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- v. To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To expurgate in editing by expunging words or passages considered offensive or indelicate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
- v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- From Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published a censored version of Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." (Wiktionary)
- After Thomas Bowdler (_PHONE_), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"His actions did spawn the term "bowdlerize," which means to gut a work of literature."
"Who is anyone to expurgate or bowdlerize the word of God?"
"They take an idea, bowdlerize it, blow it up, make it infantile and spend $100 million to give people a brief escape from their boring and often demeaning lives at work."
"The above excerpt, "Hamlet," illustrates how such lingual poverty might bowdlerize the legacy of poetry."
"I asked the guy who would bowdlerize Larry Niven if given the chance this question: "If someone was writing the biography of your life, would you want it to have a sex scene?"
"Jane, please, please never let them bowdlerize you."
"It doesn't matter whether we bowdlerize the lyrics, the musical style has nothing familiar to them other than a major scale and it will not strike them as comfortable or familiar unless they are lapsed Luterans."
"I bowdlerize the comment, which concluded with a request that I spare him further examples of local superstition, a subject with which he was only too well acquainted."
"He Anglicized the name -- Yelyena into Ellaynah -- just as it had been his idea to reduce "Alleluia" to Allie and bowdlerize himself, Cohen from Warsaw, into Cone."
"She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school."
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Using SOAP with Java | Serialization and Deserialization
by Samudra Gupta
Using SOAP with Java -Part 2
Welcome back to part two of the series. Hope you had a nice coding time and had no major problem in deploying your first SOAP application. If you had one, it is most likely a classpath related problem and you yourself could solve it. One of the easiest ways of solving these problems is to explicitly specify the required.jar files to the java runtime.
Anyway, it is time to explore SOAP in a greater detail; after all life is not always as simple as passing String data-types to the SOAP services. Often the world is much more complex with applications exchanging user-defined data-types. The major issue in handling these complex data-types in the SOAP context is to define a Serialization and Deserialization mechanism for them. The Apache SOAP API defines and implements a couple of default Serializers/Deserializers for primitive data types and Java Beans and it is also possible to create our own custom Serializers and Deserializers. In this installment, we will discuss issues related with the Serialization and Deserialization and will develop a Java Bean based SOAP application. Before we venture to do that, we need to understand the Serialization mechanism behind the SOAP implementations.
Serialization/Deserialization protocol in SOAP
First let us define the term Serialization and Deserialization in SOAP context. Serialization is a process of converting objects to the XML instance and Deserialization is the process of constructing objects out of the XML instance. In the context of a SOAP Remote Procedure Call, which we are developing throughout this series, there are two types of data exchange taking place.
 - The parameters to the SOAP Remote method.
 - The response from the SOAP remote service.
The exchange of data usually takes place using a methodology for transforming object graphs to XML, named as Section 5 encoding. All major SOAP implementations available today use this encoding scheme internally. Consider the following complex data type:
class Person
 String name;
 nt age;
and also consider a SOAP remote service accepting a Person data-type as a parameter:
class Aservice
 public String acceptPerson(Person p)
 //do something here
 return "a string";
If we invoke this remote method named acceptPerson as a part of the remote service Aservice, then the corresponsing SOAP representation of the RPC will look like:

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The above SOAP XML instance is a representation of a RPC call that dispatches the method call acceptPerson with a Person object as a parameter. The elements serviceParam, name, age are called accessors and they are the container of the values. The xsi:type attributes define the exact data-types of the elements. The SOAP provider and the client normally agree in advance on the data-types of parameters of each RPC but this exact specification becomes useful in a case where the service uses a generalised data-type which can potentially represent two or more data-types. Consider a case that a method accepts a java.lang.Object as a parameter. The Object might be an Integer or a String or anything else. In this case, the xsd:type attribute will strictly indicate the data-type to be used. The accessors with explicit xsd:type attribute are known as polymorphic accessors. The Apache SOAP serialization mechanism uses polymorphic accessors.
Simple data-types in SOAP
The Apache SOAP implementation supports most of the simple data-types except char. But it is a trivial task to implement a Serializer for the same. The list of the all supported simple types can be found within the Apache SOAP API documentation but for a handy note, the following table illustrates a few of them.
Data type SOAP type Serializer/Deserializer
String xsd:string StringSerializer
Integer xsd: int IntObjectSerializer
int xsd:int IntSerializer
---xxx--- --xxx--- ---xxxx-----
QName xsd:Qname QNameSerializer
If you have been tempted to overlook the table, you might have missed one or two important points. First of all, it is worth noticing that the primitive types and their wrapper(s) both are handled with a separate Serializer class but they are represented as the same data-type in the SOAP XML instance. Second, there is a rather curious data-type QName. This is a data-type designed to represent the user-defined compound data-types.
Compound types
A compound data-type is a type with constituent elements, which are either pure objects with one or more properties or a data structure. The Apache SOAP implementation supports the following Java based compound types:
Data type SOAP type Serializer/Deserializer
Array SOAP-ENC: Array ArraySerializer
Vector, Enumeration {_URL_ VectorSerializer
Hashtable {_URL_ HashtableSerializer
Map {_URL_ MapSerializer
Java Bean User-defined Qname BeanSerializer
As you can see from the above table that arbitrary Java bean classes which are compound data-types can be serialized with a BeanSerializer provided by the Apache SOAP, but to do that the compound data-type that you are using must follow the java bean specification which we will discuss in the relevant section.


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 - § 201. Definitions
 The word "child," as used in this subchapter, shall mean a child who is under the age of 18 years, or is under the age of 21 years and is a student regularly attending a school, college or university or their equivalent, or is regularly attending a course of vocational or technical training designed to fit him for gainful employment, and shall include a "stepchild" under such age. The words "adult child," as so used, shall mean a child over the age of minority. (Amended 1971, No. 98, § 1, eff. April 22, 1971.)


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If two fair dice are rolled, find the probability of a sum of 6 given that the roll is a "double".
How do I do this?
let A be "sum of 6" and B be "double"
What you have is P(A│B), read as
the probability of A given B
which is defined as P(A AND B)/P(B)
Prob(A AND B) = Prob(sum of 6 AND a double) = 1/36
Prob(B) = 6/36 = 1/6
so Prob(sum of 6 AND a double) = (1/36)÷(1/6)
= (1/36)(6/1) = 1/6

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Patan (Sanskrit: पाटन Pātan, Nepal Bhasa: यल Yala), officially Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City, is one of the major cities of Nepal located in the south-central part of Kathmandu Valley.
The city was initially designed in the shape of the Buddhist Dharma-Chakra (Wheel of Righteousness). The four thurs or mounds on the perimeter of Patan are ascribed around, one at each corner of its cardinal points, which are popularly known as Asoka Stupas. Legend has it that Emperor Asoka (the legendary King of India) visited with his daughter Charumati to Kathmandu in 250 B.C. and erected five Asoka Stupas, four in the surrounding and one at the middle of the Patan. The size and shape of these stupas seem to breathe their antiquity in a real sense. There are more than 1,200 Buddhist monuments of various shapes and sizes scattered in and around the city.
The most important monument of the city is Patan Durbar Square, which has been listed by UNESCO as one of seven Monument Zones that make up the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site

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Why study media law? _TAG_
More than 200 new media law students embark on our seven week summer intensive course next week, so I thought it timely to reflect upon what might be gained from studying media law.
About two thirds will be attending classes in person, while the balance will be undertaking the course online. The cohort is almost evenly divided between journalism, law and communication students, with a few others taking it as an elective.
Here are 10 key benefits of media law study:
 1. Identifying and assessing risks in publishing is the new digital literacy. Traditionally only journalists and some lawyers really needed to know about media law, but now every citizen must know the risks of publishing because we are all now publishers as we post to social media, send emails and release our blogs, videos, films, games, software and images.
 2. Many areas of the law coalesce in 'media law', making it an excellent introduction to the legal system for journalists and public relations practitioners and a fertile field of revision and practice for law students.
 3. Media law presents a wonderful opportunity to explore the many competing rights and interests in society as the rights to free expression, information, and a free media compete with other important rights including reputation, a fair trial, privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property and national security, along with the right to be free from discrimination in all its forms.
 4. It affords us a superb showcase of the role of the news media in the varied political systems internationally as governments select different points where free expression should be curtailed. You learn that free expression is a continuum, with fewer restrictions in some nations and alarming censorship in others. International students get to compare Australia's media laws with those in their home countries.
 5. Just as truth might be shackled by some governments and individuals, media law offers insights into so-called 'fake news' and 'false news' by demonstrating how fair and accurate reporting and publications can earn special protections and how ethical research and reporting can be rewarded by the courts.
 6. Media law cases are often fascinating portrayals of human foibles, egos and temptations and sometimes have elements of the Shakespearean tragedy where good reporting exposes the abuse of power.
 7. The laws and examples encourage the exercise of mindfulness in communication practice. A few moments spent reflecting upon risk and harm before publication might save you many dollars in fines or damages and perhaps even time in jail. Also, many a media law case could have been avoided by a simple utterance of the word 'sorry' and a heart-felt offer of amends (both on legal advice!).
 8. Problem-based media law learning offers a vivid insight into how a prickly legal situation might arise, and helps you navigate a course of action after assessing the legal risks. Robust and truthful journalism can still be produced within the bounds of the law, in some countries at least.
 9. Media law cases and reforms are in the news on a regular basis, adding relevance and topicality to your studies as you watch cases involving real people contested in the courts and covered in the news media.
 10. Finally, you learn that all laws can be improved, so you engage with the continuous process of media law reform. You learn about the reform process, access historical reform recommendations in your research, and have the opportunity to recommend your own reforms in areas of your interest. You are even encouraged to make submissions to current law reform commission and parliamentary inquiries.
© Mark Pearson 2018
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When Your Ex Is In Contempt Of Court
28 January 2020
 Categories: Law, Blog
A divorce, especially those that involve minor children, is made up of a series of orders. A failure to abide by any of those orders can result in serious consequences for the party and one of those is being charged with contempt of court. To find out more about this offense and what it might mean, read on.
What Is Contempt?
When a party blatantly disregards the court's wishes, they may be charged with contempt of court. While many are familiar with this issue in regard to courtroom behavior, a failure to obey the judge's orders may also result in contempt. With divorce, numerous opportunities exist for contempt of court issues to arise.
Contempt in Divorce Cases
When an order is issued, it has to be followed and orders involving minor children abound within a divorce. Take a look at just some of the following examples of orders that might result in contempt of court if not followed:
 - One party is failing to return the child according to the visitation schedule or one party is refusing visitation to the other.
 - Child support is not being paid as ordered.
 - One party is allowing the child contact with unsafe parties or situations.
 - One party is failing to provide medical care for the child.
Proving Contempt of Court
Minor mistakes and disagreements may not fall under the seriousness of the contempt of court category. To meet the legal standards, the acts of the party must be willful and deliberate. You have to prove that your ex had full knowledge of the order and its specifics and that they deliberately disobeyed the order anyway. An occasional late pick-up or other issue should be dealt with between the parties and only brought before the judge when it appears the other parent is repeatedly disobeying the order.
Punishment for Divorce Contempt
If the ex is judged to be in contempt, the consequences can vary depending on the level of the offense and the impact of the act on the health and well-being of the child. Contempt in a criminal proceeding can bring jail time, but that seldom happens in a civil matter like divorce. In most cases, the offending party is officially admonished and warned to correct the behavior. If matters are not resolved in that manner, a change in custody or visitation may be ordered.
If your ex is failing to abide by orders, speak to your divorce lawyer at once.


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2D games using Silverlight - Collision detection implementation
This article shows how to implement collision detection in a Microsoft Silverlight game application. This is the second article in a series which will show how to create a complete working game (a clone of the classic Arkanoid game).
The first article in this series 2D games using Silverlight - implementing the game loop introduced the possibility of writing 2D games using Silverlight, an approach that has benefits when targeting all of the platforms: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 and Internet browsers. The original article covered the creation of the game skeleton for a simple Arkanoid clone called JailBreaker, and included the games loop and the game controllable loop.
This article extends the game skeleton by adding collision detection.
Collision detection implementation strategy
There are numerous strategies and algorithms for collision detection: broad detection phase, narrow detection phase, how to use dot production to estimate distance, etc. However it does not make sense to re-invent the wheel: for more complicated games there are open source physics engines, and for simple games like this there are often platform APIs that can be used to help with collision detection. For this example we use the collision detection functionality built into the platform, along with a good understanding of the simple collision detection required for this game.
Considering the game environment:
- There are few components with complex non-predictable movement - essentially just the club and ball. All other elements either stand still or fall in predictable manner - they do not collide. As a result we only need to consider a single object, the ball, for determining whether a collision has occurred.
- We only need to consider collisions in three directions along the active object movement: forward, forward diagonal up, forward diagonal down. This limitation allows us to minimize number of tests required
Collision detection in the platform:
- There is a helper class VisualTreeHelper in the platform that allows hit test on the component tree (all visible components in Silverlight application form a component tree hierarchy)
- There is a support for object animation based on StoryBoard that is suitable for steady moving objects
- the game movement is based on screen refresh rate, which is not constant across devices. To make object speed the same on different devices/conditions we need to measure the refresh rate before calculation the object next position
- During object movement, the object perception will be conducted on the next the object position because we are going to make the calculations in a hook to the screen refresh loop.
New module in the project PhysicalBody
The new class PhysicalBody is attached to a UI element statically created in XAML. It handles the element:
- position update
- object collision assessment
- checking the class container extends to keep the element position inside the container
Also it accepts gameOver and hitScores() method delegates from the class container
The position update is a simple increment of the current position based on the current body speed. Note that the body speed defines the body direction according to the coordinate system: positive value is from left to right by X axis, and from top to bottom in Y axis and negative value is in the opposite direction.
Object collision assessment
This is the crucial part of the article. The collision detection is implemented in one function and follows the strategy we have declared above in the preceding sections.
Let us examine the code:
private void assessCollision()
// get bounding box and offset the box in movement direction on one step
Canvas canvas = (Canvas)body.Parent;
// (1) for converting screen-to-control coordinates
var transform = canvas.TransformToVisual(Application.Current.RootVisual); // for converting screen-to-control coordinates
var origin = transform.Transform(new Point(Canvas.GetLeft(body) + velocityX, Canvas.GetTop(body) + velocityY));
var boundingBox = new Rect(origin, new Size(body.ActualWidth, body.ActualHeight));
// (2) check whether there are element exist on the body's way
// in three directions : forward, forward-diagonal-up and forward-diagonal-down
// (3) use VisualTreeHelper helper class to walk through elements hierarchy tree
// (4) filter out all objects except Shapes
if (isCollided(VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates(new Point(boundingBox.Right, boundingBox.Bottom), (Canvas)body.Parent)) ||
isCollided(VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates(new Point(boundingBox.Right, boundingBox.Y), (Canvas)body.Parent)) ||
isCollided(VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates(new Point(boundingBox.X, boundingBox.Bottom), (Canvas)body.Parent)))
for more details please check the source code
Given approach shows how easy to implement collision detection in Silverlight game project if use only the platform means. Working example is available in source code that can be build and run on Windows Phone 7.X device. Also since Windows platform does not allow side-loading installation binaries, just for reference the same code has been deployed to a web site and can run embedded into a browser.


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Practical resources for you to use
The "Students as Change Agents" booklet outlines the sequence of steps – or the processes – that the University of Exeter went through in order to bring the project to fruition. These steps relate to the particular model that they used, with volunteer students undertaking a number of small-scale research projects on learning and teaching, supported by an employed graduate to act as a co-ordinator and guide;and with analysis of this research then leading to dissemination activity and a series of recommendations and solutions from the students involved.
Here we feature the resources Exeter produced to support their project (see page 12 of the booklet). They may be copied or adapted in any way that the user considers appropriate.
We also have some additional activities for you to use within your department or with students.
- Card sort
The purpose of this activity is to enable pairs or small groups to discuss their beliefs and views about the role of students in institutional change, to support participants in clarifying their thinking in this area and to understand where there may be differences of opinion. The activity can be used with staff or with students, or with mixed groups.
- The podcast dilemma
Some thought-provoking questions for you to discuss if you are thinking about using podcasts with your students
- Fishbone analysis
This is can be used as a first stage planning activity for groups/individuals thinking about instigating change in their organisation.


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The Physical Education (PE) department is passionate and dedicated to our provision for Early Years children and feel that your child's experiences in their PE lessons build the foundations for happy, healthy and active lives. We deliver a programme which has been carefully considered for our Alice Smith students using Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS).
Your child will experience three PE lessons each week, one of which will be swimming. Our PE team carefully plans lessons each week designed around the three areas of the Fundamental Movement Skills: locomotion, stability and manipulation. At the core of our philosophy is the creation of engaging, fun and active lessons that support learning.
These lessons are taken with our specialist team of PE teachers who are highly experienced in designing lessons that engage our students at the same time supporting their physical development and learning.
Here is a great Instagram video here showing the children in action as they develop their locomotive skills.
What are locomotor skills?
Locomotor skills allow children to move through different environments, moving their body from one place to another. The locomotor skills that we use at Alice Smith currently are running, jumping, rolling and our own skills of stepping, climbing and crawling.
In a nutshell, locomotor skills are the ways in which we move! It's essential that children get plenty of practice with their locomotor skills because they're the building blocks of moving with confidence and competence.
Locomotor skills support the development of physical literacy which is the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life.
(Source: Whitehead, 2016)
Watch Alice and Smith work on their locomotor skills in PE Lessons!
Alice & Smith will be trying out more of these activities over the coming weeks so make sure you follow our Early Years Instagram Feed _USER_ and subscribe to our YouTube channel to follow their adventures!
Do you want to know more?Click here to download our FREE eBook for:
- Activities for you and your child to do
- Ideas for play at home using simple everyday items
- Insights from our experts on how the activities are preparing your child for future success
- Information about how our play based approach at Alice Smith works
About Early Years
Our highly skilled and knowledgeable staff provide a challenging, rigorous and engaging curriculum to inspire our youngest students in Early Years. This is supported by teaching which is heavily influenced by a number of recognised approaches as to how children best learn at this age including Reggio Emilia, Anna Ephgrave, Maria Montessori and Alistair Bryce-Clegg.
Environments are carefully planned and created in order to provoke learning, interest, creativity and thought.
Each child is viewed as infinitely capable and intelligent. Our teachers provide support and challenge as our children learn through play. This creates a highly personalised and tailored environment, which is appropriately challenging for each individual child. Our aim is to ensure high levels of emotional wellbeing and involvement. This is characterised by children who are confident, comfortable, curious and eager to experiment and explore. The role of the environment as well as the teacher are continually assessed to ensure we offer a deep and challenging learning experience for all.


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Regulation in the environmental context has, until recently, been guided by risk reduction - strategies that require risk-producers to prevent, limit, or clean up contaminants. However, it has increasingly come to rely on "risk avoidance" - strategies that call upon risk-bearers to alter their practices and ways of living so as to avoid exposure to contaminants left unabated. For example, women and children might be asked to eliminate fish from their diets to avoid the risks of methylmercury contamination; asthmatics might be advised to refrain from going outside on "ozone alert" days to avoid the risks of ground-level ozone pollution; and parents may be instructed to keep their children from making mud pies to avoid the risks of lead and other heavy metal contamination. However, there has not yet been a systematic effort to consider and justify a move to risk avoidance. This article undertakes this task, exploring the promise and perils of risk avoidance as a regulatory tool. Among other things, risk avoidance strategies promise cost savings and enhance autonomy. But risk avoidance is also perilous. Risk avoidance strategies are notoriously ineffective; they offer diminishing and, ultimately, finite options for managing environmental risks; they may introduce risks; and they are often unjust. In view of these and other arguments, the article concludes that, on balance, risk avoidance will be inappropriate in most instances. Finally, the article suggests that, in order to evaluate a move to risk avoidance, we need a mode of analysis that enables us to consider whether a risk - with its attendant means of avoidance - is morally, culturally, and socially acceptable.
No Mud Pies: Risk Avoidance as Risk Regulation, 31 VT. L. REV. 273


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Hydraulic head distribution in the Plover aquifer system, Vulcan sub-basin
Petroleum hydrogeology reveals oil leakage from traps
CSIRO's team of hydrogeologists have developed techniques to help solve problems in Australia's oil industry and identify safe storage options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
30 November 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011
In the field of hydrogeology, most scientists work on shallow water resources, groundwater contamination and soil salinity problems.
CSIRO has developed a team of hydrogeologists that have adapted special techniques for understanding hydrodynamic processes of the deep subsurface where oil and gas is generated and trapped and where CO2 can be safely stored for thousands of years.
This unique application of expertise helps geologists and engineers to understand why some hydrocarbon traps have leaked their oil while others have retained oil fields for millions of years.
When an oil company starts producing oil and gas from a deep reservoir, only a portion of the oil can be extracted, leaving the remainder in the pore space of the rocks.
CSIRO petroleum hydrogeologists study new ways that we can improve the percentage of oil that can be extracted from a reservoir.
CSIRO uses this knowledge to provide services to the oil and gas industry to help understand:
CSIRO has a team of hydrogeologists who have developed enabling technologies for understanding hydrodynamic processes of the deep subsurface.
oil migration and trapping
compartmentalisation of hydrocarbon deposits on production
the effects of aquifer pressure depletion
to evaluate geological sequestration of CO2.
Improvement in oil recovery could greatly reduce the need to find new hydrocarbon fields.
By understanding geological conditions that have retained hydrocarbons for millions of years we can then identify deep geological structures that are capable to safely store CO2 for long periods of time.
Deep underground storage of CO2 in abandoned oil fields not only provides an alternative to atmospheric emission, but also provides and opportunity to increase oil production.
Learn more about CSIRO's work in Energy from Oil & Gas.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make easy; render less difficult; free wholly or partially from difficulty or impediment; lessen the labor of: as, to facilitate learning by suitable appliances.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of.
- v. make easier
- v. increase the likelihood of (a response)
- v. be of use
- French faciliter, from Old French, from Italian facilitare, from facile, facile, from Latin facilis; see facile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things."
"Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen."
"Calliflower Premium is designed to help business users of Web conference-calling facilitate active participation in calls, share agendas and documents, coordinate participants'schedules, capture and share information discussed during conferences, and manage agreements, action items and follow-ups to keep projects moving."
"At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information."
"Ambassador Margaret Scobey that the shift was made to "facilitate" better relations with Egypt's government."
"Graham, who represents several neighborhoods with high concentrations of Hispanic residents, said the legislation would "facilitate" the granting of drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants."
"Beijing was particularly irked by her offer to have Washington "facilitate" such initiatives."
"RBS, which under law is required to give its consent to make details of the investigation public, said Wednesday that it will "facilitate" the publication, "subject to any necessary commercial constraints."
"There were "serious failings" by the prison authorities which did "facilitate" Wright's death, he said, but they were result of "negligence" and were not intentional."
"According to the White House press office, Jared Bernstein, chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, will "facilitate" the town hall, posing selected questions to the president and even teeing up video queries."
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The empirical role of social capital on urban transformation: A case study of Istanbul
Free (open access)
Volume 10 (2015), Issue 3
281 - 300
Ö. ÖZÇEVIK & P. TAN
The purpose of this study is to test the validity of the social capital knowledge that belongs to the local business community as an instrument for the formation of the initial strategies of urban transformation and to test the effect of independent variables in the formation of such social capital. This study takes as its point of departure the recently increasing interest in the role of social capital in planning and development, and the need for access to embedded knowledge in the sites of urban transformation. The lack of field data makes managing implementations of urban transformation difficult, and these implementations are not supported by appropriate policies. It is important to study this issue in İstanbul, which is going through the process of urban transformation and harbors a variety of resources for social capital due to its unique conditions. The hypothesis of this study, which aims to contribute to research being conducted in the field, is that the levels of security, belonging, awareness, and expectations inherent in social capital can change according to the profile of the small business community and according to the characteristics of the physical capital in sites of urban transformation. In this study, conducted in 2012, data from the neighborhood of Çeliktepe were collected using 'mixed methods social research.'
Social capital, local networks, small businesses, urban transformation, mixed methods social research.


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The Role Of DRAM In Storage
Don't discount DRAM. Thanks to increased server capacities and sophisticated caching technologies, DRAM can serve as a tier in the storage infrastructure.
DRAM is faster and more durable than flash-based storage. But DRAM also has a tendency to lose data when it loses power, and it is more expensive than flash. This has made flash the "go-to" high-performance storage option, with DRAM storage options often shelved in favor of flash. But does DRAM still have a role in the storage infrastructure?
The fact is, data center professionals still have a keen interest in DRAM, and their interest is on the rise. The 2011 Storage Switzerland article The Advantages of DRAM-Based SSD has more daily readers now than it did when it first appeared. What's driving the increased interest in DRAM as a storage solution?
First, an increasing number of servers can support much higher RAM capacities than they did a few years ago. Even mid-range server hardware is typically able to hold more than 1TB of DRAM, and while that 1TB might cost 3 to 5 times more than flash storage, its performance capabilities are very attractive. Also, this storage area is directly accessible via the CPU slot, so there's no storage protocol interconnect to worry about -- in other words, the lowest possible latency.
Second, there are several solutions to volatility and cost challenges that a DRAM-based storage solution presents.
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Volatility can be addressed by making sure your servers don't lose power. Battery backup is a common solution for most mission-critical servers. If that's not enough, volatility can be overcome by implementing a capacitor in conjunction with DRAM, as discussed in this article. In these cases, if power fails the capacitor charges the DRAM long enough for it to dump its contents to flash memory on the same DRAM circuit.
Of course, neither of these solutions will protect you from a hardware lockup. The power-saving circuitry is not likely to kick in because there is still power to the server -- you just can't use it. If DRAM is being used to store writes, data could be lost. Thanks to virtualization, the risk is likely isolated to a single VM -- but some risk remains.
The issue of cost can be overcome by using DRAM space efficiently for a cache or a tier within a caching architecture. A number of companies are already leveraging flash in this way. As discussed in this recent study, companies that add duplication or compression technologies can minimize the cost disadvantage of DRAM. Additionally, deduplication should work even better in DRAM than on flash since the redundancy check occurs at memory speeds. It should also have greater value since the cost of DRAM is higher.
These caching methods also help minimize data exposure caused by DRAM's volatility. If designed correctly, they should be able to flush the cache even if an individual VM locks up.
Therefore, DRAM's role going forward is probably as a tier within a caching technology, where writes are sent to the DRAM area and coalesced prior to being written to the flash area. This will increase application response time and increase flash life expectancy. In fact, most SSDs use a small amount of DRAM as a buffer area anyway. As discussed in this article, vendors are going to great lengths to ensure that data is correctly written and protected.
DRAM is not dead. Thanks to the memory capacity of modern servers and the intelligence of next-generation caching solutions, DRAM has a significant role to play in the storage infrastructure. It is a role we expect to see expanding over the next few years.
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One of the most compelling questions in the field of pidgins and creoles consists in identifying the linguistic sources and cognitive forces that shape a given creole: why does a particular creole look and sound the way it does? Where do its linguistic properties come from? What are the original populations and languages that contributed to its genesis? The
investigation of such questions hopes to shed light on how the mind pulls together linguistic materials from distinct sources to form a creole, and to reveal the nature of the cognitive processes involved in creole formation. Recent developments in language contact studies
combined with the findings in other disciplines like developmental psychology are contributing to a better understanding of how creole languages emerge and develop.
Topics in this course will include:
- socio-historical contexts of creole genesis and how a distinct
history of population contact results in distinct structural outcomes;
- examination of the morpho-syntactic properties of a set of creole languages;
- findings in experimental psychology regarding language learning and development;
- identification of the cognitive
processes (L1 and L2 acquisition) that contributed to the emergence of specific features. On this issue, we focus particularly on the process of convergence in creole formation and demonstrate how such a hypothesis can be experimentally tested.


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Modern and medieval drama have more differences than similarities. Drama has evolved and expanded and is now much more complex than its medieval roots. The whole purpose of acting, drama, theater and entertainment has shifted significantly. Drama has become more advanced and versatile.
During the Middle Ages, plays were primarily religious in content. Passion plays, mystery plays, miracle plays and morality plays all depicted stories and themes from Christianity and, primarily, the Bible. Clergymen wrote plays, sometimes in Latin, with the intention of the plays being performed as part of religious instruction methods or religious celebrations. Humor crept into plays over time. Modern drama has a diversity of themes and explores genres, cultures, experiences and issues.
Religious plays of medieval times had informative, realistic and melodramatic acting styles. Characters were stereotypically depicted in an informative storytelling fashion. Today, drama is primarily realistic in style but also symbolic, ritualistic and even abstract. Experimentation with style and presentation is standard in modern drama.
Actors in the Middle Ages were primarily male with the exception of some female actors permitted in France. Actors were poor and considered at the bottom end of society. Today, actresses fill countless roles and are some of the richest and most idolized members of society. Switching up gender and gender roles is part of the experimental process of modern theater and does affect the tension created in a dramatic piece.
Religious plays of medieval times were originally mounted in churches. As the plays' set designs expanded, the church buildings became too restrictive and the performers took their drama to the streets. Acting troops formed and toured their plays in wagons. The influence of street performers, like traveling musicians and circus performers, became integrated into the religious plays. Today, some traveling acting troops still exist, but most performances are either housed in theaters or captured on film and available on the television and Internet.
During the Middle Ages, passion, mystery, miracle and morality plays could hardly be called entertaining, because they began as vehicles to teach religion rather than amuse the masses. But as spectacle, humor and sensationalism became part of these religious plays, audiences responded with awe, laughter and approval. Today, drama has more subtle, intellectual and intricate forms. Technology still provides sensationalism, but sophistication has become part of dramatic entertainment.
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Aims: To summarize literature data about the role of psychosocial factors in the etiology of bruxism. Methods: A systematic search in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Database was performed to identify all peer-reviewed papers in the English literature dealing with the bruxism-psychosocial factors relationship. All studies assessing the psychosocial traits of bruxers (by using questionnaires, interviews, and instrumental and laboratory exams) and reviews discussing the contribution of those factors to the etiology of bruxism were included in this review. Results: A total of 45 relevant papers (including eight reviews) were retrieved with a search strategy combining the term "bruxism" with the words stress, anxiety, depression, psychosocial and psychological factors. The majority of data about the association between psychosocial disorders and bruxism came from studies adopting a clinical and/or self-report diagnosis of bruxism. These studies showed some association of bruxism with anxiety, stress sensitivity, depression and other personological characteristics, apparently in contrast with sleep laboratory investigations. A plausible hypothesis is that clinical studies are more suitable to detect awake bruxism (clenching type), while polysomnographic studies focused only on sleep bruxism (grinding type). Conclusion: Wake clenching seems to be associated with psychosocial factors and a number of psychopathological symptoms, while there is no evidence to relate sleep bruxism with psychosocial disorders. Future research should be directed toward the achievement of a better distinction between the two forms of bruxism in order to facilitate the design of experimental studies on this topic. J OROFAC PAIN 2009;23:153–166.
Key words: anxiety, bruxism, depression, etiology, psychosocial factors, stress


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State can be a tricky thing in every system specially when's manipulated in different places, causes some side-effects, … On mobile apps, it can be especially challenging when we have highly dynamic user interfaces driven by some state(s) and a great example of that are forms where is frequent to see some collapsable rows or entire sections being inserted, removed or even both. Manually managing all of that can be quite complex and most of the times ends up not being sufficiently generic to be reused by every form which increases the effort of not only developing but also maintaining each form within an app. And if that was not enough, there's also the question of reading and understanding precisely the structure of a single form which most of the times are imperative and composed by many components, e.g. delegates, data sources,..., making it even more hard to maintain and modify. FormsKit born as a need to manage a reasonable number of forms in a declarative and composable way through a descriptive state.
FormsKit follows a React-based approach to render and manage a form through a virtual representation which is completely driven by any change in a single core state. This enables deriving an interface for a very specific state instead of patching it manually which requires knowledge of the current state of the form, which can actually be many combinations, to then determine the correspondent transition to reflect the new state. FRP plays an essential role as the base to track any change in the core state and consequently triggering a new form's representation plus notify those changes as a stream of values.
Despite the focus in FormsKit framework, the main goal is to demonstrate how we should change our way of thinking to derive interfaces, and even other states, through a single state instead of doing the other way around, avoiding manual and localised changes which are not easy to understand, maintain and finally test.
About speakerDavid has been working in iOS apps (and sometimes frameworks) in the past 5 years and dived deeply in Swift and FRP in the past 2.5 years being a strong evangelist of both since then. He strongly believes in open source and is also passionate about backend systems. He enjoys not only coding but also teach and discuss different concepts and ideas.


text: Jorge Semprún is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his political activities. Although Semprún's work derives from his incarceration in Buchenwald and his expulsion from the Spanish Communist Party in 1964, limiting the discussion of his works to the autobiographical details or to the realm of Holocaust studies is reductive. The responses by many influential writers to his recent death highlight that the significance of Semprún's work goes beyond the testimony of historical events. His self-identification as a Spanish exile has often been neglected and there is no comprehensive study of his works available in English. This book provides a global view of his œuvre and extends literary analysis to texts that have received little critical attention. The author investigates the role played by memory in some of Semprún's works, drawing on current debates in the field of memory studies. A detailed analysis of these works allows related concepts, such as exile and nostalgia, the Holocaust, the interplay between memory and writing, politics and collective memory, and postmemory and identity, to be examined and discussed.


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Today, the main commercially available hydrogen production processes are associated with a significant amount of co-generated CO2. As a result, conventional hydrogen processes such as steam methane reforming, are one of the key contributors to CO2 emissions and therefore, climate change. In order to reduce the associated carbon emissions during such processes and therefore, mitigate the impacts of climate change and global warming, it is necessary to capture this CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere.
Sorption-enhanced steam-methane reforming is a new concept in low-carbon hydrogen production. It is, in fact, an intensified process, coupling conventional steam methane reforming and adsorption-based carbon capture processes. As a result, the new conceptual process would correspond to reduced costs due to a more compact process unit. However, it is highly important for this process to yield hydrogen and CO2 purities which meet their end application. For example, the purity of hydrogen is dictated by the downstream process in which hydrogen is utilised. Similarly, the required purity of the captured CO2 stream is linked to the transportation method (i.e. via pipelines or ships), as well as the storage considerations. Therefore, an effective sorption-enhanced process must be able to meet such process requirements.
In this project, we aim to synthesise, model and optimise a sorption-enhanced steam-methane reforming process for combined CO2 capture and hydrogen production via detailed process intensification. The project will study the impact of various operating parameters such as temperature, pressure and steam/methane ratio, on the process efficiencies such as hydrogen and CO2 purities, and process energy demand, via detailed process modelling and optimisation.
The project benefits from close collaboration with leading industrial players in this area including Costain and Fluor.
Meet the Principal Investigator(s) for the project
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Washington Post Features Ragosta Oped
By Vige Barrie
Contact: John Ragosta _PHONE_
January 16, 2013
An opinion piece titled "Something to Celebrate on Religious Freedom Day" and written by Visiting Assistant Professor of History John Ragosta appeared on the Washington Post website as well as the Religious News Service. The essay was published on Religious Freedom Day, Jan. 16, which is defined as a day to celebrate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom.
Beginning with an examination of religious discrimination and persecution in the years before the statute's passage, Ragosta reviewed the history around the day. The statute, which created a separation of church and state, became the foundation for the First Amendment.
Ragosta wrote, "Why celebrate? Because history has shown that religion and government prosper best when the two realms are kept separate. 'We have solved, by fair experiment, the great & interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government, and obedience to the laws,' Jefferson wrote in 1808, 'and we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely & openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason & the serious convictions of his own enquiries.'"
Ragosta is the author of the forthcoming book, Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed.


Question: How Many Secondary Colors Are There?
What are the 24 colors?
Right now, the 24-count box has red, yellow, blue, brown, orange, green, violet, black, carnation pink, yellow orange, blue green, red violet, red orange, yellow green, blue violet, white, violet red, dandelion, cerulean, apricot, scarlet, green yellow, indigo and gray..
Is Brown a secondary color?
Accordingly, children should acquire the six primary colour terms (red, green, blue, yellow, black & white) before the five secondary colour terms (orange, pink, purple, brown & grey).
What is the rarest crayon color?
I guess we can end the discussion of rarity by suggesting that perhaps one of the rarest of all their colors is the infamous "C-Rex" color crayon from 2003.
What does secondary colors mean in art?
Secondary colors include orange, purple, and green, and they're derived from mixing equal amounts of two primary colors at a time. … For example, combining 1 part red with 1 part blue will create one shade of purple, while combining 1 part red with 2 parts blue will create a darker, more blue-tinged hue of purple.
Is Orange a secondary color?
The secondary colors—orange, green, and violet (purple)—are created by mixing two of the primary colors together in equal measure. Orange consists of red plus yellow.
What are the 5 secondary colors?
Think of primary colors, Yellow, Red and Blue, as the original parents of all the future generations of colors. Secondary colors, Orange, Purple and Green are the children to the primary colors. The color wheel in the lesson will help you visualize these color relationships.
What are the 4 secondary colors?
The Secondary colors are Orange, Purple and Green. They are the 'children' of each pair of Primary colors.
What are the real secondary colors?
A color produced by mixing two additive primary colors in equal proportions. The secondary colors are cyan (a mixture of blue and green), magenta (a mixture of blue and red), and yellow (a mixture of green and red).
What are the 8 primary colors?
In summary, the centres of color categories of most cultures tend to fall in approximately the same positions; these are the positions known in English by the basic color terms black, white, red, yellow, blue, green and so forth.
Is green a secondary color?
Traditional painting (RYB) The secondary colors — orange, green, and purple — are made by combining the primary colors.
Is Brown a tertiary Colour?
It is worth noting that the intermediate colors (also called tertiary) form three additional complementary pairs: red-orange/blue-green, yellow-orange/blue-violet and yellow-green/red-violet. Think of brown as mixture of primaries and/or a combination of complements – two sides of the same coin.
Is it GREY or gray?
Grey and gray are two different spellings of the same word. Gray is more common in the U.S., while grey is more common in other English-speaking countries. In proper names—like Earl Grey tea and the unit Gray, among others—the spelling stays the same, and they need to be memorized.
BlueBlue was voted the most popular CRAYOLA Crayon color. Rounding the top ten were red, violet, green, carnation pink, black, turquoise blue, blue green, periwinkle and magenta.
What are the real primary colors?
The Real Primary Colors Your color printer knows the answer: cyan, yellow and magenta. These colors mix a bright and clean spectrum. You can mix red, green and blue from these primaries.
Why are there primary colors?
"When artists' paints are mixed together, some light is absorbed, making colors that are darker and duller than the parent colors. Painters' subtractive primary colors are red, yellow and blue. These three hues are called primary because they cannot be made with mixtures of other pigments."
What are primary secondary colors?
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors In the RYB (or subtractive) color model, the primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors (green, orange and purple) are created by mixing two primary colors.
What are the 6 secondary colors?
Using this color wheel as an example, it can be read as follows:Three Primary Colors (Ps): Red, Yellow, Blue.Three Secondary Colors (S'): Orange, Green, Violet.Six Tertiary Colors (Ts): Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet, which are formed by mixing a primary with a secondary.
What are the 12 tertiary colors?
12-Part Color Wheel and Color Theory – PostersPrimary Colors: red, yellow, and blue. … Secondary Colors: green, orange, and purple. … Tertiary Colors: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green. … Cool Colors such as blue, green, and blue-purple remind us of water and sky.More items…
What does tertiary colors mean?
1 : a color produced by an equal mixture of a primary color with a secondary color adjacent to it on the color wheel. 2 : a color produced by mixing two secondary colors.
What happens if you mix two secondary colors?
By mixing a primary and a secondary color (for example, red and green) or two secondary colors (for example, orange and green) you get a tertiary color. Especially when you mix secondary colors, you usually get muddy colors like brown, gray, and black.
What is a secondary color of light?
The combinations of two of the three primary colors of light produce the secondary colors of light. The secondary colors of light are cyan, magenta, and yellow.


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A Social History of the Welsh Language
The second major research project of the Centre, the Social History of the Welsh Language from the first Act of Union in 1536 to the present, was completed in 2001.
Its aim was to explain how and why Welsh was replaced to a considerable degree in the modern period by the English language. Close attention was paid to the status and role of Welsh in relation to English, and the research focused in particular on the size and distribution of the population and attitudes towards the Welsh language in the home and workplace, in the fields of education and law, in the activities of the press and in religious, cultural, administrative and political circles.
Researcher at work
The research fellows, assisted by demographers, anthropologists, geographers, historians and linguists from within the constituent institutions of the University of Wales and elsewhere, discovered a wealth of hitherto unused sources which provided new insights into the development of the Welsh language in its social context. The research was supervised by the former Director, Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, and by an Advisory Panel which contained leading scholars in the field.
The project attracted considerable international interest and the eleven published volumes have been a major contribution to the social history of the language.
A report entitled The Effects of Tourism on the Welsh Language in North-West Wales, compiled by some of the Project's staff members, reveals that there is a close connection between tourism, in-migration and language decline. (See also the associated article.)


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1852 Vuillemin Map of Spain and Portugal
Description: An uncommon and extremely attractive 1852 map of Iberia or Spain and Portugal by A. Vuillemin. The map covers all of Spain and Portugal from France to the Mediterranean Sea and includes the Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Majorca, and Minorca. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, towns, rivers and assortment of additional topographical details. As this map was drawn the Spanish prime minister Juan Bravo Murillo was dismissed form office. Liberal sentiments within Spain were growing rapidly, leading to the Progressive Biennium, in which the Progressive Party tried to replace the conservative liberalism of the Moderate Party and advocated radical liberalism. The map features a beautiful frame style border. Prepared by A. Vuillemin for publication as plate no. 16 in the 1852 Maison Basset edition of Atlas Illustre Destine a l'enseignement de la Geographie elementaire.
Date: 1852 (undated)
Source: Barbie du Bocage, J. D., Atlas Illustre Destine a l'Enseignement de la Geographie Elementaire, (Paris: Maison Basset) 1852.
Cartographer: Alexandre Vuillemin (_PHONE_) was a cartographer and an book editor based in Paris, France. Despite a prolific cartographic career, much of Vuillemin's life is shrouded in mystery. What is known is that his studied under the prominent French Auguste Henri Dufour (_PHONE_). Vuillemin's most important work his detailed, highly decorative large format Atlas Illustre de Geographie Commerciale et Industrielle. Click here for a list of rare maps from Alexandre Vuillemin.
Cartographer: Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760 - 1825) and his son Jean-Guillaume Barbie du Bocage (1795 - 1848) were French cartographers and cosmographers active in Paris during late 18th and early 19th centuries. The elder Barbie du Bocage, Jean Denis, was trained as a cartographer and engraver in the workshops of mapmaking legend J. B. B. d'Anville. At some point Jean Denis held the post of Royal Librarian of France and it was through is associations with d'Anville that the d'Anville collection of nearly 9000 maps was acquired by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The younger Barbie du Bocage, Jean-Guillaume, acquired a position shortly afterwards at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, in time, became its head, with the title of Geographe du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres. Click here for a list of rare maps by the Barbie du Bocage family.
Size: Printed area measures 13 in height x 10 inches in width (33.02 x 25.4 centimeters)
Condition: Very good. Blank on verso. Map exhibits some soiling and toning, especially to margins.
Code: SpainPortugal-vuillemin-1852 (to order by phone call: _PHONE_)
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Molecular dynamics simulation studies of the mercury-water interface
In: Surface Science, Jg. 335 (1995) ; 20. Juli, S. 372–377
Zeitschriftenaufsatz / Fach: Chemie
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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies of the mercury-water interface are presented. A slab of water molecules, about 25Åwide, confined by mercury phases, is investigated. A rigid water model and a flexible water model are used to describe the water-water interactions. Recently, we parameterized ab initio calculations on mercury-water clusters to describe the mercury-water potential. The liquid mercury phase is approximated as a rhombohedral lattice. The mercury-mercury interaction is modelled by a harmonic potential. Our results show a significant influence of the mercury phase on the structural and dynamic properties of the water phase. The structure of the interface is analysed in terms of density functions, radial distribution functions, orientation of the water molecules, potential drop, and hydrogen bonding characteristics.


Health Library Explorer
Understanding Coronary Calcium Scan
A coronary calcium scan is a test that looks at the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. These are called the coronary arteries. The scan checks for calcified plaque buildup along the walls of these arteries. Plaque can be made up of calcium, fat, cholesterol, and other substances. A buildup of plaque narrows the arteries. This affects the flow of blood to the heart muscle. If a coronary artery becomes completely blocked, a heart attack (death of part of the heart muscle) can occur. Knowing how much plaque you have in your arteries can help figure out your risk for a heart attack.
Why do I need a coronary calcium scan?
A coronary calcium scan measures the amount of calcium in the arteries. The presence of calcium deposits in an artery means that plaque is starting to build up. The results of the test are given as a calcium score. The scan can help predict your risk of having a heart attack, even before symptoms appear.
This scan isn't for everyone. It's most useful when considered along with other risk factors for a heart attack. These include family history of heart disease, high blood pressure, and unhealthy cholesterol.
What happens during a coronary calcium scan?
The scan is done using computed tomography (CT). This test uses X-rays and computers to create detailed images of the heart.
Technician preparing woman for CT scan.
For the test, you lie on a platform that slides into a tube. During the scan:
 - You will need to stay very still.
 - You may have small sticky discs attached to wires (electrodes) on your chest to record your heartbeat.
The test will likely take about 10 minutes. Once the test is done and your appointment is finished, you can go back to your normal routine.
What are the risks of coronary calcium scan?
A CT scan exposes you to a certain amount of radiation. The benefits of the scan likely outweigh the risks for you. You and your healthcare provider can discuss this further.
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Date Last Reviewed: 9/1/2019
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Introducing Equity into The Workplace
Emily Purry
The opportunities afforded by an equitable workplace motivate employees to achieve, setting the stage for a dynamic, motivated company culture. It's no wonder why companies are chomping at the bit to roll out their equity programs, and employees are hungry for a culture shift.
When implementing an equity program into the workplace, leadership can't just throw around trendy buzzwords and expect an overnight change. When introducing this topic, it must be done with care. Here are some tips on how to introduce the topic of equity into the workplace.
Start with a conversation
A great place to start is to predict as a leadership team how its audience will receive the training program. That is, how will all workers in the organization, as well as the outside community, respond to the materials and conversations around this topic.
An excellent way to attempt these predictions is to form a focus group of individuals who will go through this "pilot" program with the intent of providing genuine and helpful feedback. To gain the most beneficial results, be sure to create a safe space for this group to express concerns and ideas, ask questions and provide feedback. Additionally, this group needs to be aware that this is a pilot training. With that in mind, they need to be open and willing to accept that you're allowed to make mistakes. Express to them that you genuinely care about the organization and how this topic is going to be received, which is why you're asking for their help
Hopefully, this process will give you an idea on what improvements are needed before sending this content out organization–wide. Some companies are hungry for this change, and some shy away from it because it's not something they're comfortable with discussing. Depending on your company's culture, your approach may need to be adjusted and customized to reach your audience.
Engage with the managers and supervisors
When your program is ready to be sent to the organization, it's your middle–level managers and supervisors who will be your vessel in which you communicate your equity initiatives through. They are going to be your boots on the ground implementing the training programs, and they are who employees will go to with questions and concerns. Because of this, two things are an absolute must before launching your program.
First, you MUST train your managers BEFORE launching this program. Make sure they fully understand the expectations, provide tools, resources, language to use and be sure they are ready to represent this plan. Second, all managers MUST BELIEVE in this plan. You may find that some of the managers are not on board. Even a joke or a slight negative comment about equity can severely harm your message during the implementation process. If you find some of your managers aren't on board, this is something that needs to be dealt with ASAP. Your managers MUST be on board and be willing to encourage and empower their staff. Otherwise, your efforts will fail, and this could create tension throughout the organization.
Have a plan
DON'T start firing off all staff email chains with the first article about diversity that comes across your desk. As soon as you make equity a priority you're going to be anxious to get content out the door and start today. However, you need to have a plan. The last thing you want to do is to come off as insincere or offensive.
Careful planning and assessing may take time, but it will be worth it in the long run.
Emily PurryEmily Purry is a Life Strategist and Educator in Portland, Oregon who helps individuals experiencing disabilities achieve their personal and professional goals. Before joining the INCIGHT team, Emily was a disability rights advocate and trainer. Legally blind herself, and in chronic pain from a recent, debilitating injury, she understands the daily challenges faced by a person with a disability. Her own life experience as a person with disabilities and as a mother of a child with a disability informs how she helps her clients overcome daily challenges and work towards long–term goals. Emily has a bachelor's degree in psychology, a Master's in Business Management & Organizational Leadership, a license in massage therapy, and is certified as a personal trainer. She also is a certified drug and alcohol counselor. Emily offers effective life coaching and public speaking services to individuals and families nationwide. She is also available as a trainer on topics related to disability and equity.
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The game field resembles an aquarium containing coral and sea creatures. They move from the top of the aquarium to the bottom along the coral branches. You can change the structure of the coral to steer the creatures.
How to draw a horse drawing game. A drawing activity for kids centered around their horse. In this section you will be learning how to draw a horse. You will draw the basic shapes to help you draw the horse. how to draw a face drawing game.
The Coral Hills of Bikini Bottom are wilting. SpongeBob can get them blooming again if you help him stay away from the stinging sea creatures. Click on a square to move. Change the color of each square to get to the next level.
How to draw a pig drawing game. Draw a Pig The pig serves as a useful test of the personality traits of the drawer. There are few animals more familiar than the pig. There is the farm variety... When you cartoon your pig. Draw A Pig.
It is a desktop draw tool, can lock desktop,and draw line on it free,you can set line's color or width.Clear the points(lines) that you drawed(when you clear on Desktop,it will be magic)!,for education,demo,explaining,for doodling too.1.
- Porcelain Can Empty (Ash)- Porcelain Can Empty (Coral)- Porcelain Can Empty (Graphite)- Porcelain Can Empty (Lilac)- Porcelain Can Empty (Moss)- Porcelain Can Empty (Periwinkle)- Porcelain Can Full (Ash)- Porcelain Can Full (Coral)- Porcelain Can F
How to draw a fisb drawing game. A drawing activity for kids centered around their houses. In this section you will be learning how to draw a fish. You will draw the basic shapes to help you draw the fish.
Allows you to draw simple images on your Windows screen that appear in front of whatever programs are running. Besides just for fun, it can useful for people who are giving a presentation by projecting a computer screen for a group of people to see.


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More information about ballpoint pens:
A ballpoint pen is a writing instrument with an internal ink reservoir and a sphere for a point. The internal chamber is filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at its tip during use by the rolling action of a small sphere. The sphere, usually from 0.5mm to 1.2 mm in diameter, may be made of brass, steel, tungsten carbide, or any durable, hard (nondeformable) material.
There are two basic types of ball point pens: disposable and
Disposable pens are chiefly made of plastic throughout and discarded when the ink is consumed; refillable pens are metal and some plastic and tend to be much higher in price. The refill replaces the entire internal ink reservoir and ball point unit rather than actually refilling it with ink, as it takes special high-speed centrifugation to properly fill a ball point reservoir with the viscous ink. The simplest types of ball point pens have a cap to cover the tip when the pen is not in use, while others have a mechanism for retracting the tip. This mechanism is usually controlled by a button at the top and powered by a spring within the pen body, but other possibilities include a pair of buttons, a screw, or a slide.
Rollerball pens combine the ballpoint design with the use of liquid ink and flow systems from fountain pens; Space Pens, developed by Fisher in the United States, combine a more than normally viscous ballpoint pen ink with a gas-pressured piston which forces the ink toward the point. This design allows the pen to write even upside down or in zero gravity environments. A graphite pencil can also be used in this way but produces graphite dust, requires sharpening, and is erasable, making it undesirable or unsuitable for use in some situations.


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5 Reasons to say YES to a Homestay!
The thought of a homestay in a new culture where you may not speak the language can be scary. With every good challenge, comes an even greater outcome! Here are 5 reasons why you should say YES to a homestay.
 1. Communication becomes a lot more creative
While the thought of a language barrier can cause anxiety, have no fear! Odds are, the family you are living with won't speak much of your language either, leading to opportunities for other modes of communication. Sharing music, movie nights and playing games allows you to connect on a deeper level with your homestay family while being innovative with your communication. It also leads to tons of laughter as both you and your family use charades to tell stories, ask, and answer questions.
 2. Improvement in your language level
Regardless of how many language classes you've taken, nothing beats a hands on experience. Exposure in an authentic context helps improve your skills. From hearing the accent, to learning new phrases, you will leave the homestay with more confidence and a larger vocabulary!
 3. Everyday you learn something new
As you taste new food, participate in local dances, and learn local slang, everyday will be a learning experience. When immersed in a culture or place that is different from your daily norm, simple everyday tasks will turn into lessons.
 4. An authentic way to get to know a culture
It is easy to travel on the surface. Living with a local family allows you to gain experiences that traveling as a tourist could never provide. Discovering local spots, foods, and traditions from a native gives you insight that most travelers will never experience.
 5. A forever family
After living with a homestay family, you will have a new family in a different country forever! As impactful as the experience was for you, it was for them as well! A strong connection will be made and you will always have a place to call home in another part of the world.
Explore our Summer Student Adventures and Custom Group Travel for ways to experience a homestay and travel authentically!


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Typical adjective endings
Some adjectives can be identified by their endings. Typical adjective endings include:
- -able/-ible understandable, capable, readable, incredible
- -al mathematical, functional, influential, chemical
- -ful beautiful, bashful, helpful, harmful
- -ic artistic, manic, rustic, terrific
- -ive submissive, intuitive, inventive, attractive
- -less sleeveless, hopeless, groundless, restless
- -ous gorgeous, dangerous, adventurous, fabulous
Sometimes when adding these endings changes have to be made. Here are some rules for forming adjectives and their exceptions:
|-al||If ending with an 'e', drop it||Nature
|-y||If ending with an 'e', drop it||Ice
|-ful||If ending with a 'y', replace with an 'i'||Beauty
|-ous/-ious||If ending with a 'y', drop it||Mystery
|-ic||If ending with a 'y', drop it||History
Forming adjectives from nouns and verbs
Adjectives can be formed from different words. They can be formed from nouns:
Or even from other adjectives:
Examples of forming adjectives
- Our house color is a kind of yellow. → We live in a yellowish house.
- He often acts like a child. → He often acts in a childish way.
- The event was a big success. → We enjoyed a successful event.
- We enjoyed the sound of the drum's rhythm. → We enjoyed the drum's rhythmic sound.
- She adopted a dog without a home. → She adopted a homeless dog.
- Look out, that plant is poison. → Look out for that poisonous plant.
- It looks like it will rain today. → It looks like we'll have rainy weather today.
- She always acts with courtesy. → She always behaves in a courteous manner.
- Her hair is pretty. → She has the prettiest hair.
- We go for a walk each day. → We go for a daily walk.
Forming adjectives exercises
- inventive, invent, invented
- curiosity, curious, curiousive
- proliferate, prolific, proud
Answers: A – inventive B – curious C – prolific
Answers: A – smelly B – chilly C – wide
Answers: A – interesting B – amazing C – annoying
Answers: A – escaped, escaping B – improved, improving C – damaged, damaging
Answers: A – funnier, funniest B – incorrectly C – bluest, bluer, blueish
Answers: A – magical B – foolish C – ladylike
Answers: A – lifelike, lifeless B – powerful, powerless C – friendly, friendless
Answers: A – costly B – warlike C – monthly
Answers: A – poisonous B – courteous C – mysterious
Answers: A – athletic B – photographic C – scientific


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Grace Marion Sparkes: "Mother of Coronado National Memorial" by Jim Connell, Volunteer
If George Washington has the title of "Father of Our Country," then the title of "Mother of Coronado National Memorial" could very well be bestowed on Grace M. Sparkes.
Who was this kindly looking lady? Ms. Sparkes has been described as the matriarch of early tourism in Arizona. Early on, when she was a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Prescott, Arizona, she worked tirelessly for civic projects and promoted attractions of Arizona at every opportunity. Although a person of very modest means, throughout her life, she was nevertheless known as savvy and politically astute when promoting Arizona. She was well regarded in political circles and was on a first name basis with at least two U.S. Senators (Carl Hayden and Barry Goldwater) as well as an Arizona Governor and Presidential assistants.
What prompted her interest in what is now Coronado National Memorial? In 1938 she inherited several mining properties from her father and one of the mines was the "State of Texas Mine," which is located in what is now the memorial. There may have been many reasons for Ms. Sparkes support of the idea, but above all, what could be a greater challenge for a political mover and shaker than to "cast a shadow" on history?
Soon, operating out of her residence at the State of Texas Mine, she became the one-person who kept the project going. There were other people who contributed a great deal of effort to bring the memorial to this area, but Grace Sparkes was the driving force. She was appointed as the chairman of the Arizona Coronado Monument Commission and also served as the chairman of the Bisbee Chamber of Commerce National Parks and Monuments committee. From 1939 until the establishment of the memorial in 1952, she kept the project alive with never-ending letter writing to push, wheedle and keep the political wheels turning.
The influence of Grace Sparkes did not stop after the memorial became a reality. Since the new Superintendent of the park needed a place to live, she rented the park service a house for his use on the property of the State of Texas mine. Ms. Sparkes was also hired as the first ranger in the park, with the title of "Ranger-Historian."
Grace Sparkes' time as park ranger-historian was spent helping visitors understand the significance of Coronado's expedition and the history and importance of Montezuma Canyon and Coronado National Memorial. She certainly didn't do it for the pay! In January of 1958, Grace worked part-time, eight hours per week, for $1.64 per hour.
Grace Sparkes died in 1963 at the age of 70. The State of Texas Mine was eventually acquired by the National Park Service in 1986 from her nephew Will Sparkes. The mine is now home to thousands of lesser long-nosed bats, a threatened and endangered species. Ms. Sparkes' legacy lives on through the memorial itself and the rangers and volunteers who take care of this special place.


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Noun1.nonflowering plant - plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by sporesnonflowering plant - plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
fern ally - pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
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Armstrong and Armstrong (2009) found the first clear case of substantial pressurized ventilation in a nonflowering plant, Equisetum telmateia.
For example, if it were claimed that flowering plant vegetation (e.g., oak trees) had greater buoyancy than nonflowering plant vegetation (e.g., pine trees), it could be argued that the former might be deposited in the upper portions of the rock record.
(Berberidaceae), and 5 nonflowering plants: Photinia fraseri Dress (Rosaceae), Buxus microphylla Sieb.
What name is given to nonflowering plants of a division that comprises mosses and liverworts?
"That creates this problem," said van Eldijk."If they had a proboscis, what were they using it for?" The team suggested the insects used their tongues to suck up sugary droplets produced by nonflowering plants that made seeds, a group that includes today's pine trees.
Ephedra (Ephedra intermedia) belongs to family Ephedraceae and is a genus of nonflowering plants, related to Gnetales, very near relatives of angiosperms [3].
MANILA -- Huperzias are among the exotic nonflowering plants allied to ferns (Filices), Psylotums, Selaginellas, Equisetums and other sporebearing plants.
Already Gone Species known to have gone extinct, or extinct in the wild, since 1500 Mollusks 327 Birds 136 Flowering plants 110 Mammals 79 Fishes 68 Insects 60 Amphibians 39 Reptiles 22 Crustaceans 12 Nonflowering plants 10 Others 2 No known arachnid extinctions.
ACR3 is an arsenite efflux transporter gene found only in gymnosperms (nonflowering plants).
For nonflowering plants to add color to landscapes, baskets, and planters, try the Blazin' Lime Iresine.
Think of the diverse genomes as navigation beacons, says Brent Mishler of the University of California, Berkeley, who has championed a proposal submitted to the Department of Energy (DOE) for sequencing nonflowering plants. "You wouldn't want three [beacons] in Colorado and four in Texas and none anywhere else in the country," he says.
Four variables were analyzed by analysis of variance: relative maturity of plants with at least one panicle at the time of scoring (i.e., nonheaded plants were ignored), number of panicles per plant, percentage of sparse-flowering plants per plot (1-10 panicles per plant) and percentage of nonflowering plants per plot (no panicles).


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Snapshot 1: with the symmetric initial state, the probability for the quantum walk is symmetric about the origin
Snapshot 2: after many steps, the particle performing a quantum random walk is likely to be much farther from the origin than with a classical random walk
Snapshot 3: after just one step, both classical and quantum random walks have the same probabilities: equally likely to be at positions +1 or -1
In the classical random walk, at each step there is equal probability for the particle to move one unit to the left or right along the line. During a single random walk, the particle is at a definite location after each step. The probability shown in the plot is the fraction of such walks in which the particle is at each location after the specified number of steps.
In the quantum random walk, the particle is in a superposition of locations along the line. The values shown in the plot are the probability of finding the particle at each location if the particle is observed after the specified number of steps.
The state of the quantum particle after
steps can be expressed as a sum
, where the
values are complex numbers,
is an integer between
giving the location along the line, and
is a single quantum bit (called a qubit
) that represents the value of a coin flipped to determine the direction of the particle at the next step: 0 and 1 correspond to decreasing and increasing
by 1, respectively. The probability of observing the particle at location
After a step, the superposition
. Thus a quantum particle starting at a definite location
has equal probability of being observed after one step at locations
, the same as the classical random walk. But after more than one step, interference among multiple terms in the superposition gives different behavior between the classical and quantum random walks.
The behavior of the quantum random walk varies with the choice of initial state for the qubit
. This qubit can start with a definite state (0 or 1), the same as a classical bit. More generally, the qubit can start as a superposition of the two values 0 and 1. This Demonstration shows two examples for the initial state of the qubit. The asymmetric initial condition has
and all other values equal to zero. The symmetric initial condition has
, and all other values equal to zero. In both cases, the particle starts at location 0, the same as for the classical random walk.
After an even or odd number of steps, the particle can only be at even or odd locations along the line, respectively. Selecting the "join the points" control shows a curve connecting the nonzero probabilities.
For a physical implementation, see M. Karski et al., "Quantum Walk in Position Space with Single Optically Trapped Atoms," Science
, 2009 pp. 174–177.


such as:
'selectors_dictionary' => [
 'top' => 'flex-start',
 'middle' => 'center',
 'bottom' => 'flex-end',
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.elementor-price-table__currency' => 'align-self: {{VALUE}}',
Or use it for multiple declarations expanded from single-word options:
'selectors_dictionary' => [
 'left' => 'right: auto; left: 0',
 'right' => 'left: auto; right: 0',
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.elementor-wc-products ul.products li.product span.onsale' =>
Don't forget CSS variables and calc!
One thing I like about programming is that it's like a puzzle. Before you ditch the selectors in favor of writing a more elaborate code to handle values, think again. Almost everything can be solved with the tools I present here. Especially when you remember that besides leveraging dynamic values of selectors in Elementor, you could:
A combination like this allowed me to create a single slider to control two different things, depending on the value of another setting
The following defines a CSS variable, and is from the Scale % slider:
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.sde' => '--sde-scale-percentage: {{SIZE}};'
I use that CSS variable in two places. One is the Scale the cropped switch that simulates toggling between two selectors. The variable gets passed on to another (for use by Gap, see it later). When the switcher is on:
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.sde' =>
 'transform: scale(var(--sde-scale-percentage)) scale(0.01);
 --sde-scale-pct-for-gap: var(--sde-scale-percentage);'
There is a hidden control that depends on the switch being off and contains a similar declaration but with another selector (notice it).
'condition' => [
 'scale_the_cropped!' => 'cropped'
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.sde svg' =>
As an extra, the Gap setting has this:
'selectors' => [
 '{{WRAPPER}}.sde' =>
 calc({{SIZE}}{{UNIT}} / (var(--sde-scale-pct-for-gap, 100) / 100)) 0;'
There you go, calc with a variable that even has a fallback! The Gap means some extra space above and below an element (with padding). But if transforms scale that, some math should counteract the adjustment. The equation doubles the gap for something that's at half size. When not scaling the whole thing, this is not needed, hence the fallback (100/100).
Stacking transforms
You might ask, why the variable, why the double scale? I wanted to give users the usual 0-100 slider, so the value is a given. There had to be a way to divide it by 100. Initially, it looked like this:
transform: scale(calc(var(--sde-scale-percentage) / 100));
But Edge doesn't support calc() in transforms, bummer. We get the same effect by stacking transforms of the same type, as browsers perform them sequentially.
A scale(0.01) is just a division by 100.
When developing SVG Divider for Elementor, I relied on selectors to minimize the number of settings that visibly reload or re-init the widget in the live editor. Check it out for more examples on how these work in real life, or as always, learn from Elementor's code. For my research, I scanned about a thousand uses of 'selectors' in both pro and free. Furthermore, I went on their Github to grasp the more advanced pieces that they don't even use. So, I hope this article covered everything.
Elementor's relevant source file:
 1. elementor/core/files/css/base.php
 2. Look for the add_control_rules() method.
By now, you should be familiar with selectors in Elementor controls. If you treat this concept as a puzzle and think hard, you'll come up with solutions that don't require any other code. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts and questions in the comments below!
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stationarity tests unit roots structural breaks smooth transitions
We consider tests of null hypothesis of stationarity against a unit root alternative when the series is subject to structural change at an unknown point in time. Three extant test are reviewed which allow for an endogenously determined instantaneous structural break, and a related fourth procedure is introduced. We further propose tests which permit the structural change to be gradual rather than instantaneous, allowing the null hypothesis to be a stationarity about a smooth transition in linear trend. The size and power properties of the tests are investigated, and the test are applied to four economic time series.


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When should you use
CType and when should you use
DirectCast and which one performs better? The short answer is:
DirectCast is twice
as fast for value types (integers, etc.), but identical for reference types.
The first thing to understand is that
DirectCast are not the same thing. Only
CType can convert the underlying object
to a new instance of an object of a different type. For example, you want to turn an integer into a string. Since an integer doesn't inherit a string, a new instance
String object must be created in order to store the number as a string.
CType can do this,
DirectCast cannot. Note: There are other ways
to do this too such as the
Convert.ToString method or
Dim MyInt As Integer = 123
Dim MyString1 As String = CType(MyInt, String)
Dim MyString2 As String = DirectCast(MyInt, String)
CType do have in common is their ability to convert an object to a new type based on inheritance or implementation.
For example, if you have a string but it is stored in a variable of type
Object, you can use
CType to treat that variable
as an object of type
String because type
String inherits type
Object. In this case, the underlying data in memory is not actually changing,
nor is any processing happening on that data.
Dim MyObject As Object = "Hello World"
Dim MyString1 As String = CType(MyObject, String)
Dim MyString2 As String = DirectCast(MyObject, String)
The danger: You must know what type you are dealing with before using
DirectCast. If you have a variable of type
Object and you
DirectCast to treat it as a
String, you'd better be sure that variable actually contains a
If an integer somehow found its way into that variable, an exception will be thrown.
A way to check in code if
DirectCast will work is by using the
If TypeOf MyObject Is String Then
So, assuming you are doing a conversion based on inheritance or implementation, you have a choice:
CType. Which is better?
DirectCast. According to the.NET documentation:
DirectCast does not use the Visual Basic run-time helper routines for conversion, so it can provide somewhat better
The included project runs a performance test on each scenario:
CType for value and reference types. Remember, reference types are types like Forms,
Controls, Strings, and custom classes, whereas Value types are types like integers, doubles, and custom structures. Here are the results; the numbers are in milliseconds
for 1 million iterations:
DirectCast on a reference type:
CType on a reference type:
DirectCast on a value type:
CType on a value type:
DirectCast out performs
CType for value types almost 2 to 1.
DirectCast also out performs
CType for reference types albeit by a much slimmer margin.
Note: Subsequent tests produced very similar results; try for yourself.
Another reason to use
DirectCast is that it's not VB.NET specific and is therefore more portable to other languages. So C# and other programmers might have an easier
time reading their code if they encountered


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If this plays too loudly, you can turn the volume down by hitting your
keyboard's "down arrow" multiple times. If that does not work, right click
the controls first, choose "volume", click on down, and then use your down arrow
to adjust. Sorry it is so complicated! We left the controls visible so you can
turn it off completely.
Flag designed by
Benny Benson, a 13 year old
boy, in 1926
Flag adopted by the Legislature on May 2, 1927.
Alaska's State song was written by Marie Drake
(an employee of the Alaska Department of Education)
and first appeared as a poem in 1925.
Set to music by Elinor Dusenbury, whose husband was commander of
Chilkoot Barracks at Haines from 1933 to 1936.
Adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1955.
stars of gold on a field of blue
Alaska's flag may it mean to you,
the blue of the sea, the evening sky,
the mountain lakes, and the flow'rs nearby,
the gold of the early sourdough's dreams,
the precious gold of the hills and streams,
the brilliant stars in the northern sky,
the "Bear" - the "Dipper" - and, shining high,
the great North Star with its steady light,
over land and sea a beacon bright,
Alaska's flag - to Alaskans dear,
the simple flag of a last frontier.
Here is a proposed second verse that the 2002 State
Legislature considered adding. As far as we know, it has not happened.
Native lad chose the Dipper's stars
For Alaska's flag that there be no bars
Among our cultures. Be it known
Through years the Natives' past has grown
To share life's treasures, hand in hand,
To keep Alaska our Great Land;
We love the northern, midnight sky,
The mountains, lakes, and streams nearby.
The great North Star with its steady light
Will guide all cultures, clear and bright,
With nature's flag to Alaskans dear,
The simple flag of the last frontier.
Copyright © 1985, University of Alaska Foundation, All rights Reserved


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Screen Printer/Stencil Preparer
Screen printers set up and operate power-driven or hand-operated screen printing machines to create images.
Duties & Tasks
Screen printers may perform the following tasks:
- prepare stencils to be printed by handcutting, photographic or electronic methods
- choose, mix and match coloured inks and load ink into printing machines
- load paper, fabric, plastic or other material onto printing machines, making sure that objects to be printed are lined up correctly and, if there is more than one colour, that the colours are properly aligned
- control machines and check the quality of printing
- keep records of work completed
- put the stencils onto a mesh fabric-printing screen and operate the printing machine, then dry the printed items by loading them into drying racks or dryers using hot air or ultraviolet light
- unload printed items from drying racks and stack them
- remove waste, clean and maintain machines, and maintain and care for equipment including cameras and lenses, screens, stops and filters.
- enjoy practical and manual work
- good eyesight (may be corrected) with normal colour vision
- good hand-eye coordination
- good problem-solving skills.


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The temple was built in the mid 9th century by Sri Kahulunnan or Pramodhawardhani, the daughter of Samaratungga. the complex is made up of 174 small buildings, 116 are stupas and 58 are shrines. Many of the buildings have inscriptions. the dates of the inscriptions are between 825-850 AD.
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