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Cooling down with nanodiamonds in your clothes
Researchers at RMIT in Australia created smart textiles that can help people cool down faster, using nanodiamonds.
Nanodiamonds are not the same as diamonds used in jewellery. They are cheap to make, cheaper than other carbon materials like graphite oxide. Nanodiamonds have a carbon lattice structure, but are much smaller in size and can be made of waste materials.
In their study, the researchers found that fabric made from cotton coated with nanodiamonds, using a method called electrospinning, showed a reduction of 2-3 degrees Celsius during the cooling down process compared to untreated cotton. In addition, the nanodiamonds increase the UV protection of cotton.
The side of the fabric with the nanodiamond coating touches the skin. The nanodiamonds then transfer the air from the body to the air.
While 3 degrees Celsius may not sound like much, according to the researchers, it could make the difference between turning the air conditioning on or not. This could save up to 30 per cent energy.
The study also shows potential to explore how nanodiamonds can be used to protect buildings from overheating, which can lead to additional environmental benefits.
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does not matter if the avocado is ripe or unripe.
How do you ripen an avocado in minutes?
To ripen avocados, place them in a paper bag with a banana. This helps to hasten the process. Avocados ripen from green to yellowish orange to dark purple. Once ripe, store them in the refrigerator.
How do you soften avocados quickly?
Avocado is a delicious fruit but sometimes it gets hard after being stored for a long period of time. To avoid this problem, you can put the avocado into a bowl filled with warm water for about 5 minutes. This process softens the avocado and makes it easier to peel.
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How do I ripen an avocado quickly?
To ripen avocados quickly, place them in a paper bag with a banana. This helps to release ethylene gas from the fruit, which speeds up the process. To ripen avocados further, put them in a sealed plastic bag with a ripe apple. Avocados ripen faster if they are stored in a cool, dark location.
How do you ripen an avocado in 30 minutes?
Avocados are very perishable fruits. To ripen avocados, place them in a paper bag with ripe bananas. This helps the fruit ripen faster.
How do you ripen an avocado in 2 minutes?
Avocado ripening is a process that takes place naturally. It is not something that can be done quickly. To ripen avocados, you need to leave them alone until they turn dark green. Once they are ripe, you can store them in the refrigerator for several weeks.

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About National Tweed Day
Tweed is a type of fabric that is made from wool and is characterized by its rough, unfinished surface and its flecked or tweedy appearance. It is a popular fabric for clothing, particularly for suits and jackets, and it is often associated with traditional and country attire.
Tweed is believed to have originated in the early 19th century in the Scottish county of Tweed, which is located in the southeastern part of Scotland. The fabric was named after the Tweed River, which flows through the region, and it was originally made from the local wool produced in the area.
Tweed was initially used for practical, durable clothing, such as workwear and outdoor clothing, but it eventually became popular for use in more formal attire, particularly in the United Kingdom. Today, tweed is a popular and widely-recognized fabric that is used in a variety of clothing and accessories, and it is often associated with traditional and country attire.


Best Watering and Feeding Tips for a Caribena Versicolor
Native to the island of Martinique, the natural habitat of the Caribena Versicolor are lush green forests and banana plantations, where there is a hot and humid climate all year round. When trying to care for this pet, it can be challenging to find accurate information.
Pet owners may be confused by contradictory facts and statements, leading to them incorrectly handling their pets. Hence, before you decide you want to adopt a Caribena Versicolor, or if you already have one with you, learn more about them to find out how you should care for them.
Suitable Cage Conditions for Your Tarantula
When it comes to cage conditions and humidity requirements, it is challenging to find reliable information. Many swear that a hot and humid condition is all that this tarantula needs to survive, while others stress the need for good ventilation. So, as a new pet owner, it may be challenging for you to ascertain the right cage condition for your tarantula.
While humidity and warm temperature can help this tarantula grow faster, it is best to be careful not to keep your tarantula in overly hot or moist conditions. A well-ventilated cage is required for your tarantula to stay happy.
Just like with most tarantulas, the Caribena Versicolor also does well when kept in room temperature conditions, that is, between 60 F to mid-80 F (20-29 C). To meet the humidity requirements, you can keep a small water bowl in their cage or lightly spray the substrate to dampen it from time to time.
What Should You Feed Your Tarantula?
Small slings prefer pre-killed prey; you can use pinhead crickets, red runner nymphs, or segmented mealworms.
Juvenile and adult tarantulas can handle bigger prey and often love to subdue their prey before eating them. However, depending on the feeder you are using, ensure that it is no bigger than your tarantula.
You can use medium to large-sized mealworms and red runner nymphs, and some medium-sized cockroaches can also be used for this purpose. Some people even feed super worms to their tarantulas. However, supervise the feeding in such cases to ensure that the super worm does not burrow itself in the substrate and attack your tarantula later. Since super worms can bite, it is better to crush their head before using it as a feeder.
For slings, ensure that the feeder is not more than 2/3rds the size of their body. You can drop the feeder onto their webbing or near the opening of their burrow. Adult tarantulas will jump on their prey as soon as they sense them, so it is not an issue.
You can feed your younger tarantulas twice a week, and for adults, you can keep it to once a week or once every ten days. However, it is best to observe your tarantulas to determine their appetite and build an eating schedule.
What Are the Water Requirements of Your Tarantula?
There is a misconception that tarantulas do not need water. But, if you keep a water bowl in your pet's enclosure, you will find that they do use the water bowl occasionally.
Sometimes, it can be challenging for pet owners to find a water bowl that is small enough for an enclosure. In such cases, you can shift your tarantula to a bigger enclosure or find alternative ideas such as using clean tattoo ink pots or inverted Lego bricks as water bowls. You can also keep a live plant inside your tarantula's cage.
Spraying the side of their cage with a mist spray may also do the trick for spiderlings or smaller tarantulas. They can drink the water droplets and stay sufficiently hydrated!
Tarantulas need some special care and attention to keep them happy. However, they are not as high maintenance as other pets out there! It can be challenging to find reliable information sources for tarantulas. Hence, you should always seek advice from those who have experience in raising them.


Walk Two Moons Summary
Extended Summary
Walk Two Moons has received five prestigious awards, including the Newbery Medal in 1995. The Ohio-born author, Sharon Creech, attributes the title of the book to a message she discovered inside a fortune cookie while she was finishing her manuscript: "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." The plot is separated into three separate settings that intermingle throughout the story to illustrate the personal transformation of the lead character, Salamanca Tree Hiddle, known as Sal. She is a thirteen-year-old girl who is homesick for her farm in the fictional town of Bybanks, Kentucky, and who misses her mother with a desperate intensity that dominates the story. The book is framed around a road trip Sal takes with her grandparents from Euclid, Ohio, to Lewiston, Idaho, where her mother fled after a tragic miscarriage and a bout with depression. Sal and her grandparents trace the route her mother took west, visiting the places she described in postcards she sent them.
Throughout the road trip, Sal recalls memories of her mother before she left their home in Bybanks. She also tells stories to her grandparents about the recent disappearance of Phoebe Winterbottom's mother, the appearance of the Lunatic, and her budding romance with a classmate named Ben. In turn, Sal's grandparents relate stories about their own lives and marriage.
Sal's memories of her mother, Sugar, are both sweet and sad. Sal's early memories of her mother reveal a woman who adores her husband, her daughter, and life on their family farm. Sugar loves anything to do with nature, including insects, animals, and sugar maple trees (after which she was named). Of particular importance are the wild blackberries Sal would pick with her mother in the spring. Sugar's kisses often smelled like blackberries, so the berries come to represent her mother to Salamanca, as do the trees for which they are each named.
Sal's parents dream of "filling up the house with children," but when Sugar gives birth to a stillborn daughter and subsequently undergoes an emergency hysterectomy necessitated by complications with the birth, she struggles with her roles as a wife and mother and falls slowly into a depression. Sugar hopes to find relief during a visit to her cousin, so she travels to Lewiston, Idaho. But she does not return. The details of Sugar's experience in Idaho are vague until the last few chapters of the book.
Sal struggles with guilt because of an accident she had the day of the stillbirth, which caused her mother to carry her for a short distance. She also feels guilty because she has an intermittent desire to move on without her mother. Her father's grief proves to be too painful; he moves Sal and himself to Ohio where his new friend, Margaret Cadaver, has found him a new job. Sal is resentful of her father's relationship with Margaret. She attempts to avoid Margaret and her blind, eccentric mother, Mrs. Partridge, when possible. Then Salamanca meets Phoebe.
The girl's friendship begins when Sal spots Phoebe Winterbottom peering from her bedroom window across the street from Margaret Cadaver's house. Phoebe thinks Margaret and her eccentric mother are peculiar and have possibly murdered the late Mr. Cadaver. Because Sal is eager to find fault with the new woman in her father's life, she agrees with Phoebe although her better judgment tells her otherwise.
Dinner at the home of Mary Lou Biddle, a new friend,...
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While on a six-day journey with her eccentric grandparents, Gram and Gramps, Salamanca Tree Hiddle faces and comes to terms with her life as...
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Understanding measurements of Basic 10 head block fashion figure, Fashion illustration, Fashion Croquis, understanding its definition and relevance in the fashion industry.
- Fashion Croqui- 10 head measurement
- The difference between male and female body structure
- Introducing balance and movement in to the croquis
- Rendering of body and hair
- Rendering of Various fabrics, embroideries, prints, detailing etc
- Making theme boards and swatch designs
- Learning about various Indian wear garments taking inspiration from Indian designers- Cocktail, partywear, occasion wear, heavies and Bridal
The demonstration stage is to challenge the creativity of the learner.
The learner is expected to present their self-directed projects/design. This is an essential aspect of being a designer.
- Putting illustration work together in the form of a folio
- Various styles of presentation i.e. computers application cutting mounting collages etc
- Doubt Session
The learner is expected to compile their work and present their self-directed projects/design. They will also build a portfolio of their work. This is an essential aspect of being a designer.


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Social Issues in Sport
Title: Social Issues in Sport
Author: Woods, Ronald B.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Call No.: GV706.5.W655 2007
From the Publisher: Sport is all around us. Yet few of us look critically at how it affects our lives—and even fewer look at how we as a society affect sport. Social Issues in Sport is an outstanding introduction to the multifaceted roles of sport and physical activity in society and the perfect tool for examining sport from a critical perspective. The text's engaging writing style, full-color format, and sound learning tools make it accessible and effective at getting students involved in and excited about the material. A full array of instructor resources make this book a highly functional and enjoyable way for instructors to introduce this subject to their students.
While the book is solidly grounded in research, it does not dwell on theory. Social Issues in Sport is written to whet the appetite of students in sport management and sport studies for a deeper look at the issues, contradictions, and confusion that characterize our love–hate affair with sport. In Social Issues in Sport, students will find heavy emphasis on areas that other texts often overlook—including the role of coaches, importance of lifetime sport and fitness, sport in education, and sport for special populations such as the physically and mentally challenged and the elderly. As a result, students gain a complete view of what constitutes sport and physical activity and a firm grasp of the sociocultural considerations vital to their understanding of sport. Students are encouraged to see the sport world not only with their eyes wide open to the problems but also with an optimistic, encouraging view of its future.
Author Ronald Woods draws on a lifetime in sport as a participant, observer, fan, teacher, coach, administrator, and critic. His wide-lens view of sport helps students make sense of the world of sport and physical activity and, more important, apply it to their own personal and professional lives. Woods' easy-to-comprehend distinction between sport for recreational participation, high performance, and spectating illuminates for students the profound differences in how sport can be viewed and challenges their thinking about their own roles as participants and spectators. Woods' diverse background in sports gives him a unique perspective and allows him to write with a style and clarity that students will appreciate.
This full-color book is organized into four parts that reflect the presence of sports around us. Part I sets the stage for studying sport in society. Part II examines the scope and effect of sport on society. Part III explores sport as an institution and how it functions within other institutions such as schools, colleges, and the Olympic movement. Part IVfocuses on the interaction between our society's culture and sports.
In 19 chapters, the book enthusiastically invites students to explore many issues, such as how a participant, spectator, coach, and administrator may have differing views of sports; how to distinguish between different levels of play, games, and sport when assessing the role of sport; and what trends to expect in the future and how to be part of a positive development of sporting structures.
Social Issues in Sports contains the following features that encourage learning:
-An engaging writing style, rich with examples and pedagogical aids, gets students excited about and invested in the sporting world around them.
-Interesting sidebars include up-close profiles of significant people and organizations (In the Arena With), examples of how sport is viewed in the public (Pop Culture), and insights from those who study the subject extensively (Expert's View).
-Activity Time-Outs, nicely integrated with the text, invite readers to recognize and assess the sociocultural issues that sport raises and apply the book's concepts to their own lives.
-An instructor guide, test package, and presentation package provide instructors with tools and assignment ideas to ensure that students remain engaged.
Social Issues in Sport is an engaging, in-depth, and inspiring resource that will help students understand the value of sport and its limitations and equip them to make choices about the role sports will play in their lives.
About the Author: Ron Woods,Ph.D is a performance coach at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando,Florida and an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida. Ron formerly worked for the United States Tennis Association for twenty years as director of player development and community tennis. Formerly, a professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in exercise science and coach of men's tennis. He has been honored by the International Tennis Hall of Fame, national coach of the year for United States Professional Tennis Association and was inducted into the athletic Hall of Fame at both East Stroudsburg University and West Chester University.

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I have a postgresql database that will hold about 50 tables, each of them having about 15 fields, it would have at least 300.000 rows on each table.
In order to track the changes done on each field I am thinking on create a table defined by:
CREATE TABLE fieldhistory(tableid int, fieldid int, id bigint,value hstore); CREATE INDEX fieldhistory_index ON fieldhistory(tableid, fieldid, id);
I would expect the table to grow and grow, and retrieve from
fieldhistory data only by
When the tables are modified I would add a new record with something like:
SELECT upserthistory(1,1,1,'first update','115435','3'); SELECT upserthistory(1,1,1,'second update','115435','3');
upserthistory is defined by :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION upserthistory(key1 INT, key2 INT, key3 BIGINT, data TEXT, theuser TEXT, whend TEXT) RETURNS VOID AS $$ BEGIN LOOP -- first try to update the key UPDATE fieldhistory SET value = value || ((whend||'.'||theuser) => data) WHERE tableid = key1 AND fieldid = key2 AND id = key3; IF found THEN RETURN; END IF; -- not there, so try to insert the key -- if someone else inserts the same key concurrently, -- we could get a unique-key failure BEGIN INSERT INTO fieldhistory(tableid,fieldid,id,value) VALUES (key1, key2, key3, hstore(array[whend||'.'||theuser,data]) ); RETURN; EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN -- Do nothing, and loop to try the UPDATE again. END; END LOOP; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
Are there better approaches to accomplish this? the table would grow max to 225 millions of rows, or would it be better to have 50 tables of 4.5 millions of rows at max each? noting that the actual trace of each field will go to the hstore.

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Speed, Parallel running, and efficiency
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Streamlining estimation
If you have a large complex model, it may take hours to run by default. You can often speed up your model by turning off computation of elements that are only needed on a final evaluation, like the Hessian and standard errors.
Parallel processing
Parallel processing may also help. If available, this is likely on by default. Here's how to do it.
If you have more cores than 1, and OpenMx is not using them, then turning on parallel may help
omxDetectCores() # cores available
getOption('mxOptions')$"Number of Threads" # cores used by OpenMx
Activate parallel as follows:
mxOption(model= yourModel, key="Number of Threads", value= (omxDetectCores() - 1))
TODO: Add how to turn parallel off
If your model is having problems reaching a solution, you might want to checkpoint it (save it to disk at intermediate stages).
These checkpointed versions can help diagnose errors, and the process is documented here here


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This beginner's guide explains the steps to change slide background color in LibreOffice Impress.
Although, changing the background color of a single slide or all slide is pretty straight forward still for beginner's it worthwhile to create an article.
How to Change Slide Background Color
- To change the slide background color in LibreOffice impress for a single slide, select a slide.
- Then from menu,
Click Slide --> Properties
- In the Slide setup dialog, go to Background Tab, click on the Color button. Choose the color of your choice and click ok.
- The color will be applied to the currently selected slide.
- To apply to the entire presentation i.e. all the slides, follow the next steps.
- To apply a background color to all slides, you have to change the Master Slide or we call it Slide Master.
- Slide Master contains your presentation's primary style slides. Whenever you make a change in Slide Master, it gets applied to all the slides in your presentation.
- Select any slide and in the right sidebar, click properties.
- Under Slide, click Master View.
- Now you can change the background color in the master view and Click Close Master View.
- The color will be applied to all the slides in your presentation.
- To remove the color from the background, click on the Slide Properties to pull up slide Setup dialog. In the Slide setup dialog, click on the NONE button and press OK. This will remove the color.
- Apart from color, you can also have the option to change slide background with Gradient, Any Image, Patterns, and Hatch.


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Park Ranger Larry Beane will present Archeology of Little River Canyon at the Little River Canyon Center on Dec. 8, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 11 am. Experience the activities of eons of time by trying your hand at the atlatl spears and pump drill! People left evidence of their visits and occupations in the park for thousands of years. The park has connections to World War II, Civilian Conservation Corps, liquor stills of the prohibition days, Trail of Tears, and all the periods of prehistoric Native Americans. Studies in the park have revealed clues to the human record. Replicas and pictures in the presentation reveal what life was like in the park. National Park regulations and the legislation creating the preserve require the park to preserve and interpret this archeology. The park is required to study areas having ground disturbance in order to prevent damage to the history hidden in the ground. Waterlines, trail projects, parking lots and picnic areas revealed some of the best clues to our past. When these objects are analyzed in relation to other objects, they present a clearer picture of the past. Please leave artifacts where they are so they can be properly documented before they are moved. "All sites are protected. It is illegal to disturb them." Ranger Beane said. The National Park Service requires detailed plans and research designs before issuing permits to professional archeologists. These objects belong to all of us. The park service maintains collections to prove the stories and allow research for generations to come.During a historic document search archeologists discovered that the Cherokee Trail of Tears routes from Fort Likens and Fort Lovell passed through the park. The archeologist referred to Gail King's extensive 600 page document in the report. This extensive document covers the Trail of Tears routes in Alabama and was published in 2009. Park staff were previously unaware of these routes. Beane said "We suspected that some removal routes passed through the park. This research provided the evidence of a 175 year old legacy to the Cherokees and Muscogee Creeks who were removed from the area." Park Superintendent Gail Bishop invites the public for this special free event. For information, call the _PHONE_. Follow our updates and find park pictures on Facebook at "lirinps."
Centre Fire Department will conduct its annual Christmas toy drive through Dec. 14. Unwrapped toys can be dropped off at several locations around Centre or at the fire station Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All donations will benefit children in Cherokee County through the Nettie Brown Clearinghouse and other local charities. For more information, call _PHONE_.
The 21st Century Program in partnership with the Humane Society in Cedar Bluff is collecting items for animals in the shelter through Dec. 17. Donations can be dropped off at Centre Elementary School or sent with a student. For more information call Kelly Hopper at _PHONE_ or send email to _EMAIL_.
The Cherokee County Public Library has on ongoing book sale. Get paperbacks for as little as a dime and hardbacks for as little as 50 cents or $1. The library is open today from 8 a.m. until noon. Call the library at _PHONE_ for further information.
In high school basketball action, Cedar Bluff plays at Gaston beginning at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 9
The Centre First Baptist Church contemporary worship service, "Impact" begins at 8:30 a.m.
The Edge, a contemporary worship service that welcomes each person as he or she is and challenges us all to grow together in our faith in Jesus Christ, meets at 8:45 a.m. at Centre First United Methodist Church.
Blanche Methodist Church, 145 County Road 15, is having a Christmas Singing, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. Special singers will be The Baileys from Sand Rock. Pastor Alan Copeland and members invite everyone to attend. For more information, call _PHONE_.
Sand Rock Church of Christ, 3633 Alabama Highway 68 W, is having its Third Annual Gingerbread Party, Dec. 9, 2 to 4 p.m. this is a fun time for children and youth of all ages to decorate Gingerbread houses. For more information, call _PHONE_.
Little River Baptist Church on Highway 273 invites everyone to its Christmas Play, "The Christmas Shoes", Dec. 9, at 5 p.m.


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The City of Oxford encompasses approximately 7.5 square miles in the northwestern corner of Butler County and is home to over 21,000 people. About 47% of the population is between the age of 20 and 24 due to the strong influence of Miami University. The community's tie to education is further demonstrated by the high educational attainment of its population 25 years old and older:
- 91.6% are high school graduates or higher
- Over half of the population has a bachelor's degree or higher
- Approximately a third of the population has a graduate or professional degree
Download one of the following demographic reports for more information. The reports are based on the 2010 Census and 2007-2011 American Community Survey.


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We have already developed a novel disposable bioassay device based on the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) uptaking activity of human hepatoblastoma Hep G2 cells in our previous work. However, this device is not readily applicable to evaluate river water toxicity on-site because it cannot be preserved for more than one week. In this work, we developed the method for preservation of the device to enable it to be preserved for at least one month. The device can be supplied to individual environmental sites without any facilities for cell culture. We can evaluate river water toxicity by 2 hours of exposure after thawing. Therefore, this kind of device could be a promising tool for daily water quality management.
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Datalink Systems inc. has developed an advanced safety monitoring system for field workers in any location. The Lone Worker system can work over private radio networks, GSM cellular networks and Global coverage satellite networks. We offer a number of options depending on the type of work and protection required.
The Grace T-Pass series of wireless safety monitoring devices provides two-way data communications between workers and their vehicles. The information is then relayed over satellite, cellular or mobile radio channels to the base monitoring software via a Tracker i50.
If the worker collapses or is incapacitated, the unit will automatically send an emergency alert to the base monitoring control. The base monitoring software can also automatically send text message emergency alerts via email to one or more cell-phones.
Workers can be up to 2 km from their vehicle (line of sight) and still be in communication with the base office or monitoring desk.
Datalink's GPSTrac application allows a smartphone to be used as a lone-worker device. It will transmit the phone's location at a preset interval, using Wi-Fi, network data connection or SMS messages. Emergency alerts are triggered through the user interface or repeated motion.


Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Examining the discourse on nuclear weapons
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Nuclear weapons and language - is there a connection? Linguistics is an established science, but what has it got to do with nuclear weapons? This article was inspired by several international disarmament negotiations where I noticed that diplomats work in a communicative reality related to the nuclear arms issue. But is anyone involved in this highly political process aware of the activity of that process of talking? Observations showed that the political problem around the issue of nuclear arms is often, among other things, a communication problem. There is a clear lack of research dealing with communicative aspects of the nuclear arms issue. This article is based on a preliminary empirical case study where officials from seven different countries (Austria, China, France, India, Israel, Japan and South Africa) were interviewed and asked to participate in a short association test. While every country has a particular way of perceiving and dealing with nuclear related issues, these interviews show that language is an essential element in constructing the social reality of nuclear disarmament.
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What are the negative effects of collagen in the ankle and how does it affect healing?What does a baroreceptor detect? Select one: O A. oxygen O B. pressure 0 C. pH OD. water content
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10 Genius Decorations Inspired by Train or Train Track
Toy trains and tracks are really fun. When I was a child, my biggest dream was to have a toy train set I would always enjoy playing with them. Most children love toy trains, but they are not only for playing, there are a lot of brilliant DIY home decorations and garden projects inspired by train set. If you are a train lover and want to make something unusual for your kid's room or decorating projects, then you are on the right place to be.
1. Make train tracks out of pool noodles, its sprinklers will let your kids love to play outside in the sun.
Source: play-trains.com
2. Train bed is perfect for a boy's room:
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3. Dining table made of wood tiles with railroad tracks for food trains:
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4. Make a train track along front yard walkway. You don't need much more stuff to build it, just tape with electrical tape and voila:
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5. Simply use several packs of aluminum loaf pans and a roll of electrical tape to make a snack train:
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6. Set the wooden railway together with chalkboard to the wall for your daily MEMO:
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7. Made from old wine barrels to small logs, these DIY train planters will improve the look of your garden:
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Or you can build a garden bed like a train:
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8. Suspended train track. Is it a cool way to decorate a bedroom or a playroom ceiling:
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9. DIY wall train track is perfect for a train themed playroom:
Get tutorial for above project from here ====> babymakingmachine.com
10. Create a wooden rail track and mini houses in your garden to give hours of fun to your kids:
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Emission spectroscopy of NaYF4:Eu nanorods optically trapped by Fresnel lens fibers
The emission of optically trapped NaYF4:Eu nanorods with a high aspect ratio is studied by polarization-resolved spectroscopy with particular emphasis on the magnetic and electric dipole transitions. High trapping efficiency is observed using converging beams, emitted from diffractive Fresnel lenses directly 3D printed onto cleaved fiber facets. Stable nanorod trapping and alignment are reported for a fiber-to-fiber distance of 200 µm and light powers down to 10 mW. The respective σ and π orientation of the different emission lines is determined. The angle with respect to the nanorod axis of the corresponding magnetic and electric dipoles are calculated
Aashutosh Kumar, Asa Asadollahbaik, Jeongmo Kim, Khalid Lahlil, Simon Thiele, Alois Herkommer, Sile Nic Chormaic, Jongwook Kim, Thierry Gacoin, Harald Giessen, Jochen Fick
Photonics Research 10, 332-339 (2022)
DOI : 10.1364/PRJ.434645


Ways of Removing Carpet Glue from Plywood
The term plywood refers to a whole family of engineered wood products, largely used in the construction of homes and buildings. However, the various types of plywood have found their way into many other products, including furniture, handicrafts and industrial uses. Specialized plywood products have been developed for a wide variety of applications.
One of the ways that plywood is used in architecture is for subflooring. Per building code, most residences have ¾" thick plywood or OSB installed as the subfloor. While both have a similar overall strength, OSB is more prone to absorbing moisture along the edges and can be more easily broken by impact. Nevertheless, OSB is commonly used for flooring and sheathing on homes, due to its lower cost, when compared to construction-grade softwood plywood.
When plywood is used for subflooring, most people cover the plywood floor with carpet or vinyl flooring (linoleum). Ceramic tile can be used as well, although that is not our concern at this moment. Wall to wall carpet or flooring on plywood is often installed using glue or some adhesive to ensure that it remains in its place. The glue does its job pretty well but when it is time to replace the carpet or change the type of flooring, the task of removing carpet glue from plywood becomes a nightmare.
The first difficult task in this whole exercise is removing the carpet or flooring. If it is carpeting, it can usually be ripped out, peeling it from the plywood floor. Once you have completely removed the carpet from the floor, there will still be remnants of glue remaining. If it is yellow colored glue, it is the more traditional type. But if it is brown or tan colored glue, it is tar based glue.
Removing vinyl flooring can be more challenging, as the flooring will not peel off, like carpeting will. Rather, it will have to be scraped off the floor. This can be good, with self-stick vinyl tiles, which tend to peel off intact, complete with their adhesive. But in the case of roll flooring, chances are highly likely that it will come off in a lot of small pieces and may not bring the glue up with it.
The big question is how important it is that the floor be smooth before new flooring is installed. If carpeting over the pad is being installed without adhesive, it may not be necessary to remove all the adhesive. But just about any other type of flooring will require a smooth surface.
Scrape the Glue
Scraping of the glue is the least costly method of removing carpet glue, as you can do it without having to rent any expensive equipment. However, it is also the hardest way of removing the adhesive and making the floor smooth again.
The first step of this method is to make the glue softer so it can be easily worked around with. A number of solvents can do the job of softening the glue including paint thinnersturpentinewater and mineral spirits. All these chemicals work by tearing down the enzymes found in the glue, easing the task of removing the glue from the plywood subfloor. Different solvents work better on different types of glues so if you know the type of glue on your floor you can do the task much more easily.
While using these solvents, you should use the appropriate personal safety equipment, to include gloves and goggles. All of them are capable of causing skin irritations, but are even more dangerous if they get in the eye.
These solvents should only be applied once the carpeting or vinyl has been removed. Carpeting will soak up the solvents and vinyl flooring will resist it. In both cases, that prevents the solvent from reaching the adhesive it needs to soften.
Once you have ensured that the entire surface of the glue has been sprayed with the solvent, wait about half an hour, allowing the solvent to soften the glue, making it ready to remove. Once softened, you can use a hand scraper, a putty knife or a floor scraper to tear away and wipe off all the glue from the floor. Make sure that you are thorough so that no glue is left on the floor.
Please note that you may have to reapply solvent on the floor, if it evaporates before you can get to all areas. The purpose of the solvent is to soften the glue; but it will only remain soft as long as it is wet. Should the glue begin to dry, you'll want to apply more solvent.
Sanding Glue from Plywood Floors
The use of mineral spirits and thinners to remove glue from plywood works best for floors which are smaller in size, due to the problem of the solvent drying before the scraping is done. If you have to remove glue from a larger area, sanding is a more preferable option. Sanding requires less time and labor in comparison to scraping.
The process of sanding generates heat, which helps by making the glue softer, as well as the abrasive action of the sandpaper scraping the glue and breaking it down. However, too much heat can be a problem, as it will gum up the sandpaper. Ideally, you don't want that, because it will add to your cost.
Unless you are sanding a very small area, you're going to want to rent a flooring sander for this project. These come in two types, belt sanders and vibratory sanders. The belt type is much faster to use, but carries the risk of oversanding. It's very easy to gouge your plywood subfloor, creating areas that will need to be puttied and sanded in order to have a smooth floor once again.
In addition to whatever flooring sander you use, you will probably also want a smaller sander for working around edges and in difficult to reach areas. A handheld belt sander is usually the best for this, as it will remove the glue faster than either a disk sander or palm sander. While those other types of sanders can be used, they are best left for finishing work.
Before sanding, inspect the floor for nails or screws which are sticking out above the floor surface. Drive them in, if possible or remove and replace them. You should never remove flooring nails or screws without replacing them, as it can leave the floor loose in that spot, leading to squeaky floors.
As you are sanding the floor, stop from time to time to sweep up or vacuum up the sanding dust. When too much dust builds up, it's hard to tell what parts are sanded and what parts still need work. It can also be helpful to work in sections, dividing the floor up and finishing one area, before moving on to the next.
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Covering the Subfloor with Underlayment
Removing the glue from a floor may not be the best option for you, especially if doing so will cause damage to the subfloor. Rather than risk that, you may want to consider installing underlayment over the existing subfloor and glue, to provide you with a smooth surface for your new flooring. This is a more expensive, but quicker option, especially when there is a lot of glue to deal with.
This is not to say that you won't have to deal with any glue whatsoever, if you use underlayment. But the only glue you will need to deal with are high points, where there was too much glue applied. In those cases, a quick hit with a belt sander, bringing that high point down to the level of the rest of the glue, is usually sufficient.
Luan plywood is normally used for underlayment, due to it being thin and providing a smooth finish. Before attaching your underlayment, lay the individual pieces out on the subfloor and check to see that adjacent edges are level. If not, you may need to sand off some high points under one of the sheets.
It is a good idea to use construction adhesive, as well as flooring nails, for installing the underlayment. The addition of a thin layer of construction adhesive helps to reduce the risk of the new underlayment squeaking from movement. It essentially ensures that the underlayment and the subfloor stay in the same place, as compared to one another. However, never try using just construction adhesive, without flooring nails, for installing underlayment.
Depending on the condition of your subfloor, how well you install your underlayment and the type of flooring you're going to put on top of it, you may need to putty the seams and sand them. This is especially true if you are installing any sort of vinyl flooring. High edges or gaps between sheets can cause serious damage to vinyl flooring, eventually causing it to crack. Always be sure to sand these puttied edges smooth, so as to not create another problem. But this sanding can be done with a simple palm sander.
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Safeguarding WPA2-Enterprise: The Essentials of Certificate Lifecycle
Due to the number of certificates an organization owns at a time, managing all these certificates at once can be challenging for human labor and requires some skills and intellect. At any one time, an organization may have critical enterprise, security, management, and other operational software certificates for the company. Managing all the certificates is critical to prevent security risks, untimely expiry, certificate compromise and other challenges, such as using illegitimate certificates, which can further increase the security threats.
A certificate lifecycle refers to the certificate timeline beginning from acquisition, active use in the company and when renewed, revoked or discarded. Failure to manage your certificates can lead to security vulnerabilities, damage costs due to late renewals, brand reputation due to security attacks and other consequences. To prevent these consequences, let's explore the need, requirements and activities involved in managing all your certificates.
Critical Components for Certificate Lifecycle Management
Managing the certificate involves different activities; however, you must meet various requirements ideal for the ideal certificate management practices. These requirements include:
 - Installation Guidelines and Requirements
Before diagnosing any issues with the certificate, you must install the certificate then configure it to the company domain, performing various roles such as validating and inspecting the certificate. Meeting these requirements is to ensure the certificate is compatible with the organization's systems and it is error-free. Only after installation can you understand the validity and legitimacy; hence you need tools to identify the certificate validity, vendor authentication, successful installation and diagnosis for any security issues.
 - Monitoring and Audits Tools
Upon installation, you must have automation systems which audit the certificate throughout its lifecycle. The audit process involves investigating the certificate's status vs organizational needs vigilance to ensure constant security and identify a compromise or loophole. Audits are key to certificate lifecycle management to prevent fraud and unauthorized access whenever they occur, then take an instant corrective measure.
Audit and monitoring can be performed by the administrators and the automated monitoring systems to give the admins a glimpse of what the users are doing with the certificates. It is the key security strategy to ensure employees do not act maliciously; neither can external forces access the authority to the organization system with the help of employees.
 - Automation Tools and Requirements
Managing all the organizational certificates can be overwhelming to be performed by people hence the need for automation. Managing all the certificates using human labor can lead to errors and is time-consuming due to the volume of work and the repetitive nature. To automate, you must have a digital management system with details of all active certificates and the authority to perform additional functions. These functions include audit, testing for validity, security management etc.
5 Stages of Certificate Lifecycle Management
Managing your certificate involves various activities that are mainly divided into different stages, each having different activities. These stages include:
 1. Issuance and Installation
Once the certificate is issued after you complete the purchase and the purchase is validated by the untrusted certificate authority, the next stage is installation. You must follow the installation guidelines to install the certificate for your domain or the servers. During this stage, your role is to ensure the issuance authority is legitimate; the license should be offered by a trusted vendor or the actual manufacturer.
This stage can also be called the certificate validation process to ensure validity by investigating the relevant authorities' identity and legitimacy. Another process involved is certificate distribution, which is distributing the certificate after installation onto your systems. The activities at this stage include creating security profiles for those who grant access permission and ensuring the existence of various infrastructures to accomplish the roles.
 1. Certificate Remediation
Suppose you identify any issue with the certificates; there are two actions you can take that is reissuing and revoking. A reissue is to order another certificate from the vendor, especially when there is a notable concern with the existing certificates; hence another one is issued to address the original needs. To revoke a certificate to stop using it due to security concerns and then prove these damages to the issuing authority.
Revoking the certificate involves sending the details to the CA so that the CA can confirm revocation, upon which the CA confirm if the certificate is good, unknown or revocation. Therefore, it is also ideal for the company to confirm the certificate is legitimate by verifying the details, such as the issuing CA. In case of any issues, especially errors from your actions, you are likely to take responsibility; however, if the error is due to certificate features and weaknesses, the CA can reissue or be liable for damages.
 1. Certificate Auditing and Monitoring
Certificate auditing is a continuous process that involves activities like examining the certificates to ensure it not compromised, still, satisfy the company's needs, the security details are in company or manager control etc. Certificate audit reveals the certificate's unsuitability, compromise, suitability for the organizations and other concerns.
This process is ideal for tracking and monitoring the certificates issued for your servers and domains to enable you to keep track of the certificates to ensure they are renewed in time before expiry. It also involves monitoring details such as issuance, expiry, authority etc. hence the need to use digital tools to manage the certificates. If you have multiple certificates, this is one of the most crucial stages to ensure you have control over all certificates.
Based on the audit outcomes, the company can proceed to other stages, which are certificate renewal and destruction:
 1. Certificate Destruction
If the use for the certificate expires, the certificate will be destroyed, which is the process of destroying the certificate since it is no longer in use and should not be used. The destruction is a process in case the company changes the vendor, software and other security features that are no longer compatible or suitable for the existing certificates.
 1. Certificate Renewal
When the certificate you are using meets all your needs and adequately addresses your security concerns, you can use it for the full term. Once a certificate expires, the security benefits also expire, creating a loophole for security threats hence more vulnerabilities.
Therefore, the best strategy is to plan for a renewal before the expiry date reaches i.e. you can renew it a month before the actual expiry. Due to the number of certificates you are monitoring, you can have a certificate lifecycle management system that detects an expiry and then initiate a renewal process instantly or as it approaches the expiry.
Conclusion
The entire certificate lifecycle management is complicated and challenging due to the number of certificates to manage hence the need for automation using different digital lifecycle management. The automation should include stages and processes like validation, destruction and audit. Automation is more suitable than a human process since it constantly monitors the certificates throughout the lifecycle and their use in the organization.
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The GIS 20: Essential Skills
The GIS 20 is a no-nonsense workbook that demonstrates how to perform twenty essential GIS skills as indicated by 500 GIS practitioners. Written for professionals with no time for classroom training, this book can be treated as a weekly self-assignment or an as-needed reference. Each chapter offers a handy checklist of basic functions and steps covered in the text, as well as executive level summaries of how the functions are commonly applied for different types of analysis. If you are a GIS beginner, The GIS 20: Essential Skills is your best friend.


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We have been present in Switzerland since 1897. We opened the first Societe Generale branch in Lausanne and a second one thirty years later in Zurich.
- Societe Generale group is established in Switzerland in Lausanne.
- Creation of the new "Société suisse de banque et de dépôts" branch.
- Transfer of Lausanne branch to the new entity.
- Another office is opened in Fribourg.
- The Sogenal branch opens in Zurich.
- First foreign bank to join the Zurich stock exchange.
- Sogenal opens in Geneva.
- The name is changed to Societe Generale Bank & Trust, Swiss branch.
- With the acquisition of Ruegg Bank, Societe Generale extends its activity.
- Societe Generale Bank & Trust transfers its Private Banking operations to Societe Generale Ruegg Bank.
- The name is changed to Societe Generale, with branches in Paris, Zurich and Geneva.
- The merger of SG Ruegg Banque and Compagnie Bancaire Geneva creates Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) SA.
- ALD Automotive opens in Zurich.
- The International Trade Services office (Natural Resources and Energy Financing) opens in Geneva.
- The Private Banking and Investment Banking activities are housed together in a new building in the heart of Geneva.


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Random Thoughts on Instructional Design
Source: ZDNet News
Podscope is the first search engine built specifically for podcasts. It was developed by a company called TVEyes, which specializes in audio and video files that are text-searchable.
How does it work? According to TVEyes CEO David Ives, the core of the system involves a spider that plays each of the podcasts it tracks and then runs a speech-to-text algorithm on it. When you search Podscope, you're searching that database of transcribed text. Find something you like and you can play the entire show, subscribe or listen to just a snippet that includes the word or phrase you entered.


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I am trying to bind a variable in this prepared statement, but i keep receiving the error:
Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object
//CALL FROM PAGE ONE
//FUNCTION ON PAGE 2
$DBH = getDBH();
$qSelect = $DBH->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username =?");
as the error-message says,
$qSelect seems to be not an object. try to debug this by using
var_dump($qSelect); right after your prepare-call. also check if
getDBH() returns what you need.
sounds like the prepare-call fails (don't know why) and so it returns
false is not an object, so you can't call
bind_param() on that.
EDIT: you havn't given the info, but it looks like you're using PHP's PDO. In that case, take a look at the documentation.
If the database server successfully prepares the statement, PDO::prepare() returns a PDOStatement object. If the database server cannot successfully prepare the statement, PDO::prepare() returns FALSE or emits PDOException (depending on error handling).
You should configure your server to return those PDO-Exceptions, which would tell you why the prepare call fails.


text: Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.


The influence of a compressive stress on the nonlinear response of ferroelectric crystals
N. Srivastava, G. J. Weng
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8 Scopus citations
Abstract
The origin of nonlinearity in a ferroelectric crystal is domain reorientation, and such a process can be affected by the presence of a compressive stress. In this article we examine how a superimposed compression affects the evolution of new domain and how it changes the shape of the hysteresis loop. We start out by considering the thermodynamic driving force for domain reorientation, and then use a dual-phase homogenization theory to calculate the overall response. To uncover the influence of a compressive stress, the theory is used to calculate the hysteresis loop between the electric displacement D and the electric field E of a BaTiO3 crystal, first without and then with a compression, using a two-consecutive 90° switch model (i.e. 0° → 90° → 180°). It is found that, from the initial 0° position, the compressive stress will increase the thermodynamic driving force and promote an earlier onset of the 90° domain, but its presence will cause a significant delay for the reorientation process to pass through the intermediate 90° state in route to its final 180° configuration. The D vs. E loop then exhibits a more round shape and a lesser steep slope near the coercive field. The delayed passage and more rounded shape are found to be consistent with a recent experimental observation [Burcsu et al., 2004. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 52, 823-846].
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1860-1873
Number of pages14
JournalInternational journal of plasticity
Volume23
Issue number10-11
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2007
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
 - Materials Science(all)
 - Mechanics of Materials
 - Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
 - Electromechanical coupling
 - Ferroelectric response
 - Influence of compressive stress
 - Irreversible thermodynamics
 - Micromechanics
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Super simple Arduino TFT SD Card reader tutorial plus alternative to Arduinos default library…
- Connect the SD card module with Arduino according to following connection table:
Arduino SD Card reader 4 CS 13 SCK 11 MOSI 12 MISO 5V Vcc GND GND
- Insert SD card into the reader
- Open Arduino IDE
- Connect Arduino with computer.
- Select CardInfo example sketch:
- Upload sketch and open Serial Monitor
- If everything is working correctly the output will be similar to this:
- Next test ReadWrite example script, output should be following:
- And thats it for basic use of SD card.
Now Arduinos default library is quite basic. For more feature rich library use: _URL_
SdFat features functions like speed test, formatting and much more.


Master Detail Example#
The Master Detail Example shows how to present data from different data sources in the same application. The album titles, and the corresponding artists and release dates, are kept in a database, while each album's tracks are stored in an XML file.
The example also shows how to add as well as remove data from both the database and the associated XML file using the API provided by the Qt SQL and Qt XML modules, respectively.
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Example project @ code.qt.io


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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Browse Our Collection by:
Subject "Burrowing animals"
The importance of catfish burrows in maintaining fish populations of tropical freshwater streams in western Ecuador / Garrett S. Glodek.
By: Glodek, Garrett S.
Publication info: [Chicago] :Field Museum of Natural History,1978.
Contributed by: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Subjects: Burrowing animals Catfishes Ecology Ecuador Effect of water levels on Fishes Habitations Palenque River


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Here are a few examples when you may need attach / detach children without adding or deleting them:
- When child was mistakenly added to the wrong parents, and you need to move the child to the new parents.
- If you added people in the tree without knowing they were parents of another individual in your project and found it out while doing your family research.
- When child was adopted by uncle or aunt (or other relatives whom you already added in the tree).
To detach existing children from their parents:
1. Under parents' personal cards click 'Edit' and select 'Children' > 'Manage children'.
2. In the window that opens, select the child from the list and click 'Detach child'.
To attach a child from the list of existing people in the tree:
On the parent's personal card click 'Edit' button and select 'Children' > 'Attach existing child'.
The window with the list of individuals in your family tree will open. Select the person from the list and click 'Select'.
Note: if you need to show both natural and adopting parents, you shouldn't detach child from the natural parents. Just use 'Attach parents' option as described above, and attach adopting parents. You will be suggested to select the correct relationship.
For more information about adding adopted or step-children read one of the following articles:


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Dr Julian Lewis and his team at the London Research Institute figured out that Mind Bomb must be playing an important role in the Notch signalling pathway, which helps to tell cells what fate to adopt, or what job to do.
As you might expect, there are versions of Mind Bomb in a host of other organisms, including mammals, where it's involved in making sure the brain and nervous system develop properly. Earlier this year, scientists showed that Mind Bomb also plays a role in the adult mouse brain, and is essential for helping to create long-term memories. Mind Bomb is also the name of a pretty lethal cocktail made with pure alcohol of the kind you would find in a molecular biology lab. Don't try this one at home!


What Is Cyclical Structure In Literature?
Is real estate cyclical?
Real estate is considered a cyclical industry because its demand side is impacted by economic cycles, and also because demand has historically outweighed supply.
The typical pattern for the real estate cycle is actually quite simple and straightforward..
What are the 5 parts of narrative structure?
What is the opposite of cyclical?
Antonyms of CYCLICAL opposite, direct, noncyclic, noncyclical, paired.
What is an example of cyclical unemployment?
One concrete example of cyclical unemployment is when an automobile worker is laid off during a recession to cut labor costs. During this downturn, people are buying fewer vehicles, so the manufacturer doesn't need as many workers to meet the demand. … High or low cyclical unemployment is only temporary.
What are some characteristics of something that is cyclical?
The definition of cyclical is something that goes in cycles, or something that occurs in a repeating pattern. The change of seasons each year is an example of something that would be described as cyclical. Cyclic. Tending to rise and fall in line with the fluctuations of the business cycle.
What are the five rules of narrative writing?
By observing these basic ideas, you can improve your narrative essay.Clarity. Complex words and syntax are a hindrance to clarity and should be avoided. … Don't describe each and every one of your own movements. … Avoid the second-person narrative. … To interest the reader, dynamic word choice is key. … Limit references.
What is another name for dynamic?
What is another word for dynamic?energeticvitalvigorousactivelivelypowerfulspiriteddrivingelectricforceful225 more rows
What is cyclical growth?
What's circular plot structure?
A circular plot structure is one in which story nodes are connected to other ones in a circle. … A circular plot structure is defined by the fact that each of the story nodes is connected to only one other story node, yet they must go in the same order in the story.
What are the elements of narrative structure?
Storytelling 101: The 6 Elements of Every Complete NarrativeSetting. The setting is the time and location in which your story takes place. … Characters. A story usually includes a number of characters, each with a different role or purpose. … Plot. The plot is the sequence of events that connect the audience to the protagonist and their ultimate goal. … Conflict. … Theme. … Narrative Arc.
What are the 8 elements of a story?
What does cyclical structure mean?
The structure of Of Mice and Men is cyclical – there is a sense of things happening in a certain order and being repeated. This is reflected in the way that the book starts and ends in the same place – the brush by the Salinas River.
What is circular structure in literature?
CIRCULAR STRUCTURE: A type of artistic structure in which a sense of completeness or closure does not originate in coming to a "conclusion" that breaks with the earlier story; instead, the sense of closure originates in the way the end of a piece returns to subject-matter, wording, or phrasing found at the beginning of …
What is another word for cyclical?
In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cyclical, like: cyclic, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, periodical, recurrent, like-clockwork, repetition, noncyclic, gradual and business cycle.
What are the most cyclical sectors?
What is circular structure English?
A story that ends in the same place it began is commonly called a circular or cyclical narrative. … Although the narrative's beginnings and ends mirror each other, as do the introduction and conclusion of an essay, the narrative almost never leaves characters or events unchanged.
What are the 7 Elements of Literature?
Is Apple a cyclical stock?
Electronics manufacturers – Makers of high-end smartphones, such as Apple, can be considered cyclical because sales are driven by buyers' discretionary income. Makers of flat-screen TVs or other products, such as Sony, would be in a similar category.
What does cyclical mean?
1a : of, relating to, or being a cycle. b : moving in cycles cyclic time.
What is the difference between cycle and cyclical?
As adjectives the difference between cyclic and cyclical is that cyclic is characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals while cyclical is recurring at regular intervals.
What is repetitive mean?


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_TAG_ Importing an SVG into Hedgewars
= Importing from SVG files =
== Introduction ==
This is a quick and dirty description of converting an SVG into hedgewars HWMAP format. It is not at all pretty. Hopefully someone will make a prettier process. It currently makes use of Inkscape, vim, perl, g++ and a bit of manual labour. It looks best in 0.9.18+ which makes use of the variable brush size (the examples below use the second smallest size, 16px wide)
== Details ==
Open Inkscape.
Go to File->Inkscape Preferences and make sure that
 * SVG Output->Allow relative coordinates is unchecked
 * Transforms->Store transformation is set to Optimized
Open an SVG. Ideally one of simple line art, without too much use of fill or filters.
1) Select all in the image and choose ungroup, then combine all paths in the drawing (select them, then choose Path->Combine).
Note. I had some difficulty doing that with some images even after repeated use of ungroup. I ended up just going into the SVG file and deleting all the groups. This usually happens if there are filters in place. Removing all the g tags but keeping the paths inside the groups in the SVG in a text editor might be faster than cleaning up in Inkscape.
Also, some paths might be worth eliminating altogether. In order to get a better idea of what it'll look like, try: View->Display Mode->Outline. To simulate occluding, you can try combining individual paths first, and using union to combine into larger groups. This takes a bit more work. If it still doesn't look right, you're going to have to go in and delete nodes, and generally rework the shape to simulate occlusion.
2) Go to File->Document Properties and specify 4096 for W and 2048 for H. You may want to then reposition the art to be more centred vertically or horizontally.
3) Click on the path, and choose dimensions for W and H that would look good in the game (no more than 4096 for W and 2048 for H). The Lock button may be helpful here. Generally resize it and reposition it using the document white area as a guide to how it will look on the in-game drawing area, then save and quit.
4) Open in a text editor and verify there is one path. Change sodipodi:namedview's ID attribute to id="base" - this is to work around a bug in the current stable Inkscape ( extensions tool which was crashing it. This is probably fixed in 0.48.4. Note that I haven't tested this workaround. su_v says this is the correct way to do it because apparently id="base" is a reserved name for namedview in sodipodi - which seems like a rather common and collision-likely name. I had misread him and changed the path's id to base, and that seemed to work fine. If changing namedview doesn't work, try renaming the path instead.
Make sure all those groups are removed.
5) Open the file in Inkscape again, Click on the path again, then go to Extensions->Modify Path->Flatten Beziers and flatten out the curves to your taste. Default of 10 seems fine most of the time, but for small curved objects you might want something like 5. Keep in mind, the more the approximation, the more points that Hedgewars has to draw, which can be rough on the engine and network communication, then save and quit.
6) Edit the file, and delete everything but the path data. You should have a one-line file starting with something like M1234.3 456.78L3298.3 9023.34 and so on.
If instead you have a format like M 1234.678,9875._PHONE_.0,123.45 - you'll want to convert if you want to try the crude script in (10) - otherwise a smarter script would be needed. Here's some Vim commands for that syntax {{{s/\(\d\) \(\d\)/\1 L\2/g}}} and {{{s/,/ /g}}} and {{{s/\([LM]\)\s*/\1/g}}}
The coordinates should now be rounded for use by the crude script in (10) unless you plan to handle that yourself in some way. Here is a vim one-liner to do it.
Also, it is probably a good idea to remove duplicate points. Here's a regex for that. {{{s/\(L\d\+ \d\+ \)\1/\1/g}}} - you should run that a couple of times, then {{{s/M\(\d\+ \d\+ \)L\1/M\1/g}}}. That just cuts down on a bit of redundancy. If these regexes match anything, you probably should rerun them.
Since this page is a mass of hacks, here's one more redundancy reducer, in bash this time.
{{{rm dupes.txt;PREVXY=(99999 99999);sed's/\([LM]\)/\n\1/g' inputfile | while read f;do read -a XY <<< "${f:1}";if [ "${f:0:1}"!= "M" ];then if((${XY[0]}-${PREVXY[0]}<3&&${XY[0]}-${PREVXY[0]}>-3&&${XY[1]}-${PREVXY[1]}<3&&${XY[1]}-${PREVXY[1]}>-3));then echo "$f" >> dupes.txt;else echo $f;fi;else echo $f;fi;PREVXY[0]=${XY[0]};PREVXY[1]=${XY[1]};done | xargs > inputfile.dedupe}}}
If dupes.txt has anything in it, you probably should run it again. Anyway, running these reduced a complex test trace from ~8800 points down to ~6500.
7) Convert the path data. Here is a crude script to do that. Note this one uses a line size of 1 (that's the 0x01 business).
If you want larger lines you can pick anything between 0x00 and 0x3F. That's 6-636. See the [DrawnMapFormat] wiki page.
# just a one-line list of points. at least, it had better be one-line
open FILE, $ARGV[0];
 s/([LM])(\d+) (\d+)\s*/point($1,$2,$3)/eg;
sub point
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{{{script pointdata > hwpointdata}}}
8) qCompress the data.
{{{g++ -I /usr/include/qt4 -I /usr/include/qt4/QtCore qcompress.cpp -lQtCore}}}
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using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char **argv)
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{{{./a.out hwpointdata hwpointdata.Z}}}
9) Convert to base64 and you're done! (whew)
{{{base64 -w0 hwpointdata.Z > mynewhedgewars.hwmap}}}
Here are some example hwmap files from the process above. They look better in 0.9.18+ due to the added size support, allowing thinner lines.


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Badminton is played with a shuttlecock.
Badminton is a racquet sport that uses a net and a shuttlecock.
Shuttlecock is used by the players ho play badminton.
It's hard to determine what you mean by that but I hope this is helpful: Badminton is the actual sport, The Shuttlecock is the sort of ball used in the game that is hit between the two players.
It would be used to describe the "ball" used in the sport of Badmintion. Also knows as a shuttlecock. Look at it here http:/enzperiodzwikipediazperiodzorg/wiki/Shuttlecock
The game of badminton.
The players must have a shuttlecock and racquets.
a shuttlecock is either a plastic or feathered conical objet. feathered are usually 14-16 goose feathers and are put to better use if advanced players use them,...otherwise they will be destroyed in minutes
It is a sport where two players are separated by a net. They have these little rackets and they bat a shuttlecock back and forth over the net. When the shuttlecock hits the floor, a point is scored against the side that let it hit the floor.


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Value-added tax (VAT) is a tax calculated on the added value of goods and secondary services arising from the production and circulation process, playing an extremely important role in balancing the government budget. water to provide for national construction and development activities. In the context of Vietnam's economy being affected by complex developments in the world, the value-added tax (VAT) rate in 2023 has been undergoing many changes. Therefore, businesses trading all kinds of goods and services need to be continuously updated and clearly understood to avoid disadvantages during operations and tax declaration obligations.
- Law on Value Added Tax 2008, amended and supplemented in 2013, 2014, 2016.
- Resolution 43/2022/QH15 regulates tax exemption and reduction policies.
- Decree 15/2022 regulates tax exemption and reduction policies according to Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support the socio-economic recovery and development program.
- Decree 41/2022 amends and supplements a number of articles of Regulation No. 123/2020/ND-CP regulating invoices and documents and Decree No. 15/2022/ND-CP stipulating exemption and reduction policies tax according to Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support the socio-economic recovery and development program.
Value added taxpayers
Subjects obliged to pay value-added tax in Vietnam are organizations and individuals producing and trading goods and services in all industries and forms, except for subjects specified in Article 5 of the Law on Value Tax. increases in 2008, including:
- Business organizations are established and registered for business according to specialized business laws;
- Economic organizations of political organizations, socio-political organizations, social organizations, socio-professional organizations, people's armed units, public service organizations and other organizations;
- Foreign-invested enterprises and foreign parties participating in business cooperation according to the Investment Law; Foreign organizations and individuals doing business in Vietnam but not establishing legal entities in Vietnam;
- Individuals, households, independent business groups, and other entities engaged in production, business, and import activities.
Value-added tax (VAT) rate in 2023
Group of goods and services applies the value-added tax rate of 0%
The tax rate of 0% applies to groups of exported goods and services, international transportation, and goods and services not subject to value-added tax when exported. However, the following cases, although included in this group of goods and services, are still subject to value-added tax:
- Technology transfer, intellectual property rights transfer abroad;
- Overseas reinsurance services;
- Credit granting services;
- Capital transfer;
- Derivative financial services;
- Postal and telecommunications services;
- Exported products are exploited resources and minerals that have not been processed into other products; Exported products are goods processed from natural resources and minerals with the total value of natural resources and minerals plus energy costs accounting for 51% or more of the product's cost price.
Exported goods and services are goods and services consumed outside Vietnam, in non-tariff zones; goods and services provided to foreign customers according to Government regulations.
Conditions for applying 0% tax rate to exported goods
Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 9, Circular 219/2013/TT-BTC stipulates the conditions for applying the 0% value-added tax rate to exported goods in the following cases:
- Have a contract to sell or process exported goods; entrusted export contract;
- Have proof of payment for exported goods via bank and other documents as prescribed by law;
- Have a customs declaration according to legal regulations.
Particularly in the case of goods sold where the delivery and receipt point is outside Vietnam, the business establishment (seller) must have documents proving the delivery and receipt of goods outside Vietnam such as:
- Goods purchase contract signed with a foreign seller of goods;
- Goods sale contract signed with the buyer;
- Documents proving that goods were delivered or received outside Vietnam such as commercial invoice according to international practice, bill of lading, packing slip, and certificate of origin…;
- Bank payment documents include bank documents of the business establishment making payment to the seller of goods abroad; Payment documents via bank from the buyer of goods to pay the business establishment.
Group of goods and services applies the value-added tax rate of 5%
- Clean water for production and daily life;
- Ore to produce fertilizers, pesticides, and growth stimulants for animals and plants;
- Excavation and dredging services of canals, ditches, ponds, and lakes for agricultural production; cultivating, caring for, and preventing pests and diseases of plants; preliminary processing and preservation of agricultural products;
- Unprocessed crop, livestock, and aquatic products, except for crop, livestock, farmed, and caught aquatic products that have not been processed into other products or have only undergone normal preliminary processing by the organization, Individuals produce, catch, sell and import;
- Preliminarily processed rubber latex; Pre-processed resin; nets, ropes and yarn for weaving fishing nets;
- Fresh food; Unprocessed forest products, except wood, bamboo shoots, and products of cultivation, livestock, aquaculture, and fishing that have not been processed into other products or have only undergone normal preliminary processing by self-producing organizations and individuals. exporting, catching for sale, and importing;
- Road; by-products in sugar production, including molasses, bagasse, and sludge;
- Products made of jute, sedge, bamboo, leaves, straw, coconut shells, coconut skulls, water hyacinth and other handicraft products made with materials salvaged from agriculture; pre-processed cotton; newsprint;
- Medical equipment and tools; cotton, medical sanitary napkins; preventive and curative drugs; Pharmaceutical chemical products and medicinal materials are raw materials for the production of curative and preventive drugs;
- Teaching tools used for teaching and learning, including models, drawings, boards, chalk, rulers, compasses, and other types of equipment and tools specifically used for teaching, research, and scientific experiments;
- Cultural activities, exhibitions, physical training and sports; performing Arts; make a film; import, distribution and screening of films;
- Toys for children; Books of all kinds, except political books, textbooks, legal textbooks, scientific and technical books, and books printed in ethnic minority languages;
- Scientific and technological services according to the provisions of the Law on Science and Technology;
- Sell, rent, lease purchase social housing according to the provisions of the Housing Law.
Group of goods and services applies a value-added tax rate of 10%
Pursuant to Article 8 of the Law on Value Added Tax 2008, groups of goods and services that are not subject to tax rates of 0% and 5% will be subject to a value-added tax rate of 10%. This is considered the standard tax rate, applied to common goods and services.
Other notes about the value-added tax (VAT) rate in 2023
Because the policy of reducing the value-added tax to 8% according to Resolution 43/2022/QH15 and Decree 15/2022/ND-CP only applies until December 31, 2022, the value-added tax rate calculated Up to now (June 2023) it is implemented according to the Value Added Tax Law.
According to Official Dispatch 67/CST-GTGT in 2023 of the Director of the Tax Policy Department, it is proposed to reduce the value-added tax rate to 8% according to the following two options:
Option 1: Reduce the value-added tax rate by 2% for the group of goods and services subject to the 10% tax rate, meaning the tax rate is reduced to 8%.
Option 2: Apply the 8% value-added tax rate to groups of goods and services that are currently subject to a 10% tax rate, except for some groups of goods and services as applied in 2022 according to Resolution 43/2022/QH12 on fiscal and monetary policies to support the socio-economic recovery and development program.
Regarding the Draft Resolution proposing to reduce the value-added tax of the National Assembly for the group of goods and services that are applying a tax rate of 10% until the end of 2023, based on the dispatch announcing the Conclusion of the Standing Committee. The National Assembly Office believes that it will only propose to continue implementing the value-added tax reduction policy according to Resolution 43/2022/QH15. The expected time to apply the 2% value-added tax reduction starts from July 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023.
In addition, the Ministry of Finance also proposed a 20% reduction in the percentage to calculate VAT for business establishments (business households, individual businesses).
Customers who need advice on the types of taxes that individual business households need to pay, tax declaration advice, tax reporting service advice, and tax accounting services, please contact Viet An Tax Agent to Get the best support.


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Day of the week Calculator
Calculation of the Day of the week: Enter or set a date and the day of the week for this date will be shown according to the Gregorian calendar. In China the calendar is standard since 1929, Japan uses the calender from 1873, and Korea since 1896. This calendar is used in the UK since 14 September 1752 until now.
Pope Gregory XIII left out ten days because the calendar was in delay in comparison to the course of the year. The reform was a daring step for him and an ambitious goal for the world. It took centuries until all regions of the world followed.
The Gregorian calendar adjusts the difference to the solar year by adding more leap days. It was introduced initially in continental Europe. The first valid date is 15th October 1582. The Julian calendar, which was used before, showed a divergence of ten days to the solar year (the duration the earth turns around the sun).
The Julian as well as the Gregorian calendar start from the premise that the year one is the first year after the birth of Christ, i.e. the first year anno domini. This means that the third millennium has started on New Year 2001.
Here you will find information about calculating the day of the week for a date that you have chosen. The day of the week is based on the Gregorian calendar. The algorithm is based on the everlasting calendar from Theodor Wagner. (US/NA).
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Does there exist a prime 3-manifold such that its mapping class group has an abelian representation in which the 2$\pi$ rotation is represented by -1?
In detail: Let $M$ be a closed orientable prime 3-manifold. Let $D_F(M,p)$ be the group of diffeomorphisms of $M$ that fix a point $p$ of $M$ and a frame there. Define the mapping class group (MCG) of $M$ to be the zeroth homotopy group of $D_F(M,p)$. Then the $2\pi$ rotation is an element of MCG that is the equivalence class of the following diffeo, $R_{2\pi}$: Consider a coordinate ball of radius 2, $B2$, centred on $p$. $R_{2\pi}$ fixes the ball of radius 1, $B_1$, centred on $p$ and everything outside the sphere of radius 2. In between $B_1$ and $B_2$ the $R_{2\pi}$ maps $(x,y,z)\rightarrow(x\cos\theta+y\sin\theta,y\cos\theta−x\sin\theta,z)$ where $\theta$ is a function of $r=\sqrt(x^2+y^2+z^2)$ which increases smoothly and monotonically from 0 to 2$\pi$ as $r$ increases from 1 to 2. The square of the 2$\pi$ rotation is the identity in MCG. A manifold is spinorial if $\[R_{2\pi}\]$ is non-trivial in MCG.
Background motivation:
This question is interesting because of the possibility that fermions can be built on non-trivial spatial topology. $M$ is the manifold of a 3-D spatial hypersurface in spacetime. The fixed point is the point at infinity (where the metric is asymptotically flat) and fixing a frame there has the same effect on $\pi_0(D_F)$ as requiring some falloff conditions on the diffeomorphisms at infinity or requiring them to be the identity outside some ball. The configuration space of General Relativity in this asymptotically flat setting is (space of asymptotically flat metrics on $M$)/$D_F$ and its first homotopy group is isomorphic to (what I called above) MCG, see _URL_ (I know it is not the usual definition of MCG). The quantum state, on canonical quantisation of General Relativity, carries a unitary irreducible representation (UIR) of the MCG and different choices of UIR give different physics. Prime 3-manifolds are potentially candidates for elementary particles built from pure geometry: topological geons (this is speculative!). A prime 3-manifold can be the basis for a spinorial particle (i.e. spin 1/2, spin 3/2....) if $R_{2\pi}$ is nontrivial. Because particles must be able to be pair produced and annihilated, topology change must be allowed in the theory which means that the theory should be quantised in a sum-over-histories framework rather than a canonical quantisation framework. Within the sum-over-histories framework it is challenging to realise nonabelian reps of MCG. Abelian reps on the other hand are more easily accommodated by attaching phases to topologically distinct sectors of the path integral. Moreover certain rules that would result in a spin-statistics correlation for topological geons would also force the reps to be abelian, _URL_ (hence the need for abelian reps). However, if there were no spinorial primes with abelian reps this would rule out spinorial geons and therefore fermions.
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What do you mean by 'the' $2\pi$ rotation? – HJRW May 16 '11 at 12:21
Please edit the question statement to put in the clarifications. You're also presumably assuming that the manifold is spin, and looking at the spin mapping class group. – Dylan Thurston May 16 '11 at 13:25
1. This is not the usual definition of MCG. 2. By the belt trick, the $2\pi$ rotation squares to be the identity. 3. The $2\pi$ rotation is central. 4. I don't know what you mean when you say "abelian representation" or "represented by -1". – Sam Nead May 16 '11 at 13:28
Even with the edit, "represented by -1" is not clear. Are you asking for this element of the mapping class group to map onto the generator of an infinite cyclic group? That's how I read your question. – Ryan Budney May 16 '11 at 19:33
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Yes, there exists such a manifold $M$. This follows if there exists aspherical $M$ with $Diff(M)\simeq 0$ (contractible) and $H^2(M;\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})=0$. I claim there exists such manifolds. Let's see why such $M$ suffice.
There are two fibrations: $$ D_F(M,p) \to Diff(M,p) \to GL(3,\mathbb{R})$$ and $$ Diff(M,p) \to Diff(M) \to M.$$
The first comes from considering the derivative at $p$ of a diffeomorphism fixing $p$. The second comes from considering the image of $p$ under a diffeomorphism of $M$.
From the long exact sequence of homotopy for a fibration (e.g. 4.41 Hatcher), we have the exact sequence $$0=\pi_2(M) \to \pi_1(Diff(M,p)) \to \pi_1(Diff(M))=0 \to \pi_1(M)\to $$ $$\pi_0(Diff(M,p))\to \pi_0(Diff(M))=0.$$ We see that $\pi_0(Diff(M,p))=\pi_1(M)$, and $\pi_1(Diff(M,p))=0$. Similarly, $$0=\pi_1(Diff(M,p))\to \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}=\pi_1(GL(3,\mathbb{R})) \to \pi_0(D_F(M,p))\to \pi_0(Diff(M,p))\to 0.$$
From the second sequence, we see that $\pi_0(D_F(M,p))$ is therefore a $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ extension of $\pi_1(M)$. These are classified by $H^2(\pi_1(M);\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})=H^2(M;\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})=0$ (since any such extension is central). Thus, it is a trivial extension, so $\pi_0(D_F(M,p))=\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\times \pi_1(M)$. The $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ factor is generated by $[R_{2\pi}]$ in your notation, so clearly the desired abelian representation exists.
Now we need to see that a closed orientable aspherical manifold $M$ with $Diff(M)\simeq 0$ and $H^2(M;\mathbb{Z}/2)=0$ exists. In fact, we may assume $M$ is a hyperbolic homology sphere. For example, take a hyperbolic knot complement with trivial isometry group. Perform Dehn filling of slope $1/k$ for $k$ large to get a closed hyperbolic manifold. This manifold will be an aspherical homology sphere and will have trivial isometry group for $k>>0$ (this follows from Thurston's Dehn surgery theorem and the Margulis lemma, since the isometries must preserve the short core geodesic of the Dehn surgery). By a result of Gabai, $Diff(M)$ will be contractible.
One can work in somewhat greater generality with hyperbolic 3-manifolds $M$ which have the property that $H^2(Aut(\pi_1(M));\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})=0$, since the first exact sequence implies that $\pi_0(Diff(M,p))=Aut(\pi_1(M))$. I'm not sure what happens if $H^2(Aut(\pi_1(M));\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\neq 0$; I assumed it $=0$ as a convenient way to see that the group $\pi_0(D_F(M,p))$ splits.
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Thank you for your answer. I'm still reading through it to try and understand it all but it looks like it's what I'm looking for. Do you mean that $\pi_0(D_F(M,p))$ (as opposed to $\pi_0(Diff(M,p))$) is a $\mathbb{Z}/2\


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PCB Global and Landing Areas
PCB shape was traditionally measured at room temperature using shim gauges and a granite flat table. The shadow moiré technique is a far superior approach to measurement of PCB shape. Large area PCB shape can be captured at high speed and temperature without sacrificing measurement resolution, unlike some other optical measurement approaches, like Fringe Projection. Bow and Twist standards can be applied automatically through the Akrometrix software to these global PCB measurements.
With tighter component pitches and tolerances, the warpage of PCB landing areas over temperature is becoming increasingly more critical to quantify. Akrometrix equipment is capable of capturing both global and landing area warpage at high resolution in a single thermal run. Many PCBs are known to exhibit different warpage behavior after exposure to multiple reflows. This makes capturing both global and local landing area in a single thermal run essential. Akrometrix Surface Analysis software can batch process multiple PCB landing areas in a repeatable fashion. Additionally the fast (sub 2 second) acquisition time of Akrometrix systems is beneficial for measurement of thinner PCBs that can change shape quickly.
A PCB global and local 3D surface plot are shown below. The image on the right is only a 4x4mm PCB landing area measured with Fringe Projection.
PCB landing area data can be imported into the Akrometrix Interface Analysis software for comparison with corresponding component warpage over temperature. Having both component and PCB landing area warpage over the same temperature points and temperature profile gives customers the ability to analyze the gaps between PCB and component attach surfaces. Below, on the left, a plot of a component bottom and PCB landing area is shown plotted in the Interface Analysis software. A Gap plot between these two surfaces can also be visualized as shown on the right.


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20cmx20cmx15cm Recycled PETG 3d printed, various electronics
Stimulierings Fonds NL
Omniphone is a very low threshold instrument. Thanks to its touch sensing technology, the simple proximity of a hand starts to trigger sound. It is very easy to get started with Omniphone but it also offers challenges to master.
Omniphone was developed in collaboration with a care institute for handicapped people. Thus it is very suitable as a tool for Music Therapy or relaxation. Omniphone was tested successfully with diverse people with many different abilities. The texture and engraving on the instrument encourage to play with touch. Light signals and vibration feedback add even more dimensions to the experience.
Omniphone was developed with sustainability in mind. The first prototypes were 3D printed out of recycled PETG filament. There are many other possibilities such as bio plastics, CNC wood, and so on.


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LAURENCE CADBURY COLLECTION
Assembled at the beginning of the 20th century, the Laurence Cadbury Collection helps show what life was like in a 16th and 17th century house.
Dating from about 1500 to the early 1900s it comprises furniture and domestic objects, agricultural artefacts, armour, archives and decorative works.
On permanent display, the collection includes:
This would have been used in a church to store food that parishioners collected for the poor. The food would then be 'doled out' to them, hence the expression 'on the dole'.
16th CENTURY CHEST
Dating from 1520 our oldest chest is carved with ornate scenes depicting a variety of strange creatures and mythical beasts.
1592 TESTER BED
Plaited reeds or rushes were woven together to create a cover for the bed's rope supports. A feather mattress was probably placed on top.
This depicts Henry VIII's Surrey palace of Nonsuch. There was to be 'nonsuch' like it, but Henry died before it was completed.
A space-saving piece of furniture with an under-seat storage area and a top that folds down to form a table.
This large cupboard, dated 1673, was used for storing tableware.
A carved wooden Bible Box that stored objects of great value, most notably the family's Bible.
A 1713 cupboard with three sections; the top can be lifted down and used as a bench.
18ft OAK TABLE
Dating from the 1630s, this spectacular 18ft eight-legged table was brought from Crook Hall, Lancashire, in 1921.