written in). This allows the browser, for example, to display the appropriate UI elements to the user or in development tools.
The Lifecycle of a Response
Status codes also tell the Google crawler what to do: pages responding with 200 OK status codes will be indexed, pages responding with 500 errors will be revisited later, and the crawler will follow redirection instructions from pages responding with 300-series status codes.
The Lifecycle of a Response
For these reasons, we want to be as precise as possible when choosing a status code.
(Pro-tip: you can learn a lot more about status codes by going to _URL_
The simplest responses are the ones that require no response body. Even better, we can tell the browser not to even expect a response body by choosing the correct status code.
For example, let's say our Safari Controller has an eat_hippo action:
class SafariController < ApplicationController
 def eat_hippo
 consume_hippo if @current_user.lion?
 head :no_content # 204
 end
end
The action allows the current user to consume the hippo as long as they are a lion. Then it responds with a simple 204, which means "the server has successfully fulfilled the request and there is no additional content to send in the response body." In Safari speak, that's "the lion successfully ate the hippo and we can expect the hippo to have no body"....or something.
In Rails, the head method is shorthand for "respond only with this status, headers, and an empty body." The head method takes a symbol corresponding to a status, in this case :no_content for "204."
Redirects
Another common set of status codes is the 300 series: redirects.
For example, if we send a GET request to "_URL_", the find_hippo action redirects us to the oasis_url because it's the dry season and the hippos have moved to find water.
The Lifecycle of a Response
The Rails redirect_to method responds with a 302 Found status by default and includes a Location "header" (more on headers below) with the URL to which the browser should redirect. This status tells the browser "the hippo resides temporarily at the oasis URL. Sometimes the hippo resides elsewhere, so always check this location first."
But let's say the hippo has moved to the oasis permanently, maybe because of global warming. In this case, we could pass a status to redirect_to:
The Lifecycle of a Response
The :moved_permanently symbol corresponds with a 301 status code. This says to the browser, "the hippo has moved permanently to the oasis, so whenever you are looking for the hippo, look in the oasis." The next time you try to visit the hippo at /find-hippo, your browser can automatically visit /oasis instead without having to make the extra request to /find-hippo.
Alternatively, we could add the following to our routes file:
The Lifecycle of a Response
Handling the redirect in the routes file allows us to remove the controller action altogether. The redirect helper in the router responds with a 301 as well.
Danger! There is one important thing to note about the redirect_to method. The controller continues to execute the code in the action even after you've called redirect_to. For example, take a look at this version of the find_hippo action:
The Lifecycle of a Response
Because we didn't return when we called redirect_to, we actually hit both the redirect and render, so Rails doesn't know which response to respond with (a 301 or a 200?). Rails will throw a Double Render Error.
The Lifecycle of a Response
And fixed. By moving the redirect into a before_action, we ensure that render doesn't also get called because we now skip our entire controller action.
Status codes are a very concise way of conveying important information to the browser, but often, we need to include additional instructions to the browser about how to handle our response. Enter, headers.
The Lifecycle of a Response
Headers
Headers are included in a hash as the second item in the response array that our Rails app returns to our web server.
Headers are simply additional information about the response. This information might provide directions for the browser, such as whether and for how long to cache the response. Or it might provide metadata to use in a JavaScript client app.
We already talked about the Location header, which is used by the browser to know where it should redirect to.
Some other common headers you might see in a Rails app include:
 - The Content-Type response header tells the browser what the content type of the returned content actually is—for example, an image, an html document, or just plain unformatted text. The browser checks this in order to know how to display the response in the UI.
 - The Content-Length header tells the browser the length in bytes of the response. For example, you might send a HEAD request to an endpoint. That endpoint can respond with head :ok and a Content-Length so you can see how many bytes its response would be (in order to generate a download percentage, for example) without having to wait for the entire body to download (thus negating the usefulness of a download percentage). This header is set automatically by the Rack::ContentLength middleware.
 - The Set-Cookie header includes a semi-colon separated key-value string representing the cookies shared between the server and the browser. For example, Rails sets a cookie to track a user's requests across a session. Cookies in Rails are managed by a class called, no joke, the CookieJar.
These headers, and many more, are managed automatically by Rails. You can also set a header manually using response.headers like this:
response.headers['HEADER NAME'] = 'header value'
HTTP Caching
Headers can be used to give the browser directions about caching. "HTTP caching" is when your browser (or a proxy of the browser) stores an entire HTTP response. The next time you make a request to that endpoint, the response can be shown to you more quickly.
The Lifecycle of a Response
Caching behavior varies depending on the status code returned in the response, which is yet another reason that status codes are important.
The main header used to control caching behavior is, not surprisingly, called the Cache-Control header. Let's look at some examples.
(Pro-tip: You can turn on caching in development by running rails dev:cache.)
Hippos are pretty big and difficult to render, so maybe we should just render the hippo once, then cache it forever. The controller method http_cache_forever allows us to do this.
The Lifecycle of a Response
It sets the Cache-Control header's max-age directive to 3 billion, 155 million, 695 thousand and 200 seconds (or one century, which is basically forever in computer years). It also sets the private directive, which tells the browser and all browser proxies along the way that "This is a private hippo and she would prefer to be cached only by this user's browser and not by a shared cache."
The private directive means only the account owner should have access to the response. The browser can cache it, but a cache between your server and the client, such as a "content distribution network" (or CDN), should not. If we want to allow caching by shared caches, we can just pass public: true to http_cache_forever to tell browser proxies that we're OK with them caching the hippo response along the way to the browser.
The Lifecycle of a Response
For another example of indefinite caching, let's include a picture of our hippo in the template. When we visit the page and look at the image source, we notice that Rails didn't just serve up the image at /assets/hippo.png. Instead, it served the image at /assets/hippo-gobbledygook.png.
The Lifecycle of a Response
What is that about?
When the server serves our image, it sets the Cache-Control header to the equivalent of http_cache_forever. Browsers and browser proxies, like the CDN I mentioned before, will cache that hippo pic forever.
But what if we change the picture? How will our users access the most up-to-date hippo pix on the interwebs?!
The answer is "fingerprinting." The "gobbledygook" is actually the image's "fingerprint," and it's generated every time the Rails asset pipeline compiles the image based on the content of the image. If the image changes, the fingerprint linked in the html changes, and instead of showing the user the cached hippo pic, the browser will retrieve the new version of the image.
OK...back to response caching...
Was it really smart to cache the entire hippo forever? Hippos only live for about 40 years, and surely they change throughout their lives? Maybe we should only cache the hippo for an hour.
The Lifecycle of a Response
The expires_in controller method sets the Cache-Control header's max-age directive to the given amount of time. Now


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This article presents research that used ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods to study ways participants learn through reflection when carried out as a "circle talk." The data indicate that participants in the event (a) invoked different contextual frames that (b) implicated them in various identity positions, which (c) affected how they could express their knowledge. These features worked together to generate socially shared meanings that enabled participants to jointly achieve conceptualization—the ideational role "reflection" is presumed to play in the experiential learning process. The analysis supports the claim that participants generate new knowledge in reflection, but challenges individualistic and cognitive assumptions regarding how this occurs. The article builds on situated views of experiential learning by showing how knowledge can be understood as socially shared and how learning and identity formation are mutually entailing processes.
Journal of Experiential Education
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Seaman, J., and Rheingold, A. (2013). Circle talks as situated experiential learning: Context, identity, and knowledgeability in 'learning from reflection'. Journal of Experiential Education, 36(2), 155-174. _URL_

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TODAY'S WORD — INTRUSION (INTRUSION: in-TROO-zhun: The act of entering inappropriately or without invitation.)
Average mark 26 words
Time limit 40 minutes
Can you find 36 or more words in INTRUSION? The list will be published tomorrow.
YESTERDAY'S WORD — PALAVER pale paler pare pave paver peal pear pearl plea
aper area aver larva lava leap vale veal earl rale rape rave ravel real reap
To purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!
RULES OF THE GAME:
1. Words must be of four or more letters.
2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of "s," such as "bats" or "dies," are not allowed.
3. Additional words made by adding a "d" or an "s" may not be used. For example, if "bake" is used, "baked" or "bakes" are not allowed, but "bake" and "baking" are admissible.
4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.
Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at _EMAIL_.


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To Add Box Branches to Your Map:
The box branch style gives greater emphasis to your text and allows you to quickly add ideas to your mind map. Your box branches will be automatically organised to ensure your map is lain out in an even way. To find out how to style your branches when using the organic mind map style, please click here
1. There are 3 ways you can add branches to your map. Let's start from the Central Idea:
- Click or hover your mouse over the central idea and a green + icon will appear on either side of the central idea. Click on one of these + icons depending on which direction you want your branch to go in.
- Click on one of these arrows and drag-drop into a space on your map.
- Or you can use our handy shortcut. Use your keyboard arrow keys to move around the branches and hit Tab to create a new branch.
2. When your branch has appeared, type away and hit enter when done.
3. Click on the pencil icon to bring out the branch editor. You will see the text you have just typed into the branch under 'Title'.
Adding a Sibling Branch
1. When you hover over a branch, you will get the option to make a sibling branch. A sibling branch is where two branches share the same parent branch.
2. Click on the green arrow to add the sibling branch. A new branch will appear next to it off the same parent branch. Type in your branch text and hit Enter when done.
3. To edit the text, double click on the text to bring up the text editor. The text will be automatically highlighted to allow you to make changes to the style. The text must be highlighted before changes will take effect.
4. The text editor will allow you to change the style, size and color of the text.
5. To create a carriage return hold SHIFT and Enter on the keyboard. Click back on the canvas to close the menu.


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By Bill McEvoy
In honor of Memorial Day, local historian Bill McEvoy has compiled histories of some of the Civil War clergy who are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. This is part 13 of 15.
Reverend Charles Noyes was born October 26, 1835, in Petersham, Massachusetts, and died on May 23, 1916, in Norwich, Connecticut.
He attended the Hopkins classical school in Cambridge, and later the Cambridge High School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1859.
In January 1860, he was installed as the pastor of the Unitarian society at Brighton, Massachusetts, from which he resigned in 1864 due to ill health.
He had served as a volunteer nurse at Fredericksburg, Virginia, after 1864, battles Wilderness and Spotsylvania. In May of 1864, he became the chaplain of Galops Island in Boston Harbor.
He later worked at various churches, including Northfield and Clinton Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1882, he went to Portland Oregon for two years.
In the spring of 1884, he became the pastor of the Unitarian Church in North Andover. Later, he held the position held to August 1904, when resigned and became, Pastor Emeritus.
Find the gravesites of the Civil War Clergy by entering their name here: _URL_ Bill McEvoy can be reached at _EMAIL_

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FASTER is a student project with the goal to develop project ASTER's attitude controlled FFU and adapt it to parabolic flights.
Parabolic flights are widely used for conducting experiments in microgravity and practising for space missions or for human space flights. However, the experiments are constrained by vibrations and oscillations from the aircraft. This project wants to validate that by implementing an attitude stabilization platform for parabolic flights, the payload attitude can be controlled and the microgravity conditions can be improved.
The FASTER team currently consists of six international students. The goal is to be able to experience all the phases of a project but also for it to be fast paced enough so that we can see the results of our experiment before graduation.
Right now we are finalizing the design phase and will soon begin the integration and testing phases. As we aim to fly in summer 2021 onboard a small single engine plane.


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Tutorial 4: Adding KML and GeoJSON Export
Abstract
Learn how to use the spatial export capabilities of Pull Reports™ to export your relational data to KML and Geojson for search and viewing in a map.
In this tutorial, we build on the catalog configuration from Tutorial 3 by adding Export Report REST API configuration to enable GeoJSON and KML export results. Spatial export is possible in our report because the student table has a home_geom column which contains the PostGIS geometry point of the student's home.
Enabling GeoJSON and KML Export
In order to enable spatial export from the Export Report REST API, we first need to create two new columns on the report's base, student table to contain the KML and GeoJSON geometries as character strings. Fortunately, PostGIS provides the st_askml and st_asgeojson functions which may be used within an <output_transform> to transform the student.home_geom column to KML and GeoJSON geometries respectively.
For both new columns, we will set export="false" to prevent the raw KML or GeoJSON character strings from exporting to non-spatial export formats such as xml or json. Setting the columns to export="false" is only necessary if you feel the raw geometry columns should be excluded from non-spatial export.
Once the KML and GeoJSON columns are added to the base table, activate the Export Report REST API kml and geojson export formats by referencing the new spatial columns within <kml> and <geojson> elements respectively.
Finally, use a <placemark_name_template> element to create a custom placemark for each KML geometry. This custom placemark labels the geometry with a KML viewer such as Google Earth.
The complete XML Catalog file is now:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog xmlns="_URL_ id="class" name="Class Reports"
 xmlns:xsi="_URL_
 xsi:schemaLocation="_URL_
 _URL_
 <report id="student-information" name="Student Information">
 <export_config defaultColumns="firstn,lastn">
 <kml geometryColumnPath="@home-kml">
 <placemark_name_template>${@firstn} ${@lastn} Home</placemark_name_template>
 </kml>
 <geojson geometryColumnPath="@home-geojson"/>
 </export_config>

 <column id="id" name="id" displayName="Student ID" paramType="java.lang.Integer" export="false"/>
 <column id="firstn" name="first_name" displayName="First Name"/>
 <column id="lastn" name="last_name" displayName="Last Name">
 <filter_column_transform>upper(${this})</filter_column_transform>
 <filter_value_transform>upper(?)</filter_value_transform>
 <url_template>
 _URL_
 </url_template>
 <label_value_list>
 <label_value_query_default/>
 </label_value_list>
 </column>
 <column id="height_in" name="height_inches" displayName="Height (in)" paramType="java.lang.Double"/>
 <column id="bdate" name="birth_date" displayName="Birth Date" paramType="java.sql.Date">
 <output_transform>to_char(${this},'DD Mon YYYY')</output_transform>
 </column>
 <column id="bdate_yr" name="birth_date" displayName="Birth Date Year" paramType="java.lang.Integer">
 <output_transform>extract(year from ${this})</output_transform>
 <filter_column_transform>extract(year from ${this})</filter_column_transform>
 </column>
 <column id="bdate_month" name="birth_date" displayName="Birth Date Month" paramType="java.lang.Integer">
 <output_transform>extract(month from ${this})</output_transform>
 <filter_column_transform>extract(month from ${this})</filter_column_transform>
 <label_value_list>
 <label_values>
 <label_value value="1">January</label_value>
 <label_value value="2">February</label_value>
 <label_value value="3">March</label_value>
 <label_value value="4">April</label_value>
 <label_value value="6">May</label_value>
 <label_value value="7">June</label_value>
 <label_value value="8">July</label_value>
 <label_value value="9">August</label_value>
 <label_value value="10">October</label_value>
 <label_value value="11">November</label_value>
 <label_value value="12">December</label_value>
 </label_values>
 </label_value_list>
 </column>
 <column id="active" name="is_active" displayName="Active?"
 paramType="java.lang.Boolean" export="false"/>
 <column id="home-kml" name="home_geom" displayName="Home KML" export="false">
 <output_transform>st_askml(${this})</output_transform>
 </column>
 <column id="home-geojson" name="home_geom" displayName="Home GeoJSON" export="false">
 <output_transform>st_asgeojson(${this})</output_transform>
 </column>
 <pre_filter>@active=true</pre_filter>
 <relationship>
 <join_column columnName="student_id" referencedColumnName="id" />

 <column id="id" name="id" displayName="Assignment ID" paramType="java.lang.Integer"/>
 <column id="grade" name="grade" displayName="Grade"/>
 <column id="name" name="name" displayName="Name"/>
 <relationship join="inner" cardinality="one">
 <join_column columnName="class_id" referencedColumnName="id" />

 <column id="id" name="id" displayName="Class ID"
 paramType="java.lang.Integer" export="false"/>
 <column id="name" name="name" displayName="Class Name"/>
 <relationship>
 <join_column columnName="class_id" referencedColumnName="id"/>
 <join_column columnName="student_id" referencedColumnName="id" referencedTablePath="/student"/>

 <column id="rating" name="rating" displayName="Rating" paramType="java.lang.Integer"/>
 <column id="assessment" name="assessment" displayName="Assessment"/>
 <column id="assessment_date" name="assessment_date" displayName="Assessment Date" paramType="java.sql.Date"/>

 </relationship>

 </relationship>

 </relationship>
 <relationship>
 <join_table name="class_info.student_parent">
 <join_columns>
 <join_column columnName="student_id" referencedColumnName="id" />
 </join_columns>
 <inverse_join_columns>
 <join_column columnName="parent_id" referencedColumnName="id" />
 </inverse_join_columns>
 </join_table>

 <column id="id" name="id" displayName="Parent ID" paramT


hypothetical name is given to the table so that you can duplicate this example in your test database:
CREATE TYPE phone_list_typ_demo AS VARRAY(5) OF VARCHAR2(25);
Nested Table Type Example The following example from the sample schema pm creates the table type textdoc_tab of object type textdoc_typ:
CREATE TYPE textdoc_typ AS OBJECT
 ( document_typ VARCHAR2(32)
 , formatted_doc BLOB
 ) ;
CREATE TYPE textdoc_tab AS TABLE OF textdoc_typ;
Nested Table Type Containing a Varray The following example of multilevel collections is a variation of the sample table oe.customers. In this example, the cust_address object column becomes a nested table column with the phone_list_typ varray column embedded in it. The phone_list_typ type was created in Varray Type Example.
CREATE TYPE cust_address_typ2 AS OBJECT
 ( street_address VARCHAR2(40)
 , postal_code VARCHAR2(10)
 , city VARCHAR2(30)
 , state_province VARCHAR2(10)
 , country_id CHAR(2)
 , phone phone_list_typ_demo
 );
CREATE TYPE cust_nt_address_typ
 AS TABLE OF cust_address_typ2;
Constructor Example This example invokes the system-defined constructor to construct the demo_typ object and insert it into the demo_tab table:
CREATE TYPE demo_typ1 AS OBJECT (a1 NUMBER, a2 NUMBER);
CREATE TABLE demo_tab1 (b1 NUMBER, b2 demo_typ1);
INSERT INTO demo_tab1 VALUES (1, demo_typ1(2,3));
See Also:
Oracle Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide for more information about constructors
Creating a Member Method: Example The following example invokes method constructor col.get_square. First the type is created:
CREATE TYPE demo_typ2 AS OBJECT (a1 NUMBER,
 MEMBER FUNCTION get_square RETURN NUMBER);
Next a table is created with an object type column and some data is inserted into the table:
CREATE TABLE demo_tab2(col demo_typ2);
INSERT INTO demo_tab2 VALUES (demo_typ2(2));
The type body is created to define the member function, and the member method is invoked:
CREATE TYPE BODY demo_typ2 IS
 MEMBER FUNCTION get_square
 RETURN NUMBER
 IS x NUMBER;
 BEGIN
 SELECT c.col.a1*c.col.a1 INTO x
 FROM demo_tab2 c;
 RETURN (x);
 END;
END;
/

SELECT t.col.get_square() FROM demo_tab2 t;
T.COL.GET_SQUARE()
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Unlike function invocations, method invocations require parentheses, even when the methods do not have additional arguments.
Creating a Static Method: Example The following example changes the definition of the employee_t type to associate it with the construct_emp function. The example first creates an object type department_t and then an object type employee_t containing an attribute of type department_t:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE department_t AS OBJECT (
 deptno number(10),
 dname CHAR(30));
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE employee_t AS OBJECT(
 empid RAW(16),
 ename CHAR(31),
 dept REF department_t,
 STATIC function construct_emp
 (name VARCHAR2, dept REF department_t)
 RETURN employee_t
);
This statement requires the following type body statement.
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY employee_t IS
 STATIC FUNCTION construct_emp
 (name varchar2, dept REF department_t)
 RETURN employee_t IS
 BEGIN
 return employee_t(SYS_GUID(),name,dept);
 END;
END;
Next create an object table and insert into the table:
CREATE TABLE emptab OF employee_t;
INSERT INTO emptab
 VALUES (employee_t.construct_emp('John Smith', NULL));
Related Topics
See Also:
Oracle Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide for more information about objects, incomplete types, varrays, and nested tables


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Rhode Island Violent Crimes Lawyer
FBI statistics show that more than 2,500 violent crimes were committed in Rhode Island during 2015 resulting in over 800 arrests. Although those numbers are high – they are down considerably from the state's highest points in _PHONE_ with well over 4,ooo recorded violent crimes.
Violent crime is frightening. Its randomness provokes fear and a feeling of helplessness: if it is random, how can you protect yourself? Public outcry and political reaction to it put considerable pressure on law enforcement to prevent violent crimes and to punish them severely when they do occur.
Sometimes that public pressure leads law enforcement to be overzealous in their desire to solve violent crimes and reassure the public. It's the job of Rhode Island violent crimes attorney to protect your rights and make sure that this zeal doesn't end up snaring innocent people.
Most Common Reasons for Arrest in Rhode Island
According to data provided by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, property crime and violent crime are the most common reasons for arrest in Rhode Island.
Did You Know?
- East Greenwich is the safest city to live in Rhode Island, with a violent crime rate of 7.6.
- The overall crime rate in Providence, Rhode Island is 38% higher than that of the national average.
- You have a 1 in 26 chance of becoming a victim of any crime in Providence.
- There are about 10 daily crimes committed for every 100,000 people.
- Providence, Rhode Island is safer than 17% of the cities in the United States.
- Year over year, the number of crimes in Providence, Rhode Island have decreased by 9%.
Penalties Are Severe
All violent crimes carry significant penalties upon conviction, but the severity varies considerably depending on the specific violent crime. At the extreme end is first degree murder, punishable by 20 years to life. Simple assault or battery charges, in comparison, calls for a maximum prison term of one year and up to $1,000 in fines. Many violent crimes carry sentences of 10 to 20 years and, as a general rule, the more violent, the more severe the sentence.
For violent crimes that also amount to domestic violence, the penalties are enhanced further. For violent crimes that fit the state's hate crime law, the penalty can be increased an additional 1 to 5 years.
Violent Crime Defense in Rhode Island
Violent crime charges can be defended on many different grounds. The types of defense can generally be grouped into the following four categories:
- Affirmative defenses, which admit the facts that the state is charging you with, but claim that your actions were justified. Self defense is the classic example: "Yes, I hit the victim, but only to stop him from stabbing me."
- Defenses that directly attack the accuracy of the facts alleged by the state. Examples include claims that the state has identified the wrong person as the culprit, that the defendant did not have a gun as the state claims, or that a key state witness is lying or simply mistaken.
- Defenses that attack the state's proof of an essential element of the crime. Examples include the lack of "malice aforethought" in a case charging first degree murder, or that there was no coercion in a case charging first degree sexual assault.
- Procedural defenses, like failure to provide a speedy trial. These may result in dismissal of the charge (like failure to provide a speedy trial), or simply make it harder for the state to prove its case by getting preventing some evidence from being used.
It takes considerable time and experience to identify the defenses most likely to succeed. Any challenge to the accuracy of the facts alleged by the state requires significant investigation and interviewing of witnesses.
Call an Experienced Rhode Island Violent Crimes Attorney
If you have been accused of committing a violent crime in Rhode Island, get legal help. The sooner you get the advice of an experienced criminal defense lawyer, the better your chances of still being free when the case is over. Seemingly innocent statements that you make to the police, or even to a cellmate in the local jail, can come back to haunt you. Talk to an experienced defense lawyer before you talk to anyone else.
Violent crime cases are high stakes battles. On one side are the prosecutors, well equipped and with the power and resources of the state at their command. On the other side are you and your defense lawyer. The cases are complex, and many different factors can be considered to increase the potential penalties. Important questions and issues arise quickly and need to be quickly addressed.
Rhode Island criminal defense attorney Stefanie A. Murphy has years of successful experience handling a wide variety of violent crime cases in Rhode Island. She can protect your rights throughout the proceeding by, among other things:
- Working to obtain your release pending trial
- Explaining the case and the various twists and turns it may take
- Seeing to it that the state fulfills its obligations on time limits, points of procedure and sharing evidence with you
- Investigating the state's witnesses for reliability, bias, etc.
- Identifying witnesses whose testimony works in your favor
- Advising you on any plea deals
- Presenting any of the defenses discussed above become relevant to your case as the facts are developed
Call the Law Offices of Stefanie A. Murphy today. There is no charge for your initial consultation.


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Biddle Coleridge (2024)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Occupation: Unemployed
Status: Deceased (2024)
Died: 2024
Played by: Frank Military
Biddle Coleridge was a Human male in the 21st century on Earth. Coleridge was a resident of Sanctuary District A in San Francisco. Within the Sanctuary Coleridge, or B.C., was a "ghost" with a tendency toward violence and thievery.
Coleridge was a leader of a group of ghosts who attacked and captured the processing center for the District in 2024 as part of the Bell Riots. Several times during the siege Coleridge came close to attacking the hostages and it was only through the intervention of Starfleet officers Benjamin Sisko and Julian Bashir, who had become trapped in the past, that the hostages were spared.
Coleridge hoped to bargain the hostages for his release from the Sanctuary District and travel to Tasmania, home to his idol, Errol Flynn, but he was killed when government forces stormed the building to free the hostages. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II")
Biddle Coleridge was played by Frank Military.
The character's initials were a homage to DS9 assistant director B.C. Cameron. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 197)
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. (This is a common problem with spa routers). The idea of focusing a heading is, that it gives the user a starting point from where they can tab to the changed content. Since it is just the starting point, you can disable the focus ring for just the headers, which aren't focusable by default anyway. Or you could style them to better suit your design (see this article about styling focus indicators). But please, don't disable focus rings alltogether!
Testing
When testing your app's components it is sometimes necessary to have them rendered inside an instance of Router or Route. A component could for example use the useNavigate hook to redirect after some user interaction. This will however fail if the component is not somewhere inside a Router. Similarly using the useFocus hook will only work when the component is somewhere inside a Route.
If you're testing your app with @testing-library/svelte a custom render function and a WrapRouter component can do the trick:
// renderWithRouter.js
import { render } from "@testing-library/svelte";
import WrapRouter from "./WrapRouter.svelte";
/**
 * Test-render a component, that relies on some of svelte-navigator's
 * features, inside a Router.
 *
 * @param component The component you want to wrap in a Router
 * @param componentProps The props you want to pass to it
 * @param routerOptions Futher configuration ('onNavigate',
 * 'withRoute', 'initialPathname')
 * @param options Options for testing library's 'render' function
 */
const renderWithRouter = (component, componentProps, routerOptions, options) =>
 render(WrapRouter, { component, componentProps, ...routerOptions }, options);
export default renderWithRouter;
<!-- WrapRouter.svelte -->
<script>
 import { onDestroy } from "svelte";
 import {
 Router,
 Route,
 createMemorySource,
 createHistory,
 } from "svelte-navigator";
 /** The component you want to wrap in a Router */
 export let component;
 /** The props you want to pass to it */
 export let componentProps;
 /**
 * A callback you can use to check if a navigation has occurred.
 * It will be called with the new location and the action that lead
 * to the navigation.
 */
 export let onNavigate = () => {};
 /**
 * If true, the component will be wrapped in a Route component as well.
 * Some features of svelte-navigator can only be used inside a Route,
 * for example 'useParams'.
 */
 export let withRoute = false;
 /** Supply an initial location to the Router */
 export let initialPathname = "/";
 const history = createHistory(createMemorySource(initialPathname));
 const unlisten = history.listen(onNavigate);
 onDestroy(unlisten);
</script>
<Router {history}>
 {#if withRoute}
 <Route path="*">
 <svelte:component this="{component}" {...componentProps} />
 </Route>
 {:else}
 <svelte:component this="{component}" {...componentProps} />
 {/if}
</Router>
Then import it in your test script:
import MyComponent from "./MyComponent.svelte";
import renderWithRouter from "../test/renderWithRouter";
it("works", () => {
 const { getByTestId } = renderWithRouter(MyComponent);
 expect(getByTestId("my-input")).toHaveValue("my-value");
});
API
Components
The main elements to configure and use routing in your Svelte app.
Router
The Router component supplies the Link and Route descendant components with routing information through context, so you need at least one Router at the top of your application. It assigns a score to all its Route descendants and picks the best match to render.
<Router>
 <Link to="profile">Go to /profile</Link>
 <Link to="blog">Go to /blog</Link>
 <Route path="blog" component={Blog} />
 <Route path="profile" component={Profile} />
</Router>
The Router will automatically manage focus in your app. When you change Routes, it will focus the first heading in the matched Route.
If you have multiple Routers, for example one for a navigation bar and one for the main content, make sure to pass primary={false} to all Routers, you don't want to manage focus (in this case the nav Router).
<Router primary={false}>
 <nav>
 <Link to="profile">Go to /profile</Link>
 <Link to="blog">Go to /blog</Link>
 </nav>
</Router>
<!-- ... -->
<Router>
 <main>
 <Route path="blog" component={Blog} />
 <Route path="profile" component={Profile} />
 </main>
</Router>
If you want to focus a different element, like a skip-navigtion-link or an info text, you can use the useFocus hook, to specify a custom focus element.
Svelte navigator also announces navigations to a screen reader. You can customize its message (i.e. for localization) via the a11y.createAnnouncement prop.
If you're interested in accessibility concerns in SPA routers you can check out this article, which provided much of the information, regarding focus management, used for implementing Svelte Navigators focus management.
<!-- App.svelte -->
<script>
 import { Router, Route, Link } from "svelte-navigator";
 // Provide a custom message when navigating using
 // a routes 'meta' information
 function createAnnouncement(route, location) {
 const viewName = route.meta.name;
 const { pathname } = location;
 return 'Navigated to the ${viewName} view at ${pathname}';
 }
</script>
<Router a11y="{{ createAnnouncement }}">
 <Link to="profile">Go to /profile</Link>
 <Route
 path="profile"
 component="{Profile}"
 meta="{{ name: 'user profile' }}"
 />
 <Route path="blog/*" meta="{{ name: 'blog' }}">
 <Blog />
 </Route>
</Router>
<!-- Blog.svelte -->
<script>
 import { Route, Link, useFocus } from "svelte-navigator";
 // Provide a custom element to focus when this Route is navigated to
 const registerFocus = useFocus();
 function skipNavigation() { /* ... */ }
</script>
<button use:registerFocus on:click={skipNavigation}>
 Skip navigation
</button>
<Link to="svelte">Go to /blog/svelte</Link>
<Link to="navigator">Go to /blog/navigator</Link>
<Route path="svelte">Yeah, Svelte!</Route>
<Route path="navigator">Yeah, Routing!</Route>
Router components can also be nested to allow for seamless merging of many smaller apps. Just make sure not to forget the wildcard (*) in the parent Routes path.
It's probably easier to nest Routes though.
<!-- App.svelte -->
<Router>
 <Link to="profile">Go to /profile</Link>
 <Route path="profile" component="{Profile}" />
 <Route path="blog/*">
 <Blog />
 </Route>
</Router>
<!-- Blog.svelte -->
<Router>
 <Link to="svelte">Go to /blog/svelte</Link>
 <Link to="navigator">Go to /blog/navigator</Link>
 <!-- Break out of the scope of the current Router -->
 <Link to="../profile">Go to /profile</Link>
 <Route path="svelte">Yeah, Svelte!</Route>
 <Route path="navigator">Yeah, Routing!</Route>
 <Route path=":id" let:params>
 <BlogPost id={para


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Get signal on activate a certain cell in a tableview
 - Is there a way to get a signal when a certain cell (or column) in a qtableview loses the focus or get activated (a QAbstractItemView witch is inherid by a qtableview holds the signal "activated").
 Is it possible with a connect statement similar to this:
 connect(ui->myTableview->"here I don't know how to point to cell 0, 1",SIGNAL(activated), this, SLOT(myFunction))
 If it is possible like in the connect statement above, how do I write the sender (e.g. cell 0,1 in the tableview) correct
 Or is there an other way??
 Thank you in advance!
 - Lifetime Qt Champion
 What about using
 You get new QModelIndex which has
 So when u get this signal, u can check if the "watched" col and do your thing.
 You also get last QModelIndex, so you can check if a cell is "left" that way.
 Meaning its the last ModelIndex.
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"Cardinal Mercier" was one of many posters issued during World War I to encourage support of the war. Cardinal Mercier became a household name during World War I. Born in Braine l'Alleud, Belgium in 1..
"Cardinal Mercier" was one of many posters issued during World War I to encourage support of the war. Cardinal Mercier became a household name during World War I. Born in Braine l'Alleud, Belgium in 1851, Mercier was ordained a priest in his mid-20s. In 1906, he was named Archbishop of Mechelen and Primate of Belgium. The following year he became a cardinal. When Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914, Cardinal Mercier was attending a papal election in Rome. He promptly returned to Belgium and began resisting the German occupation. Most famously, Cardinal Mercier published a series of pastoral letters, beginning with "Patriotism and Endurance," that condemned the atrocities committed by the German armies and encouraged Belgian unity (Gorse, 2018). The writings ultimately led to his house arrest, but Cardinal Mercier didn't stop there. He went on to protest the forced deportations of Belgian men to Germany and spoke out against Germany's attempts to exploit tensions over Flemish nationalism and divide Belgium in two. News spread of Cardinal Mercier's efforts in Belgium, which carried over into Allied propaganda. The cardinal was considered both a hero and a symbol of Belgium's struggles. Mercier embodied Belgian resistance to the occupying power. This popular poster uses Mercier's popularity and symbolism and states, "Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration for more food for starving millions." The poster also advertises food conversation, a major part of American food propaganda during World War I. The caption says, "Eat less wheat- meat-fats and sugar. Ship more to the war-stricken people of France-Belgium-Italy." This poster was created by American artist George Illion in 1918. This poster was created and reproduced as a lithographic print at the time of its distribution.


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Uneven volumes, a lack of transport capacity and labour have been testing Europe's top performing finished vehicle handling ports, along with a new wave of EV imports from China. Can ports keep up with new dynamics and requirements?
Europe's vehicle-handling ports have faced rough seas for the past several years, from the pandemic to chip shortages to disruption from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But while 2022 was a year of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, for ports it was also the year when transport and labour shortages came to dominate – a situation that has continued into 2023 and expected to last for several years.
Many ports have struggled with the inconsistency in volumes that the chip shortage caused along with high volumes of unfinished vehicles at some facilities. A lack of workers, and severe shortages of road, rail and ro-ro capacity across the continent, have significantly increased dwell and lead times. Other trends, including larger deep-sea vessels, and a fast rise in electric vehicle imports from China, have further compounded issues.
Over the past year, the situation has been so extreme that there have been times when major ports in Belgium and Germany have effectively had to close to further volumes. The situation has led some OEMs to accelerate shipments of vehicles in containers, typically a niche solution but one that has allowed carmakers to avoid congestion in ro-ro facilities and vehicle-handling terminals.
Although Europe continues to face a highly uncertain economic outlook, with the eurozone recently entering a technical recession, production and sales volume in many European markets have continued to recover, and the lead time to replenish ro-ro, trucking and rail capacity will take years. While pent-up volume is likely to level off, pressure on overall capacity looks set to remain, complicated further by rising volume from China and new requirements for electric vehicles.
However, Europe's vehicle-handling ports are not sitting back. Many are investing in new storage and transport capacity, enhanced IT systems, and partnering more closely with OEMs and logistics providers. They are also enhancing charging infrastructure and facilities to handle the increased volumes of electric vehicles and electric trucks at ports. The challenges are many, but this is no time for vehicle ports to tread water.
Consolidation in Belgium: Zeebrugge and Antwerp
One of the main changes to the landscape of Europe's vehicle handling ports in 2022 was the merger of the Belgian ports of Zeebrugge and Antwerp under one operating authority as the Port of Antwerp Bruges, which was finalised in April last year.
The port of Zeebrugge has perennially held the top spot for vehicle handling in Europe, with Antwerp usually in the top five. In 2021 Zeebrugge processed 2.26m vehicles, while Antwerp moved 821,500 (3.08m). The port authority reported combined handling of 3.26m new passenger cars for calendar year 2022, a growth of 5.7% year-on-year. That includes growth of up to 15% year-on-year in electric vehicle volumes. The port furthermore reported a 13.2% year-on-year increase in used car movements and a 17% increase in commercial vehicles. High-and-heavy rolling stock was also up by 9.6%.
The combined ports have seen volumes continue to rise in 2023, with new vehicle handling reaching 905,000 units in the first quarter, up 7.2% on the same quarter in 2022.
Ann de Smet, key account manager at the Port of Antwerp Bruges, says joining forces has enabled Antwerp and Zeebrugge to deal with an automotive supply chain that has been operating far from 'business as usual', with severe capacity shortages leading to longer wait times across ports. While 2022 started with the war between Russia and Ukraine and ongoing chip shortages, by the end of the year it was logistics bottlenecks causing major issues.
"The largest challenge we face is the shortage of truck drivers in Europe and this may not be solved quickly."
On the bright side, since the merger, the port has seen a flood of new investment and projects. That includes a transition to more sustainable operations, including as a hydrogen hub for the import, local production and throughput of green hydrogen.
The port has also opened a €10m ($10.9m) free truck parking facility with capacity for 280 trucks, with charging infrastructure for electric trucks and vehicles. Preparations for truck parking have also started in Zeebrugge's inner port, which will include charging infrastructure for electric trucks. The port authority plans to create a green corridor for road transport between the two port areas.
Germany: Battling at Bremerhaven
The German port of Bremerhaven saw vehicle volumes decline year-on-year in 2022 by 5.8%, to 1.6m units – a decrease that reflected capacity shortages as much as it did demand. BLG Logistics, which runs BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven, points to the war in Ukraine, energy costs, inflation, a shortage of skilled workers, climate change and ongoing pandemic conditions. In its review of activity for the year, BLG's CEO Frank Dreek pointed to "a very challenging business environment in logistics".
The situation has continued in 2023, with Dreek pointing to measure to increase flexibility, digitisation, automation and sustainability.
BLG has taken several measures to mitigate volatility in vehicle imports and exports. Last year it started testing a pre-gate system for truck operations to relieve traffic congestion at the port. The aim of the project, according to the company, is to control the movement of trucks in and out of AutoTerminal Bremerhaven and reduce waiting times. More than 100 trucks can be buffered via the gate. The truck drivers register in an office and wait in marked rows. After approval, they receive access cards, and the trucks are directed to the gates relevant to them. The project initially involved container deliveries, but a second phase is testing the system for finished vehicle road haulage.
Last year also saw closer relations between BLG and Hyundai Glovis, which uses BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven to import volumes of Hyundai and Kia volumes. BLG Logistics, which has been handling vehicles delivered and loaded by Glovis for more than a decade, established a joint venture with the South Korean company in 2022 to pool volumes and improve lead times, reduce cost and cut the carbon footprint of shipments.
At the German port of Emden, which exclusively handles VW Group volumes and acts as a logistics hub for the carmaker, terminal operator Evag processed a total of more than 1.1m vehicles. A spokesperson for VW says that more than a third of those vehicles, almost 375,000, were electric variants and the trend towards EVs is continuing apace.
Spain: Barcelona goes electric, and room to manoeuvre in Vigo
In Spain, the port of Barcelona saw a year-on-year 18% increase in vehicle volumes in 2022, driven by a rise in imports, according to port authority, Port De Barcelona. Electric vehicles have played an important part of the growth, notably vehicles imported to Europe from China. The surge picked up steam late in 2022, according to port de Barcelona's commercial head of automotive, ro-ro and bulk cargo, Lluís París, who says more than 60% of imported EV volumes in 2022 were processed in the last quarter of the year.
"The tendency keeps increasing, and during the first quarter of 2023 we have already handled 70% of the total EVs in 2022," he says. "These imports are definitely helping to recover the volumes to pre-covid levels. Our terminals have also kept adapting to domestic OEMs' needs and cooperating with their strategies."
París also points out that, while exports decreased year-on-year in 2022 by nearly 50%, they increased in the first quarter of 2023 by 60%.
However, the port has felt the impact of ongoing capacity issues. According to París, export volumes have lingered in the port for much longer than expected because of a lack of capacity on ocean ro-ro vessels. Barcelona dealt with that by promptly moving imported volumes and reorganising compound space, as well as finding room in the vicinity of the port to keep operating under higher terminal occupancy.
París furthermore points to inland distribution problems, notably rail in and out of the port. However, the port has been investing to fix the problem.
"On the rail side we are in the middle of a €1.5 billion investment programme which is redefining the port access system," he says, highlighting connections to the European standard network gauge (which differs from that on the Iberian Peninsula) to the south and west and growing interest from rail operators in adding new traction and rail wagons.
"In two years' time we'll have a new shunting station with a much higher capacity, and seven years from now we should be able to work with a completely redefined rail system and a new dedicated highway."
Barcelona has also set up a joint venture with Spain's state-owned rail infrastructure manager ADIF to jointly manage the rail connections with the port, which París says has already started to show progress.
"Our interest on the rail mode is clear, and we are currently handling 29% of our car traffic by rail, which means 52% of our exports," he says.
Looking ahead, Barcelona is positioning itself as a distribution hub for both short-sea European exports in the west Mediterranean region as well as for imports from Asia.
The impact of transport capacity pressure was also recognised across on


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A program to draw and save backgrounds for games.
Instructions: 1. Choose a size if the tile. 2. Choose the colour of the background. 3. Choose the layer to grow. 4. Choose the colour of the layer. 5. Choose the desired split. Line or arc. 6. Press the circle next to title of the layer to begin growing. 7. Press the export button to save.


Can You Use Ultegra Rotors With 105 Calipers? (fast answer)
Condensed answer: Ultegra rotors can be combined with 105 calipers when the rotors are of the correct size and rely on a mounting mechanism compatible with the hubs of the wheels.
Rotor Size
Disc brake rotors come in different sizes. In general, a larger rotor offers more braking power than a smaller one at the expense of extra weight.
Road bikes do not need the same stopping power as MTBs. Hence why MTB rotors are larger. For example, XC bikes usually have at least 160mm rotors whereas downhill rotors can reach 203mm in diameter.
Meanwhile, road bike rotors are either 140 or 160mm. The new Ultegra rotor should be of the correct size for the frame and fork that you have. If the bike is designed for 140mm rotors, but you try to install 160mm units on it, they won't fit due to the lack of space. (Note: It's possible to transition from 140mm to 160mm rotors with adapters depending on the disc brake mounts.)
If the bike is built for 160mm rotors, but you install 140mm on it, the new rotors will fit, but the brake pads will be too far to grab the entire brake track (the braking surface of the rotor). The outcome will be subpar braking.
Rotor Mounting System
The rotor mounts to the hub of the wheel. Ultegra rotors rely on Shimano's patented technology known as Center Lock which secures the rotor to the hub via a lock ring similar to that on a cassette.
Center lock (left); 6-bolt (right);
105 rotors use the same system. Thus, if you're replacing a worn 105 model, the new Ultegra one will be compatible with the hub.
However, it's possible that your bike uses a rotor from another brand (e.g., Tektro) that mounts to the hub via bolts. In that case, you will be unable to use an Ultegra rotor with your setup unless you replace the entire hub. Taking such drastic measures to install a specific rotor is not worth it because the entire wheel will have to be rebuilt.
FAQ: What are the advantages of using Ultegra rotors in this case?
Ultegra components are one step higher than 105 in Shimano's hierarchy. That said, when it comes to rotors, the difference in quality isn't all that perceivable. Besides, 105 components are of such good quality already that it would be naïve and inaccurate to say that an Ultegra rotor would make a perceivable difference.
Therefore, the main advantage would be availability. If you're looking for a rotor, and an Ultegra one fits the criteria, it would be an acceptable option.
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I go along with the generally accepted theory that the game measure is 33cm.
The third clue enigma 780 talks about 'where you must by the compass and the foot.'
The 'foot' most likely refers to 'pied du roi', and it the word 'step' in the title also hints at this measure. A common value was close to 33cm.
The visual shows a compass. The compass has a diameter of 10.5cm, which Max confirmed. The method to work out the perimeter of the circle = 2 x Pi x radius, where the radius = diameter / 2 = 5.25 cm and Pi = 3.1415, or about 22/7. So, the perimeter of this compass is 33 cm.
The 33cm measure fits very well with the measures mentioned in the book, to give neat whole numbers eg. 185km rather than messy numbers like 176.457889km!
Other ideas for the measure
Some people think the measure is the compass AND the foot, so 10.5cm + 33cm so 43.5cm.
The historic measure the 'foot' had many variations over the centuries, as this French Wikipedia page devoted to the 'Pied' shows. The 74 cm foot is used by some owl hunters.
The word "measure" appears in the puzzles. 500, 420 and 650, as well as an additional clue : " For good measure, there's only one in the book ".


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| < April >
|Normal Max/ High Temperature
|Min/ Low Temperature
|Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day)
|Average Sunlight per day
|Average Daylight per day
|Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Khartoum in April is very, very hot at 31.9 °C (89.42 °F).
- Afternoons can be severely hot with average high temperatures reaching 40 °C (104 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally fairly hot with an average low of 23 °C (73.4 °F).
- The variation/ range of daily mean temperatures in April is 17 °C (30.6 °F).
- The weather in April is bone dry with no rain. An airy 0.4mm (0in) of fluid is released during on average 0.5 days.
- The heavens above Khartoum are very sunny with an average of an appreciable 10:21 of brilliant solar radiation per day.
- The shortest day is 12:15 long and the longest day is 12:40 long with an average length of 12:28.
- There are approximately 1:59 per day when bright sunshine is absent due to cloud, haze or the sun being too low on the horizon to register.
- It is sunny approximately 83.8% of daylight hours and cloudy 16.2% of daylight hours.
Check the distance to and compare the Khartoum April averages with somewhere beginning with:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | All
Weather Trend Graph for April in Khartoum, Sudan
Navigate to April Weather in Locations Surrounding Khartoum:
- Atbara, Sudan - 278 kms (172.8 miles) NNE
- Hudeiba, Sudan - 263.7 kms (163.9 miles) NE
- Shendi, Sudan - 154.5 kms (96 miles) NE
- Aroma, Sudan - 386.2 kms (240 miles) E
- Kassala, Sudan - 412.7 kms (256.5 miles) E
- Halfa El Gedida, Sudan - 328.4 kms (204.1 miles) E
- Wad Medani, Sudan - 166.9 kms (103.7 miles) SE
- El Showak, Sudan - 373.7 kms (232.2 miles) ESE
- Gedaref/ Azaza, Sudan - 352.4 kms (219 miles) ESE
- Sennar, Sudan - 255.2 kms (158.6 miles) SSE
- Kosti, Sudan - 270.9 kms (168.3 miles) S
- Umm Benin, Sudan - 319.5 kms (198.6 miles) SSE
- Abu Na'Ama, Sudan - 361.6 kms (224.7 miles) SSE
- Renk, Sudan - 428.8 kms (266.5 miles) S


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Many objects that survived the fire lost their identity. Not only were hundreds of objects and specimens burnt beyond recognition, but the museum also lost many of its archives. The records of how objects arrived at the museum, who they were owned by and why they were considered important enough to collect were also lost that night.
This 2,000 year old coin barely survived the flames. Not only is it charred, but it had begun to melt from the intense heat of the fire. Although the coin was rescued from the museum its records were lost. Without them it is impossible to say who donated it to the museum and why.


text: High performance computing (HPC) is experiencing a phase change with the challenges of programming and management of heterogeneous multicore systems architectures and large scale system configurations. It is estimated that by the end of the next decade exaflops computing systems requiring hundreds of millions of cores demanding multi-billion-way parallelism with a power budget of 50 Gflops/watt may emerge. At the same time, there are many scaling-challenged applications that although taking many weeks to complete, cannot scale even to a thousand cores using conventional distributed programming models. This paper describes an experimental methodology, ParalleX, that addresses these challenges through a change in the fundamental model of parallel computation from that of the communicating sequential processes (e.g., MPI) to an innovative synthesis of concepts involving message-driven work-queue execution in the context of a global address space. The focus of this work is a new runtime system required to test, validate, and evaluate the use of ParalleX concepts for extreme scalability. This paper describes the ParalleX model and the HPX runtime system and discusses how both strategies contribute to the goal of extreme computing through dynamic asynchronous execution. The paper presents the first early experimental results of tests using a proof-of-concept runtime-system implementation. These results are very promising and are guiding future work towards a full scale parallel programming and runtime environment.


the text in the input and see if it's not empty. If it has text we will add it to the array in our state which will then update our rendered page. The following function will add the necessary functionality to our input:
app.js
addItem(e) {
 // Prevent button click from submitting form
 e.preventDefault();
 // Create variables for our list, the item to add, and our form
 let list = this.state.list;
 const newItem = document.getElementById("addInput");
 const form = document.getElementById("addItemForm");
 // If our input has a value
 if (newItem.value != "") {
 // Add the new item to the end of our list array
 list.push(newItem.value);
 // Then we use that to set the state for list
 this.setState({
 list: list
 });
 // Finally, we need to reset the form
 newItem.classList.remove("is-danger");
 form.reset();
 } else {
 // If the input doesn't have a value, make the border red since it's required
 newItem.classList.add("is-danger");
 }
 }
We now have our function built but it doesn't know when to run or how to interperet the this keyword. We can tell react how to handle this with the following code in our constructor:
app.js
this.addItem = this.addItem.bind(this)
And we can add an onClick trigger to our button, so our button should look like this:
app.js
<button className="button is-info" onClick={this.addItem}>
 Add Item
</button>
We can test our application by using yarn start or npm run start and going to localhost:1234 in our browser. Our app now allows us to add an item to the list! Pretty cool!
Add a delete button
Adding a Delete button
Okay, so now our users can add items but what good does that do if they can't remove them once they're done? They'll just have items upon items upon items until the entropy peaks their anxiety levels and puts them in the grave early. Let's go ahead and save a few lives by adding a delete button, shall we?
Just like before, we'll be adding a function to handle this. The code below will allow our users to delete their list items when completed:
app.js
removeItem(item) {
 // Put our list into an array
 const list = this.state.list.slice();
 // Check to see if item passed in matches item in array
 list.some((el, i) => {
 if (el === item) {
 // If item matches, remove it from array
 list.splice(i, 1);
 return true;
 }
 });
 // Set state to list
 this.setState({
 list: list
 });
 }
Add to constructor
We also need to add this function to the constructor. Just like before, we can do this like so:
app.js
this.removeItem = this.removeItem.bind(this)
Add button to delete item
To make it easy for users to delete the item, we should add a delete button to the
. The code below will do that.
app.js
...

 {this.state.list.map(item => (

 {item}
  this.removeItem(item)}
 />

 ))}

...
Now we can run yarn start or npm run start in the terminal to view our changes. Now we can click on the x to delete that item from the list. Did it work?
Turning the list into a component
Whew! So far, so good.
Next we are going to turn our list into a component with it's own state and methods. I'm just going to create the component within our app.js file to keep things simple, but you could also create this component in a separate file and import it. Below the App component, create a class component called List with the following code:
app.js
class List extends React.Component {
 render() {
 return
...

 }
}
The code we want to render is just our list, so go back up to our App component and grab the following code to paste into the render function for our List component:
app.js

 {this.state.list.map(item => (

 {item}
  this.removeItem(item)} />

 ))}

Replace that code in the App component with a call to our List component like so:
app.js
<List items={this.state.list} delete={this.removeItem} />
What's the code above doing?
Here, we are calling the List component and passing a few props in. The items prop is sending in the list we have stored in our state. The delete prop is passing in the removeItem method we created to delete the items.
Before this will work as expected, we need to modify our List component a bit. First we need to add the constructor so we can receive props.
app.js
class List extends React.Component {
 constructor(props) {
 super(props);
 }
 ...
}
If we run the application with npm run start or yarn start, the application should look the same as it did before. We can still add items to our list with no problem. If we click the delete button...uh oh...it doesn't work. Why is this?
We don't have a method called removeItem within this component, so clicking the button doesn't call anything. Fortunately, we had the foresight to pass that method into this component as a prop. To regain the delete functionality, we can just alter the code for that button to the following:
app.js
 this.props.delete(item)} />
So with a few adjustments, we now have a fully functioning list in a separate component. Now, onward to adding a search function.
Create a filtered item in List
The first part of adding a search bar will be to create an array of our filtered list.If the input bar is empty, it should display all items in the list. If there is text in the search bar, it should only show items that contain that text.
First, we'll add state to our List component and give it an array called filtered. The code below illustrates this.
app.js
class List extends React.Component {
 constructor(props) {
 super(props)
 this.state = {
 filtered: [],
 }
 }
}
Once we have a place to put our filtered list, we need to make sure the data is being put there.
Fair warning: This part may get a bit abstract, so do your best to stick with me. If I don't explain well enough or you're struggling with it, leave a comment and I'll try to help you get it.
Our original list of tasks is located in the App component, which in this case is the parent component.This state is being passed into the List component, in this case the child component, which gets re-rendered every time the task list is updated. What is the point of tell you this, you ask? We need to pass data into our filtered state every time the List component gets re-rendered. To do this, we will use a few lifecycle methods.
Lifecycle methods allow us to "hook" into a component at various points in it's render process. In this case, we're going to use componentDidMount and componentDidReceiveProps. componentDidMount will allow us to put the data into our filtered array when the component is initially rendered. On the other hand, componentDidReceiveProps will fire any time the props being passed into the component are changed.
To add these lifecycle methods to our List component, add the following code below the constructor but before the render function:
app.js
componentDidMount() {
 this.setState({
 filtered: this.props.items
 });
}
componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
 this.setState({
 filtered: nextProps.items
 });
}
Now if we change the .map() function we're using for our list to map over the filtered list instead of the items list being passed in through props, we should see the same thing on the front end.
Whoop-dee-doo
What's the big deal? The big deal is that now we have a list we can manipulate without altering the original list. All we have to do is


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Could Crash Modeling Have Saved the Concordia?8 Mar, 2012 By: Robert Yancey
Viewpoint: Event simulation helps automobile manufacturers design safer vehicles — and it can do the same for shipbuilders.
The Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster has generated many questions, but one in particular haunts survivors and onlookers alike: Could this disaster have been prevented? It is clear that the captain made some unwise choices, which put the ship and its passengers in danger. Could something have been altered in the ship's design to limit the impact of that poor decision-making on the crew and passengers?
Most automobile accidents are also caused by bad decisions. Some are caused by conditions beyond the control of the driver, but the vast majority are a result of drivers speeding, disobeying traffic regulations, attending to distractions, falling asleep at the wheel, etc. Automotive manufacturers have done a great deal to improve car safety, introducing features that minimize harm even when drivers perform poorly. Crumple zones, airbags, and energy-absorbing materials all reduce passenger injuries and fatalities in crashes. Automobile safety ratings for the past decade show a clear improvement — much of which is due to extensive simulation modeling of crash events.
In simulation modeling, engineers use a digital design of a vehicle to generate a simulation model that represents all of the key elements of the design, including material properties, mass properties, occupant models, and the impact event (e.g., side impact, frontal offset, etc.). Engineers have been working for years to correlate these simulation models with real-world test results. The result is that modern simulation models correlate very well with physical test data in regard to the deformation of the vehicle, the energy absorption of the vehicle, and — most importantly — the effects on the passengers.
The accuracy of these models is now so high that most automotive companies do extensive virtual testing of their vehicle designs before ever building prototypes, and the physical testing is really just a final verification of the crashworthiness of the design. In most cases, there are no surprises during the physical test.
From Land to Sea
Could ship designers follow the automotive industry's example? Could we employ simulation modeling to create more advanced designs that can better respond to the type of event that destroyed the Concordia? The answer is yes.
Engineers could use much of the technology developed for automotive crash modeling to model a ship's impact on rocks, icebergs, sandbars, and other hazards. We cannot always prevent these events from happening, but if we can develop ship designs that more effectively respond to these impacts — especially to provide sufficient time to safely evacuate the passengers — we could improve passenger safety and confidence.
In the case of the Concordia, the ship's hull was divided into several watertight compartments; one or two sections of the hull could flood without sinking the entire ship. The ship had longitudinal bulkheads, intended to keep it from listing when flooded. During the recent disaster, however, the ship came to rest on a rock ledge; this caused the vessel to become unstable on the uneven bottom and roll on its side. This position complicated the rescue operation, because many of the lifeboats could not be deployed with the ship listing to one side.
Disaster simulations could help ship designers prepare for uncommon scenarios, such as having a ship run aground and roll onto its side. Image courtesy of Roberto Vongher, via Wikimedia Commons.
This occurrence, and many other unusual situations, could be simulated on a computer. Just as a car-crash simulation varies according to speed, direction, impact zone, and other elements, a good simulation model of a ship could replicate many of the conditions that the vessel might encounter. Armed with the results of these simulations, engineers can adapt the ship design to better respond to each of these situations.
Simulation Offers Proven Benefits
In addition to the automotive industry, the ability of simulation to inform design is also evident in the aviation world. Airplane designers must ensure a safety by planning for a variety of events, including excessive turbulence, engine failure, bird strikes, and lightning. Redundancy is built into the design to ensure that the airplane can land safely, even under these circumstances. Simulation modeling is also used extensively in the aerospace industry to understand and design for these events.
Can simulation modeling help with the design of cruise ships? Twenty-five years of experience in the simulation field has taught me that simulation technology definitely can help this industry. The technology is available, it's proven, and it can be used successfully to improve safety.
In that case, the questions become: Will the industry embrace this technology? Will shipbuilders see value in performing these simulations? and — more importantly — Will the passengers who book passage on these ships demand a safer experience? Hopefully, the Concordia tragedy will bring shipbuilders, cruise ship operators, and passengers together to create a better outcome the next time a bad decision or unforeseen event causes significant damage to a ship.
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LaTeX command frequencies
In the previous post I present a bash one-liner to search directories for LaTeX files and count the commands used.
College files
I first tried this out on a directory that included some old files from grad school. I chose this directory because I knew it had a lot of LaTeX files, but I was surprised at the results. Here were the top 10 results:
 1. \Omega
 2. \partial
 3. \bf
 4. \in
 5. \mu
 6. \real
 7. \int
 8. \item
 9. \alpha
 10. \end
I was very surprised that the top command was \Omega. I expected maybe the integral command \int would come out on top.
The notes contain a lot of integrals, but these integrals were often over a domain Ω. The set inclusion command \in also appears frequently, probably in the context of saying x ∈ Ω.
The \partial came up frequently because I used it in two contexts. First, I was studying partial differential equations, so I used the symbol for partial derivative a lot. Second, I used ∂ to denote the boundary of a domain, as in ∂Ω.
You might notice that \end made the list above but \begin didn't. Sounds like an error if LaTeX files have more \end statements than \begin statements. The reason is that I used to have an include file that had lots of macros and ended with \begin{document}. That saved a few keystrokes, but now I think such asymmetry is bad form. In the search described below, there are exactly the same number of \begin and \end statements.
Client files
When I looked at the command frequencies in a directory containing some client work, I got very different frequencies. Here were the top commands in that directory.
 1. \hline
 2. \item
 3. \end
 4. \begin
 5. \frac
 6. \xi
 7. \phi
 8. \lambda
 9. \texttt
 10. \partial
I suppose \hline is at the top because the files contained a lot of tables. It makes sense that \item, \begin, \end and \frac were near the top because those are common LaTeX commands. I don't remember what I was working on that used the symbol ξ so much.
When I first thought about this post I thought I could get a feel for what commands are used frequently in LaTeX in general. I started with my own files because they're at hand, but the results say more about my usage of LaTeX than about LaTeX in general.
Other collections
I imagine if you were to look at the frequency statistics for a large corpus, such as the articles submitted to a given math journal, the results would still depend somewhat on the journal: you're going to see \int for integral more often in an analysis journalthan in an algebra journal, etc.
If you run the code from the previous post on some collection of LaTeX files and get some interesting results, leave a comment describing what you found.
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Typesetting zodiac symbols in LaTeX
Typesetting zodiac symbols in LaTeX is admittedly an unusual thing to do. LaTeX is mostly used for scientific publication, and zodiac symbols are commonly associated with astrology. But occasionally zodiac symbols are used in more respectable contexts.
The wasysym package for LaTeX includes miscellaneous symbols, including zodiac symbols. Here are the symbols, their LaTeX commands, and their corresponding Unicode code points.
The only surprise here is that the command for Capricorn is based on the Latin form of the name: \capricornus.
Each zodiac sign is used to denote a 30° region of the sky. Since the Unicode symbols are consecutive, you can compute the code point of a symbol from the longitude angle θ in degrees:
9800 + \left\lfloor \frac{\theta}{30} \right\rfloor
Here 9800 is the decimal form of 0x2648, and the half brackets are the floor symbol, i.e. round down to the nearest integer.
Here's the LaTeX code that produced the table.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\aries & \verb|\aries | & U+2648 \\
\taurus & \verb|\taurus | & U+2649 \\
\gemini & \verb|\gemini | & U+264A \\
\cancer & \verb|\cancer | & U+264B \\
\leo & \verb|\leo | & U+264C \\
\virgo & \verb|\virgo | & U+264D \\
\libra & \verb|\libra | & U+264E \\
\scorpio & \verb|\scorpio | & U+264F \\
\sagittarius & \verb|\sagittarius | & U+2650 \\
\capricornus & \verb|\capricornus | & U+2651 \\
\aquarius & \verb|\aquarius | & U+2652 \\
\pisces & \verb|\pisces | & U+2653 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
By the way, you can use the Unicode values in HTML by replacing U+ with &#x and adding a semicolon on the end.
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Regular expressions and special characters
Special characters make text processing more complicated because you have to pay close attention to context. If you're looking at Python code containing a regular expression, you have to think about what you see, what Python sees, and what the regular expression engine sees. A character may be special to Python but not to regular expressions, or vice versa.
This post goes through an example in detail that shows how to manage special characters in several different contexts.
Escaping special TeX characters
I recently needed to write a regular expression [1] to escape TeX special characters. I'm reading in text like ICD9_CODE and need to make that ICD9\_CODE so that TeX will understand the underscore to be a literal underscore, and a subscript instruction.
Underscore isn't the only special character in TeX. It has ten special characters:
 \ { } $ & # ^ _ % ~
The two that people most commonly stumble over are probably $ and % because these are fairly common in ordinary prose. Since % begins a comment in TeX, importing a percent sign without escaping it will fail silently. The result is syntactically valid. It just effectively cuts off the remainder of the line.
So whenever my script sees a TeX special character that isn't already escaped, I'd like it to escape it.
Raw strings
First I need to tell Python what the special characters are for TeX:
 special = r"\\{}$&#^_%~"
There's something interesting going on here. Most of the characters that are special to TeX are not special to Python. But backslash is special to both. Backslash is also special to regular expressions. The r prefix in front of the quotes tells Python this is a "raw" string and that it should not interpret backslashes as special. It's saying "I literally want a string that begins with two backslashes."
Why two backslashes? Wouldn't one do? We're about to use this string inside a regular expression, and backslashes are special there too. More on that shortly.
Lookbehind
Here's my regular expression:
 re.sub(r"(?<!\\)([" + special + "])", r"\\\1", line)
I want special characters that have not already been escaped, so I'm using a negative lookbehind pattern. Negative lookbehind expressions begin with (?<! and end with ). So if, for example, I wanted to look for the string "ball" but only if it's not preceded by "charity" I could use the regular expression
 (?<!charity )ball
This expression would match "foot ball" or "foosball" but not "charity ball".
Our lookbehind expression is complicated by the fact that the thing we're looking back for is a special character. We're looking for a backslash, which is a special character for regular expressions [2].
After looking behind for a backslash and making sure there isn't one, we look for our special characters. The reason we used two backslashes in defining the variable special is so the regular expression engine would see two backslashes and interpret that as one literal backslash.
Captures
The second argument to re.sub tells it what to replace its match with. We put parentheses around the character class listing TeX special characters because we want to capture it to refer to later. Captures are referred to by position, so the first capture is \1, the second is \2, etc.
We want to tell re.sub to put a backslash in front of the first capture. Since backslashes are special to the regular expression engine, we send it \\ to represent a literal backslash. When we follow this with \1 for the first capture, the result is \\\1 as above.
Testing
We can test our code above on with the following.
 line = r"a_b $200 {


Allow syncing only on computers joined to specific domains
To make sure that users sync OneDrive files only on managed computers, you can configure OneDrive to sync only on PCs that are joined to specific domains.
To allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains
 1. Sign in to the OneDrive admin center as a global or SharePoint admin, and select Sync in the left pane.
 The Sync page of the OneDrive admin center
 2. Select the Allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains check box.
 3. Click Add domains.
 4. Add the GUID of each domain for the member computers that you want to be able to sync.
Note
Make sure to add the domain GUID of the computer domain membership. If users are in a separate domain, only the domain GUID that the computer account is joined to is required.
Important
This setting is only applicable to Active Directory domains. It does not apply to Azure AD domains. If you have devices which are only Azure AD joined, consider using a Conditional Access Policy instead.
 1. If you want to prevent Mac OS users from syncing entirely, select the Block sync on Mac OS check box.
 2. Click Save on the Sync page.
For info about setting this sync app restriction by using PowerShell, see Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction


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Definition of craniometry in English:
The scientific measurement of skulls, especially in relation to craniology.
- The SAP physicians were far more rigorously quantitative in their craniometry.
- Some of the examples he discusses may remind us of the metaphorical appropriation of biology by racist craniometry in the nineteenth century.
- The nineteenth-century interest in craniometry had assumed that intelligence was both biological and inheritable.
- Example sentences
- Thus, this anatomical region is favorable for sex determination due to its craniometric characteristics.
- The results of the present craniometric analysis are compared with other lines of evidence.
- This article examines the potential contribution of archaeological human skeletal material, in particular craniometric data.
Words that rhyme with craniometrygeometry, micrometry, optometry, psychometry, pyrometry, sociometry, trigonometry
Definition of craniometry in:
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A business exists to create value by providing a solution to a problem that people have. There are a few reasons why people pay for products and services to solve their problems, including:
- They don't want to solve their problem on their own.
- They can't afford to solve their problem on their own.
- They don't have the time to solve their problem on their own.
As a business owner, you create value by bringing people and resources together to solve the problems people have. This concept is something many business owners overlook until they get to a point where they need to understand why their company isn't producing the results they want. To build a valuable business, you must spend time understanding why your customers use your business. What is the specific problem or problems your business is solving for them? The more detailed your answers are, the more opportunities you will find to create value.Read more: How business owners create value
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1945 Meeting of FDR and Saudi King Was Pivotal for Relations
WASHINGTON — As the United States hailed its new relationship with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney took note of a little-remembered meeting that provided early stability to Washington's relations with the desert kingdom.
During his crisis meeting with King Fahd last weekend, Cheney recalled, the Saudi king had spoken of the two countries' historic relationship dating back to a meeting between his father, King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The meeting quickly became lost in the mists of history because it took place in the immediate aftermath of the historic Yalta conference at which Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin agreed on the outlines of post-World War II Europe.
At the time, the United States and Britain were in significant disagreement over the future of the Middle East. Upon conclusion of the Yalta conference in February, 1945, Roosevelt surprised Churchill by announcing that, on his way home, he had scheduled meetings with King Saud, King Farouk of Egypt and Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
Flying from the Crimea to Malta, Roosevelt took the cruiser Quincy to Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal, where it remained for three days during the meetings.
Some members of the party thought Roosevelt was mainly interested in idle diversion--"taking in the colorful panoply of sovereigns of this part of the world who thought President Roosevelt of the United States could probably solve all their troubles," wrote presidential speechwriter Robert Sherwood.
In providing local color, the Saudi warrior-king did not disappoint, slaughtering a goat for his meals on the deck of the U.S. warship.
But Roosevelt's real interest was to engage King Saud on the issue of Palestine and the underlying animosities that divide the Middle East even now.
The king bluntly warned Roosevelt even then that Arabs would take up arms rather than see an expansion of Jewish settlements.
"The President seemed not to fully comprehend what Ibn Saud was saying to him," Sherwood later recalled, "for he brought the question up two or three times more, and each time Ibn Saud was more determined than before."
Three months later, Roosevelt was dead, and it was left to his successors to deal with the partition of Palestine and the consequences the Saudi king predicted.
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text: When a PT stands close to you or holds onto your hips when you walk so you don't fall, that's called guarding. PTs don't like it when their patient falls, that means a lot of paperwork and paperwork sucks. So I had dinner with my friend tonight and she uses a walker when she walks. Her dad follows closely behind her when she's walking. He was guarding(holding) her on the shoulder. Wrong. When you're guarding someone when they walk, you hold the hips, or keep your hands close to the hips. Not at the waist, at the hips. At the hips you can control the motion of the entire body. If you're holding onto the shoulders and their legs go out from under them, down they go. But if you're holding at the hips you can prevent the fall, usually. When guarding on stairs you should always be below the patient. If the person is going down the stairs you should be in front of them going down backwards – ready to catch them if they fall. If the person is going up stairs you should be behind them – ready to catch them if they fall.


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Actively and harmonically mode locked lasers (AHMLL) have been extensively studied as an optical clock source for photonic-assisted analog-to-digital conversion of broadband RF signals. Such lasers can generate high repetition rate pulse train with ultralow timing jitter . The optical injection of AHMLL has been shown to be an interesting way to reduce the supermode noise, which is an important source of residual phase noise at high offset frequency . Although efforts have been put to stabilize the external seed laser on a longitudinal mode of the AHMLL , no study on the impact of seed laser parameters have been reported. We present here our first results on the parametric study of a CW-injected AHMLL to understand better the evolution of the laser performance under different power and optical gain conditions.
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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.


Sleeping with bottle leads to higher chances of obese baby?
Sleeping with bottle leads to higher chances of obese baby?
Studies show babies that fall asleep with a bottle have a higher chance of becoming obese.
Childhood obesity Parents who let their babies fall asleep with milk bottles may cause them to become obese.
Sleeping with bottles
Recent studies show that a baby who sleeps with a milk bottle has a higher chance of becoming an obese baby. The study was led by sociology professor, Ben Gibbs, who has studied 8,000 mothers that either breast-fed or fed their nine-month-old babies with formula, and recorded their body weights after 24 months.
Daily Mail reported that out of 8,000, Mr. Gibbs found that formula fed babies were more likely to be clinically obese. On top of this, babies who end up falling asleep with their bottles had a 30 per cent higher likelihood of obesity.
RELATED: Prolonged bottle feeding can harm
Obese baby
What these findings suggest, according to Mr. Gibbs, is that formula-fed babies who have a higher chance of being obese will also have a harder time regulating their appetites in the future. This puts them at an even higher risk of being obese later on in life.
Furthermore, Mr. Gibbs claimed that mothers who measure their babies' formula by the ounces usually overfeed them as compared to breastfeeding them. A baby who feeds on solid food is also 40 per cent more likely to be an obese baby.
RELATED: Overweight kids can develop spine abnormalities
obese baby A lot of times obesity really depends on habits taught early in life
Not always true
Even though feeding techniques play an important role in determining whether your baby will be an obese baby or not, paediatrician, Dr. Cynthia Mann insists that babies should never be labelled as 'fat' just because they feed on formula or fall asleep with the bottle.
It is normal for babies to have layers of fat because they keep them warm. Furthermore, some babies are simply fatter than other babies. But the only way parents can really enable an obese baby is to rectify every situation with a milk bottle, causing the baby to consume excessive calories.
Mr. Gibbs summed up, "The takeaway here is that the habits we adopt early on for our babies matter later in life."
RELATED: Calculating BMI in children
Formula feeding
Mothers are usually encouraged to breastfeed their infants. As Dr. Yong Tze Tein says, "Breast milk is preventive medicine at its best." However, if a mother opts for formula instead, we suggest different types of infant formulas to look out for before making a purchase. There are three main types:
 - Cow's milk - It's the closest thing to breast milk
 - HypoallergenicEasier to digest
 - Soy based (for a vegan diet) - Alternative to cow's milk formula
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|Yerrabothu, Chandra Shekar Reddy
|The following thesis provides a detailed description of the design and development of magneto-resistive unexploded ordinance (UXO) sensor array to detect the perturbations in the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of buried ferrous objects. Over the years there has been a substantial development in the detection of unexploded ordinance. The objective of this research is to use the multiple axis sensors in the design to detect UXO. This thesis describes the theory of different magnetization techniques and the characteristics of Anisotropic Magneto-Resistive (AMR) sensors. The description of each hardware component employed in the system is given in detail. The softwares used for the data handling and processing is also addressed. The verification of a working design is achieved by acquiring baseline data set.
|Efforts towards the Detection of Perturbations in the Earth's Magnetic Field: Design and Development of Solid State Sensor Array