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Friday, April 26, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
the Optician: Measuring Your Own Pupillary Distance
the Optician: Measuring Your Own Pupillary Distance:
So you've hung out through my lecture and you want to know how to do it right. It's ridiculously simple. I don't know why no online opticals recommend this. I'm sure people simply assume a slick looking digital system like the one above is more accurate than any manual system, and are inspired with confidence in their cut-rate online supplier. But manual is simply the best for doing this on your own. Here it is:
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I modified the method a bit: I used 8mm stick on dots and a pair of safety glasses. using a circle on the computer monitor, I placed the dots and then moved them with my fingernail until they had no discernible overlap while looking at the circle. Then I measured them with vernier calipers. Next used a streetlamp outside. For the near vision I got 61 and for distance I got 64. The website you said was the best was quite a bit out, just as you found (58/60). The distance reading was same as Zenni's ruler method and 1mm off what my spouse got using the calipers while I stared at the smoke detector. So the lesson I took away from this is I may have been OK with the distance prescription using the online directions and the printout ruler, but the PD for the readers would have been out by 3mm. One other thing you may want to mention to your readers, if you mark your lenses with a marker, make sure it's not a permanent marker !
So you've hung out through my lecture and you want to know how to do it right. It's ridiculously simple. I don't know why no online opticals recommend this. I'm sure people simply assume a slick looking digital system like the one above is more accurate than any manual system, and are inspired with confidence in their cut-rate online supplier. But manual is simply the best for doing this on your own. Here it is:
- Wear your glasses. (Or any glasses if you don't have your own. Even just try on demo glasses at the mall if you are that bold.)
- Have a felt-tip maker handy.
- Focus on a single object in the far distance (anything farther than 20 feet works, but farther is better).
- Raise the marker to your right lens and precisely put a dot on it directly over the distant object.
- Repeat for your left eye. If done correctly, with both eyes open the two dots should overlap into a single dot over the distant object. If not repeat making the markings until they do form a single dot.
- Measure the distance between the two dots on your lenses with a millimeter ruler.
- That's your distance PD.
- If you need a near PD for reading or computer glasses, just do the same procedure but focus instead on the object you will be looking at, either reading material or computer monitor.
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I modified the method a bit: I used 8mm stick on dots and a pair of safety glasses. using a circle on the computer monitor, I placed the dots and then moved them with my fingernail until they had no discernible overlap while looking at the circle. Then I measured them with vernier calipers. Next used a streetlamp outside. For the near vision I got 61 and for distance I got 64. The website you said was the best was quite a bit out, just as you found (58/60). The distance reading was same as Zenni's ruler method and 1mm off what my spouse got using the calipers while I stared at the smoke detector. So the lesson I took away from this is I may have been OK with the distance prescription using the online directions and the printout ruler, but the PD for the readers would have been out by 3mm. One other thing you may want to mention to your readers, if you mark your lenses with a marker, make sure it's not a permanent marker !
Friday, April 19, 2013
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Nids-de-poule : une nouvelle technique de colmatage sera testée à Montréal | Radio-Canada.ca
Nids-de-poule : une nouvelle technique de colmatage sera testée à Montréal | Radio-Canada.ca:
Il n'y a pas que le camion qui est innovant. Le produit l'est aussi. Des chercheurs de l'École de technologie supérieure ont imaginé un mélange d'asphalte à base de bardeaux de toiture recyclés. Ça tombe bien, l'arrondissement du Sud-Ouest en jette 3 à 4 tonnes par années. Tout ça dans un contexte où les élus municipaux tentent d'éviter d'octroyer des contrats à des compagnies d'asphalte douteuses.
Il n'y a pas que le camion qui est innovant. Le produit l'est aussi. Des chercheurs de l'École de technologie supérieure ont imaginé un mélange d'asphalte à base de bardeaux de toiture recyclés. Ça tombe bien, l'arrondissement du Sud-Ouest en jette 3 à 4 tonnes par années. Tout ça dans un contexte où les élus municipaux tentent d'éviter d'octroyer des contrats à des compagnies d'asphalte douteuses.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Multiple Excel Instances In Tasks
How to remove multiple Excel task icons when pressing Alt-Tab
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So there is an option to disable this feature called "Ignore Other Applications" (under Options-> General). If you look at the help on this it basically shuts of DDE. What DDE basically does is when you click on a file it checks to see if Excel is already running and if it is, it passes the file to that already running instance. The problem with turning this switch on is the file mappings that are already installed assume DDE is on and things break. So when you shut that option off you suddenly start getting errors that Excel cannot find the
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Open regedit, browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open Delete the ddeexec key, (or just rename it if you are worried - i just renamed it and it worked) Then click on the "command" key and replace the /e on the Default and command string in that key with "%1" Quotes around %1 are important. NO QUOTES MEANS NO WORKIE!!!!
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command should look like this: (Default) REG_SZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" "%1 command REG_MULTI_SZ vUpAVX!!!!!!!!!MKKSkEXCELFiles>tW{~$4Q]c@II=l2xaTO5 "%1"
Do the same for Excel.Sheet.12 Now Both .xls and .xlsx should open in new windows with no errors.
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Reference
MS Office is breaking ALT-TAB :
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27996.0;wap2
Getting Excel MDI/SDI/Excel Instance to behave more logically :
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Excel/microsoft.public.excel.setup/2006-02/msg00115.html
Windows 7 - Cannot run multiple instances of excel using "Ignore other applications that use DDE" option :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/officesetupdeploylegacy/thread/c42f825d-b7e8-48c8-b5af-30563b839f09
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So there is an option to disable this feature called "Ignore Other Applications" (under Options-> General). If you look at the help on this it basically shuts of DDE. What DDE basically does is when you click on a file it checks to see if Excel is already running and if it is, it passes the file to that already running instance. The problem with turning this switch on is the file mappings that are already installed assume DDE is on and things break. So when you shut that option off you suddenly start getting errors that Excel cannot find the
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Open regedit, browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open Delete the ddeexec key, (or just rename it if you are worried - i just renamed it and it worked) Then click on the "command" key and replace the /e on the Default and command string in that key with "%1" Quotes around %1 are important. NO QUOTES MEANS NO WORKIE!!!!
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command should look like this: (Default) REG_SZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" "%1 command REG_MULTI_SZ vUpAVX!!!!!!!!!MKKSkEXCELFiles>tW{~$4Q]c@II=l2xaTO5 "%1"
Do the same for Excel.Sheet.12 Now Both .xls and .xlsx should open in new windows with no errors.
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Reference
MS Office is breaking ALT-TAB :
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27996.0;wap2
Getting Excel MDI/SDI/Excel Instance to behave more logically :
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Excel/microsoft.public.excel.setup/2006-02/msg00115.html
Windows 7 - Cannot run multiple instances of excel using "Ignore other applications that use DDE" option :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/officesetupdeploylegacy/thread/c42f825d-b7e8-48c8-b5af-30563b839f09
CEIM - Les principales aides financières gouvernementales aux entreprises émergentes!
Petit-déjeuner conférence, 24 avril
Lieu 20, rue Queen, 3e étage, Vieux-Montréal
Réservation obligatoire Nicole Bigras
LES PRINCIPALES AIDES FINANCIÈRES GOUVERNEMENTALES
AUX ENTREPRISES ÉMERGENTES!
AUX ENTREPRISES ÉMERGENTES!
Conférenciers
Monsieur Denis Karegeya Coordonnateur en entrepreneuriat
Fondation du Maire - Montréal Inc. de demain
Fondation du Maire - Montréal Inc. de demain
Monsieur Robert Déziel
Gestionnaire, Région du Québec,
Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Monsieur Christian PerronDirecteur général
Société de développement économique Ville-Marie (SDEVM)
Société d’investissement jeunesse (SIJ)
Monsieur Paul De Rome Conseiller aux entreprises, Emploi-Québec
Monsieur Rémi La Barre Conseiller principal, Grand Montréal, Développement Économique Canada
Madame Violaine LacroixConseillère, Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle (PARI)
Conseil national de recherches Canada
Monsieur Pierre des Lierres Directeur - développement des affaires, MITACS
Gestionnaire, Région du Québec,
Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Monsieur Christian PerronDirecteur général
Société de développement économique Ville-Marie (SDEVM)
Société d’investissement jeunesse (SIJ)
Monsieur Paul De Rome Conseiller aux entreprises, Emploi-Québec
Monsieur Rémi La Barre Conseiller principal, Grand Montréal, Développement Économique Canada
Madame Violaine LacroixConseillère, Programme d’aide à la recherche industrielle (PARI)
Conseil national de recherches Canada
Monsieur Pierre des Lierres Directeur - développement des affaires, MITACS
Madame Francine Michaud Directrice régionale, BPME, Travaux publics et services gouvernementaux Canada
Madame Annick Millette
Coordonnatrice en gestion des mesures fiscales
Investissement Québec
Coordonnatrice en gestion des mesures fiscales
Investissement Québec
Contenu
Cette séance d’information permettra aux entrepreneurs d’avoir une mise à jour sur les principaux programmes d’aides gouvernementales.
Date Le mercredi 24 avril 2013, de 8h30 à 11h30
Lieu 20, rue Queen, 3e étage, Vieux-Montréal
Stationnement payant au 75, rue Queen
Réservation obligatoire Nicole Bigras
nbigras@ceim.org
(514) 866-0575, poste 200
Événement gratuit
Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning
Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning:
UQAM | Portail Moodle : http://www.moodle.uqam.ca/
UQAM | Portail Moodle : http://www.moodle.uqam.ca/
Fautes courantes - Fautes courantes - N'ayons plus peur des mots
Fautes courantes - Fautes courantes - N'ayons plus peur des mots: "
« Ne craignons pas d'être un peu
puristes, à bon escient du moins. »"
Friday, April 12, 2013
Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch - Slashdot
Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch - Slashdot: "Open an elevated Command Prompt and type "wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2823324 /quiet /norestart" without the quotes.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
CESE
CESE:
Le Conseil des Entreprises de Services Environnementaux (CESE) est une association représentant les intérêts des 600 entreprises québécoises en gestion des matières résiduelles, des matières dangereuses résiduelles, et du traitement des sols ainsi que les organisations associées à son développement commercial et technologique, incluant les fabricants et les services-conseils.
Par l'entremise de ces membres, le CESE a pour mission l'amélioration de la qualité de l'environnement en privilégiant des standards de performance élevés et un contexte d'affaires concurrentiel pour l'industrie québécoise des services environnementaux.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
When is the best time to send emails? | MailChimp.com
When is the best time to send emails? | MailChimp.com
- More people open email during the day than at night. You may find that changing the time that you send your emails will change your percentage of opens.
- More emails are sent during the week than on weekends, with Tuesday and Thursday being the highest volume days. Changing which day you send your emails may improve your open and click rates
- More links lead to more clicks. Placing a particular link in your content more than once may increase the number of clicks for that link.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Séances d'information publiques RS&DE
Bureau des services fiscaux de Québec:
Les séances d'information publiques sans frais présentent un aperçu général du programme et expliquent les critères d'admissibilité, les dépenses admissibles ainsi que la façon de remplir une demande de crédit d'impôt à l'investissement. Nos séances spécialisées quant à elles expliquent les critères d'admissibilité au programme de la recherche scientifique et développement expérimental (RS&DE) tels qu'ils s'appliquent à une industrie en particulier.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Ticket to everywhere : Naturejobs
Ticket to everywhere : Naturejobs:
Academia might do well to look to the private sector for a model that broadens the soft skills of PhD holders and expands their prospects. Many businesses offer their executives short, intensive training programmes that stimulate their professional development in key areas such as leadership, innovation and management. Some companies develop internal schemes; others hire consultants or send their executives on week-long programmes at business schools (sometimes referred to as 'charm schools'). The goal is simple: to develop the capabilities of junior managers without costing a lot in terms of time, money or disruption to their jobs. These programmes also reflect an acknowledgement that a supervisor should not be the sole source of professional advice and mentoring.
Academia might do well to look to the private sector for a model that broadens the soft skills of PhD holders and expands their prospects. Many businesses offer their executives short, intensive training programmes that stimulate their professional development in key areas such as leadership, innovation and management. Some companies develop internal schemes; others hire consultants or send their executives on week-long programmes at business schools (sometimes referred to as 'charm schools'). The goal is simple: to develop the capabilities of junior managers without costing a lot in terms of time, money or disruption to their jobs. These programmes also reflect an acknowledgement that a supervisor should not be the sole source of professional advice and mentoring.
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