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We hosted a panel discussion around the theme of looked after children past and present, with a specific focus on how black children experience the care system. The panel included professor of social and cultural history at Anglia Ruskin University Lucy Bland, whose book Britain's Brown Babies: The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War won the 2021 Social History Society book prize, senior lecturer in social work at Hope University Philomena Harrison, and two former residents of the Fazakerley cottage homes, Jim Howard and Brian Lawrenson.
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This event was part of the Bluecoat's Looked After Children project, which commemorate the lives of the children who were students in the Bluecoat building when it was used as a charity school.


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Title: An octree-based solution-adaptive Cartesian grid generator and Euler solver for the simulation of three-dimensional inviscid compressible flows
Authors: Emre Kara; A. İhsan Kutlar; M. Halûk Aksel
Addresses: Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Gaziantep, 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey ' Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Gaziantep, 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey ' Mechanical Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Abstract: Cartesian grid generation methods are especially designed algorithms to generate automatic grids for complex geometries and to simulate flows around such geometries regardless of the body shape. Cartesian grids are generated by constructing an octree-based data structure for the purpose of connecting the Cartesian cells to each other. Entire algorithm is implemented in object-oriented FORTRAN programming language. Some special Cartesian algorithms, namely, Ray-Casting method and cut-cell adaptation are used around three-dimensional closed bodies. The flow field around the solid body is obtained by employing Euler equations which are discretised by using finite volume method. Validation of the numerical results is accomplished by comparison with the experimentally obtained data from the flow around ONERA M6 wing. Employing the solution adaptation techniques, pressure coefficients and contours of the flow around the wing have verified and captured two shock waves (weak leading edge shock and midchord shock) by the developed grid-generator-with-eULER-solver-for-3D-applications (GeULER3D) code.
Keywords: Cartesian grid generation; octree data structure; ray casting method; cut-cell adaptation; object-oriented programming; OOP; Euler solver; computational fluid dynamics; CFD; simulation; 3D flow; inviscid flow; compressible flow; finite volume method; FVM; ONERA M6 wing; shock waves.
Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2016 Vol.16 No.3, pp.131 - 145
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The therapeutic efficacy of thermal balneotherapy
From the thermal bath in an individual bath to relaxation and rehabilitation in a thermal pool: as long as it is hyper-thermal bromidic iodine salt water from spas.
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From the thermal bath, to relaxation to rehabilitation in the thermal pool there are two components are involved in determining the therapeutic action of a thermal bath: the water temperature and the chemical composition of the water itself
Regarding the changes that heat causes on the human organism in general, on locomotion organs and on painful manifestations in particular, the chemical composition of the salso-bromo-iodica mineral water of the spas has a stimulating and resolving effect on the inflammatory processes also of the deep organs. Visit Waxing in NYC to get the best care of waxing.
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A medical therapy recognized by the National Health System. The thermal bath has a stimulating effect on the circulation and on the cellular metabolism and is indicated in hypertension, in arteriosclerosis, in obesity, in gout, in states of depression and, above all, in peripheral vasculopathies and also in some arthropathies.
The thermal bath is usually added with ozone. The ozone bubbles exert a delicate massage, coming into contact with the immersed body surface, determining stimulating effects and activating the circulation (dilation of the capillaries, squeezing of the venous vessels, and increase of blood velocity to the periphery).
Dry human skin is not very permeable to gases and water-soluble substances, while damp skin, softened in hot water, becomes permeable by diffusion, allowing the ozone dissolved in the bath water to reach the deeper layers of the tissues.
Furthermore, the large amount of ozonated air bubbles that continuously rise to the surface of the water also determine a general action on the organism by inhaling ozone at optimal concentrations, favoring the absorption through the respiratory tract of the various salts present in the water spa.
Swimming in the thermal pool
From pure relaxation to the ultimate rehabilitation therapy, the therapeutic action of the thermal bath in the pool takes place through specific factors (chemical-physical characteristics of the water used) and non – specific factors (water temperature, mechanical and hydrostatic influences of the water itself).
For this reason, becoming otherwise difficult or painful movements out of the water does not require excessive expenditure of muscular energy to keep the parts of the body in the desired positions and the muscles release more completely.
The hydrostatic pressure acts on the venous circulation, especially on the return one and on the blood deposit organisms. For these actions, swimming in the pool is used for re-education in arthrosis, arthro-tumoral diseases, and replacement, in some functional and organic peripheral vasculopathies.


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You just traded complexities here. With switches you repeat subtypes, with polymorphism you repeat operations in classes.
Multidimensional polymorphism
This is the case of the balls and brick in a Breakout like game. It's also called multiple dispatch. As far as I know none of the mainstream OOP languages support this feature. C won't support it either. But you can use switches again:
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Default asserts are important here. Visitors wouldn't be much simpler than this.
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Education
Students learn the basics of the programming in a procedural language. Then they learn the "correct way" of programming. Which usually means learning OOP and patterns, etc. while ignoring other programming paradigms like procedural or functional.
Can be sold
GUI designer programs are visual programs using an OO language and they can be sold to the non-technical managers more easily than any other language.
Frameworks, libraries
The most feature rich frameworks are written in an OOP language.
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Once every student learned OOP they cannot imagine programming any other way than OOP.
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OOP is not better than the procedural paradigm. It's just a way of organizing code, and it's too popular...
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The final hurdle to jump on the path to becoming a teacher in Georgia is passing the Georgia Assessment for the Certification of Educators (GACE) exam. Everyone from the 20 year teaching vet moving states to the new college graduate has to have a plan for passing the exam. The GACE is different than other state certification tests, and since it costs a pretty penny to take, it seems worth it for test takers to invest in a high quality study guide book.
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Reviews of the most popular study guides made the point that there wasn't much guiding going on inside of the pages because the authors did not include enough examples or descriptions for how to solve test questions. The GACE book often had pages and pages of content that was disorganized without basic parts such as an index or glossary. How do publishers get away with producing such a poor product? After all, why pay money for something you can do better yourself?
Problem #1: The GACE Study Guide Format And Content Does Not Match Real Test.
The GACE prep books on the market are a joke. They are mass produced by publishers who spend more time writing their product descriptions than they do their study guide materials. It is truly sad that people using these study guides eventually failed their GACE exams even though they put the time, effort, and money into their preparation because the format and content of the study guide did not match the actual test.
It is a major problem when a GACE guide book includes topics that are not listed in the GACE test framework and leaves out ones that are. You could know the study guide like the back of your hand yet walk into the test and feel like you knew nothing. What a waste of time and money! Thankfully, you can download a free study companion from the official GACE website to start your studying on the right foot.
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Standardisation of rates using logistic regression : a comparison with the direct method
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BACKGROUND: Standardisation of rates in health services research is generally undertaken using the direct and indirect arithmetic methods. These methods can produce unreliable estimates when the calculations are based on small numbers. Regression based methods are available but are rarely applied in practice. This study demonstrates the advantages of using logistic regression to obtain smoothed standardised estimates of the prevalence of rare disease in the presence of covariates. METHODS: Step by step worked examples of the logistic and direct methods are presented utilising data from BETS, an observational study designed to estimate the prevalence of subclinical thyroid disease in the elderly. Rates calculated by the direct method were standardised by sex and age categories, whereas rates by the logistic method were standardised by sex and age as a continuous variable. RESULTS: The two methods produce estimates of similar magnitude when standardising by age and sex. The standard errors produced by the logistic method were lower than the conventional direct method. CONCLUSION: Regression based standardisation is a practical alternative to the direct method. It produces more reliable estimates than the direct or indirect method when the calculations are based on small numbers. It has greater flexibility in factor selection and allows standardisation by both continuous and categorical variables. It therefore allows standardisation to be performed in situations where the direct method would give unreliable results.
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Introductory clauses are dependent clauses which are found at the beginning of the sentence (although they can be moved to the end of the sentence, too, without confusing the meaning of the sentence). After a dependent introductory clause, we use a comma to separate the introductory clause from the independent clause. The dependent introductory clause may start with an adverb or conjunction like although, if, or when.
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If CH isn't true, this means $$2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2\:.$$ Does this imply: $$2^{\aleph_1}=\aleph_3$$ or does the CH hold only for $\aleph_0$ and $\aleph_1$? Thanks
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Why should $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_2$ if CH fails? – t.b. Sep 5 '12 at 9:18
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No, CH just says that $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_1$, so its failure just says that $2^{\aleph_0}\ne\aleph_1$. We know that $2^{\aleph_0}\ge\aleph_1$, but it's consistent that $2^{\aleph_0}$ be any cardinal $\aleph_\alpha$ such that $\alpha\ge 1$ and $\operatorname{cf}\alpha>\omega$. In particular, $2^{\aleph_0}$ could be $\aleph_n$ for any $n>1$.
If $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$, $2^{\aleph_1}$ would have to be at least $\aleph_2$, but it could be much bigger. For instance, it's consistent that $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$ and $2^{\aleph_1}=\aleph_{17}$.
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The negation of the Continuum Hypothesis does not entail that there is only one infinity strictly between the natural numbers and the real numbers. In fact, given any any infinite cardinal $\kappa$ there is a cardinal $\lambda \geq \kappa$ such that $\text{ZFC} + 2^{\aleph_0} = \lambda$ is consistent (assuming the consistency of ZFC itself, of course).
Even if we assume that $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_2$, it could still be that $2^{\aleph_1} = 2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_2$ -- this happens, for example, under the Proper Forcing Axiom, or more simply under the assumption of Martin's Axiom with $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_2$. (The Proper Forcing Axiom is a strengthening of Martin's Axiom -- well, formally a strengthening of $\text{MA} ({\aleph_1})$ -- which fixes the size of the continuum at $\aleph_2$.)
On the other hand, we can have $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_2$ and $2^{\aleph_1} > \aleph_3$. Very similar techniques for showing the consistency of $\neg \text{CH}$ can be applied to give the above.
The most general statement in this realm is Easton's Theorem which essentially says that except for certain basic restrictions, the function $\aleph_\alpha \mapsto 2^{\aleph_\kappa}$ can be consistently arbitrary.
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Can you replace the song in a music box?
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What is the music box thing called?
music box, also called musical box, mechanical musical instrument that is sounded when tuned metal prongs, or teeth, mounted in a line on a flat comb are made to vibrate by contact with a revolving cylinder or disc that is driven by a clockwork mechanism.
Can a music box play a whole song?
It comes with these paper strips and a punch tool. Every hole you punch represents a note, and you can play the whole song by cranking the paper through the music box.2019-11-02
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How Long Can a Music Box Song Be? Generally speaking, the music box can play a tune for up to 2 3 minutes. However, if you're buying a modern one (without a crank mechanism), it can play the entire song for 5 to 6 minutes.2021-11-09
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These tunes play from 4 bars to 8 bars of music in 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4 time depending upon the diameter of the cylinder. (The older mechanism have wider cylinders. A movement can last three minutes or so when fully wound. All tunes repeat after the cylinder has made one full revolution.
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However, traditional music boxes can only play one song. You'd have to own a collection just to have various songs to play (which is kinda expensive if you think about it).2019-06-08
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The inside of the musical box is called the movement. Normally made of steel and where sound is being produced. Strips of protruding metal on the comb is called the teeth. The revolving part of the movement where the tunes are imprinted on using metal pins.
How does the music box make different sounds?
A music box works by rotating a metal cylinder with protruding pins that pluck the individual prongs of a steel comb. The sounds that resonate from the vibrating prongs are the notes we hear—lower notes from longer prongs and higher notes from shorter ones.2015-12-08
What is the box called that has music notes in it?
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Can you change the song in a music box?
You can even customize the song by choosing a pre-loaded song or programming the music box with your own song. Make sure that you check the dimensions of the music box mechanism before you purchase it to ensure that it will fit into the box you have chosen.
How does a punch card music box work?
You punch out music notes on a card and crank it through the music box to play a tune. The music box came with several card sheets around 70cm (27in) long. The card sheets are printed with a grid system so you can measure the time domain and know what note you are selecting.2018-08-21
Can music boxes play chords?
Another element of music boxes is to slightly arpeggiate a chord. This can happen on a cadence or when you want to emphasize a chord. But it's very quick, it provides a cute "jumbled" kind of sound. let's say I'm playing a C5 chord.2019-01-30
What notes can a music box play?
DIY music boxes are often defined by their musical range. Three common types include 15-note, 20-note and 30-note. Each of these box types uses a their own punch-paper, sized to fit the box and the notes it supports.
How does the music box get different notes to play?
The sequence of notes produced is determined by the arrangement of projections on the cylinder. The deeper the teeth are cut into the comb or flat plate, the lower their pitch when plucked. A watch spring and clockwork move the cylinder, and a fly regulator governs the rate.
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Arguments and Values:
pathspec---a logical pathname, a logical pathname namestring, or a stream.
logical-pathname---a logical pathname.
logical-pathname converts pathspec to a logical pathname and returns the new logical pathname. If pathspec is a logical pathname namestring, it should contain a host component and its following colon. If pathspec is a stream, it should be one for which pathname returns a logical pathname.
If pathspec is a stream, the stream can be either open or closed. logical-pathname returns the same logical pathname after a file is closed as it did when the file was open. It is an error if pathspec is a stream that is created with make-two-way-stream, make-echo-stream, make-broadcast-stream, make-concatenated-stream, make-string-input-stream, or make-string-output-stream.
Affected By: None.
Signals an error of type type-error if pathspec isn't supplied correctly.
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Mi Pueblito Tours and Tickets
Panama is a melting pot of diverse cultures, including those of Spanish, African and indigenous roots. Traveling around the country to see how these different societies live is fascinating, but it can be a challenge to fit them all into one trip. Close to Panama City is Mi Pueblito, however, a little tourist town that has them all in just one place.
The town has life-size representations of villages found throughout the country, including a typical Spanish-style colonial town, complete with a public square with a Catholic church and mayor's office. There's also a school, a barber shop and houses with traditional kitchens and furnishings.
One area shows the lifestyle of Africans who came to Panama to work on the canal, with a typical Protestant church, wood houses and representations of well-known buildings that form part of Panamanian history. Visitors can also get a glimpse into the culture of an indigenous village, with the huts, tools and instruments the country's indigenous people use. Members of this group sell their beautiful handmade crafts in Mi Pueblito, and there are also restaurants and cultural events that are hosted here on the weekends.
Tours and Tickets to Experience Mi Pueblito
- San Jose Church (Iglesia San Jose)
- Plaza de Francia
- Panamá Viejo (Old Panama Ruins)
- Metropolitan National Park (Parque Natural Metropolitano)
- Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama)
- Miraflores Locks
- Panama Canal
- Presidential Palace (Palacio de las Garzas)
- Casco Viejo
- Metropolitan Cathedral
- Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum (Museo del Canal Interoceánico)
- Ancon Hill (Cerro Ancon)
- Fuerte Amador Cruise Port
- Bridge of the Americas (Puente de las Americas)


8. Bird Ringers of Kenya
A film by Michelle Donde
Catching birds in a net, capturing them by their necks and fastening a band around their legs may not sound so pleasant. But when conducted by the gentle and professional hands of the members of the Nairobi Ringing Group, it's difficult not to stare in awe. This close-knit group has perfected the skill of bird ringing. A necessary practice that helps monitor migration of birds, health of an eco-system and manage bird populations, amongst other environmental factors. Delve into the intriguing world of bird ringing and banding in Kenya.


noise cancellation is enabled by default. Still, it's a good idea to check whether noise cancellation is enabled on your iPhone.
Step 1: If you have iOS 12 or earlier, go to Settings -> Basic -> Universal Access.
If you have iOS 13, then go to Settings -> Universal Access -> Audio Visual Material.
Step 2: Scroll down and find.
Step 3: Activate it.
After activation, you can proceed to the test – call a friend or relative and ask him to evaluate the sound quality. As numerous experiments show it increases.
Problems with iPhone Microphone not Working
Clean the microphone grill
Microphone holes are tiny, so clean them with special care. You should use any soft brush (it can be a toothbrush) to thoroughly clean the grills.
Where Is the Microphone on iPhone 12 - Full Guide for Users
When doing so, hold the iPhone so that gravity does its job. For example, if you are cleaning the bottom microphone, try to hold the phone vertically so that the dirt can easily fall off.
After that, take a few minutes to thoroughly clean the 3.5mm headphone jack or Lightning port.
It's also very important to make sure that you're not using a case or screen protector that partially or completely covers the microphone holes. If so, get rid of them.
Reboot iPhone 12
In the above solutions, we talked about the hardware side of things. But what if the microphones aren't working because of a temporary software glitch!
The first fix is to reboot the iPhone . Yes! An action as simple as turning the device off and then turning it back on can solve a few minor problems! Here is how to turn off iphone 12 pro max.
Give the app access to the microphone location
To gain access to your iPhone's microphones, apps need your consent. Usually when you open an app for the first time or perform an action in an app that requires a microphone, you'll see a pop-up window asking for your permission.
Where Is the Microphone on iPhone 12 - Full Guide for Users
If you select "Do Not Allow," here's how to override that decision.
 1. Open the "Settings" app and click "Privacy" .
 2. Tap on the microphone.
 3. Turn on the switch of the desired app to allow it access to microphones.
Additional method: you can scroll down to the bottom of the "Settings" app, click on the name of the app and perform the above action.
Then forcibly close the application and restart it.
Conclusion
In this article, you learned where the microphone location on Apple iPhone 12 Models (iPhone 12, iPhone Pro, iPhone mini, iPhone Pro Max) is. There are three different microphones with multiple locations: one is on the bottom of the device, the other mic is located on the top, and the third one, the camera mic, is a tiny hole on the back.
They have different purposes, f.e. phone calls, facetime calls, Siri. The mics perform camera related functions or record sound.

How to Show Battery Percentage on iPhone 12 Permanently – Detailed Manual
Although the new iPhone 12 series has the best iPhone features, Apple has made changes to some of the phone's most basic features. This new update from Apple is certainly very annoying, as constantly checking the battery level is a habit for many. While the battery status can be seen, it is not the same as the percentage. Changing the settings in this case does not help. There are several alternatives to this problem. But just to warn you, the battery percentage cannot be displayed in the status bar. Instead, you can resort to other options how to show battery percentage on iPhone 12 permanently.
Is it Possible to Turn on the Battery Level in Percent on the iPhone
All iPhone models, both old and new, allow you to know how much battery has. The difference is that Apple smartphones X, XR, XS, XS Max will not be able to show the data all the time. For the sake of ergonomics, in order not to clutter the space on the screen, the information was "hidden" in the control center curtain. In the new models, you can get the data only from there.
How to Show Battery Percentage on iPhone 12 Permanently -User's Guide
The user will have to call an additional menu through the control center, which disappears after use. In the settings, it was enough to turn on the function "Active percentage".
The ability to see the charge level as a percentage has a psychological effect. As soon as the number becomes less than 50, the desire to find an outlet and charger increases significantly. After all, it means that the smartphone has only a few hours left. According to recent tests, 49% means about 5 hours of operation of the mobile device.
Keep in mind that we are talking about a new phone with a battery that has not been damaged by careless use.
Via Batteries Widget on the Home Screen
If you want to know your battery percentage as soon as you open your iPhone, your best bet is to add a batteries widget to your home screen. Also with the new iOS 14 update, you can choose between 3 widget sizes according to your preference. If you don't like the huge batteries widget taking up the entire home screen, you can choose a smaller battery icon. These options were not available before the iOS 14 update.
How to Show Battery Percentage on iPhone 12 Permanently
The battery widget is very simple and shows the battery percentage indicator of your iPhone and other connected devices. You can add a battery widget by following a few simple steps.
Steps to Add Battery Widget to Home Screen
 1. Go to the Home screen and tap and hold any app or blank space.
 2. When apps are in an editable state, you can see the option to remove the app.
 3. You may see a + sign in the upper left corner. Click on that to add any widget.
 4. The widget menu will now open. Scroll down to find the battery widget.
 5. Once you select a widget, a preview of the widget will be shown, and you can choose any size widget you want.
 6. Once you have selected a widget in one of the three sizes, you can add it to the Home screen.
How to Show Battery Percentage on iPhone 12 Permanently
The battery percentage indicator will appear on the Home screen every time you open your iPhone. But you may find it unaesthetic to add the widget to the Home screen. If you don't want to fill the Home screen with a battery indicator, you can add it to the Today view column. You can add it:
 1. Swipe to the left to open the "Today's View" menu.
 2. Long press and hold anywhere blank.
 3. When the menu becomes editable, click the + icon in the upper left corner.
 4. You can now add a battery widget to the Today View.
You can move the widget around the Home screen to adjust it wherever you want. But you cannot change the size of the widget to your liking, except for the three available options. There are certain external apps that you can use to display your battery percentage, other than the settings on your phone. These apps are available in the App Store.
Ask Siri for Help
Siri, your virtual assistant can help you instantly. Set the "Listen, hello, Siri" option in the settings menu if you don't want to press the side button every time you talk to Siri. So, the steps to ask Siri to check your remaining battery percentage:
 - Say "Hello, Siri" to activate Siri and check the battery percentage.
As simple and easy as this option may seem, it is not suitable for all situations. Activating Siri every time you want to know the time is not the best option.
Steps to Check the Battery via the Control Center
The easiest way to check your remaining battery power without returning to the Home screen is through Control Center. For people who constantly check their phone's battery, opening Control Center is the best option.
 1. Swipe down from the upper-right corner of your iPhone.
 2. When Control Center opens, you can see the battery percentage in the upper right corner along with other icons.
 3. If you want to make access to Control Center even bigger, easier, or you want to scroll down every time you need to check the time, complicated, you can add a gesture to the settings menu so that Control Center opens with a simple gesture.
 4. Go to the settings menu, scroll down to the "Accessibility" section and select the "Touch" option.
 5. At the bottom, there is an option to "Go back to the top." Click on that.
 6. Now you can set the gesture as either "Double Tap" or "Triple Tap."
 7. Choose the option you want.
Once you set the new gesture, you can open the Double Tap Control Center when you want to check your battery percentage or anything else. You don't need to access this gesture just from the home screen. Every time you double-tap, the Control Center appears.
Conclusion
The iPhone 12 is one of the best cell phones compared to its previous models and other phones on the market. Of course, the new battery status update will cause quite a bit of trouble. But there are a few options mentioned above that you can use as an alternative.
Also, when you plug your phone into the charger, the battery percentage will be displayed. There is no other way to check the battery. However, if you notice that your battery is faulty, it's best to contact a professional who can diagnose your gadget. In case you need


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| Lesson 7 || Selecting records based on user input |
| Objective || Use parameterized queries to select records based on user input values. |
Selecting Records based on User Input
Practically all Web sites today have some level of search capability. The typical scenario includes a search page in which the user selects a search criterion, such as author or title, enters a search term or phrase, and finally clicks a button to submit the search to the Web server.
In the scenario just described, the search criterion and term or phrases are not known at design time.
Rather, the complete search definition isn't known until runtime. At runtime, the SQL query is built dynamically after the user submits the search. There are generally two ways to implement runtime dynamic searches.
- Design time: The mode of operation when the application is being written.
- runtime: The mode of operation when the application is running.
- Stored procedures: SQL statements stored in a database
- Parameterized queries: SQL query that uses dynamic parameters
Parameterized queries use a SQL statement with a placeholder. A placeholder is simply a character, such as a question mark, that will be replaced at runtime with the values the user entered. Using placeholders, your application can build SQL queries dynamically at runtime. The following SQL statement shows a placeholder for the book status value.
SELECT ItemNo, Title, Author, Retail FROM BookTable
WHERE Status =?
You can implement parameterized queries in PHP using several of the database products you read about in the ealier Module on database concepts.
The VirtualBookShelf.com database used in this course is a Microsoft Access database. Unfortunately, PHP doesn't support parameterized queries in Microsoft Access. The simulation in this lesson uses a Microsoft SQL Server database. You use the Recordset DTC to create a parameterized query.
The control is bound to a SQL query, which will have one or more placeholders for user-entered values.
The following simulation demonstrates how to create an HTML page that lets the user enter a state abbreviation as the search term.
Using Parameterized Queries


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Minister of Electricity reveals mechanisms of access to nuclear fuel, ways to dispose of it - Daily News Egypt
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Shaker explains terms of IAEA and Russian company to create El-Dabaa nuclear power plant
By Salah El-Menoufi
The electricity sector is facing several challenges with the unprecedented increase of consumption rates because of population growth, limited sources of fuel, and its price increase. The government is seeking to achieve high rates of economic growth, which requires the provision of more energy sources.
In an interview with Daily News Egypt, Minister of Electricity Mohammed Shaker revealed the ministry's plans to meet the energy shortage crisis, reduce waste, secure supplies, and rationalise consumption. The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant and means of access to nuclear fuel and securing its disposal has become a priority file for the government.
What are the challenges the energy sector is facing now?
The electricity sector has been facing many challenges in recent years. Among the challenges are unprecedented increases of consumption of electricity due to high population growth rates, economic growth increase in losses in the electrical transmission, distribution networks thefts, and the stability of electricity prices for long periods of time despite the increase in production requirements and increase in subsidy bills.
The challenges also include the difficulty of managing the necessary funds and the lack of funding for new projects in streamlining and improving energy efficiency.
The increased cost of renewable energies forced us to find a balanced mix of energy between the traditional with coal, the renewable with hydro, solar, wind, subsoil, and wastes, and nuclear.
The minister discussed the challenges facing the energy sector (AFP Photo)
The minister discussed the challenges facing the energy sector
(AFP Photo)
What are strategic goals of the electricity sector?
Goals include maximising the use of all resources, encouraging the use of renewable energy, and promoting electricity interconnection. We also aim to improve the efficiency of energy production and its usage by adopting environmental protection policies and appropriate measures in the field of electricity generation and future planning to meet the rising demands.
What are procedures for securing disposal of nuclear fuel after operating the plants?
Egypt's strategy for the management of nuclear fuel of high radiation includes two aspects; the temporary storage and awaiting the examination of all technical and economic considerations associated with the subsequent stage. The nuclear fuel is then stored gradually in water basins to alleviate radiation of the fuel as well as providing suitable means for cooling so that the heat emitted from it could be extracted on an ongoing basis.
Afterwards the fuel is transferred, in accordance with the general policy of the state, for reprocessing and separation of some fission products useful for medical, agricultural, and industrial uses.
The disposal of radioactive waste results from scrapping the power plant when the operational life of the plant ends or in case of accidents. This is according to the plan submitted by the main contractor of the project.
This is why they must be reviewed during scrapping operations plans and updated regularly according to the technological development in this regard.
What is the plan prepared by ministry to secure nuclear fuel supplies?
The strategy for guaranteeing secure supply of nuclear fuel and waste disposal is based on the conclusion of multiple long-term contracts with more than one supplier to ensure the supply of materials and services.
At the beginning of implementation of the Egyptian nuclear programme, the supplier company will be obliged to provide the necessary nuclear fuel for the operation of nuclear reactor for a period ranging between five and ten years.
A strategic stockpile of fuel will be provided to ensure its availability if supply from abroad was interrupted for any reason. There will also be special facilities for storing nuclear fuel. It will be emphasised on in the contracts to be signed with the company that will implement the project.
What type of fuel will be used in Al-Dabaa plant?
Universally available nuclear fuel, which is uranium dioxide and mixed oxide fuel.
What are the procedures for dealing with waste?
Disposal of low and medium-level radioactive waste will be done by processing at the power plant with modern and sophisticated technologies, supplied by the main contractor for the nuclear power plant project.
The contractor, the Russian corporation Rosatom, handles equipping a cell at the fuel basin to secure the processing hardware and contaminated equipment.
There will also be an accurate system of operations associated with the management of radioactive waste – assembly, classification, transport, and storage – and keeping these operations under constant monitoring, verification, and audit. This will be through the establishment of an accounting system for all sorts of radioactive waste resulting from operation.
The establishment of a nuclear power plant requires the availability of an efficient electricity network to begin commercial operational for a nuclear plant, which is significant for the high electrical capacities generated from the plants.
The nuclear programme requires highly trained human cadres on all project levels, from choosing the site until operating it.
What are the additional requirements?
Nuclear plants' projects depend on communication between the project's parties and the beneficiaries to ensure the best performance in planed times. Therefore the IAEA requires participating with the participation of all the project stakeholders.
There are also terms to provide the highest levels of environment protection surrounding the plant's site and to elaborate an emergency plan. These terms are an essential part of the infrastructure to stress on the procedures followed during emergency and to be prepared for it.
Through which mechanisms will the ministry operate to increase energy?
We are working through four mechanisms including government's project via NREA, the private sector projects through the Build, Own and Operate (BOO) system, commercial projects, and the feed-in tariff.
The law allows investors to provide the necessary lands to establish state's projects represented in the NREA for a 2% beneficial right from the project's produced energy value.
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Natural navigation in the UK
Navigate Without a Map
The abilities to find north, navigate short distances and tell the time of day without a map, compass or watch are key bushcraft skills. In this latest blog, we will look at we will introduce you to these skills and show you how you can get started in navigating without a map or compass.
As always, feel free to read the whole blog or skip to the section that interests you the most.
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Navigate without a map: how to find north
Finding North without a map or compass
The ability to find north without a compass when out in the woods is a key bushcraft skill. In the following section, we're going to show you some different ways of finding north when you are out in the woods. First though, a word on the different kinds of north.
Grid north, magnetic north and true north
There are, essentially, three different types of north. Grid north is the direction of the grid lines on your map, magnetic north is the direction indicated by a magnetic compass while true north is north on a longitudinal line that converges on the North Pole. For more information about the differences between grid, magnetic and true north see the Ordnance Survey site here.
Why does this matter?
Over an extended distance, magnetic variation will start to matter, likewise, it's a good idea to factor it in when walking on a bearing in the Scottish mountains in a whiteout. However, when trying to navigate using natural features then it's almost impossible to be accurate enough that it will matter when you try to relate the bearing you've taken from natural features to the lines on the map.
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Finding north using the sun
Find north without a map or compass
Despite what you might read about finding north using an analogue watch, this method is, in reality, far from reliable. An easier way of finding north is by using a shadow stick. Place the stick in the ground and mark the tip where the shadow ends. Wait about 15 minutes or so then mark the new position of the shadow tip. Draw a line between the first marker and the second. Stand with your left foot on the first marker and your right on the second marker, you're now facing in a northerly direction.
Finding north using the stars
Keep in mind that this blog is written for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and the UK in particular. For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere finding north using the stars is a very different matter.
As you might remember from Scouts or the like, the key to finding direction by using the stars is by locating the North Star.
How to locate the North Star
In order to locate the North Star, you first need to find the constellation known as 'the plough', 'the saucepan' or, for the Americans, 'the big dipper'. What you're actually seeing is the seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, but it doesn't really matter what you call it as long as you can identify it.
Remember, the Plough rotates around the North Star so will sometimes look like it is upside down. However, this doesn't change how you can find the North Star.
The North Star, or Polaris, sits directly over the North Pole. In order to find it is to go straight up from the two stars that make the 'edge' of the 'saucepan bowl' for about five times the distance that these two stars are apart. This will lead you to a bright star on its own. This is Polaris or the North Star, and there you are, you've found North.
Navigating using the north star
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Navigate without a map: calculating pace and distance
Use natural navigation to measure pace and distance
Calculating pace and therefore distance covered is key to successful navigation without a map or a compass. In our blog last week we looked at how to judge distances without a map, knowing the distance you are from an object you then need to be able to calculate how long it will take you to walk that distance. This is particularly important if the light is fading or weather conditions are worsening, you need to be able to judge if you will be able to reach your objective in time or if it is better to stay put and wait it out. Perhaps the best-known method for calculating distance is by using Naismith's rule.
Naismith's rule
Naismith's rule is a rule of thumb for judging pacing when out walking. It was originally devised by the Scottish mountaineer William W. Naismith in 1892. The basic principle of Naismith's rule is that each 5km takes one hour to walk, for every 600 metres ascended during that hour add an additional one hour. Another way of looking at it is an hour for every 5km with an additional minute for every 10 metres of ascent (this would be one contour line on a map but you will need to judge ascent yourself if you don't have a map).
Modifications to Naismith's rule
Weather, weight carried, terrain, conditions underfoot and fitness of your party can all impact on Naismith's rule. Generally speaking though when walking on rough or hard terrain alter the pace from 5km per hour to 4km per hour, a strong headwind will reduce this further to around 2km per hour. Walking with a heavy pack will also cut your speed on flat ground to around 50% of your unladen speed.
Telling the time of day
Natural navigation for telling the time
Now you can estimate the direction in which you are traveling, the distance (see our earlier blog), and how long it will take you, you need to know the time of day. Knowing the current time (without a watch or phone) and the time of sunset will let you work out whether you have time to make the distance of whether it will lead to you being benighted.
Estimating the remaining time before sundown
A handy little trick to estimate the amount of time you have left is to measure, in terms of horizontal fingers, the distance between the sun and the horizon. Extend your hand out in front of you so that your palm is facing across your body with your little finger horizontal to your feet. Remove or add fingers until your palm covers the gap between the horizon and the sun. Each finger represents about 15 minutes, so four fingers represent an hour.
Direction of the sun in the sky
The sun rises in the east (roughly) and settles in the west (again roughly), at midday the sun will be directly overhead. Therefore, knowing what time sunrise is and being able to see the current position of the sun in the sky will enable you to make a rough estimate of the current time of the day.
Coming up
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Natural Navigation in the UK
The natural world has been helping people find their way since the paleolithic era, and it's been helping animals to do the same for even longer. This is still the case, for those that know how to spot them, the natural world provides signs and markers that can help find water, food, and direction. This blog post introduces the concept of natural navigation and provides an overview which will help you get started.
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What is natural navigation
Natural navigation is something that, theoretically, all of us, can access. In his seminal book 'Finding your way without map or compass' the legendary Harold Gatty states;
"a man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, the senses that he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence".
In short, someone who is merely skilled at noticing the signs around him and interpreting these signs.
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Early examples of great uses of natural navigation
Natural navigation early examples
Humankind has always been developing methods of navigation. The compass can be dated back to around 206 BC, and issues determining longitude and latitude plagued early modern navigators well into the 17th and 18th centuries. Despite this, early humans traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles using only the natural signs around them to find their way out and of course, home.
Navigation in 3000-1000 BC
There is evidence to suggest that between the years 3000 and 1000 BC the people that


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Scanning speed is often the first selection criterion when buying a 3D laser scanner because it is essential for time-consuming operations such as quality control on serial parts.This is especially the case when parts have large areas to scan, requiring multiple scan passes. So in many cases, working time and productivity are directly linked to scanning speed, but what exactly do we mean when talking about scanning speed?
Acquisition speed definition
In most users' minds, scanning speed is equal to acquisition speed which is the number of points per second captured on the object area. Certainly, that could be true but not always. Acquisition speed is calculated by multiplying two values: frequency (number of laser lines recorded per second) and the number of points on each laser line. Thus, a scanner with 1000 points per line with a frequency of 150Hz delivers an acquisition speed of 150.000 points per second.
Point cloud density and performances
3D scanners currently available on the market offer various speeds, from a few tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of points per second. A low acquisition speed requires a high number of scan passes to get a maximum point density. On the other hand, a high acquisition speed always provides a high point density. That last solution needs software and hardware with high performances, well adapted for dealing with clouds including many millions of points.
Laser line length
Relationship between laser line length and filed of view
The laser line length varies with the distance from the scanner with respect to the part. The closer the scanner is, the narrower is the laser line (top of scanner field of view); the farther it is, the larger is the laser line (bottom of the scanner field of view). This is due to the creation of the laser line, emitted from a fix point on the scanner and drawing a triangle in the space. Commonly, the value noted by the manufacturer is the larger value, i.e.: the one on the bottom of the scanner field of view.
The laser line can be compared to a paint roller
Let's look at an example showing the relationship between the laser line length and the speed. Imagine a 500mm x 500mm surface to be painted, it surely would be quicker if a large paint roller was used. The logic is the same with a 3D scanner. With a 50mm laser width, 10 scan passes are necessary to acquire the entire area, but with a 100mm laser line width only 5 are needed, so the latter is in theory twice as fast.
"One of the most important indicators to look at"
Frequency, rarely considered in the buying process, is although one of the most important indicators to look at, when talking about 3D scanner speed. As we have said before, frequency is the number of laser lines recorded per second. Comparing two scanners with the same acquisition speed but with different frequencies helps to understand the role of the frequency in relation to the scanning speed.
High frequency for a fluid gesture
For example, scanner A and B, with frequencies of respectively 200Hz and 50Hz, are tested on a measuring arm. Scanner A can be used easily because the hand gesture remains fluid and it moves with a natural speed without gaps on the point cloud. With scanner B, scanning at a natural speed is impossible, gaps between each laser line are immediately visible on the point cloud, hand gestures have to be 4 times slower (because frequency is 4 times lower) to obtain the same result as with scanner A.
But why does scanner B has the same acquisition speed as scanner A? Because scanner B has 4 times more points on each laser line. The acquisition speed of scanner B seems adequate, but when using it, even on robot, CMM or measuring arm, it is really slow.
In conclusion, the speed of a scanner is not a unique data but a set of parameters. If speed is required, choosing the correct parameter is important. Depending on the application, the right speed parameter optimizes your scanning process, for example scanning larger surfaces, acquiring more precise details or moving the scanner faster.


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Many members of the Online Centres Network work in communities with higher levels of poverty and wage inequality, meaning that they're often called on to support people with managing money, understand benefits and responding to financial difficulties such as unemployment.
These resources can help you help others gain the skills and knowledge they need to be more financially included, allowing them to take control of their money and understand the opportunities and support available.
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1. Make sure the pad is connected to a known working PC, not a laptop.
2. Connect the pad using a Y adaptor. This Y adaptor should have a serial connection on one end and both a serial and PS/2 connection on the other. Connect the single Serial end to the Pad and the other serial connection to the computer. Next connect the PS/2 connection to a free PS/2 port on the computer. This is required to supply the pad with the necessary power. If there is a conflict with port availability adapters are available to convert the PS/2 connection to USB or to split the PS/2 port so it can accommodate 2 connections.
3. Proceed through the install utilizing the disk that came with the pad. When prompted for the pad model supply the model on the back of the pad, however when next prompted for the model suffix such as "HSB" or "BHSB" from the back of the pad, you MUST choose "BHSB" regardless of the designation on the back of the pad. This will provide a higher BAUD rate which the pad requires to function.
4. Select the first available COM port with the lowest number, and proceed through the rest of the install.
5. Once you have completed the steps above, you can verify that the pad is working by using the DEMO.OCX program that was installed along with the drivers for the signature pad. If this program does not already have a short cut on your desktop, it can generally be found in the C:\WINDOWS\SigPlus directory. Please note, that because this is a serial device, you may have to restart your PC to cause the pad to be fully recognized by the computer.


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Republic of Eldorado
Timeline: The British Ain't Coming
OTL equivalent: Rondonia, Amazonas, Roraima, Acre
Flag of Eldorado TBAC
Flag of Eldorado
Capital Puerto Alonso
Largest city Manaos
Other cities Xapurí, Parintins, Jiparaná
 others Portuguese, Other native languages
Ethnic Group Hispanic, Amerindian
Demonym Eldoradoan
Government Constitutional federal republic
President Jorge Vianna (PPOE)
Area 2,196,998 km²
Population 6,421,508
Independence from Gran Colombia
 declared July 1, 1830
Currency Peso
Time Zone UTC-4 and UTC-5
Internet TLD.el
Organizations Mercosur, ONA
 Republic of Eldorado (Spanish: República de Eldorado) or just Eldorado, is a federal constitutional republic in South America. The nation is mostly composed by the Amazon rainforest, and have a tropical weather.
Is bordered with Gran Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Cerrado and Pará.
The independence of Eldorado was a violent war. The invasion of the cities of Caracas and Bogota by separatist rebels, culminated in the victory and separation of Eldorado.
The first capital of the country, was located in Puerto Madeira (formerly known as Base Madeira), the largest base of the rebels. After the Acre War, the city of Puerto Alonso became the capital of Eldorado.
The country's economy is essentially the primary sector, which is heavily profiting because of the latex taken from rubber trees in the Amazon.
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In the summer of 1892, Porter Nye and his family set up a homestead on the south shore of Lake Bemidji.
The area was the last territory in Minnesota to be opened for settlement, and the logging boom was just beginning.
According to local lore, Nye used some of the first boards produced by a mill on the Mississippi River between Lake Bemidji and Lake Irving to build a small schoolhouse on his homestead. Nye also was the first teacher at the school.
In 1902, J. Custer Moore teamed up with Nye to plat the 16-block town site of Nye-Moore, which evolved to Nyemore and, now, Nymore. The next year, residents of the village of Nymore passed a bond issue to build a wood frame school at the corner of Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue Southeast. The community named the school after President Abraham Lincoln.
Also operating in Nymore was the four-grade East School on the current site of Lincoln Elementary School at 1617 Fifth St. N.E.
Land speculation took off after 1910 and the original Lincoln School became overcrowded. School taxes also were inadequate to maintain the building. Lincoln School was condemned by the State Department of Education, and on March 5, 1916, the Nymore Village Council petitioned the Bemidji City Council for annexation and school consolidation.
It was noted in the Bemidji Daily Pioneer that women voted in the Nymore annexation and school consolidation referendum held later that month. An April 19, 1916, article in the Pioneer stated: "With the annexation of Nymore, a new school will be necessary. A new building will cost about $50,000."
Students started the fall 1917 semester in the new brick school at Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue. The building is now home to Mount Zion Church.
With the consolidation of the school districts, Bemidji also supplied Nymore with a 14-passenger bus to transport students.
In 1995, Bemidji School District voters approved construction of the new Lincoln Elementary School. Site work began in 1997, and students moved in in October 1999.
On July 3, 1999, the school district held a farewell open house at the 1917 building. About 1,000 current and former students, faculty and staff participated. They toured classrooms and viewed artifacts from the school's collection.
A special artifact, the portrait of President Lincoln originally hung in 1924 in the hallway at the 414 Lincoln Ave. S.E. school, moved with the students into the current Lincoln Elementary School. He now looks down on continuing generations of Lincoln Lakers in the school lobby.
Looking to the future, Lincoln Principal Tom Kusler said he expects the school population of about 500 students to remain steady, or even modestly increase.
"We're still able to maintain the same number of sections," he said.
There are 37 teachers and 21 classrooms at Lincoln.
The big changes will be in technology, he said. This year, three fifth-grade teachers began using electronic SMART Boards in a pilot project.
"We have 19 teachers that are getting SMART Boards now," he said.
Kusler said the purchases will come from the federal Title I funds, not the Bemidji School District budget.
"I think technologies are what we're going to be getting into more and more down the road," he said.
Information for this article came from "Celebrating Lincoln School," a Lincoln School History Project, and the Beltrami County Historical Society archives.


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The list and diagrams which are found on this page are part of Aigars Raumanis' Master's Thesis Saxophone music in Latvia: Collaboration of the composers and performers in the creation of musical pieces. The aim of this paper is to describe the cooperation of composers and musicians in the context of Latvian saxophone music, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The thesis consists of an introduction, 3 chapters and appendices. The first chapter examines the bachelor's and master's theses on saxophone music in Latvia to date. The second chapter presents the collected information with diagrams and tables, as well as explains the possible cause of this data. Third chapter focuses on the cooperation of specific musicians and composers, illustrating the information obtained with fragments of sheet music. The catalogue "Saxophone Music in Latvia _PHONE_" can be found in the appendix.
© Raumanis, A. (2023). Saksofonmūzika Latvijā: Komponistu un atskaņotājmākslinieku sadarbība skaņdarbu tapšanas procesā. Rīga: JVLMA


mL of the 10-mM solution with 90 mL of distilled water.
 4. Mix the solutions in a clean plastic cup.
 5. Thoroughly wash the graduated cylinders.
 6. Make a 0.1-mM solution.
 1. Use the cup labeled 0.1.
 - Mix 10 mL of the 1.0-mM solution with 90 mL of distilled water.
 3. Mix the solutions in a clean plastic cup.
 7. Pour 200 mL of distilled water into the cup labeled Blank.
Preparing Plates with Paper Strips
 1. Label five clean petri dishes (without agar), as follows: 100, 10, 1.0, 0.10, and Blank.
 2. Cut filter paper into 10 strips, each approximately 8 cm x 2 cm.
 3. Soak six filter paper strips in the distilled water, the Blank cup.
 4. Using a permanent marker, label four dry strips 100, 10, 1.0, and 0.10.
 5. Soak the labeled strips of filter paper in the appropriate cups containing glucose: 100 mM, 10 mM, 1.0 mM, or 0.10 mM.
 6. Allow the filter paper strips to soak for at least 15 min.
 7. Using forceps, take a filter paper strip from the distilled water, the cup labeled Blank. Allow excess fluid to drip off.
 8. Place five of the wet strips from the Blank cup on the bottom of each of the five sterile petri dishes, near the middle. See Figure 1.
MicroBiology Science fair project Experimental setup to test Physarum polycephalum chemotaxis
Figure 1. Experimental setup to test Physarum polycephalum chemotaxis using the filter paper strip method. Two strips of filter paper are placed below a growing Physarum culture. One strip was dipped in a test solution (marked with an "x") and the other strip was dipped in distilled water, the cup labeled Blank. In this example, all of the tests are "positive" for growth toward the strip with the test substance.
 1. Place the last wet strip from the Blank solution next to the strip in the plate labeled Blank.
 2. The two strips should abut against one another. See Figure 1.
 3. Remove a filter paper strip from the 100-mM glucose beaker; allow excess fluid to drip, and place the strip right next to the distilled water strip on the bottom of the petri dish labeled 100. The two strips should abut against one another.
 4. Repeat for the strips and plates marked 10, 1.0, and 0.10.
Adding Physarum Culture to the Strips
 1. Use a clean plastic knife to cut a plasmodium culture into blocks sized 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm.
 1. The plates you made with growing Physarum are plasmodium cultures. Now you can cut them up and use them for your experiments.
 2. Cut as many blocks as you need.
 2. Transfer four such blocks, plasmodium-side down, onto the junction of the two filter paper strips. See Figure 1 for an idea of spacing.
 1. When you select the agar block with Physarum to transfer, be sure that you cut a thick vein or sheet of "tissue" located toward the edge of the plasmodium. Do not transfer pieces of oatmeal from the stock culture.
 2. Repeat for all of the filter strip petri dishes.
 3. Wrap the dishes in aluminum foil and incubate them right side up at room temperature.
 4. Observe plasmodium movement every hour for several hours, and again the next day. You will need to unwrap the plates to observe them, but be sure you wrap them back up again. The yellow plasmodia will be easily seen if they migrate onto the white filter paper.
Observing the Plates
 1. Record all observations in your lab notebook, as follows. As an option, you could take pictures with a digital camera for your Science Project Display Board.
 1. For each plate, record the number of cultures that are growing farther into the glucose as Positive Toward Glucose in your lab notebook.
 2. Record the number of cultures that are growing equally in the glucose or the water strips as Neutral.
 3. Record the number of cultures that are growing farther toward the Blank strip as Negative, Away from Glucose.
 4. Use your judgment about what to score as positive, neutral, or negative.
Repeating the Procedure
 1. Perform the entire procedure two more times with fresh materials. This will show that your results are repeatable.
Graphing Your Results
 1. Combine the data for each trial.
 2. Graph the concentration of glucose on the x-axis and the number of Positive Toward Glucose on the y-axis.
 3. On a separate graph, graph the concentration of glucose on the x-axis and the number of Neutral on the y-axis.
 4. On a separate graph, graph the concentration of glucose on the x-axis and the number of Negative, Away from Glucose on the y-axis.
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 - Try other chemicals, such as sugars, salts, amino acids, etc.
 - Try soaking the strips in cultures of Physarum's "natural" diet, such as bacteria or yeast.
 - Try mixing an attractant chemical with a chemical you've found to be a repellent.
 - Make a 1-cm-diameter round punch to cut out and transfer Physarum polycephalum cultures.
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track" switch on the
2.4m control panel means "drive the telescope in HA
to follow the stars."
- Note that the radiobuttons do not initiate the
action you want -- they only select what will
happen when you push Start.
If you select the Expose radiobutton under the Guide
and hit Start, then:
- A single full-frame picture is taken and displayed
in a separate window;
- The software automatically finds the brightest
star in the picture and enters its coordinates in the
Guide star X and Y
boxes. If you don't like the star it selected, you
can click on another star with the mouse, and its
coordinates will be entered into the boxes. (Note:
I believe the integer pixel you click is selected --
it doesn't centroid the image, unfortunately.)
- Note that the Expose action under Guide resets the
fiducial XY location of the guide star. This
will be necessary when you set up on your first night,
but you probably do not want to do this more
than once -- there is much to be gained by keeping the
guide star fixed.
In the Options menu (right side of the box)
there's a control for Track box size.
64 pixels seems to be a good option. The track
box needs to be contained entirely within the image, so
the guide star can't be close to the edge of the field.
Now you can move on to the Calibrate
button. This automatically establishes the scale, orientation,
and parity of the camera image, and the sensitivity
of the guide buttons, so that the program knows what
buttons to push to bring the star back when it drifts.
Note that you probably only need to do this at the
start of your run; you may even be able to skip this
if you know nothing changed since the last observer.
- First, go into Settings; under
X Axis and Y Axis, set the
Cal time settings both to 5.
- Hit Start and sit back -- After a while
a little red line appears by your guide star, the guide
star moves over, then it moves back, and then it does
the same thing in a perpendicular direction. The
program has mashed the guide buttons and watched the
star, then figured out the guide speeds and
directions! If you now look in Settings, in the
manual calibration section, you'll see
numbers for X speed, Y speed, and
angle -- the program has just set all these
for you. [With the 2.4m and the RA and dec guide rates
set to the default value of 2, the numbers should
be something like: X speed = -8, Y speed = +8,
angle = -90 degrees..]
- If you rotate the instrument (very
seldom done on the 1.3m) you should
not need to do the calibration rigamorole every
time you rotate -- simply set the Angle parameter
in Maxim DL to include the rotation. The formula is
angle = -90 - [rotator setting].
For example, with the rotator at +45, the guider
wants an angle of -135 degrees; with the rotator
at -30, the guider wants -60. [You can't choose
a more convenient quadrant; Maxim-DL unfortunately
insists on an angle between +180 and -180.]
- Once you have the calibrations, you'll want to
write them down. Unless you change the guide rates
on the TCS, or rotate the instrument, they should
be good for the rest of your run.
You're finally ready to guide!
- Select the Track radio button.
- For Aggressiveness, enter something like
5 in both axes -- the guider will then try to correct
50 percent of the image decentering.
- With the guide star somewhere near its fiducial position,
hit Start. A little postage stamp
around the guide star will be displayed in the
guider image window (you can blow this up and
stretch it to your heart's content); the guide
star should walk to the middle of the box, and
you're off and running.
Establishing Offsets at the Start of the Run.
Here's a procedure to get you going.
- Turn to one of the main Linux computers (not the
guider PC), and bring up JSkyCalc24mGS or
JSkyCalc13mGS (depending on your telescope).
There's a manual for JSkyCalc24mGS here.; if the link doesn't work, look
at the mountaintop web page.
- Point at a bright star, or some other unmistakable
target, and find it with your
science instrument. Focus the telescope on your
- Load the exact coordinates of the bright star (or target) into
JSkyCalc24mGS. The entry boxes are in the main window, with the
Dartmouth-green bar; to make this easier, hit "Stop Update"
and then "Resume Update" when you're done. Don't forget
the equinox. Hint: Change the "sleep for" field to 30 seconds
(instead of the default 15), and you'll be a lot happier.
[It's highly recommended that you load the coordinates from an
list, using the Object Lists facility of JSkyCalc.]
- Click on the Guide Stars button at the
bottom of the main JSkyCalc window. This brings up
the guide star selector, which looks like this:
- Verify that the coordinates in the upper right
corner of the guide cartoon are appropriate, and that the
Rotator angle is set correctly.
- Select a guide star by clicking on it -- a little
blue box appears around it, and its particulars are reported.
Guide stars in the range 10-14 work well.
[Sometimes the thread that updates the guider cartoon
stops. If this happens, you need to press "Read Guide Stars"
to force an update.]
- Press Move guide probe to move the guide
star to the star's expected location in the focal plane;
it won't move until you confirm it.
- Once the probe is in position it'll report its position
in the xmis window on the main computer, as shown below:
Ignore the little red circle in the guider cartoon --
it should indicate the guide probe position, but
it's often way off for reasons as yet undiagnosed.]
- In Maxim DL, select the Expose tab and
hit the Start button. You should see the guide star
(see below if you don't).
- Focus the guider using the little rocker switch
(for now, this may change when the MIS is overhauled).
If the guider focus reaches the end of its travel without
getting into focus, you're not dead - Maxim DL guides
amazingly well on out-of-focus images.
- The guide star
won't necessarily be exactly centered (that's ok).
If your guide star has little friends bright enough to
be in UCAC3, you may see them -- the pattern will be
rotated 90 degrees from the JSkyCalc diagram.
- Stop exposing, then go to the Guide tab
and select the Expose radiobutton.
- Hit Start -- a single image will be taken
and the coordinates of the brightest star in the
field -- hopefully your guide star -- will appear in
the Guide Star X and Y fields.
WRITE THESE DOWN.
- Grab the mouse and draw a nice box around the
star -- this will be useful later.
Now you're all set up.
A Protocol for Acquisition.
- Be sure JSkyCalc has your target's coordinates
in the RA and dec window. [This is easiest if you
read them from a list.]
- Set the telescope on your object's coordinates.
- If you have rotated the instrument, be sure that
the exact rotation angle is entered in the box in the
guide star selector window.
- If the JSkyCalc guide star selector tool is not
open, open it using the Guide Stars button
at the bottom of the JSkyCalc window.
- Look at the JSkyCalc guide star selector cartoon.
Select a suitable guide star, and move the guide
probe into position as described earlier.
- In Maxim DL, select the Expose tab, and
press the Start button. The image should
- Find the guide star in the image. You may
have to paddle around a little. If the
rotator is at zero, the image
has north at the top and east to the left.
[If you're trying to match the pattern in the
guide star cartoon, note the directions indicated
in the cartoon.]
- Using the hand paddle, move the telescope to
put the guide star in the box you marked earlier.
- If you're concerned that you may not have
the right guide star, you can select another
guide star and move the guide probe to it.
It should land right in the box.
- Once you're confident of your centering,
stop taking exposures with the Maxim-DL Stop
button, select the Guide tab, and
the Track radiobutton; then press Start
to start guiding.
- If there is fine adjustment to be done -- e.g.
for getting a star into a spectrograph slit -- then
it can be done using the dx: and dy:
entry boxes in xmis. Note that the OSMOS
has an elaborate centering sequence built around this.
Miscellaneous oddities etc.
Guide star coords are not with respect to full frame. I've seen
Maxim get into


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The main usage of the tool is to add Wikipedia-tags to OpenStreetMap and to make localisation of names with the help of interwikilinks, but parts of the tool can also be used for other jobs. The tool works in three steps, see below.
Take a look to example that works with streets in Dresden (Germany).
- On the left side you have the wikipedia part generated by CatScan in the background so it goes through a wikipedia category also with subcategories. So user can modify in the form project language, category and the depth of searching in category tree. An additional option on the left side is the question if the user wants to use wikipedia interwikilinks for names in different languages.
- On the right side is the OpenStreetMap part which uses code of Query-to-map projects. So the user can choose a bounding box (BBOX), a key-value combination ("*" for values possible) and a types definition.
The types "points", "lines", "areas" will make a request at toolserver database and downloads everything in this area, so it is relatively slow. The types "node", "way", "relation" will make a request at Overpass API and download only the necessary pobjects so it's faster, especially for large objects. Types="no" that the script jumps directly to Nominatim and is so much faster.
The script will use this parameter to find in the next step matching OSM objects where additionally the name-parameter is matching with the Wikipedia article name founded on the left side. (Parts of the Wikipedia article name in brackets will be ignored.)
As result the user get a table with 3 columns:
- Wikipedia-articles: Is a link to Wikipedia-article
- Interwikilinks: Shows the user how many interwikilinks has this article, is interesting if this links are used to generate "name:language"-Tags for OSM.
- OpenStreetMap: Is a link osm-add-tags tool see below.
This script is looking for matching objects with given parameters. Mostly the parameters are generated by the index.php script (see above but it's also possible to use the script for OpenStreetMap outside of Wikipedia content.)
- key, value, types and BBOX: (see above) to specify complex OSM-objects.
- name: to find at best exactly the right complex OSM-object. If this parameter is "*" the user get a list of all objects and also objects without name. This example gives a list of all restaurants of a city and shows if there is a smoking-tag or not. Some restaurants in this example have no name so they are on the end of the list as "node...".
- without-tag: define a key that is missing on the object of search. Useful to find e.g. restaurants without opening hours or so. (coming soon...)
- addtags: different Tags to add to specified objects. Tags written as "key=value", different tags are separated by "|"
As result the user gets one single object or a list with objects.
This list has links to JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl with addtags-parameter for JOSM in latest version must run. So it use a local server to control JOSM.
Behind the objects the user can see its size (diagonal length in seconds of degree)
The script works with the toolserver database which is normally used for mapnik, so possibly it is not synchronous or has curious effects. The script finds the nodes, ways and relation numbers in the database and calculates small bounding boxes around each object.
If the result is empty the script asks Nominatim but the users need to be carefully with the results because there is no key-value proving and it gives only the first result back.
For details see: JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl
With the help of remote control JOSM downloads the area around the defined objects and selects them. In the following dialog box the user can modify selection and tags before applying the changes.
It's helpful to use OSM-tiles (JOSM menue: Imagery) as overview in background.
The idea is to use this Wikipedia-tags later inside the Wikipedia embedded map to highlighting the OSM objects that match to the wikipedia article. So especially complex line and area objects (streets, rivers, districts,...) would be interesting for that. Multilingual maps will profit the translations by interwikilinks, especially city-objects (nodes) should have priority.
The concept behind the tool is also keep the server-side script without graphical map-interface, so it's very easy for other programmers to modify the script and bring there ideas inside the project.