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I am trying to color some alphabets in a string based on input alphabet given. Can anyone suggest me how to achieve it? As I am new to this.
Suppose that I have the following string: "AUSTRALIA"
OUTPUT: (A in red)'A'USTR(A in red)'A'LI(A in red)'A'
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Where do you want to output? MATLAB command line? GUI? Web page? – yuk Jan 10 '12 at 21:43
Welcome to SO. Show us the code you have so far, and consider changing the question title to something more descriptive. – Richie Cotton Jan 10 '12 at 22:02
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If you want to show it as text on axes (GUI), use the text command and Latex formatted strings
text('string','{\color{red} A}ustralia')
You can read about Latex commands here.
Alternatively, there is an undocumented functionality for some UI controls, mentioned in Yair Altmans great website.
That is the way to do it (Taken directly from his site)
In order to actually find the letters instances, use the strrep command.
There is a flaw here, related to capital letter, I am sure that you can work it out!
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Connected Scales FAQ's
How close does my phone need to be to my scale? Your smart phone needs to be within 32 feet of the scale.
How long will my data be stored? Since it is cloud storage, there is no limit to how long the data will be stored.
What happens if I need to replace the batteries in my Smart Scale? If you replace the batteries in the scale, you need to pair the scale with your smart device again.
How does the Calorie Feature work? In the APP, you can toggle between Lose / Maintain / Gain to see what calorie range you should be consuming based on your goals.
Do I need to pair the scale and my Smart device every time I get on the scale? You only need to pair the scale the first time you set it up. Once the scale and phone are paired, you just need to step on the scale for the data to transfer to the APP.
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Question: Occupational nouns (butcher, sailor, musician, etc.) have various suffixes in English (er, or, ee, ant, etc.). Is there a set of rules to form occupational nouns from the verbs or their object (butchering, sailing, etc.)?
Explanation: For example, what are the rules to go from this to this: Leadership / Leading ----> Leader...And not 'Leadian'
In the same way, when we 'invent' occupational nouns, how do we know that some are more correct than others? For instance, how do we know that 'low-self-esteemer' sounds more correct than 'low-self-esteemian'?
I have considered finding a regular expression part of speech tagger to give me a list of noun constructions. However, these do not have a separate category for 'occupation nouns'. More importantly still, they would not explain the rules for forming occupational nouns from verbs/objects, but only for identifying them.
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1. $C^3$ Dual Conversion versus CDD, 64-bit
We now compare the implementation of Chernikova algorithm for 64-bit in $C^3$, denoted C3DD64, and the C-implementation using the double description method of the CDD library for 64-bit, denoted CDD64. Here we ignore the fact that CDD64 uses C-built-in double floating point or GNU multi-precision rational library which are both faster than C3DD64's integer computation.
In 6_fig:SPEC95_dual_conversion_dimension_C3DD64_CDD64_100, the histogram shows only green zones [*] which mean that CDD64 is always faster than C3DD64. In fact, CDD64 is faster in $100$ percent of all tests. Finally, total run times accumulated for all tests are compared: we have CDD64 is faster than C3DD64 with a ratio of $0,14:1$, which means approximately $7$ times faster, for the SPEC95 convex hull sampled database.
The histogram in 6_fig:PerfectClub_dual_conversion_dimension_C3DD64_CDD64_100, shows green zones indicating the cases where CDD64 is faster than C3DD64 and red zones corresponding to the opposite cases. They are well separated by the dimension $80$, from which a time-run-based heuristic can be constructed as follows: We use CDD64 for constraint systems with dimensions lower than $80$ and C3DD64 for those with higher dimensions. We however notice that CDD64 is faster in $98$ percent of all tests, thus this heuristic does not seem to be necessary according to the total run times accumulated. We have CDD64 is faster than C3DD64 with a ratio of $0,30:1$, which means approximately $3$ times faster, for the PerfectClub convex hull sampled database.
Figure 31: PerfectClub: Dimension C3DD64 vs CDD64 in sampled database
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Figure 32: SPEC95: Dimension C3DD64 vs CDD64 in sampled database
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The conclusion for run times of these two algorithms is that CDD64 is faster than C3DD64, and we have a good example of a heuristics which can be based on the experimental results. If we do not consider the exception problem, we can obtain the parallel algorithm's performance with this heuristics that is much easier to implement.
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It is important to follow a regular cleaning routine for your pan to make sure you protect your investment. Here are the ways to take care of your quality food pan.
How to clean the tough stains?
 1. Clean the scorches or crust
If the food pan has food crusts, soak it in water preferably soapy water overnight. In the morning drain the water, and then scrub forcefully with a scrub pad. This will remove the most accumulated food layer.
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 1. Clean the burn Marks
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UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has warned Zambians to consider stocking up enough food especially maize at household levels and only sell that which is really in excess.
Mr. Hichilema said this is in light of the World Meteorological Organisation forecast that a 70 percent chances of recurrence of the EL Nino weather conditions for 2018 and 2019 season.
He further advised Zambians to consider venturing into drought resistance crops like millet, sorghum and cassava.
He said Zambians must consider diversification programmes at personal level into say livestock.
"We all know that we have a regime that thrives in dealing in fire fighting and knee jerk measures with the ultimate purpose of benefiting through corruption," he stated.
"Highly reputable World weather forecast organizations have sounded the warning and like Joseph of the Old Testament did, we in the UPND have now done our part in warning citizens and those controlling national resources on the practical measures that must be undertaken to achieve the intended objectives for the benefit of all our people," he said.
"The purpose of such forecasts is not necessarily to scare people, but to warn World communities especially those with vulnerable and poor economies like ourselves, to brace for eventualities so that we make adequate mitigatory measures to counter the effects of the weather. As we may know, EL Nino causes severe weather conditions that can gravely affect food security in the country and at households," he said.
He added, "it is in view of foregoing that we would like to urge those in-charge of the national resources and the citizens at large to take practical steps in case of the recurrence of the EL Nino conditions. For those controlling national resources, it is important that they mop up all excess and uncollected maize and other crops around the country at attractive prices to the farmers and place them as strategic reserves."
Mr. Hichilema said government must avoid at all cost the temptation of exporting maize and other crops as this may affect the strategic food security reserves.
"We must invest in better weather monitoring technology and improve our collaboration with experts in the field in order to improve our preparedness for uncertain times. This will also advantage our farming communities and empower them with well informed decisions pro actively," Mr Hichilema said.


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Quadruple Word To Megabyte
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Quadruple word to Megabyte Conversion Formula:
megabyte (MB) = quadruple-word / 131302.515625
How to Convert quadruple-word to megabyte (MB)?
To get Megabyte data storage, simply divide Quadruple word by 131302.515625. With the help of this data storage converter, we can easily convert Quadruple word to Megabyte. Here you are provided with the converter, proper definitions,relations in detail along with the online tool to convert quadruple-word to megabyte (MB).
How many Megabyte in one Quadruple word?
1 quadruple-word is 7.616000312256E-6 megabyte (MB).
quadruple-word to megabyte (MB) converter is the data storage converter from one unit to another. It is required to convert the unit of data storage from Quadruple word to Megabyte, in data storage. This is the very basic unit conversion, which you will learn in primary classes. It is one of the most widely used operations in a variety of mathematical applications. In this article, let us discuss how to convert quadruple-word to megabyte (MB), and the usage of a tool that will help to convert one unit from another unit, and the relation between Quadruple word and Megabyte with detailed explanation.
Quadruple word Definition
Quadruple-word is four computer words. In computing, the word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word can be considered as a fixed-size group of bits that are handled as a unit by the instruction set and the processor hardware. The number of bits in a word (also called word width, word size, or word length) is an important characteristic of specific processor design or computer architecture, which is often described as n-bit architecture where n is usually equal to 8, 16, 32 or 64.
Megabyte Definition
A megabyte (MB or Mbyte) is a decimal multiple of the unit byte for digital information or computer storage. The prefix mega (symbol M) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 10⁶, therefore, 1 megabyte = 10⁶ bytes = 1,000,000 bytes. At the same time, traditionally this metric prefix is used to designate binary multiplier 2²⁰, so 1 MB = 1024 Kbytes (note the capital K). The correct prefix for 2²⁰ is a mebibyte (MiB), introduced by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1999. Binary prefixes are increasingly used in technical literature, open source software and cloud services.
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Question: problem 2 an earth dam is built on an impervious...
An earth dam is built on an impervious foundation with a horizontal filter at the base near the toe. The permeability of the soil in the horizontal and vertical directions are 3 × 10-2 mm/sec and 1× 10-2 mm/sec, respectively. The full reservoir level is 30 m above the filter. A flow net constructed for the transformed section of the dam, consist of 4 (four) flow channels and 16 (sixteen) potential drops. Estimate the seepage loss per meter length of the dam.


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Angular UI-Router is a client-side Single Page Application routing framework for AngularJS.
Routing frameworks for SPAs update the browser's URL as the user navigates through the app. Conversely, this allows changes to the browser's URL to drive navigation through the app, thus allowing the user to create a bookmark to a location deep within the SPA.
UI-Router applications are modeled as a hierarchical tree of states. UI-Router provides a state machine to manage the transitions between those application states in a transaction-like manner.
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Vortex-wave beams are beams that carry angular momentum. Their specific feature is a ring-like transverse distribution of wave intensity with zero intensity at the axis. A method for generating an ultrasonic vortex beam by combining a single-element transducer and a phase plate with a nonuniform thickness is proposed. The method is examined theoretically and tested experimentally. In the theoretical analysis, the acoustic field was calculated using the Rayleigh integral. Experiments were performed in water with a focusing piezoceramic source with a frequency of the order of 1 MHz; the radiation from it was transmitted through a 12-sector organic-glass phase plate. The beam vorticity was established by setting the correct thickness of sectors. The results of scanning the field with a miniature hydrophone confirmed that the amplitude and phase distributions of the generated wave field were in fact consistent with a vortex beam. The capacity of the obtained beam to induce the rotation of scatterers positioned in the focal region was demonstrated.
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Top 10 Times People Died During Minor Surgery
When you go through minor surgery, there's nothing major about it. Well, there is—surgery is surgery. But it should be routine, with minimal cuts, maybe a few stitches, and little to no organ rearranging. Most important, you should be able to walk out that outpatient door and recover at home. But sometimes, the best-laid surgery plans don't go as expected.
Whether it's from medical malpractice, freak allergic reactions, or underlying conditions occasionally, people die during the most routine and minor procedures. Death is always a risk with surgery. Still, when it happens in these cases, it's especially surprising. Here are the top 10 times people died during minor surgery.
10 Lidocaine Toxicity
The chance of dying from a local anesthetic is extremely rare, with less than a 1 in 100,000 chance. The local anesthetic in this story is lidocaine. Medical professionals use lidocaine for a variety of procedures, from trigger point injections to dental reconstructions. It is generally safe, but for a select unlucky few, it can be deadly. Chances of death increase if the doctor administering the local anesthetic makes a mistake.
This was the case for a five-year-old girl in 2011. Kensley Kirby's parents took her to Family Medical Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, after falling and suffering a broken arm. The doctor administered a lidocaine numbing shot while setting her arm, but she did not react well to it. The dosage was fatal. With a broken bone, her body absorbed the nerve blocker quickly. Investigators speculated that the doctor who administered the shot was used to working on adults, not young children. That's still no excuse for someone who knows better than not to adjust the dosage for a little girl.
9 Therapeutic Complications
On September 4, 2014, comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers died from therapeutic complications of a routine endoscopy. Therapeutic complications are predictable outcomes of therapy or procedure.
While under anesthesia, her vocal cords went into spasm, which blocked oxygen from her brain. Because her throat swelled, doctors couldn't insert a breathing tube in time, resulting in brain damage and respiratory failure. Her heart went into arrhythmia—irregular heartbeat—and eventually stopped beating. Although it's a terribly tragic way to go, heart and respiratory failure—and ultimately brain damage—are rare side effects of anesthesia.
The flip side to Joan's death is that it may not have been entirely the fault of her spasming vocal cords. The doctors conducting the procedure were investigated for malpractice. Besides taking a selfie with Joan (while she was under anesthesia), they had also performed a laryngoscopy, something Joan had not agreed to. The timeline of events also shows that doctors could have avoided Joan's death had they realized her blood pressure and pulse were dropping earlier on.
8 Andy's Gallbladder
Pop art pioneer and cultural icon Andy Warhol led a fantastical Manhattan lifestyle, even making a few enemies along the way. In 1968, radical author and artist Valerie Solanas marched to Warhol's office and shot him twice. The bullets wrecked his organs, including his lungs, and it wasn't clear whether or not he would survive. He even died at the hospital while they were working on repairs. But survive he did! You would think surviving a gunshot wound like that would get you the pass in any other life-threatening situations—but that wasn't the case.
What used to be labeled a "routine" gallbladder surgery by the media is what ultimately killed Warhol. It was not routine, at least, not in Warhol's case. The stress of the recovery, his sustained injuries from the gunshot wounds, a healthy dose of speed every day, and a prolonged sickness were just way too much for his heart. Though he made it through the surgery, he didn't make it out of the hospital.
7 Danger at the Dentist's Office
Nitrous oxide is a safe alternative to pain and anti-anxiety medication during outpatient surgeries. However, if used incorrectly, it could prove to be fatal. In another case of a medical professional not knowing when enough is enough, a young child died due to lack of oxygen during a dental procedure. The boy reportedly had behavioral issues and the surgery to remove four decaying teeth would be painful. When he wasn't responding to the nitrous oxide, the doctor increased the amount of sedative he used.
6 Lack of Wisdom
That isn't the only incident of a young person suffering the worst complications anesthesia can cause. A 17-year-old girl suffered a heart attack during a routine wisdom teeth extraction surgery. Though the doctor eventually revived her and got her to a hospital, she was declared brain dead a week after the surgery. The family sued for malpractice, arguing that there should have been better monitoring and emergency response. There was also evidence that an uncertified dental assistant was partially to blame for the oversight. The family received a $2 million settlement, but no money is enough to make up for the loss of their daughter.
5 Mommy Makeover
A 38-year-old mother of two was on vacation with her family in Tijuana. While there, she decided to travel to Mexico with two other friends and treat herself to a "mommy makeover." The tummy tuck ended up a fatal decision. Sadly, she experienced blood clotting during the procedure and suffered a heart attack. Even after 45 minutes of CPR, the medical team could not revive her. The two other women developed terrible complications.
Most plastic surgery these days is considered outpatient, or ambulatory, surgery. Meaning a patient can arrive in the morning and be recovered enough to leave (with assistance, of course) the same day. Still, it is expensive. The cost of these procedures has increased medical tourism. In medical tourism, people seek out "certified" plastic surgeons in other countries. These surgeons usually charge a fraction of the price they would pay in the US and promise the same results. The issue is that you risk quality, hygiene, and your life with potentially deceptive ads and medical malpractice.
It seems it's best to invest in a certified doctor or not get plastic surgery at all.
4 Bleach in the Line
Not all deaths during medical procedures are accidental. Back in 2012, a Texas nurse, Kimberly Clark Saenz, was arrested and sentenced to the death penalty for murdering dialysis patients during their treatments. People who suffer from chronic kidney disease rely on dialysis to filter and clean their blood, as their kidneys cannot. That said, dialysis patients put a lot of trust into the facility they go to for treatment and one misstep by dialysis technicians could mean some serious health consequences.
Saenz did not care.
In 2008, about a year after Saenz started working at the dialysis center, administrators noticed that more and more patients were falling ill and suffering from cardiac arrest during treatments. In an effort to reduce these numbers, the facility made some staff changes and rearranged nurses. Saenz was reassigned as a patient care technician. Later that day, two patients saw her inject a bleach solution into the IV lines and reported her. She was ultimately fired and an investigation was opened to look into her contact with patients.
Of the five patients who had died that year, all had come into direct contact with Saenz. She was in-saenz.
3 da Vinci Robot
The medical profession has advanced by leaps and bounds in its practices and surgical equipment. What was once considered major, "open you up" surgery, doctors can now do through smaller incisions. They can perform cardiac oblations by threading tools up the femoral artery; they can remove your gallbladder with two small incisions. In gynecology, new technology even helps surgeons perform hysterectomies (the removal of the uterus) similarly. Oh, and you can get a robot to help you out, too.
The da Vinci is that robot! The positives: it's a minimally invasive surgical tool and patients may end up experiencing fewer complications from their surgery. The negatives: it's still fairly new technology, and doctors only receive one day's worth of formal training with it. Unfortunately, one little slip of the robot and technological celebration could turn into a technological tragedy.
In 2012, the da Vinci made a major slip up. As a result, a woman died during her robot-assisted hysterectomy. The robot's arm nicked a blood vessel. This isn't the only incident involving one of these machines, but it is certainly the most tragic.
2 Fat Cells
This plastic surgery death differs from the others on this list because the patient didn't look for a cheap alternative. Traveling to Miami, Florida, from New York, the 46-year-old transgender woman found a clinic specializing in Brazillian butt lifts. She was scheduled to have a completely routine Brazilian butt-lift surgery. Nothing more.
The catch is that as routine as the surgery is, they pose a greater risk than other plastic surgeries. When a surgeon injects fat below the gluteal muscles—your butt muscles—the needle can accidentally penetrate the gluteal vein. This caused the fat to enter the bloodstream, leading to major complications and heart and lung failure. Over the past decade, at least 20 people in Miami alone have died from the surgery.
Unfortunately, in this case, that's what happened to the beloved New Yorker. Her oxygen and heart rate dropped while on the table, the doctor couldn't resuscitate her, and she was declared dead at the hospital. Her death was ruled accidental.
1 A Repeat Offender
People may not see labor as


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4 out of 5 gen Zers believe that more needs to be done in the US while 2 out of 3 believe that more needs to be done in the UK
While previous generations have been quick to point the finger at the US, as we've seen Newsnight's Emily Maitlis do last week in an interview with George the Poet, gen Z is also calling out the UK and other countries as being responsible for systemic racism, too. Ignoring the UK's denial of its own racism is as disingenuous as ignoring the US' police brutality and racism, and doing so only further perpetuates white privilege in the UK.
These statistics portray gen Zers as strong protesters who are aware of systemic issues as well as willing to take action. But admitting and fighting these don't come without its toll on new gen's mental and physical wellbeing.
In the UK, 3 out of 4 gen Zers are concerned about health issues at the protests
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight against racism and injustice couldn't wait. While staying home as much as possible is still strongly recommended by governments, protesters have had to make do with their best tool in order to make their voices heard: protesting.
Just yesterday, police officers in London urged Priti Patel to impose an emergency ban on all protests during the coronavirus pandemic, warning officers were being put at risk by a wave of mass demonstrations. Although wearing masks, gloves, and keeping a two meters distance from other protesters are the best ways to avoid risk of getting COVID-19, many protesters are still concerned about their health. The situation, however, has not discouraged the Black Lives Matter movement from fighting back.
1 out of 3 gen Zers said their mental health has been impacted by the surge of online images and videos of the protests
Protesting has never been easy. But now, more than ever, with the constant flow of graphic and harmful content our brains receive through social media platforms, we find ourselves on edge frequently. This has had an impact on gen Z's mental health. As an activist, looking after your mental health is a necessary step in the fight against systemic racism.
1 in 2 British gen Zers feel overwhelmed by the information coming from the _TAG_ on how to take action
This statistic highlights how much more effort we need to make as a generation. Protests must carry on, yes, but we also need to provide more information to anyone that might feel the need to research how to take action. Only by doing so will we start tackling systemic racism.
These protests are made of passionate, non-violent young leaders fighting for a brighter future. Those who previously criticised the new generation for being too connected, too woke or even too sensitive will be compelled to reconsider their stance soon enough.
By Alma Fabiani
Jun 17, 2020
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"Fairness" In English and Zambian Administrative Law
By Elias Munshya, LLB, LLM, MBA, M.Div.
Administrative law is that branch of law that governs the scope and activities of government agencies. Government agencies are daily making important decisions that affect Zambian citizens. However, in the discharge of their functions administrative bodies must act with "fairness". Together with the right to an unbiased judge, the right "to a fair trial" forms part of the elements that constitute the common law rules of natural justice. These rules are a pinnacle of both Zambian and English law. In the Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service UKHL 6 case, it is Lord Scarman who stated that there was an implied duty of fairness attached to all administrative acts. There is an expectation by anyone who is subject of an administrative tribunal to have a fair hearing. Additionally, when it comes to judicial review, a person affected may challenge a decision on the ground of procedural impropriety if his or her right to a fair trial are abrogated.
In the context of England and Wales, fairness has been reinforced by both sections 2 and 3 of Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), which places a demand upon the courts and all administrative bodies to so construe legislation, as much as is possible, in compliance with the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and the rulings of its institutions. Specifically, Article 6 (1) of the ECHR states that a person is entitled to "a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal". These same guarantees are provided in the Zambian constitution.
Fairness, however, is not a clear-cut concept in administrative law because applying what is fair in one case might be unfair when applied in another. What is precise in all this, however, is the fact that fairness does depend upon the circumstances of the case and the nature of the tribunal. As such, while there is a settled principle of fairness in administrative law in England, Zambia and elsewhere, the application of this principle must be contextualized to specific cases if fairness is to be achieved.
In the case of R v Home Secretary, ex p Doody, Lord Mustill stated several principles relevant to the concept of fairness in administrative law. First, the standards of fairness in administrative law are not immutable. They can change with time and change of circumstances. Le Suer, Herberg & English (1999) state "fairness is a flexible concept". Second, according to Lord Mustill "principles of fairness cannot be applied by rote identically in every situation." Context is important. Third, Lord Mustill opined that a person who is going to be adversely affected by an administrative decision must be given the opportunity to be heard either before the case is heard or after or both. This third principle complies with the 1915 ruling in Local Government Board v Arlidge, in which the House of Lords held that, there is "a minimum requirement that a party to a dispute should be given an adequate opportunity to present his side of the argument." Fourthly, according to Lord Mustill, for a person to make a worthwhile presentation of his case, he must be given sufficient substance of the case against him. These principles, taken together with ECHR jurisprudence, would help in the discussion of the relevant cases in which fairness has been the subject matter. Some of these cases are explained below.
English courts have held that a violation of natural justice principles including the principle of fairness would not be acceptable. In R v Board of Visitors of Hull Prison, ex p St Germain, the court ruled that the prisoner's right to fairness had been breached by an administrative agency's reliance on hearsay evidence without giving the prisoner the opportunity to respond to that evidence. As in this case then the court saw that in those instances where the person's liberty is at stake, the principles of fairness should be strictly followed. In the case of R v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, ex parte Hook (1976), it was held that the rules of fairness had been breached since the decision was excessive and the trial violated the fairness principle. In R v Army Board of the Defense Council ex p Anderson, the administrative agency had breached the rules of fairness since it had not provided Anderson with copies of the written evidence to enable him to comment and reasonably react to the accusations.
However, notwithstanding the court cases mentioned in the paragraph above, the courts have been able to vary the demand for fairness. The courts to vary the demand for principles of "fairness" have used national security considerations. In the cases of R v Home Secretary, ex p Hosenball and in the case of R v Home Secretary, ex p Cheblak, national security considerations were used to dispense with the stricter need for natural justice. Additionally, in the case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v. AF (2009), the Court of Appeal was willing to allow for the national security consideration in varying the application of the principle of fairness in administrative law, but nevertheless called upon the trial judge to allow the special advocates to have access to the information against the appellants. Here the court was attempting to balance the need for natural justice on one hand and national security considerations on the other.
Courts have varied what constitutes a fair hearing if the subject matter being adjudicated involves the welfare of children. As such, in the case of Re K (infants), a case involving infants, the courts varied the elements of fairness by not availing all the facts to all the parties of the case. Additionally, in the cases of R (West) v Parole Board and R (Roberts) v Parole Board, the House of Lords held that in some circumstances the general principles of fairness could be overlooked. These cases involved some prisoners who demanded that the information used in arriving at decisions that adversely affected them should be disclosed to them. In R v Commissioner for Racial Equality, ex p Cottrell & Rothon, it was held that even if cross-examination was not permitted and witnesses did not attend, there was no breach of the rules of fairness. Again the principle of fairness was not followed in this case.
In view of the case law, the present state of administrative law is that fairness still remains an integral part of the justice system. Administrative bodies may deviate from the fairness principle, if it would be in the interest of justice to do so. Even then, parties affected by the administrative body's decision should be given sufficient information and opportunity to offer their side of the story. This is important for the development of Zambia's constitutional and administrative law development.
Munshya, E (2015). Fairness In English and Zambian Administrative Law. Elias Munshya Blog (_URL_) (Sep 3, 2015)


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What's special about Forex Combo System: Forex Combo System is a trading system combining four strategies: Scalping, Trend-Detection, Market Corrections, and Range Detection.
Brief description of transaction strategy settings:
Strategy 1: Scalping With some long-term moving average as the trend line and the shock index as the in-and-out signal. Take a profit of 30 points and stop a loss of 160 points. However, the test found few stop losses in thirteen years, most of which came in and out by signals.
Strategy 2: Trend-Detection Simply put, it is to build an ATR channel. Then, when the price breaks through the channel, open the position, take profit at 80 points, and stop loss at 50 points initially. The advantage of this system is that it has a dynamic tracking system that can adapt to the change in the trend.
Strategy 3: Market Corrections take a Bollinger Band as the primary indicator, and do interval operations near the upper and lower boundaries. Take profit at 100 points, stop loss at 260 points, and trailing stop.
Strategy 4: Range Detection through a series of complex mathematical algorithms to judge the trend of the sideways interval, 300-point take profit, 55-point stop loss, with trailing stop.


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always looking for a reason to get revenge. Example: Jose B. gets mad easily, and always wants to get people back - he's very vindictive.
to hand over or give up. Example: No matter how hard she tried, Ms. Morse could not get Malik to relinquish his cell phone.
believable. Example: None of James' excuses are very credible - I rarely believe what he tells me.
to use flattery or repetition to get someone to do something. Example: Using his cutest smile and puppy-dog eyes, Noel wouldn't stop cajoling Ms. Morse until she gave him an A.
unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others. Example: Kendall is so altruistic that he gave the homeless man his last dollar to get something to eat.
good at understanding another person's situation, feelings, or motives. Example: Kenae is a very empathic young woman; she really understands and cares about her friends.
to give back what you get. Example: The pretty girl smiled at Jahvar. He reciprocated, and soon they were dancing.
to crush as if by trampling. Example: Hakeem's dreams of having a great weekend were squelched as soon as his mother got his progress report.
to mock in a mean way. Example: The teacher could have just told us to study more instead of deriding the whole class and calling us stupid!


TiMESPLiNTER TiMESPLiNTER - 11 months ago 34
PHP Question
Check if an object has changed
Is there a more native way (e.x. a built-in function) with less userland code to check if an objects property values have changed instead of using one of those methods:
The serialize approach
$obj = new stdClass(); // May be an instance of any class
echo $hashOld = md5(serialize($obj)) . PHP_EOL;
$obj->change = true;
echo $hashNew = md5(serialize($obj)) . PHP_EOL;
echo 'Changed: '; var_dump($hashOld !== $hashNew);
Which results in:
f7827bf44040a444ac855cd67adfb502 (initial)
506d1a0d96af3b9920a31ecfaca7fd26 (changed)
Changed: bool(true)
The shadow copy approach
$obj = new stdClass();
$shadowObj = clone $obj;
$obj->change = true;
var_dump($shadowObj != $obj);
Which results in:
bool(true);
Both approaches work. But both have disadvantages compared to a non userland implementation. The first one needs CPU for serialization and hashing and the second one needs memory for storing clones. And some classes may not be cloned.
Doesn't PHP track changes at object properties? And does PHP not expose a method to make use of it?
Answer Source
What you are trying to do?
You are trying to compare object with itself, after some chain of "unknown" operations to check if the object has changed. If this is true, there are some logical points to observe. At first, if you want to compare object with itself, you've got only two options:
 1. Remember the whole object state (for example hash, or just copy whole object)
 2. Track changes over time
There is no other logical approach. Comparing memory allocations, real objects, copying objects, comparing hashes, is all in point one. Tracking changes, saving changes inside object, remembering meantime operations, inside point 2.
So in my opinion this question is sort of backing up data questions. In that case there are many, many solutions but none of them are hardcoded inside php as far as I'm concerned. Why?
The answer is simple. PHP guys have got the same problems you've got :). Because if this would be hardocded inside php, then php should run / use one of those mechanisms (1) or (2).
In that case every object that you create, and every operation you made should be written somewhere to remember every state / object / something and use them for comparison in the future.
While you need this solution, almost ~100% of websites don't. So hardcoding this inside php would made ~100% of websites work slower and your work faster ;).
PHP hypothetical solution?
The only solution (maybe built in php in the future) I can think of is making some kind of php config flag: track objects, and only if this flag is true, then run all the php mechanisms of tracking objects states. But this also mean a huge performance gap. As all the ifs (if tracking, if tracking, if tracking) are also procesor and memory time consuming.
There is also a problem, what to compare? You need to compare object with same object, but... Few minutes ago? Few operations ago? No... You must point exactly one place in code, and then point second place in code and compare object in those two places. So hypothetical auto tracking is... Kind of powerless, as there is no "key" in the object state ofer time array. I mean, even if you got magic_object_comparer function, what it should look like?
<?php
 function magic_object_comparer() {} // Arguments??
 function magic_object_comparer($object_before, $object_after) {} // you must save object_before somewhere...??
 function magic_object_comparer($object, $miliseconds) {} // How many miliseconds?
 function magic_object_comparer($object, $operations) {} // How many operations? Which operations?
 magic_comparer_start($object);
 // ... Few operations...
 $boolean = magic_comparer_compare_from start($object);
 // Same as own implementation...
?>
Sadly, you are left with own implementation...
After all, I would propose to implement some kind of own mechanism for that, and remember to use it only there, where you need it. As this mechanism will for sure be time and memory consuming. So think carefully:
 1. Which objects you want to compare. Why?
 2. When you want to compare them?
 3. Does all changes need to be compared?
 4. What is the easiest way of saving those states changes?
And after all of that, try to implement it. I see that you've got a huge php knowledge, so I'm pretty sure that you will figure out something. There are also many comments, and possible ideas in this question and discussion.
But after all maybe I explained a little why, there is no build in solution, and why there should not be one in the future... :).
UPDATE
Take a look here: _URL_ This is a great resource about php patterns. You should take a look at adapter, decorator and observer patterns, for possible elegant object oriented solutions.


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Faculty of Education
Dear (Prospective) student, welcome to the website for the Faculty of Education, National Open University of Nigeria. The Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, the Dean, heads of departments and lecturers of the faculty of Education, all welcome your interest in studying at the National Open University faculty of Education. This faculty prepares professional teachers/leaders in teacher education, and researchers, through the use of distance-learning programmes. This website contains information on:
- The Faculty of Education.
- The Staff of the Faculty of Education.
- The Programmes available under the Faculty of Education.
- The Admission requirements for these programmes.
- Contact information for enquiries directed to the Faculty of Education.
we hope this website will be able to answer most of your questions. Please feel free to browse the information contained within this website. Thank you for visiting our website.
The Vice Chancellor, Dean and Centre Directors welcome your interest in studying at the Faculty of Education, National Open University of Nigeria. The Faculty prepares professional teachers/leaders in teacher education and researchers through the distance-learning programme. The instructional methodology for distance learning is conducted through specially designed packaged materials including radio, television broadcast, CDROM and Internet complimented by face-to-face interaction. Network of study centres have been established to provide excellent and quality student oriented learning and support services. In due course, the National Open University students will access all library and information materials through the National VIrtual Library Project that will soon be fully launched. So there will be no barrier to becoming a skilled "teacher".
The Faculty of Education of the National Open University of Nigeria is regarded as the foremost Faculty of Education in Nigeria providing highly accessible and enhanced quality education anchored by social justice, equity, and national cohesion through a comprehensive reach that transcends all barriers.
To provide qualitative, functional and cost effective programmes through the ODL modes in teacher education and allied disciplines.
Our commitment to the above mission shall be realised through the following:
- Provision of wider access to professional training in the field of education generally in an open distance learning environment;
- Provision of flexible but qualitative programmes in teacher education and allied disciplines.
- Enhancement of professional ethics by laying emphasis on both national and international codes of conduct for education personnel;
- Integration of information technology media in the provision of programmes in teacher education and allied disciplines.
- Embarking on training and retraining of those in the field of education, with a view to enhancing their productivity;
- Provision of opportunities for academic and professional growth of those in the education profession;
- Provision of programmes that will produce highly motivated, conscientious and efficient class-room teachers, educational managers and evaluators at all levels of educational systems;
- Provision of opportunities for acquisition of professional training to the less privileged and those with special needs; and
- Development of the spirit of enquiry, creativity and hard work in the students, teachers, educational administrators, evaluators and research workers.
The faculty of Education is mandated by the Senate of the National Open University of Nigeria to:
- Produce highly motivated, conscientious and efficient personnel for all levels of educational systems;
- Encourage further the spirit of enquiry and creativity in educational personnel
- Help educational personnel to fit into social life of the community and the society at large and enhance their commitment to national goals;
- Provide educational personnel with the intellectual and professional background adequate for their assignment and make them adaptable to changing situations;
- Enhance teachers' commitment to the teaching profession;
- Produce teachers in specialised areas for people with special needs;
- Produce educators who have good understanding of the increasing complexity of technology; and
- Provide serving teachers and educational administrators and research workers with the technical skills so as to expose Nigerian students to awareness by exploring usable options in the world of works.


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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Associate Professor of Information Science, Phoebe Sengers have received a major National Science Foundation (NSF) Award to explore the social impact of networked farms. In a project entitled "Understanding and Improving the Social Impact of High-Bandwidth Farm Networking Infrastructure," the investigators explain:
The goals of this project are to (1) investigate the potential social impact of ubiquitous, low-cost, high-bandwidth communication infrastructure on America's farms, and (2) develop options for improving the social impact of these technologies. New networking solutions to support high-bandwidth on-farm data communication will enable the collection of massive amounts of sensor data, its transmission to the cloud or other servers, and its processing and use for agricultural decisionmaking. These shifts stand poised to transform agricultural production and economic organization. This project will pursue values in design research into next generation network solutions for agriculture, as well as empirical research with agricultural stakeholders currently engaging information-rich approaches to farm management. The project will integrate concerns of agribusiness stakeholders into the early stages of on-farm networking development; foster informed discussion among technical, agricultural, and policy stakeholders about the potential social impact of this technology; and develop and disseminate practical policy and design options to improve the social impact of on-farm networking. It will support the training of students from underrepresented groups in research through summer research workshops in networking, design for social impact, and the futures of digital agriculture.
The research adapts techniques to integrate societal considerations in the early stages of technology design, in order to manage the specific challenges that come up in addressing the social impact of infrastructure. The project will (1) use ethnographic participant-observation in the development of farm networking technology and collaboration with technical partners to identify moments where technical decisions could be associated with social impact challenges; (2) conduct fieldwork with agricultural stakeholders to analyze how existing infrastructures incorporating analogous technologies are shaping and shaped by emerging social practices to create specific impacts; (3) develop future design scenarios that flesh out and concretize potential relationships between technological decisions, future policies and organizational practices, and the resulting benefits and drawbacks; and (4) use these scenarios to collaboratively identify specific technical, organizational, and policy options that could improve the benefits or reduce the drawbacks of on-farm high-bandwidth communication technologies.


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- freely available
Sensors 2010, 10(11), 10198-10210; doi:10.3390/s101110198
Abstract: In this study, a high sensitivity and easy fabricated plastic optical fiber (POF) displacement sensor is proposed. A POF specimen subjected to dual cyclic bending is used to improve the sensitivity of the POF displacement sensor. The effects of interval between rollers, relative displacement and number of rollers on the sensitivity of the displacement sensor are analyzed both experimentally and numerically. A good agreement between the experimental measurements and numerical calculations is obtained. The results show that the interval between rollers affects sensitivity most significantly than the other design parameters. Based on the experimental data, a linear equation is derived to estimate the relationship between the power loss and the relative displacement. The difference between the estimated results and the experimental results is found to be less than 8%. The results also show that the proposed POF displacement sensor based on dual cyclic bending can be used to detect displacement accurately.
Optical fibers are widely used in communication systems because of their low attenuation, light weight, higher data transmission rates and no electromagnetic influence . In recent years, different types of optical fiber sensors for measuring displacement, temperature, pressure and other possible applications have been developed [2–4]. Compared with glass optical fibers (GOFs), plastic optical fibers (POFs) have higher numerical aperture, easier connectivity, are cheaper and display more flexibility [4–8]. Hence, POFs are more suitable for use in sensing devices. Donlagic indicated that optical fiber sensors can usually be divided into extrinsic fiber optic sensors [10,11] and intrinsic fiber optic sensors [12–15]. Extrinsic fiber optic sensors are not useful for many purposes because the intensity of the light is changed by contaminated mirrored surfaces . Intrinsic fiber optic sensors have higher signal stability because the output power can be changed according to the variation of measured parameter. The fabrication of optical fiber sensors based on macro- or micro-bending is simple, cheap and provides high signal stability. Furthermore, they can provide a wider measurement range and higher sensitivity .
In theoretical and practical applications, the prediction of radiation loss in bent optical waveguides is an important topic . Different purposes for bent optical fiber sensors have been proposed by many researchers [16–22], such as axial strain and curvature measurements [16–18], crack detection and vertical deflection monitoring , liquid-level measurement , signal compensation , humidity monitoring , etc. In order to improve the bend sensitivity of the optical fiber sensors, a segment of the POF cross-sectional profile was removed or increased the structural imperfections [14,16,17,19,20]. However, a POF sensor with structural imperfections may cause stress concentration or structural defects after a long time in service and this results in signal monitoring errors, especially for the POF with tooth shape imperfections. It is known that sensitivity improvment is not obvious for a POF with a bent radius. Thus, how to increase the sensitivity of the sensor with no imperfections in the POF is an important issue. Currently, few publications have investigated the sensitivity of sensors based on cyclic bending [9,23–30]. For example, Yin et al. presented the application of a fiber specklegram sensor (FSS) to fine angular alignment. The results indicated that FSS is highly sensitive to fiber perturbations, due to which the sensitivity measurement increases as the NA of the sensing fiber increases. Kulkarni et al. investigated the use of a novel POF sensor for measuring force in terms of weights. It was shown that increasing the corrugation pitch of the deforming plates enhanced microbend sensitivity. Sanz et al. developed a POF force sensor by placing the POF in a snake-shaped mould. The results indicated that in the absence of force the POF remained undisturbed whereas with an external pressure the fiber inside the mould was stressed. Losada et al. [26–28] showed that the application of strain to multiple curvatures POFs caused a reduction in the bandwidth and an increased power loss. Jiménez et al. explored a plastic optical fiber-based displacement sensor. The sensor was fabricated using a POF wrapped around a flexible cylinder. The results showed that the sensitivity can be improved by predeforming the cylinder or by decreasing its radius. Lomer et al. presented a quasi-distributed level sensor based on an extra attenuation arisen from bending and polishing plastic optical fibers. The level sensor takes advantage of the imperfection and the different revolving spindle to increase the sensitivity.
In this study, a highly sensitive plastic optical fiber displacement sensor (POF displacement sensor) based on cyclic bending is analyzed both experimentally and numerically. The POF sensor is pressed by cylindrical models without surface damage. Dual bending model is used to increase the sensitivity of the POF displacement sensor. The effects of number of rollers, the distance between top and bottom plates, and the interval between two rollers on sensitivity of the sensor are discussed.
2. POF Displacement Sensor Design
In this study, a highly sensitive POF displacement sensor based on cyclic bending is proposed. Figure 1 shows the experimental setup used to measure the power losses of a cyclic bent POF sensor. As shown, the arrangement includes POFs, a cycling bending model, and an optical power meter (Photom, model 205A) with a detector and a light source. In the experiments, the illumination source used is a light-emitting diode (LED) with a central wavelength of 660 nm. The launch NA of the LED is 0.5. As we know, when light goes through a cyclic bent POF, the power loss occurs. The POF specimen used is a step index type SH-4001 fiber (Mitsubishi Rayon Company Ltd.) with a coating diameter of 2.2 mm, a cladding diameter of 1 mm, a core diameter of 0.98 mm, and a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.5. The refractive index of core and cladding are 1.492 and 1.402, respectively. The core, cladding and coating of these POFs are fabricated from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), fluorinated polymer and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), respectively. Figure 1(a,b) shows the configuration of a POF specimen subjected to one cyclic bending and dual cyclic bending, respectively. In the following, they are named as one cyclic bending POF sensor and dual cyclic bending POF sensor, respectively. The dual cyclic bending model is used to improve the sensitivity of the sensor. The first cyclic bending route is from the light source to the one-half cylinder. The second one is from the one-half cylinder to the light detector.
The geometrical model of the POF displacement sensor is shown in Figure 1(c). The parameters studied include the number of rollers (RN), the interval between two rollers (Iroller) and the distance between the two pressing plate (d). As shown in Figure 1(c), the smallest interval in the bending model is limited to 9 mm. If the smallest interval is used in this model, the fiber will sustain a larger plastic deformation and this may result in damage to the core surface. In addition, a larger interval will result in a smaller power loss. In order to investigate the effect of interval on the power loss and avoid smaller power loss, three intervals, i.e., 12 mm, 14.5 mm and 18 mm are discussed in this study. In order to investigate the sensitivity of the POF sensor, different numbers of rollers, from four up to seven, are employed in this study. Although, the diameter of the rollers is an important parameter, a smaller roller radius can cause a plastic deformation and result in residual stress stored in the POF sensor. Thus, a roller with a radius of 4 mm is considered in this study. The rollers are fixed by a V-ditch. The initial distance d0 between the two pressing plates before bending is 13.3 mm. The plate distance d is varied during bending deformation process. A relative displacement Δd is defined as d0 − d. The parallelism between the upper pressing plate and the lower pressing plate also affects the relative displacement. Hence, in these experiments, the upper pressing plate is restricted to move only up and down by four smaller cylinders in four corners of the developed POF sensor to control the parallelism. More than three experimental tests are performed to explore the effect of each parameter on the POF displacement sensor.
3. Results and Discussion
Both the experimental measurement and the numerical analysis are used to explore the sensitivity of the POF displacement sensor. In this study, the bending shape of pressed POF sensor is obtained from an elastic-plastic three-dimensional finite element simulation. The simulations are performed using a commercial finite element package (ABAQUS). The power losses then can be calculated by substituting the deformed POF geometrical dimensions into the optical numerical software-ZEMAX. In the numerical simulation, a 3-D ray tracing model is used. The light input is assumed to be uniformly distributed over the core cross section because the light source used in experiment is a LED. The ray tracing model includes meridional and skew rays. The maximum ray's angle with respect to the fiber center axle is 20°. The power of the POF sensor before and after deformation are denoted as Pi and P0, respectively. Various numbers of rays are selected for the convergence test of the power loss calculation. The power ratio Pi/P0 calculated from the case with ray numbers of


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Astro B [ISAS]
The Astro B (renamed Tenma after launch) X-ray astronomy mission had the following major objectives:
The spacecraft could spin at 0.546, 0.137, or 0.068 rpm with the aid of a momentum wheel. The spin axis was maneuvered by magnetic torquing.
Four experiments were on board of the satellite:
|Type / Application:||Astronomy, X-Ray|
|Power:||4 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries|
|Orbit:||489 km × 503 km, 31.5°|
|Astro B (Tenma)||1983-011A||20.02.1983||Ka LP-M||M-3S|


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The Coosa Riverkeeper's Swim Guide reported a high alert for E. coli in Big Wills Creek on Friday, with moderate readings also being found in Little Canoe Creek and Big Canoe Creek. Big Wills was tested at 248.9 MPN per 100 milliliters. Big Canoe and LIttle Canoe Creeks were tested at 209.8 and 193.5, respectively.
Along with the E. coli reports, the Riverkeeper found several testing sites with low dissolved oxygen levels and high pH readings.
The worst dissolved oxygen readings came from Hatchet Creek Park and Wetumpka at 4.04 and 4.76 milligrams per liter, respectively.
According to the Riverkeeper's website, dissolved oxygen is vital to the wellbeing of fish in the river and can be the first indicator of a fish kill. Bass and bream living in the Coosa need oxygen readings above 5.0
Dissolved oxygen is a result of photosynthesis performed by aquatic plants and algae, as well as the atmosphere. Levels can drop at night and throughout the seasons, but also can be influenced by wastewater from sewage plants, which typically contains organic materials that require microorganisms who consume oxygen to break down.
This week's guide also reported high pH levels at or above 8.50 at Little Canoe Creek, Big Canoe Creek, Lake Gadsden, Rainbow Landing and Ten Islands Park.
The Riverkeeper staff samples water each Thursday throughout late spring and summer and updates their Swim Guide each Friday.
While the staff tests waters at sites all along the Coosa, they test locally at Big Canoe Creek, Canoe Creek Launch, Hokes Bluff Mill Pond, Gadsden Riverfront, Lake Gadsden, Rainbow Landing and Ten Islands Park.
Find this week's Swim Guide and details of the report at _URL_


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"On The Train" is a poem by Gillian Clarke. Its chief subject matter is the Paddington rail crash and its aftermath.
The poem imagines commuters on the train heading towards the "bone-ship" and refers to the anxiety of passengers and loved ones alike in the days following the disaster. Clarke uses the technology of 1999 to ground her poem in reality - the mobile phones of the victims lie in the wreckage of the train while their friends and family frantically try to ring them. She quotes the phrase:
"The Vodafone you are calling
May have been switched off.
Please call later."
This everyday phrase takes on a new, more sinister meaning in context. Clarke concludes the poem by taking a lenient view, post-Paddington, of train passengers who make mobile phone calls - they no longer seem irritating, merely essential for reassuring people that they are still alive.
This poem was written soon after the mobile phone boom of the late 1990s and as such is one of the first comments on the phenomenon. Two years later, mobile phones would again be closely linked with tragedy during the September 11 attacks.
The poem has been included in the AQA Anthology for study at GCSE alongside several other of Gillian Clarke's poems. It is one of a number of Clarke poems - including "A Difficult Birth" and "The Field-Mouse" - that comment on contemporary events alongside the minutiae of Clarke's own life.
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Signals for Safety
Starting with the Acadia National Park quarter, the students will research on the park's website, listen to a text, and discuss the importance of safety signals. The students will create a class list of safety signs and signals and use the "Show Me the Signs and Signals" worksheet to match signs with vehicles. They will create a new safety sign or symbol that can be used at school. They will also write a paragraph comparing a lighthouse to another safety signal.
Acadia National Park Quarter Reverse
United States Map
Show Me the Signs and Signals
The file below contains the lesson plan and all the associated worksheets. When you click on the link, the PDF will open if you have the free Acrobat Reader plug-in installed. Depending on your browser's settings, the lesson plan will open in this tab, in a new tab, or in a new window.
You can then click "File" in the top menu and "Save As" to save the PDF to your hard drive or click "File" and then "Print" to print all the pages on your printer.
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National Register Sites in Illinois
What is the National Register?
What is Listed in the National Register?
Criteria for National Register Listing
A Property's Integrity is Important
A Property's Historic Context is Important
What is the National Register?
Since 1966, when the federal government created the National Register of Historic Places (a program of the National Park Service), thousands of Illinois historic and prehistoric places have been designated as important resources worthy of preservation. Each year more places are added by applicants who want the prestige, financial benefits, and protections that National Register designation provides. Nearly every one of the 102 Illinois counties has at least one property or historic district listed in the National Register. High-style mansions, vernacular houses, burial mounds, military aircraft, canals, and historic downtowns together represent a cross section of the Prairie State's history from its early settlement to the Second World War. (Few sites postdate the war because places nominated to the National Register generally must be at least fifty years old.)
However, many more Illinois places deserve National Register recognition-farmsteads, roadside buildings, houses dating from the 1900s to the 1940s, Depression-era construction projects, and International-Style buildings, to name a few. The Preservation Services division, in its role as state historic preservation office, manages the National Register program for Illinois. Anyone can apply to have a property considered for listing in the Register.
What is listed in the National Register?
If you were asked to list the important historic places in your community, you might name an elegant older home, a structure designed by a famous architect, or a prominent public building. Often those individual buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
But many other important historic resources are eligible for the Register, and we need to look beyond the obvious. It is important to recognize the ordinary places that are reminders of the state's past: barns and silos, water towers, abandoned railroad stations, grain elevators, grocery stores, and roadside motels. Places associated with technology, engineering, and the sciences are also worthy of designation; for example, an eroded stream embankment in Tazewell County is listed because geologists studied the exposed soil layers and formulated new concepts that are now accepted as fundamental to the science of geology.
The National Register includes both individual properties and historic districts. In Illinois there are more than 140 historic districts that encompass dozens of residential neighborhoods, industrial complexes, commercial downtowns, and city parks. Groups of properties that are related to each other through their history or location can also be recorded in the National Register as part of a multiple property documentation form, which establishes a broader historic context for a collection of resources.
Criteria for the National Register
A carefully worded set of criteria is the practical foundation for determining whether historic properties qualify for the National Register. The criteria were purposefully written to recognize the local, statewide, or national significance of thousands of different kinds of places that have made a contribution to America's history.
The criteria are prefaced by the simple idea that the property must physically represent its history by possessing integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. The assessment of historical, architectural, and archaeological significance is guided by four criteria. To be eligible for the Register, a property must qualify under at least one of the following criterion:
- Be associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history
- Be associated with the lives of persons significant in our past
- Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction; represent the work of a master; possess high artistic value; or represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction
- Have yielded, or be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
Several kinds of places-religious properties, birthplaces and graves, cemeteries, reconstructions, commemorative properties, structures that have been moved, and places less than fifty years old-must meet an additional criterion specific to that category. The applicant must provide additional justification for significance beyond the basic four criteria.
Religious properties-churches, synagogues, homes of religious leaders, or places owned by religious organizations-must meet special requirements. First, a religious property must be judged in purely secular terms; its historic significance cannot be established on the merits of religious doctrine. For example, a property may be significant in religious history if it has received secular scholarly recognition. Designation can also be based on architectural or artistic grounds. It is also possible to designate a property where the activities of the religious group are significant in other categories, i.e., exploration, social philanthropy, or education.
Buildings associated with persons who are important only within the context of a single congregation are not likely candidates for the Register. A religious building is more likely to meet the National Register criteria if it is associated with an individual who formed or significantly influenced an important religious institution or movement, or who was important to an area's social, economic, or political history.
Architectural or artistic distinction is required to designate a religious property solely on the merit of its design. It should be evaluated within the context of its architectural style or vernacular type and compared to other properties of its type, period, or method of construction.
A Property's Integrity is Important
When properties are evaluated for potential listing in the National Register of Historic Places, their integrity is an important factor. What is integrity? Every historic property changes over time, and original materials often have been replaced, covered, removed, or altered. Sometimes buildings or objects have been moved to new locations, or additions have been made to them. In some cases, the restoration of the property may have altered its appearance. Each of these changes has an effect on whether the property physically presents an accurate and authentic sense of its past.
A simple question to ask when evaluating a property is: Does it look the way it did when an important person lived there or when an important event took place there? Or, Does it still have the physical materials or essence of design that makes it architecturally or structurally significant? Properties that no longer possess their significant historic features or whose significant historic features have been covered are poor candidates for the National Register; examples are a masonry commercial building covered with a modern metal front, a cemetery with no remaining grave markers, and the site of a building where an important event took place. Places are judged by their current condition, not their likely appearance after rehabilitation.
Archaeological resources must also be assessed for their integrity. Prehistoric or historic archaeological sites must have the potential for intact below-ground features, such as burial remains, foundations, and postholes.
A Properties Historic Context is Important
Applicants to the National Register are asked to research both the specific property being nominated and its historic context. To understand this concept of historic context, the applicant should keep in mind that any prehistoric or historic place-a house, a commercial building, a burial mound, or a shipwreck-is a product of its time. In other words, each was created and functioned within a larger historic framework. For example, we may know the name of every owner of a one-hundred-year-old house and the house's exact dimensions, but if we do not know what architectural style it is or whether there are others like it in the community, then it is impossible to make a judgment about its architectural importance. It is the larger perspective that the National Register requires.
Most properties designated to the National Register possess local-not statewide or national-importance. The applicant must be able to answer questions that place the property in context within its community: How does the property relate to the history of the community? Does it illustrate any themes or trends important to the history of the community? In the case of buildings of architectural importance, what were the historical influences (such as design, materials, style, or function) on the property's appearance? What does the building look like, and why does it look that way?


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sponge (something) off (of) (someone or something)(redirected from sponged something off someone)
sponge (something) off (of) (someone or something)
To beg for, borrow, or obtain something (usually money or food) as a handout from someone or something else. My brother's been sponging money off my parents ever since he dropped out of college. My roommate's nice, but she's always sponging food off of me, and I don't have the heart to tell her to stop.
sponge something off of someone or somethingand sponge something off
to beg or borrow money or food from someone or a group. Please stop sponging food and money off your relatives! Stop sponging off food and money all the time!
1. To wipe or clean the surface of someone or something with or as if with a sponge: After dinner, I cleared all the dishes and sponged off the table. The blackboard was very dirty, so the teacher told me to sponge it off.
2. To live by relying on the generosity of someone else: He sponged off his parents for years because they never insisted that he get a job.
1. in. to drink heavily. She was sponging like there was no tomorrow.
2. n. a drunkard; a tippler. (see also blotter.) She was a spunge, and she wasn't going to do anything about it.
3. n. a parasitic person. Here comes that sponge, Willy. Hide your wallet, pencils, glasses, and any clothes in his size.
sponge off someone
in. to live off someone; to take advantage of someone by taking food and shelter from them without compensation. Go get a job! Stop sponging off me!
mod. thirsty. I gotta get a drink, man. I'm sponged!
See also: sponge


1. Using 3/4-in. flat paintbrush, apply three coats of MagiKote to each ball, ensuring that you coat inside the indentations as well. Allow two-three hours dry time between each coat.
 2. Sand the entire surface to remove any rough edges.
 3. Using 3/4-in. flat paintbrush, paint entire ball Americana White Wash for the baseball and/or soccer ball, and Americana Cadmium Orange for the basketball. Paint a second coat when first has dried.
 4. Use a pencil to lightly draw the lines where the baseball stitches will go. Also draw on the soccer ball sections. After the painting step and the paint has dried, excess pencil marks can be easily erased.
 5. Use liner paintbrush to paint the lines of the basketball and the soccer ball using Americana Lamp (Ebony) Black. Using the same brush, paint the baseball stitches using Americana Berry Red.
 6. Use a flat paintbrush to fill in the black sections of the soccer ball.
 7. Erase any excess pencil marks.
 8. Use 3/4-in. flat paintbrush to add two coats of Starlight Topcoat.
 9. Cut a piece of sturdy string to 12-in. in length. Holding the two open ends together, tie ends in a knots, inserting the head end of a stick pin just before tightening. Insert pointed end of stick pin into the top of the ball. Before pushing the pin all the way in, add a dot of hot glue around the pin, then push the pin all the way in.
 NOTE: If you find that using a marker is easier for you than paint and a liner brush, you can substitute using this method.
Sports DIY Ornaments Craft c/o Country Woman's featured blogger Amanda of Crafts by Amanda.
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Leonard Schlesinger in Action Trumps Everything writes about how entrepreneurs think:
1. They take a small (smart) step forward.
2. Pause to see what they learned by doing so; and
3. Incorporate that learning into what they do next.
Successful entrepreneurs put thinking into action to see if they are right. Then they act again based on what they learned from the prior action. You can't predict the future, especially in the age we live, when technology is rapidly redefining how work is done and the economy is changing people's behavior in unexpected ways. Go with that. You can't map out a comprehensive predictive business blueprint because there are too many variables. Take one small smart step at a time, adjust, and step again. Action informs the business plan. Not the other way around.


2 Replies Latest reply on Jul 20, 2015 6:01 PM by Tim Szekely
 How do I record a broken fibre?
 Samantha Brunnen
 Hi,

 We are have come across a broken fibre in our network and need to record it for future, so we don't use it again. We thought we could assign a circuit to the fibre and call it Broken1 so that we could see it was unavailable, but we found that because the fibre wasn't spliced to anything and wouldn't trace anywhere we couldn't assign a circuit to it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to record broken fibres in a way that is obvious? I don't want to accidentally use the fibres if they are broken.
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 Hi Samantha Brunnen

 Do you currently have a field that tracks availability (available and unavailable)? One idea is to add a third value called "Broken."

 1. In your database properties, find the domain that has the available and unavailable coded values. Add a third value called Broken. In my case, the domain is called Fiber Availability Indicator.
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 2. In order to see the Available field in Connection Manager, it needs the Field Model Name FIBERCONNECTIONDISPLAYFIELD. Find your F_Fiber table in ArcCatalog, and using the ArcFM Properties assign that Field Model Name to the Available field.
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 3. In the map, start editing. Select the cable that contains the broken fiber. Then, in the ArcFM Attribute Editor, find the specific fiber and change its field value to Broken. In my case, the Blue-Orange fiber is broken. Make sure you press the Update button in the Attribute Editor to lock in your edits.
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 4. Because you made the Available field visible (step #2 above), you will see this value in Connection Manager.
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 Does that help?
 - Re: How do I record a broken fibre?
 Tim Szekely
 Hi Samantha,

 Another option, if you've implemented the default data model many of our clients do you may already have a "status" field for each fiber object. Typical options assigned to the field's domain are "lit", "dark", and "defective". I think this field is meant to be used in conjunction with the "Availability" field that Andrew mentioned, so you'd set the strand's availability to "Unavailable" (this action will update the availability count for the parent cable feature) and then specify the strand's status as "defective".

 Tim


EXTREME LED: It was exactly what we hoped for, super!
De Römer V.O.F. is a goat farm that milks 3000 goats at its main site. The animals used for breeding are housed on another site. "Our management system consists of a cycle that is repeated three times a year. That means that we mate and inseminate a number of our does three times a year so every four months we have a cycle when kids are born." explains Jasmijn Strous, farm manager at De Römer V.O.F.
 Goats are seasonal breeders; a correct light climate is essential for optimal production and animal welfare.
BEFORE: In the old situation there was not enough difference between the hours of light and darkness. The general lux levels were structurally low.
The natural rutting season for bucks depends on the time of year; they are seasonal breeders. This means they only start to exhibit rutting behaviour as the days get shorter in autumn.
"Our management system is therefore not always synchronised with the animals' natural cycle. So if we want to mate the does 'out of season' we have to 'trick' the males into believing it is autumn so they can start rutting. We do this by adjusting the number of hours of light and darkness in the barn." explains Jasmijn.
AFTER: Creating a light pattern that replicates the season. Stimulate a fertile period with the help of lighting.
 "Their perception of light is very important for our goats. We have been working towards optimising the fertility of our animals and came up against the light intensity in our barn. We thought there wasn't enough clear difference between the lux levels in the light and dark hours.
We started investigating new lighting systems in our barn for the bucks and found HATO Agricultural Lighting. HATO informed us about their lamps that replicate daylight lux levels, exactly what we wanted to create in our barns. We received a light plan that promised that all the animals would experience 200 lux throughout the building. In the end we were advised to install EXTREME LED to create the ideal light distribution pattern."
AFTER: After we received a light plan we decided to opt for lighting from HATO Agricultural Lighting
"This light plan has optimised the lighting pattern in the barn and we are extremely satisfied with the results; a huge improvement in how our goats experience light; ideal for us and our animals. The bucks are showing a lot of rutting behaviour, which was exactly what we hoped for. Another bonus is that we can clean the lamps with a high-pressure cleaner without having to worry."
We love to receive this kind of feedback; all your stories are welcome! Would you like to share your experiences with our HATO lighting with us? Please contact our sales department; we look forward to hearing what you have to say.
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- a storm or strong wind from the southwest
- a sailor's waterproof coat or hat of oilskin, canvas, etc.: the hat has a brim that broadens in the back to protect the neck
- A storm or gale blowing from the southwest.
- A waterproof hat of material such as plastic, oilskin, or canvas, with a broad brim behind to protect the neck.


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A study of the vapor-and particle-phase sulfur species in the heavy-duty diesel engine EGR cooler
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics; Department of Biological Sciences
To meet future NO, heavy-duty diesel emissions standards, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology is likely to be used. To improve fuel economy and further lower emissions, the recirculated exhaust gas needs to be cooled, with the possibility that cooling of the exhaust gas may form sulfuric acid condensate in the EGR cooler. This corrosive condensate can cause EGR cooler failure and consequentially result in severe damage to the engine. Both a literature review and a preliminary experimental study were conducted. In this study, a manually controlled EGR system was installed on a 1995 Cummins Ml l-330E engine which was operated at EPA mode 9* (1800 rpm and 75% load). The Goksoyr-Ross method (1)* was used to measure the particle-phase sulfate and vapor-phase H2SO4 and SO2 at the inlet and outlet locations of the EGR cooler, obtaining H2SO 4 and SO2 concentrations. About 0.5% of fuel sulfur in the EGR cooler was in the particle-phase. The remaining fuel sulfur was as SO 2 and vapor phase sulfuric acid. The particle phase sulfate concentrations were higher at the outlet location of the EGR cooler indicating conversion of SO2 to sulfate as the exhaust gas is cooled.
SAE Technical Papers
A study of the vapor-and particle-phase sulfur species in the heavy-duty diesel engine EGR cooler.
SAE Technical Papers.
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Harquebusier, 16th century
Caption: Harquebusier, 16th century
Portable firearms such as the one used by this harquebusier became common in European armies during the 16th century although they were complicated to handle and slow to fire. Pikemen, crossbowmen, archers and swordsmen continued to be present on battlefields in the old as well as the new world. Print after Vecellio.