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It is not often that a mining company finds itself headlining space publications and astronomy journals, but that is exactly what happened to North American Nickel (NAN-V, WSCRF-O) when the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland announced that the company's Maniitsoq nickel-copper project was the site of the Earth's oldest-known meteorite impact, dating back 3 billion years.
Maniitsoq is located on Greenland's southwestern coast — around 160 km north of Nuuk, the country's capital — and consists of 4,800 sq. km of exclusive exploration licences. Data on the site reaches as far back as the 1960s, including geophysical work by Falconbridge and Cominco in the late 1990s.
"What impressed me about the project was that Falconbridge reviewed all 119 drill holes that a company from Denmark had completed in the sixties," chairman and CEO Rick Mark explains. "It's really unusual for a company of our size to get our hands on solid information for a land package that big. Sometimes you see rock sampling, but to have that much historic core was quite something — I mean, it is literally ten years' worth of work."
Historic drill work was completed by a private company from Denmark called Kyrolitselskabet Oresund in the mid-1960s, and includes 6,287 metres of drilling at an average depth of 60 metres.
The work focused on exposed sulphide mineralization and associated electromagnetic anomalies. Historic assay results include: 10 metres grading 2.7% nickel and 0.6% copper at the Imiak Hill target in hole 9; 5 metres carrying 2% nickel and 0.43% copper at the Quagssuk target in hole 3; and 13 metres of 2.24% nickel and 0.63% copper at the Fossilik target in hole 1.
Cominco flew a large portion of the Greenland norite belt in 1995 with a Geotem fixed-wing airborne electromagnetic system. The company discovered limited anomalies at the time, though resampling of the historic core by Cominco and Falconbridge demonstrated a relatively high nickel tenor in the sulphides — with Falconbridge's work showing 8% nickel in 100% sulphide. According to Mark the companies were on the right track, but lacked the necessary technologies.
"We looked at the historic airborne data, and figured probably two-thirds of the Cominco stuff wouldn't have seen a thing because they had to fly too high and too fast," Mark comments. "We were sort of familiar with that because we've worked with the Geotech's VTEM system in the past, and we've told the 'low and slow' story with helicopter technology for years. So with the helicopter-born electromagnetic technology and modern computing power, suddenly these anomalies are popping up."
The story's focus shifted slightly following news that North American Nickel was sitting on a major meteor impact site. Anyone familiar with the Sudbury basin in Ontario can attest to the potential geological implications of a large-scale meteoritic event. Major mining outfits like Vale (VALE-N) and Xstrata (XTL-L, XSRAF-O) are still active in what has become one of the richest mineral jurisdictions in the world for nickel-copper and platinum group metal deposits.
"What we ended up looking at was the original thesis of a long-lasting igneous event. We hadn't thought too much about the impact story in the beginning because frankly, we weren't sure the markets would be interested in that side of it," Mark explains. "Of course, it would be interesting to look at something similar to the mineralized camps in the Sudbury basin, but we were worried it would distract from the story. But when we made the announcement it ended up on these space-related websites and all over the place, so we're getting some more exposure because it is a neat idea."
To fund its 2012 exploration program, North American Nickel closed a US$3.4-million private placement with Sentient Global Resources Fund in late May. Sentient received 20 million units at 17¢ per share.
The company's first step was to complete helicopter-flown VTEM surveys. North American Nickel received the results from its airborne geophysical work on July 24, and found that Maniitsoq contained 50 conductive zones, many with promising strike lengths. The company identified 12 high-priority zones it intends to target in a drill program scheduled for mid-August.
"The nickel tenure graph is strictly diagonal, which means it is consistent across the entire seventy-five kilometres," Mark concludes. "Now, at sixto eight-percent nickel, that can only happen if there are multiple events contributing to the structure. We're seeing some light nickel mineralization at surface, and according to our model the mineralization should drop. And sure enough, one hundred sixty metres down there are three football-field sized anomalies sitting there, and we're hoping for nickel sulphide."
Mark says working in Greenland is similar to working in the Canadian Arctic, though he is quick to point out that transporting fuel and supplies to camp is easier because of the area's nearby international airport, and the regional port is ice free year-round. The company has a four-month exploration window similar to operations in the Canadian North, though it's possible to set up winter camps and extend work to 10 months, if the project moves to more advanced stages.
North American Nickel maintains a tight share structure with the Sentient group and VMS Ventures (VMS-V, VMSTF-O) — a company exploring similar deposits in Manitoba and Ontario that shares much of North American Nickel's geological and management teams — holding nearly 50% of the company's fully diluted position. VMS and Sentient also retain a first right, which lets the companies maintain their share structure.
North American Nickel has bounced around the 12¢ to 18¢ range since early April. The company received a bit of a boost on results from its airborne geophysical results on July 24, when shares jumped 19% to a quarterly high of 22¢ at presstime on above-average, 231,000-share volumes. The company has 77 million shares outstanding for a $10.5-million market capitalization.
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Duplicate Elimination Algorithms
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text: Pediatric patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PID) constitute life-threatening medical emergencies. In the absence of an HLA-identical hematopoietic stem cell donor, unrelated donor cord blood transplantation (CBT) is another treatment option. There are little data regarding the outcome of unrelated CBT for PID in Taiwan. We report the results of CBT performed in 8 patients with PID between 2004 and 2013 at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. The cases included severe combined immunodeficiency (n=4), chronic granulomatous disease (n=2), Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (n=1), and T-cell immunodeficiency (n=1). Median follow-up time was 73 months. Most UCB recipients received a myeloablative conditioning regimen. There were 7 boys and 1 girl with a median age of 2.5 months at diagnosis (range, antenatal to 17 mo). Median age at transplant was 5.5 months (range, 2 to 74 mo). All but 1 patients engrafted at a median time of 14 days. One developed significant grade III graft-versus-host disease after transplant. Our data show that unrelated CBT in PID is possible. However, no definite conclusions can be drawn from this small number of patients, and more studies are needed to further investigate and confirm these findings.

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text: Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an alternative, therefore, we investigate the extraction of acoustic embeddings from several self-supervised neural models. We use these representations to compute word-based pronunciation differences between non-native and native speakers of English, and between Norwegian dialect speakers. For comparison with several earlier studies, we evaluate how well these differences match human perception by comparing them with available human judgements of similarity. We show that speech representations extracted from a specific type of neural model (i.e. Transformers) lead to a better match with human perception than two earlier approaches on the basis of phonetic transcriptions and MFCC-based acoustic features. We furthermore find that features from the neural models can generally best be extracted from one of the middle hidden layers than from the final layer. We also demonstrate that neural speech representations not only capture segmental differences, but also intonational and durational differences that cannot adequately be represented by a set of discrete symbols used in phonetic transcriptions.


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EPD - Instructor Resources - Types of Learning & Interaction
EPD Instructor Resources
Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning
Synchronous learning requires real-time interaction between learners and instructors, where they need to be together at the same time whether it be online, in a web or video conference, or in the same physical classroom.
Asynchronous learning enables learners and instructors to interact with one another in a more distributed fashion, and does not require them to be physically together or virtually online at the same time. This provides the flexibility of anytime anyplace learning. Although it should be noted that guidance and constraints should be put on asynchronous learning: for example, learners may be required to complete a given assignment or course within a timeframe.
Blended learning provides a mix of both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Some characteristics and examples of each of these are provided in the following table.
|Synchronous Learning||Blended Learning||Asynchronous Learning|
|The learner is online at the same time as an instructor or other learners.||For at least some of the time, the learner is online at the same time as an instructor or other learners.||The learners is not online at the same time as an instructor or other learners.|
|The course is highly facilitated by the presenter or instructor and often delivered live to students.||A blend of synchronous and asynchronous.||More self-directed study by the learner, although the instructor plays an important role of establishing pace, supporting learners, and keeping students on-task through various communications.|
|The learner gains immediate feedback from the instructor and other learners in real-time.||The learner can gain both immediate and delayed feedback.||The learner gains feedback from the instructor either not at all, or after a delay.|
|Examples: classroom, chat groups, virtual classrooms, videoconferences, teleconferences||Examples: uses any of the examples from both synchronous and asynchronous modes||Examples: learning management system, email communications, online forums, discussion lists|
Having discussed the types of interaction, it is important to note that each category of instruction and type of interaction has implications for methods of delivery. Learning can be presented and delivered o the learner in many different ways and for a range of purposes. A few things to consider when beginning to think about delivery options are the role of the instructor, whiter the learning is blended or not, and what instructional technologies and strategies will be used to deliver the course.
Ideally, all teaching and learning should be effective, engaging, and efficient (Merrill, 2009). Learning should be designed to allow interaction between the instructor, the course materials, and other learners. Students should also be able to obtain clear and consistent feedback on their progress and get assistance whenever it is required. However, the degree of interactivity in learning depends on the goals of the course or module, how the course has been developed, and is dependent on the choices made during the design and development of the course, in the type of instruction and the chosen delivery options.
Broadly speaking, learning can be looked at as having three categories, depending on the degree of interactivity involved. The following table summarizes different types of instruction and interactivity, and provides some examples of each. The best instruction has a mix of all three.
|Category A: (Primarily low interactivity - mainly text, multimedia, or graphic one-way communication)||Category B: (Moderate to high interactivity - has some degree of interaction between learners, instructors, and content)||Category C: (High interactivity - includes learner to learner and learner to instructor interaction)|
|Primarily asynchronous where the learner interacts with the content. Learner consumption of PowerPoint presentation, websites, e-books, podcasts, video, audio, other media.||Interactive resources, quizzes, test, reflective learning, games, simulations, demonstrations, discussions, and forums.||Face-to-face, classroom-based, virtual classrooms, group games, video/web/audio conferences, chat groups, email lists, discussion groups/forums, blogging, wikis.|


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Definition of knotty in English:
adjective (knottier, knottiest)
1Full of knots: the room was paneled in knotty pine
More example sentences
- B-I-N will seal porous surfaces, like new wood, and seal off knots and sappy streaks in knotty pine so they won't bleed through and ruin the paint job.
- The 31-room lodge sits right on Lake Superior and is all Scandinavian, with hand-hewn beams, massive stone fireplaces, and guest rooms of high-gloss knotty pine.
- These range from the pale silvery hue of maple to the warm gold, knotty style of pine, and from the classic mid-brown of oak to the rich darkness of walnut.
1.1(Of a problem or matter) extremely difficult or intricate.
- Mr Dexter said: 'Insurance is increasingly becoming a knotty problem.'
- He spent much time trying to tease out this knotty problem with Laing.
- The newspaper also dwells on the jury selection in the original federal trial, but it never once mentions the truly knotty constitutional issue involved - double jeopardy.
- Example sentences
- This may seem like it has the knottiness and subterfuge of a good spy thriller, but it fails as a drama because every climax is a false climax.
- The difficulty and complexity of the play's plotting is matched by an unusual density and knottiness of syntax.
Words that rhyme with knottydotty, grotty, hottie, Lanzarote, Lottie, Pavarotti, potty, Scottie, snotty, spotty, totty, yachtie, zloty
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Names and Songs are Private PropertyGenerally speaking, in the Yukon, personal names in First Nations languages are private property. They are greatly valued and have profound cultural importance. Great care is given in the way names are preserved and passed down. Often, a new born will receive the name of an ancestor. The name may be conferred in a ceremony by a family elder. No one has a right to give away a name except the family which owns it.
The Yukon Native Language Centre frequently receives requests for aboriginal names for children or pets. The centre does not have the right to pass on names in this way and does not do so. It is possible to provide a word from a First Nations language, which is not used as a name in the culture, but which may be attractive to non-natives as a name for a child or pet. For instance, since no native person would be called "Snowflake", YNLC can provide the word "Snowflake" to be used as a name without violating any traditional rules, practices or values. The page Suggested Names offers some words like this.
The Centre works constantly with elders and speakers of First Nations Languages. Often, on request from the elders, personal names may be collected and transcribed in the modern alphabet. Sometimes these names will appear in the proceedings from literacy workshops. Such names only appear by permission of their owners. The intention is to honour the names by preserving them. These names may not be used by any other person in any way, without permission of their owners.
First Nations songs are also private property. No one may perform or record them without permission of their owner. In a sense, Yukon First Nations names and songs are copyrighted.


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The main difference between certain spectral problems for linear Schrödinger operators, e.g. the almost Mathieu equation, and three-term recurrence relations for orthogonal polynomials is that in the former the index ranges across ℤ and in the latter only across ℤ+. We present a technique that, by a mixture of Dirichlet and Taylor expansions, translates the almost Mathieu equation and its generalizations to three term recurrence relations. This opens up the possibility of exploiting the full power of the theory of orthogonal polynomials in the analysis of Schrödinger spectra.
Aforementioned three-term recurrence relations share the property that their coefficients are almost periodic. In the special case when they form a periodic sequence, the support can be explicitly identified by a technique due to Geronimus. The more difficult problem, when the recurrence is almost periodic but fails to be periodic, is still open and we report partial results.
The main promise of the technique of this article is that it can be extended to deal with multivariate extensions of the almost Mathieu equations. However, important theoretical questions need be answered before it can be implemented to the analysis of the spectral problem for Schrödinger operators.
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As a consequence of the Grenfell Tower fire, a building safety revolution is underway for construction and property professionals. This book analyses prior significant building fires and explains the new building safety regime including the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator. The aim is to provide an explanation of the Building Safety Regime. To that end, coverage includes:
- The Grenfell Tower fire: the Hackitt Review and Public Inquiry
- Remediation of existing buildings
- Legal Framework: the Fire Safety Act 2021 and Building Safety Act 2022
- Building Regulations: Part B Revisions and the Combustible Material Ban
- The Building Safety Regulator
- Guidance and Consultations
Change has arrived for construction and property professionals in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. This book is for readers who have responsibilities in the Built Environment or Real Estate to take the first steps towards implementation and compliance with the new regime.


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Chinese style ceramic dish from Iran (Iran, about AD 1625–1650)
In addition to the economic exchanges between the east and west ends of the Silk Road, cultural and intellectual ideas could also flow. In particular, was the influence of style on craftsmen at either end of the Road.
Here an Iranian potter has imitated the much-admired Chinese blue-and-white style of ceramics. The cobalt blue colouring looks correct, as does the floral design. But Iranians simply didn't have access to the right kinds of raw clay, meaning their imitation pottery lacks a certain finesse and delicacy.
The Chinese ambassador, Ch'en Ch'eng, who visited Afghanistan in 1414, saw the local blue-and-white ceramics and noted:
"The porcelain vessels are extremely fine, and on them are delicately drawn flowers and grass in fine colours. They are extremely beautiful but they do not match the light, blue, clear and sparkling ones of China. If such a vessel is hit, it makes no sound. The nature of clay is like this."


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Galician Blond, or Rubia Gallega Cattle, have a rather glamorous name but remain quite rustic, native to the rough terrain of Spanish hill land. These indigenous cattle make fine beef and dairy cattle! Galician Blond Cattle are very important in their homeland. They do best in extensive care systems, but can adapt to almost any management system.
They are easy to handle and have been used traditionally as draft cattle! Because they were hill cattle, Galician Blond Cattle are usually weather resistant and can survive even on scarce or poor grazing! At maturity, Galician Blond Cattle have medium sized frames and appear well proportioned. Their bodies are deep, massive, and long, and the hindquarters are very well muscled.
Galician Blond Cattle have thick bones, wide backs, and voluminous chests. They range in color from pale cream to bright golden red. The mucous membranes, hooves, and horns are darker in color, usually a rich red chestnut. These cattle have extremely good legs and feet and can move athletically in rocky territory. Their meat is pink and tender, with nice marbling and a carcass yield of about 62 percent!
At maturity, Galician Blond cows can produce 2,239 kilograms of milk per lactation! It is thought that northern Spanish Cattle are descended from cattle brought into the area by the French Celts! Galician Blond Cattle are native to the Monteroso and Carballino regions, and the indigenous cattle from which they are descended are now nearly extinct.
In the 18th century, Galician Blond meat was highly valued in England! The herd book was established in 1933, and in the late 1900's, Simmental, Brown Swiss, and South Devon Cattle were all mixed into the Galician Blond pedigree. Today, the Galician Blond remains in use as a beef, draft and dairy breed. Galician Blond Cattle are traditionally kept in an extensive care system known as the "Monte Gallego" system in Spain.
In the spring, Galician Blond Cattle are driven up into the hill country where they remain until autumn. In autumn, they are brought once more into valley country where they are fed on hay grown during the summer. Galician Blond Cattle are valuable crossbreeders, imparting their genetic hardiness to other breeds. They have very easy calvings and it is quite rare that they ever need assistance.
Galician Blond Cattle are natural, attentive mothers and have good milk production. Their calves have a rapid rate of gain and 98 percent of bull calves are weaned. 98 percent of Galician Blond cows are fertile and the calving interval is about 26 months!


Today on this page, we are going to talk about the laptop battery not charging problem. The problem is when we plug the charger to the laptop, it doesn't charge the battery. It shows the error at the right-bottom corner "Plugged in, not charging".
It would be a really very frustrating and embarrassing situation when you couldn't find the solution of the problem like this. To fix this specific issue, you don't need to apply any huge solution for this. It will be done with a simple trick. We are going to share a tested method to resolve this issue.
We have found its proper solution to fix this specific problem. Please follow the following step-by-step guide to know how to fix it.
laptop battery not charging issue
Error Message: "Plugged in, not charging"
How to Fix "plugged in, not charging" Error
The following methods are for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and Servers operating systems.
 1. Boot your laptop without the battery and then Reinstall Battery Drivers.
 2. Run the Battery's Troubleshooter.
 3. Restore the computer's BIOS to its default settings.
 4. Check your laptop's power adapter is connected properly.
 5. Check the power adapter is not faulty.
 6. Check the Battery Report to diagnose it.
Method 1: by reinstalling battery driver
 1. Take out the laptop battery from the laptop.
 2. Then connect the laptop charger to the laptop's charging port.
 3. Now, turn on your laptop by pressing the power button. The laptop should be booting up because it gets the power from the charger directly, without a battery.
 4. Go to the control panel when your laptop is up.
 5. Go to Device Manager.
 6. In the device manager, double-click on the "batteries". When you double-click on that, you'll get two options (you might get more than two). You need to uninstall all of them under batteries one by one right-clicking on that.
 Uninstall laptop batteries drivers
 7. After that, shut down the laptop.
 8. Put the battery in the laptop again.
 9. Now, start your laptop.
Your problem should be fixed. It will not show you any error message regarding your battery. It will start charging your laptop battery again, and your battery percentage will grow up.
If you found this article helpful, please let me know by leaving a comment. If you have any doubt or not solved your issue then leave a comment, we'll answer your comments there.
Additional methods to fix plugged in, not charging issue.
Try the following techniques if the above first method did not work for you. In the 90% cases, method #1 works.
Method 2: By using Windows Power Troubleshooter
 1. Click on the start button and click on settings.
 2. Click on Update and Security.
 3. Click on Troubleshooting from the left-side pane.
 4. Select the power option from the right-side pane. Then click on "Run troubleshooter". It will be starting for troubleshooting your battery power problem and fix it automatically.
 Sometimes this method will work for you. If it doesn't work, then try the next method.
 Power Troubleshooter
Method 3: Restore BIOS settings to default
 1. Turn off your computer and boot it up into bios. Make sure your laptop is turned off completely.
 2. After turned off, press the power button of your laptop and the continuously press the F10, Delete key from your keyboard to enter BIOS settings. Your bios open key might be different according to your computer laptop's manufacturer.
 3. After getting the bios settings page, press the "F9" key to set default from your keyboard. I will be asking you to save the settings. After that select "Yes" using arrow keys and press enter key to save settings and reboot the computer with default bios settings. After this, your problem should be fixed. If it did not work, then go to the next step. Click here to get more help with it.
 bios set as default
Method 4: Connect charger properly
Here I'll show you how to check your laptop's power adapter is not loose. Here are three different points to check on your laptop's power adapter to ensure that it is not loose and connected properly.
 1. Check the power cable that connects to the laptop's adapter for damage. Remove the input power cable from the adapter and check the plugin socket on the adapter. The input power cable should fix firmly into the socket on the adapter.
 check the power cord
 2. Check the output power cable that starts out from the other end of the adapter. This cable is fixed to the adapter and cannot be removed. Check the output cable for signs of damage at the point where it is fixed to the adapter. The output cable should be firmly attached to the adapter and should not wiggle at that point.
 3. Check the power supply point on the power cable that runs from the adapter to the laptop. This power adapter pin should fit perfectly into the laptop charging port.
Method 5: Check the Power Adapter
Try to use another laptop's charger. If it works for you then the problem is in your charger, please replace it. If it doesn't fix the problem after replacing the charger, then replace your battery.
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Method 6: Check Battery Status
Hey there. In the following text, I will explain to you, how to check your laptop's battery, to see if it is dead/faulty or not!
Your battery, no matter how well you will treat it, will eventually die. This can come suddenly, but some indications can warn you about your battery performance and condition in advance.
Normally, Windows will automatically warn you if your battery reaches a low capacity level. On your standard battery icon, will appear a red X-mark indicating, that your battery is already at a critical point.
While this procedure is a passive one, there are other ways to check your laptop's battery active. The first one is the easiest one, you just install a tool, which informs you automatically on your laptop's battery status.
The second way to check if your laptop's battery is faulty (dead) or not is divided into some steps, listed below:
 1. Press Windows key + X both together or right-click on the Start Menu and then click on Command Prompt (Admin) option.
 2. Type: "powercfg/batteryreport" in the command prompt window and press enter button from your keyboard.
 3. Once you press enter button, the command will execute and the battery life report will be saved to the following path: "C:\Windows\System32\battert-report.html
 4. Go the saved path: "C:\Windows\System32\battert-report.html" and open up the report.
 The second section will show you all the information about the battery (like if it should be checked or replaced).
In this article, we have seen all the possible methods to fix the "Plugged in, not charging" issue. Hopefully, you liked it. Please share your experience with us in the comments section below.
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We present a surface reconstruction technique that constructs a smooth analytic surface from scattered data. The technique is robust to noise and both poorly and non-uniformly sampled data, making it well-suited for use in medical applications. In addition, the surface can be parameterized in multiple ways, making it possible to represent additional data, such as electromagnetic potential, in a different (but related) coordinate system to the geometric one. The parameterization technique also supports consistent parameterizations of multiple data sets.
Grimm, Cindy and Ju, Tao, "Smooth Surface Reconstruction using Charts for Medical Data" Report Number: WUCSE-2006-29 (2006). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.


Cathy Rentzenbrink: The Long Journey to Grief
Cathy Rentzenbrink is an acclaimed author and speaker.
Her memoir, The Last Act of Love, is about the life and death of her beloved brother, Matty, and the impact this had on her life. Matty was left in a Persistent Vegetal State following a car accident just weeks before receiving his GCSE results.
'At what point does a human life cease to be worth living? This question lies at the heart of Cathy Rentzenbrink's extraordinary memoir.' – The Times
In this discussion with Dr Lesel Dawson, a lecturer at the University of Bristol, Cathy talks about the trauma and grief of her brother's accident, and how what happened to him made it difficult to experience or process the grief that followed.
She explores the ethical complexities of decision making around people in Persistent Vegetal States, and how time doesn't relieve grief in and of itself, but rather it's what you do with time. She explains how writing and sharing her story started to help her process her grief, revealing what she wishes she could say to her younger self. Cathy also offers wider advice for those experiencing grief and loss.
Cathy's other books include A Manual for Heartache, which offers a broad look at sorrow, anguish, despair, loss; and Dear Reader, a joyous and moving exploration of Cathy's lifelong love of books, and the ways that reading has influenced her life and supported her mental health and wellbeing.
Dr Lesel Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, specialising in grief, Renaissance literature and the history of the emotions. She's leading a research project on Creative Grieving and writing a book that explores how art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss.
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One of the main goals at AGEWORKS is to educate businesses about potential gains in productivity, revenue and competitive strength that flow from hiring and retaining employees in the 50+ group. Our objective is to raise awareness of the advantages that maturity, knowledge and work ethic provided by 50+ employees offer to business through mentoring, team-building and creating a positive intergenerational culture.
Our services include business training in the following areas:
- Debunking myths regarding baby boomers and their contribution to organizations
- How to attract, engage and celebrate the 50+ worker
- Implementing a successful intergenerational workforce strategy
- Reciprocal mentoring
- Best practice policies
- Transition planning


Symmetric approximate minimum degree permutation
p = symamd(S)
p = symamd(S,knobs)
[p,stats] = symamd(...)
p = symamd(S) for a symmetric positive definite matrix S, returns the permutation vector p such that S(p,p) tends to have a sparser Cholesky factor than S. To find the ordering for S, symamd constructs a matrix M such that spones(M'*M) = spones (S), and then computes p = colamd(M). The symamd function may also work well for symmetric indefinite matrices.
S must be square; only the strictly lower triangular part is referenced.
p = symamd(S,knobs) where knobs is a scalar. If S is n-by-n, rows and columns with more than knobs*n entries are removed prior to ordering, and ordered last in the output permutation p. If the knobs parameter is not present, then knobs = spparms('wh_frac').
[p,stats] = symamd(...) produces the optional vector stats that provides data about the ordering and the validity of the matrix S.
Number of dense or empty rows ignored by symamd
Number of dense or empty columns ignored by symamd
Number of garbage collections performed on the internal data structure used by symamd (roughly of size 8.4*nnz(tril(S,-1)) + 9n integers)
0 if the matrix is valid, or 1 if invalid
Rightmost column index that is unsorted or contains duplicate entries, or 0 if no such column exists
Last seen duplicate or out-of-order row index in the column index given by stats(5), or 0 if no such row index exists
Number of duplicate and out-of-order row indices
Although, MATLAB® built-in functions generate valid sparse matrices, a user may construct an invalid sparse matrix using the MATLAB C or Fortran APIs and pass it to symamd. For this reason, symamd verifies that S is valid:
 - If a row index appears two or more times in the same column, symamd ignores the duplicate entries, continues processing, and provides information about the duplicate entries in stats(4:7).
 - If row indices in a column are out of order, symamd sorts each column of its internal copy of the matrix S (but does not repair the input matrix S), continues processing, and provides information about the out-of-order entries in stats(4:7).
 - If S is invalid in any other way, symamd cannot continue. It prints an error message, and returns no output arguments (p or stats).
The ordering is followed by a symmetric elimination tree post-ordering.
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Compare Reverse Cuthill-McKee and Minimum Degree
Here is a comparison of reverse Cuthill-McKee and minimum degree on the Bucky ball example mentioned in the symrcm reference page.
B = bucky+4*speye(60);
r = symrcm(B);
p = symamd(B);
R = B(r,r);
S = B(p,p);
subplot(2,2,1), spy(R,4), title('B(r,r)')
subplot(2,2,2), spy(S,4), title('B(s,s)')
subplot(2,2,3), spy(chol(R),4), title('chol(B(r,r))')
subplot(2,2,4), spy(chol(S),4), title('chol(B(s,s))')
Even though this is a very small problem, the behavior of both orderings is typical. RCM produces a matrix with a narrow bandwidth which fills in almost completely during the Cholesky factorization. Minimum degree produces a structure with large blocks of contiguous zeros which do not fill in during the factorization. Consequently, the minimum degree ordering requires less time and storage for the factorization.
The authors of the code for symamd are Stefan I. Larimore and Timothy A. Davis (, University of Florida. The algorithm was developed in collaboration with John Gilbert, Xerox PARC, and Esmond Ng, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sparse Matrix Algorithms Research at the University of Florida:
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Completing your kitchen outfit? See what pots you will need for preparing everyday meals.
It's hard to imagine cooking without pots. Here are 4 types of pots that are essential for every kitchen.
1. Traditional pot for everyday dishes
Traditional pots with handles and a lid in various sizes are useful for cooking potatoes, pasta, rice or so-called one-pot dishes like stew or bigos. A set of such pots is essential equipment for every kitchen where fresh dishes are prepared on a regular basis.
2. Saucepan for cooking
A saucepan, or a pot with one long handle, is useful for making sauces, roux, heating milk, or melting butter. It is the second essential pot in our kitchen.
3. Pressure cooker
Thanks to its special, tightly closing lid you can cook in a much shorter time such dishes as bigos, stew, stuffed cabbage or beans in different ways
Steamed food does not lose its nutritional properties, retains its color and firmness. You can steam not only traditional pancakes and vegetables, but also meat and fish. In pots that have several levels with strainers you can cook several different foods at the same time.


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Tropical conditions are challenging to marine engines. Engines require both air and water for cooling, both of which act efficiently in removing heat. However, in the tropics, the warmer air and water temperatures reduce the efficiency of your cooling system. So, what can be done?
Marinediesel takes the first step in rating your engines for the operating climate. This is one of the benefits of using Marinediesel's VGT Series: our NIRA ECU allows such changes in rating, avoiding the sometimes large loss in horsepower often shown by the engines made by our competitors.
What can you do?
- Check the raw water intake and make certain that the seacock is opening / closing properly.
- Make certain coolant levels are topped up.
- Check your strainers for debris or blockages.
- Check your exhaust system to make certain there are no blockages.
- Make certain the air filter is clean and there are no blockages.
- Keep your fuel tank topped up. Warm weather increases condensation in the tank and thus, the likelihood of introducing water in the fuel.
- Make certain that the louvers venting into the engine compartment are not blocked and that there is adequate ventilation. If not, a blower may be required in extreme conditions.
All of this sounds like basic maintenance procedures, and much of it is detailed in your engine manual. It just pays in the long run to pay extra attention to these items if the vessel will be operated in harsh conditions.


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Pitot tube
Another one of those awesome hydrodynamics toys: A Pitot tube!
This is what it looks like:
Pitot tube. The tip pointing downward in this picture would point right into the flow.
What you can't see here is the little hole at the tip of the tube that is pointing downwards in the picture. What the Pitot tube measures is the pressure difference between that hole (the stagnation pressure since it's the stagnation point) and the vents some 3.5 cm above (the static pressure), from which you can calculate the dynamic pressure, hence air speed of a plane (if the Pitot tube was mounted on said plane) or, in our case, the speed of air flow from a fan relative to a stationary Pitot tube.
Again, I'm sadly too lazy to calculate anything, but you can take the measurements from the movie below and do it yourself if you so desire! :-)


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 British an area where there are many houses, usually built at the same time by the same company. Many estates are owned by local government and have cheap houses for poorer families. The American word is development
 He grew up on an estate.
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 She has a team of six people who manage the estate.
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In relational world we have Foreign Keys to reference other entities. But how do document-oriented databases like MongoDb, CouchDb, RavenDb implement references among entities?
Update. StackExchange related example. We have Question entity and its tags. Each tag, is a separate entity so it has its properties (for example, description). How can I reference tags for some Question?
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You can do the same thing as in RMDBs, you reference by identifiers. I use MongoDB, so we can talk about this from that point.
 _id: ObjectId('tag id'),
 tag_name: "nosql",
 tag_description: "blahblah'
Then in the Post
 _id: ObjectId('post id'),
 tags: [
 ObjectId('tag1 id'),
 ObjectId('tag2 id')
 title: "title",
 // etc..
When you load a Post object you can either pull your tags documents as well, or you can pull them from cache. Often you use a ODM (instead of ORM) and it can often handle these references for you. For example, in Mongoid for Rails, you would just say :has_many :tags and it would figure out the rest for you. When you call post.tags it would just return an array of the tags associated with post.
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Does this give the constraint a foreign key gives in a RDBMS? What happens if the tag document is deleted? – johannes Aug 26 '12 at 22:41
There are no constraints. The application will have to deal with that. – Travis Aug 27 '12 at 12:29
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Easy; they don't.
If you want join abilities, you have to implement them in your client code. Some of these APIs do it a little easier by defining a 'Key' type that makes it easy to store and use references, but you have to do a second fetch to get the referenced entity.
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Could you please clarify how I can solve a task which I added to Update by document-oriented database? – Idsa Oct 9 '11 at 13:09
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Religious Organizations & Movements are more modern in origin than the traditional world religions, but our approach to learning about such movements remains the same.
As with different world religions, members subscribed to different religious movements live in a culture of shared beliefs, morals, and values that influence individual attitudes and worldviews. The study of these religious organizations and movements involves developing a deeper understanding of that culture, the impact it has on those who adhere to it and, ultimately, our relationships with those people.
As with witnessing in any specific context, witnessing to someone who subscribes to a particular religious organization or movement first requires developing a real, authentic relationship with that person. In developing that relationship, the witness gains an understanding of that person's attitudes and worldviews, which inform how the witness should go about sharing the Gospel.
The Every One His Witness Context Modules specifically address witnessing to religious organizations and movements.
Modules currently available include:
Modules planned include:
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Christian Science
Preview: Witnessing to Mormons
Preview: Responding to Scientism
Every One His Witness Website
Every One His Witness Self-Study Guide
Genesis 1-11: Foundation for Doctrine and Life
Recorded as a session in the January 2022 Making Disciples for Life conference, this video presents the importance of taking it literally for a Christian worldview, the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and the message of salvation. It includes scientific evidence that corroborates the Biblical account.
- Witnessing (Individual Evangelism)
- Basic Witnessing
- Witnessing in Specific Contexts
- World Religions
- Life Events/Issues
- Human Care
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Have you already re-assigned your sub attribute names to better describe what is physically happening in your facility but you would like to run the new cannabis cultivation tracking functionality?
The New Cultivation Tracking requires several plant categories and sub inventory attributes to be in place in order to track each step of the cultivation process. Without them, it won't know where you want your information to show up. Maybe you have never assigned any sub attributes or categories? Maybe you have and the functions and names of those sub attribute don't match what is needed by Adilas's new Cultivation Tracking? Or maybe you like the names and functionality of the sub attributes you have in place and don't want them to change?
No Problem, we have you covered:
Our new Cultivation Settings Page can help!
Here's how you do it:
- From the Cultivation Homepage, Click the Start Button.
- Click the gear at the top left of the Plant Batch form.
- Here is the tool that will let you MAP your attributes.
- You will need a category for Vendors, Phases, and Harvests.
- You will also need Sub Inventory Attributes for Mother Id, Plant Origin, Plant Batch Number, Wet Weight, Bud/Flower Batch Number, and Leaf/Trim Batch Number. This tool will help you get them.
- If you have never mapped any attributes, click the "Start" Button.
- The software will now take you through each piece one by one.
- First assign the Vendor Category you want assigned from the pulldown menu. Once you have selected one, it will show your selection in green at the top of the page.
- Next Select Phase Categories and Harvest Categories from the menus when prompted. Your selections for each of those categories will be displayed as well.
- Now pick a category from the Plant Category menu. When a category is selected, the corresponding Sub Inventory Attributes will be displayed to the right if you have created any. If you have not, a link to the "Sub Inventory Template Homepage" with be displayed. You may select a different category, or create some new attributes for the selected category by noting if it requires a Numeric or Text Based Sub-Attribute and then clicking on the link to the "Sub Inventory Template Homepage" to create a new sub inventory attribute.
- A new tab will open so you won't lose your place. Next, select the category you would like to
assign new attributes to and click the edit button.
- Write in the name for your new attribute, pick the attribute type if it is a "Text" type attribute or enter a default value (usually zero) if it is a "Numeric" type, then click the "Update Template Settings" Button. NOTE: You will want at least two "Text" type attributes and two "Numeric" type attributes for the "Plant Category"
- Click the "Cannabis Defaults" Tab at the top of the screen to view the Mapping page and re-select the desired category. Now your new attributes will show up to be selected.
- The available sub attributes will be displayed one at a time to assign to the "Plant Mother Id", "Plant Origin", "Plant Batch Number" and "Plant Wet Weight".
- Once assigned, you will be prompted to choose a Bud/Flower Category and sub attribute, and lastly a Leaf/Trim Category and sub attribute.
Finally, click the "Submit" button to map your attributes. You will then be automatically directed back to the plant batch page to start using the new cultivation functionality.
If you have previously mapped sub inventory attributes but would like to swap them out:
- From the "Cannabis Defaults page", click the "Revise" button.
- All of your category and sub inventory attribute assignments will be displayed at the top of the page along with all of the available categories, and the sub inventory attributes will be displayed below. Select each category or sub attribute you would like to swap out and then click the "Submit button" when done.
At the end of the post there are a couple short videos that also explain how to set or edit the cultivation homepage settings.


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Renal registry data is used to increase awareness of the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure among health policymakers. Such data provides critical information to support the planning, delivery, and evaluation of renal services and highlights discrepancies in available kidney care to allocate resources where the need is greatest.
Renal registries have been established and collecting data in Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and North America for over 50 years. Successful renal registries are running in Latin America, Africa, and Malaysia.
Still, many countries do not have renal registries, or available data is collected voluntarily and is incomplete. The international chapter of the USRDS Annual Data Report provides a good summary of these data.
To support further establishment and development of renal registries worldwide, the ISN established a group of experts (the SharE-RR supporting group), working on the development of resources that kidney health advocates can use to establish or develop a renal registry in their countries.
Over the next few years, the SharE-RR team will work to provide:
- An open-access, global inventory of renal registries, including key facts on how they operate.
- Useful advocacy tools and best practices for setting up renal registries.
- Advice and hands-on guidance in setting up renal registries during workshops.
It is likely that people with kidney disease will be disproportionately affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic, either directly by infection or indirectly by the impact of the infection on their local kidney services. It is therefore an important time to monitor the care being delivered to patients with kidney disease and use data to advocate for those at risk of adverse outcomes.
Recognising this, the ISN is leading a number of data collection initiatives on COVID-19. Learn more by following the links below. To learn more about the ISN's work on COVID-19, please visit here.
- Renal Registries: Through its SharE-RR network, ISN is maintaining a record of which dialysis and transplant registries have established COVID-19 surveillance systems and whether they would be willing to share lessons from materials they had already developed. The aim is to facilitate a more coordinated collection of data on COVID infection in people with kidney disease worldwide. Learn more through the 'Renal Registries' tab above on this webpage.
- Coronation: The team in Cambridge, UK, has developed CORONATION – the Coronavirus multinational observational registry – a data entry portal that collects anonymised data on individual people with kidney disease and COVID-19 infection in countries. This is not intended to replace or duplicate existing data collection initiatives, where they exist, but rather to offer a solution to countries without out such initiatives. Reporting clinicians will need to register and confirm that local permissions to submit data are in place, though these should be minimal given the anonymous nature of the data. For more information see _URL_ or email _EMAIL_.
- ISN-DOPPS: In collaboration with the DOPPS Program team at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Michigan, USA, ISN is also conducting a 'practice patterns' survey of the impact of COVID-19 on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis programs around the world. The surveys will be offered to random samples of ~20 dialysis facilities in all countries via the ten ISN regional boards. Countries currently active in DOPPS will not need to repeat the survey, but their data will be combined with the other countries to produce a global picture. For more information please contact _EMAIL_.
The 0by25 Initiative has been gathering data through various projects over the last 5 years in order to demonstrate the global burden of AKI, especially in low and middle-income countries. This data is used to better understand AKI's prevalence and to improve diagnostic and treatment methods.
Learn more about these projects and their data collection here.


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This will change the instance data too, and now our structure will contain the updated value for the name. This is quite useful, and you can see that you did not have to modify anything, unlike C or C++, Go does not require you to use other operators like -> to access data from pointers. Data from pointers is accessed in the same fashion, as it is accessed from normal variables.
Panic recovery in Go
Exception handling in Go follows the same patterns as they had in C language. There is no try...catch block in Go language, you raise an error, and you handle in other procedures, by checking what has been set up in external modules, or your own module. You must have seen how we tried to return the error from a function, based on how it was provided the arguments. In case your function cannot proceed, then you need to call panic and pass the value indicating the problem. For example, imagine you are trying to download the data for the Person type, and the network is unavailable, then you must panic, there is no way to recover from this error, same is the case if you are loading the data from a file, and somehow you can either not file the file, or the file cannot be created/accessed.
 1. func namelength(buffer NetworkBuffer) (count int, problem error) {
 2. // Just imagine, please.
 3. if buffer == nil {
 4. panic("Network buffer is nil.")
 5. }
 7. var person Person
 8. person.name = buffer.Readstring()
 9. return len(person.name), nil
 10. }
Panicking starts to close the stack of your program until there is no module left. Within those functions, and modules, you can resolve anywhere. You use the recover function call in Go program, that will help you to get the problem that was raised, and you can try to recover from there, if not possible then you can proceed onwards. The way to do this is by using the defer functions, these functions are called once the function that encloses them finishes executing. Like this,
 1. func crashingfunc () {
 2. defer func () {
 3. problem := recover()
 4. if problem != nil {
 5. fmt.Println(problem)
 6. }
 7. }()
 9. panic("Calling panic function call to be caught in deferred function")
 10. }
This is the way, that you can perform post-execution actions, like exception tracing, closing any resources that you are currently holding access to. The deferred functions are always called, think of them like try...finallycalls, where finally will always be called even if code crashes.
Remaining topics...
Go has so many other topics that should be covered, topics like concurrency, packages, networking, data interchange, and so many more topics need to be discussed in Go language, and they require a separate post of their own. I am planning to write a bit more posts on this topic and then will move onwards to some more advanced concepts like containerization of Go program, or how to perform cryptographic operations on the data.
Until then, consider checking out the code that I have supplied with this post, and explore them, create your own type alias, create functions, work around with pointers and non-pointer types. One thing I should ask from you, try exploring the arrays, and try to see where arrays fail.


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ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2011) — What's in a name? Letters. And psychologists have posited that the letters -- particularly the first letter of our names -- can influence decisions, including whom we marry and where we move. The effect is called "implicit egotism."
In 2008, two Belgian researchers found that workers in their country were more likely to choose a workplace if the first letter of its name matched their own.
A commentary published in and upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, revisited the study with similar U.S. data and found that the Belgians got the cause and effect exactly backwards. And that might make us more skeptical about the effects of implicit egotism.
"Walt Disney worked for a company starting with D not because of an unconscious attraction to that letter," writes University of Pennsylvania associate professor Uri Simonsohn, "but because he so christened it."
Simonsohn analyzed records of political donations made during the 2004 campaigns, which include donors' names and employers. Like the Belgians, he found that the first initials matched. But then he compared those first-letter matches with matches of the first three letters -- which more accurately reflect the actual names of both the people and the firms.
Analyzing the two side by side, he found that the effect of the one-letter match dropped away -- while the three-letter sharing increased the match of person to company a striking 64-fold. Why? Because many people work at firms they named or at those founded by their grandfathers or brothers.
Simonsohn doesn't discount implicit egotism altogether. "Having young children, I can't imagine people don't like their own letter more than other letters," he says. But letter preference is more likely to influence decisions about which you are "indifferent or ignorant" -- say, choosing a wine or even a mutual fund you know nothing about.
"Not that it makes no difference -- but the differences it makes in really big decisions are probably slim," Simonsohn continues. There, the first letter of the organization's name is but "one unit of difference." When you're thinking about where to work or whom to marry, "there are thousands of units to consider."
Story Source: The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by Association for Psychological Science.


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Remus/Setup Remus for Backlogging
The following Tutorial will show you how to setup a fresh install of Remus to use as a backlog for Links and Notes. At the end you'll have a configured instance which can be used for backlogging your links notes and source-code snippets that are immediately shared.
NOTE All screenshots are made with the Remus Standalone Build (RCP) if you use Remus in your Eclipse IDE the appearance will be slightly different. Some actions are different
Step 1: Installing the required information units
Therefore open the Eclipse marketplace and install the information types "Link" and "Text" (see picture). This will install 4 new information types (LINKS, Unformatted Text, Formatted Text, SourceCode).
After the installation you'll be asked to restart the application.
Step 2: Setup the Webshot-Functionality (Optional)
An important feature for backlogging links to have a visual representation of the link. A webshot (a screenshot of the webpage) is optimal for this need. There a few free handy tools doing webshotting but unfortunately a distribution is not possible due to Licensing issues, you have to download the items for your own. To setup the webshotting open the Preferences at Remus->Information types->Links. Remus supports for each platform at least one webshotting tool.
- Select with the pulldown the tool for your operating system
- Click on the download link. You'll be redirected to the official page of the provider of the tool
- Download and unzip the tool into any location
- Enter the location to the recently extracted executable (for Mac: the location of the script) in the text field.
The following picture shows IECapt (Windows). The IECapt.exe is extracted into C:\
The setup of webshotting is optional and can be done also if you already have created information units in your workspace.
If you minimize Remus the desktop-panel will appear. By default it will have three desktop-sections.
- A search input field
- The Drop-Section with a borders area where you can drop things or a Paste-Button to forward the input of your clipboard to Remus.
- The notifications
The most important section is for us the Drop-Section. With this section you drop anything you want into the application (alternatively the content of your clipboard). To convert the data into a data-structure that is readable by Remus and makes sense for you, you can write rules. Rules are triggered on several events, e.g. if you drop text content into this section. Remus gives you a selection of possible relevant rules, you select a rule and the rule is executed. In the most cases the result of this execution is a new information unit is Remus. The most important thing is that you don't have to click through dozens of dialogs you can create a new information without any user-interaction.
By default no rules are installed (excepting the rules to install rules). For installing new rules Remus eats its own dogfood. At first we try to install a simple rule. Therefore select link section below and either drop it into the drop-section.
Drop this link into the Remus drop section
If you have no possibility to drag a link, open the link and drag or copy-past the contained content.
After the drop you'll see a new popup which gives you the choice of relevant rules to execute. Click on the "Install" Rule, select the Rule to install and press okay. Now what happened? The following image describes the workflow
- We have dropped the link to the Section. The rule engine will check if there is one or multiple rules that could deal with the data you have dropped
- You get a popup
- IDE users have several markets installed. They have to switch to the Remus Marketplace (see the link under the content-listing)
- IDE users have a separate Action with the Remus Icon in their main-toolbar.


Year 6 took part in a team work activity during their PSHE mental health lesson
The children were given the task to build a bridge using only 10 sheets of newspaper and had to place a water bottle on top of their finished bridge. The chairs supporting the bridge, must be exactly 43cm apart.


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Data Management Platforms (DMPs) are software systems that collect, store, and analyze data from various sources to help healthcare marketers make data-driven decisions. These platforms are designed to help healthcare marketers better understand their target audiences and make more informed decisions about how to reach them.
DMPs collect data from a variety of sources, including website analytics, social media, and offline data sources such as point-of-sale systems. The data is then organized and analyzed, providing healthcare marketers with a comprehensive view of their target audience.
One of the key benefits of DMPs is their ability to segment audiences based on specific characteristics, such as demographics or behavior. This allows healthcare marketers to create targeted campaigns that are more likely to resonate with specific groups of people.
DMPs can be used to segment audiences in a number of ways. For example, healthcare marketers can segment audiences based on demographics such as age, gender, and location. They can also segment audiences based on behaviors such as website browsing history or social media activity.
Once an audience has been segmented, healthcare marketers can use this information to create targeted campaigns that are more likely to resonate with that specific group of people. For example, if a healthcare marketer knows that a particular group of people is more likely to be interested in a certain type of healthcare product, they can create a targeted campaign that specifically targets that group.
DMPs can also be used to personalize the customer experience. By collecting and analyzing data about a customer's behavior and preferences, healthcare marketers can create customized experiences that are more likely to resonate with that individual.
For example, if a healthcare marketer knows that a particular customer is interested in a certain type of healthcare product, they can use that information to recommend similar products or send customized email campaigns. This can help increase customer engagement and ultimately drive sales.
Data Management Platforms (DMPs) are powerful tools that can help healthcare marketers make data-driven decisions. By collecting and analyzing data from a variety of sources, DMPs provide healthcare marketers with a comprehensive view of their target audience. This information can then be used to segment audiences, create targeted campaigns, and personalize the customer experience. With DMPs, healthcare marketers can make more informed decisions about how to reach their target audience, ultimately driving sales and increasing customer engagement.
A DMP (Data Management Platform) is a software tool used to collect and analyze large volumes of data from multiple sources. It helps businesses manage customer data, create targeted marketing campaigns, and improve customer experiences.
A DMP can store first-party, second-party, and third-party data. This includes data from websites, social media, email campaigns, mobile apps, and other online platforms. The data is then processed, analyzed, and stored in the DMP for further use.
Using a DMP for marketing can help businesses improve customer targeting and personalization, optimize marketing campaigns, increase customer engagement and loyalty, and enhance overall customer experience.
A DMP and a CRM system serve different purposes. A DMP is used to manage large volumes of data from multiple sources, while a CRM system is used to manage customer interactions and relationships. A DMP is used to create targeted marketing campaigns based on customer data, while a CRM system is used to manage customer interactions and customer service.
Some popular DMPs in the market include Adobe Audience Manager, Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce DMP, Lotame, and Krux.
Yes, a DMP can be integrated with other marketing tools such as ad servers, demand-side platforms (DSPs), and supply-side platforms (SSPs). This allows businesses to create more targeted and effective marketing campaigns.


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Ray, Romita:
Under the Banyan Tree : Relocating the Picturesque in British India / Romita Ray. - New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale University Press, 2013. - xi, 360 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-0-300-18769-4
US$ 85,00
DDC 704.949954
Under the Banyan Tree is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the British Raj. Romita Ray argues that this concept allowed British artists and writers traveling in India to aestheticize the Indian landscape, its people, and the biota (the banyan tree and the elephant, above all). These ideas not only shaped specific landscapes in India, but also fed the imagination of a global audience throughout the British empire. The material in this engaging text ranges from river landscapes and tea plantations to elephants and bejeweled Indian princes, shedding light on how the concepts of picturesque beauty and pleasure were diversified in India, sometimes dramatically beyond their conventional parameters. Exquisitely illustrated with unusual and beautiful images, Under the Banyan Tree is both a starting point for examining the function of the picturesque and an insightful addition to scholarship investigating British art and empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. [Verlagsinformation]
Acknowledgments. ix
Introduction: The Picturesque Prism. 1
1. Along the Water's Edge. 19
2. A Cup of Tea in a Veil of Mist. 53
3. A Grove in the Banyan. 97
4. Imperial Phantoms. 153
5. The Tusks of Empire. 201
Epilogue: Continuities. 261
Notes. 268
Bibliography. 312
Index. 349
Romita Ray was born and raised in Calcutta. She is an associate professor of art history at Syracuse University, New York. Profile page.
Quellen: Yale University Press; WorldCat; Bookbutler; Library of Congress
Bildquelle: Yale University Press
Bibliographie: [1]


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According to folklore, you can predict the weather with a persimmon seed. Here's how to do it:
Cut open a persimmon seed. (Find persimmon fruit in your supermarket. It should be locally-grown to reflect your weather.)
Look at the shape of the kernel inside.
- If the kernel is spoon-shaped, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall. Spoon = shovel!
- If it is fork-shaped, you can expect powdery, light snow and a mild winter.
- If the kernel is knife-shaped, expect to be "cut" by icy, cutting winds.
It's best to use ripe seeds.
That's it! Now, what did you see?


can tell, there is no given formula. I merely read the graph to come up with my numbers. $\endgroup$ – Dave Coffman Sep 7 '17 at 20:14
This is another chance to use one of my favorite approximations ever! I first offered it as an answer to a question about how deep a platform diver will go into the water. Now is the chance to use it again!
Issac Newton developed an expression for the ballistic impact depth of a body into a material. The original idea was expressed for materials of approximately equal densities when the ballistic body is moving fast enough for the target material to behave as a fluid (think cannon ball into dirt, meteorite into lunar regolith, etc). For a human body into snow, we can assume it will behave in a granular enough fashion.
The human body has a density of roughly $985 kg/m^3$. Using the two limits for the density of snow provided in another answer to this question, snow has a density between $300$ and $900 kg/m^3$. Let's assume the characters are 5 feet tall (you can easily change the number used, it's not a complicated formula). This gives us two limiting expressions:
$$d = 5 \times 985/300 = 16.4~\text{feet}$$
$$d = 5 \times 985/900 = 5.5~\text{feet}$$
So it really would depend on the actual density of the snow, but if you assume that it starts out around $300 kg/m^3$ and can reach a maximum of $900 kg/m^3$, we can assume that the final depth will be close to the same as assuming the average value as $600 kg/m^3$ which would give:
$$d = 5 \times 985/600 = 8~\text{feet}$$
That will give you a pretty good idea of the penetration depths over that range of densities. These numbers are all pretty close to what is given assuming the ideal deceleration given by this answer.
If you want to do a much more complicated analysis of penetration depth, check out the other, more detailed answer to the platform diver question. There it is actually shown that the penetration depth approaches this Newtonian approximation pretty well! It is also interesting to note that the penetration depth does not depend on the impact velocity/original height. Assuming one is going "fast enough" for the material to behave like a fluid, the expression seems to hold.
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 $\begingroup$ "the girls are 5 feet tall" - Anna is female, Kristoff is male, and listed as "tall": disney.wikia.com/wiki/Kristoff $\endgroup$ – mskfisher Feb 26 '15 at 12:01
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Yeah... Like I said, never saw it and my ignorance is showing... $\endgroup$ – tpg2114 Feb 26 '15 at 17:02
Nice theoretical answers (I can certainly appreciate them, I'm a mathematician). But why delve into theory when experiment is available? In this video you can see a skier jump from more than 200 feet and get head first into the snow, without a helmet.
The video starts with the aftermath, if you want to see the jump right away fast forward to about 1 minute into it.
 - $\begingroup$ Spoiler: the linked clip title indicates this was a planned world-record attempt. He goes in head-first and is buried far enough that only his skis are showing. The voiceover from the paramedic (who was standing by) is that he split his lip but is otherwise fine. The clip ends with the skier slaloming off down the rest of the hill. $\endgroup$ – brichins Sep 5 '17 at 21:59
About 50 years ago in Reader's Digest there was an article about a Soviet airplane pilot who bailed out at high altitude. He fell into a snow-filled ravine and survived. If the angle of the snow is high enough it is no big deal. At Squaw Valley I have seen skiers do drops that might have been 100 feet. If the landing is steep enough it is OK. It is "flat landings" that will get you.
Rock climber Lynn Hill fell 100 feet onto a dirt slope. She not only survived, she recovered completely.
Stunt men do quite high jumps onto airbags. 100 feet onto 20 feet of snow seems possible, but I wouldn't try it if I had any alternative.


Tree – Determining Age
Q: I am trying to find out the age of several live oak trees at my father-in-law's house in north Florida. Is there some general way to determine their age based on their diameter?
A: According to Certified Arborist Brian Arnold _PHONE_), determining the age of the oaks through non-invasive observation would be almost impossible. The diameter of the trunk is influenced by many factors, including soil conditions, rainfall and sun exposure. The trunk of a hundred year old tree growing in a good spot might be twice the size of an equally aged tree growing in poor conditions.
It is possible to count tree rings using a tool called an increment borer. The tool bores a hole in the tree trunk and removes a slender core of tissue reaching the center of the trunk. Brian advises against the borer tool because the hole can give insects and diseases access to the trunk interior.
Maybe your best bet is to try contacting previous owners of the house to ask about their earliest memories of the trees.
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Historically, purple has conveyed royalty, nobility, and bravery. In the military, we learn that purple means jointness. It is a color that symbolizes unity, peace, and cooperation. These are qualities we need to recapture in our district—blue and red working together again.
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text: March 7th marked the day Eastwood third grade students loaded up and headed out west! The STEM challenge had students using their knowledge about simple machines, force, and Missouri's history including The Oregon Trail. Students were tasked with designing and creating a Conestoga Wagon using 2 straws, 10 toothpicks, 2 pipe cleaners, a chunk of cardboard, a large piece of paper, and some masking tape. The wagon had to be able to withstand the weight of a Little Hug Fruit Barrel. The students decided that the most challenging part of the task was creating wheels that would spin freely on the axel, then finding a way to attach the wheels and axel to the wagon.


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Is there a way to execute a line of code only if multiple statements are false?
I have an inventory:
inventory = {
 {"Images/Category 1/pistol1.png", false},
 {"Images/Category 1/machinePistol1.png", false},
 {"Images/Category 2/shotgun1.png", false},
 {"Images/Category 2/assaultRifle1.png", false},
 {"Images/Category 3/sniperRifle1.png", false},
 {"Images/Category 3/rocketLauncher1.png", false}
And I'd like to write a function that executes a line of code if all those statements are false, but obviously executes something else if even one of them is true.
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You can use a variable, and assume it's true
local IsEverythingTrue = true
-- the **for** statement is a loop. It will allow us to operate
-- the same way on any number elements in inventory.
-- _,v stands for variables that we are going to read from inventory table
-- we can't do it directly, however; **ipairs** function will prepare it so
-- _ will hold numerical index of each element (1, 2, 3 and so on);
-- we don't use it, though, so I put in a placeholder name
-- v will hold every value, so your two-element table
for _,v in ipairs(inventory) do
 -- if any value of v[2] is false, break
 -- v[2] is equal to inventory[_][2]
 -- if not v[2] can be written as
 -- *if value of v[2] isn't true*
 if not v[2] then
 -- in this case, after first non-true element has been found
 -- we know that not every one is true, or there is at least one false
 IsEverythingTrue = false
 break -- we don't have to check anything else
Then use that variable in expression
if IsEverythingTrue then
 -- do something
 -- do something else
If you want it to execute with multiple falses, just count them. Add local falseCount = 0 at the beginning, and change break for falseCount = falseCount + 1.
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That seems awfully complicated... I actually managed to solve it just now by using if (inventory[1][2] == false and inventory[2][2] == false and, etc, etc... Not the prettiest code, but it seems to work – Cleverbird Jan 17 '13 at 11:25
_USER_ What if you'll want to add something to the inventory? You will need to add another clause to your if statement. My approach is just a for loop, which will work regardless of number of elements in inventory. Besides, you can put this code into function, just like you wanted to. – Bartek Banachewicz Jan 17 '13 at 11:43
_USER_ it seems you don't understand some really basic concepts of programming such as loops thus I recommend reading some tutorials or documentation first. – Miszy Jan 17 '13 at 11:48
The thing is, I need to be able to understand the code myself, and I really cant tell what that snippet of code really does. I'd rather not blindly copy paste code, without knowing what it does. – Cleverbird Jan 17 '13 at 12:04
_USER_ that's not a problem. You should've asked for clarification at once. – Bartek Banachewicz Jan 17 '13 at 12:13
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Silkworm Diseases
The mulberry silkworm is susceptible to various diseases and is attacked by parasites and pests. Various types of silkworm diseases of larvae are caused by virus, bacteria, fungus and protozoa. These diseases of larvae cause great trouble and loss to the silkworms. So each and every of the silkworm diseases are to be treated seriously, otherwise can create epidemic. There are four major diseases that are caused by parasites and these diseases are :
(i) Pebrine
(ii) Flacherie
(iii) Grasserieand
(iv) Muscardine.
It is a dangerous disease to the silkworms and the causative organism is the Nosemabombyc is belonging to the phylum protozoa. During the year 1865-70, this disease is first diagnosed by the great Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur. This silkworm disease is transmitted through the egg of the mother silkworm and also through ingestion of contaminated food.
Symptoms of Pebrine:
Pebrine disease
Pebrine disease
(i) Infected eggs are lacking adhesive gum and so they are easily detached from the card board.
(ii) The larvae become sluggish and dull.
(iii) They have poor appetite and stop feeding.
(iv) The larvae in a rearing tray are of various sizes due to unequal growth.
(v) Infected larvae are lacking lusture.
(vi) In the advanced stage of the disease, there are irregular black spots as pepper grains on the body of the larvae. So the disease is named as pebrine.
Prevention and Control of Pebrine :
(i) After laying of eggs the female moth is crushed and the fluid of the moth is examined under the microscope ; if the spores of the Nosernabombysisare ovserved in the fluid then all the eggs are to be destroyed to control these silkworm diseases.
(ii) Disease free eggs are dipped in a 2% formalin solution for few minutes and then washed in running water for rearing.
(iv) Disinfection of rearing room, frequent inspection of larvae in the rearing tray and destruction of diseased larvae are the general preventive measures.
This disease generally occurs in the mature larvae and caused mainly by bacteria like streptococcus and Staphylococcus.
Symptoms of Flacheria :
Flacherie infected silkworm
Flacherie infected silkworm
(i) In this case there is loss of appetite in the larvae.
(ii) The larvae become sluggish and grow slowly.
(iii) The skin of larvae becomes inelastic and softening of body take place.
(iv) In the advance stage of the disease, the larvae vomit liquid material and evacuate loose bowel.
(v) The larvae become motionless, discolored and flaccid.
(vi) The body becomes black and then death occurs.
Prevention and Control of Flacheria:
(i) The diseased silkworms should be isolated from the rearing tray and then destroyed.
(ii) Maintain normal temperature, humidity and ventilation of the rearing room, supply healthy and good leaf as food, avoid overfeeding, avoid overcrowding in the rearing room etc. are necessary to prevent such silkworm diseases.
This disease is caused by a virus.
Symptoms of Grasserie:
(i) In such case of infection the larvae lose its appetite and become yellow.
(ii) The body becomes swollen and shiny.
(iii) The blood of the larvae becomes turbid like pus and when the skin is broken, milky pus flows out which is known as jaundice of the silkworm.
Prevention and Control of Grasserie:
(i) The diseased larvae should isolated from the rearing tray and subsequently the larvae
(ii) Suitable leaves, proper ventilation and spacing are selected for the rearing of silkworm.
These silkworm diseases are caused by a fungus known as Beuveriabassiana.
Symptoms of Muscardine:
Mascardine infection
Mascardine infection
(i) In such infection the diseased larva loses appetite and as a result it becomes sluggish.
(ii) The body of the larvae becomes stiff.
(iii) The body is covered with white powder like material.
(iv) The larva ultimately becomes dead and appears like a chalky white stick.
Prevention and Control of Muscardine:
(i) The infected larvae are removed and destroyed.
(ii) Good ventilation and normal humidity are to be maintained in the rearing room.
Except such silkworm diseases there have also some enemied of silkworm such as rats, ants, house lizards etc., whenever they got opportunity, they utilize the silkworm as their food material. But these enemies are of minor importance in comparison to pests. The most dangerous enemy of silkworm is the parasitic fly which is commonly known as 'Uzi' fly (Tricholygabombycis). If this fly enters inside the rearing room, the female fly lays eggs on the silkworm larva and after hatching the young maggots of the fly feed on the silkworm larvae. Thus the parasite kills its host and causing heavy damage.
Prevention is to use fine wire-net is to be fitted in the windows and door of the rearingroom, so that the fly cannot enter inside the room. This is only preventive measure against such fly.


Using Microsoft Query to design your queries
Environment:Visual C++ 5 (and above)
Setup procedure
When designing a database application it's required to sometimes make the user design a query. The programmer could write his own graphical query designer, but why not use Microsoft Query? This document describes the design and usage of the MSQuery class. This is a class which will communicate with Microsoft Query. This class is not completed to support all MSQuery DDE commands, but will be enough to create a query in MSQuery and to modify a query in MSQuery. This class and this article uses the Dynamic Data Exchange Management library. This makes the usage of DDE much easier. First the header file of this library must be included in the source. When using MFC this could best be put in stdafx.h. At the moment this _TAG_ is put in the headerfile of the MSQuery class.
_TAG_
Using this library requires the linkage of user32.lib. This shouldn't concern you, because with Visual C MFC, this is done automatically. But you must ensure DDEML.DLL is in your system directory. When this is done, Visual C is ready to use the DDE library of Microsoft. Of course also Microsoft Office should be installed, well at least MSQuery. This article was tested with Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office 2000 Beta2. This article is split up in three parts: the first part describes very briefly the DDEML library. With only the vital information required understanding the rest of the article. The second part describes some basic concepts of MSQuery. And the last part describes how to use the MSQuery classes.
Very Short Introduction DDEML
Initialising DDEML
To use the Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library, you must first initialise it and get an instance-id from it. This can be done by the following piece of code:
// DWORD idInst, The instance ID, required for every DDEML library
// DdeCallback is a callback function, see below for more details
// The third parameters are a number of flags
// 0 is a reserved parameter, which should be 0.
Connecting to the server
When the library is initialised there must be made contact with a DDE server. To do this there must be passed two strings to a special function: the server name and the topic name. It is not possible to pass a normal pointer to a character array (string) to it. The functions of DDEML require the use of string handles. But this isn't very difficult, because DDEML has got several standard functions for this. Below are the two most important string functions.
Creating a string handle:
HSZ DdeCreateStringHandle(DWORD idInst, LPTSTR psz, int iCodePage);
// idInst = the instance id obtained from DdeInitialize
// psz = the string to create
// iCodepage = the codepage used for this string
// CP_WINANSI = for the normal ansi characterset (default)
// CP_WINUNICODE = for a unicode string
// Returns: the string handle (or NULL when error)
Deleting a string handle:
BOOL DdeFreeStringHandle( DWORD idInst, HSZ hsz);
// idInst = the instance id obtained from DdeInitialize
// hsz = the handle of the string obtained from DdeCreateStringHandle
To connect to a server, there must be passed two strings to the DDEML: the servername and the topicname. The function, which gets a conversationhandle to the DDE conversion, is the following:
HCONV DdeConnect( DWORD idInst, HSZ hszService, HSZ hszTopic, PCONVCONTEXT pCC);
// idInst = again is the instance id obtained from DdeInitialize
// hszService = a stringhandle of the service (or server) name.
// hszTopic = a stringhandle of the name of the topic.
// pCC = Conversation context information (can usuable be NULL)
// Return: the conversation handle (or NULL when error)
After getting a conversationhandle, it is possible to communicate with the DDE server.
Executing a transaction
To make the server execute a given function, the following command could be used:
HDDEDATA DdeClientTransaction( LPBYTE pData, DWORD cbData, HCONV hConv, HSZ hszItem, UINT wFmt,
 UINT wType, DWORD dwTimeout, LPDWORD pdwResult);
This is a pretty complex function, but not all parameters are required. In this article only this form is required for execution:
HDDEDATA DdeClientTransaction( commandstring, strlen(commandstring), hConv, 0, 0, XTYP_EXECUTE, timeout, result);
// commandstring is the command to execute
// hConv = the handle obtained from DdeConnect
// XTYP_EXECUTE = the type op transaction
// timeout = how long to wait on server (in ms) or TIMEOUT_ASYNC to not wait for the completion of the command.
// result = the result. When using TIMEOUT_ASYNC this will be the transaction handle.
// return value will be!= NULL when the function was successfull.
Using TIMEOUT_ASYNC will have as result, that the callback function (see below: Callback function) will be called when the DDE command is executed.
Retrieving information
To retrieve information from the server, the following function should be used. Again it's a variant on DdeClientTransaction:
HDDEDATA DdeClientTransaction((LPBYTE)NULL, 0, conv, str, CF_TEXT, XTYP_REQUEST, timeout, &res);
// conv = the conversation handle from DdeConnect
// str = a string handle of the item to get
// CF_TEXT = the format of information to get. (CF_TEXT is string)
// XTYP_REQUEST = the type of transaction
// timeout = the timeout interval in ms, to wait for the result.
// result = the result.
// return value will be the data handle to the requested information.
When the return value of above function is a nonzero value. The DDE transaction was successful and the data can be retrieved. It would be nice to know the size of the result. The result will be a string, because we used CF_TEXT. This is very easy:
int size = DdeGetData(dta, NULL, 0, 0);
// dta = the data handle returned from DdeClientTransaction
When we've got the size, we could reserve memory and get the data: DdeGetData(dta, (unsigned char*)buf, size, 0); // dta = the data handle returned from DdeClientTransaction // buf = a pointer to the buffer, to return the string to. // size = the size of the buffer.
When done delete the handle:
The Callback function
It would also be nice to implement a callback function. This function is called for example, when a TIMEOUT_ASYNC transaction is finished. This is the general callback function:
HDDEDATA CALLBACK DdeCallback(UINT uType,UINT uFmt, HCONV hconv, HSZ hsz1, HSZ hsz2, HDDEDATA hdata, DWORD dwData1, DWORD dwData2)
 switch (uType)
 return (HDDEDATA) NULL;
 return (HDDEDATA) DDE_FACK;
 // this one is called after a finish of TIMEOUT_ASYNC
 return (HDDEDATA) NULL;
 return (HDDEDATA) NULL;
 return (HDDEDATA) NULL;
For the details about this callback function look at the DDEML documentation.
Introduction MSQuery
When using DDE with MSQuery, you have got 2 different types of conversation channels: (also called topics)
This is the main channel for conversation. This channel is always available.
For every query in MSQuery there's a query channel available. This channel can be requested via the system channel.
Detect and run Microsoft Query
The first step is to make a connection via DDE with Microsoft Query. To make a connection with MSQuery, this piece of code should be executed:
HSZ hszServName = DdeCreateStringHandle(idInst, "MSQuery", CP_WINANSI);
HSZ hszSysTopic = DdeCreateStringHandle(idInst, SZDDESYS_TOPIC, CP_WINANSI);
HCONV hConv = DdeConnect(idInst, hszServName, hszSysTopic, (PCONVCONTEXT) NULL);
As can be seen from the above sample, the servername of Microsoft Query is 'MsQuery'. The topic we are connecting to is the system topic of MSQuery. The symbolic constant for the system channel is: SZDDESYS_TOPIC.
When trying this and no connection could be made, it could be MSQuery is not running. So when that is the case we should try to run MSQuery. To do this, first the location of MSQuery32.exe must be located and then the executable should be run. The location can be found in the registry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSQuery\Path. See the sourcecode for details how to do this.
Creating a query
To create a query, the following command should be passed to MSQuery. As can be seen in this example, every command must be between '['and ']'.
"[UserControl(\"&Return to application\",1,TRUE)]"
// 1 is the state of the MSQuery window: 1=normal, 2


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Homework for Friday 19th March
Please learn to spell the following words for the spelling test on Friday 26th March:
 1. word
 2. work
 3. worm
 4. world
 5. worth
 6. worst
 7. war
 8. warm
 9. towards
 10. ward
Please practise your spelling skills by using Lexia, for an hour, this week.
Please revise addition and subtraction within 100 for the maths test on Friday 26th March.
Use Times Tables Rock Stars and Hit the Button to help you to continue to practise the times tables and halving and doubling.
Please complete the activities that are set on Mathletics and try to use it for at least one hour during the week.
Aim to complete all of the tasks in all of the GCP books by the end of the Easter holiday.