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Forward-Back Basic Step
Here is where the feet go on counts 1 through 4. It is 3 steps on 4 beats:
1 2 3 4 Men do left forward right (in place) left together (left next to right) hold (no step). Ladies do right back left (in place) right together (right next to left) hold (no step)
And then on counts 5 - 6 - 7 - 8, they each do what the other did on counts 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, like this:
5 6 7 8 Ladies do left forward right (in place) left together (left next to right) hold (no step). Men do right back left (in place) right together (right next to left) hold (no step)
Step, step, step, hold. Step, step, step, hold. Well, that's the feet part, but there is a lot more to learn to make it look like salsa, so we'll allow the pros to explain it. Stick with it. Good luck. --DanceTutor
Salsa 1 with Kana Kubota and
Helmut Salas of New York City
DanceTutor (DT): Well, thereís the feet, the beat and the hips. Letís start with the feet. Kana, we already have the diagram above, but in your words what are the feet doing?
Kana: Basically gentlemen start forward with left step and then right step and then the left steps next to right and the feet are together. That is first three steps.
Ladies step back with right, then left step, and right steps next to left and the feet are together.
DT: And the 4th, 5th and 6th steps?
Kana: Gentleman stepped with left step on 3rd step, so right foot is next, and he steps back, then steps on left, and then steps right next to left, and the feet are together.
Ladies stepped with right on 3rd step, so their next step is with left, and it is forward step. then right step, and then left steps next to right, and the feet are together and ready to start again.
DT: Okay, itís 6 steps, but itís in 3's, correct?
Starting Up Straight
Kana: For people with music background, best expressed 6 steps to 8 beats of music -- itís step, step, step hold (hold means donít step), step, step,step hold. Or one two three hold, one two three hold.
DT: And both the man and woman are stepping and holding on the same beats.
Kana: Yes, in the basic dance, yes.
DT: What about the hips?
Kana: Try not to force the hip movement, but let it come from floor and weight change. Your body weight change one foot to the other, when that happens from your ball of foot, flat foot, ankle, knee, hip move. But try not to initiate the move from your hip.
Helmut: In all the latin dances as Kana mentions you are just changing weight onto a bent leg and as it straightens -- as your body moves from one side to the other -- it looks like the hips are moving.
DT: Does your hip follow your feet or do your feet follow your hips?
Helmut: The hip follows the body weight change.
Stepping with bent knees.
Straightening the knees
as weight is shifted
causes the hips to sway
DT: When you step, what part of the foot is first to contact the floor.
Kana: Almost flat foot. I wouldnít think toe or heel, I would think almost flat foot, but always knee bent. Itís contacting the floor with the knee bent, then the knee is straightened and that is what causes the swaying in the hips.
Helmut: You don't move with stiff knees, and you try not to move with your hips side to side. Otherwise, you will end up with your feet too far apart.
DT: How long of a process is it for a new student to learn the hip motion?
Helmut: It will take awhile. Most people learn the steps first and after awhile they get the salsa look with the hip motion.
DT: Are there any exercises or tricks for learning the hip motion?
Helmut: No, nothing other than just doing it over and over, possibly in front of a mirror.
DT: Helmut, what are you doing with your arms? It looks as though you are making a circular motion with your left.
Helmut: I am keeping my left arm almost still, but I am moving my torso which makes it appear that the left arm is moving. Most people are not used to moving their upper body, so, -- to add to your previous question, -- squirming is a kind of exercise to improve flexibility and control.
DT: Do you have any general tips for leaders?
Helmut: Stay relaxed, keep time with the music.
The Keys:The same foot never steps twice in a row, so if the left was the last to step, the right will step next. The stepping of the feet is not too difficult, and in large part remains the same from salsa figure to salsa figure. The knee-hip action discussed above will take a good while for the beginner to master.
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be observed that setting a limit (Pm) to the reactive power implicitly means also setting a limit to the voltage (Vm) and to the current (Im) that create that reactive power (Pm = Vm Im). For a given Pm however, Vm and Im are not unequivocally determined, as they vary with frequency and capacitance (consider that Im = Vm / Xc). This behaviour is visualized in the following pictures, The graph on the left hand side shows how Vm and Im vary with frequency (f) for a given Pm. The graph on the right refers to a capacitor of higher value but with same Pm; it is evident that, at each frequency, the ratio between Vm and Im has decreased due to the lower capacitor Xc.
That said, it is important to remark that Vm derives from a physical phenomenon different from that causing Vn, therefore the Vm and Vn figures have no relationship with each other. The figure to be actually used for determining the maximum vrms that can be applied to a capacitor will then be the lower of two. Identical reasoning applies to Im and In. Picture below shows the corrisponding behaviours.
The graphs reflect the fact that, as already said, the actual limit for vrms will be the lower between Vm and Vn (same applies to Im and In). It is then possible to define three operational conditions (see graphs):
condition A: this is the discharge-limited condition, where Vn results to be more constraining than Vm. As vrms cannot anyway exceed Vn, the actual pr will be lower than the maximum permissible value (Pm). Also irms will be lower than that (Im) corresponding to Pm;
condition B: this is the dielectric-limited condition, where the actual limit is represented by Pm. Just multiply vrms by irms to verify that you are within Pm;
condition C: this is the ohmic-limited condition, where In results to be more constraining than Im. As irms cannot anyway exceed In, the actual pr will be lower than the maximum permissible value (Pm). Also vrms will be lower than that (Vm) corresponding to Pm.
For a given capacitor (i.e. for given Vn, In and Pm), the above defined operational conditions will only depend on frequency, and not at all on the actual vrms and irms values.
TYPES OF RF CAPACITORS
Let us now pass to consider products available on the market. Air-insulated capacitors would be ideal for RF applications, them not being subject to dielectric loss; unfortunately they are very bulky. Making the capacitor with a material having a dielectric constant (k) higher than that of air (k = 1) permits to reduce capacitor size; the formula is very simple: for a given physical capacitor geometry, capacitance is just proportional to k. The market of capacitors for RF applications is today dominated by ceramic capacitors that feature very high k values, up to 10,000 or more.
Selecting a dielectric with a high k yields however some drawbacks, the most important ones being:
the Temperature Coefficient of Capacitance (TCC), which is the maximum change in capacitance over a specified temperature range, increases and tends to show a non-linear behaviour;
the dissipation factor also increases;
tight tolerances are not easy to achieve;
actual capacitance becomes sensitive to the applied vdc (capacitance may drop down to 50% of its nominal value when vdc = Vn);
higher aging rate, a phenomenon due to the relaxation of the microcristalline structure that causes capacitance loss with time, due to a reduction of k. A high-k capacitor could lose up to 25% of its capacitance 4,000 hours after fabrication, but after that capacitance loss becomes much slower.
Type-1 dielectric is material with low k (say less than 200). The TCC for type-1 dielectric, expressed in parts per million per degrees centigrade, is quite moderate. The temperature characteristic of a type-1 dielectric is directly related to its k, as shown in the following table.
Capacitors built with type-1 dielectric are called RF power capacitors; they usually feature a Vn greater than 1kV, an In greater than 1A, a Pm greater than 1kVAr, an almost linear temperature coefficient of less than 1,300ppm/°C and a dissipation factor of less than 0.001. Picture below shows typical RF power capacitors. They are used in applications where temperature stability is important (e.g. resonating circuits) and high Q is required.
Low-capacity (e.g. < 1,000pF) disc-type capacitors with wire leads are most often also built with type-1 ceramics and then have characteristics similar to those of the RF power capacitors.
Type-2 dielectric is material with high k (up to 5,000 or even more). In this case TCC is much higher, varies with temperature, and is usually expressed in percentage of capacity change. A three-symbol designator, e.g., Z5U, X5V, is used to characterize the temperature behaviour of the capacitor (you may have read such strange markings, most often on wire-lead disc-type capacitors). Their significance is shown in the following table.
For instance, the Z5U designator indicates a capacitance variation of +22% / -56% across the temperature range +10°C / +85°C.
Also for type-2 dielectric the temperature characteristic is bound to k, as presented in table below.
The nominal capacity indicated by the manufacturer is referred to a temperature of 25°C. As already mentioned, for type-2 dielectric capacity change vs. temperature is highly variable and non linear.
Capacitors built with type-2 dielectric are usually called high-voltage capacitors, that should not be confused with the RF power capacitors discussed before, though their appearance may sometimes be similar and despite they are both commonly referred to as doorknob-type capacitors, as they appear like small barrels with axial wire leads or screw terminals. The design of high-voltage capacitors is optimized for operation at very high Vn, even up to 250kV. They can also withstand a fairly high irms, while their Pm is usually limited. They typically feature very high and non-linear temperature coefficients (up to 70,000 ppm/°C), a higher dissipation factor (up to 0.015) and a remarkable capacitance variation with DC voltage. Picture below shows typical high-voltage capacitors.
Generally speaking, high-voltage capacitors look taller and sometimes even fatter than RF power capacitors, but it is not always easy to distinguish. A capacitor higher than 5,000 pF having a Vn of 10kV or more is most likely a high-voltage capacitor.
It should be noted that wire-lead disc-type capacitors with a voltage specification higher than some 500V and with capacity higher than 1,000pF are commonly built with type-2 dielectric. Therefore they have characteristics similar to the high-voltage capacitors.
In summary, high-voltage capacitors can also be used in RF circuits, but their usage shall be limited to applications not requiring a high stability of capacitance, and very high pr; conversely they can sustain significant irms values.
That said, let us consider a very well-known product, i.e. the Centralab doorknob ceramic capacitors (now manufactured by ITT-Jennings). They come in several sizes, the most common one being that of models 850 and 858. Model 850 (now renamed HT50), shown below, is an RF power capacitor with capacity varying from 10pF to 500pF, temperature coefficient varying from NPO to N4700, and a Vn of 5kV or 7.5kV. For what concerns In, it seems reasonable to assume that In coincides with the specification they give for maximum current at 30 MHz, which ranges from 7A to 10A depending on capacity. For what concerns the maximum reactive power (Pm), they do not use this term, but they indicate maximum current (Im) at selected frequencies; e.g., for the 100 pF unit, 3.6A @ 1 MHz and 6.8A @ 10 MHz.
Model 858 (now renamed HT58) looks very similar to model 850, the main apparent difference being the fact that the ceramic wall is just a bit thicker, but it has higher capacity, i.e. 1,000pF (a 500pF unit was also available, but now presumably no longer produced). The Vn rating is the same of the 850 model (i.e. either 5kV or 7.5kV), In is 5.6A, and Im is 1.6A @ 1MHz or 3.8A @ 10MHz. Model 858 utilizes type-2 ceramics (type X5V) and should therefore be regarded as a high-voltage capacitor.
It should be noted that other Centralab doorknob capacitors (i.e. the smaller 853-, 854- and 855-types, the larger 857-type and the king-sized 859-type are all RF power capacitors). Therefore model 858, which is probably the most used type, constitutes an exception to the rule
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Fourmilab's Coruscating, Actinic,
(partially) Nuclear-Powered Christmas Lights
by John Walker
December 10th, 2004
Interior view of Single String Test 'Tis the season to put up the Christmas lights and, as usual, confront the problem of dead series-strings of incandescent bulbs. Now, if you're an engineer like me, you've probably developed a pretty strong sense over the years about how the world works. This hindbrain reality detector will probably rule out ever finding a string of 12 bulbs in series in which three or four have burned out filaments, but in fact this is common when repairing such lights. What's going on? I'm not entirely sure—the most plausible explanation seems to be that when a filament opens, you can often get the string working again by tapping it against a window (or other hard object). This will sometime jog an open filament back into contact, so the string lights again until another filament opens, which can sometimes be remedied in the same way. When the thing resolutely refuses to light and you take it to the bench to repair, you find multiple dead bulbs, many with obvious open filaments when viewed through a 10× magnifier. On the other hand, the explanation may be tiny filament snipping gremlins from the fourth dimension who materialise inside the bulbs when the lights are stored in the attic waiting for next year. But this engineer is not going there.
Regardless of the cause, it is intensely irritating when one of these strings of lights fails. Each one contains 12 "grain of wheat" bulbs, driven with 24 Volts AC Exterior view of Single String Test from a transformer, so the voltage drop across each bulb is about 2V. These "light curtains" can be installed inside or outside, so the bulbs in the strings have heat shrinkable tubing along the base which makes it difficult to test for blown bulbs. Generally, it takes between 30 minutes and an hour to repair a dead string. First you replace all the bulbs with visibly open filaments, but usually there are one or two dead bulbs which look OK under the magnifier, and can only be found to be bad by stripping the wire on either side and testing with an ohmmeter.
Now, you might say, "Why be so bloody cheap? Just pitch a string when it dies and install a new one!" Well, first of all, I am bloody cheap, and I really don't like the idea of throwing away nine or ten perfectly good bulbs, along with the connector, wire, etc. because a few bulbs have failed. But in addition, replacement bulb strings aren't reliably available—it seems like they change the connectors every few years, so you still have to solder the connector from the old string to the new one. And of course what they really want you to do is buy a whole new set with the transformer, etc. and that is right out as far as I'm concerned.
Still, I do like the lights in the window, and neighbours remark upon how welcoming illuminated Fourmilab is when driving into the village on dark, foggy nights in the Christmas season. What to do? Prototype in Fourmilab Electronics Lab Well, how about that time-proven, all-purpose solution: smashing the problem to death with technology! In this case, replacing the incandescent bulbs with light emitting diodes (LEDs), making compatible strings which are completely interchangeable with the existing ones. LEDs, properly treated, almost never fail, and they also emit far more light per milliampere of current consumed than incandescents; they last forever, run cool, and use less power—win, win, win. Of course, they do cost more—quite a bit more, in fact, but that's a capital expense which can be amortised over the decades they'll last and is, in any case, easily recouped if you consider the time and irritation you'll save not having to repair or replace incandescents.
Based on extensive research (flipping through the Distrelec catalogue), I chose the Kingbright W7114PWC/H white (actually, it has a bluish cast) high-intensity LED. This device is typically operated with a forward voltage of 3.7V, which I derated to 3.6V since I didn't need the full intensity (which is almost blinding head-on). To power each string, I fabricated a head-end consisting of a full-wave bridge rectifier and a 100µF smoothing capacitor. Driven with 24 VAC (RMS), this produces about 37.8V DC with Fourmilab's typical line voltage of around 230V. Dividing by the 3.6V forward voltage of the LEDs, we find that 10.5 LEDs in series will yield the desired current. Detail: rectifier, capacitor, and first LED What, saw an LED in half? No problem—just connect 10 LEDs in series with two in parallel at the end of the string! Now, veteran electrical engineers will recoil in horror at the thought of connecting forward-biased diodes in parallel without a load-balancing resistor but, in fact, it works just fine. As long as you use diodes with the same part number from the same manufacturer, you can see a difference at low current, but when they approach operating load they behave identically.
Here, I've made a "space frame" circuit, soldering the leads from the string connector directly to the rectifier, and the rest of the string to the other side. The leads on these DIPs don't survive many flexures, so it may be wiser to fabricate the circuit on perf-board to keep the IC from losing its legs. The pictures above show the first replacement LED string installed with legacy incandescents; as the incandescents burn out, I'll transition over to all LEDs.
One difference between LEDs and incandescents is that incandescent lamps have an isotropic (all-aspect) light emission, while most LED packages strongly "beam" the light along one axis. In fact, the LEDs are so bright that this isn't a problem—even the off-axis emission from the LED is as bright as the incandescents, as you can see in the exterior shot above, taken through thick freezing ground fog. If the LEDs are mounted in more or less random orientation, their principal beams will be be distributed through space. This causes the wall of light to appear to "sparkle" as a moving observer passes through the beams of the various LEDs, which is a nice effect. My next experiment will be "frosting" the LEDs to diffuse the light by dipping them in a mixture of Epsom salt (MgSO4) and beer. Re-visit this page in a couple of days to see how that worked!
Electricity by Source
Hydro 59.5%
Nuclear 37.1%
Fossil fuel 1.3%
Other 2%
Partially Nuclear Powered?
Fourmilab's Christmas lights, like everything electrical in Switzerland, consume almost no fossil fuel. Electricity generation in Switzerland is about 60% from hydroelectric power and 37% nuclear. So more than every third electron that passes through Fourmilab's Christmas lights is kicked along its way by nuclear energy—green glowing cool!
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Insider trading is a common occurrence in the Swedish stock market. In 2015, 9 996 transactions were carried out of different types. According to previous research, something that to many sounds like an unlawful act has proven to be healthy for market efficiency.
Earlier literature describes the importance of the insider's position for the ability to generate excess return. Various positions have access to different information while positions are being appointed according to the individual's competence. These are factors that are believed to affect the individual's investment decisions. The literature also discusses differences between men and women's ability to achieve excess returns. It is believed that women and men have different working methods, which affect the ability to maintain and utilize information.
The purpose of this thesis is examining market pricing when publishing insider trades. The study is based on the Swedish stock market to provide a better understanding of how the market values the insider position and gender.
An event study is being conducted to study a possible reaction to the market. In order to interpret and analyze the results of the event study, various hypothesis tests and a multiple regression are performed. The authors' approach is deductive and the study has been based on a bigger amount of quantitative data that has then been tested against the theory.
The results show no significant differences in the market response when men and women's insider trades are being published. The study finds similar results for the insider's position. The conclusion is that the Swedish stock market does not value the insider's position or gender in conjunction with insider trading. The study also finds no significant correlation between accumulated abnormal returns and insiders' gender and position. Thus, the essay's two hypotheses are rejected.
|Date of Award||2017-Sep-27|
|Supervisor||Manuchehr Irandoust (Supervisor) & Yrjö Collin Sven-Olof (Examiner)|
- Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics
- 15 HE credits
Swedish Standard Keywords
- Business Administration (50202)

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167. Intersection of unsorted arrays
easy - accepted / - tried
Given two arrays, find the intersection(items occur in both arrays)
 1. arrays are not sorted, and might have duplicates.
 2. you can modify the arrays
 3. you can return the items in any order, but without duplicates.
This is an easy problem, What is the time & space complexity of your approach?
Think about the edge cases.
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Sea Slug conflicts
|Sea Slug conflicts|
|Non-specific events, late Fourth Age||169, Fifth Age|
|Throughout Gielinor, although centred around what is now Witchaven|
|Death of Mother Mallum|
|Temple and White Knight Crusade|
|Sea Slugs||Many forces, primarily Temple Knights|
|Unknown, but high||Unknown, but very high|
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The Sea Slug conflicts are a series of ongoing wars waged by Mother Mallum, a Sea Slug of unknown origins, and a variety of forces, most prominently the Temple Knights. The conflicts began some time in the late Fourth Age (or, more unlikely, the early fifth) and reached a stalemate with the incarceration of the Mother Mallum, but resumed in year 169 of the Fifth Age, a few centuries later.
The majority of the Sea Slug Conflicts took place when Mother Mallum first emerged from the sea. She used her forces to corrupt and control the important political figures of the world. The goal ultimately seems to have been nothing short of complete world-domination. After being sealed within an underground cave network by the Temple Knights and White Knights, Mallum and her forces fell into a deep hibernation.
In 169 of the Fifth Age, Mallum's bizarre species of slug re-emerged in the Unquiet Ocean, taking the Kandarin Fishing Platform with no resistance. They moved on to Witchaven, near East Ardougne, and Mother Mallum herself was released from prison, but lost a Slug Prince. She attempted to resume her plans, but was ultimately defeated by a special squad of Temple Knight allies in the Slug Citadel.
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Baytec RTA04N routers include a very basic firewall that helps protect your home network form unwanted access from the internet. Since this firewall blocks incoming connections you may need open a port through it for certain games and applications. This process of opening a port is frequently called a port forward, since you are forwarding a port from the internet to your home network.
The basic process to open a port is:
 1. Setup a static IP address on either your computer or device that you want to forward a port to.
 2. Login to your Baytec RTA04N router.
 3. Navigate to the port forwarding section.
 - Click the Advanced link.
 - Click on Virtual Server.
 4. Create a port forward entry.
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Above is an example of what a web browser address bar looks like. Find the address bar in your router and type in your router's IP address.
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Enter the port to forward into both the WAN Port and the LAN Open Port boxes.
Enter the IP address of the device that you want to forward ports to into the LAN IP Address box. This can be either the IP address of your computer or the IP address of another device on your network.
When you are finished, click the Apply Changes button.
Your ports should now be open. It is time to test them.
Test if Your Ports are Open
Now that you have forwarded ports on the Baytec RTA04N you should test to see if your ports are forwarded correctly.
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Network Utilities tool, which includes a free Open Port Checker. Our Open Port Check tool is the only online port checking tool with Guaranteed Results.
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Princess and the Pizza Lesson Plan
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
About this book
- The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch
- video camera
- costumes, props, and backdrops
Set Up and Prepare
If you decide to dive into this project, involve the art and music teachers. They can integrate scenery, costumes, music, and sound effects into their teaching. Also, a room parent can be a wonderful resource to help gather and create costumes.
Assign or have students choose roles. Allow students time to rehearse, using dialogue from the book, as well as any that they have written. Use a video camera to record the production, and schedule a time to share it with students.
Have students create posters or other advertising to invite neighboring classrooms to the performance, or the videotape showing.


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Applications that you use to stitch photographs together to
form panoramic images are called stitching software
. PTGui is stitching software.
Panoramic images are assembled of multiple images. Because the images are perspective corrected,
a seamless stitch can be made and the panorama will look like an image taken with an
artificial super wide angle lens.
Several types of stitching software exist: automatic stitchers and control point based stitchers.
Not all stitching software can do multi row panoramas. A multi row panorama is a panorama
consisting of images not only aligned next to each other, but also on top of each other.
If enough images are stitched together, a spherical panorama can be formed. This is a panorama
where you can see the full environment of the camera.
With PTGui you can create spherical panoramas, single row panoramas and multi row panoramic images.
It can handle every imaginable lens type, can output to many formats and projections,
including 360-degree spherical and rectilinear ('flat') formats.
Features of PTGui:
- Create spherical, cylindrical or flat panoramas from any number of source images
- Supports jpeg, tiff, png and bmp source images
- WYSIWYG Panorama editor for interactive editing and realtime preview
- Stitching software
- Supports many panoramic projections
- Create templates with frequently used settings
- Includes spherical panorama viewer and web publishing tool
PTGui originally started as a G
nterface for Panorama Tools (hence the name). Over the years it has evolved into the most versatile stitching software. It easily gives you high quality stitched panoramas from overlapping images or photographs.
Stitched using PTGui:

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Sensitivity Analysis of Different Models of Piezoresistive Micro Pressure SensorsS. Meenatchisundaram, S. M. Kulkarni, S. Bhat
Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, India.
Piezoresistive pressure sensors have received much attention over the years because of low cost, simple measurement techniques, etc. There is a challenge in design with respect to appropriate positioning, shape and temperature compensation. Different models of piezoresistive pressure sensors are proposed to enhance its sensitivity in terms of output voltage. This paper aims in sensitivity analysis of various models proposed in research papers. The Acoustics Module of COMSOL Multiphysics® is used to make a comparative study. All sensors used in this paper consist of a membrane, on which the pressure is applied and a surrounding fixed frame. The sensitivity and output voltage of each model are measured and compared. The merits and drawbacks are discussed as a result of the paper.


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Plotting expressions is important to visualize data, relationships between variables, and perform analysis. Mathcad plotting allows visualization of variable values, functions, and data points. Included in this demonstration is common calculus techniques such as symbolic or analytic solutions to differentiation or integration. Use the following worksheet to step through example problems related to using trending capabilities and calculus analysis in a Mathcad worksheet.
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet (xmcd)
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet (pdf)
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet Solution (pdf)
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Dennis Ritchie, C Programmer And Unix Co-Creator, Has Died
Dennis Ritchie is being remembered today as a pioneering computer scientist, the "father of [the] C programming language," co-creator of the Unix operating system and "a 'titan' of the [computer] industry whose influence was largely unknown."
Ritchie, 70, has died. The news was confirmed this morning by Alcatel-Lucent, which owns the Bell Labs where Ritchie worked from 1967 until his retirement in 2007.
"While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely regarded as a key moment in modern computing, the contemporaneous birth of the C programming language is less well known. Yet the creation of C has as much claim, if not more, to be the true seminal moment of IT as we know it; it sits at the heart of programming — and in the hearts of programmers — as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability."
It adds that "Ritchie designed a computer language, C, that could be quickly and easily moved between different hardware. Programs that were written in C, provided they followed the rules, would then run with little or no modification on any computer that could itself run C."
Then Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson "rewrote Unix in C, giving the operating system the same ease of portability. Programmers could then learn one operating system, one set of tools and one language, and find those skills nearly universally applicable."
Ritchie and Thompson were 1998 National Medal of Technology laureates "for their invention of UNIX operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age."
That medal "is the highest honor for technological achievement bestowed by the President of the United States on America's leading innovators."
Alcatel-Lucent has posted video of Ritchie and Thompson talking about their work.


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Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth King of Rome, a popular king and one of Rome's most significant benefactors who increased the franchise and improved the lot of Rome's poorer citizens.
He was murdered by his treacherous daughter Tullia and her husband Tarquinius Superbus.
Livio Mehus who was born in Oudenaarde in Flanders, travelled to Rome at the age of fifteen, where he became a pupil of Pietro da Cortona (_PHONE_) and found a powerful patron in Prince Matthias of Tuscany.
Later, he received extensive patronage from the Medici family in Florence, the city where he died.


text: Opossums are marsupial (carries its young in a pouch). They breed in late January or early February (some will breed again in May). Females have one to two litters per year. The average litter size is seven to eight young. The female gives birth to underdeveloped young approximately 13 days after mating. At this stage, the young are about the size of a bumblebee and they must crawl to their mother's pouch where they continue to develop. Young opossums leave the pouch when they are two to three months old but remain near the female so that they can return to her pouch to nurse. By the time they are three months old, they will be weaned and on their own. The ones you found sound like they are recently weaned and on their own (about 3 months old). Sometimes the young will buddy up together for awhile after the female has weaned them and they are on their own. The female is probably not still in the garage, but you could just use a broom to Gently direct her out the door if she's still there. They hiss and show all of their teeth, but opossums are pretty much all show.


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Assemblies : The Ins and Out : Part III
By Chris Rausch on Apr 20, 2001
In this part I will discuss in more detail than Part 2, the available utilities for manipulating assemblies.
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This article is the third part of a three part series of articles covering the .Net assemblies. In Part 1, I covered what exactly an assembly is, and what an assembly contains. Part 2 of the series I discussed both Private and Shared assemblies and how to create a "Shared Assembly". In part 2 I briefly mentioned some of the utilities available for working with assemblies. In this part I will discuss in more detail than Part 2, the available utilities for manipulating assemblies.
Assembly Linker Utility
The Assembly Linker is a command line utility named AL.exe. Ran in the form of AL sources options.
It can be used for installing shared assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache.
It can also be used to create a manifest for IL code that does not already contain one.
It can be used to add resources to an assembly.
Some interesting options that can be used with the utility are:
AL moduleName.dll /out: newName.exe /main: methodName
If you have a multi-file assembly, that includes more than one Main method, you can specify to the application domain which type contains the Main method that you want to use as the entry point for your program.
AL moduleName.dll /out: newName /version: major.minor.revision.build or use /v:
Adds your specified version number to the manifest. You can verify your version was inserted using the ildasm.exe program.
AL moduleName.dll /out: newName /win32icon: iconFileName
Adds an icon file to the assembly so that when Windows Explorer displays your app, the specified icon is shown.
Many of the fields that can be added using the AL.exe utility such as Company, copyright, etcetera, can be viewed using the Assembly Cache Viewer/properties.
Strong Name Utility
The Strong Name utility is a command line utility named Sn.exe. Ran in the form of Sn sources options.
It can be used to create strong names or shared names for assemblies.
It can be used to create public/private key pairs.
Some useful options that can be used with the utility are.....
Sn -k keyFile.snk
This is the same command that we used in Part 2 to create a set of keys.
Sn -R assemblyName keyFile.snk
Re-signs a previously signed assembly.
Sn -v hello.dll
This verifies that the assembly is a strong named assembly.
Assembly 'hello.dll' is valid
Assembly Cache Viewer
The Assembly Cache Viewer is a Windows Shell extension named Shfusion.dll .
This extension is integrated into Windows Explorer when the SDK is installed so that you may view assemblies in the Assembly Cache.
It can be used to view properties of assemblies, add assemblies to the cache or even remove assemblies from the cache.
Use Explorer to navigate to your assembly directory: C:\Windows\assembly. Right-click on an assembly, and select properties. You will see properties such as version, name trademark, copyright, and others. This method can also be a quick way to verify that fields you set using the Assembly Linker utility are as you expected.
To delete an assembly from the cache, right-click on the assembly and select Delete.
To add an assembly to the assembly cache, drag and drop the assembly (that must be a shared name assembly) into the Cache.
NOTE: Adding an assembly this way does not perform the install as does the AL.exe utility. I used the preceding method to copy and delete assemblies from the cache and it did not create or remove the parent folders of the shared assembly.
Global Assembly Cache Utility
The Global Assembly Cache Utility performs the same operations on assemblies as the Windows shell extension rescribed above. The Global Assembly Cache Utility is the command line version and is included with the SDK as a file named Gacutil.exe.
Syntax and usage is as follows:
Gacutil -l
The -l (ell, not number one) option will report the number of shared assemblies in the global cache and will list each shared assembly along with it's version and strong name.
Gacutil -i assemblyName
This installs the assembly to the global cache and does create the needed directories just as the AL.exe utility did when we installed the assembly in PART 2 of the series.
I tried using the -u option to remove my assembly but this option did not properly work. The Gacutil -u assemblyName, ver=versionNum command ran and said that it successfully removed my assembly, but when I viewed the cache the assembly and it's parent folders were still there.
Microsoft Intermediate Language Disassembler
The IL Disassembler is a utility named ildasm.exe.
It can be used for viewing the internals of an assembly and can also generate a text file that can be edited and then recompiled using the Microsoft Intermediate Language Assembler (ilasm.exe).
ildasm
This produces a dialog box that allows you to navigate the assemblies internals. The following is a list of the symbols used to identify the parts of your assembly.
ildasmInsOuts31.gif
ildasm /TEXT
This causes the ildasm output to be displayed in a console window instead of the dialog box.
ildasm /OUT=fileName
This causes the ildasm output to be saved to the specified file instead of the dialog box.
There are many other utilities provided with the SDK. For a list of available utilities visit: Framework Tools.
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11-16-2001, 12:44 PM
How do i manage moving the observer and rotating him on the spot?
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11-17-2001, 02:43 AM
You cant really "move" the camera, you have to move/rotate the object instead.
say you want the camera to turn 90deg, you actually have to rotate the matrix 90deg to the other direction beofre you draw the cube...
I know I cant explain very well, but I guess you get the point..
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11-17-2001, 05:56 PM
There is no such thing as a camera in OpenGL, so I will use the word to describe the position of the "observer".
There is a function called gluLookAt that takes 9 arguments.
the first three are float values that are the camera's x, y, z coordinates respectively.
the second three are float values that are the x, y, and z coordinates that the camera is looking at (respectively).
The last three are floats also, and they are the camera tilt. They should always be 0,1,0, unless you want your world to be upside down, then they would be 0,-1, 0


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[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]"BROMPTON, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Allertonshire. At some point between 1822 and 1890 Brompton Chapelry became a parish in its own right, having previously been a Chapelry of Northallerton."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Brompton to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE375964 (Lat/Lon: 54.361751, -1.424418), Brompton which are provided by:
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)


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Lismore community groups to receive almost $1 million for vital bush regeneration
Member for Lismore Thomas George today announced four local community groups would receive a total $989,750 for projects aimed at restoring bushland in the local area.
Mr George said on World Environment Day (Tuesday 5 June) the grants were part of an $8 million NSW Government program to fix degraded natural bushland sites.
"In a challenging economic environment this funding targets key community groups who are best placed to protect their local environment," Mr George said.
"I am pleased to announce Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group Inc will receive $249,900 for rehabilitating and restoring lowland subtropical rainforest.
"This grant will be used to improve the health of 640 hectares of rainforest, through the work of two local Landcare groups and the wider community.
"Jiggi Catchment Landcare Inc has also been successful in their grant application for $250,000 to rehabilitate high conservation value habitats and corridors using professional bush regenerators working alongside Landcare members.
"As well, Tweed Landcare has secured $249,850 towards restoring high conservation value flora and fauna habitat to improve connectivity of bushland between the mid-Tweed River and Mount Warning.
"Finally, Upper Clarence Combined Landcare Inc will receive $240,400 to improve the health and resilience of 116 hectares of native vegetation.
"By restoring and protecting 6.5 kilometres of riparian frontage to the Upper Clarence, habitats of rare and endangered flora and fauna will be protected. This project aims to provide a buffer on private land to the adjoining Gondwana Rainforests."
Mr George said it was a boost for the local community that the four dedicated community organisations had been successful in securing funding for such important projects.
The Lismore projects are among 33 across the state to share in $8 million under the Community Bush Regeneration Large Project grants, part of the Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation program.
Administered by the NSW Environmental Trust, these grants deliver on the NSW Government's commitment to regenerate degraded natural bushland including riverbanks, waterways and urban bushland.
The grants are aimed at larger scale longer term projects which will build capacity for local community groups to protect, restore and enhance our environment.


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Part 1 –
View an installed PBO station and download position data.
Part 2 –
Learn what the numbers in the spreadsheet mean.
Part 3 –
In a spreadsheet program, make graphs of GPS positions over time.
Part 4 –
Add a linear trendline to the graph and use its equation to find the average daily motion of a GPS station.
Part 5 –
Plot velocity vectors on a map and use them to interpret the regional geology.


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PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRY KESSLER
At this time of year, fragrant water-lily blossoms still float on shallow ponds such as Mill Pond. They open in the morning and close in the afternoon. The blossoms of this native plant are white or sometimes pink.
September 12, 2008, Page 9
By Annie Reid
Westborough Community Land Trust
Fragrant water-lilies linger on local ponds
Summer flowers fade and the pace of life in Westborough picks up in September, but a vision of summertime lingers on shallow ponds where native white water-lilies bloom.
Known as fragrant water-lily (Nymphaea odorata) for the sweet scent of its blossoms, this water plant starts to bloom in early summer but can put on its best show in September. A leisurely trip past the lily pads by canoe or kayak is one of the best ways to enjoy this end-of-summer treat.
Fragrant water-lily thrives in slow or still shallow water 6-15 feet deep, so Mill Pond with its maximum depth of 15 feet is a perfect place for it. The flowers and leaves – the lily pads – grow from a root-like underground stem, or rhizome, in the muddy bottom.
In the fall, the flowers and leaves die back but the rhizome survives the winter. Before lush plant growth covers the pond in the spring, you might see tangled balls of rhizome under the surface, looking like root balls.
Ancestors of today's water-lilies were among the earliest flowering plants, with a long history going back 125 million years to the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists think that water-lilies descended from early land plants and returned to fresh water. Water-lilies are not actually lilies, which are a more recent group of flowering plants.
Why don't water-lily flowers sink? How do the flowers and lily pads float on a pond? The surface tension of water has something to do with it. Water molecules are attracted to each other and tend to stick together, making a surface where the round, flat lily pads and flowers can float.
Beyond that, the leaves, flowers, and stems of water-lilies are filled with air spaces that help them float. In a similar way, our air-filled lungs help us float in water, especially if we lie flat on our backs or stomachs and spread our weight over more of the surface.
The air spaces also help to keep water-lily plants alive by bringing oxygen down to the rhizome buried in the muddy depths of the pond. They also bring up carbon dioxide and methane (which we know as smelly sewer gas, which forms as plant and animal matter decomposes in the mud).
Thanks to the air spaces, the rhizomes of water-lilies don't "drown" the way roots of many familiar trees do when they're flooded, as happens in new beaver ponds. We think of most land plants as having tubes for bringing water up from roots to leaves and for carrying sugary sap from leaves to roots, but water-lilies also have tubes for moving air through the plant.
Water-lily stems have four air channels, which work somewhat like straws (and have actually been used as straws by people). Air enters and exits the water-lily plant through tiny pores on the tops of the leaves. Newer leaves tend to draw fresh air into the plant, and older leaves tend to let out air that comes up from the depths.
As a native plant of eastern North America, fragrant water-lily has lived in our area long enough to develop many relationships with local wildlife. When you look closely at other native plants such as goldenrod and milkweed, you usually find them alive with insects – from visiting bees, flies, ants and butterflies to resident spiders, beetles and caterpillars – and the same goes for fragrant water-lily. It's as busy as the town square of a bustling community.
The large, 3-5 inch blossoms of fragrant water-lily open in the morning and close in the afternoon. A flower typically lasts 3 days. Its female parts are ready to receive pollen on the first day, and its scent lures many kinds of bees and flies. These visitors usually fall into a pool of sweet fluid at the center of the flower, where pollen from other flowers is washed off the insects. Most visitors escape the pool.
On the second and third days, the pool is gone but the male flower parts produce their own pollen, which sticks to visiting insects. Finally, after the third day, the flower stem coils, pulling the pollinated blossom under water, where the seeds ripen.
The floating lily pads are a haven and food for insects and other creatures. They are round, with a notch where the stem joins the leaf, and can grow to a foot wide. Look closely and you may see – yes, a frog on a lily pad! You might notice a small painted turtle or a dragonfly or damselfly resting there, or a bird hopping from one lily pad to another as it pursues insects.
Holes in lily pads are clues that beetles have been munching them. Some beetles spend their whole lives on water-lily plants. Certain moth caterpillars feed on the lily pads, and lady beetles may eat aphids that suck the plant's juices. Certain beetles, dragonflies and damselflies lay eggs in the stems.
Lily pads create shade in a sunlit pond, and fish hide under them. Minnows lay eggs there. Snails feast on the underside of lily pads.
Muskrats and beaver eat and store water-lily rhizomes. Porcupines and our white-tailed deer graze on the plants. Wood ducks and ring-necked ducks eat the seeds.
What about humans? We, too, have turned water-lilies into food. People have boiled young leaves and lily buds and served them with butter. They've pickled lily buds and roasted the seeds like popcorn or ground them into flour.
Henry Thoreau, famed naturalist, author of Walden and Concord resident in the mid-1800s, even smoked leaves of fragrant water-lily.
The rhizomes had a role in medicine of old. Native Americans made tea from it to treat lung ailments and intestinal problems such as diarrhea. They mashed it and applied it to swellings and used it to stop bleeding. Later folk medicine mixed the rhizome with lemon juice to remove freckles and pimples.
Fragrant water-lily has been widely cultivated for its beauty and was exported to England as long ago as 1786. It has spread through the western U.S. and Canada.
Yet not everyone is crazy about the plant. In Washington state, it is an invasive plant, choking ponds and interfering with swimming and other recreation. It is listed there as a noxious weed.
More locally, fragrant water-lily on a pond can be a sign that the water has become overly enriched with nitrates and phosphates. These pollutants can come from runoff from heavily fertilized lawns and golf courses or faulty septic systems.


Uniform Mixing and Association Schemes
Chris Godsil, Natalie Mullin, Aidan Roy
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We consider continuous-time quantum walks on distance-regular graphs. Using results about the existence of complex Hadamard matrices in association schemes, we determine which of these graphs have quantum walks that admit uniform mixing.
First we apply a result due to Chan to show that the only strongly regular graphs that admit instantaneous uniform mixing are the Paley graph of order nine and certain graphs corresponding to regular symmetric Hadamard matrices with constant diagonal. Next we prove that if uniform mixing occurs on a bipartite graph $X$ with $n$ vertices, then $n$ is divisible by four. We also prove that if $X$ is bipartite and regular, then $n$ is the sum of two integer squares. Our work on bipartite graphs implies that uniform mixing does not occur on $C_{2m}$ for $m \geq 3$. Using a result of Haagerup, we show that uniform mixing does not occur on $C_p$ for any prime $p$ such that $p \geq 5$. In contrast to this result, we see that $\epsilon$-uniform mixing occurs on $C_p$ for all primes $p$.
Keywords
Quantum walks, Uniform mixing, Association schemes
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The Maltese has remained a dog breed of distinction - highly esteemed and quite sought-after. Towards the late 1800s, the Maltese was introduced to the US and was officially recognized by the AKC in 1888. The breed has remained relatively popular to this day.
About the Breed:
The Maltese is just one of many dogs thought to be hypoallergenic dog breeds. However, because of its coat type, routine grooming is an absolute necessity. The Maltese should be brushed out thoroughly every 1-2 days and haircuts are typically necessary every few weeks.
Like all dogs, the Maltese can benefit from basic obedience training. The breed is smart and therefore a quick learner. Some feel that the Maltese has an endearing stubborn streak and can be a little on the vocal side.
An active little dog, the Maltese should get daily exercise. The breed is a brave and joyful toy dog, making it a wonderful companion for most households. The Maltese is also rather gentle, making it an appropriate choice as a pet for most children (specifically older kids).
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Mary Hargrove Haller founded the town of Chappell Hill in 1847, naming the town for her grandfather Robert Wooding Chappell, and the sale of lots began two years later. The community is near the center of Stephen F. Austin's original colony and attracted colonists to the rich agricultural land of the Brazos River valley. Cotton was the principal crop into the early twentieth century. At its height in the late nineteenth century, Chappell Hill was a major trading center with sawmills and two institutes of higher education. The three-block Main Street commercial district and adjoining residential neighborhoods constitute a small and largely intact historic area.
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Classification and Division asks you to break something down into its component parts, offering an insight or analysis into the thing you're breaking down. You actually use classification and division thinking a lot, perhaps without realizing it (e.g., different personality types of the people you know, different types of cars, different types of activities for your children, etc.).
In college writing, in addition to grouping and classifying, you're also asked to make a point about the groupings that offers an analytical insight (e.g., Of all the sixteen personality types that Myers-Briggs identify, the ___ type is the best to hire in a ___ type of job, for a number of reasons.) Your point – your main idea, angle, assertion – should be complex enough for you to develop creatively. Division and classification thought is a way of organizing and dealing with complex and/or abundant information in order to provide additional understanding.
Essays using a classification and division pattern have topic sentences and units of support for each group or class. The topic sentences themselves should have angles that relate back to the main angle in the thesis.
View the following video for a clear definition and multiple basic examples of the concepts of division and classification. (Note that you will be expected to apply the concepts of division and classification to more complex concepts for college essays.)
View the following video for a further explanation of classification and division pattern in essay writing.
Here's a graphic organizer for the Classification and Division pattern.
Classification and Division in Action:
Make sure to read sample Classification and Division essays in the Sample Essays section of this text.


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The LEGO WeDO set - discussed in previous posts - was made for the classroom, but it comes with two little sensors that can be used in NXT robots too. The set includes a tilt sensor as well as a proximity sensor. With a converter cable, it is possible to read the sensors using the NXT brick.
The video below illustrates the two sensors. Based on the (analog) sensor value, a tone is played. The signal from the tilt sensor is rather discrete - it only tells you wether it points up, down, left, right or wether it is held parallel to the ground.
The proximity sensor responses to changes in relative distance quite fast, making it a good solution for movement detection
Here's a diagram of the converter cable by Daniel Wittenaar (MCP):
Caution: Do not use this cable to connect a battery pack to your NXT. This will damage your NXT instantly.
Other than that, you can safely use this cable to connect PF sensors and Motors to the NXT.


text: Immunogerontological studies in man have often led to conflicting results. One of the main reasons is the selection of the subjects to be studied. Admission criteria such as "apparently healthy" or "without overt disease" seem insufficient to exclude underlying disease which might influence the immune system and thereby the results. In an attempt to solve this problem, the SENIEUR protocol described in this paper was developed by a working party in the framework of the EURAGE Concerted Action Programme on Ageing of the European Community. This protocol establishes strict admission criteria for immunogerontological studies in man based on clinical information and laboratory data, and it sets limits to pharmacological interference. The use of this protocol will lead to standardization between centers and also to a closer study of the influence of age as such on the immune system. These findings in the immunologically "optimally aged" can also serve as reference values for immunogerontological studies in subjects who do not meet the SENIEUR criteria. In this way the use of this protocol can contribute to the dissection of the influence of disease versus ageing on the immune system.


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class gps_helper.prn.PRN(prn)[source]
This class implements the coarse acquisition prn sequence as described in ICD 200.
next()[source]
Get the next chip in the sequence.
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prn_seq()[source]
Return the full ca sequence. (1023 bits) Uses PRN.next() to generate full sequence.
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class gps_helper.prn.ShiftRegister(poly_taps, prn_taps)[source]
This class implements a shift register as described in the ICD 200 for using two taps. This is used by PRN.
do_feedback()[source]
Generate the feedback, and shift the values.
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get_output()[source]
Generate the next output value for the sequence.
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next()[source]
Generate the next output and return it. This method includes the feedback step.
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- Provides excellent continuous power sources to your device by this Alkaline Button Cell Battery
- This Alkaline Cell Battery is suitable for use with toys, calculators, cameras, watches, games and other electronic appliances
- Good Button Cell Battery in low and high temperature operations
- High energy density, long life Button Cell Battery
- Voltage: 1.5V
- This Alkaline Button Cell Battery can be used in small electronic devices like cameras and calculators and watches
- The Alkaline Cell Battery is a necessity in small electronics such as television remote controls, toys or flash lights and they produce about 1.5 volts per cell
- 10 pieces of LR1130 cell battery in a package. Excellent continuous power sources to your device by these cell battery
- This Button Cell Battery provides extensive long power life and work effectively in both low and high temperature. They are safe for the environment
- Excellent continuous power sources to your device by these cell battery. For use with toys, calculators, watches, games and other electronic appliances
Button Battery Types:
- Button batteries, also known as button cell batteries, are small, flat, round batteries designed for use in wristwatches, pocket calculators, hearing aids, cameras, TV remote controls and other electronic devices. Most button batteries have an anode (the negative part of the battery through which electrical current flows) a separator (the material that contains electrolyte, which is an electrical conductor) and a cathode (the positive part of the battery).
- Alkaline Batteries: Alkaline batteries, or alkaline cells, are mainly used because they are inexpensive. They are similar to lithium cells but are used in devices that are inexpensive, such as a cheap watch as compared to an expensive one. They are inexpensive to manufacture and are safe for the environment. However, alkaline batteries only have about half the energy capacity of silver oxide batteries, voltage that is not constant and a short shelf life. They are best used in devices such as in quartz watches, miniature flashlights and laser pointers.
- Mercury Batteries: Mercury batteries, also known as mercury cells, are no longer used in many countries because they are known to contaminate water and food sources when they are disposed of. The mercury that leaks from these batteries is highly toxic to living organisms, including humans. These batteries have a long life and can be stored, unused, for up to three years. Mercury batteries were used in almost all devices that required small, constant voltage such as watches, hearing aids and calculators.
- Silver Oxide Batteries: Silver oxide batteries, or silver oxide cells, are constructed similarly to mercury cells and are the successor of mercury batteries. They are better than mercury batteries because they have a higher energy capacity and do not contain any chemicals that are harmful to the environment. Like mercury batteries, silver oxide batteries have a long life. The only disadvantage is that silver oxide batteries have about half the shelf life as mercury batteries. This type of battery is mainly used for watches.
- Lithium Batteries: Lithium batteries, or lithium cells, are also called coin cells because of their shape. Lithium-manganese dioxide and lithium-thionyl chloride are the two types of lithium batteries. Lithium-manganese dioxide cells are used in watches while lithium-thionyl chloride cells are not intended for use in watches. They both have a constant voltage and, like silver oxide batteries, don't contain any chemicals that are harmful to the environment. Lithium batteries have an especially long shelf life of up to 10 years and are suitable for devices such as quartz watches, digital cameras and remote controls.
- Zinc-air Batteries: Zinc-air batteries, or zinc-air cells, have the highest energy capacity of all button batteries. They are activated when a seal is pulled off, which allows air to enter the battery through small holes, thereby allowing oxidation of zinc. They are inexpensive, have a constant voltage output and are environmentally safe. Zinc-air batteries have a considerably shorter shelf life than mercury batteries but a longer shelf life than alkaline and silver oxide batteries. This type of battery is not meant to be used in watches but rather in hearing aids.
How to Recycle an Alkaline Battery:
- Alkaline batteries are a necessity in small electronics such as television remote controls, toys or flash lights and they produce about 1.5 volts per cell. The larger cell batteries such as C and D batteries can deliver more currents. The recharging of alkaline batteries is possible but very uncommon creating the need for recycling of these alkaline batteries. Many areas have started or put into effect safe recycling projects.
- Determine if there are rules for recycling alkaline batteries. In some states and counties alkaline batteries can be disposed of in your regular trash. In the state of California this would be illegal.
- Contact your local grocery store and ask if they have a drop off area for alkaline batteries. Some grocery food chains collect batteries in large bins right outside the store door. Ask the manager if there are any special rules or if you can just toss your used batteries in the bin.
- Recycle alkaline batteries at your local dump. Most local dumps will accept alkaline batteries.
- Purchase a recycle container for your used batteries. There are many local companies that sell these containers in several sizes. You fill the container with your used batteries and return the container to the company for recycling.
Tips & Warnings:
- Avoid exposure to high temperatures and do not dispose of alkaline batteries in fire.
- Do not misuse your battery; it can result in the battery leakage.
- 10 x Button Cell Batteries
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Canada's central bank explores privacy v regulation for CBDC, concerns re zero knowledge
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The Bank of Canada has published a staff analytical note exploring privacy for central bank digital currencies (CBDC). It also outlined the pros and cons of zero knowledge proofs.
The bulk of the succinct paper highlights the trade offs between privacy – which is seen as a public good – and the need for disclosure required by regulations. But it also explores several of the complexities involved. Specifically, a payment system includes multiple technologies, several players and different pieces of information. It compares the privacy features in these three dimensions.
In terms of the technologies, these might include a centralized system, distributed ledger technology (DLT), cards and offline devices used for storage, each with different privacy features.
Payment systems are ecosystems where the central bank is just one player. Others might include payment providers for the payee or payer, banks and money service business as well as the public such as merchants. Again there is potential for disclosure or privacy required for each player.
And there isn't just one piece of information. For balances, apart from the amount, there's the identity of the holder. And for transactions, there's the payer, the payee and the amount. The paper takes these three dimensions, the technology, the participant and the data element and explores the level of privacy possible for each combination.
The conclusion is that offline devices achieve a level of privacy that is closet to cash. Tiered ledgers provide significant privacy when it comes to payment providers and the public, but limited privacy with respect to money service businesses and the government.
Specifically, the paper states that "techniques to achieve cash-like privacy are immature". It lists six techniques from group signatures and multi-party computation to zero knowledge proofs (ZKP). Some of the comments apply to all the technologies, but it singled out zero knowledge proofs. It stated that the pool of skills is rather limited, and the combination of technical complexity and immaturity raises the risk that there could be hidden vulnerabilities.
When we've raised this issue, the response is often that zero-knowledge proofs have been around for 30 years. That may be so, but they haven't been used in a real environment until very recently. Moreover, there's been quite a bit of development to extend their application. And each of those carries risks as well. In the last few years, there have been several weaknesses exposed in widely used software that leverage cryptography. So the concern which the BoC articulated is that the immaturity may mask vulnerabilities.
Zero knowledge proofs are also highly resource intensive. While many are attempting to address this (including EY), the BoC notes that there are limited ZKP deployments in a live environment and none at a national scale to their knowledge.


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President to seek parliamentary consideration to join IUCN
24 February 2021, MVT 09:28
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. PHOTO: PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
24 February 2021, MVT 09:28
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Tuesday decided to seek parliamentary consideration for Maldives to join the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (IUCN).
As per the President's Office, the decision was made after deliberations by the Cabinet on a paper, proposed by the Ministry of Environment on the topic during today's session.
Joining the organization will present Maldives with various partnership and networking opportunities in relevant areas.
Additionally, the ICUN will provide assistance to enhance efforts towards conserving nature.
Maldives will also get the opportunity to develop technical capacity towards conservation and sustainability in nature, an area that needs much development in the country.
IUCN is a membership Union and it is the largest international conservation body comprised of representatives from government and civil society organisations (CSO's).
The democratic union harnesses the experience, resources and reach of more than 1,400 member organisations and the input of over 17,000 experts from 170 countries across the globe.
The organization's diversity and vast experience in the field make it the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.


English to Spanish: more detail...
 1. pry:
Detailed Translations for pry from English to Spanish
to pry verb (pries, pried, prying)
 1. to pry (browse; nose; ferret; smell)
Conjugations for pry:
 1. pry
 2. pry
 3. pries
 4. pry
 5. pry
 6. pry
simple past
 1. pried
 2. pried
 3. pried
 4. pried
 5. pried
 6. pried
present perfect
 1. have pried
 2. have pried
 3. has pried
 4. have pried
 5. have pried
 6. have pried
past continuous
 1. was prying
 2. were prying
 3. was prying
 4. were prying
 5. were prying
 6. were prying
 1. shall pry
 2. will pry
 3. will pry
 4. shall pry
 5. will pry
 6. will pry
continuous present
 1. am prying
 2. are prying
 3. is prying
 4. are prying
 5. are prying
 6. are prying
 1. be pried
 2. be pried
 3. be pried
 4. be pried
 5. be pried
 6. be pried
 1. pry!
 2. let's pry!
 3. pried
 4. prying
pry [the ~] noun
 1. the pry (ferreter)
 el husmeador; la husmeadora
Translation Matrix for pry:
NounRelated TranslationsOther Translations
husmeador ferreter; pry
husmeadora ferreter; pry
- crowbar; pry bar; wrecking bar
VerbRelated TranslationsOther Translations
curiosear browse; ferret; nose; pry; smell browse; ferret about; ferret around; hunt; investigate; look about; nose about; nose around; poke about; research; roam about; root up; rove about; rummage; search; search about; search for; sniff; sniff around; snoop; wander
- horn in; intrude; jimmy; lever; nose; poke; prise; prize
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Synonyms for "pry":
Related Definitions for "pry":
 1. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge1
 2. be nosey1
 - Don't pry into my personal matters!1
 3. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open1
 - Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail1
 4. make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry1
 - They pried the information out of him1
 5. search or inquire in a meddlesome way1
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The lizards are out and about, scurrying around your house as you sleep. What do they do all night? This is a question that has been asked for centuries.
Due to their cold-blooded nature, they don't like cold temperatures, which is exactly what happens at night. This is especially interesting in places like deserts, where at night, the temperatures drop to freezing.
If it's too cold, lizards lose their ability to move. They literally freeze in place and can't move their muscles anymore until the temperatures rise back up. Hardly a desirable defense mechanism.
Lizards stay in their holes and "hibernate" during this time, so they aren't exposed to the cold weather.
For this reason, they tend to stay in their "nest" during the night hours and go outside in the mornings when it's warm. This is why you'll see them first thing in the morning sunbathing on rocks or logs that have been warmed up by sunlight from earlier hours of daylight.
There have been many theories about where these creatures go when we're not watching them.
In this article, we are going to see what lizards do at night. Most of them sleep, and we will see where. Others are active at night, and we will see what they do (mostly hunt).
Cold Night times: Lizards Activity
Lizards can't regulate their own body temperature, and can't survive cold temperatures. Therefore, it is vital for them to go into hibernation during cold nights, and stay in their nests/holes until the temperature gets better.
Hibernation is exactly what it sounds like: a long sleep where an animal doesn't eat or do much of anything else for days on end while wintering over — just waiting out the cold temperatures.
In the case of lizards, they stay in their holes. In a desert biome, this is especially important because the night is too cold for them. They'd freeze to death.
Lizards don't like being exposed to extremely cold temperatures, so when the sun goes down and it gets cold, they stay in their holes until morning.
Lizards' bodies are extremely efficient at water retention. They store water in their tail and fat reserves, so they can live without food for weeks. But if lizards stay out too long at night during cold weather, the lack of calories will kill them before winter is over.
Lizards spend most of their time sleeping in holes, such as under rocks and logs during the night. You often see them fleeing towards holes in walls around your house.
Lizard Sleep: Where and How
First, we have to make a distinction between diurnal and nocturnal lizards.
Nocturnal lizards are active at night. They sleep during the daytime and hunt for food at night.
On the other hand, diurnal ones like iguanas for example will bask under warm sunlight all day long (and most of the evening).
Night activity in lizards is mostly influenced by external temperature. It varies according to their species and habitat.
Diurnal Lizards Sleep at Night
Diurnal lizards will most likely sleep in the same place they spend their days. They prefer to bask under sunlight or flee into shadows when it's too hot outside, so keep an eye out for them during these times.
They usually rest on rocks and logs close to a water source but where there is some protection from predators (they can be eaten by many predators when they sleep, from birds to cats).
Diurnal lizards will also rest in a tree or in your home. They need a place that is warm and has some sun exposure for basking during the day. At night, you might see them looking for food around your house or yard because their body temperature is lower than during the day.
Lizards get a lot of energy from sun exposure which helps them out with finding food and staying warm. They sleep in a hole or under an overhanging branch that blocks the sun to regulate their body temperature, which is vital for them since they cannot survive cold temperatures.
Editor's note: Common diurnal lizards include iguanas and collared lizards. There aren't many differences between each species' diurnal patterns.
Nocturnal Lizards are Active at Night
Nocturnal lizards are active at night. They sleep during the day time and play around in your home when you go to bed.
They usually spend the daytime hiding between leaves, under rocks, logs, or burrows where they have some protection from predators (they can be eaten by many predators when they sleep). Nocturnal lizards in the wild often sleep horizontally on leaves. Plants with leaves offer the perfect protection from predator, because lizards can easily hide themselves between them.
Nocturnal lizards will sleep in a hole or inside the wall of your house because they prefer places that offer them protection from predators but have access to water and food sources as well. They need a place with some sun exposure for basking during the day, so you'll probably see them looking for food around your house.
At night, you might notice lizards in dark corners of the room or near lights because their body temperature is lower than during the day. They get a lot of energy from sun exposure which helps them out with finding food and staying warm.
Editor's note: Geckos are the most common group of nocturnal lizards. They usually sleep in a sheltered place, whether it is your house or the outside. They usually spend their days sleeping on rocks and trees near where they live.
How the Environment Influences the Lizards' Sleeping Place
Lizard shelters vary based on the biome they live in.
- Desert lizards burrow themselves underground. Alternatively, the desert is full of holes and crevices where lizards can seek shelter to protect themselves from the desert nights' freezing temperatures, as well as predators. Lizard burrows also provide protection against water loss through evaporation, which helps them stay alive during winter months when there isn't a lot of food or moisture in their environment.
- Tropical lizards also seek shelter to protect themselves from the sun and predators. Tropical rainforests, for example, are full of leaves that lizards can hide under during daytime or night time. They'll also hide inside tree trunks when they can. All of these provide them excellent protection from predators, mostly because tropical lizards are amazing at disguising themselves among the foliage.
- Temperate lizards like iguanas will seek shelter in your house because there is no other place where they can get warmth (from both heaters inside) and sunlight. Alternatively, they can burrow themselves underground or find rest inside trees.
There aren't many differences between the lizards' shelters in different climates. As long as the place protects them from the cold and predators, it's fine for them.
The Characteristics of a Perfect Lizard Sleeping Place
Lizards are highly adaptable animals. They'll find shelter almost anywhere. The simple fact that they can burrow underground means they'll survive in most places, provided the ground doesn't freeze.
Examples of typical lizard shelters are rocks, trees, and foliage. Lizards look for places to sleep where they get plenty of sunlight during the day so they can bask and increase their body temperature…and because it's easier to hunt when you're warm. They don't move much once they find their perfect sleeping place.
Houses are also a great place to hang out for lizards. If you live in a cold place, your house is probably surrounded by lizards. Don't worry, they are harmless. In fact, they help us by getting rid of pests like cockroaches and mosquitoes.
Lizards' night activity depends mostly on their sleep cycle. Diurnal lizards who are active during the day will spend the night sleeping in a sheltered place. Conversely, nocturnal lizards are out and hunting at night, and sleep during the day.
What matters the most is where they sleep. Lizards are always looking for a place that keeps them away from prying eyes, as they can't defend themselves while they are sleeping. Plus, they need a place where the temperature doesn't drop too much. Since they are cold-blooded creatures, they can't regulate their own body temperature.
This means that, when it gets too cold, their muscles will literally freeze, losing the ability to move. That's not a situation they want to find themselves in, as they'll become an easy prey for just about any bird or other reptile looking for a feast.


How to Convert WAV to GSM With Sox
While both GSM and WAV are audio formats, they are designed for different purposes. WAV files are typically 16-bits in resolution and are usually sampled at very high bit rates. They can be excellent ways to transmit lossless copies of CD-quality audio. GSM files, on the other hand, come from Europe where they were designed to work with wireless voice communication systems. They typically have 8-bit resolution and are very compact, using very small bit rates. GSM files are typically used in telephony.
Download and install SoX from the SourceForge website.
Click the Start button and type "cmd" in the search box, then press "Enter."
Use the "cd" command to navigate to the folder where you installed SoX. For example, if you installed it in the sox-14-4-0 subfolder of the "Program Files (x86)" folder on your C: drive, you would type "c:" then press "Enter," then type "cd \Program Files (x86)," then press "Enter," then type "cd sox-14-4-0" and press "Enter." Please note that the commas and quotation marks in the previous section are not part of the command and should be omitted.
Enter the following command on the command line and press the "Enter" key:
sox input.wav -r 8000 -c1 output.gsm lowpass 4000 compand 0.02,0.05 -60,-60,-30,-10,-20,-8,-5,-8,-2,-8 -8 -7 0.05
You can replace "input.wav" with the path and filename of your file, and "output.gsm" with the name you want your GSM file to have. Note that if any component of the filename or its path has a space, you should encompass the whole path and filename in quotation marks.
Type "exit" and press "Enter" to exit the command prompt.


Cost of Raising a Child in China
ID-10055547The Chinese economy has been flourishing at a rapid rate. However along with the steady economic progress, the cost of living in China has also been growing over the years. The higher cost of living in China is such a stark reality for its citizens that when in 2013 the Chinese government eased up on 'one child policy', it raised concerns among the people.
If the cost of raising children in China is a matter of anxiety for its citizens, how does it affect the expatriate community in China?
The concerns
Bringing up kids is not an easy thing to do, even when parents do not have any financial or personal problems. There are a million things that could go wrong or there is always a nagging feeling at the back of parents' mind if they are doing all they can for their children. This is a part of parenting. However, the parenting anxieties could double if you are living the life of an expat and need to raise your kids in a foreign country. The concerns could more than double if you are living in a country like China where the cost of living is very high and expats face language barriers as well as strong cultural traditions.
If you are raising children in China, you must already be aware of the problems and concerns of being a new parent in a foreign country. After the announcement by the Chinese government allowing couples to have a second child if one spouse is an only child, there have been a flurry of surveys and opinions running rampant in the media. To some Chinese couples the announcement means nothing, as they believe raising one child has been tough enough. So how does higher cost of living affect foreigners raising their children in China.
The expenses
In all the surveys conducted, the high cost of education has been cited as the number one concern by parents. The figures floating around indicate that the cost of one kindergarten semester alone costs about 10,000 yuan. While middle class families are spending about 100,000 yuan for education alone and well-off families up to 300,000 and this doesn't include university cost; this calls for serious planning and savings on the part of parents who are raising their children in China.
Other expenses like food and insurance for kids also run into thousands of yuan. And let's not forget the hospital bills if you are giving birth in China. So if you are a new parent who would be raising children in China or giving birth to your first kid in China, it would help you a great deal if you to research and plan for the things you wish to have for your child and to save money accordingly. Every family's budget is different, so each family's plan will look different.
Public or Private?
English service available?
Are foreign doctors available?
Does hospital direct-bill insurance companies?
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 1. Avatar Alan says:
 Thanks for the article! I was wondering how the hospital costs through pregnancy and the actual birth differed from China to America.
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Kissing hands
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This article is about the constitutional term. For the more general ritual of greeting and respect, see Hand-kissing.
To kiss hands is a constitutional term used in the United Kingdom to refer to the formal installation of Crown-appointed British government ministers to their office.
In the past, it referred to the requirement that the office-holder actually kiss the hands of the Sovereign as a symbol of personal fealty and loyalty to the Sovereign, that fealty and loyalty being a requirement to serve in the King's or Queen's government.
In modern times, office-holders are not expected physically to kiss the hands of the Sovereign before assuming the role. Simply being received by the Queen is taken to validate the selection, with this meeting being described in the Court Circular as "kissing hands". The invitation issued to a party leader to form a government is sometimes still described as "an invitation to kiss hands". The actual kissing of hands does not take place until the subsequent meeting of the Privy Council, when the new minister is formally appointed as a member of the Council.[1]
When appointing a Secretary of State (the top rank in the UK government), the protocol also involves the delivery by the Sovereign of the seals of office into the hands of the appointee. This is also valid for other officers who are keepers of seals, such as the Lord Privy Seal or the Lord Chancellor, who is also keeper of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom.
Ordinarily the ceremony will take place in Buckingham Palace, but it has been known to happen in Windsor Castle or Balmoral Castle, and in 1908, King Edward controversially summoned H.H. Asquith to Biarritz, France, where he was on holiday at the time.
 1. ^ "The Official Website of the British Monarchy". Retrieved September 29, 2013.