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Q: What do you really mean when you say fish are "dormant" for the winter? Do they sleep?
Diane – Wells, ME
A: When the days shorten and temperatures drop, koi and other pond fish enter into what's called torpor, or a period of decreased physiological activity that allows them to save energy. They don't sleep the winter away, but they do essentially hibernate—their metabolism slows, they require less food, their activity level drops and their body temperatures reduce.
How do they know they need to hibernate, and what can hobbyists do to make their finned friends' winter torpor restful? Read on to learn more.
Mother Nature's in Charge
Fish don't use calendars to decide when to take their winter snooze. Instead, they follow Mother Nature's lead. Because fish are cold-blooded, their metabolism reacts to the external environment. When the water temperature falls, so does their activity level: Their appetite dwindles, they digest food more slowly, and they expend less energy. In the spring when temperatures warm back up, the fish will naturally come out of their torpor. They'll start to seek out food as their metabolism increases, and they'll become active once again.
Suspended Animation
You'll know when your fish go dormant. They won't lie down on the pond's bottom or curl up in their cozy Koi Kastle, but they will float upright, tuck in their fins and remain suspended in the water. As the fish hover there, you may still see some super slow movement, and they may also wind up facing in the same direction as if they were heading somewhere at less than a snail's speed.
Sweet Dreams, Koi!
Here are four ways to give your koi a peaceful winter rest:
- Set up an aeration system to keep the water pumped full of oxygen. Even though they're hibernating, your fish will still need some fresh O2.
- Install a de-icer to keep a hole open in the ice and allow for gas exchange. If the pond freezes over, use warm water to reopen a hole; do not bang on the ice to crack it, as doing so can stress your fish.
- Keep as much debris out of the pond as possible to prevent muck buildup over the winter.
- Let the fish be. Don't try to get them to move or swim or wake up from their slumber. Keep an eye on them, but leave them alone until they wake up on their own.
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Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte, finally healthy, looked fantastic in last weekend's season opener against the Indianapolis Colts. His good health didn't last long.
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Forte left Thursday night's 23-10 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the third quarter with an ankle injury. NFL Network's Alex Flanagan reported Forte underwent an X-ray during the game. Results aren't yet known, but Forte was quickly ruled out for the game after initially being listed as doubtful. That's never a good sign.
Forte rushed for 31 yards on seven carries and caught four passes for 49 yards before leaving the game.
If nothing else, the Bears are well prepared for this moment. They signed Michael Bush in the offseason, and he has run effectively early in the season.
The Bears just hope they won't have to rely on Bush for too long.
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Chicagoans won't be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in shorts this year.
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Saturday's colder temps may be paired with drizzling rain or possible snow flurries, but is expected to remain fairly dry overnight and throughout Sunday.
- Check out this guide of Saturday's St. Patrick's Day shenanigans
Chicago's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade steps off at noon Saturday in one of the country's largest parades for the Irish holiday. Just before the parade begins Chicago Journeymen Plumbers will continue their more than 40-year tradition and dye the Chicago River green.
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Novak Djokovic believes Rafa Nadal may soon displace him as world number one and has plenty of time to break Roger Federer's benchmark 17 major titles after the Spaniard roared to the U.S. Open title at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
Djokovic was beaten 6-2 3-6 6-4 6-1 by Nadal, who claimed the 13th singles slam of his career to move ahead of Australia's Roy Emerson (12) on the all-time list.
Only Pete Sampras (14) and Roger Federer (17) are above the 27-year-old Nadal on the pecking order of major champions.
"Thirteen grand slams for a guy who is 27-years-old is incredible," Djokovic said. "I mean, whatever he has achieved so far in his career is something that everybody should respect. No question about it.
"I was saying before, he's definitely one of the best tennis players ever to play the game. Looking at his achievements and his age, at this moment - he still has a lot of years to play. That's all I can say."
Nadal seems certain to overtake Djokovic as world number one by the end of the year.
He missed the last half of 2012, and the 2013 Australian Open, because of a knee injury, which means he has no rankings points to defend.
Following his second major triumph this year, adding the New York crown to the French Open, only another injury or inconceivable loss of form will keep him at number two.
"What can I say?" Djokovic said. "He won so much this year. I'm still number one of the world in the rankings. But year to year he's far, far ahead. He has much more chances to end up as number one.
"Look, there is still tournaments to go. So we'll see."
Nadal's triumph gave him a 22-15 winning record against Djokovic and it was his sixth victory in their last seven meetings. The Serb conceded he had to find the key to reversing the trend in arguably the biggest rivalry in the men's game.
"I have to," Djokovic said. "It's part of my life. Many times you fall as an athlete. You have to learn the lesson and keep on going, keep on fighting, keep on improving.
"That's what we are here for. I'm still 26, and I believe the best time for my career is about to come. As long as I believe it, the fire and the love towards the game is inside of me, as long as that's present ... I'm going to play this sport with all my heart as I did in the last 10 years."
The Nadal-Djokovic rivalry is typified by marathon rallies that stretch both players to their physical limits.
They conjured a 54-stroke rally in the second set that left a capacity crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium screaming for more. Djokovic raised his arms at having succeeded in the mini-battle, but Nadal won the war.
"I have played against Rafa, on different surfaces and different occasions, points like this where you just feel that there is the last drop of energy that you need to use in order to win the point," Djokovic said.
"Sometimes I was winning those points, sometimes him.
"It's what we do when we play against each other, always pushing each other to the limit. That's the beauty of our matches and our rivalry, in the end."
For the second straight year, Djokovic started the season by winning the Australian Open before falling short at the other three majors.
He lost a five-set heartbreaker to Nadal in the semi-finals of the French Open and was beaten by Britain's Andy Murray in the championship match at Wimbledon.
"I wish I won at least one title more, considering the fact I played two finals," he said. "All the matches I lost, even the French Open, I had that match. I lost it again in the semis.
"Overall, it was again a very successful grand slam year for me. That's where I want to play my best in. As I said, I wish there was another title, but it is what it is.
"It was obvious that in the important moments Rafa played better tennis, and that's why he deserved to win. I congratulate him, and I move on. I didn't deserve to win in the end."
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Charles M. Schulz famously said: "There are three things I have learned to never discuss with people … Religion, Politics, and Pumpkin Agung." And maybe now, more than ever, he's right!
Speaking politics is now very risky. In fact, one study revealed that one in three Americans was named or convicted for openly voicing opinions.
And that is especially true in the workplace. Or around the family dining table, for that matter. Or in the supermarket.
Wear Sad Flag Pins with Pride
Thankfully, there is a solution, and that is the Flag Flag Sad. No more than a quarter, you can wear your Sad Flag Flag proudly – and it might even trigger a great conversation.
Let's face it, the use of American flag pins from any description has been a source of debate lately. Who uses it, who does not? Who's wearing one upside down?
The positive side of all this is that the debate is healthy. And it must be done civilized.
We've heard stories that are just embarrassing, like co-workers who refused to sit next to each other because one chose Trump. Or what about people who are not friendly on Facebook because they have a Trump sticker in their car. How old are we?
This is the Rule
Instead of behaving like a toddler, just get there and have a conversation. But there are some rules.
# 1 Wear your Sad Sad Pin, as a gesture of goodwill.
# 2 Do not judge others. We are all entitled to our point of view and, just because it is not the same as yours, does not mean it is wrong. Keep an open mind and find common ground.
# 3 Do not set out to re-educate people. A good conversation is education itself. We listen, we learn, we consider different points of view. If you decide to change someone's opinion, you will look confrontational.
# 4 Do not bite back. There is a great chance someone will try and get you stuck. Do not buy it. Be a bigger person.
And if you accidentally say the wrong thing and make someone upset, have it. Make a mistake and continue.
# 5 You catch more flies with honey. Online experiments use actors to produce different short videos about deportation of illegal immigrants. One version is opinion; Others are respectful, considered and positive.
Practice Diplomacy
When shown to a subject with a different opinion, the results are told. The speakers in the first video are described abrasive and do not know anything. In the second video, they are judged to be preferred, more diplomatic and more persuasive.
So what's the point here? The point is that important issues need to be debated calmly and wisely. That's the only way we'll find a resolution.
Excessive power, ignorance, mistakenness, and a single thought will not produce anything. As we have seen lately.


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Among air experts, it's an open secret: federal and state officials grossly undercount a crucial type of air pollution, often by an order of magnitude and particularly in areas like Houston with its major concentrations of petrochemical plants.
The undercounted pollutants are volatile organic compounds, a type of hydrocarbon that's a major contributor to harmful air.
But at the University of Houston this spring, a much anticipated shipment of advanced air pollution measuring tools from Sweden will arrive at Science and Research Building 1, part of a trans-Atlantic effort by scientists and engineers to address the undercount.
The equipment, including a delicate solar infrared device, will be mounted into a $100,000 Chevy Silverado equipped with amped up cooling and air ride shocks.
UH atmospheric chemist Barry Lefer and Johan Mellqvist of the Swedish company FluxSense then will spend part of the summer driving it down the Ship Channel to Baytown and back, around Texas City and Mont Belvieu, measuring the gases that are emitted by refineries, chemical plants, barges and vehicles.
Integral to the cadre of scientists and engineers concerned about undercounts is Alex Cuclis, an air pollution researcher with the Houston Advanced Research Center. He's also determined to broaden the use of advanced instruments to measure rather than estimate emissions.
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Both of these devices record results in pounds per hour of emissions.
1 Solar Occultation Flux: Uses the sun's light guided to a detector in a moving vehicle. Pollutants block certain wavelengths and those changes in light are used to fingerprint the pollutants and their concentrations.
1 Differential Absorption Lidar: Uses high powered lasers to create a concentration map, like a cat scan, that visualizes pollutants in a vertical plane. Wind speed is used to calculate the amount of pollutants passing through space.
These volatile vapors are a menace due to how they behave. Like ninth-graders home alone after school, they can get into trouble, congregating with other sketchy gases, causing them to lose oxygens. These free oxygens then hook up with plain oxygen in the bright of day and turn into something else: corrosive ozone, damaging to moist respiratory tissues.
Research on ozone has demonstrated a cruel reality. Healthy children who are active, playing sports in high ozone areas, are more likely to get asthma. Houston decreased its number of harmful ozone days radically, but one out of every nine days in 2010 and 2011 was still bad, Lefer said.
Estimating emissions
Ever since the dawn of the nation's Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has provided a method for industrial facilities to estimate emissions of volatile organic compounds. Simplified, "if you refine X barrels of oil, you use this factor to determine how much benzene or formaldehyde is coming from the refinery," Lefer said.
This alone could lead to an undercount. But additionally, many industrial structures are hard to monitor. Imagine the seal around a 300-foot diameter tank, or flanges, or tankers in the Ship Channel with a hatch stuck open. From each of these, gases have been found to escape uncounted.
Each time experts measure with advanced technology, they discover emissions much higher than what is reported to the government.
"We can drive by and see what is coming out of the stacks," Lefer said. "We know how many molecules there are of ethane, of propylene."
Low official numbers
That the estimating system is antiquated is widely acknowledged.
"Consistently, test after test, whether in Port Arthur, Longview, Texas City or the Ship Channel, the emissions estimates are always off by a factor of at least eight," Cuclis said.
Last year an advanced survey in Beaumont-Port Arthur, funded by the Air Quality Research Program, an effort of the University of Texas and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, documented volatile emissions of the family known as alkanes at 14,700 pounds per hour coming from a group of seven plants. Consider that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reported roughly 1,000 tons per day for the entire Houston air basin.
Even the EPA concedes advanced techniques do work. Nevertheless, neither the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality nor the EPA require advanced monitoring techniques. EPA officials declined to be interviewed but said the agency is looking into advanced measurement as it drafts future rules.
In 2007, Brenda Shine wrote in an EPA technical paper that despite limitations, sophisticated laser techniques are "able to accurately quantify the amount of volatile organic compound emissions occurring at the time of measurement."
In Port Arthur last year, a survey detected 418 pounds per hour discharge of the chemical butadiene, a carcinogen used to make synthetic rubber, coming from one source. The facility was supposed to be emitting 2 pounds per hour. So the plant was emitting at least 200 times what it reported, at least when the monitoring truck passed by.
Actual measurements conducted over the past decade in Pasadena, Deer Park, Battleground and Baytown all show equipment giving off amounts that dwarf official emissions numbers.
In July 2008, Houston Mayor Bill White begged the EPA to modernize its estimating system because emissions from Houston refineries and other plants were being underreported by a factor of 100.
The General Accounting Office, a federal oversight agency, in 2001 said the EPA needed to improve oversight of emissions reporting by large facilities.
If officials don't know how much of these gases escape into the blue, they can't pick the best way to reduce ozone smog.
"It is really hard to predict how much anything will affect anything else if our modeling is that far off," Cuclis said.
David Brymer, chief of the air quality division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, agrees there is underreporting. That's why, he said, the state paid to bring modern measurement to Texas several times. The commission also increased its own estimates.
Some companies have brought in advanced measuring tools on their own to see plumes they might miss because many gases are colorless and released high in the air.
Reactions vary
One tool widely used is the infrared camera. It may be used by someone without a Ph.D. at a fraction of the cost of laser technology, but is not as sensitive. Some companies have gone further. LyondellBasell Houston Refinery paid for a survey using advanced tools and, at a conference in Denver recently, encouraged other companies to do the same.
Howard Feldman of the American Petroleum Institute said some of the advanced instruments efficiently reveal new images to the people who work in refineries.
"We would support them being required if it's in lieu of having to go to each valve and do measurements," he said.
Not all companies are eager to bring tools inside the fence line where they might find a bad tank. "Not everyone wants $30 million worth of bad news," said Steve Ramsey, an environmental engineer with the consulting firm ENVIRON, who hopes to bring a laser unit to Houston permanently and hire it out.
Matthew Tejada of Air Alliance Houston had hoped the EPA would begin to require measurements when it rewrote regulations recently.
"We would have finally gotten rid of the slide rule," he said, "it would have been the biggest step taken in this industry since the passage of the Clean Air Act."


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Bartz agreed – she said, "I don't think we've made progress. I don't think there is a level playing field"....She reiterated a common complaint of women executives. "The thing that really annoys me is when a woman will say something in a meeting and everyone ignores her. And three minutes later a man will say it and it's a great idea." While it's hard to imagine anyone ignoring Bartz, she says it continues to happen to her today in her work on Cisco's board. But, she exclaimed, "Now I go, 'I just said that!'"Bartz (and the rest of us) are in good company: Even Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has described getting talked over and ignored in meetings with her male peers on the court, who later made the same points and were recognized for it.
Are these--or any--women getting ignored in meetings because they aren't as good as men at speaking up? Far from it. That's one of the 4 myths you should stop spreading about women and public speaking. The author of this study of women speaking up in meetings noted: "Study after study has found that, when other variables are controlled (education, expertise, etc.), women are responded to more negatively than men as measured by facial expression, gaze behavior, individual evaluations, and decision reached in task-based groups."
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We've seen Barbra Streisand in full comedic flight in recent years, thanks to Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, but her last leading role was in the 1996 romantic comedy The Mirror Has Two Faces, which she also directed.
So it's great to see her back in charge in this mum-and-son road trip and, given her co-star Seth Rogen's rather pared-back performance, it would seem the movie is directed at her fans, rather than his.
They're not an obvious pairing, but Rogen and Streisand make a pretty convincing mother-and-son couple as they travel from New Jersey to Las Vegas so the son can pitch to companies a cleaning product he's developed.
As Joyce, Streisand nags, interferes and worries, and as Andy, Rogen tries to hide his frustration and be a good son. It makes for solid but rather routine material as they bicker with each other in the car and in motel rooms, which is where most of the film's action takes place, and there's a temptation to think "How much further?".
But when they do get on with each other, it's a different film. In these moments it's as if they've finally been allowed to have fun and improvise a little, and they're hilarious as they let loose.
Streisand gets more of the memorable moments, while Rogen just looks on, such as when Joyce tries to eat half a cow in one hour in a Texas restaurant competition.
It's in scenes like this that Streisand reminds us of how good her comedic timing is - and how much better The Guilt Trip would have been with more of them.
The script has let Streisand and Rogen down, surprisingly as it's from Crazy, Stupid, Love screenwriter Dan Fogelman, so it's a shame the tight reins of director Anne Fletcher (The Proposal) didn't allow them to help themselves. At least Babs' fans will be pleased to see her back in action.
Stars: 2/5
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I also blogged about this today - uncannily a topic I had drafted for a few weeks ;-)ReplyDelete
I've used this feature extensively in various flavours of 10g and never had any problems - can't comment on 11.
On my local machine, I can't get it to work because I have the Oracle 9 client installed, despite connecting to an Oracle 10 database. So it gets picked up by SQL*Plus or other client side tool as an error if there are an odd number of quotes. Works fine if I use the Oracle 10 SQL*Plus client on the server though.ReplyDelete
crikeymo, we found that when using subquery factoring (with xyz as (select...)) on a 10g db but our BA still had an 8i client!ReplyDelete
His client just complained about "expecting SELECT" or something along those lines.
Was something that came to mind when reading #2
I have the same issue, on my local machine it doesn't work using SQL*Plus release 9. If I run the script on the database server using SQL*Plus 10 it works fine.ReplyDelete
I believe this issue was reported in Metalink as a bug, though I can't find it anymore.ReplyDelete
When using an older (i.e. 9i) client, then a string with an odd number of single quotes fails with an ora-01756 (quoted string not properly terminated).
A string with an even number of single quotes will work as expected!
Re. the presence of the comma, I'd say it was fine, if you were referring to "the man" as the object, and not referring to someone with the title of "the man who didn't like goodbyes".ReplyDelete
If the former, you could rewrite the sentence: "The man, who didn't like goodbyes, said 'Hello.'", where the commas make perfect sense (at least to me, anyway!)
I believe this issue was reported in Metalink as a bug, though I can't find it anymore.ReplyDelete
When using an older (i.e. 9i) client, then a string with an odd number of single quotes fails with an ora-01756 (quoted string not properly terminated).
A string with an even number of single quotes will work as expected!
No problems here, but 10 database and 10 and 11 clients, also Toad 11 beta works.ReplyDelete
About the comma, there are two issues with it The second one can change the meaning of the sentence, but the first on in 'Hello,' looks like half a sentence. So the speaker is not finished yet with his sentence. This comma should be a period?
- Anonymous05 November, 2010 15:23
Wow, I've used this with the pound symbol (#) a lot... but I never knew it did the paired delimiters. I got all of those wrong because of that. :(ReplyDelete
Learned something new and useful!
I've seen no problems with this mechanism, but I am using the 11gR2 client with 11gR1 and 11gR2 databases. Perhaps the Quiz Assumptions should be amended to include a statement that the client is the one included with the target version of the database.ReplyDelete
Like Richard M, I also got a slew wrong because I didn't know paired delimiters would work.ReplyDelete
I'd have much preferred one single option on matched delimiters. But then, due to the gross markdown on my score, I will never, ever forget that matched delimiters are an option.
This is a first time the quiz addresses the feature I never have heard of. Thank you, Steven!ReplyDelete


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Rubbing our faces in the fact that we don't even get the Subaru Legacy STI, the folks at Subie are going out and adding a limited edition S402 to the Japanese lineup. Planned for — get this — only 402 units, the S402 features a slightly detuned version of the turbo'd 2.5 liter boxer good for 285 HP and 292 lb.ft. of toque. Other upgrades include include two piece Brembos, various garish badging, "sport" suspension and revised steering ratio, fancy seating, some BBS wheels wrapped in Potenzas (which we think are over rated) and some body tweaks.
On those body tweeks, it looks like Subaru is the latest to fall victim to the ridiculous fender vent trend. We thought you were better than that Subaru. We can't wait for Rex's to start showing up with Buick-inspired fender vents at the evening drive-in. [Carscoop]


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Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
Students do a journal entry about barriers that have been broken,such as age, race, and gender, that might impede them in the future, and how they can break through those barriers.
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Bob and Belle Cooper founded The Uttermost Company in 1975, and it is still 100% owned by the Cooper family. The Uttermost mission is simple and timeless: to make great home accessories at reasonable prices. Inspired by award-winning designers, custom finishes, innovative product engineering and advanced packaging reinforcement, Uttermost continues to deliver on this mission. For over 30 years, Uttermost has enjoyed steady growth with over 200 employees working in its Rocky Mount, Virginia factories totaling 600, 000 square feet. It also has a factory in China and a state-of-the-art West Coast distribution center for increased capacity and faster shipping to West Coast retailers and customers. Uttermost is proud to support many of the world's most prestigious home-furnishing customers with its products and services. Uttermost believes its success is largely based on its commitment to three key principles: proving superior customer service, maximizing product value through great design and sharp pricing, and treating its employees, sales representatives, and designers as partners in business.
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Although open and entertaining throughout, this was a disjointed contest between sides playing unfamiliar systems. Whereas Paolo Di Canio favoured two centre-forwards, Kevin Ball deployed a 4-3-3. It gave Sunderland extra strength in midfield and was broadly successful but it meant a change in role for various players, with team-mates often debating positional responsibilities at length.
Brendan Rodgers continued with the 3-5-2 system used in the midweek Capital One Cup defeat at Manchester United, with José Enrique and Jordan Henderson as wing-backs. With the latter played higher up the pitch, Kolo Touré often shuttled across to make it look like a back four but, with Victor Moses used centrally, Liverpool often lacked bodies down the flanks.
The key battle was in wide zones and Sunderland had two ways of exposing Liverpool's weakness. First, when José Enrique and Henderson attacked, there was space in behind for Sunderland's wingers to break into. A couple of long balls towards the corners put the home side in decent attacking positions, with Emanuele Giaccherini dribbling dangerously from the left, and Adam Johnson prominent in the opening stages on the right. The second method was Sunderland pushing their full-backs forward to create overloads.
The onus to attack meant Sunderland were themselves vulnerable in wide positions on the break. With Liverpool playing without natural wingers, the strikers, Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge, were asked to roam the pitch laterally, working the channels.
Liverpool's second goal was a perfect example – with Jack Colback in an advanced position, Sturridge drew wide to receive a fabulous long pass from Steven Gerrard, eased past Carlos Cuéllar, who was uncomfortable covering out wide, and squared for Suárez to tap in. The two strikers also combined superbly on the break for Liverpool's third goal, albeit following a Sunderland corner rather than in open play. Still both strikers were mobile enough to make this system work, and their link-up play often worked excellently.


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Groton is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1655. It can be found in Middlesex county and is a part of the Southern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 173 Main St., Groton 01450. On the attached map, Groton is shown as 10 in Middlesex county.
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By integrating a plate separator into the oil tank, the SKF circulating oil lubrication systems reduce the time required to separate not only air, but also debris and free water from the lubricant. The parallel plate separator technology also enables customization of lubrication systems, which enables reduction of tank sizes as well as circulation rates and investment costs. Combined with the SKF Flow Limiter, the system also secures proper lubrication of each lubrication point, reducing downtime to a minimum.


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Naturopathic, Alternative & Holistic Medicine in Vermont
Take the natural route to better health with a doctor who employs naturopathic medicine to promote health and treat chronic illness.
As physicians utilizing naturopathic, alternative or holistic medicine in Vermont, we treat the whole person, identify and treat the underlying cause of disease, and use natural medicines to restore and maintain health. We employ a variety of natural therapies, including:
"Give a man a drug, he's healthy for a day.
Teach a woman a healthy lifestyle, she'll be healthy for a lifetime."
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- Diet, Lifestyle, and Exercise Modifications
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- Intravenous Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs
We take the time to listen to our patients and to understand their problems.
If you're tired, depressed, chronically ill, or just looking for a better way to feel your best and prevent disease, naturopathic medicine is the right choice for you.
Naturopathic doctors are specialists in natural medicine who empower people to take control of their health and wellness.
Getting to the Root Cause
As a naturopathic doctors, we specialize in identifying the underlying causes of disease.
If you're chronically ill and are not getting any better, are tired of side effects from conventional medicines, or have been told that your disease is "in your head," then you need a naturopathic doctor to determine and treat the cause of your illness rather than just its symptoms.
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his or her patients in the care of the human frame, in proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
-Thomas Edison
As an example, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may be caused by an underlying food allergy, poor digestion, or bacterial imbalance. We focus on identifying and treating these causal factors.
Bridging the Gap
With naturopathic medicine, you get the best of both worlds. As physicians we use standard laboratory testing, perform physical exams, order imaging studies such as x-rays and ultrasounds, and prescribe both over-the-counter and prescription natural medicines. In addition to this, as naturopathic doctors we look deeper for the underlying cause of disease and restore health naturally.
Naturopathic doctors are physicians who listen.
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- Comprehensive preventive medicine
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- Body composition testing
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Oregon Court Records
This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The Oregon court system is divided as follows: circuit courts, county courts, district courts, justice courts, municipal or city courts, and the supreme court.
Circuit courts are major trial courts. In Oregon they have countywide jurisdiction over criminal cases, probate matters, guardianships, divorces, and some administrative functions. County courts, where they exist, have countywide jurisdiction in juvenile cases, and in some probate matters. District courts have countywide jurisdiction over minor criminal cases. Justice courts have concurrent countywide jurisdiction with circuit courts over minor criminal cases. Municipal or city courts have jurisdiction over municipal law violations or liquor control law violations. The supreme court has the final appellate jurisdiction for the entire state.
Most Oregon court records are either deposited at the state archives or remain at local county courthouses. These records and their locations are all inventoried on the Oregon State Archives website database 'Oregon Historical County Records Guide' (see Oregon County Resources).


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Rick Hawn Claims Sponsor Reneged on Payment Following Bellator 85 Defeat
Rick Hawn has allegedly been jilted by one of his sponsors.
The Bellator lightweight talent announced Monday night that an unnamed sponsor has put a stop payment on his check due to Hawn's performance in the Bellator 85 main event.
The 2004 Olympic judoka was submitted by lightweight champion Michael Chandler in the second round of their headliner, which took place at UCI Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif., and aired live on Spike. Hawn made his claim via Twitter, posting a written explanation that was allegedly given to him by the sponsor:
"I will not comment on Rick and his fight," the statement read. "That is not my place. But what I will tell you is this: I took a huge chance with him. TV exposure was great ... but it only holds weight if he wins or puts on a good show. Neither happened. At the end of the day ... not one sole (sic) will run to [my] store and buy product because they [saw] Rick loose (sic) the fight. I've made it my career and business to know what nets a return on investment for the brand ... and this is the No. 1 reason why I DO NOT hand out money or product to fighters."
Hawn commented on the explanation, alleging that the sponsor was still using his likeness on its website even after withdrawing the payment. The fighter declined to name the sponsor due to pending legal action.
A former welterweight tournament finalist, Hawn, 36, made the cut to 155 pounds last year and stormed through the Season 6 lightweight field, besting Ricardo Tirloni, Lloyd Woodard and Brent Weedman to earn his shot at Chandler's title.


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Earth Day: What do you do to protect Lake Tahoe?
• Use public transportation, carpool, walk or bike wherever possible.
• Install energy efficient fixtures and appliances such as light bulbs, toilets and sprinkler heads.
• Take shorter showers.
• Run the dishwasher and washing machine only when full.
• Repair leaky faucets.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle.
— Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Recycling, taking short showers and picking up litter are just a few ways Harvey Denkin helps protect the environment.
"(The environment) is what it's all about," the Alpine Meadows resident said. "The clarity of the lake, the clean air. That's the whole show."
Millions of people visit the area to recreate on the famed clear waters of Lake Tahoe; ski and ride the surrounding mountains; and hike, bike and camp in area forestland.
Because nature plays such a big role at Truckee and Lake Tahoe, protecting it is key, said Kelsey Poole, an AmericCorp member with UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
"It's important for the economy, but it's also important just to have (Lake Tahoe) clean," she said. "It's such a beautiful lake. It's such a unique place, and so we want to keep it that way."
And everybody can help in its protection, said Nikki Riley, board president for Mountain Area Preservation.
"I think everyone has a role to play in some capacity," she said. "Finding that and doing your part — even if it's just picking up trash, picking up after your dog or trying to drive less — they're all pieces that I think tie into lowering our impact."
These individuals and hundreds more were on hand at Saturday's Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Celebration in Squaw Valley, helping celebrate and promote the region's unique beauty while educating the public on how to preserve and protect it.
Organizations such as MAP, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the BEAR League were at the community sponsored event, where several activities and events were geared toward youth.
"They have a huge role to play, and I think it further reinforces our responsibility to educate them and bring them along and get them involved," Riley said.
The annual Truckee High School Envirolution Club's Trashion Show drew a large crowd, as did EarthCapades, a series of environmental presentations that incorporate tricks and magic.
"One thing I want to point out is I really feel like that we need to stop bagging the planet," said David "Hearty" Heartlife, co-director and performer of EarthCapades, drawing claps and whistles from adults in the crowd. "… I want this problem to disappear."
Starting June 1, Truckee's plastic bag ban goes into effect, which outlaws most disposable plastic bags, while requiring retailers to charge a minimum 10-cent fee per recycled paper or reusable bag at check out.
It's a change Truckee resident Tiffany Jones welcomes.
"Every time I go into Safeway, I can't get over how everyone walks out with a plastic bags," she said. "I think it's going to make such a big difference, and hopefully, it will be an inspiration for other towns around."
Jones said her family uses reusable bags among other practices to protect the environment.
"It makes you feel good when you know you're conscious of it and being proactive," she said.
Incorporating such practices into one's daily life isn't difficult, Denkin said.
"It's real easy," he said. "… It's just a way of changing habits and practices."
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Manfred wrote:What are the dimensions of the PCB-Board?
This job is difficult and slow,I mean,Really slow.
Manfred wrote:This job is difficult and slow,I mean,Really slow.
I see, it is a tough piece of work, the tracing takes time.
fuzzbunny wrote:Thanks for your hard work!
Do you have any idea which JFETs the original circuit used? Any voltage readings on the original JFETs?
How about D3 & D4 ? What kind of diodes?
Manfred wrote:The FET-Stage circuits of the Baby Pink Booster and Model_H drive are similar to the Baby Blue FET-Stages,
where the 2N5952 FET is applied.
In my opinion R6 should by 22k not 220k as in the schematic shown.
BJFE applies often the 1N400X diodes as clipping diodes.
Manfred wrote:I have done some calculations and found that the value R5 ist to high.
Please check it again, maybe is the value 14.7 Kohms not 47 kohms.
Cool milling, who is the manufacturer of the milling machine?
Have look at this webside, this rectifier diodes look much alike.
momo lab wrote:This job is difficult and slow,I mean,Really slow.
The threshold for this diode is 0.536v and 0.523v,It does not use the OP-amp, but the use of a JFET,Very simple and effective circuit.
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The first course will be focused on sales and the features and benefits of the OzVision suite of products. The second course is a technical course geared towards the installation and technical features of the product and the third course in the series will be an operations course designed around user features, operations and function of the OzVision product.
OzVision has partnered with The CMOOR Group to develop this online training series. CMOOR is widely known throughout the security industry as being the premier custom content and media development solution provider to trade associations, manufacturers, integrators and dealers. Built with the latest technology, these courses are highly interactive and engaging for the students. Each student is provided a certificate of completion at the end of the course and continuing education credits will also awarded to participating students upon successful completion of the training. Each courses is anticipated to be approximately 60 minutes in length.
To pre-order your training, contact The CMOOR Group at 502-254-1590. The course is $50 per student and volume discounts are available.
A top-down estimation of the potential PSIM spending would normally take total security spending and parse it out based on certain assumptions. For example, of the, say, $50bn annual spend on security products and installation services only a portion would be spent in organizations considered candidates for PSIM solutions, like corporate facilities, airports and the like. Further percentages would be peeled away assuming the adoption lifecycle of PSIM-like technologies in those environments (long sales cycles, integrator reluctance, etc).
That sort of estimation could very reasonably find $1bn to $5bn or more of expected spending on PSIM products over the next few years. One magazine published a quote by a vendor claiming $10bn by 2012.
How many of those $1bn+ organizations will spend $100,000 or even a million dollars by 2012? To determine that, we interviewed end user executives in 15 more companies and described scenarios where PSIM solutions could produce value (see Table 1). For example, we described specific uses of technology to handle situations involving three or more data types in corporate, transit and government environments.
For every Global 3000 candidate able to spend $100,000 and more, there will likely be three or four candidates in the much more populous mid-sized corporate or government categories spending $50,000 or more, effectively doubling the total spend of the large organizations.
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- Subject(s):ICT
- Qualification:Cambridge AS and A Level
- Author(s):Paul Long, Sarah Lawrey, Victoria Ellis
- Available from: October 2016
This series is for the Cambridge International AS & A Level IT syllabus (9626) for examination from 2019.
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This coursebook provides a clear and comprehensive guide to assist students as they develop theoretical and practical IT skills. It contains detailed explanations of theoretical and practical concepts and tasks, with worked examples and exercises to consolidate knowledge. Practical tasks are offered throughout the book, with source files on the accompanying CD-ROM, to help students build and develop their practical knowledge.
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Source files for tasks on accompanying CD-ROM to allow students to practice and consolidate skills.
Comprehensive coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of information technology to give clear understanding of concepts and techniques.
Discussion points and practice questions in each chapter to help students test their knowledge.
- 1. Data, information, knowledge and processing
- 2. Hardware and software
- 3. Monitoring and control
- 4. E-safety and health and safety
- 5. The digital divide
- 6. Using networks
- 7. Expert systems
- 8. Spreadsheets
- 9. Database and file concepts
- 10. Sound and video editing
- 11. Emerging technologies
- 12. The role and impact of ICT
- 13. Networks
- 14. Project management
- 15. System life cycle
- 16. Graphics creation
- 17. Animation
- 18. Mail merge
- 19. Programming for the web
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Michael Pollard: Translations 01 (Spectrum Spools, 2012)February 16, 2013 at 7:12 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Ever since Spectrum Spools started releasing records in 2011, I've been pretty obsessive about collecting them. I wasn't too into the Hive Mind LP they released, though, so I held off on a few of their releases last year, but they still released a lot of gems, especially the epic Motion Sickness Of Time Travel 2xLP. I bought this Michael Pollard album sight unseen, and while I don't want to say that there's such thing as a typical Spectrum Spools release, this one definitely isn't the type of instant-gratification synth-bliss you'd get from an Outer Space or Forma album. It's mostly field recordings, and it's mastered by Russell Haswell, who knows a thing or two about recording sounds. Unlike Haswell's recordings (I'm thinking of the Wild Tracks release), some of the recordings on Translations 01 are modified. Or, rather, they take certain sounds as source material and use computers, synths, and technology to create drone pieces. "Material Study 02" uses a cello and a North Face jacket (!) along with Max/MSP and a few synths, and turns out a glowing, minimal drone. Much more hypnotic is "Spacialisation Study 01", which is subtitled "One freeze from seven positions in a house", and poking around online looking for information, it appears that what he's actually recording is the tone that a sleeping computer makes, recorded from different areas in the house, and turning that into a drone, which is why it's so warm and glowing. Not just using computers to make music, but actually making music out of the computer itself. The second spacialisation study uses the previous study as source material, isolating and overlaying clicks, creating a collage of short, muffled, decaying bursts.
Oddly enough, possibly the most soothing recording on the album ends up being the most straightforward and minimal. The last track on the album is a pencil being rubbed on rice paper taped to a wall, recorded by a stereo contact mic. The drawing produced in this recording is the album's cover. Turn the album cover sideways so that the "L" and "R" on the top and bottom of the drawing actually correspond to the left and right sides, and it's like you're listening to the album cover in stereo. Maybe "soothing" isn't the right word, but it definitely has some sort of oddly calming effect, and I think it's such a brief, simple concept and statement that it ends up being very memorable, and that's why it ends the album and why the drawing is the album's cover art.
I didn't mention the first side of the album yet, which is another unprocessed audio recording, namely that of a stereo condenser hydrophone buried under the sand in a lake, while firecrackers are being set off. So basically, an entire album side of muffled rustling and crackling sounds. I'm still trying to decide if this is something I actually enjoy and would want to listen to, or if it just sounds like a cool concept. The second side has a bit more variation, so it's easier to appreciate. Of course, the back cover states that this record is "intended for playback in a room via loudspeakers", and of course I mainly just listen to records at home on my small computer speakers as to not piss off my neighbors. So maybe something's missing if I'm not blasting these recordings on huge speakers, and really getting inside the sounds so that they're larger than life.
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