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Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast how the character of Louise Kavanaugh changes as the story progresses. Be sure to include your assessment of Louise's character when she is first introduced in the story, when she flees from her family's estate, when she travels through space with Fletcher, and when she wants to pursue Quinn's ship.
Essay Topic 2
The book is entitled, "The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation." Why did the author choose this title? How does the title foreshadow the events that unfold in the story, the people affected by the Alchemist, and the determination of Ralph Hiltch to set things right?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Fletcher Christian and Joshua Calvert. How are the two characters similar? How are they different?
Compare the role that Louise plays in each of their lives. How is each character affected by Louise, both positively and negatively?
Essay Topic 4
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How to Wipe Cache on Samsung Galaxy A20
Does your Samsung Galaxy A20 run slow? Are you having app problems like unexpected crashes or apps closing on its own? Why not wipe cache on Samsung Galaxy A20 to enhance its performance?
As we use our smartphones over a period of time, it accumulates bits of information called cache. They are data stored in the phone's system that will be pulled up in case it needs for a certain process, like viewing websites in a browser.
Cache files play an important role on android devices, like the Samsung Galaxy A20. They allow a faster transaction when the phone needs a specific data to be used. However, old cache could go rogue and may affect the overall performance on the phone.
Just like any other data, cache could be affected by bugs and glitches. If this happens, they tend to affect certain processes, like how the device would pull up information, which may lead to a slower device performance. Lags and crashes are often the main indicator once cache goes rogue.
Aside from that, erratic cache files on your Galaxy A20 could also interact and affect with some apps. Once they do, apps may start acting up and certain issues would arise, such as app crashing unexpectedly, app stops working or apps closing on their own.
What you will find below are the procedures on how to wipe cache on Samsung Galaxy A20. You should make it a habit to wipe the cache partition on your device to prevent glitches from happening. Do not worry as this procedure will not affect your personal data.
 1. Turn off your Galaxy A20. This step is essential as we need to access the recovery menu.
 1. Once it is turned off, press and hold the Volume Up key and the Power key until the Samsung logo appears.
 1. If the Samsung logo appears on the screen, release both keys.
 1. Wait for the Recovery Mode menu to appear before pressing any buttons or doing anything. Doing so will null the procedure. Repeat prior steps if you do so.
 1. On the recovery options, scroll to the Wipe Cache Partition option. Use the Volume down key to highlight it.
 1. Once it is highlighted, press the Power key to make a selection.
 1. Highlight Yes and press the Power key to confirm. This will initiate the wipe cache procedure.
 1. Wait for the process to complete. A notification at the bottom part would indicate that it is done.
 1. After a successful wiping of cache, highlight Reboot System Now and press the Power key to restart your device.
After wiping the cache on your Galaxy A20, use your device as usual and expect to feel some difference with its performance from before. If you want to check other related stuff, you may want to factory reset a Samsung Galaxy A10. Please click here for more information.
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What is a financial guarantee contract?
A financial guarantee contract is a contract that requires the issuer to make specified payments to reimburse the holder for loss it incurs because a specified debtor fails to make payment that is due in accordance with the original or modified terms of a debt instrument.
Accounting for financial guarantee contracts
If an issuer of financial guarantee contracts has previously asserted explicitly that it regards such contracts as insurance contracts and has used accounting that is applicable to insurance contracts, the issuer may elect to apply either Ind AS 109 or Ind AS 104 to such financial guarantee contracts. The entity may make that election on a contract by contract basis. How-ever, the election for each contract is not revocable.
Financial guarantee contracts after initial recognition is measured at the higher of:
 1. Impairment loss allowance determined as per requirements of Ind AS 109 and
 2. The amount initially recognised less cumulative amount of income recognised as per Ind AS 18.
Date of initial recognition
For financial guarantee contracts, the date the entity becomes a party to the irrevocable com-mitment is considered to be the date of initial recognition for the purpose of applying the im-pairment requirements.
Legal form
A financial guarantee contract may have different legal forms viz., guarantee, letter of credit, a credit default contract or an insurance contract. The accounting treatment for such financial guarantee contract is not dependent on its legal form.
Contracts that are not financial guarantee contracts
Some credit-related guarantees do not, as a precondition for payment, require that the holder is exposed to, and has incurred a loss on, the failure of the debtor to make payments on the guaranteed asset when due. An example of such a guarantee is one that requires payments in response to changes in a specified credit rating or credit index. Such guarantees are not financial guarantee contracts as defined in this Standard, and are not insurance contracts as defined in Ind AS 104. Such guarantees are derivatives and the issuer should apply Ind AS 109 for such contracts.
If a financial guarantee contract was issued in connection with the sale of goods, the issuer should apply Ind AS 18 in determining when it recognises the revenue from the guarantee and from the sale of goods.
If a financial guarantee contract was issued to an unrelated party in a standalone arm's length transaction, its fair value at the inception is likely to be equal to the premium received.
Timing of recognising life time expected credit losses
For financial guarantee contracts, an entity should consider the changes in the risk that the specified debtor will default on the contract. The significance of a change in the credit risk since initial recognition depends on the risk of a default occurring as at initial recognition. Thus, a given change, in absolute terms, in the risk of a default occurring will be more significant for a financial instrument with a lower initial risk of a default occurring compared to a financial instrument with a higher initial risk of a default occurring.
The risk of a default occurring on financial instruments that have comparable credit risk is higher the longer the expected life of the instrument; for example, the risk of a default occurring on an AAA-rated bond with an expected life of 10 years is higher than that on an AAA-rated bond with an expected life of five years.
For a financial guarantee contract, the entity is required to make payments only in the event of a default by the debtor in accordance with the terms of the instrument that is guaranteed. Accordingly, cash shortfalls are the expected payments to reimburse the holder for a credit loss that it incurs less any amounts that the entity expects to receive from the holder, the debtor or any other party. If the asset is fully guaranteed, the estimation of cash shortfalls for a financial guarantee contract would be consistent with the estimations of cash shortfalls for the asset subject to the guarantee.
Period over which to estimate expected credit losses
For financial guarantee contracts, this is the maximum contractual period over which an entity has a present contractual obligation to extend credit.
Time value of money
Expected credit losses on financial guarantee contracts for which the effective interest rate cannot be determined shall be discounted by applying a discount rate that reflects the current market assessment of the time value of money and the risks that are specific to the cash flows but only if, and to the extent that, the risks are taken into account by adjusting the discount rate instead of adjusting the cash shortfalls being discounted.
Impairment on transition to Ind AS
On transition, an entity should seek to approximate the credit risk on initial recognition by considering all reasonable and supportable information that is available without undue cost or effort. An entity is not required to undertake an exhaustive search for information when determining, at the date of transition, whether there have been significant increases in credit risk since initial recognition. If an entity is unable to make this determination without undue cost or effort an entity shall recognise a loss allowance at an amount equal to lifetime expected credit losses at each reporting date until that financial instrument is derecognised.
In order to determine the loss allowance on financial guarantee contracts to which the entity became a party to the contract prior to the date of initial application, both on transition and until the derecognition of those items an entity shall consider information that is relevant in determining or approximating the credit risk at initial recognition. In order to determine or approximate the initial credit risk, an entity may consider internal and external information, including portfolio information.
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Definición de ping en inglés:
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Pronunciación: /piNG/
1A short high-pitched ringing sound, as of a tap on a crystal glass: the syncopated ping of steel drums
Más ejemplos en oraciones
 - The gun's trigger guard cracked with a high-pitched ping, but the sound was pretty much lost in the screaming.
 - Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle.
 - It will be interesting now to see, when the oven pings, if the whole confection really is a recipe for success.
1.1A percussive knocking sound, especially in an internal combustion engine: if any sign of engine ping occurs
Más ejemplos en oraciones
 - The engine pings, but there's something else, too, very far away.
 - Once you're there, though, the knocks and pings always seem to disappear, leaving you with a lot of explaining to do.
 - The engine developed a mysterious wheeze and ping.
1Make or cause to make a ping: [no object]: the doorbell pinged [with object]: Victoria pinged the bell
Más ejemplos en oraciones
 - Eventually he rams it into gear and inches it backward as the line tightens slowly until a sound like a rifle report pings through the chassis.
 - The sergeant was interrupted by the sound of machine gun bullets pinging on the craft's armor.
 - The sound has pierced through the windows and is pinging off the stone walls in the courtyard.
2 [with object] Computing Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it.
Oraciones de ejemplo
 - To test your IPv6 connection, first try pinging something with the ping6 program on both the gateway and a connected host.
 - Try pinging or otherwise connecting to hosts on the remote network; the connection should behave no differently from before when you brought the tunnel up.
 - The laptop sitting on the center console continuously pinging at the networks being discovered.
2.1Contact a person briefly (especially electronically): he just pinged me, pointing to a breaking news story
Más ejemplos en oraciones
 - I guess you could think of pinging as eye contact via mobile phone; just enough information is conveyed to be useful, but not so much that it disrupts what you're already doing.
 - Some people ping us directly, and most of the rest comes from blogs - which polls once an hour.
 - To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging.
Mid 19th century: imitative.
 - This word imitates the noise. The game ping-pong got its name in the early 20th century from the sound of a bat striking a ball.
Palabras que riman con ping
Beijing, bing, bring, Chungking, cling, ding, dingaling, fling, I Ching, king, Kunming, ling, Ming, Nanjing, Peking, ring, sing, Singh, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, Synge, thing, ting, wing, wring, Xining, zing
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Comments let you have a conversation about something you're working on. Comment threads, called discussions, help you keep track of comments, address your comments to specific people, and respond to and follow comments from your email inbox.
Comments are a handy way of adding notes to your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are visible to viewers and collaborators. These can be invaluable for communicating with collaborators about specific parts of the document, as well as making notes about changes you've made or would like to make.
To add a comment, follow these instructions:
- Highlight or select the text, object, or spreadsheet cell you'd like to comment on. If you're working with a presentation, you can highlight an entire slide by selecting it from the list of slides on the left.
- From the Insert menu, select Comment. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + M (Cmd + Option + M on a Mac) to insert a comment.
- Type your comment in the box that appears to the right of the document.
If you'd like to address your comment to a specific person, type a plus sign followed by their email address, like this: _EMAIL_. That person will receive an email with your comment.
Comments in spreadsheets
When working with spreadsheets, you can comment only on one cell at a time. Spreadsheet cells with comments are indicated by a yellow triangle in the cell's top-right corner.
To see all of a sheet's comments, click on the comment icon on the sheet's tab.
In addition to comments, you can also leave notes on individual cells. While comments are great for conversations, notes are useful for adding annotations that don't require a back-and-forth discussion. To add a note, select a cell, click the Insert menu, and select Note. Cells with notes are indicated by a black triangle in the cell's top-right corner.
Working with Comments
After inserting a comment, there are two main places you can work with it — within the yellow comment box, or from within the discussions thread, which you can access by clicking the Comments button in the top right-hand corner of your browser window.
You can reply to a comment with a new post, edit or delete a previous comment you've inserted, and resolve the discussion when you're ready to remove it. Resolving a discussion removes the discussion from your document, spreadsheet, or presentation, but resolved threads will always be available under Comments in the right-hand corner of your document.
From the discussion thread, you can review all discussions, including those discussions that have been resolved. From this menu, you can also change the notification settings for discussions.
Sometimes it can be tedious to have to scan through all the comments you and your collaborators have made on an item. If you open the discussion thread with the Comments button, you can keep track of all of an item's discussions, including those that have already been resolved. In this view, you can also make comments about the entire document, spreadsheet, or presentation.

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A 38.0 g arrow is shot horizontally with a speed of 31.8 m/s when
it hits a target with a mass of 0.440-kg. The arrow passes
completely through the target and exits with a speed of 16.1
(a) If the target is at rest when hit, what is its speed after the
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The Right Terminations for Reliable Liquid Cooling in HPC
This guest article from CPC explores why liquid cooling for HPCs is increasingly common, and offers an understanding of the components in liquid cooling systems that are critical for success.
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With expensive electronics at stake, understanding the components in liquid cooling systems is critical. (Photo: Shutterstock/Pavel Chukhov)
High performance computing manufacturers are increasingly deploying liquid cooling. To avoid damage to electronic equipment due to leaks, secure drip-free connections are essential.
Quick disconnects (QDs) for HPC applications simplify connector selection and have terminations that fall into two categories: barbs for tubing or threaded joints.
Hose Barb Connections
Quick-disconnect couplers with barbed terminations work well for applications with flexible tubing. Barbed terminations grip the inside of tubing by expanding over the hose barb termination and then relaxing to its original diameter, creating a leak-free connection.
It's important to find the barb connection that best suits the tubing and application.
 1. Triple barb. Fluid coupling terminations with multiple, shallow barbs are commonly used with lighter weight tubing. The triple barb design offers good retention with redundant sealing points.
 2. Locking barb. The locking barb is a good choice in environments where heavy tubing may be exposed to hose or assembly pull (being bumped or stepped on). Locking barbs fit securely without the need for hose clamps or ferrules and work well on heavy-duty tubing like EPDM.
 3. Compression. Common compression style terminations include a ring or ferrule to mate with rigid tubing and a nut to thread capture the ferrule against the termination seat.
Threaded Port Connections
Fluid couplings incorporating a threaded termination provide a reliable connection primarily at machined ports throughout the cooling loop.
High performance computing manufacturers are increasingly deploying liquid cooling.
Straight thread terminations for liquid cooling applications will most often incorporate an elastomeric seal to achieve a leak-free connection.
Tapered pipe thread terminations, on the other hand, do not include an additional elastomeric component. The threads themselves both retain the part and create a seal. However for reliable sealing performance, thread tape or additional sealant is recommended to fill gaps between threads and aid assembly.
Common threaded terminations include:
 1. SAE Straight Thread O-Ring (ORB). This parallel thread termination features elastomeric sealing and is commonly used in North America. The mating female port requires specific machining to create a chamfered seat at the top that accepts an O-ring.
 2. NPT (National Pipe Thread). This common tapered thread is relatively easy to install—just drill and tap a mating port. However, a thread sealant (tape or compound) is required to fill in surface imperfections to create a leak-free seal.
 3. G/BSPP (British Standard Pipe Parallel). Most commonly used in Europe and Asia, this straight-thread, metric termination has a 55° flank and Whitworth thread form. While metal-to-metal sealing is covered in the standard specification, the most common sealing method will include an elastomeric seal.
 4. R/BSPT (British Standard Pipe Taper). This termination provides a simple, leak-free connection. Consistent with other tapered thread installations, tape or additional liquid sealant is recommended to ensure reliability.
QDS Specifically for Liquid Cooling
All terminations mentioned above are available in quick disconnect (QD) couplings, which allow fast, secure, repeated connections and disconnections during service and use. Integrated non-spill shutoff valves automatically stop flow, reducing spills or pressure loss during disconnection.
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Almost one million school children think Professor Green is a scientist, says study
Almost one million school children aged five to 16 think rapper Professor Green is a scientist, according to research.
Children are more familiar with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook (68% correctly identified him), than physicist Albert Einstein who discovered the theory of relativity (only 45% correctly identified him), the poll by Haier home appliances reveals.
Although one in five children (19%) know and love TV Professor Brian Cox, a large proportion are unable to identify a number of significant, heavyweight names from the world of science and innovation, including Charles Darwin (63% unable to identify), Louis Pasteur (75%), Thomas Edison (62%) and Isaac Newton (61%).
Despite spending an average 17 hours and 34 minutes in front a TV screen every week, almost half (45%) do not know that John Logie Baird invented the television. In fact, a quarter of eight-year-olds think David Cameron invented it (23.83%).
Other key findings from the survey are
:: Around a third five-year-olds (35%) think Boris Johnson discovered gravity
:: Almost a quarter of eight-year-olds (22%) think Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser
:: Around a fifth of seven-year-olds (22%) believe Thomas Edison created Facebook
:: Nearly a tenth of children (8%) think Charles Darwin was a reality TV star
:: Around one in 20 school children (6%) believe The X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos created penicillin.
Around a third of key stage three pupils (35%) do not know that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, despite energy transfer and physical processes being part of the school curriculum.
Jeff Moody, sales and marketing director of Haier Home Appliances UK, said: "It is eye opening to discover that children of today are more aware of popular figures like Mark Zuckerberg than men and women who have made iconic discoveries and inventions that have revolutionised the modern world.
"At Haier, we put science at the very heart of everything we do and we passionately believe the future of innovation lies in the scientific interest and imagination of the next generation."
The research was commissioned as part of Haier's Let Children Dream campaign and supports its partnership with the Science Museum and its children's Create It drawing wall where children are encouraged to dream up and draw their ideas and inventions.
:: Haier surveyed 1,000 children, aged between 5 and 16 on October 8.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London's streets
Video: Woolwich attack - man with bloodied hands and knife addresses camera
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London's streets
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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Conductive Coating (SEM)
Conductive coating with a few nanometers of carbon or noble metals is often necessary for analysis of insulating specimens in high-vacuum SEMs. Conductive coating is required when charge cannot properly dissipate and the electron beam charges and/or damages the specimen.
Carbon coating is typically recommended for elemental analysis (EDS) as noble metals have higher interference with characteristic X-ray signal from the specimen (exact requirements will vary between different materials). Carbon can also be used for imaging, or in very thin layers to coat insulating specimens requiring electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).
Noble metal coating is typically used for secondary electron (SE) imaging of specimens, though under the right conditions can be used for other techniques.

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(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Britain are confused by the mute swans of Abbotsbury Swannery. They lay four to ten eggs during a laying cycle which lasts generally a couple of days. During that time, they sometimes sit on the eggs laid up to that point, but not long enough to cause the eggs to begin incubation; that doesnt start until all of the eggs have been laid. So why do they bother at all beforehand? It seems like a waste of energy, which birds as a general rule, tend to avoid. Thats what this new research aims to find out. The group have taken a real egg, sawed off one end and fitted it inside with electronics embedded in rubbery silicon.
The electronics consist of an accelerometer to measure movement, a radio signal generator, a thermometer to find out just how much heat the birds are offering to the eggs both before all are laid and after and a chip to do all the conversions. The end product is good enough to fool the swans and thereby give the researchers a way to measure what goes on with the egg, something that could not be done any other way. The egg sends data to a remote computer eight times a second, where the information is analyzed and stored.
The swannery in Abbotsbury has hosted swans, scientists believe, for over a thousand years and is unique in that its the only mute swan colony that is managed by humans. Its also a tourist attraction. Because of that, the swans are used to people and dont grow flustered and leave when they come around. The colony typically supports over 600 swans of which generally just a hundred and fifty are part of mutual pairings. Nesting swans are generally quite territorial leading to nests that are rather far apart. In Abbotsbury, thats not possible, so the birds sometimes lose track of young as they wander into the nests of others nearby. Back in the 1500s the swans were eaten at special events by monks from the Benedictine monastery at St. Peter's.
In addition to figuring out why the birds roost before laying all their eggs, the researchers hope to learn more about the process by which cygnets hatch in general.
Explore further: Swans help explain evolutionary question


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Illinois River Traffic
Construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal linking the Chicago River with the Illinois River at LaSalle began in 1836, with the canal opening in 1862. This opened up the upper Illinois River above Peoria to regular river traffic and trade. The same year E.W. Gould established the Maples Packet Company with two boats running three times a week between St. Louis and Naples, Illinois that connected to the Sangamon and Morgan Railroad. The canal toll income reached $300,000 in the mid-1860s.
The Illinois Packet Company ran 16 boats and many barges from 1852. Fifteen years later it sold out and became the St. Louis and Illinois River Packet Company. Trade on the lower Illinois River changed after the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal because Chicago became a port from which to sell annually 300,000 bushels of corn and 237,000 bushels of buckwheat that previously would have been shipped downstream to St. Louis.
In 1865 Chicagoans began planning the Sanitary and Shipping Canal.
The Illinois legislature passed an enabling act to use the Illinois and Michigan Canal to divert Chicago's sewage away from Lake Michigan.
Illinois River Survey
Lieutenant Colonel James H. Wilson superintended the survey of the Illinois River to determine what improvements were needed for navigation, although there were no federal funds available for repairs. In the summer of 1867, Wilson's job was to "prepare plans for a system of navigation by way of the Illinois River, between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, adapted to military, naval, and commercial purposes," according to the chief engineers' annual report. Specifications called for a seven-foot-deep channel through a system of locks and dams. There were no federal funds available, but Illinois state funds were allocated in 1871 to build locks at LaGrange and Kampsville.
By 1880, river traffic on the Illinois had begun to have economic problems. Because canal boats could not be used on the Illinois River, cargo had to be unloaded and reloaded onto steamboats at LaSalle. Each packet company had its own time schedules, fares, and terminals that varied in quality and size. Cargo could get delayed when these conflicted. The four-foot channels in the Illinois were expensive to maintain because of the shifting sandbars. By 1893 the state no longer wanted to build locks and dams to control river depth. It was decided to divert Lake Michigan water into the river.
Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal
The Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal was built from 1892 to 1900. The canal permitted up to 5,000 cubic feet per second of water to be diverted into the Illinois River. These levels were not enough to significantly improve navigation downstream, but it did end the need for dams at LaGrange and Kampsville. Barge traffic on the upper Illinois increased. A long-term negative impact on the central Illinois River would be the pollution from raw sewage this water carried with it.
The Twentieth Century
The low point in river traffic was reached in the 1920s, with only 100,000 to 200,000 tons of cargo hauled. By 1935 the traffic consisted of short-haul cargo of sand and gravel. Havana coal was shipped north to Chicago's electric plants. Louisiana and Texas sulfur and oil went to the Great Lakes area as well. Much of the agricultural commodities could be shipped by rail cheaper than by water.
After 1939, the Illinois Waterway Project helped increased traffic to 7 million tons by 1945, to 21 million tons in 1955, and to 43 million tons by 1974. Most traffic was short haul between private commercial terminals.


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External Validation of Risk Scores for Major Bleeding in a Population-Based Cohort of Transient Ischemic Attack and Ischemic Stroke Patients.
Hilkens NA., Li L., Rothwell PM., Algra A., Greving JP.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The S2TOP-BLEED score may help to identify patients at high risk of bleeding on antiplatelet drugs after a transient ischemic attack or ischemic stroke. The score was derived on trial populations, and its performance in a real-world setting is unknown. We aimed to externally validate the S2TOP-BLEED score for major bleeding in a population-based cohort and to compare its performance with other risk scores for bleeding. METHODS: We studied risk of bleeding in 2072 patients with a transient ischemic attack or ischemic stroke on antiplatelet agents in the population-based OXVASC (Oxford Vascular Study) according to 3 scores: S2TOP-BLEED, REACH, and Intracranial-B2LEED3S. Performance was assessed with C statistics and calibration plots. RESULTS: During 8302 patient-years of follow-up, 117 patients had a major bleed. The S2TOP-BLEED score showed a C statistic of 0.69 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.64-0.73) and accurate calibration for 3-year risk of major bleeding. The S2TOP-BLEED score was much more predictive of fatal bleeding than nonmajor bleeding (C statistics 0.77; 95% CI, 0.69-0.85 and 0.50; 95% CI, 0.44-0.58). The REACH score had a C statistic of 0.63 (95% CI, 0.58-0.69) for major bleeding and the Intracranial-B2LEED3S score a C statistic of 0.60 (95% CI, 0.51-0.70) for intracranial bleeding. The ratio of ischemic events versus bleeds decreased across risk groups of bleeding from 6.6:1 in the low-risk group to 1.8:1 in the high-risk group. CONCLUSIONS: The S2TOP-BLEED score shows modest performance in a population-based cohort of patients with a transient ischemic attack or ischemic stroke. Although bleeding risks were associated with risks of ischemic events, risk stratification may still be useful to identify a subgroup of patients at particularly high risk of bleeding, in whom preventive measures are indicated.


text: The contact line is a special kind of power overhead line with multiple electrical connections of wires, which form a complex topology of the linear electrical circuit. Analytical models simplify the real topology of the contact line and it limits their functional application. It is possible to take into account the topology of contact line when using tools of computer simulation, but it entails complicating the computational algorithms of the model. The aim of this article is to determine the conditions for the application of current distribution models and the development prospects in this area. The article describes the existing models for calculating the current distribution in DC contact line: a model of natural current distribution, linear analytical models, model with an infinite number of droppers, a model with a direct application of Kirchhoff's circuit laws in matrix form, and a finite element model. The article contains the main provisions and calculation capabilities of each model. Contact line KS-250-3 acts as a calculation catenary for the comparison of current distribution models. You can use the results of the article to select the optimal design distribution model for the design of the contact line, thermal analysis, current-carrying capacity calculation, identification and elimination of «weak point».


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Northern Territory University: Completed
Khwaja Zulfiquar Hayder
The study aimed to develop a methodology for mapping and
monitoring savanna landscape by remote sensing and GIS techniques.
It also tested various resolution imageries for their suitability
in mapping the savanna landscape.
Sub-issues examined included:
- What sort of satellite data resolution is the most appropriate
for bringing about the best result;
- What is the influence of parameters such as land cover, land
use, rainfall and temperature on the classification technique;
- What procedures based on remote sensing and GIS technologies
can be developed to map savanna vegetation.
Various resolution imageries were used, such as Landsat MSS, TM,
SPOT XS, SPOT 4/SWIR and AIRSAR, with and without synergism, along
with digital elevation model (DEM) data to map large areas (upto
15000 km 2 ) of the savanna landscape. At various stages
of the study, different digital image processing programs such as
ENVI, ERDAS Imagine and microBrian and ArcView GIS (and some
ArcInfo) were extensively used.
They provided good results for mapping savanna land covers in
the region. A methodology involving spectral signature
extrapolation and GIS for mapping large areas of the region was
developed and more than 15000 km 2 area of savannas in
the northern Victoria River District of the Northern Territory was
mapped. Procedures for improving mapping accuracy were also
recommended in the study.
The methodology developed in the study can be used for mapping
and monitoring large areas of savanna landscape in northern Australia if
the proposed recommendations are met.


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Pakistan's Daily Times has the scoop on China's newest museum;
China is building a giant underwater museum to preserve and exhibit an ancient shipwreck. The museum, the first of its kind in the world, is to contain a sunken ship more than 800 years old and its treasures.
Archaeologists say the ship is China's most exciting underwater excavation. Named the Southern Sea Number One, it lies under 24 metres of water and two metres of sand and soil.
Archaeologists took more than 6,000 treasures from one small room on the ship in 2002. The Guangdong provincial government has now allocated £10 million to building a five hall underwater museum to preserve the wreck.
Expert's say, "Since the ship and its treasures have become accustomed to being underwater, it's better to keep them there." Read More…
Interested in Underwater Museums? Take a look at Divester's post; "The World's Coolest Underwater Museums"


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There are two main kinds of telescope mounts, alt-azimuth and equatorial. Most books on astronomy recommend the equatorial mount, which is aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation so that a simple motor on that axis will move the telescope in one direction while the Earth turns in the other direction, the end result being that the telescope's aim remains fixed in space, pointing at a distant object. This is essential for long-exposure imaging but it's also desirable for many kinds of visual observation.
Despite all the advantages of the equatorial mount, the simpler alt-azimuth design retains a devoted following. It is simple to use, basically "point and shoot," and, because it requires no counterweights, relatively light in weight for the telescope it carries.
The very popular Dobsonian telescope uses a simple version of the alt-azimuth mount. Its main disadvantage is that tracking an object across the sky always requires simultaneous motions in two different directions.
With a badly designed mount, this can be a nightmare, but with careful design the observer no longer has to think about it, and tracking objects soon becomes second nature.
Most of today's Dobsonian mounts do this with ease, but alt-azimuth mounts for other telescope designs often don't work as well.
The commonest inexpensive alt-azimuth mount today is the AZ-3. This works very well for terrestrial viewing, but causes problems when used for astronomy. The mount is poorly balanced as it points higher in the sky, and the altitude tension is usually set very high to compensate. As a result, it's very hard to point at anything high in the sky.
Recently Orion® introduced an improved alt-azimuth mount, called the VersaGo. This consists of a standard tripod, similar to that used on many telescope mounts, and a newly designed head which attaches to the tripod. This head consists of four nicely-machined aluminum parts which bolt together with supplied hardware to make a very substantial and solid mount. Both axes have large Teflon bearings and clutch knobs, so the action of the mount is very smooth and well controlled.
The upper plate, where the telescope attaches, uses a standard Vixen cradle as used on other Orion® mounts and those of other manufacturers, so that telescopes are easily interchangeable. The telescope dovetail is held securely in place by two large bolts. The altitude axis is offset, so that the telescope tube can be pointed at the zenith (not always possible in other designs). This also means that the telescope remains balanced no matter what altitude it points at. Finally, there is a long rubber tipped handle attached to the cradle which enables fine movements of the telescope.
Orion® sells the VersaGo mount on its own, or paired with a variety of popular telescopes of different designs: 80mm f/5 refractor, 90mm f/10 refractor, 102mm f/13 Maksutov-Cassegrain, and 130mm f/5 Newtonian.
Since I currently own none of these scopes, I tested the VersaGo with my Orion® 100mm ED refractor, which is comparable in many ways. Mounting was easy, thanks to the standard dove-tail system. I balanced the scope with my favorite 22mm Nagler eyepiece (41x, 2 degree true field of view). This made a perfect system for sweeping the grand vistas of the summer Milky Way, unencumbered by the complications of an equatorial mount. Although it's easy to rebalance the scope for high power eyepieces by sliding the dove-tail fore and aft, I preferred to use a Tele Vue Equalizer: a solid bronze 2"-1.25" adapter which adds 12 ounces of weight to the eyepiece. A quick twist of the altitude clutch holds the tube in place while changing eyepieces, an advantage over clutchless alt-azimuth mounts.
The one problem I noticed was some vibration at high magnifications. I traced this to the tripod's stamped aluminum legs. Aside from this, I found this to be an excellent product, clearly superior to Orion®'s older alt-azimuth mounts in every way. Even a scope as large as the 100 mm ED becomes a comfortable "grab and go" on this mount, easy to carry outside with one hand, and extremely smooth and solid in operation.
Geoff has been a life-long telescope addict, and is active in many areas of visual observation; he is a moderator of the Yahoo "Talking Telescopes" group.


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Turbot, GreenlandAlaska (bottom longline caught)
Greenland Turbot are found in the northern regions of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. In the North Pacific, Greenland Turbot are mostly found in western Alaska, within the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI).
Greenland Turbot grow slowly, may live for more than 30 years, and reach sexual maturity between 5 and 10 years of age.
Greenland Turbot were heavily fished in the 1970's, but numbers have increased due to good management and abundance is currently at medium levels.
Bottom longlines are commonly used to catch Greenland Turbot, particularly in state waters, and likely cause little damage to the seafloor. Longlines do accidently catch seabirds and other fish, but there are several management measures in place to reduce this bycatch.


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text: (Science: radiobiology) The conventional unit of dose equivalent. The dose equivalent in rem is numerically equal to the absorbed dose, D, in rad multiplied by the quality factor Q. 1 rem = 0.01 sievert. (See sievert, rad). Note: for most medical applications involving x-ray or gamma emitters, the numerical values of the absorbed dose in rad, dose equivalent in rem and exposure in R are roughly equivalent numerically.


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3.4 Analyzer Internals
The Semantic analyzer is a complex engine which has been broken down across several modules. When the Semantic analyzer fails, start with semantic-analyze-debug-assist, then dive into some of these files.
The core analyzer for defining the current context. The current context is an object that contains references to aspects of the local context including the current prefix, and a tag list defining what the prefix means.
Provides semantic-analyze-possible-completions.
The analyzer debugger. Useful when attempting to get everything configured.
Various support functions needed by the analyzer.
Local context parser. Contains overloadable functions used to move around through different scopes, get local variables, and collect the current prefix used when doing completion.
Calculate scope for a location in a buffer. The scope includes local variables, and tag lists in scope for various reasons, such as C++ using statements.
The typecache is part of semanticdb, but is used primarily by the analyzer to look up datatypes and complex names. The typecache is bound across source files and builds a master lookup table for data type names.
Interactive Analyzer functions. Simple routines that do completion or lookups based on the results from the Analyzer. These routines are meant as examples for application writers, but are quite useful as they are.
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For an assignment, part of what I have to do involves the use of malloc and realloc. I first create a 2D array of chars, the dimensions being the number of lines and the number of characters. I then use malloc to allocate enough memory to store input from some file. Using fgets I read one line in at a time, and store it in the array. This part works fine (or so I think). The problem comes in when I try to reallocate memory for more lines if need be. The program flow is supposed to be like this:
Create a character array of 50 lines, with 80 characters per line (working)
Use fgets to read one line at a time and save it to the array (working)
When 50 lines have been read, reallocate the array to allow for 100 lines (not working)
Keep reallocating as need be (not working)
This is what I have so far (the core of it at least, I omitted irrelevant code):
_TAG_ NUMBER_OF_LINES 50
FILE *inputFile = fopen("some.text", "r");
char **lines;
lines = malloc(NUMBER_OF_LINES * sizeof(*lines));
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_LINES; i++)
 *(lines+i) = malloc(CHARACTERS_PER_LINE * sizeof(char));
int linesRemaining = NUMBER_OF_LINES;
int reallocCount = 1;
i = 0;
while (!feof(inputFile)) {
 if (!linesRemaining) {
 lines = realloc(lines, (NUM_OF_LINES * reallocCount) * sizeof(*lines));
 linesRemaining = NUM_OF_LINES;
 fgets(*(lines+i), CHARS_PER_LINE, inputFile);
My gut tells me the problem is with the realloc, so I'll explain what I think it's doing.
The first argument, lines, is the pointer I would like to reallocate a certain amount of memory. NUM_OF_LINES is the amount I would like to increase the size by. I multiply this by reallocLinesCount, which is a counter that keeps track of how many sets of 50 lines I ought to have. The sizeof(*lines) part is the size of a pointer to a char.
Thank you for reading and any help is greatly appreciated :)
EDIT: thank you all for the responses; I do not have time right now to read all of the answers right now, but all of your answers will be more thoroughly read and understood once this imminent deadline has passed :D
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Pre-/post-increment/decrement trip up many a novice C programmer; write the code without them, then introduce them as you gain experience. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 9 '11 at 2:47
I'll never understand this strange fetish teachers have to teach students to statically allocate arrays with a specific length. It's like they're TRYING to raise the next generation of easily hacked software writers.. – Blindy Apr 9 '11 at 2:47
Edited to not have pre-/post-increment/decrements. – Fred Apr 9 '11 at 2:55
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My motto is: "say what you mean". In your case, you MEAN to enlarge your array when it's not big enough to hold your data.
FILE *in; // you fill this in
int nlines=50; // initial value
char **buffer=malloc(nlines * sizeof *buffer);
int i=0;
for(int i=0;!feof(in); ++i)
 buffer=realloc(buffer, (nlines+=50)*sizeof *buffer);
 fgets(buffer[i], 80, in);
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This works thank you! I've done a lot of Java programming, where assignments evaluate to true or false, I like how you can treat (nlines+=50) as an int. Clever use of!feof(in) as the conditional in the for loop. – Fred Apr 9 '11 at 3:12
well, this kind of coding is not acceptable by many experienced programmer (i'm not experienced enough ;)). i personally like!feof(in) but doesn't like (nlines+=50)*sizeof *buffer. – Donotalo Apr 9 '11 at 3:18
_USER_, in general, try speaking only for yourself. – Blindy Apr 9 '11 at 4:34
realloc() will often find out that there is not enough available room to expand the existing array in-place; in that case, it will create an entirely new array of the specified size, copy the contents of the old array to the new one, deallocate the old array, and return a pointer to the new one. So you should write
char **oldLines = lines;
lines = realloc(...);
(the purpose of oldLines is to keep the original pointer in case realloc() runs out of memory and returns NULL, as per _USER_ L's tip).
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Still doesn't work :/ – Fred Apr 9 '11 at 2:56
What exactly is happening (how do you see that it doesn't work)? Does it crash (where, and with what message), or does it produce garbled results (what results)? – Aasmund Eldhuset Apr 9 '11 at 2:58
You should never assign the results of realloc() directly to the variable you are reallocating. If the call to realloc() fails, you will no longer have a pointer to the previously allocated memory. If you're just going to abort your program on a realloc failure, maybe it doesn't matter. But it seems like a good habit to use Donotalo's method below. – Brian L Apr 9 '11 at 3:00
_USER_ L: Good point; edited. – Aasmund Eldhuset Apr 9 '11 at 3:15
This is how you should realloc:
char **new_lines = realloc(lines, (NUM_OF_LINES * ++reallocLinesCount) * sizeof(*lines));
if (new_lines)
 lines = new_lines;
 // Memory allocation fails. Do some error handling.
Read realloc reference for details.
You need more allocation for each new lines.
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You are allocating more pointers to lines but not the lines themselves. It is in your code at the beginning:
So after you allocated your number of lines for each line you allocate the space for the line itself. You forgot to do this for the new lines when you reallocate.
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Let's first see how realloc() works. It returns a pointer to new memory on success, and NULL on failure. On failure, it doesn't touch the old memory, and on success, it free()'s it, after copying your data to the new place.
So, the way to use realloc() safely is:
/* allocate memory using malloc() */
ptr = malloc(N * sizeof *ptr);
/* make sure malloc succeeded */
/* call realloc() */
new_ptr = realloc(ptr, M * sizeof *new_ptr);
/* see if it succeeded */
if (new_ptr) {
 /* okay, we can set ptr */
 ptr = new_ptr;
} else {
 /* realloc failed, old pointer still valid */
So, the first thing is that you are using realloc() incorrectly. You should never say x = realloc(x,...);, because if realloc() fails, you assign x to NULL, and the old memory is lost. This is a memory leak.
Now, on to your problem. Let's say you have successfully read NUMBER_OF_LINES lines. Now you want to make room for an additional NUMBER_OF_LINES lines. You would do:
char **new_lines = realloc(lines, NUMBER_OF_LINES*reallocCount*sizeof *new_lines);
if (new_lines) {
 lines = new_lines;
} else {
 fprintf(stderr, "realloc failed!\n");
/* Now, lines[NUMBER_OF_LINES] to lines[2*NUMBER_OF_LINES-1] are
 * available to point someplace useful. They don't point anywhere
 * useful yet. We have to allocate memory for them, just like earlier */
start = NUMBER_OF_LINES*reallocCount;
for (i=0; i < NUMBER_OF_LINES; ++i) {
 /* You weren't allocating memory here, and were writing to
 * lines[0] through lines[NUMBER_OF_LINES-1], which is not what
 * you want. */
 lines[start+i] = malloc(CHARS_PER_LINE * sizeof *lines[start+i]);
 /* check the result of malloc here */
fgets(lines[start+i], CHARS_PER_LINE, inputFile);
One final note: it's almost always wrong to use while (!feof(fp)) to read lines from a file.
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Meaning of Vasant Panchmi: The Vasant Panchmi is also spell as Basant Panchami which reflects the arrival of spring season. The day is celebrated as the Saraswati Pooja where goddess Saraswati is worshiped. The day is celebrated on the fifth day of the Magh month of 'Shukla Paksh', therefore the Vasant Panchami is also called as the 'Shree Panchami' or 'Saraswati Panchami'.
Maa SaraswatiGoddess of Learning:Goddess Saraswati is worshiped on the day of Vasant Panchami. Maa Saraswati reflects the symbol of vedic knowledge and wisdom. Goddess Saraswati is the goddess of great learning, wealth of humanity and wealth of knowledge. According to the Hindu mythology the goddess is sitting with the white attire, white flower and white pearl and sitting on the white lotus which is floating on the water.
Rituals:The mythological history of the goddess Saraswati is associated with the holy rituals that are performed on the banks of river Saraswati. She is also worshiped as the goddess of speech which is also attributed to the formation of words.
Celebrations:On the day of the festival there is the environment of great festivity and the festival also marks the end of the winters. On this day the yellow color is of great significance, people also offers the yellow flowers in worship and also puts yellow tilak on everyone's forehead. At everyone's home the Kesar Halwa is prepared on the day which is also in yellow color. The devotees also visits temples and offers the prayers to the various gods.
The Vasant Panchmi is the festival that is celebrated in North India and is also the festival of nature and there is no story that is associated as it is in the case of the mostly Hindu festivals. On the day of festival goddess Saraswati is generally worshiped by the teachers and students in the northern and eastern part of the country.
Prasadam:The 'Prasadam' of the goddess at the time of the Basant Panchami differs from place to place and community to community. Some of the devotees offers 'Ber', a fruit that is found in Northern and Eastern India or 'Sangari' is the type of bean that is grown on the roots of the radish plant.
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Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14?15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.
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The role of skin during infection and the host response to Piscirickettsia salmonis
The bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis causes a disease, salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS), in farmed salmonids (salmon, trout, and charr). In British Columbia (BC), P. salmonis has been found in wild and farmed Pacific salmon and in farmed Atlantic salmon.
According to past research, fewer sockeye salmon go on to develop systemic infections and die in comparison to pink and Atlantic salmon suggesting that sockeye salmon are less susceptible to P. salmonis. One assessment found that the risk of infection in sockeye salmon attributed to BC salmon farms is very unlikely. However, this conclusion had a high degree of uncertainty because the susceptibility of sockeye salmon and the host-pathogen interactions in sockeye salmon are poorly understood.
This project will evaluate factors in sockeye salmon that may explain why they are less susceptible to the bacteria. Skin has previously been identified as a primary route of entry of P. salmonis. This research will address the role of the skin in bacterial uptake and host resistance among salmon species.
Program for Aquaculture Regulatory Research (PARR)
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NORTH BOSQUE RIVER. The North Bosque River, the ninety-seven-mile main branch of the Bosque, rises at the conjunction of two branches north of Stephenville in central Erath County (at 32°14' N, 98°13' W). The South Fork North Bosque River rises near Lingleville in north central Erath County (at 32°19' N, 98°22' W) and flows for fourteen miles to its confluence with the North Fork North Bosque River, which rises near Huckabay in north central Erath County (at 32°19' N, 98°13' W) and flows for eleven miles. The North Bosque River then flows south, cutting across the extreme northeastern corner of Hamilton County and continuing into northern Bosque County, where it is joined by the East Bosque River south of Walnut Springs. From that point the North Bosque continues its southeasterly course across central Bosque County and into central McLennan County, where it is joined by the Middle and South Bosque rivers as it flows into Lake Waco on the northwest edge of Waco (at 31°34' N, 97°12' W). Along its course, the river flows past Clairette, Hico, Iredell, Meridian, Clifton, and Valley Mills. Its principal tributaries include Live Oak, Duffau, Honey, Meridian, Neils, Spring, Sims, and Green creeks, several of which have been dammed. The river flows through flat terrain with local shallow depressions surfaced by clay and sandy loam that supports water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article."NORTH BOSQUE RIVER," Handbook of Texas Online (_URL_ accessed May 21, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


text: The earliest accounts of vampires date back to ancient Sumerian and Babylonian myths from around 4000 BC. From there, the stories spread around the world. Early Slavic societies believed that a bat flying over an unburied corpse could reanimate the recently deceased into a vampire. This is often cited as the original bat-vampire link. Show off your spooky side year round in this substantial choker necklace.


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" The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) initiative that came to the aid of the 2005 hurricane-affected higher education students — called the "Sloan Semester" — is an excellent case in point to understand how higher education can possibly react to disaster in the future. By taking a close look at what actually happened during the Sloan Semester, and at the lessons learned, the higher education distance learning community can gain insight into the necessary steps to take in order to keep students actively engaged in their educational pursuits when and if the next disaster hits.
From an historical perspective concerning higher education disaster preparedness plans, in general, Ray Schroeder, director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and an active member of Sloan-C, had created a disaster preparedness plan for the University of Illinois system in 2004. In that plan, Schroeder noted that a disasterrelated business-continuation plan with distance education components was not without precedent. In 2003, for instance, the University of Hong Kong shifted to distance learning solutions to keep its university community active when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic temporarily closed it down."
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How to fix browser shortcuts, modified by malware
Malware programs often modify the browser shortcut to force you attend numerous intrusive websites, show you ads and install additional adware on your PC. The problem is that antivirus programs and anti-malware utilities are able to kill malware but they often are unable to detect modified shortcuts and remove files which they are pointing to. As a result your browser can still direct you to a hijacking-webpage despite your computer is actually clean of malware. In this case you need to fix the shortcuts for your Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers manually.
How do I know if my browser shortcut has been modified (broken)?
Open the properties of the shortcut. Go to the Shortcut tab and have a look at the Target field.
Normally the last word in this field looks like chrome.exe, launcher.exe, firefox.exe – the file extension is.exe:
Broken shortcuts (those that have been modified by malware) usually point to.bat,.cmd or.url files instead of.exe. Besides that there may be various website address at the end of the line. In this case the path looks like..\Application\chrome.exe" //
The path itself can be wrong as well. On the image below we can see that shortcut points to
Example of broken shortcut:
Default paths for browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE)
Here are default paths for different browsers. You can use this information to fix your broken shortcuts which have been modified by malware.
Browser Target
Opera C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe
C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe
Mozilla Firefox C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Interner Explorer 11 C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
How to fix the browser shortcut (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE)
Warning! Before you start fixing browser shortcuts please be sure to:
1. scan your system using AdwCleaner and Anti-malware and remove all active malware;
2. clean temporary files using CCleaner or at least manually empty \AppData\Local\Temp\ folder.
 1. Open shortcut's properties:
 2. Click on Open File Location to go to the folder where the malicious file is located:
 3. Unpin broken shortcut from the taskbar:
 4. Delete the malicious folder (you will need to go one level up in file explorer):
 5. Go to the system folder of your browser and copy the path to the executable file (hold SHIFT, right-click on the file and select Copy as path):
 6. Fix shortcuts in Start menu using the correct path (works in Windows 7):
 7. Go to these folders and check all shortcuts. Fix them using correct paths:
 8. Launch the browser directly and make sure it starts without third-party sites:
 9. Pin browser to taskbar if you need to:
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When a figure is given in a problem, it may be effective to express relationships among the various parts of the figure using arithmetic or algebra.
- This strategy is used in the following two sample questions.
This is a Quantitative Comparison question.
Quantity A Quantity B PS SR
(A) Quantity A is greater.
(B) Quantity B is greater.
(C) The two quantities are equal.
(D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
From the figure, you know that PQR is a triangle and that point S is between points P and R, so and You are also given that However, this information is not sufficient to compare PS and SR. Furthermore, because the figure is not necessarily drawn to scale, you cannot determine the relative sizes of PS and SR visually from the figure, though they may appear to be equal. The position of S can vary along side PR anywhere between P and R. Following are two possible variations of the figure, each of which is drawn to be consistent with the information
Note that Quantity A is greater in Variation 1 and Quantity B is greater in Variation 2. Thus, the correct answer is Choice D, the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
This is a Numeric Entry question.
Results of a Used-Car Auction
Small Cars Large Cars Number of cars offered 32 23 Number of cars sold 16 20 Projected sales total for cars offered (in thousands) $70 $150 Actual sales total (in thousands) $41 $120
For the large cars sold at an auction that is summarized in the table above, what was the average sale price per car?
From the table above, you see that the number of large cars sold was 20 and the sales total for large cars was $120,000 (not $120). Thus the average sale price per car was The correct answer is $6,000 (or equivalent).
(In numbers that are 1,000 or greater, you do not need to enter commas in the answer box.)
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An initial report on the 24-hour count that began midnight Monday and ended midnight Tuesday included 233 different species — a drop of 11 from last year when 244 were counted on Mad Island. While the area likely still has one of the United States' most diverse bird populations, the species that were missing raise questions.
Similar changes in bird behavior could be seen this year in the Midwest and parts of the South, areas that have been gripped by a massive drought that covered two-thirds of the nation at its height. The drought's severity is unusual, but scientists warn that such weather could become more common with global warming.
Thank you Ruth for this important article on how bird species numbers are declining due to climate change.


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- What other names is Holly known by?
- What is Holly?
- How does Holly work?
- Are there safety concerns?
- Dosing considerations for Holly.
There isn't enough information available to know if holly leaves are safe for use. The leaves can cause side effects such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and stomach and intestinal problems. Ingestion of holly leaf spines may tear or puncture skin or mucous membranes.
Do not use holly if:
- You are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- You are dehydrated.
- You have a fluid (electrolyte) imbalance.
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You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Hydraulics e.g. extruders
Hydraulics E.G. Extruders
Many industrial fires are caused by oil spray from a high pressure hydraulic fluid leak. The leak can create an atomized spray that may project up to 40 ft (12 m) from the release point. Pressurized sprays produce small droplets that are ignited at temperatures below the normal flash point.
Typical features for hydraulics are:
- A variety of false alarm sources may occur.
- High ventilation rates may be present.
- Be sure to monitor the drainage areas.
- Sprinklers will have little effect on an oil spray fire but will at least cool the adjacent materials.
- Use the alarm signal of the flame detector for a shut-down of the high pressure pump.
Detector choice: recommended IR3 Flame Detectors.


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The Prairie Farms Resettlement Community in Macon County was one of several experimental planned communities established during the Great Depression by the federal government. It became home to 34 African American families, most of whom were displaced from land that later became the Tuskegee National Forest. Various New Deal agencies were responsible for creating projects that would foster rural and economic development in the United States. For example, the Resettlement Administration (RA) and its successor, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), oversaw almost 150 community projects in 40 states by 1938. Close to half of these projects were established in 10 southern states, including three in Alabama: Skyline Farms in Jackson County, which was for whites only, and Gee's Bend in Wilcox County and Prairie Farms in Macon County, both of which were for African Americans.
The Prairie Farms Resettlement Project was actually one of two New Deal project efforts in Macon County. The first was the Tuskegee Planned Land Use Demonstration (TPLUD), which was begun in 1935 under the direction of the Land Utilization Division of the Resettlement Administration. As originally planned, the federal government was to purchase 40,000 acres of highly eroded and unproductive "sub-marginal" land inhabited by 400 families in east Macon County. Budget cuts resulted in only 10,000 acres being purchased. Tuskegee Institute acted as the administrative agency of the TPLUD, the only Land Utilization project with an all-African American management team, including the USDA project supervisor T. N. Roberts. Tuskegee Institute also provided staff release time for project support, campus office space, and supervisory support for labor provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the field, TPLUD activities targeted soil conservation and erosion control, forestry, pasture and grazing improvement, recreation development, construction, and general land rehabilitation. In addition to its land-use objectives, the TPLUD plan called for the relocation or resettlement of 133 families, 121 of which were impoverished African Americans, off the land. Of this number, some 30 families would eventually relocate to Prairie Farms.
The Prairie Farms Resettlement Project, as originally proposed in 1935, was to include approximately 75 families drawn from the Black Belt counties of south-central Alabama. The resettlement was to place families on separate farms scattered in existing communities. By mid 1936, however, the plan had shifted to a "group-settlement" organization, in which participating farmers would be resettled together near local communities and their services.
Both the land utilization and resettlement parts of the TPLUD were under the supervision of T. N. Roberts. In early 1936, he recommended that the resettlement phase integrate with the land utilization project. By 1937, Prairie Farms had been designated as the "resettlement center" for the families in the TPLUD project area. The Prairie Farms Project area encompassed more than 3,100 acres from two comparably sized plantations in northwest Macon County, the George E. Dozier estate of 1,751 acres to the north and the A. P. Tyson plantation of 1,411 acres to the south, purchased by the federal government for $77,645. Situated approximately halfway between Tuskegee and Montgomery, it was bordered by Montgomery County along the Okfuskee or Line Creek to the west, by Elmore County along the Tallapoosa River to the north, by the Cubahatchee Creek in Macon County to the east, and by US Highway 80 to the south. After budget cuts, the project plan was revised to include 37 farms ranging from 41 to 135 acres, two community pastures of 230 and 431 acres, and a community center with almost 10 acres. Further revision scaled the farm plan down to 35 and then 34 farms of between 39 and 134 acres, a 550-acre community pasture, the community center and school with 10 acres, a store, and a 6.63-acre home-site for the community manager.
By 1937, the first of 30 families from the TPLUD project area had started to settle at Prairie Farms. They joined four families who had been tenant farmers on the former plantations that now comprised the resettlement project. These initial families lived in existing housing until the new project houses were built by WPA crews. Eventually, each farmstead had a new house—31 of which had four rooms and three of which had three rooms—electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a drilled well, and a sanitary privy. Each farm also had a barn, stable, poultry house, vegetable house, and pig pen.
A key component of the Prairie Farms Project was its Cooperative Association. Organized in June 1937 for project farmers and other low-income farmers from the surrounding vicinity, the Prairie Farms Cooperative Association operated a store, canning plant, feed and grist mill, hay baler, tractor and plows, mowing machine, and a cane mill. It also provided cooperative buying for farm equipment and supplies, as well as cooperative marketing of farm crops and livestock. Finally, the association operated the 550-acre community pasture and cattle herd.
Once at Prairie Farms, the settlers were given a lease-purchase agreement for a long-term mortgage from the U.S. government at low-interest rates. The agricultural program, directed by Tuskegee graduate Coleman Camp, was based on diversification and self-sufficiency, a system of farm production based on livestock (especially hogs), vegetables, and hay and away from dependence on cotton. According to Camp, the goals were to grow sufficient food for the family and feed for the livestock and have a surplus of each to sell. This transition was slow; in his first-year progress report to the FSA in 1939, Camp related how few of the farmers were able to meet their financial obligations. This was anticipated, because the project was just starting up. The FSA presumed that, with experience, future years would prove more successful for the Prairie Farms residents.
The other major center of activity was the school, which was named the Tuskegee Institute Prairie Farms Laboratory School and headed by Principal Deborah Cannon, who was recruited by Tuskegee's third president, Frederick Douglass Patterson. The physical plant of the school consisted of a five-room school building, along with home economics facilities, a farm shop with tools, a health center equipped for examinations and treatment, a teachers' cottage, a barn, and a playground that included two basketball courts, a volleyball court, a baseball field, and a track.
The school was equipped to instruct 175 students and 213 were enrolled from the resettlement families and farm families in the surrounding area. The curriculum, which covered grades 1-9, focused on relating reading, writing, and mathematics to the experiences and problems that students encountered in their everyday lives and in their community. Tuskegee Institute also provided teachers who were education majors, supplies for the classrooms, instructional support by its faculty, visits by extension agents and the Booker T. Washington Agricultural School on Wheels, and even transportation for fieldtrips to the Institute campus that included meeting famed agricultural educator, inventor, and researcher George Washington Carver.
Student activities were an important part of the school, with a student council made up of two members from each grade, a number of academic and social clubs, a 4-H program, a school newspaper called the Prairie Farms Highlights, and a student cooperative that sold paper, pencils, fruit, and candy.
The school building also served as a community center where residents held community meetings, plays, and interdenominational religious services every fourth Sunday. Additionally, the facility provided a hot lunch program for students supported by the PTA and a community health center with a full-time nurse that included a baby clinic, provided exams, and offered preventive medicine and treatment for illnesses. It was also a site for evening adult educational classes in basic skills, agriculture, and home economics. The school also held an annual Spring Festival, often associated with National Negro Health Week, that included health-related entertainment, lectures, clinics, and even athletic contests and a barbecue dinner.
The outbreak of World War II and southern political dissatisfaction with what were considered liberal social programs combined to end federal support for Prairie Farms and other similar FSA projects, both financially and politically. However, interest in the resettlement communities continued, and in 1940 the FSA considered expanding Prairie Farms by at least 2,000 acres to accommodate 25 to 30 additional families and to make the farms more economically viable. In 1944, the FSA reported to Congress that the farms and community in Macon County were still viable. The same year, the first three farm units were sold by the U.S. Government to private owners. By 1947, more than two-thirds of the farm units were sold, and the sales of the last two farm units occurred in 1951.
Despite the brief existence of these programs, a generation of African American farmers received benefits that would not have
been available otherwise. Landless sharecroppers were given the opportunity to own farms, receive instruction, send their
children to school, and access the resources of Tuskegee Institute. Many of the individual farms survived and were passed
to the next generation, and some are still in operation today. The Prairie Farms site today is much like any other rural community; it has experienced many changes. Full-time agriculture has declined, farms have been sold, and extensive
mining has displaced the landscape. Some of the units have been consolidated to make larger farms, and others have been subdivided
into home-sites for family and extended family. The school building has


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The word penitentiary was first used to mean "house of correction" in 1806. So when the Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania (known at the time as Van Diemen's Land) decided to consolidate the colony's penal settlements into one location, the inclusion of a penitentiary was fairly novel.
In fact, the rise of the penitentiary was part of the reform movements of the era, when reform societies were working to change and improve the lots of people trapped in lives of poverty or crime. The word was originally used to describe an asylum for prostitutes, where the women were not prisoners, but were actually given a safe haven, where they could be educated and reformed, so they could return to society. Many of the penitentiaries of this era were tremendously successful. (The word penitentiary came from the idea of rescuing penitents, those who regretted their lifestyles and wished to change.) Soon, the idea grew from rescuing prostitutes to rescuing anyone who wanted to escape a life on the streets.
It is because of this different concept of penitentiary that Port Arthur had both a penitentiary and a prison—they were not the same thing. It was with the idea of making useful citizens of transported convicts that the penitentiary was created. It was so good at this that Charles Darwin, when he visited, wrote with admiration of its unparalleled success in creating "active citizens" of a "new and splendid country."
In the photo of the Port Arthur settlement below, the penitentiary is the massive building that dominates the scene.


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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Leckey on pluralism in the history of Canadian civil marriage
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak
Profane Matrimony is an essay by Robert Leckey, McGill University - Faculty of Law. It appeared in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2006). Here's the abstract: Recent debates over same-sex marriage prompt reflection more generally on the competing norms regulating marriages. Two supremacy claims emerged in the debates, one that religious traditions provide the supreme law of marriage, another that civil marriage is entirely secular and its supreme law is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This paper identifies similarities in these claims. Both wrongly ascribe an internal uniformity to cultural communities. Referring to historical amendments to marriage law, the paper argues that both claims are unfaithful to the Canadian tradition of marriage law. Amendments to the prohibited degrees of relationship and the introduction of federal divorce legislation show the federal Parliament to have developed a civil or profane marriage in conscious opposition to religious forms. Since the 1880s, marriage law has been periodically altered on the basis that it is wrong in a plural, secular society to impose religious views on nonbelievers. Parliament has not simply followed top-down norms, but also regarded social practice as a source of marriage norms. Past instances of law reform indicate a rich political tradition of argument and contestation, one in which the churches have not maintained consistently that the civil law of marriage should mirror religious rules. Civil marriage and religious marriage are not, as claimed by the standard bearers of the Charter, unrelated. They stand instead in a constantly adjusting relationship of tension and difference.


Osiedle [ɔˈɕɛdlɛ] (Polish plural: osiedla) is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision of a city or town, or of a dzielnica, with its own council and executive. Like the dzielnica and sołectwo, an osiedle is an auxiliary unit (jednostka pomocnicza) of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have legal personality in their own right. In the case of an urban-rural gmina, it is also possible for a whole town to be designated an auxiliary unit.
Not all Polish cities or towns have osiedles in the above sense. However the word osiedle is also frequently used to denote any housing estate or development. (In this sense it sometimes appears in addresses, where the abbreviation "Os." is commonly used.)
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Random acts of kindness.
Hearing that phrase has always kind of annoyed me. It might be because, as a teacher, I used to hear my kids say the word random all the time, without really understanding what it means or using it correctly. "Oh, that's so random" they would say about a sandwich someone was eating at the lunch table. Kids, I love you,... Read More


The purpose of the Discovery Call program is to help clarify your unique participation & leadership within One Nation and the world.
Your unique expression of leadership is a combination of your background, interests, skills, enjoyment and aspirations deployed within the context and mission of One Nation.
This process of discovery typically follows the following stages.
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 - In this phase, it is best to explore your background, skills, interest and the types of things you would like to experience and the ways in which you would like to grow and participate.
 - Is there a particular skill or capacity you are interested in developing?
 - What are you most interested in creating, with or without the context of One Nation?
 - Do you feel like your whole life experience has been preparing you for something? What?
 - What types of creative activities are most intrinsically rewarding/ fulfilling/ fun for you
 - OUTCOME: General sense of participation categories of interest. I.e. 'I like helping to connect people, research, and I love the Los Angeles area.'
 - You are now ready to explore some scenarios in which your unique interests could be expressed as participation and leadership within the network.
 - What is something you would like to do with or without involvement with One Nation?
 - What path of engagement would help you cultivate a skill/ capacity that is meaningful to you?
 - If you could wave a magic wand and accomplish anything for the network, what would it be?
 - What limitation of the current state of One Nation are you most attuned to? Is it possible that you may be able to fill the gap you see?
 - What is the boldest expression of leadership within One Nation that you can imagine!?
 - Of the opportunities we just explored, which most excites you?
 - OUTCOME: Answer the question, if I could do anything within the One Nation network, what would be the most fun? Yes, invent something new and trust your instincts.
 - Now, hold a possibility of engagement and consider it thoughtfully. You can now share this possibility with your call partners to further flush it out and get additional perspectives. Also consider posting this possibility in the One Nation Community group to get feedback from others.
 - Would you consider making a post on the One Nation Community group to share your thinking thus far, and get insight from the org team and other members?
 - OUTCOME: Be able to clearly state the possibility of engagement and converse with others about the viability of it.
 - Once the avenue of engagement is beginning to shape up, you can begin to prepare for action. Can you draft an action plan? What does your call partner think would be good steps to prepare for action? What needs to be thought through; who should you communicate with; and, what would be the path towards taking the next step?
 - What would be the next step to take action on that idea?
 - What support would you need to take the next step?
 - Do you feel you have any personal blocks keeping you back from your leadership/participation?
 - What experiment could you run to learn more about the idea you have?
 - What would be the smallest version of the idea you could take action on without delay or any dependencies?
 - Who would you like to/ should you speak to about this?
 - How could your interest in participating integrate into existing functions/ efforts/ activities/ plans/ needs/ roadmap within the network?
 - OUTCOME: You are ready to take the first/ next step of action.
 - In the action phase you are clear what you are doing and you are taking action. You are sharing with your call partner the action you are taking and using your call time to discuss what is working, where there may be room for improvement, what is next and any challenges you are facing.
 - What are you learning from the action you are taking?
 - What are your next steps?
 - Who do you want to connect to next regarding this?
 - Are there any concerns, blindspots, liabilities you have not yet accounted for?
 - Where would you like this to go from here?
 - OUTCOME: You are a fully engaged One Nation member in a way that feels fulfilling and exciting.
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 2. Read his/her bio.
 3. Text or email your partner on Sunday or Monday to schedule your 60 min call.
 4. Identify the mode of connection: phone, Facetime, Zoom, other.
 1. When you start your call, greet your partner, identify which of the 5 stages of discovery you are in and determine who will go first.
 2. Focus on achieving the outcome of your respective stage, while supporting your partner in achieving the outcome of their respective stage.
 3. Restate the progress made on the call and where you will pick up with your next assignee.
 4. Feel free to connect in any and all other ways that feel natural and consensual.
 1. Once the call has occurred take one minute to mark on Column B that the call occurred (Y) and add any comments about your call experience in Column A.
 - Move forward from your last call, don't simply repeat the same information as you did in your previous call. This process is designed to move forward!
If your partners never communicate with you while you attempt to schedule OR if they do schedule and are a no-show for the call, please write that into the notes in Column A so we can administer accordingly. Please stay positive about the program, receive your next assignment, and go forward.
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The history of paper currency in the Seychelles date back to the period of the French colonization with the most common form of currency being metal coins. When the Seychelles became a formal British Colony in 1814; these were replaced by currencies from Mauritius. The Seychelles also made use of other foreign currencies like the Indian notes and coins, until the Seychelles rupee was firmly established.
Not withstanding the limited scope of historical records, this publication aims at providing an insight into the development of paper currencies in the Seychelles from the period of French and British colonization to present day. Divided into sections pertaining to marked periods and events in the life of the Seychelles 'currency, this publication provides colorful illustrations of the different forms of paper currencies used over the years. In addition the closing section gives an interesting description of all the flora and fauna appearing on the most recent paper currencies of the islands.
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