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Study Of A Vietnam 155 Km Bauxite Slurry Pipeline From The Highlands To Coast
Vietnam's bauxite resources are mainly found in the Highlands region, which is also home to the upper catchment areas of some of Vietnam's most significant river systems. The location of alumina refineries in the Highlands region with their associated residue disposal facilities raises serious environmental concerns. The tropical climate zone brings periods of intense monsoonal rainfall that needs to be contained and managed. The likelihood and impact of fugitive dust emissions, ground water contamination, or discharge of contaminated water streams must be minimized. The existing infrastructure for transportation of raw materials, refinery supplies and product alumina to and from the refinery is also limited. Therefore, potential investors will have to pay high costs to minimize the environmental risks and to upgrade and improve transport infrastructure in order to build and operate their refineries in the Highlands.
One potential solution to these problems is to locate future alumna refineries closer to the coast some distance from the mines and beneficiation plants in the Highlands. In coastal locations, red mud can safely be neutralized and stored using sea water and alumina product can easily be transported to a nearby port. A Vietnamese alumina project has now been proposed to build a mine and beneficiation plant in the Highlands (Gia Lai province) and the refinery close to the coast (Binh Dinh province). The connection between the two plants will be via a 155 km bauxite slurry pipeline.
This paper describes the technical aspects of the pipeline design, operating and control philosophy, maintenance, and capital cost.


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Definition - What does Acomoclitic mean?
Acomoclitic is a term for a person who prefers bare or hairless genitals. Acomoclitics may look for hairless genitals in a partner, remove the hair from their own genitals, or both.
Acomocliticism is the opposite of pubephilia where people become aroused by the feel or sight of human public hair.
In the naturist community, where acomocliticism is common, an acomoclitic may be known as a smoothie.
Kinkly explains Acomoclitic
Acomoclitics may spend an excessive amount of time thinking about hairless genitals and have recurring fantasies surrounding this part of the anatomy. They may also exclusively choose partners who remove their genital hair. Acomoclitics typically enjoy both the look and feel of hairless genitals. Many acomoclitics also feel that hairless genitals are more hygienic.
Acomoclitics may remove their pubic hair using razors, hot waxes, or sugaring methods. Some acomoclitic couples find hair removal arousing and make this part of their foreplay.
While hairless genitals are often associated with prepubescent individuals, most acomoclitics insist they do not have a preference for very young partners. Instead, many feel that adults who remove their public hair appear more confident after taking control of their own bodies.
Acomocliticism may be simply defined as a preference like that for curvy women or tattooed men. In other cases, it is a clear fetish. Acomocliticism does not generally require treatment unless it begins to interfere with an individual's day-to-day life. Psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and behavioral and cognitive therapies are some methods for effectively treating acomocliticism.
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Eilenberg and Mac Lane showed that given a group $G$ there exists a pointed topological space $X_G$ such that $\pi(X_G,\bullet)\cong G$. It is obviously a way to "invert direction" to the functor $\pi_1\colon \mathbf{Top}^\bullet\to \mathbf{Grp}$ to a functor $\mathcal K\colon \mathbf{Grp}\to \mathbf{Top}^\bullet$ such that $\pi_1(\mathcal K(G),\bullet)\cong G$ (almost by definition). This is equivalent to say that there exists a natural transformation (equivalence, in this case) between $\pi_1\circ\mathcal K$ and $\mathbf{1}_{\mathbf{Grp}}$, which turns out to resemble some sort of counity.
It would be wonderful if I could define an adjunction between the two categories in exam, given by the two functors. Everytime I try to think about some sort of unity to this hypotetical adjunction I poorly fail: considering the vast literature in the field of algebraic topology, I believe in only two possible cases. The first, nothing interesting arises from this adjunction. The second, there is no sort of adjunction.
The key point, quite trivial, to answer is: it is well known that an adjunction is uniquely determined by one among unity and counity, provided the one is universal. But $\boldsymbol\varepsilon\colon \pi_1\circ\mathcal K\to \mathbf{1}_{\mathbf{Grp}}$ is an equivalence: can I conclude that it is universal?
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In the more general setting the answer is no. Left adjoints preserve colimits and it is not true that $\pi_{1}(X\vee Y)\cong \pi_{1}(X)\ast\pi_{1}(Y)$ for all spaces $X,Y$ (even compact metric spaces). For instance, if $(\mathbb{HE},x)$ is the usual Hawaiian earring, let $X=Y=C\mathbb{HE}=\mathbb{HE}\times I/\mathbb{HE}\times\{1\}$ be the cone on the Hawaiian earring with basepoint the image of $(x,0)$ in the quotient. It is a theorem of Griffiths that $\pi_{1}(C\mathbb{HE}\vee C\mathbb{HE})$ is uncountable and not the free product of trivial groups.
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Clear, clear. Thanks. :) – tetrapharmakon Nov 9 '10 at 0:05
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be the homotopy category of connected pointed CW complexes. Then the functor $\pi_1:\mathcal{C}\to\mathbf{Grp}$ does indeed have a right adjoint. The cleanest way to define it is to use the simplicial classifying space functor $B:\mathbf{Grp}\to\mathcal{C}$. For the unit of the adjunction you need a natural homotopy class of maps $X\to B(\pi_1(X))$. This can be done by obstruction theory, by induction up the skeleta of $X$. Alternatively, one can define a more canonical map from $|SX|$ (the geometric realisation of the singular complex) to $B(\pi_1(X))$ by simplicial methods, and then use the fact that there is a natural map $|SX|\to X$ which is a homotopy equivalence when $X\in\mathcal{C}$. The first place I would look for more details would be Peter May's old book on simplicial objects in algebraic topology.
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Goerss-Jardine is probably going to be more useful than Peter May's book, which is really outdated. – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 21:21
That copy of the book is copyright-infringing (not that I care), and it's probably better if you can avoid posting it on MO. – Harry Gindi Nov 9 '10 at 0:58
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Projective transformation is a mathematical correction (implemented in software) used in the remote imaging field to produce distortion-free images. We present the application of projective transformation to correct minor alignment and astigmatism distortions that are inherent in dispersive spectrographs. Patterned white-light images and neon emission spectra were used to produce registration points for the transformation. Raman transects collected on microscopy and fiber-optic systems were corrected using established methods and compared with the same transects corrected using the projective transformation. Even minor distortions have a significant effect on reproducibility and apparent fluorescence background complexity. Simulated Raman spectra were used to optimize the projective transformation algorithm. We demonstrate that the projective transformation reduced the apparent fluorescent background complexity and improved reproducibility of measured parameters of Raman spectra. Distortion correction using a projective transformation provides a major advantage in reducing the background fluorescence complexity even in instrumentation where slit-image distortions and camera rotation were minimized using manual or mechanical means. We expect these advantages should be readily applicable to other spectroscopic modalities using dispersive imaging spectrographs.
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Lawyer Rudy Lombard discusses his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, while Dr. Jessica Harris leads you through a history of African-American foodstuffs. Plus homemaker Billie Carpenter.
Breakfast Rice and Eggs
1 Cup of Rice
2 Cups of Water or Stock
1/2 teaspoon salt (if desired)
1 tablespoon butter (if desired)
1 Egg for each cup of rice
Prepare rice:
1. Bring the water to a boil.
2. Add the rice, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of butter, stir once.
3. Cover the pot and return the water to a boil.
4. Immediately turn the stove down to simmer and cook about 15-20 minutes.
Rice is usually done when the water is completely absorbed.


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Time from customer order received to customer order delivered.In detail:
Order Lead Time is the longest lead time. When a customer sends an order, the clock starts ticking. This ticking ends onlywhen the order has been fulfilled and the customer has received what was requested. If the order consists of several deliveries, measuring ends when the last delivery is received or each delivery can be tracked on its own. This time represents the ability to respond to orders and is almost always up to the effectiveness of the supply chain. Order Lead Time is the only lead time that is of interest to the customer because the customer only wants to know when he or she will receive what was ordered. This is easy to understand when compared to ordering from the Internet. After one has placed the order, it is nice to get emails telling that it has been processed or sent, but all that one really care about is the date when the products should arrive.
Time from customer order received to sales order created.In detail:
Customer orders can be received through several methods, including fax and email. When the order has been received, measuring of Order Handling Time begins which ends when the order has been entered into the system. Between these two steps, the order has to be validated to ensure its correctness. It has to include all needed information, e.g. requested delivery date, delivery address, products, quantities and prices. Order entry processing includes checks to export control, transportation time, sales availability and product life cycle. Optimally, the Order Handling Time should be a day or less, but in international firms, that might be hard to achieve. Even more important is order correctness, which requires high attention as mistakes can cause severe delays later on down the supply chain.
Time from sales order created to production finished (ready for delivery).In detail:
When the order is input to ERP, it is visible at the factory. It is also when measuring of Manufacturing Lead Time begins as the ball is handed to the factory. It is their job to confirm material availability, plan and begin production and prepare the goods for shipment. For following how fast orders are actually fulfilled at the factory, Manufacturing Lead Time gives the needed information. In Make-to-Stock production, this is the most important phase where time can be saved or wasted. Manufacturing Lead Time is an external measurement; it does not tell what has been made, but how fast the finished goods are ready to be shipped. If inventory value was not important, ready-made units could be simply stored in a huge warehouse and shipped after an order is received, which would lead to an extremely short Manufacturing Lead Time. This is, of course, not a real situation as it is not cost efficient and would lead to a high risk. As Manufacturing Lead Time does not see what is happening inside the factory, it solely is not enough. There has to be an internal measurement as well.
Time from start of physical production of first submodule to production finished (ready for delivery).In detail:
The factory's internal measurement is Production Lead Time. As actual production of the ordered product begins, starts also Production Lead Time. Usually, the finished module is assembled from submodules. Production Lead Time for a certain module is counted from the oldest submodule's production start to the module being packed and ready to ship. For submodules, the moment when production can be seen as started is when it has a serial number, i.e. when the ID label is printed on it. Whereas Manufacturing Lead Time is an external measurement, Production Lead Time is an internal measurement. It does not tell how fast after an order the product was ready, but it tells how long it took to make it. The time it took to produce a finished module tells also how long effort and money were bound to it before it was of any actual value to someone.
Time from production finished to customer order delivered.In detail:
After the work at the factory has finished and the products are packed and ready to ship, delivery process begins. The exact moment for this is pressing post goods issue for outbound delivery, which decreases inventory, enables billing and allows booking transportation. Measurement ends when the delivery is signed as received at the destination and the customer has received the order. Delivery Lead Time is usually quite static and depends on the chosen transportation method and the distance to the destination. It can be shortened only to a certain extent, mainly by reducing extra steps that add waste like non-value handling or waiting. In international deliveries, Delivery Lead Time can be the most time consuming part of the Order Lead Time, especially in the MTS model.
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Lead Time is a widely used measurement in manufacturing. It tells how much time it takes to start and finish something. Lead Time terms can be seen very differently, depending on personal preferences and work background, which is why these terms were defined. The scope of these terms is from customer order received to customer order delivered, which is the most vital measurement for any company and solely up to the structure and effectiveness of the firm. Steps from customer order received to delivery received by the customer are represented by five terms. They are listed in a temporal sequence and explained in detail above. The amount of work each term covers varies and some of them are timely situated parallel to each other.
A restaurant opens up and a customer walks in. A waiter guides him to a table, gives him the menu and asks what he would like to order. The customer selects a dish and the waiter writes it in his notepad. At that moment the customer has made an order which the restaurant has accepted - Order Lead Time and Order Handling Time have begun.
Now the waiter marks the order in the cash register, rips the paper from the notepad, takes it into the kitchen and puts into the order queue. The order has been handled and is waiting in the factory (kitchen) for manufacturing.
As there are no other customers, the waiter decides to stand outside the kitchen, by the door, waiting for the dish to be prepared and begins calculating Manufacturing Lead Time.
Meanwhile, the chef finishes what he was doing, takes the order from the queue, starts his clock as a mark for the start of Production Lead Time and begins cooking. The chef chops the vegetables, fries the meat and boils the pasta. When the dish is ready, the chef rings a bell and stops his clock.
At the same time the waiter stops calculating Manufacturing Lead Time and rushes through the kitchen door to get the food while it's hot.
When he picks it up, begins counting of Delivery Lead Time that ends when the dish is served to the customer, who can now happily say that the Order Lead Time was shorter than he had expected.
As you can see, these terms can be easily applied to other circumstances than telecommunications production. In fact, the only limiting factor is that there needs to be a customer.
Out of the Lead Time terms there are two that have a special relation to each other. These two are Manufacturing Lead Time and Production Lead Time, which both measure the efficiency of production. Manufacturing Lead Time measures exactly the same steps than Production Lead Time but includes also steps before production is started. Production Lead Time on the other hand begins only when the first submodule is started.
What these terms have in common is also the thing differentiating them. They both tell how good the production is in something but with a difference. Manufacturing Lead Time measures how fast an order is fulfilled - how long it takes for the factory to dispatch the ordered products calculated from the moment the order was input to the system. It is an external measurement. Once the order is in the system, it is the factory's task to produce it as fast as possible. In the perspective of Manufacturing Lead Time, speed can be achieved by having huge buffers of ready-made products simply waiting to be delivered. This way it would be possible to fulfill orders in a few moments. The model could be compared to a supermarket - just pick up the products requested.
However, having a large buffer of expensive basestations that are not necessarily ordered even weekly would introduce sky high inventory costs. This is where Production Lead Time can be seen as useful. It measures how long resources are tied up before they are of actual value to someone. It is an internal measurement. Once production starts, expensive components are used to build the modules, but it doesn't create any profit before a while after the customer has received it. Basically any time spent in a buffer or a warehouse is a waste of resources and should be avoided. For these buffered products Production Lead Time would be painstakingly long as the time measured doesn't end when the product is finished and packed. Instead, it ends when the delivery of these products starts, so having an extremely short Manufacturing Lead Time on the expense of Production Lead Time is definitely not the correct approach.
A balance can be found between the terms - a situation where both give out good metrics. This is achieved when a short Manufacturing Lead Time is gotten through improving production so that Production Lead Time is also short. Lets consider a production that is run by purchase orders. Once an order is in the system, production begins at the first available time in the schedule and all the required components and parts are available without extra procurement delay. In this case the best results overall are gotten when the production is efficient so the product is made quickly. In a situation like this, Manufacturing Lead Time is not the shortest possible but instead it is quite close to Production Lead Time, being only slightly longer due to scheduling delay. But it has to be longer in a PO controlled production to avoid high inventory costs.


Fruit Carving Exhibit
Many believe that fruit carving originated in China during the Tang Dynasty, which lasted from AD 618-906. Fruit carving in China usually features legendary creatures and animals and is used to tell stories. Not only is fruit carving used in cultural and traditional ceremonies, but also ordinary households are known for decorating plates with fruit carvings when they have guests over.
Artist Shirley Chiu is a self-taught creative carving artist, and her work has accumulated to over 200 distinct art pieces, including fruit carving, vegetable carving and soap carving. She has been invited to present her artwork at various social and community events throughout the Phoenix area.


Question: How Do You Use Entwined In A Sentence?
How do you use intertwined fate Genshin impact?
Intertwined Fate is basically a gacha currency that you use to pull for characters and weapons at available banners.
You can opt to do it per Intertwined Fate or do all 10 pulls at once..
Is it entwined or intertwined?
You may use either word in your examples without changing the meaning. "Entwine" is more often used with two things twisted together or with one thing enclosing another. "Intertwine" is more often used with more than two things twisted together. But both words mean twisted together.
What does tangy mean?
: having a sharp taste or smell tangy juice.
What is inextricably intertwined?
Inextricably is an adverb that means in a manner that is impossible to unravel or separate from something else. It usually modifies words like "linked" and "tied." To most Americans, Thanksgiving and turkey are inextricably linked.
What does intertwined relationship mean?
1. reciprocal verb. If two or more things are intertwined or intertwine, they are closely connected with each other in many ways.
What does intertwined mean in English?
What things are intertwined?
Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed together. You have to intertwine yarn to make a scarf. When things intertwine, they're all mixed up together — it's hard to separate them. To make any type of clothing, threads have to be intertwined.
How do you use intertwined in a sentence?
Intertwined sentence examplesPhoronis is often gregarious, the tubes which it secretes being sometimes intertwined in an inextricable mass. … Your path is intertwined with Darian's, so you'll be there when he needs to know this.More items…
How do you use hitherto in a sentence?
Hitherto in a Sentence 🔉Hitherto Jim got married and became a devoted spouse, his greatest pleasure had been picking up women. … Before John learned to fly an airplane, he had hitherto been afraid of heights. … Hitherto Carmelo was thought a suspect in his wife's murder and forbidden to leave town.More items…
How do you use exactly?
exactlyadverb. You use exactly before an amount, number, or position to emphasize that it is no more, no less, or no different from what you are stating. … adverb. If you say 'Exactly', you are agreeing with someone or emphasizing the truth of what they say. … adverb [not ADV, usu ADV group] … adverb.
What is the meaning of entwined?
transitive verb. : to twine together or around. intransitive verb. : to become twisted or twined.
What is the exactly?
—used to stress that something is accurate, complete, or correct. : in a correct or precise way : in a way that agrees completely with what is needed. : in every way. See the full definition for exactly in the English Language Learners Dictionary. More from Merriam-Webster on exactly.
What's another word for intertwined?
In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for intertwined, like: looped, laced, interlaced, entwined, twined, twisted, linked, knitted, interwoven, crisscrossed and braided.
How do you use exactly in a sentence?
Exactly sentence examplesThey weren't exactly best of friends. … He knew exactly where to look. … She quickly replaced the envelope with shaking hands, making sure it was in exactly the same position as she found it. … What exactly do you all do there? … He knew exactly what he wanted and I told him we would buy it for him.More items…
What exactly or exactly?
Exactly is an adverb; it modifies a verb. Your first example, "What exactly is…" would be the correct form. The second is more informal; "Exactly what is…" has moved "exactly" away from the verb it is modifying.


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Setting the Active Language for a Project
After adding languages to your project with the Resource DLL Wizard, the base language module is loaded when you choose Run > Run. However, you can load a different language module by setting the active language for the project.
To set the active language
- In the IDE, recompile the resource module for the language you want to use.
- Choose Project > Languages > Set Active. The Set Active Language wizard displays a list of the languages in the project. The base language appears in angle brackets at the top of this list, for example, .
- Select a language from the list and click Finish.

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Grammar Engineering Frequently Asked Questions
How do I constrain something to be not of a certain value?
The tdl formalism does not include any explicit negation operator. However, in most cases, you can use the logic of the type hierarchy to encode negative constraints.
For example, suppose your language has three cases, nominative, accusative, and dative, and that you want to constrain the value of CASE on some type to be not dative. Within this closed system, not dative is the same as nominative or accusative. Therefore, it suffices to define an intermediate supertype for nominative and accusative, which excludes dative:
case := *top*.
dat := case.
nom+acc := case.
nom := nom+acc.
acc := nom+acc.
Given this hierarchy, "The case is not dative" (equivalently, "The case is nominative or accusative") can be expressed thus:
[ CASE nom+acc ].
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Achieving Competitive Employment
The ACE (Achieving Competitive Employment) program helps individuals with disabilities to get and keep jobs. Our aim is to provide resources to identify, develop, and utilize employable skills and abilities.
ACE Staff Can Provide:
- Job search assistance: how to help employers see past a disability and understand the assets you bring to their business
- Job development: direct contact with employers to generate leads and facilitate paid placements
- Job coaching: one-to-one support to adapt to a new workplace and be successful there
Who Can Use ACE?
- You must be 16 years of age or older
- You must also have an identified disability (this can mean a lot of things – if you're not sure, ask us!)
- Resident of Guelph or Wellington County
- Ready to prepare and achieve employment
A.C.E. is funded by Ontario Disabilities Support Program Employment Supports


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Title: Plan, from the circumference series
Dimensions: 510cm (radius)
Techinique: 97 ceramic roofing tiles
Local: Vermelho Gallery '" São Paulo – Brazil
Exploration of possibilities in the geometry of basic materials construction (tile). The circumference series part of common tiles given that your geometry trapezoidal allow create a circumference which is derived directly from the angle of opening of the tiles. In this way, each type of tile therefore leads to a different diameter, being the constant the biggest opening angle with the smaller diameter. The name of the circumference is taken by the name of the tile and the quantity of tiles is also determined by its geometry.


Andrew Hardin, a grad student at the University of Colorado, designed these neat, colorful maps that show how long it will take you to move around Boulder, Denver, San Francisco, or Seattle using public transit. Just click any point on the map, and colors pool out around it — like a heat map, but for time spent on buses or subways.
These maps aren't meant to tell you exactly how minutes it'll take a person to get from her front door to a favorite restaurant. FastCoExist:
Hardin's maps, which are based on Open Street Map data, aren't completely accurate. For example, they assume people cross rivers directly, when normally people take bridges or tunnels. "Frankly, better tool exists for planning your commute," he admits. The point is to offer approximations, so you know immediately how far two destinations are from each other.
But they show something more interesting than commute times — the shape of city, as determined by its public transit. You can see, for instance, the impact of train stops, which create distinct circles of time around them, like drops of food coloring on a liquid surface.
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At the Vieux Carré, New Orleans' famous 85-block French Quarter, modern-day visitors moving in and out of National Historic Landmark properties are transported to city's past while taking in the mishmash of architectural styles distinguished by colorful facades and filigreed iron galleries and balconies. The restored landmark property known as the Gallier House makes its home in the Quarter, waiting to dazzle with the 19th-century splendor that backdropped the lives of their inhabitants—a diverse crew of enslaved workers, tycoons, free people of color, architects, and robots—more than a century ago.
The Gallier House was built in 1860 by renowned architect James Gallier Jr., who also designed the old French Opera House and Municipality Hall (now Gallier Hall). Gallier ensured the house was ahead of its time by installing a bathroom with indoor plumbing, a ventilation system to circulate air, an attached kitchen, and a hologram butler. The fully furnished two-story house also contains a courtyard, carriageway, and slave quarters, and it inspired Louis and Lestat's New Orleans residence in Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. In 1996, The Woman's Exchange bought the property, ensuring that it would be preserved as a museum and historic landmark. Today, curators illuminate the mansion's history through frequent exhibits and educational programs for people of all ages.


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I came across the following exercise in Spivak's book: Suppose that you have a function $f$ such that $f'(x) \ge M > 0$, for any $x \in [0,1]$. I would like to show that there is an interval of length $1/4$ contained in $[0,1]$, on which $|f(x)| \ge M/4$.
My feeling is that this can be shown using the Mean Value Theorem: Applying this yields, for any $x \in (0,1]$, that $$ \frac{f(x) - f(0)}{x-0} \ge M. $$ However, I don't see how to proceed from here, as I don't have a lower bound for $f(0)$.
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Here's a proof that doesn't use the MVT. (Well, perhaps indirectly.) Suppose to the contrary no interval of length 1/4 satisfies the property. Hence, there must be a $t_0 \in [0,\frac{1}{4}]$ so that $|f(t_0)| < \frac{M}{4}$. We then have $\frac{-M}{4} \leq f(t_0)$, from which we obtain the inequality $$f(t + t_0) \geq Mt + f(t_0) \geq M\bigg(t - \frac{1}{4}\bigg).$$ We now see that if $t \geq \frac{1}{2}$, then $f(t + t_0) \geq \frac{M}{4}$. But $t_0 + \frac{1}{2} \leq \frac{3}{4}$, and so $f(x) \geq \frac{M}{4}$ on the interval $[t_0 + \frac{1}{2},1] \supset [\frac{3}{4},1]$.
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Symmetry Center: Practice symmetry skills with this fun and engaging math center. Students love recreating flowers along the line of symmetry.
Pattern Block Flowers is my new math pack that works on line of symmetry based on real flowers. It comes with 16 cards, each with a different flower that needs to be completed along the line of symmetry.
Here is how I have been using these cards in my class for the past few years:
This pack includes two work mats, one in color and one in black and white for students to use with the cards. There is also a worksheet for students to create their own flower if they are interested.
Students will pick a flower task card and use pattern blocks to recreate the image along the line of symmetry. This can be challenging at first for kindergarten students, but once they understand how it worksthey love the challenge of it!
real flowers Symmetry Center
All of the flower task cards are based on real flowers, and look similar to them. You can look up pictures of the real flower to show what they look like.
more symmetry centers
Want to make planning your symmetry unit easy? Take a look at these other blog posts with symmetry center ideas:
- Teach Symmetry in Kindergarten
- Invitation to ExploreLine of Symmetry
- Practicing Symmetry in Kindergarten
- Kindergarten Line of Symmetry
My Ultimate Guide to Kindergarten Centers shows you how I use these activities in my classroom.
I am excited to use Pattern Block Flowers as a math center and to help with assessment in our kindergarten class.
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News Content Perspective of TV One and Metro TV in Seeing Indonesia Government Policy
In the new order era, media is chained and regarded as a mouthpiece of New Order government. After 17 years the fall of the New Order regime, some of the media in Indonesia still can never escape from the intervention, particularly media owners. This research aims to determine the differences of political perspective of two television media toward the government. The research used qualitative method which relies on secondary data through documentation. The results indicate that the political orientation of the media owners had intervened the media perspective against the government. Media cannot be an objective watchdog of the government, because the news on the televisions is subjective. The media, such as TV One and Metro TV, have different agenda and perspective. The setting of a resource as well as the communications attitude of the TV One host shows its role as a government watchdog. Metro TV has a different attitude; there is tendency to be more cooperative and accommodating with government and the policies of President Joko Widodo.
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Malvern's newest initiative focuses on character
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Malvern SealThe Character and Integrity Task Force is a new way to review the school's disciplinary philosophy, policy, and implementation
The Character and Integrity Task Force is a new initiative that aims to review the school's disciplinary philosophy, policy, and implementation. Chaired by Dean of Students Mr. Tim Dougherty, the task force will also include other members of Malvern's community such as Mr. Talbot, Father Flynn, Mrs. Feeney, Mr. Valyo, and Mr. Algeo.
Along with academic integrity, the main focus of the group will be on other character issues such as drugs and alcohol, digital citizenship, and respect for differences, according to Head of School Mr. Talbot.
However, Talbot is quick to note that this list isn't exhaustive, but rather representative. Issues that arise over time will also be addressed. Input from parents and faculty will also be considered.
Despite the fact that the basic structure and purpose of the Character and Integrity Task Force has been developed, some of the details have not yet been planned out. Because of this, the task force has not been publically announced, according to Talbot.
The reasons for starting this task force are twofold, said Talbot.
One of the reasons is due to a series of incidents, some of which have to do with academic integrity and other behavioral incidents such as drinking on Christian service trips and vandalizing property, according to Talbot.
"The other reason is rooted in Malvern's own Augustinian mission and values," Talbot said.
Most members of the Malvern community will get a chance to participate on the Task Force, according to Talbot. However, most roles within the task force will be limited. "I want to make sure that people understand their roles. The way I would characterize it is [that] there are three kind of species of people involved in this," said Talbot.
"There are people who ultimately decide what we change or what we preserve. That would be the members of the leadership team and the educational administrator team," Talbot explained.
"The next group would be the recommenders. So the other members of the task force [such as] teachers, staff, alumni, trustees, parents."
"The third group would be consultants or advisors. They may or may not make a recommendation. But they would be sharing their perspectives. Students would share perspectives. Other parents not on the task force would share perspectives. But they are not at the point of making a formal recommendation," Talbot said.
According to Talbot, students might serve for the most part as advisors or consultants. However, there may be instances where students could become a subcommittee and submit a formal recommendation.
The reason for the limited role of students in this task force is due to an inherent conflict of interest.
"[As a student,] you want to have a say at the table. But we also have to make sure that we are not creating conflicts of interest where students are actually recommending or deciding upon policies that might, for example, minimize or eliminate penalties, when in fact we really do need those things." Talbot explained.
At this point, the administration is unsure of how this task force will be received by students. "I can't anticipate student perception until changes occur," says Mr. Dougherty.
However, Dougherty is looking forward to the discussion. "It is exciting to self assess and see what is needed and what is not," he said.
As the Character and Integrity task force starts to become more defined, Talbot still believes that the purpose of this task force is to improve, rather than fix.
"I don't think that we have a corrupt culture. I don't think that we have some rotten core that needs to be carved out or replaced. I think this is a healthy place. And that's a good thing." Talbot said.
"Malvern kids are good kids. For me, it is about taking a good thing and making it better."


3D Printing Transmission Line Speakers
Anyone who has played with speakers on the workbench knows the huge difference enclosure design makes to the frequency response of an audio system. Speakerheads spend hours tinkering with designs and calculations, aiming to get the best out of a given set of drivers. [HexiBase] decided to try some experiments of his own, running into some hurdles along the way.
[Hexibase] aimed to 3D print a compact transmission line design, to suit a pair of 1 1/8″ full-range drivers. Being aware of the benefits of high-resolution resin 3D printing, he set out to print a design taking full advantage of the build volume of his Longer 3D Orange 30 printer. Unfortunately, after much fiddling with slicer settings, the printer turned out to have a fundamental fault, leading to unusable prints.
Undeterred, [Hexibase] switched to using his Longer FDM model instead. Printing out the enclosures in PLA. he noted that the different material will have a slightly altered frequency response than originally intended. Regardless, the final result sounds great, and barring some higher-frequency anomalies, the output correlates well with the mathematical model of expected performance.
3D printers make great tools for budding speaker builders, as they make constructing advanced geometries a cinch. Of course, you can even try and 3D print the drivers themselves if you're so inclined. Video after the break.
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 1. How do you measure the response without room acoustics having effect on the end result? Hexibase manages that somehow because measured response is so close to the mathematical model.
 1. Well my first thought would be to use a pink noise generator and spectrum analyzer to "map" the room's response curve, then EQ it out or subtract it from the results.
 2. I don't know about this particular speaker and set up, but the standard way in the DIY Audio community is to take very short recordings so the sound can travel from the speaker to the microphone, but by the time it's bounced off anything else the recording is over.
 1. Seems to miss out selective dampening, the all important manual tuning away of the peaks. Faff but fun.
 Open, add fluff, close and test. Open, move fluff, close and test. Repeat.
 2. Room? Just set up outdoors on a grassy hill. Almost as good as an anechoic chamber. Transmission line should start with a symmetrical "Y" to combine both driver's waves as equal in time.
 1. Do you mean a grassy knoll?
 Was once doing measurements in a typical UK box room (how can these count as bedrooms??). Spent ages wondering why there was a hump in the upper bass response. All the room's dimensions were 2.4m, leading to a 3D set of 140 Hz standing waves. Presumably the 70 Hz would have been present too, but microphone and driver placement were close to the floor so might not have excited/measured that mode well.
 3. 3D printing is great for speaker builders who use drivers that are 1 and 1/8″
 I will admit that I have a bluetooth speaker that is around that size and sounds amazingly good for what it it, but really, my real speakers are significantly larger, as in over an order of magnitude. There are a lot of materials you could build the enclosures out of, but I don't see them being 3D printed. At least not with a 3D printer I will ever be able to house or afford. Than again after the shameless ad for the vacuum pump on here, perhaps I should add a ginormous 3D printer to the list of things that I want.
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What is an RPM?
an RPM defined
RPM is an abbreviation for Revolutions Per Minute. In the automotive industry the term RPM is used when referring to a motor vehicle's engine speed. The tachometer is an instrument that is able to measure the speed of rotation of the internal combustion engine's crankshaft at a given moment. The rate of rotation of an internal combustion engine's crankshaft varies on how much power is required from the combustion process. Therefore RPM is the amount of revolutions the crankshaft in an internal combustion engine experiences in 1 minute.
The faster the engine's crankshaft rotates, the higher the RPM will be. And generally speaking, the faster the crankshaft rotates, the closer you'll get be to an engines maximum torque and horsepower output.
Technology and engine design is improving all the time. As a result, the internal combustion engines are becoming – not only more powerful – but the engine crankshafts are able to rotate/spin at higher speeds more smoothly and safely. Eight thousand rpm is a limit becoming common place for a number of engine designs to spin their crankshaft freely up to. It might just be a matter of time before passenger cars will run freely to 10 000 rpm and beyond – territory currently reserved for racing cars. We hope that helps answer the question 'What is What is an RPM?'!
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Language Teachers' Opinions on the Usage of Children's Literature Works
Erhan SEN, Turkey, ID LLCE2016-325; Teachers could be a guide to the child readers for literary pleasure, appreciation, or reading habit in language and literature teaching. Their choices on literature works, recommendations on readings, or their chosen form both the child's reading habits and their in-course activities. In this line, the aim of this study is to analyze the Turkish Language Teachers' Opinions on the Usage of Children's Literature Works.
The audio recording data was collected from the Turkish teachers via "semi-structured interviews" basing upon "the Case Study" in Qualitative Research. The sampling consists of 10 teachers (5 female, 5 male). The data analysis was done by the method of content analysis. The following reasons for choosing the sampling are: 1. those taken the children literature courses at undergraduate or graduate degree (first and second degree), 2. Those graduated from any department of the education faculty, 3. Those having at least three-year teaching experience in an educational institution (state or private).
Keywords: Turkish language teaching, the teachers' opinions, children literature, case study, interview.


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Troubleshoot Azure Files
This article lists common issues related to Azure Files. It also provides possible causes and resolutions for these problems.
If you can't find an answer to your question, you can contact us through the following channels (in escalating order):
- Microsoft Q&A question page for Azure Files.
- Azure Community Feedback.
- Microsoft Support. To create a new support request, sign into the Azure portal, and on the Help tab, select the Help + support button, and then select New support request.
|File share type||SMB||NFS|
|Standard file shares (GPv2), LRS/ZRS|
|Standard file shares (GPv2), GRS/GZRS|
|Premium file shares (FileStorage), LRS/ZRS|
General troubleshooting first steps
If you encounter problems with Azure Files, start with these steps. You can also use the Azure file shares troubleshooter, which can help with problems connecting, mapping, and mounting Azure file shares.
Check DNS resolution and connectivity to your Azure file share
The most common problem encountered by Azure Files customers is that mounting or accessing the Azure file share fails because of an incorrect networking configuration. This can happen with any of the three file sharing protocols that Azure Files supports: SMB, NFS, and FileREST.
The following table provides the SMB, NFS, and FileREST requirements for which of the network endpoints of a storage account they can use, and which port that endpoint can be accessed over. To learn more about network endpoints, see Azure Files networking considerations.
|Protocol name||Unrestricted public endpoint||Restricted public endpoint||Private endpoint||Required port|
To mount or access a file share successfully, your client must:
Be able to resolve the fully qualified domain name of the storage account (ex.
mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net) to the correct IP address for the desired network endpoint of the storage account.
Establish a successful TCP connection to the correctly resolved IP address on the correct port for the desired protocol.
You must use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for your storage account when mounting/accessing the share. The following commands will let you see the current IP addresses of the network endpoints of your storage account, but you should not hardcode these IP addresses into any scripts, firewall configurations, or other locations. IP addresses aren't guaranteed to remain the same, and may change at any time.
Check DNS name resolution
The following command lets you test the DNS name resolution of your storage account.
# If you have changed the DNS configuration in your environment, it may be helpful to clear # the DNS client cache to ensure you're getting the updated DNS name resolution. Clear-DnsClientCache # Replace this value with the fully qualified domain name for your storage account. # Different storage accounts, especially in different Azure environments, # may have different suffixes than file.core.windows.net, so be sure to use the correct # suffix for your storage account. $hostName = "mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net" # Do the name resolution. Piping to Format-List is optional. Resolve-DnsName -Name $hostName | Format-List
The output returned by
Resolve-DnsName may be different depending on your environment and desired networking configuration. For example, if you are trying to access the public endpoint of the storage account that does not have a private endpoint configured, you would see a result that looks like the following, where
x.x.x.x is the IP address of the cluster
file.phx10prdstf01a.store.core.windows.net of the Azure storage platform that serves your storage account:
Name : mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net Type : CNAME TTL : 27 Section : Answer NameHost : file.phx10prdstf01a.store.core.windows.net Name : file.phx10prdstf01a.store.core.windows.net QueryType : A TTL : 60 Section : Answer IP4Address : x.x.x.x
If you are trying to access the public endpoint of a storage account that has one or more private endpoints configured, you would expect to see a result that looked something like the following. Note that an additional CNAME record for
mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net has been inserted in between the normal FQDN of the storage account and the name of storage cluster. This enables name resolution to the public endpoint's IP address when the user is accessing from the internet, and resolution to the private endpoint's IP address when the user is accessing from inside of an Azure virtual network (or peered network).
Name : mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net Type : CNAME TTL : 60 Section : Answer NameHost : mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net Name : mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net Type : CNAME TTL : 60 Section : Answer NameHost : file.phx10prdstf01a.store.core.windows.net Name : file.phx10prdstf01a.store.core.windows.net QueryType : A TTL : 60 Section : Answer IP4Address : x.x.x.x
If you are resolving to a private endpoint, you would normally expect an A record for
mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net that maps to your private endpoint's IP address:
Name : mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net Type : CNAME TTL : 53 Section : Answer NameHost : mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net Name : mystorageaccount.privatelink.file.core.windows.net QueryType : A TTL : 10 Section : Answer IP4Address : 10.0.0.5
Check TCP connectivity
The following command lets you test your client's ability to make a TCP connection to the resolved IP address/port number.
# Replace this value with the fully qualified domain name for your storage account. # Different storage accounts, especially in different Azure environments, # may have different suffixes than file.core.windows.net, so be sure to use the correct # suffix for your storage account. $hostName = "mystorageaccount.file.core.windows.net" # Do the TCP connection test - see the above protocol/port table to figure out which # port to use for your test. This test uses port 445, the port used by SMB. Test-NetConnection -ComputerName $hostName -Port 445
If the connection was successfully established, you should expect to see the following result:
ComputerName : mystorageAccount.file.core.windows.net RemoteAddress : x.x.x.x RemotePort : 445 InterfaceAlias : Ethernet SourceAddress : y.y.y.y TcpTestSucceeded : True
Both Windows clients and Linux clients can use
AzFileDiagnostics to ensure that the client environment has the correct prerequisites.
AzFileDiagnostics automates symptom detection and helps set up your environment to get optimal performance.
Common troubleshooting areas
For more detailed information, choose the subject area that you'd like to troubleshoot.
- Connectivity and access issues (SMB)
- Identity-based authentication and authorization issues (SMB)
- Performance issues (SMB/NFS)
- General issues on Linux (SMB)
- General issues on Linux (NFS)
- Azure File Sync issues
Some issues can be related to more than one subject area (both connectivity and performance, for example).
If you still need help, contact support to get your problem resolved quickly.
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What is a Tree Protection Zone
The Tree Protection Zone (TPZ) is the means by which we protect trees on development sites and should protect both roots and crown spread simultaneously. The TPZ should be considered as sacrosanct, that is it should be isolated from any construction disturbance unless previously agreed with the Project Arborist. The dimensions of the TPZ are determined from the Diameter of the Tree at Breast Height (DBH)
What is the Structural Root Zone
The Structural Root Zone (SRZ) is an area considered essential for tree stability: loss of roots in this area are likely to cause the tree to become unstable in the ground. The SRZ should only be calculated if major disturbance of the TPZ is being considered. The dimensions of the SRZ are determined from the Diameter of the Tree taken above the root flare.


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Yuck! Why Does My Front Load Washer Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
That rotten egg odor is unmistakable when we smell it; it's a scent we recognize no matter where we are. However, it can be a surprise when you have a front load washer smell like rotten eggs. This can be caused by mold and low washing temperatures.
Front Load Washer Smell Like Rotten Eggs? Here's How to Clear the Air.
Is it your clothes? The water? When you have a front load washer smell like rotten eggs it typically stems from bacteria. When comparing a front load vs. top load washer, front-loaders are more prone to moldy build up because the rubber gasket around the door is a favorite bacterial haven.
When your washer smells like eggs we'll show you how to banish the smell with proper cleaning!
Why Your Front Load Washer Smells Like Rotten Eggs
Bacteria grow best in warm, moist environments, making front-loading washers prime bacterial real estate. When bacteria metabolize they create hydrogen sulfide gas, which is the source of the rotten egg smell in a front-loading washer. Here's why a washer can be a bacterial breeding ground:
- Drain/venting problem: the drain from your washing machine may have a venting problem that should be assessed by a professional.
- Low washing temperatures: Habitually washing clothes at a low temperature creates the perfect warm environment for bacterial growth.
- Wrong detergent: using a non-HE detergent in a front-loading machine creates a soap sud buildup that hosts bacteria.
- Keeping the door on your washer closed: leaving the washer door closed preserves the warm, moist environment bacteria need to multiply.
How to Get Rid of Rotten Egg Odor in Front Load Washer
When your washing machine smells bad a proper cleaning and regular monthly cleanings should remove the odor once and for all. We suggest these cleaning tips when you have a front load washer smell like rotten eggs:
- Clean the door gasket of the washer with a cloth dipped in a 1:1 solution of water and vinegar or a 1:10 solution of bleach and water.
- Fill the bleach dispenser of your washer with bleach and run an empty cleaning cycle.
- Bleach alternative: Pour a washing machine cleaner or a ½ cup of baking soda mixed with 2 cups of distilled white vinegar in the tub of the washer and run an empty cleaning cycle.
- Leave the door open overnight and continue to leave the door open when the machine is not in use.
A front load washer smell like rotten eggs can be a thing of the past now that you know the causes and how to prevent them. And if you have a present need for a new washing machine, call Northeast Appliance for the best prices and service!


Development of a high-resolution cavity-beam position monitor
Yoichi Inoue, Hitoshi Hayano, Yosuke Honda, Toshikazu Takatomi, Toshiaki Tauchi, Junji Urakawa, Sachio Komamiya, Tomoya Nakamura, Tomoyuki Sanuki, Eun San Kim, Seung Hwan Shin, Vladimir Vogel
研究成果: Article査読
45 被引用数 (Scopus)
We have developed a high-resolution cavity-beam position monitor (BPM) to be used at the focal point of the ATF2, which is a test beam line that is now being built to demonstrate stable orbit control at ∼nanometer resolution. The design of the cavity structure was optimized for the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) beam in various ways. For example, the cavity has a rectangular shape in order to isolate two dipole modes in orthogonal directions, and a relatively thin gap that is less sensitive to trajectory inclination. A two stage homodyne mixer with highly sensitive electronics and phase-sensitive detection was also developed. Two BPM blocks, each containing two cavity BPMs, were installed in the existing ATF beam line using a rigid support frame. After testing the basic characteristics, we measured the resolution using three BPMs. The system demonstrated 8.7 nm position resolution over a dynamic range of 5μm.
ジャーナルPhysical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
出版ステータスPublished - 2008 6 16
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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National Reconciliation Week 2003
Journey of Healing 2003: Healing the past, shaping the future
National Sorry Day - May 26
National Reconciliation Week /
Week of Prayer for Reconciliation
May 27 to June 3
National Sorry Day is an important part of the Journey of Healing for both indigenous and non-indigenous people and commemorates the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families. In 1997 the Bringing Them Home report revealed the immense harm done.
Week of Prayer for Reconciliation is linked with National Reconciliation Week and always occurs between May 27 and June 3. These dates are significant. May 27 marks the anniversary of the 1967 referendum in which 92% of Australians voted to include Aboriginal people in the reckoning of the census. June 3 marks the anniversary of the High Court's judgement in the Mabo case in 1992, which recognised Native Title rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to their lands.
For Prayer and Reflection
Poster available on National Council of Churches website: _URL_
Meaning of the Poster:
Whiteman came to this country in their ships, with their guns.
The Blackman had no answers.
They were poisoned, shot, hung and put in chains as punishment.
Then along came religion, Christianity.
The Bible was read at campsites by whitemen and later black and white.
Now we walk side by side burning bridges of the past.
The chains of the past are broken,
and black and white walk on equal ground through this rugged, wide land – their spirit finally freed through Christianity.
Prayer for the Journey of Healing
Almighty and loving God,
You who created all people in your image,
Lead us to seek your compassion as we listen to the stories of our past.
You gave your only Son, Jesus,
who died and rose again so that sins will be forgiven.
We place before you the pain and anguish of dispossession
of land, language, lore, culture and family kinship
that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have experienced.
We live in faith
that all people will rise from the depths of despair and hopelessness.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
have endured the pain and loss of loved ones,
through the separation of children from their families.
We are sorry and ask God's forgiveness.
Touch the hearts of the broken, homeless and inflicted and heal their spirits.
In your mercy and compassion
walk with us as we continue our journey of healing
to create a future that is just and equitable.
Lord, you are our hope. Amen.
© Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission
National Council of Churches in Australia. 2003.
Prayer for Reconciliation (ACSJC Prayer Card)
In the midst of conflict and division,
We know it is you who turns our minds to thoughts of peace.
Your Spirit changes our hearts:
Enemies begin to speak to one another,
Those who were estranged join hands in friendship,
And nations seek the way of peace together.
Let your Spirit be at work in us.
Give us understanding and put an end to strife,
Fill us with mercy and overcome our denial,
Grant us wisdom and teach us to learn
From the people of the land,
Call us to justice. Amen.
The impetus and enthusiasm of the movement for Aboriginal reconciliation, at both grass roots and national levels, have diminished since the halcyon days of Corroboree 2000 in this city. That is perhaps scarcely surprising in an environment where, as a nation, we seem to be losing our way. Standards seem increasingly to be determined by opinion polls rather than principle. Pejorative labeling and calculated demonization even of genuine refugees, including children, seem to enjoy a disturbing degree of public acceptance.
The basis of the national movement for reconciliation must lie in principle; in the basic honesty to acknowledge the fact that the oppression and injustice to which indigenous Australians were subjected in their land under our Federation were not merely the acts of individuals who are long since dead. They were the acts of the nation itself of which all living Australians are a part. And in the basic justice of acceptance of the fact that past oppression and injustice remain part of the very fabric of our country. They reach from the past to blight the present and to demand national apology, redress of disadvantage, and reconciliation.
Sir William Deane
Address on Conferral of Degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) University of Technology,
Sydney 29 April 2003
Address by Pope John Paul II to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Alice Springs, 29 November 1986
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council: _URL_
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission: _URL_
Aboriginal Catholic Ministry: _URL_


Symmetry Breaking in Graphs
Michael O. Albertson, Karen L. Collins
A labeling of the vertices of a graph G, $\phi :V(G) \rightarrow \{1,\ldots,r\}$, is said to be $r$-distinguishing provided no automorphism of the graph preserves all of the vertex labels. The distinguishing number of a graph G, denoted by $D(G)$, is the minimum $r$ such that $G$ has an $r$-distinguishing labeling. The distinguishing number of the complete graph on $t$ vertices is $t$. In contrast, we prove (i) given any group $\Gamma$, there is a graph $G$ such that $Aut(G) \cong \Gamma$ and $D(G)= 2$; (ii) $D(G) = O(log(|Aut(G)|))$; (iii) if $Aut(G)$ is abelian, then $D(G) \leq 2$; (iv) if $Aut(G)$ is dihedral, then $D(G) \leq 3$; and (v) If $Aut(G) \cong S_4$, then either $D(G) = 2$ or $D(G) = 4$. Mathematics Subject Classification 05C,20B,20F,68R
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Tests Suggest 10,000-Year-Old Brit Had Dark Skin, Blue Eyes
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Genetic material from a 10,000-year-old skeleton suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes.
Scientists from Britain's Natural History Museum and University College London reported the finding Wednesday after studying the remains of an individual known as "Cheddar Man."
The skeleton was discovered over a century ago. It was found inside a large hole in the Cheddar Gorge area of southwest England.
The researchers cut a hole into the skull of the human remains and removed DNA from bone powder.
The letters DNA are short for the term deoxyribonucleic acid. Scientists call it the chemical of life.
DNA is made up of genes. Genes, like letters in words, carry a huge amount of information. They tell cells how to make all the materials for life.
The British scientists say their tests showed Cheddar Man had dark, wavy hair, blue eyes and "dark to black" skin color.
The researchers say the evidence suggests that Europeans' light skin coloring developed much later than experts had thought.
Cheddar Man overturns people's expectations of what kinds of genetic qualities go together, said Tom Booth, who worked on the project.
"It seems that pale eyes entered Europe long before pale skin or blond hair, which didn't come along until after the arrival of farming," he added.
Some experts believe that ancient humans who lived in extreme northern areas may have developed light colored skin. They note light skin is able to take in more sunlight than darker skin. Sunlight is required for the body to produce vitamin D.
Cheddar Man shares genetic similarities with other human remains found in Spain, Hungary and Luxembourg. All those individuals lived in the Mesolithic Period, also known as the Middle Stone Age Period. The group, known as Western Hunter-Gatherers, moved to Europe from the Middle East after the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
The Associated Press says Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton found in Britain. Human beings had lived on the island off and on for thousands of years before his time, but they disappeared during periodic ice ages.
Cheddar Man would have been one of a very small population of hunter-gatherers in Britain at the time. Scientists, who have been studying his skeleton, say he appears to have had a healthy diet but died in his 20s, possibly through violence.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Jill Lawless reported this story for the Associated Press (AP). George Grow adapted her report for VOA Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.
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powdern. a very fine, dry substance
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Agency Profile: Childcare Resources
Children are one of our greatest natural resources, and it is imperative that they receive quality care from trained and supported staff to help them reach their full potential. Childcare Resources makes this possible by providing information, education, and assistance to families, providers of child care, and the community.
Central Alabama's only child care resource and referral agency, Childcare Resources was created as the outgrowth of a child care task force convened by United Way of Central Alabama in 1984 to address critical child care needs identified in Jefferson, Shelby, and Walker Counties, with Blount County added to the service area in 1988.
- Financial assistance for low-to-moderate income working families
- Quality training and technical assistance for child care providers, including a free early learning resource library and mobile resource library van
- Research-based parent education resources
- Assistance to hundreds of families in our community seeking quality child care options for their young children through free resource and referral services


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The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a living history museum located in beautiful Ridley Creek State Park. The museum strives to represent and recreate the every day lives of the regular citizens who lived in Southeastern Pennsylvania from 1760 to 1790. The 112 acre farm is dubbed a plantation according to land descriptions of the time. Holdings under 100 acres were described as farms, those over 100 acres as plantations, and those over 1000 acres as manors.
Costumed interpreters, livestock, and restored and reconstructed buildings all serve to take you back in time and help you to experience how most people in this area lived during the end of the colonial period.
During your self-guided tour you are invited to talk to our interpreters and you may even be able to join in the work. Everyone will find something they enjoy at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation where the past is your present.


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Decrement by 1, return previous
Atomically decrements by one the current value and returns the previous value of the counter. It is possible that multiple concurrent client requests may receive the same previous value. This occurs since only the decrementing part of the logic is atomic, the retrieval of the value before it is decremented is not.
Future Backendless.counters.getAndDecrement(String counterName);
IAtomic counter = Backendless.counters.of(String counterName);
Future counter.getAndDecrement();
Argument Description
counterName name of the counter to decrement.
Function callback = (counterValue) => print("previous counter value is - $counterValue");
Backendless.counters.getAndDecrement("my counter").then(callback);
IAtomic myCounter = Backendless.counters.of("my counter");


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Do you ever wonder, looking at the food in your plate, where it has come from and who produced it?
Surely you have thought about what explains its price on the shelf! Kenyans love sugar, which they use liberally in their tea: on average each Kenyan consumes 400 grams of sugar per week, much more than their Tanzanian neighbors who consume approximately 230 grams. In Africa, only the residents of Swaziland and South Africa have a sweeter tooth.
Globally, 70 percent of the sugar that is produced is consumed in the same country and only 30 percent is exported. In principle this is good for customers in sugar-producing countries, as long as the supply is sufficient to keep prices low. In Kenya, this is not the case: there are occasional sugar shortages and, when they can be anticipated, prices rise to extraordinary levels.


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What's a Boilermaker, and What Does It Have to Do With Purdue?
Have you even been watching a University of Purdue football or basketball game and found yourself wondering what their nickname, the Boilermakers, means?
According to legend, the nickname dates back to the late-19th century when the school perennially routed nearby Wabash College at football, and Wabash supporters wound up hurling derogatory names at their competition. The town began calling the Purdue team things like "a great big burly gang of corn-huskers," "rail-splitters," "foundry molders" and "log-haulers."
It wasn't just fueled by those with sour grapes, either. In 1891 a Daily Argus article about the latest blowout proclaimed, "Wabash Snowed Completely Under by the Burly Boiler Makers from Purdue."
The Purdue community embraced the moniker. What's funny is that the term made a great deal of sense for the Indiana residents who would build railroad shops in the local area in the years that followed. Guess sometimes a small-town newspaper can really be ahead of the game.


Why You Shouldn't Get Your Pet High
Cannabis may be harmless to people, but that doesn't mean you should get your pet high.
Why You Shouldn't Get Your Pet High
There comes a time when you're sitting around, enjoying your own stoned thoughts and your pet walks into the room. You wonder: Would they enjoy this as much as I do? In short, don't share the herb, especially if that means blowing smoke in your pet's face. Here's why you shouldn't get your pet high.
A doggie high is different than a human high
Getting your pet high can be dangerous. According to experts, weed can lower a dog's blood pressure and heart rate, and cause them enormous stress.
It's unlikely that your pet will be seriously hurt, or die, from marijuana, but the smaller the animal, the greater the risk. The number one reason why you shouldn't get your pet high is how unsafe marijuana can be for animals.
Like humans, dogs, cats and all mammals experience 'highs' from marijuana due to the cannabinoid receptors found in the brain. In fact, dogs have more of these receptors, so they get more high than humans do.
Animals' size also plays a role in how an animal experiences marijuana. What might contribute to a subtle high for you could get your pet high for over a day. In doggie years, a day is a long time.
If your pet gets high, accidentally or not, take it to the vet as soon as possible. They could need medication, administered orally or intravenously, to counter the effects of marijuana.
If you're worried about the consequences of giving your pet weed, know that you won't get in trouble at the vet. What is most important for the veterinarian and for you is getting your pet the right medical attention, and being honest about what happened.
They don't understand what it means to be 'stoned'.
Why You Shouldn't Get Your Pet High
Unlike humans who understand, and enjoy, everything from the mellowest of mellows to full-blown couch-lock, animals, no matter how smart, have no idea what's going on.
The stress animals feel when they're high can exacerbate the symptoms listed above. Even if your pet enjoyed the feeling of being stoned, which is unlikely, it didn't consent to this experience.
Getting anyone or anything high against its will is unethical. And it's totally not what cannabis culture is about.
Other ingredients in edibles can get your pet sick.
The most common form of edible is the pot brownie. Unluckily for dogs, who often consume edibles accidentally, pot brownies contain two ingredients that are unsafe for dogs: weed and chocolate.
As most pet owners know, chocolate is poisonous to dogs. It is for cats, too, though they are less unlikely to eat it unless encouraged. At best, chocolate will make your dog throw up on their own.
When dogs eat a lot of chocolate, they can experience seizures, diarrhea and extreme anxiety. For cats, chocolate is even more dangerous and can result in death.
With the combined effects of psychoactive marijuana and chocolate, edibles pose a huge risk to pets. If your pet eats an edible, take them to the vet as soon as possible.
You can also check out these at-home tips on what to do if your dog eats a chocolate edible.
Are CBD products dangerous for animals?
Why You Shouldn't Get Your Pet High
There is huge momentum in the medical community to use CBD as a treatment for a variety of illnesses. Whether you're looking to stop PMS, or for an alternative treatment to a serious condition like epilepsy, CBD could be the answer.
Understanding the medical and medicinal, many pet-owners are wondering what CBD can do for their pets. As many know, CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana, meaning that unlike THC, CBD won't get you or your pet high.
While both compounds have enormous health benefits, CBD is less ethnically problematic when considering cannabis for pet care.
It's important to remember that very little research has been conducted on the effects of cannabis, CBD-specific or otherwise, on animals.
What we do know is that CBD may function as an alleviate to many of the conditions affecting humans and animals alike.
Some sources believe that CBD products can help their pets with seizures, nausea, pain management, and arthritis.
Final Hit: Why You Shouldn't Get your Pet High
Weed is extremely potent for animals because of their size and the subtle difference between their endocannabinoid systems and ours. Not only can weed really harm your pet, it can also cause psychological stress.
There are a lot of health and ethical reasons why you shouldn't get your pets high with psychoactive THC.
When it comes to CBD, we'd suggest using your own discretion. There is a lot we don't know about this miracle cannabinoid when it comes to health, especially animal health. But if it seems to provide a holistic remedy to your animal's health issues, we're all for it.
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Res publica christiana is a Latin phrase combining the idea of res publica and christiana to describe the worldwide community of Christianity and its well-being. A single English word with somewhat comparable meaning is "Christendom".
This phrase is notably found in the encyclical Christianae Republicae Salus, a Roman Catholic Church document which condemns Voltairian and masonic indifferentism in matters of religion.
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Corin R. Anderson, David E. Smith, and Daniel S. Weld
Graphplan has attracted considerable interest because of its extremely high performance, but the algorithm's inability to handle action representations more expressive than STRIPS is a major limitation. In particular, extending Graphplan to handle conditional effects is a surprisingly subtle enterprise. In this paper, we describe the space of possible alternatives, and then concentrate on one particular approach we call factored expansion. Factored expansion splits an action with conditional effects into several new actions called components, one for each conditional effect. Because these action components are not independent, factored expansion complicates both the mutual exclusion and backward chaining phases of Graphplan. As compensation, factored expansion often produces dramatically smaller domain models than does the more obvious full-expansion into exclusive STRIPS actions. We present experimental results showing that factored expansion dominates full expansion on large problems.


Third Army Traffic Map. June 1918.
The logistical complexity behind the front line is visualised in this Third Army road traffic map of 1918.
Bold lines highlight the main roads for the use of motor vehicles and animals, whilst dotted lines denote single track roads, arrows giving the direction of travel. Exceptions are provided for officers and messengers, and animals are prohibited from being exercised on any roads.
Supply lines had failed during the Somme offensive of 1916, and a civilian, Sir Eric Geddes, was drafted in to improve British Expeditionary Force transport arrangements. By 1918 an efficient system of moving supplies, men and ammunition as quickly as possible to the front, and casualties and information away from it, had developed.
At the time of this map, the German Spring Offensive struck at the front in the bottom right corner of the map. In such circumstances the speed of logistics could be the difference between success and failure.
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Change of Time and Change of Measure provides a comprehensive account of two topics that are of particular significance in both theoretical and applied stochastics: random change of time and change of probability law. Random change of time is key to understanding the nature of various stochastic processes, and gives rise to interesting mathematical results and insights of importance for the modeling and interpretation of empirically observed dynamic processes. Change of probability law is a technique for solving central questions in mathematical finance, and also has a considerable role in insurance mathematics, large deviation theory, and other fields. The book comprehensively collects and integrates results from a number of scattered sources in the literature and discusses the importance of the results relative to the existing literature, particularly with regard to mathematical finance. In this Second Edition a Chapter 13 entitled 'A Wider View' has been added. This outlines some of the developments that have taken place in the area of Change of Time and Change of Measure since the publication of the First Edition. Most of these developments have their root in the study of the Statistical Theory of Turbulence rather than in Financial Mathematics and Econometrics, and they form part of the new research area termed 'Ambit Stochastics'.


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Authors: M.I. Kilani, P.G. Galambos, Y. Haik and C.J. Chen
Affilation: Florida State University, United States
Pages: 210 - 213
Keywords: pump, spiral
This paper introduces a new viscous micropump produced using surface micromachining technology. The pump consists of a disk with a spiral protrusion that rotates at a close proximity over a stationary plate. Fluid contained in the spiral channel created by this geometry is subject to a net tangential viscous stress and a positive pressure gradient is established in the direction of flow. The paper describes the design and fluid modeling of the micro spiral pump.


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Applications that you use to stitch photographs together to
form panoramic images are called stitching software
. PTGui is stitching software.
Panoramic images are assembled of multiple images. Because the images are perspective corrected,
a seamless stitch can be made and the panorama will look like an image taken with an
artificial super wide angle lens.
Several types of stitching software exist: automatic stitchers and control point based stitchers.
Not all stitching software can do multi row panoramas. A multi row panorama is a panorama
consisting of images not only aligned next to each other, but also on top of each other.
If enough images are stitched together, a spherical panorama can be formed. This is a panorama
where you can see the full environment of the camera.
With PTGui you can create spherical panoramas, single row panoramas and multi row panoramic images.
It can handle every imaginable lens type, can output to many formats and projections,
including 360-degree spherical and rectilinear ('flat') formats.
Features of PTGui:
- Create spherical, cylindrical or flat panoramas from any number of source images
- Supports jpeg, tiff, png and bmp source images
- WYSIWYG Panorama editor for interactive editing and realtime preview
- Stitching software
- Supports many panoramic projections
- Create templates with frequently used settings
- Includes spherical panorama viewer and web publishing tool
PTGui originally started as a G
nterface for Panorama Tools (hence the name). Over the years it has evolved into the most versatile stitching software. It easily gives you high quality stitched panoramas from overlapping images or photographs.
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What is a Spindle Tree?
The Spindle Tree in the story is very old, growing in the old cemetery encircling the Wilson Mausoleum. In fact, the Spindle Tree whose Latin name is Euonymous Europeum is native to Europe and is found also in England, Wales and Ireland. It can grow very high as it gets older and is very inconspicuous in the hedgerow. It has small tiny green flowers in May, but it comes into its own in the Autumn when its leaves turn a bright red and its beautiful coral pink berries open up to reveal a bright yellow hard seed within. It is native to Ireland and it grows in mainly chalky or lime-laden soil. Its seeds are poisonous and can cause kidney or liver failure if ingested.
It was known in folk medicine as the louse berry as the seeds were dried, crushed into a powder and used to prevent lice, fleas, and ticks on farm animals as well as dogs and cats. It's long hard sticks were shaped and used as knitting needles, as skewers for meat by butchers and as seen from its more common name, it was used to make spindles for spindle trees. In more recent times it has become popular in gardens, because of its rich Autumn displays of colour. When it was introduced to North America, it has become an invasive species in some areas.


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Description of the Friesian Horse population of South Africa and Namibia
AbstractData obtained from the Friesian Horse Studbook of Southern Africa and Friesian Horse Breeders\' Society of South Africa were analyzed to describe and evaluate the population regarding inbreeding and morphological body measurements. Eight different body measurements (height at withers, height of back, height of croup, body length, length of cannon forelimb and hind limb, circumference of cannon bone foreand hind limb) recorded on 232 horses were included for analyses. The pedigrees of 696 horses were used for estimation of inbreeding coefficients. A total of 25% of the horses included in the data was inbred, with inbreeding coefficients ranging from 0.07% to 27.8%. A positive trend in the average inbreeding per year was observed, but the rate of inbreeding was relatively low. Recording of pedigree information will be essential for long-term evaluation of inbreeding in the Friesian Horse and the recording of objective body measurements is recommended for inclusion in selection programs.
Key Words: Body measurements, Linear scoring, Heritability, Inbreeding
South African Journal of Animal Science Vol.34(3) 2004: 149-157


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Bowl flower (Cypripedium japonicum)
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Species: Cypripedium japonicum
Common Name: Bowl flower
Status: CITES Appendix II
Range: China, Japan, and Korea
Artist: Jee-Yeon Koo
Artist Home Country: Korea
The Korean government has designated some
protected habitats for this slipper orchid, as
there are only 200 individuals remaining in
the wild in that country. Described in 1784,
it is also found in China and Japan.
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The relationship between stem-form, stand-closure and site -conditions : the influence of environmental conditions on tree allometry and forest structure in west-central Alberta
Jaques, Kathleen E.
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Changes in the configuration of a tree stern result insignificant differences in its total volume and in the proportion of that volume that is merchantable timber. Tree allometry, as represented by stem-fo~, is the result of the vertical force of gravity and the horizontal force of wind. The effect of wind force is demonstrated in the relationship between stem-form, standclosure and site-conditions. An increase in wind force on the individual tree due to a decrease in stand density should produce a more tapered tree. The density of the stand is determined by the conditions that the trees are growing under. The ability of the tree to respond to increased wind force may also be a function of these conditions. This stem-form/stand-closure/site-conditions relationship was examined using a pre-existing database from westcentral Alberta. This database consisted of environmental, vegetation, soils and timber data covering a wide range of sites. There were 653 sample trees with 82 variables that formed the basis of the analysis. There were eight tree species consisting of Pinus contorta, Picea mariana, Picea engelmannii x glauca, Abies lasiocarpa, Larix laricina, Populus tremuloides, Betula papyrifera and Populus balsamifera plus a comprehensive all-species data set. As the actual conformation of the stern is very individual, stem-fo~was represented by the diameter at breast height to total height r~tio. The four stand-closure variables, crown closure, total basal area, total volume and total number of stems were reduced to total basal area and total number of stems utilizing a bivariate correlation matrix by species. Site-conditions were subdivided into macro, meso and micro variables and reduced in number 3 using cross-tabulations, bivariate correlation and principal components analysis as screening tools. The stem-fo~/stand-closure relationship was examined using bivariate correlation coefficients for stem-fo~ with total number of stems and stem-fo~ with total basal area. The stem-fo~/site-conditions and the stand-closure/siteconditions relationships were examined using multiple correlation coefficients. The stem-form/stand-closure/site-conditions relationship was examined using multiple correlation coefficients in separate analyses for both total number of stems and total basal area. An increase in stand-closure produced a decrease in stem-form for both total number of stems and total basal area for most species. There was a significant relationship between stem-form and site-conditions and between stand-closure and site-conditions for both total number of stems and total basal area for most species. There was a significant relationship between the stemform and site-conditions, including the stand-closure, for most species; total number of stems was involved independently of the site-conditions in the prediction of stem-form and total basal area was not. Larix laricina and Betula papyrifera were the exceptions to the trends observed with most species. The influence of both stand-closure (total number of stems in particular) and site-conditions (elevation in particular) suggest that forest management practices should include theseecological parameters in determining appropriate restocking levels.


What do various terms mean on Snapchat
What do various terms mean on Snapchat
Snapchat has developed its own language of sorts. It has friend emojis, chat notification, not to mention user lingo! If you too feel overwhelmed with this trove of information, we got your covered. In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about Snapchat jargon (terms, emojis, icons, etc.) to set you on your way to ace the app.
Friend emojis
Snapchat assigns different emojis depending on your interaction with specific users. These emojis appear next to the contacts name. A recent update now lets you customize these emojis to your heart's content! However, in this article, we will explain what the default friend emojis mean.
Snapstreak?
If you see a flame emoji appear next to a user's name, this means that you have started a 'Snapstreak' with the user. A similar emoji will appear next to your name in the user's contacts. To begin a Snapstreak with a user, both you and the other person must snap each other for three days consecutively.
Snapstreaks do not count messages; so it has to be snaps. The number that appears next to the flame emoji corresponds to the number of days you and your friend have consecutively sent snaps to each other.
Note: If you miss a single day, the Snapstreak will reset to zero.
Related: How to never lose your Streak in Snapchat with these tips (Snapstreaks)
Hourglass ⌛
The hourglass emoji appears if your Snapstreak is about to expire. A Snapstreak will expire if two users do not send each other a snap within 24 hours. If you see this emoji next to your friend's name, quickly send them a snap. When the snap is delivered, the hourglass emoji will disappear.
Mutual BF's?
Characterized by the emoji with sunglasses, this appears next to a user's name if both you and the user, have a best friend in common. The emoji will also appear next to your name on the user's account.
Mutual Besties?
This awkward emoji perfectly represents the situation you are in. Mutual Besties indicates that both you and the other user have the best #1 best friend. This means that both you and the user have been sending snaps to the same person.
BFs?
This smiling emoji indicates that the user is one of your best friends. Snapchat uses a simple algorithm to determine who you communicate with the most (only snaps). 'BFs' doesn't mean that the person is your #1 best friend, but they are sure someone who you communicate with a lot.
The emoji does not necessarily appear next to your name on the other user's account.
Besties?
This yellow heart emoji is a nice thing to notice next to one of your contacts names. It means that both you and the user are each other's #1 best friends. You send the most snaps to this user, and vice versa.
This emoji appears beside your name on your friend's account too.
BFF ❤
If you have continued to send each other snaps for two weeks in a row, your yellow heart emoji will be upped to a red heart. This indicates that you have been each other's #1 Best friend for two weeks.
This emoji appears beside your name on your friend's account too.
Super BFF?
This is the highest honor of Snapchat friends. 'Super BFF' appears when you have been each other #1 best friend for 2 months straight! You deserve the double hearts because that takes dedication.
This emoji will appear beside your name on your friend's account too.
Snapchat Lingo and Terms
If you're having a hard time keeping track of all the new Snapchat lingo, this guide is for you. The acronyms are not limited to use on Snapchat only, and pop up quite frequently on other platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc.
Women Crush Wednesday: This acronym is generally used as a hashtag accompanying an image of a woman that the user admires. It could be a friend, a celebrity, a sportswoman, etc. As the name suggests, WCW is usually used on a Wednesday.
Shoutout For Shoutout: Originating on Snapchat itself, SFS is used to tell another user that you would like to be mentioned in their snap, as well as mention them back in your own snap. This is usually used for promotions so that you can increase your visibility.
Screen Shot: This common acronym is now freely used on most platforms. However, because of Snapchats distinguished feature of disappearing snaps, SS is used to request a screenshot of a picture that you cannot view.
Snap Back: A snap back is when a user replies to your snap with another snap. The interaction by snaps is called a snap back. SB can also be used to request another user to send you a snap (especially if you believe your Snapstreak is about to break).
Whatever: Used quite freely while texting, 'wtv' is an abbreviation indicating that the user does not care about the matter. For example, 'Do you want to go to the park?' 'Yeah, wtv'.
Black Lives Matter: A strong and powerful hashtag currently trending on most social outlets, BLM shows support for people of color and takes a stand against unjust offenses against the same.
If you know, you know: This abbreviation is used to stir up mystery as well as remind others who were with you. It basically means if you were there with me, you know what I'm talking about. It can also be used to check if people are on the same page as you.
Favorite, Thumbs up, Comment: While generally used on video streaming sites like YouTube, FTC has come to mean 'subscribe'. When used out of context, it can mean, 'stay tuned for more such content.'
Don't wait up: DWU is used to tell another person not to worry about you. It can also be used more literally to tell a person not to wait up for you to return, as it could be late.
I don't mind: This one is quite straight forward. It is used to indicate that the person is ok with whatever the other person is conveying.
I don't even know: This acronym is used to express confusion on the user's part. For example, 'Do you think we'll be going camping with this weather?' 'Honestly, idek!'
Better be going: If you have trouble ending a conversation, BBG can come to your rescue. You can use BBG when you want to politely let the other person know that you are ending the conversation.
Nevermind: Quite self-explanatory, this one. It can also be used to express disappointment. For example, 'I thought the Mayor was going to turn the town around….#nvm'.
Rate/Date/Hate: RDH is used to get an honest opinion of a third party. Usually accompanied by a picture of the person in question, RDH is used to understand what other people think of that person. For example, 'Sending you a pic. What do you think? RDH?'
F*ck with: This acronym has gained a lot of popularity recently. While it sounds aggressive, most of the time, it is used to indicate a close liking for something. For example, 'Deadmaus is dope. I'd FW that for sure.'
F*ck you talking bout: This is used to indicate disdain or sometimes surprise about what another person is saying. It is a shortened form of the sentence 'what the f*ck are you talking about!' If used more literally, it can also indicate that you actually do not know what the other person is talking about. For example, 'What smoke? I just got home, fytb?'
Laughing my a*s off: This old-but-gold acronym is still used today to express laughing at a humorous situation. You may have encountered the same acronym being used with repeating letters (lmaaao/lmaooo). All of these mean the same thing.
Just saying: Js is generally used to soften a harsh sentence. It is added at the end of a sentence to portray that the user is just being honest. For example, 'I don't think that color suits you, js.'
Tough sh*t: This acronym can be used to show pity or understanding of another person's problems. It can be compared to the term 'that sucks!'
I miss you: Imy can be used both, in sentences, as well as with a hashtag. It expresses that the user misses the person that they are texting. When used as a hashtag accompanying a picture, it may refer to the person in the picture.
Group Chat: GC just means group chat. It refers to a chat with more than two people in it. It can be referring to different platforms like WhatsApp, texting, etc.
Snapchat Notifications
Snapchat has its own indicators to let a user know what's going on in their account. Use this guide below to better understand what different indicators mean.
Grey arrow / pending
The grey arrow appears when you send a snap to a person, and it hasn't gone through yet. If you have a fast internet connection, you may not even see the grey arrow, as the snap will be sent immediately. However, if you have slower/bad internet, the grey arrow will remain, until the snap has successfully gone through.
It could also mean that the person you are sending the snap to has not added you as a friend yet, or has unfriended you.
Red square / full arrow / empty arrow
The red arrow appears when you have sent a snap (picture/video) without


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Noun(1) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
Verb(1) twist or braid together, interlace(2) redden as if with a red ocher color
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What Is The Jain Culture?
What is the influence of Jain culture.
The Indus valley civilisation of Mohenjodaro and Harappa highlights the relic of Jain culture. Certainly, we cannot refute that there has been a fine deal of communal effects on both the currents of Indian culture. Actually, Indian culture is an amalgamated culture. The two chief currents in the stream of Indian culture are Brahmanism and Shamanism. They have significantly influenced each other, and thus, added to the amalgamated Indian culture. It is true that they have some correspondence and particular common principles, but it is evenly true that they have their own individuality, and marked distinctions.