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For Rastra in music, see Rastrum.
Rastra is a tradename for a particular insulating concrete form (ICF) used to make walls for buildings. It is one of the earliest such products, in production since 1972, and is composed of concrete and thastyron. Thastyron is a mixture of plastic foam and binder that is composed of eighty-five percent recycled post consumer polystyrene waste that are molded into blocks. The main components of rastra are cement, water and expanded polystyrene.
Rastra is sustainable in its production because no energy is used in the curing process, and only one to three kilowatt hour (kWh) is required to make each block. After the blocks are trimmed to exact size, the remaining debris is recycled to create new blocks. No byproducts are released in the production process that are considered a burden to the environment.[1]
Rastra blocks come in different sizes, and can be easily cut with woodworking tools to form the desired shape. These blocks are commonly attached together with clamps or glue to form a grid-like system. Rebar is then run through the grid, which is then filled with concrete.
Polystyrene concrete was invented in 1960. BASF, a German chemical conglomerate, originally created this product, but found no successful applications. An Austrian-Swiss-based company modified the product and created what is known as Rastra.[1]
Fire rating[edit]
As a thermal barrier, Rastra has a four-hour fire rating with no flame spread and no smoke development. A five-hour fire endurance test of a ten-inch-thick wall with temperatures exceeding two thousand degrees Fahrenheit on the face of the wall showed that the wall did not conduct heat. This lowers the number of health hazards during a fire and also makes building repairs easier afterwards.[1]
Physical properties[edit]
Thastyron has a compressive strength of 56 pound-force per square inch (psi) and a tensile strength of 43 psi. Rastra has a low toxicity level. Rastra is highly frost, fungus, and mildew-resistant. The sound insulation is greater than 50 decibel(dB).[1]
As a heat insulation, rastra keeps a room at a constant temperature and evens out temperature changes, both of which can lower energy use. It also has a low heat penetration depth.[citation needed]
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Nanobind kits contain specific reagents to process and lysate diverse sample types. Following lysis, the DNA binds to Nanobind disks which shield bound DNA from damage during extraction, resulting in HMW DNA. A final Short Read Eliminator (SRE) size selection step helps remove DNA fragments below 10 kb.
PacBio Nanobind HT kits enable automation of DNA extraction, the first step of an end-to-end workflow that harnesses the power of HiFi sequencing. Nanobind HT kits are designed for whole human blood and mammalian cell samples and are compatible with four robotic platforms.
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SRE treatment following DNA extraction helps removing DNA molecules below 10 kB. It results in improved HiFi read length distribution and HiFi sequencing yield. The SRE workflow is fast, easy, and inexpensive using simple size selective precipitation. HMW DNA is precipitated by centrifugation and low molecular weight (LMW) DNA is washed away. Many samples can be process in parallel in 2 hours (10 min hands-on time). HT solution will be available soon.
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This procedure describes the workflow for DNA size selection to remove molecules <10 kb using the SRE kit on HMW DNA before shearing and library preparation. The SRE kit is used for rapid size selection of unsheared HMW DNA samples. This method can significantly enhance mean read length by progressively depleting short DNA up to 10 kb.
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Gold Drift Norway SprucePicea abies 'Gold Drift'
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The Gold Drift Norway Spruce is a unique cascading specimen evergreen with lime-green needles that turn golden yellow in the sun. It grows quickly to cover an area of 10 to 12 feet across, or become a specimen 10 to 15 feet tall, within 10 years. Grow it on banks and slopes, cascading over walls or among boulders, or stake it to become a tall specimen weeping tree. It looks just as exciting and unique either way, and you get to decide, depending on your needs. Why not get two and grow it both ways?
Full sun is needed for the Gold Drift Norway Spruce to develop its characteristic 'gold dust' look. It is hardy, growing in zone 3 to 4, and thrives in cooler climates with good sunshine. It grows in most soils, doing best in moist, well-drained soils but having some drought resistance once well established. Young plants may scorch a little in their early years, but this stops once they become more mature. Pests and diseases are very rare, and this vigorous, fast-growing plant is one of the most spectacular evergreens available.
Imagine golden branches cascading across the ground, and piling up in deep drifts of needles. Imagine a tall weeping tree, with branches cascading to the ground, each one a skein of golden threads catching the sunlight. Imagine you could have both, or either, from the same remarkable plant. You can when you plant the Gold Drift Norway Spruce, because its growth pattern is in your hands. This remarkable evergreen has lost the knowledge of how to grow upwards, so left to itself it will spread out across the ground, following the contours; cascading down a slope, spilling over a wall, or flowing between boulders. With some help from you and a strong stake, it can be held up to form a central trunk of any height you want, while the side branches follow gravity and cascade downwards, making a striking weeping tree. The only constant is the rich golden color that the lime-green needles turn when exposed to the sun. Best of all, this is not some pampered miniature adding just a few inches a year. Within 10 years it will add 12 to 15 feet of growth – upwards or outwards – becoming a truly unique and spectacular specimen to show with pride.
The Gold Drift Norway Spruce is an evergreen tree that forms a cascading mass of branches, growing about 12 inches of new growth each year. The branches are densely encircled with needles that are between ½ and 1 inch long. They are closely-packed, pointing slightly towards the end of the branch. They are a bright lime-green color which holds well for years, without darkening very much over time, but spring growth is a little brighter and fresher looking. Where the sun strikes the needles directly they turn bright lemon gold, looking like gold dust has been scattered across the plant. Direct sun is needed for this color to develop, and you might see some burning of the needles in summer on young plants. Don't worry, as it grows and mature this will stop happening, and the gold effect will be unblemished. Older plants may produce small purple-red cones up to one inch long in spring, that release yellow pollen, and female cones that may develop into 7½ inch long hanging cones 6 months later.
This particular plant lacks the orientation of most trees to grow upwards, so the branches simply cascade downwards if not controlled. A plant left to do this will form a thick flowing carpet across the ground, flowing wherever gravity takes it. Within 10 years it will be about 12 feet across, in a pile of branches a foot or two thick. If you attach it to a strong stake as it grows, you can lead it up 10 to 15 feet high, with cascading side branches.
The remarkable plant should be planted where it can be shown to best effect. If you want it cascading, plant it on a slope, at the top of a wall, or among rocks and boulders, perhaps with other unusual conifer varieties. As a staked specimen it can be grown among shrubs in beds, with other conifers, as a lawn specimen or in a paved patio. It can also be grown in a large tub as a specimen.
This plant is remarkably cold-hardy, growing well in zone 4, and probably also growing in zone 3, as the parent tree does. Although it prefers cooler areas, and may struggle in very hot and humid summers, it will grow in zone 8.
To develop the gold effect on the needles, this tree must be grown in full sun, with as much direct sunlight as possible. It does especially well in regions with lots of summer sun, once the potential for sun scorch on young plants has been outgrown. It grows best in moist but well-drained soil that is acidic or neutral. Avoid very alkaline soils and very dry soils, although plants that are well-established have good drought tolerance to normal periods of summer dryness. Mulch over the roots with stones or organic material will help it in drier places.
If you want to grow the Gold Drift Norway Spruce as a ground cover, just plant it, remove any stakes it comes with, and let it grow. You can lead the branches in particular directions if you wish to. To grow it as an upright specimen, use a strong stake, preferable steel, and tie one or two of the flexible branches to it, training them upwards as it grows. The stake will soon be hidden by the stems, but it will always be needed to prevent breakage. It can be upright, or at an angle to create a graceful curtain of branches. This tree could also be trained up a wall or on a fence in any fashion you want it to grow. Side branches should be allowed to cascade naturally. Pests and diseases are normally not a problem for this tough and vigorous plant, which will benefit from some tree fertilizer in spring.
This plant is a selected form of the Norway Spruce, Picea abies. That tree grows throughout Scandinavia, and also in mountainous areas of France and Italy. It forms a tall forest tree 60 feet tall, that can in time reach 150 feet or more. There are many selected garden forms, including several that have lost the ability to naturally grow upwards. The two varieties that do this most are called 'Reflexa' and 'Inversa', and these may in fact be the same plant. In 1990 the plantsman Bob Fincham, who owns a former nursery and personal arboretum called Coenosium Gardens, in Eatonville, Washington State, found a unique branch growing on a tree of 'Inversa'. He called it, "Unlike anything currently available anywhere", and named it 'Gold Drift'.
This plant is seriously coveted by collectors, and in 2013 it was included in the American Conifer Society's 'Collectors' Conifer of the Year' program. We know that collectors will soon find that we have this plant, and they will be gone. Order right now, because rare plants like this leave our farm almost as soon as they arrive.


woebin_ply: WOE Transformation
Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples
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Description
woebin_ply converts original input data into woe values based on the binning information generated from woebin.
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A data frame.
bins
Binning information generated from woebin.
no_cores
Number of CPU cores for parallel computation. Defaults NULL. If no_cores is NULL, the no_cores will set as 1 if length of x variables less than 10, and will set as the number of all CPU cores if the length of x variables greater than or equal to 10.
print_step
A non-negative integer. Default is 1. If print_step>0, print variable names by each print_step-th iteration. If print_step=0 or no_cores>1, no message is print.
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Binning information
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# load germancredit data
data(germancredit)
# Example I
dt = germancredit[, c("creditability", "credit.amount", "purpose")]
# binning for dt
bins = woebin(dt, y = "creditability")
# converting original value to woe
dt_woe = woebin_ply(dt, bins=bins)
str(dt_woe)
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# binning for germancredit dataset
bins_germancredit = woebin(germancredit, y="creditability")
# converting the values in germancredit to woe
# bins is a list which generated from woebin()
germancredit_woe = woebin_ply(germancredit, bins_germancredit)
# bins is a dataframe
bins_df = data.table::rbindlist(bins_germancredit)
germancredit_woe = woebin_ply(germancredit, bins_df)
## End(Not run)
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Nour: Play With Your Food's sous chef: an interactive soundtrack
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No two dishes made in Nour: Play With Your Food are alike. A delicious interactive exploration into the aesthetics of food and drink, Nour lets you play with your food in ways your mother told you not to. This beautiful, chaotic yet comforting game demanded a soundtrack that reflects each player's unique preparations and plating. What started as a soundtrack ended up as an instrument.
Play sweet melodies and manipulate the environment via random acts of cookery, rhythmic prowess, or even your singing voice. Beginner or expert, reckless or meticulous, every chef creates a song to match their pièce de résistance.
I'm Maximilian C Mueller, a musician and designer – and today, your maître d'Nour's music. James Morrison (aka Fluke Nukes) and I cooked up a feast for the ears to accompany this feast for the eyes.
Ambience: Season to Taste
Adaptive background music to complement your dish.
The music heats up, cools down, rises, mixes, and melts. What you hear is a unique combination of ingredients cooked per ever-changing specifications set by the way you play; no two play-throughs will sound the same. Wreak havoc, show restraint, and so too will the audio.
Adaptive game music is often categorized as "horizontal" (e.g. the music changes when entering a room), or "vertical" (e.g., tempo increases or an instrumental element is added when entering combat). Nour's music is diagonal and has a cherry on top. Player actions and their frequency comprise a measure of chaos used to generate a cohesive song from a large pantry of ingredients. Together with a dash of stochasticity and a pinch of salt, this fluctuating measure acts as a conductor, guiding the scene sound. Put simply, the dish you create creates the song.
Have a listen to some evolving music captured in-game while you read:
Marshmallow Flutes and Noodle Harps
Conjure food and make a melody, create a dish and make a song.
Each time a food is introduced into the scene, a sound comes with it. What does a marshmallow sound like? An airy flute! An ice cube? The high notes of a grand piano played staccato of course! It was great fun choosing these sounds and even more fun subjecting those sounds to the trials of gameplay. Don't worry about playing sour notes; every button press is always in tune. Once in the scene, the foods act as percussion instruments, singing the sound that announced them on impact. I love setting up a pile of ice cubes and slamming something into them to create an icy physics music explosion.
Perhaps the best example of physical instrumentation in Nour is the noodle harp. Make some noodles, arrange them to form an elegant slope (or monster) using the magnet, and freeze them. While there are many ways you could choose to play the harp, one of my favorites is simply letting a gyoza tumble down the sculpture to create a descending melody.
Making a beat in Toaster using a combination of "broken" and working toasters.
Each scene in Nour has some unique gameplay mechanics and musical mechanics to match. In Toaster, make toast and conduct an orchestra at the same time. Bread takes to the air upon a swell of violins, bassoons, and timpani. Burn your toast to the degree that the toaster breaks…and what was once a bassoon is a BASS. Appliance destruction triggers a change of temperament in your musicians, turning the smoldering toasters into 808's, snares, hats, and kicks. Create a fiery beat – but be sure to leave one or two toasters unbroken for a nice orchestral accompaniment.
Fire dances to the beat when night falls in Toaster.
In Meat Grinder, each food is spawned into a calm but foreboding environment. Things really take a turn when the player rotates the handle to grind a food – not only is the food ground, but its sound is extruded too. There may or may not be heavy-metal involved.
Players can look forward to both macro and micro manipulation of game audio via changes they make to the environment. This relationship is reciprocal: they'll also have the power to change the environment through music.
A jazz cover of the Miso Soup music hidden in an easter egg – happy hunting!
Sonic Controller: Audio-as-Interface
Use music to manipulate food.
Music in Nour acts not just as a soundtrack, but an interface. Players can exert influence over the scene and its contents in both familiar and new modes of musical gameplay.
The mechanics aim to encourage and reward the exploration and experimentation central to Nour. Fittingly, its rhythm system has no grid. User input is instead processed relatively, allowing the game to recognize and reward melodies ranging from rigid to adventurous.
Rhythmic play generates a resource that can be used to activate special powers: freeze foods to create a sculpture (or plate), turn day into night, or compel your food to dance to the music.
Combining these effects creates a dizzying number of musical (and physical) possibilities. Lock some dancing sugar cubes in a cage of frozen oranges to create a dynamic physical instrument – the sugar pulses to the music, knocking into itself and the walls confining it. Then activate night mode to really get things bopping! I'm so excited to see what players come up with and hear the sounds they're able to coax out of the scenes.
Secret rhythmic sequences (combos) offer another way to control the game – I'll give away one to get you started: try slowing down time by playing 4 quarter notes, 2 halves, and a whole. And for balance, an anti-sequence: button mash as fast as your can to activate Warp Mode!
We hope such rhythmic mechanics will be fun, familiar, and legible to those who have stomped, shredded, or ocarina-ed their way through a virtual space. The DualSense controller,
Sequence effects are triggered by specific note sequences. This sequence, (4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 1), prompts a key change and slows down both the music and gameplay.
however, furnished an opportunity for something new. Not only can you play with your food, you can yell, sing, blow, and slurp at it. Sing the root note of the song to levitate objects upon a field of golden energy for as long as you can hold it. Blast away objects with a gust of wind blown into the microphone. Yell to charge up a food and plate it with force! After all that you'll likely need to take a sip of refreshing soda – just produce a rising pitch with your voice, a cello, or…?
Left: Using voice to levitate citrus in Soft Drinks // Right: Blowing a gust of wind in Diner
Panic's previous title, Untitled Goose Game, was praised for its reactive score, so from the start we knew Nour would have to push the audio envelope. This is our first time working on a game, so we didn't really know what was possible in the key of C# – it turns out a lot is! It's been a wild ride up a steep learning curve – a big thanks to our very talented, supportive, and patient team for sticking with us while we skilled up.
We're all so excited for you to experience Nour: Play With Your Food this summer.
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Topic Breakdown
Foram Topic Map
Interactive Quiz
Real-Time Data
Foram Test Construction
As we mentioned on the previous web page What is a Foram? forams are single-celled organisms with a protective test (shell). What is the test made from and how does the foram make it? There are two basic kinds of tests, soft tests made from an organic material called tectin (a complex carbohydrate plus protein material) and hard tests made from minerals. Hard, mineralized tests are much more common.
The evolution of a hard outer shell likely provided forams with additional protection against predators, physical damage, chemical changes, and as a means to control buoyancy. Mineralized foram tests are sorted into four major classes based on the method the foram used to construct them.
 1. Agglutinated
 2. Microgranular
 3. Porcellaneous
 4. Hyaline
1. Agglutinated - This test style was the first to evolve (more than 500 million years ago) and consists of tiny cemented grains gathered from the sea floor. Particles are glued to a tectin base with an organic, calcite or iron-bearing cement. Remember the organic tests we first talked about? This is simply an organic test with particles glued on top. At times these particles appear to have been gathered at random and at other times the grains are similar in size, composition or shape.
More images of agglutinated forams
Bigenerina nodosaria,
Agglutinated test from Puerto Rico, (SEM) image -120X magnification
(Credit: Heidi Crevison Souder; used by permission from Foraminifers as Bioindicators website,
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)
2. Microgranular - Test walls are composed of tiny, closely-packed grains of calcium carbonate, but with no obvious cement. For many years this group was lumped into the agglutinated class because it was thought that these tests were built from scavenged grains. In fact, some species do have some agglutinated grains thereby adding to the confusion. However, scientists are now convinced this group of forams actually secrets the tiny grains.
Image of microgranular forams
3. Porcellaneous - This test is composed of microscopic calcite needles formed inside the foram and then moved to the outside of the cell. Tests are generally white in color, but may be pink or colorless with an appearance similar to porcelain, hence the name "porcellaneous". Test walls are generally built of three layers - a central layer sandwiched between two outer layers. Calcite needles in the middle layer are arranged in a poorly-organized mesh-like network, while needles in the outer layers are arranged parallel to one another, providing the outside of the test with a smooth surface.
Images of porcellaneous forams
Discorbis mira,
Hyaline test from the Florida Keys, (SEM) image -150X magnification
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)
4. Hyaline - To build this type of test, the foram secrets one or more layers of calcium carbonate over soft tectin material that serves as a template for the final shape. Rhizopodia, thin organic filaments connected to the foram, assist with hyaline test construction by delivering liquid calcium carbonate to different patches of the exposed tectin surface. The patches of calcium carbonate eventually merge and harden into a solid shell. Hyaline tests are often translucent to light, and commonly have a glassy or milky iridescent appearance.
More images of hyaline forams
Did you know that forams first appeared on Earth
more than 500 million years ago?
Go to Foram Evolution to find out more!
Related Links
Foraminifers as Bioindicators - Beautiful scanning electron microscope images of forams and information relating to the use of forams in monitoring coral reef environments.
Anderson, O.R. & Lee, J.J. (1991). Cytology and fine structure. In Lee, J.J. and Anderson, O.R. (Eds.), Biology of Foraminifera. (pp. 7-40). London: Academic Press.
Haynes, J. R. (1981). Foraminifera. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Huber, B. T. (1993). What are Foraminifera? Calypso log, 20(3), June 1993. Retrieved August 31, 2004 from _URL_
Murray, J.W. (1991). Ecology and palaeobiology of benthic foraminifera. New York: Longman Scientific and Technical - John Wiley and Sons.
Murray, J.W. (2003). An Illustrated Guide to the Benthic Foraminifera of the Hebridean. Shelf, West of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica 5(1). Retreived August 31, 2004 from _URL_
USGS. (2002). Environmental quality and preservation - Chemical pollutants and toxic effects on benthic organisms, Biscayne Bay: A pilot study preceding Florida Everglades restoration. Open-File Report 02-308. Retrieved August 31, 2004 from _URL_
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Grey teal
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Grey teal
Anas gracilis tas.jpg
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Subfamily: Anatinae
Genus: Anas
Species: A. gracilis
Binomial name
Anas gracilis
Buller, 1869
Anas gibberifrons gracilis
This is a mottled brown duck with white and green flashes on its wings. The male and female grey teal share the same colouration, in contrast to the related chestnut teal, whose male and female are strikingly different. The grey teal has almost identical colouration to the female chestnut teal and the Grey can only be distinguished by its lighter coloured neck and paler face. Juveniles are paler than adults, especially on the head.
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Sunda teal, as Anas gibberifrons gracilis.
Widespread throughout its large range, the grey teal is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]
It is often mistaken for a female chestnut teal, due to similar colouring.
Stanthorpe, S.Queensland, Australia
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Collective ferromagnetism of artificial square spin ice
Cite this dataset
Bingham, Nicholas et al. (2022). Collective ferromagnetism of artificial square spin ice [Dataset]. Dryad. _URL_
We have studied the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the total magnetic moment of large-area permalloy artificial square spin ice arrays. The temperature dependence and hysteresis behavior are consistent with the coherent magnetization reversal expected in the Stoner-Wohlfarth model, with clear deviations due to inter-island interactions at small lattice spacing. Through micromagnetic simulations, we explore this behavior and demonstrate that the deviations result from increasingly complex magnetization reversal at small lattice spacing, induced by inter-island interactions, and depending critically on details of the island shapes. These results establish new means to tune the physical properties of artificial spin ice structures and other interacting nanomagnet systems, such as patterned magnetic media.
United States Department of Energy, Award: DE-SC0020162
National Science Foundation, Award: DMR-_PHONE_


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A PUF-Based Approach for Copy Protection of Intellectual Property in Neural Network Models
More and more companies' Intellectual Property (IP) is being integrated into Neural Network (NN) models. This IP has considerable value for companies and, therefore, requires adequate protection. For example, an attacker might replicate a production machines' hardware and subsequently simply copy associated software and NN models onto the cloned hardware. To make copying NN models onto cloned hardware infeasible, we present an approach to bind NN models - and thus also the IP contained within them - to their underlying hardware. For this purpose, we link an NN model's weights, which are crucial for its operation, to unique and unclonable hardware properties by leveraging Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). By doing so, sufficient accuracy can only be achieved using the target hardware to restore the original weights, rendering proper execution of the NN model on cloned hardware impossible. We demonstrate that our approach accomplishes the desired degradation of accuracy on various NN models and outline possible future improvements.
Authors: Daniel Dorfmeister, Flavio Ferrarotti, Bernhard Fischer, Martin Schwandtner and Hannes Sochor.
Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH


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Nase
A nase
A type of fish that can be found in Rivenspire.
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Nedic Eel
A Nedic eel
A type of fish that can be found in Craglorn.
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Nereid
A nereid
Nereids are mer-like, feminine water creatures that can often be heard singing. They are able to use several water spells as attacks.
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Netch
Netch are large and generally peaceful creatures that resemble airborne jellyfish with the size and disposition of cattle, floating through the air supported by internal sacks of magical gases. Although male ("Bull") netch are larger than the female ("Betty"), and sometimes possess the ability to poison their opponents, the latter can be provoked into aggression more easily. They are usually peaceful but can be defensive of their territory, particularly during breeding season. Netch are often domesticated in Morrowind, mainly due to their hides making good quality leather, although the skin contains a toxin that renders the meat inedible. While feral Betties usually keep a harem of several Bulls, herders often keep the female-male ratio low for faster breeding. Some wild families appeared in Solstheim in the Fourth Era, perhaps drawn by the familiar flora that had grown up in the southern ashlands following the Red Year.
 - Variations: Betty Netch, Bull Netch, Netch Calf
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Nibenay Trout
A Nibenay trout
A type of fish that can be found in Cyrodiil.
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Nightmare Courser
The Nightmare Courser is a Daedra that takes the form of a black, flame-wreathed horse. Many conflicting legends surround its mysterious origins, although it is associated with Mehrunes Dagon. It is sometimes used by mortals as a mount, although its chaotic temperament makes this a difficult task. Although superficially similar in appearance, the Courser bears no relation to the Hell Hound.
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Nirn Flounder
A Nirn flounder
A type of fish that can be found in Craglorn.
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Nix-Hound
A nix-hound
A medium-sized predator which has been known to hunt in packs.
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Nordic Barnacle
A Nordic barnacle cluster
A species of barnacles found in the waters of Skyrim.
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Northpoint Cod
A Northpoint cod
A type of fish that can be found in Rivenspire.
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Numidium
Numidium, or Anumidum, also known as the Brass God, the Brass Tower, and Walk-Brass, was a gigantic golem of Dwemer origin. Constructed by Tonal Architect Lord Kagrenac, Numidium was directly related to the disappearance of the Dwemer, and since then has been resurrected several times.
By the end of the Second Era, the Morrowind Tribunal had possession of Numidium. As a part of the Armistice with the Empire, the Tribunal gave Tiber Septim the golem. Numidium was first reactivated by Tiber based on Zurin Arctus' Dwemer research. Reactivating Numidium required a replacement heart, for which the Mantella was used, a soul gem that mimicked the properties of Lorkhan's Heart when filled with the soul of a Shezarrine. The golem was controlled by a Totem that can only be wielded by those of royal blood or great power.
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Nymph
A beautiful creature, but not without its danger. Nymphs require silver or better weapons to be harmed, have some inherent magical abilities, and drain their opponents' fatigue in addition to health. Nymphs have their own melodious tongue, which sounds similar to Ayleidoon and faerie but shares none of the vocabulary.
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ATDM Program Brief: Active Demand Management
Contact Information: Operations Feedback at _EMAIL_.
What is Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM)?
ATDM is the dynamic management, control, and influence of travel demand and traffic flow on transportation facilities. Through the use of available tools and assets, traffic flow is managed and traveler behavior is influenced in real-time to achieve operational objectives, such as preventing or delaying breakdown conditions, improving safety, promoting sustainable travel modes, reducing emissions, or maximizing system efficiency. Using archived data and or/predictive methods, agencies continuously monitor the transportation system and perform in real-time to achieve or maintain system performance.
Active management of transportation and demand can include multiple approaches spanning demand management, traffic management, parking management, and efficient utilization of other transportation modes and assets. An agency can deploy a single ATDM approach in order to capitalize on a specific benefit or can deploy multiple active strategies to gain additional benefits across the entire transportation system. Some example approaches are included in the table. This brief focuses on the active demand management (ADM) component of ATDM. Some representative ADM strategies are highlighted in yellow in the table below.
What is Active Demand Management?
One key tenet of ATDM, as defined above, is the ability to influence travel behavior in real-time. This is consistent with the desire to maximize available choices of mode, time, route or even the location of (i.e., need for) travel. Traditionally, demand management has focused on mode choice, inducing commuters to switch from driving alone to higher occupancy modes.
Active demand management (ADM) goes a step further to use information and technology to dynamically manage demand, which could include redistributing travel to less congested times of the day or routes, or reducing overall vehicle trips by influencing a mode choice.
ADM seeks to influence more fluid, daily travel choices to support more traditional, regular mode choice changes. For example, the parking arrival incentive program (CAPRI) pilot at Stanford University seeks to either shift travel outside of the peak hours or to encourage parkers to use less convenient parking on days when it is feasible for them. This initiative complements the overall TDM program at Stanford (through its Commute Club), which offers cash and other incentives to Stanford commuters to use alternative modes or to avoid purchasing long-term parking permits.
ADM is very supportive of other active measures by redistributing or reducing overall traffic levels during congested conditions, thus becoming an integral part of an overall management philosophy to actively manage a facility or system.
What are the key aspects of Active Demand Management?
ADM builds upon the success of traditional TDM programs by using new technologies to inform and influence travel choices, which are not limited to mode choice decisions. As with many TDM efforts, financial levers are important to ADM either as incentives or disincentives (such as higher tolls for SOV or peak period travel). Incentives can take various forms:
Information technology, especially with the connectivity and the social networking possibilities enabled by smartphones, is now being used to dynamically match en-route travelers with others needing a ride or providing comparative travel times for traffic and transit to induce an en-route mode or route shift after a trip as begun.
Based on the results of early dynamic ridesharing pilot projects (see University College Cork, below), program managers identified five critical success factors, which could be applied to many ADM strategies: 1) a critical mass of travelers within a defined area, 2) an appropriate incentive program, 3) minimal complexity for the user, 4) demonstrated security and privacy, and 5) stakeholder engagement involving highway operators, transit, employers, and businesses to make sure the different needs of these groups are addressed by the active demand management applications.
As such, the key to successful ADM projects is an integrated approach to offering a technically-sound, user-friendly service, with incentives to make a different travel choice, and buy-in by key public and private stakeholders. The overall utilization and effectiveness of many of these approaches are still being tested.
Examples of Active Demand Management
The table below illustrates some active demand management programs that are either operational or being tested in the U.S. and Europe. Examples include dynamic ridesharing, on-demand transit applications (such as deviated-route service, demand responsive operations and flexible route service), dynamic pricing, and advanced traveler information.
ATDM Project Informational Briefs
This informational brief is one of the ATDM briefs in the Program category of the FHWA ATDM Brief Series. ATDM briefs are or will be available in the categories of:
For more information:
Publication #: FHWA-HOP-13-002
United States Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration


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The German cabinet agreed on Wednesday to introduce its first ever national water strategy to cope with long dry seasons and heat waves caused by climate change and protect water reservoirs in forests, towns, villages, and floodplains.
Germany is a water-rich country but weeks of high temperature during the summer in the recent years have drained the water levels of the Rhine River and hit farmers' corps in many parts of the country.
The strategy should be completed by 2050 and it includes restoring forests and green spaces. In addition to developing guidelines to regulate water distribution in case of shortages.
According to Reuters, local and federal governments should keep track of how much water is available in the country through a new registry system.
Despite the fact that Germany has lower water consumption levels in comparison to other countries, the strategy will introduce incentives for saving water.
Germany's Environment Minister, Steffi Lemke, said in a statement on the matter, "the consequences of the climate crisis for people and nature are forcing us to act."


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|Min/ Low Temperature
|Average Daylight per day
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Sobral in January is hot at 26.7 °C (80.06 °F).
- Afternoons can be very, very hot with average high temperatures reaching 33.8 °C (92.8 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally fairly hot with an average low of 23.6 °C (74.5 °F).
- In January there is a variation/ range of daily average temperatures of 10.2 °C (18.4 °F).
- The weather in January is not exactly parched. Circa 101.6mm (4in) of H2Ois dumped.
- The shortest day is 12:16 long and the longest day is 12:19 long with an average length of 12:18.
Check the distance to and compare the Sobral January averages with somewhere beginning with:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | All
Weather Trend Graph for January in Sobral, Brazil
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About a year ago, I built a simple ray tracer in Java, and now I'm trying to port it to c++, but I can't figure out how to get a couple of my classes to work together. It should be fairly strait forward, but its not working. Here is a very simple example.
// main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "Vector.h"
#include "Camera.h"
using namespace std;
int main() {
 Vector X (1, 0, 0);
 return 0;
}
The main.cpp file just imports the header files and declares a new Vector. No big problem there.
// Vector.h
#ifndef _VECTOR_H
#define _VECTOR_H
class Vector {
 float x, y, z;

 public:

 // consructor function
 Vector (float,float,float);
 // method functions
 float getVectorX() { return x; }
 float getVectorY() { return y; }
 float getVectorZ() { return z; }
};
Vector::Vector (float a, float b, float c) {
 x = a;
 y = b;
 z = c;
}
#endif
The Vector.h file declares a super simple Vector class. So far so good.
// Camera.h
#ifndef _CAMERA_H
#define _CAMERA_H
#include "Vector.h"
class Camera {
 Vector campos, camdir, camright, camdown;

 public:
 // consructor function
 Camera (Vector,Vector,Vector,Vector);
};
Camera::Camera (Vector pos, Vector dir, Vector right, Vector down) {
 campos = pos;
 camdir = dir;
 camright = right;
 camdown = down;
}
#endif
The Camera.h file creates the Camera class, which as you can see, REQUIRES the Vector class. The four input arguments of the Camera class are all Vectors. But no matter what I do, c++ doesn't want to let me use the Vector class in my Camera class. In Java all this is solved with packages, but I don't know enough about c++ to figure it out on my own.
The compiler is telling me:
In constructor 'Camera::Camera(Vector, Vector, Vector, Vector):
error: no matching function for call to 'Vector::Vector()'
note: candidates are: Vector::Vector(const Vector&)
note: Vector::Vector(float, float, float)
Any help would be appreciated.
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Note that C++ doesn't use references for objects by default, so Vector campos; in C++ is equivalent to Vector campos = new Vector(); in Java. With that in mind, it should be obvious that your Vector class doesn't have a default constructor even though you try to call one.
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Note that C++ doesn't use references for objects by default, so Vector campos; in C++ is equivalent to Vector campos = new Vector(); in Java. With that in mind, it should be obvious that your Vector class doesn't have a default constructor even though you try to call one.
Thanks. So basically all my c++ classes need to have a default constructor like ...
#ifndef _VECTOR_H
#define _VECTOR_H
class Vector {
 float x, y, z;

 public:

 // default constructor, no arguments
 Vector ();

 // consructor function
 Vector (float,float,float);
 // method functions
 float getVectorX() { return x; }
 float getVectorY() { return y; }
 float getVectorZ() { return z; }
};
Vector::Vector () {
 x = 0;
 y = 0;
 z = 0;
}
Vector::Vector (float a, float b, float c) {
 x = a;
 y = b;
 z = c;
}
#endif
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You should get into the habit of initializing data member like so
Vector::Vector ()
:x = 0,y = 0,z = 0
{}
Vector::Vector (float a, float b, float c)
:x = a,y = b,z = c
{}
In some situations its more efficient.
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text: The main cable is made of PPWS. Its large displacement and nonlinear mechanical properties are shown by their own elastic deformation and its geometry changes affecting the system balance. To get the real main cable-shaped of long-span suspension bridge, based on the finite element method, the element stiffness matrix was derived, which displacement field was same to the element shape. Then through the horizontal and vertical direction equilibrium equations were solved, the relationship between main cable shape and the system parameters was obtained. The calculation method was compiled to MATLAB 7.0 programs, and applied to ascertain the main cable-shaped of one long-span suspension bridge. When the paper calculated result was contrasted with the design value, it could be concluded that: the main cable-shaped of long-span suspension bridge could be accurately obtained by the paper method, and the method was convenient for compiling.


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- Award Details
Hardening for Commercially Available Hand Held Computing and Communications Devices for First Responders
Department of Homeland Security
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130 Knowles Drive, Suite A, Los Gatos, CA, 95032-1832
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged:
Name: Michael Browne
Name: Michael Browne
AbstractFirst responders operate in emergency situations that require ruggedized gear that can survive temperature, impact, and moisture. Utilizing the communication devices that first responders already carry on them has many benefits including: always on-scene, reduced cost of distributing equipment, elimination of training requirements, and many others. Ruggedizing commercial hand held computing and communications devices provides the DHS the benefit of state of the art handsets without having to pay for the development of custom hardware. SA Photonics has developed a hardware agnostic approach to ruggedizing commercial off-the-shelf mobile communication devices. Our approach protects devices from impact, moisture, and temperature extremes. The SA Photonics ruggedized enclosure was especially designed to protect the weakest part of a smart phone; the glass touch screen. This protection is provided while still maintaining full functionality of a touch screen, such as pinch and swipe, that first responders are accustom to using in their daily lives. Additional battery life is also provided with an auxiliary battery and solar and inductive charging features. Our design can be modified to fit any smart phone or tablet platform. In a Phase I program, SA Photonics will first perform research with first responder groups to identify the most widely utilized devices and first responders' desired functionality and features. We will then complete the preliminary design of a ruggedized enclosure, provide technical drawings and demonstrate critical subsystem functionality. The SA Photonics ruggedized case will have commercial applications in first responder groups, Fire, Police, S.W.A.T, and military sectors.
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American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons, is elected to Parliament with a substantial majority. Lady Astor took the Unionist seat of her husband, Waldorf Astor, who was moving up to an inherited seat in the House of Lords.
Born in Danville, Virginia, in 1879, she was the daughter of a former Confederate officer who became a wealthy tobacco auctioneer. She married Robert Gould Shaw II, a Bostonian, in 1897, and they had one son before divorcing in 1903. Soon after, she visited England, where she met and fell in love with Waldorf Astor, the great-great-grandson of the American fur trader John Jacob Astor. In 1906, they married. Nancy Astor became an influential society hostess, presiding at the Astor country estate of Cliveden. The "Cliveden set," as the Astors' social clique became known, came to exercise considerable political influence in a number of fields, especially foreign affairs.
In 1910, Waldorf Astor was elected to the House of Commons as a conservative, and the Astors moved to his constituency of Plymouth. Nine years later, Waldorf's father died, and he succeeded to his viscountcy and seat in the House of Lords. Nancy Astor decided to campaign for his vacant seat in the House of Commons and ran a flamboyant campaign that attracted international attention. On November 28, 1919, she won a resounding victory in the election and subsequently became the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons. (She was not, however, the first woman to be elected to the Commons; in 1918 the Irish nationalist Constance Markiewicz was elected as an MP for a Dublin constituency but refused to go to London as a protest against the British government.)
Although regarded as a conservative, Lady Astor took an individual approach to politics, saying, "If you want a party hack, don't elect me." Her impassioned speeches on women's and children's rights, her modest black attire, and her occasional irreverence won her a significant following. Repeatedly reelected by her constituency in Plymouth, she sat in the House of Commons until her retirement in 1945.

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Int J Surg 2017 Dec 10;48:180-188. Epub 2017 Oct 10.
Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood "G. Barresi", University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Via C. Valeria 1, 98125, Messina, Italy. Electronic address:
Purpose: The increasing use of intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during thyroid surgery imposes an evaluation of cost-effectiveness.
Methods: The analysis estimated the cost versus utility of different alternatives that simulate nerve injury course and the consequences for the following cohorts of patients: (1) no RLN injury, or vocal fold palsy (VCP) recovery within 1 month (2), 2 months (3), 6 months (4), and after 12 months (5). In the model applied, the average simulated cohort consisted of a young female patient, 40 years old, employed, daily voice user, who underwent elective, conventional total thyroidectomy via cervical incision using a standardized intermittent IONM technique, for an operable benign, bilateral, diffuse, multinodular, non-toxic, non-retrosternal goiter. Read More


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Blind woman vocabulary lesson | University of Illinois Archives
Blind woman vocabulary lesson
An instructor places an object in a blind woman's hand so as to familiarize her with it.
University of Illinois Archives
Director's Office Photograph File, 1956-88 Series 1: Photographs Box 1 Folder 12: Physical Therapy and Functional Training, 1963-88
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Nissan demonstrates sweat-sensing seats to fight dehydration
Sweat-covered seats aren't most people's idea of a good thing, but Nissan thinks they are. The Japanese automaker is demonstrating technology that changes the color of car seats and steering wheels based on sweat. Nissan believes this will allow the car to detect when the driver is dehydrated.
Nissan designer Paulien Routs, and Droog Design sought to show how useful sweat can be with the Nissan Juke Soak. That last part refers to the trademarked, sweat-sensitive textile material the car's interior is coated with. You can see exactly how it works in the embedded video. Soak can also be sprayed onto clothes to give the wearer a better idea of his or her hydration level, which could be particularly useful when working out.
While the concept of car seats that change color from sweat may seem a bit silly, Nissan claims driver dehydration is no laughing matter. The automaker contends that dehydration has as big an impact on reaction times and overall alertness as drunk driving. That's based on a 2015 study conducted by England's Loughborough University, and funded by the European Hydration Institute, a research organization that promotes hydration.
Staying hydrated should be as important for driving as it is for any other activity, but car buyers may not be interested in seats that change colors when they sweat. Besides being a bit undignified, it's also sort of an inefficient way to let drivers know they might be dehydrated. The color changes won't be highly apparent if you're sitting in the seat, after all. Drivers may also simply ignore the car's warning about their hydration levels. Given the number of warnings and alerts modern cars are capable of emitting, that wouldn't be difficult.
But the Nissan Juke Soak is a reminder that drivers need to do their part to keep the roads safe. A driver must be calm, alert, and awake at all times, something that is easy to forget in an age where driving is taken for granted. Everyone is responsible for making sure they are fit to drive before getting behind the wheel. That is, at least until autonomous cars arrive.
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. Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest --dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. Note that when using cumulative, the sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can be specified with the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: --dirstat=files,10,cumulative.
--summary
Output a condensed summary of extended header information such as creations, renames and mode changes.
--patch-with-stat
Synonym for -p --stat.
-z
Separate the commits with NULs instead of with new newlines.
Also, when --raw or --numstat has been given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators.
Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, and backslash characters replaced with \t, \n, \", and \\, respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if any of those replacements occurred.
--name-only
Show only names of changed files.
--name-status
Show only names and status of changed files. See the description of the --diff-filter option on what the status letters mean.
--submodule[=<format>]
Specify how differences in submodules are shown. When --submodule or --submodule=log is given, the log format is used. This format lists the commits in the range like git-submodule(1) summary does. Omitting the --submodule option or specifying --submodule=short, uses the short format. This format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range. Can be tweaked via the diff.submodule configuration variable.
--color[=<when>]
Show colored diff. --color (i.e. without =<when>) is the same as --color=always. <when> can be one of always, never, or auto.
--no-color
Turn off colored diff. It is the same as --color=never.
--word-diff[=<mode>]
Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see --word-diff-regex below. The <mode> defaults to plain, and must be one of:
color
Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies --color.
plain
Show words as [-removed-] and {+added+}. Makes no attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the input, so the output may be ambiguous.
porcelain
Use a special line-based format intended for script consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in the usual unified diff format, starting with a +/-/ character at the beginning of the line and extending to the end of the line. Newlines in the input are represented by a tilde ~ on a line of its own.
none
Disable word diff again.
Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled.
--word-diff-regex=<regex>
Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies --word-diff unless it was already enabled.
Every non-overlapping match of the <regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding differences. You may want to append |[^[:space:]] to your regular expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline.
The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see gitattributes(1) or git-config(1). Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers override configuration settings.
--color-words[=<regex>]
Equivalent to --word-diff=color plus (if a regex was specified) --word-diff-regex=<regex>.
--no-renames
Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration file gives the default to do so.
--check
Warn if changes introduce whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is controlled by core.whitespace configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. Exits with non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
--full-index
Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" line when generating patch format output.
--binary
In addition to --full-index, output a binary diff that can be applied with git-apply.
--abbrev[=<n>]
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header lines, show only a partial prefix. This is independent of the --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
-B[<n>][/<m>]
--break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]
Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. This serves two purposes:
It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of everything new, and the number m controls this aspect of the -B option (defaults to 60%). -B/70% specifies that less than 30% of the original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines).
When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared as the source of a rename), and the number n controls this aspect of the -B option (defaults to 50%). -B20% specifies that a change with addition and deletion compared to 20% or more of the file's size are eligible for being picked up as a possible source of a rename to another file.
-M[<n>]
--find-renames[=<n>]
If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit. For following files across renames while traversing history, see --follow. If n is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the file's size). For example, -M90% means Git should consider a delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file hasn't changed. Without a % sign, the number is to be read as a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., -M5 becomes 0.5, and is thus the same as -M50%. Similarly, -M05 is the same as -M5%. To limit detection to exact renames, use -M100%. The default similarity index is 50%.
-C[<n>]
--find-copies[=<n>]
Detect copies as well as renames. See also --find-copies-harder. If n is specified, it has the same meaning as for -M<n>.
--find-copies-harder
For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only if the original file of the copy was modified in the same changeset. This flag makes the command inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of copy. This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one -C option has the same effect.
-D
--irreversible-delete
Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not the diff between the preimage and /dev/null. The resulting patch is not


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Nonlinear Complex Resistivity
complex resistivity (NLCR) is a geophysical method of stimulating materials
with an electrical current sine wave of variable frequency and measuring
the voltage response. The ratio of the amplitudes of the voltage
to the current normalized by the geometry of the electrodes is the magnitude
of the resistivity. The shift in time between the stimulus current
and response voltage is a phase shift. Deconvolved response by stimulus
and summed root mean square harmonics are the total harmonic distortion.
Deviation of the real and imaginary parts of the complex resistivity transfer
function versus frequency from the Hilbert transform expectation are Hilbert
Distortions. Both distortions are measures of nonlinearity.
complex resistivity measurements as a function of frequency from 0.001
Hz to 1,000 Hz are useful in a variety of applications where remote measurements
of active chemical processes are important. As all chemical reactions
involve electron charge movement, NLCR can measure or observe nearly all
chemical processes (some are too fast or too slow). NLCR is used
in the laboratory, in boreholes, between boreholes or between holes and
the surface, from the surface and inside tunnels. It requires contact
with the ground to inject a current and has not been successfully employed
from airborne platforms. It has applications to the study of corroding
metals, ore exploration and delineation, clay-organic reactions for petroleum
exploration, environmental characterization and monitoring, ground water,
archaeology, and agriculture.
Copyright 1999 by Gary R. Olhoeft.
All Rights Reserved.


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The members of UNITA team at the Pau University were very pleased to host on July 6th the first meeting of UNITA's Cultural Heritage Scientific Committee. The one-day meeting allowed researchers in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Heritage – one of the three main thematic areas of UNITA – to exchange on different projects carried out within our consortium. These projects range from exploratory initiatives to well-advanced programs in heritage landscapes, contemporary art, conservation technology, oral history, infrastructural heritage, rural environments, museum outreach, (in)tangible heritage, and many other exciting and innovative topics.
The Cultural Heritage Scientific Committee meeting also allowed us to finalize the organization and design of UNITA's future Research and Innovation Hubs, that will be launched officially in the upcoming months. We were able to discuss possible strategies to make this particular Cultural Heritage Hub as responsive and competitive as possible in terms of funding possibilities, such as the European Commission's new Horizon Europe program. Finally, the meeting was an opportunity to plan the future roundtables to be held in Torino mid-October 2021. We look forward to this date to see everyone present at Pau again, to meet many other colleagues from the six universities, to learn about each other's research interests, to organize future collaborations, and, last but not least, to launch UNITA's Cultural Heritage Research and Innovation Hub.
Thanks again to all of those who participated at the Pau meeting and see you soon in Torino!


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So there does exist a document already on this topic, Getting OCLC numbers into your vendor records using MarcEdit but I found the instructions difficult to refer to. I ended up writing my own version with the added instructions on creating a set of MARC records specifically for this purpose. After doing this sort of thing again today, I finally decided to share them.
Once you do this once or twice, you'll get a hang of it, and it's actually a fairly simple process, but I always need a reference in case I forget things.
Create a Mini MARC set
The example in the document I referred to talks about merging two existing sets of records. The records I work with typically have the control number in a spreadsheet with some of the item's information (title, author, ISBN, etc.), so the first step is to actually create a set of MARC records with the minimal information needed to merge the control numbers into the main set of MARC records.
To create the mini set of MARC with control numbers, you will need a match point. In the vendor records I've been working with, the match point is the ISBN (020). MarcEdit also gives you 010, 022, and 035 as default options, and you can customize it to a certain extent.
- Do your work with data in a spreadsheet and make sure you have at a minimum your control number in a column, and match point in a second column (order does not matter). I suggest title as well simply for reference.
- Save as Tab Delimited Text (.txt)
- In MarcEdit, choose Delimited Text Translator (also under Add-ins).
- Source file is your tab delimited.txt
- Output to a filename of your choice
- Map each field to its appropriate field. For example,
- 020$a for ISBN
- 035$a for control number column
- 245$a for title
- Run it.
You should now have your mini set of MARC records with minimal information for merging purposes. Do take a quick look over to check that everything is there.
Merge into MARC record set
You should now have two sets of records, your mini set and your main set that you want to add control numbers to.
- Choose Tools → Merge Records
- For Source File, select your main MARC records set
- For Merge File, select the mini MARC set you created
- Set your output file to your desired location and filename
- Choose record identifier e.g. 020 to match on ISBN
- Click on Next
- Choose Merge Selected Fields
- Select the field fields you want to import e.g. 035 (control number)
- Click on Next
Review the output to make sure they were merged properly, and that's it.


Moving a Chrome Device to another Organizational Unit
An important feature of the Admin Console and Chrome Device Management is the ability to organize and move devices using the Organizational Unit structure.
 1. After logging in to your Admin console, go to Devices > Chrome Devices.
 2. Click the checkbox next to the device you wish to move.
 3. Click the Folder with an arrow in the upper right to bring up the Move device(s) dialog. Highlight the OU you want to move it to and click on [MOVE] to move the device to that OU.
Please visit Getting started with Chrome Device Management for more information regarding Chrome Device Management.
Creating an Organizational Unit (OU)
Creating an Organizational Unit (OU) for your Chrome Devices is an easy way to organize groups of devices and users.
 1. Use the main navigation menu in the upper left hand corner of the admin console to navigate to the Organizational units page under the Directory heading.Creating an Organizational Unit
 2. Click the yellow circle with a plus in it in the upper left.
 Organizational Unit
 3. In the Create new organizational unit dialog box, put in the name you are wanting to give your new OU, make sure that it has the correct Parent OU, and then click [CREATE].
 Creating an Organizational Unit
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Preconfiguring a wireless network through the Google Admin console
A useful feature of Chrome Device Management is the ability to pre-configure networks on Chrome devices.
 1. After logging in to your Google Admin console, go to the Device Management section.
 2. On the column on the left side of the screen, click Networks. (Your console may say Network instead, under the Device Settings heading)
 3. Click CREATE WI-FI NETWORK.
 4. In Platform access, check the box next to "Chromebooks (by device)"
 5. In Details, create a name for your network. Then add the Network Name (SSID) for your wireless network, check the box for "Automatically connect" and if the SSID is not broadcast (hidden), select the correct Security Type, and lastly the password for the network.

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Rebooting a Chrome device and taking screen captures and viewing the screen remotely
An important feature for troubleshooting device issues, is the ability to remotely reboot a Chrome device or take a screenshot of the screen.
 1. After logging in to your Admin console, go to Devices > Chrome Devices and click a serial number to get into the individual device settings.
 2. On the left side of the screen you'll see your options for Reboot, Remote Desktop, and Take a Screenshotscreen capture for digital signage troubleshooting
 3. This screen also has information regarding system information, and troubleshooting features like Remote Desktop, Capture Logs, and Move.
 4. Pressing [Reboot] will send a command to the Chrome device to reboot. You will either get a success message, or an error if the device is offline or it's unable to communicate with the device.
 5. Pressing [Remote Desktop] will start a dialog for you to remotely view your screen in real time.
 6. Pressing [Take a Screenshot], next to Screen Capture will take a screenshot of what is currently on the screen. This can be used to determine what is showing on the screen currently.
The Screen Capture and Remote Desktop functions will return an error if a user has interacted with the Chrome device, pressed a touch screen, used a keyboard or mouse, etc. This is a security feature to prevent sensitive information from being accessed on a user's screen.
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How do I see information about each Chrome device?
Need to see your Chrome Device information? Access model, chrome version, serial number and much more with device management.
 1. After logging in to your Google Admin console, go to the Device Management section.
 chrome device information and chrome management
 2. Click Chrome Devices.
 chrome devices
 3. If your Admin console was set up by Arreya, you will see your devices in the top-level organization on the left side of the screen.google admin console
 4. The right hand side of the screen has a list of the devices in that organizationchrome device information
 5. Clicking the serial number of the device will bring you into the information screen for the selected device.chrome device information

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Chapter 15. Dataviewtypes as Linear Datatypes
Table of Contents
Linear Optional Values
Linear Lists
Example: Merge-Sort on Linear Lists
Example: Insertion Sort on Linear Lists
Example: Quick-Sort on Linear Lists
Linear Binary Search Trees
Transition from Datatypes to Dataviewtypes
A dataviewtype can be thought of as a linear version of datatype. To a large extent, it is a combination of a datatype and a dataview. This programming feature is primarily introduced into ATS for the purpose of providing in the setting of manual memory management the kind of convenience brought by pattern matching. In a situation where GC must be reduced or even completely eliminated, dataviewtypes can often be chosen as a replacement for datatypes. I now present in this chapter some commonly encountered dataviewtypes and their uses.
Linear Optional Values
When an optional value is created, the value is most likely to be used immediately and then discarded. If such a value is assigned a linear type, then the memory allocated for storing it can be efficiently reclaimed. The dataviewtype option_vt for linear optional values is declared as follows:
// datavtype option_vt (a:t@ype+, bool) = | Some_vt (a, true) of a | None_vt (a, false) of () // end of [option_vt] // vtypedef Option_vt (a:t@ype) = [b:bool] option_vt(a, b) //
Note that datavtype is just the short version of dataviewtype. The introduced dataviewtype option_vt is covariant in its first argument and there are two data constructors Some_vt and None_vt associated with it. In the following example, find_rightmost tries to find the rightmost element in a list that satisfies a given predicate:
fun{a:t@ype} find_rightmost {n:nat} .<n>. ( xs: list (a, n), P: (a) -<cloref1> bool ) : Option_vt (a) = ( case+ xs of | list_cons (x, xs) => let val opt = find_rightmost (xs, P) in case opt of | ~None_vt () => if P (x) then Some_vt (x) else None_vt () | _ (*Some_vt*) => opt end // end of [list_cons] | list_nil () => None_vt () ) (* end of [find_rightmost] *)
Note that the tilde symbol (~) in front of the pattern None_vt() indicates that the memory for the node that matches the pattern is freed before the body of the matched clause is evaluated. In this case, no memory is actually freed as None_vt is mapped to the null pointer. I will soon give more detailed explanation about freeing memory allocated for constructors associated with dataviewtypes.
As another example, the following function template list_optcons tries to construct a new list with its head element extracted from a given optional value:
fn{a:t@ype} list_optcons {b:bool}{n:nat} ( opt: option_vt (a, b), xs: list (a, n) ) : list (a, n+bool2int(b)) = case+ opt of | ~Some_vt (x) => list_cons (x, xs) | ~None_vt () => xs // end of [list_optcons]
The symbol bool2int stands for a built-in static function in ATS that maps true and false to 1 and 0, respectively. What is special here is that the first argument of list_optcons, which is linear, is consumed after a call to list_optcons returns and the memory it occupies is reclaimed.


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For any positive integer $n$ the map $p:S^1\to S^1$, defined by $p(z)=z^n$ is a covering map.
I think it's easy, but as I'm a really beginner I'm struggling to prove it. By the way, what kind of operation is that $z^n$?
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Consider $S^1$ as $\{z\in \Bbb C:|z|=1\}$ – Dominik Dec 10 '12 at 20:50
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I'm in a rush, but here's a hint:
EDIT: Now that I have more time, let me see if I can explain this better.
Let's begin by thinking of the circle as a paramaterized curve. In particular, let's consider parameterizing $S^1$ as $\gamma(t)=e^{2\pi it}$ for $t=[0,1]$. The curve $\gamma$ can be thought of as traversing the unit circle once, counterclockwise. While this parameterization will not really make any of our work any easier, it will at least make it clear that the statement is true.
Ok, so note then that if $f:z\mapsto z^n$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ power map, then we can get a handle of what $f$ does to $S^1$ by seeing how the map $f\circ \gamma$ works--for ease of notation let's call $f\circ\gamma=h$. Now, just unraveling this, we see that, by definition, $h$ is a parameterization of $S^1$ given by $h:[0,1]\to S^1:t\mapsto e^{2\pi i n t}$. Now, the important thing to notice about $h$, is that while $\gamma$ traversed $S^1$ once, we've (in essence) "sped up" so that in our allotted time of $[0,1]$ we actually round the circle $n$ times. In particular, we see that we round the circle once in the interval $[0,\frac{1}{n}]$, again in the interval $[\frac{1}{n},\frac{2}{n}]$, and in general, once in the interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ with $m\in\{0,n-1\}$. Moreover, if we restrict to open subsets of each of these intervals, our map is a homeomorphism onto its image. Thus, we see that, at least intuitively, $h$ does cover $S^1$ "$n$-times".
Now, let's see what happens if we pick a point $p_0\in S^1$ and start looking at neighborhoods around it, and in particular, how about we consider $1\in S^1$. Now, while there are tons of neighborhoods, it makes sense to, if we are going to prove that $f$ is a covering map, restrict our attention to neighborhoods of $p_0=e^{\frac{\pi i}{3}}$ that "come" from $f$, or in our case $h$. In particular, we note that $p_0=h\left(\frac{1}{12n}\right)$. So, a good way to pick a neighborhood of $p_0$ would be to look at the image under $f$ of a neighborhood of $\frac{1}{12n}$--let's say we look at $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. Now, this is all valid since we know that on open subsets of each of our subintervals $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ the map $h$ is a homeomorphism so that $U=h\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$ really is a neighborhood of $p_0$
Now, that we have a very nice neighborhood of $p_0$, let's try to verify the conditions on $f$ that make it a covering map. Let's look at $f^{-1}(U)$. Well, let's actually being by looking at $h^{-1}(U)$, because this is easy to get a handle on. Namely, we know that $h$ just wraps around $S^1$ $n$-times and it will covering $U$ precisely during the time intervals in each interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ that "act like" $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. It is not hard to see that each of these subintervals are just going to be of the form $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$. So, now that we have a handle on what $h^{-1}(U)$ looks like, we can easily deal with $f^{-1}(U)$ by just "pushing forward" by $\gamma$. Namely, $f^{-1}(U)$ will just be the union of the sets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for each $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$ (where on the circle are these regions?). Moreover, it's clear that each of these intervals are disjoint, because $\gamma$ acts (except for the endpoints, which we aren't worrying about) injectively. Thus, we see that $f^{-1}(U)$ is a disjoint union of $n$ open subsets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ of $S^1$. Moreover, since the action of $f$ on each of these subsets is just $h$ on the intervals $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ we know that $f$ restricted to each of these maps is a homeomorphism. Thus, we see that the covering map condition is at least at the point $p_0$.
Now, I went into way too much detail, and I'm sure you got the point half-way through, but I hope that was able to help, and I hope you can generalize this to prove that $f$ is a covering map!
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Weaving a Mayan Hammock–Video Overview
- Materials Needed
- The Netting Needle
- The Loom
- Loading the Loom
- Loading the Netting Needle
- The Edge "Crochet"
- The Triple Weave
- The Clew
The Mayan hammock is arguably the most comfortable gathered-end hammock available anywhere, and is notable for being the descendent of the original hammock discovered by Columbus on his voyages to the West Indies. The Mayan hammock is woven using a fairly tight "triple weave" that creates a lattice when pulled apart.
Mayan hammocks tend to be heavy, due to the quantity of string used to create the netting, so this style of hammock is more suitable for sleeping indoors than lightweight backpacking. Much depends on the type and quantity of string used and what size hammock you weave.
I found that the Mayan weaving style is not terribly difficult, but it does take patience and a little time. Once you get the weaving pattern down, expect to spend a few weeks to complete the weaving, depending on how much time per day you can devote to weaving and how big you want the bed.
- Lacing — Knotworkn (via Internet Archive)
- Single Line Simple Reverse Coxcombing
- YouTube — Mayan Hammock Weaving – How Hammocks Are Made
- YouTube — The Mayas of Belize – Belize Culture – (traditional Mayan weaving and source material from the Agave plant; great video!)
- Instructables — "Instant Hammock," steps 5–9
- Amazon — Hammock: How to Make Your Own and Lie in It
- Amazon — Hammock Making Techniques
- Amazon — The Ashley Book of Knots (ABOK)
- > 2,000 yards (~1,860 m) of #18 twisted cotton or nylon string for a hammock bed approximately 72 × 50 in (183 × 127 cm). Nylon is more mildew resistant, but cotton will be more comfortable. The clew or end strings, are each half the length of the hammock, effectively doubling the overall length of the hammock.
- Netting needle/shuttle (8 × 1.25 × 0.1875 in / 20 × 3.175 × 0.5 cm)
- 3 @ 1 × 3 × 8 (horizontal beams, wedges)
- 2 @ 2 × 3 × 8 (vertical posts)
The Netting Needle
A netting needle ("lanzadera" or shuttle) is used to load a quantity of string and work it through the warp to create the weave. A netting needle differs from a traditional loom shuttle in that the one end is pointed or tapered, making it easier to poke the shuttle through the weave. These needles are traditionally used for making fishing nets and are still used today to make Mayan hammocks.
You can make your own needle or purchase one.
A basic loom measures 6 ft (1.8 m) tall by 6.5 ft (2 m) wide when assembled and consists of two vertical posts or poles and two horizontal beams. Most looms are adjustable via notches in the horizontal beams and holes in the vertical posts so the weaver can make slightly longer hammock beds. These horizontal supports are secured with a wedge so the hammock body can be removed (slid upward) off the frame when the weaving is complete.
You can make a basic, inexpensive frame out of PVC pipe or lumber. To make a traditional stand, you'll need to cut and assemble the wood poles and beams, including wedges, to make the stand sturdy and long-lasting.
Loading the Loom
Once the loom is built and in place it is time to load the loom with the "warp" string. Begin by tying the warp string to the top of one vertical post and then wrap it around the second post until you wind a sufficient number of strings between the two posts. The number of warp strings depends on the color patterns you intend to weave. You can easily add more warp string as you go along, allowing for color variations on the project, even alternating between the warp and weft strands.
Loading the Netting Needle
A netting needle can handle only so much string before it's full, so having a few on hand is a good idea if you want to keep weaving without interruption. Hitch the end of the string (ABOK #1602) around the needle and then begin to wrap around the bottom of the netting needle and back to the top where you wrap the needle again. Repeat this back-and-forth process until the shuttle is full (see shuttle image above).
The Edge "Crochet"
A few sources refer to the edge as "crochet," which it might be, but it's nothing more than a series of overhand knots (ABOK #46) evenly spaced along the edge. This is the first task in the weaving process.
- There should be a minimum of 21 knots, making 20 spaced sections.
- The knots should be spaced between 3 and 4 inches (8 and 10 cm) apart.
- There should be a minimum of 4 rows of interlaced knot rows and as many as 8 or 10.
This edging sets the spacing for the weaving along with providing a tight edge to maintain the hammock shape.
Subsequent rows: Loop around a knot then go up, capturing a new warp line, then back around to the first line and knot.
The Triple Weave
- The weaving pattern is "under two, over and around one."
- There should be 2 weaves on each of the 20 spaced sections, creating 40 weaves across the hammock body.
As you work along the warp, keep the weft string tight to ensure the lattice isn't loose when you're done. When you reach the end, go around the pole and hitch the weft and warp strings you were just working on and then continue the pattern.
NOTE: Never end a string in the middle of the hammock. If you run out of string, tie it off on the pole and begin a new string. Do not tie knots or leave loose strands in the middle of the hammock.
High-quality Mayan hammocks have at least 40 rows of weft that is woven through the warp, leaving a tightly-woven net that flexes and supports the occupant unlike any other hammock available.
This video (above) actually does a great job in showing the mechanics of making the clew.
The clew is a modern sailor term for the nettles or string that attaches to the ends of the hammock and provides a loop or ring as the attachment point.
- The nettles should be half the length of the hammock, effectively doubling the overall size of the hammock (for example, a hammock body 2 m (6.5 ft) long, the nettles should be 1 m (3.25 ft) long each).
- The nettles should all be the same length.
Traditionally, the nettles are made from a single, continuous strand of #18 twisted nylon string that is looped around 6 sections from the hammock body. The nettles are middled to create a bight. This bight is tied and then cockscombed to protect the nettles.
The two remaining ends are tied on to themselves using a French Spiral Hitch/Whipping (ABOK #3450).
Alternatively, you can tie a Shouldered Sword Mat (ABOK #3819) with the two remaining ends to create a navy-style clew.


These questions test your verbal reasoning skills. This includes your testing vocabulary, a logical approach, your ability to determine patterns within words and your ability to manipulate words.
Verbal - "Compound Words"
(path step lollipop)
(girl lady mother)
There are nine possible answer combinations:
path girl
path lady
path mother
step girl
step lady
step mother
lollipop girl
lollipop lady
lollipop mother
You can eliminate options 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 as these do not make words.
There are now two options to choose from:
step mother
lollipop lady
Stepmother is one word, but lollipop lady is two words. Therefore the correct answer is "step" "mother" which is answer options B,E.


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Pharis was a superb racehorse and champion sire in France. His career on the turf and in the breeding shed was seriously affected by World War II: the outbreak of war in 1939 put an end to his planned fall season on the racecourse in both France and England, and he lost almost five seasons as a stallion in France when he was confiscated by the Nazis and taken to Germany.
Pharis' dam, Carissima (1923), bred by Marcel Boussac, was out of an Irish-bred mare, Casquetts (by Captivation), and by Clarissimus, a winner of the Two Thousand Guineas that was sold to France after three years at stud in England. Clarissimus got a good winner in Nino, who took the prix du Cadran and was later a pretty good sire in France, and the Italian Guineas winner Delleana, later a superior brooodmare. But Clarissimus was most known as a broodmare sire whose grandchildren included Pharis and the French stallion Brantôme.
Carissima was a moderately successful winner of three races, the Prix de Sablonville and Prix de Malleret at Longchamp, and the Prix de Minerve at Evry, and was second, by five lengths, to Dorina in the Prix de Diane. She bred eight winners from twelve foals for Boussac, some of which were born in England after the start of the war. In addition to Pharis she bred Carius, a winner of some races, including the Prix Berteux; Caprifolia (winner of eight races and later dam of The Solicitor); Torissima, a winner of seven races and second dam of Tetrarch Stakes and Zetland Gold Cup winner Tale of Two Cities and of Djenne (later dam of the U.S. handicapper and stallion Olden Times); and Libération, that became the dam of Emperor (Prix Robert Papin and Dewhurst Stakes) and the outstanding stayer Elpenor (Prix du Cadran and Ascot Gold Cup).
In 1935 Boussac put Carissima to Pharos, a superior middle-distance horse at age four in England that stood at stud at Haras d'Ouilly in France after several years as a stallion at Woodland Stud in Newmarket. The year Carissima was bred to Pharos, a mare owned by Federico Tesio dropped a handsome bay colt to the cover of Pharos named Nearco, who was, like Pharis, a champion runner, and was to become one of the most influential stallions of the twentieth century. Pharis, while a very successful stallion in France with sons that went to every continent, would, in the long run, not prove as important in thoroughbred breeding.
Pharis eventually reached 16.2 hands in height. Although listed in some sources as "brown or black," a contemporary turf writer who visited described him as black "as a crow." This same writer, who interviewed Boussac's stable manager while gazing at Pharis, was very impressed by his presence and calm temperament, although Pharis had been known to nip a groom when he removed a water bucket too quickly "to his liking." He spent some time in a mild restraint to prevent him from chewing at his flanks, but was calm and professional on the racecourse. Pharis had a good, sloping shoulder and powerful hind end, but was long in the back and slightly back in the knees.
Pharis on the Turf
Pharis was placed in training with Boussac's private trainer, A. Swann. He did not run as a juvenile, a strategy Boussac and Swann seemed to follow for big, growthy colts, including several of Pharis' offspring in later years. He ran only three times in his life, and was unbeaten, at age three. What would have been his fall season was interrupted by the war: the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, slated for October 8th, was cancelled, and the Doncaster St. Leger in England, where Pharis would have met the champion English colt Blue Peter, was also abandoned that year. The interruption by war of the brilliant career of a French racehorse recalled the champion Sardanapale's career a little over twenty years before.
Pharis started his season in late May by easily winning the Prix Noailles at Longchamp (1-1/2 miles), beating the favorite, Foxhound, by three lengths. In early June he ran with thirteen others in the Prix du Jockey Club. The race started in a heavy rain downpour, and Pharis' pacemaker, Horatius, went to the front, while Pharis lay back at the tail of the field. As he moved up he was checked when he ran into interference, and as the horses passed the stands he turned on his amazing speed, successively passing each horse, and running down the leader, Galérian, to win by two and one-half lengths. It was a brilliant, thrilling race that made Pharis a hero and gave Boussac his fifth Prix du Jockey Club win.
Pharis' final performance was his dramatic win of the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on June 15 (15 furlongs) in heavy, holding ground due to rain. There were seventeen colts and two fillies in the field, including Horatius, who set the pace at the start; Pharis was at the end of the pack for the early part of the race, and then four hundred meters from the post, was boxed in behind already beaten horses and nearly went to his knees, but as soon as an opening appeared on the rail, his jockey, C. Elliott, sent him through and Pharis came thundering down the stretch, "liked the winged horse of the Arab legend," putting away his opponents by two and one-half lengths. This was Boussac's first Grand Prix du Paris triumph. Pharis was acclaimed the champion of his year, and many compared him to the great French hero, Gladiateur.
Pharis in the Stud
Pharis was retired to Haras Fresnay-le-Buffard, where he was a successful, versatile stallion. He got four winners of the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby), champion juveniles and champion three-year-olds of both sexes in France, terrific stayers that won the Doncaster St. Leger (two), the Prix Royal-Oak (French St. Leger), the Prix de l'Arc deTriomphe, the Prix Kergolay, and other distance races, a champion filly in Germany, and more than one winner in England of the Champion and Hardwicke Stakes. He was the leading sire of juveniles in France four times, and topped the general sires list in 1944, was third four times, and fourth once (when one factored in his winners beyond France, he was leading sire in 1944, 1950, 1951, and 1952). He was second on the list of leading broodmare sires twice, in 1955 and 1956.
Boussac bred and raced most of Pharis' successful offspring, and contingents of Pharis youngsters regularly made the channel crossing to run and win in England, where purses were much higher than in post-war France, and the glory certainly more prestigious at the time. Their successes, both in England and France, contributed to Boussac's placing at the top of the breeders lists in France for years, and to his reputation as the most successful of French breeders of the twentieth century. Up until Pharis' death at Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard in February of 1957, he had bred 47 stakes winners and a total number of 108 individual winners of 285 races valued at £308,000, despite losing 4-1/2 years of breeding in France when he was confiscated by the Nazis and taken to Germany. Pharis was seldom put to outside mares (except for his time in Germany), in fact he was most often bred to daughters of Boussac's stallions Astérus (hugely contributing to his reputation as a broodmare sire) and Tourbillon, and one does wonder what he might have effected had that not been the case.
Pharis sons were extremely popular as stallions, and they spread his genes all over the world. They went to stud in Great Britain, South Africa, South America, Italy, New Zealand and Australia, the United States, and eventually, Japan. Although most were only moderately useful, some became champion sires that established long-lived tail male lines to Pharis. Not one of his sons that remained in France ever made the top ten in the sires list, but Pardal, who went to stud in England, was several times in the top ten there, and second in 1961, and he, along with Ardan,


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Provides data for any events that occur when a user clicks an image-based ASP.NET server control, such as the HtmlInputImage or ImageButton server controls. This class cannot be inherited.
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public sealed class ImageClickEventArgs : EventArgs
The ImageClickEventArgs type exposes the following members.
Public methodImageClickEventArgsInitializes a new instance of the ImageClickEventArgs class.
Public fieldXAn integer that represents the x-coordinate where a user clicked an image-based ASP.NET server control.
Public fieldYAn integer that represents the y-coordinate where a user clicked an image-based ASP.NET server control.
This class passes the location where a user clicked an HtmlInputImage server control or an ImageButton Web server control. Clicking an HtmlInputImage server control causes a ServerClick event to occur, while clicking an ImageButton server control causes a Click event to occur. You can then use event handlers to programmatically respond to the event based on the value of these coordinates.
The origin coordinates (0,0) are located at the upper left corner of the image.
The following code example demonstrates an ASP.NET page that uses the information provided by this class to display the coordinates of a user's click on an image.
// Define the event handler that uses coordinate information through ImageClickEventArgs.
void ImageButton_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
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