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Assertions for debugging
Use only in the MuPAD Notebook Interface.
This functionality does not run in MATLAB.
The statement assert(cond) declares that the condition cond holds true at the moment when the statement is evaluated. By default, MuPAD® does not care about assertions. After setting testargs(TRUE), however, MuPAD checks every assertion and stops with an error if boolean evaluation of cond does not give TRUE.
Assertions are a major debugging tool for programmers: by stating frequently what they think to have achieved, programmers make it easy for themselves to detect the first unintended intermediate result.
Example 1
Suppose we want to write a function f that takes an integer as its argument and returns 0 if that integer is a multiple of 3, and 1 otherwise. One idea how to code this could be the following: given an integer n, n modulo 3 must be equal to one of - 1, 1, or 0. In any case, abs(n mod 3) should do what we want:
f := proc(n: DOM_INT): DOM_INT
local k: DOM_INT;
 k := n mod 3;
 assert(k = 1 or k = -1 or k = 0);
Checking assertions is switched on or off using testargs:
oldtestargs := testargs(): testargs(FALSE): f(5)
The result does not equal 1. For debugging purposes, we switch on assertion checking:
testargs(TRUE): f(5)
Error: Assertion 'k = 1 or k = -1 or k = 0' has failed. [f]
This shows that the local variable k must have gotten a wrong value. Indeed, when writing our program we overlooked the difference between mod and the symmetric remainder given by mods.
A boolean expression
Return Values
assert returns TRUE or raises an error.
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The Testing Platform Cost Model
By Lawrence Long Bruce Larson Sydney Rosen Sarah Girdwood | |
This cost model provides a simple tool for analysts and decision-makers to determine the cost per test for a testing platform from a provider's perspective. For many developing countries, the decision to introduce or scale-up certain laboratory tests is influenced by the associated costs and effectiveness. For example, introducing point-of-care (POC) testing, or lowvolume testing technologies, into healthcare programmes may improve access, linkage to care and treatment. This tool can assist policy makers in answering questions related to the cost per test for different test technologies, for example CD4, viral load, Gene-Xpert etc., and ultimately improve programme efficiency.
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Opportunities for Kids to Explore Spiritual Gifts
In a previous post we talked about how helping kids learn about spiritual gifts is rooted in them understanding the gospel. It is not so much about pinpointing a specific gift as it us understanding who they are in Christ and exploring how God has made them.
Kids need opportunities to experiment and discover what God has gifted them to do. What are some ways we can provide those opportunities?
 1. Create rich service opportunities. If all our kids do is sit and passively listen, play games, go home… where will they discover the joy of serving or what God has gifted them to do? How can you put kids to work trying out different aspects of ministry? For a season we changed children's choir so that it gave kids a more hands-on experience. They were able to try out the tech side of worship ministry. Some learned instruments. Some learned how to sing in a small praise team or how to do drama. We changed the dynamic of children's choir by letting them explore gifts used in the church.
2. Provide ministry ownership for kids. If kids' whole experience at your church is to come and sit and be entertained, when will they transition to learning how they fit in that experience? Typically adults plan and implement everything the kids do. Instead of adults doing everything, how can kids be involved in natural ways? Look for ways to move away from the default of entertaining them while they are there. Instead, train them to own ministry and utilize the gifts and talents God has given them.
3. Look for special events, but also including it in the norm. The goal is not to overwhelm your already busy calendar. Don't add a million special events. Adapt what you are already doing to include opportunities for kids to serve.
4. Varied, unique experiences help kids try different things. One summer we utilized our Wednesday nights to do a different ministry project each week. One night we cleaned nursery toys and another night we delivered gifts to neighbors. We made bags for the homeless and we wrote encouraging notes to people within the church. By varying the experiences, kids were able to see what connected with them.
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Would You Die If You Fell Down Niagara Falls?
Will Niagara Falls ever run out of water?
Niagara Falls water comes from Lake Erie that drains into Lake Ontario.
The entire watershed of the Provinces and States surrounding the Great Lakes will eventually go through Niagara Falls, into the St Lawrence Seaway and into the Atlantic Ocean.
Originally Answered: Why does Niagara Falls not run out of water?.
What was found at bottom of Niagara Falls?
A temporary rock dam diverts the Niagara River away from the American Falls. Two corpses were discovered — for some observers, a surprisingly low number given the falls' history of accidents and suicides. … In November 1969, the cofferdam was slowly removed, and American Falls roared once more.
Does Niagara Falls have a high crime rate?
With a crime rate of 51 per one thousand residents, Niagara Falls has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 20.
Has anyone ever died at Niagara Falls?
Statistics. An estimated 5,000 bodies were found at the foot of the falls between 1850 and 2011. On average, between 20 and 30 people die going over the falls each year. The majority of deaths are suicides—and most take place from the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, and many are not publicized by officials.
How dangerous is Niagara Falls?
Despite the green spaces of the state park, the American side has a reputation for mob activity and violent crime dating back to the Prohibition era. In 2016, the FBI ranked Niagara Falls as the most dangerous city in New York state and 44th in the country.
What was found when they drained Niagara Falls in 1969?
When crews shut down the falls in 1969, they found two bodies and millions of coins, most of which were removed. (As were the human remains, of course.) But in the last 50 years, tourism at Niagara has grown wildly.
Is it illegal to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel?
Is it safe to walk around Niagara Falls at night?
Will you die if you go over Niagara Falls?
Scores have died taking the plunge either by accident or, in most cases, intentionally. According to the Buffalo News, it is estimated that 25 people annually commit suicide by going over the falls. But as authorities scoured the lower Niagara River for the man Tuesday morning, they came across an unusual sight.
Do fish go over the Niagara Falls?
Yes, they do. But fish have more luck in surviving the plunge than humans. They are better built to survive the plunge because they live in water all the time and are much more pliable and lighter than humans.
What if you fell into Niagara Falls?
What's the best time to visit Niagara Falls?
The best time to visit Niagara Falls is June to August. Summer is peak season, and with good reason: Average highs rest in the low 80s. Mists and breezes from the waterfalls can make the area feel cooler.


second per port (0.05% of the traffic). You ask how you can get useful results when you are missing 99.95% of the traffic. In this case, the only number that matters is the number of samples being generated - 11 per second. If your sFlow analyzer is reporting per port traffic information every minute, then the results will be based on a sample size of 660. If you are rolling up traffic for the whole switch, then you have a sample size of 31,600 and if you are monitoring all the switches in your data center you would have a considerably larger sample size. Now consider the types of question you might want to ask, for example how much storage traffic (NFS, iSCSI, FCoE) is being carried on the network. Typically storage traffic will constitute a significant portion of data center traffic, so let's assume that the actual number is 60%. On a per-port basis the sFlow analyzer would produce a result in the range 54-66%. On a per switch basis, the range would be 59.63-60.37%, and finally if you want a data center wide number you would be extremely close to the correct answer. The per-minute answers are usefully more than accurate enough for troubleshooting, congestions management, DDoS analysis etc. For accounting and capacity planning purposes you typically consider longer time period. For example, if you wanted to generate a monthly report based on the single link's data, you would have a sample size of over 28 million, giving an extremely accurate measurement of the traffic.
 The goal with sFlow is to sample as little of the traffic as possible, while still generating acceptable accuracy since this increases the scalability of the overall monitoring system.
 While it's useful to understand the underlying sampling technology, the calculations don't need to be performed manually. A good sFlow analyzer will automatically perform the calculations and present results; sFlowTrend is free, properly scales sFlow, and is a good way to familiarize yourself with sFlow.
 Not all sampling schemes produce accurate results. The sFlow standard specifies a particular scheme that is proven to work. NetFlow and IPFIX allow many types of sampling, many of which produce questionable results and give sampling a bad name.


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path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy
(Greek: feeling, sensation, perception; suffering, disease, or disorder; a system of treating diseases)
In medicine, some of these elements usually mean "someone who suffers from a disease of, or one who treats a disease"; so, they should not be confused with the words that mean "feeling" which are also shown on these pages even though both meanings come from the same Greek element.
2. Any disease of the vocal organs affecting speech.
3. Any disease or disorder of phonation.
2. The influence of light upon organisms.
3. Any abnormal change in the skin induced by light.
2. A central retina burn from excessive exposure to sunlight or other intense light (e.g. the flash of an electrical short).
3. Thermal damage to the retina because of intense light.
2. Involving a pathological modification of normal function.
2. The science dealing with the disturbances of bodily function resulting from disease.
2. The pathology of diseases caused by plant parasites.

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Problem 367Published on Saturday, 14th January 2012, 10:00 pm; Solved by 247
Bozo sort, not to be confused with the slightly less efficient bogo sort, consists out of checking if the input sequence is sorted and if not swapping randomly two elements. This is repeated until eventually the sequence is sorted.
If we consider all permutations of the first 4 natural numbers as input the expectation value of the number of swaps, averaged over all 4! input sequences is 24.75.
The already sorted sequence takes 0 steps.
In this problem we consider the following variant on bozo sort.
If the sequence is not in order we pick three elements at random and shuffle these three elements randomly.
All 3!=6 permutations of those three elements are equally likely.
The already sorted sequence will take 0 steps.
If we consider all permutations of the first 4 natural numbers as input the expectation value of the number of shuffles, averaged over all 4! input sequences is 27.5.
Consider as input sequences the permutations of the first 11 natural numbers.
Averaged over all 11! input sequences, what is the expected number of shuffles this sorting algorithm will perform?
Give your answer rounded to the nearest integer.

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A name that was Recalled by Hanno during his duel with the Black Knight.
Power Level[]
A powerful named meant to be unbeatable on top of a horse. When in a jousting battle or when given enough time to build up speed the name cannot be halted. The Name is especially powerful when leading a vanguard of soldiers in a charge, effectively changing the tide of a battle by massing into a spear of death shredding enemies wherever they go. This makes the weakness of this name apparent, without weapon or a horse the name is crippled.
The name was gained when the Duke rode in a charge that was all but doomed most likely a few riders being lead against a larger force. The individual acts as a beacon of hope for soldiers acting as vanguard.
Special Abilities[]
The knight has a spear that has been augmented the name also wreath both the rider and the mount with light protecting them as well as increasing offensive power.


I am trying to render cities on the map, using Geonames' dataset (source). I have downloaded the top 10000 cities as a GeoJSON file, and loaded it into QGIS. However, when I zoom out, this shows too many points: they completely fill the map.
I have enabled labels, and there is the option under Layer Properties › Labels › Rendering › Feature Options to limit the number of features rendered. This way, only the largest cities in an area will be labelled (I have set render priority to be based on population), but when I zoom in I can see more city names appear.
Is it possible to apply a similar limit to the symbols themselves? Can I hide all but the largest 100 cities within the viewport? I do not want to hard-code limits for population and zoom level, because I would like cities in less populous areas to appear sooner when zooming in there.
There are several ways I can think of to address this situation using the Expression Builder, or even using a custom python function. Because of the size of the layer, however, these can be incredibly resource-intensive.
There is, thankfully, an easier, sneakier way, using the label settings you've already established. This will result in label text which is fixed in its position, but this can be addressed with a few extra steps. Here's how it works:
 1. On the Background tab, enable label backgrounds.
 2. Choose Marker Symbol as the background type.
 3. Adjust the symbology of the marker as necessary.
 4. Adjust symbol placement and offsets so that marker symbol is properly placed.
 - You'll want to choose "offset from point" under Placement, and choose for the label to be placed directly on top of the point.
 - If you're labeling the city name using the same layer, make sure that whatever offset you choose to move the text off of the point, that the inverse of that offset is applied to the background marker symbol.
 5. (Optional) Get dynamic label text back.
 1. Set the label text to a single whitespace character.
 2. Duplicate the layer.
 3. On the new layer, remove the marker symbol, and re-set the label text to the "name" field, or whichever you are using.
 4. Adjust the labeling properties on the new layer to get the text to your liking. You may need to change some of the labeling priority weights between the two layers.
background marker symbol
In my map, I offset the "label" by -4. By offsetting the background marker symbol by +4, the point will render directly on top of the geometry feature.
And here are the results. I've left the actual feature layer being rendered just to show that it is highlighting the larger population points correctly. With this label setting, I can actually opt to uncheck the Enable symbol layer box on the symbology tab, and let the label points take their place entirely.
full extent
And here's the same setup at a much broader scale, with the point features no longer being rendered.
In fact, the rendering style cluster does something similar, only that points that are too close are not suppressed, but clustered in a separate symbol. However, you can use this at least as a workaround by adapting to your needs.
Choose clustering as rendering style for your points layer. Than define your cluster symbol and set it as completely transparent. Define the distance for clustering, so all points that are closer than this value will be clustered - and thus be transparent.
Alternatively, you could also use a date-driven size for the cluster, defining in an expression the conditions when size should be 0 (thus invisible). Also play around with Control feature rendering order, see: _URL_
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Top 10 highest paid science jobs
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A lot of science-related jobs are more about the passion for discovering new things and applying them to the betterment of mankind than they are about getting a high salary. But in some jobs, if you have the intellectual capacity and curiosity about the world of science, it can prove to be mentally satisfying and financially rewarding.
Petroleum Engineer
These engineers devise ways to improve oil and gas production, and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Petroleum engineers are involved in making drilling more economical. There are several industry specialities, but the highest mean pay goes to those involved in oil and gas extraction--$127,520 annually.
Physicists who aren't involved exclusively in teaching can be paid a much higher salary by conducting research in physics. They develop theories and laws in regards to physical phenomena. Then they come up with methods to apply their theories to industry and other fields. The mean pay is £69,186 a year.
Computer and Information Scientist, Research
In this career, you conduct computer research as a theorist, designer or inventor. You will develop solutions to problems with hardware and software. You will also plan activities in electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis or computer programming. Computer and information scientists make an average of £65,585 annually.
Computer Hardware Engineer
Computer hardware engineers research, design, develop and test computers or computer-related equipment for commercial, military or scientific use. They may also supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer equipment. Their average salary is £65,117 annually.
Nuclear Engineer
Nuclear engineers research and apply nuclear science principles to problems associated with nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal. They make a mean salary of £64,837 annually.
Kids who like to stargaze can grow up to be an astronomer. Astronomers study celestial phenomena to increase mankind's knowledge of the universe. They use their findings to improve things here on Earth. Astronomers make, on average, £64,824 annually.
Computer Software Engineer, Systems Software
Systems software engineers research, design, develop and test operating systems software, compilers and network distribution software for private industry, government agencies, or the military. The mean salary is £61,438 annually.
While math teachers may not make a lot of money, those involved in research do. Mathematicians involved in the application of mathematical techniques to science or other industries make a mean salary of £61,724 annually.
Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace engineers design, construct and test aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. This profession has a mean salary of £61,087 annually.
Physical Scientists, Other
According to the employment statistics provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, all other physical science professions not listed on their website individually have a mean salary of £59,702 annually.
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text: In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated with Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress to conduct an organizational assessment of its disaster preparedness, deployment operations, policy and practices in an effort to identify factors to sustain resilience in CDC emergency responders. The following year, the Center developed and implemented a comprehensive two-day first-responder resiliency officer training program. This program (Deployment Safety and Resiliency Training or DSRT) incorporates the principles of Psychological First Aid to strengthen the outreach and resilience of its Deployment Safety and Resiliency team officers who travel worldwide to address public health threats and major disasters. The Center conducted its fourth training at CDC. As further training sessions are conducted, ongoing evaluation of effectiveness and outcome reports will be generated.


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A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, velvet, cotton, and jute and of synthetic materials, such as polyester, nylon, and polyproylene. Ribbon is used for innumerable useful, ornamental, and symbolic purposes. Cultures around the world use ribbon in their hair, around the body, and as ornamentation on non-human animals, buildings, and packaging. Some popular fabrics used to make ribbons are satin, organza, sheer, silk, velvet, and grosgrain.
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Along with that of tapes, fringes, and other smallwares, the manufacture of cloth ribbons forms a special department of the textile industries. The essential feature of a ribbon loom is the simultaneous weaving in one loom frame of two or more webs, going up to as many as forty narrow fabrics in modern looms. To affect the conjoined throwing of all the shuttles and the various other movements of the loom, the automatic action of the power-loom is necessary, and it is a remarkable fact that the self-acting ribbon loom was known and extensively used more than a century before the famous invention of Cartwright. A loom in which several narrow webs could be woven at one time is mentioned as having been working in Dantzig towards the end of the 16th century. Similar looms were at work in Leiden in 1620, where their use gave rise to so much discontent and rioting on the part of the weavers that the states-general had to prohibit their use. The prohibition was renewed at various intervals throughout the century, and in the same interval the use of the ribbon loom was interdicted in most of the principal industrial centres of Europe. In 1676, under the name of the Dutch loom or engine loom, it was brought to London, and although its introduction there caused some disturbance, it does not appear to have been prohibited. In 1745, John Kay, the inventor of the fly-shuttle, obtained, conjointly with Joseph Stell, a patent for improvements in the ribbon loom. Since that period, it has benefited by the inventions applied to weaving machinery generally.
Ribbon-weaving is known to have been established near St. Etienne (dep. Loire) as early as the 11th century, and that town has remained the headquarters of the industry. During the Huguenot troubles, ribbon-weavers from St. Etienne settled at Basel, and there, established an industry which in modern times has rivalled that of the original seat of the trade. Krefeld is the centre of the German ribbon industry; the manufacture of black velvet ribbon being there a specialty. In England Coventry is the most important seat of ribbon-making, which is also prosecuted at Norwich and Leicester.
While satin and other sorts of ribbon have always been used in lingerie, the usage of ribbon in the garment industry, while subject to fashion trends, saw an upsurge in the mid to late 90's. This upsurge led to increased ribbon manufacturing as well as new and improved manufacturing techniques. Due to more competitive production rates, as well as past experience in this field, companies in the Far East – especially those in China – gradually secured themselves to be the major ribbon suppliers in the world and improved both the quality and the variety of their merchandise to match those of their established European and North American competitors.
Presently, the North American continent remains the largest importer of ribbon and ribbon derivative products (such as bows, rosettes, and other garment accessories made from ribbon). However, due to outsourcing of production of garments by North American garment manufacturers, countries in Asia and South America have started to contribute to the change of the statistical figures of ribbon imports.
Inspired by European silk ribbons obtained through trade, Great Lakes and Prairie Native American tribes created art form of appliqué ribbon work.


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I have some problems with the equivalence of definitions of orientation. I know two definitions of orientation, namely:
 - A surface is orientable if it contains no 1-sided curves (a 1-sided curve in a combinatorical surface $F$ is a curve such if $p^{-1}(C)$ has just one component with $p:F'\rightarrow F$ and $F'$ the surface we obtain by cutting $F$ along $C$)
Also there exists the following lemma: A one-sided curve is always non-seperating (non-seperating means that the number of components of $F'$ has the same as $F$). Can we use this fact? And why is that true? From my point of view one can prove this easy with contradiction,true?!
Now the second definition:
 - An orientation of a closed combinatorial surface F is an assignment of a clockwise or anticlockwise \circulation" to each face (really an ordering of its vertices, considered up to cyclic permutation), such that at any edge, the circulations coming from the two incident faces are in opposition.
Now i want to show directly that a surface has an orientation if and only if it is orientable in the sense that it contains no 1-sided curves.
Can someone help me with this question? Thank you!
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Assume $F$ is oriented in the sense of the second definition. Let $C$ be a curve. Wlog.(!) the curve runs along edges. The map $p^{-1}(C)\to\{-1,+1\}$ that maps a point to $+1$ if the "current" edge at that point is in forward direction of $C$ and to $-1$ if it is in reverse, is well defined (must be checked at vertices) and continuous. As each edge belongs to two faces and is differently oriented for these, ther exist both edges yielding $+1$ and edges yielding $-1$, hence $p^{-1}(C)$ has (at least) two connected components. Hence no one-sided curve exists.
The other direction is a bit more complicated if one wants to be formally exact, so the following is rather a sketch of an idea: Assume $F$ is oriented in the sense of the first definition. Select an arbitrary face and orient its edges. Extend this face by face to the whole surface by checking faces having at least one edge already oriented. If ever a conflict arises (i.e. the next step would orient an edge differently from an already given orientation by its other face), we find a onesided curve as follows: There is a sequence of faces between the conflicting faces that runs within alrady oriented faces. This also determines a sequence of edges (those that are shared by subsequent faces in this sequence). Join the midpoints of these edges to obtain a closed curve (i.e. starting and ending at the conflicting edge). Using the orientation given to the edges crossed along its way, we get a notion of "left" and "right" of the curve, which gets "flipped" by completely traversing the curve, thus showing that $p^{-1}(C)$ is connected.
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Cycling provision separated from motor traffic: a systematic review exploring whether stated preferences vary by gender and age.
Transport reviews 2015 ; 37: 29-55.
PubMed ID : 28190905
In this paper, we represent a systematic review of stated preference studies examining the extent to which cycle infrastructure preferences vary by gender and by age. A search of online, English-language academic and policy literature was followed by a three-stage screening process to identify relevant studies. We found 54 studies that investigated whether preferences for cycle infrastructure varied by gender and/or by age. Forty-four of these studies considered the extent of separation from motor traffic. The remainder of the studies covered diverse topics, including preferred winter maintenance methods and attitudes to cycle track lighting. We found that women reported stronger preferences than men for greater separation from motor traffic. There was weaker evidence of stronger preferences among older people. Differences in preferences were quantitative rather than qualitative; that is, preferences for separated infrastructure were stronger in some groups than in others, but no group preferred integration with motor traffic. Thus, in low-cycling countries seeking to increase cycling, this evidence suggests focusing on the stronger preferences of under-represented groups as a necessary element of universal design for cycling.


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Classification Rules and Regulations
IPC Powerlifting published an updated version of the IPC Powerlifting Classification Rules and Regulations – version 3 (March 2015). This document replaces any previous version of the IPC Powerlifting Classification Rules and Regulations and came into force on 1 March 2015.
The rules reflect the wording of the IPC Classification Code and are a revised version of the previous IPC Classification Rules.
To ensure competition is fair and equal, all Paralympic sports have a system in place which ensures that winning is determined by skill, fitness, power, endurance, tactical ability and mental focus, the same factors that account for success in sport for able bodied athletes.
This process is called classification and its purpose is to minimise the impact of impairments on the activity (sport discipline). Having the impairment thus is not sufficient. The impact on the sport must be proved, and each in Paralympic sport, the criteria of grouping athletes by the degree of activity limitation resulting from the impairment are named 'Sport Classes'. Through classification, it is determined which athletes are eligible to compete in a sport and how athletes are grouped together for competition. This, to a certain extent, is similar to grouping athletes by age, gender or weight.
Classification is sport-specific because an impairment affects the ability to perform in different sports to a different extent. As a consequence, an athlete may meet the criteria in one sport, but may not meet the criteria in another sport.
Powerlifting is open for athletes with all eight eligible physical impairments listed in the introduction, if these impairments have a certain severity that impacts on sport performance. All athletes have an impairment in their lower limbs or hips, which would prohibit them to compete in able-bodied weightlifting. For example, athletes with a single or double amputation through or above the ankle or stiffness of the knee joint would be eligible to compete. All eligible athletes compete in one sport class, but in different weight categories.


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DI 30001.800 Quality Assurance Unit (QAU) Analysis and Feedback
The QAU provides analysis and feedback that improves quality within the Disability Determination Services (DDS) and should:
collect and analyze data on DDS performance from all available sources;
provide accurate and timely feedback to various levels within DDS; and,
The QAU analysis is based on:
statistical data from QAU sample case reviews, high-risk case reviews, and special studies;
feedback from Social Security Administration (SSA) review components (OQR, RPC, etc.); and,
information from all other relevant sources such as audit findings or independent consultant reports.
2. SSA feedback
The QAU should use the results of SSA case reviews as part of its monitoring of DDS determinations. DDS management should ensure that QAU staff receives all SSA review reports, special studies, and statistical feedback regarding the quality of the DDS product.
3. SSA deficiency returns
The QAU should serve as the DDS focal point for:
review and analysis of individual case deficiency returns from SSA review components; and,
coordination of the DDS's timely action in response to the return.
The QAU should also:
maintain records about returns received from SSA;
use this information along with other data in its analysis; and,
make recommendations based on QAU's analysis.


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Error: An unknown error has occurred loading this published map
After creating and publishing a Published Map File (PMF) package, users are unable to open the PMF file in ArcReader. The following error is returned:
"An unknown error has occurred loading this published map."
In other situations, when users attempt to access a published map on ArcReader, the following error message is returned, and nothing is loaded:
"An unknown error has occurred while loading document."
There are several causes of this issue:
- Compatibility issue. This issue occurs due to users using different version of ArcReader and Publisher in ArcMap. For example, ArcGIS 10.1 PMF files are not backwards compatible with ArcGIS 10.0. In addition, ArcReader 10.1 cannot be installed on the same machine as ArcGIS Desktop 10.0, so this explains the error message.
- The location of the PMF files is altered. The end user does not have access to both the PMF and the data. In theory, if users do not have at least read access to the data, users are unable to open the map. Granted, that also depends upon how the map is published.
- PMF files are corrupted.
Solution or Workaround
Follow the suggested solutions below to solve this issue:
Download the right version of ArcReader which is compatible with version of Publisher in ArcMap. The link for downloading different ArcReader releases can be found here.
Ensure the user of the second machine has permission on the PMF and folder.
Create a new map document and publish it using the Publisher extension. To do this, follow the steps below:
1. From the Publisher toolbar, select Publish Map. 2. Create a new folder. The new folder is used to house both the PMF file and the data package. The reason for this is to keep all the elements of the published map together for future distribution to users who have ArcReader. 3. Name the file, and click Save. 4. From the Publisher toolbar, select Create Data Package. 5. Select the PMF file generated in Steps 1 - 3. Click Open. 6. Specify the save location. Use the folder created in Step 2. 7. Ensure that the Data Format is set to File Geodatabase. 8. Ensure that the box under Options is unchecked. 9. Click the Extent tab. 10. Check the boxes next to include all features in the dataset. Click OK. 11. Once the Data Package is created, send the entire folder created in Step 2 to the end user, and they now can access to the PMF as well as all of the published data.


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Upon arriving in Layonara for the first time, each Player Character will have in their inventory a PC Dicebag. With it, players can roll a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20, where "d" stands for die and the numeral stands for the number of sides. I.E. a d6 is a six-sided die. Also, it allows players to roll multiples of each die type. Players can also use it to roll saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks, and it will automatically use the PC's modifiers. It does not, however, handle attack rolls.
There are three settings on the dicebag:
 - Private: Only the user and GM's can see the result.
 - Local: Anyone within range to hear normal speech will see the result.
 - Global: Everyone on the server will see the result. This setting is never to be used unless directed by a GM.
The dicebag is for RP purposes only and hence has its primary use during GM quests and events. Of course, it is certainly not limited to such use, and can be effectively used to handle numerous character initiated role-play instances. The use of the dicebag is highly encouraged and PC's should find it a handy tool.
There are other methods of rolling dice should you not desire to use the dicebag. Dice can be rolled by bracketing the check you want by asterisks. Typing "*fortitude save*" in whisper, talk or party chat will trigger a fortitude check. However, rolls can also be done through the self tell command. Typing =c will produce the desired result. I.E. =c will save will produce the same effect as if you had toggled the PC dicebag to roll a will save. For quicker typing, ability checks and saves are abbreviated as follows:
Using the self-tell, =c also allows you to roll dice bigger than a d20, such as d100's by entering =c roll d100. You can even roll skill checks this way, just as you would an ability check.
To toggle dice rolls to silent, use the command =c toggle check_silent;. If your dice rolls are already on silent mode, this same command can be used to reverse it so other players can see the results of your rolls once more.


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DNA of the Isle of Man
The history of the Isle of Man indicates that the bulk of the population will be of old Celtic origin, as the first inhabitants of the Island spoke Manx Gaelic and were believed to have come from neighbouring Ireland. For a period of some 300 years the Island was also under Norse Viking rule and so it would be expected that there would be genetic traces today on the IOM, left behind through intermarriage with the occupying Scandinavians. Additionally, the Island came under the control of neighbouring Scotland, Ireland and ultimately England at various times in its history, and so it would be expected that some traces of their DNA, insofar as it can be distinguished from that of the indigenous Manx, would also be found today.
The only previous work on the DNA of the Isle of Man was carried out in a study led by Capelli et al. and published in 2003. Amongst other findings, this confirmed the existence in the male population of the British Isles of genetic traces of people of Scandinavian origin in places where Vikings were known to have settled. It is known that there were different waves of Viking movements out of Scandinavia from both Norway and Denmark, but it was not possible to differentiate between the genetic signatures of the Norwegians and Danish.
As part of this study Y-DNA samples were collected and analysed from 62 men resident on the Isle of Man and possessing traditional Manx names. The Y-DNA analysis consisted of testing of 6 Y-STR markers and a range of Y-SNP markers to determine the larger haplogroup designation of the person tested. The results showed that the Manx male population, as tested then, was a mixture of Haplogroups R1a, R1b and I. The broad inference drawn from these results was that approximately 29% of Manx males showed a possible Scandinavian genetic origin (Haplogroups R1a + I) and the remaining 71% (Haplogroup R1b) a Celtic origin.
Since 2003 a number of things have changed however:-
Thus the project coordinator believes that, in light of this background of greater knowledge and access to more precise testing, it may now be possible to shed more light on the genetic background of the population of the Isle of Man, and has initiated this project accordingly.
Details of the project scope and objectives can be found here.
If you have any questions about this site please contact John A Creer. Copyright John A Creer 2013


Public Release: Football displays fractal dynamics
Physicists reveal that the real-time dynamics in a football game are subject to self-similarity characteristics in keeping with the laws of physics
Football fascinates millions of fans, almost all of them unaware that the game is subject to the laws of physics. Despite their seemingly arbitrary decisions, players obey certain rules, as they constantly adjust their positions in relation to their teammates, opponents, the ball and the goal. A team of Japanese scientists has now analysed the time-dependent fluctuation of both the ball and all players' positions throughout an entire match. They discovered that a simple rule governs the complex dynamics of the ball and the team's front-line. These findings, published in EPJ B, could have implications for other ball games, providing a new perspective on sports science.
A. Kijima, K. Yokoyama, H.Shima, and Y. Yamamoto (2014), Emergence of self-similarity in football dynamics, European Physical Journal B, DOI 10.1140/epjb/e2014-40987-5
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French Navy of World War 1
At the outbreak of the First World War France had 19 battleships, 32 cruisers, 86 destroyers, 34 submarines, and 115 torpedo boats.
During the Dardanelles operation, the French Navy sent four battleships, six destroyers, and submarines. The battleship Bovet and four submarines were lost during this campaign.
The French Navy kept to the Mediterranean so the British Navy could recall most of her capital ships to the North Atlantic to counter the German fleet.
Following the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale, the French Navy policy was to concentrate its forces in the Mediterranean against a likely Italian-Austrian coalition, while maintaining a mainly defensive position in the north (North Sea, English Channel, Atlantic coast) where the Royal Navy would predominate.
French forces in this area initially included seven cruisers and a number of destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines for patrol duty in the western English Channel.
In the Mediterranean on the other hand was the 1st Armée Navale under the command of Adm de Lapeyrère


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Prior information about the average dielectric properties of breast tissue can be implemented in microwave breast imaging techniques to improve the results. Rapidly providing this information relies on acquiring a limited number of measurements and processing these measurement with efficient algorithms. Previously, systems were developed to measure the transmission of microwave signals through breast tissue, and simplifications were applied to estimate the average properties. These methods provided reasonable estimates, but they were sensitive to multipath. In this paper, a new technique to analyze the average properties of breast tissues while addressing multipath is presented. Three steps are used to process transmission measurements. First, the effects of multipath were removed. In cases where multipath is present, multiple peaks were observed in the time domain. A Tukey window was used to time-gate a single peak and, therefore, select a single path through the breast. Second, the antenna response was deconvolved from the transmission coefficient to isolate the response from the tissue in the breast interior. The antenna response was determined through simulations. Finally, the complex permittivity was estimated using an iterative approach. This technique was validated using simulated and physical homogeneous breast models and tested with results taken from a recent patient study.
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Time Delays in Healthcare License Reporting to State Licensing Boards
The differences in reporting between the states:
Ideally, each state would release the disciplinary actions every month so healthcare organizations can then find the database or minutes and pull the information on the sanctioned individuals. But this is not always the case. In general, the majority of state's disciplinary boards release their minutes to the license board each month; however, in certain cases, it takes weeks, or even months, to type up and publish the actual documents. There are also plenty of states that do not update their lists on a monthly basis. Some release the minutes every quarter or even once every three months and some even take another month to get it up on the website.
To make things even more challenging, each state varies in how it releases the minutes. For example, Montana releases the minutes of the entire meeting, not just the names of the disciplined individuals, in audio files. And that takes up an unnecessary amount of time, as well a converting the audio to text.
These delays in releasing the minutes can make organizations 4-5 months behind in finding sanctioned employees. And by then, the facility could be racking up fines for employing a sanctioned individual who billed Medicare or Medicaid.
Common law legal implications:
Even though healthcare organizations are not required by federal law to verify licenses every month, they still need to know which of their employees have sanctions/disciplinary actions against them. Most states have legislation requiring that certain providers in healthcare verticals (long-term care, hospitals, dialysis, dental practices) check the status of an applicant's license upon pre-hire. Further, common law negligent hiring and retention cases demonstrate why the monitoring of licenses beyond a pre-hire background check (during employment) is best practice.
Who is liable for unlicensed care?
Both the employer who should have known and the licensed practitioner who practiced without a license. The actual licensed individual will receive the initial consequences from the license board because it is his/her license that is affected. Civil and possible criminal penalties can apply, depending on the actions and the authority of the Board. But, there is also a liability to the employer/facility for said fines.
The employer/facility can face separate penalties as well as the repercussion of a possible False Claims case. The Medicare or Medicaid payments billed by the sanctioned and/or unlicensed individual is money the organization needs to pay back as a false claim. The action centers on the fraudulent submission of a claim while unlicensed. This can turn into a serious financial hardship for an employer as care has been provided but will not be reimbursed by federal healthcare dollars.
So, yes, practicing without a healthcare license and then billing the government for reimbursement of federal healthcare dollars (Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS, TriCare) is and can be pursued as fraud.
The evolution of an exclusion: (Did You Know?)
According to the OIG, 48 percent of OIG exclusions are a result of an action that stemmed from the loss of a license. A loss of a healthcare license or a sanction does not necessarily always lead to an OIG exclusion and vice versa. An individual can be excluded but still have an active license. The best way to visualize this is in a Venn diagram with licenses in the middle between sanctions and exclusions. Sanctions, license restrictions and exclusions are all related but separate.
A healthcare license is a privilege, not a right. It can be revoked, suspended, restricted or valid.
The license holder (practitioner) can be sanctioned as a result of actions/inactions while a license holder. Such disciplinary actions can lead to a license status change and, if applicable, even lead to an exclusion by a state Medicaid Agency and/or the OIG.
This is the last blog in our three-part blog series covering healthcare licenses. Read the other blogs here:
1. Primary source license verification: what, where & when
2. Three nuances in the license verification process
4. Healthcare license fraud is a realty – here's how to avoid it
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I've a table (locations) which contains records as given below:
id | lat | lng | radius_in_km
1 | -18.17943 | 83.968051 | 5
2 | 44.5796 | 7.069637 | 10
Now, I've got a point (lat, lng) from Google and I need to fetch the records from locations table if the given lat, lng falls into radius of those rows. Please notice, the radius is dynamic/different for each row so I need to match the records according to their radius with the given point.
I've searched the stackoverflow network but couldn't find anything that works for me, any hints would be fine even not the code.
Keeping lat long like that isn't spatial. You need to make a point
I would store the result of the above on the row, rather than individual lat/long cords. Regardless of what you store on the row, that's what you have to work with. Not storing that on the row will just be slower, as you'll have to calculate it every time.
Next what you want is the Bounding Box test. In MySQL they're designated with an MBR prefix.
FROM table
WHERE ST_Contains(
 ST_Buffer( Point(lng,lat), DISTANCE_IN_DEGREES ),
 Point(google.long, google.lat)
You'll have to calculate DISTANCE_IN_DEGREES yourself. MySQL doesn't have a geography type, so you can't just use a fixed distance like meters, miles, or feet. You have to do the math yourself. This is a lot of work in itself.
ST_Contains doesn't use an index. For that you'll need MBRContains. Or you could just use PostgreSQL, for that it'll look like this,
FROM table
 ST_Buffer( ST_MakePoint(lng,lat)::geography, DISTANCE_IN_METERS ),
 ST_MakePoint(google.long, google.lat)::geography
Not just is that shorter, but from the docs
This function call will automatically include a bounding box comparison that will make use of any indexes that are available on the geometries.
So you don't have to use two functions like you would in MySQL MBRcontains (bounding box w/ index), and ST_Contains.
 - Thanks for your answer but I'm still confused. If I change the lat, lng to point and instead of storing radius as km, if I store the distance in degrees then which query should I use? – The Alpha Aug 20 '17 at 19:03
 - _USER_ both, however if you take it one step further and (1) store them as a point, (2) store the ST_Buffer(pt, radius) as a geom, and index the geom then the operation on MBRContains will use the index, potentially saving costly calculations with ST_Contains – Evan Carroll Aug 20 '17 at 20:37
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Twins Seven-Seven, The Spirits of My Reincarnation Brothers and Sisters
Ink, batik, dye, watercolor, acrylic, and oil on cloth
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This astonishingly detailed painting represents Twins's reworking of a subject he addressed in a 1968–69 canvas of the same name. George Jevremović—owner of Material Culture, an imports retailer in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia where Twins was an artist-in-residence in the 2000s— challenged the artist to create a work as spectacular as his earlier iteration. Exceeding both men's expectations, Twins created this version.
The title derives from Twins's status as an abiku child, one who has strong ties to the spirit world. When an abiku child is born, the spirit world tries to reclaim him, which results in an earthly death in childhood or shortly thereafter. Twins experienced this death several times himself. According to the artist, he was born as a twin six different times to his mother, who lost all twelve of these children within their first few years of life. Only when he was born a seventh time, again as a twin, did he survive, though his twin sister would not.
In this version, the "brothers and sisters" are his brothers and sisters on this earth, not biologically related siblings, but the Nigerian people he knew who depended on him. They are depicted as musicians in a band, along with spirits. The figure in the center is Twins' self-portrait.
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A: I had a user the other day who insisted his Deleted Items folder was empty, but his mailbox was still pushing against the company's mailbox size limit policy. I've seen users accidentally move content to unexpected places without realizing it. For example, in Outlook it's possible to drag and drop a mail folder into the Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, or even Notes folders. Or the content could still be in Deleted Items, even if it doesn't appear to be so to the user.
The person who assured me his Deleted Items folder was empty was actually selecting the Deleted Items folder in the Navigation pane, highlighting the content in the main pane, then deleting the highlighted content. This method works, although it's somewhat tedious, but it misses content that might have been deleted from within subfolders. When you delete a folder, its contents are moved to Deleted Items as a subfolder. The contents of the subfolder aren't visible in Deleted Items unless the subfolder is selected in the Navigation pane. Also, when you select Deleted Items, it doesn't show the folders in the main pane; you have to click the little plus symbol (+) or arrow beside Deleted Items in the Navigation pane for those folders to appear, as Figure 1 shows.
To delete these folders, you have to either do so one at a time, manually (not a good idea), or use the more logical Empty "Deleted Items" Folder or Empty Folder option from the right-click menu on the Deleted Items folder. You can also use the Empty Folder button on the Folder tab of the Ribbon in Outlook 2010 or go to Tools, Empty "Deleted Items" Folder in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003.
In addition, Outlook makes it easy to view the size of folders within the hierarchy so that you can identify where the greatest mailbox volume resides. You can right-click the account in the Navigation pane and select Data File Properties (or Properties) from the bottom of the context menu. On the General tab of the Properties dialogue box, click the button for Folder Size to open a window listing individual mailbox folder sizes in KB. Figure 2 shows an example with a small amount residing in Deleted Items. Unfortunately, this window isn't resizable, so if you have many folders, you'll have to scroll through them to see the full list.
Figure 2: Viewing actual folder sizes in Microsoft Outlook
Although the user I was working with claimed the Deleted Items folder was emptied, I was able to use this method to find a large amount of content still in that folder. Exchange administrators can also access this information without using the Outlook client, of course, by using Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet.


There is an apparent need to have pressurants in both pressure fed and pump fed systems. However, since pump fed systems can create the necessary pressure, they can work with less pressurants and lesser storage pressures making tanks thinner. What other differences exist between these two systems within the context of pressurants and would someone care to elaborate on it?
 - $\begingroup$ This could be a related question to " Why do pump and pressure fed liquid engines need to operate at high pressures? " $\endgroup$ – Rajath Pai Mar 25 '19 at 12:33
While you're correct in your assessment of "since pump fed systems can create the necessary pressure, they can work with less pressurants and lesser storage pressures making tanks thinner" you may be missing the degree to which these two differ. Some other concerns exist, but they are secondary - the main issue is the vast difference in pressure needed.
Of top importance in rocketry are the engine thrust and specific impulse - both depending on speed at which the gases are ejected from the nozzle, thrust additionally accounting for mass flow ratio. Directly related to energy of the propellant obtained through combustion, which is derived from combustion temperature and combustion chamber pressure. In short, the higher the chamber pressure the more efficient and more powerful the rocket. There are some more factors to that, but this one is one of most important.
And the fuel and oxidizer must be delivered into the chamber - pushed into it at pressure higher than the combustion chamber pressure plus whatever resistance the plumbing, injectors, possibly regenerative cooling system too, create.
For pump-fed systems, the pressurant needs only to overcome the (minor) resistance of plumbing between the tank and the pump - even less so if the pump provides suction, just assuring so there are no vacuum bubbles which would cause serious trouble, assuring uninterrupted flow with no resistance, and even some help from the pump.
In pressure-fed system the pressurant must overcome the combustion chamber pressure, plus all resistances along the way (injectors etc).
This will result both in the tank being significantly more rugged, holding against pressure equivalent to that of the combustion chamber instead of token increase over ambient, and also it will severely limit the combustion chamber pressure - and as result, the engine efficiency. The short ruggedized piping between the pump and the chamber is much, much smaller than the entire big tank, so one can afford to keep it much thicker and more durable, able to withstand much higher pressures.
Obviously, the trade-off is the cost, complexity and failure modes of the pump. It's a very complex and expensive device that also can fail in many ways pressure fed system wouldn't. (admittedly, it also protects against some failure modes characteristic to pressure-fed systems though.)
 - $\begingroup$ Does scale of the vehicle warrant the usage of one over the other? Pressurant will always be a mass of little value but has a better reliability and less chances of failure due to usage of a simpler system. Do pressurants also help against sloshing and its effects within tanks as the fuel drains. How does pressurant volume and ullage compare in a pump fed system $\endgroup$ – Rajath Pai Mar 26 '19 at 11:22
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_: All very good questions which I believe deserve to be asked on the site and get full answers on their own instead of whatever may fit in the comments. $\endgroup$ – SF. Mar 26 '19 at 11:34
 - $\begingroup$ Thanks for the answer, and I will put them up as questions. $\endgroup$ – Rajath Pai Mar 26 '19 at 12:12
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Path Analysis in Visio
The well-commented VBA code (provided by guest-poster Al Edlund) which accompanies this article will help you make programmatic sense of the elemental stuff of connected Visio diagrams: connectors, connection points, OneD shapes, Connect and FromConnect.
You'll also see how to produce connected diagrams, find out which shape is connected to which, and more importantly, do some path analysis to find the deeper meaning behind it all!
This guest post was developed and written by Al Edlund. Al is a fellow Microsoft Visio Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and is a networking expert, and a big fan of Visio. He's also told me that networking is also his hobby, so when he's working he's playing, and when he's playing he's working!
Thanks Al for a great effort, now take it away!
Connectors, Connections and Paths
I have seen a couple of recent requests that have focused on how to understand what is connected in a Visio drawing. What is sometimes missed is that there is a difference between connected and a path, which is a series of connections. This path deconstruction is sometimes referred to as graph analysis and is the study of how nodes (vertexes) attach to each other via "edges".
What is sometimes overlooked by the user who wants to analyze the drawing via automation is that there are two levels of domain specific knowledge that are needed. The first is what is being represented by the shapes on the page and the second is how the underlying add-in portrayed that information.
This led me to a put together a two-part project which you can read about in these pages, and download when you're done with the words. The project focuses on these two items:
- Demonstrates some concepts in analyzing a drawing's connections
- Analyzes the path information
Using the Path Analysis Application
Once you've OK'd the VBA macros in the Visio file and clicked the StartTest button on page one, you'll be presented with the project's main form:
Figure 1 Example Menu layout
The path analysis form has two groups. The left one is for demonstrating path analysis and the right one is for drawing (connection) analysis.
The path analysis has three sections: the analysis algorithm, the view layers, and the open Excel button. The analysis algorithms create topology pages to demonstrate search techniques. The edge information and path search information are drawn on different layers which can be turned on/off by the layer buttons. The Open Excel feature is included to allow the user to pull in external data. The description of the workbook/worksheets is included in the code module: modDrawData.
The ConnectionsSearch section has four buttons. Flowchart draws the modified Visio 2007 SDK navigation example. The Drawing button uses the included page connection search to capture the active page connections. The Network button discovers the data from the network page, and the PFD button discovers the data from the pipes/flow/diagram. Lastly, the Save2Excel8 button takes the data from the last analysis and exports it to an Excel2003 format.
The Visio SDK has an example of analyzing a drawing (DemoNavigatingDrawing) which combines both of these concepts (connection analysis and path analysis).
I've included a modified version of this flowchart analysis in the drawing.
Figure 2 Flowchart Example used
The modifications include:
- Adding an additional data entry function
- Including a control transfer shape.
I added these to demonstrate that:
- In a drawing that is aware of the 'directionality' of dynamic connectors the developer may have to adopt a strategy that verifies that all shapes have been included
- Shape.Type = OneD shapes which are not 'Dynamic connectors' may be in the information path.
I've included a network detail drawing as well which brings out a couple of other exposures. In this case the points that require attention include (once again) that OneD shapes may not necessarily be part of an information flow and (to make it a little more interesting) we have to track connector end-points based on their component and connection point.
Finally in the network connections the paths are assumed to be capable of 'full duplex' communications which removes the directionality aspect.
Figure 3 Network Detail Drawing used
Piping Flow (PFD)
The example of a piping flow drawing (provided by another user) as starting points has three sets of objects we want to track. These are equipment (vertices), piping (edges), and instrumentation (probes). The interesting point here is that a probe attaches to a OneD shape (pipes) in the example drawing.
Figure 4 Piping-Flow diagram used
Both the network detail and PFD drawings also demonstrate that you have to be aware of the underlying add-in that created the drawing. In the case of the PFD drawing shape text is stored in a user field.
The captured data from the connection analysis can be saved to an Excel spreadsheet. Excel in this code is 2007 Excel and doesn't do a lot of checking or error catching. It is there for convenience.
Figure 5 Excel Output (PFD drawing)
Path Analysis (Depth-first)
The second part of the project was to demonstrate some of the common methods for analyzing path information. The basic flows are excerpts from Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic.NET, a Michael McMillan book that was written for VB.NET.
I thought it would be fun to convert the concepts to VBA and then use Visio to draw the constructs and use layering to show how the algorithms worked. The data is based on two mandatory arrays (vertex and edge) and an optional array that allowed me to force some of the shapes to specific places on the page. A tutorial on this material goes well beyond what an article can cover. Mr. McMillan's book is also referenced in the code.
Figure 6 Path Analysis (depth first)
This code should not be considered as anything beyond demo code of some advanced concepts. When you open Visio's VBA integrated development environment, you'll see the following forms, modulas and classes:
Figure 7 Application objects
Here's a quick description of what each code file is about:
- frmPath user interface
- modDrawData the information used to initialize the three main arrays used to create the drawings used in the path analysis section
- modFlowchartNavigator the basic code used in the v2007 sdk that demonstrates an approach to moving through a visio flowchart
- modNavEnhanced an example of how analyzing a drawing might be enhanced using the two examples provided (Network Detail and PFD)
- clsDistOriginal object storage
- clsItemEdge object storage
- clsItemPoint object storage
- clsItempProbe object storage
- clsVertex object storage
- clsShapePos object storage
- clsMyCollection string / array manipulation
- clsMyGraph path analysis code


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Romantic Table for Two
Create a cozy atmosphere when making a special meal on Valentine's Day. Begin by draping the table in an elegant cloth with white and red hues. Place a lovely Heart-Shaped Napkin (instructions below) on top of each dinner plate.
Then add some ambiance by creating Rose Candleholders. Here's how:
 - Cut the stem off of a large rose, making sure the bottom is even. Use your fingers to fully open the rose. If necessary, remove some center petals so there's a small open area in the middle.
 - Place a tea light candle in a clear tea light holder; set inside the rose. Place the Rose Candleholder on a small saucer or candle base. To prevent wilting, make these flower candleholders just before sitting down to dinner.
Heart-Shaped Napkin
 1. Place a square napkin on a flat surface. Fold two opposite side edges in so that they meet in the center, making a rectangle.
 2. Fold the rectangle in half lengthwise. Rotate the napkin so that the single fold is on the bottom.
 3. With your finger in the center of the rectangle, bring up one end of the napkin until it touches your finger.
 4. Bring up the other end so that the two ends touch and a point is formed on the bottom.
 5. Tuck under the two upper corners to create a heart shape.


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- 1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel "urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle").
Used in noun phrase addle egg (mid-13c.) "egg that does not hatch, rotten egg," literally "urine egg," a loan-translation of Latin ovum urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan-translation of Greek ourion oon "putrid egg," literally "wind egg," from ourios "of the wind" (confused by Roman writers with ourios "of urine," from ouron "urine"). Because of this usage, from c.1600 the noun in English was taken as an adjective meaning "putrid," and thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also "confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed a like course. Related: Addled; addling.


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March 22, 2000
UPTON, NY - Painting a bridge can be a costly and time-consuming undertaking, especially if the paint job doesn't last. So scientists have been working on ways to test paint durability before the brushes even get wet. At a March 22 session at the American Physical Society meeting in Minneapolis, scientists from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, who worked in collaboration with physicist Bent Nielsen of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will present findings that could lead to the development of an extremely sensitive and quick durability test.
The technique is called positron annihilation. Essentially, the scientists bombard small painted samples of metal with a beam of positrons, or positively charged electrons. When these "antielectrons" interact with the electrons in the molecules of the paint, they annihilate one another and send out gamma rays that give the scientists information about the molecules in the paint. The technique can detect nanometer-scale holes and defects in the paint molecules; free radicals, which indicate the presence of broken chemical bonds; and cross linking, which may make the paint brittle.
"These experiments show that this technique is extremely sensitive to detecting damage early," says Brookhaven's Nielsen - well before the formation of any visible cracks in the paint. "So you can test the paint on a much shorter time scale - a day instead of half a year. That's a big advantage," Nielsen says.
The scientists typically test the paint samples before and after exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, one of the components of sunlight known to damage bridge coatings. The more sensitive the paint is to UV damage, the less durable the paint would be on a bridge exposed to sunlight day after day. They've also exposed samples to UV light during the positron annihilation test to see if they could detect the damage as it occurred. In both cases, the damage increased with UV exposure time, and was most severe near the surface of the paint.
In addition to laying the foundation for a quick paint durability test, the detailed observations made possible by positron annihilation may also help scientists learn more about the fundamental mechanisms of paint degradation. That knowledge, in turn, may eventually lead to the development of more durable paints.
Brookhaven was a pioneer in developing positron beams in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, a medical technique used to learn about the function of body organs such as the brain, works on a similar principle, Nielsen says.
This paper will be presented at session L36 on March 22, 2000, at 10 a.m. in the Exhibit Hall of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory creates and operates major facilities available to university, industrial and government personnel for basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences and in selected energy technologies. The Laboratory is operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, a not-for-profit research management company, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Note to local editors: Bent Nielsen lives in Port Jefferson, New York.
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text: There has been a growing need in recent years to further improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. JATCO began mass production of a transmission for rear-wheel-drive (RWD) hybrid vehicle with Nissan in 2010, which was followed by the development of a front-wheel-drive (FWD) hybrid system (JATCO CVT8 HYBRID) for use on a midsize SUV in the U.S. market. While various types of hybrid systems have been proposed, the FWD system adopts a one-motor two-clutch parallel hybrid topology which is also used on the RWD hybrid. This high-efficiency system incorporates a clutch for decoupling the transmission of power between the engine and the motor.The hybrid system was substantially downsized from that used on the RWD vehicle in order to mount it on the FWD vehicle. This paper describes various seal technologies developed for housing the dry multi-plate clutch inside the motor, which was a key packaging technology for achieving the FWD hybrid system.


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Cleaning Tips For Your Electric Cooktop
 - Any spills should be cleaned up right away.
 - Use gentle scrubbing pads to avoid scratching your stove.
 - Clean your cooktop with the ceramic cleaner regularly.
 - To avoid scratches, avoid moving pots and pans across the cooktop's surface.
What's the best way to get my electric cooktop clean?
Clean your stovetop two to three times a week, depending on how often you cook. Clean the cooktop the same day after a part of cooking or on the off chance that you had arranged for an expansive gathering. Too, clean the stove as rapidly as conceivable on the off chance that you spill something or if you burn nourishment on it. The longer you hold up to break down the oil, the more troublesome it'll be.
They cleaned an electric cooktop with a mixture of baking soda, medium-temperature water, and a cleanser.
 - For approximately a minute, make the stove hit.
 - Fill the pot with water and place it on the burner.
 - Baking soda should be used.
 - Allow the paste to rest for a few seconds.
 - Using a washcloth, remove the baking soda all over.
 - Scrub the afflicted area carefully with dish soap and a cleaning utensil.
 - With a cloth, wipe off the remains.
How do you use vinegar to clean an electric stove?
Vinegar is an excellent home cleanser for keeping your stovetop clean. It's ideal for cleaning at the surface level, and it'll give your stovetop a lovely sheen.
Step 1: Before applying the vinegar to your stovetop, mix it with water in a 2:1 ratio
Step 2: Dip a cloth in the solution or simply spray the stovetop.
Step 3: Clean the cooktop with a damp cloth.
What is the best way to wipe away burn scars from an electric cooktop?
Utilize a preparing pop and vinegar blend to eradicate scars from your electric stove. This glue will be slightly more muscular than the one made with heating pop and water. Combine those as the ratio of 2:1
Because vinegar is acidic, it will react with baking soda, which is more basic, and fizzle, softening the burn scars on your stove. To avoid scratches, you should avoid cleaning the cooktop directly.
You can repeat the process until your stovetop is clean if you have difficulties wiping away the burn marks after letting the paste rest for a few minutes.
How often should your electric stove be cleaned?
The truth is that cleaning your electric stove after each user is the most fantastic method to keep it gleaming clean. Every time the furnace is used, clean up any spills using a wet cloth or sponge. The need for a frequent, more profound cleaning session will be reduced due to these little cleans after each meal.
It's best to clean electric stove top burners regularly, if not weekly, to make things simpler for yourself in the future. If you get rid of such areas as soon as they appear, food and oil won't have a chance to get trapped or cause harm. A clean stove top not only helps to preserve your and your family's health, but it also sets the tone for a beautiful kitchen. Please let us know which of these options has proven to be beneficial to you.
Furthermore, if you have any further queries or issues to report, please leave a comment below. Finally, if you have any questions on how to clean an electric cooktop regarding the processes above, this video should help you understand them better:
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In the arena of extreme sports, BASE jumping is among the most dangerous. BASE jumpers leap from fixed objects such as bridges, skyscrapers and cliffs, and freefall for several seconds before parachuting back to earth. Men On The Edge offers a wide-ranging sociological analysis of gender and voluntary risk taking as it unfolds in the context of BASE jumping. This book challenges highly individualistic accounts of voluntary risk taking and extends early attempts to explain the gendered participation in the sport by drawing on wider debates about modernization, individualization, community formation, gender relations and the sociology of the everyday.


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Why are Chinese surgeons so keen on grafting hands onto legs?
This article is more than 2 years old.
After a Chinese man severed his hand in an industrial accident, surgeons decided to graft it onto the patient's leg to keep it from deteriorating. A month later, the hand was replanted onto the arm, and the man is said to be making a slow recovery.
However, this isn't the "groundbreaking surgery it has been made out to be. "The operation is only noteworthy because the picture is eye-catching," Dominic Furniss, a plastic surgeon and associate professor at Oxford University, tells Quartz. "Plastic surgeons perform [equivalent operations] routinely throughout the world on a daily basis."
Replantation surgeries have been performed since 1965. The world's first procedure involved a thumb, but the technique has since been used for arms, legs, ears, and penises. The level of function in the replanted organ can vary, but it's never quite fully functional.
A replantation surgery usually involves three steps. First, the damaged tissue is removed from both portions. This is done to ensure that in case the reattachment fails, the stump can be allowed to heal on its own. Then bones are shortened and joined with pins, wires, or plates and screws, which allows the two parts to be held together. Finally, tendons, arteries, veins, and nerves are repaired, which may sometimes require grafts from other parts of the body or a tissue bank.
A hand replantation typically takes between six and eight hours, according to Furniss. "The patient would begin rehabilitation within one week, and leave hospital within two weeks," he says.
But the Chinese surgeons split the surgery into two parts. Instead of replanting the hand right away, they let the stump heal for a few weeks. In the meantime, they grafted the hand to the leg so that it would survive this period.
The pioneer of grafting surgeries.
Such a graft involves taking easily-accessible blood vessels from one part of the body and attaching them to the severed body part. Ankle, groin, and under-arm areas have such blood vessels. Marko Godina, a Slovenian plastic surgeon, was the first person to perform such a grafting operation in 1984, when he attached an amputated hand to area under an arm.
Tang Juyu of Xiangya Hospital, who performed the recent surgery in China, tells Quartz that he felt the two-part procedure was necessary. The stump was badly crushed and the patient had lost too much blood, which could be dangerous for someone undergoing a long surgery at the outset. And this is the second time Tang is performed such a two-part replantation.
Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, India has seen more than 2,000 replantation surgeries in the last 15 years. Hari Venkatramani, a leading plastic surgeon at Ganga Hospital, agrees with Tang's assessment of the situation.
A single-operation replantation surgery requires removal of damaged tissue, which in a severely crushed stump could mean losing a lot of the body part. If the limb is immediately replanted on to the body part, it might look more grotesque: Think about a hand attached at the elbow.
"For the layman it might look strange, but such two-part replantation surgeries have been performed many times before," Venkatramani tells Quartz. "Such cases are still quite rare, because you need the severed limb to be in a good condition even if the stump isn't."


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class %CSP.Error extends %CSP.ErrorLog
This error page will display information that is designed to make debugging an application easier, if you deploy a CSP application then you should use the %CSP.ErrorLog error page that logs the information or your own error that displays an error message suitable for an end user rather than providing them with a lot of debug information.
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classmethod DisplayError(ByRef ErrorInfo As %String) as %Status [ Language = objectscript ]
Output in HTML the error information in ErrorInfo which is the array provided by DecomposeError().
classmethod HyperEventError() [ Language = objectscript ]
If an error occurs while processing a HyperEvent then this method is called. This method will write out javascript code that will be executed on the browser. Note that the variable 'CSPPage' refers to the'self' of the page on which the Hyperevent was called as this may be different to the current'self'.
You could use this javascript to redirect the browser to another page:
 Write "CSPPage.window.location='/csp/samples/menu.csp';",!
Or you could popup an alert box with the error message in it:
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classmethod OnPage() as %Status [ Language = objectscript ]
Output the error page as HTML. This makes use of the ##class(%CSP.Utils).DisplayAllObjects() call to display as much information as possible about the state of the %request, %response, %server objects when the error occurred.
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2018 General Assembly: All Are Called
June 20-24, Kansas City, Missouri
Grounded in a deep belief that we are all prophets, Unitarian Universalists ask, "How can we faithfully meet the demands of our time?" The call to witness and act for justice in our society and in the world is clear. So, too, is the call to examine our structures and practices, dismantling and transforming those which fail to recognize the full humanity of all people and to honor the interdependent web of life. Join us in Kansas City as we dive deeply into questions of mission for our Unitarian Universalist Association, for our congregations and communities, and for each of us as individuals. Together, we'll ask:
 - Who and how are we called to be at this time, individually and collectively?
 - How are we called to act and to live?
 - How does our Unitarian Universalist legacy strengthen us in living out our mission or challenge the fulfillment of our call?
The call of our faith has a place for each of us. Join us in Kansas City to build courageous, collective leadership with tools, skills and connections.
Proposing Programs for General Assembly
The proposal deadline is Wednesday, Nov 1, 2017 at 3 PM EDT. Find detailed information about proposing a program for General Assembly. Complete and submit the program proposal form by Wednesday, November 1 at 3:00 p.m. EDT.
Program selection will be guided by these questions:
 1. Who and how are we called to be in this time? How can we grow healthy, vibrant leader-full congregations, grounded in mission and willing to take faithful risks to more fully live into our calling? How can leadership in the areas of religious education, stewardship, governance, membership and others nurture and support mission focus in congregations? Programs which emphasize concrete skills for congregational and community leadership are especially needed.
 2. How are we called to act in response to the challenges of our time? What capacities do we need to strengthen and hone? What skills and approaches will help us better partner with others, accepting direction from those most directly impacted by systems of oppression and injustice? How do we nurture spiritual resilience for the long haul?
 3. What can we mine from our Unitarian Universalist legacy, theology, history, and tradition that will strengthen and sustain us in living out our mission? What guidance can we lift up from contemporary Unitarian Universalists whose identities and perspectives have not historically been at the center of our faith? In what ways does our legacy present challenges and impediments to answering our calland what shall we do to address them?
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The automation is a central process in i-score.
It is a curve that represents the variation of the value of an address in time, bounded between a minimum and a maximum, with an optional unit.
It also allows tweening : instead of starting from a fixed point, it will query the current value of its address and adapt its first segment to start smoothly from this point.
This is useful for transitions and will be explained in detail afterwards.
Automations can have multiple break-points.
Between each break-point, in green, there are curve segments, in red.
New break-points can be added by pressing ⌘ (Mac) / Ctrl (Lin/Win) and clicking on the curve :
By default, the curvature of a segment can be modified by clicking on it, pressing Shift and moving the mouse vertically :
For now, this is only possible for the « Power » curve segment type ; this is the default type of a segment.
Other curve segments are available, including the common easing functions :
One can remove points of the automation :
Finally, there are multiple edition modes :
- The default mode locks the moved point between its two closest points.
- Another mode (« unlocked ») allows overwriting them :
- It is also possible to just move the point without overwriting the adjacent points :
When clicking on the parent constraint of an automation (in the previous examples drop0lead33),
its inspector should become visible :
The fields are as follows :
- Address : the address on which the automation will send messages.
Nodes of the device explorer can be dragged here.
It can be of the form :
- aDevice:/anAddress : simple address
- aDevice:/anAddress : if the address is an array, will access the *second* value of the array (e.g. for [27, 12, 5], it will be 12)
- aDevice:/anAddress[angle.radian] : if the address has an unit, will send the value in this unit. The value will be converted back to the address's original unit upon sending.
- aDevice:/anAddress[color.rgb.r] : same as before, but for a specific component of an unit.
- Tween : when checked, the automation will tween from the current value of the address.
The first curve segment will become dashed :
When playing, if the value of the address when the automation is reached is 50, then the first segment will interpolate from 50 to the value of the second point.
- Min / max : the values between which the automation evolves.
The min is the value that will be sent if a point is at the bottom in the curve.
The max is the value that will be sent if a point is at the top in the curve.
The automation tries to send values that are graphically as close as possible as the shown curve.
For the case where the address has no unit :
- If the address is integer or floating point, the behavior is as expected.
- If the address is a fixed-width array, then :
- If there is no array accessor (such as an:/address), all the values of the array are set to the value of the automation ([1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 3], etc.).
- If there is an array accessor, only the accessed value will be set : [1, 1], [1, 2], [1, 3], etc…
For the case where the address has an unit, the value will be converted to the correct unit afterwards.
An interesting case is the cascading of units.
For instance, given this case :
First, the current value of aDevice:/light will be fetched, converted to the hue-saturation-value color space and its value will be set according to the first curve.
Then, in the red-green-blue color-space, the red component will be increased.
The result will be applied.
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