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Ahtohallan: its origin and meaning
It may have ended just as a fairy tale, but the Frozen universe has evolved in a pretty complex manner as the sequel came out. One of the essential concepts is Ahtohallan, which first appears in Frozen 2 and plays a vital role in the whole story plot. Examining why this place happened to have this name would help us to understand the whole storyline deeply. We cover this issue in this post.
One of the fundamental concepts of understanding the Frozen universe is Ahtohallan. Sometimes it is described as a river of memory or to Northuldra, a mythical place nobody has ever seen. Since all the story plots of Frozen 2 emerge from Ahtohallan, and it depicts the journey of Elsa and Anna reaching there, it is important first to understand what this place is. Then, what does the name 'Ahtohallan' stands for?
The name of many characters and spots in Frozen have their meaning. The name of some characters, such as Anna or Hans, is derived from the author of the original novel 'Snow queen'. Even some characters share the same names in the original novel. Then it would be natural to ask this kind of question. Is the name Ahtohallan originated from some novel or myth?
This is the central place where the magic of Frozen begins. If we can identify what it stands for, we could get closer to the core of the Frozen universe. First, let us retake a look at Ahtohallan.
One can interpret this just as a single word. Still, we can get some inspiration from this word by referring to Norse mythology, especially the Finnish one.
Many theories exist, but it seems most plausible to say that the word Ahtohallan anis originated from Finnish mythology. We can divide this word into some parts, and we can find some relationships between each segment and Finnish mythology. The following three words need our attention.
|Sea god in Finnish mythology
|Frost, below-freezing temperature
We first focus on the word Ahto. A lot of gods appear in Finnish mythology, but what we need to focus on is the god named Ahto. Ahto, sometimes called Ahti in Finnish mythology, is a sea god. His castle, or the territory governed by him and his wife Wellamo, is located under the sea and called Ahtola. Plus, halla means frost or the temperature below water getting frozen in Finnish. Summing up, the word Ahtohallan could be dissembled into three different parts: Ahto + Ahtola + Halla. Considering the meaning of each word, we might interpret the meaning of Ahtohallan as 'the territory of frozen sea god'. Now the question is, what is this combination?
First, let's take a look at the prefix Ahto. This word represents the sea god in Finnish mythology. Surprisingly, we can also find marks of godly being related to water through Iduna's letter on the wrecked ship (the very first symbol). This means that the people in the past of the Frozen universe (or at least Iduna) believed that some divine being related to water existed. The water element has some unique position among the other four spirits in Frozen: people say it has a memory, or the first symbol on the map looks like water.
We don't need to be precisely what the symbols on the map stand for. The thing is, the ancient people (or at least Iduna) believed that there existed some divine being. And that divine being would have some relationship to water, so they would have named it Ahto. All kinds of mythology (especially Animism) share a similar structure. Then its motif would have originated from Finnish mythology.
The past people of the Frozen universe might also have notions that Ahto's power influences some territory or place. The dark sea, located in the far north of Ahtohallan, is described as a violent place protected by the water Nokk. So it would be natural to speculate that the ancient people might have regarded this place as a divine or holy territory governed by a water god, so they would have named it Ahtola as in the Finnish mythology.
Then why the word Halla as suffix? Elsa had already answered this question.
Ahtohallan is frozen.
Obviously, the people in the past would have named this place Ahtola since this place seemed to be related to the water god, Ahto. However, what Elsa had found was glacial in a frozen form. Then we can speculate that the past people might also have observed this place in a frozen form, or heard from someone that it was frozen, so they would have added the suffix halla, which means frozen to this place. From this observation, we can further speculate that this place had appeared in frozen (halla) from in the past. That is, someone like Elsa in the past would have said to the people that this place was frozen, and these rumors would have spread among people, so people named this place halla.
I understand diverse interpretations exist on this subject, but we will discuss this deeper issue later.
But the above argument is just one hypothesis. Can we find any evidence supporting this idea in the movie?
Take a look at Iduna's map again. On the top and left sides, we can find some numbers representing the latitude and longitude. These numbers show the latitude and longitude corresponding to 62.3 and 27.0, respectively. Then what would be this spot on the actual map on earth?
It is Finland. Some of you might have been confused at this stage. The motif of Frozen 1 is known as Norway, so it would be natural to expect the spot GPS pointing to be somewhere in Norway. Why is it Finland? Just a mistake?
We can regard it that way, but I think it is the sign where the concept and name Ahtohallan were motivated. In Frozen 1 and Olaf's Frozen Adventure, we find a Norweign map and Norweign wavy-shaped cookies. These represent the motif of the film. Similarly, suppose the team was to insert some homage to Finland or its mythology. In that case, they might have inserted some sign of that country. From the making film or art book, we can also see that the story of Frozen 2 was motivated by Norse mythology. If it were from Norway, they would have put the GPS coordinates of Norway. This doesn't look like a mistake, and I instead see this as an intended thing. Following this interpretation, the motif of Ahtohallan comes from Finnish mythology, and the directors had inserted its GPS coordinates as homage.
Summing up these arguments, it is plausible to say that the name Ahtohallan comes from Finnish mythology.
The word Ahtohallan in Frozen universe is a compound word that can be decomposed into Ahto + Ahtola + Halla and motivated by Finnish mythology. Each word represents the sea god, its territory, and the frost. We can find its evidence on Iduna's map in the wrecked ship.


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Evaluating long term outcomes for students with learning disabilities : does age of first services matter?
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Within the last few decades there has been a push in the field of learning disabilities to identify students who have or who are at risk for learning disabilities as early as possible. Little to no research has been conducted on the long-term effects of age of first service provision for students with learning disabilities, however. Using multiple regression, this study will analyze data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS-2) to investigate the potential effects of age of first service provision on high school educational achievement and educational attainment in order to better understand the longer-term effects of the age of identification and age of intervention for students with learning disabilities.

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ZF-6009: Zend_Text_MultiByte::wordWrap() incorrect work
When you try to do something like this:
$line = Zend_Text_MultiByte::wordWrap('abcdef', 2,'', true, 'utf-8');
you'll get "ab cd cdef". But expected result is "ab cd ef".
The problem actually is in line 62 of Zend/Text/MultiByte.php:
$line = substr($string, strlen($matches[0]));
$string is the first parameter for the method wordWrap(). In cycle this code always cuts part from input string, but not from actual value. It should be:
$line = substr($line, strlen($matches[0]));
 - Fixed in r14283-14284 and merged into 1.7 release branch with r14285.
 - Required a complete rewrite of the method
 - Missing unit tests added


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I am trying to calculate the salary the person receives, based on any of the following inputs - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. When one of them is entered, the others should be recalculated automatically.
Here's how I proceed:
First, I have 5 Double type variables defined at the top of the activity. They are: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Then I have 5 EditText fields, corresponding to these variables. I have attached a custom subclass that implements TextWatcher to these 5 EditTexts.
For example:
etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
This custom class has a constructor that accepts and stores the view that was passed to it, since the default methods of the TextWatcher class don't provide a way to find out which View invoked the change.
After saving the passed view as a local variable inside the custom subclass I then proceed with the implemented afterTextChanged inside this subclass and get the value of the passed EditText and save it as a Double to its corresponding defined variable at the top of the activity. (e.g. if the EditText passed is for the Weekly salary, I set the value of this EditText as a double to the weekly variable.
Finally, just before the end of the afterTextChanged method I call another custom method Recalculate(), that has a bunch of if()'s to check if hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly is set and if it is, calculate and use setText() on the remaining EditText's. The problem is that this setText() will invoke the TextWatchers for each of these EditTexts, causing an infinite loop.
How do I overcome this?
Here's some code to have a better understanding of this. Before onCreate:
Double hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly = 0.0;
EditText etHourly, etDaily, etWeekly, etMonthly, etYearly;
Inside onCreate():
etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etDaily = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etDaily);
etWeekly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etWeekly);
etMonthly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etMonthly);
etYearly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etYearly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
etDaily.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etDaily));
etWeekly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etWeekly));
etMonthly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etMonthly));
etYearly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etYearly));
The EditTextWatcher subclass:
private class EditTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
 EditText v;
 public EditTextWatcher(EditText view) {
 this.v = view;
 public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
 // Only if the currently edited text field contains something
 if (v.getText().toString().length() > 0) {
 switch (v.getId()) {
 case R.id.etHourly:
 hourly = getTvAsDouble(etHourly);
 case R.id.etDaily:
 daily = getTvAsDouble(etDaily);
 case R.id.etWeekly:
 weekly = getTvAsDouble(etWeekly);
 case R.id.etMonthly:
 monthly = getTvAsDouble(etMonthly);
 case R.id.etYearly:
 yearly = getTvAsDouble(etYearly);
 int after) {
 int count) {
hourly = daily = weekly = monthly = yearly = 0.0;
if(hourly!=null && hourly>0.0){
// I will complete the other if's once this works
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possible duplicate of KeyReleased equivalence in Android – nandeesh Sep 18 '12 at 14:42
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Mate!! I too was stuck here.... I was getting the StackOverflowError...but I was assuming that maybe it is because I have instantiated TextWatcher multiple times... but you helped me by identifying the problem, which was actually with setText(),which was calling TextWatcher's methods infinitely.... so here I did it --- as per your code --->
 if(etHourly.isFocused()) //this condition helped suppressing infinite loops
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Storage-Related Post-Harvest Losses
English: % of target farmers who experienced post-harvest losses due to poor storage of crops after the [specify the season]
French: % des agriculteurs ciblés qui ont subi des pertes après récolte en raison d'un mauvais entreposage des cultures après [précisez la saison]
Portuguese: % de agricultores-alvo que sofreram perdas pós-colheita devido ao armazenamento deficiente de culturas após o [especifique a estação do ano]
Czech: % cílových farmářů postižených posklizňovými ztrátami způsobené nevhodným skladováním plodin po [určete sezónu]
What is its purpose?
The indicator measures the proportion of supported households whose stores of certain crops were affected by pests or diseases. Inadequate storage is one of the main causes of post-production losses, accounting for up to 10% of losses to a household's harvest.
How to Collect and Analyse the Required Data
Determine the indicator's value by using the following methodology:
1) Specify the crop(s) your survey focuses on. If required, provide further specification of what exactly is stored (e.g. maize cobs versus maize grains).
2) In consultation with the extension workers, local farmers and the project staff, list for the given crop(s) a limited number (2-4) of the most common causes of storage-related loses.
3) Collect the following data by conducting individual interviews with a representative sample of the target farmers:
Q1: After the [specify the season], did you store any [specify the crop/product]?
A1: yes / no
(ask the following question only if the previous question is YES)
Q2: After the [specify the season], did you lose a part of the stored [specify the crop/product] due to [specify the cause of storage-related losses]?
A2: yes / no
4) Consider also assessing the amount of the stored harvest that was lost due to the assessed cause. Do so either by asking for specific quantities (use locally known units) or by using the 1-5 scale, as explained under Q3 in the Production Losses indicator.
5) Calculate the indicator's value by dividing the number of respondents who incurred storage-related loses by the number of respondents who stored the given crop(s) and multiplying it by 100. For example, 100 affected respondents divided by 400 respondents who stored the crop, multiplied by 100 = 25% households affected.
Repeat the process for other common, severe causes and the crops you focus on.
Disaggregate the data by wealth.
1) In order to analyse the data and allow for useful disaggregation, also collect data on the type of storage facilities the interviewed household members use.
2) Do your best to secure photos of the diseases affecting stored crops and ask the data collectors to show them to the respondents to prevent any misunderstandings.
3) European Commission's DEVCO recommends to use two similar indicators: "Volume (in tonnes) and value (currency) of post-harvest losses" and "Proportion of harvest that is lost post-harvest".


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Framework Planning of a Provincial Information Management Platform for Energy Resource Analysis and Forecast Based on Diversified Data Acquisition
The information system with function of data acquisition and processing could be an essential foundation of decision making and planning for government on energy resource management in China. However, some existing barriers have impeded the usage of data, such as inefficiency mode of data reporting and transmission, sluggishness of data collection and summarization, deficiency of data standardization and serious information asymmetry. In this paper, a framework planning of an info management platform in provincial level is proposed for energy resource condition analysis and prediction. The various types of data from industries of electrical power, coal, petroleum and others such as bio-gas is acquired and analyzed based on certain data processing methods. And the related systems of statistic index, early warning index, monitoring index and unit GDP energy consumption statistic index and evaluation are established. The proposed platform can support info service to government or related department, help keep the balance and stabilization of energy supply.
Qunjie Xu, Hui Li and Qiaoxia Li
L. Ma et al., "Framework Planning of a Provincial Information Management Platform for Energy Resource Analysis and Forecast Based on Diversified Data Acquisition", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 869-870, pp. 495-503, 2014


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We present the photometry and spectropolarimetry of the pre‐main‐sequence star HD 106506. A photometric rotational period of ∼1.416 ± 0.133 d has been derived using observations at Mount Kent Observatory (MKO). Spectropolarimetric data obtained with the 3.9‐m Anglo‐Australian Telescope (AAT) were used to derive spot occupancy and magnetic maps of the star through the technique of Zeeman Doppler imaging (ZDI). The resulting brightness maps indicate that HD 106506 displays photospheric spots at all latitudes including a predominant polar spot. Azimuthal and radial magnetic images of this star have been derived, and a significant azimuthal magnetic field is indicated, in line with other active young stars. A solar‐like differential rotation law was incorporated into the imaging process. Using Stokes I information the equatorial rotation rate, Ωeq, was found to be 4.54 ± 0.01 rad d−1, with a photospheric shear δΩ of 0.21+0.02−0.03 rad d−1. This equates to an equatorial rotation period of ∼1.39 ± 0.01 d, with the equatorial region lapping the poles every ∼ 30+5−3 d. Using the magnetic features, the equatorial rotation rate, Ωeq, was found to be 4.51 ± 0.01 rad d−1, with a photospheric shear δΩ of 0.24 ± 0.03 rad d−1. This differential rotation is approximately four times that observed on the Sun.
Financed by the National Centre for Research and Development under grant No. SP/I/1/77065/10 by the strategic scientific research and experimental development program:
SYNAT - "Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information".


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Subject st: Confidence intervals for rates (dependent events)
Date Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:57:01 +0100
This is not a specific stata question, but I don't know where to look for an answer to the following problem (perhaps it is too easy but I can't see it):
In a sample a part of the respondents have experienced victimizing events. Only a part of these events have been reported to the police. The rate of events reported to the police is
number of reported events / number of experienced events.
For example, 13 of 267 respondents have experienced a victimizing event, none of them did report it to the police, thus the rate of events reported is 0 % (here I am talking of events, not individuals!)
Because the events cannot be assumed to be independent (some victims have a high rate of vicitimization because they are more prone to become a victim) the construction of a confidence interval for the rate of events reported becomes difficult (to me).
Question 1: If nevertheless a use a binomial test to construct a confidence interval (say: 0 of 13 events reported, 95% CI = 0 to 24.7%), is it correct that the width of this interval is a lower bound and thus a conservative estimate?
Question 2: (a) My intuition tells me that multilevel modeling could be a solution to obtain a correct confidence interval by treating the events and the events reported as the first level and the victims as the second. Is this correct and how should I specify this model to obtain a confidence interval?
(b) Alternatively, could I treat the events (and events reported?) as coming from a negative binomial distribution and use this for constructing a confidence interval? How can this be done technically?
(Apart from constructing confidence intervals I would like to test the rate of reporting for different subgroups or different kind of events.)
Thanks in advance,
Dr. Dirk Enzmann
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Dept. of Criminology
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This paper examines the impact of CEO turnover from an internal capital allocation perspective. We test whether new CEOs make different divisional investment decisions than their predecessors, and if yes, how would this difference affect firm performance. We find that segment investments respond to factors, such as segment investment opportunity, segment cash flow, and other segments' cash flows, differently after CEO turnover. Evidence also indicates that new CEOs adjust the segments' previous over-investment /under-investment status to match industry average investment level, and they adjust the relative investment preference among divisions. These findings support the argument that different CEOs have their own set of skills and incentives, which directly affect their internal capital allocation decisions after they take over the office. We also examine the affiliation relationship between certain divisions and new CEOs, and find that new CEOs do not make capital allocation in favor their affiliated divisions. Furthermore, the analyses on firm-level internal capital allocation sensitivity do not support the literature about positive relationship between firm performance and the "Q-sensitivity". But, our analyses do find a positive and robust relationship between changes in firm performance and changes in the "cash flow-sensitivity". This suggests that new CEOs making internal capital allocation in favor of their "cash cow" segments are more likely to improve firm performance after CEO turnover.
Li, Qian, "CEO Turnover and Divisional Investment." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2005.


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In order to achieve The Duke of Edinburgh's Bronze Award it is possible to complete a Cookery Skills course. Several pupils from year 10 have completed the course this year.
To gain this qualification students need to demonstrate their current knowledge and understanding of food and extend it by carrying out the following tasks:-
- Planning and costing a balanced menu for a family of four for one day;
- Research and planning meals for expeditions;
- Planning and preparing meal which could include :-
A buffet meal for four using fresh and frozen foods;
A vegetarian two-course family meal using pulses, rice or wholemeal foods;
A meal for two students using a small stove and basic equipment;
A summer barbecue for six people.
The above tasks can be carried out independently or in groups. A minimum of one task must be completed in the food room at school and must demonstrate that students can work in a hygienic kitchen, show the safe use of equipment and utensils and a general understanding of food storage, along with an understanding of healthy eating.
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This paper examines the difference between infinite and finite domains of a Stefan Problem. It is pointed out that attributes of solutions to the Diffusion Equation suggest assumptions of an infinite domain are invalid during initial times for finite domain Stefan Problems. The paper provides a solution for initial and early times from an analytical approach using a perturbation. This solution can then easily be applied to numerical models for later times. The differences of the two domains are examined and discussed.
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Before You Begin: Parts Layout and Inventory
Before you begin assembly of a STEPCRAFT CNC, we recommend that you inventory all the parts and lay them out on your work area to ensure that you are not missing anything. This will make the assembly go much smoother with less chance of errors.


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The fund is part of TUM Agenda Lehre, backed by the "Qualitätspakt Lehre" (Quality Pact for Teaching), a federal program for the improvement of conditions of study and of teaching quality.
The TUM Teaching Endowment Fund sponsors teaching and assessment projects aiming to enhance, refine, or redesign the content, formats, and structures of instruction or examination, or to introduce creative new ideas. This includes a wide range of innovative curricula and curricular elements, such as:
- New approaches to student advising and supervising
- Course restructuring or redesign
- E-learning elements or units
- Innovative examination methods, such as the parcours
- Development of traditional assessment methods toward competency-based examination
- Optimization of practical examinations vis-a-vis learning outcomes
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The TUM Teaching Endowment Fund supports projects with concrete proposals for teaching and assessment that are not part of a "standard" curriculum. The amount of funding varies according to the scope and requirements of individual projects. Proposals must detail the grounds for the funding request. Please note, only funds for personnel costs may be requested.
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Mini Planet
Fimo kids clay is soft and easy to use for younger children and a Classpack provides a selection of different colours for modelling these mini alien creatures. The lotus head provides an interesting organic shape for the planet.
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Time to Make
30 minutes for making + drying time for the glue. Allow another 30 minutes for Fimo to bake plus time for it cool down.
Adult Supervision Needed
How to Make
 1. For the planet base, cut a paper cup in half then paint it black. Leave to dry. Lightly sponge some silver paint over the top of the black. Fill the bottom of the cup with dried beans or rice to make the base heavier and more stable.
 2. Sponge silver paint over a lotus head. Leave it to dry. Brush plenty glue around the top of the cup and glue the lotus on top. Leave to dry.
 3. To make the aliens, break off some small pieces of FImo clay and roll into balls for the bodies, elongate the balls into long oval shapes, tapering at one end. Check they are the right size to fit into the holes in the lotus head. Add small rolled Fimo pieces for the arms and tentacles.
 4. Roll eyes and mouths using different Fimo colours. A cocktail stick is useful to help position small pieces on the bodies. Try using a piece of plastic straw to make a circle pattern on the bodies.
 5. Place the finished models onto a baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven for 30 minutes at 110oC. Follow instructions on the packaging. Allow Fimo to cool before handling.
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What is a turtle dove?
Turtle doves are the UK's fastest declining bird species and they are threatened with global extinction (IUCN Red List of Endangered Species).
Turtle doves are a vibrant, dainty species of dove (weighing in at around 140 grams) with a charismatic turrrturrr-ing call from which its name derives (click here to listen). In the UK it feeds in open habitats most commonly on arable and mixed farmland, where its staple food of wildflower seeds and farmed crop grains are found on the ground. Near to its feeding grounds, the species nests and roosts in open woodland edges, hedgerows and scrub areas.
Turtle doves are the only long distance migratory dove species in Europe, with their more common relatives such as the collared dove and wood pigeon staying in the UK year-round. They complete annual migrations from their breeding grounds, leaving in mid-late summer, through western Europe to their wintering grounds in West Africa; they typically return to their breeding grounds during April. The UK has around 14,000 breeding pairs of turtle dove according to their last national population estimation in 2009. The best chance you have to see the species is in East Anglia and South-east England, where the species has maintained its highest densities.
The full name for the species of turtle dove we get in the UK is the European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur). There are 5 other species of turtle dove living around the world, out of a total of some 350 species in the dove and pigeon family alive today; 17 species of this family have already faced extinction because of humans, notably including the dodo and passenger pigeon.
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Many of you have asked how your application can be a container for any Web-style content, including HTML resources and pictures that are part of your project.
This articles will show you how HTML and associated files (pictures) can easily be included within a Delphi application. As a result, you simply have to distribute an EXE file that includes HTML pages, as it would do with icons and cursors.
 Creating a HTML page
For the start we have to assemble a (simple) html page. Use your favorite HTML editor and create one page with one associated picture. I'll name mine aboutindex.htm.
Note that when you add a picture tag inside a htm page it looks something like:
We have to alter the IMG tags so that the SRC attribute equals the name we are to give to a picture in a resource:
My HTML code looks like:
HTML inside a Delphi exe This is a HTML Delphi resource test:
 Creating and compiling a resource file
Remember that to create a new resource script file, you have to:
1. Create a new text file in your projects directory.
2. Rename it to AHTMLDelphi.rc.
3. Write down the following two lines of text in the AHTMLDelphi.rc file.
DELPHIINDEX HTML "c:\Delphi\projects\aboutindex.htm"
ABOUTDP GIF "c:\library\graphics\adp.gif"
Note: the resource type "HTML" is RT_HTML, predefined as the resource type "23". This is the default resource type for the RES protocol.
In this way we have prepared one HTML page and one GIF picture to be included in the binary code of our EXE module.
The next step is to compile the.rc file. To compile the AHTMLDelphi.rc file to a.res file execute this command at the command prompt (in the projects directory):
The final step is to add the following compiler directive to a unit in your project. RES file must be included in the program's build by adding a line like this:
{$R AHTMLDelphi.RES}
 Displaying inside a Web browser
When you have the application's exe (let's call it: myhtmldelphi.exe) the HTML resource contained within can be accessed via the RES: protocol. Run Internet Explorer and, in the Address bar, type the following:
This should result in:
HTML page from a Delphi resource
That's it. If you have any questions; like how use the HREF tag inside a html resource, or how to display the html page inside a Delphi form; please post them on the Delphi Programming Forum!
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- Drilled shaft foundations provide significant geotechnical resistance for support of structures, such as highway bridges, traffic sign, and signal pole structures, and are used widely to meet their structural foundation requirements. The amount of steel reinforcement in drilled shaft foundations has increased over the past several decades to account for anticipated seismic hazards. Increased reinforcement may lead to increased possibilities of anomalies within shafts due to the increased difficulty for concrete to flow through reduced clearance between the reinforcement. High-strength steel reinforcement and permanent steel casing may be used to mitigate the concreting concern. However, the comparison of axial and lateral load transfer between drilled shafts with and without permanent steel casing and high-strength reinforcement has not been previously investigated, raising questions regarding the suitability of existing analytical approaches for the evaluation of axial and lateral load transfer. In addition to axial and lateral loading, deep foundations may need to resist torsional loads, resulting from wind loading on traffic sign and signal pole structures, or seismic loading on curved or skewed bridges. However, the understanding of the actual resistance to torsion provided by deep foundation elements is not well established. The design methods for deep foundations in torsion at the ultimate limit states need to be evaluated and their accuracy needs to be quantified with loading test data. Furthermore, the accuracy of existing load transfer-based torsion-rotation methods to predict the full-scale, in-service rotation performance that considers state-dependence of the soil needs to be quantified.
Two uncased instrumented drilled shafts were constructed and used to evaluate the torsional capacity and load transfer at full-scale. The quasi-static monotonic and cyclic torsional loading tests were conducted. Based on the results of the torsional loading tests, design methods to predict ultimate resistance were proposed. To facilitate the serviceability and ultimate limit state design of geometrically-variable deep foundations constructed in multi-layered soils, a torsional load transfer method was presented using a finite difference model (FDM) framework. Simplified state-dependent spring models, relating the unit torsional resistance to the magnitude of relative displacement, were developed in consideration of soil-structure interface shear test results. Parametric studies illustrated the significant effect of nonlinear soil responses and nonlinear structural response on the torsional behavior of deep foundations.
The axial and lateral load transfer of drilled shaft foundations were studied using four instrumented drilled shafts at full-scale: two uncased and two cased drilled shafts, reinforced with either mild or high strength steel reinforcement. Based on the results of axial loading tests, selected axial load transfer models were evaluated and modified to produce region-specific axial load transfer models to aid the design of drilled shaft bridge foundations for similar soils in the Willamette Valley. The effects of permanent casing on axial load transfer were summarized to provide an up-to-date reference on the reductions expected based on construction sequencing and installation methods. The lateral responses of the test drilled shaft foundations indicated that the high-strength reinforcement could be used without detriment to the lateral performance of drilled shafts; and the cased shafts responded in a more resilient manner than uncased shafts at the same nominal diameter due to their significantly greater flexural rigidity. Based on the empirical soil reaction-displacement (p-y) curves, a region-specific p-y curve model was proposed with recommendations to account for pseudo-scale effects due to the increasing contribution of shaft resistance to lateral resistance with increased diameter.


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A new concept of a transmission technique for the characterization of porous material is presented. It is based on the accurate modeling of the sound field above the layer of material that rests on an horizontal infinite baffle. The sound field is generated by a waveguide mounted vertically under the baffle with its termination flush to the baffle. The waveguide is assumed to create a uniform distribution of particle velocity at the termination. The field in the material is expressed using a Green's function that accounts for the multiple reflections on the baffle and at the upper surface of the material. The field above the material is formulated in terms of the pressure gradient distribution over the upper surface. Starting with the boundary conditions at the upper surface (continuity of the sound pressure and normal particle velocity), the collocation method is used to solve for the pressure gradient at a mesh on this surface. This, in turn, allows one to calculate the sound pressure above the material and the transfer function between the volume velocity of the source and this sound pressure. Numerical results are presented, and the potential of this technique for the characterization of porous material is discussed.


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Why and how civilisations collapse
By Phillip Adams on Late Night Live
When you think of a civilisation collapsing what comes to mind? Buildings on fire, people screaming and running in fright, chaos against a dark and foreboding sky.
Or is it more often slow and protracted rather than sudden and catastrophic?
Luke Kemp, a young Australian researcher in the UK, has conducted an historical autopsy of how civilisations collapse. His research looks at the signs and similarities of past collapses in the hope that we may avert or delay our own.
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Does pessimism have a place in PR?
Half empty or half full?
An article recently published over at the MIT Sloan Management Review blog caught my attention. Essentially, the article asserted that in a world where optimism reigns, a little pessimism is a good thing.
In our culture, pessimism is generally perceived as a state of mind where one anticipates negative outcomes. We often classify individuals as either optimistic or pessimistic based on the age old question, "Is the glass half empty or half full?" We tend to classify those who answer "half empty" as stewards of a pessimistic outlook, always focusing on the negative and what's likely to go wrong.
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i have downloaded some SRTM Dem files here: They are from the USGS site.
I would like to export them as 3d.
I have ran through a few tutorials online, eg 1) 2)
But still don't get it.
Question: 1) so are the SRTM DEM files exportable to be viewed in 3d via Arcscene/ Arcmap? 2) how do you do it?
Thank you!
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When you downloaded the data what format did it come in? By definition, if the data is a raster format, it can be considered 3D data, as it has a x,y,z value. If you are looking to have it extruded in ArcScene then you will want to do a few of the following things.
Assuming your data is in a usable raster format (ie: GeoTiff) then you will want to do the following: - Open the Properties of the data in ArcScene and change the Symbology (ie: Standard Dev. 2 and change the statistics to From Current Display Extent - On the Base Heights Tab change the radio buttom from No elevation values from a surface to Floating on a custom surface and choose the SRTM raster file (this will make the raster have 3D visual appeal - Finally you can play with the visual rendering which is located under the Rendering tab. The Higher the rendering, the more memory it needs from your computer and graphics card.
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Let me try this outwill ask again if i get stuck. Thank you Ryan! – Anna Jun 5 '12 at 20:52
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A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and whistles that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.
The design of a German cuckoo clock is now conventional. Most are made in the shape of a rustic birdhouse or chalet to hang on a wall. The wooden case is frequently decorated with carved leaves and animal heads. Most now have an automaton of the bird that appears through a small trap door while the clock is striking.
The bird is often made to move while the clock strikes, typically by means of an arm that lifts the back of the carving. There are two kind of movement: a one-day movement and an eight-day movement. Some have musical movements, and play a tune on a swiss music box after striking the hours and/or half-hours. Musical German cuckoo clocks frequently have other automata which move when the music box plays. Cuckoo clocks are almost always mechanical weight driven movement; a very few are spring driven. The weights are made of cast iron in a pine cone shape. 1 Day Clocks need to be wound by pulling up the weights each day. 8 Day Clocks need to be wound by pulling up the weights every 7-8 days
In recent years, quartz battery-powered cuckoo clocks have been available. These do not have genuine cuckoo bellows. The cuckoo bird flaps its wings as it calls to the sound of running water in the background. The call is an actual recording of a cuckoo in the wild. During the cuckoo call the double doors open and the cuckoo emerges only at full hour, and they do not have a gong wire. One thing that is unique about the quartz cuckoos is that it has a light sensor, so when you turn your lights off at night, it automatically turns off the cuckoo call. The weights are conventionally cast in the shape of pine cones made of plastic, as well as the cuckoo bird and hands. The pendulum bob is often another carved leaf. The dial is small, and typically marked with Roman numerals.
Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks from Germany are the world's finest. These hand-carved masterpieces feature precision mechanical movements, detailed craftsmanship, moving figurines, and music to delight you. The cuckoo clock is a magical work of art with mid-18th century tradition.


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The woman, with two children at her side, is breast-feeding an infant. She may symbolise the act of Charity. The figurine is an example of one of the more decorative pieces produced by the porcelain factory in Bow. The piece dates from the middle of the 1750s.
The Bow Porcelain factory was founded at Stratford in 1747. Bow porcelain was created to compete with the popular imported oriental porcelain. But it soon established its own market within Britain. Unlike London's other main porcelain factory of the time at Chelsea, Bow focused on wares for everyday use such as cups and bowls. These were decorated in blue and white patterns imitating oriental designs.
Centre for industry
With its location east of London, on the banks of the River Lea, Bow was well-situated for deliveries of raw materials. Other factories nearby included a calico-printing works.
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With "cell" I mean the value of a particular column in a particular row. I'm not sure if its called just "cell" or this is a spreadsheet thing.
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It's called a field when on a database: _URL_ also _URL_(database)
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In SQL terminology, we have Tables, Rows and Columns. The term Column is applied to the table as a whole, and also within a single row.
In relational theory, we have Relations, Tuples, and Attributes, filling similar roles.
(Going a bit Celko here): Generally, the term Field fits into the terminology of Files and Records, and doesn't fit within DB naming.


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the mass of cylinder one is 1.35 times the mass of cylinder two, and the volume of cylinder one is 0.792 times the volume of cylinder two. If the density of cylinder one is 2.70 g/cm3 what is the density of cylinder two?
THIS QUESTION HAS ME GOING CRAZY!!
density is mass/volume.
So, twice the mass, twice the density.
twice the volume, half the density. So, for cylinder 2, we have
(1/1.35) / (1/.792) * 2.70 = 1.584
d1 = m1/v2 = 2.70 g/cc
m1 = 1.35*m2 so
m2 = m1/1.35
V1 = 0.792*v2 so
v2 = v1/0.792
d2 = m2/v2
d2 = (m1/1.35)/( v1/0.792)
d2 = m1/1.35 x 0.792/v1 but
m1/v1 = 2.70
then d2 = 2.70 x (0.792/1.35) =?


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In the plane I can integrate a linear function over a triangle as the average of the corner values times the area of the triangle.
Then if I subdivide the triangle into 4 triangles by introducing a new node on each side of the original triangle, and linearly interpolate the value at the new nodes from the edge endpoints (=corners of the original triangle), the sum of the integrals of the sub-triangles is equal to the integral of the original triangle.
Now on the sphere, computing areas as spherical areas (like here), and computing the values at the new nodes on an arc of the original triangle by linear interpolation along the arc, this does not work any more. Computing the integral of the spherical triangles as the average of the corner values times the spherical triangle area, the integrals of the subtriangles do not sum up to the integral of the original triangle.
My suspicion is that I have to integrate the function which is linear over a spherical triangle in some other way, i.e. that the average-of-corner-valuestimes-area rule is not valid on the sphere. Does someone know how to compute this integral?
Also I wonder now if a 'function linear over a spherical triangle' is even defined? I think it should fulfil the property to be linear along any arc contained in the triangle. Then it would be linear along the arc between two new nodes which connects two subtriangles and the integrals of the subtriangles should add up to the big triangle.
Since Willie's comment confirmed my suspicion that I cannot just define a function that is linear over a spherical triangle, let me change the question to:
Given a spherical triangle, subdivide the triangle by bisecting the edges and set the value at the new nodes as the average of the edge endpoints. Recursively repeat this procedure for the sub-triangles. Repeating this subdivision to infinity should prescribe a function dense on the spherical triangle. Is it possible to find an analytic expression for the integral of this function given the values at the nodes of the original triangle?
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Your suspected definition of "linear function over a spherical triangle" won't work, basically because of the failure of the parallel postulate in spherical geometry. In general linearity is only a well-defined concept over a vector (or affine) space (or subsets thereof). – Willie Wong Apr 26 '12 at 16:10
Surely the answer to your edited question would be that it's just the original average, by induction over the level of subdivision? Or am I missing something? – Peter Taylor Apr 26 '13 at 23:20
_USER_ I'm not sure. Since it is a spherical triangle, the edges are arcs, and the 4 small triangles after subdivision have a different area each. It might be true that the integral is just spherical area times average of node values, but it is not obvious to me. – Matthias 009 May 1 '13 at 14:45
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A relatively straighforward way to see that there's no such thing as a linear function on a spherical triangle is to consider a triangle with three right angles, say, at $(1,0,0)$, $(0,1,0)$ and $(0,0,1)$ on the unit sphere. By symmetry, the function value at $(1,1,1)/\sqrt3$ should be the average of the function values at the corners. On the other hand, interpolating linearly along two arcs, we get that $f(0,1/\sqrt2,1/\sqrt2)=(f(0,1,0)+f(0,0,1))/2$ and then
$$ \begin{eqnarray} f(1/\sqrt3,1/\sqrt3,1/\sqrt3) &=& \frac2\pi\left(\arccos\sqrt\frac23f(1,0,0)+\arccos\sqrt\frac13f(0,1/\sqrt2,1/\sqrt2)\right) \\ &=& \frac1\pi\left(2\arccos\sqrt\frac23f(1,0,0)+\arccos\sqrt\frac13\left(f(0,1,0)+f(0,0,1)\right)\right) \\ &\approx&0.392f(1,0,0)+0.304f(0,1,0)+0.304f(0,0,1)\;. \end{eqnarray} $$
Thus the result depends on the order in which we use the corners for the interpolation.
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Fiber-Matrix Displacement during the Compressive Phase of Shock Loading
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Electromagnetic-gage type measurements were performed to determine fiber wire-matrix displacement during the compressive phase of shock loading. Fiber diameter and shock impedance were the variables investigated. The relative displacement was found to increase with the fiber diameter, but data for each fiber material could be well represented by a single curve if fiber diameter was used as the unit of relative displacement and shock transit time through the fiber diameter was used as the unit of time. Fibers attained the matrix velocity after a maximum, normalized relative displacement which varied linearly as the three-halves power of the shock impedance.
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Questions about multiple colors or channels gradually blended together. A rainbow is an example of a natural gradient.
A gradient is the outcome of blending multiple colors or channels gradually together. A rainbow is an example of a gradient.
The most common types of gradients are linear, radial, angle, reflected and diamond:
Web 2.0 gradients
"Web 2.0" gradients are usually described as either:
- Sharp gradients, ie. gradients that have a color stop between two colors without any blending (see e.g. the angle gradient at 12 o'clock under "Common types").
⇒ To make the object look glossy.
- Subtle gradients, where colors either blend very slowly or where the blended colors are close together.
⇒ To give the object texture.
Some examples of gradients that could be described as "web 2.0 gradients":
Using transparency instead of a color gives the image/object a fading effect:
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Defining Value in the Relevant Context: Definitions of Value
Business valuation normally occurs in context: a specific value or range of values in a given set of defined parameters that, among other factors, include the legal universe in which the value is being considered, the organization of the business, and the particular rights and responsibilities of the ownership stake within that business, all as of the date of the valuation.
Identifying the correct definition of value in the legal context is a crucial beginning step in an appraisal. The belief that "value lies in the eye of the beholder" is not helpful when there is a legal need for a definition of value. Value is defined differently in different legal contexts, and the quest...
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A creditor is a party (e.g. person, organization, company, or government) that has a claim to the services of a second party. The first party, in general, has provided some property or service to the second party under the assumption (usually enforced by contract) that the second party will return an equivalent property or service. The second party is frequently called a debtor or borrower.
The term creditor is frequently used in the financial world, especially in reference to short term loans, long term bonds, and mortgages. In law, a person who has a money judgment entered in their favor by a court is called a judgement creditor.
The term creditor derives from the notion of credit. In modern America, credit refers to a rating which indicates the likelihood a borrower will pay back his or her loan. In earlier times, credit also referred to reputation or trustworthiness.


Voting types
At the moment, the plugin provides three types of voting: Like, Rating (avg) and Rating summary (since version 2.3.03).
Like (+1)
Like is the easiest way to vote. On click to the vote button if the user available to vote – the number of votes increases by 1.
Displaying example: 15 votes
Rate (avg)
With this type, the user can select the number of stars for the photo. For example, from 1 to 5 or 10. It depends on the basic settings. It's possible from 5 to 10 stars. Herewith the average number is calculated. If the photo has five, six and seven stars, then the average will be 6.
Displaying example: 8 of 10 [14]
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Rate summary
It is very similar to the previous one, only with the difference that it is considered the total amount of stars, not the average value.
For example, all photos received five, six and seven stars. As a result, they will have 18 stars.
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Calculate the time spent
You can easily calculate how much time a function takes to run, using time() and timeEnd()
const doSomething = () => console.log('test')
const measureDoingSomething = () => {
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The DevTools allow you to analyze the CPU profile performance of any function.
You can start that manually, but the most accurate way to do so is to wrap what you want to monitor between the profile() and profileEnd() commands. They are similar to time() and timeEnd(), except they don't just measure time, but create a more detailed report.
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Making Youth Work Work: A Toolkit - Section 6
SECTION 6 - Youth Workers are appropriately trained, qualified and competent
Many people think that youth work is easy: from the outside, its lack of formal structures and relaxed approach to working alongside young people looks pretty straightforward. But those who have done it for a longer time know that it involves a lot of really complex processes, a good understanding of how young people grow and develop, an ability to use conversation as a tool to help young people learn and a clear understanding of the boundaries between a professional relationship and friendship. Youth workers need to have a substantial toolkit of approaches and techniques to help them help young people get the most out of different situations. And, most importantly, they have to actually like young people and enjoy their company!
There is a tradition of professional training for youth work that goes back to the 19th century, and training now is based on regularly reviewed National Occupational Standards and approved Subject Benchmarks. There are different levels of qualifications available for youth workers, ranging from introductory training for those just starting out to degree and post-degree qualifications for those who want to make youth work their career.
The documents here help to explain youth work qualifications, and provide some examples of job descriptions for workers at different levels, to show how skills can be applied in different settings. More information on this can be found in the youth work training section of the Learning South West web-site.
Somerset Children and Young People's Workforce Matrix
Good Practice Guidelines in Delivering Youth Support Worker Qualifications
Youth Support Worker Job Description & Person Specification
Professional Youth Worker Job Description & Person Specification
National Youth Agency's Getting Qualified guidance
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I have been attempting to use RMarkdown rather than LaTeX to produce R examples. One issue that has slowed my conversion has been my struggles with how to reference figures and tables. The examples below illustrate how I have been using
captioner to solve this problem.
For a simple example, I load
FSAdata for the
kable (to produce an RMarkdown table). Additionally,
captioner is loaded.
captioner objects must be initialized for handling figures and tables. The
prefix= argument sets the common prefix for all items of a certain type. Below, I initialize a function for creating captoins for figures and tables. The result of this code is two functions – one called
figs that will hold a list of tags and captions for figures and another called
tbls that will hold the same for tables.
These functions can be used to create on object that holds a tag, caption, and number for figures or tables, respectively. Initially, these functions are called with two arguments – the figure or table tag and the figure or table caption. For example, the code below creates tag and caption combinations for two figures. I prefer to create all tags and captions in one chunk (and use
results='hide' to hide the immediate display of the information).
The same function may then be used to retrieve the function name with a number, the figure number with a prefix, or the figure number.
The results returned by this function are exploited, as shown in the next section, to solve the figure referencing problem.
figs function may be used to add a figure caption to a figure. For example, the chunk below is followed by an inline R chunk of Figure 1: Length frequency of Ruffe captured in 1992..
Figure 1: Length frequency of Ruffe captured in 1992.
In addition, use inline R code to refer to the figure. For example,
figs("LenFreq1",display="cite") inside an inline R call would produce a reference to Figure 1.
As more functions are added, the figure numbers are incremented such that inline R code may refer to Figure 2 and Figure 1.
Figure 2: Weight frequency of Ruffe captured in 1992.
Tables can be handled in the same way. For example, see Table 1, which is related to Figure 1 and Figure 2.
Table 2: Summary statistics of the length and weight of Ruffe captured in 1992.


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data Ray3D Source
Rays with endpoints and vectors.
Although a ray is isomorphic to a SurfaceVertex3D, it does not have the same behavior.
projectRay :: RSdouble -> Ray3D -> Point3DSource
The parametric function of a ray. The parameter is measured as a proportion of the length of the vector. projectRay 0 is the endpoint of the ray. projectRay 1 is the endpoint offset by the ray's vector.
distanceAlong :: Ray3D -> Point3D -> RSdoubleSource
The inverse operation to projectRay. This could also be understood as the height of the point above the plane defined by the ray.
angleFrom :: Ray3D -> Point3D -> AngleSource
The angle between vector of the ray and the vector from the endpoint of the ray to the specified point.
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Goals provide a way for Google Fit users to track their health and fitness progress. For example, a user can set a goal to walk a certain number of steps per day, or burn a certain number of calories per week. Once the user has set a goal, it is tracked on the Fit platform. Your app can read user goals to stay in sync, and use this data to provide a more consistent and enjoyable user experience by providing updates and insights related to the user's progress.
How goals work
Goals represent measurements of the user's health and fitness. In the Fit app, users can set goals for specific activities such as running or bicycling. Each goal can have associated metrics such as frequency, active time, or distance. For example, when setting a bicycling goal, users can define the goal in several ways:
- Bike a certain number of times each day, week, or month.
- Bike for a certain amount of time per day, week, or month.
- Bike for a certain number of miles per day, week, or month.
Users can also set more general goals such as:
- Take a certain number of steps per day, week, or month.
- Be active for a certain amount of time per day, week, or month.
- Burn a certain amount of calories each day, week, or month.
Your app can keep current with the user's goal data to provide a more consistent and enjoyable user experience. You can then use this information to help the user to reach their goals.
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- Perceptions of Coercion, Discrimination and Other Negative Experiences in Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling for Low-income Minority Women
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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Background. Using in-depth qualitative methods, we investigated negative contraception counseling experiences, including those felt to be coercive or discriminatory, in a population of postpartum urban minority women. Methods. Brief surveys and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 consenting postpartum women who had received care at a Medicaid-funded obstetrics clinic. In-person one-on-one interviews were then reviewed for themes using an iterative process of qualitative analysis. Results. In this sample of African American (63%) and Hispanic (37%) women (median age 26), 73% had unplanned pregnancies. Features of negative counseling experiences included having insufficient, non-physician-directed and impersonal counseling. Most women had experienced episodes of poor communication with providers; 10 described feeling coerced or perceiving racially-based discrimination in counseling. Conclusions. Negative experiences with contraceptive counseling may affect contraception utilization. Contraceptive education should respect each individual's autonomy, culture, and values.


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Definition of Drabler
1. drabbler [n -S] - See also: drabbler
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabler
Literary usage of Drabler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... drabler laced on to the foot of the bonnet; the word drabler is not found in use until the i6th century,..."
2. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1895)
"The drabler, in the same way, laced on to the foot of the bonnet. 'The bonnet is commonly used with none but the mizen, main and fore-sails,..."
3. The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies: As Recorded in the Court by East India Company (1886)
"... vsed a missen and a missen bonnett litle vsed a newe spritt saile little vsed an olde maine corse bonnett and drabler more another maine corse more an..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1808)
"Together with the Chain-pump, we have lately added the Bonnet and drabler «.—To the Courses we have devised Studding Sails, Top-gallant...."
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I need to show specifically using transfinite induction that given two well-ordered sets $\left(A,<_{1}\right)$ and $\left(B,<_{2}\right)$ there is only one isomorphism between them. To do this I want to show by induction that there is only one way to define the mapping and that is: $$\forall\, x\in A: \varphi\left(x\right)=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}x\right\} \right)\right)$$ Showing the base of the induction is no problem and the induction hypothesis would be that $$\forall\, y<_{1}x\,:\,\varphi\left(y\right)=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}y\right\} \right)\right)$$ My problem is that I can't seem to manage to use the hypothesis in order to prove the step. I've found a couple of ways to show this definition of the mapping is indeed necessary but none of those used the induction hypothesis. My plan was to mark $$c_{0}=\min\left(B\backslash\varphi\left(\left\{ a\in A\,:\, a<_{1}x\right\} \right)\right)$$ Using the fact $\varphi$ is surjective take $y\in A$ such that $\varphi\left(y\right)=c_{0}$ and show that it can't be that $y<_{1}x$ or $x<_{1}y$ and thus necessarily $y=x$. If someone could give me a way to show either one of these are false using the induction hypothesis it would solve my problem.
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What you want to show is that if $f\colon A\to B$ is an isomorphism of the given well-orders then $f=\varphi$.
Suppose that for $x\in A$ we have that $f\upharpoonright\{a\in A\mid a<_1 x\}=\varphi\upharpoonright\{a\in A\mid a<_1 x\}$. If $f(x)=\varphi(x)$ then we may continue the induction; otherwise $\varphi(x)


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Hanapepe massacre
Date September 9, 1924
Location Hanapepe, Hawaii
Goals $2 daily wage
8 hour day
Parties to the civil conflict
Striking Filipino sugar workers
Lead figures
Jack Butler
Deaths: 16 killed
Arrests: 101
Deaths: 4
The Hanapēpē Massacre (also called the Battle of Hanapēpē since both sides were armed) happened on September 9, 1924. Toward the end of a long-lasting strike of Filipino sugar workers on Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, local police shot dead nine strikers and fatally wounded seven, strikers shot and stabbed three sheriffs to death and fatally wounded one; a total of 20 people died. The massacre brought an end to armed protests in Hawaii.
By the 1920s, the sugar plantation owners in Hawaiʻi had become disillusioned with both Japanese and Filipino workers. They spent the next few years trying to get the U.S. Congress to relax the Chinese Exclusion Act so that they could bring in new Chinese workers. Congress prevented the importation of Chinese labor.[1]
But organized labor in the 1920s' U.S. mainland supported the Congress in this action, so that for a while it looked as though militant unionism on the sugar plantations was dead. To oppose organized labor, the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature passed the Criminal Syndicalism Law of 1919, Anarchistic Publications law of 1921, and the Anti-Picketing Law of 1923.
These laws, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison, increased the discontent of the workers. The Filipinos, who were rapidly becoming the dominant plantation labor force, had deep-seated grievances: as the latest immigrants they were treated most poorly. Although the planters had claimed there was a labor shortage and they were actively recruiting workers from the Philippines, they wanted only illiterate workers and turned back any arrivals who could read or write, as many as one in six.
Strikes and Massacre[edit]
By 1922 Filipino labor activist Pablo Manlapit had organized a new Filipino Higher Wage Movement which numbered some 13,000 members. In April 1924, it called for a strike on the island of Kauaʻi, demanding $2 a day in wages and reduction of the workday to 8 hours. As they had previously, the plantation owners used armed forces, the National Guard, and strike breakers paid a higher wage than the strikers demanded. Again workers were turned out of their homes. Propaganda was distributed to whip up racism. Spying and infiltration of the strikers' ranks was acknowledged by Jack Butler, executive head of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association.
Strike leaders were arrested in attempts to disrupt workers' solidarity, and people were bribed to testify against them. On September 9, 1924, outraged strikers seized two strike breakers at Hanapēpē, Kauaʻi and prevented them from going to work. The police, armed with clubs and guns, came to union headquarters to rescue them. Filipino strikers were armed only with homemade weapons and knives.
The Associated Press flashed the story of what followed across the United States in the following words: Honolulu. - Twenty persons dead, unnumbered injured lying in hospital, officers under orders to shoot strikers as they approached, distracted widows with children tracking from jails to hospitals and morgues in search of missing strikers - this was the aftermath of a clash between cane strikers and workers on the McBryde plantation, Tuesday at Hanapepe, island of Kauai. The dead included sixteen Filipinos and four policemen.[citation needed]
After the massacre police rounded up all male protesters they could find, and a total of 101 Filipino men were arrested. 76 were brought to trial,[2] and of these 60 received four-year jail sentences. Pablo Manlapit was charged with subornation of perjury and was sentenced to two to ten years in prison.[3] The Hawaiʻi Hochi claimed that he had been railroaded into prison, a victim of framed-up evidence, perjured testimony, racial prejudice and class hatred. Shortly thereafter, he was paroled on condition that he leave Hawaiʻi. After eight months the strike disintegrated.
The Federationist, the official publication of the American Federation of Labor, reported that in 1924 the ten leading sugar companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange paid dividends averaging 17 percent. From 1913 to 1923, the eleven leading sugar companies paid cash dividends of 172.45 percent, and most of them issued large stock dividends.
After the 1924 strike, the labor movement in Hawaiʻi dwindled, but did not die, and discontent among the workers rarely surfaced again. Pablo Manlapit, who had been imprisoned and exiled, returned to the islands in 1932 and started a new labor organization, this time hoping to include other ethnic groups. But the time was not ripe in the Depression years. There were small nuisance strikes in 1933 that made no headway and involved mostly Filipinos. Protests since the massacre have discouraged carrying guns at demonstrations.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Chapin, Helen Geracimos (1996). "Suppressing the News and Contributing to a Masscre". Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawai'i. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 131–138. ISBN 978-0-8248-1718-3.
 2. ^ Matsuoka, Fumitaka; Fernandez, Eleazar S (2003). Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans. Chalice Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8272-3251-8.
 3. ^ Raymundo, Rizaline R (2003). Tomorrow's Memories: A Diary, _PHONE_. University of Hawaii Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8248-2688-8.
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Manji Formation
Manji Formation
Kanji 卍の陣
Rōmaji Manji no Jin
Literal English Manji Formation
Manga Chapter #12
Anime Naruto Episode #7
Game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (Mentioned)
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Class Defensive
Range Short-range
The Manji Formation is a very basic formation that is used to protect a central point, to defend against multiple attacks coming from multiple locations, or to defend a group against an attack that could come from any unknown angle. Its name derives from the shape of a manji, 卍, as the formation requires a person facing outwards at all four points, where the four ninja's backs face each other. Each person is responsible to guard against the area straight ahead of them and to the left, as the manji suggests. This formation has one blind spot: the centre.
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