What is an Oregon wrongful death claim?
Oregon wrongful death statutes state "when the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the decedent for the benefit of the decedent's surviving … [family], may maintain an action against the wrongdoer, if the decedent might have maintained an action had the decedent lived, against the wrongdoer for an injury done by the same act or omission."This is a legalistic way of saying if a person dies as a result of a wrongful act or omission of another, such as a drunk driving fatality or an employer not properly guarding an automated machine, then the personal representative of the decedent's estate may bring a lawsuit against the wrongdoer for the benefit of the surviving family or the decedent's estate.
A wrongful death action is designed to compensate family members for their losses associated with the death of a loved one.
What are the most common causes of Oregon wrongful death cases?
Motor vehicle accidents — accidental deaths involving car crashes, pedestrian accidents, bicycle injuries, motorcycle accidents, and large trucks.
Medical malpractice — medical and healthcare professionals have a "duty of care" to provide treatments in accordance with medical standards of practice. Medical malpractice occurs when healthcare professionals negligently fail to deliver treatment and the patient subsequently dies. Wrongful death lawsuits can be brought against doctors, hospitals, and others responsible for negligently treating patients.
Accidents where the fault lies not with you or your employer, but with a third party, where they have provided defective equipment, improper installation or maintenance, or an unsafe operating environment, are situations where you need to seek the advice of an experienced Portland industrial accident attorney.
Defective Products — If your injury was the result of an unsafe design, improper installation, defective product or unsafe operating procedures, then the manufacturer of the equipment may be held liable for your injuries.
Criminal acts — A person who commits a criminal act, such as vehicular manslaughter, is subject to both criminal and civil prosecution. Civil cases are brought on behalf of the deceased's family or legal representatives.
Who can file an Oregon wrongful death action?
Oregon law § 30.020 states "when the death of a person [the decedent] is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the decedent, for the benefit of the decedent surviving spouse, surviving children, surviving parents, and other individuals … [stepchild or step parent] … may maintain an action against the wrongdoer." Typically the personal representative is an immediate family member such as the decedent's surviving spouse or children.
Who are the beneficiaries in an Oregon wrongful death claim?
How is the settlement distributed?
Reimbursement for costs expenses and fees incurred in the prosecution or enforcement of the claim, action or judgment.
Reimbursement for charges incurred for doctor, hospital, nursing, or other medical services, burial services at memorial services rendered for the deceased.
Reimbursement of an apportionment amount of the recovery to each beneficiary.
The remainder of damages recovered shall be distributed to the beneficiaries in proportions according to the decedent's will, or if no will as defined under Oregon's laws of intestate succession, or as agreed by the beneficiaries.
What is the time period allowed for filing an Oregon Wrongful death claim?
Simply stated, most Oregon wrongful death actions must be filed within three years from the date the injury occurred that resulted in the person's death, as opposed to three years from the date of death. This is referred to as the statute of limitations. Exceptions to the three-year guideline on the statute of limitations are numerous and vary according to the cause of death. For example, the three-year statute may be significantly reduced (to as low as 180 days) if alcohol was involved in the cause of death, or when a public entity is involved, or in product liability claims. The only way to clearly understand the impact of time limitations is to review your case with an experienced Oregon wrongful death attorney.
Contact us today for a free, no-obligation consultation and case evaluation. At Mayor Law, LLC, we fight for justice for injury victims of Oregon car accidents, and we fight to win! You pay nothing up front and nothing unless you win your car accident case. See answers to other frequently asked questions relating to accidents and personal injuries, and learn how we can help you today.


If you like bold fragrances that tantalize your senses after you spray them on your pulse points, then you will like Avon's Little Black Dress Eau de Parfum. It is a delicious mix of lemon oil, jasmine and woodsy scents that doesn't have a sweet fragrance. Conquer your day with this fragrance!


Inspired by tortoisecvs and tortoisesvn, I put together a couple context menu extensions of my own. Because I'm using functions from tortoisesvn (and an icon from 7zip), this code is necessarily under the GNU GPL, though, if viral licensing bothers you, it wouldn't really be that hard to rewrite all the tortoisesvn functions.
The programs are very simple ATL / COM shell extensions in the style of the old copy path extension on codeguru; however, they've been updated to have improved icon quality using techniques from the bitmap extension demo on code project, as well as a few choice pieces of the tortisesvn source. I've implemented them all in msvc7, which will be either annoying or helpful depending on what side of the fence you live on.
Here's source code for two simple context menu extensions which just call external command line programs; and here's an NSIS installer for the same. The installer is included mostly for my own convience, without a copy of the command line scripts that they call, the context menus won't actually do anything.
For those of you with aversions to the microsoft SDKs: don't be afraid of the MSVC ATL wizards, working with them is really the only way to get this sortof thing done.
And don't be afraid to poke around in the tortoise[cvs,svn] source, it's fairly well organized and readable.
Cleaning up the registry: Use `regsvr32 /u` to take out the old registry entries for your dll before messing with the .rgs file.
Close all copies of explorer before recompiling -- otherwise you may not be able to write to the .dll.
All of the preceding tutorials are in msvc6, and so if you decide to work with msvc7, life will be slightly more complicated. The wizards have changed a bit, and by default you'll be using a different version of ATL.
You'll need to increase the priority of the PlatformSDK includes to dodge the "no GUID has been associated with this object" bug that otherwise may come when defining COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY's.
When creating a new ATL Project, disable 'Attributed' and enable MFC support.


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Subsurface tile drainage networks significantly underpin agriculture across the US Midwest with Illinois alone possessing nearly 10 million tiled acres.
However, nitrogen that leaves Midwestern fields in tile drainage water can impair local water bodies used as drinking water sources and is known to contribute to the hypoxic zone (or, "dead zone") that forms seasonally in the Gulf of Mexico.
Growing global food and biofuel demand combined with increasing societal pressure for clean water mean the agricultural community must be offered workable solutions to meet productivity goals in ways that don't result in nutrient-impaired waters.
A variety of agricultural conservation practices are available to reduce the amount of nitrogen leaving fields and travelling downstream. The practices are generally grouped into three categories: management practices that can be done in-field, structural practices that can be built at the edge of a field, and land use changes (Table 1). While each individual practice is valuable, the nitrogen removal effectiveness will be site specific and the acceptability of each individual approach will differ between producers.
No given conservation practice will be capable of addressing drainage water quality concerns in entirety; as such, a suite of approaches used across the landscape will be required.
As substantial investments in drainage systems continue to be made across the Midwest, there is an increasing need to provide relevant decision making information to agricultural producers and landowners so they can assess the best way to better incorporate conservation practices into the local landscape.
Each practice's effectiveness for reducing nutrient loss in terms of a "percent effectiveness" can be compared.
For nitrogen loss through tile drains, research shows that practices addressing the drainage system itself tend to be more focused and have relatively high practice efficiencies. For example, woodchip bioreactors and wetlands are rated at 25% and 50%, respectively, in the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy, meaning they keep one quarter and one half, respectively, of the nitrogen that would otherwise move downstream from doing so.
The most effective practices for reducing nitrogen loss through tile drains tend to be land conversion practices which require switching production to perennials like pasture or bioenergy crops (90% N loss reduction). While Table 1 presents average values, nitrogen loss reduction effectiveness of any practice can vary by soil type, topography, landscape position, and weather.
Another way to compare these practices is cost efficiency, both in terms of dollars per acre and dollars per pound of nitrogen that is being kept from moving downstream (Table 1).
While the land use change practices are the most effective in terms of percent nitrogen loss reduced (90%), they do no tend to be some of the most cost effective practices. However, beyond the cost efficiencies listed in Table 1, it's very important to note that some practices provide additional benefits beyond reducing nitrogen loss in tile drainage.
For example, there is evidence that long-term use of certain cover crops can improve soil health, and constructed wetlands are known to provide pollinator habitat and can be of interest to hunters for providing wildlife habitat.
When do the major costs of the practice occur? Constructed edge-of-field practices like constructed wetlands or bioreactors have high up-front costs, while other practices like cover crops are implemented annually, and thus have repeatable costs occurring every year.
What is the lifetime of the practice? Continuing with the above example, a constructed wetland can have a design life of greater than 100 years, but it may not be reasonable to assume a cover crop will be done in a given field consecutively for 100 years.
Are there other benefits of the practice, beyond water quality improvement, that are important? The practice of cover crops, for example, is typically not done solely to reduce nitrogen loss in drainage water.
Are there local or seasonal price differences for costs of these practices?
Are government incentives or cost-share programs available to assist with the cost? There may also be local funds available in certain watersheds through conservation groups or watershed planning processes.
In summary, all the recommended nutrient loss reduction practices are unique in how they work, how well they work to reduce nutrient loss, ease of implementation, and cost. While no single practice will be suitable for every acre across the US Midwest, every single acre needs at least one new conservation practice.


Adaptation, accommodation and assimilation were terms used by Jean Piaget to define the learning process. It has been sustained that the adaptation process, which is the final goal of human intelligence, follows two complementary processes: accommodation and assimilation.
The unicist approach has been using these concepts since the eighties considering them as a neural entity individuals have to approach learning processes. Therefore they have, as any entity, a purpose, and active function and an energy conservation function.
The purpose of this entity is to adapt to the environment, because this is the purpose of any healthy human being.
The active function is given by the accommodation process, that is the process in which the mind has to accommodate itself to the evidence with which it is being confronted.
This process is extremely energy consuming because it demands moving internal structures to find a way to adapt to the external environment. The accommodation process is supplementary to the adaptation process meaning that it is redundant but having a superior solution to adapt to the environment.
The changes proposed by the accommodation process are limited by the assimilation process. The assimilation process is the energy conservation function that allows adapting to the environment. The assimilation process consists in the integration of the external environment in the mind without changing the concepts the individual has.
Assimilation and adaptation are complementary which means that the assimilation provides the information that is needed to adapt to the environment.
Adaptation, accommodation and assimilation define the essential structure of a learning process which is nonexistent if individuals cannot adapt to the environment because they need to over-adapt to it. Over-adaptation implies a submissive, dominant or oppositional attitude towards the environment.
There exists no complementation between the accommodation and the assimilation processes. They are integrated by the adaptation process. That is why when adaption does not exist there is no possibility that an individual learns.


From shooting hoops to eating lunch and from marching bands to disco dancing, these extraordinary photographs capture a bygone era in US education.
The amazing images of Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan, from detroiturbex.com combine old pictures of school life with recent views of the abandoned building.
Cass Tech, which counts singer Diana Ross and rocker Jack White among its alumni, moved to a new building in 2005 which left the original facility empty.
The White Stripes vocalist White learned to play the marimba at the school and said attending there was like 'going to Harvard or something'.
The new Cass Tech building opened in 2005 to replace the school's nearly century-old 830,000 sq ft building, which was demolished last year.
The original school was founded in 1907 and was named after Lewis Cass, who was the Michigan territory governor from 1813 to 1831.
Detroit Public Schools said at the time it had no choice but to rip it down.


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Genetic Adaptation to Climate Change Is Swift in Crop Pests
Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice—say, the fruit from apple or Hawthorn trees—is at its peak. They're active for a couple of weeks, eating and mating, before going dormant for the rest of the year. How this synchronization and remarkable timing happens has long been a mystery. In a world where global climate change is shifting the growing seasons, somehow the fruit flies keep up.
In a new study, scientists have found many genes responsible for setting the flies' internal alarm clock and found that an imperceptibly slow development during dormancy is key to their rapid genetic adaption.
The study is published in the journal PNAS.
Internal Seasonal Timers
Like bears or ground squirrels, fruit flies time their slumber to coincide with seasonal food availability. They even evolve quickly enough to, say, shorten their dormancy to exploit longer growing seasons. Though some species rely on the predictable shortening and lengthening of days to cue their hibernation (called photoperiodism), others appear to have an internal mechanism.
"In addition to the 24-hour circadian clock that we all have, many fruit flies have an internal seasonal timer," says study co-author Gregory Ragland, PhD, assistant professor of integrative biology at University of Colorado Denver. "They pop up, exploit their host, and disappear for nine or 10 months. There's a useful marriage between what we know about the ecology and genetics of this process, which is why we approached this as a collaborative effort."
Unlike photoperiodism, much of this particular type of dormancy, or diapause, remains unknown. To investigate, a team of researchers led by Edwina Dowle, PhD, and Ragland at CU Denver, and Tom Powell, PhD, and Daniel Hahn, PhD, at University of Florida, joined forces with Jeff Feder, PhD, from University of Notre Dame and Stewart Berlocher, PhD, from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Tracking the Rate of Development
The group explored the hypothesis that differences in the rate of development during diapause drive the differences in the timing of seasonal activity. To test it, they collected two populations of the Rhagoletis pomonella flies that have one generation per year and overwinter as diapausing pupae. One population eats hawthorn berries, which are native to North America, while the other evolved the ability to eat apples introduced by colonists in North America about 400 years ago.
"Though it's actually a fly larva, this is the proverbial 'worm' in the apple that has evolved into a major crop pest by adjusting its timing to coincide with the early fruiting time of apple," says Ragland.
The researchers monitored the apple and haw flies in a lab, simulating overwintering for designated time intervals. During each interval, they tested the flies' transcriptome, the bundle of RNA transcripts that determines traits. Sampling from the fly brains, researchers can compare snapshots of the RNA composition to measure developmental differences in the nervous system over long time periods.
"Watching their morphology over time, they appear to be in suspended animation" says Ragland. "But the brain transcriptome revealed subtle, yet steady developmental changes that accumulated over six months, eventually completing the process that cued them to pop out of dormancy."
Other Research: Researchers Develop 3D-Printable Material to Mimics Biological Tissue
Polygenic Traits Key to a Speedy Evolution
This provides a possible mechanism that flies use to set their seasonal timer. The process also appears to be key for the rapid evolution of seasonality—apple flies have a slightly faster rate of development during dormancy, causing them to emerge earlier in the year.
By comparing genetic variants differing in the two fly populations, researchers found that polygenic traits led to the quickness of adaptation; many genes, each with very small effects, worked together to determine the rate of development. The research illustrates that crop pests and insect disease vectors with similar biology may rapidly respond to changing climates by a similar genetic mechanism.
Understanding the mechanics of diapause could also have a big impact on biomedical research, which depends on massive genetic stocks of the Drosophila fly curated in labs all over the world.
"People are interested in how to best preserve these flies because we can't cryogenically preserve them yet," says Ragland. "But if we could modify these lines to go into diapause, it would be a huge breathrough."
Written by Rachel Sturtz, Research Services
Colorado Building Workshop Students Build Safe, Eco-Friendly Shelter for Environmental Researchers in Antarctica
New Method Developed to Detect and Adjust Population Structure in Genetic Summary Data
CU Denver Study: Introducing Play to Higher Education Reduces Stress and Forms Deeper Connection Course Material
Science, Featured Research, genetics, Gregory Ragland, Integrative Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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(June 20-2008)—Today the Travel Protection Initiative, a coalition of Canada's travel industry and consumer groups, responded to federal Transport minister's Lawrence Cannon's submission this week to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities that he would not bring into effect the provision of Bill C-11 passed in June of last year that would mandate that airline advertising feature an all-in price.
In a letter to Standing Committee Chair, Merv Tweed, the groups note the overwhelming public support for the measure as well as the rules in other jurisdictions including the United States and Europe that prevent the misleading practice of advertising one price and then charging another which is many times the advertised price. The letter also submits that Transport Canada has chosen to favour several airline constituents over the interests of thousands of travel agents that are bound to observe rules that oblige them to advertise an all-in price.
We are writing to respond to the correspondence recently directed to you, as Chair of the Standing Committee on Transport, concerning the progress in enabling sec. 27 of Bill C-11, An Act to amend the Canada Transportation Act and the Railway Safety Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts to come into force. This provision would mandate the issuance of regulations to provide all-in airfare pricing for the benefit of consumers. As Minister Cannon points out in his correspondence, the onus is on him and his department to set the date upon which the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) will regulate airfares. Minister Cannon has concluded that a national consensus is necessary before imposing advertising rules, although the names of the stakeholders who must consent seems to be obscure.
In our view, it is necessary to provide some additional background and clarification to the submissions of Minister Cannon, and to draw to the Committee's attention the plain consequences of the current position of the Minister. As representatives of the Travel Protection Initiative, a coalition of consumer and industry groups with concerned with air travel in Canada, we are disappointed, but not surprised with the Minister's response that appears to have derived from his department's previous and longstanding position on this issue.
First of all, as Minister Cannon notes, Transport Canada officials were opposed to the amendment of Bill C-11 to require the making of regulations regarding airline advertising by CTA. In fact, one of the reasons that the language of the section was changed from permissive to mandatory was the opposition of department officials to the issuance of regulations following passage of legislation with permissive language. The Committee and the House, at first instance, decided that such "sober second thought" was unnecessary and non-productive in this instance. After the Senate amendment was made and approved, it also appears clear that the members approving the amendment were not supporting some process by which the airline industry could veto regulation by their simple failure to agree to its issuance.
As his letter makes clear, the Minister's course of action, taken since the passage of the legislation, has been directed solely to consulting with the industry stakeholders previously opposed to regulating airline advertising. The unsurprising news that they are still against such a measure is hardly grounds for lethargy in its promulgation.
As the members of your Committee may recall, the issue of airlines advertising misleading fares has been the subject of much discussion before the Consumer Measures Committee, (CMC) the federal-provincial-territorial forum for national co-operation on marketplace issues. The CMC issued a consultation paper in 2004, setting out the ramifications of the issue for consumers. It detailed the regulatory response in Ontario and Quebec with respect to travel agency advertising as well as the airline advertising restrictions by U.S. Department of Transport that have been in place since 1992. The document also noted that provincial capacity to discipline misleading travel advertising appeared to be possessed by the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.
We are not aware of any province that advanced the position that there should not be federal efforts to compel airlines to advertise in a manner that discloses the true price of air travel to customers. We are not aware of any province that refused to cooperate in any effort to ensure a unified front to ensure that travel advertising is presented in a transparent manner to consumers that would enable informed competition between airlines. We are, however, aware that Transport Canada opposed such measures, as they do now, notwithstanding that they have the support of some 93% of Canadian respondents to a 2004 survey taken by the Environics Research Group for Options consommateurs, a well-known Quebec based consumer organization. No progress was made at that time by CMC in arriving at a solution.
The Minister's fear of contrary practices in markets outside Canada is somewhat puzzling given the current state of foreign markets. In the United States, existing U.S. Department of Transportation all-in rules apply to all airline advertising in that jurisdiction. The European Union has also been moving to prevent irresponsible and misleading advertising exhibited by airlines. In November 2007, under the Unfair Consumer Practices Directive, 200 airlines were ordered by the EU Consumer Protection Commissioner to take down internet advertising that was misleading consumers by failing to clearly advertise the full prices and conditions of their flight offers. New airline advertising rules go into effect in Europe in the autumn of this year that will make it necessary to advertise full-flight prices with relevant sanctions for failure to do so.
In the United Kingdom, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has used the provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 to compel compliance of airlines with all-in pricing practices. The Association of British Travel Agents, whose members are responsible for about 90% of sales of foreign packaged holidays, have incorporated such advertising restrictions into their Code of Conduct and intend to take firm action against miscreants.
In Canada, travel agencies are also moving to comply with all-in advertising rules with or without provincial sanction. The CAA agency in British Columbia has adopted this practice as standard operating procedure and the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies has urged it as a best practice.
Price component complexity is also raised by the Minister as a barrier to effective regulation. As Minister Cannon notes, there are numerous charges that are associated with the final cost of an airline ticket, and it is somewhat difficult to calculate the same. This is, however, a task that travel agencies in Ontario and Quebec have been able to do for several years now without incurring financial ruination or widespread complaints of inaccuracy from customers. We are certain the airlines could muster the same degree of proficiency exhibited by these travel agencies with a little effort.
As well, the patterns of airline ticket purchasing do not lead to the conclusion that the airlines would be unfairly disadvantaged by the imposition of reasonable standards in the form of all-in pricing. First, most travel agency websites do not advertise scheduled airline fares, and adoption of similar practices of all-in advertising could easily be adopted pursuant to any agreements between the airlines and those travel agencies selling their products, that are unregulated by advertising restriction.
Secondly, we fail to see how travel agencies operating in provinces without effective means of travel advertising regulation will be able to muscle the airlines out of their Internet ticketing operations. As well, we do not understand why all carriers licensed by the CTA, would not be bound to follow the CTA regulations for advertising, as a condition of carriage.
Finally, the search for consensus that has been commenced by the Minister serves to obscure the real consequences of the Department's failure to act. First of all, passengers of the approximately 80 million flights per year in Canada will continue to be subject to a disgraceful shell game of airlines advertising one price, and then selling a ticket for an amount which may be many times greater than the advertised price. Secondly, the practice carried on by airlines is strongly opposed by the overwhelming majority of Canadians who want it changed. Thirdly, the government has taken sides with the airlines against close to 15,000 travel agents working at over 3500 outlets in Ontario and Quebec, many of them small family businesses. The government is content to allow any cost of misrepresentation by airline advertising to fall on them. Fourthly, it is inexcusable that a government would adopt a policy that allows misleading and deceptive marketplace conduct to continue in order to allow certain preferred constituents to thrive.
It is hard not to come to the conclusion that the coming into force of sec. 27 is only seriously opposed by a small cadre of bureaucrats who have chosen the route of indifference to Canadian airline customers, and the travel agents that serve them rather than adopting a policy that is in line with any realistic appraisal of the correct limits for advertising airfares.
We would request that the Committee urge further action by the Minister in the form of bringing into effect section 27 of Bill C-11.
The Canadian Association of Airline Passengers (CAAP) is a coalition of consumer organizations formed in 1999 to respond to the pending restructuring of the Canadian airline industry, and to advocate policy and regulatory requirements which are fundamental to protect passengers' rights. PIAC and Option consommateurs are both founding members of CAAP.


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Q: Are small valued capacitors effective in the device power input? I am really confused with all of the ground bounce, decoupling, bypassing, filtering, resonance and ESR&ESL stuff.
What I currently understand is:

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*Ground bounce occurs when the (capacitive part of the) load trying to source (and at the same time IC trying to sink) the current which has a high enough  \$\dfrac{di}{dt}\$. Lead inductances of the package do not matter much, however other inductances of the traces which are bigger compared to the IC leads matter. That's why capacitor(s) are put as close as to the IC power pins to provide a spontaneous power supply that is close enough and have small path inductance enough to prevent ground bounce.

*Decoupling is the job of the capacitor mentioned above. Also, it will bypass the noisy sub-circuit from the quiet sub-circuits by preventing high currents that have \$\dfrac{di}{dt}\$ to distribute to the other parts of the board.

*Also, a decoupling capacitor will filter unwanted high or low frequency noise from the power supply by giving the noise a least inductance path to the ground.

*Resonance frequency plot of the capacitor will show us how effective it is at a frequency.
My questions are:

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*If one uses 1nF, 100nF (both polyester film box type) and 10uF (electrolytic) through hole capacitors near the the power input of the PCB, like in the below layout, (s)he obviously won't be able to decouple the ICs that are far away, however will (s)he be able to suppress the noise coming from the power supply of the system? Is a 1nF, 10nF or 100nF capacitor effective for this job?

*May be the same question as above. Is putting a 1nF, a 100nF and a 10uF capacitor on the power bus of a breadboard effective?

*Can decoupling capacitors cause oscillations?

Below is a PCB I tried to lay out. It is an audio amp that is used in the buses so the +24V power supply input in the "input & output connector" is noisy. In the schematic I was given, there were lots of capacitors and an inductor (in both SMD and through-hole package, only one is populated). L1, C7, C8, C10, C9 are the components I am talking about. Are these capacitors effective by the means of first question? Also, do C10, L1 and C7 form an effective Pi filter?
Edit: Sorry, I had to remove the PCB and the schematic due to company policies. Oops!

A: There is a lot here that is difficult to cover.  I'll do my best, but be aware that I am leaving things out on purpose.  I simply can't cover every issue in the space and time that I have.
You have two main problems:  1. You are basing your electrical design off of old ideas and old rules-of-thumb.  2.  You are over thinking things a LOT, especially given the performance of (or lack thereof) your audio amp chip.  Let's go over your numbered points:

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*For most things, ground bounce is a non-issue and can be lumped into the bigger category of power and ground noise.  This is a bigger issue when you have very fast switching signals and/or are switching a lot of power.  Your amp is not switching a lot of power (only 14 watts), and is not switching quickly (you're not even switching digitally).   What you need to be concerned with is making sure that your power and ground distribution has the lowest possible impedance/resistance between all of the parts on your board.  Sure, place the caps near where they will be used, but don't stress about it.

*Assuming that you have low impedance/resistance connections to power/gnd on your PCB, the primary purpose of decoupling on your board is going to be bulk capacitance where power comes into your board.  You want to minimize the effects of the power cable impedance, and bulk caps where that cable connects is the best way to do that.  Of course you should put more caps at the power pins of each chip, but at audio frequencies this just isn't that important.

*Yes, decoupling will filter noise from the power supply.  Your bulk capacitors from #2, above, will do a lot of that.  The components on your PCB itself won't be generating a lot of noise (assuming that you got #1 correct).

*Remember that audio frequencies are only up to 20 KHz, and much of what you've read about decoupling caps and ground bounce are typically saved for digital switching well above 1 MHz.  You're correct, but it doesn't matter much if at all in your case.  Almost every cap that you will use for decoupling will be effective at less than 20 KHz.

Another thing to keep in mind is that your amp chip has a typical distortion of 0.1%.  This is a lot higher than any improvement you are considering.  For example, doing some sort of ground-bounce analysis of your PCB might improve your distortion figure by 0.0001%.  But that means that your total distortion might go from 0.1000% to 0.1001%.  It just doesn't matter!
Now, let's go to your questions:

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*For bulk decoupling caps at the power input I would go with the largest reasonable electrolytic caps that you can fit on the PCB.  The exact size depends on what the power source is and how long the cable is.  If you were using a wall wart over a 6 foot cable then I would want at least a 680 uF cap, or better yet three 220 uF caps.  Going up to 1000 uF would not be overkill.  But if your power supply is a lot closer, and the cable is shorter, then using something smaller is OK.  I would not go below a single 470 uF cap.  A single 0.1 to 1.0 uF ceramic cap would also be good, but not required.  At each TDA2030 chip use both a 100 uF cap and a 0.1 to 1.0 uF cap per power pin.

*Power on a breadboard is rarely ideal.  The lead inductance of the caps and the breadboard itself often much higher than what you really want.  Putting caps on the power of a breadboard is helpful, but you will never make breadboard power as good as power on a well-done PCB.

*Yes, decoupling caps can cause oscillations, but this is rarely a problem.  The best way to prevent this is to reduce the impedance/inductance of your power and ground signals on your PCB.  This brings us to your PCB layout...

You're PCB layout is bad.  The main problem is that you are using a "star-ground".  Star-grounds are often the wrong thing to use.  A PCB like this, where there isn't a lot of noise being generated and everything is fairly close together, a star ground doesn't provide any benefit and often harms things.
Ideally what you want is a 4-layer PCB where one inner layer is a solid ground plane, and the other inner layer is a solid power plane.  This provides the absolute lowest power and ground impedance across the entire PCB.  (In a moment I'll tell you what to do on a 2 layer PCB.)
What you have are a bunch of individual power/gnd traces that are relatively narrow and will have an impedance that is much higher than a solid plane.  Also, the distance between different components is large.  For example, the GND path from C3 to U1.3 is three times longer than it should be.  Not only will this increase noise, but it increases the loop area.  A larger loop area is going to increase your suseptability to external RF noise.
You have similar issues on the power traces.  They are relatively narrow and long.  This is going to increase the trace impedance and reduce the effectiveness of your decoupling caps.
The correct way to do the PCB layout in 2 layers is to fill the PCB with copper planes.  The blue layer would have the GND plane, while the red layer the V+ plane.  These planes will be "chopped up" with signal traces, of course, but you will have to carefully route those signals to minimize the negative effects of chopping up the planes.

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Includes a download card for high-res WAV versions of the tracks.


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Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 05:26
Australia (The Kinks song)
Australia (Whore of the world)
Coordinates: 27°S 133°E / 27°S 133°E / -27; 133
Australia (/ɒˈstreɪliə/, /ə-/, colloquially /-jə/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages grouped into roughly 250 language groups. After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated in the eastern states and on the coast.
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"Australia" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks, appearing on their 1969 album, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). It was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.
Lyrics and Music
In the song, the character Derek (who is featured in the story line of Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)) attempts to convince his father, Arthur, of the great opportunities available in Australia, where there's "no drug addiction" and you can "surf like they do in the U.S.A." Derek's advertisement is compared to John Smith, who campaigned for America in a similar manner, by author Thomas Kitts.
The song also features a jam sequence lasting for approximately half the song, which is atypical for The Kinks. In the Australian single edit, this section is removed by editing an earlier section of the song into another section during a drum beat, which is then followed by a fade-out.
"Australia" was only released in most countries on the Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) album, where it was the closing track on side one. However, in Australia, a dramatically cut down version of the song was released as a single, with another Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) track, "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina", on the B-side. However, the single was commercially unsuccessful.
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Australia (Whore of the world) is a climate change protest song written by singer-songwriter John Gordon and released in late 2010. The song laments Australia's mining culture - especially coal mining in Australia and coal exports - likening the country to a 'mining whore'.
It has featured in a wide variety of Australian press and online media, including mining forums, and continues to garner attention due to its controversial and provocative message. Music press have hailed the song as one of the great contemporary Australian protest songs. The Melbourne Age went as far as to say that Midnight Oil's 'Blue Sky Mine' has nothing on 'Australia (Whore of the World)'. The Song has been banned by ABC Local Radio Southern Queensland (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) as being too provocative for a conservative audience. ABC Southern Queensland encompasses the Toowoomba and Darling Downs region which is the region where Gordon hails from originally and where he has performed the song at a number of anti-mining rallies. The song has however received airplay in other parts of Australia from the ABC, and has been showcased on the national flagship ABC Environment website. As of May 2011, Gordon is contesting the Toowoomba ruling with the case currently before the independent ABC Consumer and Audience review board.
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Radio Stations - Canberra
6iX Perth 80s,70s,60s Australia
CMR Online Country Australia
Ten FM Varied Australia
Vision Radio Network Religious Australia
QBN FM 96.7 Varied Australia
Lion 96.1 Varied,Religious Australia
2UE News Talk Australia
2CA 80s,70s,Classic Rock Australia
Ballroom Glitz Radio Dance Australia
Gold 104.3 Oldies Australia
K-Rock 95.5 FM Varied Australia
Tank FM 103.1 Kempsey Varied Australia
Portuguese Radio Sydney Australia Varied,World,World Europe Australia
ABC Sydney 702 News Talk Australia
2MFM Religious Australia
96Five Family Varied Australia
1629 AM Newcastle NSW Oldies Australia
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94.1 3WBC - Whitehorse Boroondara Community Radio Varied Australia
Territory FM 104.1 Adult Contemporary,Talk Australia
ABC Triple J Unearthed Indie Australia
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Grant Year: 2020 | Focus Area: Family | Grant Amount: $106,000 | Grant Status: In Progress
Feeding the Florida Panhandle
As a member food bank of Feeding America and a United Way Member Agency, Feeding the Gulf Coast works through member organizations and special programs to provide nutritious food to meet the challenge of feeding people who are hungry as a result of systemic poverty, personal crisis or disaster. Feeding the Gulf Coast also educates the public regarding domestic hunger, proper nutrition and other related issues. Feeding the Gulf Coast, Inc. was founded and incorporated in 1981. In 1988, the food bank became a member of Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger relief organization. Since its founding, the organization has distributed more than 280 million pounds of food to charitable feeding organizations across the 24 counties it serves, including nine counties in lower Alabama, eight counties in lower Mississippi, and seven counties across the panhandle of Florida. In 2019, the food bank distributed over 29 million pounds of food through a network of over 400 community partners, consisting of child nutrition sites, church pantries, soup kitchens and other non-profit organizations. On average, these partners served nearly 114,000 people each month in 2019.
As part of a larger building expansion at its Milton facility, IMPACT 100 grant funds will be used to purchase and install racking for food storage and two pit loading dock levelers for safe unloading and loading of food on refrigerated trucks. In addition, Feeding the Gulf Coast will purchase a floor scale and a computer for use in receiving shipments, building orders, and marking inventory. Included in the plan is expansion of the dry storage area, conversion of the existing cooler into a freezer, and an addition of a cooler. These facility improvements will allow Feeding the Gulf Coast to expand its operational capacity to serve more people in need in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties as well as across the Florida panhandle. The planned expansion will increase the usable warehouse space from 14,680 square feet to 20,530 square feet. This will provide for a total of 350 additional bin/pallet locations, an increase of 68%, which will allow Feeding the Gulf Coast to significantly increase the volume and variety of nutritious food it provides to the community partners and on to those families struggling with hunger in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties.
In 2019, Feeding the Gulf Coast's Milton facility distributed 14,268,918 pounds of food. This warehouse, built in 2009, was only designed to distribute 8,000,000 pounds of food per year. This warehouse can no longer support increasing distributions, yet the need remains. Additional bin space provided by the racking means that the food bank can intake more products to make available for its community partners while increasing the accuracy of those orders and providing more regular updating for the online ordering system for those community partners. The addition of the pit levelers to the new loading dock will allow for the more efficient and safe loading and unloading of food items. As of May 31, 2020, the Milton warehouse has increased distribution by 29% compared to the same period in 2019. Business closures, layoffs, and increased health care costs related to COVID-19 and the subsequent economic downturn mean an estimated additional 28,200 more people could be at risk of facing hunger in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties this year. This 44% increase means there is a need for increased food distribution. Through this expansion, Feeding the Gulf Coast aims to both increase food storage and distribution capacity while also improving safety for the staff.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Text;

using DynamoServices;

class TracedHogManager
{
    private static int hogID = 0;

    public static int GetNextUnusedID()
    {
        int next = hogID;
        hogID++;
        return next;
    }

    private static Dictionary<int, TracedHog> hogDictionary = new Dictionary<int, TracedHog>();

    public static TracedHog GetHogByID(int id)
    {
        TracedHog ret;
        hogDictionary.TryGetValue(id, out ret);
        return ret;
    }

    public static void RegisterHogForID(int id, TracedHog hog)
    {
        if (hogDictionary.ContainsKey(id))
        {
            hogDictionary[id] = hog;
        }
        else
        {
            hogDictionary.Add(id, hog);
        }

    }

}

[Serializable]
public class HogID : ISerializable
{
    public int IntID { get; set; }

    public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
    {
        info.AddValue("intID", IntID, typeof(int));
    }

    public HogID()
    {
        IntID = int.MinValue;

    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Ctor used by the serialisation engine
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="info"></param>
    /// <param name="context"></param>
    public HogID(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
    {
        IntID = (int)info.GetValue("intID", typeof(int));

    }
}

[RegisterForTrace]
public class TracedHog : IDisposable
{
    //TODO(lukechurch): This really should have been moved into the attribute already
    private const string REVIT_TRACE_ID = "{0459D869-0C72-447F-96D8-08A7FB92214B}-REVIT";

    public double X { get; set; }
    public double Y { get; set; }

    public int ID { get; private set; }

    private TracedHog(double x, double y)
        : this(x, y, TracedHogManager.GetNextUnusedID())
    {
    }

    private TracedHog(double x, double y, int id)
    {

        this.X = x;
        this.Y = y;
        this.ID = id;

        TracedHogManager.RegisterHogForID(id, this);

        WorkspaceEvents.WorkspaceAdded += WorkspaceEventsWorkspaceAdded;
    }

    void WorkspaceEventsWorkspaceAdded(WorkspacesModificationEventArgs args)
    {
        // What does a hog do when a workspace is opened?
    }

    public static TracedHog ByPoint(double x, double y)
    {
        TracedHog tHog;

        HogID hid = TraceUtils.GetTraceData(REVIT_TRACE_ID) as HogID;

        if (hid == null)
        {
            // Trace didn't give us a hog, it's a new one.
            tHog = new TracedHog(x, y);
        }
        else
        {
            tHog = TracedHogManager.GetHogByID(hid.IntID);
        }

        // Set the trace data on the return to be this hog.
        TraceUtils.SetTraceData(REVIT_TRACE_ID, new HogID { IntID = tHog.ID });
        return tHog;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return String.Format("{0}: ({1}, {2})", ID, X, Y);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        // Unhook the workspace event handler.
        WorkspaceEvents.WorkspaceAdded -= WorkspaceEventsWorkspaceAdded;
    }
}


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| iPhone 5 not likely to support NFC
iPhone 5 not likely to support NFC
Until recently, the Apple rumor mill suggested the next iPhone would include a near-field communication chip for short-range wireless transactions.
Until recently, the Apple rumor mill suggested the next iPhone would include a near-field communication chip for short-range wireless transactions. Another turn of the wheel, though, and that's yesterday's news.
Will the iPhone 5 support mobile payments via NFC? A report out yesterday from the folks at AnandTech says no.
Alleged photos of the iPhone 5's assembly posted by Taiwan-based blog Apple.pro pointed to a part that not seen in previous photos. The dimensions of the part reportedly matched those of certain NFC chips, leading to speculation that the mystery component could be an NFC chip.
The addition of electronic ticket organizer Passbook to iOS 6 also fueled rumors that the new iPhone would let users make mobile payments using near-field communications.
But AnandTech has discounted both of those tidbits, asserting that the new iPhone's backside precludes the possibility of NFC.
"Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it's highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation," the technology review site said. "In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out.
The NFC antenna itself would need ample and dense space, more than would be possible if it were placed at the tight top or bottom of the phone's assembly.
"With an NFC antenna at the extreme top or bottom, alignment with non-iPhones (for example, payment tokens or reader tags) becomes a much more confusing task, and that doesn't seem like the Apple-like level of polish everyone is waiting for to drive NFC adoption," AnandTech added.
Including Passbook in iOS 6 isn't necessarily a sign of NFC either, the site noted, since Apple hasn't revealed whether it would use NFC, low-energy Bluetooth, or even a QR code-based payment system for the Passbook transactions.
So what is that mystery component seen on the photos? AnandTech speculates that it could be a touch and display controller designed for the new iPhone's thin in-cell touchscreen.
Google has already inched its way into the NFC arena by including the technology on a few of its handsets. But the demand for NFC-based mobile payments has yet to take off, at least in the United States.
If AnandTech's conclusions are on target, Apple may feel no rush to enter the NFC market at this point, especially if adding the hardware would pose technical issues for the new iPhone.
It's also possible Apple may not yet have all the necessary pieces in place for full NFC support. A patent granted to the company just today revealed a method to help users confirm that a mobile transaction has been completed, a necessary feature to guard against unwanted purchases.
Cnet: By Lance Whitney


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'image_optim'
require 'image_optim/cmd'
require 'tempfile'
require 'English'

describe ImageOptim do
  root_dir = ImageOptim::ImagePath.new(__FILE__).dirname.dirname
  images_dir = root_dir / 'spec/images'
  test_images = images_dir.glob('**/*.*').freeze

  helpers = Module.new do
    def temp_copy(image)
      image.temp_path.tap{ |path| image.copy(path) }
    end
  end
  include helpers
  extend helpers

  matcher :be_in_range do |expected|
    match{ |actual| expected.include?(actual) }
  end

  before do
    stub_const('Cmd', ImageOptim::Cmd)

    allow(ImageOptim::Config).to receive(:global).and_return({})
    allow(ImageOptim::Config).to receive(:local).and_return({})
  end

  disable_all_workers = Hash[ImageOptim::Worker.klasses.map do |klass|
    [klass.bin_sym, false]
  end]

  ImageOptim::Worker.klasses.each do |worker_klass|
    describe "#{worker_klass.bin_sym} worker" do
      it 'optimizes at least one test image' do
        options = disable_all_workers.dup
        options.merge!(worker_klass.bin_sym => true)
        options.merge!(:skip_missing_workers => false)

        image_optim = ImageOptim.new(options)
        if Array(worker_klass.init(image_optim)).empty?
          image_optim = ImageOptim.new(options.merge(:allow_lossy => true))
        end

        expect(test_images.any? do |original|
          image_optim.optimize_image(temp_copy(original))
        end).to be true
      end
    end
  end

  describe :optimize_image do
    define :have_same_data_as do |expected|
      match{ |actual| actual.binread == expected.binread }
    end

    define :have_size do
      match(&:size?)
    end

    describe 'optimizing images' do
      rotated = images_dir / 'orient/original.jpg'
      rotate_images = images_dir.glob('orient/?.jpg')

      base_options = {:skip_missing_workers => false}
      [
        ['lossless', base_options, 0],
        ['lossy', base_options.merge(:allow_lossy => true), 0.001],
      ].each do |type, options, max_difference|
        image_optim = ImageOptim.new(options)
        describe type do
          copies = test_images.map{ |image| temp_copy(image) }
          pairs = image_optim.optimize_images(copies)
          test_images.zip(*pairs.transpose).each do |original, copy, optimized|
            it "optimizes #{original.relative_path_from(root_dir)}" do
              expect(copy).to have_same_data_as(original)

              expect(optimized).not_to be_nil
              expect(optimized).to be_a(ImageOptim::ImagePath::Optimized)
              expect(optimized).to have_size
              expect(optimized).to be_smaller_than(original)
              expect(optimized).not_to have_same_data_as(original)

              compare_to = rotate_images.include?(original) ? rotated : original
              expect(optimized).to be_similar_to(compare_to, max_difference)
            end
          end
        end
      end

      describe 'skipping larger' do
        let(:original){ double(:size => 12_345) }
        let(:optimized){ double(:original_size => 12_345, :size => 100_000) }

        it 'skips larger files' do
          image_optim = ImageOptim.new(:skip_bigger => true)

          allow(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:convert).and_return original
          allow(image_optim).to receive(:workers_for_image).with(original).
            and_return([])
          allow(ImageOptim::Handler).to receive(:for).and_return optimized

          expect(image_optim.optimize_image(original)).to be nil
        end

        it 'does not skips larger files when opt is off' do
          image_optim = ImageOptim.new(:skip_bigger => false)

          allow(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:convert).and_return original
          allow(image_optim).to receive(:workers_for_image).with(original).
            and_return([])
          allow(ImageOptim::Handler).to receive(:for).and_return optimized

          expect(image_optim.optimize_image(original)).to_not be nil
        end
      end
    end

    it 'ignores text file' do
      original = ImageOptim::ImagePath.new(__FILE__)
      copy = temp_copy(original)

      expect(Tempfile).not_to receive(:new)
      optimized_image = ImageOptim.optimize_image(copy)
      expect(optimized_image).to be_nil
      expect(copy.read).to eq(original.read)
    end

    {
      :png => "\211PNG\r\n\032\n",
      :jpeg => "\377\330",
    }.each do |type, data|
      it "ingores broken #{type}" do
        path = FSPath.temp_file_path
        path.write(data)
        expect(ImageOptim::ImageMeta).to receive(:warn)
        expect(ImageOptim.optimize_image(path)).to be_nil
      end
    end
  end

  describe :optimize_image! do
    it 'optimizes image and replaces original' do
      original = double
      optimized = double(:original_size => 12_345)
      optimized_wrap = double
      image_optim = ImageOptim.new

      allow(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:convert).
        with(original).and_return(original)

      expect(image_optim).to receive(:optimize_image).
        with(original).and_return(optimized)
      expect(optimized).to receive(:replace).with(original)
      expect(ImageOptim::ImagePath::Optimized).to receive(:new).
        with(original, 12_345).and_return(optimized_wrap)

      expect(image_optim.optimize_image!(original)).to eq(optimized_wrap)
    end

    it 'returns nil if optimization fails' do
      original = double
      image_optim = ImageOptim.new

      allow(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:convert).
        with(original).and_return(original)

      expect(image_optim).to receive(:optimize_image).
        with(original).and_return(nil)
      expect(ImageOptim::ImagePath::Optimized).not_to receive(:new)

      expect(image_optim.optimize_image!(original)).to eq(nil)
    end
  end

  describe :optimize_image_data do
    it 'create temp file, optimizes image and returns data' do
      data = double
      temp = double(:path => double)
      optimized = double
      optimized_data = double
      image_optim = ImageOptim.new

      allow(ImageOptim::ImageMeta).to receive(:for_data).
        with(data).and_return(double(:format => 'xxx'))

      expect(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:temp_file).and_yield(temp)
      expect(temp).to receive(:binmode)
      expect(temp).to receive(:write).with(data)
      expect(temp).to receive(:close)
      expect(image_optim).to receive(:optimize_image).
        with(temp.path).and_return(optimized)
      expect(optimized).to receive(:binread).and_return(optimized_data)

      expect(image_optim.optimize_image_data(data)).to eq(optimized_data)
    end

    it 'returns nil if optimization fails' do
      data = double
      temp = double(:path => double)
      image_optim = ImageOptim.new

      allow(ImageOptim::ImageMeta).to receive(:for_data).
        with(data).and_return(double(:format => 'xxx'))

      expect(ImageOptim::ImagePath).to receive(:temp_file).and_yield(temp)
      expect(temp).to receive(:binmode)
      expect(temp).to receive(:write).with(data)
      expect(temp).to receive(:close)
      expect(image_optim).to receive(:optimize_image).
        with(temp.path).and_return(nil)

      expect(image_optim.optimize_image_data(data)).to eq(nil)
    end

    it 'returns nil if format can\'t be detected' do
      data = double
      image_optim = ImageOptim.new

      allow(ImageOptim::ImageMeta).to receive(:for_data).
        with(data).and_return(double(:format => nil))

      expect(ImageOptim::ImagePath).not_to receive(:temp_file)
      expect(image_optim).not_to receive(:optimize_image)

      expect(image_optim.optimize_image_data(data)).to eq(nil)
    end
  end

  describe 'optimize multiple' do
    %w[
      optimize_images
      optimize_images!
      optimize_images_data
    ].each do |list_method|
      describe list_method do
        method = list_method.sub('images', 'image')
        describe 'without block' do
          it 'optimizes images and returns array of results' do
            image_optim = ImageOptim.new
            results = test_images.map do |src|
              dst = double
              expect(image_optim).to receive(method).with(src).and_return(dst)
              [src, dst]
            end
            expect(image_optim.send(list_method, test_images)).to eq(results)
          end
        end

        describe 'given block' do
          it 'optimizes images, yields path and result for each and '\
              'returns array of yield results' do
            image_optim = ImageOptim.new
            results = test_images.map do |src|
              dst = double
              expect(image_optim).to receive(method).with(src).and_return(dst)
              [src, dst, :test]
            end
            expect(image_optim.send(list_method, test_images) do |src, dst|
              [src, dst, :test]
            end).to eq(results)
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


The field of Learning Analytics and Academic Analytics has developed considerably during the last year in European HEIs. Through the use of Learning Analytics tools, the management of Universities and Academic programs in Europe has been modernized. In Latin American, there is a lack of local capacity to design and build this specialized tools that could be used to improve HEIs administration. The LALA project seeks to modernize the academic decision making process through building local capacity to create Learning Analytics to support decision makers at different levels in Latin American HEIs.
The EMBED project entails a strategic partnership on the introduction of innovation in higher education by the implementation of blended learning (b-learning) in the partnership and beyond. The partnership consists of front-runner universities in b-learning and aims at creating a reference model for developing and implementing blended learning, embracing all levels of an institution: the design of the blended course, organisational aspects such as staff support and training, and institutional leadership, developing policies and strategies making the institution continuously innovative.
In this project, we have three aims. First, to characterize the language constructs of students and teachers across a number of disciplines. Second, to explore whether understanding disciplinary literacy development can support the provision of effective and formative feedback to learners and the enhance the quality of their skill development. Finally, we address the challenge of automated evaluation of students' written responses to questions.
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Fit well into Haskell monadic types conventions – programmers should be able to reuse existing widespread monadic programming know-how and easily translate it to Clojure code.
Be reasonably easy to learn – the code from the existing books, articles and tutorials for learning monadic programming, which is usually written in Haskell should be easily translatable to Clojure with Fluokitten.
To assist European universities to become more mature users and custodians of digital data about their students as they learn online, the SHEILA project builds a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process.
The project aimed to develop a better understanding of learning analytics and the ways in which analytics can be interpreted, applied and actioned by teachers to improve teaching and learning practices.
The BeyondLMS project extends the field of Learning Analytics (LA) by developing an open source toolkit for performing sophisticated analysis of learners' engagement in connected learning environments. The toolkit will provide web based forms and contextualised dashboards to enable both students and academics to explore and analyse student behaviour while learning is occurring (rather than after the fact). The Connected Learning Analytics Toolkit is the final result of the project.
GRASS was a 3-year, EU-funded research project (project reference number: 543029-LLP-1-2013-1-RS-KA3-KA3MP), focusing on representing soft skills of learners of various ages and at different levels of education in a quantitative, measurable way, so that these skills can become the subject of formal validation and recognition. The project is being developed under the umbrella of the flagship European funding programme in the field of education and training, the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). The key objective of LLP is to enable individuals at all stages of their lives to pursue stimulating learning opportunities across Europe.
This project aimed to undertake a review of learning analytics across Australian universities within an international context. The project focused on how learning analytics were informing teaching practice, personalised learning, and applications for improving retention and identification of students at-risk.
This project sought to further research and develop a social annotation technology called the Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS).
Learners everywhere make extensive use of the Internet. Their success is threatened in two ways. First, providers of information rarely apply learning science to help learners learn. Thus, learners acutely need skills for learning. Second, too many learners have too few learning skills; moreover, they use poor judgment to regulate skills they have. This novel and interdisciplinary project aimed to remedy this dilemma.
JEFF is a free, open source expert system explanation facility written in Java. It enables expert system creators to provide the HOW and STRATEGY explanations regarding the inference process. Since it is a Java framework, it is supposed to be a generic solution for modern rule-based systems. It is simple to use and can generate explanations in the form of natural language like sentences. Internationalization is also supported and explanations can be saved as textual, XML, RTF or PDF reports.
IntelLEO was a 3-year ICT research project (STREP) in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission (2009-2012). It was coordinated by the ATB Institute from Bremen, Germany.
Intelligent Learning Extended Organisation (IntelLEO) is a new paradigm representing a community that emerges from a temporal integration of two or more different business and educational communities and organisational cultures (industrial, research and educational). For example, interested individuals from an industrial enterprise may create such a community with researchers from a university department interested from the research perspective in the same area in which the enterprise does its business. The temporal integration of the two parties may come in order to collaborate on learning activities and achieve their learning goals more efficiently.


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The most critical step of building a leak seal methodology is choosing the correct product. In our industry, there are products with varying degrees of flexibility, viscosity (thickness), expansion rate, type, and reaction time. If the wrong product is chosen, the best equipment in the world won't provide a successful, long-lasting repair.
Flexibility is very important in product choice as substrates that experience thermal expansion and contraction or dynamic loading causing movement, will require a flexible grade chemical grout (AP Seal 500, Spetec PUR F400) to remain sealed during movement. For curtain wall grouting or in joints and cracks that do not experience much movement, more rigid products (Spetec PUR H100, Spetec PUR HighFoamer, AP Fill 700) with higher expansion rates can get the job done. While flexible products do not offer the amount of compressive strength as their more rigid counterparts, the flexible functionality serves dynamic crack leak seal injection well.
Hairline cracks and cold joints require relatively thin (low viscosity) materials to penetrate adequately. Acrylic products offer the thinnest options (Spetec AG100 and Spetec AG200), while most of the Alchemy-Spetec single part polyurethanes also offer thin enough material to penetrate most concrete cracks and joints (Spetec PUR H100 and Spetec PUR F400). A common mistake, however, is choosing a product that is too thick resulting in excessive pressures and blow-outs. A common warning sign during injection is when pressures are continuously high, while very little chemical grout travel is observed.
Most single part, catalyzed, water-reactive polyurethane grouts are expansive in nature. The amount of expansion typically varies from approximately 5-40x original mixed volume. The amount of expansion is important in many applications as it will be a factor in the total amount of material used, overall cell structure, and capacity to cut-off active water leaks. Spetec PUR HighFoamer can achieve an expansion rate of 50x. This is particularly beneficial when cutting off high-volume leaks and/or when performing curtain grouting. Expansion can create a significant amount of pressure behind a structure, so it is always advised to consider this behavior when injecting into a completely confined substrate.
Most leak seal chemical grouts are polyurethane-based, and hydrophilic or hydrophobic in type. Hydrophobic polyurethanes require water to initiate but are completely insensitive to moisture post-cure. These products are ideal for freeze/thaw and wet/dry cycles. Hydrophilic polyurethanes will expand and contract based on the amount of water in their environment. These products are ideal for applications in which there is constant water contact to keep them in their gel state. Hydrophobic polyurethanes include Spetec PUR H100, Spetec PUR F400, Spetec PUR F1000, Spetec PUR HighFoamer, and AP Fill 700. Hydrophilic polyurethanes include Spetec PUR GT350, AP Seal 500, and the acrylic grouts Spetec AG100 and Spetec AG200.
Reaction time plays a crucial role in the overall injection process as it will determine how fast the product will cut off water and also how far the product will travel. Most hydrophobic polyurethanes offer a catalyst component that can be used to control this speed. Depending on severity of leak, and thickness of structure, the catalyst can be adjusted accordingly to ensure that the product reacts when and where it is designed. Most polyurethane hydrophilic grouts do not offer catalyst components. Acrylic hydrophilic reaction times can be adjusted by adjusting the sodium persulfate concentrations on the B-side of the mix. The TEA component on the A side can also be adjusted, but for user-friendliness and simplicity's sake, it is recommended to only adjust the sodium persulfate component.
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Femi Fani-Kayode is back on front pages this time its another controversial issue. The former minister's marriage with the mother of his sons has hit Olumo Rock!
SDK reports that the 4th marriage of the former Aviation minister who was recently bashed by Nigerians for insulting a Journalist in Calabar, has crashed. It is rumored that his wife, Precious Chikwendu has been driven out of the house with nothing! No money, no child, no car…nothing!
The news making the rounds suggests that the controversial politician has put his sons under the care of a Nanny with direction to make sure she doesn't see them.
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It is said that the former Minister retrieved all the gifts he bought for her whilst they were married leaving her broke as her accounts were also seized.
Furthermore, the report disclosed that Precious had allegedly been beaten up many times and lived like a prisoner in her matrimonial home and the situation is in a dire state as she is allegedly demanding for a DNA test, because all four kids were allegedly conceived via IVF but she is not sure where the former Minister brought the sperm he dropped for the hospital to use on her to conceive the triplets.
The couple who have now unfollowed each other and pictures of both them deleted off their social media accounts , fuel this speculation.Recall that the duo got married in 2014 and their wedding was the envy of all and sundry . They both share four kids together .
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<?php
namespace App\Modules\General\Http\Domain\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

use Laracasts\Presenter\PresentableTrait;
use Vinkla\Translator\Translatable;
use Vinkla\Translator\Contracts\Translatable as TranslatableContract;

class Menulink extends Model implements TranslatableContract {

	use Translatable;
	use PresentableTrait;

	protected $table = 'menulinks';

// Presenter -------------------------------------------------------
	protected $presenter = 'App\Modules\General\Http\Presenters\General';

// Translation Model -------------------------------------------------------
	protected $translator = 'App\Modules\General\Http\Domain\Models\MenulinkTranslation';

// DEFINE Hidden -------------------------------------------------------
	protected $hidden = [
		'created_at',
		'updated_at'
		];

// DEFINE Fillable -------------------------------------------------------
	protected $fillable = [
		'menu_id',
		'page_id',
		'parent_id',
		'position',
		'target',
		'restricted_to',
		'class',
		'icon_class',
		'link_type',
		'has_categories',
		// Translatable columns
		'title',
		'status',
		'url'
		];

// Translated Columns -------------------------------------------------------
	protected $translatedAttributes = [
		'title',
		'status',
		'url'
		];

// 	protected $appends = [
// 		'title',
// 		'status',
// 		'url'
// 		];

	public function getStatusAttribute()
	{
		return $this->status;
	}

	public function getTitleAttribute()
	{
		return $this->title;
	}

	public function getUrlAttribute()
	{
		return $this->url;
	}

}


A 2008 salmonella outbreak caused by tainted peanut butter is the subject of a trial currently underway in Georgia. The outbreak, which sickened 700 people and killed at least nine more, led to one of the largest food recalls in US history. Our Atlanta product liability attorneys have been following the case, which made the news again this week.
The 76-count indictment names Michael Parnell, the owner of Peanut Corporation of America, Mary Wilkerson, the plant's quality assurance manager, and another former manager, Samuel Lightsey. The indictment accuses the company of shipping tainted products and hiding lab tests that showed they contained salmonella. Wilkerson is also charged with obstructing justice.
Lightsey pled guilty in May, agreeing to testify for the prosecution in exchange for a lighter sentence. In six days of testimony, Lightsey spoke of how the Peanut Corporation of America shipped contaminated products with falsified documents stating they were free of salmonella, and of the presence of mold and mildew within the plant. He also told the court of how employees used a pellet gun to shoot birds that got inside the plant.
This week, Parnell's attorney grilled Lightsey over his role in running the plant on a day-to-day basis. Concerning Ms. Wilkerson's role in assisting the Food and Drug Administration, Lightsey admitted that, while he lied to FDA investigators, Ms. Wilkerson tried to assist them in finding documents. Defense attorneys asked Mr. Lightsey to review pre-salmonella outbreak audits, which showed that the plant received good marks from inspectors. They also asked why, out of thousands of lab reports, only about a dozen indicated positive tests for salmonella. The defense also pointed to Lightsey's plea deal, which stipulated that, in exchange for assisting the prosecution, he could avoid a jail sentence.
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