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rulerRecently I have been looking into an issue in our PDF text extraction. A case was found where text extraction would appear to freeze. This obviously was a major concern so we began investigating. Once we got out our magnifying glasses and began looking into the issue it soon became apparent that the extraction was not freezing or becoming stuck in a loop. It seems the PDF extraction would take a full 5 minutes to finish a single page. It appears that in our extraction, size does matter.
Now I should explain. The size of the file was not the problem, neither was the size of the page, the size of the text was the problem in this case. It was too small and the extraction did not handle it well. In order to extract the text correctly we need to take the text content and merge it together correctly. As text coordinates can be specified for different areas and lines of text we need to add new lines between text that have significantly different y coordinates whilst merging.
The problem is this PDF file contained a section of text that was nothing but '_' characters. The character had a height of 0.03 and the gap between this text segment and the next beneath it was around 490. So our code tried to add in all the new lines to add this gap to the output text. For those not so quick at mental arithmetic that gives us approximately 16333 new lines to be added. Now as the pdf page wasn't larger than an A4 sheet of paper and the font size wasn't ridiculously small I think we can assume that 16333 empty lines was probably found in error.
So what do we need to make this work? We need something larger because size does matter. When we are merging text together for extraction we should ignore smaller than average values. The best solution was to always choose the larger option in cases such as this. In this case the extraction merged the lines in a slightly different order which proved to be slightly and the amount of lines found in the case mentioned above was reduced to a modest 3 lines which matched the gap present in the pdf more accurately.
And to anyone who thinks I only wrote this article because of the innuendo possibilities, shame on you.
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Students will never forget what a pentagon looks like! Great for a decorative Math Classroom. Create pentagons with foam core, paint them shapes, put together into a pentagon. Hang from ceiling of classroom. Remember to reference this artists work!

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RetroArch AI Service
What is the AI Service
This feature allows users to play games written in a foreign language, or add text voice-overs automatically. This uses OCR (optical character recognition), machine translation, and text-to-speech. While these technologies can't provide the same level of accuracy as curated content, it can go quite far. Machine translation can give a good gist of what's being said, especially for some language pairs, and text-to-speech can be of great benefit for accessibility.
How it works
When a user presses the AI Service hotkey, RetroArch will grab the screen of the game being played and send it to the service endpoint listed in the configuration. When the service returns, RetroArch will then either write the translated image to the screen or say the text, depending on the configuration.
The main supported service to use is the vgtranslate project: ( _URL_ ). This project is a python server you can run locally (or on your network) and uses Google Cloud OCR, and Google Text-to-Speech APIs with the Google Cloud keys you provide.
Other supported services are in the Alternative Services section.
How to set it up
First, go to Settings->Input->Hotkey Binds, and assign a key for the AI Service.
Next, go to Settings->AI Service and modify the configuration options as follows.
If AI Service Output is Image Mode, then when you press the AI Service hotkey, RetroArch will grab the game screen and display translated textbox over the screen when it's available, and pressing the hotkey again will clear the translated textbox. If AI Service Pause Toggle is ON then it will pause while doing so, and pressing the AI Service hotkey again will unpause the game and continue as normal. This mode is recommended when you want the text on the screen to be translated and written back on the screen where it was found. When AI Service Output is Speech Mode, then RetroArch speak the text on the screen instead, and will use an AI text-to-speech algorithm. This speech however will only play while the core is unpaused (for technical reasons). However, if in Narrator Mode the AI Service will use the OS's narrator, which will speak the text even while unpaused (assuming that accessibility is enabled). However, Narrator Mode is only supported on Windows, Linux, and Macos.
The AI Service URL points to where the translation service you're using is located. In the case of running vgtranslate yourself, this URL would be http://localhost:4404. For more instructions on how to set up vgtranslate on your system, see ( _URL_ ). If you have issues running vgtranslate, or don't want to run the service yourself, see the "Alternative Services" section.
AI Service Enabled should be set to on.
If Source Language is set to Don't care, then the service will attempt to auto-detect the language on the screen. Setting it to a specific language will increase accuracy, and restrict translation to only text in the source language specified.
Finally, Target Language is the language to translate into. If set to Don't care then it will translate into English. See the vgtranslate docs for more information.
Supported Cores
Since RetroArch v1.8.0, all cores should now be supported if your build has menu widgets. If not, then only software cores will be supported.
Alternative Services
If you have issues setting up the vgtranslate service, or don't want to run a local service yourself, you can use a service someone else has set up. One example is the ZTranslate service ( _URL_ ). In this case, you can use the following url for AI Service URL:
_URL_
This requires registering an account with ztranslate.net to get an API key. Due to uploading of the screen cap to the server, latency will likely be a bit higher than using a vgtranslate service running locally. See the ztranslate docs for more information.
Alternative Translators
There are some other options for translating game screens that don't require a special build of RetroArch and should work with hardware buffer cores. Here are some:
ZTranslate
ZTranslate uses a standalone client app for Windows or Linux that grabs the screen of the window currently in focus and displays a translated version in the ZTranslate client window. Besides automatic translation (which needs a ztranslate.net api key), it also supports package-based translations, which is like a translation patch for a rom, but for game screens instead. For more information see _URL_
RetroArch-AI-with-IoTEdge
RetroArch-AI-with-IoTEdge uses IoTEdge and Azure Cognitive Services Containers (requires microsoft Azure account) to translate RetroArch screenshots and display them on a Lakka device. For more information see _URL_
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In the practical applications of wireless sensor networks, it is almost inevitable that some sensors become faulty during running. The faulty measurement values will cause a burden to the limited energy of sensor networks. Furthermore, wrong judgment might be deduced because of the faulty data when they reach base station. Therefore, proper fault detection especially for long-term large-scale systems is crucial and challenging. Motivated by the requirement of practical applications, the authors propose a distributed fault detection approach for wireless senor networks. Firstly, Hidden Markov Random Field (HMRF) model is introduced to characterize the correlations between measurement values and real values of sensor nodes.


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What is a Bilateral Condition?
A bilateral condition is a disease or condition that affects both sides of the body. Examples of a bilateral condition include hip dysplasia or luxating patellas, where both hips or kneecaps are affected. Often, the condition starts with one side of the body and will later develop on the other side of the body.
How Bilateral Conditions Work
Bilateral conditions can be considered a pre-existing condition with many pet insurance plans and providers. For example, if your pet had hip dysplasia on the left side of their body before they were insured, it may be considered a pre-existing condition if they develop hip dysplasia on their right side, even though their right side was unaffected when they started the policy.
If your pet has any conditions prior to signing up for pet insurance, it's important that you look into whether they would be considered bilateral conditions and if your pet would be covered under the pet insurance plan you choose.
- Bilateral conditions are diseases and conditions that have a high rate of affecting both sides of the body.
- Some pet insurance plans will not cover bilateral conditions if the bilateral condition had already affected one side of the body before your pet was insured.

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Saturated pool-boiling experiments at 1 atm and subatmospheric pressure assess the utility of fine-filament screen-laminate enhanced surfaces as effective bubble nucleation sites. Experiments were conducted on vertically oriented, multilayer laminates in saturated distilled water at pressures of 0.2–1.0 atm. The performance of 12 different copper-filament surfaces, having pore hydraulic diameters ranging from to , is documented. Experimental results show that boiling performance is a strong function of screen-laminate geometry. In the present work, enhancement of up to 27 times that of an unenhanced surface was obtained at a superheat of 8 K and a pressure of 0.2 atm. Dimensional analysis and multiparameter regression are used to develop a heat transfer correlation that relates the boiling heat transfer coefficient to the lamination geometry.
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I intend to plot x-y coordinates of a traced object with scatterplot.density to use colour to show the density of points in the scatterplot instead of just displaying the points in a smooth scatterplot (smoothScatter). When I run the following short segment of the trace:
x <- c(69.8, 69.8, 70.07, 70.87, 70.87,72.48,73.02, 73.02, 74.36, 74.63)
y <- c(97.99,97.45,96.91,96.11,96.91,96.91,97.72,99.06,100.94,103.36)
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
scatterplot.density(x, y)
I get the following error:
Error in image.default(x = 1, y = z, z = matrix(z, nrow = 1, ncol = length(col)), : increasing 'x' and 'y' values expected
I can blot the points in a smoothScatter without a problem, but this would not help once I add the full trace with 1500 x-y coordinates.
Any suggestions and help with the scatterplot.density problem would be highly appreciated! Thanks!
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What I've found is that if the argument num.bins is high enough to seperate each point into a single bin then you will recieve the error. Try
scatterplot.density(x, y, num.bins=11)
scatterplot.density(x, y, num.bins=10)
the default is 64. That means 64 bins in the x axis and y axis. You either need to be lower you're bin number, add more points, or be content with the error. Hope that helps.
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Thank you! That solved the problem. Also after including all other data points, it became obvious that 64 bins would be too detailed for the trace anyway. – user2510541 Jun 22 '13 at 0:33
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Visual Studio supports many file types. In a particular installation, the installed components determine which file types are supported. This topic lists solution and project file types that are supported in some typical installations. For information about other file types, search by using the file name extensions for each type.
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text: Seeds and seedlings are the most critical stages of cacti life cycles. From the thousands of seeds produced in a reproductive season, only a small fraction successfully germinate, the rest are lost to predation, go dormant and remain viable in the seed bank or lose viability. These early stages often depend on facilitation by nurse plants for germination and seedling recruitment. We aim to prescribe actions for the conservation of Cephalocereus polylophus by improving recruitment in the population. The viability of seeds with different storage times was evaluated as an indicator of their potential to form a short-term seed bank. Through the analysis of seed germination and seedling survival under the canopy of two nurse plant species and open areas, we assessed the importance of facilitation for recruitment. A predator exclusion experiment evaluated the intensity of herbivory on seeds and seedlings of different ages. Seeds had germination rates above 90\% under laboratory conditions, even after two years of storage. Seed germination was only registered under one of the two nurses and after two years, up to 4 % of the seedlings planted under both nurse plants survived and protection against herbivores increased seedlings survival. Considering that facilitation and age are crucial for seedling survival of C. polylophus, future conservation programs should include the protection of plant communities and the introduction of seedlings instead of seeds.


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Up to 1.5 million children do not go to school in Kenya. What proportions of these children are expected to be out of school because of the various barriers to enrolment (eg direct or opportunity costs of education, disability, distance to school, etc)?
This report addresses the reasons why children are out of school in Kenya. It includes sections on:
- Proportions of children affected by different barriers to education
- ILO report on access to education in Kenya
- Related information
- Resources on barriers to education
Some proportional statistics on barriers to enrolment were found from differing sources. The ILO report, outlined in section 3, gives proportional data showing reasons for absenteeism, drop-out and non-enrolment for 3 districts in Kenya. Reasons for non-enrolment are:
- 68.7% lack of funds
- 7% few admission slots
- 6.1% father/guardian ignorance
- 5.2% under age
- 4.3% distance to school
- 2.6% mental handicap
- 2.6% decision of the father
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Amid the pulsating heartbeat of social media innovations, Snapchat unfurled its banner feature in June 2023: 🤖 Snapchat AI. This digital genie promises to jazz up your Snapchat experience, making it smoother and more interactive. This innovative feature acts as a virtual assistant, aiding users in tasks such as finding friends, curating snaps, and generating stories. While the inception of Snapchat AI was welcomed by many, some users found themselves wanting to distance themselves from it, primarily due to privacy concerns.
However, with new technology come new dilemmas. Some of us might be pondering, "Should I keep it? Or is it time to hit delete?"
In this guide, I'll unravel the mysteries of Snapchat AI and elucidate the process to manage it, and if you so decide, show you how to Delete Snapchat AI.
What is Snapchat AI?
Snapchat AI isn't just a mere tool; it's a confluence of advanced algorithms and user behavioral patterns. It's designed to streamline the user's Snapchat experience, providing automated suggestions and interactions. Imagine having a virtual buddy within the app, suggesting the best filters or reminding you of friends you haven't snapped in a while!
🔍 Snapchat AI Unveiled
Introduced: June 2023
Purpose: Acts as a virtual assistant
- 🧭 Finding friends
- 📸 Sending snaps
- 🎞 Creating stories
- Privacy uncertainties 🛡
- Overcomplicated user experience 🌀
🔧 Steps to Delete Snapchat AI
If you've weighed the pros and cons and decided to remove Snapchat AI from your experience, follow this table for clarity:
|1. Access Snapchat||Launch the Snapchat app|
|2. Profile Portal||Tap on your Bitmoji on the top-left|
|3. Settings Dive||Click on the cog icon in the top right|
|4. Service Management||Scroll and select "Manage Additional Services."|
|5. AI Hunt||Choose "Snapchat AI" from the list|
|6. Cleanse Chat||Tap "Clear from Chat Feed" to remove|
Steps to Delete Snapchat AI:
- Accessing Snapchat: Begin by launching the Snapchat app on your device.
- Profile Navigation: Once in the app, tap on your Bitmoji located at the top left corner.
- Entering Settings: In the top right corner, you'll spot the cog icon symbolizing settings. Tap on it.
- Locating Snapchat AI: As you scroll down, look for the "Manage Additional Services" option. Here, you'll find "Snapchat AI."
- Deleting the Feature: Tapping on "Snapchat AI" will present an option to "Clear from Chat Feed." By selecting this, you effectively remove Snapchat AI from your chat feed.
⚠ Remember: This only removes the AI from your chat. Your data remains.
🚫 Going Nuclear: Full Data Deletion
If you're in the mood for a fresh start and wish to erase all traces of your Snapchat presence, here's a tabulated guide:
|1. Initiate Snapchat||Start the Snapchat app|
|2. Profile Access||Tap on the top-left Bitmoji|
|3. Enter Settings||Click the cog icon on the top-right|
|4. Account Actions||Scroll to find this option and tap|
|5. Final Countdown||Choose "Delete Account."|
|6. Seal the Deal||Follow on-screen instructions to complete|
Going the Extra Mile: Deleting All Snapchat Data:
- Open Snapchat: As with the earlier process, start by launching the Snapchat app.
- Profile & Settings: Tap on your Bitmoji on the top left and then the cog icon on the top right.
- Account Management: Within settings, navigate to the "Account Actions" section.
- Final Step: Here, you'll find the "Delete Account" option. Selecting this and following the subsequent prompts will delete your Snapchat account and all associated data.
Posting this action, your Snapchat data, inclusive of Snapchat AI, vanishes.
🤷 Why Consider Deleting Snapchat AI?
Here are a few reasons packed neatly into a table:
|Desire for Simplicity||Preferring Snapchat's basic features over AI add-ons|
|Privacy Shields||Safeguarding personal data in an increasingly digital era|
|Privacy Concerns:||The digital age has brought about heightened awareness regarding personal data. With AI collecting user behaviors and patterns, many individuals feel it's a step too far into their private space.|
|AI Hiccups||Previous unpleasant or glitchy experiences with Snapchat AI|
|Negative Experiences:||As with all technologies, AI isn't foolproof. Some users might have encountered glitches or less-than-satisfactory interactions with Snapchat AI.|
|Distaste for Virtual Assistants:||Not everyone is a fan of automation. Some users prefer manually navigating their digital platforms without the interference of an AI.|
Conclusion: How to Delete Snapchat's AI
While Snapchat AI promises a seamless and enhanced user experience, it's essential to recognize the value of personal choice in the digital landscape. If you're not on board with what Snapchat AI offers or have reservations about your digital footprint, this guide ensures you can navigate your preferences effectively.
FAQs: How to Delete Snapchat's AI
Q: Will deleting Snapchat AI affect my saved snaps and memories?
A: No, removing the AI feature will not impact your saved content on Snapchat.
Q: Can I re-enable Snapchat's AI after deleting it?
A: Absolutely! If you ever wish to revisit the AI features, you can always enable it again through the settings.
Remember, the realm of tech is ever-evolving, and while advancements like Snapchat AI can be exciting, it's always your call on how integrated they become in your digital life. Stay informed and choose wisely!


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How the Healing Tradition of Ayahuasca Can Help
The tradition is so deep. There is just so much to learn and most of it goes beyond the field of healing, into a realm of consciousness, of existence itself. The lessons learned from ayahuasca and plant medicine can improve our lives on every level, in every aspect. Carlos Tanner shares some of those insights with the goal of presenting new concepts and perspectives that might nurture your soul.
EPISODE ONE: Carlos Tanner is the program director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, a Peruvian non-profit organization he started in 2009. He has organized healing retreats and educational courses attended by over a thousand people from all over the world. He has witnessed the treatment of a wide variety of health issues and the healing process within the Shipibo plant medicine tradition. In this series Carlos shares some of the most important lessons he has learned from studying the Shipibo tradition of ayahuasca and plant medicine for the last fifteen years. He hopes these insights will not only contribute to a deeper understanding of how the tradition of ayahuasca and plant medicine works, but also how we can all move closer to achieving our goals of health, happiness, and satisfaction.
EPISODE TWO: If you made a list of all the things you love, would you be on it? In episode 2, Carlos Tanner describes his experiences with healing trauma using ayahuasca and plant medicine. He discusses the importance of relationships and how we can improve our health and happiness by becoming more conscious of how we react to our experiences.
EPISODE THREE: When you get a cut, do you heal it? No. It just heals. All we need to do is keep it clean. In Episode 3, Carlos discusses the universal motivating principle within all living beings towards wholeness, health, harmony, and happiness. He describes a four step process for healing outlined in Leonard Laskow's book: Healing with Love, and explains a major difference between western and indigenous healing methods when responding to symptoms.
EPISODE FOUR: Do you love the medicine you're taking? In Episode 4, Carlos discusses how the healing tradition that surrounds the use of plant medicine enhances the effectiveness of medicine by cultivating the inner environment. He describes his observations of the power of belief and faith in the healing process and how those aspects of consciousness can be optimized to increase the likelihood of successful outcomes.
EPISODE FIVE: Are you willing to do whatever it takes? In Episode 5, Carlos describes a fundamental aspect of training to become a curandero, the plant dieta. He discusses the purpose of the dieta and what it means to give up something to demonstrate how much we care and how important our goal is to us. He continues to relate this concept to the nourishment of our inner soil and optimization of our inner environment. He also poses some interesting questions that he gained from his observations of over one thousand retreat and course participants.
EPISODE SIX: Have you ever felt like the universe was picking on you? We've all had those times in our lives when we've wanted to shake our fist at the sky and say 'why me?' In Episode 6, Carlos elaborates on his experiences with plant dietas. He describes the concept of being tested while on dieta and how that concept can be helpful in all aspects of our lives. He describes how obstacles and challenges in life can be viewed positively and how changes in perspective and attitude can turn challenges into opportunities to advance, to ascend to a new level of understanding and ability. He continues to relate these changes to the concept of optimizing our inner environments, and how everything will work out.
EPISODE SEVEN: Nature Heals. Nature Guides. Nature Knows. In Episode 7, Carlos discusses how through dietas he has learned to look to the forest for answers. He describes how nature is an immense collective consciousness with an evolutionary history of hundreds of millions of years. He makes the important point that we as humans often don't recognize ourselves as a part of nature, even though we clearly are, for we are living beings. By reconnecting with the whole that is nature, the earth, the universe, we can return to the natural guidance and healing of nature. It seems so simple, because it is, but by disconnecting ourselves from the whole, we lose our faith, our knowing that we will be ok.
EPISODE EIGHT: How do you see things? In Episode 8, Carlos talks about understanding perspective and how it relates to communication. He shares his experiences with ayahuasca that helped him remember that we are all children, and that how each person interprets and acts in the world is shaped by their influences, both positive and negative. Optimizing understanding in communication involves sharing perspectives, even when that communication is interdimensional.
EPISODE NINE: Forgiveness is a profound healing act that liberates to love again. In episode 9 Carlos discusses the importance of forgiveness to free ourselves to achieve our highest potential for love. He presents a novel understanding of forgiveness and the effect it has on our ability to realize true happiness and satisfaction in life.
EPISODE TEN: When you Trust the Process and commit to doing Whatever it Takes, you will achieve your goals. In episode 10 Carlos reviews the previous nine episodes and sums up each episode's message more succinctly. He'll put up another series with more helpful ideas and stories soon…


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Second Floor Addition was published at June 22, 2017 at 6:55 pm. It is uploaded at the Floor category. Second Floor Addition is tagged with Second Floor Addition, Second, Floor, Addition..
Secondsec•ond1 (sek′ənd),USA pronunciation adj.
- next after the first;
being the ordinal number for two.
- being the latter of two equal parts.
- next after the first in place, time, or value: the second house from the corner.
- next after the first in rank, grade, degree, status, or importance: the second person in the company.
- alternate: I have my hair cut every second week.
- noting or pertaining to the second person.
- being the lower of two parts for the same instrument or voice: second horn; second alto.
- other or another: a second Solomon.
- of, pertaining to, or operating at the gear transmission ratio at which drive shaft speed is greater than that of low gear but not so great as that of other gears for a given engine crankshaft speed: second gear.
- a second part.
- the second member of a series.
- a person who aids or supports another;
- [Boxing.]a person who, between rounds of a prizefight, gives aid, advice, etc., to a boxer.
- a person who serves as a representative or attendant of a duelist.
- second gear.
- a person or thing that is next after the first in place, time, or value.
- a person or thing that is next after the first in rank, grade, degree, status, or importance.
- Usually, seconds. an additional helping of food: He had seconds on the meat and potatoes.
- (in parliamentary procedure)
- a person who expresses formal support of a motion so that it may be discussed or put to a vote.
- an act or instance of doing this.
- (in certain British universities) a type or grade of college degree granted according to a student's performance on specific written and oral examinations.
- a tone on the next degree from a given tone.
- the interval between such tones.
- the harmonic combination of such tones.
- the lower of two parts in a piece of concerted music.
- a voice or instrument performing such a part.
- an alto.
- Usually, seconds. goods below the first or highest quality, esp. containing visible flaws. Cf. first (def. 19), third (def. 12).
- a piece of somewhat defective but salable tin plate.
- [Baseball.]See second base.
- to assist or support.
- to further or advance, as aims.
- (in parliamentary procedure) to express formal support of (a motion, proposal, etc.), as a necessary preliminary to further discussion or to voting.
- to act as second to (a boxer, duelist, etc.).
- in the second place, group, etc.;
secondly: The catcher is batting second.
Floorfloor (flôr, flōr),USA pronunciation n.
- that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure;
- a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.
- one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.
- a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.
- the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.
- a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.
- the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
- the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.
- the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
- the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
- the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
- an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
- the bottom of a hull.
- any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.
- the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.
- mop or wipe the floor with, [Informal.]to overwhelm completely;
defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.
- take the floor, to arise to address a meeting.
- to cover or furnish with a floor.
- to bring down to the floor or ground;
knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.
- to overwhelm;
- to confound or puzzle;
nonplus: I was floored by the problem.
- Also, floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.
Additionad•di•tion (ə dish′ən),USA pronunciation n.
- the act or process of adding or uniting.
- the process of uniting two or more numbers into one sum, represented by the symbol +.
- the result of adding.
- something added.
- a wing, room, etc., added to a building, or abutting land added to real estate already owned.
- a reaction in which two or more substances combine to form another compound.
- in addition to, as well as;
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Finding the Last Element
Many times you want to find the last element of something. Obviously there are many different ways to find that element.
Last Element of an array: PHP
For example you can find the last element of an array with PHP using the end() function.
The Last DOM element with JQuery
You can also find the last DOM element using JQuery. This is handy for finding things like the last <li> or the last <div>. You can find the last item in JQuery using .last()
$( "li" ).last().css( "background-color", "red" );
Last element in CSS
You can use structural pseudo-classes in CSS to advance selectors allowing you to target specific elements based on their position in the document hierarchy. In the CSS you can choose the HTML element you want to add a psuedo-class to. To select the last element use ":last-child". This is a CSS3 specification so it might not work in all browsers. Here is an example.


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You may be wondering what the full form of a Maximum Retail Price is and what it entails. There are several factors to consider when setting a PCR, including whether taxes are included in the price, as well as how to calculate a full form of mrp. This article will walk you through the process and answer any questions you may have. Also, it will explain what the advantages and disadvantages of the mrp are.
Maximum retail price
Maximum retail price is the price calculated by the manufacturer. It is the highest price that a product can sell at in India and Bangladesh. It is used to establish the price range for a product and is not to be confused with the suggested retail price. So, what is the maximum retail price? In simple terms, it is the price that a product can sell for, after considering the price of the raw materials and other costs. Let us explore how manufacturers calculate their maximum retail price.
The concept of maximum retail price has a number of benefits. It reduces the possibility of tax evasion and black marketing. It also helps the buyer build trust with the seller by not charging them more than what is stated on the price tag. Finally, it makes it easier for manufacturers to compete against the competition. Here are some of the benefits of the maximum retail price. To understand its importance, let's examine its implementation in more detail.
PCR requirements for a full form of mrp
MRP gene products are expressed in many tissues, including the liver, testis, and adrenals. MRP4 is highly expressed in the lung, muscle, and pancreas. MRP6 is expressed mainly in the liver. However, there are also reports of full-length MRP9 gene. Although the function of these proteins is not fully understood, they are thought to be important in metal and xenobiotic tolerance.
Taxes that are included in mrp
The maximum retail price (MRP) of a product is an estimate of what the item will cost when sold in the market. A manufacturer determines the maximum retail price of a product before it is sold in India. Once this price is determined, retailers are not allowed to charge customers more than this price. In addition to the MRP, retailers must also include all other taxes that may be included in the price.
Disadvantages of mrp
MRP is a manufacturing process that combines inventory control, elementary scheduling, and bill of materials processing. It helps organizations maintain low inventory levels by determining the time, quantity, and type of components needed for a particular product. When used correctly, MRP can reduce the cost of excess inventory while improving customer service. However, its disadvantages cannot be overlooked. Insufficient quantities of the right product or a wrong item can delay deliveries, or even result in missed deadlines.
The full form of MRP has many advantages. First, it helps manufacturers track their resources more efficiently and track them more closely. The full form of MRP integrates engineering, accounting, human resources, and marketing to make it more comprehensive. Second, it allows manufacturers to link functional areas across the entire business enterprise using computer technology. Third, MRP is complex, which makes it difficult for some businesses to implement.


MPGe explained
EPA electric label
Unlike the NEDC (New European Driving Cycle), EPA's fuel economy data is considered reliable and feasible in the real world. Unfortunately EPA uses MPGe for plug-in cars instead of kWh per 100 miles, or Wh per mile.
Since in Europe we are accustomed to use L/100 km in gas cars, let's use kWh/100 km for the conversion.
We need to convert gallon to kWh and miles to kilometers.
EPA considers that one gallon of gas contains 33,7 kWh worth of energy. For the miles to kilometers conversion we can use the online calculator in the links at the bottom.
Taking the 2016 BMW i3 BEV as an example we have:
124 MPGe combined (city and highway driving).
This means that with 33,7 kWh of electricity we can drive for 199,56 km.
To get kWh per 100 km:
33,7 kWh / 199,56 km x 100 km = 16,89 kWh/100 km
Using the Nissan Leaf 30 kWh as example:
33,7 kWh / 180,24 km x 100 km = 18,7 kWh/100 km
If you want to buy an electric car and don't know what range in one charge can you expect, it's a good idea to check the fuel economy data in the links below.
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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.
How to parse this sentence
Thank you very much.
It means that, for experimental purposes, Einstein used the definition that time is "that (thing) which is measured by a clock".


Community cohesion, inclusion and equality
Greater community cohesion, inclusion and equality enhance local democracies and help to lay the foundations in which local areas can flourish.
Councils have role to play in building cohesive communities, which are places that:
 - Offer a common vision and a sense of belonging for all;
 - Positively value diversity;
 - Provide equal opportunities to people from different backgrounds; and
 - Provide an environment where strong and positive relationships can be developed between people from different backgrounds in the workplace, in schools and within neighbourhoods.
Promotion of equality is integral to building community cohesion. Local cohesion may be undermined where some groups have different experiences or outcomes to others, especially where linked to a group's protected characteristics (though difference of opportunity may not necessarily be related to protected characteristics alone).
Councils have a role in helping to tackle inequalities and related issues, such as fostering good relations across and between communities and supporting efforts to prevent extremism and tackle hate crime, including against those with protected characteristics.
This page provides resources to support councils in building more equal, inclusive and cohesive communities.


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The DOME Z-Wave Water Sensor is a compact, battery powered water leak sensor. The Dome Home Automation Wireless Z-Wave Leak Sensor with Remote Probe helps you cap leaks before they turn into gushes, so you can keep a lid on the amount of money you spend on water-related repairs. Use this battery-powered, smart-home leak detector anywhere you need to monitor water lines for potential problems.
Its low-profile design allows you to hook it up underneath appliances and a 4-foot range remote sensor probe makes it easier to monitor water activity in hard-to-reach places like sump pumps. Toilets, refrigerators, water heaters, and other appliances and fixtures that require water lines can generate costly bills from ongoing small leaks and unexpected major breaks.
The DOME Z-Wave Water Sensor is a Z-Wave Plus (500 series) compatible water sensor with a remote sensor probe for tight spaces. Simply place the device in a leak prone area and receive a notification from your Z-Wave network when a leak is detected allowing you to respond and prevent large scale water damage.
Know when the sump pump fills up, BEFORE it overflows. Dangle the remote sensor probe in the tank to receive a notification and hear an alarm if the water level rises higher than it should.
Use this device alongside a DOME Wireless Water Valve to automatically close your water valve when a leak is detected to greatly decrease the extent of water damage. Sleep easy knowing that your home is safe from water damage even when you are on vacation.
This product is compatible with all Australian certified (921.42MHz) Z-Wave and Z-Wave Plus controller including:
Vera 3/Lite/Edge Fibaro Home Center 2/Lite
RF Protocol: Z-Wave Plus (500 series chip) RF Frequency: 921.42Mhz - AU/NZ approved RF for Z-wave Z-Wave device type: Z-Wave sensor Power: 1 x CR2 3.0V battery (included) Operation Range: Up to 40m indoors (with no obstacles) Application: Indoor use only Operation temperature: 5 ~ 40 °C Storage temperature: -10 ~ 50 °C Weight: 80g Dimensions: 67mm x 67mm x 26mm Housing: ABS
Nimbull Smart Home is an authorised distributor of this product. We guarantee that this product is authorised Australian stock and comes with a manufacturer warranty.


Display structured content with page templates
This guide demonstrates how to create a page and display data in Xperience by Kentico, utilizing a reusable content type and a page template.
First steps series - prerequisites
This guide is part of a series about the first steps toward creating a site in Xperience. It assumes you followed the previous guide of this series and have done the following:
 - installed your desired version of Xperience by Kentico (version 28.0.0 or higher)
 - created a reusable content type called Landing content in your administration interface
 - generated partial class for this content type in your .NET solution
If you wish to follow along with this exercise but have not created the reusable content type or generated classes in your solution, start with the Create a reusable content type guide. If you don't have the desired version of Xperience by Kentico, follow this guidance on how to install a specific version.
When you run your TrainingGuides.Web project now, you see a blank page with the following message:
The TrainingGuides.Web site has not been configured yet.
After completing this guide, you will be able to display a home page with a title, as defined by the reusable Landing content content type. Note that this is just a very simplified example, and styling is out of the scope of this guide.
Add a website channel
The first step towards displaying content on a page is creating a website channel. One website channel corresponds to one site and stores your pages and linked content.
Channels and reusable content
Xperience by Kentico supports multiple channels in one Xperience instance. Reusable content, stored in the Content hub, from the previous guide, exists independently of channels and can be referenced by multiple channels at once. You will experience this first-hand later in this guide.
 1. Log into your Xperience administration and navigate to Configuration → Channel Management.
 2. Create a new channel with the following properties and click Save:
 - Channel name: Training guides pages
 - Code name: TrainingGuidesPages
 - Channel type: Website
 - Website domain: localhost
 - Primary language: English
 Channel type
 There are currently two types of channels in Xperience by Kentico: website and email. Follow the links if you'd like to learn more about them.
 Website domain configuration
 Learn more about how to configure your channel domains in our Website channel management documentation page.
Now, when you navigate to the dashboard, you will see your Training guides pages channel is now visible under the Channels category in the dashboard. Additionally, a new Channels item appears on top of the left menu.
Create a page content type
To display an item of a reusable content type on a website channel, you need to create a page content type that references it.
As mentioned above, this guide works with the Landing content content type created in the previous guide.
Define a page content type in the administration interface
 1. Navigate to Configuration → Content types → New content type.
 2. Populate the following properties and save:
 - Display Name: Landing page
 - Namespace: TrainingGuides
 - Name: LandingPage
 - Icon: xp-market (type 'text' in the select list search bar)
 - Use for: select Pages from the dropdown
 - Include in routing: True (checked)
 3. Define a new field, LandingPageContent, that will display Landing content reusable content type item:
 - Field name: LandingPageContent (we recommend using the <content type name><field name> naming convention as explained here)
 - Data Type: select Content items from the dropdown
 - Display in editing form: True (checked)
 - Field caption: Landing page content
 - Form component: Content item selector
 - Form component configuration → Allowed content type: select Landing content from the dropdown
 This links your reusable content type with the page and ensures only content of type Landing content will be allowed on any web page of type Landing page. Your content type should now look like this.
 In production scenarios, the web page content type should also include fields to represent structured data needed only for the web channel, such as those related to SEO, OpenGraph, and other web-specific metadata.
 4. Allow the Landing page content type in the Training guides pages channel, to address the friendly warning message:
 1. Navigate to Allowed in channels → Select channels.
 2. Select Training guides pages by checking its checkbox, and save.
 The Training guides pages channel now shows up as an item in the list. Additionally, if you navigate to Configuration → Channel managementTraining guides pages → Allowed content types, you will see the Landing page content type listed.
Pages and page templates
At this point, you are technically able to create a page of type Landing page in your Training guides pages channel. However, if you plan to follow along with this guide, do NOT create a new page of this type yet.
The goal of this guide is to show how to work with page templates, which you will define in Page template section of this guide. Pages that are not assigned a page template at the time of creation cannot be assigned one at a later time.
Generate a class for the Landing page content type
Just like with the Landing content content type, you need to generate a class to access the Landing page content type in your .NET solution. If you've completed the guide on automating recurring tasks , you can run the GenerateCodeFiles.ps1 script. Otherwise, go to your project (in this guide TrainingGuides.Web) and run the following command:
Generate code files
dotnet run --no-build -- --kxp-codegen --type "PageContentTypes" --location "../TrainingGuides.Entities/{type}/{name}" --include "TrainingGuides.LandingPage"
Find more information about code generation on this documentation page or this video.
Set up the project to use a page template
Page templates let your editors swap between multiple options for a page's display. Compared to standard views, page templates introduce greater design flexibility for your editors, even if they don't contain page builder zones. This is because standard views allow only a single view per content type, while page templates allow you to set up multiple options for your editors to choose from. Additionally, page templates allow for design and layout changes, even within a single template through page template properties.
Enable Content tree-based routing and Page builder
This example uses page templates to display content. Page templates require the following features to be enabled:
 - Page builder
 - A feature that allows editors to design web pages through the use of drag-and-drop widgets, templates, and other configurations.
 - Content tree-based routing
 - A feature that creates URLs for web pages based on their position in the content tree and handles requests to those URLs automatically.
When you run your TrainingGuides.Web project, you see a default message rendered on the screen:
The TrainingGuides.Web site has not been configured yet.
This message displays for any requests to the application to prevent errors. You need to first remove the code that renders this message, or else no pages will be accessible. Then you will enable the Page builder and Content tree-based routing.
 1. Open the TrainingGuides.sln file in the src folder of the repository.
 2. Remove the default message from the Program.cs file in the TrainingGuides.Web project.
 Program.cs

 app.MapGet("/", () => "The TrainingGuides.Web site has not been configured yet.");

 3. Enable the Page builder and Web page routing in your middleware pipeline.
 1. Add using directives for Kentico.PageBuilder.Web.Mvc and Kentico.Content.Web.Mvc.Routing to Program.cs.
 2. Un-comment the lines calling UsePageBuilder and UseWebPageRouting from the features collection passed to builder.Services.AddKentico in the Program.cs file.
 3. Add the Landing page content type name into PageBuilderOptions.ContentTypeNames. You can use the CONTENT_TYPE_NAME constant from the generated class to access the content type identifier.
 Program.cs

 ...
 builder.Services.AddKentico(features =>
 {
 features.UsePageBuilder(new PageBuilderOptions {
 ContentTypeNames = new[] {
 LandingPage.CONTENT_TYPE_NAME,
 }
 });
 features.UseWebPageRouting();
 ...
 });
 ...

Create a page template
Your new page template will display the content of a Landing page item, including fields from the re-usable Landing content type created in the previous guide
In the TrainingGuides.Web project, create a directory Features , with a subfolder LandingPages for code files relating to landing pages.
Add a view model class
 1. Add a new class named LandingPageViewModel to the LandingPages folder.
 2. Include a property for each of the Landing content content type's fields and a method to get a view model from an object of the generated LandingPage type.
LandingPageViewModel.cs
namespace TrainingGuides.Web.Features.LandingPages;
public class LandingPageViewModel
{
 public string Message { get; set; }
 public static LandingPageViewModel GetViewModel(LandingPage landingPage)
 {
 if (landingPage == null)
 {
 return new LandingPageViewModel();
 }
 return new LandingPageView


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Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the early educational experiences of foreign children in Japan. It considers foreign children's experiences of Japanese schools, examines the special tutoring such children often have to improve their language proficiency, and explores the role of mothers in encouraging their children's education. It contrasts the experiences of foreign children with those of Japanese children and sets out the extensive difficulties foreign children encounter in becoming fully accepted by and integrated into Japanese society. The book concludes by discussing the nature of citizenship in Japan and the importance of education, including early education, in shaping Japanese citizenship.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Foreigners in Japan 2. Foreigners Schooling and Language 3. Research on Language Tutoring 4. Education Personnel Views 5. Foreign Households and Schooling 6. Japanese Mothers and Foreign Children 7. The Educated Citizen
October 2012 | Hardback: 978-0-415-50103-3
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How to Change Lock Screen Timeout on Windows 10
If you like to see the images and apps status on the Lock screen, but the display goes black in about a minute, then use this guide to change the Lock screen timeout setting on Windows 10. In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to tweak the Registry (or Command Prompt) to customize the operating system should way until turning the display off, which will give you more time to see the background, status, and interact with Cortana on the Lock screen.
How to change the time when the display turns off when your PC is locked
Important: Before diving into this guide, it's worth noting that editing the registry can be dangerous, and it can cause irreversible damage to your system if you don't do it correctly. It's highly recommended to make a full backup of your PC before proceeding.
 1. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command, type regedit, and click OK to open the registry.
 2. Browse the following path:
 HKEYLOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7
 3. On the right side, double-click the Attributes DWORD.
 4. Change the value from 1 to 2.
 5. Click OK.
These steps only enabled the option on Windows 10 called "Console lock display off timeout." Now the only thing left to do is to customize this option to any time you want. To do this, use these instructions:
 1. Use the Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User menu and select Power Options.
 2. Click the Change plan settings link for the selected plan.
 3. Click the Change advanced power settings link.
 4. On Advanced settings, scroll down and expand the Display settings.
 5. You should now see the Console lock display off timeout option, double-click to expand.
 6. Change the default time of 1 minute to the time you want, in minutes.
 7. Click Apply.
 8. Click OK to complete the task.
Once you complete the steps, you can test the new settings by locking your computer (Windows key + L keyboard shortcut), and now the screen shouldn't turn off until the time you set expires.
At any time, you can revert the changes by following the previous steps, but this time, on step 4 change the registry value key from 2 to 1.

How to change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt
The beauty of Windows is that you can configure the same feature in a number of ways. Alternatively, you can use the PowerCfg.exe utility to change you display timeout setting when your computer is locked. When it's connected to AC power or when your device is running on battery (DC power).
To change the Lock screen timeout using Command Prompt, do the following:
 1. Use the Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User menu and select Command Prompt (admin).
 2. Type the following command and press Enter:
 powercfg.exe /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_VIDEO VIDEOCONLOCK 60
 Important: You must change "60" in the command-line with the timeout time you want to use, in seconds. For example, if you want the screen to turned on for 5 minutes, then you need to use 300 at the end of the command.
 3. Type the following command and press Enter:
 powercfg.exe /SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENT
 4. Use the Windows key + L keyboard shortcut to lock your PC and see if the new settings work.
The command mentioned in step 2 will work when your computer is using AC power. You must replace /SETACVALUEINDEX for /SETDCVALUEINDEX if you want to change the timeout setting on your laptop or tablet running on battery.
It's worth noting that while changing the Registry settings is an advanced task, during my test, I have found that sometimes using the command lines may settings may not work as expected, but it's an alternative.
On the other hand, changing the Registry worked perfectly, and after making the tweak, I can simply go to the Power Options settings in Control Panel and adjust the Lock screen timeout without having to use any commands.
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the Transverse Range, although there are plants in the Laguna Mountains and perhaps at Palomar Mountain. L. parryi essentially replaces L. pardalinum in its range.
Relative with the most-similar-in-form flowers: L. washingtonianum, with white flowers that are remarkably similar in form and function and which are also moth-pollinated. This resemblance is due to evolutionary convergence. In California, L. washingtonianum lives north of Fresno in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Ranges.
Bogus variety: var. kessleri, claimed to be distinguished by its wider leaves in the San Gabriel Mountains, had wider leaves simply due to heavily-shaded habitats. We've seen similarly-wide leaves in heavily-shaded habitats in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Copyright © 2018-2022 by Dave Stith and Tom Chester.
Commercial rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce any or all of this page for individual or non-profit institutional internal use as long as credit is given to us at this source:
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Updated 26 July 2022.


How do I show a bill of material in Solidworks?
You can specify properties for Bills of Materials. To open the Bill of Materials PropertyManager, do one of the following: Click Bill of Materials on the Table toolbar, or with a document open, click Insert > Tables > Bill of Materials.
How do I show BOM in Solidworks?
With the part or assembly open, select Insert > Tables > Bill of Materials. Set the BOM properties in the Bill of Materials PropertyManager and click . To create a parts-only BOM, select Parts only for BOM Type. To create a top-level BOM, select Top-level only for BOM Type.
How do you insert a bill of materials in Solidworks?
To insert a Bill of Materials into a drawing:
 1. Click Bill of Materials (Table toolbar), or Insert > Tables > Bill of Materials.
 2. Select a drawing view to specify the model.
 3. Set the properties in the Bill of Materials PropertyManager, then click OK .
How do you display a bill of materials?
What to include in an effective bill of materials
 1. BOM Level—Assign each part or assembly a number to detail where it fits in the hierarchy of the BOM. …
 2. Part Number—Assign a part number to each part or assembly in order to reference and identify parts quickly. …
 3. Part Name—Record the unique name of each part or assembly.
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How do you display materials in Solidworks?
Applying a Material
 1. Display the shortcut menu for materials: Part. In a part document, right-click Material in the FeatureManager design tree. Multibody part. …
 2. Select a material: Select from the favorites list. Click Edit Material, select a material in the material tree, and click Apply, then Close.
What is Bill of Materials solidworks?
You can create one or more Bills of Materials (BOMs) directly from an assembly or part without first creating a drawing. Use parts only BOMs when the assembly consists of only part components, or to display only parts. The resulting parts are ordered according to their listing in the FeatureManager design tree.
How do you add material to a bill of materials?
Applies to Excel-based Bills of Materials. You can add more information such as Material, Vendor_Number, Cost, and so on to the open part or subassembly document by clicking File > Properties and selecting the Custom tab or the Configurations specific tab.
How do I edit a bill of materials in Solidworks?
Bill of Materials – Edit Text
 1. Double-click the BOM, or right-click the BOM and select Edit. While the bill of materials is active, it is displayed with row and column headers. …
 2. Edit the worksheet as needed, using Excel functions. You can perform these kinds of edits: …
 3. Click outside the worksheet to return to the drawing.
What is BOM structure?
A bill of materials or product structure (sometimes bill of material, BOM or associated list) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product.
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How do you specify materials in Solidworks?
To assign/modify a material to a part:
 1. Click Choose Material (Material tab of the SimulationXpress wizard).
 2. In the Material dialog box, expand the class of materials and select a material.
 3. Click Apply.
 4. Click Close. The material appears in the SimulationXpress wizard and a check mark appears next to Material. …
 5. Click Next.
How do you specify materials in Solidworks assembly?
To apply a material:
 1. Display the shortcut menu for materials: Part. In a part document, right-click Material in the FeatureManager design tree. Multibody part. …
 2. Select a material: Select from the favorites list. Click Edit Material, select a material in the material tree, and click Apply, then Close.
How do I set materials in Solidworks?
Configure Material
 1. In the FeatureManager design tree, right-click Material and click Configure Material . The Modify Configurations dialog box appears. …
 2. To specify a material for a configuration, click in the Material column, and then do one of the following: Select a material from the list.


Tyco Electronics Corp. unveils its High Resolution Radar (HRR) for the next generation of "Smart Bumpers."
Tyco says its system offers significant advantages over ultrasonic sensing systems, including greater range, higher resolution between objects and important styling advantages.
HRR works by transmitting a short pulse into a desired area. This energy is reflected off objects within 66 ft. (20.1 m) and returns. The travel time of the signal determines the range of the object.
The HRR system can "see through" plastic fascias commonly used on vehicles, eliminating the need for stylists to contend with unsightly external ultrasonic sensors.


How to use security roles to restrict access to your SSAS Tabular model
Part five of a five-part series of blogs
Perspectives in Analysis Services let you show different parts of your tabular model to different people, but they don't have any security. To ensure that the right eyes see the right bits of your model, you'll need to create and manage security roles, as explained in this blog.
 1. Security in SSAS Tabular - creating and managing roles
 2. Creating a permissions table
 3. Using CustomData to make row filters dynamic
 4. Controlling what a user sees using their logon name
 5. Assigning members to roles (this blog)
This blog is part of our online SSAS Tabular tutorial; we also offer lots of other Analysis Services training resources.
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Assigning members to roles
In practice you'd probably want a security role to be shared by a number of different users of your model:
Role for case study
You've created a role called RegionRole to show only London data, but now want to assign this to specific people.

To choose people for a role, start by clicking on the Members tab in the dialog box above:
Adding members to a role
Click on the Members tab, and then choose to add a member.

In the dialog box which appears, choose Locations:
Locations button
Choose which location to use.
Expand the Entire Directory to choose which domain to use:
Expand Entire Directory
Click on the + shown to expand the category to see the groups available.

Choose a group:
Choosing a group
Choose a group which should be assigned to this role.

As an alternative to the above, you could search for a person or group:
Searching for a user
Here I'm searching for a user containing Andy.B within the Entire Directory. Clicking on Check Names as shown will tell me whether the user exists (and if the user does exist, will fill in their full name).
Notes on how to add an Active Directory user group are shown in this StackOverflow article.
And with that, you've reached the end of this blog on security roles within SSAS Tabular!
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The Senior Kindergarten students have carefully counted by 1s, 5s, and 10s to get to the 100th day of school! They celebrated with activities such as making a Fruit Loop necklace that had – you guessed it – 100 Fruit Loops.
They also made a gum ball machine using 100 BINGO dabbers and Miss Gangji had them do 10 of each exercise until they reached 100! The students also wrote about what they thought they would be like when they turned 100 years old.
Did you know that when you reach 100 you receive a letter from the Queen congratulating you for living that long? That's pretty awesome!


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Volume 37 - Article 36 | Pages 1231–1244
Entry into first marriage in China
|Date received:||24 Feb 2017|
|Date published:||18 Oct 2017|
|Keywords:||China, cohabitation marriage, conception marriage, direct marriage, marriage, pathways to marriage|
Background: China has experienced substantial socioeconomic and institutional changes over the past few decades. The literature has documented a variety of demographic changes during this time, including the delay and decline of marriage and the recent prevalence of cohabitation. However, we have little knowledge about how the Chinese enter into marriage.
Objective: This study demonstrates the diversification of first marriage entry over time.
Methods: We applied event-history analysis to longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (2010–2012 waves) and estimated the competing risks of the identified marriage entry types. The observation covered the period from 1960 to 2012.
Results: Our estimations from the competing models demonstrated four notable types of first marriage entry, including a general decline in the traditional 'direct marriage,' a rise and decline in 'conception marriage,' and two recently increasing innovative practices of 'cohabitation marriage' and 'cohabitation and conception marriage.' The 1980s marked a turning point when traditional family practices began to decay and innovative family practices began to emerge and spread.
Conclusions: The diversification of marriage entry in China since the 1980s occurred in tandem with the development of China's economic reform and 'opening-up' policies. This simultaneity exemplifies the notion that socioeconomic changes at the macro level interact with family behavior changes at the individual level.
Contribution: This study demonstrates an increasingly wide array of marriage entry types over time, reflecting the evolution of marriage behaviors from tradition to modernity in contemporary Chinese society.
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Dance your way into learning about Earth Day with the book "Earth Dance"
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Title – Earth Day Celebration: Earth Dance!
By – Jodi Hough-Garlie
Primary Subject – Language Arts
Secondary Subjects –
Grade Level – First thru Third
Name/Title: Earth Day Celebration: "Earth Dance"
Academic Content: Language Arts with physical movement incorporated.
Purpose of Event: To imitate action sentences from the book, "Earth Dance", with the game
1. Explain what is Earth Day and why we celebrate it?
2. The class needs to have the book "Earth Dance", by Joanne Ryder, read to them by the classroom teacher.
Grade Level: 2 to 3
Resources needed: "Earth Dance", by Joanne Ryder
Large area in room or if nice go outside.
Physical Activity: Rhythmic and locomotor movements with Move/Freeze Game.
- Cognitive: SWBAT understand and know the meaning of Earth Day and why we
- Affective: SWBAT follow directions and rules to the Move/Freeze Game. SWBAT be
socially conscious of Earth Day.
- Psychomotor: SWBAT move in rhythmic and locomotor movements while playing the
Motivation: The teacher will walk to the front of the class with a stick with a poker on the end, in one hand, and a garbage bag in the other while singing, "I'm going to wash that pollution right out of this earth". (To the tune of, "I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair")
1. Motivation – as stated above.
2. Prerequisite – Read book and explain "What is Earth Day and why we celebrate it".
3. Explain the Move/Freeze Game rules and directions. The rules are as follows:
- No talking/mouth sounds
- No running
- No climbing under or over anything
- Hands to yourself
Directions: The teacher will say move in such a way (i.e. a happy second grader). The students will move as stated and after a few seconds the teacher will say freeze. The students should stop moving when the teachers says freeze. The students should freeze in the position that they stopped in. If the students are still moving in anyway (moving head, feet, or hands) the students that were moving will have to go to the designated "refrigerator" chill out spot for a few turns.
4. Demonstrate the Move/Freeze Game. Such as; the teacher will move around the area acting like a queen. The teacher will say freeze and stop moving and freeze in that position.
5. Do three trial runs with the students. Pick three movements that the students are familiar with. Such as; walk like you are walking through snow or act like a baby. Have students move for a few seconds then say freeze. Call the names of any students that are still moving(even wiggling hands or head turning to look at teacher). If playing the game for real these students would have to go to the "refrigerator" to chill out for a couple turns but during the trial runs they can stay. Once the three trial runs are complete then play the real thing.
6. Once they get good at different movements, start incorporating the book, "Earth Dance". Explain to them that they will listen to a sentence of the book and once the teacher is done reading the sentence the students can move to create the sentence. Such as; "Move as if you are the earth, your arms are stretched out wide and you are slowly spinning". Let the students move for a few seconds and say freeze.
7. Continue through the book and play the Move/Freeze Game. Every time they hear the teacher say "move" in the sentence that is their cue to get ready to play.
8. Ask students how they feel or felt as they were pretending to be the earth.
9. Conduct cognitive assessment (as follows in assessment outline.) For the affective and psychomotor the teacher will be observing throughout the game and letting other students be the reader of the "Earth Dance". (Or caller).
- Cognitive: Students will know the meaning of Earth Day. Each student will write a three sentence statement of what they can do to help protect the earth from pollution.
- Affective: Students will follow rules and directions while playing the Move/Freeze Game. Students will take turns watching the class to be sure everyone is following the rules and directions. If not, students will be sent to the "refrigerator" to chill out for one to two turns. Students will actively participate in cleaning the school grounds. (Socially conscious).
- Psychomotor: Students will play the Move/Freeze Game and move when the teacher states a movement and create the movement with their bodies. The students will freeze or stop when the teacher states freeze.
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Interactive mosaic: The QM command
The syntax is:
QM [NAME1] [NAME2] [TYPE] ( or QMOSA [NAME1] [NAME2] [TYPE] )
The QM command (for QuickMosaic) assemble the image [name1] and [name2] in an unique image. QM is optimized for stellar images: The commun point between the two images is a star selected with the mouse (a simple click). QM is easy to use but the operation is rudimentary: only relative translation between the images is considered, not the distortion for example. The parameter [type] define the junction zone of the two images. If type=1 the image 1 is on image 2, if type=2 a pixel in the commun zone is the maximum of image 1 and 2, if type=3 a pixel in the commun zone is the minimum of image 1 and 2, if type=4 the commun zone is the mean intensity of image 1 and 2, if type=5 an interpolation is computed between images 1 and 2 for a more natural transition . For the majority of situation the type=5 option is preferred. QM can process black and white images and true colors images. Example, assemble the two images:
The two images. A correct commun star is selected (if possible bright but unsatured and isolated).
The image after "QuickMosa" operation.
If the name of the two images
is M27_1 and M27_2, the command is:
>QM M27_1 M27_2 5
The image M27_1 is first automatiquely displayed. Click on the selected star with the crossair. Then, the M27_2 is dispayed and select the same star. It is all.
QM2 is similar to QM but for non-stellar images. Iris use the intercorellation technique around the clicked zone. The syntax is:
QM2 [NAME1] [NAME2] [TYPE] ( or QMOSA2 [NAME1] [NAME2] [TYPE] )
First image. Click on a contrasted detail.
Second image. Select the same detail.
The mosaic after command >QM2 IM1 IM2 5
Interactive rmosaic: The Mosaic dialog box
Like QM, the Mosaic dialog box (Geometry menu) allows you to combine a pair of images into a single, large image.
Before running a mosaic command, a crop operation is often necessary for elliminate unneeded areas in the commun parts of the images. For example, assemble these two images of Hercule galaxy cluster:
Select the valid area for the two images. For example drag with the mouse and run the Crop command in contextual menu (right click on the image). You can use also WIN or WINDOW (WINDOW2, WINDOW3, ...) familly commands.
Also, if the images there taken under varying conditions (variable integration time, variable atmpospheric transmission, etc), it may be necessary to balance the backgounds and dynamic range of each images prior building the mosaic. The commands OFFSET, MULT, NOFFSET (offset normalization of the background to a given value), NGAIN (gain normalization ot the background) are the basics tools for balance operations. This require also measuring the levels of background and/or stars in the overlapping regions. Use the cursor information, or statistics function (contextual menu or STAT console command).
Re-save the cropped file (field1 and field2 images for example), and open the Mosaic dialog:
Adjust the the position of field2 image relative to field1 image by acting on the arrow keys. The four arrow button will move the field2 image by the number of pixels indicated by the Step control. At a first stage the step increment can be large (20-30 pixels); At the final stage, you can select fractional values (0.2 pixel for example). For help you, select the Difference option: Iris compute the difference field1-field2 in the overlap region. The relative position of the two images can be edited manually (DX and DY controls).
For the final combination, select the Maximum, Mean or Interpolate option for the blending process (see QM console command). If the Interpolate option is selected, at each pixel in the area of the overlap, Iris calculates an interpolation function. This method gives the better results when residual tile background effects are presents.
The Save im2. button save the translated
(or rotated if you use rotation button) Image 2. This function is very
practical for align two images or a sequence of
image relative to a reference image (the Image 1 term).


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LPN Salary in Colorado - Increasing the Starting LPN Salary in Colorado
Many people are starting to consider becoming an LPN, or licensed practical nurse. A career as an LPN is a popular choice because people can go through the necessary training quickly and be out in the working world in less than a year. Another reason a career as an LPN has become a popular choice is because of the potential salary a person can earn pursuing this career. The LPN salary in Colorado can vary depending upon what company a person works for, what field of medicine they choose to work in, what shifts they work, and what educational background and experience they have.
The average LPN salary in Colorado is around $42,000. A person who is fresh out of community college or vocational school, and looking to enter the workforce as an LPN can expect to make between $21,000-25,000. Two factors justify this lower salary. Most LPNs out of college have relatively little experience in the medical world, and they are usually working in a general healthcare setting. General healthcare settings such as a hospital or general practitioner's office will pay LPNs less than a specialized healthcare setting such as a cardiologist of urologist's office.
LPNs in the state of Colorado can increase their potential salary in a number of ways. The first way is to pick the unwanted shifts. Healthcare industries will often pay more for LPNs who are willing to work the nighttime shift, or as it is called the graveyard shift. Taking the graveyard shift can sometimes earn an LPN between $2-5 more than a dayshift worker. Another way to increase the average LPN salary in Colorado is to work in a high stress environment. Urgent care centers and emergency rooms are considered high stress because of the potential urgency of cases that come into these places. LPNs who work these high stress places often make more than an average LPN.
Graduating from one of the top LPN programs in Colorado can also increase your potential to earn more than the average LPN salary in Colorado. The top LPN program in Colorado is Fort Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado. Other top LPN programs include the Community College of Denver, Pueblo Community College and Mesa State College. Employers will often offer students who graduated from these top LPN programs a higher starting salary as they are sure they have the knowledge and understanding to enter the workforce.
What is the average pay for LPN in Colorado?
The LPN pay scale varies per state throughout the United States.
LPN pay scale may also vary by employer.
An individual's compensation may also vary based on work experience.
Colorado LPN Salaries
Colorado LPNs earn an average of $40,870 per year.
Some LPNs in Colorado earn up to $52,510 per year or more.
Colorado LPN Hourly Wage
In 2008, the average hourly earnings of Colorado LPNs was $19.65.
In some cases, LPNs in Colorado earned up to $25.25 per hour or more.
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This colorful paper tray will make Mother's Day (or any day!) extra special.
What You'll Need:
- Large box lid (from a file box or similar)
- Acrylic paint: assorted colors
- Jump rope
Note: Adult help needed.
Step 1: Turn the box lid so the edges face up to form a tray, and paint the inside. Let dry.
Step 2: Once the inside is dry, paint the bottom and sides of the tray another color. Let dry. Add polka dots or another design around the outside, and paint flowers on the inside. Let dry.
Step 3: Ask a grown-up to help you use scissors to poke 2 holes in both ends of the tray. The holes should be 5 to 6 inches apart.
Step 4: Cut an 8- or 9-inch section from each end of the jump rope. Thread one section through the holes on each side of the box, with the rope's plastic handle between the holes and on the outside of the box. Knot the ends of the rope on the inside of the box to secure the handle.
Now use the tray to bring a treat to someone special!


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Farmscape for June 28, 2022
A Partner with Polar Pork Farms if the price of feed grain remains at its current high level, consumers can expect higher meat prices.
A combination of factors including shortages of locally produced feed grains due to last year's drought, transportation challenges due to COVID and generally higher global grain prices due to the war in Ukraine has pushed grain prices to record levels.
Florian Possberg, a partner with Polar Pork Farms, says, even at these higher prices, accessing feed grains has been difficult because it just isn't available locally.
Clip-Florian Possberg-Polar Pork Farms:
Long term one of the strengths we've had in western Canada is that we've had feed grains available to feed to our livestock.
Because of the drought and the demand for our grains in export, we really saw the pipeline of feed grains disappear locally.
What we've had to do is establish access to corn, mostly from the U.S. and Manitoba where there is some corn production there to offset our inability to access feed wheat and barley.
We've brought some corn up by rail for example, which we've never really done much of before so we were able to establish these pipelines to replace the grains that aren't available locally with corn.
It's not ideal for us to do that but we have to feed our animals so that has been a way that we can offset that loss of local production.
Possberg says, if grain prices are going to be at a higher-level longer term, there's no question that meat prices will go up because farmers can't produce long term at a loss.
He says if grain is in short supply, the price is going be higher and that will have to be reflected in our meat prices.
For more visit Farmscape.Ca.
*Farmscape is produced on behalf of North America's pork producers


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Key design considerations for lifts and escalators in offices - part 3 lift design for the redevelopment of existing office buildings
Graham BarkerView bio
Part one covered lift design considerations affecting building layout and space take.
Part two covered making the right choices during lift design.
There are many key design considerations for lifts and escalators in offices which are consistent across all projects, in Part 3 we'll focus on lift design associated with the redevelopment and refurbishment of lifts and escalators in existing office buildings:
- The challenges of lift design for existing office buildings
- The importance of lift and escalator feasibility studies for existing offices
- Suitability of the existing office lift provisions
- Opportunities to increase building population density
- Escalator constraints
The challenges of lift design for existing office buildings
For new office developments, the vertical transportation design has the luxury of not being restricted by an existing structure. Instead, the key consideration is minimising the building area occupied by the lift cores and lobbies to maximise the net lettable area. Every square foot or metre given over to lift shaft is space that can't be leased to a tenant.
In an existing building, the cross-sectional area of the lift shaft is typically a restriction due to the significant structural works, and therefore costs, which would be needed to move lift shaft walls. Frequently existing building will be increased in height with the addition of extra floors, and the lift shaft extended. Similarly, lift shafts may be excavated to increase their depth, or to enable the lift to serve new basement levels.
In any case, the constraints of an existing building often increase complexity and require a slightly different approach to that applied to new build development.
The importance of lift and escalator feasibility studies for existing offices
In an existing building, the first action should be to engage a lift consultant to undertake a feasibility assessment which will identify restrictions or limitations imposed by the structure on any lift or escalator works, and determine the areas where challenges may exist complying with latest regulations and standards. In parallel with this, the lift consultant will consider the architect or developer's plans and pull all these inputs together to provide advice on realistic opportunities which will help in delivering the overall aims of the development.
The lift and escalator survey and feasibility assessment can often form part of the developer's due diligence when considering purchasing a property, with the lift consultant often surveying the existing lift provisions as part of the acquisition process providing advice on the feasibility of future vertical transportation modifications.
Some examples of challenges a lift consultant may face for existing buildings include:
- Addition of new lower floors, associated with the excavation of the lift pit
- Addition of new upper floors and extension of the lifts to serve them
- Extending existing lifts to serve what was previously the roof level to activate the roof
- Increasing the size or speed of lifts to improve the buildings lift capacity without structural modifications
- Change lifts to a machine room less arrangement to release the area previously occupied by machine room
- Assessment of options to extend the lifespan of the lift whilst minimising capital investment
- Replacement or refurbishment of aged escalators which are landlocked
The feasibility assessment will inform the developer if their plans are deliverable within the envisaged budget and programme. The long lead time and high capital costs associated with lift works can have significant impacts on the projects on-time and on-budget success if not correctly planned for from the start.
Suitability of the existing office lift provisions
In most existing office buildings, the key initial consideration regarding lifts and escalators will be the suitability of the equipment for the intended use, the remaining life span of the equipment, and any significant capital expenditure which will be needed.
Opportunities to increase building population density
Over time the way that offices are used has developed. And the theme over recent years has seen office population density increasing placing greater demand on the lift system. It is important to assess the potential for existing office buildings, and lift systems, to handle this increased building population and to ensure that lift waiting times will be acceptable. This is an area where your lift consultant can couple a lift performance measurement survey with lift traffic analysis simulation to assess the suitability or limitations of the existing equipment.
Taken to the next step, performance measurement of existing lift systems can also identify ways in which a lift system's performance can be improved – be it by tuning of the existing system, or through targeted lift modifications and upgrades to deliver enhanced lift system performance with minimal intervention or capital investment. In a recent project, performance measurement of the existing lifts identified minor adjustments which could be made to the setup of the existing lifts, delivering marked improvement in lift performance, allowing the lifts to achieve BCO compliance even though the occupancy of the building increased.
Escalators are usually inserted into a building as part of the building's construction sequence, often being installed before surrounding walls and floors.. An escalator in a need of refurbishment or replacement will need to be managed differently.
In this scenario there are generally three potential solutions:
- A complete replacement can be undertaken when the escalator can be removed and a new unit brought into the building. If the escalators are located adjacent to the building entrance, or in an atrium this replacement can be undertaken easily.. However, the further into the building an escalator is, the bigger the challenge becomes of removing it.
- Where removal is not an option, then refurbishment of the existing may be considered. The various wear components of the escalator are removed and either reconditioned or replaced with new.
- Over recent years the concept of 'in truss replacement' has been developed where the escalator internals are stripped out leaving only the structural escalator shell. Then through detailed surveying and design, a new escalator is engineered and manufactured to fit within the original structure.
Its fair to say that no two escalator projects are the same and each needs its own detailed assessment of the available options, which are a factor not only of the escalator equipment but more significantly of how the old and new escalator equipment can be brought to site.
Lift and escalator consultancy for office developments
There are many ways in which a lift consultant can help to improve the value and operation of office buildings, through the thoughtful specification of the vertical transportation equipment.
This series of blogs aimed to provide some thoughts, coupled with experience from previous projects, to assist with the reader's future building designs and the associated lift and escalator design considerations. To discuss in more detail please don't hesitate to contact the writer.


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Scottish Castle in London
Former water tower designed like a Scottish castle with moat.
The building was constructed in 1856 as a pumping-station for the supply of fresh water in east London, in the wake of a cholera epidemic.
The Castle was designed and built by William Chadwell Mylne, and is a spectacular example of the Victorian propensity for interpreting functional industrial buildings in the architectural style of earlier ages. Here it is a French mediaeval castle, complete with parapets and three different towers, set on a raised mound as if within a moat, looking like something from a Book of Hours, although Mylne is said to have taken Stirling Castle as his inspiration.
In 1995 Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners imaginatively converted the building into an indoor climbing centre and the interior is now a maze of artificial rock faces on different levels, studded with climbers like fridge magnets.


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Why do plastic rulers make you measure between two lines, instead of starting at the edge?
tl;dr: Never use the edge of a ruler or the "zero" of any analog measuring device when you are making careful measurements if you can help it. Instead try measuring between two equivalent demarkations.
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Converting between different frames of reference is pretty straight forward.
You subtract the velocities. That's it.
If you have the spacecraft's velocity relative to the Earth, you can just subtract the Moon's velocity relative to Earth. Then you have the spacecraft's velocity relative to the Moon.
In the case of a lunar transfer orbit, the spacecraft is ...


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September 08, 2009 11:20
North Korean defectors say the Stalinist country's National Defense Commission could be behind the decision to release a huge amount of water from a dam on the Hwang River early Sunday morning. Six South Koreans died in flash floods caused by the unannounced release on the southern side of the border.
One defector, a former official in the North Korean Cabinet, on Monday said, "North Korean dams close to the military demarcation line belong to the Ministry of Electrical Industry, but as they are linked to military tactics to release dam water as a weapon that could threaten South Korea, massive releases of water from dams are decided by the commission."
That implies that dams near the border were built to play a dual role of supplying water to factories or for irrigation and of flooding South Korea in wartime.
A former senior North Korean official said, "There is the likelihood that by releasing water from the Hwang River Dam, North Korea showed one of several ways in which it could threaten South Korea." He suggested that the release of water from the dam was probably a long-premeditated provocation.
"North Korea built dams including the Mt. Kumgang Dam to inundate Seoul," he said, but the project was foiled by South Korea building the Peace Dam. "But North Korea believes it can decisively threaten Seoul if it opens the floodgates at times of heavy rainfall," he added.
A defector who took part in the construction of the Hwang River Dam said, "The dam is so well-built and sturdy that there is almost no danger of collapse because the central government took charge of construction. The water stored in the dam is mainly used for irrigation for the Hwanghae provincial region or for industrial use in the Kaesong district. It is against common sense to drain away all the water at once when there had not been much rain."
The Hwang River Dam, which went into use in 2002, is 40 m high and 900 m long. A hydroelectric power plant built on the dam generates 50,000 to 100,000 kw of electricity per year.
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