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A very interesting way to demonstrate something important in a presentation is to use a door. Doors can be symbolically used to depict various types of interesting scenarios and to explain important concepts. This may include addressing topics like entering uncharted territory, seeking new opportunities, going through a door to achieve success, facing your fears and the like. Following is a list of interesting door clipart and animations that you can download to use in PowerPoint Presentations.
This static clipart shows a stick figure getting kicked out of a door. You can use this clipart in anything from business presentations (e.g. about kicking out the competition) to presentations about kicking bad habits and other topics.
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This is quite an interesting animation which shows a stick figure opening different doors to choose an opportunity. You can incorporate this animation in your presentations with custom text to create interesting slides about themes like making the right choice, business decisions, opportunity cost, etc. Like the above mentioned, this animation too can be customized before it is downloaded from the Presenter Media website. You can download this animation in the following file formats:
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How Do Blind People Describe Different Colors?
Having been blind since birth, Tommy Edison is used to fielding questions about how he perceives the concept color. He finally sets the record straight in his recent YouTube video, "Describing Colors To Blind People," that's been making the rounds on the Internet.
"I've never seen color. I don't have any concept of what it is," Tommy says. "There's this whole part of vocabulary – of language – that just doesn't mean anything to me."
He faults sighted people on trying and not succeeding to explain color to him, finding that they often attempt to explain one sense with another sense. "That doesn't make any bloody sense at all!"
In his own words, Tommy tells us what the words "red," "blue," "orange," "black," and "white" mean to him, based solely on what he's heard about them and how they're used in everyday speech.

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 "the wastefulness of missed opportunities";
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If a dopamine is released at T=0 and binds to receptor D2, what determines the time when the concentration of this neurotransmitter bound to the receptor reaches half of the original concentration? In other words, when will the effect of neurotransmitter on the intercell signalling fall in half?
Is there any time estimate of how quickly the brain thinks that neurotransmitter has "fulfilled its purpose" and is to be re-uptaken? Or is this process completely random?
Thank you for your input!
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All processes involving reuptake or metabolism of biological molecules are completely random. However, when you look at a large number of molecules over time, the random events combine into a stable, predictable rate of decay. This rate is usually either exponential decay (a half-life) or, more rarely, a constant amount per second. – octern Nov 18 '12 at 19:10
I don't know what the answer is for dopamine, and individuals probably vary in how zealous their brains are about dopamine reuptake. – octern Nov 18 '12 at 19:12
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The half life of dopamine in the extracellular space is of the order of 200 milliseconds.
Yavich,L. (2007) Site-Specific Role of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase in Dopamine Overflow within Prefrontal Cortex and Dorsal Striatum. J. Neurosci. 27:10196-10202
In Figure 1 of this paper the authors present values for the half-life (τ) of dopamine elimination from extracellular space in the caudate nucleus and prefrontal cortex of mice as:
caudate nucleus: 0.2 +/- 0.03 sec
prefrontal cortex: 1.92 +/- 0.22 sec
Apparently this is because dopamine is usually inactivated when the presynaptic cell takes it back up using the dopamine transporter, but in the prefrontal cortex uptake is instead via a lower affinity norepinephrine transporter on neighbouring neurones. Thus the value of 200 milliseconds seen in the caudate nucleus is probably more typical.
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Interesting. Does this mean that upon release, dopamine has 200ms to either bind to a receptor or be reabsorbed? – Alex Stone Nov 18 '12 at 23:28
If we think of release as instantaneous, we now have a pool of extracellular dopamine. This will begin to bind to receptor, setting up an equilibrium between free and bound. The free dopamine will also be taken up by DAT, and because the binding to receptor is a reversible process, as the external pool shrinks the level of DA-receptor complex will shrink. An individual molecule could be taken up without ever binding to a receptor, or could undergo multiple receptor binding/release cycles before being taken up. The half-life reflects the interaction between these processes. – Alan Boyd Nov 19 '12 at 13:08
If I understand correctly, the DAT cleans up extracellular and bound DA, and deposits it back within the neuron. As less and less extracellular DA is available, there's a higher chance that bound DA will be recovered. Is this correct? – Alex Stone Nov 19 '12 at 16:57
Dopamine (DA) secreted by neurons is selectively reuptaken by the dopamine transporter (DAT), present on nerve terminals.
Monoamine reuptake
Image source: Plasma membrane monoamine transporters: structure, regulation and function - Torres et al. - Nat Rev Neurosci., 2003
DAT acts as a symporter, using the Na+ and Clgradients to generate the energy required to transport DA back in the cytosol.
The mechanism of reuptake has been investigated in vitro allowing the description of a model for DA reuptake by DAT.
In particular, from the abstract of this paper: A multisubstrate mechanism of striatal dopamine uptake and its inhibition by cocaine. - McElvain and Schenk, Biochem Pharmacol., 1992
Dopamine uptake was found to be first order in dopamine with a Vmax of 582 pmol/sec/g wet weight and a Km of 1.2 μM. The results of experiments in which choline and isethionate were substituted for Na+ and Cl−, respectively, suggested that the uptake process is second order in Na+ and first order in Cl−. Multisubstrate analyses of the initial velocities of uptake over the concentration range of 0.025 to 1.5 μM dopamine suggested that the mechanism of binding of dopamine to the uptake carrier is a partially random, sequential mechanism where dopamine or Na+ binds first with the uptake carrier and Cl− binds last.
A transport scheme is reported in: Dopamine Neuronal Transport Kinetics and Effects of Amphetamine
DAT schematics
Scheme 1 is a kinetic scheme for a simple carrier adapted from that of Stein (1986) for the DAT. The subscripts o and i represent the outside and inside, respectively, of a DA neuron. Scheme 2 describes a possible mechanism for the cotransport of another species. All symbols are as in scheme 1 except that A corresponds to amphetamine.
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This scheme describes transport as a series of steps: the competition between binding and dissociation of the substrate to the transporter on the extracellular side, a similar process on the cytoplasmic side, and an equilibrium between the unoccupied transporter facing toward the extracellular or cytoplasmic side. The driving force for inward transport arises from the cotransport of Na1 and Cl2 as well as the membrane potential difference (Stein, 1986; Sonders et al., 1997). Biochemical (Krueger, 1990) and electrophysiological (Sonders et al.,1997) studies have established that DA transport is accompanied by transport of at least two Na1 ions and one Cl2 ion and that DA transport can be bidirectional in isolated preparations.
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If I'm reading this correctly, then Dopamine is randomly extracted from receptors, right? – Alex Stone Nov 18 '12 at 23:31
Not really "extracted"... dopamine will randomly detach from the receptor, and randomly bind to DAT. The speed of this may depend on the actual concentration of dopamine, dopamine receptor and DAT present in the system. – nico Nov 18 '12 at 23:49
This is an attempt to illustrate how a system like this behaves kinetically, to help Alex visualise it. The model shown below contains external dopamine which can bind reversibly to a receptor. The unbound dopamine is subject to irreversible reuptake.
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I built a quick simulation using Copasi. I haven't made any attempt to refine the parameters to fit the information in my previous answer - I'm just trying to illustrate qualitatively how the three different pools of dopamine (free external, bound external, internalised) behave in this kind of system. As _USER_ says, there is no question of extracting the receptor-bound dopamine - it will dissociate as the free dopamine concentration falls due to reuptake.
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You will determine the specialized stem, leaf, and root adaptations of dry environment plants by designing a garden using a simulator.
After completing this tutorial, you will be able to complete the following:
There are hundreds of thousands of different types of plants on the planet. The reason for this immense diversity is their adaptations to the particular environments in which they live. As with any organism, there are many different types of adaptations that plants have to make them well suited to a particular environment. The main plant parts (roots, stems, and leaves) are rich in adaptations.
Dry environments can be particularly difficult for plants to survive. Due to the lack of water, plants in these types of environments must be able to get whatever water is available easily and then store that water for the long periods of time when water is unavailable. For this reason, many plants in dry environments have succulent stems, fibrous roots, and spiny leaves. Succulent stems are good for plants in dry environments because they are excellent at storing water. Fibrous root systems can also be advantageous because they are able to get water quickly and easily when there is rain. In addition, fibrous roots can help hold the soil in place. This is important for plants that live in dry environments where flash flooding frequently occurs when it rains.
One major problem for plants in dry environments is transpiration-evaporation of water from plants. Wide-bladed leaves have many stomata (openings for gas exchange), and thus transpiration is enhanced. This feature would be extremely detrimental to plants living in dry environments. Plants in dry areas have adapted small spiny leaves. The spiny leaves are also a deterrent for animals looking for food and moisture. All of these adaptations make the plants well suited to their particular environment-in this case, a dry environment.
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When do raccoon breed, and how many babies can they have?
raccoonRaccoon breed in the month of January and sometimes even as late as May or June. This can depend of the region of the United States. Their gestation period is about 60-64 days. Most litters are born in April and May, but some may be born later depending on the breeding. There is only one litter of young born each year. They can have one to six, but the average size litter is between three and five. To find out more, have a look at our Animal Facts.


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California is engaged in the world's largest dam removal project in hopes of letting nature rebound.
California's Effort to Restore Nature through Dam Removal
California is undertaking the world's largest dam removal project to restore nature and allow rivers to flow freely once again. The Klamath River, currently blocked by four massive dams, will soon be unobstructed. The Iron Gate Dam, the final dam in the project, is scheduled for decommissioning. By removing dams, rivers can restore themselves and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified many existing dams as having a high hazard potential, emphasizing the importance of dam removal for safety and environmental reasons.
The Benefits of Dam Removal
Removing dams is one of the fastest ways to heal a river and restore its natural state. The restoration of the Klamath River will allow it to flow freely, benefiting both the environment and local communities. The project aims to stabilize sediments using native vegetation and promote natural regeneration. Dam removal also helps mitigate the effects of climate change, as restoring rivers allows them to function more effectively in regulating water flow and supporting ecosystems.
The Importance of Addressing High Hazard Dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified a significant number of existing dams as having a high hazard potential. These dams pose a threat to human life and property destruction in the event of failure or mis-operation. By focusing on dam removal projects like the one in California, the risks associated with high hazard dams can be mitigated. This underscores the importance of prioritizing environmental protection and safety over infrastructural development.

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Marie Vandenbeusch, Egyptologist
Last season, three fragmentary fertility figures were found in house E13.6, with another four recovered from other houses within the town at Amara West.
These are all hand-modelled clay objects, mostly rectangular in shape, without a distinct human, or even female, shape, other than an occasional hint of shoulders, pubic triangle or breasts. Similar objects have been found in various ancient settlements in Egypt and Nubia.
A few days ago, Rizwan Safir and Vera Michel discovered a new fragment in villa D12.5 (F2284). This figurine is rather different. Very fragmentary, it is preserved only from the navel to the upper part of the legs, but preserving rather realistically modelled buttocks. The genitalia are represented by a series of dots gathered inside a triangle. A further detail is the large dot indicating a navel, surrounded by smaller dots that might represent a tattoo.
The generous, curvaceous form of the figurine contrasts with the schematic, almost geometric, shapes of the other Amara West figures. Here the nature and purpose of the figure is more immediately apparent.
Such figurines of naked women can be modelled in clay, but examples in faience, wood and stone are known, found in settlements, tombs and temples. Sometimes referred to as "concubines of the dead", "fertility figures" or "female figurines", most scholars believe they are related to conception, rebirth or sexuality.
In short, they could clearly be used in life as well as death, sometimes in association with divinities. Their purpose was most likely benevolent, and hints at the needs and fears of those living at Amara West.
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Final Cut Pro: What is a Multiclip?
Final Cut Pro has had a multiclip function since its early inception, and while there were some problems with the system initially, the multiclip function works just as well as any other part of the Final Cut Pro creation. Some of the functions of a multiclip may not be familiar to the average user, but so long as you are familiar with the basic principle of cut and paste, you should be able to create a decent multiclip.
Multiclip Functions
Multiclip uses more than one camera to produce a series of clips, which are then played at the same time. It is possible to play more than 100 clips together using multiclip, although it is more reasonable to use only three or four tracks. Rather than layering the clips over each other, as you would with two cameras focused upon a single point, the user needs to play the pictures simultaneously. This can be done very simply using Final Cut Pro.
Preparing the Clips
In order to make the clips work in the program, you will need to ensure that they have the same ratios and bits in their pictures, and that there is no conflict between the types of movie file that they have been saved under. If necessary, edit all of the files before you start using multiclip, and save them in the same system under one folder. This will make them easy to access when you come to using them.
Pick One Point
You need to pick one point in your clips which is the same in each different angle. It is this point which will help you to create the synchronicity, which ensures that your multiclip film works as a piece of art. You can use a camera flash, an animal or a color which appears to focus all of your clips. Use an In or Out marker to indicate the place where you have located this one point.
Using the Multiclip Dialog Box
The first place that you should look when you open multiclip is the dialog box. This box will help you to make the multiclips, and allow you to tell your Final Cut Pro software how you want the clips to be synchronized. You can synchronize your clips in one of three ways: by using the In marker as the starting point, the Out Marker, or by using the timecode. This will ensure that all of your clips play at the same rate.
Check Your Pictures Using Multiclip
You can check your pictures using the viewer window. Run all of your clips together, so that you can ensure that they run at the same time. You should ensure that the timelines for each event match up, and if you spot any particular problems with your timeline, remove the multiclips from the viewer, and take them back to the browser or timeline windows.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division
Dust Achieves Lofty Aspirations
Disposition to form ice crystals is measured and modeled for a new-fangled framework
This conceptual model illustrates the path PNNL researchers used to steer multiple data points into one flexible calculation, efficiently simulating how ice forms on dust particles and produces clouds. This universal calculation will help them describe how ice crystals are formed on other particles, such as atmospheric soot, organic, and biological particles. Enlarge Image
Results: Instead of dust-bunnies under the sofa, this dust helps form ice crystals that are at the heart of clouds. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used dust's loftier disposition to create a new way to calculate how all particles, not just dust, attract and form ice crystals in clouds. Steering multiple data points into one flexible calculation, they efficiently simulated how ice forms on dust particles, a calculation that will help them nail down how ice latches on to atmospheric soot, organic, and biological particles as well. Their research was published in the August issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Why It Matters: The U.S. and other parts of the world are suffering record drought this year. Looking at the genesis of rain and snow, and how the Earth warms and cools are crucial to daily life. Tiny ice crystals in the clouds can be instigators of rain and snow. Ice crystals can reflect and scatter sunlight away from the Earth, cooling the surface. Thus, ice crystals are tiny provocateurs for both precipitation and Earth's warming and cooling. Scientists in this study are tracking down the very basics of how ice forms in the atmosphere, beginning with its attraction to dust – one of several ways that ice crystals form. Their finding of a universal calculation for how this happens will enable them to model and predict other ways that ice crystals are formed.
Methods: Previously, scientists had to rely on individual data points to represent the process of ice forming on dust particles. In this study, PNNL researchers developed a new way to translate multiple observation data points into one efficient parameterization framework used in cloud and climate models. Parameterizations are calculations that allow scientists to represent field or laboratory observations in computer simulations. This framework not only works on dust particles shown in this study, it can be used with many different data sets.
The framework takes into account a standard way to measure how efficiently ice forms on a substance and calculated the probability that a seed particle—in this case dust—will form an ice crystal. The higher the contact angle, the more resistance the particle has to forming ice. Their new framework is a model representation that packs more information about the ice forming properties into one formulation than previous frameworks.
The team confirmed that the new framework well-represented observations and they showed that cloud properties are highly sensitive to particle contact angle. Cloud formation is delayed with the increased contact angle of the nucleating particles. Using the new framework approach, they reliably compared one data set to another.
What's Next? To further simplify the calculation task in a cloud model, the researchers will continue to extend the process to different types of dust and atmospheric particles at a range of temperatures. They will implement the framework in the global climate model to investigate the climate impacts.
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program through the Aerosol Climate Initiative and was performed by Drs. Gourihar Kulkarni, Jiwen Fan, Jennifer M. Comstock, Xiaohong Liu and Mikhail Ovchinnikov at PNNL.
Reference: Kulkarni G, J Fan, JM Comstock, X Liu and M Ovchinnikov. 2012. "Laboratory Measurements and Model Sensitivity Studies of Dust Deposition Ice Nucleation." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 12(1):2483-2516. DOI:10.5194/acp-12-7295-2012.


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It seems as normal as the world dress boys in blue and girls pink. In fact, we would not at all strange if a girl you put a blue outfit but what if a child what to wear pink? It seems unthinkable, right?
Well, I discovered that in the nineteenth century wore backwards, ie, girls and boys blue rose, though more common than not to do or a color or otherwise, but dressed in neutral colors such as gray, white, brown, veige …
Each color is associated with a meaning and is associated with certain qualities or characteristics. Thus, the blue is identified with the calmness, purity, tranquility, nature (the blue sky or the sea), while red is more about passion, courage, honor, stoicism. Pink could be more innocent version of this color and thus was used in childhood.
At what point is turned the tables? Well it looks like the first signs feminists, the struggle for gender equality, the effort to avoid differences and prejudices between the sexes. They wanted to avoid that already, from small, barriers will be marked distinctions in clothing for infants and was passed to change this tradition. Dressing up a blue boy and a girl in pink, was an act of rebellion against stereotypes. Although it appears that this industrial action fell into a new tradition.
The point is that, without realizing it, and we are making certain conduct prejudiced in infants and there is still too rooted tradition in relation to this issue. Many mothers fleeing her and dress their children as they want, regardless of color association is implied. However, it is a losing battle as the market and society are not yet preperados for a change. Chances are that the girl likes the dolls, 90% of cases go dressed in pink and cartoon-like Hello Kitty, whose world is in pink, while children will feel more attracted to Superman or Spiderman, painted mainly in red and blue.
To see if any brave to create a princess with a blue dress and pink tights superhero. Perhaps this could be the beginning of a change.


text: We demonstrate and validate that concurrent and parallel transmissions are feasible for low data-rate impulse-radio ultrawide band (IR-UWB) physical layers. The optimal organization for a low data-rate IR-UWB network is to allow for concurrent transmissions at the link layer, and to use interference mitigation techniques at the physical layer. Indeed, low data-rate IRUWB physical layers can suffer from multi-user interference (MUI), especially in near-far scenarios. Therefore, we perform an experimental validation with a packet-based, low data-rate IR-UWB physical layer testbed. Our results clearly demonstrate that concurrent IR-UWB transmissions are possible. This shows that completely uncoordinated low data-rate IR-UWB networks are feasible. We also demonstrate that, in the presence of MUI, an interference mitigation scheme at the physical layer is indeed necessary. In particular, because it is the first component for the proper reception of a packet, we focus on packet detection and timing acquisition. We show that a traditional scheme is not robust against multi-user interference and prevents concurrent transmissions. On the contrary, a scheme designed to take MUI into account, even with a very simple interference mitigation scheme, allows for concurrent transmissions, even in strong nearfar scenarios. © 2009 IEEE.


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Earth Impact Risk Summary
Analysis based on
19 observations spanning 1.1610 days
(2006-Nov-18.29615 to 2006-Nov-19.45711)
Orbit diagram and elements available
These results were computed on Sep 16, 2011
Earth Impact Table
Summary Table Description
The Summary Table includes basic information about the hazard for this object.
The maximum Torino and Palermo Scale values are listed, as well as the number
of tabulated potential impacts and their corresponding cumulative Palermo
Scale value and cumulative impact probability. The observation set used
for the analysis is also listed. Certain parameter values depend upon the
specific impact event in question, but they change little among the various
table entries. For this reason we tabulate only mean values for these parameters:
- Vimpact - Velocity at atmospheric entry.
- Vinfinity - Relative velocity at atmospheric entry
neglecting the acceleration caused by the Earth's gravity field, often
called the hyperbolic excess velocity. (Vinfinity2
= Vimpact2 - Vescape2, where
Vescape = ~11.2 km/s is the Earth escape velocity.)
- H - Absolute Magnitude, a measure of the intrinsic brightness
of the object.
- Diameter - This is an estimate based on the absolute magnitude,
usually assuming a uniform spherical body with visual albedo pV
= 0.154 (in accordance with the Palermo Scale)
but sometimes using actual measured values if these are available.
Since the albedo is rarely measured, the diameter estimate should
be considered only approximate, but in most cases will be accurate to
within a factor of two.
- Mass - This estimate assumes a uniform spherical body with
the computed diameter and a mass density of 2.6 g/cm3. The
mass estimate is somewhat more rough than the diameter estimate, but
generally will be accurate to within a factor of three.
- Energy - The kinetic energy at impact: 0.5 * Mass * Vimpact2.
Measured in Megatons of TNT.
Impact Table Legend
See our Introduction for a more extensive explanation of these terms.
- The calendar date (UTC) of the potential impact.
- The minimum distance on the target plane (scaled b-plane)
from the LOV to the geocenter, measured in Earth radii. For these purposes
the radius of the Earth, 6420 km, includes some allowance for the thickness of
- The one-sigma semi-width of the LOV uncertainty region, measured
in Earth radii.
- Sigma Impact
- The lateral distance in sigmas from the LOV to the Earth's atmosphere.
Zero indicates that the LOV intersects the Earth. It is computed from
(Distance - 1)/Width.
- Sigma LOV
- The coordinate along the Line Of Variations (LOV). This value is
a measure of how well the impacting orbit fits the available observations.
Zero indicates the best-fitting, central (nominal) orbit and the further
from zero, the less likely the event: Roughly 99% of all the uncertainty
region lies between -3 and +3. Sentry explores out to Sigma LOV = +/-5.
- Stretch LOV
- The stretching is the semimajor axis of the local linear uncertainty
region. It describes how fast one moves across the target plane as Sigma
LOV changes, and is measured in Earth radii per sigma. The local probability
density varies inversely with the stretching, and thus larger stretching
values will generally lead to lower impact probabilities.
- Impact Probability
- The probability that the tabulated impact will occur. The probability
computation is complex and depends on a number of assumptions that are
difficult to verify. For these reasons the stated probability can easily
be inaccurate by a factor of a few, and occasionally by a factor of
ten or more.
- Impact Energy
- The kinetic energy at impact, based upon the computed absolute magnitude
and impact velocity for the particular case, and computed in accordance
with the guidelines stated for the Palermo Technical Scale. Uncertainty
in this value is dominated by mass uncertainty and the stated value
will generally be good to within a factor of three.
- Palermo Scale
- The hazard rating according to the Palermo Technical Impact
Hazard Scale, based on the tabulated impact date, impact probability
and impact energy.
- Torino Scale
- The hazard rating according to the Torino Impact Hazard Scale,
based on the tabulated impact probability and impact energy.
The Torino Scale is defined only for potential impacts less than 100 years in the future.


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3D Geometry in TouchDesigner is held in SOPs, and is stored in the data structure called a Geometry Detail. The Geometry Detail holds a a Point List, a Primitive, and for each Polygon/Spline-type primitive, it holds a Vertex List. The types of primitives are polygon, mesh, spline, metaballs, spheres, cylinders and particles.
Geometry is rendered to an image by the Render TOP, which takes a set of Geometry Component that contain SOPs whose Render flags are on.
Here are the details on the types of geometry that TouchDesigner is capable of rendering.
A polygon is a type of Primitive that is formed from a set of Vertices in 3D that are implicitly connected together to form a multi-edge shape.
A polygon is a type of Primitive that is formed from a set of Vertices in 3D that are implicitly connected together to form a multi-edge shape.
A sequence of vertices form a Polygon in a SOP. Each vertex is an integer index into the Point List, and each Point holds an XYZ position and attributes like Normals and Texture Coordinates.
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According to BC Stats:
Small Business is defined as those businesses with fewer than 50 employees plus businesses operated by self-employed individuals without paid help
98% of all businesses in BC are considered small
82% of all small businesses have less than 5 employees
The entire province of BC has 6,700 employers with more than 50 employees
When speaking of property taxes, many politicians look to the idea of differentiating between large and small businesses because they perceive there to be more public support for higher taxes for large business. Although we understand and appreciate the well intended objectives of this proposal, we see a number of difficulties with the concept of creating two business classes from the current one.
It should be understood that property tax is a tax on land and improvement value and is the responsibility of the landowner to pay. When the landowner leases the use of his or her property it is for a net rent and because the tenant is using the property as if they had ownership for the term of the lease they are responsible for all costs associated with the property. That includes property tax and is regardless of the type of tenant renting.
Although the tenant usually pays the property taxes the liability for the tax lies with the land owner. So having a different property tax for small and large businesses will mean that the land owner's property taxes will change dramatically according to the type of tenant she has. Therefore there will be an incentive for the land owner to favour the small business tenant with the lower property taxes. When there is a vacancy some authority will have to determine if a small or large business tax rate is to apply to the property and thus the land owner.
The definition of a small business
A major problem with introducing a small business class is how to define a small business and a 'large business.' Is it measured in terms of total space occupied, gross sales, net assets, profits, number of employees or other factors? A large property may contain one large business or many small businesses. A small property may be one of many small properties owned by one landowners or a pension fund.
If, for example, there are two coffee shops in your neighbourhood and one belongs to a multi-national chain and one is an independent owner. Would it be fair for one to have substantially higher taxes than the other? They may both enjoy the similar sales, the same number of employees and perhaps the same rent. Is the public's interest being served when your neighbourhood encourages small businesses to prosper but ignores the convenience and service of large businesses who may be discouraged to locate locally? Banks, large format grocery stores or restaurant chains for example, might be desired in a neighbourhood for their convenience but may be discouraged by high property taxes.
Big buildings do not necessarily mean big businesses. May multi-story buildings in downtown Vancouver are home to many small businesses.
Consider two otherwise identical high-rise office buildings. One building may be occupied by a single company while the other is occupied by numerous small businesses, each renting a share of a large property. Should one property enjoy lower taxes simply because there are many small tenants rather than one large tenant in the building? If a small business class were to be created, would a retailer that had five small stores still be considered a "small business"?
Equity among small businesses and other businesses
Using square footage or assessed value as a criterion for defining a "small business" would by itself create significant unintended consequences and inequities.
The high occupancy levels we see throughout the City of Vancouver suggests that when small businesses leave or cease to be in business, the space they vacate is subsequently occupied either by other small businesses or by large businesses. Assisting all small businesses does not address the specific impacts on individual businesses.
Businesses provide employment regardless of their size or profitability. They also provide services and goods that are essential to a thriving community. Businesses must also pay for services that are provided by the municipality whether it is police or fire protection or sewers and roads. To require that businesses be responsible for more than a fair share of property taxes can be disastrous to the economic health of a community.


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Gentrification and Health: Measured, Perceived, and Experienced
Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Yongmei Lu, professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University.
Gentrification refers to the process of urban neighborhood change due to influx of more affluent people and households. It is often accompanied by rent increase, shifts in neighborhood demographic characteristics, and resharing of economic and cultural landscape. Although gentrification may be considered as a stage of urban development, it is controversial in urban politics and planning and debatable for urban life and community well-being. By shifting a neighborhood's characteristics and landscape, gentrification is a housing, economic, culture, and health issue. Adopting a geospatial analysis approach and looking through a social justice lens, Lu argues for a people-based exposure assessment framework when examining the health impacts of gentrification. This seminar talk will also discuss the empirical findings on health impacts of gentrification on the long-time residents in selected urban neighborhoods in Austin, Texas.
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CopperHead Ag Furrow Cruiser
- Improves seed-to-soil contact.
- Unique combination of sidewall crumbling and soil firming
- Allows young roots to penetrate sidewalls.
- Fits into your existing closing wheel hubs.
- Prevents furrow from re-opening
- Angular tooth design helps prevent clogging.
- Built-in depth control allows for use with multiple crops.
- Works in virtually all soil and tillage conditions.
- Especially effective in saturated soils.
Martin Industries – Martin Row Cleaners
5 Steps to Solid Results
Step 1: Clean & lightly till without furrowing out.
Properly designed row cleaners provide a very desirable type of tillage. !e row cleaner teeth continuously engage the soil to the shallow depth of 1" to 1 1/2". !is scarifying of the soil's surface layer makes it easier for the seed openers to open a welldefined "V" but without furrowing out or causing slabbing or fleaking. Eliminating furrows is the key to preventing erosion in the row on slopes and the ponding of water over the row in level areas. Martin Row Cleaners come in two basic types: rigid and floating.
Our rigid models are more aggressive row cleaners and are particularly useful when a furrow is needed to reach moisture. Rigid models are available for all popular planters.
Our floating models have the advantage of always moving residue and lightly tilling the seed zone and leaving no skips or furrowed out places. Floating models fit most popular planters and may be used ahead of most no-till coulters or certain fertilizer openers including our UMO-100 Unit-Mounted Fertilizer Opener.
Side Treader Wheels
Our side treader wheels are a very good option, one most customers order, for the floating row cleaners because they help prevent unwanted trenching in softer parts of the field. Recent Farm Journal tests show a large yield increase when using this option.
All Martin Row Cleaners have the following features:
- 3/8" thick, high-strength, right- and left-toothed wheels with diamond shaped points
- Stationary triple-lip seals
- Heavy-gauge oval dust caps
- Double tapered bearings
- Greaseable hubs
Step 2: Place fertilizer in soil, not on trash or planter
Our fertilizer opener mounts directly to the planting unit and is compact enough to be used with our C125 and WA1360 Row Cleaners. Because the opener mounts directly to the planter unit, the fertilizer is always precisely the same distance from the seed even when planting on the contour. The lateral spacing from the seed can be 1", 2", or 3", and there are three vertical settings that allow fertilizer to be placed 3/4" above, even with, or 3/4" below seed depth. We like the way it consistently places the fertilizer in the ground without splattering it on the planter.
UMO-100 Fertilizer Opener
- Sturdy compact design
- Double tapered bearing hub
- 5mm thick (0.197") blade
- Adjustable furrow control device
- Can be set to place liquids 1", 2", or 3" from seed row
- Can also be set to place liquids 3/4" above, even with, or 3/4" below seed depth
- Fits Deere 7000 - 1700 series planters, Kinze, White 6000 & 8000 series planters
- Patent pending
Step 3: Use Reduced Inner Diameter Gauge Tires to allow the seed disk to lift part of the sidewall and leave it less dense.
To reduce sidewall compaction to a minimum, JD style planters will need the gauge wheel tires changed to reduced inner diameter style to allow the seed trench walls to lift slightly. Because this style of gauge wheel tire is so friendly to the seed trench wall, we recommend them for 750 drills. This change allows us to return to the field a day or two sooner after each rain.
- Reduced inner diameter gauge tire
- Allows seed trench to lift and fracture
- Fits existing John Deere, Kinze, and White rims
- Two required per row
Step 4: Close without surface compaction
Martin Spading-Closing wheels move soil toward the seed at planting depth, while lifting and fracturing the surface layer to achieve compaction- free closing of the seed trench in wet, hard, or sod conditions. With soil firmed around the seed from each side and the surface layer loosened, crops emerge sooner and planting can be done at the proper depth, even in wetter conditions, without fear of crushed soil above the seed preventing emergence.
Our Spading-Closing Wheels do not attempt to close the seed trench by a crushing action from the top down. The soil is wedged toward the seed from either side at seeding depth by a pair of Martin Row Cleaner wheels. The ends of the teeth have full bevels cut on them. The beveled sides of the teeth on each wheel are placed toward the row and the narrow edge enters the soil first producing a wedging action. As the teeth on the wheels rotate up out of the soil, a slight lifting and crumbling occurs in the surface layer. The area on either side of the seed and immediately above it is not fractured, and because of the shape and spacing of the teeth on these wheels, wet soil does not bind to them.
- Speeds up warming of the row area
- Closing wheel arm pressure can be greatly reduced
- Seed trench is closed in the most severe conditions
- Seed depth does not have to be raised to insure emergence
- Soil above the seed is loose and slightly mounded allowing quicker emergence in a compaction-free environment
- Sidewall compaction is greatly reduced
In the past we thought the only way to grow no-till crops successfully was to wait until the soil was dry enough for the planter's smooth closing wheels to crumble the soil over the seed. Our long-standing struggle with the problem prompted us to find a solution that we have since patented. Customers around the country are praising it.
Step 5: Level row and seal air pockets
Following behind the Spading-Closing Wheels our Twisted Drag Chain helps to further crumble and level the soil. This helps even out the rate of drying and insures the soil does not dry past seed depth. This is a low cost, low maintenance way to help increase uniform emergence in the drier parts of the field and is a must when using the spading closing wheels in minimum till. By the way, some of our customers still feel the need for some shallow tillage in the spring and the spading closing wheels and drag chain combination do an excellent job in that situation.
DCK-01 Drag Chain Kit
- Heavy square edge cross chain and brackets
- Bolts to all MaxEmerge units
- Fits Kinze and White units with bolt-on wheels
- Kinze units with roll pin attached closing wheels will need holes drilled for mounting


Definitions for "Wrought Iron"
Keywords: forge, malleable, hammer, iron, slag
In its perfect condition, wrought iron is simply pure iron, but, owing to impurities (to a certain degree) being present, it only approximates to that condition.
Iron construction that is created by the use of heating iron and pounding it into a shape with a hammer.
A commercial iron that has little use today and has been replaced by mild steel. It was commonly produced by the puddling process. The temperatures employed in its production are too low to render it fluid, it is heated until it forms a pasty mass then it is squeezed or forged. The process does not lend itself to removal of impurities so it contains an appreciable quantity of slag. It will not respond to any heat treatment designed to increase the hardness or strength.
Keywords: patio, rust, chairs, railings, preserve
Type of material that is used typically for railings or patio chairs and tables. It is painted with special paint to prevent rust and preserve the finish. Mostly commonly it is black or white.


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Cell count gizmo
INSTANT indications of cow cell counts are now possible in the parlour using a device from Germany.
David Gill of UK agents Pro-Products claim that as cell count increases the salt level of milk increases, so measuring conductivity allows cell counts to be monitored.
"It doesnt give a cell count figure because there is no direct correlation between cell count and salt level," he says. A meter reading of 300 is good; when the reading is below 300 then a cow can be monitored and the infected quarter identified and treated before clinical signs of mastitis are seen. Cost is £250. (01772-627200).


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Keeping People with Disabilities in the Workforce: Negotiating Work, Life and Disability – Field Initiated Research Project
Whether a person with a disability or not, it is essential to find the proper balance between work and other life domains. This study is one of the first to investigate the specific work-life experiences and strategies of individuals with disabilities. Findings from this project may help our understanding of how individuals with disabilities find satisfying, sustainable employment, enabling longer, more productive careers.
The Work-Life Balance study provided new knowledge about how people with disabilities effectively manage work-life negotiations, what employer policies and practices contribute to a positive balance for these workers, and best practices employers and disability service providers can engage in to help individuals with disabilities to find and retain employment.
The first phase of the study included fielding a survey to the networks of over 100 organizations that serve individuals with disabilities(e.g., regional ADA Technical Assistance Centers, Centers for Independent Living, and organizations that serve people with specific types of disabilities/chronic health conditions). The survey sought to identify workplace components, such as supervisory support and provision of reasonable accommodations that contribute to positive workplace experiences for people with disabilities.
In the second phase of the study, virtual focus groups were conducted to further explore issues noted in the survey results. The focus group data supported findings from the survey.
Findings from the project have been shared via webinars, conference presentations, blog posts, and in academic and non-academic publications, as well as through the Work-Life Balance & Disability website.


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The original disaster narrative, 'The Shipwrecked Men' by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico City some years later.
Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
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What happens when the user selects "Safely Remove Drive" when the drive is a USB Flash Memory device and what is the risk if the user simply pulls the drive without selecting that operation?
I am on Precise (12.04) and the drive is a USB 3.0 flash memory.
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When the user selects "Safely Remove Drive", the partition of the media (in this case the USB flash memory) is "unmounted" as soon as the drive has finished its current operation(s).
Then, it's safe to proceed and physically remove the USB stick, because the drive is "switched off".
If you do not "eject" the media, meaning that is still mounted (i.e. linked to a directory, usually in /media), and you remove the drive, you can corrupt the files on the USB stick, even if you think the system is not reading/writing anything on the drive itself. So my advice is to always eject it.
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A canonical correlation analysis based method for contamination event detection in water sources†
In this study, a general framework integrating a data-driven estimation model is employed for contamination event detection in water sources. Sequential canonical correlation coefficients are updated in the model using multivariate water quality time series. The proposed method utilizes canonical correlation analysis for studying the interplay between two sets of water quality parameters. The model is assessed by precision, recall and F-measure. The proposed method is tested using data from a laboratory contaminant injection experiment. The proposed method could detect a contamination event 1 minute after the introduction of 1.600 mg l−1 acrylamide solution. With optimized parameter values, the proposed method can correctly detect 97.50% of all contamination events with no false alarms. The robustness of the proposed method can be explained using the Bauer–Fike theorem.


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the variable will indicate a downward trend in the Price VAM. In this example, there are no inversely correlated variables.
Finally, causality is the last criterion in the analysis and selection of important variables in price, sales or demand forecasts. Causality, unlike correlation, allows establishing a cause-effect relationship between a group of variables and indicators and the items of interest. Based on the forecasts, Datup determines which are the variables whose behaviours are the cause of upward or downward changes in the target items. For example, it is observed that VAM price forecasts are mostly caused by the Methanol China Index (0.5), New Orleans Temperature (0.39), Acetic Acid Index (0.35), Qingdao Temperature (0.31), US Price Ethanol (0.31). Once again, it is important to pay attention to those variables common to impact, correlation and causality analysis, as they form the set of key indicators to be taken into account by analysts for their operational and strategic decisions. Here, Price Ethanol is identified in both impact and causality analysis. Even more relevant, the Acetic Acid Index is the common denominator in all 3 significance analyses.
Thus, the key indicators in order of importance to guide Price Vynil Acetate Monomer (VAM) purchasing strategies, following the criteria of impact, causality and correlation are:
Acetic Acid Index
Acetic Acid RMB
US Ethanol Price
US Existing Home Sales
Methanol China Index
New Orleans Temperature
Finally, it should be noted that each new daily, weekly or monthly forecast involves the estimation of high-impact variables and indicators, causalities and correlations, based on changes observed in the most recently collected data. Datup automatically and continuously identifies and presents to analysts the top-n of key indicators to be taken into account for the best decision making in trading, purchasing, production or distribution.
Advanced Use Case: Scenario Simulation
This use case guides decision making for:
Simulate the behaviour of items of interest, based on the increase, maintenance or decrease in the values of specific variables and indicators.
Taking the identified high impact, causal and/or correlated indicators identified by Datup's importance analysis as a starting point, it is possible to forecast the quantity or price of an item of interest in future periods. Unlike the forecasts of the first part, the simulation not only considers historical data, but also builds various scenarios from the key indicators to generate the forecasts of the items of interest; covering increases of 10% and 30%, drops of -10% and -30% or the permanence of the current value. In addition to the indicators postulated by the impotance analysis, analysts can include additional variables to simulate.
In the example use case, Price Vynil Acetate Monomer (VAM) is the item of interest, the key indicators to simulate are: Acetic Acid RMB, US Ethanol Price, US Existing Home Sales. In addition, the supporting indicators Dollar TRM and WTI Crude USD are included in the simulation.
The results show the simulation of 5 scenarios that can be presented by the Acetic Acid RMB in the short-term forecasts, which correspond to increases of 10% ($9,995) and 30% ($11,765), falls of -10% ($8,145) and -30% ($6,335) and the current price ($9,050) remaining unchanged. For each scenario, Datup forecasts the Price VAM most likely in the column
Pronóstico VAMaccompanied by the ceiling price
Pronóstico VAM Sup and floor
Pronóstico VAM Inf where it can be located, depending on the uncertainties observed in its history. For example, if the Acetic Acid RMB increases its current price by 10% to reach $9,995, the Price VAM will stand at $2,309, with a ceiling at $2,337 and a floor at $2,282.
Now, taking the TRM dollar as one of the variables to be simulated, we consider the scenario where the exchange rate falls by 10% to $3,460. In this way, the Price VAM will be $2,246, with a ceiling at $2,284 and a floor at $2,213.


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Alice publishes $(n,e)$ where $n$ is exponential modulus and $e$ is the public key. We have $n=80$ digit number and $e=3$. Bob, in correspondence with Alice, asked Alice to prove she is really Alice, by making her signature on the following five numbers: $m1, m2, m3, m4, m5$. Then Alice sent 6 numbers $y1, y2, y3, y4, y5, y6$ where all the 6 numbers are really long, around 80 integers.
How do verify that these five numbers are indeed signed by Alice?
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Welcome to Cryptography Stack Exchange. Sorry, you need to be a bit more specific. Please read RSA signature, and then tell us what at what point you need clarifications. (You can edit your question.) – Paŭlo Ebermann Oct 18 '13 at 18:22
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Alice will have computed
$y_{i} = m_{i}^{d} \,\mbox{mod}\, n$
and Bob will compute
$d_{i} = y_{i}^{e} \,\mbox{mod}\, n$
If Bob finds $d_{i} == m_{i}$ for every $i$, he will probably conclude that they were indeed signed by Alice. His conclusion however, is very unwise, since for this special case where $e=3$, the numbers $y_{i}$ can be easily forged by an attacker even if he does not possess the private key $d$ of Alice.
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It depends. Take a look at this. Cheers. – rath Oct 19 '13 at 5:05
You are right, I forgot to mention that this assumes no padding scheme is employed – Pankrates Oct 19 '13 at 5:31
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TEFL.net : TEFL Articles : Teacher Technique : 15 Ways to SHUT UP
15 Ways to SHUT UP
Important and essential techniques to help your students speak more and you speak less.
Written by Thomas Topham for TEFL.net
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
As a teacher trainer, one of my ongoing issues in pre-service courses is with teacher-talking-time – how much is coming out of the teacher's mouth, the proportion of time the teacher is talking vs. the students, and how to get this ratio as high as possible in the students' favour.
Whether this is actually something worth striving for is a whole different debate. Let's just take it as a given that less teacher-talk is a good thing, and get on with the list:
1. Don't Echo
Here is a common classroom script:
S1: Bolivia.
S2: The Marshall Islands.
"But how do I work in open class, if I am not supposed to speak?" With the above scenario, the teacher needs to say exactly four words:
 - T writes on WB "Places to Go".
 - T holds WB pen, ready to transcribe. Waits. If nothing is forthcoming…
 - T asks "Where should we go?"… and waits for answers.
2. Wait
3. Don't Answer Right Away
Chances are one of the students knows the answer, if the teacher shuts up. Compare:
S1: Why is that?
S1: Why is that?
S2: I think because, is question…
4. Groupwork Is Better, Always
5. Ask Open-Ended Questions
They require more from the students, and therefore require less talk from you. Compare:
T: Is it a boy, or a girl?
Ss: Girl.
Ss: Yes.
Ss: Yes.
S1: A girl.
T: (continuing to shut up)
S2: She is schoolgirl.
6. Make Use Of Your Written Materials
That's it. OK, it isn't 15, so sue me.
Written by Thomas Topham for TEFL.net
June 2008 | Filed under Teacher Technique
Thomas Topham is a teacher trainer in Sofia, Bulgaria at The Modern Institute.


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Talking Taino (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)
- Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Beskrivelse: Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas. Walking hundreds of miles of beaches, working without shade in the Caribbean sun, diving in refreshing and pristine waters, and studying the people and natural environment around them has given them insights into the lifeways of the people who lived in the Caribbean before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Sadly, harsh treatment extinguished the culture that we today call Taino or Arawak. In an effort to repay their debt to the past and the present, the authors have focused on the relationship between the Tanos of the past (revealed through archaeological investigations) and the present natural history of the islands. Bringing the past to life and highlighting commonalities between past and present, they emphasize Tano words and beliefs about their worldview and culture.
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Senior Botanist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
The ecology of plants has been Dennis Whigham's primary interest and his research has resulted in journeys through forests, fields and wetlands around the world. Explorations have lead to studies of woodland herbs – including orchids, vines, wetland species, invasive species and studies of forests in the tropics, temperate and boreal zones. In recent years, studies of interactions between orchids and fungi have lead in new and exciting directions. Whigham's current focus is on wetlands, including the role of wetlands associated with juvenile salmon habitat in Alaska; the rarest terrestrial orchid in eastern North America; and invasive species.


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For one week each year, gorgeous purple flowers bloom in only a few places around the world. People wade into the purple seas to harvest the blooms by hand and then pick their stamens to sell as saffron.
The harvest process is tedious, but these high-maintenance flowers are also very selective about the climates that they grow in and the yields are very hit or miss. Each flower - or saffron crocus - produces about three stamens, which must be picked by hand. About 150 flowers are needed to produce a gram of saffron and saffron can sell for between $2,000 to $10,000 a pound.
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Grammar will soon become your children's favorite subject when you introduce them to Fold-N-Gos! With the Level 1 Fold-N-Go Grammar Pack, you'll make 10 lapbook-style grammar and writing folders, each devoted to a different skill. Each colorful page presents simple rules, engaging examples, and practice exercises that make learning or reviewing grammar fun. At the end of Level 1, kids will have their very own set of portable reference guides, along with matching bookmarks for quick review.
Printed on brightly colored paper, Level 1 Fold-N-Go Grammar covers punctuation, self-editing, seven different parts of speech, and using references. Fold-N-Go Grammar can be used to supplement or reinforce a more comprehensive grammar program, or you can use it as a gentle, stand-alone introduction. Ages 8-11.
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Acne aid soap can be defined as a blend of gentle degreasing and synthetic cleanser that is used in cleaning the skin gently and thoroughly. This product is effective in acne and oily skin as it contains a cleansing power that is very functiona. Acne aid soap is usually considered as among the cheapest and easiest product that you can use to eradicate your skin problems. This is because it requires very little money and effort to have it. Like all the other ordinary soap, this soap too is very easy to use as it just requires a wash with the water. In this article we are going to look at some of the benefits you are likely to encounter if you use acne aid soap.
BENEFITS OF ACNE AID SOAP
The following are some of the benefits you are likely to encounter while using this type of soap.
*Cleaning the Skin
This product is usually cleans a persons' skin very thoroughly. By cleaning the skin, it prevents the accumulation of bacteria and dirt which are likely to cause acne.
*It is Very Gentle on the Skin
Most soaps usually have chemicals that may end up affecting your skin. For instance, some of these chemicals are very harsh that they may end up triggering acne eruption. However, the ingredients that are present in this product are very ideal for the skin both delicate and sensitive.
*It is Free from Irritation
Acne aid soap has got some ingredients that will prevent any chances of irritation while using it.
*Helps to Keep the Skin Soft
There are some types of soap that may dry your skin and thus end up affecting it with some other health problems. However, acne aid soap usually assists in moisturizing the skin rather than drying it. Let us now have a look at some of the types of acne aid soaps that are currently available in the market.
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TYPES of ACNE AID SOAPS
*Acne-Aid Liquid Soap
This product is very essential in oily skin as it prevents acne and pimples.
This product has three Sulphur resorcinol creams that are essential in moisturizing the skin.
*Cuticura Antibacterial Bar
This is an antibacterial product that can assist you to get the relief from acne.
*Stiefel PanOxyl Bar
This is a very unique product that you can use to treat acne.
As you have seen acne aid product can take the healing procedure of acne unlike the other ordinary soaps can do. It is made up of the substances such as glycolic acid which usually acts as anti-bacterial and anti-septic agents. This substance also is very essential in preventing acne breakout and also at the same time they can assist you remove accumulated oil or dirt from your face. This soap can also be used in treating blackhead, large acne cysts, whiteheads, and most of the other type of acne.
In conclusion, while using this soap, ensure that you avoid greasy and fried foods so as to maintain oil and fat levels in your body as required.
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Purchase GIS Data
All Data Layers displayed on Geographical Inquiry System can be obtained from the county for a small fee. Vector (Line & Polygon) Data can be copied to CD in ESRI's shapefile format. A CD with all Geographic Data can be obtained for $75.00. Subsets of the data can be reproduced on CD for a minimum of $50.00. This data only includes a limited amount of parcel information. Detailed parcel information would have to be obtained through Randolph County's Tax Department.
A Countywide copy of 2007 Aerial Photos in MrSID image compression format on DVD can be purchased for $100.00.
MrSID images can be viewed with most mapping software (ArcGIS and AutoCAD).
- To view MrSID images with Internet Explorer a window's browser plugin must be downloaded from LizardTech.
GIS Data requests can be made by e-mail to: _EMAIL_
Free 2007 Aerial Photos
5000 x 5000 foot Aerial Photos in MrSID image compression format can be downloaded from NC One Map for free. These images are based on 200 scale tax map grids. There are 939 images that cover Randolph County.
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About Harry Burrard
Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet (1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813) was a British General during the Peninsular War.
After Woolwich Burrard joined the Royal Artillery, the 60th Foot and the 1st Foot Guards, seeing combat in the American Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. He was captured during a raid on the Bruges canal in 1798. He led the 2nd Brigade during the 1799 Anglo-Russian campaign in Holland, fighting at the battles of Bergen, Egmont and Castricum. In 1807, he commanded the 1st Division at the siege of Copenhagen.
Sir Harry Burrard had long since passed his prime when he took over the British army in Portugal from Sir Arthur Wellesley in 1808. Wellesley was one of the most junior Lieutenant-Generals in the British army, so for reasons of protocol, a more senior officer had to be placed above him.
Burrard stopped Wellesley's pursuit of General Jean-Andoche Junot after Vimeiro. It was his only real order during his one day in command of the army. He was replaced the next day by an equally cautious Sir Hew Dalrymple who began negotiations with Junot which led to the infamous Convention of Cintra. Recalled to London for an inquiry into the treaty, Burrard was placed in retirement from active duty.
He was nicknamed Betty by his troops.
The Burrard Inlet was named after his cousin, also named Sir Harry Burrard (1765–1840), by George Vancouver in June 1792.
One of Burrard's sons was killed at the Battle of Corunna and another died in the breach at the Siege of San Sebastian.
He appears in Naomi Novik's fifth Temeraire novel, Victory of Eagles.


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Webb School of Knoxville Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf has been named a 2015 Science Communication Fellow by Dr. Robert Ballard's (discoverer of the Titanic) Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), and in September, will set sail aboard the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus during its 2015 scientific expedition. The E/V Nautilus is one of only two ships in the world dedicated to ocean exploration.
Beckendorf joins the Corps of Exploration aboard E/V Nautilus as they use remote operating vehicles (ROVs) to explore the ocean floor and sea life off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He will stand watch alongside scientists and engineers, as well as participate in live interactions with shore-based audiences via Nautilus Live (_URL_
), a 24-hour web portal bringing expeditions from the ocean to future explorers on shore.
Beckendorf's involvement will help immerse Webb School students in real-world science and engineering. While Beckendorf is on the Nautilus, eighth grade engineering and robotics teacher, Miller Callaway, will lead Webb students in building, designing and testing their own underwater ROVs; and learning how and why ROVs can be used in ocean exploration. The students will stay in close contact with Beckendorf through email, the Nautilus Live website and Skype-type calls directly to the ship.
Beckendorf was one of 28 educators and 26 students from around the world to be selected by the OET to join the Nautilus Corps of Exploration during its six-month expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, Galápagos Islands, and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The selected educators and students hail from schools, universities, science centers, aquaria, and non-profit organizations in 25 states in the United States, and five countries. As a Science Communication Fellow, Beckendorf is charged with the responsibility of engaging students and the public in the wonders of ocean exploration, sharing discoveries from the expedition, as well as inviting others to learn aspects of daily life aboard a working exploration vessel.
"I am both thrilled and humbled to have this exciting opportunity to be a part of bringing real world ocean science, engineering and exploration to the students at Webb School and to students of all ages across the globe," Beckendorf said. "Although Knoxville is miles from Earth's ocean, it still has major effects on Tennessee, and the people in this landlocked state significantly impact the ocean," he continued. "I hope to excite students with the opportunities that exist for them in the ocean sciences and help them think deeply about the connections between Earth's ecosystems."
The OET was founded in 2008 by Ballard to explore the ocean, seeking out new discoveries in the fields of geology, biology, maritime history, archaeology, physics, and chemistry while pushing the boundaries of STEM education and technological innovation.
"One of the major goals of our Nautilus Exploration Program is to inspire the next generation of explorers in STEM fields," said OET Executive Vice President, Dr. Katy Croff Bell, in an OET release, "so we are very excited to provide educators and students with the direct experience of ocean exploration, while allowing them the opportunity to share their experiences far and wide with their peers."
The public, scientists, educators, and students can join Kirk Beckendorf's seagoing adventure via streaming video on the Nautilus Live website (_URL_
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International Journal of Education and Management Engineering(IJEME)
ISSN: 2305-3623 (Print), ISSN: 2305-8463 (Online)
Published By: MECS Press
IJEME Vol.2, No.11, Nov. 2012
Classroom Teaching Expansion of Computer Fundamentals Course
Full Text (PDF, 100KB), PP.41-45
This paper mainly studies classroom teaching expansion of Computer Fundamentals Course. The classroom teaching of Computer Fundamentals Course can be expanded in the perspectives of time and space by using various resources such as library, Internet, science and technology market for non-computer major students. As shown in the practice results the students have really benefited a lot from these efforts.
Cite This Paper
SHANG Junping,LIU Hebing,"Classroom Teaching Expansion of Computer Fundamentals Course", IJEME, vol.2, no.11, pp.41-45, 2012.
 Wang Yiqiu, "Some views on the current quality of undergraduate teaching," China University Teaching, vol. 3, pp. 4–14,2008(in Chinese).
 Fengyun Li, Ying Liu, Gao Fuxiang, "Research and Practice on the Teaching Reform of Computer Fundamentals Course," ifcsta, vol. 3, pp.35–37, 2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications, 2009.
 Xiu Li, Li Zheng, Fang Yang, "A General Education Curriculum on Computer Fundamentals--Needs Assessment and Design," The First ACM Summit on Computing Education in China, October 24-25, 2008, Beijing, China.
 Li Huijie, Ju Feng, Wang Hongyu, "National essential courses resource centre briefing No.6," _URL_ Chinese).


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The extraction of relevant traffic information is one of the main research areas of the project VABENE ++. For this purpose, methods have already been developed to derive information on traffic flow from aerial photographs. The images are acquired by the 3K camera system on the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan or Dornier Do 228 and 4k camera system on the helicopter BO 105. In order to be able to react flexibly to situations in which a rapid evaluation of the traffic situation is necessary DLR scientists are currently testing the use of a MAV (Micro Aerial Vehicles) for traffic detection.
Here, the AscTec Falcon 8 flight system is used, which is equipped with a GoPro Hero3+ camera, a GPS receiver, and a unit for data transfer. The photographs and video clips will be used for the acquisition of the current traffic situation. In addition, these images will serve as input data to generate digital surface models.


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The oral health of our patients is never static. Vulnerabilities and risks for oral diseases and disorders change over a lifetime. With advances in dental science, it is becoming increasingly possible to determine a patient's risk for oral disease and tailor treatments accordingly. Risk assessment uses knowledge of disease indicators and risk factors associated with oral disease to determine which patients are more or less likely to prevent disease, have disease progress, or maintain their oral health status. Best practices dictate that once the clinician identifies the patient's risk for oral disease (low, moderate, high, extreme), evidence-based treatments or recommendations may be used to create a therapeutic and/or preventive care plan that will assist the patient in achieving optimum oral health.
Upon completion of this CE webinar, the student will be able to:
1. Analyze the principles of oral disease management by risk assessment
2. Recognize the value of performing a risk assessment on patients
3. Describe and differentiate between clinical protocols used to manage oral disease and those to improve oral health
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Styles of handwriting
Until 1875 the so-called "German" or "Gothic" style of handwriting was commonly used in Denmark. This was also the style of script that children were taught in school. Practically all the older documents in the Archives are written in this style - it is necessary to learn how to read it if you wish to use the records at The Danish National Archives.
There are some letters that you should pay particular attention to. The letters "f", "h" and the extended "s" are quite similar and could easily be mistaken for each other. The short "s" might resemble the Latin "r" as it is used in present-day handwriting. The letters "v" and "r" also appear to be similar.
Spelling from bygone-ages
When using Records from some historic period do not expect to find the same spelling of a word that might be found in a modern dictionary. You must not expect the spelling to be correct, or that the same word will be spelled the same each time it is written. Often a word will be spelled two or three different ways – on the same page, or even within the same sentence!
In older texts, from around _PHONE_, you might find some words spelled with an "i" where contemporary Danish would require an "e". For instance, the word "her" (in Danish, "hendes") spelled "hendis"; or "their" (in Danish, "deres") would be spelled "deris". Similarly the letter "g" could be substituted by "ck" or "ch". Thus, the word "and" (in Danish, "og") could be spelled "ock" or "och". Another difficulty could arise if the writer spoke a dialect, which would often be reflected in the spelling and usage of certain Words.


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Sundance 2013 Review: 'Charlie Victor Romeo' is One of the Scariest Movies You'll Ever See
Movie Review By Kevin Kelly on January 27, 2013
Sundance generally isn't the film festival you turn to if you enjoy horror films, but Robert Berger and Karlyn Michelson's Charlie Victor Romeo is one of the most terrifying movies I've seen, inside or outside the festival. It's a filmed adaptation of a play that was first performed in 1999 utilizing actual transcripts of cockpit recordings from airline incidents as the script, with actors portraying the crew. The name itself comes from the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for cockpit voice recorder, or CVR.
The film plays out entirely in the cockpit of six different aircraft from several real accidents, with a very minimal set and actors playing the roles of pilot, co-pilot, and so on. It's a fascinating and terrifying look at at a world most of us never see. Whenever you board a plane, you might get a fleeting glimpse at the banks of instruments, or perhaps the pilot will say "thank you" as you disembark, but what goes on in the cockpit remains a complete mystery to nearly all air travelers.
Which is the most terrifying element of this film. Charlie Victor Romeo shows us that these are human beings thrust into sudden life or death consequences, and unfortunately most of these incidents resulted in the loss of all passengers and crew. In the case of American Eagle Flight 4184, where a de-icing problem resulted in the plane rolling over and crashing into the ground while on a holding pattern outside Chicago's O'Hare Airport, we see the pilot and first officer bantering lightly with each other and one of the flight attendants, and everything seems normal until all hell breaks loose. Second later, everyone aboard was dead.
Before each segment, a few slides with diagrams from the NTSB accident reports identify the type of plane along with some of the key components that contributed to the incident. At the termination of each flight, the screen smash-cuts to black and a slide comes up identifying the cause of the accident and list the number of survivors. It's a stark and harsh testament to the loss of life.
Charlie Victor Romeo feels like a high-speed roller coaster ride. Many of these incidents play out over a long period of time, with the cockpit crew scrambling to regain control of their aircraft. The sound effects of the droning engines, the aural alarms from the flight computer ("Too Low! Terrain!") and the whine of failing equipment all contribute to put you on the edge of your seat, making you feel like you are right there on the plane with them. The gentleman on my right in the theater kept breathing hard and gasping while white-knuckling his armrests. By the time the credits came up, I could identify with him and felt exhausted.
This is a minimalist film and definitely unconventional, even by Sundance standards. But it has been the most powerful film I've seen all week. It's probably not something you'll want to see just before you take a trip, as I'm already dreading my flight home, but this is a movie that will stay with you for a long time. It's a very respectful and frightening look at what goes on behind those locked doors on the flight deck.
Upside: The sound design is flawless throughout the film, and even though you're only seeing the cockpit, sometimes you feel like you're right there on the plane.
Downside: I'm terrified to fly home now, and I haven't been able to stop Googling airline "incidents" (because they don't like to use the word "crash").
On the Side: While the Denzel Washington movie Flight features a harrowing, but fictional, plane crash, United Flight 232 over Sioux City, Iowa, is much more terrifying, and is featured in this movie.


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In the complex landscape of immigration and visa regulations, the "No Recourse to Public Funds" (NRPF) condition is a term that often arises. This condition, which is attached to certain visas in the UK, has significant implications for immigrants and their access to public resources. In this blog, we will delve into the details of the NRPF condition, understanding what it entails and how it affects those subjects to it.
Understanding the NRPF Condition
The NRPF condition is a restriction imposed on individuals who are in the UK on specific types of visas set out in paragraph 6 of the immigration rules. Essentially, it means that these individuals are not eligible to access certain public funds and benefits. The condition is in place to ensure that those granted temporary visas do not become a burden on the UK's welfare system.
Check if your immigration status lets you claim public funds
You're always allowed to claim public funds if you have any of the following:
- British or Irish citizenship
- settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme
- indefinite leave - unless you came to the UK on an adult dependent relative visa
- refugee status or humanitarian protection
- right of abode
You can't claim public funds if you don't have a right to be in the UK.
If you have any other immigration status
- Check your immigration documents, including:
- your biometric residence permit
- your decision letter from the Home Office
- your online immigration status if you have one
You're not usually allowed to claim public funds if it says 'no public funds' or 'no recourse to public funds' on your documents. This is called having a 'no public funds condition'.
If your immigration documents don't say you have a no public funds condition, you can claim public funds.
If you came to the UK as a visitor, you have a no public funds condition. This includes if you scanned your passport at an 'eGate' and didn't get any immigration documents.
Implications of NRPF
Having the NRPF condition on a visa means that individuals cannot access various public funds and benefits, including:
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- Universal Credit
This restriction can pose challenges for individuals and families who may face financial difficulties while residing in the UK. It places the responsibility for financial support squarely on the visa holder and their sponsor (if applicable).
Which public funds are restricted from access due to this condition?
There is a definitive list of what counts as "public funds" for the purposes of the Immigration Rules at paragraph 6:
- attendance allowance
- carers allowance
- child benefit
- child tax credit
- council tax benefit
- council tax reduction
- disability living allowance
- discretionary support payments by local authorities or devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland which replace the discretionary social fund
- housing and homelessness assistance
- housing benefit
- income-based jobseeker's allowance
- income related employment & support allowance
- income support
- personal independence payment
- severe disablement allowance
- social fund payment
- state pension credit
- universal credit
- working tax credit
What services are still available?
Free school meals are accessible to individuals who do not have access to public funds. You can find comprehensive guidance on this matter here.
Benefits and services that are not explicitly mentioned in Immigration Rules at paragraph 6 of the regulations remain accessible. This encompasses contributory benefits, council tax reductions like the sole occupancy discount, and additional services such as healthcare and state-funded education. It's important to note that while there may be other eligibility criteria for accessing these services, such as passport checks for NHS access or specific qualifications for home tuition fees and maintenance grants, these criteria are not directly associated with the "no recourse to public funds" condition.
Benefits not within the definition of public funds include:
- Contribution based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Guardian's allowance
- Incapacity Benefit
- Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Maternity allowance
- Retirement pension
- Statutory maternity pay
- Statutory sickness pay
- Widow's benefit and bereavement benefit
Exemptions and Limited Access
While the NRPF condition is generally strict, some exemptions and limited access to public funds in specific circumstances exist. For instance, in cases where leave was granted based on an individual's private life under Appendix Private Life, we examine paragraph PL 10.5 of the regulations:
The grant of permission will be subject to the following conditions:
(c) if the decision maker is satisfied that:
It's essential to seek professional advice to understand the specific rules and exemptions that apply to your situation.
The No Recourse to Public Funds condition is a crucial aspect of UK immigration policy, designed to ensure that individuals on certain visas can support themselves without relying on public resources. While it serves a purpose in maintaining the integrity of the welfare system, it can also present challenges for those subject to it. Understanding the conditions of your visa and seeking legal advice when necessary is crucial to navigating this complex aspect of immigration law effectively.
If you have questions or concerns about the NRPF condition or need professional assistance in dealing with immigration-related issues, don't hesitate to contact us. Our team of experienced immigration experts is here to provide guidance and support tailored to your specific situation. We're committed to helping you navigate the complexities of immigration law with confidence.


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How Long Do 2032 Batteries Last in Storage?
IntroductionWhen it comes to storing 2032 batteries, it's important to know how long they can last without being used. Whether you're stocking up for future use or simply want to ensure your batteries are still functional when you need them, understanding their shelf life is essential. In this article, we'll explore how long 2032 batteries can last in storage and provide some tips for maximizing their lifespan.
Factors Affecting Shelf Life
Battery QualityThe quality of the 2032 batteries you purchase can significantly impact their shelf life. Higher quality batteries are often designed to have a longer storage life, so it's important to invest in reputable brands to ensure they remain functional for as long as possible.
Storage ConditionsHow you store your 2032 batteries can also affect their longevity. It's best to keep them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures. Exposure to heat and humidity can reduce the shelf life of the batteries, so proper storage is key to maximizing their lifespan.
Initial ChargeThe initial charge of the 2032 batteries at the time of purchase can also impact their shelf life. If they were already partially discharged when you bought them, their storage life may be shorter compared to fully charged batteries.
Typical Shelf LifeOn average, 2032 batteries can last anywhere from 3 to 10 years in storage, depending on the factors mentioned above. Higher quality batteries stored under optimal conditions can potentially last closer to the 10-year mark, while lower quality batteries or those exposed to poor storage conditions may only last a few years.
Tips for Maximizing Shelf Life
Invest in Quality BatteriesTo ensure your 2032 batteries have a longer shelf life, it's best to invest in high-quality brands known for their durability and longevity.
Proper StorageAs mentioned earlier, storing your batteries in a cool, dry place away from extreme temperatures and sunlight can help maximize their shelf life.
Check Expiration DatesBefore purchasing 2032 batteries, check for expiration dates to ensure you're getting the freshest possible stock. This can help guarantee that the batteries have the longest possible shelf life before use.
Keep Them ChargedIf possible, periodically check and recharge stored 2032 batteries to maintain their charge and prevent them from fully discharging over time.
Dispose of Old BatteriesIf you come across old 2032 batteries that have been sitting in storage for an extended period, it's best to dispose of them and replace them with fresh ones to ensure reliable performance.
In conclusion, 2032 batteries can last anywhere from 3 to 10 years in storage, depending on various factors such as battery quality, storage conditions, and initial charge. By investing in quality batteries, storing them properly, and periodically checking their charge, you can maximize their shelf life and ensure they remain functional when you need them.


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Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time-how an event
takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in understanding
the grammar and structure of all languages, and interest in them reaches across
linguistics. 'The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect' is a comprehensive,
authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that currently form
the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas. The volume
contains 36 chapters, divided into 6 sections, written by internationally known
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U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis
Country Analysis Brief Overview
- Colombia has seen a dramatic increase in hydrocarbons production in recent years following a period of steady decline.
- Colombia's oil production has increased since 2008 due to increasing exploration and development.
- Colombia is self-sufficient in natural gas and recently began exporting to neighboring Venezuela.
- Colombia was the fourth largest coal exporter in the world in 2010.
Analysis Last Updated: June 2012
Overview data for Colombia+ EXPAND ALL
-- = Not applicable; NA = Not available; F = Forecast value
Sources: EIA. For more detailed data, see International Energy Statistics.
Data last updated: February 12, 2013
Non-OPEC oil supply outages remain above year-ago level
November 8, 2012
Colombia's oil production at highest level since 1999
July 14, 2011
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
What happens when a raindrop, travelling at terminal velocity, hits a butterfly.....?
I've never seen an insect actually hit by a raindrop but I did once read an eyewitness account (of dubious reliability) of such a collision with a bumblebee in flight, which supposedly killed the bee. It came to mind yesterday as a dark rain cloud slid over the sun while I was photographing this newly-minted female orange tip butterfly visiting bluebells.
Almost immediately the butterfly folded its wings as completely as possible, assumed a vertical position on a bluebell infloresence and even aligned its antennae tightly in line with its body axis - all of which presented the smallest possible target for a falling raindrop. I wonder if this instinctive behaviour is triggered by the sudden drop in light level and temperature that's characteristic of an approaching shower on a spring day? Many insects crawl away under leaves during rain showers but orange tips always seem to roost in the open. I've often found dew-covered specimens early in the morning.
As soon as the sudden and very heavy shower had passed I went out to take a look and found the butterfly unharmed..... hard to believe that it hadn't been knocked off its perch by the downpour!


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mssql_min_error_severity
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mssql_min_error_severitySetta il livello minimo di errori critici.
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- Annual Meeting
- Join CSWA
We are a national alliance of professional science communicators in all media.
Our mission is to cultivate excellence in science writing and science journalism.
Our goal is to increase public awareness of science in Canadian culture.
Specific Goals and Objectives:
- to promote and reward balanced and accurate science reporting in Canada
- to create opportunities for members to meet and exchange ideas
- to initiate educational and training opportunities for science communicators in all regions of Canada
- to encourage communication between scientists and journalists
- to encourage greater awareness among editors, producers and other gatekeepers of the need for science coverage
- to nourish the growth of a membership that reflects Canadian society with respect to gender, race and region


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