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Un pozo de potencial es la región que rodea un mínimo local de energía potencial. La energía capturada en un pozo de potencial no es posible convertirla en otro tipo de energía (energía cinética en el caso de un potencial gravitatorio) debido a que se encuentra en un mínimo local de la energía potencial. Por tanto, un cuerpo no puede proseguir hasta un mínimo global de la energía potencial, como tendería de forma natural debido a la entropía.

Visión general
Es posible liberar energía de un pozo de potencial si se añade energía suficiente para superar el máximo local. En física cuántica, la energía potencial puede huir de un pozo de potencial sin añadir energía debido a las características probabilistas de las partículas cuánticas; en estos casos una partícula puede ser imaginada cruzando un túnel a través de las paredes del pozo de potencial.

La representación gráfica de una función de energía potencial 2D es una superficie de energía potencial que puede imaginarse como la superficie terrestre en un paisaje de cerros y valles. Entonces un pozo de potencial sería un valle rodeado por todos los lados por terreno más elevado, el cual podría ser llenado con agua (p.ej., un lago) sin que nada de agua fluyera hacia otro mínimo más bajo (p.ej. nivel del mar).

En el caso de la gravedad, la región alrededor de una masa es un pozo de potencial gravitacional, a no ser que la densidad de la masa sea tan baja que las fuerzas de marea de otras masas sean más grandes que la gravedad del cuerpo en sí mismo.

Un cerro de potencial sería el opuesto a un pozo de potencial, y es la región que rodea a un máximo local.

Confinamiento cuántico

El confinamiento cuántico puede ser observado cuando el diámetro de un material es de la misma magnitud que la longitud de onda de De Broglie de la función de onda del electrón. Cuando los materiales son así de pequeños, sus propiedades electrónicas y ópticas se desvían sustancialmente de las de la sustancia material.

Una partícula se comporta como si fuese libre cuando la dimensión de confinamiento es grande comparada con la longitud de onda de la partícula. Durante este estado, el salto de banda permanece en su valor de energía original debido a que hay continuidad entre los diversos estados de energía. Sin embargo, a medida que la dimensión de confinamiento disminuye y alcanza un cierto límite, típicamente en la nanoescala, el espectro de energía se vuelve discreto. Como resultado, el salto de banda se vuelve tamaño-dependiente. Esto finalmente resulta en un corrimiento al azul en la emisión de luz a medida que el tamaño de las partículas disminuye.

Específicamente, el efecto describe el fenómeno que resulta de electrones y huecos electrónicos que son estrujados a una dimensión que se aproxima a la medida cuántica crítica, llamada el excitón del radio de Bohr. En aplicación actual, un punto cuántico como una pequeña esfera se confina en tres dimensiones, un cable cuántico en dos, y un pozo cuántico se confina en una sola dimensión. Estos son también conocidos como pozos cero-, un- y bidimensionales, respectivamente. En estos casos se refiere al número de dimensiones en las que una partícula confinada pueden actuar como portador libre.

Véanse los enlaces externos, abajo, para ejemplos de aplicación en biotecnología y tecnología de células solares.

Perspectiva desde la mecánica cuántica
Las propiedades electrónicas y ópticas de materiales están afectadas por el tamaño y la forma. Logros técnicos bien asentados incluyendo los puntos cuánticos fueron obtenidos manipulando tamaños e investigando en la comprobación teórica del efecto de confinamiento cuántico. La parte importante de la teoría es que el comportamiento del excitón se parece al de un átomo a medida que espacio circundante empequeñece. Una aproximación bastante buena del comportamiento de un excitón el comportamiento es el 3 -D modelo de una partícula en una caja. La solución de este problema proporciona una conexión matemática única entre estados de energía y la dimensión espacial.
Reduciendo el volumen o las dimensiones del espacio disponible, aumenta la energía de los estados. En el esquema se muestra el cambio en los niveles de energía del electrón y el salto de banda entre un nanomaterial y su sustancia material.

La siguiente ecuación muestra la relación entre el nivel de energía y el dimensionado espacial:

Algunas investigaciones proporcionan una explicación alternativa del cambio de propiedades en la nanoscala. En la sustancia material, las superficies aparentan controlar algunas de las propiedades macroscópicas. Sin embargo, en nanopartículas, las moléculas de superficie no obedecen la configuración espacial esperada. Como resultado, la tensión de la superficie cambia tremendamente.

Perspectiva desde la mecánica clásica

La ecuación Young-Laplace puede servir de apoyo en la investigación de la escala de las fuerzas aplicadas a las moléculas de superficie:

Bajo la suposición de forma esférica R1=R2=R y resolviendo la ecuación de Young-Laplace para los radios nuevos R(nm), se estima el nuevo ΔP(GPa). Cuanto más pequeño es R, mayor es la presión presente. El aumento en presión en la nanoescala resulta en fuertes fuerzas hacia el interior de la partícula. En consecuencia, la estructura molecular de la partícula parece diferente de la sustancia material, especialmente en la superficie. Estas anormalidades en la superficie son responsables de los cambios en las interacciones interatómicas y saltos de banda.

Véase también
 Pozo cuántico
 Punto cuántico

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Buhro WE, Colvin VL (2003).
 Fundamentos de semiconducción.
 Teoría de bandas de sólidos.
 Síntesis de puntos cuánticos.
 Aplicación biológica.
 MathWorks: 1D Schrodinger solver
 Github: 1D Schrodinger solver

Mecánica clásica
Mecánica cuántica

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TeraBaud testbed
The high-speed facility enables the transmission, detection and quality evaluation of optical signals at up to 1.28 TBaud data rates. It is used to measure the impact of optical components on the quality of optical signals. Projects including optical time division multiplexing (OTDM), orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) and optical regeneration and optical performance monitoring are being supported by this facility.
The heart of the system is an optical clock generating high quality short optical pulses at 40 GHz repetition rate. Data is encoded onto the clock at 40 Gb/s using an electrical pattern generator and electrical to optical switch. Pulses are compressed down to 300 fs using self-phase modulation in highly non-linear fiber (HNLF). Up to 32x40 Gb/s signals are optically interleaved in an optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) circuit to produce a 1.28 TBaud signal.
Following transmission through the device under test, a 40 GBaud signal is de-multiplexed from the terabaud signal. De-multiplexing is accomplished using four-wave mixing (FWM) gating by a 10 GHz probe pulse train. Our non-linear medium of choice are on-chip chalcogenide waveguides offering large nonlinearity in a compact package.
After filtering and photo-detection, the Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) measures the transmission performance of each 40 Gb/s signal. Signal quality is also evaluated using a high-bandwidth oscilloscope with electrical and optical plug-ins.
Figure 1: setup for terabaud signal generation and on-chip demultiplexing.
Complex modulation formats and OFDM
We are equipped to generate and detect complex modulation formats. I/Q modulators allow data to be encoded on the amplitude and phase of signal to generate quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) signal. Digital to analog converters enable multi-level modulation for higher order quadrature amplitude modulation (x-QAM).
We recently acquired state-of-the-art coherent receivers for I/Q demodulation as well as a real-time 62 GHz oscilloscope for full data waveform acquisition and digital signal processing of arbitrary modulation formats.
In parallel, we can use a universal transmitter (developped with Monash University) capable of simultaneous generation of multiple complex formats including OFDM. A 10 GHz mode-locked laser is broadened in HNLF to create a smooth frequency comb. The comb is processed all-optically using reconfigurable optical switches based on liquid crystal on insulator technology (LCOS). This allows multiple modulation formats to be encoded on the same carrier signal. The LCOS optical processor technology is developped in collaboration with Finisar Australia.
The universal transmitter is combined with a recirculating loop system to simulate the long-haul propagation of up to 10 Tbit/s signals over ~ 1000 km.
The conception of such a system is well documented in literature, and consists of several pieces of equipment. Timing is everything in a system like this, and the project offers students an exciting mix between hands-on experimental work with state-of-the-art fibre optics, cutting edge applied physics and software engineering to orchestrate the whole system in a smooth and flexible way.
Figure 2: Universal transmitter for tbit/s OFDM.
T. D. Vo, H. Hu, M. Galili, E. Palushani, J. Xu, L. K. Oxenløwe, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, "Photonic chip based transmitter optimization and receiver demultiplexing of a 1.28 Tbit/s OTDM signal," Opt. Express 18, 17252-17261 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-25-25512
L. B. Du, J. Schroeder, J. Carpenter, B. J. Eggleton, A. J. Lowery "Flexible All-Optical OFDM using WSSs," OFC 2013 post-deadline paper PDP5B.9
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W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa piotrkowskiego.

Zabytki
Według rejestru zabytków Narodowego Instytutu Dziedzictwa na listę zabytków wpisany jest obiekt:
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import android.content.Context;
import android.media.MediaCodec;
import android.media.MediaFormat;
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import android.os.Environment;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.Log;

import com.serenegiant.utils.FileUtils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

public class MediaMuxerWrapper {
	private static final boolean DEBUG = false;	// TODO set false on release
	private static final String TAG = MediaMuxerWrapper.class.getSimpleName();

	private String mOutputPath;
	private final MediaMuxer mMediaMuxer;	// API >= 18
	private int mEncoderCount, mStatredCount;
	private boolean mIsStarted;
	private volatile boolean mIsPaused;
	private MediaEncoder mVideoEncoder, mAudioEncoder;

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Williams sisters' deal with NFL Dolphins announced
Robert Beatty— August 28, 2009
DAVIE (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams confirmed they bought a small stake in the Miami Dolphins on Tuesday.
Their deal with owner Stephen Ross, first reported last week, made the sisters the latest celebrities to become minor owners in the NFL team.
Venus and Serena live in Palm Beach Gardens, about an hour's drive from the Dolphins' stadium.
"To have this opportunity is really where our heart is, "Venus said. "We're South Florida girls. When we get off the road, this is where we come home to. When we come home to Dolphins games, it's going to be exciting."
The sisters are the first female African-Americans to hold an ownership stake in an NFL team, the Dolphins said. The NFL has no African-American majority team owner.
"We're really honored," Serena said. "Venus and I in tennis have tried to do so much for the sport. We're really excited to even have this opportunity."
Venus said she and Serena have been to "a few games." Serena dated former NFL players LaVar Arrington and Keyshawn Johnson, but the sisters said the Dolphins have long been their favorite team.
"We're just 'Go Fins!'-type people," Serena said.
"It's great going to the games for us," Venus said. "When we play tennis, you're so focused you don't really get to feel that atmosphere.
When we go to a Dolphins game, we get to soak in the atmosphere and we realize, 'Oh my God, we do this too.'"
The sisters posed for photographers holding team jerseys – No. 11 for Venus, No. 89 for Serena. EleVen is Venus' clothing line; 8-9 is the birth date of their half sister, Yetunde Price, who died in a 2003 shooting.
"We are thrilled to have Venus and Serena join the Dolphins as limited partners," said Ross, a New York real estate billionaire. "They are among the most admired athletes in the world and have become global ambassadors for the game of tennis. Their addition to our ownership group further reflects our commitment to connect with aggressively and embrace the great diversity that makes South Florida a multicultural gem."
Serena has won 11 major titles and Venus seven. They staged their latest sibling showdown last month at Wimbledon, where Serena beat Venus in the final, and will play in the U.S. Open beginning next week.
Musicians Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Marc Anthony recently bought small shares of the team. The Estefans are the first Cuban Americans to hold an ownership stake in an NFL team, and Anthony is from New York, and is of Puerto Rican descent.
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BIG WINNER IN COURT: Wild Wilderness Safari was awarded $916,745 last month in suit against power company.
The power to condemn private property for a large-scale infrastructure project is one that is, one hopes, reserved for only those projects that will truly serve the greater good. But even in cases where such a move is warranted, condemnations rarely sit right with property owners whose land is taken, especially when they feel the remainder of their land has been damaged or lessened in value in the process.
Such was the case with the condemnation of a 9-acre strip of the Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari in Gentry by Southwestern Electric Power Co., or SWEPCO, to build a high-voltage power line. The first time the case was tried, a jury awarded the owners of the park $87,539 in damages. Remanded to the lower court for retrial by the Arkansas Court of Appeals in March 2015, a jury in the second trial, decided Oct. 24, awarded the park's owners $916,745, an amount their lawyer said was an indication that the jury had been swayed by the argument that habitat set aside for the park's collection of animals — some of them critically endangered — had been harmed by the construction.
Josh Wilmoth, a spokesman for the family that has owned Wild Wilderness since the 1960s, wouldn't comment directly on the verdict or the case, citing ongoing legal action. He said his grandfather started collecting animals when his wife bought him buffalo and elk as a gift. The park opened to the public, on a donation admission basis, in the 1970s. Today, Wilmoth said, it provides sanctuary for several dozen species, including endangered Gaur bison from India; Pere David's deer, a species from China that's extinct outside of zoos; wild Mongolian horses; Persian onagers, an endangered species of wild donkey; Hartmann's mountain zebras; scimitar-horned oryx from North Africa, now extinct in the wild; and other, more common animals like hippos, kangaroos and emus.
"Our goal is to provide an establishment for wildlife conservation, education and care, and connection," Wilmoth said. "Connection is a better word than entertainment. We just want people to be able to go out and see the animals."
Little Rock attorney Sandy McMath handled the case for the Wilmoth family. McMath said that he became involved in the Safari Park case after clients he'd worked with on the successful effort to fight SWEPCO's Shipe Road-Kings River transmission line project suggested his name to the Wilmoths.
For years, McMath said, SWEPCO "had pretty well gotten whatever they wanted" in North Arkansas. Thanks to grass-roots opposition by landowners who feared SWEPCO's Shipe Road-Kings River project would ruin Ozark views, the power company withdrew its proposal for the project from consideration by the Arkansas Public Service Commission in December 2014. McMath said he believes the days of SWEPCO getting its way without question may be over. "I think the power company is on notice now that they can't just run roughshod over folks like they used to," McMath said.
In the second trial, McMath introduced into evidence claims of harm to the rest of the Safari Park property from the power line project.
McMath said there were three parcels at issue: the narrow 9-acre, half-mile-long sliver of property taken for the power line in the northernmost portion of the park; the 109-acre "quadrant four" in which the 9 acres were located; and the park as a whole, which covers about 300 acres.
"The harm done to the remaining portion of the property, aside from that which was taken, was critical to showing the true impact of the taking on the whole property," McMath said. "It's called severance damage."
McMath said the acreage that SWEPCO condemned and eventually built its line across was "critical" to the park because it was on a portion of land set aside for those species that are the most vulnerable to human contact, including wild Asian donkeys, sables and Pere David deer. He said the project required moving those animals because of the heavy construction traffic and noise, including clearing the right of way and bringing in what McMath said were "large, hammering derricks" to sink the footings for the transmission towers.
"The right of way is not just stringing up lines," he said. "This is a 345-megavolt transmission line ... [The right of way is] 150 feet across from one side to the other, and these pylons are over 150 feet high. Some of them are over 200 feet."
SWEPCO originally offered the Wilmoth family a settlement of $37,000 for the 9 acres taken for the project.
At trial in October, witnesses called by the Wilmoth family, including a veterinarian who has overseen the animals in the park for several years, argued that the Safari Park had been developed and planned over the past 50 years as a wildlife refuge, and that construction had upset that balance.
"They carefully collected these animals over time, and they assigned each one to a particular area of the park," McMath said. "As time went by, they were able to see where best to put each species and where not to put them. Quadrant four became sort of the backup repository for those that were most endangered, most sensitive, most vulnerable to human contact. If [SWEPCO] had looked to try to put it across the most damaging part of the park, that's where they would have done it."
The jury in the case appears to have agreed, though McMath said the award wasn't actually that large, given evidence that the most vulnerable animals of quadrant four would have to be permanently moved because they couldn't co-exist with the power line right-of-way. McMath said the Wilmoths were precluded from asking for funds to buy more acreage to provide sanctuary for the displaced animals.
Though McMath said the process of condemning land for large infrastructure projects is sometimes necessary, it must be done fairly and wisely. He said in the Safari Park case, SWEPCO had not given enough thought to the impact on the park from construction and the power line itself.
"The jury, I think, saw that the park had been damaged in a great way by the intrusion of the line into this very fragile sanctuary habitat," he said. "This is not just a farm. This is not just pasturage. This was a very carefully nurtured and developed zoological sanctuary for 85 species of wild animals, about 15 of which were up there [in quadrant four]. A lot of effort had gone into building this up and making it a refuge. The jury saw that losing that was a real blow in value to the property as a whole."


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package com.xiaofeng.service;

import com.xiaofeng.domain.User;
import com.xiaofeng.service.p.UserRepository;
import com.xiaofeng.service.s.MemberRepository;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.cache.CacheManager;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Isolation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Propagation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

/**
 * @author Chen Xiaofeng
 * @version 1.0.0
 * @date 2017/03/24
 * @email chenxf84@gmail.com
 */

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class MutiJpaTest {

    @Autowired
    private UserRepository userRepository;

    @Autowired
    private MemberRepository memberRepository;

    @Autowired
    private CacheManager cacheManager;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        //userRepository.deleteAll();
        userRepository.save(new User("xiaofeng", 10));
    }

    @Test
    @Transactional(value = "primaryTransactionManager", isolation = Isolation.DEFAULT, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
    public void test() throws Exception {

//        userRepository.save(new User("aaa", 10));
//        userRepository.save(new User("bbb", 20));
//        userRepository.save(new User("ccc", 30));
//        userRepository.save(new User("ddd", 40));
//        userRepository.save(new User("eee", 50));
//
//        Assert.assertEquals(5, Lists.newArrayList(userRepository.findAll()).size());
//
//        memberRepository.save(new Member("o1", 1));
//        memberRepository.save(new Member("o2", 2));
//        memberRepository.save(new Member("o3", 2));
//
//        Assert.assertEquals(3, Lists.newArrayList(memberRepository.findAll()).size());

        User u1 = userRepository.findByName("xiaofeng");
        System.out.println("第一次查询:" + u1.getAge());

        User u2 = userRepository.findByName("xiaofeng");
        System.out.println("第二次查询:" + u2.getAge());

        u1.setAge(20);
        userRepository.save(u1);
        User u3 = userRepository.findByName("xiaofeng");
        System.out.println("第三次查询:" + u3.getAge());

    }
}


"Why we volunteer.... and why you should too!"
Our Retail Communications volunteer, Georgia Hendry, wrote a fair few blogs while she was working with our retail and communications teams over the summer.
Between terms at university, she shared her experience of volunteering and what stands out for her and other young people volunteering around St Wilfrid's.
"Whether it's the Street's Cafe, the Donation Centre, or one of the seven shops; whenever I walk in to St Wilfrid's I can always hear laughter. That fulfilling sound of happiness is one of the many reasons why I enjoy volunteering for the hospice and why absolutely everyone should be getting involved too."
"Recent reports have shown that the number of young people (aged 16-24) volunteering has increased in the last decade, which is great to hear because we are the next generation who are going to be keeping the hospice moving forward. However, the hospice itself lacks younger voices and we need to encourage more to come and be part of such a high spirited environment!"
"Volunteering for St Wilfrid's comes with a whole list of benefits! For example, it's a great way to meet new people and make friends for life, it can be flexible to suit you, and we've got a lot of good bakers here who are frequently treating us to cakes and sausage rolls!"
"It develops your skills, increasing job prospects, and by giving your time to us, you are helping the hospice to provide free, end of life care, offering the feeling that you are giving back and making a difference!"
"Not everyone volunteers for the same reason and that's what makes it so unique. I spoke to a couple of our young volunteers to see why they get involved."
Matthew volunteers at the Donation Centre for his universal credit. He's only been volunteering for a month but he says "it's definitely boosted my confidence".
Anisa is an aspiring dietician who has been volunteering for the last three years to gain healthcare experience. She started at the end of her first year in college and now comes back between university terms.
"I think young people tend not to volunteer because it possibly doesn't cross their minds if they've never had an experience with the hospice like me and you or an older person", "the young clinical volunteer programme is great, it wasn't around when I applied so maybe there should be more programmes and that would encourage younger volunteers." Volunteering for St Wilfrid's "makes me feel good about myself at the end of the day and I would have felt like I had wasted the summer otherwise".
St Wilfrid's has been part of our family for a few years now as my mum is the Hair and Beauty Coordinator for the Streets Ahead salon. I've always got involved for example by helping out as a steward at the Reindeer Rush or by running across hot coals!
My mum absolutely loves her job and couldn't praise it enough, so it seemed a no brainer to try and get work experience with the communications team for my university course studying Fashion Communication and Promotion (FCP). Not only am I gaining valuable experience and skills for the future, but there's also a feeling that I'm making a difference and giving back.
My role requires me to work closely with other volunteers, which is not only helping me to develop my communication skills, but I've also enabled me to meet so many great people and I've only been here for a month!
Our volunteers are at the heart of everything we do and without them we couldn't provide our services to patients and their families.


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Jeannie Mai Gets Candid About Having 'Beautiful' Sex with Jeezy During Pregnancy: 'The Party Is On' [Video]
November 11, 2021 10:05 AM PST
Jeannie Mai Jenkins is opening up about having pregnancy sex with Jeezy.
via People:
For a new episode on her YouTube channel Hello Hunnay with Jeannie Mai, premiering exclusively with PEOPLE, The Real co-host chats with certified intimacy educator Shan Boodram about her sex life. Mai Jenkins is currently expecting her first baby with husband Jeezy.
Mai Jenkins says she had no sex drive in the first trimester because she was "more concerned about my feelings" — though at the second trimester, which is now: "The party is on. It's back and poppin'. … Everything is good in that department. I love it."
"One of my favorite positions is actually being on top of J because you see your belly, you see his face [and] he gets to play. Like, he's playing with your belly or playing with your breasts," she explains. "I credit him. I didn't tell him to do this, so him normalizing that the baby's there. You know how some men might be like, 'I don't wanna touch the baby' or maybe 'I'm not touching the belly'? But making it all — like, 'Yo, you gotta be up in the mix in this. This is how you got made!' "
"I think there's something really beautiful about that," she adds.
Speaking with Women's Health in September, Mai Jenkins said finding out about the pregnancy was "the most beautiful sign that anything's possible, that you're not in control, and God has a plan."
"Being a mom is hands down the hardest role in the entire world. Now that we're bringing another Jenkins into the picture. I have no idea what to expect," she said, adding of Jeezy, who is father to two kids, "He's an amazing dad, [and it] overwhelms me with even more love."
Sharing her pregnancy news on Instagram on Sept. 20, Mai Jenkins wrote, "When the heart sees what has been invisible to the eye … I have never been this thankful to feel so alive. Here come the Jenkins."
We never thought we'd be in a world where Jeezy and Jeannie Mai would be having a baby together — but here we are!
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Do the small bikes come with a chain guard?
The current European standards (EN14765) state that pedal bikes up to 16" need to be supplied with a chain guard, so our Frog 43 and 48 have a chain guard included in the box. Many models sold in the UK do not have a chain guard and many parents would prefer not to have it fitted so we suggest to stores that they ask customers whether they would like to have it fitted or not.
How can I buy a Frog Bike? I am a bike shop. How can I order Frog bikes? What size bike should I buy? How can I try the bike before I buy it? How will it be delivered? When can I collect my bike from my local store? Will I have to assemble the bike? Is it hard to assemble? How do I make sure the bike is set up right for my child? Why is weight so important? What's the best age to start riding a bike? How do I get my child started on a bike? How long will the bike fit my child? Will my child grow out of it quickly? How do I adjust the bike as my child grows? What can I do when my child grows out of the bike? Will you do a Part Exchange? Should I use stabilisers or a balance bike? Which is better? What should I do if my child is reaching too far for the handlebars? What size helmet do I need? How do I measure my child for a helmet? How do I make sure the helmet fits right? What if something goes wrong? Can I return the bike? What if my child doesn't like it, or wants a different colour? What if I order the wrong size? How long is the warranty? How can I service the bike? How often do kids' bikes need servicing? How do I attach the mudguards? Where can I get more inner tubes? Where do I find the bike's serial number? Can I easily take off the front wheel to transport the bike? I live outside the UK – can I buy a Frog Bike? Can I have panniers on my Frog bike? Can I attach a kick-stand to my Frog? Can I buy a tag-along attachment for my kid's bike? Do Frog track bikes comply with British Cycling rules? Do Frog Bikes comply with Standards; EN, ISO CPSC standards? Can I swap the brakes around (e.g. move rear brake to right hand)? How well do Frog Bikes hold their value? Why is the price different for a consumer if they choose their home country compared to the UK ? Will there be local charges, duties and taxes?


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Smuggling in fuel to fill demand in one of Africa's biggest oil-producers
Ndian, the division responsible for 90% of Cameroon's enormous oil output, does not have a single filling station.
BY MBOM SIXTUS*
Fuel being sold on the streets of Bamenda, Cameroon. Credit: Mbom Sixtus.
Driving the 13 km from Bambui to Bamenda in Cameroon's North West region, one would be forgiven for thinking the area is big on artisanal oil mining. This region is close to the country's big oil-producing zone, and plastic fuel containers line both sides of the road, attracting a steady flow of customers.
This petrol on sale, however, is not from the area. In fact, it's not from Cameroon at all. Known as "Funge" or "Zoa Zoa", it has been illegally smuggled from Nigeria.
At the side of a road, a vendor fills a customer's car, using the cut-off top of a plastic bottle as a funnel. His customer Ndi Mowah explains that this fuel is lower quality than at filling stations but that it is also less expensive. He says 30 litres of fuel costs FCFA 17,000 ($32) here rather than FCFA 19,000 ($36) at the pump, though he adds that prices do fluctuate.
"When police officers raid this area and collect bribes from vendors, they increase prices to make up for what they paid to the police," he says. However, Mowah emphasises that price is far from the only benefit to buying petrol in this way.
"We don't only buy because it is cheaper," he says, "but also because it is available everywhere and at all times."
Indeed, similar scenes of people buying and selling smuggled fuel can be seen up and down the country. The sale of illicit Nigerian petrol is widespread despite the fact that Cameroon is one of Africa's biggest oil-producers and sold 17 million barrels of crude in 2017.
Fuelling the illicit trade
In recent years, the government has attempted to clamp down on this trade. In 2016, it launched "Operation HALCOMI", which has since seized hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Emmanuel Nkongho Epey, commander of the operation, says the sale of smuggled petrol was previously allowed to grow due to "administrative tolerance". He suggests that officials permitted the importation of the "low quality" fuel from Nigeria to fill a shortage, but that it is now committed to ending the practice.
Ayah Paul Abine, a former MP and current leader of the People's Action Party, focuses on a different factor. He claims that the underlying reason the illegal practice has spread is because the government has simply failed to provide fuel and filling stations across much of the country.
Data from Cameroon's Ministry of Energy and Water Resources suggests that country has 742 filling stations, but that the majority are located in just three of ten regions: Centre, Littoral, and West.
The other regions are much more poorly catered to, including the South West, which produces the vast majority of Cameroon's oil. According to the ministry's data, three of the South West region's six divisions do not have a single petrol station – this includes Ndian, the area responsible for 90% of the country's massive oil output.
According to Jean Marie Wetondieu, head of the customs department in the Far North, the illicit fuel trade cannot be stemmed until this lack of filling stations is addressed. He says that even the few that exist often go empty for months at a time.
The crackdown on illicit fuel, however, does not seem to be accompanied by investment. Joseph Kpoumie, head of the customs department in the South West, says the government's clear priority in the region is to protect the national oil refinery.
This has become a particular concern in light of the rising discontentment and protests in Cameroon's Anglophone regions of North West and South West. Activists complain of marginalisation, underdevelopment and discrimination. Protests have often been suppressed by force.
In retaliation, some have called for demonstrators to attack trucks transporting fuel and timber from the South West to the port city of Douala in French-speaking Cameroon. Others have gone as far as to suggest demonstrators blow up fuel pipelines. In September, the governor of the Litterol region claimed an explosionnear the main petroleum depot in Douala was the result of a homemade bomb detonated by protesters.
A fair distribution
Cameroon joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2005. Through this programme, the government has to publish the amount of money the extractive sector contributes to the economy each year. According to these figures, the government collected $1.152 billion in taxes from the sector in 2015. Nearly 94% of that derived from petroleum.
Relatively little of this revenue, however, is pumped back into the main producing region of the South West. Richard Ndi Tantoh who sits on the national EITI Committee refers to this as an "unfair distribution". But he adds that even once money is allocated, "mechanisms to ensure the budget is used to improve on the lives of the people are weak. Consequently, very little of the budget reaches the target population as much of it is embezzled along the contract attribution ladder."
Tantoh argues that Cameroon's petroleum code needs to be modified like the country's 2016 mining code. That legislation contains provisions that ensure resources are ploughed back in the communities from which they are extracted.
By contrast, he says: "The petroleum code does not make any allocation for resources to be reverted to exploitation sites. That probably explains why there is little development."
In his opinion, as well as those of Cameroon's many vendors and their even more numerous customers, the demand for illicit fuel is unlikely to diminish until this is corrected. The country may produce millions of barrels of petroleum, but as long as that bypasses most of the country, citizens' best option will continue to be the fuel smuggled from Nigeria which is, by contrast, "available everywhere and at all times".
*Source African Arguments


This qualification prepares you for employment within the growing industry of cyber security. It offers a progression route into a number of roles within IT and computing professions. HNDs are recognised by employers and allow direct progression into employment. Students will have the use of the latest computing technology including a Cisco networking lab, NAO robots and Lego Mindstorm robots.
Each module carries equal weighting of 15 credits with the exception of Computing Research Project which carries a weighting of 30 credits.
Students complete a total of 240 credits. Your overall grade for the certificate is based on grades obtained for all modules taken.
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Installation view, Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness. Photo by Mitro Hood
Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness
March 28, 2021 — September 19, 2021
Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness, co-organized with the Aspen Art Museum, brings together more than 15 lush paintings that show the artist's expansive treatment of landscape through dexterously crafted compositions that tantalize the eye and beguile the mind.
Over a career now spanning 35 years, Yuskavage has produced paintings that are ebulliently colorful, unabashedly explicit, and epic in ambition—and yet elusory in their meaning. Since roughly 2007, the vastness of nature has played a significant role in her most ambitious large-scale paintings. Rather than simply depicting landscape elements, her expansive canvases imagine entire worlds that are both highly detailed and vague in implication, inviting viewers to consider the mysterious societies she has conjured.
An accompanying catalog features color reproductions of Yuskavage's sublime landscapes from the early 1990s to the present and an interview between Yuskavage and fellow artist Mary Weatherford as well as essays by Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director; Heidi Zuckerman, former Aspen Art Museum Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO; and noted curator Helen Molesworth.
This exhibition is co-curated by Heidi Zuckerman, former Aspen Art Museum Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director and Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness is generously sponsored by Clair Zamoiski Segal.
2020 Vision is generously sponsored by the Ms. Foundation for Women and PNC Foundation.


Breakfast and dinner options for guests staying on the farm.
Direct access through the property to the Mediterranean coast.
Learn about sustainable farming and our transition to organic.
Biking and walking paths with bird watching and wildlife viewing.
Master bedroom (queen size), guest bedroom (two singles), second guest bedroom (two singles), bathroom with bathtub, combined kitchen and living room with fireplace, balcony, independent entrance, and private garden with table and chairs. Price includes utilities, linens, towels, the final cleaning fee, internet, and the use of bikes while on the property.


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Former Undisputed Junior Welterweight Champion Terence Crawford who's scheduled to make his Welterweight debut June 9th, when he challenges WBO Champion Jeff Horn.
The Omaha native believes there's no reason why fights with Errol Spence and Keith Thurman can't happen.
This is what Crawford had to say the Los Angeles Times regarding potential future fight with Spence and Thurman.
"If a fight needs to be made, it can be made," Crawford said to the Los Angeles Times. "No matter what the circumstances are, we the fighters need to speak up and make it be known we want to fight each other.
He also let his feelings be known about his place among the top P4P fighters list, saying this.
We all certainly hope to see Crawford in the ring with Errol Spence, Keith Thurman and the rest of the top guys at 147.


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Metabolic resistance training is one of the best, most intense strategies for building muscle, torching fat, and improving overall physical fitness... at the same time.
Whew! I'm winded just rattling off MRT's many benefits.
MRT works by heightening the metabolic "cost" of exercise. This might sound geeky... until you try it. Whereas traditional resistance training might tap 25 or 30% of the body's "change capacity," MRT can maximize your potential for change and unleash metabolic forces that work all day and night.
By maximizing your body's change capacity, you can improve 50%—not 25 or 30%—in only 6 weeks. Even better, MRT spreads improvement across multiple desired targets. Basically, when properly integrated into a periodized-training scheme, MRT can help you build muscle, burn fat and gain strength at the same time.
Not showing an insane triceps artery? Try MRT.
In addition to stoking your body's fat-burning fire, MRT can also enhance muscle growth. It does so by increasing your lactate threshold, the point at which lactic acid rapidly begins to accumulate in your muscles. Lactic acid build-up can interfere with muscle contraction, reducing your reps.
Workout longer AND recover faster? What's not to love?
Repetitions should be performed at a moderately fast tempo, particularly on the concentric portion (the "positive" half) of the movement. Despite the hype that "super-slow" training optimizes metabolic effects, studies suggest otherwise. Aim to perform concentric lifts as explosively as possible without sacrificing clean technique.
Eccentric reps - the negative motion, when you lower the weight - should be performed somewhat slower. You want your working muscles to resist gravitational pull on the negative phase of each rep. Understand that eccentric exercise has been shown to have a significant effect on MRT-induced energy expenditure.
Not lowering weights under control diminishes results. An eccentric cadence of approximately 2-3 seconds is recommended.
Circuit training is probably the most popular MRT technique, and for good reason: it works! The energy cost of a circuit session has been estimated to be 7 kcal/kg/hr10. That equates to around 600 calories per hour for a typical 180-pound male. Not bad, huh?
Better yet, circuit training has been shown to have greater effects on the magnitude and duration of EPOC than traditional forms of strength training. All told, you can burn hundreds and hundreds of calories in a properly-executed circuit training workout.
You can use either a kettlebell or dumbbell for these exercises.
If necessary, rest briefly between rounds.
Bottom line: You're better able to maintain strength capacity on subsequent sets, allowing you to train at higher levels of intensity.
1 set, Max reps in 30 sec.
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Kelleher AR, Hackney KJ, Fairchild TJ, Keslacy S, Ploutz-Snyder LL. The metabolic costs of reciprocal supersets vs. traditional resistance exercise in young recreationally active adults. J Strength Cond Res. 2010 Apr;24(4):1043-51.
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Washington Redskins Morning Clips: 12/26
A morning roundup of what the local and national media have to say about the Washington Redskins on Wednesday, December 26, 2013.
--Washington Redskins head coach comments on the condition of FedExField and if it should be changed to an artificial surface.
--Redskins linebacker Brian Orakpo was limited in Tuesday's practice due to a groin injury. Orakpo said, "If I feel good, I'm going to try to give it a go."
--Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's injury surprised Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan. Shanahan said, "I had no idea, I thought it was his ankle."
--Quarterback Kirk Cousins feels good about his three starts in his NFL career and that he has made improvements. Cousins has suffered back to back one point losses and has thrown for 578 in the past two games.
--Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan tells the media that he has not discussed his job with his players. Shanahan will speak with owner Dan Snyder at the end of the season to discuss his future with the team.
--A look at potential head coaches that might be available, and what to expect from a new coach moving forward.
--An inspirational story of Redskins running back Jawan Jamison and how Jamison is driven by his mothers passion for her son.
--The Washington Redskins must prepare for an interesting offseason where 22 players will be free agents after Sunday's game vs. the Giants. The Redskins will reportedly have approximately $25 million to spend this offseason to address team needs.
--As the offseason approaches one potential new head coach Art Briles has been mentioned as the next Redskins head coach. Briles was quarterback Robert Griffin III's coach in collage at Baylor University.
--The state of the Redskins in Week 17 including offensive and defensive MVPs and the Redskins rankings around the league.
--A look at potential draft prospects during the Hawaii Bowl which includes a matchup between Boise State and Oregon State. One writer feels that Boise State's left tackle Charles Leno Jr. is the teams best draft prospect.
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How to Dispose of a Dead Possum
By Edriaan Koening Updated July 21, 2017
Despite looking like rodents, possums or opossums are actually the only marsupials in North America. They are related to kangaroos and koalas, and their infants live in the mothers' pouches while nursing. Possums are slow and can't outrun predators. Instead of running away, possums pretend to be dead when threatened.
A seemingly dead possum may revive in a few minutes or a few hours.
Trash can with lid
Sticky tape
Depending on where you live, your local animal control authority may dispose of the dead possum upon request. If you have dogs, place them inside the house while you wait to see if the possum will revive. Dogs may attack possums.
Don't touch a dead possum or any other dead wild animal if you have an open cut on your hand because it increases the risk of disease transmission.
They roll over, become still, drool and breathe very slowly. As such, you should always make sure that a possum is indeed dead before you dispose of it.
Leave the possum for about four hours. Possums usually pretend to be dead for only up to four hours. When they revive, they wiggle their ears and then start moving.
Approach the possum if it doesn't move after four hours. Check the pouch for any live young possums if the dead possum is female. Wrap any young possums in a soft towel. Contact a local wildlife rehabilitator and surrender the young possums.
Wear a pair of disposable plastic or rubber gloves to prevent direct skin contact with the dead possum. The possum may carry a disease and the gloves serve as a protective barrier.
Place the dead possum in a plastic garbage bag and tie the bag tightly.
Place the plastic bag in a garbage can with a lid. Alternatively, place it in a cardboard box and tape the box shut. Keeping the carcass in a closed container prevents scavengers from getting to it and breaking the plastic bag.
Put the garbage can or the box at the curb for trash pickup.
Throw away the gloves and wash your hands with soap and water.
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Edriaan Koening began writing professionally in 2005, while studying toward her Bachelor of Arts in media and communications at the University of Melbourne. She has since written for several magazines and websites. Koening also holds a Master of Commerce in funds management and accounting from the University of New South Wales.
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I am a fiscal conservative. I consider it to be a high priority for policymakers to reduce the size of government.
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Gannon University's Commencement is presented each year with the goal of creating a celebratory event for each graduate and their guests. This year we would like you to help us achieve this goal for our students.
Last year we heard from students, parents and grandparents who felt that the Commencement ceremony experience was diminished because of the behavior of a few classmates. Graduates and guests were rude or disruptive during the ceremony, and many of the graduates left immediately after they left the stage. These behaviors on Commencement Day do affect the people around you—guests, faculty, the dais party, speakers and performers, and, most importantly, your fellow graduates. Please be mindful of your fellow graduates. By remaining in your seat until the conclusion of the ceremony and by refraining from making disruptive noise during the ceremony, you can ensure that you are not interfering with anyone else's experience of the event.
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