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Organic kudampuli (Indian garcinia)
We are the manufacture of kudampuli (Indian garcinia)Kudampuli is a moderate-sized, evergreen tree and the flowers are unisexual, sessile and axillary. The leaves are dark green, shining, elliptic to obviate. It bears sweet-sour mixed fruits native to SE Asia and India. The fruit may resemble a small yellow or reddish pumpkin, or it may have a unique purple colour. The fruit of Garcinia cambogia has been traditionally used in food preparation and cooking, having a distinctive taste. Garcinia has garnered a lot of attention of late as a popular natural weight loss aid. The reason is that the rind of this pumpkin like fruit is rich in a substance called hydroxycitric acid / HCA. Aside from its use in food preparation and preservation, extracts of G. cambogia are sometimes used in traditional medicine as purgatives. Kudampuli is known for its medicinal values in Ayurveda. It helps to promote digestion, and a decoction (kashayam) made out of it is used against Arthritis and some uterine deceases. It is also known to cure ulcers. The root of Kudampuli can be used quire the swelling the whole body due to viper bite.
Kudampuli is found to have astringent, antioxidant, anticatarrhal, demulcent, thermogenic, cardiotonic and anti-cancer properties. It is effective against rheumatism, piles, bilious affections, edema, intestinal parasites, constipation and delayed menstruation.
Kudampuli extract is found to increase the mucosal defensive mechanisms in stomach and thereby it is helpful as a protective agent against gastric ulcers. A study has shown that a supplement extract of kudampuli is helpful in reducing both the volume and acidity of gastric juice. Further, its use showed promotion of defensive factors on gastric mucosa.
More recently, it has been proved that kudampuli has a hepato-protective ability against external toxins, such as alcohol. A recent study showed that its use prevented liver cells from becoming fibrotic and stopped cell damage caused by high blood lipid levels.
How does Kudampuli help in weight loss?
The science behind Kudampuli promoting loss of weight is simple. See how it works:
 - Suppresses hunger naturally: We all know that overeating leads of unwanted weight gain. Kudampuli helps in suppressing your appetite and thus, you feel less hungry throughout the day. Your metabolism too is improved.
 - Controls blood sugar level: The extracts of Garcinia Cambodia help to control blood sugar levels. When your appetite is suppressed, not only are you less prone to consume increased amounts of carbohydrates, you are also saved from a spike in blood sugar levels and deposit of fats in your body. It also blocks the enzymecitrate lyase, which is responsible for the conversion of carbohydrate into sugar and fat.
 - Promotes strong digestive system: Kudampuli protects you from colic pain and irregular movement of bowels. When consumed regularly, Kudampuli tends to strengthen your digestive system and prevents acidity. Your immunity power is also boosted.


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Exhibition, public interventions, graffiti, interactive performances, documentary film screening, and public discussions
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The goal of "Violentine's Day" is to raise awareness about how our everyday lifestyles are tied into the global economy. Using the means of art to investigate the reality behind Valentine's Day, this project will make clear how consumption habits in the Global North can have destructive impacts on people and ecologies in other parts of the world. Following the roses sold in Europe back to Kenya, where they are grown, helps us to see how even small consumer decisions can strongly impact the lives of others.
The project will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, Cheminée Nord: Association d'artistes /ex-usine kugler, on 14 February, Valentine's Day, in collaboration with artists and others from various fields.
Traditionally, lovers express their affection for each other by offering gifts and tokens. Valentine's Day is the recognized calendar day for the romantic celebration of Love. On that day, giving is made especially convenient. Cards and flowers are on ready display, and only neglectful lovers fail to purchase some for their beloveds. The red rose, with its long cultural and literary heritage, is the unmistakable symbol of Love.
But where do the roses come from? Who grows them and where? How do they get to the flower stand on the corner? The Violentine's Day art project investigates these questions. Valentine's Day is a big business, and hidden within corporate boardrooms and behind free
trade rules are destructive social and ecological costs that the lovers of Europe are seldom asked to think about.
Most of the roses consumed in Europe come from Africa (primarily Kenya), and are produced in factory farms located next to large freshwater lakes. And yet how can a country like Kenya, one of the largest producers of flowers for export, also suffer from severe food shortages? The Violentine's Day project aims to generate awareness and discussion about the problematic
aspects of this trade.
Locally, rose production creates many problems for Kenyans. Wages in flower factories are higher than the government mandated minimum wage. However, many health and ecological costs are not reflected in the wage relation. To uncover the real social price of the roses of Valentine's Day, it is necessary to dig deeper. First, roses need large quantities of water (like humans, roses are 70% water). Pumping water from lakes diverts available supplies from local small-scale farmers, and desiccates the local environment. Secondly, factory farming requires large quantities of pesticides that contaminate the aquifer and pollute neighboring environments. Finally, rose production is problematic for the workers themselves because of the high concentration of dangerous chemicals in pesticides. Often, workers handling chemicals are not provided with protective clothing, re-entry periods are not consistently respected, and pregnant women have been exposed to dangerous levels of chemicals. In addition, the lack of overtime payments and many other labor problems also directly result from our desire to say, "I love you". So, one can easily say that the more Western people express their love by buying roses, the more those in exporting countries like Kenya suffer.
"The ecology of terror shows us the path to peace. Peace lies in nourishing ecological and economic democracy and nurturing diversity. Democracy is not merely an electoral ritual but the power of people to shape their destiny, determine how their natural resources are owned and utilized, how their thirst is quenched, how their food is produced and distributed, and what health and education systems they have" (Vandana Shiva, "Water Wars").
The Violentine's Day project will debate the question: What we feel and are willing to do, once we become aware of this.
Vana kostayola, Valério Belloni, Agata Nowak, Maciej Koper a.k.a. Doctor Koper, Tomasz Hanke a.k.a. DJ Tom Hanks, Anna "diabolic laughter" Kar?owska, Elene Georgia Naveriani, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Dadu Magradze, Orféo, Yael Maim, Maëlle Cornut, Laurence Wagner, Gene Ray, Daniel Stain, Melano Sokhadze. Giorgi Kevlishvili.
For more info about the participating artists, download this PDF file: Violentine's Day.
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Sacha Kagan. Research Associate at the ISCO - Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISKO - Institut für Soziologie und Kulturorganisation), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences). For Cultura21, Sacha is also coordinating the eBooks series, the English section of the webmagazine and the work of our Lueneburg-based interns.

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Finding Graphics in a Binary PowerPoint MS-PPT File
Office 2010
Summary: Learn how to locate bitmaps, drawings, WordArt, and other static graphics in a binary MicrosoftPowerPoint (.ppt) file.
Last modified: July 21, 2011
Applies to: Office 2007 | Office 2010 | PowerPoint | PowerPoint 2010 | VBA
In this article
Introduction
Structures and Procedures
Conclusion
Additional Resources
Published: May 2011
Provided by: Microsoft Corporation
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The MS-PPT binary file format (.ppt) is used by Microsoft OfficePowerPoint 2003, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, and Microsoft PowerPoint 97. Use the procedures in this article to extract images or drawings from a .ppt file, and to locate a bitmap in a slide.
Extracting images directly from the binary file lets you quickly scan many files for a particular image without opening the PowerPoint application. You can then remove the image completely, or replace it with another image of the same size, with minimal changes to the file. For example, you could strike all instances of a copyrighted image from a file set, or update all instances of a company logo.
Drawings are harder to replace than images; however, to know where an image appears in a slide, you must find the shape object that the image is anchored to. You can make property changes to drawings or shapes, such as editing the text of a piece of WordArt, with minimal difficulty if the drawings or shapes remain the same size in memory. Otherwise, you must update the record headers in the current edit to reflect their new memory allocations.
Note Note
The recommended way to perform most programming tasks in Microsoft PowerPoint is to use the PowerPoint Primary Interop Assemblies. These are a set of .NET classes that provide a complete object model for working with Microsoft PowerPoint. This article series deals only with advanced scenarios, such as where Microsoft PowerPoint is not installed.
All vector-based graphical elements in a .ppt file are stored as drawings inside DrawingContainer objects in the PowerPoint Document stream. These elements include clip art, WordArt, and any drawings or diagrams that consist of scalable shapes and lines. Bitmaps are stored centrally as binary large images or pictures (BLIPs) inside the Pictures stream, and referenced by the drawings where they appear. Both drawings and BLIPs use the [MS-ODRAW]: Office Drawing Binary File Format Structure Specification file format, which is the shared graphical format for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word.
Note Note
All of the records in a PowerPoint document begin with an 8-byte record header, unless stated otherwise. The third and fourth bytes show the record type, and the last 4 bytes show the length of the record. You can use this information to identify records of interest and skip over the rest.
To Extract Bitmap Images from a .PPT File
 1. Open the Pictures stream.
 This stream contains any embedded bitmap images the user has copied into the file, as a series of OfficeArtBStoreDelay records. An OfficeArtBStoreDelay record is a pure array of OfficeArtBStoreContainerFileBlock records, and has no record header or other fields.
 2. For each OfficeArtBStoreContainerFileBlock record in the array, do the following:
 1. Read bytes 2 and 3 of the record header to get the record type.
 2. If record type = OfficeArtBlip(0xF018-0xF117), continue to the next step in this procedure.
 If record type = OfficeArtFBSE(0xF007), do the following:
 1. Skip the first 20 bytes.
 2. Read the next 4 bytes, which show the size of the bitmap as an unsigned integer.
 3. Skip the next 12 bytes.
 4. Read the .name field, which is a variable length, null -terminated, Unicode string that shows the name of the bitmap.
 The next field is .embeddedBlip, which is an OfficeArtBlip record.
 3. Read the record header of the OfficeArtBlip record. Bytes 2 and 3 specify the file type the image would have if it were saved separately. The last 4 bytes of the record header show the length of the rest of the record. For more information about which type values correspond to which file types, see the [MS-ODRAW] specification, section 2.2.23.
 4. The rest of the OfficeArtBlip record is the actual bitmap image data. Save the image as whichever file type is specified by the record header.
To Extract Drawings from a .PPT File
 1. Create a persist object directory, as described in Understanding the PowerPoint MS-PPT Binary File Format, in the first part of the procedure titled "Retrieving Slides from PowerPoint Files."
 2. In the persist object directory, check the record headers at each specified offset, and read each record header.
 1. If rh.RecType equals RT_Document(0x03E8), this is the Document Container. Check the record header of each of its child containers until you find a record where rh.recType equals RT_DrawingGroup(0x040B).
 This is the drawing group container for the file. Note the location of this container.
 2. Where rh.recType equals RT_MainMaster(0x03F8) or RT_Slide(0x03EE):
 1. Check each child record for a record header where rh.recType equals RT_Drawing(0x040C).
 2. Parse that record as described in Understanding Graphics in Office Binary File Formats under the procedure titled "_URL_
To Locate a Bitmap in a Slide
 1. Extract the bitmaps for the file, as described in the procedure "To Extract Bitmap Images from a .PPT File," and then record the position of each OfficeArtBStoreContainerFileBlock record in the OfficeArtBStoreDelay.rgfb array.
 2. Parse the drawings for the file as described in the procedure "To Extract Drawings from a .PPT File." If you know which slide contains the bitmap, you can parse just the drawings for that one slide.
 3. Check each shape for bitmaps.
 1. For each child of the OfficeArtSpContainer record that represents the current shape, scan the record headers for a record where rh.RecType = OfficeArtFOPT(F00B), which is the Shape Primary Options attribute.
 2. Read the rest of the OfficeArtFOPT record, which consists of a property table.
 The property table is of type OfficeArtRGFOPTE, and has no record header. It consists of an array of 6-byte OfficeArtFOPTE property table entries, followed by a variable-size field for complex data.
 3. Read each property table entry until you find one where the opid.fBid attribute at bit 14 = 0x1, and then read the next 4 bytes as an unsigned integer. This integer specifies the position in the OfficeArtBStoreDelay.rgfb array of the OfficeArtBStoreContainerFileBlock record that contains the corresponding bitmap.
 If none of the property table entries for a given shape have opid.fBid = 0x1, there are no bitmaps associated with that shape.
This article has discussed the basic processes for extracting pictures and shapes from a binary format PowerPoint (.ppt) file. By building on these processes, you will be able to scan large file sets for drawings and bitmaps, tag them, and even replace them with updated versions.
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Different flowers are given different messages and meanings according to the language of flowers, a system of communication that was most popular during the Victorian era. At the time, the way to show someone your feelings without loudly proclaiming your emotions was to gift them with a bouquet of flowers, each with its own meaning.
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Freesia is the most straightforward of the flowers that indicate trust. Trust and innocence are the only implications this flower has. It's used in a variety of products for its fragrance, so a similar message of trust could be sent by giving the person a gift of freesia scented soap or perfume. The freesia flower is extremely delicate and requires much care in cultivation and in harvesting. Its message of trust makes this flower popular in wedding bouquets.
Lily of the Valley
Lily of the valley is a flower native to Great Britain, making it very popular for smaller weddings there. It's not limited to small weddings, however; Kate Middleton's bouquet at her wedding to Prince William was made primarily of these flowers with a few field maples signifying humility. Though it's not a direct message of trust, the lily of the valley indicates sweetness and a trustworthiness about the person.
Freesia is the only flower that specifically indicates trust, but many imply similar messages and connotations. The white carnation is one example. Its message is one of purity but also of faithfulness, implying that the person may be trusted as loyal. Variegated carnations have a meaning related closely to trust and ask the recipient of the flowers to put their faith in the giver. Violets have a variety of meanings, such as modesty, but the blue violet in particular means faith.
Lavender means the opposite of trust. This meaning doesn't come from the lavender flower itself, however -- an unusual fact within the language of flowers. Instead, the implication of distrust comes from the fact that many cultures believed that snakes nested beneath lavender.

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Now that we have looked at editing existing sounds, let's start creating some new ones from scratch.
- In an empty part, go to the Main > Edit view. In the Mapping Editor, right-click and choose Create Keygroup > Synth Template.
- A new keygroup has been created, mapped to the full key and velocity range.
- Play a few notes, and you will hear a simple sine wave oscillator. Let's change that to a sawtooth wave, by clicking the Waveform and choosing Sawtooth from the menu.
- We can continue building our sound by editing the other synth engine parameters, such as enabling Stereo mode and adding additional voices.
- To stack multiple synth sounds, we can add a second synth keygroup. Let's choose Create Keygroup > Synth Template a second time, and another keygroup will be stacked on top of the first. For this keygroup, let's choose one of the oscillator's factory presets, such as "Accordion".
- Perhaps instead of stacking these sounds, this could be a split program instead, with one sound for the left hand and another for the right hand. To do that, we'll need to adjust the key ranges of the keygroups so they don't overlap. Right-click in the Mapping Editor and choose Select All, then choose Resolve Overlapping Key Range.
The keygroups can now be easily edited separately. For example, the key and velocity ranges could be further adjusted by dragging the edge of the keygroup.


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It is quite common for your pet cockatiel to eat pine nuts and become ill. To be honest, it happened due to the owner's lack of responsibility. They should be aware of the nut's quality and quantity before serving it to their bird.
Can cockatiels eat pine nuts? Yes, Cockatiels can eat pine nuts. It's one of the most important parts of their diet. Moreover, pine nuts have most of the necessary nutrients for Cockatiels. So it can easily fulfill their daily needs. Pine nuts also have different types. Some are edible, but some are poisonous. As an owner of Cockatiels, you must be aware of the inedible ones for cockatiels.
Here we've discussed all the important things regarding Cockatiels and pine nuts. Following it properly will ensure the safety and health of your bird.
Can Cockatiels Eat Pine Nuts?
Certainly, cockatiels eat pine nuts. Even pine nuts are one of the Cockatiels' favorite foods. There are several species of pine nuts, the majority of which are edible. Cockatiels are allowed to eat most of them.
Pine nuts are basically full of vitamins, fats, protein, calcium, and minerals. So it's quite an idle meal to share with your loving bird. In addition to the nuts, the seeds of these nuts are also edible.
Overeating pine nuts can cause many illnesses in your birds. If your bird overeats pine nuts, it will experience obesity problems. The reason is that these nuts are full of fat. Other than the obesity problem, they could also experience fatty liver issues. So you need to be careful about their diets.
Not all pine nuts are edible. As a bird owner, you must understand which pine nuts are safe to eat and which are not.
'Pinus armandii', for example, is a poisonous pine nut that is not edible. In contrast, Korean pine, Armand Pine, Jeffrey Pine, Whitebark Pine, Macedonian Pine, Siberian Cedar, Pinyon Pine, and Pinus wallichiana are edible pine nuts.
Is It Safe to Feed Pine Nuts to Cockatiels?
It is completely safe to feed pine nuts as long as the proper amount is given and the diet is followed. As we mentioned earlier, pine nuts have most of the food nutrition that cockatiels need. A 100g Pine nuts contain:
- 13g of carbohydrates
- 68g of fats
- 13g of protein
It also contains all of the vitamins and minerals. This contributes to the health of the bird's bones, muscles, heart, and brain.
Though it's full of important nutrition, you still can't feed your bird as much as you want. It will backfire if you do. Too much protein, fat, and carbohydrates can make your bird's health miserable. So know the proper diet.
Mature mocktails are allowed to eat almost 30 grams a day. Although the amount can vary depending on the species and size, it is essentially this. Cockatiels are allowed to eat pellets, seeds, and nuts as nearly half of their daily food intake.
So you can add 10 to 15 grams of pine nuts to your birds' diet.
However, it is recommended that nuts should not be fed on a daily basis. It's better if you feed them three to four days a week.
What Are the Risks Of Feeding Pine Nuts? Is There Any Side Effect?
There is no proof that pine nuts have negative effects. But if the bird over-consumes pine nuts, there will be some problems.
The most common problem is obesity. When the owner unknowingly overfed their bird, the bird became obese. And obesity brings more illnesses. When cockatiels become obese, they become drowsy all of the time. They move slowly and never appear to be amused.
In extreme situations, obesity can bring a fatty liver problem to the bird. It can also be the reason for premature death.
This problem arises when the diet contains an excessive amount of fat. We mistakenly fed too many nuts to our birds. As a result, they experience fatty liver problems. In the fatty liver situation, the bloodstream stores the fat, which then spreads across the body. It specifically hit the liver. Once the fat begins to accumulate there, all functional work is disrupted after a period.
- Premature Death
Even though early death is not very prevalent, it does occasionally occur. Consuming too much fat is one of the reasons. Another point is when it doesn't get enough space to move after having food.
So the owner should be careful about both things.
Is There Any Specific Way to Feed Pine Nuts to Cockatiels?
There is no specific way to feed nuts to your cockatiels. But some preparations should be made by every owner.
- Do not mix anything with nuts
When you serve pine nuts to your bird, don't add other food to it. They might not like that. Mostly they prefer it raw. Sometimes people add salt and other stuff to it, but that's not necessary.
If you serve nuts to baby Cockatiels, you can boil the nuts first. But when it's a mature Cockatiels, you don't need to do anything.
- Unshell the nut
It is your responsibility to remove the shells from the nuts before serving them to your Cockatiels. Since the Cockatiels no longer live in the wild, they have trouble unshelling the nuts. They sometimes eat the shell along with the nuts, and it gets stuck in their throat.
So keep this in mind when serving nuts.
- Crash the nuts for baby Cockatiels
When you serve nuts as baby Cockatiels, you need to crush them into little pieces. Due to their narrow throats, baby Cockatiels cannot always swallow full-size nuts. So don't forget it.
What Are the Other Nuts That Cockatiels Can Eat?
Cockatiels can consume pretty much every kind of nut, except some non-consumable pine nuts. It is normal to serve them cashews, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, macadamias, pecans, etc.
But nobody can ensure that they are going to like it. It's totally up to their taste preference whether they like it or not.
These frequently asked questions about Cockatiels and pine nuts will provide you with more information.
What should I do if my cockatiels refuse to eat pine nuts?
If your Cockatiels avoid eating pine nuts, simply don't serve them. It is not necessary for your bird to consume pine nuts. There are various foods that can fulfill your bird's daily fat needs. You can give that food to your bird.
Aside from that, they sometimes refuse to eat it because they want it in a small pieces. So you need to crash the nut and make it small.
Can I mix a variety of nuts to serve cocktails?
It depends on your Cockatiels preferences. If you give them a variety of nuts, it is perfectly acceptable. But sometimes they don't like it this way. It's been seen that some Cockatiels do not like walnuts and other sorts of nuts. If you mix them, they will probably refuse. But at least you can try.
Can I feed my bird swiss stone pine nuts?
Yes, Swiss stone pine nuts are quite popular. There is no problem feeding it to your bird. But make sure the nuts are fresh.
We hope you got your answer to the question, can cockatiels eat pine nuts or not? Pine nuts are not widely available, and some varieties are poisonous.
So, it's really important to understand whether eating pine nuts is safe. All edible pine nuts are good for your cockatiels. Because pine nuts are nutritious, they can help your cockatiels meet their daily fat requirements.
Although the benefits of pine nuts are quite high, there are some risks as well. To avoid those risks, you have to know the cockatiels diet. If you maintain everything properly, there should be no problem feeding pine nuts.

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In 2021, when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the population that was most harshly affected was that young girls and women. The Taliban seized not only the country but also women's rights and freedom, something they had acquired after a decades-long battle. It was recently reported that the educational authorities have now banned women from attempting university entrance examinations. As per the update, only males will be eligible to apply for the exams.
The Taliban rolled back all rights of women. As women's conditions in Afghanistan become a global concern of women's rights and human rights, women in Afghanistan are not giving up without a fight. They're staging protests and trying their bit to bring back the rights and freedom they once had and deserve.
A group of women have now come out in protest against the Taliban voicing their concern over the ban on female employment and limitations on female students above grade 6.
Afghan Women Protest Taliban Ban
The Taliban's restrictions on women's rights have been having a hugely adverse effect on women. The larger picture is much worse because the ban on female employment is only bringing the country down to poverty. With a lack of employment and the Taliban snatching away their fundamental rights, women have been suffering to a large extent, and the limitations on education for young girls are only adding to the lost cause that the country is becoming.
A group of women showed up in Kabul and held a protest to take back their employment rights and fight for their girls' education. They showcased their educational documents in protest, asking the authorities to get them their jobs and bring back education for girls alone in 6th grade. "We are calling on the United Nations now along with the international communities to look hard and grasp the situation we are on. We ask them to pay attention and help us regain our rights," said one of the protesters.
The protestors expressed how the documents and merit they worked hard for stand useless if they can't put them to use and earn a living through it. On August 15, 2021, the extremist group's first move after taking control of Afghanistan was taking back the rights of young girls and women with immediate effect. While the women staged protests within the first week of the Taliban taking over, it has been a hard and long battle for them.
As per Human Rights Watch, the Taliban has never been shaken by protests despite repeated pleas. Their response has either led to violence or further restrictions. With the extreme of detaining and torturing journalists, the extremist group has surpassed every bit of cruelty, and there is no remorse. Despite all the repercussions in mind, the women are again trying to make their voices heard.
Suggested reading: A List Of The Many Bans On Afghan Women Under Taliban Rule


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Shepherd of the Valley Preschool
1723 PARK LAWN RD
HACIENDA HEIGHTS, CA 91745
Our Preschool was established in 1984 as a mission of Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian Church to help meet the needs of the community for an early childhood education and care facility. It is run by a staff of trained early childhood educators and governed by a Board consisting of congregation members, parents of children enrolled in the school and the Preschool Director. The Preschool is designed to provide an educational experience as well as child care for children ages two through five years old. We have three classrooms in which children are grouped according to developmental stages.
Shepherd of the Valley Preschool provides a socially and academically balanced education in a safe, culturally diverse and nurturing Christian environment.
For Shepherd of the Valley Preschool to be recognized for developing responsible, creative students capable of realizing their full potential.
We believe that children are active learners who should be supported and challenged by adults. Since we believe that children learn best by pursuing their personal interests, children in our school are encouraged to make choices about materials and activities throughout the day. As they pursue their choices and plans, children explore, ask and answer questions, solve problems, and interact with friends and teachers. Our program promotes a supportive environment which focuses on children's strengths, authentic relationships, and a problem-solving approach to conflict.


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3 Examples of Slang in Journalistic Content
There is always a tension in language usage about achieving a balance between sesquipedalian obfuscation and, um, like, you know, overly casual language. Ultimately, clarity on the writer's part and fluency on the part of the readership are the key criteria for whether content succeeds in communicating ideas, knowledge, and information, and writers can be flexible about linguistic register based on context.
However, it can be unsettling for older readers and those for whom English is not their first language when they read journalistic content online; there is a trend among some news outlets to make content both more accessible and more potent by using slang. Note the following examples, all of which involve vivid verbs:
1. The twenty-year veteran anchor of Today was abruptly canned.
Canned, slang for "discharged from employment" (perhaps from the analogy of putting the terminated employee in a garbage can), can also, in the form can, mean "score," as when a scoring attempt in basketball or golf is successful (from comparison of the basket or hole to a can), or "put a stop to," as in the dated command "Can the chatter" ("Stop talking"), from the notion of containing one's speech in a can. (As an adjective, canned means "lacking originality" or "prepared in advance," with the notion that a canned speech or canned music, for example, was retrieved ready-made from a can.)
2. The motocross rider must soar over the train and then stick a landing on the hillside across the tracks.
Stick, originally employed in reference to executing a flawless landing in a gymnastics competition, apparently comes from the comparison of the gymnast's contact with the floor with piercing or stabbing something. Stick may also refer to tricking someone into paying a bill, or overcharging someone, or to baffling or cheating someone, as well as to remaining in place or being halted.
3. They decided to spike the draft when the agency released its guidance in 2014.
Similarly, here, spike alludes to the previous practice in clerical routines of impaling a document on a spike when done with it; the term also refers to submitted content that is rejected for publication or to blocking or suppressing information. As a noun, spike is used informally to refer to a sudden sharp increase, as in temperature or power consumption, or prices or rates; this usage is based on the shape of marks made on a graph to represent such a change. In verb form, spike might also pertain to a stimulant added to a substance, or to an analogous figurative addition (as in spiking a speech with jokes).
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text: Near here stood the Monacan Indian town of Mowhemcho, noted on John Smith's map of 1612. The Monacan homeland encompassed much of Virginia's Piedmont. In 1670, Indian townspeople welcomed explorer John Lederer's party with celebratory "volleys of shot". Colonists destroyed the town and most of the Indian people were killed. French Huguenots settled here in 1700, and Monacan survivors visited them at the site., then called Manakin Town, to trade. By 1722, the Monacan had moved west, along the James River. Today, the Monacan Indian headquarters is just north of the James, near Lynchburg.


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Leuze Electronic (Germany) - The primary and secondary packaging of confectionery and baked goods can be challenging: The new DRT 25C dynamic reference diffuse sensor from Leuze solves precisely this problem in an innovative and reliable way: with unique reference technology and three light spots.
Sensors must continuously and reliably detect a wide range of products and films on the conveyor belts of primary and secondary packaging machines for confectionery and baked goods (HFFS, FS, Thermoform, or VFFS). The packaging machines must keep running even if the product or packaging material changes.
Innovative reference technology for all products:
Leuze developed the DRT 25C dynamic reference diffuse sensor with its innovative detection method for precisely this area of application. The sensor works with three light spots and uses reference technology. The latter references the conveyor belt instead of the product and that is what makes this technology so unique. In the first step, the surface characteristics of the belt are taught in. This enables the sensor to subsequently detect all objects that do not correspond to the belt surface as "deviations", even if the conveyor belt is dirty or vibrating. With this approach, the surface properties of the products, such as the colour, gloss, or transparency do not influence the detection. The DRT 25C uses its three light spots to reliably detect the entire spectrum: small, flat, or also tall and spherical products. Even irregular shapes and contours or products with holes are detected thanks to the wide scanning range, these are also detected as a continuous piece.
Higher throughput due to reliable detection and zero setup time when changing products:
The reliable detection of objects – even those with challenging shapes and surfaces – guarantees a high machine throughput and prevents system downtime. Even under difficult conditions such as vibration or contamination on the conveyor belt. No adjustment of the sensor is needed when products or packaging materials are changed. This significantly reduces the setup time required and enables higher machine throughput. The DRT 25C is quickly and easily set up thanks to automatic teaching by means of the teach button. With a universal mounting position for all objects. Additional functions can be conveniently integrated into the machine control via IO-Link. For example a warning message for excessive debris, use of the counter built into the sensor, or locking the teach button.
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Leuze's detection expert – the DRT 25C – reliably meets the high requirements of packaging machines for confectionery and baked goods with innovative reference technology.
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Three light spots ensure maximum reliability. The DRT 25C reliably detects the front edges of the objects, ensuring smooth processes and no machine downtime. The wide scanning range detects all types of products, even those with difficult geometries.
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From transparent to high-gloss: The reference technology enables the detection of packaging with a wide range of colors and transparency as a "deviation" from the conveyor belt surface.
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The teach button is used to teach-in the belt surface during the initial setup of the sensor. This means no additional setup time is required when changing products or packaging materials.


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There are 109 conservation areas in the Peak District National Park. These areas are of special architectural or historic interest that it is desirable to preserve or enhance for future generations.
Special rules apply to conservation areas. Planning officers take an area's special character into account when considering a planning application.
Demolition of buildings
Planning permission is required for the demolition of most buildings in a conservation area. This extends to walls and other features. Planning officers will look at whether the loss of the building – and any redevelopment proposals – would serve the interests of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the conservation area.
If approval is given, there will often be a clause or condition in the approval which requires a contract for redevelopment to be in place before the demolition is undertaken. This prevents unsightly gaps opening up in conservation areas for long periods of time.
Trees in conservation areas
Trees in conservation areas are given special protection because of their contribution to the special qualities of a conservation area. The Authority must be given six weeks' notice of the intention to carry out work on a tree. Within that period, the Authority can consider whether to make a Tree Preservation Order (TPO).


Maximise your productivity with AG Grid Documentation
At AG Grid we put a lot of effort into our documentation as we understand that good documentation helps developers achieve their goals. In this post I want to highlight some features of our documentation that can greatly improve you productivity.
Framework Of Choice
AG Grid is an agnostic data grid that is shipped with dedicated packages for Angular, React and Vue in addition to the vanilla Javascript/Typescript offering.
As you can imagine, how you interact with the grid will depend on the framework you are using. As a result we customise the documentation code snippets and examples based on your framework. Additionally we add framework specific notes to the text content based on your selection.
This is why it is important to select your framework to view the most accurate documentation for you. As an example see how the column definitions change based on your framework selection in the following code example.
Javascript / Typescript
Javascript Code Snippets
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Framework Specific Example Code
Another key feature of our documentation is our commitment to providing full code examples for all grid / chart features. To make it possible to copy code from our examples directly into your projects we produce examples written in each framework.
At the time of writing we have all of the following framework variations supported.
 - Javascript / Typescript
 - Angular
 - React - Hooks / Classes
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Changing the React Variation
Note how the example reloads when you change the framework variation.
To view the source code for an example use the side menu of the example runner.
View Source Code for an example
Modules vs Packages
In a previous post we explained how to use feature modules to minimise your application bundle size. Part of the code required with this approach is the registration of feature modules.
As a developer it is very useful to be able to see which feature modules are required for a given feature. Our module examples do just that. They include the registration of feature modules enabling you to quickly know which modules you need to import into your application.
import { ModuleRegistry } from '@ag-grid-community/core';
import { ClientSideRowModelModule } from '@ag-grid-community/client-side-row-model';
import { RangeSelectionModule } from '@ag-grid-enterprise/range-selection';
// Register the required feature modules with the Grid
ModuleRegistry.registerModules([
 ClientSideRowModelModule,
 RangeSelectionModule,
]);
Alternatively, if you are working with packages there is no module registration required so we can give you more concise code.
Correct Import Paths
The import paths for modules and packages are different. So to ensure you can copy code from our examples without having to make changes use the format that is consistent with your application setup.
Packages have imports like:
import { ColDef, GridOptions } from 'ag-grid-community';
Modules have imports like:
import { ColDef, GridOptions } from '@ag-grid-community/core';
Experiment in Plunker
For every example you can click the Open in Plunker button and the example will automatically open in Plunker ready for you to tweak and experiment with. This enables you to get hands on with a feature without having to spend anytime setting up a dev environment.
Open in Plunker
Coming soon in our next release, Typescript and Angular examples will have type errors and auto-completion within Plunker making it even easier to experiment!
Your Preferences are Remembered
Once you have selected a framework and example variation we remember these so that when you navigate around the docs you don't have to continually update these settings. We hope this enables you to be as productive as possible and make it easy for you to take code from our examples and integrate it seamlessly with your applications.
Previous Versions of AG Grid
If you are not able to use the latest version of AG Grid it is worth knowing that you can view the entire documentation site as it was on previous versions via our archive. However, I would only recommend that if you find inconsistencies with the latest version.
Conclusion
I hope that these hints will help you improve your productivity when using our documentation and enable you to build great applications with AG Grid! As always let us know if there are any ideas you have as a user to make the documentation even better!
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Exploring the Hazards of Drone Icing
Icing of drones is a severe hazard that significantly limits the usage of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. Researchers conducted experiments in an icing wind tunnel to learn more about icing to test an icing protection system.
This spring, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), CIRFA, and UBIQ Aerospace have been visiting a special wind tunnel at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) that can simulate icing conditions. Their goal was to study ice accretion on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under laboratory conditions and to further test and improve a UAV icing protection system called D•ICE. The tests have proven the capability of the D•ICE technology and the results will help the researchers to validate their numerical models. This will aid them in improving their system to be smarter, more reliable, and energy efficient.
During the tests, the researchers collected ice shapes at different meteorological icing conditions on a UAV wing section. This experimental data will be used to compare to numerical models that simulate ice accretion on airfoils. In addition, the D•ICE technology was tested to show that it can successfully prevent ice accumulation on the wing. The system mitigates harmful ice accretions by warming the surface with heating zones made of carbon fibers that are embedded in the wing structure.
Atmospheric icing is a well known phenomenon in the Nordic countries. Icing on power lines and structures is a great challenge that has been the focus of research for many years. In recent years, the topic of icing on wind turbines has become a threat to the advancement of renewable energies. In both these fields, VTT has been heavily involved with research and the development of new technologies and solutions.
Today, a new challenge with regards to icing is emerging: icing on UAVs. Drone technology is a fast-growing and emerging technology with a wide range of applications. For example, drones are used for delivering urgent medical supplies in Rwanda, to provide broadband access to remote areas, to perform search and rescue missions and to explore scientific research questions.
Icing can be a severe hazard for these applications. Research has shown that ice will accumulate on the body, wing, and propeller of drones in icing conditions. The ice is disturbing the aerodynamics which leads to a significant decrease in performance. There are many cases where icing conditions have led to drone crashes. This is why today it is a best practice to not fly drones in bad weather conditions. However, for the success of many of the aforementioned applications, an all-weather capability is a key requirement.
Researchers at NTNU have been working on the UAV icing challenge for several years. Their goal is to understand the physics of how ice is accumulating on the drones and how the ice affects the aerodynamics. Furthermore, they have developed the D•ICE technology to detect and mitigate the hazards of icing. UBIQ Aerospace is a deep tech spin-off from NTNU with the goal of further developing D•ICE into an intelligent and effective icing protection system for UAVs.


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The LinkURL parameter specifies a URL link to be associated with a stamp. You need to include the LinkURL parameter in the stamp file for text stamps. Example below:
Note: If you wish to apply a LinkURL to a JPEG or TIFF image, you must create two stamp items in your stamp file. The first stamp item must be the image and the second stamp item must be the LinkURL you wish to stamp on the image.


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Practical methods for automated reconstruction and characterization of particles in digital in-line holograms
Hologram reconstruction algorithms often undersample the phase in propagation kernels for typical parameters of holographic optical setups. Given in this paper is an algorithm that addresses this phase undersampling in reconstructing digital in-line holograms of particles for these typical parameters. This algorithm has a lateral sample spacing constant in reconstruction distance, has a diffraction limited resolution, and can be implemented with computational speeds comparable to the fastest of other reconstruction algorithms. This algorithm is shown to be accurate by testing with analytical solutions to the Huygens-Fresnel propagation integral. A low-pass filter can be applied to enforce a uniform minimum particle size detection limit throughout a sample volume, allowing this method to be useful in measuring particle size distributions and number densities. Tens of thousands of holograms of cloud ice particles are digitally reconstructed using the algorithm discussed. Positions of ice particles in the size range of 20 νm-1.5 mm are obtained using an algorithm that accurately finds the position of large and small particles along the optical axis. The digital reconstruction and particle characterization algorithms are implemented in an automated fashion with no user intervention on a computer cluster. Strategies for efficient algorithm implementation on a computer cluster are discussed. © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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Practical methods for automated reconstruction and characterization of particles in digital in-line holograms.
Measurement Science and Technology,
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Tokenization
What is tokenization in an AI workplace?
In an AI workplace, tokenization breaks down text into smaller units called tokens. Depending on the specific tokenization method used, these tokens can be words, characters, or subwords. For example, the sentence "I love AI" might be tokenized into ["I", "love", "AI"] or ["I", " love", " AI"]. Tokenization is a crucial preprocessing step in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, as it allows AI models to work with text data more effectively.
Benefits of tokenization
 - Improved text processing: Tokenization enables AI systems to analyze and understand text at a granular level, making it easier to perform tasks like sentiment analysis, machine translation, and text classification.
 - Vocabulary management: It helps create and manage vocabularies for language models, allowing for better handling of out-of-vocabulary words and rare words.
 - Efficient data representation: Tokenized text can be converted into numerical vectors, making processing easier for machine learning models.
 - Handling multiple languages: Some tokenization methods, like subword tokenization, can effectively handle multiple languages and even code-mixing scenarios.
 - Reduced computational complexity: Tokenization can help reduce the complexity of certain NLP tasks by breaking text into smaller units, leading to faster processing and lower memory requirements.


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After the removal from our ancestral homelands to Indian Territory over the Trail of Tears in 1839, the Cherokee Nation divided the new land base in I.T. into nine districts. Each of these districts contained an active judicial system complete with its own courthouse. The nine rural courthouses had jurisdiction over all misdemeanor crimes, and civil suits that involved less than $100 (cases involving over $100 were heard at the Supreme Courthouse in Tahlequah, OK). Each district was represented by four elected offices, clerk, sheriff, judge and solicitor.
Entire communities were built up around these courthouses. The Saline community during its peak consisted of a general store, blacksmith shop, gristmill, hotel and several homes. After passage of the Curtis Act by the US Congress in 1898, the Saline District Courthouse closed its doors and ceased its judicial functions.
Upon closing, the Saline Courthouse land was allotted to Felix Teehee and the courthouse sold for $75 to James Teehee. The site and buildings were later sold in 1912 to John M. and Poca Phillips. The Phillips sold the property to their son John Riley Phillips (Coon Phillips) in 1917. Dr. SW Perkins purchased the acreage and courthouse in 1933 and owned it until his death in the 1940s. Lee and Florine Ransom purchased the site in 1952 and sold it to the State of Oklahoma Industrial and Park Department in 1970. The original structure, built in 1884 by the Cherokee Nation, was about one half of its current size (after the building sold, an addition was constructed and the structure converted into a country home). The State of Oklahoma returned the site, including the courthouse and other buildings, to the Cherokee Nation in 1988, under the administration of then Principal Chief Wilma P. Mankiller.
Today, the courthouse sits on 14 acres of rolling hills and creeks (along with a historic springhouse and the Teehee Cemetery). In 1976 the Saline Courthouse was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Saline District Courthouse is the only one of the original nine district courthouses still in existence.
In October 2005, the Cherokee Nation and Saline Preservation Association developed a master plan for the courthouse site and named the property the Saline National Park, the first national park in the history of Cherokee Nation.
Lead paint remediation on the courthouse was completed along with restoration of the porch. The roadway fencing and cemetery fencing was also finished. Additional work is planned.
A "ground-up" restoration of the Springhouse was completed in 2009. One of the site's three freshwater springs originates beneath this structure. The springs meander across the site's 14 acres and ultimately join the west end of the property (comprising the headwaters of Saline Creek). These cool, crystal clear waters are surrounded by breath-taking scenery.
Saline National Park is open for the public to see at no charge. Cherokee Nation welcomes the use of its facilities and grounds by our citizens, communities, neighbors and friends. All use of meeting facilities and grounds is on a first-come basis. To make reservations, contact our office at _PHONE_. If the grounds are available, an Agreement and Facilities Policy form will be mailed to you.


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In this course you will learn about some of Hunter's more popular drip and micro irrigation components.
In this course you will learn about Hunter's line-up of specialty drip/micro irrigation solutions.
In this video, you will learn how Hunter HDL can provide an
effective irrigation solution for your various projects.
Designed to suit a variety of hard-to-irrigate areas, the Eco-Mat uses a specifically engineered combination of inline emitter tubing and fleece, which evenly disperses water from under the surface. This course introduces you to proper installation techniques that will help you complete a successful project.


Arithmetic Properties of a Restricted Bipartition Function
Jian Liu, Andrew Y.Z. Wang
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A bipartition of $n$ is an ordered pair of partitions $(\lambda,\mu)$ such that the sum of all of the parts equals $n$. In this article, we concentrate on the function $c_5(n)$, which counts the number of bipartitions $(\lambda,\mu)$ of $n$ subject to the restriction that each part of $\mu$ is divisible by $5$. We explicitly establish four Ramanujan type congruences and several infinite families of congruences for $c_5(n)$ modulo $3$.
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bipartition;congruence
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What does the pound sign do in URL?
What does the pound sign do in URL?
In a URL, a hash mark, number sign, or pound sign ( # ) points a browser to a specific spot in a page or website. It is used to separate the URI of an object from a fragment identifier.
What does the pound sign mean in HTML?
The pound symbol, also called the hash sign and number sign, is often found in URLs. It is not simply a regular character, however; it has a special function. When you see a pound symbol in a URL, that means you've followed a link pointing to a HTML anchor, which is used to link to a certain section of an HTML page.
Which symbol is used to create a link to a named anchor in HTML?
pound(#) sign
Many of us may have observed the pound(#) sign in the URL while inspecting some web sites. It is not a simple regular character but has a special function. So first of all, it is called a named anchor or sometimes as a fragment. Named anchor or fragment is used to link to the part of the same web –page.
Which symbol is used to establish internal linking to refer links?
HTML internal link is linked within the same web page. This link can be an absolute path or relative path. HTML internal link name is followed by the hash sign(#). You have to assign an id to refer section of your page, which is referred to as an internal link to the same page.
What is hash sign in HTML?
The Location Hash property in HTML is used to return the anchor part of a URL. It can also be used to set the anchor part of the URL. It returns the string which represents the anchor part of a URL including the hash '#' sign.
What is pound in JavaScript?
That's jQuery and the pound sign (#) refers to an element's ID. It's one way jQuery can select an element. In your example, it would select the element with the ID of "searchTerm". For id selectors, jQuery uses the JavaScript function document. getElementById(), which is extremely efficient.
What is the pound sign in CSS?
The #id selector allows you to target an element by referencing the id HTML attribute. Similar to how class attributes are denoted in CSS with a "period" ( . ) before the class name, ID attributes are prefixed with an "octothorpe" ( # ), more commonly known as a "hash" or "pound sign".
What are the types of hyperlink in HTML?
There are four types of hyperlinks. Text hyperlink – Uses a word or phrase to take visitors to another page, file or document. Image hyperlink – Uses an image to take visitors to another page, file or document. Bookmark hyperlink – Uses text or an image to take visitors to another part of a web page.
Which tag is used for hyperlink in HTML?
HTML element
The HTML element (or anchor element), with its href attribute, creates a hyperlink to web pages, files, email addresses, locations in the same page, or anything else a URL can address.
What is the link symbol?
"🔗" U+1F517 Link Symbol Unicode Character.
How does encodeURIComponent work?
The encodeURIComponent() function encodes a URI by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will only be four escape sequences for characters composed of two "surrogate" characters).
What is hash link?
Anchor (hash link) is a bookmark link, which, when clicked, forces the server to redirect page to the desired page or "anchored" place. The name "hash-link" is used because it includes the symbol "#".
What is URL sharp?
A hash sign (#) in a URL is referred to as a fragment. Historically, URL fragments have been used to automatically set the browser's scroll position to a predefined location in the web page. In that sense, if a URL refers to a document, then the fragment refers to a specific subsection of that document.
How do you write pound?
In text, use the '£' symbol when figures are used, for example, 'Fees are set to remain at £9,250 for 2018–19. ' For sums not including pence, do not use decimal points, for example '£6', not '£6.00'. Do not use 'k' to abbreviate thousands; write the full figure instead, for example, '£100,000'.
What is hash in HTML?
The Location Hash property in HTML is used to return the anchor part of a URL. It can also be used to set the anchor part of the URL. It returns the string which represents the anchor part of a URL including the hash '#' sign. Syntax: It returns the hash property.
What are the 4 types of hyperlinks?
There are four types of hyperlinks you can create when editing text in a field that has the formatting toolbar.
 - Linking to Pages on Your Site (Internal Hyperlinks) These are links that point to other pages within your website.
 - Linking to Pages Outside of Your Site (External Hyperlinks)
 - Anchor Links.
 - Creating Email Links.
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Contiguous Cache Example
QVariant RandomListModel::data(const QModelIndex &index, int role) const
 if (role!= Qt::DisplayRole)
 return QVariant();
 int row = index.row();
 if (row > m_rows.lastIndex()) {
 if (row - m_rows.lastIndex() > lookAhead)
 else while (row > m_rows.lastIndex())
 } else if (row < m_rows.firstIndex()) {
 if (m_rows.firstIndex() - row > lookAhead)
 else while (row < m_rows.firstIndex())
void RandomListModel::cacheRows(int from, int to) const
 m_rows.insert(i, fetchRow(i));
while (row > m_rows.lastIndex())
while (row < m_rows.firstIndex())
And thats it. A perfectly reasonable cache, using minimal memory for a very large list. In this case the accessor for getting the words into the cache generates random information rather than fixed information. This allows you to see how the cache range is kept for a local number of rows when running the example.
QString RandomListModel::fetchRow(int position) const
 return QString::number(rand() % ++position);
It is also worth considering pre-fetching items into the cache outside of the application's paint routine. This can be done either with a separate thread or using a QTimer to incrementally expand the range of the cache prior to rows being requested out of the current cache range.


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Mighty countries have often been ruled by children who were grade-school age, or even younger! Take a look at the cute little faces of monarchy gone wrong.
LOUIS XIV, AGE 5
Just a year after Louis became King of France in 1643, the Venetian Ambassador wrote, "He knows that he is King and wants to be treated as such." At 7, he signed his first decree with his own hand, granting amnesty to defected enemies.
At age 10, when other boys liked to pretend they were kings, Louis would make-believe he was a valet! He ruled for 72 years.
LOUIS XV, AGE 7
The great-grandson of Louis XIV, this Louis liked to pretend he was a cook. Shortly after he became King in 1715, he hid behind a curtain to avoid giving an audience to an ambassador.
Those caring for the young King were so concerned about assassination they kept his food under lock and key – and stored his handkerchiefs in a triple-locked safe, fearing someone would lace them with poison.
KING TUT, AGE 8
The Egyptian ruler assumed the throne in about 1366 B.C. It is unclear on who his parents were, but historians believe his uncle was the ruler Akhenaten. Tutankhamun spent his eleven years as ruler reversing the monotheistic changes his uncle had made to the Egyptian religion.
King Tut died at the young age of nineteen, apparently from gangrene contracted from a broken leg.
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In the village of Kontias, Limnos, an old oil mill was reconstructed and designed in a particularly original and inventive way in a country house.
The architect and owner, Harris Bougadellis, confronted the building with respect to the natural and artificial environment.
The village's urban fabric remained indistinguishable, the local architectural tradition remained intact, while the climatic conditions of the area constituted the foundation stone for this solution. Also, a very important role in the design and reconstruction played the "history" and the "identity" of the building, all those features that were shaped through the construction and the passage of time.
Kontias stretches on two opposite hills, resulting in the terphorous terrain in the village showing increased slopes, so the building is on a quite downhill road.
In the final phase, before rebuilding, a large part of the central roof had fallen, resulting in a particularly luminous space, in a generally quite dark whole. This finding has prompted the architect to make a partial reconstruction of the roof, to preserve this distinctive quality of space and to preserve the external form that the traditional building had acquired.
In order to achieve the above, the roof was fully restored only in one rectangular space. It has thus become the ideal sleeping space for the summer months, cool and sunless.


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Troubleshooting Boat Trailer Light Problems
Laws vary from state to state, but essentially you're required to have working tail lights, brake lights and turn signals on your boat trailer as you would on your car or truck.
Boat trailer lights are notorious for failing due to a variety of electrical problems, so it would save you some time and maybe a few headaches to know how to fix them yourself. Unless of course, you like getting traffic citations. Here are some troubleshooting tips for dealing with boat trailer light problems.
Problem: Single Light Not Working
A blown bulb is likely the cause of a single boat trailer light not working.
Troubleshoot: Remove the bulb, then clean the electrical connector behind the bulb with fine grit sandpaper or wet/dry paper, and install a new bulb. Otherwise, if the existing light uses fragile incandescent bulbs, consider replacing the complete light unit with a new one using long-life LED lights.
Problem: Whole Light Function Not Working
A blown fuse is the likely culprit for a boat trailer's tail, brake or turn light not working.
Troubleshoot: If the light system uses an inline fuse, check the fuse and replace it if it's burnt out.
A damaged or broken wire could also be to blame for a whole boat trailer light not working.
Troubleshoot: Run a continuity test by connecting one end of a continuity tester to the end of a wire at a light, and the other end of the continuity tester to the other end of the same wire at the trailer-to-vehicle connector. If the tester lights up, the wire is good. Move on to each wire until the bad wire is identified, and replace that wire.
Problem: All Lights Not Working
When not a single light on your boat trailer is working, the vehicle-to-trailer 4-way plug is usually the suspect.
Troubleshoot: Disconnect the vehicle to trailer 4-way connecter, then use electrical contact cleaner spray to clean any dirt or debris from the 4-way flat plug. Test the electrical power coming from the tow vehicle with a 4-way tester. If the tester indicates a problem, the blame lies with the electrical current coming from the towing vehicle and not with the boat trailer lights.
Another reason none of your boat trailer lights are working could be a bad ground connection.
Troubleshoot: Remove the ground wire (or each individual ground wire) from the trailer frame, then make sure the wire's connector and the frame can make good metal-to-metal contact by cleaning the contact points with fine grit sandpaper or wet/dry paper. If the ground wire's screw or bolt is corroded, replace it with a new one. Reinstall the ground wire to the trailer frame and ensure the connection is tight.
Problem: Lights Working Intermittently
When your boat's trailer lights only work intermittently, the likely culprit is worn or damaged wiring.
Troubleshoot: Replace the trailer's complete wiring system, which is much easier than hunting for and testing individual problematic wires. Trailer light kits include all the necessary wiring, and also present the opportunity to upgrade from unreliable incandescent lights to durable LED lights.


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Brazilian Journal of Biology
versão impressa ISSN _PHONE_
MANCINI, M. et al. Composition and diversity of ichthyofauna in La Viña reservoir (Córdoba, Argentina). Braz. J. Biol. [online]. 2009, vol.69, n.1, pp. 49-55. ISSN _PHONE_. _URL_
Several dams have been built in central and north Argentina. There are more than 20 reservoirs in Córdoba province, with a total estimated surface area of around 15,000 ha. Although construction of dams continues, some aspects about the richness, abundance and diversity of ichthyofauna in many of these environments are unknown, which prevents adequate management of fish resources. The goal of this work was to evaluate specific richness and diversity of ichthyofauna in La Viña reservoir (31° 47' S and 65° 01' W, 1,050 ha, 846 m asl), one of the major reservoirs in Córdoba. Fifteen seasonal samplings were made in _PHONE_ using trawl nets and gillnets. A total of 3,242 specimens belonging to 7 species distributed in 5 orders and 5 families were caught. The tetra Astyanax eigenmanniorum (52.9%) and the silverside Odontesthes bonariensis (29.3%) were the most abundant species; the latter is the main target species for lake fishing and had greatest biomass (63.8%). Average diversity for all samples was H'T = 1.63 (95% confidence interval 1.49 to 1.77). Shannon-Wiener and Simpson diversity indexes values were generally intermediate. Specific richness of La Viña reservoir was moderate compared with other impoundments in central and north Argentina.
Palavras-chave : freshwater fish; diversity; reservoirs; Argentina.


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When it comes to dressing your little ones in comfortable and stylish clothes, Gildan is a brand that can always be relied upon. With a wide range of clothing options for kids, Gildan ensures that your child looks good and feels great.
However, finding the perfect size for your child can sometimes be a challenging task. This is where the Gildan Youth Size Chart comes to the rescue.
Gildan Youth Size Chart:
Why is the Gildan Youth Size Chart Essential?
As every parent knows, kids grow up way too fast. One minute they fit into a certain size, and the next minute they've outgrown it. When shopping for clothes, it's crucial to have accurate measurements to ensure a proper fit. The Gildan Youth Size Chart provides detailed measurements for the different age groups, allowing parents to make informed decisions when selecting the right size.
Understanding the Gildan Youth Size Chart
The Gildan Youth Size Chart provides measurements for various clothing items such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and more. By referring to this size chart, you can determine the appropriate size for your child based on their height and weight.
The chart typically includes columns for age, height, weight, chest, and waist measurements. You can easily find the right size by matching your child's measurements with the corresponding values on the chart. It's important to remember that the measurements provided in the size chart are general guidelines, and individual body proportions may vary.
Tips For Using The Gildan Youth Size Chart
Here are some helpful tips on using the Gildan Youth Size Chart:
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Updated June 13, 2014
Problems Showering with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A morning shower -- it helps you start the day invigorated and refreshed, right? Um, no, not so much for many of us. A shower seems like a basic, simple thing, but it can pose major problems for someone with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.
I've seen a lot of comments here about how exhausting a shower can be. Why would a shower make us tired, sometimes even wiping us out for the rest of the day? Several of our physiological abnormalities could be playing into it.
 1. Exertion: Especially for those with chronic fatigue syndrome, even small amounts of exertion can be too much. A shower takes more energy than we tend to recognize -- you're standing the whole time, doing a fair amount of bending, stretching and reaching, and vigorously lathering up your head and body. When you consider that we often have to start an "exercise" routine with 2 repetitions of a simple movement, you can see how much work showering can be.
 2. Relaxation: The hot water of a shower can be relaxing, which is great in some ways. However, for those of us who deal with profound fatigue, it's probably not the best thing for us early in the day, when we're still fighting to wake up.
 3. Temperature Sensitivities: While the hot water may feel good, it can also get our temperature sensitivity going and throw off homeostasis. Our bodies have a hard time keeping us at the right temperature, so when we get heated up like that, it's a lot of work to cool us back down to normal. Some of us get so over heated that we sweat profusely after a shower.
 4. Dizziness: We're prone to dizziness, and the heat of the shower combined with the motions of washing can have your body working overtime to keep your sense of balance. I've had frightening dizzy spells in a hot shower -- very scary!
 5. Heightened Nerve Response: Especially in fibromyalgia, the pressure of the water hitting your skin can get your nerves riled up. It might not hurt while you're in there, but the stimulation on our over-reactive nerves could put them closer to the point of sending erroneous pain signals and making you hurt all over.
Some ways to deal with the showering problem include taking a shower at night, so the exhaustion is welcomed, or taking baths instead. Baths do pose some of the same problems, but you're sitting and not reaching or stretching as much, so they can be less taxing. A bath also tends to steam up the bathroom less, so you may have an easier time cooling off when you get out.
While I haven't had an extreme problem with showering like some people have, when I've been at my sickest I've relied at times on cleansing wipes. I buy them for my face, but they work well for this, too. Unscented baby wipes also aren't bad. I can use them to freshen up quickly and easily, especially on days that I'm not leaving the house anyway. It's not a daily solution, but they can put off a shower when you're just not up to it. For me, feeling greasy is a sure way to make me feel bad about myself.
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Fishing Lure Color Selection – A Detailed Guide
No matter what kind of lure you are fishing with, it will come in a huge range of colors. There's every color out there from black to luminous pink, but why? What is it about the colors that make fish more interested in one color on one day and a different color on the next. There are quite a few factors to consider and here is a lure color selection and guide to make things a little easier for you.
Lure Color Selection And Guide
The Factors
There are quite a few factors to consider when choosing a lure color. Here are the details of what you should think about when picking a lure.
Can Fish See Color?
Scientific evidence shows that fish eyes have both rod and cone cells. Rod cells are used to detect light and contrast. The work in low light and allow fish (and us) to see shapes, shadows, and silhouettes in dimly lit environments. They do nothing to detect color, however. Cone cells are the ones that perceive color but they do need a lot of light to work. If the light dims for any reason, colors begin to fade in vision. Fish have been found to have a lot more rod cells than cone cells, meaning fish pay more attention to contrast, silhouette and shape than they do to color.
Due to the dimly lit environment fish live in, their pupils don't dilate like humans. Their cone cells have evolved to give better details on contrast depending on light conditions. It's thought that the environments they live in have helped their eyes to adapt. Game fish are said to be very good at distinguishing between shades of blue, helping them see blue bait in blue light. Fish that have lived in murky water are better at seeing shades of red, yellow and green.
In my opinion, getting the contrast and shape right is what you want to achieve when picking a lure, but how is it best to do that?
Colors Disappear In Water
Water filters light naturally and by doing so removes certain wavelengths, and the deeper you go the more wavelengths are filtered out. If you're in clean water, the first color to disappear as you get deeper is red, then orange, followed by yellow and green and finally blues and purples. But, this all changes with water clarity and becomes a little more complicated. In water full of algae, green is the most visible color. In silty water, yellow and brown are easiest to see. And in tannin-stained water, red is the most visible.
If a fish could see in full color, it wouldn't matter that much as slowly the colors disappear with depth. What this information does tell you is how to create the best contrast depending on the conditions and depth you are fishing at.
Here is a link so a color chart that shows you scientifically what colors are easiest to see underwater at differing depths and conditions.
Match The Bait & Geography
Most of the time, you are trying to imitate exactly what the fish you are trying to catch are choosing to eat that day. This depends on a lot of factors, firstly what fish you are targeting, where are you fishing and what time of year. Every ecosystem has it's moments when a certain baitfish is prevalent in the area and the predators go crazy for them. Knowing about these patterns will put you in good stead to choose the right lure. If you are fishing in Texas in spring for example, then red is an excellent color to use as the crawfish there are red and the bass go nuts for them. If you're fishing for tarpon in Florida during the mullet run, you're going to use a bait that imitates a mullet and its color, a shrimp pattern is going to be ignored.
Wherever you are fishing, speak to the locals and look online for advice. It also pays to be aware whilst on the water. The more you notice about the situation the better. You may see baitfish swim past and try and match them, or remember colors that worked at a similar time the year before. If you do catch some fish, quite often some of their food will be regurgitated and you can see what they have been feeding on. If you are bass fishing and can catch one, feel it's stomach. If it's soft, then they are eating baitfish, if hard then they're eating crawfish or other crustaceans.
Water Clarity
When you approach the water you are fishing the first thing to think about is what it looks like and what your bait is going to look like inside it. If the water is crystal clear, your bait will be seen easily by fish. If the water is dark and murky, fish are going to struggle to see your bait.
As a rule, darker colors are easier to see underwater and if the water is murky then using a dark-colored lure is the way to go. Blue, black and Junebug are great colors for this situation. You can also opt for the brightest colors in your box, as these are made to be seen in murky waters. Try luminous pink, orange, and chartreuse.
When the water is clear, the idea is to match fish's chosen bait as close as possible. This means choosing natural colors that imitate the baitfish in the water. If you are bass fishing using green pumpkin or watermelon colored baits will imitate the crawfish, perch and sunfish species in the system. If you're fishing in the sea you might go for a crankbait with a blue body and a white bottom.
It doesn't always quite work out as I've mentioned above but it's a good general rule to follow. Never stop changing if what you're using is not working.
Sunlight has a similar effect on the water as water clarity. If you have been snorkeling, you'll know that when the sun comes out, your visibility underwater gets a lot better. It's exactly the same for fish, bait is easy to see on a sunny day and harder to see on a darker day. In terms of lure color, the same rules we mentioned in water clarity apply here too. Dark or luminous colors on dark days and natural colors on bright days. Although, it's probably better to weigh them up together. If you're fishing clear water on a dark day, then use something that is still natural but is either a little dark or has some flash to it. If the water is dark and the sky is darker, then go for the darkest or most outlandish color you have.
Something else that affects how sunlight penetrates water is the surface conditions. If you are a diver you'll know that visibility is much worse when the water is rough than when it is calm. If it's windy on a lake, making a big ripple and lot of surface movement, the water reflects and refracts a lot of the light that hits it and stops it from penetrating. This means that if you are fishing in clear water on a sunny day but it's very windy, you're going to want to think about using a darker or luminous lure.
Summing Up
It is quite a confusing realm of choice thinking about lure color and why it makes a difference sometimes and other times not. Color definitely plays a role, some days having the right color means fish are all over your bait. If you're an offshore fisherman, you'll have seen that on certain days one color in your 8 color spread will be hit all day and the others ignored.
The topics above definitely point to getting the right contrast so they fish can see your bait, this is certainly important. But don't get too caught up in color, yes find a good one but also fish it well. People who keep changing instead of focussing on fishing over catch less than if they had stuck with one color and fished it hard.
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Death Note (Opinion)
So considering i am a big fan of the death note series, i decided for my first proper blog i would write up my opinion of the series.
To start with, if nobody is aware of this anime, i will tell you the basic just of what the series is about. The 'death note' is a notebook that allows you to kill anybody you like just by writing their name into the notebook whilst picturing the face of the person. The death note has several rules to it these include:
 1. it will happen.
 1. The notebook shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world.
 1. The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner, i.e. a God of death/Shinigami.
 1. The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
 1. The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, a Shinigami, even if the human is not the owner of the note.
 1. Gods of Death, the original owners of the Death Note, do not do, in principle, anything which will help or prevent the deaths in the note.
 1. A Shinigami has no obligation to completely explain how to use the note or rules which will apply to the human who owns it unless asked.
 1. A Shinigami can extend their own life by putting a name on their own note, but humans cannot.
 1. A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note.
 1. The human who becomes the owner of the Death Note can, in exchange of half his/her remaining life, get the eyes of the Shinigami which will enable him/her to see a human's name and remaining life span when looking through them.
 1. A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun. However, there are ways to kill a Shinigami, which are not generally known to the Shinigami.
 1. The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the Shinigami, either. So, you must examine and find out.
These are not all the rules but the main and you get the idea of what the death note does.
So it all begins when a shinigami (god of death) named 'ryuk' drops his notebook into the 'human world' A young high school student, Light Yagami, finds the notebook on the floor and decides to kill off all criminals and become a 'god' of the 'new world' by getting rid of all evil. It later becomes battle to the death between the two greatest minds the world has between L and Light.
What is good about this anime is that you could take a side of either L, a very talented detective, or Light. L doesn't believe all criminals should be killed and works with police to stop light or aka 'Kira'.
I don't want to go into the entire series and say what i thought was best but i want to say what i thought about the death of L. After L dies, the anime seems to die a bit. I wouldn't mind if he died at the end of the series with Light but bringing Near into it was just like a smaller, younger version of L and i didn't like him at all really.
What i wanted to ask in this post, to the fans of death note, is what you think the ending should of been like. So an alternative ending? Or do you actually like the ending how it was, if so why do you think that?
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compute $\phi(24)$ for each element Z/24 decide whether the element is a unit or a zero divisor, if the element is a unit divisor give its order and find its inverse.
Ive worked out $\phi(24)=8$
and the unit divisors to be ${1,5,7,11,13,17,19,23}$
however when I came to working out the order I got them all to be 2?
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Presumably, you mean all but one of them has order 2. – Gerry Myerson Nov 28 '12 at 12:16
yupp bar the number 1, could you confirm ive answered it correctly or have i gone terribly wrong? – jill Nov 28 '12 at 12:18
_USER_ You can write $(\mathbb{Z}/24)^{\times} \cong (\mathbb{Z}/8)^{\times} \times (\mathbb{Z}/3)^{\times} \cong \mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/2$ in which it's easy to see that all elements have order at most $2$ – Cocopuffs Nov 28 '12 at 12:27
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$(2a+1)^2=4a^2+4a+1=8\frac{a(a+1)}2+1\equiv \pmod 8\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod 8$ if $(c,8)=1$
Now, $(3b\pm1)^2\equiv 1\pmod 3\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod 3$ if $(c,3)=1$
If $(c,8)=1$ and $(c,3)=1$ i.e., if $(c,24)=1, lcm(3,8)\mid (c^2-1)\implies c^2\equiv1\pmod{24}$
So, $ord_{24}c\mid 2$
But clearly, $ord_{24}c\ne1$ for $c>1\implies ord_{24}c=2$ for $c>1$ and $(c,24)=1$
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If you look at the numbers mod 6 (the prime divisors of 24 being 2 and 3) you eliminate those equivalent to 0,2,3,4 - so you have left those equivalent to 1 and 5 (i.e. $6n \pm 1$). You could confirm your answer by looking at what happens to the numbers $(6n \pm 1)^2$ when they are taken mod 24.
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