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Meaning: highland; The name Elam is an Assyrian word meaning "high."
the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22), and the name of the country inhabited by his descendants (14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; 21:2, etc.) lying to the east of Babylonia, and extending to the shore of the Mediterranean, a distance in a direct line of about 1,000 miles
"The inhabitants of Elam, or 'the Highlands,' to the east of Babylon, were called Elamites. They were divided into several branches, speaking different dialects of the same agglutinative language. The race to which they belonged was brachycephalic, or short-headed, like the pre-Semitic Sumerians of Babylonia.
"The earliest Elamite kingdom seems to have been that of Anzan, the exact site of which is uncertain; but in the time of Abraham, Shushan or Susa appears to have already become the capital of the country. Babylonia was frequently invaded by the Elamite kings, who at times asserted their supremacy over it (as in the case of Chedorlaomer, the Kudur-Lagamar, or 'servant of the goddess Lagamar,' of the cuneiform texts).
"The later Assyrian monarchs made several campaigns against Elam, and finally Assur-bani-pal (about B.C. 650) succeeded in conquering the country, which was ravaged with fire and sword. On the fall of the Assyrian Empire, Elam passed into the hands of the Persians" (A.H. Sayce).
This country was called by the Greeks Cissia or Susiana.


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Mark's Body Shop in Baltimore always attempted to get the repair process started as quickly as possible. To get techs working on vehicles right away, the office staff only acquired a small amount of information from customers, says vice president Mark Schaech Jr. But technicians always needed more information from customers to develop repair plans, which slowed work. So Schaech implemented a new standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure employees documented the right information up front, which improved repair plans and efficiency, and helped his team set proper customer expectations.
Schaech explains how he developed a preblueprint inspection routine at his facility, and how the standardized process has become a valuable tool.
We implemented this inspection routine about five years ago. It's a 30-minute data collection process conducted prior to blueprinting procedures in which we acquire and assess a standard set of information on every job, regardless of the vehicle type or amount of damage that exists. It's a methodical collection of information that helps us document the state of the vehicle, and understand how to properly blueprint the job. It has become a strong tool that we use every day to save time and improve the customer experience.
The inspection routine includes three key steps:
#1: Repair Contract. We complete a repair contract for every customer before looking at their vehicle. The repair contract is a document designed to gather basic customer and vehicle information, and to educate the customer about the repair process.
The four-page contract includes the vehicle's make, model, VIN and color. We also provide information about things like repair payment options and parts usage. We explain the pros and cons of various parts choices, parts recommendations, and insurance-related issues. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the repair contract, which every customer signs.
Step #2: Prerepair Checklist. We conduct a physical walk-around of the vehicle along with the customer to assess 12 standard items outlined on our pre repair checklist. It's an opportunity to gather more detailed information. The checklist takes about 15 minutes to complete, and includes the following:
1. Check lights, horn, wipers and washer nozzles
2. Check door handles, mirrors, power locks and alarm key fob
3. Check dash lights and cigarette lighter
4. Check fuel level
5. Check vehicle mileage
6. Identify paint code
7. Identify wheel lock location
8. Acquire details of the crash
9. Identify the location of vehicle passengers at the time of the crash
10. Identify the payment method (customer-pay or insurance-pay)
11. Identify the customer's interest in additional work, such as paintless dent repair, mechanical repair, or other self-pay items
12. Identify how the customer heard about the shop
The checklist should be a living document at every shop because some items could vary between facilities. So build the document over time in a way that works for you. Shop owners should regularly assess whether any new information could be added to the checklist to prevent common delays during the repair process or customer complaints.
Step #3: Pre-existing Damage Diagram. The final step of the inspection routine is completion of a pre-existing damage document, which includes a diagram of a vehicle. We identify where any pre-existing issues exist on the vehicle, and note the information in the appropriate place on the diagram. Every customer signs and dates that document to verify they were aware of those issues in advance.
Documenting pre-existing issues this way ensures customers won't blame us for certain imperfections. It also provides a convenient opportunity to upsell customers on additional unrelated items. Make sure you assess the vehicle thoroughly, though, because customers could hold you liable for damages that were not included on the document.
We use an iPad to complete the inspection routine, which is performed by our front office staff (every estimator and customer service representative is trained on the process). The iPad is linked directly to our management system where these three documents are housed. Customers sign each form on the iPad, and the information is automatically attached to the repair order and electronically saved in the management system. That's a much more efficient and organized strategy for completing, tracking and saving these forms, since paper documentation generates clutter and gets misplaced. Any employee who accesses the customer's file can easily refer to these forms at any time from any location.
This inspection routine has become very important and valuable to our company. Spending more time with customers up front to obtain this data reduces the need to call them several times throughout the repair, and eliminates work stoppages. This information is also needed to determine the best possible repair plan.
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Lead bricks are commonly used as radiation shielding.
Lead shielding refers to the use of lead as a form of radiation protection to shield people or objects from radiation so as to reduce the effective dose. Lead can effectively attenuate certain kinds of radiation because of its high density and high atomic number; principally, it is effective at stopping gamma rays, and x-rays.
Lead's high density is caused by the combination of its high atomic mass and the relatively small size of its bond lengths and atomic radius. The high atomic mass means that more electrons are needed to maintain a neutral charge and the small bond length and a small atomic radius means that many atoms can be packed into a particular lead structure. Because of lead's density and large number of electrons, it is well suited to scattering x-rays and gamma-rays. These rays form photons, a type of boson, which impart energy onto electrons when they come into contact. Without a lead shield, the electrons within a person's body would be affected, which could damage their DNA and cause cancer. When the radiation attempts to pass through lead, its electrons absorb and scatter the energy. Eventually though, the lead will degrade from the energy to which it is exposed. However, lead is not effective against all types of radiation. High energy electrons (including beta radiation) incident on lead may create bremsstrahlung radiation, which is potentially more dangerous to tissue than the original radiation. Furthermore, lead is not a particularly effective absorber of neutron radiation.
Lead is used for shielding in x-ray machines, nuclear power plants, labs, military equipment, and other places where radiation may be encountered. There is great variety in the types of shielding available both to protect people and to shield equipment and experiments. Personal shielding includes lead aprons (such as the familiar garment used during dental x-rays), thyroid shields, and lead gloves. There are also a variety of shielding devices available for laboratory equipment, including lead castles, structures composed of lead bricks, and lead pigs, thick containers for storing and transporting radioactive samples.
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North Carolina Criminal Law Chapter(s) 14-202.4: Taking Indecent Liberities with a Student (by Teacher, School Administrator, Student Teacher, School Safety Officer, Coach)
1. Definition and Elements of the Crime
Lawsuits Involving Indecent Liberties with a Student Under North Carolina Criminal Law Chapter 14-202.4, the crime of taking indecent liberties with a student is defined as the intentional or attempted commission of a lewd or lascivious act on a student and/or taking or attempting to take an action against the body (or any part of the body) of a student for the purposes of sexual gratification.
To prove a charge of indecent liberties with a student, the State must be able to establish the following prima facie elements Beyond a Reasonable Doubt:
 - That the Victim is a student
 - That the Defendant was a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, school safety officer or coach at the same school
 - That the Defendant willfully: (a) took or attempted to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with the victim for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire OR (b) committed or attempted to commit a lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of the victim
 - That this act occurred during or after the time the Defendant and the Victim were present together in the same school
"Student" means a person enrolled in kindergarten, or in grade one through grade 12 in any school.
"School safety officer" means any other person who is regularly present in a school for the purpose of promoting and maintaining safe and orderly schools and includes a school resource officer.
"Same school" means a school at which the student is enrolled or is present for school sponsored or school-related activity and the school personnel is employed, volunteers, or is present for a school sponsored or school-related activity.
"School personnel" includes those employed by nonpublic, charter or regional schools
It is not necessary that there be a touching of the child by the Defendant in order to constitute an indecent liberty. For example, a court can instruct the jury that an indecent liberty is an immoral, improper or indecent touching or act by defendant upon the child or an inducement by defendant of an immoral or indecent touching by the child.
"Indecent liberty" does not include vaginal intercourse or a sexual act as defined in North Carolina Criminal Law Chapter 14-27.1.
2. Examples
The Defendant, a middle school teacher, 32, sends inappropriate (sexual) photos and videos of herself to two of her 14-year-old male students at the Middle School. Defendant can be charged with 2 counts of taking indecent liberties with a student.
Defendant, a 29-year-old teacher from a Middle School, begins having inappropriate conversations with a student and exchanging pornographic images. Defendant can be charged with taking indecent liberties with a student.
Defendant, a 22 year old high school girls basketball coach, sends explicit texts and videos of himself masturbating to a student on the team. Defendant can be charged with taking indecent liberties with a student.
3. Related Offenses
Other similar or related offenses include:
 - North Carolina Criminal Law Chapter 14-202.4: Taking Indecent Liberties with a Student (by Member of School Personnel Other Than Teacher, School Administrator, Student Teacher, School Safety Officer, Coach) (Misdemeanor – A1)
 - North Carolina Criminal Law Chapter 14-202.1: Taking an Indecent Liberty With a Child
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 2. Negligence is not an Accident
 3. Charlotte Personal Injury Attorneys
 4. Discovery in NC Law Suits
5. Lawsuits Involving Indecent Liberties with a Student
The Powers Law Firm helps people victimized by sexual offenses and sexual predators.
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The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika) was formed by the union of the black and coloured Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk mission churches.
Main markers in the URCSA'S history
In 1652 the Dutch formed a halfway station at the Cape and introduced slavery by whites.
Various foreign mission organisations started working in South Africa, which led to the formation of a number of denominations amongst those people who otherwise would have been excluded from the main churches.
This process motivated the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa to start its own independent mission work.
In 1857 the NGK synod decided to have separate services for coloured members.
A separate church, the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) was formed in 1881.
For blacks, the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) was formed in 1951.
In 1974 the synod of the DRCA decided in favour of church unity. In 1978 the DRMC decided likewise.
In 1986 the Belhar Confession - with its strong emphasis on unity, reconciliation and justice - was formulated and adopted by the DRMC.
In 1994 the DRMC and the DRCA united to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA).
The joy which marked the formal unification of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) in 1994 to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), should be seen against the background of a very difficult road on which church unity often appeared as being an unattainable goal.
Shortly after the Dutch formed a halfway station at the Cape in 1652, they introduced slavery. They started a school for slaves, with the purpose of transferring the Dutch language and culture. To encourage slaves to learn the Dutch language and prayers, they were rewarded with tobacco and brandy.
The Dutch East India Company, as a matter of policy, had all their slaves baptised. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of the time had no organised mission activity, with the result that the baptism of slaves were left to the wilfulness of their masters. Baptised slaves also did not necessarily become members of the church.
In 1737 Georg Schmidt from the Moravian Church came to Cape Town to work amongst the Khoikhoi of the Overberg. Pressurised by the Cape church, he was forced to leave for Germany again after seven years. In the course of time various mission organisations from overseas started working in South Africa, which led to the formation of a number of denominations amongst those people who else would have been excluded from the church.
This process motivated the DRC to start its own independent mission work. This new development started at the church's first synod of 1824, when it decided to allow missionaries within its own ranks. This was clearly a move to get control over the way in which mission work would be done in years to follow. "The Afrikaner abhorred the liberal views of equality, freedom and the social integration of many missionaries (from the foreign mission societies)". Although at its 1829 synod the DRC formally rejected discrimination on the basis of skin colour, it did not mean that in practice people of colour were not discriminated against, particularly at worship services and holy communion.
The DRC synod's decision of 1857 about separate services for coloured members "because of the weakness of some", has become notorious. The next logical step was the formation of a separate church. In 1881 representatives of five mission congregations assembled in Wellington near Cape Town for the first meeting of the DRMC. The DRC reserved the right to veto all decisions by this newly formed church. Also all its buildings had to be transferred on the DRC's name. The DRC decided to divide its mission work into a "home" and "foreign" mission. The first covered the Cape region, the second all the other provinces of South Africa, including Namibia. In each province separate churches for blacks and coloureds were formed. The Free State had its own mission church already in 1910.
In the Cape a separate "Dutch Reformed Bantu Church" was formed in 1951. All the coloured congregations eventually joined the DRMC, and the black congregations the DRCA. In 1974 the synod of the DRCA decided in favour of church unity. In 1978 the DRMC decided likewise.It took another 16 years for that ideal to be fulfilled. In the process, the Belhar Confession with its strong emphasis on unity, reconciliation and justice was formulated and adopted in 1986. This is still very much the motivating power by which the URCSA today lives.
The Uniting Reformed Church consists of approximately 1,230 000 members of them about 500,000 confessing members (excluding all those who are only baptised) and 683 congregations. Its name (which is in the continuous tense) and its logo (which is an incomplete circle) reflects the Church's emphasis on unity, and its hope for an even greater church unification within the family of God.
The Church is consisted of hudreds of congregations, these congregations belong to the regional presbytery and several presbyteries form a Synod. The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa consist of seven regional synods, namely Namibia, Northern Transvaal, Southern Transvaal, Phororo (Northern Cape), Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, Free State and Lesotho. Each region has its own moderamen, and every congregation is represented at these synods. Congregations are grouped together in presbyteries. At the general synod level congregations are only represented through their presbyteries. The general synod determines the Church's policy, and the regional synods see to it that these policies are reflected in their various activities.
2006-11-06/08, 127 representatives of the Reformed Church in Africa, The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa and Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk met at Achterbergh near Krugersdorp to discuss the reunification of the family of DRC churches and how this can be realized.
The Dutch Reformed Churches Union Act Repeal Bill [B69-2008] in the Parliament of South Africa has one of its objectives as to 'remove obstacles in the unification process of the Verenigde Gereformeerde Kerk, Reformed Church of Africa and the Dutch Reformed Churches without legislative intervention.' This is now Dutch Reformed Churches Union Act Repeal Act 46 of 2008.
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Music Performance: Combined Piano & Organ
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requirement 3 Complete 2 options
Complete 8 hours of each of the following divided between piano and organ:
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option 3.2 Complete 8.0 hours from the following course(s)
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Complete 1 hour of ensemble each semester for six semesters, including 2 or 4 hours from Category 1: Approved Large Ensembles and 2 or 4 hours of the Category 2 ensemble Music 344R; each 2 hours of 344R must be taken in consecutive fall and winter semesters.
requirement 6 Complete 1 course
requirement 8 Complete 2 courses
requirement 9 Complete 2.0 hours from the following course(s)
requirement 11 Complete 1 option
Present a juried recital (Music 249) during the sophomore year. A juried senior recital (Music 449) is also required.
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Note: Students must register for 449 before applying for graduation.
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We support the aims of a BYU education, to strengthen students' lives spiritually, enlarge their intellectual experience, build their character, and prepare for lifelong learning and service.
As reviewed and approved by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), all music students, through the core requirements of all music degrees, show proficiency in music theory, music history, performance, ensemble playing, conducting, sight singing, and music dictation.
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Prepare performances at the highest possible level, including knowledge of applicable solo and ensemble literature, and perform from a cross-section of that repertory.
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text: Trevor (he/they) is a bodyworker and cultural worker who is deeply invested in supporting movements for collective care and liberation. Their work acknowledges that the conditions of our lives, ancestral through preconception and into present time, have an impact on our bodies, relationships and communities. Trevor believes that bodywork is an effective way to touch in with those places of impact while being supported in relationship with another. His work is informed by his studies of pre and perinatal somatic psychology, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, massage therapy, Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Feminist traditions, improvisational movement, and the many communities and ecosystems they are from and a part of. Trevor's approach to teaching is grounded in antiracist and queer affirming frameworks; somatic education; presence; and reverent trust in the body's inherent wisdom and capacity to heal when given space to do so. Some of Trevor's teaching experience has included adaptive and recreational circus arts, workshop facilitation in queer-affirming care practices for health care providers and educators, and supporting their local non-profit in utilizing antiracist and healing-centered approaches to support youth and young adults experiencing houselessness in northern Washington. Trevor is excited to continue deepening his study of biodynamics and to support learners on their BCST journey!

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VC++ and multiple inheritance
Today at work we were optimizing memory usage. At some moment we found out that size (on stack) of our basic data structures is x bytes bigger than summed size of their members. Every basic data structure was written following Alexandrescu policy based design – using inheritance from some templated empty classes. Let's see a simple example:
class A { };
class B { };
class C : public A, B
 int test;
int main()
 printf( "%d\n", sizeof( C ) );
 return 0;
Compiler uses 4 byte aligment. Will this program print 4? That depends. Compiled by GCC it will print 4, but compiled by VC++ (2005-2010) it will print 8.
Every class in C++ has to be at least 1 byte of size in order to have a valid memory adress. With multiple inheritance sizeof(C) = sizeof(A) + sizeof(B) + some aligment. So VC++ behavior is correct, but not optimal. It's strange that it was reported to MS in 2005 and still they didn't fix it.
4 Responses to VC++ and multiple inheritance
 1. It's even more puzzling when your class inherits from 5 others (class Der : public A,B,C,D,E).
 Der* 00884fa0
 A* 00884fa0
 B* 00884fa1
 C* 00884fa2
 D* 00884fa3
 E* 00884fa4
 &test 00884fa4
 Yet, adding another inheritance (F) increases the size from 8 to 12. Why couldn't it still be 8 if E* and &test overlap anyway? (F could be 00884fa5)
 This must be an old ugly bug in compiler that nobody in MS understands anymore 🙂
 2. KriS says:
 VC++ sometimes can optimize empty class. Compiling my example with 1 byte alignment will result in sizeof(C) = 5. The funny part is that again some smart abstraction (which should be free in theory) defeats optimizer. Now try to imagine how crappy code is generated by compiler when compiling boost or other "modern c++" code :).
 3. Gregory says:
 See there
 msvc++ fails to apply EBO in case of multiple inheritance
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The objective of the proposed SBIR Phase I program is to develop novel laser absorption-based instruments that provide rapid, in situ, simultaneous measurements of gas temperature, velocity and mole fractions of several important species in pulsed detonation flows. Based on laser absorption spectroscopy techniques, the instrumentation will employ room temperature novel mid-IR lasers to determine the concentrations of several combustion products and reactants with high sensitivity and capture the spatiotemporal evolution from deflagration to detonation. The Phase I instrument will be demonstrated in combustion flows at Los Gatos Research and at Stanford University. The fast response of the instrument will enable engineers and scientists to record precise measurements gasdynamic parameters in engine flows to identify temperature and species nonuniformities, combustion instabilities and to refine and improve computational models. BENEFIT: Instrumentation for measurements in rocket engine and gas turbine flows will enable Air Force scientists and engineers to monitor gas concentrations, temperatures and velocities under realistic rocket engine operating conditions. The instrument may also be used for measurements, control and thus optimization of generic combustion-powered flows (gas turbines, waste incinerators) to maximize efficiency and reduce unwanted pollutants.
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c. 1200, "to strike, hit, beat, knock;" c. 1300, "to deprive of life," perhaps from an unrecorded variant of Old English cwellan "to kill" (see quell), but the earliest sense suggests otherwise. Sense in to kill time is from 1728. Related: Killed; killing. Kill-devil, colloquial for "rum," especially if new or of bad quality, is from 1630s.
kill (n.2) Look up kill at
"stream," 1630s, American English, from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille "riverbed," especially in place names (such as Schuylkill). A common Germanic word, the Old Norse form, kill, meant "bay, gulf" and gave its name to Kiel Fjord on the German Baltic coast and thence to Kiel, the port city founded there in 1240.
kill (n.1) Look up kill at
early 13c., "a stroke, a blow," from kill (v.). Meaning "act of killing" is from 1814; that of "a killed animal" is from 1878. Lawn tennis serve sense is from 1903. The kill "the knockout" is boxing jargon, 1950.


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I'm afraid this is a myth which is perpetuated in the NIV Study Bible notes on Exodus 28:35. The notes say
According to Jewish tradition, one end of a length of rope was tied to the high priest's ankle and the other end remained outside the tabernacle. If the bells on his robe stopped tinkling while he was in the Holy Place, the assumption that he had died could be tested by pulling gently on the rope.
But you can't always believe the notes in your Bible. This myth appears to have originated with the 13th century A.D. Jewish work, the Zohar:
A knot of rope of gold hangs from his leg, from fear perhaps he would die in the holy of holies, and they would need to pull him out with this rope.
There is no evidence in any ancient source that this is true. Besides, Leviticus 16:3-4 gives clear instructions about what the high priest should wear, and it did not include a rope.
There is a helpful discussion of the myth at the BiblePlaces blog (from which the above information was obtained).


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I have a figure in my paper (I am using IEEEtran package). After this figure there exists a space between the figure and the text. How can I reduce the size of this white space. To be specific the space is between the caption of the figure and the text of my paper. Any suggestions?
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This depends on the location of the float - if the float is at the top of the page, the gap between the caption and the text is \textfloatsep, while the gap for a float in the middle of the page is given by \intextsep.
From the layouts package documentation it is possible to see the lengths in terms of page/document float elements (p 21 onward):
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Default for ieeetran are
 - \textfloatsep: 1.7\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.5\baselineskip
 - \intextsep: \baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip
and therefore depends on the choice of the default font (since that sets \baselineskip). The default pt-form is therefore
 - \textfloatsep: 20.4pt plus 2.4pt minus 4.8pt
 - \intextsep: 12.0pt plus 2.4pt minus 2.4pt
in the 10pt font size. The above includes some stretch/shrink. You can modify them using \setlength. For example,
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip}
would allow for between (roughly) 10pt and 15pt gap between the float and the text. Something like
would fix the distance to 5pt (without stretch/shrink).
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I'm having a huge space between the end of a paragraph and the beginning of the next one, I don't know the reason, I'm using IEEE trans template – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 3:42
_USER_: What do you have around these paragraphs? What float specifiers do you use for any floats around it? – Werner Jul 30 '13 at 3:52
I have a float after the end of the paragraph \begin{figure}[t] \begin{figure}[t] \centering { \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture] \node[mynode] (image2) {\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{avghist}}; \end{tikzpicture}} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \end{tikzpicture} \caption{} \label{} \end{figure} \begin{figure*}[pht] {\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{squash3}}\caption{AA} \label{} \end{figure*} \begin{table*}[pht] \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}>{\hsize=0.8\hsize}X 2{>{\hsize=1.1\hsize}X}@{}} \toprule \bottomrule \end{tabularx} \caption{AAA} \label{} \end{table} – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 3:58
_USER_: Do you really have 2 figures (nested)? It's difficult to gauge what else might be the problem. – Werner Jul 30 '13 at 4:16
I have two figures then a table – Tak Jul 30 '13 at 4:20
If you do not want to modify the standard template and just want a quick fix for this, you may add the following command to your document preamble:
Then, you can use the command \squeezeup throughout your document for reducing the free space after/before figures, formulas, etc., as needed.
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You can use etoolbox package. Just set a \vskip with a negative value at the start (\BeforeBeginEnvironment or \AtBeginEnvironment) and at the end (\AfterEndEnvironment) of the environment figure.
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Unitary transformations are like orthogonal transformations, except we're working with a complex inner product space. We'll focus on just the transformations that are unitary with respect to the inner product itself. That is, we ask that
and so we must have just as we wrote for orthogonal transformations, but we have to use the adjoint that's appropriate to our complex inner product. In this way, unitary and orthogonal transformations are related in a way similar to that in which Hermitian and symmetric forms are related.
Now, we've got this running analogy between endomorphisms on an inner product space and complex numbers. Taking the adjoint is like complex conjugation, so Hermitian transformations are like real numbers because they're equal to their own adjoints. But here, we're looking at transformations whose inverses are equal to their adjoints. What does this look like in terms of our analogy?
Well, we've noted that a transformation composed with its own adjoint is a sure way to get a positive-definite transformation. This is analogous to the way that a complex number times its own conjugate is always nonnegative:. In fact, we use this to interpret as the squared-length of a the complex number. So what's the analogue of the unitarity condition? That's like asking for, and so must be a unit-length complex number. Unitary transformations are like the complex numbers on the unit circle.


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As a historian I have seen lots of memorials in churches in Britain and Europe, but this is very unusual – possibly unique.
Tudor monuments often show effigies of the parents recumbent above of their children lined up in order of size, praying for them. Sons are generally on the left, and daughters on the right. But the furtherest – ie youngest – on the right here is a short haired character, so a son, with its arm through that of his sister who was probably his twin. It even shows him at a slight distance from her, as if being led by her.
This looks like a blind boy, which in turn begs the question of why this monument is so unusual. Given how many stories there are of blind people in the Bible, of blind people being noted as being in need of alms etc, why does this memorial stand out?
Was blindness ignored in effigies or were blind people kept out of sight, so were – apart from professional beggars – invisible?


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much to throw the ball.
4. They're a Deceivingly Technical Movement
While wall balls seem like a simple movement, there's a lot involved in doing them properly and efficiently. Things like how far away you stand from the wall to how you hold the ball can affect how well you're able to do them.
How To Fix
There are several cues to keep in mind when doing wall balls so you can make sure you're doing them efficiently:
- Keep the ball centered. Holding the ball off to one side means that side of your body has to do more of the work to throw it up, which can create muscle imbalances.
- Keep the ball close to your body. Holding the ball too far out in front of you can make the weight feel much heavier than it is. This is because it creates a longer resistance arm, or the distance between the weight and the fulcrum (the lever that lies between the weight and the force being applied to it, which in this case would be the elbow).
- Stand an appropriate distance away from the wall. If you stand too far away from the wall, you have to throw the ball forward and up instead of just throwing it straight up. This requires you to do more work since you'll have to throw the ball a greater distance. You may need to experiment to find your ideal distance, but a good starting point is to stand far enough away that you can touch the wall with the ball when you hold it in front of you with your arms outstretched.
- Hold the ball more towards the bottom instead of on the sides. Imagine that you're holding an upside-down kettlebell when doing a goblet squat. You should hold a wall ball in a similar fashion because you can apply more force to it from the bottom than you could if you hold it on the sides.
- Avoid dropping your arms too low when holding the ball. It's easy to want to drop your arms when you catch the ball due to the momentum of gravity pulling it down. But keeping them at around chest height or slightly higher means they have less distance to travel as you throw the ball back up, and you'll be able to use more power to hit your target.
Check out the differences between wall balls and slam balls: Wall Balls vs Slam Balls: Pros, Cons, & Which Are Better?
5. They Can Be Mentally Challenging
As if wall balls weren't physically challenging enough, they can be mentally demanding as well. They require accuracy so you can hit the target with each rep, and you have to pay attention to the ball as it comes back down to make sure it doesn't hit you in the face.
Plus, as I mentioned above, there are a lot of cues to keep in mind when performing them, which can be difficult to remember when you're just starting out.
In addition to all of that, you need to exhibit a certain degree of mental fortitude when trying to bang out large sets of wall balls at a time. It's tough to not keep taking breaks when your heart is beating fast and your shoulders and quads are burning.
How To Fix
There's no one singular thing you can do to make wall balls less mentally challenging. Practicing them more often will help. And if you know you have more than one flaw to fix in your wall ball technique, breaking down your wall ball cues and focusing on fixing one thing at a time will prevent you from getting frustrated.
Outside of your normal workouts, you may also want to practice wall balls with a heavier ball. For example, if you're a female who usually uses a 14lb ball, you can try using an 18lb ball for a couple of workouts. If you know you can perform multiple sets of 15-20 wall balls at a heavier weight, you'll have more confidence when doing them at your usual weight.
Related Article: Small Home Gym Layouts: From 100-500 Square Feet
Doing wall balls often can improve your conditioning, help you develop a more powerful lower body, and improve your hand-eye coordination.
Even though anyone can scale wall balls to meet their current fitness levels, they can still be difficult to perform due to how physically and mentally challenging they are. Little things like standing the right distance away from the wall, holding the wall ball the right way, and practicing them more often or with a heavier ball can all help you become more proficient at them.
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Amanda is a writer and editor in the fitness and nutrition industries. Growing up in a family that loved sports, she learned the importance of staying active from a young age. She started CrossFit in 2015, which led to her interest in powerlifting and weightlifting. She's passionate about helping women overcome their fear of lifting weights and teaching them how to fuel their bodies properly. When she's not training in her garage gym or working, you can find her drinking coffee, walking her dog, or indulging in one too many pieces of chocolate.


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Kähler geometry of the universal Teichmüller space and coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group
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The Kähler geometry of the universal Teichmüller space and related infinite-dimensional Kähler manifolds is studied. The universal Teichmüller space T may be realized as an open subset in the complex Banach space of holomorphic quadratic differentials in the unit disc. The classical Teichmüller spaces T(G), where G is a Fuchsian group, are contained in T as complex Kähler submanifolds. The homogeneous spaces Diff+(S 1)/Möb(S 1) and Diff+(S 1)/S 1 of the diffeomorphism group Diff+(S 1) of the unit circle are closely related to T. They are Kähler Frechet manifolds that can be realized as coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group (and exhaust all coadjoint orbits of this group that have the Kähler structure).
KeywordsSTEKLOV Institute Symplectic Form Fuchsian Group Coadjoint Orbit Beltrami Equation
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Convert calendar time to local time
_TAG_ struct tm* localtime_r( const time_t* timer, struct tm* result );
- A pointer to a time_t object that contains the calendar time that you want to convert.
- A pointer to a tm structure where the function can store the converted time.
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The localtime_r() function converts the calendar time pointed to by timer into local time, storing the information in the struct tm that result points to. Whenever you call localtime_r(), it calls tzset().
You typically get a calendar time by calling time(). That time is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT).
You typically use the date command to set the computer's internal clock using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Use the TZ environment variable or _CS_TIMEZONE configuration string to establish the local time zone.
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Previous interest in light hydrocarbons from geothermal systems has focused principally on the origin of the methane1 and the estimation of subsurface temperatures from the carbon isotopic content of coexisting methane and carbon dioxide1-3. Higher molecular weight hydrocarbons were first reported in gases from Yellowstone National Park4, and have since been found to occur commonly in geothermal emanations in the western United States5. Isotopic measurements of individual geothermal hydrocarbons are now reported which help to explain the origin of these hydrocarbons. The thermal decomposition of sedimentary or groundwater organic matter is a principal source of hydrocarbons in four geothermal areas in western North America.?? 1981 Nature Publishing Group.
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Last week I wrote about my cracked iron and a desire for a tapered iron for my miter plane and J asked the following question:
I got similar queries from a few other people and the answer deserves a proper explanation:
A plane iron can be parallel, tapered so that the thick end is near the mouth, or tapered so that the thinner end is near the mouth (See picture).
If the iron is parallel the iron will stay put provided the force on the iron is less than the wedge force or the frictional force caused by the wedge bearing down on the iron. In general the friction force is going to be a lot less than the wedge force and depending on the iron and the fit of the wedge (very important) you might have to bang the wedge in pretty hard to keep the frictional force high enough so the iron stays put in use. The same force is needed to slide the iron in or out.
Japanese planes have a tapered iron with the cutting edge at the thin end. The iron is held by wedging it into notches at the side of the plane and it's the grain of the oak body that keeps the iron in place. This method of holding an iron in a plane is completely different from the Western approach.
The Western tapered iron is thicker at the cutting edge and works well because the iron is held in place by a mechanical interference between iron and wedge. There is no chance of the iron sliding so the force holding the iron in is purely a taper against the body of the plane, not parallel to the iron and is very strong. Most importantly the forces required to back off the iron are far greater than the force required to advance the iron. So a tap, tap on the back of the iron will advance the iron, and only a small tap on the wedge will lock it. Pushing back the other way takes more force. Try this and see - how hard it takes to advance a tapered iron vs the force needed to back it out.
Wedged infill planes pretty much disappear after the invention of the lever cap by Fenn in 1844. This allowed for using less expensive parallel irons, and it is far easier to fit a lever cap to a plane than a wedge. However I think adjusting a wedged plane is far easier. This changes again in 1913 when Norris introduced their adjuster. There is also an argument that a properly fitting wedge helps dampen vibration by clamping the iron over a much greater area than a lever cap. I want to think this is true but the thicker the plane iron is the less effect the wedge dampening would have.
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What is The Difference Between Server Side Rendering (SSR) and React Server Components?
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In December 2020, the React team introduced an experimental feature called React Server Components. This may leave you wondering how exactly these "server components" differ from Server Side Rendering (SSR).
SSR Is All About the Initial Page Load
TL;DR: SSR is basically all about that initial load seeming more like a traditional server-rendered app.
React Server Components Are Always Rendered on the Server
React Server Components are always rendered on the server. These are likely components that are fetching some data from your backend, so it makes sense to have the rendering of these components colocated with the data that's being fetched. Whenever these components need to be rerendered, they are refetched from the server and merged into the existing, client-side React component tree. What's cool about this is client state is preserved even though we're refetching parts of the view from the server.
React Server Components Are More Likely to Reduce Bundle Size
Since SSR apps are about the initial page load, the client is likely to end up downloading all your dependencies as they explore your application (after all, it's a client side app after that first page load). However, if you have dependencies for a React Server Component, those dependencies will always be only on the server since those React Server Components are not shipped to the front-end until they have been rendered.
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This is the first ever extensive dictionary of Netwar language (western Tanna, Republic of Vanuatu) published online. It is the fruit of several years of my work among the inhabitants of the island of Tanna. It contains translations of local expressions, pronunciation recordings and photographic documentation. Its purpose is to help in the preservation of the language and in passing it to the young generation.
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Battle of Meadow Bridge
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Battle of Meadow Bridge
Part of the American Civil War
Date May 12, 1864
Location Henrico County, Virginia
Result Union victory
Commanders and leaders
Philip Sheridan Fitzhugh Lee
Casualties and losses
170[1] not reported
The Battle of Meadow Bridge (also known as Meadow Bridges and the Battle of Richmond Heights) was an engagement on May 12, 1864, in Henrico County, Virginia, during Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following their victory at the Battle of Yellow Tavern on May 11, Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan advanced in the direction of the Confederate capital of Richmond. Caught in the narrow area between the fortifications of Richmond and the rain-swollen Chickahominy River, the Union troopers were subjected to fire from the artillery of Confederate Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Michigan cavalry under Brig. Gen. George A. Custer forced a crossing of a damaged railroad bridge, which was quickly rebuilt by engineers, allowing the troopers to escape to safety and continue their raid.
On May 11, 1864, Sheridan and his Union cavalry force, on the second day of a daring raid against Richmond, defeated Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, mortally wounding the storied Confederate cavalier.[2] Sheridan led his troops southward towards Richmond, carefully feeling his way through the abandoned outer defensive works. As darkness fell, a severe thunderstorm drenched the column, but Sheridan kept up his movement down the Brook Pike, not realizing that he was boxing himself into a potential trap. Confederates had left torpedoes (land mines) in the road—many exploded during the passage, killing several horses but not delaying the column further.[3] As dawn broke and the storm subsided, Sheridan found himself only two and half miles from his objective. However, to his dismay, the intermediate defenses in his front swarmed with enemy troops. His left flank was against the swollen Chickahominy, and Confederate cavalry threatened his rear, hoping to capture the Union force.[4]
Sheridan decided to force a crossing of the river at Meadow Bridge, where the Virginia Central Railroad crossed the river. Confederates had earlier dismantled the flooring on the road part of the bridge, rendering it temporarily useless, although the rest of the bridge was intact. Sheridan assigned the Michigan brigade of Brig. Gen. George A. Custer, part of Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt's division, to seize the span and the high bluffs beyond. The rest of Sheridan's command had to hold the Confederates at bay while Custer executed his orders. The other two brigades in Merritt's division, commanded by Colonels Thomas C. Devin and Alfred Gibbs, guarded the center of the Union line to protect against Confederate advances out of the Richmond fortifications. On the western end of the Union line, near Brook Church, the division of Brig. Gen. David McM. Gregg had to resist the advance of Brig. Gen. James B. Gordon's brigade. On the eastern and, Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson was to oppose any Confederate advances along Meadow Bridge road and Mechanicsville Pike.[5]
The rearguard of the Gregg's division was assailed on three sides as soon as it was light enough for a brigade of Confederate infantry to sally forth from the fortifications and attack. Soon, other Confederates, including Richmond citizens hastily pressed into military service, joined in the efforts to break through the rear lines. According to the regimental historian of the veteran 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry,
Every effort was made by the enemy to break the lines of our division and push us back into the river and swamp. But as often as he came up, he was driven back with heavy loss. The fighting continued thus, the enemy charging, time after time, only to be hurled back, until about eleven A.M., when, apparently completely disheartened by his repeated repulses, he withdrew...[6]
Wilson's men were initially pushed back in some confusion, but Gregg had concealed a heavy line of skirmishers armed with repeating carbines in a brushy ravine. His men poured forth a destructive fire, halting the final Confederate advances, assisted by some of Wilson's men who turned the flank of the attacking column. Federal horse artillery made sure that the Confederate infantry no longer was a threat, and three mounted cavalry regiments skirmished with approaching enemy cavalry, turning them aside and protecting the rear. Brig. Gen. Gordon was mortally wounded in the fighting and died on May 18.[7]
In the meantime, Custer's 5th Michigan Cavalry used snipers to suppress Confederate rifle fire while several daring dismounted troopers crossed the damaged railroad bridge, hopping from railroad tie to tie while menaced by persistent enemy artillery fire. Followed by the 6th Michigan, they succeeded in the early afternoon in clearing the north bank of the Chickahominy and gaining a foothold on the Confederate side of the river. Custer's men pinned down the remaining threatening enemy units and captured two artillery pieces, while pioneers energetically planked the bridge to provide safe passage for large numbers of men and horses. By mid-afternoon, Merritt's entire division had crossed and engaged the hastily-built Confederate works on Richmond Heights, driving the defenders back to Gaines's Mill. By 4 p.m., the rest of Sheridan's cavalry had crossed the river.[8]
Sheridan destroyed the Virginia Central Bridge in his wake to prevent further pursuit. For the balance of the day, Sheridan's men collected their wounded, buried their dead, grazed their horses in the pastures, and eagerly read Richmond newspapers, which two enterprising small boys had brought across the lines and sold to the Union soldiers.[3]
After his men had rested, Sheridan brushed aside the remaining Confederate resistance in the area and marched his column to Mechanicsville, out of harm's way. They bivouacked that night at Gaines's Mill, which was burned the following morning by some of the stragglers; Sheridan ordered a bucket brigade to douse the flames. Upon reaching Bottom's Bridge over the Chickahominy, they found it had also been damaged and rested there for the night while it was repaired. By this time, Sheridan's men were suffering from hunger and it was becoming urgent that they reach Union lines. On May 14, he led his men to Haxall's Landing on the James River, ending his raid.[9]
Sheridan reported 170 casualties for the Meadow Bridges, Mechanicsville, Strawberry Hill, Brook Church (or Richmond Fortifications), engagements, May 12, 1864.[1] Confederate losses are not recorded. Sheridan's raid was an overall tactical success, having killed Jeb Stuart at Yellow Tavern and beaten Fitzhugh Lee at Meadow Bridge, all with relatively minimal casualties—about 625 men for the entire raid, compared to 800 Confederate. From a strategic standpoint, however, the raid deprived General Grant of the cavalry resources that would have been helpful during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and his subsequent advance to the North Anna River, and there are lingering questions about whether Sheridan should have attempted to assault the city of Richmond. In the latter case, Sheridan believed it would not have been worth the risk in casualties and he recognized that the chances of holding the city for more than a brief time would be minimal; any advantages would primarily result from damage to Confederate morale.[10]
 1. ^ a b O.R., Series I, Vol. XXXVI, Part 1, p. 185.
 2. ^ Salmon, pp. 279-83.
 3. ^ a b Sheridan's report, O.R., Series I, Vol. XXXVI, Part 1, p. 791.
 4. ^ Rhea, pp. 44-47.
 5. ^ Rhea, p. 45.
 6. ^ History of the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, pp. 93-94.
 7. ^ Rhea, pp. 47-49, 53, 62.
 8. ^ Rhea, pp. 49-51.
 9. ^ Rhea, pp. 59-60.
 10. ^ Rhea, pp. 60-64, 219.
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Program/Track C/C.2.3/The Markov Model for a Multiphase Security System with the Partial Concurrent Service
The Markov Model for a Multiphase Security System with the Partial Concurrent Service
A cryptographic protocol is not only an algorithm but also a procedure for exchanging data between different network subscribers, associated with the message exchange at different levels. In this case, the problem of minimizing the number of protocol implementation levels depending on the task size is relevant. The algorithm graph for finding the state probabilities of the multiphase mixed-type queuing system is derived. The characteristic parameters are determined: performance, downtime rate, and balancing rate. The example of calculating system performance is considered.


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Standardisation of rates using logistic regression : a comparison with the direct method
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BACKGROUND: Standardisation of rates in health services research is generally undertaken using the direct and indirect arithmetic methods. These methods can produce unreliable estimates when the calculations are based on small numbers. Regression based methods are available but are rarely applied in practice. This study demonstrates the advantages of using logistic regression to obtain smoothed standardised estimates of the prevalence of rare disease in the presence of covariates. METHODS: Step by step worked examples of the logistic and direct methods are presented utilising data from BETS, an observational study designed to estimate the prevalence of subclinical thyroid disease in the elderly. Rates calculated by the direct method were standardised by sex and age categories, whereas rates by the logistic method were standardised by sex and age as a continuous variable. RESULTS: The two methods produce estimates of similar magnitude when standardising by age and sex. The standard errors produced by the logistic method were lower than the conventional direct method. CONCLUSION: Regression based standardisation is a practical alternative to the direct method. It produces more reliable estimates than the direct or indirect method when the calculations are based on small numbers. It has greater flexibility in factor selection and allows standardisation by both continuous and categorical variables. It therefore allows standardisation to be performed in situations where the direct method would give unreliable results.
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Digital apps have much potential for improving the quality of safety data collected during both pre and post-introduction of new vaccines, including SARS-COV-2 candidate vaccines.
Brighton Collaboration (BC) is forming two inter-related working groups (both working together initially) to harmonize this effort as follows:
- Group A: Clinically-focus on issues like which adverse events following immunizations (AEFI) to include and how to collect this information; building largely on prior BC guidance when possible.
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Whenever possible, allowances for tiered approaches (e.g., flip vs. smartphone, patient vs. health worker as reporter of AEFI) will be made.
It is envisioned to have 8-10 subject matter experts for each working group. Expertise in the following areas is sought:
- Group A: vaccine safety, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, medical informatics, and others as needed.
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We welcome your participation and/or referral of experts willing to work and author a guidance document on a prioritized basis during the next 3-4 months.
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Researchers recently found that a conjunctival limbal autograft (CLAU) can provide long-term ocular surface stability and good visual outcomes for patients with unilateral total limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD).
This retrospective, interventional case series evaluated 27 eyes that were followed for a mean of 49.8±36.6 months. The main outcome measures were ocular surface stability, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and postoperative complications.
The team achieved ocular surface stability in 77.8% of eyes, while 22.2% developed partial surface failure. They performed penetrating or deep lamellar anterior keratoplasty in 44.5% of eyes, noting that BCVA improved from 1.42±0.95 mean logMAR (equivalent to 20/400) preoperatively to 0.53±0.47 mean logMAR (equivalent to 20/70) at last follow-up. They add that 44.5% of eyes eventually reached BCVA ≥ 20/40. The study noted two significant side effects: microbial keratitis in 14.8% of eyes and ocular hypertension secondary to corticosteroid use in 25.9%. The researchers found no other complications in the donor or recipient eyes.
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Filtering is the way the request XML packet indicates the object (a LP or several) to which the operation will be applied. The request XML packet filters LPs using a special filter node.
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Can you show the code you use to hide the form and describe what happens when you call it? – stuartd Aug 31 '12 at 12:33
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Using your existing pattern - OnClosing + AW_HIDE does it in reverse.
protected override void OnClosing(CancelEventArgs e)
 AnimateWindow(this.Handle, 500, AW_ACTIVATE | AW_SLIDE | AW_HOR_NEGATIVE | AW_HIDE);
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Why don't use simply Form.Location property.
Increase or decrease it's relative values to achieve sliding animation effect you want.
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This library might be able to do what you want.
Example code from the site, which could, in your case, be placed in the Closing event.
Transition t = new Transition(new TransitionType_EaseInEaseOut(2000));
t.add(pictureBox1, "Left", 300);
t.add(pictureBox1, "Top", 200);
Once you've done the animation, you can use the TransitionCompletedEvent event to hide the form. (or you could animate the Opacity property of your form)
public event EventHandler TransitionCompletedEvent;
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Ziggy: Characterizing query results for data explorers
Data exploration has received much attention during the last few years. The aim is to learn interesting new facts from a possibly unfamiliar data set.cordingly. In this demo proposal, we present Ziggy, a system t Typically, explorers operate by trial and error: they write a query, inspect the results and refine their specifications aco help them understand their query results. Ziggy's aim is to complement an existing exploration system. It assumes that users already have a query in mind, but they do not know what is interesting about it. To assist them, it detects characteristic views, that is, small sets of columns on which the tuples in the results are different from those in the rest of the database. Thanks to these views, our explorers can understand why their selection is unique and make more informed exploration decisions.
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Use of RNA:DNA ratios for assessing secondary production of planktonic food webs effects of temperature, salinity, food and heavy metals /
Abstract (Summary)Acartia tonsa is a dominant copepod in coastal waters and is an important link in the food web between microplankton and higher trophic levels. RNA:DNA ratios have been used to describe growth and nutritional condition of field collected copepods and to show strong correlation between group egg production and RNA:DNA ratios. A method was developed using a sensitive, nucleic acid fluorescent dye and automated microplate fluorometer to measure RNA, DNA and RNA:DNA ratio of individual A. tonsa. RNA, DNA, RNA:DNA ratios and egg production were all significantly higher in copepods fed Thalassiosira spp. compared to starved copepods. There was a general trend toward an increase in RNA:DNA ratios with increase in egg production, but due to the high degree of variation in both RNA:DNA ratios and egg production of individual copepods no significant correlation between RNA:DNA ratios and egg production was found. Significant differences in the RNA:DNA ratios between fed (7.2) and starved (3.4) copepods were found after 2 days. In the future this assay may be applied to other species of copepods sampled directly from the field, to provide an index of the health of planktonic food webs in nature.
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Chimps learn others' traits by observation
April 3, 2008 at 1:42 PM
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've discovered chimpanzees can learn whether people are generous solely by observing them interact with others.
Because chimpanzees have sophisticated social skills, the researchers said they wanted to learn whether chimps, like humans, can form accurate judgments about traits just by observing others, rather than directly interacting with them.
In their first experiments, the researchers allowed chimpanzees to observe unfamiliar humans consistently give (generous humans) or refuse to give (selfish humans) food to a familiar human.
In a subsequent experiment, chimpanzees observed unfamiliar humans consistently give or refuse food to other chimpanzees, rather than to humans.
When later allowed to directly interact with the generous or selfish humans, most of the chimpanzee observers preferred to interact with, and beg food from, the generous humans.
The George Washington University researchers concluded chimpanzees can learn "to infer stability in an individual's character or behavior over time through observation -- an inference that underlies the ability to make reputation judgments." The scientists said such a capacity "may have served as a catalyst to the evolution of various uniquely human traits, such as shared intentionality, language and reasoning."
The study appears in the journal Animal Cognition.
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How can I keep my lungs always strong?
 Great question. First of all, thanks for asking the question which need in this lockdown 🔒 period.
You should take following one great step
Every morning, get up 4 am and after drinking water, do 4 pranavayam
These 4 pranavayam has designed in such a way it will strong your lungs
First Long breath 5 minutes
Second 1 minutes breathing holding for 5 minutes
Third 1 and half minutes breathing holding for 3 minutes
Fourth 2 minutes breathing holding for two minutes
Now learn it's techniques from this video
These Pranavayam starts slowly
 1. Follow yum and niyam 10 rules before this
 2. Never eat non veg and eggs for doing y
 3. Never eat oily food for doing this
Great benefit to lungs if eat fruits only in same day
Now learn how it will strong lungs
 1. It will increase ability to oxygen holding means more time keep oxygen celender in lungs
 2. Same oxygen kils all viruses and germs there.
 3. This will Help to clean your stomach and indirectly it gets good blood through stomach juice and it can do function better.
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Helicopters Could Become More Fuel-Efficient Thanks to Diesel Engines
EC120B Helicopter. Photo: Eurocopter
Don't Forget to Make Them Biodiesel-Compatible!
Most helicopters are powered by turbines. This provides a great power to weight ratio, but it also burns a lot of fuel, which is why Eurocopter is now looking at diesel piston engines as a way to make its choppers more fuel-efficient. We're talking about significant savings too, on the order of 40%. But before that can happen, even more power needs to be wrung from even smaller diesel engines (as you can imagine, weight reduction is key for an helicopter engine).
Another benefit would be better high-altitude performance. From Autopia:
Turbine engines used in helicopters lose efficiency rapidly as the altitude increases. Because of the power loss at altitude, helicopter operators that often fly in the mountains use helicopters with more powerful engines to compensate. Larger engines are even thirstier engines, increasing an already large fuel bill.
The diesel engines Eurocopter is investigating would be turbocharged. The use of a turbocharger results in an aircraft being able to maintain full power to a higher altitude where the air is thinner. This "turbo normalizing" doesn't necessarily mean a boost of power at lower altitudes. Instead, the boost from the turbocharger is used to compensate for thinning air as the helicopter is flown at higher altitudes. Gasoline-powered piston helicopters, including the classic Bell 47, have long used turbocharged engines for the same reasons.
I would be nice if Eurocopter (and other companies looking at diesel engines for helicopters) designed the powertrain to be compatible with biodiesel so that if in the future more biodiesel becomes available (from algae, for example), it's choppers are future-proof and potentially carbon-neutral. Tests have already been done flying airplanes on bio-d, why not helicopters?
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It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name. We put them in our cocktails, but how well do we know them? Here's some biographical detail on the men behind your favorite tipples.
1. Captain Morgan
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The Captain wasn't always just the choice of sorority girls looking to blend spiced rum with Diet Coke; in the 17th century he was a feared privateer. Not only did the Welsh pirate marry his own cousin, he ran risky missions for the governor of Jamaica, including capturing some Spanish prisoners in Cuba and sacking Port-au-Prince in Haiti. He then plundered the Cuban coast before holding for ransom the entire city of Portobelo, Panama. He later looted and burned Panama City, but his pillaging career came to an end when Spain and England signed a peace treaty in 1671. Instead of getting in trouble for his high-seas antics, Morgan received knighthood and became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
2. Johnnie Walker
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Walker, the name behind the world's most popular brand of Scotch whisky, was born in 1805 in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father died in 1819, Johnnie inherited a trust of a little over 400 pounds, which the trustees invested in a grocery store. Walker grew to become a very successful grocer in the town of Kilmarnock and even sold a whisky, Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky. Johnnie's son Alexander was the one who actually turned the family into famous whisky men, though. Alexander had spent time in Glasgow learning how to blend teas, but he eventually returned to Kilmarnock to take over the grocery from his father. Alexander turned his blending expertise to whisky, and came up with "Old Highland Whisky," which later became Johnnie Walker Black Label.
3. Jack Daniel
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Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel of Tennessee whiskey fame was the descendant of Welsh settlers who came to the United States in the early 19th century. He was born in 1846 or 1850 and was one of 13 children. By 1866 he was distilling whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Unfortunately for the distiller, he had a bit of a temper. One morning in 1911 Daniel showed up for work early and couldn't get his safe open. He flew off the handle and kicked the offending strongbox. The kick was so ferocious that Daniel injured his toe, which then became infected. The infection soon became the blood poisoning that killed the whiskey mogul.
Curious about why your bottle of J.D. also has Lem Motlow listed as the distillery's proprietor? Daniel's own busy life of distilling and safe-kicking kept him from ever finding a wife and siring an heir, so in 1907 he gave the distillery to his beloved nephew Lem Motlow, who had come to work for him as a bookkeeper.
4. Jose Cuervo
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In 1758, Jose Antonio de Cuervo received a land grant from the King of Spain to start an agave farm in the Jalisco region of Mexico. Jose used his agave plants to make mescal, a popular Mexican liquor. In 1795, King Carlos IV gave the land grant to Cuervo's descendant Jose Maria Guadalupe de Cuervo. Carlos IV also granted the Cuervo family the first license to commercially make tequila, so they built a larger factory on the existing land. The family started packaging their wares in individual bottles in 1880, and in 1900 the booze started going by the brand name Jose Cuervo. The brand is still under the leadership of the original Jose Cuervo's family; current boss Juan-Domingo Beckmann is the sixth generation of Cuervo ancestors to run the company.
5. Jim Beam
Jim Beam, the namesake of the world's best-selling bourbon whiskey, didn't actually start the distillery that now bears his name. His great-grandfather Jacob Beam opened the distillery in 1788 and started selling his first barrels of whiskey in 1795. In those days, the whiskey went by the less-catchy moniker of "Old Tub." Jacob Beam handed down the distillery to his son David Beam, who in turn passed it along to his son David M. Beam, who eventually handed the operation off to his son, Colonel James Beauregard Beam, in 1894. Although he was only 30 years old when he took over the family business, Jim Beam ran the distillery until Prohibition shut him down. Following repeal in 1933, Jim quickly built a distillery and began resurrecting the Old Tub brand, but he also added something new to the company's portfolio: a bourbon simply called Jim Beam.
6. Tanqueray
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When he was a young boy, Charles Tanqueray's path through life seemed pretty clear. He was the product of three straight generations of Bedfordshire clergymen, so it must have seemed natural to assume that he would take up the cloth himself. Wrong. Instead, he started distilling gin in 1830 in a little plant in London's Bloomsbury district. By 1847, he was shipping his gin to colonies around the British Empire, where many plantation owners and troops had developed a taste for Tanqueray and tonic.
7. Campari
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Gaspare Campari found his calling quickly. By the time he was 14, he had risen to become a master drink mixer in Turin, and in this capacity he started dabbling with a recipe for an aperitif. When he eventually settled on the perfect mixture, his concoction had over 60 ingredients. In 1860, he founded Gruppo Campari to make his trademark bitters in Milan. Like Colonel Sanders' spice blend, the recipe for Campari is a closely guarded secret supposedly known by only the acting Gruppo Campari chairman, who works with a tiny group of employees to make the concentrate with which alcohol and water are infused to get Campari. The drink is still made from Gaspare Campari's recipe, though, which includes quinine, orange peel, rhubarb, and countless other flavorings.


What Does Kick the Bucket Mean?
Kick the Bucket Meaning
Definition: An informal and sometimes disrespectful way to say someone has died.
This idiom is usually used to talk about celebrities or casual acquaintances, rather than close family or friends. It would be quite rude and cavalier to say that your father, for instance, has kicked the bucket.
You may, however, say in an offhand way, "Oh Johnny? Yeah, he kicked the bucket years ago," about a schoolmate you hadn't spoken to in a long while and perhaps didn't like.
Origin of Kick the Bucket
what is the meaning of kick the bucketThis phrase likely refers to the act of kicking the bucket out from under a victim of hanging, breaking their neck and causing almost instant death. This act and the subsequent expression would have originated in the late middle ages of England.
An alternative explanation is that when the deceased were laid out, also in the Middle Ages, visitors were able to sprinkle the body with Holy Water from a bucket.
A third theory refers to the use of bucket in a different sense. In the 16th century, bucket had an additional meaning a beam or yoke used to hang or carry items.
This bucket may refer to the beam on which pigs were slaughtered. As the animals were suspended, they began to struggle and hence "kick the bucket."
In 1785, Francis Grose defined the phrase in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, showing that the phrase always had informal connotations:
 - "To kick the bucket, to die."
Examples of Kick the Bucket
what does the phrase kick the bucket meanIn the modern day, this is a casual way to say an acquaintance, or perhaps someone not held in high regard, has passed away. For example, one could say, "Didn't you hear? He kicked the bucket – had a heart attack, I think."
It can also be used with animals, as in "All my fish kicked the bucket while I was away on vacation."
More Examples
 - "Another famous George kicked the bucket on this day when former Notre Dame legend George Gipp died in 1920 at the age of 25." –Times Free Press
 - "Indeed, I remember being obsessed with [personnel declines] long ago; tinkering and reshaping some for yearsuntil the subject kicked the bucket and I added a few lines of reaction and a cause of death." –Vanity Fair
When speaking about death in an informal manner, it is common to say that someone has kicked the bucket, rather than died or passed away.


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Help with complex program
I am in need of a program. I am not sure how to program such a thing, so I'll ask for help. :p
1. I need to make this program calculate the total number of possible combinations of letters and/or numbers in an entered amount of digits. (example: entered 1 digit for numbers only and you get: 10. Enter two digits for numbers only and get: 100. ect.) There must be some sort of formula, but I am not sure what it is.
2. Is is possible with C++ to have this program make the mouse click at specified x,y and to have the program type in text and deleate text? If so, then how would I go about doing this? If no, then what language could accomplish this?


Nomkhubulwane Zulu Goddess of Rain
Nomkhubulwane, Zulu Goddess of Rain
Nomkhubulwane is the Zulu Goddess of rain, nature, and fertility, and is regarded as the Mother Earth. She is believed to be capable of changing into different types of animals. The name Nomkhubulwane means "she who chooses the state of an animal".
In the olden days the Zulus would plough their fields and have a special one which was ploughed by the whole village collectively and was never weeded or harvested right up to the next ploughing season and the cycle would resume again. I believe there were Nomkhubulwane festivals that were held I am not sure though if it was during ploughing or harvest times.
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 1. What would the relationship be with "Makobolwane" – a mountain peak in the Mpumalanga Drakensberg. Would this be referring to a AmaSwazi or maPulana name for the same rain / fertility goddess?
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Turtle embryos find the sunny spot
Wei-Guo Du from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that the embryos of soft-shelled turtles "bask" inside their eggs. "People usually think reptilian embryos are immobile," says Du. After all, their limbs are tiny stumps and they have few places to move to. But that doesn't stop them. Du found that the embryos can not only move, but they can snuggle up to the warmest side of their eggs.
He collected 260 eggs from a local turtle farm, placed them in individual jars and warmed them with heat lamps. The eggs were about one degree Celsius warmer on the sides closest to the lamps, and the turtles could sense this. After a few days, they had pressed up against the warmer side. When Du moved the heat lamps around, the embryos followed.
"To our knowledge, no previous study has looked for this ability, presumably because embryos were thought incapable of such behaviour," says Du.
Another good example of why scientists should provide images or video with their papers as often as possible. I would have skipped right over this if not for that great photo.


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These Digital Binder resource collections are aligned with the Sample Curriculum Overview and Instructional Sample units, created by Colorado educators through the Colorado Department of Education's (CDE) District Sample Curriculum Project. They can be used for instruction and learning to meet K-12 Colorado Academic Standards in Math, Reading, Writing, and Communicating, Science, and Social Studies. The collections include:
- grade level and subject standards,
- assessment resources, including CDE Assessment resources,
- scope and sequences, and
- lesson plans and teaching strategies, learning experiences and student resources, and differentiation options.
Some of the content is the result of projects in the East Central, Rio Blanco, San Luis Valley, and South Central BOCES plus a number of other districts and initiatives.
Links to all Content Collections:
- eNetLearning "Shelf" containing all grade level digital binders
- Elementary School digital binders
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Digital Collections Tutorial – This video tutorial demonstrates how to access and use the BOCES Digital Content Collections located in LiveBinders.


The Need to Value Yourself
You value yourself as a person. You also need to value yourself by investing in yourself regarding your career advancement. Things change in life and in the working world., which is why you will need to make an effort to take charge of your career advancement by investing in yourself. To help you, we mention some reasons why this is important, along with valuable assets to help you invest in yourself along the path of career advancement.
Why This Is Important
1. Great Return on Investment
When you invest in yourself to advance in your career, you will be getting something valuable. You will then be able to achieve your goals more clearly. You will see positive results when you take the right steps and implement the best elements to advance your career. That could be developing a new skill or even switching to a different type of career altogether.
2. Sense of Empowerment
When you invest in yourself to advance in your career, this gives you a sense of empowerment. You will feel good about driving the direction of your next steps in your career. You will be able to nurture your growth and development because no one else will do this for you.
3. Motivation to Achieve Your Best
When you invest in yourself in terms of career advancement, this will provide you with a boost regarding your motivation. You will be motivated to achieve your best. Then you can see the kind of results you want, and you will be motivated to continue doing your best by developing yourself at various times regarding your career choices, objectives, and experiences as changes occur.
Assets To Help You Advance in Your Career
1. Elevator Pitch
You have only a short time sometimes to grab someone's attention. That is why you need a quick elevator pitch that you can master that you can present to someone to promote yourself when you want to advance in your career. You need to be prepared as unexpected opportunities may arise for you to use your elevator pitch. That is why you need to know what you will say and how you will say it.
2. Personal Branding
It is vital to use personal branding when you want to achieve success in your career. That is why you should view marketing yourself as a brand that goes beyond the usage of fancy business cards with impressive fonts. Personal branding entails how you present your abilities to companies that you would like to work for, possible clients, possible customers, leaders of the current business you work for who may give you a promotion, and anyone else who could be significant in the evolving of your career advancement.
3. LinkedIn
Many people are on LinkedIn. That's why using LinkedIn to promote yourself is a valuable asset. You can mention the past jobs that you have held. You can mention the training and education that you have had. You can post about any achievements or awards you have received related to your training or career. Also, you can mention any training that you're currently enrolled in. Providing this type of information will make you more attractive to other people looking for someone with your abilities. Thus, LinkedIn is a powerful tool to help regarding your career advancement.
4. Resume
Your resume summarizes what you have achieved concerning your education and the jobs that you have held. It will identify your strengths and your skills. Therefore, you must have a resume. Also, you should look over your resume and see if you need to update it. Your resume can be used to apply for jobs at any time. Thus, a resume is convenient. Also, it is wise to have a resume that you post online in case someone is searching for someone with skills and experience like yours.
5. Portfolio
It is truly wise to have a career portfolio. It can include several things mentioned in your resume, but it expands in more detail on those elements. It also provides samples of your work. For instance, if you are a photographer, you can show samples of your photography. If you are a manager, your portfolio can have testimonials of your accomplishments as a manager. Your work portfolio will provide the kind of information that serious employers like to see. More than ever, employers are requesting portfolios these days.


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Background: Mixed-methods research (MMR) offers much to healthcare professions on clinical and research levels. Speech-language therapists and audiologists work in both educational and health settings where they deal with real-world problems. Through the nature of their work, they are confronted with multifaceted questions arising from their efforts to provide evidence-based services to individuals of all ages with communication disorders. MMR methods research is eminently suited to addressing such questions.
Objective: The aim of this tutorial is to increase awareness of the value of MMR, especially for readers less familiar with this research approach.
Method: A literature review was conducted to provide an overview of the key issues in MMR. The tutorial discusses the various issues to be considered in the critical appraisal of MMR, followed by an explanation of the process of conducting MMR. A critical review describes the strengths and challenges in MMR.
Results: MMR is less commonly used or published in the fields of speech-language therapy and audiology.
Conclusion: Researchers working in teams can draw on the strengths of different disciples and their research approaches. Such collaborative enterprises will contribute to capacity building. Researchers, SLTs and audiologists are encouraged to make use of MMR to address the complex research issues in the multicultural, multifaceted South African context. MMR makes an important contribution to the understanding of individuals with communication disorders, and in turn, researchers in the two disciplinary fields of speech-language therapy and audiology can contribute to the development of this research approach. MMR is well suited to the complexity of South African contexts and its populations, as it can provide multiple perspectives of a topic.
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Wium, Anna-Marie; and Louw, Brenda. 2018. Mixed-Methods Research: A Tutorial for Speech-Language Therapists and Audiologists in South Africa. South African Journal of Communication Disorders. Vol.65(1). _URL_ ISSN: 2225-4765