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Here's my issue: I need to close a process, already running, from a C# program. The problem is that the process now runs as an icon (minimized to taskbar), and unless the user opens it at least once (which will never happen on unattended machines), it'll never have a main window.
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I've added the if clause, after discovering that MainWindowHandle == 0 when the window was minimized. Removing the if doesn't help. Neither the CloseMainWindow() nor the Close() work. The Kill() does, but as mentioned above - it's not what I need.
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A couple of weeks ago, Dublin hosted Ireland's first ever MIX event! MIX is Microsoft's conference for all things web-related and takes place annually in Las Vegas. We had a smaller, one-day version of the conference at Cineworld with speakers from the US, the UK, Ireland and all over.
I wanted to let you know that we're busy right now getting the follow-up content ready to put online, but in the meantime, you can check out a lot of the slides as well as some previous talks by some of the speakers here: http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/mix08/register.html. Many of the speakers have their slides available already.
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Brigadier General Myles Deering is being promoted to Major General and will become director of manpower and personnel at the National Guard Bureau.
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Amazon reports 28% North American sales growth in Q2
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Awhile ago I had posted on here about how I got the Amex Platinum Card after thinking I must of had very bad credit because I could not get more than a $500 limit form capital one. Well today I was thinking I would also like a Premier Reward Gold card also for the 3x points on travel and 2x on gas so I applied and got an instant approval then I thought hmmm maybe I'll try for one more and in the end I looked over all there cards and founds the ones I liked and kept getting approved.
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By: NYCvort, 4:16 AM GMT on April 23, 2011
Wed Night Update: Tomorrow's potential severe weather threat
I would like to provide a few details about the severe weather potential for tomorrow that I highlighted last weekend. With a strong jet moving overhead,
we will have close to 40-50 kts of 0-6km shear:
Mixed layer CAPE values may spike to over 500 J/kg:
We will also see some turning with height in the low levels, though helicity values will not be too great. LIs will be up to just below -2 by midday tomorrow, indicative of marginal instability.
Pwats will be over 1.5 in. As the cold front approaches, we will see a squall line of heavy showers and strong thunderstorms, potentially approaching severe limits, especially from the city on westward. The main threat will be strong winds and heavy rainfall. Southerly flow off the ocean over eastern sections will likely lead to stabilization and substantially limit the potential there.
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Original Discussion: Warm Easter Sunday expected amidst unsettled pattern
Through next Thursday, we will experience above normal heights over the eastern US. Coincidentally, this morning most suburbs experienced lows of at least 10 degrees below normal, evidence of the cold air mass that we are coming out of. So, this warming trend will occur in two notable stages. First, winds in the mid levels of the atmosphere have turned to the southwest this evening and will continue to increase overnight. This will lead to overrunning of warm air over the denser cold air that will remain trapped in the low levels as winds there remain out of the southeast.
This will lead to rain developing late tonight and continuing into Saturday. Temperatures will remain chilly overnight into Saturday with the cold air mass remaining in place in the low levels. In addition, winds will increase in intensity Saturday morning. This is in response to a strong gradient between departing high pressure and deepening low pressure over the Lakes from intense upper level energy riding northeastward (this energy can be seen on the 500mb panel of the image above). Then we will see the second phase of our warming trend, this one more noticeable to us directly. Winds will shift around to the southwest down here at the surface late in the afternoon. At this point, we can begin to advect in milder air. Dewpoints will rise well into the 50s, and temperatures will continue rising through Saturday night. This will set the stage for a warm Easter Sunday, with temperatures rising up into the 70s (even for coastal areas under a good wind configuration) with clouds and some peeks of sunshine, with more sun expected over southern areas as a mid level frontal boundary sets up just to our north and a surface stationary front nearly overhead. This will lead to unsettled weather continuing from Sunday through early next week. Expect to see some showers coming in late in the day on Easter as a weak low rides up along the front. That stationary front then drifts to the south behind the low on Monday with cooler conditions.
In the meantime, a trough will be lifting across the midwest as additional troughing digs down into the south central US sending another low through the Lakes. This time, though, with no strong high to keep the low level cold air locked in, deep layered south-southwest flow will allow for temperatures to soar on Tuesday with our region well into the warm sector.
Some areas may break 80. As that second trough then starts to close off over the midwest by mid-week, a stronger low will come up west of the Appalachians and send a cold front approaching late Thursday with showers and thunderstorms. With the trough turning negative as it approaches, dewpoints in the 50s, and strong instability, will need to monitor this for possible severe weather in our vicinity. Take a look at the interesting set up below:
This will then be followed by a big change in air mass for next Friday into the start of the weekend, but a rebound will quickly follow. However, looking further into the extended, the teleconnections and MJO support the idea of cooler weather returning to the northeast to begin May.
The ensembles are in good agreement in keeping the AO, which was some 4 standard deviations above normal earlier this month, falling to a negative state by the beginning of May. In addition, there are some indications that a negative NAO may return at the end of the period as well. The PNA, which has been in a negative state since the beginning of this month, may also turn slightly positive.
These ideas are also supported by the GFS ensemble forecasts of the MJO moving into phase 7 during the first week of May:
Research from Allan Huffman's MJO study (http://raleighwx.americanwx.com/MJO.html) would suggest that an MJO in phase 7 during the month of May would indicate the following general pattern:
Note the trough over the Gulf of Alaska, ridge over the western US (positive PNA), and another ridge in the vicinity of Greenland (negative NAO). This teleconnective pattern would allow for an opportunity for a trough to set up over the northeastern US.
Here is the GFS ensemble forecast near the end of the period (two weeks from now, around May 7th):
Compare this image to the one from the May MJO phase 7 composite. Note the similarities. We have only a slightly displaced negative anomaly in the Gulf of Alaska in each image, a western North American ridge, and a northeast trough. We also have two very similarly placed positive anomalies, one just southeast of Greenland and the other over north central Canada. Not to mention a similar pattern near the pole and over the eastern hemisphere. It's something interesting to consider going forward into May. If this verifies, it would equate to slightly below normal temperatures during the first half of May. With the warm sun this time of year, it would probably be a very refreshing bout of weather before the coming heat of the summer months.
Happy Easter
Updated: 4:24 PM GMT on April 28, 2011
By: NYCvort, 11:22 PM GMT on April 09, 2011
Over the past couple of days, a powerful trough has been digging into the western US. This deep trough will continue to act to pump up the heights over the southeast. As the trough translates eastward in the continued fairly progressive pattern, the ridge will bulge out ahead of it and bring up some very warm air into the region.
There may be some showers around Sunday night, but after the warm front comes through early Monday morning, any shower activity will cease as the mid levels dry out quite well, and once the low levels begin to follow suit, at that point the sun will come out. There will be a strong inversion, but we will be able to utilize the strong late summer-like sun angle to help us mix out the column. High temperatures will be very highly dependent on this. Another factor to keep in mind is the fact that winds will be out of the southwest, which means that locations to the east of the city will have more difficulty with the cold ocean air streaming overhead. Coastal locations would be the most susceptible to this.
Let's take a closer look. I've chosen to use this morning's high resolution WRF 2m temps as a model because they look very reasonable to me given the set up (the newer WRF from this afternoon is not warm enough in my opinion). The red shading is where temperatures would be in the 80s. Note how to the east of the city, there is a sharp downward slope in temperatures:
The reason why we have such a sharp gradient can be found in this second image above, which shows the WRF projected 10m wind. We can see that there is 10-20 kts of southwest flow across the region. Under this wind configuration, the air coming over Manhattan would not be passing over the water, so our full temperature capacity could be reached. Sea surface temperatures will be in the 40s, so areas to the east will be under the influence of cooler marine air. Suffolk County, LI and eastern Connecticut will be most affected by this. A second thing to consider using this wind map is the fact that there is so much boundary layer flow, and this would argue for better mixing capability, especially once the sun comes out.
The NAM and GFS MOS guidance both show highs on Monday in the 70s, and the ECMWF MOS shows us just barely getting to 70. However, I don't think this is right, and I want to go over some of the reasons why I feel this way. First of all, the models usually have some problems with realizing how warm the low levels can become in the warm sector. In fact, 1000-500mb thicknesses will be nearing 570dm, which is quite summerlike. So, I think it's important to take a look at the forecast 850mb temperatures:
They are forecasted to be around 60 degrees across the area by both the NAM and GFS. Furthermore, the NAM/GFS MOS guidance shows ceiling heights going unlimited in the afternoon, along with scattered clouds. This, coupled with 15-20 mph winds, will in my opinion allow us to add more than 20 degrees onto that number. To illustrate this more graphically, even the NAM forecast soundings show us mixing higher than 900mb by mid-afternoon:
For a situation like this one, given the reasons above, I do believe that Central Park has a good shot at getting into the low 80s. For areas southwest of the city, that will be a slam-dunk, while adjacent eastern sections will rise into the 70s. Overall, temperatures on Monday will be some 10 to 20+ degrees above normal from east to west across the region:
Following all of this "heat," a cold front will approach Monday night. While areas well to the north and west of our region may be in for some strong thunderstorms on Monday, by the time the front reaches us, it will be losing its punch as its support (the trough) lifts out. It will also be nighttime, so the low level instability will be significantly diminished. This will result in a chance of showers and possibly a weak thunderstorm overnight.
Earlier forecasts were showing the front coming through, but now it looks like it may try and stall out as the northern stream energy lifts and a southern stream low attempts to close off. With residual mild temperatures in the mid and low levels (temps Mon night will stay in the 50s area-wide) and a lack of any real cold advection as the northern portion of the trough lifts into Canada, it wouldn't have taken much for us to have another mild day on Tuesday if the sun came out, but with the models now a bit more unsettled we may have to deal with some lingering showers.
High pressure then builds in from the south and west, and more trough energy will enter into the western US in a reinforcing negative PNA pattern:
As such, with still no blocking downstream, we will continue to experience above normal heights. However, with the general synoptic scale air flow diminishing, we will be relying mainly on the strong sun to create our diurnal temperature cycle. This will lead to slightly above average temperatures right through the end of the week, with highs generally in the lower 60s and lows ranging from the 30s in many suburbs to the 40s in the urban areas. More unsettled weather is possible by next weekend.
By: NYCvort, 7:43 PM GMT on April 03, 2011
Before we get to this week's discussion, I would like to take some time to review the failures of the "major storm" that I expected would impact the NYC area late last week.
Review of April Fool's Day Storm
I have to say, I was pretty surprised about how last week's storm system panned out. Given the set up, I really expected to see a more significant storm form off of our coast. The main thing that ended up holding it back was the fact that everything came together just a little too late. Parts of New England got hit with some snowfall after the storm started to get its act together. The graphic that I was showing you last week depicted a low that was more "tucked in" to the coast, but also stronger, and I think that was significant. Here is the actual analysis from last Friday morning:
Let's begin by looking at the top left panel, which shows the 500mb set up. You can see how everything isn't quite yet in phase. This can most easily be observed by examining how the height line crossing over the northern mid-Atlantic is not quite yet "in sync" with the height lines over the southeast. Also, look at the resulting 700mb pattern on the bottom left panel and note that we have only a poorly organized, just forming low with one closed contour. That all led to a weaker surface low, as shown in the top right panel, where there is a 992mb low (as opposed to the sub-988mb low I expected) that is already exiting the area. The weaker, more sheared solution led to significantly less QPF than I anticipated. If you recall in my discussion last week, my main expectation was that we would encounter a "major storm," featuring rain and the best chance of an accumulating snowfall on the backside over the interior. In fact, we only really received light precipitation totaling a mere quarter of an inch of rain, which certainly was not a "major storm," so unfortunately I have to scream at myself: "BUST!" Since we only received light precipitation, that meant that there was less opportunity for the dynamic/evaporative cooling. Like I said last week, this would have been the only way the atmosphere would have had the means to cool because there was no low level cold air filtering in on the backside. So that never happened. There was also the idea of a lack of cold air via the later phase. The northern stream really wasn't giving its all just yet, which led to a warmer solution despite the fact that the low was farther off the coast. It's a little hard to see, but if you can, note on the bottom right panel of the image above that the 850mb freezing line (solid black line running up and down the coast) is still only just nearing our area at that time prog, also leading to a warmer solution overall. By the time temperatures aloft finally got cold enough to support frozen precipitation, the springtime induced boundary layer was already warming as the morning progressed and led to midday precipitation the form of rain showers. So a combination of factors contributed to a downright embarrassingly small nuisance event for NYC.
This Week's Weather Discussion
Regardless, it's time to look ahead and see what interesting weather awaits us for this coming week. The last of our upper level trough will lift out through this afternoon followed by a ridge building through early Monday. Lingering marginally cold air exists in the mid-levels, but excellent mixing under aligned northwest flow has allowed highs to climb well into the 50s, which is right around normal for this time of year. However, our pleasant stretch of weather will not last as rain will develop ahead of a warm front tonight. That warm front is then expected to pass through our area midday on Monday with a real change in air mass. Dewpoints will rise and temperatures will top out in the low 60s and then stay at least in the 50s right through Monday night and into Tuesday. A very powerful phased trough will send a strong cold front through the area early Tuesday, with a line of convective showers and possible thunderstorms expected just behind the front:
We will also see temperatures drop quickly Tuesday morning after the front/rainfall moves through with a very sharp thermal gradient (see bottom right panel on the image above). Lows Tuesday night will fall back into the 30s. But it's important to note that once again this cold push will be the result of a negatively tilting trough, with no cold high coming in behind it. This colder air will be driven by low heights, and heights will be rising even during the day on Wednesday, with a quick recovery into the 50s as high pressure builds in from the south. We will briefly encounter zonal flow mid-week. A weak disturbance in the northern stream will ride to our north and push through a weak low which could bring a round of showers to our northern communities Wednesday night. High pressure then moves across southeastern Canada with some weak low level easterly flow. In the meantime, a trough will dig into the western US late in the week and release closed energy sitting off the coast across the country and into our region. Though it will be sheared, the moisture associated with it will likely override the colder low level air provided by the easterly flow leading to more rain chances on Friday.
Take a look at this ensemble image for Friday:
Note how we have a trough over eastern Asia, followed by a ridge, then another trough near the eastern Aleutian Islands, followed by another ridge, and then another trough over the western US. This is all indicative of the fact that upstream of our area, everything keeps on moving along rather quickly with numerous disturbances all contributing to a continued fast-moving pattern with active weather. So even though the western trough will temporarily pump up the heights in the east and lead to warm weather next weekend, the large scale pattern argues that even that deep trough will be slowly moving along with the next trough over the eastern Aleutians as of Friday pressed to approach the west coast by the middle of the following week. This should continue to keep the weather rather changeable at least for a time in the extended. We certainly won't have any resistance downstream over the Atlantic, with the NAO now positive and generally expected to remain that way right on through the period:
Have a great week
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Skip to comments.The Antikythera Mechanism (Computer - 56BC)
Posted on 04/30/2006 7:21:04 PM PDT by blam
The Antikythera mechanism
The clockwork computer
Sep 19th 2002
From The Economist print edition
An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology
WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating back to the first century BC. But the most important finds proved to be a few green, corroded lumpsthe last remnants of an elaborate mechanical device.
The Antikythera mechanism, as it is now known, was originally housed in a wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and a complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. X-ray photographs of the fragments, in which around 30 separate gears can be distinguished, led the late Derek Price, a science historian at Yale University, to conclude that the device was an astronomical computer capable of predicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any given date. A new analysis, though, suggests that the device was cleverer than Price thought, and reinforces the evidence for his theory of an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology.
Michael Wright, the curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum in London, has based his new analysis on detailed X-rays of the mechanism using a technique called linear tomography. This involves moving an X-ray source, the film and the object being investigated relative to one another, so that only features in a particular plane come into focus. Analysis of the resulting images, carried out in conjunction with Allan Bromley, a computer scientist at Sydney University, found the exact position of each gear, and suggested that Price was wrong in several respects.
In some cases, says Mr Wright, Price seems to have massaged the number of teeth on particular gears (most of which are, admittedly, incomplete) in order to arrive at significant astronomical ratios. Price's account also, he says, displays internal contradictions, selective use of evidence and unwarranted speculation. In particular, it postulates an elaborate reversal mechanism to get some gears to turn in the right direction.
Since so little of the mechanism survives, some guesswork is unavoidable. But Mr Wright noticed a fixed boss at the centre of the mechanism's main wheel. To his instrument-maker's eye, this was suggestive of a fixed central gear around which other moving gears could rotate. This does away with the need for Price's reversal mechanism and leads to the idea that the device was specifically designed to model a particular form of epicyclic motion.
The Greeks believed in an earth-centric universe and accounted for celestial bodies' motions using elaborate models based on epicycles, in which each body describes a circle (the epicycle) around a point that itself moves in a circle around the earth. Mr Wright found evidence that the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga. (These models, which predate the mechanism, were subsequently incorporated into the work of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD.)
A device that just modelled the motions of the sun, moon, Mercury and Venus does not make much sense. But if an upper layer of mechanism had been built, and lost, these extra gears could have modelled the motions of the three other planets known at the timeMars, Jupiter and Saturn. In other words, the device may have been able to predict the positions of the known celestial bodies for any given date with a respectable degree of accuracy, using bronze pointers on a circular dial with the constellations of the zodiac running round its edge.
Mr Wright devised a putative model in which the mechanisms for each celestial body stack up like layers in a sandwich, and started building it in his workshop. The completed reconstruction, details of which appeared in an article in the Horological Journal in May, went on display this week at Technopolis, a museum in Athens. By winding a knob on the side, celestial bodies can be made to advance and retreat so that their positions on any chosen date can be determined. Mr Wright says his device could have been built using ancient tools because the ancient Greeks had saws whose teeth were cut using v-shaped filesa task that is similar to the cutting of teeth on a gear wheel. He has even made several examples by hand.
How closely this reconstruction matches up to the original will never be known. The purpose of two dials on the back of the device is still unclear, although one may indicate the year. Nor is the device's purpose obvious: it may have been an astrological computer, used to speed up the casting of horoscopes, though it might just as easily have been a luxury plaything. But Mr Wright is convinced that his epicyclic interpretation is correct, and that the original device modelled the entire known solar system.
The Greeks had a word for it
That tallies with ancient sources that refer to such devices. Cicero, writing in the first century BC, mentions an instrument recently constructed by our friend Poseidonius, which at each revolution reproduces the same motions of the sun, the moon and the five planets. Archimedes is also said to have made a small planetarium, and two such devices were said to have been rescued from Syracuse when it fell in 212BC. This reconstruction suggests such references can now be taken literally.
It also provides strong support for Price's theory. He believed that the mechanism was strongly suggestive of an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology which, transmitted via the Arab world, formed the basis of European clockmaking techniques. This fits with another, smaller device that was acquired in 1983 by the Science Museum, which models the motions of the sun and moon. Dating from the sixth century AD, it provides a previously missing link between the Antikythera mechanism and later Islamic calendar computers, such as the 13th century example at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. That device, in turn, uses techniques described in a manuscript written by al-Biruni, an Arab astronomer, around 1000AD.
The origins of much modern technology, from railway engines to robots, can be traced back to the elaborate mechanical toys, or automata, that flourished in the 18th century. Those toys, in turn, grew out of the craft of clockmaking. And that craft, like so many other aspects of the modern world, seems to have roots that can be traced right back to ancient Greece.
The existence of "modern" metal gears at that time seems strange.
The History Channel did a good job on this. "Gears from the Greeks" by De Solla Price is a fascinating book, even if he didn't get it quite right.
Where's the keyboard and monitor? How do you plug it in?
They find some ancient royal Greek geek's music box (Ipod) and these freaks call it a computer?
You don't have to plug it in. Was steam driven.
You fire it up.
In all seriousness, I saw the show and still think it was either a music box or a device for animating some sort of statue or display, whether the mainspring rotted away or it was steam powered is no matter.
That being said, on anything short of a modern CNC machine the manufacturing of gears is still quite touchy. At least with the CNC, you can make scrap faster!
Go to the AGMA. That's the American Gear Manufacturing Association.
It looks like a watt-hour meter. Did the guy find any TVs and radios?
Thanks Blam. Two similar topics:
Did The Ancient Greeks Make A Computer?
An Article | 1977 | Lionel Casson
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It's not mentioned here but in 1900 there was speculation that it could have been tossed off of a much more modern ship, and just happened to "land" among the Antikythera wreckage.
It's not entirely surprising. For one thing, Archimedes built some amazing mechanical weapons back then (as well as calculated mass and put "leverage" into scientific context).
For another, there is a **reason** that our language calls them planetary gears, historically.
Neat. Hadn't thought of that.
Interestingly enough, somewhere along the line I read that a machine very like this one -- and perhaps this very machine -- was described by a contemporary writer. Perhaps it's quoted in one of the similar topics.
Also... a while back I picked up Jacques Cousteau's old stuff on DVD. Boy, that guy sure did harp about how humans were going to ensure their own extinction because they raped the environment. What a whiner.
Anyway, one of the shows shows them diving on the same wreck (if memory serves -- I don't have the disks here or I'd check) and coming up with (for example) a missing piece of a small bronze statue recovered 100 years ago. S'cool. The Antikythera mechanism is shown on museum display.
I well remember ol' Jack Cousteau's standard fundrasing pitch back in the seventies: that man would pollute the oceans to death and then we would all asphyxiate.
Nevertheless, things have come down quite a ways since the Kon-Tiki days when the flying fish and bonitos would practically throw themselves at Thor Hyerdahl and co. ("to starve to death was impossible").
That's how historiand and archaeologists deal with writing that contradicts their favorite theory. They claim the writing was symbolic rather than literal or simply dismiss it. Much easier that way.
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So why was it on a ship?
The most useful device on a ship of that time would have offered a way to know either the exact time or the exact longitude.
Latitude was easily calculable from almost any sighting, but the altitude of Mars above the horizon would have given the exact longitude as well. From limited sighting information, these navigators would have been able to make extremely accurate voyages.
Except that this type of gear set is not what our language calls planetary gears.
Planetary gears are named that because the gears themselves are arranged to orbit around a central point, not just to calculate the orbits of planets.
Thanks for the ping. We are just at the tip of the iceberg on this old earth's history.
Saw a program on the History Channel today about the "Real Indiana Jones's". There is so much to be learned about past inhabitants.
Revealed: world's oldest computerIt looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from antiquity, writes Helena Smith. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets... Known as the Antikythera mechanism and made before the birth of Christ, the instrument was found by sponge divers amid the wreckage of a cargo ship that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in 80BC. To date, no other appears to have survived... For years scholars had surmised that the object was an astronomical showpiece, navigational instrument or rich man's toy. The Roman Cicero described the device as being for 'after-dinner entertainment'. But many experts say it could change how the history of science is written. 'In many ways, it was the first analogue computer,' said Professor Theodosios Tassios of the National Technical University of Athens. 'It will change the way we look at the ancients' technological achievements.'
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When takeouts were raised or lowered 10 years ago, the main people they
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bet on but the races being run in front of them. Eighty-two percent of all
dollars wagered on New York racing are bet off-track, most of them coming in
from simulcast bettors who can choose from among dozens of tracks. It won't
take off-track players long to figure out they're getting the best bang for
their buck when they bet on New York races. The betting handle on NYRA races
should go up at the expense of tracks charging higher takeouts. Might other
tracks have to cut their rates or else risk losing their customers to tracks
like NYRA? For horseplayers, that is an exciting possibility.
"You're seeing a much different attitude among racetracks these days,"
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bargain takeout on certain bets. Maryland has done that with its Pick 4 with
its 14% takeout. Tracks are talking about prices and hyping them. Everyone is
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like it does with an airline ticket."
Impressive TV rating and star horses are great, but it is gambling that
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How loony is that?
Criminals will be made to do hard work; there'll be no time to moan about being hard done by.
But it's not just us calling for tougher sentencing; over 90% of you instructed the Government - via a referendum - to harden up on criminals. You were ignored.
If you've had enough of this arrogant and toxic behaviour from politicians - it's time to show them the yellow card.
On our watch referendums will be binding, justice will prevail.
Anything else is just crazy talk.
In Wellington they've always got some hairbrained scheme in mind to spend your money. Seems like only yesterday that the honourable member for Wainuiomata thought it might be a top idea to reincarnate the Moa.
The only other reason we need to pay so much tax is to fund the Government's vote buying programme; which clearly is proving to be more expensive than first thought. This is where they try and turn as many hardworking kiwi families as possible into beneficiaries.
It doesn't get any more cynical.
Bit of a tip - it'd be cheaper, not to mention more transparent,
to just tax us all less in the first place. If for example you were earning $20,000 per year, you'd pay no tax, and be $2520 better off. That's nearly $50 a week in your back pocket. After that everyone pays
a flat tax.
So that's our plan.
Don't let anyone tell you we can't afford a tax cut. Especially if they're from Wellington. It's not their money. The Government just needs to stop spending our wages and salaries like drunken sailors.
We'll put real money in the hands of those that need it and know what to do with it. Letting anyone else spend it for you is just lunacy.
At the heart of the democratic system is the principle of the citizens initiated referendum. It's when a single issue is thought to be so important, all voters are asked to make their opinion heard.
Pure democracy.
Getting it and keeping it - it's why wars get started.
In New Zealand since MMP started five such referendums have been held. Each and every time the wishes of the people were crystal clear. Each and every time the results were ignored by successive Labour and National Governments.
They've ignored what you think on anti-smacking; on tougher penalties for criminals, and asset sales.
When an overwhelming majority of us voted to have less politicians, guess what happened? That's right. They ignored that too. Call us old fashioned, but this sort of arrogance needs to stop.
What really worries us is this: what else are they looking to ignore?
To think they won't is madness.
The fact that in this day and age Maori are treated as 2nd class citizens and victims drives us nuts.
Since 1867 Maori have been segregated by special laws and separate seats in Parliament, and how's that worked out do you think?
Exactly. No good has, or will come from using a race based system to govern. Nor incidentally, does it come from repeating mistakes.
Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same old thing over and over, but expecting a different result.
Our wild and crazy thought?
Try something new.
It's time to bring closure to the claims process and look to the future.
We stand for equal rights and representation for all New Zealanders, plain and simple.
Let's change a broken system.
Nothing loony about that.


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Stereoselective carbon–carbon bond formation with aldolases has become an indispensable tool in preparative synthetic chemistry. In particular, the dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP)-dependent aldolases are attractive because four different types are available that allow access to a complete set of diastereomers of vicinal diols from achiral aldehyde acceptors and the DHAP donor substrate. While the substrate specificity for the acceptor is rather relaxed, these enzymes show only very limited tolerance for substituting the donor. Therefore, access to DHAP is instrumental for the preparative exploitation of these enzymes, and several routes for its synthesis have become available. DHAP is unstable, so chemical synthetic routes have concentrated on producing a storable precursor that can easily be converted to DHAP immediately before its use. Enzymatic routes have concentrated on integrating the DHAP formation with upstream or downstream catalytic steps, leading to multi-enzyme arrangements with up to seven enzymes operating simultaneously. While the various chemical routes suffer from either low yields, complicated work-up, or toxic reagents or catalysts, the enzymatic routes suffer from complex product mixtures and the need to assemble multiple enzymes into one reaction scheme. Both types of routes will require further improvement to serve as a basis for a scalable route to DHAP.
KeywordsDihyroxyacetone phosphate Aldolases Multi-step reactions
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The Fulda City Council will bond for $1,000,000.00 for fifteen years which will cost $170,348.33 in interest and fees. A resolution 2013-02 was passed to start the process relating to the issuance of general obligation water revenue bonds
Tammy Omdal of Northland Securities explained the complicated procedures needed to change the Wood Duck Addition TIF district, opening lot purchases to all buyers. The bounds would need to be paid before the TIF district would end.
The council approved updated job description for pay equity issues.
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The Prayer Hall by La-Vita-a-BellaWatch
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The Prayer Hall in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. The rug is the largest in the world and weighs 35 tons. The detail on the walls and ceiling are just amazing! The whole place just left me in awe!!! Oh, and there are chandeliers imported from Germany, one of which is the 3rd largest in the world.
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For a mo I thought it was a Mandlebulb pattern.
Very majestic.
What beautiful palace.
I will be using a lot of these for references, thank you my lady
Do I re-enter the epic world of the game "Prince of Persia" ?
I never knew how gorgous the mosque can look from the inside. It blows my mind away and it makes me wish I was in it right now. The mosque looks like you've entered into the heavenly divine.
Beautiful. I don't know if you've noticed this, but the window at the bottom of the chandelier has a kitty face on it 8D!!!
Stunning...this is more of a palace of worshiper than a place for worship! Isnt it?
Beautiful work!!
That is a gorgeous site. (an thanks for the trivia lesson
Amazing place... O.O
absolutely amazing! i think i would swoon to find myself in such a place of such incredible beauty!
Very nice
Paula I missed you..Welcome back. Love your work. This is so beautiful and rich in architecture.
Thank you very much! It's nice to be missed!! Hopefully I will be posting more images now that spring has sprung!
the detail is incredible!! Great shot!
This work has been featured on #devPREMIUM's Architecture, Urban and Rural Spotlight Vol. 58!
Best regards!
Best regards!
My goodness, this is absolutely gorgeous! It would be such a treat and honor to visit Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque! Some day, God willing ♥
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Shield Bashing is a new form of blocking in combat, that is introduced in The Baconing. Hold to block and a circle will appear around deathspank. Wait for the circle to get small and release . You can also hold the until the shield expires and a shield bash is automatically triggered. If done correctly all surrounding enemies should fly away from you giving you time to breathe. If you are running in a direction it will only be distributed to that direction. If you are standing still it will bash a complete circle around you. Note, also that this is bash 1000 enemies not 1000 times. To see your progress go to leaderboards, select "the Bashing Best" and filter it to "My Score."
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creed of an assassin by nefar007Watch
©2009-2016 nefar007
here's my first upload for the year 2009.
Its a fanart from the game Assasins Creed ©
did this last year around july.
thanks for taking a look
Its a fanart from the game Assasins Creed ©
did this last year around july.
thanks for taking a look
One of many requirements of an assassin is the ability to BLEND IN. A wonderful image to represent the ability.
this drawing is so perfect, nice job!
Perfect ,
looks like you used the colors of Jerusalem !
looks like you used the colors of Jerusalem !
Assassin's Creed... Altair...
Very awesome artwork.
Very awesome artwork.
this is fckin epic my friend .... awesome!!! would like to make a poster of this, if i had it in HD ^^ :3
Amazing, awesome work
Great nostalgy of the first Assassin's Creed where the shared appearance with monks was an important part of the assassin's way of life.
Awesome restitution !
Awesome restitution !
Beautiful lighting and great atmosphere! Amazing work!
Wow, this is awesome. Great work.
one does not simply
makes a creed of one man
makes a creed of one man
Please make this print, please please please D:
Awesome !
I love the eeriness... it's wonderful.
Awesome! I love the dark, foreboding feel to it
I like the darkness of it
Awesome!! i love it pfff
It amazes me how none of the citizens or guards recognize you right away. You look at someone like this, and you sort of have a primeval fear and your mind just thinks "Oh shit..."
Great work on this, very very awesome
Great work on this, very very awesome
This is so dark, and creepy, and...awesome.
Spectacular work!
Spectacular work!
Great job. Good work
holy moley
Looks fuckin awesome!
Happy birthday Altair! Great job on this too too.
my favorite game of all times, and you did well in this altair portrait!
Amazing...love the feel of the image
Incredible work
Very well done !!
It's very cool how you colored Altair, and the other people darkly. It's like you're only catching a glimpse of the assassin before he disappears or something.
Eh...I always try to interpret awesome works of art
Eh...I always try to interpret awesome works of art
So cool!
Very nice style The smokey, hazy look is really cool.
I love this! Altair is scary in this pic.
He walks like Dracula with foot prints as silent as Death..
ohohooo very nice, I like the haziness..
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