What is Verified Boot in Chrome OS?
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Verified boot in Chrome OS is a helpful way to make sure your Chromebook is as secure as possible.
Chrome OS
Before we jump into what verified boot is, let's first learn a little about Chrome OS. Chrome OS is the operating system for Chromebooks and other Chrome devices. It's designed to be fast and responsive, so your device reacts quickly even when you're streaming videos or have multiple tabs and apps open.
Chrome OS updates automatically without interruptions, so your Chromebook is always running the most up-to-date software without breaking your work flow. Chrome OS has many different features to increase speed, simplicity, and security. One of these many features is verified boot.
Verified boot in Chrome OS
So what is verified boot in Chrome OS? A verified boot is a sort of self-check, performed each time your Chromebook starts up. When a Chromebook detects foul play, meaning the system has been tampered with or corrupted in any way, the Chromebook repairs itself by reverting to a previous operating system and be good as new. So even if malware manages to escape the sandbox, your Chromebook is still protected!
There is only a small list of known executable commands a Chrome device performs. Your Chrome device verifies and signs off on each command before it's performed so your device isn't filled with tons of unneeded software and downloads.
Your Chromebook also doesn't allow any edits to its file system. With a read-only root file system, viruses or other malware don't have the ability to change the file system. This prevents any harmful edits to the Chrome OS. The only edits that do apply to Chrome OS are the automatic updates for the entirety of your device. These background updates help ensure you have the most up-to-date and secure software running on your OS. This means more time to do what you want! A verified boot in Chrome OS is just one of the many ways the Google lifestyle can help with speed, simplicity, and security.
If you would like to learn more about Chrome devices, like how to Powerwash your Chromebook or what sandboxing is in Chrome OS, check out our Knowledge Base.
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text: A nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) algorithm is developed and tested on the Tennessee Eastman challenge process. The model used in NMPC is a nonlinear, mechanistic, state variable formulation with 26 states, 10 manipulated variables and 23 outputs. Fifteen unmeasured disturbances and parameters are estimated on-line to eliminate offset in outputs. The NMPC strategy controls eight outputs using eight manipulated variables. There is an additional SISO loop to control reactor liquid level. In direct comparisons, we show that NMPC is always superior to a typical SISO multiloop strategy. There are marked improvements in cases involving large changes in setpoints and/or constraint handling. The NMPC algorithm is similar to previous work, but simplifications in the projection/optimization step make the computations more feasible for a typical process computer.

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An Up-Close Look at the Tiny Sensory Pits That Ticks Use to Smell
By Meredith Swett Walker
If you ever find a tick before it finds you—that is when it's still hanging out on vegetation hoping you'll brush past it—you may notice the little bloodsucker waving its "arms in the air like it just don't care." But ticks aren't fans of 1980's hip hop. They're waving their arms because they are trying to get a whiff of you.
While insects primarily smell with their antennae, ticks are not insects; rather, they're arachnids, and they don't have antennae. Instead, a tick smells using a structure on its forelegs called the Haller's organ. The Haller's organ is described as a tiny "sensory pit" that can detect chemicals like carbon dioxide, ammonia, or pheromones. It can even sense humidity and infrared light, which includes body heat emitted by the warm, blood-filled creatures that the tick wants to find.
Despite the importance of the Haller's organ in tick's ability to find hosts, it hasn't been described in detail for many important tick species. But in research published in December in the Journal of Medical Entomology, Tanya Josek, Brian Allan, Ph.D., and Marianne Alleyne, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois examine the Haller's organ in three medically important species of tick: the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis), the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis).
Each of these species is an important disease vector: I. scapularis transmits the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, A. americanum transmits the bacteria that cause ehrlichiosis, and D. variabilis transmits the bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A better understanding of how these ticks find their hosts may aid in reducing disease transmission.
Josek, a graduate student in Alleyne's lab, was interested in arthropod sensory structures. The Haller's organ seemed a great research topic: Relatively little was known about it, and the potential findings could have important applications in real-world tick-control efforts. The only problem? Josek had a phobia of ticks stemming from some bad experiences in childhood. "This was a complete shock to me because I have loved spiders and insects my whole life," she says.
But Josek conquered her fear with knowledge, reading up on where you're most likely to pick up the parasites and how long it takes them to transmit disease. She trained with Allan to learn tick collection skills. Then, arming herself with a white Tyvek suit and ample duct tape, she set out into the forests and fields of Illinois in search of ticks.
Previous studies of the Haller's organ were mostly qualitative, which, while informative, are not useful to making quantitative comparisons between species. In addition, recent advances in scanning electron microscope technology provided an opportunity to look more closely at the tiny structure. Josek and her collaborators used environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) to get high resolution images of Haller's organs.
The team focused on the overall shape of the Haller's organ in each tick species as well as the organ's major components: the capsule aperture, anterior pit, and the number of setae and sensilla (hair-like structures) in the pit. They analyzed their images using Geometric Morphometrics Analysis, a technique that essentially translates shape measurements into data that can be used in quantitative comparisons.
They found that the structure of the Haller's organ was significantly different in each species of tick. In one species, D. variabilis, the morphology of the Haller's organ was significantly different between females and males. This study did not test the consequences of these differences in shape, but the detailed quantitative measurements it provides can serve as a basis for future studies in differences in function of the Haller's organs between species.
I. scapularis, A. americanum, and D. variabilis have different preferred hosts and different strategies for finding them. The differences in the structure of their Haller's organs may reflect this. In order to understand how Haller's organ morphology relates to tick life histories, "within-genus comparisons, as well as comparisons between ticks with different host-seeking behaviors or between ticks that have a generalist or specialist host-range," are necessary, say the authors.
Meanwhile, Josek is working on determining the specific chemicals, infrared wavelengths, or humidity variables the Haller's organ is sensing. Josek and Alleyne are also looking at the organ from a genomics perspective and will soon publish a paper that examines the chemoreceptors and binding proteins expressed in the Haller's organ.
Alleyne's main research interest is bioinspired design, and, while she's not a huge fan of ticks, she finds inspiration in the Haller's organ. "To think that arthropods have an exoskeleton that protects them from the environment … and yet are able to sense minute amounts of chemicals is amazing to me. The Haller's organ is an example of a multi-functional sensor that is very sensitive yet rather simple in design, compared to a vertebrate's nose, for instance," she says.
If we can better understand the structure ticks use to find us (and their other hosts,) we might devise ways to elude them. This could reduce transmission of serious diseases, as well as make ticks less of a creepy problem for people who work or play outdoors. Josek has overcome her tick phobia and is now comfortable collecting and handling them, but "I still have the occasional nightmare about them," she admits.
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Meredith Swett Walker is a former avian endocrinologist who now studies the development and behavior of two juvenile humans in the high desert of western Colorado. When she is not handling her research subjects, she writes about science and nature. You can read her work on her blogs Pica Hudsonia and The Citizen Biologist or follow her on Twitter at _USER_.

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National Register of Historic Places similar to or like Overseas Railroad
Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 mi beyond the end of the Florida peninsula. Wikipedia
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 mi south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. Wikipedia
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- This key is the site of a number of Indian mounds and middens, most of which were destroyed during the building of the Overseas Railroad.
- The completion of the Overseas Railroad, which ran the length of Plantation Key, destroyed the agricultural economy of the island.
- In 1912, the Florida Overseas Railroad was completed to Key West.
- Before the Key West extension of the Overseas Railroad was completed, Knights Key was the end of the line and a major seaport existed there.
- However, by the early 1880s, high costs, labor strife, and transportation issues (overseas land links were still decades away) had him exploring relocation options once again.
- The station was the southern end of the FEC line until 1905, when construction began to Key West via the Overseas Railroad.
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Age: 2-5 years
Little ones can make flowers using muffin liners, glitter glue and buttons.
What You Need:
-Glue (we used glitter glue)
-Muffin liners (we used some plain and some silver)
What You Do:
- Let your little ones put glue on the construction paper whereever they would like to put a "flower".
- Have them place a muffin liner on the glue. Repeat.
- Encourage your child/student to put a dab of glue in the center of the muffin liner.
- Then, have them place a button on the glue dab.
- To complete the picture, little ones can use markers to draw stems and leaves on the construction paper.
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Occlusal Adjustment in Greenwood Village, CO
Occlusal Adjustment in Grenwood Village, CO
Occlusal, or bite, adjustment is a procedure performed to remove tiny interferences that keep teeth from coming together properly. These interferences can prevent the jaw from closing in its anatomically correct position. Interferences can develop as teeth develop, can occur following an accident, or they can accumulate over time with wear. Dental work such as fillings, crowns, bridges, and extractions can also cause interferences.
Interferences can prevent the jaw from fully sliding into its anatomically correct position. This means that the muscles of the jaw and neck are never able to fully relax. This may result in severe headaches and neck aches. Many develop bruxism, or teeth grinding, as their jaw seeks its natural position. Bruxism can cause bone loss, tooth loss, and receding gums. Overtime, patients may develop tempromandibular joint issues, or TMJ, if they go untreated.
How can I know if my bite is "off"?
During your examination, your doctor will examine your jaw closely and may notice symptoms that your bite may be off. Some symptoms include if the jaw does not open evenly on both sides, if the jaw makes a clicking noise as it opens, if the enamel has been ground away in certain areas, or if there are fractured teeth. Chronic symptoms of bruxism, headaches or neck aches, are also clues that the bite may be off.
How is my bite fixed?
Before the procedure begins, the doctor will have you bite on a very thin piece of mylar paper. The mylar paper transfers color to the areas where contact occurs. The doctor will then smooth the area where the marks have been left removing just enough of the tooth or restoration to eliminate the interference. This process will be done on all areas where the mylar paper left color on the tooth until the jaw is able to get into its normal position.
Dr. Adam F. Weaver, located in Greenwood Village, CO, is a Periodontist who services patients from Littleton, CO, Englewood, CO, and Southglenn, CO. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our office and encourage you to schedule your appointment today!

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STOCKHOLM – January 14, 2021 – Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven today announced Prison Architect: Going Green, the next expansion for their prison management simulator, Prison Architect. Going Green expands the management gameplay mechanics and introduces farming, allowing prisoners to grow produce and create a self-sustaining compound. Prison Architect: Going Green will be available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on January 28.
Prison Architect: Going Green offers new means of making an environmentally-friendly prison. Players can farm the land, construct green energy sources, and customize their compound with sustainable materials. Crafty Inmates will seize the opportunity and produce thematic contraband, increasing the challenge to keeping a prison under control.
Going Green Key Features
- Fruits of Labor: Farming introduces a new type of Prison Labor, allowing prisons to grow potatoes, wheat, apples, and more. Produce can be exported or used as ingredients for inmate meals.
- Room to Grow: Three outdoor rooms facilitate farming: Fruit Orchard, Farm Field and Vegetable Allotment. But that's not all, players can recruit staff Farm Workers, build a Pantry to store produce, and construct a Shed to house farming-related items.
- Best Buds: Inmates who enjoy nature's beauty can grow flowers and other plants recreationally. Gardening affects inmates and gives them a positive recreation activity.
- Trouble is Brewing: With new crops comes new contraband. Prisoners can now secretly grow herbs in the fields and swipe kitchen ingredients to brew Booze. Fields can also become Gang Turf, so keep your guards on alert!
- A Greener New Deal: Prisons get an eco-friendly makeover with Solar, Wind, and Solar/Wind Hybrid power sources. Excess power created by these sustainable methods can be sold back to the grid using the Power Export Meter.
Launching alongside Going Green is The Glasshouse, a free content update available to all Prison Architect players. The Glasshouse introduces additional objects, quickrooms, community improvements and two new top-notch employees – K9 units Shepherd and Bowtie Bandit. Wardens can create a more sustainable prison with Recycling Systems and objects like recycling bins or solar lights. Players will also be excited to see the addition of Object Menu Sorting Methods and improvements to the dump and demolition tools, which have been requested by the community and will make menus more intuitive.
"Going Green continues Prison Architect's history of riffing off popular prison fiction seen in movies, TV, and other media. This will be the third Prison Architect expansion we will have launched since Paradox took over the IP in 2019 and we can't wait to see your latest creations," Steacy McIlwham, Product Manager for Prison Architect at Paradox Interactive. "The Glasshouse also kicks off a series of updates we will make to the game's interface, starting with the dump and demolition tools, making it more user-friendly. We understand this is something the community has been asking about for a long time and we want you to know your voice has been heard."
You can add Going Green to your Steam wishlist here: _URL_.
For more information on Going Green and Prison Architect, and Paradox Interactive, visit _URL_.


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Battle Remains in the Ypres Salient, Belgium
This page lists some of the more well known battle remains which can be seen or which are accessible to visitors in the _PHONE_ Ypres Salient battlefields.
In the list below click to show the place on the map or to expand the details.
Bayernwald German Trenches
Wijtschate (2 kilometres north of the village)
Reconstructed section of original German trench system (access by prior booking from Kemmel Tourist Office).
British Bunker at Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station, Ieper-Ijser Canal
Western Ieper-Ijser canal bank, north of Ypres
Preserved bunker complex used by the British Army as a medical dressing station.
From the original dugouts in the earth of the western spoilbank of the Ieper-Ijser canal in April 1915, a medical treatment centre near Essex Farm was developed into a concrete bunker with several rooms by 1917. See our page giving information about the origins of the dressing station with a sketch showing the plan of the complex.
British Bunker at Zillebeke
Komenseweg, off the N336 south of Ypres
(The bunker is on private land and not accessible, but can easily be seen from the road.)
This bunker can be seen in a field on the north side of the road near to Transport Farm British military cemetery. The horizontal lines in the concrete were created when sandbagging was laid onto the bunker's surface while the concrete was still wet.
Bunkers and Battlefield Relics at Pond Farm, near St. Julien
Fortuinhoek (6 kilometres north-east of Ypres)
A private museum at the farm includes a collection of antique items from the First World War period and many fascinating relics found on the battlefields around the farm.
The farm near St. Julien was known as Pond Farm on British Army trench maps, and Kazerne Häseler on German military maps. After the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915 the farm was in German occupied ground. By 1917 Pond Farm was one of many reinforced strongpoints in the German Army's defensive line. Three large bunkers, small bunkers, tunnels and cellars formed the fortifications at this place.
For a comprehensive history of the farm with photos and what visitors can see there go to the website:
Cratered Ground and Bunker at Hill 60
Zwaarteleenstraat, off Komenseweg at Zwaarte Leen
The cratered ground at Hill 60 was left relatively untouched after the First World War and preserved as a memorial
Many hundreds of French, British and German soldiers lost their lives in the fight for this area of high ground. A bunker can be found in the central area of the Hill 60 Memorial Site grounds.
German Command Post Bunker at Zandvoorde
South of Zandvoorde village, south-east of Ypres
A preserved German command post built in 1916 in the rear area of the 1916 German Front Line.
See our page about the bunker and how to find it:
German Bunker near Langemark
Beekstraat, off the Klerkenstraat north of Langemark
This bunker is similar to the three concrete bunkers within the German military cemetery at Langemark. It was captured by the British Army in September 1918.
It was used after that time as an Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) to treat the wounded. The memorial to the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers of the British 34th Division has been located next to this bunker.
The bunker can be accessed by a path from the road at all times.
German Bunkers in Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tynecotstraat, south of Passschendaele village
There are three German bunkers in Tyne Cot cemetery. One of the three bunkers is the location where it was decided to build the Cross of Sacrifice. The other two bunkers remain untouched.
For information about Tyne Cot Cemetery and the features in the cemetery including the bunkers see our page:
Hussar Farm Observation Post
N345 Kruiskalsijdestraat, south of Potijze village
The Observation Post (O.P.) was built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers inside the original farmhouse.
The brick and concrete structure was strengthened with railway lines and corrugated iron sheeting. In spite of the artillery shelling from the German guns for most the four years of war in the Ypres Salient this OP has survived.
Mine Crater on The Caterpillar at Zillebeke
Zwaarteleenstraat, off Komenseweg at Zwaarte Leen
This crater was formed by a mine exploded under the German position on high ground south of the YpresComines railway.
This high ground had been created by the spoil from when the railway cutting was made before the First World War. The high ground was known as The Caterpillar and it overlooked Hill 60, similarly created from the railway cutting spoil only a few hundred metres to its east. The mine crater has since filled with water and now forms a small round pond in the wood which has grown up since the fighting ended here.
Access to the crater is free. There is a path of about 100 metres to reach the mine crater from the road. Once in the wood the crater is located on the right of the path.
Mine Crater at Spanbroekmolen — The Pool of Peace
Kruisstraat, south east of Wijtschate
Mining underneath the enemy's position was a characteristic of warfare in the Ypres Salient. A number of large mines were exploded in the Ypres Salient.
The most notable of these were the 19 mines exploded in the early hours of 7th June 1917 at the launch of the British offensive on the German lines on the Messines Ridge. This mine crater is one of these mines. The crater created by the explosion here has filled with water due to the high water table and the clay soil.
The Spanbroekmolen crater was purchased by Toc H in the 1920s. It remained untouched until the 1990s, when it was formally named "The Pool of Peace" in Remembrance of the _PHONE_ war and those who fought in it.
Trenches at Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62)
Canadalaan, off the N8 Menenstraat
When the farmer returned to reclaim his land after the fighting ended he left a section of trenches on his land in a wood near Hill 62, which had been known as Sanctuary Wood on British Army maps.
This is one of few sections of trench line with saps and a tunnel on the Western Front which can offer the visitor an idea of what they would have looked like.
Yorkshire Trench near Boezinge
Bargiestraat, off the road called Oostkaie on the east side of the Ypres-Yser canal.
Yorkshire Trench was discovered and dug out during the development of the industrial zone to the north of Ieper in the late 1990s.
A section of original British trench system, with entrances to two tunnels and dugouts, has been reconstructed with concrete sandbags and duckboards. Information boards explain the history of the trench and the area it is in.
Access is free and is open to visit at all hours.
For more information about the typical types of battlefield remains to be found on the Western Front see our pages:Battlefield remains on the Western Front Battle Remains in the French Flanders and Artois Battlefields Battle Remains on the Somme Battlefields
The Ypres Salient Battlefields, Flanders, BelgiumThe Ypres Salient Battlefields
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February 23, 2012
Archaeological excavations open at Great Pee Dee March 5
The 16th Annual Johannes Kolb Archaeology and Education Project will be March 5-10 and March 12-16 at Great Pee Dee Heritage Preserve, a 2,725-acre preserve in Darlington County owned and managed by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
On Saturday, March 10, from 9 a. m. to 4 p.m., the public is invited to tour the excavations at the Johannes Kolb Site. There will be a host of demonstrators at the site for the March 10 public day. Numerous time periods when people lived at the Kolb site will be represented including: 18th century Native Americans and European colonists; late 19th century African-American sharecroppers; and demonstrations of primitive skills (stone tools, friction fire and aboriginal cookery).
Excavations will take place at the site on March 5-10, 12-16. Someone will be on site every day from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. to talk with students and visitors. School groups wishing to visit may contact Sean Taylor, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Heritage Trust archaeologist, at _PHONE_ in Columbia or by e-mail at _EMAIL_.
More than 90 percent of the Native American artifacts excavated from the Kolb Site are the discarded by-products, i.e. flakes, of the stone tool-making process. Many of the historic artifacts represent the mundane day-to-day activities of making a living from the river swamp. Both are equally important to our understanding of what life was like for people who lived along the Great Pee Dee River for the last 12,000 years. However, these artifacts are not as exciting as those occasional pieces that represent the people who called the Kolb site home.
"Throughout the two week season we are planning to continue sampling the site with two meter square excavations," said Taylor. "Visitors are welcome to come out, jump in and assist with excavation, screening and note taking. Our goal is to demonstrate what archaeology is all about and most importantly what it can tell us about our ancestors."
A multi-component prehistoric site is present on the preserve with Native American remains from Paleoindian (11,000 years ago), Early Archaic (10,000 to 8,000 years ago), Early Woodland (4,000 to 2,000 years ago) and later Woodland times (2,500 to 1,500 years ago). Thoms Creek pottery, from the Early Woodland period, has been found on the site, and a sizable fragment was recovered in 2004. Thoms Creek is some of the earliest Indian-made clay pottery in the continental United States. In 1998, a Hardaway Point dating back 11,000 years was discovered at the Great Pee Dee Heritage Preserve, and in 2000 a portion of a 12,000-year-old Clovis Point was found.
Artifacts from the 19th century, such as broken glass, bricks and nails, have also been found on the preserve. In total, more than 200,000 artifacts have been recorded at the site in the past years of fieldwork. Chip Helms of Darlington, a past member of the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology's Archaeological Research Trust Board, first recorded this site and others on the preserve in 1975. Helms, who has explored the preserve since he was a young boy, has been the driving force behind the current excavations.
- Spring turkey season forecast fair; youth day March 31
- Renowned herpetologist featured at Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic March 23-25
- Archaeological excavations open at Great Pee Dee March 5
- Three states add bass fishing as high school varsity sport: Will S.C. follow suit?
- Dixie Hornet Anglers conduct another successful tournament on Lake Secession
- S.C. Drought Committee to meet in Columbia on March 8
- Harry Hampton Wildlife Fund donates $104,050 to DNR
- Record size blue catfish caught from Santee Cooper system
- Oyster shell recycling drop-off opens at Kalmia Gardens in Hartsville
- Oyster shell recycling drop-off opens in Florence County
- S.C. Wildlife's 28th annual outdoor photo contest accepting entries
- Aiken County wildlife area will open to the public four Saturdays in March
- Prescribed burns planned at Forty Acre Rock Preserve in Lancaster County
- Camp Wildwood of South Carolina open for 2012 registration
- Freshwater fishing trends
- Saltwater fishing trends
- S.C. weekly tidetable
- DNR video


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- Location: Swansea - South Wales
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: ONGOING
- Job Type: Temporary
- Sector: Additional Learning Needs (ALN), Primary Education, Secondary Education
- Category: 1-2-1 Support, School Support, Teaching Assistant
- Job Ref: SWA01KS
- Salary: Competitive Pay Rates
New Directions Education are currently recruiting Learning Support Assistants for Schools in Swansea, which focus on the teaching and learning of young people in Additional Learning Needs Schools.
We fill many vacancies in schools in the Swansea area with candidates who have particular experience in working with children who require extra support in mainstream classes as well as Special Teaching Facilities.
Our ideal candidates would possess the qualifications and skills below or proven ability within this environment:
- Level 3 qualification specific to supporting children and young people.
- Be able to help monitor the pupils progress in daily tasks.
- Provide support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities.
- Assist class teachers with maintaining student records.
- Manual Handling.
- Team Teach
- First Aid
- Food Hygiene
These positions are to cover day-to-day supply and longer term ongoing sickness.
The job of a teaching or classroom assistant is a now vital resource for the teacher where the position in heavily relied upon in the classroom. Further evidencing the importance of this role within schools is the rapid growth in numbers employed across the UK. Numbers employed have risen from 61,000 a decade ago 213,900 in 2011.
Teaching Assistant Qualifications
New Directions Education are specialists in recruiting Teaching Assistant (TA) jobs who are qualified to the below:
- NVQ Level 2 Teaching Assistant;
- NVQ Level 3 Teaching Assistant;
- Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA);
- CACHE Level 3 in Childcare & Education;
- BTEC National Certificate in Childhood Studies (Nursery Nursing).
We will also consider experienced learning support assistants (LSAs) who have previously held a job in a primary school or assisted a pupil in the role in a secondary school but do not hold any of the above qualifications.
Jobs in Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
A large number of our jobs are in ALN and we fill many vacancies in schools with candidates who have particular experience in working with children classified as below:
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD);
- Multi-Sensory Impairment (MSI);
- Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD);
- Profound and Moderate Learning Difficulties (PMLD);
- Emotional Behavioural Difficulties (EBD);
- Severe Learning Difficulties.
As well as working with students who have Physical Disabilities (PD).
Duties of a Teaching Assistant
- Assist in the educational and social development of pupils under the direction and guidance of the Head Teacher, ALNCO and Class Teachers;
- Assist in the implementation of Individual Education Programmes (IEP) for students and help monitor their progress;
- Provide support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities;
- Assist class teachers with maintaining student records;
- Support students with emotional or behavioural problems and help develop their social skills.
What can you expect from New Directions Education?
- A dedicated account manager;
- Regular and varied teaching supply work;
- Competitive pay rates;
- Potential long-term teaching roles;
- Fully compliant with the Agency Workers Regulation (AWR);
- Network of branches across the UK;
- Preferred supplier to 19 boroughs across the UK;
- Recommend-a-friend scheme;
- Respected reputation throughout the education and recruitment industry.
Please contact New Directions Education for more information on this job vacancy, on 01792 620180, or use our form below to enquire about this job vacancy.
Last modified: 8th November 2018


Contraction Connections
By Riva Preil
Surprise: you are more connected to yourself than realized! A study was recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience (October 8) which reveals pelvic floor muscle contractions are strongly connected with the activation of other muscles, particularly the gluteal muscles. Jason Kutch, corresponding author of the study and assistant professor in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry, explains that when the pelvic floor muscle involuntarily contracts (say, to maintain continence or prevent flatulence), the gluteals automatically contract as well.
How did he prove this? By employing ELECTROMYOGRAPHY, a tool that enables researchers to measure muscle contractions and co-activation patterns. He discovered that when participants activated the gluteals, activation of the pelvic floor muscles occurred as well. In essence, individuals were inadvertently performing Kegel exercises when activating the gluteals, however the same phenomenon did NOT occur when participants contracted intrinsic finger muscles.
In addition, Kutch and his team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to analyze which area of the brain is activated during pelvic floor muscle, gluteal, and finger muscle activation. Not surprisingly, the same region of the brain, the medial wall of the precentral gyrus of the primary motor cortex, is activated both during pelvic floor and gluteal muscle activation.
Practically speaking, this research supports that which I have been telling my patients for years. Namely, that individuals who suffer from pelvic pain should NOT participate in Pilates or other intense core workouts that involve abdominal and gluteal contractions. The reason I discourage them from doing so is that these types of exercises will inevitably contribute to further tightening and possible pain within the pelvic floor muscles.
Instead, patients with pelvic pain should participate in pelvic floor STRETCHING exercises. To learn more about whether or not pelvic floor stretches are appropriate for YOU, please contact us at Beyond Basics Physical Therapy, where we can help create an individualized pelvic floor muscle program based on your specific needs.
3 thoughts on "Contraction Connections
 1. Jim
 I'm struggling with exercise/activity induced pelvic pain flares. Can you provide specific examples of activities that fit your description, i.e., "intense core workouts that involve abdominal and gluteal contractions"?
 1. bbpt1
 Seeing a pelvic floor PT to guide you through the exercise that work for you is the best advice and idea. Cardio that is pain free is advised, so walking, swimming. Doing massages and gentle stretches are also advised, but you need to monitor your symptoms and if you feel any pain, then stop that particular exercise, stretch. My book, Heal Pelvic Pain, or Dvd: Healing Pelvic and abdominal pain, can both guide you through various exercises.
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THE first-ever official State commemoration of the 1913 Lockout will take place in Dublin this summer.
THE Government is making arrangements which will involve the State in a major event to mark the centenary of the dramatic events that shook the city for almost six months.
One-third of the population suffered severe hardship after employers locked out their workers in a widespread dispute stemming from efforts to curb the growth of trade unions.
Three people were killed and hundreds more injured by police baton charges in violent incidents during the dispute.
Author Padraig Yeates (66), a leading member of the 1913 Commemoration Committee, told the Herald the State has never taken an official role in commemorating the Lockout events. The official commemorations are likely to centre on the events of August 1913, when hundreds of people were injured when police baton-charged crowds on O'Connell Street, then known as Sackville Street
The previous night, two men died from blows from police batons in riots on Burgh Quay and Eden Quay.
A third man died after being batoned in his home in Foley Street during police raids that weekend.
The State commemoration will also officially acknowledge the role of the labour movement in the turbulent decade which followed and its role in securing Irish independence, said Mr Yeates.
An Post will be issuing commemorative stamps.


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It has been suggested that in the presence of astigmatism some individuals make cyclic changes in focus over the astigmatic interval to obtain better visual performance. The aim in the present study was to identify such cyclic accommodative behavior and to characterize the variability of the response in the presence of astigmatism. The dynamic accommodation response in the presence of induced astigmatism was recorded objectively with an infrared optometer in seven young adults. Astigmatism led directly to increased accommodative variability in certain individuals. In two of seven participants there was evidence for aperiodic cyclic accommodative responses between different portions of the astigmatic interval. However, the amplitude of these tracking responses was much smaller than the astigmatic interval.
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Terms for Talking about Information and Communication
AbstractThis paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs: Index, based in contiguity, icon, based in similarity, and symbol, based in convention; (2) examining three kinds of coding: Analogic differences, which deal with positive quantities having contiguous and continuous values, and digital distinctions, which include "either/or functions", discrete values, and capacities for negation, decontextualization, and abstract concept-transfer, and finally, iconic coding, which incorporates both analogic differences and digital distinctions; and (3) differentiating between "information theoretic" orientations (which deal with data, what is "given as meaningful" according to selections and combinations within "contexts of choice") and "communication theoretic" ones (which deal with capta, what is "taken as meaningful" according to various "choices of context"). Finally, a brief envoi reflects on how information broadly construed relates to probability and entropy. View Full-Text
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"The Earth-orbiting mission of the BME developed picosatellite has ended: it entered the denser parts of the atmosphere on September 28 2020 and disintegrated.
After spending the sensationally long time of nearly 10 months in space, the world's first functional pocket-sized (5x5x5cm) satellite, 1-PocketQube burned up in the atmosphere. Despite a planned lifecycle of 3 months, SMOG-P was fully functional even 8 months after its launch. The systems and the backup units were properly functioning and the developers did not detect any circuit failures either. (Editor note: bme.hu reported earlier on the satellite's launch into orbit.)"


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Tasseling and detasseling
About three weeks ago, I stopped along Old Highway 68/80, east of Hopkinsville, and took this photo of the Little River Valley. In the distance, a field of corn is growing in the rich bottom land along the river. It appears as a yellow patch because all the corn plants were tasseling (blooming). The tassel is the male flower of the corn plant.
Pollen grain germination occurs within minutes after a pollen grain lands on a receptive silk. A pollen tube, containing the male genetic material, develops and grows inside the silk, and fertilizes the ovule within 24 hours. Pollen grains can land and germinate anywhere along the length of an exposed receptive silk. Many pollen grains may germinate on a receptive silk, but typically only one will successfully fertilize the ovule.
Source: "Silk Emergence" at the Corny News Network
When hybrid seed corn is grown, two varieties of corn are planted in a field, but only one variety is allowed to tassel. The tassels on the other variety are removed manually (often by teenagers who need a summer job) and/or by machine, or sometimes a corn variety with sterile tassels is planted.
The ears that grow on the detasseled plants will have hybrid seeds (kernels) -- a cross between two varieties. All of the corn kernels from ears on the tasseled plants are simply "chips off the old block", now a little more inbred.
After the corn tassels, the whole energy of the plant is devoted to growing the ear/s of corn and filling the kernels with all the nutrient and genetic material it will need for germination. The plant will not develop any more leaves or get any taller.


On 30 January, CECC will host its annual Fieldwork. This time under the theme New Horizons 2020, the event will feature Prof. Isabel Ferín and Prof. Ana Paula Coutinho as respondents to our researchers' presentations of some of their latest work. CECC invites all to participate in this foreseen fruitful gathering.
Luísa Santos will present an upcoming research project born out of 4Cs.
Excerpt of the presentation
"Europe is faced today with political challenges and conflict of various kinds such as environmental politics; censorship; and nationalisms. In face of such events, there has been a burst of activity amongst cultural producers. However, most of the existing work linking arts and politics is theoretical and monodisciplinary. Mapping (Conflicted) Arts and Politics (MAP) is an upcoming research project that is born out of 4Cs and that aims at creating a European network to bring together theory and applied research, as well as concepts and discourses from Culture Studies, Visual Arts, Arts Management and Political Science, to address the following questions: i) What is the transforming role of culture and visual arts in contemporary liberal-democratic political systems?; ii) Do Governments, particularly in the context of the diverse current political challenges, affect artistic actions? If so, how?; iii) Is the transforming potential of arts responsible for the slim support (beyond the financial aid) art gets?; iv) What type of public and private support is possible under current challenges, such as "new right-wing populist regimes [that] use financial incentives (or the lack thereof) to control artistic discourses" (Somogyi, 2019)? MAP will address these issues by exploring ways culture and visual arts can help bring individuals together to find alternatives to current challenges, thus highlighting the social relevance of political art."
For more information about the event please visit here.
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisboa, Portugal Lisbon


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Everyone knows that Beethoven wrote some of his most famous music after he'd already gone deaf. But guess what? He wasn't the only one. Here are 5 others you should know:
boyce.jpgLike Bach, William Boyce (_PHONE_) made his living as a church keyboardist, but was also a master composer—one of the best to come out of England during the 18th century. Boyce went deaf and had to quit his job as an organist, but went on editing works by well-known composers like William Byrd and Henry Purcell.
Ignaz Holzbauer.gifA colleague of Mozart's, Ignaz Holzbauer (_PHONE_) wrote about 70 symphonies and over half-a-dozen operas. During the last years of his life he was totally deaf.
Felix Draeseke.jpgFelix Draeseke (_PHONE_) is most famous for his (remarkable facial hair) piano piece, Sonata quasi Fantasia, which was admired by Franz Liszt. Draeseke wrote operas and symphonies even though he suffered from a chronic hearing ailment that later left him almost completely deaf.
gabriel-faure-1.jpgGabriel FaurÃ© (_PHONE_) is best known for his gorgeous Requiem. Like Boyce, Holzbauer and Draeseke before him, FaurÃ© went deaf later in life and had serious trouble hearing high and low frequencies.
smetana_bedrich1878.jpgPerhaps the best-known of the lesser-known composers to lose hearing late in life is the brilliant Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, who was already going deaf when he wrote his most famous piece, MÃ¡ Vlast (My Country), a symphonic tone poem featuring a movement called Vltava, or "The Moldau." As he lost his hearing, Smetana also suffered from chronic tinnitus, which eventually caused him to go insane. In 1884, he died in a mental hospital in Prague. Oh joy"¦
As the name implies, "The Moldau" paints a musical portrait of the famous river that twists through the Czech Republic. Click the play button to hear an excerpt and be sure to Czech out Smetana's own description of "The Moldau" after the jump.
By the way, can anyone tell me which country's national anthem sounds similar to the Smetana tune and why?
Smetana's description: "The composition describes the course of the Vltava, starting from the two small springs, the Cold and Warm Vltava, to the unification of both streams into a single current, the course of the Vltava through woods and meadows, through landscapes where a farmer's wedding is celebrated, the round dance of the mermaids in the night's moonshine: on the nearby rocks loom proud castles, palaces and ruins aloft. The Vltava swirls into the St. John's Rapids; then it widens and flows toward Prague, past the Vysehrad, and then majestically vanishes into the distance, ending at the Elbe."
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Drummed out of the army
Dismissed from army service to the sound of a drum.
The phrase 'drummed out' is most often used in relation to the, now outmoded, military practice of dismissing disgraced soldiers to the sound of drums. This drew attention to their plight and acted as a warning to others. The earliest reference to 'drumming out' comes in a figurative use of the phrase, in Thomas Amory's The life of John Buncle, 1766:
"They ought to be drummed out of society."
Soon after that comes a piece from The Edinburgh Advertiser, (June 1776), which refers to a literal 'drumming out', i.e. with drums:
"Included was a letter to me in very extraordinary language, and a summons to deliver up the town: the messenger was sent to prison for a few days, and drummed out."
The earliest specific reference to drumming out in a military scenario is Lord Thomas Macaulay's Critical and miscellaneous essays, 1829:
"Another is drummed out of a regiment."
These days we hear little of people being drummed out, apart from in the corny joke 'He was drummed out of the Mafia for cruelty'.


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April 5, 2012
Part of this creature's defense mechanism is its bright coloring. Also, when laying its eggs, the female Spanish dancer deposits a toxin with them, which keeps predators from eating the undeveloped Spanish dancers. The information for these habits was given to this creature by its Creator.
- The Spanish dancer's flattened body is brightly colored in shades of red, pink, or orange.
- Some are a solid color and some are patterned, depending on the location.
- This is the only nudibranch family that has six gills.
- This creature gets its name from the appearance of its swimming motion. It resembles the flaring skirt of a Spanish dancer.
- The male Spanish dancer enters dance competitions to win its mate.
- This creature is one of the most colorful in the world.
- This species was first described in the Red Sea, where its solid red form is found.
GENUS/SPECIES: Hexabranchus sanguineus
Size: Up to 1.5 ft (0.45 m)
Habitat: Shallow waters of tropical Indian Ocean and western Pacific, on coasts and reefs


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ISO 22837:2009-Vehicle probe data for wide area communications
This International Standard specifies the following.
Reference architecture for probe vehicle systems and probe data. This reference architecture provides a general structure for probe vehicle systems within which a wide range of actual probe vehicle systems can be built whose physical characteristics may differ (e.g., in their choice of communications medium).
The reference architecture is used to:
- clarify the major building blocks and logical interconnections of probe vehicle systems for which this standard will be used;
- categorize probe data in accordance with the information model described below.
Basic data framework for probe data elements and probe data. This framework specifies how to define probe data elements and probe messages. Specifically it provides the following. - Rules for mapping information models (as defined in ISO 14817) of probe data to probe data elements/messages. The information models show the logical structure of entities and concepts involved in probe data.
To completely define probe processing, the standardization of probe data elements and probe messages is not sufficient. Standards are also required for processed probe data (the output of probe processing) and downlink elements and messages (to convey these results to vehicles and other users). This International Standard prescribes an initial set of probe data elements that are important for transmission from vehicles to land-side processing centres. The standardization of other probe data issues will be addressed in future work.
Publication date: January 2009


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write_coeff file file = name of data file to write out
Write a text format file with the currently defined force field coefficients in a way, that it can be read by LAMMPS with the include command. In combination with the nocoeff option of write_data this can be used to move the Coeffs sections from a data file into a separate file.
The write_coeff command is not yet fully implemented in two respects. First, some pair styles do not yet write their coefficient information into the coeff file. This means you will need to specify that information in your input script that reads the data file, via the pair_coeff command.


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CJ McGillivray has written and recorded music for numerous film and theatre productions in association with Classic Chic Productions, Place des Arts, Carousel Theatre for Young People, CRAFT Productions, Summer Visions Film Institute and Capilano University. She loves expressive songwriting and performance and continually expands her repertoire of original folk music for voice with piano, ukulele or guitar.
Previously, she worked on several contracts composing whimsical music for young theatre audiences. She received a Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nomination for Outstanding Artistic Creation, Musical Composition for On My Walk, presented by Carousel Theatre for Young People in June 2016.
In her songwriting, CJ enjoys experimenting with acoustic folk and gentle pop sounds. She plays a number of instruments including piano, ukulele, guitar, keytar, oboe, flute, harmonica and melodica. Some of her contemporary musical influences include BØRNS, the Lumineers, Soley, Of Monsters and Men, Florence and the Machine and Cold War Kids. Her classical scores are influenced by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy.
O Romeo, Romeo from Romeo and Juliet, written and performed by CJ McGillivray with words by William Shakespeare:
Ophelia, folk song written and performed by CJ McGillivray:
They Witness Her, instrumental piano music written and performed by CJ McGillivray:
Prologue from Romeo and Juliet, written and performed by CJ McGillivray with words by William Shakespeare:
Dreamscape, instrumental piano music written and performed by CJ McGillivray:
I found CJ to be an irreplaceable member of our team for many reasons. It was clearly evident to me and all others that she eagerly put her heart and soul into every aspect of her role, inspiring and encouraging those around her to care even more about our own work. Her enthusiasm and drive were contagious.
– Jordan Davis, producer for Ben
CJ created the most wonderful compositions based around emotions, compositions that you could truly sense and feel the story being portrayed through the notes played. She is a phenomenal musician and composer, the music truly runs through her.
– Evan Kascak, collaborator for They Witness Her
Here is selection of recent musical projects and contracts for CJ McGillivray.


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The World of Film and Video Production: Aesthetics and Practice
OverviewThis text is an introduction to the fundamental technical skills and structural concepts of film and video production. This text is a comprehensive treatment of the production process from pre-production through post-production. It also provides a mix of aesthetic principles balanced with directing and production techniques. Features: * The aesthetic principles, which draw students to the field, are well-balanced with practical applications and techniques. * The comprehensive coverage includes both producing as well as the mechanics of production. * The text is organised to parallel the production process emphasising a doing/learning approach to the course. * Film and video are presented as distinct but overlapping fields. The text provides details specific to both fields. * The text combines the author's depth of experience teaching production, scriptwriting, and cinematic studies (theory and history). * This first edition has a complete pedagogical framework including exercises for individuals and groups, boxed examples, student work examples, definitions, illustrations, and checklist summaries for content mastery. * The author's real-world experience in producing, writing, direc
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Enter the exchange rate or currency A to C and the exchange rate from B to C into the cross exchange rate calculator. The calculator will return the Cross Rate from A to B.
Cross Exchange Rate Formula
The following formula is used to calculate the cross exchange rate of 3 different currencies, A,B, and C.
A:B = A:C/B:C
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When analyzing currency exchanges it's important to point out that the ratio of exchange rates is constantly changing from day to day. This formula can also be used to calculate cross exchange rates of things that are not currencies.
Cross Exchange Rate Definition
A cross exchange rate is the ratio of exchange rates between two or more currencies on the open market.
How to calculate cross exchange rate?
How to calculate a cross exchange rate
 1. Determine the ratio between currency A and C.
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 3. Finally, calculate A:B
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A cross exchange rate is a term typically used in economics to describe the comparison of two currencies through the use of a third common currency. For example, if you know the rates between A and C and B and C, then you can estimate the rates between A and C assuming the same rules apply to exchanges.
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lines from both versions, instead of leaving conflict
markers. This tends to leave the added lines in the
resulting file in random order and the user should
verify the result. Do not use this if you do not
understand the implications.
Defining a custom merge driver
The definition of a merge driver is done in the '.git/config'
file, not in the 'gitattributes' file, so strictly speaking this
To define a custom merge driver 'filfre', add a section to your
[merge "filfre"]
name = feel-free merge driver
driver = filfre %O %A %B
recursive = binary
The 'merge.*.name' variable gives the driver a human-readable
The 'merge.*.driver' variable's value is used to construct a
command to run to merge ancestor's version ('%O'), current
version ('%A') and the other branches' version ('%B'). These
three tokens are replaced with the names of temporary files that
hold the contents of these versions when the command line is
the file named with '%A' by overwriting it, and exit with zero
were conflicts.
The 'merge.*.recursive' variable specifies what other merge
driver to use when the merge driver is called for an internal
merge between common ancestors, when there are more than one.
When left unspecified, the driver itself is used for both
internal merge and the final merge.
Checking whitespace errors
The 'core.whitespace' configuration variable allows you to define what
'diff' and 'apply' should consider whitespace errors for all paths in
the project (See linkgit:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you finer
control per path.
Notice all types of potential whitespace errors known to git.
Do not notice anything as error.
Use the value of 'core.whitespace' configuration variable to
decide what to notice as error.
Specify a comma separate list of common whitespace problems to
notice in the same format as 'core.whitespace' configuration
If you have these three 'gitattributes' file:
(in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes)
a* foo!bar -baz
(in.gitattributes)
abc foo bar baz
(in t/.gitattributes)
ab* merge=filfre
abc -foo -bar
*.c frotz
the attributes given to path 't/abc' are computed as follows:
1. By examining 't/.gitattributes' (which is in the same
line matches. 'merge' attribute is set. It also finds that
the second line matches, and attributes 'foo' and 'bar'
are unset.
2. Then it examines '.gitattributes' (which is in the parent
directory), and finds that the first line matches, but
't/.gitattributes' file already decided how 'merge', 'foo'
and 'bar' attributes should be given to this path, so it
leaves 'foo' and 'bar' unset. Attribute 'baz' is set.
3. Finally it examines '$GIT_DIR/info/attributes'. This file
a match, and 'foo' is set, 'bar' is reverted to unspecified
state, and 'baz' is unset.
As the result, the attributes assignment to 't/abc' becomes:
foo set to true
bar unspecified
baz set to false
merge set to string value "filfre"
frotz unspecified
Creating an archive
If the attribute 'export-subst' is set for a file then git will expand
several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. The
expansion depends on the availability of a commit ID, i.e. if
linkgit:git-archive[1] has been given a tree instead of a commit or a
as those for the option '--pretty=format:' of linkgit:git-log[1],
except that they need to be wrapped like this: '$Format:PLACEHOLDERS$'
in the file. E.g. the string '$Format:%H$' will be replaced by the
commit hash.
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How to become a smart meter installer (with job FAQs)
Updated 25 May 2023
Smart meters give customers the ability to monitor and adjust their energy use in real-time, allowing them to save money by restricting the amount of electricity they use. Smart meters also help utility companies to monitor power grids so they can make repairs as needed, reducing outage times and improving reliability. If you're interested in working with smart meters, knowing how to get a job as a smart meter installer can be useful. In this article, we look at what a smart meter installer is, explain how to become a smart meter installer and list relevant jobs.
What is a smart meter installer?
Smart meter installers are professionals responsible for installing electronic devices that can communicate information about power or gas usage between homes and utility companies. They're also responsible for setting up the systems that allow customers to monitor their own power usage and manage their accounts online. The installation process typically involves connecting a smart meter to the customer's electrical or gas system and then connecting the meter's data wirelessly to a central server where it's accessible to utility companies. The installer ensures this process works properly. They also test the systems to ensure that they meet safety standards.
Related: How to become an electrician
How to become a smart meter installer
Here are the steps involved in becoming a smart meter installer:
1. Complete training on how to instal smart meters
Training is necessary to become a smart meter installer. Such courses give aspirants the opportunity to learn how to use the standard equipment, the procedure for the correct setup and the qualifications to perform checks. These courses also cover the safety precautions to take when installing smart meters and working with gas and electricity. This knowledge is essential because it helps you learn how to protect both yourself and your customers when working on these projects.
There are several options for courses that teach smart meter installation, such as a level 2 diploma in gas installation, a level 2 diploma in electrical installation or a T level in building services engineering for construction. Another option would be to complete an apprenticeship as a dual fuel meter installer or to apply for trainee positions at electricity and gas companies. College courses, apprenticeships and trainee employers typically require between two and five GCSEs, including maths and English.
2. Practise installing smart meters on a dummy circuit box
Practising on a dummy circuit box is an example of how a smart meter installer in training can become familiar with installing a smart meter. By doing this in their own time, they can become well-acquainted with the technology involved at their own pace. The more familiar the installer is with the fitting process, the more likely it is that they can complete this task successfully when installing smart meters in customer homes.
3. Acquire smart meter certifications (optional)
Following training, you have the advanced option to sit the relevant smart meter electrician exam and become certified. This is because certain bodies want to ensure that you understand the job and how to be successful in this field. Certification can help in both confidence and career development, as it helps smart meter installers to stand out to recruiters when applying for jobs.
It shows they have the skills necessary to perform smart meter fittings accurately. Certification can also help customers to feel more comfortable letting fitters work in their homes. The certification process often occurs jointly through an employer and a training provider.
4. Study the latest smart meter technology and its applications
It's beneficial for qualified smart meter installers to study the latest smart meter technology and its applications. This is so that they can stay up to date on any updates in the field. For example, by studying the latest smart meter technology, you may discover that there are new methods or approaches that are more efficient to use. You can then include them in your service offerings, which gives you a competitive advantage over other installers who don't know about these updates.
It's also helpful for candidates to read up on any recent developments before they sit for an interview. This is because such knowledge allows them to showcase their proactivity to recruiters, meaning that they immediately stand out from other candidates. It also shows employers they're interviewing a dedicated, motivated individual who wants to learn more about their profession and seek new ways to improve their skill set. This can improve a candidate's chances of successfully getting the job.
Jobs related to smart meter installation
Here are some examples of similar jobs which involve installing smart meters or using them:
National average salary: £28,903 per year
Primary duties: A maintenance technician's job may involve installing smart meters, checking that they're working or repairing them. This is because their primary responsibility is to ensure that the building they're working in is in good condition and safe for people to use. They do this by cleaning, repairing and maintaining equipment. This can include anything from servicing smart meters to fixing a broken light fixture. A maintenance technician also helps when there's an emergency. A maintenance technician's job can be dangerous because they're often working with heavy machinery, hazardous materials such as chemicals, and electricity.
National average salary: £30,881 per year
Primary duties: A dual fuel meter installer is the person who installs, maintains and repairs gas and electricity meters. This means that they're responsible for installing the meters and sending the readings to your utility company. They also instal new meters, including smart meters, for both gas and electric appliances. They do this by connecting the devices together so that they can read both types of meters at once. The difference between a smart meter installer and a dual fuel meter installer is that the former specialises in installing smart meters, whereas the latter can instal other types.
National average salary: £30,275 per year
Primary duties: An energy consultant might recommend installing smart meters because they can help customers save money on their utility bills. This is because smart meters can automatically track and report on the amount of electricity or natural gas your home uses so that customers always know how much they're spending. This is helpful when creating a budget, for example.
Energy consultants may also recommend installing smart meters as they allow customers to compare their usage against publicly available data from other homes in their area, which is another way of helping them identify ways to reduce their usage and save money. The role of energy consultant is a career progression option for smart meter installers.
Frequently asked questions
Here are some frequently asked questions about smart meter installers and their answers:
How much do smart meter installers earn?
Salaries for a smart meter installer largely depend on their skills, qualifications, experience, and additional certifications. It may also vary based on whether the employer is a public or private entity. The national average salary for a smart meter installer is £32,928 per year. The national average salary for a senior installer is £36,666 per year. This reflects a typically 40-hour work week, though sometimes as a smart meter installer you may work on weekends.
What skills do smart meter installers require?
The primary skills of a smart meter installer are the ability to remove old meters and instal smart ones. This could be in a customer's home, a commercial building, industrial site or anywhere else with access to electricity and gas. They also benefit from having certain soft skills, like customer service, communication, critical thinking, patience and problem-solving. Manual dexterity and knowledge of mathematics are also key abilities in this role.
Salary figures reflect data listed on the quoted websites at time of writing. Salaries may vary depending on the hiring organisation and a candidate's experience, academic background and location.
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text: Peter Pettigrew is green. Not in the sense that he mostly looks like he is about to throw up but because it is the colour of the grass and Peter Pettigrew is the freshness of wet grass early in the morning. He is the beauty of leaves in flowers, they aren't what you notice at first but without them the flower would be incomplete. Peter Pettigrew is gardens and herbology classes under the eye of Professor Sprout. Peter Pettigrew is green, and maybe it is because he is nature is its most hidden form.


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Pine Tree Sick Mesa AZ
Pine Tree Dead Needles Queen Creek
Pine Tree Dead Needles Tempe AZ
Pine Tree Dead Branches Ahwatukee AZ
Mile-high dust storm engulfs Phoenix
Your Eastern White Pine Trees with Shiny Needles Call Us From Goodyear Call Us
If you're having problems with your Pine trees and you live within 50 miles of Mesa Az, you should probably have me out take a look at them, there are medicines that I can Inject the trees with, that will boost there immune system, and speed up the healing process of the trees.
The massive dust storm we recently had has spread mites and other insects throughout the valley like I've never seen. This increase in insects, and the record breaking heat of 2011and 2019 has dangerously stressed many tree species, particularly the pine trees.
You see a pine trees first line of defense is its sap and when a pine gets dried out it can't defend itself very well from insects. This video will help you determine if your pine trees are in trouble
Here is what you need to do if the limbs on your pines start dying:
1. Resist trimming - removing dead branches might make things look better but unless the branch has been dead for a few years it will probably cause sap loss where cut. Instead wait a year of so until the tree is insect free.
2. Increase watering immediately. Here in the desert it wouldn't hurt to exceed the amount of water a pine would get in its natural environment.
Take a look at the annual rainfall in Washington State. Also notice how well large pines do in lawns that are green all year long.
Pines need a lot of water! For more information on this subject please see Watering Non Native Trees on this website.
3. Starting immediately - treat your Pine trees yearly with Bio Advanced Tree And Shrub, which you can get from Home Depot.
This product comes in both liquid and granular, I believe the granular is the safest to use. You can get the Bio Advanced Tree And Shrub from Home Depot.
It's very important to read the cautions on the label of this product and I would recommend that you keep your kids and dog's inside until the poison is completely washed into the soil, and the soil is dry.
The Instructions will tell you how much you need to buy and be sure to wear gloves.
Be careful when you use the Bio Advanced Tree And Shrub.
In 6 months use the Ultra Tree Spike. Use one spike for every 2 inches of tree diameter. Store in a cool place our sheds and garage's get to hot in the summer time. Repeat yearly.
4. have us treat your pines with medicines that will accelerate the healing process from the damage done from the micro pathogens carried by insects.
We now understand -in part- how a trees immune system works.
Every cell of every plant contains enzymes that dissolve fungus, bacteria, and viruses. These enzymes are the same as the enzymes in our spit that dissolves meat.
Normally a tree has a strong immune system, but when the reserve energy of a tree becomes depleted due to damaged leaves, incorrect watering, or improper pruning, the immune system suffers. Under normal circumstances, once these issues are resolved, and if the tree survives, everything will go back to normal in two to four years.
If you're having problems with your Pine trees and you live within 50 miles of Mesa Az, you should probably have me out take a look at them there are medicines that I can Inject the trees with, that will boost there immune system, and speed up the healing process of the trees.
You should also download these instructions on how to deal with the insects that are damaging your Pine trees.


only connections to the home network will be allowed. Connections to roaming networks will not be made.
mtuuint320If non-zero, only transmit packets of the specified size or smaller, breaking larger packets up into multiple frames.
network-idstring The Network ID (GSM LAI format, ie MCC-MNC) to force specific network registration. If the Network ID is specified, NetworkManager will attempt to force the device to register only on the specified network. This can be used to ensure that the device does not roam when direct roaming control of the device is not otherwise possible.
numberstring Legacy setting that used to help establishing PPP data sessions for GSM-based modems. Deprecated: 1
passwordstring The password used to authenticate with the network, if required. Many providers do not require a password, or accept any password. But if a password is required, it is specified here.
password-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "password" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
pinstring If the SIM is locked with a PIN it must be unlocked before any other operations are requested. Specify the PIN here to allow operation of the device.
pin-flagsNMSettingSecretFlags (uint32) Flags indicating how to handle the "pin" property. (see the section called "Secret flag types:" for flag values)
sim-idstring The SIM card unique identifier (as given by the WWAN management service) which this connection applies to. If given, the connection will apply to any device also allowed by "device-id" which contains a SIM card matching the given identifier.
sim-operator-idstring A MCC/MNC string like "310260" or "21601" identifying the specific mobile network operator which this connection applies to. If given, the connection will apply to any device also allowed by "device-id" and "sim-id" which contains a SIM card provisioned by the given operator.
usernamestring The username used to authenticate with the network, if required. Many providers do not require a username, or accept any username. But if a username is required, it is specified here.
infiniband setting
Infiniband Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
mac-addressbyte array If specified, this connection will only apply to the IPoIB device whose permanent MAC address matches. This property does not change the MAC address of the device (i.e. MAC spoofing).
mtuuint320If non-zero, only transmit packets of the specified size or smaller, breaking larger packets up into multiple frames.
p-keyint32-1The InfiniBand P_Key to use for this device. A value of -1 means to use the default P_Key (aka "the P_Key at index 0"). Otherwise it is a 16-bit unsigned integer, whose high bit is set if it is a "full membership" P_Key.
parentstring The interface name of the parent device of this device. Normally NULL, but if the "p_key" property is set, then you must specify the base device by setting either this property or "mac-address".
transport-modestring The IP-over-InfiniBand transport mode. Either "datagram" or "connected".
ipv4 setting
IPv4 Settings.
Key NameValue TypeDefault ValueValue Description
address-dataarray of vardict Array of IPv4 addresses. Each address dictionary contains at least 'address' and 'prefix' entries, containing the IP address as a string, and the prefix length as a uint32. Additional attributes may also exist on some addresses.
addressesarray of array of uint32 Deprecated in favor of the 'address-data' and 'gateway' properties, but this can be used for backward-compatibility with older daemons. Note that if you send this property the daemon will ignore 'address-data' and 'gateway'. Array of IPv4 address structures. Each IPv4 address structure is composed of 3 32-bit values; the first being the IPv4 address (network byte order), the second the prefix (1 - 32), and last the IPv4 gateway (network byte order). The gateway may be left as 0 if no gateway exists for that subnet.
dad-timeoutint32-1Timeout in milliseconds used to check for the presence of duplicate IP addresses on the network. If an address conflict is detected, the activation will fail. A zero value means that no duplicate address detection is performed, -1 means the default value (either configuration ipvx.dad-timeout override or zero). A value greater than zero is a timeout in milliseconds. The property is currently implemented only for IPv4.
dhcp-client-idstring A string sent to the DHCP server to identify the local machine which the DHCP server may use to customize the DHCP lease and options. When the property is a hex string ('aa:bb:cc') it is interpreted as a binary client ID, in which case the first byte is assumed to be the 'type' field as per RFC 2132 section 9.14 and the remaining bytes may be an hardware address (e.g. '01:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' where 1 is the Ethernet ARP type and the rest is a MAC address). If the property is not a hex string it is considered as a non-hardware-address client ID and the 'type' field is set to 0. The special values "mac" and "perm-mac" are supported, which use the current or permanent MAC address of the device to generate a client identifier with type ethernet (01). Currently, these options only work for ethernet type of links. The special value "duid" generates a RFC4361-compliant client identifier based on a hash of the interface name as IAID and /etc/machine-id. The special value "stable" is supported to generate a type 0 client identifier based on the stable-id (see connection.stable-id) and a per-host key. If you set the stable-id, you may want to include the "${DEVICE}" or "${MAC}" specifier to get a per-device key. If unset, a globally configured default is used. If still unset, the default depends on the DHCP plugin.
dhcp-fqdnstring If the "dhcp-send-hostname" property is TRUE, then the specified FQDN will be sent to the DHCP server when acquiring a lease. This property and "dhcp-hostname" are mutually exclusive and cannot be set at the same time.
dhcp-hostnamestring If the "dhcp-send-hostname" property is TRUE, then the specified name will be sent to the DHCP server when acquiring a lease. This property and "dhcp-fqdn" are mutually exclusive and cannot be set at the same time.
dhcp-hostname-flagsuint320Flags for the DHCP hostname and FQDN. Currently this property only includes flags to control the FQDN flags set in the DHCP FQDN option. Supported FQDN flags are NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_SERV_UPDATE (0x1), NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_ENCODED (0x2) and NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_NO_UPDATE (0x4). When no FQDN flag is set and NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_CLEAR_FLAGS (0x8) is set, the DHCP FQDN option will contain no flag. Otherwise, if no FQDN flag is set and NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_CLEAR_FLAGS (0x8) is not set, the standard FQDN flags are set in the request: NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_SERV_UPDATE (0x1), NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_ENCODED (0x2) for IPv4 and NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_FQDN_SERV_UPDATE (0x1) for IPv6. When this property is set to the default value NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_NONE (0x0), a global default is looked up in NetworkManager configuration. If that value is unset or also NM_DHCP_HOSTNAME_FLAG_NONE (0x0), then the standard FQDN flags described above are sent in the DHCP requests.
dhcp-iaidstring A string containing the "Identity Association Identifier" (IAID) used by the DHCP client. The property is a 32-bit decimal value or a special value among "mac", "perm-mac", "ifname" and "stable". When set to "mac" (or "perm-


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A review of behavioural and physiological responses of sheep to stressors to identify potential behavioural signs of distress
Author: Cockram, M.S.
Source: Animal Welfare, Volume 13, Number 3, August 2004, pp. 283-291(9)
Publisher: Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
Abstract:This paper discusses the potential for using observations of behaviour to recognise distress in sheep. The term distress is used to describe situations in which an animal is likely to be suffering, and is indicating this by overt behavioural signs. Literature on the behavioural responses of sheep to procedures that induce a physiological stress response is reviewed. This approach is based on human analogy and the assumption that physiological changes can be used to differentiate between stimuli that induce an emotional response in sheep and those that do not. The degree to which the behaviour of sheep in certain situations represents, at least in part, an expression of emotional behaviour, or whether it can be fully explained as a functional response to a specific situation, is a fundamental and unresolved question in ethological and psychological studies. Therefore, the validity of compiling a list of objective common behavioural indicators of distress in sheep will be contentious. However, it is important to be able to recognise and deal with suffering, and the use of behavioural methods for the identification of distress in sheep is a practical welfare issue. There is a need for further research to identify indicators of distress in sheep, but in the meantime it would be reasonable to make the judgement that, in some circumstances, sheep that are found to be vocalising, panting, and/or showing markedly increased locomotory activity could be experiencing distress.
Document Type: Research article
Publication date: 2004-08-01


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What Is A Sluice Room?
When we consider the question of 'what is a sluice room', the first response should be 'very important indeed!' But what exactly does a sluice room do, and why is it so critical?
The sluice room is a closed area found in hospitals, care homes and special needs schools; it may also be present in other extended care facilities, too.
When properly planned and equipped, the sluice room allows for the safe and efficient disposal of human waste. In turn, the spread of infection is prevented.
A sluice room can also be called a 'dirty' or 'soiled' utility room. No matter how a medical facility chooses to name it, the function is much the same – and of great significance to clinical operations.
What happens in a sluice room?
When a clinician enters a sluice room, they will most likely be handling some kind of enclosed human waste after providing care to a patient or resident who may either be bedridden, can't safely use a traditional toilet, or have special needs which leave them incontinent.
This waste will need to be hygienically disposed of in a way that won't expose clinicians to harmful bacteria or spread it around the area. Similarly, the vessel holding the waste will need to be cleaned if it is reusable, so it's sanitary for the next user.
If the vessel isn't reusable, it'll most likely be made of medical pulp, and need to be safely discarded. The same will apply to single-use incontinence products, such as pads and nappies.
None of these items can be thrown into a regular bin, as they pose a serious risk to human health.
Pulpmatic Ultima being loaded
Why are sluice room activities so important?
It's vital for sluice room operations to be well-planned and orchestrated, so that the working environment (and as a consequence, the entire medical facility) remains safe.
If the sluice room is badly designed, with poor equipment and insufficient procedures, disposing of human waste can be slow and inefficient. In turn, clinicians can risk spreading dangerous pathogens (inside and outside of the sluice room), as well as spending too long dealing with auxiliary tasks.
If bacteria are allowed to spore, it could result in a major outbreak of infection in your facility. Illnesses such as C. difficile are extremely distressing for patients and can even be life-threatening; the pressure on clinicians during outbreaks is also significant, with a major extra demand on their already limited time. The extra cost to your facility, in terms of deep cleaning, extra staff and ward closures can be devastating – and that's before the damage to your reputation is considered.
It's in everyone's best interest, therefore, that excellent sluice room practices are properly considered, supported and upheld.
How do sluice rooms control infection?
A sluice room contributes to good infection control, straight from the design stages; it should have a clear workflow, where clinicians can easily travel from one workstation to the next, without spreading germs.
Care should also be taken to provide crevice-free worksurfaces, so bacteria can't hide; using stainless steel furniture is an effective way for this to be achieved. Similarly, walls should be easy to wipe clean, and floors simple to mop, with no cracks or indents.
Alongside the architecture of a sluice room, the equipment it contains is critical to controlling infection. The correct equipment should be provided for each task, to suit the kind of care that your facility is providing to service users.
If your facility relies on re-usable bedpans, having a bedpan washer disinfector in the sluice room is absolutely vital.
Far safer than washing bedpans by hand, a washer disinfector will sanitise multiple utensils at a time, and far quicker than a clinician could achieve manually. It's also a more effective method, which ensures the chamber and its contents are heated to the correct temperature to kill bacteria.
For facilities which favour single-use pulp products, a macerator will provide sanitary disposal of soiled bedpans, urinals and commode pots.
Cutting pulp into a fine paste, macerators flush their contents through the normal sewerage system. A disinfectant rinse after the process ensures the macerator itself remains sanitary, as well as smelling fresh.
Both processes are far more hygienic than attempting to clean a bedpan with running water, gloves and scrubbing tools; even with the best intentions, these can spread bacteria through splashback, steam or human error.
If your facility needs to regularly dispose of incontinence pads and nappies, a macerator designed specifically for incontinence products will provide the same service. Soiled items are safely disposed of, without the clinician needing to be hands-on and spreading bacteria in the process.
Bedpan washer hands-free opening in action
DDC Dolphin can help you to ensure that your sluice room is fulfilling its infection control obligations, from every angle.
With over 25 years of experience, DDC Dolphin are sluice room experts, offering an all-encompassing solution to ensure that your human waste disposal requirements are met.
From ensuring that newly built facilities are sufficiently planned, to equipping your sluice room with the most suitable technology, DDC Dolphin can advise you every step of the way.
Once your sluice room is installed, DDC Dolphin will continue to support you. Offering comprehensive service and maintenance packages, maximum uptime is guaranteed; preventable issues can be stemmed, while the unexpected can be dealt with quickly and efficiently, with minimum impact on your clinicians and service users.
DDC Dolphin can even provide training to your staff, so everyone can maximise the use of critical sluice room machinery and prevent breakdowns by misuse.
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A safe environment for those in your care, where service users thrive, and clinicians can work to the best of their ability.
Want to learn more? Take a look at our Sluice Room Checklist to make sure you include all the essential fixtures and fittings to achieve optimum infection control in your dirty utility room.
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How does a gold nanorod melt?
TitleHow does a gold nanorod melt?
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsLink, S, Wang, ZL, EL-Sayed, MA
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry B
Date PublishedAug
ISBN Number1089-5647
Accession NumberWOS:000088945700001
Structural transformation of gold nanorods are investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy after they have been exposed to low-energy femtosecond and nanosecond laser pulses in colloidal solution. The pulse energies were below the gold nanorod melting threshold, but allowed early stage shape transformation processes, It is found that while the as-prepared nanorods are defect-free, laser-irradiation induces point and line defects. The defects are dominated by (multiple) twins and stacking faults (planar defects), which are the precursor that drives the nanorods to convert their {110} facets into the more stable {100} and {111} facets and hence minimize their surface energy. These observations suggest that short-laser pulsed photothermal melting begins with the creation of defects inside the nanorods followed by surface reconstruction and diffusion, in contrast with the thermal melting of the rods or the bulk material, where the melting starts at the surface.


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A Fun App for an APPY New Year! Where's My Water?
After a busy couple of weeks readjusting to the school routine and working on winter and penguins with my students, I've been trying some new apps on my iPad.
I stumbled upon "Where's My Water" through my children and have become quite addicted! I have been able to integrate it into therapy and make it apply to language goals and objectives.
"Where's My Water" is an app created by Disney, featuring an alligator who lives in the sewers of a building, and needs water in his bathtub. There are many levels you can get for free, in which the player must figure out how to get water from various pipes or puddles, through obstacles including dirt and tunnels, past foam which does strange things to the water, and into a pipe leading to Swampy's bathtub.
First of all, how lucky am I that the alligator's name is "SSSwampy!" There are some little movies included in the game which give lots of opportunities to say the name (especially for children working on /s/ blends!)
I insist that my students must tell each other or me how to get the water into the bathtub. This is difficult for them! Many students are able to clear a pathway, but can't even begin to verbally plan and problem solve HOW to get the water where it needs to go.
When they get stuck, I of course use my modeling hierarchy to help them formulate their thoughts: Providing choices: "Should the tunnel go left or right?"; closing sentences: "Draw a line to the......."; or just imitating: "Tell him make a tunnel from the puddle to the pipe!" It is fascinating to see who can and cannot figure out how to solve the problem, and how much scaffolding they need to express what to do.
I love this app because there are applications to more complex science concepts, and also some very basic problem solving. Check out this review, download the free app onto your iPad and let me know if you find it useful during therapy!


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Gaseous ethane CH3CH3 reacts with gaseous oxygen gas O2 to produce gaseous carbon dioxide CO2 and gaseous water H2O . What is the theoretical yield of carbon dioxide formed from the reaction of 20.8g of ethane and 121.g of oxygen gas? Be sure your answer has the correct number of significant digits in it.
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The Voortrekker Road (H2-2):
The Voortrekker Road (H2-2) south-east of Pretoriuskop, was used by Carolus Trichardt, who was the son of the Voortrekker Louis Trichardt. He was commissioned in 1849 by the Transvaal Government of the time to open up a regular route between the northern interior and Delagoa Bay.
Albasiniís caravans were the main users of this road. Over the years his porters transported thousands of kilograms of goods from the coast and carried back loads of ivory.
The trader Fernades da Neves accompanied one of Albasiniís caravans in 1860 and reported that it took 24 days to complete the 250 mile journey between the coast and Pretoriuskop.
The trip employed 150 Tsongas each of which carried 40lb of trade goods, 68 porters carried food and camping equipment and 17 Elephant hunters kept guard.
The Vootrekker Road was improved in 1896 by the trader Alois Nelmapius to cater for the transport of supplies to Lydenburg and Mac Mac, where gold had been discovered. The road was used a lot by transport riders on their way to what was then known as Portuguese East Africa (today Mozambique).
The road descends from the mountainous Pretoriuskop sourveld into the rolling hills of mixed bushwillow woodland past a number of geological features. It is a good drive for if you want to get into the game rich plains south of Skukuza.
It was on this road that the little terrier Jock of the Bushveld was born. Jockís story was written by his master, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, a former transport rider who became a politician and businessman in the early 20th century.
The main landmark on this road is Ship Mountain (662m), used as a navigational aid by early pioneers and travellers. It is geologically distinctive from the surrounding granite countryside because it is made up of gabbro, a hardier relative of basalt.
Per an old tale, Ship Mountain was a fort used by the Sotho people in the 18th century to protect themselves and their cattle against Swazi raiders coming in from the south. Sotho warriors would hide families and livestock in the caves on the top of Ship Mountain and then use rocks to stop the Swazi from getting to the top.
At the foot of Ship Mountain was a trading store run by Chief Manungu. He was part of Joao Albasiniís trading empire. Along this road you can still see the fence of the boma which was used during the first white Rhino relocation in Kruger Park in which 2 bulls and the 2 cows were released in October 1961.
In the 1960s 320 white Rhino were released into southern Kruger Park from the Umfolozi Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, and a further 12 were released in the north. The Pretoriuskop area is one of the best locations to track and see white Rhino.
The Voortrekker Road roughly follows a line of thornveld to Afsaal. The significance of this is that the grass is more edible than the sourveld and the wildlife can easily be seen.
Even though there are not a lot of animals in this part of the Park, there are far higher numbers. By the 1900s almost all of the game had been shot out of the region by early hunters.
It was so bad that when Stevenson-Hamilton surveyed the area in 1902, he noted that the only wild animal he saw between Ship Mountain and Skukuza was a single Reedbuck.
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How to choose your instrument
Well want though to be musical instruments, is how to choose or how good practice what instruments.
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Explain the meaning of Tc, Cc, Tm and Cm in the following memory system specification.
Tc = 100 ns
Cc = 10^(-4) $/bit
Tm = 1200 ns
Cm = 10^(-4) $/bit
a. Calculate the cost of 1 MByte of main memory using the above parameters.
b. What is the cost of 1 MByte of cache memory?
c. If the effective access time is 10% greater than the cache access time, what would be the hit ratio (H)?
Tc = cache access time = 100 ns
Tm = main memory access time = 1200 ns
Cc = cost of cache memory = 10^(-4) $/bit
Cm = cost of main memory = 10^(-4) $/bit
a. Cost of 1 MByte of main memory (considering no cache memory)
= 1 MByte * 8 bits/Byte * Cm $/bit
= 2^20 * 8 * 10^(-4) $
The solution considers that in case of a cache miss, first the content is brought from main memory into the cache and then access proceeds as if there was a cache hit. It also gives the effective access time (EAT) expression if it is not the case.


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