Fid

A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanship. A fid differs from a marlinspike in material and purpose. A marlinespike is used in working with wire rope, may be used to open shackles, and is made of metal. A fid is used to hold open knots and holes in canvas, and to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of the fid, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding. It adds a jamming cleat to pull a cord back through the cord split by the fid's point.

Modern fids are typically made of aluminum, steel, or plastic. In addition to holding rope open to assist the creation of a rope splice, modern push fids have markings for precise measurements in a variety of sizes of rope. The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A half-inch diameter rope would have any accompanying fid 10.5-11" in length with hash-marks denoting the long and short fid measurements. A short fid is 13 a fid length and a long fid is 23 the overall fid length.

Vnmr

vnmr is software for controlling nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers. It is produced by Varian, Inc.

The software runs on SPARC machines with Solaris. It is composed of a command line interpreter window, an output window, and a status window.

The successor of vnmr is called vnmrJ.

Buttons

There are a number of buttons to perform specific tasks.

  • Acqi gives access to other menus :
    • insertion of the sample in the NMR machine
    • setting up of the lock
    • setting up of the shims
  • insertion of the sample in the NMR machine
  • setting up of the lock
  • setting up of the shims
  • Command line interpreter

    Main commands:

  • jexp1 : join experiment 1
  • go : start an acquisition
  • wft : Weighted Fourier Transform
  • svf : save file, saved files get a ".fid" extension
  • lf : list files
  • movetof : move time offset
  • pwd : show current directory
  • res : give resolution values of a peak
  • abc : automatic baseline correction
  • Beginning with "d" are a number of commands for displaying things:

  • dscale : display scale bar
  • dg: display parameters
  • FID

    A fid is a hollow spike for use in splicing.

    FID can mean:

  • International Federation for Information and Documentation
  • Financial Institutions Duty, an Australian tax
  • Flame ionization detector, an instrument for analysing gas composition
  • Free induction decay of excited atomic nuclei
  • .fid, an extension for a file acquired on vnmr nuclear magnetic resonance software
  • Free indirect discourse or free indirect speech
  • Foreign internal defense
  • F.I.D., a double CD album set by Japanese noise musician Masami Akita
  • Stop the Decline (Fermare il Declino), an Italian political party
  • Flight initiation distance, the distance at which escape response is engaged
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Ain't Livin' Long Like This

    by: Foghat

    R. Crowell - Jolly Cheeks Music - BMI
    I looked for trouble and I found it son,
    Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun.
    I'd try to run but I don't think I can,
    You make one move and you're a dead man, friend.
    Ain't livin' long like this,
    Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
    He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back,
    Then left me freezin' on a steel rail rack.
    Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby,
    Ain't livin' long like this.
    Grew up in Houston on the wayside drive,
    Son of a car hop in some all nite dive.
    Dad drove a stock car to an early death,
    All I remember was a drunk man's breathe.
    Ain't livin' long like this,
    Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
    We know the story how the wheel goes 'round,
    Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown,
    They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby.
    Ain't livin' long like this,
    Can't live at all like this, can I baby? Ah take it!
    {Erik - Solo}
    I live for Angel, she's a road house queen,
    Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee.
    I want to love her but I don't know how,
    I'm at the bottom of a jailhouse now.
    Ain't livin' long like this,
    Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
    You know the story 'bout the jailhouse rock,
    Go on and do it, but just don't get caught.
    They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby.
    Oh, ain't livin' long like this.
    Oh no!




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    Public Technologies 31 Mar 2025
    + NMG entering its project financing stage in preparation for FID, having received approximately $1.6 billion in expressions of interest from potential lenders, Anchor Customers and institutional equity investors ... Roadmap to FID.
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    Energy Voice 27 Mar 2025
    The developers of Norway’s Northern Lights carbon transport and storage project have taken a final investment decision (FID) on phase two of the development ....
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    Offshore Technology 24 Mar 2025
    Shell Brasil, a subsidiary of Shell, has reached a final investment decision (FID) on the Gato do Mato project, a deep-water development in Brazil’s pre-salt Santos Basin ... Situated in the Santos Basin, the project spans two blocks ... Sign up. .
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