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Usually the people who visit Egypt have little problems with communications because those working in the tourist sector are normally adept in at least many different languages. Habitually, most of them speak some English, and many of them fluently. French is also a traditional language, but so too is German and Italian. However less common, are the Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Russian languages, but of course there are specialized guides that are also fluent in most any language, who accompany various tours.
However, if one escapes the confines of a tour group and ventures out into normal Egyptian neighborhoods, some command of the local language of Egypt is very helpful. Upscale restaurants, shops and other establishments will normally have multilingual personnel, but several common Egyptians one comes into contact with may only have such communication skills.
Egyptian dialect of Modern Arabic
The official language of Egypt is the Egyptian dialect of Modern Arabic. Today, Arabic ranks as the sixth most common language with an estimated 186 million native speakers. Furthermore, as the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, it is also widely understood throughout the Muslim world, even in countries where Arabic is not the native language. The Egyptian colloquial Arabic is spoken by some 50 million people, mostly in Egypt.
- inta/inti aarif il-inglezi? = "Do you (male/female) know English?".
- jim is pronounced g instead of j.
However, the Arabic Language is written from right to left. It has its own alphabet, different from the Roman alphabet used for English.
For communication purposes while travelling and using this guide, it is very important to note that Arabic is divided into Classic Arabic (mostly used in print) and Colloquial Arabic.
If You want learn Arabic Language, can visit:
- Arabic Language Center in Cairo
- Arabic Courses
- Learn Egyptin Arabic


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The Grand Canyon is a natural formation on Earth, located in Arizona. By the 24th century, the Grand Canyon has been a popular tourist destination for several hundred years.
Jonathan Archer had asked T'Pol if she had visited the Grand Canyon as well as Big Sur Aquarium during her time on Earth, to which she had not.(ENT episode & novelization: Broken Bow)
As a child, Leonard McCoy visited the Grand Canyon with his grandfather, T.J. McCoy. (TOS short story: "Make-Believe") Years later, he spent two weeks rafting down the Grand Canyon just before starting his assignment on the USS Enterprise. (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure)
Shortly after meeting Siddhe, Christopher Pike decided to show her his home world. One of the sights that they visited was the Grand Canyon. (TOS novel: Burning Dreams)
Edward Janeway referred to the Grand Canyon as "Earth's biggest ditch." His daughter Kathryn Janeway felt the area was too dusty, preferring farm country such as that around Bloomington, Indiana. (VOY episode: "Imperfection")
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Dan wants to know what the difference between a C32, a Patient Summary, and a Summarization of Episode document is. This is a really GOOD question.
So, let's take these in reverse order.
A Summarization of Episode Document (or Note as it appears in LOINC) is a document that summarizes an episode of care for a patient. That brings in two questions:
What is a summary, and what is an episode?
Wictionary gives us "concise, brief or presented in a condensed form" for summary, and "incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events." for episode. These are good enough to explain what a summary of episode note is. It is a concise or brief note describing an incident in the care of a patient. It isn't every detail, or even a life history, though it can be and has been stretched to cover both these extremes.
A Patient Summary is any of a variety of clinical notes which provides a summary of information about a patient. It may involve an episode of care or not. Patient summaries include History and Physical Notes, Consult Notes, Summary of Episode Notes, Discharge Summaries, Transfer Summaries, and Progress Notes. The key point is that it contain a summary, and not every last detail.
The ANSI/HITSP C32 is a Patient Summary that uses the HL7 Continuity of Care Implementation Guide. That guide specifies that the document type be coded as a "Summary of Episode" note, that being the closest thing in LOINC to what the intent of the CCR was when it was harmonized with CDA through the CCD. So, the C32 is a Patient Summary, and is a Summarization of Episode Note (or Document). It isn't the only way to summarize an episode (a Discharge summary is a very specific summarization of an inpatient episode of care), but in the US, under meaningful use, it is something that will be needed for just about every encounter.

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. Why is deployment to my Configuration Engine-managed PIX device not working?
There are several possibilities:
– The configuration contains invalid commands. You can test this by copying the configuration associated with the PIX device in Configuration Engine and pasting it directly into the device.
– The auto-update server command contains an invalid username and password.
– You did not wait long enough for the configuration to be polled into the PIX device. Use the show auto command to verify when the next polling cycle will occur.
– If you previously used the Configuration Engine server for the same PIX device and did not delete the PIX from the Configuration Engine server before you started the current task, it is possible that the PIX device received the previous configuration from the server before you deployed the new configuration to it.
– If none of the suggestions above solves the problem, turn on Configuration Engine debug mode (see How do I debug Configuration Engine on a PIX device?) on the PIX device and check the log for errors after the next polling cycle.
Q. Why was I able to deploy successfully to a Configuration Engine-managed PIX device the first time, but subsequent deployments were unsuccessful?
This can happen if the configuration pushed during the first deployment contains incorrect CLI commands for the auto-update feature. Check the following:
– Make sure the username and password of the Configuration Engine server is defined correctly in the auto-update command.
– Make sure that you have defined a FlexConfig that contains the necessary name commands. A FlexConfig is necessary because Security Manager does not support this command directly. As a result, even though the command was discovered, it does not appear in the full configuration.
Q. How do I debug Configuration Engine on a PIX device?
Enter the following CLI commands:
logging monitor debug
Tip You can also find relevant information in the PIX log on the Configuration Engine server.
Q. How do I debug Configuration Engine on an IOS device?
Enter the following CLI commands:
debug cns all
debug kron exec-cli
Tip When working in event mode, you can also find relevant information in the event log on the Configuration Engine server. When working in call home mode, check the config server log on the Configuration Engine server.
Q. Why did I fail to discover an IOS device and acquire its configuration through Configuration Engine?
If you see the following errors in debug mode:
*Feb 23 21:42:15.677: CNS exec decode: Unknown hostname cnsServer-lnx.cisco.com... 474F6860: 72726F72 2D6D6573 73616765 3E584D4C error-message>XML 474F6870: 5F504152 53455F45 52524F52 3C2F6572 _PARSE_ERROR


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The Importance of Semen Sample Liquefaction and Viscosity for Semen Analysis
In addition to the obvious issues with sample loading in the SQA testing capillary, would concentration readings be higher or lower in a sample which has not fully liquefied?
1. Running a non-liquefied (or viscous) semen sample will most probably result in inaccurate results for the following reasons:
2. The sample is poorly represented. In a fully liquefied sample, sperm cells are evenly spread throughout the semen volume and this makes the sample taken for analysis more representative of the entire ejaculate.
3. Concentration and other semen parameters may vary in both directions in the case of running a viscous sample.
4. Motility may be lower in viscous samples.
According to the WHO 5th manual, each highly viscous or non-liquefied semen sample should be treated to bring it to normal viscosity prior to testing (WHO 5th ed. manual, p. 13-15;)


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Project ID:2006OK64B
Title: Decision Support System for Long Term Planning of Rural and Urban Water Supply System Costs in Oklahoma
Project Type: Research
Start Date: 03/01/2006
End Date: 02/28/2007
Congressional District: 1, 2
Focus Categories: Water Supply, Management and Planning, Methods
Keywords: Drinking water, Water treatment, regionalization
Principal Investigator: Stoecker, Arthur (Oklahoma State University)
Federal Funds: $25,000
Non-Federal Matching Funds: $50,064
Abstract: This study will develop an economic Decision Support System (DSS) to provide a tool how to meet regional water needs at least cost. Some work has been done on the concept of regionalization in Oklahoma to date, but this work has been fragmented with a short-term planning horizon, and less than comprehensive in its viewpoint. This study will provide an instrument to evauate the long-term needs for water treatment, distribution and srorage by taking into account aging of current assests, construction costs, supplies and expected population growth. Parts of Oklahoma are experiencing rapid economic development and population growth over the next fifty years. Water managers need to make long-term planning decisions today about how, when, and if to finance future water infrastructure investments. Much of the increased economic development and population expansion are occurring near large cities which are expanding outward toward small towns and areas served by small municipal systems or Rural Water Districts (RWDs). Three major issues will shape the future of Oklahoma's rural water supply, treatment, storage and distribution capabilities. The issues are: 1) population growth; 2) aging infrastructure of rural water districts and their ability to meet water quality standards, storage and distribution, and; 3) finding alternatives for diminishing supplies of water. Smaller towns and RWDs must decide whether to individually invest to expand to meet projected future demands of water or to align themselves with regional water supply systems. At the same time rights to available supplies of surface and groundwater are becoming more limited due to population and economic growth. The specific objectives of the proposed project are: Identify potential supplies potable water sources in a selected study area of Oklahoma; determine the optimal number, location, size, and construction date for drinking water treatment plants to meet projected water needs at least cost; determine the optimal route, size, and construction date for pipelines linking any centralized treatment plants with towns or rural water districts, and; determine the optimal size, type, location, and time of distribution system modifications that will allow a water utility to meet its projected demands within their service areas at least cost. The methods for achieving the objectives are: 1. Determine location, capacity, and condition of existing water treatment plants for each city, town, or RWD in the study area. This will be accomplished by meeting with managers and observation of treatment plants in the region. The debt structure of RWDs will also be collected; 2. Use capital budgeting to determine cost of constructing new water treatment plants of various sizes, increasing capacity of existing plants, constructing pipe lines, and pump stations. 3. Determine the minimum cost infrastructure within RWDs or municipalities so to meet future demands for water in selected areas. Existing models will be used for RWDs that have developed plans. Districts without such models, EPANET will be used to determine the feasibility and operating cost of providing water to meet their water demands. Non-linear or Dynamic Programming methods will be used to determine cost minimizing investments.
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1. In a Terminal window in your 4_combine directory, copy the input files that you have created while working on the previous sections, using the following commands:
cp../1_build_cg_model/cg_monomer.pdb.
cp../1_build_cg_model/cg_monomer-2.pdb.
cp../1_build_cg_model/cg_monomer.top.
cp../3_cg_membrane/mixture.pdb.
cp../3_cg_membrane/lipid-ion.top.
The last input files needed is a pdb of ions, ions.pdb, which is located at your current directory 4_combine/example-input.
2. Start VMD and in the VMD Tk Console window, type the following command:
This command calls the script build.tcl, which will replicate six copies of BAR domain dimers and combine the BAR domains, lipids and ions together.
3. The output of the script build.tcl will be a psf file (6bar.psf) and a pdb file 6bar.pdb containing six BAR domain dimers on top of a membrane patch, neutralized by ions.
4. Take a look at the build.tcl.
This script contains the following steps: (1) Load the two monomers of a BAR domain dimer. (2) Move the monomers to appropriate locations, to form a lattice. (3) Call VMD plugin psfgen and input SBCG topology files for BAR domains, lipids and ions. (4) Input coordinates of the six BAR domain dimers, lipid membrane, and ions. (5) Generate psf and pdb files for the combined system. More detailed descriptions of the commands are included in build.tcl as comments beginning with ''#''. You can view the commands and comments in build.tcl using any text editor, or, e.g., using ls command in the VMD Tk Console.
5. Load the output system into VMD using the following command in the Tk Console:
mol load psf 6bar.psf pdb 6bar.pdb
6. Measure the center and dimension of the system by following commands:
set sel [atomselect top all]
measure center $sel
measure minmax $sel
Record the above values for use in the next section.


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The tragedy of the missing at Fromelles resonates once more 90 years after the battle. In June 2008 a further search for bodies began. It was initiated by a Melbourne school-teacher, Lambis Englezos. He was one in a group who became increasingly convinced that there were Australian and British bodies that had been buried by the Germans in mass graves who had not been recovered and re-interred after the war. Such claims needed to be backed up by careful research and this took some years to complete. It was hard to imagine how a large number of casualties could have been missed during post-war searches. However, Englezos eventually compiled such a weight of evidence that an official investigation was launched.
It was known that the Germans had conducted mass burials of allied troops after the battle of Fromelles. They had been thorough, recording the names of those they buried and usually gathering their identity disc. Through international resources, including the Red Cross, many families eventually received advice that their soldier son, husband or brother had been killed and buried by the Germans. Although there could be no expectation that after the war these bodies would be identified, it was presumed that they had been recovered from the burial pits and placed in British Commonwealth war graves under headstones bearing no names. There are many such burials in the war cemeteries around Fromelles.
Arising from Englezos's research it became the Australian Army's task to investigate a series of burial pits at Pheasant's Wood close to Fromelles to see if bodies might still be there. Wartime aerial photographs revealed that a series of large pits had been dug there. The Germans records suggested that there could be at least 170 Australians and a greater number of British troops in them. Digging, by skilled archaeologists, commenced. Everyone involved was determined that the utmost dignity and respect be applied to the task. By the time the initial work was completed on Friday 13 June it had been clearly established that the pits did contain bodies.
The discovery of the burials so long after the events of 1916 aroused wide interest and once again brought the battle of Fromelles to the forefront of public attention. Experts will now gather to discuss what further steps should be taken and how these men will be commemorated.
There is an Australian Department of Defence media release from the 31 July about the decision to
have the remains of the World War 1 soldiers - buried in mass graves near Fromelles in 1916 - exhumed and given individual burials with military honours.

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Nod Signaling Adaptor Proteins
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Cytosolic signaling adaptor proteins that were initially discovered by their role in the innate immunity (IMMUNITY, INNATE) response of organisms that lack an adaptive immune system. This class of proteins contains three domains, a C-terminal ligand recognition domain, an N-terminal effector-binding domain, and a centrally located nuclear-binding oligomerization domain. Many members of this class contain a C-terminal leucine rich domain which binds to PEPTIDOGLYCAN on the surface of BACTERIA and plays a role in pathogen resistance.
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Difference Between Talent and Skill (With Table)
There are so many people having different talents and skillsets. And talent is something that is inborn, but skills are developed by a person later. Talent can be improved later by taking classes and guidance, but talent is something that develops within it just only need to be smoothened.
Talent can be developed, but mostly it is an inborn ability. Skills are gained by hard work and dedication with proper guidance. For example, a talented person born gifted with a good voice can become a singer, but a person who does not have a good voice but wants to become a singer needs to develop skills in cantando.
Talent vs Skill
The difference between Talent and Skill is that talent is inborn, or we can say that a person is born with a talent they do not need to learn from outside. And Skill is what a person needs to develop, by hard work and dedication one can develop good skill in any topic they want.
Talent is the ability or potential that is given by God to some people, or we can say that it is a congenital ability of a person that can be improved with time. Talent development does not take much time and hard work because it is a built-in potential of a person. Only a few people have this ability. The rest need to develop it.
Skill is expertise in something, or it is an ability to do something expertly and with perfection. Anyone in the world can develop skills by learning and taking guidance from experts. Skill development needs hard work and strong efforts. Then, only one can gain achievement in a particular topic.
Comparison Table Between Talent and Skill
Parâmetros de comparaçãoTalentHabilidade
DefiniçãoTalent is the built-in ability of a person which can be improved with time, and it does not need much effort.Skill is developed by people. It needs hard work and effort.
Propriedade deOwned by only a few people because it is god gifted.It can be developed by anyone with the help of proper guidance and hard work.
Development processSelf-acknowledgment is best for finding out your hidden talent.Skill development needs hard work and dedication with proper guidance from experts.
NecessidadeSelf-Realization is needed. Development is needed to gain a specific skill set.
Instructions It only requires improvement from the right person.Proper guidance and training are required.
What is Talent?
Talent does not need much hard work and effort for its development; instead, it only needs improvement or clearness for development. It is gifted by God to only a few peoples, and for finding it out, people need self-acknowledgment and self-realization.
Talent in a person can be recognized at an early age only, and further, it just needs to be improved. For example, some people are inborn singers they only need is guidance, people who have very good sketch making talent, etc. Talent should be recognized and should be praised because only a few people have this.
Talent is unknown until it is recognized or acknowledged. It needs proper guidance from the right people to make it uncovered and developed. And people who have particular talent are considered to be lucky because of their inborn ability.
O que é habilidade?
Skill is acquired by those who do hard work, and it can be achieved by anyone in the world with proper training from certified institutions. A person is said to be an expert if he or she has mastered in their skills and they can train other people too with their knowledge.
Skill is not hidden like talent. Rather, it is known because one chooses to develop a specific skill set, and for that, they take proper training. For example, a person develops the coding skills they are not inborn with it, Communication in the proper way needs to be developed it is not natural, etc.
People make money by developing other people's skills with their knowledge and expertise. Skill development requires more time than developing talent because people start from the ground level. People develop a specific skill for getting a job and for becoming an expert in a particular topic.
Main Differences Between Talent and Skill
 1. Talent is the built-in ability of a person which can be improved with time, whereas Skill needs to be developed with proper training and guidance by an expert.
 2. Talent does not require much time and effort for its development, but Skill development needs hard work, more time, and dedication.
 3. Skill can be gained by anyone out there, But on the other hand, Talent is god-gifted and is owned by very few peoples who need to be recognized.
 4. Talents need recognition because it is covered within people's personality While, Skills are known, and the person who wants to develop their skill knows that in which topic he or she needs training.
 5. A person who is talented in a particular thing can teach others for developing others skills, While a person who is not talented needs to develop their skills for gaining expertise in a particular topic.
A person with talent should be praised because it is gifted by God to them, and only a few people have this. But people who do not have any inborn talent can develop their knowledge in a particular topic, and that is called gaining skills. Skills are very important if you want a good job and want to impress others. Talent does not require much time because it just needs to be improved.
Skill development takes more time than Talent development, and more hard work is needed for developing a particular skill set. One can develop several types of Skills, but as Talent is god-gifted, it is unique. Talent needs self-realization for its acknowledgment. But a person who wants to develop skills already knows that in what topic he or she wants to get expertise. There are so many institutions or training centers from where a person can gain skills and can achieve success in their life.
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Meaning of Cheyenne
Pronunciation: (shī-en', -an'), [key]
— pl. -ennes, -enne
 1. a member of a North American Indian people of the western plains, formerly in central Minnesota and North and South Dakota, and now divided between Montana and Oklahoma.
 2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Cheyenne Indians.
 3. a city in and the capital of Wyoming, in the S part. 47,283.
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Health and Fitness
How Can You Make Your Dog Comfortable With Dog Beds
Pets need love and devotion not only, but also suitable dog care. This is one of the ways to show your affection to your home companion.
Dogs can have different attitudes, but it depends heavily on how you treat them. It is true that dogs and cats can become obstinate or disordered sometimes, but they could be sweet and faithful pets most of the time. You can even consult the caretakers of dogs about the type of bed that you should provide to your dog from companies like Doggo Defenders.
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Many pet experts have discovered that the behavior of pets has something to do with dog care.
If a pet is traumatized or has undergone extreme anxiety or stress, there is a good chance, it will present annoying behavior. It will take time before it can overcome some fears and adapt to the environment.
Fortunately, many dog control products are already available on the market for all your dog care needs.
Basically, what is dog care? It is not limited to food and grooming. Like human beings, they must also have a healthy lifestyle.
Your pet should feel comfortable and be part of the family. Provide a dog bed and bring them to the veterinarian for vaccinations and checks.
In this way, there will be less likely chances for your pet inflicted on a disease or pet bugs. Apart from this, exercise is a must for any pet. In addition, it's one of the pet care techniques to ensure that your Pooch has enough sun and enjoyment.
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About Our Crops
How we grow our crops and what makes our crops unique
Seasonal Fruits
To many people, our Seasonal Fruits are the taste of summer! We've become famous throughout the south of England for our natural, Seasonal Crops, and people travel hundreds of miles for our delicious Fruit.
We make huge efforts so that we can guarantee that everything we sell at Roundstone 'Pick Your Own' Farm is 100% natural. Due to our efforts, we are able to assure you that all of our produce contains the healthy nutrients that normally get lost when foods are commercially grown for supermarkets. This allows the flavour of our fruit to be superior to what can be found in the shops - and if you don't believe us you should come and see for yourself!
Seasonal Vegetables:
Just like our Fruit, our vegetables are incredibly fresh and delicious. Our wide selection of Vegetables allows everyone to find something they enjoy. We have vegetables at the beginning of may until the end of September, which change through the season.
Crops such as Pumpkins, Butternut Squash, Marrows, Courgettes and Runner Beans are all hand planted, hand weeded and hoed by our skilled team to ensure maximum growth and attention to each plant. This ultimately benefits our crops and makes them taste that much better.
Our home grown potatoes will continue to be available for you to purchase from the checkout in the summer and into October.
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MySQL Tables With UTF-8
Here is how to properly setup your database to store and query UTF-8 characters
1. You will need to make sure your tables are setup to store UTF-8 values.
e.g. show create table {tablename}; <– this will output table setup
If you see the 'DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1′, then you will need to change it to 'DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8′
e.g. alter table {table name} default charset utf8;
2. Now that we have setup all the tables to be able to store UTF8 characters, the next step is to display them from your script.
To properly display utf-8 characters, you will need to tell it that the output contains UTF-8 characters.
e.g. set names utf8;
The above command needs to be called before your 'select' statements. Otherwise, all you queries will return with a question (?) marks for any values that contain utf-8 characters.


Driver's Education for the Self-Driving Database
With Oracle Autonomous Database, DBAs can avoid the mundane, embrace strategy, and schedule those meetings.
By Tom Haunert
February 12, 2018
If DBAs are the drivers of databases, what happens to DBA responsibilities on a self-driving database?
Oracle Magazine sat down with Maria Colgan, master product manager for Oracle Database, to talk about how Oracle Autonomous Database will change the role of the DBA and how the DBA will in turn improve business processes and application development.
Oracle Magazine: At the highest level, what is Oracle Autonomous Database?
Colgan: Oracle Autonomous Database combines the flexibility of the cloud with the power of machine learning to deliver data management as a service.
It will allow businesses to safely run their mission-critical database workloads on the most secure, most available, and most performant platform—Oracle Database 18c on Oracle Exadata.
Beyond Oracle Database 18c and Oracle Exadata, Oracle Autonomous Database includes machine learning and other features (or "secret sauce," if you will) to deliver this high level of service. Oracle Autonomous Database customers will simply define the service level they need and Oracle Autonomous Database will make it happen.
Oracle Magazine: How does Oracle Autonomous Database affect the role of the DBA?
Colgan: If you look at what a DBA does today, you can probably divide the tasks into two buckets: generic database and infrastructure tasks would be in one bucket and the other bucket would be more application-focused or business-focused tasks.
With the transition to Oracle Autonomous Database, the generic database and infrastructure tasks go away, because the cloud provider—Oracle—is going to take care of them. These tasks include provisioning new database systems, upgrading or patching existing databases, and making backups.
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With Oracle Autonomous Database, applicationand business-focused DBA activities do not go away, says Maria Colgan, master product manager for Oracle Database.
Those tasks are going to go away because DBAs are simply going to select the service levels they want, and Oracle Autonomous Database will take care of it for them. But that doesn't mean the other DBA activities—the applicationand business-focused activities in that second bucket—go away.
Anything that's business-driven or application-focused is still in the hands of the DBA. These areas tend to be the ones that fall off the DBA's plate right now when DBAs focus on those more generic database and infrastructure tasks. Removing those tasks allows the rest of the DBA's world to expand.
Oracle Magazine: What kind of new or different opportunities does the self-driving database offer to DBAs?
Colgan: Oracle Autonomous Database gives DBAs an opportunity to really spread their wings and learn some new skills.
For example, we believe that DBAs working with Oracle Autonomous Database are going to become more involved with their development teams and work hand in hand with them, as well as with the business, to execute more projects, reduce backlogs, and get more value from their company's data. The DBA role will transform to include defining things such as the data model, optimizing data access, and improving end user experience. DBAs can help developers use the features that are included with Oracle Autonomous Database so that the developers can make the best use of the database technology and get their projects up and running much faster.
DBAs who are not currently experts in data modeling, security, data lifecycle management, or application tuning will have an opportunity to move into those areas.
Oracle Magazine: What can DBAs who want to plan for what's next in the autonomous database world do now?
Colgan: One of the things I'm always telling DBAs is that you need to get familiar with the features and functionality in the latest versions of Oracle Database and how to use them, and that's still the case with Oracle Autonomous Database.
DBAs need to start educating themselves on the areas I mentioned, including security, performance tuning, data modeling, and architecting a full solution with a development team. These are areas they may not currently operate in, but they're going to have to grow into them.
And when it comes to which database service a company needs, the business and the developers are going to look to the DBA to know that. Do you really need Oracle Autonomous Database based on your latest requirements? Sometimes the answer may actually be no, and a service such as Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service might be sufficient.
As far as working with developers, DBAs should get ready to be the advocates for the features, functionality, and technology that are in the database that can improve the agility of development teams so that developers are not spending months and years reinventing the wheel in their application code.
Next Steps
LEARN more about Oracle Autonomous Database.
WATCH Oracle Autonomous Database: The Role of the DBA.
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Jacqueline Murekatate: Making a Ripple, Changing the World
Jacqueline Murekatate: Making a Ripple, Changing the World
Blue Valley North welcomes Jacqueline Murekatete, an internationally recognized human rights activist and Rwandan genocide survivor, to speak to students and staff on Friday, April 10 at 2 p.m. in the gymnasium. Born in Rwanda in 1984, Murekatete was nine years old when she lost her entire immediate and most of her extended family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The motivation behind the genocide is rooted in historic conflict. In the mid 1800s, the Western powers in Europe began to colonize in Africa. Once the powers began to compete for control and territory, 14 colonial powers decided to meet at the Berlin Conference. The nations decided to divide Africa into fifty countries and claimed them for themselves. The colonists sought to create centrally governed nation composed of people with common characteristics. Rwanda was initially controlled by Germany; however, after World War I Belgium seized control of Rwanda and inflamed old ethnic rivalries in their attempt to manage the colony.
To fortify their control, the Belgian colonists separated Rwanda's native population into separated classes: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa. Since the Tutsi group looked the most Caucasian, they were considered the superior group and given authority positions. Hutus and Twa were discriminated against even though they made up the overwhelming majority of the population.
The Hutus, constituting 85 percent of Rwanda's population, were restricted from higher education, land ownership and positions in government. Both the Tutsis and Hutus began to feel resentment towards each other and Belgium and unrest began. To preserve the colonial rule, Belgians altered their decision and chose to instead favor the Hutus.
In 1959, the Tutsi and Hutu groups began to fight. Hutus declared an independent republic and began to kill mass groups of Tutsis. The Hutus reversed the identity classification that had been used against them by the Tutsis. Once the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was killed, Hutus implemented a mass extermination of Tutsis. Nearly 1 million people were murdered during 100 days of the genocide. According to the United Nations, at least 250,000 women were raped during the genocide.
Murekatete has spoken in more than 300 forums, including schools, community centers, NGO events, UN agencies, and faith-based communities across the United States, Germany, Israel, Ireland, Bosnia and Belgium. She addressed the UN General Assembly on the 10th year anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and she regularly participates in high level human rights forums where she speaks about genocide prevention, gender based violence during genocide, mass atrocities, the importance of justice in post-genocide environments and women's role in post conflict rebuilding efforts. SevenDays, Make a Ripple, Change the World, is sponsoring the event. For more information, visit givesevendays.org.
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B6db references: 83014881
type Journal Article
authors Wu, J. Y.
title Purification and characterization of cysteic acid and cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase and L-glutamate decarboxylase from bovine brain
journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ui 83014881
year (1982)
volume 79
number 14
pages 4270-4.
keywords Animal
abstract L-Cysteic and cysteine sulfinic acids decarboxylase (CADCase/CSADCase) and L-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADCase), the synthetic enzymes for taurine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, respectively, have been purified to homogeneity from bovine brain. Although CADCase/CSADCase and GADCase copurified through various column procedures, these two enzymes can be clearly separated by a hydroxyapatite column. The purification procedures involve ammonium sulfate fractionation, column chromatographies on Sephadex G-200, hydroxyapatite, DEAE-cellulose, and preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The Km values for CADCase/CSADCase are 0.22 and 0.18 mM with L-cysteic and cysteine sulfinic acids as substrates, respectively. CADCase/CSADCase cannot use L-glutamate as substrate. GADCase can use L-glutamate, L-cysteic, and cysteine sulfinic acid as substrates with Km values of 1.6, 5.4, and 5.2 mM, respectively. Antibodies against CADCase/CSADCase do not crossreact with GADCase preparations and vice versa. It is concluded that CADCase/CSADCase and GADCase are two distinct enzyme entities and they are responsible for the biosynthesis of taurine and gammaaminobutyric acid, respectively.
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Wrinkles is an adorable and well balanced elephant. Flappy is a cute and energetic dragon. They live in a wondrous world together, filled with mysteries.
They are each special in their own way and they have super-powers that they can use whenever an emotional 'alarm' is triggered.
Wrinkles and Flappy become separated, putting their mission in jeopardy. In this book, you will learn about the two secrets that bring them back together and help them to get back on track and accomplish their mission.
Why choose this book?
The story, through the characters in this book, represent the process we all go through when controlling our emotions and allows children to visualize this process. It offers parents simple, helpful prompts in teaching children emotional and impulse control. It illustrates and describes, through rhyme and funny and accessible characters, the benefits of emotional control of all parts of the brain.
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How Do Bunnies Act After Giving Birth?
How Do Bunnies Act After Giving Birth?
When rabbits litter, like a rabbit parent, there are many questions that may be running through the mind. Some of which are; what do I do? How do I ensure they are well-fed, how often do I check upon them?
What type of feed should I feed the female rabbit? Should I separate the male from the female rabbit and her litter? How do female bunnies behave after they just littered newly and so much more?
But in this article, we will be talking more about how do bunnies act after giving birth? Well, as said earlier on, not everyone knows or is familiar with how to care for a rabbit litter or knows how the female rabbit behaves after they just littered.
When bunnies give birth, most especially in the wild, they do not stay in the nest always, in fact, it is very rare to see them in their nest with their new babies.
Why? Because they do not want to attract predators to their nest. So, the babies find their way of burrowing holes to prevent predators. The female does feed them once in a while, or maybe once a day. But these are on rare occasions.
If it happens to be a domestic bunny that just gave birth, it is very different from that of a wild rabbit. They won't worry about shelter, predators, etc.
So, they are known to stay with their babies in the cage almost all the time and feed or nurse their young ones either once or twice a day.
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FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Related to this Article: Do rabbits get angry with their owners?
What Do I do After my rabbit gives birth?
As soon as your rabbit gives birth, you must, first of all, make sure she is okay and well-fed. After then you let mama rabbit rest a few weeks after her babies have been weaned.
Why this is necessary, is because their body needs to fall back to shape and become very fit before they can take in again.
You can also visit the vet for a proper check and also get important tips that could be helpful.
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How Do I Know if my Mother rabbit is feeding her Babies?
It is sometimes very tricky or difficult to know if the mother rabbit is feeding her young ones. But, I tell you, it isn't. It's very simple and easy to know.
If The baby rabbit(s) are always warm, they do not have wrinkled skin, and they are always together and have a very round belly, which is a very good sign that the female rabbit is feeding her babies.
Once you notice these, do well not to always disturb them. But it's preferable you check on them maybe once or twice a day.
You can reduce the number of times you check up on the babies once their eyes are opened, maybe 7-10 days after they are being given birth.
Will a mother rabbit kill her babies if you touch them?
There is a popular myth that says; "if you touch the babies of a rabbit when they are littered newly, the female rabbit will reject them or not even feed on them."
But, it not as it seems. Rabbits are known to identify the smell of their owners and get familiar with it. Most especially if it bonds well with you.
So in essence, touching their new litters will in no way stop her from nursing them or maybe even kill her babies. Why? Because they are able to identify your smell and they trust you so much.
READ ALSO: Can My Rabbit Survive After Fire Burned Him?
There are also cases of a rabbit who kills their babies, which may be due to being a first-time mother, or an early mother that is not fully matured or is ready to take care of babies.
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Behind the Code: Using the Data Layer
Notes come from this video:
We want to know about really detailed user behavior.
To do this, requires lots of bits of JavaScript to do stuff with this data
Today, we've got dozens of different services for things like web analytics, conversion tracking, etc., each with their own implementation, "this is how you send me [a service such as] data"
They can break in different ways as the website changes...
This becomes very don't want global variables for every single one of these vendors!
But here's what the Data Layer does–a common message bus that all of these different services can use
The concern becomes less "how do I interactive with all of these different services" and more "how do I expose the proper data for this page"?
 - A common, well-defined system for exposing page data
 - Doesn't slow down page rendering
 - Doesn't pollute the global JavaScript namespace
 - Doesn't require page authors to learn a different, one-off API for every new tool
 - Doesn't require page authors to expose the same data multile times
 - Allows page authors to add/remove or change vendors easily
The Data Layer is a basic JavaScript array, with some conventions around how you use it.
This keeps the page author's job much simpler
Vendors will consume the data as it comes in.
As additional actions on the page occur, you can append stuff to the Data Layer. Example, when a user clicks an item on a carousel:
How do vendors consume Data Layer messages? The abstract data model...
For each message, the page author passes key-value pairs.
There's an in-memory store of the most-recently value for any given key, so the vendor doesn't need to be there at the time of the message.
Data Layer Help in Github, industry standard for subscribing to the Data Layer. Vendors like Fullstory, Pendo, etc., use this standard approach to how data is bused on the page.
In essence, the tags themselves (the vendors) will reference the Data Layer at different points, depending on what needs to be captured for that platform.
Google Tag Manager
Each gtm.js JavaScript code gets customized for each container. Tags (JavaScript snippets such as Pendo, Fullstory, Optimizely, Hotjar, etc.) are added via the GTM console. When published, those tags are added to GTM's script. Here's an example of a GTM script with other scripts injected.
 - Tags are what send the data to analytics platform (GA or others). The JavaScript snippet that talks to analytics platform resides within gtm.js
 - When we configure container through GTM UI, adequate tag (JavaScript code) gets added to gtm.js for your container.
That's how tag management products achieve inserting code snippet within sites without needing any alterations to the actual site pages (beyond inserting the initial container tag related code, of course).
DOM loads
 1. GTM c"ode loads and does it's thing _makes checks _creates dataLayer object _invokes gtm.js library (loads it whole in the browser) _pushes basic objects into dataLayer _"imports" tags, triggers and variables _attaches them to document nodes
 2. any tags configured to fire on 'pageLoad' fire (push data into dataLayer)
 3. DOM ready (any tags configured for 'DOM ready' fire)
 4. window loads (any tags configured for 'windowLoaded' fire )
 5. 'triggers' ('rules') wait attached to proper DOM nodes
User interacts with the document (page):
 1. events occur
 2. rules ('triggers') are evaluated
 3. rules trigger tags
 4. tags push events' info into dataLayer
Other thoughts
 - Legalzoom uses Tealium for their tag management. GTM seems to have the advantage, but it comes down to preference/what the teams are familiar with. Here's an in-depth analysis. (Also some good notes about how it works with CSS selectors and data layer variables.)


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You don't have to be a dog lover to be constantly reminded of how many people are, but I never really thought about how dogs have been a major subject in the arts for literally thousands of years.
Laumeier Sculpture Park had an exhibition this past summer entitled "Dog Days of Summer". The exhibition was both inside in the galleries and had an outdoor installation by Tea Makipaa on the nature trail. The exhibition included "yappy hours" for dogs and their human counterparts, dog and human look-alike contests, and numerous dog related vendors and rescue organizations. There are even dog memberships now and according to the director of Laumeier, Marilu Knode, the exhibition drew a tremendously large audience. The "yappy hours" alone drew at least 100 humans and 50 dogs per event.
City Garden and Laumeier collaborated on showing William Wegman videos at City Garden. In 1970, painter, photographer and conceptual artist Wegman began making videos with his Weimaraner, Man Ray, named after the influential American artist of the first half of the 20th century. Man Ray became a central figure in Wegman's photgraphy and videos and remained so until he passed away in 1981, when the next generation of Weimaraners took place.
In an article on the internet by author Tamsin Pickeral states:"Five thousand years seems like an eternally long period of time, and it certainly is when you have your publisher breathing fire down your neck and muttering about word numbers and lack of space, but actually viewed within the context of our history, 5,000 years is relatively shorter when looking at archaeological evidence of domestic dog and the earliest discovered human/canine relationships which date back to around 14,000 thousand years ago."
Pickeral goes on to say, "It was with some hesitation then that the dog, our most beloved companion, first started to appear in the arts, but after an initially slow start, the dog became one of the most frequently painted animals. They appeared at first as subsidiary to the primary subject of art works, slinking into the canvas to hover up crumbs from beneath laden tables, licking clean the feet of religious figures or accompanying bold warriors on hunting expeditions and dogs were frequently included in paintings to convey a symbolic message, most often being representative of qualities such as fidelity, love and servitude."
There is no end to the list one can purchase on dogs on Amazon.com. Just a sampling of titles include,"Dog Painting: The European Breeds", "Sit! Ancestral Dog Portraits", "Dogs in English Porcelain of the 19th Century," and "The Artful Dog: Canines from The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
And I'll bet few St. Louisans realize that The American Kennel Club Museum is located in beautiful Queeny Park in west St.Louis County. It's home to the world's finest collection of art devoted to the dog. The 14,000 square foot facility, which includes historic Jarville House displays over 700 original paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, sculptures, bronzes, and porcelain figurines, and a variety of decorative arts objects, depicting man's best friend throughout the ages.
So to all you dog lovers, whether your pooch yaps, barks, or woofs and you can't take enough photos of "Fido", just know that you are continuing an age old tradition.
(The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of St. Louis Public Radio.)
Arts Aficionado Nancy Kranzberg has been involved in the arts community for some thirty years. She serves on numerous arts affiliated boards, including The St. Louis Art Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park where she is the Co-Chair, The Sheldon Arts Foundation and the Sheldon Art Gallery Board, Jazz at the Bistro, The Missouri Mansion Preservation Inc., The Mid American Arts Alliance, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Nancy was named Women of Achievement and was awarded the Distinguished Alumnae Award at Washington University Nancy is a docent at the St. Louis Art Museum and is an honorary docent at Laumeier Sculpture Park. At age 60 she became a Jazz singer. She performs with the Second Half which features Chancellor Tom George on the piano.


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FLAX, NEW ZEALAND, a valuable fiber quite different from common flax, and obtained from the leaf of an endogenous, instead of the stem of an exogenous plant. The plant yielding it is phopminin often' called N. Z. F., and sometimes flax lily and flax bush. belongs to the natural order lili (tem, and is a perennial plant, a native of New Zealand and Norfolk island; its leaves resemble those of an iris, are from 2 to 6 ft long and 1 to 2 or 3 in. broad. The flowers are produced in a tall branched panicle; are numerous, brownish yellow, not very beautiful; the fruit is a three-cornered capsule with numerous compressed jet-black seeds. The fiber of the leaves is both very fine and very strong, and was used by the New Zealanders, before their country was discovered by Europeans, for making dresses, ropes, twine, mats, cloth, etc. N. Z. F. is imported into Britain for making twine and ropes; and the plant is cultivated in its native coun try. Its cultivation has also been attempted in some parts of Europe; but the winters'
of Europe, except in the s., arc too cold for it. To obtain the fiber, the leaves arc cut when they have attained their full size,•and usually macerated for a few days in water. But the New Zealanders procure the fiber in its greatest perfection, very long and slen der, shining like silk, by a more laborious process, and without maceration, removing the epidermis from the leaf when newly cut, separating the fibers by the thumb-nails, and then more perfectly by a comb.
The roots are purgative, diuretic, sudorific, and expectorant; a good substitute for sarsaparilla.—The leaves, Isrhen cut near the root, exude a viscid juice, which becomes an edible gum.--The New Zealanders prepare a sweet beverage from the flowers.


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"Flashbulb memory" describes the tendency of our memories tend to focus on a few salient, random images, typically those connected to the emotions associated with the remembered event but also social psychological factors. Memories that involve a shared identity with others or that are rehearsed with others are more likely to achieve flashbulb status.
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You're assuming that it's 'oxidation '. Copper and it's alloys usually form a sulfide though it can also oxidize. It can also react to ammonia compounds. Cracked case necks -is caused by stress corrosion cracking.Thunderstorms create ammonia compounds from nitrogen in the air.
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By Past RI Vice President Serge Gouteyron, member of the Rotary Club of Valenciennes-Denain aerodrome (France) and Chair of the 2015-16 RI Rotary Fellowships Committee
The second Object of Rotary encourages Rotarians to hold high ethical standards in business and profession; to recognize the worthiness of all useful occupations; and to dignify each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society. Through Rotary, members from different professional and cultural backgrounds are able to combine their expertise and experiences to create a greater impact. By connecting with fellow Rotarians who share a common profession or hobby, Rotary Fellowships contribute to the promotion and advancement of Rotary worldwide. Fellowships enable Rotarians to bond with those outside of their club, district, or country. Vocationally oriented fellowships allow Rotarians to use their unique skill sets to serve their community and further their professional development while building lasting friendships.
How can we increase our impact through Fellowships?
Dear friends, let's extend our spirit of friendship and service spirit beyond our clubs and let's further mutual understanding through Rotary Fellowships. We invite Rotarians whose profession is not represented among the current fellowships to create one. Vocationally-based fellowships based are quite significant as they embody the historical identity of Rotary and of its values.
The following stories will inspire you to join an existing group or start a new one:
- Passion for the friendly skies fosters international service partnerships
- Medical myths inspire fellowship and service
- Rotary Fellowships: service inspired by passion
- Rotary Fellowships' annual activities support polio eradication efforts
Starting a fellowship requires a roster of potential members representing at least three countries and approval from the RI Board of Directors. Find more information online: _URL_


1. Sheylabsb Senior Member
 Barcelona (Spain)
 Spain Spanish
 Bueno, no sé si es correcto preguntar esto en este foro porque no es exactamente una traducción lo que necesito pero espero que algún nativo me pueda ayudar con mi duda: Son los mismo 5 feet 8 inches, que 5.8 feet? Gracias!!!!!!!! Sheyla
 2. abeltio Senior Member
 Spanish, Argentina
 no. 1 ft = 12 in
 o sea... 8 in = 2/3 ft.
 5ft 8in = 5.666 ft
 3. ksequen
 ksequen Banned
 Guatemala, Spanish
 Definitivamente no.
 1 feet = 12 inches
 5 feet 8 inches = 5.66 feet
 4. Sheylabsb Senior Member
 Barcelona (Spain)
 Spain Spanish
 Gracias a los dos por la aclaración, es un poco lío cuando estás acostumbrada a los metros y los centímetros, besitos, Sheyla
 5. snat Member
 Actually, that is how Americans write our height when we abbreviate, for example on the forms that we fill out at the doctor's office. So yes, 5.8" would be five feet, eight inches. The quotation marks after the 8" mean that it is inches, not a decimal point. Someone who is 5 feet, four inches would never write their height as 5.25. That would involve too much math and would just confuse us.
 6. sneaksleep Senior Member
 Actually, I would never put my height as 5.8" To me that would mean that it is 5 inches and 8/10 of an inch. Instead, I would put 5' 8" where the apostrophe indicates feet and the quotation mark indictes inches. However, I agree, I would never use decimals like 5.66 feet.
 7. Andréstable Banned
 Estoy de acuerdo con esto: 5'6'' quiere decir "5 feet, 6 inches," which is 5.5 feet, or 5 and 1/2 feet.
 imperial system is strange.
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In the previous article of this series, we saw how assertions are the key to self-validating tests. Even if an assertion's result is only a pass/fail value, programmers and testers find very handy to associate to the fail value some kind of additional information about the failure, to allow easier debugging without insertion of var_dump() and similar statements into the code.
As I showed you in the previous article's code sample, assertions are useful the most when they fail, and in case they do, they should explain what happened so that a correction can be made quickly. An assertion that passes does not do anything; an assertion that fails shows an error.
Whata happens when tests are failing
The typical scenario is that of a large test suite, with hundreds or thousands of tests. At the time of a commit to the source code repository (or of a push if we're talking about git), the whole test suite must be green. Even if only one tests is red, the test suite is regarded as red.
Sometimes, a regression is introduced by a programming error or an unforeseen scenario, and the output of the test suite becomes something like this:
[12:30:02][giorgio@Desmond:~/txt/articles]$ phpunit assertionmessage.php
PHPUnit 3.5.5 by Sebastian Bergmann.
Time: 0 seconds, Memory: 3.75Mb
There were 4 failures:
1) AssertionMessagesTest::testAsserTrue
The object is not an Iterator.
Failed asserting that is true.
2) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertEquals
The square root of 17 is not 4 but 4.1231056256177.
Failed asserting that matches expected .
3) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertContainsFailsWithCustomMessage
The array does not contain 4.
Failed asserting that an array contains .
4) AssertionMessagesTest::testAssertContains
Failed asserting that an array contains .
Tests: 4, Assertions: 4, Failures: 4.
The green tests are not noisy (which would be a smell), since they are not interesting at the moment. The red tests, which our focus is on, are shown with all the associated information. Along with the test name, the line of interest, and the kind of problem (failure/error), the assertion message is shown.
How to write a meaningful message
An assertion message can be passed as an argument of the assertion method, to be used in case of failure. Writing good assertion messages is an art, but before diving into some code to show you some messages I wrote, we can see how assertion messages are categorized in literature:
 - Assertion-Identifying Message: includes information on which of the assertions in the same method caused the failure. This information can be for example the name of the checked variables. It's good to understand at a glance which assertion failed, but PHPUnit shows you the line of the test method that caused the failure, so it's not strictly necessary to include this kind of messages.
 - Expectation-Describing Message: tells us what should have happened, but did not according to the data passed to the assertion method.
 - Argument-Describing Message: when using assertions which are not very smart, like assertFalse() or assertTrue(), a failure would tell us by default only something like False was passed to assertTrue(). Adding an Argument-Describing Message will tell us instead The predicate on the set containing all red cars was false instead of true.
Watch the test fail
I can never say it enoug: when you write your tests, watch them fail (this mean also that each test should be written in advance with regard to the code it exercises, following the discipline of Test-Driven Development).
This practice is not only useful for avoiding false positives, which are rare anyway, but to show at least for once the assertion message. You can check that when the test fails, the error message is meaningful and the test does not cause a Fatal Error. Watch your test fail to ensure that when they'll fail due to a regression in the future, you will be pleased by how fast you'll learn what's wrong.
The code sample shows how to use PHPUnit's assertion methods with the $message optional argument. Any time you use basic methods like assertTrue(), a message is mandatory. The need for $message is inversely proportional to the specificity of the assertion: for example when assertContains() fails, PHPUnit has already valuable information in the the method itself to produce a readable error message.
Note that the usage of "" (double quotes) enables fast composition of error messages via variable substitution.
class AssertionMessagesTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
public function testAsserTrue()
$object = null;
// back in PHPUnit 3.4 where we did not have assertInstanceOf()
$this->assertTrue($object instanceof Iterator, 'The object is not an Iterator.');
public function testAssertEquals()
$expected = 4;
$square = 17;
$result = sqrt($square);
$this->assertEquals($expected, $result, "The square root of $square is not $expected but $result.");
public function testAssertContainsFailsWithCustomMessage()
$array = array(1, 2, 3);
$testElement = 4;
$this->assertContains($testElement, $array, "The array does not contain $testElement.");
* This Assertion Message would be enough. It will even be better in some cases,
* since PHPUnit would display nicely $testElement even if it was not "castable"
* to a string (an object or array).
public function testAssertContains()
$array = array(1, 2, 3);
$testElement = 4;
$this->assertContains($testElement, $array);
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Vampires versus Mathematicians
I just compared two searches on Google Trends:
 - How to become a vampire is in blue.
 - How to become a mathematician is in red.
Vampires versus Mathematicians
 1. swiety:
 Nice compared ;D
 2. alvarezp:
 Priceless! It really gives us a clue on the sad reality of what interests most people: what is real versus what's not. Or am I exaggerating? Maybe it just tells us that it is easier to dream than to study.
 3. majorana:
 alvarezp, it's not a sad reality. Only very few people are mentally wired to like math, or find it exciting. For the vast majority of the population, math is difficult and boring, and no amount of persuasion will ever make math easy or interesting for them. Besides, it's not fair to compare being a mathematician to being an immortal, almost indestructible, and exceedingly powerful uber-human.
 4. Karthik:
 Yes, but Ulam, Erdos, Hardy, and Ramanujan will be remembered for a long, long time. The chick who wrote Twilight? Not so much.
 But I think it is also important to distinguish between the ability to be good at math versus liking math. I just love math in every form, but I am not very good at it. I chose a rather applied route – engineering and computer science. It was entirely career driven, and looking back, if I had chosen what I was passionate about, I'd perhaps be a mathematician (but probably not a very good one). I embarked down a PhD in quantum computing before I realized if I ever did a PhD, it would be in math. I did not want to waste a decade doing something that I wasn't passionate about (albeit, enjoyable nevertheless).
 I think there are more people (like me) who enjoy math than is believed, but not being great at it puts them off. Perhaps not intentionally, but rather as a resignation of their math-less careers.
 5. Hari Parameswaran:
 While it's an interesting chart, it's probably not a fair comparison. Let's just consider teenagers – the few of them who want to become mathematician don't really need to search the web on how to become one. They are already interested in the subject, and have read books, and talked to teachers on how to go about it.
 On the other hand, the ones who are entranced by idiotic notions unfortunately have no other avenue of search except google (not very many books out there on the subject, nor are teachers likely to entertain such questions).
 So using google as a tool for comparison is biasing it towards the latter.
 6. Tanya Khovanova:
 I agree with you. I am glad that you noticed that.
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Legislative Council Set to Review 2014 Ballot Analyses
By Julie Pelegrin and Cathy Eslinger
LegiSource acknowledges and thanks the Legislative Council Staff for their significant input on this article.
The Legislative Council Committee will meet Wednesday, Sept. 3, to review analyses of the four measures that the secretary of state has certified to the 2014 general election ballot. Two of the measures would amend the constitution: Amendment 67 would define "person" and "child" for purposes of the Colorado criminal code and wrongful death statutes; and Amendment 68 would allow casino gambling at horse race tracks. The other two measures would amend the Colorado Revised Statutes: Proposition 104 would specify that local school board meetings concerning collective bargaining negotiations or employment negotiations must be open to the public; and Proposition 105 would require the labeling of genetically modified food, beginning July 1, 2016.
As required by the state constitution and by statute the Legislative Council Staff (LCS) has been working for weeks to prepare the analyses to help the public understand the purpose and effect of each measure. Following the Legislative Council's review, the LCS will mail the analyses, printed in the familiar "blue book," to each registered-voter household in the state. bluebook Also, the LCS maintains a blue book website – _URL_ – that includes drafts of the analyses and the text of each measure.
The LCS prepares a blue book before each general election for which initiated or referred constitutional or statutory amendments or questions are certified to the ballot. The analysis of each measure includes a summary of the measure, the major arguments for and against the measure, and a brief fiscal assessment of the measure. The analysis may also include other information that can help voters understand the measure's purpose and effect.
Each analysis typically goes through three drafts. But, depending on the complexity of the measure and the time available, some may require only two drafts. The LCS meets with proponents and opponents of the measure and writes the first draft using the information provided by them as well as information obtained through the LCS's own research. The goal is to write an analysis that is concise, readable for a layperson, and factually correct.
The LCS posts the draft analyses on the blue book website, and any person may file written comments for staff to consider in preparing the second or third draft. The staff considers all comments and proposed amendments submitted by the established deadlines, but use discretion in changing the analysis. Some of the criteria for making proposed changes to the analysis include:
- Avoiding slogan-type language that triggers a response but does not contribute to greater understanding of the measure;
- Ensuring that statements are verifiable statements of fact rather than mere opinion, directly applicable to the measure, and not misleading;
- Ensuring that the language specifically strengthens or clarifies the arguments and is not repetitive;
- Maintaining the balance of the analysis between the opposing sides; and
- Avoiding language that is more appropriate for the campaigns conducted by the opposing sides.
As part of the analysis, the LCS also prepares a fiscal impact statement for each measure, taking into consideration fiscal impact information submitted by various state and local agencies, proponents and opponents, and other interested persons. The blue book will include a summary of each measure's fiscal assessment. The full fiscal impact statement for each measure will be available on the blue book website. At a minimum, the summary must include:
- An estimate of the measure's effect on state and local government revenues, expenditures, taxes, and fiscal liabilities;
- An estimate of the amount of any state and local government recurring expenditures or fiscal liabilities; and
- For a measure that modifies the state tax laws, an estimate of the impact to the average taxpayer, if feasible.
The LCS submits the final draft of each analysis to the Legislative Council Committee, which holds a public hearing to review the analyses. Anyone who is interested in testifying on the accuracy or fairness of an analysis may do so at this public hearing. The Legislative Council may change the language of an analysis upon a two-thirds affirmative vote of the council members. Before the public hearing, the LCS will post on the blue book website information for each analysis that includes the final draft, any amendments submitted to the final draft, a list of persons who had opportunity to comment on the last draft, and the text of the measure.
Following the public hearing, the LCS will mail copies of the blue book to each registered-voter household in the state. This year, the scheduled mailing date is Oct. 3.


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Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss
BMJ Global Health, 6:4, e004837 (2021)
Background We provide country-level estimates of the cumulative prevalence of mothers bereaved by a child's death in 170 countries and territories.
Methods We generate indicators of the cumulative prevalence of mothers who have had an infant, under-five-year-old or any-age child ever die by using publicly available survey data in 89 countries and an indirect approach that combines formal kinship models and life-table methods in an additional 81 countries. We label these measures the maternal cumulative prevalence of infant mortality (mIM), under-five mortality (mU5M) and offspring mortality (mOM) and generate prevalence estimates for 20–44-year-old and 45–49-year-old mothers.
Results In several Asian and European countries, the mIM and mU5M are below 10 per 1000 mothers yet exceed 200 per 1000 mothers in several Middle Eastern and African countries. Global inequality in mothers' experience of child loss is enormous: mothers in high-mortality-burden African countries are more than 100 times more likely to have had a child die than mothers in low-mortality-burden Asian and European countries. In more than 20 African countries, the mOM exceeds 500 per 1000 mothers, meaning that it is typical for a surviving 45–49-year-old mother to be bereaved.
Discussion The study reveals enormous global disparities in mothers' experience of child loss and identifies a need for more research on the downstream mental and physical health risks associated with parental bereavement.
Schlagwörter: Welt, child mortality, demographic surveys, inequality, life tables


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A groundbreaking court decision that overturned the practice of segregation will be explored Tuesday night at Mount Airy Museum of Regional History.
Actor and playwright Mike Wiley, who heads a production company in Durham, will present the program "Brown v. Board of Education — Over Fifty Years Later." The event that is free and open to the public is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the museum's third floor.
Wiley's performance in Mount Airy Tuesday, as part of local Black History Month observances, marks the third-straight year he has explored subjects here which defined the civil-rights struggle in America. Last year, Wiley focused on Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League baseball, and in 2011 his program was dedicated to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott.
Matt Edwards, the museum's executive director, said Wiley has proven to be a hit with local audiences due to his ability to bring serious subjects to life while also being entertaining.
"Mike is a one-man show in all stretches of the imagination," Edwards said Thursday of the multi-talented performer.
"And in order to engage the audience, he literally engages the audience," the museum official added of a key performance technique of Wiley's. "There's lots of public interaction to the point where people from the audience will be part of the narrative."
This involves audience members being called up on an impromptu basis to play characters during Wiley's presentations.
He also uses various props to full advantage, including a baseball glove and uniform for the February 2012 program on Jackie Robinson, and a bus seat the year before to tell the story of Rosa Parks.
"It's amazing what a performer can do with a few well-placed props and a good script, and Mike is a testament to that," Edwards said.
Mike Wiley's presentation on Brown v. Board of Education will focus on the turbulent 1950s when the civil-rights era was in full swing.
In 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court heard multiple school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Two years later, the high court ruled unanimously that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which established the "separate but equal" precedent for everything from schools to water fountains.
Tuesday's play will recount the effects of the decision on the families who participated in the original court case, the impact of the ruling on school systems at the time and the challenges still being faced today.
The museum official said a good turnout is anticipated Tuesday night, based on experience. "We probably had close to 100 folks at the event last year," Edwards said. "We expect to have a good crowd and, as always, we expect Mike to put on a good show."
Wiley has become a highly sought-after performer because of his unique theatrical prowess, Edwards said. "Mike has built a big following not only in North Carolina, but regionally."
The museum is lucky to be hosting one of his shows, Edwards said.
"It's not an inexpensive program," he added, explaining that it is made possible by a "subgrant" from the Grassroots program of the North Carolina Arts Council. It is an outreach effort that allows rural communities around the state to experience artistic and cultural activities.
"If it were not for this grant program, we would not be able to bring Mike in," Edwards said of the grassroots project that also encompasses students. "He'll be visiting a couple of schools" while here, the museum spokesman mentioned.
"It's a pretty big deal," Edwards said. "We're really excited to have Mike back."
Although admission to Tuesday night's program is free, donations will be accepted.
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Townships are a product of Indiana's early history, and Indiana is one of 20 states that currently has some form of township government. A township in the Indiana refers to a small geographic area, ranging in size from 6 to 54 square miles (15.6 km² to 140.4 km²), with 36 square miles (93 km²) being the norm. A civil township is a unit of local government. Township government powers in Indiana have grown to the point that it is difficult to discern the differences between townships, cities and villages.
There are, however, significant differences that are important to the people charged with administering township affairs and deciding township policies. Townships and counties are statutory units of government, having only those powers expressly provided or fairly implied by state law. Cities and most villages are vested with home rule powers, meaning they can do almost anything not prohibited by law.
State laws authorize townships to perform a wide variety of functions and state laws specify details for performing these functions.
Township trustees are elected officials, but many are volunteers, too, who help make their communities better places to live. By far the largest single group of elected officials in Indiana, Township Trustees govern 1,008 townships covering every part of the state. Like most elected officials, the Township Trustee serves a four-year term and many Township Trustees work at other jobs in addition to serving their constituents.
Assisting the Township Trustee in managing this very localized form of government is a three-member Township Board. Among its duties are the adoption of the annual budget, serving as a board of finance, and approving township contracts.
Indiana law requires that the Township Trustees provide essential services to the residents and businesses of the Township. Because of its "grassroots" structure, the Township Trustee system is designed specifically to quickly meet the needs of the individual in an emergency.
The ITA is the only township organization that provides legislative services to the 1008 townships. Our lobbyists meet with law makers on a daily basis while the legislature is in session. The ITA insures that all proposed legislation is studied to assess its impact township government. The ITA is the only association from local government that testifies on proposed bills that impact townships. Members of the state legislature come to the ITA when they have questions about township government.
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ports to access the APN-rich layer of the plasma.
In some embodiments, the plasma portion is separated from the remainder of the blood and passed through an affinity column containing a separation material for which APN has a high affinity. The APN is thus preferentially adsorbed onto the separation material. Next, adsorbed APN is eluted from the separation material using a suitable elution solution.
Nakano, J. Biochem (Tokyo), 1996 October 120(4) 803–12, examined methods for isolating APN, and found not only that APN binds specifically to gelatin, but also that it can be eluted from the gelatin material by a 1M NaCl solution. Nakano further reported that applying these methods to 500 ml of human plasma resulted in the isolation of about 50 μg of APN.
Therefore, in preferred embodiments, the plasma portion is separated from the remainder of the blood and passed through an affinity column containing gelatin (or collagen I, III or V), and the adsorbed APN is eluted from the column using a 1 M NaCl solution.
In other embodiments, APN may be separated from the collagen by digesting the collagen with, for example, trypsin or collagenase.
In other embodiments, APN is obtained from adipose tissue, as it is exclusively released by adipose tissue.
In other embodiments, other conventional separation procedures may be used to separate APN from the other components of whole blood or fat.
Conventional protein production technology may be exploited to include a number of unit processes designed to partially purify the concentration of APN. Such conventional processes include the use of glass beads to capture the APN; the use of a 10 kD filter to capture the APN; the use of a molecular sieve to dewater the plasma; the use of ammonium sulfate to precipitate out the APN; and the use of ethanol extraction to precipitate out the APN.
It is reasonable to expect that adoption of at least one of the partial purification techniques described above will lead to a 5–10 fold increase in the APN concentration in the partially purified solution.
In some embodiments, monoclonal antibodies may be used to separate the adiponectin from the rest of the plasma.
It is believed that as little as about 5 μg/ml APN is an effective anti-inflammatory concentration. Greater amounts are generally believed to produce greater anti-inflammatory effects.
Accordingly, in some embodiments of the present invention, the formulation comprises at least 5 μg APN/ml, preferably the formulation comprises at least 10 μg APN/ml, more preferably at least 20 μg/ml, and more preferably at least 30 μg APN/ml.
In some embodiments, the APN or induced cells may be combined with a sustained release device in order to insure a continued presence of the APN in the implant region. In some embodiments, autologous cryoprecipitated fibrinogen is used to make the sustained release device. Cryopreciptated fibrin may be used as a carrier for APN. In one embodiment, cryoprecipitated fibrinogen is taken from the patient's blood (that could be donated before surgery or even collected during surgery with a Cell-Saver). With autologous fibrin, there would be no risk of rejection since the fibrin is from the patient's own blood proteins. The addition of thrombin to the cryoprecipitate creates a stable gel. With time, the cryoprecipitated fibrin may be replaced with a fibrocartilage-like material, similar to that of the host tissue.
It is noted by the inventors that since adiponectin has a high affinity for gels, and since fibrin may be made in a gel form, adiponectin may very well have a high affinity for a fibrin gel. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the fibrin gel made from cryoprecipitated fibrinogen is used as an affinity substrate for concentrating adiponectin. In some embodiments thereof, the fibrin gel is made from combining cryoprecipitated fibrinogen and thrombin and then formed into a sheet-like geometry, and the plasma portion of the patient's blood is flowed across the sheet. The adiponectin in the plasma should bind to the gel. Thereafter, the adiponectin may be eluted from the gel by a NaCl-containing solution.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the protein isolation technology disclosed in U.S. Ser. No. 10/977,858, "Intraoperative Method for Isolating and Concentrating Autologous Growth Factors", Kapur et al., filed Oct. 29, 2004, the specification of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, is used to concentrate either the adiponectin, transferrin or lactoferrin. In the case of adiponectin, a commercially-available antibody with a high affinity for adiponectin is featured on the affinity column. The same steps disclosed in Kapur et al. are carried out to separate out the other factors in the blood to arrive at a concentrated solution of adiponectin.
In the case of transferrin, a commercially-available antibody to either transferrin or its corresponding cell receptor may be used. The same steps disclosed in Kapur et al. are carried out to separate out the other factors in the blood to arrive at a concentrated solution of transferrin. In preferred embodiments, the affinity column contains the antibody to the transferrin protein (as opposed to its receptor).
In the case of lactoferrin, it is possible that this molecule is bound to the surface of white blood cells rather than freely circulating in the plasma. If this is so, then the clinician could add an agent to the pertinent chamber of the Kapur et al. device in addition to or in lieu of a degranulation agent in order to evoke a release of the lactoferrin from the white blood cells. Then, the clinician uses an affinity column with an antibody to lactoferrin to obtain a concentrate.
Also in accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of treating a hydrocephalus shunt, comprising administering an effective amount of a formulation comprising a APN and fibrin glue having a fibrinogen concentration of at least 10 mg/ml onto a hydrocephalus shunt, preferably at least 20 mg/ml.
Therefore, in some embodiments, there is provided a kit for treating a hydrocephalus shunt, comprising:
In some embodiments, adjunct materials disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/631,487, filed Jul. 31, 2003, "Transdiscal Administration of Specific Inhibitors of p38 Kinase" (DEP5144), the specification of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety, are provided along with the APN.
Furthermore, it should be appreciated by one skilled in the art that any number of medical devices or implants may benefit by having the coatings of this invention incorporated therewith to enhance the function and/or life of the device or implant. For example, intraocular lenses, placed to restore vision after cataract surgery is often compromised by the formation of a secondary cataract. The latter is often a result of cellular overgrowth on the lens surface and can be potentially minimized by coatings of this invention manifesting anti-angiogenic characteristics. Other medical devices which often fail due to tissue in-growth or accumulation of proteinaceous material in, on and around the device, such as stents, dialysis grafts, colostomy bag attachment devices, ear drainage tubes, leads for pace makers and implantable defibrillators can also benefit from the coatings of this invention. Devices which serve to improve the structure and function of tissue or organ may also show benefits when combined with the appropriate agent or agents. For example, improved osteointegration of orthopedic devices to enhance stabilization of the implanted device could potentially be achieved by combining it with agents such as bone-morphogenic protein. Similarly other surgical devices, sutures, staples, vertebral disks, bone pins, suture anchors, hemostatic barriers, clamps, screws, plates, clips, vascular implants, tissue adhesives and sealants, tissue scaffolds, various types of dressings, bone substitutes, intraluminal devices, and vascular supports could also provide enhanced patient benefit using coatings of this invention. Essentially, any type of medical device may be coated in some fashion with coatings of this invention which enhance treatment over use of the singular use of the device or implant.


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They are used to wicked winds, and Monday was another classic weather day atop Mount Washington.
"It's pretty crazy out," Mount Washington Weather Observer/Education Specialist Rebecca Scholand said about the conditions. "We had a peak wind gust of 129 mph wind gust around 8 a.m. Monday morning."
The Mount Washington Observatory sits atop the highest mountain peak in the Northeastern United States and is famous for dangerously erratic weather.
The wind gust doesn't come close to reaching the all-time record set at the summit of the 6,288 foot mountain peak.
During a wild April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour) pushed across the summit of Mount Washington. This wind speed still stands as the all-time surface wind speed observed by man record.
Most of the doors open inwards, to help the staff get the doors open. "Just the pressure difference between the outside of the building and the inside of the building when the wind is this strong is incredible."
Scholand says it is far more difficult to walk outside the observatory on a day like this, with extremely powerful gusts, versus a day when sustained winds are very strong. "You can just lean into it and go for it. When they start to get very gusty like they are today, its very difficult, because your hit by a 40 mph wind, and then a gust over a 100 mph."
The observers at the summit are not worried about any damage outside the building. "The only real damage comes is if too much ice accumulates onto things," Scholand said.


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A parallelogram refers to a four-sided figure that has two sets of parallel and congruent sides. For example, a square is a parallelogram. However, not all parallelograms are squares because parallelograms do not have to have four 90 degree angles. Since parallelograms are two-dimensional shapes, you can find the area but not the volume. To find the area, you need to know the base length and height of the parallelogram.
Select one pair of sides of the parallelogram as the base sides. It doesn't matter which pair of sides because both pairs of sides must be parallel and congruent.
Measure the distance between the two base sides to find the height of the parallelogram.
Measure the length of one of the base sides. It does not matter which side you measure because they are congruent so it will be the same length.
Multiply the base length times the height to find the area of the parallelogram. In this example, if the height equals 5 inches and the base equals 9 inches, multiply 5 by 9 to get an area of 45 square inches.
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Speaking Event: The Geometry and Physics of Numbers
The speaker is Matilde Marcolliprofessor of mathematics at California Institute of Technology.
"I will talk about how even very simple properties of numbers are in fact very mysterious and are at the root of some very active areas of research in modern mathematics. I will also show how our understanding of quantum physics and of elementary particles can help us shape our understanding of some of these fundamental questions on the properties of numbers. The mysteries surrounding prime numbers and prime factorization, in turn, have a broad impact on our information based society."
Matilde graduated with a Laurea in Physics from the University of Milano in 1993 and received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1997. She worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics and at Florida State University. Currently she is Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Prizes and awards include the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (2001) and the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award (2001).


text: The finite-element method (FEM) was applied to analyze the vibration (inherent and the harmonic frequencies) of wine glasses (glass harp) as a musical instrument. FEM analysis for this problem was proven appropriate by confirming the coincidence between the experimental and analyzed inherent frequencies for several glass cups with different shapes. When using wine glasses as musical instruments, minute arrangement of the pitch is necessary. Even today, this is done by filling a certain quantity of water in the wine glasses. This method, however, is very troublesome because each time, just before a performance, a check has to be made to confirm that the correct water quantity had been filled in every vessel. Compounding the problem, the pitch sometimes changes during the performance because of water evaporation. In place of this water-filling method, minute pitch changes have been achieved by locally shaving a bottom part of each vessel. The pitch is found to decrease in proportion to the shaved glass quantity. The relationship between the shaved glass quantity and the changed pitch has been clarified experimentally and analytically through FEM analysis. With this procedure, the desired pitch can be obtained.