text: This study was carried out to determine the levels of various cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL-6, IL-8) and acute phase proteins (haptoglobin, C-reactive protein, serum amyloid A, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, lactoferrin, and fibrinogen) in pneumonic calves, to reveal changes in these parameters depending on etiologic factors (bacterial, viral, bacterial + viral) in calf pneumonia, and to determine whether these parameters could be used for diagnosis and prognosis of the disease. The study was carried out on a total of 50 calves consisting of 10 healthy and 40 pneumonic animals aged 1 to 6 months. The pneumonic calves were classified into three groups: bacterial, viral and mixed (bacterial + viral). It was found that the levels of IL-6, IL-8, CRP, and TNF-alpha were statistically higher in the pneumonic calves than in the control group animals. It was found that the increase in levels of Serum IL-6, IL-8, and CRP were highest in the mixed infection group (bacterial + viral) and lowest in the virally infected group. Similarly, serum levels of Hp, CRP, SAA, alpha-1-AGP, and LF were found to be more statistically significant (P <0.01) in the infected calves than in the control group animals, but changes in fibrinogen levels were not statistically significant. Although the TP and ALB levels in the pneumonic calves were numerically higher than the same parameters in the control group, this was not statistically significant (P> 0.05). As a result, this study showed that serum levels of cytokines (IL-6, IL-8, TNF-alpha) and serum concentrations of acute-phase proteins (Hp, CRP, SAA, alpha-1-AGP, and LF) are significantly higher in the pneumonic calves than in the control group calves. Furthermore, the assessment of cytokine and acute phase protein levels can play an important role in the early diagnosis of calf pneumonia. This early diagnosis can help prevent deaths caused by pneumonia, which is the leading cause of major losses, and can also be helpful in the early treatment of pneumonia in the veterinary clinical field.


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German Foreign Policy, _PHONE_ : A Guide to Current Research and Resources
Christoph Kimmich's German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945: A Guide to Current Research and Resources is a comprehensive guide to archival resources and published materials on the foreign policy of Weimar and Nazi Germany. It catalogues the archives, libraries, and research institutes, both public and private, that house important collections, especially in Germany but also elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, and describes their holdings, terms of access and use, and guides and inventories available.
German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945 also includes a substantial annotated bibliography of published sources, ranging from documentary series to significant contemporary accounts, from memoirs to secondary works. The bibliography reflects current scholarship and draws attention to works that are innovative and accessible, It also describes the various series of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Records and the original trial documents available in archives and libraries. The guide canvasses the vast and growing offering of materials on the Web– digitized print materials, archival inventories, and source materials. In order to expedite work in the archives, the guide also explains the organization and functioning of the German foreign ministry between 1918 and 1945 and how it kept and stored its records.
This third edition offers new information on German archives, many of which were consolidated and relocated after German reunification, on recently discovered archival holdings, and on materialsposted on the Web. It is a reference source for both established scholars and young researchers, offering quick and efficient access to the voluminous research and research materials that are now available.

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IT Sourcing: What is it and Why does it matter?
In today's world, fast changing technology and evolving business objectives had made it essential for companies that want to be competitive, to decide what services they can continue supporting internally, and what services to source externally.
All this by defining an IT sourcing strategy that allows them to leverage the benefits of sourcing (either onshore, offshore or nearshore) their processes and activities.
What exactly is a Sourcing in IT?
IT Sourcing is the process of choosing or procuring resources from a 3rd party, outside of the organization. Companies can choose from three available options to source: onshore (within their own country), nearshore (to a neighboring country or one in the same time zone), or offshore (to a distant country).
Why Should Companies define a Sourcing Strategy?
While traditionally sourcing was seen as a way to reduce costs, companies see it now more like an investment designed to enhance capabilities, increase agility and profitability, or gain them a competitive advantage.
Some of the other benefits are:
 - lower costs
 - increased efficiency
 - variable capacity and scalability
 - increased focus on strategy/core competencies
 - access to scarce skills or resources
 - increased flexibility to meet changing business and commercial conditions
 - lower ongoing investment in internal infrastructure
 - access to innovation, intellectual property, and thought leadership
Although in the past, seen only as a way to reduce cost, IT sourcing has become a tool for every business in the ongoing quest for talent and the business dynamics for specific skills, for differentiation and innovation.
Companies need to be clear on their goals and business needs for sourcing, and analyze the pros and cons for onshore, offshore and nearshore outsourcing, in terms of cost, maturity and required skills.
IT convergence can help you define an IT Sourcing Strategy, for more information on our services contact us here.


To all that previously contacted Measurement Canada in support of fair billing standards, your voice was heard. Measurement Canada has now made this matter a priority and is collaborating with EV industry stakeholders to ensure that EV billing is made transparent and fair for all EV drivers.
Public EV charging operators currently bill EV drivers on a time-basis (per-minute or per-hour), because Canadian metering rules were not designed with EV charging in mind. After hearing from EV drivers and enthusiasts across the country, like you, Measurement Canada is now working on a plan to develop metering standards to allow EV charging to be priced on the amount of energy received (kW per hour). Tesla will continue to monitor the development of the standard and may, from time to time, share news with those who have opted-in to our Tesla Policy mail list about any proposals that would negatively impact consumers and the transition to sustainable energy.
The current rules would require the utilization of a pre-approved and inspected utility-grade electricity meter, which would increase the costs of charging infrastructure, and therefore the cost to charge an EV.
While EV charging and pumping gas are entirely different experiences, the equivalent would be like paying for gas based on how long a customer is using the pump -- regardless of the amount of gasoline transferred to their vehicle. Similarly, it would be like paying for groceries based on the amount of time spent in the supermarket, rather than the products in your cart.
As you may know, EVs charge at different speeds for a variety of reasons:
Different cars charge at different rates on the same charging station
- Different vehicle models are equipped with different onboard chargers and have different charging capabilities.
- DC-fast charging speeds also depend on the vehicle's capabilities and other factors.
Identical cars on different charging stations may charge at different rates
- Two stations with identical per-minute billing but different power ratings will result in the same bill, for a different amount of energy delivered.
Two identical cars, on two identical charging stations may charge at different rates
- DC charging speeds depend on a battery's state of charge, battery temperature and ambient temperature.
- Some charging technologies use power management technology to reduce the flow of power to a vehicle in order to optimize for efficient use of the utility service connection. While this can be useful for charging operators, drivers often have no knowledge of power limiting or power-sharing capabilities. Such technologies are likely to become more commonplace, which is why per kWh billing is more appropriate.
Measurement Canada's role is to protect consumers by ensuring that they pay for what they're getting. However, the practice of time-based billing, which EV charging operators have had to adopt, does just the opposite. It lacks transparency, it undermines the principles of consumer protection, and it is unfair for EV drivers like you. The fairest and most transparent way to bill EV charging is based on the amount of energy received, measured in dollars per kilowatt hour ($/kWh).
Many EV owners and enthusiasts like you asked Measurement Canada to allow kWh-billing as early as possible, and:
 - Temporarily pause the current requirements for EV charging equipment to be registered and certified as electric (utility) meters, so that charging operators can bill their customers on a per-kWh basis.
 - Set a clear timeline to consult EV charging manufacturers, EV drivers, and other key stakeholders and develop measurement specifications for EV charging stations. As a consumer protection agency, engaging with EV drivers should be a top priority.
 - Exempt residential and workplace stations from metering specifications and give multi-unit building owners flexibility in how to set up billing for home charging in larger buildings.
Enabling kWh-billing for EV charging will provide more transparent pricing and ensure that EV drivers are not penalized for slower charging sessions. There is still a lot to be done, but we are pleased to learn that Measurement Canada has begun the process to implement new metering rules for EV charging technologies.
Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, and with your help, we are ensuring that all EV drivers feel confident that they're getting billed for the electricity they're really using. Thank you again for your advocacy efforts.
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Handbook 2:
Administering the Church
4.5 The Work of the Ward Council
Help Each Individual Progress
Members of the ward council do most of their work outside of ward council meetings. They work with their counselors and with home teachers, visiting teachers, and others in reaching out and ministering to those in their organizations and others who need assistance.
Ward council members strive to stay informed about the needs, well-being, and spiritual progress of members in their organizations. They also stay informed about members who face special challenges or changing circumstances. This information allows them to strengthen those who most need their help. At the same time, they respect individual and family privacy. Only the bishop deals with matters of personal worthiness.
The following resources can help ward council members be aware of the progress of members and investigators:
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 Reports on member participation, such as the ward's Quarterly Report. These reports are prepared by the ward clerk. They provide information about Church activity, ordinance status, and trends for individuals, age-groups, and the entire ward. In wards that use Church record-keeping software, the clerk can also provide other reports that have helpful information.
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 Reports from home teachers and visiting teachers.
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 New and Returning Member Progress form. Ward council members use this form to plan specific ways to teach and strengthen new members from the time of their baptism and confirmation until they receive the temple endowment. Ward council members may also use this form to plan how to help less-active members prepare to receive the ordinances that are appropriate for their age, including temple ordinances.
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 Progress Record. Full-time missionaries use this form to record each investigator's progress. Missionaries share this information with the ward mission leader, who shares it with the ward council.
Help Strengthen the Ward
Members of the ward council work together to build spiritual strength and unity in the ward. The ward council also oversees the planning of activities for the ward. Activities should be planned to fulfill gospel-centered purposes. For more information about activities, see chapter 13.


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When selecting pen refills, identify the pen manufacturer and model, check the size and shape of the existing ink cartridge, and find a refill that matches these characteristics. Check whether there are quantity and shipping promotions and buy refills in bulk to ease the process of procuring future refills.Continue Reading
Some pens can take standard refills while others require the refill cartridges specified by the manufacturer. To find the right refill, look for cartridges that have the same size and shape as the cartridge of your existing pen. Ensure that the identified refills are made for the type and model of your pen. Although a rollerball refill and a fountain pen refill may be from the same manufacturer, they may not require the same refill. Check the tip size of your pen, and ensure that the refill does not have a wider or narrower tip than the one you are used to.
If buying a refill online, pay attention to the refill color as computer screens may not show the color shade correctly. For example, blues and blue-blacks are easy to mistake. Check the listed characteristics to ensure you buy the refill you intended to get. Consider ordering refills with multiple colors and tip sizes to explore new ways of writing.Learn more about Office Supplies

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Real-time transport for assured forwarding: An architecture for both unicast and multicast applications
This paper presents a summary of our work on developing an architecture for transporting real-time traffic (MPEG4 video In this paper) In IP networks that provide service differentiation. We target our architecture at Assured Forwarding (AF) style services. This architecture assumes loss differentiation in the network and the network's ability to provide ECN messages to the sender. We did not consider policing/shaping at the edge routers. Rather we considered a more general case where marking and flow control are provided at the senders. For this network model, we developed a rate adaptation algorithm that can operate in both unicast and multicast applications with a minor modification. The simulation results presented in this paper represent the multicast case. The results show how the rate adaptation algorithm accommodates different receivers with different networking capabilities and provides them with different qualities by taking advantage of the queue management capabilities of the AF service. We also show the results of testing this architecture with different AF queuing mechanisms, namely RIO and WRED.
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Matrawy, A, & Lambadaris, I. (2003). Real-time transport for assured forwarding: An architecture for both unicast and multicast applications. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp. 1780–1785).


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Brand Reputation through Compliance
BRCGS Food is the UK BRC's flagship standard for food safety management. BRCGS stands for Brand Reputation Compliance Global Standards (BRCGS) | Food Safety
The BRC standard was first developed and published in 1998. Since then, it has been regularly updated in accordance with the latest knowledge and experience in the field of food safety. The eighth edition of the BRC Food standard is currently in force. The standard includes guidelines for producers to help them produce safe food and supervise the quality of products, in accordance with customer expectations.
The BRC Food certification used to assess food suppliers is recognized by many retailers, food service companies and manufacturers around the world. The BRC standard defines the requirements for production, processing and packaging: processed food, both own brand and customer brand, raw materials or ingredients intended for use by catering and catering companies and/or food producers, basic products such as fruit and vegetables, pet food.
BRC Packaging The Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials was created for suppliers of packaging and packaging materials for the food industry. Work on the standard was carried out by the British Retail Consortium and the Institute of Packaging.
The purpose of introducing the BRC Packaging standard was to make it easier for producers to adapt to both legal requirements and the requirements of retail chains that market products under their own brand, as well as to ensure that packaging and packaging materials are safe for users.
Today, this standard is the leading international standard used by retailers, manufacturers and the packaging industry around the world.
BRC Packaging contains requirements for the hygiene of the plant and production as well as the quality management system, which are to lead to the creation of a product that is safe and compliant with quality requirements.
The BRC Packaging certificate issued by the ISOQAR accredited certification body is an objective proof that your organization meets the requirements of the food safety management system addressed to the packaging industry.
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This paper examines through Marianne Hirsch's theory of postmemory and trauma two performance texts by Aboriginal Australian playwright and theatre director Wesley Enoch. This critical theoretical approach argues that in the absence of reliable historical records, the autobiographical structure of Black Medea (2007) and The 7 Stages of Grieving (1996) positions them as individual as well as collective postmemory and trauma accounts. The paper further argues that the use of silence, gestures, storytelling, and theatre serve as vital tools for documenting the generational continuum of the traumatic Aborigine experiences and the struggle in dealing with the inherited burden of intergenerational trauma.
Khalil, Rania M Rafik (2022). Aboriginal Australian Autobiographies of Postmemory and Trauma in Wesley Enoch's Black Medea and The 7 Stages of Grieving. Hermes Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Cairo University. (in print)


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Big data set from sensors is often subject to corruption and losses due to wireless medium of communication and presence of hardware inaccuracies in the nodes. For a WSN application to deduce an appropriate result, it is necessary that the data received is clean, accurate, and loss-less. However, effective detection and cleaning of sensor big data errors is a challenging issue demanding innovative solutions. For fast data error detection in big sensor data sets, in this paper, we develop a novel data error detection approach which exploits the full computation potential of cloud platform and the network feature of WSN. Firstly, a set of sensor data error types are classified and defined. Based on that classification, the network feature of a clustered WSN is introduced and analyzed to support fast error detection and location. Specifically, in our proposed approach, the error detection is based on the scale-free network topology and most of detection operations can be conducted in limited temporal or spatial data blocks instead of a whole big data set. Hence the detection and location process can be dramatically accelerated. Furthermore, the detection and location tasks can be distributed to cloud platform to fully exploit the computation power and massive storage. Through the experiment on our cloud computing platform of U-Cloud, it is demonstrated that our proposed approach can significantly reduce the time for error detection and location in big data sets generated by large scale sensor network systems with acceptable error detecting accuracy.
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Secondary Window Tools in Scribus
Scribus is designed so that the main window shows only the document you are designing. Other tools are positioned to secondary windows, where they have all the room they need for detailed settings. You may discover some of these secondary windows via menus and toolbars as you work, but not all. Consequently, it's worth taking the time to look at them, to ensure that you don't miss some useful tools.
The secondary Windows are available in the Windows menu, along with the usual list of open windows and the choice to cascade or tile them on the screen. They're listed more or less in order of the frequency that you are likely to use them:
The Properties window shows all the design details for the currently selected object or frame. Change the selection, and the Properties window also changes.The Properties window includes seven tabs: X, Y, Z for naming and positioning, Shape for the outline of the frame and how other text flows around it, Group for the outline of grouped objects, Text for font and spacing choices, Image for positioning and resolution, Line for how lines end and intersect, and Colors for object fill. Any tab inapplicable to the currently selected objected -- such as the Image tab for a text frame -- is grayed out and unavailable. You can also reach the Properties tab via an object's context menu, or by pressing F2.
Like the Navigator in LibreOffice, the Outline Window shows all of a document's pages and objects, and can be used to jump to them immediately. It is most useful in long documents, and when you replace the default names (like Text2) with names that meaningful to you.
The Scrapbook is a repository for items that you might want to reuse or don't yet have a place for in a document. You can have multiple scrapbooks (one for text and one for images is often useful), and drag objects on to a page as needed.
You can set the Scrapbook behavior from File -> Preferences -> Scrapbook. The options you can set are to have copied items moved automatically to the scrapbook, to retain copied items the next time you open Scribus, and the number of copied items to keep in any Scrapbook.
In complex documents, many designers prefer to work in layers, isolating elements from each other, then turning their visibility on and off to reduce clutter. Scribus' Layer window is a standard one that should be instantly familiar to anyone who has worked in another graphics or layout program. Along the bottom are tools for adding, deleting, and duplicating layers, as well as controls for moving the currently selected layer up and down the stack.
For each individual level, you can can also set whether it's visible, printable, locked to prevent changes, and -- somewhat less usual -- whether text in lower levels flows around it or whether it is shown as wireframe to speed its rendering. You can even assign each layer an associated color, if tht seems useful to you.
Arrange Pages
The Arrange Pages window has several functions. To start with, it shows what master pages are available and how pages are arranged in a two page spread, including whether the first page is a left or a right page (generally, you want the first page to be a right page, as you can tell by opening any book on hand). Second, it serves much the same purpose as the Outline window, allowing you to jump to a page by clicking it. Finally, you can apply a master page to an existing page or add a new page that uses a specific master page by dragging between the panes. You can also drag a master page or ordinary page to the trash can in the window to delete it.
Scribus assumes that one of your probable outputs will be PDF. Accordingly, you can right click on a text frame and select PDF Options -> PDF Bookmark to create a bookmark.
Even if you do not plan to output to PDF, setting text frames as a bookmark is another useful way to navigate your documents. Open the Bookmark window, and you have an alternative to the Outline window.
The Measurements window is a kind of moveable, high-powered ruler. When opened, it allow you to draw a temporary line from mouse-click to mouse-click on the document. The window shows the coordinates for the starting (X1, Y1) and ending points (X2, Y2), the length of the line along the X (DX) and Y (DY) axis, the angle of the line, and its length. When you close the window, the line disappears, but it displays the next time you open the window.
For many users, this is probably more information than is strictly necessary. However, the Measurement window can be useful when you are manually positioning objects and you need a quick measurement.
Action History
The Action History window shows each change to the document, and what page it occurred on. You can either undo an action by clicking on the previous item in the window, or else highlight an action and click the Undo button.
Preflight Verifier
Before you print, save, or export a document, run the Preflight Verifier to check for problems in the layout -- just set the output to a variety of PDF or to postscript, then read the report.
The window tells you such information as whether the document includes empty frames, low-resolution images, or text frames that are too small to display all the text assigned to them. Using the window, you can jump to the problem, correct it, then run the Preflight Verifier again to check that you have caught all the problems. It's really an invaluable tool, and worth making part of your general work flow.
Align and Distribute
The Align and Distribute window is an aid for repositioning frames and objects relative to each other. To use it, select either the Align tab to give objects a common alignment, or the Distribute tab to place objects out of alignment. Then set the criteria for repositioning: what the movements are relative to, and whether the alignment is to be done by changing position or size, and the type of alignment or distribution.
Although you may need to experiment with the settings to find the ones most useful to you --especially since the icons on each tab are practically useless without the mouseover help-- this window can be a practical alternative to aligning manually.
Picking and Choosing
Probably, few users will want all the available secondary windows. For instance, if you are accustomed to the Outline window, you probably have no interest in the Bookmarks window, and the other way around. Similarly, designers used to positioning objects with grids and guides may see little need of the Align and Distribute window.
Still, that's the point of Scribus' secondary windows -- to provide tools to accommodate a variety of different user preferences. Explore all of them, and you'll soon find out which ones suit you.
-- Bruce Byfield (nanday)
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Anonymous and bobsongs are both correct I was lazy and could have google'd the answer.
But my objective was to post a concise message that the author could understand.
I am a user who clearly has nothing invested in this type of software but was intriqued enough to read through it. If I had a simple 1 sentence description at the top of the article just like the one bobsongs posted from I would have been able to understand the unclear concepts the author was trying to demonstrate with out the need to google anything.
Thanks all.
You ask and shall receive.
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The answer to your question can be found here:
Bruce has written quite a few articles on the inner workings of Scribus, following the general introduction found by following the link above.
much time tinkering with gadgetry.
ughh what?
Ben's picture
No offense, but this article is completely useless to me. What is Scribus? One sentence at the top would do. Thanks.
R U Serious
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If you don't know what Scribus is, why didn't you just Google it? Quicker than writing a comment that demonstrates a high level of ignorance.
The Opposite of Help
Anonymous's picture
Is exactly what you did by insulting the new user...
It's probably wiser...
BobSongs's picture avoid insulting a person who asks a question, no matter how lame it is.
It's easy to point at lazy users who've grown accustomed to letting others do the thinking for them. We have a choice. Either we can rant like an angry dad, or we can point to the answer they're looking for.
I've seen too many forums where gurus post angry and impatient answers. They're disgusted that the general population is ignorant about their field of expertise. They quickly lose sight of their purpose in the forums and resort to rage.
If someone like "Ben" is willing to post such a question (and we all know he should have started with Google) who are we to use frustration in order to educate him?
R U Serious also?
Anonymous's picture
I used the word ignorance (not knowing) as opposed to stupidity (inability to understand, perhaps due to low IQ) so it can hardly be considered an insult.
Imagine taking the time to click through the links to an article with a name that would clearly mean nothing to the OP, then taking more time to read it, only to say "I don't understand it" at the end of the whole exercise.
In any case, I think the OP was only pulling our leg and was just commenting on the fact the the article didn't have an introductory paragraph leading into the body of the story. I can agree with that and perhaps the editor should have picked up on it.
But really, if we want to take the OP at his word and believe he didn't understand the


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Pub. date: 2010 | Online Pub. Date: November 23, 2010 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412959193 | Print ISBN: 9781412959186 | Online ISBN: 9781412959193| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Jankowski, Martin Sanchez: Islands in the Street
Kirsten Hutzell & Kelly Welch
American gangs have been long identified as troublesome and socially undesirable elements of society. Negative perceptions of gangs permeate the consciousness of members of the public, government officials, and media outlets. As such, Martin Sanchez Jankowski attempted to improve public understanding of gangs by examining uncharted territory with Islands in the Street, which offers a contemporary ethnography of juvenile gangs and represents a considerable departure from previous explorations of gang behavior. Winning "best book" awards from the American Sociological Association in 1992 and the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1993, Jankowski predicted that gangs were groups with different social organizational patterns rather than disorganized elements of society, which was an uncommon approach to the subject matter. As part of a 10-year field study, Jankowski immersed himself in the environment of 37 urban street gangs of varying size, ethnic composition, and purpose. Using informal interviews and participant...

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as System.Data.DataSet
Use the following declaration instead:
Dim custDataSet as DataSet
The next series of steps involve the creation of the SOAP Header class and the Customers class. The Customers class will contain all the exposed methods of the Web service. Both classes will be created within the Customers.asmx.vb file. The first class to create is a SOAP Header class called AuthHeader. This is used to accept a username, password, and an IsAuthenticated parameter from the client. These are later optionally validated within the GetCustomer method of the Customers class using the ValidateUser method. Here is the source code for this class.
Public Class AuthHeader
 Inherits SoapHeader
 ' These hold the values retrieved from the SOAP Header
 ' sent by the client.
 Private UsernameEx As String = Nothing
 Private PasswordEx As String = Nothing
 Private Authenticated As Boolean = False
 Public Sub New()
 MyBase.new()
 End Sub
 Public Property Username() As String
 Get
 Username = UsernameEx
 End Get
 Set(ByVal Value As String)
 UsernameEx = Value
 End Set
 End Property
 Public Property Password() As String
 Get
 Password = PasswordEx
 End Get
 Set(ByVal Value As String)
 PasswordEx = Value
 End Set
 End Property
 Public Property IsAuthenticated() As Boolean
 Get
 IsAuthenticated = Authenticated
 End Get
 Set(ByVal Value As Boolean)
 Authenticated = Value
 End Set
 End Property
 Public Sub ValidateUser( _
 Optional ByVal Role As String = Nothing)
 ' This method is basically used to
 ' validate the user name sent in the Soap
 ' Header for custom authentication
 ' implementation. If not validated, then the
 ' method throws a SoapHeaderException exception.
 If Not IsAuthenticated Then _
 Throw New SoapHeaderException( _
 "Only authenticated users can access " & _
 "the Web Service.", _
 SoapException.ClientFaultCode)
 ' Validate user and role.
 ' We can use whatever mechanism we want
 ' here to validate a user
 Select Case UCase(UsernameEx)
 Case UCase("Administrator")
 If Role Is Nothing Then Return
 Case Else
 ' This will allow anyone to access.
 ' However, here would be
 ' a good place to look up the user in
 ' a database or in the
 ' active directory.
 If Role Is Nothing Then Return
 End Select
 End Sub
End Class
Now, create the main Web service class by renaming the existing Service1 class to Customers. This class is already set to derive from System.Web.Services.WebService, which allows access to Application and Session state ASP.NET intrinsics.
Notice the auto-generated code that was produced in an area marked by the #Region directive (see listing below). This area should be left alone because it contains auto-generated methods required to initialize the Web service class so that it can support optional components in the Web services Designer exposed by Visual Studio .NET.
#Region " Web Services Designer Generated Code "
 Public Sub New()
 MyBase.New()
 ' This call is required by the Web Services Designer.
 InitializeComponent()
 End Sub
 ' Required by the Web Services Designer
 Private components As System.ComponentModel.Container
 ' NOTE: The following procedure is required by
 ' the Web Services Designer
 ' It can be modified using the Web Services Designer.
 ' Do not modify it using the code editor.
 <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()> _
 Private Sub InitializeComponent()
 components = New System.ComponentModel.Container()
 End Sub
 Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal _
 disposing As Boolean)
 End Sub
#End Region
Following the new class declaration but preceding the #Region directive, add a public class level variable and constant to hold an instance of the AuthHeader class and the database connect string to the Northwind SQL Server database.
Public AuthHeaderMemberVariable As AuthHeader
' This is the connect string for all database access.
Private Const DbConnString As String = _
 "data source=defiant;" & _
 "initial catalog=Northwind; " & _
 "persist security info=False;" & _ "user id=sa;"
Next, add the remaining methods to the Customer class directly beneath the #End Region directive. #Region directives allow users to specify blocks of code that can expand or collapse within the Visual Studio .NET IDE. These methods include all the methods found in the previous DCOM server example, such as Add, Delete, Update, and GetCustomer (see the table below).
Method Description
GetCustomer Optionally accepts the customer ID and returns either a specific customer record or all customer records in a System.Data.DataSet
Add Adds a new customer to the Northwind database
Delete Deletes only newly added customers from the Northwind database based on Customer ID
Update Updates the selected customer in the Northwind database based on Customer ID
Here is the source code for the remaining functions.
<WebMethod(Description:="Adds a new customer " & _
 "to the customer database", EnableSession:=False)> _
 Public Sub Add(ByVal customerID As String, _
 ByVal companyName As String, _
 ByVal contactName As String, _
 ByVal contactTitle As String, _
 ByVal address As String, _
 ByVal city As String, ByVal region As String, _
 ByVal postalCode As String, _
 ByVal country As String, _
 ByVal phone As String, ByVal fax As String)
 Dim SqlConnection As New _
 SqlConnection(DbConnString)
 ' Initialize variables
 customerID = UCase(Trim(customerID))
 companyName = Trim(companyName)
 contactName = Trim(contactName)
 contactTitle = Trim(contactTitle)
 address = Trim(address)
 city = Trim(city)
 region = Trim(region)
 postalCode = Trim(postalCode)
 country = Trim(country)
 phone = Trim(phone)
 fax = Trim(fax)
 ' This block creates the insert command and
 ' executes it.
 Try
 ' validate
 If Len(customerID) < 1 Then _
 Throw New ArgumentException("You must " & _
 "enter a Customer ID " & _
 "to Add customer info.", "customerID")
 ' Open the connection object
 SqlConnection.Open()
 ' Create the command object
 Dim AddCmd As New SqlCommand("INSERT " & _
 "INTO Customers(CustomerID," & _
 "CompanyName, ContactName, ContactTitle," & _
 "Address, City, Region, PostalCode, " & _
 "Country, Phone, Fax) VALUES " & _
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jeff p mutjida at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 20:32:49 EDT 2007
On 4/15/07, David Powers wrote:
> so... this is likely a question based on serious misunderstandings, but can
> anyone help me understand the exact mechanism by which monads enforce
> sequencing?
Monads do not enforce sequencing.
In general, data dependencies enforce sequencing (i.e. if expression x
depends upon expression y then expression y will have to be evaluated
first). Consider:
 let x = case y of Just y' -> f y'
 Nothing -> g
 y = some code
 in more stuff
Here y must be evaluated before x because x needs to look at y in
order to compute.
> Specifically, I'm confused by the >> operator. If I understand
> things properly f a >> g expands to something like:
> f >>= \_ -> g
> What I'm missing is how the expansion of f is ever forced under lazy
> evaluation. Since the result is never used, doesn't it just stay as a
> completely unevaluated thunk?
(>>=) is an overloaded function. Some instances of it will cause f to
be evaluated, others won't. Consider the State monad:
 instance Monad (State s) where
 m >>= k = State $ \s -> case runState m s of
 (a, s') -> runState (k a) s'
Note that (>>=) causes m to be evaluated (up to a pair) before
evaluating k because (>>=) needs to look at the result of m.
An example of a monad in which (>>=) doesn't force evaluation of the
first argument before the second is the Identity monad:
 instance Monad Identity where
 return a = Identity a
 m >>= k = k (runIdentity m)
Note that (>>=) actually forces the evaluation of k before m.
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As an attorney specializing in workers' compensation cases, I know that most seriously injured workers would agree that their accidents have had a catastrophic effect on their lives
They are in pain. Their paycheck has been reduced or stopped completely. They cannot get the insurance company to agree to pay for the MRI, the surgery or other medical treatment that they need to help them get better and back to work.
That is truly a catastrophe. But does it meet the legal definition of a catastrophic injury under the Georgia workers' compensation law? Even if it does, what difference does that make?
It can make a huge difference as far as the protection and benefits provided to someone who has been injured at work.
Why is a catastrophic designation important?
Our workers' compensation laws in Georgia have been watered down by insurance companies. Becuase of that, they often provide very little protection for injured workers. Here are just a few examples:
- In Georgia, an insurance company can sometimes stop your weekly workers' compensation check with just a note from the doctor saying you can return to work without restrictions. You might have to wait months without a check and go to a hearing before your workers' compensation benefits are restarted.
- After a certain period of time, an insurance company can reduce your weekly workers' compensation check (for example from $500 to $334) if the doctor has released you to light work. They file what is called a Form WC-104. This can happen even if your employer has no light work and cannot find work within your restrictions.
- If you return to work and work more than two years without receiving a workers' compensation check and then your injury worsens without a new accident, you may never be able to draw a workers' compensation check again – even if you are in a wheelchair.
- You can normally only draw a check for a maximum of 350 to 400 weeks from when you were injured, even if your work injury still prevents you from going back to work after that time.
- If you were injured after 7/1/13, the insurance company can stop paying for medical treatment 400 weeks after your injury.
How a Catastrophic Designation Can Help You?
With all these cards in the deck stacked against injured workers, it is good to know that there is at least one card in your favor. That card is catastrophic injury.
In Georgia, if your workers' compensation injury is declared catastrophic, then many of the bad laws mentioned above no longer apply to you. For example:
- You would be allowed to be paid your temporary total disability benefits (lost wages) as long as you were in fact unable to work, even if it was more than 400 weeks since your work injury.
- Your workers' compensation check could not be reduced just because your doctor said you were able to do some sort of light work unless there was actually a light duty job to do.
- You would also be given a rehabilitation person to work with you and help you get better and try to find a new career or job that you were able to do with the limitations from your injury.
- You could continue getting medical treatment more than 400 weeks after your injury
How do I qualify for a catastrophic designation?
So now that you know how important it can be to get your Georgia work injury designated as catastrophic, the next question is how do you get a catastrophic designation. I discuss that in this article.
If you have other questions, just complete the "Need Help" form on the right side of this page to schedule a free consultation with me.


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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth centurya city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets.
Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as pizzarelli, while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. 97 Orchard charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.
About the Author
Jane Ziegelman is the director of the Tenement Museum's culinary center and the founder and director of Kids Cook!, a multiethnic cooking program for children. Her writing on food has appeared in numerous publications, and she is the coauthor of Foie Gras: A Passion. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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When trying to upload an aerial image taken with a drone, you may encounter the error shown in the following screenshot:
Reduce Image Resolution
Normally, this error message is shown if the size of the file you're trying to upload is too large for our system to use. Many drones take photographs in 4K or even 8K resolution, but if you are able to change this setting, saving the image at 1080p resolution will often reduce the file size enough to allow you to upload the photo, while still retaining more than enough image quality to sketch the roof accurately.
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Another possible solution to this problem is to open the image file in an image editing software that allows you to crop photos, and crop out any unnecessary areas of the image, such as neighbors' houses or land that doesn't include outbuildings. By cropping the photo, you'll also be reducing the file size.


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Boot Island and the narrow channel that separates it from the mainland near Evangeline Beach has many attractions for nature lovers and naturalists. The island is a nesting site for cormorants, gulls and Blue Herons and was once a major roost for thousands of crows. In the channel, which is known locally as "the guzzle," are remnants of ancient forests some four to five thousand years old.
Boot Island is also of interest to people who delve in local history. As mentioned before in this column, several families have farmed the Boot over the last 150 years. The best known may be the Leon Card family.
According to Marion Schofield, David and Abigail Hutchinson farmed on Boot Island prior to 1870. David and Abigail ran a sheep farm, one of several that may have been on the island over the years.
One of the tales circulating about Boot Island is that a commercial fox farm was once located there. Gordon Hansford remembers hearing about the fox farm when he was growing up in Wolfville. Hansford told me that Leon Card may have been associated with the farm in some capacity, perhaps as manager or overseer.
While looking for information on the fox farm I checked the Kirkconnell Room at Acadia University, the Courthouse Museum in Kentville and several books on local history. Several; people that I talked with remembered there was a "fox ranch" on the Boot but I couldn't paper evidence of its existence.
Then came a discovery by Avon port resident Lolita Crosby: Documentation that a Boot Island fox farm had once been in operation and was a commercial enterprise incorporated under the Nova Scotia Companies Act.
In her late parent's papers Ms. Crosby discovered a share certificate for the"Bout Island Fox Company." The certificate had been issued to her uncle Emerson Coldwell and is dated December 3, 1914. The certificate reads in part: This certifies that Emerson Coldwell is the owner of 30 shares of the Capital Stock of the Bout Island Fox Company Limited. The document uses the old spelling for Boot Island, which in various historical documents has also been spelled Boute and Beaute.
Besides providing proof that Boot Island was once the site of a fox farm, the certificate offers valuable clues to its period of operation. The date of incorporation is given, which was March 25, 1912; from the date of the shares issued to Emerson Coldwell, we can see that the Fox Company was in operation for at least two years.
A prominent Valley figure, the historical writer and researcher John Frederick Herbin, has his signature on the certificate; Herbin was secretary-treasurer of the Company and signing as president was R. W. (or R. N) Ford.
The Boot Island Fox Company began operation with authorized capital of $100,000, no mean sum by turn-of-the-century dollar standards. The question now is how long was the Company in operation and what happened to it?


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The SI derived unit for amount-of-substance concentration is the mole/cubic meter.
1 mole/cubic meter is equal to _PHONE_ nanomole/litre, or 1 millimolar.
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Use this page to learn how to convert between nanomoles/liter and millimolar.
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The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.
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The three medium-bright stars of Orion's Belt point to reddish Aldebaran. Image Credit: SolarEmpireUK
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Amateur astronomers use star hopping to go from stars and constellations they know … to ones they don't know yet. First, look for noticeable patterns on the sky's dome. One very easy pattern to find at this time of year is the constellation Orion the Hunter. You'll find it descending in the west after sunset. Orion is easy to find because it contains a very noticeable pattern of three medium-bright stars in a short straight row. These stars represent Orion's Belt.
If you can find Orion, you can use it to star hop to Sirius, the sky's brightest star, in the constellation Canis Major. Orion and Sirius are dropping into the sun's glare at this time of year, so be sure to look for them soon after the sun goes down.
You can also use Orion's Belt to find the star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus, as shown on the chart above right.
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In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging "disappearing" Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not. Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront "the Negro problem" in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropology's different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the field's different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Baker tells how anthropology has both responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated (and misappropriated) to wildly different ends.
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Preface: Questions ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift 33 2. Fabricating the Authentic and the Politics of the Real 66 3. Race, Relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's Ill-fated Bid for Prominence 117 4. The Cult of Franz Boas and His "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race 156 Notes 221 Works Cited 235 Index 265
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@article{Jiang_Zhang_2013, title={A Social Force Model for Adjusting Sensing Ranges in Multiple Sensing Agent Systems}, volume={32}, url={_URL_ abstractNote={In previous work of multiple sensing agent systems (MSASs), they mainly adjust the sensing ranges of agents by centralized heuristics; and the whole adjustment process is controlled in centralized manner. However, such method may not fit for the characteristics of MSASs where the agents are distributed and decide their activities autonomously. To solve such problem, this paper introduces the social force model for adjusting the sensing ranges of multiple sensing agents, which can make the agents adjust their sensing ranges autonomously according to their social forces to other agents and the sensing objects. Based on the social force model, the coverage and optimization models are presented for both point-type and area-type objects. The presented model can produce appropriate social forces among the sensing agents and objects in MSASs; thereby the system observability and lifetime can be improved.}, number={1}, journal={COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS}, author={Jiang, Jiuchuan and Zhang, Yungui}, year={2013}, month={Mar.}, pages={89–112} }


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Shown here is a sample of Fiscal Services and associated sub-functions. Typically, human services agencies have fairly complex fiscal systems. This particularly relates to revenues that often come from multiple government and private funders and through numerous insurance and other payers reimbursing services related costs. Additionally, these multiple funding sources frequently require separate reporting processes and audit procedures.
· Oversee budgeting and fiscal planning, including developing and monitoring SSIs budget, planning for future agency requirements, and projecting future resources and expenses. Additionally, separate funders normally require budgets and financial projections related to their particular funds or grants. Beyond these needs, budgeting and fiscal planning activities are reflected in annual reports, promotional materials, development materials, and numerous other SSI documents and processes.
· Oversee and manage receivable and payable activities, including accessing and tracking grant and other external funding streams, billing appropriate payers for agency services, paying agency expenses, managing payroll and taxes, tracking use of credit cards and other staff generated expenses, and managing audits and required documentation and reporting for all fiscal activities.
· Develop processes for and manage cost accounting including development and management of strategies and processes to track and measure the cost of providing services. SSI tracks and accounts for all of its resources on a complete, detailed, and continuous basis, including knowing the cost of each aspect of its operation.
As is the case with Administrative Services, Fiscal Services are transparent to SSI clients and visitors, and generally transparent to SSI staff. Like any other well-managed secondary function, Fiscal Services support and sustain the primary Service Function without interference or calling attention to itself. The internal SSI eco system functions smoothly and quietly. Anything less than efficient, effective Fiscal Services represents noise or static disrupting the quiet functioning of the SSI eco system. It would be but another example of the negative energy discussed in Chapter Four. As noted there, the agency eco system is relatively fragile and its tolerance for static and negative energy is quite low.
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Most adaptations to French Properties would require a permission known as a Permis de Construire. It is something in between Planning Permission and Building Regulation Drawings as in the British system.
Such an application would involve a set of drawings which would normally be a prelude to the information required for instructing builders. These drawings require the building to be measured and drawn with the desired modifications worked out with the owner.


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|What does it mean
To fast is to do without food. Its purpose is to experience the effects of not eating. It also serves to be a penance or a sacrifice - for the purpose of strengthening us. When we don't eat, for even a little while, we get hungry. When we get hungry, we have a heightened sense of awareness. If, when we eat too much, we have a sluggish feeling, when we fast, we have a feeling of alertness. Fasting is a wonderful exercise whenever we want to sincerely ask for an important grace from God. It is not that our fasting "earns" God's attention, but by fasting, we clarify our thinking and our feeling. It is purifying and prepares us to pray more deeply.
When do I fast?
Catholics, as a group, are required to fast on only two days of the year - Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On these days, fasting means something very specific and limited. It means that one eats only one full meal in a day, with no food in-between meals. It is understood that two other meals, if one eats three meals a day, should not total one full meal. One might fast in a more complete way, i.e., eating only a portion of a single meal.
Of course, anyone is free to fast at any time that it is helpful for their prayer and reflection. It is not recommended that anyone with impaired health should fast in any way. It is also important to note that everyone who fasts should drink enough fluids on a fast day.
What does it mean to "abstain"?
To abstain is to not eat meat. Its purpose is to be an act of penance - an act of sacrifice, that helps us grow in freedom to make much bigger sacrifices. Of course, it would not make sense to make the sacrifice of not eating meat, and then eat a wonderful meal I might enjoy even more. Many people eat a vegetarian diet, for a variety of reasons, and eating meat is not even an issue. It might be possible to abstain from a non-meal that I really like, on all the Fridays of Lent. It should be noted that many people in this world cannot afford to eat meat or do not have access to it. Part of our abstaining from meat can place us in solidarity with so many of our sisters and brothers around the world.
Our "Cooking Lent" site has lots of helps for preparing meatless meals with great devotion: Cooking Lent.
When do I abstain?
Catholics, as a group, abstain from meat on
Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent.
What about "giving up something" for Lent?
When many of us were children, we might remember our giving up candy for Lent. And, it seemed like a real sacrifice. As we grew up, it was often more difficult to decide what special thing to do, to make Lent a special season - to get our attention and to prepare ourselves for deeper sacrifices.
What would help me grow in freedom? That's the question to ask. For some of us, it could be, committing ourselves to give up judging others, every single day of Lent. For others, it could be giving up a bad habit we've developed. For still others, it is obvious what seems to be the important choice for me during Lent.
For many of us, the choice may not be to give something up, but to add something to our daily lives during Lent. We may commit ourselves to extra prayer time. We may decide to do some service to the poor, once a week during Lent. We may choose to increase our almsgiving to the poor - perhaps related to something we choose not to do, e.g., some might choose not to go out to eat one night a week, and to give that total amount to the poor.
Whether it is fasting, abstaining or other
acts of penance, the whole desire we should have is to use these means
to help us grow closer to our Lord and prepare ourselves "to celebrate
the paschal mystery with minds and hearts renewed." (First
Preface of Lent)
May our Lord bless us all on this journey ahead.
and Abstinence for Catholics in the U.S.
During Lent, Catholics in the United States abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent. They fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
To abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent means to not eat meat on those days. It does not intend the omission of eggs or dairy products.
The required fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday involves eating only one full meal on those days. One or two smaller meals may be taken on those days, but may not total one full meal. The required fast does not allow eating anything between meals.
"All Catholics who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence; all adults are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of their sixtieth year.
Nevertheless, pastors and parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound by the law of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of penance."
- Code of Canon Law, #1252


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Miseno, Cape (mēzĕˈnō) [key], S Italy, at the northwest end of the Bay of Naples. Augustus founded (1st cent. B.C.) a naval station ( Misenum ) there, which was destroyed by the Arabs (9th cent. A.D.). Remaining are ruins of the imperial villa, baths, a theater, and a reservoir.
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PowerMock Part 2
In JayView 17 we presented a short introduction to PowerMock, a framework that allows you to create automated tests for almost any code in isolation from its environment. In this article we'll dig a bit deeper into PowerMock and explore the goals and more of its feature set.
Background
PowerMock is intended for developers who want to unit test code in isolation from its environment. The environment may be for example other classes or
objects, other systems such as a database or a file-system. To isolate the unit you
can use a technique called mocking. Mocks let you record and verify behavior
according to your needs in order to get a deterministic behavior when executing
your test, for example provide a certain return value. A similar technique is stubs
that simply remove functionality and you don't care about the return value.
Why?
There already exists frameworks that provide both mocks and stubs, so why
create another one? First of all PowerMock is not a new framework built from
scratch, instead it extends existing mock frameworks such as EasyMock and
Mockito. In most cases these frameworks are still sufficient. However, there are
cases when more power is needed!
To be able to use mock objects your code needs to be designed in a way that
makes it possible to replace collaborators, for example by using the Dependency
Injection pattern. Most often this is a good thing, but sometimes it leads to more
complexity and a more complicated production code that is more difficult to
understand. Another problem is legacy code which is seldom designed with unit
testing in mind. When trying to introduce Dependency Injection you are often
forced to perform a gigantic refactoring touching almost every class. Depending
on how brave you are this can either be a problem or an opportunity.
Another common situation is when there is some initialization routine in your
code or some third party library that does something that prevents you from
unit testing your code. This can both be a constructor or a static initializer. For
example, did you know that an interface can have a static initializer? This means
that just implementing an interface can execute code beyond your control!
Goals
Since there are many good mock frameworks out there already we think that
instead of creating something entirely new we want to reuse the API's that
people already use and extend them with more capabilities. This means that
PowerMock consists of extension APIs to other popular mock frameworks.
EasyMock was the first API that we supported since we have been using it a lot.
In version 1.1 we also have some basic support for Mockito and we have serious
plans for a JMock extension. PowerMock is fully extendable and you can create
an extension on your own as well.
A key goal of PowerMock is to allow you to unit test your code without having to
think about the testability aspects. We would of course never encourage you to
write inflexible code that is hard to maintain, but we leave the design decisions
up to you and not to the technical limitations of a test or mock framework.
Another important goal is that PowerMock should be just another jar file. As a
user you should not have to care how PowerMock does its magic. You just put it
in your classpath and then you're good to go. You don't need to install any IDE
plugin, change the JVM settings or mess with your build environment.
When to use it
Using a 3rd party or legacy framework
 - Sometimes communication with a particular framework is done through
 static methods (for example Java ME). PowerMock allows you to setup
 expectations for these static methods and simulate the behavior you need
 to test.
 - Other frameworks require you to subclass classes that contain static
 initializers or constructors doing something that prevents you from unit-
 testing your code in isolation. PowerMock allows you to remove static
 initializers and suppress constructors. It also allows you to mock classes
 inside a signed jar files even though a class is package-private.
Design
 - You really want to enforce the fact that some methods are private. PowerMock allows mocking and testing of both private and final methods..
 - You want to read or write private state from your test without adding unnecessary methods to the production code that are used only for test purposes.
 - In some cases you want to create a new instance of an object in your production code but still be able to replace this instance with a mock object from your test.
Examples
All examples in this article are written with the EasyMock extension API.
The examples are written in a way that easily demonstrates the capabilities of
PowerMock and are sometimes very naive. In the examples both the code being
tested and the actual test are completely pointless and is not a recommended
way of coding! The reason why we use such examples is of course that code that
typically need PowerMock is often quite complex and it would be hard to focus
on what we are trying to demonstrate.
When writing tests with PowerMock you basically always need to supply
two annotations at the class-level of your test as you will see in the examples
below. The first is the RunWith annotation which tells JUnit to run the test
with a specific JUnit runner. In PowerMock's case you always specify the
PowerMockRunner, i.e. @RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class). This is what
bootstraps the entire PowerMock framework and this is how you can see that
a test is using PowerMock. The PowerMockRunner initializes PowerMock's
classloader which starts to load all classes relevant for your particular test. Some
of these classes need to be prepared in order to allow for testability. These are
the classes that you wish to mock, for example those containing final or static
methods. You supply these classes to the @PrepareForTest annotation. What
PowerMock does then is to modify the byte-code of these classes at run-time so
that they become testable. Let's look at a couple of examples to clear things up.
Mocking final classes or methods
Imagine writing a unit test for this fictive class:
public class SomeService {
 private final SomeDao someDao;
 public SomeService(SomeDao someDao) {
 this.someDao = someDao;
 }
 public String getFormattedData() {
 String data = "Data is missing";
 final String actualData = someDao.getData();
 if (actualData != null) {
 data = actualData;
 }
 return data;
 }
}
For those of you who are used to unit testing it doesn't look like any problems
at first since it's easy to inject a mock implementation of the SomeDao class to
an instance of the SomeService at construction since it's using the Dependency
Injection pattern. But let's look at the actual implementation of the SomeDao
class.
public final class SomeDao extends JdbcDaoSupport {
 public final String getData() {
 /* Query a database for data,
 this is not something we want to do in a unit test */
 getJdbcTemplate().queryForObject("some sql", String.class);
 }
}
As you may see this class communicates with a database which is typically
something we want to avoid in a unit test. The problem is that both the class
and the method is final so we wouldn't be able to mock this class with standard
EasyMock. But PowerMock makes this possible using the standard EasyMock
syntax:
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(SomeDao.class)
public class SomeServiceTest {
 @Test
 public void returnedValueIsActualData() throws Exception {
 final String expectedData = "data";
 // We use PowerMock.createMock(..) to create
 // the mock object since it's final.
 SomeDao someDaoMock = createMock(SomeDao.class);
 expect(someDaoMock.getState()).andReturn(expectedData);
 replayAll();
 SomeService tested = new SomeService(someDaoMock);
 final String actualData = tested.getFormattedData();
 verifyAll();
 assertEquals(expectedData, actualData);
 }
}
Looking closely you may see that we're using the replayAll() and verifyAll()
methods of the PowerMock API. These methods will replay and verify all mocks
created by PowerMock so that you don't have to keep track of them yourself.
Of course PowerMock provides the standard replay(..) and verify(..) methods as
well if you'd rather want to use those.
Mocking and testing private methods
Sometimes you may want to enforce encapsulation and use private methods.
There's a debate going on on whether one should test private methods by
themselves or not but we'll leave that decision up to you. Mocking a method
of the class being tested is known as partial mocking. PowerMock lets you do
partial mocking and also invoke private methods during a test. Let's say we have
the following class:
public class DataService {
 public boolean replaceData(final String dataId,
 final byte[] binaryData) {
 // ...do something... then
 return modifyData(dataId, binaryData);
 }
 public boolean deleteData(final


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What happens if you drink coffee during periods?
Drinking too much of coffee during those days might lead to dehydration. This is because, coffee contains caffeine, which is diuretic in nature. It not only increases the urine production but also contributes to cramps leading to dehydration. If you suffer from dehydration, it can trigger a headache. Moreover, coffee also wreaks havoc with the hormones. It restricts blood vessels, increases anxiety and also heightens cortisol, which further exacerbatesÂ the menstrual symptoms.Â Here are few home remedies to beat pain during your periods.
How much is too much?
Drinking a cup or two of coffee in a day is not a cause for concern. However, if you are the one who needsÂ a cuppa every 2 – 3 hours or drink more than 4 cups of coffee in a day, then you need to cut it down. Instead, replace coffee with green tea, which is known to ease abdominal pain during periods.Â But if you can't think of starting the day without taking a sip of coffee, thenÂ beware that the symptoms of menstruation might become worse as it does more harm than good. Hence, think twice before you drink coffee during periods. Also read about things you should eat during periods to make life easier.
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