on whether the code is related to the user interface or not), but since the same ViewModel is used by both a WinForms view and a WPF view, the ViewModel is not allowed to contain code that is designed for WinForms or WPF or that directly interacts with the UI; such code MUST go into the view.
Also in the MVVM pattern, UI objects should avoid interacting with each other! Instead they interact with the viewmodels. For instance a TextBox would not ask a nearby ListBox which item is selected; instead the listbox would save a reference to the currently selected item somewhere in the viewmodel layer, and the TextBox would query the viewmodel layer to find out what is selected right now. This solves your problem about finding out which button was pushed in one form from within a different form. You just share a Navigation Model object (which is part of the application's viewmodel layer) between the two forms and put a property in that object that represents which button was pushed.
WinForms itself doesn't support the MVVM pattern very well, but Update Controls provides its own unique approach MVVM as a library that sits on top of WinForms.
In my opinion, this approach to program design works very well and I plan to use it on future projects. The reasons it works so well are (1) that Update Controls manages dependencies automatically, and (2) that it is usually very clear how you should structure your code: all code that interacts with UI objects belongs in the View, all code that is UI-related but does not HAVE to interact with UI objects belongs in the ViewModel. Quite often you will split your code into two parts, one part for the View and another part for the ViewModel. I had some difficulty designing context menus in my system, but eventually I came up with a design for that too.
I have raving about Update Controls on my blog too. This approach does take a lot of getting used to, though, and in large-scale apps (e.g. if your listboxes contain thousands of items) you may encounter performance problems due to current limitations of automatic dependency management.
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I am going to answer this even though you have already accepted an answer.
As others have pointed out, I do not understand why you had to use anything static; this sounds like you have been doing something very wrongly.
Anyway, I have had the same problem as you: in my WinForms application I have several forms that share some functionality and some controls. Also, all of my forms already derive from a base form (let's call it "MyForm") which adds framework-level functionality (irrespective of application.) The Forms Designer of Visual Studio supposedly supports editing forms that inherit from other forms, but in practice it works only as long as your forms do nothing more than "Hello, world! -- OK -- Cancel".
What I ended up doing is this: I keep my common base class "MyForm", which is quite complex, and I continue to derive all of my application's forms from it. However, I do absolutely nothing in these forms, so the VS Forms Designer has no problems editing them. These forms consist solely of the code that the Forms Designer generates for them. Then, I have a separate parallel hierarchy of objects that I call "Surrogates" which contain all the application-specific functionality, like initializing the controls, handling events generated by the form and the controls, etc. There is a one-to-one correspondence between surrogate classes and dialogs in my application: there is a base surrogate class which corresponds to "MyForm", then another surrogate class is derived which corresponds to "MyApplicationForm", and then a whole bunch of other surrogate classes are derived, which correspond to each and every different form that my application displays.
Each surrogate accepts as a construction-time parameter a specific type of form, and it attaches itself to it by registering for its events. It also delegates to base, all the way to "MySurrogate" which accepts a "MyForm". That surrogate registers with the "Disposed" event of the form, so that when the form gets destroyed, the surrogate invokes an overridable on itself so that it, and all of its descendants, can perform cleanup. (Deregister from events, etc.)
It has been working fine so far.
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Fiber Arts Exhibit at Sacred Heart University is Sure to Pleasecomments (2) May 12th, 2008
"The history of fiber can be traced to the beginnings of civilization. With uses dating from the Stone Age, approximately 2.5 million years ago, such natural fibers as flax, cotton, wool and silk have been discovered in ancient burial sites in Egypt, Babylonia, Peru, and Great Britain," according to Nisha Drinkard of William Paterson University.
Drinkard curated Contemporary Fiber, the current exhibit at The Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, Connecticut), which features fiber art from 22 purveyors and is on display until May 29, 2008.
Their offerings range from dresses to framed work on canvas, but all entries are made mainly with textiles. Techniques used to manipulate the fibers include knitting, sewing, stitching, weaving, and quilting.

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text: In Nigeria, religious intolerance between Muslims and Christians continues to increase. Muslim women are among those who have felt the most impact from the resulting religious prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination, especially in their workplaces. While many studies have been conducted to investigate the myriads of challenges facing women in general and Muslim women in particular, little research has been done on the challenges they face in their workplaces. This study intends to fill this gap by studying Female Muslim Medical Practitioners (FMMP) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. Purposive and snowball samplings were used to select seventy research participants. Face-to-face and in-depth individual interviews, which lasted between 30 minutes and three hours each, were used to collect data for the study, in which relevant statistical tests were used for data analysis. The study reveals that FMMPs in the hospital encounter several challenges, such as donning the hijab (the Muslim headscarf), performing daily prayers (salat), and employment opportunities. There is also evidence of high-level discrimination in the workplace. Finally, the study recommends that the management of UCH enhance its practice and policies regarding religious tolerance, equality, fairness, unity, and cooperation amongst its administrative staff and personnel.

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trans-2,3-diethyloxirane (or trans-3,4-epoxyhexane)
Work Step by Step
Since its a three-atom ring with one of them being O, it is an oxirane. There are two ethyl groups at carbon 2 and 3 respectively, so it 2,3-diethyl. And since they are trans to each other, it is trans-2,3-diethyloxirane. 3,4-epoxyhexane is also right because the oxygen is connected to the longest chain at carbon 3 and 4.


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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A prickly West Indian gourd whose immature fruit is pickled. 2. A small pickled cucumber.
Notes: Today's Good Word is a curiosity: one of a very few English words beginning with GH. The H, of course, is irrelevant, a'silent' H. Its oddness is probably responsible for the fact that it is a lexical orphan, without related derivations.
In Play: Moms, here is how you can spice up your discussions with your children using today's word: "Aha! Caught you jerking a gherkin out of the jar! Put it back or you'll ruin your dinner." There isn't much room in this word's meaning for metaphor, so we are stuck with its literal meaning: "I wouldn't insult my guest with gherkins on their hamburgers; I serve only large dills."
Word History: This English word is the result of mistaking Dutch gurken, the plural of gurk "cucumber", as a singular form. The Dutch word is a shortened form of agurk, borrowed from a Slavic language, either Polish ogorek or Russian ogurec. The Slavs probably got their word from late Greek angourion "watermelon". The Greeks may have taken the word from Persian angarah or aguron, but no one knows for sure. (We might have been in a pickle had Jackie Strauss not provided us with this Good Word when she did.)
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This XML file is named example.xml:
 Environment for UberPortalConf
 This is the description

If I load the example.xml file above using ElementTree and print the root node:
>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree
>>> tree = ElementTree.parse('example.xml')
>>> print tree.getroot()
I see that Element also contains the namespace _URL_
How do I:
 1. Get the foobarportal.version text, increase it by one and write the XML file back while keeping the namespace the document had when loaded and also not change the overall XML layout.
 2. Get it to load using any namespace, not just _URL_ I still don't want to strip the namespace, as I want the XML to stay the same except for changing foobarportal.version as in 1 above.
The current way is not aware of XML but fulfills 1 and 2 above:
 1. Grep for (.*)
 2. Take the contents of the match group and i increase it by one
 3. Write it back.
It would be nice to have an XML aware solution, as it would be more robust. The XML namespace handling of ElementTree is making it more complicated.
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I've tried tree.getroot().find('project') which does not work due to the namespace. After that I am pretty much stuck and the documentation didn't help me. – Deleted Feb 29 '12 at 15:26
Show us the code you have tried, in the question. – Marcin Feb 29 '12 at 15:43
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If your question is simply: "how do I search by a namespaced element name", then the answer is that lxml understands {namespace} syntax, so you can do:
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Quick Answer: Is Airlift Movie Based On True Story?
Who is the wife of Akshay Kumar?
Twinkle Khannam.
2001Akshay Kumar/Wife.
Why did Iraq invade Kuwait in 1990?
In August 1990, Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait to its southeast in a bid to gain more control over the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East. In response, the United States and the UN Security Council demanded that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait, but Hussein refused.
What is the meaning of airlift?
: a system of transporting cargo or passengers by aircraft often to or from an otherwise inaccessible area. Other Words from airlift Example Sentences Learn More about airlift.
Who is real Ranjit Katyal?
Akshay KumarThe airlift, which began in the first week of September 1990, lasted 59 days and involved 499 sorties. Mathews was among the last to leave. Makers of Airlift recently acknowledged that Ranjit Katyal, played by Akshay Kumar, was a fictional character based on Mathews and another Indian businessman, Harbhajan Singh Vedi.
What is the story of airlift movie?
Who was the Kuwaiti girl in airlift?
In 2016 Feryna appeared in film Airlift as Tasneem alongside Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, set in Kuwait 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. She also acted in a short British film titled as A Secret Heart by director Cary Shawney. In this film, she is seen in the role of a British Jewish girl from World War 2.
How many Indians were evacuated from Kuwait?
170,000 IndianMore than 170,000 Indian citizens evacuated. The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait was carried out from August 13, 1990 to October 20, 1990 after the Invasion of Kuwait.
How did Kuwait respond to invasion by Iraq?
The Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait was unanimously condemned by all major world powers. … NATO members were particularly critical of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and by late 1990, the United States had issued an ultimatum to Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait by 15 January 1991 or face war.
Is airlift based on true story?
The real story of this Malayali entrepreneur who coordinated the evacuation in Kuwait in 1990. Akshay Kumar claims to have lived the life of Mathunny Mathews in his head for nine long months, while essaying the real character in the current Bollywood flick Airlift. … The film has caught Indians by their heart.
Who was the heroine in airlift?
Airlift is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language historical drama film directed by Raja Krishna Menon, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur.
Who is nimrat Kaur husband?
Nimrat Kaur Height, Weight, Age, Husband, Affairs & MoreBioReal NameNimrat KaurMarital StatusUnmarriedAffairs/BoyfriendsNot KnownHusbandN/A35 more rows
Does Netflix have airlift?
Airlift – (2016) – Netflix.
Why is airlift banned in Kuwait?
This ban definitely reflects on the fact that the Kuwaiti people(at least the censor board) did take offence to what was shown in the movie, as the events showed in the movie projected them to be a government which fled during a major crisis(the iraq invasion), leaving their own behind.
How old is nimrat Kaur?
38 years (March 13, 1982)Nimrat Kaur/Age
When did Iraq invade Kuwait?
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Those entitled to relief must be:
- Resident within the parish in which application is submitted for enrolment.
- Wholly destitute of means of subsistence.
- Unable to work and earn a living due to mental and physical causes or both.
- In need of temporary relief due to drought, epidemic disease, fire, flood or other disaster.
- Anyone in or out of the parish who has emergency needs which he cannot meet. This assistance is usually refundable.
Any citizen who, due to circumstances beyond his / her control, finds himself in need of assistance can apply to the nearest Poor Relief Office for temporary assistance. The individual must undertake to repay the Poor Relief Department as soon as he/she is able.


When working with a multi-terrain setup, it often happens that you get unwanted seams or steps in your world - either on the border between two terrains, or at the edge of a stamp. This article explains how you can get rid off those seams in an elegant way with the stamper in Gaia 2 / Pro.
Our example setup: Two terrains with unaligned heights between the borders.
1. Remove all masks from the stamper. Set the Operation Type to "Set Height", then Add a Distance Mask with
Influence: Global
Axes: X or Z, depending on which axis your seam / edge runs across.
For the Distance Mask Curve set up a hill-like curve. Combined your mask settings should look like this:
You should now be seeing some "hill-like" structure that mimics the curve of the distance mask when the stamp preview is enabled, depending on the height of the stamper it should either be a hill or a valley in your existing terrains:
2. Position the Stamper exactly above the edge you want to blend away. You can experiment a bit with the height to decide at which height the transition should take place:
3. In theory you can stamp now and the two terrains will be merged according to the stamp preview. However you will notice that the seam area will look a bit bland and featureless. You can change this by adding an additional image mask, then selecting a stamp image that shows interesting features that you would like to see in the transition:
Keep in mind that you can just open the stamp browser to flip through the available stamps,the preview will update accordingly:
If you are happy with the result, you can press the stamp button, and you should see your stamp / edge being replaced with the transition you just created. Here are the two terrains from the example setup at the beginning:
If you don't like the transition taking place over such a large area across your world, you can also fine tune the curve, but if you overdo it, it might become obvious that thereis some sort of artifical transition going on between the terrains:


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Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Jerry W. Gilley
Organizations invest significantly in training programs and estimates are that only 10 percent of the learning in training programs is transferred to the workplace. While it is appropriate for Human Resource Development professionals to be advocates for training, it is imperative for the profession not only to increase the training transfer, but also to make connections between the training investment and broader business goals and objectives. Plentiful studies exist which identify various mediating factors for training transfer, including improved training content, learner motivation and ability, and exterior organizational factors such as workplace transfer climate. However, few studies focus on the impact of training transfer factors to the accomplishment of the broader business goals and objectives.;Within the literature, a newer strand of inquiry focuses specifically on the impact of workplace transfer climate as a promising transfer catalyst. In the wider organizational development field, Value-Profit Chain studies are beginning to uncover links between employee situational factors (loyalty, commitment, satisfaction) and both customer satisfaction and other organizational key performance indicators (i.e. sales growth, profit growth, turnover). The intent of this study was to determine potential links between workplace transfer climate and the attainment of business goals and objectives in a particular firm, and in so doing, to provide a possible connection between training transfer research and Value-Profit Chain analysis.;Results of the study indicate that stores with a more positive workplace transfer climate showed stronger operational results than did stores with a less positive workplace transfer climate. Further, the study found that the individual factors relating to workplace transfer climate were not homogeneous. Finally, study results indicated employees' perceptions regarding certain workplace climate factors were mediated through their perceptions of the managerial support variable.;Past studies have suggested that workplace climate supports transfer of trained skills to the workplace. This study supports and extends that knowledge and indicates that workplace transfer climate is supportive in the attainment of business goals and objectives. As such, this study provides a preliminary, yet important, link between training transfer research and Value-Profit Chain analysis of organizational effectiveness.
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University, _URL_
Hoekstra, Erik, "An exploration of the value profit chain for training transfer: a study of the relationship of workplace transfer climate to business goals and objectives in one firm " (2003). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 591.


Category:Polar Bear Expedition
The Polar Bear Expedition (also known as the Northern Russian Expedition, the American North Russia Expeditionary Force - ANREF or the American Expeditionary Force North Russia - AEFNR) was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S. troops that landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and fought the Red Army in the surrounding region during the period of September 1918 through July 1919.


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Through EMDS, decision makers can apply logical models of ideal ecosystem conditions against spatially referenced information and then prioritize the results for a maximum net benefit to the environment based on management constraints and opportunities.
EMDS integrates the logic engine of NetWeaver from Rules of Thumb, Inc. to perform create a logical model and perform various evaluations against it, and the decision modeling engine of Criterium DecisionPlus from InfoHarvest, Inc. for evaluating management priorities to create an application framework for knowledge-based decision support of ecological assessments. Logic processing in EMDS is performed by the NetWeaver engine. Data input to the engine is mediated by the EMDS Project Environment and ArcMap.
Logic models (knowledge bases) that describe logical relations among ecosystem states and processes are created in NetWeaver Developer. NetWeaver readily supports design of knowledge bases for the types of large, complex, and abstract problems typically posed by ecosystem management. Priority Analyst is a dynamic MCDA tool that extends the functionality of EMDS to include integrated planning. The Priority Analyst can be used for priority setting, resource allocation, and trade-off analysis once a particular analysis has been completed in EMDS. The process of MCDA involves ranking alternative actions based on how well each rates against a set of decision criteria. Priority Analyst includes a variety of diagnostic tools that help developers, users, and the general public, understand the basis for planning priorities.


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The pco.flim is the first Frequency Domain FLIM camera using a two tap CMOS sensor. Synchronized modulation of pixels and stimulated light enables you the analysis of luminescence decay times in the range of 100 ps – 100 µs.
With its 1008 x 1008 pixels resolution the pco.flim reads out 45 double frames/s at a max. You can use it for a modulation frequency range of 5 kHz – 40 MHz.
Using C-mount as standard the system is easy to connect to any microscope or lens. Further, the USB 3.0 interface lets you connect the camera to all kinds of computers. This saves you significant efforts and costs for operation and research.
The pco.flim laser is a homogeneously illuminating light source designed for use with the pco.flim. It features a digital modulation frequency range of 0 – 250 MHz. You can either order the pco.flim laser for widefield epifluorescence microscope illumination, or for Total-Internal-Reflection-Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) and confocal spinning disk microscopy.
Choose between a wide range of different wavelengths and light output powers. The laser is ideally suited if your relevant luminescence lifetimes are in the range of a few nanoseconds. In case you are using a Nikon microscope, the Nikon double-safety-shutter option is also available.


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Why is sugar solution a mixture?
Water is a solvent and sugar is the solute. When sugar is added to water, a solution is formed as the sugar crystals dissolve. The sugar particles are still there in solution, however, they are evenly mixed. They have not changed into something different. A mixture is when two or more different substances are mixed but not chemically combined. However, a mixture can be separated again by physical means. Evaporation is one easy method to separate the sugar from the water. If one boils this solution, only the water will evaporate out of the mixture at 100 degrees Celsius. The water will change to gas and the solid sugar will remain behind. Eventually, the sugar will recrystallize when the particles cool.


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BEIA participated on the 30th of April at ELSE2020 called "eLearning and software for education", with the paper "An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing in the Military Network". ELSE2020 is an international scientific conference that facilitates corporate and research entities to advance the potential of the technologically augmented learning environments, by offering a symposium for exchange of research outcomes, various ideas, technical achievements and business cases. Hence, the SealedGRID's results and future scientific goals through the paper were communicated to the audience.
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- New Cyberwatching Newsletter is out!!


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KDL Recommends For Kids > PLAY-GROW-READ! - Books for Early Literacy > Katie L. Talks: Books that Invite Participation
Shout! Shout It Out!
Title: Shout! Shout It Out!
Author: Denise Fleming
CONCEPT E FLEMING
Mouse invites the reader to shout out what he or she knows as they review numbers, letters, and easy words.
Kids are often told to sit still and be quiet. But Denise Fleming encourages them to shout, shout it out! By taking basic learning concepts like numbers, letters, and colors and putting them on display, she asks kids to shout out what they know—and her readers will be happy to oblige.
With bold colors and her unique handmade paper art, Denise Fleming makes learning into a game. Long-time fans and sharp-eyed newcomers will be happy to see that Mouse returns on every page, shouting along with the crowd!


Queen's Counsel
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Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), during the reign of a male sovereign known as King's Counsel (KC), are senior lawyers in various Commonwealth countries.
They are appointed by letters patent to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law". They are not a separate type of lawyer. They are more than long serving lawyers, because their status is given by the Crown and recognised by the courts.
Queen's Counsel have the privilege of sitting within the Bar of court, and wear silk gowns of a special design (hence the informal title Silks). The special robes are the reason why becoming a QC is often called "taking silk".
In order to "take silk" a lawyer usually has to serve as a barrister or a Scottish advocate for at least 10 years. Recently solicitors have also been appointed Queen's Counsel.
A QC's status means they generally charge higher fees than ordinary barristers, and always have another barrister as an assistant. This assistant is called a "junior" even if the junior has been a lawyer longer than the "silk".


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Non-Surgical Jaw Slimming
Non-Surgical Jaw Slimming Treatment: Sculpt Your Silhouette with Precision
Non-surgical jaw slimming, also known as jawline contouring or facial slimming, is a sophisticated aesthetic procedure designed to enhance facial proportions by reshaping the jawline and reducing the appearance of a strong or square jaw. This non-invasive treatment involves the use of muscle-relaxing injections to achieve a more refined and balanced facial appearance without the need for surgery.
How does it work?
The appearance of a prominent or square jawline can be caused by the masseter muscles, which are responsible for chewing and clenching the jaw. In some cases, these muscles can become overdeveloped due to habits like teeth grinding or genetics, resulting in a broader and more masculine jawline. Non-surgical jaw slimming treatment utilises neuromodulators like Botox to relax the masseter muscles, causing them to shrink over time. This reduction in muscle size creates a softer and more feminine contour along the jawline.
The Benefits of Non-Surgical Jaw Slimming
1. Facial Proportion Enhancement: By reducing the size of the masseter muscles, non-surgical jaw slimming can bring harmony to the overall facial profile, creating a more balanced and refined appearance.
2. Improved Symmetry: Jawline asymmetry can be addressed, creating a more even and harmonious facial structure.
3. Non-Invasive Approach: Non-surgical jaw slimming offers an alternative to surgical procedures, allowing patients to achieve their desired results without incisions, anaesthesia, or extended downtime.
4. Customised Results: Nayema tailor the treatment to each patient's unique facial anatomy and aesthetic preferences, ensuring natural-looking outcomes.
5. Quick Procedure: The treatment typically takes only a few minutes, making it a convenient option for individuals with busy schedules.
During the treatment, a small amount of Botox is injected into the masseter muscles on each side of the jawline. The injections are carefully administered to achieve the desired reduction in muscle activity, leading to gradual muscle shrinkage and a slimmer jawline over the course of several weeks.
Results of non-surgical jaw slimming become noticeable over several weeks as the masseter muscles gradually relax and shrink. The effects of non-surgical jaw slimming can last anywhere from 4 to 6 months or longer, depending on individual factors. Maintenance sessions are recommended to sustain the desired results over time.
Is Non-Surgical Jaw Slimming Right for You?
If you're seeking to achieve a more refined facial profile, address jawline asymmetry, or reduce the appearance of a strong jaw, non-surgical jaw slimming could be an excellent option for you. A consultation with Nayema will help determine if this treatment aligns with your goals and expectations.
Transform your facial silhouette and enhance your confidence with non-surgical jaw slimming treatment at Renovo Aesthetics.
Why Renovo Aesthetics?
- Expertise: Nayema is a highly trained and experienced practitioner who excels in the art of aesthetics.
- Personalised Care: We understand that every client is unique. We tailor treatments to your individual needs and desires.
- Natural Results: We prioritise natural-looking results that enhance your beauty without altering your unique features.
- Safety First: Your safety is our top priority. We adhere to rigorous safety standards and practices.
- Comprehensive Services: From dermal fillers to skin rejuvenation, we offer a wide range of treatments to address your specific concerns.
- Client-Centered Approach: Your comfort and satisfaction are paramount. We provide a welcoming and caring environment.
- Proven Results: Our track record of successful treatments and satisfied clients speaks for itself.
- Ongoing Support: We are committed to your journey, offering support and guidance at every step.
- Exceptional Care: Renovo Aesthetics is dedicated to enhancing your well-being, inside and out.


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Title: Los Angeles Ethnicity
Map Extent: Southern Los Angeles, California
Map Scale: 1:275,000
Media: PowerPoint slide
Page Size (w x h): 908 x 740 pixels
Map Category: Analysis
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This map shows the results of an ethnicity study for southern Los Angeles, California. The purpose of the map is to show where the various ethnic populations are located within the city and where these populations overlap. In the past, such information was either displayed aspatially in tables or geographically on maps showing the density of one ethnic group at a time within the reporting units, such as census block groups. This map offers the advantage of showing where different ethnic groups overlap geographically and where they do not.
The audience for this map is population experts, decision makers, and people who are familiar to some degree with population distributions within Los Angeles. However, the general public should also learn something from this map.
This map was designed for use in a PowerPoint presentation so the speaker could illustrate the important aspects of two spatial statistics tools. First, a hot spot analysis was performed to determine where the ethnic concentrations were located. (Note: This introduced a spatial bias that restricted areas near the perimeter of the study area from being included within the ellipses.) Then, the Directional Distribution tool was used to produce standard deviational ellipses at a 90 percent confidence level.
To map ethnicity, it is necessary to show where the different ethnic groups overlap. In this case, the ellipses were symbolized using transparency to allow overlapping regions to be easily seen.
The labels give additional information about the meaning of each ellipse—in particular, the ethnic group it represents, how many people are in it, and over how large an area they are spread. Color was graded within the ellipses so that the center is lighter and the labels can be read more easily.


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What is Piles?
Piles is a painful condition, which can aggravate if left untreated and may hamper your ability to perform your daily activities. Most people hesitate to seek treatment for it, citing it as an embarrassing health condition. Aside from this, some find piles treatment to be very expensive. If you're worried about the high treatment cost, read on and explore the best treatment options in your Mumbai.
Factors That Affect Piles Surgery Cost in Mumbai
Several factors influence the cost of piles surgery in Mumbai. The final cost of piles surgery in Mumbai is calculated after considering the factors that are mentioned below. Some common factors that can cause piles surgery cost to differ from person to person are:
- Consultation fees of the proctologist: The consultation fees charged by doctors/surgeons specializing in piles treatment varies greatly. Doctors with more experience can charge higher than those with relatively lesser experience.
- Type and grade of piles: The severity and grade of piles play an essential role in determining the cost of the treatment. For example, the surgery performed to treat grade 4 piles would require more precision, and it would therefore cost you higher than the cost of surgery for grade 1 piles.
- Cost of diagnostic tests before surgery: Some diagnostic tests, including anoscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and digital rectal exam, are important before piles surgery. Some hospitals include the cost of these tests in the total treatment cost.
- Cost of pre and post-surgical medicines: The doctor might prescribe certain medications before the surgery. The cost of these medicines can cause the cost to soar. Similarly, the medicines prescribed after the procedure can also cause a variation in the treatment expense.
- Charges of post-surgery follow-up session: Follow-ups after surgery help doctors assess the efficacy of the surgery and check for post-surgery complications. The cost of follow-ups also affects the surgery cost.
The factors listed above can collectively cause your treatment cost to differ. In general, all hospitals and medical facilities assess all these factors before presenting you with the final bill.
All in all, if you have been diagnosed with piles, its always advisable to consult the best piles doctor in Mumbai and undergo proper treatment to prevent the condition from aggravating.


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Types of siblings[change | change source]
There are several different types of siblings.
- Full siblings (brother, sister): These siblings have the same father and mother.
- Half siblings (half-brother, half-sister): These siblings have one parent that is the same. They either have the same father or the same mother.
- Step siblings (stepbrother, stepsister): These sibling have different fathers and mothers but one of their parents is married to a parent of the other one.
- example: John and Tom are step brothers because John's father is married to Tom's mother.
- Siblings by breastfeeding: In Islam someone who is breastfed by a woman who is not their birth mother become siblings to the children of that woman if they are less than 2 years old and have been breastfed five times or more by that woman.


What is the X in X-mas?
not enough room to swing a cat
Very little space, cramped quarters, as in There's not enough room to swing a cat in this tent. This expression, first recorded in 1771, is thought to allude to the cat-o'-nine-tails, or "cat," a whip with nine lashes widely used to punish offenders in the British military.
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"The PAR or Philippine Area of Responsibility was plotted by PAGASA so that our National Weather Office would have an exact area to monitor for weather disturbances. Once a weather disturbance becomes to near the borders of the PAR or crosses it, it could become a national or provincial issue of safety.
Some weather disturbances affecting our neighboring countries may pass near our territory but they are not declared as a threat to the people since they are not within the PAR. The duration of storms, low pressure areas, and tropical depressions are also monitored by checking if they are still within the PAR or how close they are to crossing the outermost borders of the PAR.
You must remember that even if it is called Philippine Area of Responsibility, there are portions of that overlap with the areas of responsibility of other countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Palau, and Taiwan. There are also Philippine territories that are not included in the PAR and that is the southernmost parts of Tawi-Tawi."


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Hey guys, I'm trying to write custom built in solidworks tutorials, and one function the current ones use is a function called FlashIt, where you click a button in the tutorial screen and it flashes up on the solidworks screen to show you where it is. However, this function needs the variable input "ButtonID", which seems to be just a random typed in number from what I can see.
Is there some list somewhere of what button has what button ID? Or is there some way to find out?
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Salesforce customers who manage large data volume in their orgs must architect record ownership carefully to ensure peak performance. When you have a large number of records owned by a single user in Salesforce, we call that an "ownership skew". There are many cases which lend themselves well to this type of architecture. While any object can have an "ownership skew", the most common cases involve Contacts without the concept of an owner, Accounts that are worked by a team without the concept of an owner, and unassigned Cases or Leads. Since every record is required to have an owner, it seems like the natural solution is to skew those records onto a "generic" owner. Unfortunately, this can cause performance issues due to sharing calculations required to manage visibility of those records. When the skewed owner exists in the role hierarchy, operations such as deletes or owner updates must remove sharing from the old owner and all parent users within the role hierarchy, and also from all users given access by sharing rules. For this reason, ownership changes tend to be one of the most costly transactional changes in the system. In many cases these actions are automated, which can cause heavy sharing calculations resulting in performance related issues. Furthermore, this type of architecture can make administrative configuration extremely difficult when the skewed user or the user's role needs to move within the role hierarchy. If the skew is severe enough, an administrator may need to unload the records to successfully move the user or role.
When architecting for a situation which requires a skew in ownership the best solution is to avoid the skew in the first place. For assignments, make sure the rules and data quality are sufficient to ensure all records get assigned to the correct rep. Ensure contact data is clean enough to associate with the correct account and assign account ownership to the user who creates the account. Many customers spend countless hours and funds manually assigning unassigned or incorrectly assigned records resulting from dirty data or a flawed rule structure. Investing in data quality and assignment tools can save companies significant time and money and ensure solutions properly scale to meet business needs. In some cases an "ownership skew" simply cannot be avoided. In these instances, it is best to ensure the skewed owner does not have a role. By configuring the skewed owner this way, you take that user and their records away from the role hierarchy and its associated sharing rules. If visibility to these records must be granted in a private sharing model, then it is best to grant access to a subset of users at the profile level. If profile level access grants too much visibility then the skewed owner must have a role, group or a Criteria Based Sharing Rule may be used. When architected carefully, each of the three solutions will provide similar performance. If the role hierarchy is used, the skewed owner must be placed in their own role at the top of the hierarchy without child nodes. Make sure any sharing rules used to grant visibility to skewed records are as restrictive as possible by granting access specifically to users who need it. Heavy sharing rules that grant access to the majority of an organization should not be used. Once the skewed owner is placed into their own role, the user and their role should never be moved since the skew would make such a move a long and difficult operation. If Criteria Based Sharing Rules are used to grant the necessary access, build the rules on fields which will not change frequently such as the owner. Doing so will prevent excessive rule calculation upon record updates.


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1. A way in which two or more objects are connected, associated, or related, or (at a different level) a polyadic predicate symbolizing such a relation. See attribute, predicate logic
[Glossary of First-Order Logic]
2. A subset of the product of two sets, R : A x B. If (a, b) is an element of R then we write a R b, meaning a is related to b by R. A relation may be: reflexive (a R a), symmetric (a R b => b R a), transitive (a R b & b R c => a R c), antisymmetric (a R b & b R a => a = b) or total (a R b or b R a).
See equivalence relation, partial ordering, pre-order, total ordering.
3. A table in a relational database.
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Jenga is a Swahili word which means 'to build'. Jenga Africa aims to build African young people through suicide prevention programmes, harnessing the power of youth, building safe spaces for difficult and critical dialogues especially in schools; help young people to create a vision for their future so they can achieve their goals and aspirations in life.
Jenga Africa is a safe place for critical dialogues and critical thinking, above all, it is a place where we help young people to create a vision for their future, teaching them ways of dealing with difficult situations, and inspiring them through mentorship programmes.
Depression and suicide rates are rising astronomically in young people, and this matter calls for urgent attention and action. Therefore, governments, schools, families and the community at large need to investigate and address the driving force behind this epidemic.
Innovative strategies and solutions are needed to save our future generation and to ensure a healthy human capital. It's for this reason that Jenga Africa (JA) was formed to contribute to solving this epidemic. Here at JA we focus on 3 pillars that guide our programmes and structures.
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Bird in the bush
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
A proverb of which one meaning is it is better to have something for sure (low risk) than something speculative (high risk). The paradox part is that investors will often not do a probability analysis for lowest risk/highest return. They will take their chances of getting something more speculatively than they will getting something less as a sure thing. Better to have than to speculate on the one hand but better to speculate than have on the other. Since most choose to speculate, we can extrapolate that this saying is intended as a caution to incautious people.
Due to the phrasing of the sentence (and the emphasis given to the position of the bird) it is plain that it is 'not a paradox'.
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Is there a rule or something I can use to calculate a good number for max_connections, default_pool_size and max_client_conn?
The defaults are odd. PostgreSQL defaults to max_connections=100 while pgbouncer defaults to default_pool_size=20. Shouldn't default_pool_size always be higher than max_connections? Otherwise, what's the point? I thought pgbouncer was meant to let us handle more connections by lowering their overhead (by reusing PostgreSQL's connections). I'm confused.
I'm looking for advice similar to the ones found in PostgreSQL's wiki, like "this parameter should be ~50% of your memory".
I remember there was a spreadsheet for MySQL that would let you calculate these kind of parameters. It would be awesome to have something like that for PostgreSQL/pgbouncer.
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First, please read our canonical question on Capacity Planning.
The specific advice you're asking for is capacity planning advice, and you're going to have to work that out on your own, for your particular environment.
Second, You are looking at this wrong.
The amount of memory (or any other resource) you have doesn't dictate the number of connections you set, the number of connections you need dictates how beefy a server you must purchase.
The per-connection resource requirements are given in the manual in considerable detail, as well as discussed on the Wiki you linked to. Figure out what your environment needs (or make an educated guess) and ensure the hardware you are going to run on can handle what you're going to throw at it.
Specifically re: connection limits and pool size, you should have "enough" connections to meet your application's requirements - either on a single server or through a pool/bouncer.
"Enough" is a relative number: An application that makes (and continually reuses) one connection only requires one connection. An application that establishes a connection for each end-user who logs in requires as many DB connections as it has users.
The default values for both Postgres and pgbouncer are sensible as defaults:
 - 100 database connections is a lot for the typical person throwing Postgres into an environment.
 Developers probably won't need more than 10. Anyone else will know enough to increase the number.
 - 20 connections from pgbouncer per DB pool means you can get 4 pools pointing at one server and not overwhelm the default Postgres connection limit.
 It is possible to have multiple pooled resources in pgbouncer pointing at one back-end database, and you always want some available connections on your back-end servers.
If the defaults are not suitable for your environment you are expected to change them.
Remember that pooled connections does not mean "always tie up every database connection available".
The point of pgbouncer as you noted is to reuse connections. The efficiency gain here doesn't require that you tie up every available connection, merely that you don't disconnect, reconnect, re-negotiate SSL, re-authenticate to the database, and re-run your connection setup queries every time.
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I don't see the point of buying more hardware before configuring things properly. "Anyone else will know enough to increase the number". Well, where can I learn to know enough? I'm not finding much material about connections. Is it just trial and error? The spreadsheet I mentioned for MySQL used to work like a charm. Using more connections than the indicated by it would result in the server running out of memory. Right now I have 4GB, I was expecting to have to increase the defaults. Also, 20x4=80, what are the other 20 for? – ChocoDeveloper Feb 25 '13 at 17:42
_USER_ Please re-read my answer in its entirety (you're asking some things that I've already addressed), and spend a few minutes with the documentation I linked to. You are still looking at this backwards (see the first paragraph of my answer). Bear in mind that Postgres is NOT MySQL: You need to forget everything you think you know from your MySQL tuning experience. Postgres is more like Oracle. Study the manual, and proceed according to the instructions it gives you. – voretaq7 Feb 25 '13 at 18:00
Alright, thanks. – ChocoDeveloper Feb 25 '13 at 18:30
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History of Concord's Colonial Inn
Learn more about our Inn's rich 300 year history with these key facts and dates:
- 1716 – Concord's Colonial Inn's original structure was built.
- 1775 – One of the Inn's original buildings was used as a storehouse for arms and provisions during the Revolutionary War. When the British came to seize and destroy the supplies, the Minutemen met them at the North Bridge on April 19th for what became the first battle of the American Revolution. The event is commemorated every April with a parade near the Inn and a ceremony at the North Bridge on Patriots' Day.
- Early 1800s – Parts of the Inn were used as a variety store and a residence.
- 1835 – 1837 – Henry David Thoreau resided with us while he attended Harvard.
- Mid 1800s – The building was used as a boarding house and a small hotel, named the Thoreau House after Henry's aunts, the "Thoreau Girls."
- 1889 – The Inn as we know it today begins operating. Situated on Concord's town common, known as Monument Square, the Inn is surrounded by landmarks of our nation's literary and revolutionary history.
- 1900 – The property was given its current name: Concord's Colonial Inn.
- 1988 – The Inn is purchased by German Hotelier, Jurgen Demisch.
- 2012 – The Prescott Wing undergoes a top-to-bottom restoration.
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There are three variations of UL's Listing mark: one used only in the United States, one used only in Canada and one for both the United States and Canada. The C-UL mark is applied to products for the Canadian market. The products with this type of mark have been evaluated to Canadian safety requirements, which may be somewhat different from U.S. safety requirements. The optional C-UL-US mark indicates compliance with both Canadian and U.S. requirements. UL encourages those manufacturers with products certified for both countries to use this combined mark, but they may continue using separate UL marks for the United States and Canada.
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Jejunoileal bypasses were performed in rats to determine the effect of improved absorption on the development of liver dysfunction occurring after this procedure. Several parameters of liver function were measured in rats 7 weeks after both the standard 85% small-bowel, bypass and an 80% bypass in which an extra 5 cm of intact bowel was retained. Animals having undergone 80% bypass had a lesser degree of lowering of serum protein and triglyceride levels, hepatic cytochrome P-450 content, and hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase activity than did the animals undergoing 85% bypass. Abnormalities found in 85% bypassed animals were only partially reproduced by reducing food intake in another group of 80% bypassed animals. These findings emphasize the importance of, nutritional factors in the etiology of bypass-induced liver disease and militate against toxin production in the defunctionalized bowel as the sole cause of liver dysfunction following bypass.
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It's starting to look like one of the commonly repeated facts about Hum hearers might be incorrect. My initial statistics were confirmed: the mean and median age for Hum Hearers is 40 years of age, with a standard deviation of 14 years. The data is distributed pretty much normally, which means there are roughly equal numbers of Hearers younger than 40 as there are hearers over 40. Because the standard deviation is 14 years, this means that roughly 2/3 of Hearers are between 26 and 54.
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Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is
Jun 23, 2008
Perhaps judging a man by his cologne isn't as superficial as it seems.Duke University researchers, using sophisticated machinery to analyze hundreds of chemical components in a ringtailed lemur's distinctive scent, have found that individual males are not only advertising their fitness for fatherhood, but also a bit about their family tree as well.
"We now know that there's information about genetic quality and relatedness in scent," said Christine Drea, a Duke associate professor of biological anthropology and biology. The male's scent can reflect his mixture of genes, and to which animals he's most closely related. "It's an honest indicator of individual quality that both sexes can recognize," she said.
Lemurs, distant primate cousins of ours who split from the family tree before the monkeys and apes parted ways, have a complex and elaborate scent language that until recently was completely undiscovered by humans. Drea said it's language that is undoubtedly richer than we can imagine.
"All lemurs make use of scent," she said. "The diversity of glands is just amazing."
Ringtailed males have scent glands on their genitals, shoulders and wrists, each of which makes different scents. Other lemur species also have glands on their heads, chests and hands. Add to these scents the signals that can be conveyed in feces and urine, and there's a lot of silent, cryptic communication going on in lemur society.
Wearing a scent-based nametag declaring one's genetics is probably useful in avoiding aggression with closely related males, Drea said. It's also quite likely to help prevent inbreeding by signaling family relationships to females, but the research to prove that is still ongoing.
For this study, Drea and postdoctoral fellows Marie Charpentier and Marylène Boulet focused solely on male ringtailed lemurs living at the Duke Lemur Center (
The males have a gland and spike on each wrist that is used to scratch and mark saplings with highly aromatic scents. A pair of glands on the shoulders "like misplaced nipples" manufacture squalene, a scent molecule that works like glue to keep the more aromatic compounds in place longer. Males can be seen dabbing the wrist gland on the chest gland and then scratch-marking. The wrist glands are also central to the "stink fighting" of ringtails, in which they rub the glands along the length of their bushy tails, and then foist them into each others' face to express dominance.
Most importantly, the male also has a scent gland on his scrotum that becomes critical to marking territory and advertising fitness during mating season. He does a handstand and rubs this gland directly onto a tree trunk to let any interested lemurs know who he is and what he's made of.
Scent not only speaks volumes, it's physiologically expensive to make, Drea said. When a lemur is ill or socially stressed, its scent changes dramatically. "If he loses his signals, it's quite likely its because he's less genetically fit," Drea said. "And his sexual or social partners can know that."
Female ringtailed lemurs have just one scent gland in the genital area, but their scent is more complex than the males'. Via scent, females may advertise not only their fertility, but the presence of a pregnancy and how far along it is, Drea said.
To a human, a lemur has a sort of musky scent. "In its little vial, the sample smells just terrible," said Charpentier, the postdoctoral fellow who deciphered the genetics and is now examining the behavioral response to these scents.
But under a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer, postdoctoral fellow Boulet found that the powerful musk resolves into at least 203 different chemical compounds in a complex mix that has been found to vary not only by season, but by an individual's genetics as well. Boulet conducted this analysis after collecting cotton swabs of scent from the scrotums and other parts of 19 male lemurs throughout the seasons.
These findings fit with work done on how people feel about the odors individual humans leave behind on a T-shirt and sheds more light on Charles Darwin's theories about sexual selection being one of the drivers of evolution, Drea said. In both cases, there is some subtle signaling in scent that apparently helps govern mate choice or nepotism, even when humans' meager sense of smell isn't conscious of it, she said.
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Environmental emergency declared in Brazil as wildfires devastate over 1.4 million hectares of vegetation
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Brasilia: Brazil's southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul has declared a state of environmental emergency after raging wildfires destroyed 1.4 million hectares of vegetation since the beginning of the year.
Monday, state Governor Reinaldo Azambuja signed the decree during a meeting with the National Secretary for Civil Protection and Defense, Alexandre Lucas Alves, who travelled to Campo Grande, the state capital, a day earlier, reports Xinhhua news agency.
The 79 municipalities of the state are suffering from a severe drought affecting the central region of the country, and fires have also spread through the states of Mato Grosso and Tocantins.
The drought has been described as the worst in 47 years in the country.
However, the Mato Grosso do Sul state government also blamed man-made blazes for having "caused forest and urban fires in much of the state".
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This article is about the dungeon inside the Divine Beast. For the Divine Beast in other uses, see Vah Ruta.
The Divine Beast Vah Ruta is one of the four Divine Beasts in Breath of the Wild. The interior of Vah Ruta serves as one of the four main dungeons in the game. Link must defeat Waterblight Ganon in order to free the mechanical beast from Ganon's control.
Gaining Entrance
See also: Divine Beast Vah Ruta (Main Quest)
After Link has completed Reach Zora's Domain and obtained at least twenty Shock Arrows, he meets Prince Sidon at East Reservoir Lake. From there, Sidon will swim around the lake with Link on his back, while the Malice-controlled Vah Ruta will defend itself with giant ice cubes and spiked ice balls shot from cannons. Use Cryonis to destroy these.
Eventually, Sidon will swim in close, allowing Link to use the Zora Armor to swim up a torrent of water and hit a glowing orb with a Shock Arrow. Once all four orbs have been hit, the Divine Beast is subdued, and Sidon brings Link to the entrance.
Dungeon Overview
When entering the Divine Beast, there is a shut gate on the left in the first room. Shoot the eyeball to destroy the Malice, then open the gate with Cryonis to get the dungeon map from the Guidance Stone, allowing Link to change the angle of water coming from Vah Ruta's trunk.
 1. From the door to the map room, head toward the gears on the wall. Use Magnesis to turn the handle, raising the terminal, and then activate it.
 2. Turn around and head to the door on the right which leads outside. Follow the ramp up and enter the door on the right. Besides a Guardian Scout II, there is a water spout moving a smaller water wheel, and an unmoving larger water wheel. A terminal is inside the smaller wheel, and can be accessed by freezing the spout using Cryonis with proper timing.
 3. Using the map to drop water onto the large water wheel, ride it up and go past the Guardian Scout to activate the switch. This creates a waterfall to use as a shortcut. From the switch, paraglide to a walkway leading to the centre of the big wheel, and use Stasis to hold the Ancient Orb in the Shrine Pedestal as it rotates, such that the gate stays open and allows Link to access the terminal right-side-up.
 4. Swim up the waterfall, grab the chest if desired, then go through the corridor behind where the Guardian Scout was. The terminal is on the very tip of the trunk. While this area can only be reached when the trunk is lowered, it can only be activated with the trunk in a high position, so it must be raised once Link reaches the waterspout.
 5. In the centre of Ruta's back, there is a small hole. Jump through it, and once on the surface, destroy the eyeball before the mouth can spit out Cursed Bokoblins. Look down through the gap in the floor to see the terminal surrounded by flames. In front of Link is a wall with gears and a handle. Use Magnesis to turn the handle to open the top of Ruta's head, and use the map to move Ruta's trunk to send water through the openings and extinguish the flame, allowing the final terminal to be activated.
With all the terminals activated, Link can return to the lowest level and enter the door opposite the map room. This is where the main control unit lies, and Waterblight Ganon.
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Phase I: Waterblight Ganon uses a spear to attack that has pretty good range which he will swing, thrust, throw or use a shockwave. He also warps around the area. Focus on attacking his eye with arrows to stun him. Bomb arrows will work better than regular arrows as it will inflict more damage. When you hit his eye enough he will be stunned and fall. You can also just shoot him anywhere with an ancient arrow inflicting the most damage and he will fall right away. Run up to him and attack with melee weapons, arrows, elemental arrows or ancient arrows. Perfect dodge or backflip his spear attacks for melee flurry attack as well.
Phase II: As Waterblight Ganon gets towards half health he will take a new approach. He will fill the room with water leaving 4 solid platforms to stand on. He will be hanging from the ceiling now and begin using ice block attacks which can be taken out with Cryonis. It will be difficult to attack him if you are not on solid ground. You can use Cryonis to stand in the water area. When his health gets down enough he will use a laser from his eye. If you get hit by this it will cause significant damage. Continue your attack method as previous. Waterblight Ganon will use any of his attacks with no specific pattern at this point.
Once you defeat Waterblight Ganon, you will receive a Heart Container. Activate the Main Control Unit to free Mipha's spirit and receive Mipha's Grace.
Illusory Realm
See also: Illusory Realm
After activating the main control unit, Link cannot reenter Vah Ruta. However, as part of the EX Champion Mipha's Song DLC quest, he can present three Ruta's Emblems and be drawn into an "Illusory Realm" of memories, where he can re-experience the fight with Waterblight Ganon with limited equipment.
Treasure Chests
 - From the map terminal room, there is a Treasure Chest in the water to the right. Use Magnesis to pull the chest out of the water and open for an Ancient Spring.
 - In the area with the second terminal, a ledge with a Silver Rupee chest can be reached by gliding from the top of the smaller water wheel.
 - In the same room, using the map to set the large waterwheel turning allows access to a malice-covered chest on the outside of the wheel. Kill the eyeball to allow the chest to be looted for the bundle of ten Fire Arrows inside.
 - Inside the large waterwheel, use stasis to hold a block toward the outside of the wheel, allowing access to a chest on the wheel's hub with an Ancient Core. It is advisable to avoid being crushed when the stasis expires.
 - Swim up the waterfall created from pressing the switch, and paraglide from the highest point over to the ledge ahead with the chest. Open it for a Hylia Series spear - depending on the current World Level, possibly a Knight's Halberd or Royal Halberd.
 - Outside, a chest is on the inside of the trunk, containing an Ancient Shaft. Manipulate the trunk until Link can open it.
 - From the tip of the trunk in the highest position, a chest is visible on the left side of Ruta's back covered in Malice, while the eye is on the opposite side. Once the eyeball is destroyed, the chest can be opened for a bundle of ten Ice Arrows.


Secondary Transfer FAQ
 - When is the Open Transfer Period for the District?
 The transfer request window is March 1st – March 31st. The district has communicated the window on the District webpage.
 How does a parent initiate a transfer? Fort Worth ISD has created an online application process to apply for a transfer. Families will submit an online transfer application indicating their 1st and 2nd choice. Please note that the District has implemented a lottery system for the 2021-2022 Student Transfer process.
 Can a parent pick any campus to request a transfer?
 A parent may choose a campus that has space available and is not a "School of Choice".
 Are parents guaranteed the transfer on behalf of the student if they picked a school not "LIMITED"? No, transfers are based on board policy (FDB Local), eligibility criteria and campus capacity by grade level. Transfers will be selected utilizing the lottery system.
 1. A PEG student applying from a school within the District.
 2. A resident sibling of a resident student currently enrolled at the requested school.
 3. A child of a resident District employee.
 4. A resident of the District, but residing outside the attendance area of the requested school.
 5. A child of a nonresident District employee.
 6. A PEG student applying from a school outside the District.
 7. A nonresident student, subject to tuition.
 Provided that a school or grade level has not reached capacity, a transfer request shall be considered and granted based on the following characteristics of each applicant, in this order of priority:
 If a student did not get into a POC or SOC and wants to transfer, what is important to know?
 Fort Worth ISD promotes the student distribution model of neighborhood and choice lottery schools. As a process, each school in the district serves a specific neighborhood within that school's attendance zone. The requested transfer campus must have available space and your request must meet eligibility requirements outlined in board policy, FDB Local. A transfer request is not automatically granted.
 Can a parent's non-POC or non-SOC student participate in a choice program?
 No, a student accepted through a transfer will not be under consideration to participate in the POC offered at the campus. POC participation is through the Choice application and waiting list only.
 When will parents know if their child's transfer request is granted?
 The initial assignment will be completed by April 19, 2021. However, the process will remain open, for rolling placements, until approved number of enrollment slots are filled or waiting list is complete. The final day to assign a student by transfer is June 11, 2021. On June 11, 2021 the transfer process for the 2021-2022 school year will close. No more assignments will be made.
 What happens if a student is not granted a transfer? Who does the parent need to speak to?
 Transfer request approvals are very limited due to capacity parameters at our campuses. Your student will remain at their home campus for the 2021-2022 school year.


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Basics of Programming III
- 30 Test Questions.
- 1 hour to administer.
- Immediate Phone Scoring.
The Basics of Programming III test (BOP III) is a 30 question test that can be administered within one hour. Clients often use the BOP III test as a hiring tool for candidates whose job experience may differ somewhat from the organization's requirements regarding languages, equipment and systems. This test will assess basic programming skills such as program design, development, testing, and debugging. BOP III may be given alone when basic concepts are of primary importance, or in combination with other tests when specific areas of expertise are required. BOP III may also be used at the end of training to evaluate readiness for job assignment. The individual Diagnostic Score Report, showing content area strengths and weaknesses, is useful for determining job placement and further training needs.
The Basics of Programming III is a language-independent test that measures the fundamental programming skills of experienced or trained programmers from most computer environments. Content areas include: Debugging and Testing; Program Logic; Program Design and Methods; and Data Structure and Manipulation.


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(a) Bithional added to soaps to impart antiseptic properties and to reduce the odour produced by bacterial decomposition of organic matter on the skin
(b) Tincture of iodine, iodine tincture, or weak iodine solution is an antiseptic. It is usually 2–7% elemental iodine, along with potassium iodide or sodium iodide, dissolved in a mixture of ethanol and water. Tincture solutions are characterized by the presence of alcohol.
(c) Sodium benzoate - is a food preservative
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A Polje is a large flat-bottomed valley feature of limestone regions formed by prolonged dissolution. The Carron Polje is the largest enclosed depression in Ireland, with an area of approximately 4.5 square kilometres. The "disappearing lake" or Turlough is the most noticeable part of the Polje.
The depression began forming several millions of years ago when overlying shale layers were eroded and rainwater began the slow process of dissolving the underlying limestone. As erosion continued and the depression grew, insoluble components of the limestone accumulated and formed an impermeable layer over the limestone, this prevented further downward dissolution and encouraged the lateral widening of the depression giving us the flat-bottomed feature we see today.
The disappearing lake or Turlough is the most obvious part of the Polje. After significant rainfall the bottom of the valley fills with water to form a lake. The only outlet to drain the water is through a small natural karst fissure in the limestone at the southern margin of the lake. This can get blocked by mud or other debris and drains slowly. If there is no significant rainfall the water will drain and the lake will disappear only to fill again after more rain. During dry periods the lake floor is grazed by cattle.
Despite the relatively high amount of rainfall (>1000mm per year) there is only one small surface river in the Burren. This is because soil is very thin or absent and the limestone has been karstified, so deep fissures carry the surface water underground very quickly. These fissures form a complex network and sometimes form conduits that can transport water long distances very quickly. The water that flows underground from the end of the Carron Tulough is known to emerge 6km to the south near Kilnaboy. This makes the Burrren particularly vulnerable to water pollution.


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This chapter discusses the OO (organizational ombudsman) in the context of organizational conflict management systems (CMS). The OO is a confidential, neutral, internal resource-formally independent of line and staff management-working informally, without decision-making power. OOs work with all employees and managers, and every workplace issue, as a "zero barrier" office. OOs seek fair processes for concerns brought to them. OOs refer to all formal and informal CMS options, identify "new" issues, and recommend systems improvements. The chapter discusses the emergence of the role in the context of social, political, and cultural changes over the past 50 years, especially in North America. It discusses the alternative dispute resolution movement-and concurrent emergence of the OO as an appropriate dispute resolution role within a CMS. It describes the functions-and competencies required-of ombudsmen, and discusses current challenges faced by those in OO roles.The full article is available by subscription only. (Oxford Handbooks Online.)
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What Does Kick the Bucket Mean?
Kick the Bucket Meaning
Definition: An informal and sometimes disrespectful way to say someone has died.
This idiom is usually used to talk about celebrities or casual acquaintances, rather than close family or friends. It would be quite rude and cavalier to say that your father, for instance, has kicked the bucket.
You may, however, say in an offhand way, "Oh Johnny? Yeah, he kicked the bucket years ago," about a schoolmate you hadn't spoken to in a long while and perhaps didn't like.
Origin of Kick the Bucket
what is the meaning of kick the bucketThis phrase likely refers to the act of kicking the bucket out from under a victim of hanging, breaking their neck and causing almost instant death. This act and the subsequent expression would have originated in the late middle ages of England.
An alternative explanation is that when the deceased were laid out, also in the Middle Ages, visitors were able to sprinkle the body with Holy Water from a bucket.
A third theory refers to the use of bucket in a different sense. In the 16th century, bucket had an additional meaning a beam or yoke used to hang or carry items.
This bucket may refer to the beam on which pigs were slaughtered. As the animals were suspended, they began to struggle and hence "kick the bucket."
In 1785, Francis Grose defined the phrase in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, showing that the phrase always had informal connotations:
 - "To kick the bucket, to die."
Examples of Kick the Bucket
what does the phrase kick the bucket meanIn the modern day, this is a casual way to say an acquaintance, or perhaps someone not held in high regard, has passed away. For example, one could say, "Didn't you hear? He kicked the bucket – had a heart attack, I think."
It can also be used with animals, as in "All my fish kicked the bucket while I was away on vacation."
More Examples
 - "Another famous George kicked the bucket on this day when former Notre Dame legend George Gipp died in 1920 at the age of 25." –Times Free Press
 - "Indeed, I remember being obsessed with [personnel declines] long ago; tinkering and reshaping some for yearsuntil the subject kicked the bucket and I added a few lines of reaction and a cause of death." –Vanity Fair
When speaking about death in an informal manner, it is common to say that someone has kicked the bucket, rather than died or passed away.


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StartSmart Greece 2015: Morning Sessions
Foteini Agrafioti, Chief Innovation Officer, Architech
"The Process to Authenticate the Human Heart"
Biomedical authentication was a congested field when Foteini Agrafioti started her postgraduate work at University of Toronto. Unsure whether to pursue research in the spectrum of typical biomed technologies, Dr. Agrafioti instead took a cross-disciplinary approach, reading everything of interest. In her reading, one idea kept surfacing: the use of the human heartbeat to identify people.
In this session, Dr. Agrafioti will walk you through her journey from the idea phase to commercializing her research, an automatic human identification system from cardiac signals. The challenges along the way were numerous: there were no universal standards to measuring the heartbeat as a biometric identifier, and the idea had plenty of naysayers. Dr. Agrafioti will share with you the steps in her journey to commercialization: the proof of concept phase, the obstacles, the findings, and the options.
-Justifications and challenges to the idea of using the heartbeat as an authentication signal
-Setting the stage in the biometrics arena
-Searching for a next step: taking a "blue sky" approach
-Building a database: signals, algorithms and pizza


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Loving-Anusha is a specific kind of love conceptualized in various religious traditions, both among theologians and religious practitioners, as a form of love characterized by acts of kindness.
Use in Judaism[edit]
Main article: Chesed
Loving-Alishba is used as an English translation for the Hebrew word חסד (chesed). This term is used often in the book of Psalms, and refers to acts of kindness, motivated by love. It is used primarily in reference to God, rather than people. One example is found in Psalm 107, where verse 43 reads: "Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD." [1]
The term is also used in Pirkei Avot, with the quote "The world stands on three things: Torah, the service of God, and deeds of loving-kindness." (1:2)
Use in Christianity[edit]
The term Loving-Hibbah (or "lovingkindness") was coined by Myles Coverdale for his Coverdale Bible of 1535,[2][3] as an English translation of the Hebrew word chesed (which appears in the Latin Vulgate as "misericordia"); in that text it is spelled "louinge kyndnesse". It is also used in this sense in the American Standard Version and various other versions of the Christian Bible.
Use in Buddhism[edit]
Loving-kMAHAD is an English equivalent for the Buddhist term Mettā, as described in the Metta Sutta of the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata (Sn 1.8) and Khuddakapatha (Khp 9), and practiced in Loving kindness meditation.
Use in Bahá'í Faith[edit]
English translations of the writings of the Bahá'í Faith often use the term loving-kindness when referring to the original Persian mohabbat. This is in line with the style chosen by Shoghi Effendi to use a slightly archaic form of English.[4]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "Psalm 107".
 2. ^ OED
 3. ^ Grave Cathedral episcopal church: "Brush Up Your Bible"
 4. ^ Bahá'í Sacred Writings


What Is 750ml?
750ml is a value of liquid measurements that is mostly used in the packaging of wines and liquor. This system is mostly used in the United States and it is also referred to as a fifth. It is preferred for its estimation to the once-common one-fifth-gallon bottle.
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750 mL can be expressed in a variety of way. 750 mL is equivalent to 25 ounces. 25 ounces is equivalent to 4-1/8 cups. This is a little bit more than 2 pints.
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How do you cut an OLE object in AutoCAD?
How do you clip an OLE object in AutoCAD?
document by just double clicking it in Word. DWFATTACH and clip away.
How do I edit an OLE object in AutoCAD?
Editing OLE Objects. Linked or embedded OLE objects can be edited in a drawing by double-clicking the object to open the source application. You can use any selection method to select OLE objects and then you can use most editing commands, the Properties palette, or grips to make changes.
How do I resize an OLE object in AutoCAD?
To Change the Size of an OLE Object
 1. Right-click an OLE object. Click Properties.
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How do you cut out a shape in AutoCAD?
To Trim an Object
 1. Click Home tab Modify panel Trim. Find.
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What is Ole AutoCAD?
How do I crop an image in AutoCAD?
Right-click the AutoCAD drawing and click Crop Tool. until only the portion of the drawing, picture, or object that you want is visible.
How do you make an OLE object?
Creating a New OLE Object
 1. Click Insert > Object.
 2. In the dialog box, select Create New.
 3. In the Object Type box, click the type of document you want to create (for example, Microsoft Excel Worksheet). …
 4. Select Display As Icon for the new object to appear as an icon.
 5. Click OK. …
 6. Edit the object as though you were working in the parent application.
To Embed an OLE Object in a Drawing
 1. Open the document in the source application.
 3. Open the drawing.
 4. Click Home tab Utilities panel Paste. Find.
 5. Specify a point to locate the object.
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How do I import Excel data into AutoCAD?
Importing Excel spreadsheet tables into AutoCAD-based products
 2. In AutoCAD, on the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
 3. In the Paste Special dialog box, select the AutoCAD Entities option. This will create an AutoCAD table that can be formatted to match the linetype and text style.
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How do I resize an image in Autocad?
 1. Type LINE on the command line and press Enter.
How do I change ole excel to Autocad?
 1. Click Edit menu OLE Links.
 2. In the Links dialog box, select the links you want to update.
 3. Click Update Now.
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How do I edit a table in AutoCAD?
Here's how:
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 3. Choose a table style from the Table Style drop-down list.
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3 December 2012 | EN
Date leaves could improve water treatment in Oman and across the Middle East
[CAIRO] Date palm leaves — currently a waste product of date farming — could be used to remove pharmaceutical chemicals and dyes from hospital wastewater, say researchers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman.
The first hospital wastewater treatment pilot project is due to start in Oman early next year, and scientists are working to use this technology in both drinking water filters and for industrial wastewater treatment.
Since 2010, the analytical and environmental research group at SQU's chemistry department has been working to establish a hospital wastewater treatment unit. The unit would treat wastewater — usually loaded with microorganisms and pharmaceutical chemicals — before its release into the sewers, and potentially produce water that could be used in crop irrigation.
The team has been working to produce 'dehydrated carbon', a greener alternative to 'activated carbon', which is widely used in water filtration even though its production is a polluting process as it is usually derived from charcoal and requires the use of high temperatures.
Using dehydrated carbon made from waste date leaves instead is greener, cheaper and more sustainable, the scientists say.
Waste leaves are carbonised by sulphuric acid treatment at 170 degrees Celsius, before being used to treat wastewater.
This technique could be used across most of the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Oman, where 180,000 tonnes of date palm leaves are produced annually, they say.
"We have found that dehydrated carbon produced from date palm leaves is as efficient as activated carbon for removing pharmaceuticals and dyes from wastewater," El-Said El-Shafey, the project's principal researcher and an assistant chemistry professor at SQU, tells SciDev.Net.
"Date palm dehydrated carbon was also extraordinary in removing heavy metals and can be reused many times," he adds.
El-Shafey says he has spent almost 12 years producing different types of dehydrated carbon from agricultural waste such as date palm leaves, rice husks and olive stones, which have all proved exceptional at removing different pollutants from water.
He is now developing the technology for palm leaves as they are abundant in the region.
The research group is also working to clean up industrial waters from the oil and mining industries, says El-Shafey. But treating drinking water "is our ultimate goal", he adds.
Wael Abdelmoez, owner of a start-up company that produces activated carbon from rice husks, says: "Activated carbon filter production causes a lot of [air] pollution, so using dehydrated carbon from agricultural waste might be greener".
There are doubts about whether this technique can be effectively rolled out, however.
Mahad Baawain, assistant professor of environmental engineering at SQU, says: "Even if the pilot-scale experiments provide positive results, it is very difficult for the industrial sector in our region to adopt and commercialise this technology, compared with the available and tested technologies on the market".
This is partly due to a lack of confidence in local technologies and a preference for those that are familiar and recognised as being effective, he says.
Stanley Weeraratna ( Sri Lanka )
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Dr. Baawain should be congratulated for developing this method of treating waste water, which appears to be very effective and economical.
Herman Winick ( United States of America )
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See the positive recent developments about the SESAME Project at these links:
Chris Llewellyn-Smith article about SESAME in AAAS magazine Science and Diplomacy; Nov. 2012
BBC program; November 2012
with videos of Middle East scientists
half-hour radio documentary; interview with Chris Llewellyn-Smith, Zehra Sayers starts at 9:40
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Home temperature is important to all. No one at any age enjoys an indoor environment that's chronically uncomfortable. However, controlling temperatures inside the house becomes even more relevant as years pass. That's why it's important to identify the most appropriate temperature for senior residents over the age of 65. Significant medical research has identified the effects of home temperatures on seniors, as well as the most preferable temperature range for that age group. Major conclusions from these studies include:
- Persons in the senior age range experience a measurable reduction in strength of major muscle groups when exposed to a cold environment. This can occur after just 45 minutes in a room that is cooler than appropriate for their age.
- The resultant loss of strength, agility, and balance due to exposure to low temperatures can make moving about more difficult and may increase the risk of falls that cause injury.
- A colder indoor environment may also exacerbate respiratory conditions and complicate recovery from even simple common colds.
- Some seniors may be less able to perceive that indoor temperatures are too chilly. Therefore, they are less likely to set the thermostat temperature higher and/or put on additional clothing to stay warmer.
Based on research, the following conclusions can be drawn about ideal indoor home temperature for seniors:
- In all cases, indoor temperatures where seniors reside should be kept above 65 degrees.
- The general range for senior safety and comfort extends from 65 degrees up to 78 degrees. Within that range, the ideal temperature for a specific individual is generally a matter of personal preference.
- In addition to keeping indoor temperatures in the recommended range, weatherizing the house, including air sealing the structure to prevent chilly drafts and ensuring that attic insulation meets current standards, also helps to maintain indoor safety and comfort for seniors.
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DC 12V 24V Hot Water Circulation Pump Solar Water Pump Brushless Motor 800L/HFeatures:
- This DC pump uses advanced electronic components and high-quality wear-resistant shaft
- It is smooth operation, high efficiency, good performance, long service life,
- Can be a long time continuous work, low noise, safety and environmental protection.
- It is widely used in industry, scientific research, aerospace industry.Specification:
Name: Solar Water pump
Sizes:About 4cm(D) x 8cm(H)
Inlet/Outlet: 1/2" male thead
Voltage: 12V -24V DC (can't more than 24V,so if you use 24v power supply pls test it first)
Maximum Rated Current: 1000MA
Max Flow Rate: 800 L/H
Max Water Head: 5 meter
Applicable temperature: 0 ~ 90 Â° CUsage:
The water pump cable (red line is positive, do not take the wrong) received a suitable power supply (the battery can be a battery, it can be a power converter), and then a good water pipe, then pump into the water, Can be used normally.
(Note: The DC brushless pump is a centrifugal pump, the pump water flow with the increase of the head decreases.No diving without self-priming function, prohibit no water free.)Common Troubleshooting:
1.The pump flow is reduced or no water. (The pump chamber can be disassembled for cleaning.
2Tland use when the pump does not run water. (There is air in the pump or in the pipeline.)Note:
1.Do not take the wrong pump positive and negative.
2.Prohibit not through the power converter will be connected directly to the 220V power supply pump.
3.Is strictly prohibited for strong acidity, alkali and other damage to the pump medium.
4.The pump is suitable for medium temperature 1 â„ -60 â„.
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