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Wordlist 8 Giving Nature a Hand مرکز مطالعات و توسعه آموزش علوم پزشکی
1. Advocate (v.) Definition: to publicly support or suggest an idea, development or way of doing something Synonym: support, advise, prescribe Example: She advocates taking a more long-term view. Word Family: ad·vo·ca·tive, adjective ad·vo·ca·tor, noun non·ad·vo·cate, noun pre·ad·vo·cate, noun
2. Aid (n.) D efinition: a piece of equipment that helps you to do something Synonym: assistant Example: teaching aids, such as books and videos Word Family: aid·er, noun aid·ful, adjective aid·less, adjective un·aid·ed, adjective un·aid·ed·ly, adverb
3. Alternative (adj.) Definition: affording a choice of two or more things, propositions, or cour ses of action. Synonym: substitute Example: an alternative route Word Family: al·ter·na·tive·ly, adverb al·ter·na·tive·ness, al·ter·na·tiv·i·ty, noun qua·si-al·ter·na·tive, adjective qua·si-al·ter·na·tive·ly, adverb
4. Ancestor (n.) Definition: a person related to you who lived a long time ago Synonym: forefather, predecessor Example: There were portraits of his ancestors on the walls of the room. Word Family:
5. Burial (n.) Definition: the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected with this Synonym: funeral, entombment Example: We went back to Ireland for my uncle's burial. Word Family: re·bur·i·al, noun
6. Combine (v.) Definition: to (cause to) exist together, or join together to make a single thing or group Synonym: amalgamate, merge, unite Example: None of us has much money so let's combine what we've got. Word Family: com·bin·er, noun in·ter·com·bine, verb (used with object), in·ter·com·bined, in·ter·com·bin·i ng. non·com·bin·ing, adjective pre·com·bine, verb, pre·com·bined, pre·com·bin·ing. re·com·bine, verb, re·com·bined, re·com·bin·ing.
7. Component (n.) Definition: a part which combines with other parts to form something bigger Synonym: part, element, ingredient, section Example: The factory supplies electrical components for cars. Word Family: com·po·nen·tial, adjective com·po·nent·ed, adjective sub·com·po·nent, noun
8. Confine (v.) Definition: to limit an activity, person or problem in some way Synonym: limit, restrict Example: Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please! Word Family: con·fin·a·ble, con·fine·a·ble, adjective con·fine·less, adjective con·fin·er, noun non·con·fin·ing, adjective pre·con·fine, verb (used with object), pre·con·fined, pre·con·fin·ing.
9. Discrimination (n.) Definition: an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction. Synonym: differentiation, distinction Example: His sharp ears has a great discrimination power. Word Family: dis·crim·i·na·tion·al, adjective an·ti·dis·crim·i·na·tion, adjective non·dis·crim·i·na·tion, noun pre·dis·crim·i·na·tion, noun self-dis·crim·i·na·tion, noun
10. Distant (adj) Definition: far away Synonym: far, remote Example: She could hear the distant sound of fireworks exploding. Word Family: dis·tant·ly, adverb dis·tant·ness, noun o·ver·dis·tant, adjective o·ver·dis·tant·ly, adverb qua·si-dis·tant, adjective
11. Eliminate (v.) Definition: to remove or take away Synonym: remove, get rid of, wipe out Example: A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease. Word Family: e·lim·i·na·tive, adjective non·e·lim·i·na·tive, adjective pre·e·lim·i·nate, verb (used with object), pre·e·lim·i·nat·ed, pre· e·lim·i·nat·ing. un·e·lim·i·nat·ed, adjective
12. Evaluation (n.) Definition: to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something Synonym: assessment, judgment Example: We shall need to evaluate how the new material stands up to wear and tear. Word Family: mis·e·val·u·a·tion, noun non·e·val·u·a·tion, noun o·ver·e·val·u·a·tion, noun re·e·val·u·a·tion, noun self-e·val·u·a·tion, noun
13. Exploration (n.) Definition: when you search and find out about something Synonym: investigation, study, inquiry Example: The exploration for new sources of energy is vital for the future of our planet. Word Family: re·ex·plo·ra·tion, noun
14. Impose (v.) Definition: to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to be obeyed or received Synonym: force, thrust, inflict Example: Very high taxes have recently been imposed on cigarettes. Word Family: im·pos·a·ble, adjective im·pos·er, noun o·ver·im·pose, verb (used with object), o·ver·im·posed, o·ver·im·pos· ing. pre·im·pose, verb (used with object), pre·im·posed, pre·im·pos·ing. re·im·pose, verb, re·im·posed, re·im·pos·ing.
15. Improve (v.) Definition: to (cause something to) get better Synonym: advance, progress, develop Example: He did a lot to improve conditions for factory workers. Word Family: im·prov·a·ble, adjective im·prov·a·bil·i·ty, im·prov·a·ble·ness, noun im·prov·a·bly, adverb im·prov·ing·ly, adverb pre·im·prove, verb (used with object), pre·im·proved, pre·im·prov·in g.
16. Inconvenience (n.) Definition: a state or an example of problems or trouble, which often causes a delay or loss of comfort Synonym: trouble, problem, Example: We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the late arrival of the train. Word Family: un·in·con·ven·ienced, adjective
17. Objective (n.) Definition: something which you plan to do or achieve Synonym: aim, intention, target Example: Her main/prime objective now is simply to stay in power. Word Family: ob·jec·tive·ly, adverb ob·jec·tive·ness, noun pre·ob·jec·tive, adjective qua·si-ob·jec·tive, adjective qua·si-ob·jec·tive·ly, adverb
18. Opt for (v.) Definition: do something instead of other things Synonym: choose, prefer Example: Most of the people opt for bicycles nowadays. Word Family:
19.Proportion (n.) Definition: the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to the whole Synonym: portion, amount, quantity Example: Children make up a large proportion of the world's population. Word Family: pro·por·tion·er, noun pro·por·tion·less, adjective mis·pro·por·tion, noun re·pro·por·tion, verb (used with object) su·per·pro·por·tion, noun
20. Sum (n.) Definition: an amount of money Synonym: amount, quantity, volume Example: Huge sums of money are spent on national defense. Word Family: sum·less, adjective sum·less·ness, noun out·sum, verb (used with object), out·summed, out·sum·ming.
21. Suspend (v.) Definition: to hang by attachment to something above. Synonym: hang, sling, swing Example: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling. Word Family: sus·pend·i·ble, adjective sus·pend·i·bil·i·ty, noun non·sus·pend·ed, adjective pre·sus·pend, verb (used with object) re·sus·pend, verb
22. Voluntary (adj.) Definition: done, made or given willingly, without being forced or paid to do it Synonym: optional, discretionary, non-compulsory Example: They chose to take voluntary redundancy


hits you in order to chamber. Note that stab directions are always irrelevant while chambering - any stab can chamber any other stab (if timed and aimed correctly). Also note that the window within which a chamber is possible is very small, and as such if your opponent delays their strike slightly (i.e uses a "drag") then you are most likely going to get hit. For more information about chambering, refer to this video.
Next, onto feinting. Many players will be familiar with this from Chivalry. This simply involves pressing Q during the windup of your attack. Note that there is a point during the windup at which you can no longer feint. A feint can be used to bait your opponent's parry and then score a hit afterwards. Note that you can feint almost all types of attacks, including ripostes (unlike in Chivalry). There is also another mechanic called the "feint-to-parry" button which essentially simulates pressing feint and then parry in an instant which can be used to stop and parry an incoming attack during the middle of your own strike (this is bound to RMB by default).
The final advanced mechanic is morphing. Morphs allow the player to start winding up an attack and quickly switch into a different type of strike. Currently you can morph stabs into slashes, or slashes into stabs, but you cannot morph a slash into a slash or a stab into a stab. To execute a morph, simply press the key of the first attack and then quickly press the key of the second attack. Note that ripostes cannot be morphed; however chambers can be morphed.
Mordhau has a wide variety of settings which you can take advantage of. To access the settings tab, click the "Settings" button in the main menu, or press escape and click the "Settings" button if you're in-game. Here you should be able to see different tabs which allow you to control different aspects of your game. For example, in the Video tab, you find all the video settings that you'd usually expect from a 3D game. If you're looking to squeeze the best performance out of a slightly old computer, you should consider turning down the resolution since this greatly reduces the load on your GPU. In the Controls tab you can set key bindings and mouse sensitivities. The menu is relatively intuitive and self-explanatory. More information may be added to this section at a later date.
In Mordhau, there are no classes. Instead, you can make your own loadouts consisting of whatever equipment and armour you wish, and then select it when you play. There are four default loadouts: Heavy, Medium, Light and Templar. These are all pretty arbitrary, and like I mentioned before, you can easily change these to suit your own preferences (I will explain how to do that in a second). When you join a game you will be met with a screen asking you which loadout you want to select. You can access this panel at any time using the "B" button to change to a different loadout.
In the escape menu you can find all the options pertaining to loadout customization. You can select a loadout using the dropdown box and create a new loadout using the green button to the right. In this menu you can select your primary, secondary and tertiary weapons, change your armour, or sculpt your character's face. Note that loadouts can be shared between people fairly easily: on Windows, you can find the information for each loadout in "\AppData\Local\Mordhau\Saved\Config\WindowsClient\Game.ini" which can then be sent to your friends (just make sure to only send them the relevant parts and not the entire file).
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Egyptian Discoveries Enlighten, Support the Bible
The Bible tells us that at the beginning of the Israelites' 430-year stay in Egypt, they were well respected for Joseph's sake. Later, when the Egyptian leadership forgot how Joseph saved Egypt, it began making their lives difficult.
One of the most enlightening archaeological finds from the period of Israel's captivity is a settlement called The Village of the Place of Truth. Excavators at the city have found homes, letters, notes, court records, work diaries and wills dating from this period. The village was home to those who built the royal tombs. While there is no evidence that the Israelites ever lived in the village, what has been found has revealed much about life in Egypt when Israel was there. We learn that Egypt had a tradition in which every citizen put in at least one year of service to the government. Those out of favor could be forced into years or even a lifetime of forced labor. However, it was considered an honor to work on the royal tombs, and it seems unlikely that the Israelites had much to do with them. The Bible tells us that the Israelites did, however, make bricks. That could include the very bricks that built the Village of the Place of Truth. Finally we learn that pigs were a staple among such workers, which certainly would be repugnant to the Israelites.
Archaeologists have concluded that the biblical record of Israel's stay in Egypt has too many accurate details about Egypt to be nothing more than a legend.

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In EYFS we use an exciting way to record, track and share your child's learning during their time in nursery and reception. This system, called 'Tapestry', is an 'online learning journal' and enables staff to take photographs, videos and make written observations of some of the 'wow' activities your child does at school. Once set up, you can access this information through the Tapestry app or website (using your email address and a secure password to log in) so that you can celebrate their learning at home too. You can also add your own photos and comments to the journal, send us messages or ask any questions that you may have about your child in school. We set up a parents' noticeboard for each class where general information and letters are posted, and find that this is a very effective way of keeping in touch and communicating with you as parents.
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I need help on a math question.
Carly makes a rectangular pepperoni pizza using a 12-inch by 16-inch rectangular pan. If Kyle wants to make a circular pepperoni pizza that is approximately the same thickness as Carly's pizza using the same amount of dough, what should be the diameter of Kyle's circular pan? Please round your answer to the nearest tenth of an inch.
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For this question, you need to find the area of the rectangular pan of pizza first. As you know, you find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the two sides by one another. In this case, that is 12*16 = 192.
Then you have to figure the area of a circle. The equation for that is area = pi*r^2 where r is the radius of the circle.
So we know the area and we know pi so our equation is
192 = 3.14(r^2).
We divide both sides by 3.14 and we get
61.14 = r^2
Take the square root of 61.14, which is 7.8.
So the circular pan needs to be 7.8 inches in radius or 15.6 inches in diameter.
Here the volume of material of the dough is same and the thickness of the pizza is same but only the shape and area are different.The first one is rectangular and the second one is flat cylinderical.
Let the thicknes of the pizza be h inch
The volume of the rectangular shape = length*breadth*h =16*12*h...........(1)
The volume of the circular pizza = pi*radius^2*thickness=pi*(diamete/2)^2*thicknes.
Since the volume represented at (1) and (2) are same,
(pi*d^2/4)h = 16*12*h) The h gets cancelled. So solving for, d,
d = sqrt(16*12*4/pi) = 15.63528 inch =15.6 inch
When the thickness of the pizza as well as the amount of dough used for the rectangular and the circular pizzas are same, the areas of the pizza will also be same.
The area of rectangular pizza of 12" x 16" is given by the formula:
Area of rectangle = A = Width x Length = 12 x 16 = 192 sq.inch
The area of a circle is given by:
Area of circle = A = (pi/4) x d^2
Where: d = diameter of circle
Therefore diameter of circular pizza with area = A is given by:
d = [A/(pi/4)]^1/2 = 2 x (A/pi)^1/2
Value of A = 192 and pi is a constant with value 3.141
d = = 2 x (192/3.141)^1/2 = 2 x 7.818 = 15.636 = 15.6"
Diameter of circular pan = 15.6"
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Torque - n. Necklace of twisted metal; the twisting or rotary force in a piece of mechanism.
In this piece the conventional grouping of the string quartet is driven through a number of different moods in a single movement. Performance directions include 'glassy', 'as if remembering', 'irritable', 'aggressively' and other indications of an underlying tension. The
homogeneous nature of the strings is both acknowledged and challenged as the piece moves between light and dark shades while retaining a sense of unease and instability.


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An American environmental activist, Huey Johnson, has won the United Nations Sasakawa Environment Prize this year. The prize is worth two-hundred-thousand dollars. It is considered one of the most important environmental awards in the world.
Mister Johnson won the award for his efforts to protect the Earth's natural resources. He received the award last month during a ceremony at U-N headquarters in New York.
Huey Johnson has led national and international efforts to protect the environment for more than forty years. He helped create programs designed to save water, reduce energy use and cut pollution.
Mister Johnson helped create many important organizations over the years. Some were privately operated. Others were governmental groups.
In Nineteen-Seventy-Two, Mister Johnson gained recognition for helping create a company whose goal is to save natural areas in America's cities. The Trust for Public Land company has protected more than five-hundred-thousand hectares of land in the United States.
Mister Johnson was an official in charge of natural resources in California in the early Nineteen-Eighties. He developed statewide programs to save natural resources such as water, forests and soil. One program is called Investing for Prosperity. This one-hundred-year plan invests money to protect California's natural resources. The plan became a model for other countries.
One of the program's major successes was the development of renewable energy technologies. Experts say these efforts have saved Californians thousands of millions of dollars and have helped the state's economy grow. For his efforts in this area, Mister Johnson received the President's Award for Sustainable Development in Nineteen-Ninety-Six.
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Paint a RainbowPosted on March 4th, 2010 2 comments
Take the kids outside on a misty morning, when the grass is wet and the sun is just peeking through the clouds. You might be lucky enough to see a rainbow arching high through the sky. They say there's a pot of gold where the rainbow touches the ground, but no one has ever found this treasure.
But young artists can create a rainbow treasure with paints and white paper. This is a great project for learning how to mix colors too. Use just the red, yellow and blue paints in a watercolor set. Show young kids how these primary colors mix together on a mixing tray or plate to make green, orange and violet.
Paint a picture with a rainbow in it, then paint the sky blue and the rainbow colors in the right order: violet at the bottom of the arch, then blue, green, yellow, orange and red at the top. Look at photos of rainbows from books or on the Internet, and learn more about the science of rainbows at Science Kids.
Materials: red, yellow and blue watercolor paints, heavy white paper, paintbrushes, a jar of water, a plate or tray for mixing colors, a pencil and a couple paper towels.
Time: 30 minutes
KidsArt Resource: A plastic Palette has small and large wells for squeezing out watercolors that come in tubes, as well as larger areas for mixing different colors and washes of color. Handy tool for young artists!
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Q: I need help identifying a bird I have at my feeder. It looks like a cardinal except for the head, which appears to be devoid of feathers! It has normal red body feathers and a head with no crest.
A: You have a male cardinal whose feathers have dropped off. This is the subject of lengthy discussion among birders but the consensus is that it can be caused by mites, heat or nutritional difficulties. The folks at Hilton Pond Center in South Carolina have observed several birds with this condition (which they call "lizard-head"), including one who was bald one year but fully recovered the next. Details at HILTON POND
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Flexible DNA Computer Finds Square Roots - Science News: The basic design incorporates two types of synthetic DNA in a test tube: single-stranded DNA molecules that float free like lone wolves and double-stranded ones that carry a small notch of open DNA called a "toehold." The single-stranded DNA cruises solo until bumping into an entwined pair of DNA strands with a matching toehold. The lone wolves anchor onto that toehold by zipping, eventually booting off one of the original two strands. After the zipping and unzipping is done, a new double-stranded molecule and single-stranded lone wolf float around the test tube.
By precisely designing these DNA cascades, the team could squirt molecules representing 1001 in binary notation, or 9, into the mix and isolate a binary answer once the resulting reactions finished. In this case, that answer was a square root: binary 11, or 3. But the cascades, like the model trains, are customizable, and the team could have easily designed a circuit to do addition or subtraction instead. "It's the simplicity that enables the complexity," says Winfree, a bioengineer.


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Making friendship bracelets is a simple and exciting project. Many children make these bracelets with the intent of giving them to friends or loved ones as a gift to show how much they appreciate their relationship. Making friendship bracelets with words stitched into them can be a more difficult process, and often must be done with the help of a friendship bracelet letter chart for guidance. However, once the bracelet is finished, it holds whatever message you desire to communicate to your friend with a homemade bracelet.
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Choose the two colours you want for your friendship bracelet. Choose colours that contrast each other nicely so it is easier to see the wording in the bracelet. Cut each of the 10 background strings 100 inches long and cut the one letter string.
Fold the strings in half and tie a knot at the halfway mark so all the strings are bundled together. Secure the knot in place with a clipboard. Spread the strings out so they lie straight on the clipboard.
Learn the two different kinds of knots: right knots and left knots. To make a right knot, take the working string on the left of the still string and loop the working string around the still string, so the working string comes out on the left. Repeat this and pull the string tight.
Practice making a left knot. Hold the working string to the right of the still string and loop it around the still string so the working loop comes out on the right side of the still string. Repeat this one more time and pull it tight to make a left knot.
Study the letter patterns for making words via the string knots. The patterns can be complicated and you must be able to make left and right knots to form the words. To form the letter "L," for example, you must make one right knot with colour A, eight left knots with colour B, and one right knot with colour A. Move on to the next line of knots and make eight left knots with colour A, one right knot with colour B and one left knot with colour A. On the third line, make one right knot with colour A, one left knot with colour B and eight right knots with colour A. On the fourth line, make eight left knots with colour A, one right knot with colour B and one left knot with colour A.
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text: The federal government has developed standard guidelines for meal planning, to ensure a child receives balanced meals with adequate nutrition. Most state regulations require licensed caregiver's to follow these guidelines. The suggested meal plans vary according to age. Daycare centers are generally expected to provide about half of a child's daily nutritional needs, and should serve food according to the following approximations. For ages one to three, children should have an ounce of protein, which can be meat, cheese, beans or eggs; and a quarter cup each of vegetables and fruit. Half of a cup of fruit juice can be substituted for the recommended fruit serving. For ages four to six, an ounce and a half of meat, or an egg will meet the protein requirement, while a half-cup each of vegetables and fruit is recommended. If your child is seven years or older, two ounces of meat or an egg, as well as three ounces of cheese or a cup of cooked beans or peas will be sufficient. Children this age should have three quarters of a cup each of fruits and vegetables. All age groups need the equivalent of a cup and a half of milk and two slices of bread each day. Some child care providers receive federal subsidies by strictly adhering to the suggested menu guidelines and completing the paperwork required for the program.


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Detailed Translations for inquire from English to Spanish
to inquire verb (inquires, inquired, inquiring)
 1. to inquire
 2. to inquire (ask)
Conjugations for inquire:
 1. inquire
 2. inquire
 3. inquires
 4. inquire
 5. inquire
 6. inquire
simple past
 1. inquired
 2. inquired
 3. inquired
 4. inquired
 5. inquired
 6. inquired
present perfect
 1. have inquired
 2. have inquired
 3. has inquired
 4. have inquired
 5. have inquired
 6. have inquired
past continuous
 1. was inquiring
 2. were inquiring
 3. was inquiring
 4. were inquiring
 5. were inquiring
 6. were inquiring
 1. shall inquire
 2. will inquire
 3. will inquire
 4. shall inquire
 5. will inquire
 6. will inquire
continuous present
 1. am inquiring
 2. are inquiring
 3. is inquiring
 4. are inquiring
 5. are inquiring
 6. are inquiring
 1. be inquired
 2. be inquired
 3. be inquired
 4. be inquired
 5. be inquired
 6. be inquired
 1. inquire!
 2. let's inquire!
 3. inquired
 4. inquiring
Translation Matrix for inquire:
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averiguar ask; inquire affirm; audit; check; check out; collect; disentangle; disentwine; examine; gather; go through again; inquire about; inspect; invent; investigate; make inquiries about; obtain; research; study; trace; unravel; verify
examinar inquire attempt; cast an eye on; check; consider; control; endeavor; endeavour; examine; explore; glance; grant; hear; inspect; interpellate; interrogate; investigate; look; look at; look on; observe; pretest; prospect; question; regard; sample; scan; scrutinise; scrutinize; strive; study; subsidise; subsidize; survey; take samples; test; think it over; think out; try; try out; verify; view; watch
explorar inquire explore; frisk; investigate; prospect; scan
explorar a fondo inquire investigate
investigar inquire check; control; disentangle; disentwine; examine; explore; hear; investigate; prospect; research; scan; study; test; unravel
- ask; enquire; investigate; wonder
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 1. have a wish or desire to know something1
 2. inquire about1
 3. conduct an inquiry or investigation of1
 - inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady1
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 1. to inquire
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inquire informarse erkundigenAuskunft einholen, Informationen beschaffen
inquire inquirir inquirierenveraltend: untersuchen, vernehmen, verhören
inquire preguntar; pedir demander — Indiquer à quelqu'un par des paroles, par un écrit ou tout autre moyen ce qu'on désire obtenir de lui.
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Plugin framework
Its time to start the ball rolling with the new development. First up is the
plugin architecture. Let me explain a proposal and then we can discuss it.
To make the audit system more useful, we need to be able to pass events to
other software for realtime analysis and responding. We also need to be able
pass protection profiles which mean the audit system cannot be complicated to
explain its operation. We also cannot allow plugins to the audit system to
corrupt or crash the audit daemon.
The way that this will be accomplished is to add another configuration
parameter dispatcher. This will take the full path to a program that
dispatches audit events. The audit daemon will fork on startup and open a
The dispatcher will read from stdin to get audit events. The audit daemon will
use nonblocking writes to the pipe so that it can move on to process the
event itself. (We could make it configurable as to whether to use blocking or
nonblocking writes.) If the dispatcher parameter is empty, the audit daemon
will behave as it currently does. The dispatcher that is standard with the
audit package will be /sbin/audisp. By having the dispatcher specified as a
parameter, third parties can write their own.
The proposed architecture looks something like this:
 [fd1] [fd2] [fd3]
 I1 I2 I3
 \ | /
 event queue
 / | \
 F1 F2 F3
 | | |
 O1 O2 O3
The different items along the top are input plugins. The audit daemon is one
of them. The user may have other sources of data that they want fed to the
dispatcher. Maybe IPTables events for example.
These events get queued where different filters examine the event. The filter
picks off the event, processes it and sends it to an output plugin. The
output plugin could be used to send the event out of the machine to an
aggregator. It might be arranged something like this:
 C1 C2 C3
 \ | /
 I1 I2
 \ |
 event queue
 / | \
 F1 F2 F3
 | | |
 O1 O2 O3
C1 - C3 are the output plugins from different computers. They come into a
listener plugin on the monitor computer. The monitor computer is running the
same audisp program and handles the other computer's events in its own queue.
This also lends itself to remote logging instead of alarm or IDS. The new
audit daemon will also have a new format option NONE, that tells it not to
log the events to disk. This means it depends on audisp as the transport
Now some specs going forward. What I would like to see is a framework that any
number of plugins can be developed for. There should be:
input plugins - These gather events and send them to event dispatcher.
filter plugins - these perform reduction of data. They may be used for either
input or output chains. For example, event dispatcher sends all events to
filter. The user may be using a plugin that filters all but AVC denial
messages. Only avc denial messages are output. The filter plugins can also
transform data. For example, maybe the user want the data changed to xml, or
python, or java friendly data. Perhaps they want some fields removed.
output plugins - These are assigned to filter plugin and write the data
received from its input. There can be a number of these. One for console, ssl
socket, af_unix socket, syslog, dbus, append to file, send email, or execute
a program passing the data.
The config file should let the user specify a chain of plugins that input
events. The config file should let the user specify the chain of plugins for
output. The order in which data moves is specified by the chain. It is
unclear how to specify configuration information for the plugins. Maybe the
command line. For example, the relay is going to need to have a destination
address & port. The filter plugins may need a list of fields to pass or list
of fields to suppress.
Threading - multiple threads may be used. They must be detached. They should
have cancellation points. It is unclear if the user should be able to specify
thread pool size.
auditd must be able to send sigterm and have all threads shutdown.
The audit daemon shall send a message type AUDIT_DAEMON_RECONFIG which will
cause audisp to re-read the configuration.
At this point we should open the discussion and determine what plugins we
would like to have. I can create the list if no one any requests.


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|The Saginaw Bay Lighthouse||Seeing The Light|
With a significant increase in the number of vessels seeking entry into the river expected, maritime interests began complaining of the difficulty encountered in finding the narrow entry across the bar at the river's mouth. Taking up their call on January 26 1835, Michigan Senator Lucius Lyon presented a petition of 112 signatures to Congress, "praying that an appropriation may be made for the purpose of erecting a light-house at the confluence of Saginaw river with Lake Huron, and improving the navigation of said river and its tributary streams." However, unfamiliar with the needs of the developing frontier area, Congress referred the matter to the Commerce Committee for evaluation. While the Commerce Committee concurred with the need, and a number of subsequent memorials were presented in both houses, Congress did not respond to the request until March 3, 1837, when the sum of five thousand dollars was finally appropriated for the construction of a lighthouse at the river mouth. However, with the country in the grips of an economic recession, establishment of the station was postponed indefinitely.
Arriving in the river in the summer of 1838 to conduct an inspection of all existing and planned lighthouses on the Great Lakes, Navy Lieutenant James T Homans concurred with the need for a lighthouse at the river mouth, reporting that "the commerce of this place is considerable, and increasing; the lumber trade alone will soon be of important value, and well worthy of this guide to its location." To provide a location for the Light, on February 21 of the following year, President Martin Van Buren ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to enter into a treaty with the Chippewa for the transfer of forty acres on the western side of the river mouth for lighthouse purposes.
A contract for the station's construction was awarded to a Captain Stephen Wolverton, who arrived to commence work in July, 1839. It would appear that Wolverton abandoned the work, since the project was brought to completion under the direction of Levi Johnson of Cleveland in the fall of 1841. The walls of the 65 foot tall rubble stone tower stood 5' 2" thick at the base, tapering to a thickness of 2' at the top. The tower's inner diameter tapered from 14' 10" to 8', and contained a set of timber stairs which spiraled within. The tower was capped with a circular stone gallery, centered on which an octagonal iron lantern with eighteen 12" x 14" glass panes on each of its sides were installed. Capped with a copper roof, the lantern housed a fixed array of eleven Lewis lamps equipped with fourteen-inch reflectors. The small detached brick dwelling stood 34' by 20' in plan and featured two rooms on the first floor, and two small bedrooms within the attic beneath the shingled roof. To complete the work, a tramway was built across the swampy land surrounding the reservation to ease the transportation of supplies to the station. "Uncle Harvey" Williams accepted the appointment as the station's first keeper, and moved into the newly completed dwelling, exhibiting the light of the new Saginaw Bay Lighthouse on an undetermined date in September of 1841.
Evidently "Uncle Harvey" and lighthouse service did not see eye to eye, as he resigned his Keeper's position on March 20, 1843 to be replaced by J. J. Malden, who reported for duty at the station on the day of William's departure. Malden accepted a transfer to the Thunder Bay Island Station in 1845, and was in turn replaced by a man by the name of Simpson on February 22 of that same year.
After nine years of operation, District Inspector Henry B. Miller visited the Saginaw Bay Light Station on July 3, 1850, and reported that while the tower itself was in good order, part of the tramway was rotten, the station's boat was in poor condition, and a woodshed was badly needed. To alleviate these concerns he recommended that $165 be allocated to cover the associated costs of repair and construction. In discussing conditions at the station with then keeper William Pomeroy, Miller learned that while the original contract for the station had included the construction of a kitchen lean-to at the rear of the dwelling, the structure was never built, and thus Pomeroy was forced to make do within the confines of the small dwelling. To rectify the situation, Miller further recommended that $175 be allocated for the construction of a 16' by 22' kitchen in accordance with the original specifications.
With the transfer of responsibility for the nation's aids to navigation to the Lighthouse Board in 1853, a major system-wide upgrading of illuminating apparatus was undertaken. To this end, the District Lampist arrived at the Saginaw Bay Light in 1856 and replaced the Lewis lamps with a fixed white Sixth Order Fresnel lens. With increasing traffic entering the river into the 1860's, and the increasingly important role played by the Light, the station's lens was again upgraded to a fixed white Fourth Order Fresnel in 1863.
Whether life at the Saginaw Bay Light was particularly intolerable or whether poor decisions were made in the appointment of its keepers is unrecorded, however by 1866 seven keepers had been assigned to station, with all of them resigning from lighthouse service with the exception of Malden's transfer to Thunder Bay. Thus, it came to be that Peter Brawn was appointed as the station's eighth keeper, and moved into the dwelling with his wife Julia on March 16, 1866.
The following year saw the arrival of the Army Corps of Engineers in the Saginaw, to begin dredging a 95' wide by 13' deep channel through the bar and upstream in order to open the river to larger vessels. Around this time Peter Brawn suffered an unrecorded injury or disease, and became completely incapacitated as a result. Thus unable to tend the station, Julia took over Peter's duties on an unofficial basis with the assistance of their son Dewitt. While this fact would have been clear to the District Inspector when conducting his inspections of the station, the situation was apparently overlooked, since while Peter was completely bed-ridden he continued to appear as the Keeper of record at the Saginaw Bay Light in District payroll records. With the Army Corps of Engineer's completion of the improved channel in 1869, the lighthouse was no longer positioned to adequately to mark the modified river entrance, and the Lighthouse Board recommended to Congress that an appropriation of $12,000 be made for the construction of a set of range lights on the west bank of the river to guide vessels directly into the new river entry.
On investigation, it was determined that the optimal location for the new front range light was at a point off the river bank approximately 800 feet to the east of the old light, and that the taller rear range light would need to be constructed inland some 2,330 feet upstream to the southwest. Negotiations began for obtaining clear title to the necessary land for the new structures, however after three years of wrangling with the current owners without success, the appropriation remained unexpended and reverted back to the Treasury Department on June 30, 1871, forcing the Board to request a new appropriation for construction of the ranges.
Finally succumbing to his illness, Peter Brawn passed away on March 18, 1873, and after seven years of tending the light in an unofficial capacity, Julia was officially appointed to the position of Keeper of the Saginaw Bay Light on her husband's death.
Julia remarried in 1875, and her new husband George Way moved into the lighthouse with her while she continued to serve as Keeper. That same year, Congress appropriated the necessary funds for the construction of the new Ranges, however work did not begin until May 1876. Construction continued through the summer, and Julia, her husband George and her now sixteen year old son Dewitt moved into the new dwelling in the rear range, and exhibited both new lights for the first time on the night of September 15, 1876. With the establishment of the new Saginaw River Range Lights, the tower of the old Saginaw Bay Light no longer served any purpose and was demolished in order to prevent any confusion to mariners entering the river.
While the Saginaw Bay Light was gone
for ever, the old dwelling was left standing, likely to be used as a dwelling
for an Assistant Keeper should one be deemed necessary to tend the Front
Range at some time in the future.


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1. If you understand, say "understand". If you don't understand, say "don't understand". But if you understand and say "don't understand". How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
3. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
4. A sailor went to sea to see, what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
5. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People
6. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
7. I thought a thought.But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.
8. Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, "If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?"
9. Mr Inside went over to see Mr Outside. Mr Inside stood outside and called to MrOutside inside. Mr Outside answered Mr Inside from inside and Told Mr Inside to come inside. Mr Inside said "NO", and told Mr Outside to come outside. MrOutside and Mr Inside argued from inside and outside about going outside or coming inside. Finally, Mr Outside coaxed Mr Inside to come inside, then both Mr Outside and Mr Inside went outside to the riverside.
10. SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE, BUT THE SEA SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS, ON THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE REAL ONES
11. The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
12. If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
"When a doctor falls ill another doctor doctor's the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor's way"
13. We surely shall see the sun shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is cold. Whether the weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or not.
14. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
15. A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly "Oh what should we do" Said the flea" Let us fly Said the fly"Let us flee" So they flew through a flaw in the flue
16. If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.
17. Mr. See owned a saw.And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw Before Soar saw See, Which made Soar sore.Had Soar seen See's saw Before See sawed Soar's seesaw, See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw. So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.But it was sad to see Soar so sore Just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.


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echo - write arguments to standard output
echo [string...]
The echo utility writes its arguments to standard output, followed by a . If there are no arguments, only the is written.
The echo utility shall not recognize the "--" argument in the manner specified by Guideline 10 of the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines; "--" shall be recognized as a string operand.
Implementations shall not support any options.
The following operands shall be supported:
- A string to be written to standard output. If the first operand is -n, or if any of the operands contain a backslash ( '\' ) character, the results are implementation-defined.
[XSI] On XSI-conformant systems, if the first operand is -n, it shall be treated as a string, not an option. The following character sequences shall be recognized on XSI-conformant systems within any of the arguments:
- Write an .
- Write a .
- Suppress the that otherwise follows the final argument in the output. All characters following the '\c' in the arguments shall be ignored.
- Write a .
- Write a .
- Write a .
- Write a .
- Write a .
- Write a backslash character.
- Write an 8-bit value that is the zero, one, two, or three-digit octal number num.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of echo:
- Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
- [XSI] Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- [XSI] Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
The echo utility arguments shall be separated by single s and a shall follow the last argument. [XSI] Output transformations shall occur based on the escape sequences in the input. See the OPERANDS section.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
The following exit values shall be returned:
- Successful completion.
- An error occurred.
It is not possible to use echo portably across all POSIX systems unless both -n (as the first argument) and escape sequences are omitted.
The printf utility can be used portably to emulate any of the traditional behaviors of the echo utility as follows (assuming that IFS has its standard value or is unset):
The historic System V echo and the requirements on XSI implementations in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 are equivalent to:printf "%b\n" "$*"
The BSD echo is equivalent to:if [ "X$1" = "X-n" ] then shift printf "%s" "$*" else printf "%s\n" "$*" fi
New applications are encouraged to use printf instead of echo.
The echo utility has not been made obsolescent because of its extremely widespread use in historical applications. Conforming applications that wish to do prompting without s or that could possibly be expecting to echo a -n, should use the printf utility derived from the Ninth Edition system.
As specified, echo writes its arguments in the simplest of ways. The two different historical versions of echo vary in fatally incompatible ways.
The BSD echo checks the first argument for the string -n which causes it to suppress the that would otherwise follow the final argument in the output.
The System V echo does not support any options, but allows escape sequences within its operands, as described for XSI implementations in the OPERANDS section.
The echo utility does not support Utility Syntax Guideline 10 because historical applications depend on echo to echo all of its arguments, except for the -n option in the BSD version.
First released in Issue 2.
In the OPTIONS section, the last sentence is changed to indicate that implementations "do not" support any options; in the previous issue this said "need not".
The following new requirements on POSIX implementations derive from alignment with the Single UNIX Specification:
A set of character sequences is defined as string operands.
LC_CTYPE is added to the list of environment variables affecting echo.
In the OPTIONS section, implementations shall not support any options.
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002, item XCU/TC1/D6/21 is applied, so that the echo utility can accommodate historical BSD behavior.


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Serving methods and dining environment currently used in successful high school child nutrition programs in Georgia
In-depth case studies, observing actual practice of service methods, service designs, and cafeteria design and decor in Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs) was conducted in five successful Georgia high schools. Successful high school CNP's were defined as programs with lunch participation greater that 60% combined with a fund balance sufficient to cover two months' operating cost and less than 50% of the students qualified for free and reduced-price meals. The schools were identified as successful by the Georgia Department of Education Child Nutrition division. Interviews with managers and directors, historical records and on-site observations were utilized to seek data.;This research found that dining room decor did not appear to be a factor in making the schools successful. With the exception of the two recently built schools, dining decor was basic. The research did reveal that the schools have sufficient seats to accommodate all students during each lunch period. Except for School A the dining rooms were crowded, but a few empty seats were always available.;All five of the successful high schools have an automated point-of-sale system to help provide efficient service. The directors and managers use the related software to assist in materials management, production forecasting and scheduling, service, and monitoring performance. To improve participation and the efficiency of the lunch service the directors had made changes to decrease the amount of time students wait in line. These included offering additional service lines so that students are able to receive their meals more quickly and using remote serving lines throughout the dining area to provide many access points.;Adding to the success of these schools was the presentation of the food on the serving line, temperature, food choices, and portion size flexibility. The schools offered from 5 to 21 entree choices and several side items daily. The entree is served to the student and all other items are self-serve. The managers and directors are proud of the quality of the food served. All five schools prepared hot foods close to service time and continuously during service time to minimize holding. They use a wide variety of resources to solicit input from their students: surveys, taste testing, informal discussion, P.O.S. reports, and informal cafeteria rounds.


by Roy Saunderson | August 06, 2012
We've all heard it before: "If I could just get our senior leaders' buy-in our program would be launched by now." Why do C-suite leaders have such a hard time with rewards and recognition initiatives? What will it take to get their commitment to allocate resources? Grabbing the attention of the executive leadership team has become a seminal topic. Getting the commitment from any leader at the top requires a firm foundation of experience, insight, and communication skills. Put these top 10 steps into practice to get your executive leadership support.
1. Prove your competency and expertise before meeting with leaders. Senior leaders are smart people and know a professional when they see one. So, establish yourself as a leader in your field ahead of time so you will have earned the right to be heard and respected. Leaders value other leaders … so be one!
2. Show them a truth that will influence their feelings. Emotions rule in decision making. Don't rely on surveys and statistics alone. Present real-life stories, perhaps portrayed through video, of employees and managers. Relate their feelings on how rewards and recognition affect people and performance.
3. Stop making recognition about parties, cakes, and balloons. It's true; some leaders still think people responsible for recognition are simply party planners. Draw a line and make a clear distinction between the event organizing and the powerful leveraging strength that incentives, rewards, and recognition can have on business results.
4. Create a strategy for them that is aligned with business goals. Craft a concrete recognition strategy and recognition plan and get it down in writing. Formulate the reasons and purpose for using recognition. Establish clear objectives to be achieved with recognition and rewards and show how results will be measured.
5. Build a case for recognition and rewards and educate them. Some leaders may not understand the difference between rewards and recognition. There are wonderful academic studies and professional firm reports with economic and social science evidence that validates the impact that recognition and rewards can have on productivity and engagement.
6. Be passionately articulate about what you want. Leaders have lots on their plate and little tolerance for wasted time. Prepare your presentation well to get the message across succinctly and professionally, and ask exactly for what you need. Be sure to show how you can help them achieve the company's goals.
7. Answer the big "why" question in the room. Why should your leaders invest precious monies from investors and stakeholders in your rewards and recognition initiatives? The reason many people don't get the support from senior management is simply because they never came prepared to answer why this project and why at this time.
8. Prove it. Pilot it. Guarantee it. Remove the risk of investment. Take on a major critical point such as high employee turnover or increased injuries and apply rewards and recognition strategies. Project how the benefits will outweigh the costs associated with the current problem. Suggest they pilot your plan first and prove the results before establishing it company-wide.
9. Take the drip approach to communications. Start sowing seeds before you get to the major presentation. Identify and work with an executive who will sponsor your plan. Follow his or her lead on any pre-work communication that might be needed. Acknowledge leader communications promptly. Send detailed follow-up communications outlining the next steps and measuring accountability.
10. Demonstrate the business impact and ROI of recognition and rewards. Rewards and recognition programs, when planned and designed properly, will always have a positive business impact. Those outcomes may have a financial correlation that can produce a benefit-over-cost ratio or ROI percentage. Leaders love positive bottom-line figures so make sure you give them to them.


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Taiwanese researchers have stumbled onto something truly magical. When gold nanoparticles were introduced into Bacopa caroliniana plants they caused the chlorophyll to produce reddish light. Bye-bye street lights? But wait, there's more:
While lit, the glowing trees consumed more carbon from the atmosphere than normal (i.e. the luminescence causes the cells to undergo photosynthesis).
PopSci calls this a "triple threat," in that the trees could cut energy costs, reduce global warming and keep streets safely lit at night. I'm more than inclined to agree. [RSC Publishing via Inhabitat via PopSci, Image: Flickr]


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Direct oceanic emissions unlikely to account for the missing source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide
Abstract. The climate active trace-gas carbonyl sulfide (OCS) is the most abundant sulfur gas in the atmosphere. A missing source in its atmospheric budget is currently suggested, resulting from an upward revision of the vegetation sink. Tropical oceanic emissions have been proposed to close the resulting gap in the atmospheric budget. We present a bottom-up approach including (i) new observations of OCS in surface waters of the tropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and (ii) a further improved global box model to show that direct OCS emissions are unlikely to account for the missing source. The box model suggests an undersaturation of the surface water with respect to OCS integrated over the entire tropical ocean area and, further, global annual direct emissions of OCS well below that suggested by top-down estimates. In addition, we discuss the potential of indirect emission from CS2 and dimethylsulfide (DMS) to account for the gap in the atmospheric budget. This bottom-up estimate of oceanic emissions has implications for using OCS as a proxy for global terrestrial CO2 uptake, which is currently impeded by the inadequate quantification of atmospheric OCS sources and sinks.


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4122952Photometric sorters
In the photometric sorting of objects each object is examined in each of a predetermined number of zones for the presence or absence of one or more predetermined surface characteristics. The invention provides that a characteristic determined in one zone...
4020950Apparatus for inspecting and sorting buttons
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for inspecting and sorting buttons and the like. The inspection means includes a main chamber having a first aperture opening with a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the buttons to be in...
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Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its ImportanceJournal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)
AbstractThis article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie Report on legal education, and contains a recommendation that law schools change the way they teach especially first year law students in order to make them more empathetically aware of the circumstances by which the court opinions they study arose and the effects those opinions will have on others. This recommendation is made not just because it will make students better people, but also because it will make them better lawyers; the article analyses in depth the dangers inherent in an overemphasis on the "logical" form of analysis taught in law schools, especially when lawyers attempt to communicate with non-lawyers, something they do all the time. It also offers specific proposals to help ameliorate the dangers of an over-emphasis on "thinking like a lawyer." Although the article is written primarily from a litigation perspective, it makes clear that these dangers arise in all branches of lawyering practice.
Citation InformationIan Gallacher. "Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance" Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors Vol. 8 (2011)
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The Theory of the Vortex Tube
There are many theories regarding the dynamics of a vortex tube and how it works. Many a graduate student has studied them as part of their research requirements.
The Vortex Tube was invented by accident in 1928, by George Ranque, a French physics student. He was performing experiments on on a vortex-type pump that he had developed and noticed that warm air exhausted from one end and cold air from the other! Ranque quickly stopped work on the pump, and started a company to take advantage of the commercial possibilities for this odd little device that produced both hot and cold air, using only compressed air, with no moving parts. The company was not successful, and the vortex tube was forgotten until 1945 when Rudolph Hilsch, a German physicist, published a widely read paper on the device.
A vortex tube uses compressed air as a power source, has no moving parts, and produces hot air from one end and cold air from the other. The volume and temperature of the two air streams is adjustable with a valve built into the hot air exhaust. Temperatures as low as -50°F (-46°C) and as high as 260°F (127°C) are possible.
Here is one widely accepted explanation of the physics and the phenomenon of the vortex tube.VT
Compressed air is supplied to vortex tube and passes through nozzles that are tangent to to an internal counterbore (1). As the air passes through it is set into a spiraling vortex motion (2) at up to 1,000,000 rpm. The spinning stream of air flows down the hot tube in the form of a spinning shell, like a tornado (in red). The control valve (4) at the end allows some of the warmed air to escape (6) and what does not escape reverses direction and heads back down the tube as a second vortex (in blue) inside of the low pressure area of the larger warm air vortex. The inner vortex loses heat and exits the through the other end of as cold air (5).
It is thought that that both the hot and cold air streams rotate in the same direction at the same angular velocity, even though they are travelling in opposite directions. A particle of air in the inner stream completes one rotation in the same amount of time that an air particle in the outer stream. The principle of conservation of angular momentum would say that the rotational speed of the inner inner vortex should increase because the angular momentum of a rotating particle (L) is equal to the radius of rotation (r) times its mass (m) times its velocity (v). L = r•m•v. When an air particle moves from the outer stream to the inner stream, both its radius (r) and velocity (v) decrease, resulting in a lower angular momentum. To maintain an energy balance for the system, the energy that is lost from the inner stream is taken in by the outer stream as heat. Therefore, the outer vortex becomes warm and the inner vortex is cooled.
At EXAIR, we have harnessed the cooling power of the vortex tube, and it can be found and utilized in such products as Spot Coolers, Cabinet Coolers, and the Vortex Tube themselves.
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CLAM: Cognitive Learning Activities and Manual by Leslie McKerns
Price: $7.95 USD. 13250 words.
Published on October 7, 2012..
Teachers, Home Schoolers and Parents: Keep Your Kids Happy as a Clam while Learning! CLAM (Cognitive Learning Activities & Manual) is for grades 2-7, with more advanced level activities taking it into grade 8. Perfect for home schooling and enrichment programs. Filled with craft activity resources to make learning fun.


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About Mining in Liberia
Liberia has been plagued by civil war for several years, and, as a result, foreign investment has all but ceased. Liberia?s main mineral products are gold and diamonds, although iron ore used to be a major product.
Artisinal workings account for 98% of gold and diamonds produced. Liberia officially produced 155 000 carats of diamonds in 2001, with this number expected to be several orders of magnitude higher, due to extensive smuggling with bordering Sierre Leone, Guinea and Cote de Ivoire.
There are thought to be between 20 and 30 000 artisinal miners in Liberia. Liberia is currently drafting a new Mineral Development Policy and Mining Code aimed at attracting foreign investment.


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The TM-3 has evolved into the ultimate forming machine for small diameter wire.
The TM-3II contains the optimal tool rotation system for small diameter wire to maintain a constant wire line.
Table rotating torsion machine for wire diameters of 0.05 mm to 0.3 mm
-Does not place a burden on the wire, preventing it from twisting.
-Also suitable for special stock.
-Equipped with 11 standard axes: feed, table rotation, 8 slides, and quill rotation.
-Up to 3 optional RR servos can be added.
Dedicated MNO Program for Spring Production
-Easy operations for quicker preparation.
-High resolution for controlling the latest servo motors.
-Allows varied control of axes based on measurement results.
-Common program for both torsion machines and coiling machines.
-Includes a motor sensor system.
-Versatile production management screen and production data collection function.
We've taken the popular TM-3 to the next level
-The TM-3II is based on the popular TM-3, but with greatly improved operability and accuracy.
> Angles where tools cannot enter have been eliminated from the table circumference.
> Includes a correction function to ensure the slide does not move forward or backward when the table is rotated in the processing position.
> The feed unit has been revised to greatly improve wire line performance.
-All slides can be used as a sensor
-Motor sensor system
(can be used for measuring the bend angle, free length, touch sensor, outer diameter, etc.)
-MSD-1 sensor with servo motor
Can be used to measure the free length and outer diameter.
IS-1 shape detection unit with camera


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Triosteum aurantiacum is a tall herbaceous perennial with
opposite, entire leaves sessile or broadly winged at the base
(i.e. there is no clear petiole). The fruit is a drupe, containing
3 nutlets held so tightly together that they may appear to comprise
a single unit if not carefully examined. Stem, leaves and fruit
are all somewhat hairy. It is easiest to recognize in the Fall
when the bright orange fruits are conspiduous. In spite of the
common name, it is not a gentian.


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effective linear attenuation coefficient, the solution of the parabolic wave equation sufficiently far away from the entrance reads
Hence, the wavefield inside the waveguide is given by a superposition of guided modes. Here, (x,y,z) denotes the Cartesian coordinate system where x is the propagation direction. denotes the propagation constant of the different guided modes. The coefficients cm are given by the projection of the incident field onto the respective eigen functions,
The attenuation coefficient depends on the attenuation of the wavefield in the guiding layer as well as in the interlayer and is given by
The wavefield of (1) is a solution of the parabolic wave equation when the characteristic equation is fulfilled (Fuhse, 2006). This equation leads to the waveguide parameter V ≃, determining the number of modes propagating through the waveguide by N =, where indicates the term is rounded up to the next integer. A planar waveguide supports only one guided mode if the guiding layer thickness d is smaller than a critical thickness W =. The critical thickness is W ≃ 12 nm for a Mo interlayer and a C guiding layer. X-ray propagation through waveguides has been studied using analytical theory as well as finite-difference (FD) simulations (De Caro et al., 2003; Fuhse & Salditt, 2006; Bukreeva et al., 2006, 2011) for more general waveguide designs including the two-component cladding waveguides. We chose a Crank–Nicolson-like finite-difference scheme to solve the parabolic wave equation and to simulate electromagnetic field distribution inside planar waveguides. We assumed an incident plane wave impinging onto the front side of the waveguide in numerical simulations. Figs. 2(a)–2(c) show the electromagnetic field distribution for varying guiding layer thicknesses d and different waveguide lengths l at 15.0 keV, using the code and similar simulation parameters as in Fuhse & Salditt (2006).
As expected, a waveguide (WG) with a 35 nm guiding layer supports three modes leading to a periodically alternating field distribution, as shown in Fig. 2(a). As the wavefield propagates through the waveguide, the third mode is damped out by absorption in the cladding. Depending on the exact length of the WG slice, different near-field profiles are obtained, as shown in Fig. 2(e). The FWHM of the near-field distribution varies between = 15.8 nm and = 29.8 nm for WG lengths l = 450 ± 15 m. It is very difficult to obtain direct information on the electromagnetic field inside a waveguide and on the near-field distribution at the exit side of the waveguide in an experiment. However, it is possible to deduce the information on the near-field distribution by inversion of the coherent far-field Fraunhofer diffraction pattern given by
as a function of the exit angle, where k denotes the wavenumber. Thus, the measured far-field diffraction pattern is related to the exit-field distribution and may change according to the exact length of the WG slice. In the case of d = 18 nm shown in Fig. 2(b), the absorption in the cladding damps out the second mode and, after a propagation length of 300 m, the fundamental mode is the only remaining mode.
Note that the simulated near-field width (FWHM) of the intensity = 12.5 nm is smaller than the guiding layer, which confines the mode. For the 9 nm WG the intensity narrows down to = 8.6 nm, which is significantly lower than that of the 18 nm WG, but only sightly lower than the guiding layer, owing to increasing intensity tails in the cladding. Two-component cladding waveguides with a Ge/Mo/C/Mo/Ge optical film sequence and with very short WG lengths are mainly suitable above the Ge absorption edge at 11.3 keV. For imaging experiments at a lower X-ray energy range, different material combinations can be chosen. For example, at 8.0 keV, a Ge/Ni/C/Ni/Ge-WG with d = 18 nm and l = 300 m leads to an optimized transmission and near-field width (FWHM) of = 12.9 nm, as shown in Figs. 2(d) and 2(h).
The different steps of waveguide fabrication are shown schematically in Fig. 3: (a) The thin-film structure is deposited by magnetron sputtering (Incoatec GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany), consisting of the C guiding layer in between two Mo interlayers on a 3 mm-thick Ge substrate [single-crystal (100) orientation] with low interface roughnesses (sub-5 Å). An approximately 1 m-thick Ge layer is sputtered onto the Mo/C/Mo multilayer which acts as a first capping layer. (b) Two techniques are used to enlarge the capping layer above the Ge layer, feasible to block synchrotron beams in the hard X-ray energy range. The first technique consists of bonding a cap wafer (Ge, 440 m thickness) onto the WG wafer by an alloying process. To ensure sufficient adhesion and wetting of the alloy, a 3 nm-thick Cr interlayer and a 120 nm-thick Ni interlayer was deposited both on the WG and cap wafer by electron beam evaporation. Bonding was achieved by an In52Sn48 alloy [GPS Technologies GmbH, indalloy number 1E (Tsolidus = 391 K)] 'sandwiched' between the Ni faces of the WG and cap wafers, under a pressure of p = 1 bar and heated up to T = 423 K under vacuum conditions (sub-1 mbar), as shown in subfigure (c). Next, (d) shows the dicing of the waveguide 'sandwich' into slices with waveguide lengths down to sub-150 m using a wafer dicer (dicing saw: DISCO DAD 321; diamond dicing blade: DISCO NBC-ZB 1070, 59 × 0.15 × 40; feed rate 0.5 mm s−1). The cutting process leads to smearing of material at the entrance and exit faces. Therefore the multilayer slices were further treated by focused ion beam (FIB) polishing, as illustrated in subfigure (e). Finally, two-dimensionally confining X-ray waveguides are obtained by gluing two polished waveguide slices on top of each other in a crossed geometry; see subfigure (f). Fig. 4(a) shows that the cutting process leads to smearing on the entrance and exit faces of the waveguide. Therefore the waveguide slices are polished by the FIB technique [FEI Nova Nanolab 600; Ga-ion source operating at 30 keV, ion current 5 nA, dwell time 300 ns, overlap (x-, y-direction) 50%, scan type 'raster' (Giannuzzi & Stevie, 2005)] to clean the Mo/C/Mo layer. Waveguide exit faces after FIB polishing with 35 nmand 9 nm-thick guiding layers are exemplarily shown in Figs. 4(b) and 4(c) in 200k× and 300k× magnification, respectively.
The second technique used to realise an additional cap layer above the WG wafer is strainless electroless nickel plating (Enthone, ENfinity 4LF). Note that Ni offers higher absorption than In52Sn48 making the electroless nickel plating technique suitable for X-ray waveguides operating at energies up to 20 keV. In analogy to the bonding process, a 3 nm-thick Cr interlayer, which acts as an adhesive layer to an additional 120 nm-thick Ni layer, is deposited by electron beam evaporation on the WG cap layer. The Ni layer acts as a 'metallic' layer to optimize NiP precipitation on the WG wafer. The deposited NiP layer has a 2–4% P concentration and thus does not decrease the absorption properties significantly compared with a pure Ni layer. The maximum height of the NiP layer on top of the WG wafer is 300 µm. The waveguide is then cut into slices of length 1 mm and mechanically polished, using the transmission electron microscopy sample preparation technique, to the desired waveguide length. For the polishing, the WG slice is glued (Buehler, Cristalbond mounting wax 40-8150) onto a borosilicate glass (Gebr. Rettberg GmbH) and successively polished with wet abrasive paper (Klingspor, kernel: PS11 P500C + P1000C; lubricant: water) and a diamond paste (Saint-Gobain GmbH, Winter diaplast SS D15-D1; lubricant: Winter diaplastol) on a dimpling disc (Buehler, Beta Grinder-Polisher) down to sub-5 µm face roughness. Finally, the entrance and exit sides of the waveguide slices are treated by FIB as in the case of the waveguide with bonded cap wafer.
The experiments were performed at the BM20 bending-magnet beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France) and at the P10 beamline of Petra III at HASYLAB (DESY, Hamburg, Germany). At BM20 we chose


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The definition of scenes, the meaning of the word Scenes:
Is scenes a scrabble word? Yes!
- n. - The place where some action occurs
- n. - An incident (real or imaginary)
- n. - The visual percept of a region
- n. - A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- n. - A situation treated as an observable object
- n. - A subdivision of an act of a play
- n. - A display of bad temper
- n. - Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- n. - The context and environment in which something is set
- n. - The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
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WEST PALM BEACH (CBSMiami) — There is good news and not-so-good-news concerning Lake Okeechobee.
October 2011, ranked the fourth-wettest October in 80 years of record-keeping in South Florida, helped improve the lake's water level.
The South Florida Water Management District said three major storm events in October helped bring the lake from a level of about 11.1 feet a month ago to about 13.7 feet. That's still below the historical average of about 15 feet, but a drastic improvement for a major South Florida water source.
All areas from Orlando to the Florida Keys received above-average rainfall, with key regions such as the Kissimmee basins and Water Conservation Areas receiving a much-needed boost.
Unlike last year, the lake is rising instead of falling. October 2010 was the driest October on record and now that South Florida is heading into the dry season, long-term forecasts are once again calling for below-average rainfall.
The District is working to store as much water as possible in anticipation of future water shortage conditions in the spring.
That means water shortage restrictions remain in effect which limit landscape irrigation to two days per week throughout most of South Florida. Mandatory reductions for agricultural and other large water uses also remain in effect.


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A HMI for an industrial field device introduces imposes a great design challenge. Traditionally, the designers are limited in physical space, they need to consider the environmental conditions, and any ports for external connections require galvanic isolation for safety. To resolve these challenges, the designers have to make trade-offs that can adversely impact the user experience because of the multiple compromises made during the design process. Complex user interfaces lead to poor perceived usability and the users may opt not to use the full capability of the device because of difficulty in configuring, operating or maintaining.
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Bluetooth is a wireless technology, which means that external connections between the field device and the user's end device do not require galvanic isolation. This can provide substantial reductions in materials costs. It also reduces the testing and validation as there are less exposed interfaces that would have to be verified for safety. Because of the wide adoption of Bluetooth technology, it enables use of various portable devices as the user interface to the device. When the designers are no longer restricted to a couple of pushbuttons and a small display, they can deliver user interfaces to the customers that highlight the product benefits and allow better differentiation against the competition.
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Habitat Affects Escape Behavior of Birds
It seems birds of the same species raised in diverse settings behave differently in the face of a threat. Birds raised in an urban environment react differently than country-bred birds when faced with a predator.
A study undertaken by Diego Ibanez-Alamo, researcher at the University of Granada (UGR) and Anders Pape Moller from Paris-Sud University, highlights the fact that urbanization plays an influential role in a bird's survival strategies.
They analyzed the escape techniques of 1,132 birds belonging to 15 species in different rural and urban areas.
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The study showed that city birds have changed their behavior to adapt to new threats like cats, which are their main enemies in an urban habitat, instead of their more traditional enemies in the countryside, such as the sparrow hawk.
"When they are captured, city birds are less aggressive, they produce alarm calls more frequently, they remain more paralyzed when attacked by their predator and they lose more feathers than their countryside counterparts," explained by Juan Diego Ibanez-Alamo.
They were surprised to see that urbanization was directly linked with these differences. This finding gives rise to the concept that escape strategies evolve alongside the expansion of cities.
"It is crucial to discover how birds adapt to transformations in their habitat so that we can decrease their effects," said Ibanez-Alamo..
"Predation change caused by city growth is serious," outlined Ibanez-Alamo.
As the scientist indicates, tactics against their hunters are "crucial" so that birds can adapt to their new environment: "Birds should modify their behavior to be able to survive in cities because if not, they will become extinct at the mercy of urban growth."
These results appear in the journal, Animal Behavior.


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B. Give essay test(s) on the previous questions regarding ethnic conflict in both the literary selections, and in regard to our own community. Ask students to always cite specific examples from the reading selections to support any statements they make in their essays.
- Utilize questions of synthesis, analysis, comparison and contrast, etc.
- Topics may also include: Why is there conflict between ethnic groups--in the Eastern European nations? in our community? can and how can these conflicts be resolved so we may all live in peace as a community? and as a global community? --- and probably the most relevant to our students, what can I do as an individual to avoid/resolve conflict in my life and community?
- 3. Have students read "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty (about an IRA sniper who accidentally shoots and kills his own brother while on night patrol in Dublin), and have students write an essay/reaction paper regarding the horrors of war/ armed conflict.
C. Assessment/Grades will be based upon: journal (graded periodically), dialectic journal (annotated during silent reading/notetaking, during oral reports, etc.), short answer quizzes on reading selections, oral reports (group), vocabulary and spelling tests (based on literature selections read in class), and essays, as well as on participation in class reading and discussion, and book reports.
*** Another excellent essay/discussion question: If I have pride in the group to which I belong, must I then, also, feel superior to members of other groups? (A good one for students - and adults - to ponder!)


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| NAME: Chilili
CLIMATE: The weather will be no problem
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time
. Present spanish village was established
in 1841, however this site was visited by Chamuscado in 1581 and probably
is referred to by Onate in 1598 as Chiu Alle. Alonso de Benavides mentions
it in 1630 as the first pueblo of the Tompira Indian group, and refers to
missionary activity begun by the Fransicans about 1613. Pueblo was abandoned
between 1669 and 1676 because of Apache raids. Chilili' on L'Atlas Curieux
(1700). Ruins of Indian pueblo lie on W side of ARROYO DE CHILILI.Post office
from 1882 to 1937.CHILILI GRANT. In the SE corner of Torrance County line.
On March 8, 1841, Sandiago Padilla and six others, for themselves and twenty
more heads of families, petitioned Gov. Manuel Armijo. Grant was approved
March 20 and the men took possession on March 29, 1841.
|Chilili. In the Manzano mountains SE of Albuquerque, on US 10. One of the oldest place names in NM records, since the site was first visited in 1581. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter||


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Table_6_Landscape Genomic Conservation Assessment of a Narrow-Endemic and a Widespread Morning Glory From Amazonian Savannas.PDF
Although genetic diversity ultimately determines the ability of organisms to adapt to environmental changes, conservation assessments like the widely used International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Criteria do not explicitly consider genetic information. Including a genetic dimension into the IUCN Red List Criteria would greatly enhance conservation efforts, because the demographic parameters traditionally considered are poor predictors of the evolutionary resilience of natural populations to global change. Here we perform the first genomic assessment of genetic diversity, gene flow, and patterns of local adaptation in tropical plant species belonging to different IUCN Red List Categories. Employing RAD-sequencing we identified tens of thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in an endangered narrow-endemic and a least concern widespread morning glory (Convolvulaceae) from Amazonian savannas, a highly threatened and under-protected tropical ecosystem. Our results reveal greater genetic diversity and less spatial genetic structure in the endangered species. Whereas terrain roughness affected gene flow in both species, forested and mining areas were found to hinder gene flow in the endangered plant. Finally we implemented environmental association tests and genome scans for selection, and identified a higher proportion of candidate adaptive loci in the widespread species. These mainly contained genes related to pathogen resistance and physiological adaptations to life in nutrient-limited environments. Our study emphasizes that IUCN Red List Criteria do not always prioritize species with low genetic diversity or whose genetic variation is being affected by habitat loss and fragmentation, and calls for the inclusion of genetic information into conservation assessments. More generally, our study exemplifies how landscape genomic tools can be employed to assess the status, threats and adaptive responses of imperiled biodiversity.


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At the Eurogamer Expo today Alex Hutchinson and Jonathan Cooper from Ubisoft Montreal answered the question on the lips of every fan of Russia or Japan: 'why America?'
"In looking for a suitable setting for AC we look for times that have been a turning point in history, and a time and place most gamers haven't been," explained Alex. "Many gamers have been to America, but not in the 18th century."
The pair talked about the themes of the American Revolution and how they synced perfectly with those of the Assassin/Templar feud - liberty or death, power vs slavery, control vs freedom. They had also noted that players liked interacting with Leonardo da Vinci in previous games because he was a known name, and the revolution offered plenty of those.
It was also important, as they explained, to make Connor be stuck in the middle - not king & country, not Mel Gibson from The Patriot. So a Native American was chosen. (they also noted how difficult it was to find a Native American actor who hadn't been in Twilight) They finally noted to the very British audience that AC3 was not about the Revolution, it was merely as a backdrop to their own story, and that everyone is actually British in the game "until the end" - perhaps hinting the game will finish on July 4th perhaps?