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Most of the time, Frigidaire dishwasher lights blinking is not a major problem and can be diagnosed easily. Different lights indicate different causes, and once they are solved, you can start using your dishwasher again. Since the Frigidaire dishwasher blinking lights indicate different causes than other dishwashers, you should know the exact reason behind it. Therefore, knowing the correct cause is important since that is the only way to eliminate the Frigidaire dishwasher blinking lights. Consider the following factors to troubleshoot the Frigidaire dishwasher lights blinking issues.
Perform a Basic Reset
- 1 Perform a Basic Reset
- 2 Start/ Resume Keypad
- 3 Clean Keypad
- 4 Hi-Temp Wash or Hi-Temp Rinse Keypad
- 5 Heating Element
- 6 Check Frigidaire Dishwasher's Error Codes
- 7 Drain Pump
- 8 Touchpad and Control Panel
- 9 Frequently Asked Questions
- 10 Conclusion
Before you get into detail about troubleshooting your dishwasher, you should perform a basic reset:
- Switch off the dishwasher and unplug it from power, or turn off the circuit breaker.
- Wait for about five minutes and restore the power to the appliance by turning on the switch.
- Restart the dishwasher, select a new cycle and check whether the problem is solved.
Start/ Resume Keypad
A special sensor in the Frigidaire dishwasher detects whether the door is closed properly or not. So, it is necessary to close the door properly and latch it before a cycle is started. If not, the Start/ Resume light will flash. If you see this light flashing, you should open the door and shut it again to ensure it is latched properly. Then press the Start button to start the cycle, and this should have solved the problem.
The notification of cleaned dishwashers is indicated by illuminating the "Clean" keypad. But if this sign is flashing on the keypad, it indicates a problem with the temperature of the water. To test the water temperature:
- Turn on your home hot water sink connected with the dishwasher.
- Using a thermometer, check whether the temperature of water is around 120 ˚F.
- If the water has a temperature below 120 ˚F, turn on your home heater to ensure the water temperature to be around 120 ˚F. You can turn on your dishwasher to check whether the problem is fixed.
But if you cannot change the water temperature and if the problem remains, you would need to call a plumber for help.
Hi-Temp Wash or Hi-Temp Rinse Keypad
These options, named "Hi-Temp Wash" and "Hi-Temp Rinse" in a Frigidaire dishwasher, warm water for a cycle until the water reaches a specific temperature. If the "Hi-Temp Wash" or "Hi-Temp Rinse" button flashes during the water warming time, it indicates that the cycle has been paused. The buttons would stop flashing after the water reaches a certain temperature, and the cycle will be resumed.
Water is heated to a specifically selected temperature by the heating element. If water fails to reach the proper temperature within a pre-defined time, a light indicator on the control panel will flash. This indicates that something has gone wrong with the heating elements. Check the continuity of the heating element using a multimeter, and if the heating element does not indicate any continuity, then the heating element must have been burned out. Since these coils are not repairable, you would have to replace them to solve the problem.
Check Frigidaire Dishwasher's Error Codes
If your dishwasher is blinking even though the display window is working, you should check the display window for error codes. Then, refer to the user manual and consult the wiring diagram and tech sheet for more information. Follow the instructions indicated there as it is the best solution for your dishwasher.
The function of the drain pump is to remove used water out through the drain hose. If the drain pump is defective, it would not be able to drain out water. Your appliance indicates this as you can see the Frigidaire dishwasher lights blinking. Check the continuity of the drain motor using a multimeter to determine whether it is defective or not. As the drain motor is not repairable, you would have to replace the drain pump if it is found to be faulty.
Touchpad and Control Panel
If there are any issues with the touchpad or the control panel, you should first confirm that the display is working. If it is working, try pressing the touchpad buttons and check whether they respond. If you observe that some buttons don't respond correctly, the entire touchpad and control panel can be at fault. After confirmation, you would need to replace these components. Sometimes the touchpads are sold separately from the control panel by certain manufacturers. Other manufacturers would need you to buy the touchpad and control panel together. If you cannot replace the touchpad separately, then replace both the touchpad and control panel.
Frequently Asked Questions
If your dishwasher has continuously blinking Start, Wash, or Clean lights, it would indicate that there are electrical or water flow problems. Some issues can be solved simply by resetting, while others would need more troubleshooting.
What is indicated if the Option LED is flashing on the Frigidaire dishwasher?
Flashing LEDs in Hi-Temp Wash and No Heat Dry/ Power Dry Off indicates a power failure. Press Start/ Cancel and select the desired options and cycle again.
Why is Status LED flashing?
The Status LEDs will flash when the door is opened, and you should close the door to get rid of this.
As you have gained an overall idea about the Frigidaire dishwasher lights blinking, you can troubleshoot your dishwasher easily. If you need more clarification on the blinking indications, you can refer to your user manual, as it would give you a specific solution for your dishwasher model. You would also find it useful to know the reasons why your Frigidaire dishwasher won't start and how to troubleshoot them.
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The idea of the problem is to find out how long it would take to flush the Great Lakes of pollution. They're set up as a series of five tanks and you are given inflow rates of clean water, inflow rates from the other tanks, and outflow rates.
For our model, we make the following assumptions:
 1. The volume of each lake remains constant.
 2. The flow rates are constant throughout the year.
 3. When a liquid enters the lake, perfect mixing occurs and the pollutants are uniformly distributed.
 4. Pollutants are dissolved in the water and enter or leave by inflow or outflow of solution.
Before using this model to obtain estimates on the cleanup times for the lakes, we consider some simpler models:
 - (a) Use the outflow rates given in the figure to determine the time it would take to "drain" each lake. This gives a lower bound on how long it would take to remove all the pollutants.
 - (b) A better estimate is obtained by assuming that each lake is a separate tank with only clean water flowing in. Use this approach to determine how long it would take the pollution level in each lake to be reduced to 50% of its original level. How long would it take to reduce the pollution to 5% of its original level?
 - (c) Finally, to take into account the fact that pollution from one lake flows into the next lake in the chain, use the entire multiple compartment model given in the figure to determine when the pollution level in each lake has been reduced to 50% of its original level, assuming pollution has ceased (that is, inflows not from a lake are clean water). Assume that all the lakes initially have the same pollution concentration $p$. How long would it take for the pollution to be reduced to 5% of its original level?
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$\frac{dA}{dt}$ = rate in-rate out where $A$ is the amount of pollution at time $t$.
First I wrote equations for each lake. Rather than using $A$ as my variable, I used the first letter of each lake (with $n$ for Ontario) to stand for the amount of pollution in the given lake at time $t$. This gives...
$\frac{ds}{dt} = \frac{-15s}{2900} $
$\frac{dm}{dt} = \frac{-38m}{1180} $
$\frac{dh}{dt} = \frac{15s}{2900} + \frac{38m}{1180} - \frac{68h}{850} $
$\frac{de}{dt} = \frac{68h}{850} - \frac{85e}{116} $
$\frac{dn}{dt} = \frac{85e}{116} - \frac{99n}{393} $
Rearranging and pulling out the differential operator leads to the following system:
$(D + \frac{38}{1180})[m] = 0 $
$(D - \frac{68}{850})[h] + \frac{38m}{1180} - \frac{15s}{2900}=0 $
$(D + \frac{15}{2900})[s] = 0 $
$(D + \frac{85}{116})[e] - \frac{68h}{850} = 0 $
$(D + \frac{99}{393})[n] - \frac{85e}{116} = 0 $
This is where I'm stuck. I have this system of five equations with five variables. It seems like it should be fairly straightforward to solve from here, but I can't figure out what to do next.
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By the way, this problem comes from Nagle, Saff, and Snider, "Fundamentals of Differential Equations", chapter 5, group project E. – Teepeemm Apr 8 at 19:40
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Just for the sake of brevity, I have converted all the fractions into decimal form ie
$\frac{38}{1180} = 0.0322$
$\frac{68}{850} = 0.0800 $
$\frac{15}{2900} = 0.0051$
$\frac{85}{116} = 0.7327$
$\frac{99}{393} = 0.2519$
I am going to use the Laplace method for converting these differential equations into algebraic equations, thereby we will solve the equations and get the Laplace transforms of $S,H,M,E$ and $N$ and then take the inverse Laplace transforms of these to get the final equations of pollution for these lakes. Now $s(0) = h(0) = m(0) = e(0) = n(0) = p$, since the initial conditions are same for all the lakes.
Therfore using Laplace notation we have,
$sS - s(0) + 0.0051S = 0 $
Therfore $S = \frac{p}{s+.0051}$
Similarly we have $ M = \frac{p}{s+0.0322}$
Now for (2) differential equation we have
Applying Laplace we will have
$ H = \frac{-.0322p}{(s+.0322)(s+.08)}\frac{.0051p}{(s+.0051)(s+.08)}+\frac{p}{(s+.08)}$
Similarly, you can plug in this value of $H$ in the remaining differential equations ( along with the value of $M$ and $S$ found previously to find the Laplace expressions for $E$ and $N$, and then take the Laplace inverse of all and you will get the equations for all lakes.
Now for getting $5\%$ time, just put $0.05p$ and equate it to get $t$ for each case.
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So to get the 5% time I do 0.05p and for 50% it's 0.5p? – Contourette. Dec 9 '13 at 10:03
Yes you have to put $0.05p$ for 5% and $0.5p$ for 50%. – AbKDs Dec 10 '13 at 0:44
I haven't studied Laplace yet so could you give me an idea of Paul Safier's answer? I've commented to his solution. – Contourette. Dec 10 '13 at 9:49
I will definitely give a try :)! – AbKDs Dec 10 '13 at 10:52
_USER_, I realised the equations that you have written and we have subsequently solved are for part (c). Actually in part (b) says to just assume separate tanks, ie no pollution comes in only it goes out. Say for Ontario the equations will be $\frac{dn}{dt} = \frac{-99}{393}n$ ie no incoming flow of pollution (only outgoing pollution). So (b) part is very straightforward. The solutions me and Paul Safier have written are for part (c). – AbKDs Dec 10 '13 at 14:50
Now that you have your system of differential equations defined, you can start solving them. The equations for $s(t)$ and $m(t)$ are not coupled so you can solve those first. All equations have the initial condition of $p$ amount of polutant. After you solve for $s(t)$ and $m(t)$ (and let me know if this is a problem) you can plug in those to the equations for $h(t)$. After you have $h(t)$ you can get $e(t)$ and finally $n(t)$. Then for each equation plug in $0.05 p$ for the concentration and solve for $t$ to determine the time it takes for the concentration in each lake to drop to 5% of the original concentration.
For example, the solution of $s(t)$ is: $$ s(t)=p e^{-\frac{15}{2900}t}. $$ Setting $s=0.05p$ and solving for time gives $t=579$. Do the same for the others.
Does this help any?
Paul Safier
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Okay so I have some uncertainties while solving. As you said I computed the $s(t)$ and $m(t)$ and replaced in $h(t)$. Though when computing $h(t)$ I got really large numbers and I'm not sure if it's correct. Then another question I have is about b). So to compute the time to reduce to 5% you said it's $0.05p$ so that means for 50% is $0.5p$? And for the question at c), I don't really understand what it asks. I mean, the input of a lake is equal to the output ( taking into consideration the clean water) so I have no idea what it asks.I edited the requirements adding last 2 lines to c. Thanks – Contourette. Dec 7 '13 at 12:58
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I was wondering how one can rescue all of the prediction results when using the Java API for liblinear.
As it is well documented one can rescue the accuracy of the prediction with the following code:
Feature[] instance = new FeatureNode[5];
double prediction = Linear.predict(model, instance);
But how can we rescue the rest of the results kept in a file that is given to us when running for example:
./predict -b 1 testfile.test modelfile.model resultfile.out
Hope you can help, for the moment I am rescuing the data from the file but is most inefficient having to go to disk to get it. Thanks in advance.
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4 0.384792 0.384792 0._PHONE_ 0.168375
4 0.384792 0.384792 0._PHONE_ 0.168375
2 0.127897 0.127897 0.303788 0.440419
2 0.127897 0.127897 0.303788 0.440419
2 0.137623 0.137623 0.121928 0.602825
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If I understand you correctly, you're trying to get the probability results in runtime. Well, what i'm using is the following code:
double[] probabilityResults = new double[];
double prediction = Linear.predictProbability(model, instanceToTest, probabilityResults);
in the probabilityResults array, you'll find the probabilities of prediction. Good luck!
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I love stuff like this: "Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol," by Miranda Mowbray and Dieter Gollmann.
This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that it has some useful properties that in addition to being interesting in themselves, also suggest that its fundamental design principle is worth investigating for application to leader election protocols in computer science. For example it gives some opportunities to minorities while ensuring that more popular candidates are more likely to win, and offers some resistance to corruption of voters. The most obvious feature of this protocol is that it is complicated and would have taken a long time to carry out. We will advance a hypothesis as to why it is so complicated, and describe a simplified protocol with very similar features.
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During his doctoral research, the Belgian researcher developed a dynamic landscape model to simulate the distribution of soil due to landslides. For this he studied the landscape, soil and vegetation dynamics in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park in New Zealand. The model can be used to predict the locations where landslides will occur and researchers can also use it to calculate how rainfall affects the soil.
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1. How the releaser gets rights for release deed to mention it very clearly. Wording and sentence of this should be very precise and clear.
2. The Proper description of the property on which property rights get a release from releaser. For example, releaser going to release the property then describe the land four boundaries of land, Area, Local name, Survey number, pothissa number, Tehsil, District everything in detail.
3. Reasons behind this release deed should be neat, clear and do not have any ambiguity.
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$S$ to a smooth connected complete curve $\overline{S}$ (with constant field that might be larger than ${\mathbf{Q}}$, but that won't matter for the ramification considerations we are about to undertake). Clearly $\overline{S}$ is a finite flat cover of the projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Q}$ and at the point $s$ over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) it has ramification degree 4 or 6 (I can't remember which is which) because of etaleness over $M_1$ and the fact that $M_1$ over the $j$-line has ramification over $j=0$ (or $j=1728$) equal to 4 or 6 (due to deformation theory considerations). By design, there is an elliptic curve over the open curve $S$ (namely, the pullback of the elliptic curve $E'_1$ over $M'_1$ that extends the elliptic curve $E$ over $Y$) whose discriminant in the function field of $\overline{S}$ is $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ (well-defined up to 12th powers of nonzero elements, of course). But the "good reduction" at $s \in S$ forces the discriminant of any model over the function field of $S$ to have valuation at $s$ that is a multiple of 12, whereas for $(j(j-1728))^{-1}$ this valuation is $-4$ or $-6$ (since $S$ at $s$ has ramification over the $j$-line equal to 4 or 6). This is a contradiction, so $M_1$ has no nontrivial connected finite etale cover, assuming $\pi_1(Y) = 1$.
Finally, we prove $\pi_1(Y) = 1$. Note that $Y$ is the open complement in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the union of the sections $\infty$, $j=0$, and $j=n$ with $n = 1728$. We will now work with any nonzero integer $n$. Since $\infty$ is disjoint from the others, by Saito's argument with the relative Abhyankar's Lemma as explained above, we see that any finite etale cover of $Y$ has normalization over that projective $j$-line over $\mathbf{Z}$ that is etale over $\infty$. Hence, it suffices to show that the open complement of $j(j-n)=0$ in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ has trivial $\pi_1$. Making the change of coordinates $t = 1/j$ (which moves $j = 0$ out to $\infty$), this open complement is identified with the open complement $U_n$ in the affine $t$-line $\mathbf{A}^1_{\mathbf{Z}}$ of the locus $nt=1$. So it is enough to prove that $\pi_1(U_n) = 1$. Equivalently, we claim that $U_n$ has no nontrivial Galois connected finite etale covers. This will rest on three special facts about $\mathbf{Z}$: the triviality of $\pi_1({\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z}))$, the triviality of ${\rm{Pic}}(\mathbf{Z})$, and the smallness of the group of roots of unity in $\mathbf{Z}$. Beware that $U_n(\mathbf{Z})$ is empty when $n \not\in \mathbf{Z}^{\times}$.
Let $h:V \rightarrow U_n$ be a Galois connected finite etale cover with degree $> 1$, so over $\mathbf{Q}$ we get a nontrivial connected finite etale cover $V'$ of the $\mathbf{Q}$-fiber $U'_n$ of $U_n$. We first claim that $V'$ must be geometrically connected over $\mathbf{Q}$. Since we're in characteristic 0, this amounts to the condition that $V'$ has constant field $\mathbf{Q}$. If we let the number field $K$ be its constant field then by normality of $V$ it follows that $h$ factors through $(U_n)_{O_K}$, with $V \rightarrow (U_n)_{O_K}$ necessarily surjective. This forces $(U_n)_{O_K}$ to be etale over $U_n$ (since $h$ is a finite etale cover), so since $U_n$ is fpqc over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$ it follows that ${\rm{Spec}}(O_K)$ is etale over ${\rm{Spec}}(\mathbf{Z})$. This forces $K = \mathbf{Q}$, as desired.
By the coordinate change $x = t/n$ we identify $U'_n$ with ${\rm{GL}}_1$, so $V'$ is a geometrically connected cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over $\mathbf{Q}$. Thus, for $d = {\rm{deg}}(h) > 1$ we see that over an algebraically closed extension $k$ of $\mathbf{Q}$ the map $h_k$ is identified with the endomorphism $x^d$ of ${\rm{GL}}_1$. That is, the map $h'$ induced by $h$ between $\mathbf{Q}$-fibers is a "$\mathbf{Q}$-form" of the $\mu_d$-torsor ${\rm{GL}}_1$ over ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$. The set of isomorphism classes of such forms is given by $${\rm{H}}^1({\rm{GL}}_1,\mu_d) = (\mathbf{Q}^{\times}/({\mathbf{Q}}^{\times})^d) \times x^{\mathbf{Z}/d\mathbf{Z}}$$ (since ${\rm{GL}}_1$ has trivial Pic and has unit group $\mathbf{Q}^{\times} x^{\mathbf{Z}}$). Explicitly, for $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$ and $j \in \mathbf{Z}$ the finite etale cover of ${\rm{GL}}_1 = U'_n$ associated to the class of $(q,j \bmod d)$ is given by the covering equation $y^d = q x^j$. As a covering of ${\rm{GL}}_1$ with coordinate $x$, this has geometric covering group $\mu_d(\overline{\mathbf{Q}})$ via scaling on $y$, so by inspection this geometric covering group action is not defined over $\mathbf{Q}$ (i.e., the automorphism group scheme for the covering is not a constant group over $\mathbf{Q}$, or in other words not all of these geometric automorphisms are defined over $\mathbf{Q}$) except when $d = 2$. Ah, but recall that we arranged for $h$ to be a Galois covering, so in our setting with the covering $h'$ the geometric covering group must be defined entirely over $\mathbf{Q}$ (as a constant group). In particular, $h$ must have degree $d = 2$. Also, the geometric connectedness of the covering forces ${\rm{gcd}}(j,d) = 1$.
To summarize, we have proved that $V \rightarrow U_n$ viewed over $\mathbf{Q}$ is given by $y^2 = q(t/n)$ for some $q \in \mathbf{Q}^{\times}$. By changing $y$ by a $\mathbf{Q}^{\times}$-scaling (as we may certainly do), we can change $q$ by any square multiple we wish, so we can arrange that $q/n$ is equal to a squarefree integer $r$. Then $V$ is identified with the normalization of $\mathbf{Z}[t][1/(nt-1)]$ in the $(nt-1)$-localization of $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$. Using that $r$ is a squarefree integer, we claim that $\mathbf{Z}[y,t]/(y^2 - rt)$ is normal (in contrast with the situation for $\mathbf{Z}[y]/(y^2 - r)$ when $r$ is odd!). This is clear after inverting 2, so by Serre's homological criterion the only issue is to check the normality at the generic points in characteristic 2, which is to say that the maximal ideal of the local ring at these points is principal. If $r$ is even (so it is twice an odd integer) then $y$ lies in such primes, so $(2,y)$ is the only such prime and $t$ isn't in this prime. Hence, in such cases $y$ is a local generator (as the equation $rt =


An official enumeration of the people of a country to obtain statistics concerning their ages, occupations, education, and the like. In ancient Rome the census was taken with a view to taxation. In canon law, census means a tax or tribute imposed on a benefice, usually by a bishop and payable to himself. In diocesan and parochial usage it is the enumeration of the faithful, and certain data about their spiritual needs and conditions. A census or enrollment of the people is mentioned several times in the Old Testament and notably in the New Testament (Luke 2), the enrollment of "the whole world" which occasioned the journey of Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem wherc Christ was born.
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TRAINING FOR SCHOOLSFREE half day training for schools!
TESSA training was excellent. Aim to ensure all schools and teacher training colleges in N. Ireland access this training! – Co. Down teacher.
Children with a history of trauma and attachment difficulties often struggle to learn and are challenging to teach. Understanding the importance of attachment in child development can help teachers, classroom assistants and other school staff support a child's emotional regulation, behaviour and learning, resulting in fewer meltdowns, better outcomes, and a calmer school environment.
TESSA offers a FREE half day's training to schools in attachment and developmental trauma and, if required, strategies and services to support individual children with specific issues. To qualify for the service, schools need to have at least one adopted child on their register, age 12 years or younger. All of the feedback we have received so far from schools indicates that the content of the course applies to many other non-adopted children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
This outcome agrees with the findings of Baby Bonds, a review of international research into attachment by the Sutton Trust. Baby Bonds found that 40 per cent of young children are insecurely attached. In one US study research concluded that the quality of attachment alone was a stronger predictor of graduating from high school than either IQ or test score.
Attachment security is critical in school success. The good news is that if the adults (parents and teachers) are willing to work together and able to think differently about how we teach and discipline our children we can make school a safe base for learning.
The TESSA training aims to help schools:
- accept that some children have specific educational needs related to attachment and trauma.
- recognise the effects of developmental trauma in school.
- explore practical support strategies.


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The BW Gas Alert Extreme is a single gas detector by BW Technologies and Honeywell. This unit can be ordered to detect a range of common toxic industrial gases to protect against over exposure.
The Gas Alert Extreme is supplied with a 2 year replaceable lithium battery allowing ease of use without the need of re-charging. The unit has a range of language settings and is also fully datalogging and when used with the free to download fleet manager II software and USB datalink cable you can download records of event and alarm data.
Compatible with the BW Microdock II Test station providing a quick and easy bump and function testing solution.
The gas sensors available for the BW Gas Alert Extreme are :
Ammonia (NH3),Carbon monoxide (CO), Chlorine (Cl2), Chlorine dioxide (ClO2), Ethylene oxide (ETO) (C2H4O), Hydrogen cyanide (HCN), Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), Nitric oxide (NO), Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Oxygen (O2), Ozone (O3) Phosphine (PH3) and Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
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Royal Air Force Station Leicester East
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, near the village of Stoughton
Stoughton is the name of some places:in the United States of America:*Stoughton, Massachusetts**Stoughton *Stoughton, Wisconsin*Stoughton Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MassachusettsIn England:*Stoughton, Leicestershire*Stoughton, Surrey...
, 4 NM east southeast of Leicester
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. It was constructed in 1942, and formally opened in October 1943.
In March 1945 all operational military aircraft left Leicester East, and the airfield was placed on Care and Maintenance until its closure on 31 December 1947.
RAF Leicester East squadrons and aircraft
- No. 190 Squadron RAF
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- flying Short Stirling
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- No. 196 Squadron RAF
No. 196 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron originally formed as a training unit during World War I. It was active during World War II in Nos. 3, 4 and 38 Group RAF...
- flying Short Stirling
RAF Leicester East today
Today, the former RAF Leicester East is now known as Leicester Airport
Leicester Airport is a small aerodrome in Stoughton, Leicestershire, east southeast of Leicester. It was previously known as Stoughton Aerodrome...
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, and other smaller buildings are now used by the Leicestershire Aero Club
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People occasionally developed neck spasms. This can be due to a number of causes, such as a medical problem or some other problem that can result in neck spasms.
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It is very difficult if not impossible if not quite easy to avoid a neck spasm. Some people have genetic predispositions. These people do not know what to do.
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Adapting pediatric psychology interventions: lessons learned in treating families from the middle East.
ABSTRACT Pediatric psychologists are increasingly called upon to treat children from non-Western countries, whose cultures may contrast with a Western medical setting. Research on cultural adaptations of evidence-based treatments (EBTs), particularly for individuals from the Middle East, is sparse. To address this need, we discuss clinical issues encountered when working with patients from the Middle East.
Synthesis of the literature regarding culturally adapted EBTs and common themes in Middle Eastern culture. Case vignettes illustrate possible EBT adaptations.
Integrating cultural values in treatment is an opportunity to join with patients and families to optimize care. Expectations for medical and psychological treatment vary, and collaborations with cultural liaisons are beneficial.
Critical next steps include systematic development, testing, and training in culturally adapting EBTs in pediatric medical settings. Increased dialogue between clinicians, researchers, and cultural liaisons is needed to share knowledge and experiences to enhance patient care.


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Essential Oils and the Doctrine of Signatures
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So most of us know that essential oils are distilled or extracted from various parts of the plants and trees. The essential oils that we use are stored in secretory sacs in the roots, leaves, wood, flowers, leaves, seeds, fruits, bark and resin. While we readily look to the chemistry of the essential oil to determine its therapeutic uses, we can also look to the plant and tree as well as the particular part of that plant and tree that the oil comes from.
In today's world we analyze nature by way of technological imaging, before nature was simply what we saw in front of us. As Matthew Wood states, "The doctrine of signatures is used around the world in pre-modern cultures where thought-by-association is accepted as a valid means of obtaining knowledge of the world. The idea is that a plant that looks like the disease, organ, or person it will heal."
In this teleseminar we will explore:
* The correlations between certain essential oils and plant parts
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* The energetics and applications of various plant parts
* Signatures and Symbolism
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UX Bookclub Switzerland meeting: interaction design lessons from science fiction
Red attended the meeting of the UX Bookclub Switzerland to discuss the influence of science fiction media on real-life interface and interaction design.
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At the UX Book Club interfaces in Sci-Fi movies are a hot topic!
Exploring fictional user interfaces
The latest meeting of the UX Bookclub revolved around the book Make It So - Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel. They investigate how interfaces in science fiction films are presented and how interaction designers can use these fictional interfaces as a source of inspiration. Although there is a lot of technological extravagance in science fiction, certain aspects can be put to use in real life.
Real-world vs fictional interfaces
The technologies and interface designs which we see on screen have a great influence on both designer and user. Sometimes, they may actually inspire real world technology, as it was the case with the Motorola StarTAC phone, which was inspired by the communicator from the Star Trek series filmed 30 years earlier. Fictional possibilities inevitably change our expectations and desires regarding real technology.
The most important difference between fiction and reality is of course the fact that while it is essential that user interfaces in the real world function properly, fictional interfaces needn't work. They do not necessarily have to be thought through to the last detail or can simply rely on a system which is extremely intelligent. This allows for more freedom in imagining an ideal interface. Though we cannot start designing unfinished interfaces which don't work, we can gain from this the idea of giving our imagination free rein. It might be worth blocking out the usual project limitations such as budget, technology and client wishes, at least for a moment.
Design itself is fiction
Another interesting realisation when looking at the relation between science fiction and real-world design is the fact that in the end, our work is fiction, too: „All design is fiction—at least until it gets built or is made available to users and customers." The personae which we create could be compared to characters, the scenarios and use cases to narratives and prototypes to scenes. We are sci-fi creators! Just as sci-fi writers use their imagination to write an engaging story, we have to be imaginative when designing an interface which satisfies the user.
The idea to learn from sci-fi films and television shows is certainly very interesting. Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel provide a well-organised overview of different sci-fi user interfaces and show that we can gain valuable new approaches by having a closer look at these fictional interfaces. However, the book reads more like general thoughts from an interaction designer's view and lacks a certain profoundness. Another interesting read on sci-fi and technology is Aaron Marcus' The Past 100 Years of the Future: Human-Computer Interaction in Science-Fiction Movies and Television. His book also explores how real-life professionals and sci-fi media-producers can learn from one another.
In the meantime, we are also confronted with divining what technological breakthrough the "real" future will bring. Thinking about Google Glass or Siri we realise that technologies such as augmented reality or voice recognition, which several years ago may have seemed like pure fiction, exist. The question is now how things will develop - what will be the next best thing?


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The distribution cabinet is divided into the first, the second and the third. The distribution cabinet is suitable for the medium and large enterprises to use as the power supply system. Distribution Cabinet how to choose 1. FIRST-CLASS DISTRIBUTION CABINET: It is installed in the power control system. Therefore, it is responsible for transferring power to the second-class distribution cabinet in the substation equipment installed. Therefore, the function and structure of the distribution cabinet are higher than the second-class and third-class requirements. 2. Secondary Distribution Cabinet is connected to the first distribution cabinet of power, power into low-voltage, and distribution to the nearby load equipment, distribution cabinet is divided into control center and power equipment, equipment application center. 3. Three-stage distribution cabinet, because the three-stage distribution cabinet layout is simpler, the application is more widespread, the capacity is small, generally as the control low-level use electric load equipment.


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Item: Measurement of dynamic waterentry value for dry snow
Title: Measurement of dynamic waterentry value for dry snow
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop, Davos 2009, Proceedings
Authors: Takafumi Katsushima, Satoru Yamaguchi, Toshiro Kumakura and Atsushi Sato, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaokacity, Niigata, JAPAN 2Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Nagaok
Abstract: In soil physics, many people have discussed about mechanisms of developing preferential flow based on porous media hydraulics. In snow science, there are few studies on the preferential flow though the preferential flow governs a part of runoff process in a snowpack. Dry sand has a waterentry value which is a threshold value of the capillary pressure to start infiltration into dry sand. Water cannot infiltrate in the situation that the capillary pressure at the wetting front is less than the waterentry value. The preferential flow is developed in the upwardnegative gradient of the capillary pressure behind the wetting front, which is appeared in the case that the waterentry value is larger than the capillary pressure along the upper moving path of the wetting front. It is thought that the phenomena on the preferential flow in the sand are almost same as these in the snow and the waterentry value of the homogeneous dry snow layer is important to study the preferential flow in the snowpack. In this study, the waterentry values were obtained by measuring the capillary pressure at the wetting front penetrating into the underlying dry snow. The capillary pressure was measured with the high response tensiometers. The measured waterentry values were greater than the airentry value according to the water retention curve for drying process. The waterentry value with large diameter is larger than one with small. The some paths of the preferential flow were observed in these experiments. On the other hand, the waterentry value was not observed and the preferential flow was not observed in the experiment which used the smaller diameters of snow particles.
Keywords: preferential flow, waterentry value, homogeneous dry snow
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What is the Chartered Mathematics Teacher designation?
The Chartered Mathematics Teacher (CMathTeach) designation reflects the balance between teaching skills (pedagogy) and mathematics knowledge that is necessary for a professional teacher to educate and inspire today's students.
The CMathTeach designation can also:
- Identify you as being at the forefront of your profession.
- Encapsulate standards of professional excellence across mathematics teaching in the 21st century.
- Benchmark you at the same level as a Chartered Mathematician, Chartered Scientist, Chartered Engineer, Chartered Science Teacher etc.
Who awards the CMathTeach designation?
The CMathTeach designation is incorporated within the Royal Charter of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and is awarded by the Chartered Mathematics Teacher Registration Authority. The Authority is composed of representatives from the following organisations:
To apply for the CMathTeach designation individuals must be a member of at least one of the above organisations and also satisfy the requirements in the following four areas:
- Continuing Professional Development
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Survey: 3 of 4 Parents Say Their Kids Are Spoiled by the Holidays
Do your kids get bratty at the holidays? If they do, you're not alone. Parenting and TODAY Moms surveyed more than 6,000 parents to find out how much they really spend on holiday gifts, if they feel pressure to buy everything their kids want, and how their kids respond to the onslaught of presents.
 - 3 out of 4 parents admit their kids are spoiled to some degree
 - 59% say their kids are more spoiled than they were as kids
 - Only 30% always require their kids to write thank-you notes
Plus: Kids' Worst Spoiled Brat Moments
Read the full results of the survey, including the jaw-dropping average amount of money parents spend on each kid at the holidays. Then tell us: do your kids ever exhibit less-than-grateful behavior at the holidays?
Also, join TODAY contributor and parenting expert Amy McCready, author of If I Have To Tell You One More Time, on TODAY Moms' Facebook page Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET for a live chat about how to un-spoil your children (or avoid spoiling them in the first place!).


PSFS Ministry Scheduler - Scheduling: Why can't I generate a schedule?
Why can't I generate a schedule?
There are three common reasons a schedule will not generate:
Reason 1: No time was specified for the events you are scheduling
 1. Click Configuration
 2. In the Groups panel, select the desired ministry group.
 3. In the Events panel, select the event.
 4. Click the paper/pencil icon to open the Edit Event window.
 5. If there is not event time specified, add one.
Reason 2: No ministers in the ministry are assigned to the events you are scheduling
 1. Click Minister Directory.
 2. Click the funnel to open the Advanced Filter Window.
 3. Select a ministry group.
 4. Select a ministry.
 5. Select an event.
 6. Click Apply Filter to view a list of ministers assigned to the event.
 7. Add the ministers who are not on the list but are supposed to be.
Reason 3: No ministers are specified as being needed for the event
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What Are Swedish Showers?
You likely are familiar with the standard shower that uses one shower head to deliver a constant stream of water. Other types of showers are also available, including the Swedish shower. A Swedish shower is also called a Swiss Shower and use multiple water jets for hydrotherapy.
Swedish showers use multiple water jets.
A Swedish shower has a shower head at the top, similar to any other type of shower setup, but that's where the similarities come to an end. Swedish showers also have jets located all around the shower, usually four rows of four jets. These 16 jets provide the user with 360 degrees of shower jets.
True Swedish showers are designed to fluctuate between cold and hot water to assist in circulation. The two temperatures alternate for several seconds at a time. These types of showers are most often seen in spa environments. The temperatures in a Swedish shower range from 45 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, which can be dangerous for people with high blood pressure or women who are pregnant.
Swedish showers are most often used for hydrotherapy in spas, using their pressure to relieve sore muscles and aid in circulation. In addition, the constant temperature fluctuations of the Swedish shower's water cause the capillaries in the skin to contract and dilate, which also increases blood circulation in the skin.
Many home shower manufacturers provide different shower models that resemble Swedish showers and include the 16 water jets along the walls of the shower. Homeowners can enjoy Swedish showers at home, but should discuss what they want out of their showers with their installers or the manufacturers. Not all Swedish showers will provide the same pressure and temperature benefits as the Swedish showers found in spas do, as some merely have extra jets and are not programmed to fluctuate in temperature or pressure.


Create a Delphi Form From a String
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There may be instances when you do not know the exact class type of a form object. You may only have the string variable carrying the name of the form's class, such as "TMyForm".
Note that the Application.CreateForm() procedure expects a variable of type TFormClass for its first parameter. If you can provide a TFormClass type variable (from a string), you will be able to create a form from its name.
Sample Exercise
 1. Create a new Delphi project and name the main form: MainForm (TMainForm).
 2. Add three new forms to the project, name them:
 3. FirstForm (TFirstForm)
 4. SecondForm (TSecondForm)
 5. ThirdForm (TThirdForm)
 6. Remove the three new forms from the "Auto-create Forms" list in the Project-Options dialog.
 7. Drop a ListBox on the MainForm and add three strings: 'TFirstForm', 'TSecondForm', and 'TThirdForm'.
procedure TMainForm.FormCreate( Sender: TObject);
RegisterClass(TFirstForm); RegisterClass(TSecondForm); RegisterClass(TThirdForm);
In the MainForm's OnCreate event register the classes:
procedure TMainForm.CreateFormButtonClick( Sender: TObject);
s : string;
s := ListBox1.Items[ListBox1.ItemIndex]; CreateFormFromName(s);
Once the button is clicked, find the selected form's type name, and call a custom CreateFormFromName procedure:
procedure CreateFormFromName(
const FormName : string);
fc : TFormClass; f : TForm;
fc := TFormClass(FindClass(FormName)); f := fc.Create(Application); f.Show;
; (* CreateFormFromName *)
If the first item is selected in the list box, the "s" variable will hold the "TFirstForm" string value. The CreateFormFromName will create an instance of the TFirstForm form.
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Recently I was involved in a workshop on killing chickens. I went through the entire process from killing to dressing to cooking and eating. This is the process as was taught to me
Step One: Catch the Chicken
This part can be rather tricky. If you've never caught a chicken before, my experience is that the easiest way is to catch them off guard in the coop. Just grap the chicken by the legs and lift it off the ground holding the chicken upside down by the legs. The chicken may flap around a bit, but if you're careful, and have a good grip on the legs the chicken won't get away. The important thing to remember is not to let the chicken go, because its going to be really hard to catch it again now that its on its guard.
Step two: Kill the Chicken
There are two methods that I've seen to kill a chicken. One is to simply lie the chicken on a chopping block and cut off its head. This can be rather bloody, but its a sure way to be positive that the chicken is dead.
The second method (and the one I'm going to discuss here) is to wring the chicken's neck. If this is done correctly it's a lot less messy.
So, take your chicken by the legs (you are still holding it right?). In your other hand pull down on the neck and then bend it upward very quickly. If you've done it correctly, then you will feel a snap, and the chicken will reflexivly begin to flap its wings. At this point my great grandmother would drop the chicken and let it run around the yard until it's body finished dying.(hence the term run around like chickens with their head cut off)
If you've broken the neck, then the next step is to drain out some of the blood. Hang the chicken upside down over a bucket. Then with a sharp knife reach into the mouth slightly down the throat and cut across cutting the jugular. Be very careful not to cut through the back of the neck.
Step Three: Pluck the Chicken
This step can be quite time consuming, but it's quite simple. Hang the chicken (preferably over something to catch the feathers). It's best to begin with the larger wing feathers, and simply pull in a downward motion. Take care not to try pulling in large clumps, if you try to pull too many at a time, then you risk tearing the skin. Be sure to get all the large feathers and as many of the small ones from the areas of the chicken that you plan to eat.
After you've plucked as much as you can stand, singe off the remaining feathers. Simply hold the chicken over an open flame.
Step Four: Dressing the Chicken
This step is not for the weak of stomach.
With a sharp knife, cut around the anus. Take care not to cut the intestines. Once you've cut all the way around the anus and freed the intestines from its connecting membranes move to the head of the chicken.
At this point you'll need a heavy knife or a pair of clippers. Cut off the head at the base of the neck. Reach your hand into the chicken from the neck, and try to loosen as many of the internal organs as possible. Now simply remove the internals from the anus end. If necessary reach inside the chicken to be certain that you've removed all the insides.
Step Five: Finishing up
To finish up cut off the feet, and pull out any remaining feathers. If you so desire, now is the time to skin the chicken. Then wrap the chicken and refrigerate it as soon as possible. REMEMBER, wash the chicken thoroughly before preparing.
That's it... you have yourself a fresh chicken. Now, go find yourself a good recipe.
CapnTrippy says to avoid getting poop on everything during step 4 tie a string around the anus before trying to remove it.
I grew up in a small fishing village on the north coast of British Columbia called Dodge Cove. Several of our neighbours in this village raised chickens, and one time, when I was quite young, my mother bought a few of these chickens, with the intention of killing, plucking & dressing them.
My mother is not a squeamish person. Not in the least. She was, however, new to chicken slaughter. A date was arranged for the chickens to meet their maker, and as this day drew near, she undertook a brief inquiry into the finer points of pollocide(?). She visited all the local chicken owners and their advice was consistent:
"What's there to say?"
"Cut off the head. Chicken dies."
"Piece of cake."
Soon the sun was rising on the fateful day. Or so we assume. We couldn't actually see the sun for the heavy grey clouds and misty rain. Yes, the chicken fields were slick that day. Indeed, my brother and I had great fun, running and sliding through the mud. My mother was not so amused. First, she had to catch the chickens. Chickens do not go gentle into that good night. Even, it seems, after their heads have been removed. Headless chickens ran amok, blood and head-guts splurting and mixing with the mud and the sliding children. For a short while, Chaos truly reigned.
The next day my mother regaled our chicken raising friends with the harrowing tale.
"Well shucks," they replied. "You should have hung them up by their feet for a while first. Calms them right down, so they don't run around like."
An acquaintance of mine dabbled in chicken farming as a summer side business. It turns out that raising "cage free" chickens is a fairly easy thing to do. You buy the chicks in the spring and put them out in the yard, inside a wire mesh house. The house has an open bottom, and you move it every day so the chick(en)s have fresh grass. Half of the house is covered with fabric to provide shade. The main purpose of the enclosure is to keep out predators and maintain flock coherence; there will inevitably be escapees, but rather than running for the hills they just wander around and eventually get lost or eaten if you don't bring them back in. Domestic chickens are observably very stupid. But of course you're not here to learn about raising chickens, you're here to learn about the periand postmortem excitement!
If you're a part-time chickenisto, when harvest/slaughter time comes you go and get the kill cart. This is a special trailer designed for the efficient killing and processing of chickens, collectively owned and time-shared by the local chicken farmers. An entrepreneur need only buy in to the group and, on their appointed day, fetch the cart from the last user. This system makes it easy to enter the business without a significant investment of time and money.
The kill cart is all stainless steel. Every surface is either full of holes or sloped toward a particular drain, keeping fluids out of the way and allowing the whole to be conveniently hosed down for cleanup. There are particular stations around the perimeter of the trailer for different parts of the process, some of which are connected to the large propane tank mounted just aft of the hitch.
Chickens enter at the front of the cart, several at a time. They are placed into "kill cones", metal funnels which hold inverted chickens with their heads poking out the bottom. These prevent the victims from flailing about and damaging themselves, and position them for convenient slaying and draining. It is important to note that the chicken's heart keeps going even after it is arguably dead, getting the blood out quicker. (This is the first problem with industrially processed chickens. They are typically electrocuted, instantly stopping the heart and leaving more blood in the body for the later stages.)
Dead, bloodless chickens are removed from the cones and passed to the plucker, who removes some larger feathers before putting the corpses in a convenient cleaning device. This is somewhat like a washing machine, having a rotating drum with thick rubber prongs on the walls. Hot water cleans the chickens and loosens the feathers, which are then stripped off by the prongs.
The naked, pink, dead, bloodless chickens are put on the evisceration table, where a couple more technicians perform Step Four, as described above by mrklaw. The table is ergonomically designed and directs unwanted guts into easily emptied catches, while channeling fluids out the bottom to the ground. At the end of the table, also the end of the trailer, is the first of two dedicated quality control workers. Their job is to make sure that all guts have been removed, and especially that no feces has been spilled during the evisceration. (This is the second problem with factory chickens. Bulk processing requires mechanical evisceration, which is indelicate and likely to rupture guts and intenstines. Individual hand-treatment greatly reduces the risk of infectious contamination.)
Moving back up the other side now, the naked, pink, dead, bloodless, gutless chickens are tidied up through removal of feet, necks, and other unwanted protrusions. They are then plunged into an icy water bath, under the supervision of the second quality controller. This is the terminus of the process, the output queue of the kill cart. At the end of the day the prepared chickens will be transferred to a larger basin of ice-water, from which customers can choose their own.
The comprehensive facilities of the kill cart and the (dis)assembly line division of labor enable approximately seven people (three would be a skeleton crew, and with ten the cart would be pretty crowded) to slaughter the whole flock of 50-100 in one fun-filled afternoon. Cleaning up is relatively


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Students in a marching band collected money for new uniforms. This table shows the amount of money they collected last week.
What is the mean amount of money the students collected?
The amounts for Saturday and Sunday were recorded incorrectly. Saturday should have been $34.24, and Sunday should have been $75.18. Use what you know about determining the mean to explain how these changes will affect your answer in Step A. Use words, data, and/or symbols in your explanation.


Importing an image into SwiftUI using UIImagePickerController
Paul Hudson _USER_
In order to bring this project to life, we need to let the user select a photo from their library, then display it in ContentView. I've already shown you how this all works, so now it's just a matter of putting it into our app – hopefully it will make a little more sense this time!
Start by making a new Swift file called ImagePicker.swift, replace its "Foundation" import with "SwiftUI", then give it this basic struct:
struct ImagePicker: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
 _USER_(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode
 _USER_ var image: UIImage?
 func makeUIViewController(context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext) -> UIImagePickerController {
 let picker = UIImagePickerController()
 return picker
 func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: UIImagePickerController, context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext) {
If you recall, using UIViewControllerRepresentable means that ImagePicker is already a SwiftUI view that we can place inside our view hierarchy. In this instance we're wrapping UIKit's UIImagePickerController, which lets the user select something from their photo library.
When that ImagePicker struct is created, SwiftUI will automatically call its makeUIViewController() method, which is what goes on to create and send back a UIImagePickerController. However, our code doesn't actually respond to any events inside the image picker – the user can search for an image and select it to dismiss the view, but we don't then do anything with it.
Rather than making us create a subclass of UIImagePickerController, UIKit instead uses a system of delegation: we create a custom class that will be told when something interesting happened. Each delegate class will usually need to conform to one or more protocols, and in our case that means UINavigationControllerDelegate and UIImagePickerControllerDelegate. The delegates work much like real-life delegates – if you delegate work to someone else, it means you're giving it to them to complete.
SwiftUI handles these delegate classes by letting us define a coordinator that belongs to the struct. This class can do anything we need, including acting as the delegate for UIKit components, and we can then pass any relevant information back up to the ImagePicker that owns it.
Start by adding this as a nested class inside ImagePicker:
class Coordinator: NSObject, UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate {
 let parent: ImagePicker
 init(_ parent: ImagePicker) {
 self.parent = parent
You can see that conforms to the two protocols we need to use for working with UIKit's image picker, and also inherits from NSObject which is the base class for most types that come from UIKit.
Because our coordinator class conforms to the UIImagePickerControllerDelegate protocol, we can make it the delegate of the UIKit image picker by modifying makeUIViewController() to this:
 let picker = UIImagePickerController()
 picker.delegate = context.coordinator
 return picker
We need to make two more changes to ImagePicker to make it useful. The first is to add a makeCoordinator() method that tells SwiftUI to use the Coordinator class for the ImagePicker coordinator. From our perspective this is obvious, because we created a class called Coordinator that was inside the ImagePicker struct, but this makeCoordinator() method lets us control how the coordinator is made.
If you recall, we gave the Coordinator class a single property: let parent: ImagePicker. This means we need to create it with a reference to the image picker that owns it, so the coordinator can forward on interesting events. So, inside our makeCoordinator() method we'll create a Coordinator object and pass in self.
Add this method to the ImagePicker struct now:
func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator {
The final step for ImagePicker is to give the coordinator some sort of functionality. The UIImagePickerController class looks for two methods, but here we're only going to use one: didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo. This will be called when the user has selected an image, and will be given a dictionary of information about the selected image.
To make ImagePicker useful we need to implement that method inside Coordinator, make it set the image property of its parent ImagePicker, then dismiss the view.
UIKit's method name is long and complex, so it's best written using code completion. Make some space inside the Coordinator class and type "didFinishPicking", then press return to have Xcode fill in the whole method for you. Now modify it to have this code:
func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [UIImagePickerController.InfoKey: Any]) {
 if let uiImage = info[.originalImage] as? UIImage {
 parent.image = uiImage
That completes ImagePicker.swift, so please head back to ContentView.swift so we can make use of it.
First we need an _USER_ Boolean to track whether our image picker is being shown or not, so start by adding this to ContentView:
_USER_ private var showingImagePicker = false
Second, we need to set that Boolean to true when the big gray rectangle is tapped, so replace the // select an image comment with this:
self.showingImagePicker = true
Third, we need a property that will store the image the user selected. We gave the ImagePicker struct an _USER_ property attached to a UIImage, which means when we create the image picker we need to pass in a UIImage for it to link to. When the _USER_ property changes, the external value changes as well, which lets us read the value.
So, add this property to ContentView:
_USER_ private var inputImage: UIImage?
Fourth, we need a method that will be called when the ImagePicker view has been dismissed. For now this will just place the selected image directly into the UI, so please add this method to ContentView now:
func loadImage() {
 guard let inputImage = inputImage else { return }
 image = Image(uiImage: inputImage)
And finally, we need to add a sheet() modifier somewhere in ContentView. This will use showingImagePicker as its condition, will reference loadImage as its onDismiss parameter, and present an ImagePicker bound to inputImage as its contents.
So, add this directly below the existing navigationBarTitle() modifier:
.sheet(isPresented: $showingImagePicker, onDismiss: loadImage) {
 ImagePicker(image: self.$inputImage)
That completes all the steps required to wrap a UIKit view controller for use inside SwiftUI. We went over it a little faster this time but hopefully it still all made sense!
Go ahead and run the app again, and you should be able to tap the gray rectangle to import a picture, and when you've found one it will appear inside our UI.
Tip: The ImagePicker view we just made is completely reusable – you can put that Swift file to one side and use it on other projects easily. If you think about it, all the complexity of wrapping the view is contained inside ImagePicker.swift, which means if you do choose to use it elsewhere it's just a matter of showing a sheet and binding an image.
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I am currently trying to retrieve a unique device identifier. Here is my code:
var token = Windows.System.Profile.HardwareIdentification.getPackageSpecificToken(null);
var reader = Windows.Storage.Streams.DataReader.fromBuffer(;
reader.unicodeEncoding = true;
var identifier = reader.readString(reader.unconsumedBufferLength);
But it raises following error:
The operation attempted to access data outside the valid range.
How can I retrieve the size of my string? I also tried to use, but result is the same.
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Depending on what you are using it for, you should be aware that the id will change, possibly frequently on some devices. You should probably use a subset of the constituent components in the id if you need to (more) reliably identify the device again later. Docs here: – Endophage Nov 9 '12 at 21:14
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I can't try to replicate what you're doing at the moment, but you might try reading it as bytes into array like this:
var array = new Array(;
And then convert the array to a string for the identifier.
See these posts for examples:
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Your solution works perfectly. Thanks for your help, even if I still can't get the reason why they return a IBuffer object instead of a simple string. But sure they got one. ;) – Jonathan Petitcolas Aug 22 '12 at 8:36
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The image above shows a Royal Masque in progression. Masques were stylish entertainments produced by and for the monarch and the court. The more elaborate and lavish the production the better. Masques consisted of dramatic pageants, which incorporated drama, music, dance, ornate costumes, and elaborate scenery. While the performances often likened rulers to mythical gods and heroes, there was always room for subtle criticism of public policy and laws.
Can you create your own Elizabethan-style Court Masque? The following activity will show you how.
First, decide who you would like to honor with this masque. It could be one person or a group of people who you would like to honor. Think of a good-natured joke or humorous story about this person that you can tell at the performance.
Then, select a song or write your own that expresses how you feel about this person or group of people. You can dance to this song or sing it. If you dance to it, make sure there are enough people to dance and perform the music. If you would like to learn more about Elizabethan dances, click here.
Next, choose a scene from Shakespeare or write your own that expresses what you feel about the person or group of people you are honoring. The scene doesn't need to be long, maybe two to three minutes or one to two pages.
To dress up the revellers (actors) make some costume pieces and embellish them. Choose something simple, like necklaces, hats and bracelets and add a bit of flare: add glitter, feathers, scarves and ties. If you would like to see images of Elizabethan costumes, click here.
Rehearse it once or twice until you're comfortable and ready to perform.
Performance time! Start by introducing yourself and the person or group you're honoring. Then tell the joke or humorous story. Next perform your scene, followed by your dance, and conclude with a bow. Bravo!
Click here to continue to the next activity.
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7.2 Alias Objects
The raw data for the Alias record, suitable for storing in a resource
or transmitting to other programs.
- Resolve ([file])
Resolve the alias. If the alias was created as a relative alias you
should pass the file relative to which it is. Return the FSSpec for
the file pointed to and a flag indicating whether the Alias object
itself was modified during the search process. If the file does
not exist but the path leading up to it does exist a valid fsspec
- GetInfo (num)
An interface to the C routine GetAliasInfo().
- Update (file, [file2])
Update the alias to point to the file given. If file2 is
present a relative alias will be created.
Note that it is currently not possible to directly manipulate a
resource as an Alias object. Hence, after calling
Update() or after Resolve() indicates that the alias
has changed the Python program is responsible for getting the
data value from the Alias object and modifying the
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Covering a total area of 7,500m², families will be able to enjoy more than 30 activities, all supervised by coordinators:
- Several bouncy castle courses with slides, tunnels and obstacles have been set up for kids from 5 to 13 years old.
- Children who measure up 1.10m have a series of fun activities especially reserved for them. They can have fun climbing, jumping, swing and balancing in total safely,
- Reims events has also designed the Park to cater for people over 13 years old, with activities that the whole family can enjoy, such as a virtual reality game, a mechanical rodeo, a tree climbing course and an ice rink.
The Park also has various relaxation and picnic areas, as well as a nursery. On top of all this, visitors can buy food and drinks on site.
Giant Park is a great family day out for kids and their parents during this winter half-term holiday.


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Bulk cargo is a product that is shipped loosely and unpackaged.
Bulk cargo is a shipping term for items that are shipped loosely and unpackaged as opposed to being shipped in packages or containers.
An item may be classified as bulk cargo if it is not containerized and easily secured on a vessel. Items such as oil, grain, or coal are all examples of bulk cargo.
Bulk cargo is classified as either free flowing, a liquid, or a dry item. This type of cargo is typically dropped or poured as a liquid or solid into a merchant ship, railway car, or tanker truck.
Items may also be referred to as break bulk cargo, which is cargo that is packaged but non-containerized. Some examples of break bulk include drummed fuel, bagged cement, vehicles, and large parts to build an airplane. Items described as break bulk cargo can be transported in bags, barrels, and pallets.
Use the following diagram to determine if your product classifies as bulk cargo:
Erhalten Sie wöchentliche Einblicke und Informationen rund um das Thema globaler Handel – direkt in Ihren Posteingang.


Single, childless, female and ageing - the grim future facing some Australian women
ALONE AND VULNERABLE: Single older women without children face unique challenges. Image: Pixabay
Many single women without children are doing it tough in their senior years, according to new Australian research.
Whereas much past research has focused on the'motherhood penalty' faced by older woman who took time off from work to look after children, the new research by Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW board member Associate Professor Myra Hamilton and colleagues has found that single women without children (SWWC) face particular challenges which can leave them vulnerable to poverty and isolation.
SWWC make up around nine per cent of the surveyed population aged 45 and older in the National HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) study which follows 17,000 people throughout their lives.
I did find though that because I was single and had part time work it was assumed (by many people, not just my brother) that I would be the main carer. Of course I wanted to - it was my mum, but my health and energy were not even considered. It was hard, but I wouldnt have had it any other way.
Research participant
Myra said the research challenged the misconception that SWWC generally have uninterrupted careers and a healthy superannuation balance, instead finding they often have interrupted career paths from various causes - redundancy, ill heath, and the expectation they were available to care for elderly or disabled family members.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Associate Professor Myra Hamilton.
Housing was a major issue for many older SWWC who cannot rely on a partner to help get and pay off a mortgage making it more of a struggle to enter and stay in the housing market; and single women were less able to absorb temporary financial shocks than a partnered person; so a redundancy, illness or caring responsibility can result in them losing their home and having to move to rental accommodation.
The historical gender factor plays an enormous impact. The facts that these women have often worked in the workforce in maybe casual jobs, part time works. Lower paid work where either no superannuation was required to be paid or a minimal amount of superannuation was required to be paid. So that absolutely impacts their financial security
Housing Specialist
Also while single women were more likely to bear the lion's share of caring for ageing parents, they were the least likely to have someone to provide informal care and support for them in later life, leaving them at risk of needing early entry to residential aged care.
Being single and aging is scary. I look around me and my siblings and friends who have children have a network around them as they get older. Who will be the young people in my life to lift me up and support me? Sure I'll have friends, but they'll all be old like me.
Research participant
The report's recommendations include:
 - Address the effect of family care on employment and income
 - Amend anti-discrimination legislation to clarify that discrimination against people without family responsibilities is also unlawful
 - Develop more affordable housing options for older women
 - Provide advocates in the aged care system to help older people without informal support
 - Make financial advice more accessible, affordable and catering to women's needs and communication styles.
Security in old age for older single women without children, presents findings from a collaborative project between the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales and Curtin and was funded by CPA Australia.
This story The single woman, no kids paradox first appeared on The Senior.


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What is the difference between:
Quiero que coma
Is it a certain nuance between saying "I want to eat" and "I want that I could eat?"
I'm a little confused here!
I am a little confused too :))
What you are saying in Spanish: quiero que coma and querer comer don't correspond with the English:
"I want to eat" and "I want that I could eat".
If you mean the difference between "I want to eat" and "I want you to eat", this would be:
Quiero comer (I want to eat)
Quiero que comas (I want you to eat)
The second one using que + subjunctive because it is two different subjects.
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Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2003
In theoretical treatments of tidal bending of floating glaciers, the glacier is usually modelled as an elastic beam with uniform thickness, resting on an elastic foundation. With a few exceptions, values of the elastic (Young's) modulus E of ice derived from tidal deflection records of floating glaciers are in the range 0.9-3 GPa. It has therefore been suggested that the elastic-beam model with a single value of E approximate to 1 GPa adequately describes tidal bending of glaciers.In contrast, laboratory experiments with ice give E =93 GPa, i.e. 3-10 times higher than the glacier-derived values. This suggests that ice creep may have a significant influence on tidal bending of glaciers. Moreover, detailed tidal-deflection and tilt data from Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier, northeast Greenland, cannot be explained by elastic-beam theory. We present a theory of tidal bending of glaciers based on linear viscoelastic-beam theory. A four-element, linear viscoelastic model for glacier ice with a reasonable choice of model parameters can explain the observed tidal flexure data. Implications of the viscoelastic response of glaciers to tidal forcing are discussed briefly.
|Journal||Annals of Glaciology|
|State||Published - 2003|


Regular Expressions: Positive and Negative Lookahead austin
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I'm looking at the example given in the Positive and Negative Lookahead Lesson. Here it is:
let password = "abc123";
checkPass.test(password); // Returns true
However, if password = "abcd123" it still return as true, even though the password has more than 6 characters. Why is that? Shouldn't this return as false if there are more than 6 characters?
Also, I don't understand how the lookahead works when there is nothing in front of the (?=…) as given in this example. The other examples have something in front, as with q(?=u). How can you have a lookahead with nothing in front of the lookahead?
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Challenge: Positive and Negative Lookahead
Link to the challenge:
I'll translate this regex to English and see if you can spot the problem:
 1. Anywhere ahead of me there must be three to six _alphanumeric characters
 2. Anywhere ahead of me there must be a digit possibly preceded by any number of non-digit characters
DISCLAIMER: "Anywhere" is somewhat incorrect technically, but still OK to understand the behaviour.
Ok thank you that does help! It seems that this regex just checks to see if there are 3-6 alphanumeric characters in the string ("ahead of me"), but the string can still be more than 6 characters.
Exactly! There is no way lookaheads can test the maximum boundary. In order for this regex to work you need to unwrap the first lookahead and introduce boundaries ^...$:
const re = /^(?=.*\d)\w{3,6}$/;
re.test('abc123'); // true
re.test('abcd123'); // false
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SAN MARCOS — Volunteers from across Texas will participate in the fourth annual statewide water sampling initiative to be held in conjunction with Earth Day 2003 on April 22.
Texas Watch, a volunteer environmental monitoring program supported by Southwest Texas State University, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is launching the effort.
Volunteer monitors across the state will sample surface and ground water to collect important environmental information. Those results will be coupled with professional water quality sampling efforts to realistically portray "A Day In the Life of Texas Waters."
More than 1,000 volunteer monitors are expected to participate, and approximately 200 sites will be surveyed in the sampling. Photos and monitoring results may be viewed online at the Texas Watch web site, _URL_.
Texas Watch facilitates environmental stewardship by empowering a statewide network of concerned volunteers, partners and institutions in a collaborative effort to promote a healthy and safe environment through environmental education, data collection and community action.
Jason Pinchback, who is in charge of volunteer coordination for Texas Watch, said, "Texas' budget deficit of an estimated $9.9 billion could impact funds designated to protect our natural resources. Reduced state funds, coupled with continuing increases in population growth and the resulting nonpoint source water pollution, intensifies the need for increased volunteer water quality monitoring efforts. The volunteers involved in Texas Watch, are taking the responsibility to help preserve a sustainable and viable future for our planet. This is an important effort, and we hope to gather some very significant data in the process."
Earth Day, a global holiday to honor the Earth and increase awareness of the need for its preservation, was first celebrated on April 22, 1970. The statewide sampling event and other Earth Day 2003 activities celebrate 33 years of environmental stewardship promoting a clean future for the planet.
Contact: Jason Pinchback at _PHONE_