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Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley's first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at 'Crome' where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self appointed historian; Apocylapse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. Our hero, Denis, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love.
The author, Aldous Huxley, was born in 1894 and began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties; this was his first novel and established his literary reputation. (Summary by Martin Clifton)
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Omega Flex (Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) Analysis)
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What is the WACC Formula? Analyst use the WACC Discount Rate (weighted average cost of capital) to determine Omega Flex's investment risk. WACC Formula = Cost of Equity (CAPM) * Common Equity + (Cost of Debt) * Total Debt. The result of this calculation is an essential input for the discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis for Omega Flex. Value Investing Importance? This method is widely used by investment professionals to determine the correct price for investments in Omega Flex before they make value investing decisions. This WACC analysis is used in Omega Flex's discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation and see how the WACC calculation affect's Omega Flex's company valuation.
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1. The WACC (discount rate) calculation for Omega Flex uses comparable companies to produce a single WACC (discount rate). An industry average WACC (discount rate) is the most accurate for Omega Flex over the long term. If there are any short-term differences between the industry WACC and Omega Flex's WACC (discount rate), then Omega Flex is more likely to revert to the industry WACC (discount rate) over the long term.
2. The WACC calculation uses the higher of Omega Flex's WACC or the risk free rate, because no investment can have a cost of capital that is better than risk free. This situation may occur if the beta is negative and Omega Flex uses a significant proportion of equity capital.

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Revamping scrapped artwork is a great way to improve the skills of any artist. It is a great measure of your improvement and changes in style over time. Back in 2007, I had a caricature drawn of me at an event, which I later used to practice vector styles in Photoshop. Fast forward some years, and I've recreated that old artwork with improved skills as a digital painter. This tutorial will show you how I transformed that old vector illustration into a true digital painting. Let's get started!
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
- Old Cartoon (Feel free to use your own)
Step 1
Cut and paste a previously scrapped cartoon into a 1800 x 1650 document at 150 dpi with a white background. Use Free Transform while holding down Shift to make sizing adjustments, then center the image. Trace that image using a high opacity, soft, black brush.
Step 2
Since this cartoon is based on an actual person, quickly collage several photos together of your subject for reference. This reference will help when modifying the trace to look more like the subject. By keeping the reference black and white you can concentrate on just the characteristics of those features. And later on when figuring out how light should fall on the face, you can always reference the collage again.
Step 3
Modify your original sketch by using your tablet to redraw features to look more like the subject. In this case, I paid attention to the eyes, nose, and mouth to achieve this effect. Don't worry just yet about making the cartoon more anatomically correct, you can save that for the painting later.
Step 4
For sketching curly hair, draw the curls so that they interact with each other, looping with one another and bunching together. For a quick cheat, draw only one side of the curls and use the Lasso tool to copy and paste a new layer of curls for the opposite side. Flip and rotate the curls so that the copy isn't too obvious, though any similarities will be covered up during the painting process.
Step 5
Add a new layer. Using the Elliptical Tool, create a large circle behind the cartoon with a stroke of 7 pixels. With the Pen Tool selected, right-click to create a Vector Mask. This circle will enclose the background scenery for the painting. You can leave the extra details for any of these additions until we start painting the image.
Step 6
You can create a theme around your cartoon as I did. Since the original caricature artist drew me from their point of view, this where I can add a little flair to make it my own. I love vintage lifestyle and fashion, so I incorporated it into the drawing by adding a flapper style headband and halter top.
Step 7
I always start off with a base layer of solid color for my paintings. Add a new layer underneath the trace layer, taking a soft brush at full opacity to fill the cartoon with color. Add another new layer above the base, and use this layer to add more shape and definition to the cartoon while experimenting with color. Originally inspired by the warm, romantic colors of sunsets for the background, I wanted to keep this color scheme consistent with the rest of the painting.
Step 8
I use mostly the standard round soft brushes at medium to low opacity to paint the character. For a smoother look, take the Smudge Tool at 50% strength and wiggle it over an area to blend the colors softly together.
Step 9
Strive to become a conscious artist so that you can mold your artistic approach to what works. This is where we'll learn from my earlier mistakes and solutions. In this case, I realized that painting with a black sketch was distracting my eyes from building the shape of the cartoon. Using Layer Styles, set a Color Overlay to the sketch to reflect the color scheme. The sketch is only the initial guide to paint from and will be covered with color eventually, so don't stress over minimal adjustments like this.
Step 10
If there is ever a point where your painting begins to look scary, stop and walk away. Most of my painting time is spent looking at it thoroughly to understand what will make it work. If you're still having problems, allowing another artist to see it with fresh eyes may reveal a solution. In this step I realized that the base color was showing through so intensely, that the color seemed too unnatural for skin tone. Select the Base Layer, and bring down the Opacity to 30%. Immediately the painting improved, and now I understand to build skin tone with less saturated colors in the future.
Step 11
Continue defining the rest of the face and bust. I spend most my time focusing on different tones and shadows of the character, waiting until the very end to add highlights. For "fleshier" areas of the female anatomy, refer to traditional techniques of how light falls upon round objects.
Step 12
Move onto the other features of your cartoon such as the eyes, mouth, ears, and hair. Pick a hard, standard round brush for the lips in order to add texture. Nothing on our body, at least from our outward appearance is ever a true white, so keep this in mind when painting the eyes and teeth. Fill in the hair with enough color so that we may quickly move onto the background.
Step 13
As mentioned previously, I was inspired by sunsets for the circular background. Use a large grunge brush to paint warm hues for a textured sunset effect. On a new layer, take a small round brush and draw squiggles of varying opacity. Add a Gaussian Blur of 35.5 pixels for a subtle glowing effect. Using Layer Styles, add a #e4af88 Color Overlay to the background and set it to Hue.
Step 14
Though painting in many layers helps with experimentation, you may merge those layers at any time to help with file size or slow computers. As we draw close to the finish, the only layers which dont have to be merged yet are the background, character, and clothing layers. Continue defining the cartoon's hair. Our bodies pick up color from our environment, so keep this in mind by adding touches of warm color to the hair. You can even paint a subtle glow to the tips using a vibrant color to make the hair more dynamic.
Step 15
Next we'll move onto the clothing and accessories. Just like the hair, the halter top and headband should be affected in color by their environment. You can add a shiny element like the appearance of rhinestones by painting contrasting colors side by side. Use a custom brush to add sparkle to those rhinestones.
To stay in theme, the peacock feather was an additional touch to pay homage to vintage flapper fashion.
Step 16
You can add further details to the cartoon's top and headband by painting material-like texture. Simply wiggling your pen stylus creates the appearance of lace, while adding strokes of texture to the headband creates the appearance of frayed edges.
Step 17
Create a new layer for the highlights. The facial structure of the cartoon should be a clue to how the highlights fall upon the face. Use a bright peach color instead of white to reflect the sunset inspired color scheme. Place highlights on areas of the skin which poke out like the nose and cheeks, as well as areas in its directional path. Highlights often make their way into unpredictable places like edges of clothing, so feel free to experiment until you find what works.
Add your signature to your digital masterpiece. Merge all the layers together and you have just finished revamping an old cartoon!


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I have got a wordpress website which was build for me by a friend but I want to learn how to build one for my self as I found it hard for me to mannage the current one due to little knowledge I have in wordpress sites.
I hope this is the right place to post this thread and am waiting to learn from experts on this beautful forum.
I appreciate any kind of advice thanks.
I have got a wordpress website which was build for me by a friend but I want to learn how to build one for my self as I found it hard for me to mannage the current one due to little knowledge I have in wordpress sites.
[FONT=Verdana]I've had very little experience with WordPress, but I'd say if you want to learn anything about building a web site, you should first learn HTML and CSS, so that you understand how web pages are constructed. Once you have that basic knowledge, you can either use it to build you own site, or go on to learn about WordPress, if that's where your interest lies.
I would recommend that you get a good book on HTML and CSS and learn the basics from there.
There are also a number of online resources for learning HTML/CSS, including:
The SitePoint Reference is also helpful.
Am not to bad in html but I know nothing about css and that you for these links I have already got started with learning more about html and css plus javascipt as well
in fact wordpress is easy to manage, you just have to learn some basic HTML/CSS and PHP, and by the time you will learn how to use the exacte plugins and how the themes work, you will learn more and more about it…
I downloaded wordpress to install it to my computer but it seems I cant do anything before getting MYSQL is there another way how I can install it?
It's a good idea to install it on your computer first and have a play around with it before going live. It's easy to do, luckily. You can install XAMPP (for Windows) or MAMP (for Mac), each of which is a ready-made local server environment. Then you can install WP and have some fun with it.
You can just use the default theme for WP and learn to manage it from the control panel. Gradually read through the docs at WP to see what can be done with it. If you know HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of PHP, you can start to create your own themes etc.
Thank you very much for your advice and am going to try that but can this theme be installed as single file?
Not sure what you mean by "this theme". WP is quite easy to install—and they have some simple instructions to follow. The default theme comes all built in. It's spread over several files and folders, though.
Start reading through WordPress Codec. It's the best written and documented Wiki I've ever seen.
Then experiment on your local machine.
When you're comfortable, explore your site's wp-content folder, and especially the themes folder. With time you'll learn which files are innecesary. You'll discover it's a very logical way to code a template.
Meanwhile, get to know WordPress administration panel. You'll mostly need the Posts, Pages and Settings parts.
Hope this helps
Thanks guy for your help and now I have installed wordpress and now working on pages but am still stuck on posts, how do i put a posts section on my home page?
Normally WP does that by default. How have you set things up at this stage? I'm not very familiar with WP any more, but I believe that, in the admin area, you can specify that.
I installed wp through zampp and after that is was easy to just add a home page and other pages but posts section is where am stuck
Try changing these settings. If you have a theme that supports it, this will do. If not, I'd suggest trying another theme, or you'll have to add some code to your theme's index.php
The best part about WordPress is the large user community. There are tons of free resources to learn. Wordpress.com (not Wordpress.org) hosts free online blogs. There are tighter restrictions on what you can and cannot do, but as a place to safely learn the basics I'd suggest you start there.
http://learn.wordpress.com/ will help give you some basic orientation and there are a lot more video and text based tutorials and information. Once you understand how the components work together within the website then you can start using your own coding skills to change it. Wordpress.com doesn't allow this though, it keeps a tighter control on the websites it hosts to help people manage them. If you are looking to custom code that is when your local installs and some of the more advanced tutorials will come in handy.
Wordpress.ORG has an advantage over .COM in the fact that .COM is extremely restrictive on moving or selling a site. .ORG has no restrictions and most if not all your hosting company will have a cPanel interface which would contain Wordpress or Fantastico to set up your sites with one click. Also most hosting companies are using Linux and this is extremely reliable.
Speaking on the size of the support community I find many forums support for .ORG based site.
It's very easy to build a wordpress website. As my little experience I will suggest, it's better first you should try with free version.
Do experiment with wordpress .org
Following the way to build your own wordpress site/blog
- Open wordpress . com or org
- Register with a active email
- login with given user 7 password (auto come to given email)
- Pick any theme from there
- And post your content so on …
There is no paid version of WordPress.
Before you get to far, what kind of site do you have? Dependent on what the niche is and how to monetize you might want to get someone you trust give it a quick look see. There will be many questions but remember that it is an ongoing venture.
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Are you trying to create wordpress theme? Sorry, i am a little confused.
However, if you want to post, you can just click on 'Add New' under the Post navigation
I think he is referring to Wordpress.com where user can just create new blogs for fun.
I am also not an expert in wordpress, but i found it to be easy once i started exploring. I only find it hard to design my custom templates for wordpress but for newbies there are many free templates available on free template websites.


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Television broadcasting in 3D took a couple of steps further towards reality on Wednesday when Japan joined the list of countries planning to launch the new format and Sony said it will soon deliver a truck equipped to broadcast 3D programming on the go.
Japan's Sky Perfect Communications plans to launch 3D broadcasting in the middle of this year with two to three programs per month, it said Wednesday. The announcement adds Japan to the list of countries planning to launch 3D broadcasting this year at about the same time compatible televisions begin appearing on the market.
Earlier this month ESPN, Discovery Channel and Sony said they would launch 3D channels in the U.S. during 2010. British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is also planning to launch a 3D channel for viewers in the U.K. and Ireland and South Korea's SkyLife is also testing the format. Other broadcasters such as Australia's Foxtel are yet to announce firm plans but have expressed interest in 3D programming.
Sports, movies and gaming are the genres through which the industry expects 3D will become popular in the living room so most of the early TV content will be focused on sports and movies.
Hollywood is taking care of the movies with titles like "Avatar," which has become the highest grossing movie of all time with a box office total of US$1.9 billion to date. Movie-studio Fox said over 70 percent of sales came from 3D showings of the movie.
Programmers might get an early taste of the appetite for 3D sports in June when the World Cup kicks off in South Africa. Sony plans to broadcast up to 25 of the games in 3D and will produce and distribute a 3D film of the World Cup after the event.
On Wednesday Sony said its professional broadcasting unit had won a second order for a 3D-capable outside broadcasting truck.
The latest order is for a truck to be delivered in April to BSkyB for use covering sports and other live events. Earlier this month Sony said it would supply a similar truck to U.S.-based producer All Mobile Video.
Several major consumer electronics companies including Sony and Panasonic have said they plan to launch 3D-compatible television sets during 2010. The sets will be able to handle conventional 2D programming and be switched into 3D mode when suitable programs are transmitted. The first Blu-ray Disc players capable of 3D are also due out this year and Sony has promised to provide a software upgrade to its PlayStation 3 that will add 3D gaming capability.


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James Martinez provides an EXCLUSIVE briefing on the latest stalling tactics, criminal subterfuge, and economic high crimes against humanity by the cabal run by George H. W. Bush & Family, The Clintons, Dick Cheney, and current Puppet-In-Chief, Barry Sotero, a/k/a, Barack Obama.
In a release by Michael C. Cottrell, who is a designated recipient of funds from the BASEL Agreements, to be used fora gold-based refunding of the US Dollar; a plan architected by Mr. Cotrel to remove toxic debt-based currency and restore confidence to US businesses, and integrity to the government. The BASEL III "Gold Treaty"has now been signed byThe Russian Federation and The People's Republic of China, as well as 200+ nations.
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The "cabal", led by Dick Cheney and the Bush Family crime syndicate have used RICO-style tactics to commit "banking fraud,""trust fund violations," and, in times of war, "International Financial Terrorism.", according to Mr. Cottrell's attorney, Clifton Hodges. At the beginning of 2015, as pedophilia scandals break out from the UK to the US involving high profile figures as Prince Andrew and Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, and (surpise!) Bill Clinton; as the economic war against Russia by the Puppet Obama Regime runs unabated; and as the American Economy slouches ever more certain to collapse: Mr. Cotrell is now demanding: "THE DELIVERY OF THE CODES AND FUNDS TO MICHAEL C. COTTRELL, B.A., M.S., FOR THE FUNDING OF THE NEW TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
The back story to this present narrative is detailed, and ties into the Leo Wanta Affair, and the work of the late Christopher Edward Harle Story, of WORLD REPORTS, who investigated and disclosed high level racketeering, money laundering, and misuse/theft of public funds in the UK, and predominantly in the US, as he pursued the nexus of "the Global Security Fund, which was set up in the early 1990s under the auspices of Jacob Rothschild. This is a Brussels-based fund and it is no ordinary fund: it does not trade, it is not listed and it has a totally different purpose. It is being used for geopolitical engineering purposes, apparently under the guidance of the intelligence services." (source). It is widely believed that Chris Story was MURDERED by the cabal to silence his insistent voice for accountability in the handling of public money.
Ultimately, this story is about the breadth and depth of evil that perpetuates wars, misery, human bondage, and the enslavement of the majority of the planet, by a select few, who use their power for domination and death. It is a story that requires some tenacity to grasp, and it is a story that DEMANDS to be heard and heeded.
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Easter images
Write your name on this beautiful Easter images image and share it with your friends, family and loved ones to wish them a Happy Easter in a special way.
Easter day is all about sending Easter wishes , going to church, hunting Easter egg, and eating Easter foods. This is the holy occasion that spreads spirit among us. Hence spread the love of Easter to everyone from your family and friends through Easter images. So lets create a beautiful Happy easter pictures image and then share the generated image on facebook, twitter, instagram, text messages and whatsapp to wish your friends, family, brother, sister, mom ,dad or loved ones a heart touching Good Friday.
We have created most beautiful and unique Happy easter quotes, Happy easter wishes, Easter messages, Happy easter pictures, Easter greetings, Easter images, Happy easter images, Easter backgrounds and Easter gif. See more Jumma Mubarak Beautiful Images.
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Write your name in the given text field "Your Name Here" and then click on the "Save Image" button.After some time a new popup window will open that contains download and sharing options.
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Importance of sharing Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday is probably the best time to spend times with your friends and family. Holy Sunday is the most widely celebrated Christian festival and is celebrated as the day of Jesus Christ's resurrection. Easter also marks the culmination of Passion of Jesus, which is a 40-day period of fasting and prayer. It is also the best time to wish your family and all others who hold a quintessential place in your life. So send Easter Quotes and Easter Pictures to your friends, family and loved ones to make their day.


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Created 06/12/2012 14:16 | Updated 06/12/2012 14:16
For specific supported Operating Systems, check the product page or the box exterior which will show only supported OS's.
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Code Project co-founder and herder of hamsters, Chris Maunder.
Chris joined The Code Project… well, at the very beginning. He dodges, he weaves, and he never gets enough sleep. He is kind to small animals. And here's a bit more you don't know about him already…
Chris Maunder, Toronto, Canada. Lead Janitor, Bug Fixer, Chief Internal Trouble Maker, Defender of the Orange, Community Punching Bag, Occasional Author, Assistant SysAdmin, Signer of Cheques, Dishwasher, and Industry Liaison. Also: Co-founder, The Code Project.
Over the years I've worked on a few interesting projects on partitioning spatial data into Digital Elevation Models along with researching and implementing rainfall, runoff and erosion models on these DEMs, MFC UI controls, certain, ahem, data processing applications for the Defence Signals Directorate in Australia, a failed CE app that would route you through any transit system in the world (failed because it turns out the idea had been done a year previously) and then a couple of web sites.
I also worked on The Ultimate Toolbox when it was a commercial product owned by Dundas Software, and a few Windows CE apps that never saw the light of day.
My latest project is CodeProject.com and this takes up my days, weeks and any time in between. It's a 24hr job, starting and ending with email, but running the entire gamut of community interaction (AKA hanging out in the Lounge wasting time) architecting, cranking code, code reviews, deployments, sysadmin duties, servers and hardware, and DB design and administration. Some editorial, a little graphics, legal, financial, looking after staff issues, talking to clients and general monitoring of systems and the community.
My team and I are also working on Lake Quincy Media, our media company that serves CodeProject and hundreds of other sites under its umbrella.
Basically, I do everything including cleaning out the dishwasher when it's full. It's a fantastic job. I'd highly recommend it.
I work with C# and the .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, Notepad2, and Expresso. Nunit for testing, StyleCop for styling, TeamCity and Nant for build/testing, and occasionally Expression Web 4 when Visual Studio can't behave. We also use Chirpy for JavaScript compression, CSS .less and T4 files within Visual Studio. For our search server we're using Lucene. For our mail servers we use Linux.
CodeProject.com was originally written using ASP and VBScript. The current .NET version was started around 2003 and so there is a ton of legacy code, most notably a solid foundation in Web Forms using the old onion architecture, instead of using SOLID principles and MVC that the cool kids use these days.
We are, however, constantly refactoring and moving to the MVP pattern and implementing IoC where it's missing to enable us to move to MVC less painfully and improve our automated testing as well as caching.
Parallelism is something I have a long interest in from my work on CRAY computers. While this is something I get to play with on some of our standalone applications such as our mailout system, ASP.NET by its nature doesn't provide huge opportunities for this.
The technologies that most interest me at the moment are anything that makes our back-end database system less critical. Caching, obviously, but also SQL clustering from the view of load balancing rather than failover clustering. We spent an inordinate amount of resources in developing an extremely slick system to allow standard installs of SQL Server to act as a load-balanced cluster, but in the end the cost of building and maintaining the system was more than the cost of simply buying a bigger, faster machine, and this trend continues.
We also arm-wrestled SQL Server into providing useful full-text indexes for technical content weighted by member ratings that returned excellent results for articles, but not the speed or the flexibility we needed for messages, news items, catalog items and so on. We ripped it all out and moved to Lucene and this has not only lowered our database requirements, but also provided the opportunity to shift some queries (such as related articles) from SQL Server onto Lucene. These NoSQL-style technologies are providing great benefits.
I also have a deep need to understand our network topology, which is something I swore I would never do. Up until 6 months ago we were still relying on Windows Load Balancing as our method of clustering web servers, but with the move to hardware load balancers and VLANs we've gained efficiencies and flexibility that's made a noticeable difference. Window Server admin, DNS, SQL setup and admin, SQL Failover clustering, and anything to do with IIS are all things that now have a certain level of interest to me. I either know them or our monitoring guys call me at 2AM to tell me the search server is asleep.
A vested interest does wonders for your ability to master a technology.
Currently (because it changes with the seasons) using var where an int is more appropriate. For example…
var value = GetIntValue();
instead of…
int value = GetIntValue();
It drives me insane.
My second great peeve is not providing an explanation in your code as to what you are doing. That's right: comments. I have had many discussions on this topic with Steve Smith and while we acknowledge many of each other's points, it usually comes down to "it depends," to which I answer "when do you know when it depends," and so always ask that code is commented.
Four main situations, in my book, call for comments.
You're coding something complex, unintuitive, highly optimised, a work-around or something that the code itself cannot explain.
You are working with a team that didn't read thesauri during recess at school.
You use parameters and return values.
You are writing code that is non-trivial over a period of time.
The first one is obvious and is just the nature of the beast. An in-code (i.e. inside a method) comment should be a warning sign that something is amiss, or that you need to be aware that something a little non-obvious is going on. Codebases can be huge, and in reviewing them it's easy to fall into a trance as you read the code. An in-code comment should wake you up, but they should not be done for the sake of having a comment. In that I agree with Steve.
The second situation is the most dangerous. It's not too painful to write your class, properties and methods in a way that each name is self-describing and obvious. Assuming, that is, you don't mind extremely long names:
Yes, a contrived example but it illustrates a point: unless you and your team are extremely good with thinking up names, and have a religious adherence to extremely well-defined naming standards, names will slip and you will have someone, somewhere, make an assumption about what a function does. Maybe they assume "Create" means "Create on disk" when the author meant "Create in memory." Small errors like this can be a nightmare. In theory they are totally avoidable by correct naming.
In theory there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice there is.
The third situation is a little facetious, but my point here is that the name of a method does not convey what the arguments represent, or what may happen if invalid (or no) values are provided. Again, naming can help in most cases but that "most" is the killer.
The fourth point is that you may write perfectly named methods and objects, but then, if you have a system that does something non-trivial, your code will only ever tell you one thing: what it does. It never answers the actual question, which is: why.
So this is why not commenting, really, is a pet peeve. I look at code, I can see what it does, but I don't know why. I don't know why I would use one method instead of another, and I don't know what the purpose of that other object is. Why have it?
The comments I like to see are the brief XML summary comments that describe what an object does in a way that answers the "why," as well as summary comments on the public methods for those using the public API of a class. There will always be trivial comments, but I prefer to live with the evil of trivial comments than have a developer ask themselves "Do I explain the purpose of this method and it's parameters, or is it obvious enough that I can knock off early and go home."
Consistency is the most important thing in a codebase and I strongly feel that, as long as the correctness of comments is ensured via code reviews (comments are still code), the overhead is paid for by the clarity brought in those cases where a perfect name or a seemingly justified assumption break down.
Assuming that writing a piece of code with a certain name will make things clear is as misguided an assumption as assuming that writing a piece of code will work as you expect. There's no compiler for the vastness of human interpretation, so build in some backups.
Ahem. I'll get off my soapbox now.
I didn't have a computer until I started my first contract at 27. This was a deliberate move because I used to harangue my Dad constantly to bring home a portal computer from work every weekend so I could work on it. I knew that if I had a PC in my bedroom it would be 2–3 years before I saw sunshine.
Even so, I started mucking around when I was 11 on a TRS–80 and then a Kaypro II. BASIC was the language of choice, but it wasn't until Year 11 when I was introduced to Pascal that I became a full addict. The Turbo Technojocks Toolkit will forever hold a place in my heart.
From there it was C, then FORTRAN. The odd progression was because my work in my physics degree allowed me to use C, but my first real job was working as a Geomorphologist writing DEMs and FOTRAN was the one and only language there.
My patience with FORTRAN was short-lived so I started moving everything to C++ and MFC, blowing away their expensive mainframes with 133MHz PCs. After that it was back to FORTRAN on a CRAY. While the language was the same, the automated parallelizing tools that took your code and made it better were mind-blowing (to me). I was humbled.
I love their general lack of firearms and personal grudges. No, hang on, I'm thinking of a different community.
What I most love is the community's desire and ability to share knowledge selflessly and prolifically. I am constantly amazed and humbled at what I see developers providing to the community. I also enjoy the intelligence, wit and creativity of the community. Conversations are quick and merciless so it keeps you on your toes.
What I most hate? Conversations are quick and merciless.
Actually what I dislike most in the software community is the extremely small percentage who have the ego-driven need to insult others at the slightest mistake or provocation. We're an egotistic bunch by nature: our work sees us as Masters of Our Universe – at least until you get a core dump – and it can leak into online life a little.
So there is always going to be a group who feels they can do anything better and refuse to consider the practical limitations that other developers face. Maybe they don't have the luxury of using new tools, or maybe they aren't native coders, but rather a guy who can get most of the job done when no one else in his company can, and from that perspective he's providing a critical service. His code may smell but he's doing his best and he's doing what's most important: providing software services that allow others to do their job. I think many people forget the ultimate purpose of their code and this can lead to a loss of perspective.
Which gets back to my motivation for starting and continuing to build the CodeProject community. I enjoy helping devs in their daily life get things done or get code that they would not otherwise be able to get, or get done. It makes the head-shaped dents in my desk worthwhile.
You cannot write 100% perfect code. Even if you do, in 6 months time it will not be perfect. Stop trying to write perfect code and focus on writing code that works and that is – in the hands of your users – as fast as possible. It's far better to write code that is robust, maintainable and that will tell you what's wrong with itself so you can fix it quickly rather than assuming it will work flawlessly. It won't.
Oh, and get a good chair. It's really important.
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As I am turning into a human bathhouse walking the streets of NYC I look around and view people of all types seemingly oblivious to the NYC summer heat and humidity. I don't get it. There are those walking past me with layers of clothes on, heavy jackets, and thick jeans. Like it's cold out. I am not kidding here as during my 5 mile run last night in Central Park I actually saw a dude jogging in jeans! IN JEANS! Can you just imagine peeling those off after that? Muenster cheese anyone?
Pretty much how I feel walking around NYC during this heat and humidity – Continue reading I am judging you. I'm judging you hard, New Yorkers.


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Building upon a toolkit developed by the Southern Westchester Energy Action Consortium, Tri-State Transportation Campaign in collaboration with theConnecticut Conference of Municipalities, has created a "Complete Streets in a Box" toolkit to support the adoption and implementation of complete streets policies by Connecticut municipalities. In 2010, Connecticut's Complete Streets Law went into effect and now all transportation projects that receive state funding must consider using complete streets design features. It is important that local communities follow suit, and consider adopting local policies that encourage the development of a connected complete streets network in our region.
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Logitech announce Unifying USB receiver plus new wireless peripherals
Logitech have announced a new "unifying" USB receiver for use with its latest wireless keyboard and mice, which allows up to six of the company's compatible devices to be connected with the one receiver. The Logitech Unifying Receiver will land in the US and Europe in September 2009, bundled with the new Wireless Keyboard K350 and K340 models, the Marathon Mouse M705 in early 2010, and the Wireless Mouse M505 in August this year.
The receiver extends only 8mm from the USB port, and uses the 2.4GHz wireless band with 128-bit AES encryption. An accompanying application, Logitech's Unifying software, is used to control registration of multiple devices.
The Wireless Keyboard K350 and K340 will be priced at $59.99 and $49.99 respectively; the Marathon Mouse M705 will be priced at $69.99; finally, the Wireless Mouse M505 will be priced at $49.99.
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Tiny USB Receiver Debuts with Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350, Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340, Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 and Logitech Wireless Mouse M505
FREMONT, Calif. — Aug. 4, 2009 — Today, Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) introduced a convenient and clutter-free way for you to connect wireless keyboards and mice to your laptop – the Logitech® Unifying receiver. So small that it can stay in the laptop when you're moving around, a single Logitech Unifying receiver can be paired with multiple Unifying-compatible Logitech mice and keyboards – freeing up valuable USB ports and making it easy to mix, match and add to your existing setup, no matter where you are. The Logitech Unifying receiver is debuting with four new products: the Logitech® Wireless Keyboard K350, Logitech® Wireless Keyboard K340, Logitech® Marathon Mouse M705 and the Logitech® Wireless Mouse M505.
"At Logitech, we're always looking for ways to make life easier," said Rory Dooley, Logitech's senior vice president and general manager of the Control Devices business unit. "With this unique new receiver, now you can pick and choose the mouse and keyboard that work best for you whether you're at the office, at home or on the road."
Plug it. Forget it. Add to it.
The Unifying receiver – based on the groundbreaking design of the industry-first Logitech Plug-and-Forget Nano-receiver – is so tiny (it protrudes only 8 mm from the edge of your computer) you can leave it in your laptop when it's time to pack up and go. Whether you're moving around the office, traveling for business, checking e-mail at a local café or chatting online with family from the sofa, your favorite peripherals are ready to work whenever, wherever you are.
The Unifying receiver can control up to six Unifying-compatible Logitech peripherals and set up is fast and easy. For the first device, just plug in the receiver and the mouse or keyboard is recognized in seconds. When you want to add more devices, the Unifying software (available for download at www.logitech.com/unifying) walks you through a few steps to get your new device up and running.
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Both new Unifying-compatible keyboards feature Logitech® Advanced 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity, delivering the reliability of a cord plus wireless convenience and freedom. Fast data transmission, virtually no delays or dropouts, and 128-bit AES encryption give you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your data is safe moving from keyboard to receiver to computer.
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Featuring Logitech's distinctive Wave design and Constant Curve layout, the Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350 guides your hands into just the right position and conforms naturally to your fingers. A cushioned palm rest helps position your hands comfortably and properly on the keyboard. Together, they can help you type with ease and confidence, but without forcing you to re-learn typing on an unfamiliar layout. And your keyboard is always ready when you need it – offering up to three years of battery life.
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Designed to fit your space and your life, the compact Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340 won't take up a lot of room on your desk and is easy to store or take with you. Yet its full-size layout and number pad put all the keys you need within reach. Your keyboard is always ready when you need it thanks to up to three years of battery life. To give you more comfort, the keyboard's low-profile design helps place your hands and wrists in a more neutral position. Plus, the quiet, responsive keys feel great and barely make a sound.
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So you can power on – from home to work and on the road – the Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 can go up to three full years between battery changes, using less than half the power of comparable mice (tested against popular battery-powered optical and laser wireless mice commercially available as of March 1, 2009). With hyper-fast scrolling, you'll fly through long documents to find what you need in a flash. Laser tracking ensures smooth, responsive cursor control. And the sculpted, right-hand shape naturally conforms to your hand.
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Battery life of Logitech keyboards is based on a calculation of an estimated two million keystrokes per year in an office environment; battery life for Logitech mice may vary based on user and computing conditions.
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Expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe in September, the Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350 and Logitech Wireless Keyboard K340 will have a suggested retail price of $59.99 (U.S.) and $49.99 (U.S.), respectively. With expected availability in Europe in August and in the U.S. in early 2010, the Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 will have a suggested retail price of $69.99 (U.S.). The Logitech Wireless Mouse M505 is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe in August for a suggested retail price of $49.99 (U.S.). All four products will also be available through Logitech for Business channels.
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I lined up for the Whiskey 50 along with about 500 other people. I noticed several men with lips quivering in the cold shadows of downtown Prescott. My wind vest and arm warmers will stay on. Local Prescottonian Brad told me that the first climb is in the sun, "don't worry, you'll warm up fast."
Smiling, but nervous at the start.
A rifle shot from a period costumed cowboy is our starting gun! Lots of people try to click into their pedals in front of me. A few minutes later, I cross the start line and head out onto the course. Riding on pavement for six miles uphill, I resist the urge to chat with my temporary riding companions. Must save breath; we start at an altitude of 5,200 feet and only go up.
Current mantra: breathe in, power out.
The course takes us up and over some mountains, down to Skull Valley, then up and back over some taller mountains. You can view the course map and elevations here.
Lots of Prescott neighbors are out on the course, with cowbells and cheers for everyone passing by. It's a great day for a race!
We hit the single track and ride for about 100 yards to a bottleneck. The trail U-turns over a creek then heads sharply uphill. Not everyone has the skills to ride this, so we all are brought to a halt as we congregate and wait for our turn. Some people peel off arm warmers and leg warmers. Others snack. I drink some Rango Juice (green energy drink). At last we're pedaling again.
We continue climbing. There's a bit of descending and I'm in someone's way, but there's nowhere to go due to the narrow trail. Oh, here's a wide spot where he could pass, but it was uphill, so he dropped farther behind me. I am a climber.
Current mantra: I am a climber.
We hit the section that Brad and I rode a few weeks before when there was patchy snow on the ground. I recall, and not fondly, upcoming water bars (logs or rubber strips built into the trail to keep it from eroding, 12-18 inches high). They are steep and I have to walk them, as do others. Then we descend over some other water bars, some I ride, some I do not. At last, the sweet double track descent! People can pass at will. And a few do, leaving me in clouds of dust.
But I don't care, descending is fun and the scenery, spectacular. I spot a couple people hiking up the trail and know we must be near the campground. This area signals the beginning of a long and tortuous climb up double track. Slow going, but I actually pass a few people, which affirms I am a climber I am a climber.
We reach the Aid Station on Copper Basin Road. I consume orange slices, granola bar, and pretzels. Now the 9-mile dirt road descent to Skull Valley. What's this sandy stuff? Can't fly downhill without traction, so I take it easy for awhile. I see my Southwest Hand CyclingTeammate John and chat briefly. I pass him now, but he passes me later on the climb.
About this "descent," there are some climbs on the way down. I see the leaders coming back uphill from Skull Valley including enduro kings Beto Villegas and Scott Morris. They finished 5th and 7th, respectively. Great to see familiar faces in the middle of nowhere!
The next Aid Station lacks the promised Port-o-potties, so I don't stop. Instead, I head back to Copper Basin Road and the climb. I stop to jam a hard-boiled egg in my maw for a protein boost, with Clif Blok chasers. Someone passes and asks if I'm OK, and I sputter "yes" through bits of egg white.
Back on my bike, I pass another woman who I had already passed. She is wearing striped socks. I ask "are you not stopping at Aid Stations?" She replies, "I don't have a plan," then adds condescendingly, I think: "I usually ride unsupported." And I almost had to go off on her and say "Hey, this isn't my first epic ride, cowgirl." But instead I said "oh, well there's pretzels and fruit and stuff if you need it." Then I pedaled away. Very satisfying.
Of course, she passed me when I had to stop and pee at the tree port-o-pottie, but I eventually passed her again on the endless climb back to the Aid Station. The climb goes slowly, so there is plenty of time to enjoy assorted mountain range views. Some people were walking their bikes. Never!
Current mantra: Breathe in, power out
I thought about the zen of cycling, the circular pedal motion, the circular wheels, I almost put myself to sleep. Need energy.
View toward Skull Valley, photo from pre-ride.
At last, I see mile post 9 and know the Aid Station is nigh. After that station and more orange slice consumption, the 25 proofers were on the road with us. They were feeling a bit more spry than I. We continued climbing ever upward.
Endless dirt road climb, photo from pre-ride.
I heard the sound of drums and bells and hoped for the top, but it was just a forest trio hanging out by the road, encouraging all who needed it. I reach the false top, but must continue up a different road to Sierra Prieta overlook. I drink some water and grab a couple orange slices and hit the trail again. Looking forward to a long descent, no matter how sketchy.
I try to stay out of the way on the rocky, narrow trail. I'm bounced around so much that my chain jams and I know if I try to pedal, I will fall. So I coast along at about 20 mph, with jammed chain and a rider right behind me. There is no escape what with the trees and rocks and steep slopes on either side of the trail.
I spot a bail out section and yell "I HAVE TO STOP!" I pull over quickly; he brakes, and narrowly avoids crashing into me. I release my chain from frame bondage and continue on.
The trail widens slightly and I can see farther ahead. I am flying. Riding the endorphin and race is almost over high. Random cheering squad says "this is the last hill, the hill of pleasure." I ride about 25 yards up it, there is no pleasure. I walk along with everyone else around me. We reach the top and there is more beautiful descending along a creek.
I hit the tricky part of the trail at a creek crossing and walk it. A local photographer has great pictures of the pros at this crossing. A lone spectator encourages me to "ride to the right!" The rest of the trail is a bit rocky and narrow and sort of fun. At last, the pavement of Thumb Butte Road!
From trail to pavement, then 3 fast miles to the finish line.
Number one race fan Lisa and friend Kerri are there to cheer me on. I fly toward the finish and cross the line in 5 hrs, 53 minutes. Under my 6-hour goal! It's good enough for 4th place in the Master's Women Category. I found out later that I might have won a special flask for being on the podium—first five finishers of each category. For complete results, visit the Epic Rides website.
Yay! Another great ride in the mountains of Prescott.
Enjoy my collage of photos and video from amateur and pro races:
Whiskey50pics&vid from Mary Reynolds on Vimeo.


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Foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad
22 September 2006
Opening remarks by Salim Bhatia at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad
It is a great privilege and pleasure to welcome such a distinguished group of individuals to this foundation stone-laying ceremony in Hyderabad. Thank you for being with us today. Your presence here signifies the importance you place on education and the role you see the Aga Khan Academies playing in education in Andhra Pradesh and in India. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has already expressed its enthusiasm for this project by the gift of this exceptional site. Your Excellency we greatly appreciate your and the government of Andhra Pradesh's generous support.
Thank you.
I have the honour of having been entrusted with the extraordinary vision of His Highness for the Academies as Director of the Aga Khan Academies. Under the guidance of His Highness and with the generous support of many expert advisors, both voluntary and remunerated, across the globe – we are doing the careful, creative work of building the Aga Khan Academies network, of which the Hyderabad Academy is an integral part. At this time, we envisage a network of 18 campuses across South and Central Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East, to be established over the course of the next decade or so. This is not just a system of quality schools operated under the one "banner" but rather it's a global learning community in which students and teachers at each Academy contribute and participate.
The decision His Highness took to establish the network of Aga Khan Academies is consistent with the Aga Khan Development Network's contemporary mandate to help relieve society of ignorance, disease and deprivation without regard to the faiths or national origins of the people whom they serve. And so, the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad too will serve Indian students from all backgrounds.
Over the past century, the Ismaili Imamat has built over 300 schools in the countries where we plan to build Academies. The Aga Khan Education Service currently operates 42 educational institutions in India, educating over 12,000 students and employing over 450 teachers. In addition, in conjunction with the Aga Khan Foundation, it impacts, through school improvement programs, an additional 365 institutions, 58,000 students and over 1300 teachers. The AKDN institutions in India play a critically important role of providing a solid education to many who would otherwise not have access to any education, particularly girls and boys in rural parts of the country.
As envisioned by His Highness, the Academies represent both a continuation of that proud tradition and a new direction. In establishing the network of Aga Khan Academies, the Aga Khan Development Network is not moving away from our commitment to those students, families, and teachers who are part of the AKES. In fact, we intend the Academies to become a primary resource for teacher development. The Academy's in-house Professional Development Centre with its strong connection to the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development will also serve AKES teachers and other teachers from government and private schools regionally and nationally. Through this Professional Development Center at the Hyderabad campus, the Aga Khan Academies intend to make a sustained meaningful contribution to the quality of education in India.
In establishing the Academies, we are adding a new dimension to our diverse network of educational institutions. The AKDN's commitment--our tradition -- is to identify particular niches of human need, areas where there is significant human potential that can be developed if given the opportunity. We take care in assessing that need, think creatively and consult broadly in developing sustainable solutions, often quite original, in the form of institutions that will endure and evolve. The niches of human need we identify require bold and creative interventions, and, while we are humble about what we as committed individuals can accomplish in single lifetimes, we take a very long view and have confidence that working together we can effect lasting change.
Hazrat Ali, the first hereditary Imam of the Shia Muslims, emphasized in his teachings that "No honor is like knowledge... No belief is like modesty and patience, no attainment is like humility, no power is like forbearance, and no support is more reliable than consultation." The work of creating the Aga Khan Academies honors knowledge and the transformative power knowledge has in people's lives and in the future of society. We also take a fundamentally consultative approach to the work – keeping our minds open to what others can teach us and connecting it to what we know and the particular challenges that we face. We approach all of what we do with modesty and patience, and yet, as my colleagues would tell you, we also bring a sense of urgency to our work – every day matters.
And this day's Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony matters. It marks the beginning of the physical establishment of the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad, an institution for which we have developed a clear vision and plans, and yet which will take some time to create and even longer to have the impact on society that we expect it to have.
The underlying idea of the Aga Khan Academy's network is to concentrate substantial resources on those exceptional individuals – students and teachers – who have the potential to transform society. This commitment stems from the fact that, provided with a world-class education, exceptional students from any background can fully achieve their significant potential and in so doing improve their lives, the lives of their families, their communities, their country, and the world. Providing a rich learning environment in which those rare intellectual and personal gifts can be fully developed and at the same time instilling a sense of social responsibility in these bright young minds, this is the philosophy behind the Aga Khan Academies.
We humbly hope that the global network of Aga Khan Academies will become as successful and enduring as the AKDN itself. To be sure, we are at this time a nascent program. Three years have not yet passed since we opened the very first Academy in Mombasa, Kenya. The campus there is still taking shape as we add the residential facilities. We see the Mombasa Academy as our test-bed, our intellectual trampoline on which we can develop and refine the program for the network of Academies. And yet it is not an experimental school: I am proud of our most recent International examination results, placing the school in the top tier of performance world-wide. In addition, students and faculty in Mombasa are setting new national records in swimming, adding local culture to a world class education through visiting artists programmes gaining a true appreciation of their people's needs by working regularly in a local village with their less privileged brethren. In sum, the Academy is becoming the vibrant, healthy and rewarding learning environment of the sort we aim to create right here in Hyderabad.
In closing, we would all like to thank your Highness for your inspiring leadership, for your vision identifying important human needs, your commitment to tackling them with creative, bold initiatives and staying with them until the solutions are institutionalized.
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Kelvin Wave Seen on Quantum "Tornado" for First Time
Kelvin Wave Seen on Quantum "Tornado" for First Time
Computer simulations have suggested that after the vortexes snap away from each other, they develop ripples called "Kelvin waves" to quickly get rid of the energy caused by the connection and relax the system. However, the existence of these waves had never been experimentally proven.
Now, for the first time, researchers provide visual evidence confirming that the reconnection of quantum vortexes launches Kelvin waves. The study, which was conducted at the University of Maryland, will be published the week of March 24, 2014 in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation.
"We weren't surprised to see the Kelvin waves on the quantum vortex, but we were excited to see them because they had never been seen before," said Daniel Lathrop, a UMD physics professor. "Seeing the Kelvin waves provided the first experimental evidence that previous theories predicting they would be launched from vortex reconnection were correct."
Understanding turbulence in quantum fluids, such as ultracold liquid helium, may offer clues to neutron stars, trapped atom systems and superconductors. Superconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity without resistance below certain temperatures, develop quantized vortices. Understanding the behavior of the vortices may help researchers develop superconductors that remain superconducting at higher current densities.
Physicists Richard Feynman and Lars Onsager predicted the existence of quantum vortices more than a half-century ago. However, no one had seen quantum vortices until 2006. In Lathrop's laboratory at UMD, researchers prepared a cylinder of supercold helium—at 2 degrees Celsius above absolute zero—injected with frozen tracer particles made from atmospheric air and helium gases. When they shined a laser into the cylinder, the researchers saw the particles trapped on the vortices like dew drops on a spider web.
"Kelvin waves on quantized vortices had been predicted, but the experiments were challenging because we had to conduct them at lower temperatures than our previous experiments," explained Lathrop.
Since 2006, the researchers have used the same technique to further examine quantum vortexes. During an experiment in February 2012, they witnessed a unique reconnection event. One vortex reconnected with another and a wave propagated down the vortex. To quantitatively study the wave's motion, the researchers tracked the position of the particles on the vortex. The resulting waveforms agreed generally with theories of Kelvin waves propagating from quantum vortexes.
"These first observations of Kelvin waves will surely lead to exciting new experiments that push the limits of our knowledge of these exotic quantum motions," added Lathrop.
In the future, Lathrop plans to use florescent nanoparticles to investigate what happens near the transition to the superfluid state.
Lathrop conducted the current study with David Meichle, a UMD physics graduate student; Enrico Fonda, who was a research scholar at UMD and graduate student at the University of Trieste when the study was performed and is now a postdoctoral researcher at New York University; Nicholas Ouellette, who was a visiting assistant professor at UMD when the study was performed and is now an associate professor in mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale University; and Sahand Hormoz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award No. DMR-0906109. The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
March 25, 2014
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