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Soaring Himalayan Griffon Vulture
August 27, 2009
The Himalayan Griffon Vulture (Gyps himalayensis) flies over large swaths of central Asia including the Himalaya, Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges. Weighing in at 20-some pounds (12.5 kg) and with a wingspan of about 10 feet (3 meters) they are the second largest Old World Vulture. Their large wingspan helps them stay aloft for hours at a time as they soar on rising convection currents of heated air called thermals. This gives it a perfect platform for observing the land below for a potential meal. Like other vultures this one helps to keep the planet in sustainable harmony by eating anything dead and rotting it finds. The Himalayan Griffon is not considered to be endangered. This particular bird is soaring effortlessly on thermals high above a flutter of Buddhist prayer flags near a sky burial site at Ganden Monastery Tibet. This monastery was established early in the 15th century. It was the first, and for many centuries, the main monastery of the Gelug (Geluk, "Yellow Hat") sect which is now the main sect in Tibet. It was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and has since been rebuilt.
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There is no doubt that owning a dog is rewarding. Council acknowledges the benefits of dog ownership and encourages dog owners to be responsible for their pet.
Dog owner responsibilities include:
- Annually registering your dog with the City of Palmerston
- Providing adequate food, water and shelter
- Providing exercise and mental stimulation to deter boredom
- Provide a safe environment for the dog with suitable fencing
- Arranging annual vaccinations from your vet
- Preventing heartworm and other intestinal worms
- Controlling external parasites like fleas and ticks
- Seek veterinary advice if the dog is sick or injured
- Desexing the dog if not used for breeding to prevent unwanted litters
- Walking the dog on a lead at all times unless in a designated off-lead area
- Cleaning up after your dog when exercising in a public place
- Providing training for the dog so that it does not become a nuisance to other
For lost or found animals you can also search the RSPCA website. The site also has information on caring for your pets. Find out about caring for your pets, adopting a new pet, making a donation or volunteering at the RSPCA.

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End statistics with hammer
- 2+: Ends where the team scored at least two points (i.e. the team was able to capitalize the hammer).
- 1: Ends where the team scored one point (i.e. opponent forced the team to take only one point with hammer).
- 0: Ends that the team blanked with hammer.
- Steal: Ends where the opponent scored at least one point (i.e. opponent stole points without hammer).
End statistics without hammer
- Steal: Ends where the team scored at least one point (i.e. the team managed to steal points without hammer).
- 0: Ends where the opponent blanked the end with hammer.
- 1: Ends where the opponent scored one point (i.e. the team managed to force the opponent to take only one point with hammer).
- 2+: Ends where the opponent scored at least two points (i.e. the opponent managed to capitalize the hammer).
- Result avg: Average result (points for - points against)
- Hammer avg: Averate points / end in those ends where the team played with hammer.
- Without hammer avg: Average points / end where the team played without hammer.
- Hammer value: Describes the value of hammer to the average points the team scored in an end.
Remarks about statistics
Apart from the result average, last end scores have been ignored in those cases where the losing team scored points. The purpose of this is to clean the data from distortions so the statistics would describe how teams have played in "normal" situations.
Example: the winning team has given a steal of one point in the last to guarantee a victory. This end has been ignored because the situation in the game is not "normal"

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I am looking at servos to make a robot claw, and I want to make sure the one i am getting can turn under a specific amount of weight. The servos specify their torque in oz-in. I am not sure how to read this.
What i need to know is, how to I convert oz-in into the specific weight it can withstand in lbs.
If you are not familiar with the unit of measurement:
1 oz-in = 0.00706 Nm
if you are not familiar with torque:
1 Nm torque translates to 1N of force at a radial distance from the shaft of the motor of 1 m. As 1N gravitational force corresponds to an approx. 0.1kg weight, 1 Nm torque can lift* 0.1kg weight 1m away from the shaft, or 1 kg weight 0.1m away from the shaft.
*Lift in this case means that if such weight is attached to the rotor, the rotor would be in equilibrium, less weight then this would start to rotate.
 - $\begingroup$ So, if i had a length of 2M with 1Nm, would that make 0.5N? _USER_ $\endgroup$ – X Builder Oct 21 '20 at 22:54
 - $\begingroup$ exactly, 2m radial distance, 0.5N $\endgroup$ – 50k4 Oct 21 '20 at 23:06
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Question: What Got Into Me Meaning?
What did I get myself into meaning?
To get oneself into something means to become (by your own actions) involved or entangled in a situation; usually a difficult one.
"I didn't know what I was getting myself into": I didn't fully appreciate the consequences of my involvement (in the situation)..
What does GoT mean in slang?
Get on TaskGet on Task. GoT. Gospel of Thomas. showing only Slang/Internet Slang definitions (show all 27 definitions)
What got to you meaning?
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishget to somebody/something phrasal verb informal1 to make someone feel annoyed or upset I'm under a lot of pressure at work, and sometimes it gets to me a bit. Don't let things get to you.
What got you into it meaning?
1. Put simply, it means 'what is the matter with you?' To be more specific you are asking a person if something abnormal has happened or entered into the body causing him/her to act differently, like sweating too much when he is not supposed to.
What's the meaning of getting?
of Get. Getting(noun) the act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
What does get off mean in a relationship?
Definition of get off with (someone) : to have sex with (someone) : to begin a sexual relationship with (someone) She found out he'd gotten off with another woman.
Have GoT it meaning?
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English I've got itused to say you have suddenly thought of the solution to a problem or that you suddenly understand a situation → have.
What does hitting on girl mean?
To "hit on someone" typically means that you are flirting with someone with the intent to enter into a romantic relationship with them. This can be applied to both short and long term relationships. To "pick up somebody" means to try and find someone to have a one-night stand with.
What does Ger mean?
Gross Enrolment RatioGross Enrolment Ratio (GER) or Gross Enrolment Index (GEI) is a statistical measure used in the education sector, and formerly by the UN in its Education Index, to determine the number of students enrolled in school at several different grade levels (like elementary, middle school and high school), and use it to show …
How do you use get in a sentence?
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What means get laid?
get laid in American English Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
What does get into mean?
Meaning of get into sth in English to become interested in an activity or subject, or start being involved in an activity: She's been getting into yoga recently – she does three classes a week. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
What does off mean sexually?
(transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm. (intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm. It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.
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Crossing Large Gaps And Chasms
The following trick is a simple way to cross large gaps if you cannot figure out how to solve the puzzle (for example, catapults). Re-allocate your skill points, if needed, to equip Zoya with the low gravity arrows and Amadeus with the Conjure 2 or higher abilities. Create a low gravity field and suspend one of Amadeus's boxes within it, refire the low grav arrows, and reposition the box as needed to center the bubble over the chasm. Suspend two or more of Amadeus's boxes within the field to create a bridge. With some practice, you can move the low gravity field with you as you jump from box to box.
Super Mario Surprise
Work your way through the first half or so of the secret Dwarven Caverns stage and you'll reach an area where you can use a drill machine to access a switch that will open the pathway allowing you to advance. That switch is located in the room's lower right corner, and you may notice a door just beyond it that appears to be a dead end. A double jump will allow you to pass the door, though, and beyond it you'll find a cool Easter Egg that pays homage to Super Mario Bros.


Can you embroider on Cricut vinyl?
Can you use Cricut vinyl for embroidery?
Can embroidery be done on vinyl?
Can Cricut embroider?
Learn how to create an embroidery pattern with Cricut in this simple tutorial! The great part of this tutorial is it can be applied to any machine in the Explore or Maker line! … All you need is Design Space and a Cricut washable fabric pen.
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Can you embroider with a sewing machine?
Can you sew through iron on vinyl?
Happy Friday! Also, you can sew through it easily. … There are so many projects that can be enhanced with vinyl.
What needle do I use to embroider vinyl?
Use a size 11 or 75/11 sharp sewing needle. A sharp sewing needle has a smaller, finer point than an embroidery needle. That means it will make smaller holes in the vinyl. Attach the hoop to the machine and load the design.
Can Cricut make embroidery designs?
Can a Cricut machine do embroidery? No. While a Cricut machine is somewhat similar to an embroidery machine in that both create designs based on digital data, a Cricut machine can only cut and draw based on the information supplied to the machine by the computer.
Can a Cricut make patches?
As much as other people love the tattered look, it's just not for me. But, I knew I could patch them in a jiffy using my Cricut. These patches are made using pre-designed shapes in Design Space.
Can you use a Cricut to make patches?
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Can you embroider plastic?
Embroidering on Plastic Mesh: General Tips
Cross-stitch and redwork will not work on mesh. Photo-stitch designs are too complicated for the simple and casual appearance of plastic mesh and beach totes. Hoop the plastic mesh with water soluble stabilizer under the mesh, just as you would do with fabric.
Can you embroider oilcloth?
Oilcloth fabric is similar to vinyl, and this technique can be used for embroidering on that fabric as well. There are a few different kinds of oilcloth and vinyl commonly found in fabric stores. Choose the kind that has a knit or fuzzy back, as that helps to keep the oilcloth from tearing with the needle perforations.
Can you hand embroider leather?
You can even get started right away by making a leather card case. Similar to embroidering on wood, the secret to hand stitching leather lies in pre-poking the holes. Once you do that, the embroidery is easy.


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Pictures of rare Frost Flowers
Kentucky State Climatologist Emeritus
Frost flowers are an early gift of winter that fills the heart with a feeling like that of the first crocus of spring. But, these frost flowers are made of ice! They are an artistic display forged by the weather.
Frost flowers grow when conditions include unfrozen soil that is moist from a previous rain, clear skies that allow the temperature to drop to 28˚F or so for the first time in the fall, and weeds. The "frost weeds" like white wing stem are really good producers of frost flowers.
The process begins when the water inside the weed stem becomes super cooled. The water moves up the stem by capillary action. When the wall of the weed stem splits from the pressure within, super cooled water is extruded through the split and freezes upon contact with the air. Typically, the ice that forms is about the thickness of a credit card. The length of the split constrains that dimension but commonly exceeds six inches. As super cooled water continues to extrude and freeze, the formation is pushed farther outward from the stem often reaching three inches or more. The frost flower "blooms" when the ribbon of ice bends or curls to present flower like shapes, no two of which are identical. Frost flowers are fragile, shattering when touched, and they usually sublimate as the air temperature rises soon after sunrise.
The photographs were taken in Allen County, Kentucky. Photos 1=5 were taken 17 November 2007 and 6-10 on 6 December 2009.
 Verbesina vir0ginica L, also called white crown beard
 Super cooled water's temperature is below freezing but remain liquid
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Overview Of Curved Glass
Measuring for a curve
Measuring for a curve, like everything else, is simple when you know how.
We hope the following guidelines will be of some help.
The main principle to understand is that accuracy is achieved by working/ measuring from point to point.
For example in the sketch below, the blue line and dots represent external point to point dimensions of a panel of glass. i.e chord, radius, depth of bend, and girth. The red line and dots represent the internal dimensions of the same panel of glass.
For us to produce curves from measurements supplied we need accurate details of at least 1 of the following options, along with the height.
 - 1. Radius and angle of arc (specify whether int. or ext)
 - 2. Radius and chord
 - 3. Chord and depth of bend
The above holds true once the curve represents a part or segment of a circle. However where the curve is an irregular shape, either elliptical or part curved with part straight, then we would always recommend taking an accurate template of the shape. Of course where templates are being provided, like with measurements it is important to specify what they represent: int. or ext or centre.
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Finnair A350 Operates 100KM Hop Across The Gulf Of Finland
Finnair today operated an Airbus A350 flight of just 100km. The short hop saw the widebody aircraft visit Tallinn for the first time as the airline looked to move 'a belly full of cargo'.
Finnair, Airbus A350, Freight
Finnair today operated a 100km Airbus A350 freight flight. Photo: Finnair
Airlines around the world have been operating some interesting routes recently. This has all been in aid of keeping passengers and freight moving while many usual flights have stopped. Examples have seen Lufthansa in New Zealand, and Air New Zealand in Germany. Finnair has even had its fair share. However, today the Finnish national airline operated a very short hop for a widebody aircraft.
Shortest Finnair A350 flight?
Today's hop to Tallin may have been the airline's shortest A350 hop in history, carrying passengers or freight. (If you know of a shorter hop with such a purpose, please do let us know in the comments!) The flight was so short that it only lasted 20 minutes, with the taxi either end taking almost as long as the flight. Let's take a look at the numbers.
Finnair, Airbus A350, Freight
The aircraft flew a short hop across the Gulf of Finland. It reached its maximum height at the position indicated. Image:
After pushback, the flight from Helsinki to Tallinn began to taxi towards the runway at 12:14 UTC. At 12:22, the aircraft began its takeoff roll. The Airbus A350 then began to climb to a height of 13,000 feet according to data from It reached this height at 12:27.
The aircraft didn't stay at its cruising altitude for long, however. In fact, just two minutes later, and less than halfway to Tallinn, it began its descent at 12:29. After a further 13 minutes in the air, it touched down in Tallin at 12:42, before taxiing for another five minutes. In total the aircraft spent 20 minutes flying and 13 minutes taxiing.
While it's not clear what exactly the aircraft was carrying, Finnair did mention that the flight was being operated for cargo reasons. The airline also remarked that this flight was the first time one of its A350 aircraft had flown to Tallinn.
Not the only interesting flight
Finnair's flight today is not the only interesting cargo flight made by a passenger aircraft. In fact, as many passenger aircraft are going unused at the moment, they are instead being used for cargo. airBaltic used an Airbus A220 for a seven-hour cargo flight from China. Meanwhile, Virgin Atlantic flew cargo from Shanghai with a Boeing 787, while Lufthansa used an Airbus A330.
Which interesting cargo flights have you seen operating recently? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!


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How do we calculate the effective mass of an electron in an Aluminium lattice? Is there any simple analytical way to work it out?
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I think the answer is "no", almost without qualification... – genneth Mar 17 '11 at 23:18
_USER_ please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the inverse effective mass given by an expression of the form $m^{-1} = \partial^2 E(k)/\partial k_a \partial k_b $, where $E(k)$ is the dispersion relation, $k_a, k_b$ are directions in momentum space, and for simplicity we assume that $m^{-1}_{ab} := m^{-1}$? So given the energy spectrum of Aluminum one can calculate the effective mass for any excitation of momentum $k$ in its brillouin zone? – user346 Mar 18 '11 at 0:33
The last sentence is meant as a statement, not a question. – user346 Mar 18 '11 at 1:05
That gives the band mass, but actual electron masses (the things one measures via heat capacity, for example) also get renormalisations from the Coulomb interaction. The 2nd bit is where the calculation breaks down. However, I don't remember which dominates in Aluminium --- it's a bit of an odd material electronically speaking. In any case, even a band-structure calculation is not "simple analytic" --- I have a whole group of people around me who spend their lives working out better/faster ways to do it with massive supercomputers :-) – genneth Mar 18 '11 at 11:49
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The effective mass can be determined from a exactly known band structure. As genneth already mentioned there is no simple analytical way to get a from first principles to the Aluminium band structure.
In practice there are a number of very successful numerical approaches to calculate band structures, e.g. Hartree-Fock, LDA+U, DMFT, Tight binding and the list goes on depending on the exact material and properties you are interested in.
If you use a number of material parameters as the electron density, Fermi energy or others you can express the effective mass in those terms but that is more a reformulation than a way to calculate it.
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"Where's the next one being held?"
English Lesson: Where's the next one being held?
You and a friend are talking about the recent Olympics. You don't know where the next Olympics is going to be, so you ask your friend.
Where's the next one being held?
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Where's (something)?
"Where's" is a contracted version of "Where is". Use it in spoken English and casual writing.
(an event) is being held
You can use the verb "hold" to talk about having an event. For example, you can:
hold a party
hold a tournament
hold an art exhibition
You can also talk about where and when the event is happening using the expression "___ is being held..." For example:
The 3rd Annual Bell Lake Boat Show is being held on September 15th from 3 to 8pm at the South Pier.
A: Where's it being held?
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Household income found to be related to preschool attendance in China
Early childhood education has been seen by many as a tool to break the cycle of poverty for developing countries. Yet, despite the more than 82 million children under age 5 living in China today, little is known about the factors contributing to preschool attendance there, particularly in rural areas. This omission is even more salient given that more than 70 percent of mothers in the 25–34 age range with children under the age of 6 in China work outside the home, and household income has consistently been shown to affect child care choices in both developed and developing countries.
In a new paper, scholars from New York University's Silver School of Social Work and Columbia University's Teachers College fill this knowledge gap by rigorously examining the association between household income and preschool attendance among 3- to 6-year-old children in both rural and urban areas. Using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1991 to 2006 (N = 2,424), they found that rural areas consistently lagged far behind urban areas in both household income and preschool attendance among the 3 to 6 year olds. Preschool attendance in 2006 was 21 percent for the rural children and 46 percent for the urban children. Despite this gap, the association between household income and preschool attendance in rural areas is similar to that in urban areas.
The authors – Xin Gong and Di Xu of Columbia's Teachers College and Wen-Jui Han of NYU's Silver School – found a robust positive association between household income and preschool attendance in both rural and urban settings. A 10 percent boost in household income will bring close to a 1 percentage point increase in preschool attendance, which is equivalent to having approximately 1 million more 3- to 6-year-old children in China attend preschools. In our data, preschool in rural areas in 2006 cost about 480–1,200 yuan per year (≈US $80-200)—as much as 30 percent or more of a rural household's income (the average annual income per capita in our rural sample was 3,894 yuan). The income figure for our urban sample was higher (5,751 yuan), but the burden was similar (up to 37 percent) given that urban preschools often have higher fees (840–2,100 yuan per year).
The paper, newly published in the journal Child Development, is entitled "Household Income and Preschool Attendance in China."
The main challenge in estimating the association between income and preschool attendance is that a wide array of factors, such as mother's working status and parental preferences for child care, could be correlated with both household income and preschool attendance, and that could bias the association. To address this challenge, we used two statistical approaches: a probit model with rich controls and a household fixed-effects model. A household fixed-effects model removes bias associated with variables that are constant over time within a household.
This is the first study to employ rigorous methodology to examine the association between household income and preschool attendance with a Chinese sample. Our results show that millions of families in China face substantial financial constraints in their children's preschool attendance, particularly in rural areas. Taken together, our findings call for government investment to address this challenge. Our results also highlight the need for future research that evaluates the impacts of subsidies or income support programs for preschool attendance in China.


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Business challenges
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Transportation network design always has a measure of risk.
Risk assessment allows you to estimate your transportation network's ability to resist unique events (risk) and your design's ability to recover after a disruption.
There is a clear trade-off between transportation system efficiency and resilience. As your transportation network becomes more efficient, it also becomes less resilient. If you use a lean approach to improve your network's efficiency, an unexpected change such as an increase or reduction in demand could destroy it. However, if you invest too much into risk mitigation, the cost of these improvements could reduce your competitiveness.
Whatever approach you take, the process you use to design your transportation network must evaluate how uncertainty could influence it. It also needs to help you understand how you can mitigate these risks.
 Address Your Risk Management Challenges.
 Veeroute allows you to test how different types of risk may affect your transportation network and understand how you could improve its design:
 - Learn how your transportation network reacts to uncertainty and identify which events could destroy it
 - Evaluate your network's resilience – how well it performs after a disruption – and estimate the time it will take to recover
 - Stress test your transportation network to understand its strengths and limitations
 - Design your transportation logistics to find the right balance of reliability and efficiency


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NOTE - this requires schemas which have both type and version fields.
Example Usage
Here's an example message that could validate as truthy...
 type:'reply',
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We inject all the relevant schemas into the validator. Any message passed will be validated based on the type and the version as determined by your schema.
var Validator = require('ssb-schema-validation')
var replySchemas = [
var isReply = Validator(replySchemas)
// => true / false
// => some errors
For a live example see e.g. ssb-dark-crystal-schema
Validator(schemas) => fn
Takes argument
 - schemas - an array of JSON-schema. These schemas must require messages to have type and version fields
Returns a function validator based on those schemas.
validator(msg, opts) => Bool
Takes arguments:
 - msg - a full ssb message, or the content field of such a message. Supporting both means you can use this validator to easily validate content either before writing to the database, or for reading from the database.
 - opts (optional) - an object of form { attachErrors: Boolean }, settings attachErrors: true mutates the original message by attaching any errors found during in validation. This option is false by default i.e. disabled.
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Teaching and coaching are two different occupational roles, and teachers who also coach have stressful work environments common to all educational settings, but each occupational role has specific stress and burnout problems. The responsibilities of physical education (PE) teachers and coaches are distinguishable from one another. These different roles and role conflicts may create stress among PE teachers who also coach. The history of physical education shows that there are contextual factors that promote PE teacher-coach role conflict. The aim of this paper is to analyse these contextual factors via using a literature review analysis and to provide suggestions about teacher-coach role conflict for school-based physical education in USA.
Financed by the National Centre for Research and Development under grant No. SP/I/1/77065/10 by the strategic scientific research and experimental development program:
SYNAT - "Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information".


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Development History Of The Tiwi Geothermal Field, Philippines
Journal Article: Development History Of The Tiwi Geothermal Field, Philippines
AbstractCommercial production of electricity from the Tiwi geothermal system began in 1979. In 1982, Tiwi became the world's first water-dominated system to produce more than 160 MWe. Today the field supplies about 11% of Luzon's electricity. Initially, the reservoir was single-phase liquid with a small, shallow steam zone on the east side. Temperature reversals in the first wells showed the east to be an outflow zone. As production began, reservoir pressure declined, two-phase conditions developed, and groundwater entered the reservoir from the east. As many production wells cooled, brine production increased and generation decreased from about 280 MWe in 1983 to about 190 MWe in 1986. Improvements to surface facilities and new wells drilled farther west raised generation to about 280 MWe by mid-1993. Separated brine was first injected into the reservoir, but this lowered steam production; injection is now outside the field.
- David T. Gambill and Domeng B. Beraquit
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- Geothermics, Date Not Provided
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David T. Gambill,Domeng B. Beraquit.. Development History Of The Tiwi Geothermal Field, Philippines. Geothermics. (!).


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No effect of menstrual cycle phase on fuel oxidation during exercise in rowers
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The aim of this investigation was to examine the effects of menstrual cycle phase on substrate oxidation and lactate concentration during exercise. Eleven eumenorrheic female rowers (18.4 ± 1.9 years; 172.0 ± 4.0 cm; 67.2 ± 8.4 kg; 27.7 ± 4.8% body fat) completed 1 h rowing ergometer exercise at 70% of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) during two different phases of the menstrual cycle: the follicular phase (FP) and the luteal phase (LP). Resting and exercise measurements of the whole body energy expenditure, oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), substrate oxidation and lactate blood levels were made. Energy expenditure, VO2 and heart rate during the 1-h exercise were not significantly different (P > 0.05) among menstrual cycle phases. Resting RER and RER during the entire 1 h exercise period were not significantly different among menstrual cycle phases. There was an increase (P < 0.05) in RER in the transition between rest and exercise and a further increase in RER occurred after the first 30 min of exercise at both menstrual cycle phases. Blood lactate concentrations significantly increased in the transition between rest and exercise and remained relatively constant during the whole 1 h of exercise in both menstrual cycle phases. No menstrual cycle phase effect (P > 0.05) was observed for blood lactate concentrations. In conclusion, our results demonstrated no effect of menstrual cycle phase on substrate oxidation and blood lactate concentration during rowing exercise at 70% of VO2max in athletes. Normally menstruating female rowers should not be concerned about their menstrual cycle phase with regard to substrate oxidation in everyday training.
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LEARN ABOUT AND ENROLL IN THE "DRINKERS OF THE WIND" PERFORMANCE AWARD PROGRAM HERE
Without immediate intervention, we could lose the Desert Arabian horse within the next generation
- The Desert Arabian horse is one of the oldest of breeds, developed by the Bedouin who bred them pure for thousands of years.
- The Desert Arabian horse provided the foundation stock to create almost all other light breeds of horse.
- Fewer than 8 percent of the 400,000 modern Arabian horses registered worldwide descend exclusively from the original Bedouin horse: these are the last Desert Arabian horses.
- New births of Desert Arabian horses have declined over 60 percent in the past decade; fewer than 800 fillies were born worldwide in 2010 – to mares that average 18 years of age.
Once lost, this precious genetic pool can never be restored. Only immediate intervention can save this breeding population for the next generation.
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TRACK THE NUMBERS:
Total US Purebred registrations: 2012: 3653 (through December; down 7% from 2011) 2011: 3939 2010: 4912 2009: 5544
Total US registered Desert Arabian foals born in:
2011: _PHONE_: _PHONE_: 741 Numbers for all years are updated as additional horses are registered.
|The Institute estimates that fewer than 1500 Desert Arabians are foaled worldwide each year. Most are born in North America, Egypt, Germany, Syria, and the Gulf states.|


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Lumpkin Family History
Lumpkin Surname History
This Lumpkin origins and history page contains the contributed history of the Lumpkin last name made up of user-uploaded content from other AncientFaces users. The last name Lumpkin is an old family line that has migrated all across the world over the centuries, and as the Lumpkin family has migrated, it has evolved making its origin tricky to unearth. Lumpkin family history has a complex evolution whose details have been accumulated over the years by Lumpkin family researchers.
No content has been submitted here about Lumpkin. The following is speculative information about Lumpkin. You can submit your information by clicking Edit.
The evolution of Lumpkin begins with it's early ancestors. Even in the earliest days of a name there are changes in that name simply because family names were infrequently written down at that stage in history.
It was commonplace for a surname to change as it enters a new country or language. Lumpkin ancestors have emigrated around the world all throughout history. As Lumpkin families emigrated between countries and languages, the Lumpkin name may have changed with them.
Lumpkin country of origin
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The nationality of Lumpkin is often complicated to determine because regional boundaries change over time, leaving the nation of origin indeterminate. The original ethnicity of Lumpkin may be difficult to determine depending on whether the surname came about organically and independently in different locales; e.g. in the case of family names that come from a craft, which can appear in multiple countries independently (such as the surname "Brewster" which refers to a female brewer).
Meaning of the last name Lumpkin
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- Emily Bookout Lumpkin 1839 -?
- Sarah Lumpkin 1796 - 1872
- Evelyine Lumpkin 1814 -?
- Sarah Ann Lumpkin 1815 -?
- James L. Lumpkin 1791 - 1870
- Hope J Lumpkin 2003 -?
- Robert Lumpkin 1830 -?
- Elizabeth Lumpkin
- Chicora Lumpkin
- Rebecca D Elliott/ Lumpkin 1980 -?
- Thomasine Tamzen Lumpkin Mayo 1626 - 1709
- Bryan W Lumpkin 1979 -?
- William Lumpkin 1574 - 1670
- Richard Lumpkin
- Grace D Lumpkin 2004 -?
- Theodore G. Lumpkin, Jr
- William Lumpkin 1830 -?
- Anne Lumpkin 1631 - 1676
- William Lumpkin 1800 - 1869
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EyeHarp is the first musical instrument that allows people with disabilities to learn and play music with gaze or with head movements.
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EyeHarp is a gaze-controlled or head-controlled digital musical instrument. It allows people with disabilities to learn and to play music without barriers. Designed with musicality in mind, EyeHarp offers the same expressive qualities as any traditional instrument.
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Eyeharp musicians only need to install the software and use it with their Eyetracker, that is a special camera that monitors eye movements. With these two things, musicians can play beautiful melodies simply by looking at the notes on the screen.
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How does cabbage plants make seed?
Can you tell me how cabbage plants make seeds? Ken C.
Answer: Cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale and kohlrabi are all of the same species, Brassica oleracea, and have the same seeding and pollination habit. These plants produce a flower stalk that needs to be cross-pollinated (meaning a plant will not accept its own pollen) by insects.
The cabbage plant sends this flower/seed stalk directly out of the cabbage core. Home growers, unless they live in a very long growing zone, in the fall will need to select at least three firm ready-to-eat heads and remove the plants, roots and all, and store in a root cellar, refrigerator or cold basement. Keep the roots damp and cold during the winter.
In the early spring you would replant the plants, leaving two to three feet in between them. They will produce the seed stalk directly from the center of the plant. Since cabbage seeds ripen slowly and fall off immediately when they are ripe, you might want to either harvest the whole plant as the pods turn yellow or pick the dry pods when they turn brown.
When planted in the open garden – and if you are growing any other members of the Brassica family – you might be surprised what your seeds develop into since the plants can be cross-pollinated with broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc. But they might be interesting in flavor.
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How do we prepare potassium cyanide from potassium ferrocyanide?
It is something which I am curious about, but cannot find the answer. I am studying inorganic chemistry but this reaction cannot be found.
Until about 1900, potassium cyanide was produced by melting dry potassium carbonate with dry potassium hexacyanidoferrate(II): $$\ce{K4[Fe(CN)6] + K2CO3 -> 6KCN + FeO + CO2}$$ However, the product contains potassium cyanate, which is approximately formed as follows: $$\ce{K4[Fe(CN)6] + K2CO3 -> 5KCN + KOCN + Fe + CO2}$$
In a small scale, dry potassium hexacyanidoferrate(II) is melted in a covered porcelain crucible. It is heated as long as nitrogen escapes. $$\ce{K4[Fe(CN)6] -> 4KCN + N2 +FeC2}$$ The iron carbide sinks to the bottom and the molten potassium cyanide can be poured off.
In addition to Loong's excellent answer, I'm going to shed some light on the last process i.e. the decomposition reaction of potassium ferrocyanide.
Actual reaction is this:
$$\ce{3K4[Fe(CN)6] ->[\Delta]12KCN + Fe3C + 5C + 3N2}$$
The thermal decomposition of potassium hexacyanoferrate(II) to produce potassium cyanide, iron carbide, carbon and nitrogen. This reaction takes place at a temperature near 650°C.(source)
As always nitrogen gas escapes, iron carbide and carbon sinks to the bottom and the molten potassium cyanide can be poured off.
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AAPT.org - American Association of Physics Teachers
What Specific Projects will the Task Force Undertake?
Work with AAPT on plans for continuing and enhancing the New Physics Faculty Workshop program. Extend the New Faculty Program to workshops at APS Division Meetings. Perhaps develop ties with the Pew Preparing Future Faculty program, the PKAL Faculty 21 project and Project NeXT.
 1. Set up an activist editorial board for the undergraduate part of the Physics Sciences Resource Center (on the AAPT web site) to provide a clearinghouse for information on undergraduate physics programs.
 2. Use departmental site visits and other means to develop a catalog of case studies of departments that have undertaken successful undergraduate physics revitalization efforts. Document and analyze these case studies to provide information on "what works" and what is need to produce effective change in undergraduate physics programs.
 3. Articulate departmental responsibilities for K-12 teacher preparation and find good case studies of where that effort has been successful. Build on the efforts of PhysTEC, the proposal submitted by APS, AIP, and AAPT to NSF for promoting physics departments to take more responsibility for K-12 teacher preparation. A small conference on the role of physics departments in pre-service K-12 teacher preparation will be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in June, 2000.
 4. Develop a colloquium talk on undergraduate physics programs that can be given by Task Force members to physics departments around the country.
 5. Plan for a proposal to establish a large-scale funding program to provide seen money for departments that have developed detailed plans for revitalizing their undergraduate physics programs. These departments can then serve as case studies and consultants for other departments.


A Sapper's Lullaby
Introduced by Virginia Haussegger, ABC News presenter, Canberra.
But it's his second career as a musician that came to the fore in Uruzgan province, when he wrote a song about the death of Australian soldier Ben Ranaudo.
"Dust in Uruzgan" captured the hearts of many serving in Afghanistan and a second song, "Sapper's Lullaby" has become an anthem for soldiers and their families.
Now, with Australian forces about to depart Afghanistan, this is the story of a diplomat with a difference.
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KS X 1001 (Korean Graphic Character Set for Information Interchangecitation needed) is a South Korean coded character set standard to represent hangul and hanja characters on a computer. It is arranged as 94×94 table (similarly to 2-byte code words in ISO 2022 and EUC), therefore its code points are pairs of integers 1–94. KS X 1001 contains ASCII, Korean, typography, Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana) and some other characters.
This standard was previously known as KS C 5601. There have been several revisions of this standard. For example, there were revisions in 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2002. Several computer operating systems encode various versions of this standard several ways. Not all of them encode the standard the same way, like replacing the typical backslash at byte 0x5C with the won currency sign (₩).citation needed Some operating systems extend this standard in other non-uniform ways. Possible encoding schemes of KS X 1001 are: EUC-KR, windows-949 (superset of EUC-KR), ISO-2022-KR and JOHAB. However, the latter two encodings are rarely used.


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I have text data that I read from a file; I need to place it in the body of an email message. There are about 50 such data items to be placed into existing text.
It seems I should be able to put a marker (dataItem1, dataItem2, etc.) and replace that with the matching text data from the file.
Searches only turn up replacing field data such as Recipient, Subject, etc., or replacing the entire body. Would I have to generate the entire body in the code? Seems like I should be able to "insert" a data item into existing body text.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
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Use the Body property of the MailItem you're working with. Assign it to a variable and you can edit it:
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Dorado - interesting?
Also known as Mahi-Mahi or Dolphinfish, Dorado is a surface dwelling ray-finned fish found in temperate tropical and sub-tropical waters worldwide.
The Golden Dorado (differently) is a large river fish that lives in central and east-central South America.
Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky, labelled in the sixteenth century and now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the Dolphinfish, which is known as Dorado in Spanish.
Dorado is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa.
Dorado is a small town on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, 24 Km west of San Juan. It is best known as a tourist destination with world class golf courses, hotels and beaches.
El Dorado is Spanish for "the golden one" and is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.


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Joint mobilization is the careful application of skilled forces to restore a dislocated joint. This may be as a result of extended or torn ligaments, muscles and tendons found on the joints. Joint mobilization addresses joint pain and joint stiffness. Physical therapists at Whites Physical Therapy use the following techniques to administer joint mobilization:
- Gentle joint mobilization
- Mobility exercises
- Minimal energy techniques
- Joint manipulation
- Physiotherapy instrument Mobilization
These techniques ensure successful treatment of joint pain and stiffness. Our adept physiotherapists apprehend your joints and can easily regain full joint range and relieve joint anguish during therapy.
Successful Treatment Options
Physical therapists in Wilmington, MA came up with the following treatment options that have increased the rate of recovery among patients:
- Early injury treatment
- Soft tissue massage
- Running analysis
Importance of Joint Mobilization
Joint mobilization relieves pain and releases strain from joints in the body. Sport-related injuries are also treated through regular joint mobilization. Physical therapy at White Physical Therapy has also proven to be effective in addressing movement impairment in patients with disabilities and the elderly. It is especially effective in the treatment of joints affected by arthritis. Joint mobilization consistently and progressively improves joint movement and joint assimilation of food for growth and maintenance whiling decreasing muscle spasms.
Joint mobilization safety
Joint mobilization is secure as it is done at a slow pace and one can ask the therapist to halt the process if any discomfort is experienced. Thorough evaluation of blood and nerve circulation, bone muscle movement is carried out before the actual mobilization procedure is started. This is beneficial as one is able to discover other abnormalities in the blood or nervous physiology that can be treated early. Overall, joint mobilization is a secure, amiable and effective method of physical therapy.
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The uniformity coefficient (Cu), curvature coefficient (Cc) and the effective size (D10) are the grading characteristics of the soil. These are the geometric properties of a grading curve that describe a particular type of soil.
The features and determination of uniformity coefficient, curvature coefficient and the effective size is described in this article.
Grade Curve Characteristics
A grade size distribution curve is analyzed by using different particle sizes : D60, D30, and D10. The curve is the graph plotted between the percentage finer in y-axis to the particle size in x-axis in logarithmic scale. This is plotted based on the observations from sieve analysis conducted on the soil sample.
Also Read: Sieve Analysis of Soil
In the graph, the different particle sizes D10, D30 and D60 are represented as shown in figure-1 above.
D10 is called as effective particle size. This means that 10% percent of the particles are finer and 90% of the particles are coarser than D10. This is the size at 10% finer by weight.
Similarly, D60 is the particle size at which 60% of the particles are finer and 40% of the particles are coarser than D60 size. D30 is the size at which 30% is finer by weight and remaining 70% particles are coarser than D30 size. Hence, D10, D30 and D60 are used to determine the measures of gradation.
Measures of Gradation
The uniformity coefficient (Cu) and the coefficient of gradation (Cc) are the measures of soil gradation. These coefficients help to classify the soil as well graded or poorly graded ones.
Uniformity Coefficient (Cu)
The uniformity coefficient (Cu) is defined as the ratio of D60 to D10. A value of Cu greater than 4 to 6 classifies the soil as well graded. When Cu is less than 4, it is classified as poorly graded or uniformly graded soil.
Uniformly graded soil has identical particles with Cu value approximately equal to 1. A uniformity coefficient value of 2 or 3 classifies the soil as poorly graded. Beach sand comes under this category.
Higher value of Cu indicates that the soil mass consists of soil particles with different size ranges.
Coefficient of Curvature (Cc)
Coefficient of curvature is given by the formula:
For the soil to be well graded, the value of Cc must range between 1 and 3.
For any single sized soil mass, the value of both Cu and Cc is 1.


"The Dolphins" is a protest against abuse of animals and destruction of nature. Elaborate.
Antriksh asked 3 years ago
How does the poet Carol Ann Duffy raise her voice against destruction of nature and abuse of animals in her poem "The Dolphins"?
Or, The Dolphins by Duffy is a protest against abuse of wildlife and exploitation of animals. Discuss.
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Jayanta Kumar Maity Staff answered 2 years ago
In her dramatic monologue 'The Dolphins", Carol Ann Duffy has presented herself as an animal-lover and protested against the exploits of animals and other natural elements by man. Though the poem only speaks of the deplorable condition of the dolphins who are forced to live in a pool to perform tricks in circus, the theme actually goes beyond this. In a broader view, the dolphins are mere representatives of all such creatures receiving ill-treatments in the hands of man.
The poet here expresses the sadness in the dolphins' mind through their own voice using the technique of dramatic monologue. The dolphin says that they are in their 'element' to mean they are still living in water, but they are kept away from their natural habitat, i.e., the ocean. They are not free. Freedom is what the dolphin finds most important to be happy. They are not 'blessed' anymore as their movements are restricted in a pool and are guided by a man. They cannot even move according to their will; they have to perform tricks as the man wishes in order to entertain people. So, the dolphins are now used for the monetary purpose of humans. They have to balance themselves on a coloured ball. The dolphin regrets repeatedly:
We were blessed and now we are not blessed.
The dolphin is sad as it is living a monotonous life in the same space. It is in sharp contrast to what the life was like when they were in the sea. The space is limited. A man is there constantly above them guiding their movements and making them feel guilty. The moon has disappeared for them, not only literally but also metaphorically. They can no longer see the moon as they are not in the open sea, and the cheerfulness of their free life has now turned gloomy.
The dolphin remembers its happy days of the past. It finds its own reflection in the other dolphin's actions. Its heart turns to stone when it hears the "music of loss" from the other dolphin.
… Music of loss forever
from the other's heart which turns my own to stone.
So, there is a sense of loss and there is hopelessness. The only thing they have got to entertain themselves is a plastic toy. That is not the ideal thing they used to use living in the open ocean. The man's whistle makes them sink to the limit of the pool. There is a tone of suppression. Humans are toying with the innocent animals' lives. The very last line has a sarcastic tone:
There is a man and our mind knows we will die here.
It is as if where there is a man, there is impurity, there is distortion, artificiality and destruction of everything natural. In fact, the existence of a man above them has been repeated in every stanza of the poem to highlight the authority of man not only over the dolphins but also over nature and most other natural creatures. The way man is expanding their reach in this universe and trying to use natural elements in their way, they may eventually end up making a mess with the balance of this universe and its natural aspects. We are slowly but surely destructing nature and its purity.
The poet here raises her voice against this destruction through human cruelty towards animals. The dolphin acts as the poet's voice to convey her message towards the readers that we should respect the rights of animals to live in their natural habitat and should not inflict our cruelty on them.
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People often fail to understand that the relative brain of a dolphin is only second to that of a modern human being. They live in large complex social groups and swim vast distances in open ocean. But while in captivity they can only swim in circles in tanks and are denied to stay in natural habitat and are forced to perform meaningless tricks and are often taken away from their family.
It is just like a man in a prison blindfolded, the dolphins feel the same way. Accounting to all the years many of the dolphins died while in captivity in touch tanks. By this poem the poetess wants to show us the torture the animals receive in the hands of the people. The poetess expects us to see the world from their perspective too and to protect the life of the innocent animals and demands to stop the exploitation of wildlife in the name of self-entertainment. Most of the countries have already banned the dolphin captivity.
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Definition of pluck :
1. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
2. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
3. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
4. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
5. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
6. The lyrie.
7. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
8. To pull; to draw.
9. To reject at an examination for degrees.
10. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
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resolution (part of speech: noun)
grit, resolution, tenacity, steadfastness, toughness, fervency, devotion, perseverance, stubbornness, bullheadedness, tirelessness, heartiness, persistence, headstrongness, decisiveness, stamina, diligence, stoniness, indomitability, faithfulness, indefatigability, trueness, determination, dauntlessness, staunchness
courage (part of speech: noun)
- If I admire Rod, with his constant driving action, his indomitable pluck, his simple but tremendous belief in the importance of what he has undertaken to do, that's my own affair. - "The Front Yard", Constance Fenimore Woolson.
- If pluck will make you win, I am sure you will carry it through, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again; and if you haven't the money, I'll supply the capital. - "Jennie Baxter, Journalist", Robert Barr.
- Though he had been found out, he still felt himself to be master of the situation; and with every minute's grace his pluck returned to him. - "The Red Rat's Daughter", Guy Boothby.


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Ticino - Geography
The canton of Ticino is located still quite far from the sea, but its climate is nevertheless greatly influenced by the Mediterranean, which thus distinguishes it greatly from the other regions of Switzerland. The impressive number of sunshine hours and the high average temperatures favour the good maturing of the grapes. The plentiful rainfall, although they are a blessing on one hand, can also be a danger on the other. As the risk of hailstorms is quite important in the region, it forces the winegrowers to take good measures, using anti-hail nets.
January: 1.9°C / 35.4°F
July: 21.3°C / 70.3°F
Year: 11.7°C / 53°F
Rainfall: 1750 mm./yr. (68 in.)
The highest in Switzerland.
The annual hours of sun exposure:
Between 2100-2286 hrs.
More than anywhere else in Switzerland.
Altitudes vary from 220 m.(722 ft.) near Locarno to plots at over 500
m. (1640 ft.) in mountain valleys.


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Green Your Sports: Eco-Friendly Skiing
Tip #3: Ski Green
Though skiing isn't the greenest of sports (resorts guzzle freshwater for artificial powder and electricity for lifts), some destinations have opted to use wind power and recycled snow instead. Help green the sport by strapping on eco-skis when hitting the slopes. Grab an old pair from a friend, buy used, or invest in skis from an earth-conscious company. Lokomotiv Skis, for example, plants a tree for every pair they produce, and make their gear from bamboo.
Tell us: How do you green your ski trip?


-Shock TubesInstitut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environnement
Shock Tubes : High Temperature Chemical Kinetics
Contact : Nabiha CHAUMEIX
These highly instrumented facilities are designed for the development and validation of high-temperature kinetic models.
Heated, 52 mm in diameter and 7.5 m long
38.4 mm in diameter and 3.5 m long
78.4 mm diameter and 9 m long
* Several impact tubes of different lengths and diameters,
* Stainless steel and Pyrex,
* Pmax = 5 MPa / 6 MPa,
* Tinitial, max from 298 K to 403 K.
* Pressure sensors,
* Viewing windows,
* Sampling valve coupled to the shock tube.
* Pressure measurements,
* Emission, Absorption,
* LASER extinction and diffusion,
* Atomic Resonance Absorption Spectrophotometry,
* Gas analysis by CPG-MS/FID/TCD.
Measuring device : Laser extinction / Rayleigh scattering
Gas sampling device coupled to the shock tube


How fast can a Beagle run?
 Beagles have been used for hunting from centuries and the reason behind this is not else than their running speed.Later they were being used for gaming purposes like dog race.They have been developed by breeders to be smaller in size and faster in speed.Running speed of a dog varies dog to dog.It also depends upon the condition,previous training,health and the circumstances in which his running speed is being measured.Beagles are also thought to be bred with Greyhounds to improve their running abilities.Average running speed for a Beagle is considered to be around 25-30 mph or 40-48 km/h.
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Excessive noise from PWCs often makes them unwelcome with other vessel operators and people on shore. Be a courteous PWC operator.
- Vary your operating area, and do not keep repeating the same maneuver.
- Avoid congregating with other PWC operators near shore, which increases annoying noise levels.
- Avoid making excessive noise near residential and camping areas, particularly early in the morning.
- Avoid maneuvers that cause the engine exhaust to lift out of the water because that increases noise levels.
- Do not modify your engine exhaust system if it increases the noise. Improperly modified exhausts will not make your PWC faster and may raise the noise to an illegal level.


MLS to implement concussion substitution initiative
I can't speak specifically to his concussion history, but Elliot Panicco wears the relevant headgear, so. Courtesy Nashville SC?Major League Soccer
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NEW YORK (Monday, April 5, 2021) – Continuing its role as a leader in prioritizing player safety, Major League Soccer today announced that the league will participate in FIFA's concussion substitute pilot program.
A concussion task force comprised of sporting and medical leaders from MLS, NWSL, U.S. Soccer, the USL, and NISA, have worked collaboratively to implement the initiative and have been approved by The IFAB and FIFA to participate in the trial.
Beginning in 2021, Major League Soccer teams will be allowed to make up to two concussion substitutes during a match to replace players suffering from a concussion or a suspected concussion, regardless of the number of substitutions already used. Providing clubs an additional two concussion substitutes allows teams to make substitutions in the interest of player health and safety, without being placed at a competitive disadvantage.
MLS teams will have the following three types of substitutions available each game:
 - Normal Substitutes: A continuation from 2020, each club hasfive normal substitutes available to make over three separate opportunities. throughout an MLS match. Any substitutions made during halftime, or between regulation and extra time, or between the two halves of extra time in the postseason will not count as one of the three opportunities.
 - Concussion Substitutes: Each team will be permitted to make up to two concussion substitutions only during instances of suspected concussions. A concussion substitution can be made immediately after a concussion occurs or is suspected, after an on-field assessment, and/or off-field assessment, or at any other time when a concussion occurs or is suspected. This includes when a player has previously been assessed and has returned to the field of play.
 - Additional Substitutes : If a team uses a concussion substitution, the opposing team will receive an additional substitution that will be available to use only after all five of its normal substitutions have been made. If a team makes a second concussion substitution, the opponent receives another additional substitution opportunity.
Each club's technical staff will be responsible for designating the substitution type by providing the Fourth Official with the appropriate color substitution card: white for a normal substitution, pink for a concussion substitute, and blue for an additional substitute.
While referees may stop play due to a suspected head injury, the match officials will not be a part of the decision-making process to determine whether a player should or should not be replaced, nor will they determine if a normal substitute or a concussion substitute should be used.
MLS will also continue to utilize the medical spotter program through which trained professionals monitor the match broadcast to identify potential head injuries and possible concussions. Those medical spotters are able to quickly provide video to the Venue Medical Director at the fourth officials table to assist in assessing head injuries and possible concussions.
The IFAB has set an initial 20-month trial period to test the concussion substitutes initiative in competitions around the world through Aug. 31, 2022. During its Annual General Meeting in March 2022, The IFAB will decide whether to extend the trial period or whether to make a decision on implementing concussion substitutes into the Laws of the Game.
Additional information on The IFAB's concussion substitutes trials can be found here.
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Fundamental warning object used throughout vl.
This is a product type introduced by defprod.
- type — symbolp
- A symbol, most often a keyword symbol, that describes very broadly
what kind of warning this is. There is no particular discipline or
strategy for assigning types to warnings, but the basic goal is to be
able to use these types to filter out or group up similar warnings.
- msg — stringp
- A more detailed message describing what went wrong. This string
should be acceptable to vl-fmt; it is similar to the "format
strings" used by ACL2's cw function, but there are some
important differences, e.g., not all fmt directives are
supported, and extra Verilog-specific directives are available.
- args — ACL2::true-list
- Arguments that will be composed with the tilde directives in msg
when the warning is displayed to the user. That is, a directive like
~x0 refers to the first argument, ~x1 to the second, etc.
- fn — symbolp
- A symbol, intended to be the name of the function that caused the
warning. This is intended to be useful for VL debugging, to help make
the source of the warning more apparent. Only good discipline (and
handy macros) ensure that this is correctly reported.
- fatalp — booleanp
- Indicates whether this error is so severe that the module ought to
be thrown away and not subjected to further translation. See the
general discussion in warnings for more information on how
this is used.
- suppressedp — booleanp
- Indicates that this warning was suppressed by an ignore attribute.
- Context object for this warning; should be NIL or printable with "~a".
- Recognizer for vl-warning structures.
- Fixing function for vl-warning structures.
- Basic constructor macro for vl-warning structures.
- Basic equivalence relation for vl-warning structures.
- Get the suppressedp field from a vl-warning.
- Modifying constructor for vl-warning structures.
- Get the type field from a vl-warning.
- Get the msg field from a vl-warning.
- Get the fatalp field from a vl-warning.
- Get the args field from a vl-warning.
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The Sporting Edge UK Altitude Training equipment, ranges from the Cloud 9 personal mask based kit, to Altitude Rooms and 'fully climatic' Environmental Chambers.
- This is the personal/home use equipment of our range which is suitable to be used with a mask (exercise) or an Altitude Tent (sleeping or exercise). The air from the Cloud 9 is ideal for breathing direct once connected to the reservoir/silencer bag, it produces 'altitude' air ideal for altitude training regimes.
- The LT is powered from a standard power socket and is controlled by the same touch screen application which is used in our larger systems. It includes sensors to monitor Oxygen, Temperature, Humidity and Carbon Dioxide. These are ideal for the altitude bedroom, house or a small commercial gym set up. This form of altitude training elicits a greater 'buy in' from the participant due to the removal of the mask element.
Standard Altitude Room
- Our Altitude Rooms can be created from a room using near standard building techniques and comprise an air compressor, an air separation unit and a touch screen controller. As with the LT system all Oxygen, Temperature, Humidity and Carbon Dioxide readings are monitored and displayed. These systems can range up to 1650m.cu size rooms.
Environmental Rooms & Chambers
- The Environmental range of rooms and chambers are fully integrated into a touch screen application, offering one touch 'pre-set' destinations. The pre-sets will comprise of a combination of temperature, humidity and altitude. Depending on the extremes of the conditions required, determines the construction of the room from one comprising near standard building techniques to a fully insulated cold room incorporating a lobby and service hatch.


By definition, the floor is the channel that streams the active speaker. What you need to know on VoiceBoxer is that:
 - The active speaker always speaks on the floor, regardless their language selection
 - Each language channel will stream the floor until the interpretation booths are engaged in a target language
 - The assignment of a language to the floor is based on the interpreters selection of a target language and it works by exclusion. As an example, in a English-French-Spanish event, when the English-French interpreter targets French and the English-Spanish interpreter targets Spanish, then the platform knows that the floor must be English (ie. the language that is not being fed by an interpreter)
 - If you listen to the floor, you can still use the chat translation functionality. The translation will work towards the language that has been identified as floor language


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Very First Computer Game is as Old as Your Mom
Does anyone want to venture a guess as to when the first computer game was invented? And no – its not Pong.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Spacewar, the very first computer game ever created. The game, a distant relative to what would eventually be known as Asteroids, puts the player in control of a spaceship that is buoyed by the gravity of a star in the city of the screen that shoots down rockets. It was originally developed at MIT by four students for the bulky PDP-1 minicomputer which more like a radar machine than it does a contemporary computer.
The classic game is still being updated to work on the latest browsers. If you can get past the dated graphics and obscene difficulty then give it a try here.
This means people have been vegging out, playing video games and yelling at computer screens since the early 60′s. Wow, what a long way man has come.
[via Daily Mail]


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Australian Word Map
[This is the print version of story _URL_
Australian English has two classes of regional words. For some items, speakers must use a regional term because there is no word that is used all over Australia. For example, there is no word used everywhere in Australia for the type of sausage known variously as Belgium sausage, Byron sausage, devon, Empire sausage, fritz, German sausage, luncheon sausage, polony, Strasburg, and Windsor sausage.
For other items there is a word used everywhere in Australia, but there is also a regional word.
The map below indicates the Word Map Regional Language Divisions numbered 1 through to 27:
Map of Australia
« Rollover anywhere on the map to highlight the Australian Word Map Regional Language Divisions.
Here is the list of Word Map Regional Language Divisions. Rollover the region names to highlight the corresponding area on the map.
© 2013 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Invigilator Research Network
The Invigilator Research Network is a working group of artist/invigilators seeking to illuminate and complicate relationships between labour conditions, hierarchies, institutional practices, surveillance mechanisms and arts economies.
IRN's members regularly exploit and interrogate their wage-labour day jobs for the benefit of artistic practices. As professional art-observers, paid to watch and be forever vigilant in the presence of art, IRN activities manifest relationships between artwork, capital, and artworking. Explorations span multiple (and multiplying) platforms including academia, activism, fine art practices, fashion and live events.
IRN's explicit aim is to make tangible the links between invigilation, art making, pay-per-hour and a neoliberalised cultural sector. Considering the artist as a networked thinker, IRN aims to raise questions surrounding the meaning of creating and consuming in an age of insecurity, economic and cultural polarisation and opportunity.
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remove_copy_if(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(), back_inserter(IntVector),
 wcout << "Size: " << IntVector.size(); // 6
 Now, if we need to copy only even numbers, we just need to change the expression in lambda as:
 return nValue % 2!= 0;
 You see, to put something you need, you need to express in "don't need" form. If the condition involves multiple conditions (AND, ORs), it becomes more complex to write and understand. Yes, the solution is to negate (!) the whole condition. But that approach again requires you to write in "don't need" form, and is elusive to understand.
 The copy_if function provides a clean and direct approach. You can say it is a copy function with a condition test. The following is code for the "I need events only" requirement:
 copy_if(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(), back_inserter(IntVector),
 [](int nValue) { return nValue % 2 == 0;} ); // Positive condition
 Let's have another example, involving the Person tuple. In a vector of Persons, we need to copy only married males. We can write:
 vector OriginalPeople, RequiredPeople;
 OriginalPeople.push_back(make_tuple("Enrique", 32, 'M', 'M')); // Now married!
 OriginalPeople.push_back(make_tuple("James", 38, 'M', 'C'));
 copy_if(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 back_inserter(RequiredPeople), // Copy here
 [](const Person& person_obj) -> bool // No simple return, -> required!
 if ( std::get<2>(person_obj) == 'M' &&
 std::get<3>(person_obj) == 'M' )
 return true;
 return false;
 } // Lambda end
 // RequiredPeople would have 2 elements
 Note: As of this writing, the MSDN documentation of copy_if stands incorrect. It says it needs three arguments, but actually it takes four arguments.
 - partition_copy function
 - The partition_copy function partitions the input range into two different output ranges, depending on the condition. If condition is true, it copies into the first output range. If condition is false, it copies into the second output range. Here is an example which generates a few random numbers, and then copies even-numbers and odd-numbers in different vectors:
 vector IntVectorEven, IntVectorOdd;
 array IntArray;
 // Generate random numbers
 generate(IntArray.begin(), IntArray.end(), rand);
 partition_copy(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(),
 back_inserter(IntVectorEven), back_inserter(IntVectorOdd),
 // IntVectorEven.size() + IntVectorSize would be: IntArray.size()!
 In the Person vector, let's divide people based on gender:
 vector OriginalPeople, RequiredPeople;
 list Males, Females;
 /** All 5 people inserted same as above **/
 partition_copy(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 back_inserter(Males), back_inserter(Females),
 [](const Person& objPerson)
 return std::get<2>(objPerson) == 'M';
 // Males.size = 3, Females.size = 2
 - is_partitioned function
 - This function tests if the given range is partitioned based on the condition given. For example, an array of 10 elements may have a set of negative and zero/positive numbers. Further, assume all negatives are placed before positives, and all positives follow negatives. In that case, it is said to be partitioned. The function is_partitioned would return true if the range is properly partitioned; otherwise; it returns false.
 First, the call to is_partitioned:
 bool bPartitioned = is_partitioned(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend(),
 [](int nValue){return nValue < 0;} );
 And here, a set of different values is placed into IntArray, and its outcome is partitioned:
 array IntArray =
 {-1, -3, -4, -5, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE
 {-1, 1, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE
 {1, 3, 4, 0, -12, -2,-5, 3, 4, 5}; // FALSE
 {0, 1, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // TRUE - Only one partition exists
 {-1, -3, -4, -5, -1, -21, -22, -3,-4, -5}; // TRUE
 {5, 4, 3, 1, 0, -1, -2, -4, -192, -129}; // FALSE, Partitioned, but not as expected
 No. Partitioned range doesn't mean a sorted range. With the following call, we can test if IntArray is partitioned based on the even/odd discipline:
 array IntArray = {2, 4, 8, 64, 256, 1024, 9, 17, 29, 47};
 // Returns true, since it is logically partitioned!
 - partition_point function
 - Documentation says it differently, but by working and looking at the source code, I found out this is the same as calling find_if_not. Thus, I would not write about it until I get the correct information about this function.
 - minmax_element function
 - The minmax_element combines the work performed by the min_element and max_element functions. A recap for you: min_element finds the smallest element in a given range, and max_element finds the largest value in a given range. Since they return an iterator, and not a value, the first found iterator of relevant occurrence would be returned.
 The minmax_element returns a pair of type pair, the first iterator being a reference to the minimum element and the second being a reference to the largest element. Other than just avoiding two function calls, it also performs better than two combined. It performs faster: it finds both values in N * 1.5 attempts, as opposed to N * 2 attempts the two function calls would take (N is the number of elements in a given range).
 For example:
 // It returns pair
 auto minmax_pair = minmax_element(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend() );
 // Since the pair holds iterators, they must be indirected to get value
 wcout << "\nSmallest:" << (*minmax_pair.first) <<
 "\tLargest: "<< (*minmax_pair.second);
 All three functions are overloaded to take 2 or 3 arguments. The 3-argument function takes a predicate to test for. The predicates should logically implement less-than comparison.
 - is_sorted function
 - As the name suggests, the function is_sorted determines if the given range is sorted ascending (tested via less than operator), or as specified by the predicate function. If the range is sorted, it returns true, otherwise it returns false. The following example is clear-cut, and needs no further explanation.
 bool bIsSorted = is_sorted(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.cend());
 // Would be false
 sort(IntArray.begin(), IntArray.end());
 // Now, it would return true
 If we need to test if a vector of Person tuple is sorted or not, we must pass the binary predicate as the comparer, since tuple doesn't define operator < to assist it. In the following example, our "is vector sorted" is based on the person's age.
 vector People;
 bIsSorted = is_sorted(OriginalPeople.cbegin(), OriginalPeople.cend(),
 [](const Person& left_person, const Person& right_person)
 // The second element is age
 return std::get<1>(left_person) < std::get<1>(right_person);
 } );
 // The return value would be true, since elements are inserted in age ascending order
 In case you have some other type of object (like struct, class, pointers), you must provide the appropriate comparer as predicate. Since this article is about new concepts in STL, I am not attempting to give standard examples.
 - is_sorted_until function
 - The big brother of the is_sorted function. The is_sorted_until function is called by is_sorted. The actual task is performed by is_sorted_until.
 What's the difference, you might ask! Well, only that, is_sorted returns bool, whereas is_sorted_until returns the iterator, after which the sorting test fails. For a range [First, Last], if the sorting test succeeds, it returns Last (i.e., the end of the given range); otherwise, it returns one of the iterators where the sorting-test failed. For example:
 array::const_iterator iter; // You see how convenient 'auto' is!
 iter = is_sorted_until(IntArray.cbegin(), IntArray.c


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Spanish (Spain) Wheat Allergy Card
- Side 1: Spanish 🇪🇸 / Side 2: English 🇺🇸
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Eat Safe in Spain
"Once the waiter read our card, they immediately understood and took my daughter's food allergy seriously."
Travel with a wheat allergy can be difficult as language barriers can result in allergic reactions. Don't stress over how to say wheat allergy in Spanish.
A wheat allergy card in Spanish helps bridge the communication gap, ensuring your request is noted, remembered, and understood.


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Measurement of the axial-vector
determination of from hadronic decays
R. Barate et al.
Laboratoire de Physique des Particules (LAPP), IN2P3-CNRS, F-74019 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France
Received: 26 January 1998 / Published online: 15 June 1998
An analysis based on 124000 selected pairs recorded by the ALEPH detector at LEP provides the vector (V) and axial-vector (A) spectral functions of hadronic decays together with their total widths. This allows the evaluation of finite energy chiral sum rules that are weighted integrals over the (V-A) spectral functions. In addition, a precise measurement of along with a determination of nonperturbative contributions at the mass scale is performed. The experimentally and theoretically most robust determination of is obtained from the (V+A) fit that yields giving after the extrapolation to the mass of the Z boson. The approach of the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) is tested experimentally studying the evolution of the hadronic widths to masses smaller than the mass.


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There are oftentimes some source systems in a business intelligence solution that are less than critical for your reporting. It is possible to configure the Jet Data Manager so that the entire execution does not stop because the software cannot reach any of these non-critical systems. Instead, the organization can choose to keep the newest data from the failing data source until fresh data can be retrieved. This ensures that the rest of the solution will continue to be updated if an Excel file used as a data source is moved, for example.
Follow the steps below to allow a data source to fail.
On the Data tab, right-click on the data source to be allowed to fail and select "Data Source Settings"
In the When transfer fails list, click on the option to use if the transfer should fail. The available options are:
- Fail stop execution : Stops execution and reports the execution as failed.
- Continue without data : Continues the execution, pretending that the source contains no data.
- Continue with existing data : Continues execution, retaining the existing data from the source.
If using Replicate Data Sources you need to configure this setting on the additional data source as well as the template data source.


text: Objectives. We examined the prospective effects of parental education (as a proxy for individual socioeconomic status [SES]) and neighborhood SES on adolescent smoking trajectories and whether the prospective effects of individual SES varied across neighborhood SES. Methods. The study included 3635 randomly recruited adolescents from 5 age cohorts (12-16 years) assessed semiannually for 3 years in the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort study. We employed a cohort-sequential latent growth model to examine smoking from age 12 to 18 years with predictors. Results. Lower individual SES predicted increased levels of smoking over time. Whereas neighborhood SES had no direct effect, the interaction between individual and neighborhood SES was significant. Among higher and lower neighborhood SES, lower individual SES predicted increased levels of smoking; however, the magnitude of association between lower individual SES and higher smoking levels was significantly greater for higher neighborhood SES. Conclusions. We found evidence for differential effects of individual SES on adolescent smoking for higher and lower neighborhood SES. The group differences underscore social conditions as fundamental causes of disease and development of interventions and policies to address inequality in the resources.


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DC Soil Map
Natural Resources Conservation Service Web Soil Survey
Locate DC Soils by Address - DC GIS Services
- Go to the DC Geographic Information Systems website.
- After you click on the above link, there is a tab at the top left labeled "Layers."
- Select a Map Category, e.g. "Environment".
- Scroll down and choose "Soil Type".
View DC Soils Descriptions and Tables Online
Interpretation of DC Soil Maps
Print soil tables and download official NRCS soils data.
- Click on Select State.
- Click on DC.
- Click on Select Survey Area.
- Click on Generate Reports.
- A table will appear with definitions of soil map codes.


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Western Newts
Taricha torosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Taricha
Taricha granulosa
Taricha rivularis
Taricha torosa
Taricha is a genus of newts. There are only three species and four subspecies. They are called Western Newts and Pacific Newts. All newts are part of the family Salamandridae. The three species in this genus are California newt, the Rough-Skinned newt and the Red Bellied newt. They are all found in the west coast of the United States.
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Genus Taricha (Western Newts / Pacific Newts) - 3 species


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Written by Roger Ruiz
Community Relations Specialist
The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center celebrates Black History Month in February by shedding light on Charles Drew, who is considered the inventor of blood banking.
During Dr. Drew's residency at Columbia University's Presbyterian Hospital in the 1940′s, Drew developed a technique for the long term preservation of blood plasma. By separating the liquid part of blood (plasma) from the whole blood (the part containing the red blood cells) and refrigerating them separately, he could combine them up to a week later for transfusion.
STBTC still uses Dr. Drew's method of separation to break each unit of blood donated into several components, helping as many as three patients with a donation from one donor. A patients like Chris Pinkerton who suffers from Sickle Cell Anemia and needs blood transfusions often benefits from blood donors.
With the advanced research and technology, red blood cells now have a shelf life of 42 days and plasma can be frozen and stored for a year. To donate blood and save a life visit our website at _URL_


Backup or transfer your keys
You don't want to loose your keys. But it still can happen - just think of drive failures or physical damage to your computer in the unlikely case of a fire or whatever other disasters may strike. We highly encourage users to create a backup of their keys and keep that in a save place.
Backup single key
 1. select key to backup
 2. click 'Export' icon in the toolbar or press ⌘E
 3. to include the secret key, enable "Include secret key in exported file" option (only necessary to transfer your key to another computer or create a backup in a secure location. never send your sec key via email!)
 4. click 'Save'
 5. with the default options you'll end up with a key in the following format Name (keyID) – Public.asc or Name (keyID) – Secret.asc in case you opted to also export your secret key
Backup all keys
 1. select keys you want to backup or press ⌘A to select all keys
 3. to also export secret keys tick option to Include secret key in exported file
 4. the default filename is YYYY-MM-DD 123 OpenPGP Keyswhere 123 is the number of the exported keys
Transfer keys to another computer
You can use any of the above methods for this. On the new machine you need to import the exported files with GPG Keychain. After that all your keys should show up. Double check that all sec / pub keys were correctly transferred before deleting the backup and the source files on the first machine.
The validity of sec/pub keys will be set to "Unkown" after any import. It doesn't matter that the validity maybe was "Ultimate" before you exported the keys. To change the validity of your sec/pub key, double click it and select the wanted validity in the key inspector.
Important 1: Never use email or cloud services to transfer secret keys. Also transfer of all your public keys is not recommended using those two methods. Instead use a USB-drive.
Important 2: If you use the same keys on more than one mac, please make sure to update or change your keys only on one machine and then always transfer the updated key to your other macs. Never change the same key on two different macs as then the keys will be out of sync and that can cause all sorts of trouble.
Recover gnupg folder from backup
When you need to find the.gnupg folder on a backup you have on an external drive, it is normally located at 'Macintosh HD/Users/YourUsername/.gnupg'..gnupg is a hidden folder. In order to show hidden files
 1. open
 2. paste defaults write AppleShowAllFiles YES and press enter
 3. then paste killall Finder and press enter
To unshow hidden files, repeat steps with NO instead of YES.
To recover your keys from a time machine backup
 1. time machine safes data into a folder called 'Backups.backupdb'
 2. search for a folder called 'YourCompuername' containing sub-folders with date and a folder called 'latest'
 3. the file structure in the 'latest' folder is similar to the one on your mac hard-drive: Macintosh HD/Users/YourUsername/.gnupg. To view the.gnupg folder, ensure to show hidden files.
Backup gnupg folder (experts only)
 1. open
 2. copy paste the following command: cp -R ~/.gnupg/ ~/gnupg_backup and press enter
You will see a few messages about 'Operation not supported on socket'. That's expected and not a problem. A folder called 'gnupg_backup' has been created in your user folder.
To restore from the backup folder:
 1. close and GPG
 2. open
 3. make sure that no automatically created.gnupg folder exists by executing the following command. In case a folder exists, it will be moved to ~/.gnupg.old
 if [[ -d ~/.gnupg ]]; then mv ~/.gnupg ~/.gnupg.$(date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S").old; fi
 4. Restore old backup with the following command:
 mv ~/gnupg_backup ~/.gnupg


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Today is the day to no longer fear the word "zest." Why? It's simple. To zest a fruit means to scrape off the outer layer of fruits and use the scrapings to enhance the overall flavor of the dish.
The peels from fruits such as lemons, limes and oranges contain a very high amount of flavorful oils that, when used in small amounts, go a long way to add hints of citrus to a dish or baked good. By only using the colorful part (the zest) of the peel instead of the white bitter part (the pith), an intense citrus flavor will be added instead of bitterness.
Prior to zesting a citrus fruit, it is important that you scrub the fruit with soap and water and then pat it dry with a paper towel. Once these steps are completed, it's time to choose your zesting weapon. There are many tools that can be used to achieve a zest that incorporates beautifully into a dish to add amazing flavor. Typically, the tools listed below are most often used when a recipe calls for zest:
- Box Grater: When using a box grater, there are four different sides of the grater to choose from when deciding on how large of zest pieces you desire. It is usually best to add fine pieces of zest to recipes so be sure to use the side with the smallest holes.
- Microplane: When zesting with a microplane, rub the fruit in one direction against the blades. Be sure to turn the fruit as you zest so that the colored part (the zest) is removed and not the white part (the pith).
- Vegetable Peeler: This tool will result in strips of the zest instead of very fine pieces of zest.
- Zester: This tool makes long, thin strands of threadlike zest. When using this tool, simply scrape the blade along the outer side of the fruit and remove only the color part (the zest) and not the white part (the pith). Sometimes, it's a good idea to chop the strands with a knife to achieve finer portions of zest.
What tool do you usually use when a recipe calls for citrus zest?


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Making a Rainbow
In school yesterday Mrs Johnson, Mr Bianchi and Miss Young worked with Charlie and Amelia. Mr Bianchi did Joe Wicks PE session first, then we explored outside, looking for signs of spring. In the afternoon Charlie and Amelia painted a rainbow, then found collage materials to match the colours in the rainbow. The children also learned to sing the song using the Makaton symbols. The rainbow is displayed in Mrs Johnson's classroom.
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A Fake Lawyer is arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation
(NBI) in Angeles Pampanga.
The Fake lawyer allegedly committed estafa and wanted by the authorities.
Read: What is Estafa?
The Arrested Suspect was able to amassed more than one million
pesos according to the NBI.
The Victims of the suspect includes among others, companies,
cooperative, well known wealthy families and even some
The Successful Operation was conducted by the NBI's Special
Investigation Services at about 1 PM in the afternoon.
The Compound where the operation was conducted was huge.
The Suspect was arrested after a few minutes.
The Suspect has an alias of Atty. Sandoval. Her real name is
Maribel Tuburan.She has 5 pending warrant of arrest for large
The Suspect committed Estafa in areas which includes Palawan,
Cebu, Makati, Butuan and Manila.
The Suspect denied the charge against her.
Is She Guilty of of Usurpation of Official Functions?
This criminal offense is punishable under Art.177 of the
Revised Penal Code.
This offense is committed by performing an act pertaining to
any person in authority or public officer of the Philippines
or foreign government under the pretense of such official
position, and without being lawfully entitled to do so.
In usurpation of official functions, it is essential that the
offender should have performed an act pertaining to a person
Is She Guilty of Using Fictitious Name and Concealing True Name?
Using Fictitious Name and Concealing True Name is an offense
punishable under Art.178 of the Revised penal Code.
These Offenses has the following Elements:
Elements of Using Fictitious Name:
1. That the offender uses a name other than his real name
2. That he uses that fictitious name publicly
3. That the purpose of the offender is –
a. To conceal a crime
b. To evade the execution of a judgment or
c. To cause damage to public interest
Ex. Signing fictitious name for a passport
Elements of Concealing True Name:
1. That the offender conceals
a. his true name, and
b. all other personal circumstances and
2. That the purpose is only to conceal his identity.


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How to Cure an Ageing Barrel
To enjoy your aged spirits, you must first go through the process of barrel curing. If you don't cure the barrel you will not be able to use it. Curing is the process of soaking the wood so that it does not absorb your precious spirits during ageing. Having the wood absorb moisture will make it expand. The curing process helps to get rid of any gaps in the wood, and gives the hoops a tighter grip. When you first receive your barrel, you may notice small gaps in the staves, or loosened hoops. This is normal as changes in temperature and humidity will cause the wood to expand or shrink in transit. As our barrels are hand made in America, they have a long journey before reaching you. Do not nail or screw the hoops into place. This will damage your barrel. Before curing your barrel tightly insert the spigot using a rubber mallet.
What is Barrel Curing?
The curing process helps you identify leaks in your barrel. All barrels are made without any prolonged contact with moisture, so they are as far from ready as they can be. When you fill your barrel for the first time there will almost certainly be leaks.
How Long Does it Take to Cure a Barrel?
The curing process can take up to a week, but this is an essential part of barrel ageing. Each barrel is unique, as the wood from each tree is unique. There is no set time for the barrel curing process.
How to Cure an Oak Barrel
 1. Rinse your barrel 3 times with water to remove any loose charred debris. Fill the barrel from the top, and flush it through the spigot
 2. Fill the barrel with warm water and insert the bung. Make sure to fill the barrel to the top until you can't fit any more in. Every part of the inside of the barrel needs to be in contact with the water
 3. If you identify leaks in your barrel, apply a small amount of barrel wax to the leaking area. Push the wax in to the hole until the leaking stops
 4. Top up the water after fixing any leaks
 5. Leave the barrel in a cool place, out of direct sunlight. We recommend placing on a drip tray to prevent damage to any surfaces
 6. Check for leaks periodically and apply barrel wax where needed
 7. Regularly top up the water to ensure all parts of the barrel absorb water
 8. The barrel is ready when it can hold water for at least 3 hours
 9. Once your barrel has stopped leaking, rinse it through 3 times
 10. Allow the barrel to dry for 3 hours before filling with your spirits
Your barrel is now ready to age spirits. Read our guide on How To Barrel Age Spirits for more information.
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