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I have a question regarding multiple sums. And my second index depends on the first index. Here it is:
$$ \sum_{d=1}^{P}e^{-d}\sum_{\substack{1\leq k_{1}\leq Q \\ 1\leq k_{2}\leq Q \\... \\...\\1\leq k_{d}\leq Q}}e^{-(k_{1}+...+k_{d})} $$
I could not write this sum in mathematica. The problem is that my second sum is a multiple sum and I do not know how to sum $d$ times. How can I do it?
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See answers to this question : mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134/… – Artes May 3 '12 at 14:20
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Let's concentrate on the inner multiple sum. First note that we know d because it is given from the outer sum. If we want to write the expression $$-\exp\left[k_1+k_2+\ldots+k_d\right]$$ in Mathematica we could do this very easy. First we create the list {k[1],k[2],...,k[d]} and remember, that this is internally nothing more than List[k[1],k[2],...,k[d]]. If we would now replace the List head with Plus, then it is exactly what we want. For this we can use Apply which is written @@ in infix notation. That leaves how to create the {k[1],k[2],...,k[d]} list. Here we can use Table or Array or we think of it as _mapping the function k over the list {1,2,...,d}. This can be written as
k /@ Range[d]
for a known d. All together this gives
Exp[-Plus @@ k /@ Range[d]]
Now we need to build a multiple Sum, summing over d different k. Again, this can be done in several ways. One way is to create a function which gets as arguments the indices for a Sum
f = Function[Sum[1, ##]]
I only use 1 in the sum for the sake of simplicity. You may ask now, what this ## is: it's the sequence of all arguments given to f. So lets try it:
In[63]:= {Sum[1, {3}], f[{3}]}
Out[63]= {3, 3}
In[62]:= {Sum[1, {3}, {5}], f[{3}, {5}]}
Out[62]= {15, 15}
Seems to work. The only think which is left now, is to create the ranges {k[i],1,q} where i is always a concrete number. Here we can use again the trick with Range and for a known d this gives a list of ranges:
{k[#], 1, q} & /@ Range[d]
(* For d = 3 for instance
Out[64]= {{k[1], 1, q}, {k[2], 1, q}, {k[3], 1, q}}
The last thing is to think about, that our Sum function needs a Sequence of arguments and the above is a List. But we already solved the problem of replacing the List with something different by using @@. This gives all together:
Sum[Exp[-Plus @@ k /@ Range[d]], ##] & @@ ({k[#], 1, q} & /@ Range[d])
Don't be afraid of the expression, because now you know every single piece of it and you know what every piece does. You could try it by for instance
With[{d = 4},
and get $$\frac{e^{-4 q} \left(e^q-1\right)^4}{(e-1)^4}$$ or you use this to plant it directly into your outer sum
mysum[p_Integer] :=
 Range[d]), {d, 1, p}]
I put it into a function mysum, because p needs to be a number to make all the Ranges work. Now you should check mysum[2]
$$\frac{e^{-2 q-2} \left(e^q-1\right)^2}{(e-1)^2}+\frac{e^{-q-1} \left(e^q-1\right)}{e-1}$$
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How do you get $2(q^5 + q^4)$? I don't get that result with your code. – rcollyer May 3 '12 at 15:19
Me neither. Wherever I copied this from.. it was the wrong place. Thanks for paying attention. – halirutan May 3 '12 at 15:29
I do not understand why mathematica doesnt give the closed expression for mysum. because it seems that mysum[n] gives $x+x^2+x^3+...+x^n$ where $x$ is mysum[1] – neticin May 3 '12 at 16:15
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I'm not sure there's a way to do this symbolically, but you can do the following:
multipleSum[P_] :=
 Sum[Exp[-d] Sum[
 Exp[-Plus @@ Table[Symbol["k" <> ToString[i]], {i, 1, d}]],
 Sequence @@
 Table[{Symbol["k" <> ToString[i]], 1, Q}, {i, 1, d}]]], {d, 1,
For example:
In[87]:= multipleSum[3]
Out[87]= (E^(-1 - Q) (-1 + E^Q))/(-1 + E) + (
 E^(-2 - 2 Q) (-1 + E^Q)^2)/(-1 + E)^2 + (
 E^(-3 - 3 Q) (-1 + E^Q)^3)/(-1 + E)^3
I think this is correct.
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I think you missed a minus-sign in the inside exponential. – halirutan May 3 '12 at 14:25
_USER_ erk, thanks: fixed – tkott May 3 '12 at 14:26
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Porphyra does have a few medicinal benefits. It contains a sulfated polysaccharide called porphyran, which is a complex galactan. The physiological activity of porphyran in the animal body isn't clear right now, but studies have indicated some excellent health benefits from it. It may inhibit the growth of certain tumors. Also, when nori powder was mixed with a basic diet at 2% concentration and fed to rats, it preventd a purposely induced carcinogenesis. These results may be have been caused by the sulfation of the polysaccharide, which can enhance the effectiveness of it.
Another substance called porphyosin has been isolated from Porphyra. It appears to exhibit anti-ulcer activity in shay ulcers. However, porphyosin was found to be ineffective against stress ulcers.
The cultivation of Porphyra originates back as far as 300 years ago, when the Japanese utilized a primitve method of using a bundle of bamboo twigs to collect the spores. However, the presence of spores were still at the mercy of nature and annual production flunctuated greatly.
In China, the cultivation of Porphyra dates back to about 200 years ago, when it was pulled right off rocks in early autumn. This was done right before the release of spores so that the spores would have an area for attachment and growth.
Modern cultivation of Porphyra did not occur until the 1960's, as a result of the discovery of the Conchocelis phase of Porphyra. The discovery of the Conchocelis phase allowed scientists to determine how to maximize nori production under controlled conditions, leading to one of the biggest industries in Japan and China.
In China and Japan, there are 7 main species used in commercial cultivation.
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Greetings word detective!
Can you spot which word from the set of brackets would best finish this sentence??
Oven is to cook as refrigerator is to (store, chill, food).
First, we have to work out how the word oven is connected to the word cook. We cook in an oven, so we need to find a word which is something that we use a refrigerator for.
The correct answer is chill as we chill food in a refrigerator.
Now, let's make it more challenging.
We must pick one word from each set of brackets that can be connected to the word in front of it in the same way.
Let's look at this question:
Rest is to (relax, energy, exercise) as fit is to (exhausted, athletic, training).
First, we need to find a connection between rest and one of the words in brackets. We can connect rest to relax as they have similar meanings. These are called synonyms.
This means we need to find an synonym for fit, which is athletic.
The correct answers are relax and athletic as they are both synonyms of the words that come before them.
Let's try another:
Grape is to (vine, fruit, sweet) as raspberry is to (tree, bush, red).
First, we need to find a connection between grape and one of the words in brackets.
Vine is connected to grape as grapes grow on vines. Also fruit is connected to grape as a grape is a type of fruit.
We need to see if one of these connections can be made with raspberry and the words in brackets that are linked to it.
With raspberries, they grow on a bush.
We have found the connection!
It's the name given to the plants the fruits grow on.
Now it's your turn.
Remember to find those connections!
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Antonyms (opposite meanings) On is to off
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Other scripts might not follow this, but registration.soap.php allows you to define restrictions on the IP addresses that can call the webservices it contains.
This is made possible by the following snippet of code inside the WSHelperVerifyKey() function
// Check if a file that limits access from webservices exists
// and contains the restraining check
if (is_file('webservice-auth-ip.conf.php')) {
include 'webservice-auth-ip.conf.php';
if ($debug) {
error_log("webservice-auth-ip.conf.php file included");
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if (!empty($ws_auth_ip)) {
$check_ip = true;
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error_log("ip_matches: $ip_matches");
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As you'll have understood, you need to create a file called « webservice-auth-ip.conf.php » inside the same folder as registration.soap.php and add a list of IP addresses (or ranges) inside the file itself. Only those IP addresses which match the ranges will be accepted.
When using this method, the algorithm we saw earlier about building the security key will have to be modified, as we will not require the IP address anymore :
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Removing Matilija Dam:
About the Matilija Coalition:
This is the back side of the dam with the water drained out of the reservoir.
Current estimates place the sediment volume impounded by the dam at approximately 6 million cubic yards. Over half of this volume is sand, once destined for the beaches of south Ventura County.
This figure shows the historic storage volume and sediment deposition of the reservoir. The reservoir storage is predicted to be zero by 2020.
This diagram shows the current size of the reservoir. Although there is still considerable surface area, the water depth is very shallow (1-30 feet)
This figure shows the compostion of sediments trapped in the reservoir.
The dam traps the coarse particles
(sand, gravel, and cobble) which settle out in the reservoir, while passing
much of the finer silts downstream. This not only impacts the beaches,
but also the biological integrity of the lower reaches of the Ventura
River which now lacks gravel spawning beds for fish.
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China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS), a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed on November 28 that it received data from the newly launched GF-3 02 satellite.
According to AIR, the Sanya Ground Station in southern China tracked and received the first track data of the satellite at 6:00 a.m. that day. Then, the Miyun Station at the outskirts of Beijing and Kashgar Station in western China successively received the satellite data.
As of the night of November 29, nine tracks of satellite data, with a total size of 303 GB was received, recorded, and transmitted by RSGS.
Equipped with C-band multi-polarization Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) developed by a research team of AIR, the satellite was launched on November 23 to provide SAR data for China's land and sea monitoring.
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Rental Format(s): 16mm
Essence of lepidoptera re-created between two strips of clear mylar tape: an anima animation. What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.
"Brakhage made MOTHLIGHT without a camera. He just pasted mothwings and flowers on a clear strip of film and ran it through the printing machine." - Jonas Mekas "MOTHLIGHT is a paradoxical preservation of pieces of dead moths in the eternal medium of light (which is life and draws the moth to death); so it flutters through its very disintegration. This abstract of flight captures matter's struggle to assume its proper form; the death of the moth does not cancel its nature, which on the filmstrip asserts itself. MOTHLIGHT is on one level a parable of death and resurrection, but most really concerns the persistence of the essential form, image, and motion of being." - Ken Kelman
Awards: Brussels Int'l Film Festival, 1964; Spoleto Film Festival, 1966.


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Parks and Cemeteries, the section that oversees the development and maintenance of Dog Parks, is piloting the use of pedestrian traffic counters at Dog Park entrance areas. The purpose of the program is to provide baseline data on when and at what volume Dog Parks across the city are being used.
What is the data used for?
Data on volume and time of use is essential to:
- provide a snap shot of when and at what volume Dog Parks are being used;
- build long-term support for City Dog Parks;
- contribute to City processes including capital/maintenance programs, planning, design and program evaluation.
Where is the data collected?
Currently 2 pedestrian traffic counters have been installed at Nathan Cirillo and Borer's Dog Parks. Counters will be rotated to other Dog Parks over time, at which time data will be reviewed.
City of Hamilton Traffic Operations operates a similar program with over 20 counters on trails and pathways, through the Active Transportation Benchmarking program.
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How to Create the Simplest Friendship Model on Rails
Engineering is about dividing problems into smaller partials. And then solving them with the best approach. As an engineer, I enjoy problem-solving.
In this article, you will learn how to create friendships on Rails. In the most basic form, this is far away from perfection. But totally working. You can find the GitHub repository link at the bottom of the page to dive deeper into the code. In the repository, you will also find very simple session management.
After reading this article you will have an understanding of friendships on Rails.
When you want to create a rails app with user friendship interaction, you have to decide what your final product will be. There are many different ways to form a friendship model. In this project we are choosing this model:
1-) Users are allowed to send a friendship invitation to other users.
2-) Users can accept or reject the invitation that is coming from another user.
2a. Accepting ->Will update a record column from false to true
2b. Rejecting -> Will delete the record.
3-) Unfriending will delete the record
We will have a User model, and an Invitation model.
Let's focus only on friendship details. The invitation model will have only three columns(by the way, keep in your mind that the Rails is always giving you 3 more columns by default: id as primary key, and 2 timestamps).
Those columns are: user_id, friend_id, and confirmed. user_id and friend_id are both referencing back to the users table(User model).
When I am sending an invitation to my friend: user_id will be my id and friend_id will be my… well, you got that! And confirmed will be false by default.
This means an invitation is starting to wait to be accepted or rejected at the moment it got created. When the invitation is rejected, the row is gonna be deleted. When it is accepted the row is gonna be updated, confirmed: from false to true.
Any record with true value in the confirmed column means that those two ids are friends now.
Any record with a false value in the confirmed column means that user_id is waiting for friend_id to accept/reject his/her invitation.
Let's run these three different commands on command line:
After this command we need to add
to our migration file. Right after this line:
Let's go to our model files, first: app>models>user.rb
Hold on there, I am explaining one by one…
Our user has many invitations. This means A user object will respond to the "invitations" call.
Our user has many pending invitations. Yes, try to stick with plain English, this will help a lot! This means the same thing, A user object should respond to the "pending_invitations" call. And we have options here. First option is a scope, this tells ruby to look for records only has "false" value on pending column. The other option is the "class_name". We are adding this because rails can't find the related class from the "pending_invitations". So I am telling rails "Hey, I want this call on my object and go look for this in that class". Rails going to the Invitation class and fetch all the records with specific user_id and confirmed values.
So what am I going to do with this call? On every users' page, I want to list the people who sent an invitation to that user. Very useful!
We have instance methods. And of course, we have a "friends" method. This will return all the friends of a user in an array. I am not proud of what I do inside this method, but it is working 😃.
In the "friend_with?" method, we are returning a boolean value.
This is useful when you want to do things with the logic of friendship. For example, show the posts if they are friends, don't show otherwise.
With the "send_invitation" method we are sending invitations.
With these very simple 5 interaction tool, we are done in the User model. Let's go to the second one, the Invitation model.
app>models>invitation.rb
Nothing fancy, in 4 steps we will go through this.
Every invitation belongs to a user. Plain English. Very tasty. Haha! Long live DHH! 😅 Long live Matz! 😅
After this point, as you realize, we have three class methods. Because I want them to be usable regardless of Invitation objects.
Starting with the "reacted?" method we are questioning if two of the given ids have any records in our table.
In some situations, you need to know this. For example, you want to show a button for an invitation and you have to know if the two ids have any record in the invitations table. If they have a record then you don't want to show the button because now you know something! Those two users are in either of the following phases:
1-) Some of them sent an invitation to the other one and waiting for a decision.
2-) They are already friends.
In both cases, we can't create another record. So we are hiding our button with the information that is coming from this awesome method ".reacted?".
Another class method is the confirmed_record?(..). We are using this method in the User model. This method is basically checking a confirmed record for two given ids.
The last method is find_invitation(). We are using this method to find the invitation record of two given ids. Useful when deleting a confirmed relationship.
Now we can run the migrations with:
And enter the rails console with:
You can create new users, send invitations, accept them with update methods, reject them with delete methods.
Furthermore, you can see the friends of a specific user, see the pending invitations, see the invitations that user sent, and more.
Well, I hope this helps you.
Keep in mind this is one of the many approaches.
There are more simple ones and more elaborate ones.
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A Heligan pineapple.
A fruit produced in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, England, may just be the most expensive pineapple in the world.
The gardeners at Heligan, who began restoration of the derelict gardens in 1990, first purchased fruits for the Pineapple Pit in 1994. Utilizing the same techniques used 70 years ago, during Heligan's heyday, Heligan's Productive Gardening Team produced a miniature pineapple that was, according to the gardeners, "the most delicious pineapple flavour ever tasted."
The "hotbed" technique used in the Pineapple Pit involves heating 30 tons of straw and horse manure through glass. The team was lucky enough to locate the proper mixture of straw and horse manure at a stable near Falmouth, about an hour from the gardens.
While the price of a modern day Heligan pineapple is yet to be announced, the original Heligan pineapples are estimated to have cost the Victorian equivalent of $15,000 to produce.
After the first fruit was tested by Heligan's gardeners, the second was delivered, by hand, to the Queen.


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NGOs told to "explain themselves" – harassment or idiocy?
Four major NGOs – the International Women's Human Rights Centre La Strada Ukraine ; the Ukrainian Women's Consortium; the International Helsinki Human Rights Association; and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union – have received an extraordinary letter from the State Registration Service.
The letter states that the Justice Ministry has passed on a number of complaints, listing the names of the people who sent them and the dates of the letters. The State Registration Service writes that the letters relate to the activities of the above-listed civic organizations – "the Organizations".
"The letters speak of protest against the activities of the Organizations which in planned and systematic fashion undermine the institution of the family in Ukraine, propagate anti-Ukrainian anti-moral and anti-constitutional ideas. The letter also stresses that the Organizations are propagandizing perverted lifestyles, gender, homosexuality, set children against their parents and teachers and destroy age-old moral and traditional values.
On the basis of Article 25 of the Law on Citizens' Associations, the Organizations must provide before 10.06.2012 the State Registration Service with an explanation regarding the issues raised in the complaints."
The letter is signed by the Deputy Head, I. Kukharenko
The authors of some of the "complaints" are known to people in at least one of the NGOs, however the main issue lies elsewhere in the response from the State Registration Service. What the "explanation" can be to such accusations is difficult to imagine, but it is still more difficult to understand how and on what grounds this State body is asking for such information.
Not to mention, why.


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The author of some goods needs to have profound technical reasons in order to get the patent for his invention. If an innovator wants to receive a patent for an existing product, his innovation must be substantial and significantly improve it.
Hi-tech Сlub hookahs have not just an exceptional hi-tech design but also important innovations in a hookah structure. Due to the number of significant improvements, which are embodied in our devices, Hi-tech Club brand received a patent for an efficient model
Prior structure of hookah
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In order to indicate what are the improvements in a new model, in addition to the drawings, it is necessary to describe the so-called prior structure of shishas and indicate its current shortcomings, the abolishment of which was the main purpose of Hi-tech Club brand.
Traditionally, hookah consist of the bulb, shaft, tobacco bowl, hose and mouthpiece. Typically, the shaft is attached to the bulb by means of rubber seals. The bowl for tobacco is connected with the shaft with rubber seal as well. Moreover a harmful foil is used for separation tobacco from the coals.
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The disadvantage of common water pipes is a small heat capacity of the bowl for tobacco where foil is used. Tobacco is usually burned as it contacts with the coal through a thin foil and thereby it causes overheating and drying tobacco. As tobacco is burnt, the taste of smoke changes, it has bitter taste because there are by-products of combustion, and what is more it increases the toxicity of the smoke itself.
Leaks of conventional fasteners of common hookah also significantly affect to its smoking characteristics. Rubber seals, which are often used in hookahs of mass production are short-lived, quickly wear out, accumulate and pass the smoke. The number of assemblies and disassemblies of such smoking devices is quite limited.
In additional to the quality of used tobacco, the taste of smoke in a typical hookah is influenced by many factors such as the volume of the bulb, tightness of the whole system, thermal conductivity of the cup for coal, coal location, ability hookah server to manage with hookah foil and more others. It is also important what material a hookah was made of, as it can absorb and mix odors and smoke.
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Because of quite unexpected taste characteristics of conventional hookahs, there are many blogs and forums where experienced hookah smokers share their knowledge how to circumvent the lack of outdated system a hookah production. So there are axioms like "in order not to burn the tobacco in the hookah, add the mint." But to add mint flavour to burned tobacco is not the solution to the problem.
Such as aesthetically perfect ritual as hookah smoking should bring only great relaxation and enjoyment, rather than the need for constant search of tricks and supervising of a hookah-server. In order to harmonize favourite tradition and decorate it by functional perfect device, a modern Hi-tech Club hookah has been designed.
Disclosure of a technical solution.
Hitech hookah shisha
Set and accomplished objectives of the present useful model is to eliminate the above drawbacks in the existing hookahs. The technical result achieved by patent model is the elimination of tobacco burnins, preservation of a flavor, reduction of harm from hookah usage.
The technical result is achieved by the fact that the new system has been developed and all its elements are skillful with heat from the coals. The bowl for tobacco, bowl for coal and shaft all together represent constitutes an ideal thermosystem. Quality material collects picks excess heat from the coals and distributes it evenly and enough to warm the tobacco. In such a system it is needles to use foil consequently, there is no vapor in the smoke from the aluminum foil any more.
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During hookah preparation approximately in one minute of heating, hookah gets the necessary amount of heat from coals, which at this moment, are in the center of the cup for coal. When the taste of tobacco is fully revealed, it will be enough to shift the coals from the centre to the side and just enjoy smoking.
The bowl for tobacco has a certain amount of holes for the passage of air. The area of the bowl, which is directly over the cup for tobacco, selects excessive heat from one side, and on the other side it ensures a constant and adequate heating of tobacco during smoking.
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Special edges of the bowl for tobacco protects the coals from falling. Usually, its existence is enough to ensure a safe smoking. For absolute protection from coals falling once asked by client to guarantee the protection of antique furniture, a special accessory which can cover the hottest elements as bowl of coals and bowl for tobacco has recently been developed.
Involuntary dropping of coals is absolutely excluded. Due to hookah low centre of gravity and special calculation of the stand, Hi-tech Сlub hookah is stable on flat and not very smooth surfaces.
Leakage of common hookahs has been fixed it was done without the traditional rubber, or other seals, which have low coefficient heat. This type of connection is optimal, since it transfers heat and compensates the difference in temperature gradients of associated components.
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In all high-tech shisha structure exclusively threaded connection method elements are used. It provides a complete tightness, ease of assembly and disassembly of the hookah and indestructibility of the connection.
Since now, for the preparation of guaranteed tasty shisha you don't have to be a virtuoso and use special recipes, you just have to have good tobacco, hookah coals and Hi-tech Club hookah.


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MiniVac 601 was created as an educational kit for digital circuits. The creator of MiniVac 601 is Claude Shannon and the computer was sold by Scientific Development Corporation.
The benefits of electromechanical switches was primarily data storage. Six simple switches are used for binary data input, LEDs represent output, and the large round button is used to enter decimal number change. Although the MiniVac 601 was well received by hobbyists and educational institutions, but large corporations did not accept it.
However, after the manufacturer changed the colour of the casing from red and blue to black, improved the features of the switches, and re-named the model to MiniVac 6010, the price rose up to 479 USD. After these changes, hundreds of these models were sold to various companies in the 1960's.


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FORT COLLINS -- Colorado State University announced it has received a $12 million award from the National Science Foundation to help establish the Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN).
A consortium of 14 academic institutions and other key partners across the nation is working to address challenges that threaten urban water systems in the U.S. and around the world.
UWIN's mission is to create technological, institutional and management solutions to help communities increase the resilience of their water systems and enhance their preparedness for responding to water emergencies.
Mazdk Arabi, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at CSU, serves as UWIN's director. Other CSU faculty involved with UWIN include professors Sybil Sharvelle, Brina Bledsoe, Neil Grigg, Jorge Ramirez, Dan Baker, Scott Denning and LeRoy Poff.
UWIN aims to create a research network for integrated water systems and to cultivate champions of innovation for water-sensitive urban design and resilient cities, CSU said.
The network will establish six connected regional urban water sustainability hubs in densely populated regions to serve as innovation centers, helping communities transition to sustainable management of their water resources.
For more information, contact UWIN coordinator Meagan Smith at [email protected].


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Q: As a young airman in Japan during the 1950s, I often heard locals (and GIs) use the expression samo, samo to mean the same. Did this usage give us the expression "same old, same old"?
A: The use of samo, samo in Asia apparently predates the appearance of American GIs by quite a few years.
An English buccaneer noticed this use of the phrase among the people of Mindanao in the 1600s. Back then in the Philippines, it didn't exactly mean "same old, same old," but it did refer to sameness.
We came across this information in an 1862 reference book, A Dictionary of English Etymology, by Hensleigh Wedgwood, with notes by George P. Marsh.
In a bracketed note, Marsh cites this passage from A New Voyage Round the World (1703), by the much-traveled adventurer and explorer William Dampier:
"They would always be praising the English, as declaring that the English and Mindanaians were all one. This they exprest by putting their two fore-fingers close together, and saying that the English and Mindanaians were samo, samo, that is, all one."
Marsh, in his note, wonders whether samo in that quotation was "a native word, or had the people of Mindanao borrowed it from earlier English visitors?"
(Dampier, who lived from 1652 to 1715, really should be the subject of a splashy Hollywood spectacle, but that's another story.)
So did those 17th-century islanders have their own word samo, or did they adapt "same" from English explorers? We'd guess that the usage was influenced by earlier explorers.
In checking a few modern Filipino dictionaries, we find the verb sámò (to cry or plead) and the noun samò (an entreaty), but no indication that either word could refer to sameness.
In a 2001 posting to the Linguist List, Douglas G. Wilson says samo doesn't appear in Japanese dictionaries either, but samo, samo apparently exists as a dialectal variant of a Malay term meaning same or together.
Perhaps this dialectal variant is related to the samo, samo that Dampier heard in the Philippines on his round the world trip. But we suspect that the Malay term may have been influenced by English-speaking visitors.
Our word "same" entered English in about 1200, probably influenced by the Old English swa as well as similar words in Scandinavian languages.
It has cousins in Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic, Old Irish, Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Old Slavic, Russian, Sanskrit, and the prehistoric language families proto-Germanic (reconstructed as samaz) and Indo-European (reconstructed as somos).
But back to "same old, same old," an expression suggesting that nothing has changed in one's life.
The usage first showed up in the 1970s in American black English, according to Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.
Did it originate in the phrase samo, samo that you heard while stationed in Japan in the 1950s?
Maybe it did … and maybe it didn't. Here's the story.
In "Bamboo English," a 1955 article in the journal American Speech, Arthur M. Z. Norman suggests that samo, samo originated in the Japanese tendency to use reduplication when speaking pidgin English. (In linguistics, reduplication is the repetition of the root of a word or part of it.)
"The changey-changey samey-samey phenomenon heard among the Japanese," Norman writes, "is responsible for samo-samo 'the same' in American Slang."
But Wilson, in another 2001 posting to the Linguist List, raises the possibility that samo, samo may have been coined not by the Japanese but by US soldiers – as baby talk the GIs used in an attempt to communicate.
"It is possible that 'samo' or even 'samo-samo' was simply a nonsense augmentation of 'same' by American servicemen," he says.
Channeling a '50s GI, Wilson adds: "That's how we used to say 'same' in Tijuana, maybe it'll work here too," or "I think these people will understand English if you repeat each word slowly, with 'o' or 'a' on the end; they understood me fine that way in Manila."
In answer to your question, the 1950s phrase samo, samo, meaning the same, may have evolved into the 1970s expression "same old, same old," meaning nothing's changed, but this isn't certain.
Although some word sleuths see a connection between the two expressions, Cassell's describes "same old, same old" as merely a slang version of the standard English "same old thing."


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I have a math vb program.
And I would like to know how much time (sec or less) does
program need to find the asnwer. Because this is 200 points,
so I need experts to explain to me in detail, if it is
possible? (please, bec. I am new)
in the form I have :
 some label and textbox for entering and displaying.
 a ok button - that will take the input and find out the
My guess is : when user hit "ok" button, the timer should start and when answer is found out, then timer stop. The time that program need to find out the answer should be able
to be displayed in sec or sometime is.001 sec.
so in "ok" procedure, I have :
some declarations
loop until ok = 0
display answer and time.
if you need more information, comment me, please.
or you can suggest you own program.
thank a lot
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'Put this in the declaration part of your form:
Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Long
Put this before the calculation
Dim lStart as long
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Thank you. here is my code :
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim lStart As Long
ok = 1
a1 = Val(inta.Text)
a2 = 1
a3 = 0
b1 = Val(intb.Text)
b2 = 0
b3 = 1
 lStart = GetTickCount()
 If a1 = 1 Then
 X1.Text = a1
 X2.Text = a2
 x3.Text = a3
 ok = 0
 End If
 If b1 = 1 Then
 X1.Text = b1
 X2.Text = b2
 x3.Text = b3
 ok = 0
 End If
 If a1 > b1 Then
 a1 = a1 - b1
 a2 = a2 - b2
 a3 = a3 - b3
 End If
 If b1 > a1 Then
 b1 = b1 - a1
 b2 = b2 - a2
 b3 = b3 - a3
 End If
Loop Until ok = 0
c.Text = CStr((GetTickCount() - lStart) / 1000)
End Sub
am I right?
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If my code is right, then can you explain the meaning of this code to me :
1. Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Long
2. Dim lStart as long
3. IStart=GetTickCount() ' what is this?
4. Labe1.Text=Cstr((GetTickCount()-lStart)/1000) ''what is Cstr?
Why i never see the ( 1. ) line of code, where do you get it and where I can find more information about it, because I can't this code in my vb book.
I have ran the program and it give me 0.064 for time. What does that means? a sec or less than sec.
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another question :
I inputed 12 and 41, when I got the answer, I pressed the ok button again and
again, but it gave me different time, why?
I think the time should be same, because the input is same, why?
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The First line is a declaration of a Windows API procedure. Read the help on 'Declare' to get more info. GetTickCount returns the number of milliseconds (1/1000 of second) since the time Windows started, so when you compare the return values between 2 calls, you get the interval. The time is in seconds, so 0.something is less then a second. It gives different time on each run, because each time windows allocated specific time for your process, it's a normal phenomenon.
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how to get the same time
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It's impossible, there is no way to control it. Why do you need to do it anyway?
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I just need to find a very accurate time
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The time is as accurate as it gets, but it takes the algorithm a different time to run every time. It depends on a lot of factors, none of them are at your control. It's like if you measure how much time exactly it takes a program to load, you will find out it's never the same
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America's Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has concluded that completing its Watts Bar 2 reactor would have no significant environmental impact. Construction of the 1270 MWe pressurised water reactor was suspended in 1985 but TVA has conducted a supplemental environmental assessment statement (SEIS) as part of a consideration to resume development.
The SEIS concludes that completion of the reactor would have negligible impacts on water quality and the local ecology.
The current construction permit is due to expire in 2010 and construction could start as early as 2008 if the TVA decides to proceed. The company is currently conducted a study to determine whether to complete it.
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Potatoes from the same furrow
I discovered an interesting Welsh expression today – maen nhw'n datws o'r un rhych ('they're potatoes from the same furrow'), which is one equivalent of saying that they are as thick as thieves, i.e. they are close friends. Other Welsh equivalents of this expression include maen nhw'n gryn lawiau ('they're pretty (?) hands'); maen nhw'n yng nghegau ei gilydd ('they're in mouths together'); and maen nhw'n drwyn wrth drwyn ('they're nose to nose').
In French the equivalent of this phrase is comme larrons en foire ('like thieves in (a) fair') – the word larron is a old word for thief – the usual word is voleur.
What about in other languages?
9 Responses to Potatoes from the same furrow
 1. Charlie says:
 Two German expressions I can think of are sie stecken unter einer Decke 'they lie under the same blanket' and sie halten zusammen wie Pech und Schwefel 'they stick together like pitch and brimstone' — I think … wie Feuer und Schwefel '… like fire and brimstone' can be used instead, but I'm not sure.
 2. D.Jay says:
 I was thinking two peas in a pod, but that is something different – meaning two people who are alike, not necessarily always together. We would also say joined at the hip.
 3. Charlie says:
 The Dutch say onder één hoedje spelen 'play under one hat' (hoedje is diminutive, so literally it's 'small hat').
 4. old_nomad says:
 Common Russian phrase for "joined at the hip" is не разлей-вода "cannot be separated by pouring water (on them)", most probably alluding to pouring water on quarreling animals to separate them. And for being alike without necessarily being close there is одного поля ягоды "berries from the same field", usually in negative sense.
 5. TJ says:
 Well… in colloquial Arabic dialects I can remember one similar phrase which is understood commonly between people of different background from west and east – however, it is a bit vulgar so I'm going to write the translation here only, which comes like: they are like two @$$es in one pant/underwear.
 Well, as for the standard Arabic, I can't remember something significant, but probably I've heard the expressions Two heads from the same shirt or Two bodies in the same shirt before.
 6. Rauli says:
 In Finnish, "kuin paita ja peppu" (like a shirt and the butt).
 7. Remd says:
 A common neutral phrase in Spanish is "son uña y carne", which means "they are like nail and meat". But there's a popular (or rather vulgar) phrase which is used, as far as I've read, especially in Catalonia and I don't know if the original version is Spanish or Catalan. It's "son culo y mierda" which means, if you'll pardon the translation, "they are like ass and shit".
 8. Leonardo A. C. says:
 In Portuguese it's said "Farinha do mesmo saco" (Flour from the same sack) or "Unha e carne" (Nail and flesh).
 9. James says:
 I think that when you learn a language is really funny to look at the expressions and saying used, which sometimes can be really different from our mother tongue. If you require a Welsh translation make sure you address to professionals, to have the best results.
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EGOS Call for Papers "Craft in Modern Society"
 - 1. EGOS Call for Papers "Craft in Modern Society"
 Posted 11-09-2020 10:05
 Hi there,
 We would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for our sub theme at the 2021 EGOS Conference. Please see more details below. We hope you will consider submitting your paper to our track and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the sub-theme in advance.
 Best wishes,
 Jochem Kroezen
 Innan Sasaki
 Pursey Heugens
 Sub-theme 24: Craft in Modern Society
 Jochem Kroezen
 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
 Innan Sasaki
 University of Warwick, United Kingdom
 Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
 Erasmus University, The Netherlands
 Call for Papers
 The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary resurgence of interest in craft and craftsmanship. Once thought to be an obsolete mode of organizing and producing for modern society, now craft movements appear to be reconfiguring entire sectors, with examples ranging from beer brewing (Kroezen & Heugens, 2019), to watchmaking (Raffaelli, 2019), to barbering (Ocejo, 2017) and to maker spaces (Browder et al., 2019). In addition to the transformative powers of craft production, there is also a surprisingly broad range of instances where heritage crafts have managed to survive despite pressures of modernization and globalization, such as the case in musical instrument making (Cattani et al., 2017) or Japanese family firms (Sasaki et al., 2019). Increasingly, management and organization scholars are paying attention to these phenomena across various strands of research and are contributing to a growing understanding of (1) what defines craft as opposed to established theories of organizing and (2) how empirically craft may be valued and organized differently across time and space. This sub-theme intends to offer a setting for scholars interested in craft and craftsmanship to advance our collective understanding of the concept and related phenomena and firmly establish craft as an object of investigation and theorization in its own right.
 According to leading dictionaries, craft can be defined as "skill" or "dexterity" that is often applied in combination with "experience" and "careful attention" to the "making" or "manufacturing" of "objects" that typically requires "handwork" (Cambridge Dictionary; Dictionary.com; Merriam-Webster). However, it is also evident that craft is not just a technical term but also subject to considerable social construction as it is infused with varying idealized norms and values (cf. Bell et al., 2018; Fox-Miller, 2017). As such, the concept is often stretched well beyond the narrow dictionary definitions. Telling are examples of the recent use of the concept in social science. Sennett (2008), for instance, regards the idea of craftsmanship as a philosophical "template for living" where craft is embodied in both skill and "spirit" which manifests itself in the "desire to do a job well for its own sake". This is suggestive of a broader trend in society that is revaluing a concept that has long been associated with "low-status" manual work in comparison to "high-status" intellectual work (Snipp, 1985; Wrigley, 1982).
 The phenomenon of revival and revaluation of craft in parallel with ongoing processes of modernization raises expectations for more inclusive and diverse ways of organizing. The contemporary appeal of craft seems multifaceted. Research suggests that it may be fueled by a fear of loss of human skill due to continued automation, robotization and technization (cf. Barley, 1996; Beane, 2019), seemingly related to the Marxist concern with "deskilling" (Braverman, 1974; Form, 1987). Simultaneously, it may be driven by a perceived loss of community, authenticity and "enchantment" in production and consumption due to continued globalization and standardization (Endrissat et al., 2015; Suddaby et al., 2017; Weber et al., 2008). The appeal of craft may also lie in its perceived potential to provide a more meaningful form of work (Bell et al., 2018; Hodson, 2001; Ranganathan, 2018), and suggested contribution to socio-economic and environmental sustainability (Kuijpers et al., 2019; Thompson, 2018).
 However, craft organizing is not naturally virtuous. History shows that it may also have darker sides. For instance, traditional craft was strongly associated with a lack of innovation (Kieser, 1989), parochialism and patriarchy (e.g., Adler, 2015; Burris, 1989), and some have argued that the contemporary craft movement may have been largely captured by the elite with little benefit for the rest of society (Ocejo, 2017). There is thus a need to advance our critical understanding of processes of craft decline and revival in order to be able to assess if craft can indeed live up to all these promises.
 Beyond the role of craft organizing in addressing grand challenges in society, the day-to-day organizational challenges faced by craft firms raise interesting questions as well. Both heritage craft firms with extensive pedigree and craft revival firms appear to face unique tensions they need to solve in order to be successful. They often need to somehow balance the preservation (or pretense of) of traditional skills, techniques and materials, while at the same time innovating and adapting to evolving economic, technological and social conditions (Beverland, 2005; Sasaki et al., 2019). Similarly, they need to grapple with the fact that the contemporary appeal of craft often taps into cultural fantasies of an idealized image of making that may require a certain degree of "staging" (cf. Suddaby et al., 2017; Federici, 2019). Finally, the ultimate viability of craft organizations depends on a careful balancing of artistic and cultural expression (broadly understood) with efficiency and commercial utility (Becker, 1978; Patichol et al., 2014). Though similar tensions may be faced by any type of organization, these tensions seem to be particularly pronounced for craft organizations and appear ripe for dedicated exploration.
 In sum, we believe that organization scholars are very well positioned to contribute to a deeper understanding of craft as an alternative mode of working, producing and organizing in modern society. More precisely, we suggest that the phenomenon of craft is deserving of dedicated theory that can be contrasted with and compared to established organizational theories such as scientific management (Taylor, 2003), bureaucracy (Weber, 1978) modern professionalism (Abbott, 1988) or the network organization (Powell, 1990). As such, the goal of this sub-theme is to exchange dialogue and collectively advance research on craft from multiple theoretical dimensions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
 - What is unique about craft work and craft forms of organizing compared to established organization and management theories?
 - Why and how do craft modes of organizing decline and why and how do they resurge?
 - Why and how do heritage crafts survive?
 - What is the relationship between craft survival and organizational forms that more readily focus on the longer term, such as family businesses?
 - How do craft firms manage fundamental tensions such as those related to tradition vs. innovation, mundane vs. imagined practices and artistic vs. commercial utility?
 - When and how do craft movements lead to desirable societal outcomes and when and how do they merely lead to decoupled "craft-washing"?
 - How is contemporary craft work different from traditional craft work?
 - (How) can craft principles be meaningfully reinserted in corporations, whether industrial manufacturers, family businesses, or professional service firms?
 - (How) do contemporary craft firms organize learning and skill development differently than other types of firms?
 - What is the role of consumers and other stakeholders in the success and failure of craft movements and craft firms?
 - How 'gendered' is craft work and craft entrepreneurship, and what are the unique challenges faced by female craft entrepreneurs?
 - When and how are craft firms perceived as legitimate or authentic and when not?
 - How can craft facilitate meaningful work? What are the dark sides of craft organizing?
 - How are craft-based occupations different from other types of occupations?
 We invite theoretical and empirical papers using qualitative or quantitative research methods that address these and related topics. We encourage submission of papers that describe craft dynamics in both typical and atypical settings.
 Jochem Kroezen
 University Lecturer in International Business
 Cambridge Judge Business School
 University of Cambridge


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Benefits/Uses of Passion Fruit Juice for Skin, Hair and Health
Passion fruit is a common fruit found in the tropical and sub tropical countries and is shaped like an egg with wrinkled skin. The flesh of the fruit is green in color with a unique aroma and is sweet to taste. So it is often used for making juice and is good to taste. It is great for keeping your body cool in the summer months and has lots of health benefits.
Skin Benefits of Passion Fruit Juice:
Vitamin C present in this juice fights against the harmful actions caused by the free radicals in the body and prevents pre-mature ageing as well as keep the immune system strong. So, have passion fruit juice regularly and have a skin free from wrinkles and fine lines.
Having passion fruit juice daily helps you in getting a healthy skin as it is rich in Vitamin A, which is essential for the skin. This vitamin is also good for proper cell growth and reproduction.
Benefits of Passion Fruit Juice for the Hair:
You can maintain healthy hair only if nutrients and oxygen from the blood enters the hair follicles and nourish them. Most of the problems related with hair is due to improper food habits and deficiency in nutrients, as well as illness. Consuming passion fruit juice ensures that your hair gets nourished and it grows properly.
Strong and Thick Hair:
Passion fruit is rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin B2, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6 and lots minerals like potassium, copper etc., which are essential for healthy of the hair. So, drinking passion fruit juice provides you thick and strong hair that is free of any problems.
Health Benefits of Passion Fruit Juice:
Passion fruit is highly nutritious and a excellent health drink that is good for getting relief from asthma and its symptoms. Vitamin C present in the juice helps in preventing histamines from attacking the body and causing symptoms of asthma.
Controls Blood Pressure:
The alkaloids present in passion fruit juice are excellent for reducing blood pressure. It is also known for its antispasmodic action. They are also good sedatives and calm your mind and body.
Beta carotene is good for the normal development of the bones and the teeth and for repairing the tissues of the body. It is also beneficial for having healthy eyes and has many other health benefits. The risk of Parkinson's disease, arthritis, depression and infertility is greatly reduced by having passion fruit juice regularly. Beta carotene is non-toxic compared to Vitamin A, which toxic in excess.
Helps in Weight Loss:
Passion fruit juice is very effective if you wish to lose weight because it is low in calorie. Only about 97 calories is produced by 100 gm of the juice. Sodium and fat are also found in small quantities in this juice. Being rich in natural sugars and carbohydrates, your body is able to recover fast after a workout, as the energy lost is recovered easily by having this juice.
If you are suffering from insomnia, have a glass of passion fruit juice daily before you go to bed. This will ensure you a sound and peaceful sleep. This is because this fruit relaxes your nerves and calms you down.
Improves Blood Circulation:
Passion fruit is a good source of Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, choline and folate. All these vitamins are essential for the proper functioning of the mucous membranes in the digestive tract and also for normal functioning of the brain. They also ensure the mental health and improve blood circulation in the body. Lowering the levels of cholesterol in the body is another useful benefit of the fruit. So, have a glass of passion fruit daily and stay healthy both mentally and physically.
Improves Immune System:
Vitamin C in this juice is an excellent antioxidant that is very effective in increasing the immune power of the body and helps you to fight against various diseases and infections. It also helps to heal wounds fast because of its ability to repair damaged tissues.
Prevents Cancer and Heart Diseases:
The yellow and purple color of the passion fruit is due to the presence of beta carotene in it in high amounts. Beta carotene is also called pro-vitamin A because it gets converted in to Vitamin A when it reaches the liver. It has anti-oxidative properties and is good for preventing heart diseases, cancer and for lowering blood pressure in people suffering from high blood pressure.
Stay Healthy and Relaxed:
Drinking a glass of passion fruit is very refreshing and keeps you cool. It is good for getting relief from the burning sensation in the stomach and keeps you relaxed and calm by relaxing your nerves.
Treats Digestion Problems:
Consuming passion fruit juice is a good way to treat various digestive problems. It is good for preventing constipation also. It acts as a laxative and ensures proper bowel movements, preventing constipation. Having about 4 to 6 ounces of passion fruit juice at an interval of 2 hours is very effective in treating hyperacidity as well as duodenal and gastric ulcers.
Treats Kidney Problems:
Passion fruit juice is a rich source of minerals, especially potassium. This is found in high quantities in the juice. It helps in the proper functioning of the kidneys and is also essential for the contraction of the muscles. Smokers, athletes and vegetarians benefit a lot by consuming passion fruit juice daily.
How to Make Passion Fruit Juice:
- It is very easy to make the juice. Take 5 or 6 passion fruits, wash well and then cut then lengthwise.
- Scoop the flesh from inside and blend in the blender with thrice the amount of water for just a minute.
- Now remove the black seeds from the juice with the help of a strainer and again add thrice the amount of water and sugar to taste.
- You can store it in the refrigerator and it will stay for about five days in this way.
- Have it chilled and you will see that it is very tasty.
- You can make two and a half liters of juice form 5 passion fruits.


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How to Calculate Square Footage
So you desire to improve the appearance of your room by painting the walls or installing new flooring. No matter what kind of paint or flooring you choose, you need to ascertain the square footage of the floor or the walls. Even though a little bit of mathematics is involved, calculating square footage is not going to be that tough. It is very easy to measure the square footage of a room. All you will require is a measuring tape, paper, pencil and a calculator.
Follow these step by step instructions and it will be you who will be telling people how to measure square footage from now onwards –
- You will need to have two measurements of the floor or the wall you wish to ascertain the square footage. Let us use the floor as an example. With the help of a measuring tape, measure the length of the floor in inches and note down the figure on a piece of paper. Even though we are working on square footage, it is better to measure in inches as it is very uncommon for a floor to have exact even number foot measurement. For instance, a length of a floor is more likely to have measurements such as 12 feet 4 inches instead of a whole number.
- Measure the width of the floor and note it down again on the same piece of paper.
- Once you have the length and width, multiply the two measurements to calculate the figure. You may take the help of a calculator if required. The answer you get is square inches.
- Now you need to divide the answer by 144 to express it as square footage.
The above steps apply for a rectangular or square area. If you wish to measure a triangle area then follow the below mentioned steps –
- Firstly, measure the base of the triangle.
- Secondly, you need to measure the height of the triangle.
- Now you need to multiply the base measurement with the height measurement. You may use a calculator to determine the figure. Once you get the figure, divide the amount by two. The figure you get now is the square footage of a triangle area.
For calculating the square footage of the circular area, you need to measure the radius of the circle, square it up and lastly multiply it by pie (3.1416) to determine the figure.


Kasuga
"Kasuga seamount is a conical volcano that rises to within 598 m of the sea surface SE of Fukujin submarine volcano. Kasuga is listed as an active volcano by the Japan Meteorological Agency, and floating pumice attributed to a submarine eruption of Kasuga was seen south of the volcano in the summer of 1959. Water discoloration from a possible submarine eruption was reported from a location near Kasuga seamount in November 1975. Kasuga, the northernmost of three seamounts in the the Kasuga seamount chain, rises from a depth of 3000 m. A series of flank vents are located low on the southern side of the edifice. The summit of Kasuga does not have a caldera or display hydrothermal activity, and the volcano is largely mantled by volcaniclastics. Altered basaltic and andesitic rocks dredged from the summit suggest that Kasuga 1 is the oldest of the three seamounts, although delicately preserved lava flow lobes and toes from a flank eruption suggest a very youthful age." -Smithsonian Volcano Archive
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William Ewart Gladstone Quotes (71 quotes)
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
―William Ewart Gladstone
Political Speeches in Scotland: November and December 1879, with an appendix containing the rectorial address in Glasgow, and other non-political speeches (1879 edition)
If you know some quotes that would be a good fit here, send us a note!
Picture Source: Wikimedia CommonsWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Born: December 29, 1809
Died: May 19, 1898 (aged 88)
Bio: William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time. He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times.


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NWO P14-18 i-CAVE
The I-Cave program strives to integrate automated and cooperative driving while maintaining safety, and including human factors in the design process. In i-CAVE a Cooperative Dual Mode Automated Transport (C-DMAT) system is researched and designed, consisting of dual mode vehicles which can be driven automatically and manually to allow maximum flexibility. The uniqueness of i-CAVE is it advances all enabling technologies that are required for safe, efficient, and effective automated and cooperative driving with dual-mode vehicles, while also addressing important human factor aspects. The central point is project 7 (Living lab/demonstrator). This is the joint real-world demonstrator platform which has a crucial role in the utilization of i-CAVE's research.
I-CAVE takes a unique pragmatic approach, by considering the cooperative and automated dual-mode principle. It is recognized that the ultimate goal is full automation (SAE level 5) but that many societal goals can already be achieved with lower levels of automation. The integrated research lines therefore specially consider vehicle automation technology that can be introduced step-by-step and that allows for seamlessly switching between human-controlled driving and cooperative automated driving, i.e. dual-mode driving, when possible and when wished for.
The program is a collaboration between four Dutch universities, and multiple commercial and municipal parties.
More information on i-Cave can be found on: _URL_


Product of the Month: Apollo
Apollo vibrations: Responding to today's stressful world
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Apollo applies low frequency, inaudible waves of vibration that are demonstrated in both the lab and the real world to change the balance of our nervous systems through our sense of touch. Apollo waves bring balance to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and improve heart rate variability (HRV), the most reliable, non-invasive biometric of stress. It can be worn on the wrist or ankle.
Apollo vibrations feel like waves coming and going. This sensation feels natural because it is. Apollo's modes match a natural oscillation pattern between the heart and lungs when we breathe deeply, which consistently improves HRV. Apollo has seven modes to support life's activities:
 1. 1. Energy and Wake Up
 2. 2. Social and Open
 3. 3. Clear and Focused
 4. 4. Rebuild and Recover
 5. 5. Meditation and Mindfulness
 6. 6. Relax and Unwind
 7. 7. Sleep and Renew
When our bodies feel the rhythm of the Apollo vibrations, it is automatically recognized by the body as a soothing gentle touch, just like a friend giving you a hug on a bad day.
Preliminary findings suggest that the specific vibration patterns used in the Apollo technology increase the ability to focus and remain calm during periods of stress and that these specific vibration patterns improve the body's ability to recover and be resilient to stress, as measured by HRV. These improvements in HRV are accompanied by proportionate improvements in cognitive and physical performance under stress. Subsequent university pilots and trials have shown that Apollo consistently improves HRV under stress within 2-3 minutes, improves athletic recovery, and supports access to meditative states.
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Dr. Subhash Chander Bhardwaj, Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology) and In-Charge, ICAR-IIWBR Regional Station, Shimla, is awarded Dr S Nagarajan Memorial Award of the Society for Advancement of Wheat & Barley Research for the year 2017 for his outstanding contributions to wheat pathology. He is involved in wheat rust management for the last 31 years. Dr Bhardwaj sequenced the genomes of three wheat rust pathogens of India, DNA fingerprints and ITS sequence of wheat rust pathotypes. He developed 4 varieties, 41 diverse rust resistant genetic stocks of wheat, identified 55 new pathotypes of Puccinia species and 2050 rust resistant stocks of wheat and barley. He maintains national repository of 132 rust pathotypes.
Dr Bhardwaj is involved in the mapping of wheat rust pathotypes in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal and genetics of rust resistance of wheat and barley. He has identified a new gene in local wheat Hango on chromosome 2DS, two recessive genes in Agra Local and identified more than 200 lines with slow rusting and adult plant resistance (APR). Recently he has initiated research on molecular mechanism of wheat rust interaction and transcriptomics.
Dr Bhardwaj was a visiting scientist to CIMMYT, Mexico. He has visited 7 other countries. He has published 143 research papers, 40 book chapters/reviews/ bulletins and delivered more than 80 presentations. He is Life member of seven professional societies and Fellow of 4 professional societies. He is also recipient of DWR Best Research Team Award and S.N. Dasgupta Memorial Award.


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Text::Table::CSV - Generate CSV
This document describes version 0.023 of Text::Table::CSV (from Perl distribution Text-Table-CSV), released on 2019-11-29.
use Text::Table::CSV; my $rows = [ # header row ['Name', 'Rank', 'Serial'], # rows ['alice', 'pvt', '123456'], ['bob', 'cpl', '98765321'], ['carol', 'brig gen', '8745'], ]; print Text::Table::CSV::table(rows => $rows);
This module provides a single function,
table, which formats a two-dimensional array of data as CSV. This is basically a way to generate CSV using the same interface as that of Text::Table::Tiny (v0.03) or Text::Table::Org.
The example shown in the SYNOPSIS generates the following table:
"Name","Rank","Serial" "alice","pvt","123456" "bob","cpl","98765321" "carol","brig gen","8745"
table function understands these arguments, which are passed as a hash.
Required. Takes an array reference which should contain one or more rows of data, where each row is an array reference.
Optional, default true. Whether to print the first row (which is assumed to be the header row).
Please visit the project's homepage at _URL_
Source repository is at _URL_
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website _URL_
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
See also Bencher::Scenario::TextTableModules.
This software is copyright (c) 2019, 2018, 2015 by _EMAIL_.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


Trait: Anthropomorphic Animal
Traits > Body > Features > Humanoid (Non-human) > Anthropomorphic Animal
Anthropomorphic Animal - a bipedal hybrid of an animal in a humanoid form. For a character to be considered anthropomorphic animal, either human and animal traits should be pronounced in about equal measure, or the latter should be dominant.
Do not use the trait to describe characters that look mostly human, but have minor animal characteristics, like animal ears (use Kemonomimi instead) or a tail (use Tail).
Only use the trait to describe the characters, for whom the anthropomorphic form is the primary one. Do not use it for shapeshifters, who can turn into an alternative animalistic form (e.g. a werewolf).
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