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PPI Claims – Is It Better To Claim By Yourself Or Use A PPI Company?
This article aims to explore whether or not it is better to claim back ppi on your own, for free OR whether or not it is better to claim ppi through a ppi company.
Claiming back ppi through a claims company.
Claiming back through a company will cost you a fee for the services rendered, however this helps with the process three ways:
 1. The level of expertise carried by the claims handlers is useful in the environment that the banks themselves persist in rejecting claims that should be upheld
 2. It largely automates the process of making a claim, taking the pressure away from the customer so that they can focus on other matters
 3. It provides a method of organised application, that aids the PPI claims process as a whole, as many people in the general domain will have no idea how to proceed on a claim.
 4. The claims company will update you on progress throughout the process of the claim, and this is convenient as most of the clients have day to day work and more important matters to deal with other than the processing of a PPI complaint.
Claiming back PPI on your own
 1. It is free, no fees payable to a claims company
 2. The process may be hindered due to a lack of expertise in the field of PPI claims
 3. There is no point of contact to let you know the progress in relation to your claim, and thus you are required to keep chasing for an update on your complaint.
Whichever way you look at this matter, there is always going to be a "for" and "against" argument.
However it is an irrefutable fact that members of the general public are inexperienced in matters of claiming PPI, the banks are systematically making it easier to submit a claim, but they are also making the claims process slower by delaying the process by rejecting these complaints that are later upheld.
The primary disadvantage of claiming with a company is the fact that there is a fee payable on completion, but it could be argued that this fee is justified given the amount of work required to process these particular types of complaints.
Many people have claimed back PPI without the use of a company, however it often takes much longer to achieve payout due to two main factors:
 1. They often have less time to focus on the completion of this claim.
 2. They simply do not know what to do if a reasonable claim is rejected.
In conclusion there will always be merit and disadvantage to claiming with a company and claiming alone, what matters is you make an informed decision based on your needs and your personal circumstances.
It might be worth contacting a finance company to find out their policy and their process on the completion of these complaints to find out if that suits your particular needs.
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So, here is my problem: I am working on a top down 2d shooter in Java and have a character, which can move and rotate/fire to the mouse direction. Shooting guns etc. works fine but now i am trying to implement a shell ejection system, which "ejects" the shells next to the player. The problem is, that i can't just draw the shells next to the player since the player has an x and y position which are rotating. I want the shells to have a random radius in which they will be ejected. But i don't know how to implement something like this. Any suggestions?
EDIT: That's my shell-ejection method, which doesn't work(the angle represents the player angle):
 public void shellEjection(){
 x=(float) x*((float) (Math.cos(angle)));
 y=(float) y*((float) (Math.sin(angle)));
 double length = Math.sqrt((mouseX - x)*(mouseX - x) + (mouseY - y)*(mouseY - y));
 double xVel = (5 - x) /length * 5*bulletVelocity;
 double yVel = (5 - y) /length * 5*bulletVelocity;
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 \$\begingroup\$ To which class is this method attached? How is it called? \$\endgroup\$ – Vaillancourt Dec 7 '16 at 18:56
 - \$\begingroup\$ it's attached to the bullet class. \$\endgroup\$ – Cringe Dec 7 '16 at 18:59
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 \$\begingroup\$ What does the code which calls this method look like? How is it used? \$\endgroup\$ – Vaillancourt Dec 7 '16 at 19:01
 - \$\begingroup\$ edited my code. Hope it's more clear now. \$\endgroup\$ – Cringe Dec 7 '16 at 19:16
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 \$\begingroup\$ Who calls that code? :P \$\endgroup\$ – Vaillancourt Dec 7 '16 at 19:17
To give you a pseudo code solution:
 1. Get X and Y from the gun (gun position).
 2. Work out the relative rotation of the gun from the player (purple arrow), so that you can easily offset the shell fall direction later.
 3. Work out the direction and distance that the shell should fly, you will probably want a general direction that the shell will fall in since shells in real life don't tend to fall into exactly the same location.
 4. spawn the shell and start moving it in the direction that you determined in the last step.
 5. stop moving (and manipulating) the shell once it reaches the point you want it to land at.
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I made a quick image of what I mean to better illustrate these steps above. That should be the rough steps of what you need to do. Keep in mind that you will want to use an object pool to stop yourself wasting resources and if it's available to you stop updating the shell object once it reaches it's final point so that you only render it (not wasting precious CPU cycles).
Hope this helped :)
From what I understand the problem that you have is that you don't know how to find the XY position of the gun since the gun is at an offset from the middle of the character. I'm guessing that the gun is always in the same position when being fired relative to the center XY (or at least you know about every position or can figure that out another way).
What you can try doing is figuring out what the distance is from the center to the gun, then use Sin and Cos (yay maths) to figure out where the gun is in space based on the rotation. There is a great site that visualises the relationship between sin and cos here.
So to give an example:
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Use pythagoras theorem to work out the distance, again check that website i mentioned above to get a better writeup.
 - \$\begingroup\$ Yes, i had the same kind of idea in mind. The angle for the falling shell direction itself is not a problem since it's dependent on the shot-angle. The main problem i have, is the "ejection"-movement/direction itself. The ejection direction is dependent on the rotation which is updating the whole time and that's what i don't really understand how to achieve. \$\endgroup\$ – Cringe Dec 7 '16 at 21:03
 - \$\begingroup\$ Yes and no, the ejection direction is dependent on the shooting angle only when the player shoots and a shell needs to be ejected. After that the shell only needs to follow its direction while the gun can move anywhere at any angle, after they spawn you should think of them as unrelated objects in your game that you need to move. \$\endgroup\$ – user3797758 Dec 7 '16 at 21:52
 - \$\begingroup\$ Yes and that's the problem. I don't know how to couple the rotation with the movement(the update of the x and y position to eject the bullet next to the playeror the weapon in this case). \$\endgroup\$ – Cringe Dec 7 '16 at 22:20
 - \$\begingroup\$ ok i tried working with shapes now. I aligned a line to the player center and it rotates just like i want it to. I thought about maybe letting the bullets fly in the vector of a the bullets length but when i rotate the shape, the x and y positions of the line don't change. I am not that good with trigonometry, so a little help here would be much appreciated :( Maybe a code formula or something? \$\endgroup\$ – Cringe Dec 8 '16 at 15:54
 - \$\begingroup\$ ok, no problem the edit should have you covered. \$\endgroup\$ – user3797758 Dec 9 '16 at 16:27
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Long-Term Assignment Travel Expense Claims (TEC)
Long-term assignment (LTA) expenses are limited to those authorized in Chapter 3, Long-Term Assignments.
LTA TEC's should include the first 15 to 30 days of short-term expenses claimed when seeking long-term accommodations.
In addition to the instructions in the In-State TEC's section of this chapter, all travel expense claims (TEC's) for long-term assignment should be checked for the following.
- Claims are identified as "LTA" under purpose of trip.
- One (1) copy of the approved Form FA1350 "Long-Term Assignment Information and Certification of Subsistence Rates" is attached.
- Receipts are required for all long-term accomodations and may
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payment. Acceptable receipts from commercial establishments
must include the following:
- 1. Renter's name.
- 2. Name of the property (if applicable).
- 3. Property address and phone number.
- 4. The amount paid.
- 5. The rental period.
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- 7. The landlord or property manager's signature.
Copies of cancelled rental checks or lease agreements alone do not meet receipt requirements.
- The Department may request additional information to substantiate a business transaction such as, but not limited to, rental agreement, copies of canceled checks or
any other information deemed reasonable.
- Utility receipts must show the item as paid before reimbursement can be claimed. Noting the check number paid to the utility company on the bill does not meet the
- Furniture rental expenses may not be claimed until an employee's monthly bill indicates it has been paid.
- LTA mileage and business miles to various job sites during the workday must be separated on the TEC from mileage to and from the main job site and mileage to obtain
- Meal expenses cannot be claimed until they have been incurred.
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Examples of various LTA expense claims are available by clicking on the following:
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text: Physical separation of reactions by interactive multicompartments in biological cells is an attractive motif to design efficient microreactors that create biomimetic cascade reactions. We present an aqueous compartment with three different subcompartments that comprise of silica nanoreactors with encapsulated enzymes, namely, β-glucosidase, glucose oxidase, and peroxidase, providing a model cascade reaction in confinement. The encapsulated enzymes retain their activity as the substrate can reach the active site and the silica shell further protects the enzymes from external stresses, such as heat and proteolytic degradation. We demonstrate the biomimetic cascade reaction in between the compartments ("organelles") inside of an additional microconfinement (water-in-oil emulsion). This strategy will allow us to design efficient multicompartmentalized reactors for further biological and organic reactions.


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New type of spooky slug found
Ghost slug
It might sound more like a creepy creature out of Harry Potter, but a new type of slimy slug has been found in gardens in Wales.
Most slugs you find in Britain are brown or black, have eyes, and eat plants.
But this one is all white, has no eyes, lives underground, and eats worms by sucking them in like spaghetti!
Scientists think they've found a new species, and have named it 'Selenochlamys ysbryda', or ghost slug.
The name partly comes from the Welsh word for ghost, ysbryd.
Similar slugs are found in the countries of Turkey and Georgia, where Europe meets Asia.
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What does it mean to 'keep your powder dry'?
What does it mean to 'keep your powder dry'?
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'Keep your powder dry' is a saying that you may be familiar with. But have you ever wondered what it means or where it comes from? This colloquial expression from the 1800s once worked as an alternative to 'take care' or 'be ready'.
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Over time, the phrase has found its way into the financial world, where it now means to always be ready for opportunities.
Basic meaning
The Cambridge Dictionary says that 'keep your powder dry' means 'remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency'. This refers more to always being prepared so you can take action if necessary rather than a warning about danger. It's a suggestion to avoid missing out on a great opportunity because you didn't consider all possibilities.
Origin of the expression
English general and statesman Oliver Cromwell is credited with creating the expression. The story goes that Cromwell was talking to his army during his campaign in Ireland. He warned them about keeping their gunpowder dry as they were about to cross a river before a battle. So, as a mix of warning and inspiration, he told his soldiers to 'Trust in God and keep your powder dry'.
About two hundred years later, British Army officer William Blacker used the entire phrase in his poem Oliver's Advice and made it famous. Over the years, the second half of the sentence has become commonplace on its own. It was even used as a movie title for a 1945 American drama film starring Lana Turner.
Financial applications
The concept of dry powder has made it into the financial world in the past few decades. It is mostly used to mean 'hold cash or liquid securities' in case a big opportunity opens up. When a company has cash reserves, it becomes easier to invest in a sudden opportunity, buy stocks or participate in a now-or-never deal.
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Investopedia refers to 'dry powder' as cash reserves kept on hand for potential acquisitions, purchase of assets or payment of obligations (like tax). Highly liquid securities are also cash-like. These include short-term investments, money market accounts and instruments that you can sell quickly for emergency funding.
While cash reserves are especially important for venture capitalists and corporate environments, they also have a role in personal finance.
Holding some of your personal net worth in cash means you will have money available for both opportunities and emergencies. A threeto six-month emergency fund is an example of this.
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Thinking about keeping your own powder dry? There are different ways to keep money easily accessible. Keeping money in a savings account is the easiest way to have liquid assets available. While interest rates are low, you can still find a savings account that offers a decent return on your deposit.
Stocks and shares are also good examples of liquid assets. You can buy and sell in the stock market at any time and access the funds within a few days.
If you have a business, your accounts receivable (money your customers owe you) is also a liquid asset. Of course, how soon you have access to it depends on how quickly your customers pay you.
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Liberals spending $50M to teach K-12 students and their teachers coding
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The Liberal government is following up on a 2017 budget promise to spend $50 million to help children learn to code as soon as they start school.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced the government's new CanCode program, which hopes to train about one million students from kindergarten to Grade 12 coding and other digital skills, during a stop at Microsoft Canada in Mississauga, Ont. on Monday.
The government says they also want to train students, including traditionally underrepresented groups, in coding to prepare them for the future workforce.
The funding also includes training for 63,000 teachers to learn how to incorporate new technology in the classroom.
The money will be divided between a number of projects, including $10 million for Actua, a group that engages Indigenous youth, girls, at-risk youth and young Canadians living in remote areas in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Coding is already part of the curriculum up to Grade 6 in Nova Scotia and taught in New Brunswick.
In 2016, British Columbia announced plans to have mandatory coding for students between Grade 6-9 by September 2018.
Other recipients of the $50 million include:
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I'm new to Hadoop and was curious about the commandline messages from my pig script.
Total records written : 7676
Total bytes written : 341396
Spillable Memory Manager spill count : 103
Total bags proactively spilled: 39
Total records proactively spilled: 32389322
The end result is indicated to be a "Success!". I am still not sure. What do these numbers above mean?
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The first two shows the total records/bytes written to HDFS by your MR job.
It can happen, that during a MR job not all records fit into the memory. Spill counters indicate how many records have been written to the local disks of your datanodes to avoid running out of memory.
Pig uses two methods to control the memory usage and do a spill if necessary:
1. Spillable Memory Manager:
This is like a central place where the spillable bags are registered. In case of low memory this manager goes through the list of the registered bags and performs a GC.
2. Proactive (self) spilling:
Bags can also spill themselves if their memory limit is reached (see pig.cachedbag.memusage)
Back to the statistics you have:
 - Total bags proactively spilled: # of bags that have been spilled
 - Total records proactively spilled: # of records in those bags
It's always good to check the spill stats of your job since lot of spilling may indicate huge performance hit that need to be avoided.
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This paper presents a comprehensive time-domain model of the coupling capacitor voltage transformer (CCVT) to investigate the effect of CCVT subsidence transients on the distance relay. The studies show that voltage-zero subsidence transients can adversely impact the performance of the distance relay and result in the overreach problem. This paper also introduces a new approach to mitigate the effect of CCVT voltage-zero subsidence transients on the distance relay. The method is based on improving the degree of accuracy of the voltage phasor estimation during the CCVT subsidence transients. The proposed method is not affected by harmonics and high-frequency transient distortions of the voltage, and prevents the relay overreach problem even under high source impedance ratio (SIR). Moreover, the proposed method noticeably decreases the close-in fault clearance time under low SIR conditions, based on a fast current phasor estimation approach. The reported studies are conducted in the PSCAD/EMTDC software environment.
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Simulation of isothermal processes in uranium dioxide through molecular dynamics method using a parametrically temperature-dependent potentialAuthor(s): Yuri Sergeevich Nagornov, Andrey Valerievich Katz
The present paper justifies the application of the temperature-dependent potential to themolecular dynamicsmethod through the example of uranium dioxide. Substantiation of the temperature dependence of interatomic potential is carried out based on the Newton quantum equation.Mean force can be represented as a sum of derivative of potential at the average atomic coordinate and the summand that depends on square dispersion of the coordinate depending on the temperature of the crystal. The selection of parameters of potential was done at three temperature values: the initial temperature and temperatures of phase transitions Â 2670 and 3120K, parameters of potentials for all other temperatures were found by approximation. The paper calculated temperature dependencies for the lattice constant, enthalpy, heat capacity. Our data are good agreement with experimental data.


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You can add two images either using OpenCV:
cv2.add() or Numpy:
result = img1 + img2
(Both images should be of same depth and type.)There is a major difference between these two.
>>> x = np.uint8()
>>> y = np.uint8()
>>> print cv2.add(x,y) # 250+10 = 260 => 255
>>> print x+y # 250+10 = 260 % 256 = 4
*OpenCV provides better results
Adding images using the previous method is very blunt. Using blending you can get cool transition between two images.
Blending is done by using the OpenCV function
cv2.addWeighted() using the formula:
f(x)=a*img1 + (1-a)img2 + z
where a is the weight.
What we basically do is provide weights to the two images such that they mix with different intensities.
The following code adds two images with weights 0.7 and 0.3.
(Both images should be of same depth and type)
img1 = cv2.imread('img1.png')
img2 = cv2.imread('img2.jpg')
result = cv2.addWeighted(img1,0.7,img2,0.3,0) # z is taken as 0


Can a Way of Astral Self Monk use wisdom related scores for jumping?
I have several questions on the interactions between the Arms of Astral Self and the Jumping mechanics. According to the 3rd level feature, Arms of the Astral Self:
While the spectral arms are present, you gain the following benefits:
 - You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
 - You can use the spectral arms to make unarmed strikes.
 - When you make an unarmed strike with the arms on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
 - The unarmed strikes you make with the arms can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, and their damage type is force.
The Jumping session of the PHB states:
Long Jump
This rule assumes that the height of your jump doesn't matter, such as a jump across a stream or chasm. At your DM's option, you must succeed on a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to clear a low obstacle (no taller than a quarter of the jump's distance), such as a hedge or low wall. Otherwise, you hit it.
High Jump
When you make a high jump, you leap into the air a number of feet equal to 3 + your Strength modifier (minimum of 0 feet) if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing high jump, you can jump only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement. In some circumstances, your DM might allow you to make a Strength (Athletics) check to jump higher than you normally can.
You can extend your arms half your height above yourself during the jump. Thus, you can reach above you a distance equal to the height of the jump plus 1½ times your height.
My questions would be, assuming that I have Arms of the Astral Self activated:
 1. Can I use my Wisdom Score instead of my strenght score to determine my long jump distance?
 2. Can I make a Wisdom (Athletics) check instead of a Strenght (Athletics) check?
 3. Can I use my Wisdom modifier instead of my Strenght modifier to determine my high jump's height?
 4. Can the extra 5 feet range of the Arms of Astral Self be used when accounting for "extending your arms half your height above yourself" on the high jump, making it 1½ your height + 5 feet instead of only 1½ your height?
I am aware that some of the answers to these questions are up to DM discretion, so I would like to know, if possible, what would be the RAW interpretation and also how would you rule it in your games.
In advance, I'm extremely grateful to whoever takes time to answer these 🙂
Does a PF2e spellcaster who takes multiclass dedications into other spellcasting classes, and related spellcasting feats, gain more spell slots?
Ezren is a level 10 evocation wizard, and hence would have spell slots of the following levels:
+-------------+-----------------+ | Spell level | Number of slots | +-------------+-----------------+ | 1 | 4 | | 2 | 4 | | 3 | 4 | | 4 | 4 | | 5 | 4 | +-------------+-----------------+
However, at level 2 Ezren took the Sorcerer multiclass dedication. At level 4 he took Basic Sorcerer Spellcasting, and Bloodline Breadth at level 8.
How many spell slots does Ezren have in a given day? Is it:
Because at level 8, spellcasting archetype feats grant an additional spell slot of first, second and third level, AND the bloodline breadth feat increases each of these by one?
Or do these sources of spell slots not stack for some reason? Coming from fifth edition, a wizard who multiclasses sorcerer still has the same number of spell slots as a pure wizard, so I'd like to clarify my understanding here.
Is it possible for the runtime and input size in an algorithm to be inversely related?
I'm wondering if it's possible for algorithms that have monotonically decreasing runtime with the input-size – just as a fun mental exercise. If not, is it possible to disprove this claim? I haven't been able to come up with an example or counterexample so far, and this sounds like an interesting problem.
P.S. Something like $ O(\frac{1}{n})$, I guess (if it exists)
Help understanding a theorem Kleinberg proves related to sequence alignment
This is from Kleinberg's Algorithm Design text (Theorem 6.14)
Let $ M$ be an alignment of $ X$ and $ Y$. If $ (m, n) \notin M$, then either the $ m^{\text{th}}$ position of $ X$ or the $ n^{\text{th}}$ position of $ Y$ is not matched in $ Y$.
The theorem does not state that $ m, n$ must be the last elements of $ X$ and $ Y$ respectively, but earlier, when introducing the topic, he uses $ m, n$ to denote the last entries of the two strings. Which of these is correct?
Unrelated applications like games accessing 'webcache' related files
As title suggests im wondering if a game,for example, has any business accessing 'webcache_counters'.
After attempting to clean my webcachev01 file due to its oddly large filesize given the fact i dont use IE or Microsoft Edge at all, I noticed in processexplorer that alot of my random applications were accessing a file with the suffix 'webcache_counters' followed by a string of numbers I'd imagine to be a registry key.
Strange thing about this handle is that i cant view its properties nor close the handle. With the first saying that it is 'Unable to query' and the latter saying i lack administrative rights. To clarify I am the sole user and administrator on this machine.
All this is having me increasingly worried, ive been having recent fears of malware on my PC and this has appeared in my rigourous inquiry of my files and processes. How can an innocuous sounding file/handle bar me from even closing it in process explorer?
Create dynamic sql query to select all related data in DB based on entry table and ID
Hope all is well. I am hoping you can help me.
Problem Statement – I'm tasked to create a dynamic SQL statement which will select all related data from a given table where the Identifier is passed. For each table where the relevant data is found i would like the data to be exported onto a separate tab of within excel
If i was doing this manually done this i would perform the following queries and export the data onto each tab;
Select * from Mason where id = 12345 Select * from MasonContacts where Companyid= 12345 Select * from MasonOpportunities where Comid = 12345
However given the sheer volume of tables this isn't viable.
Step 1 : Type in my identifier (in this case my identifier is a field called "Id" in the Table "Mason") The query will always start from this table.
Table Name : Mason Field : Id = "12345"
Step 2 : Search against table "MasonContacts", search against the field "Companyid". Return all columns & records where the field "Companyid = 12345"
Table Name : MasonContacts Field : Companyid
Step 3 : Search against table "Mason Opportunities ", search against the field "Comid". Return all columns & records where the field "Company = 12345"
Table Name : MasonOpportunities Field : Comid
Looking forward to your help
Spam Mail Related to my Browsing
I was searching google to find a good printer to buy. To my horror, the next day I got a spam mail with theme "Print smarter at low price". Is this a coincidence or is my PC breached? What should I do? No alerts from Anti-Virus. Or can that webpage I opened install some malware? I didn't click on anything there.
Databases and B-Trees: What are Keys and how are they related
I confused about the description & definition of "key" occuring as terminology for databases and b-trees.
In first case dealing with theory of databases a key is defined as a choice for a in certain sense minimal (see below) subset $ K \subset A := \{A_1,A_2,…,A_n\}$ of a fixed set of attributes $ A_i$ parametrizing a data table (consisting of relations; a single relation is abstraction of a row in the table), where each attribute is literally a column specifying a property of objects = relations.
A key is characterized by property that there exist no two different relations (a relation is a row) which have exactly the same values for all attributes which belong to the key. And a key is a minimal subset with this property, ie there not exist a proper smaller subset of attributes contained in the key and having the property described in last sentence. Clearly keys are not unique. So the set of a keys is certain subset of the power set of the set attributes $ A_i$. See also here:
On the other hand the key concept occures as well for b-trees:
Here keys are a priori numbers or integers and different knots of b-tree contain different totally ordered subsets of keys


Curious about how others would solve this question: What is the number of people aged between 0-20 in Dubai.
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There are multiple sources:
 - Population - you simply divide the population by the average life expectancy and then multiply by 20
 - Tourists - you assume that every 5th person you see in Dubai is a tourist and out of them x% are 0-20
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Anonymous A on Jan 30, 2020
Thank you, Vlad! In the case of the UAE where the population is significantly young, assuming an equal age distribution won't work. How would you change your approach?
Udayan on Feb 13, 2020
That is relevant information - just adjust with what you think is most reasonable. For example distribute population 0-20 as being 30% of the population vs 25% if you take a life expectancy of 80
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The structure mentioned in the previous answer is a good approach for most of the cities/countries. However, for hot tourist destinations like Dubai, one needs to consider the number of tourists that visit that particular city/country in a year.
On average, Dubai gets 12 million tourists (nearly four times the population of Dubai). If you use the similar approach and add that number to the one mentioned in the other answer, you arrive at the approximate number. Feel free to change assumptions regarding age distribution and life expectancy of tourists (Wouldn't change by more than 10-15% anyway).
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Anonymous B replied on Jan 27, 2020
For this, I would lay the structure and assumption down as follows
# of people aged between 0-20 = (Total Population of Dubai / Avg. life span of the local population or the world) * # of years (0-20)
Key assumption, people distribution of ages are even across the board. Stating, that there are the same number of people at every 1 year.
# of people aged between 0-20 = ( (assumed) 3.5M / (assumed) 75 ) * 20
= 0.93M
Note, for this market sizing you should be aware of what the population of Dubai is, or approximate of it. Also 75-80 years is the average lifespan globally, this can vary by region.
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Let $(X,\mathcal D)$ be a Hausdorff uniform space and for each Hausdorff uniformity $\mathcal U$ on $X$, $$\mathcal U \subseteq\mathcal D\to \mathcal U =\mathcal D$$
Is $(X,\mathcal D)$ compact?
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The following are equivalent for a Tychonov space $X$:
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 2. There is a minimal uniformity on $X$.
 3. There is a minimal totally bounded uniformity.
 4. The uniformities form a complete lattice.
 5. The totally bounded uniformities form a complete lattice.
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Worth a second, closer, look.
How Business Advising and Foster Parenting are similar.
Your love and affection for both are deep and real.
You work like everything matters.
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A vulnerability exists in the permission validation for SiteTree object creation. By default user permissions are not validated by the SiteTree::canCreate method, unless overridden by user code or via the configuration system.
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Brisk is one of those delightful words that sounds like what it means: quick, lively, bracing, and refreshing. There's nothing like a brisk walk in the morning to get the blood flowing and the spirit ready for the day.
Anything brisk is happening quickly but not too fast. Probably taken from the French brusque, which also means "quick," but in a more negative way, brisk can be used to describe not only physical actions but also more conceptual notions, such as brisk business around the holidays or brisk interactions at a speed-dating event. The soft-drink called Brisk must be called that for a good reason. Perhaps it picks you up!
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 synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy
 possessing or exerting or displaying energy
 2. adjective
 very active
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 full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
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Gross negligence under Greek law
Gross negligence in Greek law is not explicitly defined in the Civil Code. It is derived from the combined application of articles 330, 332 and 334 of the Civil code. In the lack of an express definition and specific criteria for it, gross negligence is deemed to exist when the deviation from the behavior of an ordinary person is important, unusual and especially great, indicating a total disregard of the acting person for the illegal consequences incurred by his act to a third party by. Gross negligence is an abstract legal notion, and hence a court's ruling as to whether the facts of a case constitute gross negligence is subject to the annulment of the Areios Pagos (Supreme Court).
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'At night' versus 'In the night'
1-He works at night.
2- He works in the night.
3- He works nights.
Do all have the same meaning?
Hi Tom,
I would suggest (1) refers to doing work at night probably of a clerical /academic nature because then it's quiet.
I think (2) would refer to someone doing something when the rest of us are asleep but I can only think of Dracula!
(3) would refer to someone who works during the night instead of during the day as part of some shift system and that could be as a police officer or a nurse in a hospital.
I immediately thought of a burglar or some kind of gangster. But on the other hand, Batman works in the night a lot.
Thank you, Alan and Jamie!
All those examples were good but could there be some flexibility in them? :o I mean, Alan, can a student work in the night and a thief at night? In other words, your examples showed that all of the sentences are grammatically correct–could they be interchanged regardless of who is working?
Thanks in advance
In English, you can never say never, but I don't think they would normally be interchangeable.
Hi Tom
I agree with Alan and Jamie. Grammar is only part of language (as you know ;)). You also have to get the meanings and associations right.
My pet barked all night.
In the above sentence, the grammar is correct, but the meaning? What if my pet is a cat? 8)


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The Pencil Pusher is an innovative yet unappreciated invention. It is a gadget which makes pencils with waste papers.
According to the study, the United States alone uses 21 Million Tons of paper for business use. It causes a huge amount of loss of paper. If the United States approximate use of paper is so much, then all over the world the usage of paper would be at a level of the un-imaginary point. In the last 40 years, paper consumption has increased by 400%, which leads to an increase in the rate of deforestation and Green House Gases. This has led to office recycling programs. Now, even the printers come with a slogan of 'Think before you Print'. Unnecessary wastage of paper is a huge matter of concern for the environment. Companies also try to use both sides of paper printing to minimize wastage of paper, but this step is not only enough.
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The machine looks like a three-hole punch crossed with an electric pencil sharpener, was the finalist in the 2010 "Lite-On Awards", an International competition which completely focuses on to simulate and nurture innovation.
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- In the case of Schools, it is completely a no-no. The school which survives on charity can't afford a normal pencil then, it won't be possible for them to afford a machine to make the pencil.
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- Minimizes the wastage of paper, as well as no need to purchase pencils.
- Great initiative to save the environment, minimize cutting of trees and deforestation.
- Personal Stationery will never get deprived of pencils.


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The random walk on DNA origami can be modeled as one dimensional random walk with a reflecting and an absorbing barrier (Figure 1). Tracks in the same column are grouped into rectangles, and each step is defined as walking from one rectangle to the adjacent one.
Consider a random walk on a line segment with N+1 sites denoted by integers (0,1,2, …, N) (Figure 2). The walker starts random walk at site i, 0 < i ≤ N. Let p be the probability for the walker to move one segment to the left, q be the probability for the walker to move one segment to the right. The probability for the walker to stay at a particular site for the next unit time is thus r = 1 – p – q. When the walker reaches site N, the partially reflecting barrier, it has a probability of β to be reflected back to site N – 1, and a probability of α = 1 – β to stay at site N in the next unit time. When reaching site 0, the absorbing barrier, it stays there for 100% probability and the random walk ends.


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- For example, in South Australia and Tasmania a number of energy infrastructure construction projects are going ahead.
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- Notwithstanding the aforementioned power station, it's largely a different story in the energy and utilities construction sector, however.
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Bentonite, commonly used for liner constructions in waste containment systems, possesses many limitations. Illite or illite containing bentonite has been proposed as an alternative material for liner construction. Their properties in different types of pore fluids are important to assess the long-term performance of the liner. Further, the illite-bentonite interaction occurs and changes their properties. The effect of these interactions is known when the pore fluid is only water. How their properties are modified in electrolyte solutions has been brought out in this paper. The index properties have been studied since they give an indication of their engineering properties. Due to reduction in the thickness of the diffused double layer and consequent particle aggregation in bentonite, the effect of clay-clay interaction reduces in electrolyte solutions. In electrolyte solutions, the liquid limit, the plasticity index, and free swell index of bentonite are lower than illite. The plasticity index of bentonite is further reduced in KCl solution. Clays with a higher plasticity index perform better to retain pollutants and reduce permeability. Hence, the presence of both illite and bentonite ensures better performance of the liner in different fluids.


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Through a pipe of diameter 16cm, water is pumped from the Colorado River up to Grand Canyon Village, on the rim of the canyon. The river is at 564m elevation and the village is at 2096m elevation.
a) At what minimum pressure must the water be pumped to arrive at the village? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s^3
b)If 4800m^3 are pumped per day, what is the speed of water in the pipe?
c) What additional pressure is necessary to deliver this flow? You may assume that the free-fall acceleration and the density for air are constant over this range of elevations.
a) (density)*g*(elevation change)
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That is about 150 atmospheres.
b) Velocity = (Volume flow rate)/Area
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The density here is the density of water. Air has a neglible effect on the difference between inlet and outlet pressure


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Suppose $A$ and $B$ are two algebras of the same signature, both having maximum condition on sub-algebras. Is it true that $A\times B$ has the same property?
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What is maximum condition? – The Masked Avenger Feb 19 at 22:38
Take ${\mathbb Z}$ with two unary operations $i:z\mapsto z+1$ and $d:z\mapsto z-1$. Such an algebra has only two subalgebras $\varnothing$ and ${\mathbb Z}$. Whereas in ${\mathbb Z}\times{\mathbb Z}$, a subalgebra is any subset closed with respect to the action of the group $({\mathbb Z},+)$ given by $z\cdot(z_1,z_2):=(z+z_1,z+z_2)$. Any orbit is given by the number $z_1-z_2$. Therefore, a subalgebra is nothing but a collection of integer numbers. Consequently, the maximality condition does not hold. – Sasha Anan'in Feb 19 at 22:57
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Here is a semigroup example.
Take the semigroup $\mathbb Z_+$ of positive integers. Each of its subsemigroups is finitely generated so it has the maximum condition on subsemigroups. But $\mathbb Z_+\times \mathbb Z_+$ is not finitely generated so it does not have the maximum condition.
Indeed, any element of the form $(m,1)$ with $m>0$ is not a sum of two elements of $\mathbb Z_+\times \mathbb Z_+$. Thus these elements must belong to any generating set.
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Definition of Efficacy:
 1. Performance. Before embarking on these changes, we need to evaluate their effectiveness in achieving the desired results. If we do not believe that change will help, we will have to reconsider our plans.
 2. Ability to achieve the desired or desired result.
 3. Medicine: The ability of medicines or vaccines to support, treat or prevent an illness or disease.
Synonyms of Efficacy
Potency, Successfulness, Success, Productiveness, Fruitfulness, Efficacy, Power
How to use Efficacy in a sentence?
 1. To test the effectiveness of a new drug, it is usually given to the control group and another group of people through a placebo.
 2. The processor server is angry with its supervisors: the seemingly unnecessary restrictions on the way of driving and its operation mean that its capacity is far below its capabilities.
 3. Very little is known about the effectiveness of this treatment.
 4. Managers consider safety and performance when meeting and exceeding monthly quotas. Capacity is not just about getting things done quickly, but also about getting things done effectively.
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What is the meaning of the phrase throw him under the bus?
When someone "throws another person under the bus" it means to sacrifice a person by allowing that person to get into some form of trouble or bad situation so that another person can gain personally or because they just want that other person to suffer.
Example of "throw him under the bus" in a sentence
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The Power of Signage in Commercial Real Estate
Commercial real estate relies on signage in a variety of ways. Signs point potential investors and business owners toward an available commercial listing. They indicate which real estate agents or developers to contact to check out the property. They also provide specs showing potential buyers what the property has to offer. Utilizing eye-catching signage in real estate sets your property apart from others, making it a quicker sell.
Let's break down how to use signage in commercial real estate. We'll discuss how a sign affects curb appeal, the types of real estate signs that are used, and tips for creating effective real estate signage.
The Importance of Signage Placement
Commercial real estate is all about "location, location, location". Effective signage can help create a strong first impression of the property, showcase its unique features, and communicate important details such as availability and pricing. Additionally, it can be used within a property to help direct visitors, label spaces and showcase tenants and occupants.
Well-designed and strategically placed signs can help capture the attention of passersby and draw them to the property, increasing the chances of generating leads and ultimately closing a deal. Signage can also help establish the property's brand and identity, making it easier for potential tenants or buyers to remember and recognize it in the future. You may display signage in the following locations to attract attention:
- Lobby or common space
- Parking garages
- Rooftop or exterior walls
- Windows facing busy streets
Types of Real Estate Signs
There are many different types of commercial real estate signage. Below are some of the most common types:
- Building Identification Signs: These signs are used to identify the name of the building and its tenants. They can be located at the entrance of the building or mounted on the building exterior.
- Window Graphics: Window graphics are used to display logos, messages, or promotions on the windows of a business. They can be applied to the interior or exterior of the window and come in a variety of materials, such as vinyl, perforated film, or static cling.
- Banners: Banners are temporary signs that can be used to promote events, sales, or other time-sensitive messages. They are typically made from vinyl or mesh material and can be hung on buildings or freestanding frames.
- Directional Signs: These signs are used to direct customers to a specific location within a property, such as a parking lot or entrance.
- Project Signs: Project signs are temporary signs that are used to promote a development or construction project. They often include renderings or artist impressions of the finished project and can be placed on the project site or nearby.
To be most effective, signs should always be posted in easy to spot locations and should be designed in such a way that they're readable from the street and sidewalks. Prominent placement is important, as is use of contrasting colors and legible fonts.
Tips for Designing Effective Real Estate Signs
Below are a few tips for designing effective real estate signs.
- Size and Placement: Consider where the sign will be placed when choosing the size of the sign. The farther away from the street or sidewalk the sign will be placed, the larger it will need to be in order to get noticed.
- Color Selection: Contrasting colors are easier to see in a variety of lighting conditions. Be sure to use contrasting colors that look good together – avoid using colors that clash.
- Text and Font Choices: Sans serif fonts are often easier to read than serif fonts. The more straightforward the font, the better. Avoid use of fonts with curly letters or fanciful shapes.
- Imagery and Graphics: Imagery and graphics can help attract attention to a sign. Use images carefully and stick to use of simple graphics to avoid cluttering the sign
The Benefits of Using Professional Printing and Signage Services
Although commercial real estate signage may sound easy to design, many struggle to create signs that are easy to read and useful to the audience that would be paying attention to them. The best way to ensure that your sign is as effective as possible is to work with a professional printing and signage service to get your sign designed, printed, and installed.
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Investing in transportation stocks
The transportation industry tends to perform well in strong economies, but other volatile sectors can force it to make sharp turns.
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Investing in the transportation industry is a great way to diversify your portfolio across several industries including airlines, railroads and trucking. But because it's tied to several external industries including oil and gas, transportation stocks can be very volatile.
Government regulations can also deliver a major impact. So can world events like the coronavirus, which rattled the transportation industry in 2020.
What are transportation stocks?
Transportation stocks are part of various companies that move people, products and goods all over the world by land, sea or air. They make up a diverse industry containing several different types of companies including:
 - Airlines
 - Air freight companies
 - Trucking firms
 - Railroads
 - Marine shipping companies
 - Logistics companies
 - Service providers that help transportation firms such as airport operators and marine ports
The transportation industry is a big part of everyday life. Transportation companies get you to where you need to go, food to your supermarket and clothes to your local stores.
Why invest in transportation stocks?
In a global economy, people need to move goods, services and talent around. This is where the transportation industry comes in. And because a vast number of companies are involved, transportation stocks can be seen as clear avenues to portfolio diversification.
The transportation industry is part of the wider industrial sector. That's why its performance is strongly tied to the state of the overall economy. These companies tend to perform well under robust economic conditions.
This performance can be an indicator that businesses are gaining speed and moving goods and services around to meet demand. But the transportation industry can be highly speculative and hard to predict.
Risks of investing in transportation stocks
Because the transportation industry is so vast, transportation stocks can be affected by the performance of several other sectors. For instance, transportation companies rely heavily on fuel to get the job done. That includes everything from diesel to jet fuel.
If fuel prices rise, so can the costs for different transportation companies. That in turn can cut profits as well as stock prices. An active investor may not benefit from transportation stocks in a difficult economy.
Moreover, trade disputes between countries can severely affect the movement of goods and people from one place to another – along with the companies responsible for making this movement happen. Government regulations can have the same effect.
Government regulations fueled by COVID-19 changed the transportation industry in 2020. Cities around the globe limited transportation services, placed travel restrictions and implemented social distancing mandates. This severely affected the movement of people, and companies like airlines suffered.
A study published on Statista says, "For the week starting November 9, 2020, the number of scheduled flights worldwide was down by 46.5 percent compared to the week of November 11, 2019."
With uncertainty surrounding the state of COVID-19 restrictions as well as medical advances, the pandemic's future impact on the transportation industry remains uncertain. A report by Deloitte even went as far as to say, "Commuting and traveling patterns may not recover to their pre–COVID-19 state once lockdowns are lifted."
Transportation stocks
With an industry as widespread as transportation, there are many stocks to choose from. Here is a brief list of your investment options.
What ETFs track the transportation category?
You don't need to limit your investments in transportation to stocks. You can also buy shares of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which invest in diversified baskets of transportation of stocks. Here are some examples:
 - S&P Transportation ETF (NYSEArca: XTN)
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The books in AksharBharati, given to the schools and communities are divided in three categories.
In this category books are defined for the childrens ranging from age group 6th to 12th
Books in secondary level are defined for the childrens from age group 13th to 18th
Books on English language are kept for all the categories
These booksets are further grouped into a library. Each library contains 800 – 1000 new books.
Books are selected by volunteers, teachers, specialized NGOs and feedback from existing libraries.
We select books based on children's best interests and learning. There are multiple types of books made available to childrens in schools and communities. These types are mainly for language learning, picture books, moral stories, storybooks, novels, books on science, sports, history, art, competitive exams, biographies, etc. These Book set are redesigned every 6 months.

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Practice using a Paper Cone
Teaching Session 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
The illustrations below show more sophisticated patterns made with
the contact method Beginners should first practice the falling
method before proceeding to more complicated designs. The contact
method is used when you want to vary the thickness of the lines.
Hold the cone as you would hold a pen, with the tip in contact with the surface and at an
angle of about 30 to 45 degrees. Draw lines as though you were drawing on paper with a
pen. Control the thickness of the line by adjusting the pressure of your thumb. Squeezing
harder makes a thicker line.
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Downlink Transmission of Distributed Antenna Systems in High Building Environments
Over the last few years high data rate wireless transmission has gained considerable attention in hot spot areas, including high buildings. It has been described that Distributed Antenna Systems (DASs) improve the performance of the indoor environment by covering dead spots. In this paper, a DAS architecture for high buildings is investigated, proposed and analyzed. The goal is to provide high data rate for indoor mobile users by exploiting spatial diversity and reducing the distance of radio transmission. In this system, the frequency is reused among floors. The radio signals in high buildings can propagate vertically and reach the neighbouring floors. Therefore, the performance of the system is limited by co-channel interference.


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I have a value saved in a variable called $date, which contains the date in format 03/04/1986. The excel document I am working with has a lot of rows and columns. One row contains dates for the next 5 years. What I want to do is match the value of the date variable to the current date somewhere in the row, so iterate across the whole row until $date matches the date, so I know what column to update. How should I go about doing this?
Can you provide an example file?
Hello, i would suggest that you use filter, inside it, choose $date1 = $date2.
This will choose only the rows that contain that date, than you can use a for each, and update your excel file with the data you want.
Let me know if this helped
Hi _USER_ what would this look like? Is it the filter inside the read range activity? I can't seem to find where I would enter the filter, $date1 = $date2 at. Also, say $date1 = 02/05/65, what is $date2? Essentially how do I say look at this row in excel and keep going till it matches so that $date2 has a value
If you share an example file it will be easy to troubleshoot
1 - Read the data from your excel file, using Read Range Activity inside, Excel Scope Activity.
2 - Filter your excel data, where the column which has the dates, contains the date you want to exclude or find, outside the Excel Scope.
3 - An If activity, so that if the date found, than… etc.
4 - Update your column, using Write Range Activity, Inside Excel Scope.
Hope this clears things for you


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Haven Earthquake Information
Haven Earthquake Risk Grade
The USGS database shows that there is a 0.629% chance of a major earthquake within 50 miles of Haven, Kansas within the next 50 years. The largest earthquake within 50 miles of Haven, Kansas was a 3 Magnitude in 2001.
Probability of earthquakes within the next 50 years
Within 31 Miles / 50km above magnitude
Historical Earthquake Data (Within 50 Miles)
All distances and depths in the table below are measured in miles.


- Rattle Definition & Synonyms
 3. (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle ones judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
 4. (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
 8. (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
 9. (n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
 10. (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
 11. (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
 12. (v. t.) To scold; to rail at.
 14. (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a childs toy that rattles when shaken.
Rale, Rattling,
- Rattletrap Definition & Synonyms
 1. (n.) Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.


Petroleum stocks at Northeast power plants have not changed much in recent years
In much of the United States, power plants that burn petroleum liquids are generally operated for short periods during times of peak electricity demand, such as during brief periods of cold winter weather. These plants maintain petroleum inventories so that they are ready to dispatch electricity when it's needed. Petroleum plays an important role in the Northeast (defined here as New York and New England) when electricity demand is high, particularly in the winter. According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), power plants in the Northeast held petroleum inventories of approximately 6.7 million barrels as of the end of September 2020, close to the average of 7 million barrels during the previous five Septembers.


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Technical Article Problem: Polygons are divided in tiny strips when exported to EPS, PDF, SVG, or AI Illustrator
Article ID: 29950
Bug Id: N/A
Software: ArcGIS - ArcEditor 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS - ArcInfo 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 ArcGIS - ArcView 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS Engine Runtime 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.1, 9.2 ArcGIS Server 9.0, 9.0.1
Platforms: Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP
When opened in an external editor like Adobe Illustrator,.EPS,.PDF,.SVG, or.AI export files display some large polygons divided into separate pieces.
For example: This map contains a polygon with a large number of vertices. This screenshot shows the polygon selected in ArcMap: -show me-
[O-image] ArcMap Polygon Dicing Selection Screenshot
Selecting the same polygon in the resultant.AI file exported from ArcMap and displayed in Adobe Illustrator shows that the polygon has been split into smaller pieces: -show me-
[O-image] Adobe Illustrator polygon dicing screenshot
This is called polygon dicing, and it occurs when drawing or exporting polygons that have more vertices than a certain threshold. For.PDF,.EPS, and.SVG formats, the default threshold is 5,000 vertices. For the Illustrator format,.AI, the default threshold is 8,000 vertices.
The purpose of polygon dicing is to:
- Speed up on-screen drawing and
- Prevent interpretation failures when files with large polygons are opened with older software or on a machine with limited resources.
Solution or Workaround
Reduce the effect of polygon dicing by simplifying the polygon data or exporting at a lower resolution. If this is not possible or does not help, increase the vertex threshold at which polygon dicing occurs.
 These steps only apply to ArcGIS version 9.0 and later.
 The instructions below include making changes to essential parts of your operating system. It is recommended that you backup your operating system and files, including the registry, before proceeding. Consult with a qualified computer systems professional, if necessary. ESRI cannot guarantee results from incorrect modifications while following these instructions. Therefore, use caution and proceed at your own risk.
 1. Start the Windows Registry Editor by navigating to Start > Run, typing regedit and clicking OK.
 2. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Export and and then select the registry key 'ExportObjectsParams'.
 3. The ExportObjectsParams registry key contains a MaxVertices registry value for each of the five vector export formats:
 The number in the registry data field determines the maximum number of vertices a polygon can have before the exporter will dice the polygon into multiple parts.
 Change the value to a higher number by double-clicking the registry data icon, changing the edit window to 'decimal' mode, and entering the higher number in the text box. The changes will take effect the next time a map is exported to that format.
 To find the optimal value for your workflow, you may need to experiment. Higher limits typically cause slower display and edit times in Illustrator and Acrobat.
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I found that if polygons are displayed with a non-zero value of transparency in GIS they will export into these strips. Setting transparency to zero on the Display tab solves the issue. You can then apply a transparency to your polygons in Illustrator. If you have other items as a basemap, such as satellite imagery or a topographic raster (DEM or hillshade), I also recommend exporting each as separate Illustrator files (i.e. export just the polygons, just the imagery, then just the DEM/hillshade. Then rebuild these elements that you exported as separate Illustrator files into one, master Illustrator file. Using copy/paste-in-front makes layering the items in the appropriate spatial location. It's a few extra, but quick, steps that I've found to provide the desired results.


Can chinchillas eat peanuts?
Can Chinchillas Eat Peanuts?
Wild chinchillas likely eat nuts and seeds, when they find them. So should you feed a pet chinchilla peanuts? And if not, why not?
Can chinchillas eat peanuts? They can, but peanuts of all kinds are nutritionally unsuitable for chinchillas. That includes roasted nuts, raw peanuts, unsalted and salted, and even monkey nuts still in their shells. They are too high in fat and calories so can make chinchillas overweight. They also don't contain enough fiber or carbohydrate for your chinchilla's gut, so may cause bloating. Feed your chinchilla safe snacks like rose hips, sweet hay or shredded wheat instead.
The guide below details exactly why chinchillas shouldn't eat peanuts, by looking at their nutritional content vs. the nutrients a chinchilla needs. We'll also look at some of the side effects that peanuts are likely to cause (and they aren't pretty). And for anybody who is going to insist on giving their chinchilla peanuts, we've also made recommendations on serving sizes that, while not good for your chinchilla, at least aren't likely to cause it significant harm.
Can Chinchillas Eat Peanuts?
Chinchillas can physically eat peanuts. They have big, strong teeth that can easily break them apart. And chins aren't stupid, so won't try swallowing peanuts whole—they know to chew them first. But while a peanut won't immediately poison or choke your chinchilla, it won't be good for its health, so we don't recommend feeding them.
Do Chinchillas Like Peanuts?
Can chinchillas eat peanuts?Chinchillas enjoy eating anything new, sweet and/or fatty. They're naturally inclined to eat high-calorie foods because these are hard to find in the wild—the same instinct that we have. So, if you offer your chinchilla a peanut, it will eat it.
The problem is that your chin doesn't know what's best for it. It's in the wild, and it has unlimited access to hay and pellets. It doesn't need to gorge on dense foods like peanuts. In that sense, peanuts are a lot like the chinchilla equivalent of the snacks and fast food that we enjoy eating (but probably shouldn't).
Why Can't Chinchillas Eat Peanuts?
Peanuts are nutritionally unsuitable for chinchillas. If fed regularly, they will make your chinchilla gain weight. And because your pet isn't used to them, they could cause digestive issues like bloating, too.
Nutrients in Peanuts
To fully understand why peanuts have the effect that they do, you have to look at the specific amounts of each nutrient they contain. The table below uses data from These data relate generically to unsalted peanuts, not one brand or another.
NutrientsAmount per 100gRequirements
It should be immediately obvious that peanuts don't give chinchillas some of what they need, and give far too much of things they don't need much of.
Carbohydrate, Protein & Fat in Peanuts
The key issue with peanuts is that they contain far too much fat for chinchillas.
Contrary to popular belief, no one nutrient is the 'enemy'. You shouldn't entirely cut out carbs, fat, or anything else. Rather, the issue here is that fat contains more calories per gram than protein and carbohydrates (roughly double). As such, peanuts have almost three times as many calories as chinchillas need. This means that your pet will quickly gain weight if you feed it peanuts, even as a snack. The fact that peanuts have around 20-40% more protein than chinchillas need makes this problem even worse.
What else makes peanuts unsuitable is that they contain little fiber, or at least, less fiber than chinchillas need. Chins need a very high fiber diet, perhaps up to 30g per 100g. Their digestive systems are tailored to just such a diet. If your chin doesn't get enough fiber, its stools may be soft or even runny.
Vitamins & Minerals in Peanuts
Peanuts have lots of vitamins and minerals compared to other foods, both in terms of the number of different micronutrients they contain, and the amounts of each. Here is a table, again with data from, that lists each micronutrient that peanuts contain high amounts of:
Vitamin/MineralAmount per 100g
Vitamin B10.64mg
Vitamin B20.135mg
Vitamin B312.066mg
Vitamin B51.767mg
Vitamin B60.348mg
Vitamin E8.33mg
This table may seem like a plus-point in favor of peanuts, but it's not.
Chinchillas can thrive on a diet of hay and hay alone. That's because hay contains every vitamin and mineral that chinchillas need to live healthy lives. That may seem surprising, but many animals don't need a varied diet like we do.
If your chinchilla is deficient in something, peanuts aren't an effective 'supplement'. Rather you should talk to your vet about actual supplements. Take calcium, for example: timothy hay doesn't contain quite enough, which is why chinchilla pellets often contain alfalfa, which contains lots. If your chin isn't getting enough, the vet can recommend a suitable supplement. Or, you can give your chinchilla a cuttle bone as a chew toy. Both of these options are better than peanuts because they don't make your pet gain weight or have digestive issues.
Are Peanuts Poisonous to Chinchillas? (Digestive Issues)
Peanuts aren't poisonous for chinchillas. Your chin can eat one, and it won't immediately get sick, let alone pass away.
Rather, they cause digestive issues. These take longer to appear than a poison would take to take effect. Peanuts, and any food your chinchilla is unfamiliar with, can cause bloating which is a dangerous problem for a chinchilla to face.
This occurs because a chinchilla's digestive system is set up perfectly to digest rough fibers like those found in hay. The chinchilla digests its food twice over to extract as much nutrition from it as possible, and its gut bacteria and enzymes specialize in breaking down fibrous foods. While peanuts are reasonably fibrous, they are nowhere near as fibrous as hay.
When the chinchilla's gut has to digest something it isn't used to, the food can ferment. When this happens, it produces lots of gas, and since chins can't pass gas easily, this gas gets trapped. So much can get trapped that the chinchilla's gut or stomach lining can burst. While this won't happen if you feed your chinchilla just one peanut, peanuts and other unsuitable snacks can contribute to an existing issue, or create an issue from nothing if fed regularly.
Can Chinchillas Eat Raw Peanuts?
Can chinchillas eat peanuts?
Peanuts grow in the ground!
The statistics above relate to raw, unsalted peanuts. Every peanut has this much fat in it, that many calories in it (if not more), and isn't suited to your chinchilla's diet. That applies to peanuts you get in packets, peanuts you get in tubs, or monkey nuts that you get with their shells still on.
Can Chinchillas Eat Salted Peanuts?
Salted peanuts are worse for your pet than raw peanuts. That's because of all the sodium (salt) they contain/have on their surface. Sodium has negative health effects like raising blood pressure. It's proven to increase the risks of kidney disease, stomach cancer and heart failure too. While these effects haven't been proven in chinchillas specifically, they have been observed in other rodents, so are likely to occur in chinchillas too.
Can Chinchillas Eat Peanut Shells?
While peanuts aren't suitable for chinchillas, peanut shells are.
Peanut shells are too tough and fibrous for us to eat. But it's these qualities that make them the perfect chew toy for chinchillas. Chins need a chew toy to keep their teeth from growing overlong. Apple wood sticks are a common choice, and there's no reason not to give these. But chinchillas enjoy having new toys and new treats: it keeps them entertained.
Peanut shells are a good choice because when chinchillas gnaw on things, they can accidentally ingest some by accident. That's why it's best to offer chew toys made from natural materials like wood. Peanut shells don't contain the same high levels of fat and protein that peanuts do, which means they're safe to ingest.
Can Chinchillas Eat Peanut Butter?
Peanut butter is tasty, but doesn't make a good chinchilla treat.
The same issues that apply to regular peanuts apply to peanut butter, too. Peanut butters have the same, if not higher, levels of fat and protein than raw peanuts. They have lots of salt added, too.
And besides nutrition, peanut butter poses other problems. If you got any peanut butter in your chinchilla's fur, it would be a nightmare to clean out.
How Many Peanuts Can Chinchillas Eat?
We would recommend against feeding your chinchilla any peanuts, for the reasons covered above. On top of that, though, there are snacks that are perfectly suitable for chinchillas that won't have these effects. Chinchillas enjoy these snacks just as much as fatty, sugary or generally unhealthy ones. There's therefore no logical justification for offering unhealthy peanuts when healthy rose hips or herbs will suffice.
And besides that, ch


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In this tutorial you will learn How to create a half monster face skull using Adobe Photoshop. The basic idea behind this tutorial is very simple. Even a beginner can try this tutorial. We will be using any random image and a face of any random ghost, skull, zombie etc. The normal image will be opened in Photoshop and we will place the skull face on the image. Then using the brush tool, we will rub out half of the skull face.
To be perfect in this tutorial, you just need to know how to use the brush tool in Photoshop. That's all we need to know. You can create wonderful horrific images using this tutorial and also by adding some extra effects.
The Final Image
The Image files links are given below for download. You can download the same files and create this tutorial first. Then you can head over to your own images and skull faces. You just need to use the brush tool properly to master and be perfect in this tutorial. So let's get started.


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Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of conversion from pure laparoscopy to hand-assisted laparoscopy to control mild-to-moderate bleeding during renal surgery. Patients and Methods: Between August 2006 and August 2008, we performed 94 laparoscopic nephrectomies (44 partial and 50 radical). A total of three radical nephrectomies were converted from pure to hand-assisted laparoscopy for control of bleeding. The first patient was a 44-year-old man with a 14-cm cystic renal mass. The second patient was a 52-year-old man with a 3.8-cm renal mass, and the third patient was an 86-year-old woman with a 7-cm renal mass. Results: In all three procedures, the indication for conversion was bleeding from the renal hilum or the kidney parenchyma during dissection. The bleeding was difficult to control using pure laparoscopy, and therefore a hand port was inserted. Time for conversion and placement of the hand port averaged less than 7 minutes. Total estimated blood loss for the three patients was 800 mL, 2000 mL, and 650 mL, respectively. One patient needed a transfusion with three units of packed red blood cells. The postoperative course was uneventful in all patients, except for one patient who had prolonged ileus and stayed in the hospital for 6 days. The remaining two patients were discharged on postoperative days 2 and 3. Conclusions: Conversion from pure to hand-assisted laparoscopy for bleeding control is feasible and effective. It adds minimal morbidity while maximizing cosmesis, and it should be considered as an alternative to open conversion in cases of mild-to-moderate bleeding.
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Two steps to a finished data plate with serial number
SpeedMark software includes feature to set up a program for marking anodized aluminum in just a few easy steps. Below is a guide to show you how. In this example, the data plate consists of two elements: the graphic file with the fixed content and the extension with the serial number. First, import the graphic file.
Step 1:
Upload the graphic file (bmp file) by clicking the "bmp" icon. (Note: you can also use other common graphic files). Now you can find the desired graphic in the graphic field.
Step 2:
After the import, the data plate layout is displayed in the middle of the graphic field. Depending on requirements, you can freely move this within the marking area (for example to mark multiple data plates at once).
See also Tips & Tricks "SpeedMark array function"
Laser marking dataplates and industrial tags
Adding the serial number
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Add a text field in the flowchart (see picture) and select "Serial number" for source.
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Children disappointed as teacher pulls down blinds to stop them being distracted by snow during lesson at Stalham Academy near Great Yarmouth
Children at Stalham Academy, near Great Yarmouth, were banned from looking at snow Photo: Andrew Crowley
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A primary school has been criticised by parents after pupils aged eight and nine were banned from watching snow outside their classroom window.
Children were left disappointed after their teacher pulled down blinds to stop them being distracted by snow during a lesson.
Parents also claimed that pupils were stopped from touching the snow when they arrived at Stalham Academy near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Charlotte Marsters, 39, said her nine-year-old daughter had been excited by last Monday's snowfall and was very disappointed when the blinds were closed.
She said: "It was so dark they had to put the lights on. They were stuck in all day as they weren't allowed to play in the snow - and there was only about 1cm."
Ms Masters said children had been "marshalled" into classrooms as snow fell and were stopped from even bending to touch it.
She claimed one boy was told off after he took a small amount of snow from a wall with a gloved hand.
Mother-of-six Shelly Betts, whose eight-year-old daughter Bethany is a pupil, said: "When she told me they'd shut the blinds I couldn't believe it - I was very upset.
"They're only little, and they only stay children for a short time. They could have turned the snow it into a science lesson instead of banning them from seeing it. By the time they came out of school it was all gone.
"I don't want it to end up with my children only knowing about snow from Christmas cards."
Julie Hollins, 30, who has an eight-year-old son at the school, said: "Stopping them from even seeing it fall is like a slap in the face for little children."
Valerie Moore, chief executive of the Rightforsuccess Academy Trust which runs the school, did not respond to a request for comment.
However, a message posted on the Facebook page said: "We acknowledge that snow is an unusual and exciting occurrence for everyone, especially children.
"The academy's playgrounds were extremely icy so it was felt that in the interest of safety and in line with our risk assessment under health and safety, that children were brought inside at the start of the day.
"The phrase'marshalling' is not accurate to describe a notice board asking children to go inside, nor is it accurate in regards to the manner that children are brought into the Academy.
"Over the course of the day the ice had not cleared by break time on the Monday and sleet and snow showers prevented outdoor play at lunchtime.
"Having discussed the matter with the class teacher in question, she noted that the heavy snow fall was having an impact upon the learning of the children during one of her lessons so the blinds were closed to ensure that children focussed on their tasks in hand."
The school made headlines before Christmas when Stalham curate, the Rev Margaret McPhee, announced that father Christmas was not real during a school carol service, leaving some pupils upset. She later apologised.


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It seems that if an instance is scaled via its properties dialog, the scaling factor does not get correctly accounted for in the area calculation tool(s). A simple example is creating a 10x10 box and making it into a cell, 'test', the computed layer area function returns 100. If the cell 'test' is then scaled by 2 in the properties dialog, when the layer area is checked, it still comes back as 100. This is also true if one descends into the scaled cell 'test', selects the box and computes the area of the selected shapes, it will still come back as 100. It only correctly calculates it if the cell is flattened. Is this the only way to correctly calculate the area of instances which are scaled?