values: png, bmp.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with the Base64 string of the test object's image.
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styles() → {Promise.<object>}
Returns a copy of the style collection that is attached to this object.
Returns:
the object keys are the attribute names and the corresponding values are the attribute values.
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When working in a Web form, simulates pressing the Enter key while the focus is on the object specified in the statement.
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a promise that is fulfilled after this edit box simulates pressing the Enter key.
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swipe(swipeDirectionopt, webSwipeArgsopt) → {Promise.<void>}
Swipes the object in the specified direction or according to the specified behavior.
Remark: This method is not supported in Internet Explorer.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
swipeDirectionSwipeDirection <optional>
The direction of the swipe.
webSwipeArgsobject <optional>
Arguments object that defines the behavior of the swipe operation.
Properties
NameTypeAttributesDefaultDescription
locationLocation <optional>
The location where the operation is performed.
durationnumber <optional>
0.25 The number of seconds to perform the swipe.
distancenumber <optional>
200 The distance (in pixels) to swipe.
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a promise that is fulfilled after the swipe has occurred.
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Promise.<void>
tagName() → {Promise.<string>}
Returns the object's HTML tag.
Returns:
the object's HTML tag.
Type
Promise.<string>
title() → {Promise.<string>}
Returns the element's title attribute.
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the element's title attribute.
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Promise.<string>
type() → {Promise.<string>}
The type of object as defined in the HTML input tag.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with the type of object as defined in the HTML input tag.
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value() → {Promise.<string>}
Returns the current text in this field.
Returns:
a promise this is fulfilled with the current text in this field.
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Checks whether a snapshot of this object contains the supplied image.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
imageToFindstringA Base64 string representation of the image to look for within the test object's snapshot.
similaritynumber <optional>
The minimum similarity between the two images (as a percentage), above which the find is considered a match. Default = 100.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with an object representing the point where the image was located, or null if it was not found.
Type
Promise.<Object>
verifyImageMatch(expectedImage, pixelToleranceopt, rgbToleranceopt) → {Promise.<boolean>}
Checks whether a snapshot of this object and the supplied image are a match.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
expectedImagestringA Base64 string representation of the image to compare to the test object snapshot.
pixelTolerancenumber <optional>
The percentage of pixels that can differ between the two images, and still be considered a match. Default = 0.
rgbTolerancenumber <optional>
The percentage by which the RGB values of the pixels in the two images can differ, and still be considered a match. Default = 0.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with a boolean representing the comparison result.
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verifyImageMatchWithMask(expectedImage, maskAreaImage, pixelToleranceopt, rgbToleranceopt) → {Promise.<boolean>}
Checks whether a snapshot of this object and the supplied image are a match.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
expectedImagestringA Base64 string representation of the image to compare to the test object snapshot.
maskAreaImagestringA Base64 string representation of the image mask area to use in the image comparison.
pixelTolerancenumber <optional>
The percentage of pixels that can differ between the two images, and still be considered a match. Default = 0.
rgbTolerancenumber <optional>
The percentage by which the RGB values of the pixels in the two images can differ, and still be considered a match. Default = 0.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with a boolean representing the comparison result.
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waitUntilEnabled(timeout[opt]) → {Promise.<boolean>}
Supported on UFT Developer versions 15.0.1 and later
Waits until this test object becomes enabled or until the specified timeout elapses. This method is useful for synchronizing your test with your application.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
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The time (in milliseconds) to wait for the test object to become enabled.
Returns:
a promise fulfilled with true if test object becomes enabled before the timeout is reached; otherwise, false.
Type
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Waits until this test object exists or until the specified timeout elapses. This method is useful for synchronizing your test with your application.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
timeoutnumber <optional>
The time (in seconds) to wait for this object to exist.
By default, uses the object synchronization timeout defined in the runtime engine settings.
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with a boolean indicating whether the object exists.
Type
Promise.<boolean>
waitUntilVisible(timeout[opt]) → {Promise.<boolean>}
Waits until this test object becomes visible or the timeout elapses. This method is useful for synchronizing your test with your application.
Parameters:
NameTypeAttributesDescription
timeoutnumber <optional>
The time (in milliseconds) to wait for the test object to become visible.
Returns:
a promise fulfilled with true if test object becomes visible before the timeout is reached; otherwise, false.
Type
Promise.<boolean>
xpath() → {Promise.<string>}
Returns the path to this object in XPath format. For example: //TR[@id='LeanFT']/*\/INPUT
Returns:
a promise that is fulfilled with the path to this object in XPath format.
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DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact Class
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DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact Class
Class DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact represents the LDL' factorization of a Hermitian, positive definite, tridiagonal matrix of complex double-precision floating point numbers.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
 CenterSpace.NMath.CoreDoubleHermPDTriDiagFact
Namespace: CenterSpace.NMath.Core
Assembly: NMath (in NMath.dll) Version: 7.4
Syntax
[SerializableAttribute]
public class DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact : ICloneable
The DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact type exposes the following members.
Constructors
 NameDescription
Public methodDoubleHermPDTriDiagFact(DoubleComplexTriDiagMatrix)
Constructs a DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact instance by factoring the given matrix. By default the condition number for the matrix will not be computed and will not be available from the ConditionNumber method.
Public methodDoubleHermPDTriDiagFact(DoubleComplexTriDiagMatrix, Boolean)
Constructs a DoubleHermPDTriDiagFact instance by factoring the given matrix.
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Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyCols
Gets the number of columns in the matrix represented by the factorization.
Public propertyIsGood
Gets a boolean value which is true if the matrix factorization succeeded and the factorization may be used to solve equations, compute determinants, inverses, and so on; otherwise false.
Public propertyIsPositiveDefinite
Gets a boolean value which is true if the matrix is positive definite and the factorization may be used to solve equations, compute determinants, inverses, and so on; otherwise false.
Public propertyRows
Gets the number of rows in the matrix represented by the factorization.
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodClone
Creates a deep copy of this factorization.
Public methodConditionNumber
Computes an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number of a given matrix in the 1-norm.
Public methodDeterminant
Computes the determinant of the factored matrix.
Public methodFactor(DoubleComplexTriDiagMatrix)
Factors the matrix A so that self represents the LDL' factorization of A. By default the condition number for the matrix will not be computed and will not be available from the ConditionNumber method.
Public methodFactor(DoubleComplexTriDiagMatrix, Boolean)
Factors the matrix A so that self represents the LDL' factorization of A.
Public methodInverse
Computes the inverse of the factored matrix.
Public methodSolve(DoubleComplexMatrix)
Uses this LDL' factorization to solve the linear system AX = B.
Public methodSolve(DoubleComplexVector)
Uses the LDL' factorization of self to solve the linear system Ax = b.
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Remarks
The factorization has the form:
A = LDL'
where D is diagonal and L is unit lower bidiagonal (L' is the conjugate transpose of the matrix L).
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Recently the Generalized Genetic Algorithm has been proposed, based on genetic algorithms and Tsallis statistics. Here, we study molecular preferences of the simple molecules and polypeptides by coupling the Generalized Genetic Algorithm and both a classical force field and a semi-empirical quantum mechanics procedure. The main characteristics of this stochastic algorithm is the capability to find the greatest number of minima for a given energy in an N-dimensional hypersurface supplying information about the visiting rates for each one of the conformational structures. The main advantage of this method over other global optimization procedures is that this approach provides additional information about visiting frequency of all local and global minima. These characteristics may provide the Populations of each conformation without using the (quantum or classical) Monte Carlo procedure. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Subtracts two numbers. This subtraction arithmetic operator can also subtract a number, in days, from a date.
expression - expression
expression
Any valid expression in Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 of any of the data types of the numeric data type category, except the bit data type.
Returns the data type of the argument with the higher precedence.
The following example uses the subtraction arithmetic operator to get the number of days between the time a customer placed an order and when the order was shipped.
SELECT (DATEPART(day, ShippedDate) - DATEPART(day, OrderDate)) FROM Orders WHERE OrderID = '10248'
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Master Tour displays your schedule information on a day to day basis. Travel and schedule items do not carry over to the next date, even when the time passes midnight. What if you would like to create a schedule item that occurs after midnight? This is what the +1 check box is for.
To create schedule items that occur past midnight, simply enter the time (i.e. 1:00 AM) and then check the box next to the date that says "+1". This tells the system that the activity occurs the following calendar day (ie late night) but that it is still part of today's schedule. Often times items on your schedule will run past midnight, but you would like them to be associated with the current day. For example, a bus call is at 1:00 AM. Technically 1:00 AM is the following day but you would probably want to see that printed on the schedule for current day, so you would enter the time as 1:00 AM and check the +1 box.
For a schedule item that starts before midnight then continues after midnight, you'd only check the +1 checkbox for the End Time, like so:
Please remember that your schedule items that occur past midnight from one night do not carry over to the next date. It is recommended that if you have travel plans after midnight that occur past midnight well into the next morning, split this information so that information up to a certain hour (say, 3:00am) will display on the day the travel starts, while the rest of the travel information (4:00am onward) will display on the next date.


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Tallahassee, FL -- March 14, 2012 --
The bottom of Lake Iamonia, north of Tallahassee, is cleaner than it's been in years, thanks to a host of volunteers, county and state personnel.
Cleaning up the lake was the idea of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Officer Charles "Bucky" Higman, a 32-year-veteran officer who lives in Tallahassee, and Katie Woodside, an FWC freshwater fisheries biologist. Higman reached out to Josh McSwain, supervisor of parks for Leon County Parks and Recreation, and about 20 FSU students wanting to take part in community service work.
The group collected more than 2,500 pounds of litter, including cans and bottles, bait cups, broken chairs and even a recliner. The litter had been left on the banks of the receding lake by anglers over the last one to two years.
Leon County provided garbage bags and transported the filled bags to the county transfer station.
At full pool, Lake Iamonia covers just over 5,700 acres. It now covers approximately 200 acres, due to below-average rainfall in the area.
Hydrologists say Iamonia and several nearby lakes are "perched" lakes. Perched lakes sit over a thin limestone shelf over the Floridan aquifer. Also called karst formations, perched lakes typically have sinkholes. During a drought, when the water table drops, the water leaves the lake through the sinkholes.
"Our hope is people will help us by taking their trash and empty containers with them," Higman said. "This is a wonderful resource and we need everyone to help keep it clean."
While the lake is down, the FWC is working with contractors to remove approximately 24 acres of decaying organic material down to the mineralized soil. When normal rainfall returns, fisheries biologists say that many types of fish need the clean lake bottom for spawning and feeding.
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August 3, 2010 : Goblin Shark
Goblin Shark
The goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, is a deep-sea shark, the sole living species in the family Mitsukurinidae. The most distinctive characteristic of the goblin shark is the unorthodox shape of its head. It has a long, trowel-shaped, beak-like rostrum or snout, much longer than other sharks' snouts. Some other distinguishing characteristics of the shark are the color of its body, which is mostly pink, and its long, protrusible jaws. When the jaws are retracted, the shark resembles a pink grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus, with an unusually long nose.
Mitsukurina owstoni is found in the deep ocean, far below where the sun's light can reach at depths greater than 200 m. They can be found throughout the world, from Australia in the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean. They are best known from the waters around Japan, where the species was first discovered.

Goblin sharks feed on a variety of organisms that live in deep waters. Among some of their known prey are deep-sea squid, crabs and deep-sea fish. Very little is known about the species' life history and reproductive habits, as encounters with them have been relatively rare. As seemingly rare as they are however, there seems to be no real threat to their populations and so they are not classified as endangered species by the IUCN.
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Is KCl polar?
Re: OkCl is ionic or polar? OkCl is ionic as it accommodates K+ and Cl- ions in its structure.
Is OkayCl polar or nonpolar covalent bond?
Potassium Chloride (OkCl) Bond Polarity
|Electronegativity Difference||2.4 Non-Polar Covalent = Zero 0 < Polar Covalent < 2 Ionic (Non-Covalent) ≥ 2|
|Bond Type||Ionic (Non-Covalent)|
|Bond Length||2.667 angstroms|
What form of bonding is OkCl?
How does KCl impact pH?
However, pH is the measure of H+ job, which is influenced by ionic power. Adding OkCl to the buffer raises its ionic energy, which must be mirrored in diminished H+ job and therefore higher pH.
Does OkayCl increase pH?
OkCl addition to samples does now not adjust the pH considerably.
How do you make 3 molar KCl?
To make one hundred twenty five mL of 3M OkayCl
- Using virtual scale, position 27.Ninety six g OkayCl powder into weigh boat.
- In a hundred and fifty mL flask, mix 27.96 g KCl with one hundred mL H2O.
- Put flask on hotplate/stirrer with stirbar till dissolved.
- Add H2O to deliver quantity to 125 mL.
Is KF elementary?
KF is a salt that comes from a powerful base, KOH, and a vulnerable acid, HF. The F- ion, which is the conjugate base of the vulnerable acid, reacts with water via accepting one hydrogen atom from water and forming hydroxide.
Is LiBr neutral?
Other salts that form impartial solutions include potassium nitrate (KNO 3 ) and lithium bromide (LiBr).
Is K2SO3 neutral?
That resolution is acidic. 2) Na2S – basic needless to say. 4)K2SO3-base because it is a salt of strong base ans vulnerable acid.
Is K2SO3 acid or base?
Potassium sulfite (K2SO3) is an extremely sturdy acidic compound (in keeping with its pKa). Potassium sulfite (K2SO3) is an odorless tasting compound.
Is CH3CH3 an acid or base?
CH3CH3, isn't an acid. It's a hydrocarbon, manufactured from carbon and hydrogen atoms best. This hydrocarbon belongs to the homologous collection known as alkanes, and is named ethane.
Is K2SO4 an acid or base?
Potassium sulfate (K2SO4) is a particularly sturdy acidic compound (according to its pKa).
Is NaHCO3 acidic or fundamental?
NaHCO3 is a salt of a vulnerable acid, H2CO3, and a strong base,NaOH. Since carbonic acid is a susceptible acid, it stays undissociated. Hence, the solution turns into basic due to the presence of additional OH- ions produced by hydrolysis.
Is cuso4 acidic or fundamental?
Hence cuso4 is salt of a strong acid and a weak base , so it is acidic . When a robust acid and a strong base react together the ensuing is salt and water.
Is NaNO3 elementary?
Sodium nitrate is the salt that may be produced in the response of sodium hydroxide, a strong base, and nitric acid, a powerful acid. As such, NaNO3 is neither an acid nor a base. As the conjugate base of HNO3, NO3^- is too vulnerable a base to simply accept hydrogen ions from water.
Is NaNO3 polar or nonpolar?
No, sodium nitrate is NOT polar. Sodium nitrate is an ionic substance due to the truth that sodium completely loses an electron to the nitrate ion to…
Why is NaNO3 impartial?
The conjugate base of a strong acid is an overly susceptible base (and on no account in water), the conjugate acid of a strong base is an excessively susceptible acid (and on no account in water). This compound, NaNO3 is a salt, and completely neutral. H+ ions make compounds acidic. Since it does no longer have H+ or OH- ions, it is impartial.
Is NH4Cl neutral?
As mentioned within the different resolution, NH4Cl is an "acidic" salt, formed by way of the neutralization of a powerful acid (HCl) with a vulnerable base (NH3). Therefore, when the salt is totally dissociated in an aqueous resolution, it forms NH4+ and Cl- ions.

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Apple, Walnut, and Poppy Seed Cake (Flódni)
Apple- Walnut and Poppy Seed Cake (Flódni) is a traditional Hungarian dessert made with layers of dough, apples, walnuts, and poppy seeds. The pastry is sweet, nutty and deliciously layered, making it a perfect dessert.
The result is a dessert that is both sweet and savory, with a perfect balance of flavors and textures. It's a popular dessert in Hungarian cuisine, and it is often served during special occasions and holidays.
It can be served warm or cold, and it can be enjoyed on its own or with a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream on top.
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Apple, Walnut and Poppy Seed Cake (Flódni)
is a traditional pastry from Hungary, which has been enjoyed for centuries. The origins of the pastry are uncertain, but it is believed to have been brought to Hungary by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to the country in the late 19th century.
The dish is a variation of a traditional Jewish pastry called "fluden" which is made with similar ingredients such as apples, nuts, and poppy seeds.
The dish quickly became popular among Hungarians and it became an integral part of the country's culinary heritage. It's often enjoyed during special occasions and holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, and Passover.
In recent years, the dish has been modernized and variations have been created using different types of nuts, fruits, and sweeteners, but the traditional recipe still remains popular and is a beloved dessert among Hungarians.
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For the apple filling
For the walnut filling
For the poppy seed filling
Make the dough for Apple Walnut and Poppy Seed Cake (Flódni)
Mix together the ingredients for the dough in a food processor and knead into a smooth consistency.
Wrap the dough and refrigerate overnight.
Make the apple filling
Cook the apples with honey, sugar, spices and wine until tender, then strain the liquid through a sieve and reserve it for the walnut filling.
Add breadcrumbs to the apples and let cool completely.
Make the walnut filling
For the walnut filling, mix together the ground walnuts, sugar, raisins, chocolate, and the reserved liquid in a saucepan and bring to a boil while stirring. Allow the mixture to cool.
Make the poppy seed filling
For the poppy seed filling, combine the ground poppy seeds, orange zest, apricot jam, sugar, raisins, and wine in a saucepan, cook over low heat and stir frequently until hot and the sugar dissolves. Let it cool.
Preheat the oven to 175ºC (347°F) and grease a baking pan (30×34 cm) with butter.
Cut the dough into 4 equal parts and roll out into thin rectangles on a floured surface.
Place the first layer of dough in the pan and spread with the walnut filling.
Repeat with the remaining layers and fillings, ending with the last layer of dough.
Brush the top with beaten egg and poke holes in the top with a fork.
Bake for 50-60 minutes and let cool completely before slicing.
Enjoy, Good Appetite!


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Severe Weather Awareness Week in Tennessee
Today is the start of Severe Weather Awareness Week in Tennessee. Hamilton County Emergency Management is reminding residents to 'Be Aware and Be Prepared.' Know the difference between a watch and a warning. Have multiple ways to get severe weather alerts. And, prepare and practice your severe weather plan. Last Easter Sunday was devasting for Hamilton County with an E-F three tornado.
Amy Maxwell with HCEMS says, "We have sustained all kinds of severe weather in the Chattanooga area. SO, it always important to make sure that we remind folks, if you have an emergency plan, look over it."
Hamilton County Emergency Management has resources to prepare residents for the upcoming severe weather season.
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DNA integrity and total oxyradical scavenging capacity in the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis: a field study in a highly eutrophicated coastal lagoon.
@article{Frenzilli2001DNAIA,
 title={DNA integrity and total oxyradical scavenging capacity in the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis: a field study in a highly eutrophicated coastal lagoon.},
 author={Giada Frenzilli and Marco Nigro and Vittoria Scarcelli and Stefania Gorbi and Francesco Regoli},
 journal={Aquatic toxicology},
 year={2001},
 volume={53 1},
 pages={19-32}
}
In Mediterranean coastal lagoons, the combination of human impact and wide variability of natural environmental factors can lead to upsets in ecosystem homeostasis resulting in biodiversity decline. Oxidative damage has been causally linked to various kinds of environmental stress, both natural and artificial, the result being impairment of cellular functions. DNA damage and the efficiency of antioxidant defences in Mytilus galloprovincialis from the highly eutrophicated Orbetello Lagoon… CONTINUE READING
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Traditional near-field antenna measurements use the sampling theorem to reconstruct the antenna pattern perfectly. However, a large number of measurement points are required for this approach. To address this problem, in this study, we propose a technique to accelerate the near-field antenna measurement, which is achieved by sparse E-field sampling in the region where the E-field changes smoothly and dense sampling in the region where the field changes rapidly. Further, our approach ensures robustness of measurement; the E-field information need not be known before carrying out measurements. Our experimental results demonstrate that our technique can reduce the number of measuring points by at least 64.9% when measuring two different patterns (15-GHz horn antenna with θ = 0° and 10°).
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|Journal||International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies|
|State||Published - 1 Jun 2016|
- Antenna measurement
- Near-field to far-field
- Sampling theorem


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Can't Fight your feelings Thursday
Create a picture that represents how you are feeling today. You can use colours, textures, shading and images to give your picture meaning and representation. You can use any materials you choose such as pens, crayons, paints, collage, etc. You can choose whether to add the feeling word to your picture or leave the viewer guessing. Upload your learning to Seesaw or Tapestry when you have finsihed.


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Mancini sisters, family of Italian noblewomen noted for their great beauty. Nieces of Jules, Cardinal Mazarin, they moved to France at an early age. Laure Mancini (1636–57) married Louis de Vendôme, duke de Mercoeur and grandson of King Henry IV. Olympe Mancini, countess de Soissons (1639–1708), was a mistress of Louis XIV. She was involved with her sister Marie Anne in the notorious Affair of the Poisons and was also accused of poisoning her husband; she was the mother of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marie Mancini, princess de Colonna (1640–1715), was also a mistress of Louis XIV; Mazarin intrigued to prevent their marriage, and she spent most of her life in Spain. Hortense Mancini, duchess de Mazarin (1646–99), married Armand Charles de la Porté, who assumed the Mazarin title. After leaving her husband, she became a famous beauty at the English court of Charles II. Marie Anne Mancini, duchess de Bouillon (1649–1714), was known for her literary salon but was banished in 1680 for the alleged poisoning of the sorceress La Voisin (Catherine Monvoisin).
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EXCLUSIVE: Mace to discuss mental health innovation at Employee Benefits Live 2017
Judith Grant
EXCLUSIVE: Judith Grant (pictured), associate director, health and wellbeing at construction organisation Mace, will discuss how employers can take an innovative approach to mental health at Employee Benefits Live 2017.
Her session, titled 'Getting proactive with mental health at work', will form part of the health and wellbeing conference stream on Tuesday 10 October, which is also World Mental Health Day.
Presenting alongside Claire Douglas, health and wellbeing manager, Europe at Pitney Bowes, Grant will supply practical tips and ideas on how HR and benefits professionals can be more strategic when implementing a mental health programme.
Grant will highlight how a successful mental health strategy should reach beyond the provision of employee assistance programmes (EAPs), occupational health services, and health insurance to also include workplace conversations. She will explain how this can help organisations take a proactive approach to encourage employees to talk about their mental health concerns earlier and therefore improve outcomes. Grant will also draw on her experience in the construction sector, where suicide is a prevalent issue among staff, and explain why there needs to be more discussion about suicide and mental health at work.
Grant will also look at the importance of internal collaboration when developing an all-encompassing mental health approach in order to ensure that the best results for employees can be achieved.
She said: "Managing mental health at work or supporting mental health at work needs to be far-reaching, so thinking about do [employers] need to train or support people to have better conversations at work? People [who] feel they can talk about their issues earlier on, maybe don't need to go to the employee assistance programme, or rely on the health insurance. Actually having a conversation and talking about how they feel and getting help earlier might prevent a whole lot of pain for that individual and obviously cost for the business as well.
"It is about collaborating with as many different people across the organisation so [employers] can sell the idea of wellbeing in as many different corporate languages as possible so that it lands to whoever it's reaching."
Employee Benefits Live 2017 will take place on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 October at Olympia National, London.
For more information or to book your place.


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[Ad Fontes was an early Renaissance and Reformation credo. Literally meaning "to the fountains," the phrase embodied these movements' emphasis on studying the original, primary sources in religious, philosophical, and scientific pursuits. This same commitment animates our efforts to follow our state and federal judiciaries' decisionmaking in key cases being decided therein, given how these […]


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The Philippines' biggest import partners are the United States (10.8%), Japan (10.8%), China (10.1%), and South Korea (7.3%).
|Section 1: Explicit Costs and Implicit Costs|
|Microeconomics - Unit 5|
The Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Costs
What are the Explicit Costs and Implicit Costs of Attending College?
In addition, you estimate that your annual implicit costs are $30,000 because this is the money you could have earned had you not attended college. Your total annual cost of attending college is now $55,000 ($25,000 plus $30,000). Thus, your total cost of attending four years of college equals 4 times $55,000, or $220,000.
What are the Explicit and Implicit Costs of Operating a Business?
Problem: Let's say that you are running a business and incur the following monthly expenses: labor costs are $80,000; raw materials and business supplies are 30,000; equipment leasing expenses are $7,000; finance charges on loans are $3,000. You are not paying rent, because you own the building in which you operate the business. If you had rented it out, however, you would have received $12,000 in rent income. You also estimate the value of your own time to equal $40,000. What are your implicit, explicit, and economic costs?
Solution: Explicit costs are $80,000 + $30,000 + $3,000 +$7,000 = $120,000.
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First grade students are learning how easy it is to have fresh, in-season food for snacks. (Old Trail School) First grade teacher Alice Goumas attended the Edible Schoolyard Conference in Berkley, California last summer. As a result of this conference she is making positive changes in her classroom. Part of the class'sh health curriculum is teaching students to establish and maintain life-long healthy eating and physical activity habits. The class is using their snack time to promote and mentor healthy eating habits through nutritional education.
In October, students became competent with holding an apple and cutting it in slices. They were introduced to cooking when they made an apple crisp and used a larger knife when they made pumpkin butter. In November, students learned about pumpkins and made pumpkin and apple butter, pumpkin soup and pumpkin muffins.
In December, students have decided that they would like to bring in carrots. Carrots are a vegetable that could still be in the ground at this time of the year in Ohio. Students will be learning several new kitchen skills while they learn about carrots. They will learn to grate, dice and slice and will make carrot juice.
On December 12 carrot soup is on the School's lunch menu and the first grade students will be preparing and serving it during all of the lunch periods.


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We have designed and built a compact, low-cost automated system to measure the optical absorption coefficient of air. Because most of the light absorption is due to black carbon, this method is a direct measure of the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere. The equipment was used to measure absorption over a period of one year in a central area of Santiago. Our results show a strong correlation with the daily traffic pattern. The highest value of the absorption coefficient during most of the year occurs during the morning rush hour (0700–0800), and the lowest value either early in the morning (0300–0500) or in the afternoon (1400–1700). The absorption coefficient also shows a strong dependence with the season of the year, with values 10–20 times higher in winter than in summer. The data show that, during most of the year, the amount of black carbon present in the atmosphere is due to traffic. At night, during winter, the high concentration of black carbon is due to the temperature inversion effect.
© 2000 Optical Society of America
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(_PHONE_) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Aerosol detection
(_PHONE_) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Air pollution monitoring
(_PHONE_) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric transmittance
Ernesto Gramsch, Luis Catalán, Isabel Ormeño, and Guillermo Palma, "Traffic and Seasonal Dependence of the Light Absorption Coefficient in Santiago de Chile," Appl. Opt. 39, 4895-4901 (2000)


text: Machine learning methods, such as deep learning, hold great potential in the study of electromagnetic (EM) structures as they excel at complex multi-dimensional modeling. In this work, we introduce a generalized method to predict antenna performance using deep neural networks. Specifically, we estimate the far-field radiation and S11 of an antenna (e.g., rectangular patch antenna) in real-time by utilizing the near-field data using an artificial neural network (ANN). Our method is generalized as it can learn from a range of design parameters for various substrate materials and operating frequencies, and it can accurately predict all the required EM properties (e.g., near-and far-fields, S-parameters) of the desired antenna. When compared to numerical methods, we achieved acceptable antenna performance estimation, e.g., a mean absolute percentage error of 0.27% for an arbitrary antenna configuration.


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Exploring How We Make Decisions
The Caltech Conte Center for Neuroscience explores how we make decisions in a social setting, an ability that is as ubiquitous in everyday life as it is devastating when dysfunctional in diseases such as autism, schizophrenia or addiction. This center examines four main aspects of social decision making: how basic social rewards are processed in the brain, how these rewards are learned and processed through observation rather than receiving a direct reward, how people process and understand how other individuals feel about rewards, and how the brain regions involved in these experiments are connected on a network level.
How do we process rewards, and how do we learn about rewards in a social setting? Is this done in the same way that we think about how other people think about rewards? This Conte Center for Neuroscience at Caltech addresses these questions using innovative fMRI technology, in order to understand on a very basic level how humans think, learn, and make decisions about rewards.This Conte Center consists of four Projects and three supporting Cores:


DIY Series: Dive into these kids' crafternoon activities
DIY Series: Dive into these kids' crafternoon activities
Sunny skies call for spending more time outside in the fresh air. These creative crafternoon activities will not only keep the kids busy but will encourage them to get out in the backyard and explore the great outdoors. So, grab all the materials you need on your next visit to Westfield St Lukes from Kmart, Miniso, Daiso, Countdown, and Whitcoulls.
Easy-peasy toilet roll binoculars
Make the most of those finished toilet rolls by crafting these cute binoculars.
What you'll need
 - Two toilet rolls
 - Wrapping paper or coloured paper
 - A length of string or ribbon
 - A hole punch
 - Tape
 - Any other materials to decorate your binoculars, such as coloured pens, stickers, gems and glitter
1. Wrap the outside of each toilet roll in wrapping paper, leaving the holes open to peer through.
2. Place your two toilet rolls beside each other and fasten together with tape.
3. Punch a hole on the far right and the far left edges of each roll with a hole punch.
4. Loop through and secure one end of your string to one hole. Repeat for the other hole and the other end of your string, to create a strap for your binoculars.
5. Now it's time to decorate! Let them express themselves however they wish.
6. Once they're done, they can take their binoculars on adventures and see what they can spot in the backyard and on walks.
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Painted pot plant people
The latest trend is painted pot plant people. Why not let the kids go wild and create their own?
What you'll need
 - A pencil
 - Plain plant pots
 - Paint brushes and paints (ensure the paint is non-toxic, is made for the material of your pot and waterproof, especially if your pot people will be living outdoors)
1. Paint your base colour or pattern for your pot. Wait for this to dry. Do another coat if required.
2. Use the pencil to draw a face on your pot. Have some fun with your pot's expression.
3. Paint your pot's face by going over the pencil.
4. Once your paint is dry, purchase some seedlings, add some soil, spritz with water and watch your plant person's hair grow.
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Pretty paper pinwheels
Enjoy the outdoors and watch your colourful pinwheels spin in the breeze.
What you'll need
 - A pen
 - Scissors (grab kid-friendly plastic ones for little fingers)
 - Coloured paper
 - A split pin
 - 2 beads
 - A paper straw
1. Cut your sheet of paper into a square before beginning.
2. Fold your paper in half, so two opposite corners meet to form a triangle. Unfold and repeat for the two remaining corners. You should end up with two diagonal folds.
3. Mark the centre point of the paper with a pen. Then mark a star along each fold, approximately one third from the centre point.
4. Cut along the fold line from each corner towards the centre point, until you reach the stars.
5. Bring the half corners of every second section to the centre point. You'll want to curl it towards the centre, not fold.
6. Stick the split pin through the alternating four half corners and centre point of your pinwheel head.
7. Next, thread two beads through the split pin.
8. Finally, pierce the split pin through the paper straw, and secure by opening the split pin.
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Vertically Challenged Part 2
By Andrew S. Bruce, LDO, ABOM
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Expiration Date: March 18, 2016
To update the ECP on changes and adoption practices for a lens material that is capable of being the overall lens platform including:
- Have a knowledge and understanding of slab-off/reverse slab-off, its use in correcting for vertical imbalance and how it is verified.
- Use a power cross to determine meridian powers.
- Determine meridian powers when dealing with oblique axes.
Andrew Bruce graduated from Wigan College of Technology in England as a photography major in 1986 and worked as a professional photographer for 13 years. Following a career change, he graduated from the opticianry program administered by the National Academy of Opticianry in 2001. After completing a three-year apprenticeship and successfully passing the Washington State Boards, he became a LDO in 2005. He received his Master in Ophthalmic Optics in June 2009 and is currently the optical manager for a private optometric practice in Battle Ground, Wash. He holds multiple black belt degrees in Tae Kwon Do, which he also teaches on a part-time basis.
This course is approved for one (1) hour of CE credit by the American Board of Opticianry (ABO). Course STJHI026-2
Part 2 (visit Part 1 at _URL_
continues the discussion and explores
a third option to correct for vertical
imbalance: slab-off. It also covers how
to calculate power in oblique meridians and demonstrate the use of the
power cross when calculating vertical
SLAB-OFF/REVERSE SLABOFF/BI-CENTRIC GRINDING
The most common way of correcting vertical imbalance is to induce a vertical prismatic effect in the lower half of one lens. This type of correction is referred to as bi-centric grinding or slab-off. It can be used to correct for imbalance amounts ranging from 1.5D to 6D. Slab-off provides base up (BU) prism and is applied to the most minus, or least plus lens in the vertical meridian to offset excessive base down (BD) induced by the opposite lens. Slab-off can be incorporated into either a glass or plastic lens, although each is manufactured in a different way. The main difference is that a glass lens has the slab-off ground on the front surface since the bifocal is fused into the lens, and a plastic lens has it ground on the back surface due to the presence of the molded bifocal segment on the front.
Reverse slab-off lenses are molded, or cast with base down prism in the lower segment area, rather than having base up prism generated using bi-centric grinding. The advantage here is that reverse slab-off lenses can be kept in inventory by the lab as semi-finished lenses facilitating normal surfacing techniques, resulting in faster delivery time. Because reverse slab-off provides BD prism instead of BU, it is always used on the most plus or least minus lens in the vertical meridian to offset excessive BU induced by its partner.
In a situation where large amounts of vertical imbalance are present, for example, greater than 6D, consider using slab-off for one eye and reverse slab for the other.
RECOMMENDED STEPS FOR ORDERING
Calculate how much vertical imbalance is induced by the distance lenses and determine if it will create visual discomfort for the patient.
Using Table 1, apply slab-off or reverse slab to the appropriate lens.
Order the slab line placement at the appropriate position based on the multi-focal style being used as indicated in Table 2.
Occasionally, the prescribing doctor will indicate the need for slab off. However, the optician must always be on the alert for its need since ultimately it is the optician's responsibility.
LENS DETERMINATION FOR SLAB-OFF/REVERSE SLAB
The following table illustrates on which lens to place the slab-off/reverse slab depending on the lens combination being utilized. A simple way to remember the rule is to visualize the slab for what it is and what it provides to the optical system:
Slab-off provides base up prism so it will always be applied to the lower part of the lens that is naturally inducing the most base down, or least base up prism when viewing through a position below the distance OC. Hence, the most minus or least plus.
THE SLAB-OFF MANUFACTURING PROCESS
(Modified from "Clinical Optics" by Fannin and Grosvenor)
A slab-off lens is made using a procedure called bi-centric grinding. After the front surface
of the lens is finished in the usual manner, a dummy or cover lens manufactured
to match the base curve of the required lens is then cemented onto the front surface.
The front surface is then reground using the tool originally used for that surface, but
ground in a way that the dummy is ground away in the upper portion while leaving
it attached to the lower portion. The back surface is then finished with the remaining
dummy considered as an integral part of the blank. The blank is now an equal thickness
at the top and bottom unless the prescription calls for prism in the distance.
When the lens is finished, the remaining dummy on the lower portion is removed.
The dummy is base down prism resulting in the addition of base up prism in the
lower portion of the lens.
This procedure also results in an upward displacement of the center of curvature of
the front surface of the lens in the lower portion, resulting in the front surface having
two centers of curvature, one for the upper portion and for the lower, but both having
the same curvature. This produces a unique optical axis for each of the two portions
of the lens.
Bi-centric grinding can be done on either the front surface in the case of a fused lens
such as a glass flat top bifocal, or on the back surface in the case of a lens where the
multifocal segment results in a wedge on the front surface such as a plastic bifocal.
Conversely, reverse slab provides base down prism so it will always be applied to the lower part of the lens that is naturally inducing the most base up or least base down prism when viewing through a position below the distance OC. Therefore, the most plus or least minus.
It should be noted that although slab-off can be used on any lens, cosmetically it works best on a flat top bifocal due to the slab line forming a continuation of the top of the segment. In addition, the wider the bifocal used, the less noticeable the slab line will be.
Note: When working with a progressive lens, your lab can often offer the best recommendation for the location of the slab placement depending on the progressive being used. Some patients wearing progressive lenses will experience less vertical imbalance than with a lined multi-focal due to the moving optical center in a progressive from distance to near. For this reason, it may not always be necessary to correct for moderate amounts of vertical imbalance.
EVALUATING FOR VERTICAL IMBALANCE IN A SPHERO-CYLINDER LENS
Determining lens power in the vertical meridian of a spherical lens is very straightforward since it is the same in both meridians. However, with a sphero-cylinder lens, this is not the case; the sphere and cylinder powers are ground at 90 degrees to one another. All the cylinder power is effective at 90 degrees to the cylinder axis, and only the sphere power is effective along the cylinder axis. When evaluating for lateral or horizontal prism, the effective power in the horizontal or 180-degree meridian is the one to use for calculation purposes. When determining vertical prism or vertical imbalance, the effective power in the vertical or 90-degree meridian is the one to be considered. The following examples will demonstrate how to calculate vertical imbalance when presented with a variety of different prescriptions.
- Example 1:
OD: PL -2.00 x 090 ADD +2.50
OD: PL SPH ADD +2.50
At first glance, the prescription for both eyes appears notably different. Assuming this prescription would need correcting for vertical imbalance based on the numbers alone would be an easy mistake to make. However, before jumping to any conclusions, it is important to closely dissect the prescriptions. The simplest way to do this is using a power cross. A power cross is used to illustrate the effective power in each meridian separated by 90 degrees. It is beneficial for the optician to become familiar with using a power cross since the process is also used when determining vertexed power modifications with toric contact lenses.
Remember, for vertical imbalance we are concerned only with the lens power in the vertical or 90-degree meridian. Also, remember all the cylinder power is present in a lens at 90 degrees to the axis, and only the sphere power is effective along the meridian in line with the cylinder axis.
For the right eye, the axis is 090 so all the cylinder power is present in the hori zontal or 180-degree meridian. In the vertical or 90-degree meridian, the total power is plano. For the left eye, the lens is plano in both horizontal and vertical meridians. Let's plot this out:
The effective power in the vertical meridians for both eyes is plano. Therefore, regardless of the reading position, because there is effectively no power in the vertical meridian, using the Prentice rule, we can determine there will be no induced prism and consequently no vertical imbalance at the reading level in this scenario.
- Example 2:
OD: +2.50 - 1.00 x 045 ADD +2


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Palm Desert's climate is influenced by its surrounding geography including high mountain ranges and a south-sloping valley floor.
With average annual high temperature is 89 °F (32 °C) and average annual low is 62 °F (17 °C). The mean annual temperature at 75.8 °F (24.3 °C) makes Palm Desert one of the warmest places in the United States.
In summer, temperatures often reach highs 108 °F (42 °C) and sometimes rises above 120 °F (49 °C). Summer night's often go as low as 82 °F (28 °C).
Winters are warm with daytime highs between 73–84 °F (23–29 °C).
Under 5 inches (130 mm) of annual precipitation are average, with over 348 days of sunshine per year.
A typical weekend includes abundant sunshine, clear blue skies, low humidity, warm temperatures, and rarely a hint of rain.
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How to use Google Maps or Google Earth Pro to figure out a site's rainwater catchment area(s) and rainfall income
by Brad Lancaster, HarvestingRainwater.com
You can use the online version of Google Maps at _URL_
For Google Earth Pro, you need to download the app onto your computer or smart phone.
Look up the site on the app, choose "satellite" view, and zoom in as you like.
As you zoom in, your view may tilt. I hate that, as you want the view from directly overhead. Search on-line for how to get rid of the tilt (the method seems to change as they update the apps, or depending on what device you are using). As of this writing, on a laptop, you can get rid of the tilt by simultaneously hitting the Shift and U keys on your keyboard.
Note: on Google Earth Pro you can rotate your view, whereas I haven't figured out how to do so on Google Maps.
Using the scale on the aerial view – a method requiring you to use a ruler and do some simple math to figure out your catchment's surface area(s)
You can use the scale on the image (see bottom left corner of image above), to measure/estimate the length (in feet) and width (in feet) of your various catchment areas to get their surface areas in square feet.
If using metric measurements – use meters, to get your surface areas in square meters.
To keep the math simple, I break the catchment areas into squares, rectangles, or triangles.
For a square or rectangle, multiply its length by its width to get the surface area in square feet or square meters.
For a triangle, multiply its base by its height, then divide by 2 to get the surface area.
For examples, more clear explanations of the math, and other equations see the calculations appendix of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition
Using Google Earth Pro – to do the measuring and math for you
Check out the video below to see how you can use Google Earth Pro to measure and calculate the surface are of your catchment areas.
Calculating rainfall volumes for your catchment area(s)
Once you have your surface areas figured out you can then calculate how much rain falls on each catchment surface area by multiplying the catchment area's surface area by the volume of rain falling on that surface.
An example in English units is:
CATCHMENT AREA (ft2) x RAINFALL (ft) = TOTAL RAINWATER (ft3)
If you are like me, you normally measure rainfall in inches, not feet, then divide inches of rain by 12 (there are 12 inches in a foot) to get rainfall in feet. So, for our example site receiving 11.56 inches of annual rainfall, I divide 11.56 by 12 = 0.96 feet.
To convert cubic feet (ft3) of rainwater to gallons, multiply the cubic feet figure by 7.48.
(There are 7.48 gallons of water in a cubic foot of water).
For a more clear and thorough explanation of these and other calculations (including in metric), along with examples, see Box 2.3, and the calculations appendix of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition.
Here is a breakdown of the catchment areas and their average annual rainfall volumes for the image at the top of this blog post…
Note how I added up all the different surface areas that made up all the roofs to get the total roof surface area.
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Implementing Workflows on Google App Engine with Fantasm
This document is another in our series of guest articles written in conjunction with external developers. The Google App Engine team thanks Jason A. Collins and Shawn Rusaw for their time and expertise.
Jason A. Collins & Shawn Rusaw (VendAsta Technologies, Inc.)
March 2011
Python SDK: 1.4.0
Background
Any application developer who has built an application of any size has had to deal with workflows. A workflow is a sequence of steps required to achieve an overall process. The workflow can contain conditional logic and thus have branches or loops. Workflows can be large and may span many seconds, minutes, hours or even days. Because of this fact, workflows must also be resilient and lightweight.
Google App Engine is an excellent platform and provides APIs that are the building blocks for a wide array of applications. One API in particular, Task Queue API, provides mechanisms to queue work which allows a workflow to be separated into discrete steps. Additionally, the Task Queue API provides built-in retry mechanisms; if a particular task fails, the job is re-queued and will be tried later. The Task Queue API provides the essential tools necessary to build resilient and scalable workflows.
Large-scale systems can often have correspondingly large-scale workflows. While Task Queue has the necessary building blocks, it does not directly provide facility to build these workflows in a normal, predictable manner. On the contrary, the flexibility of Task Queue, while powerful, often leads to a spiderweb of process flows and subtle differences in implementations.
These types of systems, as you can imagine, are notoriously difficult to trace and debug. Changing these systems is equally difficult as race conditions and other hidden dependencies may emerge.
Introducing Fantasm
We at VendAsta Technologies have developed Fantasm as an open-source tool to help with this dilemma. Fantasm is a Python library that allows developers to build workflows that harness the capabilities of the Task Queue API and the App Engine infrastructure without needing to be concerned with the actual Task Queue code.
Fantasm uses the finite state machine model of computing. A developer designs a workflow as a set of states with transitions between them. Each workflow becomes a machine with a single initial state and at least one final state. States are connected by transitions which allow machines to branch and loop. Each state is responsible to emit an event which identifies which transition to follow next.
States have actions which contain developer code. As a developer, you are free to execute any legal Python code within the action (subject to App Engine quotas and restrictions) as long as you return the event to tell Fantasm where to go next.
Each finite state machine instance has an execution context; each state (and thus your action code) has the ability to read and modify this context. The context is made available to all subsequent states in the machine instance. The context is essentially a dictionary in which you can place arbitrary values, like partially computed results or keys to Datastore entries.
Comparing and contrasting the Pipeline API
The recently released App Engine Pipeline API is aimed at solving very similar issues as Fantasm: namely, leveraging the TaskQueue API to harness the power of the distributed, massively-scalable App Engine infrastructure to implement regular, testable and operationally accessible workflows. The Pipeline API uses code to define its workflows, while Fantasm specifies its workflows with a declarative YAML file format. Both have advantages, which are summarized briefly as follows.
The advantage of Fantasm is the simplicity and strictness of the workflow definition. Declarative finite state machines are deterministic and can be verified as correct. They can be very simple to describe. The framework offers a great entry point into building scalable workflows.
The Pipeline API's advantage is flexibility. The workflows it describes can be deep, recursive, and non-deterministic. The framework focuses on how parallel work fans-out and fans-in, which is especially useful for advanced users but can be confusing for newbies.
Thus, Fantasm is an excellent launch pad for building an understanding of how to decompose a workflow into the appropriate chunk size as well as gaining a solid footing in how to build idempotent states.
Designing a workflow
In designing a Fantasm workflow, you are essentially designing a finite state machine. The states and transitions of a Fantasm machines are defined in YAML markup. The YAML is placed in a file called fsm.yaml beside your app.yaml file. You must take your overall workflow and decompose it into discrete chunks; naming your states and choose appropriate "chunk sizes" will allow for operational clarity and easy machine rewiring.
# fsm.yaml
state_machines:
- name: MyMachine
states:
- name: InitialState
 action: InitialStateClass
 initial: True
 transitions:
 - to: ReviewAndRecoverState
 event: review
 - to: FinalState
 event: ok
- name: ReviewAndRecoverState
 action: ReviewAndRecoverStateClass
 final: True
 transitions:
 - to: FinalState
 event: ok
- name: FinalState
 action: FinalStateClass
 final: True
The above machine is a 3-state machine with one initial state (InitialState) and two final states (ReviewAndRecoverState and FinalState). InitialState can transition to either ReviewAndRecoverState or FinalState, and ReviewAndRecoverState may optionally transition to FinalState or simply stop.
The decisions on how to transition are defined by the events emitted. The events are emitted by developer code housed in the classes InitialStateClass, ReviewAndRecoverStateClass and FinalStateClass. Fantasm takes care of invoking these classes and their methods at the appropriate time. The above diagram can be automatically generated by the Fantasm framework using the URL /fantasm/graphviz/[your machine name]/, e.g., /fantasm/graphviz/MyMachine/.
Understanding Task Queue concepts
Though Fantasm strives to hide Task Queue coding from the developer, it is important to understand some of the key concepts in order to make smart choices in your machine design. Under the hood, Fantasm effectively uses a Task Queue task for each transition between states. This means that if the code in a state action fails (i.e., raises an exception), that transition will be requeued and retried according to the normal Task Queue retry policy. This policy includes an almost immediate retry followed by an exponential backoff; every task in a retry state will be attempted at least once per day.
This has some direct implications on machine design. First, and most importantly, you should build a state action that is idempotent. Knowing that a state will be retried on a failure, you must write state action code that is safe to be rerun possibly many times. In particular, you need to think about the side-effects of your code — writing a record to datastore, sending an email, POSTing something to an external server — and take appropriate precautions.
This leads to the second implication on machine design: strive to keep your state action code small and with a single side-effect step that is performed essentially as the last part of your action code. If there is very little or no code after your side-effect action, there is little opportunity for exceptions to be raised which would cause your side-effect to be re-executed on the task retry.
There are other techniques to achieve idempotency, but this approach is usually the easiest. It is important to note that any changes to the machine context made in state action code that raises an exception are not present on the retry. So, for example, you can write a boolean flag into the context indicating that an email had been sent, but if an exception is raised later in the state action code, that flag will not be present on the retry. The context is only updated on a successful state execution.
As a final note, it is important to know that Task Queue task size is limited to 10kB. Machine context is serialized into the task on each transition. Therefore, your machine context is subject to this 10kB limitation. If you need to pass large contexts between states of a machine, you will likely have to write this context to Datastore and pass a key on the context instead.
Starting a machine
Once you have your machine built, you need to kick it off. Fantasm machines are started simply by requesting a URL. This URL has the form /fantasm/fsm/YOUR_MACHINE_NAME. You can add query args to this URL and these args will be present in your machine context. For example, you could invoke the above machine using /fantasm/fsm/MyMachine?arg1=value. Your state action code has access to this value via the machine context:
class InitialStateClass(object):
 def execute(self, context, obj): # called by Fantasm
 arg1 = context['arg1'] # query args become part of the machine context
 if arg1 == 'something':
 # execute method returns the event to dispatch, driving the transition
 return 'ok'
 else:
 return 'review'
The Task Queue API allows tasks to use either POST or GET. Fantasm will preserve whatever mechanism was


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At RBG, the foundation of our programs is inquiry-based and experiential learning. We want students to ask questions and follow their curiosity. Our educational field trip programs use active exploration and activities to engage students, and to immerse them in the natural world.
A Message for Educators: We are working hard to be able to support you this year! For nearly 80 years, Royal Botanical Gardens has been dedicated to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students of all ages. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we will continue to offer a variety of types of programs for school groups, modified to ensure participant safety while remaining as engaging and relevant as ever. Due to regulations and best practices not all school programs are available for booking and some program elements have been modified to accommodate current health guidelines. To ensure the health and wellbeing of everyone involved with our programs we require everyone who is involved with a program to wear a face covering for the duration of the program. Currently, indoor spaces are not available for use. All materials that are used in programs are sanitized after use.
Programs at RBG
Our programs aim to inspire curiosity, discovery, and connection in a natural setting! Browse our available educational field trip programs to find the best options for your students and curriculum and make a booking request through our online form.
ECE and Kindergarten
Combining interactive hikes, sensory activities, and play-based learning, RBG's ECE and Kindergarten programming provides positive experiences for the youngest students. Walking, hiking, and observing together, students develop a new appreciation for the natural world.
Grades 1 - 8
Our Elementary programs aim to inspire curiosity, discovery, and connection in a natural setting. Through games, explorations, and discussions, students learn about the importance of healthy natural spaces, and their place within them!
Grades 9 - 12
Our Secondary programs combine an inquiry-based approach with authentic learning opportunities situated in RBG's gardens and natural spaces. RBG is an active research site, and students are challenged to learn through hands-on investigation and observation, analyze relevant data, and discuss environmental concerns that have a real impact on their lives.
Book a Program
Make a booking request through our online form.
Note: This form is a request only. Submission of this form does not imply a reservation / booking. RBG will contact you 3-5 days after your request to finalize your trip.
Virtual Field Trips
No matter where you are, your class can interact with our educators and scientists and explore topics like biodiversity, conservation, botany, plant ecology and the environment.
We want to help you provide your students with meaningful and diverse learning experiences that help them to understand the crucial role that plants play in sustaining and enhancing our lives and the environment. Look at the following resources to help you bring these unique nature experiences to your classroom.
Dive deeper into biodiversity and human impacts on wetlands with your class, whether as an extension to your RBG visit or as a standalone classroom inquiry or project-based learning initiative.
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Welcome to RBG at Home, our commitment to offering accessible, diverse and entertaining learning opportunities for all ages. Find curriculum-linked lesson plans, educational videos, activity sheets, and more!
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Statement of Significance (as of designation - April 11, 1989):
The world's only surviving four-masted, full-rigged ship, FALLS OF CLYDE (1878) is the oldest surviving American tanker and the only surviving sailing oil tanker left afloat. Built during a shipbuilding boom inspired by increasing trade with the United States, the ship made several voyages to American ports while under the British flag. Sold to American owners in 1898, it gained American registry by a special act of Congress in 1900. Henceforth she was involved in the nationally important Hawaiian trans-Pacific sugar trade and later in transporting petroleum as a bulk cargo carrier.


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WSDA Soil Health Scientist
SoilCon, a conference about soil health and the latest research on soil, is coming next month during Washington Soil Health Week.the Washington Soil Health Initiative, a joint effort of WSDA, Washington State University, and the Washington State Conservation Commission to study soil health in our state and explore ways to improve it.
Soil health focuses on how well a soil system supports plants, animals, and people. It also recognizes the living nature of soils and the importance of soil microorganisms.
SoilCon is a free, virtual event and will be held on Tuesday, February 22 and Wednesday, February 23 from 8 a.m. to noon each day. The theme this year is "From Global to Local: Scaled Soil Health Parameters."
Visit the SoilCon website to register for the conference or view the complete agenda.
Topics covered at this year's conference will include:
- Global soil challenges.
- How to interpret soil health tests.
- The cost and savings growers experience when implementing soil health practices.
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VINA, Calif.— A California abbey has been home to Cistercian monks since 1955, and it now houses a new chapel built of stones taken from a medieval Cistercian monastery in Spain.
"These stones have come home.... We had a donor event last year because the scaffolding finally came down, and you can see the glory of this vaulted stone chapter house," the abbot, Father Paul Mark Schwan, told Catholic News Agency Jan. 7.
"We sang our Cistercian 'Salve' at the conclusion of this event. That was the first time since 1835 that these stones had heard the chanting of, as it were, 'their' Cistercian monks," he added.
"It was a very touching moment, not just for our monks, but for the guests who were present for that."
The new chapel for the Abbey of New Clairvaux — located in Vina, Calif. — is made from stones that had been used for a chapter house created in the late 12th century for Spain's Santa Maria de Ovila monastery.
The monastery was seized by the Spanish government in 1835, and from then on the buildings were long used as barns for local farmers. The property was later purchased by William Randolph Hearst, who had the monastery's chapter house disassembled and transported to the United States.
The stones ended up languishing in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for more than 60 years, but when New Clairvaux was founded, they caught the eye of one of the new monks.
In 1955, Father Thomas Davis was taken to see the stones, and, according to Father Schwan, he "thought to himself that these stones need to return to Cistercian property.... They're our heritage."
Father Davis became abbot of New Clairvaux and had "a vision in his own heart" about bringing the stones to the monastery. After the monastery's main building suffered a fire in 1970, he secured about 20 of the stones from Golden Gate Park for the monastery, but they were not enough to be of use.
The abbot again tried to obtain all of the stones in the early 1990s, and, in 1994, they were finally awarded to the monastery. The medieval chapter house has now been rebuilt, and it will serve as the monastery's chapel when it is completed.
Classic Cistercian Architecture
The medieval chapter house is a classic example of Cistercian architecture, showing the transition from Romanesque to Gothic styles, Father Schwan said.
It has taken around $7 million to complete the building process, and the monastery needs another $2 million to complete the church.
The monks are looking forward to a permanent chapel, as the monastery's current chapel was built in 1960 and was only expected to last some 10 years. They also hope to raise an additional $5 million to build a much-needed infirmary, as well as an administration and formation center for their novices.
Their fundraising has been assisted by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, located in nearby Chico, which in 2010 began brewing a series of Belgian-style ales called "Ovila Abbey" beers.
Sierra Nevada agreed to donate a portion of the proceeds from the series to the monastery's building projects. The monastery also produces its own wines, and its winery is known as New Clairvaux Vineyard.
The community numbers 23 and is "doing very well for vocations," Father Schwan said. New Clairvaux has one postulant and one novice, and it received three solemn professions last year.
The community is part of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also called Trappists. They observe the Rule of St. Benedict and spend much of their time chanting the Liturgy of the Hours.
While the efforts to rebuild the medieval chapter house and transform it into a chapel have put the usually obscure monks "in the limelight," Father Schwan said that "it helps us to treasure all the more our vocation and move more inward in our hearts and protect that inner silence and solitude which is so characteristic of our way of life."
Father Schwan noted that the community is very pleased that the stones which had been long-neglected in Golden Gate Park can again be home to the monks for whom they were first hewn.
"That's why we feel so strongly about these stones. They're not just stones; they're stones that held Cistercian life, held Christian monastic life for over 600 years.... There's an element of justice in it."


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Let's learn shiny.fluent by building an example app.
In this tutorial, we'll build a basic application for analysing sales results data. The app will allow for filtering the data, and viewing it on a plot, on a map and in a table.
We'll assume that you have Shiny and shiny.fluent already installed.
shiny.fluent "Hello world!" app
Let's start by creating an app that shows "Hello world!", but does this with Fluent UI. First, we need to load shiny.fluent.
That gives us all we need to run a basic application! To create a UI showing a welcome message, we will use a Fluent component named ?Text. We'll put it in a ?fluentPage, which will add proper CSS classes and suppress Bootstrap (you should not use both Bootstrap and Fluent UI at the same time).
ui <- fluentPage(
 Text(variant = "xxLarge", "Hello world!")
)
server <- function(input, output, session) {}
shinyApp(ui, server)
Let's see what our app looks like right now.
Yay! It may not look very impressive, but this text is rendered in Shiny with the whole power of Fluent UI and React.
Showing data in a table
Let's now grab some data and show it to our users in a table. shiny.fluent already includes some example data that we can use.
fluentPeople is a list of imaginary people in a format expected by some Fluent components.
fluentPeople %>% glimpse()
#> Rows: 7
#> Columns: 11
#> $ key <dbl> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
#> $ imageUrl <chr> "_URL_
#> $ imageInitials <chr> "PV", "AR", "AL", "RK", "CB", "VL", "MS"
#> $ text <chr> "Annie Lindqvist", "Aaron Reid", "Alex Lundberg", "Roko …
#> $ secondaryText <chr> "Senior Sales Rep", "Sales Rep", "Junior Sales Rep", "Se…
#> $ tertiaryText <chr> "In a meeting", "In a meeting", "In a meeting", "In a me…
#> $ optionalText <chr> "Available at 4:00pm", "Available at 4:00pm", "Available…
#> $ isValid <lgl> TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE
#> $ presence <dbl> 2, 6, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3
#> $ canExpand <lgl> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
#> $ color <chr> "#8DD3C7", "#FFFFB3", "#BEBADA", "#FB8072", "#80B1D3", "…
fluentSalesData is a data frame of randomly generated "sales deals", which are assigned to one of the fluentPeople, have a date and an amount, and are associated with one of the top 10 companies from the Fortune 500 list (including its name, city and map coordinates).
fluentSalesDeals %>% glimpse()
#> Rows: 100
#> Columns: 30
#> $ X <dbl> -_PHONE_, -_PHONE_, -_PHONE_, -_PHONE_, -_PHONE_, -8234…
#> $ Y <dbl> _PHONE_, _PHONE_, _PHONE_, _PHONE_, _PHONE_, _PHONE_, 4938…
#> $ FID <dbl> 493, 234, 425, 234, 493, 333, 493, 284, 333, 284, 425, 234…
#> $ OBJECTID <dbl> 493, 234, 425, 234, 493, 333, 493, 284, 333, 284, 425, 234…
#> $ RANK <dbl> 35, 28, 25, 28, 35, 21, 35, 26, 21, 26, 25, 28, 28, 21, 21…
#> $ NAME <chr> "JOHNSON & JOHNSON", "MICROSOFT", "WELLS FARGO", "MICROSOF…
#> $ ADDRESS <chr> "1 JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PLAZA", "1 MICROSOFT WAY", "420 MON…
#> $ ADDRESS2 <chr> "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AV…
#> $ CITY <chr> "NEW BRUNSWICK", "REDMOND", "SAN FRANCISCO", "REDMOND", "N…
#> $ STATE <chr> "NJ", "WA", "CA", "WA", "NJ", "NY", "NJ", "NC", "NY", "NC"…
#> $ ZIP <chr> "08933", "98052", "94163", "98052", "08933", "10017", "089…
#> $ COUNTY <chr> "MIDDLESEX", "KING", "SAN FRANCISCO", "KING", "MIDDLESEX",…
#> $ EMPLOYEES <dbl> 126400, 114000, 269100, 114000, 126400, 243355, 126400, 20…
#> $ REVENUES <dbl> 71890, 85320, 94176, 85320, 71890, 105486, 71890, 93662, 1…
#> $ LATITUDE <dbl> 40.49804, 47.64005, 37.79340, 47.64005, 40.49804, 40.75598…
#> $ LONGITUDE <dbl> -74.44296, -122.12980, -122.40240, -122.12980, -74.44296, …
#> $ SOURCE <chr> "MANUAL", "BING MAPS", "BING MAPS", "BING MAPS", "MANUAL",…
#> $ PRC <chr> "ON-ENTITY", "ADDRESS", "ADDRESS", "ADDRESS", "ON-ENTITY",…
#> $ COUNTYFIPS <chr> "34023", "53033", "06075", "53033", "34023", "36061", "340…
#> $ COMMENTS <chr> "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AVAILABLE", "NOT AV…
#> $ WEBSITE <chr> "_URL_ "_URL_
#> $ PROFIT <dbl> 16540, 16798, 21938, 16798, 16540, 24733, 16540, 17906, 24…
#> $ deal_amount <dbl> 855987, 753174, 702208, 590190, 405443, 714723, 455713, 80…
#> $ rep_id <int> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2…
#> $ rep_name <chr> "Annie Lindqvist", "Annie Lindqvist", "Annie Lindqvist", "…
#> $ date <date> 2020-02-19, 2020-08-18, 2020-10-14, 2020-02-23, 2020-10-1…
#> $ client_name <chr> "JOHNSON & JOHNSON", "MICROSOFT", "WELLS FARGO", "MICROSOF…
#> $ city <chr> "NEW BRUNSWICK", "REDMOND", "SAN FRANCISCO", "REDMOND", "N…
#> $ color <chr> "#8DD3C7", "#8DD3C7", "#8DD3C7", "#8DD3C7", "#8DD3C7", "#8…
#> $ is_closed <int> 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1…
We now need a Fluent component to insert a table. A good way find a component that suits our needs is to launch the showcase dashboard with shiny.fluent::runExample("dashboard") or to visit the official Fluent UI docs. Browsing through the list of components, we find ?DetailsList, which gives a table component with rich configuration options.
First, we need to define which columns from our deals data we want to see and how to label them.
details_list_columns <- tibble(
 fieldName = c("rep_name", "date", "deal_amount", "client_name", "city", "is_closed"),
 name = c("Sales rep", "Close date", "Amount",


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Clue: Native of Katmandu
We have 2 answers for the clue Native of Katmandu. See the results below.
- Like some mountain guides
- Neighbors of Indians
- Like soldiers known as Gurkhas
- Sherpas, e.g.
- High land language
- Some Annapurna climbers
- From Katmandu
- From Kathmandu, e.g.
- Certain Himalayan native
- Like some Sherpas
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- USA Today - December 09, 2011
- Washington Post - September 28, 2000
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How to have sex several times a day! Having a second erection after an orgasm
How to have sex several times a day! Having a second erection after an orgasm Posted on 10 October 2018Leave a comment
Many men feel frustrated at not being able to satisfy their partner because of the difference in the time it takes a man to enjoy and that of a woman. Often, to make a woman enjoy, men end up with their fingers or leave their partner to fend for themselves. Yet all men would like to assure and say that they are able to have a new erection and put the cover back.
If men are unable to have a second erection after cumming, it is because of the refractory period. It is this phenomenon that happens just after having enjoyed. Man produces hormones of well-being and satisfaction, which prevent him from being aroused again and to get a boner directly. All this is also a question of testosterone. We tell you everything!
How long does it take to get a new erection?
Unfortunately, answering this question is difficult because you know it better than us. It depends on everyone, and age. As the refractory period depends on your hormones and your testosterone, this period of time increases with age, since hormonal imbalance occurs with age. A 50-year-old man produces testosterone less quickly than a 20-year-old man.
For example, in a young man of 20 years, the refractory period is 2 to 15 minutes, while for a man of 40, he must wait 1 to 2 hours before having an erection again after doing the love. And when you're 70 years old, you have to wait 24 hours before having sex again. That's why mechanically, without viagra, without any help, a man of 70 years without erection problems makes maximum love 7 times a week.
What is the refractory period?
The refractory period in physiology is the moment immediately preceding the activity of a nerve or a muscle. After intense activity, the muscle ignores any stimulation, then after a while, we start a second phase, which is the recovery phase during which the muscle regains sensitivity but is still weak.
For sex, it's pretty much the same thing. Except that the mechanism is different. The refractory period refers to the length of time between two periods of sexual activity. Put another way and simply, it's the time it takes for your penis to get hard again.
Is it impossible to get hard again after an orgasm?
Knowing why we lose our erection after sex is the same as asking ourselves what causes this refractory period. The main causes are two hormones: prolactin and oxytocin. Prolactin is a hormone that like testosterone plays a role on the libido. This hormone is produced in quantity when reaching orgasm. Its role is to provide a feeling of well-being and a bliss. We can thank that hormone! Except that our body is so tired, that it kills the effect of arousal that causes testosterone. Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that is a bit like the magic wand that makes you fall in love. It also gives a feeling of confidence, rest, zenitude and love.
We do not say that love is bad and that to be sexually active you must not be in love. Besides, love is not only due to these two hormones, but the high presence of these hormones after orgasm induces the body to feel good. You are no longer looking for something else. Simply, you are not arroused.
How to decrease the refractory period?
The basic answer is very simple: you have to increase your testosterone level. The longer answer is also to have a much healthier lifestyle: quit smoking, drinking, playing sports, eating balance.
 - Testosterone cure
For the testosterone level, fortunately, there are solutions. Just take a course of testosterone supplements. These natural capsules are studied to increase the rate of testosterone, which obviously allows to band faster. This is why a teenager or a young man has a much shorter rest period. This is because it is at its peak of testosterone production. Unfortunately, the testosterone level decreases with age.
produit pour avoir plus de testostérone⇒ We advise you to start a TestRX cure!
It also contains many vitamins such as B6 or vitamin D. But that's not all! You will understand with the following point why it is advisable to buy this product.
 - Cure of vitamins and dietary supplements
Again, for vitamins there is a solution. Zinc is very good for sexual performance, especially to increase sperm production. Some vitamins help maintain muscle shape and tone.
⇒ We told you to buy TestRX because it is twice a solution to the problem of testosterone.
In addition to having all the natural components to increase testosterone, it includes many vitamins and dietary supplements. There is magnesium, zinc, D-aspartic acid, fenugreek, vitamin K2, B6 and D.
 - Improve your lifestyle
For the other points, there is no cure, it's up to you to make an effort. Eating fat is bad for the body and being overweight has destructive effects on sexuality. Eating too much sugar can have inhibitory effects on the excitement. The cigarette is very bad for sexual performance. If you are used to watching porn frequently, reduce the dose a little. Porn has a negative effect on long-term sexual arousal.
Reducing stress is obviously very important. Everyone knows that when you're stressed you can have trouble to have a boner. Try to find a way to reduce stress, relieve tension, think of something else.
Eat products rich in nitric oxide (NO). These are nitrates that are found in a series of foods and that promote the influx of blood. Since the penis is full of blood and erection is possible because of cavernous bodies that are filling with blood, it is wise to find a way to improve the flow of blood. Citrulline, arginine and nitrates promote the production of nitric oxide. The rich foods are watermelon, rhubarb, beets, spinach and celery.
 - Avoid too much tenderness
As we have seen, we already produce enough hormones that make us feel good and soothed. In fact, everything is done so that we look at each other with love and sweetness. Unfortunately, this behavior also indicates to our body that it has had its dose of sex. So to avoid falling into too much romance that would cut the carnal desire for sex, do your best to stay in an atmosphere more sexual than romantic.
For example, do not stay in bed doing cute hugs. Do not get into burning statements. Jump from bed, try to think of things that excite you. See your partner as a fantasy and not as the loving person who makes your heart beat. Yes … it's easier said than done!
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22/03/2017, 14:15 — 15:15 — Sala P3.10, Pavilhão de Matemática
Pedro Boavida, Dep. Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico
Operads of genus zero curves and the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group
In Esquisse d'un programme, Grothendieck made the fascinating suggestion that the absolute Galois group of the rationals could be understood via its action on certain geometric objects, the (profinite) mapping class groups of surfaces of all genera. The collection of these objects, and the natural relations between them, he called the "Teichmuller tower".
In this talk, I plan to describe a genus zero analogue of this story from the point of view of operad theory. The result is that the group of automorphisms of the (profinite) genus zero Teichmuller tower agrees with the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, an object which is closely related to the absolute Galois group of the rationals. This is joint work with Geoffroy Horel and Marcy Robertson.
Organizadores correntes: Roger Picken, Marko Stošić.
Projecto FCT PTDC/MAT-GEO/3319/2014, Quantization and Kähler Geometry.
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The central, doubly circled model is the child model. The remaining models are its 'parent' models. The child model can be derived from parent models by the addition of one or more reactions. Arrows point from the child model to parent models. Parent models are either open ovals, to indicate non-bistable configurations, or filled ovals, which are bistable. The link from the child model leads to additional information about the model. The links from the parent models traverse the graph.


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Have you ever experienced the dreaded Orbi purple light issue? You're not alone.
Many users have faced this frustrating problem, which indicates a lack of internet connection or synchronization between the Orbi router and satellite.
Fear not, because we're here to help! In this blog post, we will explore the various causes of the Orbi purple light issue and provide practical solutions to get your internet up and running in no time.
- Understand the difference between a purple light on an Orbi router and a satellite to troubleshoot issues.
- Inspect and secure cable connections, power cycle your system, or resync the devices to fix the purple light issue.
- Prevent future problems by proper device placement and regular firmware updates.
Understanding What Orbi Purple Light Means
It's essential to understand what the Orbi purple light signifies before diving into troubleshooting.
The Orbi purple light issue can manifest in two distinct forms: a solid purple light on the Orbi router and a solid purple light on the Orbi satellite.
While a purple light on the router indicates a lack of internet connection, a purple light on the satellite signifies that the satellite isn't synced with the router.
By understanding these distinctions, you'll be better equipped to tackle the problem at its source.
Alongside these two primary manifestations, you may also encounter variations such as a magenta or blinking purple light.
The underlying causes of these Orbi purple light issues could range from damaged ethernet cables, internet outages in your area, firmware issues, or even defective Orbi devices.
Now that we've laid the foundation, let's dive into the troubleshooting process.
1. Purple Light on Orbi Router
When you see a purple light on your Orbi router, it's a clear indication that there's no internet connection.
This can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you rely on a stable connection for work, entertainment, or staying connected with friends and family.
To address this issue, it's essential to identify the root cause. It could be a problem with the modem's configuration or other factors such as network congestion or interference from other devices.
By understanding the potential causes, you'll be better equipped to implement the appropriate troubleshooting steps and get your internet connection back on track.
2. Purple Light on Orbi Satellite
On the other hand, a purple light on the Orbi satellite indicates that the router and satellite are not connected, meaning the satellite is not synchronized with the router. This lack of synchronization can lead to an unstable or non-existent connection for your devices.
Thankfully, there are steps you can take to rectify this issue.
- Start by unplugging all cables and wires, restarting your router, and removing any unwanted or unused devices from the network.
- To synchronize your Orbi satellite, press the sync button on the satellite and then the sync button on the Orbi router within two minutes.
By following these steps, you can resolve the Orbi magenta light issue and improve the bandwidth for your remaining connected devices.
Troubleshooting Steps to Fix the Orbi Purple Light
With a solid understanding of the Orbi purple light and its variations, we can now delve into the troubleshooting steps to address this issue.
Notably, most solutions don't require advanced technical skills, making them accessible to everyone.
The basic troubleshooting steps to fix the Orbi purple light involve inspecting and securing all cable connections, power cycling your Orbi system, and resynchronizing your Orbi router and satellite using the sync button on both devices within a two-minute window.
By following these steps, you'll increase your chances of resolving the issue and restoring a reliable connection for your devices.
1. Inspect and Secure Cable Connections
Loosened or damaged cables can often be the cause of the Orbi purple light issue. To address this problem, it's crucial to inspect and secure all cable connections.
Start by checking that the cables are securely fastened and in the appropriate port. After securing the connections, ensure that the cables are not frayed or torn, which could impede their capacity to establish a connection.
If the purple light persists, double-check that the Ethernet cable is connected from the modem to the Orbi WAN port. If available, you can also try using another cable.
2. Power Cycle Your Orbi System
Another effective troubleshooting step is power cycling your Orbi system.
Power cycling involves disconnecting and reconnecting the power cord, effectively rebooting your devices to clear any temporary glitches or errors.
To power cycle your Orbi system, first, turn off or shut down all devices connected to the router's network.
After allowing a two-minute period, turn on your modem and allow it to boot up. Subsequently, turn on your Orbi router and satellite or wall plug satellite.
By power cycling your Orbi system, you can potentially resolve the purple light issue and restore a stable connection for your devices.
3. Resync Orbi Router and Satellite
Resynchronization is another crucial troubleshooting step to address the Orbi purple light issue. By pressing the sync button on both the Orbi router and satellite within a two-minute time frame, you can reestablish the connection between the two devices.
If the synchronization is unsuccessful, you can attempt the process again. If the Orbi light turns orange or yellow during the syncing process, it indicates that the synchronization is successful, but the connection is not strong.
In such cases, contacting Netgear technical support for further assistance is best.
Advanced Solutions for Persistent Purple Light Issues
If you've tried the basic troubleshooting steps and the Orbi purple light issue persists, it's time to explore more advanced solutions. These solutions include updating the Orbi firmware, factory resetting your Orbi devices, or contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for further assistance.
Remember that before proceeding with advanced solutions, it's essential to back up your Orbi settings and configurations to avoid losing any vital information. By implementing these advanced solutions, you can potentially resolve persistent purple light issues that have not been addressed by basic troubleshooting methods, ultimately restoring your internet connection and ensuring a seamless experience.
1. Update Orbi Firmware
Outdated firmware can often cause the Orbi purple light issue. Updating the Orbi firmware can help resolve any flaws or errors in the router's firmware, thereby fixing the purple light issue.
To update the Orbi firmware, first update the router firmware. After updating the router firmware, proceed to update the satellite firmware one by one. By keeping your Orbi firmware up-to-date, you can effectively prevent potential purple light issues and maintain a stable and reliable internet connection.
2. Factory Reset Your Orbi Devices
If the purple light persists after trying all the troubleshooting steps and updating the firmware, a factory reset of your Orbi devices may be necessary. A factory reset erases all configuration and passwords, essentially returning your Orbi devices to their default settings. This can help fix the purple light issue caused by firmware errors or other complex issues.
To factory reset your Orbi devices, press and hold the reset button for 10 seconds. After the factory reset, you can restore your Orbi settings and configurations using the Orbi app or web interface.
Keep in mind that a factory reset should be considered a last resort, as it erases all your customized settings.
3. Contact Your ISP for Assistance
If the Orbi purple light remains after attempting all the troubleshooting steps and advanced solutions, contacting your ISP for assistance is necessary.
Your ISP can help diagnose and address any issues related to your internet connection, which may be causing the Orbi purple light issue.
When contacting your ISP, ensure that you provide them with pertinent information regarding your Orbi system, including the model and serial numbers and any other relevant details.
Your ISP can guide you through additional troubleshooting steps or inform you if there's an internet outage in your area.
In some cases, your ISP may even be able to assist with replacing or repairing defective Orbi devices.
Preventing Future Orbi Purple Light Problems
Now that we've explored various solutions to address the Orbi purple light issue, discussing preventive measures is crucial to avoid encountering this problem in the future.
By implementing these measures, you can maintain a stable and reliable internet connection, ensuring that your Orbi devices function seamlessly.
Two key preventive measures include:
- Ensuring proper Orbi device placement
- Keeping your firmware up-to-date.
By following these simple yet effective measures, you can significantly reduce the likelihood of facing the Orbi purple light issue in the future and maintain a smooth and hassle-free internet experience.
Proper Orbi Device Placement
Proper Orbi device placement is essential for maintaining a stable connection and preventing future purple light issues.
The distance between the Orbi satellite and router, as well as the materials of the walls, can have an impact on the performance of Orbi devices.
For optimal performance, place the satellite within range of the router's WiFi signal and at least two rooms away from the base router. Additionally, keep the satellite away from metal objects and walls, which can interfere with the signal.
Proper device placement not only helps prevent future purple light issues but also ensures the best possible performance for your entire Orbi network.
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