3 January 2013, 20:58
Depardieu is a friend - Putin
Depardieu is a friend - Putin
As part of France's austerity measures an attempt was made to introduce a 75% tax on the richest French citizens. One target of this tax was famous French actor Gerard Depardieu who was then embroiled in a row with the French authorities. In the end Depardieu renounced his French citizenship and was granted Russian citizenship by President Putin. Is this the beginning of a mass-migration of wealthy Europeans to Russia?
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to French actor Gerard Xavier Depardieu under Article 89 of the Russian Constitution according to a brief statement issued on the Official Site of the President of Russia.
Under Article 89, point (a) of the Constitution of the Russian Federation the President of the Russian Federation has the right to grant citizenship and political asylum to Russian nationals, foreign citizens and stateless individuals.
Further powers and more specific laws defining the president's authority come under a November 28, 1991 "Federal Law On Citizenship of the Russian Federation", amended by the Judiciary on the 17th of June 1993 and a Federal Law dated February 6th 1995. Article 33 of the Act defines the specific powers of the President and states that the President decides on: granting Russian citizenship to foreign nationals, citizens of the former Soviet Union and stateless persons. The President also decides on the restoration of Russian citizenship, the revocation of citizenship, permission to have dual citizenship and the issuing of honorary citizenship. The President exercises these powers by issuing Presidential Decrees.
Presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has stated that the decision by President Putin to grant Mr. Depardieu Russian Citizenship was due to his substantial contributions to the development of Russian culture and cinema. Mr. Peskov stated that Depardieu played in a number of very famous feature films about Russian history and performed many roles depicting important Russian historical figures, including work depicting Grigory Rasputin.
A promise to grant the French actor Russian citizenship was made during a recent press conference given by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said the promise was made due to the significant contributions to Russia's national culture by Depardieu and his films.
After being granted citizenship the Depardieu camp has not yet issued an official statement but the story began with attempts by France to institute a 75% tax on the super-rich. Russia's flat rate of 13% tax for all citizens was then seen as an attractive option for Depardieu who has stated publically that during his life he has paid over $191 million in taxes to the French state over the past 45 years. Something the state apparently does not value.
The new French tax which was to target people making more than €1 million a year was thrown out by France's highest constitutional authority because it was to only target individuals and not households, meaning the law would only apply to 1,500 people and not affect those making just under €1 million a year.
Mr. Depardieu's problems with the French authorities came to a boil when after announcing his plans to renounce French citizenship, his only recourse in the row, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault publically called Mr. Depardieu's actions "pathetic." To which Mr. Depardieu answered "I've no place to complain or to boast, but I refuse to be described as pathetic."
During a press conference that was covered by the VOR in December, President Putin called Mr. Depardieu a "friend" and said that "If Gérard really wants to have either a residency permit in Russia or a Russian passport, we will assume that this matter is settled and settled positively."
Mr. Depardieu is very well known and loved in Russia and appears on billboards around Moscow and in ads for Sovetsky Bank. His films are some of the most popular in Russia and he has been very active in the Russian cultural scene over the years.
Russian media reports that Mr. Depardieu will soon begin working on several projects where he will star in adaptations Russian literary classics including the Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin.
In related news, upon hearing that Mr. Depardieu received Russian Citizenship, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin predicted the beginning of the migration of wealthy Europeans to the Russian Federation. Mr. Rogozin stated on his Twitter page that "In the West people have very poor knowledge of the Russian tax system but when they learn about it we can expect the mass migration of wealthy Europeans to Russia".
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Why objc_msgSend Must be Written in Assembly
Every message send in Objective-C is compiled into a call to objc_msgSend, a function that is called with the arguments as the message sense but with the receiver and the selector as the first two. So the line
[receiver message:foo beforeDate:bar];
will be compiled into to just call a C function:
objc_msgSend(receiver, _USER_(message:beforeDate:), foo, bar);
There are many excellent write-ups on how the method is implemented or how it has evolved over the years, but I'd like to focus on one aspect that I haven't seen given too much attention:
It is not possible to implement objc_msgSend in C, Objective-C, or C++.
The Return Type
Consider the following two lines
NSUInteger n = [array count];
id obj = [array objectAtIndex:6];
which will be compiled as two C function calls.
NSUInteger n = objc_msgSend(array, _USER_(count));
id obj = objc_msgSend(array, _USER_(objectAtIndex:), 6);
However there is no possible function that could actually satisfy both calls. Does it return an NSUInteger or an id?
The above two lines won't even compile. Whoops! Let's cast a slightly better lead.
NSUInteger n = (NSUInteger (*)(id, SEL))objc_msgSend(array, _USER_(count));
id obj = (id (*)(id, SEL, NSUInteger))objc_msgSend(array, _USER_(objectAtIndex:), 6);
That's a little gross but at least it compiles. objc_msgSend is publicly available and declared in . If you do call it directly you will have to cast it in exactly this manner to appease the compiler, but how on Earth is objc_msgSend implemented to support multiple return types?! We'll come back to it.
The essence of objc_msgSend is quite simple. Given a receiver and a selector it does as follows:
 - Get the class of the receiver
 - Look for the selector in the method table
 - If found, return it
 - Else look at the superclass and repeat (until there is no superclass)
It's a pretty simply process that just walks up the inheritance hierarchy looking for the function pointer, the IMP, for the given selector. There's caches at each class level, but hey, that's just an implementation detail!
The Arg Types and Count
Once objc_msgSend finds the function pointer it just needs to call it with the given args. What remains is to find a way to call an arbitrary function pointer on some numbers of arguments any set of types. The number of arguments is easy to account for. We could put them into varargs and then call a function with them. But if we did that, every Objective-C method would have to pull its arguments out of varargs in a hidden prologue and that would just be terrible and unnecessary.
In C, calling a function is compiled into instructions for setting up the arguments (putting them in registers or on the stack) and then a jump/call to the address of the function. If we want to support any possible method signature we would have to write a switch statement that contained every possible combination so that we would have the code to properly sets up the arguments for any and every method signature. This simply does not scalable and is not possible.
Unwinding the Call
The solution that objc_msgSend uses comes from the fact that the arguments were setup correctly for the call into objc_msgSend. Said another way, objc_msgSend began with a stack frame and register combination exactly equal to the one that will be needed by the IMP that it finds.
Consider again the line
which needs to setup 3 arguments: the receiver, the selector, and the index. By insisting that the IMP that we find have the same signature we know that just moments ago the world was as we needed! So, once it finds the IMP it puts everything back the way it was (something functions do before returning anyway, called the function epilogue) and then simply jump to the address of that function pointer that was found for the given selector. All the arguments will be setup correctly and the function can go on its merry way.
That IMP will end up correctly setting the return value (on x86 and arm it just gets stored in a specific register, eax/rax or r0, respectively) and we don't have to worry about the return value issue discussed above.
Wrap Up
Taking all of the rambling above and spinning it into a single statement would produce: calling a function in C requires the signature to be known for each call-site at compile-time; doing so at run-time is not possible and so one must drop down into assembly and party there instead.
It was pointed out that objc_msgSend could likely be implemented using the GCC extensions __builtin_apply_args, __builtin_apply, and __builtin_return. This is definitely true and points out the fact that such builtins were necessary to add since the language was not capable of the expressing the behavior on its own. The tricks needed to implement objc_msgSend would be the same tricks needed to implemented those builtins. The point of this writeup was not to get philosophical about what is or is not really C; the point was that objc_msgSend resides in a strange territory in the land of function calling and it felt fun to point out. :D


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 File 1-> "P46_OBJECT_0:"
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 File 1-> "√P46_OBJECT_0. = {Starting Point}"
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 File 1-> "√Next. = {P46_OBJECT_1:,forward}"
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 Beyond Compare is a multi-platform utility that combines directory compare and file compare functions in one package. Use it to manage source code, keep directories in sync, compare program output, etc.
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By putting Bleach in the gas tank, you can ruin an engine without evidence. If you put Bleach in the gas tank, it will eventually rust the engine several components because Bleach contains a high amount of chlorine. Not only Bleach, but any liquid except fuel can also destroy a car quietly.
How long does it take bleach to ruin an engine?
Pour in an entire gallon or container inside the tank. The tank should have a little quantity of fuel This should destroy the car engine within 5 to 10 minutes.
What happens if you put bleach in a car engine?
There's no definitive answer to how much bleach would ruin an engine. While a few drops wouldn't do much, if someone added even a quart, you need to flush the system. Otherwise, you could end up with significant damages. So, the answer to how much bleach is too much is quite simple – any bleach is too much.
What can you put in gas tank to destroy engine?
Your car's fuel tank is used to store gasoline, if you put anything other than fuel, such as water, oil, sugar, salt, coke or urine, your car engine will stop running or even get damaged if you let the foreign stuff get in your car's combustion chambers.
What can destroy a car engine?
How To Ruin A Car Engine Through The Gas Tank
- Bleach Can Ruin the Engine Easily.
- Water – Harmful Liquid for Car's Engine.
- Carbonated Drinks for Ruining A Car's Engine.
- Salt Can Ruin the Car's Engine.
- Urine – Another Harmful Factor For Car's Engine.
- Sugar – No more fuel's Supply To the Engine.
What will seize an engine?
An engine can seize due to running on low/no oil, overheating or succumbing to a broken timing belt. These conditions eventually stop your engine in its tracks and a professional technician will be required to restore function.
Is bleach detectable in gas tank?
Bleaches are usually made of two components: water and chlorine. Since chlorine is denser than water, it would stay at the bottom of the tank. However, the chlorine gas in the bleach would react with the fuel, causing corrosion in all the parts that come into contact with the liberated gas.
What happens when you mix hydrogen peroxide and gasoline?
The drug store peroxide (3% concentration) would have the same effect as adding water, but with more corrosion. The oxidizing effects mean that it could produce a considerable amount of rusting on e.g. the bottom of the gas tank, possibly leading to leaking gas &/or fouling the engine.
What happens if you put vinegar in a gas tank?
In the fuel, vinegar would keep the engine from running. Gasoline or diesel engines don't like water in the fuel system. If you had lots of alcohol in your gasoline, you might get away with it, if you were lucky. The alcohol bonds with the water.
How do you destroy someones car engine?
Putting water, sugar, salt, some sticky sweet liquid like honey, and more in the gas tank can easily destroy the engine by clogging up the fuel tank. You can also put a few brake fluids, some coke, urine, bleach, and hydrogen peroxide in the gas tank to ruin the engine.
What can you put in diesel to destroy engine?
The fluids that will destroy a diesel engine are coolant, fuel, and oil. Coolant is a liquid that is used to maintain the temperature of the engine. It works by transferring heat from the combustion chamber to the radiator, where it is cooled off.
What happens if you put antifreeze in a gas tank?
They will drain your tank, flush it and replace it with real gas. Antifreeze in the gas tank isn't a problem – that can't be fixed by draining the gas tank, flushing it and replacing with good gasoline. Running your engine with gas mixed with antifreeze is not a good idea.
What happens if you put coke in your gas tank?
There is sugar in Coca Cola after all, but there's a lot more than just that. The chemical composition of the drink when mixed with the gasoline in a car seems like it might turn the whole mess into a caustic sludge that would inevitably clog up an engine like nothing else possibly could.
How much sugar does it take to ruin an engine?
How Much Sugar Should I Put In The Gas Tank To Ruin The Engine? A teaspoon of sugar is not enough to cause harm, so this amounts to less than 15 gallons of gasoline. For gas that's only been "sugared" once, your level of sucrose dissolved should be small because it dissolve less than at other times.

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Webinar – Better Noise Power Ratio Measurements for Satellite Components
As satellite links move to wider channels and higher powers to overcome atmospheric absorption, link designers need to account for increased nonlinear distortion.
Making more accurate and intuitive distortion measurements is key to improving link performance.
- Learn how the economy of space is changing for new satellite missions with the continued demand for more data and more availability.
- Discover how the spectral correlation method of measurement can be used to see all the distortion from the DUT, both in-band and out-of-band.
- Find out how this measurement technique can be extended to replace both noise power ratio (NPR) and error vector magnitude (EVM) measurement in component characterization.
Donald Vanderweit has worked at Keysight Technologies as an Application Engineer since 2006.
He supports Keysight RF and Microwave test solutions across the space industry, with a focus on link and component testing. Vanderweit received his MSEE from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1988.


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LocoNet RailSync pair
[I have asked this from Allan directly but he wished me to forward it
to this yahoogroup. As my membership here got stuck into pending I
have already asked the same question through Loconet_Hackers. Sorry
for sort of cross-posting /Psi]
From Allan Gartners "Wiring for DCC" web site I came across this:
"-- Wire 1 and 6 is the LocoNet signal. -- -- Digitrax literature and
their website will lead you to believe that these are duplicated
signals. They aren't. The signal is actually only present on one of
the wires. The signal gets to the other wire when a throttle or the
radio receiver are plugged into the network. Unless you have a break
before you reach these "bridging throttles," it is unlikely you will
ever need to know this. I mention here because the Digitrax
literature is misleading and a few people have suffered many lost
hours because of this. --"
As english is not my native language I must have misinterpreted the
From the text I (mis-?)concluded that LocoNet RailSync coming from
the Command Station should have either pin 1 or 6 disconnected or
grounded, and only one of the pins will carry the copy of DCC signal,
and that throttles or panels such as UP3 or UP5 would somehow connect
the pins 1 and 6 together.
I had previously got the impression from the past that pins 1 and 6
carry low current DCC rail copies having signal levels of 0 volts to
7..26 volts related to ground (pins 2 and 5), and as the pins 1 and 6
are copies of the rails, they should be in opposite phase: if pin 1
is lo then pin 6 is hi and vice-versa. As and if the RailSync pins
have opposite phases, combining the two with two diodes yelds "almost
clean DC" in respect to Signal ground (pins 2 and/or 5). As DIY
LocoNet throttles are powered from pins 1 and 6 through diodes and
grounded to pins 2 and 5 it suggests that power is needed from both
wires to get near pure DC and that the pins 1 and 6 should not be
Boosters could get their signal by connecting an optocoupler across
pins 1 and 6 (either way -- phase shift) or between 1/6 and 2/5
(Optocoupler LED anode facing 1 or 6 -- also causing phase shift).
UP3 and UP5 panels will cut the RailSync data connection between all
but the rear jack by connecting the RailSync pairs of the rear jacks
together with diodes (like it is done within the DIY throttles) and
feeding almost pure DC to front and side jacks or even let external
power source feed the all but rear jack's pins 1 and 6.
So -- to my understanding -- pins 1 and 6 in command station are
_both_ carrying signal but in opposite phase and hence are not and
must not be tied together, and panels such as UP3 and UP5 will --
through diodes -- ruin the Railsync data from the front (and side)
jacks and replaces RailSync signal with DC generated form RailSync
pair and/or external power.
Have I misunderstood "Wiring for DCC" explanation or is there a huge
gap in my background info -- or what is wrong?


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The Boy Who Drew Birds is free 20-page download from Homeschool Share – another one of their very nicely pulled together resources.
Using the picture book biography The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies as a spine for the study, the unit covers history, geography, science, language arts, art and math.
Among the topics you will cover include Napoleon, France, Pennsylvania, caves, seasons, idioms, and, of course, birds.
Activities include map work, copywork, writing a letter, keeping a backyard bird lapbook, making a bird feeder, creating a mixed-media picture and keeping a nature journal. A bibliography provides more options for further research.

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This element will accelerate all affected particles to a vector of the specified magnitude in the specified angle. If the angle and acceleration do not vary, it is more efficient to set the specified acceleration on the Emitter.
This element models the gravity of a massive object whose center of gravity is far away (and thus the gravitational pull is effectively constant across the scene). To model the gravity of an object near or inside the scene, use PointAttractor.
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Angle of acceleration.
magnitude : real
Pixels per second that objects will be accelerated by.
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The previous blog post focused on generalized number bases – an essential concept of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) that is often not covered well at the high school level. Another area where pre-college preparation often falls short of college ECE expectations is the relationship between frequency, period, and wavelength for electromagnetic waves. This is often covered briefly in high school physics and chemistry courses, but those courses typically use scientific notation instead of engineering units. As a result, students cannot mentally translate among engineering units of frequency, period, and wavelength at conversational speeds.
Relationship between frequency, period, and wavelength
As a reminder, this table summarizes the basic relationships between frequency, period, and wavelength of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum.
Word / Abbreviation
Word / Abbreviation
Microsecond (μs or us)
Applications – RF, circuit boards, and design validation
Engineers discussing wireless signals may talk about a 2.4-GHz signal, and it is helpful to be able to think of the associated period as being a bit more than 400 picoseconds. Similarly, a 5-GHz signal has a 200-picosecond period. Given the increasing diversity of radio frequency (RF) applications, especially those associated with the growing Internet of Things (IoT), an intuitive understanding of frequencies and their various physical properties is helpful to ECE students.
This concept is also critically important in designing circuit boards and interconnects. Electromagnetic waves propagate at approximately 3×108 meters per second (the "speed of light"), so the wavelength of a 1-GHz signal in a vacuum is 30 cm (about one foot). Depending on the physical material, the propagation speed of a signal in a circuit board or cable may be significantly slower, so seemingly minor changes in circuit layouts can cause significant propagation delays and timing challenges in high-frequency circuits.
Furthermore, understanding this concept is helpful in design validation. For example, suppose you need to measure a signal's edge with a rise time of 15 nanoseconds. How fast must you sample that waveform to accurately catch that edge, including overshoot and any ringing that may occur? Facility with mental math will help you make correct test choices quickly.
The fundamental arithmetic of electromagnetic waves occurs with great frequency in ECE coursework and in professional practice after college. The high school student who becomes adept with the various relationships in engineering units will start ECE studies with a significant advantage.

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- Central Control
Handy area settings simplify detailed management of VRV system. Display of floor plans enables a quick search of desired air conditioning units. Operation history shows manner of control and origin in past operations of air conditioning units.
- Automatic Control
VRV systems are controlled automatically throughout the year by the schedule function. Interlocking VRV system and other equipment enables easy automation of building facilities operation. Setback adjusts temperature settings even when rooms are unoccupied.
- Remote Access
Remote access with a computer allows total air conditioning management using the same type of screens as those displayed in the intelligent Touch Manager. Authorized users can centrally control individual air conditioning units from their own computers.
- Individual Controllers
Designed to give you simple control of your air conditioning system when you don't need the complexity of an expensive integrated system, Daikin's individual control systems are unobtrusive and easy to use, putting superior comfort at your fingertips.
For individual controllers, please refer to the VRV IV catalogue.
- Intelligent Touch Manager
Introducing Daikin's intelligent Touch Manager, a VRV system controller with an array of simple, useful system management functions that give you ultimate control over your entire air conditioning network from an easy to use, programmable touch screen interface.
- Energy Management
The Energy Navigator function simplifies energy management by tracking energy consumption data and identifying inefficient operation.
- BACnet® / LonWorks®
Integrated control systems that help you take advantage of the advanced functionality of an open control system.
* BACnet® is a registered trademark of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
* LonWorks® is a trademark of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries.


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Level: intermediate
Mitigators are the opposite of intensifiers. When we want to make an adjective less strong we use these words: fairly, rather, quite
By the end of the day, we were rather tired.
The film wasn't great, but it was quite exciting.
and in informal English: pretty
We had a pretty good time at the party.
Be careful!
Level: advanced
When we use quite with a normal adjective, it makes the adjective less strong:
The food was quite bad.
(= The food was bad but not very bad.)
My nephew is quite clever.
(= My nephew is clever but not very clever.)
But when we use quite with a strong adjective, it means the same as absolutely:
The food was quite awful.
(= The food was absolutely awful.)
As a child he was quite brilliant.
(= As a child he was absolutely brilliant.)
Level: intermediate
Mitigators with comparatives
We use these words and phrases as mitigators:
a bit
just a bit
a little
a little bit
just a little bit
She's a bit younger than I am.
It takes two hours on the train but it is a little bit longer by road.
This one is rather bigger.
We use slightly and rather as mitigators with comparative adjectives in front of a noun:
This is a slightly more expensive model than that.
This is a rather bigger one than that.
Mitigators 1
Mitigators 2
Question 7 is worded differently in Tasks 1 and 2.
Is the wording in Task 1 correct?
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The wording in question 7 is Task 1 was incorrect. I've now corrected it so that it's the same as in Task 2.
Thanks very much for pointing this out to us and helping us improve LearnEnglish!
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Hello Sir,
Can I use "rather a (/ a rather) + adjective + noun"? For example: I think it is rather a (/a rather bad behavior.
Or isn't it possible and do we have to use "rather" only with adjective?
Thank you in advance.
Hello Uyanga3,
Yes, you can use 'rather' in this way - yours is a rather fine question. Please note, however, that 'behaviour' is an uncount noun in English, so it's not grammatical to speak of 'a behaviour'. You could say instead 'a rather bad attitude' or 'rather bad behaviour', for example.
Best wishes,
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi team,
Is it possible to use the "updation"(update), I've had saw this kind of usage in some places but don't think this is a right one, if then what else can be used instead of it.
Thanks in advance
Hi Sanover,
The correct term would be 'update', and there is no real alternative which is in common use. This is a flexible term: it can be a noun (an update) or a verb (to update something).
Best wishes,
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi, thanks for your help in advance,is this sentence correct?
I think nino's restaurant is slightly better than Belini's.
Hello Sir,
Can you please explain the radical concept of phrase and help me to learn deeply.
Thanks and Regards,
Hari prasath.T
Hello colonyhari,
We're very happy to help you learn but I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'the radical concept of phrase'. Could you explain or - better still - provide an example so we can understand exactly what you mean? In general when asking questions on LearnEnglish, the more specific and concrete the question is, the more we will be able to help you with our answers.
Best wishes,
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello peter,
Thanks for reply. For example
(Phrase error)
The yoga session "is most likelihood to start at" 6.00 a.m
The yoga session "is mostly liked to start at" 6.00 a.m
The yoga session "is most likely to start at" 6.00 a.m
which one is correct
(Error spotting)
Martin would attempt (1)/ to open the umbrella (2)/when her spectacles slipped off (3)/ and fell down(4).
which one is wrong
To identify these error what should I learn. Please give me your valuable suggestions.
Hari prasath.T


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Members of the Chicago Academy of Sciences first met in 1857, gathering at the original Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum to share their passion for education and the natural world. Though their meetingplace and library was burnt down in the Great Chicago Fire, their commitment to natural science stood strong. By 1894, the Academy had regrouped and rebuilt their collection in Lincoln Park, using dioramas filled with flora and fauna to create an interactive learning experience.
Today, the museum welcomes guests on a 6.35-acre campus opened in 1999 and filled with exhibits that expand the relationship between the public and nature. In addition to more than 15,000 plant specimens and 22,000 amphibians and reptiles, a wilderness walk takes guests through Midwestern environments, including praries, savannahs, and dunes, all filled with living and preserved animals. Visitors can touch live wildlife from Illinois wetlands and stand in a swirl of 1,000 exotic butterflies and birds in the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven and tropical greenhouse. Outdoor exhibits demonstrate the power of energy-efficient technology with 17,000 square feet of green roofs, the compost coral, rain-barrel ranch, and the restored native prairie made completely out of recycled soda cans.


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What is Syndication Loan? (Part 2)
Benefit of Syndication
The major benefit of syndication to Borrower is the large financing amount to be provided by a group of lenders for capital intensive project. Since all lenders share the same credit risk for a single transaction, Borrower do not have to approach and negotiate with numerous lenders to fulfil a single purpose substantial financing. Syndication loans save the time and most likely the cost of financing for Borrower. Imagine if a lender could save the time to conduct due diligence, terms negotiation and client acquisition, the lender would accept a lower lending rate due to saved staff cost and administrative cost. Since MLAB involve in syndication loan market everyday, it has the first hand information on risk appetite of lenders and market price benchmarking which Borrower usually do not have even though there is technological tool to access these information. Last but not the least, the repayment record of syndication elicits a positive reputation to lending market which makes borrower easier to obtain financing in the future.
From the lender side, syndication loan helps the lender to diversify credit risk which is substantial for a single lender to take up the whole syndication loan amount. MLAB act as arranger and bear major responsibility on administration. The MLAB earn an arrangement fee from Borrower which enhance the fee income to compensate the lost interest income from the shared syndication amount. Overall speaking, MLAB could enhance the Risk adjusted return on capital (RAROC) for the bank by arranging a syndication.
Pricing of Syndication
Syndicated Loan can be structured in different types of loans and securities. The varying loan types offer different types of interest, such as fixed or floating interest rates, which makes it more flexible for the borrower. A floating interest rate refers to a variable interest rate that changes over the duration of the debt obligation. Floating interest rate is usually calculated as a base rate plus interest margin. Below is a floating rate example from FinMonster Loan Market, the interest margin is 2.92% while the base rate is HIBOR. Common base rate is Prime Rate, HIBOR or LIBOR in Hong Kong which is determined by the interest fixing date. The most common fixing period is every three months (given 3-months period base rate is chosen).
Mentioned in last article, Pricing of syndication also include the Upfront Fee to be charged from loan proceed. The Upfront fee is a tiered fee base on the financing amount. From the example of Country Garden below, financing amount above HKD75M is top tier lender who change 2.35% Upfront Fee. Second tier lender financing above HKD50M charge 2.17% as Upfront Fee.
From the bank perspective, the higher the Upfront Fee is more attractive in terms of return between two identical deal with same all in yield. The higher Upfront Fee proportion means higher immediate return from the transaction. However, borrower has the other way round of measurement with bank given the available fund from the loan is deducted by the Upfront Fee.
Financial Covenants
Syndication loan is a committed loan. Lenders shall fulfil the obligation to fund the drawdown as long as drawdown conditions are complied. To mitigate the credit risk concern of lenders and closely monitor the credit risk during the tenor, other than borrower undertakings, financial covenants ("covenants") are generally applied to control the borrower investment and monitor the borrower business performance. Compare with public debt, public bonds are widely held and easily transferable, permitting holders to inexpensively diversify, manage, and transfer credit risk. The result is typically less restrictive covenants in light of greater publicly available information about those borrowers, the higher cost to monitor and enforce compliance, and a decline in the ability to mitigate credit risk through contract. By contrast, private debt builds on the pre-existing relationship between lenders and borrowers. Covenants are applied in order to control the borrower's activities. However, covenants can be expensive and imperfect predictors of management behaviour, reflecting the low possibility to assess business performance. Compare with public debt market, the risk that some covenants will limit profitable activity is offset by the ability, among a small group of lenders, to inexpensively renegotiate covenants that have become too restrictive, as well as to exercise control rights.
Covenant level are determined, in part, by the amount of borrower information that a lender possesses or can be cheaply acquired. If the lender is less well-informed, it is more likely to seek stricter covenants in order to more closely control a borrower's future activities. The level of financial covenants are set base on the business forecast agreed by Borrower and Lenders. Below are the general financial covenants applied in syndication loan.
CovenantType of CovenantCovenantType of Covenant
Debt to EBITDALeverage Current RatioLiquidity
Leverage RatioLeverage Debt Service CoverageLiquidity
Debt to Tangible Net WorthLeverage Cash Interest CoverageLiquidity
Debt to EquityLeverage Fixed Charge CoverageLiquidity
Loan to ValueLeverage Interest CoverageLiquidity
Tangible Net WorthNet Worth Quick RatioLiquidity
CapexCapex EBITDALiquidity
Concluding Remarks
This article provides a high level of introduction to syndication loan. Detail of terms and mechanism is complex for syndication base on different financing purpose. A simple corporate loan is straightforward without complicated undertakings and covenants. However, a highly leverage financing such as Leverage Buyout or Project Financing, the terms could be lengthy and complicated. The role of MLAB is important for structuring a marketable transaction which can be concluded for Borrower. Other than structuring, execution is another key for MLAB as there is a lot of parties shall be involved such as participant, legal counsel, consultancy, regulator, etc. All the terms in the facility agreement are set in order to mitigate and control the credit risk to be taken by the lenders according to the business of borrower. Therefore, a gate keeper on documentation execution as last step is also crucial for borrower to avoid post transaction administration and potential default.
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Looking at the source, it could be that Mechanize is supposed to work like that. It forces the form method to uppercase when it fetches the form; you are expected to supply the method in uppercase when you want to match it. You might ping the mechanize person(s) and ask them if it's supposed to work like that.
Here in Mechanize.submit, it forces the form method to uppercase before comparing it:
def submit(form, button=nil, headers={})
 case form.method.upcase
 when 'POST'
 when 'GET'
and here again in Form.initialize, the method is forced to uppercase:
 def initialize(node, mech=nil, page=nil)
 _USER_ = (node['method'] || 'GET').upcase
But in page.rb is the code where mechanize is matching a form (or link, base, frame or iframe) against the parameters you gave, the parameter you passed in is not forced to uppercase, so it's a case sensitive match:
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Well, it's a case sensitive match if you pass in a string. But if you pass in a regex, it's a regex match. So you ought to be able to do this:
login_form = page.form_with(:method => /post/i)
and have it work fine. But I would probably just pass in an uppercase String, send the Mechanize person(s) an email, and move on.
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Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Social sciences, Humanities and Education
Economic conditions of Georgian Church and Monasteries in the XI – beginning of the XIII century (based on Historical Documents)
Georgian Church has always been an important player in the political and economic history of the country. Throughout centuries its strength has been based not only on its ideological influence but also its economic strength.
The present paper studies the economic conditions of the Georgian Church based on the surviving historical documents from the XI c. to the beginning of the XIII centuries: "Report by Melkhisedek Catholicos to the Cathedral of Mtskheta ", "Written by the Head Priest St. Nicolao", "Deeds by King George to Georgian Church" and others. Through these documents, we can trace the relationship between the King or a particular feudal lord and the Church, the social circle of church donors, economic status of the feudal lord, the growth of the property of the churches and monasteries, and the complicated relationship between the Church and the State: the Church with its growing wealth striving to be "a state within a state" and the State aiming to gain the support of the Church as the most influential institution and at the same time trying to control this influence. The paper also gives analysis of various kinds of taxes and grants paid to the Church, and the structure of the church property management board.
keywords: Georgian Church, economic history


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Waterlogged is a side quest in Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds.
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Obtaining the quest
This quest can be obtained in one of two ways. If Aloy speaks to Laulai, she will inform Aloy of a sudden rush of water that has flooded the basin at Deep Din and obstructed her family's legacy. Aloy will offer to investigate. Laulai can be found in Song's Edge, but if Aloy does not speak to her there she will turn up in Longnotch later.
Alternatively, Aloy can bypass Laulai and visit Deep Din or Greycatch on her own. The quest will automatically start when Aloy gets close to one of the locations.
 1. Go to the Lake
 2. Follow the River Upstream
 3. Find an Entrance
 4. Enter the Greycatch
 5. Explore the Control Room
 1. Examine the Control Panel
 2. Examine the Schematics
 3. Examine the Breaker Bank
 6. Explore the Dam
 7. Find the Source of the Shouting
 1. Talk to the Oseram
 8. Follow Gildun
 9. Close the First Sluice Gate
 1. Find a Path to the Other Side
 2. Unblock Sluice Gate
 3. Lock the First Sluice Gate
 10. Follow Gildun
 11. Find a Path to the Second Sluice Gate
 12. Lower the Emergency Ladder
 13. Close the Second Sluice Gate
 1. Find a Path to the Other Side
 2. Look for the Counterweight
 3. Get on the Counterweight
 4. Lock the Second Sluice Gate
 14. Recover the Emitter
 1. Kill the Snapmaw
 2. Search the Snapmaw
 15. Restore Power to the Door
 1. Return to the Control Center
 2. Replace the Emitter
 16. Go to the Storage Room
 1. Find a Power Cell
 2. Replace the Power Cell
 3. Talk to Gildun
 17. Go to the Overflow Basin
 18. Enter the Overflow Basin
 19. Find the Source of the Sound
 20. Talk to Laulai
Waterlogged - Ultra Hard - No Damage - Video Guide
Frozen Wilds Audio Datapoints
Frozen Wilds Text Datapoints - Quests
 - Gildun can be found at Longnotch after the quest's completion, and a conversation can be had with him. However, he will speak as if Firebreak and The Forge of Winter have not been completed (this is likely a glitch).
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3 tons oil fired hot water boiler
In food factories, heat source equipment is essential. In the process of food processing, the process of disinfection and ripening of raw materials is inseparable from the application of boilers. The oil and gas boilers produced by ZG boiler can provide industrial steam or hot water for food processing to transfer heat.
How to identify whether the toxic chemical plant boiler emission sources on how to identify whether the toxic chemical plant boiler emission sources? Now, the chemical inside the boiler or the production of major productivity. But there is a time of some chemical plants for production of boilers, flue gas emissions place are smoke smoke. Which is the most common white smoke tobacco, and there are a lot of people will find that the more obvious the more cold weather white smoke, which is why in the end, saw the boiler flue gas chemical plant will be white coming out. In fact, most white column of smoke, especially in cold weather to see, and water vapor is condensed water droplets nothing. Boiler feed water tank is equipped with a chimney, only water vapor and air emissions. Water is one of the important by-product of combustion, so the chimney of coal, oil and natural gas boilers have water vapor. To reach reduce dust pollution emission regulations, companies will discharge terminal apparatus water filtration apparatus into the exhaust gas boiler water filtration, all the inside of the dust filtered off, and then discharged to the atmosphere. Hyperthermia with dust filter, the exhaust gas is also absorbed by water to form water vapor is discharged from the chimney, the cold white smoke that we see a. In chemical plants, always able to see a kind of braving the plume of flame, burning in it day and night, in fact, this is not a column of smoke, its name is called safe torch. Chemical plant in the production process, many of flammable and explosive gases can occur, many of which are harmful. They are large heavy than air, if released into the atmosphere, by extension, be deposited on the ground and reaches very high concentrations, which will form a serious environmental pollution and damage to human health, should encounter fire, the fire will be formed, and the blasting . In order to prevent the onset of these risks, people will set them up and burn to prevent future trouble. There is also a mistaken chimney built, in fact, they are cooling towers, water vapor is discharged from the sterilization algae and some trace of drugs. Cooling towers is cold and hot water and steam generation using the air flow after the touch, the steam reaches the transpiration transpiration remove heat dissipation, convective heat transfer principle of thermal radiation and dissipate heat like occurs in industrial refrigeration and air conditioning, or to decrease the water temperature transpiration cooling means to ensure the normal operation of the system, it is above the water vapor.
Recently, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, the ecological environment expanded Bureau held a working high-pollution fuel combustion zone ban will promote further urge the major companies on time and quality completion of boiler rectification task. It will be mentioned in the need to deeply Publicizing the newly revised "Air Pollution Prevention Regulations of Guangdong Province" and "boiler air pollutant emission standards" and to implement the next phase of work to expand the scope of the ban on burning zone, Zhongshan City.
District policy is to implement the ban on burning blue sky, Zhongshan City, to win the Battle of the most important, relevant departments, district towns, enterprises should pay full attention and positive action in order to "limit Forced, territorial responsibility, multi-pronged approach , coordinated implementation of the "principle, should work together to create synergy, take the following measures to ensure that all targets are met within the deadline.
According to published Zhongshan City, "about expanding the scope of high-pollution fuel combustion zone ban notice" requirement, in addition to coal-fired cogeneration thermal power plant units have been built high-pollution fuel industrial equipment must be removed or completed by June 30 this year clean energy transformation, all enterprises should actively cooperate with government departments to complete the rectification task on time and quality.
According to requirements "Boiler Air Pollutants Emission Standards" (DB44 / _PHONE_), and from April 1 this year, the province's start step by step implementation of the new air pollutant emission standards boiler, new boiler effective from April 1 this year, in accordance with the different regions in which, since 1 July 2019 or 1 July 2020 to implement the new standard boilers. Compared with the original standards, new standards particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants received strict emission limits help to further reduce the total emissions of air pollutants.
Main contents of boiler energy efficiency test：
1. Boiler thermal efficiency test: a) determination of boiler evaporation; b) boiler excess air coefficient detection; c) exhaust smoke temperature detection; d) fuel combustion efficiency test; e) boiler thermal efficiency test; f) fuel consumption; g) Steam to coal ratio.
2. Boiler new product stereotyped energy efficiency test: Determine whether the boiler thermal performance indicators are consistent with the design and determine the operation mode of the equipment. Such as boiler evaporation, boiler thermal efficiency, combustion efficiency, various heat losses and so on.
3. Boiler operation adjustment test: Determine the most economical operation mode of the boiler and identify defects in the boiler operation. Such as boiler maximum load, boiler minimum load, fuel requirements, economic load, reasonable exhaust gas temperature, optimum wind coal ratio, excess air ratio, secondary air ratio and so on.
4. Comparative test of thermal performance before and after boiler reform: changes in evaporation, effects of combustion, thermal efficiency of boilers, etc.
5, fuel industry analysis, elemental analysis: to judge the quality of oil, gas and other fuels, easy for enterprises to control the quality of fuel into the plant.
6, water quality testing, scale analysis: determine the quality of water, control the boiler water indicators to prevent boiler fouling.


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Hyenas, wolves, bears, coyotes, foxes and packs of vicious feral dogs. When the apocalypse strikes, you'll have just as much to fear from these predators as you do zombies. They're fast, sometimes ferocious, and when they're ravenous they become bolder and much more willing to attack healthy humans.
So how would these animals react to the sight and smell of the reanimated dead, which are essentially walking bags of meat? In an ecosystem ripped apart by the chaos of a zombie invasion, hunger is sure to be a challenge not just for the remaining humans but also for their animal counterparts. And like humans, those animals will do just about anything to survive, even if it means nibbling at the festering, crawling remains of what's left of someone's loved one.
Animal attacks wouldn't be limited to top-tier predators, either. Smaller animals like rats, raccoons and possums would also happily munch on undead goodies if given the opportunity — such as a legless, armless zombie sprawled in a mud pit, awaiting its final, sorrowful end.


Using SOAP with Java | Serialization and Deserialization
by Samudra Gupta
Using SOAP with Java -Part 2
Welcome back to part two of the series. Hope you had a nice coding time and had no major problem in deploying your first SOAP application. If you had one, it is most likely a classpath related problem and you yourself could solve it. One of the easiest ways of solving these problems is to explicitly specify the required.jar files to the java runtime.
Anyway, it is time to explore SOAP in a greater detail; after all life is not always as simple as passing String data-types to the SOAP services. Often the world is much more complex with applications exchanging user-defined data-types. The major issue in handling these complex data-types in the SOAP context is to define a Serialization and Deserialization mechanism for them. The Apache SOAP API defines and implements a couple of default Serializers/Deserializers for primitive data types and Java Beans and it is also possible to create our own custom Serializers and Deserializers. In this installment, we will discuss issues related with the Serialization and Deserialization and will develop a Java Bean based SOAP application. Before we venture to do that, we need to understand the Serialization mechanism behind the SOAP implementations.
Serialization/Deserialization protocol in SOAP
First let us define the term Serialization and Deserialization in SOAP context. Serialization is a process of converting objects to the XML instance and Deserialization is the process of constructing objects out of the XML instance. In the context of a SOAP Remote Procedure Call, which we are developing throughout this series, there are two types of data exchange taking place.
 - The parameters to the SOAP Remote method.
 - The response from the SOAP remote service.
The exchange of data usually takes place using a methodology for transforming object graphs to XML, named as Section 5 encoding. All major SOAP implementations available today use this encoding scheme internally. Consider the following complex data type:
class Person
 String name;
 nt age;
and also consider a SOAP remote service accepting a Person data-type as a parameter:
class Aservice
 public String acceptPerson(Person p)
 //do something here
 return "a string";
If we invoke this remote method named acceptPerson as a part of the remote service Aservice, then the corresponsing SOAP representation of the RPC will look like:

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The above SOAP XML instance is a representation of a RPC call that dispatches the method call acceptPerson with a Person object as a parameter. The elements serviceParam, name, age are called accessors and they are the container of the values. The xsi:type attributes define the exact data-types of the elements. The SOAP provider and the client normally agree in advance on the data-types of parameters of each RPC but this exact specification becomes useful in a case where the service uses a generalised data-type which can potentially represent two or more data-types. Consider a case that a method accepts a java.lang.Object as a parameter. The Object might be an Integer or a String or anything else. In this case, the xsd:type attribute will strictly indicate the data-type to be used. The accessors with explicit xsd:type attribute are known as polymorphic accessors. The Apache SOAP serialization mechanism uses polymorphic accessors.
Simple data-types in SOAP
The Apache SOAP implementation supports most of the simple data-types except char. But it is a trivial task to implement a Serializer for the same. The list of the all supported simple types can be found within the Apache SOAP API documentation but for a handy note, the following table illustrates a few of them.
Data type SOAP type Serializer/Deserializer
String xsd:string StringSerializer
Integer xsd: int IntObjectSerializer
int xsd:int IntSerializer
---xxx--- --xxx--- ---xxxx-----
QName xsd:Qname QNameSerializer
If you have been tempted to overlook the table, you might have missed one or two important points. First of all, it is worth noticing that the primitive types and their wrapper(s) both are handled with a separate Serializer class but they are represented as the same data-type in the SOAP XML instance. Second, there is a rather curious data-type QName. This is a data-type designed to represent the user-defined compound data-types.
Compound types
A compound data-type is a type with constituent elements, which are either pure objects with one or more properties or a data structure. The Apache SOAP implementation supports the following Java based compound types:
Data type SOAP type Serializer/Deserializer
Array SOAP-ENC: Array ArraySerializer
Vector, Enumeration {_URL_ VectorSerializer
Hashtable {_URL_ HashtableSerializer
Map {_URL_ MapSerializer
Java Bean User-defined Qname BeanSerializer
As you can see from the above table that arbitrary Java bean classes which are compound data-types can be serialized with a BeanSerializer provided by the Apache SOAP, but to do that the compound data-type that you are using must follow the java bean specification which we will discuss in the relevant section.


Difference between DBA_TABLES.num_rows and count(*)
One thing DBAs regularly do is to gather information on the schemas in the database for reporting. So we want to know how many rows there are in the tables of the schema "SIMON". When doing so, one is tempted to query the DBA_TABLES view:
SQL> SELECT table_name, tablespace_name, num_rows
 2 FROM dba_tables WHERE owner='SIMON' ORDER BY num_rows DESC;
TABLE_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME NUM_ROWS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------
HUGE_TABLE DZ_DATA01 _PHONE_
[..]
However, if we query the table directly, we get a different result:
SQL> SELECT count(*) FROM simon.HUGE_TABLE;
COUNT(*) ---------- _PHONE_
Why is that so? When reading through the description of the ALL_TABLES view, one finds the following note:
Columns marked with an asterisk (*) are populated only if you collect statistics on the table with the ANALYZE statement or the DBMS_STATS package.
NUM_ROWS just happens to be one of those columns. This means that this value is updated by DBMS_STATS. So it does not contain the current number of rows in the table but an approximation calculated the last time DBMS_STATS ran.
So if we want to update the value in the DBA_TABLES view (because it is more convenient for our report to use this view instead of querying every table), we just have a look at the Oracle documentation for the DBMS_STATS package and find that the following command does what we want:
SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname => 'SIMON');
Note that by default, Oracle sets the "estimate_percent" parameter of the gather_schema_stats procedure to DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE, which means that Oracle will approximate the number of rows in most cases. This means that the actual number of rows is estimated and not calculated. Please refer to the Oracle documentation for more information about the parameters of this procedure.
So after we gathered the stats (I executed gather_schema_stats with the "estimate_percent => NULL" parameter for the exact number of rows), lets have a look at the DBA_TABLES view again:
SQL> SELECT table_name, tablespace_name, num_rows
 2 FROM dba_tables WHERE owner='SIMON' ORDER BY num_rows DESC;
TABLE_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME NUM_ROWS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------
HUGE_TABLE DZ_DATA01 _PHONE_
Voilà , now we can use this value for reporting!
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I have to build a street network with PostGIS that will be used with pgRouting.
I have two tables:
 1. the_network (182 lines): is a MULTILINESTRING table. Having columns "road_name" (varchar), "road_length" (numeric)
 2. buildings (104 lines): is a POINT table. Having "building_id" (integer)
The following code creates lines between buildings and the network. The 104 created lines are stored in "buildings_to_network_lines_table" which is GEOMETRY type.
SELECT ST_ShortestLine(a.geom, ST_Collect(b.geom)) AS geom,
 ST_Distance(a.geom, ST_Collect(b.geom)) AS shape_length INTO buildings_to_network_lines_table
FROM buildings a, the_network b
WHERE ST_Dwithin(a.geom, b.geom, 1000)
GROUP BY by a.gid, a.geom;
How to create a new table containing the black lines (the_network) and the red lines (buildings_to_network_lines_table)
Then I just want to create one table named the_network_full that contains all the lines of the_network and buildings_to_network_lines_table tables. I've tried to achieve this by a ST_UNION() function:
SELECT ST_Union(a.geom, b.geom) AS the_network_full
FROM the_network a, buildings_to_network_lines_table b;
xample
The results look good but unfortunately the resulting "the_network_full" table (type GEOMETRY) contains 18'928 lines (182*104) instead of 182+104=286 lines.
How can I merge these two tables into a new one?
 - Did you want a geometrical union? Seems like you want the union of tables: SELECT geom AS the_network_full FROM the_network UNION SELECT geom AS the_network_full FROM buildings_to_network_lines_table; – César Argul García Apr 9 '14 at 12:14
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You implicitly CROSS JOINed the tables so you got a cartesian product. Since you don't want to merge the geometries together you should use the UNION ALL which is an entirely different construct:
SELECT a.geom
FROM the_network a
UNION ALL
SELECT b.geom
FROM buildings_to_network_lines_table b
Now that you have a correct SELECT query you can use it in INSERT ... SELECT to put the data in new table.
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the projector and the Chromecast.
 3. On your Android phone, find the casting option.
 4. Cast the display of your android phone after successfully connected.
The process is the same as you connect your Android to your TV. It will cast the entire screen of your phone to your projector.
How to Cast Android Screen To Your Projector With A Cable?
Not every smartphone supports this feature, very less phones have the function of sending video signals through a video outport. So you will have to check if your device is compatible or not.
Using an HDMI Cable
Some Android devices have a micro HDMI built-in port. This feature allows you to connect your device directly to your HDMI enabled projectors via a micro HDMI to HDMI cable. If your device has a micro HDMI port, then buy a micro HDMI to standard HDMI cable.
Many smartphones have USB-C ports which are capable of transferring video signals into an HDMI enabled supported display such as HDTV, Projector and monitors. Not every USB-C port device will be capable of sending video to a projector. Check your phone specifications and then order a USB-C to HDMI cable from eBay or Amazon.
Using an MHL cable
If your device doesn't have a micro HDMI or USB-C port, then try this method. Every smartphone contains a micro USB port for transferring data and charging. Some devices are MHL supported and can be connected through a big screen. Not every device supports MHL. We recommend you to check the compatibility of your device before moving forward. When you know that your device is MHL supportable, then you can buy one from Amazon.
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It is not that hard to find tourist hotspots, but the problematic part is finding offbeat and unique spots. There are a few travel apps that are made specially to help you find unique places. You will not only find must-visit spots but even those places that very less cover.
Here are the best apps for unraveling unusual places:
1. Triptipedia
Triptipedia is an ideal competition for Wikitravel and Wikivoyage. Even, if you are used to these two Wiki sites, you need to try out this perfect alternative as well. It provides excellent travel advice and tips. This web app is user-generated, and all the information is there available by other travelers and local people.
If we consider the difference between Triptipedia and Wiki Sites, it is that every spot is shown like a blog post and easy to read. Any visitor or local person can share information about places. Hence, even you can share your views after visiting a spot and help others. No matter where you are going, the Travel Tips section is worth checking. From the Tours and Activities section, you can explore local experiences.
2. Where Would You Go
It is easy to move around a new city with the use of Google Maps. You need someone to guide you where you have to go on the map. Where Would You Go web app provides the same specific service to you. It gives you a dedicated plan through route after you enter the first stop or point of origin, the final destination, and preferences such as the number of hours. After the map is created, you can share around with your friends and family.
There is even an option to add spots that people think are exciting and a dedicated comment on why they are recommending the same. WWYG is an ideal exciting alternative for Google Maps all in all.
3. FreeTour
If you love free and budget things, the FreeTour app is an excellent solution for you. It is, however, associated with free walking tours mostly. This app shows free walking tours being conducted in various cities and lets you join them. It is not easy to find the same through Google search. All of the budget-friendly and free activities are highlighted in this web app for you. You can also filter the options based on price, rating, categorize, and languages.
Other than walking tours, you can try out segway tours, private cars, nightlife, food and drink, day trips, and cruises through the FreeTour app. There is a detailed description of every activity, along with user reviews and ratings from different consumers. Its large community lets you find information with ease. You can download and install this app for free on both Android and iOS devices.
4. The Culture Trip
The Culture Trip comes as a perfect free Lonely Planet alternative and available on Android, iOS, and Web. Most of the major cities of the world are covered in this app and allows users to know the culture and history of a particular place perfectly. There are dedicated articles and video for every destined, and The Culture Trip is offering all the information. You get the option to create a wishlist of items and download the content of the app offline as well.
5. TravelChime
TravelChime is an excellent web app for planning and mapping all the interesting spots. No matter if you travel along or with a group, this app will be a great companion for you. Its easy-to-use and exciting interface makes it different from others. After signing up and inviting friends and family for editing, you can create lists and add must-visit places, food, drinks, and more. The Google Guides can be used inside this app as well.
Same as WWYG, TravelChime also allows you to take the advice of others through sharing the map link of yours. However, they need to register first or sign in with the use of Google or Facebook. The best things is you can export the itinerary to Google Maps after building it.
Conclusion
Getting fresh ideas for your next trip for free is not that bad. If you want to cover all the great places on your trip, you can use all of the mentioned apps above. They consist of everything itinerary planner to travel blogs to help you out ideally.
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Apple has made it easy for all Apple users to mass delete photos on their iPhone or iPad. For permanently deleting pictures and photos from Apple devices, you need to remove all images from 'Recently Deleted Items' album. For this, follow some simple steps provided by experts and easily delete your photos permanently from your device. The process is mentioned below.
Steps to Mass Delete Photos on An iPhone or iPad
Well, there are various options for removing or deleting all photos in just one click, you only need to select those groups of photos which you want to delete from your iPhone or iPad. Here are a few simple steps that follow them in the sequence as illustrated, it will save lots of time and efforts of the users. Here how to do it:
 1. Click on the 'Multicolor Flower iPhone Photos App' icon appears on the screen to open it.
 2. Note: This app usually located between the Camera and Calendar apps on the home screen of the iPhone or between the Music and Mail apps on the home screen of the iPad.
 3. Click on the 'Photos' icon displaying with overlapping rectangles in the footer left corner of the screen just to open all photos grouped by the data users were taken.
 4. Click on the 'Choose' option appears in the top-left corner of the screen.
 5. Select each group of photos users wants to remove from the list of photos. If in case, out of all the photo one photo in a group which users want to delete, just press on it after you selected all the images and deselect the image you don't want to delete.
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text: The aim of this study was to analyze the physical and chemical characteristics of the maturation process of pitaya fruit (Hylocereus undatus) to identify indicators that can be used to determine the point of physiological maturity and establish the optimal timing of physiological maturity for harvesting the fruit. A completely randomized experimental design was employed and four biological repeats were performed. Physiological maturity was assessed using various physical characteristics: longitudinal length (LL), equatorial diameter (ED), pericarp thickness (PeT), pulp thickness (PuT), fruit mass (FM), pulp mass (PuM), pericarp mass (PeM), pericarp percentage (%Pe), pulp percentage (%Pu), pulp/pericarp ratio (Pu/Pe), pericarp color index (CI), hue color angle (h°), lightness index (L*), chroma (C*), blue-yellow variation (b*), and green-red variation (a*). Additionally, chemical characteristics such as soluble solid content (SS), titratable acidity (TA), SS/TA ratio, and pH were screened. The data were statistically analyzed by fitting regression models and computing Pearson's correlation coefficients (P < 0.05). Physiological maturity in pitaya fruits occurred between the 30th and 32nd days after anthesis, and this proved to be the optimal period for harvest.


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Twitter Aggregator (CMTA) - How The Plugin Works
How It Works
CM Twitter Aggregator displays list of tweets gathered from Twitter user timelines (for example _USER_) or hashtags (for example _TAG_).
Tweets are assigned to categories which are organized into lists (each category can have a single tweet source assigned to it).
Each category can handle tweets from one user timeline or hashtag. In a list you can have many categories therefor can display tweets from several users and hashtags.
Each category also let you filter the content of each tweet by using positive and negative keywords. This way you can display tweets which are dealing with specific topic.
- To create simple tweets list go to Admin Panel -> Twitter Aggregator and click List. Create new list.
- Then, go to Categories and create a new one. Write category title, pass the twitter source (_USER_ or _TAG_). Add category to list and click on Add New Category.
- Paste shortcode to your post/page and set list attribute with list name or category attribute with category name:
For example if list has name My Simple List shortcode should looks like (note quotation marks in shortcode):


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The Validity of Disease-specific Quality of Life Attributions Among Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Health Services Research | Statistics and Probability
BACKGROUND: A crucial assumption underlying all disease-specific quality of life (QOL) measures, that patients can validly differentiate a specific disease in the presence of multiple chronic conditions, has not been tested using multiple methods. Our objective was to evaluate the convergent and discriminant validity of QOL attributions to specific diseases among adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC).
METHODS: Adults age 18 and older (N=4,480) sampled from eight pre-identified condition groups (asthma, COPD, angina/MI with angina, congestive heart failure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis) completed an Internet survey. Comorbid conditions were determined using a 35-condition checklist. Product-moment correlations were analyzed separately by pre-identified condition group using the multitrait-multimethod of construct validation, where traits were defined by 9-26 conditions and each condition was measured by two methods: disease severity rating and Disease-specific Quality of Life Impact Scale (QDIS) global rating. A third method (symptom or clinical marker) was available for the eight pre-identified conditions. Convergent validity was supported when correlations among different methods of measuring the same condition (trait) were substantial (r > /=0.40). Discriminant validity was supported when correlations between the same and different methods of measuring different conditions were significantly lower than corresponding convergent correlations.
RESULTS: In support of convergent validity, 22 of 24 convergent correlations were substantial (r=0.38-0.84, median=0.53). In support of discriminant validity, 833 of 924 tests (90.2%) yielded significantly higher convergent than discriminant correlations across the eight pre-identified conditions. Exceptions to this pattern of results were most often observed for comorbid conditions within the same clinical area.
CONCLUSIONS: Collectively, convergent and discriminant test results support the construct validity of disease-specific QOL impact attributions across MCC within the eight pre-identified conditions. Noteworthy exceptions should be considered when interpreting some specific QOL impact attributions and warrant further study. Pursuit of a summary disease-specific QOL impact score standardized across MCC is recommended.
Disease-specific measures, Health-related quality of life, Multiple chronic conditions, Multitrait-multimethod analysis, Patient-reported outcomes, Validity
Int J Stat Med Res. 2016;5(1):17-40.
International journal of statistics in medical research
Ware JE, Gandek BL, Allison JJ. (2016). The Validity of Disease-specific Quality of Life Attributions Among Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions. UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications. Retrieved from _URL_


English / Does Huckleberry Have A Prayer?
Does Huckleberry Have A Prayer?
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Does Huckleberry Have A Prayer?
In Mark Twainâ€™s Huckleberry Finn, the concepts of prayer, religion, and spirituality are introduced early on in the novel, and their influence on Huckâ€™s character and their role in the overall story is evident regardless of the theory of criticism that is employed for interpretation. A New Critic scours the text for conflicts, symbols, and resolutions while examining word choice in an effort to determine the literal meaning (Bressler 45-48). A Reader-Response Critic, particularly a subjective critic who advocates the readerâ€™s worldview over the text, reads the text and then relies on her own past experiences to give it meaning (Bressler 67). When these practices are employed, the Reader-Response Critic and the New Critic find that prayer and religion are essential components in the development of Huckâ€™s character as well as the perception of it.
Huck first mentions prayer when describing dinner at the Widow Douglasâ€™s home. He explains that â€œyou couldnâ€™t go right to eatingâ€ because you had to wait until a prayer was â€œgrumbledâ€ (Twain 33). From the beginning, there is conflict involving prayer because it impedes on Huckâ€™s desire to eat his dinner right away, and this gives Huck a reason to dislike the practice of praying. Huck never details exactly what the prayer states; he only refers to its â€œgrumblingâ€ sound, implying that he regards it as nothing more than discontented muttering. As a Sunday School teacher at a church, I have spent a lot of time with children who were just becoming familiar with praying. In the beginning, they often view it as a chore that is simply something that has to be done before a meal. However, unlike most chores, I have rarely seen a child dislike it, probably because they are in a clerical setting and have been told prayer pleases God. Huck, however, seems to be indifferent to praying and God, and I believe this is because he has not accepted them to be superior concepts like the children at my church have.
Huckâ€™s disinterest in religion is again evident when the Widow Douglas tries to teach him about Moses and the Bulrushers. Though he was â€œin a sweat to find out all about himâ€ (Twain 33), Huck loses interest as soon as he realizes Moses has been dead for a long time. Huck is concerned with the here and now, something that he can relate to, and because Moses lived eons before he did, Huck feels there is nothing to learn from him, as â€œhe takes no stock in dead peopleâ€ (Twain 33). A few children in my Sunday School class have the same attitude, but most of them appreciate the Bible and wish to learn its stories, even if they are thousands of years old. Their interest is again accounted for by their acceptance of God and their desire to know more about Him. Huck, however, has not accepted God and thus has no reason to mull over Him.
When Miss Watson tells Huck about heaven and hell, Huckâ€™s reaction indicates that he does not comprehend God or the significance of His presence, which is what Miss Watson is so desperately trying to stress. Upon hearing about â€œthe bad placeâ€ (Twain 33), Huck declares that he would like to go there, justifying his claim by expressing his desire to go somewhere else. This shows that while Huck may be oblivious to God and His legacy, he is not oblivious to the world around him or his own desires. He wants adventure, specifically adventure away from Miss Watson. When she tells him that she is going to heaven, Huck sees â€œno advantage in going where she is goingâ€ (Twain 33), and Huck resolves that â€œhe wouldnâ€™t try for itâ€ (Twain 33). His aspiration for adventure is again evident when Miss Watson offers a bland description of heaven by telling that life there is simple and consists of nothing more than singing and playing a harp â€œall day long forever and everâ€ (Twain 33). Huck is not impressed at all by this, a strong indicator that he wishes his life to be multifaceted and spontaneous rather than simple and predictable. The prospect of heaven presents two conflicts, the first is being with Miss Watson and the second is facing an eternal unadventurous existence. Huck resolves these conflicts by deciding he will go to â€œthe bad placeâ€ and enjoying the fact that Tom Sawyer will be there with him. As a Sunday School teacher, I have never had a child tell me that he or she wanted to go to hell, and I believe Huckâ€™s decision is based solely on Miss Watsonâ€™s inability to put across the notions of heaven and God. She condescendingly tells Huck about heaven, pompously bragging that she will be going there, while failing to realize that Huck is simply not grasping the true significance of either the good place or the bad place. She is overlooking Huckâ€™s desires and his belief in his own purpose, which is essential in fostering a relationship with God.
In the third chapter, Huck assumes an active role in prayer. For the first time, Huck tells of his own experiences praying, a practice Miss Watson encourages. â€œShe told me to pray everyday, and whatever I asked for I would getâ€ (Twain 39), Huck relays, but he finds that when he asks for material items, he does not always get them. When he asks Miss Watson to pray for the things he is praying for, she tells him he is a fool but refuses to offer an explanation why, and Huck is unable to figure it out on his own. Prayer again presents Huck with conflict, as it fails to help him obtain the things he wants, something he believes it is guaranteed to do. He also again finds conflict with Miss Watson, who condemns Huck for believing she should pray for materialistic things without offering any reason for her disapproval. This time, however, he gives prayer a second thought, as he takes time to think about it. He ponders why people are unable to improve their situations through prayer, a sign that he has accepted a concept of prayer, albeit a distorted one. Though a resolution is not fully reached at this point, it is evident that progress is being made, as Huck is becoming more open to the prospect of prayer. When I talk to children about praying, I assure them that they can pray for whatever they want while stressing that God will answer as He sees appropriate. Miss Watson fails to explain the relationship between God and prayer, something that Huck is unable to comprehend on his own. I feel Miss Watson segregates Huck and God, as she continues to fall short of truly explaining the concepts of religion.
The Widow Douglas is able to convey the principles of prayer and God more effectively than Miss Watson. When Huck cannot make sense of why people cannot obtain material things from prayer, he asks the widow who explains that praying results in â€œspiritual giftsâ€ (Twain 40). When he does not understand, the widow elaborates, and eventually Huck comes to realize that he has to put other people first. Even though he decides there is no advantage in doing so, Huck is still open to the Widowâ€™s ideas, mainly because she explains them. Listening as the widow describes God and comparing that depiction to the one Miss Watson relays, Huck concludes there are two different Gods. Conflict arises when Miss Watson demolishes the beautiful idea of God that the widow has relayed. This conflict is resolved when Huck chooses the widowâ€™s God, and even though he doubts that God would want him because he is â€œignorantâ€ and â€œornery,â€ Huck seems to be content with leaving whether or not he is accepted up to God. I believe the barrier between God and Huck increases because of Miss Watson. She continues to describe a God that is not just or loving, which is simply not how God is. Though I sometimes teach children who are mischievous, I always keep in mind that they are Godâ€™s children first and foremost, and my responsibility is to convince them of that to the best of my ability. By not teaching Huck that he is an important to God, Miss Watson continues to keep God and His legacy away from Huck.
Huck views prayer and religion as impediments because he has not been fully educated in their true significance. Two people, Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, try to teach him about God and prayer, but they do so in different ways, which confuses Huck. He wants adventure but never recognizes that a life with God is an adventure. He wants to pray for things that are important, but he fails to understand that the important things in life are not materialistic. He wants to understand the things that Miss Watson is telling him, but she refuses to explain them to him. Huck struggles to ascertain a relationship with God because he is unable to acquire a sufficient understanding of Him. Because he does not immediately accept the