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- Aston University researchers develop technique that enables insoluble drug/oil to be dissolved in water
- New technique could be a gamechanger for medical and drinks industries
- Collaboration between Aston University and Max Bio+
A team of researchers from Aston University has developed a new technique that could be a game changer for the medical and drinks industries.
The technology enables insoluble drug/oil to be dissolved in water. The technique is novel because it doesn't just mix the two together to make an emulsion, it makes oil soluble in water and has the potential to revolutionise a variety of medical treatments and improve drug delivery.
The technique was developed with Max Bio+ a spin out company founded by Professor Sunil Shah, a consultant ophthalmologist and professor at Aston University, and philanthropist Sean Ngu.
MaxBio's technology is based on the synthesis of composite particles which fall under the broad category of nanoencapsulation (the process of encapsulating substances with various coating materials at the nanoscale range). The nano composite particles comprise of synthetic polymers and lipid molecules which provides a unique environment to improve drug solubility and control the release.
The novelty of the new technology is the composition of the delivery system as well as the simplicity and flexibility of the manufacturing process to synthesize such systems. This is an emerging area of research which is very much in its infancy and is likely to grow in the next decade.
The research team, which was led by Professor Afzal R Mohammed and Dr Daniel Kirby from Aston Pharmacy School and Professor Sunil Shah from the School of Optometry, started its research by looking at eye drops because there was sufficient evidence that the anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anaesthetic and analgesic properties of cannabidiol (known as CBD) could help patients with dry eyes.
The team was challenged with how to get the CBD delivered to the eye - when dropping oil directly onto the eye was not an option. Whilst creating the eye drops the researchers discovered a new way of creating a soluble CBD product by making the oil completely soluble in water. This technique was found to be ideal for eye drops – and a wide range of other applications.
They also found that the technique works just as well with any oil-based product, opening the door to a range of new products and breakthroughs in the future. For example, the researchers are now looking at the delivery of insulin for diabetics.
Laboratory testing has indicated that Max Bio+'s technique makes CBD much easier for the body to absorb. When taken via the mouth, it gives up to six times greater absorption of the same amount of CBD into the body. Max Bio+'s resulting CBD liquid is 25,000 times more soluble than standard CBD.
Professor Afzal R Mohammed, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Associate Dean of impact and knowledge exchange at Aston University, said: "We are delighted to work with MaxBio+ on this transformative project. Our work at Aston University has led to the development of a novel composite nano particle system which has the potential to deliver a broad range of poorly soluble compounds that have a controlled release.
"This is a great exemplar of translational research at Aston Pharmacy School and highlights how our business partnerships can deliver real world impact. It feels even more significant as we celebrate 100 years of pharmacy education and research at Aston University this year."
Dr Daniel Kirby, Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Aston Pharmacy School, said: "An innovative partnership such as this one epitomises what we are striving to achieve: engaging with industry partners to ensure that our research has impact, relevance and meaningful benefits.
"The outputs of the research thus far have exceeded our own expectations, with enormous potential to have significant reach into a wide range of applications and markets, benefitting patients and consumers alike, especially within the exponentially increasing area of CBD products."
The new technique is used to create a clear, tasteless, odourless product manufactured without alcohol, or heat. The clear CBD liquid can then form the basis for a variety of products including drinks, drug delivery, inhalers, food, and sports recovery.
The researchers also found that the liquid can be freeze-dried to create a powder making transport easier - further opening up the range of potential applications.
Professor Sunil Shah, consultant ophthalmologist and professor at Aston University, said: "This breakthrough in mixing oil and water is a genuine gamechanger. Just imagine how it can change the health industry by allowing the oral delivery of many drugs that currently have to be injected. Insulin a prime example. This could spell the end of painful injections for thousands of diabetics.
"Then there are the eye drops and myriad ways to add CBD to food and beverages without compromising on taste."
Using the new technique, Professor Shah and his team are working on CBD eye drops, CBD beer and looking at ways that insulin delivered under the tongue could help diabetics.
For more information about Aston Pharmacy School please visit our website.
- Notes to editors
Max Bio+ is now seeking partners to help develop their products and technology further. For more information about Max Bio+ and its patented technology visit: _URL_
About Max Bio+
Founded in 2020 by Professor Sunil Shah, Professor Consultant Ophthalmologist, Professor Aston University, and philanthropist Sean Ngu, Max Bio+ has created revolutionary patented technology to solve the perennial problem of how to mix oil and water, specifically CBD Oil. Web: _URL_
About Aston University
Founded in 1895 and a university since 1966, Aston is a long established university led by its three main beneficiary groups – students, business and the professions, and the West Midlands region and wider society. Located in Birmingham at the heart of a vibrant city, the campus houses all the University's academic, social and accommodation facilities for our students. Professor Aleks Subic is the Vice-Chancellor & Chief Executive.
In 2022 Aston University was ranked in the top 25 of the Guardian University Guide, based on measures including entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality and graduate prospects. The Aston Business School MBA programme was ranked in the top 100 in the world in the Economist MBA 2021 ranking.
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Held at: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Contact Us]19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
William Leaman (_PHONE_) was a Philadelphia heart specialist and professor of medicine at the Medical College and Hospital of Pennsylvania. Leaman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1922. He was professor of medicine and head of the department and cardiologist at the Woman's Medical College from 1942 until his retirement in 1963. He was the author of numerous medical books and articles, and the editor of Cardiovascular Briefs for Pennsylvania Medicine. Leaman was a Fellow of the College of Physicians, chairman of the Section on Medical History and a member of the Executive Committee.
This is a collection of approximately 650 2" x 2" black and white slides. Slides depict objects and illustrations related to the history of medicine, and include portraits and caricatures, medical conditions and treatments, buildings and shops, and instruments and prostheses. Slides were used by Dr. Leaman to illustrate his lectures on medical history given at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
- Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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- This collection-level EAD record is a product of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.

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Quantum key distribution with high loss: toward global secure communication
Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Aug 1;91(5):057901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.057901. Epub 2003 Aug 1.
Abstract
We propose a decoy-pulse method to overcome the photon-number-splitting attack for Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol in the presence of high loss: A legitimate user intentionally and randomly replaces signal pulses by multiphoton pulses (decoy pulses). Then they check the loss of the decoy pulses. If the loss of the decoy pulses is abnormally less than that of signal pulses, the whole protocol is aborted. Otherwise, to continue the protocol, they estimate the loss of signal multiphoton pulses based on that of decoy pulses. This estimation can be done with an assumption that the two losses have similar values. We justify that assumption.


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Transition in Time Series Data Mining on Correlated Items
The authors are given a large database of customer transactions, where each transaction consists of transaction-id, the items bought in the transaction and the transaction time. The whole set of transaction is divided into a number of segments called durations (intervals) based on transaction time. And the dividing standard can be monthly, quarterly or yearly. They introduce the problem of mining strong association rules between consecutive durations using FP-tree and correlation coefficient, which is used to quantitatively describe the strength and sign of a relationship between two variables. This paper deals with the changes in the correlation between any two itemsets at the transition of the consecutive duration. Milestone is a change over point between durations.

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constructive-algebra-0.1.4: A library of constructive algebra.
Representation of Bezout domains. That is non-Noetherian analogues of principal ideal domains. This means that all finitely generated ideals are principal.
class IntegralDomain a => BezoutDomain a whereSource
Bezout domains
Compute a principal ideal from another ideal. Also give witness that the principal ideal is equal to the first ideal.
toPrincipal = (,u_i,v_i) where
sum (u_i * a_i) = a
a_i = v_i * a
toPrincipal :: Ideal a -> (Ideal a, [a], [a])Source
propBezoutDomain :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> a -> a -> a -> PropertySource
dividesB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => a -> a -> BoolSource
intersectionB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> Ideal a -> Ideal aSource
Intersection without witness.
intersectionBWitness :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Ideal a -> Ideal a -> (Ideal a, [[a]], [[a]])Source
Intersection of ideals with witness.
If one of the ideals is the zero ideal then the intersection is the zero ideal.
solveB :: (BezoutDomain a, Eq a) => Vector a -> Matrix aSource
Coherence of Bezout domains.


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Why Did I Receive a Text From 32858? (American Express or Scam)
Text messages from 32858 are very common in the U.S. In fact, you are bound to find someone online who's received a text message from 32858 without having to search that hard. At the same time, there are many speculations as to who these texts are from and who owns 32858.
That said this post seeks to provide you with definite answers regarding texts from 32858. These include answers to questions such as who owns this 32858 short SMS code, why you are receiving texts from this shortcode, and whether or not a text from 32858 means you've been hacked.
Text From 32858 American Express
Text messages from 32858 are messages from American Express. They usually alert or update their customers via messages through this code.
SMS Short Code 32858
Top on the list of questions many people have once they've received a text from 32858 is who this SMS short code belongs to and thus the need to address this first. This short SMS code belongs to American Express, a multinational financial services corporation based in the U.S.
It usually uses this SMS code to get in touch with its customers to update them on a number of their services or for them to confirm certain activities online that affect their account like let's say a password change.
Text From 32858
Text messages from 32858 or American Express can say many things given the fact that they (American Express) do send such texts to its customers for several reasons.
For example, if you requested a password change for your Personal Savings account online they'll send you a one-time code on your phone via 32858 so as for you to confirm the action.
You are also bound to receive a text from them through this short SMS code 32858 if a withdrawal is made from your account given you've activated this feature.
How Do I Find Out Who Owns This 32858 Short Code?
For this particular code, there are two ways you can go about finding out who owns it. The first one is simply doing an online search on Google. Doing so will see you receive a bunch of results one of which will be American Express. You'll find a link to American Express's website indicating how and when they actually use this 32858 SMS code.
You can as well find out who owns this 32858 code by getting in touch with your network provider. Given the nature of the text, they should be able to share with you details of who is sending you text messages using this code, and in this case, who is sending you messages using it is American Express.
Hackers or Not
The answer to this question is not as direct as some of you might want it to be. There are instances where if you receive a text from 32858 then chances are it's a possible hack. At the same time, there are instances where receiving a text from 32858 doesn't mean that there is a hack.
There is a possible hack if you receive a 6-digit code text message from 32858 with regards to changing the password and you never initiated such a request. In such instances, chances are high that someone is trying to change the password of your Personal Savings account with American Express online.
What Should I Do If I Receive A Text From 32858?
Well, it all depends on what the message says. There are some instances where you will be required to respond to text messages from 32858 while in some you don't have to do anything at all.
For instance, if you've initiated a password change, you'll need to key in the 6-digit code you received through 32858 as instructed. If you've received a text from 32858 informing you of a certain withdrawal you've made then you don't have to do anything.
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Shot glass
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Three shot glasses of varying shape and size
Shot glasses with a variety of designs. Shot glasses such as these are often collected as novelty items
A shot glass is a small glass designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either drunk straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail. A "shot" of liquor is not the same as a "shooter".
Name origin[edit]
The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for the term "shot glass" is in The New York Times during the 1940s, but the earliest known written reference was in a 1913 book by Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, " A History of Cass County Indiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time" [Lewis Publishing Company, 1913]. On page 655 Dr. Powell recounts an incident c. 1857 in the small town of New Waverly, Indiana, occasioned by a local man attempting to open a saloon against fierce local temperance opposition. The initial stock was a barrel of whiskey, which had arrived by train and was sitting on the open freight platform awaiting delivery to the would-be barkeeper. A local man who was an ardent temperance supporter fired his rifle from an upper floor window in his house and shot a hole in the barrel, draining it of its contents. "The remedy was effectual, and the saloon was not opened, and ever after, when the boys wanted a drink they would ask for a'shot of redeye.'" New Waverly is located just outside of Logansport, Indiana, which was an important transportation hub for northern Indiana in the 19th century as a riverboat port on the Wabash River and a stop on the Wabash and Erie Canal, as well as an important railroad engine maintenance and repair center during the first half of the 20th century. This intensive involvement in transportation could account for the gradual dissemination of an otherwise obscure local expression over a much broader geographic area.
Several examples also exist from the 1930s.[1][2] However, although it was used by some,[3][4] the term apparently did not come into common usage until much later.
Many references from the 1800s describe giving a jigger of whiskey or rum to workers who were digging canals. Most shot glasses are found in the United States, but shot glasses from before the 1940s are very rare.[5]
Before Prohibition in the U.S. in the early to mid 1900s, thin-sided whiskey glasses were common. After Prohibition, these were replaced by shot glasses with a thick base and thick sides.[citation needed]
Because the word shot also means "dose" or "small amount", it may simply be that these small glasses are called shot glasses because they hold small, powerful amounts. However, there are a range of more complex stories about the origin of the style of glass and its name. Few of them stand up to much scrutiny – either they place the origin decades before the term appeared in print, or they describe an item that had nothing to do with drinking liquor:
Country Small Single Double Notes
Australia 30 mL 60 mL A single shot is sometimes called a "nip".[6] At 30 mL, a typical spirit with 40 percent alcohol is roughly equivalent to one Australian standard drink.[7]
Canada 28.41 mL (1 ounce[8][not in citation given]) is a short shot (pony shot) 42.61 mL (1.5 ounces) 71 mL (2.5 ounces) In Canada, a "shot" generally refers to the province's definition of a "standard drink" under liquor licenses. Although sizes may vary, most provinces cite amounts similar to Ontario's guidelines of 0.6 oz. or 17 mL of pure alcohol; since a "shot" is typically a spirit with 40 percent alcohol, this makes the shot 1.5 oz. or 42.62 mL (though many establishments serve a lower "standard drink" of only 1 oz.).[9] A double shot in North America may be either 2.5 or 3.0 fluid ounces.[10] A smaller 1.0 fl. oz. shot is usually referred to as a "pony shot" or "short shot".[11]
Finland 40 mL In Finland, the maximum amount of strong alcohol restaurants are allowed to serve is regulated by law to one 40 mL portion at a time per customer. Doubles cannot be legally served.[citation needed]
Germany 20 mL 40 mL In Germany, shot glasses (German: Schnapsglas, Pinnchen, Stamperl) are smaller.[citation needed]
Greece 45 mL 90 mL A shot is commonly referred to as a "sfinaki" and it can be made of one liquor or a cocktail mix. There is also an 3 oz - "bottoms up" version of "sfinaki", called "ipovrihio", Greek word for submarine. It's served in a standard liquor glass half full of blonde beer, where the bartender adds a glass shot filled with vodka or whiskey.[citation needed]
Hungary 20 or 30 mL 40 or 50 mL 80 or 100 mL In Hungarian, shot glasses are called felespohár (feles meaning "half", standing for 0.5 dL), pálinkáspohár (for pálinka), kupica or stampedli.[citation needed]
India 30 mL 30 mL 60 mL A shot is commonly referred to as a "peg", and is measured as a "small" (chhota), or a "large" (bud-da) peg. A 90 mL shot in India is called a Patiala peg.[citation needed]
Ireland 35.5 mL 71 mL Derived from the use of a quarter-gill (35.516 mL) as the traditional Irish spirit measure.[citation needed]
Israel 30 mL 50 or 60 mL In Israel, the common word for a small shot is צ'ייסר ("chaser").[citation needed]
Italy 30 mL 40 or 60 mL In Italy, the common word for a shot is cicchetto or, more informally and used mainly in nightclubs by young people, shortino. In North Italy, the cicchetto is the most-common way to taste grappa from at least two centuries.[citation needed]
Poland 25 mL 50 mL 100 mL To take shots in Polish slang is to take po pięćdziesiątce, meaning to take "by fifties" (50 mL).[citation needed]
Romania 50 mL 100 mL A single shot is traditionally known in the Romanian language as unu mic (una mică) or cinzeacă, meaning "a small one". A double shot is simply called unu (una mare), meaning "one (big)".[citation needed]
Serbia 20 mL 30-50 mL 50–70 mL A single shot is traditionally known in the Serbian language as чашица за ракију and ракијска чашица, meaning "small glass for rakija" and "rakija glass", or simply as мера – мерица, meaning "measure". A double shot is simply called Дупли, meaning "a double", while the smallest, 20 milliliter glass, is known as dvojka meaning "two".[citation needed]
Sweden 20 mL 40 mL 60 mL A single shot is referred to as a fyra, meaning "a four" and a double is referred to as a sexa, meaning "a six", as Swedes will generally use centiliters rather than milliliters for any measure larger than 10 mL[citation needed]
Slovakia 20 or 25 mL 40 or 50 mL 80 or 100 mL The most-common single-shot size is the pol deci (literally, "half a decilitre", 50 mL).[citation needed]
South Africa 25 mL The South African government has an official definition for the single-shot size.[citation needed]
United Kingdom 25 or 35 mL 50 or 70 mL Shots sold on-premises must contain either 25 mL or 35 mL measures of whisky, gin, rum, or vodka, as defined in the Weights and Measures Act of 1985. This requirement does not extend to other spirits. A 2001 amendment allowed a double shot of 70 mL to be served. Generally, a single measure is equal to 35 mL in Northern Ireland and 25 mL in the rest of the United Kingdom.[12]
United States 30 mL (1.0 US fl oz) 44 mL (1.5 US fl oz) 89 mL (3.0 US fl oz) There is no standard size for a single shot, except in Utah, where a shot is defined at 1.5 fl. oz.[13] Elsewhere in the U.S., the standard size is generally considered to be 1.25–1.


The Twickenham Museum
People : Actors and Actresses
Noël Coward
Dramatist, actor and cabaret artist
1899 - 1973
The Coward family of Teddington
Noël Coward was born at Teddington, where the family had been living since 1883, on 16 December 1899. He was the son of Arthur Coward and Violet Veitch. In his first autobiography he wrote that they were a musical family and underpinned the musical life of St Alban's Church.
131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Coward's home until 1908.
"...the church's greatest asset was the Coward family, which was enormous, active, and fiercely musical. My Uncle Jim played the organ, while my father, together with my uncle Randolph, Walter, Percy, and Gordon, and my Aunt Hilda, Myrrha, Ida, and Nellie, graced the choir. Aunt Hilda, indeed, achieved such distinction as a 'coloratura' that she ultimately became known as 'The Twickenham Nightingale'."
Playwriter and actor
The family moved away from Teddington to Battersea in 1908 and two years later Noël made his first appearance on stage in a fairy play, The Goldfish. By 1917 he had written several plays.
He was knighted in 1970 and that year his entry in Who's Who listed 43 plays and other stage or film productions including Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, The Vortex, Private Lives, In Which we Serve and Brief Encounter.
In 1948 he went over to Jamaica, building a house at Roundhill near Port Maria: Blue Harbour. He bought a second house uphill: Look Out (which he renamed Firefly). This he used as a refuge from too many visitors. In 1959 he settled, a tax exile, at Les Avants, in Switzerland; but it was at Firefly that he died, and was buried, on 26 March 1973
Further reading:
Noël Coward, Future Indefinite, 1954
Present Indicative, Evergreen Books, 1940,
Who's Who, 1970
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Abstract:If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2001, this paper attempts to explore the link between ownership of a home computer at ages 15 and 17 and subsequent educational attainment in the principal British school examinations taken at ages 16 (GCSEs) and 18 (A levels). The data show a significant positive associatio n between PC ownership and both the number of GCSEs obtained and the probability of passing five or more GCSEs. These results survive a set of individual, household, and area controls, including using other household durables and \'future\' PC ownership as proxies for household wealth and other unobservable household level effects. Home computer ownership is also associated with a significant increase in the probability of passing at least one A level conditional on having passed five and increase in the probability of successfully completing three or more A levels, conditional on having passed at least one A level.
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National Pension Scheme
The National Pension System (NPS), previously known as National Pension Scheme, is an investment instrument offered by the Central Government. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) regulates the NPS, ensuring maximum security.
You may invest in NPS regularly during your working years and create substantial wealth for retirement. Once you retire, a portion of the accumulated maturity amount will become available for withdrawal. And you will receive the rest as a monthly pension.
Any Indian resident can invest in NPS. You can benefit from this pension scheme if you are a government, private or unorganized sector employee. But, before investing in NPS, you must learn how the scheme works. To understand this, use an NPS calculator online to get an idea about the returns the scheme can generate.
The benefits of NPS
NPS has become a popular investment avenue over the last few years due to its substantial returns and security. The scheme offers many other benefits that make it a suitable investment option for everyone. Here are five noteworthy advantages of NPS.
1. High returns
When investing to build a retirement fund, your focus should be to earn high returns. And NPS can offer that as it has historically provided 8% to 10% annual interest for more than a decade. When you invest in NPS, the fund managers put a portion of the money in equity-based investment options. That is how NPS generates higher returns than most other tax-saving schemes.
Additionally, if you are not satisfied with the returns, the scheme allows you to change the fund manager as well.
2. Stabilized risk
Equity-linked investment products are generally risky as market volatility can affect their returns. But NPS is a safe option as the scheme systematically stabilizes the risk. If you are a government employee, NPS allows you to invest only up to 50% of your total fund in equities. The limit is between 50% and 70% for non-government employees.
After you reach 50 years, the scheme's equity exposure automatically starts to reduce by 2.5% every year. If you are 60 years or more, the equity exposure limit will become fixed at 50%. This systematic stabilization balances risk and returns, ensuring that your money is safe.
If all these seem too complicated, you can use a National Pension Scheme calculator. It will quickly give you a maturity amount estimation without any hassles.
3. Tax benefits
One benefit of NPS that makes it lucrative is the tax deductions it offers. The contributions you and your employer make towards NPS are tax-deductible up to ₹1.5 lakhs. The self-contributed amount is tax exemptible under subsection 80CCD (1) of Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The deduction limit is 10% of your salary or ₹1.5 lakhs, whichever is lower. The tax benefit for the employer's contribution is covered under Section 80CCD (2).
If you are self-employed, the tax deduction limit is 20% of your gross income under subsection 80CCD (1). But you will not get any exemption under Section 80CCD (2).
Under Section 80CCD (2), the tax deduction limit is whichever is the lowest from the following.
 - Employer's NPS contribution
 - Total gross income
 - 10% of basic pay and Dearness Allowance (DA)
Additionally, Section 80CCD (1B) allows a tax deduction of up to ₹50,000 on your contribution to the NPS account. So, you can get a total tax exemption of up to ₹2 lakhs using the benefits offered by Sections 80CCD (1) and 80CCD (1B).
4. Emergency withdrawal
You may withdraw up to 60% of your accumulated NPS fund after the age of 60 years. You will get the remaining amount as pension paid on a regular basis from an insurance firm registered under PFRDA. Moreover, the withdrawn amount is tax-exempted.
It is always advisable to stay invested in the NPS until you retire, allowing your money to grow into significant wealth. But NPS allows you to withdraw up to 25% of the fund for emergency purposes after staying invested for at least three years. The reasons for withdrawal can be medical treatment for yourself or your family, buying or building a house, higher education or wedding of children, and other purposes.
You can withdraw the money three times during the investment tenure with a minimum gap of five years between each withdrawal.
5. Equity allocation flexibility
The Scheme E of NPS lets you invest up to 50% of the money in equity-based options. You may decide between active and auto choices for equity investments. If you select the former, you will have the freedom to decide how much to invest in equities within the set limit.
The latter decides the equity contributions as per your age. The older you get, the lower will be the equity allocation, thereby reducing risk.
The formula for calculating the NPS amount
NPS offers compound interest like any other high-return investment product. You can use an NPS calculator to determine how much return you can expect from your investment within seconds. But, if you want to understand how the calculation works, it is important to learn the NPS formula, which uses multiple components:
 - A: Maturity amount
 - P: Principal amount invested
 - r: Annual interest rate
 - n: Number of times the interest is compounded
 - t: Tenure of investment
Based on the above components, the formula is A = P x (1 + r/n) n.t
Let us understand the formula with the help of an example. Suppose you are presently 34 years old and decide to start contributing ₹3,000 a month to the NPS account. If you get an interest rate of 10% during the investment tenure of 26 years, the maturity amount will be ₹44.35 lakhs for a total contribution of ₹9.36 lakhs.
Using an NPS return calculator, you can determine the expected profit based on your age and monthly investment.
How to use the NPS calculator
The NPS calculator is quick and easy to use with the following five steps.
 1. Mention the amount you wish to contribute under the "How much do you want to invest per month?" section.
 2. Adjust the slider under "Your Current Age" to input your age.
 3. Adjust the slider under "What Is Your Expected Rate of Return?" to input the interest rate of NPS.
 4. Adjust the slider under "What Percent Do You Wish to Invest in Annuity?" to mention the percentage of the total contribution you want to be invested in annuity.
 5. Adjust the slider under "How Many Years Do You Wish to Invest?" to provide the investment tenure.
After you provide the details based on your requirements, the NPS pension calculator will show your total investment, lump-sum value, annuity value, and total maturity amount.
Where to invest: NPS vs. PPF
Public Provident Fund (PPF) and NPS both are popular investment options in India, especially among people who want to build a substantial retirement fund. The choice depends on your investment goals and risk appetite. Both PPF and NPS offer a variety of benefits but also have fundamental differences. Below table shows a comparative analysis of both the options to help you make an informed decision.
Rate of return
Historically provided 8% to 10% interest.
The current interest rate offered is 7.1%. The government decides it quarterly.
Lock-in period
Until retirement
15 years
Risk associated
Minimum risk as the scheme controls it systematically. But NPS is linked to the market. So, it is not completely risk-free.
No risk as the investment is not linked to the market.
Tax benefits
Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 offers a tax deduction of up to 1.5 lakhs on your contribution. Another 50,000 of tax deduction is available under Section 80CCD(1B).
You can get a tax deduction of up to 1.5 lakhs on your investment under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
As you can see from the above information, NPS has the potential to offer higher maturity benefits. So, if you are willing to take a little risk, NPS will help you build a more sizable retirement fund than PPF.
How does the NPS work?
NPS has two stages: accumulation and retirement.
 - Accumulation: During this stage, NPS uses your contribution to accumulate funds by reinvesting the money in different options like debt instruments, equities, treasury bills, and government bonds. The growth continues until your retirement.
 - Retirement: After retirement, you can withdraw up to 60% of the NPS fund. The remaining amount is used to invest in annuity plans that pay regular returns.
1. Who can use the NPS calculator?
Anyone eligible to invest in NPS can use the calculator. Presently, Indians between the age of 18 and 60 years can contribute to the scheme. If you belong to the group, the calculator will help you instantly get an idea about the potential returns.
2. What does the calculator show?
Once you input the investment amount, age, expected rate of return, and other required information, the calculator will reflect the following four things.
 - Total investment
 - Lump-sum value
 - Annuity value
 - Total maturity amount
There are eight


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On joy and learning
At Haiti Partners, it's important to us to present not only Haiti's harsh realities, but its beautiful sides as well. In videos like the one below, we celebrate the joy of happy students having fun with one of their favorite people, Children's Academy Coordinator, Alex Myril.
But making our students feel safe and happy isn't just about having fun. It's essential to successful learning. Research shows that stress impedes memory and learning. In order for children to engage and develop to their potential, they need to feel safe and cared for. And, unfortunately, stress is the norm in all too many schools in Haiti where corporal punishment and humiliation are used regularly in the classroom.
Thank you for your partnership as we work to make high quality, transformative, joyous education the norm in Haiti.


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Pasting multiple values to Writeback table with editable on row level setting enabled.
When trying to paste multiple values on a cell having editable if -setting on row level, Writeback table raises error "Pasting values in combination with Editable if on a row level is not supported". When developing a sales forecasting app in august pasting multiple values to multiple cells with the setting was still possible. Please make it possible to paste multiple values with the setting on possible again, as the preventation cripples apps depending on the setting.
Pasting multiple values should skip cells, that are not editable, for example, if Writeback table has columns a, b, c and d, with all columns using the editable if on row level enabled, with editing of column c being disabled on row 2, should pasting
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SafeWork NSW has reported an accident where a truck driver has been crushed by an excavator bucket.
A 70-year-old truck driver was fatally crushed while unloading a 400-500kg excavator sieve bucket from a semi-trailer. The bucket was lashed to the semi-trailer. When the chains holding the bucket were released, the bucket slid and toppled off the truck, crushing the worker between the bucket and a bridge beam on the ground next to the truck.
Businesses must implement 'reasonably practicable' control measures to manage the risks associated with loading and unloading mobile plant equipment.
- check that the load has not shifted during transportation before releasing the transportation restraints
- develop and document a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS), in consultation with your workers, for unloading plant and equipment with a crane. Make sure all relevant workers understand and implement the SWMS.
- where necessary, sling the load to lifting equipment, such as a crane, prior to releasing the transportation restraints
- determine the weight or centre of gravity of the load, and the slinging technique to be used. A Dogging High Risk Licence is required for this type of work
- establish exclusion zones to make sure people are not placed within potential fall zones
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Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion", performing on the electric guitar
This Saturday, May 19th, jazz legend Larry Coryell is scheduled to appear at Chestnut Hill's Stagecrafters Theater for a highly anticipated performance. He will perform with blues and jazz musicians Victor Bailey and Jim Dragoni. Coryell has long been known for his jazz-fusion style, but in recent years, he has added another dimension to his music in exploring other genres. As a result, his own music remains rooted in jazz-fusion while incorporating the styles of other genres to create an unclassifiable sound that is truly unique.
Texas-born musician Larry Coryell has been honing his skills on the electric guitar since his childhood. Although he originally sought to become a journalist, he later realized that his true calling was to create and perform music. When his career as a professional musician began in the 1960s, Coryell began to release strings of albums with various groups. In 1973, he formed his own band, a widely praised jazz-fusion group called The Eleventh House. Ever since then, he has been writing, recording, and performing for a wide range of audiences on both electric and acoustic guitar, and he continues to tour regularly.
Today, Coryell's dynamic style has influenced musicians of many interests and genres. His multifaceted career has exposed him to diverse audiences and has contributed to the wide range of his interests in music. His participation in countless musical groups has helped him develop his eclectic style, which blends blues, jazz, rock, and world music, among many other genres. Fans of many types of music praise the unique sound of his songs, claiming that his solos, in particular, cannot be classified by any single genre.
The legend of Larry Coryell, known as the "Godfather of Jazz Fusion," has not gone unnoticed. Throughout his career, his frequent tours have taken him around the United States and Europe. In fact, just a week after his May 19th show, he is scheduled to appear at the Stadttheater in Hildesheim, Germany as evidence that his career is still on fire. His exciting life and career have sparked so much interest that in 2007, Coryell published an autobiography about his experiences, titled, Improvising: My Life in Music.
At his May 19th show, Coryell will perform as part of a trio, accompanied by bassist Victor Bailey and guitarist Jim Dragoni. Although Coryell is expected to be the star of the show, both Bailey and Dragoni are also renowned musicians with well-established careers. They both specialize in blues and jazz, but like Coryell, have dabbled in other genres throughout their careers. The potential of such a powerful and eclectic trio promises that their upcoming performance will be a musical experience unlike any other.
Stagecrafters Theater is at 8130 Germantown Avenue, and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at
 - Guitarissts
 Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He is a well known blues guitar player. His music include jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, post-bop, free jazz and so on…


ps workflow. No FX license needed! No playing around in icky dops!
The main thing you need to do here is make sure Cd is being advected. On the pyro solver sop, solving tab, advanced sub-tab, advection sub-sub-tab, add 'Cd' into the 'extra fields' section.
Advect smoke with particles
Advect smoke with pops thumb.gif
Download scene: File:advect_smoke_with_pops.hip
First part is simple enough, a small pop setup that fires a handful of particles every 2 seconds. The location pop is good for simple things like this that don't require any source geo; just give it a position in space and it'll birth particles for you. There's an hscript expression on the const. activation parm:
if($T%2<0.5,1,0)
Ie, loop time ($T) every 2 seconds, if its under 0.5, fire particles, otherwise don't. The attributes tab sets the initial velocity, which is +Y, plus a lot of variance (randomness) in all directions to get a burst in all directons. It then uses a replicate pop to emit a short trail of extra particles behind the primary particles.
Next is the smokey part.
This base sim is even more basic than the previous examples; a smoke object and smoke solver. The two interesting extra nodes are the gas 'particle to field' dop and the 'fetch data' dop.
Particle to field does as it says, reads particles and converts it into a volume field. Here, we read 'v' from the particles, and convert it into 'vel'. It's set to add to the existing vel, so it can accumulate.
I thought this would work as-is, but the particles refused to affect the smoke at all. First I tried changing the geometry name it was looking for, then gave it a full path the particle object, still nothing. Gave up and asked our dops wizard, who pointed me at the fetch data dop.
Even though I had the particle sim and smoke sim merged together, the smoke sim had no idea that the particle sim was there. It has to be explicitly brought into the smoke solver, hence fetch data. The geometry spreadsheet confirms this (once you know where to look), if you expand the smoke section, there's no 'Geometry' entry until you use the fetch data dop.
The nodes after the dopnet are to process the raw smoke data into something interesting. The raw sim looks like a steamy room, with people throwing basketballs around inside to move the steam. Instead, I convert the houdini fields to vdb fields (easier to manipulate that way), and set density based on vel. Low vel = no density, high vel = lots of density. This changes the look from steamy room to missile trails.
I have a better version of this in the longform tutorial SmokeDetailed.
Advect smoke with particles via vdb
Pyro vortex thumb.gif
Download scene: File:pyro_vortex_from_pops.hip
Download scene for H17.5: File:pyro_vortex_from_pops_17_5.hipnc
Same idea as before, but this time using a more traditional 2 part approach:
 1. do the particle sim first, convert to vdb
 2. use that vdb as a source volume for a pyro/smoke sim.
This tends to give smoother results, and be a little more controllable, which may/may not be what you want. I found applying this technique to the missile trails looked too smooth. I found inserting a volume vop between the vdb's particles and before the pyro dopnet, and adding curl noise to vel, helped take away the smoothness, but at least now I know two ways to skin this cat.
Dylan Smith emailed me to point out a gotcha with this setup. Similar to how a 'vdb from polygons' sop will make a density field that is dense near the polys, and fade towards the center of the shape, a 'vdb from particles' will essentially treat each particle as a sphere, and transfer velocity/density/whatever at the edges of those spheres.
This means if you're trying to be efficient and use a large particle size, in this example you'll get an inner and outer 'wall' of velocity where the particles are all conforming to the tornado shape, with an empty groove in the middle. You can compensate for this by using a smaller particle radius, or making sure your particles are chaotic enough that the don't align enough to form channels, but something to watch for. Thanks for the tip Dylan!
More advecting smoke with particles (aka pyro blendshapes)
Pyro blendshape.gif
Download scene: File:pyro_blendshapes.hipnc
The result of seeing a nice video of particles that blendshape into various states, and then seeing another video of a pyro/particle wisp thing, this is a blend of the two.
 1. Multiple shapes are fed to a keyframed switch sop, followed by a scatter that generates 2000 points.
 2. A point generate is set to make 2000 points, and is fed as the source to a pop sim.
 3. Pop sim is in 'all points' mode, and only generates particles on the first frame
 4. A pop attract is used to goal the particles to the scattered points, drag is used to keep it from going crazy (feels like there should be a cleaner way to do this...)
 5. Outside the popnet, particles are fed to vdbfromparticles to generate a volume source for the next section
 6. A second dopnet is used for a pyro sim. The particles are brought in with a 'sop geometry' dop, and their @v converted to @vel with a 'gas particle to field' dop. Messed around with this to determine the right mode for the vel transfer, in the end just an 'add' mode looked pretty cool.
 7. All rendered via the opengl rop, which I'm pleased to say worked quite well and is quite fast.
Pyro stick to surface with project non divergent sop
Pig vel pnd sop2.gif
Download scene: File:pyro_stick_to_surface.hip
A work in progress, but liking where this is headed.
Someone on discord asked how to swirl pyro around a shape. In my head this seemed simple enough; do one of the cross tricks to take the object normal, cross it with another vector (noise or a world axis), which gives you a vector along the surface of the shape, feed it to a pyro sim.
In practice, pyro would quickly drift away from the surface. My next intuition was that you'd need a multiplier that would increase with distance from the surface, forcing vel back towards the surface. Using an sdf of the surface seemed a good way to do this:
// vdb prim 0 is the sdf of the surface
float sdf = volumesample(0,0,@P);
vector grad = volumegradient(0,0,@P);
// vector towards the surface, that reduces close to the surface
vector inforce = -sdf*grad;
// blend the original vel to this inforce, based on distance to surface
@vel = lerp(@vel, inforce, abs(sdf));
Applied it and... not bad, but not great. Occasionally the smoke would form tendrils that would shoot off from the surface, ruining the read of the shape.
In hindsight, this is probably the pyro solver project non divergence doing its thing. The velocity from the wrangle inherently had some areas where pressure build up was too great, other areas becoming a vacuum, so pyro naturally tries to balance those, which would create local high pressure channels of velocity for the smoke to escape from.
At this point I remembered a recent addition to the vdb toolkit; vdb project non divergent. This does as the name implies, it iteratively tries to solve divergence in a velocity volume. Applying it to my volume, it warns that it couldn't solve all the divergence but that's ok, it solved most of it. Feeding that to the pyro solver behaves a lot better, as the forces are now much more stable. Occasionally there'll be little escape wisps, but that's fine, it keeps the smoke overall looking natural and interesting.
The pig head is a worst case example, the sharp kinks in the surface mean the smoke won't have much of a chance to follow the shape. A sphere works rather well, and doesn't require any of the more common cheats like multiplying density down based on distance to the surface, or high dissipation, or other stuff.
Sphere pyro surface cling.gif
Pyro detailed smoke
Smoke detail v01.gif
I broke this out into its own page as it got a little long, you'll find it on SmokeDetailed.
Pyro 2d solver
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Download scene: File:2d_fluid_soap


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Rheticus® Displacement is a cloud based geo-analytical platform designed for the provision of sophisticated monitoring services. Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data it detects and monitors millimetric movements of ground surface. The huge availability of data guarantees intensive surveys, enabling continuous monitoring of any chosen area globally.
Features and benefits
- Information is provided automatically, efficiently and affordably.
- Maps, reports and indexes are easy to read.
- Always accessible from various platforms and devices.
- Data and results are standardized and comparable over time, which saves time and resources.
- Landslides identification and monitoring for infrastructures planning and management.
- Excavation induced subsidence monitoring
- Urban area and infrastructure stability monitoring.
- Marine water quality monitoring: Turbidity, Chlorophyll and Temperature
- Burned areas mapping and monitoring.
- Land cover monitoring


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Lunéville (Lorraine, France)
Lunéville is a city (population 20,200 in 1999; 19,065 in 1957) in northeastern France, known as the residence of Stanislaus Leczinski, King of Poland, when he was Duke of Lorraine. Peace was concluded here in 1801 between Austria and France. Luneville was the seat of a small Mennonite church. The Mennonites living here in the 18th century belonged to the Welschland congregation. On account of the distance between the members they divided, the local Mennonites formed the Luneville-Dieuze church (Mannhardt, Jahrbuch, 1888, 42), which met twice a month at the homes of the members. The congregation then consisted of fifteen families, with Christian Schweitzer as elder.
The Franco-Prussian war divided the congregation politically, but they continued to meet together until 1893, when border difficulties made it advisable to separate. The French families joined the congregation at Nancy. The German families continued to meet once a month in Dieuze. The number declined because of emigration and a low birth rate. Finally they joined the congregation at Morhange.
After World War I the Nancy church died out. The Lunéville-Dieuze group joined Gerbéviller, a subsidiary of Baccarat; together they organized the Lunéville congregation. It had then a membership of about 40 souls, and met once a month in a rented hall in Lunéville. There were smaller meetings and prayer meetings in the various homes. In 1954 the membership was ca. 30 souls, with no elder, and with a meeting only once a month. The preacher was Emile Muller, living in Herbéviller.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, _PHONE_: II, 702.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 414-415. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
©_PHONE_ by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.
MLA style: Sommer, Pierre. "Lunéville (Lorraine, France)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 25 May 2013. _URL_
APA style: Sommer, Pierre. (1957). Lunéville (Lorraine, France). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 May 2013, from _URL_

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How Do I Call A UK Mobile Number?
How do I call a UK mobile number from Australia?
To call United Kingdom from Australia, dial: 0011 – 44 – Area Code – Land Phone Number 0011 – 44 – 10 Digit Mobile Number0011 – Exit code for Australia, and is needed for making any international call from Australia.44 – ISD Code or Country Code of United Kingdom.Area code – There are 611 area codes in United Kingdom..
Is +44 a mobile number?
44 is the country code for the UK. 71234567890 is the ficticious mobile number. Mobile numbers in the UK follow the format "07" + nine digits for a total of eleven, but when prefaced with the "+44" country code, the leading zero is dropped.
Is +44 the same as 0?
Do you get charged for calling a UK mobile abroad?
Regardless of whether a mobile phone with a UK number is currently located in the UK or has been taken to a another country, dialling it from a UK landline or mobile phone will cost the same. Any additional charges for forwarding the call internationally will be paid by the owner of the mobile phone being called.
What number does +44 stand for?
How can I find out who a number belongs to?
For numbers that are listed in the phonebook, using a reverse phone number service is the easiest way to find out who a telephone number belongs to. The website offers a free reverse phone number service. Enter the area code and telephone number and press "Search" to return a list of results.
How do I call a mobile number in London?
Why is the UK 44?
Can I find out who called me from a mobile number?
NumberGuru is a free service that allows you to quickly look up who is calling you, in some cases even if they are calling you from a cell phone. … Once the app is installed, it's as simple as entering a phone number, including area code, to find out who has been calling.
What is +61 in a phone number?
The international country code for Australia is 61 and phone numbers within Australia usually have 10 digits – 2 for the area code and 8 for the number. A typical Sydney number might be listed as (02) 9876 5432.
What is the 44 in UK mobile numbers?
Why is there a 0 in front of phone number?
Does +44 stand for 07?
07 is the prefix used when dialing a British number inside the UK, while +44 is what used when dialing a British number outside the UK. … They are two different prefixes used for two different situations. So to convert phone number to international format, you just need to take off the 07 prefix and add +44.
How do you call a UK mobile?
How Do I Call UK Cellphones from the US?Step 1 – Dial the Exit Code (011) Enter the exit code, 011 (or the '+' key if you're on a cellphone)Step 2 – Dial the Country Code (44) After dialing the exit code, enter in 44.Step 3-Dial the Mobile Code (7) … Step 4-Dial the Phone Number.
What is a +44 number?
Which country code is this 44?
What does the +44 replace?
This means the phone number is in the country with country code 44 (UK). You can normally dial this number from your phone by simply replacing the plus (+) with 00 (zero zero). In this example you would just dial 0044 123 456 789.
How do I call a UK 0800 number from Australia?
The method for calling an 0800 number from abroad is the same as calling any other UK number. Just drop the leading "0" and add either +44 or 0044. For example, to call Numbergroup's 0800 number from outside the UK, you should dial either "+44800 _PHONE_" or "_PHONE_ _PHONE_" depending on your phone's call settings.


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Hampshire is set to be at the forefront of energy research in the UK by taking part in an innovative project that uses fuel-producing algae to power a new type of energy plant.
Hampshire County Council is taking part in the launch at the Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne on 19 October of 'Ecotec 21', an Anglo-French consortium set up to study Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology. The launch will announce collaboration on CHP development, bringing together UK and French universities, research institutions, government-funded organisations, energy and facility managers, designers and architects.
Combined Heat and Power technology captures the by-product heat created by power plants and uses it for heating or hot water. Ecotec 21, co-funded by 'INTERREG IV A' under the European Cross-Border Cooperation Programme and 50% match funded by Hampshire County Council, is a new project that will investigate the potential for CHP to reduce heating costs in buildings.
The project will look at three experimental biomass power plants, one of which will be built by The University of Greenwich. The Greenwich plant will investigate how glycerol can be used in a CHP engine and will eventually provide some of the heating for the university campus. Some algae produce glycerol as a protective by-product when they are kept in very salty water. The glycerol is then harvested for use in the CHP engine. Glycerol has many advantages over other biomass materials as it is water-soluble, bio-degradable, non-odorous, non-volatile, non-toxic and produces virtually no combustion particulates.
Councillor Mel Kendal, Executive Member for Environment and Transport said:
"Because they capture the waste heat that normally goes into the atmosphere, CHP plants can reach efficiencies of over 80% compared with about 50% efficiency for conventional gas turbines or even less for coal-fired plants. This is an exciting chance to help Hampshire reduce its carbon footprint.
"With this 'INTERREG IV A' funding, we can create our own in-house CHP technical 'know-how' which will benefit Hampshire's residents and enable us to investigate other energy-efficient processes."


Children Travelling Alone
Letting your little one fly alone can be a scary experience, but our comprehensive guide and friendly airline staff to assist you on the day will ensure your child has a safe and enjoyable journey.
How old does my child have to be to fly alone?
An unaccompanied minor (UNMR) is any child aged between 5 and 11 (not yet 12 years of age) who is flying by themselves and not travelling with a parent, guardian or immediate family member.
Children younger than five are not permitted to fly by themselves. Children aged 12 and over are considered 'adults' by airline ticketing standards, but parents can specifically request an unaccompanied minor service for children aged 12 to 15.
These age brackets are fairly consistent for most airlines, but it's important to contact your Flight Centre consultant to ensure your child qualifies as an unaccompanied minor.
Do I have to book my child as an unaccompanied minor?
Yes. You must make a specific booking for your child if they are travelling by themselves and meet the unaccompanied minor age requirements. Young passengers may not be able to get onto the aircraft if they are alone do not have the required unaccompanied minor booking.
Not all flights accept unaccompanied minors, so it's important to check with your airline or booking agent first. There are also restrictions on flights with transfers or stopovers which may prevent your child from being able to travel by themselves.
How do I make an unaccompanied minor booking?
All Flight Centre consultants are able to handle the finer details and make a booking for your solo voyager. There's a bit more to it than just booking the airfares, so it's a good idea to have a consultant liaise with an airline on your behalf so you can focus on getting your youngster ready for their big journey.
What documentation do I need for an UNMR booking?
Every airline has special unaccompanied minor travel documentation that parents or guardians must complete prior to flying – this includes information on the 'sender' and 'receiver' who will accompany the child at departure and arrival points.
Adults at both the departure and arrival points will need to present identification that matches up with the documentation given to the airline in order to send off or pick up the young guest.
Do unaccompanied minor bookings cost extra?
There is usually a specific fee for unaccompanied minors, which varies between domestic and international routes and carrier. Airfares are generally charged at an adult price although this may be different at the discretion of your airline.
Only a certain number of unaccompanied minors are permitted on board at one time (usually fewer than six), so it's important to secure your child's booking as soon as possible.
Young passengers flying by themselves are well looked after by both ground and cabin staff. At the airport, you must accompany your child through check-in and to the gate where a cabin crew member will meet you. Unaccompanied minors receive priority boarding so the crew can help them get settled, stow away their cabin baggage and answer any questions they might have.
Step-by-step at the airport:
 1. Arrive at the airport and make your way to the check-in and bag drop counters
 2. Have your personal ID and your child's ID ready, plus sender/receiver details to confirm with the airline staff
 3. After your child has received their boarding pass, go to the gate at least 30-minutes prior to departure
 4. A flight attendant will meet you at the gate and will go through paperwork before boarding
 5. The attendant will accompany your child on board and get them settled before other guests
 6. Wait for the aircraft to depart in case it has to return to the gate for any unexpected reason
Don't forget to bring:
 - The required unaccompanied minor travel documentation
 - Medical clearance forms if necessary
 - Your child's identification (birth certificate, passport or ID card)
 - Comfort items to make the journey less stressful for very young guests
Where will my child be sitting?
Unaccompanied minors are usually seated close to the cabin crew areas (the flight attendant jump seats near the exits or food service area), close to bathrooms and next to a vacant seat where possible.
What is the flight attendant's job with UNMRs?
The crew often devote a great amount of attention to their younger guests, making it a priority to ensure they are feeling secure and comfortable during the journey. Flight attendants check on UNMRs multiple times during the flight.
When the attendant accompanies the child on board they will show them to their seat, explain the entertainment controls such as volume and channel selection, show them where the bathrooms are located and explain how to use the call button.
In-flight food options for young guests
It's a good idea to make sure your child has some cash with them if they are on a flight that doesn't have a meal service or, alternatively, pack them some ready-to-eat snacks to take on board. Snack items available on in-flight menus often include fresh sandwiches, muffins, crackers with cheese, cookies, chips, chocolate, juice and soft drink.
If your child is travelling internationally, long-haul or on a domestic flight that includes a meal with the airfare, you are able to specify a kid's meal as well as any dietary requirements when you make the booking or no later than 24-hours before the flight. Ask your Flight Centre consultant about meal options when you book the airfare for your young jet setter.
Travel Tip: Sugary food and drink can sometimes cause motion sickness, especially if your child is already a little nervous. Make sure they have their own bottle of water to keep hydrated during the flight.
Kid-friendly entertainment options
When it comes to onboard entertainment, you are often able to specify on the unaccompanied minor forms whether you consent for your child to access the TV, movies and music options if free entertainment if provided.
On domestic or international flights that have in-flight entertainment, there is usually a selection of children's programs and movies either delivered via seatback screens or hand-held devices which can be hired at a cost.
Pack some items in your child's cabin baggage to keep them occupied during the flight, such as colouring-in books, portable DVD players or travel-friendly games they can play by themself. If your child has their own personal electronic device, here are our five favourite apps for learning along the way:
 - Pettson's Inventions
 - Endless Alphabet
 - Squeebles Maths Bingo
 - How it Works: Machines
 - Music Matching with Lisa Loeb
Travel Tip: Make sure your child has their headphones or earphones if they are going to be listening to a personal electronic device.
Arriving safe and sound - what to expect
Possibly the most important part of the journey is your child's arrival at their destination. The unaccompanied minor forms require you to list a parent or guardian who will be picking up your little one at the gate once they have landed. and it is vitally important to ensure the same person who is listed on the form is the person who picks the child up.
Due to legal reasons, airlines are not permitted to hand over a child to someone who is not listed on the documentation or without ID, even if they are a family member.
Unaccompanied minors will be the last off the plane. The flight attendant will deliver them to their waiting parent or guardian along with the forms that were signed at the start of the journey from the departure point. These forms are again signed by the attendant and the receiver who is collecting the child, completing the final leg of their journey.
Travel Tip: If there's a chance someone other than the listed adult may have to pick up your child, list all prospective 'receivers' on the form just in case.
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Global greenhouse gas emissions and Canadian GDP
This report examines the long-term impact on the Canadian economy of changing weather patterns due to climate change.
Our analysis indicates that the 0.9-degree Celsius average increase in surface temperature and 2.5 per cent increase in average precipitation observed for Canada over 1981 to 2021 (relative to _PHONE_ reference levels), have lowered the level of Canadian real GDP in 2021 by 0.8 per cent (or $20 billion in 2021 dollars).
Under our benchmark global greenhouse gas emissions scenario in which countries across the world fully meet their climate commitments, we estimate that higher temperatures and precipitation will reduce Canada's real GDP by 5.8 per cent in 2100, compared to a counterfactual scenario where climate variables remain at their average levels observed over 1961 to 1990. For perspective, in 2021, 5.8 per cent of GDP amounts to $145 billion (in 2021 dollars). In 2100, the economy will be substantially larger and therefore the estimated impact in dollar terms would be correspondingly larger.
We estimate that 2.4 percentage points of the 5.8 per cent impact in 2100 stems from the continuation of recent changes in weather patterns due to climate change while the remaining 3.6-percentage point impact is from future changes to weather patterns.
If instead global policies remain closer to current settings—and global climate commitments are not met—we estimate that the level of Canadian real GDP in 2100 would be approximately three-quarters of a percentage point lower compared to our benchmark global emissions scenario.
Our analysis shows that climate change has—and will continue—to negatively impact the Canadian economy. We estimate that recent increases in temperature and precipitation combined with future changes in weather patterns will reduce Canada's real GDP by 5.8 per cent in 2100.
Our baseline climate scenario is predicated on countries following through on their global climate commitments. If climate polices remain closer to the status quo, the long-term impact of climate change on the Canadian economy will be larger.
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National Careers Week
This week is National Careers Week so what better time to revisit a few in depth features looking at careers in the countryside sector.
Carolyn Sherratt works within the southern Ranger team at Cheshire East Council. She's responsible for the management of a number of sites in the countryside around Congleton. No two days are ever the same; however the following is an account of what might happen on a 'typical' early autumn day.
Problems facing new graduates
Brian Heppenstall, Senior Ranger, Hengistbury Head, a large and busy nature reserve with a popular undergraduate programme, taking in upwards of 25 placements each year.
He asked former students what hurdles or issues they have faced when trying to get their first job in conservation, this article outlines some of these problems and addresses what the conservation sector could do overcome them. Read here.
If you're more of a watery persuasion then a career in fisheries might appeal more - it's not looking after fish in big tanks or nets, there's a lot involved in monitoring the fish and the health of the rivers in which they live.
Jamie Urquhart tells lantra about his work on the River Dee in the north-east of Scotland which provides an internationally important habitat for populations of salmon, otters and freshwater pearl mussels, so has been given Special Area of Conservation status by the EU, the highest level of environmental recognition available. This article includes a video from lantra Scotland featuring Jamie talking about a careers in fisheries management. This one can be found here.
Across the countryside sector
CJS includes information on a wide range of careers and jobs across the countryside sector, from animal care to rights of way, ecologists to rangers and not forgetting the all important support staff who keep everything running smoothly. Find out more: _URL_


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How to Extract Email Addresses from a Website using Python (Scrape Emails)
13-01-2023
Email Scraping has become a popular and efficient method for obtaining valuable contact information from the internet. By learning how to scrape emails, businesses and individuals can expand their networks, gather leads, and conduct market research more effectively. In this article, we will delve into the world of email scraping, specifically focusing on how to extract email addresses from websites using Python.
How To Extract Email Address from Web Scraping
How To Extract Email Address from Web Scraping
In this tutorial, we will be using web scraping & create an email scraper using Python and regular expression. Our target website for emails will be this webpage. Selenium will be used here because this website uses javascript to render its data.
Setting up the prerequisites
I am assuming that you have already installed python 3.x on your machine. If not then you can download it from here. First, you need to create a folder where we will keep our scraper files.
mkdir email_scraper
After this, you have to install the necessary libraries and web drivers.
pip install selenium
pip install beautifulsoup4
Along with this, you have to install the Chromium web driver as well. This will be used by Selenium to render websites. You can download it from here. Everything required during the course of this article is installed.
You have to create a scraper file where we will write our scraper. I am naming it emails.py.
Let's Start Scraping Emails
Let's first write a small code to check if everything works fine. At first, your chromium-browser might run a little slower but it will work normally after a while.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
import re
PATH = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe'
l=list()
o={}
target_url = "_URL_
driver=webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get(target_url)
time.sleep(10)
driver.close()
The code is pretty simple and to the point. Let me explain it step by step.
 - We have imported all the libraries which we have installed at the top.
 - We have declared the PATH of our Chromium browser. This is the path where the driver is installed.
 - declared the target URL.
 - Chrome instance is created using webdriver.Chrome()
 - Using .get() method we are trying to open the target URL in the browser.
 - Then time.sleep() method was used to wait for the complete website to load. In this example, we are waiting for 10 seconds for the complete rendering.
 - Finally closed the browser using .close() method.
The following is an example of what the chrome window would appear as upon a successful execution:
We will use regular expressions to identify the email and scrape it. If you are new to regular expression then read Web Scraping with Python and Regular Expression to get a better understanding of regular expressions.
Regular expressions are a powerful tool for identifying patterns within the text, similar to using the "Find" function in a word processing document, but with much greater capabilities. Regular expressions are extremely useful for validating user input and, particularly, for web scraping. They have a wide range of applications.
Let's write the code.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
import re
PATH = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe'
l=list()
o={}
target_url = "_URL_
driver=webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get(target_url)
email_pattern = r"[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,4}"
html = driver.page_source
emails = re.findall(email_pattern, html)
time.sleep(5)
print(emails)
driver.close()
We have added just three lines in the above code. Let me explain them step by step.
email_pattern variable is a regular expression that will help us to identify emails on the web page. Now, the expression is pretty straightforward but let me explain it to you.
 1. The first square bracket signifies one or more characters that are uppercase or lowercase letters, digits, period, underscore, percent, plus, or hyphen, followed by an "@" symbol.
 2. The second part shows one or more characters that are uppercase or lowercase letters, digits, periods, or hyphens, followed by a "." symbol.
 3. The last curly bracket signifies two to four characters that are uppercase or lowercase letters.
After this, we used driver.page_source to get the raw data from the website. Then we used findall() method to get all the matching patterns in the string as a list of strings. The search for matches within the string proceeds from left to right and the matches are returned in the order in which they were found.
Once you run this code you will get the output like this.
['[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]']
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we learn about the efficient application of regular expressions to find emails using Python. With just a few more changes you can scrape emails from any website. You just have to change the target URL.
For collecting leads, Google is also a good source. You can collect emails from Google as well by making an appropriate query. Of course, you will need an API for web scraping to extract data from Google at scale as it will block you in no time.
However, I have a tutorial dedicated made for Scraping Google search results with Python here. Check it Out!!!
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Information technology - Radio frequency identification (RFID) for item management - Software system infrastructure Part 5: Device interface
|Publication Date:||15 December 2012|
|ICS Code (Information coding):||35.040|
This part of ISO/IEC 24791 defines an interface within the Software System Infrastructure (SSI) that provides RFID system control components with low-level access to RFID interrogators for the purpose of optimizing RFID data access and control operations. This interface is designed to be modular with the ability to support multiple RFID air protocols. However, in this this part of ISO/IEC 24791, the only RFID air protocol supported is Type C of ISO/IEC 18000-6.


PowerShell GUI for SCCM or MDT: Battery warning
In this post I will share with you a little PowerShell GUI I in created to display before starting your deployment if your computer is not plug in.
How to get it ?
How it looks like ?
The GUI looks like as below:
Change the text or language
You can change easily the text inside the GUI and also the title bar in order to add your own language for instance.
I try to make it simple to add your own language.
For that after downloading content proceed as below:
1. Open the file GUI_Config.xml
2. See below how looks like the XML content
3. Change the text with your language
4. See below the warning GUI and corresponding part in the XML
5. See below an overview in French
I will work on another version to change the language depending of the culture.
Is your computer running on battery ?
In order to display the GUI we have to find a way to detect if your computer is plugged-in or running on battery.
For that we will use the WMI query below:
gwmi -Class Win32_Battery).BatteryStatus -ne 2
We will use two methods to display the GUI:
- Display the GUI once
- Display the GUI until the computer is plug in
Create the Wizard content
1. Download the wizard
2. Copy the folder to your server
3. Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Templates\Distribution\Tools\x64
4. Copy the file ServiceUI.exe in the wizard folder:
So far we have seen how to create the wizard content and how to customize it. Now let's see how to implement it in our SCCM environment.
Create the SCCM package
1. Go to Software Library
2. Go to Application Management then Packages
3. Do a right click and select Create Package
4. Type a name like Battery warning wizard
5. Check This package contains source files
6. Click on Browse, then select the folder containing the warning wizard
7. Click on Next
8. Select Do not create a program
9. Click on Next
10. Click on Next
11. Click on Close
Distribute the package
1. Do a right-click on your package
2. Select Distribute Content
3. Click on Next
4. Click on Add and select Distribution Point
5. Select your DP and click on OK
6. Click on Next
7. Click on Next
8. Click on Close
Task Sequence implementation
In this method we will create a Run command Line step that will work as below:
- Detect if running on battery using the WMI query mentioned above
- Run warning wizard: Only if the query returned true
1. Edit your TS
2. Click on Add, General then Run Command Line
3. Type a name like Run battery warning wizard
4. In the commandline part, add the one of the command line below depending of what you want to do:
Display the GUI just once
Display the GUI until the computer is plug in
5. See below how this step looks like
6. Click on the Options tab
7. Click on Add Condition
8. Select Query WMI
9. Add the below WMI query
10. See below how it looks like
11. Click on OK
12. Click on OK
The GUI in action
In the below example I integrated this warning in a custom TS.
The warning is displayed until the computer is not plug in.
PowerShell and WPF: Generate Controls from the PS1
Usually when I create a GUI I use and XAML file for my GUI and PS1 for the code. In the XAML I add all my controls. In this post I will show you how to add and generate your Controls directly from the PowerShell script.


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NEC technology uses geomagnetism to locate individuals
Tokyo, October 28, 2016 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed a technology that utilizes geomagnetism to determine the exact location of subjects inside of buildings, where the frame and other steel materials may interfere with GPS signals.
Utilizing deep learning, a kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this technology estimates the geomagnetic characteristics for each floor of a building based on indoor location information and geomagnetic information obtained by a prior examination. According to these characteristics, it can determine the location of a subject to within 2 meters of accuracy (*) based on the geomagnetic information obtained through a sensor carried by the subject.
Going forward, NEC intends to combine this technology with a personal identification technology which uses the resonation of sound determined by the shape of human ear cavities (**), a motion sensor, and other components and to provide a platform for "hearable devices"(earphone type devices) that can help grasp where a person is, who the person is, and their activity status.
There are growing needs to determine the exact location of individuals while they are inside such locations as office facilities and retail stores, for purposes that include dynamic management and customer guidance. Conventionally, methods for locating individuals who are indoors include the use of a beacon (***) or wireless LAN, which may be problematic in terms of costly installment.
NEC's technology makes it possible to precisely locate a subject indoors by use of devices equipped with a geomagnetic sensor and a motion sensor. This requires no additional capital spending for location measurement services, thereby enabling them to be implemented at a lower cost.
Primary features of this system include the following:
- Determines the exact location of a subject indoors
Utilizing deep learning, this technology estimates the geomagnetic characteristics of each floor of a facility based on the indoor location information and geomagnetic information obtained by prior examination. According to these characteristics, it can determine the location to within 2 meters of accuracy based on geomagnetic information obtained through a sensor carried by the subject inside.
- No additional capital spending is required
Once the examination of a facility's geomagnetic condition is complete, there is no need to install specific devices indoors, such as a beacon (***) or wireless LAN. Therefore, location measurement services can be introduced at a reduced cost.
NEC is aiming for the commercialization of platforms for hearable devices by the end of the 2017 fiscal year by combing this new technology with a personal identification technology which uses the resonation of sound determined by the shape of human ear cavities, motion sensors and other components.
Hearable devices enable hands-free verification of wearable device users connected to the Internet, which can help to resolve social issues, such as accidents caused by focusing on a smartphone while walking. Moreover, service providers, public and private organizations can integrate their assets with hearable devices using web APIs.
In the future, NEC aims to create new links between this technology and other advanced services, including 5G, a next-generation communications standard and IoT (Internet of Things).
- (*) As of October 28, 2016. Measured by NEC
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- (***) A signal transmitter using near field communication standards, such as Bluetooth
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at _URL_.
The NEC Group globally provides "Solutions for Society" that promote the safety, security, efficiency and equality of society. Under the company's corporate message of "Orchestrating a brighter world," NEC aims to help solve a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please visit
NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. © NEC Corporation.


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How to prepare for automated content migration to Sitecore
- Posted on May 22, 2018
- Estimated reading time 4 minutes
This article was originally written by Avanade alum Eduardo Moraes
You've ruled out manual content migration and are ready to automate the process. In this post, we'll cover how to progress through the key steps to take when preparing for an automated migration. They can be divided into three main areas:
- Understand your source
- Define your target
- Map them both
Understand your source to see your content history
As discussed in my previous blog post Manual vs. automated content migration to Sitecore: things to consider, you need to know first how you are going to access the content at your source. Determine what kind of APIs or direct access are available. Then, get to know its data model.
Ask yourself some questions to determine if your existing site is well structured. For example, when migrating news articles, is it possible to retrieve all metadata and content fields from the source separately? Are fields such as Title, Date, Short Description, Article Image, Author, Tags, or Article Content provided in separate fields on your source system or do you need to plan for some sort of string manipulation and transformation to separate these elements?
Understand how your source maps and organizes internal links. Are IDs used for each page or just direct URL paths? Are there query strings to be considered? What about dynamic elements on these pages? Is your content static or does it include components that are dynamically updated based on query string parameters or other variables?
What about the media assets (images, PDFs) used on your source? Is there an accessible repository for these elements? Do we need to crawl the site and download such assets? Are they provided by an external DAM?
Document everything you can learn about your source and add it to your plan. You will need it for the mapping that will be required later for the automated migration. Start by producing a content inventory which identifies all pages to be migrated, categorizing them by template and ensuring you have a way to uniquely identify each.
Define your target to anticipate where your content will go
With your source details documented, gather details about your target, which is the location where you are going to move your source content. Clearly define all Sitecore data templates and fields. Identify page compositions with all required renderings. The information architecture to be used in Sitecore should also be defined. In short, the final design (visual and technical) of your Sitecore implementation needs to be in place prior to mapping source and target and writing the scripts.
Map your source to your target to connect them
Once you have a clear understanding of your source content and your target solution in Sitecore, you can start to map them both, connecting the dots and defining what needs to be placed where by your automated migration scripts.
The elements to map include:
- Skeleton content tree in Sitecore based on your IA documents
- Upload of media assets to Sitecore Media Library where applicable
- Updates required to the presentation details of each page in the content tree to accommodate different components for different page setups
- The proper source to populate each field used on each item created (page level, component level, shared and configuration elements)
- How each internal link used on rich-text fields and link fields should be updated (done based on the relationship between your new IA and the Content Inventory created for the source content)
With all that mapped you can proceed either with a) creation of your scripts or b) configuration of existing automated migration tools (if possible and applicable, which is not always the case in most complex migration scenarios).
Once the scripts are run, remember to double-check your Experience Editor mode in Sitecore to ensure any required additional content updates will be easily made. It is also a good practice to have your scripts create a report log with any possible broken links and other issues that require manual fixes.
With all that in mind, you should be able to successfully automate the migration of your content to Sitecore and promote the results to a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment for your client to review and approve before promoting to production servers.
Need help planning and migrating your content to Sitecore? Contact the digital experts at Avanade for a smoother experience so you can focus on your next big brand moment.


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