FAQ What is the difference between perspectives and activities? - Revision history _URL_ Revision history for this page on the wiki en MediaWiki 1.23.2 Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:10:41 GMT Claffra at 20:27, 14 March 2006 _URL_ _URL_ New page'' At first glance, perspectives and activities are very similar. Both modify the appearance of the workbench, adding and removing menus and toolbar buttons, depending on a course-grained user task. When trying to figure out how to carve up a large product into usable pieces, it is sometimes difficult to figure out when to use activities, perspectives, or both. Apart from the prosaic difference that perspectives were an Eclipse 1.0 invention and activities are new in Eclipse 3.0, a number of other subtle differences exist. The most obvious difference between activities and perspectives is that activities are not intended to alter the layout of views and editors that are currently open. Activities change the menus and toolbars but don’t make real estate changes that can cause the user to lose context. Perspectives have a dual role of dictating screen layout and altering the menus and toolbars. This connection is often not obvious to users, and they are often confused about why a certain menu or keyboard shortcut appears in one place but not another. Second, activities are intended to be largely implicit. Whereas perspectives are explicitly visible and controlled entirely by the user, activities are not directly user controlled. Essentially, activities try to have some smarts about when they are needed and activate and deactivate accordingly, depending on what the user is doing. Although perspectives do this to a certain extent, such as switching to the Debug perspective automatically when an application is launched in debug mode, automatically changing the user interface layout is a general user interface no-no. Because activities are not tied to a particular screen layout, they can change automatically without causing the user to lose context. Finally, perspectives are partially defined programmatically, whereas activities are defined entirely declaratively. The importance of this difference is that activities are not intended to be defined by programmers who are working on individual plug-ins. Because the designer of a single plug-in cannot envision the emergent behavior of a system built of hundreds of plug-ins—or at least not without violating the modular principles of the plug-in architecture—he or she has no way of knowing what set of activities might be appropriate. Activities are a form of meta-glue that regulate how plug-ins interact and so must be defined at a higher level. Typically, activities will be created by a system configurer or human-computer interaction (HCI) expert who has a better picture of the total functionality of the product.
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BASIC GEOMETRIC SHAPES
Architecture is the science of building. Architects understand the natural laws of gravity and their affects upon mass. There are four basic geometric shapes used by architects in designing buildings. They are the circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. A building may use one or a combination of the shapes in its design. When we study a building's design, we see the shapes as three-dimensional. As you look at each image in the kit see if you can spot them.

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Common Law Writs
A body of legal remedies, sometimes called extraordinary remedies or common law writs, was a part of Anglo-English law at the time of adoption of the Constitution, and incorporated by the Constitution. Only one of these, however, habeas corpus, is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, and the rest would seem to be included by the Ninth Amendment as among the unenumerated rights. They have been deprecated in recent decades, and there is a movement to resurrect them.
 1. HTML Version Text Version Definition of writ — From the Word IQ site.
 2. HTML Version Quo Warranto — Challenge to the authority of someone claiming it, to either prevent or end unauthorized action or remove him from his claimed position.
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University Hill Secondary School
This project is part of the new family of UBC University Hill schools, offering a continuum of education from early kindergarten to grade 12, with access to post-secondary enrichment studies. Grades 9-12 were relocated to the former UBC National Research Council building, which was renovated and expanded to be transformed into the new 800-student school.
To embark on this innovative approach to learning, a very broad ranging and intensive collaboration was developed with the stakeholders. Thinkspace also collaborated closely with the consultant team to design a two-story steel framed building also utilizing some glulam structure to meet with the Ministry of Education Wood First Initiative.
The primary focus of the School District for the design of this school was to incorporate 21st century learning concepts. The facility will:
- support a variety of learning modalities from individual to small group
- assist project based learning
- encourage collaborative teaching and learning
- promote individualized learning
A 15% Neighbourhood of Learning allowance includes improvements to activity spaces such as a second gym, a dance studio, drama space, out-of-school care support spaces, meeting spaces, and other enhancements.
The school has achieved LEED® certification. Many elements of the existing building have been retained, such as windows and doors, to be reused and recycled in the renovation. Other LEED® features include the use of regional, low VOC materials, and 100% FSC Certified wood.

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Quick start for Internal Event Tracking
In an effort to provide a more efficient, scalable, and unified tracking API, GitLab is deprecating existing RedisHLL and Snowplow tracking. Instead, we're implementing a new track_event (Backend) and trackEvent(Frontend) method. With this approach, we can update both RedisHLL counters and send Snowplow events without worrying about the underlying implementation.
In order to instrument your code with Internal Events Tracking you need to do three things:
 1. Define an event
 2. Define one or more metrics
 3. Trigger the event
Defining event and metrics
To create event and/or metric definitions, use the internal_events generator from the gitlab directory:
ruby scripts/internal_events/cli.rb
This CLI will help you create the correct defintion files based on your specific use-case, then provide code examples for instrumentation and testing.
Events should be named in the format of <action>_<target_of_action>_<where/when>, valid examples are create_ci_build or click_previous_blame_on_blob_page.
Trigger events
Triggering an event and thereby updating a metric is slightly different on backend and frontend. Refer to the relevant section below.
Backend tracking
To trigger an event, call the track_internal_event method from the Gitlab::InternalEventsTracking module with the desired arguments:
include Gitlab::InternalEventsTracking
track_internal_event(
 "create_ci_build",
 user: user,
 namespace: namespace,
 project: project
)
This method automatically increments all RedisHLL metrics relating to the event create_ci_build, and sends a corresponding Snowplow event with all named arguments and standard context (SaaS only). In addition, the name of the class triggering the event is saved in the category property of the Snowplow event.
If you have defined a metric with a unique property such as unique: project.id it is required that you provide the project argument.
It is encouraged to fill out as many of user, namespace and project as possible as it increases the data quality and make it easier to define metrics in the future.
If a project but no namespace is provided, the project.namespace is used as the namespace for the event.
In some cases you might want to specify the category manually or provide none at all. To do that, you can call the InternalEvents.track_event method directly instead of using the module.
In case when a feature is enabled through multiple namespaces and its required to track why the feature is enabled, it is possible to pass an optional feature_enabled_by_namespace_ids parameter with an array of namespace ids.
track_internal_event(
 ...
 feature_enabled_by_namespace_ids: [namespace_one.id, namespace_two.id]
)
Additional properties
Additional properties can be passed when tracking events. They can be used to save additional data related to given event. It is possible to send a maximum of three additional properties with keys label (string), property (string) and value(numeric).
Additional properties are passed by including the additional_properties hash in the #track_event call:
track_internal_event(
 "create_ci_build",
 user: user,
 additional_properties: {
 label: 'scheduled',
 value: 20
 }
)
Controller and API helpers
There is a helper module ProductAnalyticsTracking for controllers you can use to track internal events for particular controller actions by calling #track_internal_event:
class Projects::PipelinesController < Projects::ApplicationController
 include ProductAnalyticsTracking
 track_internal_event :charts, name: 'visit_charts_on_ci_cd_pipelines', conditions: -> { should_track_ci_cd_pipelines? }
 def charts
 ...
 end
 private
 def should_track_ci_cd_pipelines?
 params[:chart].blank? || params[:chart] == 'pipelines'
 end
end
You need to add these two methods to the controller body, so that the helper can get the current project and namespace for the event:
 private
 def tracking_namespace_source
 project.namespace
 end
 def tracking_project_source
 project
 end
Also, there is an API helper:
track_event(
 event_name,
 user: current_user,
 namespace_id: namespace_id,
 project_id: project_id
)
Frontend tracking
Any frontend tracking call automatically passes the values user.id, namespace.id, and project.id from the current context of the page.
If you need to pass any further properties, such as extra, context, label, property, and value, you can use the deprecated snowplow implementation. In this case, let us know about your specific use-case in our feedback issue for Internal Events.
Vue components
In Vue components, tracking can be done with Vue mixin.
To implement Vue component tracking:
 1. Import the InternalEvents library and call the mixin method:
 import { InternalEvents } from '~/tracking';
 const trackingMixin = InternalEvents.mixin();

 2. Use the mixin in the component:
 export default {
 mixins: [trackingMixin],

 data() {
 return {
 expanded: false,
 };
 },
 };

 3. Call the trackEvent method. Tracking options can be passed as the second parameter:
 this.trackEvent('click_previous_blame_on_blob_page');

 Or use the trackEvent method in the template:
 <template>

 <button data-testid="toggle" @click="toggle">Toggle</button>

Hello world!

 <button @click="trackEvent('click_previous_blame_on_blob_page')">Track another event</button>

 </template>

Raw JavaScript
For tracking events directly from arbitrary frontend JavaScript code, a module for raw JavaScript is provided. This can be used outside of a component context where the Mixin cannot be utilized.
import { InternalEvents } from '~/tracking';
InternalEvents.trackEvent('click_previous_blame_on_blob_page');
Data-event attribute
This attribute ensures that if we want to track GitLab internal events for a button, we do not need to write JavaScript code on Click handler. Instead, we can just add a data-event-tracking attribute with event value and it should work. This can also be used with HAML views.
 <gl-button
 data-event-tracking="click_previous_blame_on_blob_page"
 >
 Click Me
 </gl-button>
Haml
= render Pajamas::ButtonComponent.new(button_options: { class: 'js-settings-toggle', data: { event_tracking: 'click_previous_blame_on_blob_page' }}) do
Internal events on render
Sometimes we want to send internal events when the component is rendered or loaded. In these cases, we can add the data-event-tracking-load="true" attribute:
= render Pajamas::ButtonComponent.new(button_options: { data: { event_tracking_load: 'true', event_tracking: 'click_previous_blame_on_blob_page' } }) do
 = _("New project")
Additional properties
Additional properties can be passed when tracking events. They can be used to save additional data related to given event. It is possible to send a maximum of three additional properties with keys label (string), property (string) and value(numeric).
For Vue Mixin:
 this.trackEvent('click_view_runners_button', {
 label: 'group_runner_form',
 property: dynamicPropertyVar,
 value: 20
 });
For raw JavaScript:
 InternalEvents.trackEvent('click_view_runners_button', {
 label: 'group_runner_form',
 property: dynamicPropertyVar,
 value: 20
 });
For data-event attributes:
 <gl-button
 data-event-tracking="click_view_runners_button"
 data-event-label="group_runner_form"
 :data-event-property=dynamicPropertyVar
 >
 Click Me
 </gl-button>
For Haml:
= render Pajamas::ButtonComponent.new(button_options: { class: 'js-settings-toggle', data: { event_tracking: 'action', event_label: 'group_runner_form', event_property: dynamic_property_var, event_value: 2 }}) do
Frontend testing
If you are using the trackEvent method in any of your code, whether it is in raw JavaScript or a Vue component, you can use the useMockInternalEventsTracking helper method to assert if trackEvent is called.
For example, if


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Jeg Gikk Meg Over Sjo og Land: A Journey for the Future into the Past
Using Scandinavian immigrant culture as a backdrop, this project presents an integrated multiple intelligences approach to teaching Kindergarten and elementary school students about their music, history, and cultural inheritance. The paper describes eight themes that formed the framework of the eight-week music curriculum used in the project. Examples of the childrens artwork and creative writing are included in the work. The author concludes that raising childrens awareness of a single specific culture through their music, dance, art, and food preferences stimulates the childrens curiosity about their own heritage resulting in increased communication with their family members and greater self-knowledge. The project also created a more positive and productive teaching/learning relationship between the instructor and the various class members and gave the students an opportunity to share their discoveries with the rest of the schools population.
Advisor:Dr. James Kriley; Dorothy Morrison; Karen A. Kaufmann
School:The University of Montana
School Location:USA - Montana
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Date of Publication:09/19/2007


Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Running Veeam PowerShell Scripts in Non-Interactive Mode - Credentials
This time we get back to some PowerShell basics and how to run scripts in non-interactive mode.
Veeam Backup & Replication and scripting go hand in hand really well. And the first thing you do when running a script is to connect to backup server
Connect-VBRServer -Server $ServerName -User $User -Password $Pass
Placing user and pass in clear text in a script may not be the best option. We could use PSCredential object to hold the username and password.
$PSCredential = Get-Credential
Connect-VBRServer -Server $ServerName -Credential $PSCredential
However getting the credentials in the objects implies using Get-Credential cmdlet which is interactive and will prompt to type the user and password. This makes it hard to run the script in non-interactive mode.
To make it non-interactive we need password saved somewhere. To save and encrypted password we can use ConvertFrom-SecureString cmdlet and pipe the output to a file:
(Get-Credential).Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content $encPassFileName
Since the username could be stored in the script itself, we retrieve only the secure string for the password, pipe it to the encrypting cmdlet and then output it to a file. Opening the output file will list something similar to:
Now we need to create the PScredential object:
$password = Get-Content $encPassFileName | ConvertTo-SecureString
$psCredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential($username,$password)
First, we loaded the content of the file storing the encrypted password and convert it to a secure string (PScredential objects use secure strings). Next we created the object with the username and the password. The generated object can be used to connect to VBR Server
Connect-VBRServer -Server $ServerName -Credential $PSCredential
By default, ConvertFrom-SecureString encryption is done using Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI). For this reason the file cannot be moved to another computer and used from that one. On each computer from where the script is being run, the password must be encrypted separately.


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The Division of Roads is responsible for the maintenance and repair of all roads and drain covers (not drains) in the township.
Hamilton Township DWPC not only operates our Water Pollution Control plant and 39 pumping stations, but also takes care of our storm drains and sanitary sewers. Drain covers are the responsibility of the Division of Roads.
To report a clogged storm drain or sanitary sewer, call _PHONE_ or _PHONE_.
Additional Water Quality information
The US Environmental Protection Administration's Safe Drinking Water System also has information about local water quality. The State of New Jersey Bureau of Safe Water, at _PHONE_, also has recent (not necessarily current) information about water quality in Hamilton.
Most of us get our water from either Aqua New Jersey or Trenton Water Works. Some residents who live east of Route 130 get their water from wells.
Aqua New Jersey
Aqua New Jersey is one of the two companies supplying water to Hamilton. Aqua supplies water to Hamilton Square, Mercerville and Yardville areas of Hamilton Township, and the Robbinsville and Windsor areas of Robbinsville Township.
Aqua's water comes through the Trenton Water Works' water treatment plants, and originates from 13 wells in the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifer and unconfined Vincentown aquifer.
For water emergencies, and for the most recent water quality reports, contact Aqua New Jersey at (877) WTR-AQUA or _PHONE_.
Trenton Water Works
Trenton Water Works supplies water to those Hamilton residents who are not served by Aqua New Jersey. In fact, Trenton Water Works is the original supplier for the water that is sold through Aqua.
For water emergencies, and for the most recent water quality reports, contact Trenton Water Works at _PHONE_.


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Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option 2 : Shifting cultivation
Detailed SolutionDownload Solution PDF
The correct answer is Shifting cultivation.
- Nagaland mountains are becoming increasingly barren mountains, mainly due to Shifting cultivation.
- Shifting cultivation is also known as Jhum cultivation.
- Shifting cultivation, also known as slash and burn agriculture, is an agricultural system that involves clearing a section of land and using it for farming activities for a relatively short time before abandoning it.
- Jhum or Shifting cultivation is a primitive practice of cultivation in the Northeastern Hill Region of India and people involved in such cultivation is called Jhumia.
- Agricultural practice such as Jhuming or shifting cultivation is based on the Asiatic mode of production.
- Shifting cultivation in the northeast region is complex system cultivation with a wide variation that depends upon the ecological variation in the area and cultural diversity among various tribal communities.
- Shifting cultivation has been considered by many as ecologically destructive. shifting cultivation is looked upon as a major cause of soil erosion.
- Shifting cultivation is also held responsible for causing floods in the plains since topsoil erosion affects the valleys and results in sedimentation of river beds.
- Insurgency is a condition of revolt against a government that is less than an organized revolution and that is not recognized as belligerency.
- Urbanization is the shifting of population from rural to urban areas It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas.


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1,2,4-Oxadiazole is one of the important heterocycles used by medicinal chemists in designing
a new therapeutic molecule. The compounds containing this nucleus are reported to have a wide
range of pharmaceutical and biological applications including anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities.
The fused and pendent 1,2,4-oxadiazole moiety has been traced in a number of well established,
commercially available drugs. This review article provides an up to date information about techniques
adopted for the synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles, and their therapeutic importance as anti-inflammatory
and analgesic agents.
Keywords: 1, 2, 4-Oxadiazole, NSAIDs, COX, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, COX.
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For a definition to not be circular, the definer must use already defined terms.
However, this process cannot go on indefinitely. If we were to insist on everything being defined only using previously defined terms, we would enter an infinite regress.
Concepts that are not defined in terms of previously defined concepts are called undefined terms.
An undefined term is frequently explained by using an ostensive definition: that is, a statement that shows what something is, rather than explains.
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Rachmaninoff the most innovative composer ever...says computer
Sergei Rachmaninoff came top of the computer model's rankings
Sergei Rachmaninoff came top of the computer model's rankings Credit: Alamy
Rachmaninoff was officially the most innovative of all the great composers, a computer has declared.
Scientists in South Korea have built an algorithm which they claim is capable of judging objectively the extent to which 19 of the best known composers brought the art form forward.
They developed a computer model which divided each of the musicians' compositions into "codewords", which were then used to compare hundreds of pieces of music both against the composers' previous works and the wider cannon.
It found Sergei Rachmaninoff, a giant of the late Romantic period, scored the highest, followed by J.S. Bach, Brahms and Mendelssohn.
Beethoven - on most critics' shortlist of the best composer of all time - only featured in the lower half of the innovation rankings, but the scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology still acknowledged the Germa to be one of the most "influential".
"Our model allows us to calculate the degree of shared melodies and harmonies between past and future works and to observe the evolution of western musical styles by demonstrating how prominent composers may have influenced each other," said Juyong Park, who worked on the study.
The exercise has been criticised by a leading Cambridge University musicologist as "trite" and incapable of quantifying and comparing musical quality.
Dr David Trippett an expert on 19th Century music, said: "Originality and creativity are inherently resistant to quantification.
"I wouldn't want to discourage scientists.
"The potential is that one day we might put all musical parameters into a magic pot and use the power of artificial intelligence to cook them up, but we're no way near that yet.
"These are baby steps."
A brilliant performer on the piano, Sergei Rachmaninov is best known for his piano compositions.
He was born in Russian in 1873, emigrating to the United States following the Russian revolution.


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Hot Springs, off from Montana Highway 28 on the eastern edge of Sanders County, was a place that received little attention in the survey work of _PHONE_. Everyone knew it was there, and that hot springs had been in operation trying to lure automobile travelers since the 1920s–but at that time, that was too new. The focus was elsewhere, especially on the late 19th century resorts like Chico Hot Springs (believe or not, Chico was not on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984). This section of what is now the reservation of the Consolidated Salish and Kootenai Tribes was opened to homesteaders in 1910 and first settlement came soon thereafter. The development of the hot springs as an attraction began within a generation.
Due to the 21st century fascination from historic preservationists for the modern movement of the mid-20th century, however, Hot Springs is now squarely on the map as a fascinating example of a tourist destination at the height of the automobile age from the 1930s to 1960s.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Symes Hotel and hot springs takes you back to the era of the Great Depression. Fred Symes acquired the family property and opened the Mission-style hotel in 1930. It has changed somewhat over the decades, but not much. The narrow hallways of the baths, with their single tubs ready for a soak, are still in operation.
What the Symes did for Hot Springs was to make it a destination, and to give a vernacular Mission-style look to other buildings from that decade such as the old Mission style building below and other storefronts on the town's main street.
Not everything fit into this mold, naturally. There remains a representative set of gable-front shotgun-form "cabins" that housed visitors staying for several days and various one-story buildings served both visitors and year-round residents.
Then a few years after World War II the tribe decided to invest in the town through the creation of the modernist landmark known as the Camas Hot Springs, truly a bit of the International style on the high prairie of western Montana.
This venture initially was successful and led to a population boom in the 1950s and 1960s but then as the interstates were built and the 1970s recession impacted travel choices, the Camas struggled and closed c. 1980. For the last 30 years this grand modernist design has been slowly melting away.
The loss would be significant because few mid-20th century buildings in Montana, especially rural Montana, are so expressive of the modernist ethos, with the flat roofs, the long, low wings and the prominent chimney as a design element. Then there are the round steel stilts on which the building rests.
As this mural suggests, today Hot Springs embraces its deep past as a place of sacred meaning to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai. And it continues to try to find a way to attract visitors as a 21st century, non-traditional hot springs resort.
That is not the theater. It burned down in the mid '70s but was about a hundred feet south of the building shown.
Thanks, made the change.
Very nice article. I hope it stimulates appropriate interest (not Real Estate Greed) to keep the area as a desirable living & tourist destination for the benefit of all concerned. Small towns are just as important to the cultural landscape as are large cities.
Really brings back memories. …as I and my family were raised there
Do you remember the small triplex with arched roofs on Third St. near the Alameda. It had 3 units and a soak?
Hi Rose Sanders!
Good old Hot Springs, huh?
Gloria Marten Price
Thank you for the memories.
One small error to correct: Confederated (not Consolidated) Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Thanks—corrected the post
Nicely done !
Thank you for the article and up date .
It's nice to see names of so many Hot Springs people I grew up with!
Gloria Marten Price


Are You Frugal or Cheap? Which One Are You?Yes, there is a difference!
Trust us: there is a huge difference between frugal and cheap!
We use the word "frugal" quite a bit here at SAHM, but how do you know if your frugality is really just you being cheap? With jobs getting harder to come by and money getting tight, the concept of being frugal is something that gets thrown around all the time. Now, it's easy to just be cheap while using frugality as an umbrella term for everything you do, but there's a lot more to being frugal than just buying the cheapest everything.
So what IS the difference? Are you frugal or cheap?
What does being frugal mean?
According to the dictionary, frugality is defined as "the wise and intentional use of money." The key word there is "intentional," and I think that's what really separates the cheapskates from the "frugalers" (which should totally be a word). In my own life, frugality is learning to get the most out of each and every dollar with a specific plan in mind. It is the deliberate decision to be prudent and wise with spending.
And what is being cheap?
On the other hand, when you're cheap, you're just reluctant to spend money at all, even when it's on something that you really need. You could use other words such as tight, miserly, and stingy, but they all describe the same type of person. Most people who are "cheap" are actually selfish and can even be dishonest if it means saving a couple of bucks.
Why? The only thing cheap people care for is keeping their money to themselves despite the possible consequences on other people (or even on themselves).
Let's put it to some examples to really see the clear difference between frugal and cheap.
The Difference Between Frugal And Cheap | Stay At Home Mum
1. Food
A cheap person will buy the food that costs the least, even if it means disregarding all nutritional and health impacts of doing so. A frugal person will prepare a food budget, take their health into account and weigh the pros and cons of spending a little more on something more nutritious.
So a cheap person will probably buy canned food good for a month while a frugal person will spend on fresh fruits and vegetables and figure out how to make food last longer.
The Difference Between Frugal And Cheap | Stay At Home Mum
2. Eating Out
A cheap person will also go out to dinner all the time, but rarely tip for good service using the excuse of not having enough money. On the other hand, a frugal person will plan for the coming month to see when their budget allows for eating out. Of course, the frugal person understands the value of money, so he or she will probably tip well!
The Difference Between Frugal And Cheap | Stay At Home Mum
3. Purchasing Items
A cheap person will buy something on sale even if they don't really need it simply because it's cheaper than it usually is. A frugal person only makes intentional purchases based on planning and necessity. They may buy a cheaper item, but only without sacrificing quality.
The Difference Between Frugal And Cheap | Stay At Home Mum
4. Savings
A cheap person also does not think long-term. They would rather buy water in plastic bottles every day than buy a single glass or stainless steel water bottle. But a frugal person thinks not only of long-term savings but also of the environment.
The Difference Between Frugal And Cheap | Stay At Home Mum
5. Giving Gifts
Oh, and cheap people are notorious for showing up on parties empty-handed! Frugal people, on the other hand, even with a limited budget will try their best to come up with a gift, whether bought or made by their own resourceful hands.
A frugal person would also rather buy something more expensive if it means better value.
Stay At Home Mum
Simply put, while a cheap person only looks at the financial aspect of things, a frugal person uses a more balanced perspective, taking many factors in mind. A frugal person asks many questions. Why this is cheaper? What is it made of? Will it be better for my family? Will this benefit other people? That is the difference between frugal and cheap.
Frugality is more than just saving money. Finding a good balance between the two can be hard, especially when you see your bank account dwindling between paychecks.
However, the most important thing to remember is that your health and comfort, as well as those of your family and of other people, are more important than having a few extra dollars at the end of the month. You work hard for your money, so you should be able to get a sense of fulfillment out of spending it.
In the end, frugality is really about finding the centre line between being cheap and the opposite side of the spectrum, which is spending extravagantly. The key is proper planning, research and budgeting, and with those, you'll find that your family has more money for "comfort" items at the end of each month.
So, which one are you?
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Year 11 Curriculum
In Year 11, students enrol in five Stage 1 subjects each semester. Students must study English for both semesters and Mathematics for a minimum of one semester. Each semester length subject contributes 10 credits towards the NT Certificate of Education and Training (NTCET). To proceed to Year 12, students must have at least 100 credits and should have met the minimum requirement for Mathematics and English.

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Indian Language Dictionaries
PKdeveloperes Indian Language Dictionaries with meaning, definition, examples, Translation, pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms and relevant words.
- English Hindi Dictionary
- English Bengali Dictionary
- English Telugu Dictionary
- English Tamil Dictionary
- English Malayalam Dictionary
- English Marathi Dictionary
- English Gujarati Dictionary
- English Kannada Dictionary
- English Urdu Dictionary
We are working to develop an website which can help people to translate english words to indian languages with translation, word definition, examples, transliteration, synonyms, antonyms, relevant words and more.
See also Jackals Meaning In Hindi – हिंदी अर्थ व्याख्या
"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil.. or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
Gelatin powder Meaning
Gelatin powder is a gelling agent and thickener used in a variety of recipes, from desserts and snacks to savory dishes. It's derived from animal collagen, primarily from cows or pigs.
The benefits of gelatin powder include improved digestion, joint pain relief, weight loss, improved skin, hair and nail health, better gut health and improved digestion. Also, it acts as a binding agent in foods and contains essential amino acids
Gelatin can be found in a range of different forms, including unflavored, flavored and light gelatin. All forms are created by boiling bones and tendons in a process called acid hydrolysis. The collagen is then processed into smaller, easier to digest pieces and the result is powdered gelatin
Gelatin can also be used in recipes that don't require any cooking. For example, a popular recipe is marshmallows. The gelatin is combined with corn syrup, extract, food color and water and then placed in a mold and chilled to form the marshmallow
When using gelatin in cooking, it's important to follow the package instructions for the best results. Generally, you should use ¼ teaspoon per cup of liquid, water or some other liquid. This can be mixed by stirring or shaking the container until it's dissolved. Guide times for setting gelatin in desserts and snacks will vary based on your recipe.
Gelatin may be cooked with dairy, eggs and citrus fruits. It does not have to be used with every meal as it causes no undesirable flavors. Generally, it forms a firm structure when cooked with other foods and helps to bind them together.
Gelatin is naturally low in fat, calories and carbs and is the perfect ingredient for people looking to reduce their calorie intake while providing great texture and flavors. In addition, it's an excellent source of protein and helps to improve digestion when consumed regularly.
Overall, gelatin powder is a versatile product in the kitchen. It helps to give texture, thickness and binding power to recipes. Plus, as it's an animal product, it's full of nutrients including essential amino acids and protein.


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Carpet Recycling UK will again be providing advice for retailers on sustainable disposal routes for carpet fitting waste and uplifted post-consumer carpets at the 2015 Buying Groups' National Flooring Show in Solihull on May 12 and 13.
Visitors to CRUK's stand at the Cranmore Park event can find out how clean installation waste take-back schemes and the rising numbers of outlets processing carpet waste for new uses offer many business benefits for retailers.
The industry-backed association for recycling and reusing waste carpet offers retailers opportunities to enhance their business and green credentials, as well as potentially save on disposal costs, by diverting waste material from landfill.
"In less than ten years we have created a nationwide network of recyclers and outlets that provide genuine and sustainable alternative disposal routes for waste carpet," comments CRUK Director, Laurance Bird. "This is both good news for the sector and good news for the environment.
"Consumers feel better knowing their waste carpet is diverted from landfill, while retailers can reduce the frequency of their general waste collections, as uplifted and fitting waste material can be recycled into new products."
Last year, a record-breaking 113,000 tonnes of carpet were reused, recycled or recovered for energy, representing a landfill diversion rate of 28%. CRUK's new target is 60% diversion from landfill by 2020. Some 400,000 tonnes of carpet waste arises each year in the UK.
Carpet Recycling UK welcomes enquiries from all types of organisations interested in finding new outlets for their waste carpet. It can be contacted on 0161 _PHONE_ or visit _URL_.


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A few days ago I posted about how overdominance, the fitness advantage of a heterozygote (an Aa genotype instead of an AA or aa genotype), can maintain polymorphism (genetic variation) within a population at a locus. Roughly, the equilibrium ratio between the two alleles is determined by their respective fitnesses in the homozygote state. For example, if AA & aa are of equal fitness and of lower fitness than the heterozygote then the final equilibrium frequencies will be 0.5.
Heterozygote advantage is intuitively comprehensible to many people, after all we've all heard of "hybrid vigor." During the genesis of theoretical evolutionary genetics some thinkers promoted the idea that balancing selection of various kinds, including heterozygote advantage, would result in a non-trivial proportion of extant genetic variation within a population. Coalescing around Sewall Wright and Theodosius Dobzhansky this was the "Balance School," which stood in contrast with the "Classical School" which took its lead from R.A. Fisher, who emphasized directional selection constraining polymorphism and either fixing or eliminating mutant alleles within a population. In 1966 Richard Lewontin and J.L. Hubby published A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura (full paper at link), which showed that the extant of genetic variation as inferred from allozyme diversity was far greater than either the Balance or Classical School has predicted. At first Lewontin & Hubby offered the idea that selection for heterozyogosity might be maintaining the variation that they observed (Lewontin was a student of Dobzhansky), but soon enough they rejected this on theoretical grounds. The logic is simple, so I will first go through the formal motions.
Consider a population whose fitness can modeled as such:
mean fitness = 1 – (selection against p1)*(p12) – (selection against p2)*(p22)
Roughly, this model shows the decrement in fitness from the heterozygote maximum which is generated by resegregation of homozogyotes each generation within a population at equilibrium.1 The fitness of homozygotes is weighted by their frequency within the population, and this is removed from the ideal maximum, normalized to 1. But this is only at one locus. The reality is that organisms exhibit a complex genetic architecture and innumerable loci. So let's assume that fitness is multiplicative, that is, the sum total fitness of an organism is the product of fitness across individual loci. Ergo:
mean fitness across all loci = product of mean fitnesses across all loci
Let's assume that the fitness of the two homozygotes across a number of loci is the same so that the proportion of alleles 1 & 2 at each diallelic locus is 0.5. Our relation simplifies to2:
mean fitness across all loci = (1 – 0.5*(homozygote fitness))(number of loci)
Now, by definition we know that homozygote fitness is going to be less than 1 because we're modeling overdominance. Let's assume that the homozygotes are all of fitness 0.85 (selection against = 0.15), and assume that there are 100 such loci. We obtain a mean fitness of:
0.0004 = (1 – 0.5*0.150)100
So the you see the problem, if we assume widespread heterozygote advantage very few individuals within a population would resegregate across independent loci so as to attain the maximum fitness. In fact, if you assume that some of the homozygotes are lethal you are trapped by the same problem that you encounter in inbreeding: it becomes difficult for a zygote to run the gauntlet of the myriad possibilities of a fatal genetic combination and be viable.
Then why variation? Neutral Theory and its heirs!
1 – First, homozygote matings produce only homozygote matings. Second, matings of heterozygotes with homozygotes and other heterozygotes also produce homozygotes.
2 – The formalism would be mean(w) = 1 – s1p12 – s2p22, where s1 = s2 and p12 = p22. This means you really have 1 – sp2 – sp2, where p = 0.5, so algebraically it is equivalent to 1 – 0.5(s).


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Let there be a cube with edge length of 9 units. Inside this cube there are 1981 points.
1. Prove that among these points there are at least 2 with the distance between them of less than 1 unit.
2. What's the biggest number of points that do not have the property stated at (1)?
2.1. How many points for the distance of 2 - 8 units?
If each point were at least a unit distance away from its nearest neighbor, then spheres of radius 1/2 could be made centered on each point without those spheres overlapping. The volume of a sphere of radius 1/2 is 4*pi*(1/2)^3 / 3 = pi/6. Multiplied by the 1981 points you've got, and the total volume is almost 1037, which is more than the cube's volume, which is 729. So even if spheres could completely fill space, there still would not be space enough in this cube.
It is almost certain that the densest packing of spheres fills pi/sqrt(18) of space, so we can start off with an approximation that in a volume of 729, there would be room for a volume of 729*pi/sqrt(18) to be taken up by the volumes of the spheres, and since each sphere has a volume of pi/6, you'd get 729*6/sqrt(18) ~= 1031 spheres.
However, since we're really only considering the points, parts of the spheres can extend outside the box so long as the central point does not. As the radii are 1/2 a better approximation would involve a cube of size 10x10x10 with volume 1000. 1000*6/sqrt(18) ~= 1414, so that is a better estimate of how many points will fit into the 9x9x9 cube. Conditions near the surface would affect the exact number, as there has to be a perfect structure to reach the optimum packing.
The above approximation, if d is taken as the distance instead of 1, is based upon (9+d)^3*pi/sqrt(18) / ((pi/6)*d^3)
pi = ATN(1) * 4
FOR d = 2 TO 8
n = (9 + d) ^ 3 * pi / SQR(18) / ((pi / 6) * d ^ 3)
PRINT d, INT(n +.5)
finds these approximations:
As the distances get larger in relation to the size of the cube, surface restrictions interfere all the more and so 14 can understandably be a poor approximation for a distance of 8.
Posted by Charlie
on 2010-01-27 14:21:01


AI Blue Dot | Main Concepts, Foundations, Singularity
Background Articles
(meant to be read in the order presented)
How We Form Our Political Opinions:
an AI Viewpoint
Although we are mostly interested in the politics of AI, there is also a reverse way of understanding how people form political opinions, using principles from AI. Neuroscientists have been building interesting bridges.
Main AI Concepts
There are many techniques used for building AI systems. But the recent spectacular success of AI is mainly due to advances in artificial neural networks. We will try to understand the concepts behind them.
AI Versus Human Intelligence
The most powerful model of intelligence is the human brain. How much of this power do we understand? How does the brain compute? Will we ever be able to design computations that will match all that complexity?
Graphs of Data
Social networks are large graphs of data. Your digital twin is a node in these graphs. Could all these graphs be connected into one massive graph and also connected to the graph of all human knowledge?
Foundational Questions
So far, we have built our knowledge of AI upwards. Now it's time to go back and ask foundational questions. Do we really understand what we are building? Are we setting the correct initial conditions for safe AI systems?
AI Singularities
and Quantum Computing
We can now put together ideas from the preceding articles. If you have powerful neural networks working on large graphs and adapt them to quantum computing, it is natural to envisage that an intelligence explosion will happen.


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Objective: To assess whether vitamin D (VD) levels in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients exhibit inter-dependence with serum lipid profile variables (serum cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein or HDL, low-density lipoprotein or LDL, and triglycerides) and to investigate the associations with clinical disability measures.
Methods: The study population consisted of consecutive 178 MS patients (age: 46.6±10.6 years; disease duration: 13.8±10.3 years). The patients were assessed for fasting lipid profile and VD obtained concomitantly. Neurological disability using the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) was obtained within ±6 months of the lipid profile. The associations between the HDL, LDL, total cholesterol and total cholesterol to HDL ratio with deseasonalized VD levels and their relationships with EDSS and the MS Severity Score (MSSS) were analyzed using regression methods.
Results: The cholesterol to HDL ratio was associated with the deseasonalized VD (r(p)=-0.18, p=0.019) and VD3 (r(p)=-0.17, p=0.028) levels. The probability of VD3 sufficiency was associated with HDL>60 mg/dl status (p=0.015, OR=0.42, 95% CI=0.20 to 0.86) and with total cholesterol to HDL ratio<3.5 status (p<0.001, OR=4.07, 95% CI=2.03 to 8.15). In stepwise regression models, EDSS was associated with total cholesterol to HDL ratio (p=0.008, r(p)=0.21) whereas MSSS was associated with deseasonalized 25-hydroxy VD3 (p=0.021, r(p)=-0.18). The probability of EDSS≥4.0 was also associated with total cholesterol to HDL ratio (p=0.011, OR=1.59, 95% CI=1.11 to 1.26).
Conclusions: The results suggest inter-dependence between the total cholesterol to HDL ratio and deseasonalized vitamin D levels in MS patients. Disability measures in MS are also associated with these inter-dependent variables.
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How to Play Sweeper in Soccer
If you're serious about playing, then you need to know how to play sweeper in soccer. In soccer, the sweeper plays a critical role in a diamond-defense formation. Learning how to play sweeper in soccer necessitates knowledge of individual responsibility and how to effectively work with two outside backs and a stopper.
- Know the role. When learning how to play sweeper in soccer, it is important to know that this position is the last line of defense between the opposition and your goalkeeper. If a striker gets by the sweeper, it's likely one-on-one with the keeper.
- Know the formation. Understand that in a diamond formation the sweeper plays directly behind the stopper and in between the outer backs.
- Know the movement. Note that the sweeper's role largely necessitates patrolling horizontally along the defensive wall. Knowing how to play sweeper in soccer will mean moving up and down field as the run of play moves, but largely staying back, tracking horizontally and staying in the center of the field.
- Pinch opponent's angles. A key element of learning how to play sweeper in soccer is knowing how to direct the opposition away from the center of the field: especially the center of the penalty box. If a player is attacking from the left side of the penalty box, the sweeper would be positioned just inside, making space for the player to move towards the touchline but giving no room to cut closer inside to goal.
- Defend against dribbling. Learning how to play sweeper in soccer means being able to defend the dribble. If an opponent is a superior dribbler, giving that player too much space to move might cost your team a goal. Mark or attack the player closely.
- Beware of the through ball. Dealing with midfielders passing balls through your defense to a quick striker poses real problems. In addition to closing off the striker's angle towards the center of the field, the sweeper will have to contend with someone who is purely faster. In this case, anticipation will play a role. As a pass is delivered, move towards and slightly bump into the striker, then run back for the ball. This will knock the striker off balance temporarily, giving the sweeper the advantage.
- Don't mark an opponent. To learn how to play sweeper in soccer it will be important to understand that marking an opponent man-to-man is only a last choice tactic. The sweeper must attack the ball, being the rear guard, and this will mean leaving the marked opponent open.


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Digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage in Vorarlberg 2004
(Status: June 2004)
There are three types of museums in Vorarlberg: state museums, regional museums and thematic museums. The state museums are the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, the inatura Dornbirn and the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Furthermore, there are 14 regional museums and 30 thematic museums.
Digitisation of cultural heritage in Vorarlberg is—at least to some extent—connected with the problem of which museum software to apply. Currently, a working group is evaluating different software solutions (mbox or MS Storage). For smaller museums, the high investment costs are a major barrier to digitisation. A possible solution may be to acquire smaller software versions. A further problem for many smaller local and regional museums is a shortage of trained personnel.
1.1) Kunsthaus Bregenz
The Kunsthaus Bregenz digitises the literary works of Bechtold Kalb-Wacker. Photographs, letters, and manuscripts are digitally registered and documented. Several thousand objects have already been digitised and stored in the electronic database HIDA-MIDAS.
1.2) Naturmuseum inatura Dornbirn
The library of the natural history museum inatura Dornbirn includes a variety of information dealing with the geography, biology and environment, with a particular focus on documents, literature and images on Vorarlberg. The library catalogue has been registered and is accessible online via the online library catalogue of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek.
1.3) Frauenmuseum in Hittisau
The Frauenmuseum (Women's Museum) in Hittisau digitally registers its cultural heritage objects (every day objects, including craft, folk and arts). In addition, it has contributed to the establishment of a database of cultural heritage objects for the region of Bregenzerwald (Kulturgüterdatenbank Bregenzerwald). The role of the Frauenmuseum is to reflect the female perspective of cultural heritage.
2.1) Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek
The Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek is a public institute of the province of Vorarlberg. It documents and preserves literature on Vorarlberg.
A major initiative of the Voralberger Landesbibliothek is the establishment of a Digital Vorarlberg Library. In a first step, the magazine Montfort has been digitised and can now be accessed online (including a search function by key words). Other historical magazines of Vorarlberg are now continuously digitised and made available on the Internet. Online search criteria include format (e.g. CD-ROMs, books, articles etc.), period of time, subject, and language(s). It is also possible to view the objects online.
The media catalogue Vorarlbergensien (Medienkatalog Vorarlbergensien) can also be accessed online. The catalogue includes audio, video and press documents dealing with the theme Voralberg, such as the television news Vorarlberg Heute (since 1988) and Landesrundschau (since 1997), as well as documentations, radio broadcasts, sports, culture or political features or radio dramas. Furthermore, the catalogue includes more than 50,000 newspaper articles covering Vorarlberg in the Austrian, German, and Liechtenstein press. These can be accessed online and viewed at the Landesbibliothek.
A major initiative of the Landesbibliothek is the digitisation of the Risch-Lau collection of post cards, in a first step by microfilming. The collection features mostly landscapes and persons from 1948 to the 1970s. The collection originates from the company archive of the former publisher of postcards Risch-Lau. The collection was purchased in 1990 by the Landesbibliothek and includes approximately 40,000 objects (negatives, positives and glass templates) which mostly feature images of Vorarlberg. More than 7,000 objects have been digitised so far.
3.1) Vorarlberger Landesarchiv
The Vorarlberger Landesarchiv is both the historical archive as well as the administrative archive for the province of Vorarlberg.
Its main responsibilities are:
- Preservation and documentation
- Management of archive collections
- Research on the history of Vorarlberg
- Education and information
The state archive recognises the growing importance of digitisation, although currently it depends on microfiche to store documents and records.
4) Further digitisation initiatives in Vorarlberg
4.1) Digitisation of Vorarlberger Landtagsprotokolle (protocols of the state parliament of Vorarlberg)
The digitisation of the protocols of the state parliament of Vorarlberg was a major initiative of the Vorarlberger Landtag. So far, the digitised protocols date back to 1994; the annexes back to 1999. In a further step, the protocols dating back to 1989 have also been digitised. They can be accessed online. In the future, it is planned to digitise the entire parliamentary documentation from 1945 onwards.
The parliamentary protocols are an important and invaluable information source on the political, legal, social, lingual, and historical development in Vorarlberg.


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Chicken feathers, as unlikely as it seems, have turned out to be a wonderfully useful material. Among other things, researchers have found they make for great circuit boards and cheap, efficient storage tanks for hydrogen. Now it turns out they could also be used to create biodegradable, petroleum-free plastics.
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say that the protein keratin in chicken feathers, which is strong and durable, as well as the fact that so many of them end up as unused waste, is what makes them such an appealing material. When making the plastic, the scientists heat-treated the feathers to clean them and then pulverized them into a fine powder. They then added chemicals that made the keratin molecules join together into long chains and create a polymer.
The resulting plastic was stronger than other bioplastics made of soy beans or starch and it stood up to water. The material is a thermoplastic which means that heat can be used to mold it into various products and can be melted and remolded many times. It could be used for plastic plates and cups or even furniture and when those things are no longer usable, the plastic is biodegradable.
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Question - how do I re-arrange the elements in a list into a random order (e.g. to shuffle a pack of cards, or to arrange the tracks on a CD into a random order for playing each once?)
Answer - use the power of a Python module - in this case the random module which includes a shuffle fucntion that does exactly what you need.
from random import *
from sys import *
top = int(argv[1])
basehand = range(1,top+1)
for track in basehand:
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The Research of the Gender Role Stereotypes from Three Generations of Cartoons
The purpose of this study was to analyze "gender role stereotypes" from three generations of cartoons. The researcher applied content analysis to analyze two episodes from twelve different cartoons， totaling twenty four in all. The researcher analyzed "gender characteristics" from three generations of cartoons. The finding of this research revealed that the gender role stereotypes still existed in three generations of cartoons， In spite of this， we still could see the change during these three generations. For example， the "brave characteristic" would not apply only to male cartoon characters， whereas in the third generation the "crying characteristic" was not exclusive to female characters. In addition， cartoon female characters were more multi-dimensional in dealing with their emotions. In the first generation， male cartoon characters actively pursue female characters which they find attractive. During the second generation， along with male characters displaying stereotypical behavior， female characters also began to outwardly express their love towards male characters. Nonetheless， we could still see the existence of gender stereotypes caused by traditional values， such as female characters depicting characteristics of fantasy dreaming， materialistic ideals， and love of discounted products. Male characters also exhibited preference for sports and competition. Overall， cartoons may no longer portray as many gender role stereotypes nowadays. Even so， we still can find some forms of traditional gender role stereotypes existing within the third generation of cartoons.
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Parachute Jumper Gives Imitation of a Flying Squirrel (Sep, 1930)
Parachute Jumper Gives Imitation of a Flying Squirrel
IN a startling imitation of a flying squirrel, Rex G. Finney, parachute juniper of the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, demonstrated his stunt of becoming a human glider before the public recently with great success.
A triangular piece of sail cloth sewn between the legs of his flying suit acts upon the air in the same manner as the membranes of the flying squirrel, enabling him to perform thrilling glides and stalls while in the air.
As he jumps from the plane, Finney stretches his legs apart, and the wind, acting upon the web between his outstretched legs in much the same manner as it acts. upon the elevators of a plane, enables him to glide a steep angle. By doubling his knees he is thrown into a climbing stall.


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Trauma Outcome Prediction in the Era of Big Data: From Data Collection to Analytics
Physiological data of unprecedented volume is generated daily in healthcare. The Big Data approach in medical data analysis could assist clinicians in doing fast and accurate diagnosis and planning early therapeutic interventions, hence improving patients' outcomes and reducing healthcare cost. However, it is still challenging to reliably collect a large amount of data from bedside monitors and to discover knowledge from the physiological data.
In the area of trauma patient care, early recognition and mitigation of secondary injury and hemorrhage could prevent death caused by massive bleeding or improve patients' life quality after treatment. We describe methods that are used in a level I regional trauma center for massive physiological data collection and analysis. An almost 100% collection rate of continuous, automated, high-fidelity data provides the basis for clinical data mining. Within the machine learning framework, we introduce feature design, feature selection, model performance evaluation, and computing issues, which are critical components in large-scale medical data analysis. Validated knowledge from massive data can be used by clinicians in a simple way for decision making or prioritizing care in the busy hospital environment.


Add a New Page to ASP.NET Core Razor Project
Adding pages to an ASP.NET Core Razor pages application is a process that you might need to go through many times, and it probably sounds like something simple, but that is not always the case.
This post will show you how to add a new ASP.NET page to an existing ASP.NET Core Razor page application.
Create a new Page
If you need to create a new page using the .NET CLI, open the project directory Pages folder (see screenshot) and run the command below.
dotnet new page --name mycode
In our case, we added a page called mycode.
How does it work?
Behind the scenes, ASP.NET uses a method called MapRazorPages() that maps any page added to the Pages/ to the routing template using attribute routing.
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will make the art much easier and more enjoyable to practice. He will begin to make smaller movements to accomplish the same objectives as the other belt. For example, to a black belt, the difference between escaping and being held down is often the difference between a hip movement of less than one inch. YES, I SAID "ONE INCH!" The black belt's feel and sensitivity of the game is so much higher than the white, blue or even purple belt's game. The black belt begins to move like a shadow. He flows effortlessly around his opponent's movement and follows the path they set. He finds his opponent's weakness and then exploits it. The game is very small and tactile!
 Finally, the black belt's knowledge and ability to execute counters will be much higher. For example, when a student performs a basic technique, the black belt is already three or four moves ahead of him. The black belt knows that for every move, there are several counters. For every counter, there are several more counters. Let me show this to you another way:
 We will call the bridge and roll escape from the mount (Upa), technique "A". Technique "A" has ten (10) counters to it:
 A.1 straight arm lock
 A.2 catch your balance with your head
 A.3 catch your balance with your right foot
 A.4 catch your balance with you left foot
 A.5 catch your balance with your far arm
 A.6 spin to knee on stomach
 A.7 spin to side mount
 A.8 turn onto your side
 A.9 roll and sweep to mount
 A.10 triangle
 "A.1" is the first counter to technique "A", the bridge and roll escape from the mount position. "A.1" also has ten (10) counters to it:
 A.1.1 heel hook
 A.1.2 sit up and crush escape
 A.1.3 sit up and crush escape to knee lock
 A.1.4 sit up and remove leg off face
 A.1.5 sit up and spin to opposite side
 A.1.6 roll over shoulder escape
 A.1.7 basic elbow/knee escape
 A.1.8 basic elbow/knee escape, go to the back
 A.1.9 basic elbow/knee escape
 A.1.10 shin
 Now, do you see how I could keep going on and on with counters? I could list the ten counters for A.2 and A.3 and so on, and then I could begin to list the counters for A.1.1 and A.1.2 and so on and so on.
 Do you now see and understand the progression from white to black belt? The process of becoming skilled at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is frustrating, very time consuming and nerve racking, however, it is always rewarding!
 I wish you continued success in your journey. Keep training hard and smart!
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We would like you to take a reading of your school's electricity meter at the start and end of the week prior to launching your Carbon Footprint Awareness Week. This will give you an idea of the number of units of electricity your school uses in a typical week.
During this week you will need to walk round your school between 10.00a.m to 11.00a.m and carry out the survey. It is important that all the schools doing this survey carry it between these times to give a fair comparison.
You will then need to launch your Carbon Footprint Awareness Week promoting as many energy saving ideas as you can (based on some of your findings in your energy survey). Take the electricity meter reading at the beginning of this week and at the end of the week, once again between 10.00a.m and 11.00a.m.
Compare the two readings, work out how many units of electricity you have managed to save, and if you can work out the cost of these units and there contribution to your school's carbon footprint(I will try and find a formula to help you do this)
Once you have carried out your surveys and Awareness Week you will need to publish your results on your school website and email each of the participating schools with your results so that comparisons can be made. It would also be great if we could email each other with any great ideas each school has to reduce their electricity usage. Discuss this project and share your ideas here
Get pupils' classes in school to work out their carbon footprint using the carbon footprint link:
This project leads towards: Earth Day on 27th March Schools Low Carbon Day on 24th June
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Royal Air Force Station Leicester East
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, near the village of Stoughton
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, 4 NM east southeast of Leicester
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. It was constructed in 1942, and formally opened in October 1943.
In March 1945 all operational military aircraft left Leicester East, and the airfield was placed on Care and Maintenance until its closure on 31 December 1947.
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- flying Short Stirling
RAF Leicester East today
Today, the former RAF Leicester East is now known as Leicester Airport
Leicester Airport is a small aerodrome in Stoughton, Leicestershire, east southeast of Leicester. It was previously known as Stoughton Aerodrome...
, and was previously known as Stoughton Aerodrome.
The airfield, control tower
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, and other smaller buildings are now used by the Leicestershire Aero Club
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- List of aircraft of the RAF
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PATRIC - Formative Evaluation
PATRIC is an online database of bacterial genomic data and it includes features that allow biological researchers upload and analyze their own data, especially for investigations into infectious diseases and their cures.

Consider the following scenario..
"A biologist finds a new and mysterious pathogen that is causing an unknown disease with no known cures. She takes a sample, gathers the bacterium's genetic data and uploads it to PATRIC. Using various tools on the website, she runs algorithms to break apart, analyze, and dive deep into the pathogen's genetic structure. She also compares the pathogen with thousands of other pathogens to find similarities between them, and possible susceptibilities to antibiotics. Eventually, she arrives at a cure that is mass produced immediately and succeeds at stopping what could have been a lethal epidemic."
PATRIC is a joint venture between Virginia Tech's Biocomplexity Institute and The University of Chicago.
The Challenge
Conduct a formal usability evaluation of a widely-used feature on the PATRIC website. Provide recommendations for design based on heuristics and research insights. Align website UI with and users' domain-specific mental models.
Project Plan
1) Stakeholder meeting to finalize important website elements needing evaluation
2) Defining benchmark tasks
3) Developing experimental plan and securing IRB approval
4) Participant recruitment and pilot testing
5) Conduct Evaluation
6) Analyze and create presentation
Current Progress
We have concluded that a specific feature called BLAST will be evaluated. We will conduct semi-structured post-experiment interviews which will measure subjective performance and frustration, and deliver insight into the efficiency of the current design.
We have decided to focus on evaluating a specific website feature called BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), because although it is a very widely used feature, it has not been previously evaluated. The purpose of BLAST is to calculate the percentage similarity of a queried genetic sequence to other sequences in a library or database. The interface of the tool is shown below.
More Details Coming Soon...


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Existence Verbs Japanese Lesson
Now that we've got some experience with adjectives and questions, it's high time we learned a verb other than "desu". Let's start nice and gentle-like with the rather useful concept of existence. We'll be working up to more general verbs pretty quickly in a future lesson.
Here, There, and Everywhere
Before we get going, let's learn a new set of those ko-so-a-do words to go with places:
"koko" = here (place where the speaker is)
"soko" = there (place where the listener is)
"asoko" = over there (place near neither the speaker or listener)
"doko" = where
These words follow the same pattern as all the other ko-so-a-do words, and have nice useful English equivalents.
Only one little issue: using them isn't quite so simple. You'd think that, since "desu" is used in sentences with meanings like "I am supremely cool.", that it can be used to say something like "I am here." But no, we're going to need a whole new "to be" verb for that. Enter "imasu".
Your first non-desu verb: "imasu". Check out this sentence:
"Watashi wa koko ni imasu." ("I am here.")
Woah, that's longer that you'd think. Breaking it down, we've got the subject at the beginning, marked by the trusty particle "wa", then the location where the existing is done in the middle, marked by the new (to you) particle "ni", and a verb at the end, "imasu".
"Imasu" is a general-purpose "to be" verb, meaning "am" or "is" as they relate to the existence of something. That is, "I am.", as opposed to "I am cool."--the first one declares existence, while the second one declares some property of the person. It's a subtle difference, but you'll get the hang of it.
With some color coding, we thus have:
Watashi wa koko ni imasu. = I am here.
The Knights Who Say "ni"
Convenient Monty Python reference aside, "ni" is a particle that shows up all over the place. It gets used a few ways, but for the most part marks a location or direction that applies to the verb in the sentence. It covers some of the same ground as "in" and "at" in English, but keep in mind that is also required in places where you're not used to seeing either.
"Watashi wa koko ni imasu." ("I am here.")
"Watashi wa uchuu ni imasu." ("I am in space.")
"Watashi wa gakkou ni imasu." ("I am at school.")
The first step in making this more confusing is a second new particle, "ga". In general terms, it's the same as "wa"--it marks the subject of a sentence. Sometimes they're interchangeable, but in certain sentences you just gotta have "ga", such as this one:
"Nyan-chan ga imasu!" ("It's a kitty!")
This is a simple sentence declaring (literally speaking) that a cat exists. This comes out more like pointing out the existence of a particular cat, hence the more accurate English meaning of "It's a kitty." "Nyan-chan", if you didn't guess, combines "nyan", the sound Japanese cats make, and the affectionate "chan", to get the baby-talk word for "cat".
So how come "ga" in this case? Sadly, when exactly to use "wa" and when to use "ga" is a tricky proposition (more than you even want to think about), but in this case it's because the emphasis is on the existence of the thing, rather than its location. For the time being, just remember that "ga" is the particle of choice when you're pointing out the existence (as opposed to location) of something.
Being There and Being There
Confusion time. There are actually two words to describe the existence of something: "arimasu", which is used only with inanimate objects like TNT, trees, and stars, and "imasu", which is used for living, active things, like people, kittens, and 15-foot sharp-clawed demons. For those wondering about robots, that's your call, depending in part how close to alive the robot is.
Examples make everything clearer:
Neko ga imasu." ("There is a cat.")
Omocha ga arimasu." ("There is a toy.")
Neko no omocha ga arimasu." ("There is a cat's toy.")
Kyodai na bakemono ga Toukyo ni imasu." ("There is a giant monster in Tokyo.")
Tokorode, bakudan ga anata no kuruma no naka ni arimasu." ("By the way, there is a bomb in your car.")
As you can see, cats and giant monsters are living things, and hence need "imasu". Also note the na-adjective in there--"kyodai" ("giant"), which is modifying "bakemono" ("monster").
The other three are all inanimate objects, so must be paired with "arimasu"; "omocha" ("toy"), "neko no omocha" ("cat's toy"--recognize the possessive "no"?), and "bakudan" ("bomb"). The last two sentences also include locations, "Toukyou" (the proper way to pronounce Tokyo) getting visited by a giant monster, and "anata no kuruma no naka", which involves both another possessive phrase, "your car" and the specific location "naka" ("inside"), which we won't get into in detail until a bit later.
Here's a short conversation that, when you skim over the stuff we haven't covered yet, involves both "imasu" and "arimasu":
Mirai: "Ashita paati ga arimasu." ("There will be a party tomorrow.")
Ken: "Dare ga kimasu ka?" ("Who will be there?")
Mirai: "Watashi no tomodachi. Kawaii onnanoko ga ippai imasu yo!" ("My friends. There will be a lot of cute girls!")
Ken: "Yatta!" ("Score!")
Focusing on what Mirai is saying, she first comments that a party (which is not a living thing despite appearances) will be existing, so "arimasu" is required. "Ashita" ("tomorrow") is tacked on to the beginning to identify the time more specifically.
Mirai then points out that among her friends exist many cute girls, who, being living creatures, require "imasu". "Onna no ko" (literally "woman child") means "girl" (in the same sense as in English, so it covers both kids and young women if you're not being technical), "ippai" is a useful word meaning "lots"/"a lot", and you'd better know "kawaii" by now. This is a subtly different use of "imasu"--it isn't just pointing out that Mirai has cute friends (in which case she would have said it differently, perhaps using something along the lines of "Watashi no tomodachi wa kawaii desu.", which you can figure out if you remember the previous lesson). Rather, within the group of her friends, specifically, many cute girls exist. We don't say it like that in English, of course, but that's the way it goes.
If you're wondering about Ken, in his question you will see a different verb, which we'll be covering in lesson 4, and in his final comment you'll see the popular phrase "yatta", an all purpose expression of success made famous by Chun Li of Street Fighter fame.
Putting It All Together
Existence of living things:
"Watashi wa koko ni imasu." ("I am here.")
"Watashi wa [location] ni imasu." ("I am (in/at) [location].")
"[Living thing] wa [location] ni imasu." ("[Living thing] is (in/at) [location].")
"[Living thing] ga imasu." ("There is (a) [living thing].")
Existence of inanimate objects:
"[Thing] wa [location] ni arimasu." ("[Thing] is (in/at) [location].")
"[Thing] ga arimasu." ("There is (a) [thing].")
Have a shot at this sentence:
"Anata no kuruma wa Roshia ni arimasu."
If you've forgotten, "kuruma" means "car", and you can probably figure "Roshia" out if you say it out loud--"Russia". This means, therefore, "Your car is in Russia."
Let's try one that's a little more challenging:
"Ore no hiru-gohan wa soko ni imasu."
"Hiru-gohan" is a new word meaning simply "lunch" (literally, "afternoon-meal"), and "ore" is a masculine term for "me". As a result, the sentence in English means "My lunch is right there."...but did you catch the subtle hint? Notice that the word "imasu" is used instead of "arimasu". This would imply that lunch is still alive and kicking, so the speaker either is getting ready to turn that "imasu" into an "arimasu", or likes his food lively. Plus, since "soko


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Vietnamese civil servants holding positions at levels of ministerial bureaus and departments or higher should be banned from depositing money or assets abroad or owning property overseas, according to a research group's proposal aimed at preventing corruption and improving the recovery of losses in corruption case.
Such a proposed prohibition is one of many solutions that have been raised in a study on "recovery of property from corruption cases – the practice in Vietnam and international experience" conducted by a group of researchers under the Vietnam Party Central Committee's Commission for Internal Affairs.
The suggested ban was voiced by Vu Thu Hanh, deputy director of the Commission's General Research Department, when she was presenting a report on the results of the study at a seminar held in Hanoi on March 13.
One of the solutions to improve recovery of property from corruption cases is that there should be a regulation banning officials holding positions at the ministerial bureau and department levels upward from depositing money or assets abroad or taking ownership of property overseas, Hanh said, citing the study.
Such a regulation will help prevent and detect corruption involving foreign factors, and prevent the possibility that corrupt officials secretly build economic foundations abroad so that they can flee and live on such foundations after committing acts of corruption at home, Hanh said.
Property damage caused by corruption is growing, and the situation in which public servants solicit bribes or commit harassment while on duty is still rampant, according to the research group.
Corruption in Vietnam is still serious and complicated, with corrupt acts taking place in many fields and on many levels of power, showing signs of being organized, as well as signs of the existence and influence of interest groups, the researchers said.
Official statistics on the value of property recovered from corruption cases nationwide have yet to be made available, but according to reports from competent agencies, the value of properties recovered from corruption cases in 2013 accounted for only 10% of the total losses in such cases, the group said.
In 2014, the rate was higher, at 22%, the group said, but warned that the actual rate may be lower.
At the seminar, most delegates agreed that the recovery of assets originating from corrupt acts and confiscation of property acquired in corruption cooperation cases are important activities in the fight against corruption.
Pham Quy Ty, former Deputy Minister of Justice, suggested that such property confiscation should be carried out based on court judgments, rather than administrative decisions.
"The commission will review and assess the study's results and proposals by the research groups so that they can become the commission's official opinions that will then be submitted to competent Party and government agencies," said Pham Anh Tuan, deputy head of the Commission for Internal Affairs.
Đăng ký: VietNam News


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RhinoResurf for Rhino is a reverse engineering plug-in for Rhinoceros®. This plug-in gives Rhino the ability to reconstruct the geometry represented by NURB surface of an object from a mesh or point cloud which describes it.
RhinoResurf for Rhino can drape a surface over a point cloud with specified tolerance. Draping a surface is similar to laying a piece of cloth over an object. The surface is deformed to take the shape of the object along the drape direction. The drape direction is calculated automatically. Command: RsPoints2Surf
RhinoResurf for Rhino can convert an open mesh model to a single NURB surface with specified tolerance. The mesh is allowed to have interior holes in the model. Command: RsMesh2Surf
RhinoResurf for Rhino can create a nurbs surface from selected curves (such as contour curve). Command: RsCurves2Surf
RhinoResurf for Rhino can convert an open or closed mesh to multiple NURB surfaces. User selects a mesh, and defines a curve network by drawing lines on the selected mesh. Then just click one or two buttons, the selected mesh will be converted to multiple NURB surfaces with specified tolerance. The transition between any two NURBS surface patches reaches G1 continuity. Command: RsMesh2Surfs
RhinoResurf for Rhino can automatically generate nurbs surfaces from a selected mesh. Command: RsAutoNurbs
RhinoResurf for Rhino can create a mesh from selected point cloud. Command: RsPointCloud2Mesh
RhinoResurf for Rhino can merge several meshes into one mesh body. Command: RsMergeMeshs
RhinoResurf for Rhino is designed to be extremely user friendly and easy to understand. You load it manually at the first time and it automatically loads itself into the Rhino environment later. Once loaded it adds new commands to Rhino's existing commands and a new submenu called "Resurf" to the Rhino menu containing these newly added commands.
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Every command from ReSurf crashes on win7x64 with Rhino4-SP9. Pleaaaaasseeee fix it, or help needed. I'm too much hurry to mess with it.
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This product works very well, and is very easy to use. I tried a bunch of Polygon Mesh to Nurbs conversion software and found this to be the best for the money. I found them very responsive to comments about the software
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This plug-in is quite good. The developer is very helpful and responsive. They've been very receptive to feedback and have made the plug-in even better in the short time I've been trying it. Sometimes the curve network based multisurface tool is difficult to get working right but even their single surface from point cloud/mesh tools work very well. As far as reverse engineering tools go this one is probably the best feature/price combo you'll find.
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baby's tissue heals, then you will have to harm the baby in some way. But as Christians, we have moral, ethical principles. A baby is a human life. But if we don't do the research, then we may never have the opportunity to understand how humans can heal without scarring. It appears to be such a contradictory world, you know, fetal wounds healing so wonderfully-- but we can't do it, and just what is the solution?
What was God's original intention? Did God really create a contradictory world? It was a problem plaguing many, many scientists for a long time. That is, until we discovered research by some scientists and a professor and started extending their research in the area of the amniotic membrane. It is a membrane surrounding an unborn child before birth that connects to the baby's umbilical cord. After caesarean section, the baby comes out and the sac and amniotic membrane is discarded. So even though it has the same healing characteristics as a baby's tissue, it was connected to the baby -- but is not part of the baby.
Magically, miraculously, it has the same biochemical, biological properties that the baby's tissues have. So we started to do some research. The idea was if we transplanted the amniotic membrane, then maybe the secret would be in the membrane since it had the same healing properties as the baby before birth. So basically, after an injury, we started looking at covering one eye with the amniotic membrane to recreate a fetal-like environment.
A magical thing took place. For underneath this amniotic membrane, the body, the adult body, the adult eye wakes up. It looks up and says, "Oh I guess we were wrong, we're not born yet." And it will reactivate the regenerative ability it used to have before birth in each of us. The body will start to heal without scar. Then we remove the membrane, two weeks later, and instead of seeing a blind, painful eye, you see clear vision.
The best part as a Christian involved in the research at the time, was to find what was God's original intention. Here God gave us an opportunity and we stumbled upon it because we happened to have persistence and did not give up and did not accept a contradictory world. We still had the faith and confidence that God created a perfect world. It may have appeared to be contradictory and we didn't know what to do, because we didn't know better.
(Before and after pictures of injured eyes are shown.) We had one patient who had been blind for 30 years, who had 15 failed conventional surgeries and was declared irreversibly blind. After the amniotic membrane graft, sight was restored. Another patient had a devastating autoimmune disease and had been blind for many years, and it was very painful. He was very interesting because at the time we only had amniotic membrane tissue from an African American individual, and this patient was a Caucasian person. So I told him, "John, we can transfer African American tissue on you if you want, or we can wait." He said, "Dr. Wang, go for it." He is now the only man of his kind walking on this planet - a white man with black eyes.
As the amnio-membrane research developed we realized there were only a few qualified specialized surgeons and centers, but patients were getting injured everywhere all the time. We also found that we have to graft the membrane within 24 hours after the injury before the scarring process starts. How can we accomplish that? Only a few doctors can do the transplantation in specialized centers, but people need help throughout the world.
Again, the faith issue comes. God does have solutions. It may not be apparent to us. We need to put a membrane on any injury within 24 hours anywhere in the world, but the surgical grafting technology and training will take a long time to spread, but we cannot give up. We have got to have faith and keep plugging away, trusting that God is going to reveal to us when we have truly done our homework.
In this case - contact lenses were His answer. Our team discovered that if you affix the membrane under a contact lens and put it in a bottle then anyone who has basic medical training in an emergency room who can put a contact lens on a patient will be able to immediately start the regenerative scar-preventing process of healing. That became our solution to the problem.
(Pictures are shown of the research paper written and the U.S. Patent for the invention.) So amniotic membrane contact lenses create a fetal like environment tapping the fountain of youth - reactivating the regenerative ability within each of us that we used to have before we were born, and it is part of God's original design to be able to advance science without compromising moral or ethical principles.
As a scientist and as a Christian, this is a beautiful example because there is no moral or ethical dilemma with using the membrane, and magically it was connected to the baby before birth. God had the intention a long time ago. When we discovered that, we were so overjoyed and I felt like God was up there saying, "Yes, I told you all a long time ago to trust me and things will happen. You are human beings -- just believe in me."
I think God has created a world without contradiction. It may have appeared to be contradictory to us at the time because we did not know better. What we need to do as Christians and as scientists in this case, is keep the faith, work hard, and do our part and believe in Him and He will reveal Himself to us when He wants to.
In this case we can truly advance science and research by understanding how the little baby heals, without harming the baby.
With regard to my work in China, I go to China 6 or 7 times a year. Our system is called HC of China. It is the largest private eye hospital in China and a third of our resources are devoted to charity. In China charity and philanthropy are less prevalent than in the United States and I am often asked, "Why does the US have so much charity and people are more willing to give and a country like China much less?" Do you know what my answer is? Faith, or lack of. I feel that if one truly believes, one would then know and have the confidence that God is watching over you and that your duty as a human being is to help another human being.
So I think that in the case of charity, charity itself is the fundamental driving force in most of us to give and to help – this is the Christian faith. (More pictures are shown.)
I am in some twenty countries per year traveling to lecture. When I am not here in Nashville there is no surgery; I stop all surgery because I want to do every surgery for my patients myself. The best way to demonstrate your responsibility to your patients is to do it completely yourself. This patient was the first bladeless Lasik surgery patient in China - the first one in 1.4 billion people. Chinese hospitals together with U.S. medical establishments, involving a team of doctors, are actively involved internationally in charity care guided by Christian principles. In various ways we have helped patients from 40 states and 55 countries, with doctors donating all the medical care.
This is the story of Kajal an Indian child, about whom you might have heard. Two years ago Kajal was in Calcutta India. Her stepmother intentionally blinded her by pouring acid into her eyes. She became totally blind and was then abandoned in a train station. A Christian social work group called Society of Underprivileged People, or SOUP for short, rescued Kajal in the train station and found that she was severely damaged and totally blind.
Again, guided by Christian principles and the loving hearts of Christian brothers and sisters, Kajal was rescued, and then the group began searching around the world for a surgical team that could restore Kajal's sight. They contacted many medical centers in the United States. After a year or so, they contacted us and we raised money and brought Kajal and her caretaker to the United States last year. We performed one surgery and improved her vision a little bit, but she still has several more surgeries to go over the next several years. Our foundation has a gala once a year to raise funds to help blind people see, with the doctors donating their services, and guess what we call the gala: The Eye Ball. At Eye Ball 2007 on October 7th, Kajal was our featured guest. Amidst all the beauty of ballroom dancing - Viennese waltz, ball gowns and tails - amidst all the beauty of God's creation, we all became quiet and listened to the words of Kajal who is five years old, realizing that her world at that time was without color, without sight and it was a dark world because she could not see.
Further, we reminded ourselves of the preciousness of our sight and our need to help those who could not see. This is a picture of the first dance. (showing the slide) I am the organizer of the Eye Ball and over 100 other people stepped in to help Kajal. I was really amazed. Most were Christians. How amazing are the caring spirits that are helping this child in her courageous journey from darkness to sight, from all around the world. And all


Depending upon the table, you can delete multiple records using the Bulk Delete action.
 1. Access the table containing the records you want to delete.
 2. Select the records you want to delete by clicking the checkbox next to each record.
 NOTE: You can select all records that are displayed by clicking the checkbox in the upper left corner:
 If the list of records exceeds the page limit (i.e., 20 records), a message will appear at the top indicating that you have only selected the records on this page and a link allows you to select all records.
 3. From the Actions drop-down menu, select Bulk Delete. The Review step in the Bulk Delete process appears in the top right:
 4. Review the records to be deleted. If correct, click Next at the bottom of the window. The records will be deleted.
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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 149,270 pages of information and 234,239 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1834 The Brentwood Gas, Light and Coke Co. was a private company formed by Deed of Settlement.
1898 the company gained statutory powers and changed its name to the Brentwood Gas and Coke Co.
1905 the name was changed to the Brentwood Gas Company.
1924 The works were modernised between 1924 and 1926.
1925 Brentwood took over the Ingatestone and Fryering Gas Co. Ltd., closing down production at the Ingatestone works the following year leaving the site as a holder station.
1932 the Brentwood Gas Company was taken over by the Gas Light and Coke Co.
1933 the manufacturing works were closed and the site used as a holder station.