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Your 3 Month Program includes...
*Weekly 50-minute coaching sessions
 (12 sessions over the course of 3-months)
*Initial session providing guidance to establish clear intentions, challenges, priorities & goals
*Text and email support between sessions
*Simple actions steps, exercises, and techniques to help build foundational habits
*Personal tracking system that rewards you in keeping consistency toward specific goals
*Your personal coach to keep you accountable on your journey
*Personal commitment and attention to your health and success
What Happens During a Health Coaching Session:
1. Weekly sessions via Zoom/Facetime or phone call.
2. Report progress, challenges, successes you experienced during the week.
3. Adjust & Assign: Make adjustments to the plan based on your progress report and discuss new mini goals for the upcoming week.
4. Feedback on how you feel about any adjustments, and answer questions or concerns you may have moving forward.
5. Teach, Train, Talk through: I will follow up on feedback with any information, nutritional, fitness, exercise suggestions etc. Information could be a follow up email from coach to client to help with the upcoming week.
It's one thing to touch up your outward appearance, to look like you have it all together. Feeling CONFIDENT on the inside is what you and I will be working on during 1:1 coaching. My goal for you is to feel a sense of relief in being fully understood during the journey, while increasing your energy and creating habits that easily blend into your existing lifestyle. It's truly a fun and rewarding journey!


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Cows Will Sex Text Farmers When They're Feeling Frisky
Feb 23, 2012 12:23
Farming cows are tough because you'll need to keep track of their fertility. Its important because that will determine the quality of your meat, or the milk in your cereal. Mobile technology has made it possible for cows to drop their farmers an SMS when they're feeling its about time to get jiggy.
A new collar designed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland uses the same sensor as a Wii to keep track of a cow's movement and activity, and based on that movement, scientists have been able to work out the characteristic behaviour of cows when they're read to get down. So when they do, farmers are going to get some Bovine Sexting.
The collar will notice how the cow is moving, in a particular way, and when it does it will drop the farmer a text message. From that point, the farmer will, lend a hand, which means there's probably going to be some artificial insemination going on here.

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Below is a very neat video showing a heat conduction science experiment using water. Heat conduction Science Experiments are fun and easy to do. However, please be supervised by adults when performing any experiments of heat conduction at home or at school. The science experiment below is a middle school conduction experiment for kids.
What you need for heat conduction Science Experiments?
You need a flame of some sort such as from a candle, a Styrofoam cup, and water.
Usually a Styrofoam cup will burn in flame when in contact with heat in no time. However, in this heat conduction science experiment, can you believe that you can actually put the Styrofoam cup right on the flame and it will not burn? This heat conduction science experiment video will show you how it is done using the principal of heat conduction.
You can put the Styrofoam cup right on the flame and it will not burn because of heat conduction.
You can even see the flame through the bottom of the Styrofoam cup and the bottom is still not burned. Try without heat conduction medium and see the difference.

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School & Child Care Coordinator
Wyoming Department of Health Immunization Unit
More than ever school staff are looking for ways to maximize every minute of their day. With hundreds of students to manage and care for, school nurses are well-versed in the art of doing several tasks, with few resources. Among those, a small portion of their responsibilities is assessing and managing student immunization records which can be a time-consuming task, and while it is a small portion of their responsibilities, the assessment of student records is largely impactful to the health and safety of our children and community. The WyIR School Nurse Module is an excellent tool to accurately and efficiently assess and manage student immunization records. This session will be an interactive walkthrough of access levels and functions of the school nurse module, such as logging in or generating full school reports.
This session is valuable for all school nurses and other school staff who assess student records and who want to learn more about how the Wyoming Immunization Registry (WyIR) School Nurse Module can work for you.
*Point of clarification: The Meningococcal vaccine IS covered by VFC but IS NOT covered through WyVIP.


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The Shukhov radio tower (Russian: Шуховская башня), also known as the Shabolovka tower, is a broadcasting tower in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The 160-metre-high free-standing steel diagrid structure was built in the period 1920–1922, during the Russian Civil War. It is a hyperboloid structure (hyperbolic steel gridshell).
Due to its diagrid structure, the steel shell of the Shukhov Tower experiences minimum wind load (the main hazard for high-rising buildings). The tower sections are single-cavity hyperboloids of rotation made of straight beams, the ends of which rest against circular foundations.
The tower is located a few kilometres south of the Moscow Kremlin, but is not accessible to tourists. The street address of the tower is "Shabolovskaya Street, 37", hence the tower's informal name "Shabolovka, 37".
See also
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Hyperboloid structure
- List of Hyperboloid structures
- Shukhov tower on the Oka River
- Constructivist architecture
- List of towers
- Lord Foster fires up campaign to save Shukhov Tower: _URL_
- P.Gössel, G.Leuthäuser, E.Schickler; "Architecture in the 20th century"; Taschen Verlag; 1990; ISBN 3-8228-4123-4.
- Elizabeth C. English, "Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition", a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
- "Vladimir G. Suchov _PHONE_. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.", Rainer Graefe und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
- Jesberg, Paulgerd Die Geschichte der Bauingenieurkunst, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany), ISBN 3-421-03078-2, 1996; pp. 198–9.
- Ricken, Herbert Der Bauingenieur, Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 3-345-00266-3, 1994; pp. 230.
- Picon, Antoine (dir.), "L'art de l'ingenieur : constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur", Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, ISBN 2-85850-911-5
- Fausto Giovannardi "Vladimir Shukhov e la leggerezza dell'acciaio" at _URL_
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Shukhov tower|
- Shukhov Tower in Moscow - video
- The Shukhov's Radio Tower
- International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow
- Shukhov Towers in Google Maps
- Shuhovskaya Tower at Structurae
- 3D model of the Shukhov Tower
- Views of the hyperboloid tower
- Invention of Hyperboloid Structures
- Shukhov Tower Foundation

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FEELING a little dull? Follow the lead of flamingos, which apply make-up to brighten their feathers. This touch-up allows the healthiest birds to continue looking their best, and so helps them signal their status as high-quality mates.
The bright pink colour of flamingos comes from pigments called carotenoids, which the birds acquire from their diet. Only healthy birds can gather enough carotenoids through their food to make bright feathers, but carotenoids fade quickly in sunlight, so feathers bleach over time.
To combat this, the flamingos turn to cosmetics. Juan Amat of the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and colleagues found that greater flamingos, Phoenicopterus roseus, secrete the same carotenoid pigments via a gland near their tail.
When they preen, the flamingos spread the pigment over their feathers, brightening their colour. The team found this behaviour...
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Can Ants Digest Chitin?
9) Ants(obviously) eat other insects, and I probably lack observation skills but do the ants also eat the exoskeleton also? Do they (or the larvae) have some way of digesting chitin? I did see that the ants pretty much leave MOST of the exoskeleton intact, and go for soft parts.
You have definitely got some challenging questions here. I'm going to give this one a try, but if anyone knows more about this, please jump in.
You probably have seen bug bits (discarded exoskeletons) littering the trash heaps around ant nests.
trash-heap3Many arthropods, including insects, have long chain polysaccharides in their cuticle known as chitin. (Chitin is also found in fungi, which was one of the lines of evidence that moved fungi into their own Kingdom.) The exoskeleton of insects is also made up of various proteins and waxes.
Chitin is known to be difficult to digest. It's long chain polysaccharide structure is similar to cellulose, which is also difficult for animals to use as food. The digestion of chitin requires special enzymes, chitinases, to break the strong bonds between the molecules. For a time it was thought that chitinases only occurred in a few bacteria, but evidence is showing up that certain animals have chitinases in their digestive systems, too.
It turns out that insects have chitinases able to break down chitin, but they aren't where you might expect them. The chitinases in insects are in the cuticle and are used to move chitin during molting.
We know that adult worker ants can't digest solids, so they can't digest chitin. What about larvae? It is highly unlikely, because the larval digestive system is also lined with chitin. When insects molt, they also shed most of their digestive tract, which is derived from the same tissues as the exoskeleton. Therefore, it seems larval ants probably couldn't digest chitin without digesting their own alimentary canal.
Many arthropod predators of insects suck out the insects fluid insides. Think about spiders, assassin bugs, lacewing larvae, etc. They are all feeding on fluids.
If it is true that insects can't digest chitin as a food source, this leads to some other questions. Leafcutter ants feed on special fungi, which they grow in their nests. Do the fungi they grow have chitin? Do the leafcutters have gut symbionts or some other means to digest that chitin?
If there are any chitin experts out there, it would be great to have some clarification.
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Our research aims to measure, restore and enhance ecosystem services (ES) or nature's services in agriculture.
Ecosystem services and agriculture
ES are critical to the sustainable supply of food worldwide. ES include pollination, biological control of pests and weeds, soil formation and nutrient cycling. Modern intensive agriculture often relies on growing a single crop and using large inputs of energy, fertilisers and pesticides that can degrade ecosystem services.
Measuring ecosystem services
Measuring and enhancing the value of ES to New Zealand's farmers is vital for the future of world agriculture. This type of research is influencing the environmental and agricultural policies of governments worldwide. We collaborate with leading ecological economist Prof Robert Costanza, at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Enhancing ecosystem services
Research in the Centre is focussed on understanding ES in farmland and forestry and how ecological engineering can improve their impact.
Restoring or enhancing ES can improve biological control of plant pests or diseases, suppress weeds and reduce reliance on pesticides. This is important for our environment. These ideas reflect Māori knowledge and kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of the land.
We are working with industry partners on ES enhancement:
Snap Fresh Foods.


I can get the title of the active menu using
$menu = &Jsite::getMenu();
$menuname = $menu->getActive()->title;
But how can I access it's parent title?
Try this code:
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();
$parent = $menu->getItem( $menu->getActive()->parent_id );
$parentname = $parent->title
If you need the link
$parentlink = JRoute::_( $parent->link. '&Itemid='. $parent->id );
 - While this answer is correct, you should check the return value of getActive() because there maybe is no active menu and you get a non-object back (I think null) – Harald Leithner Apr 22 '14 at 18:24
The method getActive return a object with the active menu properties including the parent_id. The JMenu class has a method getItem($id), where $id is a menu id. This method return the same type of object that getActive. So, you can do something like this:
$parent_id = $menu->getActive()->parent_id;
$parent_title = $menu->getItem($parent_id)->title;
Since you can get the active menu, you can get the rest by getting the tree. This is usefull to traverse the item list, not just the parent!
So that you understand better, I'm spliting the answer in parts:
1. Create a variable for the active menu (for simplicity and portability):
$menu = &JSite::getMenu();
$active = $menu->getActive();
2. Pick the previous/parent menu by getting the previous item in the tree:
$parent_item_id = $active->tree[count($active->tree) - 2];
NOTE: the tree is an array, and starts with zero, that's why I am subtracting by 2.
3. Finally get the menu title:
Mind you that you also need to add some checks to see if there is an active menu, and/or other error checks.
 - You shouldn't use $menu = &JSite::getMenu();, because it is not a static function. The correct way is to use the code as specified by _USER_. – Don Gilbert Apr 22 '14 at 19:13
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Flapper Nozzle System
We offer our clients an optimum quality range of Flapper - Nozzle System which is designed using the best grade components and latest technology in accordance with the set industry standards quality.The set up helps in understanding conversion of mechanical motion to pressure signal. It consists of flapper - nozzle mechanism, Dial gauge indicator, pressure gauges and air filter regulator. A regulated supply of pressure, usually over 20 psig, provides a source of air through the restriction. The nozzle is open at the end where the gap exists between the nozzle and flapper, and air escapes in this region.As the flapper moves down and reduces the nozzle gap the signal pressure increases. The graph of signal pressure verses nozzle gap can be plotted and system gain can be calculated. Setup is compact and table top mountable provided with soft copy instruction manual, software program for plotting test results and sample calculations.
- Simple and compact setup.
- Micron dial gauge for flapper movement.


with CFG now disabled our hijack was successful and the process crashes when trying to jump to the unmapped address 0x4141414141414141. It's important to point out that we could have made this hijack jump to anywhere in the process address space due to CFG being disabled. By comparison, with CFG in place an exception would have been thrown since 0x4141414141414141 is not valid in the bitmap, and we would have seen the original CFG routine that we swapped out, ntdll!LdrpDispatchUserCallTargetES, in our call stack.

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In this post, I discussed COOP, a novel code-reuse attack proposed in academia, and demonstrated how it can be used to attack modern Control-Flow Integrity implementations, such as Microsoft CFG. Overall, COOP is fairly easy to work with, particularly when breaking up payloads into smaller chains. Piecing together vfgadgets is not unlike the exercise of assembling ROP gadgets. Perhaps the most time consuming portion is finding and labeling candidate vfgadgets of various types within your target process space.
Microsoft's Control Flow Guard is considered a coarse-grained CFI implementation and is thus more vulnerable to function reuse attacks such as described here. By comparison, fine-grained CFI solutions are able to validate call sites beyond just the target address considering elements such as expected VTable type, validating number of arguments, or even argument types, for a given indirect call. A key tradeoff between the two approaches is performance, as introducing too much complexity into a CFI policy can add significant overhead. Nonetheless, mitigating advanced code-reuse attacks is important moving forward as applications become hardened with some form of forward-edge and backward-edge CFI.
To offset some of the limitations of CFG, Microsoft appears to be focused on diversifying its preventions such as protecting critical call gates like VirtualProtect with export suppression in CFG and Arbitrary Code Guard. However, one important takeaway from this post should be the challenges of designing and enforcing mitigations from user-space. As we saw with EMET a couple of years ago, researchers were able to disarm EMET by reusing code inserted by EMET itself. Further, as was originally demonstrated at BlackHat 2015, here we are similarly taking advantage of critical CFG function pointers residing in user-space to alter the behavior of CFG.
By comparison, Endgame's HA-CFI solution is implemented and enforced entirely from the kernel and uses hardware features that even if vulnerable to function reuse attacks, make it more difficult to tamper with because of the privilege separation. In the second part of this series, I will discuss the COOP adventures with our own HA-CFI and ongoing research, and how our detection logic evolves to account for advanced function reuse attacks.
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The 42 mile Rio Grande trail connects Glenwood Springs to Aspen along a historic railroad grade. A community project involving the Roaring Fork Transit Authority, SGM Engineering, Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association, and Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers aimed at revitalizing the old railroad corridor in downtown Carbondale into a more diverse and engaging experience. This was also the first phase of RFTA Trails providing alternate trail lines in the same corridor.
The aim of the additional trails in the corridor was to:
Provide alternate routes and experiences in the same corridor to alleviate congestion on the paved trail
Serve as a beginner-friendly "intro to mountain biking" trail
Fitting three different alignments within a relatively narrow corridor called for creativity in trail routing. Utilizing the excavated topography alongside the railroad bed lent the singletrack trail dynamic interest, while remaining accessible to beginner-level riders. The gravel walking path was laid out to have a curvilinear effect, differentiating it from the paved path, and serving as a transition to the singletrack.
The initial phase was a community project with RFTA trails, RFOV, RFMBA, Carbondale Arts Council, and SGM. The existing railroad corridor retained a harsh, industrial vibe in the midst of a town that prides itself on an appreciation of beauty, and prioritizes outdoor recreation. These various entities came together to remake this connection from downtown Carbondale to nearby Red Hill more attractive, and engaging. SGM contacted Gumption Trail Works to design both the soft surface walking trail, and singletrack. GTW also performed machine construction of the singletrack, and assisted in leading volunteer crews from RFMBA, and RFOV in finishing work.
The trail has become a community favorite; used by commuters, recreationalists, and families.
As part of the reclamation phase of installing underground utilities along the Rio Grande corridor, Holy Cross Energy reached out Gumption Trail Works to construct a trail on top of the disturbed area. Using excess fill material, GTW transformed the flat, 2 dimensional utility right of way into a dynamic and engaging trail corridor.


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Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures
Electronic & Computer Engineering Dept., University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 3 July 2002 / Accepted: 19 July 2002 / Published: 23 August 2002
Abstract: Thin films of Tellurium dioxide (TeO2) were investigated for γ-radiation dosimetry purposes. Samples were fabricated using thin film vapour deposition technique. Thin films of TeO2 were exposed to a 60Co γ-radiation source at a dose rate of 6 Gy/min at room temperature. Absorption spectra for TeO2 films were recorded and the values of the optical band gap and energies of the localized states for as-deposited and γ-irradiated samples were calculated. It was found that the optical band gap values were decreased as the radiation dose was increased. Samples with electrical contacts having a planar structure showed a linear increase in current values with the increase in radiation dose up to a certain dose level. The observed changes in both the optical and the electrical properties suggest that TeO2 thin film may be considered as an effective material for room temperature real time γ-radiation dosimetry.
Keywords: Gamma Radiation; Dosimetry; Thin Films; Tellurium Dioxide; Optical Band Gap
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Arshak, K.; Korostynska, O. Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures. Sensors 2002, 2, 347-355.
Arshak K, Korostynska O. Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures. Sensors. 2002; 2(8):347-355.
Arshak, Khalil; Korostynska, Olga. 2002. "Gamma Radiation Dosimetry Using Tellurium Dioxide Thin Film Structures." Sensors 2, no. 8: 347-355.


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How to draw a cartoon bowling ball
The best way to draw a cartoon bowling ball is not necessarily by playing this amusing activity. You just need to draw a circle and add a couple of holes! But in this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a simple ball with subtle, but effective reflection. Are you ready to draw?
Start your illustration by sketching a big and round circle.
Next, add the three holes on the ball using smaller circles. The one on the bottom should be a little bit lower than the other two circles.
Continue working on the ball by sketching small shadows inside each hole. We want to add a little depth to our illustration to make it look more enjoyable.
Finally, add a big shadow on your bowling ball by drawing a semi-circle on the top right section of the object.
Color your ball in black and add some grey tones to the shadows inside each hole (and on the one on top of the ball).
Finish your drawing by adding some subtle shadows effect to it! Very nice! With a perfect bowling ball like this one, you should be able to play a perfect game the next time you play bowling! Enjoy!
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How Does a Software-Enabled Platform for Facilities Management Improve and Automate Asset Optimization?
Software-enabled platforms outpace in-house facilities management processes to derive value and self-sufficiency.
The rise of newer facilities management methodologies, including the use of a single pane of glass methodology, have the potential to greatly improve and automate traditional processes. Yet, the level of integration and compatibility required to truly automate facilities management activities demands the use of a software-enabled platform for facilities management, such as an energy management-as-a-service platform. Let's take a closer look at how a software-enabled platform benefits facilities management.
A Software-Enabled Platform Brings Relevant Information Forward
Having the right information to make informed decisions is integral to successful facilities management, and a software-enabled platform in facilities management leverages the power of advanced technologies to proactively identify the most pertinent information and present it to a facility manager. Thus, they can have the necessary information to make decisions that benefit the overall welfare and efficiency of existing assets.
Software-Enabled Platforms Helps Facility Managers Recognize Proactive Maintenance Opportunities
The ability to clearly identify and prioritize items in need of repair, replacement or optimization also contributes directly to the creation and support of a proactive maintenance schedule. Software-enabled platforms can leverage both historic and predictive analytics to generate an ongoing proactive maintenance schedule, including recognizing opportunities where proactive maintenance will likely yield better results than previously believed.
Deep Learning Lets Software-Enabled Platforms Self-Optimize and Self-Manage Assets
Machine-to-machine learning and deep learning within artificial intelligence is a key characteristic of software-enabled platforms. Such platforms have the capacity to cross-reference millions of data points and self-manage use of resources to improve and maximize asset life expectancy. For facilities managers of multi-site portfolios, the ability to self-manage and self-optimize assets saves countless hours and reduces overall facilities management spend.
Additionally, software-enabled platforms communicate seamlessly through the Internet of Things (IoT), which allows the entire process to grow smarter, more efficient and more effective. Therefore, the overall amount of work required on the part of the facility manager decreases, and facility managers can focus on more customer-centric activities and their distributed portfolios.
Automation Leads to Faster Response and Lower Risk
Automation powered by a software-enabled platform in facilities management reduces delays between problem development, reporting and responsiveness. As a result, this lowers the overall risk present in routine facilities management operations, explains FacilitiesNet.
For example, automation in software-enabled platforms can control temperature and lighting settings throughout multiple facilities. If the facility houses combustible gases or substances, keeping the right temperature setting can amount to preventing explosions and maintaining the safety and security of the facility.
Let a Software-Enabled Platform for Facilities Management Do the Work for You
By taking the time to implement software-enabled solutions, facilities managers can do more with less, find more time to focus on customer service, gain stakeholder support and more. Rather than trying to leave your systems running without technology and automation, invest in a software-enabled and integration-ready platform, like ENTOUCH.one, to automate and boost your asset and facilities management processes. Get started with your software-enabled platform by contacting ENTOUCH online today.


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Control of downy mildew (DM) in the hopyard is an ongoing challenge for growers in many regions; and especially difficult for growers that have susceptible hop varieties. DM takes different forms and produces several different spore types in reaction to environmental conditions - i.e. aerial, oospores, and zoospores. Each spore type has its own set of specific control measures. DM is active whenever temperature and moisture conditions are correct; spring, summer, and fall. In the fall season, downy mildew switches from actively producing airborne spores that mainly affect the bines, foliage, and cones; to forming protective oospores and motile zoospores that can overwinter in the soil and dormant hop crown. The more familiar springtime DM spikes on new shoots are less evident in the fall as hop growth slows and the infected older foliage takes on a mottled appearance; which many growers fail to notice. Once DM has a foothold in a hopyard, outside airborne spores are not necessary to re-start early springtime infections.
Great Lakes Hops has found the following fall practices to be effective in gaining good control over downy mildew and other pests and pathogens in hopyards.


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Secchi Disk Depth
One of the most commonly used measurements for water clarity is the Secchi disk depth (pronounced she SEHK-ki). The Secchi disk is a simple and inexpensive device used by both citizens and scientists for measuring water clarity.
The device generally consists of a 20-centimeter (8-inch) disk made of wood or plastic. Some are painted with alternating black and white quadrants, or they can be solid white. A non-stretching piece of rope or light chain is attached through the center; the rope is marked in increments of feet or meters. A small weight is attached beneath the disk so that it will sink quickly and the line will remain taught while measurements are being made.
The disk is lowered below the surface until it just disappears from view; that depth is referred to as the Secchi disk depth.


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Parents from house of horrors sentenced: starved 6 children, teenage son weighed 37 lbs
(Colorado Springs, Colorado) Parents Bryan and Tonya Ricks of Colorado Springs, Colorado were reportedly sentenced to 25 years each for child abuse including" severe bodily harm and failure to provide medical attention."
The shocking house of horrors was discovered in 2009, when a family friend discovered the Ricks teenage son bedridden, in his own urine and feces, unable to walk or speak and extremely malnourished.
He wasn't the only child in the home. 5 other siblings, all girls, were also reportedly starved and abused.
According to KKTV the boy, whose name has been withheld to protect his identity, was removed from the home late 2009 but the other children weren't taken out of that horror house until early 2010.
Both of the Ricks reportedly expressed deep remorse in court during their sentencing on Monday and though the judge commended them for taking responsiblity by pleading guilty, he reportedly told them "it does not outweigh the severe, continuous abuse."
The boy, who is now 16 and lives with his foster parents, weighed a shocking 37 pounds when he was taken out of the home. To this day, he cannot walk and is learning to do so while he mostly crawls. The years of neglect and abuse have severely hindered his development, as well as his siblings. He and his 5 sisters had to be taught basic skills like using a toothbrush, tying their shoelaces, using a fork and a toilet.
Their motor skills were so impaired they couldn't hold a pencil or dress themselves. Their teeth were rotten, one child lost nine teeth. The girls hair were extremely dry, brittle and their skin were allegedly like alligator's--rough and dry.
The children have never seen a doctor or attended school. One of them had a condition which left a hole in her heart and others had asthma. The 16-year-old had severe seizures which has reportedly damaged his brain permanently because he did not get any medical attention.
They are all now in specialized foster care for they need continued therapy for a myriad of problems. they have already received occupational, physical and psychological therapy. They are learning to live normal lives.


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Every day, the drone industry comes up with new and different uses for unmanned aircraft. Now, here comes hyper-local weather forecasting – which, in turn, will also prove useful for other drone operators conducting their own operations.
On May 23, 2023, at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, a Swiss firm called Meteomatics is expected to start running what it claims is the first drone-based micro-weather service in the US (the firm calls it a 'Meteodrone' system).
Meteomatics has been cleared by the FAA to operate drones at an altitude of 9,000 feet (6,100 meters) in the vicinity of the said air base, which doubles also as a business park called GrandSKY for use by the UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) industry.
The drones will collect atmospheric data to provide accurate and hyper-local weather forecasts that will support the operations of other drones and aircraft in the area.
By using this system, Meteomatics says it is bridging a gap in weather observation coverage. The rationale is that even the best weather observation and data collection systems currently in use have limitations in terms of providing accurate low level granular weather information – precisely the layer in which most unmanned air systems are expected to operate. As such, the startup claims its system is up to nine times more granular than the most precise weather services available on the market, as it can provide precise data within a range of up to one square kilometre.
Meteomatics expects that by being better able to understand and forecast local weather conditions such as rain, fog, hail, wind and so on, other drone operators will be able to optimize their operations and avoid weather-related hazards when operating beyond visual range.
The US Great Plains in particular pose a major challenge to weather forecasters, since the local orography means that weather systems move at great speed, so local weather conditions can experience sudden, drastic changes.
Meteomatics has also partnered with a meteorological data analysis company called TruWeather Solutions to provide coverage the whole of North Dakota, potentially expanding to other geographies further down the line.


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History plays role in debate over whether to rename Old Slave Road
By: Sarah Wilson
Nestled in the hilly woods of Wildwood is a road named for its notable black history. Old Slave Road, which dates back to a time in the 19th century when plantation landowners owned black slaves, is little known by many for its historical importance and influences on the existing area.
Since the days of its origin, the area has undergone a natural transition with new homes and residents, yet the street has retained its original name.
But now a few residents have decided it needs to change. Because of its historical significance and the use of the word "slave in the name," some residents felt the name was "inappropriate" and "offensive" in these modern times. Also, because of its name, street signs have been stolen or vandalized where Old Slave Road intersects Wild Horse Creek Road, with costs to the city throughout the years.
So, in the fall of 2012, those residents petitioned for the city of Wildwood to start the process of changing the name.
The question is whether the word "slave" precipitates an insensitive topic that turns heads or simply is an accurate depiction of the area's past.
Karen Fox, the petitioner for the name change, lives on Old Slave Road. She said the road name "is just not the most positive way to communicate the history of the area."
"The reaction from people was usually pretty negative, and it shut people out," Fox said.
So she said residents got together and "agreed that there needs to be a better way."
Fox started doing research on the plantation and found that the developer in 1979 named the road, Old Slave Road.
"And he probably had limited resources and information," Fox said. "He didn't have the names we have now."
Once a deeply eroded road, Old Slave Road was locally known as the "old slave road" and was believed to have been used to reach the plantation owner's home.
In 1837, Reverend Robert Coleman relocated to Missouri from Virginia with his family and 54 slaves to settle a large plantation between Wild Horse Creek and the Missouri River. The family's relatives, the Tylers, came with the Coleman family and brought 52 slaves of their own with them. Each owner purchased land and specialized in hemp production for off-plantation sale.
Coleman died in 1840 and his estate was divided between two of his sons, Robert and William.
Robert acquired the original homestead and operated a similar plantation with 36 slaves. William built a brick mansion and when he died in 1895, divided his acreage among his seven daughters. He gave his house and a 100-acre tract of property to his daughter Nannie, who married Frank Terry and passed the property down to her daughter, Maude. Eventually moving in her husband and his relatives, Maude sold the property in 1952 to Calvin. In 1979, Negley Calvin platted the Spicewood Farms subdivision.
Fox said she found the history of the plantation and its inhabitants fascinating and that renaming the road was a way to "positively commemorate who lived (there)." The trick was choosing the right name, one that honored the area's history and its residents.
"And when you look at all the names in Wildwood, a lot of road names are named after people who lived here," Fox said. "In all the research I've done, I haven't found another road named after a slave."
Choosing the name
Fox said one name that stood out in her research was Elijah Madison, a former slave on the plantation who also served in the Union Army.
It is unknown where Madison was born, but documents show that he was raised on the Coleman plantation.
A slave of Coleman, Madison in 1864 secured his freedom by enlisting in the 68th U.S. Colored Infantry, which formed in March 1864.
Gen. Henry W. Halleck in April ordered the regiment to Memphis to help defend the city. The unit also engaged in battles in Tupelo, Miss., where it successfully fended off Confederate attacks. Then the regiment was ordered to New Orleans and Florida. Later it marched to Alabama to help lay siege to the Confederate stronghold at Fort Blakely. The fort was eventually captured thanks to a network of trenches the 68th had dug, which brought Union troops closer to the fort.
After the war, Madison continued serving in the army until his discharge in 1866. He then returned to the Wildwood area near the Coleman plantation, where he became a successful farmer. He married another former slave, Elizabeth West, and together they had 15 children.
Madison is buried behind the remains of a late 19th-century African-American church and cemetery, known as Mount Pleasant African Baptist Church Cemetery and located along Wild Horse Creek Road.
Coleman's slaves in 1841 built Mount Pleasant, once known as Antioch Baptist Church.
From 1841 until the mid-1860s, slaves owned by the Coleman, Tyler and other families were received or baptized into the church where blacks and whites worshiped together. Eventually a new church building was completed, and by 1869, all the black members met in the Mount Pleasant building and the white members worshiped at the new Antioch Church.
Madison's grave is one of the few marked by headstones benefiting Civil War veterans.
"Elijah lived here until the end of his life," Fox said. "His siblings and descendents also lived here. We just felt like with his name, we really had a strong tie to the entire history of this area and how things changed over the course of when he first was born up until the early 1900s."
Fox said changing the name to reflect the land's history is "a process, and it's moving along."
"We all want to recognize history," Fox said. "So there are different opinions and viewpoints on how to do that. This would be the first road named after an African-American slave in the city of Wildwood and would really recognize the history."
Lynn Martin, chair of Wildwood's Historic Preservation Commission, said a name change would be a "win-win for everyone because I know one of the problems is their street signs keep getting stolen."
But while the name change has support from some citizens it has drawn criticism from others.
Residents who live on Old Slave Road, as well as residents who do not, have voiced their opinions about the name change. However, Martin said it is only the decision of the property owners along the roadway and that other residents have no say in the matter.
"It is not their responsibility, nor their concern, truly," Martin said.
Of trying to get the city involved, Martin said, "That's what they would like to do … make it a city issue and it's not. This is an individual property rights issue and it's a private road."
The property owners maintain the road, however, it is in a platted subdivision, which Martin said is the only reason the issue is coming before the city.
An advocate for the installation of signage that would commemorate the area's history, Martin said she has been fighting for that change since 1999. She said the majority of the Historic Preservation Commission would love to see historical signage.
"People could stop and read the entire history of the area," Martin said.
She reiterated that changing the name of the road would be a "win-win for everybody because (for) the people that are affected by this – it's not they themselves – it's other people that they come in contact with that dislike the name."
The city's ordinance states that the majority of affected property owners can choose to change the name of a road. However, some residents – such as Sally Branson, who also lives on Old Slave Road – are opposed to a name change – and therein lies the struggle.
"Old Slave Road was named after the slaves who worked, lived and died here and are buried in the cemetery, which is directly across the road from our house," Branson said. "I just don't understand what is offensive, and if you don't like the name of the road, why did you buy property on it?
"Charlie (Sally's husband) and I never had any problem with explaining it when someone asked, or when someone was curious about it. We always saw it as an educational possibility and were quick to explain it. "What it always elicited was 'Tell me more.'"
Branson said she always saw the road's name as "a positive rather than a negative."
"So there is tremendous significance to the names here, and having known the Calvins years back, it was very clear that he (Negley) had looked into the history," Branson said. "I have to say we've never had problems with it. Never.
"I've heard it mentioned several times that the name is 'very uncomfortable,' but I don't imagine these slaves were too terribly comfortable for the lives that they had on this earth."
She said Fox "did a pretty remarkable job of fathering all kinds of information," but does not think changing the road to Elijah Madison would do the area's history justice.
"While his history as a slave was absolutely fascinating, and I do not wish to discredit it in any shape or form, he didn't live on the road," Branson said. "He wasn't born here and he's certainly not buried here (in the slave cemetery), and the name of the road is named for the slaves that are buried down there."
Other names that have been suggested are Freedmen, Old Slave Cemetery Road, Madison Valley Lane and Spiceberry Court since Old Slave Road spurs off of Spiceberry Lane.
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Transformative Actions Program (TAP) is developed by ICLEI and partners and it aims to highlight and accelerate local climate action by collecting and showcasing up to 100 of the ambitious climate projects.
It will also improve access to funding for cities and regions and will increase their engagement in national and global climate negotiations.
"Local government network and other partners have developed TAP to help cities and regions have access to funding and increase their involvement in climate change negotiations. We will be showcasing the top 100 projects at the cities and regions pavilion at COP21 in Paris."
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Design Patterns - Filter Pattern
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Filter pattern or Criteria pattern is a design pattern that enables developers to filter a set of objects using different criteria and chaining them in a decoupled way through logical operations. This type of design pattern comes under structural pattern as this pattern combines multiple criteria to obtain single criteria.
Implementation
We're going to create a Person object, Criteria interface and concrete classes implementing this interface to filter list of Person objects. CriteriaPatternDemo, our demo class uses Criteria objects to filter List of Person objects based on various criteria and their combinations.
Filter Pattern UML Diagram
Step 1
Create a class on which criteria is to be applied.
Person.java
public class Person {

 private String name;
 private String gender;
 private String maritalStatus;
 public Person(String name, String gender, String maritalStatus){
 this.name = name;
 this.gender = gender;
 this.maritalStatus = maritalStatus;
 }
 public String getName() {
 return name;
 }
 public String getGender() {
 return gender;
 }
 public String getMaritalStatus() {
 return maritalStatus;
 }
}
Step 2
Create an interface for Criteria.
Criteria.java
import java.util.List;
public interface Criteria {
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons);
}
Step 3
Create concrete classes implementing the Criteria interface.
CriteriaMale.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CriteriaMale implements Criteria {
 @Override
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons) {
 List<Person> malePersons = new ArrayList<Person>();

 for (Person person : persons) {
 if(person.getGender().equalsIgnoreCase("MALE")){
 malePersons.add(person);
 }
 }
 return malePersons;
 }
}
CriteriaFemale.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CriteriaFemale implements Criteria {
 @Override
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons) {
 List<Person> femalePersons = new ArrayList<Person>();

 for (Person person : persons) {
 if(person.getGender().equalsIgnoreCase("FEMALE")){
 femalePersons.add(person);
 }
 }
 return femalePersons;
 }
}
CriteriaSingle.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CriteriaSingle implements Criteria {
 @Override
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons) {
 List<Person> singlePersons = new ArrayList<Person>();

 for (Person person : persons) {
 if(person.getMaritalStatus().equalsIgnoreCase("SINGLE")){
 singlePersons.add(person);
 }
 }
 return singlePersons;
 }
}
AndCriteria.java
import java.util.List;
public class AndCriteria implements Criteria {
 private Criteria criteria;
 private Criteria otherCriteria;
 public AndCriteria(Criteria criteria, Criteria otherCriteria) {
 this.criteria = criteria;
 this.otherCriteria = otherCriteria;
 }
 @Override
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons) {

 List<Person> firstCriteriaPersons = criteria.meetCriteria(persons);
 return otherCriteria.meetCriteria(firstCriteriaPersons);
 }
}
OrCriteria.java
import java.util.List;
public class OrCriteria implements Criteria {
 private Criteria criteria;
 private Criteria otherCriteria;
 public OrCriteria(Criteria criteria, Criteria otherCriteria) {
 this.criteria = criteria;
 this.otherCriteria = otherCriteria;
 }
 @Override
 public List<Person> meetCriteria(List<Person> persons) {
 List<Person> firstCriteriaItems = criteria.meetCriteria(persons);
 List<Person> otherCriteriaItems = otherCriteria.meetCriteria(persons);
 for (Person person : otherCriteriaItems) {
 if(!firstCriteriaItems.contains(person)){
 firstCriteriaItems.add(person);
 }
 }
 return firstCriteriaItems;
 }
}
Step4
Use different Criteria and their combination to filter out persons.
CriteriaPatternDemo.java
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CriteriaPatternDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 List<Person> persons = new ArrayList<Person>();
 persons.add(new Person("Robert","Male", "Single"));
 persons.add(new Person("John", "Male", "Married"));
 persons.add(new Person("Laura", "Female", "Married"));
 persons.add(new Person("Diana", "Female", "Single"));
 persons.add(new Person("Mike", "Male", "Single"));
 persons.add(new Person("Bobby", "Male", "Single"));
 Criteria male = new CriteriaMale();
 Criteria female = new CriteriaFemale();
 Criteria single = new CriteriaSingle();
 Criteria singleMale = new AndCriteria(single, male);
 Criteria singleOrFemale = new OrCriteria(single, female);
 System.out.println("Males: ");
 printPersons(male.meetCriteria(persons));
 System.out.println("\nFemales: ");
 printPersons(female.meetCriteria(persons));
 System.out.println("\nSingle Males: ");
 printPersons(singleMale.meetCriteria(persons));
 System.out.println("\nSingle Or Females: ");
 printPersons(singleOrFemale.meetCriteria(persons));
 }
 public static void printPersons(List<Person> persons){

 for (Person person : persons) {
 System.out.println("Person : [ Name : " + person.getName() + ", Gender : " + person.getGender() + ", Marital Status : " + person.getMaritalStatus() + " ]");
 }
 }
}
Step 5
Verify the output.
Males:
Person : [ Name : Robert, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : John, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Married ]
Person : [ Name : Mike, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Bobby, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Females:
Person : [ Name : Laura, Gender : Female, Marital Status : Married ]
Person : [ Name : Diana, Gender : Female, Marital Status : Single ]
Single Males:
Person : [ Name : Robert, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Mike, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Bobby, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Single Or Females:
Person : [ Name : Robert, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Diana, Gender : Female, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Mike, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Bobby, Gender : Male, Marital Status : Single ]
Person : [ Name : Laura, Gender : Female, Marital Status : Married ]
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The PC monitor can be a good alternative HD display for those who already own a large LCD monitor but not a HDTV or have no room for a HDTV. This article explains some of the technical issues connecting your PS3 to a LCD monitor.
1. Monitor Size
The size of your monitor usually determines the resolution it can output. The maximum resolution of the monitor is important as it determines the HD output it can support. The monitor must be able to display a resolution of at least 1280x720 for 720p output and at least a resolution of 1920x1080 for 1080p output. This usually means that 19"-22" widescreen monitors can support up to 720p output while those 24" and above can support up to 1080p.
One thing to note is that most PC monitors are 16:10 aspect ratio while HD output resolutions are 16:9 aspect ratio. This slight difference results in the picture being stretched slightly vertically to fill the entire screen. Some monitors have settings to correct this such as 1:1 pixel mapping or aspect mode, allowing the picture to be displayed in 16:9 aspect ratio with two small black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
HDCP must be supported by your monitor in order for it to output video from the PS3. This is more of an issue with older monitors as most new monitors out there support HDCP.
3. Monitor Inputs
Most monitors have both a VGA and DVI input, with more and more models supporting HDMI input. VGA cable output is not officially supported on the PS3, so the use of third party VGA cables is not recommended and can be costly. For connecting to the PS3, HDMI is the preferred mode of connection as all you need is a simple HDMI cable. Monitors without HDMI input will need a HDMI to DVI cable. DVI input is basically similar to HDMI, but without the sound signal.
Some higher end models support component input, but since those models also have HDMI and DVI inputs, they should be preferred over component as the image quality is better. If you are looking for cables, Play-Asia has a decent HDMI cable here and HDMI to DVI cable here.
Because most monitors do not have speakers, you'll need a way to connect your speakers for sound. This is one of the main issues when hooking up your PS3 to your PC monitor. If you have a receiver, you can hook it up with a HDMI or optical cable for sound. Some higher end speakers support optical input as well. You can get a cheap optical cable here. For most people however, the easiest way is to use the RCA cables that came with the PS3 to connect your speakers. You may need a 3.5mm to RCA F adapter cable to connect those cables to 3.5mm audio jack input speakers.
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Morgan Sindall Grp (MGNS) - Director/PDMR Shareholding RNS Number : 4863R Morgan Sindall Group PLC 19 November 2012 MORGAN SINDALL GROUP PLC 19 NOVEMBER 2012 NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY 1. Name of the issuer Morgan Sindall Group plc 2. State whether the notification relates to Both i) DTR 3.1.2 (Notification of transactions by persons discharging material responsibilities); or ii) section 793 of the Companies Act 2006 (Notice requiring information about interests in shares); or iii) both (i) and (ii) 3. Name of person discharging managerial Patrick J De Smedt responsibilities/ director 4. State whether notification relates to a No person connected with a person discharging managerial responsibilities/director named in 3 and identify the connected person 5. Indicate whether the notification is in Holding of person respect of a holding of the person referred referred to in 3 above to in 3 or 4 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest 6. Description of shares (including class), Ordinary shares of 5p debentures or derivatives or financial each instruments relating to shares 7. Name of registered shareholders(s) and, if As above more than one, the number of shares held by each of them 8. State the nature of the transaction Purchase of shares 9. Number of shares, debentures or financial 2,000 instruments relating to shares acquired 10. Percentage of issued class acquired (treasury n/a shares of that class should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 11. Number of shares, debentures or financial n/a instruments relating to shares disposed 12. Percentage of issued class disposed (treasury n/a shares of that class should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 13. Price per share or value of transaction £5.56 14. Date and place of transaction 16/11/2012 15. Total holding following notification and 2,000 total percentage holding following notification (any treasury shares should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 16. Name of contact and telephone number for Mary Nettleship queries Tel: _PHONE_ 9218 17 Name and signature of duly authorised officer Mary Nettleship, of issuer responsible for making notification Company Secretary Date of notification 19 November 2012 End This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END RDSLLFIRLELALIF -0- Nov/19/2012 16:06 GMT
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Heavy rainfall events are among the most underestimated hazards, as they can occur anywhere and
lead to severe flood disasters. Floods as part of extreme meteorological events represent one of the
three scenarios which serve as a basis for the INCREASE project. As part of the INCREASE project, DKKV organised a public WebTalk on 08 December to address the severe flood events in July 2021 in Germany, to provide insights into the work of some German project partners and to stimulate exchange on promoting resilience in Iran and Germany.
The more than 80 international participants, mainly from Iran and Germany, showed high interest in the contributions from the project partners. After a short welcome and project presentation, THW (Federal Agency for technical relief) started with an overview of the flood event and the related operational work on site. KFS (Disaster Research Unit, FU Berlin) then showed a video that provided a visual insight into sociological observations on the flood and the concept of integrated disaster risk management. After a first round of questions, the TH Köln, the University of Bonn and the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR) then presented current research, lessons learned, methods and analyses related to the flood disaster and flood resilience.
The subsequent discussion showed the high relevance of the topic and how important a broad networking of actors from disaster risk management is – not only in Germany, but also internationally. The partners are looking forward to gaining insights into the Iranian perspective on hydrometeorological disasters at one of the next INCREASE events, to further exchange, discuss and learn from and with each other.
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- floor (v.)
- early 15c., "to furnish with a floor," from floor (n.). Sense of "puzzle, confound" is 1830, from notion of "knock down to the floor" (1640s). Related: Floored; flooring.
- floor (n.)
- Old English flor "floor, pavement, ground, bottom (of a lake, etc.)," from Proto-Germanic *floruz "floor" (cf. Middle Dutch and Dutch vloer, Old Norse flor "floor," Middle High German vluor, German Flur "field, meadow"), from PIE *plaros "flat surface" (cf. Welsh llawr "ground"), enlarged from *pele- (2) "flat, to spread" (see plane (n.1)).
Meaning "level of a house" is from 1580s. The figurative sense in legislative assemblies (as opposed to the platform) is first recorded 1774. Spanish suelo "floor" is from Latin solum "bottom, ground, soil;" German Boden is cognate with English bottom. Floor plan attested from 1867.


Special Instructions for Windows Users: ======================================= They only thing you really have to worry about beyond a regular UNIX installation is: 1) Use nmake instead of make. Or, if make is unavailable, you will have to copy the modules by hand. To the correct perl library directory. (c:\perl\site\lib if you are using ActiveState, for instance). 2) Change the "store" directory. This is where all web-mirrored files will be stored. The location for the store directory is found in the XML configuration file at the bottom of Latex.pm under


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The proof is complete. □
Stationary distribution
In this section, we will establish sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique ergodic stationary distribution. First of all, we present a lemma which will be used later.
Let \(x(t)\) be a homogeneous Markov process in \(E_{l}\) (\(E_{l}\) denotes an l-dimensional Euclidean space) and be described by the following stochastic differential equation:
$$ \mathrm{d}x(t)= b(x)\,\mathrm{d}t+\sum^{k}_{r=1}g_{r}(x) \,\mathrm{d}B_{r}(t). $$
The diffusion matrix is defined as follows:
$$ \widetilde{A}(x)=\bigl(a_{ij}(x)\bigr)=\sum ^{k}_{r=1}g^{i}_{r}(x)g^{j}_{r}(x). $$
Lemma 5.1
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The Markov process\(x(t)\)has a unique ergodic stationary distribution\(\mu (\cdot )\)if there exists a bounded domain\(U\subset E_{l}\)with regular boundaryΓand
 1. (A1)
 There is a positive numberMsuch that\(\sum^{l}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(x)\xi _{i}\xi _{j}\geq M|\xi |^{2}\), \(x\in U\), \(\xi \in {\mathbb{R}}^{l}\).
 2. (A2)
 There exists a nonnegative\(C^{2}\)-functionVsuch that\(\mathcal{L}V\)is negative for any\(E_{l}\setminus U\).
Then
$$ {P}_{x} \biggl\{ \lim_{T\rightarrow \infty } \frac{1}{T} \int ^{T}_{0}f\bigl(x(t)\bigr)\,\mathrm{d}t= \int _{E_{l}}f(y)\mu (\mathrm{d}y) \biggr\} =1 $$
for all\(x\in E_{l}\), where\(f(\cdot )\)is a function integrable with respect to the measureμ.
Theorem 5.1
Assume that\(\widetilde{R}_{0}>1\). Then, for any initial value\((S(0),E(0),I(0),R(0))\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\), there is a stationary distribution\(\mu (\cdot )\)for system (2) and the ergodicity holds.
Proof
The diffusion matrix of system (2) is given by \(\widetilde{A}= \operatorname{diag}(\sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2}, \sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2})\). We choose \(M=\min_{(S,E,I,R)\in D_{k}\subset {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}}\{\sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2}, \sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2},\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2}\}\). We get
$$ \begin{aligned} \sum^{4}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(S,E,I,R) \xi _{i}\xi _{j} &= (\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})\widetilde{A}(\xi _{1}, \xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})^{T} \\ &= \sigma ^{2}_{1}S^{2}\xi ^{2}_{1}+\sigma ^{2}_{2}E^{2} \xi ^{2}_{2}+\sigma ^{2}_{3}I^{2} \xi ^{2}_{3}+\sigma ^{2}_{4}R^{2} \xi ^{2}_{4} \\ &\geq M\| \xi \| ^{2} \end{aligned} $$
for any \((S,E,I,R)\in D_{k}\), \(\xi =(\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\xi _{3},\xi _{4})\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\), where \(D_{k}=[\frac{1}{k},k]\times [\frac{1}{k},k]\times [\frac{1}{k},k] \times [\frac{1}{k},k]\) and \(k>1\) is a sufficiently large integer. Then condition (A1) holds, where \(E_{l}=\mathbb{R}^{4}_{+}\), \(U=D_{k}\).
Next we construct a nonnegative \(C^{2}\)-function \(\bar{V}: {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+} \rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) in the following form:
$$ \begin{aligned} \widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R) &= M(-c_{1}\ln S-c_{2} \ln E-c_{3}I-\ln R-\ln I) \\ &\quad {} -\ln S-\ln R-\ln (S+E+I+R)+ \frac{(S+E+I+R)^{n+1}}{n+1}. \end{aligned} $$
It is easy to check that
$$ \liminf_{k\rightarrow \infty ,(S,E,I,R)\in {\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+} \setminus U_{k}}\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)=+\infty , $$
where \(U_{k}=(\frac{1}{k},k)\times (\frac{1}{k},k)\times (\frac{1}{k},k) \times (\frac{1}{k},k)\). Besides, \(\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)\) is a continuous function. Hence, \(\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)\) must admit a minimum point \((S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{*})\) in the interior of \({\mathbb{R}}^{4}_{+}\). Then we define a nonnegative \(C^{2}\)-function as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \bar{V}(S,E,I,R)&=\widetilde{V}(S,E,I,R)- \widetilde{V}\bigl(S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{*} \bigr) \\ &= M{V_{1}}+V_{2}+V_{3}+V_{4}+V_{5}- \widetilde{V}\bigl(S^{*},E^{*},I^{*},R^{


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The solution however, came in the form of MathWorks, a mathematical computing software developer. Its solutions, including MATLAB and Simulink, help in undertaking specialised tasks in various technological areas. Founded in 1984, MathWorks has been working in India for over 10 years now.
Dr Lakshminarayan Viju Ravichandran, who leads the Education Technical Evangelist team at MathWorks India, works with universities here that focus on the application of MATLAB and Simulink in curriculum development and research. In an exclusive interaction with Financial Express Online, he shared more details about MATLAB and Simulink. "MATLAB, the language of engineers and scientists, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for dynamic system simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. MATLAB and Simulink are used throughout the automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, and industrial automation industries as fundamental tools for research and development. They are also used for modeling and simulation in increasingly technical fields, such as financial services and computational biology," he said.
Giving more details about how the two solutions are helpful in an education institution, he said, "Using MATLAB and Simulink, academicians can build engaging virtual labs by incorporating modeling and simulation, remotely accessing hardware and home lab kits. They can recreate the learning outcomes of lab exercises to give students hands-on experience using real-world modeling and simulation tools. MATLAB Apps allows students to experiment and learn foundational concepts in science and engineering without focusing on the code or software-specific skills. MATLAB and Simulink Projects provide opportunities to support virtual collaboration with lab activities or student design projects. Academicians use Live Editor to create lab activities with MATLAB code or an interactive lab manual using live scripts. Simulink, being a block diagram-based environment to model dynamic systems, can address the visual component of circuit labs, communication labs and mechanical labs in the form of blocks."
MATLAB and Simulink are being used by over 6,500 colleges and universities globally in a variety of technical disciplines. In India, hundreds of institutions are making use of these virtual labs, Dr Ravichandran said, including several IITs, NITs, and government and private colleges. "In addition to creating our own library of examples, MathWorks is collecting virtual lab examples from educators across the world that use MATLAB and Simulink in teaching," he said.
But why are such virtual labs important? Dr Ravichandran answers. "Teaching methodologies need to support different learning approaches as well as inspiring and engaging students. Project-based learning is an effective way to achieve this. By getting students working hands-on, they explore real-world problems and bring theory to life. Key to the success are projects that are fun and inspiring for students – they can work on applications ranging from robotics to signal processing to control systems. In doing so, they're also learning approaches and skills that are relevant. By extending this approach to incorporate industry-standard software such as MATLAB and Simulink, instructors not only keep students motivated but also prepare them for Industry 4.0 careers," he said.
Talking about the problems that students learn to tackle using these solutions, he said, "The MathWorks solutions introduce students to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence which include mathematics, statistics. At higher semesters, machine learning and deep learning tools are introduced. In the field of robotics and autonomous systems, the students get exposed to control systems, computer vision and interfacing with Robot Operating System (ROS). Electrification is another area we see lots of interest in, in India. Courses such as power system analysis and power electronics form the basis of battery management systems in electric vehicles. The workflows are used by leading companies in the development of their products and by getting exposure to these workflows at the college level, the student today is well-positioned to solve not just the real-world problems of today, but also that of tomorrow."
MathWorks also came to the aid of institutions during the pandemic. "In August 2020, the MathWorks India Education team conducted a series of webinars on Teaching with MATLAB and Simulink to assist the faculty move to an online mode of instruction with MATLAB and Simulink in the academic space. By addressing the learning outcomes of courses in various disciplines, we were able to provide an initial start to the evolution of an online teaching process by multiple professors. This is an ongoing process since the challenges faced by academicians in India are unique and the MathWorks Education team continues to work with the professors in this space to address the challenges in online teaching and learning continually. Understanding the challenges and the need to share practices globally for the community of educators, we also created a distance learning community online. This is a world-wide community for educators who are teaching remotely or online using MathWorks tools. It houses resources, such as articles, code examples, and videos, as well as an area where community members can ask questions or hold discussions around best practices in distance learning," he said.
Talking about the response they have received from students and professors so far, Dr Ravichandran said, "The response from the faculty members who had little time to switch to an online mode of instruction in this pandemic has been positive. Interactivity and engagement is a challenge with online learning. Professors have been addressing this by incorporating interactive learning components using MATLAB and Simulink in their coursework. The students are taking the classes from different parts of the world. Students with limited computation resources and bandwidth access MATLAB through browser via MATLAB Online."
"For example, Professor Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur implemented a fully virtual strategy for his course on Parallel Computing. He used the browser version of MATLAB also called MATLAB Online, the self-paced online training course MATLAB Onramp, and MATLAB Grader for automated grading of programming assignments. His feedback was, 'Perhaps the biggest realization we've come to is that during a lockdown, learning objectives do not need to change, as long as you adapt to the situation by implementing the right infrastructure and tools'," he added.
He also talked about the ways in which virtual labs are benefiting educators. "Using MATLAB and Simulink, educators can teach virtual or remote labs, or teach with hardware kits to increase student participation and active learning. They can create visually engaging lab activities, Simulate laboratory equipment and processes with Simulink. MATLAB projects to track group work and control lab activities. Live scripts can be used to explore course concepts and create interactive reports or electronic lab notebooks. Virtual labs simulate a process, test, apparatus or activity. On a remote mode, students can access the hardware on campus or if one has hardware at home like Arduino and raspberry pi kits they can use those kits or even mobile devices to collect data," Dr Ravichandran said.


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Each template can have multiple tr_context statements. The default context that is set with this construct is valid until the next one is encountered.
tr
The tr construct defines a translatable string, the simplest form of this construct is:
{tr "String to translate"}
This will only work however, if there is a default context set with tr_context. In case there is none set, you have to specify it yourself with the "context" parameter. The following two templates are equivalent:
{tr_context "admin/forget_password"} {tr "String to translate"}
and:
{tr "String to translate" context "admin/forget_password"}
When a translator translates a text, it is sometimes useful to have slightly more information than just the context and the string itself. The tr construct therefore allows to add a comment to the translatable string with the "comment" parameter. This has no effect on how the tr construct is interpreted however. An example:
{tr "Login" context "user/login" comment "Text before login input box"}
In many occasions, the translatable strings allow positional or named parameters to allow for changing the order of arguments. For example the English string "Search for 'appelmoes' returned 3 matches" can be translated in Dutch as: "Er zijn 3 items gevonden bij het zoeken naar 'appelmoes'". A simple concatenation mechanism of multiple translatable strings would no longer work. The tr construct supports parameterized strings in two different ways: with numerical replacement identifiers (such as %1 and %2) and with associative identifiers (such as %search_string and %matches). The following example illustrates how this is done in the simplest possible way:
{tr "Search for '%1' returned '%2' matches" vars 'appelmoes', 3}
If no key is specified for variables, like in the above example, they are automatically given numbers, starting by 1. It is also possible to add specific positions to variables, like:
{tr "Search for '%1' returned '%2' matches" vars 2 => 'appelmoes', 1 => 3}
This is perhaps not so useful for positional parameters like here, but it is necessary for named parameters as illustrated in the example here:
{tr "Search for '%what' returned '%matchcount' matches" vars 'what' => 'appelmoes', 'matchcount' => 3}
It is of course also possible to mix those two cases:
{tr "Search for '%1' returned '%matchcount' matches" vars 'matchcount' => 3, 'appelmoes'}
or:
{tr "Search for '%1' returned '%matchcount' matches" vars 'appelmoes', 'matchcount' => 3}
Variables without any key, are always given positional identifiers in sequential order. When doing so, variables with a named key are ignored, while variables with a numerical key reset the next number in the auto-numbering sequence to the number of the key. The following example shows that:
{tr "%1 %2 %3 %4 context "test" vars 3 => 'three', 'four', 1 => 'one', 'two'}
For information on how to setup translations for your templates, please refer to the section Translations.
Extensions
This section explains how you can extend your Template language. Extending the Template language gives you the opportunity to add more application specific functionality. Some examples of Template language extensions are:
Currently, there are two ways of adding custom functionality to the template. The methods are named: custom blocks and custom functions. Together we call them custom extensions.
First, we'll explain how to create a custom block. With the knowledge of these custom blocks, we explain - much shorter - the custom functions.
Custom blocks
Custom blocks are extra functionality that could be used inside the template language. These blocks are implemented in PHP. The next section explains how an custom block can be used. The sections thereafter discuss how to add a new custom block.
Custom blocks in the Template language
Custom blocks add specific behavior to the Template language. The most basic structure of a custom block - without any parameters - is:
'{' <name> '}'
The block starts and ends with curly braces. The <name> identifies the custom block. Optionally, a custom block has also a closing block:
'{' '/' <name> '}'
The name must be the same as the start block, but starts with a forward slash ('/'). The text between the open and close tag is considered as input data. Whether a custom block should have a close tag is up to the developer.
The next example demonstrates a custom block with an open and close tag that capitalizes the text in between:
{capitalize} Guybrush Threepwood. {/capitalize}
Another example that uses a custom block without a close tag:
{capitalize "Guybrush Threepwood."}
Whether or not a custom block has a close tag, it handles the parameters the same. The structure of a custom block is as follows:
'{' block_name [start_expression] [ <param_name> ['='] <value> ... ] '}'
Basically, it describes that a custom block can have:
Some example blocks that use parameters:
{link "eZ systems" to "_URL_"} {table border=true bgcolor="red"} {debug} {calculate 5 plus 5} {join array( 'Hello', "world" ) with "_"} {header style="bold"} Hello world {/header}
Note that the values used in the examples are just ordinary expressions. Therefore it is possible to write:
{link "eZ" . " systems" to 'http'. "://" . "ez.no"} {calculate 2 + 3 plus 1 * 2 + 3}
Again, the optional and required parameters are up to the developer.
Adding a custom block
New custom blocks are added to the Template engine with the ezcTemplateConfiguration::addExtension() method. This method expects the class name which implements the new custom block. The next example adds a custom block to the Template engine which is implemented in MyClass:
$config = ezcTemplateConfiguration::getInstance(); $config->addExtension( "MyClass" );
The custom block class should implement the ezcTemplateCustomBlock interface. This interface has only one method getCustomBlockDefinition(). The class implementing this method should return an ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition object from a given block name, if possible.
Custom block definition
The custom block definition describes how the Template engine should interpret the custom block. The information is provided by returning an instance of the ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition:
class ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition extends ezcTemplateCustomExtension { public $class; public $method; public $hasCloseTag; public $startExpressionName; public $optionalParameters = array(); public $requiredParameters = array(); public $isStatic; }
The member variables that should be set in this class are:
The following custom block creates a hyper-link from a name and an URL:
{link "name" to "url" [title "title"]}
This custom block has a:
Except for the class and the method name the CustomBlockDefinition should look like:
$def = new ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition; $def->class = "MyLink"; $def->method = "linkMethod"; $def->hasCloseTag = false; $def->startExpressionName = "from"; $def->optionalParameters = array( "title" ); $def->requiredParameters = array( "from", "to" );
The CB definition should be made available to the Template engine via a class implementing the ezcTemplateCustomBlock interface:
interface ezcTemplateCustomBlock { public static function getCustomBlockDefinition( $name ); }
The class implementing the getCustomBlockDefinition() method should return an ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition for the given block name $name. The next code demonstrates a class that implements the interface:
class MyLink implements ezcTemplateCustomBlock { public static function getCustomBlockDefinition( $name ) { switch ($name ) { case "link": $def = new ezcTemplateCustomBlockDefinition; $def->class = "MyLink"; // // Create definition // return $def; } return false; } }
Implementing the custom block
In the CB definition is specified which class and what method should produce the custom block output. A typical implementation to create a hyper-link would be:
public static function link( $parameters ) { $title = ""; if( isset( $


A Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for Simulating the Rotating Disk Apparatus Conference Paper uri icon
abstract
 - Abstract Reaction kinetics between calcite and acid systems has been studied using the rotating disk apparatus (RDA). However, simplifying assumptions have been made to develop the current equations used to interpret RDA experiments to enable solving them analytically in contrast to using numerical methods. Experimental results revealed inadequacy of some of these assumptions, which necessitates the use of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model to investigate their impact on the RDA results. The objectives of the current work are threefold: (1) develop a CFD model to simulate the reaction in the RDA, (2) Identify the error associated with the assumptions in the original equations, and (3) develop a proxy model from the results that can accurately represent the reaction in the RDA. In developing the CFD model, the averaged-continuum approach was used to simulate the chemical reaction on the disk surface. Both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids were studied to investigate the adequacy of the equations' assumptions. To validate the model, simulations were compared with experimental results. Experiments were run at 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 1.25M HCl with marble using the RDA at 250°F. Rotation speeds of 200, 400, 600, and 1,000 rpm were tested at each acid concentration. The diffusion coefficient was then calculated. Parameters of the CFD model were then adjusted to match the rock dissolved throughout the RDA experiments. The rock dissolved in the disk from the CFD model matched the results from the RDA experiments. The transition from mass-transfer to the kinetics-limited reaction behavior was captured by the CFD model. The velocity and viscosity profiles for both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids showed the effect of the container's boundaries on the flow. Results indicate that this effect is pronounced in the case of Newtonian fluids at high rotational speeds. Moreover, the impact of varying viscosities in the case of non-Newtonian fluids resulted in errors in estimating the reaction kinetics. Finally, a proxy model was obtained to reduce the computational time involved in accurately simulating the experiments. The present work developed the first CFD model to accurately evaluate reaction kinetics and diffusion coefficient in the RDA with minimum assumptions. More specifically, the model relaxes the infinite acting, constant fluid properties, and constant reaction surface area assumptions. Finally, the proxy model obtained results in reduced computational time with minimal compromise on accuracy.
name of conference
 - SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition
published proceedings
 - Day 3 Wed, December 12, 2018
author list (cited authors)
 - Kotb, A., Ali, M., Aziz Ezzat, A., Elwany, A., & Nasr-El-Din, H.
citation count
 - 4
complete list of authors
 - Kotb, Abdelrahman||Ali, Mahmoud||Aziz Ezzat, Ahmed||Elwany, Alaa||Nasr-El-Din, Hisham
publication date
 - December 2018
publisher
 - SPE Publisher


User Defined Opcodes (UDO)
Csound allows the definition of opcodes inside the orchestra header using the opcodes opcode and endop. The defined opcode may run with a different number of control samples (ksmps) using setksmps.
To connect inputs and outputs for the UDO, use xin and xout.
An UDO looks like this:
 opcode Lowpass, a, akk
 setksmps 1 ; need sr=kr
ain, ka1, ka2 xin ; read input parameters
aout init 0 ; initialize output
aout = ain*ka1 + aout*ka2 ; simple tone-like filter
 xout aout ; write output
This UDO called Lowpass takes 3 inputs (the first is a-rate, and the next two are k-rate), and delivers 1 a-rate output. Notice the use of xin to receive inputs and xout to deliver outputs. Also note the use of setksmps, which is needed for the filter to work properly.
To use this UDO within an instrument, you would do something like:
afiltered Lowpass asource, kvalue1, kvalue2
See the entry for opcode for detailed information on UDO definition.
You can find many ready made UDO's (or contribute your own) at's User Defined Opcode Database.


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Are you ready to unleash your inner earth goddess? Look no further than stunning moss agate earrings. With their natural beauty and powerful energy, moss agate earrings can help connect you to the earth, promote growth and abundance, and bring balance to your life. But with so many options available, how do you choose the perfect pair? As a copywriter and digital marketing expert, I've done the research and compiled a guide to help you find the moss agate earrings that speak to your unique style and energy. From dainty studs to statement hoops, there's a pair of moss agate earrings out there for everyone. Let's dive in and discover the perfect pair to unleash your inner earth goddess.
What is Moss Agate?
Moss agate is a variety of chalcedony, a mineral in the quartz family. It is named for its moss-like green inclusions, which are actually mineral impurities such as iron and manganese. These inclusions create unique patterns and designs, making each moss agate stone one-of-a-kind. Moss agate is found all over the world, but some of the most highly prized specimens come from India, Brazil, and the United States.
Moss agate is a stone with a long history of use in jewelry and healing. It has been used for centuries to promote growth and abundance, both in the natural world and in our personal lives. It is said to enhance mental clarity and promote emotional balance, making it a popular stone among those seeking to connect with their inner selves and the earth.
Understanding the Different Styles of Moss Agate Earrings
Moss agate earrings come in a variety of styles, from dainty studs to statement hoops. Here are a few of the most popular styles:
Moss agate studs are a classic, timeless choice. They are perfect for everyday wear and can be dressed up or down.
Moss agate dangle earrings feature a stone or stones that hang from a hook or wire. They come in a variety of lengths and styles, from delicate to bold.
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When choosing the style of your moss agate earrings, consider your personal style and the occasion. Dainty studs are perfect for everyday wear, while chandelier earrings are better suited for special events.
How to Care for Your Moss Agate Earrings
Moss agate is a relatively hard stone, but it can be scratched or damaged if not cared for properly. Here are a few tips to keep your moss agate earrings looking their best:
- **Avoid harsh chemicals:**
Avoid exposing your moss agate earrings to harsh chemicals such as bleach or ammonia. These chemicals can damage the stone and cause it to lose its luster.
- **Clean with a soft cloth:**
To clean your moss agate earrings, simply wipe them down with a soft cloth. Avoid using abrasive materials such as steel wool or harsh cleaners.
- **Store properly:**
When you're not wearing your moss agate earrings, store them in a soft cloth or jewelry box to protect them from scratches and damage.
With proper care, your moss agate earrings will last for years to come.
The Benefits of Wearing Moss Agate Earrings
In addition to their natural beauty, moss agate earrings are said to have a number of benefits for the wearer. Here are just a few:
- **Connection to the earth:**
Moss agate is a stone that is said to help connect us to the earth and promote a sense of grounding and stability.
- **Promotion of growth and abundance:**
Moss agate is also said to promote growth and abundance in all areas of life, from personal growth to financial abundance.
- **Enhanced mental clarity:**
Moss agate is believed to enhance mental clarity and promote emotional balance, making it a popular choice among those seeking to connect with their inner selves.
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Moss Agate Earrings as a Gift Idea
Moss agate earrings make a wonderful gift for any occasion, from birthdays to anniversaries to holidays. Here are a few ideas for gifting moss agate earrings:
Give the gift of moss agate earrings to celebrate a loved one's birthday. Choose a pair that reflects their personal style and energy.
Moss agate is said to promote growth and abundance, making it the perfect gift for an anniversary. Choose a pair of earrings that symbolize your love and commitment to one another.
Moss agate earrings make a unique and thoughtful gift for any holiday. Choose a pair that reflects the season, such as green for St. Patrick's Day or red for Christmas.
No matter the occasion, moss agate earrings are a gift that will be treasured for years to come.
When choosing moss agate earrings, there are a few factors to consider:
Consider the size of the earrings in relation to your face and the occasion. Dainty studs are perfect for everyday wear, while larger hoops or chandelier earrings are better suited for special events.
Choose a style that reflects your personal style and energy. Do you prefer simple, understated earrings or bold, statement-making pieces?
Moss agate comes in a variety of colors, from light green to dark green to brown. Choose a color that complements your skin tone and personal style.
Look for high-quality moss agate earrings that are well-made and durable. Choose a reputable jeweler who specializes in natural gemstones.
With these factors in mind, you're sure to find the perfect pair of moss agate earrings to unleash your inner earth goddess.
Moss agate earrings are a beautiful and powerful accessory that can help connect you to the earth, promote growth and abundance, and bring balance to your life. With so many styles and options available, there's a pair of moss agate earrings out there for everyone. Whether you choose dainty studs for everyday wear or bold hoops for a special occasion, moss agate earrings are sure to make a statement wherever you go. So why not unleash your inner earth goddess today with a stunning pair of moss agate earrings?


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Trees of New York State: Native and Naturalized
Author(s): Leopold, D. J.
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press
Subject: Plant Identification
Comments: From Books in Print In this revised edition of H.P. Brown's 1921 volume of the same title, Leopold (State U. of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse) adds 15 species not common to the area in Brown's day and new references. Entries on 165 species include botanical drawings, color photographs, and information on key identification characteristics, habit, parts, winter characters, habitat, range, and uses. This scientific-cum-coffee table book provides a useful overview, summer key to genera, and glossary. Presented in 10.75x9.75<"> landscape format. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Last Updated: 2007-01-01