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Instrumental Music Service
Instrumental Music Service
West Lothian Council's Instrumental Music Service provides free instrumental music lessons to primary and secondary school pupils and opportunities for these pupils to play in one of the many bands and ensembles that perform regularly at a range of venues and events locally, nationally and internationally.
The Service is delivered in schools by professional instrumental music teachers who provide a structured and progressive music curriculum which is encapsulated in the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence - to enable each child or young person to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor. The Instrumental Music Service is managed by a Principal Officer who is based within Education Services.
How will learning to play a musical instrument help my child?
As well as musical development, the many general benefits gained from learning to play a musical instrument include: enhanced listening and concentration, discipline, co-ordination, language development, memory and social skills. It helps your child to become part of a team and to respect other team members whilst increasing your child's confidence and participation in the wider school and community.
How much will it cost?
Lessons are free, but you will be asked to buy music and some pieces of equipment, reeds, strings etc. For a more accurate estimate, please contact your child's instrumental teacher.
How can my child become part of this?
We aim, within the available resources, to provide opportunities for pupils to learn to play a musical instrument in all primary and secondary schools. Instrumental music teachers provide instruction in a range of strings, brass, woodwind, guitar and percussion instruments. Availability of specific instruments varies in different cluster areas. Demand usually exceeds availability so children are selected using established musical selection procedures. Your child's instrumental music teacher will recommend the most appropriate instrument. Depending on resources, an instrument will be provided on loan without charge for an initial period of tuition, but it is also possible to purchase an instrument through your child's school using (AIPS) - the Assisted Instrument Purchase Scheme. AIPS Enables you to buy a musical instrument without paying VAT.
When are the lessons and how do I check on progress?
The lessons are free, once a week during the school day but are, wherever possible, provided on a rotational basis so that no particular curriculum subject is affected. The length of the lesson can vary. Individual learning plans/targets are agreed with pupils, their progress is checked weekly and a written report is issued each year. Children are also encouraged to take part in nationally recognised music exams such as music medals to boost their sense of achievement.
Is there anything I can do to help?
Your role in supporting your child is an important one.
- Encourage regular practice in a quiet place and listen to them playing from time to time.
- Be positive, especially in the early stages.
- Encourage your child to attend lessons regularly.
- Be prepared to buy music and accessories.
- Don't hesitate to contact your child's instrumental teacher if you need advice.
- Encourage your child to take up opportunities to perform solo and in groups.
What happens as my child progresses?
All the way through instrumental music teaching, your child will be encouraged to assess themselves, first with Music Medals, then by sitting SQA and external examinations. Music exams passed at grades 6, 7 or 8 also score valuable points on University and College application forms (UCAS). There are bands and ensembles in most schools that usually play weekly after school hours. There are also Area Ensembles playing all kinds of music from popular to jazz to classical. These bring young musicians from different schools together to perform, often with professional musicians at prestigious venues around the world.
Where can I get more information?
The Instrumental Music Service team from Education Services will be happy to talk to you about any questions you may have.
The Education Services' Instrumental Music Service Team is:
Juliet Hosie, Principal Officer of Instrumental Music
Tel: 01506 281995 ; email: _EMAIL_
Steven Gray, Co-ordinator of Instrumental Music
Tel: 01506 281996 ; email: _EMAIL_
Derek Rae, Music Development Officer
Tel: 01506 281144 ; email: _EMAIL_
Hugh Foster, Instrumental Music Service Support Officer
Tel: 01506 281145; email: _EMAIL_
Updated 13 September 2012


Question: What Is The Most Valuable Commodity?
What is the most valuable resource?
The Economist – The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
What is the most valuable commodity in the Congo?
ivoryThe most valuable commodity in the Congo is ivory.
Why is time such a precious commodity?
The concept of time is elusive because, well, it stands still for no man. Beyond time being an arbitrary number derived from the Earth's axial rotation and orbital revolution around the sun, it is also the life currency that you can never regain after "spending" it.
Can a person be a commodity?
Easy access to large, almost unlimited, numbers of people has turned us into commodities. For all but the superstars among us, it has, per the definition, rendered humans widely available and interchangeable.
How is time a precious commodity?
But, money is a tool we amass and preserve but at times we can lose sight of why we want money in the first place. … Money facilitates our wants and needs. Doing well enables you to give back financially which, for many people, is important.
Why is time so valuable?
You have the ability to save money, to share stocks, to rent a house, and to lend a hand, but you cannot implement any of these actions with time. One can only SPEND it. So once it's been used; it's gone. This is why time is the only nonrenewable resource, and the only thing we can never get back.
Is money a commodity?
Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. … This is in contrast to representative money, which has little or no intrinsic value but represents something of value, and fiat money, which has value only because it has been established as money by government regulation.
How does the DRC make money?
The country's main economic resource is its mineral deposits; mining produces almost nine-tenths of total exports. … The limestone deposits that occur throughout the country are considered to be among the richest in Africa. Congo's forest reserves cover more than half of the country and are among the largest in Africa.
What is the number 1 traded commodity in the world?
Most Actively Traded CommoditiesWTI Crude Oil.Brent Crude Oil.Natural Gas.Soybeans.Corn.Gold.Copper.Silver.
What's the most valuable commodity?
Study Shows Time Is The Most Valuable Commodity.
Is Congo a wealthy country?
The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely considered to be the richest country in the world regarding natural resources; its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of U.S. $24 trillion.
What is a valuable commodity?
A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold. Grain, coffee, and precious metals are all commodities. The word commodity is usually used in an economic context, as in importing commodities from other countries or trading in the stocks and commodities markets.
Who said time is more valuable than money?
Jim RohnJim Rohn – "Time is more valuable than money.
What four economic activities are practiced in Congo?
Contents6.1 Agriculture.6.2 Fishing.6.3 Forestry.6.4 Mining.6.5 Copper and Cobalt.6.6 Informal sector.
What are examples of a commodity?


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East: Report Says HIV Spreading Rapidly In Eastern Europe, Central Asia
 - Andrew Tully
A new study on HIV/AIDS says the disease is spreading alarmingly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. RFE/RL's Andrew F. Tully reports that the study will be presented today at the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Washington, 17 April 2000 (RFE/RL) -- The leading advisory panel for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will meet in Washington today to discuss a grim report about AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The document, "Intensifying Action Against HIV/AIDS: Responding to a Development Crisis," indicates that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is spreading rapidly. It says half the people living in the region who have HIV were infected within the past two years.
The study says that of all the nations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the virus is spreading fastest in Russia. It says HIV is spread in Russia primarily through intravenous drug abuse, followed by sexual transmission.
What is most alarming, the report says, is that Russians know how to prevent the spread of HIV infection, and yet the contagion persists. Now, the report says, it is time for Russians to modify their behavior.
The study was only a broad outline of the problem and gave no statistics. For instance, it did not say how many Russians are estimated to be infected with HIV, which causes AIDS, and the rate of the virus' spread.
The document will be presented to the Development Committee, a joint panel of the World Bank and the IMF which recommends action on a broad range of issues in developing countries.
But there is some question whether the meeting will take place. Demonstrators -- watched closely by police -- have virtually taken over a 50-block area of central Washington. They have promised to shut down the meetings of the bank and the IMF.
Despite the protests, Sunday's meetings took place on time and with all delegations represented. However, not all those who were expected could attend. The finance ministers of four nations were not able to make it through the "human chains" of sometimes raucous demonstrators blocking access to the World Bank and IMF buildings in central Washington.
Most reporters assigned to cover the meetings also were kept away.
"Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people won't stop! Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people won't stop! There's no power like the power of the people because the power of the people won't stop!"
While the Group of 10 leading industrialized countries (G-10) were meeting inside the IMF building, one young demonstrator, who refused to identify himself, explained why a reporter could not pass through the "human chain."
"The World Bank and the IMF constantly undervalue human suffering, and until they include the majority of the people on the planet in a meaningful way in the discussions about the economy that affects them and their daily lives and the policies that affect them, then we're going to plague these institutions until they're accountable to the people."
Try as the demonstrators did, however, Sunday's meetings took place -- on time, but with some changes in personnel.
The first meeting was of G-10 finance ministers. But one, Laurent Fabius of France, did not use early transportation provided by the IMF to ensure he could enter the building. He arrived in the area about midmorning, and was rebuffed by the protesters. Fabius was represented at the meeting by the governor of France's central bank.
Fabius also missed a second meeting. This one involved the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which considers the IMF's agenda. Also unable to attend were the finance ministers of Thailand, Portugal, and Brazil. Again, all 24 nations were represented as lower-level officials sat in for the missing ministers.
The U.S. treasury secretary (finance minister), Lawrence Summers, warned during this meeting that Russia's economic growth over the past year is based on temporary factors, primarily the rising price of oil. He said the most important task facing President-elect Vladimir Putin is to improve Russia's economic and legal structures to encourage more investment in the country.
Summers' comments reinforced an analysis already made by both the World Bank and IMF. The two institutions said Russian consumers have been buying more domestic products because they cannot afford the cost of imported goods. The two institutions also called for increased legal and economic reforms in Russia.
The meeting also issued a communique that expressed no alarm over recent economic indicators in the United States. Many analysts say the overall global economic improvement is due in part to American prosperity. But recently, the U.S. stock market has declined dramatically, and a government report on Friday indicated that inflation could soon resume in the U.S. economy.
But the communique spoke only of what it called "favorable" news of the world economy. At the same time, however, it stressed the need for "balanced" economic growth. This indicates that it believes other nations should not depend on the U.S. to lead the global economy.
Phillip Hay, a spokesman for the World Bank, expressed confidence that today's meetings would be held despite the continuing protests.
"We're optimistic that the meetings will go ahead as planned, and as we promised that they would at the beginning of this long, long week."


Nanopositioners - Nanopositioner Property Selection Checklist - Supplier Data by Mad City Labs
Planning the purchase of a nanopositioner requires some knowledge of the application measurement parameters and the operating conditions. The following checklist should help define the main areas of concern. The priority of each specification depends completely on the intended application. In some cases, one condition may affect another – such as desired speed of motion being affected by the weight of the moving assembly. The final nanopositioner design must contain a combination of characteristics which best suits the application. In some cases, custom nanopositioners may be necessary to provide a unique set of specifications needed for ideal performance. Mad City Labs is known for a willingness to customize standard designs or provide new innovative designs for difficult situations.
Nanopositioner Property Selection Checklist
- How many axes of motion are needed?
- Maximum range of motion per axis?
- Required resolution and repeatability per axis?
- How much weight will be moved (maximum, typical, and minimum)?
- What is the maximum required speed on each axis of motion? Note that the weight of the moving assembly affects the maximum achievable speed.
- Will the motion be a continuous or step by step?
- What are the ideal physical dimensions of the stage (length, width, height)?
- Is a center aperture required? What size?
- Are there physical interfacing issues, such as retrofitting to existing instrumentation?
- Are there environmental conditions that may impact the nanopositioning system, such as UHV, humidity, large magnetic fields, or variable temperatures?
- Is computer control required?
Source: Mad City Labs.
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Anyone with an interest in the history of video games should know the name Ralph Baer. As the creator of the first game console, the Magnavox Odyssey -- giving video table tennis to the world before Pong -- Baer was instrumental in the creation of the video game industry. As part of a video series on inventors, a photographer by the name of David Friedman conducted an interview with Baer.
Though the question doesn't appear in the video, Friedman asked Baer if he had "unleashed a monster" in creating the video game console. "Yeah," answer Baer, "I did a bit." He elaborated that the Odyssey was designed as a family activity, something shared with multiple people. Baer is worried that games have "just sort of degenerated into a one player type thing which was never in my mind." Friedman notes that there might still be hope, with consoles like the Wii encouraging people to play together. We would throw the Kinect and PlayStation Move onto the list as well. Let this be a reminder to always teach your children about the importance of co-op.
Watch the brief (and frankly touching) interview above.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Wheelphone main wiki
Phone inclination
In some applications you need that the phone mounted on the robot has a longer view with the back camera and this can be accomplished adding a small piece of plastic with which you can adjust the tilt. In our lab we designed a simple extension that let choose between two inclinations, the following figures compares the normal inclination (no extension) and the others two (with the extension in one side and the other side):
The installation is very easy: just insert it in the case of the robot.
An application that works better with this extension is the markers navigation app that need to detect markers at long distance.
Extra stabilization
Nowadays phones are always bigger and this is normally an advantage for the user, but the Wheelphone could get in troubles loosing the balance easier. For this reason a little weight can be placed on front of the robot to let it be more stable, especially when little ground obstacles need to be overcome. The following figure shows the plastic container (filled with lead) positioned on front of the robot thanks to the "lego connectors":
The plastic container is covered with some nice pictures, but you can put whatever images you like.
Play with lego
The Wheelphone robot has some "lego connectors" around in the case (i.e. in the bottom side near the ground sensors, in the front side over the proximity sensors, in the wheels,...). The following figures show some lego pieces attached to the Wheelphone, e.g. you can attach two arms and play with a ball, or you can send some message to your friends,...your fantasy is the limit.
Artist extension
Brings out your artistic side with this extension that let you attach a pen in the back side of the robot. The installation is very easy, the piece must be framed to the case as shown below:
The following video shows an example:
It's not a perfect heart, it's art ;-)
Magnetic drag
The same plastic extension used to work with a pen can be used to drag some others thinks thanks to a magnetic connection; insert a little magnet inside the hole as shown in the following first picture, then you are able to be for example a locomitve:
Video recording
If you are interested in recording a video directly on the phone that is connected to the robot, thus having the perspective of the robot while is moving, you can follow these steps:
 1. connect the phone to the robot and start the monitor application
 2. take the robot in your hands and give the robot a desired speed and enable obstacle avoidance (and cliff avoidance if you are moving on a table)
 3. press the home button of the phone
 4. start the camera app from the Android system and start recording
 5. place the robot on the ground and let it move around
 6. when you are satisfied take the robot, stop the recording and turn off the robot


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The answer depends on the infrastructure that you are using. Generally, the best thing is to do nothing. I know this sounds weird, so let me explain. When the OS is talking to a NIC, it generally has at least one pair of RX/TX ring-buffers and, in case of commodity hardware, is likely talking to the device over PCIe bus. On top of the PCIe bus there is a DMA engine that makes it possible for a NIC to read and write from/to host memory without using a CPU. In other words, while the NIC is active, it will always read and write packets on its own, with minimal CPU intervention. There are, of course, a lot of details, but you can generally think that on a driver-level that is what is going on — reads and writes are always performed by the NIC using DMA, no matter whether your application reads/writes anything or not. Now, on top of it there is an OS infrastructure that allows user-space applications to send and receive data to/from the NIC. When you open a socket, OS will determine in what kind of data your application is interested and add an entry into a list of applications talking to a network interface. When that happens, the application starts receiving data that is placed in some sort of application's queue in the kernel. It doesn't matter whether you are calling read or not, the data is placed there. Once the data is placed, the application is getting notified. The notification mechanisms in the kernel vary, but they all share a similar ideas — let application know that data is available to call
read(). Once the data is in that "queue", application can pick it up by calling
read(). The difference between blocking and non-blocking read is simple — if the read is blocking, the kernel will simply suspend the execution of an application until the data is arrived. In case of non-blocking read, the control is returned to an application in any case — either with data or without it. If latter happens, the application can either keep trying (aka spin on a socket), or wait for a notification from the kernel saying that data is available, and then proceed to reading it. Now let's get back to "doing nothing". What it means is that socket is registered to receive notification only once. Once registered, the application doesn't have to do anything but receive a notification saying "the data is there". So what the application should do is listen to that notification and perform the read only when the data is there. Once enough data is received, the app can start processing it somehow. Knowing all that, let's see what from the three approaches is better...
Post another overlapped read on the socket, this time with the size of the packet so it receives it in the next completion?
This is a a good approach. Ideally, you wouldn't have to "post" anything, but this depends on how good the OS interface is. If you cannot "register" your application once and then keep receiving notifications every time new data is available and call read() when it is, then posting an asynchronous read request is the next best thing.
Read inside the routine the whole packet using blocking sockets and then post another overlapped with recv with 9 bytes?
This is a good approach if your application has absolutely nothing else to do and you have only one socket to read from. In other words — it is an easy way of doing so, very easy to program, OS takes care of completions itself, etc. Keep in mind though that once you have more than one socket to read from, you will have to either do a very stupid thing like having a thread per socket (terrible!), or re-write your application using the first approach.
Read in chunks (decide the size) say - 4096 and have a counter to keep reading each overlapped completion until the data was read (say it would complete 12 times till all the packet was read).
This is the way to go! In fact, this is almost the same as approach #1 with a nice optimization to perform as less round-trips to the kernel as possible, and read as much as possible in one go. First I wanted to correct the first approach with these details, but then I noticed you've done it yourself.
Hope it helps. Good Luck!


Livestreaming Mixed Reality with LIV (Dr Doom & Ruu, Cofounder & CTO) - 093
The CEO and CTO of LIV, Dr. Doom and Ruu join us to talk about the past, present, and future of green screen Mixed Reality and livestreaming VR games.
Topics discussed:
- Origins of green screen Mixed Reality - how did it start?
- How is Mixed Reality being today and by whom?
- Discord and the importance of building a community for a product
- GameChanger API : Adding audience interactivity into a streamer's game
- Vtubers and avatar copyright laws
- The state of VR streaming on Twitch


Contract action on Customer Contracts screen."
); this.RenewExpiring(instance); instance.Save.Press();
Another way to insert some record in db is to use PXDataBase.Insert. Example of usage is the following:
 new PXDataFieldAssign("TranType", PXDbType.NVarChar, apTran.TranType),
 new PXDataFieldAssign("RefNbr", apTran.RefNbr),
 new PXDataFieldAssign("ManualPrice", apTran.ManualPrice),
 new PXDataFieldAssign("LineNbr", apTran.LineNbr));
The first option gives you opportunity to use logic of graph, while second gives you good perfomance.
PXSmartPanel in Acumatica
Hello everybody,
today I want to write few words how to work with PXSmartPanel.
One of my clients asked following:
1. Press at button.
2. Pop up should appear with two buttons ( "OK", "Cancel")
3. At pop up should be also selector of contracts and datetime.
4. Existing screen should be modified.
In order to do this, following actions were implemented:
1. Existing screen was CT301000.
2. If to look in screen source code, following line says about graph:
3. It means, that we need to create extension class for ContractMaint.
4. For example like this:
public class ContractMaintExt : PXGraphExtension
 public PXFilter SubstituteSettings;
 public PXAction Substitute;
 [PXButton(CommitChanges = true)]
 [PXUIField(DisplayName = "Substitute")]
 protected void substitute()
 if (this.SubstituteSettings.AskExt(new PX.Data.PXView.InitializePanel(this.fillFilter)) ==
 var subsFilter = (SubstituteSettingsFilter)this.SubstituteSettings.Cache.Current;
 CopyOpenPMTaskHistory(Base.Contracts.Current.ContractID, subsFilter.ContractID, subsFilter.TransitionDate);
5. In the line 4 we declared to Acumatica, that we want to extend ContractMaint, and we want to create some data input, which is related to SubstituteSettingsFilter. Take note of Substitute and substitute: both of them are needed in order to make processing of inputted values.
6. Take a look at SubstituteSettingsFilter class itself:
 public class SubstituteSettingsFilter : IBqlTable
 _TAG_ contractID
 public abstract class contractID : IBqlField, IBqlOperand
 protected int? _ContractID;
 [PXDimensionSelector("CONTRACT", typeof(Search2>,
 LeftJoin>>>,
 Where,
 And>>>),
 new System.Type[] { typeof(Contract.contractCD), typeof(Contract.customerID), typeof(Customer.acctName),
 typeof(Contract.locationID), typeof(Contract.description), typeof(Contract.status), typeof(Contract.expireDate),
 typeof(ContractBillingSchedule.lastDate), typeof(ContractBillingSchedule.nextDate) },
 DescriptionField = typeof(Contract.description), Filterable = true)]
 [PXUIField(DisplayName = "Contract ID", Visibility = PXUIVisibility.SelectorVisible)]
 public virtual int? ContractID
 get { return this._ContractID; }
 set { this._ContractID = value; }
 _TAG_ contractID
 _TAG_ TransitionDate
 public abstract class transitionDate : PX.Data.IBqlField
 protected DateTime? _TransitionDate;
 [PXUIField(DisplayName = "Transition Date")]
 public virtual DateTime? TransitionDate
 return this._TransitionDate;
 this._TransitionDate = value;
 _TAG_ TransitionDate
7. We described two properties: contractID and TransitionDate.
8. Now goes time of aspx page at section I described the following:

Few words. AcceptButtonID speak about who plays role of OK button, Caption means title, CaptionVisible means that title will be visible, HideAfterAction means hide or not after action, Key means name of member in extension or graph, DefaultControlID means which control is active by default. Another important detail is DataMember property, which equals to Key. Then goes layout rules, which I ommit. Then in Template goes selector, and datetime input.
9. Here how control look like:
Here it is. If you have any comments, wishes, etc, you are welcome to post them


A Guide To Currency Exchange
How are currency exchange rates determined?
Are foreign exchanges open on Sundays?
Although Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange is not open on Sundays, there are other foreign exchange companies that are on different timetables and might be open even on Sundays for business.
Do foreign currency exchange transactions have taxes levied on them?
The initial CAD 200 is exempt from taxation. However, all capital gains that are associated with foreign currency exchange operations that are made in cash has to be reported to the appropriate Canadian tax authorities.
What are Foreign Currency Exchangeable Bonds?
These are bonds that are expressed in a different currency other than the originating or home country. The amount of the bond is expressed in foreign currency, and includes the principal and payable interest. An Indian company issues these bonds, and they have individual subscribers that are drawn out of foreign countries. Where the equity shares of another company's shares are exchanged with a foreign currency exchangeable bond, this company is called the offered company.
There are any risks associated with currency exchange?
In some cases unfavorable exchange rates are quite common. Forex operators that are located in popular tourist ares, like airports, squares, and markets, are notorious when it comes to this.
What is the foreign currency exchange's origins?
Today's Forex market that we are all familiar with can trace its origins back to the time period immediately after World War II; to be specific, 1944.
What are the specifics of the Forex market's origins?
In 1944 most of the world's currencies assumed a fixed exchange rate was measured against the US dollar (and the gold standard was used to peg the value), according to the global treaty's provision referring to the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Do currency exchanges accept coins?
Coins are rarely accepted by currency exchanges. However, in cases where substantial amounts are involved, they may be willing to ignore the rule.
Do currency exchanges accept credit cards?
The decision of whether to reject or accept credit cards will differ from one company to the next; some do and some don't. Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange operators do not accept credit cards.
Stamps are sold by some service providers but not all do. Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange currency exchanges do not sell stamps.
Are title transfer services offered by currency exchanges?
Title transfers are not handled by Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange operators. However, these services are offered by some currency exchange service providers.
Are there foreign exchange rates fluctuations every day?
Currency exchange rate continue to fluctuate every day over a span of 24 hours.
Will a currency exchange cash my payroll checks?
Payroll check cashing services are not offered by Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange operators. However, those services are offered by some operators to their customers?
Should I exchange my money overseas or locally?
It is strongly recommended that you exchange your money locally, since that will allow to make big savings on every transaction that you do. It is even possible to do it from home through utilizing the online platforms that currency operators like Knightsbridge Foreign Exchange have established.
Should I gt my money exchange before I go on my European trip?
Yes, definitely. If you convert your currency before you travel to Europe it will help you save on expenses and avoid any hassles after you arrive.
Should I get my money exchange before my visit to Mexico?
Yes definitely. If you exchange your money before you go on your trip it can help you save a lot of money and avoid having any problems after you get to Mexico.
Should I get my money exchanged before I travel to Canada?
Yes, definitely. You can save a lot of money and avoid headaches in the future after you have arrived in Canada if you exchange your money before going on your trip.


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- capital (adj.)
- early 13c., "of or pertaining to the head," from Old French capital, from Latin capitalis "of the head," hence "capital, chief, first," from caput (genitive capitis) "head" (see capitulum).
Meaning "principal" is early 15c. Of letters, "upper case," from late 14c. A capital crime (1520s) is one that affects the life or "head;" capital had a sense of "deadly, mortal" from late 14c. in English, a sense also found in Latin. The felt connection between "head" and "life, mortality" also existed in Old English: e.g. heafodgilt "deadly sin, capital offense," heafdes þolian "to forfeit life." Capital punishment was in Blackstone (1765) and classical Latin capitis poena.
Capital gain is recorded from 1921. Capital goods is recorded from 1899. Of ships, "first-rate, of the line," attested from 1650s. Related: Capitally.
- capital (n.1)
- early 15c., "a capital letter," from capital (adj.). The meaning "capital city" is first recorded 1660s (the Old English word was heafodstol). The financial sense is from 1610s (Middle English had chief money "principal fund," mid-14c.), from Medieval Latin capitale "stock, property," noun use of neuter of capitalis "capital, chief, first." (The noun use of this adjective in classical Latin was for "a capital crime.")
[The term capital] made its first appearance in medieval Latin as an adjective capitalis (from caput, head) modifying the word pars, to designate the principal sum of a money loan. The principal part of a loan was contrasted with the "usury"--later called interest--the payment made to the lender in addition to the return of the sum lent. This usage, unknown to classical Latin, had become common by the thirteenth century and possibly had begun as early as 1100 A.D., in the first chartered towns of Europe. [Frank A. Fetter, "Reformulation of the Concepts of Capital and Income in Economics and Accounting," 1937, in "Capital, Interest, & Rent," 1977]
Also see cattle, and cf. sense development of fee, pecuniary.
- capital (n.2)
- "head of a column or pillar," late 13c., from Anglo-French capitel, Old French chapitel, or directly from Latin capitellum "little head," diminutive of caput (see capitulum).


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This article refers to orthopedic contractures, i.e., permanent shortening of muscles, tendons, and/or ligaments. For short-term contraction of muscles, including the normal action and function of muscles, see Muscle contraction. For non-orthopedic types of contractures, see the "See Also" section below.
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 M24.5, M62.4, M67.1, M72.0, T79.6
ICD-9 718.4, 727.81, 728.6, 958.6
MedlinePlus 003185
MeSH D003286
A muscle contracture is a permanent shortening of a muscle[1] or joint.[2] It is usually in response to prolonged hypertonic spasticity in a concentrated muscle area, such as is seen in the tightest muscles of people with conditions like spastic cerebral palsy.
Contractures are essentially muscles or tendons that have remained too tight for too long, thus becoming shorter. Once they occur they cannot be stretched or exercised away; they must be released with orthopedic surgery. Most of the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and other exercise regimens targeted towards people with spasticity focuses on trying to prevent contractures from happening in the first place.
Contractures can also be due to ischemia, as in Volkmann's contracture.
Excessive matrix metalloproteinase and myofibroblast accumulation in the wound margins can result in contracture.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "contracture" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
 2. ^ Clavet H, Hébert PC, Fergusson D, Doucette S, Trudel G (March 2008). "Joint contracture following prolonged stay in the intensive care unit". CMAJ 178 (6): 691–7. doi:10.1503/cmaj.071056. PMC _PHONE_. PMID _PHONE_.


Using click macros with Adobe Edge
Adobe Edge allows you to quickly make interactive HTML5 rich media ad items, and it's easy to implement our click tracking macros in the process.
Implement the 'click event'
Once you've created your Adobe Edge creative, you will need to edit the code in order for AdButler to communicate with it properly. First, create an element that will act as a hyperlink. Once done, select the element and click the code button "{}" on the properties panel. Choose the action that activates the element. Click is the most common.
You can set the cursor type in your elements cursor panel.
In the code panel that appears, paste in the following code bit, taken from our HTML5 click-track reference:, '_blank');
This is a JavaScript function which will open a different website in a new tab. After you've pasted it in, save and export the ad item for web.
Adding the click macro to the HTML document
Now open the HTML file that we just exported in any plain text editor. In the of the HTML, paste the code:
window.clickTag = '[TRACKING_LINK]';
This script allows AdButler to replace "window.clickTag" with the destination of the ad item, and let's us also track the impressions and clicks of the ad item. Be sure to use the macro "[TRACKING_LINK]."
Upload your HTML5 ad to AdButler
For AdButler to properly display the creative, all the files associated with the ad (HTML, image assets, CSS, etc.) will need to be compressed into a single.zip file. Most operating systems give you the ability to create a zip via right-clicking the folder selecting the appropriate option from the dropdown menu, but you can use any program or utility to create your zip file.
Naming permissions differ between folders and URLs. In URLs the. character is reserved for differentiating domains. When creating your Adobe Edge files, please ensure that you do not use any restricted characters.
After creating your zip file, in your AdButler dashboard navigate to the advertiser campaign or publisher zone where you want to add your ad item. Create a new HTML5 Rich Media Ad Item, and use the upload button to upload the zip file. Make sure you set your destination URL in AdButler so the user will be directed to the appropriate location after the click.
With this setup, the ad item's click event will record a click in our database, and the destination URL in your ad setup will redirect them to the proper destination.
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The birthing body has been a site for locating competing claims of control from much before the birth of modern medical knowledge, and the contestation carries on in our contemporary. What makes for variety within this long-standing contestation are of course the shifting terms of conflict. Broadly divided into three parts, this paper shall document the different formats and priorities of the contestation project, which has actually been synonymous with a contestation between the human attendants of birth. While in preand early modern times, especially in Western Europe, this conflict played out between female and male healers, primarily over the use and abuse of'supernatural power', 19th century colonial Indian modernity saw the conflict played out between institutionalization of the elite birthing body and the collective of indigenous (i.e., 'non-modern') birth attendants. In the contemporary the contestation plays out between statist development, and a rather fleeting and often vacuous category of the traditional birth attendant.
Through these three sections what the paper shores up is the rather dynamic nature of violence that has – largely surreptitiously – been precipitated on the female, indigenous birth attendant by the male indigene, by the institution of modernity/obstetrics and by the development state.

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Commuters, skiers, crossing guards and others who endure frozen fingers in cold weather may look forward to future relief as manufacturers are poised to take advantage of a new technique for creating electrically heated cloth developed by materials scientist Trisha Andrew and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They have made gloves that keep fingers as warm as the palm of the hand.
In a new paper in Applied Materials & Interfaces, the scientists describe how they use a vapor deposition method for nano-coating fabric to create sewable, weavable, electrically heated material. The demonstration glove they made can keep fingers toasty for up to eight hours. The three-layered glove, with one layer coated by the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxytiophene), also known as PEDOT, are powered by a button battery weighing 1.8 grams. A dime weighs just under 2.27 grams.
The authors point out, "Lightweight, breathable and body-conformable electrical heaters have the potential to change traditional approaches to personal thermal management, medical heat therapy, joint pain relief and athletic rehabilitation."
Andrew said, "We took a pair of cotton gloves and coated the fingers to allow a small amount of current to pass through, so they heat up. It's regular old-fashioned cotton cloth. We chose to make a pair of gloves because the fingers require a high curvature that allows us to show that our material is really flexible. The glove is powered by a small coin battery and they run on nano-amps of current, not enough to pass current through your skin or to hurt you. Our coating works even when it's completely dunked in water, it will not shock you, and our layered construction means the conductive cloth does not come into contact with your skin.
"We hope to have this reach consumers as a real product in the next few years. Maybe it will be two years to a prototype, and five years to the consumer. I think this is the most consumer-ready device we have. It's ready to take to the next phase."
Until recently, textile scientists have not used vapor deposition because of technical difficulties and high cost of scaling up from the laboratory. But recently, manufacturers are finding that the technology can be scaled up while remaining cost-effective, the researchers say. Using the vapor deposition method described in their paper, Andrew and colleagues also coated threads of a thick cotton yarn commonly used for sweaters. It performed well and offers another avenue for creating heated clothing, the authors state.
Andrew said, "One thing that motivated us to make this product is that we could get the flexibility, the nice soft feel, while at the same time it's heated but not making you sweaty. A common thing we hear from commuters is that in the winter, they would love to have warmer fingers." In their laboratory tests, her research team reported, four fingers of the test glove warmed to the same temperature as the palm, and "the wearer could feel the heat transferred from the fabric heaters to her fingers a few seconds after the voltage was applied."
Andrew and chemistry postdoctoral researcher Lushuai Zhang, with chemical engineering graduate student Morgan Baima, conducted several tests to assure that their gloves could stand up to hours of use, laundering, rips, repairs and overnight charging. Andrew noted, "Right now we use an off-the-shelf battery that lasts for eight hours, but you would need a rechargeable to make these more practical."
Further, "If you are skiing and rip your glove, you can repair it just by sewing it back together with plain thread."
They arranged for biocompatibility testing at an independent lab where mouse connective tissue cells were exposed to PEDOT-coated samples and responses compared to positive and negative controls. They report that their PEDOT-coated materials are safe for contact with human skin without causing adverse reactions to the chemicals used.
They also addressed questions of heat, moisture and skin contact stability to prevent the wearer from experiencing any electric shock from a wet conducting element. Andrew said, "Chemically, what we use to surround the conductive cloth looks like polystyrene, the stuff used to make packing peanuts. It completely surrounds the conducting material so the electrical conductor is never exposed."
Experimenting with different variables in the vapor nano-coating process, they found that adjusting temperature and chamber pressure were important in achieving optimal surface coverage of the cloth. In a test of the fabric's ability to resist cracking, creasing or other changes when heated, they generated a temperature of 28 degrees C (82.4 F) with connection to a 4.5-V battery and 45 degrees C (113 F) connected to a 6-V battery for an hour, and found "no dramatic morphology changes," indicating that the PEDOT-coated cotton textile was rugged and stable enough to maintain its performance" when used as a heating element.
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Say I create an image object like below. (
create(); is a function I wrote but I know this function works.)
var img = create("img", "images/duba.jpg");
When I try to put this image into the
innerHTML of another object that's a div, I get this plain text where the image should show up:
What's the correct method to insert one object into another like this? I have to think there's a more graceful method than hard-coding the innerHTML with strings, which I've tried successfully.


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How can I validate individual rows of a list record in web applications?
You cannot use the normal validation flow, because you have multiple inputs related to the same widget at design time.
We suggest three options:
- Have a save button in each row, so you can validate the values individually.
- Same as 1, but with on change action instead of the save button.
- Use an auxiliary variable bound to each record.
- On the code that validates each row, assign whether the record is valid to the auxiliary variable of the record.
- On your screen logic, check the current value of the auxiliary variable for each record. Add a CSS class to records with invalid input. In the case, the CSS class "Not_Valid".


B.1. About MFIFO usage overview
The MFIFO is a shared resource that is utilized on a first-come-first-served basis by all currently active channels. To a program, it appears as a set of variable-depth parallel FIFOs, one per channel, with the restriction that the total depth of all the FIFOs cannot exceed the configured size of the MFIFO. The width of the AXI master interface sets the MFIFO width and the MFIFO depth is configurable.
The DMAC is capable of realigning data from the source to the destination. For example, the DMAC shifts the data by two byte lanes when it reads a word from address 0x103 and writes to address 0x205. All byte manipulations occur when data enters the MFIFO (as a result of an AXI read due to a DMALD instruction) so that the DMAC does not need to manipulate the data when it removes it from the MFIFO (as a result of an AXI write due to a DMAST instruction). Therefore the storage and packing of the data in the MFIFO is determined by the destination address and transfer characteristics.
When a program specifies that incrementing transactions are to be performed to the destination, the DMAC packs data into the MFIFO to minimise the usage of the MFIFO entries. For example, a DMAC with a 64-bit AXI data bus where the program loads two 32-bit words from address 0x100 and the destination address is set to 0x200. In this case, the DMAC packs the two words into a single 64-bit entry in the MFIFO.
In certain situations, the number of entries required to store the data loaded from a source is not a simple calculation of amount of source data divided by MFIFO width. The calculation of the number of entries required is not simple when any of the following occur:
The DMALD and DMAST instructions each specify that an AXI transaction is to be performed. The amount of data transferred by an AXI transaction depends on the values programmed in to the CCRn Register and the address of the transaction. See the AMBA AXI Protocol Specification for information about unaligned transfers.
The following sections provide several example DMAC programs together with illustrations of the MFIFO usage:
 - These sections show MFIFO usage in the following ways:
 - a graph of the number of MFIFO entries versus time
 - a diagram of the byte-lane manipulation that the DMAC performs when data enters the MFIFO.
 - All the examples use a DMAC configuration with a 64-bit AXI data bus. The numbers 0 and 7 in the MFIFO diagrams indicate the byte lanes in the MFIFO.
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Parks and Cemeteries, the section that oversees the development and maintenance of Dog Parks, is piloting the use of pedestrian traffic counters at Dog Park entrance areas. The purpose of the program is to provide baseline data on when and at what volume Dog Parks across the city are being used.
What is the data used for?
Data on volume and time of use is essential to:
- provide a snap shot of when and at what volume Dog Parks are being used;
- build long-term support for City Dog Parks;
- contribute to City processes including capital/maintenance programs, planning, design and program evaluation.
Where is the data collected?
Currently 2 pedestrian traffic counters have been installed at Nathan Cirillo and Borer's Dog Parks. Counters will be rotated to other Dog Parks over time, at which time data will be reviewed.
City of Hamilton Traffic Operations operates a similar program with over 20 counters on trails and pathways, through the Active Transportation Benchmarking program.
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This blogpost will cause lasting damage to children's brains
Susan Greenfield has warned of the danger to children presented by the internet, video games and online porn, but that's nothing compared with the threat posed by this blogpost
Boy surfing the internet on a laptop
Exposure to inappropriate words online can permanently alter a child's developing brain. Photograph: Alamy
Baroness Susan Greenfield has yet again been warning of the dangers posed to children by some form of electronic media, this time online porn. But some have now claimed that her concerns and predictions are misdirected, and that there is a far greater online threat to children's mental wellbeing that is going completely unchecked: this very blogpost.
Concerns about this blogpost were initially raised after the first paragraph, when it was realised that the piece was going to be bizarrely self-referential, to an extent that would undoubtedly prove confusing to a younger person still learning the rules of accepted narrative structure and general logic. Although not something that would typically interest younger people, it was observed that the first paragraph contains the phrase "online porn", so could be accidentally stumbled upon by impressionable teenage boys left alone with a search engine. Similar concerns were then raised about the second paragraph.
The anticipation of sexual content being confounded by a bizarre and somewhat pointless blogpost could cause considerable stress, which could disrupt a still-developing mind.
Concerns about the damage this blogpost could inflict upon children were further increased when it was realised that this blogpost is composed entirely of letters, arranged in a variety of specific sequences known as words. This exposure to words could cause children to develop a premature vocabulary. This is of great concern to many, as words are often used to describe things that are inappropriate for children, such as "sex", "violence" and "Gordon Ramsay".
Partially respected neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett has called for an outright ban on this blogpost, amid fears that it could cause untold damage to younger, impressionable people.
"If people read this blogpost, they run the risk of remembering it for more than a few seconds. This means they have formed long-term memories, which are supported by synaptic changes. Ergo, reading this online blog has caused physical changes in the brain. And that's bad, right? The brain undergoing physical changes is essentially what supports our ability to learn pretty much anything, which is crucial for our survival, but this must be a bad kind of that because it involves the internet."
Dr Burnett also argues that an outright ban on this blogpost is the only possible solution. When it was suggested that this approach was somewhat extreme and censorious, he remained unconvinced.
"At the end of the day, there remains a chance that this blogpost could harm children, and therefore it must be banned. We can't expect worried parents to intervene and stop children seeing it; they're too paralysed by fear most of the time, only able to occasionally move in order to sign petitions to ban things. I mean, cars were dangerous to children, so they're banned now, and children can go outside and play freely on dual carriageways without worry, as nature intended."
When informed that this last claim was staggeringly inaccurate, Prof Burnett quickly changed the subject.
"Another serious concern about this blogpost is that it's largely a description of why it's dangerous. It only exists to stop itself from being read, and the only way to discover this is to read it. Thus, this blog is something of a paradox. And extensive research has shown that exposure to a paradox can cause people's brains to overheat and shut down completely, literally 'blowing the mind'."
Further investigation revealed that by "extensive research", Lord Burnett meant an episode of Star Trek, which he argues still represents valid evidence.
"Star Trek takes place centuries in the future, so obviously they'd know more about science than we do at present. And can any of us be certain that our child isn't a bizarrely dressed android? You may be confident that they aren't, but is it really worth the risk?"
On the subject of research to support his claims about the danger of this blogpost, Admiral Burnett admitted that he has not yet published any peer-reviewed data that can be validated and assessed by fellow scientists, but he has spoken to several children about the matter.
"Specifically, I interviewed my six-month old son and his friends. I read them an early draft of this blogpost, and asked what they thought about it. Of the 15 children I spoke to, NOT ONE was able to give a comprehensible response! 10 just stared at me uncomprehendingly while dribbling, three burst into tears and two soiled themselves as I was talking. Clearly, the damage this blogpost inflicts on children is severe and very fast acting. What more evidence do you need?"
He also tried to speak to some male teenagers at a bus stop about their reactions to this blogpost, using the offer of sweets as an incentive. However, he reports that they called him a "batty boy" and threw rocks at him until he left, so were unsuitable for inclusion in his investigations.
Despite this, Emperor Burnett asserts that this blogpost is still a valid and real danger to children, irrespective of the absence of supporting data.
"The gathering of reliable evidence and proof would simply cause delays, in which time this blogpost could damage countless young minds. The danger must be real, as I'm a qualified neuroscientist and I'm saying it is in a mainstream media publication. How can you argue with that?
"Look, I'll say it again; this blogpost is dangerous for children. See? I said it again. I'm still saying it in this sentence. Actually, I could say anything is dangerous here and the same logic would apply, wouldn't it? … um … beetroot! Beetroot is dangerous for children. Doesn't matter how/why, it's written down now. Would a relevant hyperlink help? That's enough for some people."
Since contributing to this blogpost, Dr Burnett was asked for follow-up comments, but is no longer contactable by phone or email. However, he can be spoken to directly by arranging an appointment during scheduled visiting hours.
Dean Burnett doesn't usually talk in the third person, and as this post is just a spoof piece he can be easily contacted via Twitter, _USER_
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The Cairo Trilogy
The topic The Cairo Trilogy is discussed in the following articles:
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 - TITLE: Arabic literature
 SECTION: The novel
 ...of ways. He started with the social realism of his "quarters" novels, each one set in a different section (quarter) of the old city of Cairo, which culminated in the justly famous Cairo Trilogy (1956–57). He then turned to a more symbolic mode in his novels of the 1960s (with examples such as Al-Liṣṣ wa al-kilāb...


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The Dakehl (Carrier) peoples are from the Central Interior of British Columbia. The term 'Carrier' comes from a Sekani (Northern Interior, Finlay and Parsnip River drainages) name for the Dakelh people that has to do with the mourning processes of the Dakelh women in which they carried their deceased husbands ashes. The Sekani people were the first to come into contact with European explorers and so the name 'Carrier' became established with foreign European parties. Dakelh is the term used by the Carrier people to refer to both their language (of the Athabaskan family) and their people. Their traditional territory includes "the area along the Fraser River from north of Prince George to south of Quesnel, the Nechako Valley, the areas around Stuart Lake, Trembleur Lake, and Fraser Lake, and the region along the West Road and Blackwater Rivers, west to the Coast Range, including the Kluskus Lakes, Ootsa Lake and Cheslatta Lake. Prince George, Vanderhoof, Fort Saint James, Fraser Lake and Quesnel are all in Dakehl territory."1
Dakelh or Carrier artists in the University of Victoria's Art Collections include Lawrence J Rosso and Walter Joseph Jr.


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Research breakthrough promises night vision revolution
May 4, 2010
A team at University of Florida has developed a new thin film technology that can convert infrared light into visible light. In layman terms, we can stop eating carrots to improve our night vision because it might soon be applied cheaply to our eye glasses, car windshields, even our cell phones, and it could be here in a little as 18 months.
Current night vision devices use huge amounts of electricity (thousands of volts) and heavy glass lenses that create a vacuum in order to work.
Adapted from flat screen television technology, the new film works with no vacuum and uses energy-efficient, organic LEDs. This keeps weight down, with a full scale device potentially weighing as little as 10 grams being only a few microns thick.
It could take as little as 18 months to upscale the the device for practical applications and it may revolutionize night vision goggles and other military applications, not to mention have wide-ranging domestic applications such as eye-glasses and cars.
Researchers also want to expand the technology to measure heat. Such a phone could be used to detect fever, heat loss from homes could be pin-pointed to reduce energy consumption, or a "smart" windshield could make pedestrians easier to spot. With the cheaper technology the possibilities are endless.
The research from the University of Florida was outlined recently in the journal Advanced Materials.
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A Europe Made of Money
The Emergence of the European Monetary System
A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first is a transnational learning process involving a powerful, networked European monetary elite that shaped a habit of cooperation among technocrats. The second stresses the importance of the European Council, which held regular meetings between heads of government beginning in 1974, giving EEC legitimacy to monetary initiatives that had previously involved semisecret and bilateral negotiations. The interaction of these two features changed the EMS from a fairly trivial piece of administrative business to a tremendously important political agreement.
The inception of the EMS was greeted as one of the landmark achievements of regional cooperation, a major leap forward in the creation of a unified Europe. Yet Mourlon-Druol's account stresses that the EMS is much more than a success story of financial cooperation. The technical suggestions made by its architects reveal how state elites conceptualized the larger project of integration. And their monetary policy became a marker for the conception of European identity. The unveiling of the EMS, Mourlon-Druol concludes, represented the convergence of material interests and symbolic, identity-based concerns.


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- Oral presentation
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Computational model explaining two types of bursting found in inspiratory pacemakers.
© Toporikova and Butera; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
- Published: 20 July 2010
- Burst Duration
- Slow Inactivation
- Pacemaker Neuron
- Dendritic Compartment
The respiratory rhythm is generated within the network of inspiratory neurons in the pre-Bötzinger complex (pBC) and persists under highly variable neuronal input. The mechanism of pBC rhythm generation at the level of the network is an active area of debate and inquiry. A fraction of these inspiratory pBC neurons generate a stable bursting rhythm even when pharmacologically isolated from the network and likely contribute to the rhythm. Experiments indicate that the intrinsic bursting mechanism of these pacemaker neurons depends on either persistent sodium current or changes in intracellular Ca2+. Motivated by experimental evidence obtained from these subpopulations of bursting neurons, we developed a two-compartment mathematical model of a pBC pacemaker neuron with two independent bursting mechanisms. The model explains a number of contradictory experimental results and is able to generate a robust bursting rhythm over a large range of parameters, with a frequency adjusted by neuromodulators.
For the somatic compartment of our model, we used a previously developed model of pBC pacemaker neurons. In this model, action potentials are generated by a fast sodium current (I Na ) and a delayed rectifier potassium current (I K ), and the burst is terminated by slow inactivation of a persistent sodium current (I NaP ). The bursting in the dendritic compartment of our model follows the Ca2+ oscillations arising from periodic Ca2+ release from intracellular stores. Briefly, the activation of a Gq-protein cascade leads to an increase in the concentration of IP 3, which binds to its receptor on the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum and initiates Ca2+ influx into the cytosol. A calcium-activated nonspecific cation current (I CaN ) then depolarizes the cell membrane in response to the increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration. This depolarizing potential spreads to the soma and activates action potential-generating currents (I Na and I K ), thus initiating the burst. Finally, the action potential propagates to the dendrite, producing a dendritic burst of smaller amplitude.
The model predicts that in synaptically isolated cells, the bursting mechanism depends on neuromodulators, endogenously released within the pBC. The neuromodulatory tone can bias the neuron to a somatic (I NaP ) or dendritic (Ca2+ and I CaN ) mode of bursting, or a hybrid of the two. In the dendritic mode, the period of bursting is largely modulated by the IP 3 concentration, whereas in the somatic mode the burst duration is modulated by the persistent sodium current. This model displays changes in burst duration and period that are consistent with experimentally published pharmacological manipulations, such as the application of ion channel blockers (FFA and Riluzole) as well as neuromodulatory manipulations.
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd.


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Paper Chain Connections is a fun literacy activity for the holidays! Students make connections while reading, and they write their connections on slips of paper. They link their connections together to form a long paper chain that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree. Great for literacy centers! You can grab it from my TpT store absolutely free!
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When I type "product.name" or "product.id" into a cell, it's auto–formatted as a URL (different colour, underlined, hover shows it as an external link). But it's not a URL, it's plain text.
Similar text like "product.periodLength" isn't converted to a URL.
- How to set a Google Docs Spreadsheet cell format to bare text?
- How can I stop Google Sheets formatting a Forms response as a date?
I've tried setting the formatting to plain text and using a leading single quote ('), but it doesn't stop the text being formatted as a URL.


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President Nishimura Speaks at Harvard Conference on New Ways to Approach a New World
Jakarta, 21 January 2022: The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) participated in the annual event held by the Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP): 'Interdisciplinary Innovation - New Ways to Approach the World.'
Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura, President of ERIA presented on the 'Clean Energy Transition in the ASEAN Region', providing an overview of ERIA's most recent energy outlook on the East Asia region and highlighting the importance of fossil fuels to satisfy the economic development in this region while also applying ambitious target of renewable energy promotion.
President Nishimura also described the ASEAN Low Carbon Energy Transition Scenario, simulated by ERIA with the major policy lessons: 1) Energy-saving, electrification in end-use sectors, and low-carbon power supply utilising all technologies, would be core strategies for ASEAN decarbonisation, 2)Various kinds of 'low-carbon' technologies are also needed during the transition period, 3) Cost reduction and international cooperation are essential for affordability, and 4) ASEAN countries could utilise a cost optimisation scenario for considering unique transition pathways.
Finally, President Nishimura provided key messages on the ASEAN countries availability, accessibility, and affordability of energy supply, and how the carbon neutrality efforts of ASEAN member states might diversify their pathways. Technology development and international cooperation should be promoted to reduce the cost of de-carbonisation.
In the panel discussion, Professor Jun Arima, Senior Policy Fellow on Energy and Environment, drew attention to various challenges in tackling climate change such as the required pace of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from now until 2030, different prioritisation of the 17 SDGs across countries, low willingness to pay for additional mitigation costs and so forth. He also emphasised the role of education, giving a balanced perspective on the intertwined nature of energy security, climate change, and economic efficiency as well as different national circumstances.
The Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) is Harvard's premier organisation for facilitating cross-cultural dialogue with partner universities spanning eight Asian countries. Speakers at the annual conference have included: Anant Agarwal (Founder and CEO, edX), Wendy Kopp (Founder and CEO, Teach for All), and Tim Danks (Vice President, Huawei). This year's HCAP Harvard Conference took place on the week of January 16, 2022, with the goal of working towards a collaborative understanding of how disparate disciplines can be utilised together to approach a rapidly changing world.


The state of emergency medical care in the United States is pretty terrible, and it has been getting worse.
A report released by the American College of Emergency Physicians gave the United States an overall grade of D+. That's down from a C- in 2009. The researchers behind the report determine the grade by looking at five categories:
 1. Ease of access to emergency care
 2. The quality and safety of the emergency room
 3. Medical liability and insurance availability
 4. Overall public health
 5. Disaster preparedness
Here's how the United States ranked in each of the categories in 2009 compared to 2014:
emergency care gradeThe report also gives each state a grade. No state earned an A, and the highest grade for 2014 is B-. Wyoming is a disaster with the only failing grade in the country.
emergency care grade by state
Naming names, here's the top ten worst and best states.
ER care by stateSo why is the country's grade so abysmal? Here are some of the reasons from the report.
1. Widespread practice of "defensive medicine." Defensive medicine happens when doctors are extra cautious because of the potential liability and backlash of uninsured or underinsured patients — frequenters of emergency rooms. Emergency room doctors are also more likely to be sued for malpractice because of their fast-paced environment and the seriousness of the medical problems that patients come in with — treatment for more serious health problems is more likely to go wrong.
2. Not enough prescription drug monitoring. In 2011 there were 1.5 million emergency room visits due to prescription drug misuse. The report argues that emergency care providers need better access to patients' prescription drug histories, and prescription drugs (especially those that are typically misused) should be better regulated.
3. There aren't enough doctors trained to be emergency physicians. Based on the 2010 numbers, only about 4% of all practicing physicians are emergency physicians. This small number of physicians handles 28% of all acute care cases, 11% of all outpatient care cases, and two-thirds of uninsured patients.
4. There's not enough room for everyone. The CDC reported that the number of emergency departments has declined 11% from 1995 to 2010, while the number of people using emergency departments has been growing. Lack of funding and increasing demand means fewer doctors for more patients and longer waits.
Obamacare may not help
The report argues that the problem only going to get worse if no real changes are made. Emergency rooms are now giving the kind of care that used to be provided in physicians' offices, and the researchers think the Affordable Care Act will only worsen the trend.
"As more Americans become insured under the Affordable Care Act, many for the first time, emergency departments are likely to play a more pivotal role and to become more stressed," they state in the report. A recent study indicated that people with health insurance visit the ER more often, not less.
The researchers also suggest that the aging Baby Boom generation will end up in the ER more and more as they get sicker and older.
The researchers say that emergency medical care in the United States needs reformed liability laws, the development of more specialized emergency care services, more federal and state funding, and more emergency medical care education programs.
However, Forbes reported that the Affordable Care Act could expand insurance coverage to about half of the 60 million uninsured Americans. This increased coverage could take some of the financial burden off emergency care facilities, which are often uncompensated when uninsured patients are treated there. More insured patients would mean more money for emergency departments, which could be used to improve the state of emergency care.
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Violets in the Lawn
This article was published originally on 6/4/2008
Several species of violet (Viola species) are native to Iowa. Violets usually grow in colonies and can be found in a wide variety of habitats ranging from dry, rocky prairies to moist woodlands. Violets are low-growing, clump-forming plants. Most violet species have heart-shaped leaves. They typically bloom in spring (April to June). Flower colors include nearly white, yellow, blue, and purple. A few are bicolored. Each flower is composed of an upper pair of petals, two side petals, and one lower petal. The lower petal acts as a "landing pad" for pollinating insects. The fruit is a small capsule which splits into 3 parts at maturity. Violets have also adapted to landscape sites. They are common weeds in lawns, especially in shady areas. Violets are difficult to control in turfgrass areas. Probably the best way for a home gardener to control a small infestation of violets in the lawn is to dig them up. The most effective herbicide compound on wild violets is triclopyr. Triclopyr is the active ingredient in Ortho Weed-B-Gon Chickweed, Clover, and Oxalis Killer for Lawns and several other products. Apply broadleaf herbicides in early fall or spring when plants are in bloom. Multiple applications are usually needed to control wild violets.
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What follows is a diverse set of methods for explaining complex concepts to others. The methods detailed here are compiled and created entirely by Ashraf Al Shafaki.
Four Quadrants
One method of visual explanation is by using the 4 quadrants method. Two variables are used, one on the x-axis (horizontal axis) and the other on the y-axes (vertical exes).
The 2D (2-dimensional) plane is then divided into 4 quadrants. Each quadrant would include a case out of 4 cases that corresponds to the state of the variables.
Another way to think of it is as if there is a table that has 2 row and 2 columns that includes 4 elements inside it. The headings of the table are the x-axis and the left most column of the table represents the y-axis.
Clarity is an important thing. When concepts are clear in the mind, one can easily use such clear understanding of such concepts to think rapidly and deeply in a correct way to reach sound conclusions and to problem solve.
Sometimes two concepts are intertwined or superimposed in the minds of a student. This intertwining or superposition could result in improper gloomy thinking that could lead to deadlocks, blind allies or vicious circles in thinking which could cause confusion and frustration and do not lead to proper conclusions nor ability to problem solve.
The best way to solve this problem is by clearly separating those tow concepts through showing the differences between them. By becoming aware of the differences between the two concepts students start seeing them as two distinct things and stop confusing them for one another or superimposing them over each other. This greatly helps in understanding and thus greatly improves clear thinking and problem solving.
One good method for explaining is to outline the process. Not everything can be represented as a process, but things that can would benefit from being explained by conducting a careful trace for their underlying process. Explaining by revealing the process belongs to the time based or chronological explanation methods.
While explaining by relating the history of development of a concept or thing describes its chronological development along time, explaining by uncovering the process tackles things that keep repeating on and on again. The historic development of something happens only once, but a process keeps repeating once and again.
You can explain to a child what a beetle is by explaining the different phases in which the beetle goes in order to become a beetle starting by the time it was a small egg, then hatching and becoming a larva then a pupa and finally developing into a full grown beetle.
One method of explaining something is by enumerating and describing its component. For instance if you want to explain what a chair is you can say it is an object that consists of a flat surface supported by 4 legs.
If you want to explain what an elephant is you can say it is an animal that has large ears, a long trunk and a huge body.
By enumerating components of what you want to explain you make it easier for the mind to digest and comprehend. Composition is one of the relationships between concepts that helps the mind better grasp the concepts and be better able to use them in the thinking process.
Contrasting between two contrasting concepts is one of the most popular methods for explaining. It belongs to the relationship establishment explanation methods. It can be used only with concepts for which contrasting ones exist.
For example if you want to explain what black is you can clarify its meaning by contrasting it with white. Not only does this help those who already understand what white is understand that black is it's opposite but it also establishes a holistic view that combines black and its contrasting white concept together in a larger entity.
You can explain what a man is by contrasting him to a woman. Contrast establishes a sharper degree of understanding and makes concepts become crystal clear.
You can explain what hot is by contrasting it with cold and vice versa and so on.
One method for starting to explain something, particularly something that is commonly incorrectly perceived, is to start not by saying what this concept is but by saying what this concept is not.
For instance once can start explaining what mushroom is by saying that mushroom is not a plant or what a whale is by saying that a whale is not a fish. Excluding is mostly done by saying that the subject of explanation does not belong to this or that set. Breaking such a relationship helps the brain retract from any blind or incorrect allies it might be heading to.
Parallel Patterns
One amazing method for explaining a complex concept that makes that concept become crystal clear instantly to the human mind is by using parallel patterns. The explainer selects a one-dimensional pattern of something the explainee is familiar with and is already crystal clear to him. The pattern selected must be parallel to another pattern that includes the concept the explainee wants to explain. The slot for the concept under explanation is to be left blank and the explainee is asked to fill it out. The concept being explained will become crystal clear to the explainee using this method.
For instance, let's say the explainer wants to explain to the explainee what the letter "b" is. He draws 4 quadrants that contain the sequence "1, 2" then another quadrant that contains the parallel sequence "a,..." leaving its final slot blank. The explainee will be able to comprehend what the letter "b" is by visualizing the relationship it has with the elements around it. The explainee may be able to come up with the missing element in the empty slot, the concept being explained, or the explainer can spell it out for him and still this will greatly improve understanding of the concept.
The parallel patterns technique belongs to the relationship building methods of explanation.
Sometimes a concept is not very clear or seams to be something other than its reality. In such a case unrooting is an excellent explanation method. It helps dispel any myth in the minds of explainees.
A myth or unclear concept is often made so due to having an old root that has been covered for long. By exposing such a root the myth can easily be dispelled and the unclear concept can be greatly clarified.
One very effective and rapid explanation method that also deeply engraves concepts in the minds of explainees is by using visual explanation through diagrams. A visual representation of the concept being explained (within its context) is an effective explanation method that belongs to the explanation through relationship building set of explanation methods.
Sketch a diagram that represents the concept you are attempting to explain. Let that diagram represent the concept you are explaining and possibly draw the surrounding environment of that concept in order to establish context and give a fuller model that would in turn facilitated comprehension of that concept.
Let's say you are trying to explain what does a brother in law mean. You can draw a diagram representing two families with the son from one of the families marrying the daughter in the other family and pointing out the brother in law relationship between the brother of that son and his wife. A visual representation makes the comprehension process instant and more lasting.
Defining is often a compound method for explaining. A definition may use multiple methods of explanation at the same time. When defining something for instance one may use: dividing, features, function(s), belongs-to as well as other methods of explanation.
For instance let us define "chair". A chair can be defined as: "An object used for sitting on or standing on that usually has 4 legs and can be made from wood, plastic or metal." In this definition we used the belongs-to method by indicating that a chair is an object. We used the function method by indicating its function which is its being used in sitting on or standing on. We have also mentioned its components using the dividing method indicating that it has 4 legs. Finally we mentioned the material from which it is made "wood, plastic or metal" which belongs to the description method of explanation.
So as we see, defining is a compound way for explaining that combines more than one explanation method at the same time.
Representative Examples
While a computer would best 'understand' something if you define it and provide a solid rule for identifying that thing, the human brain on the other hand does not work best with such rigid rules and works much better by absorbing examples of the concept being explained then generalizing such examples to create a mental model of that concept which enables the human mind to identify such concept and rapidly perform mental processes involving such concept.
For instance let's say you want to explain to a very young child what a cat is. Instead of attempting to define a cat to that child, you just point out to a cat or a picture of a cat and tell the child that this is a cat. You later point out to another cat or picture of it and tell the child that this is also a cat. By providing several varying examples of a cat, the young child then creates a mental model for what a cat is. This mental model for instance might be that a cat is some living creature that moves on four legs, has a tail and is shorter than human beings.
The mental model created might need to be refined to exclude elements that do not belong to the concept being explained. For instance in the example of the cat, it might be a good idea later on to show the child say a dog and tell him that this is a dog not a cat. Up until that moment the child might point to a dog, upon seeing it for the first time, and say "cat" based on the previous mental model he has created. By identifying elements that do not belong to the concept being explained through giving examples of them (exclusion examples) the explainer could thus assist the exaplainee in creating a strong mental model of the concept being explained.
Finally, it is worth restating that when the human brain understands a concept through examples of such concept, the brain


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From: Francisco Gutierrez To: Teacher2Teacher Public Discussion Date: _PHONE_:09:59 Subject: Re: Importance of Orthocenter Has it ever occurred to you why we need to learn the orthocenter? Do you even know what an orthocenter is? Well in this paragraph I am going to answer your question. An orthocenter is the point where the three altitudes meet of a triangle, according to dictionary.com. This point can be either inside, outside, or even on the triangle itself. After doing some research online, I can tell you that the orthocenter is one of the more important points on a triangle of the four major centers. Euler was a mathematician who stated that the circumcenter, the orthocenter, centroid, and the center of the nine point circle are co-linear, unless the triangle is equilateral, according to Scieceray. The orthocenter will be outside the triangle if one of the angles is over 90 degrees.
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The Study of Urban Form in Canada
This paper examines contributions to the study of urban form in Canada by French and English researchers working in a variety of disciplines, especially architecture, planning, geography, and history. Instead of discussing contributions purely along traditional linguistic or disciplinary lines, the authors use a novel classification scheme to identify and categorize significant works according to their particular epistemological perspective, before describing noteworthy contributions of various academic disciplines by key authors and research themes. The most significant contributions to the study of urban form in Canada have come from two largely isolated camps: first, architects/planners, mostly from Québec, who examine form as a relatively independent system and work in the tradition of the so-called 'Italian school' of process typology; and secondly, predominantly anglophone urban and historical geographers who deal with built forms and urban morphogenesis as a product of external forces. Recent work suggests that the 'two solitudes' may be coming together.


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Detect human presence/absence with the Infrared Human Sensor featuring the RL78/G10 low pin count, compact, low power general-purpose microcontroller.
This Infrared Human Sensor reference design detects human presence/absence using an infrared sensor, and turns on/off a high brightness LED automatically. It can be applied to a wide range of applications including office lights and automatic doors.
The infrared LED sending signal is controlled by Renesas' RL78/G10 MCU's timer array unit (TAU01), and the receiving signal is controlled by the timer array unit (TAU00) and external interrupt terminal (INTP0). When a person is detected, the high brightness LED will light up. Once the person leaves the detection area after 10 seconds, the LED will go off and the system will enter an infrared receiving signal STOP mode. RL78/G10 offers the lowest current consumption in the industry and is ideal for human sensing.
The Infrared Human Sensor solution features the RL78/G10 10-pin LSSOP general purpose microcontroller. The sensor is inexpensive and provides energy savings. It is ideal for temporary lighting in entrances, porches, stairs, and bathrooms. For example, when people approach, the bulb lights up, when they leave, the bulb goes out automatically.
- Demo board includes the RL78/G10 MCU
- Infrared detection function includes an infrared signal emitting circuit and an infrared receiving detection circuit
- In infrared detection status, the system executes the infrared signal emitting task and the infrared receiving detection task at the same time
- If a human body is detected, LED lighting is turned on for 10s; when the LED is ON, infrared detection stops. After 10s, the LED goes out. The system continues to detect whether the human body comes close or not according to the interval time controlled by a watchdog timer interrupt
- The system uses a 40kHz infrared carrier wave signal, to reduce interference
- When the system is idle, it enters infrared detection status every 400ms
Disclaimer: THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY. RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES (collectively, "Renesas") DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY. Renesas provides evaluation platforms and design proposals to help our customers to develop products. However, factors beyond Renesas' control, including without limitation, component variations, temperature changes and PCB layout, could significantly affect the product performance. It is the user's responsibility to verify the actual circuit performance.


10 things the EU is doing to fight the coronavirus
May 18, 2020
1. Slowing the spread of the virus
To help limit the transmission of the virus in Europe and beyond, the EU has closed its external borders to non-essential travel, while ensuring essential goods keep moving across the EU through the introduction of green lanes. Additional resources are foreseen for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which provides rapid risk assessments and epidemiological updates on the outbreak.
2. Providing medical equipment
EU-countries have speedy access to the first ever RescEU stockpile of medical equipment, such as ventilators and protective masks, under the Civil Protection Mechanism. In addition, the EU has set up a huge international tender allowing member states to make joint purchases of equipment and drugs and is mobilising €3.08 billion in EU aid to purchase more tests and help medical staff care for patients. The EU has also organised an online fundraiser that aims to raise an initial €7.5 billion for vaccines, medicines and diagnostics to fight the coronavirus worldwide.
3. Promoting research
The EU's Horizon 2020 research programme is funding 18 research projects and 151 teams across Europe to help find a vaccine quickly against Covid-19. The aim is to improve diagnostics, preparedness, clinical management and treatment.
4. Boosting European solidarity
The European Parliament has backed new rules allowing member states to request financial assistance from the EU Solidarity Fund to cover health emergencies. With the newly broadened scope of the fund, up to €800 million will be made available for member states this year to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
5. Assuring the EU's recovery
To help the EU recover from the economic and social impact of the pandemic, the European Commission will come up with a fresh proposal for the EU's long-term budget for 2021-2027, which will include a stimulus package. MEPs called for a massive recovery and reconstruction package to be financed by an increased long-term budget for the EU, existing EU funds and financial instruments, as well as so-called recovery bonds. In addition, the Commission presented its post-lockdown roadmap for effective and coordinated exit strategy with large-scale testing and protective materials for people.
6. Supporting the economy
The EU is putting forward a €540 billion support package to tackle the crisis and support workers, businesses and member states. In addition, the European Central Bank is providing €750 billion to relieve government debt during the crisis, as well as €120 billion in quantitative easing and €20 billion in debt purchases. MEPs also voted in favour of making €37 billion from existing EU structural funds available to EU countries to tackle the coronavirus crisis and support healthcare, businesses and workers.
7. Protecting jobs
To ensure employees can keep their jobs when companies run out of work due to the coronavirus crisis, the Commission has proposed help for state-supported short time work (Sure). The European Commission has also unlocked €1 billion from the European Fund for Strategic Investments in guarantees to encourage banks and other lenders to provide up to €8 billion of liquidity in support to some 100,000 European businesses.
8. Repatriating EU citizens
Tens of thousands of Europeans stranded around the world by the outbreak have been returned home thanks to the EU Civil Protection mechanism.
9. Helping developing countries face the pandemic
The Commission has unlocked €20 billion to help non-EU countries fight the crisis as part of an EU package for a coordinated global response to tackle the spread of Covid-19.
10. Ensuring accurate information
The spread of disinformation about the coronavirus puts people's health at risk. MEPs have called for a European information source to ensure that everyone has access to accurate and verified information in their language and have asked social media companies to tackle disinformation and hate speech.
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How do you say "I had to bite my tongue" in Spanish?
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"tuve que morderme la lengua"
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All points are locations. The connections between the points have a specific weight. Not all connections are bidirectional (a dot marks a start travel point). When Calculate is pressed, all routes from the selected location are calculated. When a route is selected in the listbox, the shortest route is visually shown by coloring the start dots red.
In this example, the shortest route from 0 to 4 is going through location 2, 1 and then 4.
Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist who invented a fast and simple way to calculate the shortest path between two points. Many examples I have found on the Internet implement that algorithm but none of them have done it in an Object Oriented way. So I thought of making my own.
Information about Dijkstra can be found here.
Using the Code
The code contains two Project classes:
GUI: Shows the information visually
- To add locations, click on the 'Add Location' button and then click on the map where you want to add locations.
- To add routes, click on the 'Add Location' button to deactivate the add location, then click on a start location, then click on a end location. The weight of the route can be configured on top.
RouteEngine: Calculates the route
I will only go into details about the
RouteEngine. How the UI is handled is not so important for this article but if you need information about it, you can always ask.
Connection: This class holds the information about the connection between two dots. This is a one directional connection from A (the startpoint is visually shown with a dot) to B with a specific weight attached.
Location: Just a location (for example 1).
RouteEngine: This class will calculate all routes from one given
Route: This class holds the information about a route between two points (generated with the
The most simple class. It only holds a name to display.
This class contains two
Location objects and a
public Connection(Location a, Location b, int weight)
this._a = a;
this._b = b;
this._weight = weight;
This class contains a route. It has only a list of connections and the total weight. This class is generated by the route engine.
This is the class that drives the component. The algorithm is as follows:
- Set the
startPosition as active
- Set the total weight to all routes to infinite
- Iterate through all connections of the active position and store their weight if their weight is smaller than their current weight
- Set the active position as used
- Set the nearest point (on whatever location) that isn't used as active
- Repeat 3, 4, 5 until all positions are used
The following method will perform all these steps (and some extra checking and thinking). The
Dictionary returned is a list of destination locations and the corresponding route to each destination location.
Location _locationToProcess = null;
foreach (Location _location in _shortestLocations)
if (_shortestPaths[_location].Cost == int.MaxValue)
_locationToProcess = _location;
var _selectedConnections = from c in _connections
where c.A == _locationToProcess
foreach (Connection conn in _selectedConnections)
if (_shortestPaths[conn.B].Cost > conn.Weight + _shortestPaths[conn.A].Cost)
_shortestPaths[conn.B].Cost = conn.Weight + _shortestPaths[conn.A].Cost;
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When indexing a widow's card with minors, please clarify if the widow is indexed as the guardian even if the word guardian is not used. If I don't index it that way, the arbitrator usually changes it; if I do index it that way, the arbitrator usually changes it. The field helps are being rewritten to clarify this situation. The reason we would index the widow as a guardian is that on many cards this will be the only way a child will have a surname attached to them.
How do we index co-guardians for the minors listed on a Minors' Card? The project is now being updated
Press Tab to skip the guardian fields unless: The clearly indicated guardian is the guardian of a MINOR. ONE EXCEPTION: When neither the MINOR nor the SOLDIER has a surname listed on the card, index the WIDOW as the guardian of the MINORS (so that a surname can be associated with the indexed minors).
We should not extract information from the NED (No Extractable Data) side of the card and index the information as if it were on the front of the card. Remember: Each image is treated as a unique document and not linked to any other document. Some indexers have been pulling names, death dates, etc., from the NED side of what they assume is the back of the card they are indexing.
When a married woman remarries and her previous married surname and new married surname are clearly indicated, "or" is not used between the two surnames. The names are separated with a space. Example: For the surnames (was) Smith and (now) Jones, you would enter the surname as: Smith Jones.
Where are the instructions when the two documents do not match? Each image is treated as a unique document and not linked to any another document.
Regarding PartA/004694298[4] the first image for Calder, Philip C, Army Invalid, has a dates of commencement of 1907 and 1912. The second image for Calder, Rachel, Army widow says the name of the soldier was James and the date of commencement 1901. Treat each image as a seperate record.
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Italian dig uncovers "oldest" temple in Cyprus
NICOSIA (Reuters) - An Italian archaeologist says she has discovered what is believed to be the oldest site of religious worship in Cyprus, a temple which is about 4,000 years old.
The find at the Pyrgos-Mavroraki site close to the southern city of Limassol predates any other discoveries in Cyprus by about 1,000 years, Italian archaeologist Maria Rosaria Belgiorno said.
"This is the first evidence of religion in Cyprus at the beginning of the second millennium BC," she was quoted as telling the Cyprus Weekly newspaper from Rome.
The Cyprus Antiquities Department said further examination would be required before the find could be verified. "We cannot dismiss the claim but we cannot verify it either," Antiquities Department official Maria Hadjicosti told Reuters.
Belgiorno said she had found the outline of a triangular-shaped temple, comprised of two rooms, on the site. There was a sacrificial altar flanked by a channel on two sides.
"We found no statues, but there is evidence that it is a monotheistic temple," she said. It was probably destroyed in an earthquake and abandoned in 1800 BC.
In ancient religions, triangles typified spiritual gateways or embodied three separate deities.
In the past, the Pyrgos-Mavroraki site has also yielded finds ranging from an ancient perfumery to one of the earliest records of how olive oil was used to fire furnaces.
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