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Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents Space Odyssey will be a VR experience that promises both educational and entertainment values, and will integrate systems similar to that of well known titles such as Minecraft and Civilization. Players will not only be exploring our planetary system, but will be able to make their own as well! They will be able to build their own space ports, mining structures.
Space Odyssey: The Video Game is an upcoming sandbox video game with 4X elements being developed by Space Media Ventures for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android systems, including virtual reality devices, anticipated for release in 2019. The game is being co-developed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and will have some educational aspects as the player designs and grows.Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents: Space Odyssey - we present to your attention quite an interesting game project from the American astrophysicist, doctor of philosophy in physics, writer and not only - Neil Degrasse Tyson. Throughout the gameplay, the player will be engaged in the study of a large number of worlds that have been created by him manually, and the rest of the players, you will have a.Neil DeGrasse Tyson is making a videogame By Andy Chalk 03 October 2016 Renowned astrophysicist and Twitter power user helping design a game called Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents: Space Odyssey.
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PPI Claims – Is It Better To Claim By Yourself Or Use A PPI Company?
This article aims to explore whether or not it is better to claim back ppi on your own, for free OR whether or not it is better to claim ppi through a ppi company.
Claiming back ppi through a claims company.
Claiming back through a company will cost you a fee for the services rendered, however this helps with the process three ways:
 1. The level of expertise carried by the claims handlers is useful in the environment that the banks themselves persist in rejecting claims that should be upheld
 2. It largely automates the process of making a claim, taking the pressure away from the customer so that they can focus on other matters
 3. It provides a method of organised application, that aids the PPI claims process as a whole, as many people in the general domain will have no idea how to proceed on a claim.
 4. The claims company will update you on progress throughout the process of the claim, and this is convenient as most of the clients have day to day work and more important matters to deal with other than the processing of a PPI complaint.
Claiming back PPI on your own
 1. It is free, no fees payable to a claims company
 2. The process may be hindered due to a lack of expertise in the field of PPI claims
 3. There is no point of contact to let you know the progress in relation to your claim, and thus you are required to keep chasing for an update on your complaint.
Whichever way you look at this matter, there is always going to be a "for" and "against" argument.
However it is an irrefutable fact that members of the general public are inexperienced in matters of claiming PPI, the banks are systematically making it easier to submit a claim, but they are also making the claims process slower by delaying the process by rejecting these complaints that are later upheld.
The primary disadvantage of claiming with a company is the fact that there is a fee payable on completion, but it could be argued that this fee is justified given the amount of work required to process these particular types of complaints.
Many people have claimed back PPI without the use of a company, however it often takes much longer to achieve payout due to two main factors:
 1. They often have less time to focus on the completion of this claim.
 2. They simply do not know what to do if a reasonable claim is rejected.
In conclusion there will always be merit and disadvantage to claiming with a company and claiming alone, what matters is you make an informed decision based on your needs and your personal circumstances.
It might be worth contacting a finance company to find out their policy and their process on the completion of these complaints to find out if that suits your particular needs.
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Permissions are created for you in the background by the SDK as you build your application, but they don't seem to have any effects. That's because by default, you're using the "anonymous" security filter and because you're being granted the "all" permission. This chapter shows you how to change that.
This page is an optional addition to the Minicrm Step-by-Step Tutorial and uses it as a starting point.
What is this chapter about?
This chapter is about authorization and authentication.
When creating forms and table pages, the wizards have always created Permission classes in the background:
 - CreateCompanyPermission
 - ReadCompanyPermission
 - UpdateCompanyPermission
 - DeleteCompanyPermission (actually, you will have to create this permission yourself if you implement a delete menu)
We want to create an Administration View where Users get assigned Roles. These Roles have have Permissions. When a user logs in, the appropriate Permissions are loaded.
For this to work, users must be authenticated. We'll add a SecurityFilter to handle this.
This chapter assumes that you're pretty proficient at creating tables, forms and services. No more hand-holding. :)
The Apache Derby example database already contains the following tables:
The PERSON table has a USERNAME column.
Let us create two roles before we get started:
INSERT INTO minicrm.ROLE (role_nr, name) VALUES (1, 'Administrator');
INSERT INTO minicrm.ROLE (role_nr, name) VALUES (2, 'Standard');
If you want to take a look at the database using a command line tool, check this section of the tutorial.
Create a new Lookup Call RoleLookupCall.
The RoleLookupService uses this statement:
 return "" +
 "SELECT ROLE_NR, " +
 " NAME " +
 "FROM ROLE " +
 "WHERE 1=1 " +
 " AND ROLE_NR = :key " +
 " AND UPPER(NAME) LIKE UPPER(:text||'%') " +
 " ";
Person Form
Create a Person Form and a Person Process Service to create and edit persons. Make sure you use the same class names if you want to copy and paste the SQL statements later in this section.
Label Class Name Column Name Type
Name NameField LAST_NAME String
First Name FirstNameField FIRST_NAME
Employer EmployerField COMPANY_NR SmartField (CompanyLookupCall)
Username UsernameField USERNAME String
Roles RolesField USER_ROLE.ROLE_NR ListBox (RoleLookupCall, Grid H 4)
Add a "New Person..." and a "Edit Person..." menu to the PersonTablePage.
protected void execAction() throws ProcessingException {
 PersonForm form = new PersonForm();
 if (form.isFormStored()) {
public void execAction() throws ProcessingException {
 PersonForm form = new PersonForm();
 if (form.isFormStored()) {
Process Service
Here are the SQL statements you will need.
SQL.selectInto("" +
 "FROM PERSON " +
 "INTO :personNr"
 , formData);
SQL.insert("" +
 "VALUES (:personNr, :name, :firstName, :employer, :username)"
 , formData);
SQL.insert("" +
 "VALUES (:personNr, :{roles})"
 , formData);
SQL.selectInto("" +
 " FIRST_NAME, " +
 " COMPANY_NR, " +
 " USERNAME " +
 "FROM PERSON " +
 "WHERE PERSON_NR = :personNr " +
 "INTO :name, " +
 " :firstName, " +
 " :employer, " +
 " :username"
 , formData);"" +
 "WHERE USER_NR = :personNr " +
 "INTO :roles"
 , formData);
SQL.update("" +
 " LAST_NAME = :name, " +
 " FIRST_NAME = :firstName, " +
 " COMPANY_NR = :employer, " +
 " USERNAME = :username " +
 "WHERE PERSON_NR = :personNr"
 , formData);
SQL.delete("" +
 "WHERE USER_NR = :personNr "
 , formData);
SQL.insert("" +
 "VALUES (:personNr, :{roles})"
 , formData);
If you're working in a multilingual environment, this is what it might look like:
Administration Outline
Create the following outline on the client side:
Administration Outline
 ├─Role Table Page
 │ │
 │ └─Permission Table Page
 └─Permissions Table Page
Additional table pages might be useful: which roles use a particular permission? which users have a particular role? These are left as an exercise for the reader.
Invisible Outline?
If you create a new outline in the folder All Outlines you will not see it when you restart the client. You should create a new outline beneath your Desktop instead. The SDK will not only create an outline for you, it will also register it on the Desktop and it will create a button for it.
Permission Table Page and Outline Service
We'll be using this table in two places, thus we need a variable for the role (RoleNr).
If a role is provided, we need a service on the server side to provide these. Create a new outline service (AdministrationOutlineService) with an operation to get all the roles (getPermissionTableData) with a single argument of type Long (roleNr).
public Object[][] getPermissionTableData(Long roleNr) throws ProcessingException {
 return"" +
 "WHERE ROLE_NR = :roleNr "
 , new NVPair("roleNr", roleNr));
If no role is provided, we list all the permissions. These are all available on the client. We don't need service on the server side to fetch them. Thus, on the client side, things look a bit different. Here's execLoadTableData for the newly created PermissionTablePage.
 if (getRoleNr() == null) {
 ArrayList rows = new ArrayList();
 BundleClassDescriptor[] permissions = SERVICES.getService(IPermissionService.class).getAllPermissionClasses();
 for (int i = 0; i < permissions.length; i++) {
 if (permissions[i].getBundleSymbolicName().contains("minicrm")) {
 else {
 // Skip bookmark permissions and other permissions that are not specific to our application
 Object[][] data = new Object[rows.size()][1];
 for (int i = 0; i < rows.size(); i++) {
 data[i][0] = rows.get(i);
 return data;
 else {
 return SERVICES.getService(IAdministrationOutlineService.class).getPermissionTableData(getRoleNr());
Don't forget to create a column for your table page!
This is what you'd like to see:
Minicrm Administration Permissions.png
(Using the Swing client because we will have to create additional menus to switch outlines when using SWT.)
Role Table Page and Outline Service
Create a new table page in the administration outline (RoleTablePage) with two columns (non-displayable RoleNr of type Long and a String column called Role).
If you want to change the order of the child tapes, edit the execCreateChildPages method of the AdministrationOutline.
Add a new service operation to the AdministrationOutlineService called getRoleTableData. This one is very simple:
public Object[][] getRoleTableData() throws ProcessingException {
 return"" +
 "FROM ROLE");
Use it on the execLoadTableData operation of the table page:
 return SERVICES.getService(IAdministrationOutlineService.class).getRoleTableData();
Add the PermissionTablePage as a child to the RoleTablePage. Note how the SDK already guessed that you will want to pass the primary of the current row to the child page:
protected IPage execCreateChildPage(ITableRow row) throws ProcessingException {
 PermissionTablePage childPage = new PermissionTablePage();
 return childPage;
If everything worked as intended, this is how it should look:
Minicrm Administration Roles.png
No data is visible because the permissions haven't been assigned to roles, yet. This will be our next task.
Assigning Permissions to Roles
We will create a menu which calls a tiny form to assign one or more permissions to a role. The form will contain nothing but a smart field with roles.
Let's start with the form.
Create a new form called AssignToRoleForm; do not create am Id (no AssignToRoleNr). On the second page of the wizard, get rid of the ModifyHandler, the ReadAssignToRolePermission and the UpdateAssignToRolePermission.
Add a smart field RoleField using LookupCall RoleLookupCall.
Add a variable of type String called Permission. Now do something which the SDK doesn't do for you: change the type of m_permission from String to String[] and change getPermission and setPermission to match.
Switch to the AssignToRoleProcessService and remove the load and store operations. (You may have to remove them from the interface IAssignToRoleProcessService as well.)
For the moment, there is nothing to do for the prepareCreate operation. For the create operation, use the following statement:
SQL.insert("" +
 "VALUES (:role, :{permission})"
 , formData);
Switch to the PermissionTablePage and add a menu called AssignToRoleMenu


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I found what looks like a bug when using TP on Bricscad 17.2.03.
Steps to Reproduce problem
1.Create a DTEXT and edit it.
2. Insert a Field for example drawing filename.
3. Copy the dtext 2 or three times.
4. Use the Text - paragraph - restack command in TP and follow the prompt to restack the text.
5. I kept "New text height" as Unchanged, selected the first dtext as Base string.
6. I used interline scale factor 5 and then selected the other 3 dtext entities.
7. Restack worked and placed them correctly.
Error : The field in the DTEXT got converted to plain text when it should have remained as a field.

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Smart Fencing Tech: An Evolution in Electric Fencing
Remote sensing, cellular technology give fence managers ability to monitor fences from anywhere
Today, technology in nearly every industry is advancing at an exponential rate and things are no different on the farm and ranch front. Want to keep track of your grazing? There's an app for that. Need to monitor water levels in your stock tanks that are miles away? Satellite radio has you covered. Wondering where ol' Bessie is on the range? Throw a GPS sensor on the old girl and send out your drone for a quick cow check. You can even monitor livestock health with new "smart ear tags" which sense changes in cattle body temperature and movement.
Remote sensing technologies have in short time become the new norm in agriculture, making farm management easier and more efficient than ever. Likewise, in electric fencing, new remote monitoring systems have been developed to help farmers, ranchers, and horse owners monitor fences more closely while saving time and energy. Electric fence managers can now have peace of mind with the 24/7 monitoring capabilities and quick alerts this new technology provides.
What Smart Fencing Tech Does
"Smart fencing" technology uses remote sensing and cellular SMS technology with existing AC energizers to provide real-time alerts about changes in fence power and voltage. Whether dealing with a downed branch or broken insulators, electric fence monitoring systems, such as Zareba® System's Intelligizer Fence Monitor, protect fences by detecting drops in voltage and power loss. Users are notified via text alert within seconds when voltage drops below a preset level. And, the Intelligizer's ability to program an auto shutoff safety mode ensures animals are safe.
In addition to the monitoring and safety benefits, some smart fencing models also come equipped with perks like remote on/off features. For example, by sending a simple text, farmers can effortlessly turn Zareba's Intelligizer on or off to repair fences fast and easily.
Three distinct smart fencing systems are currently available on the market today. These include the Intelligizer Fence Monitor by Zareba®, the Fence-Alarm from Farm Alert, and Gallagher's iSeries Fence Energizer Systems, which does not feature cellular technology, only local system communication. Each device is equipped to send notifications of low voltage and sudden voltage drops, as well as power loss alerts and remote status updates. However, each model is not created equal. Check out the comparison chart below to see the major differences in the different brands mentioned earlier.
How Smart Fencing Tech Can Help You
So why use smart fencing technology? For starters, it's relatively simple to install. Just hook up the fence monitor to your existing AC charger and in a few steps you're on your way. Some models may require additional equipment such as ground rods, a battery, or SIM Card to make the monitor fully capable. Additionally, smart fencing systems are compatible with a variety of cellular providers and devices. Some even offer the capability for multiple users to receive text alerts. Consult our comparison guide to determine which model works best for your particular situation.
Along with its ease of use and wide functionality, smart fencing systems offer users such as livestock producers, horse owners, and small acreage farmers reassurance unlike any other electric fencing accessory can on the market today. The ability to know the exact moment when fence problems arise empowers animal owners to protect their investments in a better way. Repairs are made more swiftly, animals are safer and more secure, and in the end, fence managers are able to work smarter, which means more time to focus on the things that matter.
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Alice Maze is a very hard online maze puzzle game.
Game play is easy, you start Alice maze on the red square, and your current position is always shown in red. You must make a series of moves that will take you to the goal. Begin each move by following one of the arrows in the red square, travel in a straight line for a distance equal to d, and then click on the square where your move ends.
When the maze begins, d equals 1. When you land on a square with a red arrow, 1 is added to d. When you land on a square with a yellow arrow, 1 is subtracted from d. Two of these mazes have blank squares, which you may not land on. There are twenty different mazes to solve. Happy Puzzling!
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Wedding Guests and Circular Permutations
In a wedding banquet, guests are seated in circular table for four. In how many ways can the guests be seated?
We have learned that the number of permutations of n objects on a straight line is n!. That is, if we seat the four guests Anna, Barbie, Christian, and Dorcas, on chairs in on a straight line they can be seated in 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1 = 24 ways (see complete list).
However, circular arrangement is slightly different. Take the arrangement of guests A, B, C, D as shown in the first figure. The four possible seating arrangements are just a single permutation: in each table, the persons on the left and on the right of each guest are still the same persons. For example, in any of the tables, B is at the left hand side of A and D is at the right hand side of A. In effect, the four linear permutations ABCD, BCDA, CDAB, and DABC are counted as one in circular permutation. This means that the number of linear permutations of 4 persons is four times its number of circular permutations. Since the number of all possible permutations of four objects is 4!, the number of cirular permutations of four objects is \frac{4!}{4}.
This is also similar with circular permutations of three objects. Since the number of permutations of three objects is 3!, the number of circular permutations of three objects is \frac{3!}{3}.
The observation above can be generalized. Notice that the circular permutations in both figures are just the rotations of the guests about the table. Rotating the guests without swapping their positions pairwise does not change the permutation since the person the right and left of each person will still be the same person after the rotation. This means that if there are 8 persons seated, they can be rotated 7 times giving us 8 possible seating arrangements (includes the initial position). So, we have \frac{8!}{8} circular permutations of 8 guests.
In general, given n number of objects, there are
\displaystyle\frac{n!}{n}
circular permutations.
But
\displaystyle\frac{n!}{n} = \frac{n(n-1)(n-2) \cdots (2)(1)}{n}.
Simplifying the equation above, we have
(n-1)(n-2) \cdots (2)(1) = (n-1)!.
Therefore, the number of circular permutations of n objects is (n - 1)!
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In the Child Language and Math Lab at Wilfrid Laurier University, we focus on questions of language and mathematical development. For instance, how does a child learn to talk? How does language facilitate math learning? These are very intriguing questions, and children surely know a great deal about language before they actually talk to us. By observing how our young children listen and respond to language and math stimuli, they can tell us what they really know about language and mathematics. Please look around our website to learn more about what we do and how you can become involved.
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Gil Kalai Sep 26 '11 at 12:10
OK, I'll have a look at it and see if the method can be applied to the stronger statement. – Pascal Maillard Sep 26 '11 at 12:59
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Midway Problem (a reformulation only)
This is not an Answer. Start with a 2n x2n grid graph. all edges length one, all even pairs linked.
The "both even" numbered vertices are "the original graph". Add (x odd, y even) vertices half the time. Add (x even, y odd) vertices the time. The (odd, odd) vertices are always out. Seems a decent starting point. Point Midway is now (n+1, 0), and in the graph half of the time.
The two questions may then be:
Strongest question, as n grows: Show with probability approaching one that the set of all shortest paths between (0,0) and (2n,0) almost never contains Midway.
Weaker question, as n grows: Show with probability approaching one that there is a shortest path
between (0,0) and (2n,0) that does not contain Midway.
They may even have different answers, unless the shortest path has "uniqueness" properties. So again, this is not an answer.
But, the fractions are gone, and the edge lengths are all one!
Apologies for the initial typo. Is this variation more accessible?
The Far Corner variant of Midway, with an exclusion somewhere, may be easier for purists; but again, I do not know the answer (Nor even close). Propertys of shortest path sets from (0,0) to (2n,2n) may shed light on the axial case. Some small variety of forbidden minor, behaving as Midway, may be worthy of considering. I would try constant sized cycles.
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That's an interesting variation of the problem that might be easier. When you say add (x odd y even) hald the time do you mean with probability 1/2? I suppose also the (x even y odd) vertices are also added half the time. that's interesting. – Gil Kalai Jan 31 '10 at 16:52
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How to Make a Solar System in Little Alchemy 1
Little Alchemy is a popular game where players combine different elements to create new items and unlock new combinations. One of the most fascinating and educational combinations in this game is making a solar system. In this article, we will guide you step by step on how to make a solar system in Little Alchemy 1.
Step 1: Start with the Basic Elements
To create a solar system, you need to start with the basic elements available in Little Alchemy. These elements include air, earth, fire, and water. Combine these elements to create more complex items and unlock new combinations.
Step 2: Create the Sun
The sun is the central object of our solar system. Combine fire and earth to create lava. Then combine lava with air to create stone. Finally, combine stone with fire to create the sun. Congratulations, you have successfully created the sun!
Step 3: Make the Planets
Now, let's move on to creating the planets in our solar system. Combine earth and earth to create land. Combine land with land to create continent. Combine continent with continent to create planet. Repeat this process until you have created all the planets of the solar system.
Step 4: Add the Moon
No solar system is complete without a moon. To create the moon, combine sky and stone. This will give you the moon, a celestial object that orbits around a planet. You can place the moon around any planet you desire.
Step 5: Arrange the Planets
Once you have created all the planets and the sun, it's time to arrange them in the correct order. In our solar system, the planets are arranged in the following order from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Place the planets in this order around the sun to complete your solar system.
Step 6: Explore the Solar System
Now that you have successfully created a solar system in Little Alchemy, take a moment to explore and learn about each planet. Click on each planet to read interesting facts and information about it. Little Alchemy provides an interactive and educational experience for players to learn about the solar system.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
1. Can I create a solar system with different planets?
Yes, you can create a solar system with any planets you desire. Little Alchemy allows you to personalize your combinations and create unique solar systems.
2. Can I create other celestial objects like comets or asteroids?
Unfortunately, Little Alchemy 1 does not include specific combinations for comets or asteroids. However, you can always experiment with different elements to see if you can create similar objects.
3. Can I add more than one moon to a planet?
In Little Alchemy 1, you can only add one moon to each planet. If you try to add a second moon, it will replace the previous one.
4. How many elements are there in Little Alchemy 1?
Little Alchemy 1 has a total of 560 elements that you can combine to create various items, including the solar system.
5. Can I create other celestial objects like stars or galaxies?
Little Alchemy 1 focuses on creating the solar system, so it does not include combinations for stars or galaxies. However, there are other versions of the game, such as Little Alchemy 2, that may include these elements.
6. Can I create a working solar system with orbits and rotations?
Little Alchemy is a simple game that does not simulate complex movements like orbits and rotations. It provides a basic representation of the solar system for educational purposes.
7. Can I create a solar system with different sizes for each planet?
Little Alchemy 1 does not provide options to resize the planets. Each planet will have the same size when created.
In conclusion, creating a solar system in Little Alchemy 1 is an enjoyable and educational experience. By following the steps outlined in this article, you can successfully create a solar system and explore the wonders of the universe within the game's universe. Have fun experimenting and unlocking new combinations!


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|Title||ACCURATE CALCULATION OF CORE-ELECTRON BINDING-ENERGIES BY THE DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL METHOD|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||1995|
|Journal||Chemical Physics Letters|
|Type of Article||Article|
|Keywords||APPROXIMATION, ATOMS, BASIS-SETS, EXCHANGE-ENERGY|
Using a basis set of atomic natural orbitals of valence triple-zeta plus double polarization quality, the core-electron binding energies (CEBEs) of HF, H2O, N-2 and CO were computed by the deMon density-functional program with a combined functional of Becke's exchange (B88) with Perdew's correlation (P86). Of four different versions of the transition-state method tested, the unrestricted generalized transition-state (uGTS) model showed most promise. Two other functionals were tested but found to be inferior to the B88/P86 combination. The molecules HCN, CO2 and H2CO were added in the comparative study of basis set convergence. The best procedure found (the uGTS model using B88/P86 functional with Dunning's cc-pV5Z basis set) was applied to other molecules. The average deviation from experiment for 20 computed CEBEs is 0.23 eV.
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from both the sender's sent message list and the receiver's received
message list. There is only one copy of each direct message, and either
person involved in the exchange can remove it.
You can only destroy what has first been created. If you send a request to delete a
received message using an invalid ID, Twitter will let you know it can't do it: "No direct
message with that ID found" (see "Hash Objects" on page 209).
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Surprisingly, there is no method that allows you to retrieve a single direct message. One
might expect something like this to work:
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Attempting such a request, however, results in the following response from the API:
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redirected.
That means if you want to get information on a particular message, you have to either
page through the full list until you find it, or delete it and get the single direct-message
data object one last time.
The lack of functionality in this part of the API may be one reason why
more applications haven't developed tools to manage direct messages.
Member Account
One area where third-party development has helped change the API is in making
changes to a member's profile. Twitter added the Update Member Location method,
for example, after a need for it materialized with the iPhone: developers wanted to be
able to leverage the geocode information to pinpoint a user's location at any given
moment, and a method was needed to facilitate this update. The creation of that
method changed the value of that open text field, in turn, since it now reflected where
certain users were at a particular moment in time, rather than where they chose to call
home.
This section covers all the functions available through the Twitter API to help manage
a Twitter member's account.
Update Member Location
For a long time, one of the few profile changes you could make through the API was
to set your location. Prior to this method being added to the arsenal, the only way to
change this text was to log into the Twitter website and manually edit your account
settings there. That was before the iPhone, BrightKite, and other location-aware systems started integrating with Twitter.
The Update Member Location method allows you to change the location field in the
authenticated user's profile through the API:
_URL_
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This method has one required parameter, location, which contains the new text you
want to place on your user profile, replacing whatever is currently in the location field.
At the time of this writing, the location is simply text. Twitter makes no
attempt to normalize the content or turn everything into geocodes or
latitude and longitude values. The applications that use this method
likely pass valid geocode data, but there is nothing to validate or verify
it in the API.
Omitting the location parameter will result in the current location being reset to an
empty string, rather than generating an error. The short-form user profile data object
returned by the API indicates success.
This method has been deprecated in favor of the Update Member Profile
method, which contains an optional parameter for location. To keep
your application from breaking in the future, you should avoid using
update_location.
Update Member Profile
Many other bits of information are displayed on the member profile pages on the Twitter website. This method allows you to change some of that information through the
API:
_URL_
All of the parameters for this method are related to fields found under the "Account"
tab of the Settings page on the Twitter website. Only specified parameters will result
in updates to the profile. A user object is returned with the new information to indicate
success (see "User Objects" on page 192).
You are supposed to include at least one parameter. However, even if
you fail to do so, you will still get a user object, making the request act
like an authenticated users/show method.
This method allows for several parameters, including location (to update the user's
location, which used to be handled through the deprecated method discussed in the
preceding section). You can also adjust the full name of the account holder (name), the
URL pointing to a company or personal web page (url), the email address associated
with the account (email), and the short text statement about the account holder
(description). Length limits of between 40 and 160 characters are imposed, depending
on the parameter.
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In addition to being valid, the email address must also be unique. You
cannot assign an email address to an account if it is already being used
by another account.
Update Profile Colors
Although the number of tweets posted from the Twitter website has decreased to under
50% of the full archive, most active users visit the main website on a regular (perhaps
even daily) basis to check out the profiles of new followers. Not surprisingly, an eye for
design is on the rise. The trend began in 2008 with a Photoshop template that was
virally distributed to extend the profile information by using a background image. Later
that year, Twitter added themes to allow members to differentiate their web pages'
appearances, even if they didn't want to go as far as designing a custom look. Every
day, the visuals matter a little more.
The Update Profile Colors method lets you make changes to the color scheme used on
your member page. The five available parameters are the same ones you would find
under the "Design" tab on the Settings page of the main website. The "change design
colors" link at the bottom of that page reveals fields to control the color of the profile
background (profile_background_color), text (profile_text_color), links
(profile_link_color), sidebar shading (profile_sidebar_fill_color), and border
(profile_sidebar_border_color). This method accepts parameters to change the values
of each of those fields:
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All values have to be sent as hexadecimal, either the short (fff) or long (ffffff) form.
Because this method deals with changing things on the Twitter server, it requires a
POST and is not charged against your rate limit. The method returns a user object with
the new information (see "User Objects" on page 192).
Use the hexadecimal values only, not the hash (#) used on the website.
If you include the hash, you will get an "Invalid hex color" error.
Changing the background color will not necessarily lead to that color being seen. If the
account already has a background image in place, the web page will use that instead;
the background image has to be removed before a change to the background color will
be visible.
Twitter themes take precedence when you are editing the appearance
of the profile page. Even if the API shows the account with white text,
the web page may still show the theme's text color in the web form. This
behavior goes away when the background image is removed.
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Update Background Image
One of the early e-business ventures dealing with advertising on Twitter was Twittads (_URL_). This company allows individuals to set a price for how much
their Twitter profiles are worth and sell ads to display as their background images for
a given period of time. This method can be used to automate that process, switching
the advertising for you to make sure it gets done.
This method accepts a required image parameter to set the authenticating member's
theme with a new background graphic:
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The image parameter expects the raw multipart data as its value, not simply a URL
linking to an existing file—even though that is what you get from Twitter in the user
object XML that is returned (see "User Objects" on page 192). The graphic can be in
GIF, JPG, or PNG format. The background image can have a maximum of 2,048 pixels
and the file must be smaller than 800 KB. The file size is a firm limit, but larger pixel
sizes will be scaled down to fit.
Some initial problems with GIF formats were reported in Twitter Developers Talk discussions. You may get better results by using PNG and
specifying the mime type.
The background image on a member's profile page can be displayed as a fixed image
attached to the upper-left corner of the browser window, or it can be tiled, which means
the image is repeated again and again to fill the entire window. You currently have to
go back to the website to check a box for tiling, and unless you replace it with another
file through the API, visiting the site is also the only way to remove a background image.
At the time of this writing, Twitter doesn't provide a way through the API to either
remove a background picture or have the site tile it.
It may be a good programming strategy for your application if you keep
a local copy of the default image used by Twitter, as well as check the
existing profile configurations. That way, you can easily use the API to
restore the profile to its previous state.
In late 2008, Twitter Patterns (_URL_)—a site by designer Natalie
Jost of olivemanna—launched with a gallery of high-quality downloadable background
images for users to upload to Twitter. Although as of this writing no tools are available
to create custom themes, it isn't much of a leap to believe that these newest API methods
that facilitate changing the design of Twitter profile pages will lead to support for


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Using dynamic queries in the Content Presenter
In the past I already talked a lot about the Content Presenter. It is very powerful to display content in all sorts of way. It can interact with Site Studio elements and it is easy to use by using its wizard.
One of the hidden gems of the content presenter is not the wizard but the plain old input parameters you would expect from a taskflow. The wizard everybody uses to configure the content presenter is just a facade to hide the complexity of those input parameters. In most cases this is sufficient but when you want to do more complex things, you would soon bump into issues by using the wizard.
Suppose that you want to display a list of news items from different categories and display a filter so the user can select their preferred category. There is no way of doing this by using the normal way. You would need to introduce a parameter in the query of the content presenter.
In this example I will explain how it is done. You can download the example application from here.
In order to make this work, you have to add a custom metadata field to UCM: xCategory. This field will be used in our query to filter on the category the user wants.
In the application you can find a news.jspx page which has 3 buttons. One that will display all the news items, one for the sport items and one for the normal news items:
 1. <af:commandButton text="All" id="cmdAll"
 2. partialSubmit="true">
 3. <af:setActionListener from="#{true}"
 4. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.news}"/>
 5. <af:setActionListener from="#{true}"
 6. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.sport}"/>
 7. </af:commandButton>
 8. <af:commandButton text="Sport" id="cmdSport"
 9. partialSubmit="true">
 10. <af:setActionListener from="#{true}"
 11. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.sport}"/>
 12. <af:setActionListener from="#{false}"
 13. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.news}"/>
 14. </af:commandButton>
 15. <af:commandButton text="News" id="cmdNews"
 16. partialSubmit="true">
 17. <af:setActionListener from="#{true}"
 18. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.news}"/>
 19. <af:setActionListener from="#{false}"
 20. to="#{pageFlowScope.newsBean.sport}"/>
 21. </af:commandButton>
As you can see, these buttons don't have a direct actionListener but they use the setActionListener to invoke a setter from a property of my managed bean. By doing this, we know which items to display and we can build the query.
The query is a CMIS query. CMIS resembles to a normal SQL so the syntax should be familiar if you know SQL. I explained a little bit more about CMIS in another post
The dynamic query will also be build in the NewsBean:
 1. public String getNewsQuery(){
 2. String query = "SELECT * FROM ora:t:IDC:GlobalProfile WHERE ora:p:xCategory in (\'dummy\' ";
 3. if(news){
 4. query += ", \'news\' ";
 5. }
 6. if(sport){
 7. query += ", \'sport\'";
 8. }
 9. query += ")";
 10. System.out.println("new query: " + query);
 11. return query;
 12. }
As you can see, depending on the state of the news and sport boolean, we add them to the query.
The next thing is to provide this query to the content presenter.
When you take a look at the bindings of the news.jspx page, you will see that I use following values for the content presenter input parameters:
 - datasourceType: ${'dsTypeQueryExpression'} which tells the content presenter that the datasource is a CMIS query.
 - datasource: ${pageFlowScope.newsBean.newsQuery} which is a reference to the getNewsQuery method that will generate the query
I'll come back to the tempalteView in a minute...
Also notice that the Refresh attribute of the content presenter is set to ifNeeded. This is required for the taskflow to refresh when you press one of the 3 buttons.
When you run this without specifying a templateView, the content presenter will use the default one. When you are using a CMIS query in the datasource, the content presenter will know that he has to use a multiple items template because the query can return multiple items. This will result that you will get a list of links from all the items returning in the query:
Let's say that all of these items are wiki documents than you want to display the actual content instead of a link. This can be easily done by creating a content presenter template for multiple items that uses the default view for single items:
 1. <dt:contentListTemplateDef var="nodes">
 2. <af:panelGroupLayout id="pnlContent" layout="vertical">
 3. <af:iterator id="it" var="node" value="#{nodes}">
 4. <dt:contentTemplate node="#{node}"
 5. nodesHint="#{nodes}" id="content"/>
 6. <af:spacer height="10px" id="spC"/>
 7. </af:iterator>
 8. </af:panelGroupLayout>
 9. </dt:contentListTemplateDef>
As you can see, nothing fancy. The most important part is that we include the single item template without specifying a templateView. This is because than it will use the default one being the one that displays the actual content.
When you run this, you will see that the actual content will be displayed:
You also have to make sure that the content presenter template is not hidden in the resource manager. Otherwise it will default back to the regular one with the links so if you have created the content presenter template and assigned it to the taskflow, make sure to check the content presenter templates in runtime to see if its stats is set to shown:
You can also do the exact same at runtime! So let's create a new page at runtime and add an empty content presenter on it:
Now instead of opening the wizard, open the properties by clicking on the wrench in the gray box:
In the data source dropdown you can select Query Expression which will tell the content presenter that the data source field will contain a CMIS query.
Now you can specify whatever query you want in the Data Source. Let's say we want to make a sports page and only display the sport items. We can use following value:
What makes this even more powerful is the fact that you can use Expression Language in the data source field so that query can also be dynamic.:
So as you can see, the content presenter is really powerful. Even more than you might think!
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Hi Yannick,
great blog thansk for sharing,
i have one doubt about scope. why we need to register our bean in page flow scope i tried other scope like request and session but nothing is displayed.
so wanted to understand why pgae flow scope is requied.
Because in this example the CP instance has its own requests so the request from the page is a different one from the CP. That's why you cannot use the request scope.
I'm not sure why session scope does not work... It should work though.
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When graphing a tangent transformation, start by using a theta and tan(theta) t-table for -pi/2 to pi/2. In the case of y=Atan(Bx) or y=Atan(B(x-h)), define Bx or B(x-h) to be equal to theta and solve for x. Now use this equation to create a x and Atan(Bx) or Atan(B(x-h)) table, which will give coordinate pairs to plot.
The previous episode, I graphed the tangent function between 0 and pi over 2. Now I want to extend that graph to the left and to the right, and I'm going to need some facts from before. First of all I have a table of values that I found before. Tangent of 0 is 0, tangent of pi over 4 is 1 and tangent of pi over 2 is undefined. And this is what gives us that vertical asymptote at x equals pi over 2. I also need 2 facts. The identity tangent of -x equals negative tangent x and that tangent has period pi. Now this this fact means that if you take at 2 inputs that have opposite values you get opposite outputs.
So, for example if I plug negative pi over 4 into tangent, I get the opposite output -1. For tangent's an odd function. Of course the opposite of 0 is 0 gives me the opposite output which is also 0 and the opposite input negative pi over 2, it's just it's still going to be undefined. And this helps me complete a single period of tangent functions. Let's go back here and pi over 4, I'm going to have -1 and I'm going to have an asymptote at negative pi over 2, just like I have with pi over 2. So let me draw that really quickly. And I complete the graph like so. Now this gives me one period of tangent because the period of tangent is pi. So I want to duplicate this here and here, at least 2 more periods.
Now let's observe that the key points that I have here, negative pi over 4 -1, 0 0, and pi over 4 1, all line up. So it's really easy to draw them over and over again. They would go here and here. And once you've got them drawn it's super easy to draw the tangent curve. Just remember the shape. And then you can put your asymptotes on. There are going to be asymptotes every pi units. This asymptote is at 3 pi over 2, this one's at -3 pi over 2. That's the great thing about periodic functions because they're periodic, once you have one cycle drawn you just duplicate that cycle as many times as you need to.
So here I have 3 full periods of the tangent function and now that I have that, I can actually apply transformations to the tangent function which I'll do in future episodes.


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Referenced Document has non-matching Internal ID
When opening assemblies, users sometimes get a message saying the referenced document has a non-matching internal ID. Let's explore why this occurs and how to remedy the issue.
What's an internal ID?
The internal ID is a number that is automatically generated and assigned to any part you create in SOLIDWORKS. This is not viewable or changable by the user. Once created, the internal ID will remain the same throughout the life of that part.
If you rename the part, the internal ID will remain the same. If you create a copy of the part and give it a different name, both files will have the same internal ID. If two files have non-matching internal IDs, it means they have the same name but different internal IDs. This means they were created independently of each other and are most likely not identical files.
Still confused? Here's an example.
When Part B is created from Part A, both parts will have the same Internal ID. Also, Parts A and B will share the exact same topology. This means swapping A out for B in an assembly typically goes much smoother because the face names (topology) match up. This is also very useful for design automation products such as DriveWorks or TactonWorks.
When Part B is created independently from Part A, they will have different internal IDs. Unless the files are purposefully built identically, they will most likely not share the same topology.
For instance, one may be started on the front plane while the other may be started on the right plane. The resulting solid geometry may be identical, but the part topology is different. Swapping A out for B in this instance will likely require the mates to be reworked in the assembly.
What you can do to fix it:
When you open an assembly and it informs you the internal IDs are different, you must decide whether this is the correct part or not.
Option #1: Is the referenced file in the correct location? Is the path shown in the dialog the expected location for this file? If not, select "Let me browse for the original file" and select the correct file. You may also want to determine why you have multiple versions of the same part number in the vault.
Option #2: If the file is in the correct location, was the file replaced with a more current file? If so, click "Use this file anyway" and the assembly will open with the file. Check the mates for the part to make sure they are correct. In most cases, they will not be unless the files were created identically on purpose.
Option #3: At this stage, depending on how the parts were created, the assembly may blow up. If it does blow up, close the assembly without saving. Reopen the assembly, and when prompted to use the file or not, select the "Open without this document" option. Once the assembly is open, you can delete the suppressed part from the tree and add it back in using the Insert Components dialog.
After opening the assembly with the correct part, you will need to save the assembly to update the file references. Once the assembly is saved with the new part it should recognize the internal ID from then on.


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Modeling oil spill risk in Washington waters
This model is part of a package of measures passed by the Legislature in 2019 to reduce the risk of oil spills and protect Southern Resident Killer Whales.
The model will be a long-term asset for Ecology to analyze oil spill risks and the potential effectiveness of oil spill prevention, preparedness, and response strategies. As part of this work, we are consulting with tribes and stakeholders to develop modeling assumptions and scenarios, and to periodically update the model.
The Legislature directed Ecology to use the model to complete two assessments:
- A quantitative assessment of whether an emergency response towing vessel (ERTV) serving Haro Strait, Boundary Pass, Rosario Strait, and connected navigable waterways will reduce oil spill risk.
- An analysis of tug escorts for oil tankers, articulated tug barges, and towed oil barges to be completed with the Washington State Board of Pilotage Commissioners.
Reports on the results of these first two assessments are due to the Legislature by Sept. 1, 2023.
Marine transportation systems are very complex. As a result, it can be difficult to compare the relative benefits of different safety measures just by analyzing historical data. A modeling approach will help us leverage our knowledge about the past into insights about what might happen in the future.
To build the model, we will use existing knowledge and data on vessel behavior, including historical frequency of incidents and accidents. Once the model is built, we can test future scenarios against that historical backdrop to provide insight into oil spill risk in different scenarios.
Our modeling project is in the beginning phases, and many aspects of the model have yet to be decided. However, certain components are common to many marine transportation models:
- Information about the local waterway
- Depth of the water
- Frequency of low visibility conditions
- Local tidal currents
- Information about the vessels operating in the area
- Cargo and fuel capacity
- Incident or accident likelihood
- Historical rates for accidents like collisions and groundings
- Historical rates for incidents like loss of propulsion or near misses
- Estimated spill volume
- Oil outflow based on things like vessel design, fuel tank location, type of accident, etc.
Why it matters
More than 20 billion gallons of crude oil and refined petroleum products are transported through Washington each year by vessel, pipeline, and rail. A major spill in Washington waters could have severe consequences to the environment, economy, public health, and cultural and historical resources.
Our new modeling capability will provide tools to consider current and future oil spills risks, and the potential effectiveness of safety measures.


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Cooling down with nanodiamonds in your clothes
Researchers at RMIT in Australia created smart textiles that can help people cool down faster, using nanodiamonds.
Nanodiamonds are not the same as diamonds used in jewellery. They are cheap to make, cheaper than other carbon materials like graphite oxide. Nanodiamonds have a carbon lattice structure, but are much smaller in size and can be made of waste materials.
In their study, the researchers found that fabric made from cotton coated with nanodiamonds, using a method called electrospinning, showed a reduction of 2-3 degrees Celsius during the cooling down process compared to untreated cotton. In addition, the nanodiamonds increase the UV protection of cotton.
The side of the fabric with the nanodiamond coating touches the skin. The nanodiamonds then transfer the air from the body to the air.
While 3 degrees Celsius may not sound like much, according to the researchers, it could make the difference between turning the air conditioning on or not. This could save up to 30 per cent energy.
The study also shows potential to explore how nanodiamonds can be used to protect buildings from overheating, which can lead to additional environmental benefits.
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Fife estate's street lights could illuminate new way to save millions from household electricity bills
A glenrothes housing estate is being hailed as the site of a breakthrough in the quest for a "smart grid" that will reduce network losses of electricity, saving millions of pounds for consumers.
Network waste is estimated by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) at £3 billion a year in the UK, mainly through "copper losses" (heat in the cable), and theft. As the cost is borne by consumers rather than suppliers, power companies have so far lacked incentives to tackle the issue.
The Glenrothes pilot project, part of Fife Council's Light Fife Green initiative to cut spending and carbon emissions on street lighting, has been a test bed for power line carrier (PLC) technology which transmits data along electricity lines.
The pilot uses two-way communications between pillars and substations to measure the energy saved by dimming the lights, giving a detailed picture of how much power is being used.
The technology – whose principal could potentially also be applied to water and gas – has been pioneered by Hugh Smeaton, the retired Glasgow-born electronics entrepreneur behind multi-million-pound turnover Scots technology companies Fotronic and Linberg. Smeaton, 78, is best known as the developer of Eftpos, the base technology behind the Switch card.
Angus Broadhurst, Fife Council's head of lighting, working with Edinburgh-based metre supplier MeterLink, has installed roadside meters supplying up to 120 lamp posts. A "local data concentrator" (LDC) collects the data from the "master pillars" and allows two-way communications between lighting control in the region and the master pillars. Two-way control opens the possibility of timed dimming of the lights, controlled by smart meters.
Scottish Power, electricity supplier to Fife Council, has agreed to install LDCs in a substation, allowing them to meter up to 40 pillars at once, a UK first.
Smeaton said: "Scotland has a world lead in monitoring the load on low-voltage networks, the key to understanding losses. This is the first step towards tackling network losses which can be as much as 50% in developing countries. This makes power cuts less likely, and in the UK would mean that would we would need fewer wind farms and less fossil-fuel generation, as we would have less wastage to feed."
The entrepreneur has been in talks with Hungarian government agencies with a view to equip the model high-tech village of Aba, southwest of Budapest with technology to meter electricity, water and gas.
If it is proved worthwhile, the Hungarians will roll the technology out across the country, and export it elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Smeaton has also agreed a deal with Irish street lighting company SELC to develop new technology that combines meters and the means to control lighting levels remotely.
Broadhurst said: "Meters aren't commonplace because the cost of installing them [individually] would be prohibitive. That's why Hugh Smeaton's concept has possibilities for us. What he's proposing is that the meter gives you a communicating system that feeds the data back to a central point allowing you to calculate losses."
Smeaton added: "Up until recently meter manufacturers did not record the voltage [electrical pressure] in the current range of smart meters. The lack of knowledge of the pressure at the consumers' meter has made it impossible to analyse the current flowing in low-voltage networks worldwide."
He said that if using techniques similar to those used to find losses in electrical networks, it should be possible to trace gas and water leaks by monitoring pressure at their metering points.
"The first thing doctors do is check blood pressure when illness occurs. Utility networks are identical: by monitoring the pressure on their networks as the product enters the consumer's premises the health of the network - can be checked."
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text: Artificial intelligence in NM-protein interactions. The future translational applications of nontechnology in human body will greatly be influenced by NM-protein interactions. Exploring the instinctive and automatic prediction of nanosurface interactions with protein using machine learning will help in estimating the risk profiles of using NM and also the feedback can guide us designing the desired NM that facilitates beneficial interactions. The unique NM features ((a) size, shape, granularity, pH, etc.) that are hypothesized to contribute to NM-protein interactions could be considered as (a nonrigid set of) "input feature vectors" restoring the knowledge from available experimental data (b). The set of features can then be trained against appropriate target functions to build machines (c). Different combination of features needs to be attempted till optimization. This could give us a hypothesis as to whether or not (or in what extent) the NM will interact with specific/nonspecific proteins (d). A successful endeavour of this exercise should further be taken into the prediction and design of beneficial nanoprotein interactions. It should be noted with care that the training and cross-validation of such machine learning based predictors is a long-term exercise falling under continuous evaluation (on new and updated datasets as they get available) demanding an ever-increasing accuracy until it is "adequate" (e).


The planets and the economy
Specific sectors of a country's economy and its general economic trends are ruled and influenced by the planets and houses in a global chart.
Jupiter rules the financial, banking and business sectors and Saturn rules work, the workforce, natural resources and the farming and mining sectors.
House 2 rules a country's finances; house 6 rules its workforce and labor; and house 10 rules its business sector.
Jupiter and Saturn
Jupiter rules the world's financial system.
He's the planet of capitalism, business, profits, wealth, prosperity, economic growth and luxury items.
He has goods and services to sell and he wants you to buy them.
He's the planet of higher prices.
Saturn rules the workers.
He's the planet of economy and he's very price sensitive.
He's the consumer who wants to buy things at the cheapest possible price.
When he withdraws demand Jupiter's prices fall.
Saturn is the planet of recession, falling profits, poverty, unemployment and scarcity.
Governance, households, business and labor
Governance, the governing authority and special privilege are ruled by the Sun and house 10.
Households are ruled by the Moon and house 4.
The Moon rules the home, family, households, food and groceries.
The business sector is ruled by Jupiter, Saturn and house 10.
Corporations (stock companies), multinational companies and investors are ruled by Neptune.
Mega-corporations with monopolistic power are ruled by Pluto.
Service industries are ruled by Saturn and house 10.
Labor and the work force – the servers and the service they provide – are ruled by house 6.
Trade unions are ruled by Uranus and house 6.
The market, money supply and trade
The market, where traders buy and sell money, stocks, commodities and resources, is ruled by house 5.
The money supply, assets and personal wealth are ruled by house 2.
The amount of debt in the system, the level of foreign debt, foreign investment and foreign borrowings are ruled by house 8.
Inflation is ruled by Neptune.
Trade (an economic stimulus involving the importing and exporting of goods) is ruled by house 9.
Economic expansion is ruled by Jupiter.
Sources of wealth and growth drivers are ruled by the house where Jupiter is located.
Economic slumps, hardship, unemployment, hunger, disease and epidemics are ruled by Saturn.
Relief given to the unemployed and aid – food aid etc – given to those suffering misfortune is ruled by house 12.
Farming and manufacturing
The farming sector – agriculture and the growing of crops for food – is ruled by Saturn and house 4.
The crops on the ground are ruled by house 4 and the stored harvest is ruled by house 6.
The natural environment and weather are ruled by Saturn and house 4.
Manufacturing and the manufacturing sector are ruled by Mars.
The resources – mining – sector is ruled by Saturn and house 4.
Transportation, communication and technology
Local transport is ruled by Mercury and house 3.
Local communication, newspapers and the press are ruled by Mercury and house 3.
Overseas transport – airlines and shipping – is ruled by house 9. Radio, television and the web are ruled by Pluto and house 9.
Tourism is ruled by house 9.
The military and armed forces are ruled by Mars and house 6.
Population growth is influenced by the birthrate ruled by house 5 and the death rate ruled by house 8.
The technology sector is ruled by Uranus.
All the latest mobile devices – smart phones, self-trackers etc – are just Uranus and Aquarius doing their thing.
Neptune rules the pharmaceutical industry, drug networks and drug trafficking.
Pluto rules the black economy, the dark web, crime, organized crime and international crime syndicates.
The world's energy
Different energies are ruled by different planets.
Energy comes from the Sun and energy sources contain solar energy in fossilized form.
Electricity is ruled by Uranus but it has to be produced from some energy source.
Oil and gas are ruled by Neptune.
Oil is the most widely traded commodity.
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It is all very well putting names on family trees, but do they stack up, what is the evidence?
Following are records and images of James Ford's birth from the Old Parochial Records and the certified document from the Scottish Archives. James' name is squeezed in at the end.
James Ford offical birth certificate.
James Ford OPR birth certificate.
The ten children born to Samuel Ford and Margaret Wright are spread over two pages of the Old Parochial Records (OPR), five children on each page.
The OPR give more information that mere names and dates. For instance we learn that Samuel Ford was a quarrier. We may also note that despite the fact that ten children have been born that Samuel's birth place has never been completed. It is evident that the handwriting skills of the recorder, generally the parish priest, often makes the inscription difficult to decipher. But it should be remembered such difficulties as writing and spelling confirm the authenticity of the record something which present-day government computer records cannot provide.
The OPR of James Ford birth showing the full page of entries.
Unfortunately I cannot trace the parents of Samuel Ford. We can assume, following the traditional naming pattern, that his parents were probably named Robert and Mary but here the trail goes cold.
On the other hand we can trace the ancestors of Margaret Wright back to the mid 1600s. Commencing with John Wright who married Janet Allen the follow OPRs confirm Margaret's ancestry.
John Wright is born 19 March 1672 in Kilmarnock to John Wright (b. 1640) and Janet Allen (b.1640).
William Wright is born 22 April 1705 to John Wright who married Marion Tannahill,.
Alexander Wright is born 7 June 1730 at Kilmarnock to William Wright who married Mary Greg.
Robert Wright is born 29 May 1762 in Kilwinning to Alexander Wright who married Margaret Cowan
Margaret Wright is born 30 April 1792 in Millport to Robert Wright who married Janet Gillies.


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For a test of open-mindedness, see Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness.
Saying someone lacks an open mind is often used pejoratively, for example, "Don't be pro-life/pro-marriage/pro-abstinence, be open-minded. In this context, "open minded" simply means considering a certain viewpoint.
- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." (Aristotle)


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Identifying the Sound Event Recognition using Machine learning And Artificial Intelligence
The analysis of sound information is extremely useful in a variety of applications such as multimedia information retrieval, audio surveillance, audio tagging, and forensic investigations. The analysis of an audio clip is performed in order to detect sound events. Applications of this technology include security systems, smart vehicle navigation and noise pollution monitoring. Sound Event Recognition (SER) is the focus of this research proposal. As compared to long-duration audio scenes, sound events have a short duration of about 100 to 500 milliseconds. A machine-learning model is being trained and tested in this paper, which can be incorporated in an automated data collection process. In this experiment, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Random Forest were compared.


because it would entail the use of roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) ferries. If you intend to drive out of Luzon and into the outlying islands, the Visayas or Mindanao (and/or vice-versa), be sure that the rental company's terms and conditions allow it.
Road networks
In addition to the existing network of national and local roads, the Philippines has two additional road networks: an expressway network and the Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH) system.
Luzon has an expressway network dominated by the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and South Luzon Expressway (SLEX). These are tollways with good paved roads, are privately-maintained, and the farthest tolls will not cost more than a few dollars from Metro Manila. Other expressways include the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (a 94-kilometer 4-lane freeway connecting Subic Bay and Tarlac) and the Bataan Provincial Expressway. Expressways are connected to the network of national highways and provincial roads which connect to major cities and provinces.
The Strong Republic Nautical Highway system is a three-route network of national and provincial roads, bridges and roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) ferries which facilitate the connection of major islands of the Philippines together by road, bringing down the cost of driving (and, ultimately, lowering the cost of shipping goods between islands). The SRNH system begins in Luzon and run in a north-south direction through the Visayas and ultimately end in Mindanao. The SRNH is useful for driving to tourist destinations outside Manila: for example, it is possible to drive to both Puerto Galera and Boracay from Manila via the Western Nautical Highway. SRNH routes are signposted and a map of the network and RO/RO schedules are available from the Department of Tourism [51].
International driving licences are valid in the Philippines for up to 30 days after arrival, after which an International Driver's Permit or a Philippine driving licences are required. Vehicular traffic in the Philippines moves on the right, and the vast majority of road signs are in English. Most signs conform to design guidelines used in the United States but all units used are metric.
Filipinos are famous for their driving habits (or lack thereof). Traffic often grinds to a screeching halt, especially in major cities (Metro Manila in particular), and the honking of horns is a very common occurrence. When there is no traffic, speeding, swerving and reckless passing happen on a regular basis, especially on desolate rural roads. Car traffic competes with bus and jeepney traffic, which jostle sidewalk curbs to get more passengers, especially in areas without designated bus stops: the fact that bus and jeepney drivers' salaries are determined based on passenger load does not help the traffic situation in many cities. Motorcycles frequently weave through traffic, increasing the risk of accidents. However, traffic lights, while frequently ignored in the past, are more strictly adhered to now. Seatbelts are mandatory only for persons seating in the front seat.
Due to heavy traffic congestion, Metro Manila and Baguio have laws that restrict certain vehicles based on the day of the week and the ending number of your vehicle's license plate: this is officially called the Uniform Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), but it is simply known as "number coding" or, previously "color coding" (although it has nothing to do with the color of your vehicle). The UVVRP works as follows:
Number Coding
Day Plate number
Monday 1, 2
Tuesday 3, 4
Wednesday 5, 6
Thursday 7, 8
Friday 9, 0
Weekends and Holidays No coding
Cities that enforce the UVVRP prohibit cars from being driven between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm on a certain weekday on most national (primary) and secondary roads, although the implementation varies: in Metro Manila (excluding Makati and Pasay), a "window" exists between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm where the scheme is not enforced, while in Baguio, the UVVRP is only enforced in the city center, and the scheme does not apply to the rest of the city. In general however, the UVVRP does not apply to minor streets (mostly in residential areas), and those roads remain open to coded cars the whole day. Be sure to check with a local contact or the car rental agency/hotel concierge about whether these rules will apply to your vehicle, especially as foreigners driving can become targets for less scrupulous traffic aides.
By taxi
Taxi fares
Most of the taxi drivers nowadays charge people with fares not based on the meters, especially during peak hours. If you encounter this say "no" and say that drivers don't have a right to give you a fare that is double and not based on the meters, this is usually encountered by tourists as well as middle class-elite class Filipinos. If this happens get out of the taxi, threaten the driver you will call the police hotline;Philippine National Police[52] (PNP) tel:(+_PHONE_ start dialing your cellphone to make him believe you are calling the police or either call the MMDA[53](Metro Manila Development Authority) hotline; 136 if you're within Manila, you can also text the police at 2920 and your message must be as follows; PNP(space)(message), for your complaints. In 2009, some taxis have installed meters which give out receipts, ask for a receipt if they have one.
Taxis are generally available within the major cities but are usually not used for travel across the various provinces and regions. Some FX (shared taxis), however, usually ply provincial routes. You can also call reputable Taxi companies that can arrange pickups and transfers as well as airport runs.
When hailing a taxi in the cities, ensure the meter is on and pay the metered fare. A tip of 10 pesos is acceptable. Also, make sure you have small denomination banknotes, as the drivers often claim not to have change in an effort to obtain a larger tip! Please do have coins ready with you. Moreover, don't be surprised if drivers want to bypass the meter during rush hour. (Updated April 2011) Most taxis have the flag down rate of ₱40 with each 300 meters cost ₱3.50 while Yellow cab taxis are more expensive with a flag down rate of ₱70 with each 300 meters cost ₱4.00.
By bus
Buses are usually the cheapest way to go when it comes to traveling around the Philippines, at least from within the major islands with fares as low as ₱300-500.
Provincial bus companies have scheduled trips from Manila to provinces to the north and south. Major provincial bus companies include ALPS The Bus, Inc.[54], Victory Liner[55], Philtranco[56]
By boat
Metro Manila
Get around Manila with Pasig's Pasig Ferry Service, waterbuses are available in stations around the historical river of Pasig. Fares ranges from ₱25, ₱35 and ₱45. For students and youth fares range ₱20 regardless of distance.
Inter-island trips
Next to buses, ships are the cheapest modes of transports when getting around the country as fares are as low as ₱1,000 if it's a trip lasting a day or two and ₱600 if it's only a one hour trip.WG&A SuperFerry[57] and a number of other companies operate interisland ferries. There is a convenient Friday overnight ferry trip to Coron, Palawan. This allows divers to spend the weekend in Coron and take the Sunday night ferry trip back to Manila, arriving around noon. You can also stay on a Cruise Ship that's exploring around the Coron area. The 7,107 Island Cruise Ship takes passengers around Coron and some of its private islands.
Ferry trips to other islands can take over 24 hours, depending on distance. Other major ferry companies include: Sulpicio Lines, Negros Navigation[58], Trans Asia Shipping Lines[59], and Cebu Ferries[60].
Oceanjet[61] is a reliable company offering fast ferries throughout the Visayas at affordable prices. Schedule Information is difficult to obtain - newspapers often contain pages with ads on certain days, but, believe it or not, most people rely on word-of-mouth.
Travel Warning WARNING: If the boat appears to be over capacity, do not board. Always check the latest weather reports before travel by ferry, as some captains are willing to sail even when a typhoon is approaching. Bringing your own life preserver is strongly recommended (but no substitute for common sense). Travel by boat should not be considered safer than air travel.
Be aware that while travelling by ferry is cheap, and relatively care-free compared to air-travel, boat services can be unreliable. Ferries can sometimes be delayed anywhere between 24 to 48 hours because all the cargo and passengers has not yet boarded. If you need to make a deadline (such as an international flight), then fly instead of travelling by ferry.
7107 Islands Cruise[62] offers a cruises from Boracay to Puerto Galera to Boracay, prices range from ₱2,000 - ₱10,000, children below than 3 years old are free to travel who is accompanied by 2 adults, children from 5 to 12 years old are given a 50% discount, who are accompanied also by 2 adults while senior citizens can avail a


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Can your students obtain Captain Newton's treasure? Students will hear a story explaining the history of Science Island and then travel around the classroom to five stations. Each station presents a physical science challenge they need to solve to earn part of the combination to open their team's treasure chest. Stations include experiments with water density, mass, rock streaking, light reflection and launching projectiles with a table top catapult.
For more information or to book a field trip, call _PHONE_, ext. 322, or email _EMAIL_.
Length: 1 hour
MA Curriculum Connection: yes


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July 30, 2020
Harassment, assault, and murder committed by police in the United States and Canada are unjust and unacceptable.
Unifor acknowledges the systemic racism, rooted in White Supremacy, that leads to violence perpetuated against Black, Indigenous and people of colour globally, resulting in individual and community pain, incarceration, and death.
We acknowledge that this injustice is not only limited to the police, but to all institutions and structures in society. This is a redefining moment in time where it will take collective power to make meaningful systemic change. Unifor makes the following demands supporting the goals of anti-racism:
- Reallocation and increased investment of public resources away from systems that criminalize people towards community programs and public services that tackle the rootcauses of racism, insecurity and oppression.
- The demilitarizing of police forces and developing alternative community-based models of public safety that prioritize prevention and community-building.
- The decriminalization of health and mental health. People living with mental illness have a right to health care, but instead are met with violence when in crisis. It is essential that funding be directed to support mental health and addiction services and universal, public pharmacare.
Police violence is tragically, most strongly felt by Indigenous, Black and people of colour, as the institution reflects and enforces power structures inherent in our society.
In the streets, this is witnessed in illegal card-checks targeting Indigenous and racialized communities, and on the picket line, it means arrests for workers. This fight has always been the labour movements' fight, as we advocate for the safety and well-bring of Canada's workers.
Unifor calls for significant, lasting reforms to all institutions that allow, support, or excuse institutional racism.


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Memorial Garden Plaques for Your Columbarium Project
1. How many options are there?
2. How much does it cost?
3. Who does the work?
4. How can it be made easy?
5. How can we order and install the memorial?
6. What goes on the memorial?
7. How long does it take to get it delivered?
8. How can we make this simple?
Dealing with a Difficult Situation
Unfortunately, even in a small church there is someone going through a difficult situation and it is a blessing to that individual to know that there are people who care. That is why providing grief counseling at your church is such a wonderful ministry. I know that there are some church members who don't think a columbarium program has a place at the church facility, but I just haven't heard a good reason to agree with. In my opinion, it is completing the circle of life and who else would we want to help with that part of our life than our church community.
When a difficult situation enters our life, such as a death of a loved one, diagnosis of cancer, loss of a job, we have to determine how we will choose to handle it. We can handle it positively or negatively. We can stay in our bed and cry all day or we can know that how we perceive this difficulty now, we'll probably perceive it differently later.
4 Different Items to Include in Your Columbarium
We have been talking about different items to include in your columbarium. An ossuary was suggested. If you remember an ossuary is a large underground vault that has an opening above ground. Cremated remains are poured down a cylinder into an underground vault and co-mingled with other cremated remains. A tribute tower or memorial wall is nearby for memorial plaques with the names of the deceased and the birth date and death date are on the plaques. Then we talked about including a Labyrinth. A labyrinth has only one path leading to the center and back out again with no dead-ends. One of our readers suggested using the columbarium as the walls of the labyrinth.


Homework Assignments
September 3
 - Exercise 1 - Make a copy of the Temperature3.c program (Fahrenheit to Celsius version 3) and modify it to print a header line that labels each column.
 - Exercise 2 - rewrite the program in Exercise 1 to run in Matlab.
 - Exercise 3 - rewrite the Matlab program that you developed for Exercise 3 in MTHSC 360 as a C program. However, I want you to go the extra step and insure that there are no empty lines, and no lines that start or end with a comma and a space.
 Here's a reminder of what the Matlab exercise entails:
 Write a program which examines the numbers from 1 to 100.
 If a number is divisible by three and by five, then the program should print "Orange and White" on a line by itself.
 If a number is divisible by three and not divisible by five, then the program should print "Orange" on the current line followed by a new line.
 If a number is not divisible by three but is divisible by five, then the program should print "White" on the current line followed by a new line.
 If a number is not divisible by three or by five, then the program should simply print the number. Numbers should be printed on the current line, and they should be separated by a comma and a space from any following numbers or words.
 As a bonus, can you insure that there are no empty lines, and no lines that start or end with a comma and a space.


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Paper: Entrepreneurialism and Affectivity: Selling Poverty and Childhood in Cusco
Cusco, Peru is one of Latin Americaâ€™s leading tourist destinations. With Machu Picchu and other nearby Inca ruins as the main attractions, tourism has become the principal economic and development strategy for the city. This is apparent not just through numerous public and private investments in tourism infrastructure, and the popularity of guiding as a profession, but also because of the many families who participate in an informal street economy, vending souvenirs and artisanal products to tourists. Local children compose an active group of the most successful vendors, often because of the entrepreneurial strategies they have developed for engaging their clients. Child vendors creatively draw on their own discourses of poverty and childhood to encourage both cultural and economic exchanges, with the affectivity of children enabling them to earn as much asâ€"or more thanâ€"their parents. This dissertation project investigates the interactions between children and tourists in Cusco in a number of spaces, including the streets and in aid centers. Focusing on interactions in this first space, this paper will explore several of the strategies that children use, including their development, how they are passed on between vendors, and their success. The economic roles that children play within their families, and the motivations children offer as to why they sell, will also be discussed. This project contributes to anthropological and interdisciplinary studies of childhood, poverty, and tourism, by exploring the economic and cultural exchanges that occur between local children and foreign tourists. In focusing on the childrenâ€™s perspectives on their own labor and viewing their strategies as entrepreneurially supportive of their families, the project allows a nuanced understanding of child labor as both a global phenomenon and a real issue that many different actors are negotiating in Cusco.


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Outlining (Beethoven's Sonata #1)
Outlining is a method for accelerating the learning process by simplifying the music. It is a simplifying process just like HS practice or practicing in short segments. Its main characteristic is that it allows you to maintain the musical flow or rhythm, and to do this at the final speed almost immediately, with a minimum of practice. This enables you to practice the musical content of the piece long before that segment can be played satisfactorily or at speed. It also helps you to acquire difficult technique quickly by teaching the larger playing members (arms, shoulders) how to move correctly; when this is accomplished, the smaller members often fall into place more easily. It also eliminates many pitfalls for timing and musical interpretation errors. The simplifications are accomplished by using various devices, such as deleting "less important notes" or combining a series of notes into a chord. You then get back to the original music gradually by progressively restoring the simplified notes. Whiteside has a good description of outlining on P.141 of the first book, and P.54-61, 105-107, and 191-196 of the second book, where several examples are analyzed; see the Reference section.
For a given passage, there are usually many ways to simply the score or to restore notes, and a person using outlining for the first time will need some practice before s/he can take full advantage of the method. It is obviously easiest to learn outlining under the guidance of a teacher. Suffice it to say here that how you delete notes (or add them back in) depends on the specific composition and what you are trying to achieve; i.e., whether you are trying to acquire technique or whether you are trying to make sure that the musical content is correct. Note that struggling with technique can quickly destroy your sense of the music. The idea behind outlining is that, by getting to the music first, the technique will follow more quickly because music and technique are inseparable. In practice, it requires a lot of work before outlining can become useful. Unlike HS practice, etc., it cannot be learned so easily. My suggestion is for you to use it initially only when absolutely necessary (where other methods have failed), and to gradually increase its use as you become better at it. It can be especially helpful when you find it difficult to play HT after completing your HS work. Even after you have partly learned a piece, outlining can be used to increase the precision and improve the memorizing.
I will demonstrate two very simple examples to illustrate outlining. Common methods of simplification are (1) deleting notes, (2) converting runs, etc., into chords, and (3) converting complex passages into simpler ones. An important rule is that, although the music is simplified, you generally should retain the same fingering that was required before the simplification.
Chopin's music often employs tempo rubato and other devices that require exquisite control and coordination of the two hands. In his Fantaisie Impromptu (Op. 66), the six notes of each LH arpeggio (e.g., C#3G#3C#4E4C#4G#3) can be simplified to two notes (C#3E4, played with 51). There should be no need to simplify the RH. This is a good way to make sure that all notes from the two hands that fall on the same beat are played accurately together. Also, for students having difficulty with the 3-4 timing, this simplification will allow play at any speed with the difficulty removed. By first increasing the speed in this way, it may be easier to pick up the 3-4 timing, especially if you cycle just half a bar.
The second application is to Beethoven's Sonata #1 (Op. 2, No. 1). I noted in the Reference that Gieseking was remiss in dismissing the 4th movement as "presenting no new problems" in spite of the difficult LH arpeggio which is very fast. Let's try to complete the wonderful job Gieseking did in getting us started on this Sonata by making sure that we can play this exciting final movement.
The initial 4 triplets of the LH can be learned by using parallel set exercises applied to each triplet and then cycling. The first triplet in the 3rd bar can be practiced in the same way, with the 524524 fingering. Here, I have inserted a false conjunction to permit easy, continuous cycling, in order to be able to work on the weak 4th finger. When the 4th finger is strong and under control, you can add the real conjunction, 5241. Here, TO is absolutely required. Then you can practice the descending arpeggio, _PHONE_. You can practice the ensuing ascending arpeggio using the same methods, but be careful not to use TU in the ascending arpeggio, since this is very easy to do. Remember the need for supple wrists for all arpeggios. For the RH, you can use the rules for practicing chords and jumps (sections 7.e and 7.f above). So far, everything is HS work.
In order to play HT, use outlining. Simplify the LH so that you play only the beat notes (starting with the 2nd bar): F3F3F3F3F2E2F2F3, with fingering 55515551, which can be continually cycled. These are just the first notes of each triplet. Once this is mastered HS, you can start HT. The result should be much easier than if you had to play the full triplets. Once this becomes comfortable, adding the triplets will be easier than before, and you can do it with much less chance of incorporating mistakes. Since these arpeggios are the most challenging parts of this movement, by outlining them, you can now practice the entire movement at any speed.
In the RH, the first 3 chords are soft, and the second 3 are forte. In the beginning, practice mainly accuracy and speed, so practice all 6 chords softly until this section is mastered. Then add the forte. To avoid hitting wrong notes, get into the habit of feeling the notes of the chords before depressing them. For the RH octave melody of bars 33-35, be sure not to play with any crescendo, especially the last G. And the entire Sonata, of course, is played with no pedal. In order to eliminate any chance of a disastrous ending, be sure to play the last 4 notes of this movement with the LH, bringing it into position well before it is needed.
For technique acquisition, the other methods of this book are usually more effective than outlining which, even when it works, can be time consuming. However, as in the Sonata example above, a simple outlining can enable you to practice an entire movement at speed, and including most of the musical considerations. In the meantime, you can use the other methods of this book to acquire the technique needed to "fill in" the outlining.


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Teams and Individuals Guided by Engineering Resources (TIGERs) Camps is a resident summer camp designed to expose rising 11 and 12 graders to the world of engineering. Engineers make the world a better place by designing things that make life easier, safer or that protect the environment. Yet, studies show that middle and high school students know very little about careers in engineering.
The camp will be conducted by faculty, staff, and students from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, ensuring that students receive a broad overview of the engineering profession. Camp activities include workshops, tours, a number of hands-on activities, lectures guided by engineers, and students will learn what courses they need to take in high school to prepare them for a successful and fulfilling career in engineering.More information regarding this camp can be found online at _URL_