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Copy and Paste Practice - iWork - Pages (Mac)
Students Practice Copy and Paste
Students copy and paste animals next to the sounds they make.
Students learn how to right click "copy" and right click "paste". Alternately students learn to use the equivalent keyboard shortcuts "command - C" and "command - V" to copy and paste. Students learn to fix mistakes by using Edit > Undo or the keyboard shortcut "command - Z".
Grades - 1 - 2
Copy and Paste iWork Pages Activity Sheet
Download: copy-and-paste-practice.pages.zip (unzip file before using)
Copy and Paste Finished Example:
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Dr. Ricia Anne Chansky, professor in the English department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, is the coeditor of the forthcoming Voice of Witness (VOW) project, Mi María: Surviving the Storm.
Voice of Witness worked with Dr. Chansky and more than a hundred of her students to collect and amplify the stories of survivors across the island. Mi María brings together stories of survival, community, and strength with an interrogation of the politics of citizenry rooted in the history of Puerto Rico and the United States.
In recognition of her pedagogical work with students that blossomed into this public oral history project, we're thrilled to celebrate Dr. Chansky for receiving the Oral History Association's Post-Secondary Teaching Award.
After Hurricane María, Dr. Chansky invited students to write their own hurricane memoirs. Most were written in pen on paper as electricity was still out. Recognizing the value of this work, Dr. Chansky designed the Mi María project and partnered with Voice of Witness, inspired by the premise that students could help themselves and their home communities if they expanded this voluntary memoir lesson into an oral history project.
After intensive training during the VOW Story Lab, Dr. Chansky returned to the university where she taught over a hundred undergraduate students from all majors and disciplines to ethically collect, transcribe, translate, and edit oral history narratives. All of these students are survivors of Hurricane María—each with their own story to tell—who went into their home communities to collect unheard stories of the hurricane and its aftermath. The project aims to support often disempowered communities to reclaim agency through the facilitation of a public sharing of narratives. As Dr. Chansky wrote, "I did not intend to begin an ongoing, large-scale project in the midst of disaster, rather, I started this work out of an ethics of care for my students."
In response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new stage of the project, "Sheltered in Place," will use the existing model of employing oral history to help students and communities heal and reclaim their narratives in times of ongoing disaster. Dr. Chansky also received the Oral History Association's Emerging Crises Grant for this phase of the project.

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Services and Applications
Underwater drones can provide unique visual insight into the condition of submerged civil construction works such as locks, quay walls or bridge foundations.
By combining aquatic drones (surface/underwater) with state of the art water quality sensors it's possible to map the characteristics of the water. Water quality can vary significantly in space and also in depth.
Underwater drones (ROV) can dive into underwater environments and collect images of aquatic plants, fish and benthic populations.
At the surface, autonomous drones (ASV) can map the bathymetry of lakes and other water bodies using sonar technology. Underwater, imaging equipment (camera/sonar) on underwater drones can collect valuable information about the characteristics of the bottom.
Underwater drones can collect samples at any desired depth, at any point of water bodies.
Curious about how underwater looks like? Underwater drones can collect high definition images of underwater environments. If you're diving, we can help document your adventure!
The video above is an overview of the various applications of underwater drones that INDYMO tested in recent years, as part of multiple projects and pilots, with the participation of multiple water authorities, municipalities and companies from the Netherlands. It presents some brief images of the locations visited, the sensors used, procedures, and finally some of the best underwater images captured with the underwater drone.
Op de @Watercampus is @INDYMO2015 onderwaterdrones goed vertegenwoordigd. Toekomstige generaties opleiden als drone piloot voor innovatief meten voor betere waterkwaliteit en ecologie samen met @Hogeschool_VHL @wetterskip _URL_
This guideline is a great step forward. Ecology and environmental aspects, often overlooked, have been covered briefly. Suggested next steps by @INDYMO2015 @Blue21Float monitoring positive/negative effects of FPV projects on the water quality and ecology.
@INDYMO2015 @hanze @Sus_MDPI @GroenLeven @DeltaresNL impression: insights into impact of floating #photovoltaic on #waterquality: _URL_
@hanze @Sus_MDPI @INDYMO2015 @GroenLeven @DeltaresNL #environmental impact #floating solar #FPV #monitoring; #climateadaptation #climatemitigation #climatechange #sustainability _URL_


ShadowSync: Performing Synchronization in the Background for Highly Scalable Distributed Training
arXiv
Abstract
Ads recommendation systems are often trained with a tremendous amount of data, and distributed training is the workhorse to shorten the training time. Meanwhile, a commonly used technique to prevent overfitting in Ads recommendation is one pass training. In this scenario, the total amount of data is fixed. When we express data parallelism on n workers, each worker only processes 1/n data. The larger the number of workers, the less data each worker observes. While the training throughput can be increased by simply adding more workers, it is also increasingly challenging to preserve the model quality.
To address this problem, we propose the ShadowSync framework, in which the model parameters are synchronized across workers, yet we isolate synchronization from training and run it in the background. In contrast to common strategies including synchronous SGD, asynchronous SGD, and model averaging on independently trained sub-models, where synchronization happens in the foreground, ShadowSync synchronization is neither part of the backward pass nor happens every k iterations.
ShadowSync is simple but effective. Our framework is generic to host various types of synchronization algorithms, and we propose 3 approaches under this theme. The superiority of ShadowSync is confirmed by experiments on training deep neural networks for click-through-rate prediction. Our methods all succeed in making the training throughput linearly scale with the number of trainers. Comparing to their foreground counterparts, our methods exhibit neutral to better model quality and better scalability when we keep the number of parameter servers the same. In our training system which expresses both replication and Hogwild parallelism, ShadowSync also accomplishes the highest example level parallelism number comparing to the prior arts.
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Location and capacity
Cactus Poort is situated on the Kwekwe River, approximately 3km south of Redcliff and 4km west off the Gweru/Kwekwe highway. It has a capacity of 4 thousand mega litres.
Year of construction and purpose
The dam forms part of the Zibagwe complex which supplies water to Kwekwe, Redcliff and Ziscosteel. Cactus Poort was constructed in 1944.
The dam is a concrete gravity section, with an access gallery passing through the dam wall. Access to the dam and gallery is from the right bank. Substantial concrete protection work has been done on the left bank downstream of the dam. The spillway is an ogee gravity shape. Originally, the dam had five sluice outlets at the river bed until 1988 when four of these outlets were plugged and a new 600 NB steel pipework was placed to enable downstream discharge to be effected through a Flow Regulating Valve.
Over the years, the dam has undergone several repairs which consisted mainly of improving the spillway freeboard, and improvements to the outlet works. One of the major repair works was carried out in 1988 which saw guide walls being installed on both sides of the dam in order to confine higher floods to the spillway area thus preventing higher floods from eroding the hillside at the ends of the dam.


text: It is well known that there is a spectrum of pores in a soil profile. The conventional use of a single lumped value of soil hydraulic conductivity to describe a spectrum of hydraulically active pores may have unintentionally impeded the development of field-scale chemical transport theory and perhaps indirectly hindered the development of management protocols for chemical application and waste disposal. In this study, three sets of four field-scale tracer mass flux breakthrough patterns measured under transient unsaturated flow conditions were used to evaluate the validity of an indirect method to quantify equivalent pore spectra of macropore-type preferential flow pathways. Results indicated that there were distinct trends in how pore spectra of macropore-type preferential flow pathways changed when a soil profile became wetter during a precipitation event. This suggests that the indirect method has predictive value and is perhaps a better alternative to the lumped soil hydraulic conductivity approach in accurately determining the impact of macropore-type preferential flow pathways on water movement and solute transport under transient unsaturated flow conditions.

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Gravity Irrigation with Pump and Flow Control [Success Story]
Counter Nodes with flow meters are used to monitor the water flowing to orchards to allow for precise water metering and accurate billing for water use. For installations without access to wired power, a solar panel or battery pack may be used to power the FlexPower Nodes and sensors.
The Gateway, or wireless network controller, monitors the water level inside the water tank. When the water level drops, a Node installed with the reservoir pumps uses its outputs to cycle the pumps on or off. A series of Nodes monitors the amount of water flowing into each orchard. A 1 Watt Data Radio connected to the Gateway transmits the data to a mobile asset or a centralized control center for data processing and billing.
Because of the difficult terrain, using Data Radios allowed us to reliably transmit data over great distances and around obstacles. SureCross FlexPower devices using efficient power management technology allow users to choose from solar, battery, or dc power without compromising the performance or response time of the network.


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A Golden Tragedy is the story of a king who loved his daughter very much and would do anything to please her. One day, Penelope told her father that she wished her birds could lay golden eggs. In an effort to please his daughter, the king made a wish that would literally change everything. Illustrations support the text.
Art Around Us
The Homework Lesson

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ApCoCoA-1:SAT.FixBits
From ApCoCoAWiki
This article is about a function from ApCoCoA-1.
SAT.FixBits
Allows to fix chosen bits in advance within a SAT input file. The new input file is sat_fixed.cnf.
Syntax
SAT.FixBits(BitList:LIST, File:STRING)
Description
 - @param BitList: The indeterminates that should get fixed. Format: [[IndetIndex_1,Value_1],[IndetIndex_2,Value_2],...]
 - @param File: File in the SAT directory of the apcocoa folder
Example
-- quadratic system:
Use R::=ZZ/(2)[x[1..3]];
F1:= x[1]x[2] + x[1]x[3] + x[2]x[3] + x[3];
F2:= x[2] + 1;
F3:= x[1]x[2] + x[3];
SPE:=[F1,F2,F3];
SAT.ConvertToCNF(SPE,4,0,0);
SAT.FixBits([[1,0],[2,1]],"sat.cnf"); -- fixes x[1]=0 and x[2]=1
SAT.LaunchMiniSat("sat_fixed.cnf");
SAT.GetResult();
--Result: [0,1,0] Test with: Eval(SPE,[0,1,0]);


in the hero area when not viewing a video. If you'd like to disable this without modifying the text, use noDescription=true.
The default value is false.
noHeroCta
A "Start Watching" button appears by default in the hero area when a video is not playing. Set noHeroCta=true to remove this button.
The default value is false.
noTitle
By default, a Channel has a title that appears in the hero area when not viewing a video. If you'd like to disable this without modifying the text, use noTitle=true.
The default value is false.
overlayZIndex
When a channel sets mode=popover, it will launch an overlay that is intended to appear over all other elements on your site. Also, when you launch a video, it appears in another overlay that must be above the channel.
If you find that some elements of your site, such as floating headers or social widgets, appear over your channel, you can set this to a higher value, e.g. overlayZIndex=100000. Or if there are certain elements you want to appear on top of it, you can set it to a lower value, e.g. overlayZIndex=500.
The default value is 10000.
playlistLoop
Set playlistLoop=true so that, when all a Channel's videos have been played through, it will loop back to the first one.
routeDataToUrl
A function for use with routeStrategy=custom. Refer to routeStrategy for example usage.
The routeData argument will be an Object that may include wchannelid and wvideoid properties. If wchannelid is set, that channel is open. If wvideoid is set, that video is open.
{
 routeDataToUrl: function (currentUrl, routeData) {
 return modifyUrlToIncludeRouteData(currentUrl, routeData);
 }
}
routeStrategy
This option chooses between a few supported methods for reading and writing the URL, as it pertains to Channel routing.
The default value is query-params.
query-params
This is the default. It will read and write these query params:
 - wchannelid
 - wvideoid
anchor-params
Use routeStrategy=anchor-params to set values that look like query params, but they will appear in the page's anchor tag. You can use this if your client-side routing cannot deal with the presence of arbitrary query params, and you do not want to use the history object to make it compatible.
Note that setting routeStrategy=anchor-params will cause the Channel to not be indexable by search engines like Google.
path
Use routeStrategy=path to update and parse the URL using friendly paths that appear native to your site. The format looks like:
_URL_
That is, the last two path parts, if they begin with channel- and video-, are used to determine the channel ID and video ID.
NOTE: We may add support for friendly name routing at the end of the URL, e.g.
_URL_
The routeStrategy=path option is not compatible with most sites' routing code out of the box, which is why this should only be considered for customers with advanced technical resources. To support this, you will need to add special routing rules. For example:
/my/blog/* -> /my/blog
Or if you wanted to support Channels with this route strategy site-wide:
/(.*?)/channel-(.*) -> $1
That is, path parts past /my/blog should also route to /my/blog. This lets our scripts handle the channel routing on the client side.
custom
Use routeStrategy=custom if you want to have complete control over how routes are interpreted and set. If routeStrategy=custom is set, we expect two more functions to be passed as embed options: routeDataToUrl and urlToRouteData. Because these embed options are functions, they must be passed using _wcq.
window._wcq = window._wcq || [];
window._wcq.push({
 id: '_all',
 options: {
 foo: 'bar',
 routeStrategy: 'custom',
 routeDataToUrl: function (currentUrl, routeData) {
 var urlParts = currentUrl.split('?');
 var beforeQueryString = urlParts[0];
 var searchParams = new URLSearchParams(urlParts[1] || '');
 if (routeData.wchannelid) {
 searchParams.set('customChannelParam', routeData.wchannelid);
 } else {
 searchParams.delete('customChannelParam');
 }
 if (routeData.wvideoid) {
 searchParams.set('customVideoParam', routeData.wvideoid);
 } else {
 searchParams.delete('customVideoParam');
 }
 if ('' + searchParams) {
 return beforeQueryString + '?' + searchParams;
 }
 return beforeQueryString;
 },
 urlToRouteData: function (url) {
 var urlParts = url.split('?');
 var searchParams = new URLSearchParams(urlParts[1] || '');
 var result = {};
 var channelParam = searchParams.get('customChannelParam');
 var videoParam = searchParams.get('customVideoParam');
 if (channelParam) {
 result.wchannelid = channelParam;
 }
 if (videoParam) {
 result.wvideoid = videoParam
 }
 return result;
 },
 }
});
NOTE: The example above uses URLSearchParams for a simple demonstration, but it is not supported in Internet Explorer. If you use URLSearchParams, make sure you have a polyfill for it on your website.
title
Set title=My%20Title to change your Channel's title. Remember that spaces in embed option values must be percent encoded, which you can get using encodeURIComponent("my description") or by using our percent encoding tool.
upNextDisplayDuration
Set upNextDisplayDuration=5 to have the "Up Next" preview display for 5 seconds, for example, at the end of the video, instead of the default 10 seconds.
urlToRouteData
A function for use with routeStrategy=custom. Refer to routeStrategy for example usage.
It should return an Object.
{
 urlToRouteData: function (url) {
 return {
 wchannelid: "abc" // the hashed ID of the channel, if it is open
 wvideoid: "def" // the hashed ID of the video, if it is open
 };
 }
}
videoBackgroundHashedId
Set videoBackgroundHashedId=myhashedid to change the background video of your channel to another Wistia video.
The default value is undefined.
Channel API Usage
To use the Channel API, you need to get a Channel handle. This can be accomplished using _wcq.
window._wcq = window._wcq || [];
window._wcq.push({
 id: "channelid",
 onHasData: function (channel) {
 console.log("this is my channel handle!", channel);
 }
});
Or if you just want to play with a channel, you can use the Wistia.channel(...) matching function, which has similar semantics to the Player API Matcher. So for example, if I just want to work with the first channel on the page, I can do:
var channel = Wistia.channel();
If there are multiple channels on the page, I can target them by their hashed ID or DOM ID:
var channel1 = Wistia.channel("itshashedid");
var channel2 = Wistia.channel("itsdomid");
If I want to operate on all the channels on a page, I could do:
Wistia.channel.all().forEach(function (channel) {
 console.log('a channel', channel);
});
Channel API Methods
Wistia Channels currently have a limited public API. Want to do something cool with channels and don't have the tools for it yet? Let us know — it may influence what we make available.
These are the methods that are available now:
currentVideo()
This will return a Player API handle for the video that is currently visible. If there is no video visible, it returns undefined.
console.log(channel.currentVideo().name());
destroy()
Removes a channel from the DOM and cleans up any lingering global references.
channel.destroy();
Note that this will be called automatically within 500ms if a Channel's container has been removed from the DOM. The container's wistia_channel class will change to wistia_


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GEW concluded the first of its bi-annual Spectrum Monitoring and EMC training courses at its Cape Town facilities during the week of 9-12 May 2017. The four-day knowledge-building course was attended by 27 delegates from both the regulator and industry, and focused on regulatory issues, measurements in accordance with ITU-R specifications and EMC principles. The combination of theoretical and practical sessions help facilitate a greater understanding of the core ITU standards and industry best practices. The course presented key spectrum monitoring and management themes, such as:
- Real-time radio spectrum monitoring and measurements techniques
- ITU-R measurements and industry best practices
- Frequency assignment and occupancy analysis – Frequency Band Occupancy (FBO) and Frequency Channel Occupancy (FCO)
- Measurement systems training (half a day outing with practical demonstrations)
- Spectrum management and its supporting role in a monitoring network
- Understanding EMC fundamentals and principles to reduce interference
- EMC Coupling issues and its prevention.
Remaining current with the industry best practices insures a solid knowledge base on spectrum monitoring and spectrum management. This training course helps educate industry professionals to keep them at the forefront of spectrum monitoring and spectrum management operations. For information on future courses, please visit our Spectrum Monitoring Training page.


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How were Jatayu and Sampatti able to fly towards the sun when there is no air in the space intervening between the earth and the sun?
by Chaitanya CharanSeptember 9, 2012
In your lecture about Ramayana you were telling how Jatayu & Sampath were flying towards the sun when Sampath's wings were burnt. According to modern science there is vaccuum in the space so how without any air were these birds able to fly in space?
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Lake Waccamaw offers lessons in history and nature
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At three miles by five miles, Lake Waccamaw covers nearly 9,000 acres. It is what is known as a Carolina bay.
"There are over 500,000 Carolina bay lakes. This is the largest bay lake," said Toby Hall with Lake Waccamaw State Park.
Carolina bays are oval shaped bodies of water that all have similar characteristics.
"You'll notice they all predominantly go the same direction, northwest to southeast," said Hall.
Several theories exist for how the Carolina bays were formed, from meteors to sinkholes. The most popular at this point is the oriented lake theory.
"Ocean waters receded to where they are today. Winds from the north-northeast came in and actually carved out these oval shapes," said Hall.
Most figure they are called Carolina bays because bays are bodies of water. That is a misconception.
"It does get its name from bay vegetation, the three trees that grow typically around Carolina bay lakes," said Hall.
The northern shore of Lake Waccamaw is limestone, which is exposed in several locations. That gives the water an unusual neutral PH and a great deal of biodiversity.
"There's 54 species of fish, 15 species of mussels and clams and 10 species of freshwater snails," said Hall. "They have seven endemic species that live only in Lake Waccamaw."
Because the neutral PH is so critical to the lake's ecosystem, the state park recently created a team of monitors to make certain the water is not becoming too alkaline or acidic.
"That is a very fragile balance in maintaining the water's chemistry out here on Lake Waccamaw," said Hall.
The tea color of the lake is not related to the PH level. It is generated as the four creeks, which feed the lake, pass through decaying vegetation.
There's plenty to learn at Lake Waccamaw State Park from early Native American presence and the discovery of several dugout canoes that are being kept under the surface of the lake to a new display featuring the bones of a baleen whale found in the lake.
"It's been carbon dated to about 2.8 million years ago, which actually shows that, yes this was ocean at one time," said Hall.
Put everything together and it adds up to what many think is a special place.
"This is a gem for North Carolina," said Hall. "The importance of its protection and the continuation for future generations is what we strive for here at the lake."


Mason's Line - A Detailed Guide
Mason's line is a product used by professional mason's every day. Also known as the mason's twine, it is one of the most important tools that never get enough credit. When using a mason's line, you do not need to use other leveling tools, which speeds up the process. Plus, when used correctly, it gives a straight line for accuracy while laying blocks or bricks.
In this article, we'll talk about what is a mason's line, how to use it, and everything in between. So, please keep reading to know more about it!
What is Mason's Line?
Mason line is a product used to make straight lines and a leveled surface. It is useful when laying patios, posts, footings, and more. The product is necessary during such jobs as you will no longer need to pick up the level numerous times. Another excellent part about this twine is that it won't sag like other twines.
What are the Characteristics of a Good Good Mason Line?
The mason line is a crucial tool to get straight lines. So there are obviously some important things to keep in mind.
Firstly, the line that you'll be using in laying bricks should be 100% nylon. It won't mildew and will also be less affected by humidity and moisture. The line should also be alkali and abrasion resistant so that it doesn't get damaged by other tools.
In addition, tight and consistent braiding will make it easy to use the line. Precisely, the tighter the braid, the stronger the mason line
Along with this, the mason line should be consistent in color. It should be clearly visible in all types of work conditions. Remember, nylon lines without a consistent color throughout the roll becomes difficult to use and hard to see.
When buying a mason line, don't look at it just like any piece of string but as an important tool. So, focusing on the quality and color of the line is crucial.
How to Use a Mason Line Correctly?
It's essential to use the mason line correctly to get a straight wall. Here are a few easy steps you can follow that will help you in doing the same.
Step 1
First of all, you need to brace and level a 2-4 inch corner pole.
Step 2
The next thing to do is slip your braided mason's line into the line block's groove.
Step 3
Wrap the mason line around the line's notch twice and then slide it into the groove again.
Step 4
Now, face the hook of the mason line towards the rear corner of the cement block and hook the line block over the outside of the block.
Step 5
Run the line to the next corner. Make sure that your line is taut and close to the block you're laying. At the same time, you should have enough space to wipe off extra mortar without bumping the line.
Step 6
Now lay your line in a way that the top of the block matches the established line. Follow this line as you lay and slide the line blocks as you build the wall.
Step 7
Check the wall periodically with a level to ensure that the work is plumb.
Final Thoughts
The mason line is indeed an important tool. It saves valuable time as you don't have to use leveling tools often.
The majority of the bricklayers have experienced unraveling and sagging mason's line while laying bricks. Unfortunately, you could waste valuable time correcting the problems caused by a poor quality mason line. You can prevent this by using a premium quality line.
Make sure to buy the mason line from a reputed vendor and look for the material and consistency of color to prevent costly mistakes.
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Bachelor of Music is a three year bachelors program offered by a university that teaches the advanced level of music theory,vocals or practicals.After doing this course there are many careers that can be chosen either as a performer,entertainment or even a music studio/company/record label.
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Aven Family History
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Aven Name Meaning
Scandinavian: unexplained. English: variant spelling of Avon. German: patronymic from the Frisian personal name Ave. The surname is frequent in the areas of Oldenburg and Jeverland. Dutch: metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch haven 'pot'. Americanized form of French Avenne or Avoine, literally 'oats', hence a metonymic occupational name for a grain grower or merchant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Avena, Ave, Even, Raven, Avey, Aden, Bien, Aveni, Savin, Laven


Custom queries
Let moor generate Dart from your SQL statements
Although moor includes a fluent api that can be used to model most statements, advanced features like WITH clauses or subqueries aren't supported yet. You can use these features with custom statements. You don't have to miss out on other benefits moor brings, though: Moor helps you parse the result rows and custom queries also support auto-updating streams.
Statements with a generated api
Starting from version 1.5, you can instruct moor to automatically generate a typesafe API for your select, update and delete statements. Of course, you can still write custom sql manually. See the sections below for details.
To use this feature, all you need to is define your queries in your UseMoor annotation:
 tables: [Todos, Categories],
 queries: {
 'SELECT *, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM todos WHERE category = AS "amount" FROM categories c;'
class MyDatabase extends _$MyDatabase {
 // rest of class stays the same
After running the build step again, moor will have written the CategoriesWithCountResult class for you - it will hold the result of your query. Also, the _$MyDatabase class from which you inherit will have the methods categoriesWithCount (which runs the query once) and watchCategoriesWithCount (which returns an auto-updating stream).
Queries can have parameters in them by using the? or :name syntax. When your queries contains parameters, moor will figure out an appropriate type for them and include them in the generated methods. For instance, 'categoryById': 'SELECT * FROM categories WHERE id = :id' will generate the method categoryById(int id).
You can also use UPDATE or DELETE statements here. Of course, this feature is also available for daos, and it perfectly integrates with auto-updating streams by analyzing what tables you're reading from or writing to.
Custom select statements
If you don't want to use the statements with an generated api, you can still send custom queries by calling customSelect for a one-time query or customSelectStream for a query stream that automatically emits a new set of items when the underlying data changes. Using the todo example introduced in the getting started guide, we can write this query which will load the amount of todo entries in each category:
class CategoryWithCount {
 final Category category;
 final int count; // amount of entries in this category
 CategoryWithCount(this.category, this.count);
// then, in the database class:
Stream> categoriesWithCount() {
 // select all categories and load how many associated entries there are for
 // each category
 return customSelect(
 readsFrom: {todos, categories}, // used for the stream: the stream will update when either table changes
 ).watch().map((rows) {
 // we get list of rows here. We just have to turn the raw data from the row into a
 // CategoryWithCount. As we defined the Category table earlier, moor knows how to parse
 // a category. The only thing left to do manually is extracting the amount
 return rows
 .map((row) => CategoryWithCount(Category.fromData(, this), row.readInt('amount')))
For custom selects, you should use the readsFrom parameter to specify from which tables the query is reading. When using a Stream, moor will be able to know after which updates the stream should emit items.
You can also bind SQL variables by using question-mark placeholders and the variables parameter:
Stream amountOfTodosInCategory(int id) {
 return customSelect(
 'SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM todos WHERE category =?',
 variables: [Variable.withInt(id)],
 readsFrom: {todos},
 ).map((row) => row.readInt('c')).watch();
Of course, you can also use indexed variables (like?12) - for more information on them, see the sqlite3 documentation.
Custom update statements
For update and delete statements, you can use customUpdate. Just like customSelect, that method also takes a sql statement and optional variables. You can also tell moor which tables will be affected by your query using the optional updates parameter. That will help with other select streams, which will then update automatically.


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The suffix of place is -re or -ra meaning - place/place of
Earlier we learned of bu - this - and şu or o - that. Putting these words together by suffixing -raplace of plus the static (locative) suffix -da - in, on, at - then we form the words meaning - here and there etc. These words are used for a general sense of location.
burada - here - [lit: bu-ra-da - this-place-at]
şurada - there - [lit: şu-ra-da - that-place nearer-at or in between-at]
orada - over there - [lit: o-ra-da - that-place yonder-at]
nerede? - where? - [lit: ne-re-de? - what-place-at?]
In conversation you will hear the above words shortened (abraded) to - burda, şurda, orda, nerde?
A little note: There is really no such suffix -deki in Turkish. -deki is actually two suffixes together, -de plus an added -ki.
-de means - on, in, at - while -ki is - that which is
But you will find most grammar books gloss over this construction although it is in constant daily use to make an Adjective of Location. It is for this reason that I began teaching it as a suffix in its own right - and it was far easier for my students to grasp the intention of meaning. Therefore I will treat it as a suffix for Manisa Turkish website. Let us call it a "pseudo" suffix. Sokaktaki araba - The car which is in the street - [Lit: Sokak-ta-ki street-in-which-is car.] - here we can see that -daki makes an Adjective of Location - that which is in.
This pseudo suffix is very important as it is used a lot in daily conversation and reading.
The -deki or -daki - is added to words to produce an adjective to describe the location of an object. This is best shown by example. For instance if we say: The telephone [which is] in my bedroom is broken, then Turkish trying to turn everything into an adjective will say thus: [lit: Bedroom-of-me-which-is-in telephone broken-is.] - Yatak odamdaki telefon bozuktur. - [Yatak oda-m-daki telefon bozuk-tur]. Here odam-daki telefon is used as an adjective to describe just where the telephone is! - ie. Room-my-in-which-is telephone.
This point is a particular difficulty when beginning to learn Turkish as we do not use an adjectival construction. Instead in English we use a Relative Construction - The telephone which is in my bedroom is broken.. It is important to understand this adjectival construction of location, as it is in constant daily use in Turkish. It can also be used as a location in time scale as some of the examples below will show. Note also that the vowel in -ki is invariable - it does not follow Vowel harmony Rules, so the full Suffix of Adjectival Location is either -deki or -daki.
Masadaki kitap - The book (which is) on the table.
Masadaki kitabı bana verin. - Give me the book (which is) on the table.
Kilitteki anahtar. - The key (which is) in the lock.
Kilitteki anahtarı çıkarınız - (Would you) take the key out of the lock. - [Lit: Lock-in-which-is key-the take out!] - [We have used the polite imperative in this example]
Kutudaki kibritler nemlidir. - The matches (which are) in the box are damp.
It can be seen from the above example that the Turkish aspect is different from English and this can only be appreciated by usage and practice, as it is an alien construction for English speakers
Önümüzdeki hafta. - (Ön-ümüz-deki hafta.) - The week in front of us - [Lit: Front-of-us-which-is week.]
Önümüzdeki haftanın havası çok güneşli olacak. - The week ahead's weather will be very sunny.
As already stated this is at first sight a difficult construction and can be assimilated by reading, listening and using whenever possible
If we need to show movement from or movement to a place or places then we must use a different suffix such as -dan - from or -a - to, towards.. in order to modify the meaning:
buradan [bu -ra -dan] - (burdan as spoken) - from here
We also use the same construction in English. If a child strays too near to the fire, then the mother will say: "Get away from there!".
şuradan [şu -ra -dan] - (şurdan as spoken) - from there
oradan [o -ra -dan] - (ordan as spoken) - from over there
nereden? [ne -re -den?] - (nerden? as spoken) - where from?
Word Adding -a - to, towards:
buraya - [bu -ra -ya] - to here
şuraya [şu-ra-ya] - to there
oraya [o-ra-ya] - to over there
nereye? [ne-re-ye?] - where to?
We in English do not say - come to here - or - come to there., although in Older English we did use these forms - Come hither - or - Go hence. However Turkish must use the -a suffix to show movement towards the place. Basically Turkish is using - hence and hither - and even - thence and thither - which we in English no longer use in daily speech. To re-iterate, we used to say - hither and thither - in the old days - this is what Turkish is basically doing.
The plural forms buralarda, şuralarda, oralarda, nerelerde cause the meaning to be:
1. More vague: - buralarda - hereabouts, around here
2. More spatial: - şuralarda - thereabouts, around there,over there
3. More generalized: - oralarda - thereabouts, over there, around about
3. Any mixture of the three: - nerelerde? - whereabouts?
Here we can see then the meanings have become more generalized in both space and location.
We should also remember that the meanings based on şuralarda are in the near vicinity whilst the meanings based on oralarda are more distant (let's say in another country).
The Plural Forms are also extended with -dan - from.. and -a - towards..
buralardan (bu-ra-lar-dan) - from hereabouts
şuralardan (şu-ra-lar-dan) - from around there
oralardan (o-ra-lar-dan) - over around there
nerelerden? (ne-re-ler-den?) - whereabouts from?
buralara (bu-ra-lar-a) - to around here
şuralara (şu-ra-lar-a) - to around there
oralara (o-ra-lar-a) - to those parts
nerelere? (ne-re-ler-e?) - whereabouts to?
As we can see the plural forms are vaguer and wider, but they are used just as we in English make these distinctions in place and space.
Buralarda bir güzel restoran var mı? - Is there a good restaurant around here?
Buraya gel! - Come (to) here!
Orada yeşil araba var. - There is a green car over there.
Şurada büyük otel var. - There is a big hotel there.
Kredi Bankası nerede? - Where is the Kredi Bank?.
Çarşı nerelerde? - Whereabouts are the shops?.
Buradan saat sekizde çıkalım - Let's leave (from) here at 8 o' clock.
Particular Locations - right here, right there and just where?
If we need to communicate a more particular place and sense of location then as in English we have to be more precise. This precision in Turkish is achieved by using the suffix -i or -si meaning - its. By adding this suffix Turkish makes the place particular:
burası (bu-ra-sı) - right here [Lit: its place (exactly) here.]
şurası (şu-ra-sı) - right there.
orası (o-ra-sı) - right over there.
neresi? (ne-re-si?) - just where? [Lit: where exactly?]
Note that the -si suffix is the Possessed part of the Possessive Relationship and that sometimes the Possessor is "understood", we should really be using this expression as a complete relationship as in: "bankanın burası" or "evin şurası" or "İngilterenin orası", but this is a bit pedantic. (See note below)
As Stated above for exact locations the Possessive Adjective suffix -(s)ı is added to make the meaning become more exact. For instance if someone asks you on the telephone:
Neredesin? (ne-re-de-sin?) - Where are you?
Then you might answer: Ankara' dayım - (Ankara'-da-y-ım) - I'm in Ankara
However, if they ask you:
Oranın neresinde? (ne-re-si-n-de?) - Where (of there) exactly?
Then you might answer: banyodayım (banyo-da-y-ım) - I am in the bath


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Laser welding machines are an advanced form of welding technology used in many industries. Traditional welding equipment comes with significant limitations, that's why laser welding machines have become popular over the years. These machines emit high-intensity beams of focused light that heat and fuse a material's surface together. In this article, we will discuss the cost of a handheld laser welding machine as compared to other welding equipment, and whether it can be used for industrial production.
laser welding equipment cost
The cost of a handheld laser welding machine comes at a premium. However, it provides a more productive and efficient outcome than other welding equipment. Its cost varies on several factors, including the type of laser, features, and power. On average, a handheld laser welding machine costs between $20,000 and $45,000. To compare, other welding equipment comes at a much lower price range from $200 to $5,000. The table below provides further comparison:
|Type of Welding Equipment||Price Range|
|MIG Welder||$339 to $5,000|
|TIG Welder||$288 to $4,000|
|Stick Welder||$200 to $1,250|
7 Factors Affecting Laser Welding Equipment Cost
- Laser Source Type:
The type of laser source significantly impacts the cost of laser welding equipment. There are various types of lasers used for welding, such as fiber lasers, CO2 lasers, and solid-state lasers. Fiber lasers are commonly preferred due to their high efficiency and reliability, but they might come at a higher initial cost compared to CO2 lasers.
- Power Output:
The power output of the laser is a critical determinant of equipment cost. Higher power lasers can handle thicker materials and faster welding speeds but are generally more expensive than lower power options.
- Laser Welding System Type:
The cost of laser welding equipment can vary based on the system type. Benchtop or compact laser welding systems designed for smaller-scale applications are generally more affordable than large-scale industrial systems.
- Automation and Integration:
Laser welding equipment can be integrated into automated production lines to improve efficiency. The level of automation and integration required for specific applications can impact the overall cost of the equipment.
- Control System and Software:
Advanced control systems and software that offer precise control over welding parameters and process monitoring might contribute to higher equipment costs. However, these features enhance welding accuracy and repeatability.
- Cooling and Gas Supply:
Laser welding equipment requires cooling systems and gas supply for optimal performance. The type and capacity of cooling and gas supply systems can influence the overall cost.
- Brand and Manufacturer:
The reputation and brand of the equipment manufacturer can also impact the cost. Established and well-known brands might offer higher-priced equipment due to their reliability and customer support.
Applications of a Handheld Laser Welding Machine
A handheld laser welding machine can be used in a variety of applications, including research, jewelry making, and detail repair works. These machines can weld different types of metals, including aluminum, steel, and copper. Being handheld machines, they are lightweight, portable, and can be used in confined spaces. Additionally, they can be used for spot welding, seam welding, and overlap welding. Despite being small and portable, handheld laser welding machines offer quick processing and high-quality output.
Industrial Production Using Handheld Laser Welding Machine
While handheld laser welding machines are primarily used in small-scale applications, they are also suitable for industrial production. With their lightweight and portability features, they can be used on the production line, making it easy to move from one station to another. However, it is essential to note that high-power laser welding machines are better suited for large-scale industrial production. They are less portable, and their beams are more powerful, making the welding of thicker metals possible. These industrial-grade laser welding machines come at a higher cost but provide greater welding strength and efficiency than handheld welding machines.
Top 4 Advantages of a Handheld Laser Welding Machine Over Other Welding Equipment
- Precision: Handheld laser welding machines are precise in welding, providing a high-quality output that is unmatched by other welding equipment.
- Portable: The handheld laser welding machine is small, lightweight, and portable compared to other welding equipment.
- Versatility: Handheld laser welding machines can be used to weld different types of materials, including steel, copper, and aluminum.
- Short Processing Time: Laser welding machines work by emitting high-intensity beams of light, which results in quicker processing than most other welding equipment.
Limitations of Handheld Laser Welding Machines
- Cost: Compared to other types of welding equipment, handheld laser welding machines are much more expensive.
- Maintenance Cost: The maintenance of these machines is quite costly because of their complex design and technology.
- Not Suitable for Thick Metals: While handheld laser welding machines can weld most metals, they are not suitable for welding thick metals like those used in industrial applications.
Handheld laser welding machines come at a premium cost, and they provide several advantages over other forms of welding equipment. These machines are widely used in different applications, from research to small-scale production. They are portable, versatile, precise, and have a short processing time. While not suitable for industrial applications, they can be used for specific tasks such as welding thin metal sheets. Therefore, handheld laser welding machines can be a beneficial investment for small-scale applications that require precise and quick welding.
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Rosemarinus Lockwood de Forest and Irene - Photo by Philip Johnson
One of the best of the prostrate rosemary with a prolific show of pale blue flowers along heavy branches densely clothed with rich dark green leaves.
The image above shows a good comparison of the two prostrate rosemary that we grow with the pale blue Rosmarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest'
on the left with the deeper lavender-blue Rosmarinus officinalis Irene® on the right. - We like them both. Which one do you like?
Rosemarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest' was discovered in the garden of Lockwood and Elizabeth de Forest.
The origins of Rosmarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest' and other rosemary that the de Forests collected
are chronicled in an article 'A Parcel of Rosemaries' by Elizabeth DeForest
in the fall 1976 issue of Pacific Horticulture. Arthur Menzies also wrote the a short article regarding this fine plant that was published in the October 1963 Journal of the California Horticultural Society. This article is quoted in its entirety.
The Origin of Rosmarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest'
For more Rosemary information see the Mediterranean Garden Society Rosemary Page
Arthur L. Menzies
For some years now the most commonly sold creeping rosemary in California nurseries
has been Rosmarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest'. This plant has been erronously
labeled in most nurseries as Rosmarinus lockwoodi, R. Foresti, or R. foresteri.
In a recent publication, "A Checklist of Woody Ornamental Plants of California" by
Mildred E. Mathias and Elizabeth McClintock (published by the University of California,
College of Agriculture as Manual 32) the correct cultivar name for this plant has been
designated as Rosmarinus officinalis 'Lockwood de Forest'.
In a letter recently received from Mrs. de Forest, the following information
regarding the origin of this cultivar should be of interest. "We discovered this plant
here in own Santa Barbara garden where we had, egged on by Sydney Mitchell, a planting
of Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus' from the La Mortola Gardens original, and
also bushes of the upright Rosmarinus officinalis. We assumed that it was a garden
hybrid resulting from a cross between the two, but is could well have been a sport
of R. officinalis 'Prostratus'. Having found it, Lockwood immediately had cuttings
from it, but it was not until after his death in 1949, that I realized that 'Lockwood
de Forest' was being used to designate it. I can think of no happier memorial."


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This tutorial describes how to create a few simple motions using example scripts from the Intera Motion Interface.
Motion Interface Examples
New in Intera SDK 5.2!
The Motion Interface enables the user to easily generate smooth motions for Sawyer by specifying a sequence of waypoints: the motion controller on Sawyer will automatically generate and run a trajectory that passes through the waypoints. The user can specify a variety of options, such as a maximum speed or requiring that the endpoint move on a linear path between the waypoints.
Go to Joint Angles
The go_to_joint_angles script is perhaps the simplest way to use the motion interface: it moves the arm from its current position to some target set of joint angles. Note that this script will not plan around self-collisions or obstacles.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_joint_angles.py -h
Print the arguments that can be passed to the script.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_joint_angles.py
Run the script with default parameters: move at a moderate speed to a configuration where the arm is in front of the robot with the elbow up.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_joint_angles.py -q -0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 -0.3 0.2 0.4 -s 0.9 -a 0.1
Run the script with a few common arguments:
- Set the target joint angles (ordered j0 through j6):
-q -0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 -0.3 0.2 0.4
- Set the speed ratio:
- Set the acceleration ratio:
Note that the speed and acceleration ratios are both scalar values on the range 0 to 1. The actual limits that are used in planning are equal to the maximum that each joint can achieve, scaled by the ratio. Advanced users can set kinematic limits in a more direct way using the
Go to to Cartesian Pose
The go_to_cartesian_pose moves the robot from its current position to a target pose, with the end-effector following a linear path.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_cartesian_pose.py -h
Display the help file for the script, listing all possible arguments.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_cartesian_pose.py -p 0.4 -0.3 0.18 -o 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 -t right_hand
Go to position (x=0.4, y=-0.3, z=0.18 meters) with a quaternion orientation (0, 1, 0, 0) and tip name right_hand. The current position or orientation will be used if only one is provided explicitly.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_cartesian_pose.py -q 0.0 -0.9 0.0 1.8 0.0 -0.9 0.0
Go to joint angles: 0.0 -0.9 0.0 1.8 0.0 -0.9 0.0 using default settings. If a Cartesian pose is not provided then forward kinematics will be used to compute it. If a Cartesian pose is provided, then the joint angles will be used to bias the nullspace (elbow orientation) during motion planning.
$ rosrun intera_examples go_to_cartesian_pose.py -R 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.1 0.2 0.3 -T
Jog arm with Relative Pose (in tip frame). In this case, move x=0.01, y=0.02, z=0.03 meters in translation and rotate roll=0.1, pitch=0.2, yaw=0.3 radians in orientation from the current end effector frame. The fixed position and orientation paramters will be ignored if provided.
Send Random Trajectory
The send_random_trajectory script is used to perform a random walk in joint space with the robot arm. It should be used with caution, as the robot does not know about its surroundings: make sure that there is plenty of space around the robot before running!
$ rosrun intera_examples send_random_trajectory.py -h
Provide the help file for the script, as well as default arguments.
$ rosrun intera_examples send_random_trajectory.py -n 5 -t JOINT -s 0.5
Send a random joint trajectory with 5 waypoints, using a speed ratio of 0.5 for all waypoints. Use default random walk settings.
$ rosrun intera_examples send_random_trajectory.py -d 0.1 -b 0.2
Send a random trajectory with default trajectory settings. Use a maximum step distance of 10% of the joint range and avoid the upper and lower joint limits by a boundary of 20% of the joint range.


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Sumela Monastery in Turkey
In Turkish: Sümela Manastırı; Panagia Soumela, "Virgin Mary of Soumela" in Greek) is a spectacular rock-hewn monastery perched dramatically on the narrow ledge of a steep cliff in the forests south of Trabzon. It was built in the fourth century, just before the Roman Empire split into east and west, by two Athenian priests, Barnabas and Sophronius, who, according to legend, found a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave.
The monastery's location in this geopolitically tumultuous corner of the globe naturally saw times of trouble and fell into ruin numerous times throughout its history, with its most thriving times falling under Byzantine and Ottoman rule.
The twentieth century, however, was not kind to the monastery. It was abandoned following the chaos and inter-ethnic violence at the end of World War I, and the population transfer of Trabzon's (formerly Trebizond) Greek population back to Greece.
Its remote location gave it some sanctuary, but its frescoes still attracted the occasional casually hurled rock by a bored shepherd. The beautiful frescoes today suffer from decades of heart-wrenchingly pointless vandalism by travelers—judging from the various alphabets and names scrawled across these impressive religious works of art, it appears that just about every culture in the world has taken part in the desecration.
The buildings themselves have been fairly heavily restored in recent decades, as the Turkish government has stepped in to protect the monastery and to turn it into a museum.
The simplest way to get to the monastery is by tour, and you can find a tour in town by just asking any other traveler there (no tourist visits Trabzon without seeing Sümela). The monastery lies close to Maçka, about 30 km south of Trabzon, and those preferring to get to the monastery on their own means instead of taking a tour can get to Maçka by taking minibuses heading for Gümüşhane, Erzurum or other destinations south from Trabzon. The rest of the way, approximately 17 km to the actual site of monastery, can be done by dolmuşes from downtown Maçka, which will take you to the entrance of Altındere National Park (Milli Park). Then, the monastery is about half an hour walk away, which can be done through a forest trail, which was recently widened in order to cope with the ever increasing numbers of visitors, or along the tarmac road leading to the monastery.
Those approaching with their own vehicles can get as near as 300 meters to Sümela itself, where there is a car-park in front of Hagia Barbara Chapel.
Today the monastery's primary function is as a tourist attraction. It overlooks forests and streams, making it extremely popular for its aesthetic attraction as well as for its cultural and religious significance.
The monastery was founded in 386 AD during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I (375 - 395), Legend has it that two priests undertook its creation after discovering a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.
During its long history, the monastery fell into ruin several times and was restored by various emperors. During the 6th century, it was restored and enlarged by General Belisarius at the behest of Justinian.
It reached its present form in the 13th century after gaining prominence during the reign of Alexios III (1349 - 1390) of the Komnenian Empire of Trebizond, established in 1204. At that time, the monastery was granted an amount annually from imperial funds. During the time of Manuel III, son of Alexius III, and during the reigns of subsequent princes, Sümela gained further wealth from imperial grants. Following the conquest by theOttoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1461, it was granted the sultan's protection and given rights and privileges that were renewed by following sultans. The monastery remained a popular destination for monks and travelers through the years.
In 1682 and for a few decades, the monastery housed the Phrontisterion of Trapezous, a well-known Greek educational institution of the region.
The monastery was seized by the Russian Empire during the 1916-18 occupation of Trabzon.
The site was abandoned in 1923, following forced population exchanges between Greece and Turkey. The departing monks were not allowed to take any property with them, so they buried Sumela's famous icon under the floor of the monastery's St. Barbara chapel. In 1930, a monk secretly returned to Sumela and retrieved the icon, transferring it to the new Panagia Soumela Monastery, on the slopes of Mount Vermion, near the town of Naousa, in Macedonia, Greece.
As of 2012, the Turkish government is funding restoration work, and the monastery is enjoying a revival in pilgrimage from Greece and Russia.
On 15 August 2010, Orthodox divine liturgy was allowed to take place in the monastery compound. A special pass issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is now required to visit on August 15, the day of the Dormition of the Theotokos or Feast of the Assumption, when a divine liturgy is held. Only 450 to 500 visitors are allowed inside the monastery, although widescreen televisions are available to observe the event at a cafe some hundred metres away from the monastery.
The principal elements of the Monastery complex are the Rock Church, several chapels, kitchens, student rooms, a guesthouse, a library, and a sacred spring revered by Eastern Orthodox Christians.
The large aqueduct at the entrance, which supplied water to the Monastery, is constructed against the side of the cliff. The aqueduct has many arches which have mostly been restored. The entrance to the Monastery leads up a long and narrow stairway. There is a guard-room next to the entrance. The stairs lead down from there to the inner courtyard. On the left, in front of a cave, there are several monastery buildings. The cave, which was converted into a church, constitutes the centre of the monastery. The library is to the right.
The large building with a balcony on the front part of the cliff was used for the monks' cells and for housing guests. It dates from 1840.
The influence of Turkish art can be observed in the design of the cupboards, niches and fireplace in the rooms of the buildings surrounding the courtyard.
The inner and outer walls of the Rock Church and the walls of the adjacent chapel are decorated with frescoes. Frescoes dating from the era ofAlexios III of Trebizond line the inner wall of the Rock Church facing the courtyard. The frescoes of the chapel which were painted on three levels in three different periods are dated to the beginning of the 18th century. The frescoes of the bottom band are of superior quality.
The frescoes of the Sümela Monastery are seriously damaged. The main subject of the frescoes are biblical scenes telling the story of Christ and the Virgin Mary.


local_to_world_coordinates
compas.geometry.local_to_world_coordinates(frame, xyz)[source]
Convert local coordinates to global coordinates.
Parameters
Returns
list[[float, float, float]] – The coordinates of the given points in the local coordinate system.
Examples
>>> from compas.geometry import Point, Frame
>>> f = Frame([0, 1, 0], [3, 4, 1], [1, 5, 9])
>>> xyz = [Point(3.726, 4.088, 1.550)]
>>> Point(*local_to_world_coordinates(f, xyz)[0])
Point(2.000, 3.000, 5.000)


The You Testament: The 2D Coming MOD APK 1.091 (Unlocked All) For Android
The You Testament
About The You Testament
You Testament is considered the last game of Mat Dickie. However, after that, he changed his mind and created a sequel with content called Making a Prophet around Muhammad, who founded Islam.
In terms of content, The You Testament focuses on stories written in the Bible. After completing the character creation, in the first scene you will go back to B.C's past and meet Jesus immediately. You can choose from famous people from history or movies, possibly Columbus, Thor, or Luke Skywalker.
The You Testament
The You Testament
In the game you will experience 50 stories from the Bible. And it is you who experiences it, you can change it and rewrite it as you wish. The game offers ways to explain biblical events in a unique and creative way. If you are not a religious person, there are still many interesting things in the game for you. You can understand that The You Testament is a normal life simulation game, despite using context and biblical stories and history. We can create our own lives and see how our actions and decisions can affect the future.
The You Testament
The main screen of the game has the virtual joystick key on the left to control the character moving up, down, left and right. Double click on the direction you want to run. I will also describe the remaining keys.
 - A: Attack.
 - G: Throw it or hold it.
 - Q: Lifting or dropping an object.
 - U: Use the object you want.
 - P + U: combine any two objects.
 - Eye symbol: click to sleep, long press to meditate.
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Each decision opens a new story
Correct. This helps The You Testament provide players with different experiences. In one scene, a guard arrived and asked him to pay taxes. If you are willing to cooperate, nothing bad will happen. But if you refuse, it will put you in jail and many new stories will emerge. So, one way or another, you can still continue your adventure.
Many interesting activities
When you play The You Testament, your character is constantly feeling very hungry. The solution is that you can catch some animals like chickens, rabbits, geese and kill them to eat them. However, if your food bar is full and you continue to eat, you may vomit. This greatly reduces your health.
The You Testament
Sleep is the best way to regain health. One thing you should know is that it is better to sleep in bed or in a warm place than on the floor. Because sleeping on the floor can lower your energy bar.
There are many people who need your help during your adventure. Some people are dying, you can save their lives by holding them by the arms. You will be happy and grateful. Good work is always great, right?
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Definition of bigly
a. - In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. 2
The word "bigly" uses 5 letters: B G I L Y.
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The thermal performance of a solar water heating system with 4 m2 flat plate collectors in Dublin, Ireland is presented in this paper. The experimental setup consisted of a commercially available forced circulation domestic scale system fitted with an automated sub‐system that controlled hot water draw‐offs and the operation of an auxiliary immersion heater. The system was tested over a year and the maximum recorded collector outlet fluid temperature was 70.4 oC while the maximum water temperature at the bottom of the hot water tank was 59.9 oC. The annual average daily energy collected was 19.6 MJ/d, energy delivered by the solar coil was 16.2 MJ/d, supply pipe loss was 3.2 MJ/d, solar fraction was 32.2%, collector efficiency was 45.6% and system efficiency was 37.8%. Supply pipe losses represented 16.4% of energy collected.
Ayompe, L. and Duffy, A. Analysis of the thermal performance of a solar water heating system with flat plate collectors in a temperate climate. Applied Thermal Engineering (2013): 58; 447-454. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.04.062


text: Performance of a prototype dual-energy digital chest radiography unit in detecting calcified and noncalcified simulated pulmonary nodules was compared with that of a highly optimized, conventional system. Nodules ranging in size (0.5, 1.0, and 1.6 cm), in number (five to 11), and in calcium content (0-25 mg) were superimposed over the lungs of a frozen, unembalmed, human chest phantom. For each technique, six observers examined 50 posteroanterior projections with different randomized nodule locations. Detection consisted of locating and assigning a level of confidence to each perceived nodular opacity. The resulting plots of the true-positive fraction versus the mean number of false-positive calls per projection indicate that for both calcified and noncalcified nodules, the digital unit performed significantly better (P less than.01).


text: heiß und regnet während der Winter für gewöhnlich kalt und trocken ist. Text Weather Outlook Today's. Xi'an Weather in December It is cold and dry at this time of the year. The climate in Xi'an during December can be summarized as cool and very dry. Thus, the mean temperature average on this month of december in Xi'an is 41°F. Weather in China in january 2021. Answer 1 of 3: Hi, i'm, planning to climb Mt Hua in December. Granted, I'm used to the midwest where our average December temperatures are -1 - 8F. This month is known as a chilly month. Average Weather during December in Xi'an (Shaanxi), China. Thus, December in Beijing a good time for those who love skiing and skating. The national park is somewhat reminiscent of Yosemite, but it is smaller. But in recent years, it snows less. Weather in Xi'an. But it is a great time to see the rime and sea of clouds or take a bath in the hot spring of the Yellow Mountain. Weather informers. Xi'an weather in winter (December to February) is a low season. The average minimum temperature (usually the minimum temperature is noted during the night) in Xi'an in December is -2.0°C (28.4°F). Weather forecast in mobile app. Clothing: Bring your winter coat, gloves, sunglasses, and hat. December is in the winter in Xinzhuang and is typically the 3rd coldest month of the year. TQ. In general, there would be snowfall starting from December to January. The weather in december in Xi'an is dry ; it never rains. Temperature In November, the average high-temperature decreases, from an enjoyable 19.5°C (67.1°F) in October, to a cool 12.2°C (54°F).In November, in Xi'an, China Even though winter is always considered as a bad time for traveling, there are many benefits as well: less crowded, lower cost, and special experiences. This month is known as a chilly month. The city has good heating system allows indoor rooms and facilities warm and comfortable. Now, when I look up average December temperatures for each of these cities I find: Beijing - 19 - 37F. The average minimum temperature (usually the minimum temperature is noted during the night) in Xi'an in December is -2.0°C (28.4°F). ☂ Online precipitation map and other weather maps. Our weather is changing. Die Temperaturen in China im Dezember sind mit Temperaturen von 6 ° C und 11 ° C eher kühler. Klimadiagramme und Klimatabellen für Xian im Januar. Mit dem Klima in Xian im Januar wissen, wie warm es wird. Last updated today at 17:36. It is reputed to be the best ski resort in the Xi'an area. Also Huashan this time of year may have fog which can range from atmospheric to complete loss of visibility and view. Weather warnings issued. Many people put on dusk masks during smoggy days, and these might prove useful for you too. Calculations of sunrise and sunset in Xi'an – Shaanxi – China for January 2021. Winter runs from December to February and is the coldest time of year in Xian; the temperatures are the coldest at the end of January and start of February with lots of fog and very little rain. The climate of East China in December is clammy: freezing and humid. Xian: Xian Monthly Weather. Those temperatures really seem fairly warm for December to me. What kind of clothing will be appropriate? 22% (Dec 29, 4:00 pm) 29.98 "Hg (Dec 27, 3:00 pm) Average. Tips on Hot Spring Tips on Skiing, High/Low Temperatures of Xi'an in December, Questions & Answers on Xi'an Weather in December. I'm going Xi'an this coming 25 December 2018 to 1 Jan. 2019. Xi'an Weather History for the Previous 24 Hours Show weather for: Previous 24 hours January 10, 2021 January 9, 2021 January 8, 2021 January 7, 2021 January 6, 2021 January 5, 2021 January 4, 2021 January 3, 2021 January 2, 2021 January 1, 2021 December 31, 2020 December 30, 2020 December 29, 2020 December 28, 2020 December 27, 2020 December 26, 2020 The minimum is 34°F. We are going to Xi'an in December 3rd what's the weather and any chance of snow fall? In December, there are few tourists in the city, and discounts on hotel rooms and flights are easy to obtain. ☂ Online precipitation map and other weather maps. Local time in Xi'an is CST. Weather Forecasts. The highest peak is 2,600 meters tall (8,540 feet). Shanghai - 37-51F. Bringen Sie bitte eine warme Jacke im Dezember mit! In some southern tropical cities, including Hainan, Hong Kong and … Weather in Xi'an in December: air temperature, number of sunny days, precipitation, air pressure and humidity. Xinzhuang weather averages (imperial / metric) Actual weather in Xi'an In December, the average low-temperature is 0.5°C (32.9°F). Find out what the weather outside was like the day you were born - enter your birthday to get started: born on China Wetter im Dezember 2020. Clear Sky. May be some attractions will be closed. Tage: Stunden: Detailliert : Letzte 24 Std. Entrance is free, so you might find it crowded. The percentage indicates the possibility of having the weather mentioned. You'll need more than two hours to get a good look at the large array of artifacts and displays. Forecast - Xi'an. May June July August. Wetter heute, 07.01.2021 In Xi'an bilden sich morgens leichte Wolken bei Werten von -9°C. Daytime temperatures usually reach 6°C in Xi'an in December, falling to -3°C at night. The average maximum temperature is 8℃/46.4℉, and the lowest minimum temperature is -7℃/19.4℉. What to Do in Xi'an in Winter - 7 Best Destinations. During your stay, it would be very cold with haze days but it is uncertain whether it snows or not. December puts Xian deep into winter season with the temperature going much lower than the previous November. Weather maps, meteograms, weather impact on health forecast. Xi'an Winter Weather - Travel Xi'an During December to February Doing Xi'an tours during the winter time is totally acceptable for most people and still can have lots of fun. 29 °F. Tonight, A clear sky and a gentle breeze. Rufen Sie die monatliche Wettervorhersage für Lanying Township, Chongqing, China einschließlich Tageshöchst- und -tiefswerten und historischer Mittelwerte ab, um vorausplanen zu können.


TY - JOUR AU - Formanek, Roman AU - Kysela, Bohus AU - Sulc, Radek PY - 2019/05/31 Y2 - 2021/03/04 TI - Drop Size Evolution Kinetics in a Liquid-liquid Dispersions System in a Vessel Agitated by a Rushton Turbine JF - Chemical Engineering Transactions VL - 74 SP - _PHONE_ SE - Research Articles DO - 10.3303/CET1974174 UR - _URL_ AB - Processes in which mixing plays a crucial role in increasing mass transfer, interfacial surface, and homogenization are frequently and widely used throughout the industry. Agitation of immiscible liquids or solid-liquid suspensions is a frequent operation in chemical and metallurgical industry. The aim of this contribution is to study drop size evolution kinetics in a liquid-liquid dispersion system in a vessel agitated by a Rushton turbine and to analyze the homogeneity of the dispersed system in a volume of the agitated vessel. The homogeneity of liquid-liquid dispersion in a volume of a mixed system was determined by comparison of Sauter mean diameters and drop size distribution (DSD) from different measured regions. The sizes of drops were obtained from the images captured by a camera system and were processed by the Image Analysis method. ER -


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<rpid> member contains the pid of the
process causing the status change. C<trace> must be either C<0> (only
activate the watcher when the process terminates) or C<1> (additionally
activate the watcher when the process is stopped or continued).
=item int pid [read-only]
The process id this watcher watches out for, or C<0>, meaning any process id.
=item int rpid [read-write]
The process id that detected a status change.
=item int rstatus [read-write]
The process exit/trace status caused by C<rpid> (see your systems
C<waitpid> and C<sys/wait.h> documentation for details).
=back
=head3 Examples
Example: C<fork()> a new process and install a child handler to wait for
its completion.
ev_child cw;
static void
child_cb (EV_P_ ev_child *w, int revents)
{
ev_child_stop (EV_A_ w);
printf ("process %d exited with status %x\n", w->rpid, w->rstatus);
}
pid_t pid = fork ();
if (pid < 0)
// error
else if (pid == 0)
{
// the forked child executes here
exit (1);
}
else
{
ev_child_init (&cw, child_cb, pid, 0);
ev_child_start (EV_DEFAULT_ &cw);
}
=head2 C<ev_stat> - did the file attributes just change?
This watches a file system path for attribute changes. That is, it calls
C<stat> on that path in regular intervals (or when the OS says it changed)
and sees if it changed compared to the last time, invoking the callback if
it did.
The path does not need to exist: changing from "path exists" to "path does
not exist" is a status change like any other. The condition "path does not
exist" (or more correctly "path cannot be stat'ed") is signified by the
C<st_nlink> field being zero (which is otherwise always forced to be at
least one) and all the other fields of the stat buffer having unspecified
contents.
The path I<must not> end in a slash or contain special components such as
C<.> or C<..>. The path I<should> be absolute: If it is relative and
your working directory changes, then the behaviour is undefined.
Since there is no portable change notification interface available, the
portable implementation simply calls C<stat(2)> regularly on the path
to see if it changed somehow. You can specify a recommended polling
interval for this case. If you specify a polling interval of C<0> (highly
recommended!) then a I<suitable, unspecified default> value will be used
(which you can expect to be around five seconds, although this might
change dynamically). Libev will also impose a minimum interval which is
currently around C<0.1>, but that's usually overkill.
This watcher type is not meant for massive numbers of stat watchers,
as even with OS-supported change notifications, this can be
resource-intensive.
At the time of this writing, the only OS-specific interface implemented
is the Linux inotify interface (implementing kqueue support is left as an
exercise for the reader. Note, however, that the author sees no way of
implementing C<ev_stat> semantics with kqueue, except as a hint).
=head3 ABI Issues (Largefile Support)
Libev by default (unless the user overrides this) uses the default
compilation environment, which means that on systems with large file
support disabled by default, you get the 32 bit version of the stat
structure. When using the library from programs that change the ABI to
use 64 bit file offsets the programs will fail. In that case you have to
compile libev with the same flags to get binary compatibility. This is
obviously the case with any flags that change the ABI, but the problem is
most noticeably displayed with ev_stat and large file support.
The solution for this is to lobby your distribution maker to make large
file interfaces available by default (as e.g. FreeBSD does) and not
optional. Libev cannot simply switch on large file support because it has
to exchange stat structures with application programs compiled using the
default compilation environment.
=head3 Inotify and Kqueue
When C<inotify (7)> support has been compiled into libev and present at
runtime, it will be used to speed up change detection where possible. The
inotify descriptor will be created lazily when the first C<ev_stat>
watcher is being started.
Inotify presence does not change the semantics of C<ev_stat> watchers
except that changes might be detected earlier, and in some cases, to avoid
making regular C<stat> calls. Even in the presence of inotify support
there are many cases where libev has to resort to regular C<stat> polling,
but as long as kernel 2.6.25 or newer is used (2.6.24 and older have too
many bugs), the path exists (i.e. stat succeeds), and the path resides on
a local filesystem (libev currently assumes only ext2/3, jfs, reiserfs and
xfs are fully working) libev usually gets away without polling.
There is no support for kqueue, as apparently it cannot be used to
implement this functionality, due to the requirement of having a file
descriptor open on the object at all times, and detecting renames, unlinks
etc. is difficult.
=head3 C<stat ()> is a synchronous operation
Libev doesn't normally do any kind of I/O itself, and so is not blocking
the process. The exception are C<ev_stat> watchers - those call C<stat
()>, which is a synchronous operation.
For local paths, this usually doesn't matter: unless the system is very
busy or the intervals between stat's are large, a stat call will be fast,
as the path data is usually in memory already (except when starting the
watcher).
For networked file systems, calling C<stat ()> can block an indefinite
time due to network issues, and even under good conditions, a stat call
often takes multiple milliseconds.
Therefore, it is best to avoid using C<ev_stat> watchers on networked
paths, although this is fully supported by libev.
=head3 The special problem of stat time resolution
The C<stat ()> system call only supports full-second resolution portably,
and even on systems where the resolution is higher, most file systems
still only support whole seconds.
That means that, if the time is the only thing that changes, you can
easily miss updates: on the first update, C<ev_stat> detects a change and
calls your callback, which does something. When there is another update
within the same second, C<ev_stat> will be unable to detect unless the
stat data does change in other ways (e.g. file size).
The solution to this is to delay acting on a change for slightly more
than a second (or till slightly after the next full second boundary), using
a roughly one-second-delay C<ev_timer> (e.g. C<ev_timer_set (w, 0., 1.02);
ev_timer_again (loop, w)>).
The C<.02> offset is added to work around small timing inconsistencies
of some operating systems (where the second counter of the current time
might be be delayed. One such system is the Linux kernel, where a call to
C<gettimeofday> might return a timestamp with a full second later than
a subsequent C<time> call - if the equivalent of C<time ()> is used to
update file times then there will be a small window where the kernel uses
the previous second to update file times but libev might already execute
the timer callback).
=head3 Watcher-Specific Functions and Data Members
=over 4
=item ev_stat_init (ev_stat *, callback, const char *path, ev_tstamp interval)
=item ev_stat_set (ev_stat *, const char *path, ev_tstamp interval)
Configures the watcher to wait for status changes of the given
C<path>. The C<interval> is a hint on how quickly a change is expected to
be detected and should normally be specified as C<0> to let libev choose
a suitable value. The memory pointed to by C<path> must point to the same
path for as long as the watcher is active.
The callback will receive an C<EV_STAT> event when a change was detected,
relative to the attributes at the time the watcher was started (or the
last change was detected).
=item ev_stat_stat (loop, ev_stat *)
Updates the stat buffer immediately with new values. If you change the
watched path in your callback, you could call this function to avoid


Your weekend plans. Delivered.
108 things every Cubs fan should know
One question for each year since Cubs won the World Series.
Friendly confines
1. What was the original name of the ballpark at Clark and Addison streets?
It was called Weeghman Park when it was built in 1914. The park was named after Charlie Weeghman, who built it for his team, the Chicago Federals of the short-lived Federal League. When the Federal League folded in 1916, the National League's Cubs moved in.
2. How many Chicago parks have the Cubs called home?
Six: The 23rd Street Grounds on 23rd and State Streets (1876-77), Lakefront Park south of Randolph Street between Michigan Avenue and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks (_PHONE_), West Side Park at Congress and Throop Streets (_PHONE_), South Side Park at 35th and Wentworth Streets (_PHONE_), West Side Grounds at Polk and Wolcott Streets (_PHONE_) and Wrigley Field -- also known as Weeghman Park and Cubs Park -- from 1916 to today.
3. What's the name of the Cubs' home ballpark for spring training?
Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz.
4. On what island did the Cubs once hold their spring training sessions?
From 1921 to 1951 -- with just a short break during World War II -- the Cubs trained on Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. Owner William Wrigley Jr. favored the island as a vacation getaway and a real-estate investment.
5. Who planted the ivy on the outfield wall at Wrigley?
Former Cubs front-office assistant Bill Veeck (who later owned the White Sox) planted the ivy in 1937, the same year the bleachers and scoreboard were built.
6. What happens if a ball lands in the ivy and gets stuck there?
The batter is awarded a ground-rule double.
7. What took so long for the Cubs to install lights at Wrigley?
Former owner P.K. Wrigley planned to install lights for the 1942 season but instead donated the fixtures to a shipyard for the war effort on the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked.
8. So when was the first night game?
That would be Aug. 8, 1988. But that game wound up getting rained out, so the first official game was the following night, when the Cubs beat the Mets 6-4.
9. What does that 'W' flag mean?
After a Cubs victory, the "W" flag (for "Win") is raised atop the centerfield scoreboard.
10. There's a flag on the roof of Wrigley that says "Hack 191." What does that mean?
It commemorates Hack Wilson's 191 runs batted in during the 1930 season, a major-league record that still stands.
11. What about those other flags?
The "66 Sammy" flag and the "20 KW" flag commemorate Sammy Sosa's 66 home runs and Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game in 1998, respectively. There are also flags honoring other Cubs greats, including the "8 Hawk" flag for Andre Dawson, the Cubs outfielder who wore No. 8 and was nicknamed Hawk, and the "17 Grace" flag for popular first baseman Mark Grace.
12. Why do the foul poles at Wrigley have "Hey Hey" on them?
"Hey Hey" was the homerun call of Hall of Fame Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse.
13. What was Wrigley's largest crowd?
On July 27, 1930, 51,556 fans attended. But it was Ladies Day, so only 19,748 admissions were paid.
14. How did they fit 51,556 people into Wrigley?
They let fans stand on the field of play -- along the warning track of the outfield. Hits going into the crowd were declared ground-rule doubles.
15. How many All-Star Games have been played at Wrigley Field?
Three: 1947, 1962 and 1990. The National League lost all three.
16. The Cubs drew 3.23 million fans this season, close to the team record of 3.25 million in 2007. What are some low points in attendance?
On Sept. 24, 1943, the Cubs drew 314 fans, who sat through nearly five innings of freezing drizzle before the game was called as a Cubs victory. In the early '60s, attendance was so low that the Cubs closed the upper deck for weekday games.
17. There's a sign on one of the rooftops beyond right field reading "EAMUS CATULI!" and then another sign with letters and numbers. What do those signs mean?
"Eamus catuli" is an imperfect Latin translation of "Go Cubs." The other sign starts with "AC," which means "anno catuli" -- Cubs time. The first numbers indicate years since the Cubs won a division title (that gets reset to 00 now). The next numbers indicate years since the Cubs last won a National League pennant (71); and the final numbers indicate years since the Cubs have won a World Series title (108). If the Cubs win the 2016 World Series, the sign will read "AC000000" on Opening Day in 2017.
18. Why aren't there seats in the lower portion of the center-field bleachers at Wrigley?
The section is kept empty to provide a better visual background for hitters.
19. Why is there a wire basket in front of the bleachers?
It was installed in 1970 to keep fans from falling or jumping onto the field. It also prevented them from draping coats and jackets over the wall -- a practice that used to inspire Cubs public address announcer Pat Pieper to playfully declare: "Will the bleacher fans please remove their clothes?"
20. What should you do if you catch an opponent's home run ball in the bleachers?
Throw it back onto the field, or ask security for an escort out of the park.
Honor roll
21. How many Cubs have won the Cy Young Award as the top pitcher in the National League?
Five: Fergie Jenkins (1971), Bruce Sutter (1979), Rick Sutcliffe (1984), Greg Maddux (1992) and Jake Arrieta (2015).
22. How many Cubs have won the National League Rookie of the Year Award?
Six: Billy Williams (1961), Ken Hubbs (1962), Jerome Walton (1989), Kerry Wood (1998), Geovany Soto (2008) and Kris Bryant (2015).
23. What former Cubs rookie of the year died in a plane crash at 22?
Second baseman Ken Hubbs was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed in Utah in February 1964. Hubbs was NL Rookie of the Year in 1962 and was the first rookie to win a Gold Glove.
24. Who is the only Cub to win back-to-back Most Valuable Player Awards?
Ernie Banks -- a.k.a. "Mr. Cub" -- won in 1958 and 1959.
25. Who is the last Cub to win the MVP award?
Sammy Sosa in 1998.
26. How many Cubs uniform numbers have been retired?
So far, only five: No. 14 for Ernie Banks, No. 10 for Ron Santo, No. 26 for Billy Williams, No. 23 for Ryne Sandberg and No. 31 for Fergie Jenkins and Greg Maddux. Flags honoring those players fly from the foul poles at Wrigley.
27. How many Cubs teams have reached the postseason?
Counting this year, it's 18. They've appeared in 10 World Series (1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938 and 1945) but won only two (1907 and 1908). They have qualified for the National League playoffs eight times (1984, 1989, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015 and 2016).
28. What was the original nickname of Chicago's National League team?
The club was known as the White Stockings from 1876 to 1894. They also had several other nicknames before settling on "Cubs" in the early 1900s.
29. What Cubs pitcher was nicknamed "The Vulture"?
Phil Regan, who was the top reliever on the 1969 Cubs.
30. What Cubs pitcher was nicknamed "Twiggy"?
The slightly built Chuck Hartenstein, who pitched for the Cubs in the late 1960s.
31. By what nickname does Cubs manager Joe Maddon refer to his RV?
Cousin Eddie.
Musical interlude
32. What is the name of the Cubs song written by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder?
"All the Way."
33. Who sings that "Go, Cubs, Go" song?
Late Chicago songwriter and folk singer Steve Goodman.
34. What other Cubs-themed song did Goodman write and perform in 1983?
"A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."
35. When a die-hard Cubs fan dies, can the fan get his or her ashes scattered at Wrigley Field?
No. Even Goodman didn't get that honor, according to "Steve Goodman: Facing the Music" by Clay Eals.