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Religious offerings in our RIVERS
Hindus believe that water is sacred because it is the foundation for the growth of plant, animal and human life. The act of placing organic offerings in water after Pooja represents a return to origins. Hindu religious offerings are being found in local rivers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The religious offerings include: Flowers and leaves, coconuts, lemons, and other fruits, jewellery or coins, cloth or clothing
Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) know that religious offerings are important to many cultures. CVC and TRCA are working closely with the Hindu community to find other means to placing offerings in the river, while also exploring similar cultural and religious offering practices.
What does this mean to the ENVIRONMENT?
While religious offerings are not the largest source of water pollution, anything not found naturally in the river can harm water quality and the homes of wildlife.
When flowers, leaves, lemons, coconuts and other plant materials are put into the water, they immediately begin to break down and use up oxygen. Some plants and animals are very sensitive to the amount of oxygen in the water and cannot survive when there is not enough.
Coconuts, lemons and other fruits may cause health and disease problems if eaten by wildlife. This is because these fruits do not grow in Canada and are not the typical food that wildlife in this country would eat.
Clothing, jewellery, money, plastic bags, containers and wrappers may cause harm if wildlife get caught in them or eat them.
What can I do?
Flowers and leaves may be placed in local rivers, however only a small handful should be release a t one time. Extra flowers can be composted.
Fruits such as coconuts may be eaten, composted or buried with the permission of the landowner.
Offering such as clothing, jewellery or money should not be placed in or near rivers. These offering may be donated to your local temple.
Plastic bags or wrappers must be recycled or placed in the garbage.
Who do I contact for more information?


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Managing inter-object dependencies in object-oriented systems is a complex task. Changes of one object often require dependent objects to change accordingly. Making every object explicitly inform every dependent object about its state changes intertwines object interfaces and implementations, thereby hampering system evolution and maintenance. These problems can be overcome by introducing the notion of Implicit Invocation as a decoupling mechanism between objects to object-oriented systems. This paper presents the Event Notification pattern, a pattern to smoothly integrate implicit invocation mechanisms with object-oriented designs. State changes of objects, dependencies of other objects on them and the maintenance links between these objects are made explicit as first class objects. The resulting structure is highly flexible and can be used to manage inter-object dependencies in object-oriented systems efficiently.
Dirk Riehle. "The Event Notification Pattern--Integrating Implicit Invocation with Object-Orientation." Theory and Practice of Object Systems 2, 1 (1996). Page 43-52.
For the time being, a copy is available as a PDF file.
The C++ sample code from the pattern is available as events.zip. No warranties, use at your own risk.
Copyright (©) 1996 by Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Q: As a young airman in Japan during the 1950s, I often heard locals (and GIs) use the expression samo, samo to mean the same. Did this usage give us the expression "same old, same old"?
A: The use of samo, samo in Asia apparently predates the appearance of American GIs by quite a few years.
An English buccaneer noticed this use of the phrase among the people of Mindanao in the 1600s. Back then in the Philippines, it didn't exactly mean "same old, same old," but it did refer to sameness.
We came across this information in an 1862 reference book, A Dictionary of English Etymology, by Hensleigh Wedgwood, with notes by George P. Marsh.
In a bracketed note, Marsh cites this passage from A New Voyage Round the World (1703), by the much-traveled adventurer and explorer William Dampier:
"They would always be praising the English, as declaring that the English and Mindanaians were all one. This they exprest by putting their two fore-fingers close together, and saying that the English and Mindanaians were samo, samo, that is, all one."
Marsh, in his note, wonders whether samo in that quotation was "a native word, or had the people of Mindanao borrowed it from earlier English visitors?"
(Dampier, who lived from 1652 to 1715, really should be the subject of a splashy Hollywood spectacle, but that's another story.)
So did those 17th-century islanders have their own word samo, or did they adapt "same" from English explorers? We'd guess that the usage was influenced by earlier explorers.
In checking a few modern Filipino dictionaries, we find the verb sámò (to cry or plead) and the noun samò (an entreaty), but no indication that either word could refer to sameness.
In a 2001 posting to the Linguist List, Douglas G. Wilson says samo doesn't appear in Japanese dictionaries either, but samo, samo apparently exists as a dialectal variant of a Malay term meaning same or together.
Perhaps this dialectal variant is related to the samo, samo that Dampier heard in the Philippines on his round the world trip. But we suspect that the Malay term may have been influenced by English-speaking visitors.
Our word "same" entered English in about 1200, probably influenced by the Old English swa as well as similar words in Scandinavian languages.
It has cousins in Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic, Old Irish, Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Old Slavic, Russian, Sanskrit, and the prehistoric language families proto-Germanic (reconstructed as samaz) and Indo-European (reconstructed as somos).
But back to "same old, same old," an expression suggesting that nothing has changed in one's life.
The usage first showed up in the 1970s in American black English, according to Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.
Did it originate in the phrase samo, samo that you heard while stationed in Japan in the 1950s?
Maybe it did … and maybe it didn't. Here's the story.
In "Bamboo English," a 1955 article in the journal American Speech, Arthur M. Z. Norman suggests that samo, samo originated in the Japanese tendency to use reduplication when speaking pidgin English. (In linguistics, reduplication is the repetition of the root of a word or part of it.)
"The changey-changey samey-samey phenomenon heard among the Japanese," Norman writes, "is responsible for samo-samo 'the same' in American Slang."
But Wilson, in another 2001 posting to the Linguist List, raises the possibility that samo, samo may have been coined not by the Japanese but by US soldiers – as baby talk the GIs used in an attempt to communicate.
"It is possible that 'samo' or even 'samo-samo' was simply a nonsense augmentation of 'same' by American servicemen," he says.
Channeling a '50s GI, Wilson adds: "That's how we used to say 'same' in Tijuana, maybe it'll work here too," or "I think these people will understand English if you repeat each word slowly, with 'o' or 'a' on the end; they understood me fine that way in Manila."
In answer to your question, the 1950s phrase samo, samo, meaning the same, may have evolved into the 1970s expression "same old, same old," meaning nothing's changed, but this isn't certain.
Although some word sleuths see a connection between the two expressions, Cassell's describes "same old, same old" as merely a slang version of the standard English "same old thing."

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Exchange 2010, Setup assumes that the Active Directory database is in pristine condition. However, organizations that have been using Exchange for many years often have Exchange 2003 remnants in AD. These remnants can halt an Exchange 2010 installation. The method described in this article should remove the server in question from Active Directory to the point where you're able to install Exchange 2010.
Warning! Any mistakes made during implementation can damage Exchange servers or you're the Active Directory forest. Back up domain controllers before attempting any of these techniques.
These procedures are only intended for situations in which a server no longer exists in your organization, but some fragments have been left behind in AD. If the server still exists in your Exchange organization, you should remove it.
To remove any lingering portions of an old Exchange 2003 server from Active Directory, use the Windows Support Tool ADSI Edit.
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Next, open ADSI Edit, which is located in the \Program Files\Support Tools folder, and connect it to a domain controller, if necessary. Then navigate through the console tree to:
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These container names may not exactly match those in your organization. For example, the first node of the hierarchy that I've listed is Configuration. Although this is technically the node's name, ADSI Edit also displays the name of your domain controller in brackets. For example, on my server this container is listed as Configuration [] (Figure 1.).
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Figure 1. Here's an example of an ADSI Edit hierarchy.
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Bacillus Megaterium is a rod-like, Gram-positive, mainly aerobic spore forming bacterium found in widely diverse habitats. With a cell length of up to 4 µm and a diameter of 1.5 µm, B. megaterium is amongst the biggest known bacteria. The cells often occur in pairs and chains where the cells are joined together by polysaccharides on the cell walls.
In the 1960s, prior to the development of B. megaterium was the main model organism among Gram-positive bacteria for intensive studies on biochemistry, sporulation and bacteriophages. Recently, its popularity has started increasing in the field of biotechnology for its recombinant protein production capacity.
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 1. megateriumgrows at temperatures from 3 °C to 45 °C, with the optimum around 30 °C. Some isolates from an Antarctic geothermal lake were found to grow at temperatures up to 63 °C.[1]
 2. megateriumhas been recognized as an endophyte and is a potential agent for the biocontrol of plant diseases. Nitrogen fixation has been demonstrated in some strains of B. megaterium.
 3. megateriumhas been an important industrial organism for decades. It produces penicillin amid aseused to make synthetic penicillin, various amylases used in the baking industry and glucose dehydrogenase used in glucose blood tests. Further, it is used for the production of pyruvate, vitamin B12, drugs with fungicidal and antiviral properties, etc.[2]It produces enzymes for modifying corticosteroids, as well as several amino acid dehydrogenases.
 4. megateriumis known to produce poly-γ-glutamic acid. The accumulation of the polymer is greatly increased in a saline (2–10% NaCl) environment, in which the polymer comprises largely of L-glutamate(L-isomer content up to 95%).[4] At least one strain of B. megaterium can be considered a halophile, as growth on up to 15% NaCl has been observed.[5]
Gram-stained Bacillus megaterium
Phylogenetically, based on 16S rRNA, B. megaterium is strongly linked with B. flexus, the latter distinguished from B. megaterium a century ago, but only recently confirmed as a different species. B. megaterium has some phenotypic and phylogenetic similarities with pathogens B. anthracis[6] and B. cereus, although itself being relatively harmless.
 1. megateriumis ubiquitous in the environment around us. In addition to being a common soil bacterium and an endophyte, it can be found in various foods (including honey, in which most microorganisms do not grow) and on a variety of surfaces, including clinical specimens, leather, paper, stone etc. It has also been isolated from cow feces, emperor moth caterpillars and greater wax moth frass.[1]
The method of[7] described in[1] can be used to isolate strains of B. megaterium from the soil. The procedure starts with plating 0.1 ml of dilutions of heat-treated soil suspensions on glucose mineral base agar: 10g Glc; 1g (NH4)2SO4 or KNO3; 0.8g K2HPO4; 0.2g KH2PO4; 0.5g MgSO4·7H2O; 0.05g CaSO4·7H2O; 0.01g FeSO4·7H2O; 12g agar; distilled water to 1 litre; adjust pH 7.0. Plates are incubated at 30 °C. White, round, smooth and shiny colonies 1–3 mm in diameter may develop on the nitrate (KNO3) medium in 36–48 hours. However, not all strains can use nitrate, therefore the recommendation to use the ammonium ((NH4)2SO4) medium in parallel. Colonies are detected by their appearance and suspects should be observed microscopically for the typically large cells of this species.
The species was described by de Bary in 1884, who called it Bacillus megaterium, but did not give an etymology.[8] However, some subsequent authors called it B. megatherium assuming the name was incorrectly spelled.[9] This trend continues as many scientists (mainly from the developing world) still use the name B. megatherium,[10][11] sowing confusion. The name B. megaterium is a nominative noun in apposition (see Rule 12 of IBCN[12]) and is formed from the Greek adjective mega, (μέγας, μεγάλη, μέγα) meaning "great",[13] and a second word of unclear etymology. Three hypotheses of the epithet "megaterium" are possible:[9]
 - unintentional orthographic error (unlikely given the fact that de Bary and his students, consistently used the epithet "megaterium"), whereas it should have been megatherium, from therion(θηρίον, meaning "beast"[14]), to mean "great beast".
 - a contraction of "megabacterium" as speculated by Rippel in given the fact that de Bary called the bacterium with the nickname Grosstier or Grossvich
 - stems from teras, teratos(τέρας, τέρατος, a neuter noun meaning omen or wonder or, indirectly, monster,]) which could be interpreted to mean "great monster" (with the Neolatin name being formed incorrectly given that there is no evidence of a Greek third declension noun when converted into Latin becoming a second Latin declention using the nominative stem, which is "ter-" while the other case use the stem "terat-". If were converted into a third decleasion noun it would have been "megateras, -atis").
Consequently, it was decided in the first jouridical opinion of the Bacteriological code that the name should remain "megaterium" given the unclear meaning.
The etymology listed in LPSN is, despite being not quite correction, a fusion of the first and third interpretation Gr. adj. megas, large; Gr. n. teras -atis, monster, beast; N.L. n. megaterium, big beast.
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On a Solaris package installation, these commands are located in /opt/SUNWdsee7/bin by default.
Some administrative operations, such as starting and stopping a server instance, require a local agent. For the command line, the local agent is the command itself. The dsadm and dpadm commands run locally because they require the server to be offline or they require specific system rights. For example, if you use the dsadm command to change a certificate, the server can be running but the operation needs to be executed by a privileged user.
You can use the DSEE CLI to administer and configure your directory remotely. You can run the dsconf and dpconf commands remotely to create suffixes, server instances, and indexes. These commands use LDAP authentication, so you do not need a local user on your machine, although the server instance itself must be running.


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I'm comparing hourly data measurements recorded for 5 years (2007-2011) where the number of measurements in each year is as follows:
2007 = 8760 measurements;
2008 = 8784 measurements; <-- leap year
2009 = 8760 measurements;
2010 = 8760 measurements;
2011 = 8760 measurements;
What is the best method for comparing each time series? Is it better to add an additional 24 measurements (of nans) for february 29th for the non leap years? or, is it more efficient to interpolate the data onto the same time frame (where time is given in decimal day of year)?
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What comparison are you trying to make? The data sets don't correspond, so you probably aren't going to be comparing like with like. – walkytalky Mar 30 '12 at 9:55
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That depends entirely on the kind of data you are measuring. If it's natural-world stuff like weather data, you probably care more about matching solstice to solstice and equinox to equinox. If it's financial market data, you may want to line up calendars and possibly exclude the leap day entirely.
It's difficult to give more specific advice without more background.
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The data is for water temperature. So, Im looking at how the temperature varies from one year to the other and maybe finding the correlation, which the data needs to be the same size for this. – Emma Mar 30 '12 at 10:14
If you match up seasonal markers such as solstices and equinoxes, the data will match up. The match-up simply won't correspond exactly to calendar years. – Marcelo Cantos Mar 30 '12 at 10:16
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The beehive lacing set combines a classic lacing activity while inspiring dramatic play. Set includes a solid rubber wood beehive with holes for the three bees on multi-colored lacing strings to lace through it. These manipulatives are easy for little hands to grasp and are for developing essential and cognitive skills including dexterity, hand-eye coordination, as well as visualization and process. Suggested age: 3+.
- Beehive lacing set encourages children to lace the colorful bee strings through the beehive block
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I would like to raise a mathematical question :
Let's say we are been given : $$x(t) = \begin{cases} \cos(\pi t) & |t| \leq 0.5 \\ 0 & \textrm{otherwise} \end{cases}$$ If $x(t)$ goes through an LPF : $H(\omega) = \begin{cases} \pi - 0.5|\omega| & |\omega| \leq 1.5\pi\\ 0 & \textrm{otherwise} \end{cases}$
Compute and sketch :
 1. Fourier coefficients of $x(t)$, as well as $X(\omega)$
 2. $y(t)$ and $Y(\omega)$ where $y$ is the output of the LTI. Is y(t) periodic? If so compute it's period and its trigonmetric fourier anlysis coefficients I did the math and I've got this: $a_n = \frac{2}{\pi}\frac{\cos(\frac{n\pi}{2})}{1-n^2}$ which can not be defined for $n=-1$ or $ n=1$
 update:* We have to compute $a_1$ and $a_{-1}$ in seperate: If we do the computations we gain : $a_1= a_{-1}=0$ I then did : $$c_m = \frac{1}{2}(a_m + jbm) \rightarrow c_m = \frac{a_m}{2}$$ $$x(t) = \sum_{m=-\infty}^{\infty}c_me^{jm \omega_o t} \rightarrow X(\omega) =2\pi \sum_{m=-\infty}^{\infty}c_m\delta(\omega - m\omega_o)$$
What I tried:
Now we know for an LTI : $y(t) = x(t) * h(t) \rightarrow Y(\omega) = X(\omega)H(\omega)$
but since $H(\omega)$ exists only in $\delta=[-1.5\pi, 1.5\pi]$ and $\omega_o = \pi$ then we only need $X(\omega)$ in $\delta$.
But, $X(\omega)$ is $0$ for $|m|=1 \rightarrow |\omega| =\pi$ and therefore $X(\omega) \neq 0 \rightarrow m=0$ in $\delta$ so :
$X(\omega) = 2\pi a_0 \delta(\omega)$ in $\delta$
we also know $\int_{-a}^{a}f(x)\delta(x)dx=f(0)$ so:
\begin{align} y(t) &= \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}Y(\omega)e^{j\omega t}d\omega \rightarrow \int_{-1.5\pi}^{1.5\pi}\frac{1}{2\pi}Y(\omega)e^{j\omega t}d\omega \\ &\rightarrow \int_{-1.5\pi}^{1.5\pi}\frac{1}{2\pi}(\pi^2a_0 -0.5a_0|\omega|)e^{j\omega t}\delta(\omega)d\omega = \frac{1}{2\pi}\pi^2 a_0 = \frac{1}{2\pi}\pi^2 \frac{2}{\pi} = 1 \end{align}
I assume that it should have been periodic but it's not. So where did my solution go wrong?
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 $\begingroup$ Homework? From its definition, $x(t)$ (and thus $y(t)$) is not periodic, how come you compute its CTFCs? $\endgroup$ – Fat32 Dec 4 '20 at 10:56
 - $\begingroup$ Are you sure that $X(\omega) = 2 \pi a_0 \delta(\omega)$? If you're using $\delta(\omega)$ to denote the Dirac delta functional, then that's saying that $x(t)$ is constant -- is that right? $\endgroup$ – TimWescott Dec 4 '20 at 19:31
 - $\begingroup$ i am not saying it's $2\pi a_0\delta(\omega)$ for all $\omega$ but only in $\delta=[-1.5\pi, 1.5\pi]$ $\endgroup$ – brucebanner Dec 4 '20 at 20:31
Since this appears to be homework, I can give you a few generic pointers
 1. LTI systems maintain periodicity: if the input is periodic so is the output and vice versa.
 2. If a signal is finite in length it can't be periodic
 3. If a signal has finite bandwidth, it must be infinite in time.
 4. You can model the input as $x(t)$ as cosine multiplied with a rectangular function.
 5. Multiplication in the time domain is convolution in the frequency domain.
 - $\begingroup$ does the constant output like $y(t)$ count as periodic? I searched the stack exchnage and I assume that it is considered periodic ( since it satisfies the definition) but there is no fundumental period. $\endgroup$ – brucebanner Dec 4 '20 at 17:47
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text: Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a 3D cockpit display (3D-COD) system for improved pilot situational awareness and safety in 3D airspace by overcoming the inherent limitations of 2D information presentation. The proposed display will be automultiscopic and will be based on a projector, a stationary holographic optical element screen integrated with a high-speed electro-optical scanner and high-speed electronics with a software interface to NASA systems. This minimum 8-in. diagonal drop-down head-up display with no moving parts will present six or more perspective views to air crew members, forming integrated virtual volumetric 3D images viewable over a 60 degree horizontal field of view. In Phase I POC designed a laboratory prototype and successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed system by assembling a single-user monochrome 3D-COD prototype. In Phase II POC will further develop the true 3D display technology and construct a fully functional system that will project distortion-free, 400-600 lumen, full-color, virtual volumetric 3D images at a 30-60 Hz video rate for real-time user interaction with the images, each from his or her own perspective.


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text: A great way to view and edit properties in an outline tree is column view. In column view, each outline node is turned into a table row. Columns in this table provide access to properties of the entries. Org mode implements columns by overlaying a tabular structure over the headline of each item. While the headlines have been turned into a table row, you can still change the visibility of the outline tree. For example, you get a compact table by switching to CONTENTS view (S- S-, or simply c while column view is active), but you can still open, read, and edit the entry below each headline. Or, you can switch to column view after executing a sparse tree command and in this way get a table only for the selected items. Column view also works in agenda buffers (see Agenda Views) where queries have collected selected items, possibly from a number of files.


The difference between spot welding and pull welding
1. The tip of the soldering iron must be very sharp, but the soldering tip must be wiped clean before use. There is a sponge on the soldering station of the temperature-controlled soldering iron. Pour some water to make the sponge soak for the tip of the soldering iron.
2. The anti-static wrist strap can be replaced with high-quality wire according to the challenger. My method is: peel the copper core inside the two ends of the coaxial cable of about 2 meters, the length of the copper core is about 25 cm. Do not damage the shielded copper wire of the coaxial cable at the time of stripping. Flattening the shielded copper wire can replace the tin suction tape.
3. If rosin solder paste is not available, solid rosin can be dissolved in alcohol instead.
4. The solder wire does not need to be very thin, just 1.0mm. I used to think that the solder wire was 0.5mm and bought 0.5mm, but now I feel that this method is not necessary.
5. The minimum magnifying glass is 4 times, both head-mounted and desktop, I use a desktop magnifying glass (with fluorescent lamp inside).
■ Comparison of several welding methods
1. Spot welding: It is necessary to solder each pin with a relatively sharp soldering iron head, which has higher requirements on the electric soldering iron, and the soldering speed is slow.
2. Drag welding: faster than spot welding, personally feel that the welding effect is not as good as pull welding, sometimes the solder on the divided pins is uneven, and may be sticky.
3. Pull soldering: The things that are required are very general, especially the electric soldering iron. During the soldering process, the soldering iron head does not touch the pad but the solder ball. Because of the tension of the solder balls, the solder on each pin is very uniform and not much, very beautiful! Speed, skilled in the future will be faster than drag welding. This method can be described as a simple, reliable and inexpensive welding method.
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Royal figure, dressed like a late antique Roman emperor, on the St Andrews Sarcophagus, probably Óengus I of the Picts.
The House of Óengus can refer to a still theoretical dynasty of Pictland who may have ruled as Kings of the Picts, as well as overlords of the Kings of Dál Riata and possibly of all of northern Great Britain, for approximately a century from the 730s to the 830s AD. Their first ruler of Pictland was the great Óengus I of the Picts, who may be the figure carved into the St Andrews Sarcophagus pictured on the right.
Origins and identity
Early (but not contemporary) Irish genealogies make Óengus a member of the Eóganachta of Munster, as a descendant of Coirpre Cruithnechán or "Cairbre the little Pict", a legendary emanation or double of Coirpre Luachra mac Cuirc,[1] son of Conall Corc,[2] and ancestor of the Eóganacht Locha Léin, rulers of the kingdom of Iarmuman. An early cycle of tales have Conall Corc traveling to Pictland early in his career, and there taking the daughter of the Pictish king as his first wife, hence Coirpre's epithet. The branch of the kindred, called in the annals the Eoghanachta Magh Geirginn, from which he came were said to be located in an area known as Circinn, usually associated with modern Angus and the Mearns.[3] The genealogy appears in the Rawlinson B 502 manuscript, ¶1083:
This states the king of Pictland with whom Conall Corc stayed to have been Feradach Find Fechtnach, and his daughter, Conall's first wife and Coirpre's mother, to have been Mongfind. After discussing Corc's progeny in Munster, the future Eóganachta of history, the passage concludes with:
This states that from Coirpre Cruithnechán come a sept of the Eóganachta in Alba called the Eóganacht Maige Gerginn, to whom belongs Óengus I.
Notably lacking are over two centuries of generations in Scotland. Conall Corc is said to have flourished in the early 5th century. Óengus I belongs to the 8th.
This pedigree has been dismissed as inspired by the tales of Conall Corc. Francis John Byrne puts this in the context of the (wider) Gaelicisation of Pictland in the 9th century, and notes how later Scottish dynasties such as the Lennoxes and the House of Stuart also found Corc to be a "usefully respectable" Gaelic ancestor.[4]
In an exhaustive criticism of the legends, David Sproule finds that the Picts are probably a literary addition, and that the Pictish king Feredach is probably inspired by Fidach, father of Crimthann mac Fidaig, who precedes Corc on the throne of Munster but is more widely known as "King of Ireland and Alba". As Mongfind is the sister of Crimthann in most Irish legends, it follows that she would be Corc's wife. Sproule also notes that a journey to Alba is common in Irish legend, and further that Feradach Finnfechtnach is the name of an earlier Irish King of Tara who has convenient associations with Alba of his own.[5]
Feredach can also be found as the name of several figures belonging both to the Picts and Dál Riata, for example the father of Ciniod I of the Picts.
Irish associations
Regardless of his pedigree, Óengus I of the Picts was a monarch with clear Irish associations.
Another member of this family may have been Domnall mac Caustantín, a possible king of Dál Riata.
 1. Byrne, pp. 193-4, 291
 2. In any case, contacts between Scotland and distant Munster are known from the earliest times. The early Dál Riata were said to have lived in West Munster (Iarmuman) before migrating to Ulster and western Scotland.
 3. Forsyth, "Evidence of a lost Pictish source", pp. 27–28.
 4. Byrne, p. 194
 5. Sproule 1985


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Cheng Li1, Felix Wehrli1, Hee Kwon Song1
1Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This work describes the implementation of the VAT methodology for EPI sequences as a means to eliminate in-plane distortions. Results demonstrate that a relatively long RF pulse, on the order of the duration of the total EPI readout period, is necessary to minimize image blurring. However, the reduced in-plane blurring is achieved at the cost of increased slice profile distortion.


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The Liquid Pre-amps on the Liquid Saffire 56 introduce 11 samples of delay to the audio stream. This is due to the Digital Signal Processing required to emulate the preamps.
Depending on the sample rate you are using, audio passed through inputs 1 and 2 will be the delayed by the following:
|Sample Rate (Hz)||Time Delay (milliseconds)||Offset Distance (centimeters)|
Audio recorded through the Liquid Pres can be moved forward by 11 samples in your DAW to account for the delay, however, in'real world' recording situations the user may choose to ignore this delay.
For stereo recording, either 2 Liquid Preamps should be used, or 2 standard Preamps should be used,
For ensemble recording, where more than 2 preamps are used to record, this delay should cause no audible artefacts. When two microphones are placed in a recording space, regardless of what pre-amps or interfaces are used, there is inevitably a delay between them unless they are placed at exactly the same distance from the source. This will mean that the audio arriving at the two mics, even if they are recording the same source will be non time coherent. The non time coherence - i.e. similar audio but with a delay between each mic, will be significantly more apparent due to the physical mic placement than any delay introduced by the Liquid Preamps.
Users of the Liquid Saffire 56 should set up their microphones exactly the same was as they always do, by moving the microphones around until the sound is right.


text: Constraints on entropies are considered to be the laws of information theory. Even though the pursuit of their discovery has been a central theme of research in information theory, the algorithmic aspects of constraints on entropies remain largely unexplored. Here, we initiate an investigation of decision problems about constraints on entropies by placing several different such problems into levels of the arithmetical hierarchy. We establish the following results on checking the validity over all almost-entropic functions: first, validity of a Boolean information constraint arising from a monotone Boolean formula is co-recursively enumerable; second, validity of "tight" conditional information constraints is in Π03. Furthermore, under some restrictions, validity of conditional information constraints "with slack" is in Σ02, and validity of information inequality constraints involving max is Turing equivalent to validity of information inequality constraints (with no max involved). We also prove that the classical implication problem for conditional independence statements is co-recursively enumerable.


Working with Dates in IBM BPM
Many of us (ibm bpm developers) are wondering on perform certain operation like comparing dates, find difference between dates and such stuff as Date not a simple type but is complex system object. But thanks to bpm suite, the implementation to do these operations are all already in place and if we give simple syntax which we use with simple types it will do the job. Here a some of the operations which I would like to illustrate in this post.
How to Comparing date1 and date2?
Comparing dates is as simple as comparing two integers.
Suppose I have two date variables tw.local.date1 and tw.local.date2.
In order to compare dates we just have to use the statements as shown below.
 tw.local.date1 > tw.local.date2 or
 tw.local.date1 < tw.local.date2
Above statement will be evaluated to true or false in the similar way when used with integers.
Above statements will consider time stamp as well. If you want to check this irrespective of time, then first set the hours, min and seconds for these dates to same values and then compare. You have to first set hours, seconds and then milliseconds.
How to Compare date to current date?
For this, first we need to get the current date and store it in a variable.
var currentDate= new TWDate();
then set currentDate and hours, seconds and milliseconds to same value and then compare like above.
To set the hours, minutes and seconds you can use script similar to the one shown below.;
How to increase the 'n' no of days to a date?
You can just get the date from and add number of days and set that value to again. This will increase the number of days automatically.Refer to below script. + X number of days)
Below scenarios will be automatically taken care when we add days.
scenario1: if = 3/12/2013, if we want to add 3 days to this date, the final date will become 6/12/2013
scenario2: if = 31/12/2013, if we want to add 3 days to this date, the final date will become 3/1/2014. We don't have to explicitly Change the month and year.
scenario2: if = 31/10/2013, if we want to add 3 days to this date, the final date will become 3/11/2013. We don't have to explicitly Change the month.
Hope you find it use full.
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 i can't able to set the hours and minutes and seconds value as you defined previously.
 var currentDate= new TWDate();
 Try this:
 var currentDate = new TWDate();"Current Date: " + currentDate);
 currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() + parseInt(tw.env.Days)); = currentDate;
 currentDate.setMinutes(currentDate.getMinutes() + parseInt(tw.env.Mins)); = currentDate;"xxx: " +;


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Birds Australia's (BirdLife Partner) Threatened Bird Network has announced that it's time once again to start looking for one of Australia's most rare and cryptic wetland species; the Endangered Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis.
After the spring/summer months of 2009/2010 yielded sightings of only 11 individuals, signs are good for the upcoming season with five birds already recorded at two sites in Queensland!
The onset of heavy winter rains throughout the Murray Darling Basin, the Channel Country and into the interior this winter could prove to produce a bumper breeding season for the Australian Painted Snipe, as it has already been for other opportunistic waders such as Banded and Black-winged Stilts. The rain events of this winter will however, allow the birds to remain dispersed, resulting in potentially lower detectability to Australian Painted Snipe surveyors. For this reason the Australian Painted Snipe Recovery project encourages wetland birders from across the nation (especially in the under-represented north) to be ever vigilant as APS have been found in all types of habitat from vast lagoons to storm water drains.
Australia wide simultaneous surveying for Australian Painted Snipe will occur on the weekends of October 16 and January 15 in an attempt to improve estimates on the population, now thought to stand at less then 1,500 individuals. Incidental surveys outside these dates (including those where no Australian Painted Snipe are seen) are also much appreciated in an attempt to unravel the many ecological questions still surrounding this enigmatic bird.
For more information on the Australian Painted Snipe and tips on how and where to survey for them, please click here.


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Background Google Trends is an innovative monitoring system with unique potential to monitor and predict important phenomena that may be occurring at a population level. We sought to validate whether Google Trends can additionally detect regional trends in youth and adult tobacco use.
Methods We compared 2011 Google Trends relative search volume data for cigars, cigarillos, little cigars and smokeless tobacco with state prevalence of youth (grades 9–12) and adult (age 18 and older) use of these products using data from the 2011 United States state-level Youth Risk Behaviors Surveillance System and the 2010–2011 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), respectively. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient to measure the associations.
Results We found significant positive correlations between state Google Trends cigar relative search volume and prevalence of cigar use among youth (r=0.39, R2 = 0.154, p=0.018) and adults (r=0.49, R2 = 0.243, p<0.001). Similarly, we found that the correlations between state Google Trends smokeless tobacco relative search volume and prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among youth and adults were both positive and significant (r=0.46, R2 = 0.209, p=0.003 and r=0.48, R2 = 0.226, p<0.001, respectively).
Conclusions The results of this study validate that Google Trends has the potential to be a valuable monitoring tool for tobacco use. The near real-time monitoring features of Google Trends may complement traditional surveillance methods and lead to faster and more convenient monitoring of emerging trends in tobacco use.
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Leveling characters through story telling
During any long enough running campaign, leveling characters usually comes up at one point or another. It's often a part players look forward to and it can be an integral part of story progression. There are different ways to go about it though. Leveling at the end of a campaign chapter, whenever the XP threshold is met or when other milestones are met, for example. But in this guide I'll go over ways and reasons to level characters through story telling. This isn't for everybody, of course, but it can make for a fun way to spice up a game for those into story telling.
From a realism point of view, leveling up characters at random points in a story doesn't make much sense. Nobody just gains new abilities out of nowhere. You could argue all the combat and time spent to get to the next level counts as training, but strictly speaking you don't master new techniques without targeted exercise and training. Shooting a hundred fireballs at random enemies doesn't exactly teach you how to conjure food from thin air, for example. If you want to go for more realism, using story elements can make more sense.
As an example, consider the following: if your party is on a strange planet battling even stranger aliens, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense the characters gain new abilities after beating a mini boss. Instead, it'd make more sense they receive training at their base after they return. Now, instead of simply stating they train, you could include a social encounter with a trainer, or a battle encounter with a particularly brutal drill sergeant, for example.
Training can be more than just one time training sessions. Leveling up through training and story offers a whole range of opportunities for new characters. An excentric sage with endless, but peculiar wisdom might train a monk, a gun-for-hire low on cash might teach you a trick or two, a lifelong friend and teacher might be a recurring character and one you go to in times of need, and so on.
Training sessions can also strengthened the bonds with existing characters, including those in the party. New powers can lead to inflated egos or a broken confidence, if the players are willing to play their characters as such anyway, which in turn can lead to more intimate moments of getting a party member back on their feet.
New powers also leads to new combo possibilities. Training together can make the party more effective by using each other's powers in a synchronised fashion, something they would, realistically speaking, only be able to do properly after training.
If your players are into it, playing out training sessions can make a big difference in story setup. Consider the scene in the Matrix where Neo learns kung fu after having it uploaded into his mind. Playing out character training is the difference between "I know kung fu". "Show me". and "I know kung fu". "Excellent, time to move on.". The first has more build up and more character interactions, and thus more emotional investment.
Using NPCs (Non-Player Characters) in training can also be more than just an excuse to include more fun characters once in a while. They can become heroes and villains in their own right. If a bigger threat faces not just the party, but the world as a whole, it'd make sense the trainers become part of the fight as well.
Trainers with a desire for power may try to seek the party member they train as an apprentice or accomplice in their desires. Or a party member who multi-classes into a different path might suddenly be seen as a threat who needs to be stopped. For example, an archmage might see it fit to try and stop a mage apprentice who started to learn more and more warlock skills on the side.
Discovering powers
Going to a trainer isn't always an option, sometimes the party might just be stuck in a dungeon somewhere without many options to improve, but leveling might still be necessary. Using discovery techniques could work well in these cases. Just as some classes in D&D have to focus on spells to learn them, your characters could focus for a short period during a quiet moment to discover themselves more.
This obviously doesn't work for everything, but it can make for a fun little interaction nonetheless. You could take it a step further and use discovery moments in combat. They're cliche in many tv shows, but they work in them, so why not in an RPG campaign?
Let's say a cleric has reached the threshold to level up, but they're still in a dangerous situation, so there's no time to train. During a difficult moment in combat, you could use the god they worship as a means to have them discover their new powers or perhaps grant them knowledge to figure things out.
A simple fighter might see a certain enemy make a useful combat move a few times, allowing them to learn from them in the middle of battle, and so on.
Leveling as a surprise
You could take everything even further. By asking your players for their character choices in advance, you can sprinkle in their new powers during the campaign. Their characters would grow more organically as they level, but without the choices being made entirely by them. This isn't for everybody of course, but it can be something to think about. It definitely requires good communications between the GM and players.
For example, player 1 might have a level 5 bard and told you they'll want to multi-spec into a rogue and a warrior in the future, and also gain more levels in bard. If the story so far has taken place in a city where they have to be cautious a lot, it would make sense to level them in rogue the next time they level. So as the story progresses, you can narrate them discovering new rogue abilities, and the player will know what's up.
Surprises like this are often very rewarding, it's part of what we love in video games, for example. It can help prevent things from becoming stale and simply a grind from level to level, but there are other ways to prevent this as well.
Surprises work great for character development too, but are best used sparingly. Discovering new things about yourself is often a fun and rewarding process, the same goes for our characters, but working hard to achieve a certain goal is incredibly rewarding too. Both can be mixed together as well. One character might train to become a better sniper, but during their training they might discover they have a talent for first aid as well.
Class dependent
How much you can do through training, surprises, discovery or other methods depends a lot on the classes you're dealing with, and also on the game system. For example, the wizard class in D&D can only use spells in their spellbook, so besides the 2 spells they gain whenever they level, other spells need to be bought, found or learned through other means before they can add them to their spellbook. This is a more natural progression already in place for this class, which forces your hand a little bit. At the same time, this makes it easier to apply similar methods to other classes.
Classes who will be more difficult to adapt are usually the ones without magic, as magic can solve anything. Still, with a little creativity it can be done, like my fighter example from earlier.
Obviously all of this is also very player and group dependent. Communication is always key at every point in the game, so make sure you establish some ground rules so everybody knows what to expect. It's all about having fun after all.
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PURPOSE: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results in a progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance, right heart failure, and eventually death. Although current therapies for PAH improve functional status, quality of life, and in some cases survival, the high cost of these pharmacological therapies has been a concern. In this study, our goal is to perform a cost analysis of the current treatment of PAH and compare it with other accepted treatment options for various disease processes.
METHODS: We compared the average cost needed to prevent one death per year between diseases. This was obtained by multiplying the average treatment cost per year with the number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent mortality in one year. Mortality benefits were estimated by comparing survival data with a mortality formula derived form the National Institute of Health experience. Average wholesale prices (AWP) were obtained for pharmacological agents from inquiries of the pharmacy at Cleveland Clinic Florida. For procedural therapies, costs were obtained based on Medicare payments.
RESULTS: In the treatment of PAH, Bosentan cost was estimated at $406,000 per life saved, Epoprostenol cost was estimated at $968,000 per life saved, subcutaneous Treprostinil cost was estimated at $1,715,000 per life saved and inhaled Iloprost cost was estimated $873,000 per life saved. Mortality data of Sildenafil was not included in the analysis. Implantable automatic cardiac defibrillator costs $315,000 per life saved, left ventricular assist devices costs $654,968 per life saved, the treatment of follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with Cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, Vincristine, Prednisone and Rituximab costs $1,080,000 per life saved, pacemakers for atrial fibrillation costs $1,795,846 per life saved, and treatment of lupus nephritis with Mycophenolate mofetil costs $16,065,000 per life saved.
CONCLUSION: The cost of various pharmacological agents used to treat PAH are at an acceptable cost effectiveness range for pharmacotherapeutic and biotechnological interventions.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The PAH pharmacological agents are a reasonable treatment modality for this disease state.
DISCLOSURE: Franck Rahaghi, No Product/Research Disclosure Information; Consultant fee, speaker bureau, advisory committee, etc. Dr. Rahaghi has attended advisory meetings or has been sponsored for speaking engagements by Baxter Healthcare Inc., CSL Behring, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Encysive, Gilead Therapeutics and Pfizer. Inc.


White certificates
What are the White Certificates?
The main public support tool for the diffusion of the energy efficiency in our country are the energy efficiency titles (EET), aka, White Certificates.
Basically, they are negotiable titles certifying the accomplishment of energy savings in the final uses of energy: a certification equals to a non-consumption of a tonne of oil equivalent (TOE).
A formula that deeply concerns companies :
The typical case, is a company asking for consultancy to an Energy Service Company as Seaside to realise internal efficiency projects.
Once completed, these projects will be presented to the related body, the GSE, a government company devoted to the promotion of the sustainable development, including energy efficiency.
Once all the requirement are verified, GSE releases the awarded EETs.
These lasts are not only simple documentation, but real certificates with economic value, variable in time, because in Italy there are some efficiency obligations for big energy and gas suppliers, that can be discharged through White Certificates acquisition linked to projects realised by third entities.
As a conclusion, the company who undergoes through efficiency intervention, not only benefits from the diminishments of consumption, but also gets economic contribution linked to the White Certificate value.
A high impact formula: according to the ENEA 2016 energy efficiency report, in the decade 2005-2015, the EET scheme produced savings up to 4.57Mtoe, revealing to be the most effective mechanism for energy efficiency.
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Definition: Originally a flat spatula for flipping oatcakes on a griddle, the Spurtle is better known as a stick for stirring porridge. Over time, this implement changed shape and began being used specifically for stirring oatmeal and soups. It is similar to a wooden spoon without the bowl which was removed as it tears cooked oats apart. It is in common use throughout Scotland.
Also Known As: Stirring stick
Alternate Spellings: spirtle


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Mottainai (もったいない, [mottainai]) is a Japanese term conveying a sense of regret concerning waste. The expression "Mottainai!" can be uttered alone as an exclamation when something useful, such as food or time, is wasted, meaning roughly "what a waste!" In addition to its primary sense of "wasteful", the word is also used to mean "impious; irreverent" or "more than one deserves".
Usage in Japanese
Mottainai in Japanese refers to more than just physical waste (resources). It is even used to refer to thought patterns that give rise to wasteful action. Grammatically, it can be used in Japanese as an exclamation ("mottainai!") or as an adjective phrase ("it feels mottainai"). There is no plural form. The collection of mottainai things could be called mottainai koto (もったいない事?).
In ancient Japanese, mottainai had various meanings, including a sense of gratitude mixed with shame for receiving greater favor from a superior than is properly merited by one's station in life.
Mottainai is a compound word, mottai+nai. Mottai (勿体?) refers to the intrinsic dignity or sacredness of a material entity, while nai (無い?) indicates an absence or lack (Mottai further consists of mochi (勿?), meaning "inevitable; unnecessary to discuss", and tai (体?), meaning "entity; body").
Mottai was originally used in the construction mottai-ga-aru (勿体が有る?, literally "having mottai"), which referred to a dignified entity. Today, mottai is also used in the construction mottai-buru (勿体振る?), meaning "pretentious" or "giving oneself airs" by assuming more dignity than one truly possesses.
Buddhists traditionally used the term mottainai to indicate regret at the waste or misuse of something sacred or highly respected, such as religious objects or teaching. Today, the word is widely used in everyday life to indicate the waste of any material object, time, or other resource. Compare also the concept of tsukumogami "artifact spirit", which are said to live in old objects that have gained self-awareness and are angered if the object is thrown away wastefully.
Use by Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai visited Japan in 2005 for a government and media-sponsored event related to the Kyoto Protocol. She was given a tee-shirt with the word "mottainai" on it, which she later wore on appearances on Japanese TV.
- Conspicuous consumption
- Itadakimasu, the Buddhist attitude concerning resources
- Simple living
- Daijirin Japanese dictionary 2nd ed. (Japanese)
- Masuda, K: Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, page 1139. Kenkyusha Ltd., 1974
- This early use of the word appears in a story about Yoshitsune in the Battle of Yashima. On horseback, Yoshitsune dropped his bow into the sea. A vassal cried out, "Don't pick up the bow, let it be!" but he picked it up while being pursued by the enemy Taira clan. After the battle was over, the vassal used the word mottainai in admonishing Yoshitsune that he should have considered his own life more valuable than even a worthy bow. Yoshitsune retorted that if the enemy saw that inferior bow, it would have disgraced the Genji clan. Referencing site in Japanese: 1; "26 Historical place of Yoshitsune dropped the bow"(26弓流しの跡), 2; 義経の弓流しの跡
- PDF Perspectives of language: cultural differences and universality in Japanese M Sasaki - Cultural Diversity and TransversalValues: East–West Dialogue


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Advanced VBA | Linking to data exercise | Listing Beatles - ADO
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The database in the above folder contains a single table called tblBeatles, listing for each Beatle the following fields (the database is in Access 2007/2010 format, so you won't be able to open it in Access 2003):
- Dob (the Beatle's date of birth)
- Verdict (what you think about them)
Create a macro and assign it to the ADD THIS BEATLE button so that when you click on the button, Excel adds a record to the Beatles database:
You'll need to create a connection string and open a recordset
If you get this working, create a macro and assign it to the LIST BEATLES button so that the macro reads the Beatles' names into an array from the database, then loops over this array to build up a message which it then displays:
The result of running your macro to list the Beatles
Save this workbook as Beatles input form, then close it down.


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1. a flowing or flow; to flow.
2. continuous change, passage, or movement: His political views are in a state of flux.
3. In Chemistry, Metallurgy.
a substance used to refine metals by combining with impurities to form a molten mixture that can be readily removed.
Our lives are in a state of constant change. This can be minute to minute for survivors of trauma with PTSD/C-PTSD. My hope is each day's continuous flow of change will be filled with more and more healing.


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Akito Van Troyer - Electronics
Oliver Jan - Violin
Performed at the Eyedrum in Atlanta as part of Listening Machines 2009
This piece takes a geometric approach to analyze violin sound, generate visual representation, and synthesize audio signal. Information such as pitch, volume, and timbre from violin sound is used to construct the Voronoi diagram which is then used to generate image. Information that is generated by the Voronoi diagram is further passed down to synthesize sound that accompanies the violin player.


Everyone Is Equal In Harrison Bergeron
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In the short story "Harrison Bergeron," everyone is equal. On page one, it says "Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else". Having a perfect world is ideal, but there are many things could go wrong and it could ruin everything. Problems arise because it is impossible for everything to be perfect. During the story, they live in an ideal world, but one person, Harrison Bergeron, decides that he doesn't want to live that way and tries to overthrow the government. Equality can be a good thing, but it can also be problematic. The idea of living in a world where everyone is equal has many benefits and good qualities. For starters, everyone is equal, so
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Mount Longonot.
Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s. Its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong'ot, meaning "mountains of many spurs" or "steep ridges".
Mount Longonot is protected by Kenya Wildlife Service as part of Mount Longonot National Park. A 3.1 km trail runs from the park entrance up to the crater rim and continues in a 7.2 km loop encircling the crater.
The whole tour (gate-around the rim-gate) of 13.5 km takes about 4–5 hours allowing for necessary rest breaks – parts of the trail are heavily eroded and very steep. The gate is around 2150 m asl and the peak at 2780 m all but following the jagged rim involves substantially more than the 630 m vertical difference.
Flora and fauna
A forest of small trees covers the crater floor, and small steam vents are found spaced around the walls of the crater. The mountain is home to various species of wildlife, notably plains zebra, giraffe, Thomson's gazelle, buffaloes and hartebeest. African leopards have also been reported but are extremely difficult to spot.
Mount Longonot is 60 kilometres northwest of Nairobi and may be reached from there by a tarmac road. A nearby town is also named Longonot. The Longonot satellite earth station is located south of the mountain.
Longonot is a stratovolcano which contains a large 8 x 12 km caldera formed by vast eruptions of trachytic lava some 21,000 years ago. The current summit cone was developed within the earlier caldera.
This cone itself is capped by a 1.8 km crater. The Mountain has several parasitic cones and effusive lava eruptions occur on the flanks and within the caldera floor. Periodic geodetic activity recorded at Longonot in 2004–2006 demonstrated the presence of active magmatic systems beneath this volcano.
Notable Events
On March 21, 2009 Brush Fires burned up the side of the mountain and descended into the crater, trapping wildlife and feeding on a drought-ravaged brush.


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text: Summary Aim The aim of the paper was to conduct a retrospective analysis of a group of patients after surgery for colorectal cancer: to define aetiological factors for, and assess drug-sensitivity of bacteria causing infection. Materials/Methods Between January 2000 and June 2004, 350 patients underwent surgery for colorectal cancer. Within that group 17 (4,86%) patients developed postoperative wound infections within 30 days of the operation. In all cases we performed microbiological examinations. All the cases of infections were analysed, with special attention being paid to the following groups of risk factors: patient-related and perioperative procedures. Results In all, 17 cases of superficial infections were identified within the skin and subcutaneous tissues. The most frequently identified aetiological factors were colibacillus species and Enterococcus faecalis. Targeted antibiotic therapy was applied, based on the results of antibiograms. Rapid recovery was observed in all patients. The most important patient-related risk factors included: BMI over 25 kg/m 2 in 11 (64.7%) patients, high (3 rd) degree of neoplastic advancement in 13 (76.5%) patients and preoperative radiotherapy in 7 (41.2%) patients. All infections were found in patients after resection of the sigmoid colon or rectum. Conclusions The most frequent aetiological factor identified, on the basis of cultures, was bacterial fl ora of the colorectum. 1. The most important risk factors include: degree of neoplastic advancement, obesity and preoperative radiotherapy. 2. The application of appropriate systems for the preparation of the patient during the perioperative period has a great infl uence on the frequency of infections. 3. Because high drug-resistance in bacterial cultures is a real possibility, it is essential to perform antibiograms in order to help select the most appropriate antibiotics for the treatment of infections.


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In 2015, schools with students learning under Fontan Relational Education (FRE)
saw achievements of:
- Average of 40 percent increase in reading comprehension
- 5 percent increase YOY (Year Over Year) in GPA
- Dropout rates close to zero
- No student failing
- Academic performance Ratio of 1.029 against 0.36 of traditional education
- 37 percent of students finishing a grade in seven months. Total average of students finishing a grade in nine months.
According to Erika Twani, CEO of Learning One to One Foundation, "There are many theories on how to improve our education outcomes: increase in-school hours, smaller school/class size, different teachers' compensation models, introduce technology, and so on. These ideas all have merit, but most only involve investing in old concepts. Unless we change the essence of the learning practice, we will not succeed. That is exactly what the Learning One to One Foundation does –literally transforming education."
Why it's different
Fontan Relational Education (FRE) is a proven model with 58 years of research that focuses on developing cognitive skills along with intellectual, personal, and socio-emotional skills. FRE customizes the learning process for different learners at an individual level based on students' abilities and interests, relating everything they learn to their own lives while using technology as the platform for personalized learning. It is supported by one-on-one academic guidance and a one-to-one computer system based on cloud technology that efficiently coordinates student achievement and engages students, school staff, parents, counselors and administrators.
According to Twani, "We focus on the learning process of each individual student, rather than personalization of content, which is what the vast majority of models do. The main tenet of the Fontan Relational Education model is its defined strategy to create learning autonomy, which happens as students grow and evolve in their learning process."
Why it Works
FRE is called "Relational" education because students move to the next topic in all subject areas only when they are able to "relate" everything they learn to their daily lives, increasing knowledge retention and their chances to succeed academically, developing true cognitive skills. Research proves that FRE works equally well with students with disabilities, allowing them to perform as any student. Public schools using Fontan Relational Education have improved performance in as little as one year after adoption.
How it Works
Under a specific school or an entire school district request, Learning One to One Foundation provides expert guidance for whole-school reform, teacher, parent, and student training to adopt FRE, an on-line app that enhances the students learning experience, and continuous support to improve academic and technology performance every day. FRE evolves every year, allowing educators to be prepared for students learning requirements in this never-ending transformation in the world. The Foundation is available for immediate consultations and to provide more information.


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Pressure ulcers are clinical-healthcare disorders that require a highly-skilled healthcare team, because of the multiple aetiological complexity of pressure ulcers and the frequent multiple pathological characteristics of individuals at risk. Thanks to their specific role in resolving this disorder, their accountability in handling pressure ulcers and the continuity of care they provide, nurses are in particular the health professionals who can ensure high quality competences and provide appropriate advice.
In Italy, the practical experiences of Nursing Advisory Centres for pressure ulcers are still very few, so in our study we described the experience of a Hospital in Northern Italy.
Aim: To evaluate the patient outcomes of nursing advice interventions for pressure ulcers by checking whether the ulcers improved or worsened.
Methods: We performed systematic prevalence and incidence studies on the indicators for healthcare outcomes.The studies were conducted throughout the hospital, bearing in mind the differences linked to the characteristics of the various departments.
Results: We found that Nursing Advisory interventions proved to be effective in preventing the onset of new pressure ulcers and at limiting the extension and the aggravation of those already existing.
Conclusions: Advanced nursing practise is an opportunity for development within the professional community. Nurse Advisors, during interventions, allowed to fill initial gaps, providing guidance to other nurses especially when it came to designing and identifying the most appropriate healthcare strategies.
Keywords: Risk management, pressure ulcers, nursing advice, prevention


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Suppose the daily benefit you get from spending another hour studying microeconomics is described by B(t) = 12t - tr^2.
a) What amount of studying time per day maximizes your benefits?
b) Derive the marginal benefits, MB(t)
c) Suppose that an alternative use of your time is to play video games that yields a constant benefit of 4 per hour, no matter how many hours you spend playing. How much time should you spend studying microeconomics?


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ecobee3 lite Heap Overflow
A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the 'HKProcessConfig' function that overflows inside the HKWAC object. This object is responsible for managing the Homekit Wireless Access Control setup process. A threat actor can craft a malicious payload to control values inside the object causing the ecobee3 device to connect to a separate WiFi access point.
Given the nature of memory attacks, it may be possible to extend this attack further to achieve code execution.
The Wireless Access Configuration (WAC) server is present on the ecobee3 device on TCP port 1200. Usually this function is employed when connecting the device to a WiFi access point during initial setup via an iOS device. However, this service remains present after the device has been connected to a wireless network leaving it vulnerable to attack.
A threat actor can send a POST request to the endpoint 'http://:1200/config' with a request body that is greater than 512 bytes, resulting in an overflow of the HKWAC object. The HKWAC object is provisioned with 604 bytes, therefore any requests larger than 604 bytes results in the next object on the heap being corrupted, which could be a path to achieve code execution.
Vulnerable HKWAC object
HKWAC object as initially provisioned
However, a threat actor can send a payload greater than 512 bytes but less than 604 to control specific elements of the HKWAC object including flags which are used to validate whether previous steps of the WAC process have been complete, such as if the ecobee3 is in 'Access Point' (AP) mode. By exploiting the structure, a threat actor can 'trick' the ecobee3 into accepting a new WiFi access configuration resulting in the device disconnecting from the current access point and connecting to a threat actor controlled access point.
Flags checked in HKWAC object
Byte 592 calls HKWifiConnectSetup function
As an example, the device was connected to the SSID 'TheFlooNetwork' using the typical setup procedures. The research team then sent a crafted payload which overflowed the HKWAC object and caused the device to connect to the SSID 'hackpi'. The payload did not require authentication, and could potentially be used in cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
ecobee3 lite connected to "TheFlooNetwork"
Payload sent to device causing it to change WiFi access points
Serial output shows device chaning to "hackpi" WiFi access point
Request sent on new access point to "/configured" to compelte the setup
Serial output shows the device completing the setup process


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Eric, bacteria convert organic matter to CO2 *after* the organism has died. As long as the plants are alive and growing, they won't get the chance. So: arctic summerair temperature's warm enough to have plants growingbacteria don't touch live plantsplants die (partly) off during arctic winterthe dead parts fall under the live plants, or are the lowest, oldest plant parts anyway, so they're sandwiched between live plants and permafrostthe dead parts are shaded and don't thaw in summerbacteria can't eat them because they're frozenpermafrost accumulates. There may be a small amount of dead material at the surface sufficiently explosed to thaw in summer to get decomposed, but the total balance will be towards accumulation of frozen organic matter.


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Bridges from around the world who is famous for its beauty and the longest, highest, until the most unique
1. Magdeburg Water Bridge, Jerman
The Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany, a navigable aqueduct, completed in October 2003. It connects the Elbe-Havel canal to the Mittelland Canal Mittelland Canal, crossing the Elbe. The channel has already reached close to Magdeburg, but on the opposite bank of the Elbe. It is noteworthy, because it is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world with a length of 918 meters.
2. Banpo Bridge, South Korea
subjected Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is a huge facelift surgery: a 10,000-tube wells, which extends on both sides. After installation, the bridge was a major tourist attraction, where the bridge is burning 190 tons of water per minute under running water.
3. Millau bridge, France
As high as 1,125 feet above the Tarn Valley in southern France, the Millau Viaduct wallow like a fly to be said. The work of Foster and Partners is slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower, over three years to build and opened in public in 2004. In addition to providing views of the valley, when the clouds under the bridge, the Millau way for those who have not formed a fear of heights! Millau bridge is 8,071 meters long in total with the longest single span beam in the 1122 meters and 886 meters in maximum transparency, so the bridge in its original form is very beautiful, or thumbnail. Bridge deck supported by seven pylons and weighs 36,000 tons. Seven towers, each 292 feet tall, weighs 700 tons, built up to support the pylon.
4. Bridge Cable Oliveira, Brazil
The world's first X-shaped Octavio Frías de Oliveira bridge, which crosses the Pinheiros River in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May opened the 2008th As high as 138 meters to 450 meters, and is connected to the marginal Pinheiros Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue. The design is unique, arched over the other 2 decks of a tower-shaped recovery, X.
5. Dong Bridge Nations, Cina
Wind and rain bridge is a symbol of arsitektor Dong minority peoples. Wind and rain Bridhe dipinge the largest of its kind in Guizhou province, where China's largest Dong settled community. The bridge is along the first 50 meters and was built in 1894 during the Qing Dynasty some 100 years. But the original structure burned down in 1959, large fires, and the visitor today, the creature that is completed in 1964, he repeated.
In a clean timber construction with columns, purlins and balusters of different sizes and shapes. Body bridge consists of three parts, the largest in the middle of a traditional Chinese drum tower is divided. Since the height of the bridge pilasters and decorated with flowers, statues and bridges is unique.
6. Tower Bridge, London
Victorian-known and most beautiful bridge in 1894, Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones, Done. Tower Bridge, the two distinctive towers as high as 141 meters, and the nearby Tower of London named one of the most famous sights of London and is one of the most beautiful in the world. The 800-foot bridge to 28 feet of space when closed, but opened the center to about 140 feet, the boat on the Thames. The sun, when moving goods by sea instead of air-bridge is about 50 times per day increases. Tower Bridge was built over 432 workers 8 years. At that time they sank 70,000 tons of 2 large concrete pillar, instead of the second support structure, each of which weighs 1,000 tonnes, and decorate the whole bridge in Portland stone and granite in Cornwall, the 11,000 tons of iron lid.
7. Ponte Vecchio Bridge, Italy
The oldest and most famous bridge Italy Ponte Vecchio, Florence's most famous sights in Italy, and is considered the oldest stone bridge in Europe, although many of the older part. Actually built from wood, until destroyed in the flood of 1333, and twelve years later, the bridge was rebuilt in stone. Famous for its many shops, the bridge is laid off everyone starts traders and butchers in the Middle Ages to the museum shops and art dealers.
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Scan is a collective algorithm that performs partial reductions on data provided by each process in the communicator. Scan combines the arrays stored by each process into partial results delivered to each process. The arrays are combined in a user-defined way, specified via a delegate that will be applied elementwise to the values in each arrays. If array(0), array(1),..., array(N-1) are the arrays provided by the N processes in the communicator, the resulting array for the process with rank P will be array(0) op array(1) op... op array(P). The processor with rank N-1 will receive the same result as if one had performed a Reduce<(Of <(T>)>)(array(), ReductionOperation<(Of <(T>)>), Int32, array()%) operation with root N-1. Scan is sometimes called an "inclusive" scan, because the result returned to each process includes the contribution of that process. For an "exclusive" scan (that does not include the contribution of the calling process in its result), use ExclusiveScan<(Of <(T>)>)(array(), ReductionOperation<(Of <(T>)>), array()%).Namespace: MPI
Assembly: MPI (in MPI.dll)
Version: 188.8.131.52 (184.108.40.206)
public void Scan( T inValues, ReductionOperation op, ref T outValues )
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Public Sub Scan(Of T) ( _ inValues As T(), _ op As ReductionOperation(Of T), _ ByRef outValues As T() _ )
public: generic void Scan( array^ inValues, ReductionOperation^ op, array^% outValues )
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The array contributed by the calling process. The arrays provided by each process must have the same length.
- Type: MPI..::.ReductionOperation<(Of <(>)>)
Operation used to combine two values from different processes.
The array array(0) op array(1) op... op array(Rank)
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When it comes to marketing automation for the travel industry, if you're using Act-On to send your monthly consumer (B2C) newsletter, you've hit one important target. If you're now wanting to up your marketing game, we encourage you to work with your Marketing Automation Specialist to set up Act-On's Beacon Tracker on your website and begin collecting data.
In fact, in just a short amount of time, your destination marketing organization (DMO) will have a lot of data! You can see who is visiting your website pages and when, but you're wondering — what do you do with it now?
Together, we'll explore:
- Known vs. anonymous visitors
- What information (data) is being tracked
- How users can opt-out
- Ways your destination marketing organization (DMO) can use the data to their advantage.
What is the Beacon Tracker, and Why Does it Matter?
Before we get into what data is being tracked, let's start at the beginning. Act-On's Beacon Tracker uses first-party cookies (not third-party) to track visitors as they navigate your site, including filling out forms connected to Act-On. The cookies usually expire after approximately 12 months (based on the browser defaults) or if the visitor clears their cookies. However, if a visitor clears just their cache (and not their cookies), the cookie will still be present. In special cases where a visitor visits your website on their laptop computer and through their mobile device, it'll result in different cookies being dropped on each location. As long as the same email address is associated with the cookies, Act-On will connect the data under one record.
Let's talk about what information or data is being tracked. Most specifically, the main function of the Beacon Tracker is to track the page URL each visitor visits and when they performed this action. Act-On can associate any fields in your standard field list or custom form fields to the contact record in Act-On through the visitor's email address.
Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) can now use this information to send their visitors targeted content that is personalized to their experience
Unknown and Known Website Visitors: How They Make an Impact
Why are we talking about cookies and data? That's because when a visitor receives a cookie from a Beacon Tracker page, they are divided into two different categories within the Act-On application, Unknown and Known Website Visitors. A visitor who just visits your website is considered an Unknown Website Visitor. You can't do much with this group in the way of contacting them because you don't know who they are yet and don't have permission. But, these visitors will become Known Website Visitors once they fill out a form on your website that is connected to Act-On or they click on a link to your website (where the Beacon Tracker is installed) within an email you've sent. It's important to note that Act-On's Beacon Tracker has a setting to work with your own cookie messages on your website, allowing visitors to opt out of being tracked. This function is set up through your Act-On settings.
For example, if Visitor A has visited your website, and you can see they've been to your events calendar, some listings, and things to do pages. However, since they haven't made themselves 'known,' you are unable to follow up with them at all. On the other hand, Visitor B has filled out your consumer newsletter form. Since they've made themselves 'known' to you, it opens up a whole different world! You can see the pages they've visited on your website and can follow up with them based on their behavior. The same can be said for Visitor C, who received an email from you and then clicked on a link in the email that led them to your website. And what makes the known visitors so special is they consist of contacts who have already given you permission to email them. Making them the perfect segment to move through the funnel from awareness to interest to acquisition (or visit!)
3 Examples of How You Can Use the Beacon Tracker
1. Welcome Campaign
When someone signs up for your consumer newsletter, they are entered into an automated program. The first email sets expectations for future emails as well as introduces the visitors to your destination. There are links in the email that direct them to specific places on your website, including the events calendar, some listings, and things-to-do pages. When it's time to send the second automated email (usually wait a week), the visitors are segmented based on their website activity. The content is then personalized for each visitor. For example, the email might have two main content areas that are dynamic based on the segment. You can also include seasonal promotions or discounts from your partners that correlate with the pages visitors are visiting on your website as a special treat for your visitors.
2. Cart Abandonment Email
Cart abandonment emails have been made popular by retailers (ahem, Amazon) who automatically send you an email after you've added something to your cart but did not make the purchase. How this translates to DMOs is through forms. When a visitor lands on your Request a Guide form but never fills it out, they are presenting you with a great opportunity and one that shouldn't be missed.
The key is to create a segment based on a behavior that looks in the "last 1 day" time frame — contacts who did visit your Request a Guide form but did not make it to the form completion page. You'd set up your automated program to send an email to these visitors once a day reminding them how awesome your destination is! You also have the option of placing a link to the digital version for them to download. Make sure the guide is first uploaded to your Media Files so you can track the engagement. Your segment would look something like this:
3. Nurture Program
When a visitor signs up to receive a guide, it's a good assumption that they're planning to visit your destination soon. Why not create a nurture program and send them helpful information on ways to plan the perfect trip? If you have an app, this is an excellent place to promote it in one of your emails, too. You'd build your segment around visitors who completed filling out the Request a Guide form on your website. Be careful not to mix things up here if you're already sending an automated email when they sign up for the guide. That can be replaced with this nurture program, adding a lot of value for your visitors.
Dig Into Your Data
Hopefully we've piqued your interest in Act-On's Beacon Tracker enough to install it on your website. If you would like to learn more about Act-On's Beacon Tracker view the help article.


Optura Xi
miniDV Camcorders
Digital Camcorder
Item Code: 9000A001
Video and Audio Inputs and Outputs
In addition to providing digital video input and output, the Optura Xi features analog video and audio inputs and outputs: Composite and S-video.
Video Inputs and Outputs
By using audio/video cables (composite) or S-Video, it's possible to send an analog video signal from your TV, VCR or a camcorder into the Optura Xi and record it onto DV. Similarly, you can output an analog signal via composite or S-Video cables to an analog device such as a TV or VCR.
Audio Inputs
The analog audio inputs of the Optura Xi let you perform dubbing or insert editing from conventional audio sources such as CDs, cassettes, microphones or the soundtracks of other videocassettes.
Mic Input
In addition to using the built-in microphone on the Optura Xi, you have the option of plugging in an external microphone.
Audio Dub
AV Insert
The Optura Xi offers the option of adding new video from a VCR or another camcorder to a tape recorded in SP mode. The input can be digital or analog.
Audio Outputs
Audio Out
Headphone Terminal
The Optura Xi features a 3.5 mm headphone terminal, perfect for monitoring audio while recording or personal playback. The level is adjustable.


5.4.8 Rotating objects
Both layout objects and elements of markup text can be rotated by any angle about any point, but the method of doing so differs.
Rotating layout objects
All layout objects which support the grob-interface can be rotated by setting their rotation property. This takes a list of three items: the angle of rotation counter-clockwise, and the x and y coordinates of the point relative to the object's reference point about which the rotation is to be performed. The angle of rotation is specified in degrees and the coordinates in staff-spaces.
The angle of rotation and the coordinates of the rotation point must be determined by trial and error.
There are only a few situations where the rotation of layout objects is useful; the following example shows one situation where they may be:
g4\< e' d' f\!
\override Hairpin.rotation = #'(20 -1 0)
g,,4\< e' d' f\!
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Rotating markup
All markup text can be rotated to lie at any angle by prefixing it with the \rotate command. The command takes two arguments: the angle of rotation in degrees counter-clockwise and the text to be rotated. The extents of the text are not rotated: they take their values from the extremes of the x and y coordinates of the rotated text. In the following example the outside-staff-priority property for text is set to _TAG_ to disable the automatic collision avoidance, which would push some of the text too high.
\override TextScript.outside-staff-priority = ##f
g4^\markup { \rotate #30 "a G" }
b^\markup { \rotate #30 "a B" }
des^\markup { \rotate #30 "a D-Flat" }
fis^\markup { \rotate #30 "an F-Sharp" }
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Turning Packaging From Trash to Toys Turning Packaging From Trash to Toys
Turning Packaging From Trash to Toys
by Adele Peters
December 17, 2012
How can food packaging have a useful life after you've eaten whatever's inside? One solution, from a Greek design company, is to create a box that can easily be converted into a toy that kids want to keep.
Matadog Design needed to create a new brand for a snack company that sells small boxes of raisins. Initially, their assignment was to add a toy inside the package. They realized that if the box itself could become the toy, then they'd be able to eliminate waste.
As the designers studied paper toys, they discovered that most are somewhat complicated to construct—they usually require scissors and glue or tape, and a lot of time. After building countless models, they created a series of designs that are truly kid-friendly: they don't require any tools, and they're simple enough that kids can put them together by themselves.
The boxes come in 10 different designs, so kids will want to keep buying the snacks—and so they have a reason to keep more packaging out of the trash.
Photos courtesy of Matadog Design
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The Ronald Lee Sterner Trust Fund
Ronald Lee Sterner was adopted through Covenant Children's Home by the Sterner family in the 1950's. Tragically Ronald died as a young child. In 1957 the Sterner family established the Ronald Lee Sterner Trust in his memory. The Board of Covenant Children's Home was named as the Administrator of the trust. The purpose of the trust to was to encourage and enable other vulnerable children to pursue a post-high school education through scholarship grants.
Today Covenant Children's Ministries continues to administer funds generated by the trust in accordance with the wishes of the Sterner family. Special consideration is given to "orphaned children" as defined by the trust, and to former residents and clients of Covenant Children's Home. Other factors considered are students from "broken homes," those attending schools of Christian emphasis, and students pursuing careers in Christian service or one of the helping professions. Over the years, as the trust fund has grown, Covenant Children's Ministries has helped hundreds of worthy students achieve their educational goals, and it continues to do so today.
If you have any questions about the Ronald Lee Sterner Grant or are in need of additional information, please direct all inquiries to _EMAIL_


text: Porthcurno was once the largest telegraph station in the world. The Grade II listed Eastern House was constructed in 1904 due to overcrowding in the original telegraph station. During World War Two, the strategic importance of the telegraph station meant that it needed protection from enemy bombers. The now Grade II* listed Tunnels were dug into the granite hillside and the station was moved underground in 1941. Above the beach sits the Grade II listed Cable House built in 1929. As the only remaining intact Cable House in the world, it houses the terminals for the 14 undersea cables the come into Porthcurno.


text: Travel around the world without leaving your home with 'Flags Around the World,' a vibrant and informative book that explores the flags of every country in the world. With detailed illustrations and fascinating information about the history and symbolism behind each flag, this book is perfect for anyone interested in flags, geography, or world cultures. From the stars and stripes of the United States to the crescent and star of Turkey, each flag is brought to life through beautiful artwork and clear explanations. The book also includes a map of the world, making it easy to locate each country and its flag. Written by expert author, Tim Webb, 'Flags Around the World' is an essential resource for anyone curious about the colorful and diverse flags of our world.