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My #1 Rule is:
We will not laugh at or make fun of our friends singing or artwork.
We will praise their abilities and their effort for doing the best job possible.
We are all different and at different levels and we all have different perspectives.
Your artwork and your voice should NOT be the same as your friends!
We will cheer each other to success!Owls on a branch
Early Childhood & Elementary Music/Art Procedures
* Students will enter the building and music/art room quietly
* Students wil be seated in the assigned seat
* Students will wait for all students to enter the room and listen for instructions
*Students will clean up their areas before leaving the room.
* When leaving the music/art room students will line-up quietly and listen for instructions
 1) Warning 2) Grade lowered and miss recess / free time 3) Parents and Mr. Read notified
1) No gum, candy, food, or drink is allowed in the music/art room without Mrs. Lee's permission.
(Bottled water is allowed as long as student's pick up after themselves!)
2. No talking when the teacher is teaching.
3. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
4. If you are not early, you are late.
5. When in doubt, DON'T.
6) If it is not yours, leave it alone.
7. Leave the room in a neat and orderly condition.
(Return items to their proper place. Be responsible with school and personal equipment.)
8. Respect other students, faculty and our school.
9. Use appropriate language.
10. Always be prepared.
(Bring what you need to class. Anything can and will happen.)
11. Always do your best.
12. We are and always will be a first-class school.
1) Warning 2) moved & lunch detention 3) Parents and Mr. Read notified
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How to copy file to s3 with aws cli example
This brief post will show you how to copy file or files with aws cli in several different examples. It will cover several different examples like:
 - copy files to local
 - copy files from local to aws ec2 instance
 - aws lambda python copy s3 file
You can check this article if you need to install and download files with S3 client on Linux Mint or Ubuntu: How to Download Files from S3 Bucket with AWS CLI on Linux Min
Step 1: Copy files to local with aws cli
One the S3 client is installed and correctly configured(check the link above). You can copy files from a S3 bucket to your local machine by command:
aws s3 cp
and example would be
aws s3 cp s3://some-space_bucket/my-file.txt.
The command above will copy the file located on bucket - s3://some-space_bucket/my-file.txt on the current working folder.
Step 2: Copy files to local with different AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
What about if you like to get files from a bucket which has different AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY from the configured one. And you don't like to store them on your machine.
In this case you can use the next command to copy files with custom keys:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxx AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxx aws s3 cp s3://some-space_bucket/my-file.txt.
Step 3: Copy files from local to S3 bucket
If you need to copy a local file from your local machine to aws instance then you can use the next syntax:
aws s3 cp
or as example:
aws s3 cp./test.txt s3://some-space_bucket/my-file.txt
This will copy the local file test.txt from the current working folder to the bucket path: s3://some-space_bucket/my-file.txt
Step 4: Python aws lambda to copy S3 file(s)
If you need to create a aws lambda to copy files from S3 buckets you can check: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to invoke a Lambda function
The Python lambda to copy files is:
import json
import urllib.parse
import boto3
print('Loading function')
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
def lambda_handler(event, context):
 # Get the object from the event and show its content type
 key = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(event['Records'][0]['s3']['object']['key'], encoding='utf-8')
 response = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucket, Key=key)
 return response['ContentType']
 except Exception as e:
 print('Error getting object {} from bucket {}. Make sure they exist and your bucket is in the same region as this function.'.format(key, bucket))
 raise e
Step 5: Python aws lambda to copy S3 file from one bucket to other
If you need to copy files from one bucket to another with a aws lambda you can use next Python snippet:
import boto3
import json
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
def lambda_handler(event, context):
 bucket = s3.Bucket('some-space_bucket-1')
 dest_bucket = s3.Bucket('some-space_bucket-2')
 for obj in bucket.objects():
 dest_key = obj.key
 s3.Object(, dest_key).copy_from(CopySource = {'Bucket': obj.bucket_name, 'Key': obj.key})
This will copy all files from some-space_bucket-1 to bucket some-space_bucket-2
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Long range sensor scan display
On a display on the Defiant
A long range sensor scan or long range scan/long-range sensor was a scan which allowed a person to search a large area in space for objects such as starships.
Captain Jonathan Archer ordered the use of the long range sensors after Enterprise NX-01 went through the liquid phosphorus layer around a gas giant in 2151 and detected a Suliban helix. (ENT: "Broken Bow")
Also in 2151, Captain Archer ordered Lieutenant Malcolm Reed to stay on their long range scanners and let him know when the Enterprise made another contact with the unidentified aliens they had encountered earlier. (ENT: "Silent Enemy")
In 2153, T'Pol identified the Borg-assimilated transport Arctic One on the ships long-range sensors. (ENT: "Regeneration")
In 2267, the sensors of the USS Enterprise were able to scan out to one parsec (3.26 light years) and give a near instantaneous result. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
In 2367. Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge stated that the long range sensors aboard the USS Enterprise-D were able to scan a radius of ten light years within a 24-hour period; effectively, one sector per day. (TNG: "The Wounded")
In 2368, the long range sensors aboard the Enterprise-D were able to detect a cubical Borg scout ship with a mass of 2.5 million metric tons, at a range that would take thirty-one hours and seven minutes to traverse at warp factor seven-point-six. (TNG: "I Borg").
In 2369, Lieutenant Commander Worf informed Commander William T. Riker that the long range sensors of the Enterprise-D picked up a distress call from a Romulan warbird. Later, La Forge was unable to find the Enterprise-D, as it was not at the rendezvous point. He told Captain Jean-Luc Picard that the long range sensors were at maximum and there was no sign of the Enterprise. (TNG: "Timescape")
The same year Doctor Julian Bashir and Major Kira Nerys responded to a priority one distress signal from the Kobliad transport ship Reyab and found the ship via the long range sensors. (DS9: "The Passenger")
During a rescue mission for the runabout USS Yangtzee Kiang in the Gamma Quadrant, the long range sensors of the USS Rio Grande were affected by the delta radiation of the star of a binary star system. (DS9: "Battle Lines")
The computer aboard Deep Space 9 activated the long range sensors when Commander Sisko requested data about all Cardassian traffic at the border in 2369. (DS9: "The Forsaken")
In 2370, Sam Lavelle performed a long range scan to find an escape pod near the Cardassian border, but with no success. Data suggested it was possible that at this distance, the sensors of the Enterprise-D were unable to distinguish the pod from the inorganic matter normally present in space. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
In an alternate timeline, Data, on board the USS Pasteur, performed a long range sensor scan to locate anomalies in the Devron system but found nothing. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
In 2372, Worf performed a long range sensor scan from a console on the bridge of the USS Defiant, searching for Klingon starships. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
Following the destruction of the Federation colony Ivor Prime near Deep Space 5 in 2373, long range sensors detected the Borg. Admiral Hayes reported this to Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (Star Trek: First Contact)
The long range sensors of the USS Enterprise-E went offline after the ship went through the temporal vortex to the year 2063. (Star Trek: First Contact)
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Authentication of Documents
Requirements for Transportation of a Deceased Body
 1. Proof that the deceased person was a Kenyan e.g. Original Passport, Birth Certificate.
 2. Locally issued burial and/or transit permit.
 3. Certified copy of the Death Certificate.
 4. A letter from the local health authority certifying that the deceased did not die of contagious disease.
 5. A metal hermetically sealable casket is recommended.
 6. A letter from the Director of funeral home stating how the body was embalmed.
 7. Telephone number if available of Next of Kin or friends in Kenya.


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In February 2003, the Governing Council of UNEP adopted a long-term strategy for engaging young people in environmental activities and in the work of UNEP. The strategy was entitled the Tunza Youth Strategy. The word "TUNZA" means "to treat with care or affection" in Kiswahili (a sub-regional language of Eastern Africa). The overall Tunza Concept, therefore, is built around this theme. It is an initiative that is meant to develop activities in the areas of capacity building, environmental awareness, and information exchange, with a vision to foster a generation of environmentally conscious citizens, capable of positive action.
THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S PAINTING COMPETITION ON THE ENVIRONMENT
UNEP has launched the 19th International children's painting competition. The Competition is organized annually by the UNEP and the Japan-based Foundation for Global
Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation. It has been held since 1991 and has more than 2.4 million entries from children in over 100 countries.
The theme for 2010 competition is Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature and it will focus on our beautiful earth, full of different life forms and what can we do to protect it.
The children's paintings will focus on concrete actions to preserve biodiversity such as tree planting, marine and animal conservation, restoration of coral reefs etc
The selection process will be in two stages; the regional selection which will be done by UNEP Regional Offices and their partners, and the global selection which will be done by
UNEP and its partners, Foundation for Global peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation.
UPCOMING DAYS OF ACTION
WORLD WATER DAY
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

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Nursing Division Services
Public Health Nurses complete epidemiological investigations on all reportable communicable diseases in an effort to control and prevent the spread of disease. Reporting communicable diseases to the Health Department is mandated by Indiana Code 410 IAC.
A list of reportable diseases (revised 12/2008) can be found at:
Reportable Disease List
Health Care Providers should print this form for reporting communicable diseases and fax completed form to our office at: _PHONE_.
Confidential Report of Communicable Diseases
Lead Poisoning Prevention
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) has determined that all children under the age of seven years who reside in St. Joseph County are at a high risk of lead poisoning. Public Health Nurses provide case management services to children (under the age of seven years) with elevated blood lead levels and their families. These case management services are implemented in an effort to reduce the effects of lead poisoning.
The Health Department provides certificates to any resident of St. Joseph County under the age of seven for a blood lead screening. These screenings are performed on site in the Immunization Clinics and at the South Bend Medical Foundation (SBMF) at no charge to the parent/guardian of the child.
Health Care Provider must report elevated lead levels to the Health Department by faxing a completed reporting form to _PHONE_.
For more information about lead in the environment, click here.


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How can I run an folder full of text files through a perl script?
This is a very common type of task (applying some process to each item in a list of files), and it can actually be generalized to a broader set of tasks (applying some shell command-line operation to each item in a list of strings, and in many cases, needing a modified version of the input string to serve as an "output string" on each iteration). In an average work week, I might need to do something like this many times a day.
So, many years ago, I wrote shloop -- execute shell command on a list, and I've been using it every since. In your case, you'd do something like this, which assumes that your system has the unix-style "ls" utility to list the contents of a directory (there's an 'ls.exe' available for MS-Windows systems), and that your "small perl script" simply takes the name of a text file as the sole command-line argument:
ls *.txt | shloop -e small_perl_script
Quite often, the situation involves creating a modified file from a source file, either by providing input and output arguments for a process, or by redirecting process output to a new file:
# supplying input and output args: "cmd inp.arg out.arg"
ls *.txt | shloop -e small_perl_script -s '.txt$:.new.txt'
# or, using redirection: "cmd inp.arg > out.arg"
ls *.txt | shloop -e small_perl_script -r -s '.txt$:.new.txt'
shloop has grown over the years to include lots of bells and whistles, but one of the early things I wanted to be sure of was that it would work on MS-Windows shells as well as unix/linux ones. (Getting the Windows version of the linux "bash" shell is always an improvement over a "native" MS-DOS style shell, but shloop should work with cmd.exe, or command.exe or whatever you have.)


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Improving the objective function in minimum error rate training
He, Yifan and Way, Andy (2009) Improving the objective function in minimum error rate training. In: MT Summit XII - The twelfth Machine Translation Summit, 26-30 August 2009, Ottawa, Canada.
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In Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT), the parameters of an SMT system are tuned on a certain evaluation metric to improve translation quality. In this paper, we present empirical results in which parameters tuned on one metric (e.g. BLEU) may not lead to optimal scores on the same metric. The score can be improved significantly by tuning on an entirely different metric (e.g. METEOR, by 0.82
BLEU points or 3.38% relative improvement on WMT08 English–French dataset). We analyse the impact of choice of objective function in MERT and further propose three
combination strategies of different metrics to reduce the bias of a single metric, and obtain parameters that receive better scores (0.99 BLEU points or 4.08% relative improvement) on evaluation metrics than those tuned on the
standalone metric itself.
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What is Proprioception?
Proprioception is like a navigation system you have in your car (GPS – Global Positioning System). Your brain is the navigation system, and the roads on the navigation system is the nervous system of your body. The roads connects cities to each other, just as your nerves from your brain connects to all the organs and muscles of your body.
Imagine there's a traffic jam, or a road that is closed due to some unforeseen circumstances. What will happen? Delay? Swap to perhaps a longer car journey than expected? Or in some cases, you can't get to your destination due to the only road there was closed. If this happens to the nervous system due to mechanical changes and adaptation from earlier damage, e.i. falls or car accidents etc. It is researched upon that certain neurological changes will takes place on how you will use the muscles in your body. This can in some cases lead to faulty patterns on how you use your muscles day to day, and eventually lead to muscles that should not preform a given task to fall under stress and get injured, which will results in symptoms of pain, like for example low back pain. This will be called a typical repetitive strain injury.
Research done by Heidi Haavik can now confirm that chiropractic adjustments can help to reset the blocked roads of the nervous system in order to "reset" how the muscles should work.


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From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
- "Immunity" redirects here. For the type mechanic, see Damage modification → Not effective.
Immunity (Japanese: めんえき Immunity) is an Ability introduced in Generation III. Only three Pokémon can have this Ability.
Immunity prevents poisoning.
Outside of battle
Pokémon with this Ability can't take damage from poison outside of battle.
Pokémon with Immunity
In the manga
In the Pokémon Battle Frontier manga
- If a poisoned Munchlax evolves and gains Immunity, it will remain poisoned as a Snorlax despite its Ability.
- The reason why Zangoose has this Ability may be because of its rivalry with Seviper, a Pokémon known for its Poison-type attacks.
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Scattery Island, lying at the mouth of the River Shannon near Kilrush, in south west Clare, has a rich and unusual history. It has been an ecclesiastical centre since early times A monastery, reputedly founded there by St Senan in the sixth century, suffered under the Vikings in the ninth and tenth centuries and was largely destroyed in Tudor times. Scattery has also served as a place of safe harbour for the Spanish Armada and as a defense outpost for the English government. The island has been uninhabited since 1978.
County Library wishes to thank Clare
Local Studies Project for preparation of raw text for this publication.


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A Low-Rank Constraint for Parallel Stereo Cameras
Stereo-camera systems enjoy wide popularity since they provide more restrictive constraints for 3d-reconstruction. Given an image sequence taken by parallel stereo cameras, a low-rank constraint is derived on the measurement data. Correspondences between left and right images are not necessary yet reduce the number of optimization parameters. Conversely, traditional algorithms for stereo factorization require all feature points in both images to be matched, otherwise left and right image streams need be factorized independently. The performance of the proposed algorithm will be evaluated on synthetic data as well as two real image applications.
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- 1.Angst, R., Pollefeys, M.: Static multi-camera factorization using rigid motion. In: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1203–1210 (2009)Google Scholar
- 2.Bregler, C., Hertzmann, A., Biermann, H.: Recovering non-rigid 3d shape from image streams. In: IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hilton Head, SC, USA, pp. 690–696 (2000)Google Scholar
- 6.Irani, M.: Multi-frame optical flow estimation using subspace constraints. In: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 626–633 (1999)Google Scholar
- 8.Kanatani, K., Sugaya, Y.: Factorization without factorization: complete recipe. Tech. Rep. 1&2, Okayama University, Japan (March 2004)Google Scholar
- 13.Wold, H.: Estimation of principal components and related models by iterative least squares. In: Krishnaiah (ed.) Multivariate Analysis, pp. 391–420 (1966)Google Scholar


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>>>>> "Rick" == Rick James writes:
Rick> Let's look at "select * from foo where a=1 and b = 1" in multiple contexts:
Rick> (I am assuming there an index containing both a and b.)
Rick> * Neither a nor b is clustered: index_merge could be the most efficient way to
> perform the query... Find all PKs for a=1, find all PKs for b=1, take the intersection;
> then fetch the rows.
Rick> * One of a or b is clustered: As mentioned, use the clustered key only. The
> other key buys nothing.
This is true for the given query, but not in general.
Assume you have in an InnoDB table and an index on (b,c) and 'a' is
the primary key. In this case:
select c from foo where a=1 and b = 1
I't better to scan the index (b,c) than scan the primary key as you
get all key parts from this index, but it's much less to scan as you
don't have to access all the other columns from the table.
Rick> * Both a and b are clustered: Again, the other key is useless; simply use the
> clustered key.
How can you have something clustered on to different key?
(Normally you can only cluster on one key at a time)


In Fig. 24-66, two particles of charges q1 and q2 are fixed to an x axis. If a third particle, of charge 5.7 �C, is brought from an infinite distance to point P, the three-particle system has the same electric potential energy as the original two-particle system. What is the charge ratio q1/q2?
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Behind every number: A portrait of Canada
Catalogue number: Catalogue number: 11-629-x
Issue number: _PHONE_
Release date: June 26, 2017
Behind every number: A portrait of Canada - Transcript
Description of visuals
(The Statistics Canada symbol and Canada wordmark appear on screen with the title: "Behind every number: A portrait of Canada")
All across Canada, every day, things are changing.
(Landscapes of Canada appear such as a field, a lake, a city, and icy mountain terrains.)
Our population is increasing faster than it has in almost fifty years.
(A woman holds a baby in her arms. Numbers increase from 1971: 21,568,000 to 2016: 35,151,728)
Some of us were born here, and so were our parents and grandparents. We have strong connections to our land and history.
(Indigenous person walks alongside a lake, on-screen text appears: 600+ First Nations bands in Canada)
And some of us chose to come here from other places, to find work, to chase a dream, to build a better life.
(People in an airport, on-screen text appears: 1 in 5 people in Canada was born elsewhere and a man opens up a garage door.)
Canadians now live and work in cities and urban areas.
(Fast-forward shot of people walking on a busy intersection in a city and the following text appears: 7 of 10 Canadians live in cities.)
We work hard so that at the end of the day, we can play hard too.
(An office building is shown and the following text appears: Median total income of couples: $78,870; then, we see a couple kiss.)
Go watch the game and cheer for the home team.
(Outdoor hockey game is taking place, and the following text appears: 77% of Canadians believe that hockey is an important national symbol.)
See a play, or a movie, or take the kids to a concert.
(Mother, father and daughter watch a movie at the theatre.)
Many of us also live in rural settings.
(Top view of a farm with the following text: over 6.3 million Canadians live in rural areas.)
Some of us work on farms, growing food for tables at home and around the world.
(Combine harvester on a farm, and the following text appears with a pie chart animation: Cropland makes up 54.6% of total farmland.)
And we're doing it without increasing how much water we use.
(Sprinkler appears on-screen, and the following text appears: 1.7 billion cubic metres of water used to irrigate crops.)
That's good news for our most precious natural resources, and our environment.
(Rapids and landscapes of mountains appear on-screen.)
But we don't just grow things in Canada.We make things here, too.
(Man in a factory holds a ring, and the following text appears: Sales of transportation equipment: $113 billion.)
Like cars, and parts for airplanes, and metals to build products here and abroad.
(A man inspecting part of an airplane with the following text appears: Aerospace production: $19.9 billion.)
But what binds us together is our shared values. Canadians know that access to healthcare is the greatest gift of all.
(Older man opening the door to his home to a nurse, with the following text appearing: over 25 million have family physician.)
And ours is a country where education matters.
(Classroom appears; circles appear above desks that read: Diploma; the text on-screen reads: 9 in 10 Canadians aged 25 to 64 have completed high school.)
Where children have the opportunity to learn and grow.
(Little girl is writing on a piece of paper.)
Where higher learning and research are valued and taken seriously.
(An open book appears with the following text: 2 out of 3 Canadians aged 25 to 64 have completed postsecondary education.)
How do we know all of this? Because behind every number, there's a person, a family, a relationship. Together, we write Canada's story.
(Various scenes of cities, landscapes, families, and the little girl as she writes on the floor.)
(Canada 150 logo appears.)
(Canada wordmark appears.)
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|Title||Optimal and Secure Measurement Protocols for Quantum Sensor Networks|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2018|
|Authors||Eldredge, Z, Foss-Feig, M, Rolston, SL, Gorshkov, AV|
Studies of quantum metrology have shown that the use of many-body entangled states can lead to an enhancement in sensitivity when compared to product states. In this paper, we quantify the metrological advantage of entanglement in a setting where the quantity to be measured is a linear function of parameters coupled to each qubit individually. We first generalize the Heisenberg limit to the measurement of non-local observables in a quantum network, deriving a bound based on the multi-parameter quantum Fisher information. We then propose a protocol that can make use of GHZ states or spin-squeezed states, and show that in the case of GHZ states the procedure is optimal, i.e., it saturates our bound.


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This brief paper considers multirate control from the viewpoint of computation saving. When a digital control system involves multiple actuators with different bandwidths, feedback loops may be closed at different rates: a fast rate for a high bandwidth loop and a slow rate for a low bandwidth loop. Multirate implementation of a single loop controller is possible by decomposing the control algorithm to fast and slow rate blocks. Such implementations of digital controllers will reduce the total amount of computation. The slow rate part of the controller may be further decomposed and interlaced so that computation saving by multirate control may be distributed uniformly at all fast rate sampling instances. The performance of multirate control implementations for computation saving are applied to the dual actuator track following problem of computer hard disk drives (HDDs). The experimental results show that the multirate implementations achieve regulation performance of the position error signal at about the same level as the single-rate implementation while realizing significant computation saving.


Could not find point within a radius of 350.0 meters
for the following coordinats
lng1= -82.83134351407003
when i tried to send them to the backend via a url includes the api-key, i received the following error message
Could not find point 0: 9._PHONE_ 43._PHONE_ within a radius of 350.0 meters.
the coordinates provided are in the following order
please let me know how to fix this issue
distance between two points on earth can be calculated using the Haversine Formula.
Aside from that, please do as the "New Topic"-Button in this forum requests:
 - search the forum for similar topics
If there are none, please
 - describe the problem precisely and include full request URLs / bodies and responses in code format (three backticks)
 - make sure your API key is replaced by xxx or api-key or any other placeholder
This will make sure our staff doesn't answer every question thrice and makes it easier for them to actually investigate your problem.
Best regards,
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the distance is included in the json file which is the response from the backend
i modified the question
The coordinates you provided as lng1,lat1,lng2,lat2 don't seem to have anything in common with the coordinate that is giving you the error, as they are vastly different.
Thus, as stated above, please provide the complete request you sent, along with the complete answer you got.
Best regards,
thanks for the reply
the coordinates were obtained from the map via mouse clicks so each time the user clicks the mouse the coordinates are taken and sent to the backend.
would you please tell me what do you mean by vastly different?
moreover, distance it self is not that important, the most important to me is to receive the response from openrouteservice
there are basically two ways to use openrouteservice:
1 - create an application that uses openrouteservice API.
You have to develop something that will run a request and get some response.
2 - use our maps client (that internally uses openrouteservice API) to find places, calculate directions and isochrones.
So, what is the method you are using?
To be able to help you, it is important that you tell us, step-by-step, how to reproduce your case (if you are using the maps client) or the request code if you are using the API directly.
You can use also our Interactive documentation (API playground) to get technical details about the API Dashboard | ORS
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_USER_ _USER_ i modified my reply a bit.
i am using openrouteservice for the purpose you mentioned in point 1"for getting directions".mainly I am looking for the direction and it is included in the geojson response with full data profile.
i just send a url with the api key and the start and end coordinates and i receive a json file with various info about the route between the start and end coordinates specified in the url
would you please provide a solution to this issue? why i receive such a message from the backend?
without the actual URL you send and the response you get, we can only speculate about the reason why you are receiving this error, as we cannot reproduce your problem.
What I meant by the coordinates being vastly different is, that the coordinates you send to the backend (lng1,lat1,lng2,lat2) are somewhere in North America, while the coordinate that the backend is sending back (point 0) is somewhere in Europe.
This leads me to believe that some error happened when copy-pasting
That is why it is important for us to get the actual request you send (full URL, without api-key), so we can reproduce the problem and see what's going on.
hi _USER_ _USER_
thank you for the reply. as you requested, here is the error i get:,51.55067242637449&end=-92.46758236101581,44.28117641093738
other falsey coordinates:
thanks for posting the complete request.
I'm sorry if my last reply was unclearly formulated - by stating
I didn't mean to ask for two different URLs, one containing the api-key and one not, but for a single one that contains a placeholder instead of the key or no key at all, as stated here:
As to not have your api-key exposed to the public, I have edited your reply and hidden the revision so that it no longer contains your key. As the second URL got redundant by doing so, I have removed it as well.
On to your question:
This is a common issue with rural or under-mapped regions:
I'd recommend actually choosing points that are routable to, that have some kind of path leading to them.
Best regards,
_USER_ _USER_
would you please tell me how to expand the search radius?
kind regards
as stated above, you can use the radiuses-parameter to expand your search radius.
However, this is not possible using a GET-request like the one you provided earlier.
You'll have to issue a POST-request to do so.
You can find all the information about this in our API-documentation.
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I also have the same issue. My params are as follows
{"coordinates":[[11.174931120562666, 75.83476320423199],[11.171264605659482, 75.84032574630943]],"radiuses":[8000, 8000]}
but I am getting the error message
"error": {
"code": 2010,
"message": "Could not find point 0: 11._PHONE_ 75._PHONE_ within a radius of 8000.0 meters.; Could not find point 1: 11._PHONE_ 75._PHONE_ within a radius of 8000.0 meters."
I am posting data to
Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong
You are using the wrong coordinate order. Our API takes Lon,Lat.
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Performing Safe Transfers
This course provides important information about basic body mechanics, transfer techniques, and the nine steps for safe lifting. Caregivers will learn about "No Lift" policies and what it means for them. The module includes tips for easing clients' fears about being transferred and descriptions of various transfer devices and mechanical lifts. A GREAT RISK MANAGEMENT INSERVICE!
- Define "body mechanics" and explain why it is important for both you and the client to use good body mechanics.
- Describe the "No Lift" policy and explain how it changes the way you transfer clients.
- List at least three different types of equipment that can be used to transfer clients.
- Describe the procedures for moving clients up in bed and for transferring from bed to chair.
- Demonstrate proper lifting and transfer techniques during your daily work.
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Predictive coding of spoken words in human auditory cortex
In a recent MEG study by Pierre Gagnepain, Rik Henson and Matt Davis we show how the brain achieves incredible speed and accuracy in recognising speech. The study published on 10th April 2012 in Current Biology shows that the brain is constantly using knowledge of familiar words to predict what speech sounds will be heard next.
Matt Davis explains: "Many of us are familiar with using predictive texting on mobile phones – these systems try to guess what you want to say to save you the trouble of typing it. What we've shown is that the human brain uses a similar, but more sophisticated form of prediction in making sense of speech. The Superior Temporal Gyrus, a part of the brain involved in hearing, is constantly predicting what sounds will come next when listening to speech. So, having heard the syllable 'form...' rather than trying to guess whether the word is 'formal', 'formidable' or 'formula', the brain predicts which sounds would come next if each of these words were said. By predicting which sounds will be heard, the brain can respond to incoming speech extraordinarily quickly."
Full details of the paper can be found here:
Gagnepain, P, Henson, R. N. & Davis, M.H. (2012) Temporal predictive codes for spoken words in human auditory cortex. Current Biology, 22(7), 615-622. PDF. Supporting Information.
The picture below, generated by Simon Strangeways, illustrates predictive coding as a neural mechanism that allows listeners to use knowledge of familiar words and their constituent sounds when understanding speech. Each speech sound is a star and familiar words are constellations. A human listener predicts future sounds when listening, so as to recognise the constellation ("formula") once the sequence of sounds ("formu...") uniquely identifies a single word.
Iain DeWitt has spotted an error with equation (3) in the paper. The division by p(speech) is incorrect and should excluded. Thanks to Iain for his careful reading of the paper.


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Mar. 8, 2007 Many important health policy issues, such as the allocation of avian flu vaccine in a pandemic or mandatory HPV vaccinations for young women, require policy makers to decide healthcare priorities for different age groups.
Yet economic methods used to allocate health care dollars and other resources may substantially undervalue childhood interventions, a new University of Michigan study suggests. This undervaluation occurs despite evidence that people place as much as three times greater value on health gains for children and adolescents, relative to adults or seniors.
University of Michigan's Daniel Eisenberg, assistant professor in the School of Public Health, and Dr. Gary Freed, director of the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit in the Division of General Pediatrics, reviewed a series of separate survey studies that show society favors early childhood intervention.
However, despite studies that suggest, that a year of life added for a 15-year old should receive 2 to 3 times more weight than a year of life added for an 80-year old, standard economic methods used to direct resources do not account for age or the fact that societies, as they become richer, tend to value health more over time.
The U-M study suggests policy makers must rethink how healthcare dollars and other resources are used across age group, by adjusting economic formulae to better reflect society's values.
"Our paper reviews recent studies related to how society values health gains for people of different ages," Eisenberg said. "These studies generally suggest that health gains for people at younger ages should receive higher priority than equivalent health gains for older people. When we incorporate these values into standard cost-effectiveness analysis methods, then interventions for young people, such as recently developed vaccines for HPV or meningitis, look significantly more appealing from a cost-effectiveness perspective."
Eisenberg and Freed illustrated the findings with examples of recently evaluated vaccine interventions. The paper, "Reassessing How Society Prioritizes the Health of Younger People," will appear in the March/April edition of Health Affairs, available March. 6.
"This study illustrates that the way we have been performing cost-effectiveness studies devalues the effect of interventions on children relative to adults and seniors," said Freed, who also has an appointment in the school of public health.
"As a nation, we must take a fresh look at how we measure the benefit of interventions focused on children. Likely, they represent the best investment we can make in our country's health now and in the future."
The paper does not suggest that society should divert health care from adult and senior programs, Eisenberg stressed. It is unknown how often economic methods such as cost-effectiveness analysis are actually used to allocate health care dollars---many other factors contribute to the decision making process, particularly in a decentralized health system such as ours, he said. Rather, the study suggests that age should be accounted for in future economic calculations and that the evidence on societal values for this issue should continue to be developed.
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COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY
The navigation of the operating room can be compared to that of a car. The GPS system of a car leads the driver safely to the predetermined destination, whereas the surgical navigation system helps the surgeon to arrange precisely the optimal position of the artificial joint.
This system is especially advantageous in case of strong deformations of the joint. Moreover, it is often possible to perform the operation, making short incisions, according to the so-called minimally invasive posterior approach: a smaller incision restricts the surgeon's field of vision, the navigation technology displays the patient's anatomy as a complete three-dimensional image on the screen.
The important point is that the navigation differs fundamentally from robotic surgery: the operation is always performed by the surgeon himself. The system merely supports his knowledge and experience. It gives the surgeon additional information directly, but does not take the whole operation out of his hands.
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Working in collaboration with the CAO, SANParks and the University of
the Witwatersrand, the CSIR's Earth observations research groups have
achieved several milestones, changing the way large areas like the KNP
and surrounding areas can be managed.
According to Prof Greg Asner, professor at the Department for Global
Ecology at Stanford University and in charge of the CAO, their
relationship with South Africa is quite unique: "It is one of the only
places in the world where we work directly with local scientists on
issues of management conservation. Working in South Africa with the
Kruger National Park and the CSIR gives us the chance to have real
impact," he said during an interview at the time of the CAO's third
mission to the country in April 2012.
This sentiment is echoed by SANParks' research manager for GIS and
remote sensing, Dr Izak Smit: "We do not have the infrastructure,
technology or expertise to deal with a project of this magnitude. Yet,
working with external partners, we can leverage the expertise and
funding, thereby enriching our work in transforming the science into
management decisions and practices.
"We find ourselves at the interface between the science and the
management of the parks. Collaboration with external partners like the
CSIR, universities and the CAO is essential to the successful management
of the parks, and has had impacts on how we manage the park when it
comes to the provision of water holes and prescribed burning, for
For Dr Renaud Mathieu, a CSIR principal scientist, the collaboration is
also about building technical skills and capacity in South Africa to
process large sets of data and developing remote sense technologies well
suited to the South African savannah landscape.
"Historically, especially in Africa, most remote sensing-based
approaches focused on tropical deforestation. However, more than half of
the southern African subcontinent is covered with savannah with about
10 to 50% tree cover and undergoing mostly gradual changes such as bush
encroachment or tree logging for fuelwood. Techniques developed for
assessing woody biomass in tropical forests with dense canopies cannot
simply be transferred to savannas and woodlands," he explains.
Futhermore, the long-term vision is to develop the whole LiDAR value
chain, including the local capacity to operationally collect LiDAR data
for environmental management and vegetation applications using local
airborne survey companies. In this regard, the CSIR and SANParks are
already working with a South African company to test the viability, as
SANParks is considering using LiDAR surveys for long-term monitoring.
Research milestone: Sustainability of fuelwood for rural energy needs
The LiDAR data from the 2008 flight campaign have enabled researchers to
map and measure woody biomass in rural areas such as Bushbuckridge,
where harvesting of live wood is still the primary source of fuel for
cooking and heating even when electricity is available.
Researchers combined the LiDAR data with socio-economic data collected
from the area over the past 20 years by the Wits Rural Public Health and
Health Transitions Research Unit, and the WITS programme for Sustaining
Natural Resources in African Ecosystems.
This shows that at the current rate of fuelwood consumption - three to
four tons per year per household - the woodland resources for some rural
villages in Bushbuckridge may only last another 12 years. With the help
of the LiDAR data and fieldwork, researchers have also found evidence
of illegal commercial cutting of fuelwood in the communal rangelands.
"There is great concern that the current levels of utilisation are not
sustainable, with direct negative impacts on the poor, as well as for
biodiversity loss and conservation. Our findings to date regarding the
sustainability of this ecosystem service warrant further investigation,"
says Dr Mathieu.
In all instances, improved estimates will be instrumental to poverty alleviation.
Research milestones: Loss of big trees in conserved areas
Another significant finding is that large herbivores and fires may have a
bigger impact on the loss of big trees in conserved areas than in
communal areas, where large trees like the Marula are valued for their
fruits. Over five metres high, many of these trees have taken over 50
years to grow.
Dr Mathieu, "We have detected a 20% loss of big trees from research
sites in a private game reserve next to the KNP in just two years,
compared to a 10% loss of big trees from research sites on communal land
over the same time period."
This was also the first time in his remote sensing career that he found a
100% correlation between prediction of a remote sensing system (the
LiDAR) and ground verification.
But researchers are still puzzled about why and how this is happenin.
"At the moment, we think it is because of different reasons," explains
Dr Mathieu: "In the case of the private game reserve, field work shows
that a combination of elephants and fire damage is involved. For
instance, the elephants push and debark the big trees. The trees are
weakened, and then burn more easily in veld fires."
In the communal areas, trees are cut for building posts for field
fencing and fuel wood; however, it is a big taboo to cut big
fruit-bearing trees like the Marula, and people mostly cut the
lower-growing trees and bushes.
Again, this finding needs to be further investigated and interrogated.
For the remote sensing specialists in South Africa, the recent 2012 CAO
campaign will be useful to confirm or infirm these results over a wider
area and a longer time span.


For better or for worse, India's celebrities have some pretty strong personalities. But how would they translate into a school classroom? Considering what they're up to today, here's what they probably would have been like while eating chalk and sharpening pencils.
1. Sonu Sood - Would distribute sweets to everyone every day, not just on his birthday.
2. Arvind Kejriwal - Would keep accusing people of stealing his pencil.
3. Narendra Modi - Would be the only person studying 'Entire Political Science'.
4. Navika Kumar - Would spread a rumour that Rahul and Pooja ne kiss kiya.
5. Sambit Patra - Would be the teacher's pet.
6. Arnab Goswami - Would constantly argue with the teacher and remind them about our homework.
7. Baba Ramdev - Would get called to the principal's office for keeping long hair and doing random shit when the teacher leaves the class.
8. Amit Shah - Would be the class bully.
9. Rahul Gandhi - Would be the signature rich kid whose tiffin box is from the US.
10. Kangana Ranaut - Would be the ringleader of the mean girls group.
11. Yogi Adityanath - Would call everyone by a nickname no one else used.
12. Mamata Banerjee - Would invariably have a 'broken leg' on the day of a test.
13. Mukesh Ambani - Would be homeschooled by teachers flown in from Wharton.
14. Karan Johar - Would be the only person who actually knew whether PT sir was dating the English teacher.
15. Anurag Kashyap - Would teach every kid in the class to say BC/MC and other assorted gaalis
"Is this a classroom or a fish market?!"
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Exercise 5.1.2
$\star$ Describe an implementation of the procedure RANDOM(a,b) that only makes calls to RANDOM(0,1). What is the expected running time of your procedure as a function of $a$ and $b$?
Let $n = b - a$. The algorithm is as follows:
 1. We find the smallest integer $c$ such that $2^c \ge n$ ($c = \lceil \ln{n} \rceil$)
 2. We call RANDOM(0, 1) $c$ times to and get a $c$-digit binary number $r$
 3. If $r > n$ we go back to the previous step
 4. Otherwise we return $a + r$
This produces a uniformly random number in that range. However, there is a possibility to have to repeat step 2. There is $p = n/2^c$ chance of not having to repeat step two. The geometric distribution suggests that on average it takes $1/p$ trials before we get such a number, that is $2^c/n$ trials. Since we perform $c$ calls to RANDOM(0, 1) on each trial, the expected running time is
$$ \O\bigg(\frac{2^c}{n} c\bigg) = \O\bigg(\frac{\ln(b-a)2^{\ln(b-a)}}{b-a}\bigg) = \O(\ln(b-a)) $$


Melinda Gates Melinda Gates Keynotes
Melinda Gate's keynote career took on a more prominent role in 2006 when she retired from the board... Need Inspiration?
The Melinda Gates Keynote Evaluates Opinions on Contraception
By: Sarah Moore - Apr 20, 2012
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The controversial stigma surrounding birth control and family planning is addressed in this thought-provoking Melinda Gates Keynote.
As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she promotes equality of life and focuses on finding ways to help society become more productive and live healthier lives.
She discusses the reproach associated with contraceptive use and the idea that the use of birth control is widely accepted in private while being highly opposed in the public eye. Due to the often uncomfortable nature of discussing sexual health issues outside of the confines of the home, the speaker argues that there are not enough honest and open conversations being had regarding the positive elements involved with family planning.
Her speech resonates with the thought that the choice of if and when to have a family should be exactly that -- a choice.


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A kimberlite crater in Canada, said to be 53 million years old, yielded exquisitely preserved unfossilized wood.
Miners were digging for diamonds and found unfossilized wood encased in the rock. Diamonds are usually found in kimberlite dikes that erupt the gems rapidly from deep in the earth in "explosive phreatomagmatic events" (1/12/2012, 5/07/2007). The discovery was reported on PLoS ONE by Wolfe et al. ("Pristine Early Eocene Wood Buried Deeply in Kimberlite from Northern Canada," PLoS ONE 7(9): e45537. doi:10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_):
We report exceptional preservation of fossil wood buried deeply in a kimberlite pipe that intruded northwestern Canada's Slave Province 53.3±0.6 million years ago (Ma), revealed during excavation of diamond source rock. The wood originated from forest surrounding the eruption zone and collapsed into the diatreme before resettling in volcaniclastic kimberlite to depths >300 m, where it was mummified in a sterile environment. Anatomy of the unpermineralized wood permits conclusive identification to the genus Metasequoia (Cupressaceae). The wood yields genuine cellulose and occluded amber, both of which have been characterized spectroscopically and isotopically. From cellulose δ18O and δ2H measurements, we infer that Early Eocene paleoclimates in the western Canadian subarctic were 12–17°C warmer and four times wetter than present. Canadian kimberlites offer Lagerstätte-quality preservation of wood from a region with limited alternate sources of paleobotanical information.
The genus Metasequoia includes the dawn redwood, a "living fossil" rediscovered in China. "Metasequoia was common in southern Alaska in the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene, producing a rich record of foliage and cones," they said. Fossils are rare in the discovery region due to extensive denudation and erosion by subsequent glaciers. Finding warm-climate conifer wood in a glaciated environment indicates huge climatic changes over time, and periods that supported extensive forestation in spite of much higher relative temperatures.
Fossil material can fall into a kimberlite crater as a result of the eruption, or can be washed in later. Both mechanisms occurred in the many kimberlite pipes in the region. Numerous pieces of fossil wood have been found by diamond miners over the years. The authors believe the "exceptional" sample they analyzed was entombed at the time of eruption:
We envisage that the source tree collapsed into the diatreme at the time of kimberlite emplacement. The great depth of burial suggests that it entered a narrow marginal boundary layer between the blast zone and the wall rock before becoming entombed. We consider the wood to be representative of the Early Eocene forest growing at the site at the time of magmatism. The lack of permineralization suggests that burial was rapid, and that little post-eruptive thermal or tectonic alteration has occurred at the locality.
Photographs of the wood tissues in the paper show clear cellular tissues at the microscopic level that retain their original material ("unpermineralized"), including tracheids and parenchyma cells. Most surprising was original cellulose, still intact:
Cellulose preservation in fossil conifers varies tremendously given the labile nature of constituent polysaccharides, mandating the need for quality control prior to isotopic analysis.… To our knowledge, this is the oldest verified instance of α-cellulose preservation to date, testifying to the remarkable preservation potential of kimberlite-hosted wood.
Amber fragments were also found within the wood. How could such delicate features survive a high-temperature eruption?
Despite the relatively subtle features attributed to thermal alteration noted above, we find little evidence that either the quality of cellulose preservation or the isotopic signatures of the various analyzed fractions have been overprinted. We thus envisage that cooling of the igneous body following emplacement in the diatreme was extremely rapid, potentially near-instantaneous, and surmise that any chemical changes to the entombed organic matter occurred in a closed system.
From oxygen isotope ratios, they inferred that the forest lived in a much warmer climate with rainfall four times higher than today. "The state of preservation of this wood is unequalled for material of this age, as exemplified by the exquisite quality of anatomical detail and the presence of α-cellulose," they said, using used the word "remarkable" three times in the paper. The crater was dated by the rubidium-strontium isochron method to be 53.3 million years old.
Update 9/22/2012: Live Science reported on the discovery. The article includes a photo of the specimen; it looks like a good-size chunk of firewood. The tree lived in a "swampier past" it said, noteworthy for the high latitude today (Northwest Territories); the fragment was found 1,000 feet down in the kimberlite pipe.
Well, this should raise some eyebrows. Original intact cellulose 53.3 million years old? Here's another opportunity for skeptics of the Moyboy Club (millions-of-years, billions-of-years) to look critically at this evidence. How long can original cellulose survive intact? You can't even keep it in your freezer for a century. The problem is not the data, but the story painted over it to make it look ancient, like an antiquing trick. (For reasons why isochron dating methods can produce fictitious results that are meaningless, see the 1/12/2005 entry.)
The millions-of-years riff adds nothing. It's like waving a magic wand over the observations to hypnotize the reader into thinking the wood must be incredibly ancient. Why? Because Darwin needs the time. Well, Darwin skeptics don't. Notice how everything else in the story was rapid: explosive eruption, tree falls in that same minute, cools "instantaneously," — 53 million yearzzzzzzzzz — quick discovery of intact cellulose in 2012.
The authors didn't think to look for carbon 14 in the wood, undoubtedly, because they believe (based on their commitment to deep time) that it would be hopeless – all traces of carbon 14 should be long gone. Here's an experiment someone should undertake. If these scientists got samples, there must be many others. Someone go look for carbon 14. Remember, the Moyboys were wrong before. They thought Metasequoia died out 20 million years ago, only to find them alive and well in China. Now you can buy dawn redwoods at the local nursery. Grow this "living fossil" in your yard as a living lesson in the fallibility of experts.


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How to Get Fresh Smelling Towels
24th Nov 2014
How to Get Fresh Smelling Towels
Ever wonder how come clean towels eventually end up smelling...well, not so fresh? If towels are clean, they should smell clean, right? Most times, it is our water being quite hard, mixed with the fragrances of detergents and fabric softeners, that build-up eventually takes a toll on those towels, resulting in foul-smelling, clean linen straight out of the dryer.
The solution? A simple, cheap DIY that just requires baking soda and vinegar.
1. Place your linen in the washing machine.
2. Instead of laundry detergent, put in a generous amount of baking soda (about 1/4 of a small box of baking soda.)
3. In the rinse cycle compartment, use white distiller vinegar (apple cider vinegar is a good alternative to use) instead of fabric softener.
4. Wash with hot water.
5. After the rinse cycle, put the freshly washed towels into the dryer. Out come clean and fresh towels without any hints of vinegar.
The result is fresh smelling towels, but they won't have the smelly residues that the fragrances of the detergents, fabric softener and hard-water create. This method also works for those towels that have been stored in a linen closet for a long time.
Bonus side (laundry) tip - baking soda works wonders on set-in oil stains too.
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People around the world are becoming more and more health conscious--and recently, there has been an increase in the amount of demand regarding information on the digestion process and what this means for good health and optimal growth. One myth that surrounds this topic includes the myth that eating each food group separately is important for healthy digestion. But is there really truth behind this statement? And if so, what does it mean for dieters versus people who simply want to maintain good health? This article discusses the truth behind digestion in the different food groups, and tackles the question--does eating each food group separately really result in healthier digestion? Be sure to read this article before heading to the grocery store or grabbing your next meal! It is sure to impact your choice both today and in the future.
How are Foods Made
Before we begin to answer the question regarding whether or not it is a good idea to eat each food group separately for healthy digestion, it is important to understand what is really in each food group and how these products are digested. Let's start with fruits and vegetables. Typically, fruits and vegetables are composed of two products--fiber, which is an indigestible nutrient and very slow digesting and carbohydrates, which can digest quickly or rapidly depending on the type of fruit or vegetable being consumed. Breads and grains are very similar to fruits and vegetables in that the type of carbohydrate found within these products varies quite a bit depending on the type of bread or grain. In comparison to fruits, vegetables, and grains, items that fall into the meat group are typically composed to either protein, which is slow digesting, and fat, which digests quickly. Similarly, dairy products are typically composed of both protein and fat. So what should this explanation of the components of the different food groups told you? Mainly, that nearly every food that you will come across is composed of some combination of fat, carbohydrate, and protein, all of which digest differently. While there may be some subtle differences between them, for the most part every type of food is digested in the same manner.
This myth is just that--a myth. In reality, eating each food group separately will have no impact on your digestion. In reality, the only way that foods can be manipulated in regards to the manner in which they digest is in regards to dieting. As discussed above, fruits, vegetables, and whole grain breads contain high amounts of dietary fiber, which is both slow digesting and "bulky," meaning that it takes up a lot of room in the stomach. This is great if you are on a diet because these foods create a feeling a satiety, preventing overeating and helping to keep you feeling fuller for a longer period of time. But unfortunately, eating fruits and vegetables separate from other items will have no impact on how the items are digested.


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This pocket guide offers researchers a framework for conducting research in a culturally sensitive manner with individuals, families, and communities in diverse settings. This unique framework focuses on a process, rather than a typology of behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs. All too frequently, cross-cultural research improperly attributes behaviors, beliefs, and values entirely to culture, when a closer examination would reveal the shared influences of gender, socioeconomic status, immigration status, and racial and ethnic backgrounds that interact in complex ways. By encouraging practitioners to incorporate an intersectionality lens into their work, this pocket guide helps researchers reveal stories that are more than the sum of particular identities.
Resources for qualitative research:
Resources on drug use statistics in Latin America:
Resources for Education and Training in Research & Statistics:
Resources for measures to be used in epidemiological research:


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The Abacus and the Numeral Frame - The Japanese Abacus
Most recent Japanese abaci (soroban) have one counter above and four below. Some older Japanese instruments have five counters in the lower section. The right-most column represents units, the next tens, the next hundreds, etc. For numbers with digits to the right of the decimal point, the first column is for the smallest decimal term. In multiplication, some columns are used for the number being multiplied and some for the product. In part for this reason, there are more columns on most abaci than are usually used in addition. In any calculation, the counters that represent numbers are those moved against the crossbar.
"The Abacus and the Numeral Frame - The Japanese Abacus" showing 1 items.
- This wooden instrument has an open frame and is stored in an open wooden box. The frame (which lifts out of the box) has a cross bar and holds 21 parallel bamboo rods. Each rod holds one bead above the cross bar and five below. The beads have a similar shape to those of other Japanese abaci. All the columns of the abacus except the center one are labeled with Japanese characters on the cross bar.
- According to the donor,writing found on the back of the cross bar indicates that the abacus was made by Oh Tani (or Oh Ya) in Hiroshima and owned by Yoshizaemon Muraoka of Sakata-ken (a city in northern Japan, which was known by that name from 1871 until 1933, when it became Sakata-shi).
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- Oh Tani or Oh Ya
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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According to the agreement, the main areas of cooperation between the two international organizations will be to address the issue of missing persons from migration, displacement, human trafficking, and other causes. IOM and ICMP will also cooperate in conducting research studies on matters of mutual interest and other areas.
While ICMP estimates that millions of persons are missing as a consequence of armed conflict and violations of human rights, there are no precise numbers regarding how many persons are missing from migration, displacement and organized violence, including human trafficking and drug related violence.
According to the United Nations there are an estimated 214 million international migrants today and the World Bank believes that this number could nearly double to 405 million by 2050.
"This agreement will benefit both IOM and ICMP, building on synergies between our two organizations. IOM's global reach and expertise in human mobility, particularly in post-crisis situations resulting in displacement, and in the fields of irregular migration, human trafficking and migration management, clearly complement ICMP's recognized expertise in the tracing and identification of missing persons," said IOM Director General William Lacy Swing.
"The issue of persons missing due to migration, displacement or human trafficking knows no international, regional or other boundaries. In addition, there are currently no viable mechanisms in place to locate persons missing for involuntary reasons on an international level. Through our cooperation with IOM, we would seek to understand the global nature and scale of the missing persons problem and to find the means to locate and identify missing persons in coordination with relevant international and domestic institutions. We look forward to jointly tackling this issue with IOM," said ICMP Director General Kathryne Bomberger.
Information about IOM and ICMP for editors:
Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. With 149 member states, a further 12 states holding observer status and offices in over 130 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants. IOM is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
ICMP was created in 1996, following the G-7 Summit in Lyon, France. ICMP endeavors to secure the co-operation of governments and other authorities in locating and identifying persons missing as a consequence of wars, human rights abuses and natural disasters, or other involuntary reasons, and to assist them in doing so. Since its establishment ICMP has been funded through donations and contributions from more than 20 countries. As part of its DNA-identification efforts ICMP has helped in the scientific identification of over 18,000 missing persons globally.
Information for media representatives:
International Organization for Migration
Senior Media & Communications Officer, Spokesperson
Office: +41 22 717 94 86
Mobile: +41 79 103 87 20
International Commission on Missing Persons
Office: +387 33 280 817
Mobile: +387 61 484 113


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The transformation used to transform this event from the global coordinate space into the coordinate space of the event receiver.
Unlike a paint transform, this transform usually does not contain any "perspective" components, meaning that the third row and the third column of the matrix should be equal to "0, 0, 1, 0". This ensures that localPosition describes the point in the local coordinate system of the event receiver at which the user is actually touching the screen.
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Researchers from Taiwan and the University of California, Berkeley, claim to have developed a new memory technology that can exceed the speed of today's mainstream charge-storage memory by up to 100X.
According to a paper published in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, the device uses non-conducting material that integrates horizontally aligned, non-overlapping silicon nanodots (Si-QD), each of which has a diameter of about 3 nm and represents a single memory bit. The storage function is provided via a metallic layer on top of the nanodot surface that is employed as a metal gate to control the on and off stages of the nanodots.
The published paper claims that the operating voltage of the non-volatile memory device is 7 volts and the program/erase speed of the nanodots is less than 1 μs. The storage process itself uses brief bursts of green laser light to target specific regions of the metal gate layer and reach individual nanodots. The scientists also claim that the "materials and the processes used for the devices are compatible with current main-stream integrated circuit technologies" and "can also be applied to other advanced-structure devices."
There was no information on the capacity of the memory device and a possible production beyond a lab scenario.


Range Copy Cut Paste « Excel « VBA / Excel / Access / Word
1.Copy method can use an argument that represents the destination for the copied range.
2.To copy a range to a different worksheet or workbook, simply qualify the range reference for the destination.
3.Copying a variably sized range
4.Copy method has one argument - the destination range for the copy operation
5.The Copy and Paste methods
6.Copy a range
7.Moving a range
8.Moving a range: move a range by cutting it to the Clipboard and then pasting it in another area
9.You can move a range with a single VBA statement
10.Copy method can use an argument for the destination range


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Tag: juvenile detention
It just gets my blood boiling what the Klansmen did to brother Hugo. I don't expect anything different from them. When they see they can't break you, they kill you. From George Jackson to Stanley Tookie Williams and now Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell, whenever you're not asleep, whenever you're awake and aware to who these people are and what they are out to do and doing, then you've got to go.
A child who kills vs. a child who was present but did not kill – what sentence does he deserve? A child of color vs. a Caucasian child – does the system treat them the same? How about the youthful offender vs. the adult offender? Personally, it has been my experience with the law that child killers and children who committed assaults are more likely than adults to be treated to the most cruel punishments.
From it's inception, the juvenile justice system has treated youth of color unfairly: When the first detention facility established a "colored section" in 1834, Black children were excluded from rehabilitation because it would be a "waste" of resources.


In the projects which are carried out by businesses in the Infrastructure Building sector, the parties involved communicate constantly.
The Infrastructure Building industry is characterized by changing cooperation relations between the different parties involved. During the entire process - from the first idea until finally the use and operational management - new cooperation relationships are constantly being formed. Some parties stay involved in the project over a longer period of time, while others come and go. Good communication between the parties involved is paramount for the efficiency in the project. The quick agreement on changes by all building partners, and the prompt availability of the last version of a drawing at the building sight, has great influence on the quality, the time span and the costs of a project.
Project partners experience that poor communication is an important bottleneck in the infrastructure building sector. In early 1998 a number of organizations from the infrastructure building sector came up with the plan to formulate agreements about communication between partners in infrastructure building projects. This plan constituted the foundation for what is now known in the sector as 'VISI'.
What does VISI stand for?
VISI stands for 'creating conditions for the establishment of standardization ICT in the infrastructure building sector' and its goals can be defined as follows:
 1. The parties involved agreed on generally applicable agreements about the content and design of communication between them.
 2. With these agreements the parties are able to enter into cooperation relationships and set up communication structures faster and more flexible.
 3. The parties involved communicate better with their environment and thus increase the quality of the product.
 4. With these agreements the tools in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) are better utilized.
It simply comes down that VISI aims to make unambiguous agreements about the (digital) communication at the points of contact or interfaces between parties in infrastructure building projects. These agreements should lead to the ability for the parties to find each other at will.
The Solution
The agreements which have been developed are related to communication which is needed to securely register the formal transactions between the partners in an infrastructure building project. For example for the settlement of alterations or the submittal and approval of a budget.
The agreements that VISI has developed are grouped according to areas of application. A group of agreements is referred to as a VISI-framework. The first area of application for which a VISI-framework is made available is in the communication between the principal and those employed by the principal in an UAV-agreement (UAV is the Dutch acronym for uniform administrative conditions). This framework is simply referred to as VISI-framework UAV.
What are these agreements about? The most important component is a collection of messages, made-up as forms. These messages are ready to be used in practise. Every message has specific data elements, independent of the goal of use. Thus in the VISI framework UAV we find a message for the submittal of a budget; in this message we see data elements to indicate which part of the budget it refers to, and which amounts are applicable.
Aside from the messages there are a number of other matters which are settled in a framework; for example which messages belong together to settle that a certain procedure is fixed. Furthermore the order of messages is dictated. Think about the submittal of a budget. This begins with the message 'budget' which is submitted by the employed party. Subsequently the principal can choose whether to answer with a message'rejection budget' or 'provisional approval budget', etc. The collection of messages for the settlement of such a procedure and their order is called a Transaction in VISI.
Finally, in communication it is important that it is clear from who messages come and to whom they go. In a VISI-framework this is fixed through roles. In a transaction there are always 2 roles involved. If we take again the example of'submitting a budget', then the two roles involved are the principal and those employed by the principal.
The result
Five large government principals in the building industry decided to introduce VISI in phases. The five principals are Rijkswaterstaat, Dienst Vastgoed Defensie, Rijksgebouwendienst, ProRail and Gemeentewerken Rotterdam. They signed for this in December 2006 in an implementation decision. The implementation took place in phases. In 2007 the principals carried out a number of their infrastructure building projects, which were placed in the market based on the UAV89, with VISI. This way the individual organizations and their building partners could get used to this form of communication. From 2008 onwards the use of VISI in all UAV89 projects has been made compulsory. For the B&U 2008 was the introductory year and the obligation to use VISI counts from 2009 onward. It was expected that from mid 2007 the contract model UAVgc would be introduced. The principals had to make a decision about this independently.
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percolate back up the history of who called that function, and we find a matching 'try... with...' block in 'foo'. This catches the error and so then the 'try... with...' block in 'foo' (the code that called 'bar' in the first place) will evaluate to '20'. OK, now this exception-handling apparatus does exemplify the second execution pattern we want to focus on. But it may bring it into clearer focus if we simplify the pattern even more. Imagine we could write code like this instead: # let foo x = try begin (if x = 1 then 10 else abort 20 ) + 100 end ;; then if we called 'foo 1', we'd get the result '110'. If we called 'foo 2', on the other hand, we'd get '20' (note, not '120'). This exemplifies the same interesting "jump out of this part of the code" behavior that the 'try... raise... with...' code does, but without the details of matching which exception was raised, and handling the exception to produce a new result. Many programming languages have this simplified exceution pattern, either instead of or alongside a 'try... with...'-like pattern. In Lua and many other languages, 'abort' is instead called 'return'. In Lua, the preceding example would be written: > function foo(x) local value if (x == 1) then value = 10 else return 20 -- abort early end return value + 100 -- in Lua, a function's normal value -- must always also be explicitly returned end > return foo(1) 110 > return foo(2) 20 Okay, so that's our second execution pattern. ##What do these have in common?## In both of these patterns, we need to have some way to take a snapshot of where we are in the evaluation of a complex piece of code, so that we might later resume execution at that point. In the coroutine example, the two threads need to have a snapshot of where they were in the enumeration of their tree's leaves. In the abort example, we need to have a snapshot of where to pick up again if some embedded piece of code aborts. Sometimes we might distill that snapshot into a data structure like a zipper. But we might not always know how to do so; and learning how to think about these snapshots without the help of zippers will help us see patterns and similarities we might otherwise miss. A more general way to think about these snapshots is to think of the code we're taking a snapshot of as a *function.* For example, in this code: let foo x = try begin (if x = 1 then 10 else abort 20 ) + 100 end in (foo 2) + 1;; we can imagine a box: let foo x = +---try begin----------------+ | (if x = 1 then 10 | | else abort 20 | | ) + 100 | +---end----------------------+ in (foo 2) + 1000;; and as we're about to enter the box, we want to take a snapshot of the code *outside* the box. If we decide to abort, we'd be aborting *to* that snapshotted code. What would a "snapshot of the code outside the box" look like? Well, let's rearrange the code somewhat. It should be equivalent to this: let x = 2 in let foo_result = +---try begin----------------+ | (if x = 1 then 10 | | else abort 20 | | ) + 100 | +---end----------------------+ in (foo_result) + 1000;; and we can think of the code starting with 'let foo_result =...' as a function, with the box being its parameter, like this: fun box -> let foo_result = box in (foo_result) + 1000 That function is our "snapshot". Normally what happens is that code *inside* the box delivers up a value, and that value gets supplied as an argument to the snapshot-function just described. That is, our code is essentially working like this: let x = 2 in let snapshot = fun box -> let foo_result = box in (foo_result) + 1000 in let value = (if x = 1 then 10 else... (* we'll come back to this part *) ) + 100 in shapshot value;; But now how should the 'abort 20' part, that we ellided here, work? What should happen when we try to evaluate that? Well, that's when we use the snapshot code in an unusual way. If we encounter an 'abort 20', we should abandon the code we're currently executing, and instead just supply '20' to the snapshot we saved when we entered the box. That is, something like this: let x = 2 in let snapshot = fun box -> let foo_result = box in (foo_result) + 1000 in let value = (if x = 1 then 10 else snapshot 20 ) + 100 in shapshot value;; Except that isn't quite right, yet---in this fragment, after the 'snapshot 20' code is finished, we'd pick up again inside 'let value = (...) + 100 in snapshot value'. That's not what we want. We don't want to pick up again there. We want instead to do this: let x = 2 in let snapshot = fun box -> let foo_result = box in (foo_result) + 1000 in let value = (if x = 1 then 10 else snapshot 20 THEN STOP ) + 100 in shapshot value;; We can get that by some further rearranging of the code: let x = 2 in let snapshot = fun box -> let foo_result = box in (foo_result) + 1000 in let continue_normally = fun from_value -> let value = from_value + 100 in snapshot value in if x = 1 then continue_normally 10 else snapshot 20;; And this is indeed what is happening, at a fundamental level, when you use an expression like 'abort 20'. A similar kind of "snapshotting" lets coroutines keep track of where they left off, so that they can start up again at that same place. ##Continuations, finally## These snapshots are called **continuations** because they represent how the computation will "continue" once some target code (in our example, the code in the box) delivers up a value. You can think of them as functions that represent "how the rest of the computation proposes to continue." Except that, once we're able to get our hands on those functions, we can do exotic and unwholesome things with them. Like use them to suspend and resume a thread. Or to abort from deep inside a sub-computation: one function might pass the command to abort *it* to a subfunction, so that the subfunction has the power to jump directly to the outside caller. Or a function might *return* its continuation function to the outside caller, giving *the outside caller* the ability to "abort" the function (the function that has already returned its value---so what should happen then?) Or we may call the same continuation function *multiple times* (what should happen then?). All of these weird and wonderful possibilities await us. The key idea behind working with continuations is that we're *inverting control*. In the fragment above, the code '(if x = 1 then... else snapshot 20) + 100'---which is written as if it were to supply a value to the outside context that we snapshotted---itself *makes non-trivial use of* that snapshot. So it has to be able to refer to that snapshot; the snapshot has to somehow be available to our inside-the-box code as an *argument* or bound variable. That is: the code that is *written* like it's supplying an argument to the outside context is instead *getting that context as its own argument*. He who is written as value-supplying slave is instead become the outer context's master. In fact you've already seen this several times this semester---recall how in our implementation of pairs in the untyped lambda-calculus, the handler who wanted to use the pair's components had *in the first place to be supplied to the pair as an argument*. So the exotica from the end of the seminar was already on the scene in some of our earliest steps. Recall also what we did with v2 and v5 lists. Version 5 lists were the ones that let us abort a fold early: go back and re-read the material on "Aborting a Search Through a List" in [[Week4]]. This inversion of control should also remind you of Montague's treatment of determiner phrases in ["The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English"](_URL_ (PTQ). A naive semantics for atomic sentences will say the subject term is of type 'e', and the predicate of type 'e -> t', and that the subject provides an argument to the function expressed by the predicate. Monatague proposed we instead take the subject term to be of type '(e -> t) -> t', and that now it'd be the predicate (still of type 'e -> t') that provides an argument to the function expressed by the subject. If all the subject did then was supply an 'e' to the 'e -> t' it


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Questions about how plants die leads to climate change answers
- Michelle Espy
- Applied Modern Physics
- Sanna Sevanto
- Earth System Observations
How trees die in drought key to plant, climate change questions
How plants die during drought is one of the largest uncertainties in determining how plants will succumb to changing climate.
LANL researchers Michelle Espy, Jesse Resnick, and Igor Savukov of Applied Modern Physics and Nathan McDowell and Sanna Sevanto of Earth System Observations have observed, for the first time, that water content can be monitored non-invasively and unobtrusively in intact trees via ultra-low field (ULF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
Non-invasive method studies plant function and mortality
As expected, water content correlates with the NMR signal. During three days of continuously monitoring an aspen tree suffering from drought, the researchers saw evidence of changes in water content for day versus night, as well as the overall decline in water content as the tree's health declined.
Although high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used for in vivo water measurements, the research represents a first in vivo application of the ULF-NMR method to the study of plant function and mortality.
Ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation can be made simple and portable and adapts non-invasively to the tree. The work demonstrates that the combination of LANL's unique abilities in ULF magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and climate-driven vegetation mortality research can provide understanding of plant function and mortality.
Understanding mechanisms of plant mortality helps future climate forecasting
The scientists' goal is to provide basic insights into questions such as how plants die, especially during drought. While the question of plant mortality is easy to conceptualize, it is difficult to study because of the spatial and temporal variation of processes over the plant.
Understanding these mechanisms of mortality, especially the tipping points, will provide important input to forecasts of future climate because current models cannot simulate vegetation change and related climate effects. The LANL research represents a first step towards fieldable, non-invasive monitoring to answer these fundamental questions.
Work is first look into how water movement changes in a tree
Additional validation with traditionally accepted environmental methods is underway. If validated, the work appears to represent a first non-invasive look at how water movement changes inside an aspen tree over time and during the onset of mortality using the ULF-NMR method.


Determining surface orientations of transparent objects based on polarization degrees in visible and infrared wavelengths
Techniques for modeling an object through observation are very important in object recognition and virtual reality. A wide variety of techniques have been developed for modeling objects with opaque surfaces, whereas less attention has been paid to objects with transparent surfaces. A transparent surface has only surface reflection; it has little body reflection. We present a new method for obtaining surface orientations of transparent surfaces through analysis of the degree of polarization in surface reflection and emission in visible and far-infrared wavelengths, respectively. This parameter, the polarization degree of reflected light at the visible wavelengths, is used for determining the surface orientation at a surface point. The polarization degree at visible wavelengths provides two possible solutions, and the proposed method uses the polarization degree at far-infrared wavelengths to resolve this ambiguity.
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I have made a lot of worksheets to help students learn piano keys, but I have not made one for baseball. I have one little guy who just loves the game so I made this for him. In order to save paper and make it more fun for students, I designed it big enough to use on an iPad. If you don't want to use this on a mobile device, print it out just as you usually do. Be sure to print in landscape orientation. Don't try to click on the picture above, because that will just pop up a low resolution image that is only for illustration purposes and it does not look good in print or a mobile device. Click the heading under the picture and it will take you to my website where you can print it.
If you want to try it on a mobile device, here is one easy way to download this into Skitch, a free app for Apple and Android.
Directions for using the Skitch app
- Using your iPad, open the Skitch app. On the home page there are several icons on the top row. Select "Web."
- When the next window opens, there will be a place to type in an address. You will have to open the typing tool. Type in _URL_ (do not use the address for this blog)
- Select "Worksheets" and scroll way, way down the page until you see number SP614, Let's Play Ball. Select it and then select "Download". This opens the Let's Play Ball printable, but you are not going to print it.
- Turn the iPad to landscape orientation (sideways). Using two fingers, center the graphic exactly like you want it.
- Click the camera icon on the top left side of the app. Skitch saves the graphic and places a tiny icon of it on the home page for future use. You cannot change my graphic (other than crop it or zoom in or out), but you can draw or type all over it.
- Now the student can use the arrow or pencil tool and draw a line from the keyboard to the correct letter.
- The trash can icon at the bottom of the left hand side will clear the graphic of any marks your student makes so that it will be ready for your next student. The third icon down on the left side is the "send to" tool. You can send it to a parent to show them how much your student is learning!
If you want more info on how to use Skitch, see my 2 posts from this past summer.
Disclosure: I have no connection to Skitch whatsoever, nor does the company know I recommend the app, but I've found this one is good for piano lessons. I wanted an app that was easy to use and didn't take much time to learn, and Skitch is my favorite. Leave a comment if you have a favorite app to use with your students. If you like my printables, please go to my Facebook page Susan Paradis' Piano Teaching Resources and "like" it!


CUBRID Q&A CUBRID Q&A en Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:37:10 +0900 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:29:29 +0900 XpressEngine Can I deserialise OBJECT types using java.sql.SQLData? lukaseder From what I've learned here, I understand that CUBRID tables (classes) can have columns (attributes) of an OBJECT type, where the concrete OBJECT type is in fact another table (class). This can be visualised with the following query:
select class_name, attr_name, domain_class_name
from db_attribute
where data_type = 'OBJECT';
Which outputs (for instance):
Now, my question is:
How to interpret trigger meta data? vbergmann Hi,
when querying for trigger meta data, e.g. issuing
SELECT * FROM db_trigger
strange codes are returned for db_trigger.owner (e.g. _USER_|1|0) and target_class (e.g. _USER_|8|0). What do they mean?
And more important: How to find out which class/table name the trigger relates to?
Regards, Volker.
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:31:48 +0900 triggers OID 17
 2. What is the "_db_attribute" ELO type?
How can I resolve OID's in SQL? lukaseder I've seen that serials have an owner similar to classes, i.e. db_serial.owner seems to relate to users, just like db_class.owner. Unfortunately, db_serial.owner returns an OID, unlike db_class.owner, which shows the user name. How can I resolve that OID in a SQL statement? Or in other words, how can I join db_serial with db_user?
Note, I have seen, that the cubrid manager can do it:
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:11:20 +0900 SQL OID 7


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too cold or too hot. Maintain the nutrient solution at a minimum temperature of 47-50°F (8°-10°C) at night, and a maximum of 65°-68°F (18°-20°C) during the day. It may be necessary to heat the nutrient in winter. Avoid excessively high temperatures.
- When using an automatic controller, be sure to check the pH and nutrient level manually at least once a week. Clean and buffer the pH probe weekly. Check the conductivity cell and clean if any signs of deposit are visible on the measuring surface.
- If plants begin to exhibit unusual signs (such as discoloration, wilting or dying leaves) you should change the nutrient as a precautionary measure. Flush the system with plain water for several hours, then refill the tank and introduce fresh nutrients. Be cautious about using very cold water on a hot day as the plants could suffer temperature shock.
A great deal of satisfaction can be gained from growing healthy crops and producing quality fruits and vegetables, whether for your family table or for commercial sale in the local or export markets.


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The current immunisation policy in Finland expects no mandatory vaccine. The current vaccine schedule is:
- Rotavirus (infants, 2 months)
- Pneumococcus, Rotavirus, DTaP-IPV-Hib (infants, 3 and 5 months)
- Pneumococcus, Rotavirus, DTaP-IPV-Hib, MMR (infants, 12 months)
- MMR (infants, 18 months)
- booster doses for children at 4 and 6 years
- HPV (children, 11-12 years)
Parents receive a lot of pressure to accomplish such schedule. At child care centers they are sometimes called irresponsible when they choose not to vaccinate, the common reasons being herd immunity and the risk of contracting a disease. In other cases parents experience respect for their choice.


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accumulate to amass; collect. [1/2 definitions]
amass to gather or collect into a large amount. [1/3 definitions]
bunch to collect or gather into a bunch. [1/5 definitions]
c.o.d. abbreviation of "collect on delivery." [1/2 definitions]
collectable combined form of collect.
compile to gather together; collect. [1/3 definitions]
concentrate to gather or collect in one place. [1/6 definitions]
conglomerate to collect and adhere in a body or mass. [1/5 definitions]
dew water droplets that collect, usu. at night, on cool surfaces. [1/3 definitions]
embody to collect or organize into one body or system. [1/3 definitions]
enforce to collect or obtain (money or performance) by force or coercion. [1/3 definitions]
estreat to collect as a fine or tax. [1/3 definitions]
gather to collect from various sources; amass. [1/12 definitions]
hoard to collect or save up as a hoard. [2/3 definitions]
horsefly any of numerous large, bloodsucking flies that typically collect around horses, cows, and the like.
lachrymatory a small vase often found in ancient Roman tombs, formerly supposed to have been used to collect the tears shed by mourners. [1/2 definitions]
levy to carry out the levy of; collect. [1/4 definitions]
oyster to collect oysters. [1/3 definitions]


Sunday, May 30, 2010
Mitigating technology risks
The New York Times published an insightful article by Elizabeth Rosenthal a couple of days ago entitled "Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill." The thrust of the article is that we place an inordinate amount of faith in the ability of technology to fix problems and have a too-rosy picture of the benefits of technology compared with its risks. I think this is frequently true.
The question is, how can we mitigate this problem? The article seems to suggest (implicitly, not overtly) that we should give up the idea that technology can resolve natural problems — that perhaps the natural world is too complex and unpredictable to be dealt with by technology. I would disagree with such an assessment. It may be (in fact, I hope it is so) that the world will always exceed our understanding at any given point in time. But this does not imply that we should lose faith in the benefits of technology or imagine that its risks always outweigh its benefits. Rather, it suggests (as does the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico) that we should invest more heavily in mitigation strategies and technologies and perhaps proceed more cautiously with certain types of exploratory technologies, with the realization that there will always be unforeseen risks.
We need two things: the willingness to pay the price to develop mitigation strategies and technologies and the benevolence to work together to mitigate unforeseen problems when they arise.
 1. What are the alternatives? Giving up or passive hope? Maybe we should pray ourselves into apathy and then try to disappear quietly.
 2. So, what can we do to encourage increased investment in mitigation strategies? Part of the problem, it seems to me, is greed.


What is a Watershed?
All of the land that drains to a common receiving body of water. In Contra Costa County we have 32 watersheds, several of these share boundaries with Alameda County. Watersheds are commonly named for the waterway or water body they flow to.
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8. What is C.3?
10. What is NPDES and who oversees it?
13. What are Pollutants of Concern (POCs)?