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Emotionally Coping With the Gluten-Free Diet
By Amy Jones
Do you remember the moment you first heard the words, "You have celiac disease?" Maybe it was a relief—the years of unexplained symptoms and feeling miserable finally had a name.
Maybe it was a shock and felt like someone dropped a load of bricks on you. Or maybe you greeted the news with denial and the certainty the diagnosis couldn't possibly be right.
If it was your child who was diagnosed, you might have had a whole different set of feelings, including guilt, worry and grief.
A diagnosis of a chronic illness such as celiac disease or gluten sensitivity stirs up many emotions that are likely to change and evolve over time. Giving yourself permission to experience whatever feelings you have, positive or negative, is important in learning to cope with the challenges that the gluten-free diet presents daily.
The most significant effects are likely to be on social interactions with friends, relatives or co-workers whenever food is involved. A 2012 study by Anne Lee, Ed.D., a registered dietitian and director of nutritional services for Schär USA, found that 46 percent of respondents felt that the gluten-free diet limited their social lives, 55 percent found the gluten-free diet to be embarrassing, and 33 percent reported that their family and friends did not understand their need to follow the diet.
These difficulties affect more than just emotional wellbeing; they may even affect your ability to stay on the diet. A study from the Canadian Celiac Association found that nearly 19 percent of respondents reported intentionally consuming gluten once or twice during the past year. Of that group, 13 percent reported eating foods with gluten at least once a month.
The health effects of cheating on the gluten-free diet if you have celiac disease are clear, so why would someone intentionally eat something they know is harmful to them? The answer may lie in how we cope with celiac disease and the gluten-free diet.
Common experiences
Research shows that those on the gluten-free diet have many common emotional experiences. The diet can cause a feeling of isolation or exclusion such as not being able to eat at certain restaurants, at family gatherings or at work.
The fear of being "glutened," or coming into unintentional contact with gluten, can also contribute to this isolation. Reviewing your diet restrictions every time with restaurant staff and worrying about whether or not the meal is safe can be exhausting. Before the gluten-free diet, it may have been a pleasure to be invited out for dinner or to a lunch with co-workers. Now it's likely a source of worry.
Depending on your personality, you may be uncomfortable or embarrassed by the extra attention or visibility the gluten-free diet creates. One study showed that men purposefully ate gluten-containing food instead of telling their co-workers about their gluten-free diet. This embarrassment can be particularly strong for teenagers, who may feel ostracized by their peers because of the diet.
Conversely some may find that the gluten-free diet causes them to be neglected or forgotten by family, friends and co-workers. Family may not be helpful in providing safe foods. Co-workers may choose restaurants without considering if there is a gluten-free menu.
Everyone with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity feels this way at one time or another. What's important is how you deal with these feelings. Finding people who are experiencing the same loss as you can be helpful. However it's important to try to avoid those who are "stuck" in this grief.
Diagnosis and denial
Denial is an important emotion with any diagnosis, and it may be immediate or develop over the long term.
Danna Korn, author of Living Gluten Free for Dummies, 2nd Edition and founder of the support group Raising Our Celiac Kids (R.O.C.K), says those who haven't been properly tested for celiac disease experience the strongest denial.
"Denial can be a justification for some people to think, 'I can just eat a little bit,'" she says. "If they haven't been properly tested, it can be very difficult to see the importance of being totally gluten free."
But even if you or your child has a clear diagnosis, you can still be in denial. "I don't have diarrhea, so it can't be celiac disease. I'm overweight so I can't be having issues absorbing food," you might think.
Denial may reveal itself a few weeks or months into the diet as the reality sets in. Teenagers who have had celiac disease since they were young children may go through their own denial. "I don't want to be different from my friends, so I will eat gluten and deal with feeling bad later," they might reason.
Dealing with denial may be as simple as talking to someone else who is going through what you are or writing down the ways your life has improved on the gluten-free diet.
For teenagers Korn suggests parents be honest about how cheating will affect them. "If your teen plays sports, talk about how feeling sick or tired will affect the ability to play well in the next game," she says. "Even outwardly asymptomatic teens have some symptoms [such as] fatigue, depression or anxiety." However Korn suggests that if your teenager threatens to cheat on the gluten-free diet, it isn't helpful if the parents react too strongly. "The more you freak out, the more they will rebel," she explains.
Changing your thinking
Being diagnosed with celiac disease as an adult comes with its own set of challenges, but there are ways to cope. Debbie Chandler, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, was diagnosed 12 years ago. "When I was diagnosed, I said to myself that I've eaten all the gluten I've needed in my life," she says. "I've had pizza and pasta and enjoyed those. Now I can find new things to enjoy."
For Chandler socializing continues to be difficult at times, even after more than a decade, but she's figured ways to work around it. "Instead of having our friends try to accommodate my diet at their homes, we go out to eat [at safe restaurants] with them instead," she says.
Her family gatherings were affected almost immediately after her diagnosis. "The first few holidays were weird," she recalls. "The first Christmas after I was diagnosed, my family catered in Italian food!"
Chandler chose to deal with it in a positive way by preparing gluten-free versions of items on the menu for herself.
Meanwhile the widespread availability of gluten-free foods in recent years has helped her feel less deprived. "There are more options, and they are more affordable every day. But I've also grown to like new tastes, like lettuce wraps instead of buns," she says.
Korn agrees. "It is so much easier today than it was 24 years ago when I started into this with my kids," she says.
Both focus on what they can have on the gluten-free diet instead of what they have given up, an attitude that's important in coping with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.
Korn encourages those on the gluten-free diet to remain as positive as possible. "I don't even like the word 'cope,'" she says, "because 'coping' implies that being gluten-free is a 'bad' thing that you have to 'cope' with whereas I believe it's a great thing. The gluten-free diet can be the healthiest diet in the world."
Educate and empower your child
When a child is diagnosed with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, both he or she and the parents have to learn to accommodate changes the gluten-free diet requires.
Parents often struggle with guilt, fear and uncertainty about how the whole family will adjust. "A diagnosis of celiac disease in a child is often much harder on the parent than it is on the child," says Korn, whose son has celiac disease. While it can be hard to not let your child see that guilt and sadness, she cautions parents, "Remember your kids have ears. They hear your negativity."
Parents may even find themselves apologizing to teachers or other parents about accommodating their child's dietary needs, communicating to a child that the gluten-free diet is something they have to be sorry about. "Don't say, 'I'm sorry.' Say that we're going to get through this," Korn advises.
Even small children benefit from a proactive approach and should be given as much control of their diet as possible from day one.
Read labels together, even when your children are small. Korn showed food labels to her son even before he could really read. "By the time he was in elementary school, he felt comfortable saying no to things he couldn't eat," she says "Educate your child. Empower your child."
Even adults diagnosed with celiac disease find it can affect the relationship with their parents. "No one knew quite what to do with me when I was diagnosed," Chandler says. "My parents felt terribly guilty."
She takes a hands-on approach now, helping her mother shop for food for family events and helping to prepare the meal. "I might even suggest disposable cookware just to make sure things are clean," Chandler says.
Your partnership with your medical team can also be important in the coping process.
Accurate information about celiac disease or gluten sensitivity and the gluten-free diet will empower you to move forward. Look for a doctor who encourages questions, and make sure you are prepared with a list when you go to appointments. A good physician will answer questions in a way that you can understand.
For accurate gluten-free diet information, find a dietitian experienced in counseling those with celiac disease. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has an easy-to-use search engine for dietitians that can be found at eatright.org.
Today there's a wealth of information available online, but always seek out reliable sources, including Gluten-Free Living. You'll also find a list of reputable support groups, celiac disease centers and more on our website.
Your personality might dictate how helpful an abundance of information from online sources really is. For some, gathering lots of information feels empowering. But for others too much information can increase anxiety and lead to preoccupation with symptoms and issues that may never actually occur.
"At first I was online getting my information, and I was OK with it," Chandler says, but now she relies on her local support group and dietitian.
A support group, whether in your local community or online, can help you cope, too. Chandler's husband encouraged her to go to a support group meeting even though she was reluctant at first. "Now I'm so glad I go and can enjoy learning new things and not feeling alone," she says.
If you choose online support, keep in mind that Internet groups are not necessarily moderated by a physician or dietitian, and misinformation and fear can spread quickly. "Be as diligent as you possibly can in gathering information, but don't let it cause you to feel like you're living in a bubble," Korn says.
Rebuilding and acceptance
Since celiac disease and gluten sensitivity are chronic conditions with no cure, your acceptance of your diagnosis and the gluten-free diet are critical to long-term good health and emotional wellbeing.
How accepting you feel may not always be the same, and your attitude is likely to shift and change. But you will be more successful following the gluten-free diet if you control it instead of letting it control you, Korn advises.
Put another way, live with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, not for it.
This story first ran in Gluten-Free Living in December 2014.
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At IDEF 2017 in Istanbul in May, Antonov and Taqnia agreed to collaborate with Turkish's Havelsan with develop a maritime patrol variant of the An-132.
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Q: Particular case of an Implication Let's take the following propositions :
1 - "If Bill Gates is poor then Bill Gates is rich".
2 - "If Bill Gates is poor then the moon is made of cheese".
Both propositions are inevitably true under the usual interpretation (our current world,) and I completely understand the reason.
The reason is that we don't have a situation where the antecedent is true and the consequent is false, so the proposition is true (even if it is vacuously true).
But there is something which is intriguing me.
Even though, some say that both 1) and 2) are a bit weird (the issue some people have with vacuous truth) , why between 1) and 2) people usually find 1) a bit more weird than 2) ?
In another words, why when p is false, the truth of the proposition $p  \to q$ sounds a bit more weird if $q$ is $\neg p$ compared to other situations where $q$ is arbitrary ?
One possible conjecture (which is probably wrong) is that people find that $p \wedge \neg p$ ought to be false and perhaps in the natural language the implication resembles a bit conjunction. But I don't know if it does.
Anyways, does anyone have an idea about the issue?
P.S : I wanna emphasize here that my problem is not with relevance or vacuous truth, but rather the difference between 1) and 2)  ( both of which suffer the problem of relevance ).
Thanks

A: I think that the distinction between the two lies in the possibility of the consequent.
In 1., the statement "Bill Gates is rich" is not absurd per se, it only is in the context of the premise "Bill Gates is poor". This is strengthened by the fact that Bill Gates is actually rich.
However, in 2., we have the claim "The moon is made of cheese", which is commonly accepted to be utterly false.

So, what I think happens subconsciously is that in case 2., we are automatically triggered to reject the conclusion because it's always false. This in turn leads to a hunt for the cause, i.e. vacuous truth.
On the other hand, with 1., it really requires some thought and interplay between antecedent and consequent to reach the conclusion that the statement as a whole must be true. This is because the statements are obviously intimately related, so we are triggered to do a more thorough investigation of the situation before reaching a conclusion.

A: The language of implication is often used in common speech, but usually to mean
something rather different from implication in mathematical logic.
In one sense, people may attach a causal relationship or at least a
positive correlation between the clauses linked
by "if". For example, if you have high blood pressure, your life expectancy
is less than the average person's. There is a positive correlation between
high blood pressure and low life expectancy.
That is, there is a tendency to interpret "if A then B" as "A tends to cause B"
or "observing A makes B more likely."
Neither of the implications fits either of these interpretations.
For implication (2), however, we have to use some knowledge of the
real world to come to this conclusion; that is, it seems obvious
(based on what we know about how the moon came to be, and how Bill Gates
gained his wealth)
that the composition of the moon is not predicted in any way by how much
wealth Bill Gates has.
For implication (1), we do not need to know anything about
cosmology or cheese or even to know who
Bill Gates is to reject causality or correlation; we merely need to
know that "rich" is the opposite of "poor".
Being poor cannot cause you to be rich, and it is not correlated with being rich.
Alternatively, there is one common way in which the language of implication
is used when the antecedent is believed to be false, namely, to emphasize
how sure one is that the antecedent is false.
For example, a common English idiom to express disbelief in the
proposition that Bill Gates is poor is,
"If Bill Gates is poor then I'm a monkey's uncle."
Since I am not a monkey's uncle
(which the listener hopefully will accept as obviously true without question),
the statement "Bill Gates is poor", combined with my implication,
contradicts a known true fact and therefore is rejected.
A variant of this is,
"If Bill Gates is poor then I'll eat my hat."
The usual connotation of this is that it would be very unpleasant for me
to have to eat my hat, so making this statement shows that I am quite
confident Bill Gates is not poor (since otherwise I would be taking some
risk of having to eat my hat later, in case it is shown that he is poor).
Implication (2) can be taken as yet another variant of this same idiom,
namely, we use an absurdly false consequent
(or in the eat-my-hat variant, one the speaker presumably hopes is false)
in order to emphasize how unlikely the antecedent is to be true.
Everyone knows the moon is not actually made of cheese
(Wallace and Gromit notwithstanding), so clearly this implication says
Bill Gates is not poor. And indeed Bill Gates is not poor.
In this sense, implication (2) is absurd but true in common,
non-mathematical language.
On the other hand, since Bill Gates is rich, there is not even a hope
that the consequent of implication (1) is false.
Implication (1) thus does not fit the pattern of this common idiom at all,
and is not recognized as a non-mathematical way of saying that
Bill Gates is not poor.  To ascribe that meaning to it, one has to work
through details of mathematical logic that are not part of our
common intuition about the English language.

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Q: Flutter data to convert to double I have simple data I need to convert into a double. Sometimes it's already double and sometimes it's coming in integer.
I am doing like this
if (data['status'].toString() == "success") {
  all_rating = double.tryParse(data['over_all_rating']);
  speed_rating = double.tryParse(data['over_speed_rating']);
  break_rating = double.tryParse(data['harsh_braking_rating']);
  concering_rating = double.tryParse(data['harsh_conering_rating']);
  acceleration_rating = double.tryParse(data['harsh_accleration_rating']);
}

data look like this
{status: success, over_all_rating: 3.25, over_speed_rating: 3.15, harsh_braking_rating: 4.95, harsh_conering_rating: 5, harsh_accleration_rating: 4.95}

But don't know why it showing an error of Unhandled Exception: type 'double' is not a subtype of type 'String'
I am trying to convert in by double.parse so if value is not double it will convert.

A: use it like this:
all_rating = double.tryParse(data['over_all_rating'].toString());


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You saw it in print images of flames bursting out from the roof.
You heard it in the voices loud in the streets.
You heard it in the cries in the air howling for justice.
You heard it in the pubs the streets the basements the digs.
To escape the fires that came at them black and choking.
Where the poor die in flames without warning.
Saw did not make sense cannot make sense will not make sense.
You saw it there in the sky, tall and black and burnt.
And what you saw could only be seen in nightmare.
Like a war-zone come to the depths of a fashionable borough.
Like a war-zone planted here in the city.
In nightmares turns the day to night, turns the world upside down.
Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.
If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower.
See the tower, and let a world-changing dream flower.
Residents of the area call it the crematorium.
It has revealed the undercurrents of our age.
The poor who thought voting for the rich would save them.
The poor who believed all that the papers said.
The poor who listened with their fears.
The poor who live in their rooms and dream for their kids.
At a destiny that draws near with another name.
Who had no idea what they died for, or how they were betrayed.
In the laws. They died because money could be saved and made.
They called the tower ugly; they named it an eyesore.
Didn't want the ugly tower to ruin their house prices.
Ten million was spent to encase the tower in cladding.
Had it ever been tested for fire, been tried in a blaze?
But it made the tower look pretty, yes it made the tower look pretty.
But in twenty four storeys, not a single sprinkler.
In twenty four storeys not a single alarm that worked.
For an inferno. That's the story of our times.
How it looks, how it sounds, not how it really is, unseen.
You can hear it. You've got to look beneath the cladding.
But have no centre, have no heart, only moral padding.
They say the words but the words are hollow.
They make the gestures and the gestures are shallow.
Their bodies come to the burnt tower but their souls don't follow.
See the tower, and let a world-changing deed flower.
The voices here must speak for the dead.
Speak for the dead. Speak for the dead.
In their best dresses with hearts open to the future.
Burnt to ashes before she could see the lies of the world.
Who are now ashes in a burnt out shell of cynicism.
While the smoke of profits suffocated their voices.
By a mother who knew otherwise he would die.
Seen diving out from the twentieth floor. Need I say more.
Between what happens and what we are told.
The official figures were stuck at thirty.
Truth in the world is rarer than gold.
Bodies still in the dark.
Dark the smoke and dark the head.
Those who were living are now dead.
Because it was pitch black.
Whose hearts must be brimming with dread.
Mixed with the essence of flower.
For the spirit lives where truth cannot kill.
In a fire where hundreds lost all they had.
Ought to make a nation alter its belief.
An image gives life and an image kills.
The heart reveals itself beyond political skills.
The poor die for others' prosperity.
Nurseries and libraries fade from the land.
A strange time is shaping on the strand.
A sword of fate hangs over the deafness of power.
See the tower, and let a new world-changing thought flower.
I'm Dal ~ poem-maker, word lover, and curatrix of the She Howls Online Open Mic & Writing Circles. Studying for Msc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. Telling it like it is, bringing folks together online so we feel less alone and can rabble rouse together through words.


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Q: HTML5 Canvas choppy graphics when animating When animating one layer in canvas the graphics become choppy if there are other layers present, see fiddle (click RUN to see animation): http://jsfiddle.net/Q97Wn/
If i change this line:
opts.percentageIndicator.clearRect(0, 0, opts.percentageIndicator.width, opts.percentageIndicator.height);

To:
opts.percentageIndicator.clearRect(0, 0, opts.canvas.width, opts.canvas.height);

Then everything goes smoothly, except that this will remove the other layer completely.
I could solve this issue by having both in one canvas each, but i was hoping for structure-purposes that i could avoid that. Any suggestions?

A: First of all, canvas.getContext() not generating new context, it returning already existing instance, so the lines:
opts.centerCircle = opts.canvas.getContext('2d');
// ...
opts.percentageIndicator = opts.canvas.getContext('2d');

Would mean the same thing.
So I advice you to do like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/Volter9/Q97Wn/2/
What I did I just changed both contexts to one property and after rendering base added:
opts.ctx.strokeStyle = opts.indicatorColor;

Good luck!


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Mirabell Palace: Schloss Mirabell
The Baroque masterpiece of Schloss Mirabell Palace was initially built as "Schloß Altenau" under the reign of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in 1606. It was a present for his concubine Salome Alt and most famous for its splendid gardens.
His successor Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus re-named the palace into "Schloss Mirabell" ('beautiful view′). Prince Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach rebuilt the castle more or less from scratch following plans by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt between 1721 and 1727.
During the great fire of Salzburg in 1818, the Mirabell Palace was seriously damaged and re-built according to plans by Peter Nobile in the following years. The mighty tower in the heart of the eastern wing was destructed and the facades were re-decorated in Neo-classicist style.
Famous for it′s garden - Mirabell Palace
The "Mirabellschwemme", a well for horses attached to the castle, was destructed in 1823. The Pegasus, unicorns and lions that are now in the Mirabell gardens were originally part of this Mirabellschwemme.
The Mirabell Palace is property of the City of Salzburg since 1866, and it is the office building for the city′s administration including the mayor of Salzburg and other offices since 1947, when the old Rathaus was give up.
The palace′s most impressive court is the one of the western wing with its richly decorated façade. The ground floor is "rusticated", expressing a Baroque sense of pastoral tranquillity. Mirabell Palace′s central stairway is based on the stairway of the original Schloß Altenau of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. This limited the facilities and therefore, it does not meet the high-Baroque standards of most other parts of the building.
Mirabell Palace: The Schloss & its Marble Halls
The stairway is called "Donnerstiege", meaning "staircase of thunder", but the name is actually referring to the artist who created the sculptures and statues, G. R. Donner, who built the decorations in 1726. A matching fresco on the ceiling was painted by B. Altomonte and G. Fanti in 1723, but destroyed in the fire of 1816.
The Donnerstiege stairway is a Baroque gem, with excessive amounts of marble, sculptures and other artwork that make it a unique piece in the rich heritage of Salzburg. However, it is not the only treasure hidden in the Mirabell Palace: the "Marmorsaal" or "marble hall" is another elaborate piece of Baroque craft in its most prominent expression.
Its ceiling once held a fresco by M. Rottmayer, but as with the one over the Donnerstiege stairway, it was destroyed in the fire of 1818. The rest of the rich decorations, such as marble masonry and statues, were mostly preserved. The rectangular hall extends over two storeys and is decorated with golden stucco works.
A fairy-tale Castle in the heart of Salzburg
Playful angel statues, marble pillars and excessive stucco work make the Marmorsaal hall a prime example for Salzburg′s Baroque. It is internationally known and famous as a venue for weddings and hosts concerts almost every evening, that are particularly popular with tourists. The played pieces are generally some decent Mozart - probably to meet touristy expectations; the quality is considered to be alright, so if you have an evening off without anything to do, check the concert guides for the Mirabell Palace.
In the southern part of the Mirabell Castle, you will find the castle′s chapel, the Schlosskirche Mirabell. It was re-modelled completely after the fire of 1818. It contains a central hall with a round apsis and a vaulted ceiling. The grisaille painting was done around 1830, only the altar dates back to 1722.
Flanking the altar, you will find Baroque statues of the Saints Augustinus, Rupert, Virgil and Martin. The chapel is used by a number of congregations today that don′t have own churches/temples/other kinds of community spaces for worship purposes. If you are member of some bizarre cult and in need for measures to support your spiritual welfare whilst in Salzburg, it might be worth checking out the program of the chapel.
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Jaundice is caused by abnormalities in bilirubin metabolism and excretion.
Abnormalities in the metabolism or excretion of bile result in development of jaundice.
Clinical jaundice is evident when levels are above 50 µmol/l (2.5 mg/dl)manifesting as a yellow discoloration of the sclerae and skin.
Jaundice is biochemically divided into conjugated and unconjugated types.
In unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia there is excessive unconjugated bilirubin in the blood.
is obstruction of bile secretion.
the normal level of about 18-24 µmol/l (1.2 mg/dl).
Different laboratories may have different reference ranges.
metabolism is excretion by the canaliculi rather than conjugation. Levels often exceed100 µmol/l.
to albumen, and does not appear in the urine.
the increased load; some is resorbed as urobilinogen, and this is excreted in increased amounts in the urine.
Reduced uptake of bilirubin by hepatocytes can also cause unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia.
• Bile is absent from the stools, which are pale as a result.
• Fat absorption is disturbed (development of steatorrhoea) and, as a consequence, there is impaired absorption of vitamin K.
• Itching develops (pruritus) from accumulated bile salts.
• The urine contains bilirubin (dark urine),as conjugated bili-rubin is soluble in water and can be excreted.


Decatur Utilities electric customers can now report power outages by simply entering their phone number into a new Outage Management System (OMS) that went live a few weeks ago.
Customers will access the OMS by calling 256-552-1400 and then pressing "1" when prompted to "Report an Electric Outage". If the phone number is not recognized, customers may also use their account number. If neither number is recognized, the customer will be prompted to leave a message with details concerning their outage. Gas, water and wastewater interruptions or emergencies will be reported by pressing "2".
DU mailed out a direct mail piece during July and August that provided electric customers with instructions on how to use the OMS and a refrigerator magnet and reference card with the outage reporting number and the current phone number/account numbers on record for the account. Customers can also find their account number and any current phone numbers on file printed at the upper right-hand corner of their monthly billing statement. If the phone number field on the bill is blank, customers can update their information with DU at www.duphoneupdate.com or by calling 256-552-1446.
Customers may enter up to two phone numbers in the system. Customers who have multiple accounts may use the same phone number or numbers for each. The system will verify which address is being reported.


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Q: Postgres value '' single quote vs NULL May I know what is different between '' and NULL in Postgres?
My column type is set to character varying (255)
In my table the column field is set to '' and NULL.
The record is as below:
|Name |Mobile|
|James| ''   |
|John |      |

But when I select with query:

*

*Select Name from user where Mobile ='';

*Select Name from user where Mobile is null;
both are returning me different result.
Appreciate if anyone able to help and assist on this matter.
Thanks

A: *

*NULL is used to represent missing values

*'' is a value that corresponds to a empty string

I recommend adding \pset null '(null)' on your .psqlrc. Then,
SELECT Name, Mobile from user

will return
|Name |Mobile|
|James|      |
|John |(null)|

It makes easier to distinguish empty strings and missing values when using postgres on command line.

A: You can't even do:
Select Name from user where Mobile = null

Because NULL is not "equal to" NULL. (The null value represents an unknown value, and it is not known whether two unknown values are equal.) This behavior conforms to the SQL standard.
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