text: Multiclass open queueing networks find wide applications in communication, computer and fabrication networks. Often one is interested in steady state performance measures associated with these systems. One can use the regenerative structure of the process to estimate the steady state performance measures via regenerative simulation. In a queueing network, if all the interarrival times are Markovian (have exponential distributions), it is easy to identify regeneration instants, e.g., an instant corresponding to an arrival to an empty network. In this presentation, we consider networks where interarrival times are generally distributed but have exponential or fatter tails. We show that such distributions can be decomposed into mixture of sums of independent random variables such that at least one of the components is exponentially distributed. This allows an embedded regenerative structure in the Markov process. We show that under mild conditions on the network primitives, the regenerative mean and standard deviation estimators are consistent and satisfy a joint central limit theorem. This is important as it allows construction of asymptotically valid confidence intervals. We show that amongst all such interarrival time decompositions, the one with largest mean exponential component minimizes the asymptotic variance of the standard deviation estimator.


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The Aqua Dragons backer carded kit allows children to use their own container, a clean jam jar or plastic tub for example,to grow Aqua Dragons at a pocket money price. This product can also be used as a refill kit for underwater world. Just add water and the Aqua Dragons miraculously hatch in only 2-3 days and can grow up to 2cm long. AQUA DRAGONS FAQ 1. Are they really alive? Yes, the Artemia salina (which is the scientific name for what we call Aqua Dragons) are live organisms and they need you to care for them. 2. What temperature should the water be? The ideal water temperature range for hatching is 21 to 27ºC. It is important that the water is at this temperature in order for your Aqua Dragons to hatch and during the first delicate week of life. 3. How many Aqua Dragons should hatch? A difficult question; it depends on the water, the temperature, the number of microscopic eggs that were in the packet, so could be between 10 and 50. 4. Do I have to change the water? No, the water has a special ph and salinity level that is established by the contents of the eggs sachet. So don't change the water! However the water does evaporate so you can fill up, slowly using room temperature bottled spring water in small quantities each time. Do not use tap water. 5. How do I oxygenate the water? We recommend that you shake the water before adding the eggs so that it is oxygenated well from the start then begin using the pipette to oxygenate the water. Squeeze and release the pipette to let air into the chamber. Put the pipette tip in the water and then squeeze again to blow the stored air into the water. Repeat this for 30 seconds every few days. 6. How often should I feed my Aqua Dragons? The amount you feed should correspond to the number of Aqua Dragons you hatch. If you have only a few Aqua Dragons, feed every 4-5 days. If you have a large hatch of 20+ Aqua Dragons feed every other day. 7. Do Aqua Dragons like sunlight? Yes they love it, just make sure you don't leave them in the direct sun where the water would overheat! 8. Do Aqua Dragons bite? No... actually they don't have a mouth; they eat through their wings which work like gills. 9. How long do Aqua Dragons live? Each Aqua Dragon can reach adult hood at one month and can live for up to 90 days, however if you care for them well you may see that they reproduce so you could have life in the tank for much longer. 10. How big do Aqua Dragons grow? Up to 20mm but this may take up to two months. 11. What do I do if one of the dragons dies? When an Aqua Dragon dies it will float down to the bottom of your habitat and slowly biodegrade. In effect they become part of the habitat so it is not necessary to remove them. 12. Initially I had lots of hatchlings but now I am left with just a few adults? Not all the Aqua Dragons that hatch will survive into adulthood, otherwise we'd be overrun! It's normal and natural for many to hatch and for only some to make it through to adulthood. 13. The water is dirty, what do I do? This is normally due to over-feeding. Stop feeding until the Aqua Dragons have had time to process all the food in the tank. It could take a week or so for the water to become clear again but the water won't become bad, because it is salty. 14. Can Aqua Dragons live in my regular fish aquarium? As they are small, regular fish will eat them, so do not introduce them into your home aquarium.
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North Central Florida leads the state in cancer deaths. That fact will likely lead the Gainesville-area region — not far north of Polk in the middle of Central Florida — to take a hard look at itself. Lessons from those neighbors to the north may apply here and be worthy of study.
The death rates for the state's 10 most prevalent cancers are highest in North Central Florida, reports The Gainesville Sun. The region's rural counties are driving the high mortality rates.
There are some cultural differences that might be a factor, because some rural patients can be reluctant to go to the doctor until problems become severe. There are also lifestyle choices at play such as higher smoking rates in rural counties.
While one University of Florida expert on pesticides dismissed a link between those chemicals and the higher cancer rates, environmental scientist Bob Knight says it's at least worth exploration.
Perhaps the biggest problem is the lack of access to health care and early cancer screenings.
Colorectal cancer is a good example of the importance of early detection. It's the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., but highly preventable if polyps are spotted early.
However, conservative state lawmakers are so ideologically opposed to the Affordable Care Act that they would reject federal funding to expand Medicaid.
Expanding Medicaid is needed isn't a cure-all. There are a limited number of dentists who take Medicaid, for example. The lack of access to dentists is a reason why African-Americans in the region had 145 percent higher death rates for lip, oral cavity and pharynx cancers compared with African-Americans in the rest of the state.
As the population ages and more people get insurance through the Affordable Care Act, a shortage of primary-care doctors is going to get worse. Lifting restrictions on nurse practitioners and physician assistants would help.
All of Florida could use help from the state by putting all solutions on the table.
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Some push factors that causing Labor turnover In Private University Education in Iraq -A case study for a number of private colleges
2020, Volume 39, Issue 126, Pages 111-131
AbstractThe faculty member is considered an essential axis in the success of the private university education.. In view of the high turnover rate in the private university education sector in Iraq, as it reached nearly 40% in some colleges, which makes it a phenomenon that must be studied by researchers. Accordingly, the research aims to find out what are the reasons that push the faculty member in private university education to leave his job and move to another place, which is called push factors. The researcher followed the descriptive approach in collecting theoretical information and the survey and analysis approach in collecting field data using a questionnaire that included, in addition to personal information, questions for thirteen reasons that could be cause of labor turnover send to those who left the work( Post Exit) in a sample of private colleges through Personal interview or by sending it via electronic means of communication. The data was analyzed using the statistical program SPSS version 24.The research found that the thirteen reasons were statistically significant as a reason for labor turnover, the most important of which is the lack of security and job stability in private university education. The research also presented a set of recommendations that can contribute to reducing the phenomenon of labor turnover for faculty members in private university education in Iraq.
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The integrating power of the eye has been tested for short flashes of light, ranging in duration from 10-2 to 8 × 10-9 sec. The shorter flashes were produced by passing the image of the straight filament of an electric lamp across a narrow slit, the light having been reflected from a mirror mounted on an air-driven turbine. The longer flashes were produced by means of a sectored disk. In all cases the number of flashes received by the eye was great enought to avoid flicker and the intensity was well above that required to produce the sensation of vision. It was concluded that the response of the eye depends only upon the total amount of light in the beam and is independent of the length of the light flash. The limit of error was 1.5 percent.
THOMAS E. GILMER, "The Integrating Power of the Eye for Short Flashes of Light," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 27, 386-386 (1937)

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Since 2016, Lower School students have had the opportunity to produce videos in their very own broadcast studio complete with anchor desk and green screen.
Fourth-grade students produce a weekly news show. Other grade levels use the studio for special projects. Students learn technical skills, leadership skills, public speaking, writing, and collaboration while using this unique space.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
at Harvard University is Le Corbusier's only building in North America, and one of the last to be completed during his lifetime. Made possible by a gift from Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, it was completed in 1963, with the intent to house the art-making programs of Harvard College under one roof and to symbolize the Universitys visible recognition of the importance of contemporary art. The undergraduate visual arts program, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), was created five years later, accepting its first honors concentrators in 1968.
Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center at his Paris studio with the collaboration of Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente; the on-site preparation of the construction plans was handled by the office of Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Its wonderful collection of concrete forms bring together many of the design principles and devices from Le Corbusier's earlier works: the ondulatoires from La Tourette; the brise soleils from Marseilles unité d'habitation; and the original Five Points from the 1920s, here re-imagined as if the Villa Savoye had been exploded inside out, with ramp and curved partitions extending into the environment.
Le Corbusiers landmark building was designed to be a laboratory for creative and critical thinking. With its prominent architectural promenade, its enormous ondulatoires or curving windows, its open and intersecting floor plan that encourages perpetual exchange between the exterior and interior of the building, Le Corbusier envisioned the Carpenter Center as an extraordinarily welcoming building that promotes the constant flow of movement, light, energy, and ideas. Its conception of art is inherently democraticall students have the capacity to create, and the capacity for creation should engage all other aspects of the University and its activities. By design, the building embodies a vision of community where the arts, sciences, and humanities do not speak separate languages, or inhabit separate cultures, but rather must constantly challenge and engage one another in a common space where experimentation, whether in the scientific or artistic sense, brings students, critics, and practitioners together in thought and discussion.
In May 2013, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts will celebrate its 50th anniversary as an architectural and artistic landmark. Programming throughout Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 will showcase the Carpenter Center's vibrant history in diverse and creative ways that highlight the uniqueness of the building and its contributions to the artistic life of Harvard University while celebrating Le Corbusier's synthesis of art and architecture.


Extracting AFQ tract profiles from segmented bundles
In this example, we will extract the values of a statistic from a volume, using the coordinates along the length of a bundle. These are called tract profiles
One of the challenges of extracting tract profiles is that some of the streamlines in a bundle may diverge significantly from the bundle in some locations. To overcome this challenge, we will use a strategy similar to that described in [Yeatman2012]: We will weight the contribution of each streamline to the bundle profile based on how far this streamline is from the mean trajectory of the bundle at that location.
import dipy.stats.analysis as dsa
import dipy.tracking.streamline as dts
from dipy.segment.clustering import QuickBundles
from dipy.segment.metric import (AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric,
from dipy.data.fetcher import get_two_hcp842_bundles
import dipy.data as dpd
from dipy.io.streamline import load_trk
from dipy.io.image import load_nifti
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import os.path as op
To get started, we will grab the bundles that were extracted in the bundle extraction example. If the example has not been run yet, these files don't yet exist, and we'll need to run that example:
if not (op.exists("CST_L.trk") and
 op.exists("AF_L.trk") and
 import bundle_extraction
Either way, we can use the dipy.io API to read in the bundles from file. load_trk returns both the streamlines, as well as header information.
cst_l = load_trk("CST_L.trk", "same", bbox_valid_check=False).streamlines
af_l = load_trk("AF_L.trk", "same", bbox_valid_check=False).streamlines
transform = np.load("slr_transform.npy")
In the next step, we need to make sure that all the streamlines in each bundle are oriented the same way. For example, for the CST, we want to make sure that all the bundles have their cortical termination at one end of the streamline. This is that when we later extract values from a volume, we won't have different streamlines going in opposite directions.
To orient all the streamlines in each bundles, we will create standard streamlines, by finding the centroids of the left AF and CST bundle models.
The advantage of using the model bundles is that we can use the same standard for different subjects, which means that we'll get roughly the same orientation
model_af_l_file, model_cst_l_file = get_two_hcp842_bundles()
model_af_l = load_trk(model_af_l_file, "same",
model_cst_l = load_trk(model_cst_l_file, "same",
feature = ResampleFeature(nb_points=100)
metric = AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric(feature)
Since we are going to include all of the streamlines in the single cluster from the streamlines, we set the threshold to np.inf. We pull out the centroid as the standard.
qb = QuickBundles(np.inf, metric=metric)
cluster_cst_l = qb.cluster(model_cst_l)
standard_cst_l = cluster_cst_l.centroids[0]
cluster_af_l = qb.cluster(model_af_l)
standard_af_l = cluster_af_l.centroids[0]
We use the centroid streamline for each atlas bundle as the standard to orient all of the streamlines in each bundle from the individual subject. Here, the affine used is the one from the transform between the atlas and individual tractogram. This is so that the orienting is done relative to the space of the individual, and not relative to the atlas space.
oriented_cst_l = dts.orient_by_streamline(cst_l, standard_cst_l)
oriented_af_l = dts.orient_by_streamline(af_l, standard_af_l)
Read volumetric data from an image corresponding to this subject.
For the purpose of this, we've extracted only the FA within the bundles in question, but in real use, this is where you would add the FA map of your subject.
files, folder = dpd.fetch_bundle_fa_hcp()
fa, fa_affine = load_nifti(op.join(folder, "hcp_bundle_fa.nii.gz"))
Calculate weights for each bundle:
w_cst_l = dsa.gaussian_weights(oriented_cst_l)
w_af_l = dsa.gaussian_weights(oriented_af_l)
And then use the weights to calculate the tract profiles for each bundle
profile_cst_l = dsa.afq_profile(fa, oriented_cst_l, fa_affine,
profile_af_l = dsa.afq_profile(fa, oriented_af_l, fa_affine,
ax1.set_ylabel("Fractional anisotropy")
ax1.set_xlabel("Node along CST")
ax2.set_xlabel("Node along AF")
Bundle profiles for the fractional anisotropy in the left CST (left) and left AF (right).
Yeatman, Jason D., Robert F. Dougherty, Nathaniel J. Myall, Brian A. Wandell, and Heidi M. Feldman. 2012. "Tract Profiles of White Matter Properties: Automating Fiber-Tract Quantification" PloS One 7 (11): e49790.
Garyfallidis et al. Recognition of white matter bundles using local and global streamline-based registration and clustering, Neuroimage, 2017.
Garyfallidis E. et al., QuickBundles a method for tractography simplification, Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 6, no 175, 2012.
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I am trying to calculate the salary the person receives, based on any of the following inputs - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. When one of them is entered, the others should be recalculated automatically.
Here's how I proceed:
First, I have 5 Double type variables defined at the top of the activity. They are: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Then I have 5 EditText fields, corresponding to these variables. I have attached a custom subclass that implements TextWatcher to these 5 EditTexts.
For example:
etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
This custom class has a constructor that accepts and stores the view that was passed to it, since the default methods of the TextWatcher class don't provide a way to find out which View invoked the change.
After saving the passed view as a local variable inside the custom subclass I then proceed with the implemented afterTextChanged inside this subclass and get the value of the passed EditText and save it as a Double to its corresponding defined variable at the top of the activity. (e.g. if the EditText passed is for the Weekly salary, I set the value of this EditText as a double to the weekly variable.
Finally, just before the end of the afterTextChanged method I call another custom method Recalculate(), that has a bunch of if()'s to check if hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly is set and if it is, calculate and use setText() on the remaining EditText's. The problem is that this setText() will invoke the TextWatchers for each of these EditTexts, causing an infinite loop.
How do I overcome this?
Here's some code to have a better understanding of this. Before onCreate:
Double hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly = 0.0;
EditText etHourly, etDaily, etWeekly, etMonthly, etYearly;
Inside onCreate():
etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etDaily = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etDaily);
etWeekly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etWeekly);
etMonthly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etMonthly);
etYearly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etYearly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
etDaily.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etDaily));
etWeekly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etWeekly));
etMonthly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etMonthly));
etYearly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etYearly));
The EditTextWatcher subclass:
private class EditTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
 EditText v;
 public EditTextWatcher(EditText view) {
 this.v = view;
 public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
 // Only if the currently edited text field contains something
 if (v.getText().toString().length() > 0) {
 switch (v.getId()) {
 case R.id.etHourly:
 hourly = getTvAsDouble(etHourly);
 case R.id.etDaily:
 daily = getTvAsDouble(etDaily);
 case R.id.etWeekly:
 weekly = getTvAsDouble(etWeekly);
 case R.id.etMonthly:
 monthly = getTvAsDouble(etMonthly);
 case R.id.etYearly:
 yearly = getTvAsDouble(etYearly);
 int after) {
 int count) {
hourly = daily = weekly = monthly = yearly = 0.0;
if(hourly!=null && hourly>0.0){
// I will complete the other if's once this works
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possible duplicate of KeyReleased equivalence in Android – nandeesh Sep 18 '12 at 14:42
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Mate!! I too was stuck here.... I was getting the StackOverflowError...but I was assuming that maybe it is because I have instantiated TextWatcher multiple times... but you helped me by identifying the problem, which was actually with setText(),which was calling TextWatcher's methods infinitely.... so here I did it --- as per your code --->
 if(etHourly.isFocused()) //this condition helped suppressing infinite loops
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Conjuration magic is the art of summoning creatures from other planes, creating magical weapons and armor, and repelling undead creatures. Summoning creatures is particularly useful, providing the spellcaster with an ally in combat. A wide range of different creatures can be summoned, depending upon the spellcaster's ability.
- A Novice can only cast Novice level Conjuration spells.
- An Apprentice can cast Apprentice and Novice level Conjuration spells.
- A Journeyman can cast Journeyman, Apprentice and Novice level Conjuration spells.
- An Expert can cast Expert, Journeyman, Apprentice, and Novice level Conjuration spells.
- A Master can cast all Conjuration spells.
As your Conjuration skill increases, the Magicka cost to cast conjuration spells decreases, according to the following equation:
Cost = BaseCost * (1.4 - 0.012 * Skill)
The maximum value for Skill in this equation is 100; increases past 100 will not continue to decrease spell-casting cost.
You gain 6 experience points every time any conjuration spell is cast upon an appropriate target, regardless of the magicka cost. Of all the spellcasting skills, this is the highest rate of experience gain, and therefore increasing conjuration requires the fewest spell casts.
General tips for increasing spell-casting skills are provided at General Magic Strategies.
The best non-custom conjuration spell for practice is Bound Dagger. It is one of the cheaper conjuration spells, and it is the easiest spell to chain cast. In general, bound weapon spells can more easily be chain-cast than bound armor spells: all you have to do is sheath the weapon, and the effect terminates, allowing it to immediately be cast again.
To create a custom practice spell, the best effect is probably Summon Skeleton. It is the cheapest summon effect, so a one second duration spell has a base cost of 1 Magicka. On the other hand, most bound armor effects are almost as cheap, so some characters may prefer to create a short-duration bound armor training spell. The cheapest conjuration effect is Turn Undead, but it requires an undead target to gain experience (which can be overcome by summoning an undead creature as a target, especially if you are in an enclosed area so your target won't run too far away).
- Increasing Skills: General tips on how to improve your skills semi-naturally.
- Trainers: Pay for conjuration lessons.
- Conjuration Training: A Master Conjurer wants proof of your ability before he will train you.
- Skill Books: Books that provide lessons in conjuration.
- Increasing Attributes: Tips on training skills to improve the Intelligence attribute.
- Magic Items: There are multiple generic items with the fortify conjuration enchantment.
- There are no Unique Items that fortify the conjuration skill. These do not include Leveled Items such as those received from quests, or Artifacts.
There are no Free Skill Boosts available for Conjuration.
When your skill reaches 70 or higher, NPCs will start saying: "You smell of death. Been conjuring up dead things?"
The following races provide initial skill bonuses in conjuration:
The following standard classes include conjuration as a major skill:
A list of all standard conjuration spells can be found on the Spells page. The effects available through conjuration fall into three general groups: Summon effects; Bound effects (Bound Armor and Bound Weapons); and Turn Undead. None of these effects are available as custom potions. Following are all of the individual effects (see the individual effect pages for full details on availability; the Magical Effects article also provides a summary):
The following table provides the messages that are displayed when your Conjuration skill levels up.
|Apprentice||Through steady practice you have discovered more creatures to summon from the planes of Oblivion. You are now an Apprentice in Conjuration magic and can cast Apprentice level Conjuration spells.|
|Journeyman||Through steady practice you have discovered more creatures to summon from the planes of Oblivion. You are now a Journeyman in Conjuration magic and can cast Journeyman level Conjuration spells.|
|Expert||Through steady practice you have discovered more creatures to summon from the planes of Oblivion. You are now an Expert in Conjuration magic and can cast Expert level Conjuration spells.|
|Master||Through steady practice you have discovered more creatures to summon from the planes of Oblivion. You are now a Master of Conjuration magic and can cast Master level Conjuration spells.|
- Summoned monsters can have their souls trapped.
- Conjured creatures are unaffected by the difficulty settings, leaving them just as destructive and durable. This makes conjuration excellent for a high difficulty game, while lessening its power somewhat on an easy game.
- Conjuration spells are still affected by the armor you are wearing, but in a different way to most spells. Since they have no magnitude (apart from Turn Undead), your Spell Effectiveness is applied to their duration instead.
- The Chorrol Mages Guild specializes in conjuration; Alberic Litte and Athragar sell the most conjuration spells.
- Once your Magnus heaven doomstone to receive the greater power Skein of Magnus. One of several benefits of this power is that it fortifies your conjuration skill 15 points once a day for 120 seconds. reaches 50, you can visit the
- Conjuration can be a great way to train other skills as well, by summoning creatures and treating them as enemies.
- A conjurer can attack conjured creatures two times without getting attacked back. The third blow provokes retaliation.
- If you provoke a summoned Dremora or Dremora Lord while in jail the guard will open the jail cell to end the fight, giving you a chance to cause a jailbreak.


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As we know a many to many association are shown by two asterisks in both end of association. Now I have a association between two entities "Good" and "Invoice" so Good and Invoice have a many to many association but I want to show the "count of each good" in each invoice on class diagram.
How can I show it?
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You can use an association class as depicted e.g. here:
Using a new class and two associations inbetween like user1598390 described is valid as well. It depends how you would like to see the relationship between your entities. UML-wise association classes are probably more concise. Regarding the implementation in a programming language both solutions might even look the same (implemented with an additional link object as most programming languages don't support attributed links or pointers).
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Often times many to many associations indicate the need for a third entity.
You need InvoiceDetail entity.
Anyway "count of each good" should be a method in class Invoice.
public int getCountOfGood(Good good);
there can also be a method that returns a data structure with the count of each distinct Good in the Invoice
public Map getCountOfEachGood();
Good entity is oblivious of Invoice.
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And as the snowdrop is one of my favourite flowers, and the mild winter we're having here in the UK mean the snowdrops are are already in flower, Snowdrop is my choice today.
The snowdrop is one of the most beloved of flowers; so delicate — and yet so tough and hardy, often flowering even when blanketed in snow, the simple, pure white flowers, like dainty bells, quivering on their slender stems. Although all around seems cold and dead, still, there she is, a pioneer of the new season of life returning as the Wheel of the Year begins to turn towards the strengthening sun.
Small wonder she stands for so many concepts, from purity, simplicity, and grace to hope and fortitude in the face of adversity. The snowdrop particularly symbolizes hope in the language of flowers.
It has also been suggested that the snowdrop is the real flower behind the mysterious mythical herb moly, used by Odysseus to thwart Circe's potion to turn him into a pig.
Among Pagans, snowdrops are now considered the flower of Imbolc — the cross-quarter festival celebrated on or around February 2, but really, the snowdrop is queen of the whole quarter bwtween the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, often at her peak around the start of February, but frequently in full bloom in January and lingering here and there into March.
Snowdrops are now generally regarded as one of the birth month flowers for January, though as some of their other names include "February's fair maids" and "candlemas bells," the associations with February too run deep.
But, be warned, it has long been considered unlucky to bring snowdrops into the house, picked or growing. The ones we put on our nature table are always ones we've made ourselves!
The plant's name is pure English, simply a combination of "snow" and "drop", just as in "dewdrop" and "raindrop," and it was first recorded in the seventeenth century.
Snowdrop was first used as a given name — along with other "flower names" — in the nineteenth century. Unsurprisingly, many of the little girls called Snowdrop were registered in the first quarter of the year.
No doubt many of them ended up with the delightful fairy-like nicknames of Snowy or Snowie, as well as plain Snow, which, with that fashionable "-o" gives a little Snowdrop plenty of choice as she grows up, not to mention, somewhat amusingly, Poppy, as a rhyming nickname from the "-drop" bit.
It has always been very rare, never featuring in the American published name data, or featuring in the British equivalent in the last fifteen years.
But if Snowdrop itself is too much of a "word-name" for your taste, there's still many a lovely option in other languages:
Eirlys, for instance, the Welsh for "snowdrop," is an established Welsh girl's name, while the beautiful Endzela is a girl's name in the former USSR state of Georgia.
Some of the words for snowdrop in other languages with name potential are:
- Bucaneve — Italian
- Freidolina — Piedmontese
- Galanthus — meaning "milk-flower" in Greek, Galanthus is the flower's botanical name; very similar is Galanthis, the name of a nymph in Greek mythology, who was turned into a weasel
- Galanto — Galician
- Ghiocel — Romanian
- Gul Hesret — Persian
- Hóvirág — Hungarian
- Kardelen – Turkish and Azerbaijani
- Kokiche — Bulgarian
- Lliri de neu – Catalan
- Lulebore — Albanian
- Lumikello — Finnish
- Perce-neige — French
- Praleska — Belorusian
- Sněženka — Czech
- Snežienka — Slovak
- Snieguolė — Lithuanian
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Farming was at the heart of all Shaker communities and agricultural experimentation and technology made their farms models of efficiency and innovation.
In the Spring, the herb and vegetable gardens come to life with strawberry and asparagus plants, calendula, thyme, sage and other distinct varieties grown by the Shakers. A bounty of color and scent floods your senses. In the Fall, the gardeners collect seeds from heirloom varieties as part of the Village's ongoing conservation efforts.
Herb gardens provide insight into Shaker use of herbs for culinary and medicinal purposes. Sage, for example, was used as a flavoring in sausages and for other culinary dishes, as well as medicinally for "night sweats, colds and coughs." Foxglove was used for heart ailments (as digitalis). The Village's herb garden contains over 100 of the plants listed in the Shakers 1873 "Druggist's Handbook of Pure Botanical Preparations.
Heirloom vegetable gardens are planted and tended using techniques from the 1843 Shaker "Gardener's Manual." Varieties are based on Shaker seed lists from the 1800s, many of which rare and difficult to find today. Mangel Wurtzel Beets, Early White Turnip Radish, and Large White Marrowfat Peas illustrate they types grown by the Shakers in the 19th century for culinary use, for sale of seeds and for animal fodder. Gardeners are available to answer questions as they tend the gardens. The Village also offers specialty garden tours for groups with advance reservations.
Heritage livestock populate the Village's fields and barnyard, with breeds of sheep, pigs, cattle, and poultry representative of those kept by the Shakers. Farm demonstrations and talks allow visitors an up-close look at the livestock.
Hancock Shaker Village is a member of the Gardens of the Berkshires, a group of eight sites with various garden styles from designed landscapes to preserved historic gardens.


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In this paper, a model for predicting the quantum efficiency and responsivity of silicon based solid state photodiodes is presented. The model is first developed using semiconductor theory and then implemented in a computer software program. Correct operation of the modeling program is verified by comparing the published reflectance curves of several silicon dioxide-silicon substrate samples with the reflectance curves produced by the modeling program. Next, a system capable of measuring photodiode quantum efficiency and responsivity is presented and used to measure quantum efficiency and responsivity for a photodiode specimen. Finally, the measured and modeled quantum efficiency and responsivity results for the photodiode specimen are compared and found to be in good agreement.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Optoelectronic devices--Testing; Diodes, Semiconductor--Testing; Light absorption--Computer simulation
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Electrical Engineering (KGCOE)
Philbrick, Robert H., "Modeling of light absorption in solid state imagers" (1990). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
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Why fascinators are fascinating
Listening — Advanced Level
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Watch the video and answer the questions
 1. When did hats become popular in the UK?
 2. As per Rachel Trevor, a hat can say a lot about a person's .
 3. After WWII, Morning Dress remained popular during horse races and .
 4. Why does Rachel Trevor think less people wore hats in the 60s?
Practice your writing skills by discussing the questions below
 1. Why do you think people wear fascinators and fancy hats to royal events?
 2. When you dress up, what do you tend to wear?
 3. Did you watch the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex? If not, why? If so, what are your thoughts on the event?
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An order book displays all buy and sell orders an exchange has for a certain trading pair. The top section of an order book displays the "Sell" orders, also known as "Asks". The bottom section shows the "Buy" orders, known as "Bids".
Tip: You can click an item in the order book to pre-fill the price in the order entry form as a convenient way to enter the price at which you'd like to buy/sell.
In the middle, the last price at which an order was filled is shown. In the example above, this is 3647.48 for BTC/USDT at Binance. The value shown next to it is this price converted to your preferred currency (in this case USD). Since the price of USDT is not always exactly 1 USD, the converted price is usually different.
For each row in the order book, you can see the Size or the amount available at the Price shown, and the resulting total (price x size). This gives you a sense for the depth of the order book.
As visual guide, the green and red bars on the left show the relative size of each price/size entry in the order book. The larger the bar, the greater the combined size of the orders at a certain price point. This is a convenient way to visualize any buy/sell walls.
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Moose Drawings (Sketching + Vector)
Moose drawings are fun to create. This adorable cartoon character often looks either mean, slightly dumb or suspicious. In this case, I decided to draw a moose with large eyes and tiny legs.
The moose is very present in North America, especially in Canada. Easily recognizable with its large Antlers (for the male anyway), it is quite easy to draw this cartoon animal and have a result similar to the real thing.
Step 1
Moose drawings
Let's start this drawing lesson by creating a sketch of the character. If you have a tablet, you can sketch directly to your computer. Like I said earlier, I tried to create a funny moose with large pupils, tiny legs and a cute tail.
Step 2
Moose drawings
When you are done, convert your drawing into a digital file (if you used a pencil and a piece of paper) and import the illustration on your computer. Then, open your vector software and add dark lines just like shown in the image above.
Step 3
Moose drawings
Create a new layer and place it behind the first two. Then, create new shapes and add plain colors for now. The goal is to separate the outlines and the plain shapes since shadows will be added between these two layers later on.
Step 4
Moose drawings
Select the gradient tool from your vector software and add a subtle effect on each element of the cartoon character. Remember that the bottom part of each shape must be darker.
Step 5
Moose drawings
When you are finished, create a new layer between the outlines and the plain shapes (that are now filled with gradient colors!). Add new dark shapes to represent strong shadows. Our goal is to add more depth to the moose.
Step 6
Moose drawings
Select the transparency tool and partially hide the top part of each shape added previously. Shadows are now subtle, but still strong enough to give more volume to the illustration.
Step 7
Moose drawings
Shadows are nice, but adding reflection to our moose drawings can definitely give a better result. To create reflection, simply add a new layer. Then, create new shapes that are colored in white. The pink one was added so that you could see the white shape positioned over another white shape.
Step 8
Moose drawings
Once again, select the transparency tool and partially hide the bottom part of each white shapes created previously. Highlights are subtle since the skin of the moose doesn't reflect light like plastic would (it's just an example).
Step 9
Moose drawings
Finally, you can alter the color of all outlines using a tone of color similar to the one from the shape closer to the line. Black outlines are great, but adding colors to the outlines is a more efficient option. Good job! I think our moose is ready to go! :)
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How long do beef sausages take to cook?
How do you cook beef sausages?
Just bring a saucepan of water to the boil, and then place the uncooked sausages in the water. Make sure they're completely submerged in the water, and reduce the heat to a gentle simmer. Let the sausages simmer for about 10 minutes, then remove them from the water and dry them off with a paper towel.
How do you tell if beef sausages are cooked?
To determine whether it's done, you can measure the internal temperature with a meat thermometer. Sausages should reach 155–165°F (68–74°C). Alternatively, boiling them before cooking in a pan or on a grill can ensure that they're thoroughly cooked and remain moist.
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How do you cook beef sausage on the stove?
 1. PAN FRY. Cut Smoked Sausage sections in half lengthwise or into 1'2″ slices. Add to non-stick skillet over medium heat. Cook 6-9 minutes, turning frequently.
 2. STOVE TOP. Add sausage to 2-3 inches of boiling water.
 3. GRILL. Grill over medium-high heat for 12-14 minutes, turning frequently.
How long do sausages take to cook?
What is the best way to cook sausages?
Pan-frying is probably the most popular way to cook sausage. What makes it so effective is the fact that you can fry other ingredients alongside the sausage, which will acquire their flavors during cooking. Set your stove to medium heat and heat your pan or skillet for a couple of minutes, until it gets hot.
How do you tell if a sausage is cooked?
Use a meat thermometer. Insert the needle tip into the end of the sausage and measure the internal temperature of the meat. When the internal temperature has reached 160°F (70°C) for pork and beef or 165°F (74°C) for chicken and turkey for at least 30 seconds, the sausage is fully cooked and ready to serve.
Is a little pink in sausage OK?
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Fried sausages recipe
Should you boil sausages before frying them?
When you cook raw or fresh sausage, pre-boiling can bring the meat to a safe internal temperature faster, which helps eliminate any foodborne pathogens in the meat. However, while you can boil sausage before frying, it is usually not necessary.
How do you cook sausage in a frying pan?
 1. Spray a skillet with cooking spray.
 2. Add sausage.
 3. Cook over medium-high heat until browned, about 5 minutes, turning links often.
 4. Reduce heat to medium-low.
 5. Carefully add ½ cup water to skillet.
Can you bake sausages instead of frying?
There are many ways to cook sausages, but cooking them in the oven is often the simplest method. You don't have to stand over them, turning them in a frying pan or on the grill. And cooking them on foil means easy clean-up. … Then, depending on their size, bake them for 20 to 40 minutes in the oven at 350 °F (177 °C).
Should you pierce sausages?
Never, ever prick a sausage. … Cook sausages slowly over low heat on a greased grill, turning several times. High heat will simply cause them to split their skins and expunge their precious bodily fluids. Sausages also like a little rest after cooking.
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Is it better to fry or bake sausages?
Don't bake your sausages
While this seems like the healthy option, it doesn't provide the fry-up experience that pan cooking does. Baking prevents the exterior from developing that lovely umami taste we all crave.
Is it safe to eat undercooked sausage?
Yes, you can get severely sick by eating undercooked sausage, but then again it depends on what type of sausage you're eating. … They're not magicians or psychics and they can't see if the sausage contains a harmful bacteria such as Trichinosis.
How long does it take to cook sausage at 350?
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Volunteer Immunity and Charitable Organization Liability Limit Act
The Act is intended to promote the formation, financial stability, and healthy operation of charitable organizations and to encourage volunteer and charitable organizations by limiting the exposure of organizations and volunteers to lawsuits arising from their charitable activities.
Model Legislation
Section 1. {Title}
This Act shall be known as and may be cited as the Volunteer Immunity and Charitable Organization Liability Limit Act.
Section 2. {Legislative finding and declaration of intent}
The legislature finds that charitable organizations within this state perform essential and needed services. It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the formation of charitable organizations, to promote charitable organizations, to preserve the resources of charitable organizations, to encourage volunteerism, and to encourage volunteer and charitable organizations by limiting the liability of charitable organizations and volunteers.
Section 3. {Definitions}
(A) For the purpose of this Act:
(B) "Charitable organization" shall mean any organization exempt from federal income taxation by virtue of being described under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(C) "Good faith" shall mean the honest, conscientious pursuit of activities and purposes that the organization is organized and operated to provide.
(D) "Health care" shall mean any act performed or furnished by a health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient pertaining to the disgnosis or treatment of any disease or disorder, mental or physical, or any physical handicap, deformity, or injury.
(E) "Health care provider" shall mean any person, partnership, professional association, corporation, facility, or institution licensed, certified, or accredited by the state to provide health care, including but not limited to a physician, licensed practical nurse, registered nurse, hospital, dentist, podiatrist, pharmacist, nursing home, or any officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of their employment.
(F) "Volunteer" shall mean any person, including a director, officer, trustee, or direct service volunteer, who renders service for a charitable organization, nonprofit corporation, a hospital, or a government entity without compensation, other than reimbursement for actual expenses incurred.
(G) "Government entity" shall mean any county, municipality, township, school district, chartered unit, or subdivision, governmental unit, other special district, similar entity, or any association, authority, board, commission, division, office, officer, task force, or other agency of any state.
Section 4.
(A) Except as provided by paragraph 4B of this section and Section 6 of this Act, a volunteer who is serving a charitable organization in any capacity is immune from civil liability for any act or omission resulting in death, damage, or injury if the volunteer was acting in good faith and in the course and scope of his duties or functions within the organization.
(B) A volunteer acting in good faith and in the course and scope of his duties or functions within the charitable organization is not liable to a person for death, damage, or injury to the person or his property proximately caused by an act or omission arising from the operation or use of any motor-driven equipment, including an airplane, except to the extent of any existing insurance coverage applicable to the act or omission [reference any state compulsory insurance law].
(C) The provisions of this Section apply only to liability of volunteers and do not apply to the liability of the organization for acts or omissions of volunteers.
Section 5. {Organization liability}
Except as provided in Section 6 of this Act, in any civil action brought against a charitable organization based on an act or omission by the organization or its members, recovery may be sought only in an action against the charitable organization for actual damages sustained in an amount not exceeding $300,000 for each person and $1,000,000 for each single occurrence of bodily injury or death and $100,000 for each single act of destruction of property and $100,000 for any other injury.
Section 6. {Applicability}
(A) This Act does not apply to an act or omission by a volunteer or an organization that constitutes intentional wrongdoing, or that is done with reckless disregard for the safety of others.
(B) This Act does not limit or modify the duties or liabilities of a member of the board of directors or an officer to the organization or its members and shareholders.
(C) This Act does not apply to organizations or employees that are health care providers as defined in paragraph 3E.
(D) This Act does not affect the powers and duties of the attorney general with regard to the charitable organizations and their directors and offices.
Section 7. {Severability clause}
Section 8. {Repealer clause}
Section 9. {Effective date.}
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Reapproved by ALEC Board of Directors on January 28, 2013.
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Animal Crusaders helping homeless animals
Whether it's decorating bed covers for the cats, or helping train the dogs with treats, a group of elementary school students from Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy in Alexandria is dedicated to improving the lives of homeless animals.
The students call themselves the Animal Crusaders and they're regular volunteers at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.
"I'm helping them find homes and making them better habitats where they are right now," says Animal Crusader Linnea Bow.
Sometimes, the Animal Crusaders make toys for cats. They even read to the animals.
The shelter says the animals directly benefit from this interaction with the children.
"It's good to introduce animals and children together because animals get used to having children around and become more adoptable to families," says Youth Volunteer Coordinator Lindsay Halgerson.
And the students are learning the rewards of giving back a lesson they're apparently sharing with their friends.
"They love the animals and are excited to come and want to help and telling their friends about animal crusaders and that's the best thing," says teacher Anne Marie Harris-White.
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When choosing a technology to allow your React app to interact with MongoDB, Mongoose always comes to mind. It allows you to create object references and model your database in code. However, this abstraction sacrifices query performance which renders it slower than JavaScript's MongoDB driver. In this tutorial, I'll be going through the process of using Next.js and its easy-to-use API routing system so you can use the driver in your React app, instead of having to rely on an external API.
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Remove bamboocore.exe from the system
bamboocore.exe is an executive files that helps in smooth running of the applications within the system. If such files are absent, it will impact not only the application but also the other part of the system. It may result in crashes of the OS too. So, it must be deleted from the system. But, as any executive files can be modified easily, the users must have to curious about any symptoms of error in functioning of application. In the case of being modified bamboocore.exe, it must be needed to remove bamboocore.exe from the system.
It is the cyber criminals who do that in order to gain huge online profit. They often trash the personal information of the users like IP address, emails, passwords, and even the banking details. This is why it must be needed to remove bamboocore.exe from system after being infected. So, do delete such files as soon as you find any errors in an application of the system.
If bamboocore.exe is located in another location of system drive, the security rating is dangerous. This file adds no real means but cause annoyances on target web programs. It totally affects the system performance. bamboocore.exe is kind of Trojan ransomware virus. It can get encrypted files, documents, folders, pictures and other installed files.
bamboocore.exe is designed to scam users by believing as real executable files. It actually cause annoyance son target system. bamboocore.exe terminate several process and cause annoyances. It add malicious files to registry and totally affects the performance. Moreover, make change in security settings and allow other virus to easily enter and trouble performance. You need to look for quick solution to remove bamboocore.exe instantly.
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How Does bamboocore.exe error works?
 1. To downloads arbitrary harmful files in the backdoor
 2. To receive coded instructions from its developer
 3. To get secret configuration
Some common error messages
 - "bamboocore.exe Application Error."
 - "bamboocore.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
 - "bamboocore.exe. This program is not responding."
 - "Error starting program: bamboocore.exe."
 - "Faulting Application Path: bamboocore.exe."
 - "bamboocore.exe failed."
How bamboocore.exe Does Gets Inside the PC?
Sometimes, cyber-criminals also promote bamboocore.exe as helpful software or a necessary Windows System file. For instance, you may notice a bogus message asking you to update Java files or Adobe Flash Player and so on.
Issues and Damages Caused by bamboocore.exe
 - Shows bogus alerts claiming that your PC is infected with malware
 - Redirects the Webpage over sponsored perilous websites
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 - Automatically disables important process and registries
Most of the files are useful and they are responsible for smoothly executing predefined functions. However there are malicious programs including malware and browser-hijackers that are made up of files like bamboocore.exe and they alter the important settings of PC unnecessarily. They even allow cyber-criminals to gain access over your work-station.
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The Champagne system is a system of categorising sea serpent sightings developed by Bruce A. Champagne in 2001, and finalised in 2007.[1][2][3] After examining 1,247 sightings, he concluded that there were only 351 credible observations, and classified the animals into nine categories, some of which have their own sub-categories. While Champagne's preliminary study recognised three types, the long-necked, eel-like, and multiple-humped,[2] the final Champagne types are the long-necked I, long-necked II, eel-like I, eel-like II, eel-like III, multiple-humped, sail-finned I, sail-finned II, carapaced, saurian, segmented, digited, and snake-like.[3][4]
In 2016, Champagne published an analysis of lake monster reports, in which he concluded that his multi-humped sea serpent, the "classic" undulating sea serpent, could explain several lake monsters,[5] making the Champagne system the only sea serpent classification system besides the Coleman-Huyghe system to incorporate lake monsters.
Image Name Range Champagne's identity Equivalents in other systems
Long-necked sea serpent I Cosmopolitan Long-necked pinniped
Long-necked sea serpent II North Sea Long-necked pinniped
Eel-like I, Cameron McCormick.png
Eel-like sea serpent I North Atlantic Ocean Reptile
Eel-like sea serpent II Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Beaked whale
Eel-like III, Cameron McCormick.png
Eel-like sea serpent III Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, South China Sea Reptile
Multiple-humped, Cameron McCormick.png
Multiple-humped sea serpent Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Possible reptile
Sail-finned sea serpent I North Atlantic Ocean Beaked whale
Sail-finned sea serpent II Cosmopolitan Possible reptile or mammal
Carapaced sea serpent Cosmopolitan Possible mammal or mammal-like reptile
Saurian sea serpent.png
Saurian sea serpent North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Crocodile or crocodile-like reptile
Segmented sea serpent Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans Mammal
Digited sea serpent, Cameron McCormick.png
Digited sea serpent North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Possible amphibian or reptile
Snake-like sea serpent Atlantic Ocean Reptile
Notes and references
 1. Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology ABC-CLIO, Inc. ISBN 1-57607-283-5
 2. 2.0 2.1 Champagne, Bruce A. "A Preliminary Evaluation of the Study of the Morphology, Behaviour, Autoecology, and Habitat of Large, Unidentified Marine Animals, Based on Recorded Field Observations," Crypto-Dracontology Special No. 1 (November 2001)
 3. 3.0 3.1 Champagne, Bruce A. "A Classification System for Large, Unidentified Marine Animals Based on the Examination of Reported Observations," Elementum Bestia: Being an Examination of Unknown Animals of the Air, Earth, Fire and Water (2007), Lulu Press, ASIN B001DSIB2W
 4. "Bruce A. Champagne," The Haunted Sea with Scott Mardis, Monster X Radio (2019) — Online
 5. Champagne, Bruce A. "A Preliminary, Comparative Type Proposal For Large, Unidentified Marine and Freshwater Animals," The Journal of Cryptozoology Vol. 4 (December 2016)


Stick together
NS & Fellows' Associates round table - Teachers can predict which children are likely to offend. Pr
The Scottish Executive's Criminal Justice Plan, published in December, emphasises the importance of a seamless collaboration between public authorities and other organisations to develop and implement joined-up solutions. At the final in a series of round-table debates on community justice, held in Edinburgh, there were signs that this was starting to happen, but that there was still much to do.
"How can we work together more effectively to drive forward a multi-agency community justice agenda in Scotland?" the participants were asked.
The former community project leader and academic Bob Holman implied, as others later confirmed, that much of the problem lay with juvenile offenders. "What works is being alongside young people to keep them out of the justice system," he said. "The police in Scotland want to do that. But there's so much antisocial behaviour that they can't." Turning to the skills required to keep young people out of trouble, he noted: "Most social workers are case managers, not case workers. Kids need locally run community projects." His view was that such projects also had to involve non-offenders. "Kids learn from each other."
David Strang, chief constable of Dumfries and Galloway and president of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, favoured community policing and working in partnership. "Community involvement will result in reduced demand. There's a huge emphasis on promoting this. What can we do with local youth initiatives? We should invest in that end. We should begin as early as possible. Teachers can predict which four-, fiveor six-year-olds are likely to offend. We need to get smarter. We can't start too young."
John McInnes QC, sheriff principal for South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, is responsible for the introduction of youth court pilots in Hamilton and Airdrie. He commented: "There are many ways in which the public can be protected. Youth courts are dealing with persistent young offenders."
Persistent offenders were not amenable to a single solution, thought Fergus McNeill, a senior lecturer in social work at Glasgow University. "We must build communities which accept that children must be given a chance. We are dealing with a climate of public insecurity and fear."
One of four participants with a background in social work, the Scottish justice minister, Cathy Jamieson, said her approach was about effective intervention and diversion. "I have been able to make significant additional resources available for fast-tracking, which is being evaluated at the moment. There are a whole range of professionals who can contribute to solving the problems." The drawback, she continued, was that those suffering from antisocial behaviour were not sympathetic. "We must ensure that we don't lose public confidence. If a young person is getting involved in serious offending behaviour, the worst thing we can do is condone it."
Steve Knighton, director of government for Northgate Information Solutions, pointed out how his technology services company had been working with many organisations to get people to co-operate. "It's the right way to move forward," he said. "But who takes the lead?"
"We need to be seen to do something quickly, but in the understanding that the longer-term approach will probably be more effective," said Rory Mair, chief executive of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. "Short-term action mustn't get in the way of long-term solutions. Do you have a debate at the outset or suggest solutions at the beginning and [have] some partners feel threatened and defend their turf? We have got to be careful not to make people 'dig in'."
The director of the Advocacy Safeguards Agency, Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers, felt there were clear analogies between what they were discussing and the health services, with their multi-agency working. "We have to remember that a child in trouble has to engage with us, too. They don't feel anyone's listening to them. If a young person feels someone is listening, it can tremendously improve the levels of engagement."
"We do have a greater knowledge of a lot of young people," said David Liddell, director of the Scottish Drugs Forum. "In Drumchapel in Glasgow, we have worked closely with the community, which came up with a good basis for a project. There are many ways to engage more effectively with communities. There is a large degree of consensus." But Liddell also suggested that not everything was rosy when it came to working in partnership. "The past 20 years haven't improved things in many areas. For example, social work and health have been defending their own kingdoms. We need to acknowledge what we do and work together. We can't just achieve by multi-agency working. There are deep structural flaws which make that difficult. The issue is that the one who shouts loudest gets the resources."
There needs to be a national debate with a local contribution, said Mair. "I'm not saying local government has been entirely good about that. People go to their local council and say an elderly relative is not getting the care they need, and all the agencies deny responsibility. We have got to come up with a mechanism that resolves this."
Edinburgh University's Michael Adler, professor of social and political studies, felt it was a daunting task. However, pointing out that Scotland's incarceration rate was actually slightly lower than England's, he said: "The easiest way to bring down the prison population is to have more community action." This struck a chord with the sheriff. "I entirely agree," McInnes said. "Far too many of these people are serving six months or less. There's nothing useful that can be done in that time. We must be much more offender-centred than punishment-centred. If somebody hasn't got a job and can't write, he's much more likely to offend."
The minister also agreed. "A lot of what we're saying is contained in the Community Justice Plan," she observed. "A lot of short sentences are too short to trigger care arrangements. We need to reduce the number of very short sentences." She said that too often, the Scottish government heard from the community that it understood the problems, but still wanted something done about them. "We need to explain to hard-pressed communities that people aren't just getting away with it." However, she said, some communities took a much harder line: "Get them out of my sight for a period of time."
Adler felt prevention was an even bigger issue. "Do we take seriously commitment to prevention?" The abolition of things such as child poverty might help, but Scotland could not afford to wait, he said. "We need a focus, to pay off more quickly. We have here a jurisprudence system of which we're proud. One way is to work with what we have. Whether that's enough remains to be seen."
"Yes, we can begin to identify the key issues," said Jamieson. "We also have to face up to the fact that many people in poor and disadvantaged communities do not get involved in offending behaviour. But we also have to recognise that some people know exactly what they're doing and use it to get involved in serious crime. There is no simple solution."
"What sort of Scotland do we want? What sort of leadership do we need?" asked Strang. "We need to develop new thinking to break down stereotypes and polarisation." Who is shaping the agenda for the professionals to carry out, he asked. "There's a huge emphasis on community planning partnerships. We have to manage these across local and national boundaries." And, he added, we must strive to overcome our pessimism. "Generally, older folk think things are going out of control. I take a much more optimistic view."
Ruth Wishart (Facilitator) - Broadcaster and journalist
Michael Adler - Professor of social and political studies, University of Edinburgh
Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers - Director, Advocacy Safeguards Agency
Bob Holman - Retired social worker and academic
Cathy Jamieson - MSP; Scottish minister for justice
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Acidic weathering of basalt and basaltic glass: 1. Near-infrared spectra, thermal infrared spectra, and implications for Mars
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Horgan, Briony H. N.
Smith, Rebecca J.
Cloutis, Edward A.
Christensen, Philip R.
Horgan, B.N.H., R.J. Smith, E.A. Cloutis, P. Mann, and P.R. Christensen (2017) Acid weathering of basalt and basaltic glass: 1. Near-infrared spectra, thermal infrared spectra, and implications for Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122, 172-202. DOI:10.1002/2016JE005111.
Acid-leached rinds and coatings occur in volcanic environments on Earth and have been identified using orbital spectroscopy on Mars, but their development is poorly understood. We simulated long-term open-system acidic weathering in a laboratory by repeatedly rinsing and submerging crystalline and glassy basalts in pH ~ 1 and pH ~ 3 acidic solutions for 213 days and compared their visible/near-infrared (0.3–2.5 μm) and thermal infrared (5–50 μm) spectral characteristics to their microscopic physical and chemical properties from scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We find that while alteration at moderately low pH (~3) can produce mineral precipitates from solution, it has very little spectral or physical effect on the underlying parent material. In contrast, alteration at very low pH (~1) results in clear silica spectral signatures for all crystalline samples while glasses exhibit strong blue concave-up near-infrared slopes. SEM indicates that these spectral differences correspond to different modes of alteration. In glass, alteration occurs only at the surface and produces a silica-enriched leached rind, while in more crystalline samples, alteration penetrates the interior to cause dissolution and replacement by silica. We confirm that glass is more stable than crystalline basalt under long-term acidic leaching, suggesting that glass could be enriched and common in terrains on Mars that have been exposed to acidic weathering. Leached glasses are consistent with both OMEGA and Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) spectra of the Martian northern lowlands and may contribute to the high-silica phases detected globally in TES Surface Type 2. Thus, both glass-rich deposits and acidic weathering may have been widespread on Mars.


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Why do I have to take a bath?
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If your parents tell you to take a bath, then that's the reason why. But there is no survival reason to take a bath. People can go for months without taking a bath and they survive fine.
But, when they don't take a bath, people sometimes smell pretty bad. Taking a bath gets rid of the smell. And your skin gets dirty, just like a car gets dirty if you don't wash it. Taking a bath lets you clean your skin. If you have a cut or a scrape, cleaning the skin will help it heal faster because it gets rid of germs.


Object-Based Thermal Image Segmentation for Fault Diagnosis of Reciprocating compressors
Rongfeng Deng, Yubin Lin, Weijie Tang, Fengshou Gu, Andrew Ball
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As an essential mechanical device in many industrial applications, reciprocating compressors have a high demand for operating efficiency and availability. Because the temperature of each part of a reciprocating compressor depends considerably on operating conditions, faults in any parts will cause the variation of the temperature distribution, which provides the possibility to distinguish the fault type of reciprocating compressors by differentiating the distribution using infrared thermal imaging. In this paper, three types of common fault are laboratory experimented in an uncontrolled temperature environment. The temperature distribution signals of a reciprocating compressor are captured by a non-contact infrared camera remotely in the form of heat maps during the experimental process. Based on the temperature distribution under baseline condition, temperature fields of six main components were selected via Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) image as diagnostic features. During the experiment, the average grayscale values of each component were calculated to form 6-dimension vectors to represent the variation of the temperature distribution. A computational efficient multiclass support vector machine (SVM) model is then used for classifying the differences of the distributions, and the classification results demonstrate that the average temperatures of six main components aided by SVM is a promising technique to diagnose the faults of reciprocating compressors under various operating conditions with a classification accuracy of more than 99%.
Original languageEnglish
Article number3436
Number of pages11
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jun 2020
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Tech Decks are fingerboards. They are for tricks. Each one has it's own unique design. You need to be able to pull off some tricks to impress people and have fun.
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 The base position of finger-boarding is putting your index finger on the logo and the pointer finger on the tail, on the back bolts.
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 Try a shove-it. Put your fingers into the starting position and spin the board with your pointer finger on the tail. You don't need to apply too much pressure.
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 Learn the pop. Easier than the shove-it, this isn't really a trick, but you must be able to do a pop. Get your fingers onto the base position, and press down with your middle finger to launch the "nose" of the board into the air, while keeping the "tail" on the ground. This is a Pop.
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 Try ollie-ing. The main motto for ollie-ing, is to pop up, and push forward. This isn't entirely correct but it's partly true. Put your fingers onto the position, and pop the board up - now, immediately slide your index finger to the "nose" of the board to level the board out evenly, and bring the board a few inches to the air. Land the board onto the floor. This is a trick that you need to learn.
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 Learn grinding. Where there is a small, miniature rail, ollie the board into the air with a 90 degree turn to the side. Land the board onto the rail, and slide the board. This is a grind. To do a slide, do this without a 90 degree turn. Impressive, eh?
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An ESL/ELA Word Search containing 21 nationalities in English.
This Word Search contains the following 21 nationalities: American, Australian, Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Colombian, Egyptian, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Portuguese, South African, Spanish.
There are three versions of this word search:
- One worksheet is with NATIONALITIES as clues at the bottom of the sheet.
- One worksheet is with the COUNTRIES as clues at the bottom and where the students need to find the corresponding nationality in the word search.
- One worksheet is WITHOUT clues. There are lines (spaces) where students have to write the nationalities that they have found. This worksheet is good for students that have already seen this topic or are normally fast finishers.
CONTENT: This pack contains 4 Pages:
- Past Tense Irregular Verbs – Word Search with nationalities as clues – Student Version – (1 page)
- Past Tense Irregular Verbs – Word Search with countries as clues – Student Version – (1 page)
- Past Tense Irregular Verbs – Word Search without clues – Student Version – (1 page)
- Past Tense Irregular Verbs – Word Search – Teacher Answers – (1 page)
LEVEL: Beginner (CEFR – A1 Level)
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This crystal grows on its black substrate from a pentagonal seed by reflecting it across its 5 vertices and rescaling the new pentagons by a factor of 0.61803..., the "golden mean," back towards the point of reflection, and repeating this for all the new pentagons, ad infinitum. Each seed can have its own rule to determine its color and the colors of its descendants. The growth of a single seed has finite area but infinite detail (possessing a fractal dimension of 2). This crystal is strange because crystals in nature do not possess 5-fold symmetry on any large scale, while this one can fill the entire plane very nicely with appropriately placed seeds. In understanding this shape, the arithmetic of the integers extended by the fifth roots of unity proves very helpful.


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Page Parameters
A page parameter is an arbitrary variable used to pass information into a Skuid page. There are different ways to pass in page parameters depending on the context and use case.
Types of page parameters
Including parameters in a URL is a common way to pass and retrieve information between pages in web development. Similarly, parameters can be passed between Skuid pages using:
 1. Query string parameters
 2. URL merge parameters
Query string parameters
The most commonly used way to pass parameters is by including them in a query string, which is a collection of identifiers and key-value pairs preceded by a question mark. For example:
In this example, the query string passed to the server, everything that comes after the?, is a parameter, felines, requesting all records of felines with the value "lion."
Page parameters act the same way in Skuid: they allow additional information to be passed into a Skuid page.
On Skuid on Salesforce, page parameters are added to query strings by model conditions, actions, and render/enable conditions through the Page/URL Parameter option, and, in some components, in the query string property.
When using page parameters in query string parameters, there are two important rules to keep in mind:
 1. The parameters must always come after a question mark (?), which indicates the beginning of a string of one or more URL parameters.
 2. Every subsequent URL parameter must be prepended with an ampersand (&).
As long as query string parameters are used in this format, they are accessible within a Skuid page.
Passing parameters into query strings is different in Lightning Experience. For more information, see Using Page Parameters In Salesforce Lightning.
URL Merge Parameters
Used on Skuid Platform, page parameters are included within URLs through URL merge parameters. For example,{myParameter}.
On Skuid Platform, you can use URL merge parameters in model conditions, actions, render/enable conditions through the Page/URL Parameter option. They can also be used while constructing an app, and the pages within the app, by inserting URL merge parameters in the app and/or the page URLs. They can also be used for creating REST model conditions.
Using Page Parameters
Builders can access page parameters with model conditions, actions, render/enable conditions, and through the Page/URL Parameter option on some Skuid features.
Values are accessible through the {{$Param}} global merge variable.
For example, {{$Param.myRouteParameter}}.
They may also be passed to Page Includes by setting the component's Query String property to point to this global merge variable.
Using the Go to URL action with URL merge parameters
When creating a link with URL merge parameters in Skuid Platform, the process is similar to that outlined in Build an app navigation bar using the Go to URL action.
The key difference is that you point the URL to a URL merge parameter. This merge parameter could be a context-dependent merge variable or a global merge variable.
For example, the marketing/orders path has a table listing each order, displaying some general information about each order. That table could have a row action that redirects to the following URL:
This redirect URL sends end users to a new route (/marketing/orderdetails), just like the redirect URLs from the Build an app navigation bar using the Go to URL action topic mentioned above. The key difference is the added URL merge parameter, {Id}, which references the model's Id field. This means the context will be determined by the row the end user clicks, passing in that row's Id value when clicked.
So, if the user clicks an order that has an Id of AuXun109274009, Skuid sends the user to the detail page with the row item's Id in the URL parameter: /marketing/orderdetails/AuXun109274009
The final step is setting a condition on the detail page that looks for the URL merge parameter:
 1. Click the Models tab in the App Elements pane.
 2. Click the Orders model.
 3. Add a new condition for the Id field.
 4. Set the Value as follows:
 - Content: Page/URL parameter value
 - Value: Id
 5. Set its condition state to Always On.
With this condition set, this model always looks for the URL parameter named Id for the matching record Id.
Page parameter examples:
 1. In this example, no parameters are provided.
 2.{accountId}: In this example, when a user visits this URL, Skuid pulls the "accountId" from the requested record and passes it to the URL. If the record's accountId was AuXun109274009, the URL the user would see is
 3.{accountId?}: The addition of the? makes the parameter accountId optional, so if there wasn't a value for accountId, the user would be directed to /accounts instead of receive a Page Not Found error.
Unless a parameter is marked optional with?, end users will see a Page Not Found error if they navigate to that page without the parameter in the URL.
Using Page Parameters In Salesforce Lightning
When working in Lightning experience, builders will often use record Ids to create corresponding record detail pages. The Skuid Page Lightning component can determine the record Id based on the way Lightning structures URLs.
However, if you want to pass in other parameters besides an Id, they must be namespaced and added via query string parameters.
For example, adding the default namespace prefix to the parameter accountId creates c__accountId. Non-namespaced parameters are removed from the URL on page load.
It's important to remember that, when namespacing URL parameters in Lightning, any reference made to them in a condition, action, etc, on a Skuid page is also namespaced.
If moving pages from Salesforce Classic to Lightning, you'll need to update the page parameters and any conditions, actions, etc with the namespace prefix in order to maintain functionality.


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A discharge of static electricity may cause a running data logger to stop recording. Precautions should be taken to prevent this while handling the data logger. Discharges may occur in the following situations when there is a charge difference between the data logger and a cable being connected to it or when a person touches an exposed jack.
Precautions to take:
- Equalize the charge between yourself and the data logger before contact. Charge build-up often occurs from walking across a carpet, especially when the humidity is low. Wool, nylon, or polyester clothing increases the charge build-up. Touching a grounded metal object such as a water pipe will dissipate the charge and prevent sparking. When plugging in a cable, handle the plug by the insulated part to reduce charge transfer to the data logger. Do not touch the exposed metal connector shell of the data logger. When using external voltage or current cables, connect the cable to the sensor circuit first before plugging into the data logger.
- On outdoor/industrial data loggers, minimize contact with the board when installing cables. (When outdoors, shoe charge build-up is probably less of a problem, but touching the ground first is a good idea.)
- When changing the battery, ground yourself before opening the data logger and maintain contact with the board during the whole process.
- Keep in mind that static discharge may not appear right away; it could affect the data logger anytime during deployment.
- Be careful when transporting data loggers. When data loggers are launched and transported in bags (especially plastic and nylon), a static electrical charge can be generated and discharged to a data logger. To avoid this, use anti-static bags to transport the data loggers and prevent the introduction of static to the data loggers.
Although we do not have the facilities for testing all environments where static electricity can interfere with data logger operation, feedback from customers has assisted us in developing the following list of potential issues:
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- Exposure to an extremely strong magnetic field / overhead power lines
- Electrical/lightning storms
It is always important to check the status of the LED on the data logger to verify operation and to have the equipment and software available to relaunch the data loggers if necessary.


What are benchmark numbers in math?
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In mathematics, benchmark numbers are predefined numbers that assist in estimation of an unknown quantity. Benchmark numbers tend to be multiples of 5 or 10.
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Benchmark numbers can be used in a variety of estimation problems. They are often found on number lines and labeling known quantities, for example, a jar of pennies labeled with "100 pennies" next to a much larger unlabeled jar of pennies. In that example, knowing the volume that 100 pennies take up can help in estimating how many pennies are in the larger jar.
The concept of benchmark numbers comes from the generalized definition of a benchmark, which is a standard known quantity by which other quantities can be measured.
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New plant discovered in Fiji
19 January 2012 | News story
A new flowering plant belonging to the Medinilla plant group has been discovered in the highlands of Matasawalevu village, on the island of Kadavu in Fiji. The plant was found during a biodiversity assessment of the Nakasaleka district carried out as part of IUCN's Water and Nature Initiative (WANI).
There are around 193 known species of Medinilla, occurring in Madagascar, Africa, South Asia and the Pacific Islands. Of the 193 species, 11 can only be found in Fiji. One of them is the Tagimoucia flower, Medinilla waterhousei, the floral emblem of Fiji.
IUCN's WANI works with local communities to help them better manage water resources on Kadavu island. The team was monitoring the degradation of the river basin in the area when the new plant was discovered.
"The discovery of this previously unknown species of plant gives us a sense of just how fragile nature can be," says Dr Milika Sobey, Water and Wetlands Programme Coordinator at IUCN's Oceania Regional Office. "The fact that it was found during work on a watershed management project is one more lesson in how important it is that nature is included in the priorities for water management."
"Through the Water and Nature Initiative IUCN has shown in more than 30 countries worldwide that by working with local people and partners, it is possible to put in place sustainable solutions that meet the water needs of both people and nature," says Dr Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme.
The species was found on the border of grassland and primary forest. This location makes it highly vulnerable to bush fires that are common in the area.
"We only managed to find one plant of this kind," says Mr Marika Tuiwawa, of the University of the South Pacific's Institute of Applied Science, IUCN member and partner in the WANI project, who discovered the species. "Commercial agricultural activities and uncontrolled bush fires are the main threats to this species. A simple fire could destroy it in a matter of minutes."
The plant's common name has not been confirmed yet but the name Medinilla matasawalevu has been suggested to illustrate its location.
"The fact that only one plant of this kind was found so far and that it occurs in such a vulnerable place should set alarm bells ringing," says Dr Jane Smart, Global Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "The challenge now is to protect the new species and raise awareness of its importance among local communities, to secure its long term future."
Work is currently underway to confirm the exact classification of the new species, for which DNA research may be carried out.
For more information please contact:
Ewa Magiera, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 856 76 26, _EMAIL_
Claire Warmenbol, IUCN Water Programme Communications, m +41 79 _PHONE_, _EMAIL_


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Perinaldo, the small village in the Verbone valley behind Vallecrosia, is mainly known as the birthplace of Giovanni "Gian" Domenico Cassini, a great XVII century astronomer who was chosen by "le Roi-Soleil" to supervise the Paris observatory. He was the
In the hinterland of West Liguria, 572 metres above sea level, stands Perinaldo, an ancient medieval town steeped in history and science in addition to legends balanced between magic and esotericism, the sacred and the profane. Born around the year


Explanations on why driving with cracked windscreen is bad
There are parts of the vehicle that can be disregarded when broken. But the windscreen is just not one of that. Every day, there are hundreds of people die and injure themselves to the poor conditions of windscreens. In addition, think about it, it's your vehicle after all; would you want it to look back. Having a cracked windscreen has many downsides, and each one of them are deadly enough.
Here are 5 reasons why you should never drive with a cracked windscreen.
 1. Malfunctioned airbag deployment
The factor that governs the deploying of airbags is the sudden pressure change that takes place in the event of a crash. But when your windscreen is cracked, the accuracy and the rate at which the vehicle figures out whether to deploy the airbags or not is going to be less. If the times are so bad, there will not be any deployment whatsoever; and we all know how helpful airbags are.
 1. Boost the damaged caused by crashes
Let's assume that you happened to lose the control and hit a tree or light post by the road, but not so fast. Typically, the front of the vehicle would a little crashes and the airbags would come off. But when the windscreen is cracked, it will have a very high tendency to be scattered and projected inside the vehicle that will put the fate of the passengers at stake. After all, glass shards can make you go blind in a moment.
 1. The longer you wait, the worse it gets
Replacing a vehicle windscreen is going to be quite expensive over having a repair. But most people wait long enough so that the situation of the cracks would get severe and severe to a point where the conditions are irreversible. This is why you should never ever wait when there is a chip or a crack in your windscreen since it will never get any better.
 1. Obstruction to the vision
Having a crack at the corner of the glass might not have a direct effect on the driver but what if the crack was obstructing the driver's view? This situation can get even worse on misty days, rainy days and even every night. You will not only be putting your life and the passengers at risk but also the ones in the road.
 1. Makes the ride look ugly
If you really love your vehicle, you shouldn't drive when the windscreen is cracked. That is just going to make the looks of the vehicle to be quite poor and you don't want that. Why should you suffer all these issue when you can just get it fixed once and for all after all?
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LDEO's annual open house is an exciting opportunity for adults and children of every age to learn about Earth in fun and engaging ways!
Although Lamont Doherty is called a research institution, it can also play a vital role in education. One of our most important events, to foster a greater public understanding of the earth is our annual open house.
Shortly after Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was founded in 1949, its founder, Maurice "Doc" Ewing, realized that Lamont's neighbors were not aware of the nature of the research conducted here. Therefore he started Open House, and opened up the campus one day each year for neighbors, students and the wider Columbia University community.
In 1999, in recognition of Lamont's 50th Anniversary, Open House was expanded to include nearly 40 exhibits, lectures and demonstration, and attracted over 4,000 people. Attendees learn about the current developments in the Earth Sciences, and about how our increasing understanding of the Earth helps preserve its future. Different exhibits are aimed at different ages and educational levels, from elementary school-age children to college students to those well versed in the earth sciences.
For further information regarding this event, please contact LDEO Events by sending email to events at ldeo dot columbia dot edu or by calling _PHONE_.


Romp n' Roll Franchise
Romp n' Roll Franchise Information
Romp n' Roll is a franchise for a business providing enrichment and recreational programs for children.
It was founded in 2004 and started franchising in 2006. They have designed programs that are developmentally appropriate for all stages like in art, movement, and in music. These programs are available for children aged three months up to six years old. The exercises provided help them grow their bodies, mind, and encourage them to use their imagination. These programs and activities have been proven to successfully form the child's foundation to be fully prepared for school years and in life. They hold small classes that are conducted by enthusiastic and experienced teachers and all done in an environment that is both safe and stimulating. They now have eight locations in the United States and two locations that are company owned.
What programs and classes do they offer at a Romp n' Roll?
They have classes involving art, gym, sports, music, cooking, and dancing. For art, they have classes for 16 months old to five years old. It is divided in groups such as Two for Tots, Art Explorers One, Crayons to Canvas, Two for Twos, Art Explorers Two, and Rompy's Adventure. For gym, they have classes divided into groups such as Babies Gym and Music, Gymnastics, Good Sports, Rhythm n' Roll, Open Gym, Gym for two years old, Gym for 10 to 18 months old, Gym for 16 to 24 months old, and Gym with mixed ages.
For Sports, They introduce the children to basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, hockey, and bowling through the liberal use of sports equipments. For Music, they have Tumble Tunes for 10 to 24 months old, Tumble Tunes for two to three years old, and Rhythm n' Roll for three to five years old. For cooking, they have the Chef Rompy for three to five years old. They will learn to prepare treats like chicken quesadillas, sunshine shakes, and healthy dessert nachos. For dancing, they have Dance with Rompy for ages three to five years old. They learn ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, and hip hop. Other classes include the Princess Class, Construction Junction, Silly Science, Aargh, Matey!, Superheroes, and All Aboard Rompy for children aged two and a half to five years old.
They also have summer camps with themes such as Firefighters, Knights, Princesses, and Dragons, The Zoo Crew, 3-2-1 Blast Off!, Beach Party!, Rockin' and Rollin', 'Red, White, and Blue', Going Buggy, Under the Big Top, Get Sporty!, Pirates, Aaargh!, and The Days of the Dinosaurs.
Cost and requirements on running a Romp n' Roll franchise
Expect to be investing about $199,000 to $300,000. The cost of the Romp n' Roll franchise fee is $39,500 with an on-going royalty fee of 6%. The terms of agreement are not renewable. They do not allow absentee ownership. They also require that a franchisee should be a "people person" and an effective manager.
What is included in the franchise package?
There will be a training program for you and an employee. You will be provided with a set of DVD of their instructors teaching classes for you to be able to conduct yours the same way they do at their flagship locations.
Romp n' Roll Contact Details
You may reach them at:
Address: 9677 West Broad Street Westpark Shopping Center Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone: _PHONE_