The Imam and the Pastor
27 May 2021, 2:19 PM
Former enemies in an ongoing, deadly Nigerian conflict, Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa reconciled their differences to stand as an example to their community and honor both their faiths' teachings to "love your enemy."
The Imam and the Pastor
In the 1990s, Pastor James Wuye and the Imam Muhammad Ashafa led opposing sides of a deadly conflict in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Each man was deeply rooted in his own faith tradition. Pastor James had felt a strong calling to the Church since graduating high school. Imam Ashafa was the thirteenth generation in his family to become an Imam. Both men felt a passion to unify and energize their faith communities, and to protect them against perceived threats.
As the conflict escalated, both men trained militias to intimidate and even kill members of the opposite side. Crops and livelihoods were destroyed. Families were attacked. The need for revenge on both sides fueled an ever-growing hatred, and the leaders' roles became entrenched. Both suffered heavy losses. Imam Ashafa lost two brothers and his mentor in the conflict. Pastor James, in addition to losing close friends, lost his right hand.
But something incredible happened.
In 1995, during a UNICEF outreach program about child immunization against polio, the two leaders hesitantly agreed to put aside their differences for the sake of the larger community. They realized that their voices, speaking together, could convince more people to protect their children against a common threat. Their agreement was cautious and guarded at first - and then, gradually over the years, they built up the respect and trust necessary to form a partnership.
The two men eventually formed the Interfaith Mediation Centre (which is a URI member group) - an interfaith, grassroots organization that heals rifts between Christians and Muslims throughout Nigeria. With over 10,000 members, they now train former militia members to become peace activists.
Today, Imam Ashafa and Pastor James work together to act as an example to their communities that peace is possible. They teach members of youth militias methods to resolve their conflicts peacefully rather than infinitely escalating violence, and have even led successful efforts to rebuild the churches and mosques that had fallen during their conflict.
Hear it in their own words: Read a 2011 interview Pastor James and Imam Ashafa gave together. Their remarkable story was also featured on Oprah's BELIEF television series in 2015.
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Simulation of the Production of Sulfuric Acid from a Sulfur-burning Single-absorption Contact Sulfuric Acid Plant
The purpose of this work is to develop and implement an effective knowledge on simulation of process plant in HYSYS. A theoretical examination of the simulation of Sulfuric acid process plant has been demonstrated in our work. Relationship among changes on several parameters has also been studied. The burner outlet temperature shows linearly increasing relationship with the liquid sulfur temperature. Waste energy flow shows linearly decreasing relationship with the boiler outlet temperature. Flue gas temperature initially had no regular relationship with Absorber inlet temperature, but with temperature increased more than 600 Celsius it seems to decrease linearly. Flu gas pressure has no effect on Absorber inlet temperature. The mass flow of Sulfuric Acid for storage decreases linearly with the increasing temperature of moist air. The molar enthalpy of Sulfuric Acid for storage increases linearly up to 500 Celsius, and after this temperature the increase is associated linearly with higher slope. In this design HYSYS has been successfully used to design every sub-process of the sulfuric acid plant in one integrated environment. Peng-Robinson was used for liquid and vapor phase respectively as fluid package and HYSYS properties were used for simulation.
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struck, as with a hard blow.
grievously or disastrously stricken or afflicted.
very much in love.
a past participle of smite.
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Origin of smitten
Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at smite, -en3
un·smit·ten, adjective
What does smitten mean?
Smitten is most popularly used to mean deeply in love.
It can also mean infatuated due to being extremely impressed or fond of someone or something, as in I'm just smitten with your new hairstyle or She's smitten with her new granddaughter. Another way to say any of these things is in love.
In a more negative sense, smitten can mean severely or intensely affected or afflicted, such as by illness.
All of these senses derive from the fact that smitten is the past participle of the verb smite, which means to strike, damage, injure, attack, or afflict. While smite is often associated with archaic uses (such as its use in the King James Bible to refer to the wrath of God), most senses of the word smitten don't have this association.
Example: I can tell just by the look in your eyes that you're smitten. What's his name?
Where does smitten come from?
The first records of smitten come from the 1200s. The verb smite is recorded earlier, before 900. It derives from the Middle English word smiten and is related to several Germanic words, like the Old High German smīzan, "to smear," and the German schmeissen, "to throw." Smitten is the past participle of smite is the exact same way that bitten is the past participle of bite.
The most common use of smitten is to imply that someone is in love, especially so deeply that it's just obvious—a person who's smitten in this way is always smiling. People also use smitten to express that they're infatuated with something or have a strong (and often new) fondness for it. People are usually smitten with a new puppy. A fashion critic might say they're smitten with a designer's new collection.
Similar ways of saying this are in love with and taken by. You can be smitten with things, but you can also be smitten by things, meaning you're strongly affected by them, as in I was completely smitten by her charm. Often, this sense of the word applies to negative situations, such as being smitten by the flu. In these cases, smitten is very similar to the word stricken or afflicted.
Smitten can still be used literally as the past participle of smite (in which case it means "struck down"), but this is much less common.
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What are some other forms related to smitten?
 - smite (verb)
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What are some synonyms for smitten?
What are some words that often get used in discussing smitten?
How is smitten used in real life?
Smitten is most commonly used to imply that someone is in love, but it's also often used to refer to an infatuated fondness.
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Which of the following words is NOT a synonym for smitten?
A. affected
B. infatuated
C. indifferent
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Some Aspects of Stock Plant Management
For a nursery to have a good stock of mother plants is like having money in the bank. An asset of guaranteed vegetative stock material gives assurance, for on-going production and continuity of supply to customers. A wide range of stock plants gives production a choice of diversity, flexibility, and peace of mind for planning ahead, and also allows the luxury of variety and change.
To yield high quality propagation material however, the mother plants have to be managed correctly to give best results, if mismanaged or neglected the mother plants can quickly become a valueless liability. At Duncan and Davies, depending on genera and species, our mother plants generally can be divided into four basic groups:
- In-ground, longer-term, permanent stock, planted out in stock bed rows.
- In-ground, short-term, nursery row, temporary stock.
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Array Concatenation and Splitting
Concatenation (joining) of two arrays in NumPy, can be accomplished using the np.concatenate, np.vstack, and np.hstack.
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It can also be used for two-dimensional arrays: Screenshot (115).png
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Splitting of arrays in NumPy, can be accomplished using the np.split, np.vsplit, and np.hsplit.
Note: Split an array into multiple sub-arrays of equal size. Screenshot (116).png
If you don't want to split the array in equal size then you should mention integer in square brackets.
x = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,11,8,9])
_TAG_=>[array([ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 8]), array([9])]
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We have come to the last section of this article.
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x = [4,9,55,34,12,3,67]
 1. np.sort() : Returns the sorted array
 _TAG_=>[3, 4, 9, 12, 34, 55, 67]
 2. np.argsort(): Returns the indices that would sort an array
 _TAG_=>array([5, 0, 1, 4, 3, 2, 6]
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This article, by partly adopting a historical perspective, examines the introduction of new media in a Kenyan rural village, Kapkoi, and how it changes the communication ecology in the village. Further it explores how people in Kapkoi use and ascribe meaning to media. The article argues that categories such as gender, age and financial situation influence people's access to and use of media and demonstrates how media use can simultaneously reinforce and challenge power structures. Moreover, it highlights the clear digital divide between rural areas and urban centres, and yet suggests that the introduction of new media is partly owing to the connection between the urban and the rural and that media and communications technologies sustain and increase the connectedness of the local.
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Alfred Nobel | 10 Facts On The Man Behind The Nobel Prizes
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and innovator who made a large fortune mostly through his invention of dynamite and other type of explosives. Here are 10 interesting facts about the life, achievements and inventions of the man who is responsible for the Nobel Prizes.
#1 His father Immanuel Nobel was a skilled engineer and inventor
Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the fourth of eight children of Immanuel Nobel and Carolina Andriette Nobel. Immanuel Nobel is known for being the inventor of the rotary lathe which is used in manufacturing modern plywood. When Alfred was young his family moved to Saint Petersburg in Russia where his father became successful as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives.
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Alfred's father Immanuel Nobel
#2 He was very interested in the study of explosives
Alfred left Russia at the age of 18. He studied chemistry for a year in Paris and then for four years in the United States. Alfred was interested in nitroglycerin, a highly explosive liquid too dangerous for practical use. When he returned to Russia after his studies, Alfred worked together with his father to develop nitroglycerin as a commercially useful substance.
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Alfred Nobel at a young age
#3 His brother Emil died due to an explosion caused by nitroglycerin
In 1863, Alfred Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden. On 3 September 1864, when Alfred was 29, a huge explosion due to nitroglycerin in the family's Swedish factory killed five people, including Alfred's younger brother Emil. This however didn't deter Nobel from continuing with his study of explosives, especially of the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerin.
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Alfred's brother Emil Nobel
#4 Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in Geesthacht, Germany and patented it in 1867. It was the first safely manageable explosive. In dynamite, nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance which made it safer and easier to handle. Initially Nobel considered naming it "Nobel's Safety Powder" but ultimately named it after the Greek word for 'power', Dynamite.
#5 He earned a lot of money through his invention of Gelignite
Nobel went on to combine nitroglycerin with other compounds. In 1875 he invented Gelignite or blasting gelatin which was easily moldable, safer to handle without protection and a more powerful explosive than dynamite. Patented in 1876, Gelignite was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success.
#6 Alfred Nobel held 350 patents and established 90 armaments factories
During his life Nobel issued 350 patents internationally. He filed his first patent in 1857 for a gas meter. His inventions include detonator, blasting cap and ballistite, the precursor of many modern smokeless powder explosives and still used as a rocket propellant. Nobel also established 90 armaments factories by the time of his death. He owned Bofors and was the founder of the chemical and weapons company Dynamit Nobel.
#7 Alfred Nobel was called the Merchant of Death
In 1888, Alfred's brother Ludvig died while he was in France and a French newspaper erroneously published the obituary of Alfred instead. Titled "The Merchant of Death is Dead", it went on to say "Dr Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday." Nobel was nicknamed the Merchant of Death because he made his fortune through explosives, which were also used for warfare.
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Alfred Nobel at an advanced age
#8 Alfred established the Nobel Prizes through his will
After reading his own obituary, Nobel became concerned about how he would be remembered after his death. On 27 November 1895, Nobel signed his last will which left 94% of his total assets, 31,225,000 Swedish kronor (equivalent to 250 million U.S. dollars in 2008), to establish the five Nobel Prizes for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature, and for working toward peace.
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A Nobel Prize medal depicting Alfred Nobel
#9 His ex-lover Bertha Kinsky convinced him to include the peace prize
Although Nobel was briefly involved with Bertha Kinsky, who went on to marry Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. Kinsky corresponded with Nobel till his death and it is believed that she was a major influence in Nobel's decision to include a peace prize among the prizes in his will. She went on to become the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
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Bertha von Suttner, who convinced Alfred Nobel to include the Peace Prize
#10 The synthetic element nobelium is named after him
Alfred Nobel died of a stroke on December 10, 1896, in San Remo, Italy. Though he had a few love relationships, he never married. Just before his death, he wrote a tragic play titled Nemesis. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, 5 years after his death. The synthetic element nobelium is named after him. The Monument to Alfred Nobel was created in his honor in Saint Petersburg.
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Researchers believe that ancestors of the rare Exmoor ponies may have been used by warriors in service to Queen Boudicca in the first century CE. The ponies are being imported to the Drumburgh Moss National Nature Reserve, maintained near Carlisle, England, by the Cumbria Wildlife Trust. According to naturalists, invasive grasses threaten to dry out the peat bog and destroy native mosses and other plant life. Six of the Exmoor ponies were moved to Drumburgh on June 8, 2006.
The ponies provide a natural way to remove the invasive grasses, and they are unusual in their ability (and willingness) to wade belly-deep into the bog to graze. They also are unusually resistant to the hoof-rot that would afflict many other equine species.
Thanks to David Boyes, Justin's modern-world boss, for providing this story lead.


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Why would you set-up a backup?
In the case that you lose your data you can easily import your backupdata back into Salesforce. To generate backup data, Salesforce offers an automated backup export on a weekly or monthly basis depending on your edition. You can export all your organization's data into a set of comma-separated values (CSV) files.
What to take into account before setting up an automated backup
- Users with the "Weekly Export" permission can view all exported data and all custom objects and fields in the Export Service page. This permission is granted by default only to the System Administrator profile because it enables wide visibility.
- Selecting 'Include images', documents, and attachments' and 'Include Chatter files and Salesforce CRM Content document versions' increases data export processing time.
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- From Setup, enter Data Export in the Quick Find box, then select Data Export and Schedule Export.
- Select the desired encoding for your export file.
- Select Include images, documents, and attachments and Include Chatter files and Salesforce CRM Content document versions to include these items in your export data.
- Select Replace carriage returns with spaces to have spaces instead of carriage returns or line breaks in your export files. This selection is useful if you plan to use your export files for importing or other integrations.
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- Under Exported Data, select the types of data to include in your export. We recommend that you select Include all data if you are not familiar with the terminology used for some of the types of data. Note the following:
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- For information on field limitations, see the Salesforce Field Reference Guide.
- Click Start Export or Save.
Salesforce creates a zip archive of CSV files and emails you when it's ready. Exports complete as soon as possible, however we can't guarantee the date and time of completion. Large exports are broken up into multiple files. Follow the link in the email or click Data Export to download the zip file. Zip files are deleted 48 hours after the email is sent. The 48-hour time limit doesn't include weekends, so if your download file is ready on Thursday at 4 p.m., that file isn't deleted until Monday at 4 p.m.


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- I have just started ZeroShell and the console displays the commands menu, but how can I connect to the web interface to configure it?
From a PC connected via Ethernet to ETH00 of the ZeroShell box, open the URL https://192.168.0.75 using a web browser. Following the various messages advising you that the X.509 certificate was not issued by a reliable source, you will be required to insert your username and password: the username of the ZeroShell administrator is admin, while the initial password is zeroshell.
Keep in mind that ZeroShell, by default, doesn't enable the dhcp server to provide automatically assignment of IP address belonging to the subnet 192.168.0.0/24. Hence, you must manually configure the PC on which runs the web browser to have an IP address (such as 192.168.0.1) with which you can reach the host 192.168.0.75.
- I have an embedded device without a VGA outlet and the keyboard connector and only have a RS232 serial interface. Can I get a text console for ZeroShell?
Yes, you can have a serial console. To the RS232 port connect a VT100 text terminal or a PC with a terminal emulator configured to 38400bps, 8bit, no parity and 1 stop bit.
- Having incorrectly configured the firewall or the network in general I can no longer connect via the web interface. Even rebooting the system doesn't work. How can I resolve the problem?
From the ZeroShell console press the Z key. This enables the system to start the Fail-Safe procedure: you will be requested to select an Ethernet interface which can be attributed an IP address of your choice; any obstacles, such as firewall rules, belonging to a bridge, static routes or other will be removed. Once complete, you can access the interface via the IP address you attributed. To exit the Fail-Safe mode you must reboot, having removed the obstacle that blocked access.
- Once booted, a text commands menu appears on the ZeroShell console. But how can I start the graphic server? How can I start the graphic application, for example a web browser?
It is simply not possible because given the purposes of the server system and its reduced size of just over 100MB, ZeroShell does not have an X server and the X11 applications installed. To display the administration web interface you must therefore use a browser that runs on a machine connected to the network.


_i of bounded diameter which are on the boundaries of the o-handles, and A_j which are on the boundaries of the 1-handles. They appear in a particular order \cdots T_{-1}, T_0, T_1 \cdots. Adding further round 1-handles splits X into components, some of which might be bounded. We would like to add new annuli, to split X up into components of uniformly bounded (combinatorial) size; to do this, we need to find pairs of T_i,T_j which are a uniformly big combinatorial distance apart, but which can be joined by and embedded annuli of uniformly bounded diameter. It is intuitively clear that this can be done: if X is noncompact, the two "ends" of X can't get too far away from each other, or else there would be an arbitrarily big embedded ball contained in the complement, which is incompatible with the fact that we chose a separated net's worth of translates of our original 0-handle. A similar argument works when X is compact but sufficiently big (alternately one can suppose not and take pointed limits, since this is a purely geometric argument). Thus we can attach round 1-handles of uniformly bounded diameter so that at the end, every component X itself has bounded diameter, and can be filled in with a round 2-handle. The construction of J with this handle decomposition as the end result is routine.
This brings us to section 3 of Mess' paper (page 11), entitled, On groups which are coarse quasi-isometric to planes. The group in question is G, i.e. \pi_1(M)/\pi_1(\hat{M}). This is the group that we hope will turn out to be the orbifold fundamental group of O, if the Seifert Conjecture is true. Since it is infinite, we want to show that G is a lattice in the group of isometries of the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane; in fact, a cocompact lattice, since M is closed. In particular, this should imply at least that G is quasi-isometric either to the Euclidean or the hyperbolic plane. By the Schwarz lemma, we know that G is quasi-isometric to \hat{M}, and we have constructed a product structure on \hat{M} whose fibers have uniformly bounded length. It is therefore straightforward (e.g. by averaging over fibers) to construct a complete Riemannian metric on the plane (which we denote P) so that G is quasi-isometric to P. The next main result is Theorem 7 (page 13) which says:
Theorem: Suppose a finitely generated group G is quasi-isometric to a plane P with a complete Riemannian metric. If P is conformally equivalent to the hyperbolic plane, then G is quasi-isometric to the hyperbolic plane.
Note that P has bounded geometry (i.e. 2-sided curvature bounds, and injectivity radius bounded below). One subtlety, observed by Mess, is that the plane admits complete Riemannian metrics with bounded geometry, and in the conformal class of the hyperbolic plane, but for which 0 is the bottom of the spectrum of the Laplacian; a group quasi-isometric to such a space would be amenable, by a famous theorem of Brooks, whereas no group quasi-isometric to the hyperbolic plane can be amenable. Nevertheless, there is a short-cut to proving this theorem, by invoking Candel's theorem, alluded to above. Candel proves that if L is a compact Riemann surface lamination all of whose leaves are conformally hyperbolic, then the leafwise uniformization map is continuous; in particular, since L is compact, the uniformization map is bilipschitz (and in particular is a quasi-isometry). Now, a Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry can be realized as a dense leaf in a lamination by taking its closure in pointed Gromov-Hausdorff space; if we do this to P, we obtain a lamination L. A priori a lamination can have leaves of different conformal type; see e.g. this post; but in this case P is uniformly quasi-isometric to G, and therefore (since G acts cocompactly on itself) the same must be true for every leaf of L. Now apply Candel's theorem; qed. Mess' argument is not especially hard to follow, but I believe that invoking Candel makes the situation clearer.
Finally we must deal with the case that P is quasi-isometric to the Euclidean plane. In this case, Theorem 10 (page 20) says (paraphrasing):
Theorem: Suppose G=\pi_1(M)/\pi_1(\hat{M}) is quasi-isometric to a plane P with a complete Riemannian metric, which is conformally equivalent to the Euclidean plane. Then G is virtually rank 2 abelian, and M is Seifert fibered; thus, the Seifert Fiber Conjecture holds in this case.
The argument is a beautiful application of ideas from the theory of random walks, combined with a theorem of Varopoulos. It is a well-known fact that a simple random walk is recurrent (i.e. returns to a bounded region infinitely often) in Euclidean space of dimension 1 and 2, and transient otherwise. This is not hard to show: under random walk on Euclidean space, after n steps each coordinate function is distributed like a Gaussian with variance of order n; thus the probability that a given coordinate function will be bounded by a constant C after n steps is of order O(\sqrt{n}). By independence, in m-dimensional space, the probability that all coordinate functions will be bounded by the same constant C at the same time after n steps is O(n^{-m/n}); thus, when m is at least 3, the total number of times this should happen in an infinite walk is bounded, by the Borel-Cantelli Lemma. Now, in the continuum limit, a simple random walk rescales to Brownian motion, and Brownian motion is conformally invariant in dimension 2; this means that if you have a complete Riemannian metric on a plane P, you can tell whether it is conformally hyperbolic or conformally Euclidean by whether Brownian motion is transient or recurrent. Using the quasi-isometry between P and G, one concludes that if P is conformally Euclidean, random walk on G is recurrent. But this is an extremely confining possibility for finitely presented groups; Varopoulos showed (when combined with Gromov's famous theorem that groups of polynomial growth are virtually nilpotent) that it implies that G is virtually abelian of rank at most 2; this is enough to complete the proof, using the (known) classification of nilpotent 3-manifold groups.
Mess' paper thus reduces the Seifert Fibered Conjecture to the question of whether groups quasi-isometric to the hyperbolic plane are virtually isomorphic to Fuchsian groups — i.e. to (cocompact) lattices in the group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane. Much progress on this question had already been made by Tukia, and while Mess' paper was still under consideration at JAMS (maybe in a sense it is still under consideration there?) this question was solved in the affirmative independently (and in quite different ways) by Casson-Jungreis, and Gabai (see the comments by Darryl linked to above).
Tastes change; fashions come and go even in mathematics. After Perelman proved the Geometrization Theorem, this story and the mathematical content of these papers faded somewhat into the background, to be quoted if necessary, but rarely read. Mess' paper in particular — and especially its beautiful and original tone, style and ideas — is in danger of disappearing from our collective consciousness. Today when borrowing some books from the Crerar Library I noticed a Latin inscription: Non est mortuus qui scientiam vivificavit (translation: "He has not died who has given life to knowledge"). But knowledge can die too, and culture, and ideas. My life has been enriched by Geoff's beautiful ideas, and I'm happy to do my bit to see that they, and maybe some of him, live on a little longer, enriching us all.
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 1. ianagol says:
 I found these notes of Geoff Mess on Varopoulos' theorem, so I thought I'd scan them and make them available:
 2. Anonymous says:
 Hi Danny, Thanks for the wonderful note.
 By the way, the link doesn't work.
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A craftsman is the Designer, Manufacturer and Salesmen all in one.
Prior to the industrial revolution, a "village smithy" was a staple of every town. A blacksmith is a person who creates products from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut hot metal. Figure 1. shows a blacksmith at work. Blacksmiths produce products such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, and weapons. Since the blacksmith designed the product, manufactured the product and sold the product, he knew what problems his cutomeers wanted solved, how to design a solution to the problem and how to manufacture the solution. Figure 1. A blacksmith at work forging a product.
As long at the design, manufacure and sales functions were all carried out by one person no communication problems existed. However, when technology became more complex people began to specialize in different areas of the product design cycle. This gave rise to sales people, manufacturing experts, desing experts and a design process known as "over-the-wall" design.
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Math Mammoth British Money is a worktext that covers money-related topics usually encountered during years 2-4. The book contains both textbook explanations and exercises, and is designed to be very easy to teach from, requiring very little teacher preparation. The book starts with year 2 topics, such as counting coins with pence-amounts and easy problems about change. From there, the lessons advance toward year 3, and finally to year 4 topics, such as practising with pound amounts, and figuring out total bills and change.


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knell •\ˈnel\• noun and verb
noun: the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
verb: ring as in announcing death
verb: make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
The word knell has appeared in 144 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 19 in "American Accents Being Heard on the Malecón" by Victoria Burnett:
Across the bay, the sea-crossing theme continues at a wide-ranging Cuban show at the 18th-century fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña. Hanging in a room are life-size sharks in human clothing, and the detritus of a shipwreck. It is the work of Alexis Leyva Machado, known as Kcho (pronounced catch-oh), whose small bronze bird pounds its beak against a propeller hanging from a rope, ringing an endless knell, next door.
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text: This exhibit depicts the anterior anatomy of the glenohumeral joint with a type IV SLAP tear of the labrum. Anatomical structures include: the acromion process, clavicle, coracoid process, glenoid cartilage, glenoid labrum, long head of the biceps brachii, supraspinatus, humeral head, and scapula. The glenoid labrum is a fibrocartilagenous rim of tissue that provides stability to the shoulder socket and serves as the insertion site for the long head of the biceps brachii. There are four classifications of labral injuries known as SLAP tears (SLAP I-IV). SLAP is an acronym representing "Superior Labral tear from Anterior to Posterior." A SLAP IV tear is a bucket-handle tear of the superior labrum, with extension of the tear into the biceps tendon.


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What is enzymatic desizing and what is the recommendation for efficient enzyme desizing
Desizing is the process of removing the size material from the warp yarns after the textile fabric is woven.
Enzymatic desizing is a traditional desizing procedure of degrading starch size on cotton fabrics using enzymes. Enzymes are multipart organic, soluble bio-catalysts, created by living organisms that catalyze chemical effect in a biological process. Enzymes are quite specific in their act on a particular material. A small amount of enzyme is able to decompose a large quantity of the material.
Recommendation for Efficient Enzyme Desizing
(Ref: BTRA – Bombay Textile Research Association)
- Before enzyme de sizing cloth should be wetted with warm water.
- Enzyme activity should be tested before use.
- pH should be controlled.
- Avoid copper made machines.
- Enzyme treated cloth keep in a rider room.
- Treated cloth wash with hot water.
- Should be careful that enzyme above 70 degrees the centigrade temperature will be inactivated or damage.
How Enzyme activity Depends on Concentrate pH and Temperature
- The activity of enzyme increases with the increase of temp but up to certain limit then above that limitation activity decrease.
- Enzyme stability decrease with the increase in temperature.
- Enzyme activity decrease with longer time.
- Changing of pH rapidly changes enzyme activity and stability.
- If the concentration of enzyme increases then activity decrease.
Engineer Sheikh Nurja
B.Sc engineer of textile
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In the field of engineering (mechanical), a key is an element of the machine that connects a rotating element to a nearby shaft. The key, therefore, prevents the relative rotation between these two parts and may allow torque transfer. For a key to work, the shaft and the rotating member of the machine must have a keyseat and a keyway, which are a slot and a pocket in which the key can fit into. The entire system is known as a keyed shaft or joint hinge. Keyed shafts allow relative axial movements between the parts involved.
The most common key components are pulleys, gears, clutches, and washers.
How are keyed shafts cut? Find below the process involved in keyed shaft cutting.
Keyseating (for big and special keyways)
This is done by cutting the keyway with a key-operated device which removes the material through a series of tooth-cutting movements. Some keys have only one cutting tool, while other machines (such as the Davis Keyseater) use a multi-cutter to make cutting speeds as fast as broaching.
Here's how it works, The Keyseater cutter moves slowly outward at every cut. This subtle movement makes it possible for every stroke to remove a little more material. This process is then repeated until there is a cut deep enough to satisfy the specifications required for its application.
The main advantage of Keyseating is in the fact that it offers maximum flexibility for largely specialized keyways. The custom tooth cutters are quite easy to get and can even be quickly adapted to the specific requirements even when you're on an onsite tool room. Depending on the type of machine, however, and the cutting tool, the Keyseating may need a longer cycle time than conventional broaching.
Shaping –for the blind keyways.
Shaping is a nice option for the cutting of blind keyed shafts. Blind in this context refers to the keyways which are not required to go the all the entire length of the way or part. Some of the keyed shaft cutting process, such as the EDM and the broaching is not designed for blind keyways handling.
Like it is with some keyseaters, this shaping uses only a single tooth as its cutting tool. But unlike others, shaping is not required to be guided down through the cuts on a fixed post. Consequent of this, the shaper cuts cannot reach the same height of accuracy as the keyseater cuts because of the unguided deflection. Therefore, this heightens the need for a proper tolerance inspection.
To cut blind keyways, usually, shapers require that users cut a "relief" at the end of the keyway that is soon to be cut. The relief makes it possible to break the fragments of the metal. You can form them by pre-drilling a hole or cutting an internal groove right inside the inner diameter
Milling (this is for shaft only keyways)
As for milling, like shaping, users are allowed to cut partial length, straight keyways or tapered. Milling is well known for the ability to cut external keyed shafts or keyways. But then, milling inside a diameter keyway on hubs is not common, the reason for this that the other side of the coupling always gets in the way. However, if it is needed, an internal hub keyway may be milled using a special 90degree singular milling head.
As with shaping, quality is a very important factor to take into account when milling keyed shafts, because of the lack of unguided cuts. Tolerances, like the corner radius quality, require special attention to ensure correct formation in line with the desired specification. Otherwise, problems may arise, for example, a key that does not match or an imbalance in the power transmission system.
Wire EDM (for small special runs)
Keyed shaft cutting with wire electric discharge machining (i.e EDM) is typically used for small quantities parts which require precision or some other specific cutting options. The tool and die manufacturers use EDM wire to remove materials through a process that may be called "shock" or "evaporation". With this process, a coiled copper wire is brought to cut the target using electric sparks, without however directly touching the component.
We hope that this guide has given you an insight into keyed shaft cutting. If you need a way to reduce cycle time or want to cut keyways or shafts, want to reduce manufacturing costs, then contact us via phone or email. We'd guide you on which option is best for you.


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Counselors as Social Justice Advocates
22 May
Counselors SJ Advocates
By Laura Pignato
Laura Pignato, MS, is a third-year doctoral student (PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision) at William & Mary.
Why is social justice important in counseling?
Counselors are trained to understand the importance of addressing and preventing trauma symptomology, as well as the impact traumatic events can have on the well-being of individuals and communities. Moreover, if counselors are to practice culturally responsive, trauma-informed care with the attention such needed practice deserves, then counselors must also address the historical and sociocultural contextual factors that maintain social inequity and generational trauma, marginalization of the most vulnerable individuals, and continued disenfranchisement of communities and diverse groups, both nationally and internationally.
Mental health inequities have become increasingly apparent, as illustrated by the deleterious effects of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism on individual mental and physical health outcomes, impeded access to culturally responsive mental health services that address the above inequity, and disproportionate rates of trauma symptoms reported by culturally diverse groups and underserved communities. Furthermore, systemic oppression and related generational trauma deteriorates potential for optimal growth in both individuals and communities, which affects the ability to create sustained change for an improved quality of living.
Counselors, as helping professionals and agents of social change with an understanding of life span issues and intercultural communication skills needed in an evolving pluralistic society, have a professional role and ability to address mental health disparities rooted in oppression and societal inequities. In addition, counselors are in a unique position to advocate for sustained change within communities by dismantling barriers that impede individuals' optimal growth and community resilience. Counselors can provide necessary connections within the community, access to resources, and cultivation of resistance strategies aligned with diverse client needs and local values by acting as collaborative allies and practicing social justice counseling as the norm.
What is social justice in the counseling profession?
Social justice counseling has been referenced as the "fifth force" in counseling (Ratts, 2009).1 Such a worldview requires counselors to act as change agents through collaborative efforts in a multilevel framework and active engagement with the local community to achieve a more just world. Moreover, counseling professionals have defined social justice in counseling as both an ongoing process and goal actualized through culturally appropriate advocacy strategies that extend the social justice worldview into everyday practices. These practices must strive to enable empowerment on intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels based on a historical and contextualized understanding of current issues affecting individuals within the surrounding community.2 3
Furthermore, a social justice orientation implies counselors need to embody the mandated multicultural and social justice counseling competencies through reflexivity and liberatory practices.4 Importantly, counselors embodying a liberation or "humanization" mindset recognize the inherent strengths within all individuals and communities, and engage in a participatory democratic process with clients that affirms an individual's power and agency while struggling for personal and collective freedom limited by the dominant status quo.5 6
What are the current social justice and advocacy standards for counselors?
Since the late 1970s, when counseling professionals first called for action and implementation of a social justice education program within counselor education, social justice advocates and leaders in the counseling profession have taken substantial strides to integrate a social justice worldview into the counseling field and governing ethical standards.
For example, the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics indicates counselors have an ethical obligation to dismantle potential barriers and obstacles that inhibit a client's positive development and potential for growth.7 Similarly, the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) defines advocacy as a necessary component in the Ethical Standards for School Counselors.8 In these standards, ASCA emphasizes school counselors' role as collaborators with and for students in achieving educational equity by dismantling perceived barriers to access and opportunities.
Additionally, social justice and advocacy processes are described in the accreditation standards set forth by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). CACREP noted all accredited programs and individuals working within or graduating from these counseling programs have the responsibility for engaging and modeling "advocacy processes needed to address institutional and social barriers that [impede] access, equity, and success for clients."9
These standards echo similar sentiments for the need to understand how power and privilege influence the counselor and client in their everyday lives and the therapeutic relationship. Counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators need to engage in strategies that identify and dismantle barriers, prejudice, and processes that maintain systemic oppression. These standards recognize the need for education and understanding of a multicultural perspective and knowledge of pluralistic characteristics within and among diverse groups, as well as the importance of social justice counseling and advocacy as a norm infused throughout programs, rather than regulated into a single class.
How do social justice and advocacy relate to counseling competencies?
Beyond adhering to the above ethical and accreditation standards in relation to social justice and advocacy by demonstrating foundational knowledge and infusing social justice principles throughout counseling programs, counselors must be social justice advocates within and beyond the office through an active commitment to personal awareness, lifelong learning, and assessing their counseling competencies.
Current counseling competencies imperative to social justice counseling include the multicultural and social justice counseling competencies4 and the recently updated ACA advocacy competencies.10 Counselors are encouraged to build an ever-evolving "toolbox" or resources that reflect social justice and advocacy counseling competencies and continuous exploration for understanding and incorporating more emancipatory and culturally responsive systemic frameworks into research, training, and clinical practice.
Resources Toolbox for the Social Justice Advocate
We Put Social Justice at the Heart of Counseling
If you are an aspiring counselor with a strong passion for social justice, explore William & Mary's Online Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Counseling. Whether you want to pursue, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Military and Veterans Counseling or School Counseling, this program is designed to prepare culturally responsive social justice advocates ready to serve any population with empathy and professionalism.
1. Ratts, M. J. (2009). Social justice counseling: Toward the development of a "fifth force" among counseling paradigms. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 48. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
2. Adams, M., Bell, L. A., & Griffin, P. (Eds.). (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
3. Ratts, M. J., Toporek, R. L., & Lewis, J. A. (2010). ACA Advocacy Competencies: A social justice framework for counselors. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
4. Retrieved on May 6, 2019, from _URL_-source/competencies/multicultural-and-social-justice-counseling-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=20
5. Goodman, R. D., & Gorski, P. (2014). Decolonizing "multicultural" counseling through social justice / edited by Rachael D. Goodman, Paul C. Gorski. (International and cultural psychology series).
6. Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire; translated by Myra Bergman Ramos; with an introduction by Donald Macedo. (30th-anniversary ed.). New York: Continuum.
7. American Counseling Association. (2014). ACA code of ethics. Alexandria, VA: Author.
8. Retrieved on May 6, 2019, from schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/Ethics/EthicalStandards2016.pdf
9. Retrieved on May 6, 2019, from _URL_-content/uploads/2017/08/2016-Standards-with-citations.pdf
10. Retrieved on May 6, 2019, from _URL_-source/competencies/aca-2018-advocacy-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=1dca552
11. Retrieved on May 6, 2019, from _URL_-center/competencies
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 1. (idiomatic, of a host, hostess, or guest) To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation.
 As a campaigning politician, he really knew how to shake hands, kiss babies, and work the room.
 2. (idiomatic, of a performer or public speaker) To interact with one's audience, taking cues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.
 - 1989, Alvin Klein, "Theatre: 'Jerry's Girls,' Revue, in East Windsor," New York Times, 26 Feb. (retrieved 3 July 2008):
 In show business parlance, Miss Hudson knows how to "work the room." Her comic turns are as rooted in vaudeville as her high-style wit is straight out of the smart supper club circuit.


text: Objective: Testicular torsion is the twisting of the spermatic cord which cuts off the blood supply to the testicle. The main pathophysiology of testicular torsion is ischemia-reperfusion injury caused by the twisted spermatic cord and its release. Reperfusion component typically involves the generation of the reactive oxygen species with the return of blood flow after the ischemia. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of dopamine a vasodilator and vitamin C an antioxidant on ischemia reperfusion injury due to testicular torsion-detorsion (T/D). Materials and Methods: Thirty adult male NMRI rats were divided randomly into six groups each containing 5 rats. Testicular ischemia was achieved by twisting the left testis 720° clockwise for 4 hour and then reperfusion by detorsion. Group 1 was for the basal values. Group 2 was designed as sham-operated without any T/D. Group 3 had only T/D. Group 4 received vitamin C (100 mg/kg i.p) just after detorsion. Group 5 received dopamine (0.01 mg/kg i.p) after 4 hours T/D and group 6 received combination of vitamin C and dopamine. The animals in each group underwent orchiectomy 48 hours after detorsion and the testicular tissues were fixed in 10% formaldehyde for histopathological examinations. Results: In groups 1 and 2 microscopic features were normal. In group 3 all of the seminiferous tubules were damaged. In some tubules only the basement membrane was seen. Pyknosis of spermatocytes nuclei was prominent. Germ cells and sertoli cells were decreased and underwent degeneration and necrosis. Interestingly in group 4 only a few degenerative changes (6.8%) were observed in tubules. In group 5 approximately 90% of tubules were underwent fully or partial degeneration and in group 6 only few normal tubules were found (2.2%). Conclusion: Vitamin C administration exerts a beneficial effect on testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury but not dopamine or even dopamine and vitamin C combination.


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What Are the Benefits of Tenants in Common?
There are several ways to hold title to real estate.
When two or more people hold title to one property together, a form of co-ownership must be selected.
"Tenants in common" (TIC) is just one form of co-ownership available.
It offers distinct benefits over other options, such as joint tenancy. It is important to carefully consider all available options and to consult with an attorney before making a final decision regarding title, as each form carries different legal and tax obligations.
Equal or Unequal Interests
Tenancy in common allows two or more owners to hold a title to property with unequal or equal interests. For example, one owner may have one-third, one-fourth or one-half interest in the property.
In addition, if five people own the property, they may each own one-fifth or some other fraction. It is important to note that it is only the interest in the property, and not the property itself, that is divided in this way.
Unity of Ownership
The tenants in common co-owners have "unity of possession." This means that all owners, despite their unequal or equal interests, are entitled to possess, or enjoy, the whole property and not just a fraction of it.
Transfer of Interest
Co-owners have separate rights to the property and may sell, convey or transfer their own share of the interest as they desire. Such action does not require the consent of the other owners. A co-owner's interest is passed on to heirs upon death, as specified by a will, if any.


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BENTON - Who says learning about compound interest and the importance of paying bills on time can be fun?
The students at Kelly Elementary School do. Fourth and fifth graders have discovered MoneyIsland.
Provided to the Kelly School District as well as nine other Southeast Missouri Schools by Focus Bank, MoneyIsland takes participants into a virtual world to learn real-life principles about being responsible with their money.
Vicki LeGrand, computer teacher for the kindergarten through seventh grade, introduced the Focus Bank program this year to the youngsters at Kelly Elementary School.
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Developments for PLAXIS 3D AE and PLAXIS 3D 2016 changed the internal structure of the geometry definition. In versions prior to PLAXIS 3D AE (3D 2013, 3D 2012, and older), the internal geometry data structure was entirely based on triangles. In more complex projects, especially those with curved shapes, this created issues and limitations. PLAXIS 3D AE is a transitional version; it is a hybrid version: parametric geometry for natively created surfaces and volumes, while triangulated geometry from boreholes and imported CAD geometry. In PLAXIS 3D 2016, however, the entire geometry is solely based on parametric geometry.
In PLAXIS 3D 2013 and older, the internal structure of the entire geometry is tessellated: all geometric surfaces and the volume sides (so called BReps or Boundary Representations) are internally made up of triangles.
Figure 1. Rectangle and soil block and their BRep triangles (right)
This works great when using basic, straight sided shapes. But in the case of curved shapes, like arcs, circles and cylinders, this tessellation leads to an approximation of these curved shapes: the straight sides of the triangles have to form the boundary of these shapes.
Of course, when defining a circular shape ideally you want to retain this shape, and not have a shape that approximates this arc. When trying to connect other geometry to these shapes, due to this approximation, this may be very challenging. You can think about connecting tunnels, side tunnels and galleries, but also combi-walls when connecting the tubular piles (cylinders) with sheet pile walls (surfaces).
Not having a fully curved shape can also have consequences on the model results, for instance, due to interface locking when such an approximated circular shape contains significant corners in the interface definition loaded under large shearing conditions.
Linked problem: Possible over-estimation of lateral circular pile bearing capacity [link]
A second issue is caused by the internal triangulation of multiple shapes that have to be intersected. This intersection takes place when we change from the geometry creation mode (Soil / Structures mode) to one of the green modes where we will work with the final geometry for meshing and calculations (Mesh / Flow conditions / Staged construction). This intersection is necessary to be able to uniquely identify parts of the entire model's geometry, e.g., soil inside or outside an excavation, or surface loads left and right from a wall.To ensure that the program does not incorrectly change the geometry, the original tessellation is retained. This implies that the original triangles in the tessellation will be kept, and may be subdivided into several parts for discretizing the intersected "cut objects".
See the example below of a tunnel shape (Figure 2) with cutting planes to simulate tunnel construction stages. When zooming in the behaviour of one cutting plane with the tunnel (Figure 3), we can still recognise the original two triangles (B) in the intersection result (C).
Figure 2. Tunnel with cutting plane to simulate staged construction segments
Figure 3. Tunnel side view and cutting plane (magenta) with (internal) tessellation rendering (B,C)
When the intersection of two geometric objects is close to e.g., edges, then this can become complicated. If from the previous example the surface is very long and the cutting plane is close to the left edge of the surface, we will get a small triangle in the intersection results, see Figure 4 below:
Figure 4. Long tunnel side face and cutting plane with (internal) tessellation rendering
When the dimensions of such small triangles are below the geometrical tolerances used in the PLAXIS 3D program, these small triangles will be considered to be obsolete and will be filtered out of the geometry, which will lead to failing intersection actions.
Linked problem: Tunnels in PLAXIS 3D: Extrusions and cutting planes [link]
Approximating real 3D curves shaped using tessellated geometry gives problems in some cases, as explained above. In order to solve these issues related to approximation and discretization, we worked hard on implementing a geometric data structure based on mathematical modelling of shapes and objects, i.e. an arc is an arc, not an approximation. Since the geometry is now based on mathematical equations using parameters to describe geometry, e.g., radius and centre point for an arc, we refer to this as parametric geometry.
With this parametric geometry, we now also have true intersections of the true shapes: we do not have to approximate the geometry using internal subsections. This avoids one of the above-mentioned problems with the internal triangles.Also importantly, the Finite Element mesh will define the geometry very accurately: the true shapes can now be given to the meshing algorithms, resulting in an accurately geometric description of the Finite element locations, including arcs.
The new PLAXIS 3D geometry data model will show us smoother meshes with higher quality elements for curved shapes like piles, shafts and tunnels:
Figure 5. Cylinder shape and fine mesh. Left in PLAXIS 3D 2013, right PLAXIS 3D 2016
As can be seen in the image above, the cylindrical shape will give us a smoother shape, more evenly distributed elements and a better geometrical description with fewer elements. Overall this will give us higher quality meshes with fewer elements. Since the calculation time is highly influenced by the number of elements, we will gain calculation speed improvements by having a better description of the Finite Element mesh geometry.
Arcs: no segments
Since PLAXIS 3D AE, the shape designer does not use segments anymore to define a curved shape: we now support parametric geometry for these arc-shapes, and so we do not need to approximate the curved shape anymore using small straight sections. So if you want to describe a circle, it can just be done without using segments, and the internal geometry description will make it a true circle (or cylinder).
Some standard shapes can be generated using a command. This includes a cylinder, cone and cuboid. In older versions (3D 2013, and before) the commands for a cylinder and a cone still supported segments along the curved shape, but since 3D AE these shapes internally use a mathematical description.
Figure 6. From left to right: a cylinder, cone and cube
cylinderSignature: cylinder radius height (xO yO zO) (xV yV zV)To create circular volume pile with its top centre point at (5 5 0), a length of 8 m vertically downward (vector direction will be (0 0 -1)) and a diameter of 0.80 m (radius = 0.4 m) we can use this command:
cylinder 0.4 8 (5 5 0) (0 0 -1)
coneSignature: cone base_radius height (xO yO zO)To create a cone with a base radius of 1.2 m, a height of 4 m with its base centre point at (6 2 -5) we can use this command, pointing up (0 0 1):
cone 1.2 4 (6 2 -5) (0 0 1)
cuboidSignature: cuboid sidelength (xO yO zO)To create a cube with sides of 2.5 m, with the bottom side's centre located at the (10 0 -6), use this command:
cuboid 2.5 (10 0 -6)
Pile geometryThe cone command can now also be used to create a tapered pile directly:
Figure 7. Tapered pile
See also the Command and objects reference and the compatibility notes for commands for more details.
When reading older PLAXIS 3D files that contain (triangle based) tessellated geometry, PLAXIS 3D 2016 will attempt to convert this tessellated geometry to the parametric geometric data structure.
Whenever PLAXIS 3D detects it needs to change the geometry to make the transition from triangulated/tessellated geometry to fully parametric geometry, the new geometry will require a new intersection. Following from this, a new mesh will need to be generated and the project will need to be completely recalculated.Hint: if you have selected points for curves, then make sure to reselect them again before the calculation via the Select points for curves option in Output or directly via the command line in Input.The program will directly store the file under a new name to prevent accidentally overwriting the original file. The new PLAXIS 3D file will be stored in the same folder and "_converted" will be added to the filename.
In some cases, the required changes are too great, or critical triangulated shapes are removed from the model. In that case, it is recommended to use a hybrid version of PLAXIS 3D that supports both triangulated and parametric geometry. This hybrid version will be available as PLAXIS 3D Classic (similar to 3D AE but with some updates). PLAXIS 3D Classic will be located in a subfolder of the PLAXIS 3D 2016 installation folder called "classic". To start Input for PLAXIS 3D Classic, start Plaxis3DInput.exe from this subfolder "classic".
If you want to use a later version of PLAXIS 3D, e.g. PLAXIS 3D 2017:
Since PLAXIS 3D 2016 only allows parametric geometry and does not accept triangulated geometry


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The physical phenomenon responsible for blurring of images is the so-called spacial low-pass filtering. When the same phenomenon is applied temporally to sound, sound loses its higher frequency content.
The only legitimate meaning of blurry sound I see then is when there is so much echo or physical obstacles for sound to go around that it loses clarity. Therefore, sound heard in a large echoic chamber (like a concert hall, hangar or cathedral) can be physically blurry, and sound that you hear from behind the wall when someone is speaking there can be blurry as well.
Sound contaminated by interference (like bad radio channel) would be considered noisy, not blurry.
Also, this type of sound would not be considered distorted. Distortion (I'm in danger of getting overly technical here), is a different phenomenon, characterized by non-linear effects, e.g. you speak too loudly into a microphone and it clips, or when you encode audio with very low quality, that's an example of distortion as well. Blurriness would be characterized by linear audio processing, like superposing many reflections (echoes) on top of each other.
I've been an audio processing engineer for some time now, and we rarely use this terminology, it's usually more technical, but I guess blurry would work, and most people in the field would understand it as the same exact phenomenon.


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Aurora Humanitarian Initiative
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative was launched on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors. The initiative is rooted in inspiring stories of courage and survival that emerged during the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians perished. Those fortunate few who survived were saved by the courageous and heroic acts of institutions and individuals who intervened, at great risk. A century later, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative seeks to express gratitude, share remarkable stories of survivors and their saviors, and celebrate the strength of the human spirit.
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative creates and supports projects designed to raise public awareness and address the world's most pressing humanitarian issues.
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative spans a number of projects:
- The Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity: the philanthropic vision of Noubar Afeyan, Vartan Gregorian, and Ruben Vardanyan, the co-founders of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. Together, they seek to build a humanitarian movement by drawing attention to the issues faced by the world's most vulnerable and recognizing those individuals and organizations who intervene for good.
- The Aurora Dialogues: a series of thoughtful discussions between leading members of the political, humanitarian, and business communities to raise awareness and address some of the world's most pressing humanitarian issues.
- The Aurora Humanitarian Index: an international survey exploring the causes and trends behind the "compassion gap" that exists between what the general public says they feel about humanitarian issues and how they actually engage with these crises.
- The Aurora Gratitude Scholarships: a series of international projects aimed at shaping a better future for generations to come, with a special focus on education and social development – from the Gratitude Scholarships to partnerships with NGOs that are advancing humanitarian causes.
- 100 LIVES: a global media and content creation project aimed at preserving the memory of the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide, as well as those who intervened on their behalf a century ago. It is also a platform to present the stories of the Armenian diaspora and its connections to the Armenian heritage, culture and values.
All projects are designed to honor and support deserving individuals and organizations as an expression of gratitude to the saviors who intervened on behalf of Armenians a century ago.


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Faculty Scholarship 1994 - Present
Leveraging Learning Styles to Improve Student Learning: The Interactive Learning Model and Learning Combination Inventory
This paper describes the Interactive Learning Model, and a related instrument called the Learning Combination Inventory, which identifies those patterns of processing that learners rely upon as well as those patterns that learners avoid. It further reports the results of an exploratory study using MIS students, the purpose of which was to see if a correlation exists between those learning patterns that a student relies upon and their success in two different types of learning activities. The results suggest that if students understood their own learning patterns they could develop specific strategies to become efficient and effective life-long learners.


Phuket Pronunciation: How do you pronounce Phuket?
How to pronounce Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket
Here is an unexpected funny question I get often:
How do you pronounce Phuket?
For most of us, it's obvious, so obvious I'm still surprised when someone asks. I thought 2004 tsunami put Phuket and its name on the map once for all. But not… I still hear lots of hesitation, snickering and giggling. Lately some overseas offices called and asked if my residence was in:
"Fooc..." (hesitates)... "Fuuc... " (errrr...) "Faac...kit"? (giggles).
I couldn't help but giggle back at the embarrassed tone, the poor guy wanted to say the 'F' word so bad...
No sir, you just pronounce 'Poo-ket' [pʰuːkɛt] (in Thai: ภูเก็ต), it's that simple! Just like 'Phi Phi' is pronounced 'Pee Pee' and 'Phang Nga' is 'Pang Nga' (and strangely 'Suvarnabhumi' airport is pronounced "Sue-wanna-poom"!)
Phuket or Phucket or Puket or Pooket, you name it...
So where does 'Phuket' come from? It seems to originate from the Malay 'Bukit' (Book it?) which means 'hill', but was previously named 'Thalang' by locals. Thalang is still the name of the north of the island where the original main town was long ago.
In the 17th century when tin mining made Phuket very attractive to the Occident, Europeans called it 'Jungceylon'. Yes that's the origin of the name given to the giant Jungceylon Shopping Mall in Patong, and looking around the shopping center reveals few hints about old Phuket. If you want to know more about Phuket history, you can visit the Tin Mine Museum in Kathu.
All this story is obviously a lame excuse to post these fun photos showing some of Phuket Streets and buildings in the past and how they look like today :-D
Phuket History Photos


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Origin: Ger < dial. form of rücken, the back (see ridge) + sack < OHG sac (see sack)
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Origin: : dialectal Ruck, back (from Middle High German rück, ruck, from Old High German hrukki; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots)
Origin: + Sack, sack (from Middle High German sac, from Old High German, from Latin saccus; see sack1).
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Let $M$ be a closed smooth manifold. A generic diffeomorphism $\phi: M\rightarrow M$ has non-degenerate fixed points, i.e. the intersections of its graph with the diagonal in $M\times M$ are all transverse. In a generic one-parameter family $(\phi_t)$ of diffeomorphisms (say starting at the identity) we cannot request that the fixed points of $\phi_t$ be non-degenerate for all $t$. Nonetheless we can arrange that degenerate fixed points occur only for finitely many values of $t$ and that they be of "birth-death" type. In particular, the fixed point set of each $\phi_t$ is still isolated.
How "non-generic" is it for a diffeomorphism to have a fixed point set that "carries topology", i.e. not only its fixed point set $F$ is infinite but it has non-trivial homology and the map $H_\ast(F)\rightarrow H_\ast(M)$ is non-trivial at some positive degree? The reasoning above shows that the codimension of these diffeomorphisms in $Diff(M)$ is at least 2. Is it finite/very high/infinte?
As a particular example, let $M=\mathbb{CP}^n$ and consider the set $\mathcal {E}$ of diffeomorphisms whose fixed point set contains a line, i.e. the restriction of a generator $u\in H^2(\mathbb{CP}^n;\mathbb Q)$ to its fixed point set is non-zero. Does $\mathcal{E}$ have codimension greater than $2$ in $Diff(M)$? Analogous questions can be asked in the volume-preserving or symplectic cases.
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Getting corners square when building a deck is quite challenging. Although we don't hope the corners to be perfectly square, it should be as square as possible.
Sometimes when you lay out tile or carpet, but unfortunately it is off from one side to another side of the room. In this case, you can take the 3-4-5 technique into consideration as it can help you absolutely!
Here are all about how to square a deck using the 3-4-5 method.
3-4-5 Rule To Ensure Square Layouts
Anyone wants to learn the way to square a deck should know the 3-4-5 method as many builders often use it to make sure they are building a square deck.
Speed squares and framing squares are helpful tools for using in construction, builders often use them to check the layout. However, if the layout is too large, they can't help guarantee accurately.
Builders often use 3-4-5 technique for a number of major projects in remodeling and construction, such as laying a foundation or a wall to make sure the corners are square.
If you want know how to square a deck, you should pay attention to the materials required.
Tools required to square a carpentry project are:
What you have to prepare is just simple, you have already had it on your home.
1. A good tape measure – "Good" here means that it does not easily bend over when you pull it out.
2. A pencil or a sharper pen.
3. A helper – it can be hard work without assistant. You should find a partner, it can be a friend, your lover or neighbor.
And it's time we got to how to square a deck!
Using 3-4-5 Rules
It is not very hard to build a deck, you just base on the 3-4-5 rules. This is a simple technique, it just requires the carpenter to create a right angle by connecting two legs of the triangle.
A right triangle must consist of:
- The length of short triangle leg: 3 feet
- The length of another triangle leg: 4 feet
- The length of the longest leg: 5 feet
The 90 degree angle will be opposite the longest leg. Builders can also organize other multiple of the 3-4-5 rule to improve accuracy on building large walls or structure.
These are some examples of other multiple of the 3-4-5 rules:
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Why Is This Technique Useful?
The most recommended way to square a deck is the 3-4-5 method, so let's get to know why does the 3-4-5 method create a perfect square corner?
Almost everyone knows the Pythagorean Theorem, which was discovered by Pythagoras – a mathematician. Every secondary student may know this theory, this is about the relationship between the squares on the two legs of the triangle and the longest legs. Pythagoras pointed out that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle.
What To Do If the Last Measurement is Off?
If you use the 3-4-5 method as a technique to square deck corners, you will have to make some adjustments in case the longest leg is off. What you need to do is moving one side, maybe move the other two leg in or out 3 or 4 feet.
The Bottom Line
You know, squaring the corners is very important and essential if you want your projects to turn out the best. Some people use a framing square but it seem not very accurate since it is so small so that's why we have to learn how to square a deck using a method called 3-4-5. And after reading useful tips about the 3-4-5 method for building a deck, I hope that you can do it on your own successfully.


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Definition of Prebasal
1. situated in front of a base [adj]
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1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"prebasal plate not exposed. a!.—Ventral pores not existing on segments beyond the... prebasal plate exposed at the middle, the basal plate being a little..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"The femora; with apreapical and the tibia; with a prebasal and apical fuscous band, with close set fine hairs underneath on the venter and on antenna? and..."
3. The Myology of the Raven (Corvus Corax Sinuatus.): A Guide to the Study of by Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1890)
"Here, in the subject before us, a special slip is thrown off for attachment from the deep flexor tendon as it passes over the prebasal joint in question,..."
4. The Myriapoda of North America by Charles Harvey Bollman (1893)
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"Coxal pores one, concealed ; prebasal plate concealed ; coxa of... prebasal plate concealed: anterior coxal poro hidden by ventral plate;..."
6. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1884)
"The prebasal ridge of d4 is developed on its outer two-thirds only, and is connected with the anterior lobe by a minute link. The anterior lobe, like all..."
7. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: With Special by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, William Morris Davis, Charles William Woodworth, Leland Ossian Howard, Charles Valentine Riley, Samuel Wendell Williston (1889)
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Interior Design: How Valuable is Art to Property?
Interior Design: How Valuable is Art to Property?
There is a process known as cultural placemaking which is about the connection between the arts and commerce. This can be something that makes the arts side of the equation feel uncomfortable, but it is about the realities of what art is worth in the wider world.
In terms of cultural placemaking, this is where developers contact artists early in the process, to work out how to best integrate art into an overall development.
In 2017, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, commissioned a World Cities Culture Report. This identified culture as a city's defining essence. Therefore, in terms of property development, it makes sense to involve art early on.
How does this work, or indeed can it work, in terms of an established fine art market?
Property Aspects Magazine asked Sarah Samuels, Cheshire-based fine art dealer at Sarah Samuels Fine Paintings, for her thoughts.
How is Art Transforming Interior Design?
"There's an increasing trend for developers to engage artists early in the process of renovation, or even new builds, to incorporate fine art concepts in interior design," explains Sarah.
This manifests itself in vivid, unique decorative detail, such as Grayson Perry's contribution to A House For Essex in Wrabness.
"For some collectors, the logical next step is to incorporate art into the actual fabric of their homes. This adds a practical element to it, so the art is more than decorative."
"Where people are finding architects' visions for their homes a little on the conservative side, they are then turning to artists to help develop the uniqueness of their vision"
Sarah Samuels, Sarah Samuels Fine Paintings
This is where elements such as architectural fixtures and interior details take on a whole new dimension, that is as much connected to their status as their look and function.
"What this means for art in general is that it is increasingly embedded in the concept of what good, distinctive interior design means."
Fine Art for the Home
"It is easier than ever to buy art, but this comes with certain challenges," says Sarah.
"It's not just about the price of a picture, and certainly not about whether it fits with your home's colour scheme. Rather, it's about the true value of it, and its potential legacy."
This question of provenance is key when it comes to selecting fine art for the home.
"Ideally, the buyer of the art wants as much of a connection as possible to the artist. This is where the right dealer adds value. It is about trust."
"The artist trusts the dealer, and the dealer builds trust with the potential customer based on being able to convey a depth of knowledge of the artist's intentions and motivations"
Sarah Samuels, Sarah Samuels Fine Paintings
Ultimately, does art matter in interior design?
"Your home is more than a space and is something with which you build a deep connection," Sarah concludes. "Art can help strengthen this connection. It adds meaning to your home, and therefore, your life."
To discover how art can improve your home and your life, please contact Sarah Samuels on 0785 _PHONE_ or visit
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These lovely scarves have different names. I call it the Spiral Ruffle Scarf. It's easy to make and looks great in either a fine or a medium weight yarn. I made mine with softball cotton yarn and size 8 needles. Here are the videos and written directions:
1. Cast on 17 stitches... or any greater uneven number that can be divided in half plus one.
2. Row 1: Knit.
3. Row 2: Knit 2, turn and knit back.
4. Row 3: Knit 4, turn and knit back.
5. Row 4: Knit 6, turn and knit back.
6. Row 5: Knit 8, turn and knit back.
7. Row 6: Knit all 17 stitches.
8. Repeat rows 2 through 6.
Don't worry when it doesn't ruffle right away. It takes a while. Here's what it looks like before it starts to ruffle:
9. When your scarf is at the desired length, bind off.
- Both ends will form a V shape.


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rstr is a helper module for easily generating random strings of various types. It could be useful for fuzz testing, generating dummy data, or other applications.
It has no dependencies outside the standard library, and is compatible with Python 3.
A Word of Caution
By default, rstr uses the Python random module to generate psuedorandom text. This module is based on the Mersenne Twister and is not cryptographically secure.
If you wish to use rstr for password-generation or other cryptographic applications, you must create an instance that uses SystemRandom.
For example:
>> from rstr import Rstr
>> from random import SystemRandom
>> rs = Rstr(SystemRandom())
The basic method of rstr is rstr(). At a minimum, it requires one argument, an alphabet of characters from which to create a string.
>>> import rstr
>>> rstr.rstr('ABC')
By default, it will return a string between 1 and 10 characters in length. You may specify an exact length by including it as a second argument:
>>> rstr.rstr('ABC', 4)
You can also generate a range of lengths by adding two arguments. In the following case, rstr will return a string with a randomly selected length between 5 and 10 characters.
>>> rstr.rstr('ABC', 5, 10)
It's also possible to include particular characters in your string. This is useful when testing a validator to make sure that certain characters are rejected. Characters listed in the 'include' argument will always be present somewhere in the resulting string.
>>> rstr.rstr('ABC', include='&')
Conversely, you can exclude particular characters from the generated string. This is helpful when starting with a pre-defined population of characters.
>>> import string
>>> rstr.rstr(string.digits, exclude='5')
Note that any of the arguments that accept strings can also accept lists or tuples of strings:
>>> rstr.rstr(['A', 'B', 'C'], include = ['@'], exclude=('C',))
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The other methods provided by rstr, besides rstr() and xeger(), are convenience methods that can be called without arguments, and provide a pre-defined alphabet. They accept the same arguments as rstr() for purposes of specifying lengths and including or excluding particular characters.
The characters provided by string.letters in the standard library.
The characters provided by string.uppercase in the standard library.
The characters provided by string.lowercase in the standard library.
The characters provided by string.printable in the standard library.
The characters provided by string.punctuation in the standard library.
The characters provided by string.printable in the standard library, except for those representing whitespace: tab, space, etc.
The characters provided by string.digits in the standard library.
The characters provided by the concatenation of string.letters and string.punctuation in the standard library.
The characters provided by the concatenation of string.digits and string.punctuation in the standard library.
Characters commonly accepted in text input, equivalent to string.digits + string.letters + ' ' (the space character).
Characters that are safe for use in postal addresses in the United States: upperand lower-case letters, digits, spaces, and the punctuation marks period, hash (#), hyphen, and forward-slash.
Characters safe (unreserved) for use in URLs: letters, digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde.
Characters that are allowed for use in hostnames, and consequently, in internet domains: letters, digits, and the hyphen.
Inspired by the Java library of the same name, the xeger() method allows users to create a random string from a regular expression.
For example to generate a postal code that fits the Canadian format:
>>> import rstr
>>> rstr.xeger(r'[A-Z]\d[A-Z] \d[A-Z]\d')
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xeger works fine with most simple regular expressions, but it doesn't support all Python regular expression features.
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If you have custom alphabets of characters that you would like to use with a method shortcut, you can specify them by keyword when instantiating an Rstr object:
>>> from rstr import Rstr
>>> rs = Rstr(vowels='AEIOU')
>>> rs.vowels()
You can also add an alphabet to an existing instance with the add_alphabet() method:
>>> rs.add_alphabet('odds', '13579')
>>> rs.odds()
You can combine rstr with Python's built-in string formatting to produce strings that fit a variety of templates.
An email address:
A postal address:
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TASMANIANS with asthma or respiratory illnesses have been urged to protect themselves against the high levels of smoke in the air.
Parts of southern Tasmania are blanketed in smoke from a bushfire threatening several communities in the Derwent Valley.
Asthma Foundation of Tasmania CEO Cathy Beswick said wood smoke could trigger asthma symptoms including wheezing, coughing, chest tightness or shortness of breath.
People without their blue/grey reliever medication should seek supplies at their local pharmacy. If they experienced an uncontrollable asthma attack, they should call 000.
"Children, the elderly and people with breathing problems, including asthma, are the first to feel the effects of smoke and particle pollution, which means they need to take extra care," Ms Beswick said.
Asthma sufferers have been advised to stay indoors with windows and doors closed.
They should also limit physical activity and set their heat pump or air conditioner at home or in the car to'recycle'.


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 To add logic that interacts with both Azure Bot Service and OutSystems, you need to add and configure the chatbot webhook module.
 Reply with an echo message
 After you create a new webhook module, it contains a logic for an echo chatbot. The logic accepts the message from the chatbot, appends "ECHO:" to it, and then sends it back as a chat reply.
 Open your webhook module and go to Logic > Server Actions > Utilities > GetMessageResponse. Examine the logic in this Server Action.
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 You can query the knowledge base in Azure directly from the webhook module. This is useful when you're building a more complex logic, and you want to combine several chatbot features. For example, you may send user questions to the knowledge base first, and if there is no valid answer, you can show static options.
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 Note that you don't need the QnA Maker connector for a chatbot that only works as an FAQ chatbot. This is because the chatbot UI block can communicate directly with the Azure chatbot service.
 Detect what users want to do
 The chatbot webhook module is also a place where you can detect what users want to do, and then act upon that. You first detect the intents and entities with Azure services, and then call your corresponding OutSystems logic. For example, in a sentence "Send me the report at 9 AM.", the intent is SendReport and entities Recipient = CurrentUser and Time = 9AM.
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The implementation process
To help you make sense of the various eco-innovation activities identified, they are grouped into 'steps' and 'phases'. The six phases represent the major milestones in the implementation of eco-innovation. Steps comprise a number of activities that have the same overall objective within each phase.
If you are in the agriculture, metals or chemicals business, you will find specific information from your sectors about these activities.


Maj Augustus Leacock Marsh _PHONE_, 55th Regiment
Born: April 1823 and died 8 March 1876 at South Yeo, North Devon.
Son of: George Augustus Eliott Marsh MA (_PHONE_) who married Julia Murdock (1792?-1854).
Brother of:
3. Charles Smith Marsh (1823?-1845) buried on the Island of Madeira.
Married: 20 October 1864 Susan Agnes Scott, daughter of Gen Sir Hopton Stratford Scott and Lady Scott.
Augustus and Susan had issue:
1. Julia Augusta Feist (nee Marsh), who married Frederick Herman Feist.
2. Capt Hopton Elliott Marsh RA, who married, 30 Dec 1896, in St George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Ethel Lucretia Jean Taylor, daughter of Lieut Duncan Norton Taylor and Harriett Liddle Taylor (nee Hoyles).
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3. We know about Augustus from the "History of the Ancient Family of Marsh" by Joseph J. Green, Archivist and Genealogist, 1903, revised to date by Wm. Ernest Marsh, of Marston, Bromley, Kent, 1912. Page 248.
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