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The Randolph County Strategic Plan is focused on optimizing Public Health, Safety, and Well-Being, by answering four broad questions: Where have we been?; Where are we now?; Where do we want to be?; and How do we get there?
Facilitated by County staff with technical support from the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, this initiative includes a wide range of local governments, organizations, and citizens from across the county. The process began with the development of a detailed Environmental Data Scan to provide a clear picture of the county – past, present, and future. Steering Committee members used this information to identify and prioritize key strategic issues impacting Randolph County communities. Our 60-member Steering Committee includes the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners, mayors, city managers, health care professionals, educators, human service providers, public safety providers, chambers of commerce, economic development, and planning professionals, and citizens representing a broad cross-section of county interests. In addition, more than 100 citizens served on three task forces (Public Health, Public Safety and Well-Being) with various sub-committees, and met monthly to discuss issues and develop strategic goals and strategies. Significant input from other planning processes was also integrated into the plan. The Steering Committee and Task Force members worked diligently to develop an action plan that focuses limited resources on key strategic issues facing the county to make a positive, lasting impact on the communities we serve.
Common themes emerging from our work together include:
- Improving development and recruitment of qualified workers for industry, agriculture, health care, education, and critical government services.
- Making tangible quality of life improvements to enhance our county's recruitment and marketing efforts.
- Developing proactive prevention programs to reduce the debilitating and costly effects of existing and emerging community and mental health challenges.
- Reducing barriers to critical services. Aligning resources to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of services by: -reducing silos between organizations; -increasing communication, cooperation and collaboration among public agencies, private agencies and institutions to gain a better mutual understanding of issues and challenges; and -developing mutually-beneficial solutions.


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What: The Atomium
Where: Square de l'Atomium, B-1020 Brussels, Belgium
In northern Brussels a structure named 'Europe's most bizarre building' is a permanent reminder of the Cold War's utopian vision of the future. The Atomium was constructed for Expo 58, the Brussels World's Fair of 1958, and was originally intended only to survive the months of the Fair. But such was the popularity of this unusual part-building part-sculpture that over half a century later it remains the Belgian capital's most popular tourist destination.
The 335ft-high stainless steel building was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn with architects André and Jean Polak. The shape represents a single molecule of iron magnified 165 billion times. Five of its nine spheres house permanent and temporary exhibition spaces, while the connecting tubes enclose escalators and staircases. The top provides a panoramic view where on a clear day visitors can see as far as Antwerp.
Built at the height of the Cold War, when scientific developments were at the forefront of confrontations between competing nations, the Atomium recalls the idealistic dreams of the Space Race and ambitions on both sides of the Iron Curtain for an ultra-modern and super-technological future.
Images: Exterior and interior of The Atomium, designed by André Waterkeyn, André Polak and Jean Polak, 1958. Photos courtesy Shed Expedition

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Some of you may be familiar with the Gingko biloba tree. They can be found in cities around the world where they have been planted for their beauty and spectacular color change. What casual visitors to these cities may not know is the seed pods produce an odor reminiscent of feces when they are stepped on. Yep, in some cities, at some times of year, you have to tread lightly around Gingko" trees and check your shoes before you go inside. What some of you may also not know is Gingko biloba is the oldest known tree species on the planet. Apparently smell isn't everything when it comes to survival.
In this video you can see the oldest Gingko biloba in Europe. Note the shape of its trunk. Have you seen other trees with trunks like this?
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Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
 1. To what locality can all the living gingko biloba trees be traced?
 2. How did the view of the Gingko tree differ between China and Japan? Explain your answer as fully as you can.
 3. What is unique about the sperm of the "Gingko" tree? What other plants share this trait? When do these plants appear in the fossil record?
 4. How do Gingko trees disperse their seeds so the young trees don't compete with the parent tree?
 5. How does Gingko biloba respond to pollution? Does this response surprise you given the age of the species? Explain why or why not.
 6. Gingko biloba trees come as both male and female trees. Humans have shown a preference for the male tree. What do female trees have that male trees don't? How is this connected to a preference for males? Why do people fear this preference may impact the genetic diversity of the species?
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mtlb_colordef
Matlab colordef emulation function
Description
There is no Scilab equivalent function for Matlab colordef but there are equivalent instructions.
The function h = mtlb_colordef(color_option) or h = mtlb_colordef(fig,color_option) is used by mfile2sci to replace colordef(color_option) or colordef(fig,color_option) when it was not possible to know what were the inputs while porting Matlab code to Scilab. This function will determine the correct semantic at run time. If you want to have a more efficient code it is possible to replace mtlb_colordef calls:
 - When called with one input parameter, if color_option is equal to "black" or "none" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig = gcf();fig.background = -1;
 - When called with one input parameter, if color_option is equal to "white" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig = gcf();fig.background = -2;
 - When called with two input parameters, if fig is a graphic handle and color_option is equal to "black" or "none" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig.background = -1;
 - When called with two input parameters, if fig is a graphic handle and color_option is equal to "white" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig.background = -2;
 - When called with two input parameters, if fig is equal to "new" and color_option is equal to "black" or "none" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig = scf(max(winsid())+1);fig.background = -1;
 - When called with two input parameters, if fig is equal to "new" and color_option is equal to "white" mtlb_colordef(color_option) may be replaced by fig = scf(max(winsid())+1);fig.background = -2;
 - When called with one output parameter h, just add h = fig; after equivalent instructions.
Caution: mtlb_colordef has not to be used for hand coded functions.
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Reply To: Tip: simulate post grid (for specific pages)
Jason Bobich
This is sort of tough to do from the custom query option because in all ways (that I know of anyway) to specify specific pages would not be possible within a single string.
I can think of two ways where actually feeding pages through to the post grid would be possible the way things are setup.
1) Take the pages you want to be in the post grid and set them as Child pages to some Parent page. Then in your custom query string you'd do this:
Where "123" is the numerical post ID for the Parent page, to which you want the child pages below it to show. Note that by using the custom query string in any post grid, you're overriding the number of posts normally generated for you based on the columns/rows. So, you need to specify that, as well.
2) Now, this is super hacky, but an interesting thing I just thought of. Internally, there is a filter on the query string every time a post grid is generated. But there's no way to really identify this filter with a specific post grid instance.
In your instance of the Post grid, you could use the "query" option to pass in some unique identifier to use as a "catch" from your PHP function that you're going to attach to the filter for all post grid queries.
So, for example, setup a post grid and for the query option write something like:
Now from your Child theme's functions.php you can filter onto the query string for all post grids and use that identifier to trigger some custom query string.
 * Custom query for post lists/post grids
function my_custom_posts_query( $query, $args ){
 if( $args['query'] =='my_unique_key' ){
 $query = array(
 'post_type' => 'page',
 'post__in' => array( 1, 2, 3, 4 ) // ID's for any pages you want to include
 return $query;
add_filter( 'themeblvd_posts_args','my_custom_posts_query', 10, 2 );


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Until further notice, Waterfall Arts requires that all guests and artists registering for our classes and workshops are fully vaccinated for COVID-19. A digital or physical copy of your vaccine card can be presented at the door at the time of the class or emailed directly to our programming director. Masks must be worn throughout our building and during all programs.
** For youth programs, we ask for proof of vaccination of the household adults. If your child is vaccinated, you may submit the child's COVID-19 vaccination information, instead.**


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A burst of heavy rains prompted special measures at the Yellowstone national park at the start of the summer tourist season. The park service characterized the levels of rainfall and flooding sweeping the park as unprecedented."Effective immediately, all entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily CLOSED due to substantial flooding, rockslides and mudslides on roadways from recent unprecedented amounts of rainfall and flooding," the administration of the park announced Monday. Multiple road and bridge failures, mudslides and other issues were enumerated. No inbound traffic is allowed, at least on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Yellowstone River reached record-high levels Monday in the Montana towns of Corwin Springs and Livingston. Higher flood levels were anticipated so the visitors were evacuated. Numerous sections of roads throughout Yellowstone either washed away or covered in rocks and mud, with a number of bridges also damaged.
Power outages occurred in several areas of the park. The park's reopening will be determined after flood waters recede and damage is assessed. Usually, 780,000 people typically visit the park in June. Travelers with plans to visit Yellowstone National Park in the coming weeks are advised to monitor road conditions. Mammoth, Osprey Falls, Indian Creek Campground and Lava Creek Campgrounds, all located in the park, are locations expected to experience floods, the weather service said. Gardiner, Montana, a town just north of the park that is currently isolated by the dangerous conditions due to a mudslide in the vicinity.

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Stochastic Collocatation for Correlated Inputs (2015)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Stochastic Collocation (SC) has been studied and used in different disciplines for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ). The method consists of computing a set of appropriate points, called collocation points, and then using Lagrange interpolation to construct the probability density function (pdf) of the quantity of interest (QoI). The collocation points are usually chosen as Gauss quadrature points, i.e., the roots of orthogonal polynomials with respect to the pdf of the uncertain inputs. If the mathematical model has more than one stochastic parameter, the multidimensional set of points is usually build using the tensor product of the roots of the onedimensional orthogonal polynomials. As a result of that, for multidimensional problems the same set of collocation points is used for both correlated and uncorrelated inputs. In this work, we propose to compute an alternative set of points for correlated inputs. The set will be derived using the orthogonal polynomials for correlated inputs that we developed in a previous work. As these polynomials are not unique, we will obtain multiple sets of collocations points for each input pdf. The aim of this paper is to study the differences between those sets of points and to find and optimal one.


Repeats a string a specified number of times. The string can be specified as a String literal, a function returning a String, or a column reference.
String literal example:
repeat('ha',3)
Output: Returns the string: hahaha.
Column reference example:
repeat(MyString,4)
Output: Returns the values of the MyString column value written four times in a row.
repeat(column_string,rpt_count)
ArgumentRequired?Data TypeDescription
column_stringYstringName of the column or string literal to be applied to the function
rpt_countNinteger (positive)Count of times to repeat the string
column_string
Name of the column or String literal to be repeated.
Required?Data TypeExample Value
YesString literal, function, or column referencemyColumn
rpt_count
Count of times to repeat the string.
Required?Data TypeExample Value
NoInteger (non-negative)5
Example - REPEAT string function
Source:
myStrrepeat_count
ha0
ha1
ha1.5
ha2
ha-2

Transformation:
Results:
myStrrepeat_countrepeat_string
ha0
ha1ha
ha1.5
ha2haha
ha-2
Example - Padding values
In the following example, the imported prodId values are supposed to be eight characters in length. Somewhere during the process, however, leading 0 characters were truncated. The steps below allow you to re-insert the leading characters.
Source:
prodNameprodId
w011
w0210000001
w03345
w0410402
Transformation:
First, we need to identify how many zeroes need to be inserted for each prodId:
Use the REPEAT function to generate a pad string based on the above values:
Merge the pad string and the original prodId column:
Results:
When you delete the intermediate columns and rename column2 to prodId, you have the following table:
prodNameprodId
w0100000001
w0210000001
w0300000345
w0400010402


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How can I script a screen resolution change, for example to 1024*768?
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There isn't a native powershell way to set the resolution. You could write in-line C# code in a powershell script to do it. Otherwise you would need to find a third party commandline application that does it and just call that from your script.
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How do I change the resolution from C#? Is there a class? – Andrew J. Brehm Aug 26 '09 at 8:52
Did you follow the links that Splash provided? – EBGreen Aug 26 '09 at 11:50
As EBGreen has said, Powershell cannot do it in its vanilla state. However being a.NET-based shell, you could either use.NET within a powershell script, use a traditional CLI application or write a Cmdlet to do it.
These links may help you out if you decide to explore those paths further:
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See the freeware QRes :
Description: Command line utility to change screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate...
For the case of multiple monitors, you can see Display Changer (free for personal and educational use):
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You can't do this using a native Windows command, but you can use an application invoked from the command line like _URL_
I've used it before - it is a little cumbersome but does what it says on the tin.
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Women's and Gender Studies Clothesline Project
The Clothesline project is a participatory exhibit and a visual display that bears witness and attempts to break the silence surrounding violence against women and girls. The exhibit is comprised of t-shirts decorated to represent a particular woman's or girl's experience, by the survivor herself or by someone who cares about her, or cares about the issue. The shirts are hung on a clothesline for viewing. Participants walk through the rows of clothesline to bear witness to these tragedies. The project focuses on providing healing for survivors of violence, educating the public about violence, and preventing violence. The t-shirts on the clothesline were made by VSU students, faculty, staff and persons from the Valdosta community. The Clothesline is displayed each year in October, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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Use Crayola® crayons, markers, or colored pencils to color the flag of Egypt. Color the top stripe red. Color (or leave) the middle stripe white, and color the bottom stripe black. Color the emblem goldenrod. Did you know?
Egypt is located in northern Africa. July 23 marks the anniversary of the revolution that enabled Egypt to change from a monarchy to a republic in 1952. Egypt is known for its pyramids and sphinxes. The Nile River (the world's longest river) provides much needed water to this desert country.
STATS ON THIS COLORING PAGE


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Generalized SDOF system for dynamic analysis of concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks
- Generalized SDOF system for dynamic analysis of concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks
Liquid storage tanks are essential facilities in lifeline and industrial systems. To ensure liquid tightness, serviceability is the prime design concern for these structures. While there have been major studies on the behavior of steel tanks, little attention has been paid to the behavior of rectangular concrete tanks. In this study, the dynamic response of concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks is investigated. In the current design practice, the response of liquid and tank structure is determined based on rigid tank wall and the lumped mass approach. However, the results of analysis show that the flexibility of tank wall increases the hydrodynamic pressures as compared to the rigid wall assumption. Also, recent studies show that the lumped added mass method leads to overly conservative results in terms of base shear and base moment. In addition, in spite of advanced analysis techniques available for dynamic analysis of liquid storage tanks such as finite element method and sequential coupling analysis procedure, there is a need to develop a simplified analysis method for practical applications.In this thesis, a simplified method using the generalized single degree of freedom (SDOF) system is proposed for seismic analysis of concrete rectangular liquid containing structures (LCS). Only the impulsive hydrodynamic pressure is considered. In the proposed method, the consistent mass approach and the effect of flexibility of tank wall on hydrodynamic pressures are considered. Different analytical methods are used to verify the proposed model in this study. The comparison of results based on the current design practice, the analytical-finite element models and full finite element model using ANSYS® shows that the proposed method is fairly accurate which can be used in the structural design of liquid containing structures.Parametric studies on seismic analysis of concrete rectangular LCS using the generalized SDOF system are carried out. Five prescribed vibration shape functions representing the first mode shape of fluid structure interaction system are used to study the effect of flexibility of tank wall and boundary conditions. The effect of flexibility of tank wall, the amplitude of hydrodynamic pressure, the added mass of liquid due to hydrodynamic pressure, the effective heights for liquid containing system and the effect of higher modes on dynamic response of LCS are investigated. In addition, the effect of variable size of tanks and liquid depth are studied. The contribution of higher modes to the dynamic response of LCS is included in the proposed model. A design procedure based on the structural model using the generalized SDOF system is proposed in this study. Design charts and tables for the added mass of liquid due to impulsive hydrodynamic pressure and the corresponding effective heights are presented. The proposed design procedure can be used for engineering design applications.


e-Bench® provides a comprehensive invoice verification and reconciliation system to ensure that all invoices are accurate and a client is not either over or under charged.
Many meters are still being read manually. As with any process or application where there is human input, so there is the opportunity for error.
e-Bench® is configured to check all invoice data to verify if the information on the invoice can be regarded as accurate. It does this in two ways:
 - Checks to ensure the correct tariffs have been applied, i.e. cents per kWh and other levies such as taxes.
 - Checks to ensure if the consumption levels are within the bounds of what might be expected for that particular month. e-Bench® achieves this by comparing the same month of the previous year and then seeing if the consumption levels are within a certain percentage of that earlier period. Please note this percentage can be varied by the user from 5% to 100% or by an absolute amount.
Utility Bill Auditing | Electricity Invoice Reconciliation
If problems are detected, e-Bench® sends exception reports to whoever is designated as the recipient of these alerts (in most cases CarbonEES), so they can be investigated. The advantage of this intelligent processing is that errors are picked up as they occur and can be managed accordingly.


text: A sample set of registered perennial ryegrass varieties was used to compare how morphological characterisation and AFLP(R)(1) and STS molecular markers described variety relationships. All the varieties were confirmed as morphologically distinct, and both the STS and AFLP markers exposed sufficient genetic diversity to differentiate these registered ryegrass varieties. Distances obtained by each of the approaches were compared, with special attention given to the coincidences and divergences between the methods. When correlations between morphological, AFLP and STS distances were calculated and the corresponding scatter-plots constructed, the variety relationships appeared to be rather inconsistent across the methods, especially between morphology and the molecular markers. However, some consistencies were found for closely related material. An implication could be that these molecular-marker techniques, while not yet suited to certain operations in the traditional registration of new varieties, could be suitable methods for investigating disputable distinctness situations or possible EDV2 relationships, subject to establishing standardised protocols and statistical techniques. Some suggestions for such a protocol, including a statistical test for distinctness, are given.


What Makes a Child Lucky
By Gioia Timpanelli
Norton; 127 pages; $19.95
Like a pot of lentils, Gioia Timpanelli's stories are elemental, simple but filling, and her new novel, "What Makes a Child Lucky," is no exception, teaching the basics of survival in a time of great hardship. Best known for her oral recountings of global folktales on public radio, Timpanelli won the American Book Award in 1999 for "Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily." This time out, she remakes yet another Sicilian fable, weaving a regional fairy tale into a timeless present.
The original fable, which opens "What Makes a Child Lucky," tells of a 13th son, a "lucky" boy named Tridicinu. The youth is envied by his older brothers for his seemingly effortless good fortune. One day, echoing the story of Joseph in the Bible, they cast him out, sending him on an impossible mission to retrieve a set of golden bells kept by a family of ogres beneath their monstrous bed.
In Timpanelli's retelling, her hero's family has fallen on hard times. Famine has struck the land, and the "lucky" youngest (also a Joseph) is basically given to a gang of thieves. These thieves, young Joseph learns, have robbed and murdered his only friend, an honest wine merchant. Still, across Sicily people are starving and at least with the gang he can eat. He can also learn, and during his time with the gang, he is befriended and protected by the wise 'Mmaculata, a strange, strong and silent woman who keeps house for the bandits.
"Keep your young eyes open," this earth mother tells Joseph, showing him by example how to avoid the wrath of the most bloodthirsty of the thieves and, ultimately, how to seize the opportunity to make a better life.
Through her lessons and a bit of supernatural intervention, he survives - and if he doesn't return with the ogres' golden bells, he does get to emerge a hero and, most important, a survivor.
With its touches of magical realism and earthy images, Timpanelli's short novel is almost a fable itself. Told in a self-referential style, with interruptions and repeated refrains, its first-person narration reads as if it were to be recited aloud, ideally by a narrator playing young Joseph.
This voice, colloquial and not highly organized, is at first jarring and a little mannered. Who is the Aunt who interrupts from the very first page? Why is the narrator eulogizing a "flat and uninteresting" land? But with very little patience, the rhythms of Timpanelli's language take hold, allowing the hunger-sating, earthy images (that pot of lentils, the wild greens gathered to allay starvation) to settle in. By the time the narrator starts to describe more abstract ideas, the listener, as we must imagine the reader to be, is hooked. "Hunger is a funny thing," she writes, "for it is personal, even intimate.... It searches you out and becomes the roof over your head, the floor beneath your feet."
Throughout this brief novel, Timpanelli sustains that tension, mixing the abstract moral of her story with its most basic nature, and leavening its rough practicalities with touches of magic. "What happened next I can't completely explain," Timpanelli, through Joseph, says, describing a vision that could have been his late friend - or simply a fortunate wind. "I guess I was lucky that time," Joseph recalls, looking back on his rescue and his role in resolving the story.
But as he has learned from 'Mmaculata, luck often consists of keeping one's eyes open and one's mouth shut, of learning when to act, when to stay still, and when to harvest the wild asparagus on the hillsides. {sbox}


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Cordelia Head of J&L Orchids will be discussing several different genera of miniature and micro-miniature orchids. Topics will include basic functions of orchids, troubleshooting, how roots and leaves indicate their needs, and how to adapt to growing them in a home environment.
Cordelia Head is one of three previous owners of J&L Orchids and is proud to be associated with the new owners, the Carreno family. She has been growing orchids for 40 years and is very involved in orchid judging, conservation, the American Orchid Society and World Orchid Conference. She has discovered a number of new orchid species, many named for her, in her world travels.


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Soil Nailing Systems
Soil nailing systems are utilized to support top-down excavation methods in certain soil conditions, and are most effective in very dense granular soils and cohesive soils. SNS can be designed and utilized in both temporary and permanent applications.
The excavation progresses in vertical increments of approximately five (5) feet. The exposed soil is then covered by a layer of shotcrete having an approximate thickness of four (4) to eight (8) inches, depending upon design requirements. In conjunction with each tier of shotcrete, a row of soil nails is drilled into place on a horizontal spacing ranging from four (4) to six (6) feet. Once the shotcrete and soil nails are installed at each level, the above process is repeated in subsequent vertical increments until design subgrade elevation is reached.
Soil nailing systems are advantageous in many circumstances. First, where construction schedules are critical, the general excavation can begin immediately prior to and in tandem with the soil nailing operation, thereby reducing the overall project schedule. Second, soil nailing can be performed within soils that are too dense to be penetrated with conventional driven earth support systems. Finally, soil nailing is also beneficial at sites where rock is at or above subgrade elevation, where additional "toe" would otherwise be required for conventional earth support systems.
Typical Applications for Soil Nailing Systems
Temporary and Permanent Earth Support


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The laser distance meter with a maximum measuring distance of 229ft, 30 sets of data memory, and a large backlit screen offers maximum visibility in low light conditions. 2 bubble levels to provide more accurate measurement, simple single button operation, small size, and can fit into any pocket.
HD backlight design
- Convenient to use in the dark environment
- Using more comfortable and convenient
30 sets of data storage
- Save at any time
- View and compare at any time
Dimension Unit (mm)
Laser distance meter is widely used in terrain measurement, battlefield measurement, ranging of tanks, aircraft, ships and artillery to targets, measuring the height of clouds, aircraft, missiles and artificial satellites, etc. It is an important technical equipment to improve the accuracy of high tanks, aircraft, ships and artillery. As the price of laser distance meter continues to drop, industry is also gradually starting to use laser distance meter, which can be widely used in industrial measurement and control, mining, ports and other fields.
Q1: Is laser distance meter accurate?
A1: The laser measure is accurate to within 1/8" and measures to 50 feet. It makes this measuring tool more accurate, easier and faster than a tape measure.
Q2: How do I choose a laser distance meter?
A2: Most lasers measurers are easy to fit into the palm of your hand, but some are bigger than others. If you have small hands and want a small unit that is easily controlled, or if you have big hands and need a larger laser for ease of use, check on the exact size of any model you are considering.
Q3: Do laser distance meter work outside?
A3: If you work outside, an optical scope or digital point finder is a must. Without a scope or a point finder, you can see a laser point at a maximum distance of about 30 feet on a bright day. Chances are, if you are measuring outside, 30 feet isn't going to cut it.
Tips: What is a laser distance meter?
A laser rangefinder is an instrument that uses a parameter of a modulated laser to achieve distance measurement of a target. Laser rangefinders have a measurement range of 3.5 to 5000 meters.
Thank you for buying industrial test and measurement equipment on sisco.com, all products sold by sisco and the partner cover a 12 months warranty, effective from the date of receiving the products.
What is covered?
sisco is responsible for providing free spare parts, and free technical support to assist the customer to repair the defective products until the problem is solved.
What is not covered?
- Product purchased from anyone other than a sisco store or a sisco authorized reseller.
- Expendable parts.
- Routine cleaning or normal cosmetic and mechanical wear.
- Damage from misuse, abuse or neglect.
- Damage from use of parts other than sisco approved.
- Damage from use outside the product's usage or storage parameters.
- Damage from use of parts not sold by sisco.
- Damage from modification or incorporation into other products.
- Damage from repair or replacement of warranted parts by a service provider other than a sisco authorized service provider.
- Damage caused by the application environment not meeting the product usage requirements and the failure to perform preventive maintenance.


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How to forecast active user growth in your app (Shareable spreadsheet)
One of the most important things when developing your mobile app (or web app) is determining how many people are returning to use it and how to measure if the changes you are making is really improving it for the users. The number of registered users is not a great measure of how your app is engaging users. You could have 1 million users signing up but none of them may return to use the app after the first time.
A better measure is to see how many people are actively using your app. However, this number can get confused with the number of people who are new users, so you need to work out how many people stop using your app for each group of new users and when they stop using it. This makes it complicated to forecast the growth (or non-growth) of your app, making it hard to measure if your changes are having the desired effect of making your app sticky.
When is it time to get more users?
If your losing lots of users, you may not want to focus on acquiring lots of new users because they will likely only use your app once, so you need a good indication of when to start applying resources to get more users.
I've created a basic google spreadsheet that lets you to set up some active user goals and makes some forecasts for you. You can setup some targets for a future number of active users for a certain point in the future and understand how many people you need to acquire to hit your goal.
This lets you decide if it is an appropriate time to turn on the taps for user acquisition. e.g. if achieving 100,000 active users in 50 weeks means acquiring 10,000,000 new users, it's clearly not the time to plough financial resources into acquiring new users.
The Output
It will produce a chart like the above.
 - The Redline is the forecast of active users.
 - The orange line is your real data.
 - The blue bars are the number of new users you are acquiring for each data point (day, week, month.. it's up to you).
 - Target Active Users is the number of active users you hope to achieve
 - Target Period is the time by which you are looking to reach that number of active users
 - User Acqusition Growth rate is the linear % increase of the number of users you need to acquire for each time period.
 - Total Users is the number of overall users you need to have acquired by the final period to hit your target number of active users
What do you need to Input?
You need to type in the Target number of active users and the target period you hope to achieve it by. To generate the graph you need to input into the fields described below
The first 2 fields are your baseline. It's the number of new users you acquired in the last period and the number of active users you had in the last period.
Churn rates
Churn rate is the % of users you lose every period. e.g If you acquired 100 users in a period and in the next period, 30 of them are still active, your churn rate is 70%. However, usually the churn rate is high for the first period and subsequent periods are lower, this is because in the first period people are trying out your app and quite a few of them will decide it is not for them. The subsequent periods tend to have a more 'natural' churn.
So in this chart you need to apply a first period churn rate and a second churn rate for all other periods. You should be able to extrapolate these figures form your analytics tool.
New Users and Active Users
The last things to fill out is the number of new users you get every period. You can start by plugging in old data to see if your churn rate estimates are accurate. Fill in the actual number of active users and you can see how well the prediction is based on your inputted churn rates.
Fill in your new user forecasts and it should give you a forecast on the number of active users.
Testing your performance
When you get new data for a period, you can input the number of new users and the actual active user number. Look at the numbers and the chart and if it starts diverging upwards, then the changes you have made to your app are having a positive effect on your churn rate.
You can reuse the chart with your new churn rates to re-estimate the targets you are trying to achieve.
If you find this useful, or know someone who may find this useful, spread it around.
The example spreadsheet can be found here
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L'Arroseur Arrosé
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L'Arroseur arrosé
L'Arroseur arrosé
Directed by Louis Lumière
Produced by Louis Lumière
Starring François Clerc
Benoît Duval
Cinematography Louis Lumière
Release dates 1895
Running time 49 seconds
Country France
Language Silent
L'Arroseur arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval. It was first screened on June 10, 1895.
It has the distinction of being the earliest known instance of film comedy, as well as the first use of film to portray a fictional story. The film was originally known as "Le Jardinier" (The Gardener) or "Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle", and is sometimes referred to in English as "The Tables Turned on the Gardener", and "The Sprinkler Sprinkled".
Shot in Lyon in the spring of 1895, the film portrays a simple practical joke in which a gardener is tormented by a boy who steps on the hose that the gardener is using to water his plants, cutting off the water flow. When the gardener tilts the nozzle up to inspect it, the boy releases the hose, causing the water to spray him. The gardener is stunned and his hat is knocked off, but he soon catches on. A chase ensues, both on and off-screen (the camera never moves from its original position) until the gardener catches the boy and administers a spanking. The entire film lasts only 49 seconds, but this simple bit of slapstick may be the forerunner of all subsequent film comedy.[1]
In the earliest years of the history of film, the cinema was used by pioneers such as Thomas Edison and the Lumières to entertain by the sheer novelty of the invention, and most films were short recordings of mundane events, such as a sneeze, or the arrival of a train. Ever seeking to innovate, the Lumières took some of the first steps toward narrative film with L'Arroseur arrosé. Given the documentary nature of existing films up until this point, a scripted, comedic film shown among these was unexpected by an audience, enhancing its comedic surprise value.[1]
It was filmed by means of the Cinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.[2]
Louis Lumière used his own gardener, François Clerc, to portray the gardener. For the mischievous boy, Lumière used a young apprentice carpenter from the Lumière factory who is variously credited as Daniel Duval and Benoît Duval.[3] But Léon Trotobas seems to have been the first boy to play the role in La Ciotat.[4]
The poster[edit]
The world's first movie poster, for 1895's L'Arroseur Arrosé
The poster for L'Arroseur arrosé has the distinction of being the first poster ever designed to promote an individual film. Although posters had been used to advertise cinematic projection shows since 1890, these early posters were typically devoted to describing the quality of the recordings and touting the technological novelty of these shows.[5] The poster for L'Arroseur, illustrated by Marcellin Auzolle, depicts an audience (in the foreground) laughing as the film (in the background) is projected against a screen. It depicts the moment the gardener is splashed in the face, and is thus also the first film poster to depict an actual scene from a film.[5]
Copies and Imitations[edit]
As copyright law was neither enforced nor yet well-defined for the emerging art of cinema, it was common both for competing filmmakers to reshoot a popular film short and for distributors to duplicate a film print to show as their own. Through these practices, L'Arroseur arrosé was copied several times and released under a number of different titles in both France and the US, including at least one remake by the Lumières, themselves.[6] Little is known about most of these copies, although one known remake was filmed by Georges Méliès, titled L'Arroseur, in 1896.[1] French New Wave director François Truffaut later included an homage to the gag in his 1958 film, Les Mistons.[1]
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See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b c d L'Arroseur arrosé
 2. ^ "Technical Specifications". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
 3. ^ Chronomedia: 1895
 4. ^ Le Cinématographe
 5. ^ a b _URL_
 6. ^ Jane Gaines. "Early Cinema: Heyday of Copying". Domitor 2004 Utrecht Conference. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
 7. ^ "DVD". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
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History of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
The Arizona Legislature created the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1964 to accommodate the increase in appeals presented to the Arizona Supreme Court as the state grew in population. The court began operations in 1965 and serves as an intermediate appellate court with two divisions: Division One, based in Phoenix, and Division Two, based in Tucson.
Division One of the court came into existence with three judges and was expanded to its current number of sixteen judges throughout the years as the state's population increased. The court considers appeals emanating from eight of Arizona's fifteen counties: Apache, Coconino, La Paz, Navajo, Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, and Yuma. To date, 54 men and women have served as judges on the court.
The following articles were published by the Arizona Attorney in its June 2005 edition and thoroughly recount the court's initial 40 years, including personal reflections and memories. The court thanks the publishers of the Arizona Attorney for allowing the court to maintain links to the articles on this site.
The Court's Initial 40 years:
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Clos des Templiers is a 1.5-hectare estate located in Lalande de Pomerol and owned by the Delacour family since 2004. The vineyard obtained its name from the Order of Temples and Templars as it served as a stop-off point for them during the Middle Ages.
The family also owns Chateau De La Cour, a 10-hectare estate located in Saint-Emilion, on the right bank of the river. It was called Chateau la Rouchonne until 1995 when the Delacour family acquired it. The name of the chateau and the coat of arms on the label are in memories of their ancestor, the Chevalier De la Cour, who served King Charles IX.


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Apogee Engineering is seeking a Senior Scheduler supporting AFLCMC in Hanscom AFB, MA. Apogee is a growing provider of research, engineering, development, operations, financial and administrative expertise across an array of federal government organizations such as the Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Interior, NASA, and the Department of Transportation.
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Artificial Intelligence and Marine Design
Saul Amarel, Louis Steinberg
In the last few years, interest has grown in exploring AI approaches to design problems, both because of the enormous potential impact on productivity of improved design tools and because of the interesting basic AI issues that these problems raise. In particular, a number of ship designers and AI researchers recently became interested in applying AI to the hydrodynamic design of ship hulls. A typical problem here is to design the shape of a ship's hull in response to desired hydrodynamic properties such as drag and stability, taking into consideration a variety of design constraints, such as total hull volume.
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⛰ Mount Kilimanjaro Facts
Kilimanjaro sits entirely within the borders of Tanzania, just 3 degrees south of the equator.
What's the closest airport to Kilimanjaro?
The closest airport to Kilimanjaro is Kilimanjaro International Airport, airport code 'JRO'. Confusingly, flight booking sites have recently started referring to JRO as 'Arusha'. But actually, there's another airport in Arusha with airport code 'ARK'.
How high is Kilimanjaro?
The altitude of Kilimanjaro's summit, Uhuru Peak, is 5,895 metres or 19,340 feet.
Does it snow on Kilimanjaro?
Yes, it can snow on Kilimanjaro throughout the year from around 4,600 metres and upwards. But snow is primarily associated with Kilimanjaro during the two wet seasons of April to May and November to early December.
Can a beginner climb Kilimanjaro?
There is nothing to prevent a beginner from climbing Kilimanjaro. You don't need any experience of altitude, or even of trekking. There's nothing technical or vertical along any of the routes, and only a couple of metres of scrambling at just one point on the Umbwe Route.
Why is Kilimanjaro famous?
Kilimanjaro's fame is primarily due to its being the highest mountain in Africa and the largest freestanding mountain the world - rising 5,118 metres from it's base.
Why is there snow on Kilimanjaro?
In spite of being so close to the equator, above 5,000 metres altitude the temperature stays below freezing nearly all the time. Because of this, precipitation - which occurs mainly during April, May, November and December - falls as snow.
Do you need oxygen to climb Kilimanjaro?
No. Oxygen is generally only necessary when ascending mountains about 7,000 metres. It is however recommended to carry supplemental oxygen for use in emergencies and to aid safe descents if a climber has succumbed to severe acute mountain sickness or has symptoms of high altitude pulmonary or cerebral oedema.
How cold is Kilimanjaro at the top?
On 'Uhuru', the peak of Kilimanjaro, it's usually around -6°C / 21°F, but with windchill, the temperature will often drop to around -10°C / 14°F.
What animals live on Kilimanjaro?
Commonly seen are the four-striped grass mouse, harsh furred mouse, climbing mouse, mole rat, blue monkey, colobus monkey, bush pig, bushbaby, small-spotted genet, tree hyrax, buffalo.
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What does the name 'Kilimanjaro' mean?
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Who was the youngest person to summit Kilimanjaro?
The youngest person known to have reached the summit of Kilimanjaro is Bran Rees-Evans who was 5 years 136 days old when he summited at 1345 on 26th November 2012. Exactly two weeks earlier he had just become the youngest person to summit Mount Meru at 4,566 metres altitude.
Who was the fastest person to ascend Kilimanjaro?
So far, all speed ascents have started from one of the park gates, which are generally already around a quarter of the way up Kilimanjaro from its base. However, the fastest ascent of Kilimanjaro from the park boundary to the summit was achieved by Karl Egloff in 4 hours 56 minutes.
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Since most summit bids start from high camp at around 2300 - 0100, with exact start time usually depending on the guide's assessment of the group's pace over the preceding few days, most of the approach to the summit happens in darkness.
For some climbers this question is almost irrelevant as they will have to fit their climb into whatever dates they can clear from their busy work or family schedules, though for perhaps the majority, this is probably the first question prospective climbers should ask themselves.
You don't need to climb on these dates shown below. We publish them only for those who wish to climb with others they don't already know. The majority of our clients choose their own dates (at no additional cost), though most request us to open up their climbs for others to join - simply so as to have extra company on the trek.


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La Paz, April 20 (Xinhua-RHC) -- The weather phenomenon known as La Niña, which is usually blamed for causing excessive rain or severe drought, has left more than 259,000 Bolivians homeless.
Bolivian Deputy Civil Defence Minister Oscar Cabrera, while presenting his ministry's latest report in the central city of Cochabamba, announced that a clean-up phase to repair damages caused by the weather phenomenon had started.
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La Ninais a cooling weather pattern of the central Pacific Ocean, mainly near the equator. It is the opposite phenomenon of El Niño.


Animal Grief : How Animals Mourn (Hardcover) - Alderton, David
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and assignment will have explicit type annotation requirements with an exception for wherever the compiler can infer the type. The following is an example showing explicit and implicit types in Rust.
fn add_one(input: u8) -> u8 {
 input + 1
}
let four = add_one(3);
Here the method add_one is explicit about the input type and output type. The number 1 being added here is implicitly made an u8 number at compilation time as the context helps infer the type and addition for u8 is only implemented to work with u8 numbers. The last line is implicitly typed to be an u8 since the method itself defines the type that will be returned.
What can be inferred in Rust is pretty impressive with the use of generics. But use of inference is limited to things that can be known at compile time. If it cannot be known at compile time then you must explicitly define the type at any point of assignment. Take the following method definition:
use std::ops::Add;
fn add_both<T: Add>(a: T, b: T) -> T::Output {
 a + b
}
Here T can be any type that implements the trait Add. The T::Output type is defined when the Add trait is defined for your specific type and is generally the same type as T itself in this case. Now if we provide two numbers as parameters the compiler will infer the type to it.
let x = add_both(3 , 4 ); // implicit type
let y: u8 = add_both(3u8 , 4u8 ); // explicit type
let z: u32 = add_both(3u32, 4u32); // explicit type
When I run the above code x is inferred to be the type i32. The y and z examples require the input parameter types to be known when provided to the function as the inference for T::Output isn't necessarily the same as what T may be inferred to as. It would default to i32 and then assigning an i32 as a u8 or u32 is simply wrong.
Dynamically-typed languages
Now with dynamically-typed languages, you have to worry less about types, per se, and more about implicit or explicit objects or behavior. Modeling code around objects which have the same behavior is what is known as duck typing which is a higher domain of thinking in object-oriented programming where handling those objects is implicit. Whereas modeling the code around specific object classes is much like using explicit or implicit typing. But when you accept any kind of object as input, then the code in that section must either handle different objects explicitly or hand that responsibility off elsewhere.
For clarification, when you are writing code to handle different kinds of things, then you are writing explicit code. However when this same code has already been written and you are reusing it with a simple method call, then the behavior in this new context is then implicit. Implicit being things done as though automatically and handled outside of your current scope.
In Ruby, most types have a design for explicit or implicit conversion. The idea is the implicit conversion methods are meant to be used in implicit contexts and the explicit conversions are meant for developers to write inline in much more contexts. Let me demonstrate this by example.
# explicit
"4".to_i + "5".to_i
# => 9
# implicit
class Seven
 def to_int
 7
 end
end
Array.new(Seven.new)
# => [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]
Here the explicit example makes it very obvious to the reader that we are converting String objects to an Integer object and performing addition between the two. And the implicit example isn't so obvious to the reader as the Array.new method implicitly calls the to_int method on whatever parameter it is given. The Integer class has the method to_int defined on each instance of it that simply return self. If you write 42.to_int you simply get back 42. This use of using implicit conversion as an input guard for method calls is a great design for type safety by design. Here's what happens if you give it the wrong kind of object as input which doesn't define to_int.
Array.new("32")
# TypeError (no implicit conversion of String into Integer)
Not only does it fail but it gives us a helpful message that an implicit conversion was attempted and tells the class of object given and the class of object it expects. Implicit conversion methods in Ruby is a way of saying this object really is what you're expecting. And explicit conversion is simply making the conversion to the type expected.
Ruby has implicit and explicit options for many of its core objects.
Array#to_a // explicit
Array#to_ary // implicit
Hash#to_h // explicit
Hash#to_hash // implicit
Kernel#to_s // explicit
String#to_i // explicit
String#to_str // implicit
Integer#to_i // explicit
Integer#to_s // explicit
Integer#to_int // implicit
Ruby also has a few classes with class methods that will either do a implicit conversion or return nil and that method name is try_convert.
Array.try_convert // calls 'to_ary' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
Hash.try_convert // calls 'to_hash' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
String.try_convert // class 'to_str' on the parameter or returns 'nil'
We can follow Ruby's example with Array.new and have a good guard for the kind of input parameters we're given by designing implicit conversions for our own custom types. For this example, since to_f is an explicit conversion to a Float number in Ruby we'll use as_ as a prefix instead of to_. Here's a basic example of implicitness as a pattern for safety.
class Foo
 def as_f
 self
 end
 def as_foo
 self
 end
end
class Bar
 def initialize(foo)
 begin
 @foo = foo.as_foo
 rescue NoMethodError
 raise TypeError, "no implicit conversion of #{foo.class} into Foo"
 end
 end
end
Bar.new(4)
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# ...
# TypeError (no implicit conversion of Integer into Foo)
Bar.new(Foo.new)
# => #<bar:0x00005600711d10d8 @foo=#<Foo:0x00005600711d1100>></bar:0x00005600711d10d8>
Now this will help other developers who use the Bar class to not pass it as an incompatible parameter. It follows a convention within the Ruby language and should be much more easy for developers to understand with more helpful errors. When you have other objects that you would like to convert into a Foo object then you can define an as_f method on it for an explicit conversion and the developer who uses that new object will be explicit in its use Bar.new(Baz.new.as_f). This ensures the code will work in so much as Bar and Foo are already working.
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The act of implicit and explicit coding, and implicit and explicit code, is defined by context of execution of additional behavior or type setting/casting. Specifically, implicit or explicit methods are defined by the contexts in which they are meant to be used. Implicit code can be a very nice experience if things are well named as it keeps things simple.
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I want to ask about the 2-cycle of K3 surface.
As we know, its betti number $b_2$=22, so there will be 22 2-cycle generators.
Is there any topological way to figure out such cycles direct?
For example, in the best case, if the K3 surface is elliptic and has a global section, can we use combinations of fibre and section to represent all the 22 2-cycles?
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Jay, the fibers and a section of a fibration are algebraic curves, so anything you can generate will be inside the Picard group. So, in any case, the maximum rank you can get this way is 20, but in most cases much smaller. – Sándor Kovács Jun 29 '12 at 5:07
_USER_'andor -- What about supersingular K3 surfaces? – Jason Starr Jun 30 '12 at 16:13
I suspect that the questioner was interested in the complex case, but I could be wrong. – Donu Arapura Jun 30 '12 at 18:59
In the third paragraph of _URL_ you'll find an explicit example of a K3 surface over $\mathbb{Q}$, with an elliptic fibration, such that the rank generated by a section and components of fibers is $20$, that is the maximum in characteristic $0$. – Olivier Benoist Feb 7 '13 at 8:54
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I think the easiest place to see the $22$ is in a Kummer surface. Let $A$ be an abelian surface, so topologically $(S^1)^4$. This clearly has $h_2 = \binom{4}{2} = 6$, and there are obvious topological repreentatives for the $2$-cycles, given by $(S^1)^2$ in $6$ different ways.
Let $X$ be the quotient of $A$ by negation. This has $16$ singular points; the images of the $16$ $2$-torsion points of $A$. Let $Y$ be $X$ blown up at these $16$ points. Then $H_2(Y)$ is (ADDED rationally, see below) generated by the pushforwards of the $6$ $2$-cycles from $A$, and the $16$ $\mathbb{P}^1$'s introduced by resolving the singularities. $6+16=22$.
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There is only one problem with this: The (integer) lattice generated by all of these is not all of $H_2(Y)$. The resulting integer lattice of is index $2^{22}$; see the book Compact Complex Surfaces by Barth, Peters and Van de Ven. – Simon Rose Jun 29 '12 at 21:30
we lose some data there? – Jay Jun 30 '12 at 14:39
Essentially, yes. This is a great way to find rational generators, but it doesn't give integral ones. One quick way to see that is to look at the intersection form: For a K3 surface, the intersection form is $2E_8 \oplus 3H$, whereas the intersection form for the lattice generated by these classes is much simpler (for example, the 16 singular points are all (-2)-curves which intersect no other classes given). – Simon Rose Jun 30 '12 at 17:17
You could try Aspinwall's paper:
"K3 Surfaces and String Duality" _URL_
Sections 2.3 and 2.5 are relevant to your question.
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i find a paper by Michael B. Schulz and Elliott F. Tammaro: _URL_
from page. 11, it gives an explicit description these cycles from the point of view of the resolution of $T^4/Z_2$, seems great!
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