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Like many small towns in rural counties Albemarle is not exactly a boomtown.
But a local banker and a Stanly County Commissioner have come up with a political grab that makes government funding of the Randy Parton Theatre look like a small-time sideshow.
The hydro-electric plant is a modern marvel. Hydro-electric plants create electricity and don't consume natural resources. There are no fuel waste products. Like with coal. No smokestacks. No pollution.
And there is a hydro-electric plant in Stanly County.
And it's up for re-licensing by the federal government.
And the banker and County Commissioner see the government taking it over as the solution to their problems.
Of course, they don't put it quite that bluntly. Instead, they've wrapped themselves in a lot of high sounding rhetoric. For instance, banker Roger Dick says about the Yadkin River, "Who has the right to control a natural resource – is it the local people or a private corporation?"
Now, in fact, no private corporation controls the river. The federal government does. But, that technically aside, what Mr. Dick really means – when he says local people should control the river – is that he wants Stanly County to have the power to deny Alcoa (which owns the plant) water to turn its turbines. Then, he and Commissioner Lindsey Dunevant say, the state can buy the dam and plant at a cut rate, run it themselves and provide Stanly county electricity at cost.
Now, assuming the government can run a hydro-electric plant without a meltdown, that's a great deal for Stanly County. Taxpayers in Raleigh, Charlotte and around the state buy the plant, they're on the hook if it turns out to be a boondoggle – and Stanly county gets cut-rate electricity.
Politicians have been divvying up tax dollars for 'incentives' and funding every sort of project – from Teapot Museums to country music theatres – for years. But, until now, no one ever thought of taking over a hydro-electric plant. You have to say this for the Stanly county politicians – they've taken the art of the political grab to a new level.
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Volume 340 of the series Methods in Molecular Biology pp 71-94
Non-Protein Amino Acids in the Design of Secondary Structure Scaffolds
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The use of stereochemically constrained amino acids permits the design of short peptides as models for protein secondary structures. Amino acid residues that are restrained to a limited range of backbone torsion angles (ϕ-ψ) may be used as folding nuclei in the design of helices and β-hairpins. α-Amino-isobutyric acid (Aib) and related Cαα dialkylated residues are strong promoters of helix formation, as exemplified by a large body of experimentally determined structures of helical peptides. DPro-Xxx sequences strongly favor type II' turn conformations, which serve to nucleate registered β-hairpin formation. Appropriately positioned DPro-Xxx segments may be used to nucleate the formation of multistranded antiparallel β-sheet structures. Mixed (α/β) secondary structures can be generated by linking rigid modules of helices and β-hairpins. The approach of using stereochemically constrained residues promotes folding by limiting the local structural space at specific residues. Several aspects of secondary structure design are outlined in this chapter, along with commonly used methods of spectroscopic characterization.
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George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis: Getting Serious
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We've all been watching closely as George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis have been falling deeper and deeper in love. And according to a report, they're taking things to the next level.
The "Ocean's Eleven" stud is said to be so smitten with the Italian television presenter that he has purchased her a promise ring to show his level of commitment.
Elisabetta has also moved into Clooney's Studio City, California mansion where she has been constantly pampered with gifts.
An inside source told press, "Every day is like Christmas at George's house for Elisabetta. He's even looking at a Maserati. He's had a great life for a long time, but she seems to make him very happy."
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Medicare doesn't cover everything. For example, Medicare doesn't cover cosmetic surgery, health care you get while traveling outside of the United States (except in limited cases), hearing aids, most hearing exams, most eyeglasses, most dental care and dentures, and more. It also does not cover long-term care (except for skilled nursing care services that are needed daily on a short-term basis after a 3-day qualifying hospital stay). Some of these services may be covered by a Medicare Advantage Plan, such as an HMO (health maintenance organization) or PPO (preferred provider organization). A Medicare supplement can help with expenses not fully paid by Medicare.


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A group of prominent Canadian women are campaigning once again to change the lyrics of O Canada to be more "gender-neutral."
At issue is the line: "True patriot love in all thy sons command." According to Restore Our Anthem, a group that includes writer Margaret Atwood and former prime minister Kim Campbell, these lyrics are exclusionary of women, and do not reflect the original intent of Robert Stanley Weir, who wrote the English words for O Canada in 1908.
The original lyrics of Weir's O Canada, the group says, were "thou dost in us command." But in 1913, they were changed, "for no documented reason," to the current "sons command" version.
They're now lobbying to have the line changed to "in all of us command."
The words "all thy sons command" in the English national anthem suggests that only male loyalty is being invoked," Margaret Atwood said in a statement.
"Restoring these lyrics to gender-neutral is not only an easy fix to make our anthem inclusive for all Canadians, but it's also long overdue."
Other notable women supporting the Restore Our Anthem campaign include retired senator Vivienne Poy, Senator Nancy Ruth, and Sally Goddard, whose daughter Nichola Goddard was the first female Canadian soldier killed in combat.
Changing the lyrics would celebrate the role of all Canadians, Ms. Goddard said in a statement. "It would recognize the heroes, leaders and teachers who have made Canada what it is today – regardless of their gender."
This is not the first time a change to O Canada has been proposed. In 2002, Ms. Poy introduced a bill to try to change the lyric, and in 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Parliament to look at whether or not to make the change. But Harper abandoned the proposal just days later, after facing backlash from the Conservative Party.
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Columbia, NYU MBA Applications PlummetLouis Lavelle
The turmoil on Wall Street is causing applications to decline for two MBA programs with close ties to the finance industry.
It's no secret that Wall Street is hurting. Job cuts have already been announced by Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and UBS, and more are expected at Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs, major MBA employers all.
The average Wall Street bonus fell 13 percent last year to $121,150, the lowest level since 2008, according to projections by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reported by Bloomberg News. And a whole bevy of banks—including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman, and Morgan Stanley—reported their worst first-half revenue since 2008. As New York magazine put it in a February cover story, "The Emasculation of Wall Street": "The Masters of the Universe are masters no longer."
Apparently, Wall Street's brave new world isn't for everybody. Columbia Business School, which sent half of its 2012 graduating class to financial services jobs, including 18 grads to Goldman, is reporting a staggering 19 percent drop in applications to its full-time MBA program. It's the biggest one-year drop in applications in recent memory. Amir Ziv, vice dean and accounting professor at Columbia, says the troubles on Wall Street are largely to blame.
"There's merit to the argument that if the financial industry isn't doing well, it should hit schools that are more exposed to it than others," Ziv says. "In the long run, if it's not doing well, you'll have fewer students interested in schools that are excellent in finance."
Columbia isn't alone. New York University's Stern School of Business, where 46 percent of this year's graduating class entered financial services, is reporting 3,907 applications for the incoming class of 2012, down from 4,416 in 2011, a decline of nearly 12 percent.
Where business schools are less reliant on Wall Street jobs, the hit to applications has been considerably lighter. Applications are down less than 2 percent at Harvard Business School, from 9,134 in 2011 to 8,963 in 2012, and less than 1 percent at Wharton, from 6,442 in 2011 to 6,408 in 2012. At Chicago's Booth School of Business, which will release application numbers on Sept. 4, there has been a "slight decline" in applications, according to Stacey Kole, deputy dean for the full-time MBA program. At Chicago, Wharton, and Harvard, about 40 percent of this year's graduating class took jobs in financial services.
If applicants are fleeing finance schools, it wouldn't be surprising: B-school graduates have been straying from the finance industry for years. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which publishes the GMAT test, reported in its latest Global Management Education Graduate Survey just how disaffected would-be MBA I-bankers are.
Except for a brief upward blip in 2010, the popularity of finance as a career destination among MBAs has been on a steadily downward trajectory since 2008, the year of the Lehman Brothers collapse. When GMAC surveyed 6,292 graduate business students at 136 schools worldwide earlier this year, just 18 percent of those surveyed declared finance and accounting their top choice, well below products and services and consulting. Among career switchers, only nonprofit and government jobs rank lower.
One upside to a decline in applications is that it makes it a little easier for those who did apply to win acceptance. As Wall Street Oasis first reported, if Columbia accepts the same number of applicants it did last year, about 1,060, its selectivity will be about 20 percent. Columbia ranked No. 9 in Bloomberg Businessweek's most recent ranking of top full-time MBA programs in 2010, but 20 percent is on par with much lower-ranked schools, including No. 21 Yale School of Management and No. 14 Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Of course, that doesn't mean just anyone can get in. The average GMAT score for accepted applicants, as well as the middle 80 percent range of scores, is virtually unchanged from last year, despite having fewer applicants to choose from. Still, it means far fewer highly qualified applicants were turned away this year, and that's got to make a lot of people happy.


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Congrats for the presentation! The suit looks great and you wear it with proud!
awesome bro! congrats on all the hard work paying off!
Just posted on the TDH Facebook page! Nice!
Congrats man! Awesome looking Fett as well!
A great suit! Much deserved props!
Congrats on a job well done ! The suit is the reward and the props secondary!
Thanks, guys! While there still are some components on that suit that have been part of this costume since I built it in 1999, the majority of everything has been upgraded slowly over the years. There's still a few little tweaks I'd like to do to it, but for the most part I think how it appears in its current state is a pretty solid representation of one of the ROTJ suits. While mine is heavily based off the Magic of Myth suit, there are still some "stunt" type parts I did to it, so it's a blend. But since they had a few different real ROTJ suits, I think this is OK to have happen. :fettrotj
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47 CFR 78.31 - Temporary extension of license.
Where there is pending before the Commission any application, investigation, or proceeding which, after hearing, might lead to or make necessary the modification of, revocation of or the refusal to renew an existing cable television relay station license, the Commission will grant a temporary extension of such license: Provided, however, That no such temporary extension shall be construed as a finding by the Commission that the operation of any CARS station thereunder will serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity beyond the express terms of such temporary extension of license: And provided, further, That such temporary extension of license will in nowise affect or limit the action of the Commission with respect to any pending application or proceeding.
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The Queenstown to Glenorchy drive is an epic one! You pass through the spectacular scenery at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu in the South Island of Otago, New Zealand.
It is approximately 45 kilometres by road from Queenstown and makes for an easy day trip. During winter, the sun shines bright and we had a beautiful day to visit. Unlike hiking the Ben Lomond, this was a leisurely experience just like when I visited Milford Sound.
The scenery is breathtaking around this small little settlement and there is not much development to take away from the landscape. A funny thing contrast was that once you pass the sign above, around the next corner is a run down old farm shack with rusted old cars in the garden.
Things to do in Glenorchy
There is a wide range of climbing in the Richardson Mountain Range to east of the Rees and in the Forbes Mountain Range to the West. There is also rock climbing at Chinaman's Bluff in the Dart River Valley .There are a few things to entertain people when visiting Glenorchy. The landscape is a huge factor and even the Queenstown to Glenorchy drive is renowned for being one of the nicest drives in New Zealand.
The Dart River Safaris and 4×4 adventures take adventure enthusiasts off road and into the rugged terrain for some exploring.
The Routeburn track
The Routeburn Track extends between Glenorchy at the Head of Lake Wakatipu and the Divide, Te Anau, Milford Road. A total of 32 Kilometres, traversing Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks. You will need to allow three to four days to complete the track. But some crazy people do it in one day!
Duck Shooting
If you are into duck shooting now is the season (May). We could hear gun shots in the distance as we walked the Glenorchy track.
There are a few cafes and restaurants and we even had a pint of poor quality beer in some Glenorchy Hotel Bar. Yeast floating around in a pint of larger, I think they should clean out the beer lines!
For anglers and fly fisherman Lake Wakatipu has an abundance of land locked salmon, rainbow and brown trout. The Kiwis love to go fishing and Glenorchy offers some great fishing but make sure you have a licence (or you will get a fine).
Plenty of other things to do..
There are many other activities such as mountain biking, jet boating, paragliding, hunting and many walks to do while in Glenorchy. If you are staying in Queenstown you should definitely take a drive to Glenorchy one day!


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We started off in the aftermath of Harper Dearing's destruction at the Navy Yard. Having planted a bomb in Director Vance's car, his explosion had dramatic effects, such as giving Ducky a heart attack, even though he was miles away. As Jimmy was able to save him, he had to return to DC to autopsy bodies in Ducky's absence.
As Gibbs piled through the wreckage looking for his team, everyone was able to survive. The only complication was McGee getting stabbed with glass, to which he recovered quite quickly. As the team set out to look for Dearing, they thought they'd found him. However, months later, they discovered it wasn't Dearing, but his brother. As Gibbs figured out where Dearing would be, he went to find him by himself. Having found Dearing, Gibbs kills him.
After Ducky's heart attack, his boredom leads him to illegally exhume a body of a man from one of his 12 year old cases. As the body becomes related to NCIS' current case, Gibbs puts Ducky on point to run the case. After some encouragement from the rest of the team, he seems to enjoy himself, and does well. When the case is solved, Gibbs informs Ducky that he is cleared for medical duty again.
One ongoing theme throughout the season is fathers. In episode 5, 'Namesake', Gibbs is reunited with the man who he is named after, Leroy Jethro Moore (Billy Dee Williams). He discovers that him and his father, who used to be good friends, had broken apart. Gibbs later discovers that this was due to 'LJ' knowing about Gibbs' mother's suicide, and not stopping it. After some effort from Gibbs, the two were reunited as friends again.
Jumping ahead to episode 10, it was Christmas time in the nation's capital. However, Tony wasn't visited by Father Christmas. Instead, he was paid a visit from his father, Anthony Dinozzo Sr (Robert Wagner). With all his previous misgivings, Tony was not happy to see his father, however, after Abby and Ziva convince him, Tony decides to give his father another chance. His plan backfires when Senior ends up in Tony's bed with the neighbour across the hall. As Tony tries to throw Senior out of his life, Tony finds a ring that had been passed down his family generations. After seeing the ring, Tony and his father reunite in MTAC, much to the delight of the other team members.
McGee ends up running into his father at a crime scene in episode 19. His father (Jamey Sheridan) is Admiral of the Navy, and having been so for years, him and McGee have been estranged for quite some time. As McGee attempts to patch things up with the Admiral, the feeling is not mutual, as the Admiral attempts to avoid McGee. When the Admiral becomes a suspect in the investigation, he reveals to Gibbs as to why he has attempted to avoid his son - he has cancer. When he helps Gibbs solve the case, him and McGee attempt to reunite in the little time that they have.
The big event from this season came in episode 11. As Ziva's father Eli comes to town - without any security, or anyone knowing he is there - he finds his daughter. He tells her the reason for his visit, which is to negotiate a peace agreement with an Iranian ambassador. Simultaneous with this, he tries things up with Ziva, with a Shabbat dinner. However, the attempt fails when Ziva learns that Eli murdered a man who photographed him at the airport. As Ziva walks out of the dinner at Vance's house, a flurry of shots are fired, killing Eli and Jackie Vance, leaving Ziva and the Director emotionally destroyed.
As the pair attempt to mourn their losses, Ziva discovers her father's killer - Mossad assistant director Ilan Bodnar. As Ziva attempts to hunt him down. After teaming up with McGee in a vacant apartment, the pair attempt to track down Bodnar around the world. With Gibbs' agreement, Tony and Ziva go to Berlin to hunt him down. They come close, managing to capture Bodnar's brother.
In 'Revenge', the team discover that Bodnar never actually left the country. As Homeland threatens Vance and NCIS to stop hunting for Bodnar, Ziva goes off on her own to where she thinks her father's killer is located. After a fight between the two, Bodnar falls to his death. When Vance asks Ziva what happened, she replies, "It's over."
Last week, DOD investigator Richard Parsons (Colin Hanks) came to NCIS to question the team members about Eli's death. Some hard-hitting questions on Ziva brought to light hidden revelations about her friend Adam, as it is revealed that the two were 'together' in what Ziva called "A moment of weakness." After they bug Parsons' phone, McGee discovers that Parsons is not out to get Ziva or Vance, but Gibbs.
The season finale airs on Tuesday, where the team's future is in jeopardy as Parsons attempts to unravel all of NCIS' unconventional methods. Will the team survive intact, or will some of the team take a career-ending hit? Let me know in the comments.
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Safe4Athletes developed an online survey to indentify current and former athletes and to learn about the type of harassment that may have been experienced over the course of their career. The survey allows for both the athlete and a parent of athlete to respond.
Aims: To determine if there were any trends across sport, gender and competition level, that identify abuse levels for emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse.
Methods: The survey was distributed in phases; the first phase was directed towards personal contacts, via Facebook ( friends and large number of Olympians from around the world), and private communication with contacts that have come to Safe4athletes with experience of abuse in some form in sports. The second phase included a more public distribution with websites like Huffington Post, Momsteam, (a focused parent/athlete audience) and the Safe4athletes website.
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GNU Octave 4.0.0 RC1 running on Linux
|John W. Eaton and many others[1]
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|4.2.0 rc4 (November 9, 2016[±][3])
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GNU Octave is software featuring a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Since it is part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Octave is one of the major free alternatives to Matlab, others being FreeMat and Scilab.[4][5][6][7] Scilab, however, puts less emphasis on (bidirectional) syntactic compatibility with Matlab than Octave does.[4][8][9]
- 1 History
- 2 Developments
- 3 Technical details
- 4 Octave, the language
- 5 Notable features
- 6 Matlab compatibility
- 7 User interfaces
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
The project was conceived around 1988. At first it was intended to be a companion to a chemical reactor design course. Real development was started by John W. Eaton in 1992. The first alpha release dates back to January 4, 1993 and on February 17, 1994 version 1.0 was released. Version 4.0.0 was released on May 29, 2015.
The program is named after Octave Levenspiel, a former professor of the principal author. Levenspiel is known for his ability to perform quick back-of-the-envelope calculations.[10]
In addition to use on desktops for personal scientific computing, Octave is used in academia and industry. For example, Octave was used on a massive parallel computer at Pittsburgh supercomputing center to find vulnerabilities related to guessing social security numbers.[11]
Dramatic Acceleration with OpenCL or CUDA is also possible with use of GPUs. [12]
Technical details[edit]
- Octave is written in C++ using the C++ standard library.
- Octave uses an interpreter to execute the Octave scripting language.
- Octave is extensible using dynamically loadable modules.
- Octave interpreter has an OpenGL-based graphics engine to create plots, graphs and charts and to save or print them. Alternatively, gnuplot can be used for the same purpose.
- Octave includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in addition to the traditional Command Line Interface (CLI); see #User interfaces for details.
Octave, the language[edit]
The Octave language is an interpreted programming language. It is a structured programming language (similar to C) and supports many common C standard library functions, and also certain UNIX system calls and functions.[13] However, it does not support passing arguments by reference.[14]
Octave programs consist of a list of function calls or a script. The syntax is matrix-based and provides various functions for matrix operations. It supports various data structures and allows object-oriented programming.[15]
Its syntax is very similar to Matlab, and careful programming of a script will allow it to run on both Octave and Matlab.[16]
Because Octave is made available under the GNU General Public License, it may be freely changed, copied and used.[10] The program runs on Microsoft Windows and most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including macOS.[17]
Notable features[edit]
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Command and variable name completion[edit]
Typing a TAB character on the command line causes Octave to attempt to complete variable, function, and file names (similar to Bash's tab completion). Octave uses the text before the cursor as the initial portion of the name to complete.[18]
Command history[edit]
When running interactively, Octave saves the commands typed in an internal buffer so that they can be recalled and edited.
Data structures[edit]
Octave includes a limited amount of support for organizing data in structures. In this example, we see a structure "x" with elements "a", "b", and "c", (an integer, an array, and a string, respectively):
octave:1> x.a = 1; x.b = [1, 2; 3, 4]; x.c = "string";
octave:2> x.a
ans = 1
octave:3> x.b
ans =
1 2
3 4
octave:4> x.c
ans = string
octave:5> x
x =
a = 1
b =
1 2
3 4
c = string
Short-circuit boolean operators[edit]
Octave's '
&&' and '
||' logical operators are evaluated in a short-circuit fashion (like the corresponding operators in the C language), in contrast to the element-by-element operators '
&' and '
Increment and decrement operators[edit]
Octave includes the C-like increment and decrement operators '
++' and '
--' in both their prefix and postfix forms. Octave also does augmented assignment, e.g. '
x += 5'.
Octave supports a limited form of exception handling modelled after the '
unwind_protect' of Lisp. The general form of an unwind_protect block looks like this:
As a general rule, GNU Octave recognizes as termination of a given '
block' either the keyword '
end' (which is compatible with the Matlab language) or a more specific keyword '
end_block'. As a consequence, an '
unwind_protect' block can be terminated either with the keyword '
end_unwind_protect' as in the example, or with the more portable keyword '
The cleanup part of the block is always executed. In case an exception is raised by the body part, cleanup is executed immediately before propagating the exception outside the block '
GNU Octave also supports another form of exception handling (compatible with the Matlab language):
This latter form differs from an '
unwind_protect' block in two ways. First, exception_handling is only executed when an exception is raised by body. Second, after the execution of exception_handling the exception is not propagated outside the block (unless a '
rethrow( lasterror )' statement is explicitly inserted within the exception_handling code).
Variable-length argument lists[edit]
Octave has a mechanism for handling functions that take an unspecified number of arguments without explicit upper limit. To specify a list of zero or more arguments, use the special argument
varargin as the last (or only) argument in the list.
function s = plus (varargin)
if (nargin==0)
s = 0;
s = varargin{1} + plus (varargin{2:nargin});
Variable-length return lists[edit]
A function can be set up to return any number of values by using the special return value
varargout. For example:
function varargout = multiassign (data)
for k=1:nargout
varargout{k} = data(:,k);
C++ integration[edit]
It is also possible to execute Octave code directly in a C++ program. For example, here is a code snippet for calling
#include <octave/oct.h>
ColumnVector NumRands(2);
NumRands(0) = 10;
NumRands(1) = 1;
octave_value_list f_arg, f_ret;
f_arg(0) = octave_value(NumRands);
f_ret = feval("rand", f_arg, 1);
Matrix unis(f_ret(0).matrix_value());
C and C++ code can be integrated into GNU Octave by creating oct files, or using the Matlab compatible MEX files.
Matlab compatibility[edit]
Octave has been built with Matlab compatibility in mind, and shares many features with Matlab:
- Matrices as fundamental data type.
- Built-in support for complex numbers.
- Powerful built-in math functions and extensive function libraries.
- Extensibility in the form of user-defined functions.
Octave supposedly treats incompatibility with Matlab as a bug; therefore, it could be considered a software clone, which does not infringe software copyright as per Lotus v. Borland court case.
Matlab scripts from the MathWorks' FileExchange repository are compatible with Octave, but can't be used legally due the Terms of use.[19] While often provided and uploaded by users under an Octave compatible and proper Open source BSD license, the fileexchange's Terms of use prohibit any usage beside MathWorks proprietary Matlab.[20][21]
Syntax compatibility[edit]
There are a few purposeful, albeit minor, syntax additions:
- Comment lines can be prefixed with the # character as well as the % character;
- Various C-based operators ++, --, +=, *=, /= are supported;
- Elements can be referenced without creating a new variable by cascaded indexing, e.g. [1:10](3);
- Strings can be defined with the " character as well as the ' character;
- When the variable type is single, Octave calculates the "mean" in the single-domain (Matlab in double-domain) which is faster but gives less accurate results;
- Blocks can also be terminated with more specific Control structure keywords, i.e., endif, endfor, endwhile, etc.;
- Functions can be defined within scripts and at the Octave prompt;
- All operators perform automatic broadcasting or singleton expansion.
- Presence of a do-until loop (similar to do-while in C).
Function compatibility[edit]
Many of the numerous Matlab functions are available in GNU Octave, some of them are accessible through packages via Octave-forge, but not all Matlab functions are available in GNU Octave. List of unavailable functions exists in Octave, and developers are seeking for help to implement them. Looking for function __unimplemented.m__, leads to the list of unimplemented functions.
Unimplemented functions are also categorized in Image, Mapping, Optimization, Signal, and Statistics packages.
When an unimplemented function is called the following error message is shown:
octave:1> quad2d
warning: quad2d is not implemented. Consider using dblquad.
Please read <http://www.octave.org/missing.html> to learn how you can
contribute missing functionality.
warning: called from
__unimplemented__ at line 523 column 5
error: 'quad2d' undefined near line 1 column 1
User interfaces[edit]
Octave comes with an official graphical user interface (GUI) and a integrated development environment (IDE) based on Qt. It is available since Octave 3.8,[22] and has become the default interface (over the command line interface) with the release of Octave 4.0.[23] Several 3rd-party graphical front-ends have been developed. It was well received: "[Octave] now has a very workable GUI."[24]
See also[edit]
- List of numerical analysis software
- Comparison of numerical analysis software
- List of statistical packages
- List of numerical libraries
- ^ Rik (10 June 2015). "contributors.in". Retrieved 14 June 2015.
- ^ "release date". 21 February 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ "Octave Alpha FTP directory".
- ^ a b Trappenberg, Thomas (2010). Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-19-956841-3.
- ^ Muhammad, A; Zalizniak, V (2011). Practical Scientific Computing. Woodhead Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-85709-226-7.
- ^ Megrey, Bernard A.; Moksness, Erlend (2008). Computers in Fisheries Research. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 345. ISBN 978-1-4020-8636-6.
- ^ Kapuno, Raul Raymond (2008). Programming for Chemical Engineers Using C, C++, and Matlab. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-934015-09-4.
- ^ Herman, Russell L. (2013). A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists. CRC Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4665-8467-9.
- ^ Wouwer, Alain Vande; Saucez, Philippe; Vilas, Carlos (2014). Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with Matlab, Octave and Scilab: Scientific and Engineering Applications. Springer. pp. 114–115. ISBN 978-3-319-06790-2.
- ^ a b Eaton, John W. "About Octave". Retrieved 2009-06-28.
- ^ "Social Security Number Vulnerability Findings Relied on Supercomputing". 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012.
- ^ https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/drop-in-acceleration-gnu-octave/
- ^ "GNU Octave - Controlling subprocesses". 14 November 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "GNU Octave". Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2". Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ "FAQ: Matlab compatibility". Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ "FAQ: Getting Octave". Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ Eaton, John W. "Letting Readline Type For You". GNU Octave Reference Manual.
- ^ Why can't I use code from File Exchange in Octave? It's released under a BSD license! on octave.org
- ^ terms of use on mathworks.com "Content that you submit must not directly compete with products offered by MathWorks. Content submitted to File Exchange may only be used with MathWorks products."
- ^ File Exchange Licensing Transition FAQ on mathworks.com
- ^ "Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.8".
- ^ "Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0".
- ^ GNU Octave hits a high note, Steve Hageman - February 07, 2014
Further reading[edit]
- Hansen, Jesper Schmidt (June 2011). GNU Octave. Beginner's Guide. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-849-51332-6.
External links[edit]
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- Documentation
- Online documentation.
- Octave wiki (Click twice – page redirects cause some browsers to time out).
- Reviewed entry in the Free Software Directory.
- Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- Mailing List Archives on Nabble – Search all Octave mailing lists.
- Mailing List Archives on Gmane – Search all Octave mailing lists.
- Numerical packages and libraries interfacing with GNU Octave
GNU Octave is also powered by third-party tools and libraries, mostly providing general or domain-specific abstractions for scientific computing. Those tools may be categorized according whether their contributions are more oriented toward computational modelling or toward enhancing visual analysis.
- Numerical tools
- Octave-forge – Free software toolboxes for various problems from independent developers. Octave-forge packages provide functions designed to work with the Octave package system. A Windows installer for both GNU Octave and the toolboxes is also available.
- Mastrave project – Cross-language library (GNU GPLv3+ covered) compatible with GNU Octave and Matlab, to ease scientific computational modelling (e.g. environmental modelling) with general purpose semantic array programming utilities.
- Neuroimaging Analysis Kit – Library (MIT License covered) to process neuroimaging data within GNU Octave or Matlab, particularly functional magnetic resonance images. It also offers a Pipeline system to handle multi-stage processing (PSOM: pipeline system for Octave and Matlab).
- Parallel Matlab Toolbox – Matlab language data structures and functions which implement distributed Matlab arrays. It is released under MIT license.
- MPI Toolbox for Octave (MPITB) – Parallel Computing for Octave
- FEATool Multiphysics – A fully integrated multiphysics finite element simulation toolbox with both GUI, command line, and m-scripting support (with built-in geometry and grid generation, solvers, and postprocessing tools).
- FeatFlow - High performance CFD solver which can be used with the FEATool Gui and CLI integrations.
- Plotting tools
- PLplot – A replacement of the traditional gnuplot in GNU Octave, licensed under the GNU LGPL.
- Plotly – Interactive, browser-based, publication quality graphs. Can be shared and jointly edited.
- OctPlot – High quality 2D graphics (PostScript and screen graphics). Released under GNU GPL.
- Octave graphics add-on – 3D visualization system for Octave.
- Octaviz – 3D visualization system for GNU Octave (wrapper that makes VTK classes accessible from within GNU Octave). It also provides high-level functions for 2D visualization. (Note: Their site says, "Unfortunately, Octaviz is no longer in development. The latest release (0.4.7) was quite usable and stable when built against vtk-5.0.").
- Matlab-like IDEs
- Xoctave (Windows, Linux and MAC; non-free) allows plugin and multi-language support.
- QtOctave (Windows, Linux; free under GPLv2+) Official development ceased June 2011.
- DomainMath IDE (Windows, Linux, Mac OS; GPLv3+), Last Update: Nov 30, 2013
- Octclipse (Linux; Eclipse Public LicenseGPLv3+) Eclipse based octave IDE. Last Update: 2012-12-11
- Octave UPM (in Spanish) Personalized version with integrated GUI
- Other GUIs
- Cantor (Linux, Windows; GPLv2) A KDE mathematics application, with backends for R, Maxima, Octave, Scilab, Sage, KAlgebra, and Qalculate. Under active development as of 2011.
- OctaveNB (Linux, Windows, macOS; GPLv2) NetBeans IDE integration for GNU Octave. Last updated Apr 2009.
- Anoc Octave Editor (Android) A GUI for Android that uses a dedicated server to perform calculations and generate plots
- GNU TeXmacs supports Octave as backend
- FEATool's Matlab cross compatible GUI framework is also available from github [1]
- Web-based user interfaces (WUI)
- Online access to Octave – Allows you to perform simple Octave calculations online
- Octave online – use Octave within a web browser
- octave-online.net
- Image processing software
- Array programming languages
- Cross-platform free software
- Data analysis software
- Data mining and machine learning software
- Free educational software
- Free mathematics software
- Free software programmed in C++
- GNU Project software
- High-priority free software projects
- Numerical analysis software for Linux
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Game No. 30
2012 MAAC Basketball Championship
First Round Game
Canisius (5-24, 1-17 MAAC) vs. Niagara (13-18, 8-10 MAAC)
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Place: MassMutual Center - Springfield, Mass.
TV: None
Online Video: None
Radio: Golden Griffin Broadcast Network
Talent: Jay Moran (p-x-p) and Mike Scott (color)
- The Canisius College Golden Griffins
will head to Springfield, Mass., to take on long-time rival Niagara in the
first round of the 2012 MAAC Basketball Championship tonight.
This series dates back to 1904 and this is the 170th all-time meeting between these two teams, but it marks just the sixth time the Griffs and Purple Eagles have played in the MAAC Tournament.
The Griffs are 5-24 overall and went 1-17 in the MAAC play after losing at Siena Feb. 26
- Canisius enters this year's MAAC Championship tournament as the No. 10 seed. The Golden Griffins became the first team in league history to win a tournament game as the No. 10 seed in 2008 when the Blue and Gold defeated Iona 64-59 in the first round.
- Canisius is 11-3 all-time in MAAC Tournament first round games and 3-2 all-time against Niagara in MAAC Tournament games, with the last meeting coming in the 2002 MAAC Tournament semifinal round in Albany, N.Y.
- On this year's active roster, only five players have played a MAAC Tournament game, with junior guard Alshwan Hymes leading the way with three games played.
- Niagara swept Canisius during the 2011-12 regular season. The game at Niagara Feb. 15, was won by the Purple Eagles by a 60-57 count in overtime - the 18th overtime game in the history of this series.
- Junior Harold Washington was named Second-Team All-MAAC when the conference announced its postseason awards on Monday.
- Washington scored a team-high 27 points at Siena Feb. 26 in the team's regular-season finale. He has posted 20-plus points nine times this year, which is the most for a Griff since Darrell Barley had 20-or more points 11 times during the 1995-96 season.
- Hymes leads the MAAC and ranks 21st nationally with his 2.8 3-point field goals per game.
- Sophomore Chris Manhertz leads the team with his 218 rebounds this season. He is just the eighth Canisius player to record 215-or more rebounds in a single season since 1980-81.
- Niagara enters the MAAC Tournament as the No. 7 seed after the team went 13-18 overall and 8-10 in MAAC play.
- The Purple Eagles dropped their regular-season finale at Marist Feb. 26, by a score of 89-77, but the team has won four of the team's last six, dating back to Feb. 9.
- Freshman Juan'ya Green was named to the All-MAAC Third-Team on Monday and was named to the conference's All-Rookie Team as well. He led the team with 17.5 points and 4.4 assists per game this season.
- Fellow freshman Antoine Mason was also honored to the All-Rookie Team. He is averaging 15.4 points per game this season, while sophomore Marvin Jordan is good for 10.6 points per outing.
- This will be the 170th all-time meeting between these two Western New York schools and it marks the sixth time these rivals have played in the MAAC Tournament.
- Niagara leads the all-time series 94-75 sweeping the regular-season series in 2011-12.
- These two schools played the 18th overtime in series history Feb. 15 at Niagara, with the Purple Eagles winning 60-57. All-time, the series is tied at 9-9 in overtime games.
- Since this series started in 1904, there have been 10 previous occasions where Canisius and Niagara have played three times in a single season. Niagara won all three meetings twice (1993 and 2002) and Canisius took all three meetings in 1994.


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Do you feel like you are missing posts from a page or business you "liked" on Facebook? You can set up notifications or set the page to your Interest lists to be sure you are seeing those posts. Simply go to the page you want to see posts from, and click the arrow next to Liked.
There you have the option to get notifications every time the page posts something. You can also create Interest lists that will allow you to see the posts. You can put multiple pages on these lists. Once created, the list shows as a book mark on the left of your Facebook page or in your menu list on the Facebook app for quick access to all posts from that group. You can even mark the group as a favorite to move them to the top of the sidebar.
But, according to many opinions, the best way to keep seeing posts from pages you've liked is to Like and Comment on their posts. Otherwise, you may not see very many posts at all. Facebook does filter posts and "guess" at what you want to see. Typically, the more likes a page and post has, the more likely it is to show up in your Newsfeed.
– Audra
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Do you want to make Ohio.com your homepage?
By Ohio.com staff
Allison and Edwin "Joe" Ilg of Tallmadge spend time at the grave of her father Sgt. Robert Keener, a WWII veteran before a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Reserve National Cemetery. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Tracy Rose (left) of Norton assists his daughter Allayna Rose, 8, of Brownie Troop 462, place a flag at the grave of a Vietnam veteran at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery Cemetery Saturday in Rittman. Over 2500 girl scouts, boy scouts, troop leaders, parents and volunteers placed flags on military veterans' graves. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Kitchen sink
The more water i pour into sink, the more more slower it will drain. Something it blocking in one of the pipes. I had this problem a year ago.I removed the pvc pipe in kitchen to see if anything was blocked, but there was nothing. So it is probably the pipes behind the wall. Is there a way to fix this?
call the drain guy
I'd try a plunger, just not the same one already used on the toilet. The quick spin might work, but it shouldn't be a long run to the main drain pipe, in which case a 1/4" cable won't be effective with the clog. If you are able to see the drain pipes from the basement, you can look for a clean-out on the main. And if you have a dishwasher connected to the sink, it might hinder the effectiveness of the plunger.. If all else fails, there is always chemicals, which I only like to use as a last resort.
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The Dehumanization of Online Recruiting
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Mitt's main opponent has fled the field of battle leaving him to survey his great victory. Months have gone by during which time Mitt has denounced his own ideas about healthcare as the work of the Devil himself, has denounced the rights of women and even blasted ideas that he once upheld-abortion rights, for example. Yes, Mitt, you won a great victory and are left with its consequences:
1. You are on record as opposing basic women rights such as contraception.
2. You are on the record of opposing any desire to help immigrants.
3. You are on the record to opposse food stamps, extening unemployment benefits, and anything that would help those thrust into poverty.
4. You are on the record for seeking to cut taxes on the wealthy who ONLY possess 23 of all wealth in the nation.
5. You are on the record to cut Medicare.
6. You are on the record to seek changes in the Social Security system.
A rather interesting record.


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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has asked its staff to resume work on Thursday evening, bringing the four day strike to an end.
South Africa's largest mining union earlier said that it had advised its members to accept a new pay offer.
Employers upped their offer to 6-7% on Wednesday, hoping to end the first industry-wide strike in 18 years.
More than 100,000 miners - about 70% of those working in the industry - had downed tools in protest at low pay and poor living conditions.
South Africa's Chamber of Mines, which represents the country's leading gold producers, confirmed that the strike had ended.
"The NUM has informed the chamber that it is calling off the strike and will start working by tonight," said Frans Barker, the chamber's head negotiator.
"Obviously we are very pleased we have reached a settlement."
NUM general secretary Gwede Mantashe told state television that the agreement was "a compromise mineworkers can live with".
The dispute was costing the industry - the world's largest bullion producer - an estimated 130m rand ($20m, £11m) a day in lost production.
Gold workers are generally paid about 2,500 rand ($388) a month.
Most still live in single-sex company barracks far from their families, a situation which has persisted since before apartheid laws were struck down in 1990-91.
Overcrowding has reduced in the hostels, the companies say, but many workers still live six or more to a room.
As well as keeping workers away from their families, the hostel system also acts as a breeding ground for tuberculosis and HIV, the NUM says.
Although the new offer fell well short of the 12% the NUM said it wanted, it was substantially better than the employers' initial offer.
"We have asked our delegates to recommend the offer to our members," said NUM general secretary Gwede Mantashe on TV news station CNN.
The strike has produced a rare example of white and black dominated unions working together during an industrial dispute.
About 10,000 members of Solidarity, a mainly white mining union, joined the NUM's action but subsequently recommended the new offer.
Rising gold
At the heart of the dispute has been the rise in both gold prices and the value of the rand.
Gold bullion is up almost a quarter over the past two years, partly because its traditional role as a secure investment in troubled times has re-emerged amid worries about economic growth and the cost of oil.
The rand, too, has appreciated - by more than 15% against the dollar over the same period.
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Erik Walden (6-2, 250) ranks the No. 107 linebacker prospect available in this year's draft by TheRanchReport.com.
He played defensive end in college but he is expected to make the transition to outside linebacker in the NFL.
Last season with the Blue Raiders, Walden recorded 46 tackles last season, including 8.5 for loss, two sacks and an interception.
"He's a player we had in with one of the 30 guys," said Cowboys' head coach Wade Phillips. "He played with a turf toe the whole year. Watching the tape on him you had to be impressed. Even limping he played fast. He's a hitter.
"We are projecting him as a linebacker and we've done that in the past with those defensive end types. He can run and he can hit and he's completely well now. He was playing on one leg against LSU and teams like that and playing well."
Walden was taken with the final Dallas pick of the 2008 draft- the first pick in the sixth round.
Erik Walden Bio
2007: Voted a first team All-Sun Belt selection by the league's coaches and media ... Played in 10 games and earned nine starts ... Had 46 stops on the season to go along with 8.5 tackles for loss, two sacks, an interception, two pass breakups, and a safety ... Played 603 total snaps ... Named to Rotary Lombardi Watch List in March ... Had three sacks in the Blue-White game ... Voted preseason all-SBC ... Registered four tackles, including one for lost yardage against FAU ... Had two tackles at Louisville and LSU ... Added six stops, including two for lost yardage and a forced fumble against WKU ... Did not play against FIU or UVA due to a toe injury ... Played 48 snaps in his return against Memphis but did not have a tackle ... Had one stop in win over ASU ... Enjoyed a monster game at North Texas with three tackles for loss, a sack, his first career interception, and a safety ... Had a career-high 12 tackles, including two for loss of yards at ULM ... Registered a personal-best 11 solo tackles against ULL ... Had three tackles and a pass breakup at Troy.
2006: Named First Team All-Sun Belt Conference ... Played in all 13 games ... Had a career-best 48 tackles on the season, including a school record 11.5 sacks (ranked 10th nationally) ... Also had three forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, and 14.5 tackles for loss ... Was listed as the starter at left defensive end coming out of spring drills ... Tallied five tackles and a forced fumble in the Blue-White Spring Game ... Was presented the Dr. James E. Walker Junior Academic award at the spring game ... Recorded a sack, a fumble recovery, and a forced fumble in 44 snaps against FIU to earn a "winning performance" from the coaching staff ... Had three tackles at Maryland ... Registered four tackles, including two quarterback sacks in 35 plays against Tennessee Tech and earned a "winning performance" ... Collected five tackles in 28 plays at Oklahoma ... Did not record a tackle at North Texas but came back with six stops and a tackle for loss against no. 8 Louisville ... Registered three tackles and a sack at Louisiana-Monroe to earn a "winning performance" ... Had one tackle and a pass breakup in win at Louisiana-Lafayette ... Collected three tackles and a sack in win over FAU ... Became the all-time sacks leader at Middle Tennessee with two against Arkansas State and finished the game with a personal-best seven tackles ... Added three tackles against South Carolina ... Had six tackles including 3.5 tackles for loss and a career-best 2.5 sacks against Troy ... Led the Blue Raiders against Central Michigan in the Motor City Bowl with six tackles and two quarterback sacks.
2005: Played in all 11 games, including eight as a starter (five at defensive end and three at linebacker) ... Enjoyed a career-best 33 tackles on the season to go with three sacks, 8.5 tackles for loss, two pass breakups, and a forced fumble ... Collected four tackles in the opener at Alabama, including a quarterback sack, and registered two stops against North Texas ... Had a season-high five stops at home against Akron including four solos ... Registered a tackle for loss in win at Vanderbilt ... Did not record a tackle at FAU ... Had six total tackles and a quarterback sack against ULL ... Came up with four tackles, a quarterback sack, and a pass breakup in win over Arkansas State ... Earned his first career start at linebacker in place of the injured Dennis Burke and responded with six stops ... Had two tackles including one for loss in win at Troy.
2004: Played in 10 games with four starts, registering a team-high six sacks and tying for the lead with 8.5 tackles for loss ... Tallied 25 total stops with one forced fumble ... Made three solo tackles in opener at Akron ... Both stops versus Florida Atlantic were for loss including one sack ... Totaled three tackles, 2.5 for loss, and two sacks against Idaho ... The next week had two more sacks and three total stops versus Utah State ... Made four tackles at New Mexico State ... Tallied a season-high six stops, two for loss, and one sack against Louisiana-Monroe ... Also forced a fumble versus ULM ... Had a pair of stops in season finale at Troy.
2003: Sat out the year due to NCAA academic guidelines.
High School: Earned first team Associated Press all-state honors after guiding Dublin to a 14-1 record and a spot in the state title game in 2002 (lost to Screven Co. and future Blue Raider teammate Sean Mosley) ... Was a Macon Telegraph first team all-Middle Georgia selection while also begin tabbed the Courier-Herald Heart of Georgia Defensive Player of the Year ... Ended his senior year with 97 total tackles and a school record 19 quarterback sacks ... Also tallied 11 tackles for loss, recovered two fumbles, and had one interception ... As a running back, Walden averaged 6.6 yards a carry and scored eight touchdowns while registering 16 receptions for four more scores ... He finished with 837 yards of total offense ... Lettered in football, basketball, and track ... Played football for Coach Roger Holmes.
Personal: Parents: Johnny and Shirley Walden ... Born: 8/21/85 ... Major: Physical Education.
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The effect of hydrogel and silicone hydrogel contact lenses on the measurement of intraocular pressure with rebound tonometry
Zeri, Fabrizio, Calcatelli, Paola, Donini, Bernardo, Lupelli, Luigi, Zarilli, Luciana, & Swann, Peter G. (2011) The effect of hydrogel and silicone hydrogel contact lenses on the measurement of intraocular pressure with rebound tonometry. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 34(6), pp. 260-265.
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Purpose: To assess the accuracy of intraocular pressure(IOP) measurements using rebound tonometry over disposable hydrogel (etafilcon A) and silicone hydrogel (senofilcon A) contact lenses (CLs) of different powers.
Methods: The experimental group comprised 36 subjects (19 male, 17 female). IOP measurements were undertaken on the subject's right eyes in random order using a rebound tonometer (ICare). The CLs had powers of +2.00D, −2.00D and−6.00D. Six measurements were taken over each contact lens and also before and after the CLs had been worn.
Results: A good correlation was found between IOP measurements with and without CLs (all r≥0.80; p < 0.05). Bland Altman plots did not show any significant trend in the difference in IOP readings with and without CLs as a function of IOP value. A two-way ANOVA revealed a significant effect of material and power (p < 0.01) but no interaction. All the comparisons between the measurements without CLs and with hydrogel CLs were significant (p < 0.01). The comparisons with silicone hydrogel CLs were not significant.
Conclusions: Rebound tonometry can be reliably performed over silicone hydrogel CLs. With hydrogel CLs, the measurements were lower than those without CLs. However, despite the fact that these differences were statistically significant, their clinical significance was minimal.
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The move saw the end of a 29-hour series of discussions held by the Legislative Council finance committee which had met seven times since October.
The twist came as the government withdrew a previous funding request at Friday's meeting and submitted a new request for some HK$23 million in funding for the creation of about 90 posts in the Social Welfare Department to prepare for the launch of the old age living allowance as early as next April.
The committee endorsed the funding requests, with a vote of 24-3. Three abstained.
After the voting, Secretary for the Labour and Welfare Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said the government could allocate the money from the budget to be announced next February.
Under the scheme, those aged 65 or above with incomes no more than HK$6,600 a month and assets of not over HK$186,000 will be eligible to receive the HK$2,200-a-month living allowance.
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At present, only those aged 65 to 69 have to go through a means test to receive an old age allowance of HK$1,090 a month. Those who have reached the age of 70 are exempted from means test.
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Fix your smelly or stinky gym shoes with a simple wash. You can do this at home with ease, cleaning both the inside and outside of your gym shoes.
Part 1
Cleaning the Inside of the Shoes
1Prepare the shoe for washing. Remove the laces. If the insole is removable, remove it too. Pull out the tongue to make it easier to get your hand inside the shoe to remove the insole. Wash both the laces and the insole separately.
- Laces: Simply wash in warm soapy water and hang up to dry. Hanging over the bath faucets is a good spot to dry, provided you don't have curious cats.
- Insoles: This may depend on what the insole is made of, so read the manufacturer's suggestions first. A basic and usually safe cleanser is made from one part hot water to two parts vinegar, poured into a heatproof bowl. Dunk the insoles in and let them sit there for a few hours. Then, boil four cups of water in a pot and remove once boiled. Add 1/8 cup salt, 1/2 cup baking soda and a few drops of either tea tree, lavender or eucalyptus oils. Soak the insoles in this for another hour. This will ensure that the odor-causing bacteria is removed. Hang to dry in a warm spot away from direct sunlight. Restore them to the shoes after the inside of the shoes have been cleaned.
2Use a homemade paste for cleaning inside the shoes. This paste will lift out odors and leave the shoes nice and clean:
- Mix some water with some drops of liquid detergent and a little baking soda. Mix into a paste.
- Distribute the paste inside the shoe.
- Let it sit for about 15 minutes. Wash the shoe very thoroughly, by hand, removing all traces of the paste.
- Leave to air dry.
3Use a spray-on fabric deodorizer. If the smell is very bad, spray some fabric deodorizer inside the shoe. It is most likely that this will leave the shoes smelling nice again. However, don't use this in place of removing bacteria by scrubbing, or the odor will soon re-establish itself and there is a risk the bacteria will harm the skin on your feet.
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1Check if the material is washable. Before you wash your gym shoes, be sure that the material that they are made of, is appropriate for washing. If not, you might ruin the shoes by adding water.
- Leather is an example of material that needs extra care. If your gym shoes are leather or partially leather, see How to clean leather shoes for exact details.
2Use a solution of water and soap. Methodically scrub your shoes with a mild solution of soap and water, using a clean cloth or similar. This will likely be enough to get them looking good and clean again. Pay special attention to the dirtiest parts of the shoes.
3If the shoes are still very dirty after this action, consider using a little bleach (if the shoes are white). Dampen a piece of clean cloth with bleach, then wipe the cloth onto the dirty areas or stains on the white shoe. Let it sit for some minutes before you carefully wash it off.
4Let the shoes dry naturally in a warm spot without direct sunlight. Replace the insoles and laces cleaned in Part 1, checking that it's all nicely aligned.
- Fabric shoes should be stuffed if you want the shoes to maintain their shape. Fill them with newspaper after washing, before leaving them to air-dry.
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- It's highly recommended that you prefer hand washing over machine washing for shoes. Hand washing allows for control over the amount of water added, careful handling and an assurance that the shoes won't be bumped and tossed about. Machine washing can reduce the durability and shape of shoes, and it can fade dye colors quickly, so only do this is you're not too fussed about the end result.
- Wash gym shoes at least every two weeks if they're used regularly. It's a very good idea to have at least two to three pairs of gym shoes, and to rotate wearing them one day on, one day off, to give them time to breathe between uses.
- Avoid putting your gym shoes in the dryer if at all possible; this can melt some of the materials on some shoes and it can bend shoes out of shape.
- Be careful that you are not just smearing the dirt around the shoe, instead of actually removing it - if this happens, it will be very visible when they dry.
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"I've got seven schools who've offered: Utah State, BYU, Arizona State, Michigan State, Colorado State, Iowa State and Texas Tech," said Mack. "I graduate in December, so I can go wherever in January."
Mack said his top five schools were BYU, Texas Tech, Nebraska, Oregon State and Texas.
Following his senior season in high school, when colleges came to make their pitch to Mack, he politely turned them away, with more important things to do at the time.
"I had some people looking at me, but I wanted to serve a mission for my church. I already had my mind set on that," said Mack. "I was in Russia from 2002 until 2004."
But his love for football was still there, so upon his return, he landed at Eastern Arizona.
So he spent the 2005 season moving lines and now its paying off as he has the chance to play major college football as early as 2007.
"I'll have three years to play two," said Mack. "This week, I'm going to BYU and then next week I'm going to Texas Tech. I want to take the other three trips before I decide. I want to decide in July, but it depends on the school and what trips I go on."
Mack said there was a small hint of pressure to attend BYU, but not as big as one might expect.
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