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In Test Driven Development, how do I make code bound to an ORM testable?
I am using a Micro-ORM (PetaPoco) and I have several methods that interact with the database like:
I want to know how to write a test for these methods. I searched YouTube for videos on writing a test for DAL, but I didn't find any.
I want to know which method or class is testable and how to write a test before writing the code itself.
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possible duplicate of Unit testing - Database coupled app – gnat Aug 31 '12 at 9:38
_USER_: the question is similar, but not identical, since this is more specific to the existence of an ORM in this project. – Doc Brown Aug 31 '12 at 13:10
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Unit testing the code relying on your DAL should be straight-forward: use the repository pattern to decouple your business layer from your ORM. Provide your POCOs by an abstract repository, then you can either provide a "real" repository in production (which uses your ORM), or a mock repository for testing purposes which delivers just test-data POCOs without any DB access. Using an ORM which works with POCOs here has the advantage that you can easily create that objects in memory, without the need to rely on the ORM.
A different question is how to automatically test methods like "AddCustomer", assumed that this method contains only database or ORM related code. Having a short look into the PetaPoco documentation and source code, it seems to support just one database with in-memory capabilities: SqlLite. So I guess you could set up a lightweight SqlLite instance for your testdata and write your tests against this.
Theoretically, you could do this also with a full-blown relational DB system like Oracle or MS SQL server, but that option is often too slow and needs too much administrative overhead to be practical. If you want trying this route anyway, I suggest you have a look at DBUnit.NET, which supports this approach.
Whatever you will do, it may be a good idea to separate those two cases in your code: write (1) code pulling the needed objects from your DB into memory, and (2) separate code for doing the business logic, without any DB access. Surely you will need (3) code that manages (1) and (2)to make them work together, but (1) and (2) could be tested then more easily in isolation.
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Look into Mock Objects and Dependency Injection.
Mock objects are a useful way to write unit tests for objects that act as mediators. Instead of calling the real domain objects, the tested object calls a mock domain object that merely asserts that the correct methods were called, with the expected parameters, in the correct order.
Dependency injection allows you to test a class in isolation, for example image a class with 5 private members, these objects are initilised in the constructor. Now unit testing of this class and its methods will also be running code concerned with other objects, this defeats the purpose of unit testing. Dependency injection allows the caller to pass in the 5 initialized objects and the constructor simply assigns them to the private members for example. This means I can pass in MockDB for example when unit testing, but for production code, pass in the real concrete DB object.
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I've used PetaPoco in an application and what I ended up doing was just abstracting an interface for the Database object which just exposed the methods that I actually use (since there are 100s of them and I only actually needed 10-15).
This allowed me to provide mock implementations of that interface in unit tests and in my DI container I simply bound the Database object to the IDatabase interface.
I wouldn't bother implementing the repository pattern, abstracting an IDatabase interface will essentially become a generic repository anyway.
The resulting annoyance with this led me to create my own Micro-ORM (MicroLite) which is designed to allow ease of testing which you can find on GitHub and NuGet (note: at present it only supports MsSql).
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+1. I guess for many cases that is a better approach than my sugestion to use SqlLite for testing purposes, though I see 2 drawbacks: you have to change the original PetaPoco code, and I guess you could not test if the SQL strings work correctly (at least not when you did not implement an SQL parser in your mock Database), – Doc Brown Aug 31 '12 at 15:57
Yeah it allows your test to be a proper "unit" test, if you're relying on an sqllite database in a specific configuration it's more of an integration test. One of the other things we did with PetaPoco was ONLY use the sql class for queries which I also amended the code for so that it implemented equality properly. We then used static classes to return pre-defined queries which allowed us to test against specific queries or return particular results if we did multiple calls in the same method. (this is something I made sure that MicroLite did properly OOTB). – Trevor Pilley Aug 31 '12 at 16:43
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The Pillars of the Earth
|The Pillars of the Earth|
|Followed by||World Without End|
The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the town of Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century, primarily during the Anarchy, between the time of the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the preceding Romanesque architecture, and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priory and village against the backdrop of historical events of the time.
Before this novel was published, Follett was known for writing in the thriller genre. The Pillars of the Earth became his best-selling work. The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book." The book was selected in the United States for Oprah's Book Club in 2007. Follett published a sequel, entitled World Without End (2007).
Set during the reign of King Stephen and the Anarchy, the novel explores themes of intrigue and conspiracy against historical events. It explores the development of medieval architecture, the civil war, secular/religious conflicts, and shifting political loyalties.
The story is divided into six sections plus a prologue. The headings are:
- Prologue, 1123
- Part One, 1135–1136
- Part Two, 1136–1137
- Part Three, 1140–1142
- Part Four, 1142–1145
- Part Five, _PHONE_
- Part Six, 1170–1174
Plot summary
After the sinking of the White Ship, King Henry I of England is left without a clear heir, and The Anarchy begins upon his death. Two candidates (Henry's nephew Stephen of Blois and Henry's daughter Maud) present their claims, build their armies, and fight for the throne. Ambitious nobles and churchmen take sides, hoping to gain advantages.
Tom Builder and his family roam southern England, seeking work. In midwinter, his starving wife, Agnes, dies in childbirth, forcing them to leave the baby (later found and brought to Kingsbridge to be a monk, unknown to Tom Builder). He encounters a woman Ellen, who lives in a forest cave with her son, Jack, whose father was a French jongleur who was executed after washing ashore and meeting Ellen. Tom settles in Kingsbridge with Ellen and Jack, and his own two children, Alfred and Martha. He works for Prior Philip, who wants to expand his priory by rebuilding a cathedral. Conveniently, the old Romanesque cathedral burns down the night Tom arrives, and none suspect foul play. Tom offers to build a new church and Phillip agrees.
Philip appeals to King Stephen for financial support and is given land and the right to take stone from a nearby quarry, which has been granted to Percy Hamleigh as part of the earldom of Shiring. Percy's interests are not in supporting the cathedral. Hamleigh wants to topple the earl Bartholomew because Bartholomew's daughter, Aliena, had rejected Hamleigh's son William. William attacks Aliena and her brother Richard at the castle; he rapes the girl and injures the boy. Homeless and destitute, Aliena and Richard go to petition the king for aid; at the court, they find their dying father Bartholomew in prison, who demands they swear an oath to work for Richard to regain the earldom. Aliena supports Richard financially by becoming a wool merchant, with Phillip's help. Richard becomes a knight for King Stephen, fighting in the civil war against Maud. Richard gains the king's favour by defending him at the Battle of Lincoln.
Tom, meanwhile, has been building the cathedral, and living with his children, Alfred and Martha, his lover Ellen and her son Jack. Alfred bullies Jack. When Ellen and Tom are discovered to be unmarried, a charge of fornication is brought against them. Outraged, Ellen returns to the forest with Jack. Tom befriends Prior Philip and, when Ellen returns, he persuades Philip to allow them to marry. As masons, Jack and Alfred fight again. While the better mason and a skilled sculptor, Jack is expelled from the cathedral construction. He becomes a novice monk in order to stay in Kingsbridge.
William and Richard compete for the earldom, but it has been bankrupted by the prosperity of Kingsbridge at Shiring's expense. Attempting to restore his fortunes, William burns down Kingsbridge and kills many people, including Tom Builder. After losing her fortune again, Aliena agrees to marry Alfred, as he promised to support Richard in exchange. Jack and Aliena make love on the morning of her wedding. When she marries Alfred anyway, Ellen curses the wedding and renders him impotent.
Jack goes to France and hones his skills as a sculptor and mason. Having learned his father's identity, he meets his family in Cherbourg. He did not know that Aliena was pregnant.
In Kingsbridge, Alfred persuades Philip to replace the wooden roof with a stone vault. The building collapses during a service, killing many people. Aliena gives birth to a red-headed son, and Alfred abandons her, as he has been impotent: the baby can't be his. Aliena follows evidence of Jack's sculpture through France, finding him in Paris.
They make love, and she tells him of the collapsed roof and lost relic. Jack and Aliena return to England with their baby and they seek permission to marry. Philip forbids the union until her marriage to Alfred is annulled. This requires Waleran Bigod's recommendation to the archibishop, but Bigod and the Hamleighs are allies, and they intend to ruin Philip and Aliena.
Meanwhile, Richard has joined the forces of Maud's son, Henry, Count of Anjou. When Henry invades, Stephen agrees to have Henry succeed him, with all properties to revert to those who had owned them prior to Stephen's reign. Frustrated that Richard will not gain the earldom until Stephen's death, Aliena persuades William's young wife, Elizabeth, to hand the castle over to them. William returns to the village of Hamleigh as sheriff.
After many years, Kingsbridge cathedral is completed. Waleran accuses Prior Philip of fornication by claiming the monk Jonathan is Philip's son. Ellen swears that Jonathan is Tom Builder's son. After Waleran accuses her of perjury, she exposes his own perjury and complicity in a conspiracy to sink the White Ship carrying William Adelin, heir of King Henry I.
Meanwhile, William Hamleigh has become involved with the plot to assassinate Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. William is convicted of sacrilege and hanged for his part in the plot. The Pope forces King Henry's public repentance and symbolic subjugation of the crown to the church.
In the 1999 Preface to The Pillars of the Earth Follett tells readers that he grew up in a Puritan-based family, whose worship space was very spare. In preparing for writing, he was reading about medieval architecture, and
-...developed an interest in cathedrals. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. I knew it had to be a long book. It took at least thirty years to build a cathedral and most took longer because they would run out of money, or be attacked or invaded. So the story covers the entire lives of the main characters. My publishers were a little nervous about such a very unlikely subject but, paradoxically, it is my most popular book. It's also the book I'm most proud of. It recreates, quite vividly, the entire life of the village and the people who live there. You feel you know the place and the people as intimately as if you yourself were living there in the Middle Ages.
The Preface includes the following sources:
- An Outline of European Architecture, by Nicholas Pevsner.
- The Cathedral Builders, by Jean Gimpel.
- The Medieval Machine, by Jean Gimpel.
The novel's Kingsbridge is fictional. He set it in Marlborough, Wiltshire; Follett chose that location because the cathedrals of Winchester, Gloucester, and Salisbury could be reached from there within a few days on horseback. Kingsbridge Cathedral as described is based on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.
Historical accuracy
While the book has been praised for its description of Medieval life, it also features some historical inaccuracies. Some of these might be to make the characters and the plot more suited for modern readers while some are clear anachronisms:
- The English nobility of that period were Norman French immigrants. Norman French was the language of the court and upper class and it did not spread far into the rest of the English society. The ability of ordinary Englishmen to speak French was considered unusual. Thus many of the encounters across social classes presented in the book have been characterized as implausible by some critics, although in fact bilingualism was then emerging in English society for practical and mercantile reasons. For example, the noblewoman Aliena (presumably a native Norman French-speaker) becomes a successful wool merchant, communicating with the Anglo-Saxon-speaking locals and running a successful business among them.
- Sugar is mentioned several times in the book. Sugar was not available in England at that time

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Sculpture Surface Gloss Requirements and Measurement
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 For urban sculpture, it is an art exhibition that records the history and culture of the city. In order to obtain a better appearance, strict requirements are required for its surface gloss and color. Whether the gloss is too high or too low, it will affect the overall display effect. To accurately evaluate the surface gloss of a sculpture, a special instrument is needed for measurement.
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Unique Differences Between Historical Dramas In China, Japan And Korea
The 3 countries have major differences.
There are lots of fun traditional dramas that have come out of China, Japan, and Korea. Check out some of the subtle differences between them!
1. China
Most of them are pre-produced, so sometime entire scenes must be re-filmed even if the drama has entered the editing process.
Korean dramas tend not to do this as it raises the cost of production. It's possible for Korean dramas to be finished editing mere hours before the episode airs.
For dramas set in the Qing Dynasty, actors must shave their heads for the role.
Though costume makeup has developed, many actors still shave their heads to make the drama more realistic.
2. Japan
Japanese dramas about the Edo period also require male actors to shave parts of their head.
Supposedly, this hairstyle made it easier for samurai to wear their helmets and was a sign of honour.
On NHK, they have an annual historical drama called "Taiga dramas" that broadcast every Sunday, from January to December.
Each story changes every year, and the tradition began back in 1963. At the end of the year, they broadcast a special 3 to 4 hour version of the full story.
3. Korea
Many actors in Korean traditional dramas decide to forgo the hairstyle of their ancestors, and simply cover their heads with traditional headgear.
According to ancient texts, this is how their ancestors styled their hair.
It's understandable that Korean actors decided to avoid this unique hairstyle.
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When a loud motorcycle woke up Mark Nesdoly's young daughter, he decided he had enough. Instead of taking a baseball bat to the offending Harley, Nesdoly used his engineering skills to design the Noise Snare, a video detection system for loud vehicles.
The system is simple, yet effective. It uses a microphone to detect excessively loud vehicles and a video camera to record the offender as he or she drives by. Once you have video footage, you can lift an image of the driver, zoom in on his or her license plate, or extract the audio track to prove the person's car or motorcycle is way too loud.
All you need to do is mount the unit on a stationary object and the Noise Snare does the rest. It even connects to a wireless network and sends text messages or emails when a violation is recorded. The detection system works so well that the Canadian city of Calgary may field test the device in the upcoming months. [Gizmag]


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This 60 minute eCPD tutorial discusses nursing the critical patient, which requires the veterinary nurse to be familiar with monitoring techniques. It is vital that the veterinary nurse is able to identify changes in clinical parameters and bring them to the attention of the case veterinary surgeon.
The aims of this lecture are to cover the following aspects of critical care nursing:
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Phuket Pronunciation: How do you pronounce Phuket?
How to pronounce Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket
Here is an unexpected funny question I get often:
How do you pronounce Phuket?
For most of us, it's obvious, so obvious I'm still surprised when someone asks. I thought 2004 tsunami put Phuket and its name on the map once for all. But not… I still hear lots of hesitation, snickering and giggling. Lately some overseas offices called and asked if my residence was in:
"Fooc..." (hesitates)... "Fuuc... " (errrr...) "Faac...kit"? (giggles).
I couldn't help but giggle back at the embarrassed tone, the poor guy wanted to say the 'F' word so bad...
No sir, you just pronounce 'Poo-ket' [pʰuːkɛt] (in Thai: ภูเก็ต), it's that simple! Just like 'Phi Phi' is pronounced 'Pee Pee' and 'Phang Nga' is 'Pang Nga' (and strangely 'Suvarnabhumi' airport is pronounced "Sue-wanna-poom"!)
Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket, you name it...
So where does 'Phuket' come from? It seems to originate from the Malay 'Bukit' (Book it?) which means 'hill', but was previously named 'Thalang' by locals. Thalang is still the name of the north of the island where the original main town was long ago.
In the 17th century when tin mining made Phuket very attractive to the Occident, Europeans called it 'Jungceylon'. Yes that's the origin of the name given to the giant Jungceylon Shopping Mall in Patong, and looking around the shopping center reveals few hints about old Phuket. If you want to know more about Phuket history, you can visit the Tin Mine Museum in Kathu.
All this story is obviously a lame excuse to post these fun photos showing some of Phuket Streets and buildings in the past and how they look like today :-D
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The paper was published at the 24th IMP-conference in Uppsala, Sweden in 2008.
In the past, scholars convincingly argued that integrating manufacturers and distributors facilitates value creation. Various techniques have been proved to suit this integration purpose. Among them, Category management (CM) has raised growing interest in scholarly research as well as practice, becoming one of the most diffused and controversial.In this paper, we tackle the issue of the integration of manufacturers' and distributors' CM activities by pointing out the conditions that facilitate CM implementation. In doing so, we focus on the intervention of third parties - which we label CM mediators - that facilitate the integration process and allow the coordination of CM strategies. We present an in-depth case analysis of an under-performing dyad in which, despite the existence prior relationships between the manufacturer and the distributor, CM was only realized through the intervention of a third party. The integration of CM is analyzed in respect of its key mechanisms and process phases. Crucial steps are indicated in which the intervening CM mediator identified failure in value exploitation, brought together the exchanging organizations, geared the knowledge sharing processes, moderated relational conflicts, and allowed the parties' strategies to be coordinated in the marketplace. A framework for CM-mediated integration is developed from the case analysis, and discussed in the light of current theory and practice. The emerging framework is presented with regard to two main dimensions of integration in CM: the mediated CM architecture and the mediated CM process.


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Two Methodist Hospitals Earn Accreditation in Echocardiography
Published On 05/14/2013
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Methodist University and Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown have received a "seal of approval" that heart patients can trust for high-quality echocardiography services.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Germantown Hospital and Methodist University Hospital have been granted a three-year term of accreditation in Echocardiography in the area of Adult Transthoracic by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC).
Early detection of life threatening heart disorders and other cardiovascular diseases is possible through the use of echocardiography procedures. Echocardiography, or echo, is a simple test that uses sound waves to create moving pictures of the heart. These pictures show the size and shape of your heart. They also show how well your heart's chambers and valves are working.
Accreditation by the IAC means that these two hospitals have undergone a thorough review of their operational and technical components by a panel of experts. The IAC grants accreditation only to those facilities that are found to be providing quality patient care, in compliance with national standards through a comprehensive application process including detailed case study review.


Random Smoke Testing – What Homeowners Need to Know
In the past few weeks, we've had a surge of customers in Oakland and Berkeley who have experienced "random city smoke testing" requiring them to have their sewer lines tested for compliance. This has caused considerable angst and confusion amongst homeowners.
Here's everything you need to know about smoke tests, and what you should do if you have a random test administered on your home.
What are Smoke Tests?
The cities of Oakland and Berkeley conduct random smoke tests of residential sewer laterals—without the need for permission from homeowners. Notices are set to be delivered in the days leading up to the test but in just case you do not receive a notice or the notice arrives after the test has been performed, don't panic. The tips in the following sections should help inform what you do next.
What exactly is a smoke test? According to the City of Berkeley:
The reason cities are conducting smoke testing is to locate problem areas within the overall sewer system. The test identifies the sources of leaks and other problems in a sewer system, such as where storm water drainage is infiltrating the sewage pipes. This is done in order to avoid the environmental and property damages that occur when the city's sewage system is overwhelmed by storm water.
These tests are scheduled to occur in select areas throughout the entire sewer system, which includes not only the main line running down the street, but also the private sewer laterals that connect homes to the public sanitary sewer main.
How Does a Smoke Test Work?
A smoke test is a sewer inspection method in which a non-toxic smoke, approved by the MSDSs Public Health Agency, is blown into manholes. The smoke makes its way through all the connected pipes in the sanitary sewer, helping to locate pipe leaks, broken manholes, cracks, uncapped lines, and more. Testers will also locate unknown sections of pipe (or sections professionals may not have realized were connected to the sewer), such as cleanouts, roof downspouts, and sump pumps. Certain types of discovered connections are actually illegal.
Regarding the smoke itself, the City of Oakland explains:
"The smoke is non-toxic and non-hazardous and is manufactured specifically for this purpose. It leaves no residuals or stains, and has no effects on plants or animals. The smoke should not enter your home, but if it does, it will have a distinct odor and should only last a few minutes with proper ventilation. Please note, all plumbing fixture drain traps must be filled with water prior to smoke testing."
Homeowners are requested to pour water down all drains of plumbing fixtures that are not regularly used in order to fill the P-traps, which will help prevent smoke from entering the house.
During the smoke test, you may see smoke coming out of grass, utility boxes, cracked pavement, and more. Each test typically lasts about 15 minutes. Homeowners do not need to be home during that time, although it can be helpful to ensure the home is well-ventilated if smoke enters the home. You should also alert the testing crew if this happens.
What Happens After a Smoke Test?
All deficiencies are documented in a written report that should also include photos of the observed smoke. Smoke sources observed on private property will result in a letter from the city explaining the problems with an included deadline for correcting the issues, as these issues are the responsibility of the homeowner to fix.
From what we have seen so far, the cities tend to randomly smoke test a block of parcels on a given day and then send notices to homeowners after they have tested the lines. In some cases, the time lapse between the smoke test and the actual notice going out is large enough that homeowners are able to diagnose and address their problems by the time the notice arrives.
The challenges resulting from smoke test results will vary depending on the issues present in the system. Luckily, there are some fixes that are relatively simple to fix, including:
 - Disconnecting downspouts from sanitary lateral
 - Replacing a missing or broken lateral cleanout cap
However, more difficult corrections may also result. Issues that will usually require professional assistance include:
 - Cracked sewer laterals
 - Tree root issues
 - Re-routing damage from separating storm lines
sewer camera inspection is the next step whenever there is a more serious problem. The closed circuit TV (CCTV) will allow inspectors to discover/verify the true extent of the damage, helping to ensure a solution that truly solves your sewer problems once and for all. This is also important for the environment in our communities, as fixing these issues helps keep the Bay clean and preserve our overall local ecosystems. (Learn more about eco-friendly plumbing.)
What Should I Do?
If your neighborhood is experiencing random smoke tests, there is no need to worry. Follow the instructions given by the city in any notices they might send; and refer to paragraph three in this article, under the section "How Does a Smoke Test Work"? The paragraph instructs you to pour water down all drains of plumbing fixtures that are not regularly used in order to fill the P-traps, which will help prevent smoke from entering the house.
After your home is tested, you will receive communication regarding deficiencies in your line. (Since most homes in the Bay Area have relatively old sewer systems, most homes will have some sort of deficiency to fix.) The most important thing to do is follow the directions given and ensure you have fixed any issues by the given deadline.
Our team is happy to help translate and make sense of any issues reported in the notification you have received. We also offer video inspection, trenchless sewer repair services, and more. For individual assistance, get in touch with the experts at Pipe Spy.


Worldwide mobile advertising revenue is expected to reach $11.4 billion in 2013, but small businesses have few tools to fully understand the value of mobile advertising.
Google announced yesterday the launch of Full Value of Mobile Calculator, a free tool that measures how much money mobile advertising actually brings in.
Here's how it works. Businesses upload data from Google's AdWords or from their mobile websites and input them into the step-by-step calculator. The tool goes through five potential outcomes of a mobile advertising campaign: in-store sales, phone calls, app downloads, cross-device purchases, and sales on mobile site. It takes about 30 minutes to complete the calculation, according to Google.
For instance, to calculate the value of in-store sales started on mobile, a user enters the number of clicks, the percentage of visits out of total clicks, the percentage of purchases out of total visits, and the average value of an in-store purchase. (If you do not know the exact data, the calculator provides a list of estimates based on different industries.)
After you input all the data, the tool will automatically calculate two benchmarks: the mobile site value and the value of all mobile advertising conversions.
Google's launch of the Full Value of Mobile Calculator came on the same day when Yelp announced a new feature, which was based on a Boston Consulting Group study, to quantify the site's value to small businesses.


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- class docarray.array.mixins.evaluation.EvaluationMixin#
A mixin that provides ranking evaluation functionality to DocumentArrayLike objects
- evaluate(other, metric, hash_fn=None, metric_name=None, strict=True, **kwargs)#
Compute ranking evaluation metrics for a given DocumentArray when compared with a groundtruth.
This implementation expects to provide a groundtruth DocumentArray that is structurally identical to self. It is based on comparing the matches of documents inside the 'DocumentArray.
This method will fill the evaluations field of Documents inside this DocumentArray and will return the average of the computations
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float]]) – The name of the metric, or multiple metrics to be computed
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bool) – If set, then left and right sides are required to be fully aligned: on the length, and on the semantic of length. These are preventing you to evaluate on irrelevant matches accidentally.
kwargs – Additional keyword arguments to be passed to metric_fn
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The average evaluation computed or a list of them if multiple metrics are required


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I want to get the string length when a key is pressed like StackOverflow does.
Example of StackOverflow showing length
I have tried to do this with onblur, but it's not working. How do I do this?
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use onkeyup/onkeydown event. Could you post the code you tried? – Fabrizio Calderan Jun 15 '12 at 8:02
Is your problem really getting the length of a string? – Bergi Jun 15 '12 at 8:04
onblur refers to the opposite of focus, i.e. you are leaving the field. This is not the appropriate event handler. – Jeff Watkins Jun 15 '12 at 8:04
He just ask for the right event to bind a function to – Trinh Hoang Nhu Jun 15 '12 at 8:07
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As for the question which event you should use for this: use the input event, and fall back to keyup/keydown in older browsers.
Here's an example, DOM0-style:
someElement.oninput = function() {
 this.onkeydown = null;
 // Your code goes here
someElement.onkeydown = function() {
 // Your code goes here
The other question is how to count the number of characters in the string. Depending on your definition of "character", all answers posted so far are incorrect. The string.length answer is only reliable when you're certain that only BMP Unicode symbols will be entered. For example, 'a'.length == 1, as you'd expect.
However, for supplementary (non-BMP) symbols, things are a bit different. For example, '𝌆'.length == 2, even though there's only one Unicode symbol there. This is because JavaScript exposes UCS-2 code units as "characters".
Luckily, it's still possible to count the number of Unicode symbols in a JavaScript string through some hackery. You could use Punycode.js's utility functions to convert between UCS-2 strings and Unicode code points for this:
// 'String.length' replacement that only counts full Unicode characters
punycode.ucs2.decode('a').length; // 1
punycode.ucs2.decode('𝌆').length; // 1 (note that ''𝌆'.length == 2'!)
P.S. I just noticed the counter script that Stack Overflow uses gets this wrong. Try entering 𝌆, and you'll see that it (incorrectly) counts as two characters.
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𝌆 isn't even supported by standard Microsoft web fonts, so the likelihood of its usage is quite low, imho. EDIT: I could be wrong... It definitely doesn't appear in the answer body above, tho. – bvukelic Jul 25 '12 at 12:34
It's just an example. Feel free to replace it with any astral (i.e. non-BMP) Unicode symbol. – Mathias Bynens Jul 25 '12 at 13:16
Thanks for pointing that out. Most english speakers overlook that problem. – Gastón Sánchez Jan 6 '14 at 3:38
Use keyup event:
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var inp = document.getElementById('myinput');
var chars = document.getElementById('chars');
inp.onkeyup = function() {
 chars.innerHTML = inp.value.length;
Just a note for those that suggest keydown. That won't work. The keydown fires before character is added to the input box or textarea, so the length of the value would be wrong (one step behind). Therefore, the only solution that works is keyup, which fires after the character is added.
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I suggest you post your code here too - its more helpful when the target site it unavailable – ManseUK Jun 15 '12 at 8:08
Thanks for suggestion. Updated. – bvukelic Jun 15 '12 at 8:12
This is outdated advice. Use the more appropriate input event where available, then fall back to keyup/keydown. Also, note that this doesn't count the number of symbols in the string correctly. – Mathias Bynens Jun 15 '12 at 9:42
It might not be cutting edge, but it seems to work rather well. It's certainly not deprecated (at least not to my knowledge). – bvukelic Jun 15 '12 at 9:44
_USER_ The keyup event won't fire if you enter text by pasting (without using the keyboard), or by dragging text in; or when dictating text, for example. The input event does. As a bonus, the input event fires before you even lift up your key — making it feel much faster. – Mathias Bynens Jun 15 '12 at 13:08
You should bind a function to keyup event
textarea.keyup = function(){
with jquery
 var length = $(this).val().length;
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function cool(d)
it will return the length of string
Instead of blur use keydown event
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 var myString ='sample String'; var length = myString.length ;
first you need to defined a keypressed handler or some kind of a event trigger to listen, btw, getting the length is really simple like mentioned above
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The quick and dirty way would be to simple bind to the keyup event. For example : _URL_
 $('_TAG_').text('you typed'+ this.value.length +'characters');
But better would be to bind a reusable function to several events. For example also to the change(), so you can also anticipate text changes such as pastes (with the context menu, shortcuts would also be caught by the keyup )
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I'm not sure what you mean by having tried it onblur, but to get the length of any string, use its.length property, so in the case of a textbox or textarea:
Changing that ID, of course, to whatever the actual ID is.
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The OP is talking about the event used - onblur – ManseUK Jun 15 '12 at 8:09
Basically: assign a keyup handler to the element, in it count the length of the and write the count to a separate if its length is shorter than a minimum value.
Here's is an example
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Hitchhiker in Luxembourg (1977)
Hitchhiking is a way that people can travel from one place to another. Usually, a hitchhiker (a person who hitchhikes) will stand at the side of a road and hold his or her thumb in the air waiting for the car to come and pick her or him up. This is a sign that he or she wants a car to stop and pick him/her up. The distance traveled by hitchhiking can be anywhere from walking distance to across a continent. Hitchhiking is against the law in some areas (for example around a prison in the United States).
It was a very common way of travelling in Europe in the 1970s and is still done by many people all over the world.
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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEATHER DUSTER AND CHRISTMAS TREE WORMS? For one thing, the conical feathery crowns of Christmas tree worms shout out their presence with color and beguiling shapes. Feather dusters' fan-shaped crowns often whisper with subtle elegance.
If it's simply about appreciating the beauty of the reef, that's the main point – conical versus fan-shaped, bold versus muted. It's the fan shape that gives feather dusters their other common name, fan worms.
Christmas trees present dramatic sights in shades of oranges, rusty reds, yellows, whites, blues, browns and tans. There are dramatically colored feather dusters, but mostly they're more muted. Yet a colony of pure white or reddish brown social feather dusters displays an elegant beauty.
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FEATHER DUSTER AND CHRISTMAS TREE WORMS
Feather dusters and Christmas trees are both sessile tube worms – that is, they spend their lives fixed in holes in coral masses or sandy seafloors. They're both members of Phylum Annelida, Class Polychaeta, worms with bodies of ring-like segments, although they're in different families (Christmas trees: Serpulidae; feather duster: Sabellidae).
They both extend their paired crowns of some 30 feathery radioles into the water column to breathe and to filter plankton, passing it down to their mouths at the crown base. Rather than wait passively for plankton to pass by, they can wave their feathers to create a mile flow of water that brings their tiny prey to them. Coated with sticky mucus, the radioles trap any particle that contact them.
But Christmas trees, members of species Spirobranchus giganteus, are pretty much entirely found in embedded in corals. Feather dusters may be just as happy on a sandy bottom. S. giganteus builds its protective tubes of calcium they secrete as the coral builds up around them. Feather dusters, in many genuses and species, create parchment-like tubes of mucus, strengthened with bits of sand and shell. One genus of feather dusters, does create its tubes with calcium carbonate.
For both feather duster and Christmas tree worms, those feathery whorls of gills are also attractive to predators hoping to pick off an easy snack, so the ability to quickly withdraw into a protective tube home is important the worms' survival. Christmas trees have the advantage of opercula, or trap doors, they can snap shut above them, flush with the coral surface.
Feather dusters lack this, and in fact their tubes often extend above the substrate, even when they have withdrawn into it. Still, they find safety in their retreats.
CROWD SOURCING – OR NOT
If Christmas trees are often found bunched together, it suggests that the conditions are attractive for their settlement there as larvae, and it makes for efficient broadcast spawning. But they're still individuals who may be closely packed or spread sparsely on coral surfaces, often displaying an array of hues. And they're S. giganteus, regardless of the colors of their canopies.
Some species of feather dusters seem to be determined loners. But members of the Caribbean species Bispira brunnea are socialites – okay, social feather dusters. They gaggle together in solidarity and uniform coloration.
BEHIND FEATHER DUSTER AND CHRISTMAS TREE WORMS' PLUMES
Like land-based earthworms, as polychaetes feather duster and Christmas tree worms sport bodies of ring-like segments. While a central gut runs through a polychaete's body, each segment features parapodia – appendages sort of like undeveloped feet. Extending off them are setae, in many cases best described as bristles (the bristleworm, or fireworm, is a free-ranging polychaete).
As tubeworms, the mucus they secrete helps them slide up and down their tubes.
Both groups of worms reproduce through broadcast spawning. And, they're apparently picky about what kinds of corals they settle on. Biologists know that but they're still trying to figure out what the criteria are. One suggestion is that they try to avoid corals frequented by algae-eating parrotfishes, which tend to scrape away the corals and anything else in their way while ferreting out algae.
FAN WORMS' FANTASTIC EYES
Recent research has focused on feather dusters' remarkable visual capabilities. As a team of Swedish and Norwegian researchers put it in a paper titled "Here, There and Everywhere: The Radiolar Eyes of Fan Worms (Annelida, Sabellidae), fan worms "possess some of the strangest eyes in nature… They display a surprising diversity of eyes of varying levels of sophistication, ranging from scattered single ocelli to compound eyes with up to hundreds of facets."
Since their primary polychaete eyes are unfortunately stuck inside their tubes most of the time, various species have evolved additional eyes all over the place, including on their radioles. While some are simple light-detecting ocelli, some are resemble arthropod compound eyes, sometimes with vertebrate-like characteristics.
PRINCIPAL SOURCES: Marine Biology, Fourth Edition, Peter Castro, Michael Huber; Reef Creature Identification, Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas/Reef Creature Identification, Tropical Pacific, Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach; "Feather Duster Worm," Marine Education Society of Australasia; "Featherduster Worms," Waikiki Aquarium; "Here, There and Everywhere: The Radiolar Eyes of Fan Worms (Annelida, Sabellidae)," Integrative and Comparative Biology; "Fanworms, 'Nature's Eye Factories,' Stick Them Pretty Much Anywhere," Scientific American; "Sebellidae," Wikipedia.


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Measure AC Performance Metrics of Binary Weighted DAC
This example shows how to find the AC performance metrics such as SNR, SINAD, SFDR, ENOB, noise floor and settling time of a binary weighted DAC block.
Open the model
dac_ac_error. The model consists of a Binary Weighted DAC block and a DAC Testbench.
model = 'dac_ac_error'; open_system(model)
The parameters of the Binary Weighted DAC are kept at their default values.
In the DAC Testbench block, the Measurement option is set to
AC. In the Setup tab, the Autofill setup parameter button is used to automatically propagate the setup parameters from the DAC block. Show spectrum analyzer during simulation option is also checked.
Run the simulation for
The measured AC performance metrics are displayed on the DAC Testbench block.


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Exercise 1: Write a complete program to read a string of characters from the standard input and insert them in the stack. Print the size of the stack when you are done after the stack is filled out. Then, print out to the screen all the vowels in reverse order.
Use classes and functions to do the above program.
Exercise 2: Write a program that takes marks of 10 students and store them in the stack then take out these from the stack and print the average of all the marks of 10 students.
Hint : make sure that every time you do a push operation you should check if the stack is not full and in pop operation you should check if the stack is not empty.


thick and thin
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thick and thin (uncountable)
 1. Both thickets and thin woodland; (through) all obstacles in a path.
 - c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Reeve's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms:
 Toward the fen / ther wilde Mares renne / fforth with wehee / thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne []
 His tyreling Jade he fiersly forth did push / Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush []
 2. (idiomatic) Both good and bad times.
 "I must follow him through thick and thin." - Miguel de Cervantes[1]
 - Hudibras
 Through thick and thin she followed him.
 - Coleridge
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How do I import my recipes from Now You're Cooking?
You can either follow these instructions below or use CB2CB to convert your recipes.
To import recipes from Now You're Cooking you need to use the Export Recipes command from the File menu in Now You're Cooking. That command is not activated until you close the recipes. Use the Generic Text File setting. It will create a text file on your computer.
You then will need to edit that text file so the recipes are in a format that MasterCook can import. Open and edit that text file with Windows NOTEPAD. Do NOT use Word.
MasterCook can import several recipes within one text file as long as they are in a basic format such as this example:
Glazed Spiced Pecans
2 1/2 cups pecans
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon rum flavoring or vanilla
Heat nuts at 250 F for 15 min. Blend and cook sugar, water, salt and spices to soft ball stage. Do not stir. Add flavoring. Stir in nuts until creamy and coated. Turn onto wax paper, separating as they cool.
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Use the above example, you start out with 5 @ symbols on one line. Then have a blank line. Then a line with the recipe title. Followed by another blank line. Then lines of ingredients. Followed by another blank line. Then paragraphs of directions. Then another five @ symbols to let MasterCook know another recipe follows.
Set up all the recipes like this in the text file. Then use the Import command from the File menu in MasterCook. Direct it to this text file that you created using the instructions above.
- It's important that the blank lines are completely blanks (no spaces even) since it tells MasterCook the breaks between recipe parts.
- The five @ symbols are important because they tell MasterCook when a new recipe begins.
- No other text should be on the line with the @ symbols.
- All text needs to be aligned to the left with no indentations.
- Do NOT use fraction symbols. They must be three characters instead, such as 1/2.


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- Chakra Number:
- 7: The number of the Crown Chakra "Sahasrara"
Violet is the color of the crown chakra and it is the color of cosmic awareness and cosmic consciousness. It is a unifying color, the color of oneness and spirituality. The energy of this color is very healing and can soothe away pain. Learn more about this powerful spiritual color.
- Color meaning:
The color violet relates to the imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination and inspires high ideals. It is an introspective color, allowing us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts. The difference between violet and purple is that violet appears in the visible light spectrum, or rainbow, whereas purple is simply a mix of red and blue. Violet has the highest vibration in the visible spectrum.


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Perambulator or Pram in short, was invented by an English garden architect named William Kent in 1733. Kent was commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire to create a transportation device for his children. The first incarnation was a shell shaped basket on wheels meant to be pulled by a small pony or goat. Real prams appeared in the 1800′s and around 1870 bassinets were added.
Even though the Victorian prams were elegant and beautiful but in reality they were unstable and not very safe. They were often made of wood and held together by expensive brass joints. Not until 1965, the first stroller with aluminum frames was designed by an aeronautical engineer named Owen Maclaren which spurred an industry and evolved into today's modern strollers.


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What is the correct spelling for MEANNT?
This word (Meannt) may be misspelled. Below you can find the suggested words which we believe are the correct spellings for what you were searching for. If you click on the links, you can find more information about these words.
Correct spellings for MEANNT
- manet The higher imaginative qualities of art Manet made no great effort at attaining.
- mann I also saw the worthy Sir Mann, and I promised the Corticelli to fetch her in Lent, and spend some time with her in Bologna.
- manna It was like a miracle, because, though I thought he might come along some time, I wasn't expecting him then, any more than you would expect manna to fall in 1912 just because you happened to be hungry and lost.
- manned This year fifteen boats engaged in this work, each manned by eight men.
- mean You'll find out what i mean Beyond this gate Is the world i create But it must be believed to be seen – It Must Be Believed to Be Seen by Unknown Author
- Mandy Mandy inquired, stretching herself and yawning portentously.
52 words made from the letters MEANNT
4 letter words made from MEANNT:amen, anem, ante, etna, maen, mane, mann, mate, matn, mean, meat, meta, metn, name, neat, tame, team, tean.
5 letter words made from MEANNT:ament, anmen, enman, manen, manet, manne, mante, menna, menta, metan, namen, neamt, neman, netam, tamen, tanen, tanne.
3 letter words made from MEANNT:ane, ant, ate, atm, eat, ent, eta, man, mat, men, nan, net, nne, tam, tan, tea, ten.


Music and Yoga are the rhythm and discipline of life, could say two universals come together on 21st June, a day that celebrates both yoga and music. Bhavan's Public School celebrated the day in their campuses with vivid activities. A much deserved and fullfledged celebration was kicked into gear with special assemblies to highlight the wholesome effects of music and yoga. The assemblies' encompassed euphonious songs, speech and yoga postures. The speeches given by the teachers stressed the importance of both music and yoga in our lives. At Matar Campus the day was marked with yoga techniques in collaboration with Swasthi Academy in which their Yoga Guru Shino Mathew assisted the students to stretch and relax in order to explore the mechanics of life. Principal Mr M.P.Philip and Headmistress Mrs ShailajaKrishnaKumar and Mrs. Asha Shiju propelled the students about the importance of disciplined life through the practice of both Yoga and Music.


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Meaning of muskmelon
Pronunciation: (musk'mel"un), [key]
- a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- the plant, Cucumis melo reticulatus, of the gourd family, bearing this fruit.
- cantaloupe (def. 1).
- muskmelon (Thesaurus)


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Discrimination and harassment
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences does not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.
The vice-chancellor is ultimately responsible for making sure that the university complies with the Discrimination Act. All managers and supervisors are obligated to make sure that any cases of harassment are investigated and acted upon. It is the responsibility of all staff to maintain a working environment free of any form of discrimination.
If you are the subject of discrimination or harassment, or if you believe someone else is:
- Contact your immediate superior.
- Describe what has happened, and take notes of when, where and how.
- Ask your employer to launch an investigation.
- The investigation should establish what has happened and what actions are needed.
- Accept all offers of support.
- Ask you union or health and safety representative for help.
If you have been the subject of victimisation or harassment, you can contact your immediate superior, the HR specialists, the Legal Affairs Unit or the occupational health services. You can also contact your union or health and safety representative. If you are a doctoral student, you can contact the doctoral student ombudsman.
Read the SLU guidelines on discrimination.


text: This data set represents the monthly, accumulated results of the final (10-day) version of the fire perimeters from the "Burnt Area Daily NRT Incremental Product - Europe, Sentinel-3" dataset. The burn perimeters are spatially and temporally correlated, so that interrelated detections from consecutive observations are combined into a single feature. A perimeter is interpreted as belonging to a given event if a spatial overlap exists within a time frame of 15 days. Besides the geometry, attribute information is also combined while considering the size of the perimeter as a weighting factor. Each feature contains information about the final fire perimeter, Date/Time of the first detection, and the averaged burn severity.


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The mission of the Toms River Police Department's Emergency Service Unit (ESU) is to support the Department's community-based policing efforts to reduce the incidence and the fear of crime. This is accomplished by developing and deploying a reserve force of the most highly trained and disciplined personnel. The Emergency Services Unit is continually trained in the use of specialized tactics and equipment in order to provide the most proficient and professional tactical response possible; reducing the risk to officers, suspects and the general public.
Since its inception, the Emergency Service Unit ESU has provided a ready response to situations that were beyond the capabilities of normally equipped and trained department personnel. ESU responds, upon request, to assist in resolving barricade/hostage episodes and calls involving suicidal individuals. The unit also plans and executes all high risk warrant services within the township. The Emergency Services Unit is deployed numerous times each year to conduct search warrants, high risk arrest warrants and to apprehend dangerous, armed subjects. The unit has earned numerous commendations and citations for their involvement in these activities.
The need for ESU expertise and assistance with warrant service is dependent upon the following criteria:
- Unusual circumstances beyond the capabilities of patrol.
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- The presence of suspects with extensive criminal history.
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Display css property, display is the most important and most used css property to control HTML elements layout.
display:none; can be used to hide an HTML element from the view and it will appear as if it was not there on the page, means the HTML element will be hidden without blocking any space.
Example: Text 1 | Text 2 | Text 3
If we apply display:none; on Text 2, it will be: Text 1 | | Text 3
So to hide p.hide element using display property:
Visibility property is the CSS property to manage HTML visibility, unlike display which has different values to control the element layout, visibility is used jut for show and hide elements
visibility: hidden can be used to hide an element from the client, but it will keep the element space visible like this: Text 1 | | Text 3
When to use which? based on requirements and the case you have, you just need to test it on all browsers, and there will be an unrecognizable performance differences between different ways
Opacity property is controlling the transparency of the html element, so we can use it to make the element fully transparent and this will hide the element from the client view.
Just make sure to test it on all browsers because on older IE browsers it had some special ways to implement. (hope that no one still using old IE browsers, because the wont see many things any way 🙂 )
And the same as Visibility property, it will hide the element but will keep blocking its space, so the client will see an empty space instead of the element.
Background color and color
While it is rarely used, but we can change the background-color element css property and all child elements to be the same as the background color of the page or the same as container background.
Will need to change the text color as well to make sure that text is not visible as well.
And on some elements we may need to remove borders, that's why this way is not common to use.
We can hide text elements by setting font-size property to 0
Using the position property and top left we can make the control appear outside the client view.
Last way I want to mention on this post is using clip-path css property


Documentary explores the history of time travel and its place in pop culture
Would you rather go forward or back?
Lisa Granshaw
Published Sep 21, 2014 Updated May 30, 2021, 1:29 pm CDT
We often wonder about the possibilities of time travel, but why does it inspire us? And how likely is it that we might ever be able to test out theories of time travel ourselves instead of just consuming them in pop culture?
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A Brief History of Time Travel, a new documentary looking for funding on Kickstarter, is hoping to explore all these things. The film was created by a team of women who may not have scientific backgrounds in the subject but share a personal interest in time travel. Director Gisella Bustillos was inspired to explore why people are so obsessed with time travel after watching the movie La Jetée. She later met Dani Creech, the documentary's editor, and Wanda Bertram, the documentary's producer, at some film events where they discovered a common love of sci-fi.
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"The bulk of our theoretical physics education has definitely happened on the film—we interviewed some brilliant scientists, like Ed Farhi and Seth Shostak, but we're filmmakers first," Bertram told the Daily Dot. "Our fan loyalties are all over the place! Gisella is a huge fan of Star Trek: Voyager, Dani's a serious Whovian (we had to have one on crew!), and I go for the noir-ish ones like Looper."
The crew traveled around the country and spent two years interviewing a wide range of people to get their thoughts on time travel, including Bill Nye, cryobiologist Chana Phaedra, and Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer. As they traveled the country speaking with various people, the crew found themselves sometimes surprised by what they discovered.
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"It's fascinating to hear about scientific research that seems to be getting us closer to actual time travel, like the theoretical experiment that might solve the grandfather paradox," Bertram said. "But it's also mindblowing to learn how time travel stories are connected to our perception of free will and physicality, which sounds like it should take a back seat to the 'Is it possible?' question, but is actually very connected to that question. Interviewing people on the street challenged our assumptions too. We'd ask silly questions like, 'Would you rather go forward or back?' and the vast majority of people wanted to go to the past, which surprised us. We three all want to go to the future!"
In the documentary, people will learn if time travel to the future or past is more likely possible, when humans first started thinking about time travel, and much more. Now that filming is complete, the crew is turning to Kickstarter for help getting through their post-production phase. The funds will pay for hiring additional crew like an animator and editor, and paying for archival footage and copyright material.
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"Choosing Kickstarter had a lot to do with the supportive fan base we developed during production—an overwhelming number of people we've met have been really excited and offered their help to the point where we can do really gorgeous post-production on an efficient budget," Bertram said. "Community-based fundraising is something we really believe in, and we want the community of time travel fans to grow!"
The crowdfunding campaign ends on Oct. 17.
Photos courtesy of Wanda Bertram
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Devil's curve
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Devil's curve for a = 0.8 and b = 1.
Devil's curve with a ranging from 0 to 1 and b = 1 (with the curve colour going from blue to red).
In geometry, a Devil's curve is a curve defined in the Cartesian plane by an equation of the form
y^2 (y^2 - a^2) = x^2 (x^2 - b^2).
Devil's curves were studied heavily by Gabriel Cramer.
The name comes from the shape its central lemniscate takes when graphed. The shape is named after the juggling game diabolo, which involves two sticks, a string, and a spinning prop in the likeness of the lemniscate. The confusion is the result of the Italian word diavolo meaning 'devil'.[1]
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Definitions for danish pastry
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Dan′ish pas′try(n.)
 1. a rich, flaky, yeast-leavened pastry, often filled with cheese, nuts, or fruit.
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 1. danish, danish pastry(noun)
 light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
 1. Danish pastry
 A Danish pastry, sometimes abbreviated Danish especially in the United States, is a viennoiserie pastry, of Viennese origin, which has become a specialty of Denmark and neighboring Scandinavian countries. Certain other countries, like the United States, commonly consume Danish pastries. It is called wienerbrød in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway and Sweden. It is referred to as facturas in some Spanish speaking countries. In Vienna, the Danish is referred to as "Plundergebäck" or "Golatschen". Like other viennoiserie pastries, such as croissants, danishes are made of laminated yeast-leavened doughs, creating a layered texture similar to a puff pastry.
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Bar graphs of morphological and life-history trait means Daphnia populations in fishless and fish lakes. Fishless populations are shown in black and populations co-occuring with fish in white. A) body sizes; B) clutch sizes; C) offspring sizes; D) instar-specific ages. Bars represent the mean with error bars = 2SE. Significance levels for differences in trait means generated by a NANOVA (* = p < 0.05; ** = p,0.01; *** = p < 0.001). See text for further explanation of trait designations and analysis.
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Definition of priesting
n. - The office of a priest.
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Published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 333-350.
Cited as: Bacq, S., & Alt, E. 2018. Feeling capable and valued: A prosocial perspective on the link between empathy and social entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 333-350.
Empathy is a key trait distinguishing social entrepreneurs from traditional entrepreneurs, and an important antecedent of social entrepreneurial (SE) intentions. Yet, little research explains the mechanisms through which empathy motivates SE intentions. We argue that studying the link between the prosocial trait of empathy and the prosocial outcome of SE intentions requires a prosocial lens that traditional entrepreneurial intent theories cannot offer. Building on prosocial motives research, we propose that empathy explains SE intentions through two complementary mechanisms: self-efficacy (an agentic mechanism), and social worth (a communal mechanism). We find support for our hypotheses in a study of 281 university students.
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Future research should:
1) consider multiple facets of empathy other than the affective one (i.e., cognitive), and mechanisms other than agency (i.e., communion), in addressing the important question of how empathic individuals form intentions to engage in social entrepreneurship.
2) explore different settings in which individuals get to interact with and feel valued by potential beneficiaries, not only in terms of the geographical setting but also in terms of the length of interaction with potential beneficiaries, as well as contrasting individual work to teamwork. An experimental design may suit that type of research objective.
3) elaborate on the development of SE intentions in light of recent work indicating a generational decline in empathy among North American university students.
4) extend this work to the field of social entrepreneurship by examining the role of SE self-efficacy in enabling social worth.
5) explore social worth as a fertile construct for the development of future metrics of non-economic outcomes and phenomena not easily monetized.
6) investigate the effect of negative emotions that emerge from responsivity to the negative experiences of others on SE intentions.
7) also look at the role of emotions, such as situational empathy, in predicting SE intentions. Does situational empathy vary after exposure to concepts, stories, and knowledge related to social entrepreneurship, thereby raising SE intentions? Is this effect contingent on the type of course—lecture vs. experiential—or on the context—on-campus vs. field-based?


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2. Navigate to the area you would like to download by:
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- Search Points of interests or trails by tapping the Search icon
- Search using coordinates.
3. Tap the Create icon.
4. Tap Download Maps (Note: This menu option will not appear while offline)
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For b: [1], [2].
The Seifert conjecture asked if every non-singular flow on S3 has a periodic orbit. The answer is no by K. Kuperberg's construction.
The existence of a minimal flow on S3 is Gottschalk's conjecture and it is still an open problem.
For the first question, there are uniquely ergodic homeomorphisms of T^2 with positive entropy ( and minimal analytic diffeomorphisms with positive entropy in dimension 4 (
For a), Franks' semiconjugacy gives a negative answer:
 Take $F$ homotopic to $(2111)\times id$ and a lift of $\hat F$ to $R^2 x R.$ If $\{(x_n,t_n)\}$ is an $\hat F$ orbit, then $\{x_n\}$, its projection to $R^2$ is a bounded pseudo-orbit for the linear map $(2111)$ acting on $R^2$. Therefore, there is a unique orbit $\{y_n\}$ of $(2111)$ that shadows this pseudo-orbit. The map $x_0 \mapsto y_0$ is continuous, equivariant and bounded distance from the projection (therefore surjective). This is Franks' semiconjugacy which descends to a map $h: T^2 \times S^1 \to T^2$.
Now, the preimage of a fixed (or periodic) orbit of $(2111)$ in $T^2$ will give a closed invariant subset contradicting minimality.
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People who eat fruit before doing their grocery shopping are significantly more likely to make healthier purchasing choices, a new study reveals.
Research carried out by a team from Cornell University shows that eating a small snack prior to food shopping can result in an individual being encouraged to purchase around 25 per cent more fruit and veg than if they had gone to the supermarket on an empty stomach.
This conclusion was reached following three studies, with the first involving 120 shoppers being given either an apple sample, a piece of cookie or nothing at all at the start of their grocery shop.
Following analysis of their purchases, it was found that those who ate fruit before shopping bought an average of 28 per cent more fruit and veg, while customers who had the cookie sample purchased around 25 per cent more than those who had no snack at all. While fruit had the best effect on consumers, it is apparent that any small snack can influence purchasing choices.
Co-author of the studies Aner Tal concluded: 'What this teaches us, is that having a small healthy snack before shopping can put us in a healthier mindset and steer us towards making better food choices.'
The second study saw 56 participants given either a cookie or apple sample before being presented with pairs of food items to purchase. Again, those who had eaten fruit prior to making purchasing choices were significantly more likely to opt for healthier pairs than those who had the biscuit.
Finally, the third part of the research involved 59 individuals being divided into three groups and given different chocolate milk that was labelled as either 'healthy and wholesome' or 'rich and indulgent', with the final group receiving no milk at all.
The participants were then monitored while shopping, with the analysis showing that those who drank the supposedly healthier milk were more likely to make more nutritious choices when shopping.
Combined, the results of the three studies indicate that eating a healthy snack, or thinking they've consumed something nutritious is enough to trigger healthier purchases among grocery shoppers.