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The Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development Bill of Rights was created by hunters and anglers who want to ensure that our rights to hunt and fish on public lands are protected in the future. We recognize that our country needs energy and we know it is possible to develop resources and protect vital fish and game habitat at the same time. Sign up to today and help to ensure that our Western hunting and fishing heritage is protected for future generations.
The Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development Bill of Rights
- The public lands that hunters and anglers depend upon shall remain in the public domain for the use of future generations.
- Hunters and anglers shall have a voice in decisions affecting energy development on public lands.
- Public lands shall be managed for many uses, including hunting and fishing.
- Our hunting and fishing heritage shall not be jeopardized by energy development that fails to account for the future, long-term impacts to fish, wildlife, and water resources.
- Energy development shall not harm water resources that are priceless to people and vital to wildlife.
- Hunters and anglers shall not be forced to pay for the costs associated with poorly planned energy development on public lands.
- Energy development shall comply with standard guidelines, best management practices, and regulations put in place to minimize the impact of development on fish, wildlife, and people.
- Vital fish and wildlife habitat on public lands shall be protected. Sage grouse habitat, fragile trout streams, deer and elk winter range, riparian areas, and other irreplaceable habitats must not be sacrificed.
- All sectors of the energy industry shall pay its fair share of the cost for habitat mitigation and restoration on public lands that are impacted by development.
- State and federal fish and wildlife agencies shall have adequate funding to ensure the long-term health of fish, wildlife, and water resources on our public lands.
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text: Formation of organ-specific vasculatures requires cross-talk between developing tissue and specialized endothelial cells. Here we show how developing zebrafish spinal cord neurons coordinate vessel growth through balancing of neuron-derived Vegfaa, with neuronal sFlt1 restricting Vegfaa-Kdrl mediated angiogenesis at the neurovascular interface. Neuron-specific loss of flt1 or increased neuronal vegfaa expression promotes angiogenesis and peri-neural tube vascular network formation. Combining loss of neuronal flt1 with gain of vegfaa promotes sprout invasion into the neural tube. On loss of neuronal flt1, ectopic sprouts emanate from veins involving special angiogenic cell behaviours including nuclear positioning and a molecular signature distinct from primary arterial or secondary venous sprouting. Manipulation of arteriovenous identity or Notch signalling established that ectopic sprouting in flt1 mutants requires venous endothelium. Conceptually, our data suggest that spinal cord vascularization proceeds from veins involving two-tiered regulation of neuronal sFlt1 and Vegfaa via a novel sprouting mode.

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Although several types of beetles are pests on trees, only twig girdlers chew a circular pattern around the limbs. The female beetles girdle small twigs and limbs to provide a nursery for their eggs in the fall. The damaged limbs drop into the lower branches of infested trees or fall onto the ground. Small infestations of twig girdlers are usually not a problem, but large infestations can result in the stunted growth, or even death, of a tree.
Twig girdlers chew the bark and inner wood in a complete circle around limbs and twigs, leaving a small, central core of wood. The girdled limbs may hang on by the central core for some time before falling off. Although the damage is usually minor, dried brown leaves on the severed limbs can be unsightly. The symmetry of a tree can be affected if many offshoots grow from the damaged end of a girdled limb. Repeated damage can cause deformities in tree limbs, such as crooks or forks. A heavy infestation of twig girdlers can reduce the production of nut and fruit trees by severing the limbs that bear produce.
Adult twig girdlers are grayish brown beetles with broad ash-colored stripes on their wing covers. They are difficult to see because their coloration is similar to the bark of common host trees, such as oaks (Quercus spp.) and hickories (Carya spp). (Oaks grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9, and hickories grow in zones 6 through 8.) Twig girdlers are about 1/2 to 5/8 inches long with antennae that are slightly longer than their bodies. After mating, the females begin girdling limbs and twigs, and then lay eggs just under the bark or in small pits that they secrete a sealant over.
Each female twig girdler lays three to eight eggs in a girdled stem, and lays a total of 50 to 200 eggs. The tiny, oblong, white eggs hatch in about three weeks. The larvae are whitish, legless grubs, which over winter in the girdled twigs. They rapidly grow up to 1 inch long in the spring and feed on the inner portion of the twigs, creating tunnels toward the end of the twigs. When it is time to pupate, the mature larvae wall off chambers in the tunnels with shredded fibers.
The pupae of twig girdlers are almost as long as the larvae and darken in color as they mature. Since they do not form cocoons, their antennae, legs and wing covers are visible while they pupate. In 12 to 14 days, adult twig girdlers chew holes in the bark of their chambers and emerge. They feed on the tender bark at the end of the girdled stems, then move to live host trees.
Chemical controls are usually not needed for twig girdlers. The best method of control is removing and destroying the fallen limbs in the fall, winter and spring. The population of twig girdlers can be reduced in one or two seasons by eradicating the eggs, larvae and pupae in the fallen limbs.
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Want to become a process operator?
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What does a process operator do?
A process operator is responsible for the entire production process. As a process operator, you supervise the machine operators. These machine operators, often simply called operators, operate the machines. Sometimes, you help them with that. For instance in case of a failure, maintenance or when a new operator needs to be trained. As a process operator, you're often looking at computer screens to keep an eye on the entire production process. The activities could also consist of setting machine and process systems, starting up equipment at the beginning of the shift, carrying out quality checks and registering process data. Additionally, safety and the environment are often important aspects of your position. In summary, that means you, as a process operator, ensure an efficient, dependable and safe course of the processes in the factories according to procedures and instructions. Where do process operators work? These are usually companies that manufacture products or liquids. For instance, at a brewery, a company that produces packaging, a company that processes potatoes into chips, a company that manufactures sauces, a company that manufactures parts for the car industry or a refinery.
What personality traits do process operators have?
There are two characteristics many process operators have in common. Process operators are full of initiative (score highly in the ENTERPRISING category) and prefer manual labour (score highly in the REALISTIC category). Do you have the same personality? Perhaps the profession of process operator would suit you.
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Many jobs will be replaced by robots. How robot-proof are process operators? The chances of robotisation of a process operator's activities amount to 2%. This means that there is a LOW CHANCE that the tasks and activities performed by process operators will be taken over by robots and smart software within the next 20 years.
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MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels.
The researchers found that they can control the cells' development by growing them on a surface with nano-scale patterning. A paper on the work was posted this month in an online issue of Advanced Materials.
Engineered blood vessels could one day be transplanted into tissues such as the kidneys, liver, heart or any other organs that require large amounts of vascular tissue, which moves nutrients, gases and waste to and from cells.
"We are very excited about this work," said Robert Langer, MIT Institute Professor and an author of the paper. "It provides a new way to create nano-based systems with what we hope will provide a novel way to someday engineer tissues in the human body."
The work focuses on vascular tissue, which includes capillaries, the tiniest blood vessels, and is an important part of the circulatory system. The team has created a surface that can serve as a template to grow capillary tubes aligned in a specific direction.
The researchers built their template using microfabrication machinery at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge. Normally such technology is used to build micro-scale devices, but the researchers adapted it to create nano-scale patterns on a silicone elastomer substrate. The surface is patterned with ridges and grooves that guide the cells' growth.
"The cells can sense (the patterns), and they end up elongated in the direction of those grooves," said Christopher Bettinger, MIT graduate student in materials science and engineering and lead author of the paper.
The cells, known as endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), not only elongate in the direction of the grooves, but also align themselves along the grooves. That results in a multicellular structure with defined edges, also called a band structure.
Once the band structures form, the researchers apply a commonly used gel that induces cells to form three-dimensional tubes. Unlike cells grown on a flat surface, which form a network of capillary tubes extending in random directions, cells grown on the nano-patterned surface form capillaries aligned in the direction chosen by the researchers.
The researchers believe the technique works best with EPCs because they are relatively immature cells. Earlier attempts with other types of cells, including mature epithelial cells, did not produce band structures.
Growing tissue on a patterned surface allows researchers a much greater degree of control over the results than the classic tissue engineering technique of mixing cell types with different growth factors and hoping that a useful type of tissue is produced, said Bettinger.
"With this technique, we can take the guesswork out of it," he said.
The next step is to implant capillary tubes grown in the lab into tissues of living animals and try to integrate them into the tissues.

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The role of CpG islands hypomethylation and abnormal expression of neuronal protein synuclein-gamma (SNCG) in ovarian cancer.
BACKGROUND: The synucleins are a family of small cytoplasmic proteins that are expressed predominantly in neurons. Recently, their expression has been found also in many human cancers.
AIM: To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the abnormal expression of SNCG in malignant ovarian tumors, in this study, we examined the methylation status of a CpG island located in exon 1 of SNCG gene in a panel of ovarian malignant tumors to determine if DNA methylation is related to clinical and histological tumor characteristics.
METHODS: SNCG mRNA expression in tumor samples was assessed by RT-PCR. Methylation status of SNCG gene was studied using methylation specific PCR (MSP).
RESULTS: Study group included 43 ovarian carcinoma samples (40 primary and 3 metastatic). The expression of SNCG mRNA was detectable in 33 of 43 ovarian cancer cases (76.7%). There were no significant differences in the mRNA expression between serous or nonserous tumors. The presence of SNCG mRNA in tumor samples was not correlated with age and menopausal status of patients, also no correlation was found with clinical stage or histological grading of malignant tumors. In 29 of 43 (67.4%) cases of tumors unmethylated product of MSP amplification was present. In a group of SNCG mRNA-positive tumors there were 75.7% (25 of 33) cases with demethylated or hypomethylated exon 1 of SNCG. The differences between the groups were statistically significant (chi2 =4.46; p=0.034). Demethylation of SNCG was not related to clinical tumor stage (p>0.05), but it was strongly associated with tumor grading (chi2=6.66; p=0.035). Aberrant methylation of SNCG was more often seen in tumors of women after menopause (78.2% vs 55%). In postmenopausal women 18 of 33 (62.1%) tumor samples synuclein-gamma mRNA expression was found, however the differences were not statistically significant. No correlations between SNCG hypomethylation and patient age, clinical stage and tumor grading were found. In 9 of 43 samples (21%) both products of amplification with methylated or unmethylated primer sets were found. In all of these cases SNCG mRNA was present.
CONCLUSIONS: SNCG mRNA is expressed in a substantial proportion of malignant ovarian tumors and demethylation is an important event in abnormal synuclein-gamma expression in most of these cases....


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Chimes is the name of both clock bells and an orchestral instrument. Chimes can refer to three bells of high pitch used to mark the quarter hours, or to a set of chromatically arranged bells played from a keyboard. The clock bells are sometimes called carillon chimes when they number 23 or more bells.
Carillon bells are usually mounted in towers known as campaniles and are usually an outdoor instrument. However, a traveling carillon, called a "concert carillon," was created in 2003 and played in a variety of locations in Germany and the Netherlands that summer. In 2006, there were at least 13 traveling carillons worldwide.
Carillon bells are often associated with church communities and used to play hymns. However, there is also a collection of original repertoire composed for them, as well as arrangements of piano music and other works. U.S. composer Samuel Barber wrote a Suite for Carillon in 1934.
The orchestral instrument called chimes or tubular bells is a chromatic arrangement of an octave and half of long metal tubes that are suspended from a frame. Mounted on wheels, chimes can be easily moved into place. Chimes are played with rawhide or brass mallets. Rawhide, sometimes substituted by yarn mallets, results in a soft sound, whereas brass mallets create a tenser and more focused sound.
Intended to sound like church bells, chimes have complex overand undertones. They range from middle C (C4) to the F an octave and a half above (F5). The duration is controlled with a foot pedal.
Chimes have notable appearances in several famous orchestral pieces. They appear in the finale of French composer Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's piano piece, Pictures at an Exhibition: "The Great Gate of Kiev." Chimes are also featured in the final scene of German composer Richard Wagner's opera, Parsifal, and at the end of Austrian composer Gustav Holst's homage to "Saturn" in The Planets.


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The Daily Routine Chart provides the perfect visual reminder of your child's morning and evening routines. Firstly, it enables children to build their individual routines, using the task magnets included, promoting ownership of the process. Secondly, the images are colourful and simple in design so there is no confusion as to the type of task expected. Finally, kids can tick off each task as they go using the dry-erase marker. This provides a sense of achievement, whilst promoting confidence and independence.
Each Daily Routine Chart pack includes 1 Daily Routine Chart with hanging loop, with two rows (for morning and evening routines), 36 task magnets, 1 blank magnet and a dry-erase, marker pen. The magnets depict routine tasks that your children carry out upon waking each morning and before bed each night. Furthermore, the simple and colourful designs help kids to easily identify and relate to each task.
The magnetic nature of the chart makes it completely versatile and easy to adjust when the routine changes. Provides a rigid board option for hanging the chart in the child's room or on any wall of the house, to provide an easy reminder of your child's morning and evening routines.
Work the Routine
Children respond well to routine. The Daily Routine Chart is designed to provide children with a visual reminder of what their individual routines look like. It aims to encourage your child to learn and understand the order of tasks in their morning and evening routines. Furthermore it develops independence and confidence in performing these tasks each day.
Each family can individualise their child's / children's routine by using the range of task magnets included. By involving your child in the "routine building" process, they'll develop a sense of ownership of their daily routines. Younger children will enjoy the sense of achievement from completing the tasks "all by themselves". Over time their routines will become second nature, taking the stress out of the busy morning rush and the evening wind down.
For working parents, parents of multiple children, or, parents who enjoy order at the start and end of the day, moderation of your child's behaviour can be achieved by greater understanding of their daily routine. When children know what's expected of them they are more likely to comply with accomplishing the tasks at hand.
Measures: Length 22.5 cm x width 40cm x height (thickness) 1 cm.


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How These Two Herbs Can Help You Learn
Catering Crew Secrets Revealed: Using Spearmint and Rosemary to Boost Brain Power
Unlike some of the other herbs in the mint family, spearmint and rosemary are used most often in cooking. While peppermint may complement a cocktail nicely, these two powerful herbs go particularly well with fruits, vegetables, and poultry. But there is much more to these herbs than a fresh taste! Just ask your knowledgeable catering company and they will tell you the same.
Numerous studies have concluded that spearmint and rosemary have positive effects on the human body. A recent health study, however, reveals that the antioxidants found in these herbs may improve one's ability to learn and remember, which also prevents cognitive decline with age. So, with such benefits in mind, let's get to know these two herbs a bit better:
Spearmint is a common ingredient in health food products, toothpastes, mouthwashes, medicine, and cosmetics due to its pleasant odour and therapeutic qualities. Unlike its sibling, peppermint, spearmint does not contain much menthol. Instead, it's rich in limonene, dihydrocaryone, and cineol, and is packed with vitamins! Catering crews often combine spearmint in their recipes, meaning that seafarers experience the following benefits without even realizing:
· Spearmint's antioxidant and antifungal properties help to protect the body from infection and disease by preventing the formation of free radical cells;
· As many have discovered drinking spearmint tea, this herb has the power to quell nausea and alleviate the symptoms of other digestive problems;
· Spearmint is considered a natural remedy for sore throats, arthritis, cramps, toothaches, colds, muscle pain, and headaches.
Rosemary comes from the Mediterranean and is commonly used in foods from this geographical location. In saying this, rosemary has become an ordinary condiment throughout the world due to its lovely fragrant and taste. Catering crews regularly add rosemary to dishes that involve chicken or lamb, adding an extra source of iron, calcium, and vitamin B6. Other common herbs from this family used alongside rosemary include oregano, thyme, and basil. Let's take a look at what rosemary has to offer:
· Rosemary is a rich source of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds which are known to assist the immune and circulatory systems;
· Rosemary is known to fight-off free radical damage in the brain with the carnosic acid found inside this herb. For similar reasons, rosemary helps protect the brain from aging;
· Rosemary's anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor agents fight cancer cells, especially those sometimes formed when cooking beef;
· The same carnosic acid that boosts memory also prevents macular degeneration (eye sight).
At Global Catering, we are committed to finding the best ingredients to add to our menu. As a knowledgeable and experienced catering company, we understand the nutritional requirements for active seafarers abroad and work diligently to provide meals that not only satisfy these expectations, but exceed them as well. Read through our older posts to find additional spotlight articles on different super fruits and recipes!


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Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program
by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) CALiPER program released an exploratory study on the problems and benefits likely to be encountered as LED products intended to replace linear fluorescent lamps and luminaires become increasingly popular. Linear fluorescent lamps – specifically, T8s and T5s – are the most-common light sources in our country's classrooms and offices and are used in a wide range of fixtures, including recessed 2'x 4's, 2'x 2's, and 1'x 4's as well as linear pendants (both indirect and direct/indirect), chalkboard/whiteboard lights, and linear wallwashers. But a growing number of LED products are being offered as energy-efficient alternatives – including T8 LED replacement lamps, integral LED luminaires (2' x 4' or 2' x 2'), and kits to upgrade fluorescent troffers to an LED option.
For the CALiPER study, DOE brought together 18 lighting designers and facility engineers to compare 24 identical pairs of troffers in a simulated office space. Three of those pairs involved fluorescent benchmark troffers, and the rest were LED products – including five pairs of fluorescent troffers retrofitted with LED tubes, four pairs of troffers with LED non-tube retrofit kits, and 12 pairs of dedicated LED troffers. The products were tested at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for flux, color, power quality, and flicker before being evaluated by the 18 experts for photometric distribution, uniformity of light on the task surface, and suitability of the light output for the task, as well as flicker, dimming performance, color quality, safety and certification issues, ease of installation, and energy efficiency.
Compared to the last CALIPER tests on such products, conducted in 2011, the new study shows considerable improvement. On the whole, the LED luminaires proved to be slightly more efficacious than their fluorescent luminaire counterparts, which ranged from 57 to 62 lm/W (with an average of 59.6 lm/W), compared with a range of 55 to 107 lm/W for the LED products (with an average of 80.3 lm/W). But the evaluators identified a number of areas of concern, one being color consistency. The color of the LED troffers varied from manufacturer to manufacturer, even though most were claimed to be 4000K white. This means that architectural projects with multiple luminaire types in a single room could end up with the downlights looking "greener" than the troffers or task lights, for example.
Some of the luminaires with dramatic or odd brightness patterns on the lens or diffuser were identified as being more glaring and as causing more noticeable reflections on glossy computer screens. This was worse for the LED luminaires than for the fluorescents, especially where the manufacturers had not carefully considered the appearance of the troffer lens. But glare proved somewhat enigmatic, in that no traditional measured or calculated photometric quantities were reliable predictors of whether it would be a problem for a given luminaire – except that troffers with maximum lens luminances greater than 20,000 cd/m2 seemed to be more objectionable.
Another issue noted by the study involved LED T8 replacement lamps. Because they emit no light from their back sides, they changed the appearance of troffers (both lensed and parabolic) by increasing the luminance contrast between the lamp and the unlighted reflector behind it – which, when used with an omnidirectional fluorescent tube, would reflect back plenty of light. The result was apparent stripes on troffer lenses, as well as greater perceived lamp brightness in the parabolic louvers.
When it came to dimming, LED products were on par with fluorescents. Both source types were equipped with 0-10V dimming ballasts or drivers, and neither dimmed smoothly and predictably, especially when raised from the "off" setting. More notably, however, about a third of the LED products exhibited annoying flicker in dimmed mode. At this point in time there are no established flicker metrics that would warn specifiers about this problem.
A number of issues were encountered during the installation of the LED tubes and non-tube retrofit kits – for example, there wasn't enough wire in some troffers to reach across the fixture once the ballast was cut out, and the need for some non-tube retrofit kits to be installed in deeper troffer housings wasn't noted prominently enough on the spec sheet. These kinds of things could be avoided if manufacturers would observe their products being installed in a range of existing troffer types, and make the necessary product modifications to better facilitate installation as well as approval by the electrical inspector. An electrical inspector could have disqualified more than half of the installed LED tubes and non-tube LED retrofit kits because of either poor assembly or a lack of safety documentation, so it would behoove manufacturers to address this issue in order to avoid costly site certifications.
The CALiPER study shows that LED dedicated troffers can compete with fluorescents in terms of efficacy, and while lighting quality is of some concern, it's no more so than with fluorescents. The other LED options – replacement tubes and non-tube retrofit kits – don't perform as well. Although the present study found them to be as efficacious as their fluorescent counterparts, there were concerns about color consistency, glare, dimming, flicker, installation issues, and code approval. Many of these concerns were due to the fact that the existing housings were designed for omnidirectional fluorescents rather than for directional LEDs. Nevertheless, it's advisable to mock up and visually evaluate LED retrofit products before ordering them for large installations.
Despite the considerable improvement in this class of LED products, there remains more to be accomplished before they emerge as the clear choice over fluorescents. To see a copy the full CALiPER report, please visit _URL_


The Auto Shop Safety Quiz
By: Nick Marinoff
6 Min Quiz
Image: Pexels by Lgh_9
About This Quiz
Sports cars, luxury cars, monster trucks... People tend to get pretty enticed when face-to-face with an exotic four-wheeler, but working with cars is very different from simply admiring them. In America, Michigan is the state that holds the highest number of auto shop workers (approximately 47,000), and the region has become known as the top automaker in the United States.
No doubt each of these individuals takes their jobs seriously. Working in a car shop is a dream job for many, but to achieve this dream, one must be well-trained not just in the technical aspects of the vehicles, but in the safety of their environments. This can be said for virtually any industry, but auto shops can be particularly dangerous when one either doesn't possess the knowledge or the careful attitude necessary to ensure a clean, steady and safe atmosphere. Being surrounded by all those big, heavy vehicles every day can be exciting, but it can also be very dangerous.
Do you fancy yourself working in a garage? Test your knowledge of auto shop safety with this little quiz we've prepared for you. We invite you to learn about yourself and to boost your intelligence by answering the following questions. Now is the time to test your skills and see how well you'd fare.
How many jackstands are necessary to support a raised vehicle?
Four jackstands - one at each corner of the frame - are placed underneath the car while it's raised. This ensures it's supported and doesn't fall on the mechanic.
When a vehicle is being driven into the service bay, what should one never do?
It's OK to be near the vehicle while its moving into the service bay so long as you're not in front. This can potentially lead to serious injury.
At what point is it OK for exits and stairwells be blocked?
Exits and stairwells should never be blocked. If there's an emergency, workers and customers have nowhere to go.
When working underneath vehicles, what should one wear?
Safety googles prevent any debris or foreign objects in the car's underbelly from falling into the mechanic's eyes. A mechanic needs to see what they're working on to make sure all goes well for the customer.
What should a grinder always be firmly anchored to?
A grinder should always be firmly attached to the work bench. This ensures it doesn't move or jiggle during a job.
When removing oxidized rubber from a wheel well, what should one use?
A wire brush is designed to get rid of oxidized rubber and dried soap solution safely. Other tools were not specifically built for this task.
To ensure beads are evenly seated, what should one check?
Checking both sides of the tire is the only way to ensure that the beads are even with each other. Doing only one side will not give you an appropriate idea of where the beads stand and could lead to trouble on the road.
What should one do with rugs or mats in the office or garage areas?
Rugs and mats that don't lie flat should be straightened out or removed to prevent trips and falls. This helps to avoid injuries.
What should one do regarding safety and danger signs?
Safety and danger signs are not decorations. They should always be obeyed.
What should you do with a ladder or step stool?
If an object is high up, you'll need a ladder. Place it firmly on the ground and careful walk up. Never place it on an unstable surface.
Is it ever OK to ride in the bed of a pickup truck?
The bed of a pickup truck does not contain seat belts. Therefore, riding in it is unsafe.
When getting in and out of a vehicle, what should you use?
One should use a 3-point contact involving either one foot and both hands or both feet and one hand. This lets others know that they're exiting or entering a vehicle.
When is a good time for a passenger or driver to use a seat belt?
In an auto shop, the environment is unpredictable. Therefore, to ensure safety at all times, one should always be wearing a seat belt while inside a moving vehicle.
Before backing a vehicle up, what should an employee do to make sure people are cleared and the area is safe?
Honk the horn to let all nearby employees know that you're backing the vehicle up. This lets them know to steer clear.
When driving into the auto shop, what should an employee do?
All three should be done to get the attention of both employees and customers. This will let them know to steer clear of the entering vehicle.
What should one do with equipment in the bed of a truck?
All equipment in the bed of a truck should be tied or latched down at all times. This ensures that it won't move about and cause danger.
When driving into the shop area, how fast should one drive?
A vehicle should be going no faster than 5 mph when traveling into an auto shop. This speed is low enough to keep conditions safe and prevent injury to others.
When holding a wheel on a tire machine to ensure it has air, what holds the wheel down?
The positive lock-down device is used to keep a wheel held by the tire machine. A moving wheel prevents a job from being done properly and can hurt others.
What should an employee do if they want to check a tire's pressure?
An air hose with an air pressure gauge is used to determine a tire's stability. Too much or too little pressure can damage a tire, and this tool allows you to be sure.
What should one do when leaving a vehicle?
Putting the emergency brake on and chocking the wheels ensures that the car will stay in one place. If the vehicle moves on its own, people may be put in danger.
What is the maximum amount of air pressure one can inflate to when seating the beads?
40 pounds is the maximum amount one can exert when seating the beads. Any more can lead to damage.
When removing rocks and glass from a tire, what should one do?
Wearing leather gloves is the best way to prevent injury to one's fingers when removing foreign objects from a tire. The leather is strong enough to keep foreign objects from damaging the skin.
When placing a tire on a changer, what position should it be in?
Placing the tire in a horizontal position allows a mechanic to get a full view of the tire. Any other position or direction may affect the mechanic's sight pattern.
On a changer, where should the narrow ledge of a wheel be facing?
A wheel's narrow edge should always be facing up. This allows the mechanic to properly remove it from the vehicle.
Where should beads be loosened from?
Beads are always loosened from the rim flanges. This allows the inside of the wheel to be properly lubricated.
When holding a tire, what body parts should one utilize?
Using your hands and hips is the best way to ensure your body encompasses the tire. This will also give it the most support.
When holding the tire bead in a center wheel, which tool should one never use?
Pipes and makeshift bars do not have the strength to support wheels. Thus, they shouldn't be used for bead work.
When mounting a tire, which bead should be pushed in first?
The bottom bead should always go in first. This provides the proper support for the remaining beads.
When removing the top bead from a wheel, what should one do?
Starting the tire changer allows one to remove the top bead. It's the first bead that should be removed in the tire changing process.
What tool allows one to center and fasten a wheel to a changer?
A changer hold-down cone is the proper tool for fastening a wheel to a changer. Such an item was built with this job in mind.
Where should the axle hub stand?
The axle hub should always be positioned at waist height. This ensures the mechanic has enough space to work while lessening the chances of injury.
When positioning the tire and wheel on the floor, what should the inside of the tire be facing?
The tire and wheel should always be facing you when being positioned on the floor. This way, you can be in a comfortable position when working on the vehicle.
When loading or unloading tires from a vehicle, what should one do?
All of these options should be carefully understood and followed when loading and unloading tires from a vehicle to ensure top-level safety. Not following one or all these steps may result in a rolling tire, which may lead to damage or injuries.
One should never use which mushroom-headed tools when working on a vehicle?
No tool with a mushroom head has any place in an auto shop or garage. They are dangerous, and can damage portions of the vehicle.
A vehicle should be lifted how many feet above the ground?
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This is the first direct look, in visible light, at a lone neutron star, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble results show the star is very hot (1.2 million degrees Fahrenheit at the surface), and can be no larger than 16.8 miles (28 kilometers) across. These results prove that the object must be a neutron star, because no other known type of object can be this hot, small, and dim (below 25th magnitude).
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1) Why did Maria jump through the window? a) Boy was chasing her. b) She saw Boy and was terrified. c) Boy pushed her through the window. 2) How did Boy know something was wrong in Grade 2? a) The students were shouting. b) The students touched him. c) A student jumped through the window. 3) The entire school was alerted because: a) Mrs Redmond fainted b) the Grade 2 students screamed c) the principal was angry and shouted 4) Why did Josh tell the principal that Boy was not a cow? a) Josh did not want to get punished. b) Josh was a male. c) Boy was a male. 5) What literary device is used in the following: Mrs Redmond was as pale as a chalky blackboard? a) simile b) metaphor c) personification 6) Where did Maria go after jumping through the window? a) Under the school b) Home c) Into her classroom 7) When Josh passed his teacher on the way out of the office, why couldn't he face her? a) He was the reason she was called to the office. b) He didn't want her to see the tears in his eyes. c) She had sent him to the office. 8) What literary device is used in the following: she was in the frying pan? a) onomatopoeia b) metaphor c) idiom 9) Why did Mrs Bernard come to the school? a) There was a PTA meeting. b) The principal sent for her. c) Her daughter was injured at school. 10) Whom did the principal blame for what had happened in the school? a) Josh Mahon b) Mrs Anthony c) Maria Bernard
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The Wellington Declaration
The Wellington Declaration opened a new chapter in closer US-NZ relations and established a framework for a strategic partnership to shape future practical cooperation and political dialogue. It was signed on November 5, 2010 by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully.
Among the issues cited for cooperation are climate change, renewable energy initiatives, disaster recovery, nuclear proliferation, extremism, trade, security, and sustainable economic development across the region.
The goal of the Wellington Declaration is to strengthen "a partnership for the 21st century that is flexible, dynamic and reflects our fundamental beliefs and aspirations."
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New Zealand and the United States are both Pacific nations. Our governments and peoples share a deep and abiding interest in maintaining peace, prosperity, and stability in the region, expanding the benefits of freer and more open trade, and promoting and protecting freedom, democracy and human rights worldwide. We recall the long history of shared United States and New Zealand sacrifice in battle and we honor those, past and present, who have borne that sacrifice.
As we look to the challenges of the 21st century, our shared democratic values and common interests will continue to guide our collective efforts.
The United States-New Zealand strategic partnership is to have two fundamental elements: a new focus on practical cooperation in the Pacific region; and enhanced political and subject-matter expert dialogue – including regular Foreign Ministers' meetings and political-military discussions.
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How do we express the ineffable? How do we make our readers feel the emotions and tension of our scenes? In particular, how is this done if we are writing a "quiet book" where the growing stakes of a novel are internal?
Liaisons and motifs are a great way to incorporate specific imagery that adds unspoken weight to your narrative. In many cases the effect is unconscious for the reader. It's one of those writerly magic tricks that is felt, yet hard to pin point. This is the best kind of writing, where the technique is invisible, but the effect is emotionally resonant!
So what's a liason or a motif?
A liaison is defined as a close connection, relationship, or link. David Jauss quotes Mark Rose's seminal text Shakespearean Design in defining a liaison as: "a key word or image whose repetition links two seemingly divergent scenes in a play and thereby reveals their underlying connection and unity" (Alone With All That Could Happen, 153). Jauss goes on to explain that "when a liaison appears throughout a work, not just in adjacent stories or in a small group of stories, it has become a motif. A motif is nothing more, or less, than an extended, expanded liaison" (Alone With All That Could Happen, 155). I define a motif is a dominant image or central idea that is repeated or evoked in various parts of a composition. A liaison is a shorter connection between scenes or stories, whereas a motif is an extended connection throughout a novel or larger work.
Laurie Halse Anderson's Novel Speak uses liaisons and motifs in a masterful way. The novel tells the story of Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman with a secret that she must find the courage to tell. The major antagonist of the story is her environment of silence. But how does Anderson make an abstract antagonist felt by the reader? She does this through the motifs of closed mouths/throats and snow/ice, which illustrate and intensify the stakes Melinda feels in her environment.
Through the motif of closed mouths and sore throats, Anderson creates an overwhelming sense that Melinda should not speak. Each image intensifies the threat to Melinda's objective (to speak) with cumulative impact:
"My throat burns." (5)
"My throat squeezes shut, as if two hands of black fingernails are clamped on my windpipe." (28)
"I try to swallow the snowball in my throat." (72)
"The sharp edge of the flap cuts my tongue. I taste blood." (74)
"It's easier to floss with barbed wire." (108)
"I have an egg in my mouth. One move, one word, and the egg will shatter and blow up the world." (117)
The question that propels the narrative (will she speak?) is alluded to with each mention of silence, sore throats, and shut mouths. More than forty-five of these violent images accumulate in the novel, creating an average of one every four pages. The dominant impression of this motif is the suffocation of the main character.
A second motif, numbness and ice, also exerts a negative force. Freezing ice and snow come to represent Melinda's desire to forget, go numb, disappear, and bury her ugly secret. Twenty-four instances of this motif appear in Anderson's novel. The sampling below reveals their cumulative effect:
"I am going to be completely, totally cool, like nothing has happened. Think ice. Think snow." (20)
"Every mistake I make is frozen in the picture." (54)
"A minor blizzard blows outside … I can feel the wind fighting to break through our storm windows. I want the snow to bury our house." (87)
"Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. " (130)
Within the story, these examples are part of Melinda's everyday life. They don't call attention to themselves in the dramatic way that isolating them does. Instead, they accumulate slowly, like snow itself, gradually falling page by page, over the whole. Their presence is a reminder of the pain and secrets that Melinda is trying to hide.
Hopefully this example illustrates how the repetition of key images reminds the reader of both questions and stakes, while also helping to deepen emotions and themes. A few other books with excellent use of liaisons and motifs include: Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson, and Keesha's House by Helen Frost. Of course, many other novels also use this technique, but these are a couple that I've looked at personally.
In our work, we're all looking to create an emotional connection with lasting resonance. Repeating key imagery can be an invisible and effective tool for that goal!
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The ingredients needed to prepare Beef and Broccoli:
 1. Use of jasmine rice, steamed.
 2. Use of water.
 3. Provide of flour.
 4. Prepare of vegetable oil.
 5. Take of chuck roast, sliced thin.
 6. Get of white onion, sliced large on the grain.
 7. Get of broccoli, chopped to edible size pieces.
 8. Use of garlic, minced.
 9. Prepare of ginger, minced.
 10. Take of sesame oil.
 11. Provide of hoisen sauce.
 12. Provide of oyster sauce.
 13. Get of sugar.
 14. You need of salt.
 15. Get of soy sauce.
 16. Get of Sriracha.
Instructions to make Beef and Broccoli:
 1. Prepare the beef, broccoli, onion garlic, and ginger has shown. Mix the flour in cold water well..
 2. In a wok on medium heat with oil to temperature, saute the ginger and garlic until it just begins to brown..
 3. Sautee the beef for a couple minutes to cook half way..
 4. While beef is cooking, add sauces, sugar, salt..
 5. Add broccoli. Add flour water mix to thicken the sauce base while stirring. Cover and turn down heat to medium low, cook for a couple minutes..
 6. Add onions, stir and cover, and cook for 1-2 minutes..
 7. To finish, remove from heat, add pepper to taste, stir and cover. At this point the vegetables will cook rather quickly, so carefully monitor the onions and broccoli for doneness..
 8. Serve on a bed of rice, add soy sauce or Sriracha to enhance..
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ANSWER: Without a specimen, it would be hard to give a proper identification of what you are seeing. But from your description, it may be a pseudoscorpion (order Pseudoscorpionida). A bad name for this animal, since it has no relation to scorpions! Pseudoscorpions are arachnids which are predators on mites and small insects. They will not bite people or pets. They live in wooded areas, and they are usually brought into house on the fur of pets or the pant cuffs of people that have been in the woods.
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In HIS346H Rice and Spice in Southeast Asia: a Regional Food History, Professor Nhung Tran teaches her undergraduate students through an experiential learning project. After choosing from a list of people living in different regions of Southeast Asia during the seventeenthand nineteenthcenturies (e.g. Javanese sugar factory worker), students then research and adopt the diet of that person for four days. To learn more about students' experiences on diets of rice, sweet potatoes and fish, read further here: Faculty of Arts & Science News.


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Working with representatives of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and with FGCU's Office of Planning and Institutional Performance, the Faculty Senate General Education Council identified and developed a set of measurable General Education Competencies, skill sets fundamental to student academic success. The competencies are clear, nationally-recognized, and measurable skills that all university graduates should be able to demonstrate.
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"How efficient are the horses?"
Translation:Quanto sono efficaci i cavalli?
July 27, 2013
Why not "Quanti efficaci sono i cavalli?"
In this case "quanto" doesn't have to agree in gender and number with the noun, since it's not an adjective referring to it. "Quanto + adj" is equivalent to "how + adj" in the English construction. However, when translating "how much/many", you'd have literally "quanto tanto/a/i/e" which becomes just "quanto/a/i/e". That's the only case you have a declensed form of "quanto".
2020-01-16 As Duolessio said, but also the verb should come directly after quanto, not after the adjective.
Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli also accepted. BUT it is usual to put the verb after quanto. Quanto è lungo il ponte. Quanto è grande il cavallo. Quanto sono grande le case.
It was accepted on 28 July 2020.
I believe "efficace" and "efficiente" have different meanings in the same way that "effective" and "efficient" mean different things. I think "How effective are the horses?" would be a more accurate translation.
I think we are looking at subtly different meanings in the two languages.
In English, confusing efficient and effective is a classic schoolchild's error, of which English teachers are heartily fed up. "Being effective is about doing the right things, while being efficient is about doing things right". Effective is whether something produces a desired effect. Efficient is how well the effect is produced, and in theory can be calculated as units output per unit input.
I think Italian has a different logic, which I find hard to figure out. Dictionary examples suggest that efficiente applied to a person (or a horse or a machine) translates to "efficient", but to non-actors (e.g. a process, a method, a remedy) it translates to "effective". Duo doesn't follow this logic.
There's another Italian phrase for the English "efficient": di buon rendimento. The noun means yield, performance, efficiency or duty according to context. Unfortunately I don't think there's a related adjective.
Speaking as an English teacher (just one, I know) I was much more fed up about "could of ", "them ones" and failure to distinguish between "their", "there" and "they are". :)
I confirm this. Efficiente is more like productive, like a horse which doesn't eat too much but still runs for a long time before getting tired. "cavalli" is also a commonly used short form of "cavalli vapore", which would fit better than my example with horses in terms of an engine efficiency.
An 'efficace' summary; thank you.
That's what I'm lead to believe from peeking too
"How efficiente are the horses!" could be translate also as "Come sono efficaci i cavalli!", or not??
Think of 'how much' and 'how many' as 'quanto'; and 'how, in what way' as 'come'.
Come is not accepted in this sentence?
'Come' is 'in quale modo' how, but 'quanto' is 'in che misura' how: 'in what way' versus 'to what degree'. Here the sentence is, in effect, 'To what degree are the horses efficient', so quanto is used.
Oh yes. Thanks for your explanation.
John I am sure that you are right but I thought "come" was more appropriate because the sentence is about the efficiency of horses and not motors. With motors the response would be perhaps, that the motor is 70% efficient, in which case quanto is clearly the correct interrogative. Whereas, with horse when talking about their efficiency we would not describe it's efficiency in numerical terms but rather in the general attributes of the horse? What do you think?
How about quanto is for countable quantities and come is for non countable quality?
A short explanation that is easy to remember....thank you!
Thanks for a simple answer that I can remember.
Can you not use Come for "how" in this instance? I wrote Come efficaci sono i cavalli.
"How" = come for most things, but not for quantities. "How much/many" = quanto/i, obviously. Less obvious but logical is when the "much" is replaced by an adjective of degree like "long", or "effective" as here. [If Duo means "efficient" the answer should be efficiente. English speakers often get them mixed up too.]
There's one context in which come / quanto are interchangeable, and that's as an intensifier in an exclamation: "How effective the horses are!". In Duo's example there is no exclamation mark and the English word order is wrong. Even if these were present and correct, your Italian word order is wrong: it should have been Come sono efficaci i cavalli!.
I also used "come" because it was the only option suggested when I hovered over the word "how"! And then it was marked wrong!
my translation was: quanto efficaci sono i cavalli. It was correct, but how would an Italian prefer to say it?
It's ok but I think it's more natural with the verb before the adjective.
I also put "Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli" ; it was not accepted. I'm assuming the word order is the issue, but i would be grateful to be directed to any relevant grammar lesson, as I don't have any on DL.
Italian word order is pretty fluid, but here quanto is an (interrogative) adverb, and you don't really want to separate it from the verb or adjective that it modifies. It's a general 'rule'.
References in grammar to quanto è specifically seem to be rare, but the Treccani dictionary says "Come avv[erbio]:... modificando un agg[ettivo]: quant'è lungo il cammino?. This order makes for easy additions, such as... più lungo..., and compound tenses. If you think of the noun first, it's perfectly OK to say I cavalli, quanto sono efficaci? I'm not sure about... sono quanto efficaci?.
Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli was accepted Feb 2018
Is DL certain that "Quanto efficaci sono i cavalli" is not also acceptable?
Look at my previous entry. This was also my translation and it was accepted.
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 Duolingo said it was wrong when I said it that way.
 Here's my question: How on earth would anyone answer this question, either in Italian or in English? What does "how efficient are the horses" mean anyway? Sorry; it's a ridiculous question.
 On Earth we would answer it variously, such as "very, fairly, not very, not at all, 40% (meaning power output divided by power input)", etc. How about your planet? :-) If you ignore Duo's literal translation by dropping "the", you have "How efficient are horses?" - a genuine question of biophysics or agriculture.
 FYI: Quanto sono efficienti i cavalli? was also accepted.
 Che efficaci sono i cavalli?
 Nope, you have to use "quanto".
 Got it, Johnrush. Thanks.
 Could somebody please explain to me why Come efficaci sono i cavalli? is incorrect? I interpret this question of efficiency as to what extent the horses are of use, not an inquiry into how strong they are.
 It is accepted now.
 In addition to all valid questions about where'sono' should go in the sentence, as discussed here, I would kindly point out to DL that, just like 'efficient' and 'effective' have significantly different meanings in English, I frivolously assume the same semantic distinction applies to 'efficiente' and 'efficace'.
 So, DL, please, respect the correspondence.
 Does anyone have an actual clue as to how to pick the order of words in this sentence?
 I'm coming to the conclusion that the answer is to start again, be born in Italy, grow to your present age, and it will all become clear.
 Why is it "quanto" and not "quanti" here when we are talking about horses (plural)?
 And why is "efficaci" AFTER "sono"? I put "quanti efficaci sono i cavalli" (thinking it literally translates to "how efficient are the horses" and was marked wrong, but I will try to just change "quanti" to "quanto" next time and see if where I put the adjective will be accepted that way too or not.
 Quanto can be an adjective or an adverb, here it is an interrogative adverb. Adverbs are fixed words that do not change, just as the interrogative adverbs perché, dove, and quando do not change.
 nstallaert2 - "And why is "efficaci" AFTER "sono"?"
 See malcolmissimo's comment from 2 years ago.
 As a language teacher, language is alive, it changes meaning with acceptance. Just because something is right grammatically according to the Grammar Book doesn't mean that one has to use it that way. Dialects account for so many differences, y'all. For me, efficient means


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Photo: Pacific Tropical Depression One-E approaches the Central American coast on Saturday morning (credit: NOAA/ National Hurricane Center). For more, see part two of post, below.
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What would happen if a hurricane or tropical storm went through the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
The National Hurricane Center answered some questions on this topic in a newly-published fact sheet. Bottom line: the oil would have little effect on the development of the storm.
And it could spread more oil inland. However, it could also disperse the oil over a wider area in the ocean, which may actually help the biodegradation process.
Movement of the oil would depend on the track of the storm. If it moved to the spill's west, it could drive more oil to the coast. If it moved to the spill's east, it would push the oil south, away from the coast but perhaps toward the Loop Current and eventually into the Gulfstream.
A very thick oil slick would hinder evaporation of water, which supplies energy for a tropical storm. But as the NHC notes, the oil in the Gulf is too patchy to have any real impact.
And there is this potentially damaging effect, according to the NHC report: "Storms' surges may carry oil into the coastline and inland as far as the surge reaches. Debris resulting from the hurricane may be contaminated by oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident, but also from other oil releases that may occur during the storm."
There would be no oil in the rain of a hurricane or tropical storm, the NHC says. Water vapor is drawn from a much larger area than the spill, and the rain is produced in the clouds swirling within the storm.
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The Eastern Pacific season's first tropical depression formed today off the coast of Central America. It was moving east-northeast at 5 mph and was expected to soak portions of Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala, which were under tropical storm warnings.
"The main impact from this system should be extremely heavy rainfall," the National Hurricane Center said. "These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods and mud slides over southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and as far inland as Honduras."
The NHC expects the storm to move inland and dissipate by Tuesday. Some forecasters say it's possible that energy from the remnants could form a new storm in the Caribbean or southern Gulf of Mexico.
If Tropical Depression One-E reaches tropical storm strength, it would be named Agatha. Anything that generates in the Atlantic basin on the other side would earn the first Atlantic name of the season, Alex.
That's what happened in 2008, when Pacific Tropical Storm Alma battered Central America on May 29 and 30. The remnants moved across Honduras into the northwestern Caribbean. It combined with another surface low southeast of Belize to become Atlantic Tropical Storm Arthur on May 31 – one day before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. (The Pacific season begins May 15).


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Definition: 'Diamond-shaped Murmur'
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1. a crescendo-decrescendo murmur, from the shape of the frequency intensity curve of the phonocardiogram, often audible as such.
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Personalised Number Plate Help -
FAQ & help guide to answer any questions you may have in relation to the purchase, transfer and sale of personalised reg number plates including historic reg number data and frequently asked questions.
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Number Plate Buyers Guide
1. What happens to my present registration number?
2. Why are some prices subject to VAT?
3. Why have I seen the same number plate advertised in other places?
4. What happens if I change my mind before the transfer has been completed?
5. What payment methods are accepted?
6. I do not have a vehicle yet, can I still purchase a plate now?
7. What does DVLA, VRO and DOT stand for?
8. My V5C says non-transferable. Can I transfer a Cherished Number onto my vehicle?
9. Why are some transfers faster than others?
10. How can I find out about the status of my transfer?
11. Do Regplates provide the acrylic number plates?
12. Does the recipient vehicle need to be inspected?
13. Are there any restrictions to the transfer of a number with a year letter?
14. How long does a transfer take?
15. What happens if I need to tax or MOT my vehicle while the transfer being processed?
16. Is it possible to transfer a mark to a vehicle with a "Q" mark?
17. Do I have to keep the registration for a certain time before I can transfer it?
18. If the recipient already has a mark can I transfer both at the same time?
19. If my vehicle is new and not registered can I transfer a number onto it?
20. Can I ask Regplates to try and obtain an un-issued prefix combination?
21. Why is my registration number being offered for sale on the Regplates web site?
22. What do I get for my money when I buy a previously unissued mark?
23. What if my vehicle is stolen and not recovered?
24. What if my vehicle is "written off"?
25. What if my vehicle has been scrapped?
Number Plate History - How It All Began
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A1 - The Ultimate Number Plate?
Number plates were first issued in 1903 when Earl Russell was assigned the highly prestigious mark A1 to his Napier motor car by London County Council.
Even in the early days, people recognised the significance and enjoyment brought by owning a prestigious or personalised number plate and often kept them within the family for many years. Their significance is often highly personalised to their owners. Some like to have a registration that originated in their local area, some are attracted to owning their own initials and others enjoy the fun of a word based registration mark.
Registrations that are car related always prove popular such as 45 TON on an Aston Martin DB6
Since their humble beginning in 1903, cherished numbers have continued to increase in popularity often adding the finishing touch to our prized possessions and very often prove to be a valuable investment.
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Dateless Number Plates 1903 - 1963
Dateless Number Plates
The first series of number plates were issued in 1903 and ran until 1932, using the series A 1 to YY 9999. The letter or pair of letters indicated the local authority in whose area the vehicle was registered, for example A – London, B – Lancashire, C – West Riding of Yorkshire. In England and Wales the letter codes were initially allocated in order of population size (by the 1901 census) whilst Scotland and Ireland had their own sequences incorporating the letters "S" and "I" respectively, which were allocated alphabetically: IA = Antrim, IB = Armagh, etc. When a licensing authority reached 9999, it was allocated another two letter mark, but there was no pattern to these subsequent allocations as they were allocated on a first come first served basis. There are three interesting anomalies where a zero has been issued – The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has S 0 and his Glasgow counterpart has G 0 while the official car of the Lord Provost of Aberdeen has RG 0. In addition the Lord Mayor of London has the registration LB 0.
By 1932, the available numbers within this scheme were running out, and an extended scheme was introduced. This scheme consisted of three letters and up to three digits, taken from the series AAA 1 to YYY 999. The letters I, Q, and Z were never used, as they were considered too easy to mistake for other letters or numbers or were reserved for special use, such as the use of I and Z for Irish registrations and Q for temporary imports. (After independence, the Republic of Ireland continued to use this scheme until 1986, and Northern Ireland still uses it.)
The three-letter scheme preserved the area letter codes as the second pair of letters in the set of three, and the single letter area codes were deleted (since prefixing a single letter code would create a duplicate of a two-letter code). In some areas, the available numbers with this scheme started to run out in the 1950s, and in those areas, a reversed sequence was introduced, i.e. 1 AAA to 999 YYY. The ever-increasing popularity of the car can be gauged by noting that these sequences ran out within ten years, and by the beginning of the 1960s, a further change was made in very popular areas, introducing 4-number sequences with the one and two letter area codes, but in the reverse direction to the early scheme (i.e. 1 A to 9999 YY). Often number plates were on hinges, as petrol tank caps were located under the number plates on some cars.
Suffix Number Plates 1963 - 1982
Suffix Number Plates
In 1963, numbers were running out once again, and an attempt was made to create a national scheme to alleviate the problem. The three letter, up to three number system was kept, but a letter suffix was added, which changed every year. In this scheme, numbers were drawn from the range AAA 1A to YYY 999A for the first year, then AAA 1B to YYY 999B for the second year, and so on. Some areas did not adopt the year letter for the first two years, sticking to their own schemes, but in 1965 adding the year letter was made compulsory.
As well as yielding many more available numbers, it was a handy way for vehicle buyers to know the age of the vehicle immediately. At first the year letter changed on 1 January every year, but car retailers started to notice that buyers would tend to wait until the New Year for the new letter to be issued, so that they could get a "newer"


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See more from this Session: General Seed Physiology, Production, & Technology: I/Div. C04 Business Meeting
Monday, November 1, 2010: 2:30 PM
Long Beach Convention Center, Room 103B, First Floor
Carrot seed is produced in central Oregon by planting seed in late-summer, 13 months before harvest. Seedling carrot growth and development is sometimes poor possibly because of nematodes, herbicide carryover, or allelopathy from wheat straw. Frost-heaving is a risk factor that strongly influences winter survival of seedling carrot in the region. Frost-heaving occurs when freezing and thawing soil pushes seedling carrots up out of the soil, which results in plant mortality. Two field trials were conducted to evaluate the influence of wheat straw management on seedling carrot injury and the potential for herbicide carryover from wheat. Two additional field trials were conducted to evaluate mulch products to prevent frost-heaving. Wheat straw management practices influenced carrot establishment and seedling carrot survival over the winter. Seedbed preparation strongly influenced carrot establishment and winter survival. Biomass mulches were all equally effective in preventing frost-heaving.


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Soar and Wreake Floodplain - Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife
The River Soar rises in the extreme south of Leicestershire and flows slowly northwards through a shallow valley. Fed by a number of streams and smaller rivers, it grows in size and joins the River Trent.
more than 100 hectares of wetland habitat have been created...
For centuries, the river floodplain (the area liable to be covered in water when the river swells and bursts its banks after heavy rain) was an open landscape of large meadows where hay was grown and cattle and other domesticated animals grazed.
These meadows gradually became a network of small fields, bounded by hedges; settlements at Leicester and Loughborough expanded to become the present cities; the river was 'canalised' so that boats could navigate it; railways and roads were built and gravel pits quarried. The river bed was dredged to encourage flow of water and banks were built to stop the river from spilling over the floodplain. The impact on wildlife of all of this, together with changes in farming practices, was devastating.
The floodplain and its wildlife continue to be threatened by the prospect of more development and increased flooding. The use of the natural floodplain to store water at times of heavy rainfall will both help to reduce the impact of flooding on people's homes and create good habitats for wildlife too.
There are still some special places in the Soar valley and these are being linked up to the Trust's nature reserves and other sympathetically managed land. The river joins them all together, forming a corridor that wildlife can move along. Many of these places would not survive in isolation - they are dependent upon the floodplain to function naturally, to prevent them drying out and to bring in plant seeds, fish and other animals in the flood water. Some of our wildlife such as the rare black poplar tree needs natural processes such as flooding to create wet bare ground so the tree's seeds are able to germinate.
Since 2004, more than 100 hectares of wetland habitat have been created resulting in significant increases in populations of dragonflies, grasshoppers and wading birds.
The Trust has also been successful in influencing mineral restoration plans to ensure two quarries are returned to nature conservation.
Start date: 2004
Scheme area: 6,000 hectares
Trust reserves within the scheme
This scheme is helping species including...
Current threats to the landscape
This scheme is also...
Helping wildlife adapt to climate change, improving water quality, reducing flood risk, improving access for people, providing volunteering opportunities
Natural England, Environment Agency, Local Authorities, local landowners


Switching Application Required System Properties According to Deployment Environment
Any serious application depends on a number of configuration properties, such as JDBC connection properties, caching properties etc. They should change according to target deployment environment.
People employ different methods to take those properties outside their web applications. Among them, one commonly used method is to create a properties file and collect any property, whose value should change depending on the current deployment environment, then create variations of that properties file for each deployment environment. During build process, which property file should be taken into account is specified via another parameter, for example an environment property or system property.
We currently employ a similar method in our current project. We use ant in our build process, and have defined an ant global property named target.environemt, taking values dev, test, or prod accordingly. We, then, use following construct in our build.xml to customize our build process according to target deployment environemt.
Thus, we load specified build properties file to customize our build process according to the target environment. We use, for example, tomcat as web container and its ant tasks to deploy, stop, and start our web application. Development, test and production environments are simply located in different physical servers, and accesible with different user credentials. In order to make use of same tomcat ant task for each target environment, we keep tomcat server url, port, credential information in this build properties file.
When it comes to customize our application configuration properties, we simply copy specified project.properties.${target.environment} file into web application classpath while stripping off the suffix at the end. As the old saying goes, a layer of indirection solves every problem in computer science.
Karl Baum has a nice blog entry about this topic and gives a solution based on above method, but it is much more flexible as it enables us to switch between configurations without a new build or deployment at all.a


text: Control valves are an integral part of a number of energy systems, such as those used in chemical and nuclear industries. These valves are used to regulate the amount of fluid flow passing through these systems. A key component of a control valve is its trim, which in case of a multi-stage continuous-resistance trim consists of a staggered arrangement of columns. Flow passing through the channels formed between adjacent columns (also called as flow paths), loses a significant amount of its energy and regulates the pressure field. As the geometrical features of these flow paths dictate the flow capacity of the trim, systematic investigations have been carried out to analyse the complex flow behaviour within these flow paths. Well-verified computational fluid dynamics based solver has been used to investigate the effects of the geometrical features of flow paths on the flow capacity of the trim, at various valve opening positions. It has been noticed that reducing the size of flow paths increases the flow capacity of the trim, however, at a critical flow path size, the inherent opening characteristics of a trim have been observed to alter. In order to recover the original opening behaviour of the trim, careful manipulation of the flow paths is required, which has been successfully achieved in the present investigation.


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Hammer-ons and pull-offs
The next important aspect of playing the guitar is pressing individual fingers down. We do
this when we play scales and licks, and a great way to strengthen your left hand is to
work on hammer-ons. A hammer-on is the action where you pick the first note, but not the
second. Instead, your left-hand finger presses down into the fret with enough force to
make the note sound. It requires some skill and strength, but you end up with a different
sound because instead of a pick plucking the string near the bridge, you're going to
generate the sound from the fret itself. To illustrate this, Fig. 8 takes the basic
pentatonic scale and uses a hammer-on for the second note on each string.
Not only does this sound different, but it can enable you to play faster than you normally
would because you don't have to worry about your pick following along, since it only has
to strike the string every other note. Now, I'd really love you to use the fourth finger
in Fig. 8. It's so easy to play pentatonic scales with your third finger stretched out for
both the threeand four-fret spans, but the goal here is to make your hands work better,
and you need to involve the fourth finger. You'll thank me for it.
Fig. 9 takes the same idea and applies it to a 3-note-per-string G major scale shape. It's
a nice fluid way to ascend the strings and because you don't have the hard attack of the
pick, it sounds much smoother.
The key to getting a good, clean hammer-on is striking the string just hard enough to make
it sound. There's no need to hit it too hard, as it won't make it any louder or clearer.
Experiment a bit and see if you can control your left hand to hit only as hard as you
need. Note: You'll find that the more distortion you have on, the easier you can hammer
and still get a good sounding note.
The opposite of a hammer-on is a pull-off, where you pick the first note, but then
pull-off from a higher finger to a lower finger. Hammer-ons are for ascending notes, and
pull-offs are for descending notes. With that in mind, we can apply this to a pentatonic
scale and get the sister lick to Fig. 8 as we descend the pentatonic scale in Fig. 10.
Now, it you combine the two, you can flow up an A minor pentatonic with hammer-ons and
down it with pull-offs, like in Fig. 11.
The key to getting a good pull-off is to use an anchor finger. In order to make a pull-of
sound good, you're essentially using the higher finger to pull the note and release it
with a snap. The snap is enough to make the note sound, because you're essentially
plucking the string with the higher finger. In order to really get a good snap, your lower
finger has to hold the string tightly. It's impossible to get a good pull-off unless the
lower finger (also called the anchor finger) isn't holding the string down hard enough to
stop it from moving. If the top finger doesn't have a taught or tight string to snap
against, you're not going to get a good sound. Make sure that as you practice pulling-off,
you do it with a tight anchor finger.
In Fig. 12 each finger gets to be an anchor finger (except the fourth). When pulling off
the fourth, the third finger is the anchor, when the third finger pulls off, the second
finger is the anchor, and so on. The example looks easy on paper, but it's harder than it
looks. Just like hammering-on, pulling-off uses your pick less often, and has a unique
sound that's more fluid.


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Crawford County, Missouri
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Crawford is a county in Missouri. It was formed in 1829 from the following county/ies: Gasconade. Crawford began keeping birth records in 1879–1903, marriage records in 1829, and death records in 1883–91*. It began keeping land records in 1832, probate records in 1832, and court records in 1831. For more information, contact the county at 302 Main Steelville 65565. On the attached map, Crawford is located at F6. *Death records extant for 1883—91 and 1942—43. Courthouse burned 1873, 1884.
For information about the state of Missouri see Missouri Family History Research.


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A recursive function typically contains a conditional expression which has three parts:
Recursive functions can be much simpler than any other kind of function. Indeed, when people first start to use them, they often look so mysteriously simple as to be incomprehensible. Like riding a bicycle, reading a recursive function definition takes a certain knack which is hard at first but then seems simple.
There are several different common recursive patterns. A very simple pattern looks like this:
(defun name-of-recursive-function (argument-list) "documentation..." (if do-again-test body... (name-of-recursive-function next-step-expression)))
Each time a recursive function is evaluated, a new instance of it is created and told what to do. The arguments tell the instance what to do.
An argument is bound to the value of the next-step-expression. Each instance runs with a different value of the next-step-expression.
The value in the next-step-expression is used in the do-again-test.
The value returned by the next-step-expression is passed to the new instance of the function, which evaluates it (or some transmogrification of it) to determine whether to continue or stop. The next-step-expression is designed so that the do-again-test returns false when the function should no longer be repeated.
The do-again-test is sometimes called the stop condition, since it stops the repetitions when it tests false.


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20 Spring Crafts and Activities for Kids
Written by Jen Betterley
A favorite Montessori classroom lesson for children, this flower-arranging activity featured on Modern Parents Messy Kids is perfect for a little bit of "edutainment" while gathering your garden's spring blooms!
To get started, simply head outside with a basket to gather flowers or foliage and have a tray waiting inside with the following included: scissors, a small vase or two, a small water pitcher or cup, and a doily or two for a little extra decorative flair. Be sure to check out the rest of this post for four additional "introductory activities for the Montessori newbie." Lots of easy and neat ideas for plenty of learning fun at home!


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Augmented reality may extend treatment window for adult lazy eye
Baltimore, Md. - Using augmented-reality (AR) display systems, scientists have restored visual function in the amblyopic (lazy) eyes of patients outside of the currently accepted window for treatment. The research is being presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) this week in Baltimore, Md.
In the study, 15 adults with anisometropic (unequal focus) amblyopia in one eye whose amblyopia could not be corrected using traditional therapy performed daily activities while wearing a dual camera, head-mounted AR system at home for at least 1.5 hours a day for at least six weeks. Improvements from the training program were maintained at the two-month follow-up point.
The treatment window for amblyopia is currently believed to exist from birth to at least age 17. Abstract title: A dichoptic augmented-reality paradigm as a treatment for adult amblyopes Presentation start/end time: Monday, May 8, 2017, 10:00 - 10:15am Location: Room 324 Abstract number: 3829
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include nearly 12,000 eye and vision researchers from over 75 countries. ARVO advances research worldwide into understanding the visual system and preventing, treating and curing its disorders.
All abstracts accepted for presentation at the ARVO Annual Meeting represent previously unpublished data and conclusions. This research may be proprietary or may have been submitted for journal publication. Embargo policy: Journalists must seek approval from the presenter(s) before reporting data from paper or poster presentations. Press releases or stories on information presented at the ARVO Annual Meeting may not be released or published until the conclusion of the presentation.


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created clay slips from a mixture of clays and minerals. The clay slips were then used to decorate the pottery. By the fourth century, a broad range of colors including yellow, purple, red, and orange were being made. However, some Mayan painters refrained from using many colors and used only black, red, and occasionally cream. This series of ceramics is termed the "Codex-style", it being similar to the style of the Pre-Columbian books.
From the 5th century AD onwards, post-firing stucco was adopted from Teotihuacan. By preparing a thin quicklime, the Maya added mineral pigments that would dissolve and create rich blues and greens that added to their artistic culture. Many times this post-fire stucco technique was mixed with painting and incising. Incising is carving deeply or lightly into partially dried clay to create fine detailed designs. This technique was mostly popular during the Early Classic Period.


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Spitsbergen, formerly West Spitsbergen (Vestspitsbergen), largest island of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, and part of Norway. Spitsbergen, with an area of 15,075 square miles (39,044 square km), is approximately 280 miles (450 km) long and ranges from 25 to 140 miles (40 to 225 km) wide.
The terrain is mountainous, and most of the island is covered with glaciers. The highest point on the island is Mount Newton (5,633 feet [1,717 metres]) in the northeast. Other notable peaks include Hornsundtind (4,695 feet [1,431 metres]) and Drygalski Crest (4,669 feet [1,423 metres]). Many other peaks on the mountainous west coast have elevations over 3,000 feet (900 metres).
Spitsbergen is deeply indented by fjords; Longyear city on Is Fjord (the largest fjord on the west coast) is the island's main settlement. Most of the island's few settlements are mining communities on the west coast. Both Norwegians and Russians have mined the rich coal deposits; the island had a sizable Russian community until the 1990s. Cruise ships dock at Longyear, and tourists can make walking tours of the island's scenic landscapes. National parks and nature reserves are a feature of the island.
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