Problem 190: Maximising a weighted product
(see _URL_
Let S_m = (x_1, x_2, ... , x_m) be the m-tuple of positive real numbers with x_1 + x_2 + ... + x_m = m for which P_m = x_1 * x_2^2 * ... * x_m^m is maximised.
For example, it can be verified that \lfloor P_10 \rfloor = 4112 (\lfloor \rfloor is the integer part function).
Find sum{\lfloor Pm \rfloor} for 2 <= m <= 15.
My Algorithm
I implemented a randomized search:
1. start with x_1 = x_2 = ... = x_m = 1
2. choose random positions x_{from} and x_{to}
3. subtract a small delta from x_{from}, add the same delta to x_{to}
4. evaluate x_1 * x_2^2 * ... * x_m^m, if it is bigger, keep the new x_{from} and x_{to}, else undo
5. go to step 2, unless the result didn't improve for a certain number of iterations
My randomized search uses deltas 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, 0.00001 and 0.000001 (in that order) and aborts if no improvement
has been observed in more than 100 iterations.
You can probably reduce the number of deltas and/or iterations but these values were my initial "guess" and worked perfectly fine.
In order to provide a reproducible result, I don't invoke the standard rand() function but provide my own simple myrand()
which always generates the same random numbers, no matter what compiler / standard library is installed on your computer.
Alternative Approaches
After submitting my result I became aware that this kind of opimization problems can be solved with Lagrance multipliers, too (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_multiplier).
Interactive test
You can submit your own input to my program and it will be instantly processed at my server:
Input data (separated by spaces or newlines):
This is equivalent to
echo 10 | ./190
Output:
(please click 'Go !')
Note: the original problem's input 15 cannot be entered
because just copying results is a soft skill reserved for idiots.
(this interactive test is still under development, computations will be aborted after one second)
My code
… was written in C++11 and can be compiled with G++, Clang++, Visual C++. You can download it, too.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

// configure randomized search
const unsigned int StableIterations = 100;
const double InitialDelta = 0.1;
const double FinalDelta = 0.000001;

// a simple pseudo-random number generator, result in 0 .. modulo - 1
// (produces the same result no matter what compiler you have - unlike rand() from math.h)
unsigned int myrand(unsigned int modulo)
{
// code taken from problem 185
static unsigned int seed = 0;
seed = _PHONE_ * seed + 12345;
return (seed >> 16) % modulo; // modified: don't use low bits but start at bit 16
}

// randomly adjust values' elements by delta until no further change observed
double optimize(unsigned int numValues)
{
// initially all values are 1
std::vector<double> values(numValues, 1);

double best = 0;
for (double delta = InitialDelta; delta > FinalDelta; delta /= 10)
{
// abort if best value didn't change for a few iterations
unsigned int countSame = 0;
while (countSame < StableIterations)
{
countSame++;

// select two random elements
auto from = myrand(numValues);
auto to = myrand(numValues);
// must be different from each other
if (from == to)
continue;
// values[from] - delta must remain positive
if (values[from] <= delta)
continue;

// adjust values: take delta from values[from] and move it to values[to]
values[from] -= delta;
values[to] += delta;

// compute new total value
double current = 1;
for (unsigned int j = 0; j < numValues; j++)
// the following loop is the same as pow(values[j], j + 1)
for (unsigned int exponent = 1; exponent <= j + 1; exponent++)
current *= values[j];

// higher than before ?
if (best < current)
{
// yes, keep these values
best = current;
// reset counter
countSame = 0;
}
else
{
// nope, restore old values
values[from] += delta;
values[to] -= delta;
}
}
}

return best;
}

int main()
{
unsigned int limit = 15;
std::cin >> limit;

unsigned int sum = 0;
for (unsigned int m = 2; m <= limit; m++)
{
// optimize and round down
sum += (unsigned int) optimize(m);

// via Lagrance multipliers
//double k = 2.0 / (m + 1);
//double lagrange = 1;
//for (unsigned int i = 1; i <= m; i++)
// lagrange *= pow(i * k, i);
}

// print result
std::cout << sum << std::endl;
return 0;
}
This solution contains 13 empty lines, 24 comments and 2 preprocessor commands.
Benchmark
The correct solution to the original Project Euler problem was found in less than 0.01 seconds on an Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz.
(compiled for x86_64 / Linux, GCC flags: -O3 -march=native -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -std=gnu++11 -DORIGINAL)
See here for a comparison of all solutions.
Note: interactive tests run on a weaker (=slower) computer. Some interactive tests are compiled without -DORIGINAL.
Changelog
June 27, 2017 submitted solution
June 27, 2017 added comments
Difficulty
50% Project Euler ranks this problem at 50% (out of 100%).
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blue solutions are relevant for Project Euler only: there wasn't a Hackerrank version of it (at the time I solved it) or it differed too much
orange problems are solved but exceed the time limit of one minute or the memory limit of 256 MByte
red problems are not solved yet but I wrote a simulation to approximate the result or verified at least the given example - usually I sketched a few ideas, too
black problems are solved but access to the solution is blocked for a few days until the next problem is published
[new] the flashing problem is the one I solved most recently
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Next: Acquiring the Information Up: Integration with Web Servers Previous: Integration with Web Servers
The DFP approach to web personalization is based on providing relevant information to a sophisticated on-line decision engine. This subsection distinguishes between the raw data that can be obtained easily and higher-level semantic information, such as used by the Decision Flow in the example of Section 3.
At a minimum, the on-line decision engine should have access to the following kinds of information. We are not suggesting that all of this data will be used in each decision, but that it should be available if deemed relevant.
- History of customer clicks: This includes not only the web requests that the customer is making, but also the the navigation path being followed around the site, the times spent at each page, and the entries made into any forms.
- Web server responses: The response of a web storefront to a customer may be very important in understanding the customer experience. For example, to determine frustration stemming from difficult searches, it is important to know about both the number of searches performed and also the sizes of returned answers.
- Enterprise data: A broad variety of stored information may be useful to the personalization. At a minimum this will include accessing information resulting from bulk statistical analyses and information on inventory and availability times. If the customer has been identified then customer profiles and recent customer histories can also be incorporated into the personalization process.
There is also a higher, semantically rich kind of information that can be helpful as input for the decision engine. This will include information, for example, about the category of page being accessed by the customer (e.g., search request, search answer, catalog entry, shopping cart), or the intent of a page (e.g., that it includes a promotion or indicates that a certain catalog item is out of stock).
Indeed, an important part of installing a DFP system, or any web personalization system using on-line decision support, will involve creating or determining a model of the web site, that incorporates relevant models of customers, the intent of their activities on the site, the business value of those activities, indicators that a customer may abandon a transaction, etc. The example of Section 3 provides a starting point for such a model, but a variety of other factors may be brought into play. This model will be clearly visible in the program driving the decision engine, and will help to guide the kinds of information that need to be passed from web server to decision engine.
There is a trade-off between attempting to automatically infer semantically rich information from the HTML passed between customer and web server vs. manually incorporating that information into the web page generation so that it can be obtained easily by the decision engine. Attempting to infer this information automatically typically involves parsing the HTML; it will involve the development of special-purpose code and be computationally expensive. Further, its success will depend on how direct and uniform the relationship is between the actual HTML content of the web pages and their intent. On the other hand, incorporating code into the web page generation that captures the semantically rich information puts an additional burden on the web site developer, both at creation time and during maintenance. A site such as Amazon or Yahoo could have thousands of pages, some static, others generated dynamically via server-side scripting languages such as ASP/JSP, or CGI-scripts/servlets. It will be a huge effort to modify all executable scripts to add the MIHU functionality.
Sophisticated web authoring environments such as Microsoft's FrontPage or Allaire's ColdFusion Studio provide hooks so that web site authors can easily incorporate semantically rich information into the HTML generated by their code. Thus it would be straightforward for site developers to extract high-level semantic information to be passed to the Vortex engine. However, if the site has not been built using such tools, we expect that early adopters of our personalization technology will opt for parsing the HTML, and will use only some of the information actually available.
Next: Acquiring the Information Up: Integration with Web Servers Previous: Integration with Web Servers Rick Hull

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Rating with Confidence: How Rating Scales Affect Future WOM Behavior
42 Pages Posted: 18 Sep 2013
Date Written: September 17, 2013
Firms collecting product ratings are able to choose the scale design (e.g., 2-pt vs. 5-pt scales) for consumers to provide rating scores. While previous research on survey methodology has studied the impact of scale design on measurement reliability and validity, there has been little work documenting the potential impact of this choice following the rating event. The present research argues that the rating scale may affect a rater's likelihood of engaging in subsequent word-of-mouth (WOM) behavior. Specifically, conducting four experiments, we show that participants' WOM intentions are higher after evaluating their consumption experience on a 5-point rating scale than on a 2-point rating scale. We introduce a new construct – "rating certainty" – which reflects a rater's certainty belief regarding her chosen rating score and which mediates the relationship between rating scale and WOM intentions.
Keywords: word-of-mouth, product ratings, scale design
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Anastasia Robinson, (born c. 1692—died April 1755, Bath, England), English singer, who was a frequent soloist on the Londonoperatic and concert stages between 1714 and 1724.
Robinson's father was Thomas Robinson, a portrait artist, but the identity of her mother is unclear. Like some other members of her family, Anastasia was a Roman Catholic. Much of the biographical information concerning Robinson comes from the General History of Music, vol. 4 (1789), by the English musician and music historian Charles Burney. This source includes both Burney's own account of Robinson's life and one dictated to him in 1787 by Mrs. Delany (née Mary Granville), a prominent socialite and member of the English royal circle who had known Robinson personally. Robinson showed talent at a young age, and her father had her study singing under the tutelage of William Croft, Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, and Joanna Maria Lindelheim. At first she sang only in private settings, but, because her father became blind and was therefore unable to earn a living as an artist, she was compelled to begin her career as a professional singer. Delany calls this "a circumstance very grievous to her," perhaps because professional singing was not an entirely respectable occupation at the time.
Robinson entered the professional operatic scene at a time when London audiences were enamored with Italian opera; she made her operatic debut at the Queen's Theatre in the pasticcio (an opera built from pieces of other operas) Creso on January 27, 1714. Robinson was closely associated throughout her career with the German-born English composer George Frideric Handel; one of her first public performances may have been as soprano soloist in his Eternal Source of Light Divine (1713/14), an ode for Queen Anne's birthday, in 1714. She appeared in numerous Italian operas by Handel, including the 1713–14 revival of Rinaldo (1711), in which she played Almirena, as well as the premieres of Amadigi di Gaula (1715, playing Oriana), Radamisto (1720, Zenobia), Floridante (1721, Elmira), and Giulio Cesare (1724, Cornelia). In addition, she performed in operas by other composers, including Domenico Scarlatti's Narciso (1720), in the arrangement by Thomas Roseingrave, and Giovanni Porta's Numitore, the premiere of which marked the opening of the Royal Academy of Music in 1720. Sometime between 1717 and 1720 Robinson's voice dropped from soprano to alto. Burney suggests that this was due to an illness.
Reports by both Burney and Sir John Hawkins (author of the first history of music in English, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 1776) that Robinson's salary at the Royal Academy was £1,000 (which would amount to more than £100,000 [about $160,000] in the early 21st century) per season—with Hawkins claiming that the figure was nearly doubled by gifts and money from benefit concerts—are not supported by known documentary evidence and may be exaggerated. Still, she was well paid. For example, in 1714—a tumultuous year for the opera—she was contracted for £500 and a benefit concert for her appearances in a shortened opera season; in the 1720–21 opening season at the Royal Academy she was again contracted for £500. Those salaries were customarily supplemented by gifts.
Such high salaries indicate that Robinson was in demand as a singer. Known to be a friend of the 18th-century poet and satirist Alexander Pope and the composer Giovanni Bononcini (both also Roman Catholic), she traveled in high social circles both before and after her retirement from the stage. Burney wrote that both her musical skills and her good character "ensure[d] her success in whatever she should undertake."
The early 21st-century discovery of letters from Pope's social circle called into question Delany's account of the circumstances surrounding Robinson's marriage to the 3rd earl of Peterborough. Delany claims that Robinson was married to the earl in secret in 1722, the earl apparently being reluctant to openly declare his marriage to a professional singer. Whether such a ceremony actually took place is, however, unclear. Only shortly before the earl's death in 1735 did he make the marriage known; the Gentleman's Magazine of September 1735 indicates that the two had been married for "some Years," but the marriage had not "till of late been publickly owned." The earl's will does not mention Robinson, and, although she inhabited his estate until her death in 1755, his family never acknowledged her. Delany recalled that Robinson destroyed the earl's memoirs, since they recorded actions "as would have reflected very much upon his character."
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Using LabVIEW to Develop a 3D Display System
"We developed a gesture recognition system using a USB camera, PXI hardware, LabVIEW, and the NI Vision Assistant."
- Yang Hao,
Developing an interactive 360° stereoscopic 3D film system that displays both visual models and real objects, does not require glasses, and is affordable.
Developing a 3D display system that consists of three parts: acquisition, processing, and 3D display.
Figure 1. 3D Display System
3D film is a motion picture that enhances the optical illusion of depth perception, but we must enjoy it with glasses and limited viewing angles in the cinema. Most of the stereoscopic display systems or 3D TVs are so expensive that they cannot perform interactive functions. In this sense, building an interactive 360° stereoscopic display system that does not require glasses, is affordable, and has the functionality to display 3D images from both visual models and real objects, is a big challenge.
Our system consists of three types of acquisition capabilities including building visual models, non-real-time acquisition of real objects by the NI 1764 Smart Camera and turntable, and real-time image acquisition of real objects by four USB cameras.
To acquire a virtual model, we use NI LabVIEW software to read the virtual 3D model document and set parameters, and then we combine four images of the model taken from different directions into one image, as shown in Figure 2.2. The newly created image is projected onto an inverted pyramid optical structure as shown in Figure 2.1 and the schematic in Figure 2.3.
Figure 2. Imaging Principal
Figure 3. Display of Virtual Model
Figure 4. Program of 3D Display of the Virtual Model
We developed a gesture recognition system using a USB camera, PXI hardware, LabVIEW, and the NI Vision Assistant. We capture the image sequences of a hand and judge its movement. We can use this information to control the 3D display. For example, sliding a hand can control the icon rotating and two hands can control the icon zooming, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 5. Gesture Recognition
Figure 6. Finding the Object in the Image Using the Vision Assistant
Figure 7. Program for Gesture Recognition
The non-real-time acquisition system depends on an NI 1764 Smart Camera and a turntable controlled by PXI. By putting an object on the turntable and capturing images while it's rotating, we can get information about the object from all directions, and then choose the four images we want to use to show the 3D image.
Figure 8. Hardware for the Non-Real-Time Acquisition System
Figure 9. Image Acquisition
Figure 10. 3D Display of Real Object
Figure 11. Program for Non-Real-Time Acquisition System
We place four USB cameras around the object to acquire real-time images from four different directions using PXI and NI Image Acquisition software. We can then process these images and show the 3D image by the optical structure.
Figure 12. Interface for Real-TimeAcquisition System
Figure 13. Hardware for Real-Time Acquisition System
Figure 14. Program for Real-Time Acquisition System
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text: The human oral microbiome is formed early in development. Its composition is influenced by environmental factors including diet, substance use, oral health, and overall health and disease. The influence of human genes on the composition and stability of the oral microbiome is still poorly understood. We studied both environmental and genetic characteristics on the oral microbiome in a large twin sample as well as in a large cohort of unrelated individuals. We identify several significantly heritable features of the oral microbiome. The heritability persists in twins even when their cohabitation changes. The heritability of these traits correlates with the cumulative genetic contributions of over half a million single nucleotide sequence variants measured in a different population of unrelated individuals. Comparison of same-sex and opposite sex cotwins showed no significant differences. We show that two new loci on chromosomes 7 and 12 are associated with the most heritable traits.An analysis of 752 twin pairs from the Colorado Twin Registry, shows that the beta-diversity of monozygotic twins is significantly lower than for dizygotic or unrelated individuals. This is independent of cohabitation status. Intraclass correlation coefficients of nearly all taxa examined were higher for MZ than DZ twin pairs. A comparison of individuals sampled over 2-7 years confirmed previous reports that the oral microbiome remains relatively more stable in individuals over that time than to unrelated people. Twin modeling shows that a number of microbiome phenotypes were more than 50% heritable consistent with the hypothesis that human genes influence microbial populations. To identify loci that could influence microbiome phenotypes, we carried out an unbiased GWAS analysis which identified one locus on chromosome 7 near the gene IMMPL2 that reached genome-wide significance after correcting for multiple testing. Another locus on chromosome 12 near the non-coding RNA gene INHBA-AS1 achieved genome-wide significance when analyzed using KGG4 that sums SNP significance across coding genes.Using multiple methods, we have demonstrated that some aspects of the human oral microbiome are heritable and that with a relatively small sample we were able to identify two previously unidentified loci that may be involved.


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نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی پژوهشی
1 گروه شیمی
2 گروه شیمی دانشگاه پیام نور مشهد
3 پژوهشگاه پلیمر و پتروشیمی ایران
4 مشاور صنعتی شرکت ملی پخش فراورده های نفتی ایران
عنوان مقاله [English]
In this study, graphene and magnetic graphene - based nano-absorbents were synthesized by Hummers method and was used in order to removal of BTEX from gasoline. The structural properties of nanoabsorbents were characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning electron microscope (SEM). The absorption of pollutants were measured using UV-Vis spectrophotometer. The studied variables were the absorbent concentration, the contact time, the initial concentration of Pollutants and temprauchere. Adsorption isotherms were drawn with Longmuir, Freundlich, temkin, Freundlich- Longmuir, Dubnin-Randkovich )D-R( and Redlich-Peterson )R-P( models. The maximum adsorption capacity for BTEX was determined by graphene 56.8 mg/g and by magnetic graphene 69.6 mg/g. Experimental and Statistical results was showed that magnetic graphene has better performance than graphene. Kinetic models, based on the assumption of the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models, were applied to examine the kinetics of the adsorption. The results showed that kinetic data followed closely to the first-second-order model.


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Is sand called sand because it's between sea and land?
The word sand is thought to have originated from an Old English word, which itself originated from the old Dutch word sant, which became zand (meaning, you guessed it, sand). But I like your theory better, honestly.
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text: Abstract : The agronomists design many models whose usefulness, outside research, is questioned. This work, between agronomy and design ergonomics, proposes a methodology to design a tool DIAGVAR that could support cultivar assessment in link with its possible use by three groups of actors (seed breeders, people in charge of official assessment of the new cultivars and advisors). This design methodology aims at expanding jointly the agronomic model inscribed inside the tool and the activities of both designers and potential users. Our design methodology has combined an analysis of the activity of cultivar assessment and a stage of simulation where the potential users used a prototype of DIAGVAR on their own data. It has allowed us to identify many agronomic questions about the model of DIAGVAR. We have dealt with two of them, about new indicators of the N status of crops to make their measurement possible in cultivar trials and about the stability of statistical methods, used in the model of DIAGVAR, according to the various configurations of actors' databases. These questions have led us to strongly modify our agronomic model. From an ergonomic point of view, we have analysed the instrumental geneses caused by our design methodology. We have more globally analysed how our methodology modified the activity of the actors who took part to that work. We have finally proposed a frame to identify how our engineering project for the design of a tool allows us to produce scientific knowledge.


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A string or rope is cut into two pieces, and then magically restored into one piece!
- One piece of heavy string or thin rope.
- A piece of writing paper.
- A pair of good scissors.
The Cut-and-Restored rope effect is a classic of magic. Prefold a piece of paper before the show so it looks like the paper in Figure 1. When it's time to present the trick, pull out the paper and lay the string in it as shown.
Fold the top of the paper (section A) down, then fold the bottom of the paper (section C) up. Now for the secret move:
When you fold section C up over section A, use your thumb to catch the string as demonstrated in Figure 2. When you prefold the paper before the show be certain that section A is not so long that it will cover the string.
Securely grasp the package as in Figure 3, making sure that the view shown in the diagram is seen only by you.
Cut through the paper, as shown in Figure 4. Cut completely through the paper, dividing it and, presumably, the rope in half. In reality, only the paper is cut in half, the rope is still intact.
Crumple up the paper, and pull the rope out slowly. It is restored into one complete piece! The paper may be examined, and it will be seen to have been cleanly cut into two halves!
Credits: Alex Jones


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The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation a contract to build an orbital laboratory that would serve as a kind of unmanned space station, the company announced July 14.
The unmanned orbital outpost will be placed in low Earth orbit to be used for experiments and demonstrations. The autonomous, free flying vehicle will be able to host payloads and support space assembly and manufacturing, microgravity experimentation, logistics, training, testing and evaluations.
Under the contract, Sierra Nevada Corporation will repurpose their Shooting Star transport vehicle into a scalable, autonomous space station that can be used for experiments and demonstrations. The Shooting Star vehicle is a 16-foot attachment to the company's Dream Chaser space plane that was developed for NASA Commercial Resupply Services 2 missions. The vehicle was initially designed to provide extra payload storage and cargo disposal upon re-entry.
"We're excited by the multi-mission nature of Shooting Star," Fatih Ozmen, SNC's chief executive, said in a statement. "It was originally developed for NASA resupply missions to the International Space Station, and since then we keep identifying new capabilities and solutions it offers to a wide variety of customers."
The company's press release notes that while the initial orbital outpost will operate in LEO, future orbits could be placed in other orbits, including cislunar.
"The current Shooting Star is already designed with significant capabilities for an orbital outpost and by adding only a few components we are able to meet Department of Defense needs." added Steve Lindsey, senior vice president of strategy for SNC's space systems. "We are proud to offer our transport vehicle to DoD as a free-flying destination for experimentation and testing, expanding beyond its current payload service capabilities for Dream Chaser cargo missions."
According to the original DIU solicitation released June 2019, orbital outposts will need to be established in low Earth orbit within 24 months of the award. A DIU spokesperson told C4ISRNET at the time that the "the prototype will explore the military utility of exclusive DoD access to an unmanned orbital platform in order to perform experiments with no risk to human crew or other non-DOD payloads."
Nathan Strout covers space, unmanned and intelligence systems for C4ISRNET.


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With the optimal combination of the CODESYS and EtherCAT basic technologies, open:control provides you with an efficient solution for fast development cycles in the field of mobile working machines and for the growing complexity of control systems with new integral processes in software development and an innovative architecture for hardware components. open:control can be used easily and securely with everything from the smallest to the most complex machines, all with optimal scalability.
The M10i is a high performance small sized control unit in a grouted plastic housing with a mounting plate. It is equipped with 8 high-side outputs, which can be used as switching outputs or PWM-capable outputs and 4 multifunction inputs. The inputs can be used as analogue voltage measurement inputs, analogue current measurement inputs, frequency inputs or switching inputs. The I/O is expandable via EtherCAT. The M10i is programmable by the development system CODESYS.
- Supply Voltage: 8 - 30 V
- Programming System: CODESYS V3.5
- I/O and supply voltage: AMP 16 pin n-coded plug with JPT-flate mal tab
- EtherCAT: M12 4-pin, d-coded female connector
- Inputs: 4x multifunction input
- Outputs: 8x high-side output
- Protection class: IP67


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Find an EcoPoxy Retailer
How does volume affect resin cure?
Heat is released during the chemical reaction that converts liquid part A and part B into solid epoxy. The amount of heat released depends on the epoxy's chemistry and the amount of epoxy used. That is, a certain amount of mixed part A and part B will result in the release in a certain amount of heat.
The curing epoxy must be able to shed the heat it generates efficiently enough to avoid overheating. The ability to shed heat is largely governed by the ratio of top surface area that is open to the air relative to the volume.
For the same resin system, thinner castings will have greater top surface areas in comparison to overall volume and will shed heat more efficiently. Thicker castings cannot shed heat as efficiently and may overheat.
For the same volume of epoxy, a thinner casting will have a larger top surface area and will shed heat more efficiently compared to a thicker casting with a smaller top surface area.
How volume affects exothermic reactions
EcoPoxy systems are developed to have reactivity levels suited to their intended applications. Always consult your product's Technical Data Sheet or Application Guide for recommended volume and thickness.


Saturday, 5 December 2009
The ampersand is a punctuation mark (&) used to represent the conjunction 'and'.
Alrhough it is a substitute for the word 'and' in any context it is not generally used outside of signs and titles.
It is a ligature formed from an upper or lowercase e conjoined with t which spells et ("and" in Latin).
(In writing and typography the word ligature means a character consisting of two or more letters combined into one.)
 1. You. Are. Amazing! I would never have thought to question where that came from, or what it was! Excellent!
 2. I knew where it came from (et) but I don't think I ever heard the word "ampersand"


Friday, June 07, 2013
After the Parents' death....
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Good behavior towards parents by which one can be courteous to them after their demise are to pray salat-ul-janaza upon them, make dua of forgiveness for them, fulfill their religious bequests, maintain relationship with those relatives linked through them and honor their friends. [Abu Daud] "Charity on their behalf after their death (also) earns reward for them." [Muslim]
Often we realize the value of something only after it is gone. Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) in His Infinite Grace has provided for us a means to make amends even as late as after the person has already died. This hadith tells us how we can be dutiful to our parents after their death, thereby accruing rewards for both them and ourselves.
These ways are:
1. Praying salat-ul-janaza for them.
2. Praying to Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) to forgive them.
3. If they had decided to do some religious good e.g. Hajj or nafl fasts or charitable work, then fulfilling it on their behalf.
4. Being kind to those relatives who are linked to us through them.
5. Honoring their friends.
6. Giving charity on their behalf.
Instead of wailing over our parents, if we truly love them then we should do as many good deeds as we possibly can. This is because we are sadaqa jaariya for our parents and they are rewarded for our righteous actions.
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But the Quran is not just an ordinary book. The Quran is a divine revelation which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him, more than 1400 years ago in Arabia during a period of twenty-three years.
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Changing your Password
For Email, Office 365 Turnitin, Computer Lab or Moodle Password
Before you can change your main password, you MUST have registered with the password recovery system first.
To reset or change your password, go to _URL_. Sign in or if you cannot remember your password, choose to reset it.
SMP password change
Your SMP password is separate to all other passwords. Use the Forgotten Password link on the SMP website if you have forgotten it.
Turnitin password change
Click here to change your Turnitin Password.
When your password has expired, this means you must change it. Either log into a computer in the Computer Lab, and it will make you change your password, or login to office.com and change your password from there. When your password is expired, you will have to change it.
When possible, we highly suggest using different passwords for different portals. Someone who knows your internet password can access your email and use your printing credit. Now if you use the same password for social networking, this is a security problem. Always use a different password for you social networking sites, such as Facebook, or Twitter.
For Internet access, the Computer Lab, Moodle and HCHE Email, they all use the same password. This password is reset, either by logging into the Computer Lab (and pressing Ctrl Alt Del keys), or using the password change link above.
Turnitin uses a separate password to all other portals. Unless you have used the same password as other sites, this password will be different. You must change the password from their site. See the link above.
SMP uses a separate password to all other portals. Like Turnitin, unless you have used the same password as other sites, this password will be different. You must change the password from their site. See the link above.
Your username for internet, the Computer Lab and Moodle is always just the username part, without the _USER_.ac.za section. For example, smmithj or khhumaloh
Creating a Safe Password:
The safest passwords are 12 or more characters in length, and include a mixture of:
- Symbols (eg, % or $ or #, etc),
- Numbers (1 or 2 or 6, etc),
- Lower case letters (u or s or t, etc),
- Upper case Letters (U or S or T, etc).
You can create short sentences like: I Love to eat apples. Then turn that into a password, such as: IL0v3.t0E@tApples
The mere fact that a password is 12 or more characters in length, makes is practically impossible to hack by common brute force password cracking software. This means you would not need to add many special characters to make it more complicated.
Please see the video below on creating a safe password:


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Normal termination disposition subparameter
z/OS MVS JCL Reference
SA23-1385-00
DELETE
Indicates that the data set is no longer needed if this step terminates normally.
For a DASD data set, DELETE means that the space occupied by that data set is available for use by other data sets. The system will physically erase the data set itself only if the erase option of a security product, such as RACF®, is in effect for this data set. If the erase option is not in effect, the data will remain on the DASD until overwritten by another data set. For information on how to set the erase option, see the documentation for the security product.
For a tape data set, DELETE does not physically erase the data from the tape volume. The data will remain on the tape until overwritten by another data set. If the tape volume is a public volume, specifying DELETE allows the system to reuse the tape volume for other data sets that require a public volume; the system may overwrite the data set.
Note: Start of change DELETE requests are always treated as requiring exclusive serialization, preventing other jobs using the data set until it is deleted. This occurs even when DISP=(SHR,DELETE) is coded. As such, data sets with DISP=(SHR,DELETE) will not have its control changed, even when DSENQSHR=ALLOW is specified on the JOB card or in the JOBCLASS. End of change
Existing data sets:
 - If you set a retention period on the DD RETPD parameter, an existing data set is deleted only if its retention period is passed; otherwise the data set is kept.
 - If you set an expiration date on the DD EXPDT parameter, an existing data set is deleted if the expiration date has passed.
 If the storage administrator specified OVRD_EXPDT(YES) in the IGDSMSxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB, you can override the expiration date or retention period for SMS-managed data sets by specifying DELETE on the DD DISP parameter. In that case, the data set will be deleted whether or not the expiration date or the retention period has passed. See z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference for information on the IGDSMSxx parmlib member.
New data sets:
A new data set is deleted at the end of the step even though a retention period or expiration date is also specified. See the DD EXPDT or RETPD parameters.
If the system retrieves volume information from the catalog because the DD statement does not specify VOLUME=SER or VOLUME=REF, then DELETE implies UNCATLG: the system deletes the data set and removes its catalog entry.
KEEP
Indicates that the data set is to be kept on the volume if this step terminates normally.
Without SMS, only KEEP is valid for VSAM data sets. VSAM data sets should not be passed, cataloged, uncataloged, or deleted.
With SMS, all dispositions are valid for VSAM data sets; however, UNCATLG is ignored.
For new SMS-managed data sets, KEEP implies CATLG.
PASS
Indicates that the data set is to be passed for use by a subsequent step in the same job.
With SMS, the system replaces PASS with KEEP for existing VSAM data sets. When you refer to the data set later in the job, the system obtains data set information from the catalog.
Note:
 1. A data set can be passed only within a job.
 2. If you specify DISP=(NEW,PASS) but, at the end of the job, one or more data sets were not received by any job step, then the maximum number of DD statements you can specify decreases by one. (The size of the TIOT controls how many DD statements are allowed per job step.) For example, if the current limit is 1635 DD statements, you can specify DISP=(NEW,PASS), and up to 1634 DD statements.
 3. Coding PASS does not ensure that the operator will not unload the volume or that the system will not demount it to accommodate another job step allocation. Either can occur when the device on which the volume is mounted is not allocated to the job step that specified PASS or, for unlabeled tapes, when the volume requires verification. If the system does demount a volume for which RETAIN was requested, it will do so by issuing message IEF234E R (retain) for that volume. When the system reaches the next step requiring that volume, it will request the operator to remount the volume on an available device of the appropriate type.
CATLG
Indicates that, if the step terminates normally, the system is to place an entry pointing to the data set in the catalog. Note that the data set is kept.
An unopened tape data set is cataloged, unless the volume request is nonspecific or unless the data set is allocated to a dual-density tape drive but no density is specified. A nonspecific volume request is a DD statement for a new data set that can be assigned to any volume or volumes.
For information about the rules for cataloged data set names, see z/OS DFSMS Access Method Services Commands.
UNCATLG
Indicates that, if the step terminates normally, the system is to delete (1) the entry pointing to the data set in the catalog and (2) unneeded indexes, except for the highest level entry. Note that the data set is kept.
With SMS, UNCATLG is ignored for SMS-managed data sets and VSAM data sets (KEEP is implied).
By default, if the system retrieves volume information from the catalog, UNCATLG is processed. If not, the UNCATLG request is rejected and UNCATLG is treated as KEEP. Volume information is not retrieved from the catalog when VOLUME=REF or VOLUME=SER is specified on the DD statement, or for new data sets. However, if the ALLOCxx Parmlib setting for SYSTEM VERIFY_UNCAT is TRACK, MSGTRACK, or LOGTRACK, the UNCATLG request is honored and the data set is uncataloged regardless of whether or not the volume information in the catalog matches the volume information that is used for the dataset.
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trailing slashes before matching ("/about/" -> "/about")
 2. always: always adds trailing slashes before matching ("/about" -> "/about/")
 3. preserve -> paths without a slash won't match paths with a slash ("/about" -> "/about", "/about/" -> "/about/")
If you need to match trailing slashes exactly, use the preserve value. In the following example, /about/ will not match /about and you will be sent to the NotFoundPage
<Router trailingSlashes={'preserve'}>
<Route path="/" page={HomePage} name="home" />
<Route path="/about" page={AboutPage} name="about" />
<Route notfound page={NotFoundPage} />
</Router>
useParams
Sometimes it's convenient to receive route parameters as the props to the Page, but in the case where a deeply nested component needs access to the route parameters, it quickly becomes tedious to pass those props through every intervening component. The router solves this with the useParams hook:
SomeDeeplyNestedComponent.js
import { useParams } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const SomeDeeplyNestedComponent = () => {
const { id } = useParams()
...
}
In the above example, we've pulled in the id route parameter without needing to have it passed in to us from anywhere.
useLocation
If you'd like to get access to the current URL, useLocation returns a read-only location object representing it. The location object has three properties, pathname, search, and hash, that update when the URL changes. This makes it easy to fire off navigation side effects or use the URL as if it were state:
import { useLocation } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const App = () => {
const { pathname, search, hash } = useLocation()
// log the URL when the pathname changes
React.useEffect(() => {
myLogger(pathname)
}, [pathname])
// initiate a query state with the search val
const [query, setQuery] = React.useState(search)
// conditionally render based on hash
if (hash === '#ping') {
return <Pong />
}
return <>...</>
}
If you'd like to programmatically navigate to a different page, you can simply use the navigate function:
SomePage.js
import { navigate, routes } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const SomePage = () => {
const onSomeAction = () => {
navigate(routes.home())
}
...
}
The browser keeps track of the browsing history in a stack. By default when you navigate to a new page a new item is pushed to the history stack. But sometimes you want to replace the top item on the stack instead of appending to the stack. This is how you do that in Redwood: navigate(routes.home(), { replace: true }). As you can see you need to pass an options object as the second parameter to navigate with the option replace set to true.
back
Going back is as easy as using the back() function that's exported from the router.
SomePage.js
import { back } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const SomePage = () => {
const onSomeAction = () => {
back()
}
...
}
Redirect
If you want to declaratively redirect to a different page, use the <Redirect> component.
In the example below, SomePage will redirect to the home page.
SomePage.js
import { Redirect, routes } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const SomePage = () => <Redirect to={routes.home()} />
In addition to the to prop, <Redirect /> also takes an options prop. This is the same as navigate()'s second argument: navigate(_, { replace: true }). We can use it to replace the top item of the browser history stack (instead of pushing a new one). This is how you use it to have this effect: <Redirect to={routes.home()} options={{ replace: true }}/>.
Code-splitting
By default, the router will code-split on every Page, creating a separate lazy-loaded webpack bundle for each. When navigating from page to page, the router will wait until the new Page module is loaded before re-rendering, thus preventing the "white-flash" effect.
Not code splitting
If you'd like to override the default lazy-loading behavior and include certain Pages in the main webpack bundle, you can simply add the import statement to the Routes.js file:
Routes.js
import HomePage from 'src/pages/HomePage'
Redwood will detect your explicit import and refrain from splitting that page into a separate bundle. Be careful with this feature, as you can easily bloat the size of your main bundle to the point where your initial page load time becomes unacceptable.
Page loaders & PageLoadingContext
Loader while page chunks load
Because lazily-loaded pages can take a non-negligible amount of time to load (depending on bundle size and network connection), you may want to show a loading indicator to signal to the user that something is happening after they click a link.
In order to show a loader as your page chunks are loading, you simply add the whileLoadingPage prop to your route, Set or Private component.
Routes.js
import SkeletonLoader from 'src/components/SkeletonLoader'
<Router>
<Set whileLoadingPage={SkeletonLoader}>
<Route path="/contact" page={ContactPage} name="contact" />
<Route path="/about" page={AboutPage} name="about" />
</Set>
</Router>
After adding this to your app you will probably not see it when navigating between pages. This is because having a loading indicator is nice, but can get annoying when it shows up every single time you navigate to a new page. In fact, this behavior makes it feel like your pages take even longer to load than they actually do! The router takes this into account and, by default, will only show the loader when it takes more than 1000 milliseconds for the page to load. You can change this to whatever you like with the pageLoadingDelay prop on Router:
Routes.js
<Router pageLoadingDelay={500}>...</Router>
Now the loader will show up after 500ms of load time. To see your loading indicator, you can set this value to 0 or, even better, change the network speed in developer tools to "Slow 3G" or another agonizingly slow connection speed.
Using PageLoadingContext
An alternative way to implement whileLoadingPage is to use usePageLoadingContext:
VIDEO: If you'd prefer to watch a video, there's one accompanying this section: _URL_
SomeLayout.js
import { usePageLoadingContext } from '@redwoodjs/router'
const SomeLayout = (props) => {
const { loading } = usePageLoadingContext()
return (

{loading &&
Loading...
}
{props.children}

)
}
When the lazy-loaded page is loading, PageLoadingContext.Consumer will pass { loading: true } to the render function, or false otherwise. You can use this context wherever you like in your application!
Loader while auth details are being retrieved
Let's say you have a dashboard area on your Redwood app, which can only be accessed after logging in. When Redwood Router renders your private page, it will first fetch the user's details, and only render the page if it determines the user is indeed logged in.
In order to display a loader while auth details are being retrieved you can add the whileLoadingAuth prop to your private <Route>, <Set private> or the <Private> component:
//Routes.js
<Router>
<Private
wrap={DashboardLayout}
unauthenticated="login"
whileLoadingAuth={SkeletonLoader} //<-- auth loader
whileLoadingPage={SkeletonLoader} // <-- page chunk loader
prerender
>
<Route path="/dashboard" page={DashboardHomePage} name="dashboard" />
{/* other routes */}
</Private>
</Router>
FatalErrorPage
Every Redwood project ships with a default FatalErrorPage located in web/src/pages/FatalErrorPage. This page gets rendered when an error makes its way all the way to the top of your app


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UON Engineering Car Park
Our first pilot project was installed at the University of Newcastle, on the main campus at Callaghan.
It consisted of small, surface-mounted sensors monitoring the occupancy status of car parks, which communicate wirelessly to a gateway housed within a nearby building. The status is communicated to the cloud for dissemination to mobile devices, web apps and digital road-side signage.
The purpose of the pilot project was to investigate the practicalities of such a system in the University environment. Details on the installation, reliability and scalability of the hardware were assessed, and surveys were conducted to gauge interest and feedback from the community.
The map then displayed availability in real-time:
Here are some examples of the power of the data.


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Engineering and resource requirements of the bioresource systems of agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture. Design of irrigation and drainage systems.
After completing the course students should be able to:
1. explain the importance of bioresources engineering, in New Zealand as well as in a global context, and understand both the risks and benefits associated with bioresources engineering
2. identify and apply fundamentals and theoretical concepts of bioresources engineering
3. analyse bioresources systems and their design processes, and reflect on & develop possible solutions for problems found in the field of bioresources engineering.
Tonny de Vries
30 Jul 2012
17 Aug 2012
Design Gravity fed irrigation
12 Oct 2012
Subject: bioresources engineering (10%). Build up an evidence portfolio (minimum 5 pieces per person) using sources such as newspapers, journal articles, forum discussions, etc. Using your evidence portfolio, describe what bioresources engineering is and what role it plays in our society. This can be in a New Zealand context or looking more globally. Length: 1.5-2 pages, can be done in pairs in which case 4-5 pages.
Each student is expected to select a project topic by July 20th. Topic allocation is on a first come first served basis. The focus of the report is to be engineering design, engineering management and/or technical aspects of the topic. You may work on the project alone or in pairs if you prefer. You will be expected to present your project in class.
1. Frost protection
2. Design of artificial shelter structures
3. Precision agriculture (use of GPS, GIS and other technology to maximise production and minimise environmental impacts)
4. Soil moisture conservation techniques
5. (Rain) water harvesting techniques
8. Erosion control through use of bioresources
9. Waste as a bio-resource
10. Carbon sequestration
11. Engineering requirements for composting
12. Comparative analysis of crop growth models
13. Comparative analysis of farm simulation models
14. Comparative analysis of simple water balance methods
15. Mole drains
16. Water lifting devices
The following can also be chosen, but check first to prevent overlap with lecture material or other students
17. Irrigation scheduling techniques
18. Irrigation design under saline conditions
19. Central Plains Irrigation Scheme – engineering features (or other irrigation scheme)
20. Micro-irrigation for development
21. Sports turf irrigation
22. Topic of your own choice
Note: the project you choose should be different from your final year project!
One of the main aspects of irrigation and drainage engineering is to put theory into practice. The aim of this project is to design a gravity-fed irrigation system. The chosen location is a small project in Kenya, called Kiboko-Ngulia. There already is an irrigation system in place, but it does not include a drainage system and this is starting to give a problem with salinity and high ground water tables. Redesigning the system will allow the construction of a drainage system and may also allow an increase of the irrigated area.
A minimum 50% pass in the exam and satisfactory performance in the project and assignments is required for passing the course.
Examination and Formal Tests
29 Oct 2012
Allen et al;
Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements - FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56;
(this book is available online at: _URL_
Doorenbos & Kassam;
Yield Response to Water – FAO Irrigation and drainage paper No. 33;
(This book is available online at: _URL_
Hoffman, Glenn J;
Design and operation of farm irrigation systems;
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2007.
Drainage principles and applications;
(vailable online at: _URL_ it is number 16 on the list).
- Drainage principles and applications (2nd edition, completely revised) by Ritzema (ed.) ISBN 90 70754 339, this book is available online at: _URL_ it is number 16 on the list
- Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements - FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56 by Allen et al. ISBN 92-5-104219-5, this book is available online at: _URL_
- Yield Response to Water – FAO Irrigation and drainage paper No. 33 by Doorenbos & Kassam. This book is available online at: _URL_
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Additional Course Outline Information
Codes of Behaviour:
Each student should acquaint themselves with the University's codes, policies, and procedures involving academic misconduct, grievances, sexual and ethnic harassment, and discrimination based on physical handicap.
Dishonest behaviour & Aegrotat:
It is the responsibility of each student to be familiar with the definitions, policies and procedures concerning academic misconduct/dishonest behaviour. All assessments worth at least 10% of the total mark are eligible for Aegrotat consideration IF approved by course coordinator and HOD.
For further information see
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering.
All ENNR431 Occurrences
Semester Two 2012


Strategy Spotlight: Citizen Science
Several conservation organizations are developing ways to use technology to engage citizens in support of science-based conservation, while also compiling valuable data on fish and wildlife species and habitats. By participating in citizen science programs, which are designed to meet specific informational needs, the public's sense of investment in public lands conservation should grow, resulting in stronger expectations and accountability for government conservation programs. These investments of personal time and resources by engaged citizens may then lead to growing public support for establishing substantial and reliable funding for science-driven conservation.
Citizen science projects result in data that can be used to fill data gaps in managing and understanding fish and wildlife species and their habitats. The Conservation Strategy recognizes citizen science as an extremely useful method for collecting data on Strategy Species. Data collected within citizen science projects have been incorporated into several ODFW projects, including the ODFW Crucial Habitat Assessment and the 2016 Conservation Opportunity Areas revision analysis.
Many partners recognize eBird as a powerful way to connect the birding community with both the conservation of species of greatest need and concern, and efforts to keep common birds common. Avian Knowledge Northwest has partnered with Pacific Northwest eBird in an effort to engage citizen scientists as a broad and supportive constituency for bird conservation, integrate monitoring into bird management and conservation practices, coordinate monitoring programs among organizations, and maintain monitoring data in modern data management systems for more effective data delivery.


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oa Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History - Romeinse reg en regsgeskiedenis in die LlB-kurrikulum
In this article it is argued that Roman law and legal history should remain part of the LLB curriculum of South African universities - at least those which aspire to develop wellrounded, confident and educated graduates who can hold their own in an increasingly globalised society. In fact, both the SAQA minimum outcomes for the LLB degree and the practice requirements for LLB graduates (as indicated in the CHE report on the LLB curriculum 2010) place a high premium on a sound understanding of the fundamental principles of South African law and the ability to do research. SAQA mentions in particular that LLB graduates should be able to do comparative and legal historical research. A knowledge of Roman law and legal history is essential for the development of these competencies.
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Besides duplicated motions, 4 motions must be made as below, and the robot can comprehesive obstacles while walking. Try to make the best robot with upgraded RoboPlus. Use the standard value of the object detection and the object detection existence to judge object detection.
Operating Before executing the program, the appropriate task codes and motions must be downloaded into the robot. There are three ways to open comprwhensive Program Output Monitor.
Bioloid Comprehensive Kit
If an object is detected by Central Distance Sensor, Stop and walk backward,and then turn left. Connect to the robot. Use Load command to input a Print command, which is needed to print numbers on the screen. To move a robot when it is not connected with SMPS, you have to use a battery.
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However, to prevent from turning too much, it is written to move only if the present location value is less than Check if the controller is connected to the PC. The following robots have less than 4 joints and the robots can be biploid with Beginner kit or Comprehensive Kit.
Thus, all users must set their channel to 1 for broadcast communication. If an object is detected from the left side of the robot, turn the beak left.
The speed of blinking shows how much it is left before finishing the charging. If the downloading fails, it will automatically try again from the beginning.
This software allows controlling the firmware of the actuators and the controller. In spite of its graphic biolood, it stays of the sequential programming. Check the controller firmware re-installation result. RoboPlus is divided into three sub-programs: Please refer to Attacking Duck of the assembly manual and complete the hardware.
It will allow you to transfer your own programs in C language. Each pair of actuator and frame is connected to another similar pair to build the robot of your choice. Download Connect the controller before downloading the task code.
Technical specifications of the Dynamixel AXA smart actuator: Finish other programs and continue the process since the controller cannot be recognized in case the port is in use. Warning, this is a special order, please contact us to know about the delivery details. It is effective bjoloid make regularly-repeated motions such comprehensiv walking as an infinite repetition motion.
Changing the Movement Mode The dynamixel can operate in 2 different modes. Turn on the power of the controller.
Since the walking droid uses various postures when it performs such as walking, avoiding obstacles, etc. Open the file motion to download. The left parameter receives input from the right parameter. Please refer to Obstacle Detection Car of the assembly manual and complete the hardware. Attacking Duck Objective for this tutorial is to build an attacking duck which attacks approaching objects.
The attacking patterns of the duck are as follows. If objects are detected on the left and the right side, the robot turns to the direction where objects are detected by billoid ID joint.
Select the port connected to the controller. This robotics module actually contains various sensors: Connect just 1 Dynamixel and check if there ikt any duplicate IDs.
To download the task code, the controller must be connected to the PC Please refer to controller information for information on how to connect the controller to the PC. Select the port the controller is connected to. There are 0 items in your cart. The Bioloid Comprehensive kit is qualified by the power of its servomotors and the quality of its finishing. Executing above procedure, CM-5 can be programmed with RoboPlus.
Thus, all users must set their channel to 4 for broadcast communicationAll channels for the devises must pair to communicate. You can also create your one and only robot by designing, assembling and programming it by yourself.


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Horatio Alger, Jr.
HORATIO ALGER JR:
Copyright (c) 1996 by Bill Roach All rights reserved.
1. Who was Horatio Alger?
Horatio Alger, Jr. was an American author (_PHONE_). Alger
produced the one of the first boys' adventure series. Alger
published over 118 novels in book form. Another 280 novels were
produced in magazines along with more than five hundred short stories.
His young heroes succeed through a mixture of pluck and luck.
They are lucky, in part, because they deserve to be lucky. A
given hero may appear in several books, e.g., "Ragged Dick,"
but the books do not have a common set of characters. Regardless
of their names, the heroes are remarkably similar. Horatio Alger,
Jr. was the oldest of five children of a debt-ridden
New England, Unitarian minister. He was very frail. He
was under weight and undersized, suffered from bronchial asthma, and
near sightedness. Because of his poor health, the family deferred
his introduction to the alphabet and reading until he was six years
old. He started formal school at age 10 and achieved Phi Beta Kappa
at Harvard. He was ranked eighth in a class of 89. He
volunteered for the union army three times and was rejected three
times because of his asthma and small size (just over five feet and
about 120 pounds). Horatio Alger, Jr. taught school or tutored school
children for a good part of his life. His most famous student is
Benjamin Cardozo who went on to be a Supreme Court justice.
2. What has he written?
Horatio Alger wrote mostly juvenile fiction: short stories, serialized
novels, and novels. He also wrote biography, juvenile biography (James
Garfield, Abraham Lincoln, and Daniel Webster), and poetry. He did
someserious writing for adult publications (essays), but he was not
nearlyas successful at that.
The Horatio Alger Society includes lists of his publications and their
various editions for collectors. The most comprehensive list of Alger's
publications is Bob Bennett's_ A Collector's Guide to the Published
Works of Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899)_MAD Book Company: Newark,
Many of the books were sold after Alger's death and after the copyrights
had expired so careful records were not kept. Printers frequently
printed unauthorized editions at the same time they printed authorized
editions. The unauthorized editions were sold by the printer with
no fee paid to the publisher.
3. What Alger
organizations have sites on the Net?
Horatio Alger, Jr Resources
Horatio Alger Association (philanthropic organization)
Horatio Alger Educational Programs
Horatio Alger Society (collectors) _URL_
4. What pseudonyms did Alger use?
Arthur Lee Putnam
Charles F. Preston
5. Why is there so little accurate
information about Alger?
Alger's sister Augusta inherited all of his papers. She detroyed
virtually all of his personal papers. In the Victorian era, it was
not unusual for an author or his/her relatives to purge the personal
papers of anything that might be unseemly. To the Victorian mind,
virtually any eccentricity was unseemly. This bowdlerization occurred
to the personal papers of Louisa May Alcott, Sir Richard Francis Burton,
6. Why is there so much disinformation
In 1928 Herbert Mayes published a fraudulent Alger biography entitled:
Alger: A Biography Without a Hero. Mayes even fabricated a diary
for Alger which detailed a life of carousing and womanizing. The
Mayes biography became the basis for the entry in the Dictionary of
American Biography. Mayes did not admit the fraud until 1976. As
late as 1963, an Alger biographer with academic credentials, John
Tebbel, repeated all of the Mayes fabrications, supposedly after verifying
7. What Alger novels are available
on the Net?
8. What movies been made from his books?
- Struggling Upward
- Cast Upon the Breakers
- The Cash Boy
- Joe the Hotel Boy
- Paul Prescott's Charge: A story for boys
- The Errand Boy: or, How Phil Brent Won Success
- A Fancy of Hers
- Driven from Home or Carl Crawford's Experience
- Frank's Campaign or, Farm and Camp
- Paul the Peddler, or, Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
- Phil the Fiddler
A Disney movie _Newsies_ deals with the 1899 newsboy strike in New
York City. The movie is not based on a Horatio Alger story but it
does depict the life of the newsboys that figured in so many Alger
stories. The informal web site of the movie is referenced on the
Horatio Alger Resources web site. If any movies have been made from
Alger stories, they should have been made between 1900 and 1920 at
the peak of his popularity. They would have been silent movies.
So far none of the FAQ readers have turned up an Horatio Alger silent
movie (or talkie).
9. What are some good
Alger biographies? Some bad ones?
Gary Scarnhorst with Jack Bales, _The Lost Life of Horatio Alger,
Jr._ (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN, 1985) Many poor
biographies are based on the 1928 Mayes book mentioned above.
10. What is the relationship between Horatio Alger
stories and the subsequent The Rover Boys, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys,
and Nancy Drew Series?
Horatio Alger worked with a younger writer, Edward Stratemeyer, an
editor at Munsey Magazine. Before his death, Alger's arranged
to have Stratemeyer finish the works that Alger had in progress.
The Alger books "completed" by
- Out for Business
- Falling in with Fortune
- Nelson, the Newsboy
- Young Captain Jack
- Jerry, the Backwoods Boy
- Lost at Sea
- From Farm to Fortune
- The Young Book Agent
- Randy of the River
- Joe, the Hotel Boy
- Ben Logan's Triumph
Stratemeyer was a prolific author and went on to set up the Stratemeyer
Syndicate which was responsible for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
After Stratemeyer's death, the syndicate operated under the leadership
of his daughter Harriet Adams Stratemeyer.
11. What is the formula for an Horatio Alger story?
An adolescent boy with a rural back ground sets off to earn his
livelihood in an urban setting. He triumphs over circumstances
and temptation and starts advancing in his career. At some point,
he will be betrayed or falsely accused by one of his peers. Ultimately,
the hero will be vindicated. While pluck and hard work play a role
in the success of an Alger hero, there is always an older male who
takes on the hero as his protégé. That mentor plays a critical
role in the success of the Alger hero. The Alger hero never takes
revenge on those who mistreated him. He secures what is rightfully
his, but he is never vindictive. Alger heroes never have romantic
interests. As they leave adolescence, these heroes leave his books
except to play the role of mentors for the new generation of Alger
12. What libraries / museums have Horatio Alger archives?
of Congress Simmons
College Archives and Special Collections Northern
Illinois University Library
Founders Library at NIU has acquired a comprehensive collection
of more than 2,000 books and periodicals by and about Horatio Alger,
and the library now is the official repository for the archives
and other papers of the Horatio Alger Society. All materials received
from the Society will be cataloged and made available to interested
parties through computer networks. A complete catalog of Alger's
works will be prepared, and the library will continue to acquire
all Alger-related monographs and dissertations, in addition to mounting
periodic exhibits of the collections and hosting future conventions
of the Society. Stanley
Lieberman Memorial Collection of American Juvenile Literature, Princeton
University University of South
Florida Tampa Campus Library A. Frank Smith,
Jr. Library Center Special
Collections Department - Emory University Popular
Culture Library at Bowling Green State de Grummond Childrens' Literature Collection
at Southern Mississipi
13. What does the Horatio Alger "Strive and Succeed"
philosophy consist of? Are there contemporary versions of it?
There are several elements in the Horatio Alger "Strive and
The Alger success formula seems very like what one finds in _The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin_. Alger's code is less pragmatic and more altruitstic
than Poor Richard's. Alger's code imposes significant personal obligations,
but it is not at all individualistic. The Alger code does not seem
to have much in common with those individuals labeled "Horatio
Alger success stories." Some modern conservatives object
to Alger's liberal philosophy. W. S. Ross even provides an example
of an Alger novel (_Struggling Upward_) with all that pernicious liberalism
- hard work
- study (informal rather than formal)
- loyalty to superiors and subordinates
- abstaining from alcohol
- frugal living
- importance of dress and personal grooming
- personal


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County fairs are one of the most entertaining and informative public events that are conducted by various communities. There are a lot of exhibitions, games and food stalls at the event. People gather at the exhibit to showcase their culture and talent. Many exciting games are also conducted for the individuals who come to the fair.
County fairs are usually conducted to teach people about various things so that they can use in their daily living. The activities that are held at the county fair are mostly related to agriculture and animal husbandry. There are also exhibitions conducted for painting, sculpting, quilt making, ornaments making, flower decorations, crafts and various other things.
The following are the various types of County Fairs:
A county fair is mostly organized to bring out various ideas about improving agriculture and to educate people who live in a town that has a significant agricultural base. Initially, these county fairs were started in the early 1940s when communities wanted to teach people the various techniques about agriculture and the ways to increase their produce. There are also plenty of games and competitions that are conducted to award the farmer who has produced the best crop. Many courses are conducted for the public so that they become aware of how to increase their harvest.
Some county fairs are specific only for livestock. The activities at the event are mostly related to animal husbandry. For example, if the people of a town are more involved with livestock then the activities of the county fairs are based on animal husbandry. Individuals are taught how to improve the condition of their farms and animals by providing them education through courses, exhibitions, and presentations. After the fair, they start to give better care to their livestock, and this improves their flock's condition and the condition of their living. Prizes are awarded to individuals who produce the hardiest flocks; by doing this, others get inspired and motivated to improve their cattle.
These fairs are a great way to teach the younger generation about the culture of a particular county. Many good things and practices from the past are slowly deteriorating, and thus it is essential for the newer generations to learn about it.
Various mediums of art such as painting, sculpting, wood carving, quilt making, etc. are exhibited in the county fair. If you happen to be an expert with artwork, you can exhibit your painting or crafts and might even have the chance to meet your favorite artist or get a potential contact which would be helpful for your future career in that particular field.


A water line with an internal radius of 5.40 10-3 m is connected to a shower head that has 22 holes. The speed of the water in the line is 1.2 m/s.
(a) What is the volume flow rate in the line?
(b) At what speed does the water leave one of the holes (effective radius = 4.6 10-4 m) in the head?


The Chemistry of Truffle Stank
Kate Horowitz
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If you're like most people, you've never gotten up close and personal with a fresh truffle. And—depending on your preferences—that might be a good thing.
A truffle is the fleshy, reproductive part of a sac fungus. The fungus lives underground, sharing a symbiotic existence with the roots of trees. When it's time to make more fungi, the truffle portion ripens and begins giving off a strong, distinctive odor. Some people say truffles smell like heaven; others, "old socks and sex."
Where does that love-it-or-hate-it stench come from? It's complicated. As Sarah Everts explains in the video above, scientists have identified hundreds of chemical compounds in the truffle's aroma. Among them are dimethyl sulfide, which forms part of the scent of cooked cabbage, and 2-methylbutanal, which can also be found in the scent of a wet dog. Delicious.
We may not all like the aroma, but it is there to draw us in. Attracted by the scent, animals dig up the truffle, eat it, and poop out the spores elsewhere in the forest, thus dispersing the fungus into the wider world.
That's how it used to go, anyway. These days, the animals that dig up the truffles (mostly dogs) have to stand by while their human employers seize the smelly prize for themselves. As a rare and labor-intensive delicacy, fresh truffles can fetch more than $15,000 a pound at auction. So perhaps we shouldn't turn our noses up at the truffle just yet.
Want more truffle trivia? Try your hand at the truffle quiz over at the Chemical & Engineering News website.
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 9. Check the sensor eyes for dirt, grease and the like. If you need to clean it, use denatured alcohol and a Q-tip. Do not use any other cleaning agent because damage to the optical lens will occur.
 10. Disconnect the voltage regulator/rectifier and retest. If the engine now has spark, replace the regulator/rectifier.
 11. Using piercing probes and DVA adapter or DVA Multimeter, check the resistance and DVA voltage on the 6-pin stator connector while connected as follows:
RED LEAD TO: BLACK LEAD TO: RESISTANCE DVA READING
Orange Orange/Black 50-60 OHMS 12V or more
Brown Brown/Yellow 450-600 OHMS 150V or more
Brown/White Brown/Black 450-600 OHMS 150V or more
Note:
Low readings on all checks indicate a possible problem with the flywheel magnets that needs to be checked.
Service note:
It is recommended that liquid neoprene be applied to the areas where piercing probes were used.
 1. If all the tests so far show good readings, check the DVA output from the power pack on the primary coil wires as follows:
RED LEAD TO: BLACK LEAD TO: DVA READING
Orange/Blue Engine Ground 130 or more
Orange Engine Ground 130 or more
Orange/Green Engine Ground 130 or more
Note:
If the DVA values are below these specifications, the power pack or sensor is likely bad.
 1. Check the DVA voltage on the black/orange and orange/red sensors leads as follows:
RED LEAD TO: BLACK LEAD TO: DVA READING
Orange/Red Engine Ground 12V or more
Black/Orange Engine Ground 12V or more
 1. If an oscilloscope is available, check the white/blue (crank position signal) and white/green (cylinder position signal) sensor wires while connected to the sensor. With the engine cranking over, you should see a square toothed pattern on both wires. The white/blue wire should show one pulse per revolution and the white/green should show seven pulses per revolution of the engine. See example chart below:
No spark on one bank of cylinders
 1. Using piercing probes and DVA adapter or DVA Multimeter, check the resistance and DVA voltage for the bank without spark on the 6-pin stator connector while connected as follows:
Note:
If the power pack has no spark on one bank and the readings are good, replace the power pack.
 1. Disconnect the 5-pin connector on the port side of the power pack and see if the spark returns. If it does, use the fluke meter set to ohms and see if the black/yellow or black/orange wire is shorted to engine ground. Check to see if the shift interrupter switch is located in the circuit where there is no spark.
High-speed miss
 1. If the engine runs fine until you get above 4900 RPM and then starts missing, check the orange to orange/black power coil wires with an oscilloscope (if available) or replace the pack. A breakdown inside the pack could cause RFI noise to activate the rev limiter for no apparent reason.
 2. Using piercing probes and DVA adapter or DVA Multimeter, check the DVA voltage at the RPM where the problem is occurring while connected as follows:
RED LEAD TO: BLACK LEAD TO: DVA BANK/CYLINDER
Brown Brown/Yellow 150+V Starboard (1-3-5)
Brown/White Brown/Black 150+V Port (2-4-6)
Note:
The readings should rapidly increase as the engine RPM increases and stabilize below 400 volts (voltage exceeding 400 V DVA indicates a bad pack). A sharp drop in voltage right before the miss becomes apparent usually indicates a bad stator charge coil.
 1. Connect an inductive tachometer to the spark plug wires one at a time and compare the readings. If most of the cylinders show the same reading and one or two are different, check the primary wires with the inductive pickup to see if the readings are the same coming out of the power pack. A difference in readings between the primary and secondary coil wires indicates bad ignition wires. No difference indicates a bad power pack.
Will not rev up
Engine will not rev up above idle speed or only has spark as long as the starter solenoid is engaged:
Using piercing probes and DVA adapter or DVA Multimeter, check the DVA voltage while connected as follows:
RED LEAD TO: BLACK LEAD TO: DVA
Orange Orange/Black 11 - 24V
Note:
The readings should rapidly increase as the engine RPM increases and stabilize below 24 volts (voltage exceeding 24 volts DVA indicates a bad pack). A sharp drop in voltage right before the miss becomes apparent usually indicates a bad stator winding. A sharp drop in voltage when you let off of the starter solenoid indicates a bad power coil on the stator.
Shakes hard
Engine will not rev up above 2500 RPM and shakes hard (S.L.O.W. activated):
 1. Verify the engine is not actually overheating by using a digital pyrometer.
 2. Check the routing of the tan temperature wires, an example of a bad location is shown below. The tan wires need to be located as far as possible away from the spark plug wires.
 3. Disconnect the temperature sensors and see if the engine performs normally. If it does, check both temperature sensors and replace the defective one.
 4. If there is not any indication of a problem at this point, replace the power pack
Engine stays in QuickStart all of the time
Check the yellow/red wire for 12 volts while the engine is running. You should only see voltage on this wire while the starter solenoid is engaged.
As you can see, there are several critical steps involved with the troubleshooting of outboard ignition systems. The electronic components are not "magic black boxes" mysteriously making spark appear, but rather a complex system giving the engine the correct voltages at the correct time for years of trouble-free boating. Additional information for other engines can be obtained by visiting _URL_ or _URL_. I would like to give a special thanks to the technical service personnel at CDI Electronics for their help with this article.
Author Clark Beard is a senior technical service advisor for CDI Electronics and also serves on the advisory board of AMTECH.
IF you wish to service or repair your own ignition system, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you obtain an OEM model-specific service manual to help you. We have most available at these links at Mastertech.

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Extrusion is the process of creating three-dimensional geometry out of flat, two-dimensional shapes by drawing the 2-D shape along a path in 3-D space. The extrusion path may be a straight line or any kind of curve. If the path is linear, it may be normal to, or at any other angle to the extruded shape.
Extrusion may be used to both build a 3-D object to begin with, or to add additional geometry to an existing 3-D polygon mesh object. In the latter case, a polygon (or group of polygons) comprising part of the surface of the object are extruded. This extrusion can be either outward or inward on the 3-D object, creating positive or negative surface detail. Extrusion of polygons on 3-D objects is often associated with a beveling type of effect.
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Established scientific models are supported by multiple independent lines of evidence.
September 9, 2013
A scientific model can be relied on when it's had its tyres kicked, its log book examined, its mechanics tested, its body checked and it's been taken for many test-drives.
In short…
Scientists have most confidence in models that have been tested from as many different angles as possible. The great bulk of established scientific knowledge consists of such models. Much of the work at the frontiers of science consists of performing additional tests on the more sparsely-supported models.
In order to reach a reliable conclusion about how the world operates it is better to have multiple independent lines of evidence converging on one conclusion. That, of course, requires multiple studies.
Steven Novella, American neurologist, 2012.
Indicators of climate change
What is meant by multiple lines of independent evidence.
In science, no model is accepted until it is tested against the real world. But a single line of evidence (for example, from one particular study or experiment) is not usually sufficient to establish the model beyond reasonable doubt.
The gold standard of testing is 'multiple independent lines of evidence', meaning that the model has been thoroughly tested and supported by many different investigations. If the evidence from these converges and indicates the model is correct, we can have great confidence in the model. In this case, the consensus of the scientific community swings behind the model and it becomes the accepted explanation.
Sometimes, there is a lot of evidence in support of a model, and some other evidence that fails to support it. As long as there is no falsifying evidence, scientists would say that the weight of evidence supports the model.
Why multiple lines independent evidence increase reliability of models.
Convergence of evidence is not the same as replication. Replication is a kind of checking of results, in which an investigation is repeated by researchers who are independent of the original investigating team. Convergence requires that the different lines of evidence come from different types of tests, sometimes from completely different fields of science. The more different and less connected the test techniques, the greater the support they provide by convergence.
 - The discovery that CFCs were responsible for depleting the Ozone layer was made after multiple independent lines of evidence converged. The evidence came from measurements taken at ground stations, via balloons and aircraft, satellite data, and chemical studies.
 - The Plate Tectonic model of the Earth is supported by multiple independent lines of evidence – magnetic stripes in rocks showing sea-floor spreading, the global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, comparable fossils found on widely separated continents and satellite measurements.
 - The Anthropogenic Global Warming model proposes that the current global warming and associated climate change are caused principally by human emissions of greenhouse gases. This is supported by multiple independent lines of evidence. For more details, see here.
 - The biological evolutionary model is supported by evidence from many different fields: paleontology, geology, geneticsmolecular biologybiogeographycomparative anatomy and many others. Richard Dawkins relates some of them in this podcast.
 - During the latter half of the 19th century, there was a remarkable lack of convergence in scientist's estimates of the age of the Earth. Geologists argued for an age of perhaps billions of years and evolutionary biologists agreed that such timescales were needed for present lifeforms to evolve. However, physicists had other ideas. The influential physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) used calculations based on energy flows to estimate the age of the Sun at 20 – 60 million years, and the age of Earth at about 100 million years. The disagreement persisted until the discovery of nuclear reactions at the turn of the century. The realization that nuclear energy is responsible for both the Sun's energy and the heat within the Earth changed the nature of the calculations. All evidence now converges on an age of 4.5 billion years for the Earth.
 - The Big Bang model for the origin of the universe is supported by multiple lines of evidence: the expansion of space as described by Hubble's Law, the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the distribution and evolution of galaxies, the abundance of light elements in the universe, the large-scale structure of the universe, and many others.
Steven Novella's quote is from A Study Showed…., JREF Swift blog, 2012.
The Climate system graphic is from the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.
Updated: 2013/09/09
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I thought this was a fun little point. Boeing's trying to work out the effect of Wi-Fi on airplanes. Obviously a fairly important thing to be doing. We all want to be able to use Wi-Fi, but there's a worry that it might have an effect on the systems that control the plane. Which would not be good if a version of Angry Birds got into the flight navigation computer for example.
So, in order to do this Boeing loads up a plane with bags of potatoes. No, really:
Boeing has hauled in around 20,000 pounds of potatoes to use as human substitutes during its tests with airplane WiFi. The aircraft maker is checking that onboard wireless signals don't interfere with navigation and communication systems. Groaningly titled SPUDS (Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution), the tubers apparently replicate how airborne signals are bounced and absorbed by real-life passengers, but without the need for Boeing to offer complimentary snacks or tiny drinks during testing.
You can see Boeing's video here.
But why potatoes? Why not mannekins, which would be the same shape as people? Or if vegetables are important, cabbages or carrots say?
The answer is, about the mannekins, that we're trying to find something that looks similar to a human being for radio waves, not light waves. So it isn't the shape that we're really interested in. As far as radio waves are concerned (yes, I know they're the same thing as light waves, just a different wavelength) a human being is really a slightly solid bag of water. Water with a bit of stuff in, some proteins, carbohydrates, that sort of stuff. And so is a potato. So as far as radio is concerned a potato looks more like a human than a mannekin does.
As to the other veggies possible: potatoes are cheap.


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The Splendid Magic
of Penny Arcade:
11 1/2 Anniversary Edition
This book details the history of a comic strip called Penny Arcade. The comic appears to catalog the lives of two young men who are utterly steeped in popular culture.
Each chapter gathers into a coherent beam of savory trivia, strange facts, formerly mysterious origins, biographical information, interviews, inaugural conventions, an unlikely charity, and comic strips.
You get the sense that some of the content may be apocryphalfor example, the part where they eat a whole wolf basically comes out of nowhere.
Also, if one of them really did become King of the Britons, you're sure you would have heard about it somewhere else.


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Youngsters are 'Game' for Local History
Gaming mechanics and time travel might not sound like traditional means of exploring the history of Clyde and Avon valleys, but that's what CAVLP Heritage are doing with groups of youngsters every Tuesday evening at Settlers Game and Comic Book Café in Hamilton.
The Board Game Design Nights are open to anyone who is interested in exploring the history of the local area and provide an opportunity to creatively explore the mapping heritage of Major-General William Roy, Scotland's foremost cartographer.
The game design nights have helped to encourage a newfound appreciation for the depth of history that can be discovered in the Clyde and Avon Valleys, from the prehistoric era to the industry and horticulture of the 20th century. The group has been enchanted by such artefacts as the Tricephalos carving in Netherton, and historical characters such as Lugless Will of Lanark and The Black Lady of Broomhill House. They have gone from discussing the mechanics of a board game to start researching places, items and people they would like to reference in the final game.
By using novel methods of engagement CAVLP Heritage hopes to increase awareness of the rich heritage of the CAVLP landscapes, particularly among audiences that did not previously have any interest in or understanding of the history and archaeology that surrounds them daily. From creative arts events, to board games, to fruity archaeology, the team has been employing some fun and playful methods to encourage people to get more broadly involved.
The board game design nights are part of a wider project, Mapping the Past, which focus on the unique mapping heritage of the Clyde and Avon valleys. Youngsters involved in the project are then encouraged to get involved in wider volunteering opportunities available through CAVLP Heritage including site surveys (Capturing the Past project) and archaeological excavations (Investigating the Past project).
These opportunities will allow volunteers to come face to face with the past in a new way, as well as enjoy the mental and physical health benefits that come with working as part of a larger team outdoors!
Every Tuesday evening, 7-9pm
Settlers Game and Comic Book Café, 40 Castle Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, ML3 6BU


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 1. rose mallow, swamp mallow, common rose mallow, swamp rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos(noun)
 showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
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 1. Hibiscus moscheutos
 Hibiscus moscheutos is a cold-hardy perennial wetland plant that can grow in large colonies. The hirsute leaves are of variable morphology, but commonly found as deltoidal in form and sometimes having up to three lobes. It is found in wetlands and along the riverine systems of the southeastern United States from Texas to the Atlantic states, its territory extending northward to southern Ontario. There exists in nature numerous forms and petal colors range from pure white to deep rose, and, except for one genome, all have an eye of deep maroon. Taxonomic consensus is lacking for the nomenclature of the multiple sub-species. The complete flowers are born apically, whereas the related Hibiscus laevis carries bud and bloom along the stem. In Canada it is listed as a species of special concern by the Species at Risk Act. Propagation can be accomplished by seed sown 0.6 cm below media and kept constantly moist, or by crown divisions during winter dormancy, and some success can be achieved by hard-wood stem cuttings. Numerous hybrids of the native North American Hibiscus species have been released by the commercial nursery trade. In cultivation the species or the hybrids can be an attractive addition to a bog garden or other water feature, not only adding visual appeal but also enhancing wildlife value for nectar-feeders and birds.
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 The numerical value of hibiscus moscheutos in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
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 The numerical value of hibiscus moscheutos in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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Ontario overall benefits from the pole shift in that it will arrive at a warmer climate, will have ocean access from the Hudson Bay and what will become the St. Lawrence Bay, and will be a land bridge supporting travel between the lands to what is now the west and east. Ontario has land to the north that is of a low enough elevation to be swallowed by the melting poles. This will consume a good half of Ontario, but will bring the Hudson Bay closer to survivors huddled in the highlands. Fishing will be good in the oceans after the shift, as the high level of carbon dioxide will make the oceans lush with vegetation, and sea food will follow in becoming abundant. As a land bridge, Ontario might find itself with barter and communication opportunities, also.
Note Great Lakes commentary.
Note East Coast Migration commentary.