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℞ 7: Get character number by name
Unicode allows you to refer to characters by number or by name. Computers don't care, but humans do. When you have a character name, you can translate it to its number with the charnames pragma:
use charnames (); my $number = charnames::vianame("GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA");
This is, of course, the opposite of Get Character Names by Number.
See Characters and Their Numbers to translate from this number to the appropriate character.
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By default, the Personalization module is configured to use a standard SQL repository to store profiles. To use a composite repository instead, you need to perform the following steps:
 1. Override the ProfileAdapterRepository component with an instance of atg.adapter.composite.MutableCompositeRepository. See Overriding the ProfileAdapterRepository Component for more information.
 Alternatively, you can create a new instance of the composite profile repository and then change /atg/userprofiling/ProfileTools and other components to point to it. This option requires more changes and it is useful only if you must keep both the standard SQL profile repository and a composite profile repository. See Creating a Separate Composite Profile Repository for more information.
 2. If necessary, change the defaultProfileType property in the ProfileTools component to point to the name of a composite view in the composite profile definition. Select the view that you want to use as the default item type if no other types are specified, for example in a query. You must perform this step if the composite repository does not contain a composite view with the same name as the current value of this property (the default value is user). Note that this change may be necessary regardless of the option you select in step 1.
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'The British Vampire's Slavic Roots'
Fri, January 22, 2010 • 3:00 PM • Tom Lea Rooms, HRC 3.206
Thomas Jesus Garza, Texas Language Center
Bram Stoker can be credited with creating the modern Western vampire, but his vision of the legendary monster would not have been possible without the historical accounts of real-life figures from Eastern Europe. Tom Garza will reveal the origins and history of the vampire in Europe and Britain from the nineteenth century through the twentieth. The myth pervades popular culture to the present day.
Thomas Jesus Garza is University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and the Director of the Texas Language Center. He received his Ed.D from Harvard University in foreign language education. He teaches courses in Russian language, culture, and literature, including a popular course on the history of the vampire. He is working on a book on Russian and Mexican contemporary film.


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the universe beckons
In this beautiful intricate phenomenon,
Come, grow with me as time moves on
Universe is a gorgeous new collection for the autumn 2019 by Kristian Saarikorpi that was no more or less inspired by the universe itself. The spiral shape occurring in nature, that can be found in flowers and pine cones as well as in galaxies has always enthralled Kristian. Therefore, Kristian wanted to bring his own interpretation of the powers guiding the whole universe into the world of jewellery, and this interpretation was the start of Universe. The pieces of the Universe collection have a cracked rock crystal in the centre of them and they have been produced using 3D printing technique.


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Archaeologists in Mexico have found 4,926 well-preserved cave paintings in the north-eastern region of Burgos.
The images in red, yellow, black and white depict humans, animals and insects, as well as skyscapes and abstract scenes.
The paintings were found in 11 different sites - but the walls of one cave were covered with 1,550 scenes.
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Researchers have demonstrated that certain types of pain coping are correlated with less pain severity and disability and that there are differences between Caucasians and African-American pain patients in their use of specific coping strategies. However, the extent to which racial group differences exist in the associations between pain coping strategies and pain severity, interference, and disability is unclear. Furthermore, the role of education in these associations is uncertain. We recruited a diverse community sample of individuals with chronic pain and their spouses to examine this issue (N =105). Participants completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, Multidimensional Pain Inventory, and Sickness Impact Profile. Results showed that African-American participants reported significantly more pain severity, interference, and disability and reported using diverting attention and prayer and hoping pain-coping strategies significantly more often than Caucasian participants; however, only the racial group difference in prayer and hoping remained when controlling for education. We also examined whether race and education interacted with coping strategies in relating to pain and disability. Significant three-way interactions were found for physical and psychosocial disability, suggesting that educational level should be included in analyses exploring racial group differences. The results suggest the need for pain treatments that take into account the educational and cultural context of pain.
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Cano, Annmarie; Mayo, Ainoa; and Ventimiglia, Matthew, "Coping, Pain Severity, Interference, and Disability: The Potential Mediating and Moderating Roles of Race and Education" (2006). Psychology Faculty Research Publications. Paper 2.


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Difference Between a Sleeper Sofa and a Futon
Sleeper sofas and futons are double purpose furniture that have become ubiquitous in modern homes that have limited space or who frequently have guests that stay overnight. Sleeper sofas and futons are also common in hotel rooms to increase sleeping capacity. They are a great way to save on space and are easy to transport. They are also a great way to save on money as one does not have to spend separate money for a couch and a bed. And since they are basically similar in function, sleeper sofas and futons today have very little difference in appearance, especially with modern innovation.
Although modern day sleeper sofas and futons are practically the same in their dual function, the two still differ from each other. Aside from their origins, the two differ mainly in materials used and their construction. Their dimensions are also usually different. More about these dual purpose furniture and their differences are discussed further in the succeeding sections.
What is a Sleeper Sofa?
A sleeper sofa, also called a sofa bed – although the terms are sometimes subtly differentiated, is furniture that is designed primarily as a couch but can be converted into a bed by some mechanism such as hinges or springs. Although there have been many innovations on beds to make them portable or to save space, the first furniture that truly doubles as both a couch and a bed was invented in the 1930's and is credited to Bernard Castro, an Italian immigrant to the United States.
The cushions of sleeper sofas are typically made of foam, while the frame is mostly metal. Foam is a soft but stiff material, so the cushions are made of separate pieces. Some of the cushions are attached directly to the metal frame while the other pieces are detachable, to be placed side by side once the frame has been converted to a bed. While some sleeper sofa frames have a hinged mechanism that allows the backrest to be lowered, most frames have a pullout mechanism under the seat. This overall design makes the sleeping mattress only half as thick as when it is in couch mode and does not give optimum comfort for sleeping.
What is a Futon?
A futon is either the traditional Japanese style of bedding, or the futon sofa bed adapted by western culture – the two being very different. The traditional futon, used by the Japanese since ancient times, is only for sleeping and at its simplest is actually a set composed of mattress, duvet and pillow but without a bedframe. When not in use, traditional futons are first aired out in the open, and then stored in closets. Meanwhile, the western futon is basically a variant of the sleeper sofa invented by William Brouwer in the 1980's.
The futon mattress, whether the traditional or the western futon, is typically made of cotton and is all of one piece that can easily be folded or rolled. The frame is usually made of wood, with a backrest that can be lowered, and a footrest or a hidden deck under the seat that can be raised. The mattress is usually thinner than the cushions of a sleeper sofa in couch mode but thicker when converted into a bed, making the futon more comfortable for sleeping.
Difference between a Sleeper Sofa and a Futon
A sleeper sofa is any type of sofa that can be converted into a bed. A futon is either the traditional Japanese style of bedding composed of mattress, duvet and pillow, with no bedframe, or the adapted western futon which is basically a variant of the sofa bed.
Main function
A sleeper is mainly sitting furniture, with the bed as its second function. The futon is primarily a type of bedding with the mattress serving secondarily as a seat cushion for a sofa.
The first truly dual function sleeper sofa was invented by Bernard Castro in the 1930's while the futon was adapted into western use by William Brouwer in the 1980's.
Mattress or cushions
A sleeper sofa cushion is typically made of foam; it is soft but stiff. It cannot be folded nor rolled; instead, it can be made into separate pieces. Futons are usually made of cotton, made of one piece and as such, they can be easy to fold or roll.
Frame designs
Sleeper sofas frame are usually made of metal and are of a pullout design, with the extension hidden under the seat. Western futon frames are typically wood made in a hinged design, with a backrest that can be lowered and a footrest or a hidden deck under the seat that can be raised.
Seating comfort
Sleeper sofas are usually more comfortable than futons as seats, with thicker seat cushions than futons.
Sleeping comfort
Sleeper sofas are less comfortable as beds since the mattress is thinner than that of futons when spread out.
Sleeper Sofas vs Futons
 - Sleeper sofas and futons are double purpose furniture that are very useful as both seats and beds in homes with limited space or as extra sleeping areas for guests staying overnight.
 - They are also cost saving furniture due to their dual function.
 - Sleeper sofas come in many designs but their main quality is that they are made as couches first before beds.
 - Futons are the traditional Japanese style of bedding composed of mattress, duvet and pillow, without a bedframe. It was a adapted into the western culture as a sleeper sofa, with the mattress serving as seat cushion.
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2018 POLICY & ADVOCACY PRIORITIES
The Illinois State Alliance of YMCAs brings together more than 800 YMCA program locations working in 120 communities and engaging almost 1 million Illinoisans to strengthen the foundations of community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
Our 2018 policy priorities support legislation, policy and systems changes for:
Nurture the potential of every child and teen
- Improving access to and quality of child care and enrichment programming, especially through funding of the Child Care Assistance Program, Teen REACH, 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the Early Childhood Block Grant.
- Increasing funding and policy changes that address the student achievement gap, summer learning loss and education quality.
- Changing policy and expanding funding that promotes community violence prevention and safe environments for children and youth.
- Increasing access to water safety instruction to provide the life skill of swimming and prevent
Improve communities' well-being
- Encouraging programs that expand healthy living and address the well-being of individuals and communities.
- Increasing physical activity before, during and after school through investments in community infrastructure that promotes physical activity and funding for evidenced-based programs.
- Expanding access to healthy foods especially in food insecure communities.
- Transforming regulation and legislation that expands access to community-based chronic disease prevention programs through the Illinois health care system.
Giving back and providing support to our neighbors
- Improving state policies and funding to address childhood hunger during out of school time.
- Expanding legislation that encourages volunteerism and civic engagement.
- Preserving nonprofit tax exempt status in Illinois. To stay strong, effective and responsive to the needs of the local community, Illinois nonprofit organizations must be able to keep their nonprofit tax exemption and avoid additional fees on services.

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A Brock University professor, a physician and a bracing specialist are teaming up on research to expand our knowledge of bone strength as well as re-think how we design back braces for people with scoliosis.
And they're inviting women across the Niagara peninsula to take part in the project.
The researchers are seeking young women, aged 18-30 years, who have or have had scoliosis, and who used a scoliosis brace during their adolescence. Scoliosis is a medical condition characterized by curvature and rotation of the spine.
Bareket Falk, a researcher in Brock's Department of Kineseology, is undertaking the project with partners Alan Rigby of the private-sector business Niagara Prosthetics and Orthotics, and Dr. Matt Greenway of the Michael DeGroote School of Medicine.
Falk said the researchers want to study how bracing may affect bone during the growing years, and whether flexible scoliosis braces are more effective than the rigid braces traditionally used by patients with scoliosis. Importantly, the researchers are interested in examining how nutrition and exercise can be used to alleviate some of the potential effects of bracing.
Read the full story on the Brock News
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X-rays allow conservators to look underneath the surface of an object without damaging the object itself.
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For example, this excavated iron above just looks like a lump of material. It is not even obvious that there is something inside it. Analysis using x-ray radiation showed that there are the remains of a harness buckle inside. In fact the actual harness has rusted away. All that remains are the traces of the corroded metal in the shape of the original object. The buckle was probably used on an animal harness.
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Pattern welded Anglo Saxon sword, with an x-ray showing the pattern. Accession number Sw.U.5
X-ray analysis of these two pieces show that they are are both part of an Anglo Saxon sword. The sword has been made using a technique called pattern welding. Pattern welding is what can be seen in the 'herring bone' patterns visible on the x-ray image.


text: Non-discrimination is a recognized objective in algorithmic decision making. In this paper, we introduce a novel probabilistic formulation of data pre-processing for reducing discrimination. We propose a convex optimization for learning a data transformation with three goals: controlling discrimination, limiting distortion in individual data samples, and preserving utility. We characterize the impact of limited sample size in accomplishing this objective. Two instances of the proposed optimization are applied to datasets, including one on real-world criminal recidivism. Results show that discrimination can be greatly reduced at a small cost in classification accuracy.


American cemeteries in france
How many American cemeteries are in France?
25 American military cemeteries
What is the name of the American Cemetery in France?
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
What is the largest American cemetery in Europe?
Lorraine American Cemetery
Is Normandy cemetery American soil?
Located in the French commune of Colleville-sur-Mer, the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial was the first-ever American cemetery to be established on European soil. France has granted the U.S. a concession to the land, meaning the cemetery is a U.S. territory within France.
Do they still find bodies from ww2?
Are US soldiers still buried on Iwo Jima?
This former war cemetery was established in February 1945 and once held the remains of almost 7000 U.S. soldiers of the Third and Fourth Marine Division.
Why are American soldiers buried in France?
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial (French: Cimetière américain de Colleville-sur-Mer) is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II.
What does D Day stand for?
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Are there still bodies on Omaha Beach?
The 172-acre Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial overlooking Omaha Beach accommodated nearly 10,000 of the latter. Remaining in limbo were over 70,000 fallen servicemen whose bodies were not recovered, as well as the 10,356 remains that were unidentified.
How many American soldiers died in WWII?
Deaths in World War II In total, over 405,000 Americans gave their lives in the conflict. The military breaks out figures by state for the Army, which was the branch that contributed the most lives to the effort, by far. Nearly 235,000 soldiers were killed in battle during the war, with over 300,000 dying in total.
What is the largest cemetery in Europe?
These are the haunting pictures from a frosty, wintry day at Europe's biggest cemetery. Saint Lazarus cemetery, also called 'Doina', is located in Chisinau, the capital of the Eastern Europe's Republic of Moldova.
Where is the largest war cemetery?
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war.
Is Private Ryan still alive?
Despite Private Richard Reiben revealing that they lost two men finding him, he still refused. He asked Captain Miller to pass a message to his mother stating that he is alive and with the only "brothers" he has left, his fellow soldiers.
Was Saving Private Ryan a true story?
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Australian inventor of 'black box' recorder diesSYDNEY (AP) — David Warren, an Australian scientist who invented the "black box" flight data recorder, has died, defense officials said. He was 85.
SYDNEY (AP) — David Warren, an Australian scientist who invented the "black box" flight data recorder, has died, defense officials said. He was 85.
Warren, who died Monday, came up with the idea for the cockpit voice recorder after investigating the crash of the world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, the Department of Defence said in a statement. He thought it would be helpful for airline accident investigators to have a recording of voices in the cockpit.
He designed and constructed a black box prototype in 1956, but it took several years before officials understood just how valuable the device could be and began installing them in commercial airlines worldwide.
Warren was born in 1925 in a remote part of northeast Australia. In 1934, his father was killed in a plane crash in Australia.
He became the principal research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1952 to 1983.
"Dr. Warren's flight data recorder has made an invaluable contribution to safety in world aviation," the defense department said in a statement.
In 2002, Warren was awarded the Order of Australia — among the nation's highest civilian honors — for his work.
Warren is survived by his wife Ruth, four children and seven grandchildren.


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Compton, California has a population of
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The county average for households married with children is 32.91%.
The median household income in Compton, California is
The median household income for the surrounding county is $38,801
compared to the national median of $50,935.
The median age of people living in Compton is
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|Title:||Evolving Possibilistic Fuzzy Modelling|
|Abstract:||This paper suggests an evolving possibilistic approach for fuzzy modelling of time-varying processes. The approach is based on an extension of the well-known possibilistic fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering and functional fuzzy rule-based modelling. Evolving possibilistic fuzzy modelling (ePFM) employs memberships and typicalities to recursively cluster data, and uses participatory learning to adapt the model structure as a stream data is input. The idea of possibilistic clustering plays a key role when the data are noisy and with outliers due to the relaxation of the restriction on membership degrees to add up unity in FCM clustering algorithm. To show the usefulness of ePFM, the approach is addressed for system identification using Box & Jenkins gas furnace data as well as time series forecasting considering the chaotic Mackey-Glass series and data produced by a synthetic time-varying process with parameter drift. The results show that ePFM is a potential candidate for nonlinear time-varying systems modelling, with comparable or better performance than alternative approaches, mainly when noise and outliers affect the data available.|
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Though never saw it on screen the Drone ship was supposedly an adapted warbird. But what does the normal warbird look like?
First lets look at the Drone ship:
Let's logically assume the green fins, and holographic pins are the modifications that leaves the black shape below as the main body of the warbird. What do you think? i know the drone ship was a reuse of the Flea ship from Voyager but it's the only thing we have. their must have been at least a proto-warbird class in the 22nd century.


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Definition of Retinitides
1. retinitis [n] - See also: retinitis
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"The retinitides are, therefore, classed as idiopathic inflammations, those forms occurring in consequence of diseases of the kidneys, syphilitic retinitis,..."
2. Annals of Ophthalmology (1917)
"retinitides and diseases of the choroid respond only occasionally to this treatment. The consensus of opinion is that..."
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"... roidal diseases—perhaps preferably chorio-retinitides and retinal affections with decided implication of the external layers of the retina and intact..."


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How do I create and manage multiple organizations in Zoho Books?
Zoho Books allows you to create multiple organizations under a single account.
To create a new organization:
- Click on your organization name present on the top-right corner and select the Manage option.
- In the page that follows, click on the New Organization button.
- Enter your organizational details in the New Organization form. Once you finish setting up, you will be taken to the dashboard of your new organization.
- If you wish to switch between your organizations, click on your organization name present on the top-right corner and choose the organization to which you would like to switch from the drop-down.


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Cebu City told: Get ready for bus transit project-A A +A
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
CEBU CITY – Vehicular traffic will be disturbed. There may be pollution, loss of vegetation and trees. Power, water, telecommunications and other utilities may be disrupted.
These are among the environmental impacts of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Cebu City once its implementation and construction will start.
But project proponents assured these environmental impacts will be temporary and will last only during the construction period.
Representatives from the World Bank, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), and Woodfields Consultancy Inc. presented on Monday to the different stakeholders the potential environmental impacts of the project. Woodfields is the consultancy firm that conducted the environmental impact assessment.
Dr. David Green, the environmental specialist from Woodfields, listed on Monday in his presentation 14 environmental impacts in the construction phase of the BRT and six others during the project's operation phase.
To address all these concerns, Green said there is a need to establish an environmental management plan (EMP), which will outline specific strategies to offset any harm done on the environment.
During the construction, among the environmental impacts are the disturbance of pedestrians and the flow of traffic in the city. Construction materials will have to be stockpiled inside and around the project site.
The supply of power, water, telecommunications and other utility systems and services may also be interrupted, particularly along the BRT corridor.
The BRT route in the city will be from Bulacao, passing through N. Bacalso Ave., then to Osmeña Blvd., Escario St. and straight to Barangay Talamban.
Green added that the BRT will cause pollution due to solid and liquid wastes, hazardous wastes, and excavation spoils. There will also be noise pollution, which could be an issue for schools and hospitals.
Aside from these, Green said there will be "localized" ponding and flooding within the project site, construction camps and other areas adjacent to the project. The project may also cause siltation of nearby drainage channels and waterways.
There will be loss of vegetation and trees along the BRT corridor once the project will be implemented. Roadways in the city will have to be widened to give way to the buses that will be used for the mass transport system.
For the operation phase, Green said the environmental impacts of the BRT project will include noise pollution, air pollution, pollution due to solid and wastewater generation, conflict on power and energy sources, and traffic congestion and vehicular mobility.
Green said there is a need to make sure that the BRT project will comply with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' (DENR) noise standards and vehicle emission standards, among others.
There is also a need to formulate a solid waste management plan that will be in line with Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
Green also sees the need to use solar panels to minimize reliance on the city's local power provider.
As to the disturbance to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, Green said a holistic traffic management plan is recommended.
There is a need for a utility re-provisioning plan, to deal with interruptions in power, water, telecommunications and other utilities.
Other recommendations include the provision of a construction material management plan, drainage management plan, excavation protection and runoff control plan, and provision of vegetation and tree replacement and landscaping plan, among others.
Green said all these plans, which will be contained in the EMP, will be formulated by them with the help of the agencies and the City Government.
"The EMP is a working document. If there are unexpected impacts that will arise during the construction period of the project, then we have to include them in it," he said.
Delfin San Pedro, environmental impact team leader, assured that the environmental impacts of the BRT project will only be temporary.
"Majority of these will only be experienced during the construction period of the project," he said. San Pedro said the construction of the BRT system in the city will take one to two years.
Proponents of the BRT had said they are aiming for an October 2013 start and for the system to be operational by 2015.
San Pedro said they are already working with the EMP and its final draft will be submitted to the World Bank and DOTC by August for feedback. (Sun.Star Cebu)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on July 17, 2012.


Philosophy Of Taekwondo Belts
White is the color of purity, honesty, peace, and friendship
Beginner students have little knowledge of Taekwondo; they do not have an in-depth understanding of Taekwondo and the nature of its techniques and principles. In addition, white belts in taekwondo indicate that the student does not have any degree or rank in Taekwondo.
Yellow expresses hope and strives
The yellow belt indicates that the student is facing Taekwondo rays and is going to reach the depth. In other words, the seed buds are yellow at first and turn green after growth. Therefore, it can be said that the student is like a bud that tries to grow and flourish with persistent efforts.
Green is a sign of defense.
The seed that comes out of the soil gradually turns green. Green is the color of defense. As mentioned, Taekwondo is a defensive art. All of its techniques have been developed for defense. At this stage, the student is fully acquainted with the basic techniques and can perform them well.
Blue is the color of peace.
The color of the seawater and the color of the sky. Taekwondo seedlings are now in the sky and protected from storms. Now Taekwondo players become a tree that can easily protect themselves and others like an umbrella.
Why do taekwondo fighters use a white belt at the beginning and wear a black belt when they reach the top?? What are the meanings of choosing yellow, green, blue, red, black.???
Red is the color of attack and onslaught
The color of war and blood. The color of flame and fire.
Black, the world of the unknown
 The taekwondo player has reached the unknown. On the one hand, there is despair and fear, and on the other hand, the spirit of aggression is found in the red belt. The peace he found in the blue belt has made him patient.
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Jemmape is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Belgium. It was named after the Battle of Jemappes, fought between the French and the Austrians in 1792 near the village Jemappes, near Mons. Jemappes was spelled Jemmape, Jemmapes or Jemmappes at the time. Its territory corresponds more or less with that of the Belgian province Hainaut. Its capital was Mons.
The département came into existence in 1795, when the Southern Netherlands were occupied by the French. The département de Jemmape was formed from most of the County of Hainaut, Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur (Charleroi) and of the Bishopric of Liège (Thuin). See the 130 départements of the Napoleonic Empire.
- Mons, cantons: Boussu, Chièvres, Dour, Enghien, Lens, Le Roeulx, Mons, Pâturages and Soignies.
- Charleroi, cantons: Beaumont, Binche, Charleroi, Chimay, Fontaine-l'Evêque, Gosselies, Merbes-le-Château, Seneffe and Thuin.
- Tournai, cantons: Antoing, Ath, Celles, Ellezelles, Frasnes-lez-Anvaing, Lessines, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Péruwelz, Quevaucamps, Templeuve and Tournai.
After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the département became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands as the province of Hainaut. Its territory corresponds more or less with the present Belgian province Hainaut.
- Almanach Impérial, Testu, 1809 (accessed via Bibliothèque nationale de France).


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Ivan Finlay Leadership Award
The Ivan Finlay Leadership Award recognizes Alberta university engineering and geoscience students who demonstrate exceptional leadership qualities.
There are up to 10 awards available, each with a prize of $1,000.
To be eligible, a student must be enrolled in an engineering, geology, or geophysics undergraduate or graduate degree program in Alberta. Graduate students must also be either a member-in-training or applicant with APEGA.
Award recipients will be students who can demonstrate that they have achieved the following criteria within the last two years:
- Participated in planning career or personal development activities for university students, relevant to engineering or geoscience
- Volunteered at student events
- Provided impact/value by improving the reputation of the engineering or geoscience profession beyond the faculties (e.g., university-wide or community-wide)
- Demonstrated leadership skills by motivating and inspiring the people around them to accomplish more than they would have normally
- Actively shared responsibility, authority, information, and credit when working towards the achievement of a goal
- Taken prompt decisive action to resolve issues quickly and effectively
- Set a high standard of integrity by leading through example and maintaining high personal standards
- Effected positive change while in a leadership role.
Submissions must include:
- Completed nomination package
- Supporting documentation that describes the nominee and their achievements
- Any other supporting evidence that the Selection Committee should consider
- At least 2 professional letters of recommendation
- Proof of enrolment at a post-secondary institution
Detailed selection criteria are outlined in the nomination package.


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Jacob Gerstel
Tales from the Witcher showcases serialized, original short stories set in the Witcher universe. Part audiobook and part Actual Play Report, these tales are written and narrated by Jacob Gerstel—and are based on the adventures of his Witcher tabletop roleplaying group. We'll follow the exploits of a stoic Bear School witcher, an alcoholic elven sorcerer, a resourceful craftsman, a lively bard, and others as they try to stay alive during the Third Northern War. There's action and adventure, magic and the mundane, scheming and politics, elves and dwarves, war and peace, and—because it's the Witcher—a touch of philosophy. New episodes every Wednesday.
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text: We study the long-time behavior of solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger / Gross-Pitaevskii equation (NLS/GP) with a symmetric double-well potential. NLS/GP governs nearly-monochromatic guided optical beams in weakly coupled waveguides with both linear and nonlinear (Kerr) refractive indices and zero absorption, as well as the behavior of Bose-Einstein condensates. For small L2 norm (low power), the solution executes beating oscillations between the two wells. There is a power threshold at which a symmetry breaking bifurcation occurs. The set of guided mode solutions splits into two families of solutions. One type of solution is concentrated in either well of the potential, but not both. Solutions in the second family undergo tunneling oscillations between the two wells. A finite dimensional reduction (system of ODEs) derived in Marzuola and Weinstein 2010 and is expected to well-approximate the PDE dynamics on long time scales. In particular, we revisit this reduction, find a class of exact solutions and shadow them in the (NLS/GP) system by applying the above approach.


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In you used Windows 7, 8 or 10 to partition your hard drive, your partitions are likely to be already aligned. But this article will be useful for you if you edited partitions in Windows XP or cloned partitions using various third-party software. Here is how to check the alignment of HDD or SSD and align a partition using free utility without formatting and risk of data loss.
How to Check if the Partition is Aligned and Align it if Necessary
We recommend to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard for aligning partitions. This program is able to align a partition without formatting it and all your information will not be deleted. But it should be said that alignment can take a long time depending on the size of the partition and used disk space.
- Download and install AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard which is freeware: _URL_ :
- Launch the program.
- Select the partition you are interested in (left click on it).
- Click on Partition Alignment in the left pane:
- Click OK to optimize the partition:
Attention! If your partition is already aligned you will see "The current partition is already optimized thus there's no need to align it again". In this case just click Cancel:
- Click Proceed to start the alignment: Your data won't be lost!
- Wait. If you align the system disk your PC will reboot:
Your computer will restart when done and you will be able to work again.


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Early Bird/Late Bird
All K-2 classes at Rheem are on a split schedule. This schedule has the effect of reducing class size since it allows the teacher to spend the first hour of the day with half the class (the Early Birds), and the last hour of the day with the other half (the Late Birds)
For the first few weeks of school all students come as Early Birds to allow the teacher to decide upon the most appropriate groupings. Parents are notified when the split schedule is ready to start. Visit the Bell Schedule Page for specific times and dates.


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Replace tedious calculations and reduce human error with AutoTURN's automated, accurate and visual assurance that your ramp and driveway designs are safe and efficient. AutoTURN's Generate Grade Template and Place Vertical Simulation tools ensure your ramp and driveway design will safely accommodate the vehicles that will use them – especially for low clearance vehicles.
Come watch this recorded AutoTURN Tips webinar on how to check your ramp and driveway designs quickly and accurately.
In this recording, we discuss how:
- The Generate Grade Template feature shows the maximum upward and downward grade capabilities of a vehicle, and
- The Place Vertical Simulation feature allows you to evaluate the vehicle profile to determine if the vehicle can safely negotiate the vertical profile and clear overhead elements.


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 - How much to disclose depends primarily on your reason for disclosing. For example, if you have decided to disclose so that you do not have the burden of keeping a secret, it may not be sufficient for you to indicate that you are a person with a disability without indicating your diagnosis. You would meet the legal requirement, but you would still be keeping your diagnosis a secret.
 - Even if you are disclosing in order to request an accommodation or a leave of absence and you do not want your employer to be aware of too much information, you may consider simply indicating that you are a person with a disability, and describe the need you have. Understand that if your employer requires evidence of your condition (which it has a right to do), the evidence such as a letter from your doctor will likely include mention of your health condition.
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What is the 2 letters after the account name for address books?
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 assume I have an CardDAV account named "account" with an address book called "Accounts Addresses" (Baikal server, if that matters).
 I my contacts app I now see something like "Accounts Addresses (account xy)" in the address book selection. What is that "xy"? It seem to be 2 random letters (containing uppercase/lowercase/numbers).
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 DAVdroid address books accounts: They're named after the CardDAV address book which they are connected to, plus a hash of the URL, for instance: My addresses (UA). The hash is necessary when there are two address books with the same name. The address book account names will be shown in your contacts app as possible destinations for contacts.
 and here: _URL_
 Without the hash (the two letters), it would not be possible to have two address books with the same name (e.g. "Address book") in two different CardDAV accounts.
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Here's Mr. Squiggle
With lots of fun for everyone
Here's Mr. Squiggle
Sing a happy tune.
You can see we're as happy as can be
Mr Squiggle, the man from the moon.
Mr. Squiggle is an Australian TV show that features a puppet with a pencil for a nose. Mr Squiggle comes down from the moon each episode to produce artistic masterpieces from squiggles sent in by Aussie kids.
After creating something recognisable from random lines, circles and squiggles, Mr. Squiggle sometimes rotates the canvas and creates something new from the image that he has just made. Sometimes the pictures he makes are quite cool, especially considering that they derive from his previous attempts to bring order out of randomness.
To play the Mr. Squiggle home game, have a friend (or yourself) draw some random squiggles, then try and create a picture from it. Once you're done, rotate it and pass it on to someone else to see what they can do. Space walks are optional.
A picture of the rather phallic Mr. Squiggle:


Music of the eyes
EyeHarp is the first musical instrument that allows people with disabilities to learn and play music with gaze or with head movements.
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About Eyeharp
What is Eyeharp?
EyeHarp is a gaze-controlled or head-controlled digital musical instrument. It allows people with disabilities to learn and to play music without barriers. Designed with musicality in mind, EyeHarp offers the same expressive qualities as any traditional instrument.
About Eyeharp
How does it work?
Eyeharp musicians only need to install the software and use it with their Eyetracker, that is a special camera that monitors eye movements. With these two things, musicians can play beautiful melodies simply by looking at the notes on the screen.
About Eyeharp
Who is it for?
Eyeharp is best suited for people with disabilities who want to play music, for music therapists who use it with their clients, and for music teachers who have students with disabilities.
We offer training for professionals on a regular basis.
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Snapchat. One of those revolutionary apps that made an undeniable impact on the way social media apps work. Firstly introduced as iOS exclusive, later take a significant role within Android, too. And suddenly, it started declining to levels that make it almost unusable. Android users report Snapchat crashes, stutters, and overall poor performance. If you are among them, we have a few things to try and mitigate these issues, if not outright solve them.
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How to resolve Snapchat stutters and crashes on Android
If your Snapchat lags, stutters, or crashes on Android, make sure to clear data from the app, reinstall Snapchat, or roll back to an older version via an APK.
It goes without saying that you should be connected to a stable Wi-Fi network or mobile data network. Learn more below.
1. Clear apps cache and data
Let's start with the acknowledged route. Cache and data are there for a reason. Data is, obviously, everything you or the app itself stores on the internal storage. Cache, on the other hand, is there to speed the app's loading time and it contains temporary files. Both are important and both, sadly, can sometimes cause issues.
Follow the instructions below to clear both Data and Cache from the Snapchat app:
- Tap Settings.
- Open Apps or Application Manager.
- Open All apps.
- Tap Snapchat.
- Open Storage.
- Clear Cache and Data.
- Restart your device.
After that, you might need to sign in again with your credentials. If nothing changed and Snapchat still crashes, move through the additional steps.
2. Reinstall the Snapchat app
Even though the Android platform is much more homogenous nowadays, system update or structural changes within the system can affect the behavior of certain apps. And if an app is in a state in which is Snapchat currently, nothing should surprise you. Reinstallation is one way to address this.
Here's how to reinstall Snapchat on Android:
- Tap and hold the Snapchat app in the App drawer or on the Home screen.
- Drag it to the top and Uninstall it.
- Restart your device.
- Open Play Store.
- Search for Snapchat.
- Install the app.
3. Download older APK version
If the current, or even the latest few versions were causing issues, you can always downgrade by downloading the older, well-performing version. This procedure isn't as simple as roaming through Play Store, but it might help you overcome the current issues you're facing.
Here's what you need to do:
- Navigate to APKMirror, here, and download an older (but recent) APK version of Snapchat. Beta versions are also an option but we suggest avoiding them due to the aforementioned stability issues.
- Uninstall the Snapchat app.
- Allow app installation from external sources.
- Install APK, sign in, and look for improvements.
Don't forget to tell us in the comments section below. Thanks for reading and have a good day.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in August 2017. We made sure to revamp it for freshness and accuracy.


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How bent spaghetti break
Bent dry spaghetti do not break in half but instead in three or more pieces. With the aim to explain this surprising phenomenon, we studied a related problem, namely the dynamics of an elastic rod that is bent quasi-statically and then suddenly set free. Counter-intuitively, we find that the mere release of the rod induces a stress increase. The multiple breaking of bent rods, like dry spaghetti pasta, can then be understood as a cascade of releases (loss of cohesion upon breakings) followed by stress increases leading to new cracks.


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What is the role of prayer at the Center for Spiritual Living (Designator)?
Center for Spiritual Living (Designator) honors all forms of prayer. In addition, we teach a unique and scientific form of prayer called Affirmative Prayer. This powerful, affirmative method of prayer was developed by Dr. Ernest Holmes -- it involves a five-step process that harnesses the creative process of consciousness. This type of powerful, scientific prayer allows new levels of health, wealth, love, and wholeness to become a reality in our lives.


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Are you using mouse acceleration settings in Reflex or QL and want to get the same feeling in the other game or driver? Do you want to take your driver settings and use them in a game where the computer doesn't have the driver installed? I can help (if QL is involved, I'm assuming cl_mouseaccelstyle 1). First, here's a table of the equivalent options/commands between the driver, Quake Live, and Reflex:
Use this calculator if you want to convert from Quake Live to Reflex or the driver:
Note: Once you've set post-scale values to work as m_yaw and m_pitch values, you will want to set m_yaw back to 0.022 and m_pitch back to 0.022 or -0.022 (depending on if you use inverted mouse).
Use this calculator if you want to convert from Reflex to Quake Live or the driver:
Use this calculator if you want to convert your driver settings to a specific game:
There are multiple ways to perform these conversions. If you want to do any math yourself, keep in mind that sensitivity is multiplied in before the acceleration, offset, and sensitivity cap calculations are performed, whereas post-scale values are multiplied in after.


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The following three items are common concerns registered with the township office:
- Property Maintenance: high grass, weeds, rubbish, etc.
- Zoning: vehicles without a current state inspection, registration, or license plate on private property.
- Ordinance: animal concerns (such as dogs), noise, etc.
The process for filing a concern is:
- Submit a Resident Concern Form. Click here for the form, or pick one up at the township office.
- Mail or drop off the form, or a written letter, to the attention of Tom Daniels, Zoning Officer, 1240 Maple Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603, or
- Send your concern by email to Gretchen Smith _EMAIL_ or Tom Daniels _EMAIL_
The concern should include the name, address, and telephone number of the person registering it. The township is not obligated to process anonymous concerns, but will consider them on a case by case basis. Public health and safety issues should be reported under any circumstances.
When a concern is founded, the township office will follow procedure in order to resolve the matter. At times, these procedures can be lengthy. The township will do its best to keep the lines of communication open and resolve the matter as soon as possible.
It's always a good policy to talk with your neighbor first when there is a problem. Most residents prefer to have a neighbor approach them personally instead of receiving an official violation notice from the township.


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Due to high data volumes and unpredictable arrival rates, continuous query systems processing expensive queries in real-time may fail to keep up with the input data streams - resulting in buffer overflow and uncontrolled loss of data. In this work, we explore join direction adaptation (JDA) to tackle resource-limited processing of multi-join stream queries. While the existing JDA solutions allocate the scarce CPU resources to the most productive half-way join within a single operator, we instead leverage the operator interdependencies to optimize the overall query throughput. We identify result staleness as an impending issue in resource-limited processing, which gets further aggravated if throughput optimizing techniques are employed. For throughput optimization we propose the pathproductivity model and further extend it for fulfilling the Freshness tolerance. Our proposed JAQPOT approach is the first integrated solution to achieve near optimal query throughput while also guaranteeing fulfillment of the desired result freshness. JAQPOT runs in quadratic time of the number of streams irrespective of the query plan shape. Our experimental study, using both synthetic and real data sets, demonstrates the superiority of JAQPOT in achieving higher throughput than the state-oftheart strategies while, unlike the other methods, also fulfilling freshness predicates.


Offsite Detection
When measuring the power usage of laptops we need to consider the question of where the laptop is located at any point in time and hence who's power is being used to power the device. The offsite detection feature allows you to configure the eiPower agent to determine when a laptop is On-site (that is, operating within your organisation's buildings) or Off-site (such as when someone takes their computer home to do some work)
When the Off-site detection feature is enabled and configured the eiPower agent includes an On/Off site status on each power event sent to the server. Each of the eiPower saver reports contain a parameter that allows you to specify whether you want the report to include or exclude Off-site power events.
Offsite detection is configured by specifying one or more IP address ranges that contain all the IP addresses used in your organisation. For example, if your organisation uses the following subnets :
Then you would specify the following address ranges as your On-site address ranges: – –
Whenever a computer's IP address lies within one of these ranges then the computer is considered On-site, otherwise it is Off-site.
Notice that it is not necessary to specify an IP address range for each subnet in your organisation, it is only necessary to specify ranges that cover all the IP addresses. Additionally it does not matter if you specify IP ranges that cover a few IP addresses not used by your organisation – these will have no affect on the Offsite detection.
The eiPower agent only checks the IP address of the computer's ethernet and wireless network adaptors – all virtual adaptors are ignored. This ensures that a laptop that is connected via VPN to an organisation's network is not considered On-site.
The use of IP Address ranges to determine On/Off site status is a simple and effective mechanism for performing Offsite detection that does not introduce any addition network traffic.
Issue with use of Private IP Ranges
An issue can arise when an organisation uses the same IP address ranges that are typically used by home networks. In these situations, care must be taken when configuring Offsite detection to ensure that the eiPower agent does not incorrectly report devices as being On-Site when they are being used from someone's home or a public internet location.
The default configuration for your typical home modem/wireless device issues IP Addresses starting from either or Hence when a user is using their laptop at home they will generally have an IP address in the following ranges : -> ->
When the eiPower Offsite detection is configured is it important not to specify an IP Address range that includes the above IP address as doing so will cause the eiPower agent to report a computer as being On-site when it is actually being used from a user's home. Although there may be a few On-site computers that have an address in the above ranges which will get incorrectly reported as Offsite, these will be very small in number and will have a minimal affect on the report results.
Offsite Detection Changes in Adelaide Update 2
One of the major features in the Adelaide Update 2 release is an extension to the Offsite detection feature so that the eiPower agent is able to use the computer's DNS server as well as its IP address when determining if a computer is On/Off site.
The Offsite Detection Policy page has been updated to allow you to specify a list of DNS server addresses as well as the list of IP address ranges.
The agent have been updated to use the follow algorithm to determine if a computer is On/Offsite :
If the computer has no active ethernet or wireless adaptors then the computer is ON-SITE
Otherwise if one or more DNS addresses have been specified and the DNS address of the computer's ethernet or wireless adaptors is NOT in the list of DNS addresses then the computer is OFF-SITE
Otherwise if one or more IP address ranges have been specified and the IP address of the computer's ethernet or wireless adaptors is NOT within one of the IP address ranges then the computer is OFF-SITE.
Otherwise the computer is ON-SITE


Our Man Made Limestone
At Old World Stoneworks we fabricate our man-made limestone to emulate Indiana limestone also known as Bedford limestone, recognized to be the highest quality quarried limestone in the United States. Using a man-made limestone is a cost-effective alternative to natural limestone while still maintaining the inherit characteristics.
To make our limestone we use a dry mixture of finely grated aggregates and silica sand mixed with a bonding and hardening agent. We then put this mixture through a mulling machine where it is mixed with water in a forming process which makes it equally as durable and dense as natural limestone.


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Conservation work completed on one of Glasgow's most historic buildings
27 February 2013
Glasgow Cathedral has recently received £30,000 worth of conservation work by Historic Scotland to repair the damage inflicted by last year's gales.
Despite being the only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to have survived the 1560 Reformation virtually complete, the weathercock and spike on top of the landmark did not escape last year's merciless strong winds unscathed.
The spike of the church was no longer vertical due to corrosion and a closer examination of the weathercock showed damage to some of the rivets with the tail being completely blown off. A further structural inspection also found an area of the steeple was in need of re-pointing.
Overseeing the conservation work was Historic Scotland's District Architect, Ian Lambie. While the conservation itself was a fairly simple task, it was made more complex by the height of the building and the narrow conditions.
Ian Lambie said: "The only way of accessing the spire head was by climbing up inside the steeple using steep narrow ladders and squeezing and crawling through small windows at the apex. Making repairs at this sort of height has its challenges but it's always worth it for the view!"
Now that the necessary repairs are complete, the weathercock should be able to withstand the worst of the wind and the re-pointing should hold for at least another ten years.
Notes for editors:
Historic Scotland around the web:
- Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government charged with safeguarding the nation's historic environment. The agency is fully accountable to Scottish Ministers and through them to the Scottish Parliament.


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Implementing Motivational Interviewing for Exercise with Depressed Adults
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
RightsCopyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction, presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
AbstractBackground: Depression can negatively impact all aspects of life including physical health, financial stability, and job security. Motivational Interviewing (MI) reflects a counseling style based on five general principles: reflective listening, developing a discrepancy between the patient's goals, values and their current behavior, avoiding argument and direct confrontation, adjusting to client resistance instead of opposing directly, and finally, supporting self-efficacy and optimism. Exercise can improve mood, lessen the course of depression, and can provide benefits in addition to antidepressants. However, many with mental illness do not get enough exercise and this can compound their illness. Objective: The purpose of this DNP project was to determine the barriers and facilitators of employing Motivational Interviewing (MI) for exercise in an outpatient mental health clinic in Northern Arizona Methodology: Patients were interviewed pre and post MI intervention, as well as administered PHQ-9 pre and post MI intervention. Written responses were analyzed for commonalities in their survey questions. Setting: West Yavapai Guidance Clinic in Prescott Valley, AZ. Participants: There were five patients that met project guidelines for depression during the convenience sampling period. Results: Response rate among participants was 60%, with 80% female and 20% male. The PHQ-9 scores was lower at the one month follow up after the MI intervention for two participants and stayed the same for the third. Commonalties that were identified were "relaxed," "peaceful," and "nature," as well as "dogs." Barriers were "time" and "weather." Conclusion: The five participants reported depression and were identified as having depression on the PHQ-9. The three who followed up reported that they thought of exercise more frequently, and linked it to their mental health. With this small sample size there exhibited a positive association between targeting people's behavior via MI on exercise, and subsequent improvement in PHQ-9 scores, as well as positive thoughts regarding mental health and exercise.
Degree ProgramGraduate College


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Marble Chips and Acids
Date: Around 1999
I would be ecstatic if you have, or know of any site
that does, an investigation on the reaction between hydrochloric acid and
marble chips. (I am investigating how the concentration of acid affects
It is for my GCSE coursework, and as i have missed the last 2/3 months of
school; due to serious health problems, i am desperately stuggling.
I would really appreciate it if you could help in all areas (plan,
conclusion and analysis etc.). If anyone has handed in or re-written a
GCSE investigation to do with this experiment, i would be SO grateful if
you would email me with either a web page or details.
Newton isn't in the business of doing people's schoolwork for them. We're
here to help them learn, which isn't the same thing.
You have chosen a somewhat difficult system to investigate, as it involves
two different phases (solid marble chips and liquid HCl in solution). The
progress of the reaction will depend on many variables other than the
concentration of the HCl. Two that are especially prominent because of the
two-phase nature are: 1. The ratio of surface area of the chips to the mass
of the chips. Smaller chips or chips of irregular shape will have
proportionately more surface area than large or blocky chips. 2. The
mixing between the two phases. As the reaction proceeds, HCl near the chips
will be depleted, and the concentration there will be less than the average
concentration throughout the reaction mixture. This could really throw off
your investigation. To minimize problem 1, you will need to use similar
marble chips for each experiment. They should be the same size and general
shape from run to run to give you interpretable results. For your analysis,
it may be a good idea to estimate the surface area (in, say, square
centimeters per gram) of the chips. This number may change as the reaction
proceeds, so you may also want to determine the area as a function of time
or extent of reaction as well. To minimize problem 2, you will need to keep
the reaction mixture well-mixed throughout the course of the reaction.
Before I go further, I should establish exactly what reaction is occurring.
CaCO3(s) + H+(aq) + Cl-(aq) --> Ca++(aq) + HCO3-(aq) + Cl-(aq)
HCO3-(aq) + H+(aq) + Cl-(aq) --> H2CO3(aq) + Cl-(aq)
H2CO3(aq) --> H2O + CO2(g)
Add these all together to get
CaCO3(s) + 2H+(aq) --> Ca++(aq) + H2O + CO2(g)
Depending on what the rate-determining step of this reaction is, the
kinetics should be either first or second order in acid.
There are several ways that you can follow the reaction, and it may be a
good idea to try more than one of them. As the reaction proceeds, solid
marble (CaCO3) disappears, acid (H+) is consumed, and carbon dioxide gas
(CO2) is produced. You could measure these by:
CaCO3: Stop the reaction after some period of time by filtering out and
washing the marble, and weigh it.
acid: Measure the pH of the reaction as it proceeds (requires a pH meter,
which is expensive), or fish out the marble and titrate the remaining acid.
CO2: Trap the gas evolved into an inverted graduated cylinder or a balloon,
and measure its volume. You could also trap it onto a chemical adsorbent,
such as Ascarite of soda lime, and weigh the charged sorbent. (Both
measurements would need to be corrected for water vapor in the collected
As for analysis and conclusions, you will need some data first. This should
be enough to get you started.
Richard E. Barrans Jr., Ph.D.
PG Research Foundation, Darien, Illinois
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The Impact of the Chinese Exchange Policy on Foreign Trade
with the European Union
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Chinese foreign exchange policy on foreign trade with the European Union. After describing the importance of the exchange rate in an open economy and some of the methodologies employed to calculate its equilibrium value, we examine whether the Chinese competitiveness is due to the existence of misalignment (undervaluation) of its exchange rate, or rather, to other sources of competitiveness. For this purpose, we use a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model to estimate a long-run exports equation. The empirical results indicate that over the past few years, Chinese exports have benefited from an 'unfair' competitive advantage resulting from the manipulation of its currency value.


A Study on the Adaptability of College Students' Ideological and Political Education under the Environment of New Media
New media has rapidly become the important way of college students' school life and interpersonal communication for its fast spread, strong interaction, and universality. When the new media provides hope and opportunities for the ideological and political work in colleges and universities, it also brings impacts and challenges to the traditional way of education. Colleges and universities ought to actively seek for strategies of the adaptability of ideological and political education under the era of new media by strengthening the building of staff, improving political consciousness, building college new media platform, reinforcing college students media literacy education and introducing the new field of college ideological and political education.
Wang Cuiting, Zhu Shasha


What is the X in X-mas?
hype, a
Slang definitions & phrases for hype, a
hype, a
noun phrase
 1. A high-pressure advocacy or urging; a publicity or public relations invention: The nostalgia for the Fifties is not entirely a media hype/ This is gonna sound like a hype (mid-1960s+)
 2. A person or thing promoted by hype (mid-1960s+)
 3. A swindle; con, scam (1962+)
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Electrochemical testing using a potentiostat including Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy EIS is an excellent way to quantify the corrosion and to investigate details not visible otherwise. Electrochemical testing is very sensitive to surface events. It determines electrochemical characteristics of a system, measures corrosion rate of material and passivity / pitting behaviour. Electrochemical data is normally presented in the form of graphs which are easy to compare for the purpose of e.g. materials compatibility (galvanic corrosion prevention), corrosion resistance / rates in different environments, coatings performance.
Potentiostat Electrochemical Testing Applications
- Determining the porosity in coatings.
- Detemining the overportential for passivation.
- Determining the effectiveness of anticorrosion inhibitors and impact of water additives.
- Determining electrochemical compatability of materials to assess and prevent galvanic corrosion.
Basic Electrochemical Corrosion Tests
- Open Circuit Potential OCP reflects thermodynamic tendency of the material to participate in the electrochemical corrosion with the electrolyte.
- Tafel Plots to determine corrosion current and corrosion rate.
- Potentiodynamic Polarisation to assess passive and pitting behaviour as well as compare corrosion rates.
- Galvanic corrosion coupling to measure galvanic corrosion rates and potentials of dissimilar metals which can drive corrosion.
- Electrochemical Impedence Spectroscopy EIS study of the performance of protective anti-corrosion coatings.


What Country Has The Largest Bust Sizes?
What Country Has The Largest Bust Sizes?
The Journal of Female Health Sciences recently published a fascinating study. They surveyed bust sizes worldwide to see which nationality had the largest. Their study concluded that women in the USA have the largest boobs in the world. Canada, Ireland, Poland, and England rounded out the Top 5. Women in Africa and Asia tended to have the smallest breast sizes.
What Country Has The Largest Bust Sizes?
Here's a graph that showcases their results:
What Country Has The Largest Breast Sizes?
How Will This Study Be Used?
You might be wondering why researchers were so interested in this topic. The reason might not be what you'd think. Knowledge of breast size variations among different countries is used by the clothing industry. They use these numbers to market and develop products with global applications. The data are also used by other industries, as well as cosmetic surgeons.
The Average American Bra Size
According to this article from Medical Daily, the average bra size in America is now a 34DD, compared to an average size of 34B only 20 years ago.
Why Has The Average Size Gone Up?
While the number of breast augmentations have gone up significantly in the last twenty years, they aren't enough to account for such a substantial rise in the average American breast size. There are several theories about the recent rise in bust sizes.
If you look at the numbers on the chart, you'll probably notice that the nations closer to the top are in North America and Europe, which, on the whole have higher incomes and better nutrition. These countries also tend to have taller people, and a higher average weight.
This is probably one of the most accurate theories about boob sizes.
Some people, like the author of this article from Green Prophet, attribute the change in breast size to nutrition, including the relatively recent addition of hormones to dairy and meat.
This might sound like some far-out conspiracy theory. However, countries like the USA and England do consume a lot of dairy. Asian countries consume almost no milk or cheese. There are many naturally occurring hormones in dairy that mimic estrogen. In many of these countries, girls are starting puberty at younger ages.
This doesn't mean that their theory is 100% valid, but it does raise some questions.
Proper Bra Fitting
Other sources, like this article from the Today Show, argue that women's breast sizes haven't gotten substantially bigger.
Instead, they say that women are only recently finding out their true bra sizes. Almost ten years ago, Oprah did an entire episode teaching women to find their actual bra sizes, and it turned out that many women who thought they were a B ended up being a D or larger.
It might not come as a surprise that America and Europe have the largest breast sizes. However, with new technology and GMOs, more countries are getting better nutrition. The question is: will they start to experience larger breast sizes, too? If theories about hormones in meat and dairy are correct, the numbers might not shift substantially. But, if it's more of a question about nutrition in general, it might.
In another 20 years, the list might become a little less top-heavy (no pun intended).


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Something like 'Optionality' or 'Ordinality'? (It's similar in kind to the words "Arity" and "Cardinality")
Example: "Fred listed the XXXity of each parameter, noting whether it was optional or mandatory"
Follow-up question: What part of speech is this?
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Optionality is obviously a noun (you are even using it with a definite article in your example) and is included as such in several dictionaries (Wiktionary, Merriam-Webster, Collins). And in fact some dictionaries have a dedicated entry for the suffix -ity. – RegDwigнt Apr 4 '13 at 10:16
I see - as in "noun referring to a state or quality"... so there isn't a specific word for this? – Richard Inglis Apr 4 '13 at 10:32
How about 'Necessity'? Does a thesaurus help? – Mitch Apr 4 '13 at 12:00
Are looking for a part of speech more refined than 'noun'? You're looking for an abstract concept but there's nothing grammatically special about that. – Mitch Apr 4 '13 at 12:03
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There are a few recently contrived words that try to do this; optionality is indeed used from time to time, and I've seen things like mandatoriness too. But actually there are some more established words that do the same job.
Of course, optional-ness is actually binary - something is either optional or mandatory. Therefore the quality of optionality/optional-ness is actually the same as the quality of mandatory-ness or compulsory-ness, just with the polarity reversed.
All of which is a fairly long winded way for me to get around to saying this:
I think the word you're looking for is the noun, necessity.
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+1 for necessity – Canis Lupus Apr 4 '13 at 12:12
It appears that Ordinality is used in this sense (even though it has a more normal meaning of 'ordering'). Maybe this is verging on jargon.
For example: "Ordinality is a property that indicates whether an entity instance is mandatory"
(from: 'Oracle SQL and Pl/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers')
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Naming of database properties isn't always a guide to good English usage. – DJClayworth Apr 4 '13 at 16:55
Agreed, but in this case the context happened to be appropriate :) – Richard Inglis Apr 4 '13 at 21:50
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text: We present an iterative inner-outer scheme for the efficient solution of large-scale electromagnetics problems involving perfectly-conducting objects formulated with surface integral equations. Problems are solved by employing the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) on parallel computer systems. In order to construct a robust preconditioner, we develop an approximate MLFMA (AMLFMA) by systematically increasing the efficiency of the ordinary MLFMA. Using a flexible outer solver, iterative MLFMA solutions are accelerated via an inner iterative solver, employing AMLFMA and serving as a preconditioner to the outer solver. The resulting implementatin is tested on various electromagnetics problems involving both open and closed conductors. We show that the processing time decreases significantly using the proposed method, compared to the solutions obtained with conventional preconditioners in the literature.


Promising prospects for cooperation between DBDH and Castilla y León
Date: 12/11/2013
The memorandum of understanding between Castilla y León and DBDH, initiating the a partnership with the Spanish Bioenergy Association and regional politicians in the region of Castilla y León in Northern Spain seems very promising. The objective of the MOU is to promote renewable energy and make district heating more efficient in the region.
Through the cooperation DBDH intent to create a meeting platform for Danish and Spanish district heating companies and strengthen trading relationships between the two countries. The objective is to help establish Danish companies in the region thus enhancing the use of renewable energy in district heating plants.
Ever since 2006, the numbers of district heating plants in Spain have more than tripled. In the regions of the more cold areas of Spain, there is a rising need for Danish knowledge and technology in terms of heating. The Danish technology will make energy from heating plants more efficient. In addition, it will help to make use of the regions vast resources of forest and agriculture.
There have been a substantial amount of articles in the Spanish in the last days:
Castilla y León y Dinamarca se unen para promover redes de calefacción de biomasaí-en-castilla-y-león
Castilla y León y Dinamarca firman un acuerdo para compartir tecnología en sistemas de biomasa


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The National Association of Computerized Tax Processors (NACTP) is a nonprofit association that represents tax processing software and hardware developers, electronic filing processors, tax form publishers, and tax processing service bureaus.The association represents the collaborative nature of its organizational members.
By working together, these organizations seek to achieve the following goals:
- Serve as a unified industry voice in tax administration matters.
- Promote and improve the relationship and communication between NACTP member companies and government tax agencies.
- Encourage the standardization of tax forms; the timely distribution and clarification of forms, instructions, and regulations; and the simplification of approval procedures.
- Promote the standardization and simplification of electronic filing systems.
- Promote the standardization and simplification of unemployment and withholding wage filing processing systems.
- Maintain professional standards in the computerized tax processing industry.
- Function as a nonprofit association formed for the mutual benefit of its members.


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Self-produced booklets by migrant parents about their own educational background
To make a folder that compares the migrant parents' educational background with the Danish school system and its pedagogical background. The aim is to create dialog and understanding.
How to do:
1. Meeting – parents and teachers
a. The parents in each class talk together two and two about their own educational background. They talk about their experiences with: education, homework, discipline, teachers, school yard, and how their parents worked together with the teachers.
Each pair of parents agrees on a history they want to tell, and the stories will be recorded on tape.
b. The parents talk together about their children's education, and choose one ore two stories, and the stories will also be recorded on tape.
An interpreter helps the teacher to translate and write the stories. These stories are collected in a small booklet.
The small booklet will be sent home to all the parents.
2. Meeting – parents and teachers
In this meeting the parents tell their story. The teachers and the other parents ask questions and compare with their own education and school. Then they compare with their children's education and school and their way of learning.
3. Meeting – Parents, teachers and children
In this meeting the children create plays about their parent's stories. (There will be taken a lot of photos of every subject)
The subject of the sketches and the histories are:
- Parents and teachers work together
After each subject there will be discussions, comparisons and questions about the subject and to the teaching which is going on (right) now for the children. Subjects, discussions, arguments and questions are written and collected together with the photos in a (small) booklet.
The booklets are sent to the parents.
Through dialogue, debate, arguments and questions, the two booklets the parents have made themselves are going to be used as a key to understanding. In addition it creates knowledge and the possibility to ask questions.
The booklet can be adapted to different age levels.


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Does personality moderate reaction and adaptation to major life events? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
A nationally representative panel study of British households was used to examine the extent to which Big Five personality traits interact with the experience of major life events (marriage, childbirth, unemployment, and widowhood) to predict increases and decreases in life satisfaction following the event. Results show that major life events are associated with changes in life satisfaction, and some of these changes are very long lasting. Personality traits did not have consistent moderating effects on the association between stressful life events and life satisfaction over time.
Journal of Research in Personality
Volume and page numbers
46, 477 -488
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I designed a kernel function (to be used within SVM) which has the expression $tr(AB)$ in it. For efficient implementation of this, I was wondering if I could write $tr(AB)$ as an inner product: $\phi(A)^T \phi(B)$? What is the function $\phi()$?
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I'm not sure I understand your question (it would help if you eliminated or explained your jargon), but the obvious optimization is that you don't explicitly need to compute AB: tr(AB) is the sum of A_{ij}*B_{ji} over all pairs i,j. You can do this with a single pass over your matrices. – Darsh Ranjan Jan 14 '10 at 9:25
_USER_ you beat me by 3 minutes! I can explain some of the terminology. Imagine you have data in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (here it seems to be in $\mathbb{R}^{d\times d}$??) but want to work with it in $\mathbb{R}^D$, which you can accomplish by passing everything through a mapping $\Phi$. If $D \gg d$, this can be expensive. But in some cases your algorithm need only compute inner products $\langle \Phi(a), \Phi(b)\rangle$, in which case there may be a functin $k(\cdot,\cdot)$ which computes the same thing but with much less work than the explicit mapping. this is called the 'kernel trick'. – Matus Telgarsky Jan 14 '10 at 9:34
Note that you don't really need the explicit mapping $\phi$. What you want is a kernel $k(A, B)$ which has the property that $k(A, B) = \phi(A)^T \phi(B)$. Generally, you compute the kernel directly, instead of calculating the mapping and computing the dot product -- that's why it's called kernel 'trick'. In your case, it seems you want the kernel to be $k(A, B) = tr(AB)$. So it seems you want to know how to compute the trace efficiently, rather than what the mapping is. – user3035 Jan 14 '10 at 10:02
The non-efficiency-related part of this question is basic linear algebra: tr(AB) is an inner product on the space of nxn matrices and so you can find isometric isomorphisms from M_{nxn} to R^{n^2}. Any of these will do for the map phi. I do not know whether or not any of these will improve the efficiency in calculating the trace, but I doubt it. – Andrew Stacey Jan 14 '10 at 10:20
Sorry for being ambiguous. I know that I can implement $k(A,B)$ directly and avoid needing $\phi()$. But it would be nice if I have $\phi()$ because then, I can use a regular linear SVM on my $\phi()$ mapped vectors. This is much simpler and faster compared to implementing $k(A,B)$ and plugging it into SVM. – andinos Jan 14 '10 at 21:39
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Matus is right. But if the matrices $A$, and $B$ have certain properties like being symmetric, or diagonal, then simply just vectorizing the matrices and taking their inner product would be equal to the $tr(AB)$.
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If $A,B$ are arbitrary $n\times n$ matrices, by definition of trace, $\textrm{tr}(AB) = \sum_{i,j} A_{ij}B_{ji}$. This is $O(n^2)$, but just reading the entries of $A$ is $\Omega(n^2)$. Without any special structure on $A,B$, you probably can't do better.
If $A,B$ are (column) vectors, you probably mean the outer product $\textrm{tr}(AB^T) = \sum_i A_i B_i$.
Edit: andinos clarified to say he wants to know about the implicit mapping of the kernel function. Well I have bad news: It does not exist!! The proof works by showing there exist matrices $A,B$ such that the corresponding kernel matrix is not positive semi-definite. To finish, apply Mercer's theorem.
In particular, set $A = \left(\begin{array}{cc}1 & 1 \\\\ -1 & 1\end{array}\right)$ and $B = A^T = \left(\begin{array}{cc}1 & -1 \\\\ 1 & 1\end{array}\right)$. Therefore $\textrm{tr}(AB) = \textrm{tr}(AA^T) = 4$, and $\textrm{tr}(BA)$ is identical. On the other hand, $\textrm{tr}(AA) = \textrm{tr}(BB) = 0$. therefore, the kernel matrix $K$ is $\left(\begin{array}{cc}0 & 4 \\\\ 4 & 0\end{array}\right)$. Set $x = \left(\begin{array}{c} 1 \\\\ -1\end{array}\right)$, and observe that $x^T K x = -8 < 0$, and therefore $K$ is not PSD, so the kernel $k(A,B) = \textrm{tr}(AB)$ is not PSD.
On the other hand! If you had instead defined your kernel to be $k'(A,B) = \textrm{tr}(AB^T)$, notice that $k'(A,B) = \sum_{i,j}A_{ij}B_{ij} = \Phi(A)^T\Phi(B)$ where $\Phi$ simply takes its input matrix and outputs it as a column vector.
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Question: What Does Beneficial Mean?
What does it mean to be beneficial to someone?
(sometimes foll by to) causing a good result; advantageous.
law entitling a person to receive the profits or proceeds of propertya beneficial interest in land..
What does not beneficial mean?
: not beneficial : harmful.
What is the root of beneficial?
It comes straight from Latin, and Italians use it as often as we use "good;" it can mean "fine," "okay," "yummy," or "kind and well behaved." Bene gives us beneficial, but also benefit, beneficent, benevolent and more well-meaning words.
What is a beneficial friend?
A beneficial friend is some one u can make-out wiht and still have a boyfriend/girlfriend and youv can conifined in them with stuff but you also have to trust them! Beneficial friend today is used among us teenagers and some times with adults! Its practicly a boyfriend but not really!
What does beneficial mean in a sentence?
Definition of Beneficial. helpful or good to something or someone. Examples of Beneficial in a sentence. 1. The vitamins he took were beneficial to his health.
Does beneficial mean good?
Helpful or good to something or someone. Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment. The definition of beneficial is something that has a positive effect or achieves a good result. … Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
Is beneficial to or for?
"For" as a preposition answers "for what", while "to" answers "to whom," so if you have an object of a preposition like Jane or something like that, you'll probably use "to" (e.g., it's beneficial to Jane VS it's beneficial for the building).
How do you use the word beneficial?
Beneficial sentence examplesRolling the land is beneficial to young crops. … The ladybugs were beneficial insects, eating the pesky aphids. … These results would prove to be beneficial to the community. … The doctor said it was beneficial bacteria. … They were beneficial organisms and were allowing pathogens to thrive.More items…
What is beneficial owner?
What is another word for not beneficial?
What is another word for not beneficial?nonpayingprofitlessunsuccessfulunprofitableworthlessunproductivefutileuselessvainfruitless13 more rows
How do you identify a beneficial owner?
The test to identify beneficial ownership You must determine who owns more than 25 percent of the customer and who has effective control of the customer, and also those persons on whose behalf a transaction is conducted.
Who are not beneficial owners?
What does beneficial mean in a relationship?
Mutually beneficial relationships mean you both enjoy the perks of such a relationship without a long list of commitments.
Is more beneficial grammatically correct?
much more beneficial vs much beneficial. A complete search of the internet has found these results: much more beneficial is the most popular phrase on the web.
Is a CEO a beneficial owner?


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I have a two-server queue with Poisson arrival rate and $\lambda$ exponential services with $\mu$ ( first server service rate) and 2$\mu$ ( 2nd server service rate). Capacity is infinite.
Then why is the number of customers in the queue at time $t$ not a Markov Process?
Can you please help me out?
Thank You.
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You need extra information to make the process a Markov process. The Markov property requires that the future depend only on the current state, but suppose you have only a single customer in the system. The future behaviour of the system depends on the history of the process (namely which server that job started service with) not just the current state. (It could experience service at rate either $\mu$ or $2\mu$.)
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A Clue scroll (hard), sometimes called a level 3 clue scroll, is a random drop from a large variety of high-levelled monsters or it can be bought from Stanley Limelight for 45 thaler. These clue scrolls can be 1-8 steps long. If a player possesses a clue scroll, they must either complete it or drop/destroy it in order to receive a new one. Clue scrolls are the start of a Treasure Trail - a treasure hunt that sends players hunting all around RuneScape. At the end of the hunt players receive a reward of items randomly selected from a specific list, possibly including very rare and very valuable items. For a guide on how to complete a clue scroll, see: Treasure Trails Guide. Level 3 clue scrolls are usually moderately long and complex, and can give the player puzzle boxes to solve. They can also involve trips to the Wilderness, and fights with a Zamorak wizard or a Double agent. They can offer valuable rewards in return, such as Third-age armour or Gilded armour.
These clue scrolls are much harder than those of the difficulties below, due to the risk of being attacked, and the requirements for more quests to be at least partially completed.
This clue scroll may contain the following types of clue:
Completion of hard clues will either give a Scroll box (hard), containing another clue, or a Casket (hard), containing the final reward for the trail.
Dropping monstersEdit
Rewards from any levelEdit
Image Name
Coins 10000 2,500–50,000 Coins
Saradomin page 1 Guthix page 1 Zamorak page 1 Armadyl page 1 Bandos page 1 Ancient page 1 1–3 God pages for God books.
Meerkats pouch Fetch casket scroll Noted Meerkats pouches or fetch casket scrolls
Hard rewardsEdit
For a detailed breakdown of the drop mechanics and calculations involved with the drop chances, see Treasure Trails/Rewards#Hard
The items listed below are the rewards you can get from level 3 Treasure Trails. 4 to 6 items are awarded from each Casket (hard) opened. These and the elite clue scrolls are the only levels of clue scrolls from which the rare third age armour rewards may be received.
Enchanted robes equipped
A player wearing Enchanted robes
Robin hood hat equipped
A player wearing a Robin hood hat
Sack of effigies equipped
A player wearing a Sack of effigies
Gilded armour set (sk) equipped
A player wearing Gilded armour
Third-age melee armour equipped
A player wearing Third-age armour
Rare rewards table[1]
Image Name
Yew composite bow Magic composite bow Yew composite or Magic composite bow
Rune full helm (t) Rune platebody (t) Rune platelegs (t) Rune plateskirt (t) Rune kiteshield (t) A piece of Trimmed rune armour
Rune full helm (g) Rune platebody (g) Rune platelegs (g) Rune plateskirt (g) Rune kiteshield (g) A piece of Gold-trimmed rune armour
Saradomin full helm Saradomin platebody Saradomin platelegs Saradomin plateskirt Saradomin kiteshield A piece of Saradomin rune armour
Guthix full helm Guthix platebody Guthix platelegs Guthix plateskirt Guthix kiteshield A piece of Guthix rune armour
Zamorak full helm Zamorak platebody Zamorak platelegs Zamorak plateskirt Zamorak kiteshield A piece of Zamorak rune armour
Dragonhide body (t) (blue) Dragonhide chaps (t) (blue) A piece of Trimmed blue dragonhide armour
Dragonhide body (g) (blue) Dragonhide chaps (g) (blue) A piece of Gold-trimmed blue dragonhide armour
Pirate's hat Robin hood hat Pirate or Robin hood hat
Enchanted hat Enchanted top Enchanted robe Enchanted hat, top, or robe
Tan cavalier Dark cavalier Black cavalier Tan, dark, or black cavaliers
Rune helm (h1) Rune platebody (h2) Rune platelegs (h3) Rune plateskirt (h4) Rune shield (h5) A piece of Rune heraldic armour (h1—h5)
Amulet of glory (t) Amulet of fury (t) Amulet of glory (t) or Amulet of Fury (t)
Saradomin stole Guthix stole Zamorak stole Saradomin, Guthix, or Zamorak stole
Saradomin crozier Guthix crozier Zamorak crozier Saradomin, Guthix, or Zamorak crozier
Armadyl mitre Bandos mitre Ancient mitre Armadyl, Bandos, or Ancient mitre
Armadyl cloak Bandos cloak Ancient cloak Armadyl, Bandos, or Ancient vestment cloak
Saradomin coif Saradomin body Saradomin chaps Saradomin vambraces A piece of Blessed d'hide armour (Saradomin)
Guthix coif Guthix body Guthix chaps Guthix vambraces A piece of Blessed d'hide armour (Guthix)
Zamorak coif Zamorak body Zamorak chaps Zamorak vambraces A piece of Blessed d'hide armour (Zamorak)
Fox mask White unicorn mask Black unicorn mask Green dragon mask Blue dragon mask Red dragon mask Fox, white unicorn, black unicorn, green dragon, blue dragon, or red dragon animal masks
Top hat Rune cane Top hat or Rune cane
Costume-skipping ticket Puzzle-skipping ticket Knot-skipping ticket 1–4 Costume, Puzzle, or Knot-skipping tickets
 1. ^ Approximately 1 in 16 chance per item roll to receive something from this table.
Dyes & Capes reward table
Image Name
Barrows dye Shadow dye Barrows dye[1] or Shadow dye[2]
Backstab cape Sack of effigies Explosive barrel Backstab cape[3], Sack of effigies[4], or Explosive barrel[5]
Prismatic large fallen star Prismatic large fallen star
 1. ^ Approximately 1 in 1,707 chance per clue to receive a Barrows dye.
 2. ^ Approximately 1 in 3,072 chance per clue to receive a Shadow dye.
 3. ^ Approximately 1 in 4,608 chance per clue to receive a Backstab cape.
 4. ^ Approximately 1 in 9,216 chance per clue to receive a Sack of effigies.
 5. ^ Less than a 1 in 100,000 chance per item roll to receive an Explosive barrel, making it the rarest of all hard rewards.
Mega-rare table[1]
Image Name
Gilded full helm Gilded platebody Gilded platelegs Gilded plateskirt Gilded kiteshield A piece of Gilded armour[2]
Super attack (4) Super defence (4) Super strength (4) 5 (noted) Super attack, Super defence, and Super strength potions
Super energy (4) Super restore (4) Antifire (4) 15 (noted) Super energy, Super restore, or Antifire potions
Starved ancient effigy Starved ancient effigy[3]
 1. ^ Approximately 1 in 1,536 chance per item roll to receive something from this table.
 2. ^ Approximately 1 in 676 chance per clue to receive a piece of Gilded armour—approximately 1 in 3,380 for a specific piece.
 3. ^ A maximum of 5 effigies can be stored by a player. If a player does have 5 effigies stored and would have obtained this reward, 2,500 coins is rewarded in its place.
Third-age rewards table[1]
Image Name
Third-age full helmet Third-age platebody Third-age platelegs Third-age kiteshield A piece of Third-age warrior armour
Third-age mage hat Third-age robe top Third-age robe Third-age amulet A piece of Third-age mage armour
Third-age range coif Third-age range top Third-age range legs Third-age vambraces A piece of Third-age ranger armour
 1. ^ Approximately 1 in 3,380 chance per clue to receive something from this table—approximately 1 in 40,551 for a specific piece.
Common rewards table
Image Name Image Name
Rune pickaxe Rune longsword Rune 2h sword Rune pickaxe, longsword, or 2h sword Rune full helm Rune platebody Rune platelegs Rune kiteshield Rune full helm, platebody, platelegs, or kiteshield
Black d'hide body Black d'hide chaps Black d'hide body or chaps Rune arrow 5 150 Rune arrows
Mystic air staff Mystic fire staff Mystic earth staff Mystic water staff Mystic air, Mystic fire, Mystic earth, or Mystic water staffs Law rune Nature rune Astral rune Blood rune 75 Law, Nature, Astral or Blood runes
Mahogany