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Calculating the determinant of a 3 x 3 matrix is relatively trivial; the Laplace expansion is the method used here.
The least squares method can be used to fit a polynomial to a set of data points.
The Power Rule in Calculus is used when finding derivatives, and can be simplified to the following steps: Multiply the term by the exponent (power) Subtract 1 from the exponent The result of taking the derivative of `f(x)` is often writte...
I will be delivering a presentation on quantum computing at the ALT.
I will be delivering a presentation on quantum computing at DDD Melbourne 2016.
On this page: How it Works Constructing the Binary Tree Encoding the Data Unpacking the Data Final Thoughts The Code Huffman encoding is a compression technique developed by David Huffman and published in his 1952 paper 'A Method fo
The QSharp library will allow you to generate a quantum circuit diagram from a complete set of parsed commands.
The quantum Z gate is represented by the Pauli-Z matrix.
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The quantum Y gate is represented by the Pauli-Y matrix.
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The quantum X gate is represented by the Pauli-X matrix, and as such is the quantum NOT gate.
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The Register type represents a quantum state vector, which can be viewed as analogous to a memory register.
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I remember the first time I heard about Quantum Computing - the basic concept seemed too fantastic to be true, with many of the fundamental principles seeming counter-intuitive and almost ridiculous to me.
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Recently some of my time has been taken up with developing a new streaming media app targeted at Windows Phone 8.
The Hamming distance can be essentially thought of as the number of differences counted between two strings of equal length.
Well, when is it? It sounds like a trick question, but the truth of the matter is there's no such trick to the question at all.
Providing proof by Mathematical Induction allows us to prove that a recursive function will return the correct value for any value within its sequence.
What can mathematics do for your programming? That's an interesting question to explore, even more so when answered with an example.
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In set theory, the difference operation determines which elements from one set do not appear in the elements of another given set.
In set theory, the intersect operation determines which elements from a set intersect with elements from any given sets.
In set theory, the union operation is a enumerative combinatorial function that combines distinct elements found in any of the given sets.
The factorial of an integer is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to that number.
The insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that sorts an array (or list) one item at a time.
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In quantum computing, gate type operations are performed via matrix multiplication.
Matrix notation is a pain to deal with when writing in plain text/typing on a computer.
Here are three useful methods for multiplying complex terms: FOIL – First, Outer, Inner, Last Gathering Like Terms Expand Terms Consider the rule: (a + bi)(c + di) Where i denotes an imaginary number.
Like most programmers of classical computers, understanding the basics of quantum information and the underlying mechanics can be a bit of a leap.
Recently, I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.
A simple method for prime calculation involves: Calculate the square root of the number Setup a positively incrementing loop from 2 to the square root Attempt to divide the number by the loop value If the result of this calculation is greater t...
Recently sync operations to SkyDrive seemed to have stopped working with Office documents.
Goodbye to you, Visual Studio 2012 upper case menus! Have you recently installed Visual Studio 2012, and noticed that amongst the raft of UI changes that the menus now shout at you? For some reason, it's been decided that the menus should all a...
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Der Untersberg looms over my little place in Niederalm.
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'Extrasolar' is the second release by Melbourne multi-instrumentalist, Carl Belle.
There have been quite a few new interesting features added into C# over the last few iterations, and once of these that I'd always wondered about was automatic properties.
I was sad to wave goodbye to Österreich as I started my trip north, which took me breifly through Deutschland, hitting 265 km/hr on the autobahn.
On leaving Schweiz, I thought that there was no way at all that I would ever see another country even remotely as beautiful as Switzerland, however I was totally wrong: welcome to Österreich! After leaving Venice, I pointed the bike north east and...
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My venture into Italy was a trial by fire, or on this particular day, a trial by water, Porsche, gravel, and goat, via the immensely complex Passo di Stelvio.
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Here are some photos I took at the 2011 Catalunyan MotoGP.
On the 29th of May, 2011 I boarded the ferry to Santander from a very grey and miserable Plymouth.
Luggage space! There is simply never enough of in on a motorcycle, but that by itself is one of the attractions of motorcycling: carrying just what you need, not everything ever made.
The tallest mountain pass in Europe
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I was lucky enough to have a mate from Australia throwing a house warming style party at her place in Camden, so after a day taking in the sites and sounds, I ended up in Camden meeting more of the locals, which turned into an all-nighter and a train...
On the 18th of May I set out for a 2 day trip up to Wales, partly to give myself something to do, partly to test out the new bike luggage, and partly to test out the new bike, but mostly to see if all these moving parts would come together and facili...
My first excursions out on the new R6 have been reasonably safe and easy as I get used to being back in the saddle.
I picked up my new bike today, a lovely 2007 Yamaha YZF-R6.
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I decided to lash and purchase a GoPro Motorsport package for my trip to the EU.
Possibly the most important component of this trip is the bike itself.
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Every once in a while, various events and circumstance in our lives suddenly align, offering new opportunities, ideas, thoughts, emotions, goals and aspirations.
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I've been a member of my local gym for some time now, and recently have switched to eight exercise sessions a week; four cardio, and four weights.
Last night I received an SMS enquiring as to whether the car was still for sale, it included an email address in which to reply to (snoxmarcus99@hotmail.
My Mini has been on the market only a couple of days now, and last night I received an SMS asking about the purchase price.
Well, the time has come for my to part with my 1968 Mini Cooper 'S'.
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Back in February 2008 I recorded some music on my Pro Tools equipped system at MKII Studios in Hawthorn, using only a Yamaha Pacifica 1221, a Vox Tonelab SE, a Vox AC30, and a handful of delays.
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Not aware that so many Westerners were onboard the famed train from Mandalay to Lashio over the Gokteik Viaduct, it was doubly surprising to see that our hotel, Mr. Charles Guesthouse, had to send three vans to scoop up the new arrivals from the train station who were heading to their hotel.
Quite the machine! Clipboard wielding hotel staff shepherd dozens of new arrivals quickly to their rooms, process their passports for check in and returned, and deliver the drill of how you can meet the hotel tour guides in morning or evening hours to discuss trek options .
Even if you didn't stay at Mr. Charles Guesthouse, as we learned in conversations with tourists we met throughout town, you're likely to be referred to their trek operation and its menu of half-day, full-day, overnights, and sightseeing tours by car or bike to Shan and other ethnic group villages, waterfalls, tea plantations, with or without boat, and/or tours to nearby cities and towns.
We opted for a 10-hour trek labeled as "hard" to a Palaung hill tribe village, and with 20-20 hindsight wished that we had instead done an overnight trip to this same village.
But before our trek day, we did spend some time exploring Hsipaw on bicycle. If you stay at Mr Charles Guesthouse your day can begin before dawn when you awaken to the sound of the very young Buddhist nun girls next door, most quasi-orphans we learned, beginning their group recitations, an exercise that they do again for hours in the evening.
Bicycles are easy to come by in Hsipaw, or motorbikes, if you had the forethought to get an international drivers license before leaving home.
Not a large city/town, you only go a short distance on bicycle before you come to a small ethnic village enclave and dirt roads small enough so that the hassle of motorbikes and cars road hogging is gone.
Like elsewhere in Myanmar, Hsipaw is a place where a Westerner can find so much to marvel at in almost every block. Your eyes are looking at a very ramshackle thatch shack, and your ears are hearing the sounds of Korean singer Psy's Gangnam Style. You see the noodle factory's clotheslines of noodles hanging out to dry, and you overhear a tour guide telling tourists on a walking tour that the factory is closed in honor of Valentines Day. The dust and dirt reminds of Cambodia, and then the local gilded and beauteous temple emerges when you turn the paths corner.
Taking guidebook tips ,we made sure to stop for a Burmese curry lunch as opposed to dinner—because the same food is prepared in the late morning and you get a much better meal earlier in the day. How surprising to find that you get so many side dishes with your curry, somewhat akin to the banquet that even the simplest Korean meal turns out to be. More astonishing still, was that many of these side dishes are grasses, roots or full of sticks and stems that we wouldn't ordinarily think of as food. While not the exotica of eating insects in Issan Thailand, it did serve to expand our notion of a good chew, and quite literally, with a stem that tasted like chowing down on pine twigs.
It's unlikely any Hsipaw tourists are there to see the town. Rather, it's the destination for trek launches, and especially if you are seeking something a notch less touristy than the overnight treks in Inle Lake.
How you feel about your trek will no doubt be largely colored by the luck of the draw of whom your guide is. With "June", as he is called by Westerners, we lucked out. Though his English comprehension was 20% or so by our estimate, his sweet manner and enthusiasm more than made up for the communication gaps.
Now 18, he had been a Buddhist Monk until little more than a year before, when he explained he left the order to both get a girlfriend and to help his mother with farming the land. Better yet, he knows all the back roads, or more precisely, the barely traceable footpath shortcuts, that enabled us to stay an extra hour or so in his village up the mountain and still get back to a road and tuk tuk taxi by sundown.
Along this trek you go from one ethnic village to another, and with June as our guide, learned to say hello in various languages. All was very friendly, with farmers of various clans and tribal groups setting up their homes as pit stops serving oranges, energizer tea leaf salad snacks, drinks, etc. But through June's explanations we became acutely aware, for the first time, of how saturated Myanmar life is with these ethnic differences, and how they are tied to the wars in so many regions of the country where the US State Department advisories warn you not to go. You see that each ethnic hamlet has its own flag, for example. Yet, though June is firmly Palaung in his identity, he sports a Shan flag on his travel pack, likely because that is what he could find and afford in the village markets. Later in the day, when we stopped for a traditional meal in his village, he talked at great length about Myanmar politics, something out-of-date guidebooks had cautioned would rarely happen. He, like everyone we spoke to in Myanmar, apparently thought the world of Aung San Suu Kyi, but at the same time—IF we understood him correctly—seemed dubious that his tribe would be treated fairly. More puzzling still, given our inability to define "mercenary", was June's report that fellow Palaung had joined the Shan armies in the mountains to kill their own tribe. One political message was clear—he believed in peace first and foremost.
Staying overnight in the village, as opposed to doing the long trek and back in one day, would have been preferable not only to ease the wear and tear on muscle and bone, but more importantly to make more room for the little gestures that spoke large of what village life really is like. When we first arrived, one villager was trying to fix one of the water well pumps, and when June jumped in to help it spoke to the shared life in the community. Then again, when an older woman was struggling and barely coping to carry a large jerry can of water, June and other men in town were slow to help, which somewhat surprised us, later explaining that her children had married and gone elsewhere. This suggested conversely how each family is at the same time a solo unit.
Stopping at the village's monastery, we saw a map of the world, or rather Asia and the Middle East, which was labeled with religious symbols. This seemed to be the way and perhaps extent of geography education that monastery-educated June had been exposed to.
If one reason you like to travel is to feed your appreciation and ponder just how varied our human experiences are, a trek launched in Hsipaw won't disappoint.

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The MND Association has over 90 branches and groups across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, all run entirely by volunteers who work together in many different ways to provide support, raise awareness, influence, and fundraise at a local level.
We are currently looking for a Treasurer to be responsible for the finances of the branch by maintaining proper records and following the Association's accounting procedures.
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Skills or experience that would be helpful:
We are looking for someone to commit to approximately 2 hours a week including willingness to attend regular meetings.
Full training and induction will be provided and travel expenses will be reimbursed.
The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised and addressed by wider society.


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Good language skills are becoming increasingly important for career development, as well as becoming a higher priority for companies as they expand internationally. The ILC at IMC Krems offers needs-focused language courses that open the door to new opportunities for anyone with an interest in learning a new language or improving their existing language skills. Our training will equip you with the tools you need to communicate confidently and effectively, and help you to efficiently reach your learning goals. We provide courses in a wide range of languages including German, English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
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Our work on Symbiodinium metacommunities in American Samoa is now published in the open access journal PLOS ONE!
Cunning R, Yost DM, Guarinello ML, Putnam HM, Gates RD (2015) Variability of Symbiodinium communities in waters, sediments, and corals of thermally distinct reef pools in American Samoa. PLoS ONE 10(12):e0145099. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145099.
In this paper, we describe high diversity communities of Symbiodinium in the waters, sediments, and ten coral species in back reef pools of American Samoa. This represents the first application of next-generation sequencing to describe free-living Symbiodinium communities, and we apply some cutting-edge multivariate statistical techniques to elucidate potential linkages among free-living and symbiotic communities, suggesting a metacommunity framework may be useful in understanding Symbiodinium ecology in coral reef environments. This paper also contains some great high-resolution aerial imagery of our beautiful study reefs in American Samoa, and some spatial analysis of distribution patterns.
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Airbus executives themselves have been stunned by the huge success of the fuel-efficient A320neo (an acronym for 'new engine option'), which the European plane-maker had deliberated for years whether to bother building.
The only thing missing for Airbus this week was a substantial agreement with an airline to buy a batch of A380s, the European company's flagship and the world's biggest passenger plane.
The A380, after all, did not have the best start to the week – one of the enormous wings of the demonstration plane had a close encounter with a building as it taxied into the show on Sunday.
John Leahy, Airbus's commercial chief, did say on Thursday that the company had an undisclosed order for 10 Airbus A380s, worth an estimated $3.8bn (£2.4bn).
The customer who wants to remain anonymous is understood to be Hong Kong Airlines, and the reason the massive order had to slip by unnoticed seems to be China's anger with the European Union over plans to force all airlines to take part in its carbon-trading scheme as of next year.
The emissions trading rules, which already apply to heavily-polluting industries such as energy companies, will apply to airlines from January 2012. Companies pay for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit over a certain level.
The EU is determined to make all airlines flying into Europe pay, not just the local carriers, and the move has drawn opposition from China and the US. US airlines are bringing a lawsuit challenging the legal basis for the plan.
Tom Enders, Airbus chief executive, wrote to the EU climate commissioner earlier this month warning that the carbon emissions scheme could spark trade disputes.
"It is madness to risk retaliation" from the large trading partners of the EU, he said.
A decision to keep the A380 order under wraps would be the biggest sign yet of China's displeasure at being made to pay for its emissions.
However Boeing also revealed at the show it had two undisclosed orders, one of which was understood to be from Hong Kong Airlines, for 747-8s, the latest version of the original jumbo jet.
Airbus also announced at the show earlier this week that the first of the five A380s ordered for the China Southern airline had left the paint shop in Hamburg, bringing it a step closer to delivery.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft which has been travelling towards Pluto since its launch in 2006 has now entered the flyby activity phase of the mission. While closest approach will not be until July 14th the spacecraft will be performing plenty of different activities before then, as it races towards the dwarf planet.
Due to the extreme distance of the spacecraft it takes four hours for a signal to arrive back on Earth and will take almost a year for all the data captured to be returned.
The spacecraft carries seven scientific instruments. Total mass is 31 kg (68 lb) and rated power is 21 watts (though not all instruments operate simultaneously).
Fundamental physics-Pioneer Anomaly
New Horizons may be used to test the Pioneer Anomaly issue as it has an Ultrastable Oscillator subsystem.
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)
LORRI is a long focal length imager designed for high resolution and responsivity at visible wavelengths. The instrument is equipped with a high-resolution 1024×1024 monochromatic CCD imager with a 208.3 mm (8.20 in) aperture giving a resolution of 5 μrad (~1 asec). The CCD is chilled far below freezing by a passive radiator on the antisolar face of the spacecraft. This temperature differential requires insulation, and isolation from the rest of the structure. The Ritchey–Chretien mirrors and metering structure are made of silicon carbide, to boost stiffness, reduce weight, and prevent warping at low temperatures. The optical elements sit in a composite light shield, and mount with titanium and fiberglass for thermal isolation. Overall mass is 8.6 kg (19 lb), with the Optical tube assembly (OTA) weighing about 5.6 kg (12 lb), for one of the largest silicon-carbide telescopes flown at the time (now superseded by Herschel).
Pluto Exploration Remote Sensing Investigation (PERSI)
This consists of two instruments: The Ralph telescope, 6 cm (2.4 in) in aperture, with two separate channels: a visible-light CCD imager (MVIC- Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera) with broadband and color channels, and a near-infrared imaging spectrometer, LEISA (Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array). LEISA is derived from a similar instrument on the EO-1 mission. The second instrument is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, Alice. Alice resolves 1,024 wavelength bands in the far and extreme ultraviolet (from 50–180 nm), over 32 view fields. Its goal is to view the atmospheric makeup of Pluto. This Alice is derived from an Alice on the Rosetta mission. Ralph, designed afterwards, was named after Alice's husband on The Honeymooners. Ralph and Alice are names, not acronyms.
Plasma and high-energy particle spectrometer suite (PAM)
PAM consists of two instruments: SWAP (Solar Wind At Pluto), a toroidal electrostatic analyzer and retarding potential analyzer, and PEPSSI (Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation), a time of flight ion and electron sensor. SWAP measures particles of up to 6.5 keV, PEPSSI goes up to 1 MeV. Because of the tenuous solar wind at Pluto's distance, the SWAP instrument has the largest aperture of any such instrument ever flown.
Radio Science Experiment (REX)
REX will use an ultrastable crystal oscillator (essentially a calibrated crystal in a miniature oven) and some additional electronics to conduct radio science investigations using the communications channels. These are small enough to fit on a single card. Since there are two redundant communications subsystems, there are two, identical REX circuit boards. There is an outstanding request for a series of Geophysical Telegrams to be issued so that the REX can avoid failures and obtain more scientifically useful information.
Built by students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Student Dust Counter will operate continuously through the trajectory to make dust measurements. It consists of a detector panel, about 460 mm × 300 mm (18 in × 12 in), mounted on the antisolar face of the spacecraft (the ram direction), and an electronics box within the spacecraft. The detector contains fourteen polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) panels, twelve science and two reference, which generate voltage when impacted. Effective collecting area is 0.125 m2 (1.35 sq ft). No dust counter has operated past the orbit of Uranus; models of dust in the outer Solar System, especially the Kuiper belt, are speculative. VBSDC is always turned on measuring the masses of the interplanetary and interstellar dust particles (in the range of nano- and picograms) as they collide with the PVDF panels mounted on the New Horizons spacecraft. The measured data is expected to greatly contribute to the understanding of the dust spectra of the Solar System. The dust spectra can then be compared with those observed via telescope of other stars, giving new clues as to where earthlike planets can be found in our universe. The dust counter is named for Venetia Burney, who first suggested the name "Pluto" at the age of 11. A thirteen-minute short film about VBSDC garnered an Emmy award for student achievement in 2006.
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By Ola Prywer
January 15, 2015
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Lisbon, Portugal – The proposed Anabela's Baldaque collection Spring/Summer 2015 is the overtone for the light and sightly essence of femininity. This is the retro fashion with a touch of the present.
The designer skillfully mixes a variety of patterns and structure of materials. The floral marked textiles in shades of turquoise combined with lightweight silk is indestructible duo, always checking in the Spring/Summer season. Most proposals are dresses and skirts and loose knee's length shorts. Also appears laced blouses, delicate tulles and maxi transparency with perquisite feathers. The frills, sequins and shimmering delicate materials are certainly those details that make Baldaque's fashion even more sensual. Her collection also argues that jacquard can also be worn in the summer – just in duet with the right color and the laced ponchos can be safely worn every day, not only in the boudoir.
Fashion is definitely a woman. That's confirmed.


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Another police bulletin, another pile of corruption to commit,
I'm not quite sure how to manage all of this anymore.
This is taking a toll on my mind, body and soul,
Especially having to work extra hours because of these cases.
I work the overnight shift for the most part but I come in early,
And even stay late which causes me to miss family time.
But I'm looking after my paycheck and my pension,
It's pretty obvious since I haven't reported anyone on this mess.
With five informants on my hands, it's a lot of time managing them,
My partners have complete control over all of this, which is crazy.
I'm in the car going for the rides and doing a little talking,
Just watching, observing and secretly recording everyone.
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Last year, we brought you the news regarding the robot-like table clock Melchior by MB&F here and earlier this year the news about its small robot-like sibling Sherman here. Well, just as if those two robot-looking table clocks were not impressive enough, today we present you the newest member of the MB&F L'Epée 1839 clock family. Joining all the other clocks that MB&F had produced in collaboration with renowned clock maker L'Epée 1839, the new MB&F Balthazar is a sophisticated and imposing high-precision robot clock displaying jumping hours, retrograde seconds and a 35-day power reserve. Weighing in at over 18 pounds —8.2 kilos— and standing nearly 16 inches tall —39.4 centimeters— the new MB&F Balthazar clock is composed of 618 beautifully finished, micro-engineered parts. Perhaps one of the coolest things about this clock, is that by rotating his torso 180 degrees, Balthazar turns into a mean robot with a skull-like face and a dual hemisphere moon phase indicator accurate for 122 years.
On the front or light side —as MB&F refers to it—, the clock features a 35-day power reserve indicator at its waist line and "slow" jumping hours and trailing minutes via two discs on the chest. Meanwhile, his bright red eyes are actually 20-second retrograde displays and Balthazar's "brain" under the polished glass dome is where the precision regulator of the clockwork is located.
As one rotates the MB&F Balthazar around the hips, the miniscule bumps of each micro-roller as he turns can be felt. Then, everything changes as the smiling Balthazar unveils its dark side
revealed by the cold hard skull with menacing teeth and deep-set ruby-red eyes.
The moon phase can be adjusted manually, providing one of many of Balthazar's tactile pleasures as he does more than simply displaying horological indications. Not only you can rotate him around the hips, but you can also articulate both of his arms, shoulders and elbows, and his hands can clasp and hold objects like the MB&F Sherman does. Finally, Balthazar's shield conceals and protects the secret of his awesome power: an integrated clock-winding and time-setting key. This double-depth square socket winding/time-setting key integrated neatly into the shield, which naturally slips in and out of its concealed niche with horological precision.
Balthazar doesn't just look like an incredibly solid piece of complex high-precision micro-engineering, he is just that: an incredible 618 components go into the construction of his
body and clockwork, which are more pieces than in most complicated wristwatches. Developing Balthazar's movement required such significant modifications to the previous movement that L'Epée had created for the MB&F Melchior that it is basically a new movement. As well as the addition of a double hemisphere moon phase complication, Balthazar is around 30% taller than Melchior so an additional gear train was required to connect the regulator with the rest of the clockwork.
Surprisingly, because of Balthazar's size —and he is even heavier than he looks— manipulating any of Balthazar's joints and even the moon phase indication is extremely tactile. Moving anything on this robot is like gently closing the door on a high-end German sedan; it's the type of feel that requires much more than excellent high-precision micro-engineering capability, it requires caring deeply about touch, sensations, and even sounds from the outset.
The MB&F Balthazar is built to watchmaking precision by a team that cares deeply, you can feel it. Balthazar is full of surprises: joints move in ways that astonish; motions feel so wonderfully better than you expect that you want repeat them again and again. The build quality continually surprises and it's hard to emphasize just how solid Balthazar feels. And for those who look very carefully into those eerie, ruby red, Terminator-style eyes set deep into Balthazar's skull, there is an ultimate surprise perfectly illustrating just how seriously the team takes the notion of form-follows-function. Those red eyes are actually the ruby bearings that support the 20-second retrograde eye displays on the other side of his face.
With a normal jumping hour indication, between five minutes to the hour and five minutes past it can be difficult to know if the jump has occurred or not. So L'Epée developed a 'slow' jumping hour, which sees the hour disc remain static for 55 minutes and then —rather than jump instantly and risk the jump being missed— start to turn five minutes before the hour. The jump is so gradual that it can be easily seen. Balthazar's movement features a regulator with an Incabloc shock protection system to minimize risk of damage to this critical component when the clock is being transported or moved. This type of shock protection is generally only seen in wristwatches.
Balthazar's movement also features the same superlative fine finishing —Geneva waves, anglage, mirror polishes, sandblasting, circular and vertical satin finishing— seen on haute horlogerie wristwatches. However, finely finishing a clock movement is more challenging than finishing a wristwatch because of the greater surface areas of the larger components. Much time, attention and work goes into ensuring that Balthazar is absolutely everything he can be. For example, consider that his legs, which have no articulations to minimize the risk of falling over, have nevertheless been manufactured and finished in three separate pieces before assembly, just because going to that trouble significantly increased the telescopic potential of various sections.
Or those long nail type teeth set into Balthazar's skull: they could have been milled from a solid block of metal to save a lot of time and money. Instead they were manufactured and polished individually before being set carefully into the skull. While you may not consciously notice these imperceptible details, they all add up. Balthazar —along with Melchior and Caspar— was one of the names of the three wise men, or magi from the Bible. But this robot clock was named Balthazar for another reason. Maximilian Büsser explains: "In the Büsser family, for over five centuries from the 1400s onwards, every eldest Büsser son was either called Melchior or Balthazar. It alternated. My grandfather was called Melchior and hated it, so he had
everybody call him Max, which is how I became a Max. My grandfather hated the Melchior-Balthazar thing so much that he put an end to this 500-year-old tradition by calling my father Mario… Now, a century later, I happen to love the names Melchior and Balthazar."
The new MB&F L'Epée 1839 Balthazar comes in three limited editions of 50-pieces each in black, silver, blue or green armour plates.
Sticker Price CHF 52,000 Ex VAT —approximately $53,000 USD. For more info on MB&F click here.
Technical Specifications
Displays: Slow jumping hours and sweeping minutes: twin discs on the chest feature MB&F's signature numerals and respectively display hours and minutes. 20-second retrograde second display in eyes: red pupils in each eye scan over 20-second intervals and indicate seconds.
35-day power reserve indicator: dial on the belly provides intuitive view of remaining energy. Double hemisphere moon phase indicator: phases of the moon are displayed on a disc on the dark side chest.
Movement: L'Epée 1839 in-house designed and manufactured movement. 18,000 vph with five barrels in series, 405 movement parts, 62 jewels, Incabloc shock protection system, clockwork in palladium-plated brass and stainless steel, 35-day power reserve, double-depth square socket key sets time and winds movement.
Body & Armour: 39.4 cm high × 23.8 cm wide (depending on position of the arms) × 12.4 cm (boot size). Total weight 8.2 kilograms and Body/Armour composed of 213 parts. Movement main plate in palladium-plated polished brass.
Head: Dome polished glass secured via polished and bevelled palladium-plated brass bezel, circular brushed finish around escapement.
Skull : nickel-plated bronze with brushed and sandblasted finishes with each tooth milled in stainless steel and polished before being mounted into the skull individually.
Eyes : 20-second retrograde seconds display in stainless steel painted with red lacquer.
Torso: Breastplate in three pieces, breast and two CVD colour-treated shoulder pads. Hours, minutes, and power reserve indicators on one breastplate, moon phase display on the other. Protective plate in sapphire crystal.
Hips: Rotate on precision ball bearings with spring click to indicate and hold at resting positions. Balthazar's center of gravity is low around the hips to minimize any risk of being knocked over.
Legs: Each leg weighs 1.5 kg. Each femur is in 3 parts to reinforce the look of telescopic potential and Armour plating. Legs, shins, and feet in nickel-plated brass.
Shoulder/Arms: pivot at arms/shoulders, rotation at the elbows, pivot lower arms with spring locking system.
Fingers: On each hand, two fingers cross into the other three so that the hands can clasp.
Shield : double-depth square-socket key in polished and laser-engraved nickel-plated brass with integrated winding/time-setting key. Winding key is palladium-treated to maximize the longevity of the polished finish.


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What is the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care. Workforce Connections, Inc., through a subcontract from NWCEP and a grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, provides consumers and businesses with assistance in securing and understanding their health care options. Workforce Connections, Inc. staff conduct public educational workshops and one-on-one enrollment assistance.
Open enrollment begins on November 1, 2017 and ends on Decemer 15, 2017. Some exceptions may apply. For more information call 800-742-5627 or 608-790-8136, or complete the Request Services portion of our website.
What is Wisconsin Coverage Connections
Wisconsin Coverage Connections will provide extensive outreach and enrollment assistance in the small communities and rural areas of western Wisconsin to reach uninsured families with children. Kids who have health coverage are better prepared to do well in school and succeed in life. Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) offer free or low-cost health insurance for kids and teens. Children can receive regular check-ups, immunizations, doctor and dentist visits and more.
Navigators will provide training and conduct educational events at community events and individually to families who are eligible for the BadgerCare Plus program. For more information, call 800-742-5627 or 608-790-8136, or complete the Request Services portion of our website.


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I CANNOT believe you clicked on that headline! But rest assured; no endless clicking and credit card will be required to learn the "1 weird trick." So let's melt through the belly fat and get to it.
The reality: Back-to-school campaigns can be the most boring projects of the year. Back-to-college? Lots of options – will millennials want a futon or bed? Mac or PC? They will be picking out the clothes, thank you very much. It used to be so easy (and inexpensive) for parents.
But back-to-school is notebooks, calculators, pens/pencils, a new lunchbox to replace the moldy kitty one, new clothes (insert yawning emoticon here). But although the content ideas are kind of boring, the data is interesting, at least to people like us. Our data scientists have found that while brands focus on just two value points, price and convenience, audiences from most past campaigns have minimal demographic or psychographic concentration.
This is a costly mistake. You'll need to branch out to compel those parents to buy from you instead of your competitors. So if you're looking for influencers, you better have visibility into their audiences because you may not offer the most inexpensive school supplies. And buying from you may not be as easy as buying from Amazon. So that's it. That's the trick: it's targeting the audiences with higher densities of shared interests or values around which you can create a captivating campaign.
Look at that – just one click and you've learned the "1 weird trick"! Grab yourself a chorizo breakfast taco with habanero sauce – because you are lit. Now, there are some brands who get it – let's see how they used interests-driven campaigns to blow it up (or not).
Target didn't create their BTS campaign; kids did. Kid-sourced. They fielded 130 storyline submissions and chose 7 students to help create the video. You can see how they did it here. One million views within a day or two; of course they knew their audience; the creators were the audience!
Staples traded on the popularity of Katy Perry and parents' charitable inclinations with their #DonorsChoose campaign. Leveraging bloggers and social influencers with socially-minded audiences, they donated over $1m to classrooms and teachers.
Kleenex created a superb video and campaign around reducing the anxiety of kids going into middle school. Excellent production value, attention-grabbing content. This is actually a good learning example – why only 9,000 views? Care to take a guess???
Your creative team can come up with astonishingly captivating ideas. Your production team can produce polished, concise content. But if you don't target an audience with sufficient density of that concept or value, you're liable to end up disappointed.
The good news is that there are now tens of thousands of influencers with audiences specific to that psychographic you're counting on. And remember to pay attention to demos, even though through better data analysis, they are becoming less important to achieving maximum engagement on your campaigns.


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A PROMINENT Scots estate owner faces bankruptcy following a long-running legal battle over radioactive contamination of his land by the operators of the Dounreay nuclear plant.
Geoffrey Minter, the laird of Sandside in Caithness, faces losing his 10,000-acre estate after a panel set up by the government to assess financial compensation only awarded him a fraction of the amount he believed he was due.
Minter made a claim for millions of pounds after a series of radioactive particles attributed to an underground explosion in a storage pit in the 1970s were discovered on the foreshore of his estate, leading to a decline in the value of the land close to the former nuclear power station on the Pentland Firth coast. He has also spent tens of thousands of pounds on legal fees fighting his case over the last 14 years.
He was forced to put his company, Magnohard, into administration earlier this year when his bank foreclosed on it after a panel of surveyors set up to arbitrate between him and plant operators UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) determined he should only receive a portion of the millions he was expecting.
Government ministers have now been asked to review the compensation award amid "serious concerns" about the panel's verdict. Last week, the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority awarded an engineering consortium a £1.6 billion contract to finally clean-up Dounreay and any contamination it has left – a sum which dwarfs the compensation made available to Minter.
A friend of Minter, who bought the estate in 1990, said the panel's decision had been "devastating" for him and his family. "This has been a shameful business. First, Dounreay pollutes Sandside beach with hundreds of radioactive particles. Then it drags its feet over reaching a fair settlement and clean-up plan, then it eventually bleeds Geoffrey dry and drives him into bankruptcy."
James Stephen, the administrator put in charge of Magnohard, believes the panel undervalued the compensation due.
In a letter to the coalition's Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Stephen has questioned whether the panel was properly constituted and accused it of making a decision based on what he described as "wrong assumptions".
The dispute dates back to 1977 when an explosion underground near Dounreay released nuclear contamination into the environment. Details of the explosion were concealed from the public until 1996 but, from 1984, tiny radioactive particles were being washed up on the private beach on Sandside estate. The Dounreay Particles Advisory Group (DPAG) has estimated that thousands of particles have been accidentally discharged. Some of the particles have been described by experts as being large enough to pose a significant health risk but the Scottish Environment Protection Agency says the risk to the public is minimal.
After years of dispute, an independent panel was finally set up in 2010 but it was beset with problems.
In the summer of 2011, its report was delayed and then its chairman died and was not replaced, leaving two members. Then in October last year the new chairman suffered a stroke, leaving the panel with just one member, who refused to chair it. A new chairman was then drafted in on 30 November and, just eight days later on 8 December, a determination was issued.
The decision opened the way for the government to award the demolition and clean-up contract on Dounreay to the Babcock Dounreay Partnership, which was unveiled last Monday.
In his letter to the minister, Stephen has questioned whether the panel was properly constituted as it was never brought back to its full complement of three.
However, he claims the panel also failed to take advice on the active lifespan of the nuclear waste involved, stating that it was just 30 years instead of the correct 300 years. "Obviously this makes a big difference in the level of compensation," Stephen said. "It is an assumption that the panel has made and it is wrong."
He has also questioned why the panel believed potentially lucrative salmon fishing rights on the estate had no value. "Since I have been handling Magnohard there have been two expressions of interest in the salmon fishing rights," he said.
He added: "I have asked the minister to look at these points to review the determination because it seems to be flawed."
The friend added: "The blunders by the adjudicating panel are schoolboy errors and torpedo any pretence that this dispute has been honourably settled. Not knowing the half life of these particles is 300 years, ten times longer than assumed by the panel, is an appalling mistake and completely wrecks the panel's judgement of the scale of Geoffrey's loss.
"Sandside beach will remain contaminated for years to come."
Dounreay closed as a nuclear power station in 1994. The Babcock Dounreay partnership, a joint venture UK/US venture between Babcock, CH2M Hill and URS, will now take control of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) to begin the final stages of the clean-up operation, including the removal of the site's landmark dome.
The site consists of three nuclear reactors, fuel reprocessing plants, laboratories and various waste facilities, all a legacy of the site's 20th-century role as Britain's centre of fast reactor research and development.
A spokesman for the DECC said: "This is a matter for the parties to resolve. It would not be appropriate for the Government to become directly involved."


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Downtown Saint Paul Airport, formerly known as Holman Field had an open house today. I biked over there and sketched an awesome Minnesota Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter. Some of the crew kindly posed alongside the helicopter. (click on the sketch to make it bigger.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jumptap, the leading provider of mobile advertising solutions, today announced that George Bell has been appointed CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Former CEO Dan Olschwang will remain on the Jumptap Board.
To focus fully on Jumptap, Bell will take an indefinite leave from his duties as a Managing Director at General Catalyst, a top-tier venture capital firm and one of Jumptap's lead investors. Bell will advance the company's growing future as a platform agnostic mobile advertising network.
Founded in 2004, Jumptap leads the mobile advertising industry with deep technology expertise, the broadest array of open mobile ad solutions and an unmatched patent portfolio. Jumptap serves more than six billion impressions across multiple platforms each month. The company has evolved into the defacto partner for digital and media agencies, publishers, carriers and brand advertisers, delivering both brand and direct response mobile advertising solutions.
"Dan Olschwang was instrumental in building the technology platform, targeting and partner network that differentiate Jumptap. The company's growth and scale owe much to Dan. We are indebted to his leadership and will always be grateful for his contribution," said John Simon, a Managing Director at General Catalyst and a member of the Jumptap Board.
A seasoned chief executive officer, George Bell focuses on the creation and growth of technology-enabled media and marketing businesses. Prior to his role at General Catalyst, he served as CEO of Upromise, the country's largest college savings platform, sold in 2006 to Sallie Mae. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Excite@Home, bringing together the Excite portal with the @Home cable broadband platform in a $7 billion merger. Bell was CEO of Excite prior to the merger, led the company's IPO, oversaw the acquisition of more than 30 companies and expanded Excite into a worldwide media property.
Earlier, Bell founded The Outdoor Life Network (now Versus Network), a specialty cable channel reaching 60+MM homes. He has won four Emmy Awards for his work as a producer and writer of documentaries.
"Mobile devices have rapidly become the world's most ubiquitous access point to the internet. This is an incredibly exciting time, as we pilot how these devices will maximize value to consumers and marketers, and continue to open our platform to new partnerships," said George Bell, Jumptap's newly appointed CEO. "Jumptap's market share gains, especially over the last year, reflect the company's ability to execute. I'm looking forward to leading the company to even greater heights."
"George is an industry veteran with a winning history," said Geoff Yang, Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures, who backed George at Excite. Redpoint is a co-lead investor in Jumptap. "We consider ourselves lucky to have George at Jumptap, given that he's seen the key shifts in media and marketing over the last decade, and can bring that perspective to the fast-moving mobile revolution."
About Jumptap
Jumptap operates the largest independent premium mobile advertising network in North America, offering the largest unique user footprint with a penetration of approximately 63 million unique visits a month in the U.S. alone. Jumptap leverages its highly advanced algorithmic engine and unique IP to deliver the best ROI for advertisers and the highest monetization for publishers. The result is a network of mobile websites and applications that combine best-in-class content and services together with highly relevant advertising to create an experience that appeals to the mobile consumer. Flexible solutions offer both fixed CPM and bidded CPC campaigns. For more information, visit www.jumptap.com or follow us on twitter.com/jumptap.


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Paul's epistle to the Romans is one of the most important theological treatises ever written. In this upper-division course, Douglas Moo traces the major theological themes of Romans, following Paul's flow of thought from argument to argument. Moo covers essential historical and … more
Dr. Douglas J. Moo, professor of New Testament, teaches at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. For over twenty years, his ministry was based at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. His academic interests revolve around the interface of exegesis and theology.
Dr. Moo seeks to model to students a rigorous approach to the Greek text that always asks the "so what" questions of ultimate significance and application. The Pauline and General Letters have been his special focus within the NT canon. In the next few years, he will be writing commentaries on Galatians and Hebrews, a Pauline theology, and a theological and practical book on creation care.
He has also been active in his local church, serving as elder most years, teaching and preaching to the church, and conducting home Bible studies. Also very rewarding has been his service on the Committee on Bible Translation, the group of scholars charged with revising the text of the NIV and with producing the TNIV.
He and his wife, Jenny, have five grown children.


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Ray Beltran and Jonathan Maicelo to fight in title eliminator
Opening the HBO broadcast this Saturday night from the Madison Square Garden in New York City is a lightweight contest between Ray Beltran and Jonathan Maicelo – and much is at stake here. The winner is guaranteed a title shot, albeit when we're not quite certain. The IBF has decreed that the winner of the June 30 bout between its lightweight beltholder Robert Easter Jr. and Denis Shafikov, must square off against the winner of Beltran-Maicelo.
Say what you will about the IBF and its past (and there's certainly a lot that can be said about former President Bob Lee's "leadership") but this organization is one that is a stickler to its rules and regulations (sometimes to its own detriment).
Beltran, who has evolved into a solid prizefighter, is exactly the type of fighter who is absolutely thankful that there are multiple sanctioning bodies. Yes, there are those out there who believe that going back to a system in which one champion ruled would be ideal. This is great, in theory, but the reality is today's game sees fighters perform so infrequently and the business itself is so fractured that many fighters would be frozen out of the picture for not being aligned with certain entities.
Yeah, it's great to romanticize the "olden days" but looking at things pragmatically, boxers like Beltran need organizations like the IBF and the structure they provide, at times.
"Well, he certainly does and a lot of fighters fall into that category. Maicelo is one of them," says Carl Moretti, the Vice President of Boxing Operations for Top Rank Inc., who helped put this fight together. "These are guys who aren't going to be offered a title fight, for the most part, because it's high-risk and low-reward. So, with that being the case, you have to push fighters as far as you can and as high as you can in the respective rankings."
Currently Shafikov (who earned this title shot by defeating the tough Richard Commey back in December) is rated No. 1 by the IBF. Beltran is currently rated third, Maicelo seventh.
Years ago, Beltran was basically a journeyman who gained acclaim as a sparring partner for Manny Pacquiao and, through years of hard work and experience, has forged himself into a legitimate contender. But with a record of 32-7-1 (20), that doesn't tell you the whole story. He isn't exactly the type of guys beltholders are willing to face so readily unless they are the quality of current WBC/WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford, who defeated him in 2014, in defense of the WBO lightweight title.
Ask Ricky Burns – who was very fortunate to retain his WBO 135-pound belt in 2013 versus Beltran – if he's an easy out.
When asked how difficult it is to land fights for Beltran against names of significance, Moretti told UCNLive.com, "It's not easy; let's just say that. Maicelo, to his credit realizes it's an opportunity in itself. You're going to be seen by a lot of people. I've got to believe Maicelo looks at it as the same opportunity that Beltran has. They're all trying to get a title fight. When kids go to the gym everyday and train, what's the first thing they say? 'I want to become a world champion.' Well, it's not that easy, so you have to go through these steps to get there."
Currently, there are four major belts that are recognized, the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO, which may rankle purists but till you get back to a time and place when world-class boxers fight much more often, this current system creates opportunities for fighters who otherwise may not get them.
"Right now we've gotten to the point where we've accepted four sanctioning organizations and you have to play within the rules. So you do the best you can with the guys – like a Ray Beltran or Jonathan Maicelo – and you can go through any division with any fighter who's high-risk and low-reward. You've gotta earn your shot as a mandatory," said Moretti.
This system is not without flaws. Sometimes you get some head-scratching mandatory challengers and fulfilling them could hold up the process of making more meaningful bouts. And then you have the WBA with its multiple champions per division. Again, it's not perfect but it beats the alternative – fighters being avoided or sidelined as they wait for title shots.
So do four major belts make the right number?
"Well, I'd like 20,"cracked Moretti (and we think he's joking). "If there were a little more frequency or structure to the whole business, then maybe you could get away with less organizations. I support all the organizations. I don't look at them as a detriment to the sport. But what happens if you get stuck with mandatories with fighters that aren't necessarily deserving of a mandatory or put in for rematches? Then it could set it back a little bit."
It was formally announced on Wednesday that an HBO tripleheader will be headlined by a main event featuring WBC 130-pound titlist Miguel Berchelt against Takashi Miura, supported by a light heavyweight slugfest between Joe Smith Jr. and Sullivan Barrera and WBA super featherweight titlist Jezreel Corrales taking on Robinson Castellanos.
This show, which is being promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, will take place at the Forum (and is priced to sell, with tickets ranging from $25-to-$125 for ringside seats). Originally, Golden Boy inquired about the StubHub Center in Carson.
"The StubHub Center was not available. We tried but we were told there's going to be another boxing event a week later. So it wasn't available so we ended up at the Forum," explained Eric Gomez, the president of GBP. Word is the July 22 date is being held for WBC lightweight titlist Mikey Garcia.
This is a fight fan's card, one that should provide a good night of entertainment. And it's a show that involves multiple promoters.
"That's been our model, (Golden Boy CEO) Oscar (De La Hoya)'s model since Oscar took over the company and he's been at the helm. He's willing to work with everybody and make the best fights and we've been doing it for going on the last three years now and we're going to continue to do it," stated Gomez.
"If there's a great opportunity for one of our fighters, we're going to explore it and, look, we get along with everybody and we just want to put the best product out there."
Here's this week's edition of "The Next Round" with Gabe Montoya and me (a full two-hour edition).
Mario Lopez and I discuss boxing and other things on this episode of "The 3 Knockdown Rule."
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How to Choose a Nightscape CCD Camera
October 11, 2012
For many of us, our first experience with astroimaging comes when we hold up a point-and-shoot camera to the eyepiece of a telescope and take a picture. This simple process, known as digiscoping, opens the door to the world of astroimaging. After digiscoping, imagers commonly progress to a DSLR camera using a T-adapter. With this technique, they can take stunning photos of celestial objects and hone their skills. Astroimaging becomes more than a hobby; it's an art form.
But eventually, imagers become limited by the constraints of DSLR cameras. After all, these cameras are mainly built for terrestrial photography, and lighting conditions very different from what we can see through a telescope.
CCD cameras take astroimaging to the next level, with super-sensitive CCD chips and cooling systems that reduce the temperature inside the camera by several degrees. These specialized cameras reduce noise, yielding greater signal and more detail in every shot. But this advanced technology can be difficult to use and range into the thousands of dollars. That's why it's so important to choose the right camera to help you get the best results.
Celestron offers two excellent CCD cameras at an extremely affordable price, perfect for those looking to make the transition from DSLR to CCD camera.
Nightscape 10100: A Versatile CCD Camera
The Nightscape 10100 debuted in 2011, and gained favor among imagers for its flexibility. At 10.7 megapixels, this camera offers more pixels-per-dollar than any other cooled 16-bit color CCD on the market.
The Nightscape 10100 works in 3 different resolutions in color. At full 1x1 resolution, sensitivity is best matched with short telescopes with a fast f-ratio, such as an EdgeHD with Hyperstar (f/2). In 2x2 and 4x4 binning modes, the camera is considerably more sensitive and suited for longer focal length telescopes, like the EdgeHD operating at f/10 or f/11. This provides great versatility for most imaging configurations.
At $1,499, the Nightscape 10100 is a huge improvement in quality over DSLR imaging, while providing excellent value.
Nightscape 8300: Advanced Technology at an Affordable Price
The Kodak KAF 8300 CCD sensor is a favorite among astroimagers due to its inherent low noise, high sensitivity, and relatively small pixel size. However, until now, this acclaimed Kodak chip was only available on high-end CCD cameras with a price tag to match.
To make this sensor more accessible for amateur astroimagers, Celestron's engineers designed the Nightscape 8300. It's the most affordable Kodak KAF 8300 camera on the market. At $1699, this camera offers 3.5x the imaging area and 5.5x the resolution of other CCD cameras in its price range. The Nightscape 8300 sets a new standard for intermediate level imaging.
The Nightscape 8300 has 8.3 megapixels, and is ideal for short to medium focal length telescopes, such as an EdgeHD system with a 0.7x Reducer Lens. It's also a great choice for most refractor and reflector telescopes.
AstroFX Software: Included With Your Nightscape Camera
In reference to our Nightscape 10100, Sky and Telescope magazine said,"This camera takes the work out of creating spectacular deep-sky images." Part of why Nightscape is so easy to use is the included software, AstroFX.
If you're new to CCD photography, let AstroFX guide you step-by-step from taking images to final processing. You'll be surprised how simple it is to create a final master image that's been stacked, stretched, sharpened, and saturated – ready to share with your friends.
Additionally, both Nightscape cameras come with a 2-year warranty from Celestron.


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We're just a few short days away from three weeks of college basketball madness. Get pumped!


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Selama bertahun-tahun,mesin Wimshurst digunakan untuk muatan listrik.Mesin ini bekerja dengan menggunakan induksi.Dengan memutar pegangan engkol,proses itu pun mulai.Jalannya proses ini melibatkan bagian logam yang menempel di bagian luar cakram yang berputar dengan arah yang berlainan,serta sisir logam yang menunjukkan ke arah cakram,tetapi tidak menyentuhnya.Proses ini menggandakan muatan listrik yang menyimpang berulang-ulang.Muatan yang dihasilkan disimpan dalam guci Leyden.
Jika muatan sudah mencukupi,muatan tersebut akan melompat di antara dua bola pelepas muatan dan menghasilkan bunga api yang menyilaukan.Alat ini dikembangkan oleh James Wimshurst (1832-1903).Mesin Wimshurst dulunya digunakan untuk menunjukkan pembuatan listrik statis,begitulah istilah untuk muatan listrik.Istilah ini digunakan hingga paling tidak tahun 1960-an.Mesin yang terbesar memiliki cakram berdiameter 2,12m (7 kaki).
Monday, September 14, 2009
Membuat Muatan Listrik
Selama bertahun-tahun,mesin Wimshurst digunakan untuk muatan listrik.Mesin ini bekerja dengan menggunakan induksi.Dengan memutar pegangan engkol,proses itu pun mulai.Jalannya proses ini melibatkan bagian logam yang menempel di bagian luar cakram yang berputar dengan arah yang berlainan,serta sisir logam yang menunjukkan ke arah cakram,tetapi tidak menyentuhnya.Proses ini menggandakan muatan listrik yang menyimpang berulang-ulang.Muatan yang dihasilkan disimpan dalam guci Leyden.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
History of the Holy Land (part I)
History of the Holy Land (part I)
Efforts to realize peace in the region that is now known as Palestine is a long journey and a holiday. He was not only hard work, perseverance, and a willingness to talk to each other. He also request the lives of many victims. Each party bertikai groups have hard-line group that is ready to leave the peace effort. They not only kill the enemy, but also friends who are considered too weak. Indeed, it is an irony that the holy religion of the world is a place on the land so easily blood flows. Here is a history konfilk the holy land.
Around 630 Year Since
Palestinians, in a region known as the Gospel of Canaan, dominated by Arab nations. Areas that, in the modern map, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea in the West, Jordan River and Dead Sea in the east, Mount Herman, and Syria-Lebanon border in the north, and the Sinai Peninsula in the South. Areas that have a place in the world's most historic. He is the origin of Christianity and Jews. He is also seen as a holy place of Muslims.
1517 - 1918
Palestinian territory is under the authority of the Kingdom of Ottoman Turkey.
The first migration of European Jews, Palestinians, due to the oppression of the Jews in Eastern Europe. At that time, was born Zionisme movement that aims to make the Palestinians as a sovereign state for the Jews. Migration of the first group of about 25 thousand people. At 1914, the number of Jews in Palestine to reach about 85 thousand from 700 thousand population of Palestine (At that time).
1914 - 1918
In World War II, Turkish side to Germany and Austria-Hungary against the associate. To grasp the influence of the Jews, making the UK Balfour Declaration (1917), which provides support for the establishment of "national home" for the Jews in Palestine, without the rights of non-Jewish nations in that region.
After the partners win the war, Ottoman Kingdom is divided into regions mandate. Palestinian blood to be British mandate. Arab nations rejected the Balfour Declaration and the pemandatan. When naziisme born in Europe and the Jews are chase each other, wave to the Palestinian refugees increased. Support terhadpa state of Israel any more knowledgeable.
1936 - 1939
Palestinian-Arab rebellion against the authority of the United Kingdom. Zoning proposal to the Palestinians in the Arab region and the Jews rejected.
England restrict Jewish settlement in Palestine and to end the migration of all the Jews.
1939 - 1945
During World War II, Arab and Jewish Palestinians stop the resistance against the UK. At the World War II, about 6 million European Jews murdered Nazi.
English mengimbau of the United Nations (UN) to handle the Palestinian issue. Recommendations to the UN Special divide Palestinian territory into Arab countries and the Jewish state. Jerusalem, holy city of religion, under the supervision of the International. It accepted the decision but declined Jewish Arab parties.
In May, Jewish residents proclaim the state of Israel. British troops leave. Israel and involved the war against Arab countries that are. That a new war ended in October 1949. Around 700 Palestinians, thousands of people flee. Israel menganeksasi a very wide area. Jordan and Egypt respectively stand in line edges and West Jerusalem Gaza.Kota two. The western region of Israel, while Jordan, the East region.
In July, Egypt Terusan nationalize Suez, the short voyage to the far East. England and France tried to retake canal with the help of Israel. In October, Israel menginvasi Sinai Peninsula. England and France occupied the canal. In November, the two countries that back pressure on the United States (U.S.).
June 5, 1967
Through the attack, which was then known as the Six Day War, Israel successfully seize Gaza Strip from Egypt. Highest Golan plateau from Syria, and the edges West and East Jerusalem from Jordan. The success of these areas to make two of Israel.
September 5, 1972
Gerilyawan Palestinian shot dead 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, Germany, in a raid, which was then referred to as "Black September".
6 October 1973
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the Sinai force, and The Highest Golan in the Jewish fast day, Yom Kippur.
4 July 1976
Israel army command successfully deliver 98 passenger aircraft piracy Jews in Air France Airbus by Gerilyawan Palestinians in Entebbe, Uganda.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in the parliament of Israel recognizes the right to life of Israel.
March-June 1978
Israel menginvasi South Lebanon and then to stand in the path litany Guan South River north of the border to keep the land.
September 1978
Egypt, Israel and the U.S. signed the Agreement Camp David.Israel restore Sinai Peninsula to Egypt with the reply of peace and normalization relations.
June 6, 1982
Israel again menginvasi Lebanon to drive Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under Yasser Arafat.
September 16, 1982
Christian militia allied with Israel killed two Palestinians, thousands of unarmed people in the refugee camps Sabra and Shatila after the PLO was forced out combatants Lebanon by Israeli troops.
1983 - 1985
Israel Lebanon back from the region, except from the area pertahanannya zone in the Southern Lebanon.
December 9, 1987
Nation Palestinian intifada started movement (lift the weapons) against Israel in the West edges and Gaza Strip. Demonstrationist young Palestinian stone Israeli troops with stones and then with a volley shot dibalas, arrest and deportation. More than 20 thousand people dead or injured.
December 14, 1988
Yasser Arafat condemns all forms of terrorism and recognize the state of Israel. U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, to open dialogue with the PLO, although Israel still shows hostile attitude.
January 1993
Discussion secret Israeli-Palestinian Oslo in starts.
July 25, 1993
After 7 soldiers killed in Israel South Lebanon, the Israeli revenge operations. For the first time since 1982, Israel attacked the troops using heavy artillery and aircraft. Around 300 thousand people of Lebanon to evacuate the north.
September 13, 1993
Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister (PM) of Israel Yitzhak Rabin signed the Declaration of Principles in Washington based on the results of talks in Oslo (known as the Oslo agreement). Israel recognizes the PLO and to give limited autonomy. As a return, PLO promises peace and end the claims against the territory of Israel.
February 25, 1994
A Jewish militant slaughter of 29 Palestinians who are currently worship in a mosque in Hebron.
4 May 1994
Israel and the PLO reached an agreement in Cairo Egypt, the first step on the implementation of the Oslo Agreement. Israel army back from the 60 percent of the Gaza Strip and Jericho in the area of the city edges West.
July 1, 1994
After 12 years leading the PLO's Tunis, Yasser Arafat returned to Gaza to take new position as Head of Palestinian Authority.
Next To Part II
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History of the Holy Land (part II)
History of the Holy Land (part II)
October 26, 1994
Israel and Jordan signed a peace agreement. Israel agrees to respect the special role of Hashemite Kingdom over the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.
September 28, 1995
Arafat and Rabin signed the Taba Agreement (also known as Oslo II Agreement) in the Washington area that extended to the Palestinian Authority edges West and Gaza Strip, and allow the execution Election (Election) Palestine.
4 November 1995
PM Yitzhak Rabin killed by Yigal Amir, an orthodox students who oppose withdrawal from the edges back West. Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister of Israel, was replaced Rabin.
November 1995-March 1996
Peres decided to accelerate the peace process with Syria. Previously, Rabin took care of the neighbor countries. Negotiations in Wye Plantation, Maryland, USA, producing a variety of means breakthrough.
February-March 1996
A series of suicide bomb attacks by the group Hamas killed 57 people of Israel. Peres suspend negotiations with Syria.
April 11, 1996
Israel started the attack 17 days to Lebanon. Gerilyawan Lebanese Hizbullah attack major cities of Israel with Katyusha rocket. On 18 April 1996, Israel attacked the UN camp at Qana killed and around 800 thousand residents sipil.Laporan UN said the attack was disengaja.Israel deny reports in the United Nations.
May 29, 1996
On the Election of Israel, Peres lost power and was replaced Benjamin Netanyahu is campaigning against the program Rabin-Peres peace.
September 1996
Action violence killed 61 people and 15 Arab Israeli army due to the establishment of the archaeological tunnel near the holy place of Islam in Jerusalem.
January 17, 1997
Israel attacked the 80 percent of Hebron to the Palestinian Authority. They maintain the area where several hundred Jews live among Palestinians, 20 thousand people.
March 18, 1997
Israel started the construction work of housing in Har Homa Abu Ghneim mountain circle to meet the Jewish settlements in the area of East Jerusalem. That action be gazed at the International.
March 21, 1997
Suicide bomb explosion in a cafe in Tel Aviv killed three people of Israel and 42 other wound.
September 4, 1997
Three suicide bomb in the shopping center in Jerusalem killed five people of Israel.
September 25, 1997
Israeli undercover agents as a Canadian tourist to the failed murder attempt against the Hamas military leader in Jordan. Crisis emerged with the relationship between Israel and Jordan, Canada. Jordan successfully forcing Israel release Hamas spiritual leader, Ahmad Yassin Burgess.
October 23, 1998
Under U.S. pressure, Netanyahu signed the Wye River Memorandum is set back further withdrawal of Israeli troops from West edges and Gaza Strip.
7 February 1999
King Hussein of Jordan, who has been working to promote the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel dies.
May 18, 1999
Labor Party leader Ehud Barak won the election after the coalition government dipercepat leader Netanyahu broken.
September 5, 1999
Middle East peace process is running again with the signing of the agreement River Way diperbaruhi.
6 December 1999
The process of final negotiations between Israel and Palestine to meet the deadlock when Palestinians protest against the smooth development of new Jewish settlements in the West region edges. Barak said the protests of 1800 with the termination of new homes in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
December 15, 1999
Barak met with Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara in Washington in the first high-level meeting between the two countries. Negotiations to reach results in the New Year but it was canceled on 17 January 2000 without explanation. Failure to trigger new tensions in Jerusalem.
February 3, 2000
Meeting Barak and Arafat failed to achieve results on the continued withdrawal of Israeli troops from West edges.
March 21, 2000
Israel finally deliver 6 percent more territory to the West edges Palestine. Israel and the Palestinian Negosiator meet again in Washington to resume discussion of the final status of Palestine.
July 25, 2000
Peace meeting in Camp David, the U.S. ended without results after two sunday negotiate. Negosiator formula fails to achieve the settlement of the problem of Jerusalem.
September 28, 2000
Ariel Sharon, the leader of the hard right wing into the opposition, visited the Temple Mount, holy places for Muslims and Jews. Provocation to cause waves of violence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian demonstrators. Intifada back dikumandangkan.
6 February 2001
Ariel Sharon was chosen as the new Israeli PM Barak government after the fall. Intifada continues. To this day (2002), after one more year intifada been, reported that 184 residents of Israel and the Palestinians, killed 681 people.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Kejahatan Oleh Warga Lanjut Usia Di Jepang
Crimes By The Seniors In Japan
A report the Japanese government has not revealed this long, crime by elderly men (elderly) in the country sunrise that rose to record high, due to various reasons such as financial worries, lonely and difficulties in managing a sick relative. Japan record one of the lowest crime figures in the world, but the increasing number of crimes that made the elderly.
In the last year, 48,605 elderly people arrested or to be decreased due to a variety of crime other than violation lalulintas, up fourfold from sedekade back and record the highest number-comparable record began in 1986, said ministry judiciary.
The number of Japanese aged 65 years and over is estimated to rise to double in two decades, but the crime by the elderly is now with the rise far more quickly. The senior citizens registered 13 percent of the perpetrators of crimes in 2007, up sharply from only 2 percent in 1988. During the same period the percentage of the elderly population is almost double the 21 percent so. Meanwhile, the total number of crimes recorded during the same period, not including traffic violations, down 8 percent.
Almost duapertiga of crime by the elderly years ago is a case of theft, but the proportion of elderly people increased by 40 percent in the last two decades. Many elderly people are arrested for the first time in their lives suddenly turned to crime because of various reasons.
Elderly residents who never be in jail in the past showed a tendency to do evil because of economic worries and encouragement apathetic attitude in life. A study on 50 cases of murder by elderly residents showed relatives of the victim is a violation of the law in 28 cases. In the case of nine women lawbreaker, the victim is a relative. Various reasons are often the background so the murder of relatives is "pessimism over their future" and "kelitakan" in managing them.
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Lynmouth and Lynton are on the South West Coast Path & Exmoor in North Devon. An area noted for its high cliffs, quaint cottages, views, and the wilderness of Exmoor with its deer and ponies.
Lynmouth and Lynton scenic tour
Lynmouth is on the South West Coast Path & Exmoor in North Devon. An area noted for its high cliffs and moors for walking, quaint cottages, views, and access to the inner wilderness of Exmoor with its deer and ponies. Hollerday Hill has its goats and buzzards. Lynmouth a harbour, Cliff Railway, sea air, Rhenish Tower, boats, horse riding and challenging surf. There is fishing for salmon and trout. Whether you crave action or peace and quiet the area of Lynton and Lynmouth is for you.
Morning coffee stop enroute in Minehead.
Depart for home Approx. 17.30
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
|Contact Details
| Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop
Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre
|Bristol Anchor Road West
| Anchor Road, Outside @ Bristol-We The Curious
Westbound Bus Stop
|Bristol Tesco
| Tesco's Eastville Bus stop - Jct 2 of M32
(Tesco's Car park only has a 2 Hr. parking limit)
|Burnham on Sea
| Burnham on Sea, Pier Street
Bus Stop The Old Pier Tavern
| Clevedon
Tui Travel Agency
| Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK
| Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop
Near to Church
| Nailsea - Clevedon Road Car Park
|Weston Borough Arms Sth
| Outside the Borough Arms Bus Shelter
Locking Road
| Weston-super-Mare
Locking Road Car Park
|Worle - Homebase South
| Worle - Bridge Farm Opposite Argos Homebase Bus St
New Bristol Road
|Worle - P/Green South
| Worle - Preanes Green, New Bristol Rd.
Opposite side of Road to Summer Lane Bus Shelter
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New Map of Football Fans Shows the Dallas Cowboys Really Are America's Team
Ahead of Sunday's big football game, New York University PhD candidate, Sean Taylor, has published a new map based on Facebook figures that show a surprising social and geographical breakdown of NFL fans. The map is color-coded to show which states love which teams.
Not so surprising, is the fact that Texas is predominantly blue and loves its Cowboys. There is a pocket of red around Houston though, that lives and breathes Texans.
The map shows the Cowboys are one of the dominant teams across the US, not just in Texas. You can find fans of the Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers, and Green Bay Packers in just about any state. And Cowboy fans are the dominant ones in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, and Utah.
The Cowboys may not be able to get to the playoffs right now, but the franchise is worth $2.1 billion, according the latest numbers, and the team has more fans than any other. At least that much can make Jerry Jones smile.


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GDB "non-stop mode" in Qt Creator
Is there any way I can use gdb's "non-stop mode" - see https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Non_002dStop-Mode.html - when debugging in Qt Creator?
I tried adding
set non-stop on
to Additional Startup Commands in Options->Debugger->GDB, but after this, debug sessions seemed to get completely stuck; execution wasn't interrupted at break-points, and the Stop Debugger button was unable to stop the gdb process. The following was displayed in the status view
NOTE: INFERIOR STILL RUNNING IN STATE InferiorRunOk. >100^error,msg="Target is executing." dCOOKIE FOR TOKEN 100 ALREADY EATEN (InferiorRunOk). TWO RESPONSES FOR ONE COMMAND? sExecutable failed: Target is executing.
I'm using Qt Creator 3.2.2.
By try and error, I found out that you should switch to the right "Thread" in the threads drop-down list to be able to use gdb properly.
What I did was to enter the command "set non-stop on" in "Additional Startup Commands" of the debugger configuration and catch the right thread.
That being said I am no expert on this matter, as matter of fact I got to know this "non-stop mode" for five minutes. So don't blame me if it does not respond for you. (for me it did with Qt Creator 3.6.0 and gdb 7.9)