able strategy if not the best since no strategy can exceed 1/2. On the other hand, if the probability decays to 0, it raises a new question to understand why that's the case, if all strategies decay to a victory probability of 0 as the number of doors increase, or if there exists a strategy that is within some bound \Delta < \frac{1}{2} of \frac{1}{2}.
We can start asking these questions if we have an expression for the probability of victory. Let's consider n = 2k doors, where k represents the number of tries, and n = 100 in the original problem. We have characterized the victory cases as those in which the permutation of doors can be represented as cycles of at most k. To calculate the probability, we can use the cycle index of the symmetric group S_n as
Z(S_n) = \sum_{j_1+2 j_2 + 3 j_3 + \cdots + n j_n = n} \frac{1}{\prod_{i=1}^n i^{j_i} j_i!} \prod_{i=1}^n a_i^{j_i},
where a_i denotes cycles of length i.
It turns out the cycle index of the symmetric group can be expressed as the recurrence
Let's define F_n(a_1, \ldots, a_n) = Z(S_n) to highlight the dependence on the cycles. Thus, we can rewrite the above equation as
F_n(a_1, \ldots, a_n) = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{l=1}^n a_l F_{n-l}(a_1, \ldots, a_{n-l}).
Let's define the cumulative distribution function (CDF) F_{n}^{(i)} as F_n(a_1, \ldots, a_n) evaluated at a_l = 1, l \leq i and a_l = 0, l > i. In words, F_{n}^{(i)} is the probability that all cycles are of length i or less.
Thus, if we can find an expression for F_{n}^{(k)}, we can evaluate it at F_{100}^{(50)} to get our result. The results are contained in Propositions 1 and 2 below, where Proposition 2 is reminiscent of our folk theorem, which yields a probability of 0.306, which is slightly less than 1/3. Furthermore, Corollary 1.1 indicates that we decrease monotonically to this probability, so regardless of the number of doors, this strategy is within 0.2 of \frac{1}{2}, the upper bound on how well one could possibly do.
Proposition 1. F_{2k}^{(k)} = F_{n}^{(k)} = 1 - \sum_{m=k+1}^n \frac{1}{m}.
Proof: The first equality is by definition, so we simply need to show the second equality. For i \leq j, we can evaluate the probabilities as
F_{2j}^{(i)} = \frac{1}{2j} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j-l}^{(i)}
F_{2j}^{(2j-i)} = \frac{1}{2j} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j-l}^{(2j-i)} +\frac{1}{2j}\sum_{m=i+1}^{2j-i} F_{2j-m}^{(2j-m)} = \frac{2j-2i}{2j}+ \frac{1}{2j} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j-l}^{(2j-i)}
F_{2j+1}^{(i)} = \frac{1}{2j+1} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j+1-l}^{(i)}
F_{2j+1}^{(2j+1-i)} = \frac{1}{2j+1} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j+1-l}^{(2j+1-i)} + \frac{1}{2j+1} \sum_{l=i+1}^{2j+1-i} F_{2j+1-l}^{(2j+1-l)} = \frac{2j+1-2i}{2j+1} + \frac{1}{2j+1} \sum_{l=1}^i F_{2j+1-l}^{(2j+1-i)}.
Note that if i \leq j, then i - 1 \leq j, so we can apply the same result to get that
F_{2j}^{(2j+1-i)} = \frac{2j-2(i-1)}{2j}+ \frac{1}{2j} \sum_{l=1}^{i-1} F_{2j-l}^{(2j+1-i)}
and substituting this into our expression for F_{2j+1}^{(2j+1-i)} yields
F_{2j+1}^{(2j+1-i)} = \frac{2j}{2j+1} (F_{2j}^{(2j+1-i)} - \frac{2j-2(i-1)}{2j}) = F_{2j}^{(2j+1-i)} - \frac{1}{2j+1}.
Likewise, one can similarly derive
F_{2j}^{(2j+1-i)} = F_{2j-1}^{(2j+1-i)} - \frac{1}{2j}.
Starting with the base case that F_{2k}^{(k)} = F_{n}^{(k)} = F_{n-1}^{(k)} - \frac{1}{n} and the above inductive steps, one can conclude that
F_{n}^{(k)} = F_{k}^{(k)} - \sum_{m=k+1}^{2k} \frac{1}{m}.
However, F_{k}^{(k)} = 1, so we have our result.
Corollary 1.1. F_{n+2}^{(k+1)} = F_{n}^{(k)} - \frac{1}{(n+2)(n+1)}.
Proposition 2. \lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} F_{2k}^{(k)} = 1 - \ln 2 \approx 0.306
Proof: From Proposition 1, we can write
F_{2k}^{(k)} = 1 - \sum_{m=k+1}^{2k} \frac{1}{m}. Note that we can rewrite the summation
\sum_{m=k+1}^{2k} \frac{1}{m} = \sum_{i=1}^{k} \frac{1}{k+i} = \sum_{i=1}^{k} \frac{1}{1+i/k} \frac{1}{k}.
The key is to observe that this is simply a Riemann sum approximating the integral
\int_{0}^1 \frac{1}{1+x} dx = \ln 2,
which converges as we let k \rightarrow \infty.
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Ages of Three Daughters
My uncle's in town and just reminded me of a puzzle that he'd asked me over ten years ago. A census worker goes to a house and the person who answers the door tells the census worker that she has three daughters.
"I need to know their ages," replies the census worker.
"Well, the product of their ages is my age: 36."
"That's not enough information."
"Well, the sum of their ages is the same as the number as the house on the right."
The census worker checks the house next door and responds, "That's still not enough information."
"My eldest daughter is asleep upstairs."
The census worker thanks the homeowner and leaves. How old are the three daughters?
I love this puzzle because on the face of it, it would appear that there isn't enough information to figure out the puzzle. If you want to figure out the puzzle yourself, do not read beyond this point.
The first thing we learn about the ages of the daughters is that the product of the ages is 36.
Let's consider all such possibilities (let's assume the puzzle maker only allows for integer ages):
As the census worker notes, there are still too many to disambiguate the ages.
The next clue is that the sum of the ages is the same as the number of the house next door. We don't know the sum, but the census worker does, and we also know that the house number is insufficient to disambiguate the ages. Let's look at the sums of the factorizations above:
1+1+36 = 38
1+2+18 = 21
1+3+12 = 16
1+6+6 =


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Science, Technology, Engineering & Math | News
Robot Set Helps Teach Math and Science
- By Dian Schaffhauser
Can robots teach math? That's what RobotsLab is promoting with the release of its latest robotics product, the Box, a kit of hardware and curriculum intended to teach Algebra 1 and 2, physics, geometry, trigonometry, and pre-calculus for grades seven through 12. The Box comes in two versions, one for $3,500, which includes four robots, a tablet computer that acts as the control station, accessories, and 50 lessons and quizzes. A "Deluxe" Box, which is $3,999, includes access to additional lessons throughout the year and an extended warranty.
Each lesson is an app on the tablet that controls the robots in the package. Every module comes with an instructional video, a touch-based lesson, a quiz, and additional teaching materials. For example, a robotic ball is used in lessons on quadratic equations, statistics, and probability; a robotic arm helps teach geometry lessons on triangles and angles as well as trig lessons on arc, length, sine, and cosine; and a "quadcopter" provides physics lessons in gravity, acceleration, and frame of reference.
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RobotsLab's Box kits enable teachers to use robots to illustrate math concepts.
According to one lesson, the robots are used to "expose scientific principles providing a bridge between the abstract topics and the real world." In order to solve quizzes, the students have to work through equations, come to an understanding of physical forces, and perform scientific investigation.
The content has been vetted by a panel of teachers who reviewed, experienced, and tested the courses before the Box was launched. "You can open the Box, turn-on the preloaded tablet, and within minutes explain quadratic equations with a Quadcopter," said reviewer Peter Stone, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin."You don't need to be experienced with robotics or have a degree in computer science--just an enthusiasm for your subject area."
According to the company, the lessons align with Common Core State Standards as well as the standards mandated by the Texas Education Agency.
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business for a number of publications. Contact her at _EMAIL_.

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View Source Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource (Membrane Core v1.1.0)
Testing Element for supplying data based on generator function or payloads passed through options. It is very similar to Membrane.Testing.Source but is has dynamic pad instead of static.
Example usage
As mentioned earlier you can use this element in one of two ways, providing either a generator function or an Enumerable.t.
If you provide an Enumerable.t with payloads, then each of those payloads will be wrapped in a Membrane.Buffer and sent through :output pad.
%Source{output: [0xA1, 0xB2, 0xC3, 0xD4]}
In order to specify Membrane.Testing.Source with generator function you need to provide initial state and function that matches generator/0 type. This function should take state and demand size as its arguments and return a tuple consisting of actions that element will return during the Membrane.Element.WithOutputPads.handle_demand/5 callback and new state.
generator_function = fn state, pad, size ->
 #generate some buffers
 {actions, state + 1}
end
%Source{output: {1, generator_function}}
Element options
Passed via struct Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource.t/0
 - output
 {initial_state :: any(), generator()} | Enum.t()
 Default value: {0, &Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource.default_buf_gen/3}
 If output is an enumerable with Membrane.Payload.t/0 then buffer containing those payloads will be sent through the :output pad and followed by Membrane.Element.Action.end_of_stream/0.
 If output is a {initial_state, function} tuple then the the function will be invoked each time handle_demand is called. It is an action generator that takes two arguments. The first argument is the state that is initially set to initial_state. The second one defines the pad on which the demand has been requested. The third one defines the size of the demand. Such function should return {actions, next_state} where actions is a list of actions that will be returned from handle_demand/4 and next_state is the value that will be used for the next call.
 - stream_format
 struct()
 Default value: %Membrane.RemoteStream{content_format: nil, type: :bytestream}
 Stream format to be sent before the output.
Pads
:output
Accepted formats:
_any
Direction::output
Availability::on_request
Flow control::manual
Demand unit:nil
Summary
Types
t()
Struct containing options for Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource
Functions
Returns description of options available for this module
Types
@type generator() ::
 (state :: any(), pad :: Membrane.Pad.ref(), buffers_cnt :: pos_integer() ->
 {[Membrane.Element.Action.t()], state :: any()})
@type t() :: %Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource{
 output: {initial_state :: any(), generator()} | Enum.t(),
 stream_format: struct()
}
Struct containing options for Membrane.Testing.DynamicSource
Functions
Link to this function
default_buf_gen(generator_state, pad, size)
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@spec default_buf_gen(integer(), Membrane.Pad.ref(), integer()) ::
 {[Membrane.Element.Action.t()], integer()}
@spec options() :: keyword()
Returns description of options available for this module


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I have two raster data set.
Raster 1 is soil depth data (10*10 size ) Raster 2 is ground surface data.(10*10 Cell size)
In most cases, Soildepth data is beneath the ground but in some cases, soil depth data is protruded and it's above the ground surface. Using Arcgis I want in the result Raster 3, soil depth data value and value of ground surface data wherever protrusion is present?
The protrusion part is highlighted in Red closed to the area.

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Meaning of Ambivalent
By | January 15, 2021
Ambivalent is a concept associated with ambivalence (the particularity of what can be interpreted in contradictory ways with each other). For psychology, ambivalence is a state of mind in which opposite emotions coexist.
According to DigoPaul, the ambivalent exists from the notion of valence, which can be understood as interest or rejection towards a certain thing. What produces joy or pleasure has positive valence, while what generates sadness or pain has negative valence.
Ambivalence implies that feelings with positive valence and negative valence co-exist with respect to the same element. The typical example of ambivalence is love-hate: "I feel somewhat ambivalent about Maria: I am fascinated by her and I think I love her but, at the same time, I hate how she treats me when she is with her friends", "The situation generates a ambivalence, since it causes me satisfaction and, at the same time, it causes me pain ".
There are those who recognize different levels of ambivalence: it can be temporary or specific (when someone struggles between eating a bowl of noodles or maintaining a diet, for example), affective (the feelings found about a person) or intellectual (who pronounces simultaneously favor of a proposition and its opposite).
A behavior ambivalent may be linked to a mental disorder such as schizophrenia, the psychosis or obsessive neurosis, but is also associated with certain states accepted as normal, as is the case of jealousy.
In some contexts, a person is considered to be ambivalent when communicating through ambiguous signals, which hinders the social bond: "I do not understand Ariel: on the one hand he tells me that he misses me and on the other he does not call me in a week. He's an ambivalent boy. "
Ambivalent-ambivalent insecure attachment
The relationship that children establish with their parents or those closest adult referents are of vital importance for the development of their affective universe.
If this relationship is based on secure attachment, where the child feels contained and understood, it is likely that in the future he will develop enviable emotional stability; if instead the relationship is one of insecure attachment, the child will feel completely adrift and in the future it will be extremely difficult for him to establish a coherent life line, because of that frustrated relationship.
Insecure attachment occurs when the responses parents present to their children's physical or emotional needs have a certain ambivalence or contradiction; that is, sometimes they respond positively, others negatively, and sometimes they do not respond directly. This creates a great deal of confusion for the child because she does not know when and how her parents will respond to her needs.
The consequence of all this is a deep feeling of abandonment and loneliness, which in turn places him powerless in front of his own existence, losing control; All this leads to great anxiety and manifests itself in strong self-distrust.
These children grow up with a feeling of never being good enough for others to love them and are always aware of the affective signs of their environment; In addition, this experience causes them low self-esteem, which makes them place themselves many steps below their environment.
The first difficulties of this disorder appear when the child enters an environment outside the family, generally the school. In this environment, children manifest clear cognitive and emotional problems; In this last aspect, they will feel the constant need to receive approval for everything they do, they will show possessive attitudes, jealousy and rivalry.
The clearest way to define the fundamental characteristic of this type of attachment is as an intense anxiety to feel loved and the feeling, at the same time, of not being loved that leads them to develop a disturbing concern about the attention or interest they present. the others in front of his person or acts.


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The Execute Command (QCMDEXC) program is an ibm as400 API that runs a single command.The command runs as if it was not in a program. Therefore, variables cannot be used on the command because values cannot be returned by the as400 command to CL variables. Additionally, commands that can only be used in CL procedures or programs cannot be run by the QCMDEXC program. The format of the call to the QCMDEXC program is the following:
CALL PGM(QCMDEXC) PARM(command command-length)
Enter the command you want to run as a character string on the first parameter. You must specify the command library.
CALL PGM(QCMDEXC ) PARM('QSYS/CRTLIB LIB(TEST)' 22)
Remember that you must enclose the as400 command in single quotation marks if it contains blanks. The maximum length of the character string is 6000 characters; never count the delimiters (the single quotation marks ) as part of the string. The length that is specified as the second value on the PARM parameter is the length of the character string that is passed as the command. Length must be a packed decimal value of length 15 with 5 decimal positions
Example of Using QCMDEXC in an RPGLE Procedure
d Quote C Const(X'7D') d StdCmd S 200A d StdLen S 15P 5 D Execute PR ExtPgm('QCMDEXC') D CmdStr Like(StdCmd) D Options(*VarSize) D Const D CmdStrLen Like(StdLen) Const D* IGCPrcCtl 3 Options( *NoPass ) D* Const *-------------------------------------------------- d var1 S Like(StdCmd) d var2 S Like(stdLen) d Inz(%size(var1)) c eval var1 = c 'CPYTOSTMF' +'' + c 'FROMMBR(' + Quote + c '/QSYS.LIB/LIBNAME.LIB' + c '/QRPGLESRC.FILE/RPG1.MBR' + c Quote + ')'+ c 'TOSTMF(' + Quote + c '/home/test.txt' + c Quote + ')'+ c 'STMFOPT(*REPLACE)' c callp Execute(var1:var2) c eval *inlr = *on
Another example of using QCMDEXC to execute CL commands
* d CmdLength s 15 5 d CmdString s 256 * * Procedure calls * d Command pr EXTPGM('QCMDEXC') d CmdString 256 d CmdLength 15 5 * c eval *inlr = *on //========================================= // *inzsr - One time run subroutine. //========================================= /free begsr *inzsr; cmdstring = 'dlyjob 10'; cmdlength = %len(%trim(cmdstring)); command(cmdstring : cmdlength); endsr; /end-free
* Procedure calls * d RUNCOMMAND PR extpgm('RUNCOMMAND') d CmdString 30 d RUNCOMMAND PI d CmdString 30 * d Command pr EXTPGM('QCMDEXC') d CmdString 30 d CmdLength 15 5 * * Definitions * d CmdLength s 15 5 * c eval *inlr = *on //========================================= // *inzsr - One time run subroutine. //========================================= /free begsr *inzsr; cmdlength = %len(%trim(cmdstring)); command(cmdstring : cmdlength); endsr; /end-free
QCMDEXC could also be called from CL, for instance to run a command dynamically when certain parameters that would be required are not know at run time. In this case calling QCMDEXC from a CL program would be an option. See the QCMDEXC snippet below
CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE('CHGLIBL LIBL(' *CAT &LIBL + *TCAT ')') CALL PGM(QCMDEXC) PARM(&CMD &LEN)
Managed as400 hosting
More examples of Using QCMDEXC in an as400 RPGLE Procedure to follow.

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Ancient tombs discovered in Swat valley
25 November, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Swat valley.
The Italian mission began digging in the 1950s at Udegram, a site of Buddhist treasures in Swat, the northwestern district formerly known as the Switzerland of Pakistan for its stunning mountains, valleys and rivers.
Archaeologists were aware of a pre-Buddhist graveyard site in Udegram, but only recently discovered the collection of almost 30 graves, tightly clustered and partially overlapping.
"Some graves had a stone wall, others were protected by walls and enclosures in beaten clay," Luca Maria Olivieri, head of the Italian mission, told AFP.
"The cemetery seems to have been used between the end of the second millennium BCE and the first half of the first millennium BCE," he added.
Olivieri said, "The tombs point to the culture that predates the Buddhist Gandhara civilisation that took hold in northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan from the first millennium BCE to the sixth century AD.
"The presence of a few iron fragments might be amongst the most ancient traces of this metal in the subcontinent," he said. Bodies were first laid to rest in open graves, fenced in by wooden railings. Then the graves were re-opened and the bones partially burnt before the graves were sealed and a burial mound built. Men were buried with high quality flasks, bowls and cooking pots, and women with semi-precious beads, bronze hairpins, and spindles.
Taliban insurgents led by cleric Fazlullah terrorised the Swat valley from 2007 to 2009, beheading opponents and burning down girls' schools as part of their determination to implement their laws. An army offensive in 2009 claimed to have defeated the insurgency, but isolated attacks continue.


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From World of Entorais WikiJump to navigationJump to search
- Common Names
- Moon Melon, Vajo Tempt (Waejir)
- Herbaceous, Vine, Flower, Fruit
- This common cultivar produces large dark green melons with distinct silvery circular patches on their ground-ward surface. The flowers of the moon melon vine are large purple trumpets. The fruit itself has a lavender coloured flesh, and a sweet kiwi-like flavour. The melon contains seeds of red and white colouration. These seeds if eaten are soporific and can induce hallucinations or vivid dreams.
- Tropical through temperate, forests, savannas, plains, or hills.
- Life Cycle
- Annual, flowering in early summer, this vine produces large melon fruit by early autumn.
- A common cultivar popular for the sweet tasty fruit.
- edible (fruit)
- hallucinogen (seeds), soporific (seeds)
- In Waejir, it is commonly believed that the red seeds will bring on bad dreams while the white seeds will bring good dreams.


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Service cloud console by Salesforce provides a customer service solution that is designed to offer very effective customer service activities from anywhere.
Service cloud console is a Salesforce application for users who wants to work on multiple records at once or need to find, update and create records quickly. Service cloud provides a tabbed environment for the users to look at different grouping of records in one screen via Primary and Secondary tab.
The tab-based interface makes it easy for the customer service agents to see records and their related items together on one screen, as well as work on multiple items simultaneously.
Service cloud console optimize the agent experience by helping him to manage cases faster.
Service cloud console has a footer which gives access to Live Agent as well as CTI softphone (if licensed).
Features offered by Service cloud console
- It offers keyboard shortcuts which enables users to save time switching between tabs and saving information.
- It can include the Live Agent (Chat), Softphone (call) and several tabs including the Visualforce pages.
- It also provides an interaction log which allows agents to quickly create tasks whilst on the phone with customers.
- It is very easy to plug in custom Visualforce pages within the console and the ability to build custom integrations directly into the console making it very extensible.
- The refresh of one tab will not impact other open tabs.
Why to use Service Cloud Console
- It reduces the agent's response time by displaying customer information with a pop up window that provides all of their relevant information needed to address the Case.
- It eliminates switching between pages, to access data from different objects.
- It improves agent productivity by providing more context for the problem at hand.
- User will see records and their related items as tabs on one screen so that user never loses context or navigate too far from a record.
- We can easily integrate Live Agent and Soft Phone to Service cloud console.
Service Cloud Console also streamlines the process of customer interaction process by offering the following powerful tools:
Live Agent is a native Salesforce tool that provides the ability to interactively communicate with your web site users. Salesforce Live Agent was introduced into Salesforce platform in the Spring 12 release.
Live Agent enables real-time, online chat between an organization and its customers, prospects etc.
The chat sessions can be initiated via clicking a button or link on a web page, or via automated invitation based on page access metrics.
The information collected during the chat can then be saved into your Salesforce instance and reported on.
- User can save the transcript.
- User can manage multiple concurrent chats within the console.
- User can find and open existing records related to chats.
- Create new records based on incoming chats.
- Choose records or pages to open as sub tabs of each chat session.
- Attach a file to the chat session.
- Supervisor tab for monitoring one or more Agent chats.
- It is very convenient for a customer to resolve a query through chat, avoiding the usual frustrations of calling a support line and waiting for the turn.
- An expert team can efficiently manage multiple concurrent chats (routed by skill) which can hugely impact on the incoming call volume.
- The handling cost of a chat session is generally one third of the cost of a phone call resulting in huge cost benefits for the business.
CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)
CTI enables computers and telephone system to work together for enhanced communications between the two technologies and enables you to leverage computer-processing functions while making, receiving, and managing telephone calls.
CTI applications allow you to perform such tasks as retrieving customer information from a database on the basis of information that caller ID provides. CTI applications can also enable you to use information that an interactive voice response (IVR) system captures, so the call can be routed to the appropriate customer service representative and also the right information can be provided to the individual who is receiving the call.
- Make calls by dialing a number in the Softphone, choosing a number in an online directory, or clicking a phone number in any contact, lead, activity, or account.
- Receive calls.
- Quickly view all Salesforce records that are related to the call, such as contacts, cases, or accounts.
- Transfer calls.
- Attach records to calls.
- Generate automatic call logs.
- Add phone numbers to call center directories for future use.
- The Salesforce user interface is able to perform all the interaction management and the customer service.
- The system computer integration blends intelligently and routes the interaction of the customer service based on skills and availability.
- It can also allow agents to place, get and transfer the interactions directly in the Salesforce user interface.


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Biologists begin crow hazing
Crow hazing is underway in Watertown. Wildlife biologists from Loomacres Wildlife Management are trying break up thousands of crows that are roosting in the city. YNN's Carmella Mataloni was at the hazing and tells us how biologists are trying to clear out the problem.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- Pyrotechnics and lasers are just some of the tools biologists are using to try and clear out an ongoing crow problem within the city.
"When one bird finds an advantage, they all start trying to take advantage," said Wildlife Biologist, Cody Baciuska.
Cody Baciuska is the Wildlife Biologist conducting the hazing. He says with increasing temperatures in urban environments, a low predator rate and a section of habitat that attracts the crows, makes the perfect home.
"During the winter months is when they look for these advantages to monopolize to help them get through the winter," said Baciuska.
For weeks an estimated 30,000 crows have been found in various nesting spots.
Wildlife officials say with their techniques, they hope to disrupt many of the roosting patterns.
Biologists who are working on the crow hazing say that here by the river is one of the most problematic areas because of all the trees it gives crows more places to roost.
"Our efforts are going to reduce the number of them and split the flocks up. They are only a really big problem when they are forming the really large flocks," said Baciuska.
Wildlife officials hope these techniques will eventually cut the amount of crows flocking to the city in half.
Crow hazing will continue tomorrow from dusk until dawn to make sure the crows won't come back after they've been scared off.


walk away
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to walk away
 1. Used other than as an idiom: see walk, away.
 I took one last look at the house and walked away.
 2. (idiomatic) To withdraw from a problematic situation.
 Company lawyers told him to walk away from the deal.
 3. (idiomatic) To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
 The football team walked away with a 1-0 victory.
 4. (idiomatic) To defeat someone or achieve something.
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Sample Volume Effect on the Determination of Nitrate-Nitrogen in the Soil Profile
Is Version Of
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect and reliability of soil sample volume on nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) and soil-water content in the soil. Four soil sampling devices (a 20.3-cm power earth auger, a 5.1-cm hand earth auger, a 3.2-cm soil probe and a 1.9-cm soil probe) were used to collect soil samples from 35 conventionally tilled and 35 no-till locations. Soil samples were taken at 30-cm intervals to a depth of 150 cm with each of the four sampling devices and were analyzed for NO3-N and moisture contents. Results of this study indicate that sample volume has no significant effect on determining soil-moisture content. Sample volume also had no effect on NO3-N concentration in the soil water under no-till conditions but had a definite impact on the NO3-N levels in the conventionally tilled soils. Results further indicate that a 5.1-cm diameter sample may best predict the quantity of residual soil NO3-N.
This article was published in Transactions of the ASAE 32 (1989): 934–938, doi:10.13031/2013.31094. Posted with permission.


text: In this work, we present MapLite. a one-click autonomous navigation system capable of piloting a vehicle to an arbitrary desired destination point given only a sparse publicly available topometric map (from OpenStreetMap). The onboard sensors are used to segment the road region and register the topometric map in order to fuse the high-level navigation goals with a variational path planner in the vehicle frame. This enables the system to plan trajectories that correctly navigate road intersections without the use of an external localization system such as GPS or a detailed prior map. Since the topometric maps already exist for the vast majority of roads, this solution greatly increases the geographical scope for autonomous mobility solutions. We implement MapLite on a full-scale autonomous vehicle and exhaustively test it on over 15km of road including over 100 autonomous intersection traversals. We further extend these results through simulated testing to validate the system on complex road junction topologies such as traffic circles.


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The National Association of Computerized Tax Processors (NACTP) is a nonprofit association that represents tax processing software and hardware developers, electronic filing processors, tax form publishers, and tax processing service bureaus.The association represents the collaborative nature of its organizational members.
By working together, these organizations seek to achieve the following goals:
- Serve as a unified industry voice in tax administration matters.
- Promote and improve the relationship and communication between NACTP member companies and government tax agencies.
- Encourage the standardization of tax forms; the timely distribution and clarification of forms, instructions, and regulations; and the simplification of approval procedures.
- Promote the standardization and simplification of electronic filing systems.
- Promote the standardization and simplification of unemployment and withholding wage filing processing systems.
- Maintain professional standards in the computerized tax processing industry.
- Function as a nonprofit association formed for the mutual benefit of its members.


Ignition point measurement – fire point
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The ignition point is the temperature at which a liquid compound emits enough vapor to form a mixture with air whose combustion is self-sustaining once it has started (flame, spark, etc.). Also called "fire point", it should not be confused with the point flashpoint or the auto-ignition point. This property makes it possible to characterize the combustibility of a liquid.
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Distance between Palampur and Manali
Palampur is one of the India city. It is located at the longitude of 76.517655 and latitude of 32.107655. Manali is a India city located at the longitude of 77.157655 and latitude of 32.257655. The total distance between Palampur and Manali is 62 KM (kilometers) and 507.01 meters. The mile based measurement distance is 38.8 miles
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Salomon de Caus
Caus or Caux, Salomon de (both: sälōmôNˈ də kō) [key] 1576–1626, French engineer and physicist, educated in England. From 1614 to 1620 he was engineer to the Elector Palatine, Frederick, at Heidelberg. Because of his Les Raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (1615), an early exposition of the principle of steam power, he has been considered the originator of the steam engine.
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Hi Elaine. Active Virtual Software Packages are visible system-wide. So virtualized applications interact normally with each other and with processes running from the base. "Isolation" refers to when there are duplications on the system -- e.g., two different versions of the same DLL at the same path, in two different VSPs. SVS ensures that each application sees only the version it needs to run correctly.


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4M Princess Doll Making Kit by 4M at Designers Artists. MPN: 3470. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Construct your own magical friend with the 4M Princess Doll Making Kit. Use this kid-friendly kit to create a lovely princess doll at home without
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Destructive Emotions - Goleman D.
Destructive Emotions
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 - Автор: Goleman D.
 - Год издания: 2010
 - Кол-во страниц: 432
 - Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing
 - ISBN: 978-0-7475-6182-8
 - Формат: мягкая обложка
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Can the worlds of science and philosophy work together to recognise our destructive emotions such as hatred, craving, and delusion? Bringing together ancient Buddhist wisdom and recent breakthroughs in a variety of fields from neuroscience to child development, Daniel Goleman's extraordinary book offers fresh insights into how we can recognise and transform our destructive emotions. Out of a week-long discussion between the Dalai Lama and small group of eminent psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers, Goleman weaves together a compelling narrative account. Where do these destructive emotions (craving, anger and delusion, known in Buddhism as the three poisons) come from? And how can we transform them to prevent them from threatening humanity's collective safety and its future?


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Application to Request Registration as a Beneficiary
What does it mean to be a MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet beneficiary?
The MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet programme is a unique fundraising tool which is already being used by over 8 000 schools, charities and welfare groups (our "beneficiaries"). We provide these registered beneficiaries with the opportunity to use the MySchool programme in order to raise supplementary annuity income for their organisations. This tool includes our management of the programme infrastructure, logistics, payment processing and allocation, card issuing, client service, query management, and reporting tools. We also provide the registered beneficiaries with various resources, such as customised application forms, website content and advice on how to use the programme to raise monthly sustainable funds through the programme.
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How much money do beneficiaries make? How do they ensure the programme is a success?
It is the beneficiary's responsibility to use the tools we have provided to their benefit. MySchool does not manage the individual beneficiary's fundraising efforts. Therefore the amount of funds raised through the programme is dependent on various factors. We can learn a lot from beneficiaries who use the programme to raise substantial amounts of funds each month.
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By Frank G. Relf
Whether designing a new facility or converting an existing structure, today's self-storage owners and developers are seeking innovative ways to increase a property's rentable square footage. Adding more rentable space from existing areas can also help offset the increased construction and development costs associated with the current building market.
There are unique solutions for accomplishing this goal with both new construction and conversions. With ground-up development, there's a chance to design from scratch and, therefore, build to the maximum square footage possible. With conversions, existing property conditions have a large impact on design, and there's typically lower net rentable space than with new construction. However, these buildings will often contain areas such as large elevator lobbies or electrical rooms that can be redesigned and designated for storage units.
Most facilities built or converted today are designed to industry standards in terms of the office and retail areas, loading bays, and elevators. However, failing to think beyond these standards could mean you're overlooking potential rental opportunities. This article highlights innovative ways architects, developers and owners can create as much net rentable square footage as possible through smart facility design.
Finding 'Free' Space
It's important to consider innovative ideas during the design phase of any proposed self-storage project, starting with the due-diligence period. During this phase, a review of the zoning code applicable to the site has criteria that dictates bulk size, land-area coverage or floor-area ratios (FAR), which typically dictate how much gross floor area is allowed.
One innovative way of increasing the net rentable square footage is to determine if other "free" gross square feet can be generated by adding cellars, which may not count in FAR calculations. Another method is to increase the height of the floor level and highest floor to allow for the construction of upper lockers. This provides more rentable square footage without adding floor area, which would count against zoning allowable limits.
With building conversions, the ratio of gross square footage to rentable square footage is usually less efficient, with higher losses due to existing structure conditions such as stair or elevator core placement, structural column grids, building configuration or other factors. One way to find new space is to convert old, unused mechanical rooms by removing abandoned equipment, then using the irregular spaces for storage units. Other places to look for extra space are stairwells and elevator lobbies, which may be larger than required by storage-industry standards.
Additional rentable square footage can be obtained by infilling shaft ways that may no longer be used for mechanical systems, elevators or plumbing chases. It's surprising how much this can add up in a multi-story building.
Another consideration that involves more capital construction is to build into underutilized areas at the rear or side yard of a site that aren't readily accessible but offers expansion possibilities. This may require site-plan review and approvals, or potential variances for setbacks or lot coverage, but it offers the potential to increase rentable square footage and could be worth the time and expense.
Changing Current Space
At existing storage facilities of older design, a change in unit mix—such as converting larger units to smaller ones—may often be required to meet local demand. This could mean converting a standard 5-by-5 with 8-foot ceilings to two stacked lockers. This is common in our industry and often the most cost-effective way to meet market demand. Likewise, 10-by-10 units can be split into two 5-by-10 units, and so on.
Many office and retail areas are large and may offer the potential for adding units by reducing the size and redesigning a more compact space. Although this seems contrary to the current trend of providing a retail-store feel, in areas of the country with high development and purchase costs, it may make economic sense.
Manager's apartments are becoming less desirable due to the increased technology in security systems and online services. Converting an empty apartment to storage units can add to your property's net rentable area. Also, because the apartment is typically close to the entrance, operators can potentially rent these units at a higher rate.
To see an example of converting existing space (in this case, extra offce space) to additional storage units click here.
Consider Cost vs. Reward
Although it may seem like the possibilities to add more rentable square footage are limitless, there are some things to keep in mind when designating these new rental areas. First, consider how your customers will access these "odd" spaces as well as the impact these spaces will have on building-code exit requirements.
When stacking lockers, such as sets of 5-by-5 units, on top of one another, think about how tenants will access the top lockers. A rolling step ladder will help them gain access, but you also need a place to store it when not in use.
One of your biggest concerns should be the impact on building and fire codes. If your city requires sprinklers, for example, how will you accomplish this for your new units? You also need to contemplate the impact these new units will have on your building's structural, mechanical and electrical systems.
The most important factor to consider is the cost requirements to make innovative use of these spaces as well as the income stream that could be generated. A complete economic analysis is needed to determine if what's proposed is feasible to pursue. These decisions have to be made on a case-by-case basis, depending on the market in which you're operating or developing. Not all options work in every market. Your team of professionals is there to help you investigate any and all opportunities to gain net rentable square footage in any location or type of building.
Frank Relf is president and owner of Frank G. Relf Architect. He has more than 30 years of experience providing professional architectural and engineering services to the self-storage industry. His services include site acquisitions and planning, unit-mix analysis, zoning and municipal approvals, construction documents, bidding, and construction management for new construction, conversions, remodels, expansions and specialty-storage designs. He is a licensed architect in multiple states. For more information, call _PHONE_; e-mail [email protected]; visit _URL_.


Moon Maid (comic) : definition of Moon Maid (comic) and synonyms of Moon Maid (comic) (English)
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Moon Maid
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Publisher Tribune Media Services
Created by Chester Gould
Moon Maid was a major character at one period in the Dick Tracy comic strip, then drawn by its creator, Chester Gould.
Gould, hoping to keep the strip evolving and changing with the times, slowly began changing the focus of the strip from a crime drama into one whose primary focus was science fiction. Tracy had always been equipped with the latest, most up-to-date police equipment, including forensic science, but with the introduction into the strip of eccentric industrialist Diet Smith as Tracy's friend in the 1940s, Tracy began to have the assistance of devices such as the two-way wrist radio, and later the two-way wrist TV.
The logical extension of this in Gould's mind was the introduction of space travel. Smith invented the magnetic-powered Space Coupe. With the use of this vehicle, Tracy and company landed on the moon in 1964, finding there an advanced race of humanoids whose high technology meshed remarkably well with that of Smith's. The Moon race looked like Caucasian humans except for having abnormally large eyes and giraffe-like horns on their foreheads.
 Fictional character biography
Moon Maid was the daughter of the Moon's supreme ruler, a male humanoid who was always identified as "the Governor of the Moon". It is not clear whether he was democratically elected, or some form of hereditary ruler. She served as a liaison between her race and the humans. She and her family became one of the strip's primary focuses for several years.
Moon Maid eventually married Junior, the now-adult adopted son of Dick Tracy. Her father the Governor resented this marriage. Eventually, Moon Maid became pregnant by Junior. Her father was anxious that the child be born on the Moon, so as to be legally a Moon denizen. An extremely contrived plot twist put the pregnant Moon Maid, Junior, Dick Tracy and the Governor all aboard a Space Coupe when Moon Maid gave birth at precisely the midpoint in space between Earth and the Moon.
The child, a girl, was named Honey Tracy and had slightly over-large eyes, and two prominent tufts of hair on her forehead in the position corresponding to Moon Maid's horns; we are never told what lies beneath those tufts. The daughter also demonstrated a magnetic ability to attract small metal objects to her hands; this talent never played an important role in the strip.
During this period, Dick Tracy himself had many adventures on the Moon, notably solving a murder case involving a man named Purdy Fallar who kept two of his fingernails extra-long, claiming they were for harvesting the meat of giant Escargot: a race of gigantic Moon snails, prized on Earth as delicacies. In reality he used his sharpened fingernails as throat-slashing weapons.
When the impending 1969 NASA moon landing threatened to make the preceding Moon stories look silly, Gould chose to return to the material that made the Dick Tracy strip famous—Earth-bound crime. The strip made one oblique reference to the Apollo 11 landing shortly after its completion, with Diet Smith commenting about some "equipment left behind" on the Moon (in a caption above a panel showing the abandoned Lunar Module).
 Later years
After Apollo 11, Moon Maid and Honey continued to remain on Earth, as wife and daughter of Junior; all references to their selenic origin were phased out, with Honey never demonstrating her magnetic talents, and Moon Maid identified solely as "Junior's wife". Both characters continued to appear sporadically, in greatly reduced roles. Soon after Rick Fletcher and Max Collins took over the strip in 1978, Moon Maid was murdered accidentally by a man named Little Littel who was trying to kill Tracy with a car bomb while trying to collect on a million dollar open contract on Tracy's head by elderly crime lord "Big Boy" Caprice. Little would later be killed himself in an explosion when Junior Tracy goes to his shop looking for revenge on his wife's murder.
Although Honey Tracy survived—now apparently retconned to be totally human—it was understood that this moment represented the termination of the strip's Moon years.
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The bridge connecting the Monumenti peninsula and the island of Sv. Katarina (St. Catherine's island) is 233.95 m long. It consists of 21 spans, ranging from 6.95 m to 8.10 in length; total width of 4.50 m. The bridge reconstruction consisted of the construction of new piles, 50 cm in diameter, and a new hidden horizontal reinforced concrete structure within the dimensions of the existing bridge, including the complete fixing of the original reinforced concrete structure. New bridge deck has been made, 6.0 m wide, formed of a 5-m wide carriageway and the protective kerbstones from both sides of the bridge. During the performance of works, the access to the structure was difficult for the simple reason the structure was directly above the sea level and most reconstruction works had to be performed from pontoons.
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Kitty-corner, or catty-corner, is a classic example of the phenomenon known as folk-etymology. When a word or phrase makes little apparent sense, it will often mutate into a form that seems more familiar.
The term was originally catercorner. Cater is an old dialectical term for diagonal. It derives from the French quatre or four. Cater dates to the16th century, appearing in Barnaby Googe's 1577 translation of Heresbach's Foure Bookes of Husbandry:
The trees are set checkerwise and so catred [partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye will, they lye level.
By the early 19th century, the folk etymology had set in. From Joseph C. Neal's 1838 Charcoal Sketches:
One of that class...who, when compelled to share their bed with another, lie in that engrossing posture called "catty-cornered."
(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)
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However, the true cost of storing files is also determined by how many times a file is retrieved. If a file is retrieved often, then you might want to scan. Many record storage companies offer the ability to "scan on demand". That is a situation where you call to retrieve a file and the record storage company scans that file and emails it to you at that time. Then only one of the files of the box is scanned, rather than the whole box.
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IIT Madras initiates 'Surendra and Dorothie Shah Chair' for conducting research on sustainable construction
Indian Institute of Technology Madras has dispatched the 'Surendra and Dorothie Shah Chair' for encouraging state of the art research in the field of Civil Engineering materials. This expects colossal importance because of the huge measure of development work embraced each year in India, with the volumes and consumptions ceaselessly expanding.
Prof. Surendra P. Shah IIT Madras
Prof. Surendra P. Shah, one of the chief worldwide specialists in designing materials, especially concrete and other concrete based development, picked IIT Madras to set up the Institute Chair. He has driven the improvement of new progressed materials, which have become world guidelines in these fields, and his work upset the manner in which present day cements are utilized around the world.
Prof. Surendra Shah as of now fills in as the Presidential Distinguished Professor, University of Texas, and Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University. Mrs. Dorothie Shah is the establishing President of the Indo American Museum, presently called the National Indo American Museum, in Chicago.
Tending to the Launch Event hung on Thursday (ninth Dec 2021), Prof. Surendra P. Shah said, "The choice to pick IIT Madras (to set up this Chair) was exceptionally simple. As is notable, IIT Madras is one of the top foundations in India. The development materials bunch isn't just truly outstanding in India yet profoundly perceived globally in the field. My relationship with IIT Madras has been very long and productive."


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The challenge is to predict the centers (x and y coordinates) of the dark matter halos in the test set of 120 skies.
We have provided DarkWorldsMetric.py that you can use to calculate the metric of your estimates to the training data. All you need are the python packages numpy, math, csv, c, getopt, sys and argparse and to run it type
and it shold output the metric. Here is how it works...
In order to test your algorithm for Accuracy and Precision there will be two parts to the metric. The first part will be how close you get to the true position of the halo, and the second will be to make sure there is no preferred direction to your estimates (positional bias).
Where F will be the average radial distance from the user estimate to the true position of the halo. In the case of more than one halo we will match up your estimates to the true estimates in the configuration that gives the best average radial distance
in that particular sky so you will get the best score possible.
G is calculated by firstly finding the angle of the predicted position with respect to the centre of the true halo position, where the angle is measured from the estimated position to the line connecting the true halo position and a given reference point
as shown in the figure. Then each angle is converted into a vector and then the average vector is calculated. If the algorithm has no preferred direction this average vector should be 0. We calculate the vector using the following equation.


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for him. So Maxey wasn't just working on his fort, he was also doing other projects at the request of public officials.
- I haven't been able to learn whether a third Fort Maxey was ever built, but I doubt it. There's also another issue here: The Blackwells Island Light was supposedly built right around the location where Fort Maxey was in 1872, but Fort Maxey version 2 would have been under construction there at the same time.
- Were the two buildings right next to each other?
- If so, it seems likely that Maxey would have helped build the lighthouse, since it sounds like he loved building things and wouldn't have been able to resist building something as grand and useful as a lighthouse right on his front step.
- I haven't been able to find any real answer to this question, since I'm relying entirely on contemporary newspaper accounts, since I haven't really found anything written since the 19th century that even mentions that Maxey's fort burned down even once.
- So, one thing I've been thinking about when considering who may have built the lighthouse is Maxey's construction work. Do I think he was capable of building or helping to build the lighthouse, which was obviously far more polished than his fort?
- I think he may have been, in part because he built his fort basically just from flotsam and jetsum–the authorities said he could build using any materials he found, but they wouldn't requisition any materials for him. So if he actually had help, and the materials he needed, maybe he could have made something much more polished.
- Like I mentioned last week, he obviously had engineering ability.
To read from the NYT:
- The fort is an almost circular mound of earth, well faced with sods against the action of the river and the soil wheeled there to form it must have weighed hundreds of tons. One side of this mount a fantastic structure has been raised, of no precise order of architecture, but intended for the fighting place when the time comes.
- This description is from 1866, four years before the first fire that "destroyed" Fort Maxey, and 6 years before the lighthouse was built. A few notable things here:
- In 6 years, he may have done a lot more work reclaiming land around the causeway and fort, building out the current shape of the island. But I can't confirm that–I wish I could find an accurate nautical map of the island from around _PHONE_.
- But even if he didn't build out the island more, perhaps the lighthouse was built on the little island where his fort had been built, or at least where the fighting place was? The thing about the circular mound made be pause, since the lighthouse is on a circular stone base, which from old pictures I've seen was surrounded by dirt before being paved over to become part of lighthouse park. Part of me wonders if the lighthouse and its stone base were built first, on the little island, and then later the land was completely filled around it?
- I wanted to read this bit of the landmark report about it, to explain:
- The lighthouse is encircled by a small yard paved with flagstone. An entry walk at the south is flanked by stone bollards which have pyramidal tops carved with simple trefoils.
- Bollards are basically just short vertical posts, which according to wikipedia, used to refer to a post used for mooring boats. In the 19th century, it seems like that's what they generally were for. So maybe they were put there to facilitate tying up small craft that came up to the lighthouse (I'm imagining like rowboats, since there were a lot of rocks and stuff there.) Or, I could imagine them being ornamental posts that might look nice at the end of a bridge or causeway. Maybe the land hadn't been totally filled in when they were built, and the bridge to Fort Maxey led right up to the lighthouse door–that's a sensible reason to have an entry walk there. Right now, it looks kinda silly to have a designated entry walk area around the door to the lighthouse, when there's land totally surrounding the lighthouse.
- I wanted to read this bit of the landmark report about it, to explain:
- Another notable thing from the landmarks report is that it describes the doorway, which has "an incised pointed arch above a splayed keystone with flanking corbels . . . Designed in a rustic version of the Gothic style."
- This stood out to me because it made me think of how the NYT article described the vaguely gothic top of the gate to Fort Maxey.
- But more than that, it made me think of an illustration of Fort Maxey from one of the articles last week: it had an arch and windows that are vaguely reminescent of the arch and windows of the lighthouse that was built later.
So that's some info about Maxey's construction ability and some similarities between his fort and the lighthouse.
- But articles about the lighthouse all mention John McCarthy. Who was this guy? People say that he was a lunatic, but I think that's just people conflating him and Maxey.
- So I did some research.
- Unfortunately for me, John McCarthy is a really common name. I did a TON of digging and came up with many John McCarthys from around this time, and several of them are worth mentioning:
- According to an April 30, 1873 article in the New York Herald about a prison escape on Blackwell's Island, there was a keeper at the prison named John McCarthy. But we can eliminate him from our list of potential builders, I think. There's no reason to think that a guard would be enlisted to help build a lighthouse.
- An April 24, 1889 article in the Evening World mentions a Captain John McCarthy, who was the pilot of the charity boat Minnehannock, and was also the pilot of the tug boat Fidelity during construction of a building on Hart's Island–a nearby island, which was and is now a potter's field for NYC. The Fidelity towed all of the stone "used to sink and fill the crib" which I believe refers to a crib dock. That's the most expensive type of dock to build, and the most permanent kind, which requires a really sturdy foundation, usually a wooden "crib" or container filled with rocks. At any rate, I think we can cross this John McCarthy off too, because a captain wouldn't have the spare time or expertise to build a lighthouse.
- An August 8, 1870, article in the New York Tribune lists some convicts who were sentenced to the penitentary at Blackwell's Island during the Court of Special Sessions. One of those people was a petty criminal named "John McCarthy alias Cockney Jack, an old offender and noted pickpocket in this city . . . Convicted of larceny of a valise, and sent to the Penitentiary for four months."
- I think that this is our guy. Here's why:
- Prisoners were often forced to do manual labor around the island
- Even tho he was only sentenced to be on the island for 4 months, it sounds like he was in and out of there, and maybe after his release, he got arrested again and earned a longer sentence. It was pretty common for people to end up back at the island again and again.
- The inscription, asking people to pray for his soul, definitely feels like something a prisoner, someone with a guilty conscience, might write
- A 1919 article in the New York Press suggests that this was the McCarthy. The article said, of the lighthouse contruction, plainly:
- McCarthy was a workhouse prisoner. He had two assistants on the job.
- The article also mentions Maxey as a separate person–so in 1919, the two of them hadn't been combined the in the popular imagination.
- I think that this is our guy. Here's why:
- So after all of this, what do I think happened? I like the idea that Maxey had some sort of hand in the lighthouse, and I think it's possible that his fort, which had a vaguely gothic style, may have inspired Renwick, who I think probably was the person who designed the lighthouse, if I had to guess.
- I found an illustration of Fort Maxey that really reminded me of the lighthouse–the drawing is of a sort of doorway with window recessed above the arched doorway, in a way that's really reminiscent of the lighthouse.
- So even if Maxey and Renwick never spoke (though my guess is that they probably did, if Renwick was surveying the area for the lighthouse) I think that the sight of Maxey's creation would have influenced the plans for the lighthouse.
- Maxey at this point would have been old, in his 70s. It sounds like he was maybe still working on fort maxey version 3 at the time, but I wonder if he assisted McCarthy with the lighthouse building
- At any rate, it seems like McCarthy may have done the lion's share of the construction work, and wanted to be remembered for it.
Sources consulted RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
See the A Victorian Lunatic's Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell's Island, NYC, for additional sources for this episode.
Videos of The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
Articles consulted RE: The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
- The Chicago Evening Mail (Chicago, Illinois) · Thu, Dec 29, 1870 · Page 3
- _URL_ Downloaded on Oct 29, 2020
- The Meriden Daily Republican (Meriden, Connecticut) · Thu, Jul 23, 1874 · Page 3. _URL


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The main difference between a drama and theatre is that dramas are written versions of plays, while theatres are animated renditions of play texts. Dramas and theatres both tell the story of plays, but the story exists only on paper in dramas, and only onstage during theatrical performances. Although they may cover the same topic, there are some fundamental differences between play versions that exist in plain text and those that are acted.
As with novels and works of art, people reading a drama or enjoying a theatrical performance may have different interpretations of the play being described. As with films and movies based on books, there are often different interpretations of plays expressed through theatre performances instead of plain text.
Shows are intended to be engaging and expressive and include several factors, such as lighting, characters, directors and designers. All involved in the theatre production process have different views of the play being transformed, and vary in their visions of how the written work translates to action.
Dramas are typically longer than theatrical performances and contain considerably more detail. Another key difference between dramas and theatre is that dramas involve the direct interaction between author and readers, while theatre performances require people to interpret original works and describe them to audiences.


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English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: loud keras
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: loud banter, gempita, keras, menggempita
English → English (WordNet) Definition: loud loud adv : with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help" [syn: loudly, aloud] [ant: softly] loud adj 1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: soft] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy] 3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the forte passages in the composition" [syn: forte] [ant: piano]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Loud Loud \Loud\, adv. [AS. hl[=u]de.] With loudness; loudly. [1913 Webster] To speak loud in public assemblies. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Loud \Loud\ (loud), a. [Compar. Louder (loud"[~e]r); superl. Loudest.] [OE. loud, lud, AS. hl[=u]d; akin to OS. hl[=u]d, D. luid, OHG. l[=u]t, G. laut, L. -clutus, in inclutus, inclitus, celebrated, renowned, cluere to be called, Gr. klyto's heard, loud, famous, kly'ein to hear, Skr. [,c]ru. [root]41. Cf. Client, Listen, Slave a serf.] 1. Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder. [1913 Webster] They were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. --Luke xxiii. 23. [1913 Webster] 2. Clamorous; boisterous. [1913 Webster] She is loud and stubborn. --Prov. vii. 11. [1913 Webster] 3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 4. Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang] Syn: Noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous; turbulent; blustering; vehement. [1913 Webster]
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Definition of Anglocentric in English:
Centred on or considered in terms of England or Britain: an Anglocentric, white view of Australian history
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- His Scottish kingship was not in any way a trial run for kingship of England; modern scholars of Anglocentric persuasion may make the mistake of thinking that it was, but his English subjects never made that mistake.
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Apple examining ways to detect light through a display for Face ID, Touch ID
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Apple is continuing to refine its work on light sensors that could work through a display, likely for use in a future version of Face ID or Touch ID on an iPhone.
Current iPhone models, like the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro series, house their Face ID system and sensor suite in a notch at the top of the display. Apple, however, is working on a system that could ultimately allow it to minimize or nix the notch entirely.
In a patent application published March 4 and titled "Sensing System for Detection of Light Incident to a Light Emitting Layer of an Electronic Device Display," Apple lays out a system to embed a light detection layer in the display stack. "In particular, light sensors associated with the light sensing system can be distributed around or within an active display area of the display," the patent reads.
The patent gives two immediate examples, claiming that the light sensors could "assemble an image of an object touching the display." That could work for in-display Touch ID based on an optical imaging system. The patent also contends that the iPhone's ambient light sensor could also be included.
An array of light sensors embedded between pixel areas of a display. Credit: Apple
More specifically, the system itself could include an array of photodiodes or solar cells integrated between pixels regions or the perimeter of a light-emitting display. The system could use electrical signals from the photodiodes or solar cells to "sense a color" or the "intensity of light incident to the display stack."
The patent notes that it mostly covers use of the system for an ambient light sensor, but adds that its value doesn't stop there.
"[An ambient light sensor] is merely one example and in other implementations the light sensing system can be suitably configured to be used as, or with: an optical imaging system (e.g. camera, light field sensor, depth sensor, fingerprint imaging sensor, iris or retina imaging system, and so on); a touch input sensor; a force input sensor; a biometric measurement system (e.g., photoplethysmogram sensor, blood oxygenation sensor, respiration sensor, and so on); and so on," the patent claims.
Most of the patent's descriptions focus on the ambient light sensor. Even if it's only used for an ambient light sensor, the system could be used to reduce the size of the notch in future iPhone models since the light sensor is currently embedded in the notch.
However, given rumors that Apple is looking to minimize the notch or bring back Touch ID on a future handset, it's likely that the patent application is part of a growing body of technology that could make that happen.
The patent application lists Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost; Lun Tsai; Meng-Huan Ho; Niva A. Ran; Akshay Bhat; Volodymyr Borshch; Anand K. Chamakura; and Giovanni Gozzini as its inventors. Many of them have been previously credited on patent applications related to display-embedded components, including cellular or Wi-Fi antennas or under-display Touch ID.
Apple files numerous patents on a weekly basis, so an individual patent application isn't a good indicator of the timing or likelihood of a product release.
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Have you heard of a museum of toilets? Well, Delhi has one such museum dedicated to the evolution of toilets. This museum is run by Sulabh International, and their motto is to educate and create awareness among the public about the methods of sanitization and about the history of toilets.
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The museum has a rare collection of facts, pictures and objects that illustrate the evolution of toilets in a chronology of events. It has an extensive display of privies, chamber pots, toilet furniture, bidets and water closets from 2500BC to the modern age.
The museum is founded by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, and its main objective is to educate students regarding the trends in the development of toilets and their designs, sanitization, etc. The museum is open from 10.30am to 5.30pm, and the entry is free. The museum is closed on Sundays.


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At a glanceThe Plant Organellar Signaling workshop will highlight newest developments on organellar signalling with special focus placed on the emerging role of various organelles, cross-talk between different response pathways and novel (and well-known) types of reversible post-translational modifications to fine-tune responses. We will also address recent advances in live-cell imaging that allow analysis of (sub)cellular, tissue-specific or systemic responses as well as work on non-model organisms, especially crops and algae. The workshop will bring together young researcher with experts from various fields, who work at the forefront of organellar signalling. An important aim of the workshop is to facilitate the intensive contact between young researcher and senior scientist aided by accommodations at the same hotel.
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Chelan CountyPUD is gaining notoriety for its successful results on Habitat Conservation Plans for fish protection at Rock Island and Rocky Reach dams.
Chelan PUD worked with state and federal agencies for more than a decade to create the nation's first hydropower Habitat Conservation Plan to protect young salmon and steelhead as they migrate to the ocean.
PUD Director of Natural Resources, Keith Truscott, says the PUD recognizes its responsibilities to natural resources and stewardship obligations as operators of hydro-projects.
The PUD uses a combination of fish bypass and spill to help move the fish safely past the dams.
Keith adds that the PUD is required to measure juvenile fish survival rates to ensure the method is working.
Hydropower is America's largest source of clean, renewable electricity, avoiding 225 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
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Getting Interfaces to COM Object
IUnknown and IDispatch Interfaces
When you invoke the actxserver or actxcontrol functions, the MATLAB® software creates the server and returns a handle to the server interface as a means of accessing its properties and methods. The software uses the following process to determine which handle to return:
 1. First get a handle to the IUnknown interface from the component. All COM components are required to implement this interface.
 2. Attempt to get the IDispatch interface. If IDispatch is implemented, return a handle to this interface. If IDispatch is not implemented, return the handle to IUnknown.
Additional Interfaces
Components often provide additional interfaces, based on IDispatch, that are implemented as properties. Like any other property, you obtain these interfaces using the MATLAB get function.
For example, a Microsoft® Excel® component contains numerous interfaces. To list these interfaces, along with Excel properties, type:
h = actxserver('Excel.Application');
MATLAB displays information like:
 Application: [1x1 Interface.Microsoft_Excel_9.0_
 Creator: 'xlCreatorCode'
 Parent: [1x1 Interface.Microsoft_Excel_9.0_
 ActiveCell: []
 ActiveChart: [1x50 char]
To see if Workbooks is an interface, type:
w = h.Workbooks
MATLAB displays:
w =
The information displayed depends on the version of the Excel software you have on your system.
For examples using Excel in MATLAB, see:
Custom Interfaces
The MATLAB COM Interface supports custom interfaces for the following client/server configurations:
Limitations to custom interface support are:
 - Custom interfaces are not supported on a 64-bit version of MATLAB.
 - You cannot invoke functions with optional parameters.
Once you have created a server, you can query the server component to see if any custom interfaces are implemented using the interfaces function.
For example, if you have a component with the ProgID mytestenv.calculator, you can see its custom interfaces using the commands:
h = actxserver('mytestenv.calculator');
customlist = h.interfaces
MATLAB displays the interfaces, which might be:
customlist =
To get the handle to a particular interface, use the invoke function:
c1 = invoke(h,'ICalc1')
c1 =
Use this handle c1 to access the properties and methods of the object through this custom interface ICalc1.
For example, to list the properties, use:
 background: 'Blue'
 height: 10
 width: 0
To list the methods, use:
 Add = double Add(handle, double, double)
 Divide = double Divide(handle, double, double)
 Multiply = double Multiply(handle, double, double)
 Subtract = double Subtract(handle, double, double)
To add and multiply numbers using the Add and Multiply methods of the object, use:
sum = Add(c1,4,7)
sum =
prod = c1.Multiply(4, 7)
prod =
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Consider sTx(t) the signal at the input of the channel. sTx(t) has a Gaussian amplitude probability density function with zero mean and power density given by
The channel is characterized by the frequency response
With GHz and has output impedance and noise temperature TS = T0. At the channel output we have an amplifier with input impedance gain 50 dB and noise figure 6 dB.
a) What is the probability that the signal at the amplifier input port takes values in the interval [−0.5, 0.5] V?
b) What is the SNR (in dB) at the receiver output?
c) Consider now the channel made by a radio link with carrier 1 GHz, length 50 km, transmit and receive antennas with gains 12 dB e 15 dB, respectively, and noise temperature of the receive antenna of 250 K. Determine the output SNR (in dB) for this system.


text: The Corte armchair comes from the idea of splitting the volume by segmenting it in slices, hence comes its name. Each one of the sections has a different outline. Side by side, this contours model the curvature of the seat and back. It's as if, slicing the armchair and reassembling its pieces, the chair was one step from both its construction and its deconstruction. It contains the full and the empty: the repetition of its equal and different rims mirrored through the center create a resonance that goes beyond the piece itself, echoing in an imaginary movement.


nvtabular.ops.NormalizeMinMax
class nvtabular.ops.NormalizeMinMax(out_dtype=None)[source]
Bases: merlin.dag.ops.stat_operator.StatOperator
This operator standardizes continuous features such that they are between 0 and 1.
Example usage:
# Use NormalizeMinMax to define a NVTabular workflow
cont_features = CONTINUOUS_COLUMNS >> ops.NormalizeMinMax()
processor = nvtabular.Workflow(cont_features)
Parameters
out_dtype (str, default is float64) – dtype of output columns.
__init__(out_dtype=None)[source]
Methods
__init__([out_dtype])
clear()
column_mapping(col_selector)
Compute which output columns depend on which input columns
compute_column_schema(col_name, input_schema)
compute_input_schema(root_schema, …)
Given the schemas coming from upstream sources and a column selector for the input columns, returns a set of schemas for the input columns this operator will use
compute_output_schema(input_schema, col_selector)
Given a set of schemas and a column selector for the input columns, returns a set of schemas for the transformed columns this operator will produce
compute_selector(input_schema, selector[, …])
Provides a hook method for sub-classes to override to implement custom column selection logic.
create_node(selector)
export(path, input_schema, output_schema, …)
Export the class object as a config and all related files to the user defined path.
fit(col_selector, ddf)
Calculate statistics for this operator, and return a dask future to these statistics, which will be computed by the workflow.
fit_finalize(dask_stats)
Finalize statistics calculation - the workflow calls this function with the computed statistics from the 'fit' object'
load_artifacts([artifact_path])
Load artifacts from disk required for operator function.
output_column_names(col_selector)
Given a set of columns names returns the names of the transformed columns this operator will produce
save_artifacts([artifact_path])
Save artifacts required to be reload operator state from disk
set_storage_path(new_path[, copy])
Certain stat operators need external storage - for instance Categorify writes out parquet files containing the categorical mapping.
transform(col_selector, df)
Transform the dataframe by applying this operator to the set of input columns
validate_schemas(parents_schema, …[, …])
Provides a hook method that sub-classes can override to implement schema validation logic.
Attributes
dependencies
Defines an optional list of column dependencies for this operator.
dynamic_dtypes
export_name
Provides a clear common english identifier for this operator.
fitted
is_subgraph
label
output_dtype
output_properties
output_tags
supported_formats
supports
transform(col_selector: merlin.dag.selector.ColumnSelector, df: pandas.core.frame.DataFrame)[source]
Transform the dataframe by applying this operator to the set of input columns
Parameters
 - col_selector (ColumnSelector) – The columns to apply this operator to
 - transformable (Transformable) – A pandas or cudf dataframe that this operator will work on
Returns
Returns a transformed dataframe or dictarray for this operator
Return type
Transformable
fit(col_selector: merlin.dag.selector.ColumnSelector, ddf)[source]
Calculate statistics for this operator, and return a dask future to these statistics, which will be computed by the workflow.
fit_finalize(dask_stats)[source]
Finalize statistics calculation - the workflow calls this function with the computed statistics from the 'fit' object'
clear()[source]
property supports
property supported_formats
property output_tags
property output_dtype


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August 17 2012
When it was decided in 1850 to build a railway bridge linking the Island of Montreal with the south shore, many people said it was impossible to build such a large structure. Despite the skeptics, the Grand Trunk Railway launched a gigantic construction project, and the celebrated engineer Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson 'The father of railways') drew up the plans for a tubular structure made of riveted iron plates that would form the 3km covered railway bridge.
At the time it was built, the Victoria Bridge ranked as one of the most daring structures of its day. Erected between 1854 and 1859, Victoria Bridge was officially inaugurated by Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales on August 25, 1860. At the time of its completion it was the longest bridge in the world.
Before the bridge was built, travelling to the South Shore from Montreal was done by boat in the summer and sleds in the winter, but only when the ice froze solid. The Victoria Bridge assured year-round transportation and access to seaports in the Maritimes, Toronto and Chicago.
The bridge spawned ingenious innovations in construction techniques:
- The stone piers were angled at 45 degrees into the current to act as a long line of icebreakers.
- The builders also devised the first derricks to lift up the rocks brought in by barge and the first steam-driven cranes.
- There was even a just-in-time delivery system for the prefabricated parts shipped from Liverpool, England, that used a fleet of steamboats.
Since steel hadn't yet been invented and cast iron was proving problematic, the bridge was constructed using wrought iron. While the 28 piers are pretty much those that were constructed in 1860 the initial tubular iron sections were replaced in 1897/8 with standard metal trusses.
Today the bridge has a rail line running in the center section with single roadway on either side. In morning rush hour both lanes carry traffic to Montreal and in the evening rush hour the lanes carry traffic to the south shore. At all other times, there is one lane available in each direction. Due to weight restrictions and low clearance, heavy Goods Vehicles are prohibited from using the Victoria Bridge.
Having walked all the way to the bridge, and not being the easiest place to get to, I forgot completely about looking for the Irish Commemorative Stone (known as The Black Rock) that was laid by the workers on the bridge who discovered human remains during construction. The remains were of Irish immigrants to Canada, who had fled the famine in Ireland, only to die during the typhus epidemic of 1847 in fever sheds at nearby Windmill Point (site of the grain Silo 5). I plan to return again to shoot the bridge in winter so hope to find Black Rock then.
It's a bit sad having viewed a structure that is over 150 years old and still in good working order to then have to walk under the elevated Bonaventure Expressway that was built in 1967 and is due to be demolished over the next few years. Not to mention the Turcot Interchange (built in 1967 and to be demolished in next few years), Champlain Bridge (built in 1962 to be demolished and replaced in next 10 years) and the Mercier Bridge (built in 1934 requiring ongoing major repairs). I plan to cover these structures in future posts, but feel I need to go buy a hard hat first
I didn't want to end the week with some ugly shots, so here are some nice views of modern Montreal…Have a great weekend everyone!!!
To view images in gallery format, simply click on one of the images below.
Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.


In Frontiers in neuroscience ; h5-index 72.0
Purpose : Recently, we developed a novel active learning framework, qVFM, to map visual functions in the visual field. The method has been implemented and validated in measuring light sensitivity and contrast sensitivity visual field maps (VFMs) of normal observers. In this study, we evaluated the performance of the qVFM method in mapping the light sensitivity VFM of simulated patients with peripheral scotoma, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and cataract.
Methods : For each simulated patient, we sampled 100 locations (60 × 60 degrees) of the visual field and compared the performance of the qVFM method with a procedure that tests each location independently (the qYN method) in a cued Yes/No task. Two different switch modules, the distribution sampling method (DSM) and parameter delivering method (PDM), were implemented in the qVFM method. Simulated runs of 1,200 trials were used to compare the accuracy and precision of the qVFM-DSM, qVFM-PDM and qYN methods.
Results : The qVFM method with both switch modules can provide accurate, precise, and efficient assessments of the light sensitivity VFM for the simulated patients, with the qVFM-PDM method better at detecting VFM deficits in the simulated glaucoma.
Conclusions : The qVFM method can be used to characterize residual vision of simulated ophthalmic patients. The study sets the stage for further investigation with real patients and potential translation of the method into clinical practice.
Xu Pengjing, Lesmes Luis Andres, Yu Deyue, Lu Zhong-Lin
Bayesian adaptive testing, active learning, age-related macular degeneration, cataract, glaucoma, perimetry, scotoma, visual-field map