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Can I File a Claim if I Was Injured by Flying Debris From a Car Accident?
While car accidents are typically thought of as just causing injury to those involved in the actual collision, they can also cause injury to bystanders who may be hit with flying debris, such as shattered glass, metal shards, or other materials or loose objects.
A person who is injured by flying debris from a car accident deserves to be compensated for his or her injuries just as much as the people injured in the collision itself and should take the time to learn and understand his or her legal options for pursuing compensation.
Flying Debris in Car Accidents
Flying debris from car accidents can cause more injuries beyond those caused by the force of the impact. For example, heavy or sharp objects may go flying into the passenger compartment of a vehicle involved in the collision, injuring those inside or debris may fly out from the point of the impact, injuring others who are simply nearby the collision.
A vehicle may crash into objects along the roadway, such as guard railings, signposts, street lamps, benches, etc., accidentally sending those objects or pieces of them flying towards innocent victims.
Common Injuries Caused by Flying Debris
The injuries that are caused by flying debris will often depend on the type of debris. Small, tiny debris like broken glass is more likely to cause various lacerations to the person or persons impacted by the debris. Large, heavy debris like tires can cause blunt-force trauma injuries such as broken bones, soft-tissue injuries, neck and back injuries, and head or traumatic brain injuries. Conversely, sharp debris can penetrate into a victim like a knife or a bullet, causing internal organ damage, internal bleeding, or traumatic amputations.
Pursuing Compensation for Flying Debris Injuries
Typically, a person injured by flying debris from a car accident will seek to hold the driver at fault for causing the crash responsible for providing compensation for injuries and damages.
Of course, pursuing compensation for flying debris injuries from a car accident is much harder when you weren't in one of the vehicles involved in the crash. You may need eyewitness testimony or surveillance video footage to prove that you were near the scene of the crash and that you were hit by debris created by the collision.
Someone injured by flying debris from a car accident may be entitled to recover compensation for damages such as medical expenses, lost wages or earning potential, and pain and suffering and lost quality of life caused by his or her injuries. It's important to have an experienced personal injury lawyer on your side to negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf to try to reach a settlement, especially since there are likely other parties seeking to recover compensation on the same insurance policy, so you will want to ensure you receive compensation before those policy limits are reached.
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The Nokia 808 PureView's 41 Megapixels Explained
The Nokia 808 PureView's 41 Megapixels Explained
Nokia pulled a huge surprise yesterday when they announced the Nokia 808 PureView, a smartphone with a 41MP camera. Our earlier hands-on provided you with a glimpse of the new Symbian Belle smartphone but we figured that you might be wondering about the real meaning behind this 41MP sensor.
So what does that number really mean, and do more megapixels translate to better looking pictures? What are the challenges of squeezing so many megapixels into such a small sensor, and why does the smartphone save its images in 5MP when it has a 41MP camera? We break down the 808 PureView's 41MP for you, step by step.
What's a Megapixel?
First, we have to break down what we mean when we say megapixels. Every image you see on a digital photograph is made up of tiny dots, each one called a pixel. A megapixel is a term for one million pixels, and it's used to describe the size of a digital image as well as the size of a digital image sensor. For example, when a JPEG image has a resolution of 4000 x 3000, it means that the image is made up of 4000 columns by 3000 rows of pixels. It has a total of 12,000,000 (4000 x 3000) pixels, and since that's a rather large number to say, we shorten it by describing it as a 12MP (12,000,000 divided by a million) picture.
Megapixel is also used to describe the total number of pixels on an image sensor. To create a 12MP image, an image sensor has at least 12 million pixels, or photosites, on it. Each photosite captures light as it passes through the camera's lens and hits the sensor, and translates that into digital information which is rendered into an image by the camera's image processor.
So when Nokia says the 808 PureView has a 41MP image sensor, it means that there are 41 million photosites on the sensor which can capture 41 million pixels' worth of information. But even though the sensor has 41MP, it can't really use all of them, and to understand why we need to explain the term 'effective pixels'.
Why the 808 PureView Really Shoots at 38MP, not 41MP
The next term we need to learn is effective pixels, which is different from the total number of pixels on a sensor. Even though an image sensor can have, say 12MP in total, it can't use every pixel for the simple reason that a sensor is rectangular and lenses are round. So there are always pixels falling outside of the lens' coverage, and the effective pixels are the actual number of pixels which remain to capture the light.
Which is why, even though the Nokia 808 PureView's sensor has a total of 41MP; the camera can only effectively use a maximum of 38MP when shooting at an aspect ratio of 4:3 (an aspect ratio of most photographs from digital cameras), and 34MP when shooting at an aspect ratio of 16:9 (the aspect ratio of Full-HD movies).
Do Too Many Megapixels Spoil the Picture?
Image sensors have limitations. Two sensors of different sizes, a larger one in a DSLR and a smaller one in a smartphone, can have the same number of megapixels, i.e. the same number of pixels on their sensors, but the larger sensor in the DSLR will produce a better image. That's because the smaller sensor is cramming more photosites onto a smaller surface area, thus each photosite is smaller and its ability to capture light is lessened. It's like two people who each have the same number of buckets to collect rain water, only one has much larger buckets and the other has smaller ones.
41MP is a big number compared to, say, 12MP, but if Nokia had gone the 12MP route, then it would have ended up with a sensor that had fewer, but bigger photosites, rather than many, but smaller photosites. In fact, that's what they did with the Nokia N8. While the N8 had a smaller image sensor, it captured data at 12MP and had a pixel size of 1.75 microns. In comparison, while the 808 PureView has a sensor that is 2.5 times larger than the one in the N8, because of the large number of pixels on the sensor, each pixel only measures 1.4 microns.
Generally speaking, larger sensors with larger photosites produce better looking images with less image noise and higher dynamic range. This is not always true, but if nothing else changes, increasing the number of photosites while keeping the sensor size the same tends to introduce more image noise and reduce dynamic range. The 808 PureView has a remarkably large sensor, as you can see in the comparison above. Not only is it significantly larger than image sensors used in most mobile phones, it's also larger than most digital compact cameras'. The worry then, isn't that the 808 PureView's sensor isn't large enough, it's that packing too many megapixels into a sensor of this size might adversely affect image quality.
But sensor size, while a reliable indicator of image quality, isn't the entire picture. Improvements in image quality can be made from advances to sensor technology and image processing. This isn't impossible; more megapixels have been crammed into digital compact cameras over the years while sensor sizes have remained constant, and some manufacturers have been able to do it while retaining image quality. Nikon's latest D800 DSLR camera shoots at 36MP, whereas its predecessor the D700 shot 12MP images with the same sensor size, and Nikon is claiming even better image quality than before.
If the 808 PureView Shoots at 38MP, Why Are the Pictures 5MP?
The 808 PureView's sensor captures at 38MP at its maximum resolution, and the camera can output images at 3, 5 and 8MP (5MP is the default setting), as well as a 'creative' shooting mode where you can save images at full resolution – 38MP with a 4:3 aspect ratio and 36MP with a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Nokia says that the secret to great image quality with the 808 PureView's image sensor is oversampling. What the camera does is it captures data at 38MP (when shooting at the 4:3 aspect ratio), but then down-samples or pixel-bins the image to a default output of 5MP. It does this by combining the information from several pixels to create a single pixel, in the case of 38MP to 5MP, seven pixels are combined into one. Nokia claims that by doing this, the 808 PureView's camera manages to retain image detail but reduce image noise.
Have you ever noticed that an image can look terrible when you look at it on a large monitor, but when it's scaled down to the size of your smartphone it looks a lot better? That's because the image's imperfections have been reduced along with its size – as well as detail. This is one of the benefits you can get from down-sampling an image. If an image looks noisy at 38MP, it will look better at 5MP.
While you can save images from the 808 PureView at 38MP, you lose the benefits of having the camera do the pixel-binning for you, because instead of averaging aggregate data from seven pixels, the camera is creating each single pixel from a'smaller' single photosite. But there should be more information saved in the 38MP data file, and through post-processing it should be possible to create your own 5MP that looks at least as good, or even better, as a 5MP file from the 808 PureView.
There is No Zoom
The 808 PureView's lens does not zoom; instead what the smartphone does is crop into the image to create the illusion of zoom. But the 808 PureView's digital cropping is quite different from the digital zooming used in most digital cameras.
On other digital cameras without optical (lens) zoom, zoom is faked by first cropping into an image and then enlarging the crop to fit the original resolution. For example, a camera may take photos at 8MP without zoom. The user tells the camera to zoom into the image, a section which may be turn out to measure, say, 4MP. The camera then takes this 4MP image and up-samples it by filling in adjacent pixels and creating an 8MP image. That's why digitally zoomed images never look as good as optically zoomed images.
The 808 PureView, however, doesn't up-sample anything. Instead, it's already captured a 38MP image, and when you tell the camera to zoom in, it's still able to create substantially large images just by cropping in. At its furthest zoom (approx. 3x for stills), the camera is able to create a 5MP image with a real number of 5MP pixels without up-sampling. It also means that the image isn't as detailed because the camera is now capturing with less pixels (5MP) than before (38MP) and you lose the benefits of pixel-binning. Thus, instead of calling it a zoom on the Nokia 808 PureView, it's actually more accurate to call it

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Overview: After playing the Middle Ages Time Machine Adventure at activehistory.co.uk, Sidney wrote a complaint letter to the Time Travel Holiday Agent about her experiences. One half of the class wrote similar complaint letters focusing on the negative dimension; the other half wrote travel brochures focusing on the positive experiences!
Examples: This approach can work for any period or topic that has positive and negative sides to it.
Taking it further: Students could be paired together to produce a dramatised dialogue – the holidaymaker could storm into the travel agent demanding a refund by explaining the things which had gone wrong, whilst the travel agent would stress all the positive experiences which are either being omitted in the account or which provide a more rounded view of the situation / period in question.


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SPENT is a 5 letter word that starts with S.
 Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, expended, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, tired, washed-out, worn out(p), worn-out(a)
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 Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of
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 Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
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{Spent ball}, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an
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A pressure gradient is the rate of change (gradient) of atmospheric (barometric) pressure with regard to horizontal distance at a given point in time. The value is usually expressed in mb per 100 mi.
The pressure gradient is a force (P) that acts in a direction from higher toward lower pressure. In the atmosphere the pressure gradient force is directed perpendicular to the isobaric surfaces. It can be divided into two components, one that points vertically upward (Pv) and one that is horizontal (PH). The vertical component is balanced by gravity and is very small. However, small deviations are very important in the cloud formation process.
The horizontal component can produce relatively large accelerations. The size of PHdepends on the rate of change of pressure in the horizontal direction. Where the isobars are close together, the horizontal pressure gradient force is large; where the isobars are far apart, it is weak. A large (steep) gradient produces strong winds. Weaker winds are...
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Author(s): Glenis Heath; Heather McKenzie; Laurel Tully
The fourth edition of Food Solutions: Food Studies Units 1 & 2 has been re-written specifically for the new Food Studies VCE Study Design. The trusted author team has added exciting new dishes from around the world to complement existing much-loved recipes, each accompanied by nutritional information to reflect the increased focus on enabling students to understand and own their food decisions. Featuring fully updated case studies and activities, designed to increase students' understanding and awareness of the issues surrounding food supply and consumption, Food Solutions builds a foundation of learning for students to live better and pursue further training and employment in food-related industries. *Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for access codes and conditions.

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Equine Skeletal System
As you admire a horse, you take in his physique, his muscle tone, and the sheen of his coat. But underlying these essential outer parts is the structure that forms the scaffold to which all soft tissues attach: the equine skeleton.
The skeletal system is made of many interconnected tissues: bone, cartilage, tendons, and
ligaments. The length of the bones and the angles at which they come together dictate a horse's conformation, way of going, stride length, and potential power as an athlete.
This free report provides a detailed overview and illustrations of the skeletal system of the horse.
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King Manor Museum and Park in Jamaica was once the home of Rufus King (_PHONE_), a distinguished lawyer, statesman, and gentleman farmer. The son of a wealthy lumber merchant from Maine, King graduated from Harvard in 1777. He suspended his law studies to serve in the Revolutionary War in 1778. Two years later, King was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. He served as a member of the Confederation Congress from 1784 to 1787, where he introduced a plan that prevented the spread of slavery into the Northwest Territories. King was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and made his most famous contribution to American history as a framer and signer of the Constitution.
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Background: Oral mucositis induced by cancer therapy alters cancer patient's life. Nutraceuticals these days is for their various activities which could neutralize the toxicity induced by cancer treatment. Purpose: Comparision between the effect of grape seed and fruits of Physalis peruviana methanol extract in reduction of mucositis induced by Cetuximab drug. Study Design: Animal study. Methods: 60 male rats divided into 6 groups as 10 in each group. Control group of rats with no intervention given. The other 5 groups were given Cetuximab drug alone or with grape seed extract (simultaneously or 1 week before Cetuximab drug) or Physalis extract (simultanously or 1 week before Cetuximab drug). After sacrifice, tongue was dissected and tissue preparation was done for all samples. Digital counting was done by image analyzer computer system for (a) filliform papillae in H&E stained sections, (b) mast cells in mast cell tryptase stained sections to assess inflammation. The area percent for bax immune-expression in other immune stained sections were also measured done to assess apoptosis. Results: The difference between the groups was assessed for statistical significance (P<0.0001) by ANOVA test. The greatest mean number of filiform papillae was recorded in control group I. Greatest mean number of mast cells and the greatest mean area percent of bax immune expression were recorded in group II. Conclusion: Grape seed extract and Physalis extract could neutralize the harmful effect of cancer therapy. Physalis extract had more potent effect in reducing the inflammation induced by Cetuximab drug.
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Macbeth Glossary
insane root (1.3.87)
The insane root to which Banquo refers is a herb causing madness. It probably refers specifically to hemlock or henbane, both deadly. Banquo asks Macbeth if they have mistakenly eaten some poison that "takes reason prisoner" (makes them lose their minds) because the Witches vanish into thin air.
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Kansas City on ice
January 29 marked the arrival of an historic ice storm that devastated large portions of the Midwest. One of the hardest hit locales was the Kansas City metropolitan area. Officials called it the worst natural disaster in local history. The results were as instructive as they were devastating.
The storm began on January 29 and lasted through the 31
Though the thought of ice storms may evoke mental images of branches and whole trees crashing violently through lines (in fact, that does happen), the reality in most cases is somewhat different, though sometimes no less spectacular.
As ice accumulates, tree branches sag, drooping onto power lines. According to Jerry Borland, executive editor of Transmission and Distribution World magazine, this is what causes most outages in ice storms. The branches cause a short, or fault, when they touch the lines. If no protective measures were in place, the arcs generated by the electrical current would eventually melt the line, causing it to break. To prevent this, utilities install in-line fusible links, as well as fuses on transformers, that will blow when a fault occurs. This results in a loss of power, and each one of the blown fuses must be replaced manually to restore service. That's why it takes so long to regain power after a widespread event. But it's easier than repairing broken lines, which would take even longer.
In the end, most customers in the Kansas City area were without power. Utility crews from all across the Midwest were called in to help. According to Borland, "The normal workforce for Kansas City Power and Light (the largest utility in the KC area) is 107 crews, which amounts to 489 people. The ice storm resulted in KCP&L bolstering their workforce by an additional 738 crews, totaling an additional 2,300 people. KCP&L recorded the most outages with 285,000 total reported outages," but was not the only utility severely affected.
The destruction clearly showed that areas where line clearance had occurred recently were less prone to destruction. As much as people complain about what's done to trees around power lines, it's a valuable thing, as this storm proved. Afterward, area utilities were criticized for not trimming aggressively enough. (Sometimes, you just can't win!) According to Borland, tree trimming is one of the largest line items in utilities' budgets, and often it's difficult to adequately fund trimming operations.
Perhaps more interesting were the clear differences among tree species regarding structural damage. Mike Dougherty, urban forester and owner of Tree Management Company (Lenexa, Kan.), saw first-hand how some trees fared better than others. Dougherty lists the following susceptible species and causes of failure:
Silver maple: Soft wood resulting in mid-limb failure; forks/V-shaped crotches and weak branch attachments resulting in splits; re-sprout failures from previous topping practices.
Red maple (cultivars): same failures as silver maple.
River birch: Soft wood resulting mid-limb and trunk failure.
Green and white ash (cultivars): Forks/V-shaped crotches and weak branch attachments causing splits.
Redbud and dogwood: Forks/V-shaped crotches and weak branch attachments causing splits.
Ornamental pear (cultivars), primarily Bradford: Co-dominant stems, forks/V-shaped crotches causing splits, often to the ground, destroying entire tree.
Siberian elm: Brittle wood causing snaps/breaks mid-limb; re-sprout failures from previous topping practices.
Willow and cottonwood: Soft wood resulting in mid-limb and trunk failure.
Looking at Dougherty's list, you see a mix of "old" species, as well as some currently popular types. Dougherty asserts that just as we now are paying for poor planting choices made decades ago (such as Siberian elm, which was widely planted as a replacement for American elms ravaged by Dutch elm disease), many of our current choices will create similar problems in 20 to 40 years.
Newer popular species, such as red maple and river birch, are planted by the thousand and are not among the more structurally sound trees. People just don't realize what a problem they may be creating, according to Dougherty, because these specimens aren't old and large enough to do much damage yet. That may be too generous, however. Despite the wide recognition of their weak structures, people continue to plant silver maples and Bradford pears in great numbers in urban areas.
Of course, this is not to say the species on Dougherty's list have no place … just not next to houses and power lines!
Too often, we ignore long-term or infrequent problems, to our own peril. Although an ice storm this severe is considered a rare weather event, a look back at the not-so-distant past shows that destructive weather events — the kind that should make you reconsider that Bradford pear you're about to plant next to the house — aren't really that infrequent.
A freakish October 1996 snowstorm caused widespread damage and power loss in Kansas City because trees had not yet shed their leaves for the winter. The foliage caused much more snow than normal to weigh on the branches, bringing many of them down. This followed a destructive ice storm that occurred in the early 1990s. Three catastrophic weather events in one decade makes a strong case for careful plant selection.
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Run Model Advisor Checks for HDL Coder
The Model Advisor checks a model or subsystem for conditions and configuration settings that can result in inaccurate or inefficient simulation. The Model Advisor produces a report that lists the suboptimal conditions or settings that it finds, and proposes better model configuration settings where possible. HDL Coder™ integrates the checks in the HDL Code Advisor with the Model Advisor.
Open the Model Advisor Checks
You can open the Model Advisor in either of these ways:
In the Modeling tab, select Model Advisor. In the System Selector dialog box, select the model or Subsystem that you want to analyze, and click OK.
To run the model advisor checks for the Subsystem that you want to analyze, right-click that Subsystem, and select Model Advisor > Open Model Advisor.
At the command line, enter
systemis the name of the model or Subsystem that you want to analyze. For more information, see
When you open the Model Advisor in Simulink®, you see the checks in the HDL Coder subfolder of the By Product folder. Each subfolder in the HDL Coder folder represents a group or category of related checks. Expanding the folders display available checks in each folder. From the left pane, you can select a folder or an individual check. The Model Advisor displays information about the selected folder or check in the right pane. The content of the right pane depends on the selected folder or check. The right pane has a Result subpane that contains a display area for status messages and other task results.
To learn more about each individual check, right-click that check, and select What's This?.
Run Checks in the Model Advisor
In the Model Advisor window, you can run individual checks or a group of checks. To run a check, Select that check, and then click Run This Check.
To run a group of checks within a folder:
Select the checks that you want to run.
Select the folder that contains these checks and then click Run Checks
For example, to run the checks in the Checks for blocks and block settings folder, select the folder, and then click Run Checks.
You can also right-click the folder Checks for blocks and block settings, and select Run Selected Checks in the Model Advisor.
Display Check Results in the Model Advisor Report
To display an HTML report of the check results, click Report from the toolstrip. You can use the Report drop-down to change the report format to PDF or WORD.
This report shows typical results for a run of the Checks for blocks and block settings folder.
The report displays a run summary of the checks in the folder that you generated the report for. As you run the checks, the Model Advisor updates the reports with the latest information for each check in the folder. When you run the checks at different times, timestamps appear at the top right of the report to indicate when checks have been run. Checks that occurred during previous runs have a timestamp following the check name. You can filter checks in the report to show checks that display a Warning, or show checks that Passed, and so on.
Fix Warnings or Failures
When a model or referenced model has a suboptimal condition, checks can fail. After you run a Model Advisor analysis, indicates checks that have warnings. A warning result is informational. You can fix the reported issue or move on to the next task.
To fix warnings or failures, in the Result sub-pane, review the recommended actions to make changes to your model. When you fix a warning or failure, to verify that the check passes, re-run the check.
Some checks can use the Fix option from the toolstrip. Note that this option is available for selected checks that display violations with input parameters. This example displays the incorrect Reciprocal block settings that caused the check to display a warning.
When you select Fix, the Action Report window shows the changes that were applied. To verify that the check passes, rerun the check. If you use the Model Advisor dashboard, you see that the analysis is faster when you rerun the check because the Model Advisor does not reload the checks before executing them.


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This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results indicate strong correlations between the growth rate on the one side and firmspecific, founder-specific as well as external factors on the other side. These factors influence the growth rates of innovative and non-innovative young firms in different ways. It becomes obvious that large and mature firms have smaller growth rates than small and young innovative as well as non-innovative firms. Moreover, other firm-specific characteristics like legal form and formal links to other firms from Western industrialised countries have an impact on the development of start-ups. With respect to founder-specific characteristics, positive effects can be derived from the human capital of the founder(s). This holds especially for technological disciplines whereas business knowledge plays a minor role. In addition to firm and founder characteristics, locationspecific factors controlling for agglomeration effects and the industry structure in the Eastern German counties have an impact on growth. Comparing annual growth rates of start-ups, innovative start-ups grow on average faster than non-innovative start-ups.
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The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748–1830) document the lives of two observant and articulate founding-era women who were members of one of South Carolina's leading families. Their letters, diaries, and other documents span nearly a century (1739–1830) and provide a window on politics, social events, and people of the late colonial and early national periods. They richly detail the daily life of maintaining family ties and managing households and plantations. Pinckney's correspondence illustrates the importance of women's social connections and transatlantic friendships. Horry's correspondence documents the strength of personal ties that linked the elite families of the North and the South to each other even as connections were threatened by disputes over slavery, commercial differences, and political and constitutional conflict.
At top right: photograph of a brooch owned by both Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry, now in the collections of the Charleston Museum.Table of Contents
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Simmondsiaceae (Jojoba Family)
The Simmondsiaceae are represented by a single genus and species, Simmondsia chinensis, commonly known as Jojoba. Simmondsia chinensis is usually thought of as a Sonoran Desert species, and is at its most extreme eastern distribution in southwest New Mexico. It does not reach into the Gila National Forest, being found about 50 miles southwest of its border.


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— Ghost Kirby • Kirby Fighters Deluxe
In a team battle, fight on as Ghost Kirby after you're defeated! Attack your foes to return to life!
— Ghost Kirby • Kirby Fighters Deluxe
When you're defeated, fight on as a ghost! If you can land a hit on an enemy, you'll be revived!
— Being a Ghost • Kirby Fighters 2
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Language Name Definition, etymology and notes
Japanese ゴースト Translates to Ghost.
English Ghost
Simplified Chinese 幽灵 Translates to Ghost.
German Geist Translates to Ghost.
French Fantôme Translates to Ghost.
Italian Fantasma Translates to Ghost.
Spanish Fantasma Translates to Ghost.
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 - When a bubble item is sent to Ghost Kirby's mouth, he will inflate and drop on the ground and remain motionless until the item is either swallowed or discarded; this happens with the UFO ability as well.
 - Although not seen as a Copy Ability, Kirby is seen in a ghost costume in the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episode Scare Tactics - Part II.
 - This is one of the few abilities to change the appearance of Kirby's hands. Others include Animal, where Kirby's hands have claws, UFO, where his hands disappear entirely, Burning, where his hands catch flame, and ESP, where his hands hold psychic energy.
 - While not appearing in Kirby Battle Royale, a ghost enemy appears in the Coin Clash Battle Mode. Players that are captured by the ghost pass it off to other players by performing a dash move, similarly to how the Ghost ability uses Tackle.
 - Applying the effects of Ghost manually to enemies normally not controllable reveals that movesets for these enemies (including mid-bosses, Gordo, Shotzo and the Squeaks) were included but went unused.[1]
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Proposal: Pie is good
Timed out, failed, 1-4. Josh
Adminned at 23 Mar 2006 10:00:57 UTC
Create a rule named Chaos:
If it's been at least 48 hours since the last one, a Gostak may ask for a Floor relocation by making a post announcing it appropriately. Each Gostak may then vote on it in the same way as on proposals. If the post receives more counted FOR votes than counted AGAINST votes, the Floor Relocation is executed as follows:
* Create a Transdimensional Anchor for each Floor by placing its number in rule The Building (in an orderly manner). Add to Transdimensional Anchors 1 and 13 a hyphen followed by "1" and "13", respectively.
* A DICEX shall be rolled for each Floor, excepting the 13th Floor and the 1st Floor, where X is the amount of Floors. If the resulting number has already been added to a Transdimensional Anchor or is 13 or 1, roll again for that Floor and repeat the actions described in this sentence. Add the resulting number to the Transdimensional Anchor created for that Floor, preceded by a Hyphen. Alternatively, a randomized sequence may be created on for the purpose of assigning Floors to Transdimensional Anchors, provided the outcome is treated as if it were created by DICE rolls (i.e. results of 13 and 1 shall be ignored, and Floors will be assigned in numerical order, skipping Transdimensional Anchors 1 and 13).
* Move each Gostak and Entity to the Floor with the number that has been added to the Transdimensional Anchor which has been created for the Floor e was on prior to the relocation. Each Floor's number will change to the number that has been added to the Transdimensional Anchor which has been created for that Floor, and all references to that Floor's previous number in the ruleset, excepting rule Movement, will change to reflect the Floor's new number.
* Rearrange all Floors in numerical order.
* Remove all Transdimensional Anchors.
If more than half of all counted votes have "I prefer cake" added to them, remove the last sentence of the second bullet point of the rule created by this proposal.
03-20-2006 21:16:16 UTC
against i dont quite understand what this means AND hell and hells hell shouldn't move, but they are moving, and no
03-20-2006 21:19:55 UTC
Ach, getting to the top should not be so easy (or random). Also, if the poster votes FOR eir request for floor relocation immediately after posting, then "If the post recieves more counted FOR votes than counted AGAINST votes…" is satisfied, and the relocation takes place at once. against
03-20-2006 21:21:26 UTC
against Lazy Joe should not leave the Prison.
03-20-2006 21:47:09 UTC
The gist of this is shaking the whole building up, quazie, relocating all things on each floor to another floor. I forgot to put a duration in there for the post to be 'pending', though, which indeed renders this proposal incomplete.
Lazy Joe would move with the prison, by the way (or at least I think so), and I personally liked the idea of hell moving about.
against S-K, but open for suggestions (though I doubt I'll repropose it)
Angry Grasshopper:
03-20-2006 22:41:36 UTC
I like the idea, but when did we add Entities to the ruleset?
Angry Grasshopper:
03-20-2006 23:22:37 UTC
Nevermind that.
Elias IX:
03-21-2006 02:57:59 UTC
I liked the idea. But I'm Idle.
Angry Grasshopper:
03-21-2006 03:02:54 UTC
Well, come back and play with us when you have time for it. ;)


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Child Custody Laws in Thailand. Child custody matters are among the most sensitive and significant legal issues that families may face. In Thailand, child custody laws are designed to prioritize the best interests of the child while considering the rights and responsibilities of parents. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of child custody laws in Thailand, shedding light on the legal framework, factors considered, and steps involved in child custody cases.
I. Legal Framework for Child Custody in Thailand
Thailand's legal framework for child custody is primarily outlined in the Thai Civil and Commercial Code, specifically in Sections 1515 to 1537. These laws establish the principles and guidelines that govern child custody decisions.
II. Types of Child Custody Arrangements
A. Sole Custody
Sole custody grants one parent exclusive rights and responsibilities for the child's upbringing. The non-custodial parent may still have visitation rights, but major decisions regarding the child's education, healthcare, and general welfare are entrusted to the custodial parent.
B. Joint Custody
Joint custody allows both parents to share the rights and responsibilities of raising the child. This arrangement requires open communication and cooperation between parents to ensure the child's well-being.
III. Factors Considered in Child Custody Decisions
A. Best Interests of the Child
Thai courts prioritize the best interests of the child above all else. Factors such as the child's age, physical and emotional well-being, and relationship with each parent are carefully evaluated.
B. Parental Fitness
The court assesses the physical, mental, and emotional fitness of each parent to determine their capacity to provide a stable and nurturing environment for the child.
C. Child's Preference
If the child is of a suitable age and maturity, their preference may be taken into consideration, although it is not the sole determining factor.
D. Parental Roles and Involvement
The court evaluates each parent's history of involvement in the child's life, including responsibilities related to education, healthcare, and extracurricular activities.
IV. Custody Disputes and Legal Procedures
In cases of custody disputes, mediation is often the first step. A trained mediator facilitates discussions between parents, aiming to reach an amicable resolution that serves the child's best interests.
B. Court Proceedings
If mediation is unsuccessful, the matter may proceed to court. Both parents present their cases, and the court makes a final determination based on the evidence presented.
V. Modifying Child Custody Arrangements
Child custody arrangements are not set in stone. If circumstances change significantly, such as a parent's relocation, remarriage, or a change in the child's needs, it is possible to petition the court for a modification of custody arrangements.
Navigating child custody laws in Thailand requires a deep understanding of the legal framework and a commitment to prioritizing the best interests of the child. With the right legal guidance and a focus on open communication, parents can work towards establishing a stable and nurturing environment that promotes the child's growth and well-being. By putting the child first, families can overcome challenges and lay the foundation for a brighter future.


taskPilot – a tool for mentoring and motivating pilots.
Helping newly minted solo pilots move on to flying cross country is perhaps a bigger hurdle than learning to fly in the first place.
New pilots embarking on free flights are limited by the lack of a goal and a way to analyse their performance and measure their improvements.
It is well known that taking off with a proper goal in the form of a task, however simple, means the pilot lands back with a sense of success not found after an aimless free flight.
To help with this transition to cross country, taskPilot is based around the concept of gliding clubs running leagues amongst their pilots, scored using racing and AAT style tasks set up for varying experience levels and weather conditions.
A pilot can choose a suitable task, then access information created by experienced pilots about possible ways to do the task, review landout options and so on, and create a goal and a plan for the flight, rather than taking off and free flying and not going anywhere in particular.
On return pilots load up the igc file from their flight which is scored automatically using a simple time and handicapped distance scheme, then displayed on the club league table.
Pilots can opt for privacy if they want. Unless set to private, all flights are available for anyone to view.
Pilots then have a way of measuring how well they performed. Traces can be reviewed and compared with other pilot's traces to seek ways to improve.
Where clubs have a single seater which is flown by a number of pilots for an hour or so each, then short local tasks can be set up for, e.g. the 'LS4 class', which are speed only, again so pilots take off with a plan.
It is believed that by giving pilots these tools to measure and improve their performance, and enabling them to land back with a sense of achievement, will maintain their interest, hopefully moving on to longer flights, even competitions.
And keep them in the sport.
Click on 'Help' on the top menu bar and choose 'Help with demo' This will take you to log on details along with a walkthrough of the main features.
If gliding clubs want to get access to this app, use the contact menu bar option and send in your details.


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Intrepid Toddler's Daring Crib Escape Caught on Tape [VIDEO]
It's every parent's worst nightmare: Your toddler would rather go exploring than stay in the safe confines of his crib. So he does. Over and over and over.
One mother found herself in such a situation and couldn't figure out how her child kept escaping. So, she set up a camera in the kids' closet. Sure enough, she captured the child, whose name is Dayne, making a break for it not once, but twice.
Watch the Houdini-in-diapers below.


text: Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian born (10 September 1948) programmer and software developer, and Cold War refugee. In 1972, he joined Xerox PARC and worked with Butler Lampson to create the first WYSIWYG word processor, called Bravo. In 1981, he moved to Microsoft, became head of the application software group, and managed creation of its flagship office programs: Word, Multiplan, and Excel. In 2002, he left Microsoft to found a firm to create and promote a breakthrough programming methodology: Intentional Programming. In 2007, he will become the fifth space tourist.


Grading Policies
The Medical School system of assessing a medical student's progress includes both cognitive and non-cognitive components. In each phase of the program, the student's ability is assessed through observation, practical examinations, and tests of knowledge and problem-solving skills. Professional characteristics essential to the practice of medicine are also considered in the evaluation process.
Grading Scheme
Year 1: Satisfactory/Fail
Year 2: Satisfactory/Fail
Year 3: Honors/High Pass/Pass/Fail
Year 4: Honors/High Pass/Pass/Fail


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-Coach lead and carry out the debating activity between members.
-Topic: "If you find your friend cheating in test, will you tell the teacher", is given to the members to let them debate on.
-Members given some time to think about what they want to say.
-Every member should give their opinion about the topic.
-Members are separated into different groups.
-Coach correct the members' mistake if found.
-To improve their debating skills.
-To groom the confident of every member when talking or given a speech in front of people.
-Members learn to indicate their opinion and know to persuade others.


Walky-talky without using inductor or coil
Walky-talky in this website is world 1st verified walky-talky project without using coil. Walky talky is very interesting and attain grabbing project for electronics hobbyist. Communication is done without any physical connection and mobile network up range of 500 meter. Almost all communication devices utilize coil which is burden for electronics hobbyist. So, we design this circuit without using any coil.
Circuit Descriptions of walky-talky
The entire circuit of walky-talky is divided into two main section transmitter and receiver section.
Transmitter section:- Transmitter section utilize IC NE566 (IC4) as VCO (Voltage Control Oscillator) for generating frequency about 30 KHz. Resistor R24 with Capacitor C24 used as frequency components for frequencies determination. Voice is pick-up by mike (MIC1) and changed it into equivalent electrical signal. Signal from microphone is amplified by transistor T4 and given to pin no 5 0f IC4. NAND gate N1 with crystal oscillator XT4 finalizes the output from pin 3 of IC3. Lastly, signal from NAND N2 through N3 and N4 given to antenna for transmission.
Receiver section: - Transmitted signal from another walky-talky is received from same antenna which is used for transmission. Field effect transistor T1 boosts the received signal and make more powerful and send to amplifier section made from transistor T2 and T3 with crystal oscillator XT1 through XT3. Detector section is made from diode D1, Capacitor C6 and resistor R12. 30 KHz frequency is obtained from detector section.
Frequency of Phase Locked Loop IC NE565 (IC1) is adjusted by capacitor C9, resistor R17 and variable resistor VR1. Amplifier IC LM386 (IC2) is used to amplify the signal and given to speaker.
Resistors (all ¼-watt, ± 5% Carbon)
R1 = 47 KΩ
R2 = 100 Ω
R3, R4, R11, R27 = 2.2 KΩ
R5 = 330 KΩ
R6, R10 = 560 Ω
R7 = 1 KΩ
R8 = 220 KΩ
R9 = 100 Ω
R12, R15, R16 = 4.7 KΩ
R13, R31 = 10 KΩ
R14 = 15 KΩ
R17 = 1.8 KΩ
R18 = 1.2 KΩ
R19 = 1 KΩ
R20 = 4.7 Ω
R21, R22 = 100 KΩ
R23 = 120 KΩ
R24 = 5.6 KΩ
R25 = 22 KΩ
R26 = 150 KΩ
R28 = 330 Ω
R29 = 220 KΩ
R30 = 47 KΩ
VR1 = 4.7 KΩ
VR2 = 22 KΩ
C1, C6, C10, C24 = 1 KpF
C2, C4, C5 = 47 KpF
C3 = 20 KpF
C7, C9, C23= 2.2 KpF
C8 = 4.7 µF/16V
C11 = 22 KpF
C12, C16 = 0.1 µF
C13 = 2.2 µF/16 V
C14, C19, C25, C26 = 0.22 µF
C15 = 10 µF/16V
C17 = 220 µF/16V
C18, C20 = 10 KpF
C21, C22 = 68 pF
C27 = 1000 µF/16V
C28 = 10 µF/16V
IC1 = NE565 (Phase Lock IC)
IC2 = LM386 (Amplifier IC)
IC3 = CD4011 (Quad 2-input NAND Gate IC)
IC4 = LM566 (Voltage Controlled Oscillator)
IC5 = LM7812 (Voltage Regulator)
T1 = BFW10
T2, T3 = BF194
T4 = BC148
D1 = 1N4148
XT1 – XT4 = 10.7 MHz crystal
SW1 = Single pole double throw switch
LS1 = 8Ω speaker
MIC1 = Condenser microphone
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62 thoughts on "Walky-talky without using inductor or coil"
 1. Hi..
 It's interesting circuits but I'm wondering about the interference effect to public FM radio receiver, since it's use 10,7 Mhz Frequency carrier..
 Is there any info regarding this?
 1. Here we are using the Intermediate frequency band with frequency 10.7 Mhz for transmission and the public FM in most countries uses VHF band for FM broadcasting, So it should not be a problem in most countries.
 The Frequency is also used by some Satellite and FM broadcasters in some few places ( Which I haven't heard of till now).
 But I suggest to make sure that the frequency 10.7 mhz is not used by any other broadcaster in your place before building this project.
 2. 1. What is the aerial antenna and what are its specifications for buying it so that it can be used in the above circuit??
 2. Is it possible in this circuit to transmit or receive the signal at a time???
 3. can you elaborate the working of the complete design circuit (not the working of vco, amplifier, etc.but the working of what mode in which it receive or in what mode it transmit)?????????
 3. what parameters are defined to buy the aerial antenna so that circuit works properly???????
 4. Hi sir,this is excellent.i'm not an electronic student but i am interested in doing these projects.Is there any chance in increasing range.
 5. can u please explain function of each component of this circuit…..
 I mean detailed working of the above circuit…
 6. Good evening sir,
 Is it legal to work on this frequency in india. I mean, i will be not the violation of rule?
 7. Sir Plz do reply, I have few questions!!
 1) My NE566 IC heated up like a burning coal whenever i applied the voltage, i have checked every single connection, i have done the connections exactly instructed in the circuit, so whats the problem? Is it normal?
 2) Any equivalent of BFW10? in my area there is no BFW10 available so i am using BC246A. Is it correct? Because BC246A is also N-channel JFET, can U recommend any equivalent??
 3) Can i use 11.0592Mhz crystal instead of 10.7Mhz???
 Please sir do reply urgently, I have to submit this project within a week.
 Thanks in advance
 8. Is there 10,7MHz crystal or ceramic filter? As i know 10,7MHz is a ceramic filter (CF). Or maybe i dont know if 10,7MHz is crystal too. And how about pin number if that is a ceramic filter (CF)?
 9. Sir, can i connect an audio signal direct to the mic input point after removing the mic.
 hope 500 mtrs range will not violate the fcc rules,is the transmission free from disturbances,is a thin shield
 metal cover grounded to the negative supply required for any section to avoid noise and disturbances,what is the min and max current drawn by the circuit when the system is on ideal cond and current during transmission /receiving. Regards Sambath kumar.
 10. How is that you build these circuits? I mean like how yo know where to play e the resistor and the values of the resistor, though I know that its done by calculation how to actually build these complex circuits on my known. I am sure my questions is difficult to answer or could nor be explained in a comment so please at least direct me to the materials that can help me develop these skills of building and designing circuits on my own. Your help would be appreciated and beneficial. Please reply me positive. Thank you very much.
 11. I am a novice in electronics. Well concerning the circuit it contains an oscillator with three pins can a two pin oscillator also be used.
 12. Hi,
 I am struggling to find the transistors – T1 = BFW10; T2, T3 = BF194; T4 = BC148. Could you please suggest any other models that wiould replace these. Thanks in advance.
 13. I am struggling to find these T1 = BFW10; T2, T3 = BF194: T4 = BC148 transistors. Any suggestions that could replace them. Thanks.
 14. Sir What should i use for antenna…..i built the whole circuit and i am struck in antenna……..plssssss help!!
 15. Hello Sir, can you please message me regarding the antenna? What is it actually? and what type of modulation is used in this circuit? Is it guaranteed that this scheatic works? Thank you for the response, hope can have it sooner 🙂
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Ab Initio - Generate Records
A cool part about the Generate Records is that it can behave as an in-graph record source to the graph itself, or just to produce an output file for another graph to consume. It allows us to instantly create records for testing without having to hand-edit a file, and it can generate data in high volume just by setting up a graph.
I see a lot of questions around the Generate Records component. Apart from building basic data, people want to build the more exotic and 1-off data types that the Generate Records does not readily support.
May I offer one humble suggestion, and that is to simply forego the output content of the Generate Records except where we need to use a randomly generated string value. Apart from this, I've found far more power and flexibility in the following scenario, and it works every time it's tried.
Firstly, we need to put a couple of components on the canvas. One is the Generate Records and one is the Reformat. In the input DML of the Reformat, we will define a record with a single string field. Call it dummy[1] or some such like. We only plan to throw it away. Connect the output port of the Generate Records to the input port of the Reformat. Now the only data we need in the Generate Records, is how many records to generate. Let's use ten (10) records to start.
Now on the output DML of our Reformat, we put the record definition of the data we are actually trying to generate. For example, some wild, vectored, EBCDIC format - whatever, the output port of the Reformat will be the actual launching point of our generated data, rather than the output port of the Generate Records.
Someone once asked me, what does this buy us, exactly? I mean, we can't actually do anything with an empty, null record comming off the Reformat's output can we?
Of course we can.
We have the entire domain of the Reformat's expression editor, statements and business rules to stuff data into the output port with reckless abandon. Of course, we aren't exacely reformatting anything, more like formatting, creating data in the Reformat, manufacturing it on the fly.
And you may well ask - where does the data come from? It comes from the Reformat, which will emit one record for each record sent from the Generate Records. We are after all sending records from the Generate Records, we're just not doing anything with them. Each time a record "appears" on the input port of the Reformat, it will automatically cause the Reformat to emit a record on its output port, based on the rules we've put in the transform section of the Reformat.
Now to catch the data that the Reformat is about to produce, we can attach a Trash component, or we can attach an Output File, whatever suits.
Once we put all the rules in place, we punch the go button and our setup will manufacture ten (10) records into the Output File component. We can now examine it, review it, change, tweak or add some rules in the Reformat, then try again. Each time (in this case) we'll get ten records.
Need more data? Change the count in Generate Records - need different data? Modify the rules in the Reformat. This setup is the most flexible way to create data, and the one that will always guarantee we get the data in the DML form we are expecting.
I've seen folks take a really ugly COBOL copybook, put it on the output port of the Reformat, and flesh out the Reformat's transform to faithfully replicate the data exactly as how it would look from the source. I've also seen folks set this up to simulate a database extract, mainframe extract and XML generated output. For all practical purposes, we can manufacture any information, in any quantity and any format with this setup.
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Nice posting. I have used that technique a number of times and found it useful. In fact, I recommend checking in a graph with each project that generates test data as expected from the source system, for testing purposes. It saves a lot of headaches trying recreate test data later when doing enhancements, etc.
Another point worth mentioning is the "Generate Data" component which combines the Generate Records and Reformat together. It can be found under lib/layered_components/generate-with-transform.mpc. I think Chris Day wrote about this in one of his posts.
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In email communication, people often use "can you do X" instead of "please do X". Is this a more polite form, or is this just an idiom which means exactly the same?
If I use "dig this hole" as an abstract example, I can write this in several forms:
- Can you dig this hole?
- Can you dig this hole.
- Can you please dig this hole.
- Please dig this hole.
Do these forms have some different but measurable level of politeness? I feel that (2) is a bit rude, but may be just careless spelling; is my feeling justified?
If I want to ask someone to "dig this hole", which is the most polite way to do that?
I am interested mostly in email communication, because this is the only way I use English now. But maybe considering spoken language can help.


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We study the efficient allocation of a divisible asset when reallocation is costly. Two players initially divide an asset between them. At the time of this initial division the players' valuations for the asset are uncertain. After the uncertainty resolves, costly reallocation may take place. We first establish that the surplus associated with efficient reallocation monotonically increases or decreases in the concentration of the initial division for a wide range of cost specifications. We then characterize how the budget necessary to implement the efficient reallocation changes with the initial division. (JEL D11, D63, D81)
"Reallocation Costs and Efficiency."
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PF Tek is a method of mushroom cultivation pioneered by Robert McPherson, aka Psylocybe Fanaticus, T.P. & Nanook. This technique (Tek) originally utilized organic rye berries, but later included brown rice flour and vermiculite. The substrate is sterilized in half pint wide mouthed canning jars by boiling or pressure cooking, with a layer of dry vermiculite as a filter agent to keep out competing bacteria and fungus. The sterilized "PF jar" is then injected with a solution containing spores and water from a syringe, creating a one step procedure for reliably growing mushrooms indoors.
Psylocybe Fanaticus was the business name of Robert McPherson, the creator of the PF Tek. The PF Tek can be used to grow a wide variety of mushrooms including the edible species shaggy mane, lion's mane, the bioluminescent species Panellus stipticus, and various species of psilocybin mushrooms.
Strengths and weaknesses
PF Tek is a popular method for home cultivation because it is easy, simple, inexpensive and reliable. The materials needed are cheap and widely available. Jars can be sterilized by boiling or with a pressure cooker. Although sterile technique is required when inoculating, risk of contamination from airborne spores or bacteria is small because air exposure is minimal and the layer of vermiculite which acts as a filter.
More experienced growers may not use PF Tek due to its low yield, and high labor input required when compared to other methods, like Monotubs. The use of a spore syringe also has its drawbacks. Because spores are a mix of genotypes, it is impossible to select mycelium that colonizes fast and produces high yield.


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This chapter comprises a case study of the values education practices of a school heavily involved in the Australian Values Education programme. It is constructed in a way that fleshes out and illustrates the concept of the student wellbeing pedagogy that was outlined in Chapter 1. Instructional scaffolding is the lynchpin of the pedagogy and it can take a variety of forms. The case study of the Student Action Team approach to teaching and learning with its service learning dimension illustrates how such an instructional scaffold enables a school to shape teaching and learning in line with its core values as well as have students constantly transact the core values in ways that enhance student social, emotional and academic wellbeing.
International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing p. 19-36


Home / Style / How Would You Know if Your Sports Memorabilia has a Real Signature?
Many sports fans don't get satisfied by just watching their favourite athletes performing live. Most of them will even buy nicely framed sports memorabilia.
Sports memorabilia are the items that the athletes have used during a game. It could be a jersey, boxing gloves, a pair of shoes, a ball, etc. Some fans buy replicas or something that has been made to resemble the real memorabilia. On the other hand, some fans only get satisfied when they buy a signed item.
Signed sports memorabilia are more expensive compared to the items that have no signature, let alone replicas. However, if you will buy one with your favourite star's signature on it, make sure that the signature is real as they are really expensive.
Here are some tips that could help you determine whether the signature on your memorabilia is real or not.
Turn the signature upside down
If you already have a signed item from your favourite athlete, buying a new one with the same signature will determine the real signature. You can make a comparison by turning both signatures upside down.
This way, your mind will look at the items objectively, showing you tell-tale signs and minor differences between the two signatures, revealing the fake one.
Check the ink closely
If you bought signed memorabilia, it would help if you can bring a magnifying glass that you can use to look for possible clues. If the signature were stamped-on, you would notice that all lines get to the surface simultaneously.
Using a magnifying glass, you will notice that the edges have more ink than in the middle. You can compare it to a signature printed by a machine that has felt unnaturally "smooth."
You may also want to check how the signature was made. If it is signed with a pen, its point will cut through the ink, producing "bridges" and "tunnels" that can be seen through a magnifying glass. However, some vendors can duplicate a signature using an autopen: a tool that uses a mechanical arm that can sign using a pen along with a signature template.
Check for signs of robotic signature
Natural handwriting comes in a single, continuous movement. Moreover, before you start writing with a pen, your hand moves the pen towards the paper. Meanwhile, the autopen begins with a dot and ends suddenly with a dot, without that fading effect from handwriting.
You may also use a magnifying glass to see if the signature looks unnaturally "shaky," which could be caused by the machine's vibrations.
You may also see some machine-like straight lines through the magnifying glass. These lines have robotic wobbles, where the machine has slipped.
Skip private auctions
A seller of legitimate signed sports memorabilia will never ask for privacy during the deal. A reliable seller can guarantee you that they are selling items with legitimate signatures with supporting documentation. Moreover, a legitimate seller can provide you with a lifetime guarantee. Furthermore, they are open about their past dealings, history, expertise, and references.
These are just some of the tips that you can follow to determine whether you are buying a real signed item or not. However, if you want to make sure about the legitimacy of your autographed memorabilia, you may try asking your favourite star to sign your item after their game.
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"Most mandalas have an intuitive, irrational character and, through their symbolical content, exert a retroactive influence on the unconscious. They therefore possess a "magical" significance, like icons, whose possible efficacy was never consciously felt by the patient." –Carl Jung
The Whistling Dixie series from 2015 looks at the shadow aspect of universal emblems, such as the Mandala. In standard paper targets the circular and quaternary aspects of symbolic wholeness become mundane exercises in improving one's aim with firearms. These mixed media targets explicitly explore racist remarks I experienced directly, both as the receiver of hate speech, and as a fly on the wall. The inherent violence of the actual bullet holes in each target is echoed by the words emblazoned across these shadow archetypes.


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the Armorer of the Order
The Armorer of the Order is more the name of the place, than of the individual. The "Σιδεράς του Τάγματος" himself comes from a long line of armorers. He and the "Order Merchant" run the establishment which can be found just opposite the steps leading to the slums of Βίζιμα's Συνοικία του Ναού, on Roper Street. Their main competition is Malcolm Stein.
They will politely tell anyone that they only deal with friends of the Order. Here is how you can tell if they will deal with you.
Έμπορος του Τάγματος[]
the Order merchant
The merchant sticks to mainly:
Σιδεράς του Τάγματος[]
the Σιδεράς του Τάγματος
The armorer, on the other hand, buys an amazing variety of goods:
And in a pinch, with some instructions and a healthy donation (70 oren(s) ) to the Order, the armorer can make a lightning rod.
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TF5800 manual: the remote control
Remote control buttons and their functions
1. Power.
PowerUse this button to switch the PVR in and out of standby mode.
2. Mute
MutePress mute to temporarily switch off the sound; press again to switch it back on.
3. TV/Radio
TV/RadioSwitch the PVR between television and radio channels.
4. Satellite
SatelliteThis button switches the output of the main SCART socket between the PVR's picture and the device connected to the secondary SCART socket.
5. Opt
OptThe Opt button gives access to additional features, such as subtitles, favourites, soundtracks and the sleep timer.
6. Numeric keys
These are used to enter channel numbers and menu options. The 0 key also cycles through picture size options.
7. Recall
RecallThe Recall button switches between the current channel and the previously viewed one.
8. Info
InfoPress i to display more information about the current programme or a programme highlighted in the EPG.
9. Guide
GuideThe Guide button displays the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).
10. Menu
MenuUse this button to access the PVR's menus, or to return to the previous menu from a sub-menu.
11. List
ListPress List once to display a list of all the channels stored for TV or Radio. Press it again when the list is displayed to select a group of Favourite channels.
12. Exit
ExitPress Exit to leave the current screen.
13. V+, V-
V+V-These buttons increase and decrease the volume. In some screens, they also work as right and left movement keys.
14. P+/P-
P+P-The P+ and P- buttons move to the next or previous channel in the channel list or the current Favourites list. In some screens, they also work as up and down movement keys.
15. OK/List
OK/ListThe OK button is used to select items in menus, and in interactive services. When viewing live TV, it displays the channel list, and when viewing a recordings, it will display the list or recordings in the archive.
16. Up and down keys
UpDownIn system menus, the up and down keys allows you to choose an item from the menu. They are also used to navigate through the electronic programme guide, and in interactive services.
17. Left and right keys
LeftRightIn system menus, left and right keys allow you to change the options for a menu item. They are also used to navigate through the electronic programme guide, and in interactive services.
18. Rewind
RewindPress to reverse playback; press again to increase speed, or hold down to move along the progress bar.
19. Play
PlayPress to go to normal playback speed, or to display the progress bar for faster navigation when playback has already started.
From the Archive, press to resume playback from the last position.
20. Fast forward.
Fast forwardPress to start fast forward, and again to increase playback speed, or hold down to move along the progress bar.
21. Stop
StopPress to stop playback, to stop a recording, or to jump back to live TV from time shifted television.
22. Record
RecordPress to start a recording.
23. Pause
PausePress to pause playback of a recorded programme or live television.
24. Slow motion
SlowThis button starts slow motion playback. Subsequent presses change the speed of playback.
25. PiP move
PiPPress this button once to start the Picture in Picture (PiP) function. Press again to change the position of the Picture in Picture, and to turn it off.
26. Archive
ArchiveThis button displays the list of recorded programmes that have been saved on your PVR's hard disk.
27. Text button
TextThe Text button is used to access or leave interactive services, such as BBCi and Teletext.
28. PiP Swap
PiP switchThis button swaps the Picture in Picture with the main picture.
29. White key
WhiteWhen the PiP function is being used, this key displays a list so that you can choose which channel is displayed in the smaller picture.
When the Progress Bar is displayed, it allows you to select a section of a programme for repeat playback or editing.
Colour keys
The coloured keys on the remote control are used by interactive services, such as BBCi or Teletext – for example, you may see a message on screen asking you to 'Press Red.' The keys are also used in some of the PVR menus, where you will usually see an on screen message telling you which key to use for which function.
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In order to direct limited conservation resources toward the greatest need for Colorado's wildlife, the Colorado Division of Wildlife developed the Colorado Wildlife Action Plan. This Plan, prepared through a rigorous process of coordination with partners and stakeholders, identifies conservation priorities on three levels: habitats, watersheds, and focus areas.
In developing Colorado's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP), CDOW biologists identified those habitats within the state that warrant a higher sense of conservation urgency. The High Priority Habitats map depicts those habitats as represented by Southwest Regional GAP (SWReGAP) landcover classes. Once the SWAP high priority habitats were identified by biologists from CDOW, these habitats were then crosswalked to their equivalent SWReGAP ecological systems, and these systems were extracted from the landcover dataset to produce the High Priority Habitats map. The State Wildlife Action Plan's (SWAPs) high priority habitats data help users understand which habitats in the state warrant a higher sense of conservation urgency. These habitats are of conservation concern because they are declining in extent or condition, threats are high, and/or they support species of greatest conservation concern.
High Priority Watersheds data depict general patterns of distribution and concentration for the 19 fish species identified as Tier 1 Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Colorado's State Wildlife Action Plan. These data were derived from CDOW's aquatic species database, which includes information from CDOW field personnel, field observations, creel surveys, sampling, and other non-CDOW sources (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Forest Service). The areas displayed within this dataset do not cover all critical aquatic waters within the state. Rather, they represent species richness based on general occurrence and distribution of Tier 1 fish species per USGS National Hydrological Dataset (NHD) broken up by HUC units at level 10. This dataset represents the best available, publically distributable data for these species at this time. The fish species represented by this dataset are: Arkansas darter, bonytail chub, brassy minnow, Colorado pikeminnow, Colorado River cutthroat trout, common shiner, greenback cutthroat trout, humpback chub, lake chub, northern redbelly dace, plains minnow, plains orangethroat darter, razorback sucker, Rio Grande chub, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Rio Grande sucker, roundtail chub, southern redbelly dace, suckermouth minnow. The State Wildlife Action Plan's High Priority Watersheds data help users understand which watersheds in the state warrant a higher sense of conservation urgency. These watersheds are of conservation concern because they support the most at-risk fish species in the state. Several of these species are federally listed.
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The main objective of the compost system research project was to find a composting system that does not attract animals, produces good quality compost and educates families about waste reduction and sustainable gardening practices.
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Pemberton Children's Centre — Nutritional Snacks and Meals Workshops
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- The feeding relationship–never force a child to eat or reward your child with food.
- Parents decide what food is served and when
- Children decide whether and how much to eat
- Role modeling to help the child eat a variety of healthy food
- Aim to eat meals together as a family
- Timing — offer 3 meals and 1 to 3 snacks each day to keep up with your toddler's high energy needs
- Meal planning — planning in advance makes it easier to fit healthy eating into your busy day and helps curb impulsive shopping and spending
- Canada's good guide–include foods from at least 3 food groups for each meal, and include foods from at least 2 groups for each snack
- Ideas and recipes for snacks and meals
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Pemberton Meadow Childcare — Healthy Snacks
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Millennials are now the largest generation in the Canadian workforce, and within the next few years will begin to get real responsibility and influence in shaping our country's future.
With the school year now behind us, it's a great time to think about what the future holds for education in Canada and how millennial attitudes will shape this future.
Here are three key trends to watch out for.
Personalization of Learning
A key trait of millennials is how much we value ownership and personalization. We thrive in environments where we are given a voice and can pursue our personal interests, environments in which we are treated like individuals rather than part of the herd.
Today, interest in personalized learning is at an all-time high. According to Google Trends, search volume for the term "personalized learning" is 3x higher today than at any time over the last decade.
Schools like AltSchool, the Khan Lab School, and Summit Public Schools are experimenting with new models for classrooms where personalization of learning -- what, when, and how a student learns -- can happen at scale. Backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, these initiatives are slowly but surely iterating their way to this new model.
Educators have always known the importance of ownership in improving student engagement, and today they're more vocal about giving students a voice in their own learning than ever.
Instant Access
In this case, the stereotype definitely holds true -- millennials are hooked on smartphones. Millennials are the first generation to have grown up with mobile devices, and the first generation of students who have never known a world without mobile devices is now reaching adulthood.
Today, more than 85 per cent of students in high school have access to mobile devices. Instant access to any kind of information or entertainment that we seek is not just an expectation, it's table stakes. This changes the dynamic of the traditional classroom drastically -- we're no longer beholden to waiting for teachers to disseminate information for us to learn. Gone are the days of borrowing books from the library or researching assignments using encyclopedias. We can find immersive, engaging learning content on any subject, and it's all at our fingertips.
This trend is only going to strengthen with the advent of consumer-grade virtual reality (or augmented / mixed reality) devices. With everyone from powerhouses like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google to startups like Magic Leap betting big on these technologies, a future classroom where each student can dive head-first into their own realities and learn anything they want isn't that far-fetched.
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Odonates as biological indicators of grazing effects on Canadian prairie wetlands
Article first published online: 27 MAY 2005
Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 273–283, June 2005
How to Cite
Lee Foote, A. and Rice Hornung, C. L. (2005), Odonates as biological indicators of grazing effects on Canadian prairie wetlands. Ecological Entomology, 30: 273–283. doi: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00701.x
- Issue published online: 27 MAY 2005
- Article first published online: 27 MAY 2005
- Accepted 16 December 2004
- Aquatic invertebrates;
- cattle grazing;
Abstract. 1. Aquatic macro-invertebrates have frequently been used as biological indicators in lotic environments but much less commonly so in lentic habitats. Dragonflies and damselflies (Order Odonata) satisfy most selection criteria for lentic bioindicators of grazing impacts.
2. Intensive cattle grazing affects most of the Canadian prairie pothole region but the effects of grazing on wetlands are poorly understood.
3. Here the vegetation structure and invertebrate community composition of 27 prairie potholes in Alberta, Canada were studied and compared. Wetlands were evenly divided into three treatments of different grazing regimes.
4. Removal of emergent vegetation by cattle grazing decreased odonate abundance and reproductive effort. Shorter Scirpus acutus stems resulted in significantly fewer damselflies (Suborder Zygoptera) and lower reproductive efforts.
5. Overall odonate diversity was affected by the height of key plant species, highlighting the importance of the vegetation structure of both emergent vegetation for breeding and adjacent upland vegetation for nocturnal roosts. Wetland vegetation structure was more important than vegetation composition to the life history of odonates.
6. Wetland water quality parameters of nitrogen, phosphorus, total dissolved solids (TDS), and chlorophyll-a concentration did not change due to the presence of grazing cattle at wetlands so water quality influences were rejected as mechanisms of change.
7. Larval odonate diversity and abundance was positively correlated with overall aquatic macro-invertebrate diversity and abundance, hence it was concluded that the larval odonate community can be an accurate bioindicator of intactness and diversity of overall aquatic macro-invertebrate communities in Canadian prairie wetlands.


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This article describes all additional considerations that must be taken into account when deploying a K2B Audit application (i.e. an application that uses K2B Audit).
K2B Audit generates objects that should be kept away from public access. We call them "audit management objects". Audit management objects manage database triggers and may be used to understand your Data base structure, disable or enable triggers, etc. It is recommended to deploy them to a separate, non public, Web application.
Please take a look at the Deployment considerations for detailed information.
A K2B Audit application has three basic components:
- The application itself
- The audit analysis objects
- The audit management objects
There are no special considerations for deploying the application itself but to be sure it does not accidentally contain audit analysis or management objects that you do not want in it.
Audit analysis objects are used to process and query audit data. They do not change audit data but may be used to understand your application data base. They should be deployed to different web application. One having more restrictive access than the application itself. The list of main audit analysis objects follows:
Audit management objects are critical in terms of security. Having access to them may be used to understand your application data base and to start/stop auditing. They are usually not public. The list of main audit management objects follows:
- All files in K2B Audit SQL scripts directory
A K2B Audit application needs to populate K2B Audit tables with application metadata (data about the application been audited) and to define database triggers to work properly.
To populate K2B Audit tables, run K2BAudit.CreateAuditMetadataMain at the command line. Be sure the K2B Audit SQL scripts directory is accessible to this program.
There are two options to create database triggers.
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Rerajahan: Sacred Drawing
Religious symbols, icons, or signs can be found in surprisingly numerous numbers in Bali. Surprisingly? Since they are perfectly interwoven in everyday Balinese life, one hardly realizes their existence. Some religious symbol can easily be recognized, for example Rerajahan. Rerajahan is the most obvious and easily recognized Balinese religious symbol.
Rerajahan is a drawing of sacred characters or images on a piece of cloth, metal plate, pottery, leaf, fruit, wood, weapon, basket or skin. The drawing of the rerajahan can be categorized into 11 groups:
1. Drawing of holy characters (vijaksara) or short incantation
2. Drawing of sun, star or moon combines with holy characters
3. Drawing of flower, especially lotus flower with holy characters on its petals
4. Drawing of animals such as tiger, crocodile, lion, snake or dragon
5. Drawing of human or part of human body
6. Drawing of distorted human body such as human with animal head, animal with human head, or human without head
7. Drawing of gods and goddesses, with their weapons and vehicles.
8. Drawing of distorted gods or goddesses or in their angry personifications.
9. Drawing of gods' weapons combines with holy characters.
10. Drawing of demons, spirit or strange creatures; sometimes equipped with their weapons.
11. Drawing of sacred buildings
Rerajahan serves various purposes range from inviting the gods to descend to mortal world to harming or killing the enemy. Basically, the functions of rerajahan can be categorized as follow
1. to get protection and magical power from the god that is drawn in the rerajahan for example the power to prevent rain
2. to purify the body and soul
3. to enhance the spiritual power of someone or something
4. to get a unique talent or power, for example ability to run fast or can not be seen
5. to get sympathy or admiration from other
6. to drive away pestilence, or bad luck
7. to protect the house compound, rice field, village or children
8. to prevent or negate physical or magical attack from the enemy
9. to harm or kill the enemy
In order to fulfill these various functions the rerajahan have to be invested with a power. A powerful rerajahan is made on an auspicious day with specific offerings and of course a qualified rerajahan maker. After the drawing process is finished the rerajahan is invested with magical power by its maker by using Pasupati mantra (pasupati incantation).
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Print version ISSN 0102-311X
MOURA, Escolástica Rejane Ferreira and SOUSA, Rosiléa Alves de. Education in reproductive health: proposal or reality in the Family Health Program?. Cad. Saúde Pública [online]. 2002, vol.18, n.6, pp. _PHONE_. ISSN 0102-311X. _URL_
As supervisors of primary health care units in the State of Ceará, Brazil, we have observed a low supply of health education services. As part of the activities under the Family Health Program (FHP), we attempted to investigate the causes of this short supply and identify flaws in the development of such activities. Interviews and participatory observation were adopted as the research method. The following causes were defined in the lack of health education practices: disorganization of demand, insufficient coverage of the population by FHP teams, resistance by both health professionals and the population to educational activities, absence of adequate floor space for conducting such activities, and lack of support materials. The following flaws were identified in the implementation of activities: limited exchange of experiences among participants; limited focus on the group's needs; frequent use of scientific language; transfer of outdated information; and inadequate utilization of teaching materials. The conclusion is that there is a need to retrain health professionals and to improve the availability of physical resources and teaching materials in order for education in reproductive health to become a reality in the FHP.
Keywords : Health Education; Family Health Program; Reproductive Medicine.