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Definition: The PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) is a technique used in the planning and controlling of large scale projects. Simply, PERT is the statistical tool used to represent the set of activities (task), required to be performed for the completion of the project.
PERT is a planning and controlling tool for the management that provides the complete roadmap of activities involved in the completion of a project, along with the estimated time required for the completion of each task and the minimum time needed for the whole project to get completed.
PERT is used majorly for analyzing the project scheduling problems, wherein the time needed for the completion of each task and the whole project as a whole is uncertain. Thus, PERT lays emphasis on the uncertainty of completion time of the activities involved in the project. It is probabilistic in nature and hence is much used in the research and development projects.
A PERT Chart is created to represent a set of activities along with the estimated time (generally, in weeks) for its completion on a graph. It shows that for a completion of activities in the series the predecessor activities must be completed before beginning a new activity.
The activity is a task, and the event is the milestone. In the chart, the activity and task are represented by arcs and nodes as shown in the figure below:
In the graph, the milestones are numbered so that it is easily identifiable that the last node has a higher number than the beginning node. The activities are shown by the letters along with the expected time required for the completion of each activity. In this way, the management plots a graph and plan about the activities involved in a project and estimate the time needed for its completion.


Why Did I Receive a Text From 32858? (American Express or Scam)
Text messages from 32858 are very common in the U.S. In fact, you are bound to find someone online who's received a text message from 32858 without having to search that hard. At the same time, there are many speculations as to who these texts are from and who owns 32858.
That said this post seeks to provide you with definite answers regarding texts from 32858. These include answers to questions such as who owns this 32858 short SMS code, why you are receiving texts from this shortcode, and whether or not a text from 32858 means you've been hacked.
Text From 32858 American Express
Text messages from 32858 are messages from American Express. They usually alert or update their customers via messages through this code.
SMS Short Code 32858
Top on the list of questions many people have once they've received a text from 32858 is who this SMS short code belongs to and thus the need to address this first. This short SMS code belongs to American Express, a multinational financial services corporation based in the U.S.
It usually uses this SMS code to get in touch with its customers to update them on a number of their services or for them to confirm certain activities online that affect their account like let's say a password change.
Text From 32858
Text messages from 32858 or American Express can say many things given the fact that they (American Express) do send such texts to its customers for several reasons.
For example, if you requested a password change for your Personal Savings account online they'll send you a one-time code on your phone via 32858 so as for you to confirm the action.
You are also bound to receive a text from them through this short SMS code 32858 if a withdrawal is made from your account given you've activated this feature.
How Do I Find Out Who Owns This 32858 Short Code?
For this particular code, there are two ways you can go about finding out who owns it. The first one is simply doing an online search on Google. Doing so will see you receive a bunch of results one of which will be American Express. You'll find a link to American Express's website indicating how and when they actually use this 32858 SMS code.
You can as well find out who owns this 32858 code by getting in touch with your network provider. Given the nature of the text, they should be able to share with you details of who is sending you text messages using this code, and in this case, who is sending you messages using it is American Express.
Hackers or Not
The answer to this question is not as direct as some of you might want it to be. There are instances where if you receive a text from 32858 then chances are it's a possible hack. At the same time, there are instances where receiving a text from 32858 doesn't mean that there is a hack.
There is a possible hack if you receive a 6-digit code text message from 32858 with regards to changing the password and you never initiated such a request. In such instances, chances are high that someone is trying to change the password of your Personal Savings account with American Express online.
What Should I Do If I Receive A Text From 32858?
Well, it all depends on what the message says. There are some instances where you will be required to respond to text messages from 32858 while in some you don't have to do anything at all.
For instance, if you've initiated a password change, you'll need to key in the 6-digit code you received through 32858 as instructed. If you've received a text from 32858 informing you of a certain withdrawal you've made then you don't have to do anything.
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"The Green Hills Of Earth" is a short story by Creator/RobertAHeinlein first published in 1947.
!!This short story provides examples of:
* BawdySong: Rhysling's unpublished works are alluded to, occasionally by title, and described as being "unfit for publication in a family magazine".
* CommonMeter
* HeroicRROD: The poet Rhysling makes critical repairs to a nuclear core, but sustains fatal radiation poisoning. He composes [[spoiler: the eponymous song as he dies]].
* {{Hobos}}: Old blind Rhysling, the Singer of the Spaceways, is a kind of hobo. He's an unusual example, as he's built up something of a reputation as a wandering poet and is well-regarded by pretty much everyone.
* PerilousPowerSource: Rhysling loses his sight this way - he peers past the baffles of a rocket's reactor and is then blinded by Cherenkov radiation. Ouch.
* WalkingTheEarth: Rhysling. Until the accident that blinded him, he had been a spaceship engineer; after the accident, he took advantage of the informal custom that a spacer could have one free trip home, using it to wander at will all over the solar system.


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Office of Children and Youth (OCY)
Education and Training
For more information, please contact: Kristy Leach at _PHONE_ or _EMAIL_
ERASE THE STIGMA: Erase the Stigma is a statewide educational program that promotes understanding of mental health and wellness by providing basic information and education about mental illness, the warning signs and symptoms in regards to children and youth with serious emotional disturbance, and their needs and the needs of their families. Any group, school, church or organization can request these services.
A duck puppet/mascot named I.C.Hope is the signature method of providing mental health information to children and youth in concert with storytelling and other interactive exercises.
Erase the Stigma is available statewide, which provided education to over 15,000 people in FY12.
For more information, please call the Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee at _PHONE_ or visit _URL_
CHILD AND FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM: NAMI Tennessee provides several education courses for children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and their families. The Beginnings/NAMI Basics curriculum provides information about mental illness for primary caregivers of children with SED. Caregivers may be parents, extended family or foster parents. Beginnings/NAMI Basics also provides information about mental illness for youth to better understand these illnesses.
The Breaking the Silence curriculum was developed for middle and senior high school students to put a human face on mental illness and confront the myths that reinforce the stigma related to mental illness.
These programs are available statewide and in FY12 over 12,000 people were served in some capacity, including support groups, Helpline calls, or training participation.
For more information on these programs, contact NAMI Tennessee at _PHONE_ or visit _URL_
VIOLENCE AND BULLYING PREVENTION: Funding is provided to Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc., for the Violence and Bullying Prevention program which instills resiliency in children in order to prevent violent behaviors. Learning empathy skills, anger management, and other skills taught with this curriculum promotes resiliency and reduces discipline referrals due to bullying and or other violent behaviors.
This program is available to 4th-8th grade students in various Middle Tennessee counties, including but not limited to Bedford, Coffee, Dickson, Franklin, Montgomery, and Stewart. In FY12, 777 children were served.
For more information, please contact Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc., at _PHONE_ or visit _URL_

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of the ring's particles to the area of the ring. It assumes values from zero to infinity. A light beam passing normally through a ring will be attenuated by the factor e–τ.[15]
 2. ^ a b The equivalent depth ED of a ring is defined as an integral of the normal optical depth across the ring. In other words ED = ∫τdr, where r is radius.[16]
 3. ^ The longitude system is fixed as of 18 August 1989. The zero point corresponds to the zero meridian on Neptune.[5]
 4. ^ The corotation inclination resonance (CIR) of the order m between a moon on inclined orbit and a ring occurs if the pattern speed of the perturbing potential \Omega (from a moon) equals the mean motion of the ring particles n_p. In other words the following condition should be met m\Omega=n_pm=(m-1)n_s+\dot\Omega_s, where \dot\Omega_s and n_s are the nodal precession rate and mean motion of the moon, respectively.[13] CIR supports 2m stable sites along the ring.
 5. ^ The corotation eccentricity resonance (CER) of the order m between a moon on eccentric orbit and a ring occurs if the pattern speed of the perturbing potential \Omega (from a moon) equals the mean motion of the ring particles n_p. In other words the following condition should be met m\Omega=n_pm=(m-1)n_s+\dot\omega_s, where \dot\omega_s and n_s are the apsidal precession rate and mean motion of the moon, respectively.[25] CER supports m stable sites along the ring.
 6. ^ Forward-scattered light is light scattered at a small angle relative to solar light. Back-scattered light is light scattered at an angle close to 180° (backwards) relative to solar light. The scattering angle is close to 90° for side-scattered light.
 7. ^ The equivalent depth of Galle and Lassell rings is a product of their width and the normal optical depth.
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Significance and Use
This practice is primarily intended to be used for the correction of silver loss in the fire assay process. Silver assays are determined by fire assay for the purpose of metallurgical exchange between seller and buyer.
It is assumed that all who use this practice will be trained analysts capable of performing skillfully and safely. It is expected that work will be performed in a properly equipped laboratory under appropriate quality control practices such as those described in Guide E 882.
1.1 This practice covers the determination of fire assay correction for silver, utilizing proof silver, ores, concentrates, and related metallurgical materials.
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. (See Test Methods E 1335, Practices E 50, Guide E 882, and ISO Guide 35: 1989.)
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
E29 Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to Determine Conformance with Specifications
E50 Practices for Apparatus, Reagents, and Safety Considerations for Chemical Analysis of Metals, Ores, and Related Materials
E135 Terminology Relating to Analytical Chemistry for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials
E882 Guide for Accountability and Quality Control in the Chemical Analysis Laboratory
E1335 Test Methods for Determination of Gold in Bullion by Fire Assay Cupellation Analysis
ISO 10378: 1994 Copper Sulfide Concentrates-Determination of Gold and Silver Contents-Fire Assay Gravimetric and Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Method
cupellation; fire assay; silver; silver correction; Cupellation method; Cupels; Dor'e correction; Fire assay method; Gravimetric determination; Metal-bearing ores; Metallurgical materials/applications; Ores; Proof silver corrections; Silver corrections; Slag ;
ICS Number Code 73.060.01 (Metalliferrous minerals and their concentrates in general)
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Capacitor failure modes
Power cap sizing
The green boxes contain values which may be changed.
The software modifies erroneous proposed values.
The first step in sizing supercapacitor energy storage is the determination of the energy requirement,
taking into account the following corrections:
This calculation step takes into account the performances of the technology which depends from one manufacturer to the other.
Typical values are 2.5 Vdc, 5.3 Wh/kg and 8'566 W/kg.
It considers also that a part of the energy is dissipated
inside the component in the internal resistance (cf "RAGONE").
A distribution of 12 application voltages (close to Un) may be given in the first column
In the second column the corresponding application temperature must be defined
In the third column the duration of each collicitation must be defined in %.
Cell Nr in series :
Expected life duration [Hours]: 1500
Component chosen: CAP350F
Correction for the thermal dissipation
Choose the Charge method in your application:
Charge method chosen: Constant current
Voltage [V] / Current [A] / Power [W]
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This Humanoid Robot Sweats To Keep Cool While Doing Push-Ups
Now if only we could outsource our gym workouts.
Humans get hot when they work out, and so do robots. Just as our muscles generate heat when they work, a robot's motors get hot enough that heat concerns can limit their performance. To cool down, humans sweat. Now, a robot can do the same.
The conventional way to cool a robot is to either just let the heat dissipate into the air, which doesn't work well because air is a poor conductor of heat. The other solution is to add water cooling, which requires pumps, tubes, and heat-sinks to radiate away the excess heat. Now researchers at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab have built a humanoid robot that sweats. Its name is Kengoro.
Kengoro uses his metal skeleton to sweat, and the key is, as ever these days, 3D printing. The Tokyo team 3D printed the metal bones using a process called sintering, in which powder is deposited a layer at a time and cured with a laser. The process allows the designer to vary the porosity of the metal. In the case of Kengoro's bones, they were made to allow water to permeate the metal, seeping out at a rate slow enough not to start dripping, but fast enough to evaporate and carry away excess heat along with it, just like an animal sweating.
"Usually the frame of a robot is only used to support forces," project leader Toyotaka Kozuki told IEEE Spectrum. "Our concept was adding more functions to the frame, using it to transfer water, release heat, and at the same time support forces."
The sintering process is so precise that the porosity can be varied to make permeable channels to guide the water through the skeleton. In tests, Kengoro's cooling system performed three times better than air cooling, as well as beating plain-old water circulation. It doesn't do as well as a dedicated pumped-water-with-radiators setup, but it is also a lot less bulky, and simpler.
One curious side effect of Kengoro's perspiration-based cooling is that it needs to stay hydrated. It doesn't take much, though. Just a cup of water is enough to keep Kengoro and its 108 motors cool all day long.
"In practice," writes Spectrum IEEE's Evan Ackerman, "this means that Kengoro can run at full power longer, letting it do push-ups for 11 minutes straight without burning out its motors."
I can't even imagine 11 straight minutes of pushups, but one thing's for sure. If you managed it, you'd end up smelling a lot worse than Kengoro.
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DHAKA: People with careers that expose them to bright or or artificial light, such as construction workers, fishermen, welders or actors, could be pre-treated with infrared light to reduce vision damage, say researchers.
A team at Australia's Vision Centre has found that treating eyes with gentle infrared light can help prevent the damage caused by subsequent exposure to bright light.
In their research, the researchers have shown that pre-treatment with near infrared light prevents a build-up of scar tissue in the retina causing subsequent harm to sight.
"There's a group of cells that look after our vision and work behind the scenes called Muller cells. They act to protect the retina by clearing toxins and inducing healing whenever there is injury to the vision cells.
"However, their protection is a double-edge sword for the eyes. When the retina comes under extreme stress, as when it is exposed to intensely bright light and loses a large number of vision cells, the Muller cells can overreact by multiplying and forming scar tissue behind the retina.
"We found that the treatment with mild NIR successfully inhibits the Muller cells from multiplying and forming scar tissue," the researchers said in a release.
Team leader Dr Krisztina Valter added: "Technically, our results showed that 670 nm light pretreatment ameliorates light induced changes in the expression of Muller-cell specific markers for structure, stress, metabolism and inflammation.
"Our findings indicate that it may be possible to pre-treat someone who knows that they will be exposed to bright lights and so reduce the potential damage it can cause."
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The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution
- Available for pre-order on April 14, 2023. Item will ship after May 5, 2023
Prices & shipping based on shipping country
For over 300 years, murderers in the United States and Canada could avoid prosecution by successfully disposing of the body of their victim. No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence. Based on an examination of over 600 cases in the United States and Canada, this book shows the length some killers will go to avoid punishment and the determination of police and prosecutors to bring them to justice.
No-Body Homicides provides the reader with a historical overview of prosecutions in which a killer destroyed or hid the body of the victim. It explains why prosecutions were once extremely rare, and how legal, attitudinal, and technical changes have made them more common. The book also explores how the logic of no-body homicide prosecutions differs from body-present homicides. It allows police and prosecutors to draw on the accumulated experience of hundreds of prosecutions. For criminology students, it provides fascinating insights into the process of investigating and prosecuting homicides – as well as a glimpse into the motivations and practices of killers who are so determined to avoid punishment that they remove the bodies of their victims.
No-Body Homicides will be of practical interest to police or prosecutors confronted with a missing persons case that could be sinister. It is also written to be appropriate as a supplementary text in an undergraduate criminology class or for an aficionado of "True Crime."
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Homicides and Missing Bodies
- Gone but not Dead
- Opening the Door to Prosecuting No-Body Homicides
- "Till Death Do Us Part": Intimate Partner Homicides and Body Disposal
- Missing Are the Children: Disposing the Most Vulnerable
- Societies Expendables: Sex Trade Workers and No-Body Homicides
- Killing in Volume: Serial Killers and Body Disposal
- Murder Incorporated and Its Imitators: Criminal Gangs and Body Disposal
- Mid-Live Crisis, Murder, and Body Disposal
- Deadly Synergies: Combinations Causing Homicide and Body Disposal
- Black Box Explanations and Prosecuting No-Body Homicides
- Explaining Success: Why Have No-Body Convictions Become More Common
- Bodily Secrets: Negotiating Over Disclosure of Body Locations
- "Only in Canada, Eh?": Mr. Big and No-Body Investigations
- Prosecutorial Misfires: Unsuccessful Prosecutions in No-Body Cases
- Results and Prospects for No-Body Homicide Prosecutions
- Appendix: "True Crime" Accounts of No-Body Homicides
Mark Stobbe teaches Sociology at Lakeland College in Lloydminster, Canada. He is the author of The "Mr. Big" Sting: The Cases, The Killers, the Controversial Confessions and Lessons From Remand.
"A very strong addition to a rapidly growing and evolving field of criminology: no-body murder investigations and prosecutions."
Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase, author of No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing


Is This the New iPhone Screen Technology?S
There are plenty of rumors circulating about a super-thin screen for the new iPhone which could boost battery life. Now, an Apple patent has appeared which describes exactly the kind of screen technology the rumors have been speculating about.
Apple Insider points out a new Apple patent which describes different ways in which the top, glass layer of a touchscreen can be removed by combining the liquid crystal and touch sensing elements into a single structure—commonly referred to as in-cell technology. From the patent filing:
In contrast, because the IPS embodiments discussed... can use the same electrodes used for display control and touch sensing, higher touch resolution can be obtained with little to no additional cost. Alternatively, a number of touch pixels can be grouped to produce a combined touch signal with a lower resolution.
We've already pointed out that the new iPhone may well use Sharp's own in-cell IGZO display technology. Already available, the IGZO screens are thinner, because they use smaller transistors, allowing more light to pass through. In turn that means they use fewer LEDs, and therefore take up less space and consume less power.
Of course, whether or not the new iPhone will use an in-cell screen—let alone the technologies discussed in this patent—is up for debate. But the fact that the patent discusses combining in-cell technology with the displays currently used in the iPhone 4S prompts pause for thought. Either way, we don't have too long to wait now before we find out. [Apple Insider]


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How do I call an.MSI within another.MSI?
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How do I call an.MSI from within another.MSI?
You can either call _URL_ containing.MSI within the USER Interface or within a finish dialog.
1.) Add an Execute Program from Destination action. You will call msiexec.exe and pass the command line. If you wanted to call the.MSI silently, then you can pass the following command line: /i /q
2.) You would use the Execute Program from Installation custom action to execute the.EXE containing the.MSI.
3.) The better option is to create your own.EXE wrapper and then call the.MSI's in the desired order using Wisescript.
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/password pair or a digital certificate) to WebLogic Server. The following types of authentication mechanisms are supported by WebLogic Server:
For more information, see the following sections in Managing Security:
Digital Certificates
Digital certificates are electronic documents used to verify the unique identities of principals and entities over networks such as the Internet. A digital certificate securely binds the identity of a user or entity, as verified by a trusted third party known as a certificate authority, to a particular public key. The combination of the public key and the private key provides a unique identity to the owner of the digital certificate.
Digital certificates allow verification of the claim that a specific public key does in fact belong to a specific user or entity. A recipient of a digital certificate can use the public key in a digital certificate to verify that a digital signature was created with the corresponding private key. If such verification is successful, this chain of reasoning provides assurance that the corresponding private key is held by the subject named in the digital certificate, and that the digital signature was created by that subject.
A digital certificate typically includes a variety of information, such as the following:
The most widely accepted format for digital certificates is defined by the ITU-T X.509 international standard. Digital certificates can be read or written by any application complying with the X.509 standard. The public key infrastructure (PKI) in WebLogic Server recognizes digital certificates that comply with X.509 version 3, or X.509v3. We recommend obtaining digital certificates from a certificate authority such as Verisign or Entrust.
WebLogic Server supports the extensions provided by the X.509 standard, however, the class does not provide accessors that provide information about which extensions are used in a particular digital certificate. To obtain that information, convert the object to a object. The following code example includes code to perform this conversion:
X509[] wlCerts=...
X509Certificate [] javaCerts = new X509Certificate[wlCerts.length];
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Sadly, this is all too true:
"Many programmes don't actually improve skills, says Nanette Miner, founder of the Training Doctor, a company in the US state of South Carolina that designs training programmes. Why? Most are too generic, too basic and too boring, she says.
The misguided one-size-fits-all approach comes from companies training everyone, in every department, in the hope they will feel equipped to try new things, adds Alan Middleton, a marketing professor at Toronto's York University. "There's not enough attention given to what objectives the company wants to accomplish and the current level of knowledge and skill of those who are going to be trained.""
I've seen it far too often, training classes designed to teach "the basics" with the thought that once the students know the basics, they can go back and apply it to their jobs, when it is so much more effective to start at the end.
Start with what do they do and how do they do it, and figure out how to help them accomplish that with the tools you want them trained to use, and allow for discussion of various ways to use features to actually improve the way they work.
Generic classes that focus only on the features and not what the students are doing in their jobs, will always fall into the description above.
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Catholic churches in paris
How many Catholic churches are in Paris?
Since religion implies having places of worship, centuries of Catholicism have brought about no less than 50,000 churches in the French territory; the city of Paris alone almost has 200 of them!
What famous cathedral is found in Paris?
Notre-Dame de Paris
What is the most famous church in France?
Notre Dame de Paris
What is the oldest church in Paris?
The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Près is the city's oldest church and the very heart of the vibrant neighborhood.
Are most French Catholic?
Estimates of the proportion of Catholics range between 41% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and " Catholic atheists". The Catholic Church in France is organised into 98 dioceses, which in 2012 were served by 7,000 sub-75 priests.
What percentage of Italy is Catholic?
Which church burned down in Paris?
Daily newspaper "20 Minutes" featured another heart-wrenching image of the cathedral ablaze with text, which translates to English as " Notre Dame Devastated." Another daily paper, "Le Parisien," will print the headline, "Our Lady of Tears" in French on their front page Tuesday.
What are the oldest buildings in Paris?
How many churches are in Paris?
197 churches
What is the oldest church in the world?
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Is Notre Dame a Catholic church?
What is the name of this famous monument in Paris?
the Eiffel Tower
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Attaching of shifting cables to Aeroad CF frame
The bowden cables of the Aeroad CF are routed inside the frame. This reduces the air drag and the cables are covered from water and dirt. This is how you route the cables inside the frame:
1. The Aeroad CF has built in Liner (long thin plastic tubes). These liners facilitate the routing of the cables inside the frame. They are only to be used to route cables, they do not replace GoreTex cable housings. One bowden cable runs from the left shift lever to the right side of the down tube and the cable of the right shift lever runs to the left side of the down tube.
2. Push the bowden cables through the appropriate liner. Both cables cross inside the down tube. The cable exits the bottom bracket on the side of chainwheel. The cable for the front derailleur exits on the other side of the bottom bracket.
3. Pull both liners out of the down tube. You should keep the liner.
4. Thread the cable through the cable guide fixed underneath the bottom bracket.
5. Now you push the bowden cable for the rear derailleur through the liner inside the chainstay.
6. Pull the liner out of the chainstay. Attach the cable to the rear derailleur.


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Conservation Awards Ireland
Due to current budget restrictions, the Heritage Council is longer in a position to run this Award Scheme.
The inaugural Heritage Council Conservation Award was awarded in 2009 to John Gillis, conservator at the National Museum of Ireland, for his work on the Fadden More Psalter, the remains of an illuminated vellum manuscript which was found in a bog in Co. Tipperary in July 2006. The manuscript is a psalter dating from the 8th century and is the first Irish manuscript to be discovered in over 200 years. It consists of five quires inside a tanned leather cover made from a single piece of skin. It has spent most of its life buried and contains many original features and unusual aspects usually lost to manuscripts above ground due to re-binding and other changes to the structure.
The very poor state of preservation and the unique nature of the find, set a challenge for conservators that included the trial and development of a system to de water the saturated vellum. Other aspects of the project included the difficult and complicated removal of clumps of vellum fragments before separating out and cleaning, which was accompanied by painstaking and detailed recording in order to establish the folio number and to allow collation analysis. Much of the methodology was developed on-site as the nature of the problem was a first in conservation terms. To date conservators have succeeded in drying all of the fragments including the tanned leather cover, which is now dry and stable.
John Gillis believes that the Psalter contains a wealth of new information on a number of levels from art history to palaeography and codicology. The manuscript went on display in the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology, Kildare Street in July 2011. As a result of the Heritage Council Conservation Award, John Gillis will now be able to conduct further research into the cover of the book, which is unique in a western context and has strong links in both style and materials to Coptic bindings from the 4th century. This in turn brings fresh evidence of the long running debate about the Coptic Church and its pre Patrician influence in Ireland. A television programme, Treasure of the Bogs, on this project was broadcast in September 2010 on RTE 1.


Ffa football
What does FFA stand for in soccer?
Football Federation
Why is Australia in the AFC?
Football Australia hoped that the move would give Australia a fairer chance of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup and allow A-League clubs to compete in the AFC Champions League, thereby improving the standard of Australian football at both international and club levels with improved competition in the region.
What is my FFA number?
Your FFA number and family member FFA numbers that are linked to your account can be found on the "Select the person you are registering for" page in brackets next to the participant.
How do I register for FFA number?
If you have NOT registered before, click on "Player Registration ", then "Click here to create an FFA account". Follow the prompts to obtain an FFA number and then register. 4. Enter the players First Name, Last Name and DOB, then press "Search" 5.
What does FFA mean in slang?
Far Far Away
What does FFA stand for now?
Future Farmers of America
What Confederation is Australia a member of?
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football. Oceania Football Confederation.
Region served Oceania ( Australian continent)
Membership 14 member associations (11 full)
Official language English
Does Australia play football?
Australia has a number of national football teams encompassing several football codes including Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, Gaelic and gridiron. Australian football is the most popular sport in Australia, followed by cricket, association football and rugby league.
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Does Australia play soccer?
The Australian national team playing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, May 2006. Soccer, also known as football, is the most played outdoor team sport in Australia, and ranks in the top ten for television audience.
What is an FFA account?
An FFA ID is a unique identification number assigned to an individual profile in the National FFA database. An FFA ID can be associated with one or more roles (e.g., student, alumni, teacher/advisor, alumni leader, state staff, national staff, sponsor, etc.)
How do I unregister from Playfootball?
How to request a participant de-registration as a Club Log into Play Football admin account. Select 'Registration' Search for the participant using the search fields. Select 'Display Registrations' Select the Active individual by ticking the box. Select 'Bulk action' > De-registration. Enter in 'Request Reason'- optional. Select 'Submit'
How do you play football?
What Are the Rules of Football? Scoring is done by the team on offense. The team on offense has four downs to move the ball 10 yards forward. On the fourth down, a team has the option to either attempt a field goal or a punt. A game is divided into four quarters that last 15 minutes each. apfca
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Debugging Server Connect Errors
You can easily debug issues related to server-side processing such as - form not sending email, record not inserting or updating, query not showing data etc.
The first thing you need to do is to open the server connect settings:
And enable the Debug Mode:
Click Save:
In your browser, open the Developer tools. If you don't know how to open them please refer to your browser's documentation. Then open the Network tab(1) and select XHR(2):
Now with the developer tools open reload the page if your server action runs on load, or submit the form if the server action is run on form submit. You will see the error message in the XHR tab, it contains the file which is causing it as well as the error status:
Click the name of file that is causing the error. You will see the error message, explaining what is wrong. In our case, the database column, which we are trying to insert record into is not found - which probably means it has been renamed or deleted from the database, and we forgot to update the server action accordingly:
Not all errors are that clear, but in many cases they are just helpful enough to find what is wrong.


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Scientists need your help to find out what ants in your neighborhood like to eat.
Would you ask an ant to join you for lunch? A team of researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh calls on citizen scientists around the world to flip the picnic concept – they want *us* to feed the ants. By counting ants, recording their meal preferences, and sending in data, you can help Dr. Magdalena Sorger and her colleagues better understand what foods ants have access to around the world. This citizen science project, called Ant Picnic, could spark new studies into ant behavior, natural resources, and the impact of global factors like climate change.
"Not only does [Ant Picnic] engage the public with scientific exploration, it will collect very valuable data on what resources are limiting — at least for ants — in different habitats and geographic regions," Dr. Andrew V. Suarez says of the project. He leads ant research at the Suarez Lab of the University of Illinois.
Ant Picnic data are incorporated into the largest research project of its kind – the biggest study of global patterns in preferred resources and activity within a single group of organisms.
How Does an Ant Picnic Work?
First, participants prepare six specific types of food — including a cookie and cotton balls soaked in either sugar or salt water — for their ant guests. After being left outside for at least an hour, participants record and photograph the number of ants that chose each type of food. Bagging and/or freezing the ants are options for making the counting process easier, but letting the ants die is not required.
Sorger recognizes that some young scientists may worry about the prospect of ant deaths.She says because ants are so small, it is difficult to see identifying traits, like the number of hairs on their bodies, when they're alive. So, the loss of ant life is sometimes part of how scientists study them, and this helps them to protect ants and their habitats in the long run.
For those who want to take their participation further, extensions to the project include comparing ant responses on green versus paved sites or testing additional food types in a separate location. The project also includes a robust curriculum that gives students and others a chance to analyze ant data themselves and address their own research questions.
Sorger, who is a postdoctoral researcher at both the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the lab headed up by Rob Dunn at N.C. State, says she loves ants for many reasons, including their wide range of adaptations. They have "so many different shapes, forms and behaviors and each has its specific purpose, some we already know about, [while] others remain to be studied," she explains. She also appreciates the ways in which their culture is similar to ours. Did you know, she says, that ants divide labor, farm, and live in "complex homes with temperature and airflow control?"
The Ant Picnic project follows up on another citizen science initiative the lab has run since 2011, which involved collecting ants to figure out where different species live. A decade ago there were approximately 12,500 described species of ants, there are now close to 15,000, and the current estimate is that there are probably about 20,000 total. According to Sorger, there is much left to learn about what ants do and why.
What Might We Learn?
Sorger said she and her team "expect ants to choose the food type that is least common [or] abundant in their environment." This expectation comes from the premise that animals seek the foods they need to survive; preference for one food over another may indicate a greater need for that type of food. By gathering data on hundreds of thousands of ants around the world, they aim to discover what is absent from the ants' diverse habitats. This information can identify areas for further research into the ants' food and survival in specific regions.
"What ants eat at different times of the year and in different places around the world tells us what might be missing in their environment and how climate change could impact ant populations," the project SciStarter page explains. Some studies have already shown that climate change can affect ants' well-being, activities, and interactions; it has been shown to impact both foraging behavior and community stability.
Suarez points out that citizen scientists are essential to the Rob Dunn Lab's success; "ecological work at regional [or] continental scales is nearly impossible without extensive public engagement," he says. Also, he suspects, "people of all ages will be excited to see what lives in their backyards."
If you are ready to learn more about ants and host some for lunch, Sorger would like to say thank you for having an Ant Picnic of your own:


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Understanding the importance of the preservation of our shared environment is of a fundamental importance to the Management and every employee of The Fitness Generation.
Several initiatives have been undertaken to ensure we are leading the way for the health and fitness industry in this area. To date we have:
1. Undertaken a full Carbon Audit to quantify our Carbon Footprint and we have committed to purchase Carbon Credits to offset this quantity;
2. Committed to ongoing annual Carbon Audits;
3. Undertaken to deal with Supplier Companies that have a similar stance on these matters;
4. Introduced in-house environmental training programs for all employees to create a greater awareness of environmental issues, and develop ways to address such issues;
5. Implemented the relevant and required Health and Safety measures for all employees;
6. Undertaken systems, equipment and plans to use all raw materials, energy and water and as efficiently as possible.
The Fitness Generation will make every effort to ensure that our Environmental Performance is as important as other performance indicators within our business by regularly monitoring the environmental performance of all those directly involved with our business.


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Expert answers on finding your ancestors' census enumeration districts.
What's an enumeration district?
An enumeration district (ED for short) is an administrative division of a particular county or township for the purposes of census-taking. Each census taker would be assigned one or more EDs, each of which was designated with a number.
At one time, to find your ancestor's census return, you'd have to identify which roll of census microfilm contained the right ED. Now that US censuses have been indexed by name, people don't have to identify EDs the way they used to.
But you may find EDs handy for a few reasons:
- If you can't find a household in records for a database site such as Ancestry.com, you can browse by ED (in Ancestry.com, choose a census year, then scroll below the search box to pick a state, county or township; a ward; then an ED).
- Enumerators didn't always proceed through their EDs in orderly
fashion: Rather than go down one side of the street and up the other,
they might cross back and forth or double back to places where
no one was home. But you can compare a census return to a map of the
corresponding ED to plot the neighborhood and see who lived next to
- When the 1940 census comes out in 2012, a name index won't be available right away—but while you wait, you'll be able to find your ancestors' records using the ED.
To identify your ancestor's enumeration district, you'll need to know the state, city and street name, and possibly a street number. Then, try these tools:
- Stephen P. Morse's website has ED finding tools for the 1900 to 1940 censuses. Start by reading this overview to see which ED-finding tool you need (the 1940 tutorial quiz asks you a series of questions that will lead you to the ancestor's ED).
Morse's site also offers tools for ED number conversions between 1920 and 1930 censuses, and 1930 and 1940.
- NARA has put ED information for each census on microfilm. Series A3378 has ED maps for 1900 through 1940; series T1224 has descriptions for 1830 through 1890, and 1910 through 1950. T1210 has ED text descriptions for the 1900 census.
Learn more about finding ancestors in the US census with these tools from Family Tree Magazine:


Pythia8 Generation of Z' Processes
The download and installation of Pythia8 can be found here. If the user does not have any experience with Pythia8 then it is recommended to follow the Pythia8 installation on that page in order to gain general familiarity with the event generator.
The production of Z\x92 decays within the context of the E6 models is a fairly straightforward process since Pythia8 includes the Z\x92 inherently within the standalone package. In order to generate the Z\x92 decays Pythia8 requires the setting of a number of parameters and hopefully this twiki page should guide the user towards successful generation.
The Pythia8 Online Manual is linked and the Z\x92 documentation can be found within the New Gauge Bosons section of the Process Select category.
Parameter Specification
This section will describe the parameters that need to be set in order for Pythia8 to do its job. The parameters included within this section must be modified before event generation and must be included in the generation code through the command:
where value is the parameter to be modified. In order to start the generation of Z\x92 decays the user must include:
NewGaugeBoson::ffbar2gmZZprime = on
which will set the process for the generation. Next the user should specify the final state particles that they would want in their event. If the user wants only a single type of particle, for example electron/positron final states, two commands must be in place:
32:onMode = off
32:onIfAny = 11
where the first command switched off all decay modes for the Z\x92, which has an ID of 32, and the second command then switched on the decay mode for only electron/positron final states. This twiki will assume electron/positron final states but the same could be done for muons where the user should input the muon ID into the string.
The mass of the Z\x92 that Pythia8 uses is set at 500 GeV by default. The way to modify the mass of the Z\x92 is with:
32:m0 = 1500
which will produce a 1500 GeV Z\x92 and can obviously be changed to any mass value.
Next up is to select the mode that the user wants to run the generation in. This will specify which of the particles: photon/Z/Z\x92 contribute to the event and will impact various distributions. For example, if Z/Z\x92 is being used then in the invariant mass of the final state particles there will be two peaks: one for the Z and one for the Z\x92.
Regardless of what is specified here the ID of the intermediary particle will always be assigned a value of 32 and the possible decay channels are specified by the decay channels that are allowed for the Z\x92.
The various modes are:
0: photon/Z/Z\x92 with interference
1: pure photon
2: pure Z
3: pure Z\x92
4: photon/Z with interference
5: photon/Z\x92 with interference
6: Z/Z\x92 with interference
And the argument that needs to be included is:
Zprime:gmZmode = 0
Forward-Backward Asymmetry Note: If you are planning on looking at AFB then it is going to be necessary to run with additional interference from the photon. If the user ran with strictly Z\x92 then the AFB will be approximately zero. When I ran my generation with photon/Z/Z' interference the correct AFB plot would eventually be produced.
Finally we get to the couplings for the Z\x92 which will define which of the E6 models the user is generating. Pythia8 allows for the specification of the axial and vector couplings to all the quarks and leptons in the Standard Model but the more general setting has the user specifying the couplings for the first generation and then assuming they are the same for the others. In order to accomplish this the user should add to their code:
Zprime:universality = on
So that now the only couplings that need to be specified are the ones for the first generation and Pythia will use these values for the other generations. It should be noted that Pythia8 uses its own convention for the Z\x92 couplings. Thus the user will not be able to take the couplings from a theory paper and directly place them into their code. If the user wishes to see the Pythia8 convention and how it compares with other conventions the relevant paper can be found here which will contain the expressions for each of the couplings as a function of the mixing angle on page 6.
And to set the couplings for the various particles the arguments are:
Zprime:vd = 0
Zprime:ad = 0.5055
Zprime:vu = 0
Zprime:au = 0.5055
Zprime:ve = 0
Zprime:ae = 0.5055
Zprime:vnue = 0.2527
Zprime:anue = 0.2527
where the values presented are for the E6 Psi model. Additionally the Z\x92 couplings for various E6 models within the Pythia convention already in decimal form can be found here: LINK.
An example of a Pythia8.cc file that generates Z\x92 decays is located here. This file will generate 10,000 events for Z\x92 -> e- e+ with photon/Z/Z\x92 interference within the E6 Psi model and saves it to a LHE file. The LHE file can then be converted to a root n-tuple using ExRootAnalysis.
Radiation and the Event Record
The next modification that the user may wish to do is to allow leptons the ability to radiate photons. By default Pythia8 has this option turned off and the LHEF initialization should be:
LHAupFromPYTHIA8 myLHA(&pythia.process, &;
If the user wanted to change the default so that leptons could radiate photons the string that must be included is:
TimeShower:QEDshowerByL = on
and the LHEF initialization must also be changed to:
LHAupFromPYTHIA8 myLHA(&pythia.event, &;
so that the event record will contain the radiated photons and their corresponding decays. If the LHEF initialization is not modified then the event record may be incomplete and the kinematics might not reflect the changes caused by the radiation.
Once the two changes are in place Pythia8 will generate your events with radiation and produce the correct LHE file. This file will contain thousands of particles for each event due to the radiation of photons and their corresponding decays. Since the photons will decay into electron/positron states there may be multiple pairs of final state electrons and the challenge becomes finding the pair that decayed from the intermediary Z and not the photons. This is complicated because of how Pythia8 handles radiation and how it modifies the particle record. In order to radiate photons Pythia8 will create a chain of the same type of particle with small changes in momentum between them (i.e. electron -> electron -> electron and the same can be true for the Z/Z'/positron). The differences in momentum between the electrons in the chain will correspond to the momentum of a photon in your event which was radiated by the electron. These chains of particles will prevent the user from looking at the first mother of the electron as it may return another electron and not the intermediary boson.
The simplest method of determining the electron pair that had decayed from the intermediary boson is to select the highest pt electron and positron. This will work the majority of the time and is a useful method when looking at particles that have went through a detector simulation.
However if the user wants to find only the electrons coming off of the boson then they will need to exploit the mother and child relationshipos. When converting the LHE file to a root n-tuple using ExRootAnalysis the user will be given two additional variables: Mother1 and Mother2. These designate the position in the particle index where the mother is stored and can be used to find the correct final state particles. There is one caveat: the particle index starts at 0 while the index in Mother1 and Mother2 start at 1. In order to determine the mother's ID of the current final state particle the user should write the following into their code:
int RealMotherIndex = Particle_Mother1[i] -1;
int MotherID = Particle_PID[RealMotherIndex];
where "i" is the index being looped over within the particle loop.
-- AaronVermeersch - 10 Jul 2013
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A jet is an efflux of fluid that is projected into a surrounding medium, usually from some kind of a nozzle, aperture or orifice. Jets can travel long distances without dissipating. In the Earth's atmosphere there exist jet streams that travel thousands of miles.
Jet fluid has higher momentum compared to the surrounding fluid medium. In the case where the surrounding medium is assumed to be made up of the same fluid as the jet, and this fluid has a viscosity, then the surrounding fluid near the jet is assumed to be carried along with the jet by a process called Entrainment (hydrodynamics).
See also
- Jet stream, a high level wind in the Earth's atmosphere
- Jet engine, any machine propelled by a jet
- Jet nozzle, how a jet is formed
- Jet damping, a jet carries away angular momentum from a device emitting it
- Jet of blood
- Pijush K. Kundu and Ira M. Cohen, "Fluid mechanics, Volume 10", Elsevier, Burlington, MA,USA (2008), ISBN 978-0-12-373735-9
- Falkovich, G. (2011). Fluid Mechanics, a short course for physicists. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00575-4.
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Tracfone LG 840g How to Enable QWERTY Keypad
By default, the LG 840g comes with the old school alpha numeric keypad enabled instead of the QWERTY keypad which we are all used to. Follow these instructions for enabling the LG 840g QWERTY keyboard.
1. Open either the Browser or the Text Messaging screen.
2. From the Text Messaging screen, tap the Create New Message, then tap the text entry part of the screen to enable the text editor. If on the browser, tap the address bar as if to enter a new URL to enable the text editor.
3. From either of the two screens, tap the upper right hand icon (square with 3 lines).
4. Tap Input Method and select Keyboard.
That's it, you have enabled the QWERTY keyboard for the browser address bar and text messaging. Be aware that you will still get the alpha numeric keypad on certain screens. Those cannot be changed.


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Dwell time is generally referred to as the time drivers spend at facilities waiting to drop off or pick up loads – and it's one of the more vexing challenges for stakeholders across the supply chain. Dwell impacts stakeholders at all levels of the supply chain, causing imbalanced load volumes, carrier arrival delays, inefficient on-site operations and much more. It's also a critical concern in achieving differentiation as a shipper of choice.
Learn more about the ROI of Real-Time Transportation Visibility
What is Dwell Time in Trucking?
As Chris Cunnane of ARC Advisory group put it during one of our recent webinars, "Carriers stand to make more money by keeping their trucks on the road, rather than sitting in warehouse yards or loading docks. While carriers can charge detention fees, they'd rather keep their trucks in motion. Detention fees can be difficult to collect and lead to delays in payment."
Dwell time is closely linked to detention costs for shippers. It can cause congestion at ports, facilities and border crossings. Finally, it has major repercussions for the amount of capacity available for the industry as a whole. If companies are to successfully minimize the effects of dwell time on their supply chains, it's required they first understand it in all its most common forms.
In the over-the-road trucking industry, dwell times usually occur at pickup or delivery facilities, as trucks are forced to sit waiting for an empty loading dock to load or unload their goods. It has major environmental ramifications, as drivers often find themselves idling for long periods of time at the pickup or delivery facility.
FourKites research has shown that loads with a greater level of complexity, such as mixed-pallet shipments containing orders for multiple customers within a single truck, can significantly increase dwell times as dock and warehouse crews struggle to unload these shipments in the same time frame it takes to unload trailers filled with a single type of good.
What is Container Dwell Time?
Contrary to truckload dwell time, container-based dwell typically occurs at a port or railyard, as large metal shipping containers filled with bulk goods are transferred from a ship or train to a new mode of transportation for the next leg in their journey.
Because goods being unloaded at a port have seldom reached their final destination, delays at ports and railyards can quickly compound into causing further delays for the truck waiting to pick them up for the final leg of their journey.
How Can You Measure Dwell Time?
Measuring dwell time is a critical first step to reducing its impact throughout your operation. To do so properly, however, requires a holistic, multi-layered approach. Since the factors that commonly influence dwell times exist at all levels of the supply chain, the ability to identify exact chokepoints within your own operation are key to achieving meaningful improvement in reducing dwell.
There are several key metrics that can contribute to the dwell time performance of a load. Because some amount of dwell is normal in any supply chain, why it's important to set target compliance thresholds which can help identify loads and facilities that fall outside of your target dwell.
FourKites handles this through our custom-designed Dwell Scorecard, a part of our Facility Manager reporting module which provides the ability for individual sites and facilities to analyze historical Warehouse Management System (WMS) data and identify operational bottlenecks.
Some of the key metrics we use to inform our Dwell Scorecard are as follows:
- Number of loads/appointments
- Percentage of non-compliant loads
- Percentage of delayed carrier arrivals
- Average delay of delayed arrival loads
How Can You Reduce Dwell Time?
FourKites' research has shown that dwell can be quickly and significantly lowered, once you know where the key problems are occurring. In our past collaborations with our shipper, carrier and 3PL partners, we've repeatedly found that some of the most common causes of high dwell times are as follows:
- Load Complexity: More complex orders, such as mixed-pallet loads, can contribute to greater delays at pickup and delivery facilities. By grouping purchase orders so that similar goods are delivered at the same time, or by scheduling higher-complexity loads to arrive during off-hours when delays are less likely to occur, FourKites customers have been able to successfully reduce detention throughout their supply chains.
- Arrival Times: FourKites research has shown a direct correlation between high load volume and high dwell times, suggesting that load-balancing initiatives across both time of day and day of the week can be key to reducing dwell.
- Check-In Procedure: Complex or convoluted check-in procedures at facilities can quickly result in a long line of trucks and a bottleneck for both pickups and deliveries. Therefore, simplifying and consolidating check-in procedures, for example by implementing paperless check-in technologies, is an easy way to lower detention costs throughout the organization.
Once you have identified the root causes affecting high dwell times within your organization, the potential value is high. Here are a few quick success stories from within the FourKites network:
- Using FourKites in conjunction with several existing logistics partnerships, Land O'Lakes reduced median dwell time by 21% per load in just three months.
- One of the largest meat producers in the US slashed their monthly detention costs by 22% within their first year of using FourKites. This translated to a positive return on investment from detention savings alone within the first six months.
- Specialty paper manufacturer Pixelle Specialty Solutions reduced dwell times by 20% within the first eight months of adopting visibility technology.
Clearly there are significant opportunities for streamlining operations, improving sustainability, and strengthening carrier relationships by targeting reduced dwell time throughout the supply chain. More than just helping a single organization, however, effective reductions in dwell times send positive effects cascading throughout the rest of the industry in turn, ultimately resulting in fewer missed appointments, happier drivers and more available capacity throughout the industry as a whole.
Especially in times of crisis, it's hard to find a better return on investment than that.


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2: I planned on, or was hoping my plant would sprout quickly. Although, by day 9 my plant was not quite visible. | My Hypothesis was that I thought the plants in the sun light would grow faster, and more of them will sprout than the ones in the artificial light from the building.
3: growth of gladiolus
4: The one variable that I changed in the experiment was the light. | The variables that stayed the same were the amount and type of water. Others are the type of container, how much and the type of soil. We will water and fertilize the plants the same day. Also we will have the same depth of soil, and use the same plant. The temperature will be the same in both class rooms.
5: We watered the plants 3 times a week at the most,30mL each time. Sometimes we did 25mL.
6: By day 22 my plant started to make progress and got pretty good size. I thought it would sprout quicker though. My hypothesis was incorrect.
7: I thought this was an accurate pie chart on the hight measurement of the gladiolus
8: On day 30 my plant got pretty big, I was happy with my results.
9: the plants in our room grew taller with the artificial light from the building, and seventh grade's plants grew stronger and sprouted earlier than ours. They used sunlight and artificial light.


Declaration of Dresden (1982)
ICOMOS Symposia
The Declaration of Dresden is concerned with the reconstruction of monuments destroyed by war. It calls for documentation of monuments as a means to ensure their protection in times of conflict and notes the reasons and techniques for reconstruction as well the importance of exchanging knowledge between nations as a way to ensure appreciation and protection of this heritage. The Declaration supports earlier recommendations by UNESCO and the ICOMOS General Assembly on the prevention of war and calls for international cooperation and disarmament in order to prevent war.


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If you're using a laptop / tabled then pressing the Power Button can have different results in most cases your laptop / tablet goes into Sleep mode or Hybrid Sleep. If you using a desktop then in most cases your devices shuts down. However some people don't want their system to go into standby or shutdown when they accidentally or someone who thinks is funny presses the power button. You can easily disable this button in Windows by following this guide.[symple_box color="blue" fade_in="false" float="center" text_align="left" width=""]Disabling the power button does nothing outside of Windows. If you want to start your computer again the button will work fine. Force Shutdown by holding down the button will remain working as well.[/symple_box]
How to Disable the Computer's Power Button in Windows 10
1. Open Control Panel (Right-click or Tap and hold the start icon, then choose Control Panel)
2. Once in Control Panel click on System and Security
3. Once in System and Security click on Choose what the power buttons do
4. You can now change what the power button does by changing the settings right next to "When I press the Power Button". If you want to disable the button then choose "Do Nothing"
That's it, that's all you have to do to Disable the Power Button in Windows 10 or Change the Behavior of the Power Button in Windows 10. We hope you were able to change the settings on your system using this guide. If you have any more questions than feel free to ask them on our forums. Thanks for reading.


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NMEA 0183 (or NMEA for short) - is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronic devices such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer (wind speed and direction), gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments. It has been defined by, and is controlled by, the U.S.-based National Marine Electronics Association.
The NMEA 0183 standard uses a simple ASCII, serial communications protocol that defines how data is transmitted in a "sentence" from one "talker" to one "listener" at a time. Through the use of intermediate expanders, a talker can have a unidirectional conversation with multiple listeners, and using multiplexers, multiple sensors can talk to a single computer port. Third-party switches are available that can establish a primary and secondary talker, with automatic failover if the primary fails.
At the application layer, the standard also defines the contents of each sentence (message) type so that all listeners can parse messages accurately.


text: Acanthaster planci are red colored echinoderms protected by thorn-like spines. They grow to a diameter up to 40 cm across. They have 12-19 arms extending from their center. These animals do not have a head, and are pentamerically symmetrical about the axis of the mouth. Acanthaster planci have tubed feet, or branched tentacles arranged along each arm that function in gas exchange and food gathering (Schmid, 1998; Perrins and Middleton, 1985; Encyclopedia Britannica, 2000).


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Alzheimer's Disease Registry
The Alzheimer's Disease Registry is a comprehensive statewide registry of SC residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders (ADRD). As the nation's most comprehensive registry of its kind, the Alzheimer's Disease Registry has maintained a record of diagnosed cases of ADRD in the state since 1988. The Registry comprises multiple data sources, including inpatient hospitalizations, mental health records, Medicaid, emergency departments, memory clinics, chart abstracts, vital records, and long-term care evaluations. The Registry is maintained by the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, in cooperation with the SC Department of Health and Human Services, the SC Department of Mental Health, the USC School of Medicine, and the SC Office of Budget and Control.
The goals of the Registry are to:
The Registry is an invaluable data source to those interested in aging research that involves:
South Carolina's elders and their loved ones ultimately benefit from the assistive services that evolve from the research that uses the Registry, including:
View the 2011 Annual Report (PDF Format) for the most recent full year of data available from all reporting sources.
Other states' Alzheimer's Disease registries include:


Xinerama [bool]
Enables Xinerama support if the boolean argument is true and disables it if the argument is false. Calling this command without arguments turns on Xinerama support if it was disabled before and turns it off if it was enabled. For example:
# Turn Xinerama support on, use primary screen 2
XineramaPrimaryScreen 2
Xinerama on
# Turn it off again
Xinerama off
XineramaPrimaryScreen [primary-screen]
Takes an integer number or 'g' or 'c' as its argument. A number is taken as the number of the Xinerama screen that is to be used as the primary screen. The primary screen can be used as the preferred screen to place windows with
XineramaPrimaryScreen
Style * StartsOnScreen p
The primary screen is used in some of the modules and for the default icon box too. Any number that is zero or more is taken as the primary screen's number. Instead, the letter 'c' indicates to use the current screen (containing the pointer) whenever the primary screen is used. This may be very confusing under some circumstances. With 'g', the global screen is used as the primary screen, effectively disabling the primary screen. Calling this function with any other argument (including none) resets the primary screen to 0.
XineramaSls [bool]
For multi-screen implementations other than Xinerama, such as Single Logical Screen, it is possible to simulate a Xinerama configuration if the total screen seen by fvwm is made up of equal sized monitors in a rectangular grid. The XineramaSls command turns SLS support on or off or toggles it to the opposite state, depending on if the boolean argument is "True", "False" or "toggle". If no argument is given, this is treated like "toggle". The default layout uses one by one screens. To configure the layout, use the XineramaSlsSize or XineramaSlsScreens command.
XineramaSlsSize Horizontal Vertical
This command configures the layout of the Single Logical screen feature. It takes two arguments, Horizontal and Vertical which must be an integer value dividing evenly into the total desktop width, and height. For an example with two monitors side by side which appear as one screen through the X-Server with the right screen as the primary screen, use:
XineramaSlsSize 2×1
XineramaSls On
XineramaPrimaryScreen 1
Xinerama On
XineramaSlsScreens number-of-screens [screen-spec …]
This command configures the layout of the Single Logical screen feature. Its first argument is the number of screens to use. It must be followed by exactly this number of screen-spec arguments. Each of these can be written either in standard X geometry format: "x++" or as a space separated list of numbers: "x y width height". Both ways of describing screens can be mixed in a single command. All four numbers must be supplied. The x and y values specify the origin of the screen in relation to the global screen's origin while width and height specify the size of the screen in pixels. No checks are done if the geometries make sense, so it is possible to define overlapping screens (with random results) or screens that are not visible at all.
XineramaSlsScreens 3 \
512×768+0+0 512×300+512+0 512 300 512 468
XineramaSls On
XineramaPrimaryScreen 1
Xinerama On
FVWM/Controlling the Virtual Desktop


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Calcium lignosulfonate* is just one in a series of non-traditional methods of increasing the plastic properties of clay. Developed in 1950s to increase the plasticity and green strength of brick,1 calcium lignosulfonate is now used in almost every type of ceramic manufacturing operation. When used in clay bodies, calcium lignosulfonate makes the water "wetter," allowing less water to be used to make the clay body more plastic. The additive contains a lignin-derived binder that mechanically takes the place of some water in the clay body, causing adhesion of the clay plates. This action reduces the risk of clay body defects, such as excessive shrinkage, warping and cracking during drying and firing.
The increase in plasticity is most noticeable in short or non-plastic clay bodies, such as Raku, sculpture, and jiggerand ram-pressed formulas. The additive can also be used in soda, salt, porcelain, low-fire and tile clay bodies.
Traditionally, ball clays and/or bentonites have been used to increase plasticity, but both types of clay need large amounts of water to make them plastic. Additionally, excessive amounts of ball clay can make the body feel gummy and soft when moist, causing problems in the forming stages. The moist clay body can also exhibit thixotropy or a "jello-like" quality when forms are pulled up on a pottery wheel. Calcium lignosulfonate can replace all or part of the ball clay/bentonite component in clay body formulas, giving potters greater flexibility to choose non-plastic clays in their formulas while also decreasing the total amount of water required.
Calcium lignosulfonate also substantially increases the green strength (e.g., pots that are formed but are not dry) and dry strength (e.g., pots that have been formed and dried) of clay bodies, reducing chipping and damage caused by handling the ware. Increasing the durability of unfired ware is especially crucial for large ceramic forms that must be moved around in the studio or loaded onto a kiln.
Because they contain barium carbonate, Types 1, 3 and 4 are only available in a liquid form that chemically links the barium to the polymeric structure of the lignosulfonate. This chemical linkage eliminates the hazards that are associated with dry barium powder. (Barium carbonate is toxic if ingested.)
All types of calcium lignosulfonate can be safely used in any clay body, including low-fire red clay bodies. While none of the different types of calcium lignosulfonate are toxic, normal handling precautions should be used when working with any form of the additive.
Every gallon of the liquid form of calcium lignosulfonate contains 5.3 lbs of water and 5.3 lbs of the additive. When using the liquid form, always base the amount of additive used on the dry component weight of the liquid. The additive can be used in clay bodies from 0.25 to 2% of the total dry weight of the clay body formula. In most throwing and handbuilding clay body formulas, an even lower amount can be used—as little as 1⁄16 to 1⁄8% will significantly improve the handling qualities of the clay. Additions of more than 5% will greatly increase green and dry strength, causing the clay to become extremely hard when dry—in some cases, the clay can even be dropped on the floor without breaking. Start by using 0.25%, then increase the amount of additive in 0.25% increments until the desired results are achieved.
Some ceramic suppliers have also begun using calcium lignosulfonate in their clay body formulas, making it even easier for potters to gain the benefits of the additive without having to worry about mix ratios. Ceramic Supply in Lodi, N.J., is just one such company that recently began using the additive in its moist HMI clay body formulas to increase customer satisfaction. "While the additive does add extra cost to the clay bodies, it dramatically increases the handling properties of the product," said Larry Sussberg, the company's owner.
While the extra expense may cause some potters to shy away from using additives, the costs can often be easily recovered through fewer defects and less waste if the right additives are used. One pot or sculpture saved through using an additive can be enough for the additive to pay for itself.
If you want to experiment on your own and are reasonably sure that an additive is the appropriate fix for the problem, start with the lowest amount possible. If no change occurs, try increasing the amount of additive in small increments until you achieve the results you are looking for. If the additive does not produce the anticipated results, you may be using an incorrect amount or the wrong additive for your formula, and more testing may be required.
Today's potters can choose from a variety of additives that are potent, reliable and consistent. Clay additives cannot make bad pots better or sculpture more beautiful, but they can give the potter a tool to solve specific production problems.


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Buddhism is widely perceived to be, and Buddhist sources themselves promote the tradition as, a philosophy of liberation. Yet, as perhaps everywhere, Buddhist societies, both ancient and modern, not only evidence, but indeed seem to promote, social inequalities. The project â€˜Buddhism and Social Justiceâ€™ explores the inner tensions in Buddhist cultures between inherited core values and social realities, with specific foci on questions of labor (e.g., slavery and forced labor, serfdom) and social status (e.g., caste and discrimination).
The project consists of five studies: a core investigation of slavery and caste in India and studies on slavery in Korea, burakumin (â€˜outcastesâ€™) in Japan, â€˜serfdomâ€™ and monastic economy in Tibet, and ethnicity and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. These are approached through text-historical, historical and a socio-anthropological methods. The synergy between the projects lies in the question of how Buddhist ways of thinking and acting inform and structure historically Buddhist Asian societies, and how, correspondingly, Buddhist ideologies and dogmas were transformed in historical contexts. This study seeks therefore to uncover the links between the ancient and the modern and the theoretical and the real-world, thereby leading both to a deeper appreciation of how religious systems function in societies in general, and to a more nuanced appreciation of the dynamics of historically Buddhist societies in general, particularly with respect to questions of social justice. As such, the work is situated not only within the realms of Buddhist studies and Asian history, but also at the juncture of religious studies, political science and anthropology, as it engages issues of church and society, slavery studies, and the study of race, ethnicity and caste.
- Post-doc: Slavery in Korean Buddhism. Vacancy number: 10 – 048.
- Ph.D. 1: Burakumin (â€˜outcastesâ€™) in Japanese Buddhism. Vacancy number: 10 – 048a.
- Ph.D. 2: â€˜Serfdomâ€™ and Tibetan Monastic Economy. Vacancy number: 10 – 048b.
- Ph.D. 3: Ethnicity and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Vacancy number: 10 – 048c.
See the full project description at _URL_
Post-Doctoral Fellowship applicants should have a demonstrably excellent academic track record in Buddhist studies and hold a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies or a related field, or its equivalent. They should have an excellent command of English and be prepared to present their research results in English. Applicants will teach a small number of courses on topics within their area of specialization and assist in guiding the Ph.D. students.
Conditions of employment
The position of the Postdoctoral fellow is temporary, maximum three years with a full-time appointment (38 hours per week).
The position of Ph.D.-fellow (â€˜promovendusâ€™) is temporary, maximum four years with a full-time appointment, and with an initial 18-month trial period.
For more information about the two positions contact Prof. dr. J.A Silk (tel. +31 – 71-_PHONE_; e-mail _EMAIL_. Also, see the full project description at _URL_
Post-doc candidates send your application (in English), including:
- a cover letter stating your motivation for this position,
- a curriculum vitae,
- copies of your academic transcripts,
- a printed copy of your PhD thesis and other relevant publications, and
- three references.
Send applications indicating the application number to the following address before April 23, 2010: _EMAIL_.


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Introduction: Egg Drop Design
The main goal of an egg drop competition is to make a structure or something simple that could protect an egg from breaking when dropped. In an egg drop competition there are always rules on what design types you can use and what you aren't allowed to use. Some of these rules can include no parachutes and some rules say that your contraption has to weigh a certain mass. Every competition is different though so make sure you go over your rules before making something. The competition I'm participating in doesn't allow parachutes and some other rules. This is a design I came up with that follows my rules and is usually allowed in most competitions.
-A hot glue gun and glue sticks
-A large and small pair of scissors
-A sharpie or a marker
-Lots of straws
You may want to start heating up your glue gun now as you will need it soon in a few steps.
Step 1: Part 1: the Egg Housing Pyramid
Take one of your straws and your ruler and carefully measure 6 centimeters starting from the end of the straw with a marker. It should look like figure 3 and 4 when you're done.
Step 2: Cut
Cut the straw on the line you've marked with a pair of scissors. Repeat step 1 and 2 until you have a total of 6 straws that are each 6 centimeters in length.
Step 3: Making the Center Pyramid
Now that you have cut 6 straws, take 3 of them and make a closed triangle like the one in the pictures above. Once you have done so, take your glue gun that you've previously heat up and glue the triangle together one corner at a time. While gluing your triangle be careful not to move the shape to much. If you do move the triangle move it back while the glue is still soft.
Step 4: Completing the Pyramid
After you've finished gluing the base you should have something that looks like this. To start the top of the pyramid, take the rest of your straws from before and glue them one at a time to each corner like the one I did in figure 2. Look down from the top of the pyramid to see if the straw meets in the middle (Figure 3). The red dot marks the center. Repeat this for the rest of the corners.
Step 5: The Finished Pyramid
Once you completed your housing and it looks like the one above, your halfway from completing your contraption. Try test fitting an egg in it to make sure it fits. Go back and make any changes if necessary.
Step 6: Part 2: Outer Housing
Take a straw and cut the bendy ends off of them with a pair of scissors. Repeat this until you have 4 straws without the ends.
Step 7: Housing Beams
Next, glue the straws that have been trimmed in the last step vertically to the tips of the pyramid. Repeat this step for all sides until it looks like the one in figure 2.
Glue a straw to the end of beam like in image 1. Then join it with another straw and repeat it for the top half until you end up with something like this.
Make a tripod with 6 cm straws like in image 1. Glue it on the bottom of the housing pyramid and you should have something like in the last image.
Step 10: Finished!
Then repeat the pattern you did in step 8 and your contraption is ready to be dropped! If you have any, please leave any questions or comments down below about this instructable.
Step 11: An Update
it's occurred to me and other people that this design may have some flaws such as very little protection on the sides that are flatter. One way you can fix this issue is by following the pattern above in image 2 and 3. Basically, it's just 2 straws joined together then glued onto the flatter side to give it protection. Then you want to add a supporting beam and glue it like the one in image 4. Then you should be all done. If you want, you can make it more rigid then add some more outer supports. Watch out for a version 2 egg drop design coming in late June!


Barrage Viereth
Rejuvenation for 80-year-old infrastructure
At over 80 years old, the oldest barrage on the Main has long since reached its theoretical service life. In terms of maintenance, KREBS + KIEFER contributes a lot towards the planning of the building and structural engineering.
Among other things, the damaged weir rollers need to be replaced by segment weirs, which can better withstand today's constant fine adjustment. The engineers have developed all the necessary adjustments for this. Because the new gates introduce a modified load, the pillar foundations have to be renovated and a record of compliance with current standards needs to be maintained. Along with the weir gates, the worn-out weir supports had to be renewed.
The planning work also included the renewal of the pool base, retaining walls and culverts for provisional cable conduits. Because of the insular position of the weir between the lock and power plant, good site logistics is essential for the smooth progress of the renovation work. As such, a crane foundation was built into the embankment of the weir field as a preliminarily measure.
 - Planning of the property*
 - Planning of the supporting structure*
 - SiGeKo
 - * in a consortium with IRS


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Applying a scale factor to text and dimensions was quite common in the days before AutoDesk introduced paper space layouts and viewports and everything was done in model space. For example, let's say we were drawing a plan view of a house and ultimately it would be plotted at a scale of 1/4"=1'-0". The scale factor for our text and dimension heights would be 48 (1/4 * 12 or 4*12/1 = 48 ) So if we wanted our text to plot at a height of 1/8" it would have to be given a height of 6" in our drawing. (.125 * 48 = 6 ).
Is it possible you were thinking of viewport scale factors? There is a way to assign a scale to a viewport via the Zoom command utilizing the Scale option. It is referred to as the n/XP scale factor. As an example to assign the scale of 1/4"=1'-0" to a viewport the scale factor would be expressed as 1/48xp. Another example: a scale of 1/8"=1'-0" assigned to a viewport would be expressed as 1/96xp.
While many older users might remember and even use this method AutoCAD now makes it easier to assign a scale to a viewport by selecting it directly from a Scalelist.
Are you using metric or imperial units?
What scale or scales were you planning on using for your drawing?


$\kappa w(x)^2 L\approx kT$.
There are a famous nonlinear equations that come cheerfully close to your problem but miss it. Example: Sine-Gordon Equation where instead of $|w(x)|$ you would have $1-\cos [w(x)]$. Actually more up to the point would be the Sinh-Gordon... which reminds me of the Toda field theory which describes a Toda lattice. A Toda lattice is a nonlinear set of coupled equations that describe a set of nonlinearly coupled particles. If you are working in the liquid state, I doubt that they would be relevant. $w(x)^2$ should be good enough but the dissipative terms will be more troublesome.
Edit: Couldn't resist the pun. Seems that the relevant equation is a "SIGN-Gordon equation": $$\varphi_{tt}- \varphi_{xx} + \text{sgn}(\varphi) = 0.$$ Not sure if it is really simple, messy, or plain difficult to solve in your case. An option is to try solve it like a wave equation with a sign changing external force term and then parametrize the solutions based on their energy and apply the Boltzmann statistics. Forgo the Hamiltonian altogether. I think it will be messy.
Another Edit: as the commenters mentioned before, the solution to the absolute value potential Schrodinger eqn. involves Airy functions. So you could in principle use the Airy function eigenstates to find the time-independent modes and fix their energy. This could quantize your problem. The solution in terms of the Airy functions can be found for example here, [PRL, 94, 176805 (2005)].
Yet Another Update: Apparently you have the "Signum-Gordon" equation. Thanks to this answer.
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Here is the link to the question I asked about SIGN-Gordon Eqn: mathoverflow.net/questions/22514/sign-gordon-equation in case something comes up. – Kaveh Khodjasteh Apr 25 '10 at 16:09
Thanks for the comments and the SIGN-Gordon link. I am going to start working out the details using the Schrodinger eqn/ Airy function approach. Thinking about it now, it is very similar to what is commonly done in the mean-field theory of Gaussian polymers. What I'm looking for is the free energy of a Gaussian polymer in one dimension, in an external V-shaped potential. Yes, I'm pretty sure the V-potential is what I want, since upon integration along x it gives the area between the two interfaces. – Gregory Putzel Apr 25 '10 at 22:09
Oh I see, you just posted the sign-gordon question. Curious to see what people can say... – Gregory Putzel Apr 25 '10 at 22:11
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