Are creams and lotions the same?
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Perhaps the biggest difference between lotion and cream is that lotions have a higher water content. A lotion is typically a mix of water and droplets of oil, is lighter weight than cream, and is non-greasy. Creams are thicker in consistency than lotions and provide a barrier that keeps skin ultra-hydrated.
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Also, what is the main difference between a lotion and a cream?
The biggest difference between a cream and lotion is the oil content. Creams have a larger percentage of oil content and are most useful to deeply nourish and hydrate very dry skin. Creams are generally better in the winter when there is less moisture in the air, or in dry climates.
Likewise, people ask, is lotion or cream better for face?
In general, creams are better for people with dry skin while lotions are better for those with oily skin. The thicker formulas lock in moisture and/or provide a protective layer to better keep skin hydrated and supple. Thinner formulas help prevent clogged pores and acne breakouts.
What is the difference between Aveeno cream and lotion?
Each cream and lotion has its own unique composition and benefits. Lotions have a higher water percentage and, to put it simply, are droplets of oil mixed in water. Lotions tend to be light-weight, non-greasy, and are more easily absorbed into the skin. They are excellent for normal to slightly dry skin.
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Can I use body cream on face?
Body Lotion.
It would be nice to just slather on one lotion and be done with it, but body lotions should NEVER be applied to your face because they're usually a lot thicker and typically contain fragrances that might irritate your facial skin. On your face, you should always use something more gentle and delicate.
Why is it called cold cream?
The emulsion is of a "water in oil" type unlike the "oil in water" type emulsion of vanishing cream, so-called because it seems to disappear when applied on skin. The name "cold cream" derives from the cooling feeling that the cream leaves on the skin. It can also be used to remove makeup and as shaving cream.
Which is more effective cream or lotion?
Because body lotion is more readily absorbed by the skin – due to its lower viscosity than cream – it's excellent for normal to slightly dry skin. It leaves a less greasy residue than cream and is ideal for use during the day and in hot summer months.
Which is better body lotion or body cream?
Body cream is heavier and contains a higher viscosity, or sticky mixture of water and oil. According to, creams penetrate the skin and provide a barrier that prevents more moisture loss from the skin than lotion. Because body cream is thicker, it is usually sold in a tub or jar container.
What ointment means?
An ointment is a smooth fatty or oily substance that is put on skin to protect it or help it heal. A range of ointments and creams is available for the direct treatment of eczema on the skin. An ointment is a smooth fatty or oily substance that is put on skin to protect it or help it heal.
What is the best face moisturizer?
To lend a helping hand, we rounded up the top picks in facial moisturizers.
 - Best Overall: Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream.
 - Best Splurge: Crème de la Mer Moisturizing Cream.
 - Best Drugstore: Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel.
 - Best Innovation: Augustinus Bader The Cream.
 - Best for Very Dry Skin: Dr.
Where do you use body cream?
When to Apply Body Lotion and Moisturizer
Kaminer mentioned, it's best to apply body lotion and moisturizer immediately after exiting a bath or shower, while your skin is still damp. This helps to lock in the most moisture.
What is best natural face moisturizer?
The 10 Best Natural and Organic Face Moisturizers
 - Weleda Skin Food Original Ultra-Rich Cream. Weleda
 - Nutrient Day Cream SPF 30. Josh Rosebrook
 - Countertime Antioxidant Soft Cream.
 - Blemish Balm.
 - Golden Hour Recovery Cream.
 - Hyaluronic Gel Moisturizer.
 - Protini Polypeptide Moisturizer.
 - The Dewy Skin Cream.
Which is better Cetaphil cream or lotion?
RazorPete. Lotions are less effective moisturizers than creams and lotions generally have more preservatives in them, due to increased water content. Cetaphil uses parabens as its main preservatives, it puts more into its lotions and less into its creams.
What is the most moisturizing ingredient?
The Best Moisturizers
Humectants, such as glycerin, sorbitol, sodium hyaluronate, urea, propylene glycol, alpha hydroxy acids, and sugars, attract water into the skin cells, causing the skin surface to swell very slightly — thus temporarily making it appear smoother and free of wrinkles.
What is the best lotion for dry skin?
16 Body Lotions and Creams to Moisturize Dry Skin
 - Kiehl's Since 1851 Crème de Corps.
 - The Body Lotion.
 - Advanced Therapy Moisturizing Lotion.
 - Skin Food Original Ultra-Rich Moisturizer.
 - Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion.
 - Whipped Argan Oil Body Butter.
 - Shea Butter Rich Body Lotion.
 - Naked Body Butter.
What comes first moisturizer or cream?
Moisturizers help quench dry skin and can double as eye cream. Next comes moisturizer, if you need it. Not everyone does! If your skin is normal to oily, you may be able to get away with a serum alone.
What is the best lotion or cream for dry skin?
Read on for the best body lotions for dry skin.
 - Best Overall: Nécessaire The Body Lotion.
 - Best Budget: CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion.
 - Best Splurge: La Mer The Body Crème Jar.
 - Best Scent: Le Labo Rose 31 Hand & Body Lotion.
 - Best Classic: Kiehl's Creme de Corps.
Is moisturizer better than lotion?
Lotions usually are a type of cream which has a lighter consistency than a moisturizer. Moisturizers, on the other hand, have a thicker consistency than lotions. They are specially designed to hydrate the skin. People who have dry skin go for heavier moisturizers to hydrate their skin more.
Which is best face cream for dry skin?
Best lightweight face cream for dry skin: Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel. Best drugstore face cream for dry skin: CeraVe Moisturizing Cream. Best pro-approved face cream for dry skin: Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream. Best plant-based face cream for dry skin: Youth To The People Age Prevention Superfood Cream.
How do I choose lotion?
Creams are thinner, help hydrate, and are good for normal skin. Lotions are the lightest (water is their main ingredient) and are a good match for oily skin. Base the thickness of your moisturizer on when and where you use it on your body.
Should you use body lotion everyday?
If that's you, you probably don't need to moisturize every day. However, it's good to moisturize certain areas of your skin every day. You should also be moisturizing your face more often than the rest of your body (I usually stick to two times a day).


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Have you noticed your ferret trying to chew on the buttons on your remote control or maybe on a flip-flop? If so, don't be surprised - chewing is a completely normal behavior for ferrets. However, ferrets can easily get blockages from ingesting materials that they cannot digest, such as soft rubber. Because it is a natural instinct for ferrets to chew, it is important that you provide safe, ferret specific products for your ferret to chew on. But which items are safe and which aren't?
Unsafe Chew Toys
Never allow your ferret to chew on the following items. They can cause blockages or other damage to your ferret's stomach or intestines. Blockages are a life threatening condition, and they are fatal if not caught and treated by a veterinarian in time.
Rubber is incredibly dangerous for ferrets, which is unfortunate because it is one of their favorite items to chew on. Soft rubber, like the kind that remote control buttons are made from, is especially dangerous because your ferret can easily bite small pieces of it off and swallow them. These pieces can get lodged in the stomach or intestines, and the ferret may or may not be able to pass them. If a full blockage forms in the intestines and is not treated immediately, that section of the intestine will start to die, making your ferret very ill.
While ferrets naturally like to chew on things, they do not chew for the same reason that small pets do. Small pets need wood to chew on to control the constant growth of their teeth throughout their lives. Ferrets are carnivores, and their teeth and jaws were made to chew on meat and bones. If you give a ferret wood to chew on, she could ingest wooden splinters that could damage her stomach and intestines. It is acceptable to give ferrets cage accessories that are made from wood if supervised, but if you see any signs at all that your ferret has been chewing on them, remove them from the cage immediately.
Ferrets only take about four hours to completely digest their food from the time they eat it to the time it leaves their body. This isn't enough time for the rawhide to re-hydrate, and the pieces she eats can form severe blockages in her stomach and intestines. If you have dogs and you give them rawhide, be sure to pick up any pieces lying around before you let your ferrets out to play.
If your ferret accidentally swallows one of the items listed above or any other non-edible item, give her a ferret laxative or hairball remedy immediately. Watch her stool for the next few days, and if she does not pass the unsafe object, schedule a veterinary appointment immediately.
Safe Chew Toys for Ferrets
There are a variety of safe chew toys available for ferrets. They will satisfy your ferret's need to chew, but are completely edible and easy for your ferret to digest.
The chew toys and treats listed below are all completely safe for your ferret to chew on and ingest.
Ferret N-Bones Chew Treats
Ferret N-Bones are all-natural ferret chew treats that are high in protein and fat. Completely edible and digestible, these chew treats are a favorite of ferrets everywhere. They have a delicious chicken flavor, and they meet the specific dietary requirements of ferrets.

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Left Image: 17th century human skeletal remains from an archaeological site near Annapolis MD.
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As you may recall from science class as a kid, wood is a collection of fibers that run in the same direction. Basically, it's a collection of the tree's xylum, all stacked up next to and on top of each other, like a bunch of drinking straws arranged in a grid pattern. So the side grain of wood represents the side sections of these fibers, whereas the end grain represents their ends.
And just like the drinking straws, when applying liquids like stain or oil finishes (or even glue) to wood, the different sections of the grain absorb the liquid differently, often resulting in a different color on the side and end grain. Fortunately, there's an (easy) extra step you can take to guarantee even color and tone anywhere on the wood.
Simply sand the end and edge grains to one higher grit than the side grain. So if you sand the side grain to 150, sand the end grain to 220; if the side is 220, the end and edge grains should be 320 and so forth. This makes the uniform roughness (which is really what sandpaper accomplishes) of the end grain smaller, where it soaks up less finish. Try it on your next project. You'll be amazed.
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Mryia, full Mryia Jackalope, alos known as Atomhirsch, is a German furry writer and photographer.
Mryia is a fine-art photographer of abandoned places. Mryia is an active part of the German Urban Exploration (Urbex) scene under the pseudonym Atomhirsch (The name could be translated into nuclear deer).
Equipped with a Pentax K20D DSLR camera he sneaks, creeps and climbs into all kinds of abandoned buildings and places to make his artistic shots of a world after mankind. Sometimes he carries a life-sized inflatable reindeer with him as a kind of mascot, or use a deer mask to hide his face when making self-portraits while trespassing.
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Mryia was known as a plushophile with a large collection of big plushies in his earlier furry life. One of his hobbies was sewing and making SPHs to make plushies anatomically correct.
He was also took commissions from all over the world and had a good reputation with his work.[citation needed] Notably, he sold two plush toys to the New York Museum of Sex - one rabbit (in a FurBid auction) and one Meeko.[1]
Mryia's furry persona is a special form of the Jackalope, the German Rasselbock, named mryia, taken from the Ukrainian language to mean dream (The English pronunciation being mreea). He normally appears as an anthropomorphic hare with deer antlers, as well as tusks like a predator. The..
Mryia has written a lot of furry stories, many of which are erotic, although most of them are in German. Some of his most popular stories are Tales of the Jackalope and Kleiner Tiger Mikhal. Most of his literary works can be found at SoFurry.
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Market stall owners income fluctuates massively depending on the season. How can we help to regulate their income and reduce the amount of food waste?
Croydon Conserves is a sustainable solution for the discarded produce of Surrey Street Market.
By rescuing discarded fruit and vegetables from the market, thrown away due to aesthetic imperfections or over-forecasted demand, Croydon Conserves creates a variety of chutney and jams in community cookery classes.
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There are a few different types of payment terms that are commonly used in procurement contracts. Here is a brief definition of each:
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Cape Verde Escudo
The Cape Verde Escudo (CVE) is the official currency of Cape Verde. The $ symbol is typically used to separate decimals; for example, 20$00 indicates 20 Escudos.
The Cape Verde Escudo is pegged to the Euro at 110$265 Escudos = 1 Euro.
- Cape Verde's economy does not have sufficient resources to sustain itself.
- Service-based industries account for 73% of the GDP and play an important role in the economy.
- Since 1990 the economy has been growing at a steady pace.
- In 1994 and 1995 the country received +/- 50 million USD in foreign investments.
- Cape Verde is recognized as an average development country. It is part of the Small Island developing states.
- Agriculture forms 9% of the total GDP and industry 16.5%.
- Export products are fish, hides, shoes, garments, and fuel.
- Import products are industrial, fuels, foodstuffs, and transport equipment.
- 30% of the population is unemployed.
- Inflation is estimated at 4%.
- Top industries are garments, shoes, salt mining, fish processing, ship repair, beverages, and food.
- Cape Verde receives a lot of cooperation from Portugal to help its economy.
- In 1914, the Escudo replaced the Rei, with 1 Escudo = 1,000 Reis.
- Until 1975, the Escudo was valued at par with the Portuguese Escudo.
- In 1998, a pegged rate was established between the Cape Verde Escudo and the Portuguese Escudo at 1 Poretuguese Escudo = 0.55 CVE.
- After the Portuguese Escudo was replaced by the Euro, the Cape Verde Escudo was pegged to the Euro at 110$265 Escudos = 1 Euro.
- The third issue of banknotes was introduced in 1992.
- In 2005, the 200-escudo note was redesigned and distributed to celebrate 30 years of independence.
Symbols and Names
- Symbols: $
- Nicknames: none
ISO 4217 Code
- Centavo = 1/100 of a Dollar
- Bills: 200$00, 500$00, 1000$00, 2000$00, 2500$00, 5000$00
- Coins: 1$00, 5$00, 10$00, 20$00, 50$00, 100$00
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- Cape Verde
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VMC Versus IMC Aviation Conditions
VMC and IMC are aviation terms used to describe meteorological conditions during flight. VMC stands for visual meteorological conditions, and IMC stands for instrument meteorological conditions. Although the two terms are often used interchangeably (even, sadly, among industry professionals) with the terms VFR and IFR, respectively, VMC is not the same as VFR, and IMC is not the same as IFR.
The Rules of VFR and IFR
As most pilots know, there are two sets of rules for flying any aircraft: VFR and IFR. VFR stands for visual flight rules, which constitute the set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better than the basic VFR weather allowable in regards to the VMC, the visual meteorological conditions, as specified in the rules laid out by the most relevant aviation authority.
The term IFR stands for instrument flight rules. Generally speaking, the weather dictates whether the pilot chooses VFR or IFR
How VMC is Defined
Before we tackle the meaning and importance of VMC, it's worth noting that there are actually two types of VMC. For your purposes, we're going to look at the meteorological conditions and not the airspeed associated with an engine failure during multi-engine flight. This situation is denoted with a large "V" and a smaller'mc': Vmc.
The definition of VMC, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling equal to or better than specified minima. Because the FAA is the national authority in regards to regulating all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S., their rules and regulations will always prevail.
The terms VMC and VFR are often used interchangeably, although VMC refers to the actual weather conditions and VFR refers to the flight rules surrounding those conditions.
For example, the prevailing visual meteorological conditions must be at least equal to what is required for visual flight rules (VFR). However, just because a flight is conducted legally under VFR conditions that does not mean that the pilot will be in VMC the entire flight, as this article explains. Losing visual references (and inadvertently entering IMC) can happen even while maintaining VFR flight. Also, a pilot can fly in VFR conditions while flying on an IFR flight plan, but the opposite is not true: A pilot cannot fly in IFR conditions on a VFR flight plan (at least not intentionally.)
How IMC is Defined
The definition of IMC, according to the FAA, is meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from clouds, and ceiling less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions (VMC).
IMC is any meteorological condition that doesn't qualify as visual meteorological conditions, or weather conditions worse than VMC.
The terms IMC and IFR are often used interchangeably, although IMC refers to the actual weather conditions and IFR refers to the flight rules surrounding those conditions.
All flights in IMC must be conducted by an instrument-rated pilot and under an IFR flight plan.


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Francisa Chapman and Aida Sanchez are offering free Spanish classes to 20 people with the funniest translation stories. (Contributed)
Vernonites asked to share funniest Spanish translation stories
Mexicans living in town holding a contest to offer free Spanish classes
Anyone who has tried their tongue at a foreign language likely has a funny story about getting lost in translation.
Now, a group living in the Okanagan want to hear about it.
Mexicanos en el Okanagan is looking for 20 enthusiastic neighbours living in Vernon and Coldstream, who would like to learn essential Spanish travel phrases for free.
Potential students would have to share their funniest story related to a language barrier when they visited a Spanish-speaking country. They will have a week to post their story at the Facebook group IloveSpanish Vernon: and the teachers will select the funniest story.
There will be two 20-minute classes per week, for a total of eight classes, starting the second week of July until the end of July. The students who attend all of their classes will receive a symbolic graduation certificate which will be given during a graduation event where they will practice speaking Spanish with Spanish speaking members of our community, enjoy delicious Mexican tacos, pastries and live Mexican music.
Aida Sanchez and Fanny Chapman, administrators of Mexicanos en el Okanagan Facebook page, say it is important is to practice and learn Spanish for our neighbours who own property and/or travel a lot to Spanish-speaking countries.
"It is a cheerful way to getting calmly back to normal gathering with our neighbours, as well as, promoting diversity and inclusion in our neighbourhoods. It is a lovely combo!"
It is also a chance to make those Mexicans living or working in the Okanagan feel welcome, and at home.
"The City of Vernon is receiving more Spanish speakers every year and there are more coming because they are attracted to the beauty and warm weather of the Okanagan, Okanagan College and the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot," Chapman said. "Let's make them feel welcome and share their language with our neighbours."
One neighbour says "hi" or "hola" every time she meets an agricultural worker because she understands the struggle to be in a different country with a different language. The agricultural workers, even if they are here temporarily, like it when local people greet them. They want to feel part of our community too.
The IloveSpanish Vernon project wants to address the language barriers and be the bridge between two different worlds which can help each other as neighbours and find more things in common.
The IloveSpanish Vernon project is in thanks to the Neighbourhood Small Grants Program, funded by the Community Foundation North Okanagan and the Vancouver Foundation. Special thanks to the regional advisory committee and Kim English, regional coordinator, for their support.
Mexicanos en el Okanagan is the Mexican community and the first media in Spanish in the Okanagan. It is a Facebook group which has almost 2,000 followers from the Okanagan, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Mexico. The purpose of the group is to create a virtual safe space where people can feel confident because they can read news, get the essential and trustful information that they need in their own language, provided by people who understand their needs and have the same cultural background.
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}{\epsilon_0}} \frac{\gamma}{i\,\omega\,\mu}\right|^2} $
Now the time averaged power per unit area incident on the interface (by calculating the Poynting vector) is:
$\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\epsilon_0}{\mu_0}} |E_i|^2$
so that the momentum transferred to the metal for each unit of incident energy is:
$\frac{2\,\mathrm{Im}(\gamma)\,\sigma}{\omega\,\mathrm{Re}(\gamma) \left|1 + \sqrt{\frac{\mu_0}{\epsilon_0}} \frac{\gamma}{i\,\omega\,\mu}\right|^2} \sqrt{\frac{\mu_0}{\epsilon_0}} $
This is the ratio we seek. For the case $\sigma\rightarrow \infty$ this ratio approaches $\frac{2}{c}\frac{\mu}{\mu_0}$. For $\mu = \mu_0$, this is twice the value calculated in methods 1 and 2 because the infinite conductivity excludes the field from the metal, there is no loss and light is reflected without loss. So, just as there is an impulse $2\,p_z$ transferred to a wall by an elastic bounce of a ball initially with momentum with component $p_z$ into the wall, so too the impulse transferred to the mirror from energy $W$ is twice the momentum of the incoming light, i.e. $\frac{2\,W}{c}$.
Now we let $\sigma\rightarrow 0$ so that $\gamma\approx -i \,\omega\,\sqrt{\mu\,\epsilon} + \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\mu}{\epsilon}} \sigma$. I'll finish this case later, but it yields the same answer as methods 1 and 2 when $\mu = \mu_0$ and $\epsilon = \epsilon_0$, i.e. the light passes without reflexion into a weakly conducting medium and is absorbed.
Maxwell's equations are not consistent with Galilean relativity. They are implicitly relativistic. In relativity, the definition of mass is $m^2=E^2-p^2$. For a ray of light, $m=0$, so $E=|p|$.
 - $\begingroup$ So, just for the OP's benefit (although this OP seems to lose interest in his questions and not give too much feedback), there never was a version of electromagnetism that had to be upgraded to account for relativity. Indeed, historically, EM's Lorentz covariance that jarred with everything else and forced special relativity to be born. $\endgroup$ – Selene Routley Sep 29 '13 at 10:00
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In this paper, an approach using polynomial phase chirp signals to model somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) is proposed. SEP waveforms are assumed as impulses undergoing group velocity dispersion while propagating along a multipath neural connection. Mathematical analysis of pulse dispersion resulting in chirp signals is performed. An automatic parameterization of SEPs is proposed using chirp models. A Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is used to optimize the model parameters. Features describing the latencies and amplitudes of SEPs are automatically derived. A rat model is then used to evaluate the automatic parameterization of SEPs in two experimental cases, i.e., anesthesia level and spinal cord injury (SCI). Experimental results show that chirp-based model parameters and the derived SEP features are significant in describing both anesthesia level and SCI changes. The proposed automatic optimization based approach for extracting chirp parameters offers potential for detailed SEP analysis in future studies. The method implementation in Matlab technical computing language is provided online.
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Given Name DEANNA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: dee-AN-ə, DEEN-ə [key]
Meaning & History
Either a variant of DIANA or a feminine form of DEAN. This name was popularized by the Canadian actress and singer Deanna Durbin (1921-), whose birth name was Edna. Her stage name was a rearrangement of the letters of her real name.
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From Ohio History Central
Marietta from Harmar Hill, by Charles Sullivan
Charles Sullivan was an important Ohio artist during the nineteenth century.
Born in Frankfort, Pennsylvania in 1794, Sullivan spent his youth in Pennsylvania. He began to study art in the 1810s. His most important teacher was Thomas Sully, an artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sullivan later opened his own studio in Philadelphia. In 1827, he moved to what is now Wheeling, West Virginia and in 1833, to Marietta, Ohio.
In Wheeling and Marietta, Sullivan became especially well known for his landscapes. His river scenes focused mainly on the Ohio River. He also made a number of paintings of Indian earthworks, especially in the vicinity of Marietta. Sullivan's paintings of the Marietta Earthworks provide valuable information since many of the earthworks are no longer in existence.
Sullivan resided in Marietta for the remainder of his life. He died in 1867.
The Ohio Historical Society's Campus Martius Museum in Marietta, Ohio contains examples of Charles Sullivan's work.


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- An endless chain with links that engage with toothed wheels in order to transmit power from one shaft to another in an engine or machine tool.More example sentences
- A hybrid car uses a gasoline engine in conjunction with an electric motor for its drive chain.
- There's an engine, drive chain and brakes - and a controller called the driver.
- Despite having to adapt to an unfamiliar bike, Palmer finished a creditable ninth in the first race, but a snapped drive chain led to his retirement in the second race when in seventh place.
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Curriculum Resource Center
The Teacher Curriculum Center (TCC), located in the basement of Twilight Hall, Room B-12, is a facility open to teacher education students, liberal arts students, and K-12 teachers and administrators. Access privileges can be obtained by contacting the Director of Education Studies, Gregg Humphrey.
The resources in the Teacher Curriculum Center have been acquired through generous support from Middlebury College, Middlebury College Education Studies, the Middlebury College Library, Goals 2000 grants, and the Addison Central Supervisory Union.
The Teacher Curriculum Center contains books, videos, journals, and other resource materials on state and national standards, teacher education, educational reform and leadership, assessment, multicultural education, curriculum and instruction, language and literacy education, special education, educational foundations, philosophy, educational psychology, and educational technology.
The TCC also contains teacher guides, professional development videos, science and mathematics kits and materials, and art education supplies. The TCC maintains two networked computers, two printers (Epson Stylus Color 777, networked HP LaserJet 4050N), and two scanners.


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Earth from Space: The Tibesti Mountains
About this Image
The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, are captured in this image, acquired on March 4, 2012 by Envisat's MERIS instrument. The mountains' highest peak is Emi Koussi – pictured here as a circular structure in the lower-right portion of the dark area. The westernmost volcano is Toussidé. Our satellite view shows the dark peak with lava flows extending to the left. The white depression to the southeast gets its colour from the accumulation of carbonate salts, creating a soda lake. Surrounding the Tibesti Mountains, the sands of the Sahara appear like orange, yellow and white brushstrokes.


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Abstract: The Good Gambler: State Regulation and Public Debates on Futures Trading in British India and Germany, _PHONE_
Debates about the legitimacy of futures trading were omnipresent in the highly integrated world economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In this paper, we compare those debates in Germany and British India, two countries that were extremely diverse in their economic and political context and in the way they regulated futures trading. Germany was the first country worldwide to ban futures trading in selected commodities, while it remained largely unregulated in British India. Despite the formally different outcomes, we show that the respective debates resembled each other in many ways: in both countries futures exchanges were private organizations controlled by a small and in many ways privileged group of traders. In both countries these minorities were based on social ties and de facto controlled access to futures markets. Both groups were also faced with criticism because they were able to realize profits that a majority of people had no access to. Reviewing the debates we show that the main issue was not the legitimacy of futures trading but rather the distribution conflicts among the various interest groups that were engaged in futures trading.


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Introduction: Portable Hammer
Portable hammer for light nailing when you need to nail out in the field but don't want to bring a regular hammer for weight reasons.
1. Piece of 1x2 Pine
2. 2 screws, 1.25 inches (I used Spax #1 Square)
3. Metal mending plate.
4. Screwdriver (in my case #1 Square)
Step 1: Secure Metal Plate
1. Align the plate to the narrow side of the 1x2.
2. Begin driving in the 2 screws, making sure that they go in straight.
3. Once you are sure they are driving straight, screw them all the way down to the surface of the metal plate.
4. To use, hit the head of the nails with the metal plate.
5. Please note that this is for portable, light duty use only.


Hazards of Kissing
1. Infectious mononucleosis
2. Allergic reactions due to transmission of allergens from kisser to kissee. This occurs in ± 5% of the general population, and causes localised itching, swelling, urticaria, and possibly wheezing
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50 Years Ago The hazards of kissing under the mistletoe are described in the British Medical Journal as'serious but exaggerated'.


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In computer science, a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) is a data structure that represents the set of all substrings of a string. As its name implies, a DAWG takes the form of a directed acyclic graph; it can also be viewed as a deterministic finite automaton, and is similar in structure to suffix trees. DAWG have applications in approximate string matching.[1]
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 1. ^ Navarro, Gonzalo (2001). "A guided tour to approximate string matching" (PDF). ACM Computing Surveys 33 (1): 31–88. doi:10.1145/375360.375365.


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Create a Command from a given function, for use with ViewModels. A Command is a function with an extra canExecute observable property to determine whether the command can be executed. When executed, a Command function will check the value of canExecute and throw if false. It also provides events for when a command has been or is about to be executed.
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func function The function to execute.
canExecute Boolean true optional A boolean indicating whether the function can currently be executed.


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Media statement: PASA on unauthorised debit orders
14 January 2019 - Unauthorised debit orders, sometimes referred to as "R99 debit order scams" (although amounts vary), have once again received close press attention in recent weeks. The South African Reserve Bank, the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), the banks, and a number of user associations are aware of the problem; they have been actively focused on the matter and on a number of steps to address it.
Customers are understandably frustrated by the issue, but there is also some confusion and misinformation around the issue which deserves some clarification – which we hope to achieve by responding to a few frequently-asked questions.
Why do banks allow debit orders to go through?
Banks act as facilitators of payments and are bound by law to honour debit orders submitted into the payment system by other banks on behalf of their clients. Each debit order transaction involves an entity (called a "user") as well as the banks, and if all parties do not collaborate in an organised manner, the debit order system, through which 55 million payments to the value of over R80 billion are processed every month, would cease to function. Accordingly, when banks submit transactions on behalf of users, they do so on the basis that such a user has included only valid debit orders backed by a paper or voice mandate. These mandates are, however, held by the user, and not by the sponsoring bank -- the bank simply facilitates the transaction on behalf of their client.
Then why don't they just refuse debit orders from companies that customers regularly reverse?
The vast majority of disputed debit orders are in fact legitimate ones agreed to by customers, but which are reversed for "cash management" reasons – so that the money can be used for something else.
To put the numbers in perspective, on average about 1,5 million of the 55 million monthly debit orders are disputed – less than 3%. Based on PASA and bank estimates, however, of the 1,5m only about 10% of the debit orders disputed by customers are actually unauthorised.
This is a major problem for the industry. First, customers need to be aware that it is illegal, not to mention unethical, to reverse a debit order they have authorised as payment for a legitimate legal contract or service. Second, the millions of monthly reversed legitimate debit orders make it extremely difficult to identify those debit orders initiated by fraudsters. For example, a corporate user that is completely compliant to the rules in every respect and only submits debit orders with valid mandates may still face high levels of disputes through no fault of their own.
Are the banks profiting from this?
PASA CEO Walter Volker explains, "Banks are certainly not profiting from debit orders being reversed; on the contrary, by virtue of their sponsorship of the transactions and the associated legal obligations, they are exposed to the full value of the debit orders being disputed.
"If a bank reverses a debit order on instruction from a customer, and it turns out there was a valid mandate, the bank risks losing that entire amount if they cannot get it back from the consumer. On the other hand, in the event that an illegal debit order is disputed, the sponsoring bank would be liable to reimburse the full amount, even after the so-called rogue user has been exited from the system." There are therefore many hidden costs and risks, which consumers are not always aware of.
Why are some banks charging consumers when they dispute a debit order?
Reversing disputed debit orders takes time and work. As explained above, banks take on the risk that the company submitting a debit order has either been excluded from the system or is no longer in business, so the cost of managing and upholding disputes is high. At the same time, as explained above, 90% of disputes are ultimately found to be illegal. Some banks, therefore, have introduced fees in the hopes of limiting such illegal disputes. Even for banks who do charge, however, a consumer would be within their rights to request a refund if it is found that there was no valid mandate and that the debit order is in effect unauthorised or fraudulent.
Which banks have been hit by the so-called "R99 scam"?
No bank is immune to unauthorised debit orders. Volker says, "This is not just a problem involving one bank, one company or one scam. It is an industry-wide problem and PASA is working with all the banks to improve the safety of the system, both for consumers and for companies."
What is being done about the problem?
PASA has been working with the banking industry since 2013 to implement a wide-reaching and complex system called DebiCheck, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. The initial phase went live on 1 August 2018, by which time all 11 participating banks had implemented DebiCheck operationally.
Right now, user companies are busy implementing the systems and introducing the new business processes that are necessary to fully utilise DebiCheck. Volker explains: "Thousands of user companies, from large corporates to small business, will be using the system – so we need to ensure it remains stable and that consumers are not adversely affected."
With DebiCheck, banks will require customers to electronically confirm debit order information with them directly at the start of a new contract with a user, before any collection can take place; thus ensuring that both consumers and their banks know precisely what should be debited from their bank account. Once the consumer has authorised the electronic mandate, it will be stored on their bank's mandates database and can be verified or monitored at any time.
Will DebiCheck be available as an option in all instances?
In its initial phase, only consumers dealing with companies that have implemented DebiCheck will be required to confirm their debit order information electronically. Although the system is working already, it will take time for all DebiCheck users to ramp up their usage of the system. This number will grow over time, and the aim ultimately is to eradicate any and all unauthorised debit orders, through a combination of DebiCheck and other, more general debit order abuse measures.
While DebiCheck is ramped up, what other protection is provided?
In addition to DebiCheck, PASA is working with the banks to improve the processes by which new companies are allowed into the debit order system and to ensure rogue companies are identified and removed from the payment system. "This is a very serious matter for us and we are doing everything we can to identify those companies who are abusing the debit order system," says PASA Senior Legal Counsel Charl Ackerman.
PASA and the banks are also working to refine existing rules and processes in the payment system to further curb debit order abuse. Informational material has been developed and is being rolled out to educate consumers on their rights and obligations in the debit order environment.
In some instances, individual banks have put in place other measures such as SMS alerts for all debit transactions, free debit order reversals below a certain amount and cheaper appor online-based debit order dispute procedures.
Why is DebiCheck taking so long?
The scale and complexity of DebiCheck means that it has taken a great deal of work and time to implement. As of August 2018 the system is in place and in use, and companies are being added to the system all the time. New DebiCheck debit order customers are already receiving confirmation requests from their banks, but there is still work going on to mature the systems and to fully implement all functionalities required by users and banks.
The Reserve Bank recently granted a 12-month extension (until October 2020) to fully implement DebiCheck. This only affects the final date by which the old systems will be switched off. Nevertheless, says Volker, "The eleven banks participating in DebiCheck are committed to the process and still aim to have most companies on the system this year."
These additional 12 months will also be used to mature the system and to phase out old contracts and systems.
What can customers do to protect themselves?
 - Check your bank statements regularly for transactions you do not recognise.
 - Query unauthorised debit orders with your bank immediately and report the details to the Payments Association of South Africa at _EMAIL_.
 - Ensure that your bank has your correct cellphone number so that you receive SMS alerts when money is deducted from your account and also to receive DebiCheck confirmation requests.
 - Be wary when entering into contracts verbally, electronically or in writing.
 - Do not share or confirm your banking details, including your account number and branch code, if you are not certain exactly what they will be used for.
 - Do not dispute debit orders that you have authorised.
For more information about debit order abuse, DebiCheck and what the public can do to protect their accounts, please visit _URL_
For regular updates, follow the Payments Association of South Africa on Twitter _USER_ and Facebook.
About PASA
PASA is the payment system management body recognised by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), in terms of the National Payment System Act of 1998, to organise, manage and regulate the participation of its members in the payment system. For more information, please visit _URL_


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Verb: ensure en'shûr or in'shûr [N. Amer], en'shor or in'shor or en'shûr [Brit]
 1. Make certain in the future
 - guarantee, insure, assure, secure
 2. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
 "ensure that the curtains are closed";
 - see, check, insure, see to it, control, ascertain, assure
Sounds like: elusive, illusive, allusivee, insure, inshor
Derived forms: ensured, ensures, ensuring
Type of: verify
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text: The Internet technology encourages electronic commerce between people and/or organizations that are physically distributed in different locations, which makes it difficult to trust each other. The existing work of electronic trades have proposed protocols and mechanisms with mediation by Trusted Third Parties (TTP), on the assumption that the third parties could be trusted without reservation by each party on a trade. Such an assumption, however, is sometimes not applicable to businesses via the Internet where various parties are trading each other, and it is not practical to give infinite trust to the parties regardless of the scale or period of trades. This paper proposes the degree of trust which limits the amount of money or goods that can be sent at one time according to the risk of the parties on trades. Each of risk limits is assumed to be determined through information from credit facilities or by the decision of each party. Then we discuss the feasibility of transactions within given credit limits and propose algorithms to judge the feasibility.


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Markets Wholesale Markets History
In 1816, the Street Commissioners purchased the old moated Manor House of the De Birmingham family and a year later opened the Smithfield Cattle Market on the site which now forms part of the Wholesale Markets Precinct.
The Old St. Martin's Market was used as a Wholesale Market until 1897. The Wholesale Fish Market in Bell Street was opened in 1869 and demolished in 1958.
St. Martin's Lane opened in 1883 and was divided into two sections, the larger upper part forming the wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, and the lower part, bordering Moat Row, initially used as a toll market for farmers and growers. The lower part was also home to the retail Rag Market each Tuesday and Saturday afternoon selling clothing, hardware and manufactured goods.
A Cattle and Pig Market in Montague Street was opened in 1892.
The City Meat Market and Abattoir in Bradford Street opened in 1897. The deterioration of the old Smithfield and City Meat Markets, the loss of the Fish Markets in Bell Street for the new Inner Road, and congestion of the narrow streets around the wholesale area, all led to the decision to build a new Wholesale Market complex. In February 1974 phase 1 of the scheme, the New Fish, Meat and Poultry Markets, was opened for trade.


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New Capabilities are introduced in the AppFramework as a part of AppStudio 2.0. These capabilities are not provided natively by Qt. Following capabilities are currently in beta
These capabilities are currently in Beta. What does that mean?
What it means is that we are looking forward to your feedback, the use cases, what you like and what you want us to improve upon. It also means that if you choose to implement these plugins in Production App. Future changes may affect your app may require additional changes to support these functionalities in your app.
1. Local Notification - This is a new plugin added to the AppFramework. It provides developers the ability to implement in-app notification to end users such as an alert, message or geotification. When the Local Notification gets triggered on the client device the Notification icon appears in the Notification bar which is same as the application icon. The Notification icon cannot be customized or modified. Users may choose to have one or multiple notifications within the app. Every notification scheduled has a corresponding id available to distinguish between multiple Local Notifications.
Note:- An app running within Player or AppStudio Desktop (AppRun) will show the notification icon of Player or AppRun respectively when triggered.
How to implement Local Notification in an AppStudio App?
- Use the following import statement
import ArcGIS.AppFramework.Notifications.Local 1.0
- Enable the "Local Notification" capability within the AppSettings of the App
- Use the component "LocalNotification" which takes three input parameters to schedule a notification
- Title – The title of the message
- Message – The description of the message
- Time (in seconds)- Time after which the notification will be triggered on the end user device.
- bool supported (read only)- Returns a boolean if the device supports local notification.
Note: This property is supported on Android API 19+ versions.
- object schedule(string title, string message, int timeInSeconds) - returns a Variant object which is id of the scheduled notification
- Title - The title of the message as string value
- Message -The description of the message as string value
- Time (in seconds) -Time after which the notification will appear on the end user device as int
For e.g. 5 seconds means the notification will be triggered in 5 second
var id = notification.schedule(title, message, duration)
- bool clear(object id) -This method will clear the pending notification from the list of scheduled notifications
- object id - The id of the notification to be clear.
- Returns bool - Indicates whether the notification is cleared from the list of scheduled notifications.
bool success = notification.clear(id)
Note: It will return false for invalid inputs and for notifications which have already triggered.
- void clearAll() - This method clears all the pending (yet to be triggered) and active (already triggered) notifications along with badge numbers for iOS apps.
- triggered(object id) - This signal is emitted when the local notification is triggered.
- object id-It takes an id of the scheduled notification.
2. Vibration (Singleton) - New plugin added in AppFramework with AppStudio 2.0 version. This allows developers to enable vibration within an app. It is a non visual feedback or alert. Common use cases to provide vibration are to indicate an event such a message received or finished creating a model making a network request or just an alert etc.
Note: Currently, there is no way to provide number of seconds as an input for it to vibrate. On android device, it will vibrate for 1 second and on iOS it will use the system default.
How to implement Vibration in the AppStudio App?
- Use the following import statement
import ArcGIS.AppFramework.Notifications 1.0
- Enable the Vibration capability within the AppSettings of the App
- Call the Vibration.vibrate()
- bool supported - Returns a boolean value indicating whether your device supports vibration or not.
- void vibrate() - Method call to initiate a vibration on the client device from the app. The device will continue to vibrate for system default vibration settings (in seconds) or until the app is closed.
3. Background Location - New capability has been introduced to AppStudio 2.0 which allows the apps to use location data in background mode. Some of the common use cases using this capability are logging location data using position source, or trigger a notification, geo-fencing etc. This capability is currently available for mobile platforms only as this is already supported on desktop.
How to implement Background Location in the AppStudio App?
- Enable the Background Location capability in AppSettings of the App
You can monitor the state of the application using the following property
4. Promises - Often while creating your apps, you may want to make something happen after something else is done. You may want to want to make an asynchronous request and perform something on completion of the request. Or you may simply want to execute set of operations in a particular sequence. Promises can be used to manage such asynchronous computation, allowing for separate processes to continue in parallel.
Promises are a pattern that helps with one particular kind of asynchronous programming: a function (or method) that returns a single result asynchronously. One popular way of receiving such a result is via a callback. Promises provide a simpler alternative for executing, composing, and managing asynchronous operations when compared to traditional callback-based approaches. The Promise object represents the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation, and its resulting value.
A promise can be in one of 3 states:
- Pending - the promise's outcome hasn't yet been determined, because the asynchronous operation that will produce its result hasn't completed yet.
- Fulfilled - the asynchronous operation has completed, and the promise has a value.
- Rejected - the asynchronous operation failed, and the promise will never be fulfilled. In the rejected state, a promise has a reason that indicates why the operation failed.
When a promise is pending, it can transition to the fulfilled or rejected state. Once a promise is fulfilled or rejected, however, it will never transition to any other state, and its value or failure reason will not change.


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How to find and break external links in Excel?
In Excel, we usually create some external links for some purposes, however, after finishing the specific purpose, you may want to find and break all the external links. Here I introduce you the tricks to quickly find and break external links.
You maybe interested in this utility:
- Reuse Anything: Add the most used or complex formulas, charts and anything else to your favorites, and quickly reuse them in the future.
- More than 20 text features: Extract Number from Text String; Extract or Remove Part of Texts; Convert Numbers and Currencies to English Words.
- Merge Tools: Multiple Workbooks and Sheets into One; Merge Multiple Cells/Rows/Columns Without Losing Data; Merge Duplicate Rows and Sum.
- Split Tools: Split Data into Multiple Sheets Based on Value; One Workbook to Multiple Excel, PDF or CSV Files; One Column to Multiple Columns.
- Paste Skipping Hidden/Filtered Rows; Count And Sum by Background Color; Send Personalized Emails to Multiple Recipients in Bulk.
- Super Filter: Create advanced filter schemes and apply to any sheets; Sort by week, day, frequency and more; Filter by bold, formulas, comment...
- More than 300 powerful features; Works with Office 2007-2019 and 365; Supports all languages; Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization.
If you want to find and break external links, you can apply Edit Link function.
1. Click Data > Edit Links. See screenshot:
2. In the Edit Links dialog, select a workbook that you want to break the external links, and then click Break Link. See screenshot:
3. In the popping out warning dialog box, please click the Break Links button. See screenshot:
4. Then repeat step 2 to break all external links from the whole workbook. After removing all external links, please close the Edit Links dialog box.
With above method, you will break all the external links from the same workbook, but in sometimes, you may want to break some of the external links from different worksheets, in this case, you can use Kutools for Excel's Find and Break Broken Links function to solve.
|Kutools for Excel, with more than 300 handy functions, makes your jobs more easier.|
After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:
1. Click Kutools > Link > Find and Break Broken Links. See screenshot:
2. In the Find and Break Broken Links dialog, you can see all the external links are list in the dialog, and check the links you want to break and then click Break link to break all the checked links.
1. In the Find and Break Broken Links dialog, you can filter links based on linked worksheet by selecting the sheet name from the Filter dropdown list.
2. You also can view the cell in actual time when you click the link in the Find and Break Broken Links dialog after checking View cell option.
- How to split date and time from a cell to two cells in Excel?
- How to quickly add hours/minutes/second to date and time in Excel?
- How to convert hyperlinks to plain texts in Excel?


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My query SELECTs 1 row from table1, which has a number of fields plus one very long text field. It JOINs with a second table2, that may have many matching corresponding rows. I would like to be able to spread the long text field, from table1, out over multiple lines (the number determined by the matching rows in table2).
In the table above there is one row from Table1 where the key is table1_key = 'DU' and year = '2017'. Then there are four rows from Table2 with matching keys that include the programme_code and course_code. The field long_text_field, which I want to spread over multiple lines, comes from Table1.
Is it possible to extract a total row count for records that have been selected for output and still output the rows? Meaning that I want to see a count of 4 from the above and be able to work with this number in the displayed output. So that the result looks something like this:


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STEM AMUSEMENT PARK SET – London Eye and Ferris WheelSTEM56
In amusement parks, the main attractions are often the exciting, fast rides or the romantic, slow wheels that offer spectacular views from above. This set includes one geared motor to power four large-scale models of such rides: Ferris wheel, London Eye, merry-go-round and booster ride. Additionally, you can experiment with gears by building four smaller models such as a gearbox, an experimental crane, a carousel and a planetarium. You can find easy-to-follow building instructions for all models either online or in the booklet included. The booklet provides detailed explanations of the different scientific principles applied and incorporates innovative experimental activities for hands-on learning. A Quiz section is also available to challenge your newly acquired knowledge!


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, ABS can normally be landfilled (cf. ABS safety data sheets). In Germany, ABS wastes are classified under Waste Code No. 57129 (other solidified plastic wastes). Under the German waste monitoring regulations, solidified plastic wastes of this type do not require any special disposal measures. As far as we are able to determine, ABS wastes are inert in landfill. ABS is classified as presenting no threat to ground water.
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Euglena animation
The euglena is unique because it is sort of like a plant and also like an animal. It is pear shaped. It has a whippy tail called a flagellum that allows it to move through the water.
The euglena is different than other protozoans because it has chlorophyll in it, the substance that plants contain to make their own food. The euglena is then able to make its own food like a plant when it is in the sunlight. When it is in darkness, however, it can get food like an animal. It takes in tiny plants and animals much like the ameba and paramecium.
The euglena has a bright red eyespot which is sensitive to light and helps the euglena find light.
The euglena reproduces by fission, splitting lengthwise in two. The flagellum goes with one part and the other part grows a new flagellum.
When it is too hot or cold for a euglena, it forms a protective casing called a cyst around its body that protects it until conditions outside the cyst become better.
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Book your Level 1 course
The Level 1 tennis coaching course is the starting point for people who want to get into tennis coaching.
- Motivating and inspiring people to play tennis
- Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Organising tennis activity constructively and safely
- Planning and delivering structured lessons using LTA Level 1 coach resources


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In electric power system, disturbance detection has become an important part of grid operation and refers to the detection of a voltage and current excursion caused by the wide variety of electromagnetic phenomena. This paper proposes a computationally efficient and robust algorithm for synchronized measurement technology (SMT) supported online disturbance detection, suitable for AC and HVDC grids. The proposed algorithm is based on the robust median absolute deviation sample dispersion measure to locate dataset outliers. The algorithm is capable of identifying the disturbance occurrence and clearance measurement sample based on the dynamic criteria, driven by present power system conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by real-time simulations using a cyber-physical simulation platform, as a co-simulation between the SMT supported electric power system model and underlying ICT infrastructure. The presented results demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, making it suitable for an AC and HVDC online disturbance detection application or as a pre-step of backup protection schemes.
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text: Mercy High School, originally named Our Lady of Mercy Academy, was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1882. During its early years, Mercy Academy educated children in grades K-12. As the need for a quality, Catholic education grew, so did our schools in the region. Catholic schools were formed in Chico, Redding, and Oroville. In 2017, to ensure a robust future, these school were reorganized as the Northern Valley Catholic Academies.


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Analysis of Factors Affecting People Satisfaction Towards the Unification of Asean Economic Community
This paper aimed to examine AECassociated consequences including trade agreement, occupation and tourism as the influential factors of public satisfaction towards the AEC. The quantitative approach was utilized with questionnaire as a tool in collecting the data. The samples were 400 people from Pha Rai, Phan Seuk, Klong Namsai and Tha Kam Subdistrict. The hypotheses were established with the variables namely trade agreement, occupation, tourism and satisfaction of people, in order to analyze the public satisfaction towards the unification of AEC. The findings concluded that trade agreement, occupation, tourism, service, free trade areas accommodating factor, child labor, human trafficking and transportation cooperation and prevention measures delivered effect on people's satisfaction towards the AEC. Index TermsASEAN Economic Community, Factors, Satisfaction, Unification


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The Sri Lankan Advanced Level (A-level), is a General Certificate of Education (GCE) qualification exam in Sri Lanka, similar to the British Advanced Level, conducted annually by the Department of Examinations of the Ministry of Education. It is usually taken by students during the optional final two years of collegiate level (Grade 12 and 13), after they have completed GCE Ordinary Level exams. The qualification also serves as an entrance requirement for Sri Lankan state universities. The exams are held in three mediums: Sinhala, Tamil and English.
The candidates are expected to study for 2 years at collegiate level before taking the examination. The examination diversifies over 5 major fields of study:
- Physical Science stream (Combined mathematics, Physics and Chemistry or information technology )
- Biological Science stream (Biology (Botany and Zoology), Physics or Agricultural Science and Chemistry)
- Commerce stream
- Arts stream
- Technology stream (Engineering Technology)
- Technology stream (Bio-system Technology)
In each stream, candidates are expected to face 3 subjects related to the specific stream. Additionally, there would be a General English test and a Common General test. Although the result of the General English test is not taken into account for the University Entrance selection criteria, candidates are expected to obtain a pass mark for the Common General test.
At Zahira College, Technology stream and agricultural science is not currently offered but Vocational stream is offered.
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The Beacon
Is Sea Life Worth It?
Divers were willing to pay the most on average for healthy corals, at around $55 per dive, but they were also willing to pay an average of $35 for sharks and $30 for sea turtles.
As Suzanne Garrett, our dive program coordinator (ScubaSuz here on the blog) put it, "Divers are personally invested in the oceans and truly understand the importance of safeguarding marine wildlife and habitats."
For all you divers out there -- what would you pay to see, and how much?
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There are tons of little neat tips and tricks scattered throughout iOS just waiting to be discovered. One of these little nuggets is being able to add a direct dial extension number to a Contacts entry to save time when calling someone that can only be reached by dialing an additional extension number. Although this has been possible for quite some time in iOS, the whole process is a lot simpler now than it used to be.
It may not be extremely useful for those who call friends or family members, but for those business users out there who frequently call other companies or colleagues who sit behind a main switchboard, then it could save a lot of time and frustration being able to get to them directly. Follow the simple steps below to get an extension number added to a new or existing contact.
Step 1: Open the Contacts app on the iOS device and select the '+' button in the top right hand corner to add a new contact. Alternatively, if you want to add a dial extension to an existing contact, then select the contact from the list and select the 'Edit' button from the top right hand corner.
Step 2: Tap on the field that allows you to enter a mobile, work or home number for the contact. If you are editing a contact then make sure the cursor is at the end of the already-inputted number before pressing the '+*#' button in the bottom left hand corner. If this is a new contact then enter their number first before selecting the '+*#' button.
Step 3: Select the 'wait' option from the right hand side of the second row of keys that appears. This will append the phone number with a semicolon (;).
Step 4: Add the relevant extension number after the semicolon. For example, if the contact's number is 0192-_PHONE_ and their extension number is 123 then this becomes 0192-_PHONE_;123.
Step 5: Save the information and exit out of the Contacts app.
Step 6: Call the contact in question from the device address book and take note of the new 'Dial' button on the right hand side. This can be tapped to dial the extension at any time.
Rocket science it certainly isn't, but time-saving and beneficial to those who regularly call those behind a switchboard it is. Thanks again to Apple and iOS for adding in these little hidden gems that we come across from time-to-time.


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Evaluating long term outcomes for students with learning disabilities : does age of first services matter?
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Within the last few decades there has been a push in the field of learning disabilities to identify students who have or who are at risk for learning disabilities as early as possible. Little to no research has been conducted on the long-term effects of age of first service provision for students with learning disabilities, however. Using multiple regression, this study will analyze data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS-2) to investigate the potential effects of age of first service provision on high school educational achievement and educational attainment in order to better understand the longer-term effects of the age of identification and age of intervention for students with learning disabilities.


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What Is Color Tuning?
White Color Tuning
White color tuning refers to the ability of a light fixture to adjust its color temperature to the color temperature preference (2700K-5500K) of the occupant anytime after the installation.
RGB+W and Full-Color Tuning
Full-color tuning refers to the same ability but additionally to produce a color output anywhere within the visible color spectrum, and is most commonly accomplished through the mixing of several base-color LEDs, most commonly RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and RGBW (Red, Green, Blue, White).


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Positive Words That Starts With F. You know sometimes when you want a word in a particular sentence but just can't think of exactly the right one? You don't have all day (or year!) to go through the dictionary but just need someone to give you a few ideas. Here we have a list of inspirational adjectives and nice words that start with the letter F. This is a great resource for teachers, quizzers or even people writing appraisals. It's also very useful for crossword compilers or enthusiasts.
Positive Words That Starts With F
Have a look at our list of positive F words.
Meaning: Something that is excellent or with a glamorous edge.
Example: 'You look simply fabulous, darling.'
Meaning: Someone who is true to their word and is loyal in allegiance.
Example: 'Josh has always been a faithful friend.'
Meaning: When something is really good, great or you like something a lot.
Example: 'Last night's roast dinner was absolutely fantastic.'
Meaning: When someone finds something really interesting.
Example: 'The ancient artefacts were fascinating.'
Meaning: Someone who wears clothes or goes places that are considered stylish.
Example: 'The fashionable clothes were really expensive.'
Meaning: A word that that describes clothing as striking or colourful and usually showy.
Example: 'The man's clothes were rather flamboyant.'
Meaning: Someone who doesn't hold grudges and is able to forgive.
Example: 'The woman had a very forgiving nature.'
Meaning: A word that can mean clothing of an unconventional style.
Example: 'The band wore funky clothes during the concert.'
Meaning: When plants grow luxuriantly or something ends on a high note.
Example: 'The flowers were sure to flourish by the spring.'
Meaning: Something without faults or problems. Something that is perfect.
Example: 'The car's bodywork after the re-spray was faultless.'
Meaning: Someone who isn't scared of anything or a specific thing.
Example: 'The fearless family swam with sharks in Australia.'
Other positive words beginning with the letter F include:
F Words that are Positive
Hopefully our list of positive words with F helped with your project! Whether you were looking for 'good' words, 'nice' words or 'inspirational' words. We have compiled one 'positive words' for every letter in the alphabet. Have a look at our lists of suggestions for positive words starting with the letter of your choice.
It's great to have a dedicated list without you having to scour the whole dictionary!


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Enhancing iconic program reusability with object sharing
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Koike, Y. ; C&C Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan ; Maeda, Y. ; Koseki, Y.
The paper describes how to improve the reusability of iconic program modules. In iconic programming systems, the most important features for reuse are the customization of a module and combination of multiple modules without changing their definitions. In order to realize these features, we propose an object sharing technique, which allows components of multiple modules to represent the same object instance. Since a component in a module can be related to an object in another module, by adding a new function to an object in the latter module, the former module can be customized without changing its own definition. In addition, by relating a component to multiple objects in different modules, different functions defined in each module, can be combined easily. Finally, we show that the proposed technique realizes a useful software development style using templates, which will contribute to the improvement of the productivity
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Use the Files property of either the SPWeb or SPFolder class to return the collection of files for the site or folder. To create a new file, use one of the Add methods of SPFileCollection.
Use an indexer to return a single file from the collection. For example, assuming the collection is assigned to a variable named collFiles, use collFiles[index] in C#, or collFiles(index) in Visual Basic, where index is either the index number of the file in the collection or the display name of the file.
The following code example checks every file in the top-level folder of a specified document library for the last time that it was modified and, if the time is less than a certain value, copies the file to another document library.
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Goodnestone Serpentine Walk and Avenue, Kent
Goodnestone is a grade II* park and garden near Canterbury, famous for its association with Jane Austen. It also has a celebrated walled garden and an equally good woodland garden. As part of the restoration of the historic landscape and the development of the site as a visitor attraction, acta restored a walk leading from the garden, around the park boundary, past the façade of the restored ice house and back to the mansion. This required detailed tree and shrub specification, preparation of contract documents and site supervision. The walk is now a popular feature of visits to the park. In a later piece of work we established a new 500m-long plane tree avenue, leading from the mansion to the village.
Client - Lord Julian Fitzwalter
 1. Substantial sections of the walk have abundant daffodils, probably planted between the wars in a previous version of the walk
 2. The walk takes its name from a formal section laid out in the eighteenth century as a sequence of regular curves. This could not be traced on the ground and our alignment followed a straightened-out later version
 3. Ice house
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Definition of unsterile in English:
Not sterile or sterilized: unsterile needles
More example sentences
- He believes that AIDS may have its origin in unsterile hypodermic needles and antibiotics.
- Panicky use of unsterile needles may transmit HIV, hepatitis C, or other infections.
- I always have been taught that the back of the gown is considered unsterile and that personnel in sterile attire should not have their back to sterile supplies or fields.
Definition of unsterile in:
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Remote Training Site Warner Springs, CA
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape [SERE] training is conducted at the US Navy's Remote Training Site in Warner Springs, CA. West Coast Navy/Marine Corps personnel who risk capture during wartime (e.g. aviators) undergo SERE training at the Remote Naval Training Facility in Warner Springs, CA.
The students gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to survive in a hostile environment until rescued. SERE instructions covers dealing with fatigue, fear, hunger, thirst, temperature, pain and boredom. The students are divided into elements, and spend days practicing map reading, navigation, fire building, water procurement and shelter building.
The students learn about survival techniques in an outdoor, hands-on environment. They learned different water procurement and purification techniques, constructed solar stills, and setup transpiration bags for water collection. They identified and ate edible plants. They also learned how to trap small game and field dress a rabbit for cooking and eating. They construct shelters with parachute material and camp out overnight in them. Students learn how to start fires using a variety of fire starting tools and techniques, and practice ground to air signalling using ground panels and Navy smoke flares.
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Camp is located in a remote area near the community of Warner Springs in the northeastern San Diego County at an elevation of about 3200 feet. The Camp consist of a headquarters area with an administrative building, several staff barracks building, a wastewater treatment plant, and a training compound.
SERE Camp is a hundred percent dependent upon two wells for its water supply: Main Well (Well No. 1) and backup well (Well No. 2). The camp has no water supply connections with any other water systems. Storage at the camp is provided by the following three water storage tanks: 5,000 gallons raw water storage tank, 1,000 gallon hydro-pneumatic tank, and a 42,000 gallon bolted steel water storage tank.
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Fume Formation from Oxidation of Liquid SiMn Alloy
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Original versionOxidation of Metals. 2017, 1-21. 10.1007/s11085-_PHONE_-y
Thermally generated fumes from the production of manganese ferroalloys are mostly composed of metallic oxides generated due to reaction between high-temperature molten metal and ambient oxygen in the air. In the current study, the fume characteristics (particle morphology, compositions and particle size distribution) from the exposure of a SiMn alloy under an impinging air jet, in the temperature range 1400–1700 °C, were experimentally investigated. Combinations of manganeseand manganese/silicon oxide particles were found in the system, displaying both crystalline and amorphous structures. The governing generation mechanisms of fume from both a thermodynamic and a kinetic perspective are discussed.


Structural/ propulsion instability
Pogo Analysis: Complex Dynamic Interactions in Rockets
Crean and Associates subject matter experts perform pogo analysis of 1st and 2nd stages of new Launch rockets. Pogo is a behavior that occurs due to coupling of a liquid fueled vehicle's propellant feedline modes of vibration with axial structural modes of the vehicle and is driven by the thrust feedback of the engine. Axial vibrations create disturbances that travel through the engine and are manifest as thrust oscillations. The resulting interaction can result in a system that is unstable. If this happens, the resulting vibration can be extremely violent and can potentially cause loss of the vehicle and payload.
During a recent project, CREAN Launch, Missiles, & Propulsion team engineers worked closely with customer engineers to develop mathematical models and process test data. In addition to flight analysis, a study of the stage as installed in a test stand was also performed to ensure that this system would remain stable. Throughout this relationship, the CREAN personnel not only performed analysis, but also provided guidance and instruction so that the customer engineers learned both the physics of the problem and the software used in its analysis. We are committed to not just helping solve problems, but also passing on our knowledge and experience.
CREAN. For when it does take a rocket scientist.
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Q&A: Inpatient Certification
Q: What elements must be included for inpatient certification?
A: The inpatient certification may be made with a specific separate certification form or constructively through the forms, notes, or records signed by the certifying physician. There are three elements to the certification:
- The reason for continued hospitalization of the patient or the special or unusual services for cost outlier cases
- The estimated time the patient will need to remain in the hospital
- Plans for postdischarge care, if appropriate
For more information, see the Patient Status Training Toolkit for Utilization Review.


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For boys in the 1st grade.
Tiger Scouts spend their time doing adventures with adult participation. By completing seven adventures, the Tiger Rank is earned.
Tiger Rank Requirements:
1. Complete each of the following Tiger required adventures with your den or family:
A. Backyard Jungle
B. Games Tigers Play
C. My Family's Duty to God
D. Team Tiger
E. Tiger Bites
F. Tigers in the Wild
2. Complete one Tiger elective adventure of your den or family's choosing from this list:
Magical Mysteries, Earning Your Stripes, Family Stories, Floats and Boats, Good Knights, Roling Tigers, Sky is the Limit, Stories in Shapes, Tiger-iffic!, Tiger: Safe and Smart, Tiger Tag, Tiger Tales or Tiger Theater.


text: Engineering problem solving requires both domain knowledge and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge. While much of the recent work in qualitative physics has focused on building reusable domain theories, there has been little attention paid to representing the control knowledge necessary for applying these models. This paper shows how qualitative representations and compositional modeling can be used to create control knowledge for solving engineering problems. This control knowledge includes modeling assumptions, plans and preferences. We describe an implemented system, called TPS (Thermodynamics Problem Solver) that illustrates the utility of these ideas in the domain of engineering thermodynamics. TPS to date has solved over 30 problems, and its solutions are similar to those of experts. We argue that our control vocabulary can be extended to most engineering problem solving domains, and employed in a wide variety of problem solving architectures.


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3D CRS with global optimization
Author: Yujiang Xie
Download: 3D CRS with global optimization
The software introduced three optimization algorithms to simultaneously search the 3D ZO CRS attributes, which includes the particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithm (GA) and the Powell conjugate direction (PCD) algorithm as well. The PSO used in this software is contributed by Shi and Eberhart (1998), and the codes are developed by Lucas. The GA codes are obtained from Google, and being incorporated into 3D ZO CRS by Lucas. The PCD codes are taken from the Numerical Recipes in C. Cambridge, and modified by Lucas for the 3D ZO CRS attribute search. Based on our tests, the PCD is performed well for non-smooth objective function, but might be failed in the objective semblance function which is data dependent and also might have much local maxima. The challenge of the PCD method incorporated into the 3D ZO CRS attribute search is to calculate the step length in each conjugate direction, further 3D work can focus on this. In 2D CRS case, the Coarse Grid Search (CGS) is proposed by Philipp Witte to find a close-by, relatively large maximum before the Powell method, but the CGS method is impossible to extend to 3D ZO CRS situation with eight-dimensional space.
The software has to change the initialization and constrained search space for your data set. In case you use the PSO method, the file named lucassearch8.cpp, with line 279-295 should alter the initial points with your preference. In this case, I use the midpoint in the search space to initialize for each ZO sample, but you can choose randomly initial values or the same value for all ZO samples. If you choose the GA as your algorithm, in the file named lucassearch81.cpp, the initial condition in the function initialize (int&seed), should change, such as from line 421 to 439, you have to reset your search space here.The PCD codes are more complicated, in principle, it can be used for global search, but the software designed here only consider a local optimization with guiding values from initial attributes. We have not found a good way to perform global search with the PCD method in the 3D CRS case. The usage of the software is easy as the old 3D ZO CRS software, just change the mode with different methods, more details see the source files.
- Xie, Y. and Gajewski, D. 3D ZO CRS attribute search using particle swarm optimization, WIT meeting 2016.
- Xie, Y. and Gajewski, D. Automatic estimation of the 3D CRS attributes by a metaheuristic-based optimization, EAGE,2016.
- Numerical Recipes. The Art of Scientific Computing, 3rd Edition, 2007, ISBN 0-521-88068-8. (C++ code).
- Shi, Y. and Eberhart, R. C. (1998). "A modified particle swarm optimizer". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 69-73.
- Holland, J. (1975). Adaption In Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
- Powell, M. J. D. (1964). "An efficient method for finding the minimum of a function of several variables without calculating derivatives". Computer Journal 7 (2): 155-162.
- Witte, P. (2014). Optimization of the Semblance in Seismic Processing, Master's Thesis, University of Hamburg
3D CRS with pragmatic approach
Author: Nils Alexander Müller
Download: 3D CRS with pragmatic approach
2D CRS with global optimization
Author: Jan Walda
Download: 2D CRS with global optimization
CRS based software, that handles conflicting dips by stacking over angle ranges defined by the user. The user can choose between three global optimization methods, Differential Evolution (DE), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). Additionally the best found solution is furthermore improved locally by a simplex method introduced by Nelder and Mead in 1965. The Code is based on the CRS implementation by Juergen Mann and modified by Jan Walda. The genetic algorithm implementation is based on initial work by Benjamin Schwarz. A guide makefile can be found in the documention.
The code is parallelized. It requires a script to be run after optimizartion named "cat_search.sh" or in case of supergathers "cat_supergather.sh". The script requires 3 parameters, first is the basename (same as in Makefile) the second is the number of conflcting dips and the third one is the first index which is usually 0. Results after the script have the extension "*.su". Sections without "_" are taken from the operator with the highest coherence, so they are similar to the sections you might have used from the original code by Juergen Mann. The sections with "_" are the individual sections for each dip range specified by the "angleboundaries" option when executing the program.
- Nelder, J. A., & Mead, R. (1965). A simplex method for function minimization. The computer journal, 7(4), 308-313.
- Whitley, Darrell. "A genetic algorithm tutorial." Statistics and computing 4.2 (1994): 65-85.
- Das, Swagatam, and Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan. "Differential evolution: a survey of the state-of-the-art." Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on 15.1 (2011): 4-31.
- Kennedy, James. "Particle swarm optimization." Encyclopedia of Machine Learning. Springer US, 2010. 760-766.
- Jan Walda* and Dirk Gajewski (2015) Common-reflection-surface stack improvement by differential evolution and conflicting dip processing. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2015: pp. 3842-3847.doi: 10.1190/segam2015-_PHONE_.


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Perhaps this belongs on stackoverflow, but since it could have some applicability to non-tech contexts, thought I'd post here.
Is there a word that means "make something that is variable constant"?
For example, in programming, I might have a variable
queueSize that could be set to different values for different queues. Later I decide to make this a fixed (constant) value for all queues. What is a word to describe this conversion?
A real-world (non-programming) example is converting from a variable tax-rate to a flat (constant) tax-rate. I proposed below that, in light of this example, the word
flatten could be used to answer my question. However, this word does not conventionally mean "to make constant", and has other meanings in the context of several programming languages.
To be clear, I'm not looking for a word/expression the means changing a variable from one type to another (casting). Rather, I mean keeping the type the same, but changing a field from a variable to a constant value.


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|The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: waterhole.|
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to watering holes.|
A waterhole or water hole is a depression in the ground in which water can collect.
Waterhole or water hole may also refer to:
- Water hole (radio), an especially quiet region of the electromagnetic spectrum
- The Water Hole, a 1928 Western film
- Waterhole No. 3, a 1967 Western comedy film, a comic remake of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Watering hole attack, a computer attack strategy
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Meaning of RD
What Does RD Mean? (Using RD Online)RD means "Real Deal".
Summary of Key Points
Definition for RDRD means "Real Deal". This is the most common definition for RD on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter. Here is some more information about RD:
Adults and Teenagers
A Text with RD
Using RD on a Cell Phone (SMS Texts, Whatsapp, and Yubl)


text: Wytham Woods is a mixed deciduous forest in southern England. It covers approximately 400 ha, which is a relatively large woodland for the UK and includes a range of different soil types and management histories. Wytham is owned by Oxford University and is used by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) as a long-term monitoring site in the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN). A flux tower has occasionally operated on the site, measuring stand-scale carbon and water fluxes; a canopy walkway gives access to the leaves of canopy trees, and several studies of tree ecophysiology have been carried out there. A network of small (10 m x 10 m) ECN forest-monitoring plots is distributed across the site, and a 1-ha plot forms a focus for carbon-dynamics studies, including soil processes and tree growth. The core ForestGEO plot covers 18 ha (300 m x 600 m), and has been surveyed in detail by airborne lidar and hyperspectral sensors, and by terrestrial lidar.