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First Year Interest Groups (FIGs)
What is a FIG?
Belonging to a First-Year Interest Group (FIG) is a great way for first-time students to meet other students as well as develop strong relationships with upper-class students and many faculty members.
Students who are in a FIG take courses together each semester that fulfill some major requirements or some general education requirements to help ensure they are building a strong educational foundation. The FIG program is a year-long initiative that creates a strong community for first year students both in the classroom and in the residence halls.
FIG students live together in a residence hall with the upperclassmen mentors who work with the students.
Each FIG is based on an interest that the students share (i.e. adventure, art, business, theatre, etc.) and is led by students who have been at ASU for at least one year and can help students with any questions or concerns that arise in the first year of college.
2015-2016 FIG Groups:
The FIG Program is always changing and improving please check the FIG brochure for the most recent list of programs offered:
- Art FIG
- Diversity/International FIG
- English - Culture and Identity FIG
- Human Performance and Physical Education FIG (HPPE)
- Money FIG (Business)
- Skiing, Snowboarding, Outdoor Adventure FIG
- Teacher Education FIG
- The World of Theatre FIG
For information about FIGs, please contact:
- S. Masood Ahmad, Director S.E.S.
- Office: 3rd Floor SUB Rm. E-325
- Phone: _PHONE_
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Definitions for pericope
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word pericope
A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.
Origin: From late Latin pericope, from Greek περικοπή 'section', from peri- + κοπή 'cutting', from κόπτειν 'to cut'.
a selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon
Origin: [L., section of a book, Gr. ; peri' around + to cut.]
A pericope in rhetoric is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture. Manuscripts, often illuminated, called Pericopes, are normally abbreviated Gospel Books only containing the sections of the Gospels required for the Masses of the liturgical year. Notable examples, both Ottonian, are the Pericopes of Henry II and the Salzburg Pericopes. Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing the Epistle and Gospel readings for the liturgical year. A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a concatenation or composite reading.
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Train DDPG Agent to Swing Up and Balance Cart-Pole System
This example shows how to train a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) agent to swing up and balance a cart-pole system modeled in Simscape™ Multibody™.
For more information on DDPG agents, see Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Agents. For an example showing how to train a DDPG agent in MATLAB®, see Train DDPG Agent to Control Double Integrator System.
Cart-Pole Simscape Model
Open the model.
mdl = 'rlCartPoleSimscapeModel';
The cart-pole system is modeled using Simscape Multibody.
For this model:
 - The force action signal from the agent to the environment is from –15 to 15 N.
 - The observations from the environment are the position and velocity of the cart, and the sine, cosine, and derivative of the pole angle.
 - The episode terminates if the cart moves more than 3.5 m from the original position.
 - The reward rt, provided at every timestep, is
 - θt is the angle of displacement from the upright position of the pole.
 - xt is the position displacement from the center position of the cart.
 - ut-1 is the control effort from the previous time step.
 - B is a flag (1 or 0) that indicates whether the cart is out of bounds.
For more information on this model, see Load Predefined Simulink Environments.
Create Environment Interface
Create a predefined environment interface for the pole.
env = rlPredefinedEnv('CartPoleSimscapeModel-Continuous')
env =
SimulinkEnvWithAgent with properties:
 Model : rlCartPoleSimscapeModel
 AgentBlock : rlCartPoleSimscapeModel/RL Agent
 ResetFcn : []
 UseFastRestart : on
The interface has a continuous action space where the agent can apply possible torque values from –15 to 15 N to the pole.
Obtain the observation and action information from the environment interface.
obsInfo = getObservationInfo(env);
numObservations = obsInfo.Dimension(1);
actInfo = getActionInfo(env);
Specify the simulation time Tf and the agent sample time Ts in seconds
Ts = 0.02;
Tf = 25;
Fix the random generator seed for reproducibility.
Create DDPG Agent
A DDPG agent approximates the long-term reward, given observations and actions, using a critic value function representation. To create the critic, first create a deep neural network with two inputs (the state and action) and one output. The input size of action path is [1 1 1] since the agent can apply an action as one force value to the environment. For more information on creating a deep neural network value function representation, see Create Policy and Value Function Representations.
statePath = [
actionPath = [
commonPath = [
criticNetwork = layerGraph(statePath);
criticNetwork = addLayers(criticNetwork,actionPath);
criticNetwork = addLayers(criticNetwork,commonPath);
criticNetwork = connectLayers(criticNetwork,'CriticStateFC2','add/in1');
criticNetwork = connectLayers(criticNetwork,'CriticActionFC1','add/in2');
View the critic network configuration.
Specify options for the critic representation using rlRepresentationOptions.
criticOptions = rlRepresentationOptions('LearnRate',1e-03,'GradientThreshold',1);
Create the critic representation using the specified deep neural network and options. You must also specify the action and observation information for the critic, which you already obtained from the environment interface. For more information, see rlQValueRepresentation.
critic = rlQValueRepresentation(criticNetwork,obsInfo,actInfo,...
Construct the actor in a similar manner to the critic. For more information, see rlDeterministicActorRepresentation.
actorNetwork = [
actorOptions = rlRepresentationOptions('LearnRate',5e-04,'GradientThreshold',1);
To create the DDPG agent, first specify the DDPG agent options using rlDDPGAgentOptions.
agentOptions = rlDDPGAgentOptions(...
agentOptions.NoiseOptions.StandardDeviation = 0.4;
agentOptions.NoiseOptions.StandardDeviationDecayRate = 1e-5;
Then, create the agent using the specified actor representation, critic representation and agent options. For more information, see rlDDPGAgent.
agent = rlDDPGAgent(actor,critic,agentOptions);
Train Agent
 - Run each training episode for at most 2000 episodes, with each episode lasting at most ceil(Tf/Ts) time steps.
 - Stop training when the agent receives an average cumulative reward greater than –400 over five consecutive episodes. At this point, the agent can quickly balance the pole in the upright position using minimal control effort.
 - Save a copy of the agent for each episode where the cumulative reward is greater than –400.
For more information, see rlTrainingOptions.
maxepisodes = 2000;
maxsteps = ceil(Tf/Ts);
trainingOptions = rlTrainingOptions(...
Train the agent using the train function. Training this agent process is computationally intensive and takes several hours to complete. To save time while running this example, load a pretrained agent by setting doTraining to false. To train the agent yourself, set doTraining to true.
doTraining = false;
if doTraining
 % Train the agent.
 trainingStats = train(agent,env,trainingOptions);
 % Load the pretrained agent for the example.
Simulate DDPG Agent
simOptions = rlSimulationOptions('MaxSteps',500);
experience = sim(env,agent,simOptions);
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A step-by-step guide to Sweet Cherry audiobooks
1. Download a free QR code reader to your smart phone or tablet by searching on your device's app store.
2. Scan the code on your book with your smart phone or tablet.
3. Listen! Once the webpage has loaded, press play to hear the story. You can listen to it whenever you are connected to the internet.
4. Keep the audio readings on your phone or tablet forever by downloading them, then you can listen to them without an internet connection. Just click on the download button on the website.


A Summary of Using the JSVGCanvas Class to Display a SVG Document
First of all it's important to note the class inheritance hierarchy being used here since several methods called from the JSVGCanvas class are actually implemented by some of the classes it inherits from.
JSVGCanvas : JSVGComponent : JGVTComponent : JComponent
After creating a JSVGCanvas instance the setURI() method is called with a URI of the SVG document to load. If the URI is valid the loadSVGDocument() method of the JSVGComponent class is called with the URI.
In the loadSVGDocument() method all document processing for the current document is stopped, and then a DocumentLoader and SVGDocumentLoader are created. The SVGDocumentLoader handles the firing of document loading events and the DocumentLoader uses a SAXSVGDocumentFactory to create a SVGDocument instance. The SAXSVGDocumentFactory in turn relies on a SAXDocumentFactory to parse the SVG data referenced by the given URI.
The JSVGCanvas relies on the SVGDocumentLoaderListener, GVTTreeBuilderListener, and SVGLoadEventDispatcherListener listeners that are added in the JSVGComponent constructor in order to know what is going on with the loading, building, and rendering of the SVGDocument. The listeners are implemented in the JGVTComponent.Listener and JSVGComponent.SVGListener classes.
When the document has finished being loaded and parsed the setSVGDocument() method of the JSVGComponent class is called, which then calls the installSVGDocument() method in the same class.
The installSVGDocument() method:
1. Gets rid of any resources from the previous document (if any)
2. Create a new BridgeContext to associate the SVG DOM and the GVT tree
3. Configures the component and BridgeContext instance based on the document state (ALWAYS_STATIC, ALWAYS_DYNAMIC, ALWAYS_INTERACTIVE, AUTODETECT)
4. Creates a GVTTreeBuilder with the SVGDocument and BridgeContext
5. Initializes event handling for mouse and keyboard events
When the GVTTreeBuilder is done building the GVT tree the JSVGComponent performs some additional configuration so that dynamic documents work correctly, and then calls the scheduleGVTRendering() method of the JGVTComponent class.
The scheduleGVTRendering() method calls the renderGVTTree() method of the same class and:
1. Sets the size of the visible rect to be the size of the component
2. Creates either a static or dynamic image rendered based on the document state (StaticRenderer or DynamicRenderer)
3. Finds the inverse of the rendering transform, which is set to the identity matrix
4. Creates a shape by transforming the rectangle found in step 1 with the matrix from step 3
5. Creates a GVTTreeRenderer and starts the rendering thread
The GVTTreeRenderer fires GVT tree rendering events and calls the repaint() method of the renderer. Once repainting is complete, the JGVTComponent is notified of the fact by a GVT tree rendering event, and in response repaints the component using the updated image that was rendered offscreen by the renderer.
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From Ohio History Central
Cass Gilbert was a well-known American Architect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gilbert was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on November 24, 1859. His father died in 1868, and Gilbert found a job working as a surveyor in a local architect's office. It was there that he gained an interest in architecture. He studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before traveling to Europe to obtain additional training.
Gilbert began to make a name for himself as an architect after designing Minnesota's new state capitol building in 1896. His design was chosen for a new United States Customs building in New York City, and he designed the Woolworth Building as well. In 1908, Gilbert was elected president of the American Institute of Architects. Later in his career, he was chosen to be president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a member of the French Legion of Honor. He also served on the National Commission of Fine Arts. Gilbert's best-known design was the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, DC.
Cass Gilbert died in England in 1934.

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text: When a PT stands close to you or holds onto your hips when you walk so you don't fall, that's called guarding. PTs don't like it when their patient falls, that means a lot of paperwork and paperwork sucks. So I had dinner with my friend tonight and she uses a walker when she walks. Her dad follows closely behind her when she's walking. He was guarding(holding) her on the shoulder. Wrong. When you're guarding someone when they walk, you hold the hips, or keep your hands close to the hips. Not at the waist, at the hips. At the hips you can control the motion of the entire body. If you're holding onto the shoulders and their legs go out from under them, down they go. But if you're holding at the hips you can prevent the fall, usually. When guarding on stairs you should always be below the patient. If the person is going down the stairs you should be in front of them going down backwards – ready to catch them if they fall. If the person is going up stairs you should be behind them – ready to catch them if they fall.


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How do I use Person Code to limit access to a survey?
You can a limit who is able to respond to a survey by setting a person code within a survey. Person code is simply set by setting the variable p= on the URL of a survey. So an example survey URL might be like
You substitute you own value for [p_value], so the actual link might look something like this.
The actual value you use after the p= does not matter. You can use the p code to match survey responses to customer ids in other systems.
SurveyTown treats the "p" variable in a couple special ways.
- SurveyTown will store the value automatically with the survey response.
- If you check to limit taking of surveys by person code, SurveyTown will look to see if there is a response with that personcode already attached to that survey it will block the respondent from taking the survey again.
In sum, by adding a p= variable onto the end of your survey URLs you can match your survey responses to customers and limit the ability for customers to take a survey more than one time.


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Wooden Medicine Cabinet
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- consisting or made of wood;
wood: a wooden ship.
- stiff, ungainly, or awkward: a wooden gait.
- without spirit, animation, or awareness.
- dull or stupid.
- indicating the fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.
Medicinemed•i•cine (med′ə sin or, esp. Brit., med′sən),USA pronunciation n., v., -cined, -cin•ing.
- any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness;
- the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipulations: often divided into medicine proper, surgery, and obstetrics.
- the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics.
- the medical profession.
- (among North American Indians) any object or practice regarded as having magical powers.
- give someone a dose or taste of his or her own medicine, to repay or punish a person for an injury by use of the offender's own methods.
- take one's medicine, to undergo or accept punishment, esp. deserved punishment: He took his medicine like a man.
- to administer medicine to.
Cabinetcab•i•net (kab′ə nit),USA pronunciation n.
- a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles: a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet.
- a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records.
- (often cap.) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc., esp. the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation.
- (often cap.) (in the U.S.) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the 13 executive departments of the federal government.
- a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects.
- a small chamber or booth for special use, esp. a shower stall.
- a private room.
- a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art.
- Also called cabinet wine. a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar.
- [New Eng.](chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts). a milk shake made with ice cream.
- [Archaic.]a small room.
- [Obs.]a small cabin.
- pertaining to a political cabinet: a cabinet meeting.
- pertaining to a private room.
- of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc.: a cabinet edition of Milton.
- of, pertaining to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking.
- [Drafting.]designating a method of projection(cab′inet projec′tion) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing(cab′inet draw′ing) having all vertical and horizontal lines drawn to exact scale, with oblique lines reduced to about half scale so as to offset the appearance of distortion. Cf. axonometric, isometric (def. 5), oblique (def. 13). See illus. under isometric.
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The purpose of Summer Bridge is to maintain and enhance skills throughout the summer in a safe and supportive environment. Students will build confidence, self-esteem, and leadership skills and learn study techniques while stimulating literacy, math, science investigations, and enrichment activities.
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do I need separate UILabel in a custom UIView to have separate UILabel lines in a UITableViewCell?
That is, if I want to have a TableViewCell that has all text, but the text needs to contain 4 separate rows for 4 separate strings (e.g. Name, Title, Description, Location), and each these separate rows could include a wrap around.
To ask the question the other way around, is there way with a normal UITableViewCell using it content view and single text label, to force Carriage Return/New Line points at the end of each of the four strings? Oh yes, and the cell height will need to be calculated for each Cell as it may vary (just in case this is significant)
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The answer to the last question: NO. (Answer to the title: YES.)
You can build a cell in its own NIB file. An exercise I suggest if you've never done it.
Layout the size/location/resize functionality as you like it.
your table view controller can be the owner of the file, add an outlet to the TV controller of loadedCell, and call load nib every time you want to alloc a new cell,
i suggest tagging each of the cell labels, and accessing them that way, and setting the loadedCell value to nil after loading it,
p.s. a UILabel often wraps text undesirably, or is hard to layout in a cell to look good, consider the other values of lineBreakMode for your labels
p.p.s. it will employ a text shortening behavior depending on adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth and minimumFontSize (taking this and lineBreakMode into consideration)
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p.p.p.s you can set the "reuse identifier" in the NIB file, or programmatically once loaded, but it should be set! doing so in code helps ensure that you're using the same value as the call to dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: – bshirley Jun 8 '11 at 4:54
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Deep Freeze Unfreezer
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How to manually uninstall Deep Freeze
for Windows 2K/XP
by Emiliano Scavuzzo
 If you are reading this tutorial you'd probably know that Deep Freeze not always work the way it should and sometimes it can do more damage than good. Some common scenarios include the installer not being able to uninstall DF even when the disks are thawed, Deep Unfreezer not being able to thaw the disks or something worst: the system fails to boot. This tutorial explains how to manually uninstall Deep Freeze by removing it's core driver from the registry and therefore completely disabling it. This tutorial doesn't explain how to do a complete uninstallation, though. There's a lot of garbage Deep Freeze installs on the disk and registry that you'll have to find yourself, but remember that this garbage can't prevent the computer from booting or freeze the disks. You can always try to restore the registry from a point before installing Deep Freeze by using the backups saved on %windir%\repair or System Volume Information.
 This tutorial is intended for advanced users. If you don't even know what the registry is you shouldn't follow these instructions. Playing with the registry is dangerous and you could damage your system by doing so.
Always make backup copies of the registry files before trying this tutorial.
Without a complete uninstallation you may not be able to reinstall Deep Freeze on your system.
Let's get to work:
1. First we need a way to edit the registry. The way to do this depends on your situation. If your computer is thawed you can simply use Regedit. If your computer is frozen or if it doesn't boot you'll need to find another way. Here are some alternatives:
 - If you have a multiboot computer with another copy of Windows 2K/XP you can boot from there.
 - You can physically mount the disk on another computer that uses Windows 2K/XP.
 - You can use a tool that lets you boot and edit the registry. A good example of this is PE Builder that lets you build a Windows PE CD and boot Windows from there.
Windows XP can import and edit the system hive from Windows 2K (hive format 1.3) but Windows 2K can't import the system hive from Windows XP (hive format 1.5).
2. If your computer is thawed run Regedit. If it's not thawed follow one of the alternatives described above, run Regedit (or Regedt32 on Windows 2K) and import the system hive. To import the hive highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. On the menu go to File or Registry, Load Hive and open the system hive from the control, that should be on %windir%\system32\config (from the disk where DF is installed).
3. A dialog box will open and you will be prompted to enter a name for the key where the hive will be loaded. We'll use MySystem. If you are using Windows 2K, after loading the hive close Regedt32 and run Regedit.
4. Highlight the new key HKLM\MySystem (or HKLM\SYSTEM if you didn't have to import the hive) and select Edit and Find from the menu.
5. On the Find dialog box type UpperFilters and check only the Values checkbox. Then click Find Next.
6. The program will find a value with the name UpperFilters. Open this value and if there's a line with the name of the Deep Freeze driver (DeepFrz or DepFrzLo) delete it including the return, leaving the rest of the lines intact. Also, if you are using ThawSpace and you want to get rid of it delete that line too (ThwSpace), if you want to keep the ThawSpace leave it there. Press F3 to find the next match and repeat the operation until you have fixed all the UpperFilters values inside the HKLM\MySystem key.
7. Navigate to HKLM\MySystem\Select and check the value with the name Default. It has the number of the control set key that the system will use when booted. If it is 1 the control set is ControlSet001, if it is 2 the control set is ControlSet002, and so on. We'll assume the control set is ControlSet001 but you should use the one specified by the value Default.
8. Now go to HKLM\MySystem\ControlSet001\Services and delete the keys with the name of the Deep Freeze drivers (DeepFrz or DepFrzLo and DepFrzHi). Also, if you decided to get rid of the ThawSpace delete the key with the name of the ThawSpace driver (ThwSpace).
9. That's it. Now reboot and load the system where Deep Freeze was installed and you'll notice you can make permanent changes to disks that where previously frozen.
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What do Material Management and Potholes have in common?
 First, let's think about potholes. Potholes are known for destroying our roads and most importantly, the cars we drive. Until a discovery by MacRebur, a company in Scotland, potholes were an inevitable destructive part of our life. MacRebur, theorized that roadways would have less likelihood of experiencing potholes after being filled with a new material, a mixture of asphalt and plastic material waste. This material would allow for more flexibility due to the plastic material properties in the mixture.
The impact of this new discovery on waste would be astonishing. Based on the study completed1 kilometer of road composed of this plastic waste and asphalt could be translated to 684,000 plastic bottles or 1.8 million plastic bags that would be diverted from landfills and oceans!
 So, if you are still asking yourself, what do Material Management and Potholes have in common It's product innovation. PLM enables engineers to spend their time finding endless innovations with material management(even if the problem is a pothole)
 So, let the software manage the background noise, keeping track of details, data and mindless operations that keep human minds spinning. Allow your engineers to utilize their minds to find the best innovations and bring them to life.
 PLM can give your company to grow through innovation, speed up time to market, control cost, and reduce the risk of unknown surprises.
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All-electric ships (AES), enabled by integrated power systems (IPS), have been pursued for both commercial and military applications to meet the increasing ship-board power demand and environmental sustainability initiatives. They necessitate real-time power management (PM) for dynamic reconfiguration to support system critical operations in the event of dynamic load change or IPS component failures. The nonlinear, large scale trajectory optimization problem associated with IPS, along with the non-analytical nature of IPS model, makes many existing methods inadequate in meeting the real-time requirements. In this paper, we develop a methodology that exploits time scale separation, a characteristic associated with IPS dynamics, to achieve real-time optimization. In parallel, a dynamic model of the IPS with gas turbine and fuel cell as power plants is developed that captures the relevant dynamics but is simple enough for real-time optimization. The tradeoffs between the computational efficiency and optimization accuracy are analyzed. The optimization results for IPS PM on a real-time simulator are reported, which illustrate the real-time feasibility of the proposed optimization strategy.
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Garnish (g hard).
Entrance-money, to be spent in drink, demanded by jail-birds of new-comers. In prison slang garnish means fetters, and garnish-money is money given for the honour of wearing fetters. The custom became obsolete with the reform of prisons. (French, garnissage, trimming, verb garnir, to decorate or adorn.) (See Fieldings and Smolletts novels.)


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How Long Does It Take for a Joint to Get Out of Your System?
This is the most common question asked by cannabis users. Well, there's no simple answer to this question, as there are so many variables that dictate how fast or slow a joint can take to get out of your system. However, if you're a weed user looking for answers before a scheduled drug test, there are two major factors that can make a difference—your physiology (as all people are different) and the amount of THC in a joint.
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How Much THC Is in One Joint?
In most cases, the amount of THC varies from strain to strain, from 5% to upwards of 30%. In our case, let's take an average level of 15%.
The average weight of a single joint is estimated to be 0.32 grams according to an article published by Christopher Ingraham in The Washington Post. [1]
Knowing this, we can calculate how much THC is in one average joint. Here's the math:
0.32 grams = 320 milligrams
15% THC of 320 mg = 0.15 × 320 = 48 mg THC
If you're smoking half of an average joint, then you consume 12 mg to 14 mg of THC, with about 10 mg to 12 mg going to the sidestream. On the other hand, if you're smoking an entire joint, then the average amount of THC consumed will range from 19 mg to 23 mg.
Another common joint size from the same article was 0.75 grams according to a survey among marijuana users by High Times based on 3,000 responses. Here's the amount of THC calculated from this joint size:
0.75 grams = 750 milligrams
15% THC of 750 mg = 0.15 x 750 = 112.5 mg THC
In this case, if you smoke half a joint, you will consume about 27 mg to 32 mg THC. On the other hand, if you smoke an entire joint, you'll consume between 50 mg and 60 mg THC, with a sidestream loss of about 40–50 mg THC.
Many other variables also determine how much THC is consumed. For instance, lung capacity, how much you inhale, and how long you hold your breath after each puff are some factors that will determine the amount of THC you consume. Another factor is sidestream smoke, where much THC is lost as you await the next puff.
Also important is the change in THC in the joint as you smoke. As the joint burns, more THC condenses toward its end, making the second half of the joint have a slightly higher THC level than the first half.
In the table below, you can see the approximate amount of THC in the joint depending on the THC level in the cannabis strain:
5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Pinner (0.32 gr) 16 mg 32 mg 48 mg 64 mg 80 mg 96 mg
Joint (0.75 gr) 37.5 mg 75 mg 112.5 mg 150 mg 187.5 mg 225 mg
How Long Does THC Stay in Your System?
Here's the science behind it:
According to a study, after smoking about 27 mg of ▵9-THC in a joint, THC-COOH in a smoker's urine was peaking at 180 ng/mL after 4 hours. [2]
According to another study, it was discovered that THC half-life goes from 1.4 days in the first days after smoking (without any major differences between frequent and occasional users) to approximately 4 days for occasional users and 7 days for frequent users in later days. [3]
This means that 27 mg will require about 3 days to get below the recommended 50 ng/mL drug test threshold because after 1.5 days it will be 180/2 = 90 ng/mL, and in the next 1.5 days, it will be 90/2 = 45 ng/mL.
For a confirmation test with a 20 ng/mL cutoff, infrequent users will need almost 5 days to test negative, while frequent users will need up to 7 days.
However, it's good to keep in mind that these calculations may vary significantly depending on many variables, which include age, body mass, lifestyle, and personal metabolism.
Read more: How Long Does Weed Stay In Your System?
How Long for One Joint to Get Out of Your System?
Here is the math:
In the study above, a weak marijuana strain was used. Let's take their findings and recalculate the number of days for other strains knowing how much THC is in the joint.
An average pinner with 15% THC has 48 mg of THC, which gives near 320 ng/mL of THC-COOH in the urine after smoking. This concentration will be reduced to 160 ng/mL in 1.5 days, 80 ng/mL in 3 days, and 40 ng/mL in 4.5 days, so you need almost 4 days to pass a drug test after smoking such a joint. Since THC half-life later grows to 4 and 7 days for infrequent and frequent users respectively, you may need from 8 to 11 days to get below 20 ng/mL and pass a confirmation test.
For a joint with 15% and 112.5 mg THC, the calculation will be 750 ng/mL THC-COOH after smoking, 375 ng/mL in 1.5 days, 187.5 ng/mL in 3 days, and almost 94 ng/mL in 4.5 days. With an increasing half-life it will take 8–11 days to get below 50 ng/mL and from 10 days to 2 weeks to get below 20 ng/mL.
Days to pass initial drug test with 50 ng/mL cutoff:
Pinner (0.32 gr) Joint (0.75 gr)
Casual user Heavy user Casual user Heavy user
5% 2 2 4 4
10% 3 3 6 7
15% 4 4 8 11
20% 5 5 10 14
25% 6 7 11 16
30% 7 10 12 18
NOTE! The calculations here are estimates, as personal metabolism has a major impact on the time THC needs to get out of your system.
To get THC out of your system completely down to zero, you need almost one month for infrequent users and a few months for heavy smokers.
How to Find the Exact Time?
To find the exact time a joint needs to get out of your system, you need to buy a home drug test to test yourself and control the level of marijuana metabolites in your system. One of the best home tests available is the UTest-O-Meter Multi-Level Home THC Urine Test. Unlike the usual tests, this one checks THC in the urine in 4 different levels, which are 20 ng/mL, 50 ng/mL, 100 ng/mL, and 200 ng/mL. This helps you to better understand how fast your body cleanses itself from traces of weed.
How to Reduce This Time
To speed up THC withdrawal and reduce the time a joint needs to get out of your system, you need to drink a lot of water, urinate frequently, and use marijuana detox kits to cleanse your urine and avoid failing a drug test.
 1. One of the big questions in marijuana research has been answered. Christopher Ingraham - The Washington Post.
 2. Chemistry, Metabolism, and Toxicology of Cannabis: Clinical Implications. Priyamvada Sharma PhD, Pratima Murthy, M.M. Srinivas Bharath - NCBI.
 3. Urinary Excretion of 11-nor-9-Carboxy-AgTetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabinoids in Frequent and Infrequent Drug Users. Anne Smith-Kielland, Bjørn Skuterud, Jørg Mørland - Journal of Analytical Toxicology.


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One way of determining the heath of a Rotary engine is to conduct a "Compression" test. Done correctly this will give you a good indication of general condition of each Rotor's Apex, Side and Corner Seals. It will be necessary to "Normalise" results to a Crank speed of 250 rpm. It would be extremely rare for the engine to crank at that exact speed.
(The engine must be at normal operating temperature)
1. Remove the Leading spark-plug on each Rotor. (Disconnect Crank Case Sensor).
2. With the throttle wide open, crank engine to clear out any liquid or contaminates in the rotor housings.
3. Connect up Calibration Equipment.
4. Screw the calibrated pressure Transducers into the leading spark plug hole on each rotor housing.
4. Crank engine with throttle wide open and the clutch pedal fully down.
5. Using the Laptop record output from measurement equipment.
6. Convert readings into required figures.
7. Normalise results for 250rpm.
8. Record actual "Compression Test Results" (see below).
9. Print Customer Hardcopy.
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A dog-leg is a sharp change in the orientation of a well bore due to shifting azimuth and/or inclination. Such shifts in a well orientation can make it difficult to run pipe and logging tools through an affected interval. Borehole images drawn from dog-leg sections are often degraded due to hole enlargement, tool marking of the wall and the effects of any stick and pull that may arise from the problem of threading a tool string around what is essentially a corner. Inspection of a well orientation survey will usually detail dog-leg severity, allowing its tie-in to image log quality.
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Shrouded Daggers is a skill located in the Dual Wield (which can be found in the Weapon skill tree). Shrouded Daggers is a morph of Hidden Blade
Shrouded Daggers deals the following types of damage: Physical Damage. Which means that it gets buffed by the following blue champion point trees: Master at Arms, Mighty, Piercing, Precise Strikes. Also the following red champion point trees protect against this skill: Hardy, Iron Clad.


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Tractor batteries are an open cell type. This type of battery allows you to add distilled water to each individual cell. In order to add water to the battery, you may have to remove the battery from the tractor to gain access. Once the individual cells are topped off with water, you can then connect the storage device to a regular battery charger. The overall charging time may exceed 12 hours.
Wear safety glasses whenever servicing any type of battery. Small particles can become airborne during the service operation.
Use either a 7/16-inch or half-inch end wrench to remove the negative (-) battery clamp from the battery terminal post, depending on your battery clamp. Turn the wrench in a counter-clockwise direction. Next, loosen and remove the positive (+) clamp from the battery.
Remove the battery from the tractor. Place the battery on a firm surface in a well-ventilated area.
Unscrew and remove the top battery caps from each individual cell. A 12-volt battery will have six caps, and 6-volt batteries will have three caps. Each cell contains a separate charging plate that can hold a charge of 2 volts. The plates are internally connected to give the final battery voltage.
Add distilled water to each separate cell. The water level should be to the bottom plastic ring in each cell.
Clean the terminal battery posts with the steel brush. The posts should have a shiny metallic color.
Connect the battery charger to the battery in the following order. Attach the black clamp to the negative (-) terminal, then secure the red clamp from the battery charger to the positive (+) post on the battery.
Observe the voltage selector switch on the face of the battery charger. Ensure the switch is in the correct voltage position. A 12-volt battery must be charged by 12 volts. A 6-volt battery must have the voltage switch set to the 6-volt charging state. Plug the charger into the wall outlet.
Remove the battery from the charger once the meter on the face of the battery charger reaches "0 amperes." The battery is now fully charged. Place the battery back in the tractor in the reverse order of what was described in step 2.


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 Alexandria students raise money for pancreatic diseases after teacher's death
 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WJLA) - Summer break is just around the corner for students at Hollin Meadows Elementary School.
 The school year has been especially tough for the sixth-graders - their math and science teacher, Jeffrey Firman, was diagnosed with pancreatitis before the school year started, leading him to miss school sometimes throughout the year.
 Sadly, Firman left for spring break and never returned. He died on April 16.
 "Even though we only knew him for half a year, some of us have been here since kindergarten, so we have seen him around. So it was sort of painful," said sixth-grader Richard Harrison.
 Teacher Angie Palma said, when the students returned to school, "they really needed something."
 That something was to keep Mr. Firman's memory alive. The students decided to raise money for all pancreatic diseases.
 "So we can honor him and help other people who are suffering the same illness," sixth-grader Daniel Schudlich explained.
 Before he died, Firman had explained to his classes how serious pancreatic diseases can be, and how limited both research and awareness is currently.
 While Firman didn't have cancer, the statistics are still startling.
 The American Cancer Society estimates that, in 2014, there will be about 46,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer, and roughly 39,000 deaths.
 "Other people are in need because of this illness," Daniel added.
 So far, the students have raised just over $1,600 - but their goal is to raise $2,100, because Mr. Firman taught at Hollin Meadows for 21 years.
 "I know their goal, for the kids, is just to reach it - but I know we can pass it," said Palma.
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The exchange rate between Brazilian Real (BRL) and United States Dollar (USD) is among the popular foreign exchange pairs traded globally. In 2023, the exchange rate remains a crucial indicator for traders, investors, and individuals seeking to transfer money between Brazil and the United States.
What is the Current Exchange Rate between BRL and USD?
As of January 2023, the exchange rate between BRL and USD is 31 BRL to 5.68 USD. The exchange rate may fluctuate depending on various factors, including inflation rates, political stability, and market demand.
Factors Affecting the BRL to USD Exchange Rate
The BRL to USD exchange rate is influenced by various factors, including:
1. Economic Stability
The economic stability of Brazil and the United States affects the exchange rate. A stable economy attracts foreign investments, which leads to a higher demand for the local currency, increasing its value.
2. Inflation Rates
Inflation rates affect the purchasing power of a currency, which affects the exchange rate. High inflation rates lead to a depreciation of the local currency, leading to a lower exchange rate.
3. Political Stability
Political stability plays a crucial role in the exchange rate. A country with a stable political environment attracts foreign investments, leading to a higher demand for the local currency.
How to Convert 31 BRL to USD
To convert 31 BRL to USD, you need to multiply the amount of BRL by the current exchange rate. For instance, if the exchange rate is 31 BRL to 5.68 USD, you will multiply 31 by 5.68, which gives you 176.08 USD.
Tips for Transferring Money Between Brazil and the United States
When transferring money between Brazil and the United States, consider the following tips:
1. Compare Exchange Rates
Different financial institutions offer different exchange rates. It is essential to compare the rates to get the best deal.
2. Consider Transfer Fees
Some financial institutions charge transfer fees, which may affect the amount you receive. Consider the fees before making a transfer.
The timing of the transfer can affect the exchange rate. Monitor the exchange rate and make a transfer when the rate is favorable.
The BRL to USD exchange rate remains a crucial indicator for individuals and businesses seeking to transfer money between Brazil and the United States. Factors such as economic stability, inflation rates, and political stability affect the exchange rate. To convert 31 BRL to USD, multiply the amount of BRL by the current exchange rate. Consider the tips when transferring money between Brazil and the United States to get the best deal.


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Spider legs use hydraulic pressure. When they die their legs curl because the liquid dries up!
Spiders' legs curl up is because a spider uses hydraulic pressure to push liquid into it's legs that allow it to move, and when it dies the liquid drains out making the legs curl up
If you've ever killed a spider (without completely squishing it) or come across one that is already dead, you know that their legs curl up beneath them when they die. You may be too busy being grossed out by this eight-legged creature to wonder just why this is. Human's limbs don't curl inward after they die. So what is going on with this posthumous tendency.
It turns out that spiders' legs are hydraulic. Or more specifically, two of the six joints in their legs are hydraulic. In order to straighten these joints and subsequently their legs, spiders flex their muscles and increase the pressure. When the spider dies, it obviously loses control over it's leg system and relaxes. The legs then curl upward automatically because no pressure is keeping them straightened.


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Nota di Lavoro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 75.2015
The article proposes a social network analysis of the main European capitalisms and its correspondence with an index of economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the firm defined by the regulations), the second refers to the internal obligations within the business system itself that prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded. After an operationalization of the two concepts of freedom, the analysis of a comprehensive database allows us to explore the relationship between the two kinds of freedom.
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Proton Satria P2424 Engine Error Code
When you check Proton Satria car engine light came on code P2424 the reason should be. However Proton manufacturer may have a different definition for the P2424 OBD-II Diagnostic Powertrain (P) Trouble Code. So you should chech it on our car models.
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P2424 HC Adsorption Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold Bank 2 so you have to check ODB-II Engine Error Code list.
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The reason of Proton Satria P2424 OBD-II Engine Error Code is P2424 HC Adsorption Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold Bank 2.
If your P2424 Proton Satria check engine light is illuminated, it's best to take it in for diagnostic testing, which can feel like a hassle. Because while the lights vary in appearance from vehicle to vehicle, all have the same basic meaning: There's a problem with the car's emissions system. The on-board diagnostics system and engine control unit are in charge of monitoring a bunch of different P2424 Proton Satria, and if they get a reading that's a little out of whack, up pops the check engine light.
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Call Process Review
Following a decision by the 2015 General Convention of Synod (Resolution 151209), the then General Church Council commissioned an investigation into the LCA call process in order to hear from congregations about their views and expectations of the process and to identify ways the system could be improved.
The review made a number of recommendations. Overall it found that the system itself does not require significant structural change. However, it did identify that there is frustration about the system and a process that can be disheartening for some calling bodies. As a result, the review also identified scope for improvement in the efficiency and transparency of the process.
The General Church Board has received the report, considered its recommendations and approved a series of actions to implement them. These actions were developed in consultation with the College of Bishops. Some of them are already under development; for example, Church Worker Support is working on a framework for annual vocational reviews of pastors. Others will be developed and rolled out through this synodical period and beyond.
The focus of the actions is to support both calling bodies and pastors to:
- improve trust in the call process
- increase the chances of a good calling body/pastor fit
- improve the understanding of how the call process works, and
- ensure greater professionalism, and overall efficiency and transparency in the system.
These actions can be implemented through policy, operational processes and provision of resources to support all participants in the call system.
Click on the button below to read General Church Board's response to the recommendations of the review report.


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Grant Manager - Global Grants and Charitable Donations
The Grant Manager is responsible for executing healthcare related grant and charitable donation plans within the United States, Puerto Rico and globally. The Grant Manager exhibits a strong knowledge of grant making best practices, educational gaps in assigned therapeutic areas and participates in strategy development with Senior Managers. Additionally, the Grant Manager will lead cross-departmental projects designed to improve the effectiveness, efficiency or compliance of grant strategy execution.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Conduct and evaluating needs assessments, determining clinical/education gaps, determining learning objectives, completing compliance evaluations, managing grant spending against budget, and building and evaluating outcomes measurement reports.
- Assist in the development and implementation of grant and donation strategic plans.
- Review Medical Education (ME) and Non-Medical Education (NME) grants and Charitable Donations (CD). Ensure that requests align with applicable strategy, clinical and scientific principles and policy, laws/regulations, outcome measurements, adult learning principles and other relevant criteria.
- Analyze financial reports (e.g. budget, Plan, LBE), and activity outcomes and impacts.
- Attend supported programs to audit, monitor, or assess educational value on a periodic basis.
- Demonstrate in depth knowledge of all systems used in the grant management process, and contribute to system updates/upgrades.
- Keep abreast of best practices in grant processing and continually improve the quality and efficiency of grant review and approval.
- Abide by internal policies and procedures as well as external and local guidelines to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations.
- Demonstrate subject matter expertise through development and maintenance of departmental policies, procedures, training material, work instructions, audit documents, checklists, etc. Develop and deliver training to colleagues in related to grant review policies and best practices.
- Interact with requestors while demonstrating strong customer service during grant submission assessment and approval or denial. Proactively resolve issues that arise throughout process.
- Actively contribute to department mission by sharing recommendations/solutions for key business issues, and serve as key resource for interpretation of policies, procedures, and strategic grant and donation plans.
- Develop and maintain an effective network of relationships across internal and external customers and functional support teams.
- Manages assigned projects and ensures timely completion of deliverables as per plan.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders, and effectively manage conflict and competing priorities.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and multitask to enhance productivity and manage workload in an appropriate manner.
- Seek to achieve Certification of CME Professional (CCMEP) by completing a minimum of three qualifying points per year and passing exam once meeting minimum exam requirements.
- Reports to the Senior Manager, Global Grants and Charitable Donations.
- Provides project leadership across department.
- Supervises tasks performed by Grant Analysts.
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science required.
- 4 years of health care experience working in medical education, grants, medical affairs, legal and/or compliance departments.
- Attention to detail and ability to critically and strategically evaluate submitted grants.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated creative problem solving skills to maximize productivity and resolve complex issues.
- Manage multi-faceted projects, while working in a cross functional environment and demonstrating a positive professional presence.
- Health Care Professional or Master's degree.
- Understanding of adult learning principles.
- Certification of CME Professional (CCMEP).
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, Medical Education, applicable regulations, and health care/medical terms.
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Controlling Sound against your opponents
Did you know that controlling the noise you make can give you the upper hand over your opponents? Valorant is a very noisy game, for better of for worse, and it's up to you to take advantage of this feature.
In addition to their motor functions and mechanical qualities, a player's efficiency and talent also depend on their ability to accumulate information. Tactical Shooters like Valorant realy heavily on unknown factors (position of opponents, weaponry, location of the Spike), from which flow decisions and therefore strategies.
You could think that sight is the main vector of information in a game. However, the sound is very often much more important. You will hear your opponents much more often than you will see them. It's therefore mandatory to learn how to control your sound environment to progress in Valorant.
What is meant by noise in Valorant?
In Valorant, all actions performed by a player make noise. And each noise is characteristic of an action. The noise you make when walking on an iron floor is different from the noise you make on a wooden floor. The sound you make when you walk is different from the sound you make when you jump. And the sound you make when you jump on an iron box is different from the sound you make when you jump on a wooden box. As you can see, there are many subtleties in sound that can be identified by a keen ear.
Not only your movements make noise, but also the use of your skills, the plant or the attempt to defuse the Spike, reloading your weapon and, of course, firing with your weapons.
I'm making noise, so what?
In Valorant, sound is spatialised. This means that depending on your position relative to the point of origin of the sound, you will hear it differently. It can be more or less loud as more or less muffled. As a result, if you make noise, an attentive player with good sound equipment will be able to pinpoint your exact location.
This is why taking information on enemy positions is more by ear than by eye. The sounds pass through walls, floors and cover each other according to their power and their distance.
In the same way that it is important to spot the sounds made by opponents, it's just as important to reduce as much as possible the noises you make yourself. It's impossible to win a Valorant game without making any noise, but teams that know how to reduce their noise emissions as much as possible will be more discreet and therefore more efficient.
Which sounds can help my opponents?
Pretty much anyone you can hear yourself, but there are exceptions. We're going to see them one by one, but first of all, let's talk about the range of the sounds. As you move around in Valorant, you can see a fairly large circle around your character on your minimap.
This circle corresponds to the area in which your footsteps can be heard by your opponents. Any player in the circle can hear you walking. You should always pay attention to this circle when playing Valorant. This area will gradually become instinctive through training.
For the rest of our explanations, we'll use this circle as a reference. This is then the average range of the sounds, but all the actions you make in the game won't have exactly the same volume, and therefore the same range. Some sounds can spread much further (such as gunshots), others have a lower range.
We'll therefore admit 4 sound levels.
|Inaudible sound||Muffled sound||Normal sound||Very loud sound|
If we take the mini-map aforementioned, here is roughly what each sound level corresponds to.
Before listing most of the important sounds, note that some are tricky. It's not because you or your allies can hear them that your opponents can hear them too. Here is the list of the sounds that your opponents can hear:
|Jumps and Falls|
|Jump (crouching)||Fall (low height)|
|Fall (medium height)|
|Fall (high height)|
|Fall (on an ally)|
|Hanging on/off a rope (running)|
|Hanging on/off a rope (walking)|
|Go up/down a rope (running)|
|Go up/down a rope (walking)|
|Throwing a weapon|
|Picking up a weapon|
|Equipping an ability|
|Using an ability|
|Using an ultimate|
|Picking up an orb (start)|
|Picking up an orb (completion)|
|Planting the Spike (start)|
|Planting the Spike (completion)|
|Defusing the Spike (start)|
|Defusing the Spike (completion)|
|Using a teleport on Bind|
|Crossing a smoke/screen|
|Crossing a Cypher trap|
|Getting spotted by Cypher/Sova|
|Crossing Sage's Slow Orb (running)|
|Crossing Sage's Slow Orb (walking)|
|Teleport with Omen (start)|
|Teleport with Omen (completion)|
|All noises during the buy phase|
By knowing the volume of the different Valorant sounds, you can establish small strategies. It hey will not serve you in every game, they will nevertheless allow you to potentially take advantage over your opponents.
Just as you should always be aware of the noise you're making, you should also be aware of the importance of these noises. A footstep will give less information to your opponent than using a rope, for example. Indeed, you can virtually walk anywhere on a map, but if you're heard using a rope, the opponent can know exactly where you are.
This is where strategy begins! Even if it sounds counter intuitive, sometimes it's better to make a big common noise than a rare little noise. A shared noise says less about your intentions or your position.
A typical example is Sage resurrection sound. Sage res makes you vulnerable for a little while, and your opponents may take advantage of it to rush you and eliminate your ally while they're still in their crystal. On the other hand, by shooting with your weapon when reviving an ally, the sound of the shot will cover the noise of the res. Your opponents may know where you are, but they'll not know that you are brinig a teammate back to battle.
This logic applies to many cases. In the event of a fall: there are few places you can fall from (usually windows), allowing your enemies to spot you. By firing with your weapon when you land, you will of course make more noise than when you fall, but the sound of the fall will be covered. Imagine that your enemies are hidden and defending a bomb site, using this technique allows you to enter this site by jumping from a window without your opponents knowing which access you used.
Overall, strategies that take advantage of sound are much more effective as a team than solo. Throw Raze Paint Shells or teleport with Omen while your allies go bang around enemies, and you can surprise them.
In short, the noises you make can betray you as well as serve you. Learn how to control them, coordonate with your teammates and you'll have another big advantage in your Valorant games.


How to calculate VAT in Excel (template)
In this article, you will learn how to calculate VAT in Excel using a function? And what formula can we use to calculate the amount of VAT paid if the only information you have is the total amount?
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Well, calculating tax in excel is quite easy. VAT (value-added tax) is the most common type of tax applied to goods. Now GST (goods and services tax) applies to almost all kinds of goods, but for some products, such as spirits, VAT still exists. In the same way you can calculate GST. After reading this article, you will learn:
1) Calculating VAT in Excel
2) How to calculate the selling price of a product
The general formula for calculating VAT in Excel:
Purchase Price *% VAT
The general formula for calculating the sales price:
Purchase price + taxes
Suppose we are dealing with beverages (all kinds). We assume that a different% of VAT applies to each product. And this VAT is listed. We need to calculate the VAT and the sales price.
Step 1: Prepare the table
We have prepared an Excel spreadsheet below.
Step 2. Calculate the amount of VAT
In cell E2, write this formula and press Enter.
= D2 * C2
The amount of VAT will be calculated in E4 for milk. Drag the formula down to E10.
Note: The "%" symbol is mandatory in the % VAT column. If you do not want to use the % symbol, you have to put the percentage before the number "0". This is because Excel converts "number%" to "number / 100".
Step 3: Calculate the sales price:
In cell F2, write this formula and press Enter.
= C2 + E2
The formula for the sales price is "Costs + Taxes" (not including profits). We assume that VAT is the only tax that applies to your product. Then the purchase price + VAT, taxes.
And it's done. Your Excel VAT calculator is ready.
You can add totals to the bottom row or to the far right column, as most beginners do. But a clever way to display totals is on the top row, right above the headers, so it's always visible (if the top row is frozen).
Now you know how to calculate VAT in Excel. You can use this Excel tax formula to create an instant Excel spreadsheet for the VAT calculator. You can override the process to create the tax rate formula in Excel.
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Word problem on Percentage
In a room with 35 men, 80 percent of the occupants are women. How many women are in the room?
Answer STEP 1:
The percentage of women present in the room is given as 80. So, in a room with only women and men, the percentage of men present will be 100 – 80 = 20.STEP 2:
Since we are given the number of men in the room, we find that it is easy find the number of women, if we know the total number of occupants in the room. Let's assign any variable say x
for the total number of people. Now, let us determine x
Percentage of men × total occupants = Number of menSTEP 3:
The total number of occupants in the room is 175, and the number of men is 35. Subtract 35 from 175 to get the number of women in the room.


Sydney Padua. Pantheon, $28.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-90827-8
This print edition of Padua's webcomic is a must-have for anyone who enjoys getting lost in a story as brilliant in execution as conception. Padua's debut graphic novel transforms the collaboration between Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron) and Charles Babbage (a noted polymath) into an inspired, "What If?" story. Lovelace was a talented mathematician and helped translate a paper on Babbage's ideas for an Analytical Engine, the world's first computer. The notes she added to the translation were so cleverly detailed that experts today recognize them as the first example of computer programming. Although Lovelace died a few years later and Babbage was left to tinker with his Analytical Engine until his death, Padua imagines an alternate reality where they build the engine and use it to "have thrilling adventures and fight crime!" The immensity of Padua's research and the wit and allusions of her prose are striking, saying as much about what drove her to explore the possibilities of her protagonists' relationship as about the protagonists themselves. Permeated by delightful illustrations, obsessive footand endnotes, and a spirit of genuine inventiveness, it's an early candidate for the year's best. (Apr.)
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Release date: 04/21/2015
Genre: Comics
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A tool to automate removal of generated logs after a set amount of time.
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The library will accept a custom config object being passed into the schedule function. If no object is passed through then the default config will be used.
If startTheJobAutomatically is set to false, remember to call job.start(), assuming job is the variable you set the cron job to. Unfortunately, for now this is hard coded to true.
For the timeZone if you need others, check the moment-timezone npm module
timeToTake is the time which will be looked at when deleting logs.
timeToTake is either mtime, ctime or fileName. The modified time, the created time or a date specified in the file name.
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cronTime uses standard cron input. This allows for more explicit control of the timed settings of the cron Job
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Brussels, 27 November 2003
Travelling with pets: Pet passports to be introduced in July 2004
The European Commission today adopted a Decision establishing a model passport which will allow pets and their owners to travel more easily within the European Union. New EU legislation(1) comes into force in July 2004 which will mean all cats, dogs and ferrets will need a passport to travel. The pet passport, a veterinary document, will provide proof that the animal has been vaccinated against rabies. This is the sole requirement for pets to travel to all Member States except Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom(2). The passport can also contain details of other vaccinations, including those not required by law, as well as information on the animal's medical history.
David Byrne, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner said: "This is great news for pet owners like myself. A pet passport will be accepted throughout the EU as proof that a pet has received the anti-rabies vaccination. It also makes it easier for vets to learn about the pet's medical history. This is a significant step for the free movement of people and their pets and a step that was made possible by dramatic advances made in our fight against rabies. Rabies is now close to being totally eradicated from the EU".
Why do pets need passports?
Harmonised veterinary controls on the movement of animals between Member States for trade have been in place for some time. The same rules do not exist for pets. Member States require many different documents to prove a pet meets the veterinary conditions required for travel.
Regulation 998/2003 harmonised the rules on travelling with pets to make it easier for EU citizens and their cats or dogs to enjoy the freedom of movement within the Union. From 3 July 2004 the Regulation will require cats, dogs and ferrets to have a pet passport. It will provide proof that the animal has been vaccinated against rabies. This is the sole requirement for pets to travel to all Member States except Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The pet passport will be accepted in all Member States. It can also contain details of other vaccinations and clinical examinations to give a clear picture of the animal's health status. This will facilitate veterinary checks and provide evidence of good health for a pet travelling to third countries free of rabies or where the disease is under control.
What will the passport look like?
The pet passport will measure 100 x 152 mm with a blue cover and the yellow stars of the European emblem. The languages used will be English and the official language of the Member State where the passport is issued. The words "European Union" and the name of the Member State will appear on the cover, along with the passport number which is the ISO code of the Member State followed by a unique number.
What difference will it make?
Travelling with pets will become much easier. All the different documents needed for travel into each Member State will be replaced by one veterinary document, the pet passport, which will be recognised across the EU. Visits to the vet will also become much more straightforward as the passport can instantly inform the vet about the pet's medical history.
More information: IP/02/950. If you would like to receive a copy of the passport electronically, please send an e-mail to _EMAIL_, indicating the language.
(1) Regulation 998/2003.
(2) Pets travelling to Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom from the rest of the EU need to have an antibody titration test several months after the rabies vaccination to check it has been effective. The UK and Ireland also require pets to be treated for ticks and tapeworm (echinococcus) as part of the Pets Travel Scheme (PETS). Pets travelling to Sweden need to follow different procedures according to the country of origin.


text: Steel-fiber-reinforced concrete is a composite material which is becoming more and more widely employed in building construction, due to its better resistance to cracking and to crack propagation with respect to plain concrete. Its mechanical behavior strongly depends on the choice of fiber properties and their volume fraction in the concrete mixture. As any material used in building construction, the "on-site" test of its properties represents a very important task. Often, this requires the employment of noninvasive and nondestructive measurement procedures that have to be carried out directly in situ. In this paper, a new method for the estimation of the fiber density and their average orientation is presented. The measurement technique is based on the employment of a probe that is sensitive to the magnetic properties of the steel fibers. The performance of the method has been theoretically and experimentally analyzed.


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What is an RPM?
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RPM is an abbreviation for Revolutions Per Minute. In the automotive industry the term RPM is used when referring to a motor vehicle's engine speed. The tachometer is an instrument that is able to measure the speed of rotation of the internal combustion engine's crankshaft at a given moment. The rate of rotation of an internal combustion engine's crankshaft varies on how much power is required from the combustion process. Therefore RPM is the amount of revolutions the crankshaft in an internal combustion engine experiences in 1 minute.
The faster the engine's crankshaft rotates, the higher the RPM will be. And generally speaking, the faster the crankshaft rotates, the closer you'll get be to an engines maximum torque and horsepower output.
Technology and engine design is improving all the time. As a result, the internal combustion engines are becoming – not only more powerful – but the engine crankshafts are able to rotate/spin at higher speeds more smoothly and safely. Eight thousand rpm is a limit becoming common place for a number of engine designs to spin their crankshaft freely up to. It might just be a matter of time before passenger cars will run freely to 10 000 rpm and beyond – territory currently reserved for racing cars. We hope that helps answer the question 'What is What is an RPM?'!
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A voice signal sample is stored as one byte. Frequency range is 16 Hz to 20 Hz. What is the memory size required to store 4 minutes voice signal?
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 - Jul 16th, 2005
its 9600 bytes. as the voice frequency irange is in between 16-20,so sampling frequency must be grater than 40hz,so number of samples in 4min=40*240=9600 samples hemce we need a memory of 9600 bytes to store the voice signal
 - Aug 22nd, 2005
Its just 1440 bytes. Bandpass sampling frequency is just 6Hz. so just 6*240 bytes.
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 - Feb 28th, 2006
would u plz explain how it is 1440 bytes??????????????
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prem kiran
 - Aug 1st, 2006
since the signal is in the band 16-20 HZ. bandwidth is 4HZ and so 8HZ sampling rate enough..i.e 8 s/sec. 4min=240sec.
4min duration has 8*240 samples
and each sample has 8 bits,so min required memory is 8*8*240=1920 bytes
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Sundeep Borra
 - Aug 8th, 2006
It's 1920Bytes. As the bandwidth (f2-f1) is 20-16=4Hz. The sampling frequency should be twice the bandwidth (2B). the sampling frequency is 8Hz= 8 samples= 8 cycles/second.
4 minutes=(4*60) =240 Seconds
1sample->1 Byte
1Second->8 Samples
240 Seconds->(240*8) = 1920 Samples
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 - Dec 30th, 2006
band width : 4Hzsampling freq : 2*4(=8)Hz or above4 minutes = 4*60secs = 240 secsnumber of byte required minimum = 240*8=1920 bytes
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 - May 16th, 2007
Two things i wish to point here.
1) They have said that they are representing each sample by 8 bits. which implies that the sampling frequency is quite high. and that for one cycle of the minimum freq we get 256 samples.
2) Regarding the criterion that the sampling frequency should be twice of the bandwidth. this is applicable only when we are dealing with base band signal. whereas here it is pass band (since 16 to 20 is significant in our case).
So the sampling frequency should be quite high considering the two facts.
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 - Jul 12th, 2007
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem states that perfect reconstruction of a signal is possible when the sampling frequency is greater than twice the maximum frequency of the signal being sampled...so imagine sampling a 16Hz signal with 8hz...there's gonna be a sample every 2 cycles!..it has to be 40
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 - Aug 17th, 2008
Voice sample = 8 bit
Smaple frequency = 1/20 s = 0.05s
for 4 minutes = 4*60(minto sec)/0.05 = 4800 sample
s0 total memory = 8 * 4800 = 38400 bits = 4800 Bytes = 4.69 KB
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 - Aug 28th, 2008
banwidth of signal=4Hz
according to niquist theorem sampling frequency>=2*bandwidth
so sampling freq=2*4Hz(8 samples /sec)
1 samples is stored as 1 byte
so 8*8 bits/sec
so for 4 mins bits are = (4*60)*(64)=15KB
so asn is 15 KB.
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 - Nov 21st, 2009
Voice signal is sampled at 8000 samples per second. (Human voice is in the range of 300Hz-3400Hz, and according to nyquist sampling rate we take it more than double the rate).
For a 4 min. voice signal, we have
Memory = 4*60*8000 Bytes = 1875KB = 1.83 MB.
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 - Sep 30th, 2012
bt practically i required 1.07 mb to record 1.31 min speech,
any1 kno its calculation?
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A graph has a path from node $j$ to node $i$ if and only if its adjacency matrix has a positive element $(i,j)$ of $A^k$ for some integer $k.$
A proof for this statement will be highly appreciated.
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Hint. In fact there are $A_{ij}^m$ walks of length at most $m$ from $i$ to $j$. The inductive proof of this is pretty much identical to the one you're asking asking for, and your question follows a corollary.
Hint 2. Use $A_{ij}^m=\sum_{k=1}^n A_{ik}^{m-1}A_{kj}$.
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I think you mean walks of length exactly $m$. – Erick Wong Mar 10 '13 at 16:35
You may prove by mathematical induction. The base case is trivial. For the $k$-th iteration, note that $(A^k)_{ij}\not=0$ iff $(A^{k-1})_{i\ell}$ and $A_{\ell j}$ are both nonzero for some index $\ell$.
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Graph the subspace spanned by the vectors $i = (3,-2,-1)^T$, $j = (-2,0,-1)^T$.
You don't have to graph it, but the answer for this problem is $z = (-3/5)x - (6/5)y$. I don't understand how to come up with that answer. I tried setting $i=-j$ but to no avail. Also, sorry for writing $i,j$ with $^T$, I do not know how to format it to make it look like a column vector.
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Are you sure that's the right answer? The points $(3,-2,-1)$ and $(-2,0,-1)$ don't seem to be on that plane. – yunone Sep 22 '12 at 7:27
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I think something is not quite right here.
Since we are in $\mathbb{R}^3$ we can find the normal to the plane spanned by $i, j$ by $i \times j = (2,5,-4)^T$, hence the equation of the plane is $\langle (x,y,z)^T, i \times j \rangle = 2x+5y-4z =0$, which gives $z = \frac{1}{2} x + \frac{5}{4} y$.
Here is another approach that does not use the cross product:
Suppose $(x,y,z) = a i + b j = (3a-2b, -2a, -(a+b))$. Then, from $y$ we have $a = -\frac{y}{2}$, and from $x$ we have $b = -\frac{3}{4} y -\frac{1}{2} x$. Then $z = -(a+b) = \frac{1}{2} x + \frac{5}{4} y$.
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How did you get z=1/2x + 5/4y and (2,5,-4)^T? We haven't been taught the cross product yet. – diimension Sep 22 '12 at 21:53
I added another approach. – copper.hat Sep 22 '12 at 22:00
I understand now because of your help, thank you very much copper!! – diimension Sep 22 '12 at 23:15
You are very welcome, glad to be of help. – copper.hat Sep 23 '12 at 0:30
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The impact of pressure rise due to an internal arc (IA) event on the structure of a switchgear cubicle is of great importance for a safe design. Switchgear panels are designed for withstanding an internal arc incident as per the testing conditions defined by IEC 62271-200 standard. This paper reports on a calculation procedure employing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural finite element method (S-FEM). The approach is targeting a reduced numerical complexity, straight forward modelling, and stressing as little assumptions as possible. In the proposed method, time varying electric power is used as input along with other parameters for solving mass, momentum and energy equations by CFD. The peak pressure and rise time delivered by transient CFD simulation is needed to perform structural simulation. The structural calculation is performed using dynamic load factor.


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RC E-Bike Drivetrain tutorial
By Warren Beauchamp
RC based e-bike drives trains can be extremely efficient, high powered, and deliver a lot of bang for the buck. Because the RC industry is well established there are a wide range of vendors of products and they enjoy a reasonable price due to the high volumes of production. These systems are not designed for e-bike use, but can be readily adapted.
Note that building an RC e-bike drive train requires basic electronics and mechanical skills and use of a soldering iron. It also involves batteries with extremely high power density. The batteries used are very sensitive to over and under charging, and if damaged can catch fire in a spectacular manner. Also, these types of systems are not good for people looking for an e-bike appliance. These are more for someone looking for an e-bike hotrod.
Basic parts needed to build an RC drivetrain are an RC motor, ESC, servo tester, BEC, throttle, LiPo battery pack, and a gear system to reduce the motor RPM to bike wheel speeds.
Basic Terms
 - RC (radio controlled) - General term for products designed for the RC industry.
 - AC (alternating current) - as opposed to DC (direct current), AC voltage varies up and down around a zero point.
 - V (volts) - Generally the higher the voltage that faster you go. Sort of like how fast water flows through a hose.
 - A (amps) - This is current. Generally the more current you have, the faster you get to the top speed. 1000 milliamps (MA) = 1A
 - W (watts) - This is volts times amps. Usually used to show total power used. 1 kilowatt (KW) = 1000 watts. V * A = W
 - Controller - A device that controls the motor. Simplistically, it takes power from the battery and a signal from the throttle and used that to control how much power is sent to the motor.
RC Motor information
Motor Wiring
Builders of 3 phase brushless RC Motors Motor drivetrains have to pay attention to the motor wiring. RC motors have 6 power wires coming out of them, one set of wires for each group of windings.
These need to be arranged one of two ways, "Delta" or "Wye". Generally Wye (also called "star") is more efficient. Wye has 1.73 times less KV than Delta (slower speed per volts), but 1.73 times more torque. In general it's a good idea to stick with Wye configuration for electric bikes as e-bikes need slower motor speed, higher torque, and high efficiency.
For Wye configuration, the 3 positive wires are tied together, and the 3 negative wires go to the controller. These 3 negative wires are the phase wires, just like in a hub motor.
For Delta, the positive from one set of windings is connected to the negative of the next set. Each connection of positive and negative makes up one phase.
In both configurations, if you connect the ESC to the motor and it spins the wrong way, just reverse two of the phase wires from the ESC.
KV - RC Motors are AC brushless motors and are rated by their KV. KV is the relationship between voltage and motor speed (rpms per volt. Multiply the motor KV times the battery voltage to find the maximum motor RPM. For instance a motor with a KV of 100 would run unloaded at 5000 RPMs at 50V. Note that RPM with the motor under load is around 70% of the unloaded value. This means that the actual max motor speed while being used is about KV * V * 0.7
Windings - One of the main things that controls the KV of a motor is how the copper electro-magnets are wound. For example a 6 x 10 motor has 10 turns of wire on each pole, and 6 wires wound together in parallel onto each pole. A higher number of turns on each pole of the motor means a lower KV, lower RPM, and lower top speed. A lower number of turns on each pole of the motor means a higher KV, higher RPM and higher top speed.
Hall Sensors - Most e-bike specific motors use hall sensors. These are used to tell the controller what position the motor is in, so it knows when to send a pulse to the electro-magnets. RC Motors do not have any hall sensors, so at low RPM they can lose sync easily. Generally with RC bike systems you should pedal to at least 5MPH before the applying the throttle to avoid this issue. It is possible to retrofit hall sensors to RC motors but that will not be discussed here.
RC Motor Sync - For e-bike use, Inexpensive ECSs like Turnigy controllers can lose sync when accelerating under high load, at very low RPM, or at very high RPM. The loss of sync at high RPM sounds like the motor is screeching, and is accompanied by a loss of power. At low RPM it sounds like the motor is stuttering. This should be avoided as it stresses the controller. The Motor itself is also important. To help prevent the loss of sync a high quality motor like Plettenberg or AstroFlight is recommended.
Choosing an RC motor
There are several parameters to look at when choosing an RC motor for your e-bike application. The first is, inrunner or outrunner? With inrunner motors the shaft rotates. This is good for driving chains or belts. With outrunner motors the outside shell rotates. This is good for direct friction to tire drive applications.
Typical E-bike RC motors run at 8,000 to 12,000 RPM with no load. In general this means with a 50V battery pack you will want a KV of 225 or lower. With a motor like this you can use a simple 2 stage gear reduction. You will need to pick a motor that works with the reduction gearing you are using to deliver your chosen top speed at maximum RPM. Higher motor speeds can be used, but the speed reduction gearing becomes complex. RC e-bikers have used motors with much higher RPM with complex multi-stage or planetary gearing like the Neugart PLE units. The advantage of this is that the bike has much better low end torque.
The Astroflight 8120-5T is a 225KV motor. 5T refers to five of turns per coil in the motor. This motor when run at 48V and using a 14:1 gear reduction with a 20" wheel give a top speed of about 30MPH. Because the RC motor doesn't have hall sensors, it is a "pedal first" system. This means you will need to pedal up to about 5 MPH to allow the motor to get to a high enough RPM to sync properly at a high load. After that, whoosh!
Here's an RC Drive Calculator to help you figure out how the tire size, motor KV, battery voltage, and gearing all interact to give you a top speed.
Next you will need to determine how much power you need. RC motors are rated in watts. It takes around 2000 watts (2KW) to get up hills at a decent speed and to go over 20 MPH into a stiff headwind, so that should be the minimum to consider. Anything over 5000 watts is a monster motor and will require a very powerful battery and stronger than standard bicycle drivetrain components. Note that 750 watts is one horsepower.
Electronic Speed Controller (ESC)
RC Motors controllers (ESCs) are very small and light compared to traditional e-bike controllers, they are also smarter. This is nice because they are small and lightweight, but it's bad because they do not have the ability to shed heat as easily.
The RC controller (ESC) has to figure out the correct timing synchronization for each throttle position and load condition using EMF (electro motive force) feedback. Some RC controllers are better at this than others. Castle Creations controllers are an example of a good controller. Cheaper controllers like Turnigy work fine for aircraft use, as the low RPM / High load conditions of the aircraft environment are not nearly as rigorous as those in an electric bike.
Castle Creations controllers are programmable via USB. You'll need the Castle Creations USB adaptor to connect your PC to it. This will also allow you to download the logged data so you can see pretty graphs of your motor use. Click here for some suggested settings when using the HV160 with the Astro Flight 3210 motor.
RC Controllers are generally do not support voltages higher than 50V (12 LiPo cells in series). The ESCs have heavy power wires going in and three heavy phase wires going out. They also have 3 smaller wires that connect to the throttle circuitry (servo tester).
Note that the ESC throttle wire colors in the schematic above may not match those on your ESC and servo tester, and the little plug can be plugged in two ways. In general, red goes to red and black goes to brown and if you get those right the other one will be right too..
Throttle Electronics
The Throttle for an RC motor is more difficult than a traditional e-bike system because RC ESCs are designed to be throttled by signals from a radio receiver. To make is work with a resistive e-bike throttle you need a "servo tester" and a "battery elimination circuit" (BEC). The BEC converts the 48V from the battery to 5V for the servo tester.


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An Early British Sailor''s Woolwork Picture of the Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert II, Circa 1855-70 Dimensions: 27 inches x 20 inches HMY Victoria and Albert II (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360 foot steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,470 tons, and could make 15 knots on her paddles. There were 240 crew. Victoria and Albert II was scrapped in about 1904. The El Horria was built to the same specifications for Isma''il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt in 1865 and is the oldest steamship afloat. Below: HMY Victoria and Albert II by William Frederick Mitchell orginaly published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustrations.
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Definition/Scope: OOTW is a concept that refers to the use of military capabilities acroos a range of operations that is short of declared war. Such operations normally have very strict rules of engagement and will include purposes such as humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, supporting the United Nations and protecting national interests.
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Researchers hope their findings will help men who may have heard that they're supposed to be thinking about sex all day to feel normal.
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A study of college students may help dispel the idea that men think about sex every seven seconds. According to the findings, it's more like once every hour.
The men in the study reported thinking about sex an average of 19 times a day. If they were really thinking about sex every seven seconds, that would be over 8,000 times in a 16-hour waking day. Women in the study reportedly had sex on their mind only ten times a day. So according to the study, men do think about sex twice as often as women.
The study did not address how often subjects actually had sex -- just how often they thought about it. These are self-reported findings, but who ever lies about sex?
The study also looked at how often the students thought about other biological needs. Once again men had food (18 times a day compared to 15) and sleep (11 times a day compared to 8.5) on their minds more often than women. So men do seem to be a bit closer to their caveman roots.
The study also found that when it comes to thinking about sex, there's no such thing as one size fits all. People varied widely in how often their mind was on it. The high for men was 388 thoughts per day while the low was just one thought. Women ranged from one thought to 140 per day.
The study looked at 283 college students aged 18-25. One hundred sixty three were women and 120 were men. They all recorded how often they thought about sex, food, and sleep each day for one week, using a golf tally counter.
The best predictor of how often people thought about sex was not whether they were male or female, but how comfortable they were with sexuality. The more comfortable they were, the more they thought about sex.
The researchers hope the findings will ease the fears of men who might have heard that they're supposed to be thinking about sex every seven seconds and feel substandard because they don't. And they also hope it will help women who think about sex more often than their peers be more comfortable with themselves.
An article on the study appears in the Journal of Sex Research.
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Meeting with students to discuss the Message of the President of RK N.A. Nazarbayev
On 9 February 2017, Research Institute of Patriotic education held a meeting on explanation of the main provisions of the Message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev to people of Kazakhstan "Third modernization of Kazakhstan: global competitiveness".
Director of SRI of Patriotic education D.E. Jakupova noted that on 31 January 2017, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev addressed the nation with another message. Each message is a policy document and strategy to action – the current message is not an exception.
 In his message, President sees five main priorities. They are designed to provide growth of economy above the global average and sustainable progress into 30 most developed countries.
 1. The first priority is the accelerated technological modernization of the economy.
 2. The second priority is essential improvement and enhancing the business environment.
 3. The third priority is macroeconomic stability.
 4. The fourth priority is the improvement of the human capital quality.
 5. The fifth priority are institutional reforms, security and the fight against corruption.
After reading, the group held a discussion on the President's address to people of Kazakhstan. The important moments of contemporary realities and the directions of further development of our country were considered.
Overall, students took an active part in the discussion of the Message and constitutional reforms. The meeting was held in warm friendly atmosphere.