JavaScript: From First Steps to Professional
Quiz Project isCorrect Solution
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Anjana walks through the solution to TODO number five of declaring an isCorrect(guess) function that compares the given argument string to the previously defined fact's answer string.
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>> The next thing we wanted to do was declare a function called isCorrect, which more generally is gonna take in a guess string and then it's going to compare that to the answer that you had in your fact object. So let us take a look at that one.
[00:00:20]
OJ, do you wanna walk me through what you did for this one?
>> Sure, I have const isCorrect = A.
>> Equals, sorry.
>> I just have an answer, I just have a value.
>> Okay so isCorrect and then maybe like the correct answer, like maybe-
>> It probably it should be something you're feeding in from the-
[00:00:44]
>> Yeah, so what we wanna be able to do is use this function to pass in a guess that somebody made, which we'll get later. But what I wanna be able to do is call, like this, I wanna be able to call the function on a guess, let's say, so you had a fact where the answer is true.
[00:01:06]
I want it so that if I say isCorrect(false), then this whole thing should return false, because your answer in your fact was true. So this is basically like we're comparing a given guess to the correct answer. So let's work it out together. So let's make this instead of a literal value, let's make it a function.
[00:01:40]
And maybe just for sake of variety, let's use the function keyword instead of our arrows. So let's walk through how we would do that. We could start with the function keyword, then I wanna name the function isCorrect. So I'm gonna type isCorrect. Now I want the parameters to be defined.
[00:02:00]
How do I define what the parameters of this function are gonna be? I see hands going like this. Params and we can give our guests a name. I might call it guess, you could call it guessString. You could call it guessValue. You could call it maybeWrongThing, whatever you want.
[00:02:19]
[LAUGH] Why don't we call it just guess for shortness. And then how do I do the body of the function?
>> Curly braces.
>> Curly braces, beautiful. And in this function, I do wanna return a value. So, I want to return the truth value of whether or not the guess matches the answer in my fact.
[00:02:44]
>> So it's a guess, === fact.answer.TextContent.
>> Fact, so what is fact.answer here?
>> That's the answer to the question that I created above.
>> So fact up here is this object, and so fact.answer is what kind of thing?
>> A boolean.
>> Right, so text content is a property that exists on elements in our DOM tree, booleans themselves, that is the whole value.
[00:03:13]
So it's not gonna have text content. So we want to just actually compare it to the answer, the fact.answer. So we're actually almost done. There's one thing missing.
>> Return.
>> Return. Okay, so now we're gonna take in the guess, and it's going to compare it to fact.answer.
[00:03:34]
We can test this out. Let's go back, reload our page to get our updated code, and I should now have an isCorrect function. Great, I have a function called that and it takes in a guess parameter. And now if I say isCorrect, and my guess is true, then that's right cuz the answer to this question, Arrays are like objects, is true.
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Yeah, but if I were to call it on false, that's wrong. Okay, so we're gonna use this to judge the person's answer later once we figure out how to capture their answer once they click on a button. We're gonna use our isCorrect function to decide whether they were correct or not.
[00:04:20]
And then we're gonna do what we did in our earlier pop quiz, we're gonna color the button based on whether they were correct or not. So if I were to say true to this, that comes out with the red color to show that it's incorrect, cool? So later we're gonna use this function in our project.
[00:04:46]
All right, any questions at this point about functions? We've done a lot. We've covered a lot of ground. We've talked about functions. We've talked about how they have parameters, they have arguments, they have return values. We've talked about how to declare them with the function keyword. We've talked about how to declare them with fat arrows.
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UENO Hikoma 上野 彦馬 (_PHONE_) Nagasaki. A historic figure in early Japanese photography, one of Japan's first professional photographers.
Son of UENO Shunnojo (_PHONE_), a merchant who imported the first (a Daguerreotype) camera into Japan (via Dejima, a small island off Nagasaki) and presented it to the Shimazu clan.
Studied Chinese classics and studied chemistry at a Dutch institute headed by a Dutch physician named Julius L.C. Pompe van Meerdervoort. Hikoma learned photography from him and P. Rossier, a French photographer.
In 1862, Hikoma co-wrote (together with HORIE Kuwajiro) three volumes of a textbook called "Seimikyoku Hikkei," a science handbook. Later that year, he opened his photo studio in Nagasaki. It was not that successful since the Japanese thought that illness or death would result from being photographed. It was also expensive. However, the studio eventually became well-established and popular with foreigners.
He has taken many portraits of samurai (including the most famous portrait of SAKAMOTO Ryoma, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration) and foreigners and landscape. Also opened branch studios in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Mentor to many students who went on to become prominent photographers.
Sample photos Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Trasimen lake
Trasimeno views from the Fattoria Palombaro
The Fattoria Palombaro is one of the most beautiful gems in the Umbrian region, and especially in the western area of Lake Trasimeno. Monte del Lago is an ancient village, inhabited in the past by Etruscans and Romans, on a natural promontory into Lake Trasimeno. The name derives from the Latin Mons Fontegianus, but during Medieval times the locality was called simply "Monte". Monte del Lago was fortified in the XIV century, and during the Papal domination became the administrative centre for the products from the lake, probably thanks to its position.
Monte del Lago was the birthplace in 1854 of Guido Pompilj, a brilliant and far-sighted politician who among other things was President of the Province of Umbria and Under-Secretary of State. It is to Guido Pompilj's great credit that he saved Lake Trasimeno from being drained, fighting to free the entire area from malaria and creating a Reclamation Consortium of which Giovanni Palombaro, Luca's grandfather, was President. He commissioned an album from Florentine photographers "Fratelli Alinari" to document his work, and thus opened up the whole basin to tourism.
A great scholar, writer and orator, he married the poet Vittoria Aganoor and lived with her at Monte del Lago during the decade of the Belle époque, always at the centre of cultural, diplomatic and court circles.
The area immediately around it, with its soft hills adorned with olive-groves and woods facing onto the lake, is still unspoilt and enchanting partly thanks to the Palombaro family, who in these 100 years have preserved it from overbuilding and intensive agriculture.
Here, the ancient olive trees of the Fattoria Palombaro, enjoy the microclimate, the uncontaminated nature and the famous sunsets of the Trasimeno and produce the olives that make the high quality of the extravirgin olive oil Umbro Luca Palombaro possible.
In this photographic gallery we are proud to show you our land.


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Executing and Running Applications and Files from Delphi Code
Executing and Running Applications and Files from Delphi Code
How many times have you wanted to execute some program from your Delphi application?
Let's say we have a database application that uses some external backup utility. The back up utility takes parameters from your application, archives data, while your program waits until backup finishes.
On the other hand, have you ever needed to open documents presented in a file listbox, just by double clicking on them, without opening the associated program first?
Finally, imagine a link-label in your program that will take the user to your home page (by executing the Internet Explorer). Moreover, what do you say about sending an e-mail directly from your Delphi application through default Windows e-mail client program (like MS Outlook Express).
ShellExecute
To launch an application or execute a file in Win32 environment we will use the ShellExecute Windows API function.
Check out the help on ShellExecute for full description of parameters and error codes returned.
As you will see we can open any type of document from our program without knowing which program is associated with it (this link is defined in the Windows Registry).
Let's see some shell action!
Be sure to add ShellApi to your Unit's uses clause.
Run Notepad
uses ShellApi;
...
ShellExecute(Handle, 'open', 'c:\Windows\notepad.exe', nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
Open SomeText.txt with Notepad
ShellExecute(Handle,'open', 'c:\windows\notepad.exe','c:\SomeText.txt', nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
Display the contents of the "DelphiDownload" folder
ShellExecute(Handle,'open', 'c:\DelphiDownload', nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
Execute a file according to its extension.
ShellExecute(Handle, 'open', 'c:\MyDocuments\Letter.doc',nil,nil,SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
Open web site or a *.htm file with the default web explorer
ShellExecute(Handle, 'open', '_URL_',nil,nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
Send an e-mail with the subject and the message body
var em_subject, em_body, em_mail : string;
begin
em_subject := 'This is the subject line';
em_body := 'Message body text goes here';
em_mail := '_EMAIL_?subject=' +
em_subject + '&body=' + em_body ;
ShellExecute(Handle,'open',
PChar(em_mail), nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
end;
Execute a program and wait until it has finished. The following example uses the ShellExecuteEx API function.
// Execute the Windows Calculator and pop up
// a message when the Calc is terminated.
uses ShellApi;
...
var
SEInfo: TShellExecuteInfo;
ExitCode: DWORD;
ExecuteFile, ParamString, StartInString: string;
begin
ExecuteFile:='c:\Windows\Calc.exe';
FillChar(SEInfo, SizeOf(SEInfo), 0) ;
SEInfo.cbSize := SizeOf(TShellExecuteInfo) ;
with SEInfo do begin
fMask := SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
Wnd := Application.Handle;
lpFile := PChar(ExecuteFile) ;
{
ParamString can contain the
application parameters.
}
// lpParameters := PChar(ParamString) ;
{
StartInString specifies the
name of the working directory.
If ommited, the current directory is used.
}
// lpDirectory := PChar(StartInString) ;
nShow := SW_SHOWNORMAL;
end;
if ShellExecuteEx(@SEInfo) then begin
repeat
Application.ProcessMessages;
GetExitCodeProcess(SEInfo.hProcess, ExitCode) ;
until (ExitCode <> STILL_ACTIVE) or
Application.Terminated;
ShowMessage('Calculator terminated') ;
end
else ShowMessage('Error starting Calc!') ;
end;
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Experimental Validation of an Elastic Registration Algorithm for Ultrasound Images
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Ultrasound is a favorable tool for intra-operative surgical guidance due to its fast imaging speed and non-invasive nature. However, deformations of the anatomy caused by breathing, heartbeat, and movement of the patient make it difficult to track the location of anatomical landmarks during intra-operative ultrasound-guided interventions. While elastic registration can be used to compensate for image misalignment, its adaptation for clinical use has only been gradual due to the lack of standardized guidelines to quantify the performance of different registration techniques. Evaluation of elastic registration algorithms is a difficult task since the point to point correspondence between images is usually unknown. This poses a major challenge in the validation of non-rigid registration techniques for performance comparisons. Current validation guidelines for non-rigid registration algorithms exist for the comparison of techniques for magnetic resonance images of the brain. These frameworks provide users with standardized brain datasets and performance measures based on brain region alignment, intensity differences between images, and inverse consistency of transformations. These metrics may not all be suitable for ultrasound registration algorithms due to the different properties of the imaging modalities. Furthermore, other metrics are required for validating the registration performance on different anatomical images with large deformations such as the liver. This work presents a validation framework dedicated for ultrasound elastic registration algorithms. Quantitative validation metrics are evaluated for ultrasound images. These include a simulation technique to measure registration accuracy, a segmentation algorithm to extract anatomical landmarks to measure feature overlap, and a technique to measure the alignment of images using similarity metrics. An extensive study of an ultrasound temporal registration algorithm is conducted using the proposed validation framework. Experiments are performed on a large database of 2D and 3D US images of the carotid artery and the liver to assess the performance of this algorithm. In addition, two graphical user interfaces which integrate the image registration and segmentation techniques have been developed to visualize the performance of these algorithms on ultrasound images captured in real time. In the future, these interfaces may be used to enhance ultrasound examination.

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6 of the most colourful buildings in the world
Bright colours are not always popular with architects.
From modern glass skyscrapers, to solid stone medieval fortresses, to the brown-grey tower blocks of the 1960s and 1970s, vivid colour schemes have frequently been considered too visually arresting for the constructions that make up our day to day.
But when primary colours do get to shine, they tend to really stand out. These are among the world's brightest buildings, from museums and mosques to an island off the Neapolitan coast…
1. Pena Palace, Portugal
Painted with blocks of bright, vivid colour, rather than patterns or lines, Pena Palace opts for visual impact over complexity, shining like a beacon above the Portuguese city of Sintra. With bright yellow sides, blue battlements and foundations, brick-red ramparts and towers, and rich purple gatehouse, the palace is a bizarre blend of architectural styles ranging from Moorish to Gothic.
Easily seen from Lisbon on a clear day, the palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has been used by the Portuguese president for state occasions.
2. Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, Iran
A small-ish facade with faded paintwork is perfectly pretty, but it's the inside of the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque that wins it most of its plaudits. Rays of stained glass windows line the main prayer hall, splashing rainbows of light across floor and walls, that form different colours and patterns as the day goes on. The building is nicknamed 'The Pink Mosque', but we think a more kaleidoscopic epithet would be equally appropriate.
3. Biomuseo, Panama
Legendary American architect Frank Gehry could monopolise this list all on his own, but we're limiting him to his Panamanian project the Biomuseo, the first and only Latin American design from the mind behind the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
A museum of natural history on the shores of Panama City, the design is signature Gehry: vibrantly-coloured interlocking canopies topping an angular interior, that twists and turns through eight distinct galleries.
4. Procida Island, Italy
None of the buildings on the Procida Island waterfront would be particularly special on their own, but together they make up a pastel patchwork that would put Elmer the Elephant to shame. It's not the only Italian town to span the spectrum (Cinque Terra and Positano spring to mind), but it is surely among the most photogenic, as the buildings tumble down the cliffs to the shoreline, rimmed by the blue of the sea and the blue of the sky.
5. St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
Legend has it that aptly-named Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible had the architects of St Basil's Cathedral blinded, so that they might never build something so beautiful for anybody else. We sincerely hope the story is apocryphal, but there's no denying the spell-binding beauty of St Basil's, the onion-domed centrepiece of Moscow's Red Square.
Colourful constructions were all the rage in Russia during the early-modern period, and St Basil's dazzles with sheets of red, white and gold tin, and well-preserved green and blue ceramic.
6. Casa Batllo, Spain
Antoni Gaudi is almost synonymous with Barcelona, and although his best-known creation remains the magnificent, technically-still-not-completed Sagrada Familia, the Casa Batllo is probably his most visually vibrant.
With a reflective, purply-blue roof that sparkles in the Catalonian sun, and walls spattered with what looks suspiciously like glitter, you have to squint to look at downtown house-turned-museum even in a relatively dull day.
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Indigenous Trees You Can Plant to Celebrate America
How are you going to celebrate America on the Fourth of July? While we're sure that many of you will fire up the grill and take the kids to the pool, nature lovers will know that this holiday weekend could also be the perfect time to do a little gardening.
And we aren't just talking about flower beds and topiaries. The home gardeners should not neglect to plant an array of aesthetically pleasing trees.
Trees not only make your home look more substantial, but they also support the plant life that grows around them. And the perfect way to both expand the foliage of your yard and celebrate the birth of America might be by choosing from the many trees that are indigenous to our land.
According to Audobon, native plant life can better serve the ecosystem that they're grown in and "once established, native plants generally require little maintenance"; a win-win for homeowners who are looking to plant indigenous trees.
We've created a list of our favorite indigenous trees that will really make any house shine. Known for the best tree care in Portland Oregon, we're the experts when it comes to trees, so take a look and consider adding one of these to your landscape.
The Red Alder (Alnus rubra)
The red alder tree is a deciduous big leaf tree and is one of the largest species of alder in North America. For the bird lover, pine siskin and redpoll eat the seeds of red alders and the growth is relatively low maintenance. Red Alder is also an excellent soil enricher. Plant your red alder seeds in full sun and prune for structure when it's still young.
Cascara (Rhamnus purshiana)
Cascaras have simple, oval-shaped leaves and are perfect for small yards. Cascara can be described as both a small tree or a large bush, though some have been known to grow as high as 30 feet. Cascara can provide excellent shade for an exposed yard and bloom small greenish-white flowers come May. The flowers sprout berries, which are perfect for birds.
Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
Beautiful in the fall, Pacific Dogwoods have deep green leaves with an oval shape and are found in partly shaded places. They are what is known as understory trees. When the Pacific Dogwood flowers, its blooms are tiny.
If you want your Pacific Dogwood to thrive, find a shady spot where the tree's trunk will be shaded from the sun. And while this tree is mostly low-maintenance, you will need to regularly rake the leaves around the Pacific Dogwood to prevent anthracnose.
Wildlife love Pacific Dogwoods and sapsuckers, woodpeckers, white-crowned sparrow, and other birds use these trees for both food and shelter.
Willamette Valley Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Pine trees are both aromatic and festive come winter. The Willamette Valley Ponderosa is best for a home with lots of land, seeing as how these mature trees can grow as high as 150 feet or more. A Willamette Valley Ponderosa Pine needs plenty of weed-free space to grow to a two to three feet radius within its first three years.
Drought-resistant and best suited for well-drained soil, a Willamette Valley Ponderosa Pine can be a beautiful addition to any yard. However, if you're unsure about your tree care Portland Oregon, a local tree service can better explain the pros and cons of this plant.
Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)
The Vine Maple is a small deciduous tree that really does shine in the fall. Though a Vine Maple might not be as tall as some of the other trees on this list, it can grow quickly to a height of 10-15 feet.
These are the perfect trees for gardeners who want a little more artistry on their lawns. Vine Maples have malleable trunks that can be bent into pleasing shapes or trained as a tree with a single trunk.
Vine Maples are particularly hearty, requiring little water, but need shade to really thrive. A Vine Maple does not do well in extreme heat, so keep that in mind come summer.
Oregon Crabapple (Malus fusca)
The Oregon Crabapple is a good choice for a medium-sized yard. The Oregon Crabapple has fragrant blossoms in spring and the fruit from this tree could bring finches and cedar waxwings to your yard. The best place to plant an Oregon Crabapple is in a wet area with clay soil.
Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
The Pacific Madrone has beautiful glossy leaves that bloom to white flowers with red fruit; they are stunners once the flowers blossom. Pacific Madrone is also known for its cinnamon-colored bark and are a landscape enthusiasts dream.
Plant these trees in partial sun with well-drained soil, but keep in mind that they can't be transferred. So pick a spot to plant them that you can really commit to.
Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata)
While the name is sweet, the fruit that the Bitter Cherry tree bears is not for humans to eat. A Bitter Cherry tree may grow as tall as 30 feet, or stay small and shrub-like. The flowers these trees bloom are white and aromatically pleasing. Each flower has an almost almond-like scent. These trees thrive in sunny spots that have moist soil.
Now that we've given you many indigenous tree options to plant near your home, which one will you choose? At Mr. Tree, we are the best in tree care Portland Oregon and are happy to help you decide what to plant on your lawn.
Our tree care professionals have both technical knowledge and an artistic eye, so why not give us a call for a consultation? Whether you need a tree removed, pruned, trimmed, or shaped, our professional arborists will be happy to take care of all your tree care needs.


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Avoiding False Alarms Due To Chemical Fogging
Some of the reputed industries spray chemical fog for prevention of mosquitoes. In such cases the installed fire detection & alarm system within the factory/plant/warehouse, detects the smoke and indicates the smoke alarm on panel. The respective area hooter cum strobes start sounding the alarm/alert.
What is a chemical fog?
Chemical fog is an obscuring haze of dust or smoke.
FINDINGS OF ALARM:
During chemical fogging, the Beam detectors installed above 7mtr elevation height and smoke detector (multi-sensor) installed below 7mtr elevation height detects alarm on main fire alarm panel.
Beam Detector: Smoke cuts the IR rays between Transceivers & Reflector or between transmitter and receiver, which indicates the alarm condition on main fire alarm panel.
Multi sensor detector: Once smoke enters the detector, the multi sensor detector consisting of optical smoke and thermistor temperature sensors which gives a combined signal (Smoke & heat), also separate signal of heat detection to main control panel.
To resolve such issues below listed options can be useful:
- Disarm the Particular loop or zone for entire duration of fogging. This disarm can be preprogramed or scheduled based on timer, so there is no need to Arm-Disarm the system manually on daily basis. This would avoid generating any false alarm or main alarm during fogging in the plant/factory. But the main drawback is that during this period if any accidental FIRE occurs, then it will not raise the Alarm on fire alarm panel.
- Use the Video Based Smoke & Fire Detector (VSFD) cameras which can be installed in low level height tentatively at 3 to 4mtr from floor. The camera can detect the smoke & fire as well as it can be useful for regular CCTV monitoring of focused area. How does it distinguish Flame & Smoke?
- Open Area Smoke Imaging Detector (OSID) utilizes an extensive technology designed for open areas in factory or warehouses where smoke & fire detection present unique challenges. Detector consists of two wavelength detection technics, by using duel wavelengths of light to detect the particles of smoke/dust/fog. The system has ability to distinguish by size of the particle, like longer Infrared (IR) wavelength is affected mostly by large size only, however shorter Ultraviolet (UV) wavelength interacts strongly with both size (small & large). Both wavelength path loss measurements allow OSID to give repeatable smoke obscuration, while dismissing the availability of dust as well as solid obstacles.
OSID is deemed to be a viable solution comprising of an Imager and seven numbers of emitters, which will replace the originally installed detection system. It delivers confirmed results, including unsurpassed resistance to reflections, condensation, dust, fog, steam and other obstacles like flying pigeon, also high tolerance to vibrations and any movement.
BENEFITS OF VSFD OVER OSID:
- VSFD price is 3 times higher than OSID detector.
- OSID can be integrate with any existing installed FDAS system with help of addressable monitor module, for VSFD monitor module and recording server controller or Video Management Server software need to install in any one workstation within the site.
BENEFITS OF VSFD OVER OSID:
- VSFD mounting is very easy & at accessable height, no need to mount at roof height level like OSID.
- Because of low mounting height the detection will be quicker than OSID


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Trends in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Contraceptives
CitationWu, Min. 2016. Trends in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Contraceptives. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Medical School.
AbstractObjective: Despite much speculation about the role of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in increasing demand for prescription contraceptives in the United States, there is little published research on this topic. We sought to quantify the prevalence and magnitude of DTCA for prescription contraceptives over the last decade.
Methods: Using cross-sectional data from January 2005 through December 2014, we performed descriptive analyses on trends in DTCA expenditure for prescription contraceptives. We quantified the amount of DTCA by contraceptive method category and individual brand.
Results: During the study period, pharmaceutical companies spent a total of $1.57 billion in the United States on DTCA of prescription contraceptives. Annual expenditure for contraceptive DTCA reached a peak of $260 million in 2008, with a progressive decline to a nadir of $69 million by 2013. Of the contraceptive methods, oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) have been the most heavily promoted, with Yaz – the most advertised brand – accounting for $347 million of DTCA expenditure. However, DTCA spending on OCPs peaked in 2007 and was overtaken in 2012 by the DTCA of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), the method now receiving the largest amount of DTCA promotion.
Conclusions: Direct-to-consumer advertising is a major form of promotion for prescription contraceptives. Recent trends in DTCA expenditure indicate a shift from promotion of the OCPs to the LARCs. Direct-to-consumer advertising's effect on provider and patient utilization of various contraceptive methods has yet to be determined.
Citable link to this pagehttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:40620273


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Connecting a DVD player
The following illustration shows how to
connect a DVD player.
It is not necessary to connect all the cables.
Connect audio and video cords according to
the jacks of your components.
A Coaxial digital cord (not supplied)
B Audio cord (not supplied)
C Component video cord (not supplied)
D Video cord (not supplied)
To input multi channel digital audio from the DVD
player, set the digital audio output setting on the
DVD player. Refer to the operating instructions
supplied with the DVD player.
- All the digital audio jacks are compatible with
32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, and 96 kHz sampling
- The COMPONENT VIDEO COMPO 2 IN jacks
have been assigned to the DVD player. If you
connect your DVD player to the COMPONENT
VIDEO COMPO 1 or COMPONENT VIDEO
COMPO 3 IN jacks, set "Input Assign" in the Input


buech: Buech basin
Description Usage Format Details Source Examples
Description
This data set contains informations about Buech basin characteristics.
Usage
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Format
buech is a list with the following components:
tab1
a data frame with 10 environmental variables collected on 31 sites in Juin (1984)
tab2
a data frame with 10 environmental variables collected on 31 sites in September (1984)
xy
a data frame with the coordinates of the sites
neig
an object of class neig
contour
a data frame for background map
nb
the neighbouring graph between sites, object of the class nb
Spatial
an object of the class SpatialPolygons of sp, containing the map
Details
Variables of buech$tab1 and buech$tab2 are the following ones:
pH ; Conductivity (μ S/cm) ; Carbonate (water hardness (mg/l CaCO3)) ; hardness (total water hardness (mg/l CaCO3)) ; Bicarbonate (alcalinity (mg/l HCO3-)) ; Chloride (alcalinity (mg/l Cl-)) ; Suspens (particles in suspension (mg/l)) ; Organic (organic particles (mg/l)) ; Nitrate (nitrate rate (mg/l NO3-)) ; Ammonia (amoniac rate (mg/l NH4-))
Source
Vespini, F. (1985) Contribution à l'étude hydrobiologique du Buech, rivière non aménagée de Haute-Provence. Thèse de troisième cycle, Université de Provence.
Vespini, F., Légier, P. and Champeau, A. (1987) Ecologie d'une rivière non aménagée des Alpes du Sud : Le Buëch (France) I. Evolution longitudinale des descripteurs physiques et chimiques. Annales de Limnologie, 23, 151–164.
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data(buech)
if(adegraphicsLoaded()) {
 if(requireNamespace("sp", quietly = TRUE)) {
 g1 <- s.label(buech$xy, Sp = buech$Spatial, nb = buech$nb,
 pSp.col = "transparent", plot = FALSE)
 g2 <- s.value(buech$xy, buech$tab2$Suspens - buech$tab1$Suspens,
 Sp = buech$Spatial, nb = buech$nb, pSp.col = "transparent", plot = FALSE)
 G <- cbindADEg(g1, g2, plot = TRUE)
 }
} else {
 par(mfrow = c(1,2))
 s.label(buech$xy, contour = buech$contour, neig = buech$neig)
 s.value(buech$xy, buech$tab2$Suspens - buech$tab1$Suspens,
 contour = buech$contour, neig = buech$neig, csi = 3)
 par(mfrow = c(1,1))
}
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Linear Mass Density Problem
 1. Mar 2, 2005 #1
 I'm having a hard time with this.
 A long thin rod lies along the x-axis. One end is at x=2.00 m and the other at x=3.00 m. Its linear mass density λ = 0.300 x2+ 0.500, in kg/m. Calculate mass of the rod.
 Can anybody help?
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 3. Mar 2, 2005 #2
 I take it you mean [itex]\lambda =.300x^2 +.500[/itex]?
 Note that
 [tex]m = \int_{x_1}^{x_2}\lambda(x) dx[/tex].
 4. Mar 2, 2005 #3
 But then how would I find the center of mass?
 5. Mar 2, 2005 #4
 The center of mass is just the weighted average of the density. You really should be able to look these formulas up on your own, or memorize them.
 [tex]x_{CM}= \frac{1}{m}\int_{x_1}^{x_2} x \lambda(x) dx[/tex]
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- Brace, cast, or splint: These are supportive devices to stop your child's kneecap from moving and help it heal. They often extend from the groin to the ankle. He may also need to use crutches to help him move around while his knee heals.
- Irrigation and debridement: This procedure is done to clean and remove objects, dirt, or dead tissue from the fracture area.
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MBTA Aquarium Station Modernization (Central Artery C17B1)
Blue Line station modernization, incorporating 150-foot section of Central Artery directly above platform extension. New entrances, top-down construction.
The Aquarium Station modernization included extension of existing platforms to accommodate six-car trains, construction of a new west entrance, and reconstruction of the existing east entrance. The project scope included incorporation of a 150-foot-long section of the Central Artery Tunnel (CA/T). Use of the Central Artery viaduct during construction required installation of an underpinning system and demolition of the existing foundations. Service was maintained on the Blue Line, Central Artery, and surface roads throughout construction. The section of the CA/T constructed directly above the MBTA platform extensions used Soldier Pile Tremie Concrete (SPTC) walls and steel transfer girders to span the platforms. Work proceeded in phases, with the west mezzanine built first, using top-down construction. The east entrance was then demolished and replaced, using traditional "cut-and-cover" construction.
The site is a major intersection of surface roads and pedestrian routes. The historic State Street Block (SSB) building is adjacent to the 65-foot-deep excavation for the new west entrance. The use of top-down construction mitigated the effects of construction on vehicular and pedestrian traffic and on the SSB building. Impact of deep excavation on the SSB building was further reduced by the use of T-panels. The stem of the "T" was composed of a temporary steel truss, increasing wall stiffness. The project was designed to accommodate the future North-South Rail Link project, a railroad tunnel that will connect Boston's North and South Stations.
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Some of these rules include, making sure the soil is rich and ready for crops to grow, having clean water for plants and animals, and having the right mechanics like coolers for instance, to keep items chilled to the right temperature.
It is important that these farms continue production, not only for the employees of the farm but, also the residents of Vermont. Being able to possess locally grown products is beneficial for both the state and environment within the state.
"It's about supporting a viable and vibrant and cultural sector of farmland and farming. Economic development benefits so more jobs and more revenue, environmental benefits and tourist benefits with agriculture", said Vermont Agency of Agriculture Business Development Section Chief Chelsea Lewis.
Overall, it is fairly expensive to run and own a farm. Some farmers face the fear of not being able to afford all that is needed to run a farm. According to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture farmers can apply for grants that allows farmer to continue to have an active farm.
"So we have about 8 or 9 different grant programs and all of them have different eligibility criteria, the ones that go directly to farmers are clean water and then there's the working working lance enterprise program. Those are the 2 main areas of grants that goes directly to farmers or another that can go to a group of farmers. A farmer cooperative could apply or an individual farmer could apply to do research which would benefit a group of farmers", said Chelsea Lewis.
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Challenges of Personal Health Data Protection in the Era of Cloud Computing: A Comparative Legal Analysis
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The Taiwanese government has recently promoted the adoption of cloud services in its government agencies since the Executive Yuan approved its "Cloud Computing Industrial Development Plan" in 2010. Among the twelve government's proposed cloud service schemes, the "Health Cloud Project", which has been initiated and funded by the Ministry of Health and Welfare since 2015, aims at applying cloud computing techniques to the National Health Insurance Database to help improve health care delivery. By analyzing the Taipei High Administrative Court's judgments, this paper argues that whether the National Health Insurance Bureau is entitled to release its national health insurance data to third parties for the purpose of secondary use is not without controversy. It further pinpoints that in addition to recognizing information autonomy, which has been proposed by the Grand Justices' constitutional interpretation, as well as considering the legislative purpose of the revision of the Personal Data Protection Act in Taiwan, there is a need to re-evaluate the challenges that cloud computing techniques could have brought to the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Act. This paper adopts a comparative legal perspective to analyze different rules and governance frameworks implemented by the EU, the UK, and the US in their various definitions of personal data and the regulation of risks associated with applying cloud computing techniques to personal data. It plans to reflect an adequate way to address the balance of individual privacy and public interest, especially the protection of personal and information autonomy that the government in Taiwan shall take into consideration for its cloud computing application.


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ETX assumes that radios have a fixed transmit speed, and that congestion is not a factor. Neither assumption is very realistic: variable speed radios are now pervasive, and congestion might well be a factor in ad-hoc networks with sizable user bases. ETX also assumes that delivery rates are the same regardless of packet size, which is probably inaccurate (e.g. ACKs are small and take less time to transfer).
I was surprised that the paper spent so much time comparing ETX with min-hop-count metrics: it seems quite straightforward that min-hop-count would fair pretty poorly in an ad-hoc wireless network. In that sense, performance comparisons between ETX and min-hop-count are also not that informative: of course ETX will beat min-hop-count, because the latter is simply a terrible choice for this environment. It seems surprising that min-hop-count is truly the best example of prior work they could measure against — why not compare with the naive "maximize product of per-link delivery ratio" scheme, for example?
I didn't get that much out of this paper: the RoofNet paper already summarizes an improved version of the ETX metric. Because the ETX evaluation compares it with such a pessimal alternative (min-hop-count), I didn't get much out of the evaluation in this paper.
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"Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks"
Most of the papers we've read on improving congestion behavior have an "incremental" flavor: they begin with traditional TCP and router behavior, and then suggest a conservative change that addresses some particular problem (e.g. slow start, better RTO estimation, fast retransmit, fair queueing, etc.). In contrast, this paper takes a "clean slate" approach:
Our initial objective is to step back and rethink Internet congestion control without caring about backward compatibility or deployment. If we were to build a new congestion control architecture from scratch, what might it look like?
Efficiency and fairness
In TCP, efficiency and fairness are coupled, because TCP uses a single procedure ("additive increase, multiplicative decrease") to try to achieve both goals. The paper argues that these goals should really be treated separately: efficiency describes how close the link's aggregate throughput approaches the link capacity, whereas fairness concerns how the current link throughput is distributed among the flows passing through a link.
Therefore, XCP separates these two goals: an efficiency controller is responsible for deciding whether to increase or decrease the link's aggregate throughput, and a fairness controller is tasked with translating that aggregate feedback into per-flow feedback in order to achieve or maintain fairness. Separating these two components makes it easier to analyze their behavior (e.g. the efficiency controller doesn't need to account for the number of flows), and allows new component designs to be considered in isolation.
The paper proposes using a multiplicative-increase, multiplicative-decrease (MIMD) for the efficiency controller, and a traditional additive-increase, multiplicative decrease (AIMD) scheme for the fairness controller. The paper argues that using MIMD for efficiency is important, because the AIMD policy traditionally used by TCP takes a long time to reach full capacity on links with a high bandwidth-delay product.
Explicit congestion signals
XCP moves away from packet drops as an implicit signal of network conditions, for a few pretty convincing reasons:
 - Congestion is not the only source of loss, so clients cannot distinguish between losses due to errors and losses due to congestion.
 - Detecting packet loss requires waiting for the RTO timeout, duplicate ACKs, or similar — the extra delay incurred makes clients respond more slowly to congestion signals, which makes the network more unstable. This also means clients must be more conservative when probing for network capacity, because the penalty for "overshooting" is more severe.
 - Packet loss is a binary signal; an explicit congestion notification can carry more information about the state of the network.
That makes a lot of sense, but it seems quite obvious and not really novel: ECN for IP has been around for a long time, and DECNet did something very similar years before this paper was written. I would guess the slow deployment of ECN is mostly related to pragmatism (e.g. support for ECN in IP stacks and routers), which developing a completely new transport protocol would only exacerbate.
In XCP, senders attach a "congestion header" to each outgoing packet. This contains the sender's current congestion window size, RTT estimate, and the sender's desired window size increase ("H_feedback"). H_feedback is modified by XCP routers, and the updated value is returned in the ACK for a sent packet. The feedback value instructs senders to either increase or decrease their congestion windows.
In an XCP router, the efficiency controller first tries to adjust the aggregate link throughput to approach full utilization. The output of the efficiency controller is then fed to the fairness controller, which translates the global increase/decrease signal into feedback for individual senders, in such a way that fairness is increased or maintained.
The feasibility of separating fairness and efficiency hinges on whether these two goals really are independent: in practice, can the efficiency controller be replaced without any consideration of the fairness controller, and vice versa? I was initially skeptical that such a clean separation would be possible, but I think the paper's scheme is pretty compelling.
Part of the paper's motivation is the idea that networks with high bandwidth-delay will become increasingly common in the future. If we ignore special-cases like satellite links, then high-bandwidth networks are a certainty, but is it true that latency improvements won't match bandwidth? I suppose latency is fundamentally limited by the speed of light in a way that bandwidth is not. "Latency lags bandwidth" is an interesting paper from Dave Patterson that examines this trend in general, and argues that latency will continue to lag bandwidth in the future.
Given the enormous administrative cost of deploying a new transport protocol, one wonders if the goals identified by this paper can't be reached more easily by incremental changes to TCP, rather than a clean-slate redesign. XCP just doesn't seem fundamentally different enough to warrant throwing out TCP.
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A grinning bird mascot has been enlisted to teach Japanese children in Fukushima how to stay safe from the radiation that escaped from the region's crippled nuclear power plant.
Kibitan -- a plump, yellow cartoon character with stubby wings and boots -- is warning youngsters to stay away from puddles and ditches, where radioactive particles accumulate.
In a leaflet issued by Fukushima's disaster taskforce, the character, inspired by the region's narcissus flycatcher bird, asks children to promise they will wash their hands and gargle with water when they get home.
A smiling Kibitan explains what radiation is and cautions that it can make people sick if it gets inside their body.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the weeks after it was wrecked by the massive tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011.
But anti-nuclear campaigners say the Japanese government has not done enough to protect those living a little further afield.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace charged last month that heavilypopulated areas several dozen kilometres from the plant have radiation levels as much as 13 times the legal limit.
"It is especially disturbing to see that there are many hot spots around playground equipment, exposing children who are most vulnerable to radiation risks," a Greenpeace scientist said in October.
On Thursday the government admitted that some radiation measurements were inaccurate, saying devices at 675 locations in and around Fukushima were under-reporting levels by around 10 percent, Kyodo News agency reported.
Reactor meltdowns in the days after the earthquake-sparked tsunami spread radiation over a wide area and left swathes of agricultural land unfarmable.
The natural disaster left around 19,000 people dead or missing, while no one is officially recorded as having died as a direct result of the nuclear catastrophe.
Scientists caution that decommissioning the plant and making some areas habitable could take decades.
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text: Middlemen in international markets are one of the most critical components of firms' international marketing strategy. They constitute the main link between the exporter and the local market, and are thereby the 'extended arm' of the exporter organisation. This volume of AIM analyses different aspects of relations between exporters and their middlemen: selection and governance, information exchange and learning, cultural aspects and finally, the dynamics of such relations. The volume should be seen as a continuation of a stream of literature that has emerged over the last five to ten years. This volume is more concerned with the phenomena under study than with casting light on one particular theoretical perspective. The contributions represented here are therefore drawing on a number of different theoretical streams: agency theory, transaction cost economics, network theory, economic sociology, resource base theory and its applied 'offspring', Internationalisation Process school of thought. It features researchers from universities in nine different countries, representing both well-established and young academicians. This is a manifest indication of the importance of this field of research. The book is an invaluable asset to students both at the graduate and doctoral levels, and should be a must for researchers in this particular field. Also practitioners will find this book stimulating in their quest for improvements to their relations with their foreign middlemen.


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Nov. 24, 2008 A team of international scientists has identified three genes associated with the body's processing of fats that may increase susceptibility to kidney cancer. The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research.
The researchers found that variations within three genes associated with lipid peroxidation – the process of breaking down fats and lipids when exposed to oxygen – could increase a person's risk of kidney cancer. Scientists have suspected lipid peroxidation as a unifying mechanism through which risk factors such as obesity, hypertension and smoking could damage kidney tissue and lead to kidney cancer.
"Obesity, hypertension and smoking have been the only established risk factors for kidney cancer, but they account for only 50 percent of cases," said lead author Lee E. Moore, Ph.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist and investigator at the National Cancer Institute. "Our study suggests that common genetic variation may account for some of the increased risk in the other half of cases. This is the first and largest study of renal cell cancer to evaluate the influence of these genes."
For the study, Moore and a group of international colleagues studied blood DNA from 987 kidney cancer patients and 1,298 healthy counterparts living in Central and Eastern Europe, which have the highest rates of kidney cancer worldwide. The scientists analyzed DNA for hundreds of variations within 38 genes known to play a role in lipid peroxidation, inflammation and oxidative stress.
Variants of two genes were associated with increased risk of kidney cancer: nitric oxide synthase 2A (NOS2A), which increases levels of nitric oxide, a chemical that promotes free radical damage to cells; and prostaglandin-endoperoxide 2 (PTGS2), which produces prostaglandins, compounds that cause inflammation. Variants of a third gene, apolipoprotein E1 (ApoE1), which helps break down and remove triglycerides from the blood and liver, were associated with a reduction in risk for the disease.
Replication and fine mapping studies will be required to confirm these findings, Moore said. She is planning another study to look at these genetic variants among white and African-American kidney cancer patients in the United States.
Kidney cancer, one of the 10 most common forms of the disease, has been increasing in incidence in the United States and worldwide since the 1970s, Moore said.
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Purpose:Currently there is a lack of standardized topographic reference system of the fundus images for correlative and absolute measurements. We sought to develop and evaluate feasibility, reproducibility and accuracy of a global positioning system for fundus image grading to utilize in multicenter clinical trials. Methods: A custom designed software platform written in C++ programming language with graphical user interface was developed as a test environment. The application was evaluated on a computer with dual Pentium 4 processor and Windows operating system. One hundred digitized color fundus photographs at 1000 dpi were selected. An initial step was to identify the position of the fovea on the digital image. A coordinate system was automatically calculated and centered based on this localization. Each point from the digital image becomes a part of a new matrix represented by two values. A location in major quadrants is identified by unique combination of positive and negative values. A new measurement unit – fundus unit (FU) was introduced to eliminate the inaccuracies from the metric units. Evaluation was performed on the same image at different resolutions as well as on images from different fundus cameras with varying viewing degrees. Results: Evaluation on position accuracy based on multiple resolutions from the same image yielded 100 % identical coordinates in FU as judged by the same landmarks. Tests on images from the same fundus, photographed with two different fundus cameras revealed also 100 % identical positions. Locations of 10 arbitrary selected points confined to the main quadrants of the Wisconsin drusen grading template were tested on 100 images. There was a 99.6 % exact correlation between the positions of the points as judged according to their location to the grid. Tests results were 2% less accurate for panoramic image mosaic due to image manipulation and peripheral geometric and optical distortions. Conclusions:A new, accurate, robust global point identification system was developed to standardize the measurements and correlate the lesion location between different digital fundus image modalities.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reminds the international community abut the importance of commemorating this day. The day also pays tribute to those who worked hard to abolish slave trade and slavery throughout the world. This commitment and the actions used to fight against the system of slavery had an impact on the human rights movement.
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Thanks chris. Nice and well explained.
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Parallel Computation Algorithm (PCA) for Large Geophysical Processes
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Over the past decade, the world of Geophysics has seen a tremendous increase in collection, distribution of Geophysical data. With such large amounts of data available for several geophysical studies, end users run into problems with limited computational resources and computational power. I have developed an algorithm that skillfully manages processing flow of large job within the limits of available computational power.
Written in C and C++, PCA is able to control and schedule the running of independent processes in parallel. A Java based interface is also been developed. PCA is able to run in limited storage space by storing the output produced on an external email server. Development and testing has been carried out in UNIX and is being extended to other commonly platforms.
The functionality of PCA is demonstrated in using it to convolve large array of 2D displacement green-‐functions with loading functions. The fast 2D convolution algorithm is also made available, as convolution is one of the core processes widely used in Geophysics.
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Yucatan Poorwill is endemic to the Yucatan region of southeastern Mexico, Belize, and northeastern Guatemala. This small caprimulgid is found in deciduous forest and scrub habitats and most often is detected by its three part song. This nightjar is seen only infrequently because of its arboreal habits, unlike the sympatric Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis), which commonly sits on roads at night in between feeding sallies. Yucatan Nightjar can be identified within its restricted geographic range by its small size, rufous coloration, and tendency to perch in trees.
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The Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) NASA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) and Albedo Valid Observation Band M10 product (VNP43D49) is produced daily using 16 days of data at 30 arc second (1,000 meter) resolution. Data are temporally weighted to the ninth day, which is reflected in the file name. The VNP43D product suite is provided in a Climate Modeling Grid (CMG), which covers the entire globe for use in climate simulation models. Due to the large file size, each VNP43D product contains just one data layer for each of the parameters included in the VNP43MA2 product. VNP43D40 through VNP43D53 are the 30 arc second BRDF/Albedo Quality values, the Local Solar Noon values, the Valid Observations of the moderate resolution bands (M1 through M5, M7, M8, M10, and M11) plus the Day/Night Band (DNB), the Snow Status, and the Uncertainty. Details regarding methodology are available on the VNP43MA2 product page and in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD).
VNP43D49 contains the valid observation quality layer representing each of the 16 days of the retrieval period for VIIRS band M10.


Kerrie Wechmann
Kerry with the final product: her honours thesis!
I did my honours from mid-2010-mid-2011. My research project focused on how behaviour and social interactions influence reproductive success in Eastern Water Skinks (Eulamprus quoyii)
Specifically, I attempted to answer the following questions:
1. Do males that win more interactions/contests have higher reproductive success?
2. Do males that spend more time interacting with females have higher rates of paternity? (I.e. lower levels of multiple paternity within clutches).
3. Do male that have established territories have higher levels of reproductive success? (Activity levels/movement around enclosure and how this impacts on fitness).


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The policeman stopped the car driver for regular control, the speed limit on the highway section was 120km / h, he legitimized the driver and asked him a few routine questions:
POLICEMAN: How long were you driving today?
DRIVER: I left Zagreb at 5.45 a.m. this morning.
POLICEMAN: Now it's exactly 10 a.m. From Zagreb you have crossed 510 km. It's very tedious.
DRIVER: No, not at all, because I like fast driving. After two hours of driving I made 20 minutes break, besides that I was stuck in traffic jam for another 20 minutes, and the rest of the ride went well.
POLICEMAN: (He paused and seemed to think), when he reached the conclusion, he told the driver: 'I think your driving this time will cost you a lot'.
The task: Understand the words of the Policeman!
Explanation: The time the driver came from Zagreb to the stop where the stop was:
10h – 5h and 45 min = 4h and 15min. What turned into hours is 4.25 h.
From that time on, he stood for 40 minutes (resting), which, when he had spoken in the hours:
40 min = (40: 60) h = 0.66 h.
From the data it can be seen that the driver was actively driving:
4.25 h – 0, 66 h = 3.6 h;
The length of the road that has so far switched is 510 km, the average speed with which the driver is driving can be calculated from the ratio:
Conclusion: The speed which is allowed to travel is 120km / h, so it is clear that the driver has exceeded the permitted speed. It is clear that the Policeman wanted to punish a driver for failure to comply with traffic regulations. Only what is not clear is that the Policeman so quickly came to the conclusion that the driver made a violation?


' =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Renegade Legion's Masterkeying File | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Written By: The Gypsy From: Eastern Renegade Legion [Originally Written: Summer 1988] NOTE: During February and March of 1991, I re-verified the information in this file of mine. It still works quite fine; I followed the steps that I wrote years ago and came up with the same results - a working Master key! Have fun! This file will instruct you on how to build a master key for the type of locks that are found in many school systems. These locks are locks that are generally rented to the students for the school year. It is a combination lock on the front, and each has a different combination that is given to the student with the lock. On the back of these locks is a small keyhole. This keyhole can be easily mastered. Also on the back of these locks is a number that has been imprinted on by Masterlock, Inc. at the factory. The types I have encountered and mastered are #53 and #69, both of which are popular in my school area. The first step involved is to get one of these locks. The best way to get one is to wait until you see one left unlocked. Then just take it and leave. This is the best way because they just think, "Damn... I left my lock unlocked and someone stole it"... If you go around breaking them off, then the school is wondering what is going on, even before you begin to master! Once you have one, you must next remove the back cover. This can be done in one of the following ways: 1. Place a screwdriver (flathead) into the place where the keyhole on the back is. Not in the actual hole where the key is inserted, but on the side, between the keyhole piece and the back cover. Then simply jam upward on the screwdriver or hit it firmly with a hammer (sledge if available!) 2. Use a wheel-grinder to grind off the edge on the back of the lock all the way around. Then, simply pull off the back cover with a pair of pliers. Note: the metal housing of the lock is very firm, and when using the grinder on it, it will become red-hot and begin to glow before it is filed off. 3. Bang the lock around on the ground and stomp on it till it breaks open! I used the 2nd method. After the back cover is removed, you then find a thicker second plate. If you used method #2 then you can simply use the grinder to grind off the small piece of metal in the middle of that plate, which holds it on. (On some versions of the lock, there may be other pieces of metal from the main housing holding on that plate, just grind them all off)... Once ground off, you must then only use a screwdriver and pry the second plate off. If you didn't use the grinder then this is still possible, but will be a lot harder to remove. If, when you finally get it open, pieces of the lock fly all over, don't worry... Unless you were planning to put the lock back together, (yeah, right!) you do not need those parts anymore. The part you DO need (a lot!) is a small silver-colored piece that contains the brass key-hole section inside. Just get this part... It's really all you need. You should also note the version number of the lock which is on the back plate (which you've already taken off)... you will need this number so you know what type of lock the master key goes to. Now... the trickiest and actually the hardest part of this project is getting the little fucking brass piece out of its silver lining. The silver part is hard to break apart, and hitting it or prying it can cause it to be dropped. The brass piece contains pins that will fall out very easily. The best way I have found to remove the brass portion without the risk of dropping it or losing the pins is to melt off the silver-like portion. The complete piece looks something like this: ___ / K \ K represents the keyhole | K | \_K_/ | /___ Piece Mentioned | \ Below... The side opposite of the portion which sticks out the bottom is the part which should be melted. Use a blow-torch to melt the portion away. It will melt at a temperature slightly above normal solder with a soldering iron. Once you have melted the portion away enough so that you could pull out the brass piece, let it cool. After it has cooled, pick up both pieces together (do not remove the brass from the silver yet!). Turn both pieces over (keeping the brass piece in the silver!!) so that the "piece mentioned below" is pointing upwards. You will then have the brass portion in one hand below the silver portion in your other hand... Carefully remove the silver portion, making sure no pins fall out of the brass piece. The silver piece can then be discarded. Place a piece of clear tape around the brass piece to hold the four pins inside. Now comes the key forming process. Go to your local K-Mart or Wal-Mart and steal a couple of key blanks. (Unless, of course, you are a COMPLETELY honest person, just reading this file for entertainment... If you are then you may pay for the keys if you like.) The key that works the best is model CO-10 made by CURTIS. You may or may not later need to file a tiny amount off the END or SIDES of that key. Anyways, it is the best key I have come across that fits. Now use some form of a file (I suggest using a grinding-wheel again) and file off about 2-3mm (Yes, millimeters) from the bottom of the key. Remove the tape from your brass piece (be sure the pins are up, so they do not fall out!!). Insert the key into the brass piece key-hole. Push it in until it sticks out the other end about 1/2 to 1 mm (or just... "not very far"). Starting at the far end of the key (the fourth pin) look and see how much of the pin is sticking out of the brass piece. Remember approx. that distance and remove the key. Take your file and file down on the key a dip in the place where that pin (4) would line up on the key. Do NOT file down too far. Every-so-often re-insert the key to see how far the pin is getting closer to even with the brass piece. When the pin sticks out none and is also NOT inside the brass piece at all (i.e. FLUSH), then move on to the next pin doing the same thing. If you file down too far then the key is worthless and must be re-done. After all four pins have been completed, they should be perfectly even with the brass piece when the key is in place. Be sure to re-tape the pins inside the brass piece. Finally your key is complete, try it out on another lock (with the same version number on the back-plate)... You may need to move the key around a little inside of the key-hole to make it work. If it does work then turn the key back and forth inside the key-hole about 10-20 times to 'break-in' the key to work better. If it doesn't work then try the key in your brass portion again. If they are incorrect then try again. Don't worry, with a little practice, you'll be able to file out a key in under 5 minutes with no problem! Well, that's it! My school also had "normal" master locks that they used for other things (Stadium fence, power boxes, etc.) that I also mastered. It's done in just about the same way, so you can experiment. Just a warning... be sure NO ONE sees you using or just having the keys. Also, be sure not to sell them to anyone unless you're sure they're not gonna give them to everybody else. I say this because I was suspended from school for 14 days because the kid that I worked on the keys with, sold one to another kid. So once people found out he was selling them, others wanted one. He then had to tell people "no" (so that not everyone in the fuckin' school would have one!). One of these persons decided to be an asshole and narced on us. That, of course, is what got me suspended. The main reason that they came down hard on us is because selling the keys increased the crime many times over. If we had just kept the things to ourselves (what _I_ wanted to do) then they probably would have just said 'ok... we'll let you off this time if you agree not to make any more'... Yeah, right... There also is a way to determine the combination of a lock after taking it off and using the master key. This will be explained in the next file. That's it for now... If you need help, or are successful, or just want to chat about anything - contact me at the Internet Email address below. - The Gypsy -=[_EMAIL_]=-


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December 7, 2022
SC LAMP is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Diana Pinto – Executive Director, South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project (SC LAMP)
Did you know that children of color living in low-income households are less likely to be diagnosed with developmental delays at an early age? Why is this important? Studies show that the sooner a child gets an assessment, the more likely s/he will be able to succeed in life. Early intervention services can have an enormous impact on a young child's ability to learn and grow.
This reality is why South Central LAMP's two-generation approach is huge for families in our community. Each child in our program receives an assessment completed by his/her teacher, allowing on-site professionals to observe if the child is developing within a "normal" range and reaching their developmental milestones. When we see a child not falling within the "normal" range, we can provide referrals and resources to specialized agencies for added support to the family.
Because we approach this matter holistically, our parenting classes include workshops on what "normal" development looks like. The class provides parents with a safe space to reflect on their children, ask questions, and better understand their children's developmental stages. Often these classes are where moms start to seek support or learn to be more open to referrals because the discussions allow them to see other moms dealing with challenges as well.
South Central LAMP families have a "village" to help them navigate the complexities of developmental diagnoses. The support we provide has empowered many parents to make better medical decisions for their children and learn how to best support them.


10 Interesting the Ottoman Empire Facts
Tuesday, September 20th 2016. | History
Let me tell you the Ottoman Empire facts in the following post below. People also call it as the Turkish Empire, Turkey or even Ottoman Turkey. The Oghuz Turks under the leadership of Osman I established the Ottoman Empire in northwestern Anatolia in 1299. In 1362 and 1389, Murad I conquered The Balkans which turned the Ottoman Sultanate into caliphate and transcontinental empire. Mehmed the Conqueror occupied Constantinople in 1453. It marked the end of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottomans. Here are other interesting facts about the Ottoman Empire:
The Ottoman Empire Facts 1: the height of Ottoman Empire's power
The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marked the zenith of Ottoman Empire's power during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Ottoman Empire Facts 2: the areas controlled by Ottoman Empire
At that time, Ottoman Empire covered the areas of the Horn of Africa, North Africa, Southeast Europe, the Caucasus and Western Asia. It was considered as the multilingual and multinational empire.
the ottoman empire facts
the ottoman empire facts
The Ottoman Empire Facts 3: provinces and states
Ottoman Empire had many vassal states and 32 provinces in the early of 17th century. Some of them earned autonomy, but others were included in Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire Facts 4: the capital
The capital of Ottoman Empire was Constantinople. For more than 6 centuries, the center of interaction between the Western and Eastern Worlds was located in Ottoman Empire. The Mediterranean basin was also under the control the empire.
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the ottoman empire
The Ottoman Empire Facts 5: the decline of Ottoman Empire
In the end of 19th century, Ottoman Empire gradually declined due to the strength of the Europeans powers.
The Ottoman Empire Facts 6: the World War 1
Ottoman Empire joined the First World War in the beginning of the 20th century to ally with Germany. It was interested in the war to recover the lost territories.
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the ottoman empire pictures
The Ottoman Empire Facts 7: the internal conflict
It was easy for the Ottoman Empire to handle the external conflict. But the internal ones which included the Arab revolts could not be well handled. Find facts about the Black Sea here.
The Ottoman Empire Facts 8: the aftermath of World War 1
The Ottoman Empire was partitioned after it was defeated in the World War 1. The Allied powers occupied parts of the Empire.
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the ottoman empire image
The Ottoman Empire Facts 9: the Turkish War of Independence
The occupying allies were sent back due to the successful Turkish War of Independence. Therefore, the Anatolian Heartland became the site of the Republic of Turkey. Find facts about Turkey here.
The Ottoman Empire Facts 10: the abolishment
After the Young republic of Turkey was established, the caliphate as well as the Ottoman monarchy was removed.
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the ottoman empire history
Do you have any opinion on facts about the Ottoman Empire?
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How Tech Companies Are Transforming Their Workplaces with Utilization Data
Jo-Ann Mann, Serraview
By Jo-Anne Mann
Tech companies have long been pioneers of workplace transformation by necessity, with an incessant need to keep up with growth and attract top talent. With Smart Offices now an indelible part of the workplace landscape, utilization data is increasingly at the heart of the workplace revolution, opening new frontiers for enhancing savings and reimagining the employee experience
Unfortunately, gathering and analyzing this information hasn't always been easy. Now, with technological advances, tech companies are discovering new ways to capture and use space utilization data. Here's how:
A Changing Space Utilization Landscape for Tech Companies
Utilization data is essentially any data that reflects how spaces are actually being used, which can mean how many people have swiped into a building on a given day, or how many times a conference room was at capacity according to a smart sensor.
Once upon a time, companies were forced to rely on professionals to physically walk through buildings, floor by floor, and conduct manual audits. This method relied heavily on physical observations and estimates—some that weren't always accurate. These manual methods also required time-intensive processes, tedious number crunching, and were rather limited in their applications to the daily life of employees.
As utilization data has become more accessible and as the workplace technology designed around utilization has become more nuanced and robust, Smart Offices are now taking shape in many forms, with systems that capture utilization to inform workplace planning/modernization, to employee wayfinding apps that connect people to their spaces.
Utilization is Driving the Flexible Space Revolution
With greater insight than ever before on how much space is needed, the supply and demand for different types of spaces, and where individuals are within the office environment, Tech companies can now measure flexible spaces with greater precision than even the most traditional and static cubicle farm.
This has led to the rise of Activity Based Work environments, where sections of offices are redesigned to be unassigned, offering employees an exciting array of choices for places to work throughout the day. In the past, this may have been untenable, but Utilization data means that companies can continuously optimize these environments based on how they are used. Peak utilization metrics tell companies exactly how many seats they need to provide business units, and wayfinding applications ensure that employees can always find their colleagues and view the availability of spaces in real-time.
Today's most advanced workplace software specializes in leveraging utilization data into solutions for planning, managing, navigating, and optimizing flexible spaces.
How Tech Firms Can Use Utilization Data
With this new caliber of data, there are new possibilities for space planning. Here are some ways to use utilization numbers to build a better workplace:
Align Workplaces to Employee Needs
Organizations can use heat maps to determine the optimal combination of spaces based on what activities they support. This way, organizations can find the right balance of meeting rooms, lounges, phone booths, hot desks, and other key space types.
Plan for Peak Utilization
In a traditional office environment, everyone was assigned a seat and once all seats were assigned, that office was at full capacity… but how many people actually show up on any given day? And what about part-time and remote opportunities? Peak utilization tells organizations the maximum number of people that show up on any given day of the year, so they can plan based on how much space they actually use, instead of how much space is assigned.
Enhance Precision of Wayfinding Technology
Utilization data can feed employee apps with real-time insights into where colleagues are located and which rooms are available.
Target Gaps and Inefficiencies
Utilization data makes it easier for professionals to eliminate wasted space by identifying gaps between how space is assigned and how it is used. Just as a building assigned to 300 people may rarely see more than 200 in attendance, the same principle can be applied from the floor level down to the individual desk.
Increase Capacity with Ratio-Seating
With utilization data, organizations can assign seating ratios to different shared neighborhoods that increase capacity beyond one seat per person, and continuously refine that ratio over time. A ratio of 1.5 people per seat, for example, represents a 50% increase in building capacity.
Improve Energy Efficiency
Especially with increasingly flexible schedules, it's easy to run air-conditioning, lights, or other utilities when employees aren't around. With real-time utilization data, it's now possible to use energy more efficiently. By capturing the numbers, planners can set the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system to line up with employees' schedules—saving money and reducing the company's environmental footprint.
Evaluate Move Scenarios
By integrating utilization data with scenario planning software, organizations can test and evaluate how different move scenarios would impact their people and their bottom line.
Make Evidence-Based Business Cases
It's now possible to capture the numbers to justify moves. Using validated utilization data from badge entry swipes, lighting sensors, and other sources provides evidence where there once were just estimates to get buy-in from all key decision makers.
Overall, tech companies finally have the tools and automation to power better space planning. Technology is taking the guesswork out of utilization data, and it's resulting in better outcomes. Want to see how technology can fit into your space planning initiative? Schedule a demo today.
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Exotic plants are edging out native species at Radnor Lake Natural Area, the Warner Parks and other Nashville parks.
The problem, and the solution, could come from local gardeners.
Officials at Warner Parks are reaching out to the surrounding community to teach individuals about which plants to avoid in their private landscaping.
Park officials started to become aware of the problem about 15 years ago when birds that ate fruits from exotic plants in nearby private gardens dropped the seeds in the parks.
In the first program offered on Feb. 10, Urban Forester Jill Smith will lead hikers along the Harpeth Woods trail in the Warner Parks to remove exotic vines.


What Percentage Of The French Population Paid Tax?
Who paid most of the taxes in France?
The tax system in pre-revolutionary France largely exempted the nobles and the clergy from taxes.
The tax burden therefore devolved to the peasants, wage-earners, and the professional and business classes, also known as the Third Estate..
How long can I live in France without paying tax?
Very simply, if you spend more than 183 days in France in a French tax year (the calendar year), then you will be regarded as resident for tax purposes for the whole of the year.
How much money do I need to retire in France?
How much do you need to retire in France? This depends on your own lifestyle and where you take up residence but living well is very affordable in all parts of France. Two people can run an apartment while living well in France for between $2,100 to $2,500 per month.
Why is UK income tax so high?
The countries that raise more in tax than the UK almost all do this by raising more from income tax and social security contributions. Compared with European countries, the UK stands out most in its relatively light taxation of middle earners' incomes. Rates for high earners are closer to those seen elsewhere.
Do expats pay taxes in France?
Expats are taxed in France on their income from French sources only, regardless of their nationality. The following categories are considered as income from French sources: Income from immovable property situated in France, from business concerns situated in France.
What is considered a good salary in Paris?
This statistic shows the opinion of employees working in Paris area on what level of salary per month allows a good living in the French capital in 2019. It appears that a majority of respondents, 33 percent of them, declared that a monthly salary between 3,000 and 4,999 was a salary allowing a good living in Paris.
What estate paid the most taxes?
The Third EstateWhich group paid the most taxes? The Third Estate. The First and Second Estate did not have to pay most taxes, while peasants paid taxes on many things, including necessities.
What percentage of taxes do the French pay?
Non-residents usually pay tax on their France-sourced income at a minimum French tax rate of 20% for French-sourced income up to €27,519 and 30% for income above this threshold. Property tax in France for non-residents on the taxable gain of the sale of a French property is 19% for EU citizens and 36.2% for all others.
What percentage of the population pays the most taxes?
The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (38.5 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.9 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 26.8 percent average individual income tax rate, which is more than six times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (4.0 percent).
Are taxes higher in France or UK?
One of the major differences between income tax in France and income tax in the UK is that, unlike in the UK, income tax in France is calculated based on the household income – not the individual's. … Typically, the larger the French household, the smaller the tax bill is likely to be.
Are French taxes high?
In France, tax revenues rose to 46.2 percent of GDP, surpassing Denmark, where the ratio fell to 46.0 percent. … France's high tax burden is a source of resentment among voters.
Why was the French tax system unfair?
Excessive, inefficient, unfair According to conventional wisdom, the Ancien Régime's taxation regime was excessive, inefficient and unfair. It was excessive because France had become one of the highest taxing states in Europe, chiefly because of its warmongering, growing bureaucracy and high spending.