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Helicopter harvesting Christmas trees

Christmas Tree harvesting at Noble Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon. Pilot Dan Clark flying a Northwest Helicopters, LLC 206B3 Jetranger November of 2008. Oregon is the nation’s biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees, selling about 7.3 million trees a year, more than twice that of No. 2 North Carolina.

The largest Christmas tree producer in the state is Holiday Tree Farms of Corvallis, shipping about 1 million trees a year. Manager Dave Silen says a shift toward more family gatherings this year could help sales. The holiday trees represent a $101 million industry in Oregon.

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The 20 television episodes Hitchcock directed

Documentary web series exploring the film techniques of the twenty TV episodes Alfred Hitchcock directed. Ep 1: During a time when TV was the new thing, iconic film director Alfred Hitchcock creates his own series. In “Revenge” he would experiment with camera styles and themes that he could later use in his full motion pictures.

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Fibonacci espresso in hex

A monochromatic espresso color scheme with hexadecimal values. To see the color scheme in action, check this out.

0% = #000000

1% = #030202

2% = #050404

3% = #080705

5%= #0D0B09

*8% = #14110E

*13% = #211C17

*21% = #362E25

*34% = #574A3D

*55% = #8C7762

89% = #E3C19F

*Used.

RELATED: Fibonacci grayscale in hex.

PS: You can Fibonaccize any hue of your choosing. The not-so-obvious trick is to turn your attention to the B in the HSB color model. Experiment.

Fibonacci quasiparticle could form basis for future quantum computers

Topological quantum computing (TQC) is a newer type of quantum computing that uses “braids” of particle tracks, rather than actual particles such as ions and electrons, as the qubits to implement computations. Using braids has one important advantage: it makes TQCs practically immune to the small perturbations in the environment that cause decoherence in particle-based qubits and often lead to high error rates.

Read full story at Phys.org.