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As a responsible gun owner, you know the importance of safely carrying your firearm. One popular option for concealed carry is a paddle holster. But what exactly is a paddle holster, and how do you choose the right one?
In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the ins and outs of paddle holsters, so you can make an informed decision about your concealed carry setup.
What Is a Paddle Holster?
A paddle holster is a type of concealed carry holster that attaches to your belt or waistband using a paddle-shaped piece of rigid material, typically made of plastic or polymer. The paddle slides over your belt or waistband, allowing the holster to be securely attached to your body without the need for belt loops.
Paddle holsters are designed to be worn outside the waistband (OWB), making them a popular choice for those who prefer a more accessible and comfortable concealed carry option. Unlike traditional belt holsters, paddle holsters don't require threading a belt through the holster, making them easier to put on and take off.
Types of Paddle Holsters
Not all paddle holsters are created equal. There are several different types of paddle holsters to choose from, each with its own unique features and benefits.
Open-Top Paddle Holsters
Open-top paddle holsters are one of the most common types of paddle holsters. As the name suggests, these holsters have an open top design, allowing you to quickly draw your firearm with a simple upward motion. Open-top paddle holsters are known for their ease of use and accessibility.
Pancake Paddle Holsters
Pancake paddle holsters are similar to open-top holsters, but they feature a flatter, more streamlined design that helps them hug the body more closely. This design makes pancake holsters a popular choice for those who prioritize concealment and want a more discreet carry option.
Hybrid Paddle Holsters
Hybrid paddle holsters combine elements of traditional leather holsters with the convenience of a paddle attachment. These holsters feature a leather or synthetic material backing that molds to the shape of your body, while the paddle attachment provides a secure and comfortable fit.
Molded Paddle Holsters
Molded paddle holsters are designed to fit specific firearm models like a glove. They are typically made from a single piece of molded polymer or Kydex, ensuring a precise fit and excellent retention. While molded holsters may be less versatile than other types, they offer unparalleled security and stability for your specific firearm.
Benefits of Paddle Holsters
Paddle holsters offer several advantages over traditional belt holsters, making them a popular choice for many concealed carriers:
Easy On and Off
Paddle holsters are incredibly easy to put on and take off. Unlike belt holsters, which require threading a belt through loops, paddle holsters simply slide onto your waistband, making them a convenient option for those who need to frequently remove their holster.
Adjustable Ride Height
Many paddle holsters allow you to adjust the ride height, which is the vertical position of the holster on your waistband. This feature lets you customize the holster's position for optimal comfort and concealability.
Paddle holsters offer excellent accessibility, especially when it comes to open-top designs. The paddle attachment positions the holster slightly away from your body, allowing for a smoother and faster draw.
While paddle holsters are worn outside the waistband, many modern designs prioritize concealment. Pancake and hybrid holsters, in particular, can distribute the firearm's weight and profile, making it easier to conceal under a cover garment.
Choosing the Right Paddle Holster
With so many options available, choosing the right paddle holster can be overwhelming. Here are some factors to consider when selecting a paddle holster:
Ensure the holster is designed to fit your specific firearm make and model. Molded holsters offer the most precise fit, but hybrid and open-top holsters can also accommodate a range of firearms.
Paddle holsters are available in various materials, including polymer, Kydex, and leather. Consider your preferences in terms of durability, comfort, and aesthetics when choosing the material.
Retention refers to the holster's ability to securely hold your firearm in place. Look for holsters with active retention features, such as tension screws or retention devices, to ensure your firearm remains safely in the holster during movement.
Ride Height Adjustment
If concealment is a priority, choose a paddle holster that allows you to adjust the ride height. This feature will let you position the holster at the optimal height for your body type and clothing choices.
Right or Left-Handed
Make sure to select a paddle holster designed for your dominant hand. Most holsters are available in both right-handed and left-handed configurations.
Research reputable holster brands and read reviews from other concealed carriers. A well-known brand with positive feedback is more likely to produce high-quality, reliable paddle holsters.
Wearing and Drawing from a Paddle Holster
Proper use of a paddle holster is essential for safe and effective concealed carry. Here are some tips for wearing and drawing from a paddle holster:
Position the paddle holster on the strong side of your body, typically behind your hip bone. This placement allows for a natural and comfortable draw while keeping the firearm concealed.
Securing the Paddle
Ensure the paddle is securely attached to your waistband or belt. It should be snug against your body without excessive movement.
To draw from a paddle holster, use your support hand to sweep any cover garment out of the way. Then, with your firing hand, establish a firm grip on the firearm and smoothly draw it straight up and out of the holster. Once clear of the holster, rotate the firearm towards your target while maintaining a safe grip and trigger discipline.
When re-holstering your firearm, use your support hand to ensure a clear path into the holster. Slowly guide the firearm back into the holster, ensuring it is fully seated before releasing your grip.
Practicing Safe Concealed Carry
While paddle holsters offer many benefits, it's essential to practice safe concealed carry habits at all times:
Proper Firearm Handling
Follow the fundamental rules of firearm safety, including treating every firearm as if it's loaded, never pointing the muzzle at anything you're not willing to destroy, and keeping your finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire.
Ensure your firearm is securely retained in the holster at all times. Avoid holsters with loose or excessive movement, as this can increase the risk of the firearm becoming dislodged or falling out.
While paddle holsters are designed for concealed carry, it's essential to choose appropriate clothing and cover garments to keep your firearm out of sight. Avoid printing or imprinting, which can reveal the outline of your firearm.
Maintain situational awareness at all times when carrying concealed. Be aware of your surroundings and potential threats, and avoid drawing unnecessary attention to your firearm.
Training and Practice
Regularly practice drawing, shooting, and re-holstering your firearm from your paddle holster. Seek professional training to develop safe and efficient techniques for concealed carry.
Paddle holsters are a popular and convenient option for concealed carry. With their ease of use, adjustability, and accessibility, paddle holsters can be an excellent choice for many concealed carriers.
By understanding the different types of paddle holsters, their benefits, and how to choose the right one, you can make an informed decision about your concealed carry setup. Remember to always prioritize safety, practice proper firearm handling, and seek professional training to develop safe and effective concealed carry habits.


Verification Central
A Strategy to Verify an AXI/ACE Compliant Interconnect (2 of 4)
In the last post of this series, we focused on the first level of testing required for verifying an AXI/ACE Compliant Interconnect — Integration/Connectivity testing. In this post, we will focus on basic coherent transaction testing. We use the term basic to signify something that is a prerequisite before we move on to more advanced testing. Coherent transactions are a set of transactions used in the AXI/ACE protocol to perform load and store operations. Each of these transactions have a different set of response requirements from the Interconnect. Further, each of these transactions can be used in multiple configurations. We need to verify that the Interconnect works correctly for each of these transaction types. We will first give an overview of the protocol before moving on to a testing strategy for these.
Overview of the ACE Protocol
The ACE protocol provides a framework for system level coherency. It enables correctness to be maintained when sharing data across caches. It also enables maximum reuse of cached data. The protocol is designed to support different coherency protocols such as MESI, ESI, MEI and MOESI (where M stands for Modified, O for Owned, E for Exclusive, S for Shared and I for Invalid). The ACE protocol is realized using:
 - A five state cache model to define the state of any cache line in the coherent system as shown in the diagram below:
The defined states are:
– Valid, Invalid: When invalid, the cacheline does not exist. When valid, the cacheline is present in the cache.
– Unique, Shared: When unique, the cache line exists only in one cache. When shared, the cacheline might exist in more than one cache.
– Clean, Dirty: When clean, the cache does not have responsibility to update main memory. When dirty, the cache line has been modified with respect to main memory and this cache must ensure that main memory is eventually updated.
 - Additional signaling on existing AXI4 channels that enables new transactions and information to be transmitted.
 - Additional channels, know as snoop channels, that enables an Interconnect to access information that is stored in the cache of masters connected to it.
We will shed more light on the ACE protocol with an example of a load operation and a store operation from a shareable location.
Performing a Load Operation
Consider the system given below with two masters connected to an Interconnect. Both masters have a cache. The Interconnect is also connected to the main memory. Consider the scenario where Master 1 needs to read the value stored in a variable u. Also assume that this value is already stored in the cache of Master 2. The following sequence is used to retrieve the value of u:
 - Master 1 issues a read transaction on the read address channel (1)
 - Interconnect issues a snoop transaction on the snoop address channel of master 2 (2)
 - Master 2 returns the snoop response and data information (3a)
 - If master 2 did not return data, the Interconnect reads it from main memory (3b). Note that it is permissible for the Interconnect to read from main memory even before receiving a response to the snoop transaction
 - Once the data is received it is returned to master 1 through its read data channel (4).
A ReadClean, ReadNotSharedDirty or ReadShared transaction is used for a load operation from a shareable location. A ReadClean transaction is used when an initiating master does not want to accept responsibility to update memory. A ReadNotSharedDirty transction is used when a master wants to load data and can accept the cacheline in any state except the SharedDirty state. A ReadShared transaction is used when a master wants to load data and can accept the cache line in any state. If no cached copy is required, a ReadOnce transaction is used. A ReadNoSnoop is used to read from a nonshareable location.
Performing a Store Operation
In the above system consider that Master 1 wants to write a new value to the variable u. The following sequence is used to store the new value into Master1's cache:
 - Master 1 issues a transaction indicating that it would like a unique copy of the cacheline storing u. This is done by sending a MakeUnique transaction (1).
 - The Interconnect sends a snoop transaction to Master 2 to invalidate its cacheline. This is done by sending a MakeInvalid transaction (2).
 - Once the invalidation is complete, Master 2 responds on its snoop response channel (3).
 - The Interconnect now responds back to master 1 indicating that all other masters have invalidated the cacheline storing value of variable u (4).
 - Master 1 now writes the new value of u in its cache. At this point the cacheline is in a unique state for master 1 and this cacheline does not exist in master 2.
Depending on whether a full cacheline store or a partial cacheline store is required, and whether the master already has a copy of the cacheline, a MakeUnique, CleanUnique or ReadUnique transaction is used for a store operation. If the master that is storing does not have a cache, but would like to write into a shareable memory location, a WriteUnique or WriteLineUnique transaction is used. A WriteNoSnoop transaction is used to write into a nonshareable location.
Other transactions used in ACE
 - Memory Update Transactions which are used to write a dirty line into memory. A WriteBack or WriteClean is used for this.
 - The Evict transaction is issued by a master to indicate the address of the cacheline being evicted from its local cache.
 - Cache maintenance transactions are used to access and maintain caches of other master components in a system. A CleanShared, CleanInvalid or MakeInvalid transaction is used for this.
 - Barrier transactions are used to provide guarantees about the ordering and observation of transactions in a system. This is dealt with in detail in a subsequent post.
 - Distributed Virtual Memory (DVM) transactions are used for virtual memory system maintenance.
Basic Coherent Transaction Testing
As described above, a number of different transactions are used in ACE to maintain coherency. Since each of these transaction types have different response and coherency requirements, it is good to test each of the transaction types individually to make sure that the Interconnect meets all the specification requirements. We will take the example of ReadShared transaction to describe the verification requirements for these transaction types in general.
Below is a table from the specification showing the cacheline state changes for ReadShared transaction:
In the above table, the Start State refers to the state of the cacheline in the master before the transaction was issued. RRESP refers to the response given by the Interconnect to the master that initiated the transaction. The Expected End State refers to the state of the cacheline after the transaction is complete. The last two columns refer to other possible end states based on whether a snoop filter is present or not, the details of which we will not get into in this post. The second table refers to speculative read. This represents a transaction that was issued even before the master could read the status of the cacheline. Basically, a Read transaction need not be sent out of the master if its cache already has an entry for that address. However, to improve performance, a master might choose to send out a transaction even before it gets information on the status of a cacheline. If the transaction was sent out in such a state, it is represented in the second table.
As seen from the tables above, there is a fairly large verification space for a single transaction. An important aspect to take note of is that the stimulus requires traffic from multiple masters. This is because the state space to be covered demands that all different response types and cache states are tested. The different response types can be created in the system only if the masters have cachelines in certain cacheline states relative to each other. For example, a response type (RRESP) of 10 indicating that the cacheline is shared by another master, requires that the cacheline is present in a master that is snooped by the Interconnect. The figure below summarizes the key requirements for testing this sequence:
 - The sequence must initialize the system to a random, but valid state before a transaction of a certain type is initiated. This ensures that all different response types and cacheline states are exercised.
 - Initialization must ensure that the rules of the states of cache are adhered too. For example a cacheline can be unique or dirty in only one cache. If a cacheline is present in two masters and both cachelines are clean, then their data should be the same. Similarly, if all the cachelines of a location are clean, then the contents of the cacheline must match that of the memory.
 - A sequence must be configuration-aware: it must be aware of the number of masters in the system, the interface types of these masters and so on. Making sequences configuration-aware ensures that the sequences are portable across systems with varying topologies.
Key Verification Points
 - Coherency across master caches: at any given point of time all masters must have the same view of data.
 - Coherency across master cache and memory: if all cachelines are clean, then the contents of the cacheline must match that of memory.
 - Snoop transactions: each transaction initiated by a master has a corresponding snoop transaction that will be initiated by the Interconnect. We need to ensure that the snoop transactions issued by the Interconnect are correct.
 - Data integrity between snoop and coherent


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Duration 10 min./level (D)
This spell functions as darkness, except that objects radiate darkness in a 60-foot radius and the light level is lowered by two steps. Bright light becomes dim light and normal light becomes darkness. Areas of dim light and darkness become supernaturally dark. This functions like darkness, but even creatures with darkvision cannot see within the spell's confines.
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- That the ODA has a system to manage procurement risk and delivery of the sustainability objectives and standards throughout their supply chain.
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Scheduling iOS 5 iPhone Local Notifications
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Local Notifications were introduced with iOS 4.0 and provide a mechanism for an application to schedule an alert to notify the user about an event. These notifications take the form of an alert box containing a message accompanied by a sound and the vibration of the iPhone device.
The primary purpose of local notifications is to provide a mechanism for a suspended or background application to gain the attention of the user. For example, an audio streaming app might need to notify the user of the loss of network connection or a calendar based application an approaching appointment. Local notifications are similar to the push notification system introduced with iOS 3.0 with the primary difference that notifications are scheduled locally by the application and so do not require the involvement of a remote server.
The goal of this chapter is to build upon the groundwork established in An Overview of iOS 5 iPhone Multitasking by developing a simple iPhone application that, when placed into the background by the user, schedules a local notification event for a future time.
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[edit] Creating the Local Notification iPhone App Project
The first step in demonstrating the use of local notifications is to create a new Xcode project. Begin by launching Xcode and selecting the options to create a new iPhone iOS project using the Single View Application template. When prompted to do so name the product and class prefix localNotify.
[edit] Locating the Application Delegate Method
The goal of this exercise is to configure a local notification to be triggered 10 seconds after our application enters the background (for additional information on background and suspended applications refer to An Overview of iOS 5 iPhone Multitasking). When an application is placed in the background, the application delegate's applicationDidEnterBackground method is triggered. It is within this method, therefore, that the code to schedule the local notification must be placed. In the case of this example, a template method can be found in the localNotifyAppDelegate.m file. Within the main Xcode project navigator panel, select this file and scroll down until the method comes into view:
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application {
 /*
 Use this method to release shared resources, save user data, invalidate timers, and store enough application state information to restore your application to its current state in case it is terminated later.
 If your application supports background execution, called instead of applicationWillTerminate: when the user quits.
 */
}
[edit] Adding a Sound File to the Project
When a local notification is triggered, the option is available to play a sound to gain the user's attention. If such an audio alert is required the corresponding sound file must be added to the application project resources and must be in Linear PCM, MA4 (IMA/ADPCM), uLaw or aLaw format. If no sound file is specified, the default is for the notification to be silent (though the iPhone device will still vibrate).
For the purposes of this exercise we will copy an audio file from the Mac OS X system on which Xcode is running and use it when scheduling the notification. To locate this file, open the Finder tool and search for a file named Glass.aiff (AIFF being PCM format). Once located, drag this file and drop it onto the Supporting Files category located in the Xcode project navigator panel and click the Finish button in the resulting panel. The audio file should now be included in the list of resources for the project ready to be accessed by the application code.
[edit] Scheduling the Local Notification
Local notifications require the use of the UILocalNotification class combined with an NSDate object configured with the date and time that the notification is to be triggered. Properties may also be set to specify the text to be displayed to the user, an optional repeat interval and a message to be displayed to the user in the alert box. With these requirements in the mind, the following code creates an NSDate object based on the current date and time plus 10 seconds. This date object is then used to schedule a notification with no repeats, a text message and the sound from the Glass.aiff file:
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:
(UIApplication *)application
{
 NSDate *alertTime = [[NSDate date]
 dateByAddingTimeInterval:10];
 UIApplication* app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
 UILocalNotification* notifyAlarm = [[UILocalNotification alloc]
 init];
 if (notifyAlarm)
 {
 notifyAlarm.fireDate = alertTime;
 notifyAlarm.timeZone = [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone];
 notifyAlarm.repeatInterval = 0;
 notifyAlarm.soundName = @"Glass.aiff";
 notifyAlarm.alertBody = @"Staff meeting in 30 minutes";
 [app scheduleLocalNotification:notifyAlarm];
 }
}
[edit] Testing the Application
To test the application click on the Run tool bar button located in the Xcode project window. After compiling and linking the application, it will load and run in the iOS Simulator. Once the application has loaded into the iPhone simulator, click on the device home button to place the app into background mode. After 10 seconds have elapsed the notification should appear accompanied by the glass sound from the audio file as illustrated in Figure 45-1.
Clicking on the View button contained within the notification window will return the localNotify application to the foreground. The Close button simply dismisses the notification window leaving the current foreground application (assuming one is running) unchanged.
An iPhone iOS 5 local notification triggered
Figure 45-1
[edit] Cancelling Scheduled Notifications
Previously scheduled notifications may be cancelled by obtaining a list of outstanding notifications. These notifications are provided in the form of an NSArray object, the contents of which may be used to cancel individual notifications using the cancelLocalNotification method. All currently scheduled notifications may also be cancelled using the cancelAllLocalNotifications method as outlined in the following code fragment:
UIApplication* app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
NSArray* oldNotifications = [app scheduledLocalNotifications];
if ([oldNotifications count] > 0)
 [app cancelAllLocalNotifications];
[edit] Immediate Triggering of a Local Notification
In addition to the cancellation of a local notification, previously scheduled notifications may be triggered to present immediately to the user irrespective of the fireDate property setting. For example, the following code identifies the list of currently scheduled notifications and then triggers the first notification in the array for immediate presentation:
NSArray* notifications = [app scheduledLocalNotifications];
if ([notifications count] > 0)
 [app presentLocalNotificationNow:[notifications objectAtIndex:0]];
Note that notifications presented using the presentLocalNotificationNow method will still trigger again when the specified fireDate is reached unless they are specifically cancelled.
[edit] Summary
Local notifications were introduced in iOS 4.0 alongside multitasking support as a way for iOS applications placed in the background or in a suspended state to notify the user of an event. In this chapter we have worked through an example of scheduling a local notification for a future time when an application receives notification that it is transitioning to the background state. Also covered were the steps necessary to cancel pending notifications and to trigger the immediate presentation of a notification regardless of the scheduled delivery time.
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Top 10 Least Stressful Jobs in Healthcare 2019
Top 10 Least Stressful Jobs in Healthcare 2019
Many associate the healthcare industry with high stress levels, but its not without its holdouts. While medical practitioners and positions in nursing are very demanding, there are still many career paths in the industry that are among the least stressful of any occupation!
CareerCast recently assessed the stress level of over 200 occupations based on 11 key factors and, as it turns out, several healthcare careers made the list!
10. Optometrist
Optometrist - Least Stressful Jobs
Optometrists diagnose and treat visual disorders and prescribe glasses or contacts. They have a stress level of 17/100 because many of them own their own practices and have the stress of being a business owner and managing employees.
If not for those factors, they might come in higher on the low-stress list because of their placid and comfortable work environments, great yearly salary, and normal business hours. For those wanting to own their own business and work in the health industry, becoming an optometrist may be the right path for you.
10. Physical Therapist
Physical Therapist - Least Stressful Jobs
Physical Therapists help improve mobility and alleviate pain of disabled persons. They have a stress rating of 14/100, but come in #7 on the list because of their tiring, trying jobs. Not only do they go through their own stresses, but they usually become involved in the emotional trials of their patients.
Also, they are on their feet all day and physically assist their patients. Their work environment is relatively good, however, and physical therapist job growth and salary potential are high, so it's a field worth considering, especially if you like working with others and helping people.
9. Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist - Least Stressful Jobs
Occupational Therapists help various types of impaired persons develop skills to achieve self-reliance. Coming in at 13/100 on the stress scale, they have a lower stress job because most of them like their jobs and gain a sense of purpose and enjoy helping others gain a level of freedom most people take for granted. It also helps that the job market for an OT is pretty solid, so they don't have to worry about not being able to find a job.
8. Speech-Language Pathologist
Speech Language Pathologist - Least Stressful Jobs
Speech Language Pathologists provide treatment to those with hearing, speech, and language disabilities. They have a stress level of 12/100, but come in #4 on the list because their job can get trying at times and many work at schools and travel a lot for their jobs.
Still, there is a strong sense of purpose and a love of helping others among SLPs. With an above average job growth outlook, they don't have to worry about their jobs disappearing any time soon.
7. Dental Hygienist
Dental Hygienist - Least Stressful Jobs
Dental Hygienists examine teeth and provide preventative care and education to patients. They have a relatively low stress job coming in at 12/100 on the stress scale, which is due in-part to their comfortable, quiet work environments and good potential for job growth.
Dental Hygienists also enjoy a comfortable salarymaking this one of the best choices if you're looking for a relaxing position.
6. Medical Laboratory Technician
Medical Laboratory Technician
Medical laboratory technicians work outside of the typical direct-care, clinical setting to evaluate the accuracy of tests and interpret them. They use state-of-the-art biomedical instrumentation to analyze bodily fluids, tissues, microorganisms, and others.
CareerCast puts medical laboratory technicians at a stress rating of only 10.31, likely due to the nature of the job not directly dealing with patients. Although these techs play a fundamental role in the healthcare system, they do not experience the stresses that come with direct patient care.
5. Dietitian
Dietitian - Least Stressful Jobs
Dietitians come in midway on our least stressful healthcare jobs rankings. They're responsible for instructing patients about proper nutritional care and helping to develop meal plans and strategies to manage weight and achieve a healthy lifestyle. They have a stress rating of 10/100, but come in at #5 because of their relatively busy work life and interaction with clients.
Most say they have a pleasant and drama free environment, but they have to deal with emotional stresses tied with weight loss and people's vulnerabilities--people being hangry.
There is good job growth for dietitians because their position is increasingly in demand with today's progressively health-conscious population. Additionally, running a practice as a dietitian can be highly rewarding if the career draws your interest.
4. Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Tech
Pharmacy technicians work alongside pharmacists to answer patient questions about particular drugs, prepare prescriptions, stock the pharmacy's inventory, and maintain patient profiles.
Their position is of relatively low stress due to the environment they typically work in, outside of the hospital and clinical setting. They are not responsible for the direct care of patients, and thus don't harbor any of the mental or emotional stress that comes along with it.
CareerCast gives pharmacy tech's a stress score of 9.10.
3. Medical Records Technician
Medical Records Technician
Medical records technicians are responsible for managing, organizing, and analyzing the medical data collected by healthcare providers, including information about diagnoses, x-rays, lab findings, and treatment plans.
According to CareerCast, they're rated among least stressful jobs at a score of 8.57. Due to the nature of the job, records techs aren't as emotionally invested in patients as other healthcare professionals an don't feel the stresses that a nurse or primary care physician feels.
2. Audiologist
Audiologist - Least Stressful Jobs
Audiologists diagnose and treat patients hearing and balance problems, and enjoy the lowest stress job in the healthcare industry. With a stress rating of 6.3 (out of 100), it is a very low stress job for any industry.
Reasons for audiologists' low stress quotient include the fact that they usually work in quiet environments, and have a great deal of control over their schedules. If you're looking for one of the least stressful healthcare jobs, Audiologist is definitely the way to go.
1. Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
Diagnostic medical sonographers come in at #1 with a stress score of only 5.11! If you're for a low-stress option to work as a fundamental member of a healthcare team, this may be the career path for you!
Sonographers are primarily thought of in reference to maternity and pregnancies, but they use also use their skills to diagnose patient traumas and in cardiology to detect blocked arteries or issues with the heart.
While any job carries with it anxieties and baggage, these jobs have some of the best work environments, salaries, work loads, and job growth. It's impossible to touch on all of the complexities and challenges that come with specific patients and job duties, so we listed the positions that are involve lower stress than others and that exist in a field where tension and demand can be high.
It's also worth noting that most of the jobs on CareerCast's least-stressful list were distinguished by high levels of anticipated growth because nothing reduces workplace stress levels quite like job security.
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abstract class Periods
extends Object
Periods are the central "clock" of the compiler. A period consists of a run id and a phase id. run ids represent compiler runs phase ids represent compiler phases
[-] Constructors
Periods ( )
[-] Members
[+] def atPeriod ( pd: Period ) ( op: Context => T ) : T
Execute op at given period
[+] def atPhase ( pid: PhaseId ) ( op: Context => T ) : T
Execute op at given phase id
[+] def hasSameBaseTypesAs ( p: Period ) : Boolean
Are all base types in the current period guaranteed to be the same as in period p?
[+] def phaseId : Int
The current phase identifier
[+] def runId : Int
The current run identifier
[+] def stablePeriod : Period
The period containing the current period where denotations do not change. We compute this by taking as first phase the first phase less or equal to the current phase that has the same "nextTransformerId". As last phase we take the next transformer id following the current phase.


How to calculate Power of a number using recursion in C#?
CsharpProgrammingServer Side Programming
To calculate power of a number using recursion, try the following code.
Here, if the power is not equal to 0, then the function call occurs which is eventually recursion −
if (p!=0) {
 return (n * power(n, p - 1));
}
Above, n is the number itself and the power reduces on every iteration as shown below −
Example
 Live Demo
using System;
using System.IO;
public class Demo {
 public static void Main(string[] args) {
 int n = 5;
 int p = 2;
 long res;
 res = power(n, p);
 Console.WriteLine(res);
 }
 static long power (int n, int p) {
 if (p!=0) {
 return (n * power(n, p - 1));
 }
 return 1;
 }
}
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iMSTK issues _URL_ 2021-10-11T15:36:51-04:00 _URL_ Transition to Default Adaptive Stepping 2021-10-11T15:36:51-04:00 Andrew Wilson Transition to Default Adaptive Stepping By default we use parallel rendering and scene updates. So if you just setup a SceneManager and Viewer this is the behavior you get. The good majority of newer examples use adaptive and have the extra line: 'sceneManager->setExecutionTyp... By default we use parallel rendering and scene updates. So if you just setup a SceneManager and Viewer this is the behavior you get. The good majority of newer examples use adaptive and have the extra line: 'sceneManager->setExecutionType(Module::ExecutionType::ADAPTIVE);'. Ideally adaptive is default and the user doesn't have to add this extra line (worse they forget). The reason adaptive should be default is that many things "just work" when using the sequential nature of the adaptive mode. Because: - It's very easy to make mistakes, especially if you didn't know you were running them in parallel and you caused a race condition or something. - The adaptive mode has more consistency across machines. Generally running on anything faster than what the simulation was tuned for will result in roughly the same simulation. This has been very helpful. Transitioning every example to parallel is tricky as many physics parameters need reparameterization. What we can do though is make ADAPTIVE default and then go through every example and use sceneManager->setExecutionType(Module::ExecutionType::PARALLEL); And then eventually try to transition the parallel ones to adaptive. Side Note: I am not prepared to completely removed parallel due to the high performance requirements of some simulators. It really depends on the program. If the scene itself is well parallelized, then running rendering and scene updates in parallel makes little difference. But in a number of programs it can make a decent difference. Andrew Wilson Andrew Wilson _URL_ Remove Reals 2021-09-16T15:47:08-04:00 Andrew Wilson Remove Reals Mixed usage of reals and doubles are in iMSTK. Mostly important we switch to one, at least for now we should just completely switch to doubles. Mixed usage of reals and doubles are in iMSTK. Mostly important we switch to one, at least for now we should just completely switch to doubles. _URL_ Make Sequential Execution Default 2021-09-02T18:56:56-04:00 Andrew Wilson Make Sequential Execution Default Currently there are two execution modes in iMSTK. One that renders and simulates in parallel: ''' // Setup a viewer to render imstkNew<VTKViewer> viewer("Viewer"); viewer->setActiveScene(scene); // Setup a scene manager to advance the ... Currently there are two execution modes in iMSTK. One that renders and simulates in parallel: ''' // Setup a viewer to render imstkNew<VTKViewer> viewer("Viewer"); viewer->setActiveScene(scene); // Setup a scene manager to advance the scene imstkNew<SceneManager> sceneManager("Scene Manager"); sceneManager->setActiveScene(scene); imstkNew<SimulationManager> driver; driver->addModule(viewer); driver->addModule(sceneManager); driver->start(); ''' One that renders and simulates sequentially. Calling simulate N times per render: ''' // Setup a viewer to render imstkNew<VTKViewer> viewer("Viewer"); viewer->setActiveScene(scene); // Setup a scene manager to advance the scene imstkNew<SceneManager> sceneManager("Scene Manager"); sceneManager->setActiveScene(scene); sceneManager->setExecutionType(Module::ExecutionType::ADAPTIVE); imstkNew<SimulationManager> driver; driver->addModule(viewer); driver->addModule(sceneManager); driver->setDesiredDt(0.005); // Governs N/how many steps per render driver->start(); ''' The parallel one is hard to support but may have some niche use cases with respect to medical simulation. But I do believe sequential should be default. ie: get rid of line 'sceneManager->setExecutionType(Module::ExecutionType::ADAPTIVE);' For this to happen all examples need to be tuned for the sequential mode. Ideally tuned for lowest common denominator (ie: worst machine). So others can start imstk examples without problems. Some take no effort to tune and have large ranges of valid timesteps even on bad machines. Others have a small ranges of valid timesteps, making it harder to tune. Some need their other parameters changed to account for new timesteps. _URL_ Remove DebugRenderGeometry and DebugDelegates 2021-08-05T21:03:08-04:00 Andrew Wilson Remove DebugRenderGeometry and DebugDelegates The DebugRenderGeometry and Delegate currently provide topology changing functionalities and buffering that the SurfaceMesh and LineMesh don't. Allowing one to easily insert a line/etc for a contact or whatever. After we add topology ch... The DebugRenderGeometry and Delegate currently provide topology changing functionalities and buffering that the SurfaceMesh and LineMesh don't. Allowing one to easily insert a line/etc for a contact or whatever. After we add topology change (both changing topology/buffer swap and buffering) support to SurfaceMesh and LineMesh the debug geometry should be removed/replaced with usage of SurfaceMesh and LineMesh as they would be redundant. Additionally Geometry supports multi viewer/observers but DebugGeometry still uses flags which can only be used by one observer. _URL_ PbdObject-CollidingObject Collision 2021-08-05T21:02:51-04:00 Andrew Wilson PbdObject-CollidingObject Collision Currently PbdObject only can collide with other PbdObjects whose masses are set to 0 for static collision. But it should be able to collide with CollidingObject. Currently PbdObject only can collide with other PbdObjects whose masses are set to 0 for static collision. But it should be able to collide with CollidingObject. Andrew Wilson Andrew Wilson _URL_ PBD collision simulation is sensitive to the timestep 2021-08-05T21:02:00-04:00 Sreekanth Arikatla PBD collision simulation is sensitive to the timestep _URL_ Separate PBD constraint generation from PbdModel 2021-07-06T22:14:09-04:00 Andrew Wilson Separate PBD constraint generation from PbdModel It would probably be good to separate these and provide another class for generating constraints. One that can be subclassed and customized by a user without having to subclass PbdModel itself to customize. This would also nicely reduce ... It would probably be good to separate these and provide another class for generating constraints. One that can be subclassed and customized by a user without having to subclass PbdModel itself to customize. This would also nicely reduce the size of the PbdModel class. It could serve as sort of a constraint generation policy. For example, right now we define constraint generation in a global matter with enums. If "enableConstraint" then it is assumed the user wants these constraints everywhere on the mesh. What happens when the mesh changes? Or is entirely replaced? Ideally this almost functor like policy class would have two virtual functions. - One for a global change, called when initializing the first time or if the geometry of the model completely replaced. - The second for local change and local reinit. It would preserve the original constraint parameters and possibly remap the indices of the constraints if topology change occurred. Optionally no map is provided (this would be if buffering and removal was used such that indices do not change). This way a user could provide a very custom constraint generation policy for custom applications (for instance in VESS there is a mask of vertices that don't even have constraints). Might be a nice way to deal with topology changes of the PbdModel. _URL_ Remove apiUtilities 2021-07-04T01:31:54-04:00 Andrew Wilson Remove apiUtilities apiUtilities is redundant and just creates more interface to support, only a few examples use their "utility-like" functions as shorthands to create objects. They are also not used in any of our projects and I would highly caution using ... apiUtilit


Pokémon: Pseudo-Legendaries, Explained | Screen Rant
Pseudo-Legendary is a fan-made term for a group of Pokémon that have close to the stats and power of Mythical and Legendary Pokémon, but not quite.
Mythical and Legendary Pokémon are some of the most feared monsters in the franchise, yet there are some Pokémon that are close to matching them in strength. These are referred to as Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon by fans, and they share common traits that set them apart from their brethren.
Mythical and Legendary Pokémon are different in how they're acquired, but they are equally powerful. This dates all the way back to Pokémon Red and Blue, with Mew and Mewtwo's strength standing above all of other Pokémon in the Kanto region. The raw power of Mythical and Legendary Pokémon is meant to act as a reward for players who are diligent enough to seek out the rarest Pokémon in existence or who have defeated the mightiest trainers in the region.
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There are some Pokémon that can match Mythicals and Legendaries, either due to having powerful mixtures of moves or existing during the period when Mega Evolutions granted incredible power to common Pokémon. But a few Pokémon are only just below the Mythicals and Legendaries in their natural, base forms, which has led to fans referring to them as Pseudo-Legendaries.
Pokémon's Pseudo-Legendaries Are Pretenders To The Legendary Throne
Pokemon Ash Dragonite Pseudo Legendary
There are nine Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon in existence, one from each generation (save for generation three, which has two of them): Dragonite, Tyranitar, Metagross, Salamence, Garchomp, Hydreigon, Goodra, Kommo-o, and Dragapult. These Pokémon share a few common traits; they are all stage-three evolutions, they each require 1.25 million experience points to reach level 100, and they each have a base stat total of 600. Psuedo-Legendary Pokémon generally have a powerful Ability and access to a strong move pool in order to further enhance their strength. Additionally, all Pseudo-Legendaries but Tyranitar and Metagross have at least a partial Dragon typing.
Pseudo-Legendaries are clearly made strong on purpose, as they are often saved for the most powerful trainers in each region. Lance of the Kanto Elite Four used multiple Dragonite on his team; Drake of the Hoenn Elite Four had a mighty Salamence; and Metagross was the signature Pokémon of Champion Steven Stone, as was Garchomp for Diamond and Pearl's CynthiaThe first stages of these Pokémon were once extremely hard to find, but the introduction of online trading meant it became easier to find a baby Dratini or Goomy near the beginning of a game. This gives trainers the chance to easily use Pseudo-Legendaries during their own Pokémon journeys.
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01 March 2011
Snail dispersal by cars - Part 2
Published evidence for the passive dispersal of land snails, especially of alien species, on cars was the subject of this post. The process is simple: if a car is parked at a spot where there are active snails, some of them may climb on the car and later go wherever the car happens to go.
Here is a piece of evidence that this indeed happens. These pictures of a snail was taken by my friend Selim Dorak on his car in the city of Antalya in southern Turkey. The car was in the parking lot of a store when Selim first saw the snail. He then drove with the snail on the car to his house and thereby demonstrated that dispersal of snails by car, at least over short distances, is possible.
The snail seems to have been a species in the family Hygromiidae. Another possibility is that it was a juvenile Helix, sp. but they usually don't have such pointed spires.
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Snails are routinely intercepted on shipping containers coming into the United States. They have also been found on used cars and excavators.


What is "then" here?
I can hardly understand the "then" here.
"Then" means at a particular time in the past or in the future.
I wasn't treated fairly, but then (again) it's life.
If you think about it more or from a different perspective, it will make more sense. If you believe that the world we live in doesn't always seem to be fair, then you, who were treated badly, is a just another example of this belief.
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Pangaea – geology training for space exploration
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- Title Pangaea – geology training for space exploration
- Released: 03/09/2018
- Length 00:03:21
- Language English
- Footage Type Music Clip
- Copyright ESA
ESA's Pangaea training course prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features during future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.
The Pangaea campaign – named after the ancient supercontinent – provides the crew with introductory and practical knowledge to find interesting rock samples and assess the most likely places to find traces of life on other planets. Leading European planetary geologists share their insights into the geology of the Solar System.
Theoretical work is followed by field trips to the Ries impact crater in Germany, the sedimentary environment of Geopark Bletterbach in the Italian Dolomites and the volcanic landscapes of the Geopark of Lanzarote, Spain.
Pangaea is the first step in preparing European astronauts to become planetary explorers on missions to other planets, allowing them to effectively communicate with science advisors on Earth.
Through Pangaea, Europe is also developing operational concepts for surface missions where astronauts and robots work together, among themselves and with scientists and engineers on Earth, using the best field geology and planetary observation techniques.
Credits: Film director, video shooting and editing: Sirio Sechi


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We benchmark various quantum chemical methods for calculating the optical absorption in planar boron wheel clusters. The geometries of neutral planar boron wheels B7, BB8, and BB9 clusters are optimized at the coupled-cluster singles doubles level of theory. The optical absorption spectra of these clusters are calculated using three wave-function-based methods, namely, configuration interaction singles, random phase approximation, and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster singles doubles (EOM-CCSD) as well as using a time-dependent density-functional-theory-based method using various hybrid and long-range-corrected exchange and correlation functionals. There is an ample variation in the optical absorption spectra computed using different density functionals. When compared to the EOM-CCSD spectrum, an excellent agreement is provided by CAM-B3LYP functional, followed by ωB97xD functional. PBE0, B3LYP, and B3PW91 functionals agree among each other. However, their spectra are red-shifted with respect to the EOM-CCSD counterpart. On the basis of the natural transition orbital analysis, the nature of optical excitation is also discussed.
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Pataka Museum is about to open another exciting show on 13 November 2011. The exhibition, called Germany and Samoa – Old Ties and New Relationships, investigates the impact and legacy of the profoundly significant historical relationship between Germany and Samoa from 1900 – 1914. The exhibition will feature photos, artefacts, and information collected and curated by Professor Hermann Hiery, a leading expert on the colonial era in the Pacific. It is co-curated by Helen Kedgley at Pataka, and this is the first ever exhibition of its kind in the world. The exhibition will run alongside a showcase of paintings and sculptures by renowned Pacific artist Michael Tuffery.
Part of Germany and Samoa – Old Ties and New Relationships, will be several significant objects from Te Papa.
This sextant (navigational instrument), for example, was made in 1917 by German merchant marine cadet, Walter von Zatorski. At the time, he was interned as a prisoner of war on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf, about 11 kilometres northeast of Auckland. He had been captured when New Zealand forces took the Pacific Island of German Samoa (now the Independent State of Samoa) during World War I (1914 – 1918).
The sextant and its case are totally improvised. They were made using the fuel tank from a Primus stove and the brass hinges from a rudder that had washed ashore. The adjusting screw came from the handle of a safety razor. Von Zatorski ordered tools and solder through the camp canteen to assemble the instrument.
In December 1917, von Zatorski's sextant was put to use when a party of prisoners, lead by Count Felix von Luckner ('Sea Wolf'), escaped from Motuihe and captured the scow Moa. Using von Zatorski's handmade instrument and a map copied from a school atlas, the men navigated an accurate course to the Kermadec Islands – around 1000 kilometres northeast of New Zealand – before they were recaptured.
You will be able to visit the exhibition at Pataka Museum until 19 February 2012.

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Lib Sentence Examples
- "Women's lib," Dean answered.
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- Lib., _PHONE_; Bibliotheque Nationale, Liste des periodiques &rangers (1896).
- Lub-et, lib-ido); then, all such deities being connected with the underworld, she also became the goddess of death, and that side of her character predominated in the later conceptions.
- C. 2; the minute account which the same writer gives, lib., ii.


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Hair highlighting/lowlighting refers to changing a person's hair color, using lightener or haircolor to color hair strands. There are four basic types of highlights: foil highlights, hair painting, frosting, and chunking. Highlights can be done in natural or unnatural colors. Color highlights come in four categories: temporary, semi-permanent, demi-permanent, and permanent. Hair lightened with bleach is permanent.
Basic foil highlighting
Foil highlighting is the process of using foil to separate strands of hair which will be lightened from strands of hair which will remain its natural color. The process is done by applying lightener to the hair that has been woven and separated using an applicator brush. The foil is then folded to protect the hair and surrounding area during the "processing" time. This is the amount of time required to achieve the desired results. In highlighting hair, hydrogen peroxide mixed with pigment is used to change the color of the strand. This process is also used in applying "lowlights" to the hair. In this process, hair dyes are used to create strands of hair that are darker than the natural color.
Hair painting is a method of highlighting hair that may be done at home. Hair painting methods are often permanent and employ a simple hair-painting brush. Hair painting is also used with temporary and semi-permanent types of brushes. While brushes are commonly used in hair painting, one may also use combs to paint or highlight thin-sized strands of hair. Balayage is a technique referring to free-form painting on clean, styled hair. The results are subtle, and more natural looking than foiling or chunking.
Frosting refers to the process of free-hand lightening the tips of the hair, and is generally performed on men with short hair.
Chunking refers to a style of highlight which is larger and thicker than a traditional highlight, rather than to a method of creating highlights. Chunky highlights are generally offered in a wider variety of bold natural colors, as well as a large number of artificial, or unnatural, colors and are used to create more contrast, rather than subtle texture, as in traditional, thinner highlights.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Daily Build - The Daily Build concept
The Daily Build concept is integrated in nearly every new Software Engineering approach.
Personally I think that its common to use a separated build server applying the continuous integration approach / strategy. Call it however you want but in my point of view its a must.
The build server is responsible to request automatically request all sources from repository and its common to do that in a iteration of once a day. So this server is responsible to extract all sources and to build them. Its also common to integrate all your Unit test into this build to verify the integration. Oh, you don't have unit test ... what a pity... You should maybe checkout where the payback is of the additional effort of unit testing.
to make a build is much more then to press just F5 or F10 in visual studio or your preferred development environment. but anyway there are enough other sources you can receive the information what a complete build means [or check out previous posts.]
Lets go back to the issue of daily build, or the daily build concept.
Goals of Daily Build
There are several goals of daily build, but lets write about the main goal of it.
The main goal of Daily Build process is to integrate a periodical integration of all your software pieces.
Why periodically and not whenever when I want... 3 things..
1. in every handy made process the possibility of failures are here and usually they also not reproducible.
2. you have a build server, let him do the work. When it fails once then it always fails.
3. normally there are more then just one person who is working on sources.
The mention third point is very basically and can happen all the time. Just let the build process fail, which is really a bad problem for the project manager. If that happens, he or she has to locate the problem and solve it - or, even better, let the responsible programmers search for the problem in their code.
So, a developer has to write a few test cases which ensure the correct behavior of the main features or methods of his components. Which will be tested automatically every single night, and in the morning you get your report with all needed information why your daily build today failed ( or not failed ).
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size
Decal size. Specifies the size of a decal material.
size= *width,height*[ *,thickness*]
width, height
Size of the decal object in scene coordinate units (typically inches) (real, real).
thickness
Thickness of the decal object in scene coordinate units (typically inches) (real).
If neither width or height is 0, the image is scaled to the exact specified dimensions and the aspect ratio of the image is not preserved. Setting either value to 0 preserves the aspect ratio of the image.
If thickness is specified, a drop shadow is rendered if the vignette object defines an appropriate light vector. Set thickness to 0 to disable drop-shadow rendering.
Properties
Material attribute. Only used by decals; ignored by all other materials. res= is ignored if either width or height is greater than 0. Values must not be negative.
Default
catalog::Size if the decal material is based on a catalog entry; otherwise size=0,0,0. The decal size is calculated from res= if wid and hei are not specified or are set to 0. No drop shadow is rendered if thickness is not specified or set to 0.
Example
A MSS for a decal, which is sized based on resolution, rotated by 20 deg clockwise, and has a thickness of 2.5 inches, for an appropriate drop shadow effect:
…&decal&src=myDecal.png&res=34&rotate=20&size=0,0,2.5&…
See also
Scene Coordinates, res=, attribute::Resolution
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Lakita ('for the classroom' in Hebrew) is an innovative, not-for-profit crowdfunding platform for teacher-led educational initiatives in Israel. Lakita was established with the goal of helping educators bring innovative tools into the classroom, allowing them to maximize their potential and that of their students.
Our mission & vision
Our vision is to create direct ties between initiatives by creative and motivated educators, and every person who shares a belief in the importance of education in Israel. These ties will promote an educational environment in which the creativity and the support of educators will help to provide students with the best possible education.


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Digital Image Registration and Comparison
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This page has been written as part of the NIP2 Beginners Guide.
Image registration is the process of ensuring that the matching features of two similar images appear in the same place in each image. If different images have been captured of a single object, at different stages of it's life, for example before, during or after conservation work or with different pieces of equipment, for example visible, infra-red, uv or x-ray, then they may need to be registered to each other before direct digital comparisons are carried out.
Image comparison is the process of checking whether the matching features of two similar images appear in the same place in each image. Comparisons can be used to check the result of the registration procedures or just to check if two similar images match, this can very useful when comparing different versions of the same painting, or even checking whether a drawing or cartoon has been used in the construction of a painting.
There are two basic registration function included in nip2, Linear Match and Perspective Match. Two images need to be selected and then the chosen function can be performed, the second image will be adjusted to match the first based on the positioning of a set of marks.
Figure 8.1: Selection of sample images used to show the results of the image overlay and image registration functions. Image A is the base image that the others starting images, B, C and D want to be resistered to. Images AA, AB, AC and AD are the result of running the overlay function with image A and all of the starting images. Images B2 and C2 show the results of linear matching images B and C with image A and image D2 show the results of perspective matching images C with image A. Images AB2, AC2 and AD2 are the result of running the overlay function with image A and the three matches images.
- [Main Window][Toolkits: Image: Transform: Linear Match]
This functions can be used to correct size, translation and rotation differences between two images. Two marks are placed on each of the original images, which can be moved to indicate the position of two good matching features in the images. In addition to the marks options are provided to lock the image to prevent resizing[_TAG_ 1] and to allow the software to try to improve the position of your marks[_TAG_ 2].
- [Main Window][Toolkits: Image: Transform: Perspective Match]
This functions can be used to correct size, translation, rotation and perspective distortion differences between two images. Four marks are placed on each of the original images, which can be moved to indicate the position of four good matching features in the images.
There are three basic comparison function included in nip2, Overlay, Slider Blend and Along Line, see figure [_TAG_:reg_comp 8.2]fg:reg_comp. Two images need to be selected and then the chosen function can be performed for the comparison to be performed.
Figure 8.2: Examples of the nip2 objects produced by the three basic comparison functions, Overlay, Slider Blend and Along Line.
- [Main Window][Toolkits: Filter: Overlay]
This function produces a mono version of the original object and then uses them along with a black image to produce a RGB[_TAG_ 3] colour image. By default the first image is used to create the red chanel, the second image is used to create the green chanel and the black is used for the blue channel, this is know as Green over Red. Here the good areas of overlap will appear yellow, where the green and red images match, see figure [_TAG_:reg_regandcomp 8.1]fg:reg_regandcomp and figure [_TAG_:reg_comp 8.2]fg:reg_comp. The function object does provide the option to change this image order to produce different colours if it is required.
- [Main Window][Toolkits: Filter: Blend: Slider Blend]
This function effectively places the second image on top of the first and then allows the user to adjust the transparency of the second image by moving a slider back and forward.
- [Main Window][Toolkits: Filter: Blend: Along Line]
This function produces an new image by blending then together down a line. Options are provided for the user to decided if the images are to be blended left-right or top-bottom and to control the position and degree of the blend.
This can be good if you are wanting to line two images up but not actually change their size. This process does not always improve your match but can be helpful at times. see section [_TAG_:colour 3.3.3]sec:colour


12.1.4 Inserting '\' with _USER_{}
Ordinarily, a backslash '\' is a normal character in Texinfo that can be simply typed in your input where you need it. The result is to typeset the backslash from the typewriter font.
However, Texinfo uses the backslash as a special character in one restricted context: to delimit formal arguments in the bodies of user-defined macros (see Defining Macros).
Due to the vagaries of macro argument parsing, it is more reliable to pass an alphabetic command that produces a backslash instead of using a literal \. Hence _USER_{}. Here is an example macro call:
_USER_{One argument@backslashchar{} with a backslash}
Texinfo documents may also use \ as a command character inside _USER_ (see Inserting Math). In this case, @\ or \backslash produces a "math" backslash (from the math symbol font), while _USER_{} produces a typewriter backslash as usual.
Although '_USER_{}' can be used nearly anywhere, there is no need for it except in these unusual cases.


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Corktown Historic District
Corktown Historic District
Bagley Street in Corktown
|Architectural style:||Colonial Revival, Late Victorian, Federal|
|Added to NRHP:||July 31, 1978|
Corktown is the oldest neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, although the city of Detroit is twice as old. The current boundaries of the current district include I-75 to the north, the Lodge Freeway to the east, Bagley and Porter streets to the south, and Rosa Parks Boulevard (12th Street) to the west. The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The Corktown Historic District is largely residential, although some commercial properties along Michigan Avenue are included in the district.
The roots of Corktown lie in the Great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. The Irish immigrated to the United States in droves, and by the middle of the 19th century, they were the largest ethnic group settling in Detroit. Many of these newcomers settled on the west side of the city; they were primarily from County Cork, and thus the neighborhood came to be known as Corktown. By the early 1850s, half of the population of the 8th Ward (which contained Corktown) were of Irish descent. Historically, the neighborhood was roughly bounded by Third Street to the east, Grand River Avenue to the north, 12th Street to the west, and Jefferson Avenue/Detroit River to the south.
By the Civil War, German immigrants had begun making inroads into the Corktown neighborhood. By the turn of the century, the original Irish population had diffused through the city, and other immigrants, notably Mexican and Maltese, moved in. As the century progressed, southern migrants in the U.S. lured by the jobs in the automobile industry followed suit.
The residential section is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a City of Detroit Historic District. The neighborhood contains many newer homes and retains some original Irish businesses.
The original buildings in Corktown are Federal-style detached homes and rowhouses built by Irish settlers. A worker's row house circa 1840 is located on Sixth Street and is one of the oldest existing structures in the city of Detroit. In further years, modestly sized Victorian townhouses with Italianate, Gothic, and Queen Anne elements were constructed.
Notable residents
See also
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- Corktown from ModelD Media, retrieved 8/6/09
- History from the Greater Corktown Development Corporation
- Corktown Historic District from the National Park Service, retrieved 8/6/09
- Armando Delicato, Julie Demery, Detroit's Corktown, Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7385-5155-4
- "Interactive Map." Greater Corktown Development Corp Retrieved on April 24, 2009.
- "Owen MS Attendance Area." Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.
- "M. L. King HS Attendance Area." Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.
- "Detroit City Council Biography." Sheila Cockrel. Retrieved on April 25, 2009.
- Greater Corktown Development Corporation (GCDC)
- DetroitIrish.org, Information about the Irish Community in greater Detroit.
- Glorious Detroit: Corktown
- Corktown Historic District from the city of Detroit


ousman rhyme). To try to improve accuracy, I wrote a regular expression
that interprets the rhyming part of the word as follows:
a) if the word ends in a "y", the rhyming part is the "y" and any vowels
immediately before it: "flY", "plAY".
b) if the word ends in an "e" not directly following a vowel, the rhyming part
is defined like in (c), excecpt the silent "e" is treated as a consonant:
"possIBLE", "remAKE".
c) otherwise, the rhyming part is the part containing the last group of one or
more vowels followed by any consonants: "shACK", "sEA", "sEE".
The regular expression is as follows:
 my $vowel = '[aeiou]';
 my $consonant = '[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]';
 my $consonant_or_e_not_y = '[b-hj-np-tvwxz]';
 my $match_ending_letter = '[aiouy]';
 my $match_continuing_letter = $consonant;
 ) ) {
Though impressive, in practice it's not any more accurate than the last-threeletters algorithm, and it's probably less accurate. Oh, well.
Finding rhymes is truly not for the fainthearted programmer. For example, the
words "food" and "good" don't rhyme even though their spelling suggests that
they would, and the word "read" can be pronounced either like "reed" or "red",
depending on its function in the sentence.
But if you ever do get really good at teaching poetry to computers, perhaps
you can join Damian Conway, "the mad scientist of Perl", who wrote a Perl
module to automatically generate a haiku before displaying an error message.
As he puts it:
 When a program dies
 what you need is a moment
 of serenity.
7) Past Information
Part 1: Getting Started
Part 2: Scalar Data
Part 3: User Input
Part 4: Control Structures
Part 4.5, a review with a little new information at the end:
Part 5: The "tr///" Operator
Part 6: The "m//" Operator
Part 7: More About "m//"
8) Credits
Works cited: "man perlop"
Thanks to Jacinta Richardson for fact checking.
9) Licensing
This course (i.e., all parts of it) is copyright 2003 by Alice Wood and Dan
projects. It is not generally used in projects unrelated to Perl.
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The Massif Central
is an elevated region in south-central France
, consiting of mountains
Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,000 years, these central mountains are separated from the Alps by the north-south trending Rhone River Basin.
The following départements are generaly considered as part of the Massif: Allier, Ardèche, Aveyron, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Loire, Haute-Vienne, Loire, Lot, Lozère and Puy-de-Dome.
The following régions are part of the Massif: Auvergne, Limousin. Part of the following régions are in the Massif: Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees, Rhône-Alpes.
The largest cities are Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Étienne.
Mountains include: Puy-de-Dôme
Plateaus include: Larzac
See also: Geography of France


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Update: Quick Code.
PROC IMPORT OUT = <libname>.<dataset name> DATAFILE= "<Excel file path>"
PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.company DATAFILE= "C:\Users\Parth\Documents\SAS\SASexamples\Company_info.xlsx"
Original Blog Begins Here:
Here is the code to get external data (csv, xls, txt) into your SAS environment.
The basic objective is to get your *.csv or *.xls file converted to *.sas7bdat format (which is the default extension for SAS EnterpriseMiner)
Open SAS (not EnterpriseMiner).
After opening SAS, go to the Editor and type the following line of codes:
IMPORTANT NOTE: After writing each block of codes, select the written code and click the 'run' button.
NOTE: The terms in Bold should be colored (mostly blue).
#We will first create an empty data set called 'main'.
#Tell SAS about the Contents in our data set 'main' and print it.
proc contents data=main;
proc print data=main;
#Now Import your excel/csv file
proc import datafile='<<Enter the path to your file>>'
out=main replace dbms=csv;
example for procedure: proc import datafile='C:\Downloads\MIS6324BI\Titanic Data\train.csv'
Note: 'out=main' because the data set we created is named as 'main'.
Note: If the file you want to import is Excel, type- "dbms=excel"
#Create a new library
libname home "<<Path of your wish to the library>>";
example: libname home "C:\Users\parth\Documents\My SAS Files\"
#Run the following codes in order to get the imported file into your 'main' data set. And then to get your newly created 'main' data into the above created library.
data sas_format; set home.main;
data home.sas_format; set work.main;
The resulting SAS format files will be in the library path you have given to SAS. In this case- 'C:\Users\parth\Documents\My SAS Files\'
Please do comment on this post if you find any problem following the steps to import data into SAS.


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The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted an event to present the project to representatives of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the astronomical community, and industry. The EST documentary "Reaching for the Sun" was also premiered during the event.
The event will take place on May 3 and will be attended by authorities from the Ministry of Science and Innovation and representatives of the Spanish astronomical community and industry. It will include the premiere of the scientific documentary "Reaching for the Sun".
The students, from Italy and Slovakia, attended a ceremony award at Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos of Tenerife, and enjoyed a guided tour of the EST Project Office headquarters and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in La Laguna.
The European Researchers' Night 2021 is taking place on Friday, September 24. After the online edition in 2020 due to COVID-19, EST scientists and engineers will engage in public activities across the continent.
The European Solar Telescope is a member of a coordinated effort to prepare ESFRI facilities and other pan-European infrastructures of astronomy, astroparticle, and particle physics for the European Open Science Cloud Initiative (EOSC).


Winged beauties: Large and Small
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The creatures that share this city with us come in all sizes. For example, here's a very common bird; you will find it in many gardens, especially among the flowers, because it drinks the nectar from them. Here's the male Purple-rumped Sunbird. How colourful and beautiful it is, even though so extremely small!
Pic: Deepa Mohan
Among the largest birds very common in Bangalore skies is the Black (or Common) Kite. This raptor (bird of prey) has adjusted to life in the city, and has become a scavenger, finding things in the trash that humans generate. It was once called the Pariah Kite, but since 'Pariah' refers to what is assumed to be a 'lower' caste, it is now called the Black Kite, even though it's brown all over! In this photo, you can see that it still looks common compared to another special bird of Karnataka, the Long-billed Vulture.
The amazing thing, to me, is that both these birds, tiny and large, can so effortlessly take to the air, and leave the "surly bonds of earth" behind! Flight and feathers unite two such very different creatures, that we can see around us in this city.
Pic: Deepa Mohan
And talking about contrasts, these two birds that I have talked about, are so common in our city, while the Long-billed Vulture, featured in the second photograph, is extremely rare in our state. There are only about twelve or so birds, which have their roosts and a single breeding ground in Ramanagara (which is on the Bangalore-Mysore route). Naturalists are keen to protect this single breeding spot, and the area has been declared a Vulture Sanctuary.
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Dosso Dossi: 'A Man embracing a Woman'
The subject of this painting is unclear. It was acquired as 'Fiametta and Boccaccio' and was subsequently catalogued as 'A Muse inspiring a Court Poet'. Another possibility is that the male figure represents the clown, Il Gonnella, as the tondo (or circular picture) of which this is a fragment, was said to include a portrait of him.
The original ceiling picture was probably commissioned by Alfonso d'Este for the Castello in Ferrara, north-east Italy. A 17th-century description makes it clear that it originally had five figures; one other figure survives as a fragment in Florence (Fondazione Roberto Longhi).
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During the variable spray process, the micro-flow control is often held back by such problems as low initial sensitivity, large inertia, large hysteresis, nonlinearity as well as the inevitable difficulties in controlling the size of the variable spray droplets. In this paper, a novel intelligent double closed-loop control with chaotic optimization and adaptive fuzzy logic is developed for a multi-sensor based variable spray system, where a Bang-Bang relay controller is used to speed up the system operation, and adaptive fuzzy nonlinear PID is employed to improve the accuracy and stability of the system. With the chaotic optimization of controller parameters, the system is globally optimized in the whole solution space. By applying the proposed double closed-loop control, the variable pressure control system includes the pressure system as the inner closed-loop and the spray volume system as the outer closed-loop. Thus, the maximum amount of spray droplets deposited on the plant surface may be achieved with the minimum medicine usage for plants. Multiple sensors (for example: three pressure sensors and two flow rate sensors) are employed to measure the system states. Simulation results show that the chaotic optimized controller has a rise time of 0.9 s, along with an adjustment time of 1.5 s and a maximum overshoot of 2.67% (in comparison using PID, the rise time is 2.2 s, the adjustment time is 5 s, and the maximum overshoot is 6.0%). The optimized controller parameters are programmed into the hardware to control the established variable spray system. The experimental results show that the optimal spray pressure of the spray system is approximately 0.3 MPa, and the flow rate is approximately 0.08 m3
/h. The effective droplet rate is 89.4%, in comparison to 81.3% using the conventional PID control. The proposed chaotically optimized composite controller significantly improved the dynamic performance of the control system, and satisfactory control results are achieved.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited


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Arachidic acid (IUPAC
name Eicosanoic acid
is a saturated fatty acid found in peanut oil with the molecular formula CH3
Its name derives from the Latin arachis - peanut. It can be formed by the hydrogenation of arachidonic acid.
It is practically insoluble in water, and stable under normal conditions. It is a surfactant.
Reduction of arachidic acid yields arachidyl alcohol.


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Light on the land and no more than necessary – these were the first principles that guided the development of a 400-square-foot bunkhouse adjacent to the iconic Gorton/Bounds Cabin designed by Robert Hull, Miller Hull's late founding partner, in 1986. Simplicity in spatial organization and clarity in tectonic expression pay homage to its neighbor. By floating the enclosed volume above the site the building massing amplifies the reading of the sloping topography.
The steep site presented significant challenges including the inability to access the immediate building area with any heavy equipment. A narrow 500-foot trail through the woods connects the end of a gravel road to the site, through which all construction materials were carried by hand. Building components were sized based on the ability of a three-person crew to maneuver them along the trail. Budget constraints drove a tight construction timeline and eliminated any unnecessary trades. The small crew lived onsite during a good portion of construction to reduce transportation costs and the environmental impact associated with building on a remote island.
The design team embraced these challenges as the defining constraints of the project, allowing them to shape a simple yet potent intervention.


Realtime Client Library API
Rewind
Overview
The rewind parameter allows you to specify, at the time of attaching to a channel, where to start the attachment from.
You can specify either:
 - A given number of messages.
 - A point in time in the past, as a time interval.
The parameter relates to the initial attachment of a connection to a channel, and expresses the intent to attach to the channel at a position, or a point in time, in the past (that is, effectively "rewinding" the channel for the purposes of the present attachment).
The rewind parameter is specified using channel parameters.
Examples
Rewind example with an Ably client library
A rewind value that is a number n (eg rewind=1) is a request to attach to the channel at a position n messages before the present position. If the attachment is successful, and one or more messages exist on the channel prior to the present position, then those messages will be delivered to the subscriber immediately after the attachment has completed, and before any subsequent messages that arise in real time.
If fewer than the requested number of messages exists on the channel (including the case that there are no prior messages), then the available messages are sent; this does not constitute an error.
To subscribe to a channel, getting the most recent message if available:
var realtime = new Ably.Realtime('xVLyHw.LGKueA:hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8');
realtime.channels.get('top-dew-add', {
 params: {rewind: '1'}
}).subscribe(msg => console.log("Received message: ", msg));
var realtime = new Ably.Realtime('xVLyHw.LGKueA:hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8');
realtime.channels.get('top-dew-add', {
 params: {rewind: '1'}
}).subscribe(msg => console.log("Received message: ", msg));
final Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
params.put("rewind", "1");
final ChannelOptions options = new ChannelOptions();
options.params = params;
final Channel channel = ably.channels.get("top-dew-add", options);
channel.subscribe(new MessageListener() {
 @Override
 public void onMessage(Message message) {
 System.out.println("Received '" + message.name + "' message with data: " + message.data);
 }
});
let options = ARTClientOptions(key: "xVLyHw.LGKueA:hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8")
let client = ARTRealtime(options: options)
let channelOptions = ARTRealtimeChannelOptions()
channelOptions.params = [
 "rewind": "1"
]
let channel = client.channels.get(channelName, options: channelOptions)
var clientOptions = new ClientOptions();
clientOptions.Key = "xVLyHw.LGKueA:hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8";
clientOptions.Environment = AblyEnvironment;
var ably = new AblyRealtime(clientOptions);
var channelParams = new ChannelParams();
channelParams.Add("rewind", "1");
var channelOptions = new ChannelOptions();
channelOptions.Params = channelParams;
var channel = ably.Channels.Get("top-dew-add", channelOptions);
channel.Subscribe(message => {
 Console.WriteLine(message.Data.ToString());
});
A rewind value can also be a string that is a time interval specifier. Supported specifier values express an integral number of seconds (eg 15s) or minutes (eg 2m). If that attachment is successful, and one or more messages exist on the channel in the given time interval prior to the present time, then those messages will be delivered to the subscriber immediately after the attachment has completed, and before any subsequent messages that arise in real time.
If you wish to use a time interval rewind but additionally specify a limit on the number of messages to be returned, you can use the rewindLimit channel parameter. For example, to request up to 10 messages in a window 5m before the present time, specify a channel parameter string of rewind=5m&rewindLimit=10. If fewer than the requested number of messages exists on the channel in that interval (including the case that there are no messages), then the available messages are sent; this does not constitute an error.
Rewind example with SSE
To subscribe to a channel, getting the most recent message if available:
var querystring = 'v=1.2&channels=top-dew-add&rewind=1&key=xVLyHw.LGKueA:hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8';
var eventSource = new EventSource('_URL_ + querystring);
Rewind example with MQTT
var mqtt = require('mqtt');
var options = {
 keepalive: 30,
 username: 'xVLyHw.LGKueA', /* API key's name */
 password: 'hT554nJxccjeCf3ggmJFUo6I1XpTA6azv77FJU85My8', /* API key's secret */
 port: 8883
};
var client = mqtt.connect('mqtts:mqtt.ably.io', options);
client.on('connect', () => {
 client.subscribe('[?rewind=1]top-dew-add');
});
client.on('message', (topic, message) => {
 ...
});
Additional information
At most 100 messages will be sent in a rewind request. If the number of messages within the specified interval is greater than that limit, then only the most recent messages up to that limit are sent. The attachment succeeds, but truncation of the message backlog is indicated as a non-fatal error in the attachment response.
Rewind by time (rewind=30s) can only get messages at most 2 minutes old. So, if you specify rewind=3m, you will only get the last 2 minutes of history upon attaching. For now, it's not possible to reach into persisted history using time-based parameters.
Rewind by a certain number of messages (rewind=20) is restricted by the channel's persistence period. If you've not enabled persisted history, this will be 2 minutes. If you have persistence enabled, this will be 24 hours for free accounts, and 72 hours for paid accounts.
The channel position expressed by a rewind parameter only has an effect on an initial channel attachment. Any subsequent reattachment of the same channel on the same connection, in order to resume the connection, will attempt to resume with continuity from the point at which the connection dropped. (There are a few exceptions to this: in particular, client libraries earlier than v1.2 that have been disconnected for over two minutes, and all clients when using recover mode ; in both cases the previous attachment state is not preserved).
Any rewind parameter value that cannot be parsed either as a number or a time specifier will cause the attachment request to fail and return an error.
Persist last message
If you have enabled the persist last message channel rule on a channel, you can attach with rewind=1 to retrieve the last message. Note that only the last message can be stored long-term (up to a year), and persisting the last message does not work for presence messages.
API Reference
View the Channel Options API Reference.
Need help?
If you need any help with your implementation or if you have encountered any problems, do get in touch. You can also quickly find answers from our knowledge base, and blog.


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Diploma in International Accounting Standards and Financial Information NIC-IFRS (Virtual)
With the Diploma in International Accounting Standards, our students will develop a deep and practical knowledge on the measurement and analysis of economic and financial information and thus be responsible for preparing financial statements, manage and make decisions under international standards of entities such as: microempras , SMEs.
Uni Asturias seeks to make its students leaders and highly successful professionals, that is why it includes: a module in which the tools for preparing the set of financial statements are presented and exercises are applied to demonstrate the changes and the problems that arise Adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards.
Double international degree plus two Auditor Certificates:
- Diploma in International Accounting Standards and Financial Information NIC-IFIF / Uni Asturias .
- Expert in International Accounting Standards and Financial Information, Full IFRS, and IFRS for SMEs / European Graduate Institute.
- PYMES and Microenterprises Update / European Graduate Institute.
In addition, the student will have:
- Modules XBRL accounting software and NIC / IFRS for SMEs NIC for micro-prymes.
- Practices for the application of IFRS exercises and constant resolution of cases.
- An information module for the preparation of the ICAEW certification exams (Full IFRS and IFRS for PYMES)
About the School
The University Corporation of Asturias (UniAsturias) is an institution of higher education that will advance the basic and fundamental functions related to teaching, research and extension service by ... Read More


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Evaluating the Legacy Program of the Mighty Oaks Foundation: A Mixed-Method Study
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SubjectMighty Oaks Foundation. Legacy Program
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Religious aspects--Christianity
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a serious diagnosis that plagues many men and women who have served in the United States military. With high veteran suicide rates, an overwhelmed VA system, and a host of treatments that are often ineffective; it is important to find affordable and effective alternative treatment options. Additionally, there is a growing recognition that spirituality plays a key role struggle of PTSD and therefore must play a role in its treatment. The Mighty Oaks Foundation has developed multiple programs that are designed to help men and women struggling with PTSD as well as their spouses and families. The flagship program of Mighty Oaks is the Legacy Program, a week-long residential, peer-to-peer, faith-based treatment program. This dissertation employs a variety of research methods in order to assess the effectiveness of the Legacy Program for men. Chapter 1 describes the purpose for the current study, lists research questions that will be addressed by the research. This chapter also offers delimitations to the research and provides a procedural overview of the research that was conducted. Chapter 2 reviews the precedent literature relating to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This provides an overview of the history of PTSD, various treatments available for PTSD and studies to determine their effectiveness. This chapter also offers insights from biblical counseling literature on the topic of PTSD. Chapter 3 gives an overview of the Mighty Oaks Foundation. It recounts the history of the ministry, describes its philosophy, and reviews the content of the Legacy Program for Men. Chapter 4 outlines the methodology of the research undertaken in this dissertation. It includes a restatement of research questions and how each will be addressed in the research. Information on the population studied, instrumentation, and research procedures used are also covered in this chapter. Chapter 5 provides an analysis of the findings. The quantitative pre/post-test study demonstrated that attendance at the Legacy Program reduces one's PTSD symptoms and results in an increase in one's faith. The correlation between these two changes was not demonstrated to a clinically significant degree by the data. The retrospective alumni survey also provided insights into what components were seen as beneficial by participants. Chapter 6 offers conclusions drawn from the data gathered in the research. Recommendations for implementing this type of program are made and areas for further research are also proposed.


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Georgia: almost half of all "imported" covid-19 infections came from Russia
Georgia's National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has released a report on the situation pertaining to the coronavirus up through July 11, which says 46% of all 'imported' cases of the virus came from Russia.
There are 111 medical workers among the infected. Among the regions, the most difficult situation is in Kvemo Kartli.
The first case of infection was recorded on February 26, 2020.
From that day to July 11, COVID-19 was confirmed in 980 people – 499 (50.9%) men and 481 (49%) women.
The oldest patient was 90 years old. The youngest was nine months old.
COVID-19 was recorded in 105 patients under 18 years of age (10.7% of the total number of cases).
The most intense spread of the coronavirus was recorded in Tbilisi and Kvemo Kartli, and the lowest in Samegrelo, Zemo Svaneti and Imereti.
The largest number of 'imported cases' of the coronavirus came from Russia – 127 cases out of 272, i.e. 46.6%. Following Russia, Turkey – 23 cases (8.4%), Azerbaijan – 22 cases (8%) and Armenia – 21 cases (7.7%).
- Businessmen in Georgia must choose: two weeks quarantine or PCR testing at own expense
- Masks, barriers, high prices: post-corona tourism in Georgia
11.2% of the total number of cases (129 cases of infection) are medical workers. 1 case was fatal – a 70-year-old woman from Kvemo Kartli died.
57 cases of infection of doctors occurred in covid clinics, 26 in ambulances, 15 in ordinary clinics, 2 in rural outpatient clinics.
11% of the total number of confirmed infections were asymptomatic. The most specific symptoms were fever (54%), general weakness (34%) and cough (24%). Another 17% complained of dryness or sore throat, 14.5% – headache, 10.1% – runny nose.
Of the 800 patients discharged from hospitals, 69.1% were taken in from quarantine areas.