Loose Parts for Active Play & Learning
Loose Parts For Active Play and Learning - Sharron Krull
Benefits of Loose Parts:
 - Helps children actively construct knowledge from their own experiences.
 - Encourages interaction among children and cooperative play
 - Increases risk-taking, conflict resolution, and communication
 - Deepens critical thinking and problem solving
 - Promotes divergent and creative thinking
 - More symbolic and imaginative play
 - Supports gross and fine motor skills
 - Developmentally inclusive
Loose parts are all about active play and learning!
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Colored Cones Set of 10 (SETC)
Pet Pinecones
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Yes, there are such things and the grandchildren loved making and playing with them. Making them is easy…just find a favorite pinecone, a stick, and some string or twine and, last but not least, an able and willing Daddy to make them. I had never heard of such make-believe pets, until Daddy Dave shared a favorite activity invented by his dad…
When I was 10 we were on a family backpacking trip with a group that included two other boys around my age. During the hike out we were constantly throwing pinecones at each other and generally being destructive as boys of that age are wont to do. My Dad talked us into tying pinecones to a piece of string and seeing how long a string we could keep them on while still controlling them. He kept score of who was able to keep their pinecones from hitting the most large rocks in the trail and it kept us under control. All in all it was just a good way to channel our 10 year old boy energy into something other than hurting each other.
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This is how traditions start and this is our second year of making Pet Pinecones…and it won't be our last! Perhaps, you might want to try this with your children or the children in your care. Get outside, explore, create, and let your imaginations run wild!
Twine or string
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 1. Find a favorite stick
 2. Find a large pinecone
 3. Tie the pinecone to the stick with twine or string
 4. Name your pet pinecone– "Piney," "Brownie," "Mr Cone"
 5. Go for a walk or a run with your pet pinecone
 6. Have fun!
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Did you know that the stick was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2008?
Stay tuned…the BEST is yet to come…sharing more stick fun in my next post!
It's Screen-Free Week! Let's Play Outside!
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This Rope's Not Just for Jumping!
The jump rope is one of the most inexpensive and versatile pieces of equipment your child or school can own. The jump rope has been neglected, made available primarily for girls, and has been used for a single purpose: jumping. The rope should be 7-8 feet in length and be flexible and pliable. With a little imagination and creativity, look at the rope and think of all the things you can do with it besides jumping.
Snakes: Two people hold each end of the rope and wiggle it by the feet of the children like it's a snake. The object is that the kids have to jump over the "snake."
Walking the Snake: Place a 16' jump rope on the ground in a zigzag pattern. Invite the children to walk on the rope as if it were a tightrope. This simple activity builds a surprising number of skills! Eye-foot coordination…balance…taking turns…and more.
High Water – Low Water: Two people hold each end of the rope. Children take turns leaping over the rope. Increase the height after everyone has had a turn. Provide a mat for safe landings.
Wind the Clock: One person spins around while holding one end of the rope. The rope is swung around in a circle along the ground. Children jump over the rope as it nears their feet. The children usually chant a nursery rhyme like "Hickory Dickory Dock" or some other rhyme to make it more fun.
Jump the Brook: Two ropes placed on the ground in the shape of a "V" become the "brook." The ropes touch at one end and are angled so that each jump across the brook is longer and becomes a bigger jump.
Rope Obstacle Course: Thread a rope between the slots or notches in the top of two cones for jumping over or crawling under. Make three circles with three ropes. Jump from one circle to the next. Lay a rope in a straight line that is to be followed or straddled. Place two ropes parallel to each other and one foot apart. This can be a path for walking, jogging, jumping or hopping.
All Aboard: Young children don't really have the coordination to jump rope, but they can hang onto the rope with a bunch of their friends and pretend to be a train. Make your very own Wooden Train Whistle and with a "Choo! Choo!" children can move from place to place while having fun!
Make A Shape: Ask children to place their rope on the ground and make a circle. Call out directions for children to, "Jump into the circle. Turn around inside the circle. Jump out of the circle. Walk around the circle. Put your foot in the circle. Put your whole body over the circle." After children know the game, move on to other shapes such as a triangle or square.
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An Egg-cellent Game!
I must share with you a new "find" that I just LOVE! It encourages movement and provides a multitude of other benefits too — balance, coordination, cooperation, and fine motor skills. The item, Egg and Spoon Race (AP25028J) gives a new twist to the old classic Egg and Spoon Pass. This new version is definitely appropriate for the toddler and preschoolers but school-agers love it too. Parents and teachers will also "crack-up" when they see what happens when the egg drops from the spoon. Instead of chocolate bunnies and Easter candy, I'm planning on adding Egg and Spoon Race to all five of my grandchildren's baskets! What fun we'll have as we play the following game.
Egg and Spoon Race
Egg and Spoon Race (4 plastic spoons, 4 egg bean bags, 4 re-breakable eggshells) – AP25028J
Colored Cones – SETC
Hop Around StepsHOPPA
Available indoor or outdoor space
Set Up:
1. Place cones 10-20 feet across from each other to designate "start" and "finish" lines.
2. Place Hop Around Steps two feet apart from each other between the start and finish lines.
Let's Get Started:1. Divide the children into four groups (teams or squads) of equal numbers. Children in each team stand in a straight line or row, one person behind the other.
2. Provide the first child on each team with a spoon and egg.
3. The first child places the egg in the bowl of the spoon.
4. On the command, "Ready, Set, GO!" the race begins as the child walks in and around the Hop Around Steps to the "finish" cone on the opposite side, circles around it, and walks back to his team.
5. He gives the egg and spoon to the second member of his team who then walks holding the egg and spoon and weaving in and out of the Hop Around Steps and back to the start where he passes the egg to next member on his team.
6. The game is over when every child has had a turn carrying the egg in the spoon and the child who started the relay returns to the head of the line.
7. If the egg drops


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The Muppets' entertaining and hilarious skits have helped children (and adults) for over 30 years learn about culture, science, art, history, music, life and many other things — but today the Muppets are going to teach us grammar! (Because who doesn't love the Muppets?!)
In particular, Kermit and crew will be used in examples to explain when to use who, that or which.
Here are the three main rules to determine when you should use who, that or which:
Rule 1: Who always refers to people (or Muppet characters), while that and which refer to groups or things.
- Kermit is the cautious frog who loves Miss Piggy. (No, wait — Miss Piggy is the sassy swine who loves Kermit.)
- Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem is the band that plays rock music on the show.
- Jim Henson created "The Muppet Show," which premiered in 1976.
Rule 2: Use that in essential clauses and which in nonessential clauses.
- I love Muppet movies that include Fozzie Bear (wocka wocka wocka!)
- "The Muppets Take Manhattan," which included Fozzie Bear, was the best.
- Fozzie Bear wears a hat, which is brown.
Essential clauses are never surrounded by commas, but non-essential clauses are usually surrounded by commas or preceded by a comma.
Another way to tell if a clause is essential or non-essential is to remove it and see if the meaning of the sentence has changed significantly. Here are the same examples with the clause removed:
- I love Muppet movies. (different, essential)
- "The Muppets Take Manhattan" was the best. (same, non-essential)
- Fozzie Bear wears a hat. (same, non-essential)
Rule 3: If this, that, these or those is already introducing an essential clause, start the next clause with which, regardless of whether it is essential or not
- That is an experiment which only Dr. Bunsen Honeydew can handle.
- Those daredevil performances, which always made me afraid for Gonzo, were still very artistic.
Or you can just drop the which entirely to make it sound more concise:
- That is a drumline which only Animal knows.
- That is a drumline only Animal knows.
Written by Grace Lavigne, senior editor of ProfNet, a service that helps journalists connect with expert sources. Grammar Hammer is published weekly on ProfNet Connect, a free social networking site for communicators. To read more from Grace, check out her blog on ProfNet Connect.

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Bar Code Scanning in ColorDesigner Plus
ColorDesigner PLUS can use bar codes in the following ways:
 1. Send UPC/EAN code of the paint base to dispenser software, to be scanned there.
 2. Scan UPC/EAN code of the paint base in ColorDesigner PLUS before dispensing.
 3. Scan the bar code on a paint chip to look up the color (instead of typing the color name or color number).
UPC/EAN code handling verifies that the operator has the correct paint base and can size, so it eliminates one cause of mistints. To support UPC/EAN code handling (either of the first two features), the paint line database (Electronic Formula Book or Color Matching Database) must contain the UPC/EAN code for each base-can size combination.
To access a document (PDF) that includes the required Settings in ColorDesigner PLUS as well as configuring a Symbol LS4208 Scanner, click HERE


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Thousands Count Endangered Bird in India
BOMBAY, India Carrying binoculars and notebooks, thousands of nature lovers and conservationists scoured semiarid grasslands of western India Sunday to count a bird considered on the brink of extinction.
The Great Indian Bustard is long-legged with a black crown on its forehead and stands up to 3 1/2 feet tall. It breeds in grassy plains in western India and its dwindling numbers are the first warning that the grasslands are deteriorating.
"Never before has a census been done on such a scale," said conservationist D.R. Panihar about the launch of the first in a series of efforts to protect the bird. "The situation is so alarming that if effective conservation steps are not taken the Great Indian Bustard will be extinct soon."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said last year the bird was perhaps the most endangered member of the 22-species bustard family worldwide, and could be extinct within a decade.
India ranks third after Indonesia and the Philippines among Asian countries with the most threatened species of birds. Hunting and livestock grazing are the main reasons for halving the population of the bird in India in the past six years.
Already, the bird has almost entirely disappeared from Pakistan, according to the IUCN.
The conservation group appealed to India and Pakistan to curtail overgrazing of grasslands and stop poaching to protect the estimated 500 individuals remaining in the species.
"The figures are a cause for concern and have alerted foresters and nature lovers," Panihar said. After the census, efforts would begin to identify and preserve grasslands for the bustard, he said.
Director of the Bombay Natural History Society Asad Rahmani said the monsoon season was the best time to conduct the census since the bustards gather at breeding areas.
"Like the tiger is the spirit of the Indian forest, the Great Indian Bustard is a symbol of the grasslands," said Rahmani. "It's a flagship species and must be preserved."
Source: Associated Press


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Nanoporous monoliths fabricated at various length scales (a) microscale pillar; (b) mm-scale cone; (c) inch-scale hand cast.
A key issue with a majority of the current technologies for creating porous monoliths is that they require high temperature treatments or incur significant materials shrinkage. For many applications, shape is critical and low-temperature substrates or environments are necessary.
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new method to synthesize porous resin-particle nanocomposite monoliths. This invention differs from existing mechanisms in that (1) the porogen is separate from the crosslinking phase during the whole reaction and (2) the crosslinking phase possesses a large fraction of nanoparticle fillers. Using commercially available ingredients, the formulated high-viscosity resin can be molded into macro-to-micro shapes and can be cured into a nanoporous material with minimal volume change. Further, the surface chemistry of the final monolith is determined by the nanoparticle component.
- Room temperature processing
- Low shrinkage
- Ideal forming viscosity
- High porosity
- Chemical tunability
- Water purification
- Aerospace propulsion
- Medical prosthesis
Intellectual Property & Development Status: Patent pending. Available for licensing and/or research collaboration

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Three recently decided cases discuss the retroactive application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 to pre-1952 claims—Carl Marks & Co. v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Jackson v. People's Republic of China, and Slade v. United States of Mexico. These cases have conclusively established that the FSIA is not to be applied retroactively to pre-1952 events—i.e., to claims arising prior to the issuance of the Tate Letter. They do not resolve the issue of retroactive application of the FSIA to post-1952 events, however, and this issue is currently engulfed in confusion. This Comment attempts to resolve this confusion and propose a solution to the retroactivity problem. Section II delineates the retroactivity issue, while Section III discusses the history of sovereign immunity and describes the FSIA in detail. Section IV outlines the sources of confusion in the area of FSIA retroactivity and identifies four basic principles which may be applied to circumvent the confusion. Finally, Section V proposes a retroactivity solution arrived at through the application of these principles.
Michael E. Jansen,
FSIA Retroactivity Subsequent to the Issuance of the Tate Letter: A Proposed
Solution to the Confusion,
Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus.


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"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
In "Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin selection theory, a theory about the evolution of social behaviors. As part of Hölldobler's and Wilson's 1990 book titled The Ants, Hölldobler and Wilson compared predictions about the reproductive practices of ants to data about the reproductive practices of ants. They showed that the data generally supported the expected behaviors proposed by kin selection theory.


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Optimising ECOC matrices in multi-class classification problems
Merdivan, Erinç (2013) Optimising ECOC matrices in multi-class classification problems. [Thesis]
Error Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) is a multi-class classiffication technique in which multiple binary classiffiers are trained according to a preset code matrix, such that each one learns a separate dichotomy of the classes. While ECOC is one of the best solutions to multi-class problems, it is suboptimal since the code matrix and the base classiffiers are not learned simultaneously. In this thesis, we present three different algorithms that iteratively updates the ECOC code matrix to improve the performance of the ensemble by reducing the decoupling. Firstly, we applied the previously developed FlipECOC+ update algorithm. Second method is applying simulated annealing method on updating ECOC matrix by flipping proposed entries according to ascending order. Last method is applying beam search to find updated ECOC matrix which has highest validation accuracy. We applied all three algorithms on UCI (University of California Irvine) data sets. Beam search algorithm gives the best result on UCI data sets. All of the proposed update algorithms does not involve further training of the classiffiers and can be applied to any ECOC ensemble.
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special. In the first byte, the number of 1s in the header indicate the total number of bytes in the sequence.
 5. The second, third, and fourth byte (if any) always begins with the header 10.
 6. All remaining bits within the byte are usable for encoding the code point value in binary.
 7. When decoding a UTF-8 encoded set of bytes, all of the headers are chopped off and the resulting binary digits are concatenated together to form one binary number. That number represents the code point.
Byte Structure Number of Usable bits Highest Code Point Value
#1 0xxxxxxx 7 128
#2 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 5 + 6 = 11 2,048
#3 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 4 + 6 + 6 = 16 65,536
#4 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 3 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 21 2,097,152
Just to drive the point home in the above table, the first row #1 has zero 1s in its header, meaning that this is a standalone byte. Using this header, you can reach any of the 0-127 code points originally defined in ASCII. The third row #3 has three 1s before the first 0. After coming across these header bits, Unicode text parsers will be able to expect three total bytes to represent some code point.
Let's use a real example and encode the grapheme by hand. Let's say we want to encode the 🔥 fire emoji using UTF-8. What would its bytes look like?
First, we determine what the code point is for the fire emoji. Using a Unicode table, we find that it is U+1F525, which in decimal is 128,293. Using the byte structure table above, we can see that we're going to need all 4 bytes to encode it. 3 Bytes wouldn't nearly be enough to count up to 128,293.
The binary representation of 128,293 is 11111010100100101. All we have to do is just left pad this number with 0s until we have 21 bits, and then interpolate the bits into the 21 x's in the byte structure shown on the fourth row. Copied below is the result byte structure.
_PHONE_ _PHONE_ _PHONE_ _PHONE_ # this is what the fire emoji looks like!
_____000 __011111 __010100 __100101 # with the header bits hidden
The second row above with the header bits replaced with underscores illustrates what the computer does when it decodes the bytes back into binary to identify what code point it refers to. After chopping off the header bits, the remaining bits are concatenated together, which reforms the binary representation of 128,293.
Computers are extremely fast at this. Just think of every text message you send containing emoji. Whether it's your phone, your tablet, or your computer, it's able to quickly figure out its code point, its grapheme, and finally the glyph.
And that is 👏 👏 🔥 👌 pretty cool to me.


What is a burner?
The burner, which has an necessary place in power effectivity, is a mechanism that ensures full combustion of the gasoline as a results of the right mixing of the gasoline used within the boilers and the air.
The gasoline coming to the burner reacts with oxygen and the warmth generated as a results of this response is used to warmth the water within the boilers. Subsequently, this half is crucial for boilers.
The burner has a crucial place in managed burning and free burning conditions. Because of the burner, the gasoline comes into contact with the air in a managed method and thus the fuels are absolutely burned.
What is a burner #1
The burners, that are based mostly on the combustion course of, management the gasoline and transmit the warmth homogeneously to the proper channel with the combustion chamber. The warmth power generated after the combustion course of within the combustion chamber is transmitted to the part that wants power via the combustion chamber.
Electrical power is provided to the burner motor for the fan that provides the combustion air to the burner. In liquid gasoline burners, the ability from the engine is used within the transmission of the liquid.
Electrical power is taken from the high-voltage transformer so as to create the spark that may come out of the primary ignition within the combustion chamber. The gasoline conveyed to the ignition head and the air conveyed to the combustion head with the assistance of the fan within the physique of the burner are blended homogeneously with the assistance of a particular turbulence mechanism and combustion takes place.
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The sustainable food agenda has always been important at Oxford Brookes. We recognise the importance of providing healthy food. As well as the environmental, economic and social impacts surrounding food systems.
Gather & Gather, our catering partners, were awarded 3 stars in the Sustainable Restaurant Association 'Food Made Good' program for their commitments to sustainability.
Key contract drivers are to promote healthy and sustainable food options at Brookes. This includes:
- actively sourcing locally grown produce
- promoting seasonal foods
- maintaining sustainable food and animal welfare accreditations such as Fairtrade
- reducing waste across the offering
- delivering greenhouse gas emission reductions.
We are proud to be a Fairtrade University. This enables us to make a positive contribution to developing countries by:
- offering better prices
- providing decent working conditions
- providing local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers.
We also work closely with 'Good Food Oxford' and are signatories to the 'Good Food Oxford Pledge'. We aim to catalyse actions by individuals and organisations that promote a healthy, fair, ethical and environmentally sustainable food system in and around Oxford. And we encourage our community to get involved in local projects.
In line with the latest research we are moving away from a vegan framing approach. This means that Instead of a separate vegan catering outlet, we will embed vegan and vegetarian offerings across all our menus.


Oregon State University (OSU) has developed an ocean loading and self-attraction file from TPXO9v2a for the following constituents: M2, S2, N2, K2, K1, O1, P1, Q1, Mm, Mf, M4, Mn4, Ms4, 2N2, S1. The file is in OTIS binary format and can be accessed through the scripts provided in the OTPS package, the TMD toolbox, or the pyTMD Python package. The load model is included in the OTPS software package, available at _URL_
Direction for using the load tide to make tide predictions with the TMD toolbox v2.5
 1. Download the OTPS software package, available at _URL_
The load tide model (load_file), located in the /DATA directory of the OTPS package
 1. Download the TPX09.v2a global model from _URL_ and unpack into a directory.
This model provides the grid file and u file which are needed to create a "Model_file" which is currently required by version 2.5 of the TMD toolbox.
You must register, following instructions on the _URL_ page, to download the TPXO global tide models.
 1. Create a directory on your computer called tpxo9v2a_load
 1. Copy the load_file from the OTPS package to the tpxo9v2a_load directory and rename it to h_load_file
 1. In the tpxo9v2a_load directory, create an ASCII "Model_file" named Model_tpxo9v2a_load. This file should contain the following lines of text, in the following order:
where "path" is the location of the TPX09.v2a global model you downloaded in step 2. Or, if you prefer, you can also add the path to your matlab script.
 1. You can then use tmd_tide_predict to predict the self-attraction and loading component of the tide for your location of interest. This can then be added to your tide prediction. Below is an example of a call to tmd_tide_predict:
addpath D:\Projects\Tide_Models\tpxo9v2a_load
addpath D:\Projects\Tide_Models\tpxo9v2a\DATA
Additional comments: This process will be simplified in the next release of the TMD toolbox: TMD3.0


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Tarantulas - the truth behind their evil image
Tarantulas are the movie stars of the spider world. They are cast in films when things hairy, scary and deadly are needed. But despite their appearance and reputation, bites from these spiders usually cause little harm.
So how did they get such a bad reputation?
The Tarantula story starts way back.
In 1370, in a small town called Taranto in southern Italy a strange and mysterious epidemic broke out for which the only cure seemed to be wild dancing and music. Occurring every summer for three hundred years, this disease was thought to be caused by the bite of a large, hairy Wolf Spider (Lycosa tarantula), which became known as a Tarantula.
In the 1600s, people discovered that these spiders were virtually harmless. Many then concluded that the whole phenomenon of Tarantism was simply an excuse far a wild party. However, it is now suspected that a spider was involved and the real culprit was a European relative of the Redback or Widow Spider.
As Europeans colonised the world, they saw even bigger and hairier spiders, and called them Tarantulas too. As a result, many large and hairy spiders are now commonly, but incorrectly, called Tarantulas. The only true Tarantulas are the large spiders of the family Theraphosidae. Some examples of spiders from this family include:
- Brazilian Salmon Tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana)
- King Baboon Spider (Citharischius crawshayi)
- Goliath Birdeater Tarantula (Theraphosa blondi)
- Pinktoe Tarantula (Avicularia avicularia)
- Mexican Redknee Tarantula (Euathlus (Brachypelma) smithi)
- Whistling Spider (Selenocosmia crassipes)
More about true tarantulas
Brazilian Salmon Tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana)
- Where they live: wandering around and in burrows on the ground in the tropical rainforests of Brazil
- Favourite foods: insects and frogs
- Special features: one of the largest Tarantulas known
- Temperament: aggressive; will bite and throw off barbed hairs from their abdomen when annoyed.
King Baboon Spider (Citharischius crawshayi)
- Where they live: in burrows arround the roots of Acacia trees in the scrubby grasslands of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
- Favourite foods: insects and small vertebrates like lizards
- Special features: large with thick legs; may use their strong back legs for digging.
- Temperament: aggressive; defend themselves by making a hissing sound and by biting.
Goliath Birdeater Tarantula (Theraphosa blondi)
- Where they live: in burrows in the rainforests of north-eastern South America, one of the wettest places in the world
- Favourite foods: small vertebrates like frogs and mice, as well as insects. Despite their name, they are not known to eat birds.
- Special features: the largest spiders in the world
- Temperament: aggressive; throw off barbed hairs and make a hissing noise when annoyed.
Pinktoe Tarantula (Avicularia avicularia)
- Where they live: on trees and shrubs in rainforests and roof eaves of houses in South America
- Favourite foods: mostly insects
- Special features: very hairy and fuzzy looking with pink-orange toes
- Temperament: quiet and fairly tolerant; will live in groups if there is enough space.
Mexican Redknee Tarantula (Euathlus (Brachypelma) smithi)
- Where they live: in burrows and under rocks in the dry Pacific coastal region of Mexico
- Favourite foods: large insects
- Special features: colourful, live for more than 20 years and are easy to keep, so they are popular as pets and movie stars.
- Temperament:very docile spiders but throw off barbed hairs from the abdomen when annoyed
- Over-collecting has endangered these spiders. Their collection and trade is now regulated under international agreements.
Whistling Spider (Selenocosmia crassipes)
- Where they live: in burrows in a variety of habitats in tropical north-eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea
- Favourite foods: mostly insects and small vertebrates like frogs
- Special features: like all of Australia's Tarantulas, they rub their mouthparts together to make a hissing or 'whistling' noise.
- Temperament: quite aggressive; defend themselves by making a hissing noise and by biting. Although bites are rare, effects of the venom on humans may be quite severe.
Ondine Evans, Web Researcher/Editor


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What is it?
Airborne captures a snapshot of current youth circus activity and provision and makes recommendations to support the development and co-ordination of Youth Circus in the UK and its relationship to the YPPT project aims and objectives.
It provides a focused study of current activity within Youth Circus itself, and through consultation with practitioners, aims to identify its particular development needs.
Who commissioned it?
Airborne was commissioned by Arts Council England to inform the development of the YPPT project and to inform the youth circus sector on required action.
The research was undertaken within the context of the Circus healthcheck and following the publication of Paving the way, a comprehensive mapping of young people's participatory theatre, which identified a significant contribution from youth circus to the national youth theatre picture.
Who wrote it?
It was produced by independent arts consultant Leila Jancovich, 2007, who conducted research through:
- development of a database of 264 existing youth circus providers
- market research through questionnaires completed by 83 groups
- consultation via three regional meetings attracting approximately 30 people


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- Define the role of pharmacist-led quality improvement work promoting interprofessional collaboration in optimizing health outcomes.
- Discuss the use of population health management strategies to improve targeted clinical outcomes and prove value of the pharmacist in the primary care setting
- Reflect on pharmaceutical practice leadership stories to promote improved medication use at various clinical sites
Learn more about factors that increase an individuals' risk of opioid overdose, identify signs and symptoms of opioid overdose, and understand the pros and cons of different naloxone formulations.
Courtney Murphy-Bakken, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist in Population Health at St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth
- Review Chronic Care Management programming and pharmacist interventions for enrolled patients
- Describe new roles for pharmacists to improve patient care in transition from the inpatient to outpatient setting
- Understand how this pharmacist work fits within population health
Recorded October 2019
Kristine Parbuoni, PharmD, BCPPS, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and Director of OSCE Programs, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
- Describe the current use of simulation-based training in the curriculum at a school of pharmacy.
- Explain the purpose of debriefing after a simulation-based encounter.
- Apply the advocacy inquiry questioning technique to debrief a student after a simulation-based encounter.
Recorded Monday, November 11, 2019


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Collaborative projects to advance understanding of biodiversity in Latin America
Dr David Galbraith, Associate Professor of Earth Dynamics in the School of Geography, will lead new cross –continent research on the human impact on biodiversity in Latin America.
The research project, titled 'ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience' is one of four Newton Fund projects under their Latin America Biodiversity Programme. It will provide a continent-wide assessment of how humans are influencing Latin America's diverse forest ecosystems, from tropical rainforests in Amazonia to the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina.
These forests are under a wide range of local pressures, including mining, selective logging, and conversion to farmland, whilst also experiencing stressors due to climate change. The project will examine how forest plants respond to these combined pressures and how the composition of plant species in Latin American forests is likely to shift over time, informing management strategies across the region.
South America boasts an incredible diversity of forest ecosystems which include not only the Amazon rainforest but also Atlantic forests, Andean cloud forests and temperate forests in Chile and Argentina.
Global collaborative working
Dr David Galbraith said: "South America boasts an incredible diversity of forest ecosystems which include not only the Amazon rainforest but also Atlantic forests, Andean cloud forests and temperate forests in Chile and Argentina. What is really exciting about ARBOLES is that it brings together researchers and datasets from across all of these ecosystems to better understand changes in forest biodiversity at a continental scale."
NERC-funded researchers have begun a series of collaborative projects with partners in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to advance understanding of the social and economic role of biodiversity in Latin America, and how it can be managed more sustainably.
The four projects will look at management of fisheries, pollination, forests and invasive species regionally and across Latin America, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. The projects will build understanding of how biodiversity enables ecosystems to deliver vital services to people, such as clean water, food and natural resources. This understanding will inform schemes to enable sustainable economic growth across the region. The first phase, led by the British Council, established relationships between participating countries and identified shared areas of concern. The current phase is led by NERC and invited researchers to submit research proposals involving UK researchers and partners from at least two of the other participating countries.
NERC is running the programme in partnership with four other funders: the Argentine National Scientific & Technical Research Council (CONICET), the Brazilian São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the Chilean National Commission for Scientific & Technological Research (CONICYT), and the Peruvian National Council for Science, Technology & Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC). NERC and its partners are investing over £5 million in the programme. The four projects were awarded funding following a joint evaluation by the funding agencies.
NERC Associate Director of Research Ned Garnett said: "We are pleased to support such an ambitious collaborative project. LATAM transcends national boundaries to build collaborations and develop robust evidence bases to ensure that Latin America remains a prosperous and uniquely biodiverse region"
In addition to the University of Leeds, the project will be involve partners from countries throughout Latin America, including Sandra Díaz, IMBIV (CONICET – National University of Cordoba) in Argentina; Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de Aragão, National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil; Antonio Lara Aguilar, Universidad Austral de Chile and Eurídice Honorio Coronado, Instituto de lnvestigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana (llAP) in Peru.


How sport rights owners can secure their premium content with NexGuard forensic watermarking
Piracy is a common and growing problem for the pay-TV industry, fuelled by the rapid uptake of streaming devices. NAGRA's own research estimates that about 10% of the media industry revenue is lost to piracy. Urgent actions are required to reduce the impact of piracy for video service providers worldwide.
One of the key weapons in a video service providers arsenal is watermarking – and for distribution, network-level watermarking. A key part of any service security strategy, it works alongside other security components such as Anti-Piracy and other advanced security tools which are backed up by comprehensive analytics. Collectively termed by NAGRA Active Streaming Protection, it forms the baseline of a video service providers security strategy with the relevant components being selected depending on the business need.
But let's focus on watermarking, and, as we recently discussed during the 24h of Ateme webinar program, in particular network-level watermarking which is designed to enable content owners and broadcasters to identify the source of live content - such as premium sport - piracy leaks, whether from playout centre, licensee, affiliate or distribution platform.
Why network-level watermarking?
The combination of content scrambling and forensic watermarking are complementary in the fight against piracy, but forensic watermarking is the only technology that can provide key insights on the source of piracy. When combined with Anti-Piracy Services, network-level watermarking allows quick identification of which licensee and territory pirates most often source their content from during live sport events.
Several benefits can then be realised by sport rights owners:
 - Analysis of the licensing income per territory against the piracy risk
 - Review of their content licensing strategy and management of the contract risk
 - Adjustment of their content protection investment, by taking appropriate anti-piracy actions.
This quick identification of the pirate source is only possible due to the capabilities of network-level watermarking:
 - It is imperceptible to the human eye
 - Its robustness against a wide range of attacks seen in the field
 - The capabilities of the Anti-Piracy team to automatically run blind investigations with a very fast turnaround time for the detection results (allowing anti-piracy actions during the live sport events).
NexGuard NetworkID ─ the network-level watermarking technology developed by NAGRA ─ meets all these key characteristics.
NAGRA and Ateme have partnered during the past years to provide sport rights owners with a joint solution, combining NexGuard NetworkID (for network-level watermarking) and BISS-CA (for scrambling satellite contribution and distributions). The strong partnership between NAGRA and Ateme at several levels in the linear distribution workflow provides content owners and their ecosystem with an exhaustive suite of solutions to seamlessly deploy scrambling and watermarking and thus actively fight against piracy.
Control over data
To be truly effective, forensic watermarking needs to form part of a wider anti-piracy strategy. That strategy must incorporate holistic data analysis to identify infringing trends in the stream and enables faster reaction times to stop the pirates in their tracks. In the case of live events, such as soccer, cricket or basketball, having readily accessible insight that is enabled through quality data and analysis is crucial to stemming any piracy quickly.
Combining network-level watermarking and anti-piracy services
Network-level watermarking, such as NAGRA NexGuard Network ID, supplements Anti-Piracy Services, by providing key piracy insights like detailed information on piracy from their licensees or from distribution paths.
This combination allows sport rights owners to focus their anti-piracy efforts where it matters the most, and to better monetise their premium content.
Making the most of your solution
Knowing where your content is pirated from is one thing but having the roadmap in place that enables sport rights owners to take systematic and conclusive action is another. The important first step is developing an end-to-end content value protection strategy using tools from the active streaming protection toolset that can actively withstand the threat. Using a combination of content scrambling, forensic watermarking and anti-piracy services delivers a highly capable solution that can be adjusted according to piracy trends and insights as both a feedback loop to continuously improve the fight against piracy and as a means of scaling the video service business as the content catalogue grows.
Click here to get in touch with our experts and learn more how your business can benefit from network-level watermarking.
Watch our recordings from the webinar with our very own Gabriel Cantin, Product Director and Julien Mandal, Contribution Segment Manager discuss how forensic watermarking can help deter and combat piracy.


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Various types of safety interventions (i.e., design attributes, guarding, personal protective equipment, training, warnings, etc.) can be, and often are, used to enhance safety with products or in environments. However, a safety intervention introduced into a system can, as with other changes to a system, produce secondary effects that have the potential to reduce the safety of the system rather than increase it as intended. One such effect…is that humans may adapt their behavior in the presence of a safety intervention and that this behavioral adaptation can create a continuum of effects ranging from a positive increase in safety to a net decrease in safety. Several examples of behavioral adaptation are provided and implications for human factors and safety professionals are discussed.
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Mediterranean tsunami scare
Scientist warns of dangerous' underwater volcano
At the bottom of the Tyrrenhian sea, off the southern Italian coast of the Campania region, lies Europe's largest undersea volcano, the Marsili volcano. It is active but has not erupted in recorded history.
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, an Italian vulcanologist made international headlines when he spoke of the possibility that the volcano's 'fragile' walls could collapse 'at any time,' causing a tsunami that would hit southern Italy.
'A rupture of the walls would let loose millions of cubic metres of material capable of generating a very powerful wave,' said Enzo Boschi, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. 'Our latest research shows that the volcano is not structurally solid, its walls are fragile, the magma chamber is of sizeable dimensions,' he explained. 'All that tells us that the volcano is active and could begin erupting at any time,' he added.
With no way to predict it, the event would result in 'a strong tsunami that could strike the coasts of Campania, Calabria and Sicily,' he warned. Measuring 70 kilometres by 30 kilometres and standing 3,000 meters high, the Marsili volcano's crater is approximately 450 metres below the surface of the sea, 150 kilometres southwest of Naples.
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The increasing significance of university career development teams is a clear indicator of the evolving role of educational institutions and their increasing obligations towards students. Universities, whose responsibilities, until a few years ago, focused on imparting the prescribed skills to students and granting them credentials upon graduation, are now increasingly being expected to assure and facilitate their students' employment. This expectation has redefined student success, taking it from academic proficiency and accomplishment to employability. And accordingly, the redefinition has prompted universities to pay as much attention to post-graduate career development initiatives as college retention programs. Since a university's ability to ensure its students' career success is increasingly becoming a criterion to determine its standing among other educational institutions, career development teams need to rethink their approach with increased 'mindfulness,' which involves:
- Planning and goal-setting
- Identifying strengths and limitations
- Monitoring changes
- Adapting to the changes
Applied to university career development teams, here's what mindfulness looks like:
Understanding the student's career aspirations
Different students have different sets of goals and career objectives. The definition of career success itself may differ from one student to another. Understanding the students' career ambitions and interests to plan career development initiatives will ensure there is no discrepancy between the university's definition of student success and the student's picture of success. Congruence in this regard is essential because often an educational institution's definition of success is broad and does not consider individual success.
A university's main interest is to have high enrollments, a high year-by-year retention rate, a high graduation rate, and a high employment-upon-graduation rate. Hence, the initiatives undertaken by a university, such as college retention programs and campus engagement initiatives, focus on achieving targets pertaining to the shared metrics, often ignoring the needs of the students. However, such metrics mean little to students, who are much more focused on exploring and finding career paths that are particularly suited to them and in places they desire, and they need assurance that their skills are future-proof. Students also have a number of other individual objectives and motivations, which play a significant role in determining their career preferences. Understanding student preferences and personal career aspirations will enable educators to ensure higher student success.
Understanding the employer's requirements
Being aware of job market trends is a key requirement for career development initiatives, as it helps educators to guide students effectively towards employment. Most career development teams use the feedback received from alumni and employers within their network to gain information that'll help students apply for the 'right' jobs. However, relying on merely a handful of resources is not the ideal way of gathering job market information, as the information may be biased in many ways. Thus, career development teams should turn to job market insights gained from sources with high reliability, such as analytics. Using analytics to gather labor market data for evaluating the demand for different skills will not only help students know where to apply and what to expect from the job market but can also help universities manage and improve their ability to keep up with the changing job market demand by assessing their teaching capabilities.
Assessing the institution's teaching capabilities
Self-awareness is a chief tenet of mindfulness, and career development teams, in addition to being aware of the needs of employers, should also be aware of their institution's ability to meet those needs. Self-awareness, in this case, would involve an assessment of not just the number of teachers and training facilities that are available for different skills taught by the institution, but also the relevance of the curriculum being taught. In fact, educators should begin their planning and budgeting by first assessing the relevance of, and the demand for the skills, that are being taught in their institutions. Identifying the skills that are most in demand and evaluating the institution's ability to teach those skills can lead to effective course planning and improved results, like an increase in the employment-upon-graduation rate. This would require broadening the scope of career development initiatives to encompass all aspects of academic affairs, right from curriculum planning to on-campus placement drives.
As the job market keeps on evolving, it only makes sense for career development teams to constantly stay abreast of the changes in the job market and ensure their students stay employable through those changes. This requires institutions to create an iterative loop of flow of information and action, that will allow institutions to keep up with the demands of the students as well as employers. Educational institutions must gather insights from the job market to identify the demands of employers and use the information to plan curriculum. They can also gather data regarding the life on campus and plan college retention, and other similar programs, to ensure student success. In addition to using insights gathered from students and employers, career development teams should constantly assess the effectiveness of their initiatives in ensuring student engagement, since continuous feedback-based improvement is an essential aspect of mindfulness in thinking.


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Importing Data from FLAT FILE to TABLE using TERADATA SQL ASSISTANT is very simple.It is very easy to import data from any flat file to table in TERADATA using TERADATA SQL Assistant. First, you need to write SQL Query in Query Window. INSERT query should be in accordance with the flat file considering the columns mentioned in FLAT FILE in the same order. So if your flat file contains five columns, mention those five columns in the same order in your INSERT CLAUSE; like
INSERT INTO TABLENAME (COL1,COL2,COL3,COL4,COL5) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?);
Go to FILE –> Import Results. Now when you run the query, it will display the browse window and will ask you to select the file to which you want to use to import data.
Points to consider while importing data from table:
a) Delimiter: Whether you want to import FIXED WIDTH or DELIMITED file. If file is delimited then you need to select the delimiter for the input file. To select the appropriate Delimiter for your output file go to TOOLS–>OPTIONS –> EXPORT/IMPORT –> Set the Delimiter.
b) SKIP HEADER:There are other options available, like Ignore First Record (Skip Header).So check these options also while importing data.
c) Suitable UTILITY:IMPORT via TERADATA SQL Assistant is not preferable if data is too huge in terms of records counts or row length. As it operates at row level, importing huge volume of data may take long time. For such cases, use FASTLOAD or MULTILOAD utility.


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The Australian defense ministry has launched a new project that will explore options for the acquisition of a ground-based space electronic warfare (EW) capability.
Dubbed Project 9358, the endeavor is being launched several months after Australia announced its intention to establish a dedicated space force unit within the Royal Australian Air Force by early 2022. The new space division headquarters would be composed of personnel from all areas within the defense department.
One of the conclusions of Australia's 2020 Defence Strategic Update was that assured access to the space domain was critical to warfighting effectiveness. This is why a space EW capability is now being established to allow the Australian Defence Force to detect and deter attempts to interfere with, or attack, Australia's space assets.
The 2020 Force Structure Plan called for the development of options to enhance ADF space control through capabilities to counter emerging space threats to Australia's free use of the space domain.
The defense ministry noted that space EW is a capability that does not create debris or damage the space environment.
"This capability would help assure Australia's continued access to space-based communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance," the ministry said.
Following its evaluation, the defense ministry plans to provide recommendations for a decision by the government.


A lot have encountered people who seem to be addicted to receiving sympathy - before getting to my question, allow me to clarify, what I am referring to are people for whom, knowingly portray 'everything as a crisis'. I am deliberately putting 'addiction' in quotation marks as I am not sure that it is in fact an addiction.
I used to be this way myself, making even the smallest transgression into a big issue and then using it to get sympathy from others, when I received said sympathy - it felt 'good'. (Nowadays, I just deal with issues myself).
So, my question is, is the sympathy 'addiction' akin to substance addiction or is it a deficit of resilience? or maybe both?
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 $\begingroup$ Are you refering to the psychological concept of resilience as used e.g. in this article? $\endgroup$ Aug 12 '13 at 14:15
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ yes, that is pretty well where I am looking. Great link! $\endgroup$
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 - $\begingroup$ There is a correlation between those who seek sympathy and those with substance abuse issues. I see many examples of it in both my personal and professional life. Drug and alcohol Abuser's all seem to share a common trait, they often or usually also seek sympathy both during relapses and during sobriety. So I would say sympathy and substance addiction go hand in hand. $\endgroup$
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This is a part answer, which only refers to the concept of resilience.
One of the first studies that invesigated resilience was the Kauai-Study, which was a longitudinal study of a cohort in Hawai to investigate the cognitive, social and physical development of children. (Werner and Smith, 1982) Of the children who had to deal with a couple of risk factors from birth on, about a third managed to overcome the obstacles later in life. This led to the formulation of a theoretical concept of resilience, which included vulnerability of the child as a main risk factor and external stress on one side, and social support and ressources within the child on the other side as elements. These elements interact with one another and influence the development of a child. In this sense, resilience was defined as a potential, or maybe kind of like a trait. If there is enough resilience, a "good" development will be possible in spite of a difficult environment. The second thing to notice is that resilience originally was geared towards children.
The concept of resilience has been expanded to adulthood later. Apparently, though, this has led to some problems concerning the definition, since the original conception was explicitly concerned with development in childhood (Luthar and Cicchetti, 2000). The article of Leipold and Greve (2009) integrates different proposals to solve this problem. In their model, resilience, development and coping are linked. Development is seen as coping with all kinds of demands and stressors, and resilience is seen as succesfully doing so. Note that in this definition, resilience is very different from the one that I have given above.
To get to your question: an "addiction to sympathy" might be seen as a lack of resilience, but not in the sense of a trait. It can be seen as the lack of a process as conceptualized by Leipold and Greve (2009). This also leaves open the possibility that the process might "kick in" at a later stage in development, which not only makes sense but is also what you have experienced yourself.
Leipold, B. & Greve, W. (2009). Resilience. A conceptual bridge between coping and development. European Psychologist, 14, 40-50.
Luthar, S. S., & Cicchetti, D. (2000). The construct of resilience: Implications for interventions and social policies. Development and psychopathology, 12(4), 857-885.
Werner, E. E. & Smith, R. S. (1982). Vulnerable but invincible: A study of resilient children New York: McGraw-Hill.
 - $\begingroup$ This is perfect, as it explains my own experience pretty much precisely. Great answer. $\endgroup$
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 Aug 24 '13 at 9:35
1) I don't believe a person can be addicted to gaining sympathy. I believe that a person who is in the habit of manipulating others for sympathy is more a reflection of a deficit within their personality, as opposed to an addiction.
The one exception being within a Histrionic Personality Disorder or the like, where a person becomes addicted to the chemical release in the brain that comes with high stress and drama. I regard the focus here is on create crises as opposed to seeking sympathy.
2) As for a lack of resilience, the character weakness may or may not be linked to a low level of resilience. There are many variables that would need to be examined before passing that judgment.
The seeking of sympathy can be a part of attention seeking behaviours, which in turn can be a part of a personality disorder. It would be fair to say that the complexity of personality disorders, could not be summed up in terms of resilience. Although it can be said, that a person lacking healthy coping skills, may be less resilient.
The American Psychological Association suggests "10 Ways to Build Resilience", which are:
 1. maintaining good relationships with close family members, friends and others;
 3. to accept circumstances that cannot be changed;
 4. to develop realistic goals and move towards them;
 5. to take decisive actions in adverse situations;
 7. developing self-confidence;
 9. to maintain a hopeful outlook, expecting good things and visualizing what is wished;
 10. to take care of one's mind and body, exercising regularly, paying attention to one's own needs and feelings.
The interesting point in this, is that good coping skills are linked with resilience, and asking for help is considered a good coping skill. Which is akin to seeking sympathy, as charity between people is often motivated by sympathetic feeling, whether it was the intention of the sympathised to evoke it or not.
So in summary,
Is the 'addiction' to receiving sympathy similar to substance addiction or just a deficit of resilience?
 1. I would conclude that there can be an addiction to drama, but not sympathy.
 2. A deficit in resilience could lead to sympathy seeking behaviours due to needing extra support.
 3. More likely, a deficit within the personality, that requires attention and is part of a bigger disorder.
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· a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
Synonym(s): offprint, reprint
2. separate - noun
· a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
3. separate - verb
· act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
4. separate - verb
· force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
Synonym(s): disunite, divide, part
Hypernym(s): move, displace
5. separate - verb
· mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Synonym(s): distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart
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· separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
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· divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
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· arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
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Bedford. 1 City (1990 pop. 13,817), seat of Lawrence co., S Ind.; inc. 1889. Bedford limestone, quarried there and shipped all over the world, was used in the construction of the Empire State Building and the Pentagon. The city also has several small industrial plants and a foundry. Carvings and the many old stone buildings and houses are notable. 2 Town (1990 pop. 12,996), Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston; settled c.1637, inc. 1729. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain. 3 City (1990 pop. 14,822), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; settled c.1813 on the site of a Moravian settlement (1786), inc. as a city 1931. Although chiefly residential, it has plants that manufacture office furniture, china, rubber goods, auto parts, processed foods, and tools. 4 City (1990 pop. 43,762), Tarrant co., N Tex., a suburb of Fort Worth; settled c.1843, inc. 1954. Manufactures include plastic molds and telecommunications equipment.
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DoDDS - Europe: 2010 SAT Scores
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The SAT Reasoning Test is a test that measures verbal reasoning, critical reading, math problem solving, and writing skills related to successful performance in college. The current SAT scores reflect recent changes to the SAT which now includes three sections instead of two. The writing section was new in 2006. The SAT Reasoning Test is intended to supplement the secondary school record and other information about the student, in assessing readiness for college-level work.
"The most significant factor in interpreting SAT scores is the proportion of eligible students taking the exam - the participation rate. In general, the higher the percentage of students taking the test, the lower the average scores." College Board Press Release, August 28, 2001.
The SAT results are reported as the mean (average) scores for each section. SAT scores in each section range from 200 (lowest) to 800 (highest).


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More info about the name "Lucetta"
Lucetta is a diminutive of Lucia, or Lucy. Lucy originates in Latin language and means "light of the day". It is ultimately derived from Lucia, the feminine form of Lucius. Lucy has always been one of the most popular feminine given names in the English-speaking countries and in variant spelling all over the world. Saint Lucy, or Lucia, was the 3rd century Christian martyr and patron saint of the blind. More recently, the famous bearer is the American actress Lucy Liu.


Scale Kubernetes Pods
Updated 1 day ago by Michael Cretzman
When you deploy a Kubernetes workload using Harness, you set the number of pods you want in your manifests and in the deployment steps.
With the Scale step, you can scale this number of running pods up or down, by count or percentage.
In this topic:
Before You Begin
Step 1: Add Scale Step
In your Harness Workflow, click Add Step, and select Scale. The Scale settings appear.
Name the step and then provide the scaling strategy, described below.
Step 2: Pick Count or Percentage
The Scale step updates the number of instances running, either by count or percentage.
In Instance Unit Type, select COUNT or PERCENTAGE.
 - COUNT — The number is simply the number of pods.
 - PERCENTAGE — A percentage of the pods defined in your Harness Service Manifests files or a previous Workflow step.
Step 3: Set the Number of Pods
Enter the number of pods to scale up or down compared to the number of instances specified before the Scale step.
The number may come from the Harness Service manifest or a previous Workflow step, whichever set the number of pods right before the Scale step.
For example, in you have replicas: 4 in a manifest in your Service, and you enter 50 PERCENT in Instances, then 2 pods are deployed in this step.
If you have an odd number of instances, such as 3 instances, and then enter 50% in Scale, the number of instances is scaled down to 2.
Step 4: Specify Resources to Scale
Enter the Harness built-in variable ${k8s.canaryWorkload} or the name of the resource in the format [namespace/]Kind/Name, with namespace optional. For example:
You can scale Deployment, DaemonSet, or StatefulSet.
You can only enter one resource in Workload. To scale another resource, add another Scale step.
Here is what a completed step looks like:
Option: Delegate Selector
If your Workflow Infrastructure Definition's Cloud Provider uses a Delegate Selector (supported in Kubernetes Cluster and AWS Cloud Providers), then the Workflow uses the selected Delegate for all of its steps.
In these cases, you shouldn't add a Delegate Selector to any step in the Workflow. The Workflow is already using a Selector via its Infrastructure Definition's Cloud Provider.
If your Workflow Infrastructure Definition's Cloud Provider isn't using a Delegate Selector, and you want this Workflow step to use a specific Delegate, do the following:
In Delegate Selector, select the Selector for the Delegate(s) you want to use. You add Selectors to Delegates to make sure that they're used to execute the command. For more information, see Select Delegates with Selectors.
Harness will use Delegates matching the Selectors you add.
If you use one Selector, Harness will use any Delegate that has that Selector.
If you select two Selectors, a Delegate must have both Selectors to be selected. That Delegate might also have other Selectors, but it must have the two you selected.
You can use expressions for Harness built-in variables or Account Default variables in Delegate Selectors. When the variable expression is resolved at deployment runtime, it must match an existing Delegate Selector.
For example, if you have a Delegate Selector prod and the Workflow is using an Environment also named prod, the Delegate Selector can be ${}. This is very useful when you match Delegate Selectors to Application component names such as Environments, Services, etc. It's also a way to template the Delegate Selector setting.
Option: Skip Steady State Check
If you select this, Harness will not check to see if the workload has reached steady state.
 - You can scale down to 0 to remove all instances.
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Global Consequences: Russia Announces Eurasian Union and New Currency Altyn
The Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have officially announced that the transition of the semi-formal Customs Union into the formal economic Eurasian Union will be expedited and completed by 2015. The Eurasian Union will adopt a new currency: Altyn (Rus: Алтын). Vladimir Putin announced that Altyn as the new Eurasian currency was originally planned for 2025, but now, due to the US/EU sanctions against Russia, the transition to Altyn may occur within 3-5 years.
Altyn has a very ancient and long-ranging history. Altyn means gold. The word is of Turkic origin (not to be confused with Turkish). The Turkic family of languages includes languages spoken by the Siberian peoples, Tatars, Mongols, and of course, Kazakhs.
Altyn was the name of the ancient gold coin once used by Russians extensively for trade with Turkic and Arabic neighbors. Later, in medieval times, altyn, or "altynnik," became one of the regular Russian coins. In 15th century, altyn equalled six Moscow dengi, or 1/200s of a Moscow ruble. It also equaled three Novgorod dengi, or 1/100s of a Novgorod ruble. Denga was also called "kopeika" (kopeika is presently the 1/100s of a ruble). In the ancient times it was also called the arian "kuna."
The old Russian proverb was: "Had nothing, and all of a sudden, altyn." Rus: "Не было ни гроша, да вдруг алтын". This is an equvalent of English: "From rags to riches." In those days kopeikas and altyns were big money. And only the rich owned rubles. Of course, back then all currency was real gold, silver and bronze.
In this regard, the original meaning of Altyn, "gold," is very telling. Through Altyn, Russia/Kazakhstan/Belarus, in short the new Eurasian Union, are sending a signal that they are targeting the gold standard. Along with China also targeting the gold standard through the Yuan, the new Eurasian currency will lead to…
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Do not misled by the name of water chestnut, it is not at all a member of the nut family but is about the size of a walnut. Water chestnuts (荸薺 or 馬蹄 in Chinese) are the knobby root of an aquatic plant that grow in areas also suitable for paddy fields. That is why they are widely found in China and South East Asia, where they are said to be planted between rice crops. Since harvesting of water chestnuts is pretty labor intensive, no doubt they are less common in regions of high costs of living like Japan and Australia though these affluent areas also grow abundant rice.
Nice water chestnuts are firm with no rotten or soft spot. Their skins, often muddy, have to be peeled off before cooking. The flavor of water chestnuts is mild yet a little bit sweet. Even after cooked, they are still crunchy and juicy.
Once peeled, do rinse and clean them thoroughly and cover with cold water or their pale-looking flesh may turn rusty. If chilled in fridge, and water is replaced daily, the peeled water chestnuts can be stored for one to two weeks. Besides they can also be eaten raw alone as snack. If not taken as a snack or cooking ingredient, you may just boil them in water and add in your preferred amount of sugar (we often use rock sugar to go with it) and that will give you a good cup of sweet soup.
Water chestnuts can also be dried and made into powder form and is known as water chestnut flour or starch. The flour (like corn starch) is often used as thickener in Chinese cooking, and sometimes for use in making puddings or steamed cakes.
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What Do Fresh Figs Look Like?
How do you know when fresh figs are bad?
To tell if figs are bad, the best test is the aroma.
An old or overripe fig will have a sour fermented smell.
Placing figs near other fruits and vegetables will cause the others to deteriorate more rapidly because figs, like several other fruits, produce ethylene gas..
Is there a wasp in every fig?
The female wasp crawls inside through a hole so narrow that she loses her wings in the process and becomes trapped. If the fig is a male, she lays her eggs inside. … Luckily for us, the female fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely. The crunchy bits are seeds, not wasp parts.
Should figs be refrigerated?
Ripe fresh figs should be refrigerated. Because they bruise so easily, try putting them on a shallow dish, lined with paper towels. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and the figs will be good for two or three days.
What month do you pick figs?
A. Fresh figs are not tasty until soft and ripe. Therefore, pick them just as the fruit begins to soften. The fig varieties common to Texas usually ripen their fruit during July or August but because of winter freezes, fruit harvest can be delayed until new growth is forced out.
Are figs anti inflammatory?
For such small fruits, figs are an incredible source of fiber and natural sugars. The entire fruit is edible, packed with immune-boosting Vitamins A and C, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. They're also an excellent anti-inflammatory food that aids in digestion, promotes healthy skin, and balances glucose levels.
What is the season for fresh figs?
There are two seasons for domestic fresh figs; the first or "breba" season is the first few weeks in June. The second or "new wood" season typically runs from August through October. The most common variety is the Black Mission fig followed by the Brown Turkey fig and the Green Kadota fig respectivly.
Do FIGS have worms in them?
Figs Have Worms And Dead Wasps Inside Them, And The Reason Why Is Fascinating. … Case in point: figs, which are delicious and a rich source of dietary fiber. Unfortunately, you might not eat them again after watching this!
How long do fresh figs last?
It's important to keep fresh figs cold to slow deterioration. Use them immediately or store in a plastic bag in the coldest part of your refrigerator for up to two days. Fresh figs can be frozen whole, sliced, or peeled in a sealed container for ten to twelve months.
Why do figs fall off before ripe?
Lack of Water Causes Dropping Figs Drought or inconsistent watering is the most common reason that fig fruit falls off the tree. … To correct this, make sure that your fig is receiving enough water. If it's in the ground, the tree should receive at least 2 inches of water a week, either through rainfall or watering.
How do you keep figs from going bad?
Whether you choose to store dried figs in the pantry, fridge or refrigerator, it is best to put them in an airtight container or a tightly sealed plastic bag. Dried figs will last from 6 to 12 months in the pantry. It is important to keep them in a cooler area away from humidity.
What do ripe figs look like?
Fig ripeness cues include sight, touch, and taste. By sight, ripe figs tend to droop while hanging on the tree or bush, have a larger distinguishable size than the immature green fruit, and with the exception of a few varieties have a change in color. By touch, ripe figs should be soft when gently squeezed.
Why are figs not vegan?
These flowers bloom inside the unripe fig-shaped "fruit," which later ripens into the fruit that we enjoy so thoroughly. … Because of their backwards, inside-out nature, figs cannot rely on normal methods, like wind or bees, for pollination.
How many fresh figs should I eat a day?
Consuming at least three figs per day can prove beneficial for weight loss. According to a study conducted on menopausal women, the risk of breast cancer is reduced by 34 percent in women who consume fruits that are high in fiber.
Can fresh figs be frozen?
Figs freeze well with or without sugar, peeled or unpeeled. … Wash ripe figs thoroughly, remove stems, peel if desired, leave whole or cut in half. Freeze with or without sugar syrup. Freeze figs firm-ripe and whole for making preserves later.
What are the side effects of figs?
Figs may cause digestive upset or diarrhea due to their anti-constipation effects. They may also interfere with blood thinners, and some people may be allergic to them.
Are green figs poisonous?
An unripe fig fruit is not only ineffective but it can be toxic and allergic reactions may occur. … Green figs are sweeter than both brown turkey and black mission figs, making them a better choice for desserts and as a dried (candied) fig. Figs are also, of course, great for eating fresh out of hand.
Should you wash fresh figs?
How do you eat a fresh fig?
The best way to enjoy figs is raw, with the skin and seeds intact. You can also remove the peels and scoop out the seeds, if you like, or cook figs by baking, broiling or grilling them. But, the quickest and easiest way to enjoy these gems is by removing the stem and taking a bite right out of the raw fig.
When you eat a fig you eat a wasp?
Figs contain the enzyme ficin that breaks down the female exoskeleton. Well, mostly. When you eat a fig pollinated through mutualism, you are technically eating the wasp, too. But fig wasps are very small, usually only about 1.5 millimeters long.
Can I buy figs at the grocery store?
Dried figs are easy to find year around. You usually find them two ways – packaged up in a ring or available loose in a bulk bin. Stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are great places to look.
Should I remove unripe figs?
Just pick off the smallest, greenest fruit, furthest away from the trunk. This will ensure that the tree sends its energy into ripening the fruit that remains. You'll end up with fewer figs, but they'll be more likely to ripen.


The São João Baptista, Portuguese Galleon Warship
The São João Baptista, Saint John the Baptist, commonly known as the Botafogo, was a Portuguese galleon warship built in the 16th century, around 1534, considered the biggest and most powerful warship in the world at the time.
Botafogo on the left in this engraving, Portuguese flag on the top
This ship could carry 366 bronze cannons, and had an artillery power of 1,000 tons. For this reason, it became known as Botafogo, meaning literally fire maker orspitfire in popular Portuguese.
The Botafogo was used both in the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean, where it became famous during the Conquest of Tunis (1535). In that battle, the Botafogowas commanded by Infante Luís, Duke of Beja, brother of John III and brother-in-law of Charles V.
Conquest of Tunis (1535)
The Conquest of Tunis in 1535 was an attack on Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire, by the Spanish Empire and its allies.
In 1533, Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Hayreddin Barbarossa, whom he had summoned from Algiers, to build a large war fleet in the arsenal ofConstantinople. Altogether 70 galleys were built during the winter of 1533–1534, manned by slave oarsmen, including 2,000 Jewish ones. With this fleet, Barbarossa conducted aggressive raids along the coast of Italy, until he conquered Tunis on 16 August 1534, ousting the local ruler, theretofore subservient to the Spanish, Muley Hasan.Barbarossa thus established a strong naval base in Tunis, which could be used for raids in the region, and on nearby Malta.
Charles V, one of the most powerful men in Europe at the time, assembled a large army of some 30,000 soldiers, 74 galleys (rowed by chained Protestants shipped in from Antwerp), 300 sailing ships, the Santa Anna and Portuguese galleon São João Baptista, also known as Botafogo and the most powerful ship in the world at the time, with 366 bronze cannons to drive the Ottomans from the region. The expense involved for Charles V was considerable, and at 1,000,000 ducats was on par with the cost of Charles' campaign against Suleiman on the Danube. Unexpectedly, the funding of the conquest of Tunis came from thegalleons sailing in from the New World, in the form of a 2 million gold ducats treasure extracted by Francisco Pizarro in exchange for his releasing of the Inca kingAtahualpa (whom he nevertheless executed on 29 August 1533).
Despite a request by Charles V, Francis I denied French support to the expedition, explaining that he was under a 3 year truce with Barbarossa following the 1533 Ottoman embassy to France. Francis I was also under negotiations with Suleiman the Magnificent for a combined attack on Charles V, following the 1534 Ottoman embassy to France. Francis I only agreed to Pope Paul III's request that no fight between Christians occur during the time of the expedition.
On 1 June 1535, protected by a Genoese fleet, Charles V destroyed Barbarossa's fleet and, after a costly yet successful siege at La Goletta, captured Tunis. In the ruins, the Spanish found cannon balls with the French Fleur-de-lys mark, evidence of the contacts stemming from the Franco-Ottoman alliance.
The resulting massacre of the city left an estimated 30,000 dead. Barbarossa managed to flee to Algiers with a troop of several thousand Turks. Muley Hasan was restored to his throne. The stench of the corpses was such that Charles V soon left Tunis and moved his camp to Radès.
The siege demonstrated the power projection of the Habsburg dynasties at the time; Charles V had under his control much of southern Italy, Sicily, Spain, theAmericas, Austria, the Netherlands and lands in Germany. Furthermore, he was Holy Roman Emperor and had de jure control over much of Germany as well.
The catastrophic defeat in the Capture of Tunis in 1535 by the Holy League motivated the Ottoman Empire to enter into a formal alliance with France against the Habsburg Empire. Ambassador Jean de La Forêt was sent to Constantinople, and for the first time was able to become permanent ambassador at the Ottoman court and to negotiate treaties.
Charles V celebrated a neo-classical triumph "over the infidel" at Rome on April 5, 1536 in commemoration of his victory at Tunis.
Barbarossa managed to escape to the harbour of Bône, where a fleet was waiting for him. From there, he sailed to accomplish the Sack of Mahon, where he took 6,000 slaves and brought them to Algiers.
The Ottomans responded by recapturing the city in 1574. However the Ottoman governors of Tunis were semi-autonomous Beys who acted as privateers against Christian shipping. Consequently, raiding in the Mediterranean continued until the French subjugated the region as a protectorate three centuries later in 1830 with an invasion leading to the creation of French Algeria, and the establishment of a protectorate over Tunisia in 1881 through the French occupation of Tunisia.
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A simple observation regarding the equivalence of acceleration and gravity
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 1. Feb 15, 2007 #1
 This is not an attempt at refuting the validity of relativity, i adore Einstein like most girls love their fave rock star.
 To me, there is a glaring discrepancy between Einstein and Newton and it behooves me, out of shear respect, to make this right in my mind.
 Take the very simple explanation that Einstein gave, regarding the equivalence of gravity and acceleration, remember, the one with the little man in the room. Okay, i know there have been problems with precisley proving his rightness, but if you've ever driven in a vehicle, you've experienced the effect he is talking about, so there must be more then a little accuracy to his observation. Also, Newton, in his genius ascribed gravity to all masses. So, if the acceleration of the room accounts for the rooms gravitational pull, then musn't we also acclerate the little man in the opposite direction to account for his own gravitational pull? What happens then?
 okay, i'll tell ya. As the man acclerates, his resistance to being accelerated in the opposite direction by the room increases, as does the kinetic energy or force experienced by both, and yes, this happens even if the man is accelerating very little compared to the room. Our experience of gravity is not so. Otherwise, by sometime next year i might weigh 2000 lbs or more, without actually having grown an inch.
 Also, interestingly enough, if both the room and the object start off as the same mass and accelerate at exactly the same rate, neither would move, yet both would experience all the effects of acceleration.
 I know it sounds elementary, but i am finding this very problematic in my reasoning. Any ideas from the rest of you bored geniuses?
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 3. Feb 15, 2007 #2
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 Can you please elaborate on this:
 "As the man acclerates, his resistance to being accelerated in the opposite direction by the room increases..."
 I don't think you're understanding what's happening; I think we should break it down a bit.
 Under a constant acceleration, you will feel a constant force. Drive in a car, starting from zero, keeping the acceleration constant. You will remain pushed back in your seat by the same amount for the duration. It's not like by the time you reach 60mph, you are being flattened...
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 4. Feb 15, 2007 #3
 If i push something along in an attempt to accelerate it, it's resistance to being accelerated is it's mass, but if it is being accelerated the opposite direction as i'm pushing, would i not have to push harder then?
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 What do you mean when you say "the acceleration of the room accounts for the rooms gravitational pull"? Einstein says there is an equivalence between what is felt in a room at rest in a gravitational field, like one sitting on Earth (where the gravity felt inside the room is due to the Earth's gravitational pull, not the room's), and what is felt in a room that is being accelerated at a constant rate in deep space with no significant sources of gravity. If there's a man in the accelerating room in deep space, then as long as his feet are on the floor, he's being accelerated at the same rate and in the same direction as the room, not the opposite direction.
 6. Feb 15, 2007 #5
 okay bear with me. the room's acceleration towards the man accounts for the rooms gravitaional pull on the man.
 the man must have his own gravitational attraction towards the room, non?
 that is why we would then have to accelerate him towards the roomas well. otherwise the attractive force can only be ascribed to the room, and not to the man inside of it.
 why it must be in the opposite direction should be clear.
 7. Feb 15, 2007 #6
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 No, it accounts for the feeling that there is an external gravitational field pulling on both the room and the man, as there would be in the case where the room + man were at rest on Earth (in which case the external gravitational field would be the Earth's).
 8. Feb 15, 2007 #7
 i really need help with this.
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 Can you say what it is about my explanation that you don't understand/disagree with? When I feel gravity standing in a room on Earth, this is because of the Earth's gravitational pull, not the room's, isn't it?
 10. Feb 15, 2007 #9
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 I'm really not trying to be haughty, I'm just explaining why I don't think your argument makes sense. I can't help further unless you clarify why you think my response is wrong or why you think I'm missing the point you're trying to make. I hope you would not reject any response that dismisses your argument (in a reasoned way, not an unthinking 'dismissive' way)--surely the fact that all these physicists haven't seen a problem with the equivalence principle for almost a century should lead you to take seriously the idea that there might be some fundamental error in your reasoning?
 11. Feb 15, 2007 #10
 Seems like a blind application of ideas heard in SR (and which only apply there for special reasons) to a more general situation (curved spacetime).
 Girl, should an accelerated object gain kinetic energy (or speed, or inertial mass) if measured only by an observer who also accelerates (as to remain equidistant from the object)?
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 Seems like a misunderstanding of the equivalence principle from GR, not ideas from SR...what ideas are you thinking of?
 13. Feb 16, 2007 #12
 clearly, the model was included in GR, not SR, but i think i get what he is saying and the reason the inertial mass increases is because the man is contained by the room, he is not merely observing it.
 So we all know the story, i won't rehash it.
 The problem is that in Einsteins model the man is completely passive. The force he experiences is due entirely to the room's acceleration. According to Newton, the man must not be passive. He must have his own force, which is why he must have his own rocket pack to accelerate him the direction of the floor of the room. This is the opposite direction the room is accelerating in.
 If i am pushing on something in an attempt to accelerate it, and it starts accelerating back at me, the force required to move it increases. Also the resistance i would experience from said object would increase.
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 When you say "according to Newton", can you be specific about which Newtonian law you're thinking of? In Newtonian physics, the only force on the man would be the force of the floor pushing his feet in the direction the room was accelerating, he wouldn't need a separate force from a rocket pack or something. Imagine instead of a man, you have a spring, and when no forces are acting on it the spring has a natural relaxed length L. If one end of the spring is attached to a surface, like the floor of the room, which is accelerating in the direction of the spring's unattached end, and this is the only force acting on the spring, then the spring will become compressed to a length shorter than the relaxed length L, according to Newtonian physics. Do you disagree? If not, then something analogous is happening with the man, he feels heavier than in zero G because his body is being slightly compressed by the acceleration in a similar way, he has to maintain tenseness in his muscles or the compression would cause his joints to bend and make him fall over.
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 15. Feb 16, 2007 #14
 i know that it seems ridiculous that no one else noticed it before me. In fact for a while i figured that someone else must have pointed this out before. That doesn't automatically mean i'm wrong.
 i don't mean to get so irritated, i just am frustrated. and i am very bad at expressing myself constructively, i'm sorry for that. i'm just totally hung up on this stupid thing and it seriously keeps me up at nights, no lie. i really love physics that much.
 16. Feb 16, 2007 #15
 The squishing of the spring bit. That would be proportional to the rate of acceleration, OR how fast it is nearing C. What's the point? Other than to get me off track and make me look


Detecting DTMF Tones From Scratch
9 thoughts on "Detecting DTMF Tones From Scratch
 1. The Goertzel algorithm isn't as computationally complex as FFT
 Well, not exactly. If you need all the frequency bins, the FFT is the most efficient implementation. However, if you only need a small number of frequency bins (as in the case of DTMF detection), then the Goertzel algorithm can be computationally less intensive since you're not computing the entire spectrum.
 2. The second harmonic detection logic can be reserved for those times when a single row and a single column frequency have already been detected. It need not run all the time.
 As noted in the article, the 2nd harmonic check is used for rejecting voice signals. I like to turn that around and check that the DTMF frequency is not a second harmonic of a voice signal. In other words, rather than looking for 697 &&!1394, I look for 697 &!348.5Hz. It seems a little more robust.
 Another check that is frequently done is the "twist" test. If a row freq and a column freq are both present, their magnitudes need to be "close" to one another. If the twist test fails, there is no need to check the harmonic (or fundamental, as the case may be).
 Another trick to reduce average processing bandwidth is to run the three (or four, if desired) column frequency tests first, and then only run the row frequencies if only one of the columns was detected. If more than one were detected, you needn't do anymore work to reject the tone.
 Also… it might not be necessary to divide the result by 256 at the end, because you're not really interested in absolute magnitudes – only relative magnitudes. If both frequencies are scaled by the same number (256) then the relationship is unaltered.
 Yeah… I've done a bit of DTMF detection with Mr Goertzel's algorithm in the past.
 3. wouldn't a simpler solution just involve an FM tuner, some ttl and a demux? DTMF is just 7 (or really 8) harmonic formants, right? so tune at all four row frequencies, and return the column/row that matches with one of the 16 (12) known tones. what am i missing?
 4. On the microcontroller board there are white blocks holding wires. Where can I buy those at?
 I've got a rs232 to usb which has pins but I need some way to attach wires to that without soldering them. In addition, attach wires to the jumper block of a 2.5 inch laptop hard drive.
 5. I myself would stick with a simple 75T202/203 and interface to a processor freeing the processor to do other things.
 But its kinda neat to see what can be done if there were not cheap decoders already on the market.
 6. hey Debraj,
 anychance you could implement this into arduino code. I took a look at your code, but it is certainly way over my head. At least in terms of porting it to an arduino. I would very much appreciate it if you could take a whack at it. Impressive work, btw.
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HERITAGE GOES GREEN
Upgrading Windows in Heritage Buildings
Conserve Energy & Heritage at the Same Time
Climate change action is something everyone is concerned with today. The BC government has pledged to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. A new BC Green Building Code is coming that will require higher energy efficiency standards for both new construction and rehabilitation projects. Can heritage buildings measure up to these new demands without sacrificing the very qualities that we value in them?
Many energy upgrades (such as installing energy star appliances) do no harm to vintage buildings. Some, however, such as window replacement, can have a significant negative impact:
"We tend to take windows for granted. Yet we recognize that heritage buildings whose windows have been replaced have been diminished. The depth and thickness of frames and sills, the width and visual weight of sash components, the materials, the colour and the pattern of light reflecting off the glass—all complement and elaborate the architectural style, texture and age of a building. Much of this character is lost when windows are replaced with modern versions that lack these features."
— Craig Sims and Andrew Powter: Repair or Replace: Windows in Historic Buildings - Arriving at a Sustainable Solution
The BC Heritage Branch recently hired a University of Victoria Engineering student to research and design window energy conservation solutions that would not harm heritage character. Here are some of her suggestions:
National Resources Canada (NRC) also offers these tips on repair, draft proofing and insulation to improve window energy efficiency:
NRC provides specific advice on caulking and weatherstripping:
Ongoing maintenance is a very important part of the building use and care, and good window conservation is no exception. Windows in historic buildings have usually been in service for a long time – often 100 years or more – proving their durability, functionality and worth. A good overhaul and retrofit will ensure their longevity and upgrade their functionality for another 100 years. This is more likely to provide long term solutions than inserting a replacement window and throwing out the original frame, sash and glass. Most of today's manufactured replacement windows carry warranties of about 8-10 years and failures are usually not repairable. Maintenance and conservation are very green behaviors.
For current news articles about Sustainability
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BY JENNIFER IREDALE, BC HERITAGE BRANCH
Maintenance and conservation of heritage windows are very green behaviors.