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This hearty recipe is part of the traditional Acadian cuisine. It was – and still is – one of the favorite meals of Acadians, at least in the region of southeast New Brunswick.
Origin: Grand-Pré National Historic Site
Region: Atlantic (Nova Scotia)
Course: Main Course
Painting of The Harvest by artist Claude Picard© Parks Canada
Bouilli (boiled dinner) is a traditional Acadian meal. All of the ingredients would have been found in the bountiful gardens and farms of the Acadians in the area of Grand Pré. It was no doubt among the meals that the Acadian women prepared during the voyage from Grand-Pré to the Anglo-American colonies in the fall of 1755. In fact, the provision lists of the deportation boats included most of the ingredients – cabbage, turnips, potatoes and salt beef instead of salt pork.
- 5 oz | 150 g salt pork (cut in small cubes and sautéed until browned)
- 3-3½ lbs | 1.5 kg pork loin
- 1 lb | 500 g cabbage, cut in eight pieces
- 1 lb | 500 potatoes, peeled and cut in large chunks
- ½ lb | 250 g white turnip
- ½ lb | 250 g carrots, cut in 1-1½-inch (3-4 cm) pieces, then cut in half or quarters
- ½ lb | 250 g green or yellow beans (fresh or salted)
- In a large pot, cover the meat with water and bring to a boil. When almost cooked, add the vegetables beginning with the cabbage, carrots and turnips, then followed by potatoes and beans; bring all to a boil and cook until just done.
- The cabbage is usually cut into eight pieces, while the turnip is cut into round slices or half moons. Potatoes are cut into fairly large pieces, while the carrots are cut into 3 to 4 cm long pieces and split into two or four pieces depending on the size of the carrot. As for the beans, they are left intact, as is the pork. The pork tenderloin can be substituted with pork legs.
- Note: The original recipe uses salt pork instead of pork loin. If you choose to use salt pork and also salted beans, you will need to remove the salt before adding them to the other ingredients. To do this, cover the salt pork and salted beans with water and boil for about 10 minutes; drain and recover with fresh water. Repeat. Test the meat and beans; if still too salty, repeat a third time and then add to the rest of the ingredients.
- The quantity of vegetables − carrots, potatoes and beans − varies depending on taste. One large cabbage and one large turnip are usually sufficient, but more can be added if desired. Likewise more or less pork can be used.
Recipe tested by Chef Scott Warrick, Algonquin College School of Hospitality and Tourism
Recipe adapted from : Marielle Boudreau and Melvin Gallant, Le guide de la cuisine traditionnelle acadienne, Montréal/Moncton, Les Éditions Stanké et Les Éditions d'Acadie, 1980.


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Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 5, Pages 469-478
On univalent solutions of the biharmonic equation
Department of Mathematics, American University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Received 16 January 2004
Copyright © 2005 Z. AbdulHadi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We analyze the univalence of the solutions of the biharmonic
equation. In particular, we show that if is a biharmonic map
in the form,, where is harmonic,
then is starlike whenever is starlike. In addition, when,, where and are harmonic,
we show that is locally univalent whenever is starlike and is orientation preserving.


text: During hot extrusion, tools experience cyclic thermo-mechanical loads that can lead to materials degradation and failure. For a process optimization and study of the occurring damage mechanisms, the finite element method (FEM) is an appropriate means. Local inelastic strains result from the interaction of the applied temperature and stress loading and can be computed by suitable inelastic constitutive equations. Stress amplitudes and dwell times during extrusion result in creepfatigue damage. A lifetime consumption model sums increments of a damage variable over time and defines materials failure as the accumulation of the resulting damage variable to a critical value. The predominant failure mechanism, i.e. creep or fatigue, can be found by the investigation of the damage rate over several cycles. A comparison of both a creep dominated (copper extrusion) and a fatigue controlled (aluminium extrusion) lifetime consumption in an extrusion die is shown with the hot work tool steel Böhler W300 ISOBLOC in comparison with W400 VMR (both ~ EN 1.2343).


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Exhibiting the Moving Image
Edited by François Bovier & Adeena Mey
Since the 1990s, a "cinematographic turn" has supposedly taken place in contemporary art paralleled by the emergence of a "cinema of exhibition" during the same period. This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the "white cube" and the "black box," focusing mainly on the 1970s, a decade in which film practices and moving images were integrated into museums and art spaces.
In order to define what constitutes a "film exhibition," the authors in this volume analyze multiple modalities of presenting the moving image through historical case studies: the anatomy of video art, expanded cinema, artists' films and installations, and the moving image in the public sphere. Going back from the 1930s to the present, these contributions address commercial spectacular or advertising forms of moving images, artists' performative practices, installations in large museums, exhibitions devoted to projections, festivals of experimental films, and the likes. The challenge of this volume is to articulate historical case studies alongside wider questions that shape contemporary forms of artists' film and the moving image with their exhibition contexts.


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A 150 – 300 word response to the following,,Describe when a z-test should be performed as opposed to a t-test? Which (if any) can we use all the time? Why or why not?
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This one word summarises everything that makes up the entrepreneurial mindset, according to Per Bylund. He writes in his article How to Think Like a Successful Entrepreneur, "Successful entrepreneurs rely on a value-dominant logic: They place the end value of their efforts first and direct their efforts to maximize value."
Many people have described the components that make up the entrepreneurial mindset, but the bottom line is that entrepreneurs are driven by providing value.
Per Bylund believes the value-centric business model, or Austrian business model, has 4 core components that give us insight into the mind of a successful entrepreneur.
1. Entrepreneurs understand a product only has value when it is consumed or used by the customer.
That means value is created by the customer and it is subjective. Bylund writes, "a popular book on business models makes this statement: there is something about some firms that makes them more profitable than their rivals. In the framework of the ABM, we would say: there is something about some customers' desired experiences that makes facilitating them more profitable than other customers' desired experiences."
Understanding that you, the entrepreneur, play no part in creating value is a big mind-shift. To think like an entrepreneur, you have to focus on your customer and create your product based on what they consider valuable.
2. Entrepreneurs understand their job is to facilitate value for the customer.
Daniella Kwayu, co-founder and CEO of Phema Agri in Tanzania won the GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize in 2020 because her company facilitates value on both sides of the agri-finance scale. Phema Agri is a digital agriculture platform connecting investors looking to grow their money with smallholder farmers looking for working capital solutions.
Phema Agri provides value for smallholder farmers with training, market-linkages and working capital investment to run their farms. For investors the value lies in removing uncertainty because they can invest their money in de-risked and vetted farmers who share their profits once the harvest is sold.
By facilitating value for both investors and farmers Daniela has built a business with the customers' desires firmly in mind.
3. Entrepreneurs understand that they only have a business if their customers exchange value for their offering.
Bylund says, "The customer is weighing the benefits they subjectively perceive against the costs." Only when they perceive that your offering has real value to them will they give you money for it.
GoGettaz Finalist, Piwai Chikasa of drone crop spraying company ACG says, "On the field, we have deployed our drone crop spraying technology across the country to protect over 15,000 tonnes of food, including cases of emergency where farmers had no other alternative to rapidly respond to pest infestations. … The technology speaks for itself, and farmers are equally embracing the solution."
In Piwai's case, protecting food, especially in rapid response, has real value to farmers. They weigh up whether the protected crops they can sell in market will bring in more money than the cost the drone spraying service. Since they answer is "Yes, most definitely," they are willing to exchange some of that value for the service.
4. Entrepreneurs understand that value changes constantly.
Entrepreneurs improve their products or pivot their businesses to adapt to changes in the market.
In 2020 Moses Katala won GoGettaz with his Rwandan waste-to-value company, MagoFarm. They tackle rising costs of animal feeds and the increasing demand for sustainable, eco-friendly and nutrient rich protein ingredients by breeding black soldier fly larvae on food waste.
When COVID-19 changed the market, Moses used Magofarm's relationships and position in the livestock industry to launch Mobivet. This initiative to support livestock farmers in Rwanda provides value to Magofarm clients by providing remote veterinary services and expert advice via mobile phones.
By expanding the services and the perceived value they offer to their clients, their business can stay relevant and top-of-mind though challenging times.
How do you think about value? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset that puts value first?
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TotT: Avoiding Flakey Tests
Flaky tests make your life more difficult. You get failure notifications that aren't helpful. You might become numb to failures and miss an actual failure condition. Your changes might get unfairly blamed for causing a flaky test to fail.
Unfortunately, a myriad of factors can make a test flaky. Today, we tackle a simple example: file access from a unit test. Take this function and its test:
def CreateGapLease(self):
 data_file = open('/leases/gap', 'w+')
def testCreateGapLease(self):
What if /leases/gap already exists and contains some data? testCreateGapLease will fail. This is a general problem where preconditions are assumed to be correct. This could just as easily happen by assuming a database contains the proper information (or no information). What if another test that uses that file was running concurrently?
If you really want to test your code using live resources, always check your assumptions. In this case, clearing the file at the start of the test can reduce its brittleness:
def testCreateGapLease(self):
 if os.path.exists(lease_file):
Unfortunately, this doesn't completely eliminate the flakiness of our test. If /leases/gap is an NFS path or can be written to by a different test, our test can still fail unexpectedly. It's better for the test to use a unique resource. This can be accomplished with a small refactoring of CreateGapLease:
def CreateGapLease(self, lease_path=None):
 if lease_path is None:
 lease_path = '/leases/gap'
The callers of CreateGapLease can continue invoking it as usual, but the unit test can pass in a different path:
def testCreateGapLease(self):
 lease_file = os.path.join(FLAGS.test_tmpdir, 'gap')
Of course, to make your test as fast as possible, it would be better to forgo disk access altogether by using a mock file system.
Due to illness availability of the PDF will be slightly delayed
The PDF is now available at the above link
 1. What was wrong with "def CreateGapLease(self, lease_path='/leases/gap'):"? Immutable types like strings aren't a risk in default args. My version probably runs slightly faster and will produce much better automatically-extracted docs.
 The related trap, which you might have been trying to avoid, looks like this:
 def func(x=[]):
 . x.append(5)
 . return x
 (Except without the silly dots to workaround blogger's formatting)
 That program only has one list in it which will keep growing every time you call func(). That's where the "x=None.. if x is None: x = []" idiom is important.
 2. Nice post.
 Do yuo have some example of good file system mocking? :)
 3. I assume FLAGS.test_tmpdir is a randomly-named temporary directory (e.g. created with tempfile.mkdtemp), otherwise you still might have problems if you run the test suite concurrently and both instances try to write to the same file at the same time.


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Primal Earth is a chunk of pure earthly essence. It is used in a wide range of high-end recipes.
-Transmute: Primal Fire to Earth
-Transmute: Primal Life to Earth
Primal Earth is primarily made by converting 10 Motes of Earth to one Primal Earth. Motes of Earth can typically be found by Miners, from Fel Iron, Adamantite, and Khorium veins. They can also be recovered from various Earth elementals in Outland (Enraged Crushers in Nagrand, Enraged Earth Spirits in Shadowmoon Valley, etc.).
Primal Earth can be created through Alchemy with the Transmute: Primal Fire to Earth and Transmute: Primal Life to Earth recipes.
Primal Earth is one of the cheapest primals due to its relative abundance and the fact that (unlike Shadow, Mana, Fire, Life, and Water) it is not used in any of the Tailoring cloths.
Primal Earth as an ingredientEdit
Primal Earth is used in the following recipes:


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 3. To increase the size or rotate the icon on the image, click the icon, then click or to make the icon smaller or larger or click the or to rotate the icon.
 4. To reposition a device, click the Map button beside the device in the section to the left of the image, then click an area on the image to re-place the icon.
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On 28 October 2019 the Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP) hosted the Open Forum: Key Voices on Digital Identity and Data Privacy at Wits University. The following is a summary of the main themes discussed at the event.
- Thea Anderson: Policy Director, Omidyar Network
- Liesl Muller: Attorney, Statelessness Unit, Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme, Lawyers for Human Rights
- Kim Dancey: Head Payments Risk, FirstRand Rest of Africa and India
- John Carneson: Former head of policy, strategy, planning and evaluation at South African Home Affairs
- Professor Jane Duncan: Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
- Professor Keith Breckenridge: Wits Institute For Social & Economic Research
- Grace Mutung'u: Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network
The meaning of digital identity is complex
Digital ID refers to one's ability to prove who you say you are through technological means. There are however differing ideas of what makes 'good' or credible ID, across states as well as sectors.
Countries have their own laws over which ID documents are deemed credible with limited standardisation between them. This is because there are multiple ways to prove 'who you are' such as biometrics (like finger print identity, iris scans), mobile phone numbers, bank cards, national IDs, PINs or personal questions. The digital space has also opened the possibility of verifying one's identity through social habits – like social media accounts, school records and e-commerce history – that provides granular information that a government-issued ID or utility bill cannot. At the same time some authorities still require proof of a person's identity through others who can vouch for them (like a village, chief, employer, place of worship).
Variations in what constitutes 'good ID' are also due to the differing interests in utilising it. For example banking institutions require information to monitor their clients in order to avoid reputational and financial risks; meanwhile states have the responsibility of regulating populations and movement along increasingly porous borders.
The social impacts (cultural, historical, economic and security)
Digital ID is also creating new ideas of what society means. The use of identification is increasingly creeping into daily life in order to access services (such as healthcare and grants) and to participate in social life. In fact the digital space is also where a person can construct how they are 'seen', as a self-defined identity. This leads to a debate over what it means to be under-identified versus over-identified across various platforms.
Cultural sensitivities are important in the African context. Identities already exist from a cultural and ancestral perspective (i.e. how one's community knows or refers to them may differ from what is formally captured). Yet the decision over what aspect of identity and how one's background is utilised, as well as who is deemed as 'undesirable', depends on the state and institutions in question. This leaves the question over whether nationality laws – that are often historically inherited – fit the local culture and society adopting it. Historical sensitivities are also important. For instance, the use of fingerprints and photos in 'pass books' was a means of racial segregation under apartheid South Africa.
Other relevant discussion points included:
- The use of digital forms of ID as social progress or a new means of control
- What are citizens' rights? There are concerns over giving away personal data (that could be sold off to corporates) but also fear of not receiving services by denying such information
- Whether it is safe to have one system/ administration as a 'keeper of all things' (data). More broadly, is technology the only solution?
- Security considerations highlight the implications of increased surveillance, the transfer of technology to authoritarian African states and concern over data protection and fraud. Indeed as the digital identity space expands and more people get involved, so will breaches become more likely
- The reality of being blacklisted and unable to access employment, as well as being wrongly blacklisted and then the difficulties of undoing this process
- The use of data for political purposes (such as the exposure of political figures through emails and bank accounts)
Issues of access and 'statelessness'
The discussion on access needs to go deeper than the digital space, as many citizens on the African continent still have no access to a national identity. Close to 1.1 billion people do not have access to formal identification across the world. Half of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover the majority are children who have no formal identification from birth.
There is the case of the Nubians in Kenya, for example, who live in the country yet are not recognised by it. Addressing administrative justice should precede the migration of identity online. Likewise access to mobile money, an increasing trend in East Africa, also requires access to mobile devices.
The very steps of modernizing ID systems could itself cause statelessness, as the criteria to prove one's citizenship and identity becomes more stringent. There needs to be clear and conscious application of digital ID, in order to avoid discrimination.
Important duties of the state were outlined at the event. John Carneson (Former head of policy, strategy, planning and evaluation at South African Home Affairs) mentioned that:
- No African should be required to travel more than four hours to access services related to identity
- There needs to be an open information policy, available in all required languages
- Government policies require regular scrutiny and public engagement
Who owns the process and whose responsibility is it?
The Open Forum highlighted differing views of what institutions and who should be responsible for ensuring ethical use of digital ID – and moreover, who should hold them accountable. For instance, some participants suggested that intermediaries like banks are important actors to bring about harmonization of digital ID between countries. It was also suggested that the input of neutral intermediaries, such as lawyers and journalists, were required in mediating the ties between governments and citizens. There is clearly no agreement regarding the process.
The media's role
In closing, the participants were asked how the media and journalists could be more active in this space. The suggestions included:
- To be aware of the risks involved in covering such topics
- They should be neither overly positive nor negative in their reporting but realists regarding the issue
- To include more collaboration between journalists and experts
- The appeal to journalists to keep actors in this space honest and accountable
- To do their background homework, such as look into other country examples and approaches. To start to build expertise in this area
- To remember the social effects and cultural sensitivities when reporting on digital ID


1. A coil of copper wire has a resistance of 90Ω at20oC and is connected to a 230V supply. By how much mustthe voltage be increased in order to maintain the current constantof the temperature of the coil rises to 60oC? Take thetemperature coefficient of resistance of copper as 0.00428 from0oC.


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Teachers' aides and other paraprofessionals and support staff serving students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can now enhance their knowledge and skills through an online training program developed by the Virginia Commonwealth University Autism Center of Excellence (VCU ACE) and Virginia Department of Education (VDOE).
The course, Autism Spectrum Disorders for Paraprofessionals: Providing Effective Instruction and Supports, includes five learning modules:
- Characteristics of ASD;
- Roles and Responsibilities of the Paraprofessional;
- Foundational Instructional Practices;
- Supporting Communication and Social Skills; and
- Providing Positive Behavior Supports.
"Paraprofessionals are on the front lines every day with students with autism spectrum disorder," VCU ACE Director of Training Dawn Hendricks said. "Training is essential to improving educational experiences and outcomes for these students."
In December 2011, the commonwealth's 132 school divisions reported 13,137 students with autism as their primary disability, a 490 percent increase since 2000, when 2,226 children were identified as having a form of ASD. This increase mirrors national statistics and is the subject of research to better understand the causes of autism and factors contributing to the rise in the number of children diagnosed.
"These statistics underscore the importance of VDOE's partnership with VCU to assist school divisions in educating and supporting children with autism spectrum disorder and preparing these students for productive and independent lives," Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said. "This new training course will equip teaching assistants, bus aides and other support staff with the knowledge and skills they need to help students with autism experience success."
Autism Spectrum Disorders for Paraprofessionals is a self-paced course that provides flexibility for both paraprofessionals and their employing school divisions to meet their training needs. Participants earn a certificate of completion if they have reviewed all content and score a minimum of 80 percent on each of the five quizzes to receive a passing grade for each lesson. Registration for the May session is now open through the VCU ACE website. The course is free to Virginia residents through a grant from VDOE.
House Bill 325, which was approved by the 2012 General Assembly, requires school divisions to ensure that aides assigned to work with teachers who have primary oversight of students with ASD receive training in student behavior management. The legislation also directs the state Board of Education, in consultation with VCU, to develop an online training program divisions may use to comply with the new requirement.
"VDOE will work in partnership with VCU's Autism Center for Excellence to ensure that the course addresses all standards and competencies identified by the Board of Education," Wright said.


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ISS leak may be a drill hole
The International Space Station sprang a leak, but what caused it is still in question.
NASA removed these before and after images of the ISS hole from a space-to-ground video update.
The hole in the International Space Station has turned into a whodunit mystery. The answer may be a human with a drill back on Earth.
NASA noticed a small, slow pressure leak in the space station last week. The astronauts tracked it down to a tiny hole in a Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft connected to the ISS. The crew repaired the hole after first temporarily blocking it with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst's thumb.
The hole was not a serious danger to the crew, but we've all been wondering how it got there. NASA reported that Russian space agency Roscosmos has convened a commission to analyze the cause.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly speculated on Twitter that it could be due to a "micrometeoroid" impact. "We've dodged a lot of bullets over the past 20 years. There's a lot of space junk up there, a serious issue which needs to be addressed," he tweeted late last week.
Russian state news agency TASS shared developments on Monday from Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin, who said the space agency has considered theories ranging from a meteorite impact to a "technological error by a specialist."
This is where the drill comes in.
"It was done by a human hand. There are traces of a drill sliding along the surface," Rogozin told TASS.
To add to the intrigue, space news site noticed images of the hole in a NASA Space to Ground video update, which was taken down and later re-released without the photos. But NASA followers had already saved the original video
"Due to a technical issue, some unreleased images made their way into a draft space-to-ground video inadvertently published on Friday, Aug. 31," NASA public affairs officer Kathryn Hambleton said. "NASA recognized the error quickly, and took steps to re-edit the video and reposted an updated version."
NASA seems willing to leave the investigation of the leak's cause to Roscosmos. "NASA said it will support the commission's work as appropriate," Hambleton said.
While the mystery may not be solved for certain, at least the crew is safe. "All station systems are stable, and the crew is in no danger as the work to develop a long-term repair continues," NASA said in an ISS update last week.
Gerst praised his crewmates and their emergency training. "We could locate and stop a small leak in our Soyuz, thanks to great cooperation between the crew and control centres on several continents," he tweeted.
First published Sept. 4, 8:54 a.m. PT.
Update, 12:20 p.m. PT: Adds comment from NASA public affairs office Kathryn Hambleton.


Drivers give less space to riders in cycle lanes, says research
Problem particularly bad on 40mph and 50mph roads
Cycle lanes mean less space from cars, says research
New research supported by UK cyclists' organisation CTC suggests that motorists give cyclists in cycle lanes less room than those riding on roads without lanes.
Using a bicycle with instruments that measure the distance of passing vehicles, Ciaran Meyers from the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies studied three roads, each with and without cycle lanes on certain sections.
Meyers said his analysis showed that "significantly wider" passing distances were adopted by motorists on roads without cycle lanes when speed limits of 40-50mph were in force.
On a 9.5m-wide carriageway without a 1.45m-wide cycle lane the extra passing distances were 181mm (50mph) and 68mm (40mph) – enough to be deemed statistically significant.
When the speed limit reduced to 30mph, the extra passing distance where a cycle lane was not present was 37mm – not statistically significant.
All the cycle lanes were slightly narrower than the minimum width of 1.5m (5ft) recommended by the Department for Transport. The majority of Britain's cycle lanes do not comply with this guideline.
According to the research, when there is a cycle lane motorists drive within their own marked lane with less recognition of the need to provide a safe and comfortable passing distance to those using the cycle lane. The study concludes that "cycle lanes do not appear to provide greater space for cyclists in all conditions".
John Parkin of the University of Bolton, who was also involved in the study, said: "In the presence of a cycle lane, a driver is likely to drive between the cycle lane line and the centre line in a position which is appropriate for the visible highway horizontal geometry ahead of the driver.
"A cyclist within a cycle lane does not seem to cause a driver to adopt a different position in his or her lane. This has important implications for the width of cycle lanes and implies that their width should never be compromised."
CTC say they support the government's advice on the matter, which is that attempts should be made to reduce traffic volume and speed before considering implementing cycle lanes or, as a last resort, off-carriageway cycle tracks.
One possible solution to the problem of close overtaking of cyclists not mentioned by the CTC is simply to press for a national law in the French style – where motor vehicles must give at least 1m of space when overtaking a cyclist in a built up area and 1.5m elsewhere.


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Automatic blood pressure monitor UA-777 is one of the most convenient and accurate instrument for measuring blood pressure. Its design is designed for ease of use by people inclined their age. In tonometer big screen with big numbers, just a big button "Start".
This model is so easy to use that you do not need any additional knowledge and skills. The air in the cuff is evenly distributed, so that no pain will not appear. No longer need to worry about whether the battery will last for measurement. Special indicator itself determines the amount of charge remaining.
- The memory capacity of 90 measurements;
- The prevention of arrhythmia;
- Batteries: 4 AA batteries or DC power supply;
- Weight: 300 g (excluding batteries);
- Warranty: 3 years
To measure blood pressure.
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Using Bitwise Operators: Manipulating Color Channels
Manipulating Color Channels
Color channel values are simply integers that range from 0 (0x00) to 255 (0xFF). As such, you can use just about any math operators you want to manipulate them; the important thing is to ensure that when you recombine them, they are still within the range from 0 to 255.
The following example simply adds random, channel-specific "noise" to the color channel values you extracted in the previous section. Although this example affects only a single color value, by looping through all of the pixels (or random pixels) in a BitmapData instance, you could generate noise over an image:
var redNoiseAmount:Number = 255;
var greenNoiseAmount:Number = 0;
var blueNoiseAmount:Number = 128;
// add a random amount to each channel,
// but keep the value within 0-255:
red = Math.min(255,red+random(redNoiseAmount));
green = Math.min(255,green+random(greenNoiseAmount));
blue = Math.min(255,blue+random(blueNoiseAmount));
This is sort of a useless example, considering that the
BitmapData.noise method is available. You could do much more complex and interesting manipulations than this one, but I wanted to keep things very simple (the focus is on the bitwise operations). There is a slightly more useful example in the source files you downloaded previously.
All that remains now is to combine the individual color channels back into a single color value.
Combining Color Channels
Combining separate channels back into a single color value is easier than splitting them apart. All you have to do is left-shift each channel back into its proper position and then use the OR operator (|) to combine them again. Mashed into a single, efficient line of code, it looks like this:
argb = (alpha << 24) | (red << 16) | (green << 8) | blue;
Broken down, you can see the exact process:
// argb starts at 0, which we can look at as 0x00000000
argb = 0;
// take the alpha value (0xFF)
// and shift it 24 bits (6 hex digits) left:
alpha <<= 24;
// alpha now equals 0xFF000000
// combine it with argb using OR.
// This will turn on any bits that are on in alpha:
argb |= alpha;
// argb now equals 0xFF000000
// shift the red value (0xC9) 16 bits (4 hex digits) left:
red <<= 16;
// red now equals 0x00C90000
// combine with argb using OR,
// this will turn on any bits that are on in red,
// while leaving on any bits that were previously on:
argb |= red;
// argb now equals 0xFFC90000
// continue with green and blue.
Using bitwise operators, you can now separate a single RGB or ARGB color into its component channels, manipulate the color values for each channel, and then combine them back into a single color value. To see this all at work in one place, check out the source files you downloaded earlier and then take a look at some other ways you can apply bitwise operators.
Inserting Color Channels
What if you want to manipulate just one color channel? It's easy enough to extract a single color channel but it might not be so obvious how to insert a single channel into an existing color value without dissembling the whole thing. All you need to do is zero the channel's original bits by applying an inverted bit mask using AND, and then using the OR operator to set the new bits in the channel.
This example inserts a new value (0xEE) into the green channel of an existing color:
var argb:Number = 0xFFC97B33;
var newGreenValue:Number = 0xEE;
// apply an inverted mask using AND – a one in the mask
// will stay unchanged, a zero in the mask will result in a zero:
argb &= 0xFFFF00FF;
// argb now equals 0xFFC90033
// shift the green value into the right position
// (2 hex digits or 8 bits left),
// then use OR to insert it into the color value:
argb |= (newGreenValue << 8);
// argb now equals 0xFFC9EE33
You could even do this all in a single line:
argb = (argb & 0xFFFF00FF) | (0xFF << 8);
Tip: Another handy use for shift operators is to emulate a
Math.floor operation. Shift operators discard anything after the decimal place, so shifting by zero provides a faster way to floor your numbers (both to type and execute):
trace(1224.215>>0); // 1224


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From Providence, Rhode Island, USA:
Why can't you keep insulin in the freezer and then let is thaw? Does the insulin molecule denature? What is the temperature range that is okay in order for the protein to remain active?
Regular short acting insulin is a solution of microcrystalline insulin in a phosphate buffer with added zinc and bacteriostatic. The manufacturer gives specific instructions that the product should not be frozen. If this happens, some of the insulin may come out of solution and not be redissolved on thawing: it is not denatured. The same is true of the more complex forms of long acting insulin. Insulins are stable for 28 days if kept between 36 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
Original posting 10 Jun 1999
Posted to Insulin
Last Updated: Tuesday April 06, 2010 15:09:03
This Internet site provides information of a general nature and is designed for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should always consult with a physician or other health care professional.
This site is published by Children With Diabetes, Inc, which is responsible for its contents.
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B]. It is [U][B]Constant Power[/B][/U]. What Power?. Who knows, depends on how strong the sun is. In our AC charger example it was up to 160 watts to supply 10 amps @ 16 volts. So when we set it to 14.4 volts and in Bulk it was a constant 144 watts @ 10 amps. So say you have a 160 watt panel and a 10 amp controller. In Bulk at a few brief seconds around noon it was 10 amps for a second. What is it 30 minute after noon?. Something less than 10 amps. If it is hazy maybe 5 amps. All your controller can do is transfer the maximum available power at the time. It cannot do any more than that. So that makes it Constant Power, not CC. This is what makes a 3 Stage Solar Charger useless in the practical sense. You have to change strategy to Maximum Smoke 1 stage charger. You set the voltage to Bulk = Absorb = Float. Throw away your battery Owners Manual and it voltage set points. They are useless. Instead you use your Battery Hydrometer to set the voltage. To learn how read this thread.


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U.S. Geological Survey --EROS Data Center
The map below displays a gray relief of the flow direction grid for the 1 KM African DEM. The boxed in region identifies the Congo-Zaire flow channels and displays the complex amount of information that can be extracted from the DEM. The movement of water across the land surface is called runoff. The directions runoff flows across a DEM surface is called flow directions. The flow directions are determined by finding the steepest descent from each cell in the DEM. The distance and direction of descent is calculated by using the eight neighborhood process (ESRI, 1992) adapted from Jenson and Domingue (1988). Once flow directions are developed, basin delineation can be accomplished.
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U.S. EPA's 2008 Report on the Environment (Final Report)
EPA is announcing the final report, EPA's 2008 Report on the Environment (EPA 2008 ROE), a science-based report that answers questions about recent trends in human health and the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency's 2008 Report on the Environment, also referred to as the EPA 2008 ROE, provides the American people with an important resource from which they can better understand trends in the condition of the air, water, land, and human health of the United States.
This report uses scientifically sound measures, called indicators, to address fundamental questions relevant to the EPA's mission to protect the environment and human health. To accomplish its mission to protect human health and the environment, EPA must pay close attention to trends in the condition of the Nation's environment. This kind of information, which is captured in EPA's 2008 ROE, can help EPA to prioritize its work and to focus on human health and ecological activities that can lead to improvements in the conditions of the Nation's environment.
For a more interactive experience, visit the ROE Dynamic Web site at _URL_
The EPA 2008 ROE offers a unique opportunity to EPA to frame a discussion about the Agency's strategic planning from the perspective of ultimate environmental outcomes, using the best available, most scientifically sound measurement approaches. The EPA 2008 ROE could also lead to new indicators, new monitoring strategies and new programs and policies in areas EPA determines to be highly important based on measured environmental trends.
EPA also produced a Highlights of Conditions and Trends document, which summarizes the findings of the EPA 2008 ROE in an easier to understand format.
EPA is committed to releasing periodic updates of the ROE so that information on environmental conditions and trends can be provided to interested members of the American public.
|Jun 2003||EPA published the Draft Report on the Environment (ROE) -Technical Document in 2003.|
|Jun 2005||EPA held an external peer review meeting on the proposed indicators for EPA's 2007 ROE TD.|
|Jul 2005||EPA held a public peer review workshop on the proposed indicators.|
|Oct 2005||EPA announced a second public peer review and public comment period for additional and updated proposed indicators for EPA's 2007 ROE - TD.|
|Feb 2006||EPA hosts an Agency review of the draft document, EPA's 2007 ROE - TD. In Feb 2006, we release the EPA response to the peer review comments.|
|Mar 2006||EPA releases the updates to the Indicators and the External Peer Review Comments with EPA's Response to Comments.|
|Oct 2006||EPA hosts an Interagency review of the draft document, EPA's 2007 ROE - TD.|
|Apr 2006||EPA renames the report from Technical Document to Science Report.|
|May 2007||EPA released the draft EPA's 2007 ROE: Science Report for a public review and comment.|
|Jul 2007||EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) hosted a public teleconference and public meeting of the SAB Panel for the Review of EPA's 2007 Report on the Environment. The teleconference and meeting were held to conduct a peer review of the EPA's draft Report on the Environment 2007: Science Report.|
|Oct 2007||EPA hosts a public teleconference of the SAB Panel for the Review of EPA's 2007 Report on the Environment.|
|Jan 2008||EPA hosts a Report on the Environment Expert Panel Meeting in Washington, DC.|
|May 2008||EPA releases the final report, EPA's 2008 Report on the Environment (EPA 2008 ROE).|
|Sep 2008||EPA releases the finalized eROE Web site with links to the Highlights report and the ROE Database.|
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{absolute_results} not working properly
Hi Low
I'm getting some strange behaviour when using the {absolute_results} variable in Low Alphabet with pagination.
What seems to happen is that when a paginated alpha group is first loaded it shows the correct number of entries... but at some stage when clicking up and down through the result pages, the tag stops working and displays the count of entries on the current page, rather than the total number of results across the entire paginated set.
So it starts off working okay, but then at some point stops working. Instead of {absolute_results} it starts to show {total_results} instead.
I hope that makes some kind of sense. It's a bit hard to explain... but I'd be interested to see if you can replicate this issue on your own system.
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 - Low (Official Rep) July 19, 2011 14:58
 Hey Andrew,
 That's pretty strange indeed. Let's narrow this down a bit.
 1. When it happens, does it happen at the same URL all the time? Or is it intermittent?
 2. What version of EE are you using?
 3. Can you replicate this behaviour with a regular channel:entries tag?
 Low Alphabet simply collects the entry_ids of the entries to display and then passes them on to the Channel module, which takes care of the parsing of variables etc. Including the {absolute_results} and {total_results} vars. So in theory, Low Alphabet shouldn't affect it...
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How-to: For-each for Hash Tables in PowerShell
Have you ever encountered a situation where you may need a dynamic array – perhaps because you're working with an undetermined number of objects, or collections of objects that don't all look the same or aren't the same type? When this happens to me, I typically switch gears and use a hash table.
This can be done quite easily by using the following PowerShell syntax:
Next, I'll just go and populate the hash table with a few simple values
Now, we can check the value of $HashTable, and we should return something like this
Now for the fun part. Since we're all used to working with arrays, and the HashTable kind of looks and feels like an array (it's not an array), it's pretty natural for us to think: "Hey, I'll just go grab the first item in the array by using $HashTable[0]. This is what you'll get if you do that
If we want to reference a specific item in a Hash Table, we have to reference the key. How do we get the key, you might ask? like this
So, if I want to return the value of the item in the Hash Table with the key named "GitHubProcesses", I would do this
So, what does that have to do with for-each for Hash Tables? Simple. We can get a list of keys, and we need those keys if we want to get values. So you can simply iterate through all keys in the Hash Table and get the value of each key, like this
And that would produce an output like this
So the next question would be: what happened to that nice task list that I had before? And that all comes down to knowing the type of data you're working with. In that case, we have stored an array into the value of the GitHubProcesses key, and we have stored a string into the value of the Roger key. We can verify this pretty easily
This will produce the following output
So, knowing the type of data you are working with is also important. In the previous case, the array was being output as an array of entries, as opposed to the value of those entries, whereas the string was cleanly being displayed as the value of the string. We could have simply chosen not to use write-host, so that the array would be expanded, like so
This would provide the following output
Long story short, the key, literally, is the key to working with Hash Tables.. Once you've mastered that, you can then start implementing advanced logic, such as detecting the object type, or well, anything other than simply outputting the value to the console.
As always, should you have any feedback, feel free to post in the comments below.
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It's official: Pets have feelings too
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) has confirmed something that most pet owners already know. Animals have the ability to feel, perceive and have subjective experiences.
The association recently released a position statement on this matter and is one of the first animal health organizations in the U.S. to officially take a stance on animal sentiency.
"Veterinarians have always known that domestic pets have emotions and can experience pain and fear," said Dr. Rod Jouppi, chair of AAHA's Animal Ethics and Welfare Committee. "Sentience refers to these characteristics and AAHA wants to ensure that our profession clearly states that pets have a special place in our homes and in our hearts, and certainly deserve to be included within the sphere of sentience."
While the designation by the AAHA may change the thinking of some non-pet owners, it is not a surprise to anyone who's ever had a cat, dog or other pet. After all, the pure joy and exuberance a dog exhibits when his owner comes home from work, or the way a cat purrs when snuggling with his owner is reason enough for anyone to believe that our pets have feelings, too!


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Finding His Way To EBNS:
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Early Childhood Education at SUNY Geneseo ● Kindergarten Teacher at Cobblestone School ● Art Teacher in the Rochester City School District
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- engage kids and prepare them for future learning.
- Play! Wonder! Nurture! Fairytales, songs and games are used to open minds and hearts.
- Learning and life are seasonal and rhythmic. Varying play by the season and by the day is purposeful and allows children to learn actively.
Hopes Within the Classroom:
- Every child should feel important and understand that their feelings matter.
- Children will come together respecting and caring for one another so they will grow to function as healthy adults with an appreciation for community.
- When friends are sad, hurt or feeling left out, they talk about how it is important that everyone feel included and safe, with their bodies as well as their hearts.
- Children will be encouraged to notice each other and to let each other know when something is not right or if someone is hurting.
- Embracing the joy of teaching, learning and community!
"What could be more magical than watching children grow?" – Teacher Tom
Watch the video below to learn more from Tom about his journey as teacher:


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QUIZ: Can You Identify These Paintings? (Part 2)
A few weeks ago we presented you with an art challenge: A quiz asking you to identify masterpieces! Well, today we have the second part of this test, to see if you can identify 10 more masterpieces!
Quiz: Can You Identify a Painting By Its Part?
Do you enjoy art? Do you like to gaze upon the masterpieces of this world, appreciating the skill, patience, and vision that went into them? Then this fun art quiz is perfect for you.
A Masterpiece With Glue In 1 Minute - Incredible!
A Masterpiece With Glue In 1 Minute - Incredible! amazing, art, beautiful, paintings, incredible Have you ever seen anything like this? This amazing artist, Michael Raivard, not only draws a perfect image with glue, but he does it in just about a minute! Watch till the end to see what he drew!
This 18th-Century Automaton Is a True Art Masterpiece!
We were always under the impression that automatons are mysterious mechanical creations dancing on the verge of science and art. David Roentgen, an 18th-century German artisan, was one of the greatest and most famous masters of this fascinating art form.
QUIZ: Can You Identify the Spice?
Content QUIZ: Can You Identify the Spice? quiz We're going to show you photos of spices and you'll need to tell us - which spice is it?
QUIZ: Identify the Country By a Single Photo!
Content Quiz: Can You Identify the Country By the Photo? (Part 2) quiz Can you pick the correct countries where these photos were taken?
Artist Turns Old Pocket Watches to Art Masterpieces
Gifted Greek artist Gregory Grozos (say THAT 3 times fast) is going to prove to you that throwing an old pocket watch away is a serious crime against the art world. Instead, Grozos turns them into miniature worlds, with little masterpieces inside them.
Quiz: Can You Identify the Language?
Can you identify the following languages from just one sentence? Give it a try! Choose the language you think the sentence is in. Polish German Finnish Swedish Choose the language you think the sentence is in. French Spanish Portuguese Italian Choose the language you think the sentence is in.
Test Yourself: Can You Identify These Famous Works of Art?
You don't need to be an art student to have picked up some knowledge about the big artists and painters who have shaped the world. Lets see how much you've learned!
QUIZ: Will You Identify the Species of Animal?
Content Animal Trivia: Can You Identify the Species? quiz Can you identify the animals just by the partial photos we have?
QUIZ: Can You Identify the Color?
Content QUIZ: Can You Identify the Color? quiz We've circled some of the colored areas in these photos, and all you need to do is choose the correct shade and color of that area in the circle.
Breakfast Art: Edible Masterpieces Made Out of WHAT?
Artists rely on a wide variety of tools to create their masterpieces, but would you ever picture a toaster being one of them.You won't believe the length these talented artists went through to capture each precise detail, right down to the very last crumb. 1) The Mona Lisa source When Da Vinci created
QUIZ: Can You Identify the Country?
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QUIZ: Identify These Languages Just By Looking!
How Many Languages Can You Identify at a Glance? fun, quiz, game, test, world, baba recommends, languages, identify, foreign, recognize Only 3% of the population can identify at least 12 out of these 15 world languages. Are you one of them?
QUIZ: Can You Identify These Dog Breeds?
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QUIZ: Can You Identify These Animals By Their Skulls?
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QUIZ: Can You Find the Forged Masterpiece?
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QUIZ: Can You Identify the Historical Figure?
In this quiz we ask you to work out your historical knowledge, your memory, and your eyes! Are you able to correctly identify the person in each of these photos and paintings? Prove it! Who is this dachshund lover?
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QUIZ: Can You Identify the Correct Author?
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unique digits are in a number. In fact, I've modified it so that it works on strings too!
Function CheckDuplicates(valRng As String, Output As Byte) As String
Dim Count As Byte, oLen As Byte, nLen As Byte
Dim totLen As Byte, i As Byte
totLen = Len(valRng)
ReDim Num(totLen) As Variant
' Populate the array one digit each.
Call Pad(Num(), valRng)
' Cycle thru each digit, replacing each one in the string.
' For each replacement, increment Count.
For i = 1 To totLen
' Pre-replace string length.
oLen = Len(valRng)
valRng = Replace(valRng, Num(i), "")
' Post-replace string length.
nLen = Len(valRng)
If oLen <> nLen Then Count = Count + 1
' If there were upto two digits replaced,
' the orignal number was made up of 0, 1
' or 2 unique digits.
Select Case Output
' Record one more for a replacement.
If Count <= 2 Then CheckDuplicates = "*"
CheckDuplicates = Count
Sub Pad(ByRef myArray() As Variant, str As String)
Dim i As Byte
For i = 1 To Len(str)
myArray(i) = Mid(str, i, 1)
I use a trick I learnt many years ago where you use Replace to count how many times a specific character or digit appears in a string. Let me know what you think of it.
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How Do I Increment An Hex Number Inside A String?
I have this string:
and I want to add a number to the last section, I splited this string:
LSec(4) = "8dc429826254"
Now I want to add 15 to this number (Lsec(4)), and then change it back to a string so I can get something like this:
Any ideas?? :S
btw... I'm using VB 2005
Auto Increment Of A Number According To Year....
I have a problem here,I want to increase the number like this....
2002/1 ; 2002/2 ; 2002/3 ; 2002/4.......
2003/1 ; 2003/2 ; 2003/3 ; 2003/4.......
If I select the year from combobox then according to the year the number should increse and that should be concatinated to the year and the whole should be pasted in text box.....Using Ms-Access as a database and VB as frontend......
Storing Digits For Large Number Calc
I'm planning a module for arithmetic on large numbers and I need to store an arbitrary amount of numerical digits (0-9) in the quickest variable type possible and without wasting horrendous amounts of memory.
Longs and Integers, while the fastest of variable types, simply cannot store that amount of data.
Strings are virtually free of length boundaries, but they're 38 times slower than bytes and given that they're Unicode, they would require 2 bytes per digit. Also, string operations are notoriously slow.
I was thinking byte arrays would work well, although they are still much too large (256 possible values as compared only needing 10). This would waste half the byte. 4 bits would work well (16 possible values), but the problem would be storing and retrieving two numerical digits for individual operations. I could mathematically determine two separate digits from a value 00-99. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the first and second character of a byte in Hex would return the values of the first and second group of 4 bits independently.
I'm just tossing some ideas around. Thanks for any feedback!
Taking A Number In A Textbox, And Finding The Mean Of The Digits.
How do you write in a number in a text, and seperate the digits of that number? I need to find the mean of a number from 1 to 99999, then find the digit in the number that is closest to the mean, but isnt larger. Please help me.
I'm going to have a text box, label, and command button.
Basically how do I seperate digits in a number that is a string.
Choosing Number Of Digits After Decimal To Display
To display numbers according to the regional setting I used this code:
nNumber = 123456.789
and the result is 123,456.79
I want that I can choose how many number of digits after decimal to display, but the thousand and decimal separator symbol remain to follow the regional setting.
Is it possible?
Edited by - zuohui on 8/26/2004 12:39:59 AM
Solved: Increment About Form Version Number
Can someone explain how to increment the About form version number? It just stays at 1.1.0. Other than not incrementing the form looks just fine. The code in the About form includes...
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Caption = "About " & App.Title
lblVersion.Caption = "Version " & App.Major & "." & App.Minor & _
"." & App.Revision
lblTitle.Caption = App.Title
lblDescription.Caption = "This program was written by...blah blah"
lblDisclaimer.Caption = "Warning:...This program is protected....blah"
..but there is also under - project properties - make, the version number Major, Minor, Revision.
I have them each set to 1. And, the Auto increment is checked. But, I'm not sure about under Application the Title and Icon part. The drop down for the Icon just lists all the different forms I have in this project. I don't think of a form as an icon what am I missing here?
Under Version Information Type there are entries like comments, company name, file description and so on. What are these for?
Forgive my ignorance I realize this ain't rocket science. Maybe it's the triptophan kicking in.
thanks for any help
Edited by - Hal on 11/29/2003 7:57:44 PM
(RESOLVED)(VB6)Auto Increment Number In Access
I use Access2002 and VB6. My project is a school project. I have 2 comboboxes and one textbox. In my Access database I've already entered data. In combo1 I show the classes like LKG,UKG,STD I,STD II,STD III etc. In combo2, I show the names of students found in that particular class which is selected in Combo1.Let's assume that the maximum strength in each class is 100. Now I want to allot Roll no to students of different classes in a particular way. For example: Students of LKG should have Roll no starting from 101. Students of UKG should have Roll no from 201. Students of STD I should have Roll no from 301 like this. In the textbox if I write the first roll no of a class, can I allot roll no to all students of that class in auto increment way? Hope, you got me.Right? I mean, if I choose UKG and in the textbox I write 501 then roll no should be added in database against all students of that class like 501,502,503,504 and each name. The roll no should be incremented till the no of students are found in the class. Is it possible throught VB6 coding? Thanks.
Edited by - pkb_pkb on 6/28/2007 3:58:50 AM
Reversing The Digits Of A Number/display The Day Of The Week For Any Date
1.)How do I write a VB function/procedure that reverses the digits of a given number? I don't want to assume the length (no. of digits) of the number. That is, the user may input a 2-digit, 3-digit or number of any length (less than 6 digits).
2.) How do I write an event procedure to display the day of the week for any given date. What functions should I use?
This is not my homework. My exams are knocking on the door and so I was solving earlier year's question papers. I am stuck, so please help!
How Do I Get The ID (AutoNumber) To Automatically Increment A Number Sqlserver??URGE
I am having a problem using the INSERT statement in ASP.NET
I have a table "Information" with the following :
ID (Auto Number)
I have the following insert statement
Insert into Information VALUES (MyName,_EMAIL_,MyComments);
How do I get the ID ( Auto Number ) to automatically increment a number.??
i am using SQL SERVER 2000
How Do I Get The ID (AutoNumber) To Automatically Increment A Number Sqlserver??URGE
no..sql server is not handling it..
Actualyy i am doing this in ASP.NET
In my table design i have ID in the first coloumn.
Actually in my form design there are only 3 feilds like Name,Email,Comments. and a submit button.
so in my coding part i have written my sql statement like this:
sqlInsert=INSERT INTO TblTran (TRFP_Name,TTRFP_EMail,TTRFP_Comments)
so how do i get my ID in the first coloumn of the datatable??
in query analyzer when initially the value of the ID is showing NULL
so how to increment this NULL value?
Generate Auto-Number Increment In A MS Access


, the concept of $n$ being meaningful only at the macroscopic level, $\nabla n$ is infinite. – Carl Witthoft Apr 26 at 20:11
Actually, $\nabla n$ could be effectvely very large but still finite. Anyway, I think all of this is very depend on the details of the interface. For instance, with your air-glass interface, a closer study would start with a comparison between the wavelength $\lambda$ and a characteristic scale of the interface $e$ (e.g. the RMS rugosity). If $\lambda<


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SMCube Information Model
The Single Multidimensional Metadata Model (SMCube) is used to define the structure of a group of datasets that have been compiled following different modelling methodologies (e.g. SDMX, DPM/XBRL). The model establishes a new level of abstraction in addition to the original approaches so that the different datasets can be used in combination. The model was developed by the ECB.
The SMCube methodology serves as the basis for the construction of metadata and provides the structure for metadata-driven systems.
The SMCube is used for the Single Data Dictionary (SDD) – an ECB internal data dictionary which describes the different datasets used at the ECB – and for the Banks' Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) – a joint ECB, national central bank and banking industry initiative that provides a precise description of the data that must be extracted and the rules for transforming the data to generate reports.


Our commitment to your privacy
NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group recognises the importance of protecting personal and confidential information in all that we do, and takes care to meet our legal duties under Data Protection Law. The CCG puts in place all reasonable technical, security and procedural controls required to protect your personal information for the whole of its life, in whatever format we hold that information in.
How do we keep your information confidential and secure
Within the health sector, we have to follow the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, which means that where identifiable information about you has been given in confidence, it should be treated as confidential and only shared for the purpose of providing direct healthcare. The NHS Care Record Guarantee and the NHS Constitution provide a commitment that all NHS organisations and those providing care on behalf of the NHS will use records about you in ways that respect your rights and promote your health and wellbeing.
Everyone working in, or for, the NHS Dorset CCG must use personal information in a secure and confidential way. We are required to protect your information, inform you of how your information will be used, and allow you to decide if and how your information can be shared. All CCG staff, contractors and Governing Body members are mandated to attend annual training to ensure they are aware of their personal responsibilities and contractual obligations to uphold confidentiality. This is monitored by the CCG and can be enforced through disciplinary procedures. We ensure that any external companies who support us are legally and contractually bound to operate and prove security arrangements are in place where data that could or does identify a person are processed.
We also ensure that the information we hold is kept in secure locations, and restrict access to information to authorised personnel only. We use administrative and technical controls to do this. We protect personal and confidential information held on equipment such as laptops with encryption (which masks data so that unauthorised users cannot see or make sense of it). We use strict controls to ensure that only authorised staff are able to see information that identifies you. Only a limited number of authorised staff have access to information that identifies you where it is appropriate to their role and is strictly on a need-to-know basis.
The CCG has a Director responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient information, called the Caldicott Guardian. This role is carried out by the Director of Nursing and Quality who can be contacted by emailing _EMAIL_ or by telephoning 01305 368070.
How the law protects you
Your privacy is protected by law, which says that we can use your personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside of the CCG. The reasons why the CCG may process your personal information are:
 - to fulfil a contract we have with you;
 - when it is our legal duty;
 - when it is in the public interest or to carry out our official duties as a CCG; or
 - when you consent to it.
If we transfer information outside of the UK, we will make ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place. We will only send your personal information to countries outside of the UK to:
 - follow your instructions;
 - comply with a legal duty; or
 - work with other third party organisations (as detailed above) who we use to help provide our services to you.
We will always use one or more of these safeguards:
 - transfer it to a country outside of the UK with privacy laws that give the same protection as the UK;
 - put in place standard contractual clauses with the recipient that means they must protect it to the same standards as the UK.
How long we keep your personal information
We will only keep your personal information in accordance with the national guidance from the Department of Health set out in the Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016.


- Police may trace stolen Wi-Fi signals to find criminals, federal court says
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 - People who hijack their neighbors' Wi-Fi to commit crimes on the Internet shouldn't expect their misdeeds to stay hidden, a federal court has ruled, upholding an Allegheny County man's conviction for trading child pornography.
 State police in 2010 used a device called the "MoocherHunter" to trace a wireless Internet signal being used to transmit child porn after an initial raid on a Pittsburgh home turned up nothing.
 Tracing the signal through a neighbor's unsecured wireless router led an investigator to the apartment of Richard Stanley, who is now serving a four-year, three-month federal prison sentence.
 Stanley, 35, argued that because police didn't get a warrant before tracing the Wi-Fi signal back to his apartment, the evidence they seized -- including 144 images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children -- should not have been admitted in his trial.
 In its decision last week, a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that police didn't need a warrant because Stanley deliberately projected his criminal conduct outside of his home via the wireless Internet connection.
 "In effect, Stanley opened his window and extended an invisible, virtual arm across the street to his neighbor's router so that he could exploit his Internet connection," Judge D. Brooks Smith wrote for the panel. "In doing so, Stanley deliberately ventured beyond the privacy protections of his home."
 The Fourth Amendment protects people's homes from searches unless police can show probable cause they contain evidence of a crime. Because Stanley had made an unauthorized connection to his neighbor's Wi-Fi router, he was a virtual trespasser, the court said.
 "As such, he can claim no 'legitimate' expectation of privacy in the signal he used to effectuate this trespass," Smith wrote.
 The ruling is among the latest in a constellation of appeals court decisions defining the boundaries of Fourth Amendment protection when applied to modern wireless and computer technology.
 "This case and many others raise the question of whether new technology being used by law enforcement violates the expectation of privacy by showing where they are or where they've been and what they've entered into their computers or smartphones," said David Rudovsky, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who specializes in issues involving search and seizure.
 Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, which works to protect freedoms in the digital age, said the technology used in Stanley's case is widely used by law enforcement. Fakhoury said he would prefer to see courts review and apply discretion to its use to avoid abuses.
 "The government could absolutely use this technology in other ways," Fakhoury said. "They could sit outside a Starbucks and figure out who's doing what."
 In its opinion, the 3rd Circuit panel acknowledged the case raises concerns about privacy and rejected the trial court's basis for finding the MoocherHunter did not violate Stanley's rights.
 The trial court relied on a 1979 Supreme Court decision that said police didn't need a warrant to obtain a list of numbers that a telephone subscriber had dialed. The subscriber, the court said, voluntarily provided that information to the telephone company.
 Stanley's case was similar, the trial court reasoned, because he voluntarily connected to his neighbor's wireless network, providing information about his identity in the process.
 In his opinion for the 3rd Circuit, however, Smith wrote that anyone who uses the Internet must necessarily provide information to third parties as the user's computers and devices connect to others.
 A decision that an Internet user gives up his or her right to privacy by connecting with another computer could, "without adequate qualification, unintentionally provide the government with unfettered access to this mass of private information without requiring its agents to obtain a warrant."
 The 3rd Circuit also rejected an argument by Stanley's attorneys that police had to get a warrant under a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the use of infrared screening equipment to find homes where marijuana was being farmed indoors. The excess heat from high-powered growing lamps could be used to locate such operations, police found.
 The Supreme Court found that the defendant justifiably relied on the privacy protections of the home to conceal his activities and that the police use of screening equipment violated his Fourth Amendment rights.
 "Stanley made no effort to confine his conduct to the interior of his home," Smith wrote. "In fact, his conduct -- sharing child pornography with other Internet users via a stranger's Internet connection -- was deliberately projected outside of his home."
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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Given two phylogenetic trees on the same leaf set, how best can they be displayed? If the trees are presented "sideways" with their roots on the outside and leaves in the middle, we can join the corresponding leaves in the trees by edges. Call this diagram a tanglegram. The crossing number of a tanglegram is the number of leaf-leaf edges that cross. Work by Dwyer and Schreiber '04 (and rediscovered by Valiente and co-workers, WABI '07) show that the tanglegram with optimal crossing number can be found in polynomial time if one tree is fixed. We present several new results for the more general case when both trees can be rearranged to give the tanglegram with the minimal crossing number.
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Key destinations for the Embassy's expeditions:
1. Major habitats ("world capitals") of dolphins and whales.
During the expeditions the conditions and possibilities of immediate contact with cetaceans are studied, as well as the state of mind of human individuals in the course of and after such encounters.
2. Unique natural objects, traditionally associated with extraordinary manifestations of possibilities for interaction between Man and Nature (so called places of power – sacred mountains, springs believed to be healing, etc.).
3. Places where contacts with large free-living mammals (elephants, horse, anthropoid apes, wolfs) are possible.
4. Centers of culture geared to unordinary development of consciousness and human potential in general (e.g. schools of transformative practices).


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The language section lets you manage the languages available for the store front. Arastta provides English (en-GB) as the default language after installation. To add multiple languages to the store you need to install a language pack. There are two ways to add new languages:
Adding new language via Marketplace is just one-click away. Just find the language and click on the plus (+) button.
You can also download the language pack from Translations Directory and upload it from Extension Installer of Arastta.
Languages can be set up from Localisation > Languages page. The following information will be needed to save the language:
- Name: The name in native language.
- Code: The ISO language code. W3Schools has a complete list of ISO codes.
- Image: The image used to represent the language, that will be displayed in the header area of the store.
- Directory: The folder name is based on language tags. They are composed of 2 parts: language-COUNTRY.
- Status: Enables or disables the language in the store front.
- Sort Order: Determines the position of the language among multiple languages in the header.
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Arastta will try to determine the store front language based on the visitor's browser settings and your installed languages. If not able to match, the one set from the Settings > Local page will be loaded as per default.
Language translations are managed and downloaded live from Crowdin platform. You're always welcome to join and help the translation of Arastta.


Scientists Make Temperature-Regulating Coffee Mug
[via physorg] Researchers Klaus Sedlbauer and Herbert Sinnesbichler from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics have created the temperature-regulating mug using phase change material (PCM). PCM is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of heat by changing its phase, such as changing from a solid to a liquid.
To design the new mug, the researchers first created a hollow porcelain shell filled with ribbons of highly conductive aluminum. The formed a honeycomb structure, which the researchers filled with solid PCM. When the mug is filled with a hot beverage, the PCM absorbs the heat and melts like wax into a liquid. This process cools the beverage down to the optimal temperature. As the beverage cools over time, the PCM slowly releases the stored heat back into the drink, maintaining the optimal temperature for up to 30 minutes.
As the scientists note, different drinks have different optimal temperatures. Warm drinks such as and are best enjoyed at 58° C (136.4° F), beer tastes best at 7° C (44.6° F), and ice-cold drinks are best at -12° C (10.4° F). Since different types of PCM have different chemical properties and melting temperatures, the scientists can make different mugs for different. The downside for the consumer is that there is not a single mug for hot and cold drinks.
The researchers hope that, if they can find a business partner, the PCM mugs could be on sale by the end of the year. However, despite the fact that PCM is relatively inexpensive, the mugs will still probably cost significantly more than most mugs.
Besides mugs, PCM could have other interesting applications. For instance, researchers are investigating the possibility of using it to keep perishable foods from spoiling, and even putting it on museum walls to protect paintings in the case of a fire, since PCM is non-flammable. PCM already has commercial uses in construction materials, where it is embedded in walls and ceilings to maintain a comfortable room temperature. Some winter jackets also contain PCM for providing greater warmth. In addition, due to their long-term memory capabilities, PCM could be used for storing computer data without the need for an electric current.
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While many LGBT vacationers opt for the cool, queer-friendly climes of Fire Island or Provincetown, there's another option for those who prefer to take the road less traveled: the Yellow Brick Road.
Yes, folks, that Yellow Brick Road. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, historian John Curran has identified a stretch of yellow-bricked road in Peekskill, New York as the inspiration for the one that Dorothy famously traveled in L. Frank Baum's children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Although scholars in other parts of the country might beg to differ, Curran has conducted years of research and concluded that this bit of road is the one that sparked Baum's imagination. Curran's argument is based in part on fact: Baum lived two years of his young life in Peekskill, attending a military academy there. Legend has it that when he stepped off the boat and asked for directions to the school, he was told to "follow the yellow brick road".
Unfortunately for Curran — not to mention historians, preservationists, and literary types — only a small portion of the yellow brick road still exists today, and even that is being threatened with blacktop "improvements". If you're the sort of vacationer who likes to say, "I was there!", we'd suggest getting your pic on Peekskill's yellow brick road sooner rather than later.


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Alkali heath (Frankenia salina) is a low, woody perennial that grows in the salt marsh, forming clumps in the carpet of pickleweed. The small, scattered pink flowers are born on reddish stems. Close up, they are quite attractive but from a distance they vanish.
All salt-marsh plants can "drink" sea water because they have special adaptations to avoid being damaged by the salt. Alkali heath eliminates the toxic salt by excreting concentrated salt water through specialized glands. As the sun evaporates the water, crystals of salt are left on the foliage.


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In the 1960s and 1970s, "Truth or Consequences" was a popular game show in which contestants were challenged to successfully answer a perplexing question that usually had no obvious answer, determining whether or not the responses were truthful.1 If incorrect, they were left to deal with the consequences of a wrong answer, often in a comical manner with uncertain outcomes. Although the paradigm was intriguing during its time, in the current health care environment, the "truths" about racial disparities in mortality after coronary artery disease—in particular, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery—and our understanding of the "consequences" of these truths no longer leave room for laughter.
Higgins RSD. Truth and ConsequencesIt's Not a Game Anymore. JAMA Surg. 2014;149(3):228. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2013.4073


Re: Finite verbs
Date: Fri May 10 1996 - 10:39:45 EDT
Marion Fox here:
I have asked several questions about finite verbs and two persons responded
to my questions. I am grateful to those who responded to my questions. I
should like to trouble you some more on this subject.
In Romans 8:27 the subject of the sentence is HO...EREUNON...(The one
searching) is it not?
The finite verb OIDE (He knows) is something the subject is doing is it
not? By this I mean is the subject of this finite verb "The one searching"
the hearts?
Question: What is the subject of the finite verb ENTUGCHANEI (He makes
intercession-verse 27)? What rule of grammar/syntax have you used to
determine the subject of this verb?
Question: Is there a difference between ENTUGCHANEI HUPER (He makes
intercession in behalf of-verse 27) and HUPERENTUGCHANEI (He makes
intercession in behalf - verse 26)?
It would be helpful if a list of standardized transliteration would be
published on B-GREEK. I hope I have used the standard form for B-GREEK.
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Dahua Lin, John Fisher
Mixture distributions are often used to model complex data. In this paper, we develop a new method that jointly estimates mixture models over multiple data sets by exploiting the statistical dependencies between them. Specifically, we introduce a set of latent Dirichlet processes as sources of component models (atoms), and for each data set, we construct a nonparametric mixture model by combining sub-sampled versions of the latent DPs. Each mixture model may acquire atoms from different latent DPs, while each atom may be shared by multiple mixtures. This multi-to-multi association distinguishes the proposed method from prior constructions that rely on tree or chain structures, allowing mixture models to be coupled more flexibly. In addition, we derive a sampling algorithm that jointly infers the model parameters and present experiments on both document analysis and image modeling.


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canine hemangiosarcoma cell growth and viability
Canine hemangiosarcoma (HSA) is a malignant neoplasm of the vascular endothelium, which affects millions of dogs. The molecular mechanisms leading to HSA are unknown, and no effective treatments exist. The aim of this project was to study the sphingosine 1-phosphate (s1p) signaling pathway in HSA for the first time. The hypothesis was to determine if increased s1p/s1p1 signaling plays an important role in HSA progression.


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(2013). Connected learning in the library as a product of hacking, making, social diversity and messiness. Interactive Learning Environments.
Learning is most effective when intrinsically motivated through personal interest, and situated in a supportive socio-cultural context. This paper reports on findings from a study that explored implications for design of interactive learning environments through 18 months of ethnographic observations of people's interactions at "Hack The Evening" (HTE). HTE is a meetup group initiated at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and dedicated to provide visitors with opportunities for connected learning in relation to hacking, making and do-it-yourself technology. The results provide insights into factors that contributed to HTE as a social, interactive and participatory environment for learning – knowledge is created and co-created through uncoordinated interactions among participants that come from a diversity of backgrounds, skills and areas of expertise. The insights also reveal challenges and barriers that the HTE group faced in regards to connected learning. Four dimensions of design opportunities are presented to overcome those challenges and barriers towards improving connected learning in library buildings and other free-choice-learning environments that seek to embody a more interactive and participatory culture among their users. The insights are relevant for librarians as well as designers, managers and decision-makers of other interactive and free-choice-learning environments.
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Definitions of why
adv. - For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1. 2
adv. - For which; on account of which; -- used relatively. 2
adv. - The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a compound relative. 2
n. - A young heifer. 2
The word "why" uses 3 letters: H W Y.
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Cutting Christmas Trees in a National Forest - be sure you get a permit first!
What could be better than cutting your own fresh Christmas tree in a National Forest? Why does the government allow this? There are actually good forest management reasons to thin trees in some circumstances, so cutting a tree actually helps the Forest Service manage the forests. Be aware that to cut a tree in a National Forest requires a permit, and the NFS encourages safe practices.
"Trees from your national forests brighten homes across the country every year," said U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell. "We encourage people to be aware of changing weather conditions, dress accordingly and always follow safe cutting practices when looking for that perfect tree this holiday season."
Each year, local Forest Service offices sell permits that allow individuals to cut one fresh tree on national forest lands. Fees for the permits vary dependent on location. The permit program helps the agency thin stands that have a concentration of small diameter trees.
Reminders and tips for cutting your tree:
- Travel with a companion, and always tell another person when and where you plan to take a trip into a forest.
- Remember to take your tree-cutting permit and a map of the location.
- Think safety. Dress warmly and in layers. Check your weather forecast and be aware of changing weather conditions. Keep your gas tank full. Have tire chains, if necessary, and don't forget to bring a rope and tarp to transport your tree home. Also do not forget emergency supplies, including water and food.
- Select a tree with a trunk that is six inches or less in diameter, and prepare to cut the tree no more than six inches above ground level.
- Put on eye protection and heavy duty work gloves.
- Decide in which direction you want the tree to fall. Make sure the direction you choose is clear of all obstacles, including power lines and vehicles.
- Use handsaws and shears; chainsaws are prohibited in national forests.
- Make the back cut by standing to the side and away from the trunk. Step away as soon as the tree begins to fall.
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Contact your local Forest Service office to learn how to obtain your permit and for additional tree-cutting guidelines.


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The tobacco plants are harvested for cigars two to three times yearly at Tabacalera Esteli. It takes about 80 to 90 days for a tobacco plant to fully develop from a small seed into tall plants ready for picking. The tobacco fields are planted with seedlings a few weeks apart so that the harvest is spread out throughout several months. This allows for careful and precise supervision of the crop and the subsequent hand selecting and picking of the leaves.
Every step is carefully supervised to make sure that the tobacco plants grow healthy.
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