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Q: Check if user entered a digit I am working on a small game where maths questions are displayed and user inputs answers.
When the user writes a letter , its converted to 0 , but I would like the program to ask the user to re-enter the Input .
The code should accept + , - , and digits
Every other input should trigger the loop to run until correct input is entered.
Heres how my code looks ....
def ask_questions

  question = @questionAndAnswerList[@currQuestion]

  a = question.question.q1
  b = question.question.q2

  print("what is #{a} #{a+b > question.answer ? "-" : '+'} #{b} ? = ")
  puts @userAnswer = gets().chomp

  #test if @userAnswer has a Digit value

  while /[+|-]\D/ =~ @userAnswer
    puts "Found a non digit in your input , please try again...."
    puts @userAnswer = gets.chomp

  end

  @userAnswer = @userAnswer.to_i

end

A: You can use Integer(), which throws an exception if there is no conversion.
begin
  @userAnswer = Integer(@userAnswer, 10)
rescue ArgumentError
  puts "#{@userAnswer.inspect} is not an integer, please try again..."
  @userAnswer = gets.chomp
  retry
end

A: @userAnswer.scan(/[^0-9]/)

This will check if the user answered anything that's not a digit in the range of 0 to 9.

A: You can use Enumerable#all? to check whether all of the characters are digits. This will check if every character is in the range 0-9. If there's a non-digit it will ask to repeat the code.
while !@userAnswer.chars.all?{|c|[*'0'..'9'].include?(c)}
  puts "Found a non digit in your input , please try again...."
  puts @userAnswer = gets.chomp
end


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A082356 Permutation of natural numbers induced by Catalan Automorphism *A082356 acting on the parenthesizations encoded by A014486/A063171. 11
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 11, 17, 18, 21, 22, 20, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 25, 31, 32, 35, 36, 34, 28, 29, 30, 33, 45, 46, 49, 50, 48, 58, 59, 63, 64, 62, 54, 55, 57, 61, 37, 38, 40, 41, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47, 51, 52, 56, 60, 53, 65, 66, 68, 69, 67 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
This bijection maps between the "standard" ordering of binary trees as encoded by A014486 and "variant B quaternary encoding" as explained in the sequence A085184.
Table of n, a(n) for n=0..69.
A. Karttunen, Catalan Automorphisms
Index entries for signature-permutations induced by Catalan automorphisms
(Scheme function implementing this automorphism on S-expressions/list-structures:)
(define (*A082356! s) (cond ((pair? s) (*A082352! s) (*A082356! (car s)) (*A082356! (cdr s)))) s)
Inverse of A082355. a(n) = A057163(A082358(n)). a(n) = A082364(A082853(n))+A082852(n). Cf. also A082351-A082352, A082357-A082358.
Differs from A057117 first time at n=56: a(56)=42, while A057117(56)=44.
Sequence in context: A122294 A130349 A130354 * A057117 A130941 A082360
Adjacent sequences: A082353 A082354 A082355 * A082357 A082358 A082359
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Our wonderful summer displays of Geraniums and Fuchsia have fizzled out with the first frosts. Now is the time to replenish our pots with some more interest. With winter waiting in the wings, we need colour ready to welcome us at our front door and on the patio and as we look out from our kitchen window. What better than rich vivid plants to lift us up and take us through the winter months ahead?
You usually look up at a basket and down on a pot. Plant a selection of trailers or plants that drape well around the rim of the basket to fall over the sides. Ivy is an obvious and traditional choice. It comes in a number of different variations including yellows, silvers and greens.
To add to this we can safely include Thyme, which grows in a multitude of shades and has the most wonderful twinkly texture. It is high in chromium, which I was told helps balance blood sugar. It certainly makes a great tea with a bit of lemon and honey for winter colds. I include it in all my winter stews. And when roasting Chicken, a sprig of Thyme and Rosemary, of course, is essential! Thyme definitely goes in my pots and baskets.
We are limited in the amount of plants that truly trail gracefully so we improvise by planting plants with a bit of graceful fluidity when tipped up on their side. They don't usually mind so long their feet are well planted!
Equally brilliant in baskets and pots is Gaultheria with its beautiful red berries and rosy foliage, remembering to plant it in a lime free compost which it prefers. I can also recommend using heathers. The callunas varieties also prefer ericaceous soil. If you choose to use lime hating plants it is best to use ericaceous compost. It is has a reasonably neutral ph and the pansies and other plants you select will be fine mixed together. It also gives you the opportunity to use some upright ericaceous plants like Leucothoe Scarletta with rose-red leathery leaves and Pernettia, with its lovely violet red or cranberries berries, that must be bitter as the bird are reluctant to take them.
I include Heucherella or Heucheras in almost all my baskets and containers. These are a highly collectable family of plants that have become really popular, with prominent stands in the marquee at Chelsea Flower Show. They have outstanding evergreen foliage colour. There are many shades available, rich red varieties, caramels, cinnamon, apricot, acid yellow. The variety Silver Scrolls has rich red etched or veined leaved. They are very, very colourful plants without ever having to flower. Unlike their friends the leafy Hostas the slugs leave them alone! Celebrate the simplicity of dark red and caramel foliage planted together. It will make the most wonderful planter. If you plant anything for winter it needs to be one or two of these beauties. We are defiantly growing more for next season, as they not only look good in the winter but look wonderful throughout the year.
I mentioned Rosemary. Prostrate varieties weep beautifully over the rim of a basket or tub and more rigid up right varieties look perfect often as a centre piece. Another plant for all that looks good in all seasons.
Purple sage is another favourite herb I frequently plant in winter pots. The tinge of purple is great and it's a sturdy variety well tested by the RHS who have given it a merit award. Sage is also indispensable in my kitchen. I could not cook any pork without throwing a sprig in the roasting tin. I believe herbalist view it as natures own HRT. It is clearly a great plant. I often plant it alone in rich toned salt glazed fluted pots. Small Sage plants mix brilliantly in containers with other herbs and evergreens.
Young evergreens in an array of colours will grace winter containers and basket beautifully from little Hebes to yellow Choisyas. I mentioned my favourite winter herbs but I am happy to plant these in my fusion baskets and pot selections of evergreen grasses, ferns and lax conifers, in containers all together. Adding a few final pansies or violas to pots, I feel is a little like adding the accessories to an outfit, curtains or cushions to a room, the finishing touches.
I should just point out; through winter plants are almost dormant. The basket and tubs we plant can be quite full because they are not going to try and out grow into each other.
Pot them into a good compost. Use a muti-purpose with added John Innes, Rose Tree and Shrub or Ericaceous, as required. Keep them moist but not waterlogged. Don't rely on drizzly days, pots are often sheltered from rain by the house and beware of drying windy days. Selecting ericaceous compost for your winter container is often the best all round choice as most of the plants will grow in standard compost or ericacous and you are then not limited with your planting and the exciting ericaceous choices available.
In the late spring everything in our containers can be transplanted into the garden. They are actually a very good investment as we have all the pleasure of their colour while it is dull and there is no waste when its time to refill the pots next spring with Geraniums. The plants will continue to flourish in our borders.


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Q: JSON Request for an Image into UIImageView I would like to download a picture of a json file online.
This image should be displayed in a UIImageView.
I have no idea how this works because I am new to Swift.
At least I know that I need a JSON request but as I can bring the image in the ImageView I do not know
I've tried to download the image with a JSON request, but I have not managed it yet
public func fetchJSONPicture() {
        let urlString = "EXAMPLE-URL"
        guard let url = URL(string: urlString) else { return }
        URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, _, err) in
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                if let err = err {
                    print("Failed to get data from url:", err)
                    return
                }

                guard let data = data else { return }

                do {

                    self.coursesPicture = [try JSONDecoder().decode(CoursePicture.self, from: data)]
                    DispatchQueue.main.async {
                        self.tableView.reloadData()
                    }
                } catch let jsonErr {
                    print("Failed to decode:", jsonErr)
                }
            }
            }.resume()

    }

There may be a very simple solution to the problem, but I have not found it yet.
Could someone help me with that?

A: After parsing the JSON, when you have the "EXAMPLE_URL", you can fetch the image from a URL using URLSession, i.e.
if let url = URL(string: "EXAMPLE_URL") {
    URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, urlResponse, error) in
        if let data = data {
            DispatchQueue.main.async {
                imageView.image = UIImage(data: data)
            }
        }
    }.resume()
}

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// Generated by xsd compiler for android/java
// DO NOT CHANGE!
package com.ebay.trading.api;

import java.io.Serializable;
import com.leansoft.nano.annotation.*;

/**
 *
 * Enables a buyer and seller in an order relationship to
 * send messages to each other's My Messages Inboxes.
 *
 */
@RootElement(name = "AddMemberMessageAAQToPartnerRequest", namespace = "urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents")
public class AddMemberMessageAAQToPartnerRequestType extends AbstractRequestType implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1L;

	@Element(name = "ItemID")
	@Order(value=0)
	public String itemID;

	@Element(name = "MemberMessage")
	@Order(value=1)
	public MemberMessageType memberMessage;

}

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Regular rehearsals take place on Thursdays at 7:30pm at the Monmouth Conservative Club.
"Concert" rehearsals take place at the Shire Hall on the last Thursday of each month from 7.30pm.
Sectional rehearsals currently take place on Monday evenings at 7.30pm in the same place.
Please practise - Practice between rehearsals is the way to progress.


Antonio Neri spent his childhood on Borgo Pinti in Florence. Although he would come to live and work in different parts of the city, then later in Pisa and Antwerp, it is here on this street that his impression of the world was first formed.
A short distance from the family house on Pinti was the Palazzo Ximenes, occupied by the wealthy Portuguese trader, Sebastiano Ximenes d'Aragona, with his cousin, Niccolò, and their families. The Ximenes ran a powerful trading empire with branches throughout Europe. Antonio Neri's future friend Emmanuel Ximenes was the brother of the above-mentioned Niccolò. Sebastiano was patriarch of the Florentine branch of the family, which had its origins in Castile. In 1593, Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici made Sebastiano the Marquis of Saturnia. Both Emmanuel and Sebastiano were Christian knights of the order of Saint Stephen. However, the family traced its roots to Jewish ancestry in the Kingdom of Aragon, a region covering what is now northeastern Spain.
The same year that Christopher Columbus sailed for the new world, Jews in Spain and Portugal made the choice of embracing Christianity or forfeiting their property and leaving the country. Amid the lynch mobs that roamed the streets of Iberian cities, some families, the Ximenes among them, moved to more tolerant regions such as Tuscany and Flanders. Some Jews made a public embrace of Christianity, while in secret continued to observe in the faith of their heritage. Others made a full conversion, joining confraternities like the Knights of Saint Stephen in an honest display of commitment. As an added benefit, membership in these groups staved criticism by those who might doubt them as true Christians.
The Ximenes' house on Pinti was earlier owned by the celebrated architect and sculptor Giuliano da Sangallo, who renovated the Cestello Church – attended by Neri's family – for the Cistercian monks between 1481 and 1526. Sangallo was also the favorite architect of Lorenzo de' Medici. Folklore tells that in the house opposite Sangallo's, on Borgo Pinti, lived the child who would be raised by the Medici and become Clement VII (pope from 1523 to his death in 1534). According to the story, in 1478, after the assassination of Giuliano de' Medici, surviving brother Lorenzo was informed by Sangallo that Giuliano had an illegitimate son by the young woman living across the street. Lorenzo adopted the boy, who was named Giulio. Later, he became a close confidant to Lorenzo's son, Giovanni, later Leo X (pope 1513-1521), the first of four Medici popes.
At the very end of the road on the left, just before the massive Pinti gate, was the residence of the city's archbishop, Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, the future Leo XI (pope from 1 to 27 April 1605). This property would become the grandest on the street, a sprawling formal garden overlooked by a massive palazzo, which is now called the Palazzo della Gherardesca. The estate was originally designed by neighbor Giuliano da Sangallo (for Bartolomeo della Scala) around 1480. The Archbishop bought and enlarged the property in 1585, annexing adjacent land purchased from the wool workers guild.
Appointed archbishop in 1573, Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici was the direct successor to Alessandro Altoviti, the godfather of Antonio Neri's older brother Jacopo. As court physician, there is every reason to believe that Antonio's father, royal physician Neri Neri, was well acquainted with his neighbor, the new archbishop; both men were part of the Medici inner circle. In 1583, Alessandro was made Cardinal. Had Neri Neri managed to live a few years longer, he would have seen his neighbor elected Pope in April of 1605. It was unfortunate for Alessandro that he did not have the doctor at his coronation to advise him against spending the entire day in the cold rain. The Holy Father fell ill and within the month, the last of the Medici Popes would be dead.


At our weekly meetings you'll be able to worship and connect with Christ alongside other students from your university. All students from every background are welcome to join us as we dive into God's word and engage in corporate worship. This is a great space to get a feel for our overall ministry.


These brands and more are availalbe at Dutch Country Hardware. We are more than just a retail store. We can supply your business with all the paper goods, cleaning supplies, light bulbs, etc. you need. With a large network of suppliers there is almost nothing that we cannot provide.
Email our commercial sales department at: commercialsales@dutchcountry.net today!


>> US sanctions on Iran's oil industry will be officially reimposed on Monday. But eight countries have been granted exemptions by the White House that allow them to continue to import Iranian oil. Sources suggest they include US allies Japan and South Korea, as well as China and India. Reuters' Dmitry Zhdannikov says it's because despite the harsh rhetoric, the White House faces certain political realities.
>> To begin with, this number of countries came as a bit of a surprise. People had been expecting two or three countries to get exemptions. What does it tell us? It tell us that the US administration is, of course, wary of the oil price impact. But there's another way of looking at this, because it really fits into the whole Trump US administration narrative.
You first try to scare the markets, then you do certain analysis, and then you soften the sanctions. This is what happened with the EU tariffs. This is what happened with Russian aluminum sanctions on Rusal. Probably the same will happen with Chinese trade spat and, for instance, the Mexican woe.
>> It's not clear how much Iranian oil the exempted countries will be allowed to import or for how long. Reuters sources say this was the result of internal debate within the Trump administration. It pit hardliners against officials afraid that an outright ban would cause too much collateral damage to other countries, including those US allies.
It may show in the market reaction.>> We have this week our annual global commodity summit, where we had the bosses, the CEOs of big trading houses. And they all said that the oil market will be softer next year because people are beginning to realize that the sanctions on Iran will not have such a deep impact as initially feared.
And in addition to that, the US oil output is reaching a new highs.>> This is only the latest round of sanctions to be reimposed after the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement last May.


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Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients
Diane L. Frankenfield, Jonathan R. Sugarman, Rodney J. Presley, Steven D. Helgerson, Michael V. Rocco
Little information is available regarding the Influence of dialysis facility size or profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients. We have combined data from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Core Indicators Project; the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facility survey; and the HCFA On-Line Survey, Certification, and Reporting System to analyze trends in this area. For hemodialysis patients, larger facilities were more likely than smaller facilities to perform dialysis on patients who were younger than 65 years of age, black, or undergoing dialysis 2 years or more (P < 0.001). Nonprofit facilities were more likely to perform dialysis on patients with diabetes mellitus as a cause of ESRD and less likely to perform dialysis on patients with hypertension as a cause of ESRD compared with for-profit units (P < 0.05). By multivariate analysis, larger facility size was modestly associated with a greater Kt/V value and urea reduction ratio, but not with hematocrit or serum albumin values. Facility profit status was not associated with these intermediate outcomes. For peritoneal dialysis patients, there were no significant differences in patient demographics based on facility size. More patients in nonprofit units had been undergoing dialysis 2 or more years than patients in for-profit units (P < 0.05). By univariate analysis, patients in larger facilities were more likely to have an adequacy measure performed than patients from smaller facilities (P < 0.05). There were few substantial differences in intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients based on facility size or profit status. (C) 2000 by the National Kidney Foundation, Inc.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
https://doi.org/10.1053/ajkd.2000.8981
End-stage renal disease (ESRD)
Facility size
Hemodialysis (HD)
Peritoneal dialysis (PD)
10.1053/ajkd.2000.8981
Dive into the research topics of 'Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Dialysis Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Chronic Kidney Failure Medicine & Life Sciences 25%
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) Medicine & Life Sciences 25%
Certification Medicine & Life Sciences 11%
Peritoneal Dialysis Medicine & Life Sciences 10%
Serum Albumin Medicine & Life Sciences 10%
Hematocrit Medicine & Life Sciences 9%
Urea Medicine & Life Sciences 9%
Frankenfield, D. L., Sugarman, J. R., Presley, R. J., Helgerson, S. D., & Rocco, M. V. (2000). Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 36(2), 318-326. https://doi.org/10.1053/ajkd.2000.8981
Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients. / Frankenfield, Diane L.; Sugarman, Jonathan R.; Presley, Rodney J. et al.
In: American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 36, No. 2, 08.2000, p. 318-326.
Frankenfield, DL, Sugarman, JR, Presley, RJ, Helgerson, SD & Rocco, MV 2000, 'Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients', American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 318-326. https://doi.org/10.1053/ajkd.2000.8981
Frankenfield DL, Sugarman JR, Presley RJ, Helgerson SD, Rocco MV. Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2000 Aug;36(2):318-326. doi: 10.1053/ajkd.2000.8981
Frankenfield, Diane L. ; Sugarman, Jonathan R. ; Presley, Rodney J. et al. / Impact of facility size and profit status on intermediate outcomes in chronic dialysis patients. In: American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2000 ; Vol. 36, No. 2. pp. 318-326.
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Here at the International College, we're given 60kWh per month. I still have absolutely no idea how that actually translates into electricity usage, but it makes me think about what I'm using. I unplug everything before I leave the room, and I'm super careful about turning my lights out (Dad, aka electricity miser, would be proud). I even have a little post-it note next to my door reminding me to turn off the powerpoint!
Seriously Aussie people, DO NOT TAKE YOUR WIFI FOR GRANTED. Here in China it still seems to be a relatively new phenomenon. Despite the fact that Hangzhou was apparently one of the first cities in the world to have 4G internet (fun facts from Dad). We have wifi in the dorms but it is so bad – our VPNs don't work on the Zheda wifi (for the uninitiated, THAT MEANS NO FACEBOOK ACCESS!). Some of us have managed to buy ChinaNet which is this massive, China-wide wifi network, but you have to be prepared to negotiate Taobao (the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, definitely not designed for foreigners to use) and also have a Chinese bank account (shoutout to Annie for buying me ChinaNet this month).
So far I've locked myself out once. Now, in Australia it's not such a problem – just chill outside if no-one is home and pray that someone arrives home quickly. In China, not so easy. You have to go to reception, try and mime a lost key to the ladies, and then wait on the Seat of Shame (Cynthia and I christened the name last week, apparently it's caught on throughout the whole college), next to the desk for the security guard to meander over and let you in to your room. Meanwhile, the spare key to your room is sitting on the reception desk the whole time. Cynthia waited 40 minutes last week, and as a supportive friend I sat with her the entire time. We also have an excellent selfie with Kay waiting on the Seat of Shame last Tuesday. Needless to say, we are all being very careful about having our keys on us now.
Coffee here is super expensive (I guess it's also relatively expensive in Sydney, but here it's like $7 for a pretty shocking cappuccino). When it's the choice between paying 30RMB for coffee or buying breakfast for 15 days (yes, breakfast here is 2RMB)…well, I'll let you guess what wins.
In Australia we're really lucky that we can get the range of food that we can. We totally take for granted that we can get Thai, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Italian….you name it, we probably sell it somewhere. In China, they sell one thing: Chinese food. Oh and some limited Korean options. And more to the point, it's still very province-specific. In Hangzhou for example, we can't get Shanghai dumplings (10/10, would recommend if you ever visit Shanghai). So we've become very creative with the ways that we can cook our limited selection of food. One pot soups and fried rice are very popular amongst our little expat Australian group. I think that next I'm going to master some of the uses of beef in a pot. Handy hint – don't eat food in your room, it takes at least a day to air out, and when it's cold it's not a fun process.
So that's a quick outline of some things I've learnt so far. I'm sure there's many more learning moments to come. Also if you ever come to China and don't speak fluent Mandarin, I strongly recommend you brush up on your pointing and mime skills. They really come in handy.