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A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 3
The NetBeans Helper
The NetBeans Helper class is responsible for implementing all the code that is NetBeans-specific. The generic script is using this helper to generate all the NetBeans project files (inside the nbproject directory) for each project and a project group that includes all the generated project. Let's take a closer look at this class. The first thing it does is import some useful system modules and then import the BaseHelper and Template classes from the build_system_generator module (as well as the 'title' function for debugging purposes):
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys, string
from pprint import pprint as pp
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '../'))
from build_system_generator import (BaseHelper,
Then the Helperclass is defined. This is the class that the build system generator module is using to customize the build system generation for each specific target (NetBeans 6.x in this case). The __init__() method accepts the templates_dir, which is the path to the root of the templates directory used to generate all the build files. It also initializes the separator ('/') and line separator ('\n') to Unix values to make the generated files fit well in their intended environment. The skip_dir is used to tell the recursive drill-down code that looks for projects in sub-directories to ignore directories called 'nbproject' (which is the special sub-directory used by NetBeans to store the build files). The other methods this class implements are: get_templates(), prepare_substitution_dict(), and generate_workspace_files().
class Helper(BaseHelper):
 """NetBeans6 helper
 def __init__(self, templates_dir):
 BaseHelper.__init__(self, templates_dir)
 self.sep = '/'
 self.linesep = '\n'
 self.skip_dir = 'nbproject'
 def get_templates(self, template_type):
 def prepare_substitution_dict(self,...):
 def generate_workspace_files(self, name, root_path, projects):
The get_templates()method is pretty simple. For each build file there is a corresponding template file. These template files are just skeleton of real build files, with some place holders. You will see all the template files soon enough. The get_templates() method just iterates over all the template files (located in the nbproject) and adds a template for the Makefile in the project directory itself. For each such build a file a Template object is generated. Finally the list of Template objects is returned.
 def get_templates(self, template_type):
 result = [Template(os.path.join(self.templates_dir,
 nb_project = os.path.join(self.templates_dir, template_type, 'nbproject')
 assert os.path.isdir(nb_project)
 for f in os.listdir(nb_project):
 project_file_template = os.path.join(nb_project, f)
 if not os.path.isfile(project_file_template):
 filename = os.path.join(nb_project, f)
 relative_path = '/'.join(['nbproject', f])
 result.append(Template(filename, relative_path, template_type))
 return result
This method is the heart of NetBeans6_Helper class. It is responsible for creating a substitution dictionary that contains all the values to be substituted into the templates of each build file. This is not so trivial because some place holders are supposed to be replaced by dynamic content that is generated on the fly. In addition, as you saw earlier NetBeans has quite a few build files. The prepare_substitution_dict() method has several nested function to assist in prepare the substitution dictionary for each one of them. The nested functions are:
 - prepare_makefile() for generating the and files
 - prepare_configurations_xml() for generating configurations.xml
 - prepare_project_properties() for generating
 - prepare_project_xml() for generating project.xml
The substitution dict for the project's main Makefile is empty because it is a generic file that doesn't have any place holder and the substitution dict for the file contains only the name of the project so no helper function is necessary. Here is the code of the method (without the nested functions). It accepts a long list of arguments that the various nested functions use to generate the proper values. The operating system and the dynamic library extension are also determined here. This method is called multiple times with different template names (each template_name corresponds to a build file) and prepare_substitution_dict() calls the proper nested function or generates the dict directly (for Makefile and
def prepare_substitution_dict(self,
if platform.startswith('darwin'):
 operating_system = 'MacOSX'
 ext = 'dylib'
elif platform.startswith('linux'):
 operating_system = 'Linux'
 ext ='so'
temaplate_name = os.path.basename(project_file_template)
if temaplate_name == 'Makefile':
 return {}
if temaplate_name == '':
 return prepare_makefile('Debug', operating_system)
if temaplate_name == '':
 return prepare_makefile('Release', operating_system)
if temaplate_name == '':
 return dict(Name=os.path.basename(project_dir))
if temaplate_name == 'configurations.xml':
 return prepare_configurations_xml(operating_system)
if temaplate_name == '':
 return prepare_project_properties()
if temaplate_name == 'project.xml':
 return prepare_project_xml(dependencies)
assert False, 'Invalid project file template:'+ temaplate_name
return {}
Now, let's examine one of nested functions. I chose the prepare_makefile() function because it is not trivial. The keys in its substitution dictionary are: 'ObjectFiles', 'CompileFiles', 'LinkCommand', 'LDLIBSOPTIONS', 'BuildSubprojects', 'CleanSubprojects', 'OperatingSystem' and 'DynamicLibExtension'. Some of these are simple strings like 'OperatingSystem' and 'DynamicLibExtension'. Others are much more complicated like 'CompileFiles', which is a list of compile commands where each command itself requires a template with substitution values such as 'File', 'CompileFlag', 'Platform' and 'FPIC'. The link command depends on the project type and ldliboptions depends on the platform. Here is the code:
 def prepare_makefile(conf, operating_system):
 compile_flag = '-g' if conf == 'Debug' else '-O2'
 d = dict(Name=project_name)
 object_file_template = ' ${OBJECTDIR}/%s.o \\\n'
 object_files = ''
 for f in source_files:
 f = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(f))[0]
 object_files += object_file_template % f
 # Flag for dynamic libraries
 fpic = '-fPIC 'if project_type == 'dynamic_lib' else ''
 # Get rid of last forward slash
 if len(object_files) > 2:
 object_files = object_files[:-3]
 d['ObjectFiles'] = object_files
 compile_file_template = \
 '$${OBJECTDIR}/${File}.o: ${File}.cpp \n' + \
 '\t$${MKDIR} -p $${OBJECTDIR}\n' + \
 '\t$$( ${CompileFlag} -I../.. ${FPIC}-o $${OBJECTDIR}/${File}.o ${File}.cpp\n\n'
 t = string.Template(compile_file_template)
 compile_files = ''
 for f in source_files:
 f = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(f))[0]
 text = t.substitute(dict(File=f,
 compile_files += text
 # Get rid of the last two \n\n.
 compile_files = compile_files[:-2]
 d['CompileFiles'] = compile_files
 link_command = ''
 if project_type == 'dynamic_lib':
 if platform.startswith('darwin'):
 link_command = '${} -dynamiclib -install_name lib%s.dylib' % project_name
 assert platform.startswith('linux')
 link_command = '${LINK.c} -shared'
 d['LinkCommand'] = link_command
 ldlibsoptions = ''
 if dependencies!= []:
 ldliboption_template = '../../hw/%s/dist/%s/GNU-%s/lib%s.a'
 ldlibsoptions =''.join([ldliboption_template % \
 (, conf, operating_system,
 for dep in dependencies])
 if operating_system == 'Linux':
 ldlibsoptions +='-ldl'
 d['LDLIBSOPTIONS'] = ldlibsoptions
 build_subproject_template = '\tcd../../hw/%s && ${MAKE} -f Makefile CONF=%s'
 clean_subproject_template = build_subproject_template +'clean'
 build_list = [build_subproject_template % (, conf) for dep in dependencies]
 clean_list = [clean_subproject_template % (, conf) for dep in dependencies]
 d['BuildSubprojects'] = '\n'.join(build_list)
 d['CleanSubprojects'] = '\n'.join(clean_list)
 d['OperatingSystem'] = operating_system
 d['DynamicLibExtension'] = ext
 return d
Note, that there are better ways to accomplish this task. There are several third-party template languages like Genshi, Mako, Tempita and Jinja. These template engines can handle the nested templates that prepare_makefile() generates manually in a much more natural way. The code could have been much shorter and concise. I made a deliberate decision to use only standard Python libraries in the interest of keeping the scope of this project limited. Choosing a particular template language/engine would have made the code shorter, but required the reader to


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One of the things we'll often try to do is reduce the number of database queries. In Django, this is most often done by using the
select_related queryset method, which does a join to the related objects, thus returning the data from those, and then automatically creates the instances for those objects.
This works great if you have a foreign key relationship (for instance, you are fetching Employee objects, and you also want to fetch the Company for which they work).
Tt does not work if you are following the reverse of a foreign key, or a many-to-many relation. You can't
select_related to get all of the employee's locations at which she can work, for instance. In order to get around this, Django also provides a
prefetch_related queryset method, that will do a second query and fetch all of the related objects for all of the objects in the initial queryset. This is evaluated at the same time as the initial queryset, so works pretty well during pagination, for example.
But, we don't always want all of the objects: sometimes we might only want the most recent related object. Perhaps we have a queryset of Employee objects, and we want their most recent EmploymentPeriod. If we just want one field from that object (their start date, for instance), then we can do that using a subquery:
employment_start = EmploymentPeriod.objects.filter( employee=OuterRef('pk'), ).order_by('-start').values('start')[:1] employees = Employee.objects.filter( company=company, ).annotate( start_date=Subquery(employment_start) )
We can go a little bit further, and limit to only those currently employed (that is, they have no termination date, or their termination date is in the future).
employment_start = EmploymentPeriod.objects.filter( employee=OuterRef('pk'), ).filter( models.Q(finish__isnull=True) | models.Q(finish__gte=datetime.date.today()) ).order_by('-start').values('start')[:1] employees = Employee.objects.filter( company=company, ).filter( # New Django 3.0 feature alert! Exists(employment_start) ).annotate( start_date=Subquery(employment_start) )
We could rewrite this to remove the OR, perhaps by using a DateRange annotation and using an overlap: but we'd want to ensure there was an index on the table that postgres would be able to use. Alternatively, if we stored our employment period using a date range instead of a pair of date fields, but that makes some of the other queries around this a bit more complicated.
But this does not help us if we want to get the whole related object. We could try to use a
Prefetch object to obtain this:
Employee.objects.filter( company=company, ).prefetch(models.Prefetch( 'employment_periods', queryset=EmploymentPeriod.objects.order_by('-start')[:1], to_attr='current_employment_periods', ))
But this will not work: because the filtering to the employee's own employment periods is not applied until after the slice. We could do the ordering, and then just select the first one as the current employment period, but we would then still be returning a bunch of objects when we only need at most one.
It would be excellent if we could force django to join to a subquery (because then we could use
select_related), however that's not currently possible (or likely in the short term). Instead, we can turn our
EmploymentPeriod into a JSON object in tha database, and then turn that JSON object into an instance of our target model.
class ToJSONB(Subquery): template = '(SELECT to_jsonb("row") FROM (%(subquery)s) "row")' output_field = JSONField() current_employment_period = EmploymentPeriod.objects.filter( employee=OuterRef('pk') ).order_by('-start')[:1] employees = Employee.objects.filter( company=company ).annotate( current_employment_period=ToJSONB(current_employment_period) )
This gets us part of the way, as it turns our employment period into a JSON object. Let's try turning that JSON object into an instance:
class EmployeeQuerySet(models.query.QuerySet): def with_current_employment_period(self): current_employment_period = EmploymentPeriod.objects.filter( employee=OuterRef('pk') ).order_by('-start')[:1] return self.annotate( current_employment_period=ToJSONB(current_employment_period) ) class Employee(models.Model): # field definitions... objects = EmployeeQuerySet.as_manager() _USER_ def current_employment_period(self): return getattr(self, '_current_employment_period', None) _USER_.setter def current_employment_period(self, value): if value: self._current_employment_period = EmploymentPeriod(**value)
And now we can query and include the current employment period (as an instance), without having to have an extra query:
>>> Employee.objects.with_current_employment_period().current_employment_period
To improve this further, we could allow assigning an
EmploymentPeriod object to the value (instead of just the dict), and if that is the case, we could write that value to the database, but that's probably going to play havoc with constraints that would prevent overlaps.

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Smart bookmarks are an extended kind of Internet bookmark used in web browsers.[1][2][3] By accepting an argument, they directly give access to functions of web sites, as opposed to filling web forms at the respective web site for accessing these functions. Smart bookmarks can be used for web searches, or access to data on web sites with uniformly structured web addresses (e.g., user profiles in a web forum).
Smart bookmarks first were introduced in OmniWeb on the NEXTSTEP platform in 1997/1998, where they were called shortcuts.[4] The feature was subsequently taken up by Opera, Galeon and Internet Explorer for Mac, so they can now be used in many web browsers, most of which are Mozilla based, like Kazehakase and Mozilla Firefox.
In Web, smart bookmarks appear in a dropdown menu when entering text in the address bar. By selecting a smart bookmark the respective web site is accessed using the text as argument. Smart bookmarks can also be added to the toolbar, together with their own textbox.[5][non-primary source needed] The same applies to Galeon, which also allows the user to collapse and expand the textboxes within the toolbar. Smart bookmarks can also be shared, and there is a collection of them at the web site of the Galeon project.
There are two ways to employ smart bookmarks: either through the assignment of keywords or without. E.g., Mozilla derivatives and also Konqueror requires the assigning of keywords that can then be typed directly into the address bar followed by the term. Epiphany does not allow assigning keywords. Instead, the term is typed directly into the address bar, then all smart bookmarks appear on the address bar, can be dropped down the list, and selected.
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 4. ^ Shaw, David Andrew (2004-03-22), "OmniWeb 3.0/3.1", Rhapsody Resource Page, retrieved 2012-03-22 [self-published source]
 5. ^ "Smart Bookmarks", The GNOME Project, retrieved 2011-12-14
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hardness tester
hardness tester, device that indicates the hardness of a material, usually by measuring the effect on its surface of a localized penetration by a standardized rounded or pointed indenter of diamond, carbide, or hard steel.
Brinell hardness is determined by forcing a hardened steel or carbide ball of known diameter under a known load into a surface and measuring the diameter of the indentation with a microscope. The Brinell hardness number is obtained by dividing the load, in kilograms, by the spherical area of the indentation in square millimetres; this area is a function of the ball diameter and the depth of the indentation.
The Rockwell hardness tester utilizes either a steel ball or a conical diamond known as a brale and indicates hardness by determining the depth of penetration of the indenter under a known load. This depth is relative to the position under a minor initial load; the corresponding hardness number is indicated on a dial. For hardened steel, Rockwell testers with brale indenters are particularly suitable; they are widely used in metalworking plants.
The Vickers hardness tester uses a square-based diamond pyramid indenter, and the hardness number is equal to the load divided by the product of the lengths of the diagonals of the square impression. Vickers hardness is the most accurate for very hard materials and can be used on thin sheets.


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Your feed room is a mess, but that's understandable. This area can quickly become a catchall for all sorts of items. But you can start reclaiming the space by throwing away these four things right now:
1. Expired medications. Drugs have an expiration date for a reason—they may become ineffective or even harmful with the passage of time. Check the dates on all medications and toss any that have passed. (But don't flush them down the toilet. Instead, put them in the trash or dispose of them as directed by your municipality.)
2. Old supplements. Like medications, supplements have a shelf life. Not all of them, however, will have a printed expiration date. If you can't determine when a supplement expires, but you also can't remember the last time you used it, play it safe and pitch it.
3. Empty feedbags. You might think that stack of folded feedbags will come in handy someday, but right now it's just nesting material for rodents. Take the empty sacks to the recycling bin, keeping only one or two for immediate use if you must.
4. Random hardware items. For some reason, old snaps, latches and screws always find their way into a coffee can in the feed room. As a general rule, if you don't know what something goes to, throw it out. If you're nervous about taking that final step, at least move it to a workshop outside of the barn where it's less likely to find its way into a feed bucket or under a hoof.


Zenfolio | Fun With Pinball | About
Fun With Pinball
Fun With Pinball was initially built for the inaugural NoCo Mini Maker Faire in Loveland, Colorado in October 2013. The idea was to give guests the opportunity to explore many of the remarkable devices used in pinball machines. Devices are mounted on boards to expose their workings and wired to power with push buttons so guests can activate them and figure out how they work. The devices are all from electromechanical (EM) pinball machines which were made until the late 1970s when solid state (SS) machines built with electronics took over. Most of these devices are well used, having been replaced during a game restoration, but still work well enough for demonstration purposes.
Fun With Pinball isn't just for pinball enthusiasts. Certainly pinball fans might enjoy seeing some of the components of their pastime in more detail, and recognize the ingenuity and creativity of the designers who originally put them together.
But the intention is that a much wider audience might be curious enough to take a few minutes to explore how something works if given the opportunity to activate, observe, experiment and study it. While a pinball machine is complicated and hard to comprehend, the individual mechanisms are pretty straightforward and easy to understand. Beyond the obvious question of "What does this do?" are more subtle and interesting questions and answers from many fields including electricity, magnetism, mechanics, physics, logic, etc. These pinball related devices are just a hook to foster a curiosity in the underlying science of how things work.
In a world of smart phones and disposable electronics it's hard to get a grasp on what makes things work. Taking a close look at this older, more tangible technology where everything is visible might be a good starting place for developing an interest in and understanding of much more complicated technologies.
The inspiration for the Fun With Pinball exhibit came primarily from two sources. The first is a collection of mechanical models built in the late 1800s to teach the fundamentals of machine motion. Each model is completely functional and clearly demonstrates a single mechanism. Students could manipulate the models and discover how they work by interacting with them.
The second inspiration of course is the remarkable Visible Pinball Machine built by the Pacific Pinball Museum.
Ideas for the Future
Most of the effort put into the Fun With Pinball exhibit for the first few years has been in designing and building the exhibit pieces and custom made crates to facilitate moving and storing them. As the exhibit has grown building has slowed because it has reached, or even surpassed, critical mass. Attention is gradually moving to other areas including the development of this web site. Ideas for the future include:
 - Design and build a few more pieces as compelling ideas come to mind.
 - Develop more online science and technology lessons using parts of the exhibit on the Learn page.
 - Develop curricula and presentation materials using parts of the exhibit for seminars, workshops, classes, etc.
 - Take it on the road to reach a wider audience.


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Closed Heart Surgery Cost in U.A.E
Treatment and Cost
Total Days
In Country
2 No. Travelers
7 Day in Hospital
14 Days Outside Hospital
Treatment cost starts from
USD 25000
About the Closed Heart Surgery
A heart surgery is typically required for the correction of a defect in the heart. While most of the major defects are treated with the help of open heart surgery, the minor ones can be corrected with the help of closed heart surgery.
A closed heart surgery procedure is performed on patients with minor heart defects. In most of the cases, this approach is used on pediatric patients. A majority of closed heart surgery procedures may involve the major blood vessels that carry blood to the heart and other parts of the body. Some of the examples of procedure performed using closed heart surgery approach include placement of a Blalock-Taussig shunt or pulmonary artery bands and repair of coarctation of the aorta.
Difference between open heart and close heart surgery
The main difference between a closed heart surgery and an open heart surgery is that the former does not require the support of a heart-lung bypass machine during the surgery. That is, a closed heart surgery can be performed on a beating heart, whereas an open heart surgery is performed on a non-beating heart.
Additionally, there is no need for the surgeons to open the chest to access the heart in the case of closed heart surgery. The heart can be accessed through a small hole in the chest (sternotomy) or in the side between the ribs (thoracotomy).
How is Closed Heart Surgery performed?
The exact steps performed during a closed heart surgery actually depends on the type of procedure being conducted and the approach used to access the heart. The following are some of the major steps taken during closed heart surgery:
 - General anaesthesia is administered to put you into a deep sleep. This is done so that you remain unconscious during the surgery and do not experience any pain and discomfort.
 - Since a closed heart surgery is performed on a non-beating heart, the surgeon directly makes an incision or a hole in the chest or the side of the ribs to access the heart.
 - The surgeon then takes specific actions to perform the corrective surgery for the ailment that the patient is suffering from.
 - The incision or hole made to access the heart is closed as soon as the surgery is completed.
Closed heart surgery is not always performed as a corrective surgery. Sometimes, it may be performed as a palliative surgery as well. A palliative heart surgery is the one that is conducted to target the problems caused due to a heart defect rather than the defect itself. It is mostly performed when a series of surgeries are scheduled to be conducted for the correction of the heart defect such as a hole in the heart and ventricular septal defect.
Recovery from Closed Heart Surgery
Recovery after closed heart surgery depends on how well the surgery has been conducted and also on the overall health of the patient. Since closed heart surgery is conducted for the correction of minor heart defects, the overall recovery is good.
In case it is performed as a corrective surgery, the patient is typically discharged from the hospital within a day or two. In case closed heart surgery is performed as a palliative surgery, recovery may take some time and the patient may be kept in the hospital until other planned surgeries are conducted.
Careful monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU) is required in some cases. The patient is administered pain control medications through an IV line is required. Complete recovery in case of a closed heart surgery may last for a few days.
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What is the health care infrastructure of the United Arab Emirates / Why should opt for the United Arab Emirates as a destination for your medical treatment?
The United Arab Emirates is counted among the most developed countries in the world in terms of healthcare benefits. UAE is home to some of the most progressed states and cities in the world which are praised for embracing modern advancements with open arms. Apart from the various other developments, the healthcare benefits, including the professionals and the infrastructure, are astounding. In contrast to the other major countries, the United Arab Emirates, however, does not charge an exorbitant fee in return for necessary treatment, which is why thousands of people opt UAE as their primary medical treatment destination. Besides, it is well-connected to various corners of the world which also makes it easily accessible by candidates all around.
What are the conditions of the hospitals in the United Arab Emirates? Are they JCI certified? What is the quality of the support staff in the hospitals?
The hospitals in the United Arab Emirates are known for providing exemplary services to the visitors. A high number of these hospitals and clinics are known for their incomparable patient interaction as well as infrastructure. The hospitals are very well-maintained and thus, pose least threat to survival. A large number of hospitals are known to be JCI approved as they have accomplished every infrastructural requisites as well as maintained a healthy medical environment to serve international tourists for healthcare purposes. Though there are several JCI approved hospitals in UAE, here are five popular ones among them:
 - American Hospital Dubai
 - International Modern Hospital
 - Dubai HospitalDOHMS
 - Rashid HospitalDOHMS
 - Oasis Hospital
One of the primary reasons for the hospitals bagging JCI accreditation is the quality of staffs working there. Not only the doctors and the surgeons serving patients, but also the support staffs are well-rounded to handle all kinds of situations to ensure quality support required by the candidates.
Are the doctors/surgeons in the United Arab Emirates of the best quality?
The doctors and surgeons in the United Arab Emirates are globally recognized for their service towards the medical field. Furnished with degrees from reputed universities and decades of training and experience, the doctors have earned high success rates throughout their professional career.
What is the process for obtaining a medical visa in the United Arab Emirates?
Certain countries allow visitors to enjoy visa-free entry for a period of 30 days, 90 days or 180 days, varying upon the country and the rules followed. In the UAE, the Patient Companion Visa and the UAE Medical Treatment Visa might be required, depending on the period of staying for medical purposes. Although the visas are arranged by the hospitals (in most cases) where treatment in being availed, yet the candidate must posses the following documents necessary for travelling and availing medical benefits from UAE:
 - Two passport size pictures of the candidate not older than six months
 - Valid passport (original and photocopy) which should not have expiration at least 6 months beyond the stipulated stay of the candidate
 - Valid proof of medical insurance showing the financial credibility
 - Medical certificate issued by the registered medical practitioner treating the candidate, clearly stating the requirement and the cause of the travel.
 - Acceptance letter from the medical practitioner to whom the candidate is being referred to.
What support services does MediGence provide in the United Arab Emirates?
Candidates availing treatment in a different country goes through high speculations. Besides the urgency and the immediate need for treatment, there are several other hassles, dealing which becomes tough for the individuals. Keeping in mind such dilemma, MediGence takes complete responsibility and provides umpteenth care so as to relieve the candidate from unnecessary exhaustion. Thus, the services provided are:
 - On-Ground Support
 - Teleconsultations
 - Visa Assistance
 - Accommodations Assistance
 - Free Airport to Hospital Transfer
 - Rehabilitation and recovery services
Which are the best cities in the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment?
The United Arab Emirates is known for housing some of the most advanced metropolises in the world. However, among them only a handful are renowned for the medical treatment facilities offered. Hence, some of the best cities for medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates are:
 - Dubai
 - Abu Dhabi
 - Sheikh
 - Sharjah
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Due to the gradual warming and melting of the ice covering most of the Arctic Ocean, researchers are hurrying to explore the icey waters as quickly as possible. In one especially remote isolated segment of water called the Canada Basin, they expect to find creatures that have not interacted with the rest of the world's oceans for millions of years. Wow!


Top 5 Most Terrible Social Media Cyber Attacks
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Social media sites have gained a massive popularity across the globe. It is estimated that there are more than 300 million active users in the world today. To cybercriminals, this is a goldmine that they use to achieve their heinous activities such as steal confidential information from unsuspecting social media users.
Here are the top 5 most terrible social media cyber-attacks as documented by Info Security.
Employees Received Malware from Pseudo Social Media Accounts
In July 2017, a group of hackers created fake pseudo account of a renowned photographer from London, Mia Ash, and used it to send malware, PupyRat, to unsuspecting employees of various corporations. This Remote Access Trojan was used to gain access to the victim's devices.
US Government Employees Hit by Malware-Laced Posts
In early 2017, Russian cybercriminals are suspected to have sent more than 10,000 phishing messages to US government employees through social media. All the posts were laced with malware that allowed the cybercriminals to remotely access the devices used to view the posts. This attack was considered the most well organized and executed cyber-attack ever experienced at nation-state level in the US.
High-Profile Accounts are compromised by a 3rd Party App
It is not rare for social media accounts of high profile people in the society to be targeted by cybercriminals whose main agenda is to use malware to get the user's personal information such as credit card numbers and bank accounts. In March 2017, a third-party mobile application dubbed TwitterCounter was used by cybercriminals from Turkey to gain access and control social media accounts of high profile personalities and brands such as Forbes and Starbucks. They used the accounts to spread aggressive messages that aimed at inciting people against Netherlands.
Financial Crimes Executed Using Social Media Sites
In August 2016, a team of researchers at ZeroFox unearthed a network of underground financial crime cartels that use social media sites to embezzle funds from people who are known to be clients or renowned banks. They do this by offering appealing financial services such as money flipping and credit card cracking. The phishing posts are usually posted on leading social media sites and results in los of thousands if not millions of dollars per year.
Smart Hackers Managed to Successfully Hack LinkedIn
Who would have thought that LinkedIn, one of the renowned professional social networking site, firewalls can be compromised. In May 2016, hackers managed to get access to 117 million emails of LinkedIn users and their respective passwords. The emails and passwords were later sold through the dark web.
These are the top five cyber-attacks that were successfully executed through social media sites. It is imperative that you be careful about the links that you click on as well as the people that you follow or add as friends to avoid becoming a victim of any of these tactics.


Ectotherms Wiki
The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is a species native to eastern, where it is generally found in woodlands, forests and swamplands. Similar to other snakes, the red-bellied black snake is an ectotherm and achieves thermoregulation by various behavioural and physiological adaptations.
Active red-bellied black snakes are able to maintain their body temperature in the range 28 – 31 degrees Celsius by moving between sunny and shady areas. These snakes are able to heat up rapidly during the morning by basking. Whilst basking, red-bellied black snakes are able to flatten their body to increase their surface area which allows for more absorption of solar radiation. The snake is able to detect areas of sunlight around it and consequently moves towards these areas. However when it is only able to detect a small patch of light, it is able to move so that the light only shines on its head. After reaching an optimal temperature the red bellied black snake then begins hunting for frogs and other small mammals.
In order to conserve heat in the evenings, the red-bellied snakes reduce their activity as they are diurnal and are also able to return to their natural shape and coil up to reduce their surface area and thus reducing heat loss.
Red bellied black snakes are also oviparous as their offspring are produced in separate sacks. These young snakes emerge out of thjsjjseir sacks shortly after birth which enables females to have greater control over the temperature in which they raise their youngs.


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Light-emitting T-shirts come closer to realityMay 6th, 2009 - 1:51 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 6 (ANI): Light-emitting T-shirts may soon come to be used for electronic displays, thanks to a new Japanese screen-printing method of depositing a luminescent gel onto any surface, including paper and fabric.
Researchers at Dai Nippon Printing in Tokyo, who have made this advance, have revealed that the gel consists of a ruthenium compound that emits a bright light when a voltage is applied to it, along with an electrolyte and silica nanoparticles.
The electrolyte is a liquid salt, an ionic liquid that does not easily evaporate. It also prevents the ink from degrading, allowing displays to be printed onto surfaces without the need for a protective coating.
What makes this ink suitable for use with textiles is the fact that it will not wash off in water, say the researchers.
According to them, the silica nanoparticles blend with the light-emitting liquid to form a gel, allowing it to be printed onto different surfaces in discrete blobs, to form pixels.
Presently, the ink emits only reddish hues, reports New Scientist magazine.
The researchers, however, are trying to incorporate other metal compounds into their technique so as to emit green and blue light, which will eventually give them the whole spectrum.
Since the screen-printing technique currently allows only rough pixels to be generated, the images produced currently are fuzzy.
The researchers say that they are working on techniques to deposit the gel onto surfaces using an ink-jet printer, which would allow them to create smaller pixels and hence higher resolution at costs lower than those involved in lithographic techniques.
The company hopes to market the technology within five years.
It believes that its technique may pave the way for light-emitting posters, clothing, flexible displays, and new lighting applications. (ANI)
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The spotted ratfish is a chimaera found in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean. Often seen by divers at night in the Pacific Northwest, this cartilaginous fish gets its characteristic name from a pointed rat-like tail. The ratfish lays leathery egg cases on the bottom of muddy or sandy areas, which are often mistaken by divers as something inanimate. While mainly a deep-water species, it occurs at shallower depths in the northern part of its range. The generic name, Hydrolagus, comes from the Greek words meaning water, and hare, The spotted ratfish is common in much of its range, not typically eaten by humans (the flesh is bland with an unpleasant aftertaste), and not commercially caught.
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Why Solipsism With OCD Can Never Be Validated
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Why can't solipsism be validated?
It's because it's a theory. It shows that while philosophical findings appear reliable, the search continues, meaning it leads to one revelation after the other. In short, the theoretical perspective is that there will never be any credible evidence to humanly prove or disprove that it is only "I" that exists.
Describe a solipsism obsession for people who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
A person will have intrusive thoughts about her existence. She will thus question endlessly whether her life is real or if other people are just figments of her imagination. However, analysing whether it is only "I" that exists is a corresponding mental compulsion that strengthens the obsessional fear.
Can you reassure someone who has solipsism OCD that they are not the only one that exists?
No, because reassurance is a compulsive response. It increases the strength of the obsession in the way analysing does.
What else makes you say that?
I say it because while solipsism is a theory of interest, in OCD, a person's intrusive thoughts about it are biologically incorrect. Therefore, one cannot grab hold of something that isn't tangible and make sense of it.
Is solipsism OCD linked to existential OCD?
Well, they both relate to existence. When people get intrusive thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life, they tend to ruminate about it but never come up with any satisfactory conclusions. It's because, as with all obsessions, people cannot reason with nonsensical thoughts.
How can people live with the possibility that it is only "I" that exists?
Having the confidence to live with something that cannot be proven is part of the process of recovery that includes cognitive therapy and exposure-response prevention (ERP).
How does cognitive therapy work?
First, people attach all kinds of meaning to intrusive thoughts and become enmeshed with imaginative ideas. It's these meanings that a therapist helps a person change in cognitive therapy. For example, a person discovers that just because s/he has thoughts about solipsism or existentialism, it doesn't indicate a literal meaning about those thoughts. Therefore, cognitive therapy further assists in helping her to allow the intrusive thoughts to come and go without engaging with them.
What about ERP, how can that help?
It teaches a person that the unknown is always there. Subsequently, when exposed to her fears, s/he sees the importance of response prevention. That means, resisting compulsions, such as seeking reassurance, checking the internet and ruminating. Response prevention systematically helps reduce the intensity and frequency of her intrusive thoughts.
Do you have an example of an exposure technique?
For a solipsism obsession, one technique is to write exposure notes that briefly tell someone that it is agreeable to exist alone without an explanation. Or in existentialism OCD, people can write notes to themselves that say it's acceptable to be on the earth without knowing how or why the world was created or continues to carry life. They would read their notes repeatedly or read them aloud until they tire of the obsession.
Do you have any additional information about this topic that includes recovery goals?
Yes, Fred Prenzil talks about it in his article titled "To Be or Not to Be, That is the Obsession: Existential and Philosophical OCD".
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If I keep a plastic mineral-water bottle topped up with tap water and regularly drink directly from it, the neck smells vile after a couple of weeks. Why is this and why is it always exactly the same smell?
- Our mouths are home to around 700 types of bacteria. As well as harmful organisms, which can cause tooth decay, gum disease and permanent bad breath, there are "good" bacteria, which promote oral health by stopping the harmful ones proliferating.
When you drink directly from a bottle, you leave some of your oral bacteria and saliva on its neck. The saliva contains food debris and dead cells on which oral bacteria can thrive. If you don't wash the neck after you have drunk from the bottle, the bacteria left on the plastic will break down nutrients in the debris and release the unpleasant stale smell your correspondent noticed. The smell...
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text: Aluminum matrix composites are emerging as advance engineering materials due to its high specific strength and stiffness, good wear resistance and high temperature properties. Properties of Al reinforced with Al2O3 and SiC are widely investigated. In the present study, mechanical properties of B4C reinforced Al matrix is investigated due to higher hardness and lower density properties than SiC and Al2O3. The high temperature deformation behavior of 5, 10, 15 and 20wt% B4C powder having an average particle diameter of about 10 mu m aluminum matrix composite sintered at 650 degrees C was investigated by creep tests at temperatures ranging from 400 to 450 degrees C and creep resistance of Al alloy is enhanced by the presence of B4C particles. Measurement of impact and hardness properties of composites showed that impact values decrease and hardness values increased with increase in weight fraction of reinforcement. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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Bill Gates: Millionaire, Businessman, Philanthropist
Bill Gates: Millionaire, Businessman, Philanthropist
by Thomas Zimmardi
How did Microsoft's co-founder became one of the richest and most powerful people in the world and what principles helped his success
Bill Gates, the "father" of Microsoft, founded the world's largest software company and is currently one of the richest people on the planet. His biography includes several technology companies, a charitable foundation, as well as socially important start-ups. What other things is Gates known for and how does he live now? We will tell you in this article.
Rich, generous, famous
Bill Gates is the founder and co-chairman of Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Cascade Investment, and several other technology projects. Until 2008, he was the head of Microsoft. Today he is the chairman of the board of directors with no executive capacity. Mr. Gates runs a charitable initiative in his own name and calls philanthropy one of his hobbies.
He was named the richest man in America as many as 20 years in a row and another 16 times - the wealthiest businessman in the world. The last time he received the title of the wealthiest businessman was in 2016 from Forbes. At the time his net worth was estimated at 77 billion dollars. At the same time, Gates has donated large sums of money to charity more than once - for more than 16 years. As of 2010, he had donated about $28 billion into his foundation.
Bill's net worth is now estimated at 100 billion dollars. In the 2018 "Forbes" ranking of billionaires he dropped to second place behind Mr. Bezos, the owner of Amazon. Newspaper journalists estimated Bezos' wealth at more than 110 billion dollars, and Gates' wealth at 90 billion. Bill is in 7th place on the list of the most influential people on the planet from the same publication.
Childhood, adolescence, programming
Bill was born and raised in Seattle. His father was a lawyer and his mother worked for several banks and was on the board of directors of U.S. West and United Way. As a boy he studied at one of the best schools in the city; it is thanks to this that he became interested in programming. At the age of 12 or 13, Gates wrote a tic-tac-toe game in programming language. This became his first program.
While still at school he became friends with Paul Allen, who later became a co-founder of Microsoft. While testing one of the computers at school, the friends hacked into its system. This allowed them to continue working on the device, but they were punished by being banned from working on computers for 3 months. After the 3 months passed, the company which Gates and Allen hacked agreed to their proposal to search for errors in their software.
After the company's bankruptcy, Information Sciences invited the talented students to create a payroll management program. In return, the friends were able to work on one of the computers for several hours a day. After some time working there, Bill, Paul, and two other colleagues decided to create their own technology company. But the program was not completed properly and Bill's parents, who described him as "crazy about computers", decided to take him to a psychiatrist.
At the age of 17, Bill Gates recruited Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert to work on a traffic counting meter. The device, operated on software developed by the programmers of Traf-O-Data, analyzed traffic and created reports for engineers. However, the company's net profit did not exceed a few thousand dollars over 10 years. In the same year, one of Gates' former employers invited his team to work for TRW, which was creating large software projects at the time.
Microsoft: the beginning
In 1973, the future billionaire enrolled at Harvard. But two years later, after being expelled, he completely went to work on creating his own software. In 1975, Gates and Allen founded Micro-Soft. Working in the Basic programming language which they already knew, they created software for the MITS personal computer, which both were working on at that time. In 1976, the Microsoft trademark, which is familiar to everyone, was registered. Gates received 64% of the shares - his contribution to the project was considered to be the most instrumental (from his point of view). As a result, the company had successfully created software for a personal computer.
In 1977, Gates was engaged in business communication and product promotion and the company released the Microsoft FORTRAN software for devices with a CP/M operating system. Microsoft became known for its technical innovations throughout the entire market. Three years later, they began cooperation with IBM. However, the creators of the company did not have time to complete their work on the IBM software and the product's source codes were transferred to experts from a third-party department.
In 1985, Gates' career took off. A new operating system, called Windows, was created. Ideas for the project were found in the already existing Apple and Xerox software.
The company took up all of Bill Gate's time and thoughts, and it is not surprising that his personal life also turned out to be connected to Microsoft. He met his future wife, Melinda French, at a press conference in 1987. At the time, she had been an employee of Microsoft for several years. The couple got married in 1994. After 2 years, Bill and Melinda had their first child - Jennifer Katharine. After another 5 years, Rory John Gates was born, and in 2002 the couple became parents for the third time - the Gates couple had another daughter, Phoebe Adele.
In addition to Microsoft
In 1989, Bill founded Corbis, a multimedia project company. He was not interested in the development of the company, since the direction of its activities was not fully consistent with his life - programming.
Gates is a lover of classical art; In 1994, he acquired a collection of works by Leonardo Da Vinci. They were later transferred to an art museum in the businessman's hometown 10 years later.
Bill's charitable initiatives went far beyond the classical understanding of this term. In 2004, he handed over $30,000 to George W. Bush's presidential campaign. In the same year, Gates became one of the members of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company that offers car insurance services and is also a distributor of paint and textile brands. Around the same time, Bill became a top executive at a biotech start-up in Bothell, Washington.
After leaving a permanent job at Microsoft in 2008, the businessman fully devoted himself to managing his own charitable foundation. Despite his long tenure with the technology company, Gates finally confirmed his intention not to return to the Microsoft team in any capacity in 2011. But Bill did not leave as head of the board of directors; he actually only left the company in 2014. At that time, he had no more than 5% of the shares of the technology giant.
When he left Microsoft, the entrepreneur founded "bgC3". This new company was supposed to be engaged in research and analysis in the field of software, according to an official statement. In 2015 Bill founded a fund to search for private investment for the development of alternative energy sources. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of the social network Facebook, is a co-founder of the fund.
Gates vs. Jobs and Gates vs. Allen
The conflict between Gates and Jobs arose from the fact that one of the developers at "Microsoft" used Apple's ideas. At first, Jobs did not pay attention to the programmer's interest in the software that the company was producing at that time. However, after the release of the first operating system from Gates and Allen, Apple's executive was furious. Technologies similar to MAC OS were used in the first version of "Windows". But Apple did not actually own the rights to them. Because of the scandal, Microsoft received a frosty reception from consumers and the company had to start developing a system for personal computers from scratch. Interestingly, Gates and Allen have had an indefinite right to use the entire MAC interface since 1985.
The conflict between Bill Gates and Paul Allen, whom the programmer created his company with, began in 1975. According to Paul's biography, from the very beginning Gates considered his contribution to Microsoft to be more valuable. This was reflected in the size of the shares that went to each programmer and the amount of remuneration. In 1982, Allen was fighting cancer and decided to leave the company. Bill, along with one of his partners at that time, was considering the possibility of reducing Paul's shares in the company. As a result, Allen still received a lump sum from Microsoft - his fortune stands at no more than $15 billion. The majority of this came from a block of shares of the company which he and Gates had created.
What's next?
Bill Gates has never revealed his plans for the future. He is actively involved in the development of a charitable foundation, which his wife also participates in the management of. In addition, Bill continues to manage companies focused on technology market research (for example, "bgC3") and a foundation established jointly with Mark Zuckerberg.
Charity is now in the forefront for Bill Gates. It is unlikely that the next technological breakthrough will come from the founder of Microsoft in the coming years. In his own words, every significant development takes several years of continuous work on its implementation and


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Sidewalk Math Carpets engage young children ages 3 to 7 in learning mathematical patterns by walking, hopping, jumping, and skipping through colorful designs on carpets that are similar to hopscotch patterns drawn on sidewalks. However, Sidewalk Math patterns are designed with special attention to the skills that build the mathematical numbersense that students will need to succeed in school.
Counting Things = object counting
Counting By = multiplication facts
Counting to Order = ordering skills
Counting On = addition skills
Check out Sidewalk Math videos on Lesley University's website!
Numbersense, the ability to count and to see numbers and shapes as patterns of numbers, is at the very foundation of mathematics. Sidewalk Math patterns were designed in the Creativity Commons of Lesley University by faculty and educators in Early Childhood Education, Mathematics, Art & Design and Creative Arts in Learning. Each Sidewalk Math Carpet provides a unique mathematical pattern with counting activities that are developmentally appropriate, beautifully designed and mathematically meaningful.
Research demonstrates the impact of Sidewalk Math Carpets on increased growth in numbersense in young children ages 3years to 7 years:
To guide teachers and parents in the use of Sidewalk Math patterns Lesley University faculty created The Footbook: Steps to Developing Numbersense in Young Children. The Footbook provides information on the importance of math literacy, ways to engage young children in counting activities, and additional resources (books, songs, objects, and chalk activities) to help teachers and parents count with children.
The Creativity Commons faculty also provide professional development in schools and districts to support early childhood educators in developing guided activities that align with their curriculum and meet the needs of all learners, particularly children with learning differences or those who are English language learners. For more information, contact Creativity Commons Director Martha McKenna at _EMAIL_.
Young children learn through play. Research shows that the learning is more likely to stick when children are intrigued and fully engaged — body, mind, and imagination. Sidewalk Math Carpets meet these criteria. Sidewalk Math Carpets support learning:
Patterns encourage children to practice counting in different ways: forward and backward, counting by, counting on, building the foundations of number sense and operations
Some patterns encourage exploration of color and shape, encouraging not only counting of shapes, sides, and corners, but experimentation with different possibilities for making shapes and patterns, engaging children in thinking flexibly and mastering ideas such as equivalence and regrouping
Some patterns help children link size, quantity, and number
The carpets encourage children to practice—just because it's fun—until key sequences and patterns become automatic
As play mats, the carpets invite games and conversations, building language and supporting social development and creativity.
Dr. Betty Bardige, co-author of Building Literacy with Love
Uses of Sidewalk Math Carpets in the early childhood classroom include:
Creating an indoor space for active play in the classroom
Engaging children in demonstrating their counting skills and invite others to join their play
Supporting children in learning each other's languages as they count in different ways
Building gross motor skills of children by jumping, tiptoeing, walking backwards, and hopping on patterns
Build fine motor skills of children drawing, coloring, and cutting out shapes to make their own patterns
Sparking creativity with songs, games, creating art, pretending and developing new mathematical patterns
Students taking initiative for their own learning.


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Are Foster Carer's paid:
When a child is placed with a foster carer they will receive a weekly fostering allowance which is intended to cover the costs of looking after a child in foster care, such as clothing, food and pocket money. The amount varies depending on the age of the child.
Foster carers also receive a fee in recognition of their time, skills and experience.
Can single people foster?
Yes. Anyone can apply to foster regardless of whether they are single, married or living with a partner. Also, regardless of whether you have your own children or not, whether you live in your own home or rent, whatever your race, religion or sexuality.
Is there a maximum or minimum age to becoming a foster carer?
Foster Carers must be over 21 years old. There is an expectation that foster carers will have sufficient life experience to enable them to meet the needs of children placed with them, and age can be a factor in this.
There is also no official upper age limit on foster care and many older people make excellent carers, providing they are able to look after a child or young person. They bring a wealth of skills and experience to the task and many young people find it easier to relate to an older person.
How long does it take to become a foster carer?
The time it takes to become a registered foster carer can vary, it takes an average of between 6-12 months.
Can I work as well as being a foster carer?
Yes, if there are 2 registered carers 1 can work or the responsibility can be shared between both if there is enough flexibility. If you are a single carer this is more difficult but it is always worth discussing your situation with someone from the fostering team, who will consider your individual circumstances.


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2. When your voicemail greeting begins press the star key (*) on your phone.
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1. What is Hillary's last name?
2. Where is the elf village?
Sara's back yard.
3. What time of day does Hillary first see the elf village?
4. Who shows Hillary the elf village?
5. Why can't Hillary see the elves themselves?
They hide from people.
6. What are elf houses built out of?
All of these.
7. Who/what does Hillary think made the elf village?
8. Why are Sara-Kate's clothes made fun of at school?
They are always wrinkled.
9. What is Sara-Kate's last name?
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From the blog of Dariusz Leszczynski:
In the Finnish news media, there is a complete silence (nobody dares to speak?) about the new law introduced in France, limiting the spread of the wi-fi networks (story in the French Le Monde) (for the translation in English, see below).
In fact, the situation in Finland is just the opposite to what is happening in France. In Finland wi-fi is allowed to be spread freely and everywhere, including daycare centers and schools.The justification for this "freedom" are the obsolete safety limits from 1998 (!) that were "reaffirmed" in 2009.
The freedom to spread the wi-fi is scientifically unwise in the situation when the research evidence on the effects of the wi-fi-emitted radiation is extremely limited but, at the same time, the wi-fi radiation is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
France dared to take a small step, which is in line with the European Precautionary Principle. In Finland, the situation is entirely different.Leave a reply →


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Fulton characterizes the multiplicity I(E∩F) with seven properties (§3.3). (Fulton calls it the intersection number. Also, he writes I(P,E∩F) for the intersection number at P. I'll usually assume P is the origin O, and omit writing it.) The last three properties stand out:
- I(E∩F) ≥ m(E)m(F), with equality if and only if E and F have no tangent lines in common. Here m(E) and m(F) are the multiplicities of E and F (explained below). As Fulton notes, all we really need is a much weaker property: I(x∩y)=1. That is, the lines x=0 and y=0 (the axes) intersect with multiplicity 1 at the origin.
- I(E∩FG) = I(E∩F) + I(E∩G).
- I(E∩F) = I(E∩(F+AE)) for any polynomial A.
The multiplicity of a curve at the origin O is the order of its polynomial, i.e., the degree of its lowest order term(s). Take our favorite E and F:
The multiplicity (at O) of E is 3, and of F is 4. We know from the pictures in the first post that E has three distinct branches at O, and F has four. Intuitively, property (5) says that every intersection of a branch of E with a branch of F contributes 1 to the intersection number when the branches intersect transversally, and more than one if they are tangent.
Property (6) seems obvious once you notice that FG=0 defines the union of the curves F=0 and G=0. Of course, F and G might have a common factor—a common component of the two curves. Property (6) then says that the component counts double when intersecting E with FG.
Fulton calls property (7) "the least intuitive". Let's see if the "level curve" idea sheds any light. Recall how this works: we parametrize a branch of E as (xE(t), yE(t)), passing through O when t=0; xE(t) and yE(t) are power series in t. We plug (xE(t), yE(t)) into the polynomial F(x,y), obtaining a function F(t). The order of F(t) gives the multiplicity of the branch-curve intersection.
Now, E is the level curve E(x,y)=0, and (xE(t), yE(t)) moves along a branch of it, so E(t)=E(xE(t), yE(t)) is identically zero. So
(F+AE)(t) = F(t)+A(t)E(t) = F(t)
So the order is the same for both F and F+AE, all branch-curve intersections have the same multiplicity, and therefore the curve-curve multiplicity is the same.
As Fulton notes, the seven properties imply an algorithm for computing intersection numbers. Fulton illustrates it for our favorite curves E and F (see p.40), incorporating some shortcuts. Let's see how it goes. He uses some auxiliary curves:
Here's the strategy: use property (7) to whittle down the higher-order part. For E, this is (x2+y2)2, and for F it is (x2+y2)3, so forming F′ = F–(x2+y2)E cancels it out. We're lucky that F′ factors as yG. Note the total degrees of F, F′, and G: 6, 5, 4.
We can't use (7) to reduce the total degree of G, so instead we target the degree of the x-part—what we get by striking out all terms involving y, i.e., G(x,0). This is –3x4. So we form G′ = G+3E (because the x-part of E is x4). Now we are lucky that G′ factors as yH.
The auxiliary curves G and H look like this:
Recall that F, the four-petal rose, has two branches tangent to the x-axis at O. G has only one, and H has none. Note that we remove a factor of y passing from F′ to G, and from G′ to H.
The full computation of I(E∩F) looks like this:
I(E∩F) = I(E∩F′) = I(E∩yG), by (7)
I(E∩yG) = I(E∩y) + I(E∩G), by (6)
I(E∩G) = I(E∩G′) = I(E∩yH), by (7)
I(E∩yH) = I(E∩y) + I(E∩H), by (6)
I(E∩H) = m(E) m(H) = 3×2 = 6, by (5)
I(E∩y) = I(x4∩y), by (7)
I(x4∩y) = m(x4) m(y) = 4×1, by (5)
I(E∩F) = I(E∩y) + I(E∩y) + I(E∩H) = 4+4+6 = 14
—the same result we've seen before.
I'll look at Fulton's other definition in Post 7.


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When it comes to space travel, the heat is on. During each of their Earth-orbiting missions, NASA's four space shuttles are subjected to temperatures ranging from minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit in space to nearly 3000 degrees during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Thus the ability of the orbiter to take the heat is critical to ensuring the safety of the crew and on-board equipment. Because of this, the surface of the orbiter, which is covered by 24,000 protective thermal tiles, is carefully scrutinized after each flight. Typically, the process of assessing the quality of each and every one of the tiles is a painstaking manual effort. Fortunately for the workers in the trenches, there is a laser light at the end of the tedious tunnel.
Engineers from NASA's Ames Research Center and the Boeing Company recently delivered a first-of-its-kind, portable 3D laser scanner to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The scanner, which uses a digital camera and lasers in a measurement technique called laser triangulation, is the first component of what will eventually become an Electronic Inspection and Mapping System (EIMS). The EIMS objective will be to increase the accuracy and reliability of shuttle damage estimates, and in so doing reduce vehicle turn-around time.
|A flaw in one of the space shuttle's protective thermal tiles is detected using a new laser scanning device. Custom software generates a 3D image of the damage.|
When placed over a thermal tile, the new scanner detects flaws within a 3- by 3-inch area and transmits the collected data to a laptop computer. Custom software locates and characterizes the damage and generates a 3D image that indicates the size and depth of the flaw. The results of each scan are then stored in a database containing all of the fabrication and maintenance information for every tile, so that the latest damage history and maintenance information for each of NASA's four shuttles is readily available and easily accessible.
At the heart of the 3D digitizing technology is its laser triangulation technique in which laser diodes project a line of light onto a target object. A digital camera embedded in the scanner detects the light reflected off the object and records the position of the reflected beam to determine object height measurements. As the camera and lasers move over the object, the position of the reflection on the camera detector changes. The sensor calculates the amount of change based on the new laser line position on the detector. The process is continued until a complete description is achieved.
|NASA's new portable 3D laser scanner is small enough to get into tight spots to collect data, which it then transmits to a laptop computer for 3D analysis.|
Although laser triangulation itself is not new, NASA engineers put a novel spin on the technique in order to compensate for one of its common drawbacks: a shadowing effect on scanned images caused by the way the laser has to be angled to the target. "We solved this problem by adding a second laser at a complementary angle to the first and combining the images from both lasers into the final dataset for the scan," says Joseph Lavelle, a senior project engineer at NASA Ames. The complete scan of a 3- by 3-inch area, including the flaw identification and measurement processes, takes less than 20 seconds.
By far, the most significant challenge the engineers faced in the design of the new scanner was getting it down to size. Because it had to be small enough to fit around the scaffolding that surrounds the shuttle orbiter during its post-landing maintenance, portability was a key design objective. "We started off with a very large bench-top system that weighed about 50 pounds," says Lavelle, which is typical for scanning devices capable of the speed and resolution of the new device. But thanks to advances in digital camera laser diode technology, as well as "clever circuitry and custom packaging," the design team was able to shrink the scanner down to about 5 by 9 inches and approximately three pounds, including on-board batteries.
Although the device was designed specifically to measure the volume of surface flaws on the shuttle's thermal protection tiles, the underlying technology is expected to be generalized to suit countless other manufacturing applications in which scanner speed, accuracy, and portability are vital. To date, says Lavelle, "We've had inquiries from industries wanting a device to inspect the seals on their hardware, and from the integrated circuit industry needing a way to measure the depth and volume of components as well as the placement of components on printed circuit boards." He notes that plans are on tap for testing the scanner's suitability for those tasks.
The new scanning technology is still a work in progress, and as such there are a number of potential enhancements on the agenda. "We are currently addressing the difficulty of measuring flaws on significantly curved surfaces," says Lavelle. In addition, he notes, "We would like to be able to scan over a larger area than 3 by 3 inches, but this presents a major problem considering the size of the instrument and its ability to fit into small areas around the maintenance scaffolding encompassing the orbiters."
|Flaw analysis tools characterize the damage to a given space shuttle tile based on its 3D scan information. The software locates the damage and generates a 3D image that indicates the size and depth of the flaw. |
Toward this objective, the design team envisions the attachment of a scanner head to the end of a robot that scans over the entire orbiter surface. On the short-term "to do" list, planned enhancements include wireless communication between the scanner and the computer to eliminate the cable and the addition of rechargeable batteries and a more ergonomic case.
Diana Phillips Mahoney is chief technology editor of Computer Graphics World.


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On the occasion of the first International Widows' Day, UN Women and the Government of Gabon have organized a conference to draw attention to the situation of widows around the world and to mobilize the international community, government decision makers and civil society to address the social climate that perpetuates discrimination against widows and explore how to provide opportunities for widows in their societies. The discussions of this conference will initiate dialogue through which to better understand the situation of widows worldwide and to develop support mechanisms and strategies that respond to the needs of widows.
The conference will be webcast live on this page (tune in at 10:00 EDT on 23 June 2011) or on UN webcast (Channel 5).
About International Widows' Day:
Widows are everywhere. They are adults — our mothers, our sisters and our friends — but they are also young — women in the prime of their lives. They are an integral part of every society. Yet, little is known about who they are and the challenges they face. Seldom captured in statistics, unnoticed by researchers, often neglected by laws and development strategies — the situation of widows is, in effect, invisible.
To give special recognition to the situation of widows across all regions, the United Nations General Assembly on 21 December 2010 adopted resolution 65/189 and declared 23 June as International Widows' Day. Adopted by consensus, the resolution had been initiated by the Government of Gabon and was jointly sponsored by 56 countries. The commemoration of the very first International Widows' Day on 23 June 2011 provides an opportunity to raise awareness of not only the discrimination and challenges faced by widows around the world, but also pay attention to the valuable contributions they make to their communities.


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It is customary for synagogues to have a Ner Tomid, a light burning always near the front of the synagogue.
1) Why do we have a Ner Tomid?
2) If it is a reminder of the "ner maarovi" which was one of the lights of the menorah in the Bes Hamikdosh that lasted miraculously from when it was kindled up to the same time the following day Gemoro Shabbos 22b (up until the death of Shimon HaTzaddik), why is it that some modern designs have one central light surrounded in a circle by smaller lights? To be comparable to the menorah there should only be one light that is always alight.
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The Ketzos HaShulchan Siman 29:2 and the Badei HaShulchan Siman 29:2 explains that we keep a Ner Tamid lit for Kovod Shomayim and that it is a Zecher L'Mikdash where there always remained one candle burning on the Western side (Ner Ma'aravi).
Regarding having more than one light today - in the Shuls I frequent that is not the case. I have seen some Shuls combine it with 6 additional lights as a holocaust memorial, although I do not know a source for doing that.
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When TCP/IP is enabled for SQL Server, the Database Engine will listen for incoming connections on a connection point consisting of an IP address and TCP port number. The following procedures create a tabular data stream (TDS) endpoint, so that SQL Server will listen on an additional TCP port.
Possible reasons to create a second TDS endpoint include:
 - Increase security by configuring the firewall to restrict access to the default endpoint to local client computers on a specific subnet. Maintain Internet access to SQL Server for your support team by creating a new endpoint that the firewall exposes to the Internet, and restricting connection rights to this endpoint to your server support team.
 - Affinitizing connections to specific processors when using Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). For more information about how to configure a TCP/IP port to a NUMA node, see How SQL Server Supports NUMA.
Configuring a TDS endpoint consists of the following steps, which can be done in any order:
 - Create the TDS endpoint for the TCP port, and restore access to the default endpoint if appropriate.
 - Grant access to the endpoint to the desired server principals.
 - Specify the TCP port number for the selected IP address.
To create a TDS endpoint
 - Issue the following statement to create an endpoint named CustomConnection for port 1500 for all available TCP addresses on the server.
 USE master
 CREATE ENDPOINT [CustomConnection]
 AS TCP
 FOR TSQL() ;
To grant access to the endpoint
 - Issue the following statement to grant access to the CustomConnection endpoint to the SQLSupport group in the corp domain.
 GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[CustomConnection] to [corp\SQLSupport] ;
To configure the SQL Server Database Engine to listen on an additional TCP port
 1. In SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand SQL Server Network Configuration, and then click Protocols for .
 2. Expand Protocols for , and then click TCP/IP.
 3. In the right pane, right-click each disabled IP address that you want to enable, and then click Enable.
 4. Right-click IPAll, and then click Properties.
 5. In the TCP Port box, type the ports that you want the Database Engine to listen on, separated by commas. In our example, if the default port 1433 is listed, type,1500 so the box reads 1433,1500, and then click OK.
 If you are not enabling the port on all IP addresses, configure the additional port in the property box for only for the desired address. Then, in the console pane, right-click TCP/IP, click Properties, and in the Listen All box, select No.
 6. In the left pane, click SQL Server Services.
 7. In the right pane, right-click SQL Server , and then click Restart.
 When the Database Engine restarts, the Error log will list the ports on which SQL Server is listening.
To connect to the new endpoint
 - Issue the following statement to connect to the CustomConnection endpoint of the default instance of SQL Server on the server named ACCT, using a trusted connection, and assuming the user is a member of the [corp\SQLSupport] group.
 sqlcmd -SACCT,1500
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I'm not certain that "composite" is the right word for this; I've seen blogs tutorials and books that seem to link prior beliefs together. Consider MTCARS data, where miles per gallon (mpg) has a linear relationship with engine displacement, depicted by the equation m = B*x +a where m represents mpg, B the slope, x the input variable displacement, and a (or B0) the y-intercept.
I'm following this blog by Jesse Fagan, Suppose that:
mpg ~Normal(mu=m,sigma=s)
B ~Normal(mu=0,sigma=2)
a ~Normal(mu=18,sigma=3)
s ~Unif(start=0,stop=20)
I'm not an R programmer, however, I'm quite familiar with python. Due to the R code, I'm not certain what's happening in each step. Big picture, I understand that this code accomplishes a grid search. However, I'd like to know explicitly which PDFs are priors and which are likelihoods.
It's my understanding that mpg is the likelihood whereas B, a, and s are the priors. Likewise, I understand the "composite prior" to use my vocabulary, to be the product of B,s, and a. Again, due to the R code, I'm not 100% confident in this belief and would like affirmation or correction.
Thank you!
Maybe using a (similar) notation would be helpful. Assuming that we have a single outcome and predictor, and estimating a linear model (just like your example):
$$y_i \sim Normal(\mu_i, \sigma) \tag{1}$$ $$\mu_i = \alpha + \beta x_i \tag{2}$$ $$\alpha \sim Normal(10,10) \tag{3}$$ $$\beta \sim Normal(0,10) \tag{4}$$ $$\sigma \sim Uniform(0,50) \tag{5}$$
Equation (1) corresponds to the first line in your code (mpg ~Normal(mu=m,sigma=s)) and called likelihood (as you said). Equation (2) is the linear model (i.e., m = B*x +a in your question). And finally, equations (3), (4), and (5) are priors of the parameter values to be estimated. Note that $\mu_i$ is not a parameter to be estimated, but rather constructed from other parameters. I guess this is the part that causes confusion regarding "composite priors" which, as far as I understand, have a different, technical use (e.g., see this dissertation).
 - $\begingroup$ I see, thanks! One last question, how should the likelihood be evaluated? My understanding is that I would take the product of each likelihood, where x=u(i) and mu=y(i). As opposed to all u(i) observations being compared to the average of y. (In practice, I'd probably sum the log likelihoods.) $\endgroup$ – jbuddy_13 Sep 14 '20 at 14:09
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ If I get the first part of the question right, yes. The likelihood of $y_1, \ldots, y_n$ is the product of each likelihood, because we assume each outcome is independent from each other. But I am not clear about the second part of the question. $\endgroup$ – T.E.G. Sep 14 '20 at 15:33
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This article will show you:
- How to import Polar data into CoachMePlus.
You need this because:
- You want to learn how to import Polar data to a CoachMePlus user.
- You want to centralize all of your devices into a single platform.
- You want to save time and spend more time with your athletes by inputting all data into one system and generate reports instantaneously.
Importing Polar Data into CoachMePlus:
This article will demonstrate how to import your Polar data to the CoachMePlus system.
Here is a sample Polar spreadsheet:
The boxed area is where you will find the Unique Polar Identifier/Alias. The data contains the Athlete's Full Name and the dates of the information collected. To learn how to add an Polar user, click here.
Here is the required Polar date format for import into CoachMePlus:
Step One: On the homepage, click on Data Tools => Devices => Polar => Import on the menu on the lefthand side. For this example, we will import Polar Team 3 (Pro).
Step Two: You will be brought to a the Import Tool to start your import. Choose the file you would like to import by clicking on the Upload File button.
Step Three: Select the file you would like to import to the system. After you have selected the file, click Open.
Step Four: The file will appear on the page ready for you to save.
Step Five: You will then be brought to the Import Template page. Select Next.
Step Six: Confirm your athletes and select Import.
Step Seven: Your new session will now be imported into the system. A confirmation will appear for your import.


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[EDIT: my posts in this thread were replies to questions. The questions were later deleted. I don't remember the questions exactly, but their general hist can be inferred from my replies.]
If the hut is at the midpoint of a route, you might put the hut as a child of the route.
More likely, there are multiple routes possible starting from one hut. I'd just make the hut Related to all the adjacent routes. Both Routes and Huts can be children of mountains (and sometimes of Ranges, if they're useful for reaching multiple peaks in a small Range).


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Published: 7 March 1914
A farmer has died following a bizarre shooting incident at a farmhouse between Ballybay and Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan.
The farmer, Laurence Connolly, was taking out his gun to shoot magpies that had been taking eggs from the hen roosts when a hen ran across him. The gun struck the hen and discharged itself into the body of Mr. Connolly. He died several hours later.
Mr. Connolly had amassed considerable wealth in his youth in America. He married following his return to Ireland but his new wife died suddenly shortly afterwards.
He subsequently lived with his brother and it was at their farm that the incident occurred.
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Each filter stores different state information for input and output and thus may handle one input filtering process and one output filtering process at the same time.
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Despite being an old tool, clickjacking is becoming a worsening problem on the web. Let's explore how clickjacking works, recent research on clickjacking, including the results of a study examining the top 250,000 Alexa-ranked websites, and other ways in which researchers and site owners are trying to better protect users from this type of attack.
Laying the groundwork
There are many targets of clickjacking.
Cursors, cookies, files, even your social media likes. Traditionally, an awful lot of clickjacking relates to adverts and fraudulent money making. In the early days of online ad programs, certain keywords that brought a big cash return for clicks became popular targets for scammers. Where they couldn't get people to unintentionally click on an ad, they'd try to automate the process instead.
Here's an example from 2016, playing on the seemingly never-ending European cookie law messages on every website ever. Pop a legitimate ad, make it invisible, and overlay it across a Cookie pop-up. At that point, it's unintentional advert time.
This is not to say clickjacking techniques are stagnant; here's a good example of how these attacks are tough to deal with.
Clickjacking: back in fashion
There's a lot of clickjack-related activity taking place at the moment, so researchers are publishing their works and helping others take steps to secure browsers.
One of those research pieces is called All your clicks belong to me: investigating click interception on the web, focusing on JavaScript-centric URL access. I was hoping the recording of the talk from USENIX Security Symposium would be available to link in this blog, but it's not currently online yet—when it is, I'll add it. The talk is all about building a way to observe possible clickjack activity on some of the most popular websites in the world and reporting back with the findings.
Researchers from a wide variety of locations and organisations pooled resources and came up with something called "Observer," a customised version of Chromium, the open-source browser. With it, they can essentially see under the hood of web activity and tell at a glance the point of origin of URLs from every link.
As per the research paper, Observer focuses on three actions JavaScript code may perform in order to intercept a click:
 - Modifying existing links on a page
 - Creating new links on a page
 - Registering event handlers to HTML elements to "hook" a click
All such events are identified and tagged with a unique ID for whichever script kicked the process into life, alongside logging page navigation to accurately record where an intercepted click is trying to direct the victim.
Observer logs two states of each webpage tested: the page fully rendered up to a 45-second time limit, and then interaction data, where they essentially see what a site does when used. It also checks if user clicks update the original elements in any way.
Some of the specific techniques Observer looks for:
 - Visual deception tricks from third parties, whether considered to be malicious or accidental. This is broken down further into page elements which look as though they're from the site, but are simply mimicking the content. A bogus navigation bar on a homepage is a good example of this. They also dig into the incredibly common technique of transparent overlays, a perennial favourite of clickjackers the world over.
 - Hyperlink interception. Third party scripts can overwrite the href attribute of an original website link and perform a clickjack. They detect this, as well as keeping an eye out for dubious third-party scripts performing this action on legitimate third-party scripts located on the website. Observer also checks for another common trick: large clickable elements on a page, where any interaction with the enclosed element is entirely under its control.
 - Event handler interception. Everything you do on a device is an event. Event handlers are routines which exist to deal with those events. As you can imagine, this is a great inroad for scammers to perform some clickjacking shenanigans. Observer looks for specific API calls and a few other things to determine if clickjacking is taking place. As with the large clickable element trick up above, it checks for large elements from third parties.
Study results
Observer crawled the Alexa top 250,000 websites from May 2018, ending up with valid data from 91.45 percent of the sites they checked accounting for timeouts and similar errors. From 228,614 websites, they ended up with 2,065,977 unique third-party navigation URLs corresponding to 427,659 unique domains, with an average of 9.04 third-party navigation URLs pointing to 1.87 domains.
Checking for the three main type of attack listed above, they found no fewer than 437 third-party scripts intercepting user clicks on 613 websites. Collectively, those sites receive about 43 million visitors daily. Additionally, a good slice of the sites were deliberately working with dubious scripts for the purpose of monetizing the stolen clicks, to the tune of 36 percent of interception URLs being related to online advertising.
The full paper is a fascinating read, and well worth digging through [PDF].
Plans for the future
Researchers point out that there's room for improvement with their analysis—this is more of a "getting to know you" affair than a total deep dive. For example, with so many sites to look at, they only look at the main page for analysis. If there were nasties lurking on subpages, they wouldn't have seen it.
They also point out that their scripted website interaction quite likely isn't how actual flesh-and-blood people would use the websites. All the same, this is a phenomenal piece of work and a great building block for further studies.
What else is happening in clickjacking?
Outside of conference talks and research papers, there's also word that a three-year-old suggestion for combating iFrame clickjacking has been revived and expanded for Chrome. Elsewhere, Facebook is suing app developers for click injection fraud.
As you can see from a casual check of Google/Yahoo news, clickjacking isn't a topic perhaps covered as often as it should be. Nevertheless, it's still a huge problem, generates massive profits for people up to no good, and deserves to hog some of the spotlight occasionally.
How can I avoid clickjacking?
This is an interesting one to ponder, as this isn't just an end-user thing. Website owners need to do their bit, too, to ensure visitors are safe and sound on their travels [1], [2], [3]. As for the people sitting behind their keyboards, the advice is pretty similar to other security precautions.
Given how much of clickjacking is based around bogus advertising cash, consider what level of exposure to ads you're comfortable with. Deploying a combination of adblockers and script control extensions, especially where JavaScript is concerned, will work wonders.
Those plugins could easily break the functionality of certain websites though, and that's before we stop to consider that many sites won't even give you access if ads are blocked entirely. It comes down, as it often does, to ad networks waging war on your desktop. How well you fare against the potential risks of clickjacking could well depend where exactly you plant your flag with regards advertiser access to your system.
Whatever you choose, we wish you safe surfing and a distinct lack of clickjacking. With any luck, we'll see more research and solutions proposed to combat this problem in the near future.


text: The paper "Conversations about Modern Art" analyzes modern art, poetry and also "Starry night", the painting of Vincent van Gogh. The use of spiral lines in his painting also depicts a slow cool night in the small town. The orange illuminating color of the moon creates a picture of peace. The white colors of the stars also surround the little town creating a peaceful horizon. The swirling wave motion and curling nature of the moon also creates a cool horizon as can be seen in the painting. The slow motion movement of the trees surrounding the houses in the town also proves a peaceful environment. On the, stands a massive dark structure resembling a tall tree. Gogh brings this image out of seclusion from the rest of the town and shows stability in the town. Gogh in the painting represents a peaceful emotion. This is by use of stars and the fact that people are missing in the streets or in the town. By use of spiral and curly lines in his painting, various contrasts in colors also create a good balance of peace in the representation. The painting represents a good aspect of modernism. The age of the painting depicts an age where artists created modern artistic work moving away from neoclassicism. The picture of well-organized houses in a small town represents modernity. The church represented in the drawing at the centre of the houses also shows a modern way of life. The houses also show new forms of buildings a real difference from the ancient kind of buildings in that age.