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The engineering and services group Bilfinger has won an order for the installation of a total of 72 foundations for the new Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm.
Sandbank is a joint partnership of Vattenfall (51 percent) and the city of Munich's public utility company (49 percent). The foundation elements will be installed in the seabed with the help of an installation ship in waters that are up to 34 meters deep and 90 kilometers west of Sylt in the German North Sea. The contract has a volume of more than €100 million. Work has already begun and will continue until February 2016.
The Hydro Sound Damper, a sound protection system that Bilfinger played a key role in developing, is being used at the Sandbank Offshore Windpark. The system helps to reduce the noise pollution that marine fauna is exposed to during the construction phase. The plastic material used for this system – a sheathing of the foundation pile – is specifically designed for the frequencies that are generated and retains its effectiveness over the entire water depth even in strong currents. Initial testing revealed a significant reduction in noise emissions.
"Bilfinger is a specialist in the manufacture, transport and installation of offshore foundations on the high seas and has proven its extensive competence in a large number of offshore projects", explains Member of the Executive Board Joachim Enenkel. "The order will be carried out by our newly-formed Offshore Systems and Grids division, in which we have brought together our marine engineering and grid construction activities within the Power business segment."
Bilfinger just recently won the order for the testing of steel foundations for the Wikinger Windpark in the Baltic Sea. From fall 2014, the group will manufacture several test piles, drive them into the seabed and subsequently conduct a comprehensive range of tests to optimize the foundations for the wind turbines from a technical and economic perspective.


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Bejeweled Blitz, is a popular matching game. Within the space of one minute, you must make as many matches as you can of gems (3 or more) of the same color. There are several things that can be done to increase your score as well as eliminate more gems. The items that help achieve this are called Power Gems, and there are two types, the Flame and the Star. The following tutorial will teach you how to get both.
1. Opening the appTap the Bejeweled Blitz icon on your chosen device. You can also play on Facebook if you choose.
2. PlayingTap Play to start the round. Remember, you can start making matches even before the timer starts.
3. Flame gemIn order to get the Flame Gem, you must match 4 of the same color gem by sliding up, down, left, or right in order to get 4 matching gems together. Slide the Flame Gem in line with 2 other gems of the same color and a 3 x 3 grid of gems will disappear.
4. Star gemFor this type of Power Gem, you will need to match 5 gems of the same color in a T or L pattern. This creates a Star Gem. Match the Star Gem to 2 or more gems of the same color. This eliminates all gems in the row and column that the Star Gem was in.

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shelf life of hemp seed oil
What is the shelf life of hemp oil
The short answer is, if stored correctly, an unopened bottle of our hemp oil will last 14 months from the date of production. The long answer is there are several factors that can influence the shelf life of hemp oil. The major ones are how the seed is pressed, how the oil is packaged and how the oil is stored.
Pressing hemp oil to extend shelf life
Since the essential fatty acids in hemp are very susceptible to degradation and rancidity, producing a shelf stable oil starts with being very careful at the production stage. By ensuring that the oil has had minimal exposure to heat and to oxygen, the production of the oil ensures that the goodness that was available in the raw seed is retained in our virgin cold-pressed hemp oil. We do this through a production process that protects the essential fatty acids from exposure to oxygen by replacing the "air" in the production environment with pure nitrogen. In addition to protecting the oil from oxidation, we also ensure that the oil is kept well below the allowable temperatures required to be able to call the oil cold-pressed. These two factors enable us to produce a product that is as close as possible to mimicking the seed in it's ability to safeguard the oil. You might consider our method better, since seeds can get broken, allowing oxygen to access the oils.
Sealed jugs devoid of oxygen extend shelf life
The oxygen free environment doesn't stop at the pressing stage, we continue it right through to the bottling stage where the oil is maintained oxygen free and then the last bit of space in the top of the filled bottle is also replaced with nitrogen before the bottle is sealed with a foil topper and the lid is put on. These extra steps ensure that the oil will remain fresh for a long period of time after it has been placed in the bottle, literally for many months allowing us to set a best before date of 14 months from the date of manufacture.
Cold storage of the oil extends shelf life
Keep your oil cold. While we maintain an environment that is consistently lower than 15 C for short term storage of the products, we highly recommend you storing your oil in the freezer for longer term storage. One of the many wonderful benefits of hemp oil is that it will not turn to a solid at the temperatures reached in your home freezer so you can keep you oil there and it will still pour for you. There may be some separation of the naturally occurring waxes but this will just result in some cloudiness and is not something to be concerned about. It will not affect flavour or consistency when the oil warms.
Keep your oil cold and out of the light
The two things you need to be aware of after you get your oil is that you should keep it cool and out of the sunlight. Store the oil in the freezer for long term storage and in the fridge in the short term. The oil can withstand moderate temperatures, for instance while being shipped, without any significant degradation. For long term storage, just ensure you maintain a cold temperature.
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Cold Pressed or Refined Hemp Oil?
Hemp oil is referred to as the most perfectly balanced oil created by nature. This is due to the perfect balance of unsaturated Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids that cannot be found anywhere else. Hemp oil is also rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and other health beneficial substances. However, this only applies if the oil is cold pressed, as only unrefined hemp oil preserves all the nutrients contained in the hemp seed.
How is unrefined hemp oil made?
Unrefined, cold pressed hemp oil is obtained from hemp seeds with mechanical extraction at a low temperature that doesn't exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Cold pressed hemp oil is not chemically cleaned or bleached and the sediments are removed mechanically using filtration.
The shorter shelf life of cold pressed oil
Due to the lack of chemical treatment and absence of high temperatures, the active substances found in the seeds of the plant are also preserved in cold pressed oils. Because of this, the oil has a shorter shelf life and needs to be stored in cold places, and the supply chain between the manufacturer and the end consumer needs to be shortened as well. Incorrect storage and irregularities in transportation can make the cold pressed oil go bad faster. The first sign alerting you to any irregularities will be an unusual odor. Properly stored, fresh cold pressed hemp oil has a strong green color, as well as a strong but pleasant smell that resembles a mixture of freshly mowed grass and nuts.
Why is unrefined oil better than refined oil?
Refined oil has a cleaner appearance, with a lighter color, and does not contain small particles. Refining is a relatively complex process that includes treatment with chemical compounds and at high temperatures, reaching up to 270 degrees Celsius. The process removes most of the vitamins contained in the oil, as well as other health beneficial substances. Also lost in the process are Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, which are the ingredients that give hemp oil the title of the most balanced oil. Refined hemp oil is primarily used in cosmetics, the production of various ointments and even plastics.
Two main reasons most cosmetics manufacturers decide to use refined oils
 - Refined oils last longer allowing for a longer supply chain between production and the end consumer, higher volumes of stock and lower risk for the manufacturer
 - Refined hemp oil is significantly cheaper than unrefined oil
At Hemptouch, we swear by unrefined, Cold Pressed Hemp Oil
All our products are based exclusively on cold pressed hemp oil. This is the only way to preserve all the beneficial substances that make hemp oil so popular in skin care. We realize this makes the shelf life of our products much shorter and that it affects the supply chain, which is a challenge in business, however, this helps us ensure our products are always fresh and of the highest quality.
Because we want to have full control over the ingredients used in our products, we make the cold pressed oil from our own hemp, grown on our field in Novo mesto, where we can observe its growth from seed to full-grown plant.
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The Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU) routing number is 311981614. Some banks or credit unions have more than one branch, which can make it difficult to know which routing number to use. Luckily, EECU has only one all-purpose routing number.
EECU was first known as the Fort Worth Teachers Credit Union. It's based in Fort Worth, Texas, and provides banking services for teachers and administrators.
What Is a Routing Number?
You could say that a bank account number identifies you. In the same vein, a routing number identifies your financial institution. Routing numbers are nine digits long and are needed for a variety of reasons, including:
- Transferring funds between banks;
- Sending or receiving a wire transfer;
- Setting up an electronic funds transfer (EFT);
- Requesting a direct deposit of your paychecks or government benefits.
- Outgoing domestic wire transfers: $20;
- Incoming domestic or international wire transfers: $15;
- International wire transfers: Varies.
Where Can You Find Your EECU Routing Number?
If you're familiar with writing a check, you can easily find the EECU routing number. Look at the first nine digits at the lower left-hand corner of your check, just below the memo field. Chances are you'll also need your bank account number, which is the next grouping of 10 numbers following the routing number. Once you have these two identifying numbers, you're ready to go.
If you don't have access to personal checks, you can always refer back here or visit the credit union's website. If you need your bank account number as well, contact EECU's customer service line at _PHONE_.
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TAS Safety Valve - For use with stove back boiler and un-vented hot water
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The TAS Valve is a mechanical flush valve, which is designed to be used with multi-fuel back boiler stoves that are equipped with a cooling coil / heat exchanger within the back boiler. Some back boiler stoves are designed specifically for use with un-vented hot water and are equipped with a seperate cooling coil that runs within the back boiler of the stove. The TAS safety valve is connected in line on a main cold water feed, which is plumbed to the cooling coil within the back boiler of a multi-fuel stove. The TAS valve then monitors the temperature of the water in the back boiler will and automatically open to release a flush of cold water in to the back boiler when the water temperature within the boiler exceeds 97 degrees.
The TAS safety valve is primarily designed to be used where an un-controlled heat source, such as a multi-fuel stove, is used to heat hot water in a sealed / un-vented hot water system. A multi-fuel stove is classed as an uncontrollable heat source because it cannot be turned on, or off, like a gas or oil fired boiler and therefore the stove has the potential to heat the water in an un-controlled fashion. In an un-vented hot water system this can lead to excessive pressure, which if left un-controlled can cause damage to the plumbing and the stove.
In order to utilise the TAS safety valve the stove requires a mains cold water feed to be piped to the back boiler within the stove and also a further drain off pipe to be piped from the back boiler to an outside drain for the purpose of expelling the mains cold water.
The TAS valve is designed to be installed within 1 metre of the stove, and is fitted in-line, on a mains cold water feed (15mm pipe). The TAS valve is equipped with a temperature probe which is attached from the TAS valve to the stove by a thermocouple wire which measures 1300mm in length. The Temperature probe monitors the temperature of the hot water within the back boiler and when the water within the back boiler reaches 97 degrees, the TAS safety valve will automatically open to release a flush of cold water in to the cooling coil within the back boiler. As the cold water flows through the cooling coil in the back boiler, the cold water absorbs the heat and thus cools the surrounding main body of water.
NOTE, the cold water that is released by the TAS valve does not contaminate, or come in to contact with the main body of water, since it flows through a separate cooling coil within the back boiler. Once the cold water has flowed through the back boiler cooling coil it is discharged to an outside drain.
Open Vented Hot Water: The TAS safety valve can also be used in conjunction with an open vented hot water system, where there is a chance of the water boiling or overheating, and where there is no heat dump present. Typically this can cause a symptom known as kettling, where the water can be heard boiling within the back boiler. In this scenario the TAS valve can be used to introduce mains cold water in to the flow pipe from the back boiler, in order to blend cold water with the hot water. The additional water will then discharge through the overflow on the header tank.
Back Boiler Stoves Suitable For Use With Un-Vented Hot Water: We sell a range of back boiler stoves and cookers that are designed to be used with un-vented hot water. They are manufactured to operate at 2 bar working pressure and are equipped with a cooling coil that runs within the main back boiler. The stoves models are as follows: Condor Cooker BO - Apollo BO - Marinela BO - iStove Lux BO - Titan with back boiler - Mercury Back Boiler - Mercury Hex Back Boiler- Magenta BO.
Some of the stoves with back boiler in our product range have an automatic air vent which also monitors the temperature of the water within the back boiler, and when the water reaches 96 degrees, the primary air vent will automatically close, thus starving the fire of air and reducing the heat output.
The thermal safety is valve required for temperature protection in closed hot water heating systems up to a maximum 93 KW = 80 000 kcal / h, in conjunction with a multi-fuel stove with back boiler.
The boiler must be installed with a hot water heaters ora safety heat exchanger must be equipped.
The TAS safety valve is a pressure independent valve, which opens when the water temperature within the back boiler of the stove reaches 97 ° C.
The internal sealing piston / valve is driven centrally thus preventing the risk of jamming / stalling.
No housing parts are made of plastic, and are therefore resistance to high temperatures.
Suitable for temperatures of up to 125 ° C
Maintenance - the sealing piston / valve is designed to be replaced periodically to ensure reliability.
PLEASE NOTE: PRESSURISED HOT WATER CAN BE DANGEROUS.
NEVER USE SOLDER JOINTS ON PLUMBING PIPEWORK WITHIN 3 METRES OF A STOVE. YOU MUST USE BRASS COMPRESSION FITTINGS FOR ANY JOINTS OR FITTINGS.
ALWAYS FIT AT LEAST ONE EXPANSION SAFETY VESSEL TO EACH CLOSED LOOP OF PIPEWORK (Min 25 LTR)
ALWAYS FIT AT LEAST 2 SAFETY BLOW OFF VALVES TO EACH CLOSED LOOP OF PIPEWORK, PLEASE DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO ONLY FIT 1, AS THE SECOND SHOULD BE FITTED AS A BACKUP. NB. IN AREAS WHERE THE MAINS COLD WATER CONTAINS HIGH A MINERAL CONTENT, THE SAFETY BLOW OFF VALVES SHOULD BE SERVICED OR REPLACED AT LEAST EVERY 18 MONTHS - 2 YEARS.
Solid brass housing
Maximum operating pressure 10 bar
Temperature response point 97 ° C
Maximum operating temperature is 110 ° C
Maximum capacity 6.5 m
Thermocouple cable length 1300mm
Pipe connection size 15mm
Thermostatic dip tube with sensor for insertion / attachment to the back boiler

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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Ordnance Survey Data Importer Coordinate Conversion Accuracy
Update 13 March 2013: Please see latest blog post (fix) on this here.
Thanks to a comment on my original post around my project that imports Ordnance Survey CodePoint data into SQL Server, I was made aware of a potential issue with the (awesome) third party GeoCoordConversion DLL I use to convert the Eastings/Northings coordinates supplied in the Ordnance Survey data files, into Latitude/Longitude coordinates. The issue relates to an inaccuracy in the conversion process, specifically to do with integer divisions instead of double.
So, this blog post is to document my analysis of that and try to quantify what, if any, impact there is on the accuracy of the conversion of Eastings/Northings to Latitude/Longitude. So what I've done is:
 1. Import the Ordnance Survey data set using the released version ( of the GeoCoordConversion library (i.e. the version my project uses)
 2. Downloaded the source code for GeoCoordConversion and corrected the parts of the calculations where the raised issue noted an inaccuracy
 3. Reran the data import into a separate table using the "corrected" conversion code
 4. Ran the following query to try and quantify how much of a difference it actually makes:
 SELECT orig.OutwardCode, orig.InwardCode,
 orig.GeoLocation.STDistance(new.GeoLocation) Dist
 FROM PostCodeData orig
 JOIN PostCodeDataWithFix new ON orig.InwardCode = new.InwardCode
 AND orig.OutwardCode = new.OutwardCode
SELECT MIN(Dist) AS MinDifferenceInMetres,
 MAX(Dist) AS MaxDifferenceInMetres,
 AVG(Dist) AS AverageDifferenceInMetres,
 SUM(CASE WHEN Dist = 0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) AS NumberOfDifferences
The MAXIMUM distance between the 2 conversions for a given postcode is: 124.9 metres.
The MINIMUM distance between the 2 conversions for a given postcode is: 0 metres.
The AVERAGE distance between the 2 conversions for a given postcode is: 2.5 metres.
The TOTAL NUMBER of differences was 1,652,458 (out of 1,705,177 conversions).
This map shows the case that had the biggest difference (postcode: NR34 8JW). Plotted points are as follows:
(A) = position from conversion process before fix
(B) = position from conversion process with fix
(C) = position Google Maps gives for location
Note (B) and (C) are in the same spot, so that's why you can't see both!
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For me, and what I see as potential uses for this data, I personally don't see this as much of an issue especially with an average difference of 2.5 metres. I will add a comment on to the GeoCoordConversion project issue page, referencing this post. Though there doesn't look to be any activity on the project, so whether a fix can be applied is yet to be seen. That's my preferred route at present, to see if the author of that project is around to apply a fix as I currently don't have full knowledge of what I changes I can make to the source code and what would be acceptable in order to distribute the amended source code as part of my project (my project is released under a different, but compatible license...but things might get murkier when it comes to amending/distributing those amendments). In a nutshell, I just don't have time to try to make head and tail of what I can legitimately do (and I don't want to change the license for my project)!
All feedback welcomed
 1. Hi,
 Many thanks for this, it is exactly what I needed. Just a question would it be possible for you to share the updated dll?
 Many thanks
 1. _USER_ - I'll see what I can do. Need to check the license applied to that project / may contact that project owner.
 2. If you can't get anywhere with that project, you might want to take a look at my.NET coords library,
 I've used it for my own projects a lot and several other people are using it without too many issues
 3. _USER_ - awesome, thanks. I will give it a try soon!
 4. Wicked, really wicked cheers!


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A comment mentions a reduction from X3C to SUBSET PRODUCT attributed to Yao. Given the target of the reduction it wasn't hard to guess what the reduction was likely to have been.
EXACT COVER BY 3-SETS (X3C)
Given a finite set $X$ with $|X|$ a multiple of 3, and a collection $C$ of 3-element subsets of $X$, does $C$ contain an exact cover $C'$ for $X$, where $C' \subseteq C$ and every element in $X$ occurs in exactly once in $C'$?
Given a list of numbers $L$ and a target $k$, is there a subset of numbers from $L$ whose product is $k$?
To reduce an X3C instance to a SUBSET PRODUCT instance:
Establish a bijective mapping between the members of $X$ and the first $|X|$ prime numbers. Replace the members of $X$ and the $C$ subsets with the mapped primes.
For each subset in $C$, multiply its members together; the resulting list of products is $L$ for the SUBSET PRODUCT instance. Because prime numbers are used for the mapping in step 1, the products are guaranteed to be equivalent iff the subsets are equivalent by the unique factorization theorem.
Multiply the members of $X$ together; the resulting product is the value $k$ for the SUBSET PRODUCT instance.
The prime factors of $k$ are exactly the members of $X$. The prime factors of the numbers in $L$ correspond exactly to the members of the $C$ subsets. Therefore any solution to the new SUBSET PRODUCT instance can be transformed into a X3C solution by mapping the solution members of $L$ back to the subsets in $C$.
Each of the 3 transformation steps involves operations that are polynomial to the size of the input $|X|$ or the size of a member of $X$. The first $|X|$ primes can be generated in time O($|X|$) using the sieve of Eratosthenes and are guaranteed to fit into $O(|X|^2 \ln |X|)$ space by the prime number theorem.


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Updated: Apr 11, 2022
Have you ever dreamt of retiring to a faraway land, somewhere on a farm, so that you can have an abundance of land for your freshly grown veggies?
Who says this can't be the dream in Singapore?
Growing your own Vegetables in Singapore
We all know the perks of having our very own edible garden. It spruces up our home, it can promote healthy eating to our children and saves us money and a trip to the supermarket with fresh produce on demand.
However, we empathise with the many inexperienced or first-time gardeners who are often worried about their lack of green thumb.
Singapore's Tropical Climate
When beginning your edible garden, or generally gardening in Singapore, we must remember that Singapore is HOT, and not many fruits and vegetables enjoy such a climate. Before starting on any project, do some basic research online and look to grow plants that thrive and grow in the heat.
Let us now dig into the 10 easiest vegetables to grow in Singapore.
10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in Singapore
Vegetables can be categorised into leafy vegetables and fruiting vegetables. Both types of vegetables can often be harvested in a short period of time. Leafy vegetables usually take only three weeks to three and a half months to grow, while fruiting vegetables tend to take longer and take four to seven months to grow.
1. Kang Kong (Water Spinach)
Kang Kong is categorised as leafy vegetables. From our personal experience, Kang Kong is probably the easiest edible to start with when gardening at home.
There is no denying the love Singaporeans have for Kang Kong. Its ability to hold seriously saucy flavours like our favourite sambal and mala is a must-have for family meals.
Kang Kong also thrives in tropical climates like Singapore. They are so resilient and will forgive you if you forget to water them once in a while. This is evident from its abundance even in wartime conditions, showing its ability to thrive!
Kang Kong thrives best in well-draining soil. It requires full sun and moderate watering. When it is time to harvest, simply cut all the top leaves off your Kang Kong, sparing two leaf nodes from the roots.
Harvest Time: 30 – 60 days
Culinary Uses: The leaves and stems are eaten raw, blanched, or stir-fried
2. Bayam (Chinese Spinach)
Bayam is a leafy vegetable. It may not be as common as Kang Kong but it can be just as delicious. A bonus is that they look really pretty too, coming in both green and red varieties. Also referred to as Chinese spinach, Bayam makes for a delightful salad ingredient with a generally sweet, tangy flavour profile. They are high in vitamins A, B, and C, and are also high in protein.
Similar to Kang Kong, Bayam is also resilient and has similar plant care. Put your Bayam in well-draining soil and give them 6 hours in the sun daily. When it is time to harvest, you can cut ALL its leaves off, and it is still able to continue to grow. However, for effectiveness, make sure to leave one or two leaves behind on the stem to keep them growing.
It is easiest to grow Bayam through cuttings and propagation, instead of seeds. You may choose a healthy bundle of spinach leaves from the supermarket and remove the bottom 15cm portion, which you can then transplant to the soil after a week of soaking in water. However, if you opt for seeds, as they are extremely small, make sure that the seed has enough space to germinate. You can scoop a teaspoon of seeds onto your palm and gently blow them towards your soil so they don't "bunch" together in a single spot.
Harvest Time: 25 – 56 days
Culinary Uses: The leaves are eaten raw in salads or steamed. Yellow and green dyes can be extracted from this plant.
3. Xiao Bai Cai (Baby Pak Choi)
Xiao Bai Cai is also a type of leafy vegetable. Although they are considered a cool-season crop, they are happy growing in our climate.
Xiao Bai Cai, also known as Baby Pak Choi may require slightly more care compared to Kang Kong and Bayam. Put them in well-draining soil and be careful not to subject them to the extreme afternoon heat.
Cut off the plant at the soil level when harvesting bok choy for the whole plant. You may also just cut off the leaves that you will use at one time and let the rest grow on. Surprisingly, immature plants provide the sweetest, most tender leaves and stems.
Harvest Time: 33 days
Culinary Uses: The green-stemmed variety has a milder flavour, more tender leaves and less juicy stems than the white-stemmed variety. The leaves are eaten boiled, blanched, or stir-fried
4. Kale (Dwarf Kale)
Kale, also known as Dwarf Kale is a type of leafy vegetable. Dwarf kale is only one of the few varieties suitable for Singapore weather.
They are a fantastic, nutritious source of vitamins A, C, and K and are known for being packed with a host of antioxidants. Dwarf Kale grows best in well-draining soil and requires full sun and moderate watering.
Harvest Time: 50-60 days
Culinary Uses: The leaves are eaten raw in salads, added to juices or baked into crisps
5. Spring Onion
Spring onions are leafy vegetables. There is no denying that they are used as a staple garnish for many of our foods, from Carrot Cake, Fried oysters and Soups! For the amount of flavour that they pack, they grow in a ridiculously short amount of time.
They enjoy moist soil and make sure it gets at least six hours of strong sunlight. They get taller and taller, and if you let them grow tall enough, they might even surprise you with edible flowers that you can garnish your dishes with. When you are ready to harvest, just snip off the amount you need from the leaves, and they will grow right back.
Harvest Time: 5 – 7 days
Culinary Uses: The leaves are usually used as a garnish, eaten raw or lightly stir-fried
6. Chilli Peppers
The first fruiting vegetables on the list, chilli peppers probably occupy most of our kitchen racks. Instead of tossing their seeds away after a busy day in the kitchen, you may plant them and get a convenient supply of them in the comfort of your home!
If you are planning to plant the seeds harvested from your kitchen, make sure to rinse and dry your extracted seeds overnight as less moisture brings you better results in the growth process. Chillies grow best in well-draining soil and require full sun and moderate watering, once every 2-3 days.
Harvest Time: 60 – 70 days
Culinary Uses: The fruit may be used in various forms – fresh, dried, ripe, immature, cooked or raw. It is popularly used in various dishes like soups and salads
7. Cherry Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes are also fruiting vegetables and thrive in our climate. They flourish best in well-lit areas and perfectly fit in small spaces like windowsills or HDB corridors since they only grow to about 30cm – 70cm.
They grow best in sandy clay loam soil and require at least six hours of direct sunlight and moderate watering. However, don't feel tempted to shield them when the sun gets merciless.
Harvest Time: 70 – 90 days
Culinary Uses: The fruit is eaten raw or cooked and used to make condiments and drinks
8. Brinjal (Eggplant)
Brinjal, also known as Eggplant is a fruiting vegetable. The name Eggplant is derived from the shape of the fruit of some varieties, which are white and resemble chicken eggs.
This edible grows best in well-draining soil and requires full sun and moderate watering.
Harvest Time: 65 – 80 days
Culinary Uses: The fruit is cooked and eaten as a vegetable. In Indonesia, there is a light green, elongated version that is eaten raw.
Cucumbers are fruiting vegetables. Similar to chillis, you can get them from your supermarket to grow them at home. You can do this by scooping out its seeds and giving them a quick rinse. Remember to pay attention to stubborn pulp clinging to the edges as this might hinder healthy growth.
Similar to other fruiting vegetables, cucumbers grow best in well-draining soil and require full sun and moderate watering.
Harvest Time: 50 – 60 days
Culinary Uses: The fruit has high water content, and makes a great thirst quencher. It is eaten raw, used in salads, or pickled. The young shoots may be eaten raw or steamed in Southeast Asian dishes.
10. Okra (Lady's Fingers)
Okra, also known as Lady's Fingers, are fruiting vegetables. You either hate them or love them because of their slimy texture.
Like cherry tomatoes, they grow best in well-draining soil and exposing these plant pods to strong sun rays for at least six hours daily works best. Lady's Fingers may be trickier than other plants above as they are prone to infections like downy mildew. They can be identified by white spots on their leaves. If you spot them, be sure to remove them immediately.
Harvest Time: 55 – 65 days
Culinary Uses: Some studies have shown that the fruit contains very high levels of antioxidants. The immature fruit is eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable and is usually added to curries and stews.
Starting Your Edible Garden from Scratch
A basic gardening starter kit involves a few pots or a planter box, seeds, soil and plant fertiliser.


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Clues Uncovered on Day One
By Sheila Eppolito
Perhaps the prayers of St. Patrick's pastor, Rev. James Taggart, helped. On day one of the excavation of a former shanty town located on parish grounds and inhabited by Lowell's early Irish settlers, University students unearthed a section of 150-year-old rosary beads, remnants of a clay pipe and several iron nails.
The dig — part of an international collaboration between UMass Lowell and Queen's University in Belfast — has piqued the interest of many people, and resulted in extensive media coverage, including a front-page Boston Globe story, two Lowell Sun stories, interviews on Boston radio and television stations and a potential story in the Dublin-based Irish Times.
"People are definitely intrigued," says Frank Talty, director of academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Center for Irish Partnerships.
"The Irish laborers who came to Lowell to help build the canals to power the mills left a lasting legacy in the city, and it's fascinating to be able to piece together clues of their lives here," he says.
Dave McKean, archivist at St. Patrick's, described the first few days of the project.
"Archaeology is a lot like an onion. There are layers upon layers. Each time you reach one, there is another underneath it. The students made detailed sketches of the two pits. They sprinkled water on top of the layers of soil to make color variations which help archaeologists assess what the land was used for. Looking for answers actually brought more questions. Was a foundation located? Is this coal? Does this mean there was a hearth here?"
McKean reports that many interested parties dropped by the site, and that some old research is being revisited. Antique maps are being adapted to new GPS technology to pinpoint locations, 19th century photos are helping archaeologists identify structures and their foundations and primary source documents are giving leads to new findings.
"There are new pieces to the jigsaw puzzle, but we're still missing pieces," says McKean.
The Lowell dig is one of many outcomes resulting from the University's initiative to develop international partnerships to expand global learning experiences for students and enrich the research portfolios of the faculty.
The six students - Dimitrios Booras, an undergraduate English major from Lowell; Jonathan Brown, a work environment graduate student from Dracut; Eunice Delice, an undergraduate political science major from Methuen; Alaina Puleo, a biology graduate student from Tyngsboro; Kimberly Scarfo, an undergraduate history major from Chelmsford; and Amanda Veiga, a Regional Economic and Social Development graduate student from Lowell ߝ applied to the program by writing essays as to why this project is important to them.
The findings will help form a picture of the lives of the Irish who immigrated to Lowell looking for work during the Great Famine, a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. As part of the exchange program, plans call for the students to excavate an abandoned rural settlement in County Fermanagh, Ireland next summer.
UMass Lowell has established nine international centers ߝ African, Asian, European, Franco-American, Hellenic, Irish, Latin and South American, Middle East and Turkish ߝ that are working with other universities to provide student exchange opportunities, joint degree programs and cooperative research projects.

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Capturing UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) parameters is essential for accurately tracking the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. By following this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to set up and test UTM parameters, ensuring you gather detailed insights about the traffic sources to your website.
Step 1: Creating a New UTM Parameter #
Access UTM Parameters: Go to the side navigation bar in your platform's dashboard and click on UTM Parameters.
Add New Parameter: Click on the "Add" button to open the UTM parameter configuration form.
Configure Your Parameter:
- Title and Description: Enter a title and description for your UTM parameter to help identify its purpose and details for future reference.
- Form Selection: Select the form and form variant you wish to track with this UTM parameter.
- Attribution Choices: Decide between Last-Touch and First-Touch attribution models based on your analysis needs.
- First Touch: Opt for this model if you want to credit the initial source of traffic for any conversions. The first UTM parameters a visitor brings will remain unchanged by any subsequent visits.
- Last Touch: Choose this to attribute conversions to the most recent source of traffic. The last UTM parameters a visitor brings before converting will overwrite any earlier ones.
Save: Click "Create" to finalize and save your UTM parameter setup.
Step 2: Embedding the Script
Once you have configured your UTM parameters and selected an attribution model:
Copy Script: A script will be generated at the top of the page. Copy this script.
Embed Script: Embed the copied script within the <head> tag of your landing page, specifically on the page where your form is embedded. This step ensures the UTM parameters are captured correctly when visitors interact with your site.
Step 3: Testing Your Setup #
To ensure your setup is capturing UTM parameters correctly:
Initial Visit Test: Use a URL with specific UTM parameters to visit your landing page/website, then leave the page. This action tests the capture of initial visit data based on your configured UTM parameters.
Verify Captured Data: Check the leads section of your platform to verify that the correct UTM parameters have been recorded according to your chosen attribution model (First Touch or Last Touch). Ensure the data matches your expectations and the parameters you've set.
By following these steps, you'll have a reliable setup for tracking UTM parameters, allowing for accurate attribution and analysis of your marketing campaigns' effectiveness.


How Central Banks' domestic gold purchase plan can formalise artisanal gold mining
 - Artisanal and small-scale mining has grown significantly since the start of this century.
 - There are various drawbacks of artisanal gold mining, including environmental degradation, money laundering, smuggling, etc.
 - Central banks' domestic gold purchase plan can help countries across the globe to formalise and incorporate best practices into the sector.
Artisanal and small-scale mining has grown immensely in developing countries over the last twenty years. More than 20 million people across the globe are involved in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices. Poverty, unemployment, organised crime, lucrative gold prices are some of the leading factors that encourage ASGM activities. Though the ASGM practice is illegal in few countries, it is the second most significant source of livelihood, followed by agriculture.
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There are various associated ill-effects of ASGM, including substantial environmental degradation, mercury release, soil pollution, child labour, health, safety & environment (HSE) issues, money laundering and smuggling. The limited access of artisan miners to financial institutions also makes them vulnerable to robbery and marginal prices for the mined gold. In most cases, the trading of gold involves middlemen, which significantly reduces the margin of gold miners. Additionally, the gold coming from these sources is probably not going to have an option to fulfil due diligence for global processing plants.
Role of Banking System to implement best practices:
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Gold has become the cornerstone of the modern reserve management. It is the third most broadly held reserve currency, followed by the US dollar and the euro.
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Since emerging economies face challenges of currency instability, they try to increase their gold reserves. Central banks in such markets are reinforcing their gold reserves with locally mined gold with the help of artisanal miners. The practice allows banks to buy gold in local currencies, avoiding currency losses. At the same time, the practice also supports the livelihood of artisanal miners.
However, the formalisation of the sector in a responsible way can significantly enhance artisanal miners' lives by incorporating the best practices in the sector.
How a central bank domestic ASGM purchase program can help miners:
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The World Gold Council (WGC) has highlighted the four countries – Ethiopia, Mongolia, Ecuador and the Philippines – whose central banks followed domestic ASGM purchase program and elaborated how these programs have brought a change in ASGM practices in these countries.
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In Mongolia, the central bank promoted the Fairmined Standards. In Ecuador, the bank decided to purchase gold from licensed miners with bank accounts and issue invoices. In the Philippines, the central bank assured the quality of gold through London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) accredited refineries. In the case of Ethiopia, the central bank sells a portion of their purchase to LBMS accredited refineries.
The examples shared by WGC have clearly shown the prospect and potential of widening their use. These initiatives can help countries to formalise artisanal mining practices and limit illegal mining.


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THE recent independence of African nation South Sudan was the excuse for a colourful weekend celebration in Coffs Harbour.
The South Sudan Independence Day Cultural Festival at St John's Anglican Church Hall on Saturday brought together Coffs Coast residents from a wide range of backgrounds.
Citizens of the world's newest nation celebrated the independence of their homeland on July 9 but in Coffs Harbour, other events and programs interfered with that date, so the festival was postponed, however, the event showed it was no worse for being a little tardy.
More than 100 people gathered at the church hall with Sudanese people, who were joined by community leaders from many nations including Togo, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Burundi, India and Burma as well as Australians and service providers to the migrant community.
Those who attended heard a presentation from South Sudan community leader Apach Mapieu about the historical background of Sudan, its culture, religious values, heritage and natural resources and economy, as well as the conflict which led to the country being split into two separate states.
Visitors also heard what was happening to members of that community who now live on the Coffs Coast, many of whom are studying, but some of whom have already begun local business ventures.
Dances and songs from different Sudanese areas featured in the afternoon.
Mr Mapieu said they had hoped to have larger numbers at the Independence Day Festival.
"We were targeting 200 but the weather has been a barrier, especially as most of the people do not have vehicles," he said.
"We really appreciate members of the public coming from different groups.
"White and indigenous Australians, the peak organisations like the Anglican church, Anglicare, Settlement and TAFE."
The Multicultural Breakfast Club, run by Sudanese-born Wilson Loyo, will hold its next multicultural breakfast at 10-11am on September 3 at the Cavanbah Centre.
The monthly breakfasts move around different cultures and the September meeting will be an Aussie breakfast, so expect cuisine like bacon and eggs and vegemite on toast.
Everyone is welcome at the breakfast, which is free, with food provided by the breakfast club.
The September event is being held at the Cavanbah Centre because the event has outgrown its original venue at the Coffs Harbour Community Village.


text: The study of communication in a network setting has gained increasing popularity in recent years. While audience effects on aggressive interactions have been studied extensively, male–female interactions have often been overlooked. In addition, little is known about how reproductive status affects the nature of audience effects. Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens, are a popular subject for communication network studies, but male–female interactions have not been explored in this setting. In this study, pairs of male and female Betta were presented with a male, female or no audience to determine whether the presence of an audience alters the behaviour of the interactants. Within these three audience types, there were four reproductive status conditions with receptivity indicated by nest presence for males and reproductive barring for females. It was predicted that male–female interactions would be affected by the presence of an audience, especially when both interactants are receptive as has been found in male–male interactions in this species. The results suggest that presence of an audience and reproductive status act in combination to influence male–female interactions, but only in interactant-directed behaviours. Not all behaviours were equally affected by these factors. For example, while tail beats to the other interact were greatest when a female audience was present and both the interactants were receptive, this was not true for gill flaring. This study is among the first investigations into audience effects on male–female interactions including the first in Betta and suggests that courtship as well as aggression should be explored in a network setting.


Doggnation is a fun puzzle game for kids grades five and up. The goal is to help the Doggs build their castle by collecting colored blocks in the correct order as they pass by other Doggs. Click on a Dogg to turn it around so that a block is not picked up.
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Series of official or annual reports from LMS mission stations to LMS headquarters, relating to the missions in the West Indies or Caribbean. The reports series consists of detailed annual reports from missionaries in charge of mission stations, relating to the work of the station in education, medicine, evangelisation etc. The West Indies and British Guiana reports include details of mission out-stations, primarily for Jamaica. There are only a limited number of reports for British Guiana, and no reports for regions in the Caribbean outside Jamaica. The reports contain a great deal of information, including statistics and other information on the number of local converts and the number of local children attending mission schools, for example. Some reports were used in mission publications, and many have been edited for such use. Reports after 1883 are written by LMS agents in the field, as missionaries had effectively withdrawn from work in the region by that date.
The West Indies reports include reports from the following stations and outstations: Jamaica - Breadnut Bottom, Brixton Hill, Chapelton, Clarendon, Davyton, First Hill, Kingston, Prospect Penn, Ridgemount, Whitefield. British Guiana reports include reports from Berbice and Demerara, including Brunswick and Georgetown.
Reports include series by significant missionaries including: William Alloway (_PHONE_); George Bailey (_PHONE_); Thomas Henry Clark (_PHONE_); John Dalgleish (_PHONE_); William James Gardner (_PHONE_); William Harty; Alfred Joyce; James Milne. LMS missionary agents include James John Bowrey (d.1897) and James Watson.


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It is estimated that 300 million people use Google every day in their quest to find information on the web. Imagine having the ability to not only search online text files for specific words but also to search audio files for specific sounds. Thanks in part to Messiah College Engineering Professor Randy Fish, that technology is now patented.
Fish and a team of five others have spent the past seven years perfecting and patenting "audio hot spotting," a search engine technology that allows users to search audio files for a specific word or phrase, a particular speaker, a speaker's tone, or characteristics like laughter and applause.
This type of "audio hot spotting" might, for example, be helpful to a user who only wants to hear the portions of a speech that caused an audience to react with applause or laughter.
The challenge, according to Fish, was developing the artificial intelligence algorithms able to discern emotion in a voice, regardless of whether the voice is male or female, and to recognize applause and laughter generically.
Other systems attempt this type of audio searching, Fish says, but only this patented system gives users access to emotions and non-speaking sounds in addition to searching on what was said or who said it.


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The NJGEC provides several rich opportunities for students/trainees to gain clinical experience and expertise in geriatrics throughout their tenure at RowanSOM. Osteopathic medical students, interns, residents, and fellows train with a multidisciplinary group of faculty preceptors across the continuum of care; training is conducted in the following geriatric settings:
There are elective opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from other disciplines to complete clinical preceptorships in geriatrics, available upon request. The NJGEC has trained an interdisciplinary audience of elective students, including those in the fields of psychology, nursing, social work, nutrition, physical therapy, and dentistry.
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text: David Wilcock displays several examples of hidden ancient builder race bases found in orbit around Saturn. As the early German bell-crafts ventured deeper into the solar system, many ancient ruins were discovered throughout. Amongst the remains they found ancient bases hidden within the hollow interiors of the largest moons. The secret truth of these discoveries has been stealthily disclosed in surprising ways over the years. This presentation was originally presented November 30, 2015.


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Suppose $G$ is a finite group, with $|G|=n$. Suppose also that for every positive integer $m\mid n$, $G$ has a subgroup of index $m$. Are there any general statements (structural or otherwise) I can make about such $G$?
For example, all such groups will be solvable; but as $S_4$ shows, they need not be supersolvable. The collection is also strictly smaller than solvable groups, as $A_4$ shows.
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You are asking for groups in which the converse of Lagrange's theorem holds (sometimes called "Lagrangian"). It includes all supersolvable groups, but includes more than that, yet not all solvable groups. As far as I know, there is no characterization of these groups. (Keith Conrad says the same thing in these notes). A quick searching MathSciNet reveals a lot of papers discussing special classes of groups that satisfy the converse of Lagrange's Theorem, but no structural characterization that I could find.
In this paper, Jing mentions a variant: a group is a $\mathscr{G}$-group if and only if for each subgroup $H$ of $G$ and each prime factor $p$ of $[G:H]$, there is a subgroup $K$, $H\leq K\leq G$ such that $[K:H]=p$. He describes all values of $n$ such that every group $G$ with $|G|=n$ is a $\mathscr{G}$-group.
$\mathscr{G}$-groups have been characterized in sundry ways; the paper by Jing cites a book by Bray, Deskins, Johnson, Humphreys, Puttaswamaiah, Venke, Walls, and Weinstein in which it is shown that $G$ is a $\mathscr{G}$-group if and only if there is a normal Hall subgroup $N$ in $G$ such that $N$ and $G/N$ are nilpotent, and for each $H\leq N$ we have $G=N\cdot N_{G}(H)$.
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Thanks for the pointer to $\mathscr{G}$-groups. I'm gonna take a look at the Jing paper. – user641 Sep 22 '11 at 11:59
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Climate Change: Prepare for More Flooding in Eastern Canada
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Gatineau spring 2017 flood
Major spring floods impacted communities in Eastern Canada recently, as historic flooding caused widespread damage and evacuations, with some fatalities. Many who live within the Lake Ontario, Ottawa and St. Lawrence drainage systems were affected. A joint Canada-US board warns of more to come.
Gatineau residents walk their dog
Heavy rains and melting snowpack flooded over 2,000 homes in Quebec. The St. Lawrence River spilled its banks to historic levels, flooding Montreal and Trois-Rivieres and its surrounding areas. Some of the heaviest flooding occurred in the Ottawa River in Gatineau. The Ottawa River at Gatineau rose several metres above normal levels, reaching record levels and flooding hundreds of homes. Levels in Lake Ontario hit record highs in April. April was one of the top three wettest Aprils on record since 1900, in terms of flowing into Lake Ontario.
"A record-setting snowstorm in late March probably added to the flooding," writes Sean Gordon of the Globe and Mail. "Combined with a heavier snow pack and mostly cool April temperatures, the spring melt in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec has taken longer than in a typical year. With rivers and streams already surging with melted snow and overflowing water tables saturating the ground, it doesn't take much rain to cause mayhem. And there's been lots and lots of rain."
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Rescuers in Pierrefonds, Quebec
Elsewhere in Canada, in New Brunswick Atlantic Canada, the St John River spilled its banks after 150 millimetres of rain fell in a 36-hour downpour. British Columbia, on the other side of the country, has recently suffered flooding and mudslides.
"While I know that individual weather events can vary," says Alex Tetreault of the National Observer, "there's no denying that these sorts of events are becoming more frequent because of our changing climate."
Climate Change Increases Extreme Weather Events
Scientists agree that extreme weather resulting in flooding will become more frequent in some regions as climate change accelerates. While we normally view and report climate change on a global and decades scale, it is experienced on a local and day-to-day scale through weather patterns and events.
"We've changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and the oceans with our greenhouse gases," says climate scientist Paul Beckwith at the University of Ottawa. While these large scale changes are reflected in globally increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperatures, their effects express regionally in unique ways–which is why some feel increased temperatures and drought, while others experience increased torrential rain. This is no paradox; this is weather.
Climate Change Is About Water
Because climate is essentially a water-driven phenomenon, we see the most obvious
impacts of climate change in water events: torrential rainfall; hurricanes; tornadoes; melting polar ice or permafrost; sea level rise and ocean acidification; atmospheric rivers and associated deluges; the great oceanic current; drought, wind storms and heat.
Given that much of our Great Lakes and St. Lawrence waters are shared with our southern neighbour, it was disconcerting that a Trump administration budget proposal suggested completely defunding the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which cleans industrial pollution in the lakes—leaving all the cleanup to Canada. The funding was saved in the latest US budget bill—at least for now.
When US Regulators Turn Into Lobbyists
It is rather alarming and disheartening that the US EPA—comprised of intelligent scientists whose central mission is to protect US and joint Canadian-US waters (such as the Great Lakes) is now administered by a pro-industry (pro-deregulation) climate denier (Scott Pruitt), whose first step once in office was to remove key regulations aimed at limiting emissions that cause global warming and reducing pollution in US rivers, streams and wetlands.
Pruitt currently "regulates" the very companies with whom he previously collaborated; companies that had lobbied against regulations that required upgrading or removal of outmoded and highly polluting coal-powered power plants, control of methane emissions, limitation of smog-causing chemicals and use of hydraulic fracturing. The US Environment Protection Agency has also removed a climate change section from its website "to reflect EPA's priorities under … President Trump and Administrator Pruitt."
And we know what that priority and vision is.
The Canadian Vision
Meantime, (while America appears preoccupied in a shortsighted pursuit of money for a few) in Canada, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna advises that Canadian firms prepare for how they will cope with the effects of climate change, including more unpredictable and extreme weather events.
Flooded homes in Rigaud, Quebec
Beckwith joins other Canadian scientists in urging municipalities to upgrade their infrastructure to improve drainage, including a city's storm water management system. "It's just a matter of time before [flooding] happens to just about every city the way climate change is accelerating," warns Beckwith. Given that many cities are located on a floodplain, I'd bet on that prediction.
To find out what some Canadian municipalities and individuals are doing, see my articles on storm water runoff and management:
Calming Unruly Urban Waters
Tasking Citizens to Manage their Storm Water Runoff
What Watershed Do You Live In? And Why Should You Care?
Why Stormwater Fees Are Necessary
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Stroke Research Group
The Stroke Research Group is a rapidly developing independent but collaborative group of researchers. Stroke research is a priority area for growth within the Institute of Clinical Neurosciences over the coming years; the group is host to an expanding portfolio of research.
The Stroke Research Group has is closely associated with the clinical stroke service at North Bristol Trust, which provides a comprehensive stroke service including interventional neuroradiology and thrombectomy, vascular surgery, neurosurgery and specialist stroke rehabilitation. The Stroke Research Group uses a range of techniques including:
- MRI (e.g. fMRI, tractography)
- Gaze tracking
- Gait tracking
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Cognitive testing
- "Off-theshelf" EEG.
There is also an intention to develop further research areas and techniques, including:
- Mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of stroke
- Genetics and cognition/rehabilitation (MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit)
- MR spectroscopy
- Gait lab with visual environment modulation
- SPHERE project using technology for monitoring health in people's homes


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Qiskit Experiments: A Python package to characterize and calibrate quantum computers
Qiskit Experiments is a Python package for designing and running quantum computing experiments with a focus on calibration and characterization of quantum devices. It consists of a general purpose experiments framework which can be used by researchers to rapidly implement new experiments and a library of common experiments for calibration, characterization, and verification of quantum devices.


SCRINC
Syntax SCRINC [(#ch)]
Location Fn
The screen width is not fixed on QDOS computers, QL Emulators and future hardware expansions (graphic cards) offer different screen modes with different resolutions. The function SCRINC returns the screen width relating to the screen upon which the given channel (default #0) is located. The width is returned as the number of bytes needed to store a line of pixels.
The standard QL mode 4 and mode 8 always return 128 = 512/4.
However, it is not always true that the number of bytes required to store a line of pixels is equal to the number of pixels DIV 4 and you should therefore use this function or similar.
Example
See the second listing at the second example for SCRBASE.
CROSS-REFERENCE
SCREEN returns the start address of the screen. See also SCR_LLEN


Archive::Cpio(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Archive::Cpio(3)
Archive::Cpio - module for manipulations of cpio archives
use Archive::Cpio;
# simple example removing entry "foo"
my $cpio = Archive::Cpio->new;
$cpio->read($file);
$cpio->remove('foo');
$cio->write($file);
 # more complex example, filtering on the fly
my $cpio = Archive::Cpio->new;
$cpio->read_with_handler(\*STDIN,
 sub {
 my ($e) = @_;
 if ($e->name ne 'foo') {
 $cpio->write_one(\*STDOUT, $e);
 }
 });
$cpio->write_trailer(\*STDOUT);
Archive::Cpio provides a few functions to read and write cpio files.
Create an object
Reads the cpio file
Writes the entries and the trailer
Removes any entries with names matching any of the given filenames from the in-memory archive
$cpio->get_files([ @filenames ])
Returns a list of "Archive::Cpio::File" (after a "$cpio-"read>)
Returns the "Archive::Cpio::File" matching "$filename< (after a "$cpio-"read")
$cpio->add_data($filename, $data, $opthashref)
Takes a filename, a scalar full of data and optionally a reference to a hash with specific options.
Will add a file to the in-memory archive, with name $filename and content $data. Specific properties can be set using $opthashref.
$cpio->read_with_handler($filehandle, $coderef)
Calls the handler function on each header. An "Archive::Cpio::File" is passed as a parameter
$cpio->write_one($filehandle, $entry)
Writes a "Archive::Cpio::File" (beware, a valid cpio needs a trailer using "write_trailer")
Writes the trailer to finish the cpio file
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EVA Report for 24Jan2018
Author: Oscar Ojeda
Purpose of EVA: Usage of rovers for battery discharge, aerial mapping of terrain, testing of mid-range EVA protocols, testing of the Guache I Rover, Collection of possible halophile samples.
Destination: Intersection of Quarry Road and Cow Dung Road
Coordinates: 518400 E, _PHONE_ N
Participants: Atila, Danton, David and Oscar
Narrative: One successful EVA was undertaken on this day. A crew of 4 departed the habitat at 11:35, aiming for the two main goals of discharging the rover's battery and to keep testing the different projects. After taking Cow Dung Rd for about 30 minutes, the crew arrived at Quarry Road, where several aerial shots were taken, testing the 3D mapping software, as well as a first field run of the Guache I rover. On the way back, the crew stopped on two more locations to perform the same activities, taking aerial footage, and testing the Guache I rover performance over different types of terrain. The expedition never left the main road for more than 20 meters. No halophile samples were taken, because no relevant sites were found during the expedition. The batteries of the rovers were discharged, and in particular, opportunity dropped to 55% during the traverse. The crew entered the airlock at 13:55 and finished the EVA.
No incident or anomaly was sustained during the EVA.


How to know ip address of laptop queue?
 1. Select Start > Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi and then select the Wi-Fi network you're connected to.
 2. Under Properties, look for your IP address listed next to IPv4 address.
Correspondingly, how do I find the IP address of a current computer? First, click on your Start Menu and type cmd in the search box and press enter. A black and white window will open where you will type ipconfig /all and press enter. There is a space between the command ipconfig and the switch of /all. Your ip address will be the IPv4 address.
Also know, how do I find the print queue in Windows 10?
 1. To view a list of items waiting to print in Windows 10, select the Start menu, then type printers and scanners in the search box on the taskbar.
 2. Select Printers & scanners and select your printer from the list.
 3. Select Open queue to see what's printing and the upcoming print order.
Subsequently, how do I know what IP address my printer is on?
 1. Go to Settings > Devices > Printers and Scanners.
 2. Find your printer in the list, click on it, and select Manage.
 3. Click on Printer Properties.
 4. In the General tab, find the Location field. Your printer's IP address will be located in it.
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In this regard, what is my IP address VPN? A VPN replaces your actual IP address to make it look like you've connected to the internet from a different location: the physical location of the VPN server, rather than your real location. This is just one reason why so many people use VPNs.
What is a 127 IP address?
Local Loopback Address: In IPv4, IP addresses that start with decimal 127 or that has 01111111 in the first octet are loopback addresses(127. X.X.X). Typically 127.0. 0.1 is used as the local loopback address.
How do I find my HP printer queue?
 1. If a printer icon displays in the Dock, click the icon to open the print queue.
 2. If a printer icon does not display, search for and open Printers & Scanners, select your printer in the list, and then click Open Print Queue.
Where is the print queue?
Double clicking on the printer icon will open the Print Queue on your computer. (You can also open the Print Queue by clicking on Devices and Printers in the Start Menu, then double clicking on the printer you are trying to print to.) The Print Queue will show you how many jobs are waiting to be sent to the printer.
What is Printmanagement MSC?
Print Management is a snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) that enables you to install, view, and manage all of the printers in your organization from any computer running Windows Server. Print Management provides up-to-the-minute details about the status of printers and print servers on the network.
What does an IP address look like?
An IP address is a string of numbers separated by periods. IP addresses are expressed as a set of four numbers — an example address might be 192.158. 1.38. Each number in the set can range from 0 to 255.
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How do I find the IP address of my printer on a Macbook?
 1. Open System Preferences.
 2. Click on Printers and Scanners.
 3. Select a printer from the left column.
 4. Your printer's IP address will be under Location.
How do I know VPN is working?
 1. Check your original IP address. Make sure that your VPN is turned off and head to our "What is my IP address?" page, which will show your actual IP.
 2. Turn on your VPN and connect to a server.
 3. Compare your virtual IP address against your actual IP.
Is my IP address hidden?
When you're using a VPN on Windows or other platforms, your IP address is hidden because your traffic takes a detour through the VPN server. When your traffic — sites visited, online apps used, uploads, downloads, etc. — reaches its destination, it does so under a "virtual" IP address assigned by the VPN.
How do I know if my IP address is IPv4 or ipv6?
 1. Click the Windows Start menu, type ncpa.
 2. In the Network Connection window, right-click on the connection that you wish to check and select Properties.
 3. In the Networking tab, under This connection uses the following items, make sure the box next to Internet Protocol Version 6 is checked.
Should I use 127.0 0.1 or localhost?
0.1 is known as a loopback address, but you may see it under the name "localhost." When you point your browser to 127.0. 0.1, it tries to connect to the computer you're using right now. This is handy when you want to connect to a server on your own computer. 127.0.
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What is a 172 IP address?
The address 172.16. 52.63 is a class B address. Its first octet is 172, which is between 128 and 191, inclusive. Class C networks use a default subnet mask of 255.255.
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What does a 169 IP address mean? An IP address starting in 169.254 is called an APIPA address. Windows grabs one of these when it can't reach a DHCP server. When your computer gets an IP address starting in 169.254, it means it couldn't reach the DHCP server to get a real IP address.
How do I get a document out of queue?
 1. On the host, open the Run window by pressing the Windows logo key + R.
 2. In the Run window, type services.
 3. Scroll down to Print Spooler.
 4. Right click Print Spooler and select Stop.
 5. Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32spoolPRINTERS and delete all files in the folder.
What is in my printer queue?
A print queue is a list of printer output jobs held in a reserved memory area. It maintains the most current status of all active and pending print jobs.
Why is my print queue not printing?
If your print jobs still get stuck in a queue, the main cause is a wrong or outdated printer driver. So you should update your printer driver to see if it fixes your problem. There are two ways to update your printer driver: manually or automatically.
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Send Monitoring Alerts To Microsoft Teams
When you have a large monitoring setup you need to know when something important is failing or is just offline. If you have setup Microsoft Teams you can send a message to a channel to let the support team repair the service or device with minimal down time.
I have set this up in Labtech to send alerts to the alerts channel. Labtech has the nice ability to inject data in a powershell script before it is run, but we will be demonstrating the script by running it directly in powershell.
First step is to create a webhook in the MS Teams channel you wish to use. At the time of writing you can only create a webhook from the web version of MS Teams, it will not work in the desktop client.
Open the connectors in the channel you want to use for your alerts.
Open the connectors for the channel
Find the "Incoming Webhook" and add it.
Add the Incoming Webhook
Next we need to name the connector and assign an avatar, these settings will change how the sender of the message appears in the channel. I recommend setting the name to the service that will send the messages, and the image to the systems icon or something that is attention grabbing.
Set the name and image the webhook will use when posting.
Once done you will get a url, save a copy of the URL as it is important to the next step.
Copy the Webhook URL for your connector
The next step is to copy the following script, you can also download it from here
# Powershell MS Teams alert template
# This is a template to demonstrate the ability to send notices to
# Microsoft Teams from PowerShell
# Parse the command variables
param (
 [string]$message = "This is a test of the alert system",
 [string]$title = "Test Message",
 [string]$status = "Cleared",
 [string]$monitor = "Testing - monitor",
 [string]$location = "Downtown",
 [string]$system = "labsys01"
# Edit the URI with the webhook url that was provided
$uri = '';
# Build the message Body
$body = ConvertTo-Json -Depth 4 @{
 title = $title
 text =''
 sections = @(
 activityText = $message
 facts = @(
 name = 'Status'
 value = $status
 name = 'System Name'
 value = $system
 name = 'Monitor'
 value = $monitor
 name = 'Location'
 value = $location
_TAG_ the message to MS Teams
Invoke-RestMethod -uri $uri -Method Post -body $body -ContentType 'application/json';
Write-Output "INFO - Message has been sent.";
You will need to edit the $uri line to have the URL that was provided in the Webhook creation step.
$uri = '';
Once done you can execute the script to see the default alert message. To send your own values to the script you can pass variables when run like the following example.
send-msteams-alert.ps1 -message "System is offline" -title "Offline" -status "Critical" -monitor "Offine Check" -location "Downtown" -system "testLab01"
If everything was done correctly you should have a nice message posted to Microsoft Teams like the following.
Message sent to Microsoft Teams from a Webhook


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Deploying Riva On-Premise requires planning and following specific step-by-step deployment checklists to ensure that the Riva sync environment is properly configured to meet sync requirements for users.
Review the following articles to learn more about how Riva On-Premise will sync data between the email platform and the CRM system.
How does Riva sync your CRM and
Each of those articles contain videos, summary explanations, and a list of typical questions to assist evaluations teams with deciding how to configure Riva sync policy settings.
There are two choices to getting started with a Riva On-Premise server:
A typical Riva On-Premise server deployment includes the following steps:
Preparation tasks are included as the first major step in the Riva On-Premise deployment model, and links for each major task are available in each deployment checklist.
For each supported email system, there is one deployment checklist that applies to all the supported CRMs. Each checklist includes all of the major steps and tasks in the Riva deployment model. Select the deployment checklist that matches your email platform:


I want to edit Ruby files using Python scripts and I need to
 1. Check if a function call exists within a class, add if not present, check function call args if present and change accordingly
 2. Check if a function def exists and if not insert a function definition inside a class
 3. Points 1 and 2 for blocks (and also for classes and modules)
 4. When rebuilding the edited file comments should be intact
Suggest me a Ruby/Rails parser written in Python. Also, tell me if it is a lot easier in Ruby itself rather than finding a library in Python, and if that would give me a lot more flexibility and even more abilities to control the Ruby files.
Are you trying to edit the ruby files while the ruby application is running?
Or are you using the python scripts to generate a project, like cookiecutter?
Ruby does support reflection and metaprogramming so you can:
 1. check if a method exists using respond_to?
 2. define a method using define_method.
If it were me, I'd do everything in ruby, but it depends on your usecase.
 - I am trying to generate a project just like cookiecutter. And you are right, I later realized I will have to end up having a full fledge ruby parser in one way or the other written wholly in Python, and it makes more sense to use Ruby's own reflection and meta api to change things in ruby files for checking if the function exists or not, or to add new ones. But it would still fall short when it comes to adding an assignment statement and function calls in an existing function or blocks. (Or would it? do we have methods for that as well?) – Saravanabalagi Ramachandran Nov 14 '18 at 12:52
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UC, SEISS payments and automatic reclaims
Sabrina Dubash describes universal credit (UC) regulations which deal with coronavirus-related payments for the self-employed and with new rules on treating a claimant as having reapplied for UC.
The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown measures have drastically affected income for the employed and the self-employed. As a result, the government introduced schemes to help employers retain their employees/staff and provide interim replacement income for both the employed and self-employed during this difficult time.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CRJS) was introduced for employers to claim their employees or workers furloughed pay, and the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) was introduced to assist the eligible self-employed with the sudden loss of profits.
Amendment regulations (The Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-Employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020) No.522 (the 'Amendment Regs') came into force on 21 May 2020.
The regulations ensure that a self-employed UC claimant who is also an employer and who receives payment under the CJRS scheme (ie, for her/his employees) does not have that money treated as her/his own income or capital. They also make wider provision about the treatment of SEISS income and reclaiming UC after having excess income (for all claimants, not just the self-employed).
How does UC deal with SEISS income?
Regulation 2(1)(a) of the Amendment Regs provides how SEISS income should be treated, together with regulation 57 (self-employed earnings) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (the 'UC Regs 2013'). SEISS income is to be treated as 'earned income' received at Step 1 of the calculation of self-employed earnings in the assessment period in which it is received.
SEISS payments have only been paid since May 2020. Therefore, those eligible for the SEISS and awaiting payment have likely claimed UC in the interim period to assist with the sudden loss of income.
Regulation 2(1)(a) also provides that the SEISS income will be treated as income in the assessment period in which it is received, which means that self-employed UC claimants will not encounter overpayments for the periods they received UC, when they re-ceive their SEISS payments.
Regulation 2(2) provides that any payment to a self-employed claimant that is a grant or loan to cover expenses or the loss of trade due to the coronavirus outbreak is also to be disregarded for 12 months from the date it is received. This clarifies how payments received under the CRJS or the new loans and grants introduced – such as the Small Business Grant Fund, Retail Hospitality and Leisure Grant and Bounce Back Loan Scheme – will be treated for UC purposes.
Reclaiming UC
Regulation 3 of the Amendment Regs amends the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 No.380 and inserts a new regulation 32A:
'Reclaims of universal credit after nil award due to earnings
32A.—(1) This regulation applies where— (a) a claim is made for universal credit, but no award is made because the condition in section 5(1)(b) or 5(2)(b) of the 2012 Act (condition that the claimant's income, or joint claimants' combined income is such that the amount payable would not be less than the prescribed minimum) is not met; or (b) entitlement to an award of universal credit ceases because that condition is not met.
(2) The Secretary of State may, subject to any conditions the Secretary of State considers appropriate, treat the claimant (or joint claimants) as making a claim on the first day of each subsequent month, up to a maximum of 5, that would have been an assessment period if an award had been made or, as the case may be, if the award had continued.'
In practice, this amendment means that where a UC claim is not awarded or has terminated due to excess income ('the old claim/award'), then for the next five assessment periods immediately following, a claimant may be treated as making a new UC claim without having actually made one.
The advantages for claimants here is that where previously UC claims ended due to excess income and/or the surplus earnings rule applied,1Reg 54A Universal Credit Regulations 2013 UC claims would terminate due to excess income and the claimant would have to reclaim within six months for any surplus income to start to deplete.
The automatic reclaim for five assessment periods that follow the 'old claim/award' means that any surplus income can start to deplete from the next assessment period that follows and any entitlement to UC arising from reduced income can be made sooner. Note, however, that if the surplus earnings rule is engaged, that will continue to apply to the automatic reclaim.
Any excess income will do…
The explanatory memorandum to the Amendment Regs2legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/522/pdfs/uksiem_20200522_en.pdf states that the purpose of the regulations is to clarify how the SEISS and CRJS income is to be treated in the case of self-employed UC claimants. It says that regulation3Available at _URL_ government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8 91880/adm10-20.pdf (ie, automatic reclaims) is intended to apply only with reference to excess income following payment from the SEISS and CRJS schemes.
However, regulation 3 in fact affects all claimants whose UC claim ends due to excess income, regardless of whether they received income from the SEISS or CRJS. The regulations use the words 'earnings' and 'income', and do not specify that this income needs to be SEISS or CRJS income.
Official guidance indicates that automatic reclaims will apply in any excess income case. ADM Memo 10/203 provides examples of how the regulations will be enforced in practice to UC claims that ended due to excess income and again no reference is made to the effect that the income must derive from SEISS or CRJS payments.
A further disparity between the regulations, explanatory memorandum and the ADM Memo 10/20 concerns whether UC claims/awards that ended due to excess income before the Amendment Regs came into force on 21 May 2020 would be covered.
The official guidance says that such claims/awards are covered. ADM Memo 10/20 provides examples of how UC claims that ended due to excess income before 21 May 2020 will also be subject to the automatic reclaims for five assessment periods that follow. However, there is no specific mention of this in either the Amendment Regs themselves or the explanatory memorandum.
Following from the specific wording in the regulations and the DWP guidance, advice to claimants would be that any claim that ended due to excess income should be covered by these amendments and the automatic reclaims for up to five assessment periods they provide for.
CPAG is interested in hearing about cases where the amendments apply and how they affected your client's claim. Please email the UC London Advice Service at _EMAIL_. For more information about the service, see our website.


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Hackney New Primary School receives the Rights Respecting Silver Award a prestigious Unicef UK Award
HNPS promotes the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and we are working towards being a UNICEF recognised Rights Respecting School.
This means that we place the language of rights and responsibility at the heart of our behaviour policy and Personal, Social, and Health Education lessons.
Examples of rights from the Convention and how we apply this in school include:
 1. Article 6
 every child has a right to life, to survive and develop
 This is the key to understanding why we have certain rules at school.
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 every child has a right to a say in matters affecting them
 This is the key principle of our school council.
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CGIAR-IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, has encouraged Nigerians to take up sustainable and profitable opportunities in the country's agriculture sector. He made this appeal during his keynote address at the National Conference on Agricultural Innovations for Food Security in the Post COVID-19 Era.
In his presentation, Dashiell highlighted multiple technologies and solutions that could help sustainably achieve food security. He emphasized that farmers and other actors in the different agricultural value chains must use proven technologies appropriately and precisely to succeed. Adhering to excellent farm practices and standards will guarantee high levels of productivity, including increased crop yields.


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I am new to Python scripting in ArcGIS but not new to ModelBuilder.
I would like to know the benefits of Python vs ModelBuilder.
When should we write Python script for GIS automation rather than use ModelBuilder?
What are the automation capabilities of Python that we cannot find in ModelBuilder?
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I believe that the user should clearly define their objectives before deciding which set of tools to use. ModelBuilder and Python scripting excel at different tasks. A few thoughts:
 1. ModelBuilder has no mapping capabilities, whereas arcpy.mapping does.
 2. Python can be used to optimize workflows, such as with the multiprocessing package or with parallel processing.
 3. Python allows for nested loops and other handy iterative logic tools. To accomplish a similar result in ModelBuilder, you would have to construct intricate, and complicated, nested models.
 4. Simple text manipulation is very easy with Python and either very difficult or not possible with ModelBuilder.
 e.g. to rename a list of file names from, for example "m_2010_naip_2310345_nw.img" to "2310345nw.img" can easily be accomplished with Python using the os.path module.
On the other hand:
 1. ModelBuilder is very useful for quickly putting together common tools and eliminating the need for debugging scripts.
 2. ModelBuilder has a very useful recursive iterator that is easy to implement in order to loop through folders and subfolders.
 3. ModelBuilder excels at visually and intuitively depicting the workflow for complicated tasks.
 4. ModelBuilder can incorporate Python script tools.
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Described differences between Python and Model Builder in ArcGIS clearly. Thanks – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 17:34
I would add also: 1. you can run your Python script outside ArcMap 2. You can use ArcObjects in Python, 3. There may be some speed differences. – Tomek Apr 7 '13 at 19:19
+1 NESTED LOOPS & arcpy.mapping! I like the ability to make calculations within a script and add them to attribute tables or better yet to the map layout (area of each wetland type for example). – Roy Apr 9 '13 at 19:43
I read python scripting for ArcGIS book. I also add some more capabilities : 1- script cursors let you loop through records in a table, reading the existing rows and inserting new rows. 2- scripting can be used to wrap other softwarethat is, to glue together application. for example python can be used to access functions in Microsoft Excel or in the statistical Package R. 3-A script can be run as a stand-alone script on disk outside of ArcGIS.you do not need to run ArcMap or ArcCatalog for script to work. (Python Scripting for ArcGIS, Chapter 2, Page 39) – wetland Apr 13 '13 at 15:02
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If you are working solely within the confines of ArcGIS, there are a few considerations I would consider when attempting to determine the approach to take.
 - What are you trying to accomplish,
 - What are your current skill sets,
 - Will you be sharing your work with others to use, learn from, or manipulate, and
 - Who is your intended audience.
Given those considerations:
 1. It is often quicker and easier to build a process in ModelBuilder than in Python, unless part of your process cannot be replicated in ModelBuilder.
 2. If you don't know Python & have not intention to learn it, ModelBuilder is a great option.
 3. If you don't know Python & want to learn to incorporate it into your skill set, ModelBuilder is a great way to start by creating simple models, then exporting them to Python so you have the skeleton of your final process pre-built for you. This method does come at a cost, as there is a lot of extraneous information & variables that usually get created during the conversion process, but it is still a great way to start learning.
 4. If you are building tools for personal use, using whichever method you feel most comfortable with is usually the route to go. I personally use both, depending on my needs.
 5. If you are planning to share your analysis with others, and want to share your model/script with others are part of your process documentation, a model is generally much easier to follow and understand for non-technical people.
There probably is no answer to "which is better" for personal use, but if you are looking long-term at employment possibilities, by learning Python you will set yourself apart from those who only know how to use the pre-programmed tools, or just know how to use ModelBuilder. You also give yourself the ability to go outside the confines of Python for ArcGIS (ArcPy), and start automating far more tasks and projects by using other proprietary and open-source GIS libraries, as well as many non-GIS libraries (iedatabase, image manipulation, statistics, etc).
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great. I'll use your Python programming experiences. – wetland Apr 8 '13 at 5:23
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Model Builder is a great and easy to learn visual programming language and a good entrance to GIS-programming in general. But in some things python can do more.
One example is the integration of non-ESRI GIS libraries. Nearly all of the Open Source GIS can be adressed via python as well (e.g. GRASS, Sextante, QGIS, SAGA). This helped me a lot, because I only have an ArcView license. So every time I cannot use a certain geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS, I look what other options are available in Open Source GIS. I then take these OpenSource-tools and combine them with ArcGIS tools either in a bigger python script or integrate them in ModelBuilder via a smaller python script.
I'm sure other members can name more advantages.
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Thanks but i only use ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo) – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 17:25
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When using Python and ArcGIS, you get the entire functionality of Python in addition to what you already had in ArcGIS. If you need this kind of power and flexibility depends on your wishes. In addition, getting to know and really leverage a programming language such as Python takes time. If this investment is worth it for you is up to you. However, for serious data processing a real scripting language is a very good addition in your arsenal.
Apart form any functionality that the ModelBuilder might miss, there is also a more fundamental discussion. In general, scripts are much more suitable to create complex workflows. The code is processed from top to bottom, and complex tasks can be subdivided into smaller sub tasks using e.g. functions. or objects. A graphical tool such as the model builder tends to become a big spaghetti.
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I'm partial to creating Python scripts. It's more fun to write code than to mess around with connecting lines to boxes and such, for me at least.
What's really great about Python scripting is you can schedule your scripts to run at a time that is convenient for you. If you have a script that takes a while to complete, or needs to be run outside of regular business hours, this is really convenient. You can see an example of how to schedule a script here.
And as _USER_ mentions, you can easily set up looping in a Python script.
If you're just setting out with Python scripting, you might want to create a model with Model Builder and export it as a Python script. I do this sometimes if I'm having trouble understanding how to use several tools in a script. It could help you get a sense for how to put scripts together.
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your answer was very interesting for me.Thanks – wetland Apr 7 '13 at 18:35
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I have found that I seem to get stuck with no solution more with model builder than with python scripting. The somewhat 'black box' nature of model builder to me makes it harder to find where the problem is located.
I have also found that I can find a lot more help on python. I tend to find lots of dead end threads and topics about model builder. There area also fewer example to go by, where as with python, you probably can find small snipets of most parts of any script you are writing.
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How to Unload a Debugger
Unloading a Debugger
Errors can occur when loading programs under the Windows operating system. One type of error that you can receive is "a debugger has been detected: unload the debugger and try again" message. This error can occur when certain programs and drivers on your system are outdated or are conflicting with other files.
Remove Amdfix.sys File (If it exists).
- The Amdfix.sys
- Click the Start menu and then go to the "Search" option. This will display the Search Results window.
- Select the "All files and folders" option from the left panel.
- Type "amdfix.sys" into the "All or part of the file name" text box.
- Click the "Search" button to have the system search your local hard drives for the file.
- Right-click the amdfix.sys file that is displayed in the right panel. Select "Rename" from the context menu and then change the name of the files to "amdfix.sys.old. Press the "Enter" key to save the change.
- Restart your computer so that your system will start and not load the amdfix.sys file.
Disable Startup Programs
- Startup Configuration
- Click the "Start" button and then select the "Run" option. Type "msconfig" into the text box and then click the "OK" button. This will start the System Configuration Utility.
- Go to the General tab and then click the option for "Selective Startup." Click in the box to remove the check for system.ini, win.ini and load startup items options.
- Go to the Services tab and select the "Hide all Microsoft Services" check box. Click the "Disable All" button to prevent the remaining services from loading when Windows restarts.
- Click the "OK" button to save the change and then reboot your computer to start your system with the startup programs disabled.
I hope that helps,


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