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PastorKevin
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Welcome! This is the new discussion forum for CtK. This part is focussed on youth and parents that are working toward the national youth gathering in San Antonio in July 2006. Please say hello when you join. We ask that you observe the 8th commandment. PK |
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Janice Maxey
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Yea mark your calendars for May 18th,19th and 20th for the rummage sale. It will be great. |
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maomaochong
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A team of researchers from institutions in Germany, India, and Japan discovered this surprising result while observing the ant species Leptogenys processionalis travel down linear trails. Like many other ant species, these ants form trails with their pheromones that remain stable for hours or even days, making the trails analogous to vehicular highways. “Our study clearly demonstrates that ant traffic is very different from vehicular traffic, in spite of superficial similarities,” Andreas Schadschneider, of the University of K?ln and the University of Bonn in Germany, told PhysOrg.com. “It also raises a fundamental question: how do the ants achieve practically ‘free-flow’ up to such high densities; our experiment demonstrates what happens and we also make a theoretical model of what might be responsible for this behavior.” Most significantly, the scientists found that, unlike vehicular traffic, the average velocity of ant traffic remains the same in spite of increasing density. Consequently, the greater the density, the greater the flux, so that more ants travel down the trail segment in a given amount of time. In contrast, vehicles on a highway tend to slow down when the traffic density increases, eventually resulting in a traffic jam. Along the same lines, the researchers noted that most types of high-density traffic exhibit mutual blocking, in which a vehicle is prevented from moving by neighboring vehicles and also contributes to the blocking of those vehicles. However, the researchers did not observe mutual blocking in the ant trails. wow gold As the researchers suggested, perhaps evolution has optimized ant traffic flow, since ants are known to have highly developed social behaviors. In their study, the scientists observed that ants tend to form platoons in which they move at almost identical velocities, allowing them to travel “bumper-to-bumper” while maintaining their velocity. At higher densities, platoons merge to form longer platoons. But because their head-distance remains the same, traffic still maintains its same velocity even as density increases. This behavior is very different from highway traffic, in which vehicles close together tend to slow down. |
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daifan1r
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I want you to know one thing 希望你知道 If I look at the crystal moon 当我凭窗凝望 at the red branch 姗姗而来的秋日 of the slow autumn at my window 红枝上的明月 If I touch near the fire 当我轻触火堆旁 the impalpable ash, 似有似无的尘烬 Everything carries me to you 我的心儿就会飞向你 As if everything that exists 似乎一切都有了 Aromas, light, medals, 芬芳,光明和荣誉 Or little boats that sail toward 就像小舟荡向岛屿 Well now. If little by little 然而,假若 You stop loving me, 你对我的爱情淡去 I shall stop loving you 我的爱火也会 Little by little. 渐渐熄灭. Do not look for me 别来找我, For I shall already have forgotten you. 因为我早已把你忘怀. If you think it long and mad 我生命中 the wind of banners 过往的猎猎疾风 that passes through my life, 如果你嫌弃它过于悠长,疯狂 at the shore of the heart where I have roots, 在我爱情所深埋的心之岸 Remember, that on that day, at that hour, 记住, 彼时彼刻, I shall lift my arms 我将举起双臂 And my roots will set off 摇断爱的根脉, to seek another land. 憩于他方. But, if each day, each hour, 但是, 如果每时每刻 with implacable sweetness, 能共享奇妙的甜蜜 If each day a flower climbs 如果你迎向我的红唇 up to your lips to seek me, 每天绽若鲜花 Ah my love, ah my own, 啊,我的爱人, 我心里 In me nothing is extinguished or forgotten 永不会消失, 永不被忘记 My love feeds on your love, beloved, 我情因你爱而生, 爱人啊 And as long as you live 情长今生, it will be in your arms without leaving mine. 不离你我臂弯 |
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angel3327279
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A team of researchers from institutions in Germany, India, and Japan discovered this surprising result while observing the ant species Leptogenys processionalis travel down linear trails. Like many other ant species, these ants form trails with their pheromones that remain stable for hours or even days, making the trails analogous to vehicular highways.
“Our study clearly demonstrates that ant traffic is very different from vehicular traffic, in spite of superficial similarities,” Andreas Schadschneider, of the University of K?ln and the University of Bonn in Germany, told PhysOrg.com. “It also raises a fundamental question: how do the ants achieve practically ‘free-flow’ up to such high densities; our experiment demonstrates what happens and we also make a theoretical model of what might be responsible for this behavior.”chanel bags To observe the ants in their natural setting, the researchers set up video cameras at sections of 10 different one-way trails that had no intersections or routes that branched off. Surprisingly, the scientists never observed individual ants speeding up to overtake another ant in front; the ants followed each other in single file. This behavior, of course, contrasts with vehicular highway traffic, as well as most other known traffic forms.cheap true religion |
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yan9085
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