:dim
 Dsq += (P(:,i) - P(:,i)').^2;
endfor
This matrix is symmetric with zero diagonal.
Similarly the vectors pointing from one point to the another is
Code: Calculate radius vector between points
R = zeros (N,N,dim);
for i = 1:dim
 R(:,:,i) = P(:,i) - P(:,i)';
endfor
The relation between Dsq and R is
Code: Calculate square distance from radius vector between points
Dsq = sumsq (R,3);
Discussion
The calculation can be implemented using functions like cellfun and avoid the loop over components of the points. However in most cases we will have more points than components and the improvement, if any, will be minimal.
Another observation is that the matrix Dsq is symmetric and we could store only the lower or upper triangular part. To use this optimization in a practical way check the help of the functions vech and unvech (this one is in the Forge package general). Two functions that haven't seen the light yet are sub2ind_tril and ind2sub_tril (currently private functions in the Forge package mechanics) that are useful to index the elements of a vector constructed with the function vech. Each page (the third index) of the multidimensional array R is an anti-symmetric matrix and we could also save some memory by keeping only one of the triangular submatrices.
Check the Geometry package for many more distance functions (points, lines, polygons, etc.).
Plotting
Input/Ouput
Create a text table with fprintf
(A funny formatting trick with fprintf found by chance) Imagine that you want to create a text table with fprintf with 2 columns of 15 characters width and both right justified. How to do this thing?
That's easy:
If the variable Text is a cell array of strings (of length <15) with two columns and a certain number of rows, simply type for the kth row of Text
fprintf('%15.15s | %15.15s\n', Text{k,1}, Text{k,2});
The syntax '%<n>.<m>s' allocates '<n>' places to write chars and display the '<m>' first characters of the string to display.
Example:
octave:1> Text={'Hello','World'};
octave:2> fprintf('%15.15s | %15.15s\n', Text{1,1}, Text{1,2})
 Hello | World
Load comma separated values (*.csv) files
A=textread("file.csv", "%d", "delimiter", ",");
B=textread("file.csv", "%s", "delimiter", ",");
inds = isnan(A);
B(!inds) = num2cell(A(!inds))
This gets you a 1 column cell array. You can reshape it to the original size by using the reshape function
The next version of octave (3.6) implements the CollectOutput switch as seen in example 8 here: _URL_


Investing in transportation stocks
The transportation industry tends to perform well in strong economies, but other volatile sectors can force it to make sharp turns.
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Investing in the transportation industry is a great way to diversify your portfolio across several industries including airlines, railroads and trucking. But because it's tied to several external industries including oil and gas, transportation stocks can be very volatile.
Government regulations can also deliver a major impact. So can world events like the coronavirus, which rattled the transportation industry in 2020.
What are transportation stocks?
Transportation stocks are part of various companies that move people, products and goods all over the world by land, sea or air. They make up a diverse industry containing several different types of companies including:
 - Airlines
 - Air freight companies
 - Trucking firms
 - Railroads
 - Marine shipping companies
 - Logistics companies
 - Service providers that help transportation firms such as airport operators and marine ports
The transportation industry is a big part of everyday life. Transportation companies get you to where you need to go, food to your supermarket and clothes to your local stores.
Why invest in transportation stocks?
In a global economy, people need to move goods, services and talent around. This is where the transportation industry comes in. And because a vast number of companies are involved, transportation stocks can be seen as clear avenues to portfolio diversification.
The transportation industry is part of the wider industrial sector. That's why its performance is strongly tied to the state of the overall economy. These companies tend to perform well under robust economic conditions.
This performance can be an indicator that businesses are gaining speed and moving goods and services around to meet demand. But the transportation industry can be highly speculative and hard to predict.
Risks of investing in transportation stocks
Because the transportation industry is so vast, transportation stocks can be affected by the performance of several other sectors. For instance, transportation companies rely heavily on fuel to get the job done. That includes everything from diesel to jet fuel.
If fuel prices rise, so can the costs for different transportation companies. That in turn can cut profits as well as stock prices. An active investor may not benefit from transportation stocks in a difficult economy.
Moreover, trade disputes between countries can severely affect the movement of goods and people from one place to another – along with the companies responsible for making this movement happen. Government regulations can have the same effect.
Government regulations fueled by COVID-19 changed the transportation industry in 2020. Cities around the globe limited transportation services, placed travel restrictions and implemented social distancing mandates. This severely affected the movement of people, and companies like airlines suffered.
A study published on Statista says, "For the week starting November 9, 2020, the number of scheduled flights worldwide was down by 46.5 percent compared to the week of November 11, 2019."
With uncertainty surrounding the state of COVID-19 restrictions as well as medical advances, the pandemic's future impact on the transportation industry remains uncertain. A report by Deloitte even went as far as to say, "Commuting and traveling patterns may not recover to their pre–COVID-19 state once lockdowns are lifted."
Transportation stocks
With an industry as widespread as transportation, there are many stocks to choose from. Here is a brief list of your investment options.
What ETFs track the transportation category?
You don't need to limit your investments in transportation to stocks. You can also buy shares of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which invest in diversified baskets of transportation of stocks. Here are some examples:
 - S&P Transportation ETF (NYSEArca: XTN)
 - iShares Transportation Average ETF (BATS: IYT)
 - First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF (NasdaqGM: FTXR)
 - Direxion Daily Transportation Bull 3X Shares (NYSEArca: TPOR)
 - SPDR S&P Kensho Smart Mobility ETF (NYSEArca: HAIL)
 - U.S. Global Jets ETF (NYSEArca: JETS)
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Frequently asked questions
Are pipeline stocks part of transportation stocks?
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The deepest cave in the world found up to 1992 is in France, the Reseau Jean Bernard.
Its total depth, not just the length of its shaft, is 5,256 feet, almost a mile straight down.
The longest system of underground passageways in the world is the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.
The numbers change with new exploration, but as of June 1991, the sum of all known passages was 340 miles.
The deepest cave known in the United States is a new discovery, Lechuguilla Cave, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.
Its depth is 1,565 feet.
A large part of the United States is underlain by cavernous limestone aquifers.
The Mammoth Cave National Park system was basically formed by the solution of limestone. As water falls on the surface of the earth, it mixes with organic matter and forms a weak solution of carbonic acid, like weak Coca-Cola.
Given sufficient time, perhaps millions of years, the solution feeds into the cavities of the limestone and gradually creates a cave, a little like tooth decay.
Amateur exploration of caves is an important source of knowledge about them and can be safe if undertaken by properly trained and supervised people.
For example, from the standpoint of structural stability, caves are relatively much safer than mines.


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What types of printing are possible on the MAGELIS XBT?
The print command can be given via the dialogue table using word Wn+16.

It is possible to command different types of printing depending on the value of the high order byte:

 - Free format printing:16#01xx
 - Print form:16#04 + (form num from 0 to FF)
 - Print log: $16#0200
 - Print application page:16#05 + (page num from 0 to FF)
For free format printing, the low order byte gives the length in bytes of the data to be printed (40 words maximum).The terminal then reads the word table at the address end of table +1 on the length given.
The "print command" word is written by the PLC.
This word is written to 16#FFFF by the XBT, to acknowledge the end of the command.
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oxide, and about 47.4 mole % iron oxide. This translates into a weight formulation of about 9% magnesium oxide, about 4.5% manganese oxide, about 17% zinc oxide, and about 69.5% iron oxide.
This magnesium manganese zinc ferrite is commonly known to have a Curie temperature of 115 degrees Celsius +/-5 degrees, depending on the exact sintering conditions. Lithium ferrite is known to have a Curie temperature of about 670 degrees Celsius. By systematically varying the ratio of these two ferrites, a series of ferrites can be achieved where the ferrites have a pre-selected Curie temperature between 115 degrees Celsius and 670 degrees Celsius. Table 1 lists the calculated Curie temperatures for various percentages of lithium ferrite and magnesium manganese zinc ferrite as used in this example.
 TABLE 1______________________________________Calculated C.T. for Various % of Li & Mg Mn Zn Ferrites% Li Ferrite % Mg Mn Zn Ferrite C.T. (Celsius)______________________________________ 0 100 115 5 95 14310 90 17115 85 19820 80 22625 75 25430 70 28235 65 30940 60 33745 55 36550 50 393______________________________________
For the present example, a ferrite chemistry of about 25% lithium ferrite, and 75% magnesium manganese zinc ferrite was chosen. The mole percentages of this composition is substantially as follows: 4 mol % Li2 O, 20 mol % MgO, 2.3 mol % Mn2 O3, 18.5 mol % ZnO, and 55.2 mol % Fe2 O3. Accordingly, this composition requires substantially the following weight percentages of raw materials: 2.5% Li2 CO3, 3.4% MnO2, 12.8% ZnO, 6.8% MgO, and 74.5% Fe2 O3.
A batch of about 3000 grams of the raw materials was weighed out according to these weight percentages. Each weighing was made to an accuracy of +/-0.01 gram. The batch was then dry mixed for 20 minutes and screened through a 20 mesh screen (850 microns) to break down any very large agglomerates in the batch.
Next, approximately 20 weight percent water was slowly added over a 20 minute period to form a damp powder. A mixer, such as a Hobart mixer, was then turned on its highest speed for another 10 minutes to intensely mix the damp powder. The powder was then pelleted into raw mix slugs approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch in size.
These pelleted raw mix slugs were then placed in sagger boxes and heated to about 1230 degrees Celsius in approximately 12 hours. The soak time at this temperature was about two hours. When this mixture was heated to an elevated temperature, the carbon dioxide was liberated leaving about 4.3 weight percent lithium oxide. However, a person having ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the amount of lithium oxide remaining will vary with the heating temperature and the duration of the sintering process.
The now sintered ferrite was cooled to room temperature in approximately 8 hours. The ferrite material was then crushed, such as in a Denver laboratory cone crusher, and screened through 60 mesh (250 microns). The crushed ferrite comprises a ferrite composition capable of use as a browning element of a microwave oven dish or laminate for maintaining the temperature of food cooked during operation of the microwave oven. The temperature of this exemplary ferrite composition was about 250-260 degrees Celsius.
The crushed ferrite powder can be mixed with silicone rubber using standard roll mills as currently used in the rubber industry. The silicone rubber/ferrite mix was then attached to an aluminum heat conducting dish using the process of injection molding; however, other attachment techniques such as use of adhesives may be used.
Alternatively, the crushed ferrite powder may be embedded into a disposable material for use as a microwave laminate wrap for browning food. The dish or laminate is now ready to be used in a microwave oven as a device for browning or crisping food during microwave operation.
Upon testing, it was discovered that the exemplary ferrite material has superior and unexpected properties. For example, the rate of cooking food on the above-mentioned dish is about 10% faster than with prior art microwave oven browning plates. More specifically, four separate ferrite compositions were prepared and tested. Sample 1 was prior art manganese zinc ferrite sintered and cooled in a nitrogen atmosphere, Sample 2 was manganese zinc ferrite sintered and cooled in air, Sample 3 was magnesium manganese zinc ferrite sintered and cooled in air, and Sample 4 was lithium magnesium manganese zinc ferrite according to the present invention.
Each of the four samples was mixed with 34 weight percent silicone rubber 66 weight percent ferrite and attached to the bottom of aluminum pans. Each pan was placed in the same microwave oven and heated for 15 to 20 minutes. The pans for Samples 2 and 3 did not reach above 160 degrees Celsius and were therefore not usable. The pan for Sample 1 reached 210 degrees Celsius and the pan for Sample 4 reached 230 degrees Celsius. None of the samples reached its Curie temperature, but Sample 4 using the lithium ferrite was the best performer.
It should be noted that Sample 4 had a lower temperature than the calculated Curie temperature as shown in Table 1. A reason for this is that the ferrite composition only comprises about 60% to 80% by weight of the housing with the remainder being silicone rubber. The lower the percentage of ferrite composition in the ferrite-silicone housing, the greater the difference between the operating temperature of the browning dish including the housing and the calculated ferrite composition Curie temperature. Another reason is the dissipation of heat by the plate and the ferrite housing into the microwave oven, resulting in an equilibrium temperature lower than the Curie point.
Although the above example concentrated on the use of lithium ferrite as the high Curie temperature ferrite component, a person skilled in the art could easily substitute other high Curie temperature ferrites. For example, nickel ferrite with a Curie temperature of 585 degrees Celsius, or copper ferrite with a Curie temperature of 450 degrees Celsius, could be substituted for lithium ferrite. Also, the housing may be made from materials other than silicone rubber such as high temperature plastics.
A ferrite including 25% copper ferrite and 75% magnesium manganese zinc ferrite (Curie temperature of 115 degrees Celsius) would have a calculated Curie temperature of about 200 degrees Celsius. As another example, a ferrite including 25% nickel ferrite and the same 75% magnesium manganese zinc ferrite would have a calculated Curie temperature of about 230 degrees Celsius. However, lithium ferrite is preferable since lithium ferrite is less expensive to produce and currently has an economic advantage over the other high Curie temperature ferrites.
Further, the ferrite composition of the present invention uses air atmosphere firing reducing manufacturing costs as compared to prior art manganese zinc ferrite. Moreover, a range of microwave oven plates can be easily developed having a broad spectrum of desired temperatures that cover the entire line of cooking ranges. For, example a ferrite having a higher lithium ferrite concentration would reach a higher equilibrium temperature than the disclosed example and could be used as an "extra crispy" microwave oven dish.
FIG. 1 shows a microwave oven 10 and a browning plate 12 including the ferrite composition. The microwave oven has a cavity 14 with a first sidewall 16, a second sidewall 18, a roof 20, a bottom 22, and a back wall 24. Microwaves generated from a microwave source (not shown) are supplied via a waveguide (not shown) into the cavity 14 from an opening formed in the first sidewall 16.
The browning plate 12 has an underside 26 that is provided with a layer of ferrite material. The layer covers substantially the entire underside 26 of the browning plate 12. The layer of ferrite material comprises a ferrite composition, as described in detail above, including a high Curie temperature ferrite component, such as lithium ferrite, and magnesium manganese zinc ferrite. By varying the concentration of the high Curie temperature ferrite, the Curie temperature of the layer of ferrite material can be adjusted to a preselected temperature from about 140 to about 400 degrees Celsius. The browning plate 12 is made from a heat conducting material such as aluminum. The browning plate 12 is spaced from the cavity bottom 22 a spacer such as a bottom plate or other suitable spacing structure. Preferably, the opening in side wall 16 is disposed adjacent to the space created between the bottom of the browning plate 12 and the cavity bottom


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Systematic revision of the sand scorpions, genus Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae C.L. Koch, 1837) of the Levant, with redescription of Buthacus arenicola (Simon, 1885) from Algeria and Tunisia (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 450)
American Museum of Natural History.
Scorpions of the genus Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae C.L. Koch, 1837), commonly known as "sand scorpions," are widespread in the sandy deserts of the Palearctic, from West Africa to India. Although many new species of Buthacus were described in recent years, no modern revision exists for the genus and the limits of many infrageneric taxa remain unclear. The present contribution addresses the species of Buthacus recorded from the Levant, defined here as the region of the Middle East including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt). Prior to this study, five species and subspecies, including several synonyms, were recognized from the region. Based on extensive new collections, a reassessment of the morphology (including multivariate statistical analysis), and a phylogenetic analysis of morphological and DNA sequence data, published elsewhere, seven species of Buthacus are now recognized from the Levant, raising the number of species in the genus to 30. Three new species are described: Buthacus amitaii, sp. nov., endemic to Israel; Buthacus arava, sp. nov., endemic to Israel and Jordan; and Buthacus levyi, sp. nov., endemic to Egypt, Israel, and perhaps Libya. Buthacus arenicola (Simon, 1885) is redescribed and restricted to northeastern Algeria and central Tunisia, and Buthacus leptochelys (Ehrenberg, 1829) redescribed and restricted to Egypt, Sudan, and perhaps Libya. Buthacus armasi Lourenço, 2013, stat. rev., from southern Algeria, and Buthacus spatzi (Birula, 1911), stat. rev., from southern Tunisia and western Libya, are revalidated, and Buthacus fuscata Pallary, 1929, stat. nov. et stat. rev., from southern Algeria, revalidated and elevated to the rank of species. Buthacus nitzani Levy et al., 1973, stat. nov., currently restricted to Israel but probably present in the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt), is elevated to the rank of species. Buthacus tadmorensis (Simon, 1892), stat. rev., recorded from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, and Buthacus yotvatensis Levy et al., 1973, stat. rev., endemic to Israel and Jordan, are redescribed and revalidated. Three new synonyms are presented: Androctonus (Leiurus) macrocentrus Ehrenberg, 1828 = Buthacus leptochelys (Ehrenberg, 1829), syn. nov.; Buthus pietschmanni Penther, 1912 = Buthacus tadmorensis (Simon, 1892), syn. nov.; Buthacus granosus Borelli, 1929 = Buthacus leptochelys (Ehrenberg, 1829), syn. nov. Buthacus arenicola and the seven species of Buthacus occurring in the Levant are diagnosed and illustrated to modern standards, with updated distribution maps. A list of the currently recognized species of Buthacus, and a key to identification of the species occurring in the Levant are also presented.
134 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Buthacus -- Middle East -- Classification., Scorpions -- Middle East -- Classification., Scorpions -- Phylogeny., Scorpions -- Morphology., Arachnida -- Phylogeny., Arachnida -- Morphology.


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(2013). Connected learning in the library as a product of hacking, making, social diversity and messiness. Interactive Learning Environments.
Learning is most effective when intrinsically motivated through personal interest, and situated in a supportive socio-cultural context. This paper reports on findings from a study that explored implications for design of interactive learning environments through 18 months of ethnographic observations of people's interactions at "Hack The Evening" (HTE). HTE is a meetup group initiated at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and dedicated to provide visitors with opportunities for connected learning in relation to hacking, making and do-it-yourself technology. The results provide insights into factors that contributed to HTE as a social, interactive and participatory environment for learning – knowledge is created and co-created through uncoordinated interactions among participants that come from a diversity of backgrounds, skills and areas of expertise. The insights also reveal challenges and barriers that the HTE group faced in regards to connected learning. Four dimensions of design opportunities are presented to overcome those challenges and barriers towards improving connected learning in library buildings and other free-choice-learning environments that seek to embody a more interactive and participatory culture among their users. The insights are relevant for librarians as well as designers, managers and decision-makers of other interactive and free-choice-learning environments.
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LCD1602 I2C 位置定義說明台灣智能感測科技
The I2C address of the module
As indicated in the datasheet, the default I2C device address of PCF8574A is 0x3F:
and the address of PCF8574 is 0x27:
For the library, the 7-bit I2C address format is used so that's why we assign 0x3F / 0x27 as the address for the device. However, the module also provides flexibilities for developers to customize the address to prevent from address collision on the same I2C bus. This is achieved by short-circuiting the A0 / A1 / A2 pads indicated by the yellow rectangle below:
The address bits (A0 / A1 / A2) of the PCF8574A / PCF8574 are controlled by the A0 / A1 / A2 pins on the chip and it's pulled high on the module by default. The schematic diagram is:
Therefore, if you mount a 0R resistor on the A0 pads of the module, for example, it will make the A0 bit to 0 and this changes the I2C address of this device from 0x3F to 0x3E on PCF8574A (or from 0x27 to 0x26 on PCF8574) according to the address map listed above. By following the same idea, you can modify the address bit A1 and A2 in the same way to customize your own I2C device address.


What Is The Fastest Water Animal In Ark?
The fastest water animal in Ark is the Megalodon. This massive shark can reach speeds of up to 60 mph in short bursts, making it one of the fastest animals in the water. The Megalodon is also one of the largest predators in Ark, growing up to 60 feet long and weighing over 100 tons. This fearsome creature is not to be trifled with!
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Transaction Summary CSV #
A comma-separated value (CSV) file is a text file which can be read by spreadsheet programs to fill in the data in a spreadsheet.
A Transaction Summary CSV file is a bit like some of the main tables of the transaction summary report but in CSV format. It is intended to make auditing easier by allowing the generation of a spreadsheet which can be populated with formulas to check the basic month-to-month operation of Max2 and show up any inconsistencies which should be investigated.
Using the Main WindowReport -> Generate Transaction Summary CSV menu item results in the generation of the report for the 12 months starting with the current month. Therefore, this operation should only be invoked when the currently selected month is a year or more in the past. Typically, the report is generated for a club financial year so is done with the first month of the last complete financial year as the current month.
The output file is created in the database directory with the name YYYY~YY.CSV where YYYY is the year of the first month and YY is the last two digits of the following year.
The basic idea is that the resulting spreadsheet can be used to check that the totals of the balances and changes to the balances for each of the membership classes themselves balance properly.
The first few lines of a file displayed in OpenOffice.org:
For each of the twelve months the CSV file contains three tables: sales, cash received and membership class changes.
Each table has the same data columns; one for each of the membership classes: none, ordinary, temporary, course and trial lesson.
The sales and cash received tables each have rows for each of the sales or cash received headings which apply (have non-zero transactions) in the month. In the case of the sales transactions the rows are further broken down by the application class of the heading: sales, flying, debits and credits.
Unlike in the transaction summary report, the amounts shown directly reflect the changes to the account balances; credits are not shown with the opposite sign to other transactions from this point of view.
The third table for each month contains the transfer of balances between the membership classes, for example, course members with non-zero balances who become full members. For these purposes there is a "virtual" membership class "Deleted" - when an account is deleted it is treated as being moved from its existing membership class to the Deleted class.
In most cases the balance transferred appears twice on the each line: once in the membership class transferred from and once, with the opposite sign, in the class transferred to. The exception is for deleted accounts as there is no column for the "Deleted" virtual membership type.


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Outlines how to configure custom DNS servers and search domains in Qumulo Core
- Cluster running Qumulo Core 2.13.0 or later
- Cloud cluster running Qumulo Core 4.2.3 or later (for Web UI configuration)
NOTE: DNS entries will be automatically created from the node used to add the cluster to Active Directory and can be removed without issue during configuration.
In Qumulo Core 2.13.0 and above, you can configure custom DNS server and search domains even when your cluster is not using a static IP configuration. Once these settings are configured, the set value will replace the one originally configured by DHCP on your cluster.
NOTE FOR GCP CLUSTERS: If you wish to use a custom DNS configuration with a cluster deployed in GCP, we recommend using the Google Internal DNS server (169.254.169.254) to forward requests to your own custom DNS for all GCE instances. If your custom DNS is required to be the DNS server for your GCE instances, ensure forwarding is configured to Google's internal DNS for compatibility with many cloud features. For more information, check out the Best Practices for DNS Forwarding Zones and Internal DNS details in the GCP documentation.
Follow the steps below to configure, verify, or clear custom DNS servers and search domains.
Manage DNS Configuration via the Web UI
NOTE: Custom DNS configuration via the Web UI is only available for cloud clusters (such as those in AWS, GCP, or Azure).
As of Qumulo Core 4.2.3, cloud deployments can manage DNS settings using the Web UI. Follow the steps below:
- Log into the Web UI for your cluster.
- Hover over the Cluster menu and select Network Configuration.
- Click to access the DNS configuration.
- Enter the IP addresses for the DNS servers you wish to use. If you are adding multiple servers, separate the IPs with commas.
- Enter any custom search domains you wish to configure in the Search Domains field.
- Click Save.
Manage DNS Configuration via the QQ CLI
To setup a custom DNS configuration on your network using the QQ CLI, specify the interface, network IDs, and desired DNS information using the following command:
qq network_mod_network --interface-id ID --network-id ID --dns-servers IP1 IP2 --dns-search-domains "DOMAIN1" "DOMAIN2"
NOTE: As shown above, multiple entries can be separated by spaces.
Use the following command to verify your custom DNS configuration:
qq network_get_network --network-id ID
See the following example output:
test:~$ qq network_get_network --network-id 1
Use the following command to clear your custom DNS configuration:
qq network_mod_network --interface-id ID --network-id ID --clear-dns-servers --clear-dns-search-domains
Once you clear the custom configuration using the command above, the settings will revert to those assigned by DHCP on your cluster.
You should now be able to successfully configure custom DNS server and search domains with Qumulo Core
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Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: 1. To fish by pulling a line through the water. 2 To try to lure or incite someone by passing something where they can see it. 3. (Obsolete) To sing in the manner of a round or simply merrily.
Notes: We have reduced the 14 meanings of today's Good Word to the three central ones in the Oxford English Dictionary. Most of this word's meanings are obsolete, like No. 3 above, and as you can see from the three we selected, they are quite disparate.
In Play: About the only time you will hear the third meaning of this word is when you (or someone else) is singing the Christmas carol, Deck the Halls:
"Don we now our gay apparel
Fa la la la la la la la la
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol
Fa la la la la la la la la."
Otherwise, you will hear it used in its second meaning: "Hackers troll the Internet looking for computers they can crack into."
Word History: Today's Good Word's origin is as mysterious as the disparity of its meanings. It can be traced back only as far as two Old French words, troller "to go hunting" and trôler "to meander, wander about". The latter may have originated in Germanic trollen "to roll", but the two later merged and finally disappeared from most dialects. You can see how the senses of the French words might be related to the first two meanings of today's word, but where the third meaning came from is anybody's guess. The verb has no relation to the noun troll, which was borrowed from Norwegian. (Let us all troll a melody of Yuletide thanksgiving to Peggy Nielsen for suggesting this elderly member of the English vocabulary for today's Good Word.)
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Binocular interaction: Contrast matching and contrast discrimination are predicted by the same model
Daniel H. Baker*, Timothy S. Meese, Mark A. Georgeson
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How do signals from the 2 eyes combine and interact? Our recent work has challenged earlier schemes in which monocular contrast signals are subject to square-law transduction followed by summation across eyes and binocular gain control. Much more successful was a new 'two-stage' model in which the initial transducer was almost linear and contrast gain control occurred both pre- and post-binocular summation. Here we extend that work by: (i) exploring the two-dimensional stimulus space (defined by left- and right-eye contrasts) more thoroughly, and (ii) performing contrast discrimination and contrast matching tasks for the same stimuli. Twenty-five base-stimuli made from 1 c/deg patches of horizontal grating, were defined by the factorial combination of 5 contrasts for the left eye (0.3-32%) with five contrasts for the right eye (0.3-32%). Other than in contrast, the gratings in the two eyes were identical. In a 2IFC discrimination task, the base-stimuli were masks (pedestals), where the contrast increment was presented to one eye only. In a matching task, the base-stimuli were standards to which observers matched the contrast of either a monocular or binocular test grating. In the model, discrimination depends on the local gradient of the observer's internal contrast-response function, while matching equates the magnitude (rather than gradient) of response to the test and standard. With all model parameters fixed by previous work, the two-stage model successfully predicted both the discrimination and the matching data and was much more successful than linear or quadratic binocular summation models. These results show that performance measures and perception (contrast discrimination and contrast matching) can be understood in the same theoretical framework for binocular contrast vision. © 2007 VSP.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)397-413
Number of pages17
JournalSpatial vision
Volume20
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Bibliographical note
Annual General Meeting of the Applied-Vision-Association, Bradford (UK), 2006.
Keywords
 - binocular vision
 - contrast gain control
 - human vision
 - interocular suppression
 - masking
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What are the benefits and possible issues of different evidence staging methodologies.
The two primary methodologies for staging (storing) evidence are to either keep all evidence, for all projects, together in a location separate from the project/case folders, or to store the evidence for each project within their respective project's folders. Users should weigh the pros and cons of these methodologies to help in forming their Standard Operating Procedures. Regardless of the selected process, project folders and evidence should be stored in a location that is always accessible by the software, and should not be moved.
Storing Evidence Separately from Project Folders
- All evidence is in a central location.
- Users do not need direct access to the project folders.
- The same evidence can be easily used in multiple projects.
- Case backups made from DBConfig or FTK are smaller as they do not contain the evidence.
- Evidence is not deleted when a project is deleted (may also be a "Con" depending on the user's other SOP requirements).
- Evidence may need to be moved separately when restoring cases to new environments.
Storing Evidence Within Project Folders
- Evidence is located with the projects that they pertain to, which may lead to it being easier to find.
- Case backups made from DBConfig or FTK contain the evidence, simplifying restoring the backups to other environments.
- Users need full access to project folders.
- Finding/storing evidence may lead to accidental manipulation of project folder data.
- Multiple projects utilizing the same evidence may result in duplicate copies of the evidence.
- Case backups made from DBConfig or FTK are much bigger.
- Deleting a project also deletes its associated evidence (may also be a "Pro" depending on the user's other SOP requirements).
- Project folder storage may run out of space faster, resulting in processing issues.


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The Use of Image and Point Cloud Data in Statistical Process Control
Megahed, Fadel M.
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The volume of data acquired in production systems continues to expand. Emerging imaging technologies, such as machine vision systems (MVSs) and 3D surface scanners, diversify the types of data being collected, further pushing data collection beyond discrete dimensional data. These large and diverse datasets increase the challenge of extracting useful information. Unfortunately, industry still relies heavily on traditional quality methods that are limited to fault detection, which fails to consider important diagnostic information needed for process recovery. Modern measurement technologies should spur the transformation of statistical process control (SPC) to provide practitioners with additional diagnostic information. This dissertation focuses on how MVSs and 3D laser scanners can be further utilized to meet that goal. More specifically, this work: 1) reviews image-based control charts while highlighting their advantages and disadvantages; 2) integrates spatiotemporal methods with digital image processing to detect process faults and estimate their location, size, and time of occurrence; and 3) shows how point cloud data (3D laser scans) can be used to detect and locate unknown faults in complex geometries. Overall, the research goal is to create new quality control tools that utilize high density data available in manufacturing environments to generate knowledge that supports decision-making beyond just indicating the existence of a process issue. This allows industrial practitioners to have a rapid process recovery once a process issue has been detected, and consequently reduce the associated downtime.
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The Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) has carried out airborne geophysical surveys since 1958. After covering mainland Norway and parts of the continental shelf with fixed-wing magnetic measurements, a program for high-resolution helicopter geophysics was started in the early 1970s.
The present instrument package includes magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric measurements. Normally the radiometric sensor is mounted underneath the helicopter, while the magnetic sensor is placed inside the EM instrument suspended 30 metres beneath the helicopter. Nominal flying height is 60 metres above the ground and the speed is usually 100 km/h (approx. 30 m/sec.). Instrumentation and survey design are adjusted to suit client requirements. The equipment has changed several times since the first test measurements in 1972.
- Magnetic methods
- Electromagnetic methods - Slingram
During the last 25 years NGU has carried out high resolution surveys for mineral exploration, bedrock mapping and environmental studies both in Norway and in neighbouring countries.
About 12 % of mainland Norway is covered with high resolution airborne geophysics. An overview of available data from NGU and a price list exist. For more details visit NGU's geophysical database (DRAGON)
Published: 29. January 2008


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Membranes 2014, 4(2), 275-286; doi:10.3390/membranes4020275
Published: 19 June 2014
Abstract: The transmembrane electrical potential (TMEP) in a forward osmosis membrane process with a single electrolyte solution as the draw and feed solutions was investigated by experiments. The effects of membrane orientation, the electrolyte species (KCl, NaCl, MgCl2, and CaCl2), concentration and concentration ratio of solutions at both sides of membrane on water flux and TMEP were investigated. The results showed that the TMEPs at different membrane orientation cannot completely coincide, which confirmed the effect of membrane asymmetry. The ion diffusion coefficients significantly affected the TMEP across the membrane, with different patterns for different electrolytes and concentrations.
Forward osmosis (FO) is a process defined as the net movement of water across a semipermeable membrane toward a more concentrated solution. Because of the low hydraulic pressure required for this osmotic pressure driven (OPD) membrane process, FO possesses advantages of low energy consumption, low fouling tendency and high water recovery [1,2], and has attracted growing attention in seawater/brackish water desalination [3,4,5], wastewater treatment [6,7,8,9,10], liquid food processing [11,12,13], and power generation [14,15,16,17] via a derivative pressure-retarded osmosis process.
Most studies on the transport phenomenon in the FO process focus on the water and solute fluxes. The prior research reveals that most of the asymmetric structures of the FO membrane suffer from the drawback of internal concentration polarization (ICP) [18,19], which cannot be mitigated by altering hydrodynamic conditions such as increasing the flow rate or turbulence because it occurs within the membrane. The effect of ICP on FO water flux has been modeled by adopting and modifying the classical solution-diffusion theory [19,21]. Reverse diffusion of the solute from the draw solution through the membrane to the feed solution is also inevitable because of the concentration difference. Recent studies have suggested careful consideration of reverse diffusion of the draw solute since it may be detrimental to the process, and have correlated the reverse transport of the draw solute to membrane fouling. These findings contribute to understanding the transport of water and solute molecules through the membrane in OPD membrane processes.
In the OPD membrane processes, electrolytes are usually used as the draw solute, and the transport of the electrolytes may be affected by the membrane electrical properties, which influences membrane performance, namely, flux and selectivity. Moreover, knowledge of the membrane properties, particularly the electrical properties, is required in the design and operation of the membrane process. However, the electrical properties and elecrokinetic phenomena of the FO membrane in OPD processes have been overlooked. Only one work has reported the zeta potentials of both sides of the FO membrane at different pH conditions, and the result indicates that the FO membrane is slightly negatively charged. The charge properties of a membrane can be generally characterized by electrokinetic phenomena, including the zeta potential, membrane potential, streaming potential, and transmembrane electrical potential (TMEP), etc. Compared with other methods, the TMEP can be simultaneously measured with the mass transport, which makes it possible to actualize the online monitoring and diagnose membrane fouling. Therefore, the TMEP is an important electrokinetic phenomenon in hydraulic pressure driven (HPD) membrane processes such as nanofiltration (NF), and research on the TMEP promotes the understanding of the electrolytes transport mechanism in NF membranes [24,25,26].
In HPD membrane processes, the TMEP is the potential resulting from the convection of electrolyte solutions, diffusion of cations and anions, and difference between bulk and membrane phases, when a pressure gradient is applied through charged selective membranes. Analogously, the TMEP also exists across the membrane in FO membrane processes. Due to both sides of membrane do not exist hydraulic pressure difference in the FO membrane processes, the TMEP in FO membrane processes is different with that in HPD membrane processes. Although the operation mode of FO membrane process and the measurement of traditional membrane potential are almost identical, the TMEP in FO membrane process is significantly different from membrane potential, since the much higher water flux in FO membrane process would cause convection potential, which is not considered in the measurement of membrane potential due to the negligible water flow. Therefore, the TMEP in FO process consists of convection potential and membrane potential. Moreover, the TMEP can be simultaneously measured with the mass transport in the FO membrane process, thus it can reflect the relationship between the membrane performance and electrokinetic phenomena.
Notwithstanding the aforementioned advantages of TMEP, studies on the TMEP across membranes in the FO process are still limited. Therefore, it is quite necessary and very important to investigate and discuss the factors influencing the TMEP in FO membrane process.
In this study, the TMEPs of a FO membrane in four electrolyte solutions (KCl, NaCl, MgCl2, and CaCl2) are studied by experiments. The effects of membrane orientation, the concentration ratio of solutions in both sides of membrane and the electrolyte species on water flux and TEMP are investigated. This work is the first step to investigate the experimental phenomena of TMEP, which would raise the understanding of TMEP and provide basis experimental data for further analysis of TMEP in FO membrane process.
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Influence of Membrane Orientation
Figure 1 shows the relationship between water flux and osmotic pressure difference in two membrane orientations. In this work, the osmotic pressure is calculated by commercial software Aspen plus. The effect of external concentration polarization on the osmotic pressure has been eliminated. As indicated in Figure 1, water fluxes increase with the increase of the osmotic pressure difference in both membrane orientations, and water fluxes in AL-DS (active layer face the draw solution) mode are higher than that in AL-FS (active layer face the feed solution) mode. With increased osmotic pressure difference, the driving force rises, which results in enhancement of water flux. When active layer faces the feed solution, more serious ICP will occur in high concentration of KCl, which leads to lower water flux.
Due to the diffusion coefficients of K+ and Cl− in the bulk are almost equal, and the ionic radius and the ionic transport numbers of these two ions are close. When the diffusion coefficient of cation and anion is equal, the analytic expression would be simpler in some cases, which is conductive to understand some phenomena and laws.
As mentioned above, the TMEP in FO process consists of convection potential and membrane potential. The convection potential is caused by the flux of electrolytes in the charged pores coupled with water flux under the osmotic pressure gradient. The membrane potential is composed of Donnan potential and diffusion potential. The Donnan potential is the electrical potential at the interfaces (feed-membrane and membrane-draw) resulted from the adsorption difference of cations and anions. The diffusion potential establishes by the imbalance of anion and cation concentrations, which is caused by the different mobility between anion and cation in the diffusion process from the high-concentration side to the low-concentration side in FO membrane. Due to the direction of water flow being opposite to that of ions diffusion, the sign of convection potential is opposite to that of diffusion potential. In Figure 2a, when the concentration ratio of the both sides of the membrane is Cd/Cf = 8, the TMEP declines with the increase of osmotic pressure difference in two modes. This is due to the fact that the increased concentrations of draw and feed solution are in fixed ratio, which makes the KCl solution activity ratio in the both sides of the membrane remains almost constant. Meanwhile, diffusion coefficients of K+ and Cl− are approximately equal, thus the diffusion potential is insignificant and keeps mostly unchangeable. On the other hand, with the increased solution concentration, the membrane charge is screened by the counter ion, the electrical double layers formed in the pores are compressed and hence the entire pore volume is electrically neutral, then the Donnan potential difference is decrescent. The Donnan potential predominates in TMEP in the low concentration, thus the TMEP decreases in two modes. Moreover, the convection potential enhances with the increased water flux, which contributes a little to the decrease of the TMEP due to the sign of the convection potential is contrary to that of membrane potential. The TMEPs at different membrane orientations cannot completely coincide, which confirms the effect of membrane asymmetry.
Figure 2b shows that membrane orientation affects TMEP at low concentrations of KCl, while as the concentration increases, the effect of membrane orientation on TMEP can be neglected. When the feed solution concentration is fixed at 0.01 M, at low concentration of draw solution, Donnan potential is dominant in TMEP. As the concentration of draw solution increases, Donnan potential in the side of draw solution becomes lower while that in the side of feed solution is constant, so the TMEP increases. When the draw solution concentration increases, namely, the concentration ratio of the draw and feed solution enhances, Donnan potential becomes insignificant compared with the diffusion potential. As the concentration increase, convection potential and diffusion potential are not affected by membrane orientation. Therefore, the effect of membrane orientation on TMEP becomes unimportant.
2.2. Influence of Solution Concentration Ratio
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Sunday, August 8, 2021
Waves crashing through the night sky filled with starlight.
This effect is created drawing a grid of boxes in a 3D space and then varying their positions as a function of their position in the grid using a sine wave.
Below is an interactive piece. Move your mouse from left to right to vary the length of the particles.
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Data collection at Hunter Water condition assessment sites and initial model calibration
The aim of Activity 3 is to develop models for the description and prediction of the long-term corrosion losses and maximum pit depths of cast iron (and also steel) pipes buried in soil. The approach currently being pursued is to develop a corrosion model based on corrosion fundamentals and on documented field observations. The models will describe the amount of corrosion as a function of exposure period and the main influencing external soil conditions. Field data has recently been collected at a number of condition assessment sites within Hunter Water Corporation's network, and this data was used to calibrate an initial model for pipes buried in clay soils. A summary of this work is presented in this fact sheet. More details on this work are presented in Petersen et al (2013).


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There are a lot of toys that stimulate curiosity in the world. Half toys stimulate your curiosity in a new, but familiar, and intuitive way. Half toys are hiding what other toys do not have. Here are three reasons why this toy is special.
All living thing have their own individual appearance. Halftoys simplify the appearance of living thing and maintain a minimal personality.
Halftoys are not just toys that are visible to the outside. The outer shell of a halftoys is divided in half. The divided outer shell contains the bones of the toy.
Bones are made up of several small bones. Small bones can be disassembled and assembled like a puzzle.
Through the concept of the HALFTOYS, it expands to various forms.
1. MINIMALHALFWORLD is a theme that models animals. Minimize the shape of the animal by points, lines, and faces. Focus on the overall silhouette, not the small part of the animal.
HALFWORLD toys have a simplified silhouette, Each represents the individuality of the animal.
Like the gills and fins of a shark, the mane and tail of a lion, the teeth and legs of a dinosaur, It expresses the individuality of animals in a silhouette in a balanced manner.
The most interesting feature of the HALFTOYS is that you can take out the bones.
Halfworld toys all have their own bones. Bones designed based on real animal bones give life to the Half World series.
The color of the toys in the HALFWORLD is based on the color of the actual animal.
Simplify the colors of animals, organize them in several ways, extract them, and apply them to toys.
A single HALFTOYS has only a unique color.
However, based on the basic color, various patterns are applied. The various patterns accept different tastes and emotional demands.
6. PLAY GROUND
7. COMBINATION STRUCTURE
The joint structure of outer shell and bone is an important factor. It is tightly coupled, but is designed to be easily disassembled with a small force. Bumps of the surface that abut against each other, and the slide structure of the bones make it possible.
BE CURIOUSOne of human primordial instincts, âcuriosityâ Curiosity is human instict. Curiosity developed biotechnology, revealed the past,discovered the universe. Curiosity is the power of development. HALFTOYS will turn on peopleâs curiosity.
BE CURIOUS. This is our goal.