Magic String Dilemma And C# 6.0
Ever heard about Magic String? What are they? Where are they used? Why do we need them? Do we already know them?
The answer to all these questions is: Yes. We know them and we use them on daily basis and our life cannot work without them.
What are they?
They are expression like hard coded string values which we believe would never change. Or even if they change, we take care of them by declaring constants at the beginning of our program. This way, we write once and use it everywhere. One more solution to this is to create string constants in .resx resource file in C# domain.
What's wrong with them?
Magic strings are error-prone. Often they are widely used throughout your application, in case in future you need to change them; you have to change them one by one. The dark side of this is that you may miss a few places. Your program wont crash, but it may happen that it does not the right or meaningful message to the user.
Example:
If you ever used WPF, it's more likely that you came across with firing PropertyChanged event on public properties. I am pretty sure that most of us write code like this. Don't we?
 1. /// <summary>
 2. /// Public Property for name
 3. /// </summary>
 4. public string Name
 5. {
 6. get { return _person.Name; }
 7. set
 8. {
 9. if (value != Name)
 10. {
 11. _person.Name = value;
 12. //Magic String "Name"
 13. OnpropertyChanged("Name");
 14. }
 15. }
 16. }
If answer to my question is YES, we all have nightmares when one of the properties' name is changed and we forgot to change it in "OnpropertyChanged("Name")". We wondered why over UI did not respond as expected. Assuming, most of the refactoring techniques do not also cover this case, we spent/wasted a lot of time in debugging our application and finally landed at a place where the actual problem was.
Remedy to the Problem:
Developer waited for a long time and some of them implemented their own solution to tackle the problem. But I am sure it was difficult at developer front. With C# 6.0, handling magic string has become really easy. C# 6.0 has introduced a new operator called nameof. nameof returns name of the element passed to it whether it's a class name, method name, parameter name or particular attribute name. Applying NameOf operator in our problem would be so much easier:
 1. /// <summary>
 2. /// Public Property for name
 3. /// </summary>
 4. public string Name
 5. {
 6. get { return _person.Name; }
 7. set
 8. {
 9. if (value != Name)
 10. {
 11. _person.Name = value;
 12. //Magic String "Name" Replaced with NameOf
 13. OnpropertyChanged(nameOf(Name));
 14. }
 15. }
 16. }
So from now, start using nameof operator and get rid of magic strings.


State lawmakers expected to apologize to those placed in Japanese internment camps
CBS47 News
FRESNO, California — State lawmakers are expected to apologize to the families of more than 100,000 people placed in Japanese internment camps during World War II.
The California State Assembly is expected to approve a resolution Thursday.
Back in 1988, Congress gave survivors each $20,000 in reparations, but now after nearly 80 years the issue has surfaced once again.
The Assemblyman who proposed the resolution said he wants the california legislature to officially acknowledge and apologize while camp survivors are still alive.
One survivor is Les Ouchida.
He was just 5 years old, living in Fresno with his family when internment began for them.
They like many, were forced to abandon jobs, businesses and homes.
Les cites the findings of a presidential commission on why it happened.
"Racial prejudice, war hysteria and lack of political leadership.
So there was a lot of people not just politicians that didn't speak up." said Les Ouchida.
Les is now 82 years old, a volunteer at the california museum who often gives his insights to school children.
On Thursday, Les, as well as, many others are expected to, after so many years, get an apology.


$key, $member ); =head3 sunion my _USER_ = $r->sunion( $key1, $key2,... ); my $elements = $r->sunion( $key1, $key2,... ); # ARRAY ref =head3 sunionstore my $ok = $r->sunionstore( $dstkey, $key1, $key2,... ); =head2 Commands operating on hashes Hashes in Redis cannot be nested as in perl, if you want to store a nested hash, you need to serialize the hash first. If you want to have a named hash, you can use Redis-hashes. You will find an example in the tests of this module t/01-basic.t =head3 hset Sets the value to a key in a hash. $r->hset('hashname', $key => $value); ## returns true on success =head3 hget Gets the value to a key in a hash. my $value = $r->hget('hashname', $key); =head3 hexists if($r->hexists('hashname', $key) { ## do something, the key exists } else { ## the key does not exist } =head3 hdel Deletes a key from a hash if($r->hdel('hashname', $key)) { ## key is deleted } else { ## oops } =head3 hincrby Adds an integer to a value. The integer is signed, so a negative integer decrements. my $key = 'testkey'; $r->hset('hashname', $key => 1); ## value -> 1 my $increment = 1; ## has to be an integer $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 2 $increment = 5; $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 7 $increment = -1; $r->hincrby('hashname', $key => $increment); ## value -> 6 =head3 hsetnx Adds a key to a hash unless it is not already set. my $key = 'testnx'; $r->hsetnx('hashname', $key => 1); ## returns true $r->hsetnx('hashname', $key => 2); ## returns false because key already exists =head3 hmset Adds multiple keys to a hash. $r->hmset('hashname', 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'); ## returns true on success =head3 hmget Returns multiple keys of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hmget('hashname', 'key1', 'key2'); =head3 hgetall Returns the whole hash. my %hash = $r->hgetall('hashname'); =head3 hkeys Returns the keys of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hkeys('hashname'); =head3 hvals Returns the values of a hash. my _USER_ = $r->hvals('hashname'); =head3 hlen Returns the count of keys in a hash. my $keycount = $r->hlen('hashname'); =head2 Sorting =head3 sort $r->sort("key BY pattern LIMIT start end GET pattern ASC|DESC ALPHA'); =head2 Publish/Subscribe commands When one of L or L is used, the Redis object will enter I mode. When in I mode only commands in this section, plus L, will be accepted. If you plan on using PubSub and other Redis functions, you should use two Redis objects, one dedicated to PubSub and the other for regular commands. All Pub/Sub commands receive a callback as the last parameter. This callback receives three arguments: =over 4 =item * The published message. =item * The topic over which the message was sent. =item * The subscribed topic that matched the topic for the message. With L these last two are the same, always. But with L, this parameter tells you the pattern that matched. =back See the L for more information about the messages you will receive on your callbacks after each L, L, L and L. =head3 publish $r->publish($topic, $message); Publishes the C<< $message >> to the C<< $topic >>. =head3 subscribe $r->subscribe( _USER_, sub { my ($message, $topic, $subscribed_topic) = _USER_;... }, ); Subscribe one or more topics. Messages published into one of them will be received by Redis, and the specificed callback will be executed. =head3 unsubscribe $r->unsubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Stops receiving messages for all the topics in C<_USER_>. =head3 psubscribe my _USER_ = ('prefix1.*', 'prefix2.*'); $r->psubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Subscribes a pattern of topics. All messages to topics that match the pattern will be delivered to the callback. =head3 punsubscribe my _USER_ = ('prefix1.*', 'prefix2.*'); $r->punsubscribe(_USER_, sub { my ($m, $t, $s) = _USER_;... }); Stops receiving messages for all the topics pattern matches in C<_USER_>. =head3 is_subscriber if ($r->is_subscriber) { say "We are in Pub/Sub mode!" } Returns true if we are in I mode. =head3 wait_for_messages my $keep_going = 1; ## Set to false somewhere to leave the loop my $timeout = 5; $r->wait_for_messages($timeout) while $keep_going; Blocks, waits for incoming messages and delivers them to the appropriate callbacks. Requires a single parameter, the number of seconds to wait for messages. Use 0 to wait for ever. If a positive non-zero value is used, it will return after that ammount of seconds without a single notification. Please note that the timeout is not a commitement to return control to the caller at most each C seconds, but more a idle timeout, were control will return to the caller if Redis is idle (as in no messages were received during the timeout period) for more than C seconds. The L call returns the number of messages processed during the run. =head2 Persistence control commands =head3 save $r->save; =head3 bgsave $r->bgsave; =head3 lastsave $r->lastsave; =head2 Scripting commands =head3 eval $r->eval($lua_script, $num_keys, $key1,..., $arg1, $arg2); Executes a Lua script server side. Note that this commands sends the Lua script every time you call it. See L and L for an alternative. =head3 evalsha $r->eval($lua_script_sha1, $num_keys, $key1,..., $arg1, $arg2); Executes a Lua script cached on the server side by its SHA1 digest. See L. =head3 script_load my ($sha1) = $r->script_load($lua_script); Cache Lua script, returns SHA1 digest that can be used with L. =head3 script_exists my ($exists1, $exists2,...) = $r->script_exists($scrip1_sha, $script2_sha,...); Given a list of SHA1 digests, returns a list of booleans, one for each SHA1, that report the existence of each script in the server cache. =head3 script_kill $r->script_kill; Kills the currently running script. =head3 script_flush $r->script_flush; Flush the Lua scripts cache. =head2 Remote server control commands =head3 info my $info_hash = $r->info; The C method is unique in that it decodes the server's response into a hashref, if possible. This decoding happens in both synchronous and pipelined modes. =head3 shutdown $r->shutdown; The C method does not support pipelined operation. =head3 slowlog my $nr_items = $r->slowlog("len"); my _USER_ = $r->slowlog("get", 10); The C command gives access to the server's slow log. =head2 Multiple databases handling commands =head3 select $r->select( $dbindex ); # 0 for new clients =head3 move $r->move( $key, $dbindex ); =head3 flushdb $r->flushdb; =head3 flushall $r->flushall; =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following persons contributed to this project (alphabetical order): =over 4 =item * Aaron Crane (pipelining and AUTOLOAD caching support) =item * Dirk Vleugels =item * Flavio Poletti =item * Jeremy Zawodny =item * sunnavy at bestpractical.com =item * Thiago Berlitz Rondon =item * Ulrich Habel =back =head1 AUTHORS =over 4 =item * Pedro Melo =item * Damien Krotkine =back =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Pedro Melo, Damien Krotkine. This is free software, licensed under: The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)


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1. Discipline Basis
The School of Life Sciences at Nanjing Normal University is a base for national science research and teacher personnel training. The origins of the school can be traced back to the Department of Agricultural Science of Sanjiang Normal College in the early 20th century, the Department of Biology of the private Ginling Women Arts and Sciences College in 1930s and Department of Biology of Soochow University in the 1940s. In 1952, during the national college adjustment phase, relevant departments of Nanjing University and Nanjing Ginling University combined to form the Department of Biology of Nanjing Normal College. In 1955, the Department of Biology of Jiangsu Normal College (renamed from Soochow University) was merged with Nanjing Normal College entirely and the Department of Biology was established. In May 1999, Nanjing Normal University set up the School of Life Sciences.
The School of Life Sciences has one "first-level discipline" doctoral program of Biology, one "first-level discipline" doctoral program of Ecology, one "first-level discipline" master program of Microbial and Biochemical Pharmacy, one professional master program of Pharmaceutical Engineering, and mobile postdoctoral centers of Biology and Ecology. Zoology is a "second-level national key discipline". Biology (first-level discipline), Ecology (first-level discipline) and Cell Biology (second-level discipline) are key disciplines in Jiangsu Province. Biology is also one of the Jiangsu distinctive disciplines. Botany and Zoology rank in the top 1% in global ESI.
2. Team Building
The School has a staff of 120 people, 87 of whom are full-time teachers. We have 51 professors (doctoral advisers) and 28 associate professors. Among them, there are two national and two provincial experts with outstanding contributions, two experts receiving the State Council special allowance, one distinguished professor in the"Yangtze River Scholar program" implemented by Ministry of Education of the PRC; one was granted "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars"; one was awarded "One Hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences"; one was graded "Excellent" in the evaluation of their "National Natural Science Fund for Young Scholars" project; one chief scientist in "the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of National Basic Research Program of China"; five were awarded "New Century Excellent Talent Program" funded by the Ministry of Education; four "Jiangsu 333 Talent Program" awardees; three were granted "Jiangsu Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars"; there were three distinguished professors of Jiangsu Province; two were awarded the "Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program"; two, "Six Talent Peaks Project" recipients in Jiangsu Province and twelve teachers were awarded "The Blue Project" in Jiangsu Province.
3. Talent Cultivation
The majors of Biology and Ecology in the school enroll both doctoral candidates and master's candidates; Pharmacy and Pharmacological Engineering enroll master candidates. There are 4 majors in the undergraduate program, including Bioscience (National Science Talent Training Base and National featured major), Bioscience (Teaching Personnel Training), Biotechnology (Provincial featured major), Bioengineering (Bio-pharmaceutical Engineering). Microbiology is a National Bilingual Language Model Teaching Course. The Life Science Experiment Teaching Center is a national model center for life science experiments and teaching. There are 116 doctoral students, 491 postgraduates and 570 undergraduates. There is one nominee of the National Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations, seven Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations and thirteen Provincial Outstanding Master's Theses awardees.
4. Scientific Research
The school has a number of key labs, including the Jiangsu Key Lab for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Industrialization of Microbial Resources, Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Technical Industrialization of Dendrobiums and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Aquatic Crustacean Diseases. In recent years, the school's scientific research has developed rapidly, with faculty winning the second prize of the State Natural Science Award held by the Ministry of Education of the PRC, and the first prize, second prize and third prize of the Jiangsu Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the Shen Nong China Agricultural Science and Technology Award and the first prize of the Jiangsu Ocean and Fishery Technology Innovation Prize. The amount of papers published in SCI is over 130, and some papers are published in international renowned journals including PNAS, Nature Communications, ISME Journal, Molecular Biology & Evolution, Nucleic Acid Research, Diabetes and Oncogene. In past five years, thefaculty has over 100 national projects, including one supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, three key programs supported by the national fund, 86 general programs and young scholar programs supported by the national fund, two programs supported by the National Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, one program supported by the National Basic Research Program of China for Young Scholars, one project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (a 973 Program), and over 150 provincial and transverse projects, with a total funding of more than 120 million yuan.
5. International Exchange and Cooperation
The school enhances extensive academic cooperation in multiple forms with international institutions. The school makes arrangements for teachers to have further study and academic communication abroad every year and employ two foreign professors as long-term faculty. In the recent five years, the school has enrolled 5 foreign postdoctoral candidates and nine foreign undergraduate students. We carry out an undergraduate cultivation program that collaborates with international academic institutions.For instance, undergraduates in our school will have the chance to participate in internships at renowned colleges and universities abroad. Furthermore, we have held two international conferences, inviting scholars from other countries to deliver academic speeches and reports at the school.
6. Social Service
The school has made prominent achievementsin plant and animal resource protection and put into practice under the principle of serving the society with science and technology. Experts at the school have achieved significant ecological and social effects in the protection and management of endangered aquatic animals in China such as the Chinese white dolphin and neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis, thus providing solid scientific evidence for the government to protect cetaceans. Also, the scholars in our school have tackled realistic problems in aquaculture, delving into the major diseases that plague aquatic crustaceans in fisheries. After which, they were the first in the world to discover the spiroplasma pathogen in crustaceans and in their living environment, which arousedgreat concern domestically and internationally. Then a corresponding method was put forth to help with the diagnosis, prevention and control of spiroplasma eriocheiris, contributing greatly to the economic viability and health of fisheries in Jiangsu Province. They also have made great efforts to the industrialization of dendrobiums through a protection and innovation study on a rare dendrobium species. In order to tackle the problem of the inadequacy of active ingredients in artificial-cultivated rare crude medicine-Atractylodes lancea, theystudied the symbiotic microorganism of Atractylodes lancea. Additionally, teams of researchers within the school made a series of achievements and realized the goal in the efficacy in the treatment of many diseases like tumors, diabetes, inflammation and cardiovascular disease, and got three new drug certificates.

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NSHashTable & NSMapTable
NSSet and NSDictionary, along with NSArray are the workhorse collection classes of Foundation. Unlike other standard libraries, implementation details are hidden from developers, allowing them to write simple code and trust that it will be (reasonably) performant.
However, even the best abstractions break down; their underlying assumptions overturned. In these cases, developers either venture further down the abstraction, or, if available use a more general-purpose solution.
For NSSet and NSDictionary, the breaking assumption was in the memory behavior when storing objects in the collection. For NSSet, objects are a strongly referenced, as are NSDictionary values. Keys, on the other hand, are copied by NSDictionary. If a developer wanted to store a weak value, or use a non-<NSCopying>-conforming object as a key, they could be clever and use NSValue +valueWithNonretainedObject. Or, as of iOS 6 (and as far back as OS X Leopard), they could use NSHashTable or NSMapTable, the more general-case counterparts to NSSet or NSDictionary, respectively.
So without further ado, here's everything you need to know about two of the more obscure members of Foundation's collection classes:
NSHashTable
NSHashTable is a general-purpose analogue of NSSet. Contrasted with the behavior of NSSet / NSMutableSet, NSHashTable has the following characteristics:
 - NSSet / NSMutableSet holds strong references to members, which are tested for hashing and equality using the methods hash and isEqual:.
 - NSHashTable is mutable, without an immutable counterpart.
 - NSHashTable can hold weak references to its members.
 - NSHashTable can copy members on input.
 - NSHashTable can contain arbitrary pointers, and use pointer identity for equality and hashing checks.
Usage
let hashTable = NSHashTable(options: .CopyIn)
hashTable.addObject("foo")
hashTable.addObject("bar")
hashTable.addObject(42)
hashTable.removeObject("bar")
print("Members: \(hashTable.allObjects)")
NSHashTable objects are initialized with an option for any of the following behaviors. Deprecated enum values are due to NSHashTable being ported from Garbage-Collected OS X to ARC-ified iOS. Other values are aliased to options defined by NSPointerFunctions, which will be covered next week on NSHipster.
 - NSHashTableStrongMemory: Equal to NSPointerFunctionsStrongMemory. This is the default behavior, equivalent to NSSet member storage.
 - NSHashTableWeakMemory: Equal to NSPointerFunctionsWeakMemory. Uses weak read and write barriers. Using NSPointerFunctionsWeakMemory, object references will turn to NULL on last release.
 - NSHashTableZeroingWeakMemory: This option has been deprecated. Instead use the NSHashTableWeakMemory option.
 - NSHashTableCopyIn: Use the memory acquire function to allocate and copy items on input (see NSPointerFunction -acquireFunction). Equal to NSPointerFunctionsCopyIn.
 - NSHashTableObjectPointerPersonality: Use shifted pointer for the hash value and direct comparison to determine equality; use the description method for a description. Equal to NSPointerFunctionsObjectPointerPersonality.
NSMapTable
NSMapTable is a general-purpose analogue of NSDictionary. Contrasted with the behavior of NSDictionary / NSMutableDictionary, NSMapTable has the following characteristics:
 - NSDictionary / NSMutableDictionary copies keys, and holds strong references to values.
 - NSMapTable is mutable, without an immutable counterpart.
 - NSMapTable can hold keys and values with weak references, in such a way that entries are removed when either the key or value is deallocated.
 - NSMapTable can copy its values on input.
 - NSMapTable can contain arbitrary pointers, and use pointer identity for equality and hashing checks.
Note: NSMapTable's focus on strong and weak references means that Swift's prevalent value types are a no go—reference types only, please.
Usage
Instances where one might use NSMapTable include non-copyable keys and storing weak references to keyed delegates or another kind of weak object.
let delegate: AnyObject = ...
let mapTable = NSMapTable(keyOptions: .StrongMemory, valueOptions: .WeakMemory)
mapTable.setObject(delegate, forKey: "foo")
print("Keys: \(mapTable.keyEnumerator().allObjects)")
NSMapTable objects are initialized with options specifying behavior for both keys and values, using the following enum values:
 - NSMapTableStrongMemory: Specifies a strong reference from the map table to its contents.
 - NSMapTableWeakMemory: Uses weak read and write barriers appropriate for ARC or GC. Using NSPointerFunctionsWeakMemory, object references will turn to NULL on last release. Equal to NSMapTableZeroingWeakMemory.
 - NSHashTableZeroingWeakMemory: This option has been superseded by the NSMapTableWeakMemory option.
 - NSMapTableCopyIn: Use the memory acquire function to allocate and copy items on input (see acquireFunction (see NSPointerFunction -acquireFunction). Equal to NSPointerFunctionsCopyIn.
 - NSMapTableObjectPointerPersonality: Use shifted pointer hash and direct equality, object description. Equal to NSPointerFunctionsObjectPointerPersonality.
Subscripting
NSMapTable doesn't implement object subscripting, but it can be trivially added in a category. NSDictionary's NSCopying requirement for keys belongs to NSDictionary alone:
extension NSMapTable {
 subscript(key: AnyObject) -> AnyObject? {
 get {
 return objectForKey(key)
 }
 set {
 if newValue != nil {
 setObject(newValue, forKey: key)
 } else {
 removeObjectForKey(key)
 }
 }
 }
}
As always, it's important to remember that programming is not about being clever: always approach a problem from the highest viable level of abstraction. NSSet and NSDictionary are great classes. For 99% of problems, they are undoubtedly the correct tool for the job. If, however, your problem has any of the particular memory management constraints described above, then NSHashTable & NSMapTable may be worth a look.
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At a Glance
Integrated water strategies provide sustainable, place-based solutions to the water needs of a new, self-sustaining, mixed-use development and its broader, ecological community.
In the foothills of the Pioneer Mountains and adjacent to the city of Hailey, ID is the future home of Quigley Farm. Envisioned not just as a community development, but as a way to genuinely develop community, Quigley Farm aims to be a self-sustaining neighborhood that will produce sustainable economic, social, and environmental benefits to the greater community of Hailey. The 1,500-acre development will incorporate housing, organic food production, commercial space, a hotel, an agricultural center, and an ecologically-centered school.
Biohabitats was a key member of the master planning team, which was led by SERA Architects and included the Regenesis Group. Guided by the input of stakeholders and the site's ecology, culture, and history, the team delivered a plan for a community that sits lightly on the land, restores soils damaged by past agricultural practices, and ultimately enhances the natural function of the site.
To help achieve this vision, Biohabitats designed the community's integrated water infrastructure and worked closely with ownership and the design team to evaluate alternatives and select infrastructure to benefit the development and surrounding community. Working with both local and state regulators, Biohabitats helped educate stakeholders on the benefits of an integrated system to manage water resources, which included a wastewater recycling facility to treat the community's wastewater. The system, consisting of four wetland cells with underground tanks and trickling filters, treats all wastewater and repurposes it for use in commercial toilet flushing, landscape irrigation, agricultural irrigation, and snowmaking.
Northern Rocky Mountains
Big Wood River
Hailey, Idaho, United States
- SERA Architects
- Regenesis Group
- Benchmark Associates


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Abridgement for audio[edit]
Abridgement is most often used to adapt a book into a narrated audio version. Because books written for adults are generally meant to be read silently to oneself (which is usually much faster than reading aloud), most books can take between 20 and 40 hours to read aloud. Because many audio book listeners are looking to more quickly listen to the information in a book, and because of the high cost associated with recording and distributing 40 hours of audio, audio book versions of novels are often produced in an abridged version.
Some party, usually an editor for the book's publishing company, will go through the text of the book and remove elements, notations, references, narratives, and sometimes entire scenes from a book that could be considered superfluous to the actual story or focus of the book in order to make its audible reading time shorter. A fully abridged audio book can span as little as 4 hours for a book that would span 20 hours unabridged.
The easiest content of a fiction book to edit out is back story often provided for characters or story elements that help support the reality of the story for the reader, but do not provide any narrative to the story itself. For example, a passage such as "John sped away in his automobile, a red 1967 Mustang he'd purchased from a junkyard and spent most of his college years restoring with his father" could be abridged to "John sped away in his automobile, a red 1967 Mustang" or even "John sped away in his car."
In a nonfiction piece, the most commonly abridged details are references, charts, details, and facts that are used to support an author's claim. While it would be unprofessional or irresponsible to omit such details from a book, it is understandable for an audio book as it is assumed the listener wants to hear the author's opinion, and if he/she needs to check the details he/she may refer to the text.
Occasionally, an abridged audio book will be advertised as "Abridgement approved by the author," which would imply that the original work's author has reviewed the trimmed down version of his/her work and agrees that the intention or narrative of his story has not been lost, or that no vital information has been removed.
In many cases, an audio book for a popular title is available in both an abridged and unabridged version, though the abridged version often is released first and almost always costs significantly less than the unabridged version. Often, the two versions are produced independently of each other and may have different narrators. Unabridged versions of books are popular among those with poor eyesight or reading skills who wish to appreciate the entirety of the work, while the abridged version is more often preferred by those who just want to follow the story in a quick and entertaining way.
On the radio (for example, in British Radio 4 programmes as Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Afternoon Reading, and Go 4 It for children), books are almost always abridged. Because of this, if someone were trying to read along with the book, one would find it much harder than on an audio book.
Abridgement for print[edit]
A shortened form of literary work, in which the major themes of the original are kept. Books are abridged for faster and easier reading. The Signet Classics Abridged Works are notable examples of abridgment; the Signet Classics Bible, for example, is 40 percent shorter than the 850,000-word King James Version. Although well-known passages in abridged works are often left intact, editors may remove "repetition, rhetoric and redundancy" from a complete work.
Until roughly the mid-nineteenth century, the act of abridgment was widely regarded as Fair use and was among the most frequently abused loopholes in British and American copyright law.[3] However, by the 1870s international outcry from authors and publishers alike prompted legislatures to consider revisions to end this "very unreasonable" principle.[4]
While increasingly uncommon, some books are published as abridged versions of earlier books. This is most common in textbooks, usually lengthy works in complicated fields like engineering or medicine. Abridged versions of popular textbooks are published to be used as study aids or to provide enough surface information for the reader to become familiar with the material but not have a full understanding of it or its full scope.
Sometimes lengthy textbooks are abridged down to a dictionary version, where detailed or explanatory information is removed and only a list of key words from the book and their definitions remain, making the book a companion concordance to the original work.
It is uncommon for abridged versions of fiction books for adults to be published for sale, but it has been done, as with a recent new translation of War and Peace.
Abridgement for television[edit]
Very often plays, notably Shakespeare's, have been heavily abridged for television, in order to fit them into ninety-minute or two-hour time slots. (The same is true of long classical ballets such as the two-and-a-half hour The Sleeping Beauty, which has almost never been performed complete on television). This was done more often in the past than it is now (e.g. Hallmark Hall of Fame from the 1950s until about 1970). With the advent of such non-commercially sponsored PBS anthologies such as Great Performances, Live from Lincoln Center and the BBC Television Shakespeare plays, there is now less pressure to cram a three-hour-plus play like Hamlet into a two-hour time slot.
 1. ^ "Abridgment". m-w.com. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
 2. ^ Brians, Paus. "Abrigement". _URL_. Retrieved 5/9/2013.
 3. ^ Patry, William F. (1995). The fair use privilege in copyright law (2. ed. ed.). Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs. pp. 6–20. ISBN 0-87179-831-X.
 4. ^ Deazley, Ronan (2010). "The Statute of Anne and the Great Abridgement Swindle". Houston Law Review 47: 797. Retrieved 20 February 2013.


the carbide burs, as these processes have not been validated for use.
 - Don't use cleaning agents containing chlorine or chloride as the active ingredient are corrosive to stainless steel. Use neutral pH agents instead.
 - Don't use cold sterilization methods as they often contain strong oxidizing chemicals that may dull or weaken the carbide burs.
 - Inspect the burs carefully for defects during the cleaning process.
 - Avoid prolonged storage in disinfectant solutions as they may cause a degradation of the product.

Sterile carbide burs
 - For obvious reasons, sterile carbide burs should be cleaned only after the first use.
 - If the sterile carbide burs package is opened or damages, consider the burs as non sterile.

How to manually clean carbide burs
Hand cleaning is the least recommended option. If that's the only option, do it in a sink restricted for cleaning instruments.
 1. Rinse the carbide burs under cool running water for at least one minute.
 2. Use a fresh bath of neautral-pH cleaning solution and follow the agent's manufactures instructions.
 3. Immerse the burs and soak them for at least ten minutes.
 4. While immersed, brush thoroughly away from the body using the cleaning agent for at least one minute.
 5. Don't spray or splash during the brushing process to avoid spreading contaminants.
 6. Use wire brushes with caution as brass particles may result in galvanic corrosion and steel particles may cause discoloration of stainless steel.
 7. Pay special attention when cleaning crevices and other hard-to-reach areas thoroughly.
 8. Visually inspect to confirm the removal of debris. Repeat the cycle if needed.
 9. Thoroughly rinse the burs and bur blocks under running warm water for at least one minute and until they are visibly clean.
 10. Dry the burs using clean compressed air or a non-shedding wipe.

How to clean carbide burs using ultrasonic procedure
 1. Prepare a fresh pH-neutral cleaning solution
 2. Place the carbide burs in a sonication unit.
 3. Follow the agent manufacturers' instructions for correct concentration, exposure time, temperature, and water quality.
 4. Completely submerge it in the cleaning solution and sonicate for at least fifteen minutes.
 5. Perform a final thorough rinse under running warm tap water for at least one minute.
 6. Inspect visually to confirm the removal of debris and repeat the cycle if needed.
 7. Dry it using clean compressed air or by using a non-shedding wipe.

How to inspect carbide burs after cleaning
 - Carefully inspect each bur to ensure that all debris has been removed.
 - Visually inspect the burs for damage or wear that would prevent proper operation.
 - Do not use if the tip is broken.
 - Do not use if there is a broken section of a flute.
 - Do not use if there is evidence of corrosion.

How to sterilize carbide burs using steam sterilization
 - Ensure that the sterilizer manufacturer's maximum load is not exceeded.
 - The minimum dry time has been validated to ensure that the burs will not be left wet.
 - Failure to achieve the minimum dry time may cause moisture that can lead to corrosion.

Gravity cycle type
For gravity cycle steam sterilization use a minimum exposure time of 10 minutes, minimum exposure temperature of 135º C (275º F) and a minimum dry time of 30 minutes.

Pre-Vacuum cycle type (4 pulses)
For pre-vacuum cycle steam sterilization use a minimum exposure time of 3 minutes, minimum exposure temperature of 134º C (273º F) and a minimum dry time of 30 minutes.

Final notes on how to use carbide burs
These instructions of use for carbide burs are meant to prolong the burs life and to ensure their effectiveness for a longer period of time.
They are general and refer to all dental carbide burs but it is highly recommended to check the specific manufacturer's instructions.
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Types of burs in dentistry: Shanks, shapes and materials
Dental burs are some of the most important and basic tools a dentist needs. Throughout the years, the technology in the dental bur field has advanced greatly. This led to a wide assortment of dental bur types finding their way into the global market. The following article aims to give a quick overview of some of the more common and useful types currently being used.

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Types of burs - sorted by shank
Friction grip burs - also known as FG burs, these dental burs are made to use with high speed handpieces. High speed burs are the most popular type of dental burs.
The friction grip burs are also available in 2 subcategories:
FGSS - friction grip, short shank burs.
FGOS - friction grip, operative surgical burs.

Latch type burs - also known as RA burs, these dental burs are made to use with low speed contra-angle handpieces.
Long straight shank - also known as HP burs are dental burs mainly used by dental laboratories with low speed handpieces.

Types of burs - sorted by shape
Round Burs
Round burs have a variety of applications in many dental procedures. Their round head allows them to excavate tissue for cavity preparation. opening the tooth for endodontic treatment, general cleaning of the tooth structure from caries, and selective grinding. Round burs are also used for bone surgery.
 Round diamond bur

Pear shaped burs - 330 burs
Pear shaped burs are also known as 330 burs due to their ISO code. These dental burs are elongated with a rounded head. They are used mainly for cavity preparation but can be also used for removing caries, as well as trimming and finishing.

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Spiral Cool-cut burs
The Spiral Cool-Cut burs are special diamond burs designed with a left spiral groove along that delivers the cooling water directly to the contact point between the bur and the tooth. They allow you to perform very fast grinding with an aggressive material removal while maintaining an excellent quality of surface area.
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Flat end tapered burs
The Flat End Taper burs are especially designed to make the task of crown and bridge preparation simpler and more efficient.
Flat end tapered burs

Round end tapered burs
The Round end tapered burs are very popular multi-purpose dental diamond burs that often used for crown and bridge preparation.
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Football Burs
The Football burs are multi-use dental burs made for preparation, finishing and trimming. They are also known as Egg shaped burs in some countries due to their shape. They are available in 3 different types of materials for different uses:
Football diamond burs - preparation of cavity, crown and bridge.
Carbide football bur - finishing and trimming.
Gold football burs - occlusal reduction and preparation.
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Torpedo burs
The Torpedo bur is a dental diamond bur specially designed for Cavity Preparation. It is called like that due to its shape of a torpedo.
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Inverted Cone Burs
Inverted cone burs are mostly used in dental surgery for creating undercuts for restorations or root canals. They can also be used to form the occlusal surface, flattening pulpal or gingival walls or for the removal of caries. They come in a variety of lengths and grits and have many options for different heads.
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Straight Fissure Burs
Straight fissure burs contain parallel lines on them which move in a diagonal form in relation to the head. They are useful for creating parallel lines and flat floors during cavity preparation. Another variation is the cross cut fissure burs which are ideal for periphery contouring. The cross cut burs have higher density which provides an efficient cutting and decreased friction and clogging.

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Tapered Fissure Burs
Tapered fissure burs have tapered heads which are ideal for a variety of actions during crown removal. Their low tendency to create undesired tissue residue is optimal for sectioning multi-rooted teeth and reducing crown height. They come in both short and long shanks in order to be suitable for a large variety of cavity preparations.

Tapered fissure burTapered cross cut fissure bur

Types of burs - sorted by material
Diamond Burs
Diamond burs are made of stainless - steel covered by diamond powder of different levels of grit. The grit level determines the smoothness/roughness level of the resultant tooth surface. Diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, which gives the bur extra strength during action. Owing to this, rough finishes can be left on teeth tissues which allow for further finishing by other,


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Williamsport, Md. - Due to high water flow in the Potomac River the inspections of Dam # 4 and Dam #5 were delayed. The inspections were originally scheduled for August 1.Once the water flow diminished late this week, it allowed for a water level drawdown and a visual inspection of both dams proceeded on Thursday and Friday, August 4th and 5th. The lower water levels will be maintained until Monday afternoon on August 8th in order to complete all required inspections.
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Date: 22 May 2018
Tim Kempster, Wrightstyle's managing director, explains the dynamics of fire.
A year ago, on 14th June, seventy two people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which will likely go down in fire safety history as a catastrophe that should never have happened.
While it's too early to finally point accusing fingers, with the public inquiry only just beginning, it's perhaps worth remembering some well-known basics on what fire is, and therefore how it should be dealt with.
Simply, fire involves a fundamental relationship between fuel, oxygen and heat – the so-called fire triangle on which all fires, intentional or otherwise, depend.
Get those three elements together and the fire triangle is joined by a fourth element – the chemical chain reaction that is actually the fire. In technical jargon, the triangle of combustion then becomes a tetrahedron.
Fuel and oxygen
Containing the triangle of combustion | WrightstyleIt's a geometry that can either be friend or foe, as fuel and oxygen molecules gain energy and become active. This molecular energy is then transferred to other fuel and oxygen molecules to create and sustain the chain reaction.
In an uncontrolled fire in a building, how it spreads depends on a whole range of factors – from the type of fuel (everything from ceiling tiles to furniture) to building construction and ventilation.
Taming fire generally involves the removal of heat, in most cases using water to soak up heat generated by the fire. This turns the water into steam, thereby robbing the fire of the heat used. That's what a building's sprinkler system is there to do.
Without energy in the form of heat, the fire cannot heat unburned fuel to ignition temperature and the fire will eventually go out. In addition, water acts to smother the flames and suffocate the fire.
But what is also needed is containment – to prevent the fire spreading from its original location. Those protective barriers, often external curtain walling or internal glass screens, must also provide protected escape routes for the building's occupants.
Fire resistant glass
That's where fire resistant glass and glazing systems are so important, because modern steel systems are so technically advanced that they have overcome the limitations inherent in the glass itself.
The biggest limitation is that glass softens over a range of 500˚c to 1500˚c. To put that in perspective, a candle flame burns at between 800˚c and 1200˚c. In a typical flashover fire inside a building, temperatures can reach between 1000˚c and 1400˚c.
These temperatures can disrupt the integrity of conventional panes of glass, which are liable to crack and break because of thermal shock and temperature differentials across the exposed face. This will compromise the compartmentation of the building's interior allowing fire to spread from room to room.
That can, incidentally, be a problem that a sprinkler system actually causes. There have been several notable cases where cold water from a sprinkler system has come into contact with heated non-fire rated glass – causing the glass to break and allowing more oxygen to the seat of the fire.
As a fire escalates, the amount of heat produced can grow quickly, spreading like a predator from one fuel source to another – devouring materials that, in turn, produce gases that are both highly toxic and flammable.
Thermal expansion
To make things worse, due to thermal expansion, these flammable gases are usually under pressure and able to pass through relatively small holes and gaps in ducts and walls, spreading the fire to other parts of the building. Heat will also be transmitted through internal walls by conduction.
As the fire worsens, and when unburned flammable gases reach auto ignition temperature, or are provided with an additional source of oxygen – for example, from a fractured window – an explosive effect called 'flashover' takes place.
Flashover is the most feared phenomenon of any fire fighter and signals several major changes in the fire and the response to it. First, it brings to an end all attempts at search and rescue in the area of the flashover. Simply, there won't be anybody alive to rescue.
Second, it signals that the fire has reached the end of its growth stage and that it is now fully developed as an inferno. That then signals a change in fire-fighting response because it marks the start of a worse danger – the risk of structural collapse.
The main lesson for building designers is not simply to build in passive and active fire systems, but to look at the whole building's capacity to withstand a fire. For the glazed components, that should mean analysing the level of containment the glass will provide and its compatibility with its framing systems.
In many instances, untested combinations of glass and frame are still being specified separately – despite the fact that, in a fire situation, the glass will only be as good as its framing system, and vice versa. Insisting on tested, and therefore proven, compatibility, and specifying it as a requirement of the tendering process, should be a matter of course.
When a fire starts, it's imperative to extinguish it as quickly as possible. However, and just as important, it's vital that the fire is contained within one discrete area, minimising the risk to life and damage to property. That's what advanced glazing systems are there to do.
Sadly, at Grenfell Tower, there was no sprinkler system and the fire wasn't contained. But maybe, just maybe, new fire and building regulations will make sure that nothing similar ever happens again.
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Security Analysis of a 13th Century Venetian Election Protocol
I love stuff like this: "Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol," by Miranda Mowbray and Dieter Gollmann.
This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that it has some useful properties that in addition to being interesting in themselves, also suggest that its fundamental design principle is worth investigating for application to leader election protocols in computer science. For example it gives some opportunities to minorities while ensuring that more popular candidates are more likely to win, and offers some resistance to corruption of voters. The most obvious feature of this protocol is that it is complicated and would have taken a long time to carry out. We will advance a hypothesis as to why it is so complicated, and describe a simplified protocol with very similar features.
Venice was very clever about working to avoid the factionalism that tore apart a lot of its Italian rivals, while making the various factions feel represented.
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The purpose of this research was to explore cultural similarities and differences that could be found from analyzing the images of the Kinetic Family Drawing and their accompanying narratives. The current literature on the Kinetic Family Drawing as an assessment tool and the literature on the role of culture in psychotherapy were examined. The researchers have collected Kinetic Family Drawing images and narratives from groups of college students from the United States and groups of college students from two different areas in Mexico. Participants were asked to perform the Kinetic Family Drawing, title the drawing, write a brief narrative about the drawing, and list any cultural affiliations that may aid in contextualizing the drawing. Researchers used the Kinetic Family Drawings and the accompanying narratives collected to look for similarities and differences in perceptions of family among the different cultures and the ways in which environment and culture may impact family and family perceptions
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THIRTEEN giant animatronic bugs have been unveiled as part of a new exhibition at Chester Zoo.
Featuring large-scale robotic replicas of species such a scorpion, a ladybird and a 33ft-wide tarantula, Bugs! opens on Saturday, July 13.
The huge creations were custom-built for the zoo by a top animation studio in the USA and it is the first time they have ever been seen together, anywhere in the world.
Conservationists from the zoo hope the exhibition will provide a showcase for invertebrates and the need to conserve threatened species.
Chester Zoo's director general, Mark Pilgrim, said: "Chester Zoo is heavily involved in vital world-wide conservation work aimed at saving species from extinction.
"And it's not just iconic species such as Eastern black rhino and Asian elephants that we're focussed on.
"Our work with invertebrates, like our critically endangered Polynesian tree snails or rare British fen-raft spiders, is just as important to us.
"We want Bugs! to put invertebrates in the spotlight, show how fantastic they are and really raise awareness of the need to conserve them.
"Engaging people, particularly youngsters, with conservation sometimes takes some drastic ideas and new ways of thinking and that's precisely what we hope these 13 giant, robotic bugs will do.
"The attention to detail in the creation of these huge bugs is simply incredible.
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- Demonstrates complete automotive iToF 3D sensing apparatus for in-cabin monitoring and gesture sensing
- The illumination board features an ams OSRAM infrared VCSEL flood illuminator which offers on-chip eye safety protection
- Integrated eye safety feature provides higher reliability, faster detection of fault conditions, and saves space compared to laser modules which require an external photodiode
Premstaetten, Austria (11 May, 2022) – ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions,
The ams OSRAM vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) flood illuminator from the TARA2000-AUT family has been chosen for the new, improved version of the EVK75027 iToF sensing kit because it features an integrated eye safety interlock. This provides for a more compact, more reliable and faster system implementation than other VCSEL flood illuminators that require an external photodiode and processing circuitry.
More reliable operation, faster detection of eye safety risks
The new ams OSRAM VCSEL with integrated eye safety interlock is implemented directly on the micro-lens array of the VCSEL module, and detects any cracks or apertures that can cause an eye safety risk. Earlier automotive implementations of iToF sensing have used VCSEL illuminators that require an external photodiode, a fault-prone, indirect method of providing the eye safety interlock function.
The read-out circuit requires no additional components other than an AND gate or a MOSFET. This produces almost instant (<1µs) reactions to fault conditions. A lower component count also reduces the bill-of-materials cost compared to photodiode-based systems. By eliminating the use of an external photodiode, the eye safety interlock eliminates the false signals created by objects such as a passenger's hand obscuring the camera module.
"Automotive OEMs are continually looking for ways to simplify system designs and reduce component count.
"With the EVK75027, Melexis has gone beyond the provision of a stand-alone iToF sensor to offer automotive customers a high-performance platform for 3D in-cabin sensing. We are pleased to be able to improve the value of the EVK75027 by now offering the option of a more integrated VCSEL flood illuminator on the kit's illuminator board," said Gualtiero Bagnuoli, Marketing manager Optical Sensors.
The EVK75027 evaluation kit with ams OSRAM illumination board can be ordered from authorized distributors of Melexis
There is also a white paper on the new illumination board for the EVK75027, describing the benefits of implementing an iToF system with a VCSEL flood illuminator that includes an eye safety
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With over 110 years of combined history, our core is defined by imagination, deep engineering expertise and the ability to provide global industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies. We create exciting innovations that enable our customers in the consumer, automotive, healthcare and industrial sectors maintain their competitive edge and drive innovation that meaningfully improves the quality of life in terms of health, safety and convenience, while reducing impact on the environment.
Our around 24,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarters in Munich (Germany), the group achieved over EUR 5 billion revenues in 2021 and is listed as ams-OSRAM AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ISIN: AT0000A18XM4).
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- a light, covered carriage drawn by one horse and having seats for several people
- a moderately large, enclosed, trucklike vehicle with removable seats
Origin of carryall; from French carriole (see cariole); spelling, spelled as if ; from carry + all
- A large receptacle, such as a bag, basket, or pocketbook, used to carry things from one place to another.
- A closed automobile with two lengthwise seats facing each other.
- A covered one-horse carriage with two seats.
Origin of carryallAlteration of cariole.


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You can boot your Neo FreeRunner in the following ways:
- You can power it up into an Openmoko image directly (default, when powered-on for the first time).
- You can boot it into the U-Boot bootloader via NAND Flash.
- You can boot it into U-Boot via NOR Flash.
Booting the device into NAND and NOR Flash allows you to update the kernel and root filesystem.
Start the Openmoko Image
Press and hold Power button for about 8 seconds, until the Openmoko splash screen turns up. You may now release the Power button and the Neo FreeRunner will continue to boot into the Openmoko Image.
Log into U-Boot in the NAND Flash
- Press and hold Power button
- Then while still pressing the Power button, press and hold AUX button for 5 to 8 seconds.
- A boot menu will appear. This indicates the NAND flash has booted.
- Press the AUX button to select one of the options and then press the Power button to execute.
Log into U-Boot in the NOR Flash
This option is usually used by developers or when flashing (imaging) the FreeRunner.
- Press and hold the AUX button
- While still pressing the AUX button, press and hold the Power button.
- Then release the AUX button (not required?)
- You should see the boot menu for the NOR Flash. This means you have entered the NOR flash.
Flashing can be performed when the NOR boot menu is active.
There are six options you can choose when you log into the NOR Flash.
- Boot from MicroSD
- Set console to USB
- Set console to Serial
- Power off
If you cannot log into U-Boot in NAND flash then you can log into U-Boot in the NOR flash either.
|| NOTE: The term Logging in used in this context means to turn on the device using the described method, and leaving it at the U-Boot menu. To avoid the device automatically booting, tap the AUX key to move the selector bar. Note also that the device will not automatically turn off while flashing is in progress.


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The Celts used this against other Celts and wild animals. The Romans came to Britain some time after the time of the birth of Christ. The Vikings came to Britain centuries later still.
A spear was a good weapon against wolves, bears and wild boars. These were a threat to the people and animals that lived in the village.
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Definition - What does Acomoclitic mean?
Acomoclitic is a term for a person who prefers bare or hairless genitals. Acomoclitics may look for hairless genitals in a partner, remove the hair from their own genitals, or both.
Acomocliticism is the opposite of pubephilia where people become aroused by the feel or sight of human public hair.
In the naturist community, where acomocliticism is common, an acomoclitic may be known as a smoothie.
Kinkly explains Acomoclitic
Acomoclitics may spend an excessive amount of time thinking about hairless genitals and have recurring fantasies surrounding this part of the anatomy. They may also exclusively choose partners who remove their genital hair. Acomoclitics typically enjoy both the look and feel of hairless genitals. Many acomoclitics also feel that hairless genitals are more hygienic.
Acomoclitics may remove their pubic hair using razors, hot waxes, or sugaring methods. Some acomoclitic couples find hair removal arousing and make this part of their foreplay.
While hairless genitals are often associated with prepubescent individuals, most acomoclitics insist they do not have a preference for very young partners. Instead, many feel that adults who remove their public hair appear more confident after taking control of their own bodies.
Acomocliticism may be simply defined as a preference like that for curvy women or tattooed men. In other cases, it is a clear fetish. Acomocliticism does not generally require treatment unless it begins to interfere with an individual's day-to-day life. Psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and behavioral and cognitive therapies are some methods for effectively treating acomocliticism.
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A power path diagram for you guitar pedalboard illustrates the flow of power from the power source to each pedal in the signal chain. It helps you visualize how the power is distributed and how the pedals are connected to the power supply.
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Kenya has welcomed the sixth submarine fibre cable worth Ksh.44 billion, which runs for 15,000 kilometres.
The cable is expected to last for 25 years and has a capacity of 16 Terabytes per second.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary (CS) Joe Mucheru during the launch said the cable has a combined capacity of the other five cables launched in the past.
Hence, the cable comes with improved efficiency and cutting internet costs in Kenya and the region.
Some of the countries connected by the cable are Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, France and other countries along the way.
It was funded courtesy of Telkom Kenya, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Cybernet, HMN Tech and PCCW Global.
The cable is dubbed Pakistan and East Africa Connecting to Europe (PEACE).
The first cable landed in Kenya in 2009 named The East Africa Marine System (TEAMS).
In the year 2020, Kenya received the fifth submarine fibre cable with a capacity of 36 Terabytes from Djibouti named Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) in Mombasa.
The cable covers a total distance of 5400 kilometres and has a lifetime span of 20 years.


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A list of commonly used terms in paintball - feel free to suggest more to be added to this list...
Barrel Plug - Also referred to as the barrel sock, barrel condom or barrel bag, it is the safety device that slides over the front of the barrel to prevent anyone from being shot by mistake if a player were to accidentally discharge their marker while outside a playing field.
Barrel Sock
Bonus ball (n)- Hits a player receives after being eliminated, usually while leaving the field of play. A player may receive bonus balls due to the increasingly fast rate of fire of markers in tournament play, walking through a spot another player is shooting, or occasionally by being intentionally shot by an opponent. Sometimes referred to as "Extra Love" and "Bonus Ball loving". These usually happen in tourney setting and also result in penalties; it is also used to prevent Dead Man Walking.
Bounce - Term which signifies when a paintball makes contact with a player but does not break on them. It in turn bounces off of them.
Bunker (n) - A non-natural obstacle on the field of play suitable for use as cover. In wooded play, a bunker may be a large fallen log, a collection of wood, a constructed obstacle of wood, barrels, or other material, or even a dug-out depression in the ground. In speed ball, virtually all objects placed on an otherwise empty grass or dirt field are "bunkers", and in most modern speed ball tournaments, bunkers are inflatable vinyl obstacles (like river rafts with more basic and varied shapes).
Bunker (v) - When a player is behind a bunker, the bunker blocks that player's view of the field in front of him, forcing the player to occasionally look out from behind the bunker (and risk being hit) or rely on teammates to prevent opposing players from advancing through that area. If the teammates are looking the wrong way, or there are no teammates left, an opposing player can often run straight up to the player's bunker without the player seeing him and "bunker" the player by shooting directly over or around the side of the cover.
Camper - A player who does not like to move on the field, let the other player come to him.
Chop - Sometimes a marker may fire when a paintball has only fed partially into the breech. The force of the bolt of the marker moving forward will then cut the paintball in half inside the marker's chamber, creating a rather unpleasant mess that will prevent the marker from shooting accurately until cleaned. However many high-end markers have 'eyes', technology that prevents the marker from firing until it sees that a ball is completely in the chamber.
Dead Box
- when a person is shot - this is the are they are instructed to go to while the wait for the game to finish.
Dead Man Talking
- where a person is shot they talk to either marshals or communicate with their own players. In most tournaments this is illegal due to the fact that a player is acting as if he's out only to gain an advantage on the other team or players.
Dead Man Walking
- where a person is shot, but the paint doesn't break. The person pretends he is out, and walks toward their box. He then proceeds to shoot everybody on the other team. In most tournaments this is illegal due to the fact that a player is acting as if he's out only to gain an advantage on the other team or players.
( Anti-Chop Eye(s) ) (n) - An infrared detection system installed on electronic markers. There are two types; break beam and reflective. Break beam incorporates an infrared beam fired across the breech to a sensor. When a ball enters the breech of the marker, it breaks the infrared beam, telling the marker that a ball is ready to be fired. Reflective sends an infrared beam across the breech from one eye. If a ball enters the breech, the infrared beam will be reflected back into the eye, indicating that a ball is ready to be fired. These electronic infrared systems help prevent chopping in markers and help markers reach higher rates of fire consistently.
Flank - A Strategy used in both speedball and woodsball where usually one or two people provide cover fire while other team members move around the sides. Since the opposing force is preoccupied with the people providing cover fire they are usually unaware of the force coming around the side (or even the back side). The opposing force is easily taken out.
Fogged - This term typically refers to a player who's visor has fogged up so badly that they cannot see.
Gogged - An expression denoting that a player has been hit directly in the mask by another player.
Headcheck - A term used to describe the tactic of giving a quick look out from protection to get a better idea of the enemies' position just before shooting. Used often in tournament play seconds before a snapshot.
Hopper - The hopper is simply the magazine for the paintball marker, sizes do vary but the average is about 200 rounds. While some designs utilize a hopper that feeds balls to the gun via gravity placing it directly above the bolt, some other designs use a Hopper built off the side of the marker using a pneumatic system to feed them into the breech of the marker. Other hopper designs are offset to the right or left, or recently set forward and below the barrel. Many hoppers now are mechanical "force feed" hoppers, in which the paint is forcefully fed into the gun by the hopper.
Hoser - A hoser is a player who shoots excessive amounts of paint, leading the bunker he was shooting at to drip paint.
Kamikaze - A player who plays with little regard to being hit for the sole purpose of tagging other players out. An example is a kid who proceeds to sprint down the field, shooting aimlessly at the opposition hoping to get a hit, while taking no cover.
Lit up
- An expression connotating overwhelming victory. It is often used to describe someone who has been marked several times. It can also be used to describe a situation in which an individual or team exercised a great advantage to defeat the other player or team. This is a dangerous practice prevalent in tournament play which results in penalties being issued to the offending team.
Noob - A new player.
One for One - A referee's penalty call in tournament paintball where one player receives a penalty and due to the penalty type, both that player and the closest team mate are removed from the game. It usually occurs when players continue to play after being hit by paint but there are many other reasons why this penalty could be called.
Paint Check - When an official or another player inspects a player for hits. Necessary because hits on hard equipment may not be noticed by the player, and hits that do not leave a mark do not count, so a player may need another person to check to see if a hit broke when it is on an area of the body the player cannot readily see.
Pawn (or Rabbit) - Any player who is often 'used' by the rest of his team in situations where his/her value is less than significant in that particular game. One example is a newer player who is sent to the most 'dangerous' parts of the field in order to simulate what might happen if the rest of the team were to proceed into that part.
Ramping (v)- A feature enabled in many aftermarket electronic marker'mod boards' that functions as de-facto full-auto; while in ramping mode, pulling the trigger faster than a preset lower limit (typically 5 or more times a second) causes the marker to "ramp" to its maximum preset rate of fire, which can exceed 20 balls per second, or to fire as quickly as the hopper can supply balls to the breech. Many "ramp boards" also incorporate elaborate schemes to conceal this feature from tournament referees, including a simple "panic button" This panic mode is found mainly on cheating boards. The "Panic button" is a trigger press sequence to turn ramping off before a marker can be confiscated and tested, and randomized rate of fire to mask the fact that the trigger activity doesn't match the actual firing of paintballs. In response to the popularity of ramping (and the difficulty of catching violators), some organizations have abandoned a strict semi-auto-only policy and adopted a 15 ball-per-second cap in its place. This allows referees with sound-activated timers to monitor rate of fire during games.
Ref - Short for "Referee".
(n)- In hyperball, speedball, x-ball, and airball a snake is a long, low structure (less then 1 meter/3 feet high) usually located either in the middle or to one or both sides of a field. The snake is a unique setup because it allows a player to advance a considerable distance while still being protected from being hit from most locations on the field.
Snap shooting - is a method, used in paintball, to begin shooting before leaning out from behind a bunker in order to have a better chance of hitting a target. This is a common practice used in tournament play.
- This is yelled by the shooter if s/he holds an upper hand on an opponent within a close range; this is done to give the enemy a chance to surrender without being shot. This rule is widely used amongst many new players and paintball parks.
Tank - This refers to the CO


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The Eye of Quebec (Lac Manicouagan) is visible from space as a perfectly ring-shaped lake. Its center island is far larger than the water that surrounds it. 100km in diameter, it is the fourth largest meteor impact site on earth. We sailed around it and think that was the first ever circumnavigation of the reservoir under sail and oar. (We can find record of two other sailboats that have attempted the trip. While we're not sure of their success, both appeared to carry auxiliary engines. If it wasn't the wind pulling us it was our backs.)
Three years ago, when John and I drove the Trans-Labrador highway, we camped one night on the shores of the great Manicouaga and it captured our imaginations. Finally, this year, aboard the expedition re-fitted Wayfarer 4610, we made the voyage. We were on the water for about twelve days after a two day drive north. It is an astronomically great lake.
We camped ashore every night, and packed nearly 100 Ibs of dried food for the journey. We wore drysuits most of the time, cause the weather was typically cold and wet!


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Reports of invasive winter months increasing in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An invasive moth that can damage hardwood and fruit trees has been spreading in Maine.
State officials are asking residents to be on the lookout for winter moths, which have spread into Maine from southern New England, where they have caused widespread damage.
The moth was first detected along the Maine coast in 2006 and has been spotted in the past year in Harpswell and Vinalhaven.
The Maine Sunday Telegram (_URL_ ) says state officials have reported 13 sightings of moths in Cape Elizabeth, as well as scattered reports from Scarborough, South Portland, Portland, Falmouth, Woolwich, Westport Island and Brunswick.
Residents are being asked to keep an eye out for the moths, which are likely to be flying in swarms this time of year, and capture some specimens if they can.
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text: To many, the principal–agent model is the obvious lens through which executive pay should be viewed. Such a sentiment sits uncomfortably with a large number of empirical studies suggesting that the process of determining executive pay seems to be more readily explained by recourse to arguments of managerial power and influence. This article investigates the micro-underpinnings of boardroom behavior in order to explain this departure from principal–agency theory's argument that executive compensation serves to align interests between the owners of the company and its senior managers. We find that there are strong interaction effects among social influence variables and the social setting of boardroom activity. Generous pay awards, bearing only a weak connection to corporate performance, are explained in the context of the social psychology of the boardroom. These results and a review of the empirical research, suggest the need for a more comprehensive model of executive compensation that incorporates both economic and psychological determinants.


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The term paraskevidekatriaphobia was first coined in the early nineties by Dr. Donald E. Dossey, an American psychotherapist specialising in phobias and stress management, who reputedly claimed that when someone was able to pronounce the word they were cured. The term is based on the Greek words paraskevi ('Friday') and dekatria ('thirteen') with -phobia as a suffix to indicate 'fear'.
No-one is quite certain why people associate Friday the 13th with bad luck. Various theories have been put forward over the years, including Friday as the day of Christ's crucifixion and the ancient Egyptian belief that the 13th stage of life is death. Whatever the roots of this irrational fear, it seems to represent a very real concern to many people, so much so that a 1993 article in the British Medical Journal investigated the relation between 'health, behaviour and superstition surrounding Friday the 13th in the United Kingdom'.
The study reported the surprising finding that, despite the fact that fewer people chose to travel on Friday 13th, there were significantly more hospital admissions due to accidents than there were on 'normal' Fridays!


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Custom Solvent Purification System for the University of Texas in Austin
The Rose Research Group at UT Austin's chemistry department uses their custom built and PPT installed dual pass free standing 12 column solvent purification system in their state-of-the-art laboratory to aid their research in bio-inorganics, heavy atoms, and solar fuels. The group's goal in bio-inorganics is inspired by one of nature's H2 utilizing enzymes: mono-iron hydrogenase often abbreviated HMD-H2ase. Their goal in heavy atoms is to simulate some of the spectroscopic and reactivity properties of heavy, precious metals by synthesizing a new class of complexes derived from heavy, main group elements bound to the late, 1st-row transition metals (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu). In solar fuels, their goal is to investigate new ways to build hybrid molecular/materials interfaces to integrate and stabilize each component.
PPT's dedicated team of solvent system experts assisted Dr. Rose and his research Group in determining which system was right for their needs and guided them through the process of system selection. The primary users are graduate and undergraduate members of the lab, and occasionally, other chemistry students in the department. Through the successful turnkey completion and installation of their system, Dr. Rose's research group can look forward to trouble free dry anhydrous solvent for years to come.
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Originally designed for 10 columns with upgrade capacity to 12 Column, this PPT purification system is currently providing dry and air-free solvents for inorganic coordination chemistry and semiconductor electrochemistry experiments. Options include 24/40 joint connection for flask joint connections, glove box integration kits, and vacuum controller.
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Andronikos Komnenos
Spouse(s) Eirene
Noble family Komnenos
Father John II Komnenos
Mother Piroska of Hungary
Born c. 1108
Died 1142
Andronikos Komnenos (or Andronicus Comnenus) (Greek: Ανδρόνικος Κομνηνός) (c. 1108–1142) was the third child and second son of the Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos and his Hungarian wife, Piroska (Eirene).
Andronikos was made sebastokratōr at an unknown date. He was one of two sons of John II Komnenos to predecease that Emperor,[1] the other being Alexios, whose body Andronikos was charged,[1] along with the third brother, Isaac,[citation needed] with bringing back from Attalia to Constantinople in 1142. Andronikos died during the return voyage.[1]
Andronikos Komnenos was married ca 1124 to a woman named Eirene (Aineidasa or Aineiadissa ?) (d. 1150/1151), by whom he had several children, these were:
 1. ^ a b c Cawley 2011, Andronikos Komnenos (Balabista in Macedonia [1108]-Autumn 1142) Cites Niketas Choniates, Liber III Rerum a Manuele Comneno Gestarum, 2, pp. 135-6.
 2. ^ Cawley 2011, MARIA Komnene Cites: Niketas Choniates, Liber VII de Rebus Gesti Manuelis Comneni, 1, p. 68; Ioannes Kinnamos Liber III, 9, p. 109.
 3. ^ Cawley 2011, IOANNES Doukas Komnenos Cites: For the wife (Rüdt-Collenberg (1975) [no book title given], p. 125, footnote 30; and other sources); For the daughter (RHC, Historiens occidentaux I, Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum ("L'estoire de Eracles Empereur et la conqueste de la terre d'Outremer") XX.I, p. 942).
 4. ^ Cawley 2011, THEODORA Komnene Cites: For the marriage (Annales Mellicenses 1149, MGH SS IX, p. 504; and other sources)
 5. ^ Cawley 2011, EVDOKIA Komnene Cites Niketas Choniates, Liber III Rerum a Manuele Comneno Gestarum, 2, p. 135; Niketas Choniates, Liber IV Rerum a Manuele Comneno Gestarum, 1, p. 1; Ioannes Kinnamos Liber V, 8, p. 226.
 6. ^ Choniates, p. 293.


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Pakistan telecommunication satellite replacement also known as Paksat 1R is scheduled to be launched on August 14 this year. Paksat 1R will be use to replace the current Paksat-1 satellite. In 2002 Pakistan purchased an old satellite which was developed by the Hughes for Indonesia and then it was placed in the allocated slot in December that year. Originally Paksat 1R was known as Palapa C1, was launched in 1996.
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) officials have confirmed that Pakistan telecommunication satellite Paksat 1R is progressing as per schedule and will be launched on the Independence Day of Pakistan. They told the local media that government is providing funds even in these difficult financial times due to the importance of the project.
Pakistan will be able to receive data from the Paksat 1R satellite through the satellite ground stations which are situated in Karachi and Lahore.
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission (SUPARCO) and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) are jointly developing the Paksat 1R satellite to meet the Pakistani needs an agreement for this was signed on October 15, 2008, in Beijing, during President Zardari's visit to China.
Paksat-1R is designed as a communication satellite which will allow SUPARCO to offer of different services like broadband internet for the Pakistani rural and urban areas , providing digital Television broadcasting service ,telephony services and emergency communications services for Pakistan.
Director of the SUPARCO's Satellite Research and Development Center in Lahore, Dr Mohammad Riaz Suddle, said that Paksat-1R satellite will have a life span of 15 years and it will be launched at a longitude of 38 degrees in geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000km from earth.
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission (SUPARCO) is also working on the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS) which would be launched in near future.
First Pakistan satellite was Badr-A, it was indigenously developed by the SUPARCO and launched from Chinese Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on July 16, 1990 from the Chinese Long March 2E rocket. It weighted around 68.2 Kg. Second Pakistani satellite was called Badr-B and it was launched by the Zenit-2 rocket in Kazakhstan on Dec 10, 2001.
Suparco has experience in manufacturing and testing high-altitude sounding rockets like Shahpar and Rakhnum. Shahpar was a 7 m long two stage solid fuel rocket which was capable of carrying payload of 55 kilograms to an altitude of 450 kilometres and Rakhnum was capable of launching 38kg into an orbit of 100km.
Former President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf had authorized the development of indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) in 2005 to put locally developed satellites in the orbit. t might be tested for launching the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS) akistan and China have agreed to promote cooperation in space technology. Both countries have agreed to launch joint research and development ventures in intelligence gatherings from space.


A frequently asked question we receive on a daily basis is, "With LED Christmas lights if one bulb goes out will the whole set go out?"
The answer to this question is not as simple as it might seem. It all depends on what kind of outage we're talking about. Since the one piece LED bulb and socket design is our most popular style of LED, we'll focus on that type of set for this blog posting.
When looking at an LED outage, there are two types of bulb related outages:
1) Bulb still intact, but fails to light up.
2) Bulb lens cracked or significantly damaged.
Let's take a closer look at each one of these.
Bulb still intact, but fails to light up
LED bulbs do last a long time, but from time to time one does fail to light up. As long as the bulb lens has not been cracked or broken, then the light set will continue to illuminate with the exception of any individual bulbs that are not working.
Bulb lens cracked or significantly damaged
When it comes to lens damage, the general rule is if the lens is cracked all the way through to the core of the LED, then either the entire set or on longer stringers, half the set will go completely out. However, fortunately, most LED lenses are very rigid and don't easily crack or break.
It is important to note that some sets are more prone to outages due to broken bulbs. M5 light sets have small diameter bulbs that break relatively easily and for this reason, M5s tend to have more problems due to outages caused by broken bulbs than other light sets.
5 mm Wide Angle Conicals have very rigid bulbs because of the low profile of the lens. C7 and C9 stringer sets also tend to be resistant to outages caused by bulb breakage. These larger lens sets have an outside lens and then inside this outer shell, they have a 5 mm conical lens. So these light sets have even more protection to prevent the actual LED from getting damaged.
So the bottom line is that if one bulb goes out, but it's still intact, then yes, the light set will stay lit. But if the LED lens is significantly cracked or damaged, then anywhere from half to the full set will go out.