July 18, 2021
Playground Design with Landscape Architects - Q&A With GameTime's Brandon McBride
Brandon McBride - GameTime Landmark DesignWe recently talked with Brandon McBride, GameTime's Vice President of Design, about how our Landmark Design team works with landscape architects. Brandon shared his thoughts on the importance of designing a play and recreation area that appeals to all generations. He also elaborated on the key role landscape architects play in making playgrounds a centerpiece of the community.
Read on and learn how GameTime and landscape architects work together to enrich childhood and build communities through play.
What drives your creative process when working with landscape architects?
What is the primary inspiration for how you design a play area together?
One of the main drivers is envisioning how children will utilize the space. We work with landscape architects to incorporate elements that create positive challenges and spark the imagination. That's a critical component to the success of each play space.
Understanding how children use the area provides a foundation to create a design that facilitates social interaction between peers. Each of us has a fundamental desire to build connections with those around us. A playground is great for a child's physical development, but it's also essential for enriching their social, cognitive, and emotional capacity as well.
What types of products and materials do landscape architects gravitate toward?
What drives the decision to use them?
As a landscape architect, GameTime's Landmark Design team views each project individually and considers the materials or products that will best complement that space. The utilization of custom concrete elements helps build durable spaces with rich texturing. It can also provide a connection to a unique theme or story.
Some spaces lend themselves to a more modern style or advanced levels of play. Selecting the right components and materials is essential to a positive user experience and achieving the community's desired outcomes.
What has changed most about playground design?
How have people changed the way they use playgrounds in the past 5 or 10 years?
One of the most critical shifts in playground design is a thoughtful process toward a multi-generational design philosophy. Playgrounds have shifted from a fringe recreation area to a central community space. There is evidence parents want to engage with their children during play, and communities understand play environments are critical anchor points where people come together and gain a stronger sense of community at every age.
In playground design today, is it just the children who will play on the equipment?
Do you consider other family members/generations?
It is essential to consider all the users that may utilize the space. Each individual has to be comfortable in the environment. We want people to spend as much time in the space as possible so they can enjoy all the benefits (physical, social-emotional, cognitive, etc.) of the design. If someone has a positive experience, they are more likely to come back again and again.
At the beginning of any project, we also consider making a play area accessible and inclusive to the greatest extent possible. I want every space to offer something for everyone, regardless of age or ability. Parents and grandparents need spaces to interact with their children, grandchildren, and peers playfully.
We also look for areas to include comfortable seating to gather, socialize and observe play. By considering how everyone will use a playground, it becomes a vital community centerpiece that impacts a broader cross-section of the community.
Why is thoughtful and creative design important to a playground?
What are the added benefits for the users when you take the time to design something out of the ordinary?
Working with different communities across North America and leading landscape architects helps our designers flex their creative muscles and create better and unexpected designs. Creating something new and unexpected engages children and families to play, explore, and grow together.
A thoughtfully designed play area attracts people, encourages physical activity, and enhances childhood development. It breaks down barriers and brings people together. Ultimately, playground design helps people connect, forge lasting relationships and create memories that last a lifetime.
Let's Design Something Extraordinary Together
If you're planning a park, playground, or other recreation space for people of all ages and abilities, we'd love to talk with you. Our team of designers, architects, and engineers use a collaborative process to ensure every project meets a community's goals and exceeds their expectations. Contact the GameTime play expert in your neighborhood to learn more.


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A follow-up study was conducted of a double-blind trial in Argentina designed to assess the effect of calcium supplementation on incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Six hundred fourteen women received 2 g per day of calcium or placebo from week 20 of gestation until delivery. Dental examinations were performed on 195 randomly selected children whose mothers participated in the study. The researchers who performed the dental exam were blinded to the mothers treatment assignment. The proportion of children who had at least 1 decayed, missing, or filled tooth was significantly lower in the calcium group than in the placebo group (63.3% vs. 86.6%; p < 0.001). The mean number of decayed, missing, or filled tooth surfaces was also significantly lower in the calcium group than in the placebo group (3.1 vs. 4.4; p < 0.001).
Comment: Calcium plays an important role in tooth development The results of the present study indicate that calcium supplementation during pregnancy can reduce the incidence of dental caries in the offspring at 12 years of age.
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Some kinds of rejection are harder to take than others. When you've been denied coverage for Crohn's treatment that could mean the difference between effectively managing your Crohn's disease or living in pain, rejection can be devastating.
According to the Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness and the Office of the Healthcare Advocate, 96% of insurance denials are never appealed. But those that are appealed have a success rate as high as 80%! So, don't give up before you've started. Your course of action will vary based on the type of insurance you have, but follow these tips.
- Determine why your Crohn's treatment claim was denied. Don't try to guess the reasons why your insurer denied your claim—they may be related to medical necessity stipulations. Your appeal will be based on the reason for denial, so get the information and then develop a plan of attack.
- Get your paperwork in order. Once you've figured out the reason for denial, gather necessary documents – medical records, journal articles, and letters from your doctor explaining medical necessity to help make your case.
- Write a letter of appeal. While it might be tempting, calling your insurer to plead for medicine won't get you far. Write a compelling letter about your situation, using the documents you've gathered as attachments that provide evidence to make your case. The better and clearer your explanation, the more likely you are to win.
For more information on appealing an insurance decision, visit the Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness Web site.


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Tomatoes are not only food a person can eat, but also it can help refresh your face and reduce any pimples.
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Integrated Information Support System (IISS). Volume 5. Common Data Model Subsystem. Part 41. CDM Impact Analysis User's Manual
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This document is to be used by the Common Data Model Administrator CDMA to determine the impact a software change might have upon other software modules within the CDM subsystem. The CDM Impact Analysis Utility is used to identify and report which software modules and external schemas are affected by a change to the CDM.
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Brazil's National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM) is coordinating an analysis of the largest Brazilian sylvite beds found in the state of Amazonas, with the objective of establishing partnerships for exploration.
Sylvite is a mineral from which potassium chloride (KCl) is extracted to be used as a fertilizer. Currently, Brazil imports 85% of the total potassium chloride consumed in the country.
The remaining 15% come from the Taquari-Vassouras mine, located in the state of Sergipe, in the Northeast of the Brazil.
Amazon sylvite beds were found in the 1980s, by Petrobrás. Estimated reserves are to the order of 1 billion tons, more than twice the 450 million-ton beds found initially in Sergipe, where sylvite is explored by the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce.
Current annual production of potassium chloride is 600 thousand tons, which supplies part of the Center-South of the country.
One of Brazil's government priorities is to invest in mineral research and exploration, says minister of Mines and Energy, Dilma Rousseff.
According to the minister, if Brazil is to have development in mining, the government has to have an updated and modern mining department.
Brazil was told last year that Canadian mining interests could invest as much as US$ 2 billion in gold, nickel, copper and diamond operations in Brazil.
Last year the DNPM inaugurated a data bank network connecting its 25 districts nationwide at a cost of US$ 25 million.
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Finger Dowsing: How To Tell If Your Partner Is Faithful – by Tana Hoy
Did you know that you can use a secret psychic method of divination to tell if your partner is faithful? You don't have to use a pendulum, or other psychic tools such as Tarot cards to get this information. All you need is your mind, your will, and your index finger, to get an answer!
Finger Dowsing - An Excellent Method To Find Answers
To dowse is when you try to search for hidden objects, like water or treasures, with the use of instruments such as pendulums and dowsing rods. When you dowse with your finger, your finger becomes like a human dowsing rod. Instead of lusing it to look for objects, you can use it to find answers to questions, especially questions about love and relationships.
Learning to dowse with your finger is actually very convenient because you can do it very discreetly. For example, while you're sitting across from your date in a restaurant, waiting for your food to be served, you can secretly divine an answer to find out if he or she is really interested in having a relationship with you. Or when you are standing in line behind your partner, you can use it to see if they are being faithful, or telling the truth about something!
How To Be A Finger Dowser
Certain preparation is needed if you're going to use this finger technique to dowse, especially when it's your first time. But the most important advice I can give is, always try clear your mind of jealousy, vengeful thoughts, self-doubt, and other negative emotions, when using this method, as this will greatly affect the answer you will get.
Here are the steps you need to do to prepare yourself for using this method:
1. Every day for several days, spend time in a quiet room.
2. Focus your attention on the tip of your index finger – if you're right-handed, use your left index finger, and if you're left-handed, use your right one.
3. Visualize in your mind that the tip of your finger is like an antenna for receiving psychic energy. Imagine it becoming hyper sensitive to the energy of your surroundings.
4. Be clear in your mind that your index finger is for receiving vibrations, not sending them out, because you don't want to accidentally zap someone with your focused energy.
5. Point it at different objects in the room, and try to sense their energy through your finger.
How To Calibrate Your Finger
After a few minutes of doing this, you will need to calibrate your finger:
1. First, point your index finger at nothing in particular, and hold it steady for a few moments, and then start moving it up and down. Affirm in youe mind that this up and down movement means "yes." Keep practicing this until you feel comfortable associating this finger movement with a "yes" answer.
2. Next, point your finger steadily forward again, and move it from side to side, allowing yourself to accept that this means "no." Repeat this until you feel comfortable knowing that this is a "no" answer!
3. Now, point your finger steadily forward again but this time move it in a circular finger movement. Program your mind to know that this means "uncertain."
Now, practice asking yes or no questions that you know the answer to. For example, point your finger at the lamp and ask yourself, "Is the lamp turned on?", etc. See if you can get a response.
You will need to practice this exercise several times a day, whenever possible. Don't fret if you don't get a response right away. It takes lots of practice and patience.
Once you're confident of your ability at getting answers using finger dowsing, you are ready to use this technique to answer your question about your partner.
How To Finger Dowse
- Before you meet your partner, spend some time meditating. You need to clear your mind of negative emotions, and be as relaxed as possible.
- As you meditate, focus your mind on this person. Try to see him or her objectively – as a person. Imperfect, yet perfect in his or her own right.
- After a while, form the question you want to ask. Remember, it has to be answerable by yes or no, and it needs to be objective so your personal emotions won't influence the outcome.
- Ask your question several times inside your mind. Then let it go.
- Relax your mind for another few minutes, then slowly bring yourself out of your meditative state.
Finger Dowsing is really simple to do!
1. Look for an opportunity where you can discreetly use your finger dowsing. You can do it under the table, or while you're watching a movie. Just make sure that you do it discreetly, since no one enjoys being pointed at.
2. Point your finger discreetly at your partner.
3. Ask your question inside your head.
4. Wait for your finger to give you an answer.
Now, remember, if you get an answer you don't particularly like, it's not good manners to start a fight or storm out. It's always best to talk it over, and settle the score.
If you want to know if someone is faithful, or confirm what you suspect, during a psychic reading I can give you the right advice and show you how to handle this situation! You can schedule a psychic reading with me by clicking here now!


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2002: Superintendent News - Study tracks waterbirds in Florida
By SCOTT KAUFFMAN
A study of waterbirds in southwest Florida golf communities has spawned optimism about the viability of course wetlands and ponds as healthy breeding grounds for such wildlife.
That's the opinion of University of Florida researchers who recently wrapped up the second phase of an intensive two-year study of 12 courses.
"In rapidly urbanizing areas, golf courses will have enormous potential to provide wildlife habitats," said Martin Main, Ph.D., wildlife ecologist and assistant professor at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. "It's not all species. You're certainly not going to have bears and panthers running around. But for a number of species, this can be viable. And we think in the future (golf courses) will become increasingly important as a habitat as we lose land."
According to Main and University of Florida graduate student LeAnn White, who co-authored the study, "Habitat Value of Golf Course Wetlands to Waterbirds," there were a total of 4,864 observations of 31 species of waterbirds in the first five months of last year. In all, there were 183 lakes on the 12 courses surveyed, and each course was visited eight times.
The effort was duplicated this year from Feb. 1-May 1, when the concentration of waterbirds is highest in southwest Florida and before some migratory birds move north.
"We are measuring the same factors as last year – the number and types of waterbirds, and various characteristics of the lakes such as productivity, slope of the banks, water depth, vegetation type and density, and surrounding landscape features," said White, who wrapped up her 2002 field work earlier this month.
"The data will be compared between the two years to monitor variation in bird abundance, as well as changes in other factors, such as vegetation density," she said.
One surprise sighting was a large population of hooded mergansers at Mediterra's South Course in Naples, a Tom Fazio-designed layout developed by The Bonita Bay Group.
"I don't recall ever having seen hooded mergansers on a golf course before," White said. "They are an uncommon species, especially for South Florida."
Main says survey results will help shape recommendations for how to make ponds and lakes even more productive, such as modifying shorelines to expand feeding areas for wading birds.
"Our goal is to identify how different habitat characteristics of golf course ponds and lakes influence use by wading and other waterbirds," said Main, who works in Immokalee, Fla.
According to Main, the estimated $50,000 study was funded by Bonita Bay Group, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Golf Association's Wildlife Links Program.
Of the 12 courses studied, nine were Bonita Bay properties, including seven Audubon International Signature or Cooperative Sanctuary Program participants: Mediterra; Bonita Bay Club West's three courses designed by Arthur Hills; Bonita Bay Club East's two off-site golf courses designed by Fazio; and North Naples' TwinEagles Golf & Country Club Talon Course co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II in Naples.
The two non-Audubon courses were the Spring Run at The Brooks in Bonita Springs and Copperleaf at The Brooks in Naples, both designed by Gordon Lewis.
The study's other participants were WCI's residential golf communities: Arnold Palmer-designed Wildcat Run Golf & Country Club in Estero, Burnt Store Country Club, a Ron Garl and Mark McCumber collaboration in Punta Gorda, and Fazio-designed Gateway Golf and Country Club in Fort Myers.
Burnt Store superintendent Luis Olivarez describes the story as "very important."
"I think a lot of things have been said about golf courses being careless on the side of pesticides and not doing anything for the environment," he said. "I embrace these type of studies. It could be bad or good.
"But having a graduate student doing research backed up by the University of Florida gives us a lot of credibility."
Main and his staff picked courses at various points of maturity to evaluate the habitat systems at different stages, and also chose a mix of Audubon program participants and nonparticipants to "evaluate how Audubon-certified courses compare to courses that have not participated in the program."
Kim Fikoski, environmental manager with The Bonita Bay Group, says the study will provide a database that identifies the "best management practices for creating, enhancing and maintaining wetland habitat for water birds on golf courses."
"This is the first time a broad-spectrum study has been done on golf course properties to quantify the relationship between created wetland waterbird habitat and the use of these areas by water birds," Fikoski said. "We anticipate the information the study yields will help developers to create and protect habitat in the most beneficial ways for the greatest number of species."


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Meaning: highland; The name Elam is an Assyrian word meaning "high."
the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22), and the name of the country inhabited by his descendants (14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; 21:2, etc.) lying to the east of Babylonia, and extending to the shore of the Mediterranean, a distance in a direct line of about 1,000 miles
"The inhabitants of Elam, or 'the Highlands,' to the east of Babylon, were called Elamites. They were divided into several branches, speaking different dialects of the same agglutinative language. The race to which they belonged was brachycephalic, or short-headed, like the pre-Semitic Sumerians of Babylonia.
"The earliest Elamite kingdom seems to have been that of Anzan, the exact site of which is uncertain; but in the time of Abraham, Shushan or Susa appears to have already become the capital of the country. Babylonia was frequently invaded by the Elamite kings, who at times asserted their supremacy over it (as in the case of Chedorlaomer, the Kudur-Lagamar, or 'servant of the goddess Lagamar,' of the cuneiform texts).
"The later Assyrian monarchs made several campaigns against Elam, and finally Assur-bani-pal (about B.C. 650) succeeded in conquering the country, which was ravaged with fire and sword. On the fall of the Assyrian Empire, Elam passed into the hands of the Persians" (A.H. Sayce).
This country was called by the Greeks Cissia or Susiana.


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One of the most useful colors in an artist's palette is one of the last colors anyone else would think. Only its spooky name would incline your attention towards it. Caput mortuum, which means dead head or death head, is made of haematite–iron oxide (in fact there are several extremely similar colors made of the same pigment but with slightly different hues and names–particularly mars violet and Indian red—but we will stick to talking about caput mortuum because that's the variation I use). This unpromising rust color possesses a protean mutability–it could be red, brown, orange, or violet depending on the context. Although it can stand on its own as a focus of attention, caput mortuum is very easy to paint into a network of subtle shadows: many painters use it for shadowed flesh or as land cast in darkness (after all a person's flesh and the red clay of a landscape both take their ruddiness from iron).
Though not a flashy color, caput mortuum has a dignity and a beauty to it. In the middle ages and Renaissance, painters used it to paint the robes and clothing of eminent monastic religious figures and of patrons & donors (ie the people actually paying for the painting). Oftentimes when looking at a religious painting, a viewer will notice that Jesus, Mary, and Saint Peter–resplendent in gold, white, blue, and red—are joined by an unknown pair of merchants wearing caput mortuum. These two often have the most realistic and beautifully painted faces in the painting–it is difficult to say what Jesus really looked like but even the most money grubbing burgher knows his own face!
Although there is something somber about the deep color of caput mortuum, its name does not come from an obvious association with blood and corpses. In addition to meaning "dead head" the Latin phrase also means "worthless remains" and it was used by alchemists to describe the inert residue left over from a chemical reaction. Apparently this by-product was often a rusty violet color. Alchemists used a (very) stylized skull to denote the oxidized left-overs.
However it's more evocative to imagine the pigment being named after a death's head. The concept lends art a much needed touch of operatic dark magic.


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Schoodic Institute and Friends of Acadia share the common goal of helping create the brightest future for Acadia National Park, a philosophy that we can add value by working together and coordinating our efforts, and an understanding that the success of both organizations is in the best interest of Acadia and our region.
1. What are the missions of Friends of Acadia and Schoodic Institute?
The mission of Friends of Acadia is to preserve, protect, and promote stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and enjoyment of current and future generations.
The mission of Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park is to guide present and future generations to greater understanding and respect for nature by providing research and learning opportunities through its outstanding Acadia National Park setting, unique coastal Maine facilities, and innovative partnership programs.
2. Are Friends of Acadia and Schoodic Institute affiliated with each other?
Each organization is an independent 501c3 nonprofit, dependent for its success, at least in part, on philanthropic support from individuals and foundations.
3. Do contributions to either organization support the other?
Although there are areas in which each organization's work is relevant to the other, and some areas of direct partnership, in general, contributions to one organization do NOT directly support the other. Each contributes to Acadia and local communities in distinct ways, and each must raise its own operating budget.
Friends of Acadia is a long-established grant-maker to Acadia National Park. Grants from Friends of Acadia may support Acadia National Park programs that occur in partnership between Acadia National Park and Schoodic Institute, or in certain instances, grants may be made directly to Schoodic Institute for such programs.
4. What are some areas where Friends of Acadia and Schoodic Institute work together?
The primary areas of partnership are in our shared commitments to youth and to resource protection. Delineating roles for each of these areas and how we are working together – or separately on complementary projects – will help ensure efficiency for each organization, clarity for our donors, and the best end result for Acadia National Park.


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How to Calculate the Net Present Value of Social Commerce
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Using the Net Present Value formula, you can show your CFO the value of consumer-generated content on your site.
How much is your customer-generated content worth?
Social commerce measures the impact of social interactions on your brand, bottom-line sales, and business success. One great way to assign a true monetary value to your brand's user-generated content (UGC) - like reviews, customer forums, and ask-and-answer entries - is to measure its net present value (NPV).
NPV is a metric widely-used in the financial world, and the management at your company (especially the CFO) will appreciate seeing the value of your social media program. NPV is commonly calculated as the profit your company gains from an investment is equal to sum of that investment's impact over time. When the NPV number is positive, financial teams will usually decide to make the investment; when the number is negative, it's not a good investment. There's more to the calculation then we're representing here, but the current value of future impact is the important concept to grasp.
Customer-generated content has a high NPV, because its positive impact on bottom-line sales increases over time. As social content grows - especially on purpose, through designing a participation chain - it drives a larger and larger amount of revenues. The more content your customers create, the more places you can leverage it (such as in e-mail and other marketing campaigns, in-store signage, etc.) and the more "findable" your site will become in natural Web searches, driving even more revenue. Each interaction, each piece of customer-generated content, is an annuity - and money in the bank for your company. This builds over time, and an original investment pays off handsomely in an NPV calculation.
If you compare social commerce to traditional advertising, you'll see the difference in NPV immediately. Traditional advertising isn't going away, but campaigns can cost a lot of money and return diminishing value over time. These campaigns have less and less impact on sales as time goes on. On the other hand, social commerce programs cost little to implement, grow organically with no further investment, and influence more and more sales over time.
The good news is, if you calculate the NPV of your proposed social media program and present it to your financial teams, they'll be eager to fund the project. Measuring the NPV of your social commerce program is relatively easy. You just need to do some basic financial calculations. Below, I'll walk you through a hypothetical NPV calculation for a social commerce program.
Say you generate $10 million in online sales annually.
 1. You've got a 20 percent return rate, resulting in $8 million total in net sales.
 2. You've got a conversion rate per session of 3 percent.
 3. You're processing 100,000 orders per year with an average order value of $100. That's an average of 8,333 orders per month.
 4. With 3 percent conversion resulting in 100,000 purchasing sessions, your site gets roughly 3.3 million total sessions a year.
Now, assume a few more things that I've learned from years working with large brands on their social commerce programs.
 1. Customer-generated content often raises conversion rates by 20 to 30 percent. Let's assume 20 percent, so your new conversion rate, after implementing social commerce, would be 3.6 percent.
 2. Customer-generated content can also reduce returns by 10 to 20 percent. Let's assume 10 percent, so your new return rate would be 18 percent.
Now, let's take all the above information and calculate the NPV of your social commerce program.
 1. With customer reviews, you'll average 10,000 orders per month instead of 8,333. This will gross you $166,700 in revenue per month, or an additional $2,000,400 annually.
 2. You'll also reduce returns from 1,666 orders returned to 1,500 orders returned monthly. This will net you an additional $16,600 per month, or $199,200 annually.
All in all, after one year of having customer reviews on your site, you would increase your total sales by 27.5 percent to $2,199,600. That is your core NPV number.
If you wait to implement a social commerce program, however, you'll lose out on substantial revenues, since the impact of user-generated content on sales grows over time. For example, if you only have a social commerce program live and running for three months of your operating year, you'll increase sales by 6.8 percent to $549,900. Six months of UGC would increase total gross sales by $1,099,800, or a 13.7 percent, while nine months of UGC would deliver a 20.6 percent boost in sales to $1,649,700.
If you don't add some high-NPV social commerce programs to your marketing portfolio, and your competition does, where will you be a year from now? The answer is clear: out tons of money you could have made.
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Job description for a first-contact physiotherapist
Developing a job description or person specification
Many employers now have their own standard pro forma for job descriptions and person specifications which will need to be followed. Typically a job description is likely to include some or all of the following aspects:
Title of the post
 - Grade of the post (this will be determined following job evaluation – see below)
 - To whom the post holder reports and to whom he/she is accountable
 - Location(s) of the work
 - An overall statement of job purpose
 - Outline of all the main duties and responsibilities of the post, set out under appropriate sub-headings which reflect the main areas of responsibility of the post.
The person specification focuses on the skills, knowledge and experience that are required to undertake the role.
It is essential these are developed through a critical assessment of what is required from the role within the local context, and the level of skill, knowledge and experience needed to deliver this.
Job evaluation
Within the NHS it is the job description and person specification that are the key factors in determining the correct band for the job, and not the title of the role.
The NHS uses a system of job evaluation. This requires a trained matching panel to assess each job by measuring the job content, responsibilities and tasks of each job, and the knowledge and skills needed by a post holder to successfully carry out their work.
The purpose of job evaluation is to ensure that all jobs with similar demands are on the same grade and pay band. Employers outside the NHS may also refer to the NHS job evaluation scheme or may have their own local pay and grading structure. However, there are advantages to maintaining the same system outside the NHS in terms of comparability of pay and expectations of the role.
More information on the NHS JE scheme can be found on the NHS Employers website.
Within general practice, the role of the physiotherapist will vary depending on service need and structure. Therefore specific roles will need to be evaluated to determine the appropriate banding. This could vary considerably depending on the local needs and structures for support and supervision.
However, it is envisaged that the greatest value and impact of physiotherapy roles in general practice will be gained from those that require a high level of independence (without the day-to-day support of peers) along with the ability to order further examinations and to refer on to a range of different services and for the delivery of specialist treatments, which are likely to fall into the band 7-8 range.
If a post also involves integrating MSK/physiotherapy assessments into the wider health system (e.g. across GP, community and hospital services) to meet patient need and contribute to the development of these areas, the job role is likely to fall within the band 8 range.
Download the document below for an example job description.
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Since everything in fritz2 is reactive, most of the time you want to connect a Flow of actions to the Handler instead of calling it directly which is also possible:
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Each Store inherits a Handler called update, accepting the same type as the Store as its action. It updates the Store's value to the new value it receives. You can use this handler to conveniently implement two-way-databinding by using the changes event-flow of an input-Tag, for example:
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changes in this example is a Flow of events created by listening to the Change-Event of the underlying input-element. Calling values() on it extracts the current value from the input. Whenever such an event is raised, a new value appears on the Flow and is processed by the update-Handler of the Store to update the model. Event-flows are available for all HTML5-events. There are some more convenience functions to help you to extract data from an event or control event-processing.
You can map the elements of the Flow to a specific action-type before connecting it to the Handler. This way you can also add information from the rendering-context to the action. You may also use any other source for a Flow like recurring timer events or even external events.
If you need to purposefully fire an action at some point in your code (to init a [Store] for example) use
//call handler with data
//call handler without data
If the content of your Store is not bound anywhere but need its handler's code to be executed whenever an action is available, you have to explicitly watch() it:
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Biological field stations are grappling with many of the same issues as their local communities. Therefore, it is imperative to have leadership that can create a direct bridge between science and the decision makers who are enabled to address these challenges. The Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) brings assets from our nation's field stations, as well as from field stations around the world, together to solve our most pressing environmental issues.
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The facilitator is a specialized server agent that is responsible for coordinating agent communications and cooperative execution of tasks.
Client (non-facilitator) agents may be categorized as follows:
User interface agents accept multimodal input and present results.
Natural language agents translate users' requests into ICL.
Application agents provide services, which may be domain-independent or domain-dependent. Application Agents are frequently wrapped versions of legacy programs.
Meta agents apply domain knowledge to help coordinate the efforts of other agents.
Larger systems can be assembled from multiple facilitator/client groups, each having the sort of structure shown above.
All OAA agents publish their capabilities and communicate requests among themselves using the Interagent Communication Language.


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Healing the Hand that Feeds you: Exploring Solutions for Dog and Community Health and Welfare in Australian Indigenous Cultures
The overpopulation and poor state of dog health in many rural and remote Australian Indigenous communities (RRAIC) affects not only animal welfare but human social welfare. Dogs are an integral part of Australian Indigenous cultures and impact on human health and welfare through zoonotic diseases, and mental health concerns such as worry and shame about pet health, and sleep deprivation from incessant dog fights. This study investigates the factors that contribute to poor animal and community health and welfare in RRAIC, focusing on four main factors: community awareness of dog health and welfare issues, knowledge of the solutions, motivation to access the solutions, and the accessibility of the solutions. Semi structured interviews with local indigenous and non-indigenous residents in four RRAIC were conducted to explore these factors. This qualitative data was then linked to quantitative dog health and welfare data to compare community and scientific perspectives. The following results were observed: - Knowledge of animal health and welfare issues was high, but restricted to the issues that are empirically evident. There was some to little knowledge of less apparent zoonotic risks. - Knowledge of the solutions was variable depending on the veterinary history of the community. - Motivation to improve dog health and welfare was uniformly high. - Accessibility to the solutions was poor when taking into account the remoteness of the communities, cross-cultural differences, the cost of veterinary services and its low priority in health and governance circles, the frequency and duration of vet visits, and the residents' mobile lifestyle. Improving animal welfare in RRAIC requires a multifaceted approach involving raising more comprehensive public awareness of the major issues and their possible solutions though appropriate community education, as well as improving accessibility of veterinary services at the local level.


Dynamometer: Introduction and Types
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A dynamometer is a device used for measuring the torque and brake power required to operate a driven machine.
Dynamometers can be broadly classified into two types. They are:
 1. Power Absorption Dynamometers: Power Absorption dynamometers measure and absorb the power output of the engine to which they are coupled. The power absorbed is usually dissipated as heat by some means.
 Examples of power absorption dynamometers are Prony brake dynamometer, Rope brake dynamometer, Eddy current dynamometer, Hydraulic dynamometer, etc.
 2. Power Transmission Dynamometers: In power transmission dynamometers the power is transmitted to the load coupled to the engine after it is indicated on some scale. These are also called torque meters.
Some of the different types of dynamometers are discussed below in brief.
Prony Brake Dynamometer:
Pony Brake is one of the simplest dynamometers for measuring power output (brake power). It is to attempt to stop the engine using a brake on the flywheel and measure the weight which an arm attached to the brake will support, as it tries to rotate with the flywheel.
Prony Brake
Figure 1: Prony Brake
The Prony brake shown in the above consists of a wooden block, frame, rope, brake shoes and flywheel. It works on the principle of converting power into heat by dry friction. Spring-loaded bolts are provided to increase the friction by tightening the wooden block.
The whole of the power absorbed is converted into heat and hence this type of dynamometer must the cooled.
The brake power is given by the formula
Brake Power (bp) = 2π NT
Where T = Weight applied (W) × distance (l)
Rope Brake Dynamometer:
The rope brake as shown in below figure is another device for measuring brake power of an engine. It consists of some turns of rope wound around the rotating drum attached to the output shaft. One side of the rope is connected to a spring balance and the other side to a loading device. The power is absorbed in friction between the rope and the drum. Therefore drum in rope brake requires cooling.
Rope brake
Figure 2: Rope Brake
Rope brake dynamometers are cheap and can be constructed quickly but brake power can't be measured accurately because of change in the friction coefficient of the rope with a change in temperature.
The brake power is given by the formula
Brake Power (bp) = π DN (W − S)
where D is the brake drum diameter,
W is the weight of the load and
S is the spring balance reading.
Eddy Current Dynamometer:
The working principle of eddy current dynamometer is shown in the figure below. It consists of a stator on which are fitted some electromagnets and a rotor disc made of copper or steel and coupled to the output shaft of the engine. When the rotor rotates, eddy currents are produced in the stator due to magnetic flux set up by the passage of field current in the electromagnets. These eddy currents are dissipated in producing heat so that this type of dynamometer requires some cooling arrangement. The torque is measured exactly as in other types of absorption dynamometers, i.e., with the help of a moment arm. The load in internal combustion engine testing is controlled by regulating the current in the electromagnets.
Eddy current Dynamometer
Figure 3: Eddy Current Dynamometer
The following are the main advantages of eddy current dynamometers:
 1. High brake power per unit weight of dynamometer.
 2. They offer the highest ratio of constant power speed range (up to 5 : 1).
 3. Level of field excitation is below 1% of total power being handled by the dynamometer. Thus, they are easy to control and operate.
 4. Development of eddy current is smooth hence the torque is also smooth and continuous under all conditions.
 5. Relatively higher torque under low-speed conditions.
 6. It has no intricate rotating parts except shaft bearing.
 7. No natural limit to size, either small or large.
Hydraulic Dynamometer:
A hydraulic dynamometer as shown in the figure below works on the principle of dissipating the power in fluid friction rather than in dry friction.
Hydraulic Dynamometer
Figure 4: Hydraulic Dynamometer
 - In principle, hydraulic dynamometer construction is similar to that of a fluid flywheel.
 - Hydraulic dynamometer consists of an impeller or inner rotating member coupled to the output shaft of the engine.
 - The impeller in this dynamometer rotates in a casing filled with a fluid.
 - Due to the centrifugal force developed in the outer casing, tends to revolve with the impeller, but is resisted by a torque arm supporting the balance weight.
 - The frictional forces generated between the impeller and the fluid are measured by the spring balance fitted on the casing.
 - The heat developed due to the dissipation of power in Hydraulic dynamometer is carried away by a continuous supply of the working fluid.
 - The output power can be controlled by regulating the sluice gates which can be moved in and out to partially or wholly obstruct the flow of water between the casing and the impeller.
Absorption Dynamometers:
Transmission dynamometers are also called torque meters. They mostly consist of a set of strain-gauges fixed on the rotating shaft and the torque is measured by the angular deformation of the shaft which is indicated as the strain the of the strain gauge. A four arm bridge is used to reduce the effect of temperature, and the gauges are arranged in pairs such that the effect of axial or transverse load on the strain gauges is avoided.
Transmission Dynamometer
Figure 5: Transmission Dynamometer
Above figure shows the transmission dynamometer which employs beams and strain gauges for a sensing torque. Transmission dynamometers measure brake power very accurately and are used where continuous transmission of the load is necessary. These are mainly used in automatic units.
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 - I find the dynamometer very fascinating. I've always wondered how you can check your brake power. There are so many different types. Is there a type of dynamometer that is better for measuring the torque or brake power?
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To read weight on a balance scale, slide the sliders on the number bar to the far left and then step on the scale. Balance weight evenly on both feet. Slide the first slider to the right on the bar with numbered increments of five until the bar balances evenly.Continue Reading
If the bar does not balance, move to the second bar with numbered increments of 50 to the right. When the bar is balanced, both ends of the bar are parallel to the floor with neither side dipping down. If you find a segment that is nearly balanced, but the bar doesn't stay parallel, slide the top bar to the right again until it balances. Add the numbers from the two bars together. For example, when the larger slider is pointing to 150 and the smaller slider is pointing to 10, the correct weight is 160 pounds.
To measure height, turn your back to the measuring rod on the back of the scale and ensure that both feet are flat. Pull the silver sliding rod up and rest the perpendicular arm on the top of the head. Hold the rod in place and step off of the scale. Check the bottom of the measuring rod for your height in inches. Divide that number by 12 to get the proper height in feet and inches; for example, if the chart reads 64 inches, the correct height is 5 foot 4 inches.Learn more about Fitness & Exercise


Ice hockey work out
Are ice hockey players fit?
Dr. Renda Hawwa points out in a feature on ice hockey that the sport "requires a combination of aerobic and anaerobic fitness," and players can burn anywhere from 400 to 800 calories in an hour. Ice hockey players like to think that their sport is the most demanding on the planet, providing undisputed hockey fitness.
How much do hockey players train?
Two hours of training, or possibly two and a half hours, typically start around 10 a.m., usually five days a week.
What kind of workouts do hockey players do?
1. Hockey Strength Training Arm swings and circles. Trunk rotations, twists and stretches. Walking lunges, prisoner squats and leg swings. Burpees and stride jumps. Medicine ball tosses and cross crawls.
Does hockey build muscle?
The intensity and volume of hockey is often adequate for breaking down the muscle fibers and thus causing an increase in leg and hip muscle size in novice and average players.
Do hockey players lift weights?
Most professional sports players utilize weights in their training, and each phase of that training has different objectives. To reach peak fitness and performance, follow this ice hockey weight training program, which also explains the need for cardio workouts.
What is the hardest sport in the world?
Degree of Difficulty: Sport Rankings
Boxing 8.63 1
Ice Hockey 7.25 2
Football 5.38 3
Why is hockey the hardest sport?
Hockey players need to have skill and agility. They need to have all the moves and skills of basketball, soccer and other sports, but do it all on skates, often backwards. Ice hockey players are the toughest athletes on the planet and have to endure the harshest physical beating to win the Stanley Cup.
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Who are the toughest athletes?
The Toughest Athletes Who Ever Lived The Toughest Athletes Who Ever Lived. One of the most admirable traits of any athlete is toughness. Jim Abbott, Baseball. It's tough enough to be a professional athlete. Wayne Shelford, Rugby. Kurt Angle, Wrestling. Serena Williams, Tennis. Gordie Howe, Hockey. Alexis Arguello, Boxing. Chuck Bednarik, Football.
How many days off do NHL players get?
four days
How much weight do NHL players lose in a game?
5 to 8 pounds
Is running good for hockey players?
Yes and no. Hockey is an anaerobic sport and long distance running is purely aerobic which gives it very little crossover into the game of hockey once you train it beyond a certain threshold. This is why you see players all the time doing "cardio" and yet still becoming totally exhausted on the ice.
Are squats good for hockey?
Hockey players usually have tight hips from skating, squatting can help increase hip mobility by going to full-depth. Full-depth squats will help you do both of these better by facilitating more muscle fibers being worked, like stated above.
What do hockey players do during intermission?
Every player uses the intermission as an opportunity to rehydrate, either with water or a sports drink. That way, they'll feel refreshed and reenergized for the rest of the game and can continue giving their all out on the ice. Some players will also eat something during their break to help refuel.
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text: How to Ensure Your Strategic Alliance Doesn't Fail July 26, 2013 RICCentre By: Shamini Sellvaratnam For large enterprises, strategic alliances with local start-ups can be crucial to ensuring that they achieve a continuous innovative product development cycle. Strategic alliances are partnerships among two or more businesses that collaborate to achieve a common goal while increasing efficiency and boosting profitability. Companies participating in a strategic alliance typically share people, expertise, technology, property or capital investments in hopes of reducing expenses, gain access to a larger or more diverse customer base, and achieve quicker market access. However, with failure rates of strategic alliances ranging from 50 to 70 percent, it is not only crucial to choose the right business partner, but to share a common vision. In order to ensure that your strategic alliance does not fail, Pamela Harper at smallbusinesadvocate.com shares four crucial steps to ensuring a successful strategic alliance: 1) Develop an individual strategy before entering a strategic alliance Often times a strategic alliance fails when businesses find themselves shifting away from their main priorities or losing focus on core objectives. This not only wastes time, resources and effort, but decreases productivity for all parties. By developing an individual alliance strategy before entering into a strategic alliance, one that supports individual company visions, businesses can determine whether a particular strategic alliance will actually be beneficial in supporting their individual goals. 2) Develop a joint alliance strategy before finalizing the formation of the alliance To avoid a strategic alliance from favouring one company's goals over their partner's, it is important for participating companies to co-develop a joint alliance strategy; one that supports the goals of each individual company and all companies collectively. In a strategic alliance, companies must understand the vision, strengths and differences of each partner in order to cater the joint alliance strategy to meet each individual goal. When creating a joint strategy, company roles, responsibilities and expectations must be clarified in order to resolve possible conflicts and support decision making. 3) Understand the cultures of each business and cater each relationship accordingly When working with alliance partners, it is crucial that each relationship is individualized and catered based on the cultural and strategic approach of individual companies. Since companies work and interact in different ways, it is crucial that businesses adjust the communication strategy for each of their partners. In order to create a high-performing strategic alliance, organizations must not only provide enough capital and human resources to the alliance, but also ensure that their employees have the necessary resources to form and manage teams within the alliance. 4) Continuously review and alter the joint alliance Throughout the alliance, businesses must review and adjust their joint strategy according to milestones and problems encountered. In order to avoid the alliance from moving away from the original objectives outlined in their joint strategy, it is essential that businesses establish frequent checkpoints to evaluate the progress of the alliance. During the adjustment process, both parties must continuously aim to satisfy each company vision; this will not only benefit both parties, but maintain the collaborative culture that is crucial in an alliance. By implementing these steps, companies can ensure that a foundation for mutually beneficial relationships exists. Should the partners fail to identify their individual strategies or nurture their join strategy, it can be expected that one or all firm will fail to realize the full benefits of the alliance. This may lead to a weakened business relationship and should be avoided at all costs. To learn more about protecting strategic alliances from failure, please click here. Shamini is completing her final year at the University of Toronto Mississauga and is pursuing an undergraduate specialist degree in Business Administration and a major in Communication, Culture & Information Technology. Shamini is joining the RIC team this summer as a Communications Intern bringing with her a passion in marketing and various experiences in online marketing. The RIC blog is designed as a showcase for entrepreneurs and innovation. Our guest bloggers provide a wealth of information based on their personal and professional experiences. Visit RIC Centre for more information on how RIC can accelerate your ideas to market.


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What does HAT mean in Medical?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand HAT in the field in general and in the Medical terminology in particular.
Human African Trypanosomiasis
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What does HAT mean?
- hat, chapeau, lid(noun)
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Spiked Eigenvalue Test for Pathway data
Tests gene expression data from a biological pathway for biologically meaningful differences in the eigenstructure between two classes. Specifically, it tests the null hypothesis that the two classes' leading eigenvalues and sums of eigenvalues are equal. A pathway's leading eigenvalue arguably represents the total variability due to variability in pathway activity, while the sum of all its eigenvalues represents the variability due to pathway activity and to other, unregulated causes. Implementation of the method described in Danaher (2015), "Covariance-based analyses of biological pathways".
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Abstract A new spectrophotometric method for resolving binary mixtures is proposed. The method is based on use of the first derivative of the ratios of spectra. The absorption spectrum of the mixture is obtained and the amplitudes at appropriate wavelengths are divided by the corresponding amplitudes in the absorption spectrum of a standard solution of one of the components, and the first derivative of the ratio spectrum is obtained. The concentration of the other component is then determined from a calibration graph. The method has been applied for resolving binary mixtures of salicylic and salicyluric acids. Calibration graphs for 2.6-52 ppm salicylic acid and for 2.1-42 ppm salicyluric acid were established by measuring the analytical signals at the maximum at 241.5 nm (for salicylic acid) and from the peak at 258 nm to the trough at 247 nm (for salicyluric acid) in the first derivative ratio spectra.
This article was published in Talanta
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NEWTON — As courthouses and city halls close, there is a logistical problem that arises for governmental boards — just how does the county commission or city council meet?
And, just as important, how do its members host a public meeting and comply with the Kansas Open Meetings Act?
Guidance from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and an executive order from Gov. Laura Kelly, limits the number of people in one place at one time to 10. Social distancing guidelines ask those people to stay at least 6 feet apart.
According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, the Kansas Open Meetings Act requires public bodies to be "open to the public." Ordinarily, that requirement is met by allowing members of the public to enter the room where the meeting is taking place so they can listen and observe.
The answer to the problem of public governmental guidelines is popping up in meeting notices and agendas. Now appearing are internet links for video conferencing and phone numbers for voice conferences.
For some area government bodies, this is nothing really new. The McPherson City Commission has posted video of its meetings to YouTube, while the Newton USD 373 board of education started streaming live to Facebook on its own earlier this year.
The Harvey County Commission hosted its first online stream this week, making use of the service Zoom to provide video and telephone access. The commission met in the basement of the courthouse as the meeting was streamed.
Under new guidelines issued by the state, each entity will notify the public of the internet location of the meeting during the meeting notification process.
The attorney general's office has proposed formal rules for state and local governments to ensure their meetings remain open to the public during "social distancing" emergency restrictions on gathering in person. Basically, those new rules require for broadcast of the meeting, preferably with video, on either television of the internet or by audio by telephone conferencing.
"During a time of declared emergency when lives are disrupted, many people are apprehensive, and rumors can run rampant, the importance of ensuring openness and transparency in the government decision-making process is even greater than usual," Schmidt said. "An important way for public bodies to provide reassurance is to go the extra mile to ensure their actions are transparent during the time of emergency.
"This new guidance will help state and local government bodies throughout Kansas operate transparently even when the public cannot gather in person for meetings."


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I have a table called 'individuals'. It has 5 entities i.e. ID (int,) name (String), surname (String), Age (Int) and currencyBalance(double). These are stored in a mySql Database.
I would like to make a GUI that allows the user to enter a value (as currency). This value is then added to the currencyBalance in the database.
I was thinking of making 2 SQL queries. One that returns the balance as an integer and the other updates the Balance by adding the balance returned to the user input. However how do i enter the user data in the SQL query? The idea is to have a simple working application.
I think the SQL Query queries should read something like this am i right?
SELECT balance FROM individuals WHERE ID='1'
UPDATE individuals (SELECT balance FROM individuals WHERE ID='1') SET balance=USERDATAGOESHERE WHERE name='George'
Any better refinement on the logic? Is there a better and more effective way to do this?


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How many cubic yards in an area 24x32x6?
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That is 4608 cubic feet, so 4608 divided by 27 cubic feet per cubic yard equals _PHONE_... cubic yards
It depends on what the area is measured in, inches, feet, yards or metres.
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This area has a volume of: about 0.764 cubic meters.
There are cubic yards and there are square yards There are no cubic square yards. You can't convert square yards into cubic yards; one measures area, the other measures volume.
a cubic yard is 27 cubic ftyou have 5,000 cubic ft5,000 / 27 = 185.2 cubic yards
53.33333333 cubic yards. I think. Wouldn't you divide your numbers by three to get yards and then multiply those answers together to get the area in cubic yards??
An area with these dimensions has a volume of 3.03 cubic yards.
Cubic yards is a measure of volume and square yards is a unit of area. The two are not directly convertible.
This is not a valid conversion because cubic yards is a measure of volume while square yards is a measure of area.
cubic feet is a volume unit not area unit but anyway the result is: 768 cubic feet = 28.44 cubic yards
That makes no sense. -Square yards is AREA. -Cubic yards is VOLUME. They are totally different. (However, 3 yards cubed, i.e. 3 yards x 3 yards x 3 yards = 27 CUBIC yards)
An acre is an area, a cubic yard is a volume, the question has no meaning
It is impossible to express cubic feet as an area.
None. The extent of a football field is generally measured in terms of its area, for which the units would be square yards, not cubic yards.
There are 27 square feet in one cubic yard. This works out to be 10 cubic yards.
If the 1 cubic yard is in the form of a cube. Then its surface area is 6 square yards.
240 cubic feet = about 8.9 cubic yards. (8.88888889 cubic yards).
That is 22.222 cubic yards
This is not a valid conversion. Cubic meters is a measure of volume while square yards is a measure of area.
Your 1 cubic meter = 1.30795 cubic yards.
One cubic meter is 1.308 cubic yards.
There are 1.308 cubic yards in one cubic meter.
How many loose cubic yards is 9000 bank cubic yards?


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Are there any characters that cannot be used for account, level, and dimension names?
The pipe character (the vertical line symbol | ) should not be used in used in element names or memo/note fields because it is a reserved character in the Adaptive Insights API that acts a delimiter to separate data. Pipe characters are not supported in the Integration for Planning tool, and their inclusion in element names or source data can cause columns to be delimited incorrectly resulting in values being posted to the wrong columns.
We recommend completely avoiding/removing the use of pipe characters from the fields in your source system that you will be importing into Adaptive Insights.
To remove pipe characters in your data source, you can create a SQL column that removes pipe characters from the staging table. Please see an example SQL expression below which may need to be modified depending on your integration setup.
CASE WHEN "ExampleField" LIKE '%|%' THEN SUBSTRING( "ExampleField" FROM 1 FOR (POSITION('|' in "ExampleField") - 1 ) || SUBSTRING( "ExampleField" FROM ( POSITION('|' in "ExampleField") + 1 ) ) ELSE "ExampleField" END
This expression will remove exactly one pipe character from the target string if it is present. If there are records that have more than one pipe character in the column, you could try creating a nested SQL statement with several similar expressions to continually search and remove each pipe character and return the resulting string.


Rodeta" (banding wheel)
Sexual division of labour
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A banding wheel is a work tool made for use in the workroom of a factory or a ceramics workshop during the process of decorating ceramic objects.
It is a necessary implement to divide up the decoration of the piece over its entire surface using fine and thick lines, between which the artist would create decoration that was either similar to or differentiated from the other decorative elements framed within them. Applying these lines also enclosed the decoration as a whole, both to complete the ornamentation along the edge of the mouth of the piece and to enclose it at the base.


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Peñuelas - Guanajuato
Facts about Peñuelas
Location of Peñuelas
Peñuelas is located in the municipality of San Diego de la Unión in the Mexican state of Guanajuato with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -100.789722
Latitude (dec): 21.388056
Height over sea level of Peñuelas
The locations medium height over sea level is 1990 meters.
Population in Peñuelas
The over all population of Peñuelas is 626 persons, 287 of them are male and 339 of them are female.
Age distribution
The population of this place consists of 285 minors and 341 adults, with 69 of them being 60 years and older.
Indigenous population of Peñuelas
Social structure
A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 241 citizens of Peñuelas.
Economic situation
In Peñuelas exist about 152 households.
Of these households 145 are common houses or apartments, 20 are without floor and about 7 consist of one room only.
The economic situation allows 0 households to own a computer, 60 own a washing machine and 134 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.
School and education in Peñuelas
Besides the 117 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 23 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.
119 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 201 persons did not finish the school. 55 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 1 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.
A total of 7 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 4 years.
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PFFI Introduces New Cancer Awareness and Prevention Resource
Understand your cancer risk, know the exposures to carcinogens on the job and reduce your risk of occupational cancer with the new IAFF fire fighter cancer awareness and prevention training course.
This new resource, developed in conjunction with the Fire Fighter Cancer Support Network, is designed to help members avoid and decrease individual risk factors for cancer.
In addition to understanding why fire fighters are at increased risk of cancer, this new training will:
 - Describe the most prominent types of cancer that affect fire fighters
 - Identify the top carcinogens in the fire fighting environment
 - Review the major routes of exposure to carcinogens for fire fighters
 - Encourage behavior changes that can reduce the risk of developing cancer
Start the cancer awareness and prevention training course.
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What is a Homemade Bong
Homemade Bong Introduction
At the core, this is a smoking device, built at home, with the intention to function like a water bong, usually because there is no other way to smoke the herbs you have laying around. The funny thing is, most of the devices created could be considered homemade pipes if you want to get technical because often, water is not involved, likely out of convenience because making an official homemade binger is not always easy.
How to make a Homemade Bong
This is a question that cannot be answered with one single answer. That is because of the nature of this product – it is homemade and does not come with directions, although you can find some on the internet, ultimately it is just about working with what you have. This type of binger is where you get McGyver-like and hopefully construct something that can be used as a bong or at least a poor excuse of a pipe. Just make sure you have a mouthpiece, a place to pack and light the herb, plus some sort of tube or space for smoke to travel through.
Common Supplies for a Homemade Bong Idea
 - Plastic bottles in different sizes and shapes
 - Various Fruits & Vegetables
 - Aluminum Cans
 - Tubes of pens & markers
Cool Homemade Bongs
How to make a homemade gravity bong
The simplest and most effective homemade bong to construct is a homemade gravity bong.
1. Step
Get two plastic soda bottles. A two-liter bottle and a one-liter bottle work best.
2. Step
Cut the bottom off the smaller bottle, and cut the top off the larger bottle. Do not cut too much, you can always cut more. You will want to leave most of the larger bottle since it will be responsible for holding the water (in a similar process, you can fill a sink, a bucket or anything else to instead hold the water). Just be sure to leave enough of the small bottle because that is where the smoke builds up, similar to the interior of a glass bong. The more space in the bottle the more smoke that can build and the easier it is to operate. You really just need to cut the very bottom off of the small bottle.
3. Step
Now, take the cap from the small bottle and bore a hole in it. It may be easiest to splice an "X" in the cap first with a steak knife. You are going to cover that cap with aluminum foil, forming a bowl towards the interior of the cap – this cap will be screwed back on the bottle so be aware of which side is which. With the tin foil in place, finally, you will pop tiny holes in the foil bowl with a paper clip or a pin, even a thumbtack.
4. Step
There is a reason you are making the bowl inside the cap! Don't think you can do a shortcut and just put the foil over the top of the bottle opening. You can, but there are optimal ways to do things and with this is one way – with it the cap can be screwed back on the bottle to create a tight seal.
5. Step
You will want to make sure the foil is also secure around the cap so you can get suction. We don't recommend using any adhesive for a better seal, you're really just trying to McGyver something quick here.
6. Step
When all is cut properly, next, fill the two-liter, larger bottle with water. Again, in place of this 2 liter bottle you can use a large pot, a bucket, a sink, whatever you can fill with water.
7. Step
Now finally, load that homemade bowl piece! SLOWLY submerge the smaller bottle into the water but stop below the neck and mouthpiece part of the bottle. The further submerged the bottle, the more smoke that you will be able to bring into the makeshift bong.
8. Step
Once submerged, light the bowl, then SLOWLY pull your "pipe" out of the water. You will watch it fill with white smoke as you do. The pressure created by pulling the bottle upward will pull in air from the outside, as if you were taking a hit, but the pressure does it for you and the smoke comes into the bottle and stores in between the mouthpiece and water.
9. Step
When that bottle pipe is filled with smoke, screw that bowl off quickly (don't have it fully screwed on to begin with) and push the bottle back down inside the water just as you took it out. Again, pressure is at work here, except it is the opposite effect and it will push the smoke outward through the mouthpiece because of the incoming water. While pushing down, make sure to cover the bottle opening with your mouth and that is where the "bong" hit is taken.
You're sure to get a powerful hit, so keep that in mind when operating!
How to make a Soda Can Bong
This works just fine, even if people think it's so terribly ghetto or cracky looking. It's the quintessential homemade bong if you can even call it that. All you need to do is get a can and crush it right.
1. Step
Make the indentation in the center of the can simply by pushing down. Attempt to form a bit of a bowl formation, but don't go crazy – aluminum cans are super sharp when broken down.
2. Step
Next, on one of the indentation slopes, towards the center of the bowl formation, poke tiny holes with something – a thumbtack is really optimal for this, at least I have found.
3. Step
Now the aluminum pipe is made and all you do is place your herbal remedy over the holes and spark up. With this legendary soda pop can bong, you actually will get a huge hit, albeit a little harsh – if you bend the can right you can get a little water on the one side to create somewhat of a homemade bubbler.
How to make a Toilet Paper Roll Bong
This often is referred to as the most ghetto of all pipes in a pinch. In fact, it is effective at delivering a powerful, albeit harsh hit. The pipe is easily assembled with common items available most anyplace you might wish you had a bowl pipe, but do not. In fact it might be preferable to a clogged glass or metal pipe.
1. Step
Simply find a toilet paper roll. Make a cat happy if the roll full so that it doesn't go to waste. You'll need all the paper removed from the roll.
2. Step
Next, cut a little square out of the top of that toilet paper roll. This is where the homemade bowl piece will be placed so keep that in mind.
3. Step
You are going to take that trusty aluminum foil and form a bowl piece. Put it in the cut square and simply take a paper clip or pin and poke holes in the new found metal bowl – by the way, if you have a salt shaker head, that also can work, but it is not always an option.
Finally, tape that aluminum foil bowl piece into place on the roll, right into the little square that was cut out. Take care not to set anything on fire – including the roll – when you take your hit. All you do is put one end of the roll to your mouth and your hand over the other end. Next, take a puff as you would with any other smoking pipe or bong. When you want to clear the hit out, just remove your hand and pull.
How to make a Potato Bong
One often cultivated, rarely celebrated homemade bong is a potato. It's really quite simple, and the potato gets baked along with you.
1. Step
Hollow out the potato and bring out the inner sculptor. Simply create a hole at the top and another on the opposite side - you're trying to mimic the average glass pipe design here. Tunnel down from the top, but make sure it's a skinny tunnel. You don't want your buds falling inside of the potato. If that happens, add cheese, bacon and pop it in the oven. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
2. Step
Next, place the herbs over the top of one hole, as if that hole is the bowl piece in the Roor bong you don't have. The hole on the other side acts as the mouthpiece and the tunnel between the two is well, that is where the smoke travels through. Once you have that built out just light up and get to it like Bob, no tin foil necessary.
Most people prefer to apply this same concept to an apple, which may taste better. But remember, you have to work with what you have and sometimes you may only have a potato.


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I'm trying to implement an X.509 certificate generator from scratch (I know about the existing ones, but I need yet another one). What I cannot understand is how to calculate the SHA-1 (or any other) fingerprint of the certificate.
The RFC5280 says that the input to the signature function is the DER-encoded tbsCertificate field. Unfortunately, the hash that I calculate differs from the one produced by OpenSSL. Here's a step-by-step example.
 1. generate a certificate using OpenSSL's x509 tool (in a binary DER form, not the ASCII PEM)
 2. calculate its SHA-1 hash using openssl x509 -fingerprint
 3. extract the TBS field using dd (or anything else) and store it in a separate file; calculate its hash using the sha1sum utility
Now, the hashes I get at steps 2 and 3 are different. Can someone please give me a hint what I may be doing wrong?
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When you calculate the SHA-1 hash of the tbsCertificate, are you using PKCS#1 padding, as specified in rfc 3279? – sarnold Jan 26 '11 at 11:28
Uhm... RFC2313 (PKCS#1) only specifies RSA encryption. As far as I understand, padding is not needed at the SHA-1 computing phase? – Roman D Jan 26 '11 at 12:13
_USER_ D: Since it's not at all obvious, you should write that as an answer and accept it. – caf Jan 28 '11 at 1:52
_USER_, how do you get the thumbprint of the certificate? I'm not sure what it is. You can calculate SHA-1 of the certificate and see if it the same as thumbprint or not. – Roman D Aug 29 '12 at 9:01
_USER_, I don't have a Windows PC available right now to take a look. Maybe the thumbprint that is shown there is the hash of the public key, as described in wikipedia? – Roman D Aug 30 '12 at 5:36
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Ok, so it turned out that the fingerprint calculated by OpenSSL is simply a hash over the whole certificate (in its DER binary encoding, not the ASCII PEM one!), not only the TBS part, as I thought.
For anyone who cares about calculating certificate's digest, it is done in a different way: the hash is calculated over the DER-encoded (again, not the PEM string) TBS part only, including its ASN.1 header (the ID 0x30 == ASN1_SEQUENCE | ASN1_CONSTRUCTED and the length field). Please note that the certificate's ASN.1 header is not taken into account.
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you could add to your answer (or question) how you extracted the TBS part with dd exactly for future reference :) – Filipe Pina Nov 17 '11 at 17:39
Oh... That was quite a while ago, so I don't remember the details. I think I manually extracted the TBS offset and length from the hexdump of the certificate, and then used these values as dd's arguments, nothing complicated there – Roman D Nov 24 '11 at 17:46
_USER_ D your answer says 'hash over the whole certificate' in the first paragraph and 'TBS part only' in the second paragraph. Is this a mistake? And what is the TBS part of a certificate? I couldn't find anything useful from my google search. – chitti Oct 23 '12 at 17:55
_USER_ No, it is not a mistake, I even put it in italics to stress the idea. :) First paragraph is about the fingerprint, second one is about the digest. You can read about the TBSCertificate field in the RFC5280 (see 4.1.1,, 4.1.2). Basically, it is one of the required fields of a certificate (other two are signatureAlgorithm and signatureValue). – Roman D Oct 24 '12 at 3:26
_USER_ ahh.. my bad.. Thanks! :) – chitti Oct 24 '12 at 17:52
The finger print is similar to term "Thumbprint" in.net. Below code snippet should help you to compute finger print :
 public String generateFingerPrint(X509Certificate cert) throws CertificateEncodingException,NoSuchAlgorithmException {
MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] hash = digest.digest(cert.getEncoded[]);
final char delimiter = ':';
// Calculate the number of characters in our fingerprint
 // ('# of bytes' * 2) chars + ('# of bytes' - 1) chars for delimiters
 final int len = hash.length * 2 + hash.length - 1;
 // Typically SHA-1 algorithm produces 20 bytes, i.e. len should be 59
 StringBuilder fingerprint = new StringBuilder(len);
 // Step 1: unsigned byte
 hash[i] &= 0xff;
 // Steps 2 & 3: byte to hex in two chars
 // Lower cased 'x' at '%02x' enforces lower cased char for hex value!
 fingerprint.append(String.format("%02x", hash[i]));
 // Step 4: put delimiter
 if (i < hash.length - 1) {
 return fingerprint.toString();
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The Stokes-Einstein equation is the equation first derived by Einstein in his Ph.D thesis for the diffusion coefficient of a "Stokes" particle undergoing Brownian Motion in a quiescent fluid at uniform temperature. The result was formerly published in Einstein's (1905) classic paper on the theory of Brownian motion (it was also simultaneously derived by Sutherland (1905) using an identical argument). Einstein's result for the diffusion coefficient D of a spherical particle of radius a in a fluid of dynamic viscosity h at absolute temperature T is:
where is the gas constant and NA is Avogadro's Number. The formula is historically important since it was used to make the first absolute measurement of NA so confirming molecular theory. Although the formula can be derived alternatively using the Langevin equation of motion for a Brownian particle [Chandrasekhar (1943)] the derivation of Einstein is a powerful and ingenious one, correct even when the Langevin equation is only approximate. Einstein assumed that van't Hoff's law for the osmotic pressure exerted by solute molecules in a solvent fluid at equilibrium was equally applicable to the pressure p associated with a suspension of Brownian particles at equilibrium in the same fluid, i.e.,
where nM is the number of gram moles of fluid per unit volume and f the'molar fraction' defined here as the ratio of the number of particles to the number of fluid molecules. Einstein then argued that a suspension of Brownian particles at equilibrium under their own weight could be viewed in two ways both of which were equivalent: a balance between the net weight of the particles and the gradient of the particle pressure in the direction of gravity; or a balance between the diffusion flux and the settling flux due to gravity. Using the Stokes drag formula for the settling velocity (see Stokes Law) and the formula for p above gives the formula for D given above. A similar argument allows one to deduce a form for the particle pressure in a turbulent gas knowing the form for the particle turbulent diffusion coefficient (see Particle Transport in Turbulent Fluids).
Chandrasekhar, S. (1943) Rev. Mod. Phys., 15, 1.
Einstein, A. (1905) Ann. der Physik, 17, 549.
Sutherland, W. (1905) Phil. Mag., 9. 781.


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I have noticed that in some countries many city elements such as streets (where they have names, not numbers), squares, parks etc. might bear important foreign figure names, capital city names (e.g. Tokyo, Paris).
One example that comes into my mind is Charles de Gaulle, who has many avenues and squares named after him across the entire world.
I wonder how does one country obtain things outside its territory named after import political or cultural figures.
Question: How can a country get a street / square / park in another country named after an important figure?


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Acronyms that contain the term ARES
What does ARES mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: ARES.
We've found a total of 5 shorthands for ARES:
What does ARES mean?
- (Greek mythology) Greek god of war; son of Zeus and Hera; identified with Roman Mars


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TRUE POTATO SEED (TPS)
True Potato seed (TPS) was first evolved through sexual reproduction like tomato, chili, brinjal etc., by Ramanujam in1957 and subsequently its commercial viability was tested. However, high heterozygosity of seedlings of TPS and uniformity in crop hampered its commercial adoption by farmers.
How to use TPS
Initially TPS is sown in nursery for raising seedlings which are latter transplanted in properly prepared seed bed but the process becomes labour intensive and very expensive. The TPS was tested and tried at international Potato Centre and Central Potato Research Centre Institute (CPRI) Shimla and recommended ways for eliminating raising seedlings and then transplanting. The method suggested two stage programme for raising healthy seeds, i. e.-
- Production of tuberlets in nursery beds in the first year.
- Storing them in cold store and planting them thickly as commercial crop in the following year. The method however needs testing field for its yield and economic viability. A seed rate of 50-150 g/hectare is used for sowing.
Advantages with TPS
Following are the advantages of TPS-
- This technique is used for disease free seed production. It is the technique for virus free seed production.
- Cost of tubers used in conventional method of planting is very high whereas the production of tuberlets in nursery for planting in next year relatively very low.
- Higher cost required for storage of huge bulk of conventionally used tubers is reduced as tuberlets (being very small in size) require very little space for storage. This also reduces cost in transplantation.
- The viral infiltration in the seed tuber is also less.
- The cost of tuber treating chemicals is also reduced because of relatively lesser volume of tuberlets.
- By this method, the disease free potato seed can be produced and prevention of diseases to new areas can be checked.
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My Archive My Future:
my archives-my future
In order to promote the culture of archiving, documentation and preservation of personal possessions among young people at different academic levels, the National Archives launched a nationwide campaign entitled "My Archive My Future". The campaign aims at introducing students to the methods of archiving and documentation of personal credentials in a systemic and modern manner that will enable students to preserve their official and personal possessions using safer and easier modern methods.
Objectives of "My Archive My Future" Project:
 - To promote awareness among students of the value of Emirati identity, documents and heritage as well as the value of pictures and valuable items that are part of the history of the UAE and its culture.
 - To motivate students to value a sense of national and social responsibility and to ensure that these values are transferred to future generations.
 - To promote student awareness of the importance of documents that are not simply pieces of paper but which can be proud fingerprints belonging to the UAE.
 - To educate students from early childhood of the importance of properly archiving their own certificates for future jobs and the need to save them from damage and loss for when they are needed.
 - To promote to students that they are the link between the National Archives and their family and the need for them to be an effective catalyst to ensure their family's history is kept alive.
Activities of "My Archive My Future" Project:
- Organizing "My Archive My Future" Campaign: to promote the culture of preserving personal archives, including various aspects and photographs of the student's life, such as academic certificates and reports, important newsletters and press releases, identification papers and health cards.
- Organizing the "Educational Archive" Competition: to encourage students to participate in interactive competitions, which will ensure their continuous participation in transferring archival knowledge in the educational sector. Awards will be conferred in the following categories:
- The best personal archive award.
- The best school archive award.
- The best archival material award.
Target group:
School and university students in the UAE.


Request to conserve water in Niseko and Soga areas
The Niseko and Soga areas mainly use spring water for tap water, but the amount of spring water is currently decreasing. This could be due to a decrease in precipitation last summer. Especially in the Niseko area, the water volume is less than 40% of the average year.
For the current shortage of water, we are pumping well water installed next to the Niseko area reservoir and distributing it. However, the water level of the well water is gradually decreasing, and the well water source may wither if the water is used in the same manner as it is now.
For that reason, we ask everyone who uses town water supply in the Niseko and Soga districts to take measures to save water.
Water saving example) ・ Close the faucet frequently when brushing your teeth or washing your hands.
- When washing dishes, pour water in the wash tub and wash.
- In a family with many families, take a bath at a united time
We apologize for any inconvenience, but please cooperate in saving water until the end of the normal drought season in early April.
If you have any questions, please contact Niseko Town government office water and sewage section.
Inquiries regarding information on this page
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Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
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Jeane Kirkpatrick was the first woman to hold the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She is famous for her "Kirkpatrick Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aimsóbelieving they could be led into democracy by example.


Distributed tuning job count
 Type: int
 Default value: 0
 Minimum value: 0
 Maximum value: MAXINT
Enables distributed parallel tuning, which can significantly increase the performance of the tuning tool. A value of n causes the tuning tool to distribute tuning work among n parallel jobs. These jobs are distributed among a set of machines. Use the WorkerPool parameter to provide a distributed worker cluster.
Note that distributed tuning is most effective when the worker machines have similar performance. Distributed tuning doesn't attempt to normalize performance by server, so it can incorrectly attribute a boost in performance to a parameter change when the associated setting is tried on a worker that is significantly faster than the others.
One important note about integer-valued parameters: while the maximum value that can be stored in a signed integer is $2^{31}-1$, we use a MAXINT value of 2,000,000,000. Attempting to set an integer parameter to a value larger than this maximum will produce an error.
For examples of how to query or modify parameter values from our different APIs, refer to our Parameter Examples.


Science Can Now Make Human Blood from Skin
By: Amanda Chang - Nov 8, 2010
References: montrealgazette
Time consuming and mis-matchy blood transfusions may be a thing of the past as scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from skin. That's right folks, the potential to personally make your own blood from the very skin on your bones is just around the corner.
The procedure to make human blood from skin involves taking a tiny extract of skin, extract fibroblasts, then add proteins of DNA within a petri dish to complete the process. Researchers predict this lab-grown blood could be ready for testing within a span of two years.


The Deathly Dangers of Blind Cords
They are in all of our homes. They are something we see every single day and something we may even use every day. They are things we never consider to be dangerous and yet they have killed over 800 children! So, what are these dangers? This danger in our home is blind cords?
How are blind cords so dangerous?
The typical victim of blind cords are toddlers around 3 years and younger. These toddlers get too close to the blind cords and somehow they get tangled up in the cords and they end up having the cords wrapped around their neck. At this point the toddlers are not strong enough to get themselves off of the blind cords and sometimes they are too short to be able to avoid being strangled. Parents usually find their children hanging from their necks on the blinds, which would be the most horrific sight a parent could ever see!
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