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Meaning of Faravahar, Derafsh Kaviani and Persian Colors
Ahreeman X
May 12, 2007
I wrote this document a long ago, when we started the IPC, but recently, I have revised and updated it.
Derafsh Kaviani (The Mythical History)
The mythical history of Iran and Shahnameh by Ferdowsi takes Derafsh Kaviani back to the ancient times of Kianian Era. Kaveh the Ironsmith torn his leather shirt and put it on a spear-top, risen it in the sky and this is how Derafsh Kaviani started its existence. Kaveh became the symbol of revolutionaries and started a revolt against the Tazi (Arab) King Zahak, who occupied Iran. This rebellion expanded to a full blown revolution and ended up in Fereydoun (The Iranian King) of Kiani Dynasty to eliminate Zahak and for Iranians to once more rule Iran. Of course some historians report that Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is inspired by actual history. Some believe that Zahak represents Astiak (Azhidahak) the Median King and Fereydoun is actually Cyrus The Great, starter of the Achaemenid Dynasty. The problem with this theory is that Meds were Persian (Iranian) and not Arabs!
Then there is the theory that Kaveh was actually based on "Yaqub Leis Saffarid" the liberator of Iran who kicked the Arab Caliph (supposedly Zahak) out of Iran and revived the Iranian rule of Saffarids (Fereydoun's Kiani Dynasty's rule).
Theories are many, but even thought Shahnameh is inspired by true history, yet it is not the actual history of Iran. Shahnameh is a great epical book but it is far from actual history. Kiani Dynasty could have been a dynasty in Pre-Median Iran or it could be Saffarids; however, either way, the details do not match the actual history. It seems like Ferdowsi mixed and matched various eras of the Persian History to create Shahnameh. Great epic, yet not actual history indeed.
Derafsh Kaviani (The Actual History)
According to the historical evidence, so far we can date the Derafsh Kaviani all the way back to the Pre-Avesta Era (850 BC - 728 BC) and The Kingdom Era (728 BC - 559 BC).
For more information, review:
Pictorial History of Iranian Flags
The Derafsh at those times, was in its primitive form. Later on it had evolved to its Sassanid form.
The Original Derafsh Kaviani
Derafsh Kaviani (The Sassanid Era)
The Sassanid Derafsh Kaviani (224 AD - 651 AD) was supposedly originated from the torn leather shirt of Kaveh; therefore, it was made of leather.
The Sassanid Version of Derafsh Kaviani
The Derafsh had evolved to 7 meter long and 5 meter wide and each Sassanid Shahanshah used to add a few more precious stones to the Derfsh. As we see, the Derafsh was reported to have been made from the Panther Skin. Derafsh was a square piece of valuable and fine crafted Panther Skin Leather placed on a spear. The tip of the spear was clearly visible on top of the banner. The pattern on the banner was a large star with a central circle and four pieces of diamond, oval or paisley shaped wings on four sides of the central circle. On top of this large star was also placed another small star represented by another circle (Ferdowsi states it as "Akhtar Kaviani"). Four sides of this banner was designed with precious shreds of gold and silver thread fabrics and silk. At the bottom of the banner there were four roots in form of sashes. These sashes were made of precious fabrics such as silk, satin and other shiny textile material, each containing various numbers of precious stones along the body and end-piece of it. These sashes were in yellow, purple, red and white fabrics. There were jewels all over the banner stitched in the leather. These jewels were of large size pieces and extremely valuable. These pieces were consisting of diamonds, emeralds, rubies, turquoise, onyx, amethyst, and other precious stones. Each Shahanshah of Sassanid used to ad more jewels and patterns to the Derafsh.
Pattern of Derafsh Kaviani
Derafsh was often carried and risen in battles by Commander in Chief of the Persian Forces and mainly Arteshbod (General) Rostam Farokhzad.
After the Arab victory and establishment of the first AIOG (Arabo-Islamic Occupational Government), Arabo-Muslim had captured the Derafsh. Omar the Arab Caliph was simply amazed by the glory and value of this banner. Omar wanted to keep the Derafsh intact; however, Ali, Amir al Mo'menin (the 4th Caliph of Rashedin and the 1st Shiite Imam) who was at the time, in charge of the loots and logistics of the Mesopotamian region (Khashtarah or State of Ctesiphone), strictly ordered the Arabs to snatch and rip all the valuable stones off the Derafsh and then to further insult Iranians, Ali ordered his troops to burn the Derafsh Kaviani. By burning Derafsh Kaviyani, Ali in fact destroyed centuries of Persian Tradition, Culture and History. Ali despised Iranians.
Nowdays, we hear all kinds of garbage from Shiite Mullahs and Iranian Seyeds, Half-Breeds and Iranian Muslim (Persian Traitors), that Ali loved Iranians and Ali was the protector of Iranians! They say Ali was flawless, innocent and clean from the guilt! They put the blames for all the Arab war atrocities on Omar! In reality, Omar was an angel compare to Ali! The fact was that Ali slaughtered Iranians by thousands and he even personally beheaded a great number of Persians via his famous double edged scimitar (Shamshir-e Zolfaqar) himself! Burning the Derafsh and tearing the Mighty and Gigantic Baharestan Carpet in to hundreds of pieces and shipping them back to Arabia was only the tip of the iceberg amongst the War Crimes of this animal named Ali ibn al Abi Talib (Alayh al Salam) or so called the first Shiite Imam!
Iranian Shiite Muslim who worship this Arab Beast, are either ignorant to history or are simply Persian Traitors betraying their own culture by their Arab Worship!
Derafsh Kaviani (Colors)
The Central Star and the upper star were of color gold. The banner itself was also a goldish yellow color with black spots because it was made of the panther skin. The spear was a gold spear. Stones and jewels all around the banner were of various colors depending on the stone type. On the spear top were often a golden eagle placed as the symbol of the Persian Imperial Power. The sashes hanging from the banner were in yellow, purple, red and white fabrics.
Yellow = Light, wisdom, Sun, Heat
Purple = The official color of the Imperial Immortal Guards and Sassanid courthouse
Red = Persian Bravery, Blood and sacrifice
White = Peace and prosperity
Throughout the history, Derafsh Kaviyani was off and on the official banner of the Persian Empire. Derafsh Kaviani was a symbol of Persian Resistance to tyranny and a national symbol.
Persian Colors
What are the representation and meaning of the new Persian colors of Green, White, and Red of the Persian Flag?
I researched about the true tone of each color Green, White, and Red and then examined and experimented with 25 different shades of Green, 3 White, and 6 Red with html web design official colors, using the html color codes. Finally I got them right, the way they suppose to be in the original three-color flag of Iran. Here are the actual shades of the Persian Tricolor:
A Historical Flashback
Here's some background history of the flag and the history of how we ended up with the present colors.
According to Persian mythology, Kaveh was a ironsmith or a blacksmith and led a rebellion to overthrow Zahak [Azhidahak (Dragon) in ancient persian] who had reigned on Iranveyj for 1000 years. Kaveh put an end to a millennium of Zaratostrian Religion. Each millennium corresponds to a stage in the never-ending fight between Ahreeman (Ancient God of Evil) and Ahuramazda (Ancient God of Good). Although Kaveh was the winner, he was not of celestial origin, so his role in the history finishes here and Iranveyj was ruled by another king.
During his movement, Kaveh used a piece of blacksmith leather as his flag. This flag is not used nowadays but is a well-known flag in Iran and is a sign of nationalism. It is called Derafsh-e Kaviani, which means "the flag of Kaveh".
Ferdowsi, the great Persian Poet, Father of Persian Language had a crucial role in this


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Evaluation of calf muscle reflex control in the 'ankle strategy' during upright standing push-recovery
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Revealing human internal control mechanisms during environmental interaction remains paramount and helpful in solving issues related to human-robot interaction. Muscle reflexes, which can directly and rapidly modify the dynamic behavior of joints, are the fundamental control loops of the Central Nervous System. This study investigates the calf muscle reflex control in the "ankle strategy" for human push-recovery movement. A time-increasing searching method is proposed to evaluate the feasibility of the reflex model in terms of predicting real muscle activations. Constraints with physiological implications are imposed to find the appropriate reflex gains. The experimental results show that the reflex model fits over 90% of the forepart of muscle activation. With the increasing of time, the Variance Accounted For (VAF) values drop to below 80% and reflex gains lose the physiology meaning. By dividing the muscle activation into two parts, the reflex formula is still workable for the rest part, with different gains and lower VAF values. This result may indicate that reflex control could more likely dominate the forepart of the push-recovery motion and an analogous control mechanism is still feasible for the rest of the motion part, with different gains. The proposed method provides an alternative way to obtain the human internal control mechanism desired for human-robot interaction task.
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This paper refutes the hypothesis put forward by W.D. Rubinstein that a disproportionately large share of Britain's wealth makers were active in commercial and financial trades in London. We use a data set of businessmen active in nineteenthand early twentieth-century Britain and quantitative methods to show that the pattern of wealth holding was much more diverse than supposed by Rubinstein. A large fortune could be made in a variety of regions and occupations. Big industrialists active in the provinces were equally capable of generating wealth similar in size and significance to the City elite. More generally, London was not the centre of wealth making in this period. Neither was there a subordination of industrial and manufacturing to commercial and financial wealth.
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In Louhi the program development environment is managed using the modules package. For example, user's shell environment variables for different compiler suites, software packages and libraries are set up using the module tool.
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Understanding how to evacuate pods on nodes
Evacuating pods allows you to migrate all or selected pods from a given node or nodes.
You can only evacuate pods backed by a replication controller. The replication controller creates new pods on other nodes and removes the existing pods from the specified node(s).
Bare pods, meaning those not backed by a replication controller, are unaffected by default. You can evacuate a subset of pods by specifying a pod-selector. Pod selectors are based on labels, so all the pods with the specified label will be evacuated.
Procedure
 1. Mark the nodes unschedulable before performing the pod evacuation.
 1. Mark the node as unschedulable:
 $ oc adm cordon <node1>
 Example output
 node/<node1> cordoned
 2. Check that the node status is NotReady,SchedulingDisabled:
 $ oc get node <node1>
 Example output
 NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
 <node1> NotReady,SchedulingDisabled worker 1d v1.19.0
 2. Evacuate the pods using one of the following methods:
 - Evacuate all or selected pods on one or more nodes:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> [--pod-selector=<pod_selector>]
 - Force the deletion of bare pods using the --force option. When set to true, deletion continues even if there are pods not managed by a replication controller, replica set, job, daemon set, or stateful set:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --force=true
 - Set a period of time in seconds for each Pod to terminate gracefully, use --grace-period. If negative, the default value specified in the Pod will be used:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --grace-period=-1
 - Ignore DaemonSet-managed pods using the --ignore-daemonsets flag set to true:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --ignore-daemonsets=true
 - Set the length of time to wait before giving up using the --timeout flag. A value of 0 sets an infinite length of time:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --timeout=5s
 - Delete pods even if there are pods using emptyDir using the --delete-local-data flag set to true. Local data is deleted when the node is drained:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --delete-local-data=true
 - List objects that will be migrated without actually performing the evacuation, using the --dry-run option set to true:
 $ oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --dry-run=true
 Instead of specifying specific node names (for example, <node1> <node2>), you can use the --selector=<node_selector> option to evacuate pods on selected nodes.
 3. Mark the node as schedulable when done.
 $ oc adm uncordon <node1>
Understanding how to update labels on nodes
You can update any label on a node.
Node labels are not persisted after a node is deleted even if the node is backed up by a Machine.
Any change to a MachineSet is not applied to existing machines owned by the MachineSet. For example, labels edited or added to an existing MachineSet are not propagated to existing machines and Nodes associated with the MachineSet.
 - The following command adds or updates labels on a node:
 $ oc label node <node> <key_1>=<value_1> ... <key_n>=<value_n>
 For example:
 $ oc label nodes webconsole-7f7f6 unhealthy=true
 - The following command updates all pods in the namespace:
 $ oc label pods --all <key_1>=<value_1>
 For example:
 $ oc label pods --all status=unhealthy
Understanding how to mark nodes as unschedulable or schedulable
By default, healthy nodes with a Ready status are marked as schedulable, meaning that new pods are allowed for placement on the node. Manually marking a node as unschedulable blocks any new pods from being scheduled on the node. Existing pods on the node are not affected.
 - The following command marks a node or nodes as unschedulable:
 Example output
 $ oc adm cordon <node>
 For example:
 $ oc adm cordon node1.example.com
 Example output
 node/node1.example.com cordoned

 NAME LABELS STATUS
 node1.example.com _URL_=node1.example.com Ready,SchedulingDisabled
 - The following command marks a currently unschedulable node or nodes as schedulable:
 $ oc adm uncordon <node1>
 Alternatively, instead of specifying specific node names (for example, <node>), you can use the --selector=<node_selector> option to mark selected nodes as schedulable or unschedulable.
Configuring master nodes as schedulable
You can configure master nodes to be schedulable, meaning that new pods are allowed for placement on the master nodes. By default, master nodes are not schedulable.
You can set the masters to be schedulable, but must retain the worker nodes.
You can deploy OKD with no worker nodes on a bare metal cluster. In this case, the master nodes are marked schedulable by default.
You can allow or disallow master nodes to be schedulable by configuring the mastersSchedulable field.
Procedure
 1. Edit the schedulers.config.openshift.io resource.
 $ oc edit schedulers.config.openshift.io cluster
 2. Configure the mastersSchedulable field.
 apiVersion: _URL_
 kind: Scheduler
 metadata:
 creationTimestamp: "2019-09-10T03:04:05Z"
 generation: 1
 name: cluster
 resourceVersion: "433"
 selfLink: /apis/config.openshift.io/v1/schedulers/cluster
 uid: a636d30a-d377-11e9-88d4-0a60097bee62
 spec:
 mastersSchedulable: false (1)
 policy:
 name: ""
 status: {}
 1 Set to true to allow master nodes to be schedulable, or false to disallow master nodes to be schedulable.
 3. Save the file to apply the changes.
Deleting nodes
Deleting nodes from a cluster
When you delete a node using the CLI, the node object is deleted in Kubernetes, but the pods that exist on the node are not deleted. Any bare pods not backed by a replication controller become inaccessible to OKD. Pods backed by replication controllers are rescheduled to other available nodes. You must delete local manifest pods.
Procedure
To delete a node from the OKD cluster, edit the appropriate MachineSet:
If you are running cluster on bare metal, you cannot delete a node by editing MachineSets. MachineSets are only available when a cluster is integrated with a cloud provider. Instead you must unschedule and drain the node before manually deleting it.
 1. View the MachineSets that are in the cluster:
 $ oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api
 The MachineSets are listed in the form of <clusterid>-worker-<aws-region-az>.
 2. Scale the MachineSet:
 $ oc scale --replicas=2 machineset <machineset> -n openshift-machine-api
For more information on scaling your cluster using a MachineSet, see Manually scaling a MachineSet.
Deleting nodes from a bare metal cluster
When you delete a node using the CLI, the node object is deleted in Kubernetes, but the pods that exist on the node are not deleted. Any bare pods not backed by a replication controller become inaccessible to OKD. Pods backed by replication controllers are rescheduled to other available nodes. You must delete local manifest pods.
Procedure
Delete a node from an OKD cluster running on bare metal by completing the following steps:
 1. Mark the node as unschedulable:
 $ oc adm cordon <node_name>
 2. Drain all pods on your node:
 $ oc adm drain <node_name> --force=true
 3. Delete your node from the cluster:
 $ oc delete node <node_name>
Although the node object is now deleted from the cluster, it can still rejoin the cluster after reboot or if the kubelet service is restarted. To permanently delete the node and all its data, you must decommission the node.
Adding kernel arguments to nodes
In some special cases, you might want to add kernel arguments to a set of nodes in your cluster. This should only be done with caution and clear understanding of the implications of the arguments you set.
Improper use of kernel arguments can result in your systems becoming unbootable.
Examples of kernel arguments you could set include:
 - selinux=0: Disables Security Enhanced Linux (


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Vasco Da Gamas Family
Portuguese navigator and discoverer of the sea route to India, was born at Sines, a small seaport in the province of Alemtejo. Of da Gama's early history little is known. His descent, according to the Nobiliario of Antonio de Lima, was derived from a noble family which is mentioned in the year 1166; but the line cannot be traced without interruption farther back than the year 1280, to one Alvaro da Gama, from whom was descended Estevão da Gama, civil governor of Sines, whose third son Vasco was born probably about the year 1460.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Vasco Da Gamas Family
Vasco da Gama families were normal families that had intelligent men in it. In 1497, when he was a 38-year old bachelor, da Gama was selected by King Manuel I of Portugal to follow up the discovery of Bartholomew Diaz of a great ocean east off the Cape of Good Hope. His family was not originally from Portugal, but da Gama did not think of any place but Portugal as his home.
Where was Vasco da Gama Born?
The exact year of Vasco da Gama's birth is still unknown, but he was born either in 1460 or 1469. Da Gama was born in Sines which was one of the seaports on the South-western side of Portugal.
Vasco da Gama Parents
Vasco Da Gama's father was a knight. His name was Estevao da Gama. He served as a knight at the house of the Dule of Viseu. Vasco da Gama's mother was Isabel Sodre, who was from a family of English origin. Estevao rose to a higher military rank later in his life and finally became a tax collector.
Vasco da Gama was the third son of the family.
Vasco Da Gamas Family
Vasco Da Gamas Family
His father's family originally came from the southern provinces of Alentejo, which is part of Portugal. His mother's family, on the other hand, was English. In 1484 he became a sailor. Later, in between voyages, he stayed still long enough to find a woman and marry her. His wife's name was Catarina de Ataide. He married Catarina in 1500.
Vasco Da Gama Childhood
During his childhood, Vasco da Gama was educated as a nobleman and he served in the court of King Joao II. He was brought up in a maritime environment and trained in fishing, sailing and swimming during his childhood. At the age of fifteen, he was a sailor. In Evora, he studied navigation and astronomy. Perhaps, he learned astronomy under the guidance of the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.
Vasco Da Gamas Family
When did Vasco Da Gama Die
Vasco da Gama was 64 and living at his house in Portugal with his wife, Cateriana de Ataide, and his 6 sons when in 1524 King John III named him Viceroy to India. He had planned to settle down and enjoy his retirement in Portugal, but all of that changed.
How did Vasco Da Gama die?
He had to go to India and make sure everything was running fine. Along the way on the voyage, da Gama fell ill. Da Gama died in India shortly after arrival on December 24, 1524. He was buried in India. Later, in 1539, his remains were reburied in a chapel in Vidigueira, Portugal.
Vasco Da Gama children
Vasco Da Gama and his wife had seven children – six sons and one daughter. His sons were, Cristovao da Gama, Estevao da Gama, Alvaro de Ataide da Gama, Francis da Gama, Pedro de Silva da Gama and Paulo da Gama. His daughter was Isabel d'Ataide da Gama.
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An increasing proportion of retirees will be self-funded over the decades ahead, including many who choose self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) as their primary retirement savings vehicle, according to findings in the intergenerational report (IGR).
The Association said increased voluntary savings would help boost the proportion of self-funded retirees, which would help reduce the cost of age pension payments.
John Maroney, SMSF Association chief executive, said: "The IGR clearly illustrates the importance of building superannuation savings to offset the growing liabilities related to an aging population".
However, the Association said affordable and accessible financial advice was crucial.
"One of the short-term reforms that will help boost productivity and help encourage additional savings is to ensure that all Australians have access to high-quality financial advice," Maroney said.
"This will help us meet many of the challenges illustrated in the intergeneration report."
Dr Deborah Ralston, Professorial Fellow of Monash University and chair of the SMSF Association public policy committee, said: "As the IGR points out, with reduced migration there will be a higher proportion of older Australians in the population going forward.
"However, with increasing longevity, and more flexible working arrangements, many people will elect to work for longer.
"Reliance on the age pension will reduce as super balances grow, and at 2.4% of GDP, Australia has one of the lowest cost pension systems in the OECD."
Treasury projections suggested that the median superannuation balance at retirement would increase from around $125,000 in 2020/21 to around $460,000 in 2060/61.


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Ingest is an application developed in collaboration with Innovasalud, an Spanish health consulting company, that addresses health data integration, data quality control and advanced statistical analysis. It is perfectly compatible with databases such as MBDS, registered in Spanish hospitals since the 1990s by ministerial directive.
- Automatic data ingesting in the system with customizable data formats
- Data quality analysis of ingested data
- Web system accessible from any browser
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- Integration with 3M™ DRG Grouper, being able to compute the DRG within the application. Ingest also allows to analyse the grouped information with the different versions of the grouper software.
- Indicators such as PSI (defined by the AHRQ), the ones defined by the Spanish Ministry of Health (in its application iCMBD), Elixhauser's comorbidities or custom indicators defined by the user.
- Case mix and functionality indicator adjustments
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We presented this paper at the ISSI conference in Istanbul in June, 2015, and got out before the bombing started.
Causal Connections Between Scientometric Indicators:
Which Ones Best Explain High-Technology Manufacturing Outputs?
R. D. Shelton ,T. R. Fadel, P. Foland
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Scientometric models can connect indicators via cross-country correlations, but these are not enough to assert causality. Sometimes a causal connection can be argued from the physical process. In other cases the causality or its direction is not clear, and the Granger test is often used to clarify the connection. Here it was shown that gross expenditures on R&D (GERD) Granger caused scientific papers in the U.S., EU, and some others, which has policy implications. Granger causality also reinforces earlier findings on why the EU passed the U.S. in papers in the mid-1990s. Downstream, it is difficult to prove the connection between research and gross domestic product (GDP), since the contributions of science are diluted by other factors. New data allows a focus on a sector that is more closely associated with science: high technology (HT) manufacturing outputs. This value-added data permits more accurate models for today's international supply chains. Correlations show that business expenditures on R&D (BERD) and scientific indicators like patents are closely connected with HT manufacturing outputs. However for BERD, either direction of causality is plausible, and enough countries had significant results to show that causality can indeed be in either direction. The connections between papers and patents with HT manufacturing were also investigated; in several countries patents could be said to have Granger caused HT manufacturing.


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What Is Frozenset() In Python
Hey there! So today we are here to discuss the Python frozenset() method.
So before we get into the method, let us know what a frozenset is.
What is a frozenset?
A frozenset is an unordered, un-indexed, and immutable collection of elements. It provides all the functionalities that a set offers in Python, the only difference being the fact that a frozenset is immutable, i.e. can't be changed after it is created.
Hence in simple words, frozen sets are immutable sets.
The Python frozenset() Method
The Python frozenset() method returns a new frozenset object whose elements are taken from the passed iterable. If iterable is not specified, a new empty set is returned.
Note: The elements must be hashable.
fz = frozenset([iterable])
When nothing is specified, the frozenset() method returns an empty frozenset object to fz.
To get a better understanding of how the method works, let us look at an example.
# List Initialisation
list1 = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
fz = frozenset(list1)
fz = frozenset() # empty frozenset
print("Type of fz: ", type(fz))
frozenset({0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6})
Type of fz:
Here, firstly we have initialized a list(list1) and then passed it as iterable to the frozenset() method. In return we get a frozenset object(fz) with elements from the list. When nothing is passed, fz is now an empty frozenset object.
Frozenset Initialization
In the below-given example, we have initialized a frozenset using the Python frozenset() method by passing different iterables like list, tuple, set, and dictionary.
# Initialisation
list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
fz = frozenset(list1) # from list object
fz = frozenset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) # from list
fz = frozenset({5: 'a', 4: 'B', 3: 'C', 2: 'D', 1: 'E', 0: '0'})# from dict
fz = frozenset({'Python', 'Java', 'C', 'C++', 'Kotlin', 'R'})# from set
fz = frozenset((17, 55, 26, 90, 75, 34)) # from tuple
frozenset({1, 2, 3, 4, 5})
frozenset({0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5})
frozenset({'Java', 'Kotlin', 'Python', 'C', 'R', 'C++'})
frozenset({34, 90, 75, 17, 55, 26})
For each case, we get a frozenset object with the corresponding iterable elements in it. But carefully note, that in the case of a dictionary only the keys are being considered.
Operations on a Python frozenset
We can get names of all the methods related to a frozenset object using the dir() method.
fo = frozenset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
['__and__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__or__', '__rand__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__ror__', '__rsub__', '__rxor__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', '__xor__', 'copy', 'difference', 'intersection', 'isdisjoint', 'issubset', 'issuperset','symmetric_difference', 'union']
Notice from the above output, that various functions like add(), remove(), update(), pop() etc.(used to change/update elements, available for sets) are missing. Again this is due to the fact that a frozen set is immutable.
So now let us look at the available methods for frozen sets, using which we can perform various operations.
fs = frozenset([1, 12, 23, 45, 67, 89, 100])
print("Given Frozenset =", fs)
fs_len = len(fs)
print("Length of Frozenset =", fs_len)
print("23 in fs? ", 23 in fs)
print("23 not in fs? ", 23 not in fs)
print("Sets are disjoint? ", fs.isdisjoint(frozenset([10, 5])))
print("Set is Subset? ", fs.issubset(set([1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 23, 45, 67, 89, 100])))
print("fs is superset? ", fs.issuperset(frozenset({1, 100})))
print("Union of sets: ", fs.union(frozenset([-1, -12])))
print("Intersection: ", fs.intersection(set([1, 10, 100])))
print("Difference: ", fs.difference(frozenset([1, 10, 100])))
print("Symmetric difference: ", fs.symmetric_difference(frozenset([1, 10, 100])))
fs_copy = fs.copy()
print("Copy of fs: ", fs_copy)
Given Frozenset = frozenset({1, 67, 100, 12, 45, 23, 89})
Length of Frozenset = 7
23 in fs? True
23 not in fs? False
Sets are disjoint? True
Set is Subset? True
fs is superset? True
Union of sets: frozenset({1, 67, 100, 12, 45, -12, 23, 89, -1})
Intersection: frozenset({1, 100})
Difference: frozenset({67, 12, 45, 23, 89})
Symmetric difference: frozenset({67, 10, 12, 45, 23, 89})
Copy of fs: frozenset({1, 67, 100, 12, 45, 23, 89})
 - len(s): Returns the length of the frozenset s,
 - x in s: Checks whether x is present in frozenset s or not,
 - x not in s: Returns True if x is not an element of frozenset s. Or else returns False,
 - isdisjoint(other): Returns True if the set has no elements in common with other. Sets are disjoint if and only if their intersection is the empty set.
 - issubset(other): Checks whether other contains elements of the frozenset or not,
 - issuperset(other): Checks whether the frozenset contains elements of other or not,
 - union(*others): Returns a frozenset containing the union of the provided other sets,
 - intersection(*others): Returns a frozenset, with elements common to fs and all others passed,
 - difference(*others): Returns a new frozenset with elements in the frozenset(fs) that are not in the others,
 - symmetric_difference(other): Returns a new frozenset with elements in either fs or other but not both.
Summing Up
That's it for today. Hope you had a clear understanding of the Python frozenset() method.
For more info, we recommend going through the links provided in the references section.
For any further questions, feel free to comment below.


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The cable profiles for post-tensioning of concrete beams are usually designed as parabolic curves based on the eccentricity of the midpoint of the duct to the neutral axis of the beam. The end points and the midpoint of a duct are very important and sensitive. Hence, the sensitivity of these influence points is being studied and the most sensitive point(s) is being found out.
The method of computational analysis (matrix method) using STAAD.Pro has been taken into account to find out the sensitivity. The sensitivity has been observed by repositioning the points by 25mm from the standard cable profile in both directions at a time. The tensile and compressive stresses and deflections are then observed in six different locations of each span of the beam and the sensitivity is calculated. The results of different points are then compared to find out the most sensitive point.
The test has been done for four different beam profiles i.e. single-span, two-span, three-span and five-span beam considering a combination of self-weight, live load and post-tension load. This study provides the knowledge of sensitive points of the cable profile of the post-tensioning of concrete beams so that the care can be taken during construction.
K.K. Pathak, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Rounak De and Sayak Roy, undergraduate students of Department of Civil Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur.
As the upward force on the beam due to post-tensioning totally depends upon the cable profile so profiling the duct(s) is a very critical job before casting a post-tensioned concrete beam and has to be done carefully and correctly. Padmarajaiah et. al. (2000) has conducted analyses on flexural strength of fibre reinforced concrete. Pathak and Sehgal (2004) conducted an analysis of a prestressed concrete beam using different cable models. Kasat and Varghese, (2012), studied prestressed concrete beams using finite element analysis. The observation of the research is the response of prestressed concrete beams due to transverse loading conditions. Bhargava et. al. (2016) have conducted analysis of single span prestressed beam using analytical, matrix and FEA method. The aim of the study is compare three most popular methods of structural analysis. The effect of pre-stressing force and eccentricity on different cable profile for a single span beam has been analyzed using ANSYS by Dixit & Khurd (2017). They found out the effect in terms of deflection of different cable profiles used in prestressed concrete. The goal of this study is to determine the most sensitive point(s) of a cable profile in terms of deflection and stress variation through a post-tensioned beam. To achieve the goal, four different beam profiles have been analyzed using computational analysis for a combination of self-weight, live load and post-tensioned load.
To find out the desired results a different sensitivity analysis has been carried out. Sensitivity analyses of tensile and compressive stresses as well as analysis of deflection of beam profiles have been carried out for different cases through structural analysis software, STAAD.Pro. Sensitivity of a parameter can be defined as the ratio of change of that parameter to the change of some other controlling parameter. Here the sensitivity of stress and deflection has been taken into account which can be given as-
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Is there a way one could bend an object, like a cylinder or a plane using OpenGL?
I'm an OpenGL beginner (I'm using OpenGL ES 2.0, if that matters, although I suspect, math matters most in this case, so it's somehow version independent), I understand the basics: translate, rotate, matrix transformations, etc. I was wondering if there is a technique which allows you to actually change the geometry of your objects (in this case by bending them)?
Any links, tutorials or other references are welcomed!
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What you'd need to do to "bend" an object is to apply some appropriate combination of translation/rotation/scaling to only some subset of the vertices of the object in question -- probably weighting that transformation accordingly.
Doing this is a pleasant-looking fashion will necessitate using more vertices than may be otherwise strictly necessary to describe the original mesh. For example, a simple cylinder may only have vertices at either end, but if you want that cylinder to bend in the middle, you'll need vertices there as well.
If all you are interested in is very specific, one-off deformations of very simple shapes (like your aforementioned plane) you could probably just do this manually. For example, decide on the "bend axis" for your plane and compute appropriate transformations for each row of plane vertices to achieve the appropriate rotation about that bend axis depending on their distance from it, and then apply that to the geometry (possibly on the CPU as it would be the most straightforward, at least initially). But such a technique would not scale well and would be very tedious.
Since it can be so cumbersome to correctly figure out how to weight a transformation to each individual vertex in a set to achieve the desired deformation (especially for more practical and complicated objects), many games use a technique called skeletal animation. At a high level this involves associating a separate set of geometry (the "skeleton") with your mesh. That geometry represents the bones of your object, and you define (often in modeling tools) a mapping between vertices of the real model and the bones of the skeleton -- which bones are associated with each vertex, and how much that bone affects the deformation of that vertex. Then the skeleton is animated directly, and the animation is transferred to the real model via the relationship between the bones and their vertices.
Typically in this technique, the mapping between skeleton and real mesh is defined at asset production time. The animations can also be built then, or they can be built procedurally at runtime. The application of the animation transformations to the real mesh occurs at runtime. Generally no new vertices are generated at runtime, which means the range of good-looking deformations is implicitly fixed in the mesh when it is originally created.
In theory, one could also apply tessellation and subdivision to the mesh at runtime based on analysis of the transformations in the animation, and thus produce the appropriate vertices to create an animation that was not necessarily planned for. I'm not aware, offhand, of any papers on this subject.
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For the actual math of warping, this can get very complicated, why don't you start here?.
I'll now talk about how you can apply this, assuming you've already got the math for how you will do your deformations down.
2 ways:
1) Every frame, visit every vertex in the cylinder model and offset it in some way.
2) Offset the vertices in the vertex shader as you are rendering. OpenGL ES 2.0 supports vertex shaders. So you're in luck, in a way.
Do you want to only warp the object as it appears on the screen, or do you want to warp the object so every object in the game knows that it has been deformed?
If you warp the object in the vertex shader, then that happens only immediately prior to display/rasterization, so this means none of the game objects will know about the deformation. This is fine if you're simply making a screen saver, or if the deformations are so small that they have no impact on the collidable shape of the object.
When you warp the geometry in the vertex shader __the original vertices of the model actually don't move__, (they only appear to move).
Deformation in vertex shader
non deformed
This is from chapter 6 of the cg tutorial, (program #14).
The shader code to produce this deformation is something like
// choose a displacement amount
float displacement = scaleFactor * 0.5 * sin(position.y * frequency * time) + 1 ;
// displace it in the direction of the normal
float4 displacementDirection = float4(normal.x, normal.y, normal.z, 0) ;
// move the vertex
float4 newPosition = position + displacement * displacementDirection ;
// transform (as normal)
oPosition = mul(modelViewProj, newPosition) ;
So you can see, this happens RIGHT BEFORE display (vertex shader happens on GPU) so CPU code has practically no way to access the transformed vertex position (there are ways to send data from the GPU to the CPU (primarily via textures) but we won't go there).
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What you're trying to achieve is basically a subset of the topic of mesh deformation. But since you're a begginer, I'm afraid this type of information might be a bit too strange for now. I'll try to lay down the basic notions though.
In order to do this you'll need two things:
 1. Your mesh needs to have enough vertices for you to transform. For instance if it's a plane, you'll need to make sure it's actually created as a sort of grid, with many vertices for you to deform. Same thing with a cylinder. Might be possible to achieve this at runtime with tessellation but I don't know much about the subject.
 2. You need to use a vertex shader to deform the vertices. Basically the vertex shader takes care of calculating the final transformed position of each vertex, so you can take the chance to apply any deformations to them.
I'm not sure how helpful it will be, but take a look at this OpenGL resource, as it seems to be right the sort of thing you need:
Screenshot from that link:
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Just saw Josh's reply and I agree, skeletal animation is also a very elegant way to encapsulate this problem, especially when your deformations start becoming more complex and harder to represent mathematically.
But remember, both points above still apply though - you can only deform vertices, so obviously they need to exist in the first place, which is why your mesh needs to have a decent amount of vertex density. And it's usually the vertex shader that drives skeletal animation and does vertex blending and such.
And by the way, you can do these on the CPU too, but nowadays it's usually a better option to do them on the GPU, which is why I put emphasis on the vertex shader, and you should look into it. It's not really all that much harder programwise than doing it on the CPU anyway.
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The lance-head in the whale has troubled it less than a "skelve" would bother a human being.
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He cut a skelf from the boarding of one hole.
Mry. 1922 Swatches o' Hamespun 25:
It's but a wee bit, less or mair, A skelvock here, a murlie there.
Gsw. 1947 H. W. Pryde 1st Bk. McFlannels ii.:
He had a skelf in his finger.
Sc. 1959 Bulletin (8 May):
Don't neglect the pricks from rose thorns, rusty (or even clean) wires, a skelf of wood.
2. A very thin flagstone slab (Cai. 1970).
3. The chip cut out of the trunk of a tree at the start of felling (Kcd. 1950, skel); a wedge of wood driven into the cut by tree-fellers to ease the motion of the saw (wm.Sc. 1970).
4. A large snowflake. Hence skelvie, of snow: in large flakes. Sh. 1881–95 Williamson MSS.:
Every skelv is fain lek a skovin.... Da last snaa wis mair hailie an skelvie.
5. Fig. A small, thin, insignificant person (wm.Sc., Rxb. 1970). Gsw. 1927 Scots Mag. (June) 172:
Pit doon that fryin-pan, ye wee skelf.
wm.Sc. 1951 N. B. Morrison Hidden Fairing 97:
A wee skelf of a man put in his head.
II. v. 1. tr. To take off in or as in flakes, to slice (Sh., Per., Slg., wm.Sc. 1970). Sh. 1949 J. Gray Lowrie 106:
Ye can skelf aff da siller laek da leaves o' a beuk.
Gsw. 1953 Bulletin (13 March):
It prevents the fat from being absorbed by the body of the skelfed spuds.
2. intr. To flake, break into flat slices or fragments, e.g. of stone by weathering (n.Sc. 1825 Jam.; Ork. 1970). Ags. 1961 Forfar Dispatch (4 May):
The little enamel saucerie, blue ootside and white inside (for it hedna skelved).
[O.Sc. skelf, splinter, c.1610, prob. ad. Du. †schelf, a scale, flake, or splinter of wood. Cf. Skelfer below. The exact relationship to the forms Skelb, Skelp, n.2, is somewhat uncertain. The word is prob. ultimately cogn. with Skelf, n.1, from a root *skelf-, to split.]
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Engaging Absent Fathers: Lessons from Paternity Establishment Programs
Maya Rossin, Columbia University
I provide the first comprehensive analysis of the causal effects of in-hospital voluntary paternity establishment (IHVPE) programs on paternity establishment and consequent family structure and well-being. Using variation in the timing of IHVPE initiation, I show that IHVPE programs increase paternity establishment rates by 38 percent, and reduce the likelihood of parental marriage post-childbirth. The decrease in marriage leads to positive selection into samples of both married and unmarried fathers, providing evidence for an increase in the marriage threshold in father quality. Accounting for selection out of marriage, there is some indication of a net reduction in father transfers: private health insurance provision for children declines, while maternal labor supply increases. On the whole, measures of child welfare such as total family income and child mental and physical health are unaffected, although children's access to preventative care declines. I perform numerous robustness checks to support the validity of my findings.
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Joppa to Caesarea distance, location, road map and direction
Joppa is located in USA at the longitude of 34.76 and latitude of 32.05. Caesarea is located in Israel at the longitude of 34.9 and latitude of 32.52.
Distance between Joppa and Caesarea
The total straight line distance between Joppa and Caesarea is 54 KM (kilometers) and 0 meters. The miles based distance from Joppa to Caesarea is 33.6 miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Joppa and Caesarea may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road.
The driving distance or the travel distance between Joppa to Caesarea is 62 KM and 927 meters. The mile based, road distance between these two travel point is 39.1 miles.
Time Difference between Joppa and Caesarea
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Joppa To Caesarea travel time
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What's the difference between long and short grain rice? And what is medium rice?
Can you use the different types interchangeably? Does size even matter?
Rice can be confusing. Not only are there grain sizes to contend with, but there are colors, varieties, and types to sort through. According to the USA Rice Federation, there are more than 120,000 varieties of rice worldwide!
Here's a basic rice primer, so you can learn when to use a long grain, or when to stick to short.
Long grain rice tends to separate when cooked. That means your rice will fall apart, rather than stick together. Use long grain rice when you are making dishes that call for separate, loose grains, such as pilafs. It also has a firmer, dryer texture and feel in the mouth.
Chinese restaurants usually serve a side order of long grain rice with the food. So if you hate trying to pick up those grains individually with chopsticks, you might decide to use a shorter, stickier rice instead, to serve with your stir fry.
Medium grain rice is more likely to stick together. The grains are softer and moister than long grain rice when cooked. This type of rice is the preferred type in Hawaii, where the mix of cultures enjoys rice with every meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks!
Yes, we really do eat rice for snacks. One of the most popular local foods is musubi, a ball of cooked rice, wrapped in nori, or seaweed "paper." Often these will have a slice of fried Spam luncheon meat on top.
Calrose rice, a variety grown in California, is a medium grain rice. This is the type to get if you want a bland, clean taste.
Short grain rice is the most sticky and soft. The grains have a bit of chewiness to them. The extra starch in them gives them these properties.
Specialty rice types
One famous type of medium grain rice is Arborio, used to make Italian risotto. The starch thickens the liquid as it cooks, creating a creamy texture that gives the dish its signature style. You can substitute other short or medium grain rice, but never long grain rice, and get a similar finished product.
Sushi is made with short or medium grain rice. This is another of the exceptions to the substitution rule. You cannot substitute long grain rice when making sushi, or everything will just fall apart and not feel right in the mouth.
For the most part, if you are just making a pot of rice, or you run out of one kind of rice or another, you can relax. The different types can be substituted equally in most dishes, without ruining them. There are a few exceptions to the rule, however.
Use a short or medium grain for sushi, risotto, rice pudding, and molded rice dishes. Use medium grain for paella. Use long grain for pilafs.
Use glutinous or sticky rice to make rice cakes, or mochi. Use black glutinous rice to make Malaysian sticky black rice pudding. Use Thai sticky rice for sticky rice with coconut milk and mango, or to eat with Thai food, like those in the northern parts of Thailand, and Laos, do.
What rice to use for fried rice?
Any type can be used, but most commonly, white rice is used. It is usually kept in the refrigerator, or left out for a day, which dries the rice a bit. Otherwise, if you use fresh rice, you get a steamy, soggy mess.


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AQUIFER PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING TIDE-INDUCED WATER TABLE FLUCTUATION IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Groundwater table fluctuations of the Biscayne aquifer are associated with lunar and solar tidal forces and gate operations on canal water-control structures. Observed groundwater table fluctuations can provide an understanding of the connectivity between the aquifer and the Bay and between the aquifer and the water level in the canals. Further, it can be used for aquifer parameter estimation.
In this research, we fit observed tide and groundwater levels to Jacob's analytical solution, where the amplitude of the groundwater head fluctuation decreases exponentially, and the time lag increases with distance from the shore. We obtained observed groundwater levels from monitoring wells along the Miami-Dade shore and from monitoring wells on the barrier island of Miami Beach.
This study shows that groundwater levels in Miami Beach are highly correlated with tidal fluctuations, but groundwater levels from Miami-Dade coastal wells (except one) are not significantly correlated with tides, due to the great distance of monitoring wells from the shore and by management of water levels in the canals. We have found that Jacob's solution is effective for aquifer parameter estimation in Miami Beach, where monitoring wells are closer to the shore. Constructing monitoring wells closer to the shore in Miami-Dade and elsewhere would be greatly beneficial for further analysis of groundwater table positions and aquifer parameter estimation.


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Gardeners and garden architects use lava rock for water retaining and decorative purposes. The stone can be placed on pathways for a colourful design effect or used as border decoration. Smaller lava rock can be used as mulch to avoid erosion and to collect water. These are good for fire pits and water features. Lava rock retains heat which keeps the soil warm like a blanket, making it an ideal bed for plants that are sensitive to temperature changes over the day/night cycle.
These are washed. However, it will never be 100% free of silt but should rinse off easily once in place in your final project. Call us or send us a message for details.


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Interhemispheric interactions between the primary motor cortices (M1) have been described with a variety of TMS methods. Here we give a detailed description of the interhemispheric interactions of a period of theta burst simulation (TBS), a rapid method of producing long lasting after-effects on the excitability of the stimulated M1. A total of 18 right handed healthy subjects participated. In most experiments, continuous and intermittent TBS (cTBS and iTBS) were delivered over the right M1 using a coil orientated to induce antero-posterior followed by postero-anterior (AP-PA) currents in the brain. The intensity of stimulation was 80% of active motor threshold (AMT), and a total of 600 pulses were applied. The effects on the amplitude of motor evoked potentials (MEPs), short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and intracortical facilitation (ICF) were evaluated in the left and right M1 before and at three different times after TBS. We also tested long-interval intracortical inhibition (LICI) in right M1 and interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) from right to left M1. Finally, to explore the effect of different polarities of cTBS over dominant and non-dominant hemisphere we delivered AP-PA and postero-anterior followed by antero-posterior (PA-AP) cTBS over either right or left M1 and tested MEPs in both hemispheres. In the stimulated hemisphere, cTBS reduced MEPs and SICI whereas iTBS increased MEPs and SICI. In the non-stimulated hemisphere cTBS increased MEPs and reduced SICI, while iTBS reduced MEPs and increased SICI. There were no effects on ICF, LICI or IHI. Although both AP-PA cTBS and PA-AP cTBS reduced MEPs in the stimulated M1, the former increased MEPs from non-stimulated M1 whereas the latter did not. There was no difference in the effect of cTBS on the dominant or non-dominant hemisphere.
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I'm working on High Line, a bulky weight wool lace shawl. Lace is always an interesting proposition when you have to join a new skein of yarn, but when you're working with a bulky weight wool, there's simply no way of disguising it. Enter spit splicing, a join method that works with any yarn that is at least 75% wool fiber. Since this join depends on wool's ability to felt, you also can't use a superwash wool, where the fiber has been coated so it won't felt while you're washing it. (See what they did there?) Again, this is for wool. Cottons, linens, and acrylics need not apply.
 Step 1. For each yarn end (old skein and new skein), carefully unwind about 4″, and separate fibers into two relatively equal parts. If you're working with a plied yarn, untwist them and divide evenly. Odd number of pies? Then separate the odd ply like the picture shows. Trust me; this is totally worth it.
 Step 2. Now carefully take your separated yarn ends (top) and tease the yarn apart further so that you can see space between the actual fibers. The more spread out your fibers are, the easier it will felt and, as a result, the stronger your join will be.
 Step 3. Next, carefully tear one section of the fibers away on each end. While you can cut them, tearing the fibers creates a more natural, and less noticeable, join. Fibers that are cut to the same length can show an edge or bump to the finished join. Remember, this is more obvious with big bulky yarns, and I'm working a lace pattern. If it's fingering or DK? Those snap pretty easy too, once you have separated the strands. As with everything, your mileage may vary.
 Step 4. Lay your two ends together so they overlap the 4″ you've removed. Ready? Spit on it. No, I'm not kidding, and yes, I really do want you to get the section wet. Which means spitting on it several times. (See? Knitting isn't a prissy sport.) Roll the fibers together between your flat palms to cause the fibers to lock onto each other and draw them together. (What you're doing here is actually wet felting, using the wetness from the spit and the friction created by rubbing your hands together. SCIENCE!!) Your fibers should go from looking like two separate pieces (top) to a single strand of fiber (bottom).
 Step 5. The end result: your next skein is invisibly joined to the old skein, and this join will simply disappear into your project. Seriously — can you even see where the two ends have become one? I can't. This is pure knitting magic. MAGIC, I tell you!!


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Insect-prevention tree band
The BugBarrier Tree Band, made of a dense, flexible fiber, wraps around tree trunks to fill bark crevices. Its adhesive film barrier with Top Wrap centralizes collection of eggs and larvae. After climbing down the trunk during the day to protect themselves from predators, caterpillars are trapped on the way back up in the evening; adult flightless female moths, prevented from reaching upper branches to deposit their eggs, will often simply lay them right below the area of the trunk where they have been blocked. The Tree Band contains no pesticides or pheromones, and has been tested against gypsy moths, spring and fall cankerworms, forest tent caterpillars and winter moths.
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Utrecht is the fifth largest inland port in the Netherlands. The port authority is part of the Public Works department of the city of Utrecht. The port authority oversees the running of the industrial and recreational river transport in municipal waters.
The Port Authority is tasked with:
- Provision of berths: the port authority provides berths for recreational boats within the city. It collects fees from boats that moor in Utrecht and is responsible for the facilities available at Bartholomé Bridge. These facilities are open from June to September;
- Supervision of loading and unloading on the industrial grounds at Lage Weide;
- Location of loading and unloading docks on the industrial grounds at Lage Weide;
- Coordination of mooring spaces for residential boats: the port authority is responsible for issuing permits for residential barges mooring in Utrecht, collecting port fees and provide information and advice.
Advisory role: the port authority has an advisory role with the Public Works department of the city, regarding festivities on and around the water.
Operation of locks and bridges: Utrecht has 19 movable bridges. The port authority operates bridges and collects royalties. All recreational boats that pass the lock Weerdsluis also receive a navigation map.
Cleaning the waterway, mandated by the Administration of water, dikes and polders: with a specially designed boat, the port collects the waste on the waterway in the city of Utrecht. It is also responsible for taking out the bikes fallen into the water.
City distribution through the waterway: with the "beer-boat", the port is responsible for the supply of beverage to the hospitality industry located along the canal. An hourly rate is also applied when the port uses such boat for the transport of goods on behalf of individuals and / or companies.


text: How could social scientists and cultural theorists take responsibility in engaging with science? How might they develop an experimental sensibility to the links between the production of knowledge and the production of existence or forms of life? Critically outlining key fields in the social and cultural studies of science, we interrogate a number of approaches to these questions. The first approach tries to make sense of how science operates in relation to economic, political and cultural forces. The second analyses science as a form of embodied work or practice. The third engages with science as collaborative-collective elaboration of events, ranging across cultural theory, contemporary art and participant ethnographies. This outline sketches a vector of responsibility across this diverse range of engagements, suggesting that contemporary movements between science and other knowledges constitute ethical and political imperatives.


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The Quebec construction industry has adopted criteria for hiring workers to which construction companies must conform. The fundamental principle is competency, acquired through training and/or on-the-job experience.
To demonstrate this competency and to work in the construction industry falling under the Act Respecting Labour Relations, Vocational Training, and Workforce Management in the Construction Industry (Act R-20), a worker must hold a competency certificate. There are three categories:
- Journeyman, for people who have demonstrated that they are qualified in one or another of the construction trades;
- Occupation, for people working on construction sites as a labourer or specialized labourer.
The Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ) also recognizes qualification certificates for certain trades issued by the Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale (MTESS).
The construction industry favours access for graduates. However, if there is a labour shortage, the Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ) must allow access for non-graduates. In these cases, specific conditions must be met.
To encourage access to the construction industry by women and Aboriginals and to increase their numbers on construction sites, special measures have been implemented.


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Abstract: In this paper, solutions to the problem of voltage sags caused by distributed generators anti-islanding protection are proposed. In a system with both substation and Distributed Generator (DG) supplying in parallel to a load, during any temporary fault condition, the DG will be disconnected from system by anti –islanding protection. After the reclose operation, the whole power has to come from the substation since the DG is no longer present and due to this there is voltage sag at the load end. This problem can seriously affect power quality indices as well as distributed generators reconnection procedure. In this context, this work investigates several potential solutions to be adopted by the utility or the DG owners and presents a thorough evaluation of their main advantages and disadvantages. The presented studies and procedures will guide the utility engineers in the making decision process associated to the choice of reasonable mitigation techniques to this problem. Solutions are simulated using ETAP 12.0 tool and HIL typhoon SCADA software. Certain solutions are simulated by developing a hardware prototype. The results obtained were compared and analysed for the better understanding of the stated solutions.
Keywords: Anti-islanding, Reclosing operation, Voltage sag
| DOI: 10.17148/IJIREEICE.2018.6108


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Click any word in a definition or example to find the entry for that word
It's rude to stare.
He lifted his head and stared at her.
They sat on the balcony, staring out across the valley.
He walked up to the house and stared through the window.
She was staring at me, so I stared back.
This is the British English definition of stare. View American English definition of stare.
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@article{Nowicki_2014, author = {Nowicki, Jacek}, title = {Stopping of Ships Equipped with Azipods[asterisk]}, journal = {TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation}, volume = {8}, number = {3}, pages = {373-376}, year = {2014}, url = {./Article_Stopping_of_Ships_Equipped_with_Nowicki,31,519.html}, abstract = {The paper contains a description of different possibilities of stopping a large ship equipped with azipods. The model tests were carried out to compare the effectiveness of stopping the ship using the different methods. The ship model used in stopping tests reproduces a large LNG carrier of capacity ~150 000 m3}, doi = {10.12716/1001.08.03.07}, issn = {2083-6473}, publisher = {Gdynia Maritime University, Faculty of Navigation}, keywords = {Azipods, Propeller, Stopping od Ships, Ship Propulsion, Ship Model, Stopping Tests, LNG Carrier, Stopping Manoeuvres} }


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cinity as well as those produced in the interactions of the primaries with
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What Is Zero Balancing?
Zero Balancing can help reduce stress by promoting an optimal flow of energy throughout your body.
About Zero Balancing
Zero Balancing is a gentle yet powerful method of balancing body energy with body
structure using skilled touch. It was developed by an American Osteopathic Physician,
Dr Fritz Frederick Smith MD. Zero Balancing integrates western knowledge of our body with oriental insights into energy, recognising the ways our body heals itself and how we maintain good health.
It has been taught in the UK since 1983. Practitioners of Zero Balancing are health-care professionals who have been trained to a recognised level of skill and awarded the title 'Certified Zero Balancer'.
A Zero Balancing session lasts between 30 and 40 minutes during which you remain fully clothed. The work is performed with you sitting and then lying comfortably on your back on a massage table. Zero Balancing uses held stretches and finger pressure with a focus on bones and joints. It takes a person into a place of refreshing relaxation which can bring about a profound experience of well-being and body-felt unity. The touch used in Zero Balancing has a characteristic clarity which is pleasurable to receive.
"I have been having regular Zero Balancing with Ross for the last two years and find that it really helps me to navigate the day-to-day stresses of working in a high-pressure kitchen environment and running several businesses. Zero Balancing gives my body and mind a chance to relax, take some time out from my busy schedule and provides release from held physical tension."
– Mark Hix
The gentle but firm touch brings about a return of flexibility, encourages good posture and clears stiffness in a richly restorative way. The sensitivity of touch used in Zero Balancing returns us to ourselves whilst simultaneously opening to an awareness of a centred presence in the world.
Zero Balancing is very useful when we are becoming overwhelmed by stresses in our lives which in turn can lead to a decline in our vitality and our ability to adapt to change. Contemporary life is increasingly attracting us into a virtual experience, with life being lived at an ever-faster pace. Staying in touch with the actual world and its natural rhythms is an essential reality check which is valuable in maintaining the balance which is health.
"Zero Balancing is beneficial for a wide range of people and effective in many ways. It is truly a bodywork ideally suited for the lives we live now."
Zero Balancing works with the bones and joints, and with the energy that flows through them. We pay particular attention to those joints in the body that balance posture and movement. These joints naturally have a small range of motion, so when they become compromised the body has few options to resolve the restriction, compensating elsewhere. For example, an imbalance in the bones of the foot might present as pain and discomfort in the knee or hip. Zero Balancing directly addresses these joint imbalances, recognising that small changes in the function of key joints will produce a significant improvement in body ease and alignment.
Zero Balancing teacher Judith Sullivan created a YouTube video called 'The Energy Effect' to share her interpretation and explanation of how energy affects the body and how Zero Balancing can engage with it.
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A crystal keyring with engraved 3D model, LED light - a crystal gift or a gadget.
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Warning: Last items in stock!
A crystal keyring (2*3*1.5 cm = 0.8*1.9*0.6")
As the keyring is pretty small, its project should not contain many elements. We recommend to choose 1 (or max. 2) elements, such as:
- a 3D model (e.g.: a 3D sport symbol, a ball, a 3D animal or a 3D musical instrument: a 3D violin, a 3D piano, a 3D guitar),
- a short text.
Such a keyring can be a great idea as:
- a gift for a husband or a boyfriend,
- a crystal sport gadget,
- a gift for a music teacher,
- a gadget for an employee,
- an event gadget, gala or a traid show.
It has a LED light button, so the engraving will be nicely illuminated, while pressing the button.
Each crystal keyring will be packed in a nice gift box.
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text: This report provides new evidence into the factors that predict school drop out for children in Bangladesh. It also examines similarities and differences between children who enter late into primary schooling, those who are permanently excluded and those who drop out. Our results show that the relationship of the child within the household and the possible support received from parents when the child requested help for school work were factors associated with the risk of drop out. In addition, over age in the final years of primary school and low school attendance were signals of a high risk of school drop out. Children who started school late were similar to children who drop out in terms of background family characteristics. However, children who were permanently excluded from school were poorer and more marginalised than children who dropped out. Several recommendations are drawn from the analyses of this report.


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 - There are probably 2 steps to your challenge.
 The first would be the actual math of it, something which is probably covered in many places, like here.
 The second issue is applying that in Construct blocks or Javascript, in this case I'd suggest fiddling around with the engine, also looking at some basic tutorials so you get the grasp of the task.
 I could give you straight up a built project, but I don't feel neither me nor you would gain anything from it in the end. Maybe I'm wrong, sorry if I am.
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 - apply this rule in here basically example 1/10 x100 = 10%
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