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Marian Kwietniewski, Katarzyna Miszta-Kruk, Kaja Niewitecka, Mirosław Sudoł, Krzysztof Gaska
The security of water delivery of the required quality by water supply networks is identified with the concept of reliability. Therefore, a method of reliability evaluation of water distribution of the required quality was developed. The method is based on the probabilistic character of secondary water contamination in the water supply network. Data for the method are taken from monitoring of the water distribution system. The method takes into consideration the number and locations of individual measurement points and the results of the tests of water quality indicators at these points. The sets of measurement points and water quality indicators constitute a matrix research (observation) field in the model. The proposed method was implemented to assess the reliability of a water distribution process with respect to water with the required microbiological quality indicators in a real distribution system.


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How do you ask a girl for pictures?
Here's how to politely and respectfully ask to see more photos of her:
- 1) Begin by starting a conversation! It's better to ask for more photos once you've been talking back and forth a bit, first.
- 2) Wait a couple of solid message exchanges. Get the conversation going first.
- 3) Ask politely to see more pics!
What to say to a girl when she sends you a picture?
- "You have the prettiest eyes."
- "You have the best cheekbones."
- "You Are Gorgeous"
- "You Have Such a Positive Charisma"
- "I Like Your Style"
- "You Hair Looks Amazing"
- "There's Something About You"
- "You are Different than the Other Girls"
Should I ask a girl for pics?
In my experience, the best practices for asking a girl for sending pictures of herself are as following: Don't ask unless you've already gotten to know her a bit and are already somewhat close to her. Don't even think about asking her for more pictures unless she is expressing interest in continuing to talk to you.
How do you ask someone to take a picture?
- Put your camera on the Auto mode. Make it as easy as you can for your potential photographer.
- Look around for someone to take your picture. Some people to look for are:
- Make eye contact and smile. Don't just walk up to your camera and hand it to them.
- Ask them.
- Relax and trust your instincts.
- Thank the person.
What do I ask a girl?
12 Best Questions to Ask a Girl You Like
- What's something you thought you'd grow out of but haven't?
- What age do you feel right now and why?
- As the only human left on Earth, what would you do?
- How different was your life one year ago?
- What is your best childhood memory?
- What's something you've always wanted to try?
What does it mean when a girl asks for a selfie?
What does it mean when a girl asks you to send her a picture of yourself that you took with your camera or phone? It means the girl would like a picture of you, one that looks like you took it with your camera or phone.
What does? mean from a girl?
? Meaning – Two Hearts
This emoji is widely used to express warm feelings, love and romance. This emoji is present in many romantic texts, and can mean everything that is related to it: from "love is in the air" to the deeper and mature emotions. Sometimes used by girls simply to decorate warm friendly letters.
What does? mean from a girl?
Mwah! The winky-kissy face throwing a kiss emoji, or kissing face, is mostly used to express romantic affection or appreciation for someone or something.
What does ☺ mean from a girl?
☺ Smiling Face
Conveys a wide range of warm, positive feelings, including love, happiness, and gratitude. Similar to? Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes, which has a broader smile, no eyebrows, and smiling eyes. This smiley predates Unicode emoji support.
What is a dirty picture?
The Dirty Picture is a 2011 Indian biographical musical drama film inspired by the life of Silk Smitha, a South Indian actress noted for her erotic roles. The filmmakers have clarified that the story is not officially or literally based on Smitha alone, but on many of her southern contemporaries such as Disco Shanti.
How do you get a girl to send you?
How Do I Get a Girl to SEND NUDES? –
How do you talk to girls?
Here are 4 simple things to talk about with a girl to keep the conversation going:
- Talk About Your Day. One easy trick to keep the conversation flowing is to talk about your day.
- Talk About Yourself. Another go-to topic is yourself.
- Talk About Her. Finally, just encourage her to talk about herself!
- Ask The Right Questions.

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Filipina Sex Cams
Foreigners may have various reasons for wanting a Filipino partner, and it's important to recognize that individuals' preferences and motivations can differ greatly. Here are some common reasons why some foreigners are attracted to Filipinos as their partners:
Beauty and physical attributes: Filipinos are often recognized for their unique and diverse physical features. Many foreigners are drawn to the exotic beauty of Filipinos, which can include a range of characteristics such as tan skin, dark hair, almond-shaped eyes, and a generally youthful appearance. These physical attributes can be particularly appealing to individuals from different cultural backgrounds.
Warm and hospitable nature: Filipinos are renowned for their warm and welcoming nature. They are often described as friendly, hospitable, and accommodating. This inherent trait can make them attractive partners, as foreigners may find comfort and a sense of belonging in the company of a Filipino spouse or partner.
Strong family values: Family plays a central role in Filipina sex chat culture, and family ties are highly valued. Foreigners who prioritize strong family connections and a sense of community often find Filipinos appealing. They appreciate the emphasis placed on maintaining close relationships with extended family members and the importance of providing care and support to loved ones.
English language proficiency: The Philippines is one of the largest English-speaking countries in the world. English is widely spoken and taught as a second language from an early age. Foreigners who do not speak Filipino or have limited knowledge of the local language find it convenient to communicate with their Filipino partners in English. This shared language can facilitate better understanding and connection between individuals from different cultural backgrounds.
Cultural compatibility: Filipinos have been exposed to diverse cultures and have developed a flexible and adaptable mindset. They are known for being able to easily assimilate and adjust to different cultures, making them compatible partners for foreigners. Their openness to new experiences and willingness to learn about their partner's culture can contribute to a harmonious and enriching relationship.
Strong work ethic and resilience: Filipinos are known for their hard work, dedication, and resilience. Many Filipinos are willing to go the extra mile to provide for their families and loved ones. This commitment to personal and professional growth can be appealing to foreigners seeking partners who share similar values and aspirations.
Appreciation of traditional gender roles: Some foreigners may be attracted to the more traditional gender roles that are still prevalent in Filipino culture. In many Filipino families, there is a clear division of labor, with women often taking on domestic responsibilities and men assuming the role of the primary breadwinner. Foreigners who appreciate these traditional dynamics may seek out Filipino partners who align with their own values and expectations.
Sense of humor and positive outlook: Filipinos are known for their sense of humor and ability to find joy in even the most challenging situations. Their positive outlook on life and ability to maintain optimism can be attractive to foreigners who value a partner with a lighthearted and positive approach to life.
Intercultural learning and adventure: For some foreigners, being in a relationship with a Filipino partner provides an opportunity for intercultural learning and experiencing a different way of life. They may be drawn to the richness of Filipino culture, traditions, and cuisine, and see their relationship as a gateway to exploring and embracing new experiences.
It is crucial to recognize that these reasons are generalizations and do not apply to every individual. Each person has their own unique preferences and motivations when it comes to choosing a partner, and it is essential to approach these matters with respect and cultural sensitivity. Building a successful and fulfilling relationship ultimately depends on mutual understanding, love, and shared values between partners, regardless of their cultural backgrounds. _URL_
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The Open University and the University of Southampton are currently exploring a potential partnership, to create a nutrition programme for health workers, based on open educational resources that can be delivered as face to face, distance learning or e-learning in Africa. The proposal builds on the expertise and experience in both organisations in the field of nutrition education and training and delivering international programmes with partners in Africa.
There is a clear and urgent need for basic education and capacity building to address the critical nutrition issues in Africa to help meet the Millennium Development Goals in the next four years and to improve the health of populations beyond 2015. Critical areas to focus on include effective management of severe acute malnutrition, proactive nutrition data collection and analysis, and the planning and management of effective supplementary and targeted feeding programmes.
The University of Southampton has significant experience in terms of its international experience in the field of nutrition in developing countries and in delivering programmes with practical application on the ground, including at postgraduate level. The Open University's HEAT team has been working with nutrition experts in Ethiopia to create a distance learning Nutrition Module of around 35 hours of learning, which is published under a creative commons licence – so it is free for anyone to access, use, and adapt to meet local needs. Both organisations have extensive networks with academics, practitioners and organisations working in the field of nutrition education in developing regions.
Although discussions are still at a fairly early stage, both institutions are keen to secure funding for the development of a nutrition programme aimed at up-skilling nurse practitioners in key aspects of nutrition education, planning and management. Working with African nutrition experts and educators, the University of Southampton and the OU will support the development of up-to-date, relevant and urgently needed learning resources. The programme team will draw on and adapt existing resources developed by the OU's HEAT team and the University of Southampton to create a set of open educational learning resources which can be integrated within existing programmes in Africa as well as contribute to new pathways for continuing professional development. All of the resources will be developed as distance learning materials, which can also be delivered as part of face-to face teaching programmes.


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To deactivate a client's membership in Vagaro, follow these steps:
- Click Reports at the top of the screen.
- Click Memberships on the left side of the screen.
- Click Run Report after applying the appropriate filters.
- Find the membership and the customer. Click on the Action drop-down menu. Then select Deactivate. Remember this action just affects the membership for this specific client. It does not impact other customers.
Deactivating a Client Membership
1. Click Reports at the top of the screen.
2. Click Memberships on the left sidebar.
3. To find a customer faster, enter the customer's name in the Search Value field. Then click Run Report.
4. Find the customer and membership. Click on the drop-down under Action on the left side of the screen. Then select Deactivate.
5. Click Yes to confirm.
6. To reactivate membership, return to the Membership Management page (Settings -> Memberships).
Enter the name of the customer in the Search Value field. Select Inactive in the Status field. Then click Run Report.
7. Find the Customer and Membership from the list. Click Action on the left side of the screen. Then select Activate, and you're all set!
The customer receives this notification when the membership is deactivated.


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 Currently unfulfilled capacity to improve, develop, and achieve impressive feats.
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 It is called also Newtonian Potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
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Board of Public Works approves funding for Ellicott City climate resiliency
Grant will help protect Ellicott City from flooding; additional grant will help connect a fire station to a public water system
BALTIMORE (July 6, 2022) – The Maryland Board of Public Works in Annapolis approved a $1.2 million grant today for a project to better control stormwater runoff and help protect Ellicott City from flooding. The board is composed of Governor Larry Hogan, Treasurer Dereck E. Davis and Comptroller Peter Franchot.
The grant, which follows a $2.4 million grant last year for the construction of a stormwater detention basin, is for the excavation of additional rocks encountered during construction.
"With climate change bringing extreme weather, it is more important than ever to invest in water infrastructure improvements to protect historic Ellicott City and other Maryland communities from flooding," said Maryland Environment Secretary Horacio Tablada.
The board also approved a grant for a fire company in Cecil County to connect to a public water system.
The following projects were approved today:
Ellicott City H7 (Hudson Branch No. 7) Mitigation Pond project – Howard County
A $1,245,047 Comprehensive Flood Management grant to Howard County will help fund the construction of a stormwater detention basin to provide flood protection for historic Ellicott City. The new dry pond at the cloverleaf area at the intersection of U.S. routes 40 and 29 will reduce the flows to the Hudson Branch, which passes through downtown Ellicott City. This project is consistent with Maryland's climate change adaptation and resiliency objectives through the reduction of runoff that is exacerbated by increased precipitation or flooding events.
Perryville Fire Company Station 16 Service Line project – Cecil County
A $79,270 Water Supply Financial Assistance grant to the Town of Perryville will help fund the design and construction of a water main and pump to connect Perryville Fire Company's Station 16 to the town's water system. The fire station is connected to a well system, but the water cannot be used for essential purposes due to contamination and corrosion issues from poor water quality. Connecting the station to the town water supply will resolve water quality issues and allow the station to decommission the compromised well system. This project will be constructed in accordance with coastal and non-coastal resiliency guidelines developed as part of the Coast Smart Program to reduce climate change risks to such projects.
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7 August 2019
Public confidence in sentencing and the criminal justice system
The Sentencing Council has a statutory duty to have regard to the need to promote public confidence in the system when developing the sentencing guidelines and monitoring their impact. To achieve this, the Council must have an understanding of the public's attitude to, and knowledge of, sentencing and the criminal justice system.
Public Knowledge of and Confidence in the Criminal Justice System and Sentencing reports on research carried out to help the Council meet its public confidence obligations. The research, which included an online survey of 2,000 adults representative of the population of England and Wales, provides insight into what drives the public's attitudes and understanding of the system and suggests how the Council might reinforce and improve their confidence.
Among the key findings are:
- Sixty-seven per cent of the public and 68 per cent of victims of crime said that the existence of sentencing guidelines improved their confidence in the fairness of sentencing at least a little.
- Confidence in the effectiveness and fairness of the criminal justice system is mixed, and varies according to demographic factors and involvement. Young adults (18-34), those in the highest socio-demographic group (AB) and BAME adults are particularly likely to be confident in the system.
- Having contact with certain agencies in the system, particularly the criminal courts, emerged as a key driver of positive perceptions of confidence, as is experience of the system that has improved their understanding of sentencing.
- Conversely, living in certain regions of the country, most notably the North of England, was a key driver of negative perceptions of confidence and the perception that sentencing is too lenient.
- Around 70 per cent of the public think sentencing in general is too lenient and the public is particularly likely to regard sentences for serious crimes, like rape and death by dangerous driving, as too lenient. However, this perception tends to lessen noticeably when the public are presented with actual scenarios and sentences (based on real cases).
- A majority of those surveyed were confident they understood terms like 'life sentence' and 'statutory maximum sentence', although under half felt confident they understood the term, 'on licence'. However, qualitative discussions showed that actual understanding lagged behind perceived understanding.
The research was conducted for the Council by ComRes.


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If you haven't been to the Raise the Roof exhibit at the Science Museum of Virginia, you don't know what you're missing. It's an interactive exhibit for kids of all ages right here in Richmond, VA. It's also engaging and entertaining for parents, grandparents, and all adults.
A tour of the exhibit with Nancy Tait, Manager of Communications and Stories at the Museum, gave me an inside view of the exhibit.
Raise the Roof offers hands-on experimentation with:
- Creating a structure
- Constructing a dome using simple machines
- Stepping into the world of Mongolian culture in a yurt
- Building your own trusses and testing tension, compression, and gravity
This incredible exhibit offers an opportunity to learn more about steel, concrete, and glass and how they come together to create massive structures. There are lessons about wind velocity and the effects of storms and natural disasters on buildings. They show how properly designed structures can withstand these natural elements.
An exciting part of the exhibit is seeing how experts are able to implode buildings. They include a demonstration of how explosives are meticulously placed throughout walls and structures to bring a building down on itself - without touching neighboring structures.
Kids will enjoy the many interactive elements of the exhibit where they can build a doghouse to withstand elements of weather. They can also build their own structures using Kapla blocks. These unique blocks are intended to be stacked and remain in place thanks to gravity. They do not have snaps or interlocking parts and are not meant to be used with glue. Kids build all types of structures with these wooden blocks.

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Thomas Scheemakers
Thomas Scheemakers (1740 – 15 July 1808) was a sculptor operating in Britain in the late 18th century and a member of the important sculpting family of Scheemakers. Several of his works are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1]
He was the only son of Peter Scheemakers (and grandson of Pieter Scheemaeckers), an eminent sculptor, and Barbara La Fosse. He appears to have been born slightly before their wedding.
From 1763 until 1780 he largely exhibited under his father's name. Whilst talented, he was certainly eclipsed by his father, but it is reasonable to expect that they worked together on several of his father's larger pieces up until his death (1781). He was a competent sculptor but lacked his father's flair for design, often leaving the design to be done by others. After his father returned to Belgium (c.1779) he continued his workshop, on Vine Street, London.
He inherited his father's huge fortune in 1782 but appears to have largely squandered this. He did very little sculpture after his father's death and ceased altogether in 1792. It appears that he went bankrupt in 1805, as there is a record of all of his effects being sold.[2]
He died in London in 1808 and was buried in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church. The grave is lost (and was possibly unmarked even from the beginning) and he is not listed on the Burdett-Coutts Memorial to the famous graves lost, which stands in the churchyard.
His wife, Barbara (b.1747) died in 1810 and was probably buried with him.
Freeman monument at St Mary's, Braughing, Herts
 1. ^ Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, _PHONE_, Rupert Gunnis
 2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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 - Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, _PHONE_, Rupert Gunnis
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Hephaestian Plane, Vulgo Vulcani (3.5e Environment)
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A plane handed down from the overdeity Hephaestian, ancient blacksmith of the gods. Vulgo Vulcani is a plane without equal in the pursuance of the finest materials and techniques of blacksmithing. Many worlds are earthlike with no particular dominant element but each planet has something in common. The rarest ores in the multiverse can be found here and blacksmithing is substantially easier due to the magic of this dimension. Xemus's the son of Hephaestus inherited this plane from him as he himself passed into nothingness. The legendary volcano forge of hephaestus exists here on Vulgo Vulcani, Xemus's world, for his own use.
Plane Traits[edit]
Physical Traits[edit]
 - Gravity: Normal:The usual rules for ability scores, carrying capacity, and encumbrance apply.
Subjective Directional Gravity: located in forgeries by blacksmiths, allows for better weaponsmithing and while used to smith offers +5 bonus for every wisdom bonus above 16.
 - Time: Flowing Time, slowed: Time still passes, but the effects of time are diminished.This affects hunger, thirst, aging, the effects of poison, and healing.
 - Size: Finite Size: This plane though finite is extremely vast to encompass all the rarest maetrials and ores in the multiverse.
 - Morphic: Alterable Morphic: objects remain where they are (and what they are) unless affected by physical force or magic. You can change the immediate environment as a result of tangible effort
Magic, Alignment, and Energy/Elemental Traits[edit]
 - Elemental Dominance:
Fire: The forging capabilities of this plane are extraoridnary. The Fire dominant sections of this plane are located entirely within specific starforges which must be entered to use. When entered unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and those wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch on fire. In addition, individuals take 3d10 points of fire damage every round they are in a star forge unless magically protected. Those that are made of water take double damage each round. In the grand starforge in the form of a volcano on the planet Vulgo Vulcanis individuals incur 6d20dmg of fire damage every round while while those made of water burst into flames and are killed instantly.
 - Energy Dominance:
Positive: Other than the forges the planets can be described as a riotous explosion of life in all its forms. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense as a result of the positive energy swirling through the plane. All individuals in this plane gain fast healing 2 as an extraordinary ability.
 - Alignment Trait:
The Hephaestus plane Vulgo Vulcani is considered mildly neutral-aligned, though it may contain high concentrations of evil or good, law or chaos in places.
 - Magic Trait:
Enhanced: Magic of the fire element are enhanced to double their strength or damage in a forge or blacksmith area.
Plane Links[edit]
This plane can only be accessed through an ritual known as the Path Forge. Access can then be accessed through the gateway at any time.
Plane Inhabitants[edit]
VulgansHumanoid people though appear to have much stronger body builds for both male and female counterparts. They create weapons and armor for warring countries and are intelligent as well as versetile in the way they conduct themselves.
Movement and Combat[edit]
Normal: movement and combat is normal done the same as through the material plane.
Features of the Plane[edit]
Vast and spacelike the plane is almost exactly like the material plane but the positive energy makes everything much more lively. The massive forge constructs located on every planet to make the most powerfull equipment are entered by only the most revered blacksmiths. There are towns cities people, dungeons, monsters, and even dragons. Though everything is slightly stronger than normal
Plane Encounters[edit]
More vibrant colored versions of monsters exist here. They are also much stronger than normal due to having survived the extreme war prowess of this plane. Rare ruins or deposits of rare ore are usually guarded by powerfull constructs or monsters that protect it with their lives.
Alternate Variances[edit]
Planets can be whatever you can imagine, though, think medevil earth. monsters are much stronger than normal, usually a simple kobold has double hitpoints, attack, and damage than normal. Forges greatly inhance craft skills and illemenate xp cost for creating any type of item. amount of days to make also decrese by half as also cost. While using a starforge caster level required is ignored. though caster/creater level of 25 must be had to enter.
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Intro: Purple Light(BLACK LIGHT)
Quick & Cheap experiment
It is also called UV light
Step 1: Things Needed Are 3.
1.Flash light (cell phones flash light also can be used)
2.Transperant and write able TAPE
3. 2 markers (voilet and blue)
Step 2: Final Step
1. Take a piece of tape cover it on flash light,colour the tape with blue marker
2. Again do the same process on it, of blue marker
3. Take another piece of tape cover it on flash light,colour the tape with voilet marker
4. Apply the last layer of tape
Step 3: Try It..!!!!!
CHECK YOUR TOILET'S,MATTRESS,
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Input point that defines the location to be identified.
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Optional settings for the identify request. At version 4.25, the transposedVariableName was added to get pixel values from specific dimensional definitions if the ImageryTileLayer references a transposed multidimensional image service. Set the transposedVariableName and multidimensionalDefinition get pixel values for the specified dimensional definitions from a transposed multidimensional service. If multidimensionalDefinition is not specified, pixel values will be returned from all the dimensional slices.
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Promise<RasterIdentifyResult> Returns a promise that resolves to a RasterIdentifyResult containing a location and pixel values. The identify returns a value for only one slice at a time for WCSLayer and for non-transposed multidimensional ImageryTileLayer. If the transposedVariableName parameter is set for the transposed multidimensional ImageryTileLayer, the result returns all pixel values from all multidimensional slices.
See also
isFulfilled(){Boolean}inherited
isFulfilled() may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is fulfilled (either resolved or rejected). If it is fulfilled, true will be returned.
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Type Description
Boolean Indicates whether creating an instance of the class has been fulfilled (either resolved or rejected).
isRejected(){Boolean}inherited
isRejected() may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is rejected. If it is rejected, true will be returned.
Returns
Type Description
Boolean Indicates whether creating an instance of the class


Taking food to and from the Pacific islands
It is very important to keep food safe while taking it between New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Food is often shared so if it's not safe, it can make many people sick. Food can go bad and make people sick if it is kept warm for more than two hours. The total time of a trip, including time travelling to and from the airports at either end of the flight, time at the airports and during the flight is long enough for food to go very bad.


How to find the name of the current formfield
Article contributed by Astrid Zeelenberg
If you need to know which formfield the user tabbed out of in a macro you're using as on-exit macro you need to take into account that you can't always simply use the command Selection.Formfields(1).Name. This line won't work with a textformfield although it works with checkboxes and dropdowns.
If you need code to find out which formfield was tabbed out of, that works with every type of formfield, use:
If Selection.FormFields.Count = 1 Then
 'No textbox but a checkor listbox
 MsgBox Selection.FormFields(1).Name
ElseIf Selection.FormFields.Count = 0 And Selection.Bookmarks.Count > 0 Then
 MsgBox Selection.Bookmarks(Selection.Bookmarks.Count).Name
End If


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In translating hyperboles, the effect of exaggerating something from the source text when translated literally into the target text can cause a strange meaning and less acceptable because the terms are not in accordance with the rules of the target language. This study aimed to analyze the translation strategies used by the translator in translating type of hyperboles and its translation quality in The Shrunken Head Novel. The descriptive qualitative research approach is used as a research design. The results of the study showed that there are two types of hyperboles found in this novel, namely overstatement of numbers and quantity and impossible description. Then, there are three strategies that used by translator to translated types of hyperbole in this novel, namely the sense of the word may be translated non-figuratively, retaining the word in the original but to add the sense of the word and substituting a figurative expression from SL to TL. The analysis on translation quality showed that 212 data of hyperboles (88%) considered as accurate, 207 data (86%) belongs to acceptable and 164 data (68%) are considered as high readability.


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Definition of Stichoi
1. stichos [n] - See also: stichos
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stichoi
Literary usage of Stichoi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers: And from the by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale, Miles Coverdale (1879)
"I cannot help giving, as the best commentary on this part of the Psalm,- the stichoi of Great Thursday with their..."
2. History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"The stichoi were numbered and summed up at the end of each book, as was done in the Hebrew Bible also. Yet it is still a question whether these..."
3. The Coptic version of the New Testament in the northern dialect, otherwise by George William Horner (1905)
"T the number of its stichoi hundred five and twenty, and its chapters six.... I. Ep. ends with'Was finished the second epistle of Peter, its stichoi..."
4. A History of the Holy Eastern Church by John Mason Neale (1850)
"It frequently happens that proper stichoi are given in the... The number of stichoi varies; when any are given in the..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and stichoi, the Nunc dimittis, the trisagion, and the apolytikion. Greater Vespers, which are said after sunset, begin with the invitatory,..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The and 1600 stichoi, the last testified by Septuagint a number of manuscripts, for which Text the number of the corresponding imShorter proved text is..."
7. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"The stichoi, however, not only assisted the public reader f the New Testament to determine its sense ; they also erved to measure the size of books ; thus,..."
8. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1840)
"At the end of each manuscript it was usual to specify the number of stichoi which it contained. When a copyist was disposed to contract his space,..."
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 Alexandria students raise money for pancreatic diseases after teacher's death
 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WJLA) - Summer break is just around the corner for students at Hollin Meadows Elementary School.
 The school year has been especially tough for the sixth-graders - their math and science teacher, Jeffrey Firman, was diagnosed with pancreatitis before the school year started, leading him to miss school sometimes throughout the year.
 Sadly, Firman left for spring break and never returned. He died on April 16.
 "Even though we only knew him for half a year, some of us have been here since kindergarten, so we have seen him around. So it was sort of painful," said sixth-grader Richard Harrison.
 Teacher Angie Palma said, when the students returned to school, "they really needed something."
 That something was to keep Mr. Firman's memory alive. The students decided to raise money for all pancreatic diseases.
 "So we can honor him and help other people who are suffering the same illness," sixth-grader Daniel Schudlich explained.
 Before he died, Firman had explained to his classes how serious pancreatic diseases can be, and how limited both research and awareness is currently.
 While Firman didn't have cancer, the statistics are still startling.
 The American Cancer Society estimates that, in 2014, there will be about 46,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer, and roughly 39,000 deaths.
 "Other people are in need because of this illness," Daniel added.
 So far, the students have raised just over $1,600 - but their goal is to raise $2,100, because Mr. Firman taught at Hollin Meadows for 21 years.
 "I know their goal, for the kids, is just to reach it - but I know we can pass it," said Palma.
 For more information, click here.


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The effect of hydrogen pressure and of reaction temperature on the phase transformation from Mg to MgH2by exposure of Fe doped metallic Mg to hydrogen gas has been studied with the purpose of evaluating the importance of operative parameters on the hydrogen storage characteristics of this system. Two temperatures have been investigated and, for each temperature, two values of the hydrogen gas pressure. The gas pressure has been adjusted in order to induce the same thermodynamic driving force in samples processed at different temperatures, with the aim of separating the effect of temperature from the one of gas pressure. Experimental results show that the reaction mechanism is independent from the value of the operative parameters which, instead, influence strongly the absolute value of the kinetics constant. Sample microstructure during phase transformation is affected in a major way by the reaction temperature, with the gas pressure playing a minor role. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metals and Alloys
- Materials Chemistry
Montone, A., Aurora, A., Mirabile Gattia, D., & Vittori Antisari, M. (2011). Effect of hydrogen pressure and temperature on the reaction kinetics between Fe-doped Mg and hydrogen gas. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509(SUPPL. 2), -. _URL_


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C# Directory Class
The System.IO.Directory class in the.NET Framework class library provides static methods for creating, copying, moving, and deleting directories and subdirectories. Before you can use the Directory class, you must import the System.IO namespace.
Create a Directory
The Directory.CreateDirectory method creates a directory in the specified path with the specified Windows security. You can also create a directory on a remote compute.
The following code snippet creates a Temp folder in C:\ drive if the directory does not exists already.
string root = @"C:\Temp";
string subdir = @"C:\Temp\Mahesh";
// If directory does not exist, create it.
The CreateDirectory is also used to create a sub directory. All you have to do is to specify the path of the directory in which this subdirectory will be created in. The following code snippet creates a Mahesh subdirectory in C:\Temp directory.
// Create sub directory


Oblivion:Console Command Tutorial
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Warning: Use console commands with caution! It is easily possible to mess up your game if you modify settings at the console. Even if short term the game functions normally, you may later discover that you have made it impossible to complete a quest and therefore you cannot proceed normally with game play; fixing that problem can then make new glitches pop up elsewhere. Create a permanent saved game before experimenting with the console. If you need to use the console to fix a glitch, try to use the least powerful command possible. It is advisable to use the "Test Hall" for experimentation with console commands—for more information, see below.
Here's something for those of you who have trouble using, would like to better their understanding of, or would like to learn how to use more of the various console commands. There are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of console commands; this obviously won't cover all of these, but it'll do its best to cover the console commands that most people would find useful.
Contents
Opening the Console[edit]
The console is opened with the tilde (~) key when using the International English keyboard layout; it's left of the 1 key, below the Esc key, and above the Tab key (Or the Key located to the left of the "Z", Depending on your keyboard settings. If it doesn't open the console then you probably have one or more of the following issues:
 - You have an infrared remote sensor hooked up to your computer (used for the Windows Media version of Windows). Disconnect it and try again.
 - Note that this also works on some Vista computers.
 - You have Windows Vista installed. Download and use the Ring of Console mod to access the console. (The mod requires you to have the Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE) installed to work: you can download it here.) If equipping the ring still doesn't work, try hotkeying the ring to a slot. Then activating and deactivating it should bring up the console cursor at the bottom left. (This does not apply to all versions of Windows Vista).
 - You're using an international keyboard. Depending on the country your keyboard comes from, the tilde key might not be placed as described, though the key in that location may still open the console; if it does not, then using the above mod should solve the problem.
For Apple Computer Users[edit]
If you are using a virtual machine (Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, Virtual Box, or similar) on an Apple computer, the key may be mapped differently by default, even if the tilde key appears to work normally in Windows itself. One solution to this proposed in the Parallels forum is to download and install Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, a freeware tool that lets you create custom key assignments. This may or may not work for you (see the Discussion tab for further info).
Another alternative is to install a mod such as Change Console Key, which is an Oblivion Script Extender plugin that lets you reassign the console invocation key within Oblivion itself. Assigning key number 34 (which is PageDown in Windows, or usually Fn-DownArrow on the Macbook) seems to work well.
The preceding has been tested on a Macbook Pro Retina running OSX 10.8.2 through 10.9.0, with Windows 7 64-bit running inside Parallels Desktop 8 and 9.
Notes[edit]
 1. Console commands are not case-sensitive - they are only capitalized in this guide for clarity.
 2. In the case of console commands that require IDs, the initial 0s of an ID can be omitted. This means that if an item's ID says 00032564, then you only have to use 32564 in the console command.
 3. Some items and NPCs will have multiple IDs all sharing a name. This can mean several things for items: it is leveled; it has several different looks shared under a single name, such as bones; or, it has several different types shared under a single name, such as soul gems. For an NPC, it probably means that it is a spawning enemy NPC such as a bandit or a marauder.
 4. Any IDs that pertain to objects in a mod, be it official or user-made, will not work in commands unless the first two digits in the ID are the mod's load order (including the base Oblivion.esm file) in hex; hex goes from 00 to 09, then from 0A to 0F, then from 10 to 19, then from 1A to 1F, etc. For example, if the mod is the 3rd mod in the list (including Oblivion.esm), then any ID in that mod will start with 2 (02); if it's the 15th in the list, the IDs will start with E (0E); if it's 42nd, they will start with 29. Alternatively, you can manually change the load order of the desired mod to be first to load and work without the hassle of finding the load order. To do this, you'll need a mod manager: you can download one here.
 5. Pressing the up and down keys while the console command window is open will scroll through the previously entered console command, if there are any. Pressing the page up and page down keys will scroll through the list of previously entered commands, if it's big enough to be cut off.
 6. The maximum value for the level of anything (character level, attributes, skills, etc.) is 255. You can go above this with spells and enchantments, but when using the console you can't increase anything beyond 255; if you increase it past 255 with an incremental command (such as ModPCS) it will reset to 0.
 7. If the instructions tell you to click something, have the console open when you click it.
 8. When the instructions say to type something that means hit enter after you've typed it.
 9. This guide will make occasional references to "cells." A cell is simply an area; interior areas take up one cell each, while exterior areas may be made up of many cells interconnected.
 10. An ID is a hex code (an 8-digit code made up of numbers and letters, though they can be shorter with the initial 0s omitted) that the game uses to reference objects, whether they be NPCs, creatures, buildings, flames, anything at all, and most console commands use these references as a parameter to target certain object types.
 11. There are two types of IDs: reference IDs and base IDs. Most commands use base IDs, but a few use reference IDs. Each command in this guide will specify which it uses.
 12. If a command parameter is a string, it must be enclosed in quotes " " if it contains any spaces. For example: To rename player to Joe (which contains no spaces), Player.SetFullActorName Joe is OK. However, to rename player to Joe Bloggs (which contains a space), Player.SetFullActorName "Joe Bloggs" must be used. This is because the console treats spaces as parameter separators and Joe Bloggs will be treated as two parameters (error, SetFullActorName takes one parameter only) whereas "Joe Bloggs" is treated as one parameter (no error).
 13. If you want to write a bat-executable textfile with more than one command, you can use the symbol ";" as a comment indicator. In a large script this can be useful to keep track of what's been added. Everything after the comment symbol will not be executed but it will show in console output.
Finding IDs in the Construction Set (CS)[edit]
First, you will of course require the CS, downloadable here. The CS is a tool that is used to edit the world of Oblivion and contains most of the game's data. Once you have your CS installed and running, go into "File" and "Data" - double-click the file Oblivion.esm and click OK (note: if you want to find the ID of something from a mod, you'll also need to load that mod's .esp file). Once the file has loaded, you can use the Object Window to find any ID you want to by browsing the categories on the left, finding the desired object, then looking at its ID. The ID column is the second column from the left (between "EditorID" and "Count") and by default is too small to see any IDs with, so drag it larger from the top of the column. Also, by default the rows are listed in alphabetical order by their Editor ID; to make it easier to find things, click the top of the "Name" column to list the rows in alphabetical order by their name. Now, say, for example, one wanted to find the Xivilai's ID: Go under "Actors - Creatures - Daedra" then find the Xivilai and look at its ID.
Commands[edit]
Player-Targeted Commands[edit]
Player.AddItem BaseID #[edit]
(Only works with item IDs.)
A very commonly used console command. This will add the specified number of the specified item to your character's inventory. The item ID for gold is simply F.
Example: Player.AddItem


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Tribute to Grandpa "Black Cat Sheriff" The China Animation Museum launches the first activity of the Growth Plan for Chinese Young Anime Artists
City Express News October is the birthday month of Dai Tielang, a famous animation director, screenwriter, and artist in China. Mr. Dai is called the "Black Cat Sheriff" grandfather. Many popular animation works such as "Dolphin", "Shepherd Flute", "Black Cat Sheriff" and "Nine-Colored Deer" have made positive contributions to the "Chinese School" in the animation industry. Yesterday afternoon, the China Animation Museum held a commemoration of the birthday of Dai Tielang and the launch of the new book "Dai Tielang-The Dream of Immortality", which is the growth plan of young anime artists in China.
In memory of Mr. Dai, the guests on stage choked up a few times
"Dai Tielang-The Dream of Immortality" was created by the first Chinese young animation artist Yang Chenxi in 2021 and three college animation teachers, Lu Jiangyun, Zhang Yipin, and Chen Xiaomeng. It reviews the artistic life of Mr. Dai Lao and uses Dai Tielang's oral history. As a basis, combined with the archives of the China Academy of Art and Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, supplemented by the interview data of 24 personal witnesses, the live behind-the-scenes of the animated film directed by Dai Tielang is disclosed to readers, and a large number of unpublished manuscripts and original paintings of Dai Lao are presented. , Let readers know more stories outside of the film.
At less than 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, more than 100 people from Mr. Dai Tielang's former friends and representatives of teachers and students from colleges and universities gathered in the theater on the 4th floor of the China Animation Museum to watch the documentary short film "About Dai Laohe" produced by the new book creation team. I also listened to Li Baochuan, director of the animation department and associate professor of Hangzhou Normal University, Feng Yusong, former director of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, and Yin Xiyong, former Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio and producer of "Black Cat Sheriff", and other guests, together with the author team To share the influence of Dai Lao and the writing process of "Dai Tielang-The Dream of Immortality". When sharing some details about getting along with Mr. Dai, several guests on the stage choked up for a while, and some audiences off the stage were also deeply moved and couldn't help but blush. When talking about the most valuable qualities passed down by Mr. Dai to the new generation, the guests on stage and the author all mentioned his unremitting pursuit of artistic innovation and his open-minded and optimistic mind.
Interpretation of Chinese animation heritage
A lot of new books
Li Baochuan, director of the animation department of Hangzhou Normal University, commented that this new book created by Yang Chenxi's team provides a good interpretation of the inheritance of Chinese animation. "Dai Lao's generation of old cartoonists used their artistic creations to create such an animation world; and the younger generation like Yang Chenxi will definitely inherit it."
Yang Chenxi said that the interview and writing of this new book lasted 4 years intermittently, and the creative team incorporated their respect and feelings for Lao Dai. Unfortunately, Lao Dai did not wait for it to be published. "I hope that this book will be as old as Dai's wish, encouraging and enlightening the younger generations, including us."
"Leave it to us, we, as the younger generation, will pass on the spirit of Dai Lao." Yang Chenxi said.
On October 24, the first China Young Anime Artists Growth Plan announced the selection of 10 young animators. One of the authors of this new book, Yang Chenxi, was among them. After being selected, he once said that he must first do something within his capacity. First, help children improve their understanding of Chinese animation. In addition, he hopes to turn the attention of the study of animation history to the current young generation of animation people. "You can start with a few selected young Chinese animators, record them in the form of oral history, and then make a documentary later. This is a very timely record and record for the animation industry and artistic creation."
Source: Metropolis Express Author: Reporter Liu Yimei, Correspondent Bai Limin, Du Jingyi Editor: Gao Tingting


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JAKARTA - Head of the National Cultural Heritage Expert Team, Junus Satrio Atmodjo, revealed that the Dutch tram tracks found in the Phase 2A MRT construction project are the oldest tram tracks in Indonesia.
The archaeologist who is a consultant in the Phase 2A MRT project said that the first railroad in the Indonesian railway system was built in 1869, which connected the city of Semarang with the Responsibility Station.
"Two years after that, a tramway was built in Jakarta. So what we are facing now is the oldest tramway in Indonesia," Junus said during a virtual discussion in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Monday, December 27.
Junus explained that although the electric trams in Jakarta were no longer used, the tram tracks were never removed and removed, but instead were buried under the road.
The Dutch colonial era tram track was found in the Glodok-Kota MRT Jakarta Phase 2A project, precisely under the TransJakarta line or on Jalan Pintu Besar Selatan.
Junus admitted that he had predicted that tram tracks would be found in the project for the construction of the Glodok-Kota MRT station and subway line.
This tram rail has actually been found before near the Fatahillah Museum. "So we can predict that we will also find the same tram tracks at the station construction site," he said.
Junus added that since the excavation was carried out in October, some of the tram tracks have surfaced.
The object of cultural heritage was found during excavations at a depth of 15-110 centimeters (cm) from the road surface.
The entire condition of the tram tracks is also considered to be still in good condition to be moved, stored and conserved.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, French, and Spanish versions are automatically generated by the system. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)


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Definitions of influence:
- noun: causing something without any direct or apparent effort
- noun: a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
Example: "Used her parents' influence to get the job"
- noun: a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
Example: "Her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
- noun: one having power to influence another
Example: "She was the most important influence in my life"
- noun: the effect of one thing (or person) on another
Example: "The influence of mechanical action"
- verb: have and exert influence or effect
Example: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"
- verb: induce into action by using one's charm
- verb: shape or influence; give direction to
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text: This paper presents a numerical investigation of the hydrodynamic performance of a modified sandglass-type FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) with different geometrical parameters. The influence of the roll damping plate on heave and pitch motions of the FPSO was studied in regular waves. To estimate the hydrodynamic performance and utilize the results on the design stage of the FPSO, the boundary element method (BEM) was used. Furthermore, the hydrodynamic performance of two cylindrical and sandglass-type FPSOs under the same conditions was compared in different waves. Five sandglass-type FPSOs with dissimilar inclination angles were utilized with the constant draft. The effects of different inclination angles, including various radii of water-plane part of the floating object on hydrodynamic responses and wave forces applied to the FPSO, were investigated, and presented here. Numerical results were compared against published experimental data of a sandglass-type model, and good agreement was achieved. Based on the simulation results, a conclusion that a sandglass-type FPSO with the inclination angle of 35 degrees proposes proper hydrodynamic performance in both heave and pitch motions for all ranges of wave frequencies was reached. In addition, as it was predicted, the effect of heading sea on a sandglass-type FPSO was significant compared to other wave directions. Finally, by adding a damper plate to the floor of the platform, its hydrodynamic performance is improved. For numerical analysis of the modified FPSO, three different damper sizes are used to investigate its effect on the reduction of the pitch motion amplitude in waves.


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This beginner's guide explains the steps to change slide background color in LibreOffice Impress.
Although, changing the background color of a single slide or all slide is pretty straight forward still for beginner's it worthwhile to create an article.
How to Change Slide Background Color
- To change the slide background color in LibreOffice impress for a single slide, select a slide.
- Then from menu,
Click Slide --> Properties
- In the Slide setup dialog, go to Background Tab, click on the Color button. Choose the color of your choice and click ok.
- The color will be applied to the currently selected slide.
- To apply to the entire presentation i.e. all the slides, follow the next steps.
- To apply a background color to all slides, you have to change the Master Slide or we call it Slide Master.
- Slide Master contains your presentation's primary style slides. Whenever you make a change in Slide Master, it gets applied to all the slides in your presentation.
- Select any slide and in the right sidebar, click properties.
- Under Slide, click Master View.
- Now you can change the background color in the master view and Click Close Master View.
- The color will be applied to all the slides in your presentation.
- To remove the color from the background, click on the Slide Properties to pull up slide Setup dialog. In the Slide setup dialog, click on the NONE button and press OK. This will remove the color.
- Apart from color, you can also have the option to change slide background with Gradient, Any Image, Patterns, and Hatch.


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Can subjective resilience indicators predict future food security? Evidence from three communities in rural Kyrgyzstan
Recent attempts to develop a standardised tool to quantify levels of household resilience to climate extremes have typically generated very large household surveys, which take a number of hours to complete. Moreover, there are significant questions over which resilience capacities to measure, how to measure them, and how to weight them for their relative importance in facilitating or hindering resilience in any given context.
This paper is the first to quantitatively compare the power of subjective and objective resilience measures to predict future wellbeing (in this case, represented by household food security) in the face of socio-environmental shocks and stressors. It finds that subjective approaches to resilience measurement may offer an attractive alternative to objective surveys.
Key points for decision-makers
- A subjective approach asks respondents to rate their overall perceived resilience. Therefore more emphasis is placed on what resilience means to local people and it leaves the choice of which capacities, in what combination and quantities up to them.
- The study used a household panel data set collected in three contrasting rural Kyrgyzstan villages. The results reveal that subjective resilience indicators are strong independent predictors of future food security.
- The subjective indicators capture variance that is not picked up by standard objective indicators and increase the accuracy of models that predict future levels of household food security.
- There is tentative evidence that the subjective resilience indicators may be comparable across contexts, but more research is required to confirm this early-stage observation.
This work was undertaken as part of the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project.
ISSN 2515-5717 (Online) – Grantham Research Institute Working Paper series
ISSN 2515-5709 (Online) – CCCEP Working Paper series


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Maineville is a village in Warren County, Ohio, United States, with a population of 885 at the 2000 census, up from 359 in 1990. It is called Maineville as the original settlers were from the state of Maine.
Aviation Accident Litigation Lawyers In Maineville Ohio
What is aviation accident litigation?
Cases involving individuals who have been injured in crashes and collisions involving commercial airlines and private airplanes. An aviation Accident is an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure and/or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.
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3 Scale drawings
Have you ever drawn a plan of a room in your house to help you work out how to rearrange the furniture? Or maybe you've sketched a plan of your garden to help you decide how big a new patio should be?
These pictures are called scale drawings. The important thing with scale drawings is that everything must be drawn to scale, meaning that everything must be in proportion – that is, 'shrunk' by the same amount.
All scale drawings must have a scale to tell us how much the drawing has been shrunk by.
Example: In the garden
Here is an example of typical scale drawing:
Described image
Figure 16 A scale drawing of a garden
What's the width and length of the patio?
Hint: This scale drawing has been drawn on squared paper. This makes it easier to draw and understand. Each square is 1 cm wide and 1 cm long. So instead of using a ruler you can just count the squares and this will tell you the measurement in centimetres.
The scale in this drawing is 1:100. This means that 1 cm on the scale drawing is equal to 100 cm, or 1 m, in real life. Once we know the scale, we can measure the distances on the drawing.
Using a ruler (or just counting the squares), we find that the patio is 5 cm long and 3 cm wide on the drawing. This means that in real life it is 5 metres long and 3 metres wide.
So when you're working with scale drawings:
 - Find out what the scale on the drawing is.
 - Multiply the distance you measure by the scale to give the distance in real life.
Activity 6: Getting information from a scale drawing
 1. Let's stay with this scale drawing of the garden.
 Described image
 Figure 17 A scale drawing of a garden
 - a.What is the width and length of the vegetable garden?
 - b.What is the width and length of the flower bed?
 - c.How far is the patio from the vegetable garden?
 - d.Say you wanted to put a trampoline between the patio and the vegetable garden. It measures 3 m by 3 m. Is there enough space for it?
 2. A landscaper wants to put a wild area in your garden. She makes a scale plan of the wild area:
 Described image
 Figure 18 A scale drawing of a wild area of a garden
 What is the length of the longest side of the actual wild area in metres?
 3. Here is a scale drawing showing one disabled parking space in a supermarket car park. The supermarket plans to add two more disabled parking spaces next to the existing one, with no spaces between them.
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 Figure 19 A scale drawing of a car park
 What will be the total actual width of the three disabled parking spaces in metres?
 1. The answers are as follows:
 - a.The vegetable garden is 5 m long and 2 m wide.
 - b.The flower bed is 6 m long and 2 m wide.
 - c.The patio and vegetable garden are 3 m apart.
 - d.The distance between the patio and vegetable garden is 3 m and the trampoline is 3 m wide. So the trampoline would fit in the space, but it would be a bit of a squeeze.
 2. The length on the drawing is 9 cm, and the scale is 1:50. This means that 1 cm on the drawing is equal to 50 cm in real life. So to find out what 9 cm is in real life, you need to multiply it by 50:
 - 9 × 50 = 450 cm
 The question asks for the length in metres, so you need to convert centimetres into metres:
 - 450 ÷ 100 = 4.5 m
 The actual length of the wild area will be 4.5 m.
 3. You need to find out the width of three disabled parking spaces. The width of one parking space on the scale drawing is 2 cm, so first you need to multiply this by 3:
 - 2 × 3 = 6 cm
 The scale is 1:125. This means that 1 cm on the drawing is equal to 125 cm in real life. So to find out what 6 cm is in real life, you need to multiply it by 125:
 - 6 × 125 = 750 cm
 - 750 ÷ 100 = 7.5 m
 The actual width of all three parking bays will be 7.5 m.
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Forum theatre effectively promotes discussion and debate, helping individuals to explore how to improve outcomes in a safe, consequence-free environment.
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This longitudinal study examines the influence of dispositional affect, defined as self-rated cheerfulness at college entry, on 3 job outcomes (current income, job satisfaction, and unemployment history) assessed about 19 yrs later. Analysis using data from the 1976 "College and Beyond" survey of 13,676 freshmen shows that individuals with a higher cheerfulness rating at college entry have a higher current income and a higher job satisfaction rating and are less likely ever to have been unemployed than individuals with a lower cheerfulness rating. Although cheerfulness generally has a positive effect on current income, this effect is curvilinear, with current income increasing more rapidly at lower than at higher cheerfulness ratings; the effect is also moderated by parental income, with the increase in current income between any two cheerfulness ratings becoming greater as the level of parental income increases. The effect of cheerfulness on current income is not moderated by sex; the effect of cheerfulness on job satisfaction and on unemployment history is not moderated by either sex or parental income.
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Send Email With Nylas
Learn how to send emails with Nylas.
What you'll learn
In this guide, you'll learn how to do the following:
 - Choose how to send emails.
 - Create and send a draft.
 - Send an email directly without creating a draft.
Step 1: Choose how to send emails
Decide which sending method is best for your application.
 - Create and send drafts - Ideal for preparing emails that don't need to be sent right away. Messages are synced to the provider's draft folder if possible.
 - Send emails directly without creating drafts - Ideal for sending a small number of emails without saving them to drafts first. Messages are synced to the provider's sent folder if possible.
In both cases, sending operation is synchronous, and the request blocks until the submission succeeds or fails. In the event of failure, the sending API won't automatically retry. For more information, refer to Deliverability for drafts and send endpoint.
Step 2: Send emails with Nylas
You can either create and send a draft, or send an email directly without creating a draft.
Option 1: Create and send drafts
To create and send drafts, you need to make the following API requests:
When you create a draft with Nylas, the draft is synced with your email provider. You can access the draft and make updates as long as the draft isn't deleted.
Create a draft
Make a POST /drafts request.
The following are some of the request parameters that can be useful:
All request parameters are optional. If you send a request without any request parameters, Nylas creates a draft with no content.
 - reply_to - Add name and emails to set a Reply-to address in the Reply-to header. A Reply-to address is where reply messages are sent to and can be different from the From: address. Not all providers support setting a Reply-to address in drafts.
 - reply_to_message_id - If you're replying to a specific message, include the message ID. You can retrieve the message ID by making a GET /messages request.
 - file_ids - Upload files before you attach them to messages. You can retrieve file IDs by make a GET /files request.
For more information on available parameters, refer to POST /drafts.
Example: Create a draft
curl --location --request POST '_URL_ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"subject": "From Nylas",
"to": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "Nylas"
}
],
"from": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "Your Name"
}
],
"reply_to": [
{
"name": "Nylas",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"reply_to_message_id": "1d00e908341a4a889ba4",
"body": "This email was sent using the Nylas email API. Visit _URL_ for details.",
"file_ids": [
"0a512d9b79584e989ca7"
]
}'
Send a draft
After you create a draft, make a POST /send request to send your email. Make sure that you specify the draft_id and version in the request.
If there is a newer draft version than the one you're trying to send, the request fails. To get the latest draft version, make a GET /draft/{draft_id} request.
Example: Send a draft
curl -X POST '_URL_ \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' \
-d '{
"draft_id": "{draft_id}",
"version": 0
}'
Option 2: Send emails without creating drafts
To send an email directly without creating a draft, make a POST /send request.
Example: Send an email without creating a draft
curl --location --request POST '_URL_ \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"subject": "From Nylas",
"to": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "Nylas"
}
],
"from": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "Your Name"
}
],
"reply_to": [
{
"name": "Nylas",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"reply_to_message_id": "1d00e908341a4a889ba4",
"body": "This email was sent using the Nylas email API. Visit _URL_ for details.",
"file_ids": [
"0a512d9b79584e989ca7"
]
}'
Deliverability for drafts and send endpoint
Sending operations are synchronous, and the request blocks until the submission succeeds or fails. In the event of failure, the sending API won't automatically retry.
Consider applying backoff when HTTP 503's are returned. Your application may need to wait anywhere from 10-20 minutes, or SMTP servers may continue to refuse connections for a particular account.
For information on the number of messages you can send per day, refer to Provider rate limits. If large-volume sending continues to fail for your application, switch to a transactional sending service such as Mailgun, Sendgrid, Mandrill, or Amazon SES.
Sending timeouts
A successful request to the send endpoint can sometimes take up to two minutes for self-hosted Exchange accounts, though the average send time is around two seconds. To make sure that you receive a response from Nylas, set the minimum timeout to 150 seconds.
Sending errors
Sometimes message delivery can fail if the user's email gateway rejects the message. This can happen for a number of reasons, including illegal attachment data, bad credentials, or rate-limiting. If your message is submitted successfully, the server responds with a HTTP response code of 200 OK. If your message wasn't submitted, the server responds with an appropriate error code.
Below is a table of error codes:
Status Code Description Reason
200 OK Your message was submitted successfully for sending.
400 Bad Request Your request was malformed or contained an invalid parameter. The most common issue is invalid JSON.
402 Message Rejected The mail provider rejected your message because of its content or recipients. If the message includes "Sending to at least one recipient failed", it means that your message may have been delivered to only a subset of participants.
403 Unauthorized The server was unable to authenticate with the user's mail provider. Re-authenticate the user and try again.
422 Mail provider error An error occurred while the mail provider was sending the message. See the server_error value in the response body JSON for more information.
429 Quota Exceeded The user has exceeded their mail provider's sending quota. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to determine these limits. Wait and try again later.
429 Account Throttled The account is in a throttled state and the mail server has asked us to temporarily stop making requests. Wait and try again later.
429 Nylas API Rate Limit You've made too many requests to the Nylas API too quickly. Wait and try again later. See Rate limiting for more information.
503 Service Unavailable There was an error connecting to the user's mail provider. Wait and try again.
In addition, the response body contains a JSON object with information about the specific error, including the following attributes:
Status Code Type Reason
type string Error type
message string A brief human-readable description of the error.
server_error string (optional) The original error returned by the user's mail server.
402 errors with "Sending to at least one recipient failed"
If any recipient addresses contain non-ASCII characters, such as characters with accents or other diacritics, delivery fails. Nylas is currently unable to send messages to email addresses that contain these characters.
Email message ID header behavior
Sending an email using the Nylas API creates a unique message_id_header value in the sender's database. This value is required for the provider's SMTP server. The text shown below with @mailer.nylas.com is an example of the Nylas message_id_header value for internal use.
[email protected]
This is part of the standard protocol when using Nylas as an email client. The header is only visible on the sender's database and isn't an email object to use or update.
The provider's SMTP server may modify this value during the sending process. Avoid using this message_id_header with the @mailer.nylas.com domain for email configurations.
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This is a follow up question to my question yesterday Structural mechanics traction boundary condition question
Does a traction free boundary condition also mean that the displacement gradient is 0 where the boundary condition is applied? My thinking is that it does not because it seems you can have traction free (zero stress) surface with a non-zero displacement gradient.
The traction is defined as
$$ \mathbf{t} = \mathbf{n} \cdot \boldsymbol{\sigma} $$
In terms of components, the zero-traction condition is
$$ t_j = \sum_i n_i \sigma_{ij} = 0 $$
From the above you can see that the stress components don't necessarily have to be zero for the traction to be zero.
For a linear elastic material,
$$ \boldsymbol{\sigma} = \mathsf{C}:\nabla{\mathbf{u}} $$
In component form,
$$ \sigma_{ij} = \sum_k \sum_l C_{ijkl} \frac{\partial u_k}{\partial x_l} $$
Once again, since there is no requirement that all the $C_{ijkl}$ values have to be positive, you don't need all the displacement gradients to be zero for the stresses to be zero (which is not strictly necessary for zero-tractions anyway).
However, zero displacement gradients will lead to zero tractions.
 - $\begingroup$ Hmm. In my previous question, I concluded that traction free=stress free=free surface. Does traction free mean zero traction? Does stress free mean zero stress? If so, then doesn't this mean that traction free=zero stress? $\endgroup$ – David Jan 2 '18 at 22:22
 - $\begingroup$ Stress free = traction free but not vice versa. It's more intuitive if you think in terms of balance of forces on a small element. Note that the momentum PDE is typically defined on an open set; so there are some subtle issues here, e.g., St. Venant principle. $\endgroup$ – Biswajit Banerjee Jan 3 '18 at 0:38
 - $\begingroup$ Ahh got it. So then what is free surface? Is it zero stress? When I think of free surface, I think of the classical cantilever beam problem, where one end is fixed and the other surfaces are "free" $\endgroup$ – David Jan 3 '18 at 5:29
 - $\begingroup$ I believe these "free surfaces" exhibit zero stress (tangential and normal). $\endgroup$ – David Jan 3 '18 at 5:47
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 $\begingroup$ _USER_ Yes, but just on that surface. $\endgroup$ – nicoguaro Jan 3 '18 at 18:22
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The San Pedro River emerges from just south of Sierra Vista, AZ and flows north for approximately 150 miles where it meets the Gila River. The only river left undammed in the Southwest, it is a major conservation corridor and home to hundreds of species of native and migratory birds and many diverse kinds of wildlife such as beaver and coati. Following are stories of life along this river and the effort to save it. Some of these articles are courtesy of the Friends of the San Pedro River. Please consider joining the conservation effort. If Birdwatching is your interest, please visit our 10 Best Birding Hotspots in Southern Arizona!
In addition to birdwatching, there are several places within the SPRNCA worth visiting. Fairbank is a ghost town on the San Pedro River about 10 miles west of Tombstone.The Murray Springs Clovis Site is where Paleo-Indians camped while hunting large mammals. Not far is a Mammoth-Kill site where these Stone Age people killed and butchered, not only mammoths, but also camels, tapirs, bison, and bear. This they excelled at despite themselves being hunted by such monsters as Sabre-Tooth Tigers.
Below is a list of other San Pedro River stories that might interest you.
- Coati of the San Pedro River
- Our Lady Of The Sierras
- Fairbank AZ: Ghost Town
- Summer on the San Pedro River
- Plants of the San Pedro River and the Borderlands
- Arthropods of the SPRNCA
- The Diminishing San Pedro River
- Our River of Life: San Pedro River Video
- The Creosote or Greasewood: Good for What Ails You!
- The Return of the Beaver to the San Pedro River
- Reintroducing the Beaver to the San Pedro River
- Cottonwoods: The Largest Trees in Arizona
- Javelina of the San Pedro River
- Saving the San Pedro River
- Beaver Scenes from the San Pedro River
- Green Kingfisher Sighting on the San Pedro River
- Birds of the San Pedro River Region
- A Day At The San Pedro River
- Casa de San Pedro Bed & Breakfast
- San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area: Photos by Francie Hills
- Guided Hike to Charleston Ruins
- A Video History of the San Pedro River Area
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Battle of Leipzig
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Battle of Leipzig
Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
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The Battle of Leipzig by Vladimir Moshkov (1815)
Date 16–19 October 1813
Location Leipzig, Saxony
Result Decisive coalition victory
France French Empire Russia Russia
Austria Austrian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Sweden Sweden
Saxony Saxony[1]
Commanders and leaders
France Napoleon I
Józef Antoni Poniatowski
Saxony Frederick Augustus
Russia Barclay De Tolly
Russia Count Benningsen
Austria Prince of Schwarzenberg
Sweden Crown Prince Charles John
Kingdom of Prussia Gebhard von Blücher
700 guns [3]
1,500 guns [3]
Casualties and losses
38,000 dead or wounded
20,000 captured
54,000 dead or wounded[2]
The Battle of Leipzig was a battle between Napoleon I and his army and an allied force of several nations. It happened on October 16-19 on 1813. Napoleon I was defeated. It was the largest battle before World War I. It involved about 600,000 soldiers. It was part of the War of the Sixth Coalition. After this battle, Napoleon was taken to the island of Elba.
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Westport Waterfront The Riverbank project
The Riverbank Project is a $2M project, funded by the Provincial Growth Fund. It is revitalising the current industrial area between the Buller River and the town centre.
It forms part of the Westport master plan and features the Toki bridge. The bridge allows people to safely transition from the main street, over the railway lines to a new riverbank space.
This is the first significant step in Westport turning to face the river, the town's greatest natural asset.
The Toki Poutangata Bridge
The jewel in The Riverbank Project is the Toki Poutangata Bridge. As well as connecting the town centre to the river, it will also provide linkage to the Kawatiri Coastal Trail enabling our community and visitors to enjoy active transport and recreation opportunities in Westport.
A name with a deep meaning
The name chosen for the bridge Toki Poutangata (or Toki for short), describes a ceremonial adze of chiefly authority, and consists of a pounamu blade lashed to an elaborately carved handle. This styling has been carried through into the truss design of the bridge structure, with its distinctive tapered shape and green colour, drawing focus to the Buller River. The concept has support from local iwi Ngāti Waewae. It represents strength, mana, bravery and triumph, all traits and characteristics synonymous with the Buller District.
A local story of craftsmanship and ingenuity
The bridge truss has been fabricated by local manufacturing specialists Rea Engineering, who are only metres down the track from the bridge site.
This has made for a very simple, yet unique transport plan. The entire truss was placed on custom-made rail trolleys and travelled along the tracks from the workshop to the bridge location.
The pounamu-green Toki bridge set new national benchmarks for surface protection. It is the first bridge in New Zealand coated with the next-generation fluoropolymer (polyurethane) paint system, which extends the lifespan of the top-coat colour beyond traditional applications. This minimises the need for periodic touch-ups and re-coats, reducing ongoing maintenance costs. As a result, the Toki bridge will have excellent long-term resistance to paint degradation, looking better for longer.
The Toki bridge was lifted into place, at the November 2021. This was the first full reveal of Westport's new iconic landmark, safely linking the town centre to the Buller River for the first time in over 40 years.
The installation was followed by bridge certification and completion of the western embankment before the new over-rail link was opened for public use.
The official grand opening of the bridge was held in March 2022.
The bridge design in numbers
The Toki bridge, designed by DC Structures Studio, is a tapering truss measuring 5.8m high at the river-facing end, with an overall width of 3.1m, total length of 38m and a span between bearing supports of 29m.
The full lift weight including decking will be 24 tonnes. The ramp on the town side rises in two flights to a height of 5.4m above ground level, with a linear walk length of 77m at 1:12 grade with rest zones every 9m.
The usable walkway width is 2.5m on the bridge and 2.3m on the ramp, with both using 28mm thick Fibre Reinforced Polymer non-slip decking materials and stainless steel countersunk fixings.
With an additional $300k funding secured from central government's Tourism Infrastructure Fund, The Riverbank Project will soon link Westport's town precinct to the Kawatiri Coastal Trail, the floating basin and Kawatiri River Trails.
A new south trail will create a high-quality alternative to the existing Millennium Track from the Kawatiri Coastal Trail carpark into Westport's town precinct via the new Toki Bridge. This will deliver a safe, enjoyable, and easy to follow route for pedestrians and cyclists along The Esplanade and the Buller River, to complete the link to Carters Beach, Tauranga Bay and beyond.
Also included in the project is work on a north connector route from the Toki Bridge pedestrian plaza up to the Floating Basin, Kawatiri River Trails and ultimately North Beach. This route will follow established footpaths and streets through town with new line marking and signage for improved wayfinding and user safety.
Both trails are integral to Westport's master plan and our district revitalisation strategy, to position Buller as an attractive place to live, explore and invest.


Fuck a duck
Contents: Meaning | Origin | Spread
What does Fuck a duck mean?
Fuck a duck is a common cuss phrase which conveys anger, disappointment or even in some instances surprise.
The term implies a sense of frustration when something minor goes wrong.
Given this information, "Fuck a duck" is mainly used jokingly, to express dissatisfaction with a certain situation and/or person.
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What's the origin of Fuck a duck?
The first appearance in print of this term was in Henry Miller's novel, the Tropic of Cancer. It inspired entire phrases, such as 'Fuck a duck and give it a buck' or 'Fuck a duck and see what hatches'.
You might even hear the phrase 'I'll fuck a dead duck' which expresses the full extent of the surprise.
Linguistic experts believe that the phrase came from the word duckfucker, the person on board who was taking care of domestic animals.
This phrase entered America, and the world of stoner slangs and, it's now used for annoying idiots.
Spread and Usage
How did Fuck a duck spread?
We couldn't tell exactly where the term came from, or when did it get popular.
But we can be sure that it became well liked, probably because people from a very young age learn to rhyme to associate things with other things more easily.
But these days "Fuck a duck" got more and more popular on different platforms, such as Reddit, Youtube or Urban Dictionary, where the first definition was written in 2004.
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The Tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalopus) is a small species of deer found in high altitude forests of Burma and China. They have a prominent tuft of hair on their heads which gives them their name, but they also look like an adorable vampire. Their fangs are long upper canines, which are similar to what you'd find in their close relative the muntjac. They're very territorial animals, and although they have small antlers the males use these sharp canines to fight over both territory and mates.
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HomeLight's algorithm uses transaction data to match buyers and sellers with real estate agents.
To maximize your chances of receiving referrals, you will need to ensure that your past 1-3 years of transaction history is uploaded and verified.
There are two ways to add transactions:
- If you have several transactions to add, we recommend using the upload spreadsheet tool.
- If you have a small number of transactions to add, you can add each of your transactions individually through the single transaction tool.
Once signed in, click here to upload your transactions.
Regardless of which method you use, keep in mind the following:
- We ask that you only upload residential sales transactions. You should not add rental, commercial, or land transactions.
- You'll need to provide supporting evidence that our team can use to cross-verify the transaction data you add. Verification examples could include a link to your sold listings on the MLS, your personal website, or a screenshot or PDF of your production report.
Bulk Uploading Transactions to HomeLight
To get started, you will need to gather the required information. Each transaction requires the following details:
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- Original Listing Date and Price
- Selling Date and Price
Note: If you are licensed in a nondisclosure state, this information is still required, but will not be displayed publicly.
Once you have gathered the required information, download the template spreadsheet. This is the spreadsheet you will use to compile all of your transactions.
- The template spreadsheet contains a header row. Do not make any changes to this row or any of its contents.
- Next, begin entering your transaction data. Ensure that you don't skip any rows and all fields are formatted correctly.
- Columns A through K are required for each transaction. The remaining columns are optional, but you must leave the header rows intact. You are encouraged to fill out as many of the columns as possible.
- Once you are done, save the file in CSV format.
Use the "Upload spreadsheet" button to upload the file. You'll also be required to upload your verification evidence.
Uploading Single Transactions to HomeLight
To add a single transaction to HomeLight, click the "Single Transaction" button.
Simply fill out the form with the required information, then provide a link to your verification source or upload a verification file.
If there are any problems with the spreadsheet or verification you provided, you will receive an email with further details. Otherwise, you will receive a confirmation email letting you know that your transactions have been successfully verified. Once your transactions are verified, they will immediately be included in our referral matching algorithm.
Questions? Submit a support request here.