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What To Look for When Choosing Your Primary Care Physician
Choosing a primary care physician is an important decision that can have a significant impact on your overall health and well-being. Your primary care physician is your first point of contact for any health concerns, and they play a crucial role in managing your health and preventing illness. Here are some things to consider when choosing your primary care physician.
1. Credentials and Experience
One of the most important things to look for when choosing a primary care physician is their credentials and experience. You want to make sure that your physician is licensed and board-certified in their specialty. You can check with your state medical board to verify their credentials. Additionally, you may want to consider their experience and expertise in treating your specific health concerns.
2. Communication Skills
Effective communication is essential for a positive doctor-patient relationship. You want a physician who listens to your concerns, answers your questions, and explains your diagnosis and treatment options in a way that you can understand. Look for a physician who is approachable, empathetic, and takes the time to build a rapport with you.
3. Availability and Accessibility
Another important factor to consider is the availability and accessibility of your primary care physician. You want a physician who is available when you need them, whether it's for routine check-ups or urgent care. Look for a physician who offers flexible scheduling options, such as same-day appointments or telemedicine visits. You may also want to consider the location of their office and whether it's convenient for you to get there.
4. Patient Reviews and Feedback
Patient reviews and feedback can provide valuable insights into the quality of care provided by a primary care physician. Look for reviews on reputable websites such as Healthgrades or Zocdoc. Pay attention to comments about the physician's bedside manner, communication skills, and overall patient satisfaction.
5. Insurance Coverage
Finally, you want to make sure that your primary care physician accepts your insurance. Check with your insurance provider to see if the physician is in-network, and what your out-of-pocket costs will be. You may also want to consider any additional fees or charges, such as co-pays or deductibles.
At GoodLife Medical Center, we understand the importance of choosing the right primary care physician. Our team of experienced physicians, Dr. Gbenga Adebanjo and Dr. Lola Adebanjo, are dedicated to providing high-quality, patient-centered care. With over 20 years of experience, they have the expertise and knowledge to manage a wide range of health concerns. Our office offers flexible scheduling options, including same-day appointments and telemedicine visits, to ensure that you receive the care you need when you need it.
According to a recent survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians, patients who have a strong relationship with their primary care physician are more likely to receive preventive care and have better health outcomes. By choosing the right primary care physician, you can take an important step towards achieving optimal health and well-being.
- American Academy of Family Physicians. (2021). The Importance of Primary Care. Retrieved from _URL_
- Healthgrades. (n.d.). Find a Doctor. Retrieved from _URL_
- Zocdoc. (n.d.). Find a Doctor. Retrieved from _URL_


Monitoring radiant power in the critically ill newborn under a radiant warmer.
S. Baumgart*, W. D. Engle, C. B. Langman, W. W. Fox, R. A. Polin
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11 Scopus citations
Abstract
To evaluate radiant power received by infants under radiant warmers, 11 neonates (mean gestational age 32.2 weeks, mean weight 1.50 kg) were monitored. A wattmeter was used to evaluate warmer power (watts), and a thermopile placed at bed level was used to correlate warmer power to radiant power density received (mw/cm2). Warmer power ranged from 133-301 watts. A linear relationship existed between warmer power and radiant power density received (r = 0.97, p < 0.001). After establishing that radiant power delivery could be monitored with a wattmeter, this technique was used to quantitate radiant power in a small series of infants with and without a plastic shield. Radiant power density received decreased in all infants when shielded (mean 14.6-11.2 mw/cm2, p < 0.01). This study demonstrates: (1) radiant warmer power can be monitored with a wattmeter; (2) warmer power correlates to radiant power density received; and (3) radiant power monitoring can be used to evaluate radiant power demands in specific clinical situations.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)721-724
Number of pages4
JournalCritical Care Medicine
Volume8
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1980
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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Biological organisms have a nifty trick, where they can grow uniform materials into three dimensional shapes by limiting growth in certain areas. As some cells expand, others don't, causing the object to warp in three dimensions. Now researchers have applied that same theory to gel sheets, and developed a way of transforming them between flat planes and 3D shapes.
The technique has been dubbed halftone gel lithography — the scientists used an ultraviolet sensitive thin polymer sheet, and exposed it to differing levels of light. The areas exposed would become crosslinked, and not able to expand when placed in water. Thus, areas that were illuminated would stay stationary, and the ones less so would shift and expand when soaked.
By mimicking printmaking, the researchers used halftone patterns, exposing the gel to dots of light of varying size and shapes. By strictly controlling these, a number of shapes were able to be developed, including spheres, saddles and cones. Simply soak it, and it achieves the shape, and then dry it and it'll return to flat. The researchers hope this technique could help with creating a new type of tissue engineering, or an alternative form of 3D printing.
Image: A halftone printing method is used to program the growth of a flat sheet into a sphere through a pattern based on the Peirce quincuncial map projection (shown in the background). Gel images: J. Kim, J.A. Hanna, M. Byun, C.D. Santangelo, R.C. Heyward; Background Map: NOAA's Office of Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection.

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Correct. Common strategy is to either persist a setting into application settings or to save a value to a file at the very end of the process.
The logic becomes:
1. Is my special value there?
2. Yes - great, database is populated, business as usual
3. Nope - OK, load up the database
4. Last step after loading up the databes, set my special value
In the emulator if you rebuild or close and open then yes, you'll end up in steps 3 - 4.

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Top 5 Things Online Retailers Need to Know Before Heading into the Peak Season
As the peak seasons approach, every online retailer worries about the impact of the expected spike in traffic on their e-commerce and fulfillment systems, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has already caused a spike in online shopping vs. in-store, and peak holiday shopping season will only exacerbate that.
Here are 5 tips that retailers should consider as they prepare for the upcoming peak season:
1. Manage the load: beware of database locking, contention or system stability issues
Your team must proactively address and resolve resource contention or stability issues ahead of time because these issues will be more prevalent and will have much more disastrous consequences during high transaction volumes. The usual tactic to automatically kill transactions to resolve a hang or to restart the application during a hang will not work at high volumes. In some cases, killing transactions could cause data loss issues.
Yantriks' (now Blue Yonder) Performance Engineering experts have a wealth of experience diagnosing and troubleshooting system stability issues. Yantriks (now Blue Yonder) can conduct tailored performance audits and make recommendations on how to address the core issues.
2. Prepare with realistic performance testing
While it is highly recommended that performance testing be conducted during regular times to see if the system can cope with the volumes and load during the peak, many companies spin up performance tests that do not simulate real workloads during the peak. This ends up providing a picture that is either unduly optimistic or sometimes overly pessimistic. Both have consequences. If optimistic, the tendency is to leave things as is and then be confronted with the issues during peak. If pessimistic, then companies over-invest in hardware and bandwidth.
Yantriks' (now Blue Yonder) performance engineers are not only experts at their craft, but they also know the order management domain and have experience working with numerous retailers and manufacturers helping them prepare and navigate through these peaks. Thus, they can set up the right representative data for the tests and provide a very effective and reliable outcome.
3. Proactively address potential degradation due to integrations with external systems
An Order Management System (OMS) is required to orchestrate calls to other systems and services, such as a fraud check. Often, a failure or slowness in an external system can cascade back into your fulfillment systems. Unless your system is designed to be monitored and to react to these situations, you incur the risk of running into catastrophic issues.
If such degradation occurs, then you need a circuit breaker to address this brownout or blackout and allow the OMS to resume normal functions. In the days leading up to the peak, the product team needs to assess each integration point and then determine a means to address potential issues with each.
We facilitate this by deploying a tool to capture meaningful data, track response time and mitigate degradation.
4. Put in place proactive monitoring capabilities to address issues before they occur
During a performance test, the performance management team should use the same tools available in production. It is also imperative that the team can monitor the functioning of the OMS without requiring an army of PhDs.
Blue Yonder helps by applying its domain expertise and technical excellence to put in place excellent monitoring tools to observe the health of the system. In addition, Yantriks (now Blue Yonder) provides tested and proven procedures that can handle any issues that may arise.
5. Implement comprehensive testing that includes Chaos Monkey Testing
Too often, performance tests focus on the Happy Path.
Run a test and get results. Tweak the performance test a bit and rerun them until you get results that are acceptable to meet a pass/fail gate. Are you just running tests to satisfy engineering's desire to release the application, even if not sufficiently tested?
Our performance test method and approach go beyond load testing, including injecting in failures into application or system components to see if applications can react and recover gracefully.
BONUS — Functional testing under Load Tests
It is not enough that the system is fast, you also have to ensure the system is correct under load.
Unfortunately, most customers do not check the quality of the system after a performance load test. In many cases, tests have high percentages of uncompleted transactions, transactions in error, or worse, there could be missing transactions or updates.
Our performance test method includes functional checks into performance load tests. Catching these issues in performance testing mitigates downstream risks which invariably would manifest themselves at the most inopportune of times. For more information, visit _URL_ or write to us at _EMAIL_


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Reliability evaluation of interconnection network is important to the design and maintenance of multiprocessor systems. Extra connectivity and conditional diagnosability are two crucial subjects for a multiprocessor system's ability to tolerate and diagnose faulty processors. However, the extra connectivity and conditional diagnosability of many well-known networks have been independently investigated. Fault diagnosis of general regular graph is more meaningful than that of special graph. In this paper, the relationship between extra connectivity and conditional diagnosability of regular graphs is explored. First, we determine that the conditional diagnosability under the PMC model equals 3-extra connectivity plus 1 or 3-extra connectivity plus 2. Finally, we give empirical analysis on extra connectivity and conditional diagnosability of some graphs by our proposed relationship.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics

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Scrabble word: QUOTIENT
In which Scrabble dictionary does QUOTIENT exist?
Definitions of QUOTIENT in dictionaries:
- noun - the ratio of two quantities to be divided
- noun - the number obtained by division
- The number obtained by dividing one quantity by another.
- n - the number resulting from the division of one number by another
There are 8 letters in QUOTIENT: E I N O Q T T U
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- quotient is the answer to a division algorithm
- Here when 35 7 the quotient would be 5 while 35 would be called...
- The quotient Rule
- The Derivative of a quotient
- When you divide a number the answer you get is the quotient.
- quotient Rule
- quotient rule example 2 step 2
- quotient of Powers
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Let $X$ be a normal, projective variety (can take $X$ to be a hypersurface in a projective space) of dimension at least $3$. Let $L$ be a very ample line bundle on $X$, hence base-point free. What can we say about the singularity of a general element of the linear system $|L|$? For example, can a general element be smooth or has singularities of codimension at least $2$?
1. General hypersurface of a normal variety is normal;
see ''The hyperplane sections of normal varieties'', Seidenberg, A. (1950), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 69(2), 357-386. (the main result is in the 2ed line page 358). It is true in any characteristic.
In the case of positive characteristic, the following is known:
2. The general hypersurface of a quasi-projective 3-fold with terminal (resp.~canonical, klt) singularities has the same singularities;
see Main Theorem of "General hyperplane sections of threefolds in positive characteristic", Sato, Kenta, and Shunsuke Takagi, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (2018): 1-15.
Remark: Terminal singularity implies the singular locus is at least codimension 3. In particular, surface with terminal singularities is smooth. The above is true in char $=0$ and higher dimensional case; see Lemma 5.17(1), Kollar and Mori's book: Birational geometry of algebraic varieties.
Caution: Bertini theorem for base point free linear systems fails in positive characteristics. In higher dimensional, we don't have the tools of resolution of singularities and also the minimal model program. So the above is still open I think.


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New Graduates Improving Healthcare
The Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) is continuing to lead the way in developing the capability of frontline staff in local health facilities, with 28 healthcare staff today graduating from the ACI Centre for Healthcare Redesign (CHR) School with a Diploma of Project Management and a Diploma of Government.
The CHR School offers three Diploma Programs a year for managers and clinicians working in the NSW health system. The 20 week school teaches frontline staff how to identify the root causes of issues impacting on patient's experience of care and then develop and implement lasting innovative changes to improve the way health care is delivered and experienced.
Frontline healthcare staff that participate in the program develop skills in project management, the application of innovative redesign methodology and change management while working on a real project of high priority in their own workplace. Participants are offered the latest knowledge and training in project management, clinical redesign and change management for healthcare professionals and managers using a variety of teaching methods including workplace coaching.
During the program healthcare staff are also encouraged to lead a real project in their workplace and to talk with patients and staff to identify improvements. Interviewing and working in partnership with patients to improve care is a strong focus of the course. These workplace projects are the focus of Graduation Days and provide participants, redesign leads and Local Health District sponsors with an opportunity to show the results of their projects and hear about the success of fellow CHR school graduates.
To get involved in the conversation on Twitter follow @NSWACI and #CHRschool.
For more information on the Diploma Program visit the Centre for Healthcare Redesign.
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Published: 8 April 2014
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The GENetic optimization and Bootstrapping of LInear Structures (GENBLIS) Home Page
Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Jasjeet S. Sekhon
Please direct all questions and comments to Jasjeet Sekhon.
GENBLIS (GENetic optimization and Bootstrapping of LInear Structures) is an evolutionary program which estimates structural equation models with latent variables by combining the global search strength of evolutionary algorithms with the ability of derivative based algorithms to do rapid local hill climbing. GENBLIS provides bootstrap confidence intervals for parameters and bootstrap confidence limits for the goodness-of-fit test statistic. Structural equation models are often used in political science, sociology, psychology, marketing and related social science fields to specify and estimate stochastic models for linear relations in the presence of measurement errors.
There are a variety of ways to parameterize structural equation models. Following Bollen (1989 [*]), GENBLIS uses a parameterization developed by Jöreskog (1973 [*]) and Wiley (1973 [*]). This parameterization has become a standard because of the popularity of the LISREL program which was developed by Jöreskog and Sörbom.
GENBLIS is described in the GENBLIS Manual. One can download the following binaries:
The UNIX binaries are in tar and gzip format. Therefore, to unpack them in a given directory please issue the following commands:
zcat genblis.linux-1.11.4.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
You may have to change the mode of the genblis binary to make it an executable. The can be done by issuing the following command:
chmod ugo+rx genblis
Small parts of the current GENBLIS code were adapted from an early version of Zbigniew Michalewicz's GENOCOP I.
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Communication with Physicians about Health Care Costs
CONTEXT: Health care costs have increasingly shifted to patients, and financial distress caused by medical care has increased. Patients may wish to discuss costs with their clinicians.
OBJECTIVE: Describe patient preferences for communication about cost in the clinical setting.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional, self-administered survey of a stratified random sample of the population insured in an integrated health care system in Washington State. Our sampling frame was the entire membership aged 21 years or older. Sampling was stratified by sex and group practice enrollment.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Preference for discussing health care costs with one's physician. We conducted regression analyses to determine predictors of communication preference; potential predictors included demographic characteristics, financial burden, delay in seeking care because of cost, and socioeconomic variables. Survey responses were weighted to adjust for nonresponse and sampling.
RESULTS: Of 7200 invitations sent, 2200 survey responses were returned. Ninety-two percent wished to know their out-of-pocket costs before beginning treatment. Most respondents preferred their physician talk with them about out-of-pocket costs (81.4%) and expressed comfort with discussing costs with their physician (75.6%). Overall, 43.7% reported any delay in seeking care in the previous 12 months. One in 5 respondents (21.6%) reported family medical debt. Delay in seeking care was positively and independently associated with preferring to discuss costs with one's physician; current medical financial burden was not.
CONCLUSION: Patient preferences for communication about costs with physicians are high, and medical debt and delay in care-seeking are prevalent. Delay in care-seeking independently predicts cost communication preferences.


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|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Brighton, England in April is a little cool at 9 °C (48.2 °F).
- Afternoons can be quite mild with average high temperatures reaching 12 °C (53.6 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally cool with an average low of 6 °C (42.8 °F).
- In April the average diurnal temperature variation/ range is 6 °C (10.8 °F).
- The weather in April is slightly dry. Only 54mm (2.1in) of fluid is dumped.
- The skies in Brighton, England are slightly fair having on balance an unexceptional 5:27 of radiant sunshine daily.
- The shortest day is 12:51 long and the longest day is 14:41 long with an average length of 13:47.
- There are approximately 8:06 per day when bright sunshine is absent due to cloud, haze or the sun being too low on the horizon to register.
- It is sunny approximately 40.2% of daylight hours and cloudy 59.8% of daylight hours.
Check the distance to and compare the Brighton, England April averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Navigate to April Weather in Locations Surrounding Brighton, England:
- Birmingham, England, Uk - 216.1 kms (134.3 miles) NNW
- Lyneham, Uk - 150.4 kms (93.5 miles) WNW
- London, England, Uk - 73.4 kms (45.6 miles) N
- Cardiff, Wales, Uk - 237.1 kms (147.3 miles) WNW
- London-Gatwick, Uk - 42.9 kms (26.6 miles) N
- Bournemouth-Hurn, Uk - 119.7 kms (74.4 miles) W
- Jersey, Uk - 231.2 kms (143.7 miles) SW
- Caen, France - 183.4 kms (114 miles) S


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Dan Congreve, Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law, the revolutionary prediction that anticipated the exponential growth of computing power, the program embraces the spirit of Gordon Moore's passion for science and penchant for inventing.
"The Moore Inventor Fellowship recognizes the quality of the individual, as well as the quality of the idea," said Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which awards the fellowships. "The ultimate goal is to convert the ideas into inventions that can change the world."
Congreve proposes to use upconversion to build a new approach to 3D printing. This process, which converts lower-energy light to higher-energy light, allows the printing of entire 3D volumes at once, allowing for rapid printing of microscale structures and enabling innovation across a number of challenging problems.
"These young women and men are at early stages of their careers, when they most need funding for their ideas, but when it is most difficult to obtain," explained Robert Kirshner, the foundation's chief program officer for Science. "We want to capture opportunities that would otherwise be missed. We expect Moore Inventor Fellowships will give creative people the time and resources to develop their ideas and help open the path for invention inside academic institutions."
Other Moore Inventor 2019 Fellows are: Erin Fischell, assistant scientist, applied ocean physics and engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Ksenia Krasileva, assistant professor, plant and microbial biology, University of California, Berkeley; Chang Liu, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, University of California, Irvine; and Maiken Mikkelsen, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering, and physics, Duke University.
This year, the foundation received more than 200 nominations, from which five fellows were selected. Each fellow receives a total of $825,000 over three years to drive their invention forward, including $50,000 per year from their home institution as a commitment to these outstanding individuals.
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This study investigated changes in both the liar's and the conversational partner's linguistic style across truthful and deceptive dyadic communication in a synchronous text-based setting. An analysis of 242 transcripts revealed that liars produced more words, more sense-based words (e.g., seeing, touching), and used fewer self-oriented but more other-oriented pronouns when lying than when telling the truth. In addition, motivated liars avoided causal terms when lying, whereas unmotivated liars tended to increase their use of negations. Conversational partners also changed their behavior during deceptive conversations, despite being blind to the deception manipulation. Partners asked more questions with shorter sentences when they were being deceived, and matched the liar's linguistic style along several dimensions. The linguistic patterns in both the liar and the partner's language use were not related to deception detection, suggesting that partners were unable to use this linguistic information to improve their deception detection accuracy.
Source: "On Lying and Being Lied To: A Linguistic Analysis of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication" from Discourse Processes, Volume 45, Issue 1 January 2008, pages 1 – 23
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In English, 'interchangeable' is used to express two things that can be swapped and used for the same purpose. It's a bit different than replaceable because that refers to one thing's ability to be swapped. Exchangeable is also slightly different because it means something can be replaced by a different thing. For example:
My glasses have interchangeable lenses. I use the dark lenses when I am outside during the day, and the clear ones when I am indoors or at night.
My laptop has a replaceable battery, in case the original one fails.
Money is exchangeable for goods and services.
From what I understand, 'ersetzbar' means'replaceable' and 'umtauschbar' means 'exchangeable'; but 'austauschbar' seems to be used for all three. Is this correct, and if so is there a more precise word for 'interchangeable'?
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 Why do you think a dictionary cannot answer this question? – Torsten Link Dec 28 '20 at 23:01
 - _USER_ I consulted Collins dictionary, which says umtauschbar means exchangeable, and ersetzbar means replaceable - but it says austauschbar can apply to all three. So does Langenscheidt. Cambridge says austauschbar can mean exchangeable or interchangeable. Also, I found this question _URL_-US/questions/_PHONE_ in which the answer given states that austauschbar and ersetzbar mean the exact same thing. That is why I posted this question. I'm confused as to how I would accurately communicate interchangeability, rather than exchangeability or replaceability. – teneyed Dec 28 '20 at 23:29
 - The only other way I can think to express what I'm not understanding, is if I were to say "Die Komponenten sind austauschbar." - how would someone know I meant interchangeable? Couldn't they mistake that for meaning you could swap the components for something completely different (like some magic beans for example's sake) or that the components can be replaced, should the need arise? – teneyed Dec 29 '20 at 0:08
 - There is a legitimate point here, both replaceable and interchangeable, having different meanings in English, and both translate to austauschbar. On the other hand, if the exact German meaning isn't clear from context, you could add an adverb to make it so; gegenseitig seems to work. It's often impossible to transfer the specific meaning of a word in one language to a single word in another language. dict.cc is useful for resolving this kind of issue. – RDBury Dec 29 '20 at 2:05
 - Add this explanation to your wuestion, then I will remove my close vote... – Torsten Link Dec 29 '20 at 8:16
It is the context that matters for these words in German. There are no hard rules really noted - so the following comes from experience. In the examples I use a valve (Ventil) in a radiator (Heizung).
Is used when I get a part that is exactly like the one that was there. For example to replace an AAA battery that is empty with a new one. Same build, same function. Most often used in the context of getting the same item as before and in repairs. As with "Ersatz" (replacement) the action "ersetzen" implies some item that is no longer working / functioning as expected.
"Das Ventil in der Heizung leckt. Kann das ersetzt werden?" "The valve in the radiator leaks. Can this be replaced?"
Is used when I want to exchange something. Rather even more restricted than "ersetzen" for items as used during guarantee replacements. Note that this can also mean I can get a very different item than the original purchase as the replacer sees fit.
"Das ersetzte Ventil in der Heizung leckt schon wieder. Ich fordere einen Umtausch." "The replaced valve in the radiator already leaks again. As it is under guarantee I expect a replacement."
While this word can be used for both the previous words (and will be understood by Germans after a bit of thinking) it can also be used in a broader context. From the verb "austauschen" its meaning is the replacement by a functionally equivalent item. Not necessarily the same. Implies also that the original item still functions although for whatever reason.
"Das Ventil in der Heizung ist schon ziemlich alt. Kann das ausgetauscht werden?" "The valve in the radiator is rather old by now. Can this be replaced?"
In context of language either "ersetzbar" or "austauschbar" applies if one word (or phrase) can replace another without losing the context.
With regards to money the more common word used by Germans is "bezahlbar" (payable). The monetary phrase "is exchangable for" in German becomes more often "hat den Besitzer gewechselt" (has changed owner(ship)) or "hat einen Wert für" (has a value for).
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 I think a better translation for bezahlbar is affordable. – RHa Dec 29 '20 at 15:37
 - "Wechselbar" würde ich noch ergänzen. – user unknown Dec 29 '20 at 16:44
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French Grammar: Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs
French Grammar: Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs
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French Grammar: Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs
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Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs in French help us identify actions done by two or more people – to each other!
Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs are a certain kind of Reflexive Verb in French. Be sure to review the lesson on Reflexive Verbs first before moving on to this lesson!
French Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs take the exact same pronouns as other French reflexive verbs. BUT, Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs are ONLY used in the plural – because the action always involves more than one person/subject.
Remember! The Reciprocal Reflexive Pronoun MUST match the subject(s) involved!
NOUS : ourselves/each other
VOUS : yourselves/each other
SE (or S') : themselves/each other
Note that the pronoun SE becomes S' before any verb that starts with a vowel (such as s'acheter and s'écrire).
Once you understand how to use Reflexive Verbs in French, learning how to use Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs is really easy! Just use the reflexive/reciprocal pronoun in front of the verb (action) that you want to express is mutual. Rule of thumb: If you would use the phrase 'each other' in English, then you'll use a Reciprocal Reflexive Verb in French!
Like Reflexive Verbs, a Reciprocal Reflexive Verb is identified by the reflexive pronoun SE that precedes it in its infinitive form. Here are some common French Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs:
s'acheter : to buy (something for) each other
s'adorer : to adore each other
s'aider : to help each other
s'aimer : to love each other
se comprendre : to understand each other
se connaître : to know each other
se détester : to hate each other
se dire : to tell/say to each other
s'écrire : to write to each other
s'envoyer (des courriels) : to send each other (emails)
se mentir : to lie to each other
se parler : to speak/talk to each other
se plaire : to like each other
se poser des questions : to ask each other questions
se promettre : to promise each other
se regarder : to look at each other
se rencontrer : to meet / to run into each other
se ressembler : to look like each other
se téléphoner : to phone/call each other
se voir : to see each other
See the ADAPT section for more examples!
Jacques et Marie se regardent.
James and Marie are looking at each other.
Les étudiants s'aident beaucoup.
The students help each other a lot.
Lucie et moi, nous nous voyons souvent.
Lucie and I see each other often.
Vous vous connaissez?
Do you all know each other?


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Eliminating the photographer
Photographing artwork is a subjective business. The photographer has to make aesthetic decisions on lighting and the angle from which the picture is taken, based on his or her aesthetic instincts. But accurate representations of paintings and sculptures are important for scholars, collectors and other art lovers who view them in books, museum archives and on websites.
To get around the problem of subjective photography, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $855,000 to the Rochester Institute of Technology and the colour scientist Roy Berns. The scientists will use maths to build a system that photographers can use in situ to eliminate subjective decisions.
The main part of the project will be to build an instrument that can capture information about an object's geometry and colour and measure how these depend on lighting. This involves reducing the painting or sculpture to its most basic optical blueprint, and stripping it of any attributes that are down to subjective perception. Additional instruments that can gather information on the gallery's shape will also be developed later on in the project. Using mathematical models from computer graphics software, the piece of art can then be rendered as it is when viewed in real life, bypassing any input of the photographer.
You can find out more in the RIT press release.
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Standard Definition
[n] unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[n] the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
[n] a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
[n] satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; "he takes pride in his son's success"
[n] a group of lions
[v] pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
[v] be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
[v] be proud of; "She prides herself on her son"
congratulate - (4 syllables), congratulate - (4 syllables), plume - (1 syllables), preen - (1 syllables), pridefulness - (3 syllables), superbia - (4 syllables)
Misc. Definitions
\Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); -- called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.
\Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf. W. prydus comely. See {Proud}.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 3
7. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin.
2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. --Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. --Macaulay.
3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 1
1. That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix.
6. A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith.
5. Show; ostentation; glory. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak.
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.] {Pride of India}, or {Pride of China}. (Bot.) See {Margosa}. {Pride of the desert} (Zo["o]l.), the camel. Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness; lordliness; loftiness. Usage: {Pride}, {Vanity}. Pride is a high or an excessive esteem of one's self for some real or imagined superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc. Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted, etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride; but one may have great pride without displaying it. Vanity, which is etymologically ''emptiness,'' is applied especially to the exhibition of pride in superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
\Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Priding}.] To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall. Pluming and priding himself in all his services. --South.
\Pride\, v. i. To be proud; to glory. [R.]


Faking a Graphical Link
Having text links is extremely important for your internal site navigation since internal links do count for link popularity purposes and the context of your incoming links is very important. Graphical links simply do not provide the same amount of context as a text link does. So basically you can choose to have a graphical menu and get almost no context benefit from it, or you can have a text based menu with your keywords in the links and get a significant context benefit from it.
But what if you could have your cake and eat it too? There is a way. You can fake graphical links.
Now before I get into the meat of this article let me say that you don't always need to have text links in your menu. Changing a graphical link to your "Contact" page to a text link isn't going to give you any real benefit. However, using this site as an example, by using "Search Engine Optimization" as the text we use to link to our SEO category on the menu to the left we are giving that category page a substantial benefit.
So if you're not going to use keywords in your menu you might as well not worry about if it is text based or not.
Now lets talk about faking graphical links. There are two main ways you can get the appearance of a graphical menu while keeping keyword rich text. I will describe each below.
Method 1: Giving Links a Background
We'll start with the best method first so you can skip the remaining pages of this article. Using CSS you can specify a background image for just about anything, including a text link. You can also change this background image using the hover pseudo-class. The end result is a javascript-less image rollover on a text link. Simple huh? Well yes, but not quite that simple. There are a few quirks you should be aware of.
First of all, like any other image rollover, you'll want to preload your images using the javascript below:


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The PMCT accreditation process has been designed to obtain information about health service performance of the intern training program against explicit standards and criteria, to achieve the following objectives:
 1. Interns achieve a high standard of general clinical education and training; and
 2. The best possible environment exists for the organisation, supervision, education and training of interns.
 Accreditation is awarded to a health service for:
 1. The overall health service intern training program; and
 2. Individual intern terms
The objective of the accreditation process is to ensure that the training health service complies with the following seven standards:
 1. Health service culture and support for interns
 2. Orientation
 3. Education and training program
 4. Supervision
 5. Feedback and assessment
 6. Program evaluation
 7. Facilities and amenities
The standards have been developed with reference to the following documents:
 - Prevocational Medical Accreditation Framework for the Education and Training of Prevocational Doctors (CPMEC, 2009); National Intern Training Accreditation Framework (AMC 2014); and Registration Standard: Granting registration as a medical practitioner to Australian and New Zealand graduates on completion of intern training (MBA, 2012).
 - The AMC and the Medical Board of Australia have approved on 14 December 2016 revisions to the intern standards and domains and this can be found at
The PMCT Accreditation Guidelines (PDF-395KB) outline the process for intern training programs in Tasmania.


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This paper discusses various alternative definitions of technocracy. It suggests that it is the interaction of particular personnel, institutional, an ideological forces that define technocratic regimes. The paper then suggest that five mechansims help account for the rise of such regimes: complexity, legitimation through performance, institutional autonomy, regime stability, and world systems. The paper finsihes with a pessimistic appraisal of the possibility of a coexistence between technocracy and democracy.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Economics and Econometrics


page object with Playwright if sharing one is not an option (it usually is). You can test single-page applications without model classes, but they offer a significant productivity boost for testing more complex routes.
Generate Code by Recording Browser Actions
Suppose your usual routine when writing new tests is to open the browser developer tools and search for CSS selectors to add into your tests. In that case, you are delighted to know Playwright supports recording and code generation via a command-line tool.
If we want to record actions done in the English Wikipedia, for example, it's as easy as running the following line in your terminal:
npx playwright-cli codegen -o test.js
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Using the npx tool part of Node.js, this command downloads the Playwright CLI tool and opens your browser in a recording mode. The -o test.js part is used to stream the generated code to standard output (your terminal) and save it to a file.
In the browser, let's now fetch a random article from Wikipedia, "read" it, and navigate back to the main page. After closing the recording, we have received this code ready to be saved for further inspection.
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
(async () => {
 const browser = await chromium.launch({
 headless: false
 const context = await browser.newContext();
 // Open new page
 const page = await context.newPage();
 // Go to
 await page.goto('');
 // Click text="Random article"
 await'text="Random article"');
 // assert.equal(page.url(), '');
 // Click //a[normalize-space(_USER_)='Visit the main page']
 await'//a[normalize-space(_USER_)=\'Visit the main page\']');
 // assert.equal(page.url(), '');
 await context.close();
 await browser.close();
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What is incredibly impressive is that the code is clearly structured, annotated, and wrapped as an asynchronous instantly invocated function. It even suggests places for writing test expectations with assert.equal(). If you have Playwright installed globally or in a project, you may repeat the previous actions by running node test.js.
From here, you likely want to fine-tune the selectors to be more user-friendly, which is a trivial task given your application has a sensible frontend structure.
Portability and Automation
If you work on a general-purpose test suite, you may sprinkle a little bit of portability into the cake by using the official Docker image provided by Microsoft.
Writing tests is never enough if they only run locally. Playwright supports most of the Continuous Integration solutions out of the box, including Travis, Jenkins, Circle CI, and GitHub Actions. For the latter, you may also use the official GitHub Action.
Closing Remarks
Lately, I've started working with an extensive e-commerce application where a robust end-to-end testing suite is worth every penny. We have established an Azure cloud platform development environment and plan to run tests nightly and after deploying a new application version. This lifts tons of manual testing and stresses off our backs.
With Playwright, I drafted an initial test suite by recording a user flow and refactored it to page object models. After a couple of hours, I had a full-featured test suite which works as a regression test when I want to ensure my changes haven't broken anything. I have a new hammer, and I intend to use it everywhere.
Have you used Playwright for testing your application? Let me know in the comments how it went.
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Welcome to Planet Clicker, a simple and addictive clicker game where your mission is to increase energy production and colonize new planets! Get ready to click your way to intergalactic domination as you buy and upgrade various energy sources and witness the units flowing in!
Planet Clicker is proudly developed by Coltroc from Scratch, a talented game developer dedicated to creating fun and exciting games.
Start your journey on Earth, where you'll have access to a range of energy upgrades. Boost your energy production by enhancing your clicking power and constructing farms, power plants, and more.
Once you've amassed enough energy on Earth, you can expand your reach to Mars through interplanetary energy unit transfer. Mars brings a fresh set of upgrades, including solar oil, coal, nuclear power, and even alien technology.
But the adventure doesn't stop there! The final planet awaiting your colonization is Venus. It comes with a hefty price tag of 1 trillion energy units. Unlock advanced technologies like iron, lava, and a mysterious upgrade called "future technology" that lies at the bottom of the list.
To generate energy, simply left-click on the planets. Click away and watch your energy production soar!
If you're hooked on clicker and idle games, you're in luck! There's a wide selection of addictive titles to explore. Once you've conquered the solar system in Planet Clicker, consider checking out other classics like Candy Clicker, Cookie Clicker, and Money Clicker.


Essential Facts: Lebanon, Maine
The typical family unit size in Lebanon, ME is 3.2 family members members, with 83.9% being the owner of their own residences. The mean home appraisal is $190332. For individuals paying rent, they pay out on average $1036 monthly. 63.5% of households have two sources of income, and an average domestic income of $64896. Median individual income is $27288. 4.7% of inhabitants are living at or beneath the poverty line, and 15.3% are considered disabled. 9.3% of residents are veterans for the armed forces.
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The labor pool participation rate in Lebanon is 72.3%, with an unemployment rate of 3.5%. For those of you within the labor force, the average commute time is 30 minutes. 3.1% of Lebanon's population have a grad degree, and 9.3% have a bachelors degree. Among the people without a college degree, 35.2% have at least some college, 36.2% have a high school diploma, and just 16.1% have received an education not as much as senior school. 14.6% are not covered by medical insurance.


text: Misalignment is one of the key reasons for vibrations in most of the rotating system. The present study focuses on interactions among speed, load, and defect severity by investigating their effect on the system vibration. Response surface methodology (RSM) with root-mean-square (RMS) as a response factor is used to understand the influence of such interactions on the system performance. Experiments are planned using design of experiments, and analysis is carried out using analysis of variance (ANOVA). It is observed that speed has a remarkable effect on RMS value in both parallel and angular types of misalignment and affects the system performance. RSM results revealed that a change in load has less impact on vibration amplitude in case of horizontal and vertical directions, but there is a significant variation in RMS value in axial direction for both types of misalignment. A slight increase in the RMS value with an increase in defect severity is observed in the axial direction. These observations will help to understand the misalignment defect and its effect in a better way.


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Definitions and Methods for Worst Case Materials in Formability Simulations 2012-01-0017
Two types of approaches for material definitions and methods for worst case scenarios are explored. The first is from the material specification supplied by the OEM or the alloy producer for the material, which has basic material properties and no specific FLC. The potential exists that any material within the specification can be delivered to the stamping plants. The second is if the material is to be supplied within a narrowed band of material specification with a known FLC. For both cases, there is considerable pressure from product design to use the most formable material possible. However, if a material is delivered outside the FEA testing limits, the results can be catastrophic. A specification is proposed to take advantage of the formability capability to enhance product performance while minimizing stamping plant risk.


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Discrimination and harassment
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences does not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.
The vice-chancellor is ultimately responsible for making sure that the university complies with the Discrimination Act. All managers and supervisors are obligated to make sure that any cases of harassment are investigated and acted upon. It is the responsibility of all staff to maintain a working environment free of any form of discrimination.
If you are the subject of discrimination or harassment, or if you believe someone else is:
- Contact your immediate superior.
- Describe what has happened, and take notes of when, where and how.
- Ask your employer to launch an investigation.
- The investigation should establish what has happened and what actions are needed.
- Accept all offers of support.
- Ask you union or health and safety representative for help.
If you have been the subject of victimisation or harassment, you can contact your immediate superior, the HR specialists, the Legal Affairs Unit or the occupational health services. You can also contact your union or health and safety representative. If you are a doctoral student, you can contact the doctoral student ombudsman.
Read the SLU guidelines on discrimination.


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How to create Expectations that span multiple Batches using Evaluation Parameters
This guide will help you create ExpectationsA verifiable assertion about data. that span multiple BatchesA selection of records from a Data Asset. of data using Evaluation ParametersA dynamic value used during Validation of an Expectation which is populated by evaluating simple expressions or by referencing previously generated metrics. (see also Evaluation Parameter StoresA connector to store and retrieve information about parameters used during Validation of an Expectation which reference simple expressions or previously generated metrics.). This pattern is useful for things like verifying that row counts between tables stay consistent.
Prerequisites: This how-to guide assumes you have:
 - Completed the Getting Started Tutorial
 - A working installation of Great Expectations
 - Configured a Data ContextThe primary entry point for a Great Expectations deployment, with configurations and methods for all supporting components..
 - Configured a DatasourceProvides a standard API for accessing and interacting with data from a wide variety of source systems. (or several Datasources) with at least two Data AssetsA collection of records within a Datasource which is usually named based on the underlying data system and sliced to correspond to a desired specification. and understand the basics of Batch RequestsProvided to a Datasource in order to create a Batch..
 - Also created Expectations SuitesA collection of verifiable assertions about data. for those Data Assets.
 - Have a working Evaluation Parameter store. (The default in-memory StoreA connector to store and retrieve information about metadata in Great Expectations. from great_expectations init can work for this.)
 - Have a working CheckpointThe primary means for validating data in a production deployment of Great Expectations.
Steps
In a notebook,
1. Import great_expectations and instantiate your Data Context
import great_expectations as ge
context = ge.DataContext()
2. Instantiate two Validators, one for each Data Asset
We'll call one of these ValidatorsUsed to run an Expectation Suite against data. the upstream Validator and the other the downstream Validator. Evaluation Parameters will allow us to use Validation ResultsGenerated when data is Validated against an Expectation or Expectation Suite. from the upstream Validator as parameters passed into Expectations on the downstream.
It's common (but not required) for both Batch Requests to have the same Datasource and Data ConnectorProvides the configuration details based on the source data system which are needed by a Datasource to define Data Assets..
batch_request_1 = BatchRequest(
datasource_name="my_datasource",
data_connector_name="my_data_connector",
data_asset_name="my_data_asset_1"
)
upstream_validator = context.get_validator(batch_request=batch_request_1, expectation_suite_name="my_expectation_suite_1")
batch_request_2 = BatchRequest(
datasource_name="my_datasource",
data_connector_name="my_data_connector",
data_asset_name="my_data_asset_2"
)
downstream_validator = context.get_validator(batch_request=batch_request_2, expectation_suite_name="my_expectation_suite_2")
3. Disable interactive evaluation for the downstream Validator
downstream_validator.interactive_evaluation = False
Disabling interactive evaluation allows you to declare an Expectation even when it cannot be evaluated immediately.
4. Define an Expectation using an Evaluation Parameter on the downstream Validator
eval_param_urn = 'urn:great_expectations:validations:my_expectation_suite_1:expect_table_row_count_to_be_between.result.observed_value'
downstream_validator.expect_table_row_count_to_equal(
value={
'$PARAMETER': eval_param_urn, # this is the actual parameter we're going to use in the validation
}
)
The core of this is a $PARAMETER : URN pair. When Great Expectations encounters a $PARAMETER flag during ValidationThe act of applying an Expectation Suite to a Batch., it will replace the URN with a value retrieved from an Evaluation Parameter Store or Metrics StoreA connector to store and retrieve information about computed attributes of data, such as the mean of a column. (see also How to configure a MetricsStore).
This declaration above includes two $PARAMETERS. The first is the real parameter that will be used after the Expectation Suite is stored and deployed in a Validation Operator. The second parameter supports immediate evaluation in the notebook.
When executed in the notebook, this Expectation will generate a Validation Result. Most values will be missing, since interactive evaluation was disabled.
{
"result": {},
"success": null,
"meta": {},
"exception_info": {
"raised_exception": false,
"exception_traceback": null,
"exception_message": null
}
}
danger
Your URN must be exactly correct in order to work in production. Unfortunately, successful execution at this stage does not guarantee that the URN is specified correctly and that the intended parameters will be available when executed later.
5. Save your Expectation Suite
downstream_validator.save_expectation_suite(discard_failed_expectations=False)
This step is necessary because your $PARAMETER will only function properly when invoked within a Validation operation with multiple Validators. The simplest way to execute such an operation is through a :ref:Validation Operator <reference__core_concepts__validation__validation_operator>, and Validation Operators are configured to load Expectation Suites from Expectation StoresA connector to store and retrieve information about collections of verifiable assertions about data., not memory.
6. Execute an existing Checkpoint
You can do this within your notebook by running context.run_checkpoint.
results = context.run_checkpoint(
checkpoint_name="my_checkpoint"
)
7. Rebuild Data Docs and review results in docs
You can do this within your notebook by running:
context.build_data_docs()
You can also execute from the command line with:
great_expectations docs build
Once your Data DocsHuman readable documentation generated from Great Expectations metadata detailing Expectations, Validation Results, etc. rebuild, open them in a browser and navigate to the page for the new Validation Result.
If your Evaluation Parameter was executed successfully, you'll see something like this:
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If it encountered an error, you'll see something like this. The most common problem is a mis-specified URN name.
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DeepEX has implemented several design and analysis methods for deep excavations! In this section you can find useful information and extensive theory for all these methods and the implemented design standards.
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Review several scientific methods for the design and analysis of any deep excavation model!
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Russian and U.S. scientists started a five-day inspection Monday to review environmental effects of foreign stations in Antarctica, the U.S. government said.
The U.S. State Department announced it was teaming with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inspect foreign stations in Antarctica.
"The U.S.-Russian team will review adherence by treaty parties to their obligations, including with respect to limiting environmental impacts, ensuring that Antarctica is used only for peaceful purposes and that parties honor the prohibition on measures of a military nature," the State Department said in a statement.
The United Nations' International Maritime Organization announced in August that ships traveling through parts of Antarctic are prohibited from using fuels containing "bitumen, tar and their emulsions."
With melting sea ice exposing unexplored oil and natural gas deposits, Russia, meanwhile, is trying to convince the international community its claim to the arctic extends beyond limits spelled out in a 1982 convention.
Moscow will present its findings to the United Nations once the study is finalized by 2013.


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The validity of estimating the solid phase diffusion coefficient, Ds, of a lithium intercalation electrode from impedance measurement by a modified electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) method is studied. A macroscopic porous electrode model and concentrated electrolyte theory are used to simulate the synthetic impedance data. The modified EIS method is applied for estimating Ds. The influence of parameters such as the exchange current density, radius of active material particle, solid phase conductivity, porosity, volume fraction of inert material, and thickness of the porous carbon intercalation electrode, the solution phase diffusion coefficient, and transference number, on the validity of Ds estimation, is evaluated. A simple dimensionless group is developed to correlate all the results. It shows that the accurate estimation of Ds requires large particle size, small electrode thickness, large solution diffusion coefficient, and low active material loading. Finally, a "full model" method is developed for the cases where the modified EIS method does not work well.
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2002, pages A307-A318.
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text: This paper investigates the use of the concepts of similarity and dimensional analysis to interpret results from reduced-scale models of axially loaded piles embedded in sand. These concepts are reviewed in the light of a pilesoil system and its response to static or half-sine impulsive loading. It is suggested that constitutive similarity between model and prototype responses can be fulfilled without scaling gravity, provided that a stress scaling factor equal to one is selected. The scaling factors are validated with numerical simulations via finite element analyses by comparing the results from full-scale and special reduced-scale pilesoil models. It is also shown that a frustum confining vessel has the potential to provide more realistic scaled responses than are obtained with the classical 1g devices. A series of pile test responses are simulated for different pile lengths and different coefficients of lateral earth pressure. A set of scaling factors is presented and a particular set of dimensionally homogeneous π groups is proposed to characterize the behaviour of the pilesoil system. Simulated responses are interpreted using the proposed π groups to obtain functional relations relevant to the pilesoil problem.Key words: reduced-scale modelling, dimensional analysis, similarity, model piles, sands.


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ISpNotifySink (SAPI 5.4)
Speech API 5.4
Microsoft Speech API 5.4
In both speech synthesis and speech recognition, applications receive notifications when words have been spoken or when phrases have been recognized. SAPI components that generate notifications implement an ISpNotifySource.
The ISpNotifySource and ISpNotifySink interfaces alone only provide a mechanism for a notification but no information on the events that caused the notification. With an ISpEventSource object, an application can retrieve information about the events that caused the notification. An ISpEventSource also provides the mechanism to filter and queue events. By default, an application (really an ISpNotifySink) receives no notifications from ISpEventSource until SetInterests has been called to specify on which events to notify or queue.
When an application is notified of an event that is not queued, an application will take measures based on which event sink is receiving the notification. From context an application might know exactly what it needs to do, or it may need to interact with the components which sent the notifications. If an application is notified of an event that is queued, the application will call ISpEventSource::GetEvents to retrieve the actual events that caused a notification.
When to Implement
Implement this interface only if the application can take advantage of the slightly reduced latency of a free-threaded notification. Most applications should use one of the simplified notification mechanisms in ISpEventSource instead of implementing this interface directly. Free-threaded notifications are difficult to implement without deadlocking the system. Furthermore, other notification mechanisms require less code on the part of the developer. The application needs to handle free-threaded notifications and implement the ISpNotifySink interface when an ISpNotifySink object is to be notified.
Because free-threaded notifications can occur on any thread, at any point during execution, they are extremely prone to deadlocks and re-entrance problems. The only interface that can be called on an event source object is ISpEventSource::GetEvents. If the ISpNotifySink interface is implemented directly, the code should only use some mechanism to signal another thread to process the notification (for example, a Win32 event or an I/O completion port), and, if needed, call ISpEventSource::GetEvents. Do not call any other methods.
Methods in Vtable Order
ISpNotifySink MethodsDescription
NotifyCalled by an ISpNotifySource object to notify the sink when the state of the notify source has changed.
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Coasters vessel freight to Burullus • Small fishing port turned into a transportation hub for Mega gas- and steam combined cycle power station
The final push for a gigantic order: Until September, DB Schenker will be transporting a total of 100,000 tons with 400,000 cbm of freight to Egypt for Siemens AG, which is building one of the largest gas-fired power stations in the world. Burullus is the site of one of three Siemens power stations. Powered by natural gas, each plant has a capacity of 4.8 gigawatts, which will be generated by eight Siemens gas turbines and four steam turbines. This technology has been selected for its high efficiency. A 600-ton crane unloads the turbines in Burullus. The heavy parts are delivered at a specially reinforced pier. The heavy parts, such as generators and turbines, are lifted with steel ropes.
The individual components include turbines, generators, transformers, and boilers, with single weights up to almost 500 tons. Each of the three power stations requires 248 of these massive components in total. Download: Infographic
The heavy components from Europe and the USA are shipped straight to the Burullus fishing port. Parts from Asia arrive first at the port of Alexandria by ocean-going ship. There, they are reloaded onto smaller coasters which can access the port at Burullus, some 80 kilometers away, thanks to their smaller draft.
DB Schenker undertook the necessary preparation work to ensure the massive components could be unloaded at Burullus harbor: Its depth had to be increased to 5.50 meters and a pier needed reinforcement, while access routes and facilities for temporary storage had to be constructed. A 600 ton crane was installed to discharge the individual components to low-bed trailers. The port at Burullus is just 16 kilometers from the construction site.
All three power stations are going on stream successively already since the end of 2016.


-to-one reference from the product to the image table. This query therefore results in an inner-join to the image table. In this case that table was empty and nothing was returned.
To solve this issue, the image has to be joined in an outer join:
SELECT p.id, p.image FROM Product AS p LEFT OUTER JOIN p.image
not-null property references a null or transient value: *.creationDate
This exception is thrown when you try to save a new business object with its Id set. It makes sense to set an id if you want to control the id-setting (and not let hibernate create one for you). However, if the id is set then Hibernate/Openbravo will think it is an existing object and not set the audit info properties.
To solve this also call setNewOBObject(true) on the new business object. This signals to Openbravo that the object is new eventhough its id is set.
not-null property references a null or transient value: *.updated
Same issue as the previous one.
org.hibernate.TransientObjectException: object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing: ....
This exception occurs when you save an object which refers to another object which has not yet been saved. It applies to so-called many-to-one references, for example from Order to Currency (many orders use the same currency). Openbravo maps the many-to-one associations without cascading. This is for performance reasons.
To prevent this exception save the refered-to instance before the refering instance.
Note that in practice this exception does not happen that often as most references are from transactional to master data, and master data is traditionally setup before transactional data is created.
The import data/REST webservices take care of persisting objects in the correct order so therefore this exception does not occur when importing data through these processes.
Performance: getting the id of a BaseOBObject
To improve performance of single-ended associations, the DAL makes use of the Hibernate proxy functionality. The Hibernate proxy functionality wraps an object inside a Hibernate (cglib) proxy object. The Hibernate proxy object takes care of loading the business object when it is actually accessed and not before.
In many cases a developer just wants access to the id or entityname of an object. To prevent loading of the business object when retrieving just this information, the DalUtil class in org.openbravo.dal.core offers a getId method and a getEntityName method. These methods work directly with the HibernateProxy object and do not load the underlying business object.
Classloading
The DAL loads classes when initializing the DAL. The DAL as a default uses the context class loader of the thread. In some cases this does not work correctly (for example when using the DAL in Ant). The DAL uses the OBClassLoader class to make the classloader configurable. By calling OBClassLoader.setInstance with your own OBClassLoader you can control the class loader used by the DAL.
NPE when calling a getter of a Business Object
All getters of Openbravo business objects return an Object. This is also the case for primitive type properties. In this way Openbravo can support null values in the database (will result in a null value for the property). However, null values result in NPE's when used directly in expressions. For example take this code:
SystemInformation sys = OBDal.getInstance().get(SystemInformation.class, "0");
return sys.isEnableHeartbeat();
When the value of 'enableHeartbeat' is null in the database then the call to isEnableHeartbeat will result in a NPE eventhough the sys variable is set correctly.
The same will happen when using results of getter-calls directly in numeric expressions.
DAL Queries do not return or do not see changes in the database
This can occur in the following situation:
 1. your program reads objects from the database using the DAL
 2. then you update the database directly without going through the DAL (either through direct sql or through a stored procedure), the database updates the objects/data you read through the DAL in step 1
 3. then your program uses the same objects as read in step 1 or you read them again from the database
The problem you encounter then is that the objects do not reflect the database state (they are not up-to-date). This is caused by the following:
When Hibernate reads data from the database it is stored in a cache for that session. This session cache is not auto-updated when data changes in the database outside of your hibernate session. So when in the last step you read the objects again from the database, you get the objects from the session-cache and not from the database.
There are 2 solutions:
 1. clear the session cache completely
OBDal.getInstance().getSession().flush();
OBDal.getInstance().getSession().clear();
 1. force reread of specific objects
OBDal.getInstance().getSession().refresh(myObject);
The first approach makes sense if there are many updates in the database or you don't know exactly which objects have changed. The second approach makes sense if you know exactly which object(s) have changed and there are not that many.
In case of the first solution you have to note that objects that have been read (through the DAL) before flushing/clearing can not be used anymore after flush/clear. These objects need to be re-attached to the session or read completely new from the database:
// reattach an object from the database, only if it is not already part of it
if (OBDal.getInstance().getSession().contains(myObject)) {
 OBDal.getInstance().getSession().lock(myObject.getEntity().getName(), myObject, LockMode.NONE);
}
// or reread it again, this example assumes that the object
// is a Business Partner
BusinessPartner businessPartner = OBDal.getInstance().get(BusinessPartner.class, myPreviouslyReadBP.getId());
When choosing the 'lock' strategy it is important to choose the correct lock order. First lock the objects which are used by the other objects.
ERROR org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException - could not initialize proxy - no Session
Hibernate will lazily load objects which are referenced from other objects. So when an object A references an object B, then when reading A from the database, hibernate will create a so-called proxy object B, which is used by A. The B proxy object is not initialized (its data is not set), this initialization is done when B is accessed directly (calling a method on it for example). To do this initialization hibernate needs the original hibernate session which was used to read A and create the B proxy object.
The LazyInitializationException occurs when this session is not valid anymore. This happens for example when OBDal.getInstance().commitAndClose() is called, this will close and remove the session. If an uninitialized proxy object is accessed after the commitAndClose call then this exception is thrown.
To prevent this make sure that the objects that you need after the commitAndClose are all initialized. This can be done using the Hibernate.initialize(object) call or by calling an arbitrary method on the object (for example getIdentifier()).
REST Web Services
I am getting: 'Caused by: Object Entity(null) is new but not writable'
The REST webservice uses the default role, client and organization of the user. The error Caused by: Object Order(null) is new but not writable is caused by the fact that either the role or the organization of the user do not allow the writing/creating the entity you are passing in.
See this topic in the Openbravo forum.
And see this issue for a related bug fix.
My REST webservice does not return anything
If your REST webservice only returns this:
<ob:Openbravo/>
Then most of the time the user you used to log in is not authorised to see the requested information. Another reason for not seeing information is that the system will automatically add client and organization filtering to the REST query and only show objects which have active==true.
Using the REST XML Schema to generate (de-)serialization code
The REST XML Schema can be used to generate java or C# code which can be used to (de-)serialize the REST xml content in a type safe way. One thing to be aware of is that primitive typed elements (such as a name or description) have attributes defined in the XML Schema. This means that code generators will not create a String (or other primitive type) member/accessor but will instead use a separate generated type to encapsulate the primitive type value. This separately generated type also holds the other attributes.
See this forum post for a discussion around this.


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Is Apples Good for Perimenopause?
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New scam alert technology detects malicious links and warns users during conversations on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord
BUCHAREST, Romania & SANTA CLARA, California, November 02, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bitdefender, a global leader in cybersecurity, today unveiled the first real-time chat protection features for mobile instant messaging apps. Bitdefender Chat Protection immediately alerts users if malicious links are received or sent during live sessions on the world's most popular chat apps, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord. A true industry innovation, the new features help protect users against the increase in cybercriminal activity targeting mobile devices.
Chat Protection is integrated with Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android via Bitdefender Scam Alert technology, used by consumers around the world to monitor, detect and stop link-based attacks distributed through messaging apps, notifications and SMS. Chat Protection continuously monitors chat sessions, alerting users to suspicious links that may attempt to steal financial data, credentials, and other sensitive information.
When malicious links are detected during chat sessions, the user receives a warning along with information about the associated risks and a suggested course of action. If the warnings are ignored, the built-in web protection technologies prevent the user from navigating to the malicious web page.
Over two billion people use WhatsApp and over one billion use Facebook Messenger worldwide. At the same time, malware and scams sent via instant messaging apps and text messages remain one of the top threats to mobile users in 2022. According to the Bitdefender Consumer Threat Landscape Report 2021, spam and domains untrusted together account for 85% of detected malicious URLs.
"Mobile threats continue to rise and cybercriminals have evolved beyond email phishing attacks to include popular SMS (smishing) and instant messaging apps," says Ciprian Istrate, Senior Vice President of Operations, Consumer Solutions Group at Bitdefender. "With the new features in Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android, users can rest easy and chat safe knowing they have robust, real-time protection against malware, malicious links and online scams. their Android devices."
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To undo the relationship between a "system-defined" function key and the poundsign sequence it produces, use ":unmap-system-chars". :map, :map!, :noremap, :noremap! --------------------------------- The vi "map" and "map!" commands are implemented in vile. As in vi, mapping works best if the character sequence being bound corresponds to pressing a single key. Multiple key sequences will work as long as the next key in the sequence is pressed within a specified number of milliseconds. The value of "timeoutlen" is used for system-defined character sequences, i.e. function keys. User defined sequences will use this too, unless the value of "timeoutlen-user" is non-zero, in which case this value will be used instead. Because "map" and "map!" may be used to remap arbitrary sequences, these sequences must be entered literally, i.e, the syntax for key sequences as listed above will not work for "map" and "map!". To enter control characters into a .vilerc file, use the ^V escaping mechanism. A map command entered from the command line will require fewer characters be escaped with ^V. To provide a relatively portable way of specifying function key mappings, vile will reapply mapping to the result of a system- defined map. System function keys are mapped to "poundsign" sequences, like '#1' for function key 1, and '#B' for the down-arrow key. The remapping allows one to put map #1 in the .vilerc file, and have the user-sequence executed when the system F1 key is pressed. (Otherwise the terminal-specific sequence would have to appear in the .vilerc.) See the section on "Function Keys" above for a full list. The "remap" option controls whether the successfully mapped result of a map is reevaluated for more mapping matches. The "noremap" (and "noremap!") variants of the map commands will force that particular mapping to be applied without subsequent remapping, regardless of the current setting of the global "remap" setting. Since key sequences starting the '^X', '^A', or '#' prefixes are normally expected to act as a unit, no remapping is done on characters that follow such prefixes. For instance, this keeps a map like: :map h ihello from breaking the '^X-h' command. Long running loops caused by recursive :map definitions are detected and assumed to be infinite. When such a loop is detected, execution is aborted. Turning off the "remap" option, or doing some of the maps with the ":noremap/:noremap!" form of the map commands will eliminate most such loops. vile normally duplicates real vi's behavior (but not vim's) in that the first character of the sequence being mapped to is not subject to recursive (map) evaluation. Assuming "remap" is on, pressing 'j' when ":map j jh" is in effect will not cause an infinite loop, whereas ":map j hj" _will_ cause such a loop. Setting the "remapfirst" option will allow this sort of remapping (and will cause an infinite loops for both examples). The "maplonger" option controls whether the longer or shorter of two "nested" map strings will be favored by the editor. That is, if both "foo" and "foobar" are mapped (to presumably different values), then with "maplonger" set, vile will not expand "foo" until it is sure (either because the next character is not 'b', or a timeout has expired) that "foobar" will not be seen. Real vi will always expand "foo" immediately, and this is the default behavior. Though not particularly recommended, the "maplonger" mechanism even permits the following types of mappings: :map z j :map zz k When 'z' is pressed by itself it will cause vile to move down one line (assuming j has not been rebound or remapped). But if 'z' is pressed twice rapidly (enough) in succession, vile will move to the previous line. The left hand side of a map[!] definition may contain the usual backslash escapes: \n, \r, \t, \b, \f, \a (^G), \e (ESC), \s (SPACE), \xNN (hex), \NNN (octal). The right hand side is taken exactly literally, so special characters must be expressed as themselves. The current set of mappings or "map!"ings may be viewed with the commands ":map" (or ":show-mapped-chars") or ":map!" (or ":show-mapped!-chars"). The system-defined maps, representing the function keys, may be shown with ":show-system-mapped-chars". To undo a mapping, use "unmap", "unmap!", or "unmap-system-chars". :abbr ------ The "abbr" command is also present in vile. It is similar to, but slightly different than, "map!". Whereas "map!" examines characters as they are typed, continuously looking for a match against the stored translation strings, the "abbr" command examines them after they are already in the buffer, and is more sensitive to their surrounding context. First, abbreviations are never expanded unless followed by non-"word" characters. In addition, abbreviations which begin like a "word" (i.e. with letters, digits, or the '_' character) are not expanded if they immediately follow another "word" character -- they must follow whitespace or punctuation or the beginning of the line. Likewise, abbreviations that begin with a punctuation character are not detected within more punctuation -- they must follow whitespace or a "word", or the beginning of the line. If the "backspacelimit" setting is set (and it is, by default), then characters not inserted during the current insertion command are not considered in the above comparisons -- the start of the current insertion behaves much like the beginning of line in that case. Abbreviations are never recursive. vile is more lenient than vi regarding what is a valid abbreviation. vi insists that an abbreviation be all "word" characters, or be all "non-word" characters, except for the last character, which _must_ be a "word" character. vile allows anything at all to be abbreviated, only enforcing the expansion rules mentioned above. To undo an abbreviation, use "unabbreviate". Special "Terminal" Key Rebinding -------------------------------- In addition to the above binding mechanism for vile commands, other keystrokes to the editor are rebindable using the "set-terminal" command. These keystrokes are mostly derived directly from the user's tty settings on entering the editor, but there are a couple of additions related to command and filename completion. The values of these characters can be shown with the "show-terminal" command, and can be changed with the "set-terminal" command. Default value Typical value -----------------------------------------


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The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Connecting with Community welcomes Kitty Axelson-Berry, president of Modern Memoirs Publishing, Inc. as she shares tips on how to organize and create a memoir of your own life experiences.
Axelson-Berry will share a plethora of practical tips and real stories about writing and self publishing memoirs. At the very least, she will help attendees create a game plan. At the most, she can help bring that memoir to fruition. This special two-session program will be divided as follows.
Session 1: (January 23) At the Beginning
You will learn:
 - How it feels to write a memoir
 - How memoirs are organized
 - How memoirs are developed
 - How memoirs are written
Session 2: (January 30) Going Deeper
You will learn:
 - How it feels to revise the content of your own memoir
 - How memoirs are processed
 - How it feels to self-publish your own memoir
Kitty Axelson-Berry is president of Modern Memoirs Publishing, Inc., a writing, editing, and publishing service specializing in memoirs and family histories that she founded in 1994. She also founded the Association of Personal Historians (1995) and is an active member of the Jewish Community of Amherst.


text: Imagine the delicious aromas that must have wafted from the kitchen when Johanna Raudaschl cooked for the Trapp family. The finest soups, roasts and sweet buns were daily fare in the Salzburg villa. Johanna Raudaschl lived there almost as part of the family, as she recalls vividly in her memoirs. She began collecting her recipes - for both food and life - where she grew up, an illegitimate child, in the modest rural surroundings of the Salzkammergut [Austria's lake district]. Her grandmother taught her the secrets of cooking and baking. During her apprentice years she refined her culinary skills, and the Trapp family then benefited from her resourcefulness in the kitchen. She handed down her treasured recipes to her grand-daughter Irmgard Wohrl, who tried them out and now, together with journalist and biographer Caroline Kleibel, reveals them in the context of the moving story of Johanna Raudaschl's life. The grandmother of the author Irmgard Wohrl became close with the singing family known from the worldwide renowned Musical Sound of Music. This book reveals stories about the Trapp-Family that were never told before.


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Eq2baseobject (Data Type)¶
This DataType represents the object upon which all EverQuest 2 UI widget datatypes are derived.
All eq2widgets are derived from this object. Therefore, the members/methods below can be used with any ui widget in the game (e.g., buttons, icons, etc.)
- string GetProperty["PropertyName"]
- If the result of a GetProperty call is a boolean value, then it will return "TRUE" or "FALSE". Otherwise, it will return a string unless an additional argument is provided as follows:
- (Please note that due to how LavishScript works, generally speaking, it is probably unnecessary to worry about 'type' and simply have GetProperty return as a string; however, the functionality is there if needed or desired.)
- string Type
- eq2baseobject Parent
- SetProperty["PropertyName", "Value"]
- This method will populate a collection of strings with all of the current properties of the object.
- This is purely for convenience. It simply prints out the current properties into the console. (SpewProperties is not intended for use in scripts.)
When used with this datatype, the GetProperty member and SetProperty method will accept any of the following property names:


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Some users are experiencing problems pairing Plantronics Backbeat Fid and MacBook Pro. They are reporting that the MacBook doesn't discover the headset even if the Bluetooth on both devices is on. Updating the headset firmware doesn't help. If you have this pairing problem here is how can you fix it.
Step #1: How to Pair Plantronics Backbeat Fit with Macbook
First, you need to pop the headset in pairing mode, and then discover it from your Macbook. Here is how to do that.
- Make sure your Plantronics Backbeat Fit is turned off. (Turn it off it isn't).
- Open Bluetooth settings on your Mac (System Preferences > Bluetooth).
- Click on the + button in the bottom left corner of the Bluetooth window.
- Now, Press and hold the power button of the Plantronics Breakbeat Pro headset (Do not release it). Keep it pressed (5 – 10 seconds) until the LED indicator on the headset starts blinking red and blue, or you hear it says "Pairing." Once it starts flashing, release the button.
- Now, the headset should appear in the list of Bluetooth devices on your Mac. (You will see something like this 00-0b-01-00-22. That is your headset's Bluetooth address.)
- Once the headset appears on your Mac, click on Continue.
- Next, you will see a Conclusion window telling you that your computer is now set up to use your headset. That means your headset is connected.
If you turned the headset on and it didn't enter the pairing mode, turn it off and start the pairing procedure from the beginning.
Note: The only way to enter the paring mode is to press and hold the power button while the headset is turned off.
Step #2: Try Pairing Plantronics Backbeat Fit with Another Device
If the previous step didn't help in connecting the headset to your Macbook, make sure you have a working headset, by pairing it with your smartphone, or tablet.
If you have successfully paired Plantronics Backbeat Fit with any other device, it means that the headset is working fine. Now, make sure you have a working Bluetooth on your Mac.
If you cannot connect Plantronics Backbeat Fit to any other device, make sure you check its warranty and contact the seller.


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In a PC, to execute the instructions required to switch between segmented addressing of memory and flat addressing. A thunk typically occurs when a 16-bit application is running in a 32-bit address space, and its 16-bit segmented address must be converted into a full 32-bit flat address. On the other hand, if a 32-bit program calls a 16-bit DLL, then the thunk is in the opposite direction: from 32 bit to 16 bit.