The History of the Sarpadian Empires
Posted in Arcana on October 5, 2006
By Wizards of the Coast
Sarpadian Empires Vol VII
UntilTime Spiral, the story of the Sarpadian Empires (also known as the Fallen Empires set) had only six volumes. But with the introduction of the long-awaited Volume VII, it seems like a good time to go back and look at the story of the previous volumes, as far as we can tell from the fragments that appear on flavor text:
Volume I
Volume I of Sarpadian Empires sets the scene for the set: Orcs and Goblins are attacking the Dwarves and the Order of Leitbur while the Elves are dealing with climate changes by breeding Thallids.
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
Dwarven Soldier"Although the Dwarves staunchly defended their walled city-states against the Orcs, their civilization was the first to fall, and its name was sadly lost." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Feral Thallid"Born and bred of fungus, Thallids were nearly impossible to kill." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Orcish Spy"Orcish armies often employed the smaller, swifter, and less intelligent Goblins as spies." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Order of Leitbur"Trained to battle the followers of Tourach, the Order of Leitbur was not as successful in later conflicts with Orcish and Goblin raiders." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Thorn Thallid"The cooling climate forced the Elves to experiment with new food sources." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Aeolipile"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Balm of Restoration"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. I
Volume II
In Volume II, which deals with the black cards, Endrek Sahr's Thrulls rebel against the Order of the Ebon Hand.
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
Thrull Retainer"Until the Rebellion, Thrulls served their masters faithfully—even at the cost of their own lives." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Thrull Wizard"In crafting intelligent Thrulls to assist in sacrifices, Sahr inadvertantly set the stage for the Thrull Rebellion." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Derelor"The derelor's greatest contribution to the Ebon Hand was the inspirational effect its creator's execution had upon the other thrull breeders." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Hymn to Tourach"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Hymn to Tourach"Tourach's power was such that his followers deified him after his death." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Initiates of the Ebon Hand"Many Initiates sacrificed a hand to become full members of the Order." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. II
Volume III
Volume III addresses the fall of the Elves. Looking for a new food source, the Elves encouraged the Thallids, which created Saprolings, which drove the Elves out.
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
Thorn Thallid"Scholars still debate whether the Thallids were truly sentient." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Elvish Hunter"As the climate cooled, many Elves turned to Thallid farming for food, while the Hunters honed their skills on what little game remained." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Fungal Bloom"Thallids could absorb energy from the forest itself. Even Elves were at a disadvantage in fighting them." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Night Soil"There were often more Thallids after a battle than before." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Thorn Thallid"The danger in cultivating massive plants caught the elves by surprise." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Elvish Hunter"Elves often tipped their arrows with a drug that caused a deep but harmless sleep." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Thelonite Monk"As the climate worsened, some Thelonites turned to fertilizing with fresh blood in an attempt to keep Havenwood alive and growing." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. III
Volume IV
In Volume IV, the Orcs and Goblins attack and eventually destroy the Dwarves and Icatia.
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
Brassclaw Orcs"Brassclaws were typical Orcs—quick to laud their own prowess in battle, quick to jeer at their opponents, and quicker still to run away when things started to look slightly dangerous." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Brassclaw Orcs"The large brass claws worn by some Sarpadian Orc tribes were among the least feared weapons ever known." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Brassclaw Orcs"The Brassclaws delighted in lightning raids on Icatian and Dwarven towns; an unprepared enemy is easier to defeat." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Dwarven Armorer"The few remaining pieces from this period suggest the Dwarves eventually made weapons and armor out of everything, even children's toys." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Dwarven Lieutenant"Dwarven officers were tireless in battle, moving up and down the lines to rally their troops and boost morale." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Empty the Warrens"They'd pour out of the warrens to make war (and to make room for the littering matrons)." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Goblin Grenade"According to accepted theory, the Grenade held some kind of flammable mixture and was carried to its target by a hapless Goblin." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Goblin War Drums"The Goblins' dreaded War Drums struck terror into the hearts of even their bravest foes." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Goblin Warrens"Goblins bred underground, their numbers hidden from the enemy until it was too late." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV
Volume V
Even though the Vodalians were able to adapt to the changing climate, a new threat was able to usurp their place; Volume V describes the coming of the Homarids
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
High Tide"By the time their enemies noticed the sea's changing mood, the Vodalians had often shifted formation and were ready to attack." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
Vodalian Soldiers"Vodalian Soldiers had some unique advantages. Often they would ride into battle on war machines rumored to have come from the far northern oceans." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
Vodalian Soldiers"The cooling climate introduced a new threat to Vodalia: the Homarids. Once a minor nuisance, they thrived in the changing environment. Their ceaseless attacks strained Vodalia's defenses to their limit, eventually overwhelming the empire." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
River Merfolk"Dwelling in icy mountain streams near Goblin and Orcish foes, the River Merfolk were known for their stoicism." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
Svyelunite Priest"Early Vodalians worshipped Svyelun, goddess of the Pearl Moon. Later she became a more abstract figure." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. V
Volume VI
And Volume VI (until Time Spiral, the final volume) concerns the doom that came to Icatia.
CardSarpadian Empires Fragment
Goblin Grenade"Without their massive numbers, the Goblins could never have launched such a successful offensive." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Combat Medic"Without Combat Medics, Icatia would probably not have withstood the forces of chaos as long as it did." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Icatian Infantry"Valiant Icatia was the last of the Sarpadian empires to fall. Its faithful soldiers defended their cities to the very end." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Combat Medic"Although Icatia's Combat Medics borrowed much of their knowledge from other societies, their skills were their own." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Icatian Scout"Because the Orc hordes attacked along the entire border, Scouts were essential to Icatia's defense." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Orcish Veteran"Orcs often greeted promotions to Icatian battle with anguished wails and pleas for mercy." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Order of the Ebon Hand"There are intriguing similarities between the Order and Icatia's Leitbur religion, suggesting the two had a common origin." —Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI
Volume VII
Of course, Time Spiral brings us the previously-unknown Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII. And what does it do? By itself, it replicates five cards that are central to the story of the


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The cover-uncover test involves the patient fixating on an object, one eye is then covered and a refixation movement is looked for in the other - uncovered - eye. The other eye is then tested in the same way. If, during either manoeuvre, there is a movement of the unoccluded eye, then that eye must have been squinting before the fellow eye was uncovered, ie a manifest squint is present.
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Dumping Ticket Export to a CSV
1. Introduction
Objective: To download the data from the ticket export endpoint to a CSV file. The reason for this is because many customers want to analyze their Zendesk data in a secondary program (other then GoodData) such as Excel.
Notes: While we are developing and testing our code we'll want to use the sample endpoint which gives us the same sample data over and over. The purpose of this is that the sample endpoint is more forgiving and developed for this very purpose.
2. Setup
Let's get started with curlWrap.
 1. You can get the curlWrap function here:
 2. Put this in a new script file called csv.php
 3. We need to create a new file, of course. The code below will store our filename to a variable and create a file handler.
 $myFile = "tickets.csv";
 $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');
 4. We now have a file handler that is stored in the variable $fh. When we refer to things we will be doing with our new CSV file we will use that variable.
 5. The ticket export endpoint requires a date/time stamp that is in a specific format called UTC Epoch time. Without getting overly technical this is a timestamp, in seconds, since some point in time long ago. To do this we'll use two functions.
 This sets the timezone to UTC:
 date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
 This tells our program how far back we want to go.
 $time = strtotime("-8 hours");
 You might be wondering what that means? The ticket export endpoint gives us all tickets that were touched between two time periods. The hitch is that the ending time period is always now (ie: when we run the command). The shortest increment we can go back is 5 minutes. In this case we are going to pull a list of tickets from the last 8 hours.
 6. Now we pull our data from the endpoint:
 $decoded = curlWrap("/exports/tickets/sample.json?start_time=_PHONE_", null, "GET");
3. Building the CSV
Let's build our CSV.
 1. Now we need to create the header of our CSV. The header usually contains all the column headings we want to use. To create this heading we'll copy the first row of data to a variable called $first. Then we'll convert this to an array (since it started out as an object, if this doesn't make sense, don't worry!) and finally, we'll flip it so that all the values are keys and the keys are values.
 $first = $decoded->results[0];
 $first = (array) $first;
 $keys = array_keys($first);
 2. Now we have a column headings in the array called $keys. We need to write this to our CSV. We use the function fputcsv:
 fputcsv($fh, $keys, ",", "\"");
 3. As you can see, fputcsv takes 4 arguments: the file handler ($fh), the array of data to write (in this case, the keys), the delimiter (ie: comma) and the character to use to encapsulate each field (you should stick with the quote mark ("). For the last paramater, you'll need to "escape" the quote. To do this simply but a backslash before the quote mark so php knows that the quote character is being referenced.
 4. Finally, we iterate through each result we got from Zendesk and write it to the file we are working on. We do this like so:
 foreach($decoded->results as $result){
 $result = (array) $result;
 fputcsv($fh, $result, ",", "\"");
 }
 5. As you can see above, we need to convert (like we did before) from an object to an array. We do this the same way as before by putting (array) infront of the variable. This is known as casting.
 6. The last thing we do is "close" the file we are working on. We do this with this command:
 fclose($fh);
4. The Final Product
When you run the script you will get a CSV file back with the ticket data we were interested in. I have added to the GitHub repository a sample of the kind of file we will get back from the process. It is called tickets.csv.
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 Lam Lnu
 I just downloaded the file in github and put it in htdocs folder then run. The return value $decode is not a Object and I got this error:
 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\dev\csv.php on line 55
 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\dev\csv.php on line 59
 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\xampp\htdocs\dev\csv.php on line 59

 Could you help me with this error?
 Thank you.
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 Adam
 @Lam, did you replace the define variables correctly? In addition, since you are using WAMP, did you enable curl correctly as well?
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 Benoit
 Thanks a lot Adam it is working fine ! :)
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 Morgan A
 Hi Adam,
 When running your script on a windows machine using Cygwin/Wamp server I get the same errors as Lam, I have curl installed and enabled with JSON also installed and enabled, when I run the same code on a unix/linux machine I get no errors but I see that I'm not getting all of my tickets.
 If i set the date back to 2 weeks it gets a couple of days worth of tickets (About 1000 lines), if I set it to a month I get the same number of lines back (1000 lines).
 Is there any way of changing this to get all my tickets which is stated in $time = strtitune("-2 weeks"); ?
 Also is there any work around to lines 60: $decoded->results[0]; and 64 foreach($decided->results as $result)?

 Thank you.

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 Adam
 Hi Morgan,

 yeah, in regards to the first issue, I just wouldn't use windows if you can help it. Even as a development environment. In regards to the second issue, it's because I never built this to do paging. We page out 1000 records at a time. If you want to get the next 1000 records, you have to get the end time from the previous run and re-run the script 5 minutes later with the end time as the new start time.

 I kind of built this to just do 1000 records at a time. It was also just written as a proof of concept.

 What's the problem with those lines? I'm not getting it.
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 Morgan A
 Is it possible to do more then 1000 records at a time without having to wait for 5 minutes? We deal with thousands of tickets daily and we use our own spread sheet to view the data.
 Or is there any way of getting the script to do paging?
 Thank you.
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 Brandon K.
 Hello Morgan,
 The rate limit should not be 1000 tickets every 5 minutes, it should be 1000 every minute. Additionally, we only return the tickets that have changed within that time frame. The documentation states this at developer.zendesk.com. The endpoint is designed so people can poll the next_page endpoint every minute to get another 1000 tickets per minute without having to calculate the next start value. Some of our largest customers use this endpoint extensively without issue, so hopefully knowing how it is supposed to work will help you in setting up your workflow.
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 Morgan A
 Thank you Brandon.
 I got it working but the only issue now is that it's pulling the times were tickets are updated, is it possible to dump the tickets by the created date field.
 So if i'm dumping 7 days worth of tickets it will get all tickets created from day 1 to 7.
 Thank you once again for the help.
 M.A
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 Brandon K.
 Hello Morgan,
 I checked with one of our engineers and unfortunately it is not possible to pull tickets by their created date. I'm very sorry.
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 Evelyn Yoder
 In Chrome, this page is formatted badly. See attached.
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 Laura D.
 Hi Evelyn,
 Looks like something extra got pasted in the article - I fixed it, thanks for the heads up :)
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 Armin Vazehgoo
 Could you provide an example of code that would replicate the repeated ticket export base on the end_time and next_page?
 I am trying to dump all the tickets into a CSV which is eventually being imported into a MySQL DB, therefore, I would like to be able to retrieve all the tickets every time I run the export through the API.
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 Adam
 Hi Armin,

 Unfortunately this was written to be a starting point for most projects. I understand that it lacks


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How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance?
Part 5: CPU based pricing models
This is the fifth in a series of blogs about how to follow up on your mainframe outsourcer. Previously I've discuss why it is important to follow up on your outsourcer, understanding MIPS and MSU, and the pitfalls of MIPS. In the last blog I discussed the outsourcer's cost structure. In this article I will dig further into the commercial aspects of CPU capacity. Specifically, we will look at how the monthly invoice for the customer is calculated from the technical measurements.
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- Understand your current and projected usage patterns when considering alternate billing models.
- Get independent advice from subject matter experts when evaluating your current situation or considering alternatives.
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- CEF is a circulating type lubricator which means the oil flows out from the discharge outlet into the oil pipes to the lubricating points then continues flowing back into the oil tank through the cyclic inlet. The cyclic inlet has a magnetic filter which can prevent the impurities from getting into the oil tank in order to assure the oil clean.
- The timer controls the operation and interval time. The electronic box has Action, Interval and Alarm indicators.
- It has a circulation button that can restart the circulation cycle manually according to the operation and interval time settings.
- After installing the CEF type lubricator and connecting the oil pipes, press the feed-oil button till the oil flows out to exhaust the air, then the lubricator is ready to use.
- It has a high quality alloy steel gear pump and induction motor pump that not only can provide steady output pressure and low noise, but also can assure the oil reaches each lubricating point. It is suitable for applying in the large machineries' demands.
- It has a pressure-regulating valve and pressure gauge that an operator can adjust the pressure and check the pressure easily.
- It has a float switch that can detect the oil level. It sends continuous signals automatically when the oil level is lower than the minimum.
- The circulating type electric lubricator that is designed to circulate the oil for reuse; therefore, it can save the usage of oil during the lubrication.
- The circulating type lubricator can provide efficient cooling, lubrication and filtration that can reduce wear of the lubricating parts. It is suitable for the machines that require large discharge volume.


available, we can now start writing scenario selection rules. For example, the following rule selects all the scenarios for which all the rule tasks in the rule flow have been executed.
 the total tasks not executed of trace equals 0
 mark scenario derived from trace as selected ;
The following rule is more complex and involves conditions on both the scenario data and the execution information: it will select the scenario if the primary borrower is retired but the Retired Discount rule has been fired for the request.
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 the employment status of the primary borrower of 'loan request' is "retired"andthere is one rule info in the rules not fired of trace
 where the business name of this rule info ends with "Retired Discount",
 mark scenario derived from trace as selected ;
In the last example below, the selection rule is looking for scenarios where more than three adjustment rules were applied to the request, and the request was still accepted.
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 therearemorethan 3 ruleeventsin the execution events of tracewhere the name of the rule information of each rule event contains "Adjustment", and
 the status of 'loan response' is "accepted"
 mark scenario derived from trace as selected ;
Obviously, the rules can be more complex, involving conditions on the sequence of rules fired, the sequence of tasks executed, the objects used in the rules, and so on. It may also become necessary to instrument the raw BOM entry obtained from the JRules trace classes to extend the navigation capabilities through the execution event tree.
Still, since the selection rules are using a combination of the business vocabulary and an extra vocabulary derived from the execution trace properties, they are easily manageable by the business, which can write its specific test scenario mining queries without assistance from the IT group.
Creating the DVS Excel spreadsheet
Once the scenarios have been selected and collected, they need to be exported to a DVS spreadsheet. This last step is facilitated by the existence of the DVS API, which allows you to write, through the IlrExcel2003ScenarioSuiteWriter class, a map of input parameter names and input parameter objects as a test scenario to a given DVS Excel test suite template.
A detailed example of how to use this API can be found in the documentation of the Populate Excel scenario file template sample.
In this short column, I have shown an application of the business rules approach that operates not only on business application objects but also on objects coming from the rule platform API itself. The goal was to avoid as much as possible the design and implementation of a complex and ad hoc technical tool when the requirements were typically suited to the use of business rules.
The test scenario selection problem is indeed a typical validation problem, where the rules need to be written by business people and are bound to change often. These characteristics are a perfect match for the business rule approach.
The same type of approach can be used for other type of problems, where some analysis and processing is needed on objects that belong to the JRules BRMS platform itself. For example:
 - For the authoring phase, the writing of meta-rules (that is, rules acting on rule objects) to explore and validate some characteristics of the business rules written by the business.
 - For the execution phase, the writing of rules on reified rule engine artifacts, such as the execution trace we have presented in this article.
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Jonas Cuaron, son of filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, shows creative daring in his first feature.
An elegant formal experiment — building a film entirely of still images — gives rise to a warm, involving story in "Year of the Nail" (more poetically titled "Ano Una" in Spanish), a bittersweet time-capsule tale of a Mexican teen's infatuation with an American college student. The film recently screened at AFI Fest.
After amassing 8,000 pictures of family and friends over a yearlong period, Cuaron selected about a third of them and began constructing his script. The camera subjects provide the voice-over dialogue and thoughts of their characters (with the exception of Cuaron's grandfather, Salvador Elizondo, who died during the photography phase of the project and is voiced by actor Fernando Becerril).
Cuaron creates a sense of movement through successions of fixed-frame images of characters moving through space and, not least, through Martin Hernandez's evocative sound design. More interesting, he has successfully assembled a film backward, beginning not with the written word but with the image.
The strategy at first feels like a hindrance to storytelling but ends up being expressive. Divided into chapters defined by the seasons, "Nail" begins in black and white, adding color in the second section, Autumn. The color saturation deepens as the year progresses and feelings deepen between the two main characters.
Eirann Harper (the filmmaker's girlfriend and one of the film's producers) plays New York student Molly, who's in Mexico City for the summer to learn Spanish. Self-conscious about being "so white" but eager to explore her surroundings, she nonetheless lets her plans to photograph the city get pushed aside and spends most of her time with an unseen French boyfriend, the latest in a string of bad romantic choices. Returning over Thanksgiving in hopes of a more authentic experience, Molly rents a guest house from a divorced woman. Again forsaking her photography plans, she ends up spending much of her time with the 14-year-old son, who falls hard for her.
Diego Catano (the director's brother), who made a strong impression in the coming-of-age tale "Duck Season," brings an innocent vulnerability to the sex-obsessed virgin Diego. The film's title refers to a soccer injury that has left him with a troublesome ingrown toenail, a problem that isn't resolved until story's end, along with other growing pains.
In its brief running time, the film touches upon matters of youth and time, family, the relationship between tourism and traditional culture and photography itself. Amid the digital-picture snapping at his 70th birthday, Diego's grandfather can't understand the need to see images of something that just happened. "Nail" is a fresh exploration of photography's power to show us how things were.
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The city of Richmond, capital of the Confederacy and primary target of Union campaigns, was also the central destination for thousands of Confederate soldiers wounded on the battlefields of Virginia during the Civil War. Realizing that a long war and thousands more casualties lay ahead, Southern leaders ordered the construction of five general hospitals in Richmond. The largest of these was Chimborazo.
Today the Chimborazo Medical Museum houses a collection of equipment used by the doctors and nurses who tended to the soldiers of the Confederacy. Exhibits include a 17 minute film and a diorama of the hospital.
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Quantum Efficiency Explained
Quantum Efficiency (QE) is a fundamental parameter in the field of optical engineering, describing the efficiency with which a photodetector or photosensitive device converts incoming photons into electrons. It is a critical factor in determining the sensitivity and performance of devices such as cameras, photodiodes, and other imaging sensors.
Definition of Quantum Efficiency
Quantum Efficiency is defined as the ratio of the number of charge carriers (electrons or holes) generated and collected by the device to the number of photons incident on the device. It is expressed as a percentage, indicating the effectiveness of the device in converting light into electrical signals.
The formula for Quantum Efficiency (QE) can be expressed as:
QE = (Number of electrons generated / Number of incident photons) x 100%
Factors Affecting Quantum Efficiency
- Wavelength of the incident light: QE varies with the wavelength of the light, with most devices having a peak QE at certain wavelengths.
- Temperature: Higher temperatures can reduce QE due to increased thermal noise.
- Material properties: The choice of material for the photodetector affects its QE, as different materials have different band gaps and absorption properties.
- Device architecture: The design and construction of the device, including the thickness of the absorption layer and the presence of anti-reflective coatings, can significantly impact QE.
Importance of Quantum Efficiency
High Quantum Efficiency is crucial for applications requiring high sensitivity and low-light performance, such as astronomical imaging, medical imaging, and various scientific research fields. A higher QE means that the device can detect fainter signals and produce clearer, more accurate images.
In summary, Quantum Efficiency is a vital measure of a photodetector's performance, indicating its ability to convert light into electrical signals efficiently. Understanding and optimizing QE is essential for the development of advanced optical and imaging technologies.


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Planning Begins for Experiment to Study Influence of Aerosols on California Water Supply
September 10, 2008
Researchers from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory will participate in the CalWater: Energy, Water, and Regional Climate Planning Meeting on September 15-17, 2008 at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. Participants are planning a joint experiment between NOAA, the California Energy Commission, and Scripps Institute of Oceanography to study the interactions between air quality and the hydrologic cycle in a changing climate. Expected outcomes of this meeting include a science plan and an implementation strategy describing testable hypotheses addressing how aerosols from regional and trans-Pacific pollution influence water supply and snowpack in California.
The interaction of increased regional and transported pollution and global warming trends will have an unknown affect on California's water supplies. On one hand, air pollution may partially offset the warming trend by increasing the sunlight scattering off of aerosols which will cool the surface. But on the other hand, increasing pollution deposited within snowpacks will darken the snow which will absorb more radiation and melt the snowpack quicker reducing California's natural snowpack reservoirs. These non-linear and off-setting interactions are dependent on the type and amount of aerosols as well as the state of the regional climate. California is interested in finding the most effective way to simultaneously reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, aerosols, other air pollutants and their precursors while maximizing the benefits for air quality, water resources, and climate change.
This experiment will leverage heavily the NOAA HMT-West effort, as well as NOAA's UAS Program and will address anthropogenic effects of aerosols on precipitation, and climate change impacts on the amplitude and frequency of extreme precipitation events involving atmospheric rivers.


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text: I throw this up every year or so. You'll notice the influence of the two megathrusts under Lake Ontario. The gap between Hamilton and Cleveland is due to a huge Precambrian basin, shown in the reflection seismic. The Hamilton fault is strongly defined. These earthquakes continue to show a strong affinity to water, and are generally at a fraction of the rate of Oklahoma. The rare earthquake (1 in 500) is a 6+. The 'destructo' is an M7. This class of earthquake is strongly shown in the sediments.


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the advantages for left-handers in sport
It is often stated that sport is a prime example of left-handers superiority, but what are the reasons behind this theory?
The "leftie advantage" seems to emerge in sports demanding rapid reactions and good spatial judgement. In fencing for example 7 of the 16 top world fencers are left-handed, and so are 5 of the top 25 international tennis players and 4 of Europe's ten best table tennis payers. In boxing, squash and cricket left-handers also enjoy more than average success. Among the scientists who have studied left-handedness in sport one in particular, a French neuroscientist named Guy Azemar, investigated the proportion of left-handers in world-class championships over several years. He reported that about a third of elite fencers are left-handed. One fencing great was the Italian Edoardo Mangiarotti who won a total of 13 fencing medals. Mangiarotti was naturally right-handed but was forced by his father to fence with his left hand as it was thought to be an advantage.
Tennis champion Martina Navratilova
During his study for the French Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Azemar became convinced that sporting lefties have an innate advantage, particularly in "opposition" sports. To explain why, he concentrates on the way the brain is wired up. The brain consists of two halves (hemispheres) each performing different tasks, and it is sometimes thought that in left-handers these functions are more evenly distributed between the two sides i.e. our brains are more symmetrical. For example, in a left-handed tennis player the control of movements and part of space management are performed on the right side of the brain.
This means that the process of the player seeing the ball coming and actually hitting the ball are both dealt with by the same hemisphere. In a right-hander this visual information has to transfer to the opposite hemisphere to direct the player's movement, adding an extra 20 or 30 milliseconds to the reaction time - hardly significant one would think, but it can be decisive in world class sport.
Greg Rusedski (pictured right) once had the worlds fastest serve. The Canadian-born star switched to play for Great Britain in 1995. He held the world record for the fastest-ever serve, 149mph at Indian Wells in 1998. It has since been broken by Andy Roddick during a Stella Artois Championship match against Paradorn Srichaphan at the Queen's Club, London, UK, on June 11, 2004. He his a whopping 153 mph!
Many scientists agree the left-handers could have a sporting advantage, but think it is not simply a question of speed. Some American researchers think that left-handers may actually possess enlarged right hemispheres, giving them superior spatial skills.
Power server Gred Rusedski
S.A. Cricketer Nicky Boje
Two psychologists at Durham University, Charles Wood and John Aggleton, think that the advantage is more likely tactical than neurological. They claim that with a large enough sample of world-class tennis results from several years the leftie effect vanishes. However, when Wood and Aggleton analysed cricket yearbooks, they found that a higher proportion of professional cricketers bowled with their left hand - about 20% leading to their theory that the advantage is tactical. Left-handed bowlers have the benefit of unfamiliarity and they can bowl at a different angle and move the ball in the opposite direction to their right-handed counterparts.
Tactical advantages of left-handers are also well established in tennis and squash. Martina Navratilova once pointed out that many players have pet shots such as hitting the ball across court to their opponent's weaker backhand. If they play this shot against a left-hander then it will go to the lefties stronger forehand. A left-hander also has an awkward serve that swings away from the backhand of the right-hander.
However, the main advantage for left-handers in fast sports would seem to be practical. Lefties are perfectly used to playing right-handers but for right-handers, a left-handed opponent is a very tricky exception. It could also be that right-handers are put at a psychological disadvantage simply by knowing their opponent will be left-handed and expecting them to have this advantage.
See our special page on left-handed golf with more information and lots of links
Left-Handers Club members comment on their experiences in sport
We asked our Club members about their experiences and here are some of the comments we received:
I've often felt I had an advantage being left handed, especially in racket sports. Playing badminton and squash, my opponent, invariably right handed, always played shots to what he perceived as my backhand, only for them to be returned. It used to take them a long time to work out why I kept winning. The only time I came unstuck was when playing another left hander, which threw me, as I couldn't work out why he kept returning my winners. Playing doubles in badminton with a right hander often causes complications and injuries when both try to play the same shot on the forehand.
Being left handed playing hockey was a distinct advantage because the left hand is the one that controls the stick. A right handed friend of mine fenced, and he complained bitterly when he had to fence against a left hander.
A cricketing friend maintains that all left handed bowlers and batsmen should have been put down at birth. I bowl left handed, but bat right handed. I've noticed a lot of professional cricketers often bat or bowl to their opposite hand, such as Richard Hadlee and Graham Dilley, who both bowled right handed and batted left handed. Then there was Brian Close, who could bat both right and left handed, and played golf either way off 7.
 I think being left handed in racket sportsis a distinct advantage, as the majority of players are right handed, and will play the majority of games against right handed people. They then have to adjust when playing us. We, on the other hand, play against right handers the majority of the time, so have a distinct advantage. When two left handers play each other, it is such a rarity we both have to adjust, so there is no advantage either way. I do have problems coaching cricket, especially bowling. Roger Watson
I have found that being a LH bat in cricket annoyed and confused the bowlers and fielders, which was good for me! I am cross-lateral, so with one hand I am RH, and played RH at tennis and table-tennis - more confusion!I always wanted to play hockey, and was told I couldn't - shame! And quite cross to find in later years that you CAN - just turn the stick round, and play it hook-down instead of hook-up! Just don't get involved with the bully-off!! Archery is also interesting, as my left eye is dominant, so I have to hold the bow with my right arm and aim with the left eye, but that limits me because my stronger right arm is not available to pull the bowstring! As a teacher I have found student lefties to be gifted artistically, and imaginative thinkers. (or is that just my prejudice?) Chris Watts
Mike Weir - golf left-handed
There are some sports, tennis and crickets as mentioned in the article, where left handers 'appear' to have an advantage. I think the advantage lies in their rarity in that opponents have more difficulty developing strategies for defeating them.Where this is not an issue, e.g. in golf, successful left handers a very rare, Gary Player, Mike Weir and Phil Mickelson being notable exceptions. Perhaps left handers are just more noticeable because they add another dimension to their sports. Ray Jackson
When I was at school I was always the last person to be picked out on teams because of being left handed. My favourite sport was rounders, and like all the other right handed girls I would hold the rounders bat in my right hand, all the fielder's would there for stand to the left ready to catch us out. However as soon as the bowler had thrown the ball when it was my turn I would swiftly change the bat into my left hand and whack the ball to the right hand side (where no one was stood) and get myself a full circuit of the rounders field!!!!!!!!! Whenever the weather permitted us to play (which was not all that often in Buxton) my class mates would have forgotten and I could pull off the same scam again! Anne Osborn
I agree that being left handed can be really advantageous in certain sports. I used to practice fencing, and in that sport it is definitely and fact, I believe that the percentage of left-handed fencers in top ranking position if fairly high! Chiara Della Mea
I'm not much of an athlete, but when I took an interest in softball during middle school (junior high), I was drafted onto a team rather quickly on account of me being left-handed. That's the only reason I can figure because I wasn't very good and had no experience prior to that year. When they wanted to play me, they stuck me in right field, where balls are *never* hit so I wouldn't be a nuisance on the field.
So why bother having me out there at all? Well, because they wanted me to hit. Or at least stand


Have a look at our YouTube video for a quick walkthrough of Orchest! 💪
This quickstart will follow an example explaining how to build data science pipelines in Orchest and touches upon some core principles that will be helpful when you get to building your own pipelines. The example pipeline will download the sklearn California housing dataset, explore the data, train some classifiers, and in the final step collect the results from those classifiers.
The resulting pipeline from this quickstart.
Please refer to How Orchest works to get a more in-depth explanation of concepts within Orchest.
For the impatient
As Miguel Grinberg would say: "If you are the instant gratification type, and the screenshot at the top of this article intrigued you, then head over to the Github repository for the code used in this article. Then come back to learn how everything works!"
To get started with the pipeline in Orchest you can import the GitHub repositories URL _URL_ through the UI:
Your first project
To start, make sure you have installed Orchest and started it:
# Make sure to be in the root-level orchest directory.
./orchest start
For the quickstart we will create a new project named quickstart. After creating the project, you will see that it does not yet have any pipelines.
All code in this quickstart is written in Python, nevertheless, we do also support other languages such as R.
Get California housing data
The logical next step is to create the first pipeline called California housing and open the pipeline editor. This will automatically boot an interactive session so you can interactively edit the Python script we create (the other steps will be notebooks!):
 1. Create a new step by clicking: + new step.
 2. Enter a Title and File path, respectively Get housing data and get-data.py.
The changes you make to the pipeline (through the pipeline editor) are saved automatically.
Now we can start writing our code through the familiar JupyterLab interface, simply press edit in JupyterLab (making sure you have the step selected) and paste in the following code:
 1import orchest
 2import pandas as pd
 3from sklearn import datasets
 5# Explicitly cache the data in the "/data" directory since the
 6# kernel is running in a Docker container, which are stateless.
 7# The "/data" directory is a special directory managed by Orchest
 8# to allow data to be persisted and shared across pipelines and
 9# even projects.
10print("Dowloading California housing data...")
11data = datasets.fetch_california_housing(data_home="/data")
13# Convert the data into a DataFrame.
14df_data = pd.DataFrame(data["data"], columns=data["feature_names"])
15df_target = pd.DataFrame(data["target"], columns=["MedHouseVal"])
17# Output the housing data so the next steps can retrieve it.
18print("Outputting converted housing data...")
19orchest.output((df_data, df_target), name="data")
As you can see, we have highlighted a few lines in the code to emphasize important nuts and bolts to get a better understanding of building pipelines in Orchest. These nuts and bolts are explained below.
First we start with explaining line 11 in which we cache the data in the /data directory. This is actually the userdir/data directory (from the Orchest GitHub repository) that gets bind mounted in the respective Docker container running your code. This allows you to access the data from any pipeline, even from pipelines in different projects. Data should be stored in /data not only for sharing purposes, but also to make sure that jobs do not unnecessarily copy the data when creating the snapshot for reprodicibility reasons.
Secondly, line 19 showcases the usage of the Orchest SDK to pass data between pipeline steps. Keep in mind that calling orchest.transfer.output() multiple times will result in the data getting overwritten, in other words: only output data once per step.
To run the code, switch back to the pipeline editor, select the step and press run selected steps. After just a few seconds you should see that the step completed successfully. Let's check the logs to confirm, the logs contain the latest STDOUT of the script.
Remember that running the code will output the converted housing data, in the next step we can now retrieve and explore that data!
Data exploration
Now that we have downloaded the data, the next pipeline step can explore it. Create another pipeline step with Title Data exploration and File path explore-data.ipynb, and connect the two pipeline steps.
You can get the code for this pipeline step from the explore-data.ipynb file in the GitHub repository.
Maybe you already noticed the imports in the previous step:
import orchest
import pandas as pd
from sklearn import datasets
These dependencies are satisfied by default, because the environments are based on the Jupyter Docker Stacks which already contains a number of common data science packages. In this data exploration step however, we make use of Vaex to showcase how environments let you install additional packages.
Go to Environments in the left pane menu and inspect the Python 3 environment. Here you can see that pip install vaex is added to the Environment set-up script.
Finalizing the pipeline
To end up with the final pipeline, please refer to the For the impatient section to import the pipeline. You can also build the pipeline from scratch yourself!
A successful pipeline run of the final pipeline.
The interactive session does not shut down automatically and thus the resources will keep running when editing another pipeline, you can shut down the session manually by clicking on the shut down button. Of course all resources are shut down when you shut down Orchest with./orchest stop.


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Under a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Maryland State Department of Education receives funding to build the capacity of local school systems to deliver HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Programs. Funded program activities include strengthening coordinated school health programs at the local school system level to deliver training in HIV/AIDS prevention and developing policy and procedures.
The CDC has identified promising and research based practices in HIV/AIDS prevention education. For more information and a list of the identified programs to be delivered within a coordinated school health model visit the CDC website.
For a summary of Maryland laws and regulations relating to Health Education, HIV/AIDS and Teen Pregnancy Prevention education visit nasbe survey.pdf
The 2004 School Health Education Profile (SHEP) assesses the status of HIV prevention efforts within high schools health education curriculum in Maryland schools. Maryland results are linked below:
Principal Results in pdf format mdPrincipal04a.pdf
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Thermal modeling is a process of creating a model of any object and run its simulation to show how will it function thermally using simulation software. Diverse segments of design can be examined and the results can be represented in the form of graphic or text. After modeling and simulation work, results are validated according to the given set of parameters and are verified whether the design will fail or pass as per the required conditions. In case of failure of design, the model is redesigned again until the required results are obtained. Many software companies like ANSYS, FUSION 360 provides CAE and CAD simulation software for thermal modeling. Below are some key benefits of thermal modeling.
Key Benefits of Thermal Modeling Services
- Thermal Modelling service reduces the initial costs of engineering like change in design, wastage of materials, and manufacturing cost. By visual modeling and doing thermal simulation according to the requirements, we can reduce the cost to manufacture it and minimize the error without making changes in the real world which could have taken much time, cost, and material.
The world of business is changing dramatically. With new technologies adopted, companies are making the best use of it for flexibility. The same goes for hiring higher executives of the company. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) plays an important role in the growth of the business. Some companies prefer hiring a virtual CFO to cut down the cost and manage to get things done.
Hiring a virtual CFO can bring a lot of benefit to the company-
- Cost Efficiency
One of the reasons why hiring a CFO virtual is the best investment is because the process is cost-efficient. The quality of the work will be unaffected by the fact that the professional works remotely. There is no on-demand separate desk arrangement, which will reduce the salary.
A part of the risk management is failure analysis. It is increasingly popular among industrial processes and management operations. Whether it is related to return on investment or installation of new equipment in on an industrial floor, data analysis and factor assessment related to a failure lead to a solid foundation for the future. In this way, management can stay updated regarding the factors and future risks to reduce the probability of failure properly.
Reasons for Conducting Failure Analysis
The prime reasons for performing a failure analysis are mentioned below.
- Root Cause Determination
Determining the factors behind failure or anything leads to proper analysis and elimination of such factors. It also leads to determining and eradicating the flaws in the design of a product or a plan to make things better for the future. Close inspection done by the experts recreating the environment of a failed incident will disclose the factors that the team should be aware of.
XBRl (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is an open standard mark-up language optimized for business information, but not limited to financial and accounting information. It is the variant of XML (Extensible Markup Language) adopting the same syntax and related technologies. The XBRL aids data sharing more than XML does by removing the obstacle of human terminology from the equation.
The XBRL tags are computer-readable, allowing the electronic transmission of data along with resources relating to each concept helping to define their semantic meaning. The capability of XBRL to communicate semantic meaning associated with specific data elements, independent of software application. This makes use of the transmission of business and financial information to multiple company stakeholders and regulators.
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NASA-inspired smart lighting is controlled by AVA. The lighting is adaptable depending on your plants and their specific growing 'recipes'.
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Update[symbol] tells Mathematica that hidden changes have been made which could affect values associated with a symbol.
Update[ ] specifies that the value of any symbol could be affected.
Update manipulates internal optimization features of Mathematica. It should not need to be called except under special circumstances that rarely occur in practice.
One special circumstance is that changes in the value of one symbol can affect the value of another symbol by changing the outcome of Condition tests. In such cases, you may need to use Update on the symbol you think may be affected.
Using Update will never give you incorrect results, although it will slow down the operation of the system.
See Section 2.6.13.
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How we're changing people's toilet waste disposal habits
Lanes Group is on a mission to educate people across the UK about the damage caused when hidden plastics found in household products such as wet wipes, sanitary towels, tampons, nappies and much more, are flushed down the toilet.
As you may have already read, we have been raising awareness of hidden plastics and explaining why flushing sanitary products is so bad for our drains and sewers, but we recently ran a survey to get a better insight into why people in the UK continue to flush wet wipes and other bathroom products down the toilet.
In this blog post we will give you an overview of what our survey uncovered, as well as the steps we're taking to make a positive change.
The scale of the issue
Through the dirty work that we carry out on a daily basis, we know that incorrect toilet waste disposal is a significant issue – but our survey has helped us highlight the real scale of the problem.
Wet wipes are one of the biggest concerns, as many people believe that they are flushable when in fact they are not. According to Water UK, they make up around 93% of the material in sewer blockages and are estimated to cause around 300,000 blockages every year, at a cost of £100 million to the country.
When we asked the public which wet wipes could be flushed down the toilet, 64% correctly said 'none of them', however 31% admitted to flushing wet wipes instead of binning them.
Another study we conducted found that as many as 20 million women in the UK have flushed at least one sanitary product down the toilet in their lifetime. But if you think about the number of people who wrongly flush these items on a regular basis, you can start to imagine how many thousands more sanitary products could be wrongly flushed down the toilet every day.
Most respondents (85%) said they knew that sanitary products should be disposed of in a bin rather than down the toilet, but hygiene, convenience and a lack of bins in the toilet were the factors most likely to lead to them flushing rather than binning the products.
The majority (80%) of males who took part in the survey said they knew that condoms should be disposed of in the bin, but 10% of them admitted to flushing a condom down the toilet within the last year. The most common reason for doing so was convenience, which was the main reason given by 70% of flushing men, followed by hygiene (17%).
It is a shared responsibility across genders to ensure that plastics are not flushed down the toilet, but when it comes to public toilets, there are currently only waste disposal bins available in female toilets. It is not just women who use wet wipes, but men currently have no means to dispose of them in public toilets, other than by flushing them down the toilet. To address this, Greater London Assembly is calling for bins to be put in male public toilets.
Creating positive habits
Even if people say they know they shouldn't flush these items down the toilet, it is obvious that there is a significant lack of awareness of the impact that is caused when it happens. This has made us even more passionate about changing people's habits and improving the long-term health of our drains, sewers and oceans; so much so that we have started delivering lessons on the topic in secondary schools.
We want to teach the next generation to have good waste disposal habits and empower them to share their knowledge with their parents, family and friends. To do this, we have developed a lesson plan and best practice guides on the disposal of hidden plastics.
Take a look at the success of the lesson we delivered at Woodhey High School in Bury…
We found the pupils to be highly engaged in the topics, and they were passionate about making changes in their habits to protect the environment.
The kids were really eager to learn and had a deep understanding of how everyone together is responsible for protecting our sewers and oceans. They also contributed lots of different ideas on how to share responsibility and help to solve the problem – and we are even developing two of these ideas alongside the pupils who suggested them.
Help us spread the word
As you can tell, we are taking this issue into our hands and championing the correct disposal of all hidden plastics – but we still need your help.
Please support our campaign and spread the word about the dangers of hidden plastics. And most importantly – be a binner, not a sinner!


text: /26th March 2018, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ Cyprus is located at the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea with a subtropical climate. With an area of 9,251 km² and coordinates at 35°N and 33°E, Cyprus lies at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and Asia at the crux of the busy shipping and air routes linking the three continents. The solar irradiation in Cyprus is one of the highest in Europe with more than 320 days of the year considered sunny. Meteorological measurements showed that the annual solar irradiation is approximately 2,002 kWh/m² with a standard deviation of 32 kWh/m². According to Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS), measurements taken from crystalline PV systems with inverter efficiency 96 %, showed an average annual yield of 1,672 kWh/kWp. The rapid decline on solar PV technology costs, the attractive efficiency increase on PV modules available for the residential sector and European Parliament public policies on energy to address the climate change issue have substantially increased the number of consumers that have decided to start producing energy under net metering and self-consumption solar support schemes in Cyprus.


When equipment is so critical that every minute of downtime is costly, you don't want something as manageable as spare parts holding things up. Here are some pointers:
 - Often, the problem is a fuse. Store replacement fuses at critical equipment, and establish a min/max system. You don't want to be out of a fuse for critical equipment simply because someone used the last one on minor equipment.
 - Make a list of the components most likely to fail. Now, look at the process for replacing those. Would it reduce downtime to swap out an entire assembly rather than replace that single component? One example is a critical gearbox. Removing and replacing one bearing might take an hour, while removing and replacing the entire box might take 15 min.; keep an entire box in stock, reserved for this machine.
 - Determine if repair requires special lubricants, connectors, or cables. Keep those with the machine.
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Epaulette (/ˈɛpəlɛt/; also spelled epaulet)[1] is a type of ornamental shoulder piece or decoration used as insignia of rank by armed forces and other organizations. In the French and other armies, epaulettes are also worn by all ranks of elite or ceremonial units when on parade. It may bear rank or other insignia, and should not be confused with a shoulder mark – also called a shoulder board, rank slide, or slip-on – a flat cloth sleeve worn on the shoulder strap of a uniform (although the two terms are often used interchangeably).[2]
Officer of the French Republican Guard with epaulettes
Components and structure the epaulette of an Imperial Russian lieutenant colonel, 46th Artillery Brigade
1. Lining
2. Button
3. Spine
4. Attente/shoulder strap
5. Stars (or pips)
6. Branch insignia
7. Field
8. Unit number
9. Neck (bezel)
10. Fringe
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Epaulettes are fastened to the shoulder by a shoulder strap or passenten,[3] a small strap parallel to the shoulder seam, and the button near the collar, or by laces on the underside of the epaulette passing through holes in the shoulder of the coat. Colloquially, any shoulder straps with marks are also called epaulettes. The placement of the epaulette, its color and the length and diameter of its bullion fringe are used to signify the wearer's rank. At the join of the fringe and the shoulderpiece is often a metal piece in the form of a crescent. Although originally worn in the field, epaulettes are now normally limited to dress or ceremonial military uniforms.
Épaulette is a French word meaning "little shoulder" (diminutive of épaule, meaning "shoulder").
Louis XIV wearing shoulder ribbons, an early type of epaulette of the late 17th century
This US Navy coatee from ca. 1862 has initials on the epaulettes that stand for Medical Service. The length on the epaulettes distinguishes rank; in this case the 2.5-inch length indicates the rank of assistant surgeon.[4]
Epaulettes bear some resemblance to the shoulder pteruges of ancient Greco-Roman military costumes. However, their direct origin lies in the bunches of ribbons worn on the shoulders of military coats at the end of the 17th century, which were partially decorative and partially intended to prevent shoulder belts from slipping. These ribbons were tied into a knot that left the fringed end free. This established the basic design of the epaulette as it evolved through the 18th and 19th centuries.[5]
From the 18th century on, epaulettes were used in the French and other armies to indicate rank. The rank of an officer could be determined by whether an epaulette was worn on the left shoulder, the right shoulder, or on both. Later a "counter-epaulette" (with no fringe) was worn on the opposite shoulder of those who wore only a single epaulette. Epaulettes were made in silver or gold for officers and in cloth of various colors for the enlisted men of various arms. Certain categories of cavalry wore flexible metal epaulettes referred to as shoulder scales, rarely worn on the field.
By the early 18th century, epaulettes had become the distinguishing feature of commissioned rank. This led officers of military units still without epaulettes to petition for the right to wear epaulettes to ensure that their status would be recognized.[6] During the Napoleonic Wars and subsequently through the 19th century, grenadiers, light infantry, voltigeurs and other specialist categories of infantry in many European armies wore cloth epaulettes with wool fringes in various colors to distinguish them from ordinary line infantry. "Flying artillery" wore "wings", similar to an epaulette but with only a bit of fringe on the outside, which matched the shoulder seam. Heavy artillery wore small balls representing ammunition on their shoulders.[citation needed]
An intermediate form in some services, such as the Russian Army, is the shoulder board, which neither has a fringe nor extends beyond the shoulder seam. This originated during the 19th century as a simplified version for service wear of the heavy and conspicuous full dress epaulette with bullion fringes.
Modern derivations
Airline pilot uniform shirts generally include cloth flattened tubular epaulettes having cloth or bullion braid stripes, attached by shoulder straps integral to the shirts. The rank of the wearer is designated by the number of stripes: traditionally four for a captain, three for senior first officer or first officer, and two for either a first officer or second officer. However, rank insignia are airline specific. For example, at some airlines, two stripes denote junior first officer and one stripe second officer (cruise or relief pilot). Airline captains' uniform caps usually will have a braid pattern on the bill. These uniform specifications change depending on the company's policy.
Belgian Grenadiers with red fringed epaulettes
In the Belgian army, red epaulettes with white fringes are worn with the ceremonial uniforms of the Royal Escort while fully red ones are worn by the Grenadiers. Trumpeters of the Royal Escort are distinguished by all red epaulettes while officers of the two units wear silver or gold respectively.
Canadian officers in mess dress or mess kit
Epaulettes of Provo Wallis, Maritime Command Museum, CFB Halifax
In the Canadian Armed Forces, epaulettes are still worn on some Army Full Dress, Patrol Dress, and Mess Dress uniforms. Epaulettes in the form of shoulder boards are worn with the officer's white Naval Service Dress.
After the unification of the Forces, and prior to the issue of the Distinct Environmental Uniforms, musicians of the Band Branch wore epaulettes of braided gold cord.
Until 1914, officers of most French Army infantry regiments wore gold epaulettes in full dress, while those of mounted units wore silver. No insignia was worn on the epaulette itself, though the bullion fringe falling from the crescent differed according to rank.[7] Other ranks of most branches of the infantry, as well as cuirassiers wore detachable epaulettes of various colours (red for line infantry, green for Chasseurs, yellow for Colonial Infantry etc.) with woollen fringes, of a traditional pattern that dated back to the 18th Century. Other cavalry such as hussars, dragoons and chasseurs à cheval wore special epaulettes of a style originally intended to deflect sword blows from the shoulder.
In the modern French Army, epaulettes are still worn by those units retaining 19th-century-style full dress uniforms, notably the ESM Saint-Cyr and the Garde Républicaine. The French Foreign Legion continued to wear their green and red epaulettes, except for a break from 1915 to 1930. In recent years, the Marine Infantry and some other units have readopted their traditional fringed epaulettes in various colours for ceremonial parades. The Marine nationale and the Armée de l'Air do not use epaulettes, but non-commissioned and commissioned officers wear a gilded shoulder strap called attente[citation needed], which original function was to clip the epaulette onto the shoulder. The attentes[citation needed] are also worn by Army generals on dress uniform.
Epauletten, and the corresponding shoulder knots of the German Empire _PHONE_
Until World War I, officers of the Imperial German Army generally wore silver epaulettes as a distinguishing feature of their full-dress uniforms. For ranks up to and including captain these were "scale" epaulettes without fringes, for majors and colonels with fine fringes and for generals with a heavy fringe. The base of the epaulette was of regimental colors. For ordinary duty, dress "shoulder-cords" of silver braid intertwined with state colors, were worn.[8]
During the period 1919-45, German Army uniforms were known for a four cord braided "figure-of-eight" decoration which acted as a shoulder board for senior and general officers. This was called a "shoulder knot" and was in silver with the specialty color piping (for field officers) and silver with red border (for generals). Although it was once seen on US Army uniforms, it remains only in the mess uniform. A similar form of shoulder knot was worn by officers of the British Army in full dress until 1914 and is retained by the Household Cavalry today. Epaulettes of this pattern are used by the Republic of Korea Army's general officers and were widely worn by officers of the armies of Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia; all of which formerly wore uniforms closely following the Imperial German model. The Chilean Army still retains the German style of epaulette in the uniforms of its ceremonial units, the Military Academy and the NCO School while the 5th Cavalry Regiment "Aca Caraya" of the Paraguayan Army sports both epaulettes and shoulder knots in its dress uniforms (save for a platoon wearing Chaco War uniforms). Epaulettes of the German


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I'm relatively new to Mathematica, and I'm trying to define a function f(k) that would do the following:
For any positive integer $k$, a finite sequence $a_i$ of fractions $\frac{x_i}{y_i}$ is defined by: $$a_1 = \frac{1}{k}\\ a_i = \frac{x_{i-1}+1}{y_{i-1}-1}$$ When $a_i$ reaches some integer $n$, the sequence stops. (That is, when $y_i=1$.) Define $f(k) = n$.
-- Project Euler
I have the following function written:
f[k_, sofar_] = Module[{num, result},
 result =
 If[sofar == 0,1/k,((num = Numerator[sofar]) + 1)/(num/sofar - 1)
f[k_] = f[k, 0]
But I get the result {ComplexInfinity,List} and I don't understand why. What am I doing wrong?
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Your function needs to depend on both $x_{i-1}$ and $y_{i-1}$. (This answer applies to any programming language you might choose for tackling this problem.) – whuber Mar 7 '13 at 23:08
I rephrased the format of the question from Project Euler. The fraction is reduced before the function is re-applied. – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:09
Yep, but you still need to track the numerator and denominator, so you might as well do so explicitly--at least conceptually. Your life will be much easier. (Mathematica can handle many of the details, but under the hood it will be doing exactly the same thing: carrying an ordered pair of (numerator, denominator) around.) – whuber Mar 7 '13 at 23:10
so I pass $x_i/y_i$ as $sofar$ and then determine the new numerator, then $\frac{num}{sofar}$ is $y_i$ – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:11
_USER_ After completely changing my code such that it works in the way you suggested, the problem goes away. Huh. Thanks. – Jakob Weisblat Mar 7 '13 at 23:26
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The solution to this problem is to use := instead of = with the function definition so that it is not evaluated immediately.
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BDSM is a term most often used to describe a range of sexual behaviors, but it's also an approach to sex and sex play. The term comes from three other acronyms:
B&D, which stands for bondage and discipline
D/s, which stands for dominance and submission
S&M, which stands for sadism and masochism
BDSM isn't a clinical term universally used by medical or health care professionals; it's more often a term used by people to describe their own sexual practices, and sometimes used by others to denounce the way others choose to have sex.
There isn't one accepted definition for BDSM. A very general one might be that BDSM is a form of sexual expression that involves the willing and consensual exchange of power. Notice that the definition is "sexual expression" and not just sexual activities. A lot of people who engage in BDSM talk about the fact that most of it happens in your mind, and often the sexual activities you can see are the least interesting aspect of the action.
An example of BDSM might be using a pair of stockings to tie your partner to a bed post during sex to elaborate scenarios of dominance and submission that include role play, costumes, and days of preparation (and often no intercourse at all).
The key to understanding BDSM is that it only describes actions that all parties choose to participate in. Any sexual activity that is unwanted or forced upon someone would not be considered BDSM -- it would be considered harassment or assault.


text: Asset allocation information examines all securities (equities, bonds, mutual funds, etc.) in the Advisor Perspectives universe. An attempt is made to identify each security by its ticker, CUSIP, or description. If the security cannot be identified in this manner, it is treated as "Unknown" for asset allocation purposes. Balanced mutual funds (contained a mixture of equities and bonds) are classified as either an equity or a bond fund, depending on whether 50% or more of the assets are equities or bonds.


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The Old McHenry County Courthouse, in McHenry County, Illinois, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1974. Once the courthouse in the county seat of McHenry County, Woodstock, today the courthouse is occupied by various private tenants including a restaurant and an art gallery. It is one of the key structures in the Woodstock Square Historic District.HistoryThe 1857 Italianate Old Courthouse was constructed to closely resemble the 1853 Cook County Courthouse (which was eventually destroyed during the Great Chicago Fire). The structure was designed by John M. Van Osdel, the first licensed architect in Chicago. The adjoining structure, the Sheriff's House and Jail was built in 1887. It was there, in the Sheriff's House and Jail that Eugene Debs was held for his refusal to comply with an injunction during the Pullman Strike. Until 1973 McHenry County government office were located in the Old Courthouse. When the government moved out, the building was threatened with demolition, as it stood on prime commercial property. On November 1, 1974, it was recognized by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places. Eight years later it was listed as a contributing property to the Woodstock Square Historic District, a 13acre corridor in downtown Woodstock. Today the two buildings house two restaurants, one in each building, and art gallery (in the courthouse), a pottery shop (in the jail building) and the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum.
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The Blackbird is a large jet used by the X-Men for transport.
The Blackbird is a large jet that has been modified by Professor X so that he could easily transport his X-Men to missions. He keeps it in a large hanger under the Xavier Mansion. Cyclops is usually the pilot.
All of the X-Men then left in the blackbird to Asteroid M. Kitty Pryde snuck aboard as she did not want to be left behind. When they arrived the X-Men, minus Xavier, left in space suits to board the asteroid. Xavier realized that Kitty was there and asked her to come out. She had her own space suit on and phased through the hull to go to the asteroid.
The X-Men were successful in their mission. Unfortunately, Nightcrawler must have stayed aboard the asteroid or else the Earth would have been destroyed. Fortunately Xavier formulated a plan. All of the X-Men headed back towards the Blackbird. Xavier kept the Blackbird on a viewscreen that Nightcrawler could see. Xavier told him that he must teleport aboard at the very last second. Unfortunately Nightcrawler waited too long and the comet hits the asteroid.
Luckily Nightcrawler did teleport away but into the vacuum of space. But he was entering the atmosphere and would have burnt up. The X-Men hurried to get the grappling beam on him. Nightcrawler disappeared just before the beams could latch onto him. They heard a banging noise from the back and went to investigate to find Nightcrawler alive and well.
Kitty thanked Nightcrawler for his heroism. Storm asked Wolverine if he was wrong. He says that Kitty is still no X-Man. Not yet anyways.
It has a large space inside that can hold a number of people. It has lockers in the back to house several sizes of space suits.
The jet is able to fly in atmosphere and in space under its own power.
It can listen to radio and television broadcasts from around Earth even far beyond the moon.
It also has grappling beams that can latch onto an object and pull it in.
This Blackbird appears to be a modified Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.


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The purpose of this tour is offer insight to the environment of thousands of years ago before present. The scope of the tour is local, focusing primarily on the Northwestern counties—this includes Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Marion, and Winston County. Follow along this tour to become immersed in the evolution of the environment from the Paleoindian Period to the Tuscumbia Landing. Journey through Northwest Alabama's rapid environmental change from the Pleistocene period to the current Holocene period. Follow the region once ensconced in glacial sheets succumb to warm temperatures, which supported a flourishing environment rich and varied in its fauna and plants. Learn that, much like animals and the first peoples, plant communities also migrated in order to survive. And most importantly, observe how people changing the environment can cause significant changes to the climate.
This tour was researched, written, and prepared by University of North Alabama History student Tequila Cohen in 2019.


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(2) Let C: (y^2=x^3+ax+b)\in \mathbb{R}^2 be nonsingular; find all points of order 2 in the group law, and understand what group they form (there are two cases to consider). Now explain geometrically how you would set about finding all points of order 4 on C.
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I am wondering how to print a particular sentence depending on user input.
In the scenario below, if the user enters "B" I would like to print the words "You have selected B" however if the user selects C I would like to print the word "You have selected C".
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Trial extends Register
 //I want to load the register which will be option B
 public static void main (String[] args)
 Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
 System.out.println("Enter A to make a purchase & receive your change");
 System.out.println("Enter B to load the Register");
 System.out.println("Enter C to write the contents of the Register to a
 web Page");
 System.out.println("Enter D to exit the program");
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If you are using Java 7+, you can use a switch statement.
If you use an earlier vrsion, you need to use several if statements.
As for the Scanner, you can read this tutorial to get started and have a look at this example.
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How about:
String input = // read input from scanner;
if(input.length() == 1) {
 switch(input.charAt(0)) {
 case 'A':
 // make purchase
 case 'B':
 // load register
 // Similarly case C and D
 // possibly invalid input as well
} else {
 System.out.println("Invalid input");
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