Boolean b1 = true;
Boolean b2 = true;
String b3 = 'b1 && b2';
Boolean b4 = Boolean.valueOf(b3);
system.debug('test Bool '+ b4);
 - I'm curious how you want to apply this, or what problem you need to solve? – pchittum Jan 29 '13 at 12:20
 - Would it help if you convert your conditions into a dynamic query and act on results from that? – Vid L May 3 '13 at 11:13
It is possible to mimic a Javascript eval() in Apex by making a callout to the executeAnonymous API method.
There are two common ways you can get a response back from executeAnonymous.
 1. Throw a deliberate exception at the end of the execute and include the response. Kevin covers this approach in EVAL() in Apex. Secure Dynamic Code Evaluation on the Salesforce1 Platform.
 2. I used a variation of this approach but returned the response via the debug log rather than an intentional exception. See Adding Eval() support to Apex.
Using my example the Apex would be something like:
string toEval =
 'Boolean b1 = true;' +
 'Boolean b2 = true;' +
 'boolean b3 = b1 && b2;' +
 'System.debug(LoggingLevel.Error, b3);';
boolean b4 = soapSforceCom200608Apex.evalBoolean( toEval );
system.debug('test Bool '+ b4);
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 - No. There are some native features that will evaluate your string such as Database.insert and other DML methods. But not an arbitrary expression. – pchittum Jan 29 '13 at 12:19
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I created an apex class on github to do this. Take a look at this... _URL_
List values = new List{
true, false, true, true, false, true, true, true
BooleanEvaluate boolEval = new BooleanEvaluate('1 && ( ( 2 || 3 ) && 6 ) && ( 4 && 5 || ( 7 && 8 ) )', values);
If someone wants to improve it, please fork! Hope it helps
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 please include the essentials of the link in your post, as is, this is a link only answer, although it might help, if the link becomes invalid, so will your answer. Please update accordingly and take some time to review How to Answer and take the tour. thanks! – glls Oct 27 '17 at 2:08
 - Hi _USER_, This is my first answer here, thank you for your tips – Heitor Araujo Nov 6 '17 at 2:12
Also you can try Script.apex(_URL_
Map context = new Map{ b1 => true, b2 => false };
Boolean result = (Boolean)ScriptEngine.getInstance().eval('b1 && b2', context);
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Games for children
In the past children used to play different games such as: Modry Chaber, Sitko, Wilk (names of Polish traditional games). These games are put together in one dancing composition and they are performed by the youngest group.
Extremely energetic dance Polka in 3 / 4 time, preceded by well-known song from the Opoczno region (called "Na Topoli"). This theme is developed into the medley of dances of Opoczno region ( Kowol, Szefc, Krzyżok, Polka of Kielce region)
Composed for the group of children medley of dances called Oberek (Polish folk dance) of Lowicz region.
KRAKOWIAK with Lajkonik
The first part is the medley of dances from the region of Cracow performed by the older group of children. The second part is performed by the teenager group and is danced in the form of traditional Krakowiak dance. This show also contains the appearance of Lajkonik (person dressed as a Tartar riding a wooden horse).
The medley of Silesian dances composed for the older group of children including such Silesian dances as: Koziorajka, Zajaczek, Mietlorz, Trojak (names of Polish folk dances of Silesia region)
The medley of dances of Opoczno region including such dances as: Polka of Kielce region, Zyd, Staroświecko polka, Oberek od Studzianny (names of Polish folk dances of Opoczno region)
Dances of Lublin region
The medley of dances of Lublin region including such dances as: Walczyk, Osa, Cygan, Oberek, Polka of Lublin region (names of Polish folk dances of Lublin region)
Dances of Zywiec Highlanders
This show contains the most characteristic elements of Zywiec region: Siustany, Circle, Hajduk, Obyrtki (names of Polish folk dances), spectacular elements essential for male Highlanders dance, polyphonic singing without support from the band.
Dances of Lowicz region
The medley of dances of Lowicz region including such elements as Polka, Oberek, Klapok (names of Polish folk dances of Lowicz region)

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Catholic churches in paris
How many Catholic churches are in Paris?
Since religion implies having places of worship, centuries of Catholicism have brought about no less than 50,000 churches in the French territory; the city of Paris alone almost has 200 of them!
What famous cathedral is found in Paris?
Notre-Dame de Paris
What is the most famous church in France?
Notre Dame de Paris
What is the oldest church in Paris?
The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Près is the city's oldest church and the very heart of the vibrant neighborhood.
Are most French Catholic?
Estimates of the proportion of Catholics range between 41% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and " Catholic atheists". The Catholic Church in France is organised into 98 dioceses, which in 2012 were served by 7,000 sub-75 priests.
What percentage of Italy is Catholic?
Which church burned down in Paris?
Daily newspaper "20 Minutes" featured another heart-wrenching image of the cathedral ablaze with text, which translates to English as " Notre Dame Devastated." Another daily paper, "Le Parisien," will print the headline, "Our Lady of Tears" in French on their front page Tuesday.
What are the oldest buildings in Paris?
How many churches are in Paris?
197 churches
What is the oldest church in the world?
You might be interested: When did the roman catholic church start
Is Notre Dame a Catholic church?
What is the name of this famous monument in Paris?
the Eiffel Tower
What is the oldest part of Paris?


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Many Tests need to be performed on plastic granules and plastic products to ensure the quality of the products. One of the prominent tests that are mandatory to perform on plastics is Melt Flow Index Calculation of Plastics. The Melt Flow Index Test helps to gather information regarding the chemical behavior, mechanical structure and viscosity and other chemical properties of the plastics. The manufacturers need to analyze all such properties of plastics before starting the production process in order to give proper shape and size to the products and also to ensure that it will not burst at the time of blow molding, and no quality defect will be induced at the time of production.
The Melt Flow Index Calculation can be done easily with the help of Presto's Melt Flow Index tester. The testing instrument is designed specifically to measure the molecular structure, chemical behavior and physical properties of the plastics resins.


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The Mystery of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist at the Turning Point of Time: An Esoteric Study
"We have shown how in the course of time the being who was present in Elijah appeared again at the most important moments of human evolution on Earth—appeared again so that Christ Jesus Himself could give him the initiation he was to receive for the evolution of humankind. For the being of Elijah reappeared in Lazarus-John—who are in truth one and the same figure." —Rudolf Steiner
This is what Rudolf Steiner had to say in his final address to members of the Anthroposophical Society. This was his only comment on the connection between John the Baptist and John the Evangelist. As Sergei Prokofieff points out, Steiner had intended to develop and fully clarify that brief comment, but his fatal illness prevented him from doing so.
In this short but enlightening book, Prokofieff addresses the mystery of the "two Johns," resolving many unanswered questions. In particular, he sheds light on issues of "incarnation and incorporation," the initiations of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the significance of their mutual work at the "Turning Point of Time," and the relevance of those events for our present time.
About the Author
Sergei O. Prokofieff (_PHONE_) was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and painting at the Moscow School of Art. At an early age he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and quickly realized that his life would be dedicated to the Christian path of esoteric knowledge. He wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries, while living in Soviet Russia, and it was published in English in 1994. After the fall of Communism, he helped establish the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. In 2001, he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. More than 30 of his books have been translated into English. Sergei Prokofieff passed away in Dornach, Switzerland.
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Adding Back-end Actions: New and Edit
Add and Edit actions both redirect to same form. Edit can come from either the Edit button or by clicking the title. If the id is 0, it indicates Add action. If the id is greater than 0, it indicates Edit action.
The tasks for these actions are:
 - helloworld.edit
 - helloworld.add
Joomla will look in the subcontroller file: admin/controllers/helloworld.php
Step 1: Subcontroller File
These functions, add() and edit(), are already defined in the class JControllerForm, so you are not required to define them again. Just extend the Controller class with JControllerForm. The add() function sets the redirect to the editing form layout with the id = 0. The edit() gets the id and then sets the redirect to the editing form layout.
class HelloWorldControllerHelloWorld extends JControllerForm
{
}
Step 2: View File
Now, Joomla will look into admin/views/helloworld/view.html.php. It will get the data (form and item) from the model, check for errors, set the toolbar and display the form using template layout file in tmpl/edit.php.
public function display($tpl = null)
{
// Get the Data
$this->form = $this->get('Form');
$this->item = $this->get('Item');
// Check for errors.
if (count($errors = $this->get('Errors')))
{
JError::raiseError(500, implode('
', $errors));
return false;
}
// Set the toolbar
$this->addToolBar();
// Display the template
parent::display($tpl);
}
This file calls the functions getForm() and getItem() in the model file.
Step 3: Model File
The getItem() function gets the id of the record, then it gets the table and finally loads the record from the table. This function is already defined in the class JModelAdmin. So, you are not required to define it again. You need to extend the model class with JModelAdmin and write the function getTable().
The form is obtained in the model. You have to define the form in XML in the folder: admin/models/forms/helloworld.xml
Then, you have to write function getForm() in the Model class. This function will call another function loadForm(), that processes the XML to produce a JForm object. This method is defined in both the classes JModelAdmin and JModelForm.
public function getForm($data = array(), $loadData = true)
{
// Get the form.
$form = $this->loadForm('com_helloworld.helloworld', 'helloworld', array('control' => 'jform', 'load_data' => $loadData));
if (empty($form))
{
return false;
}
return $form;
}
Optionally, you can write loadFormData() to provide prefill data for the form.
protected function loadFormData()
{
// Check the session for previously entered form data.
$data = JFactory::getApplication()->getUserState('com_helloworld.edit.helloworld.data', array());
if (empty($data))
{
$data = $this->getItem();
}
return $data;
}
Step 4: XML Form
The model inherits from the JModelAdmin class and uses its loadForm method. This method searches for forms in the forms folder
The file is at: admin/models/forms/helloworld.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<form>
<fieldset>
<field
name="id"
type="hidden"
/>
<field
name="greeting"
type="text"
label="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_GREETING_LABEL"
description="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_GREETING_DESC"
size="40"
class="inputbox"
default=""
/>
</fieldset>
</form>
Step 5: Layout File
The file is at: admin/views/helloworld/tmpl/edit.php
<form action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_helloworld&layout=edit&id=' . (int) $this->item->id); ?>"
method="post" name="adminForm" id="adminForm">

<fieldset class="adminform">
<legend><?php echo JText::_('COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_DETAILS'); ?></legend>

<?php foreach ($this->form->getFieldset() as $field): ?>

<?php echo $field->label; ?>

<?php echo $field->input; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</fieldset>

<input type="hidden" name="task" value="helloworld.edit" />
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token'); ?>
</form>
The form is sending data through post request to the same url (action attribute of the form) it came from. This is the reason you need to get the item in the view.
Step 6: Save and Cancel Request
When the form is submitted, the tasks are: helloworld.save or helloworld.cancel.
Joomla will look for save() and cancel() functions in the helloworld subcontroller file. The save() gets the POST data, gets the model, calls the save() of the model for saving the data to the database, sets the message and finally sets the redirect to the list of items. The cancel() sets the redirect to the list of items.
In the model, the save() gets table and then saves the record in the database. These two functions are already defined in the class JControllerForm. So, you do not need to define them again.
However, if you want to perform certain operations on the submitted data before saving it to the database, you can overwrite in the model file and then call the parent save function.
public function save($data)
{
$input = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
// Automatic handling of alias for empty fields
if (in_array($input->get('task'), array('apply', 'save', 'save2new')))
{
if ($data['alias'] == null)
{
if (JFactory::getConfig()->get('unicodeslugs') == 1)
{
$data['alias'] = JFilterOutput::stringURLUnicodeSlug($data['title']);
}
else
{
$data['alias'] = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($data['title']);
}
}
}
// Automatic handling of dates for empty fields
if (in_array($input->get('task'), array('apply', 'save', 'save2new')))
{
if ($data['created'] == null)
{
$date = JFactory::getDate();
$data['created'] = $date->toSql();
}
}
return parent::save($data);
}

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Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) Documentation: v1.4.1
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Environment Variables
The behavior of the hwloc library and tools may be tuned thanks to the following environment variables.
enforces the discovery from the given XML file as if hwloc_topology_set_xml() had been called. This file may have been generated earlier with lstopo file.xml. For convenience, this backend provides empty binding hooks which just return success. To have hwloc still actually call OS-specific hooks, HWLOC_THISSYSTEM should be set 1 in the environment too, to assert that the loaded file is really the underlying system. See also Importing and exporting topologies from/to XML files.
enable verbose messages in the XML or synthetic topology backends. hwloc XML backends (see Importing and exporting topologies from/to XML files) can emit some error messages to the error output stream. Enabling these verbose messages within hwloc can be useful for understanding failures to parse input XML topologies. Similarly, enabling verbose messages in the synthetic topology backend can help understand why the description string is invalid.
switches to reading the topology from the specified Linux filesystem root instead of the main file-system root, as if hwloc_topology_set_fsroot() had been called. Not using the main file-system root causes hwloc_topology_is_thissystem() to return 0. For convenience, this backend provides empty binding hooks which just return success. To have hwloc still actually call OS-specific hooks, HWLOC_THISSYSTEM should be set 1 in the environment too, to assert that the loaded file is really the underlying system.
enforces the return value of hwloc_topology_is_thissystem(). It means that it makes hwloc assume that the selected backend provides the topology for the system on which we are running, even if it is not the OS-specific backend but the XML backend for instance. This means making the binding functions actually call the OS-specific system calls and really do binding, while the XML backend would otherwise provide empty hooks just returning success. This can be used for efficiency reasons to first detect the topology once, save it to an XML file, and quickly reload it later through the XML backend, but still having binding functions actually do bind.
enables or disables verbose reporting of errors. The hwloc library may issue warnings to the standard error stream when it detects a problem during topology discovery, for instance if the operating system (or user) gives contradictory topology information. Setting this environment variable to 1 removes the actual displaying of these error messages.
enables or disables objects grouping based on distances. By default, hwloc uses distance matrices between objects (either read from the OS or given by the user) to find groups of close objects. These groups are described by adding intermediate Group objects in the topology. Setting this environment variable to 0 will disable this grouping. This variable supersedes the obsolete HWLOC_IGNORE_DISTANCES variable.
relaxes distance comparison during grouping. By default, objects may be grouped if their distances form a minimal distance graph. When setting this variable to 0.02, these distances do not have to be strictly equal anymore, they may just be equal with a 2% error. If set to try instead of a numerical value, hwloc will try to group with perfect accuracy (0, the default), then with 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 and finally 0.1.
enables or disables some verbose messages during grouping. If this variable is set to 1, some debug messages will be displayed during distance-based grouping of objects even if debug was not specific at configure time. This is useful when trying to find an interesting distance grouping accuracy.
sets a distance matrix for objects of the given type and physical indexes. The type should be given as its case-sensitive stringified value (e.g. NUMANode, Socket, Cache, Core, PU). If another distance matrix already exists for the given type, either because the user specified it or because the OS offers it, it will be replaced by the given one.
If the variable value is none, the existing distance matrix for the given type is removed. Otherwise, the variable value first consists in a list of physical indexes that may be specified as a comma-separated list (e.g. 0,2,4,1,3,5) or as a range of consecutive indexes (0-5). It is followed by a colon and the corresponding distances:
 - If X*Y is given, X groups of Y close objects are specified.
 - If X*Y*Z is given, X groups of Y groups of Z close objects are specified.
 - Otherwise, the comma-separated list of distances should be given. If N objects are considered, the i*N+j-th value gives the distance from the i-th object to the j-th object.
Note that distances are ignored in multi-node topologies.
changes the locality of I/O devices behind the specified PCI hostbridge. If no I/O locality information is available or if the BIOS reports incorrect information, it is possible to move a I/O device tree (the entire set of objects behind a host bridge) near a custom set of processors. domain and bus are the PCI domain and primary bus of the corresponding host bridge.


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Page 4: How LIFFE works
A client (such as a Building Society) wishes to buy or sell futures or options and telephones his/her broker, a member of LIFFE. The broker contacts his/her booth on the LIFFE trading floor with his or her client's instructions. The order is received in the booth and time stamped and dated. The pit trader is given the information either by hand signals or by written order from the booth clerk. It is then offered verbally to other traders in the pit.
The first trader to respond by calling, for example, "Buy 10" or "Sell 10", becomes the counterparty to the deal. The broker then informs his or her client that the order is filled. Both parties then input the trade details into the matching system. Matched trades are passed to the clearing house which acts as a central counterparty.

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What is a Europe Direct Information Centre?
The Europe Direct Centre (EDIC) at Sligo Library is your starting point for finding information about the EU. The centre provides access to material covering a wide variety of topics, including:
- General information about how the EU works.
- Information about the various EU institutions and agencies.
- The latest news about EU affairs and events.
- Information about citizen rights in the EU.
The Europe Direct Centre at Sligo Library is part of a network of similar centres across the European Union, including 8 more across the Republic of Ireland. The Sligo centre is located with the Local Studies Library towards the rear of the building as you come in the main entrance of the Library


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Origins of the Biology Department's Natural History Collection
The origin of Radford University museum specimens is quite varied - students and faculty continue to build up our collection with contemporary plants and animals, but our specimens date back to 1881. Indeeed, >80 specimens were collected before 1900, and an additional 100 individuals are pre-1950. Most of these older specimens are taxidermied birds.
Although the sources of many of our specimens are yet unknown, class and independent research projects have explored the history of some of the older collections. Through these projects, we are beginning to form a more complete picture of the history of our collection.
Students Researching the History of RU's Collection
Since 2008, a number of students have tackled independent projects, seeking to learn more about some of the oldest specimens in the collection or about some of the more common contemporary collectors.

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2. What to Look For in a Fashion Photography School Have you made the decision to dedicate yourself professionally to fashion photography? If so, your next step will probably be to find a fashion photography school. With the advent of multimedia and the web, the demand for digital fashion photography has been increasing. It is a competitive field to go into but with a solid educational background in fashion photography, you will be on the right track.
3. Fashion Photography Schools With all the different fashion photography schools out there, it is difficult to know where to start looking. First you have to start by asking yourself some important questions, namely what you want to learn, where you want to learn, and how you want to learn it.
4. Important Factors to Consider First, you need to decide whether you want to go to a traditional 4- year school or a technical institute. Some people prefer to go to technical or art institutes because they use a more hands-on approach. At 4-year schools expect to spend more time sitting in a classroom, listening to lectures, and taking exams.
5. Hands-on Experience Almost any photographer can tell you that hands-on experience is extremely important. You need to learn how to work with a team of make-up artists, an art director, and other staff.
6. Reputation Of The School Another important point to consider is the reputation of the school. If it is a famous fashion photography school, you should expect it to be more challenging to get into but slightly easier for you to find work once you graduate. It looks better to graduate from a school with a big name.
7. New To Photography If you are new to photography and need to build your fundamental photography skills, make sure the fashion photography schools you are interested teach portrait photography. Portrait photography is the basis of fashion photography so in order to be successful you must be well versed in it. If you attend a good fashion photography school, you will also leave with the business skills necessary in the field.
8. How To Market Fashion Photographs As a fashion photographer, it is essential that you know how to market yourself and your skills. In order to do this, some business training is ideal.
9. Searching for a fashion So there you have it. Searching for a fashion photography school is no easy task when you have to navigate through all the options out there. In order to find a school that you will ultimately be satisfied with, make sure to consider these important factors. By doing so, you will be well on your way to a successful career in fashion photography.
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Siebel Consumer Goods Guide > Deductions >
Analyzing Workloads
Customer financial service managers or administrators can analyze the deduction resolution workloads among employees.
This task is a step in Process of Managing Promotions Deductions.
To analyze deductions workloads
 1. Navigate to the Deductions screen.
 2. In the visibility filter, select the appropriate filter:
 - My Deductions. Displays all deductions for accounts to which the user is an assigned team member (primary or not).
 - My Team's Deductions. This view is visible only to users with direct reports, for example, a customer financial services manager. If the manager's direct reports (or their subordinates) have deductions assigned to them, these deductions are displayed here.
 - All Deductions. Displays all deductions within the user's organization.
 - All Deductions Across Organizations. Displays all deductions across all organizations within the Siebel database.
 3. In the Deductions list, query for the appropriate records and select all the deductions you want to analyze.
 4. In the Deductions link bar, click the Charts link.
 5. From the drop-down list, choose the type of chart you want to view.
 In the standard Siebel Consumer Goods application, the chart selections are Aging Analysis, Status and Priority Analysis, Account and Type Analysis, and Rep Workload Analysis.
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Brad's suggestion to use the built-in number formatting functionality is wise -- it seems like a bad idea to permanently convert a decimal number to a formatted string in a table.
That said, if you really want to do this, read on:
If the Acres field type is Text, you can use the VBScript
FormatNumber function which by default adds thousands separators. Set the first argument to the Acres field and set the second argument to 0 to truncate (or round, not sure which it does) the decimal portion. Be sure to make a backup as this is a destructive operation.
FormatNumber(cint([ACRES]), 0) (note the string to integer conversion)
If the Acres field type is Float or Double, you would have to add another field of type Text and calculate it in a similar way:
Note: It is likely these methods will fail on records with null values so do a select by attributes first to select non-null records, e.g.
"ACRES" IS NOT NULL


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As a part of InConcert, a composer will be writing a concertino to be performed by the Cochran Wrenn Duo with the Marlborough High School Wind Ensemble. But what exactly is a concertino?
A concertino is a musical composition for a solo instrument or solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra or band. When performing a concertino, the soloists usually stand in front of the band or orchestra near the conductor.
If you have heard of a concerto, you may be wondering what the difference is between a concerto and a concertino. A concertino is just a shorter version of the concerto.


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CAN YOUR PUPILS HELP US ILLUSTRATE OUR NEXT DISASTER BOOK?
and children's author and illustrator Michael Foreman
are once again challenging UK primary school pupils to bring a unique disaster story to life with their pictures.
The Day the Bombs Fell
is a story we have written to encourage reflection and understanding. All it needs now is illustrations! We want children across the nation to explore this global theme and through their artwork help others think about it too.
will select the winning pictures to be published in our 4th disaster book. The winners will be invited to an exciting London book launch, where they will take part in a special illustration workshop with Michael!
"An experience in developing skills right across the curriculum - activities like these enable our children to grow in their status as global citizens."
Sarah Bannister, Monteney Primary School, Sheffield
One day the bombs fell.
Boom and bang went the guns.
Whizz and whoosh went the missiles.
Stamp and stomp went the soldiers boots on the dusty road.
At first, the sounds were quiet and the war was far away…
…for the full story and competition pack, email us
... for more info 'Download PDF' on the right of this page
OUR LAST ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION
In 2012 primary school pupils were challenged to illustrate a special tale about a community experiencing a tsunami, it was called THE DAY THE SEA CHANGED.
MICHAEL FOREMAN and the authors of the story picked the winners who's work is now published in our latest disaster book, The Day the Sea Changed. See pictures of the 20 winners and those awarded highly commended here.
Books are a valuable addition to the classroom and available to buy in our ShelterBox on-line Shop
along with the first two titles The Day the Rain Came & The Day the Ground Shook - £4 each.
Our SHELTERBOX CHALLENGES FOR SCHOOLS have been designed to share what we've learnt about the world. Each exicting challenge features activities and a range of resources including film footage, original stories, fantastic pictures and much more. They're super easy to use and deliver national curriculum learning objectives through a cross-curricular approach. They're also great for ideas around Community Cohesion and Global Citizenship. Access each Key Stage above.


July 4, 2008
Watermelon Reportedly Has a (Very Mild) Viagra-Like Effect
By Betsy Blaney
The Associated Press
A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra's - but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks going all night long.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas, one of the nation's top producers of seedless watermelons.
Found in the flesh and rind of watermelons, citrulline reacts with the body's enzymes when consumed in large quantities and is changed into arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems.
Todd Wehner, who studies watermelon breeding at North Carolina State University, said anyone taking Viagra shouldn't expect the same result from watermelon.
"It sounds like it would be an effect that would be interesting but not a substitute for any medical treatment," Wehner said.
The nitric oxide can also help with angina, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems, said the study, which was paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
More citrulline - about 60 percent - is found in watermelon rind than in the flesh, Patil said, but that can vary. Scientists may be able to find ways to boost the concentrations in the flesh, he said.
"The problem you have when you eat a lot of watermelon is you tend to run to the bathroom more," Perkins-Veazie said. Watermelon is a diuretic and was a homeopathic treatment for kidney patients before dialysis became widespread.
Also, the sugar in that much watermelon would spill into the bloodstream - a jolt that could cause cramping, Perkins-Veazie said.
Patil said he would like to do studies on how to reduce the sugar content.
The relationship between citrulline and arginine might also prove helpful to those who are obese or have type-2 diabetes.
Citrulline is present in other curcubits, such as cucumbers and cantaloupe, at very low levels, and in the milk protein casein. The highest concentration is in walnut seedlings, Perkins-Veazie said.
"But they're bitter."
how it works
Watermelon contains citrulline, which reacts with the body's enzymes and changes to arginine, which helps circulation.
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This is part two of my five-part tutorial about implementing a web-based database application with the OlivaNova Modeler (check out the running application: _URL_ In this part, we are going to discuss a rather simple task, the creation of classes, attributes, associations and inheritance. If you are interested, you might want to check out Part one: introduction and specification.
First of all, let's start with the "static" model. Here, we are going to define classes and their relationships to each other quite similar to the way you are used to doing in UML.
We are going to define the following classes: Administrator, Employee, Manager, Car, Receipt, TravelApplication (=trip request), Department, TravelCostGroup, ReceiptType, CostCenter, CostUnit.
In the next step, we are going to specify the classes' attributes. For simplicity sake, let's start with Employee.
Defining class attributes
We double-click on the class Employee and the following dialog pops up:
I already entered the attributes according to the current specification (the final model contains some more calculated attributes for statistical purposes according to the specification). I highlighted the attribute EmployeeID for demonstration purposes.
- The name must not start with a number and must not contain white spaces or special characters.
- Attribute type can be Constant, Variable or Derived. "Constant" means, that the value cannot be changed after the object has been created. Variable means the opposite. "Derived" means that the attribute value is calculated through a formula. In this case, the EmployeeID won't change (its supposed to be the AD login domain\username).
- As the EmployeeID is in domain\username format, its datatype has to be String.
- Id:0 means that the attribute is part of the objects primary key. I really don't know why the guys who implemented the modeller made such a crappy feature, nevertheless it works just fine.
- Size means (as you might already have guessed) the maximum length of the string attribute value that can be entered, processed and stored.
- Optionally you can define a default value that is used if the user doesn't change it.
- Null allowed is self-explanatory.
- Request upon creation means, that the method that is used for object creation contains this attribute as an argument.
- The alias is a string that represents a more end-user friendly name for the attribute and can also contain white spaces and special characters etc.
Finally, you can enter a help message for the attribute and a comment for the analyst who is going to maintain the model. If you add help messages, the text will be displayed as a tooltip text in the generated user interface in service forms.
In this same way, all other classes get their attributes, but again because I don't want to bore you, I skip this section and we go straight to doing something more interesting.
Establishing relationships and inheritance
Now that we have defined our classes, we need to define relationships between those classes. Remember, we didn't define the car license number as a primitive datatype (although we could) because we know the cars in our car pool and want to be able to manage them and want to eliminate typos when entering the same car license number over and over again. That is why we have created a class Car which we can use as a dropdown data source.
Relationships work almost in the same way as in UML. However, there is one annotation you probably don't already know: each relationship is labeled with it's cardinality and the letter "D" or "S". "D" means, that you can change the number of associated objects after an object creation while "S" means just the opposite.
So, if you read the association between Receipt and ReceiptType, it means that a Receipt needs to have exactly one ReceiptType and the ReceiptType cannot be changed after the creation of an object of type Receipt. A ReceiptType object may have zero or more Receipts associated and those associations can change at any time during the lifetime of the object.
So, this was rather easy, wasn't it? And you might ask yourself where and how the functionality is modeled or if I programmed those requirements secretly by hand.
In part three of my tutorial you'll find out how the business logic is being implemented in the modeler.
Stay tuned :-)


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Keywords:Accelerational effect, Mixed-type boundary condition, Specific capacity
Riverbank filtration or withdrawal of groundwater from the bank of a river is commonly practiced in many countries for obtaining sustainable and good quality of water. Groundwater flow to a well installed at the bank of a river is closely related to the aquifer-steam interactions. Up to present, most studies associated with riverbank filtration are concentrated on the vertical wells that may produce a large drawdown cone near the well. In recent decades, horizontal wells have become an interest of research among hydrogeologists, environmental scientists and engineers, due to many technical advantages over the vertical wells for thin aquifers, such as the decreasing operational cost and many technical advantages over the vertical wells. However, many previous studies on the flow into horizontal wells were based on the uniform flux boundary condition (UFBC) when treating horizontal wells, which could not reflect the physical processes of flow inside the well accurately. In this study, we developed solutions of transient flow into the horizontal well in an anisotropic confined aquifer between two streams for three types of boundary conditions of treating the horizontal well, including UFBC, uniform head boundary condition (UHBC), and mixed-type boundary condition (MTBC). The MTBC model considered both kinematic and friction effects inside the horizontal well, in which the kinematic effect referred to the accelerational and fluid inflow effects. The solution of UFBC was analytically derived by superimposing the point sink/source solutions along the axis of the horizontal well with a uniform strength. The solutions of UHBC and MTBC were obtained by coupling the analytical and numerical methods. Based on this study, one can draw the following conclusions: (1) At the early stage, well specific inflow (WSI) increases with the distance along the wellbore for the MTBC model, and follows a cubic polynomial function. (2) When the point of intake is at the well heel, the values of specific capacity (SC) follow the orders of UFBC, UHBC and MTBC from high to low. (3) Comparing the solution of UFBC, UHBC, MTBCFriction and MTBC, one could find that the difference between them is obvious, and the dimensionless drawdown of UFBC and UHBC solution are independent to the flow rate. However, the difference of the dimensionless drawdown between MTBCFriction and MTBC increases with the greater flow rate. The new solution can be used not only to interpret the aquifer test data, but also to provide reference solutions to check the accuracy of numerical simulators.


Vickers A1E1 Independent
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Vickers A1E1 "Independent"
The Vickers A1E1 in 1925
Type Tank
Place of origin United Kingdom
Production history
Manufacturer Vickers
Number built 1
Weight 33 long tons (34 t)
Length 24 ft 11 in (7.59 m)
Width 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Height 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
Crew 8
Armour 13–28 mm
QF 3 pounder gun (47 mm)
4 × 0.303 Vickers machine gun
Engine Armstrong Siddeley V12 petrol
370 hp (280 kW)
Transmission 4 forward, 1 reverse
Suspension coil spring bogies
95 miles
Speed 20 mph (32 km/h)
The Independent A1E1 is a multi-turreted tank that was designed by the British armaments manufacturer Vickers between the First and Second World Wars. Although it only ever reached the prototype stage and only a single example was built, it influenced many other tank designs.
The A1E1 design can be seen as a possible influence on the Soviet T-100 and T-28 tanks, the German Neubaufahrzeug tanks, and the British Medium Mk III and Cruiser Mk I (triple turret) tank designs. The Soviet T-35 tank was based extremely closely on its plans and layout.
The Independent was a multi-turret design, having a central gun turret armed with the 3 pounder (47 mm) gun, and four subsidiary turrets each armed with a 0.303 inch Vickers machine gun. The subsidiary turrets were mounted two at the front and two to the rear of the turret (about halfway along the hull). The gun of the left rear turret was able to elevate to engage aircraft. The tank was designed to have heavy firepower, self-defence capability, and superiority to enemy weapons. It had a crew of eight men, the commander communicating with the crew through an intercom system. The Independent was never used in combat, but other armies copied it.
The A1E1 at Bovington (2008)
In 1924 the General Staff of the British Army ordered the prototype of a heavy tank, which became known as the Independent. Largely designed by Walter Gordon Wilson, its 35.8 litre V12 air-cooled engine was designed by Armstrong Siddeley, and it also incorporated a new hydraulic braking system which had to be specially developed due to its weight and speed. The prototype was delivered to the War Office in 1926, and displayed to the premiers of the Dominions that year.
The tank was the subject of industrial and political espionage, the plans ending up in the Soviet Union, where they may have influenced the design of the T-28 and T-35 tanks. Norman Baillie-Stewart, a British military officer, was court-martialled in 1933 and served five years in prison for providing the plans of the Independent (among other secrets) to a German contact.[1]
It remained in use for experiments until 1935 when it was worn out and retired to Bovington Tank Museum where it is preserved.[2]
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Europeans arrived here by sea, attracted by the region's phenomenal fisheries and the natural resources visible on the coast. At first, they weren't interested in establishing permanent settlements but, as an appreciation for the economic value of Maine's natural resources grew, colonial settlement began. Today, Maine continues to rely on the economic advantages available through the natural resources of the coast.
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The Authority has two off-stream raw water reservoirs located in DeSoto County near the Peace River Water Treatment Facility. Reservoir 1 is an 85-acre, 500 million gallon, in-ground facility constructed in the early 1980's. Reservoir 2 is a 640-acre, 6 billion gallon, above-ground facility completed in 2009.
Water pumped from the Peace River is conveyed at rates up to 120 million gallons per day through large diameter pipelines into Reservoir 2. Stored water in Reservoir 2 supplies water to Reservoir 1 an outlet tower and a control valve by gravity discharge. Pumping facilities on Reservoir 1 supply raw water to the Peace River Facility for treatment.


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Netherlands: What is the secret of Dutch trade?
Netherlands: What is the secret of Dutch trade?
The Netherlands are an old trade nation. During the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century, they emerged as a well-known global maritime and economic power, and even had a monopoly on European trade with Japan. Today, although some of this glory has faded, the Dutch economy is still a big player in global trade. In 2018, the Netherlands were the sixth-largest goods exporter in the world. In the service-exports category, the Dutch placed eighth in 20151. Considering exports relative to GDP, the Netherlands took third place in 2015 (right behind Ireland and Switzerland).
However, times have changed. The favourable trade environment has vanished and global trade has lost its momentum. Coface expects world trade to decrease by 0.8% in volume across 2019 as a whole (with a minus of 0.6% QOQ2 in Q3 and a small plus of 0.3% in Q4). So what does slowing global trade mean for the country with the largest port in Europe? How are the Netherlands coping with the increase of protectionism from the United States and China? What does Brexit imply for Dutch trade dynamics? And how will these factors combined affect the Dutch economy? So far, most signs are surprisingly positive…
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7. Source/Values
GPIO Zero provides a method of using the declarative programming paradigm to connect devices together: feeding the values of one device into another, for example the values of a button into an LED:
_images/led_button.svg
from gpiozero import LED, Button
from signal import pause
led = LED(17)
button = Button(2)
led.source = button
pause()
which is equivalent to:
from gpiozero import LED, Button
from time import sleep
led = LED(17)
button = Button(2)
while True:
 led.value = button.value
 sleep(0.01)
except that the former is updated in a background thread, which enables you to do other things at the same time.
Every device has a value property (the device's current value). Input devices (like buttons) can only have their values read, but output devices (like LEDs) can also have their value set to alter the state of the device:
>>> led = PWMLED(17)
>>> led.value # LED is initially off
0.0
>>> led.on() # LED is now on
>>> led.value
1.0
>>> led.value = 0 # LED is now off
Every device also has a values property (a generator continuously yielding the device's current value). All output devices have a source property which can be set to any iterator. The device will iterate over the values of the device provided, setting the device's value to each element at a rate specified in the source_delay property (the default is 0.01 seconds).
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The most common use case for this is to set the source of an output device to match the values of an input device, like the example above. A more interesting example would be a potentiometer controlling the brightness of an LED:
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from gpiozero import PWMLED, MCP3008
from signal import pause
led = PWMLED(17)
pot = MCP3008()
led.source = pot
pause()
The way this works is that the input device's values property is used to feed values into the output device. Prior to v1.5, the source had to be set directly to a device's values property:
from gpiozero import PWMLED, MCP3008
from signal import pause
led = PWMLED(17)
pot = MCP3008()
led.source = pot.values
pause()
Note
Although this method is still supported, the recommended way is now to set the source to a device object.
It is also possible to set an output device's source to another output device, to keep them matching. In this example, the red LED is set to match the button, and the green LED is set to match the red LED, so both LEDs will be on when the button is pressed:
_images/matching_leds.svg
from gpiozero import LED, Button
from signal import pause
red = LED(14)
green = LED(15)
button = Button(17)
red.source = button
green.source = red
pause()
7.1. Processing values
The device's values can also be processed before they are passed to the source:
_images/value_processing.svg
For example, writing a generator function to pass the opposite of the Button value into the LED:
_images/led_button_opposite.svg
from gpiozero import Button, LED
from signal import pause
def opposite(device):
 for value in device.values:
 yield not value
led = LED(4)
btn = Button(17)
led.source = opposite(btn)
pause()
Alternatively, a custom generator can be used to provide values from an artificial source:
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For example, writing a generator function to randomly yield 0 or 1:
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from gpiozero import LED
from random import randint
from signal import pause
def rand():
 while True:
 yield randint(0, 1)
led = LED(17)
led.source = rand()
pause()
If the iterator is infinite (i.e. an infinite generator), the elements will be processed until the source is changed or set to None.
If the iterator is finite (e.g. a list), this will terminate once all elements are processed (leaving the device's value at the final element):
from gpiozero import LED
from signal import pause
led = LED(17)
led.source_delay = 1
led.source = [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1]
pause()
7.2. Source Tools
GPIO Zero provides a set of ready-made functions for dealing with source/values, called source tools. These are available by importing from gpiozero.tools.
Some of these source tools are artificial sources which require no input:
_images/source_tool.svg
In this example, random values between 0 and 1 are passed to the LED, giving it a flickering candle effect:
_images/source_tool_candle.svg
from gpiozero import PWMLED
from gpiozero.tools import random_values
from signal import pause
led = PWMLED(4)
led.source = random_values()
led.source_delay = 0.1
pause()
Note that in the above example, source_delay is used to make the LED iterate over the random values slightly slower. source_delay can be set to a larger number (e.g. 1 for a one second delay) or set to 0 to disable any delay.
Some tools take a single source and process its values:
_images/source_tool_value_processor.svg
In this example, the LED is lit only when the button is not pressed:
_images/led_button_negated.svg
from gpiozero import Button, LED
from gpiozero.tools import negated
from signal import pause
led = LED(4)
btn = Button(17)
led.source = negated(btn)
pause()
Note
Note that source tools which take one or more value parameters support passing either ValuesMixin derivatives, or iterators, including a device's values property.
Some tools combine the values of multiple sources:
_images/combining_sources.svg
In this example, the LED is lit only if both buttons are pressed (like an AND gate):
_images/combining_sources_led_buttons.svg
from gpiozero import Button, LED
from gpiozero.tools import all_values
from signal import pause
button_a = Button(2)
button_b = Button(3)
led = LED(17)
led.source = all_values(button_a, button_b)
pause()
Similarly, any_values() with two buttons would simulate an OR gate.
While most devices have a value range between 0 and 1, some have a range between -1 and 1 (e.g. Motor, Servo and TonalBuzzer). Some source tools output values between -1 and 1, which are ideal for these devices, for example passing sin_values() in:
_images/sin_values.svg
from gpiozero import Motor, Servo, TonalBuzzer
from gpiozero.tools import sin_values
from signal import pause
motor = Motor(2, 3)
servo = Servo(4)
buzzer = TonalBuzzer(5)
motor.source = sin_values()
servo.source = motor
buzzer.source = motor
pause()
In this example, all three devices are following the sine wave. The motor value ramps up from 0 (stopped) to 1 (full speed forwards), then back down to 0 and on to -1 (full speed backwards) in a cycle. Similarly, the servo moves from its mid point to the right, then towards the left; and the buzzer starts with its mid tone, gradually raises its frequency, to its highest tone, then down towards its lowest tone. Note that setting source_delay will alter the speed at which the device iterates through the values. Alternatively, the tool cos_values() could be used to start from -1 and go up to 1, and so on.
7.3. Internal devices
GPIO Zero also provides several internal devices which represent facilities provided by the operating system itself. These can be used to react to things like the time of day, or whether a server is available on the network. These classes include a values property which can be used to feed values into a device's source. For example, a lamp connected to an Energenie socket can be controlled by a TimeOfDay object so that it is on between the hours of 8am and 8pm:
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from gpiozero import Energenie, TimeOfDay
from datetime import time
from signal import pause
lamp = Energenie(1)
daytime = TimeOfDay(time(8), time(20))
lamp.source = daytime
lamp.source_delay = 60
pause()
Using the DiskUsage class with LEDBarGraph can show your Pi's disk usage percentage


Why fascinators are fascinating
Listening — Advanced Level
Share this exercise
Watch the video and answer the questions
 1. When did hats become popular in the UK?
 2. As per Rachel Trevor, a hat can say a lot about a person's .
 3. After WWII, Morning Dress remained popular during horse races and .
 4. Why does Rachel Trevor think less people wore hats in the 60s?
Practice your writing skills by discussing the questions below
 1. Why do you think people wear fascinators and fancy hats to royal events?
 2. When you dress up, what do you tend to wear?
 3. Did you watch the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex? If not, why? If so, what are your thoughts on the event?
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The existence of the masjid tuo in West Sumatera is not only known for its unique style and architecture with traditional and religious ties, but far behind that its institutional function gives rise to a distinctive character for the community. This article discusses how the masjid tuo plays a role in shaping the character of Minang society both structurally and culturally so that it becomes an important record for Minangkabau history (tambo). The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative in order to photograph the phenomena that develop in society related to the role of the masjid tuo so that social setting are known which include the existence of the masjid tuo. The result of this study indicates that the institutional role of masjid tuo in West Sumatera has shaped the character of minang community through the persona and functions that emerge from an imam, khatib, bilal, and labai. The role that is being carried out is an effort to produce syara' regulation that will be carried out by children and nephews and the surrounding community of the nagari.


Intercultural Ministry seeks to connect with churches in 'sanctuary' jurisdictions
Church of the Brethren Newsline
February 25, 2017
A letter from the Church of the Brethren Intercultural Ministry, signed by director Gimbiya Kettering, is part of a new effort to connect with congregations located in areas considered to be "sanctuary" jurisdictions across the country.
Opening with verses from Matthew 25: 34-35–"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in….'"–the letter invited prayerful discernment of "how we are called to witness, as members of the Church of the Brethren, how we feel called to stand with those who come to our communities seeking refuge."
The letter invited congregations to join a denominational conversation about what it means to be a congregation in a sanctuary jurisdiction, to consider how congregations can articulate and act upon their convictions, and to share resources, stories, and experiences with one another.
"You are part of a community that has declared itself to be a sanctuary," the letter said, in part. "While there is no official definition of a sanctuary city, town, county, or state, it is a continuation of our Judeo-Christian culture, national history, and our denominational witness in the wider world."
The letter noted ways the Brethren have connected to the biblical vision of sanctuary and safety for those who are endangered, including the post-World War II effort to encourage each congregation to welcome and care for a refugee family, as early as the 1980s recognizing the injustice in efforts to deport and deny refugees from conflicts in Haiti and South and Central America, and more recently bringing Chibok girls from Nigeria to the US for healing and new opportunities.
"We, too, sought sanctuary when the Brethren of the 1700s fled religious persecution in Germany," the letter noted.
Among other foundational statements, the letter referenced the Annual Conference statement of 1969, "Obedience to God and Civil Disobedience." Kettering also urged readers, as individuals and congregations, to study and prayerfully consider the following Annual Conference resolutions and statements: "Making the Connection," 1986; "Providing Sanctuary for Latin American and Haitian Refugees," 1983; "Undocumented Persons and Refugees in the United States," 1982; and "Action in the Refugee Crisis of Southeast Asia," 1979. Find Annual Conference statements online at .
To talk directly with Gimbiya Kettering in the Intercultural Ministry office of the Church of the Brethren, call _PHONE_ or e-mail .


For better or for worse, India's celebrities have some pretty strong personalities. But how would they translate into a school classroom? Considering what they're up to today, here's what they probably would have been like while eating chalk and sharpening pencils.
1. Sonu Sood - Would distribute sweets to everyone every day, not just on his birthday.
2. Arvind Kejriwal - Would keep accusing people of stealing his pencil.
3. Narendra Modi - Would be the only person studying 'Entire Political Science'.
4. Navika Kumar - Would spread a rumour that Rahul and Pooja ne kiss kiya.
5. Sambit Patra - Would be the teacher's pet.
6. Arnab Goswami - Would constantly argue with the teacher and remind them about our homework.
7. Baba Ramdev - Would get called to the principal's office for keeping long hair and doing random shit when the teacher leaves the class.
8. Amit Shah - Would be the class bully.
9. Rahul Gandhi - Would be the signature rich kid whose tiffin box is from the US.
10. Kangana Ranaut - Would be the ringleader of the mean girls group.
11. Yogi Adityanath - Would call everyone by a nickname no one else used.
12. Mamata Banerjee - Would invariably have a 'broken leg' on the day of a test.
13. Mukesh Ambani - Would be homeschooled by teachers flown in from Wharton.
14. Karan Johar - Would be the only person who actually knew whether PT sir was dating the English teacher.
15. Anurag Kashyap - Would teach every kid in the class to say BC/MC and other assorted gaalis
"Is this a classroom or a fish market?!"
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"Districts should provide targeted support to improve practices within schools, and ensure communication and information sharing between authorities and schools. Schools need to share best practice." National Planning Commission: National Development Plan, November 2011.
An education district office is the sub-structure of a Provincial Education Department (PED) immediately below the provincial head office. It represents and exercises the authority of the PED in all day-to-day administrative and professional dealings with schools and ECD centres. It is the public face of the PED in its district area. It delivers services to the education institutions for which it is responsible in its area.
Education district offices have a pivotal role in ensuring that all learners have access to education of progressively high quality, since district offices are the link between provincial education departments, their education institutions and the public.


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Where did the German Thoman family come from? What is the German Thoman family crest and coat of arms? When did the Thoman family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Thoman family history?Bavaria, Germany is the ancestral home of the Thoman family. The Thoman surname evolved as a local name for a family that lived in Bavaria.
One can encounter great variation in the spelling of surnames: in early times, spelling in general, and thus the spelling of names was not yet standardized; and later, spellings would change with branching and movement of families. Variations of the name Thoman include Thoma, Thoman, Thom, Thoms, Toma, Thomas, Tomas, Thomasius, Thoeman, Thome, Thomen, Thomme, Thomm, Demel, Dehmel and many more.
First found in Bavaria, where this surname surfaced in mediaeval times as one of the notable families of the region. From the 13th century onwards the name was associated with the great social and economic evolution which made this territory a landmark contributor to the development of the nation.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Thoman research. Another 204 words(15 lines of text) covering the years 1635, 1655, 1669, 1728, 1746, 1775, and 1776 are included under the topic Early Thoman History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 53 words(4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Thoman Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
Thousands of German settlers came to North America between the mid-17th and mid-20th centuries. The hardships of the long voyage were balanced by the opportunity to escape poverty and religious persecution. The descendents of these settlers still populate the states of Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Illinois, and California. Many also live in Ontario and the prairie provinces of Canada. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Thoman or a variant listed above:
Thoman Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
The Thoman Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Thoman Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 27 October 2010 at 14:01.
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Running Gadgetron in Kubernetes in Azure
In my not so distant past, I started an Open Source project called the Gadgetron. There is a scientific publication that lays out the motivation and use cases. It is a medical image reconstruction engine, which has been used primarily for processing of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) raw data. Specifically, it is used to transform (reconstruct) the raw data in to images that can be viewed by a clinician.
We showed that the Gadgetron can be deployed in the cloud and that doing so enabled clinical deployment of advanced reconstruction techniques that required far more computing power than would typically be available on a modern MRI system. The deployment was based on Docker containers, but a the time we used custom orchestration scripts and tools. In this blog post, I will discuss my initial attempt at using Kubernetes running in Azure for deploying the Gadgetron.
I have created a repository with the necessary artifacts and instructions, you can find it at _URL_
The deployment to Kubernetes in Azure is a two-step process:
 1. Creating the Kubernetes cluster.
 2. Deploying the Gadgetron.
Creating the Kubernetes Cluster
There are a several different ways to do this in Azure. If you are using the public Azure Cloud (Commercial Azure), then you can use the managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you choose this route, please consult the AKS documentation for details. In the repository, I am also including instructions for setting up the cluster using ACS Engine, which is the open source engine that underpins services such as AKS. In additions to provisioning Kubernetes clusters, it can be used to provision other orchestration frameworks, e.g., Docker Swarm, DC/OS, etc.
You will find the instructions for deploying a Kubernetes cluster within the repository. Briefly, the steps are:
Clone the repository:
git clone _URL_
cd gadgetron-kubernetes
Create resource group and service principal:
subscription=$(az account show | jq -r .id)
#Name and Location
rgname=gtkubernetes$RANDOM
loc=eastus
#Create Group
rg=$(az group create --name $rgname --location $loc)
rgid=$(echo $rg | jq -r .id)
#Create the Service Principal and assign as contributor on group
sp=$(az ad sp create-for-rbac --role contributor --scopes $rgid)
Convert the template ACS Engine API model:
cd acs-engine
./convert-api.sh -c $(echo $sp | jq -r .appId) \
-s $(echo $sp | jq -r .password) -f kubernetes.json -l $loc \
-d "${rgname}DNS" | jq -M . > converted.json
Deploy the cluster:
acs-engine deploy --api-model converted.json \
--subscription-id $subscription --resource-group $rgname \
--location $loc --azure-env AzurePublicCloud
The deployed cluster will have cluster autoscaling on. What this feature does is to add more agent nodes when a request to deploy a pod (with a Gadgetron container) would exceed the currently available resources in the cluster. With this feature on, we can use Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling to add more Gadgetron pods when needed and more underlying VMs will be added as needed. More on that below.
Deploying the Gadgetron
After deploying the cluster itself, we are ready to deploy the Gadgetron components into the cluster. The end result will look conceptually like this:
There are really 3 components in the deployment:
1. Some shared storage. Gadgetron pods need a shared storage location to store dependent measurements (noise data, etc.). In this case, we are using Azure Files to store this data. There is a script in the repository for creating the shared storage.
2. Some pods with the Gadgetron itself. These pods are exposed with a Kubernetes Service of type "ClusterIP". This means that the Gadgetron pods will not be accessible from outside the cluster.
You can see the details of what is deployed in the gadgetron-kubernetes.yaml manifest. You can apply this manifest with:
kubectl apply -f gadgetron-kubernetes.yaml
Importantly, this manifest defines a) the image being used, b) the resources required for a pod to run the Gadgetron, and c) a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, that will automatically add more pods when a certain average CPU load is reached for the deployed Gadgetron instances. Since we also have cluster autoscaling deployed, more VMs will be added to the agent pool if the required resources exceed available capacity.
2. An SSH jump server. This is essentially an SSH server running in a pod in the cluster. This is exposed with service of type "LoadBalancer", which means that it will get a public IP address. To deploy the server allowing the current user to connect:
#Get an SSH key, here we are using the one for the current user
#Replace with other key as needed
SSHKEY=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub |base64 -w 0)
sed "s/PUBLIC_KEY/$SSHKEY/" gadgetron-ssh-secret.yaml.tmpl > gadgetron-ssh-secret.yaml
#Create a secret with the key
kubectl create -f gadgetron-ssh-secret.yaml
#Deploy the jump server
kubectl apply -f gadgetron-ssh-jump-server.yaml
Connecting to the Gadgetron
It is beyond the scope of this blog post to explain how to create and send data to the Gagetron, but you will want to establish an SSH tunnel (through the jump server). By default the jump server gets deployed with a public key from the current user. You can connect with:
#Public (external) IP:
EXTERNALIP=$(kubectl get svc sshd-jumpserver-svc --output=json | jq -r .status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip)
#Internal (cluster) IP:
GTCLUSTERIP=$(kubectl get svc gadgetron-frontend --output=json | jq -r .spec.clusterIP)
#Open tunnel:
ssh -L 9022:${GTCLUSTERIP}:9002 root@${EXTERNALIP}
After this you should be able to send some data with:
ismrmrd_generate_cartesian_shepp_logan -r 10
gadgetron_ismrmrd_client -f testdata.h5 -p 9022 -o myoutput.h5
Conclusions and Next Steps
I have demonstrated the basics steps of deploying the Gadgetron in a Kubernetes cluster in Azure. The current configuration includes the elements needed for automatic scaling of the cluster. However, the scaling criteria are pretty simplistically based on some CPU utilization criteria. While this may suffice for some basic scenarios, it may be worth considering using custom metrics for Horizontal Pod Autoscaling. It would be necessary to implement some custom metrics server, which would include Gadgetron specific metrics such as the current number of the Gadgetron reconstructions, etc. Another possible optimization would be to add some node discovery service to allow the Gadgetron to do more sophisticated load balancing. At the moment, jobs are simply distributed through the ClusterIP service (effectively doing round robin load balancing), which may suffice in many case but it could prove less than optimal.
Let me know if you have questions/comments/suggestions.
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next activity you will think about the accuracy of the experiment in Activity 1.
Figure 5 Part of experimentation is estimating uncertainties. A photo of a lab worker reading a piece of paper and making notes onto it.
Activity 2 Reasons for uncertainty Allow approximately 10 minutes. There are all sorts of reasons why Activity 1 is not a really accurate scientific measurement. Think about these reasons. Is there anything you could do to reduce these uncertainties? Write two or three sentences in the box below. Click 'Save' when you are satisfied with what you have written. Whenever you do a scientific experiment, there are always uncertainties. It is never possible to measure everything with perfect accuracy. One of the skills of a practical scientist is estimating how close your result is likely to be to the perfect value. The uncertainties are pretty big here! You probably considered: the uncertainties in measuring the volume (and, therefore, the mass) of water in your spoon the issue in determining the exact starting temperature of the water the fact that the peanut did not burn away completely – some energy must have been left in the peanut the fact that some of the energy from the peanut did not go into heating the water, but went into heating the spoon, whatever you held the peanut with and the air around it. The 'official' value for the energy from one whole peanut is just over 7 kcal. How does your result compare with that?
2 Calories and joules You probably calculated that you got only 2–3 kcal of energy from your peanut. If so, you only used well under half of the energy of the peanut to heat your water. If you ate the peanut, your body would use a much higher percentage of the energy. If you compare the values on a food label, you will see the numerical value for the energy given in kilojoules is much bigger than the numerical value given in kilocalories. So, the kilojoule is a smaller unit (Figure 6).
Figure 6 Kilojoules compared with kilocalories. Image of a nutrition label, with the energy, protein and carbohydrate values shown.
Activity 3 Unit conversion calculation Allow approximately 10 minutes. For this activity you will need a calculator. Work out how many kilojoules there are in one kilocalorie, based on the numbers from a food label. (Hint: you need to enter a number given in kJ and divide it by the equivalent number in kcal.) What is the conversion factor? Write two or three sentences in the box below. Click 'Save' when you are satisfied with what you have written. To convert kJ to kcal, you need to divide by 4.2; to convert kcal to kJ, you need to multiply by 4.2.
3 How much food do we need? Have you ever thought that most people go through life without ever knowing how much of the various sorts of nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, they actually need? And yet they manage to obtain just the right amount of nutrients to stay healthy. The human body has an amazing ability to keep the nutrients it needs and dispose of those it does not. As long as we eat a reasonably mixed diet, most people need not worry about precisely how much of the various nutrients they take in. However, today, with tempting foods everywhere in developed countries, the main concern is that we take in too much of some of the dietary components, rather than not enough.
3.1 Physiological requirement Our bodies use a certain amount of nutrients each day. This needs to be replaced or taken from the body stores.
Figure 7 Food labels can help to estimate the daily intake of nutrients. The image is of a nutrition label on a food product.
The amount of each nutrient used each day is called the physiological requirement. This is the amount required to prevent any signs of clinical deficiency. However, this leaves no margin for safety. It also does not allow for the fact that some people might need more because of their state of health, activity levels, etc. It is often difficult to define when precisely someone is seriously short of a particular nutrient. This is because there may be no signs or only vague and generalised indicators, such as tiredness or poor skin condition. Instead, nutritionists use values much higher than the physiological requirement. These are called reference intakes or RIs. In 2014, RIs replaced guideline daily amounts (GDAs), which you may still see on older packaging. Can you find examples of both among the labels you have collected or on foods on supermarket shelves? One reason for replacing the GDAs was that there were several different versions of the guidelines for different groups in the population – men, women and children. Now, there is only one set of RIs. They are based on the maximum amounts needed by an average woman. Can you think of any reasons why RIs are better than GDAs – and any drawbacks to the RI system?
3.2 Reference values There are also dietary reference values (DRVs) in the UK. These are estimates for energy and nutrients for different healthy populations. But they should not be considered as nutritional recommendations or goals. In 1991, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (COMA) set these values. There are four types of DRV. Estimated Average Requirements (EARs): an average where 50% people will require less and 50% will require more for energy or a nutrient. Reference Nutrient Intakes (RNIs): meet the needs of 97.5% of that population group. Lower Reference Nutrient Intakes (LRNIs): only 2.5% of the population would find this level adequate for health. Safe Intake: used when there is not enough evidence to set EAR, RNI or LRNI, but will not have any undesirable effects. Vitamins and minerals have RNIs and LRNIs. COMA was disbanded and now the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) advises the UK government on diet and health. SACN made revised recommendations in 2011 for energy. A more recent report in 2015 considered carbohydrates, free sugars and fibre. Vitamin D recommendations were also changed in 2016. The aim was to develop food-based guidelines that would contribute to a healthy and well-balanced diet. There are detailed energy, macronutrients (fat, carbohydrate and protein) and micronutrients (vitamin and mineral) in the British Nutrition Foundation Report (2016). The development of RIs for food labelling on packaged food reduced the confusion that GDAs had produced. RIs also allow consumers to make better food choices for a healthier diet. RIs are based on an average adult female and are not individualised or age-specific. Currently, there are no RIs for children, hence food labels are for adults and not children (Table 2). The main criticism of the RI values is that, on products aimed at children, the values given on the packaging are much too high. This may lead to a higher intake than is appropriate. That is particularly worrying in the light of high levels of childhood obesity in the UK and some other countries. Table 2 Reference intake values
Energy or nutrient Reference intake
Energy 8400 kJ (2000 kcal)
Total fat 70 g
Saturates 20 g
Carbohydrate 260 g
Total sugars 90 g
Protein 50 g
Salt 6 g
In Table 2, you need to remember that saturates are part of the total fat and sugars are included within carbohydrates. Although there are RI values for six nutrients and energy in Table 2, you will see that only four of them are used on the front-of-pack labels on food. Carbohydrates and protein are missing. This is because most nutritionists consider that these are less important to avoid, whereas high levels of fat, particularly saturated fats, sugar and salt should be avoided by most people. The full nutritional information should still be provided elsewhere on the packaging.
3.3 Calculating RIs In the next activity you will practise working out reference intake values. Activity 4 Calculating daily intake Allow approximately 10 minutes. 1) If a pack of sandwiches contains 7 g of fat, of which 6 g is saturated fat, what percentages of the total fat and the saturated fat are these for the day? Remember that, to calculate the percentage, you need to divide the number of grams of fat in the sandwich by the RI value before multiplying the result by 100. a) they are each 86% of the fat for the day Incorrect: try again? You need to deal with each of the values separately, using the information from the Reference Intake table in 3.2. You may find 5.3.2 Reference intake (RI) values useful. b) the sandwiches contain just under 9% of the total fat and 10% of the saturated fat Incorrect: try again? Check that you are using the correct RI values for your calculation. You may find 5.3.2 Reference intake (RI) values useful. c) the sandwiches contain 10% of the total fat and 65% of the saturated fat Incorrect: try again? The total fat percentage is correct but check that you are using the correct RI value for saturated fat in your calculation. You may find 5.3.2 Reference intake (RI) values useful. d) the sandwiches contain 10% of the total fat and 30% of the saturated fat Correct: Because the RI for total fat is 70 g, and the sandwiches contain 7 g, then calculating 7/70 and multiplying by 100, shows that the sandwiches contain 10% of the total fat for the day. The RI for saturated fat is 20


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Raymond Aschheim, Carlos Castro Perelman, Klee Irwin (2016)
Inspired by the Hilbert-Polya proposal to prove the Riemann Hypothesis we have studied the Schroedinger QM equation involving a highly non-trivial potential, and whose self-adjoint Hamiltonian operator has for its energy spectrum one which approaches the imaginary parts of the zeta zeroes only in the asymptotic (very large N) region. The ordinates lambdan are the positive imaginary parts of the nontrivial zeta zeros in the critical line : sn = 1/2 + i lambdan. The latter results are consistent with the validity of the Bohr-Sommerfeld semi-classical quantization condition. It is shown how one may modify the parameters which define the potential, and fine tune its values, such that the energy spectrum of the (modified) Hamiltonian matches not only the first two zeroes but the other consecutive zeroes. The highly non-trivial functional form of the potential is found via the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization formula using the full-fledged Riemann-von Mangoldt counting formula ($without$ any truncations) for the number N (E) of zeroes in the critical strip with imaginary part greater than 0 and less than or equal to E.


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Dynamic matrix control with input saturation constrained
It is proposed, in this paper a dynamic matrix control (DMC) with an anti-windup (AW) based on linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The DMC-AW control is applied in the ballbeam system, in which the main purpose is to control the ball position on a rotating beam. System modeling was performed, which presented two degrees of freedom. For the mechanical system implementation a microcontroller, an ultrasonic sensor, and a servo motor were used. The proposed control was implemented both numerically with the software MATLAB and with the microcontroller ATmega328Pu. The simulation results validated the eciency of the proposed DMC-AW and showed that the approach improves the response of the system under input saturation.


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State starts fires to turn Kurdistan into a military barrack
The Turkish state's policies of war in Kurdistan target everything from people to nature.
Turkey is burning the whole region of Kurdistan from Şırnak to Amed, Bingöl, Dersim and Hakkari. The fire that started on Şırnak's Cudi Mountain is spreading in waves. When a fire goes out in the area, another begins. Failure to put out the fires by the authorities is cause for reactions. Hundreds of trees, vineyards and gardens have been burned down due to the fires which often threaten people's houses.
Protection Platform spokesperson Vahap Işıklı visited the region and told ANF about the fire. He said that the fires were caused by the war and profit policies of the Turkish state.
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The fires are not extinguished by the authorities, and actually when people want to extinguish them, they are prevented from doing so by the state forces. Işıklı said that the fire spread everywhere in Cudi. "Preventing those who want to extinguish the fire reveals the purpose of the state," said Işıklı, ending his speech with the following words: "The state is carrying out an ecological damage while at the same time preventing the public from extinguishing the fire. We visited the area and the fire still continues. It is closer to the city center. This is a wound that has been bleeding for years, and its cause is the Kurdish issue. For years, wars and conflicts have been going on in the region. Forests are burned by the state."


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The Merlin S300-1 is a single unit designed to test both electro-hydraulic and piezo common rail injectors. Designed and Developed with the following function:-
S300-1 Common Rail Injector System tester, one unit for the following systems:
The S300-1 can generate pulses suitable to drive piezo injectors as well as conventional solenoid types.
The duration of the pulse as well as the repetition rate can be adjusted to simulate a range of operating conditions.
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Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism
In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thinking of Slavoj Žižek, while still engaging with mainstream economic literature, the book provides a genuinely philosophical theory of money. This theory is unfolded in reflections on the nature of monetary phenomenon such as financial markets, banks, debt, credit, derivatives, gold, risk, value, price, interests, and arbitrage. The analysis of money is put into an historical context by suggesting that the current financial turbulence and debt crisis are symptoms that we live in the age of post-credit capitalism. By bridging the fields of economics and contemporary philosophy, Bjerg's work engages in a productive form of intellectual arbitrage.


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Creeping Jenny might end your search if you want to give your home garden a variety of beautiful looks. Don't go by the name, it is not at all creepy as it may reflect.
Creeping Jenny, also known as moneywort, is one of the easiest perennial plants to grow with much less effort and many beautiful plants.
Creeping Jenny or Lysimachia nummularia is generally grown undercover with roses or around ferns. As their name suggests, they are very invasive and can take up a lot of space.
In this article, we will read about the good companion plants to grow with Creeping Jenny and what plants to avoid planting nearby. We will also gather information about the growing requirements, diseases, and pests affecting Creeping Jenny's growth.
Why Does Creeping Jenny Need Companion Planting?
Let us start the read with why Creeping Jenny needs companion planting.
Companion plants are those plants that help a specific plant to grow better whilst helping their needs as well.
As an invasive plant Creeping Jenny has a fast growth rate and can take up a lot of space and choke up other plants in your garden, and this is the main reason it is advised to plant good companion plants around Creeping Jenny to help your garden.
If you plant something unsuitable for Creeping Jenny, it will kill either of them. Planting good companions around is done to accent Creeping Jenny.
Good companion plants when planted with Creeping Jenny, make your garden stand out and visually attractive.
Best Creeping Jenny Companion Plants
There are a number of plants that acts as a good companion to Creeping Jenny and helps the garden overall.
1. Japanese Blood Grass
Creeping Jenny and Japanese Blood Grass are very good neighbors. Serving as groundcovers, they tend to complement each other very well.
They add character and texture to your garden as the redness of Japanese blood grass and the yellow shine of Creeping Jenny contrast so well, making it visually pleasing.
They both need moist and well-drained soil to thrive; therefore, their growing requirements are quite similar.
Daylily is another good friend of Creeping Jenny. Daylilies are easy to grow and require very little maintenance, the same as Creeping Jenny.
Daylily are perennials that bloom with an orange flower making the garden brighter than ever. Their flowers last just for a day, and then they fall off.
They can grow up to 4 feet and can handle most of the soil. Most of its requirements match with Creeping Jenny making it a good companion plant.
Always choose daylilies for your plant with prior thought; some are not that environment-friendly.
Tickseed, also known as coreopsis, is said to be a good companion plant for Creeping Jenny for various reasons.
Tickseed has the ability to grow in almost all types of soil making them a favorable choice for Creeping Jenny neighbors.
Tickseed is used in bouquets and flowers. They get tall up to a meter or even more, providing shade to Creeping Jenny planted nearby.
Tickseed has around 80 species, you can choose according to your need and choice.
4. Coral Bells
Alumroot, heuchera, or you can call Coral Bells. Perennials will provide an astonishing look when planted with Creeping Jenny, whether in a pot or elsewhere.
Looks like tiny bells when blooming, these perennial flowers have burgundy, purple, or even silver leaves contrasting beautifully with Creeping Jenny.
Coral bells also attract pollinators like butterflies through their bell-shaped structure helpful for Creeping Jenny and the garden.
Ferns are on the list of good companions of Creeping Jenny as they both complement each other very well.
Ferns have wavy green leaves, which adds to the beauty of Creeping Jenny, where, as Creeping Jenny provides coolness and keeps the soil moist around them.
Both these plants do well in pots and containers. There are varieties of ferns to choose from, but try to choose tall ferns rather than dwarf fern plants.
Worst Companion Plants For Creeping Jenny
Some plants do not do well around specific types of plants, and Creeping Jenny has some plants which have an adverse effect when planted nearby.
Planting lavender, yarrow, or other drought-tolerant plants can harm Creeping Jenny.
Creeping Jenny requires well-drained and moist soil to grow where, whereas sun-loving and drought-tolerant plants are just the opposite which will hamper everyone's growth.
2. Archangels Plants
Varieties of Archangel plants or any other ground cover plants will ask for competition with Creeping Jenny.
The Archangel plant is a rapidly growing plant that spreads its reach over empty spaces. Suppose other ground cover plants like Archangels are planted nearby. In that case, they will easily take over, Creeping Jenny cramping others out.
Plants similar to Archangel will compete with Creeping Jenny, eventually affecting their growth.
What Are Creeping Jenny's Growing Requirements?
Creeping Jenny is a plant requiring less maintenance and care.
Some of the major growing requirements of Creeping Jenny are as follows:
1. Light Requirement
Creeping Jenny requires full to partial sunlight for better growth. Interestingly, the leaf's color may differ according to the sun exposure it is getting.
2. Soil And Water Requirement
Creeping Jenny requires moist and well-drained soil. The ideal soil requirement would be medium to wet soil.
Watering the Creeping Jenny regularly is the key. Do not let it dry out and then it can thrive.
Creeping Jenny likes summer conditions rather than winter. In some places where there are hard winters, Creeping Jenny tends to die and then can grow back in spring or summer days.
Once your Creeping Jenny is established, it requires very less fertilizing. Light fertilizing twice a month would do.
Grass Diseases And Pests
Creeping Jenny is generally a healthy plant less likely prone to any disease or pets. Natural predators are enough to keep away bugs and insects from Creeping Jenny.
Although wet conditions or rainy weather can cause fungal infections in the plant.
Creeping Jenny is a plant that provides beautiful flowers and looks breathtaking, and even with less maintenance, it thrives all year long.
This article shared detailed information about why do Creeping Jenny requires companion planting, what are the 5 best companion plants and what plants are to be avoided when planting near Creeping Jenny.
We also read about the conditions and requirements to get your Creeping Jenny to thrive. Let us know which companion plants from the above list you will be choosing.