The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
1994 First Vintage International Edition paperback cover
Cover of the 1994 First Vintage International English Edition paperback
Author Yukio Mishima
Original title 午後の曳航 (Gogo no Eiko — Eng trans. Afternoon Shiptowing)
Translator John Nathan
Cover artist Susan Mitchell
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Genre Philosophical, Psychological
Publisher Kodansha
Alfred A. Knopf (U.S.)
Publication date
Published in English
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 181 pp (1994 First Vintage International Edition, paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-679-75015-0 (1994 First Vintage International Edition, paperback)
OCLC 29389499
895.6/35 20
LC Class PL833.I7 G613 1994
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Japanese: 午後の曳航, meaning The Afternoon Towing) is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965.
The novel chronicles the story of Ryuji, a sailor with vague notions of a special honor awaiting him at sea. He meets a woman called Fusako, with whom he falls deeply in love, and he ultimately decides to marry her. Fusako's 13-year-old son, Noboru, is in a band of savage boys who believe in "objectivity", rejecting the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental.
As Ryuji begins to draw close to Fusako, a woman of the shore, he is eventually torn away from the dreams he's pursued his entire life. Noboru, who shares an especially close bond with his mother through a voyeuristic ritual, hates the idea of losing his mother to a man who has let his hope and freedom die. This anger and fear of loneliness translates into terrible, savage acts performed by Noboru and the gang of which he is a part.
 - Glory and honour
The themes of glory and honour are central to the story, and Mishima explores these ideas mainly through the character Ryuji Tsukazaki.
When Ryuji is first introduced, he is strongly associated with gold, a colour which often has positive connotations of triumph, achievement, and royalty. Gold is often highly regarded and respected, and can symbolise higher ideals. This therefore casts Ryuji as a representation of ultimate glory and honour. Furthermore, it is emphasised that this is "authentic gold", hence removing negative connotations of artificiality and pretentiousness, as well as establishing that Ryuji exists in the real world, and is not simply an illusory dream. Gold could also be a symbol of masculine energy and power, which highlights Ryuji's manliness. This masculinity is a point of pride and honour – Ryuji reflected later in the novel on how the sailor's life "impelled (him) toward the pinnacle of manliness", and agonised over whether he could "give it up". This aligns with the author's ideals as well – Mishima had been obsessed with hyper-masculinity and had strived to attain it himself, as exemplified by his endeavours in body-building.
Ryuji's pursuit of glory deeply affects Noboru. For the thirteen-year-old Noboru, Ryuji is a hero, a "luminous evidence of the internal order of life". Noboru is therefore determined to protect the glorious image of Ryuji after he witnesses Ryuji making love with his mother ""If this is ever destroyed, it'll mean the end of the world." Noboru murmured, barely conscious. I guess I'd do anything to stop that, no matter how awful!" Noboru's obsession with Ryuji and the idea of glory he represents ultimately lead to Ryuji's murder.
Death is strongly associated with glory in Mishima's text. Mishima had said in one of his interviews: "It is natural for me to find it obscene that human beings live only for themselves. You might call this the boredom of living... they get bored living just for themselves... always think of living for some kind of ideal. Because of this, the need to die for something arises. That need is the "great cause" people talked about in the past. Dying for a great cause was considered the most glorious heroic or brilliant way of dying"[1] Thus in a certain way Mishima hereby personifies his ideology in Ryuji's character. When Ryuji was first introduced as an almost god-like figure, attention was drawn to his "dangerous, glittering gaze", hence firmly linking glory with danger, and by extension, death. Glory in the text is also found in the turbulence and uncertainty of the sea and in the danger of death that the sea may bring about: "They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world. He longed for a storm".
Glory is presented as inherently dangerous in the novel, as evident in how Ryuji felt "glory knifing toward him like a shark from some great distance". The sharp violence and peril associated with knives, as well as the predatory nature of sharks, illustrates the great risks that came with the pursuit of glory.
When Ryuji gives up his Grand Cause and settles onto the land, he loses his life. Before his death, his thoughts drift back to the glory that he has longed to pursue: " Emperor palms. Wine palms. Surging out of the splendor of the sea, death had swept down on him like a stormy bank of clouds. A vision of death now eternally beyond his reach, majestic, acclaimed, heroic death unfurled its rapture across his brain. And if the world had been provided for just this radiant death, then why shouldn't the world also perish for it!"
 - Alienation
The theme of alienation is shown through the isolation of the characters Noboru and Ryuji Tsukazaki. The character Noboru is portrayed as isolated in the book as he seems to not understand all that going around him. The idea of westernisation is also brought into play as Noboru is seen as very traditional yet his mother is westernised, which is seen through a physical description of her room. In the physical description of Fusako's (Noboru's Mother) room, Mishima constantly refers back to where a certain element is imported from. Written through Noboru's perspective we can see that because he is not westernised and is still very much traditional to his culture he notices these elementswhere the item is from. Through this separation due to westernisation the idea of Noboru being alienated is brought up as he is detached from even the closest person to himhis mother. In the book Mishima describes "Noboru couldn't believe he was looking at his mother's bedroom; it might have belonged to a stranger." Through this quote we can see that not only is he not close to his mother but that he feels as though his mother is a stranger which reinforces the idea of alienation.
The theme of alienation is highlighted also by the character Ryuji Tuskazaki due to his detachment to society. Mishima describes ''He grew indifferent to the lure of exotic lands. He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possible a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever." The phrase "belonged neither to the land nor to the sea" implicates the idea of alienation as there is only land and sea, but Tsukazaki belongs to neither which questions the reader where does he belong? As he does not feel as though he belongs to either and perhaps he belongs to this unknown place for himself it connotes the theme of alienation.
In conclusion, both Ryuji and Noboru feel detached to society, and in various degrees and for different reasons, they both try to relieve their isolation. In Fusako, Ryuji finds the anchor for which he has been searching, and moves quickly into the comfortable life of lover and father. Noboru has chosen to turn his loneliness to hatred and seek for strength using murder. The prevalence of alienation and loneliness as a theme can be linked back to Mishima's own background. Not unlike Noboru and The chief, Mishima spent his childhood under the strict rule of his grandmother, while dreaming of a world in which Japan was restored to its original power and glory. Mishima's dislike towards Japan's westernization is reflected through "Chief's contempt of adult nature.
 - Gender roles
The role of females in the novel seem sparse – the main female character is Fusako, who is the love interest of Ryuji and the mother of Noboru. In some ways, she is one of the most important characters in the novel as her relationship with Ryuji is the unbecoming of him in some ways. The balance of their relationship seems quite equal and Fusako is portrayed to be the perfect partner and housewife. She is also portrayed to be an independent woman who is doing better in her business than Ryuji is with his work. She is also seen to be diplomatic with her clients in her business. Male characters dominate the book, but most seem dependent or obsessed with some sort of notion – Ryuji with his quest for glory, Noboru and his need to conform to his 'gang's' ideology, and the chief and his obsession with his ideas surrounding life. Males in the book also seem to be the characters who are pursuing a specific goal, unlike Fusako, who seems to be a


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The remains of an American pilot, posted missing in action 72 years ago, have been found thanks to an aerial photograph from NCAP.
Lt Frank Fazekas was lost on 27 May 1944, when his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter was shot down in northern France. The crash site, in farmland near Buysscheure, Nord Pas de Calais, was later levelled and forgotten. Lt Fazekas' body was never recovered.
In May 2016, researchers at the US Department of Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) noticed an aerial photograph of the area on the NCAP website. Taken by the Royal Air Force two days after the crash, the photograph shows an impact crater and ground scarring near Buysscheure. Using this photograph, a search team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the DPAA travelled to the site. They successfully located the wreckage of the plane and finally recovered the possible human remains of the pilot.

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Land Between Two Rivers: Part 2
The Wetlands: Enclosed In Change (#205)
Biologists and other experts discuss the drainage of Iowa's wetlands and how they were formed by glacial activity millions of years ago. An exploration of the cyclical change within marshes is undertaken, and the roles plants, animals and birds play are examined. [58 minutes]
Information For Teachers
- Grade Levels
- Curricular Areas
- Science & Technology
- Series Length
- 6 episodes
- Average Episode Length
- 40 minutes
- Record Rights
- Recording/duplication allowed in perpetuity. If you miss the broadcast, contact your AEA for copies.
- Visit the Website for Teacher Resources
Visit the IPTV Education website to access timely, relevant resources for your classroom.
Series Description: LAND BETWEEN TWO RIVERS: PART 2 examines four biomes present in Iowa and challenges students to consider issues surrounding their continued existence. The once expansive biomes are dwindling as development takes over. Biologists and other experts expound on the plant and animal life indigenous to each system and discuss approaches to protecting them.
All Upcoming Episodes
There are no broadcasts currently planned. Please check back for future broadcast dates.
These episodes of Land Between Two Rivers: Part 2 aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- The Wetlands: Enclosed In Change (#205)
- A Prairie Conversation (#203)
- The Woodlands: It's What You Think (#201)

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A simple class encapsulating tlhelp32 and PSAPI
Sample running on Win2k
Motivation
Many programmers write software that require the set of running processes to be enumerated. Unfortunately there is no standard method of doing this. On Windows 95 and Windows 98 there are the ToolHelp API functions (found in Kernel32.dll). For some reason the Microsoft NT team didn't like the ToolHelp functions and decided not to add them to Windows NT. Instead they provided their own set of Process Status functions, the PSAPI, and added them to an external module (residing in psapi.dll). Finally, on Windows 2000, the developers chose to provide both methods of enumeration.
What this is
CEnumProcess is a simple class for enumerating running processes using either PSAPI or ToolHelp. The preferred method is decided on runtime. It contains two classes: CEnumProcess::CProcessEntry and CEnumProcess::CModuleEntry for storing results.
How it works
When creating an instance of the class, it attempts to load the appropriate modules and find PSAPI/ToolHelp related functions. Based on which set of functions it finds the class sets the enumeration method to the most appropriate. For example, this is the code for finding the PSAPI related functions:
// Try to load psapi.dll
PSAPI = ::LoadLibrary(TEXT("PSAPI"));
if (PSAPI)
{
 // Find PSAPI functions
 FEnumProcesses = (PFEnumProcesses)::GetProcAddress(PSAPI,
 TEXT("EnumProcesses"));
 FEnumProcessModules = (PFEnumProcessModules)::GetProcAddress(PSAPI,
 TEXT("EnumProcessModules"));
#ifdef UNICODE
 FGetModuleFileNameEx = (PFGetModuleFileNameEx)::GetProcAddress(PSAPI,
 TEXT("GetModuleFileNameExW"));
#else
 FGetModuleFileNameEx = (PFGetModuleFileNameEx)::GetProcAddress(PSAPI,
 TEXT("GetModuleFileNameExA"));
#endif
}
Usage
There are seven public functions in the class:
 - int GetAvailableMethods()
 - int GetSuggestedMethod()
 - int SetMethod(int method)
 - BOOL GetProcessNext(CProcessEntry *pEntry)
 - BOOL GetProcessFirst(CProcessEntry* pEntry)
 - BOOL GetModuleNext(DWORD dwPID, CModuleEntry* pEntry)
 - BOOL GetModuleFirst(DWORD dwPID, CModuleEntry* pEntry)
The enumerationmethod related functions sets/returns one of the values found in the namespace ENUM_METHOD below:
namespace ENUM_METHOD
{const int NONE = 0x0;
 const int PSAPI = 0x1;
 const int TOOLHELP= 0x2;
 const int PROC16 = 0x4;
}
ENUM_METHOD::NONE is used for the unlikely event that no method can be found, like if an NT-user has deleted psapi.dll. Under Windows 2000, GetAvailableMethods returns ENUM_METHOD::PSAPI + ENUM_METHOD::TOOLHELP. The suggested method will be to use the ToolHelp API. If 16-bit processes should be enumerated ENUM_METHOD::PROC16 should be added to the enumerationmethod. This is usually done by default.
More interesting are the GetProcess/GetModule functions. They take a pointer to a CProcessEntry/CModuleEntry as input, and returns TRUE/FALSE depending on success or failure in enumeration. The useful members of the classes are as follows:
CProcessEntry
LPTSTR lpFilename; // name of file
DWORD dwPID; // ID of the process
WORD hTask16; // If this is a 16-bit process,
 // return task handle here, otherwise 0
The member hTask16 is only used on NT and Win2k. If hTask16 is anything other than 0 on these operating systems, this is a 16-bit process. In that case lpFilename will be the path of the 16-bit process, and dwPID will be the identifier of the NTVDM currently run under (see "A WORD on 16-bit processes").
Note that if using ToolHelp under Win2k lpFileName will not be the full path of the file. Try using GetModuleFirst to get the first module loaded (the .exe itself), and then retrive the full path from CModuleEntry.
CModuleEntry
LPTSTR lpFilename; // path of file
PVOID pLoadBase; // Loading address
PVOID pPreferredBase; // Address specified in fileheader
All this means you can write code like this, and it will work under both Win9x and NT.
CEnumProcess enumeration;
CEnumProcess::CProcessEntry entry;
for (BOOL OK = enumeration.GetProcessFirst(&entry); OK;
 OK = enumeration.GetProcessNext(&entry) )
 {
 // Do something useful
 TRACE("PID = %X, process = %s\n", entry.dwPID, entry.lpFilename);
 }
Why the preferred base is important
I have found that many modules does not load at their preferred baseaddress. If a module does not load at its preferred base, the application using it will require more memory and take a performance hit when initializing. This is because a module can only be mapped to its .dll on disk if the baseaddress is equal to the loadaddress. This was the reason for including the preferred base in the moduleentry in the first place. Usually is it due to lazy programmers, who do not rebase their modules from the the default address (0x10000000, or Visual Basic 0x11000000). It could also be hard to predict where a module can find some place to load. The function for finding the preferred base is found below:
PVOID CEnumProcess::GetModulePreferredBase(DWORD dwPID, PVOID pModBase)
{if (ENUM_METHOD::NONE == m_method) return NULL;
 HANDLE hProc = OpenProcess(PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, dwPID);
 if (hProc)
 {IMAGE_DOS_HEADER idh = {0};
 IMAGE_NT_HEADERS inh = {0};
 //Read DOS header
 ReadProcessMemory(hProc, pModBase, &idh, sizeof(idh), NULL);
 if (IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE == idh.e_magic) // DOS header OK?
 // Read NT headers at offset e_lfanew
 ReadProcessMemory(hProc, (PBYTE)pModBase + idh.e_lfanew,
 &inh, sizeof(inh), NULL);
 CloseHandle(hProc);

 if (IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE == inh.Signature) //NT signature OK?
 // Get the preferred base...
 return (PVOID) inh.OptionalHeader.ImageBase;
 }
 return NULL; //didn't find anything useful..
}
For those new to the PE format, these are standard headers of an executable file. When an executable is loaded into memory, the entire file is mapped - even the headers. A lot of useful information can be found here, like the size of the mapped file.
A WORD on 16-bit processes
Under Windows 95 and Windows 98 ToolHelp API treats 16-bit applications just like any other process. This is not the case under NT. Instead CEnumProcess will return the name of the NT virtual DOS machine (NTVDM) it is currently run under. This means that if you run the testapplication and find some processnames like "ntvdm.exe", you have found a 16-bit process. If ENUM_METHOD::PROC16 is currently set, the next entries returned by GetNextProcess will


The real cost of crashes and deaths on NSW roads
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Be it as a passenger or driver, you've likely seen close calls on the road or experienced them yourself. But have you ever wondered how many road crashes occur each year?
In a bid to understand the trends in fatal road accidents, we analysed the number of lives lost and casualties on NSW roads, as well as quantified the cost by region and main arterial road.
Here, we provide a snapshot of our findings taken from the NRMA Cost of Crashes report.
The loss of life due to road crashes in NSW is on the increase since 2015
Over the past decade there has been a steady decline in the number of lives lost on NSW roads. However, 2015 and 2016 has seen an upward trend.
During 2011-2015, 1,723 lives were lost and 129,320 people were injured on NSW roads. While the number of fatalities decreased 20.3 per cent over the period 2006-10 to 2011-15, the number of total serious injuries increased 4.6 per cent to 61,130.
Source: NRMA Cost of Crashes report
Regional NSW has a higher proportion of road fatalities than metro NSW
Fatalities in regional NSW represent a disproportionate share of the NSW road toll, while serious, moderate, and minor injuries represent are larger proportion of casualties in the Sydney region.
In 2011-15, 67.1 per cent of fatalities occurred in regional NSW. By comparison, 55 per cent of serious injuries in 2011-15 occurred in the Sydney region.
Total cost of road trauma has decreased
During 2011-15, the cost of trauma on NSW roads totalled $35.7 billion. While the total cost of road trauma decreased 8.2 percent when compared to 2006-10, the total cost of serious injuries increased by 4.0 per cent to $17.8 billion in 2011-15.
Lives lost
For the period 2011-15, there was a 20.3 per cent decrease in the number of lives lost across NSW roads when compared to 2006-10. This means the total cost of fatalities declined from $15.57 billion in 2006-10 to $12.43 billion during 2011-15.
The average cost of a life lost on a NSW road for the period 2011-2015 was $7.21 million.
Serious injuries
Over the 10 year period from 2006 to 2015, there were 119,563 people seriously injured on NSW roads. For the period 2011-2015 there was a five per cent increase in the number of serious injuries (matched) to 33,560 from 31,971. This cost to the community is $9.71 billion compared to $9.35 billion for the period 2006 to 2010.
The average cost of someone being seriously injured on a NSW road for the period 2011-15 was $289,417.
What are the biggest problem regions in NSW?
Taking population density into account, the biggest increase in fatalities and injuries occurred in the Illawarra and Hunter regions of NSW.
There was a massive increase in the number of lives lost on the Oxley Highway in particular, from 11 to 25 in 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 respectively. To put it in perspective, that's up by a whopping 127.3%.
The Cost of Crashes report
Keeping Australians safe on our roads is a key part of why the NRMA exists. Safe mobility is a core of focus of the NRMA, incorporated into every aspect of our business.
There will never be an acceptable number of lives lost on our roads and industry, government and the community need to work together to continue to reduce the NSW road toll. The NRMA supports the NSW Government's target to reduce annual road deaths and serious injuries by at least 30 per cent by 2021, and will continue to shoulder some of this responsibility, championing safer vehicles, road upgrades and education campaigns to ensure all road users arrive safely at their destination.
Discover more in depth insights into the cost of crashes in NSW, including the cost of casualties to the Sydney region and Regional NSW, and the cost of casualties by NSW highways in the Cost of Crashes report.
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When your job relies on a CDL license to operate your truck, you must practice extra vigilance in observing traffic laws in New Jersey. Your employer may provide incentives when you drive so many accident-free miles and maintain a clean driving record.
Understanding how traffic tickets could impact your CDL license can also encourage you to avoid reckless driving behaviors.
Power means responsibility
The power and size of your big rig can cause immediate danger to everyone around you when you drive irresponsibly. Because of this, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or FMCSA enforces strict consequences if you break the law. According to, some of the most serious moving violations include the following:
 - Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol
 - Driving over the posted speed limit
 - Committing a criminal act such as transporting something illegal
 - Leaving the scene of an accident
Even if you commit a moving violation in your personal vehicle, your CDL license is in imminent danger of suspension or revocation. Either outcome could cost you your job and could put your career as a trucker in peril. Depending on your circumstances and the severity of your infractions, you could lose your driving privileges for as short as 30 days and as long as the rest of your life.
Handling a suspension
Getting your driving privileges back will involve the support and input of your employer and your local authorities. Often, prior to reinstatement, you will need to pay any legal fines and restitution. Once approved, your employer could put you on probation to encourage compliance until you have proven yourself again. If you feel that your case lacks fairness, you can dispute your ticket in court and petition for a different outcome.


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Import and work with GPS Track file data
To begin working with a GPS track file in Places view, you must first import the GPS track file into Aperture.
GPS track points are digital bread crumbs that are used to define a path or route ("track") using precise coordinates saved by a GPS device or GPS tracking iPhone app. If you have a GPS-enabled camera or iOS device or another GPS device that you use to create track files and save waypoints, you can import the track files into Aperture and work with them in Places view. Each leg and waypoint (digital bread crumb) is displayed in Places view, and you can assign the legs and waypoints to photos. Photos taken with a GPS-enabled camera or iOS device are automatically assigned locations corresponding to waypoints in the track file.
Import a GPS track file
In the Library inspector, select the project into which you want to import the track file, then click the Places button in the toolbar.
In Places view, choose Import GPS Track from the GPS pop-up menu.
In the dialog that appears, navigate to the location of the GPS track file, select it, then click Choose Track File.
The track file is imported into the selected project. The track file appears as a purple line on the map in Places view.
Create a new location based on a waypoint in a GPS track file
After you have imported the GPS track file into your Aperture project, you can begin working with the GPS track data to create new locations, assign locations to photos, and move location pins.
In the Library inspector, select a project with an imported GPS track file.
In the Browser, select a photo and drag it to a waypoint in Places view.
A small dialog appears at the bottom of Places view asking if you would like to assign location information to other photos in the project based on time.
Do one of the following:
To assign photo location information to other photos in the project based on time in the GPS track file: Click Assign Locations.
If you don't want to assign photo location information to other photos in the project: Click Done.
Assign location information from a GPS waypoint to a photo selection
In the Browser, select the photo or photos to which you want to assign location information.
In Places view, Control-click the waypoint whose location information you want to assign to the selected photos, then choose Assign Photos from the shortcut menu.
The waypoint's location information is assigned to the photo selection, and a location badge (a red pin) appears at the top of each selected photo in the Browser.
Moving location pins that correspond to waypoints in a GPS track file works the same way as moving other location pins. For more information about moving location pins, see Change photo locations.
Delete a GPS track file
You can delete a GPS track file at any time. For example, if you have several GPS track files on your computer and you aren't sure which locations they track, you can import the files individually to see if the track data corresponds to locations in your project. If a GPS track file contains track data that doesn't match locations in your project, you can delete it.
In Places view, choose Delete Selected Track from the GPS pop-up menu.


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Not every shotgun or rifle uses a pump, right? Right. So what's that thingy (for lack of a better term for now) worked back and forth that's sort of like a pump when characters use fully automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns?
That thingy is called a charging handle or cocking handle. They're worked manually to load the first round into the chamber when ammunition is initially inserted into the firearm. After the first shot, the firearm automatically reloads a fresh round. They're present on the following firearms (yes, some of these terms mean the same thing).
- Fully automatic rifles
- Submachine guns
- Machine guns
- Assault rifles
- Semi-automatic rifles
- Fully automatic shotguns
- Semi-automatic shotguns
There's no need to work the charging handle again if the character pauses during a shootout before the ammunition runs out.
Make sense? This is only a quick overview without getting into the nitty gritty. Leave any questions in the comments.
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English Reading Books: Reading Extra (Pdf)
English Reading Books: Reading Extra (Pdf) is a resource book containing photocopiable materials for supplementary classroom work. The activities provide self-contained lessons for the busy teacher. Each activity consists of a page of clear, step-by-step instructions for the teacher and a photocopiable page for the students. The material is aimed at young adult (16+) and adult learners.
However, most activities can be easily adapted for the needs of younger students. Reading Extra offers teachers an exciting collection of topic-based skills activities from elementary to upper-intermediate level
The materials in Reading Extra aim to do two things.
Firstly, to give students practice in the reading skills they need in real life, e.g. scanning a TV schedule to find out what time a specific programme is on, skimming a magazine article to identify the writer's opinion, intensive reading of instructions to find out how something works.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, to give students practice in dealing with unknown words – by using inference from context, general knowledge, morphology – so that they become sufficiently confident to tackle authentic texts, both inside and outside the classroom. While the material has not been written specifically for exam preparation classes, much of it will be suitable for such students.
There are two benefits from working with reading texts in the classroom. The more students read, the better they will read. Furthermore, their knowledge of the language will increase at the same time. For students who are keen to improve their English, reading is the best way forward.
Reading Extra (Pdf) Content
Unit 1 Personal information
Unit 2 The family
Unit 3 Daily activities
Unit 4 Homes
Unit 5 Town and country
Unit 6 Travel and tourism
Unit 7 Food and drink
Unit 8 Describing people
Unit 9 Describing things
Unit 10 Friends and relationships
Unit 11 Health and fitness
Unit 12 Leisure time
Unit 13 Education
Unit 14 The world of work
Unit 15 Money
Unit 16 Past experiences and stories
Unit 17 Science and technology
Unit 18 Social and environmental issues
English Reading Books: Reading Extra (Pdf) is a resource book containing photocopiable materials for supplementary classroom work. The activities provide self-contained lessons for the busy teacher


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2. Table of Contents
- What is a Total Station?
- Capability of a Total Station
- Important Operations of Total Station
– Distance Measurement
– Angle Measurements
– Data Processing
– Electronic Book
- Uses of Total Station
- Advantages of Using Total Stations
3. What is a Total Station?
- Total station is a surveying equipment
combination of Electromagnetic Distance
Measuring Instrument and electronic
- It is also integrated with microprocessor,
electronic data collector and storage system.
- The instrument can be used to measure
horizontal and vertical angles as well as
sloping distance of object to the instrument.
6. Capability of a Total Station
Microprocessor unit in total station processes
the data collected to compute:
1. Average of multiple angles measured.
2. Average of multiple distance measured.
3. Horizontal distance.
4. Distance between any two points.
5. Elevation of objects and
6. All the three coordinates of the observed
7. • Data collected and processed in a Total Station
can be downloaded to computers for further
- Total station is a compact instrument and
weighs 50 to 55 N.
- A person can easily carry it to the field.
- Total stations with different accuracy, in angle
measurement and different range of
measurements are available in the market.
- One such instrument manufactured by
SOKKIA Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan.
9. Important Operations of Total
- Distance Measurement
- Angle Measurements
- Data Processing
- Electronic Book
10. Distance Measurement
- Electronic distance measuring (EDM)
instrument is a major part of total station.
- Its range varies from 2.8 km to 4.2 km.
- The accuracy of measurement varies from 5
mm to 10 mm per km measurement.
- They are used with automatic target
- The distance measured is always sloping
distance from instrument to the object.
11. Angle Measurements
- The electronic theodolite part of total station is
used for measuring vertical and horizontal
- For measurement of horizontal angles any
convenient direction may be taken as reference
- For vertical angle measurement vertical upward
(zenith) direction is taken as reference direction.
- The accuracy of angle measurement varies from
2 to 6 seconds.
13. Data Processing
- This instrument is provided with an inbuilt
microprocessor. The microprocessor averages
multiple observations. With the help of slope
distance and vertical and horizontal angles
measured, when height of axis of instrument and
targets are supplied, the microprocessor computes
the horizontal distance and X, Y, Z coordinates.
- The processor is capable of applying temperature
and pressure corrections to the measurements, if
atmospheric temperature and pressures are
- Electronic display unit is capable of displaying
various values when respective keys are
- The system is capable of displaying horizontal
distance, vertical distance, horizontal and
vertical angles, difference in elevations of two
observed points and all the three coordinates of
the observed points.
15. Electronic Book
- Each point data can be stored in an electronic
note book (like compact disc).
- The capacity of electronic note book varies
from 2000 points to 4000 points data.
- Surveyor can unload the data stored in note
book to computer and reuse the note book.
16. Uses of Total Station
- The total station instrument is mounted on a
tripod and is levelled by operating levelling
screws. Within a small range instrument is
capable of adjusting itself to the level position.
Then vertical and horizontal reference
directions are indexed using onboard keys.
17. • It is possible to set required units for distance,
temperature and pressure (FPS or SI).
Surveyor can select measurement mode like
fine, coarse, single or repeated.
18. • When target is sighted, horizontal and vertical
angles as well as sloping distances are
measured and by pressing appropriate keys
they are recorded along with point number.
Heights of instrument and targets can be keyed
in after measuring them with tapes. Then
processor computes various information about
the point and displays on screen.
19. • This information is also stored in the electronic
notebook. At the end of the day or whenever
electronic note book is full, the information
stored is downloaded to computers.
20. • The point data downloaded to the computer
can be used for further processing.
- There are software like auto civil and auto
plotter clubbed with Auto Cad which can be
used for plotting contours at any specified
interval and for plotting cross-section along
any specified line.
21. Advantages of Using Total Stations
- The following are some of the major
advantages of using total station over the
conventional surveying instruments:
- Field work is carried out very fast.
- Accuracy of measurement is high.
- Manual errors involved in reading and
recording are eliminated.
22. • Calculation of coordinates is very fast and
accurate. Even corrections for temperature and
pressure are automatically made.
- Computers can be employed for map making
and plotting contour and cross-sections.
Contour intervals and scales can be changed in
23. • However, surveyor should check the working
condition of the instruments before using. For
this standard points may be located near
survey office and before taking out instrument
for field work, its working is checked by
observing those standard points from the
specified instrument station.
- Total stations are mainly used by land
surveyors and civil engineers, either to record
features as in topographic surveying or to set
out features (such as roads, houses or
- They are also used by archaeologists to record
excavations and by police, crime scene
investigators, private accident reconstruction
and insurance companies to take
measurements of scenes.
- Total stations are the primary survey
instrument used in mining surveying.
- A total station is used to record the absolute
location of the tunnel walls, ceilings (backs),
and floors as the drifts of an underground mine
- The recorded data are then downloaded into
a CAD program, and compared to the designed
layout of the tunnel.
26. • The survey party installs control stations at
regular intervals. These are small steel plugs
installed in pairs in holes drilled into walls or
the back. For wall stations, two plugs are
installed in opposite walls, forming a line
perpendicular to the drift. For back stations,
two plugs are installed in the back, forming a
line parallel to the drift.
27. Mechanical and electrical construction
- Total stations have become the highest
standard for most forms of construction layout.
- They are most often used in the X and Y axis
to lay out the locations of penetrations out of
the underground utilities into the foundation,
between floors of a structure, as well as
28. • Because more commercial and industrial
construction jobs have become centered
around building information modeling (BIM),
the coordinates for almost every pipe, conduit,
duct and hanger support are available with
- The application of communicating a virtual
model to a tangible construction potentially
eliminates labor costs related to moving poorly
measured systems, as well as time spent laying
out these systems in the midst of a full blown
construction job in progress.
- Meteorologists also use total stations to
track weather balloons for determining upper-
- With the average ascent rate of the weather
balloon known or assumed, the change in
azimuth and elevation readings provided by
the total station as it tracks the weather balloon
over time are used to compute the wind speed
and direction at different altitudes.
30. • Additionally, the total station is used to track
ceiling balloons to determine the height of
- Such upper-level wind data is often used for
aviation weather forecasting and rocket


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Two medical education groups and 130 medical schools signed on to First Lady Michelle Obama's initiative to "train the nation's physicians to meet the unique healthcare needs of the military and veterans' communities," the White House announced recently. The schools pledged to do in-depth research into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and to teach medical students and physicians to "better diagnose and treat our veterans and military families," according to the announcement. "By directing some of our brightest minds, our most cutting-edge research, and our finest teaching institutions toward our military families, they're ensuring that those who have served our country receive the first-rate care that they have earned," Obama said.
Speaking at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Obama said that the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine have pledged to devote research, education and clinical care to address military service members' crucial healthcare needs.
The initiative is part of the Joining Forces campaign, an effort by the first lady and Dr. Jill Biden that focuses on issues that affect veterans and their families. Obama cited some examples already are underway at universities, including VCU, which has undertaken a project to provide resources and training to healthcare providers, volunteers and community members across Virginia to help veterans. Similarly, University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing a new imaging tool that lets physicians see high-definition views of the brain's wiring. This can help diagnose a TBI. And the University of South Florida is working with the VA and the Department of Defense to create a Center for Veterans Reintegration – a research, treatment and education center for veterans and their families.
"Today the nation's medical colleges are committing to create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities to make sure our heroes receive the care worthy of their military service," Obama said. The idea behind Joining Forces is extremely simple, Obama said. "In a time of war, when our troops and their families are sacrificing so much, we all should be doing everything we can to serve them as well as they are serving this country," she added. "It's an obligation that extends to every single American. And, it's an obligation that does not end when a war ends and troops return home. In many ways, that's when it begins."
Mrs. Obama said she became aware of this when she and President Barack Obama welcomed the final troops home from Iraq last month. "I couldn't shake the feeling that even though we were marking the end of the war, this was not an ending for them. For our troops, the end of war marks the beginning of a very long period of transition," she said. Frequently, the transitions from war to home "bring the hardest moments our troops and their families will ever face," she added.
It is estimated that one in six of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans come home with post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, and at least 4,000 have had at least a moderate-grade brain injury, Mrs. Obama said, noting that many avoid seeking help because of what they perceive as a stigma. "I want to be very clear today: these mental health challenges are not a sign of weakness," she said. "They should never again be a source of shame. They are a natural reaction to the challenges of war, and it has been that way throughout the ages."
Obama thanked the troops and their families for their service, and noted that anyone experiencing mental health difficulties should not be ashamed. "Seek help, don't bury it," she said. "Asking for help is a sign of strength." The Pentagon estimates that nearly 213,000 military personnel have suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2000.
A previous report by the Rand Corp. think tank estimated that 300,000 veterans of both conflicts suffered PTSD or major depression. Less than 50 percent had sought treatment for PTSD over the previous year and approximately 60 percent of those reporting a probable brain injury had not been evaluated by a physician for one. "This is a long-term issue for the nation," said Brad Cooper, the executive director of Joining Forces.
"Those of us who have never experienced war will never be able to fully understand the true emotional costs," Mrs. Obama said. "PTSD, TBI, depression and any other combat-related mental health issue should never again be a source of shame."
Although the military has strong support systems and personnel trained in combat-related mental health issues, more than half of veterans seek treatment in their hometowns, outside the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Mrs. Obama said. The new initiative aims at assuring that all civilian physicians have access to information on those issues.
"Everyone is stepping up," Mrs. Obama said while praising the ongoing work of researchers at the colleges involved in the initiative. She said the will to help veterans is strong and goes beyond Veterans Day parades and rallies on Fort Bragg. Obama said the "hidden wounds" faced by many veterans are the "most difficult struggle they will face." She said it was imperative for the nation's physicians to understand the mental health challenges involved. "Mere words and anecdotes don't do any of this justice," she said.


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McNemar's test to analyze a matched case-control study
McNemar's test is used to compare paired proportions. It can be used to analyze retrospective case-control studies, where each case is matched to a particular control. Or it can be used to analyze experimental studies, where the two treatments are given to matched subjects. Read an example with explanation.
Use McNemar's test (and this calculator) only when you are analyzing matched pairs. Each value you enter above represents a number of PAIRS. The total number of subjects in the study is twice the total of the values you enter above.


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Meet the new species of pit viper found in Arunachal Pradesh
Itanagar, May 10: India now has a fifth brown pit viper with a reddish tinge, a venomous snake with a unique heat-sensing system - from a forest in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
The discovery, published in the March-April volume of the Russian Journal of Herpetology, makes the Arunachal pit viper (Trimeresurus arunachalensis) the second serpent to have been discovered after the non-venomous crying keelback in the State's Lepa-Rada district in 2018.
The new species also makes Arunachal Pradesh the only Indian state to have a pit viper named after it.
What does heat sensing ability means?
They have special pits located between their eyes and nostrils that can sense minute temperature changes as infrared rays, as an aid in locating warm-blooded prey such as rodents. Snakes use the radiation to generate 'thermal images' of predators or prey, but the underlying physiology has been unclear.
The more advanced infrared sense of pit vipers allows these animals to strike prey accurately even in the absence of light, and detect warm objects from several meters away.
It is found on the sensory nerve fibres that stimulate the snakes' pit organ, the highly specialised facial structure that initially detects radiant heat and consists of cavities located on each side of the head.
Also called 'heat vision', the infrared rays have longer wavelengths than those of visible light and signify the presence of warm-blooded prey in three dimensions which helps a snake aim its attack.
A pit has two chambers. The interior chamber is naturally the internal temperature of the snake itself. The exterior chamber heats up when it is close to a heat source.
The snake is then able to detect the temperature difference between the two chambers. This system is so accurate that pit vipers are actually able to detect temperature changes as little as 0.002 degrees centigrade.
Types of snakes with pits
As snakes evolved, they branched out into vipers and constrictors. The vipers further evolved to include pit vipers (part of the scientific sub-family in Viperidae called Crotalinae). Not all vipers have pits, and not all boa constrictors and pythons do either. Pit vipers are found worldwide and are all poisonous, just as all vipers are poisonous.
India had four brown pit vipers - Malabar, Horseshoe, Hump-nosed and Himalayan - before the Arunachal Pradesh discovery.
Other uses of the pits
Snakes also use pit organs to help them find cool places to regulate their internal temperatures. Snakes are reptiles and cold-blooded, which means they have to warm up in the sun. When they get too warm, they have to find a cooler area to use for bringing down their temperatures. The pits on their faces help them find these cool places. When the loreal pits are blocked or otherwise covered, the snake has trouble finding these places when needed, as if blind.


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reTriEval and aNalysis of heterogeneouS online content for TerrOrist activity Recognition
Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across Europe face today important challenges in how they identify, gather and interpret terrorist generated content online. The Dark Web presents additional challenges due to its inaccessibility and the fact that undetected material can contribute to the advancement of terrorist violence and radicalisation. LEAs also face the challenge of extracting and summarising meaningful and relevant content hidden in huge amounts of online data to inform their resource deployment and investigations.
In this context, the main objective of the TENSOR project is to provide a powerful terrorism intelligence platform offering LEAs fast and reliable planning and prevention functionalities for the early detection of terrorist organised activities, radicalisation and recruitment. The platform integrates a set of automated and semi-automated tools for efficient and effective searching, crawling, monitoring and gathering online terrorist-generated content from the Surface and the Dark Web; Internet penetration through intelligent dialogue-empowered bots; Information extraction from multimedia (e.g., video, images, audio) and multilingual content; Content categorisation, filtering and analysis; Real-time relevant content summarisation and visualisation; Creation of automated audit trails; Privacy-by-design and data protection.
The project brings together industry, LEAs, legal experts and research institutions. It is expected that this collaboration will have significant impact on 1) ensuring the final system meets end-user LEA requirements, 2) enabling LEAs to access and examine terrorist generated content online bringing significant advantages to their operational capability, and 3) promoting industry's enhanced understanding of operational LEA requirements and their market competitiveness in the field of online organised crime, terrorism and harmful-radicalisation.


Why the rule of 72 works
A table will help explain why the rule of 72 works. You will also see where the 72 came from.
Consider the compound interest formula.
A = P( 1 + r/100 )n
A is the resulting amount of money.
P is the principal invested for n interest periods at r% annually.
We need to investigate what happens when the money is doubled or when A = 2P.
When A = 2P, the equation above becomes 2P = P( 1 + r/100 )n
After dividing both sides of the equation by P, we get 2 = ( 1 + r/100 )n
Now, solve for n.
Take the log of both sides of the equation.
log 2 = log ( 1 + r/100 )n
log 2 = n log ( 1 + r/100 )
n = log2 / log (1 + r/100)
Now, here is a table showing different values for r, n, and nr.
r n nr
1 69.660 69.660
2 35.002 70.004
5 14.206 71.03
9 8.043 72.389
12 6.116 73.392
15 4.959 74.392
The average of the nr values gives 71.81 which is close to 72 and this is where our rules of 72 came from.
Notice that n in the table represents the number of years it will take the money to double. For example, when nr = 72.389, and the interest rate or r is 9, it will take about 8.043 years for the money to double.
Thus, the formula nr / r or 72 / r makes sense!
Check the exponential and logarithmic functions unit if you do not know how to solve these logarithmic equations.
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The Fallacy of the Maximum Allowable Offer ("MAO")
Before we look at the subtleties of a traditional real estate method of calculating an offer to a seller, let's preface this overview with where the calculation should be used. In general, there are three types of possible purchases – bank owned foreclosures (REOs), non-REOs, and income properties. For this exercise and to make it very simplistic, we'll look at non-REOs. These are basically purchases from homeowners selling their homes.
I have seen two investors use the same data and come to very different conclusions about what offer they would make to a homeowner. The difference is in how they handle the data, not the data itself. We'll use an industry standard called the Maximum Allowable Offer ("MAO") which is the maximum price an investor would offer a homeowner for his home. Once an investor becomes very familiar with neighborhoods and does a number of deals, he gets enough experience that he seldom needs a formula to calculate his offering price. But for newbies, using this formula is the safe way to start.
The most frequently used Maximum Allowable Offer equation is very simple. It contains the property's After Repaired Value ("ARV"), estimated repairs and a multiplier factor, generally 70% or 0.70. In very bad market conditions the multiplier can be decreased to 50%. In a hot seller's market, it can be increased to 85% or higher. The entire equation is the MAO = ARV x 0.70 – repairs. An example would be the MAO = $100,000 (ARV) x 0.70 (multiplier) = $70,000 – $20,000 (repairs) = $50,000 Maximum Allowable Offer to the seller.
Where I have seen many newbies go wrong using this equation is first in estimating the ARV of the property. The short course on calculating this value would be to have an appraisal, Broker's Price Opinion ("BPO"), Comparative Market Analysis ("CMA"), or guess at this value. All of these methods rely heavily on comparable past sales or active listings on the MLS®. I believe the REAL ARV has to be a function of what price sellers are willing to take at that moment in time in that specific neighborhood and market conditions.
I am not being facetious about guessing at this value. In unsettled markets, all of the above methods are purely educated guesses. Professional appraisers will take offense to this statement, but when I ask if they would buy a specific property for what they say it is worth, the answer is always "no". Their evaluation is based on comparable (past history) sales in a marketplace not in duress. That should say everything I need to about that.
This REAL ARV is very easily determined by driving the neighborhood. Call each and every seller. Do your best negotiation for a fast-cash closing and see what happens. If you push the sellers for what price they will really take you could be surprised and shocked. These sellers are the real competition for the property you are going to purchase and resell. The average investor wouldn't take the time to do this work. Not doing the work would result in missing deals that are not listed on the MLS® and that have very motivated sellers. This method of determining ARV is critical to wannabe rehabbers who will have to face the competition when their home is finished and they want to sell to a retail buyer.
Moving forward, the investor has determined his ARV and looks at the multiplier. If he is wholesaling the property his multiplier should be 60% or less. This is so the investor buyer has the margin to buy it and rehab it and make a profit. Rehabbers pay more than other wholesalers because they are essentially an end-buyer until the property is sold at full retail value. The last part of the equation is the repairs. These can be determined in two ways, first carefully using experience or getting a value from someone who is experienced or by using a program that does the work for you such as _URL_
Assuming that all of the above values have been determined accurately, what can go wrong from here? Looking at the equation there are two glaring mistakes that investors make. Improperly using the equation is the first thing that can go wrong – MAO = [ARV – repairs] x 0.70 will give an incorrect answer. Using the numbers from the previous example, the equation would look like this:
MAO = [ARV ($100,000) x 0.70 (multiplier) – repairs ($20,000)] = $50,000 MAO or $6,000 less than the previous example. Is this number incorrect? Not exactly, as the equation is still working, but the investor is leaving $6,000 in the hands of the seller and not in his pockets!
The other issue that hasn't even been addressed is the additional costs not mentioned in this equation, specifically carrying and holding costs. Depending on the financing (even cash) of the purchase and sale of the property, these costs include accrued taxes, double closing costs, utilities, insurance (never forget to put insurance on the property even for a day), transactional funding expenses, hard money costs, and other miscellaneous profit-sucking expenses. These dollars would have been profits to the investor if they hadn't slowly drained away his profits and caused the demise of many a rehabber in a declining market.
In summary, an investor must always remain aware how to calculate the REAL ARV; look for deals at the same time by driving the neighborhood for dollars, and be careful calculating the vampire costs to close and carry a property. Otherwise the investor will offer too much to the seller, and pay out too much in expenses to make a profit worth his time in the deal. Two options to eliminate the fear of this happening is to use the above software that automatically calculates all the carrying costs and expenses. The other is to do every possible deal by an Assignment of Contract so he has no closing or carrying costs and no money in the deal aside from a small deposit.
To your limitless success,
Real Estate Mentor Program Founder


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DENOISING TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) IMAGES
Publication Date: 2016-Feb-10
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A technique for denoising computed tomography (CT) images is disclosed. The technique described herein is a single pass non-linear hybrid bilateral non-local mean denoising technique that non-local mean filter (NLM) with bilateral filter (BLF) to achieve improved denoising capabilities without losing structural information from the CT image.
The present disclosure relates generally to computed tomography (CT) imaging and more particularly to a denoising technique for CT images.
Medical images are generally noisy due to physical components of image acquisition process. In CT imaging there is a scope to adapt image quality and dose. Reduction in radiation dose affects the quality of image and is generally responsible for image noise. There are various techniques conventionally used for denoising. Two conventional denoising techniques used frequently are bilateral filtering and non-local mean filter.
Figure 1 depicts technique and formula for bilateral filter (BLF). The BLF is a non-linear, edge-preserving and noise-reducing smoothing filter for images. Intensity value at each pixel in an image is replaced by a weighted average of intensity values from nearby pixels.
Figure 2 depicts formula for non-local mean filter (NLM). According to this formula the denoised value at i is the mean of all the values at all the points whose Gaussian neighborhood is as the neighborhood of i.
However, efficient image denoising of images remains a challenge. In spite of sophistication of the conventional techniques, most algorithms do not provide the desired level of results. Most techniques show good performance when the image model corresponds to algorithm assumptions of the technique, but fail in general and create artifacts or remove fine structures from the image.
It would be desirable to have an improved denoising technique for computed tomography images.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
Figure 1 depicts technique and algorithm for edge preserving bilateral filter (BLF).
Figure 2 depicts algorithm for non-local mean filter (NLM).
Figure 3 is a graphical representation of a denoising technique described herein.
Figure 4 depicts formulas used for denoising according to an embodiment of the technique.
Figure 5 is parameters table for comparison images of heart processed using conventional and the proposed denoising technique.
Figure 6 depicts an example of a comparison between 4 images of heart, a raw image with heavy noise, an image processed using the NLM filter, an image processed us...


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How to Calculate the Paid Time Off (PTO)
If you're thinking that paid time off policies sound great for the employee but not so great for the employer, think again.
This policy is beneficial to employers because it encourages employees to take shorter stretches of PTO throughout the year. This is useful because companies don't need to plan around key employees being gone for long amounts of time, yet employees still get to enjoy time off throughout the year.
Calculating paid time off varies, but as a small business, it's important to ensure you have adequate staffing when creating a paid time off policy.
When calculating PTO, you need to consider many guidelines for this use:
 - The PTO accrual rate
 - The PTO limits
 - Types of PTO your company have
How you calculate PTO depends on the way that time is awarded. These are the most common PTO accrual rates:
 - Hours worked
 - Daily
 - Bi-monthly
 - Every two weeks
 - Once a month
 - Yearly
Determine the number of hours you accrue annually
First, determine the number of hours that you accumulate during the course of the year.
Divide your annual hours by 12 or 24
Next, you need to calculate the number of hours you accumulate during each pay period. If you are paid monthly, you will divide the total number of hours you accrue annually by 12, the months in the year. If you are paid twice per month, you will divide the total number of hours by 24.
Multiply pay period PTO by time worked
To calculate the amount of time you have accumulated, you need to multiply the amount of time that you accrue in each pay period and multiply that by the time that you have worked. For example, let's say that you have worked for three months without taking any PTO. During those three months, you have had six pay periods—two per month.
If you know that you accumulate five hours of PTO time per pay period, you can easily calculate your PTO by multiplying five by six, which equals 30 hours of PTO. To determine how many days of PTO that is, you can divide that number by eight. For our example, that would mean dividing 30 by eight, which equals 3.75 days of PTO. This example, of course, assumes that you did not have any PTO prior to that three-month period. If you do, you will need to add the additional time, minus any vacation hours you have already used.
The difference between paid time off policies and vacation policies are the following:
 - It's important to understand that a paid time off policy is different from a vacation policy and that your small business will likely use one policy or the other, but probably not both at the same time.
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A common and widespread species usually found on alder trees but it also occurs on other dying deciduous trees too.
Alder Bracket: tough as old boots - Bracket fungi always emerge from tree branches and trunks. Many look very similar, however, and it can be difficult identifying them. One of the first steps to idenfication in this case is to look at what sort of tree it is on. You can actually find the alder bracket (Inonotus radiatus) on various dead broadleaved tree trunks whilst the trunks are still standing; however, as the common name would suggest, you are especially likely to find it on alder trees.
The fungus not only produces these bracket fruiting bodies but also appears on the surface as a white flakey rot. Alder bracket can be active in living trees but its presence will surely kill the tree eventually at which point it starts to rot down and decay the timber and the white rot is a sign this is happeneing.
This is a common and widespread species but not edible unless you like old boots!
|Common Name||Alder Bracket|
|Scientific Name||Inonotus radiatus|
|Species Reference||Collins 480|


I've been working towards packaging my domain logic at my current job so I can reuse it in multiple implementations. The code snippets below were an abandoned experiment for a php Laravel project. I have recently put together a simple way to build a query from an array.
So, instead of something like this:
$post = Post::isPublished()
 ->where('id', $id)
I create an array ['isPublished', 'id' => $id] that is passed to a function defined in a trait.
protected function buildQuery(array $attributes)
 if (count($attributes) == 0) {
 $query = (new $this->model);
 foreach ($attributes as $key => $value) {
 $method_name = camel_case(!is_numeric($key)? $key : $value);
 $scope_method_name = camel_case('scope'.$method_name);
 // Call a local scope method on the model or resume
 // with normal where equals clause.
 if (method_exists($this->model, $scope_method_name)) {
 $query = call_user_func([$query, $method_name], $value);
 } else {
 $query = $query->where($key, $value);
 return $query;
This then allows me to call local scopes and also have a default functionality of $query->where('column', $value) if not using a local scope. The resulting call could look something like...
$attributes = [
 'id' => $id
$post = $this->posts
At the end of the day, an ORM is your friend. So in this case, I still end up using Eloquent over this.


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Evaluation of the inland fisheries in Basrah Province during 2020-2021, Iraq
Keywords: Exotic species, Inland fisheries, Iraq, landing trends, Native fish
The purpose of the study was to provide up-to-date information on inland fisheries landings in Basrah province, Iraq. During 2020-2021, the species composition, species and total landings, and trends at six landing locations in the research region were assessed. There were seven species of cyprinids, three species of cichlids, three species of mullet, and two species of sparids and silurids. The foreign species C. carpio, tilapias species, and C. auratus dominated landings, accounting for 44.2% of the entire catch. In contrast, the highly prized native species (M. sharpeyi, L. xanthopterus, C. luteus, and A. grypus) accounted for just 12.4%. In 2020 and 2021, the total landings reached 2,427.78 t and 2,365.15 t, respectively, greater than the previous years since 2009. This is attributable to the frequency of alien species and the rise in fishing effort, as measured by the number of fishermen and fishing vessels. Improving inland fisheries requires enhancing the stocks of native species, minimizing the dissemination and impacts of some exotic species, and activating national regulations governing fishing, exploitation, and conservation of aquatic life from the fisheries management perspective.
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Mohamed, A.-R., & Abood, A. N. (2023). Evaluation of the inland fisheries in Basrah Province during 2020-2021, Iraq. AJARCDE (Asian Journal of Applied Research for Community Development and Empowerment), 7(2), 20-27. _URL_
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WNC FarmLink is a partnership facilitating successful relationships between farmers looking for land to farm, and land
owners aspiring to keep their farm and forest land in agriculture.
In partnership with NC FarmLink, WNC FarmLink maintains databases of both available farmland and farmers looking for land. We work with landowners and farmers to ensure an appropriate and lasting match is made. We will help guide you through considerations and assist you in locating the necessary resources you will need when negotiating a land tenure arrangement.
We envision a resilient agricultural region where farmers have affordable options for accessing farm and forest land to create sustainable farm operations, where landowners have viable opportunities for keeping their land in farming, and where agriculture continues to be an integral part of our economy, environment, and community in Western North Carolina.
Where we work:
This partnership began in April 2013 and we are continuing to develop our programming to be most effective in Western North Carolina. We are serving: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey.
Gaining access to high quality, affordable farmland is one of the most difficult obstacles for beginning farmers and expanding agricultural operations. The challenge is especially difficult for farmers that depend on being near North Carolina's economic growth centers—areas where land values remain strong even in the current economic climate.
As farmers retire and pass on the question of whether the land will be farmed or will remain available for local food production is a growing concern. And yet, there is a willing generation of young Americans that is motivated to farm, but they need land and few will be able to secure it without help. Since simply inheriting land and taking over the family farm business is not an option for many aspiring farmers as it once was, we must develop alternative paths to farm entry to meet the needs of this next generation of farmers. By connecting retiring farmers, absentee landowners, and heirs of farmers who may be unsure of what they should do with their land with the aspiring farmers who are eager to farm we can begin to address these challenges.
We are addressing these challenges by:
- Maintaining a list of people looking for farm ownership or lease opportunities, and people with land available. We contact those on the farm-seeker list as soon as we hear about available farm land.
- Working with community partners to create ways to keep farmland affordable for working farmers and land stewards
- Connecting farmers and land stewards with access to land, capital, knowledge and skills they need to establish viable land use agreements and sustainable farm operations.
- Assisting landowners and retiring producers with finding a farmer to lease, sell, or craft a land use agreement to farm or steward their land and keep it in active agricultural production.
- Answering the call for innovative and practical resource development and education for the long-term economic and environmental success of farming and land stewardship in the region.
- If you would like WNC FarmLink to come speak to your community group, provide an educational workshop on land access, or coordinate a farmer and landowner meet & greet in your community contact [email protected] to make it happen!
WNC FarmLink collaborative partners:
May 5, 2014 at 9:00 pm
So glad to have found the site. Just signed up and heading to NC this week to seek land. In this database, are there also connections to mentor-ship programs for starting up an apiary, connections to existing farms (nor for sale) to purchase or trade for materials such as livestock and nursery stock? New to NC and hope this network will give me and my partner a good foundation.
April 21, 2014 at 3:18 am
looking for mentorship and land, near Cullowhee, NC.
April 21, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Hi Kathryn! Check out our Farmland Seekers page and fill out an application to be included in our program and we'll do our best to help you in the land search.
December 10, 2013 at 2:46 am
Looking forward towards putting idle land into production in the 'Far West' of NC.
November 26, 2013 at 5:02 pm
What a wonderful program! – I'm so glad you are here!
I will get htis info to my clients & am looking forward to working on a project with you soon!


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I have two lists,
List A [Document Number, Name, Title,...] (document library)
List B [Information Number, Name, Title, Document Number] (simple list)
Now List B is getting all documents from List A as lookup column and letting user add documents name to List B specific Information Number, which can have 0, 1 or many documents.
I wonder what would be the best way to get all lookup fields values (document's name but no duplicates) that are associated with any Information Number item in a ascending order by Information Number.
For example:
List B,
 Item A - Document 1, Document 9, Document 3
 Item B - DOcument 2, Document 3, Document 4, Document 5
 Item C - Document 1, Document 5, Document 9, Document 0.8
Now the output I would like is something like this,
Document 1, Document 9, Document 3, Document 2, Document 4, Document 5, Document 0.8
Can I use CAML query or through C# code, and an example code would be appreciated.
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If you use a version of .net that support LINQ you can use the Distinct function after a conversion of your value:
var collectionWithDistinctElements = oldArray.Distinct().ToArray();
otherwise you can use the hast table
var list = new HashSet<string> { };
list.Add("a");
list.Add("a");
var countItems = list.Count(); //in this case countItems=1
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 - Your answer seems alright but I tried a different way to achieve what I wanted, thanks. Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 14:29
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I used SPQuery to get list items from both lists and then filtered the only ones I need. After I stored them in a List class and used IComparable class to sort them out accordingly.
Hope it helps if anyone else encountered same problem.
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 - maybe this way is slowest than use a hash table (I'm not pretty sure) Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 14:39
 - I had to perform some additional things to documents which I couldn't do with hashset :) but it comes down to requirements. Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 14:54
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#root).
 The domain must consist of physical
 disks to use the volmigrate command; it cannot contain LSM
 volumes. You must specify LSM simple or sliced disks
 (must contain an LSM private region). The command fails if
 you specify a nopriv disk. When migrating the cluster_root
 domain, the LSM volume must be created in the
 rootdg disk group. Therefore, all the disk media names
 you specify for this domain must belong to the rootdg disk
 group. The volmigrate command checks for this and returns
 an error if they do not. For any cluster domain, the
 disks you specify for the migration should be on a shared
 bus so that cluster members have access to the domain
 regardless of whether an individual cluster member is up
 or down. (If a clusterwide file system were on a member's
 private bus and if that member crashed, the remaining
 cluster members would not have access to that file system.)
 The volmigrate command checks that the disks are
 accessible by all cluster members, and returns an error if
 they are not.
 For example, in the following command, disk dsk0 is
 on a private bus on one node in the cluster, while
 disk dsk16 is on a private bus on another node in
 the cluster. Both disks are accessible only when
 both nodes are running. This is not recommended, as
 it creates an unbootable cluster_root domain. #
 volmigrate -m 2 cluster_root dsk0 dsk16 volmigrate:
 disks need to be accessible locally from at least
 one cluster member
 The following restrictions apply to volunmigrate: In a
 cluster, the partitions you specify for the domain to
 occupy after removal from the LSM volume should be on a
 shared bus so that cluster members have access to the
 domain regardless of whether an individual cluster member
 is up or down. (If a clusterwide file system were on a
 member's private bus and if that member crashed, the
 remaining cluster members would not have access to that
 file system.) The volunmigrate command checks that the
 specified partition meets this requirement, and returns an
 error if it does not.
 For example, in the following command, disk dsk0 is
 on a private bus on one node in the cluster, while
 dsk16 is on a private bus on another node in the
 cluster. Both disks are accessible only when both
 nodes are running. This is not recommended, because
 it creates an unbootable cluster_root domain. #
 volunmigrate cluster_root dsk0g dsk16g volunmigrate:
 disks need to be accessible locally from at
 least one cluster member
EXAMPLES [Toc] [Back]
 To migrate the cluster_root domain to an LSM volume with
 two mirrors, each of which is striped over four columns,
 enter: # volmigrate -m 2 -s 4 cluster_root dsk2 dsk4 dsk6
 dsk8 dsk10 dsk12 dsk14 dsk16 To migrate the tdmn domain to
 an LSM volume named temp_vol with two mirrors, enter: #
 volmigrate -m 2 -N temp_vol tdmn dsk4 dsk8 To migrate the
 cluster_root domain from an LSM volume to physical storage,
 enter: # volunmigrate cluster_root dsk5g dsk8g To
 migrate the cluster_var domain from an LSM volume to physical
 storage (dsk6h) that provides only 5% more space than
 the volume size, enter: # volunmigrate -f cluster_var
 dsk6h
FILES [Toc] [Back]
 Specifies the command path.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]

 Commands: hwmgr(8), volassist(8), voldisk(8), volencap(8),
 volprint(8)
 Cluster Installation, Logical Storage Manager
 volmigrate(8)
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stripe Tru64 Stripes a file across several volumes in an AdvFS domain.
volume Tru64 Performs Logical Storage Manager operations on volumes
volunroot Tru64 Remove Logical Storage Manager hooks for bootable volumes
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switchlog Tru64 moves an AdvFS file domain transaction log
advscan Tru64 Locates AdvFS volumes on disk devices
vgreduce HP-UX remove physical volumes from an LVM volume group
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Land of the Maori
RN Bush Telegraph's program flew across the Tasman this week to look at the agricultural side of New Zealand, a country that's both a close ally and a fierce competitor for Australia in world trade.
One interesting aspect is the role of the Indigenous people, the Maori, who own large amounts of land, some of it prime farming country and some of it rugged and mountainous.
They're trying to make themselves a more powerful force in NZ agriculture, by moving into industries as diverse as forestry, dairying and honey production.
Broadcaster Eru Rerekura gives us a snapshot of life in a bi-cultural society.
Jamie Tuuta, the chief executive of the Maori Trustee, explains its role in managing and protecting Maori land, while Traci Houpapa, chair of the Federation of Maori Authorities, explains the strategies to develop new primary industry for her people.


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How to Use a Photo As a Texture in Paint 3D
Using a photo as a texture in Microsoft's Paint 3D is a lot like using a sticker, only a custom one. You can use any type of texture, so long as it's highly visible in the photo -- brick, water, grass, etc. Once placed, you can maintain the texture by stretching it over your artwork, or you could paint over it and reduce the transparency to keep some elements of the texture while changing the color.
It's a versatile tool, so long as you know how to use it.
 2. Create a doodle, place a 3D object or add an item from the Remix 3D community
 3. In the top menu, click the Stickers icon.
 4. From the sidebar, select the folder icon on the far right.
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Language Word Boards -- for both Non-English and Non-Verbal Communication.
They come in 20 languages wheres one side is is for ackts a a body locator and the other side has wording. Their is also one in English that can be used to communicate with an English speaking person who cannot speak due to tubes, surgery or other reasons. And the 20 non-English boards will also provide non-verbal communication.


TRS Billing FAQs
How is the Interstate TRS Fund assessment calculated?
The assessment is calculated based on the 499-A data that is due to USAC by April 1st. There will be two separate transactions listed on the invoices starting in July 2020 due to the FCC Order 19-118 that initiated a second obligation to be calculated to help cover the Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IPCTS) costs. One obligation will be calculated based on the Interstate and International revenues (499-A form Line 514b) multiplied by the non-IPCTS approved rate and the second obligation will be calculated on the total TRS revenues (499-A form Line 514a) multiplied by the IPCTS approved rate.
What changes cause the assessment to be higher than in previous years, other than the amount reported on the 499-A form?
The assessment rate changes each year. Contemporary rate information can be found here.
Why do you use a portal for payment?
In December 2019, the Telecommunications Relay Service Fund account was moved inside of the United States Treasury. All payments must be initiated through the RL Pay Site. Through this portal:
 - Invoices are delivered faster than USPS can deliver it.
 - You have the flexibility to print your invoice whenever you like.
 - The time between receiving the TRS invoice and the due date are greatly expanded.
 - You can review unpaid and paid invoices.
 - All payments must be received by 3pm on the Thursday before the invoice is due to allow adequate processing time. Payments received after this, may result in the company being placed on Red Light Status.
 - The expense your company experiences (for the check stock, envelope, mailing, and handling costs) is reduced.
 - Copies of the invoice can be distributed more widely at reduced expense in less time.
 - RolkaLoube can quickly keep your contact information up to date.
What do I do if I forgot my portal password, or if I try to log in to the portal, and receive an "invalid login" message?
Use the "Forgot Password" option:
 - Select forgot password, and enter your email address associated with the portal account.
 - You will receive an email from the website with a link to reset your password. If you do not see the message within 60 minutes, please check your spam/junk folder.
 - If you are unsure of which email address is linked to your portal account, please contact requesting a password reset.
 - Once you reset your password, you will be able to log into the portal with the new password.
Why do we receive a notification from the TRS Fund that our invoice is available on the portal instead of receiving it via USPS?
RolkaLoube recognizes that your company may be used to receiving Interstate TRS Fund invoices through USPS. We have set up a modern electronic portal which will notify you via email when a new invoice has been posted to RL Pay. Please contact RolkaLoube if you need to discuss the delivery of invoices.
For payments authorized through the portal, what is the ACH information we would expect to see when clearing our account?
You will see the following information displayed on your banking statement: "TRS Payment Obligation."
I clicked to download my invoice and I am unable to find it.
Once you click "Download my Invoice," the invoice will be downloaded into your downloads folder on your computer. Please check your downloads folder on your computer once the processing flag has cleared, for a copy of your invoice.
What is the penalty for filing a late 499-A form?
All companies are subject to late filing sanctions regarding the Form 499-A, as it is a required filing regardless of de minimis status. If a TRS Fund contributor is more than 30 days late (i.e., delinquent) in filing a Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet ("Worksheet") Form 499-A, the Administrator may assess an administrative remedial charge for reasonable administrative expenses resulting from improper filing or failure to file, as well as interest on overdue contributions. The minimum administratively imposed remedial charge for failure to timely submit a Worksheet is $100. The Commission may also pursue enforcement action against delinquent contributors and late filers as well as assess costs for collection activities, in addition to those imposed by the Administrator.
What are my options for how my company is billed?
The fund offers annual billing or monthly billing. If your company's annual assessment is more than $1200, and your account has been in good standing, you will be sent a monthly invoice for 1/12 of your annual assessment. If your annual assessment is below $1200, or your account has not been in good standing, you will be invoiced for your full annual assessment.
If your company is being billed monthly and you wish to be billed the remaining amount for the year, you can request this change via an email to Companies who are being billed monthly and want to overpay are welcome to do so when making a payment through the portal. See the RL Pay User Guide for instructions on how to pay via the new portal.
We do understand that situations arise. Any other payment plans will need to be requested by submitting a payment plan request to Our accounting department will then review your account and respond with the options that you have for a payment plan.
How is the late payment fee determined?
The finance charge rate applicable to late payments is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) interest rate for underpayments for the calendar quarter beginning July 1st. The rate can be found on the IRS website,, or at 26 CFR _PHONE_-1. The minimum late payment penalty charged each month will be $1.00. There will be a $35.00 administrative charge per invoice for delinquencies that are 30 days overdue.
Our 499-A form was filed on time, but we have been assessed a late filing charge. Why?
As the Interstate TRS Fund administrator, RolkaLoube receives filing data from USAC. If we have assessed a late filing penalty, but your company's filing was timely, contact USAC to have them correct the data they have provided to us. RolkaLoube can only adjust your account after USAC corrects the data. USAC can be reached at _PHONE_ or
Where can I find FCC Form 499-A information
You can find Form 499-A information on USAC's website at
What are the payment options?
All payments must be initiated through the RL Pay billing and collections portal at Through the site, you can either pay online via credit card by selecting Pay Online Now, or set up an ACH debit or credit transfer from your bank by selecting the ACH option.
Can we send payment via check for our contribution payment?
We are no longer accepting check payments. For available payment options, see above, under payment options.
Can we pay by wire transfer?
Wire transfers are no longer accepted. For available payment options, see above, under payment options.
Where can I find a completed W9 for the Interstate TRS Fund?
Click here: Interstate TRS Fund W9 Form.
How can I contact USAC?
You can contact USAC at _PHONE_ or
Who do I contact if I have additional questions?
Questions can be directed to RolkaLoube's Customer Service Team at _PHONE_ Option #1, or
Are there costs that the NDBEDP will not cover?
Yes. Please see "Examples of Reimbursable Expenses" for a list of expenses that are reimbursable and those that are not.
Does the NDBEDP reimburse for the cost of cables, switches, clamps, and adaptive accessories necessary to use the distributed equipment?
Yes. The reasonable costs of cables, switches, clamps, and adaptive accessories will be reimbursed by the NDBEDP if they are necessary for the consumer to use the equipment distributed. Personal accessories that facilitate or enable other life functions are not reimbursable (e.g., a wheelchair to facilitate mobility).
Are the costs of alerting devices reimbursable?
Yes. The reasonable costs of alerting devices such as flashing lights are reimbursable when they are necessary to use the equipment distributed to make telecommunications, internet access, or advanced communications accessible to low-income individuals who are deaf-blind. Assistive lighting that is used separate and apart from the distributed equipment is not reimbursable.
Are the costs for batteries or upgrades reimbursable for equipment that was not distributed by the NDBEDP?
Yes. The NDBEDP will reimburse for batteries or upgrades on previously distributed equipment (hardware, software, applications, etc.) as long as these are reasonable and necessary to make telecommunications, internet access, or advanced communications accessible to low-income individuals who are deaf-blind.
When an equipment recipient moves to another state, which state certified program will be responsible for the upkeep of the equipment?
When an equipment recipient relocates to another state, the former state's certified program will no longer be responsible for upkeep of the recipient's equipment, nor will it be permitted to seek reimbursement for maintenance of such equipment no longer in use within the former state. In such cases, upon the request of the recipient, the former state must transfer the recipient's account and any control over the distributed equipment to the new state's certified program. The certified program in the state where the recipient relocates then will be responsible for the cost of upkeep of the distributed equipment. If the recipient needs new equipment after relocating, the recipient will be permitted to apply for such equipment in the new state.
Is there a searchable national database that certified programs can use to determine if program applicants have received NDBEDP equipment in another state?
With the start of the permanent program, the FCC was tasked with developing


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- The veins to be removed are anesthetized with local anesthesia
- A series of small punctures are made that follow the course of the marked veins.
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A new study by the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has uncovered a significant decline in the risk of birth defects amongst WA children born using Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).
The study, published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, showed a large decrease in the rate of birth defects between a similar Telethon Institute study carried out using data from the mid-90′s and that of the updated study which looked at a larger collection of data.
The more recent study, which included data up until 2002, showed the risk of birth defects amongst single babies born using Assisted Reproductive Technology in WA dropped from 10.9% between 1994 and 1998 to 7.5% in the four years following (_PHONE_), compared with a rate of 5.2% in the naturally conceived group.
Twins born via assisted pregnancies also showed a similar pattern of decreasing risk from the first time period to the second.
"Our study suggests an encouraging decline in major birth defect prevalence in children born as a result of assisted pregnancies in Western Australia," said Telethon Institute researcher Michele Hansen. "Changes to clinical practice may be largely responsible with improved culture media and better culture and storage conditions leading to the transfer of 'healthier' embryos.
"Whilst our study does still show that babies born using Assisted Reproductive Technology remain at a higher risk of birth defects, couples seeking to use these treatments can be reassured that the vast majority of infants are born healthy and do not have a birth defect." Ms Hansen said.
"We believe that providing parents with as much information as possible so that they can make informed decisions is important and we would encourage them to talk to their specialist about the prevalence of birth defects in ART pregnancies."
The Telethon Institute research team hope to continue monitoring birth defects to evaluate the impact of more recent changes to ART laboratory practice such as extended blastocyst culture and vitrification (rapid freezing of eggs and embryos).Date Created: October 5, 2012


All Manuals > LispWorks® User Guide and Reference Manual > 45 The SQL Package
accepts-n-syntax Function
Summary
Return whether a database connection accepts or requires the N syntax for non-ASCII strings.
Package
sql
Signature
accepts-n-syntax &key database => nil-t-required
Arguments
database
A database object (default *default-database*).
Values
nil-t-required
t, nil or :required.
Description
The function accepts-n-syntax returns nil-t-required to indicate the behavior of the N syntax for string literals in the database specified by database. (The N syntax prefixes a string literal by the character N.)
nil-t-required can be one of:
nil
the database will give an error.
t
the database accepts it but does not require it.
:required
the database requires it (at least in some cases).
Currently, Microsoft SQL Server (which can be used via ODBC) is the only supported database that requires the N syntax for non-ASCII strings. SQLite and Microsoft Access (via ODBC) give errors. The other supported databases accept the syntax but do not need it.
If you use the 23.5 Symbolic SQL syntax, then you can use the string pseudo-operator, which is described in 23.5.1.6 SQL string literals to obtain the correct syntax.
See also
23.5.1.6 SQL string literals
23.12.4 Using non-ASCII strings on Microsoft SQL Server
string-needs-n-prefix
string-prefix-with-n-if-needed
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It's a good idea to have all participants in your fitness and exercise programs complete this Medical Emergency Assessment Form before taking part.
- The form is especially important for clients who are seriously overweight or who have health issues such as asthma, allergies, or hypertension.
- Each participant provides personal information about their current state of health and medical history.
- Participants must also provide the name and phone number of their physician, persons to contact in case of emergency, and details of their medical insurance coverage.
Once you buy the form, you can download it, personalize it with your logo and contact information, and use it as and when needed.


[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Collections-ul.228.mcz
commits at source.squeak.org commits at source.squeak.org
Tue Dec 1 04:47:17 UTC 2009
Andreas Raab uploaded a new version of Collections to project The Trunk:
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==================== Summary ====================
Name: Collections-ul.228
Author: ul
Time: 1 December 2009, 4:28:09 am
UUID: f703f0eb-7da9-a44e-b2c4-ec682d060db8
Ancestors: Collections-ul.217
Part 1 of IdentityDictionary hash change.
Also removed previous postscript.
=============== Diff against Collections-ul.217 ===============
Item was changed:
 ----- Method: IdentityDictionary>>scanFor: (in category 'private') -----
 scanFor: anObject
 "Scan the key array for the first slot containing either a nil (indicating an empty slot) or an element that matches anObject. Answer the index of that slot or raise an error if no slot is found. This method will be overridden in various subclasses that have different interpretations for matching elements."

+ | index start |
+ CollectionRehashingUtility quickRehashBecause: #identityDictionaryScanForChanged.
+ index := start := anObject scaledIdentityHash \\ array size + 1.
- | index start hash |
- array size >= 8192
- ifTrue: [ hash := anObject identityHash * (array size // 4096) ]
- ifFalse: [ hash := anObject identityHash ].
- index := start := hash \\ array size + 1.
 [
 | element |
 ((element := array at: index) == nil or: [ element key == anObject ])
 ifTrue: [ ^index ].
 (index := index \\ array size + 1) = start ] whileFalse.
 self errorNoFreeSpace!
Item was changed:
 ----- Method: IdentityDictionary>>scanForEmptySlotFor: (in category 'private') -----
 scanForEmptySlotFor: anObject
 "Scan the key array for the first slot containing an empty slot (indicated by a nil). Answer the index of that slot. This method will be overridden in various subclasses that have different interpretations for matching elements."

+ | index start |
+ index := start := anObject scaledIdentityHash \\ array size + 1.
- | index start hash |
- array size >= 8192
- ifTrue: [ hash := anObject identityHash * (array size // 4096) ]
- ifFalse: [ hash := anObject identityHash ].
- index := start := hash \\ array size + 1.
 [
 (array at: index) ifNil: [ ^index ].
 (index := index \\ array size + 1) = start ] whileFalse.
 self errorNoFreeSpace!
Item was changed:
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