text: Some insects feed on Juncus spp. (Rushes), including Plateumaris pusilla (Leaf Beetle sp.), Limotettix cuneatus (Leafhopper sp.), Macrosteles potoria (Leafhopper sp.), larvae of Eutomostethus luteiventris (Sawfly sp.), and larvae of Archanara subflava (Subflava Sedge Borer Moth). Of these, the larvae of the preceding sawfly species are associated with the Soft Rush in particular. It is possible that some wetland and songbirds feed on the seed capsules of wetland rushes; if so, their importance as a food source is minor. Among mammalian herbivores, Muskrats are known to feed on the foliage and rootstocks of Soft Rush and other rushes occasionally. Because Soft Rush is fairly tall and can form dense colonies, it has the capacity to provide significant cover and nesting habitat for wetland birds and other kinds of wildlife. Because the tiny seeds can cling to the feathers or muddy feet of ducks and other wetland birds, these animals help to distribute this rush to new wetland sites.


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Exercise 1: Write a complete program to read a string of characters from the standard input and insert them in the stack. Print the size of the stack when you are done after the stack is filled out. Then, print out to the screen all the vowels in reverse order.
Use classes and functions to do the above program.
Exercise 2: Write a program that takes marks of 10 students and store them in the stack then take out these from the stack and print the average of all the marks of 10 students.
Hint : make sure that every time you do a push operation you should check if the stack is not full and in pop operation you should check if the stack is not empty.

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This article describes how to manage profile libraries in iQ Tag Management (TiQ).
In this article:
Libraries are used to manage configurations that are shared across multiple profiles. Consider the following points before you begin working with libraries:
Though all users in an account can see all libraries, only users with the Manage Profiles permission can create a profile library.
Use the following steps to create a new library:
Use the following steps to edit a library:
Although changing a required library to an optional library does not affect the profiles that are linked to it, changing an optional library to a required library automatically links the library to each profile.
You can add and make changes to elements in a library by logging into the library as you would with a profile.
Use the following steps to log into a library and add elements:
Consider the following before saving your library:
Use the following steps to save the library:
You may link a library to profile, or a profile to a library. You must perform a Save/Publish to all your profiles in order to import the required library because required libraries are automatically loaded by all profiles. Optional Libraries are not automatically loaded, so you must first link the library to the appropriate profiles and then save and publish those profiles.
Use the following steps to link an optional library to a profile:
Regardless of whether the library is optional or required, additions of new libraries or changes to existing libraries require that you publish a new version of the linked profiles to import the latest library configurations. You must publish each profile individually.
Use the following steps to determine which profiles are linked to a library:
Consider the following when identifying library elements in a profile:
Deleting a library is an irreversible action. Tealium recommends that you phase out the use of a library across all affected profiles prior to deleting. To delete a library, contact your account manager.

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text: I'm not sure how to explain this properly, but here's the issue that I'm having, and hoping someone knows how I could fix it: In CS4, I could go to the art board settings (I believe it's Shift+O), and set the x and y coordinates to something easy to remember (such as 0, 0), and this would become the center of the art board. Then if I was working with a square, or any other object, and needed to center it on the board, I would simply click the object, load up the Transform window (Shift+F8), and then enter the x/y coordinates 0,0, and press tab. This would center the object on the art board. With CS6, this isn't the case. For some reason the art board's center is independent from the object's center. For example, if I load up a regular page, its center is 4.25/5.5. If I change it to 0,0, and try to manually center the object to that, then the object will not be centered when it's at 0,0. Instead, it will still think that the center is the original 4.25/5.5. Anyone know how to get CS6's art board to behave the same way as in CS4?


text: Researchers in the Interactive Systems Group at UTEP have been using a research tool called Didi for some time now. It was originally designed to be easily adaptable. This tool has proven to be adaptable as it has been changed by different researchers to suit particular needs. As a result, multiple versions of the program exist. In addition to this, the tool only works in Linux and has grown quite a bit. To solve these problems, the different versions could have been consolidated into one program and modified to produce a version that worked on other platforms, or another program could be customized instead. In order to make an informed decision about which alternative was more feasible, research was conducted on a potential replacement candidate called Wavesurfer. This paper briefly describes Didi, Wavesurfer, the initial modifications to Wavesurfer, and possible future modifications to Wavesurfer.


The Stream Doctor
January 17th, 2005
Q. : With the spring run coming, what is the best way of telling the difference between a fresh silver brown trout and an Atlantic salmon? I think I know, but I want to be positive.
A. The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, is the closest native relative of the brown trout, Salmo trutta. There are some differences in the spots on the two species, but these are not always easy to distinguish. The best distinguishing characteristics are the shape of the tail and the length of the upper jaw. The brown generally has a square or even slightly rounded tail; the Atlantic salmon's tail is forked. The maxilla, or upper jaw, of the brown trout extends well behind the eye; that of the Atlantic salmon terminates below the center of the eye.
One other feature found only in the brown trout is two zigzgag rows of well-developed teeth on the vomer, the raised shaft of bone in the center of the roof of the mouth.
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>Create a new file create-symlinkCreate a symlink modifyChange an existing file or symlink delete-fileDelete a file ... $user_id expansion is also available for branch access control. Here the user can create, modify, and delete files in a per-user directory:anyone create-file,modify,delete-file ^$user_id/.*$ User IDsYou might be wondering how user identifiers work. Git supports GPG-signed push requests with git push --signed. We can use the GPG key ID as the user identifier, eliminating the need for centralized user accounts. Remember that the GPG key ID is based on the public key. Key pairs are randomly generated and it is improbable that the same key will be generated by two different users. That said, GPG key ID uniqueness has been weak in the past when the default size was 32 bits. Git explicitly enables long 64-bit GPG key IDs but I wonder if collisions could be a problem. Maybe an ID with more bits based on the public key should be used instead, but for now let's assume the GPG key ID is unique. The downside of this approach is that user IDs are not human-friendly. Git apps can allow the user to assign aliases to avoid displaying raw user IDs. Doing this automatically either requires an external ID issuer like confirming email address ownership, which is tedious for new users, or by storing a registry of usernames in the git repo, which means a first-come-first-server policy for username allocation and possible conflicts when merging from two repositories that don't share history. Due to these challenges I think it makes sense to use raw GPG key IDs at the data storage level and make them prettier at the user interface level. The GPG key ID approach works well for desktop clients but not for web clients. The web application (even if implemently on the client side) would need access to the private key so it can push to the git repository. Users should not trust remotely hosted web applications with their private keys. Maybe there is a standard Web API that can help but I'm not aware one. More thought is needed here. The pre-receive git hook checks that signature verification passed and has access to the GPG key ID in the GIT_PUSH_CERT_KEY environment variable. Then the access control policy can be checked. Access control is a git appAccess control is the first and most fundamental git app. The access control policies that were described above are stored as files in the apps/access-control branch in the repository. Pushes to that branch are also subject to access control checks. Here is the branch's initial layout:branches/ - access control policies for branches owner.confgroups/ - group definitions (see below)...refs/ - access control policies for refs owner.conf The default branches/owner.conf access control policy is as follows:owner create-file,create-directory,modify,delete ^.*$ The default refs/owner.conf access control policy is as follows:owner create-branch,create-tag,fast-foward,force,delete ^.*$ This gives the owner the ability to push refs and modify branches as they wish. The owner can grant other users access by pushing additional access control policy files or changing exsting files on the apps/access-control branch. Each access control policy file in refs/ or branches/ is processed in turn. If no access control rule matches the operation then the entire git push is rejected. Groups can be defined to alias one or more user identifiers. This avoids duplicating access control rules when more than one user should have the same access. There are two automatic groups: owner contains just the user who owns the git repository and anyone is the group of all users. This completes the description of the access control app. Now let's look at how other functionality is built on top of this. The merge requests appA merge requests app can be built on top of this model. The refs access control policy is as follows:# The data branch contains the titles, comments, etcanyone modify ^apps/merge-reqs/data$# Each merge request revision is pushed as a tag in a per-user namespaceanyone create-tag ^apps/merge-reqs/$user_id/[0-9]+-v[0-9]+$ The branch access control policy is:# Merge requests are per-user and numberedanyone create-directory ^merge-reqs/$user_id/[0-9]+$# Title stringanyone create-file,modify ^merge-reqs/$user_id/[0-9]+/title$# Labels (open, needs-review, etc) work like this:## merge-reqs/<user-id>/<merge-req-num>/labels/# needs-review -> /labels/needs-review#...# labels/# needs-review/# <user-id>/# <merge-req-num> -> /merge-reqs/<user-id>/<merge-req-num>#...#...#...## This directory and symlink layout makes it possible to enumerate labels for a# given merge request and to enumerate merge requests for a given label.## Both the merge request author and maintainers can add/remove labels to/from a# merge request.anyone create-directory ^merge-reqs/[^/]+/[0-9]+/labels$anyone create-symlink,delete ^merge-reqs/$user_id/[0-9]+/labels/.*$maintainers create-symlink,delete ^merge-reqs/[^/]+/[0-9]+/labels/.*$maintainers create-directory ^labels/[^/]+$anyone create-symlink,delete ^labels/[^/]+/$user_id/[0-9]+$maintainers create-symlink,delete ^labels/[^/]+/[^/]+/[0-9]+$# Comments are stored as individual files in per-user directories. Each file# contains a timestamp and the contents of the comment. The timestamp can be# used to sort comments chronologically.anyone create-directory ^merge-reqs/[^/]+/[0-9]+/comments$anyone create-directory ^merge-reqs/[^/]+/[0-9]+/comments/$user_id$anyone create-file,modify ^merge-reqs/[^/]+/[0-9]+/comments/$user_id/[0-9]+$ When a user creates a merge request they provide a title, an initial comment, apply labels, and push a v1 tag for review and merging. Other users can comment by adding files into the merge request's per-user comments directory. Labels can be added and removed by changing symlinks in the labels directories. The user can publish a new revision of the merge request by pushing a v2 tag and adding a comment describing the changes. Once the maintainers are satisfied they merge the final revision tag into the relevant branch (e.g. "main") and relabel the merge request from open/needs-review to closed/merged. This workflow can be implemented by a tool that performs the necessary git operations so users do not need to understand the git app's internal data layout. Users just need to interact with the tool that displays merge requests, allows commenting, provides searches, etc. A natural way to implement this tool is as a git alias so it integrates alongside git's built-in commands. One issue with this approach is that it uses the file system as a database. Performance and scalability are likely to be worst than using a database or application-specific file format. However, the reason for this approach is that it allows the access control app to enforce a policy that ensures users cannot modify or delete other user's data without running application-specific code on the server and while keeping everything stored in a git repository.


, like gyros and souvlaki, on several northeastern diners' menus, testifies to this cultural link.[8][9]
Diners frequently stay open 24 hours a day, especially in cities, and were once the most widespread 24-hour public establishments in the U.S., making them an essential part of urban culture, alongside bars and nightclubs; these two segments of nighttime urban culture often find themselves intertwined, as many diners get a good deal of late-night business from persons departing drinking establishments. Many diners were also historically placed near factories which operated 24 hours a day, with night shift workers providing a key part of the customer base. For this reason, diners sometimes served as symbols of loneliness and isolation. Edward Hopper's iconic 1942 painting Nighthawks depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night. The diner in the painting is based on a real location in Greenwich Village, but was chosen in part because diners were anonymous slices of Americana, meaning that the scene could have been taken from any city in the country-and also because a diner was a place to which isolated individuals, awake long after bedtime, would naturally be drawn. The spread of the diner meant that by 1942 it was possible for Hopper to cast this institution in a role for which, fifteen years earlier, he had used an Automat all-night restaurant.
But as a rule, diners were always symbols of American optimism. Norman Rockwell made his 1958 painting, The Runaway, generically American by placing his subjects, a young boy and a protective highway patrolman, at the counter of an anonymous diner.[10] In television and cinema (e.g. The Blob, Happy Days, Grease and Diner), diners and soda fountains have come to symbolize the period of prosperity and optimism in America in the 1950s. They are shown as the place where teenagers meet after school and as an essential part of a date. The television show Alice used a diner as the setting for the program, and one is often a regular feature in sitcoms such as Seinfeld. The diner's cultural influence continues today. Many non-prefab restaurants (including franchises like Denny's) have copied the look of 1950s diners for nostalgic appeal, while Waffle House uses an interior layout derived from the diner.
Manhattan was once known for its diners. The Moondance Diner was shipped to Wyoming to make room for development.[11] Diners provide a nationwide, recognizable, fairly uniform place to eat and assemble, desirable traits mirrored by fast food chains. The types of food served are likely to be consistent, especially within a region (exceptions being districts with large immigrant populations, in which diners and coffee shops will often cater their menus to those local cuisines), as are the prices charged. At the same time, diners have much more individuality than fast food chains; the structures, menus, and even owners and staff, while having a certain degree of similarity to each other, vary much more widely than the more rigidly standardized chain and franchise restaurants. The Poirier's Diner and Munson Diner, both manufactured by the Kullman Dining Car Company of Lebanon, New Jersey, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[12]
Immigrant influences
Several international ethnic influences have been introduced into the diner industry in the U.S., because of generations of immigration.[13] Many diners in the United States—especially in the Northeast—are owned or operated by first and second generation Americans.[14] Greek-Americans, Eastern European Americans, as well as Polish, Ukrainian, Eastern European Jews, Italian-Americans, Mexicans and Cubans may have notable presences. These influences can be seen in certain frequent additions to diner menus, such as Greek moussaka, Slavic blintzes, and Jewish matzah ball soup, deli-style sandwiches (e.g., corned beef, pastrami, Reubens), and bagels and lox.[15]
A bacon cheeseburger from a New York City diner in a to-go container, with a pickle slice, onion rings, coleslaw and french fries
Many diners serve a metal cup alongside a milkshake, containing what cannot fit in the glass.
Many diners serve casual food, such as hamburgers, french fries, club sandwiches, and other simple fare. Much of the food is grilled, as early diners were based around a grill. There is often an emphasis on breakfast foods such as eggs (including omelettes), waffles, pancakes, and French toast. Menus may somewhat resemble those from greasy spoon-style restaurants. Some diners serve these "breakfast foods" throughout the business day and others that focus on breakfast may close in the early afternoon. These are most commonly known as pancake houses. Coffee is ubiquitous at diners. Many diners do not serve alcoholic drinks, although some may serve beer and inexpensive wine, while others—particularly in New Jersey and on Long Island[citation needed]—carry a full drink menu, including mixed drinks. Many diners serve hand-blended milkshakes. The food is usually quite inexpensive.
There is regional variation among diners with traditional food. In the U.S., Michigan and the Ohio Valley at "Coney Island–style" restaurants, coney dogs are served, as are certain types of Greek cuisine like gyros influenced by Greek diner owners. In Indiana and Illinois, fried pork tenderloin sandwiches are often on the menu. The Northeast has more of a focus on seafood[citation needed], with fried clams and fried shrimp commonly found in Maine and cheesesteak sandwiches and scrapple in Pennsylvania. Diners in the Southwest U.S. may serve tamales. In the southern U.S., typical breakfast dishes include grits, biscuits and gravy, and soul food such as fried chicken and collard greens. In New Jersey, the "Pork roll, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich" is a feature of many diners. Many diners have transparent display cases in or behind the counter for the desserts. It is common with new diners to have the desserts displayed in rotating pie cases. Typical desserts include a variety of pies and cheesecake.
In media
The diner Jax At The Tracks in Truckee, California, was featured in the food reality television series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in June 2010
John Baeder, 2007, John's Diner with John's Chevelle
John Baeder, 2007, John's Diner with John's Chevelle
Diners have figured significantly in American films and television since the form developed. In I Love Lucy, the episode titled 'The Diner' shows the perils, pitfalls, and difficulty in operating a diner, to much comedic effect. Archetypal appearances include significant scenes in classic films such as Sullivan's Travels and The Killers. The 1982 "rites of passage" film Diner was centered on an eatery shared by the protagonists. Waitress in 2007 was about a waitress in a diner.[16] Television series include the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Pennsylvania Diners and Other Roadside Restaurants, is a 1993 documentary.
The diner as an institution was iconically captured by painter Edward Hopper in his 1942 Nighthawks, a vignette mimicked by a movie lead-in aired nightly on the Turner Classic Movie Channel. Diners are the focus of photorealist painter John Baeder who spent about 40 years painting diners across the US.
Pinball machine
In 1990, WMS Industries (then known as Williams) introduced a pinball machine entitled Diner. The object of the game is to serve all customers to light-up Dine Time (the jackpot).
See also
 1. ^ Restaurants – American Diner (in Finnish)
 2. ^ Gabriele, Michael C. (May 2018). "Jersey Gems". New Jersey Monthly. p. 43.
 3. ^ p.16 Westergaard, Barbara A Guide to New Jersey Rutgers University Press
 4. ^ "Loading..." Retrieved October 21, 2017.
 5. ^ "Diners, the original prefab success story".
 6. ^ Witzel, Michael Karl (2006). The American Diner. MBI Publishing. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-0-7603-0110-4.
 7. ^ "1939 Sterling Diner". Antique Car Investments. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
 8. ^ Berger, Joseph (March 16, 2008). "Diners in Changing Hands; Greek Ownership on the Wane". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
 9. ^ Kleiman, Dena (February 27, 1991). "Greek Diners, Where Anything Is Possible". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-27.... Greeks became a visible presence in the diner and coffee


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The Eurofound report Working
conditions in the European Union: Work organisation which is based on secondary analysis of the European
Working Conditions Survey data has identified four main types of work
organisation: the 'discretionary learning', 'lean production', 'Taylorist',
and 'traditional' or 'simple structure' forms of work organisation.
Discretionary-learning forms of work organisation: workers (38%) experience high levels of autonomy at work, learning and problem solving, task complexity, self-assessment of quality of work and, to a lesser extent, autonomous teamwork.
Lean production forms of organisation: workers (26%) experience higher level of teamwork and job rotation, self-assessment of quality of work and quality norms, and the various factors constraining work pace.
Taylorist forms of work organisation: workers (20%) report having low autonomy at work - particularly in methods of work - few learning dynamics, little complexity, significant constraints on the pace of work, repetitiveness and monotony of tasks, and quality norms.
Traditional or simple-structure forms of work organisation: workers (16%) experience similar constraints as in the Taylorist forms of work organisation, and methods are largely informal and non-codified.
Key research findings:
- The adoption of discretionary-learning forms of work organisation, compared with lean production and Taylorist forms, can result in better working conditions in the sense of lower work intensity, less exposure to physical risks, fewer non-standard working hours, better work–life balance and lower levels of work-related health problems.
- Discretionary-learning forms of work organisation are also associated with higher perceived intrinsic rewards from work, better psychological working conditions related to HRM policies and social integration at work, along with higher overall levels of employee satisfaction with working conditions.


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Recent OHIO computer engineering, math grad shares transformative Peace Corps experience
Recent OHIO computer engineering, math grad shares transformative Peace Corps experience
Author: Baylee Demuth
For recent Russ College graduate Dylan Denner, BSEE '19, joining the Peace Corps was uncharted territory he was admittedly scared to pursue. It ended up being a decision that changed his life for the better.
Denner, a double major in applied mathematics and computer engineering, had several promising post-Commencement prospects. He'd already completed a Pathways co-op position with the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; was offered a job teaching at an inner-city charter school in Brooklyn, New York; and had looked into attending graduate school for mathematics. But then in fall 2018, Denner opened his email to find a chance to join the Peace Corps, and he knew it was an opportunity worth pursuing.
"When I evaluated Peace Corps, I was like, 'Wow, this is something that I just don't know what I'm going to get myself into,'" Denner said. "But something that I had learned throughout my undergraduate years was that the things that generally scared me ended up being the direction that I needed to pursue and push myself toward."
Shortly thereafter, Denner was accepted into the Peace Corps as a secondary math education teacher. He would take his education, leadership skills and teaching abilities to Ghana in June 2019 to work with 23 other individuals on a 27-month commitment.
Denner's experiences as a Russ College student had outfitted him for the challenge. He had helped found the Russ College's student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), where he led OHIO's rocket design and engineering team as chief engineer for two years. As president of the engineering honorary Tau Beta Pi, he developed a peer-led mathematics mentoring program for fellow students, and the chapter received the national chapter excellence award. And as a junior, he was named along with just 20 other students to the inaugural class of President Nellis' Presidential Leadership Society.
He applied what he had gained from those leadership and development opportunities to his teaching in Ghana.
"It was about working with students and getting them to find potential within themselves," Denner said. "And I think that that's what really drove me into joining the Peace Corps, that I felt like I had some success in doing that at OU, which was interacting with students and getting them to realize the potential within themselves."
Monica Burdick, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Tau Beta Pi adviser, had no doubts whether Denner was a fit for the Peace Corps, given his track record.
"Dylan is a true, inspirational leader," Burdick said. "I greatly admire his enthusiasm and vision, whether leading initiatives like the math instruction support team through Tau Beta Pi or sharing his love of learning and STEM through the Peace Corps. He's the type of person you know will make an impact on the world."
The experience began with a couple months of pre-service training about the Ghanaian education system, culture and lifestyle. Denner was then off to Ghana, and while teaching was his primary responsibility, he immersed himself in the community. He'd stay just eight months instead of his full term due to the mind-March evacuation of Peace Corps volunteers as the coronavirus pandemic was sweeping the world.
"I spent those eight months really just trying to learn and understand what my community did, why they did it – the culture, and the history and the reasoning behind things – because it's not always apparent at face value," Denner explained.
For Denner, the culture shock was difficult, but he learned to step away from what he'd always known and take the new lifestyle one day at a time, which ultimately helped him appreciate Ghanaian culture even more.
"Peace Corps has a platinum role, which is to treat others as they wish to be treated," Denner said. "And the reason behind that is because, with a cultural difference, how I wish to be treated is not necessarily a respectful way that others wish to be treated."
Denner said that living in a community in a Sub-Saharan African country taught him the world is actually a big place.
"We often say ours is a small world, but it's generally just the people that we interact with who make it so much smaller because it's a very large world," said Denner, who has applied to OHIO's graduate program in mathematics education. "I hope to be a university professor or lecturer, and that way, I can continue to have projects, and travel and work with different schools and do this type of work."
Colleen Carow contributed to this story.


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This book provides prospective P.E. teachers with important tools for teaching young people various sport activities using valuable cues that promote student success and enjoyment.
Teaching Cues for Elementary Fundamental Sport Skills follows in the steps of Fronske's successful secondary teaching cues book by providing in-service and prospective elementary and middle school teachers with a popular technique for helping students develop essential skills. The use of teaching cues is used to simplify and enhance students' learning, and ultimately turn them on to physical activity. This book will serve as a valuable resource to students, instructors, and professionals who wish to create a positive learning environment that helps students walk away with a feeling of success. Teaching Cues helps teachers save valuable planning time and establish credibility with their students quickly.
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION.
1. Teaching Physical Education Is Fun with the Right Tools.
SECTION 2: FUNDAMENTAL SPORTS SKILLS (GRADES K-3).
2. Locomotor Skills (Traveling).
3. Throwing, Catching, and Kicking (Stationary).
SECTION 3: ROPE JUMPING (GRADES K-8).
4. Learning the Ropes.
SECTION 4: FUNDAMENTAL SPORT SKILLS (GRADES 4-8).
5. Advanced Cues for Locomotor Skills.
6. Dynamic Stretching and Pillar Exercises.
7. Sprinting Drills.
8. Throwing, Catching, Kicking, and Striking.
SECTION 5: GRADES 4-8 SPORTS.
10. Floor Hockey.
12. Quad Ball.
13. Racquet Sports (Pickle Ball and Tennis).
15. Softball (Slow Pitch).
16. Track and Field.
17. Ultimate Frisbee.
SECTION 6: LIFETIME ACTIVITIES.
19. Cycling and BMX Riding.
20. In-Line Skating.
21. Recreational Running.
22. Swimming and Diving.


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Dark Gaia is a primordial hyper energy organism that lies beneath the surface of Sonic's World and has been in eternal conflict with Light Gaia. Together they have maintained a cycle of destruction and rebirth since the dawn of time.
When Amy Rose met Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time at Never Lake, an illustration that heavily resembled Dark Gaia (as well as Chip) could be seen on one of her tarrot cards (the same set that allegedly predicted her first meeting with Sonic), possibly fortelling of the beasts eventual awakening. (StH: #290)
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A mural depicting the Dark Gaia.
According to Professor Pickle, Dark Gaia had a history of causing the planet to break up into fragments, not unlike the situation that resulted during shattered world crisis. Tikal indicated that the breaking of the planet following the Super Genesis Wave was an acceleration of the natural cycle, happening prior to its proper time. As a result, Light Gaia was left weakened and unprepared for the task that lay ahead of it. Additionally, portions of the creature's energy began seeping through the cracks in the planet, and some coalesced into Dark Gaia Creatures. (StH: #259, SU: #63).
After Sonic beat Dr. Eggman's Egg Dragoon, Dark Gaia finally regained its consciousness thanks to Eggman gathering its fragments with the Summoning Spire. Now strong enough on its own, it began reabsorbing its energies from across the globe, allowing to mature from its incomplete state into its "perfect form". (StH: #286, #287)
Dark Gaia is capable of exerting its essence as a corruptive, yet potent energy gas referred to as Dark Gaia Energy. This energy is capable of causing mutations at night, blocking spirits, and enhancing negative feelings. When coalescing, it can also create hostile monsters.
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 Dark Gaia is the main antagonist of the game Sonic Unleashed. The storyline in which it appears in the comic is based on the story of said game.
 - Dark Gaia was first referred to in StH#193, though it was not referred to by name nor was actually seen on panel. Additionally, the story in which it was referred to took place in the Another Time, Another Place universe.
 - in Sonic Unleashed, Dark Gaia's essence was seen to put people in depressed moods; the comics indicate that it can also increase aggressive tendencies, and that high concentrations can lead to mutations as seen in the case of Sonic.
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Superordinate goals, in psychology, are goals which can only be achieved by the contribution and co-operation of two or more people or groups must.
Muzafer Sherif (1953) performed a study involving a group of boys at a camp that were in opposition to one another. He was able to successfully bring these two groups together by using a superordinated goal. The end result of the study was bonding of both groups.
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The group $G$ embeds into $\ell^1(G)$ via the homomorphism $g \mapsto \delta_g$ since $\delta_g \ast \delta_h = \delta_{gh}$. Since $\lVert \delta_g \rVert_1 = 1$, a surjective homomorphism $\ell^1(G) \to \mathbb{C}$ restricts to a homomorphism $G \to \mathbb{C}^\times$ with bounded range. The maximal bounded subgroup of $\mathbb{C}^\times$ is $\mathbb{T} = \{z \in \mathbb{C} \mid |z| =1\}$, so we obtain a map from the maximal ideal space of $\ell^1(G)$ to the Pontryagin dual $\widehat{G} =\operatorname{Hom}(G,\mathbb T)$. Conversely, a homomorphism $G \to \mathbb{T}$ determines a surjective homomorphism $\ell^1(G) \to \mathbb{C}$ since the $\delta_g$ span a dense subspace of $\ell^1(G)$. From this one easily deduces an identification of the maximal ideal space of $\ell^1(G)$ with the Pontryagin dual of $G$ which is $\widehat{G} = \mathbb{T}^n$ or $\widehat{G} \cong \mathbb{Z}_n$ depending on whether you meant $G = \mathbb{Z}^n$ or $G = \mathbb{Z}_n$.
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Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.
Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. Such synchronization of emotional states across individuals may support social interaction: When all group members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies process the environment in a similar fashion.
Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have now found that feeling strong emotions makes different individuals' brain activity literally synchronous.
The results revealed that especially feeling strong unpleasant emotions synchronized brain's emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline regions. On the contrary, experiencing highly arousing events synchronized activity in the networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.
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text: To better define the cooling history of the northern Oaxacan Complex, titanite and phlogopite from metasedimentary calc-silicate and biotite from a pegmatite were collected. All these rocks were involved in the granulite-facies Zapotecan orogeny between ca. 1004 and 978 ± 3 Ma, inferred to result from underthrusting the Oaxacan Complex beneath an arc or continent. Fragments of 2 × 5 cm2 titanite crystals yielded a concordant U-Pb age of 968 ± 9 Ma, whereas 40Ar/39Ar analyses of phlogopite and biotite gave ages of 945 ± 10 Ma and 856 ± 10 Ma, respectively. These ages are inferred to date cooling through 660-700 °C, 450 °C, and 300-350 °C, respectively. When combined with published ages (Sm-Nd garnet, 40Ar/39Ar hornblende, Rb-Sr biotite and whole rock, and K-Ar biotite and K-feldspar) the data define a two-stage cooling curve: (1) 8 °C/m.y. between 978 and 945 Ma, cooling through 450 °C by which time the rocks had risen through a depth of 15 km; and (2) 2 °C/m.y., which, by extrapolation, brought the rocks to the surface between 710 and 760 Ma. The first stage of exhumation is interpreted in terms of tectonic switching between steep and flat slab subduction, a result of interactions of a ridge, a plume, or an oceanic plateau with the trench. The second stage may be related to thermal relaxation of the lithosphere, ending with the breakup of Rodinia, which brought the rocks to the surface.


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Sometimes we really want something simple, easy and visually inspired to support our merchandising stories but find ourselves out of cost-effective ideas. We think this sunflower is fresh-looking – and it's super easy to make from recycled paper or old posters.
- Cut your old paper/posters into A3 size.
- Roll each piece to make a lot of cones (think ice cream cone shape).
- For a big flower make about 50 of these cones.
- After you have created about 50 cones, arrange them on any flat surface. The opening should be facing upward just like the image below. Fasten the cones with hot glue or tape. Repeat the process for the second, third, fourth and fifth by reducing the number of cones for each layer. Don't forget to stick each layer and each cone.
- If you have a color theme you can always spray paint the flower.
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text: ||A point set is extremal if and only if the points lie on the boundary of a rectilinear convex hull of the point set [l0]. For an extremal point set of size n, the problem of constructing an optimal rectilinear Steiner tree was first shown to be solvable in ο(n[to the power of 6]) time by Provan. Later, Bern, and Erickson developed a faster algorithm that runs in ο(n[to the power of 5]) time. Richards and Salowe [l0] developed an improved algorithm and solves the problem in ο(k[to the power of 4]n), where k is the number of sides of the rectilinear convex hull. Cheng et al. observed a common substructure which often appears in an optimal Steiner tree and developed a dynamic programming algorithm that runs in ο(n[to the power of 3]). In the worst-case scenario, an extremal point set can have θ(n) boundary edges. So the algorithm in has a better asymptotic time complexity than the algorithm given by Richards and Salowe. In this thesis, we make use of some of the results in and [l0] and redesign a dynamic programming algorithm that runs in ο(k2n) time. Thus our algorithm has the best asymptotic time complexity known for the problem.


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Peter Van Ness's house was in a state of neglect when Van Buren purchased it in 1839. Although Van Buren began improvements immediately, it was not until his son hired the prominent architect Richard Upjohn in 1849 that the house took on its present appearance.
1. Why might the house have needed improvements when Van Buren purchased it in 1839?
2. Compare the appearance of the house in Drawing 2 and Photo 1 to that in Drawing 1. What major changes were made to Lindenwald between 1797 and 1862?
3. Why might Van Buren's son have chosen to alter the appearance of the house so dramatically? What do his and his father's improvements indicate about the family's financial status?
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Microsoft released qchain.exe in 2001. This utility, which works with Windows 2000 and Windows NT, lets you chain hotfixes (i.e., install multiple hotfixes one after another without having to reboot in between). In the past, chaining was difficult because you had to install fixes in a specific order so that the update procedure wouldn't overwrite new system files with earlier versions. The problem with chaining was that the last hotfix applied "won." To address that problem, Qchain manages the file-replacement process by recording files in the registry's Pending File Rename queue. Qchain analyzes the contents of the Pending File Rename subkey and applies only the most current version of the files of all applied patches.
Listing A shows sample code that illustrates how to use Qchain in a script to deploy hotfixes. The first three lines of the sample script apply three hotfixes. The -z switch applies the hotfix without rebooting; -m applies the hotfix in unattended mode, without administrative intervention; and -q applies the hotfix in quiet mode, hiding the extract and copy actions that take place. If you're applying patches manually, you might want to leave out the -q switch to view the progress of the hotfix.
The fourth line in the script runs Qchain and specifies a file in which to log Qchain's results. The sample code puts the log file in the Logs directory on a server named Fschicago and specifies a unique filename based on the computer name and the date the script ran. Because you're likely to run Qchain at a later date, a unique log name prevents you from overwriting older logs. Finally, the Shutdown utility (from the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit or the Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit) performs a local reboot of the machine by using the /l and /r switches. The /l switch performs a logoff; the /r switch performs a clean shutdown and a restart.


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The National Day of France falls annually on the 14th of July. It celebrates two separate occasions that fall on the same day: The Storming of Bastille in 1789 – a major climacteric of the French Revolution; and the Fête de la Fédération, which emblazons the unity of the French people in 1790.
Formally, the National Day of France is called la Fête Nationale in France, whilst commonly, it is cleped le 14 juillet –the 14th of July– amongst the French. In English-speaking countries, however, it is denominated Bastille Day. The day is usually celebrated throughout France, where the largest and oldest military parade in Europe can be seen marching down the Champs-Élysées in Paris before French officials and foreign visitants.


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VELUX Daylight Visualizer is a professional lighting simulation tool for the analysis of daylight conditions in buildings.
It is intended for use in the early design phase of a building to inform architects and engineers about the impact of various design choices on daylight performance. With Daylight Visualizer you can take more informed decisions about daylight performance in your architectural design:
- it calculates the amount of daylight that will be available inside a building space
- it can be used to optimise the daylight situation, for instance in a refurbishment project
- it visualises the appearance of daylight with photo-realistic images, quantifies the amount and distribution of daylight with false color images
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Are Foster Carer's paid:
When a child is placed with a foster carer they will receive a weekly fostering allowance which is intended to cover the costs of looking after a child in foster care, such as clothing, food and pocket money. The amount varies depending on the age of the child.
Foster carers also receive a fee in recognition of their time, skills and experience.
Can single people foster?
Yes. Anyone can apply to foster regardless of whether they are single, married or living with a partner. Also, regardless of whether you have your own children or not, whether you live in your own home or rent, whatever your race, religion or sexuality.
Is there a maximum or minimum age to becoming a foster carer?
Foster Carers must be over 21 years old. There is an expectation that foster carers will have sufficient life experience to enable them to meet the needs of children placed with them, and age can be a factor in this.
There is also no official upper age limit on foster care and many older people make excellent carers, providing they are able to look after a child or young person. They bring a wealth of skills and experience to the task and many young people find it easier to relate to an older person.
How long does it take to become a foster carer?
The time it takes to become a registered foster carer can vary, it takes an average of between 6-12 months.
Can I work as well as being a foster carer?
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calcRDI - Calculate repertoire distances
Calculate repertoire distances from a matrix of vdjCounts
calcRDI(vdjCounts, distMethod = c("euclidean", "cor"), subsample = TRUE, nIter = 100, constScale = TRUE, units = c("lfc", "pct"),...)
- a matrix of repertoire counts, as created by calcVDJCounts
- one of c("euclidean","cor") determining how to calculate the distance from the matrix of vdj counts. See Details.
- logical; if true, all repertoires are subsampled to be equal size.
- value defining how many times the subsampling should be repeated. Only used if subsample is TRUE.
- logical; if
TRUE, vdjCounts will be scaled such that the sum of each column will be equal to 500 counts (an arbitrary constant). Otherwise, the columns will be scaled to the average count of all the columns.
- One of "lfc" or "pct". This determines the method used for transforming the repertoire counts. See Details.
- additional parameters; these are ignored by this function.
A dissimilarity structure containing distances between repertoires, averaged across each subsampe run. In addition to the standard attributes in a dist object, three additional attributes are defined as follows:
|integers, the number of genes in each column of "genes" that were included in at least one repertoire.|
| integer, the number of sequences used after subsampling
the repertoires. If
There are two options for distance methods, "euclidean" and "cor". Euclidean refers to
standard euclidean distance, and is the standard for the RDI measure described in
(Bolen et al. Bioinformatics 2016). In contrast, cor refers to a correlation-based
distance metric, where the distance is defined as
(1-correlation) between each
column of vdjCounts.
units parameter is used to determine the transformation function for the
repertoire counts. If
units='lfc' (default), then the arcsinh transformation
is applied to the count matrix, resulting in a distance metric which
will scale with the average log fold change of each gene. In contrast,
units='pct' will result in no transformation of the count matrix, and distances
will be proportional to the average percent change of each gene, instead. Note that
"units" is a bit of a misnomer, as the distance metric doesn't actually represent the
true log-fold or percent change in the repertoires. In order to actually estimate
these parameters, refer to the rdiModel and convertRDI
_TAG_ genes genes = sample(letters, 10000, replace=TRUE) _TAG_ sequence annotations seqAnnot = data.frame(donor = sample(1:4, 10000, replace=TRUE), cellType = sample(c("B","T"), 10000, replace=TRUE) ) ##generate repertoire counts cts = calcVDJcounts(genes,seqAnnot) ##calculate RDI d = calcRDI(cts) ##calculate RDI in percent space d_pct = calcRDI(cts,units="pct") ##convert RDI to actual 'lfc' estimates and compare dtrue = convertRDI(d)$pred plot(d, dtrue)


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Simulation of Magnetic Flux Distribution of Stator and Rotor Coil of Superconducting Air Cored Wind Turbine Generator using COMSOL MultiphysicsA. Hazra, G. Konar
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Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy sources for electricity generation over the past decade. The offshore installation of large-scale wind farms draws huge attention because of better wind profile. Direct drive synchronous wind turbine generators are now a global demand for light weight, compact, large scale wind turbine generators. Among various approaches in designing direct drive superconducting wind turbine generators, a comparatively new design (Figure 1) having both axial and radial air gaps between stator and superconducting rotor winding is selected for simulation work. It has the advantages of uniform stress and magnetic force around the circular coil. Elimination of gear box leads to light weight of the wind turbine generator. This paper deals with the simulation of magnetic flux distribution of stator and rotor coil of the same using the sliding mesh tool of COMSOL Multiphysics. The model geometry of the wind turbine generator mentioned earlier was drawn using 3D CAD tool of COMSOL Multiphysics. After declaring the global and local parameters, the magnetic and electric fields (mef) is chosen for setting the physics of the model in AC/DC module. It is followed by the proper assignment of material properties of the coils and core. To implement the rotational effect of the rotor coil on the stator magnetic field, sliding mesh concept is used. Parametric sweep is incorporated in study portal, which evaluates field distribution of the model for every angular position of the rotor with respect to the stationary axis and stores the results. Time dependent study was performed thereafter. Physics controlled mesh was directed with extra fine setting (figure 2,3). Total number of elements was found to be _PHONE_. Flux distribution in the rotor coil is realized here using volume plot of magnetic flux density (normal). The simulated magnetic field is distributed almost uniformly throughout the outer part of the stator and the same varies gradually with the distance from the centre in each coil (figure 4) of the rotor. Some animations from different angle are captured in the post processing. The simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics has been used to simulate a parametric model of a circular superconducting air core coil of direct drive off sore wind turbine generator. The solution has been efficiently computed using the built-in tools and solvers of COMSOL Multiphysics. Sliding mesh technique incorporating parametric sweep gave the realistic effect of rotation of the rotor with respect to the stator on flux distribution. In summary, 3D model geometry has been efficiently constructed in 3D CAD tool of COMSOL Multiphysics and it is found to be a very flexible and efficient tool for numerical field computations.


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Choice of law refers to issue of what jurisdiction's law is to be applied in a particular case. This situation often arises in contract disputes where the breach occurs in a state other than the state of contracting. As such, contracts often include a choice of law clause to indicate the law that will apply in the event of a dispute.
Courts faced with a choice of law issue generally choose between the laws of the state where the lawsuit was brought and laws of the state where the cause of action arose. Usually, the law of state where the lawsuit was brought is chosen for procedural matters. The law of the state where the cause of action arose is usually chosen to decide substantive matters.
The 14th amendment lays down constitutional limitations to choice of law. When a dispute has no connection to a given state, it is unconstitutional to apply the law of that state.
There are three basic types of approaches to choice of law:
 - The traditional "vested rights" doctrine: This doctrine is based on the notion that a state has the power to prescribe the rules of conduct for transactions or occurrences that take place in its own territory. Once the "last event" of the transaction or occurrence takes place on the territory of that state, the parties to it acquire "vested right" under the law of that jurisdiction.
 - The various "interest" and "policy" analysis approach: The interest of the forum state is the key factor to be considered under this approach. Thus, this theory seeks to increase the number of occasions when a forum court will apply its own law. This is done by applying the "comparative impairment" test, under which a court will compare the extent of damage that application of one or the other legal rule to the case would inflict on the competing states interest. The court should in such cases choose the rule that causes the lesser degree of impairment.
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The deep blue hue of the ocean is known to have a calming and soothing effect on our minds. It evokes a sense of tranquility and peacefulness that can help us unwind and relax. By adorning our iPhones with ocean wallpapers, we can bask in the beauty of the deep blue and carry a piece of that serenity with us wherever we go. Whether we're stuck in traffic or waiting in line, a quick glance at our ocean wallpaper can transport us to a place of calmness and rejuvenation.
Moreover, ocean wallpapers allow us to indulge in the magic of the ocean. The vibrant colors, the playful dolphins, and the intricate coral reefs create a captivating and whimsical experience that can brighten even the dullest of days. They remind us of the wonders of nature and the joy that comes from exploring the unknown. With an ocean wallpaper on our iPhone, we can tap into our sense of wonder and rekindle our childlike curiosity.
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Secret Underground Cities (Paperback)
by Nick McCamley
# Paperback: 270 pages
# Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd (April 2000)
# Language English
# ISBN: _PHONE_
Describes the major, WW2 UK government underground works
SECRET UNDERGROUND CITIES' is the history of the series of vast underground arsenals, factories and control bunkers built by the British government during the Second World War, and of the new uses found for many of these subterranean cities as nuclear shelters and command centres during the period of post-war, cold-war paranoia.
Many of these underground sites were concentrated in the Corsham area of North Wiltshire, where hundreds of acres of disused stone mines, buried over 100' below the peaceful rural landscape, were converted at the cost of tens of millions of pounds, into huge and awesome bomb-proof cities.
After an introduction explaining the inter-war military, economic and political factors that influenced the government's policy on underground protection, the book goes on describe in detail the construction and operation of all the major sites including: (1) CENTRAL AMMUNITION DEPOT CORSHAM (Tunnel Quarry, Monkton Farleigh Quarry, and the Ridge/Eastlays underground complex)
(2) The two-million square foot SPRING QUARRY underground aircraft engine factory at Corsham, and the other smaller but similar sites at DRAKELOW, WARREN ROW, WESTWOOD and DUDLEY
(3) The sinister and secret underground repositories built to house the contents of the National Gallery at MONOD, in the bleak mountains to the North of Ffestiniog, and the deep stone quarry at WESTWOOD in Wiltshire that housed the greatest treasures of the V&A and the British Museum.
(4) The underground headquarters built in BROWNS QUARRY (later known as RAF RUDLOE MANOR) to house the headquarters of No.10 Group, Fighter Command. This later became the hub of the Western sector of the 'Rotor' radar system, and later still became of pivotal importance in the government's system of nuclear war headquarters.
(5) Amongst the other WW2 sites covered are the RAF storage depots at FAULD, HARPUR HILL and CHILMARK as well as the Admiralty and MoS depots at COPENACRE, MONKS PARK, HAYES WOOD (Limpley Stoke) etc.
The final section of the book describes in some detail how, in the 1960's, the underground factories at Drakelow and Warren Row were converted into Regional Seats of Government for use in event of nuclear war. It also describes how Spring Quarry at Corsham became the National Government War Headquarters, (the fabled city of Burlington), from where the government would launch any retaliatory nuclear attack, and which would become the home of the War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff Committee, together with some 5,000 Civil Servants.
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Bowman Wright was a skilled metal charmer who lived in Godric's Hollow sometime during the Middle Ages. Born to a witch mother and a Muggle father, he invented the Golden Snitch as a replacement for the endangered Golden Snidget, combining his interest in science, magic, and sports.
The English "wright" is a word referring to a skilled craftsman.
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- The dates given for Bowman's birth and death on his Famous Wizard Card (_PHONE_) do not agree with the timeframe laid down in Quidditch Through the Ages, which would indicate that he was alive towards the end of the 1300s.
- Bowman shares the same last name as Bonnie Wright, who portrays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films. Incidentally, Bonnie Wright's parents, Gary Wright and Sheila Teague, are both jewellers.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Quidditch Through the Ages
- J. K. Rowling Official Site
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Bionetworking in Asia: Biomaterials and Cell Bank Regimes
In the international exchange of biomaterials, important issues have arisen related to the provenance and the transport of biomaterials, intellectual property rights and ownership, and the quality of specimen and user needs. These concerns are especially pertinent in cases where international joint ventures gain permission to set up biobanks in third countries. International science cooperation takes place for many reasons, including for advantages gained from knowledge transfer, financial accruement, research facilities and infrastructures, and research regulation. Before agreeing to cooperation, uncertainties usually exist regarding the status of 'local' rules regarding safety, bioethics, hygiene and their dynamics in practice, the understanding of these rules, and their implementation. As such, there exists regulatory uncertainty, especially regarding the flexibility of the interpretation and implementations of research and bioethical regulation and national and international guidelines, such as those of the ISSCR Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem cell Research and Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells.
The Bionetworking in Asia – ERC project (February 2012-January 2017) is concerned with the flow of stem cell tissues and cell bank regimes. This 5-year project will shed light on the increasingly important role of bionetworking in the acquisition of stem cell tissues and in the exchange and clinical application of biomaterials.
Bionetworking in the field of biobanking tries to understand how scientists/managers organise, recruit and maintain new possibilities for the collection, storage and the use of biomaterials. In most cases, best practiceand bioethical guidelines are actually in place, but problems arise relating to their implementation, and in biobanking practices found in everyday work. By understanding local conceptions of best practice, research expectations and research goals, as well as the regulatory environment and local facilities of biobankers, this project explores how regulatory guidelines for biomaterial exchanges can be understood in context and improved.
1. How are biomaterials obtained from donors (volunteers, patients, cadavers) and what are the ways and circumstances in which they are applied as source of knowledge or therapy?
2. How are biomaterial exchanges embedded in bionetworking under multiple conditions through conventions, trade and collaborations; under what conditions do the acquisition and transfer of biomaterials to other countries, biobanks, and hospitals take place?
- To trace bottlenecks and analyse research traditions and systems underlying research practices diverging from formal policies
- Delineating and analyzing 'ownership' rights, benefits and burdens associated with the donation, possession, maintenance, and application of biomaterials in the UK and Asia.
- Examine the socio-cultural and economic values associated with stem cell tissue exchanges before and after the disentanglement of these biomaterials from their 'natural' environment in the human body.


text: Results of diffusion tensor tractography for the pyramidal tract (PT) and the aberrant pyramidal tract (APT). (A) For the reconstruction of the PT, two regions of interest (ROIs) were placed on the posterior limb of the internal capsule and the PT area of the anterior medulla (portion of anterior blue color) on the color map. By contrast, for the reconstruction of the APT, three ROI were given on the posterior limb of the internal capsule, the PT area of the anterior medulla (portion of anterior blue color), and additional ROI was placed on the isolated APT area (behind the posterior transpontine fiber at the pontine level). (B) the PT and APT were constructed in the right hemisphere (red: the PT, yellow: the APT). The APT descended along the known pathway of the PT to the posterior limb of the internal capsule and then descended through the medial lemniscus from the midbrain to the pons (blue arrows). (C) The pathways of the PT and the APT are shown at the axial views (blue arrow: the APT was separated from the PT at the upper midbrain level, green arrow: the APT rejoined with the PT at the upper medulla level).


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Definition of Africanize
verb [with object]
1make African in character: (as adjective Africanized)an Africanized form of Cajun music (in Africa) restructure (an organization) by replacing white employees with black Africans.
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) hybridize (honeybees of European stock) with bees of African stock, producing an aggressive strain. In recent years hybrids have spread from Brazil to the US, where they have become known colloquially as "killer bees.".


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Can your students obtain Captain Newton's treasure? Students will hear a story explaining the history of Science Island and then travel around the classroom to five stations. Each station presents a physical science challenge they need to solve to earn part of the combination to open their team's treasure chest. Stations include experiments with water density, mass, rock streaking, light reflection and launching projectiles with a table top catapult.
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How to defuse the grenade? Carefully screw off the handle from the casing. Take out the detonator. Wrap it in paper, cotton, or a rag, and put it in your bag so it is safe from being hit or falling out. Reconnect the handle with the grenade.
Always transport the grenades unloaded. Store and transport the detonators separately.
Model 1939 Egg-shaped Hand Grenade
This is an offensive timed hand grenade. It weighs 220 grams.
To prepare this grenade for throwing, extract the fuse with the protective cap from the grenade (shown in figure 112 in the left hand) and inspect the fuse housing. Make sure that it is free from debris. Screw off the safety cap from the distance cylinder (fig 112). Replace it with a detonator. The open part of the detonator may contain wood shavings, cloth fibers, etc. In this case, turn the detonator so that they fall out. If they do not, discard the detonator, as it is unusable. Do not attempt to extract debris from the detonator with any object.
If you have a functioning detonator, slide it on the distance cylinder carefully (fig 113). Then, screw the fuse into the grenade and tighten the nut (fig 114). The grenade is ready for use.
Fig. 112. How to remove the safety cap.
Fig. 113. How to put on the detonator.
Fig. 114. How to tighten the fuse with a nut.
Screw off the safety cap, which remains attached by a cord. Take the grenade in your right hand. Grip the cap with your index and middle fingers, and throw the grenade. Remember that it will detonate 4 seconds after you throw.
Some grenades already have a detonator inserted. Know how to disarm them. Pull the fuse out of the grenade. Carefully take the detonator off and wrap it in a rag. Put the safety cap back on and screw the fuse back into the grenade.
Transport grenades separately from the detonators.
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After reading a book about dinosaurs, we found ourselves faced with explaining how fossils were made to our young daughter. So we decided it would be much easier if she was able to help us make our own version of fossils instead! Our toddler daughter loved every step of this craft - from making the salt dough, to rolling it out, to deciding what type of fossil to make. You can make a salt dough fossil by pressing your dinosaur toys into the dough, by pressing your own hands and feet into the dough, or by making your handprint look like a dinosaur footprint! The possibilities with this salt dough fossil craft are endless, so encourage your child to use their imagaination and have fun!
What you'll need:
#1: Press a dinosaur toy into the dough. Remove the toy to see the imprint or "fossil" left behind.
#2: Press the foot of a dinosaur into the dough to create a fossil.
#3: Have your own child press their foot into the dough to make their own fossil! This is a great way to preserve how little they are now!
#4: Press your child's hand into the dough so that their hands mimic a three-toed dinosaur footprint. See the photograph at right.
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Step One: Press dinosaur toy into dough
Step Two: Remove toy to show imprint behind
Step Three: Paint your baked fossil
Other ideas: multiple different dinosaur toys, just the footprint of a dinosaur toy, the footprint of your child, your child's hand pressed into dough to mimic a dinosaur footprint.
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Local Extension Agent discusses "Salmonella in songbirds"
By: Bobby Smith
I have received several calls the last few weeks with clients who are distraught over dead songbirds in or around their bird feeders. Earlier this spring I received an e-mail from a fellow agent in a county north of Morgan County with the same issue. He had observed the same problem in his county. He submitted three birds to Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) to be tested for Salmonella, and all three birds tested positive.
If you are seeing dead birds in or around your feeders or birdbaths, I just wanted to make you aware of the problem and share some suggestions from the SCWDS.
The researcher at the SCWDS lab offered the following information about the outbreak:
-Salmonella bacteria are naturally found in many wild and domestic bird species
-Stress from severe weather and high concentrations of birds during spring (such as those found around bird feeders and bird baths) contribute to outbreak and disease spread.
-Because of large congregations of birds at feeders this time of year, this is when we usually see Salmonella outbreaks
-Cats that eat dead birds can pick up the Salmonella and possibly spread it to the humans that are caring for them.
To help stop the spread of the disease, there are several steps that you can take if you believe the Salmonella outbreak has affected your area:
1. Remove all bird feeders and bird baths and clean up residual seed. It's important for the birds to disperse to help control the spread of disease.
2. Disinfect all bird feeders and bird baths with 1 part bleach and 9 parts water
3. Do not place the bird seed back out for at least one month after you see the last sick or dying bird on your property
4. Clean out feeders at least every two weeks when you start feeding again to help prevent buildup of bacteria and fungi that can contribute to diseases in birds.
For information on this and other problems, contact your local UGA Cooperative Extension Office or call 1800ASKUGA1 or _PHONE_.
Printed in the May 28, 2009 Edition.


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Background: Although it is well-recognized that hospitalization often precipitates functional decline in older patients, there have been few studies to examine these functional changes carefully over multiple points in time. Objective: To describe functional trajectory during and 6 months posthospitalization and to ascertain the predictors that signal different classes of functional trajectory, using latent class analysis. Methods: A cohort study was conducted on 286 older hospitalized patients who were admitted to five surgical-medical units at a tertiary medical center in Northern Taiwan. Results are reported of 241 participants who completed all four scheduled assessments during hospitalization (within 48 hr after admission and before discharge) and 3 and 6 months postdischarge. Functional trajectory was measured using the Barthel index over four time points, and decline was defined as a reduction on the Barthel index scores. Demographics, comorbidities, visual impairment, medications taken, cognitive status, nutritional status, oral health, depressive symptoms, social support, surgical diagnosis, and length of stay were assessed as the predictors of functional trajectory classes. Results: Most (74.3%) participants developed functional decline during hospitalization, and 32.0% had persistent functional impairment at 6 months posthospitalization. Three functional trajectory classes (good, moderate, and poor) were identified, and gender, age, comorbidities, cognitive status, nutritional status, oral health status, and length of stay were associated with different trajectory classes. Conclusion: Visualizing different classes of functional trajectory and studying predictors that signal such differences during and posthospitalization help practitioners understand how function changed and the possible ways to intervene.
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- Activities of daily living
- Acute care for the older persons
- Functional decline
- Longitudinal design


HTML5 Curation
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HTML5 games are not nearly as endangered as Flash games, and are in fact often cited as replacing the Flash medium. However, they still pose a risk of disappearing at some point in time, and therefore should be considered for curation just like other web game formats.
The following page is a tutorial on how to curate HTML5 games to add to Flashpoint.
Before You Start
Identifying HTML5 Games
If a web game doesn't ask to enable Adobe Flash Player and there's no sign or mention of any of the other Platforms, it is very likely an HTML5 game. Some use game engines as their base, the most prominent example being UnityWebGL, which replaced the previous Unity NPAPI implementation that no longer works.
To confirm this, press F12 to open the Developer Tools of your browser, click on the Inspect Element button and click on the game area. This will show you in the Elements tab the iframe the game is located in, and there you'll find the link for the main file of the game. You can also look for a.html file, likely with the filename index.html.
Copy the file's link and go to it. If it plays an unobstructed version of the game, you've found the source of your Launch Command. Keep in mind that not all games should be divorced from the page they are found in, such as individual games outside of webgame websites.
Make sure to always use http:// instead of https:// to make sure Flashpoint grabs files from the fake Internet instead of the real one!
Grabbing The Game From The Internet
Some games have one or more image files that act as sprite sheets, others will have each unique texture as an individual file, so make sure to get them all.
Create a new curation in the Curate tab of Flashpoint Core and fill it out with as much information as you can, including the Launch Command you found earlier. The Platform should be HTML5, and the Application Path should be FPSoftware\Basilisk-Portable\Basilisk-Portable.exe, referring to the Basilisk browser used for HTML5 games.
After inputting the launch command, use Run with MAD4FP, and start playing the game. MAD4FP will download any assets automatically as you play and make progress.
REMEMBER, ALWAYS TEST THE GAME 100%, NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL! This is true for all games, but especially HTML5, as nearly none are single-asset, you are almost guaranteed to find a multi-asset. Because of how it works, most games will only call assets when needed, so make sure to navigate all the menus, click all the buttons, and play the game as thoroughly as possible. This may include hidden collectables, unique voice lines, downloadables, completion bonuses, etc.
Wayback will not save these missing assets on a normal capture, and computers/browsers tend to clear cache much more frequently for optimization, making cache dumps unlikely to yield anything, so once it's gone, it's likely gone for good. Better to catch everything first try and make sure it's not lost. for more information on multi-assets in general, go here.
After making sure you got the whole game, test it again, this time without using MAD4FP pressing the Run button.
Responsive Design Mode and Mobile Elements
Some games will have mobile controls, loading different assets.
Unlike traditional plugins, HTML5 allows games to be played on both Desktop and Mobile. This means that some games will implement Responsive Design elements so games work better on mobile platforms. This can load new assets such as the pages, scripts, elements, images, etc.
To check whether a game has these elements, play the game both in desktop and Responsive mode. On Basilisk in the developer console, enable Responsive Design Mode, then on the Responsive menu enable Touch Events, and make sure to reload the page as these elements might not have been loaded on Desktop mode. Use the Rotate button to test, as some games do not allow you to play in a certain orientation and will load warning messages.
Make sure to skim through the entire game where these elements might show up, like parts with game controls or menus.
https removal
, because there are an extremely low number of HTML5 games that are single-asset. Your curation is almost guaranteed to be multi-asset. From here, you have two main options, both of which are described here
Don't be surprised if it doesn't work at first, HTML5 games are relatively stable and mostly work, but a common occurrence is the game refusing to load assets. This most likely is because of https requests inside the code of the game calling for files on the live web and failing, instead of http which calls local files. You will need to find and replace all instances of https with http in the game files. You might need to repeat this step multiple times for different parts of the game. This is a really common form of modification for HTML5 games, but it is minor enough that games with altered https requests don't really need to be marked as Hacked. Note that this rule only applies to text files (such as HTML and JS files); you must always mark a game as Hacked if you edit binary files (such as SWFs).
Missing assets
Alternatively, if MAD4FP isn't able to download a certain file, or Basilisk is having trouble running the application, you can Use cURLsDownloader. Simply copy & paste the URLs you wish to download, open cURLsDownloader, paste in the URL, and hit Enter.
Copy the contents of the Downloads folder outputted by cURLsDownloader, select the Open Folder button on your curation in the Curate tab, and paste the folder into the content folder of your curation.
Clean-up of junk Files
Since MAD4FP downloads every file requested by the game that still exists on the live web, you can get a lot of files that are unnecessary for the game to work. Be careful not to enter pages outside of the game as it will download them too, best way to prevent this is by knowing where this happens inside the game.
Even with these precautions, you will download junk form other services the website uses outside of the game. After deleting them, make sure the games still work without them.
Broken or non-functional games
Some games might require a certain browser we do not support or newer features not available on the 32bit version of Basilisk, which will no longer receive updates. This version is used to ensure compatibility with 32bit machines, and also because it houses most NPAPI plugins. Staff is working on implementing a replacement browser for these newer HTML5 titles. Make sure to ask staff if this is really the problem.
If yes, although unable to be played on the current version of Flashpoint being used, it should still be saved, as these features are likely to be supported in the future and the game work as a result.
For this situation, download the Brwoser Mode Launcher Extension, and type :browser-mode: in the application path field. This will use Flashpoint's built in Browser, which is more feature complete. This will fix most compatibility issues, you can still use MAD4FP with it.
Make sure to write a note explaining that the game does not currently run in flashpoint:
Game only currently works with the :browser-mode: application path extension as of Flashpoint version X.X, please test once a new version is released and remove this sentence if it's able to work without it.
If it still doesn't work, the best option is to run the game on the live web with the network tab open, and playing the game as if you were curating it as normal. After finishing, copy all cURLs, create a.txt file, paste and save. Next, drag & drop the file onto cURLsDownloader.bat. Copy the contents of the Downloads folder outputted by cURLsDownloader, select the Open Folder button on your curation in the Curate tab, and paste the folder into the content folder of your curation.
Upload this curation to _TAG_-lounge on our Discord server for safekeeping, as it might be able to work in the future.
Wrapping It Up
Follow the proper Curation Format, just like with any curation.
Click on Export button at the bottom of your Curation, this will create a single.7z file containing the entire curation, which can be found by clicking Exported Curations on the Curate tab, which opens the folder. Once you have the file, submit it to the _TAG_-game-curations channel of the Flashpoint Discord, typing the name of the game and using the HTML5 emoji when submitting. If the file is too large for discord, upload it to, and type the name with the emoji in the Discord channel.


Editorial: Professor sued over casual touch
Marta Sanchez, a student at the University of Virginia Law School, is claiming that an incident of personal contact between herself and Professor Kenneth Abraham during one of his lectures caused her severe mental anguish and is seeking $35,000 in damages. This lawsuit should not be allowed to continue. There must be a reasonable agreement made before university professors are left defenseless in their classrooms.
During a lecture, Abraham was explaining a legal issue and to demonstrate his point (adding that he probably shouldn't do what he was about to do) proceeded to lay his hand on the shoulder of the student closest to him. That student happened to be Marta Sanchez.
At age 11, Sanchez, who is from Panama, became a victim of repeated physical, mental and sexual abuse and, as a result, experiences great difficulty with personal contact. The incident made Sanchez very uncomfortable, and she took her concerns to university counselors. Sanchez found the outcome of a meeting with Abraham unsatisfying and decided to bring a civil lawsuit against Abraham.
There is no doubt that Sanchez was affected by the incident because of her sensitivity to personal contact, but there is no way that Abraham could have known that. Holding him accountable for this action is setting a precedent that will cause any friendly relations between professor and student to be grounds for litigation.
Professors cannot know the history of each student, and though Abraham's actions were harmless, it is best if they keep their hands to themselves. It should also be understood that personal contact is not always avoidable. Furthermore, Sanchez's suit should be thrown out when it reaches circuit court because, by all accounts, she had no reason to believe that Abraham would make any kind of inappropriate advance toward her, and he made the context of his actions quite clear.


think you know) it's not too hard to show that $\mathcal{T} \to Hom(\mathcal{S}, \mathbb{Z})$ and $\mathcal{S} \to Hom(\mathcal{T}, \mathbb{Z})$ are injections. This alone is enough to imply that the pairing is nondegenerate, hence becomes perfect after extending scalars to $\mathbb{Q}$.
So it suffices to show either that $\mathcal{T} \to Hom(\mathcal{S},\mathbb{Z})$ is surjective, or that $\mathcal{S} \to Hom(\mathcal{T},\mathbb{Z})$ is surjective (because the cokernels of these maps are finite groups of the same order, equal to the det of the matrix of the pairing with respect to $\mathbb{Z}$-bases of either side).
You seem to be trying to do the first, but the second is (I think) easier. Let $\phi \in Hom(\mathcal{T},\mathbb{Z})$ and consider the formal power series $f = \sum_{n \ge 1} \phi(T_n) q^n$. It's clear that $f \in \mathbb{Z}[[q]]$; but also that $f \in S_k(\Gamma, \mathbb{Q})$, so $f \in \mathcal{S}$. Clearly we have $(T_n, f) = a_n(f) = \phi(T_n)$ and thus we're done.
Now you can construct a "Miller-like" basis as follows. [EDIT: This doesn't actually work, see comments.] The $T_n$'s generate $\mathcal{T}$, so there is some finite subset which is a $\mathbb{Z}$-basis of $\mathcal{T}$; let these be $T_{n_1}, \dots, T_{n_d}$. Then there is a dual basis $f_1, \dots, f_d$ of $\mathcal{S}$ such that $(T_{n_i}, f_j) = \delta_{ij}$, and there are your Miller-like basis. (You can't necessarily take the $n_i$ to be $\{1, \dots, rk(\mathcal{S})\}$ though, as your example above shows.)
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Thank you for this nice answer... I have one comment on the last sentence though: take $n, m$ with $n \neq 1, m \neq 1$ and $(n,m)=1$ then $\mathbb{Z} = \mathbb{Z}n + \mathbb{Z}m$ but there is no subset of $\{n, m\}$ that is a basis for $\mathbb{Z}$, so... how precisely do you want to find these $T_{n_1},..., T_{n_d}$? – Fabian Werner Jan 24 '12 at 14:17
Maybe another comment: Isnt it true that Shimura also proves that there exists a basis $f_1,..., f_n$ of modular forms for $\Gamma(N)$ such that all the Fourier coefficients are integers? Furthermore, the Hecke algebra of $\Gamma(N)$ is commutative and looks quite similar to the one for $\Gamma_0(N)$, so i dont see a reason why the result should not hold for $\Gamma(N)$ as well... (?) – Fabian Werner Jan 24 '12 at 14:36
Yes, you are quite right; my argument does not, in fact, show that there is a finite subset of the $T_n$ that is a basis for $\mathcal{T}$. Sorry, dumb mistake. – David Loeffler Jan 24 '12 at 14:52
As for your second comment: everything I said for $\Gamma_0(N)$ goes over verbatim to any group $\Gamma$ intermediate between $\Gamma_0(N)$ and $\Gamma_1(N)$. Since we can conjugate $\Gamma(N)$ to a subgroup intermediate between $\Gamma_0(N^2)$ and $\Gamma_1(N^2)$, this covers the $\Gamma(N)$ case as well. But if you take some totally generic congrence subgroup $\Gamma$ of level $N$ it's not even clear how to define $T_p$ for $p$ dividing $N$; you can certainly take the double coset $\Gamma \begin{pmatrix} 1 0 0 p \Gamma$ but this might not do anything remotely nice on $q$-expansions. – David Loeffler Jan 24 '12 at 14:54
Sorry, that should say $\Gamma \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & p \end{pmatrix} \Gamma$, obviously. – David Loeffler Jan 24 '12 at 14:55
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Our viscosity modifiers are high molecular weight polymers which change the temperature dependence of the viscosity of a liquid lubricant. These polymeric additives reduce mineral oil thinning as temperature increases. Polymers used as viscosity modifiers in oil have three critical attributes: improved viscosity index, enhanced thickening efficiency, and appropriate shear stability.
Liquid viscosity modifiers are used for ease of handling when preparing industrial fluids and lubricants.
Solid viscosity modifiers are more convenient and economical when large quantities of additives are required and the equipment necessary to granulate the solid form of the product is available.
The active thickeners in our viscosity modifiers are ethylene/propylene copolymers or proprietary polymers.
- Viscosity Modifiers are listed in the Industrial Catalog
- Technical Data Sheets
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- For more information on polymethacrylate viscosity modifiers, check the Polymethacrylate section.
- Table: Solid EPDM Typical Properties
- Article: TLT Viscosity Modifiers
- Technical Note: Compatibility of Polymers and Base Oils
- Technical Note: Polymer Additives for Improvement of Viscosity Index
- Technical Note: Shear Stability
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Some Leaders Are Born Women
Students who dedicate themselves to the study of law leave school equipped not only to become attorneys but also to become leaders. Honing the ability to write, to make a rational argument and to excel at preparation, all pave the way for lawyers to step into leadership roles that help bring about change and shape history, according to Sarah Weddington, the winning attorney in the historic U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
Weddington, Sarah, "Some Leaders Are Born Women" (2006). House Lectures. Paper 6.
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