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In 2003, the Commission began receiving complaints about racial profiling. The Commission was among the first institution in Québec to reflect upon and raise awareness about racial profiling as a form of discrimination. In 2005, the Commission adopted a definition of racial profiling, which has since been recognized by the courts and by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). In 2009, it launched a public consultation throughout Québec on racial profiling and racialized youth between the ages of 14 and 25. This consultation led to the publication of a major report containing more than 90 recommendations, as well as the Commission's undertakings for future action in this area. Since then, the Commission has ensured an effective follow-up so that the recommendations are implemented. It also continues do to work towards better social, political and legal recognition of racial profiling and its consequences.
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2013 The Commission wins the first case at the Human Rights Tribunal involving a commercial establishment finding that four black complainants were victims of racial profiling in a bar near Montréal. In November 2014, the Québec Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of racial profiling but found that only the establishment – not its owner – must pay the punitive damages totalling $12 000 to the four men.
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2012 One year following the release of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse's report on racial profiling: few changes or tangible progess.
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2011 The Commission published a consultative report on profiling and its consequences, entitled "Racial profiling and systemic discrimination of racialized youth", which offered more than 90 recommendations for countering the racial profiling of young persons in the areas of law enforcement, education and the youth protection system.
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The Québec Court of Appeal upholds the Human Rights Tribunal's ruling in the case of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse v. Bertrand (2013) which found that four Black men were victims of racial profiling in a Terrebonne bar but that the moral damages of $12,000 should be paid only by the business and not its owner, Claude Bertrand.
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A black man was pulled over as he was driving his BMW, and accused of refusing to provide information or ID as requested by the police. The Municipal Court was of the opinion that no valid reason to suspect him of car theft had ever been established by the police, and that, on the contrary, the evidence established that racial profiling was the main reason why he was pulled over. He was acquitted.
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A Montréal police officer detained an Arab man for nearly one hour without valid reason, in addition to calling all Arabs "liars". The police officer and the City of Montréal were ordered to pay $18,000 to the complainant.
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Q: ARD Unix Command Help - Answer Yes? - Automate Domain Unjoin / Rejoin We had a bunch of Macs come up with no network access this morning, and unjoining and rejoining the domain fixes that. I'm trying to make this as automated as possible.
The following works great from Terminal with "yes | sudo sh myscript.sh", but I'm not sure how to make the UNIX Command answer yes when prompted when it says "Computer account already exists! Bind to Existing? (y/n):"
Here's what I have, and any advice is appreciated:
domain="mydomain"

username="myusername" password="mypassword"

olddomain=$( dsconfigad -show | awk '/Active Directory Domain/{print $NF}' ) computername=$( scutil --get ComputerName ) adcomputerid=$( echo "${computername}" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] ) prefix="${adcomputerid:0:6}"

dsconfigad -remove -force -u "${username}" -p "${password}"

dsconfigad -add "${domain}" -username "${username}" -password "${password}"

A: The full answer would be:
# ...
dsconfigad -add "${domain}" -force -username "${username}" -password "${password}"

The -force forces the action (skips asking for user confirmation).
Relevant portion of the helptext below:
$ dsconfigad
Usage: dsconfigad -add domain -username value [-computer value] [-force]
                  [-password value] [-ou dn] [-preferred server]
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# ...

  -force                force the process (i.e., join the existing account)

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Hear EDDIE VAN HALEN's Solo On Newly Unearthed Cover Of JIMI HENDRIX's "If Six Was Nine"
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Keyboardist David Garfield has played with everyone from Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather to George Benson and Smokey Robinson. According to a new report by Guitar World, one of the highlights of his career came in the late '90s, when he recorded with Eddie Van Halen. Now, for the first time, Garfield is releasing that track, a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 Was 9".
The cut appears on Garfield's new EP, Guitar Heroes OTB - Vol. 1, and features singer / guitarist Michael Landau, bassist Will Lee and drummer Simon Phillips. Eddie contributes an absolutely wild and psychedelic guitar performance to the Hendrix classic up front.
This extended cover "If 6 Was 9" was recorded in 1996.
Garfield spoke to Guitar World about how the track came about, explaining that he first met Eddie "at a local cigar store and we got to talking." At the time, Garfield was working on a project titled Tribute to Jeff Porcaro, in honor of the late Toto drummer. He recalls, "I mentioned it to Eddie, asking if he'd like to participate. Eddie's response was a resounding 'yes!'"
Garfield: "I went up to his house to work on the tracks with him, and he was so cool. We bonded as keyboard players, too. After that session, we played a live gig together at the Baked Potato, along with Steve Lukather and Michael Landau. We continued to stay in touch, and often he would call me out of the blue, asking for help with keyboard related stuff. I even found a guy to travel with him on tour and play additional parts offstage, as well as be his keyboard tech.
I'm sure sorry we lost him way too soon; I was hoping to collaborate with him again. Rest in peace, my brother Ed."
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Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It lies approximately 51 miles (82.1 km) northeast of Orlando, 86 miles (138.4 km) southeast of Jacksonville, and 265 miles (426.5 km) northwest of Miami. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, it had a population of 61,005. It is a principal city of the Deltona Daytona Beach Ormond Beach metropolitan area, which was home to 600,756 people as of 2013. Daytona Beach is also a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida.The city is historically known for its beach, where the hard-packed sand allows motorized vehicles to drive on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made Daytona Beach a mecca for motorsports, and the old Daytona Beach Road Course hosted races for over 50 years. This was replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway. The city is also the headquarters for NASCAR.Daytona Beach hosts large groups of out-of-towners during the year, who visit the city for various events, notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans come to attend the season-opening Daytona 500. Other events include the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 race in August, Bike Week in early March, Biketoberfest in late October, and the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race in January.
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Bobrawa () – wieś (ros. село, trb. sieło) w zachodniej Rosji, centrum administracyjne sielsowietu bobrawskiego w rejonie biełowskim obwodu kurskiego.

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Wieś położona jest w dolnym biegu rzeki Bobrawa (Bobrawka) (dopływ Psioła).

Ulice wsi Bobrawa to (stan na rok 2020):  Worobjewka, Wygon, Dienisowka, Zmiejewka, imieni Gałkina, Kisilewka, Korieniewka, Kotowka, Mołodiożnaja, Rakowka, Turowka, Cariewka, Centralnaja.

Historia
Siedlisko założyli w XVII wieku imigranci z Białorusi, a jej nazwa pochodzi od rzeki nad którą leży. Nazwa tej z kolei odzwierciedla powszechne występowanie bobrów w tych okolicach w tamtym czasie. W 1862 Bobrawa wchodziła w skład wołostu pieńskiego w ujeździe obojańskim i liczyła sobie 1762 mieszkańców. Po rewolucji październikowej mieszkańcy otrzymali ziemię. W latach 1929–1930 w miejscowości powstały dwa kołchozy: 13 lat paździenika i Gwardzista. W roku 1965 zainstalowano pierwszy wodociąg, a rok później wybudowano dom kultury. W 1988 wybudowano dwukondygnacyjną szkołę średnią. Nowy wodociąg zaczął działać w 2002 roku.

Demografia
W 2010 r. miejscowość zamieszkiwało 537 osób.

Zabytki
 Cerkiew Wstawiennictwa Najświętszej Bogurodzicy (1894)

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The Super Typhoon "HATO" (No.201713) attacked Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai areas on 23 August, 2017. It is reported that around 20 vessels anchored at Guishan anchorage suffered from damage or severe losses due to anchor dragging, which caused vessels to collide with other vessels, contact with terminals, run aground, strand on rocks or islands, or even capsize with all crewmembers missing. Besides, in some incidents oil pollution was also noticed. Local waters fell into disorders after the typhoon. Till now, our Guangzhou office has received accident notifications from 6 vessels due to this typhoon.
For the time being, local MSA, salvage bureau and rescue bureau are collaborating in order to assist the vessels/crewmembers in distress.
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A lone document lost in the Alstalsian forests, carried by the winds far from its home...
Report from Scout █████(MM-02-29007)
The monsters were well prepared to deal with the Grimalkin, if only due to their resistance to dark magic, judging by how little they seemed to be affected when struck with it. Few were capable of utilizing other magics, but, it was enough to save at least some lives. By the time my unit arrived, they had already reached the first floor, but were pushed back with the combined efforts of the already stationed guards and citizens. Casualties on the first floor were few, and we proceeded downwards, the guard tending to those wounded.
I am unsure if the blood on the steps were simply from the monsters that made it up, or from those who tried to escape. I paid it little heed as I refocused my attention upwards, the pathway was clear, though the sound of battle still rang out from within the caverns. We slowly proceeded, breaching each room as we passed, even if no noise could be heard.
The first room, we were met with terrified faces. At least eight citizens had constructed a barricade--that was now flattened--in there. They were escorted to the first floor by a fraction of my unit. As they left, one of the monsters burst from the third room, covered in blood, carrying two corpses on it. One on a hand, the other in its gaping maw. I did not hesitate to open fire on the monster's head, which was quickly repeated by the majority of my remaining unit.
Riddled with bullets, the monster had only managed to leap forward in its death throes, barely scratching one of my unit with the claw that carried a body, falling lifeless afterwards. Upon inspection, it was not a corpse. They were alive, barely. My unit simply stared, the citizen stared back. I took it upon myself to raise my weapon, and fire at the citizen's head. We could not afford to hesitate in our duty, and I made this clear to my unit.
We regrouped with the rest of my unit, and proceeded to breach the second room. A single citizen and her children were found hiding in a bed, and were escorted back by two of my unit--we proceeded onwards to check the third room while they did this.
The third, fourth, and fifth rooms were all vacated. Signs of battle were obviously apparent in them. Likely where the monsters who breached the first floor were prior. The exact details will be attached at the end of this report.
The final, sixth living quarters was breached without issue. Unlike the others, there were no signs of battle. The room must've been vacated before the fighting started. With all the civilian quarters checked, we proceeded toward the courtyard, which happened to be where most of the noise had been coming from.
Screams of various tones filled the air, deafening as we descended the steps down into the courtyard proper. The enemy was abundant here, orders did not need be spoken, they were felt. Within seconds our unit had downed one of the monsters in a hail of gunfire. I yelled our next priority target's direction, and the process continued.
Chaos acted as our shield for some time as we began to whittle at their numbers ever so slightly. One of my unit yelled out, seeing a monster that looked different. ██████████████. We didn't have time to focus our attention on it, as the monsters had realized we were here, and began to strike back.
A healthy monster was much more threatening than an injured one, like the first we'd encountered. I saw a shadow descend nearby, and resounding thud followed by scraping, drawing my attention to the source--one of the monsters had pinned one of my unit mere inches from me. Quickly afterwards, the monster's neck was carved into by the downed unit. I fired a single shot into the monster's head before looking away, yelling new orders to my unit.
We were still missing those who had escorted the civilians of room two, we could only pray they were returning with reinforcements. What remained of my unit began to move around the outskirts of the courtyard, in an attempt to group with what fighters still remained in battle with the monsters. One of my unit stated they saw some civilians in the center, thus, we turned and made our way there.
Many monsters stood between us and the center. I counted at least five--considering their size, it could've proved hazardous to our unit of now seven. I took aim, ordering our unit to split into pairs--leaving myself alone, and opened fire on the closest monster.
Luckily whoever was fighting in the center had attracted many of the monster's attention, allowing us to injure if not down several of the monsters before they could react. When they did, our unit had to split further apart once the remaining monsters approached.
One monster who turned to face us--me, specifically, lurched only a few inches before stopping. A spear piercing its mouth from behind. The weapon was twisted several times before vanishing behind the creature before it fell over, presumably dead. My rifle was raised at it already, though this prepared me for what it would reveal.
The monster's killer was █████████████████. I caught a glimpse of what I presume was her daughter, and another monster. Her attention quickly turned back that way, my vision of the other civilian obstructed by her. I lifted my rifle upwards at what I could still see--the monster's head, and fired several times.
It fell backwards from the assault of both myself and ███████, though I could not clearly see what she was doing. As I went to approach, the ███████ monster intercepted me, appearing behind ███████, between myself and her. By the time my weapon was raised, ███████ was likely attacked.
A bolt of lightning flew over my head and at the ██████ monster, causing it to jerk upright in pain and lose its hold on ███████. I wasted no time opening fire on it, though it quickly retreated, taking several of my shots into its back with seemingly little effect.
I looked around myself, the room slowly growing silent. The monsters were all fleeing, the screams dying down to whines. I took this time to look behind myself. The ███████ had arrived with the remainder of my unit, and several more guardsman. He quickly ordered them to gather ███████ before walking forward himself.
From there we gathered the dead and wounded, as the guardsman took watch of the courtyard.
Room One - Fortified shelter, minimal damage aside from the broken door. Upon later inspection, the door appears to have been damaged prior to the breach, faint traces of blood present on the front.
*The paper appears to be torn here, whatever was below this point is gone.*
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Phase 2 of my BIG Basement Project is to add some much needed character to the space. Since this is a basement with no windows (other than the small transom window in the corner that got covered up by the deck when it was installed…ugh!) and low ceilings, just 3 HUGE walls of nothing…no colorful, textured curtains to frame out windows, no vaulted ceilings to add height or grand-ness, and no architectural character what so ever to add any interest.
I had designed the wall to be 60" wide to match the entertainment center width and to have the boards run vertical to add visual height to the space. It would also protrude out from the wall about 1-1/2".
With the help my good friend, we started install by measuring out placement, found studs, cut the support boards, and put up 4 horizontal cross supports that were anchored into the studs. This gave us something to anchor the vertical boards to. Since the boards were running vertical we wouldn't of hit studs every time so the cross supports gave us something substantial to anchor in to. It also added depth to the wall which I wanted.
After the supports were in place and anchored we started air nailing the stained vertical boards into place, starting at one end and working to the other. Once all the boards were in place we capped off the exposed ends with a 1×2 board cut to length. It was flush with the front of the boards and covered up the raw exposed ends of the support boards.
The end result…a beautiful accent wall that adds a bunch of character to a room that only has 4 large, plain walls. Also helps visually anchor the entertainment center on the wall don't you think??


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Q: Why my site is always using the ErrorController for all types of errors irrespective of HTTP Status code? We've been running a Zend Framework e-commerce site for years. It hasn't used the MVC structure 100% but we try to progress it towards a "better" coding structure as we perform new upgrades on the site and so on. Recently we made some significant changes to the site as well.  As there are multiple developers this issue is a little difficult to track, but I'm writing here to get any kind of help or advice.
On our previous site, our ErrorController was used to simply do a 301 redirect to a "pagenotfound" page when something goes wrong, including a 404. This continues on our new site. We realise this is not what a website should do, so we are trying to change that - i.e. use proper 404 code when we are on a 404, and so on. On updating ErrorController just now on our test site, I have realised that EVERY action on our site is somehow running the ErrorController. How do I know this? Because my current test site ErrorController is as follows:
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/** @see Zend_Controller_Action */
require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';

class ErrorController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function errorAction()
{
    $errors = $this->_getParam('error_handler');

    switch ($errors->type) {
        case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_CONTROLLER:
            case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ACTION:
                // 404 error -- controller or action not found
                $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(404);
                $this->view->message = 'Page not found';
                break;
            default:
                // application error
                $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(500);
                $e = $this->_getParam('error_handler');
                $this->view->message = $e['exception']->getMessage();
                break;
    }
    $this->view->exception = $errors->exception;
    $this->view->request   = $errors->request;
}
}

The above code, now on my test site, is fine but when I go to any working page (viewing the NET tab on Firebug), I am a seeing "500" server error status code. This is surpising because for working pages, it shouldn't even load the ErrorController right? However it is, and the status code 500 (from the default switch case above) is sent through.
Our site uses an IndexController as well, and no further controllers - all our actions are within IndexController. We have a special PagesAction as follows:
public function pagesAction()
{
    $this->view->placeholder('errors')->captureStart();
    //proceed as normal
    if ($this->checkSiteCode()) { //this will be false if we are not on the correct site code (ignore this)
        $this->view->this_includefile = "pages/view";
        $this->getControllerIncludeFile($this->view->this_includefile); //include some special include file for our work
    }
    $this->view->placeholder('errors')->captureEnd();
}

The above a default action on our bootstrap, for example if you go to
www.mydomain.com/stores/
then the above pagesAction() will be called to check if "stores" exists in our database (CMS) and loads the content appropriately. The content is loading fine, but the Error 500 still exists (on the test site). Therefore my questions are:

*

*Previously on the old site (which we can still access via another test domain), this problem does not happen. Therefore something - some change on our bootstrap configuration or another core file - has caused this to happen on our new site. This is a new issue to us and I'm just trying to find out where to look. Any ideas? I don't see any reference to "errorcontroller" in my bootstrap however.
The above placeholder for errors is used because we are using a Layout (new to the new site) which for some reason hides any PHP controller errors that we want to see. Therefore we store it in a "errors" placeholder for printing from our view. This is a separate point but probably worth noting since we did not do this on our old site.
There are also several bootstrap changes between the old and new site which we are comparing now.

*Our primary aim here is to update the pagesAction to throw a 404 when a particular URL is not found in our database (and not redirect to "pagenotfound" which is another CMS managed page, i.e. www.mydomain.com/pagenotfound/ is a normal page). Basically I'm asking how to code it so that the Error Controller is actually called when the pagesAction realises that a particular URL does not exist? Once problem 1 above is resolved, I'd need to solve this problem so that the ErrorController can load only when necessary.
UPDATE
We have just found out that the following code in bootstrap.php, when removed, no longer loads the ErrorController and 501 error.
$acl = new Zend_Acl();
$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
$registry->set('acl', $acl);  // store whole ACL definition to registry for use in AuthPlugin plugin

However the above disables the $registry completely so I'm still looking for what line actually causes the problem as there are more codes that access the $registry. I'll keep this post updated, but ANY help on problems 1 and 2 above would be much appreciated!

A: You are right. Same has been the frustration too (I know that feel, bro!)
Anyways, you can define what type of error should go where using Zend_Http*
As you can see I have tweaked the way into my ErrorController to "SET" the HTTP Status Code that way, it will also change the "header" information of the page. Example, in first tweak. I am checking for Routes/Controllers/Actions if none are found then set 404 , log the incident and render a script!
class ErrorController extends Zend_Controller_Action {

  public function errorAction() {
    $errors = $this->_getParam('error_handler');

    if (!$errors || !$errors instanceof ArrayObject) {
      $this->view->message = 'You have reached the error page';
      return;
    }

    switch ($errors->type) {
      case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ROUTE:
      case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_CONTROLLER:
      case Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler::EXCEPTION_NO_ACTION:
        // 404 error -- controller or action not found
        $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(404);
        $priority = Zend_Log::NOTICE;
        $this->view->error_code = $this->getResponse()->getHttpResponseCode();
        $this->view->message = "Page Not Found";
        $this->renderScript('error/error_404.phtml');
        break;
      default:
        // application error
        print_r($this->getResponse());
        $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(500);
        $priority = Zend_Log::CRIT;
        $this->view->error_code = $this->getResponse()->getHttpResponseCode();
        $this->view->message = 'Application error';
        if ($log = $this->getLog()) {
        $log->log($this->view->message, $priority, $errors->exception);
        $log->log('Request Parameters', $priority, $errors->request->getParams());
        $this->renderScript('error/error_500.phtml');
        }

    // conditionally display exceptions
        if ($this->getInvokeArg('displayExceptions') == true) {
                $this->view->exception = $errors->exception;
        }

        $this->view->request = $errors->request;
        $this->view->error_code = $this->getResponse()->getHttpResponseCode();
        $this->renderScript('error/error_500.phtml');
        break;
    }

    // Log exception, if logger available
    if ($log = $this->getLog()) {
      $log->log($this->view->message, $priority, $errors->exception);
      $log->log('Request Parameters', $priority, $errors->request->getParams());
    }

    // conditionally display exceptions
    if ($this->getInvokeArg('displayExceptions') == true) {
      $this->view->exception = $errors->exception;
    }

    $this->view->request = $errors->request;
  }

  public function getLog() {
    $bootstrap = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap');
    if (!$bootstrap->hasResource('Log')) {
      return false;
    }
    $log = $bootstrap->getResource('Log');
    return $log;
  }

}

Use it :) :)
Enjoy Life!
Happy coding! :)


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Flugzeugreifen sind die Reifen am Fahrwerk eines Flugzeugs. Die Flugzeugreifen werden während der Landung und vor allem beim Start sehr starken Kräften ausgesetzt. Im Moment des Aufsetzens werden sie sehr schnell auf die Landegeschwindigkeit beschleunigt. Dabei erhitzen sie sich und es kommt zu starkem Abrieb von Gummi auf der Landebahn. Die noch größere Materialbelastung beim Start erklärt sich durch das deutlich höhere Startgewicht und die höhere Geschwindigkeit beim Start.

Technik
Flugzeugreifen sind meist schlauchlos. Ihr Profil besteht lediglich aus Längsrillen, die bei Regen Wasser zur Vermeidung von Aquaplaning ableiten sollen und den Verschleiß anzeigen. In das Reifengummi ist Gewebe eingearbeitet, damit die Lauffläche nicht durch die bei hohen Geschwindigkeiten entstehenden Fliehkräfte zerstört wird. Anders als beim Autoreifen ist die Sichtbarkeit von Gewebe daher kein sicheres Zeichen für übermäßigen Verschleiß, zudem werden Flugzeugreifen aus Kostengründen grundsätzlich regelmäßig runderneuert.

Verschleiß
Flugzeugreifen, oder auch Flugzeugräder (Reifen und Felge) genannt, werden für die Landung nicht durch Antrieb in Rotation versetzt, daher kommt es wegen der abrupten Beschleunigung beim Kontakt mit der Landebahn zu starkem Gummiabrieb.
Beim Start wirken auf die Reifen noch größere Kräfte durch das höhere Gewicht des Flugzeugs sowie dessen deutlich höhere Geschwindigkeit. Außerdem entstehen durch enge Kurvenradien auf dem Rollfeld starke Scherkräfte, also Kräfte, die nicht in Rollrichtung wirken, da das Hauptfahrwerk, das fast das gesamte Gewicht des Flugzeugs trägt, meist starr angeordnet ist.

Betrieb mit falschem Reifendruck, hohe Umgebungstemperaturen, harte Bremsmanöver bei hohen Geschwindigkeiten sowie schnelle und enge Kurvenfahrten (Haupträder sind auf starren Achsen fixiert) führen zu erhöhtem Reifenverschleiß.

Füllung

Die Reifen sind aus Gründen des Brandschutzes mit Stickstoff befüllt. Insbesondere bei Notbremsungen (Startabbruch, Landung mit hohem Gewicht) werden die in der Felge angebrachten Bremsen extrem heiß. Der entstehende Überdruck im Reifen wird durch spezielle temperaturabhängige Schmelzventile abgeblasen und kühlt die glühenden Bremsen. Eine Luftfüllung würde einen Brand dagegen eher anfachen. Da normale Luft wegen der Luftfeuchtigkeit etwas Wasser enthält, würde dieses in großer Höhe, bei Temperaturen bis zu −56 °C gefrieren. Dagegen wird Stickstoff unter normalem Druck erst bei −196 °C flüssig und in großer Flughöhe bei −173 °C.

Die FAA fordert seit 1990 die Verwendung von Stickstoff, da einige Fälle aufgetreten waren, in denen sich durch äußere Hitzeeinwirkung verdampfte Reifenbestandteile mit der Luftfüllung der Reifen selbst entzündeten.

Dies gilt aufgrund der niedrigeren Geschwindigkeiten nicht für Kleinflugzeuge, deren Reifen meist mit Luft gefüllt sind.

Bauformen und Bezeichnungen
Flugzeugräder werden im Englischen Wheels, die Hauptfahrwerksreifen Main Wheels und die Bugfahrwerkräder Nose Wheels, genannt. Die meist größeren Räder des Hauptfahrwerkes sind knapp hinter dem Schwerpunkt des Fluggerätes angeordnet. Sie tragen den größten Teil des Flugzeuggewichts, an ihren Radachsen befinden sich die Flugzeugbremsen. Beim Bugfahrwerk sind die Reifendimensionen kleiner, da hier nur ein kleiner Teil des Flugzeuggewichtes abgestützt wird und deswegen auch in der Regel keine Radbremsen vorhanden sind.

Maximale Reifengeschwindigkeit
Die maximale Rollgeschwindigkeit der Flugzeugreifen (engl. maximum tire speed) kann in besonderen Fällen ein limitierender Faktor sein.

Bei Landungen ohne ausgefahrene Landeklappen (engl. flaps up landing; z. B. wegen Defekten an den Klappen), kann die Landegeschwindigkeit nahe an die maximum tire speed kommen.

Ebenso kann das Starten bei großer Höhe (engl. high altitude take-off; z. B. Start von hoch gelegenen Flugplätzen – Flughafen La Paz 13.325 Fuß) eine hohe Startgeschwindigkeit erforderlich sein, die an das Limit der maximal zulässigen Reifengeschwindigkeit heran reicht.

Beispiele für maximale Reifengeschwindigkeit:
 Cessna Citation I/SP (Modell 501) – 165 Knoten
 Cessna 172 – 160 Knoten
 CRJ – 210 Knoten
 A320 – 225 Knoten
 A330 – 235 Knoten
 Concorde – 279 Knoten

Sonstiges
Der Reifenverschleiß wird regelmäßig geprüft. Vor jedem Start gehen der Kapitän oder Copilot generell um das Flugzeug und begutachten den Zustand der Reifen und Bremsen. Bei täglicher Wartung am Flugzeug entscheidet vor allem der Techniker, ob der Reifen verschlissen oder beschädigt ist und ggf. präventiv auszuwechseln ist.
Die Prüfung auf übereinstimmende Rutschmarken ist bei Kleinflugzeugen mit Schlauchbereifung Teil der äußeren Sichtprüfung im Rahmen der .

Flugzeugreifen werden runderneuert, was nicht bedeutet, dass die Reifen minderwertig sind, da es sich um einen sehr aufwändigen und technisch sorgfältigen Prozess handelt. Die Lauffläche wird abgehobelt, und die verbleibende Karkasse, das Grundgerüst des Reifens, einer sorgfältigen Kontrolle durch Sichtprüfung und Röntgen unterzogen. Durch Vulkanisation wird eine neue Lauffläche aufgebracht. Wenn das Rad gewechselt wird, kommt es in die Reifenwerkstatt, wo der Reifen und die beiden Felgenhälften demontiert werden. Der Reifen wird dem Reifenhersteller zugeschickt, die Felgenhälften werden meist in den Reifenwerkstätten der Fluglinien oder Wartungsbetriebe gewaschen, überprüft und mit neuen Reifen montiert.

Siehe auch
 Landung
 Fahrwerk (Flugzeug)

Weblinks

 FAQ-Nr. 16 bei www.flugingenieur.de Wie ist das mit den Reifen? Wie ist das denn nun in der Fliegerei?... mit den Reifen?

Einzelnachweise

Luftfahrttechnik


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Crews battled a vegetation fire early Wednesday in the Santa Clara River bottom near the Wagon Wheel area of Oxnard.
Dispatchers received a report at 12:18 a.m. of an explosion in the river bottom. The incident soon was confirmed as a vegetation fire.
Arriving fire crews said the fire was along Ventura Road south of the railroad trestle, which is just south of Highway 101.
Crews said it was a small spot fire measuring about 25 feet by 50 feet. It was quickly contained to that size.


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In the heart of downtown Moose Jaw, St. Andrew's United Church welcomes you to our Sunday worship at 10:30 or one of the many other events that happen throughout the week.
Don't let the grand style of our church building fool you; Sunday morning is more friendly than formal. You don't need to dress in your finest, or have the Bible memorized. You don't have to hold a rock solid faith or have all the answers – we'll work on this together. We also tend to like keeping things simple; in the noise and rush of the rest of the week, Sunday at St. Andrew's is a true sanctuary. We can find peace in moments of silence, wisdom in the Bible and thoughtful reflection, and joy in beautiful music. Then again, it's also important to share in laughter, good food, and thankfulness for God's blessings!
Be sure to join us on our Facebook and Youtube pages!
St. Andrew's United Church is a progressive worshipping community dedicated to spiritual growth, caring and inclusivity, providing outreach to the community and the world.
Welcoming statement:
We believe all people are God's children. We welcome all who wish to follow the Way of Christ to fully participate in all aspects of our life and work regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, economic circumstances, or differing abilities. We will work to counter injustice which violates a person's right to respect, dignity, and fair treatment.
St. Andrew's United Church aspires to be a faithful, inclusive, caring, justice-seeking, welcoming community which is open to change; honours differences and works together like a harmonious chord; encourages sharing our gifts; and leads to spiritual growth and to being living followers of Jesus Christ.
Scan the QR code and watch our live services on YouTube weekly.
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The first day back at work after a 3-day weekend is always brutal. Head down to Glenwood Ave. after work for some cheap drinks and relaxation.
Sacued Pizza is hosting Trivia Night starting at 8:30. Get your smartest friends together and win prizes while eating tasty pizza and enjoying $4 well drinks and $2 domestics!
Need a little wine to wind down? Head to Solas for half-priced wine!


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Straddling the Boundaries of Biology and Poetry
By Birding Book and Media Reviews, on April 25, 2018
A review by Lori Potter
Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America, by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. Karlson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
Birds of prey occupy a favored spot in our collective imagination. The Maltese Falcon. The recent bestseller H is For Hawk. The national symbol of the United States. The countless nest web cams. Mythology and the Bible. As Pete Dunne says, birds of prey are "citizens of lofty places, including human esteem." This book speaks directly to that special interest.
Dunne and Karlson's new Birds of Prey lands somewhere between the coffee table and the classroom desk, or perhaps on both. It is a reference book with an authoritative text by Dunne, a well-known expert in the field. It is also a visual page-turner, with stunning action photographs by Kevin T. Karlson and other leading photographers. At 6" x 9" and several pounds, it is heftier than a field guide—and doesn't really pretend to be one, as it forgoes range maps. Yet it will be useful in resolving identification issues thanks to its detailed attention to morphs and plumages, field marks, and diagnostic behaviors. Ultimately, Birds of Prey straddles the traditional categories of birding books, and acquits itself well in all of them.
Dunne says in the introduction that Birds of Prey began as a companion to Hawks in Flight—specifically, the second edition by David Sibley, Dunne and Clay Sutton, which appeared in 2012. A chief goal of Birds of Prey is to put biological flesh and feather on the identification focus of the earlier book. Over time, it became instead the distillation of thousands of hours of field observations by hundreds of raptor biologists fascinated by birds of prey. Many of their anecdotes are recorded in Birds of Prey to dramatic or humorous effect, like the observation that Swainson's Hawks "flock in clusters large and dense enough to be captured by Doppler radar."
Both Dunne and Karlson have professional qualifications that just won't quit. Dunne is the author of more than a dozen birding books, the founding director of the Cape May Bird Observatory, and New Jersey Audubon's birding ambassador. Karlson is a wildlife photographer, tour leader, and author or coauthor of eight works on bird identification and photography.
Dunne writes crisply and clearly, conveying relish for his subject in a contagious way. Birds of prey can turn a biologist into a poet, he muses, and the book proves him right. He calls the White-tailed Kite "an angelic bird with demonic eyes." The Snail Kite is a "deliberate bird, never flustered or erratic." He doesn't take himself too seriously, speculating that "if ground squirrels have nightmares, they look like a Ferruginous Hawk."
The picture captions exude the same dry wit. Beneath the image of an accipiter with a rodent in its talons, Dunne writes, "A Cooper's Hawk brings home the bacon, temporarily wrapped in chipmunk fur." In the case of a Peregrine Falcon clasping a hapless finch, he notes, "This American Goldfinch is about to move on to the next trophic level."
If Pete Dunne's text is Roger Federer methodically dominating from the baseline, Kevin T. Karlson's photos are Rafael Nadal rushing the net. Two Bald Eagles lock talons and twirl like tops in flight in a series of shots from the Cape May hawkwatch. A strikingly owl-faced Northern Harrier flies nearly upside down. The bulging crop of a successful hunter; a rare silver-plumaged Red-shouldered Hawk; a kestrel soaring while gobbling a cricket—Karlson captures all of these images and more, brilliantly. Karlson also selected and edited the equally stunning images by other raptor photographers. A full array of instructive color morph photos accompanies the species accounts.
In his text, Pete Dunne chooses to step forward and address the root causes of the decline in raptor populations. The individual species accounts describe forces such as climate change and new agricultural practices that affect the health of populations on a large scale. Thus, he notes, the American Kestrel's dramatic and dire decline in the East may be related to drought conditions or to increased conversion of agricultural land to suburbs. Likewise, the Swainson's Hawk is susceptible to changing farm practices.
Amplifying this theme, Dunne includes sections in the book titled "Threats to Birds of Prey" and "Things You Can Do to Help Birds of Prey." If you love birds, don't forget to love their habitat; this is the message that this bold, beautiful new book delivers, even as it takes your birding to a new level of enjoyment and understanding.
– Lori Potter is a serious competitive and recreational cyclist and birder, and she occasionally combines the two activities. Based in Denver, Colorado, Potter's work has appeared in the Denver Post Sunday travel section and other publications. She participated in the ABA's 2014 birding safari in South Africa–on foot.
Potter, L. 2018. Straddling the boundaries of biology and poetry [a review of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America, by Pete Dunne and Kevin T. Karlson]. Birding 50(3): 67–68.
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text:
Maxera oblita är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Moore 1882. Maxera oblita ingår i släktet Maxera och familjen nattflyn. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Nattflyn
oblita


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Бананейрас ()  —  город и муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Параиба. Составная часть мезорегиона Сельскохозяйственный район штата Параиба. Входит в экономико-статистический  микрорегион Брежу-Параибану. Население составляет 20 660 человек на 2007 год. Занимает площадь 257,981 км². Плотность населения — 80,7 чел./км².

История
Город основан 16 октября 1879 года.

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 60.595.034,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 2.848,72 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,599 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

Муниципалитеты штата Параиба


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Death And Homicide, Five Day
Peter Collins, CD, MD, MCA, FRCPC Peter Collins has been the forensic psychiatrist with the Criminal Behaviour Analysis Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police, since 1995. From 1990 to 1995 he was a member of the first profiling unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Violent Crime Analysis Section) and was involved in the development of the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS). Since 1992 he has been a member of the crisis/hostage negotiation team of the Toronto Police Service Emergency Task Force.
In addition, Peter consults to the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service, the Profiling Unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the Behavioural Sciences Section of the Calgary Police Service.
Peter obtained his Masters in Applied Criminology from the University of Ottawa, his Medical Degree from McMaster University and completed his postgraduate medical training in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His clinical appointment is with the Complex Illness and Recovery Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and he is an Associate Professor, in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry, at the University of Toronto. Peter is also a co-investigator with the Health Adaptation Research on Trauma (HART) Lab and an advisor to the International Performance Resilience and Efficiency Program for police tactical teams at the University of Toronto (Mississauga). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, published by the American Psychological Association, and a columnist with Blue Line Magazine.
Peter retired from the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserves), at the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and served on 2 deployments in Southern Afghanistan. In October 2012 he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contribution to the Canadian Forces. He has also been awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD).
In 1997 Peter was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. In 2017 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Critical Incident Association. Peter is an authority on violent crime and has worked with, and instructed, numerous criminal justice agencies in North America, and internationally, including the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Interpol, and Europol.
Dayle Hinman Dayle Hinman was one of the first people to ever attend the FBI's Behavior Science Unit's fellowship in criminal profiling. Dayle spent over 30 years in law enforcement in Florida, being one of the only women profilers in America. In 2001 Court TV did a documentary on Dayle called Body of Evidence. The movie was so popular that Court TV made it into a regular weekly show. Now retired Dayle spends most of her time lecturing throughout the world at forensic meetings.
Rod Englert, Chief Deputy (Retired) Chief Deputy (Retired) Rod Englert, a 50-year veteran of law enforcement, retired as Commander of the Operations Division, Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Portland, Oregon, in 1995. He started his career with the Downey, California Police Department after graduating from the Los Angeles Police Academy. In 1969 Chief Deputy Englert moved to Portland, Oregon and joined the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. A large portion of Chief Deputy Englert's career has been associated with working major crimes, narcotics and homicide. His expertise is in the area of homicide crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter interpretation. After retirement, he became a member of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Homicide Team.
Rod Englert received a Bachelor's degree in Police Administration from California State University at Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, where he was President of the 159th Session.
Chief Deputy Englert has conducted over 600 lectures and training seminars on managing criminal investigations, solving unresolved homicides, blood spatter interpretation and crime scene reconstruction to law enforcement personnel, district attorneys and private attorneys in 35 states as well as in Canada, Russia, England, France, Portugal, and South America. He has consulted in over 460 homicides in the United States and Canada. He has testified and is a qualified court expert in crime scene reconstruction and blood pattern analysis in 26 states.
Englert is a member of the International Homicide Investigator's Association; several states' Homicide Investigator's Associations; a Fellow, Distinguished Member, President (2001/2002), and Chairman of the Board (2002-2003) of the Association of Crime Scene Reconstructionists; a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; and is Past-President of the International Association of Blood Pattern Analysts. He has received the Lecturer of Merit and Distinguished Faculty Awards from the National College of District Attorneys.
Rod Englert is the author of Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
Brian Martin, Brian Martin has been a police officer for 25 years, the last 7 as a lead homicide detective. The last two years have been spent as the lead cold case detective within his department. Brian has been a member of the F.B.I. Northeast Indiana Bank Robbery Task Force for the past 7 years as well. Prior to his current assignment in the Homicide Division, he worked undercover narcotics for approximately 10 years. Brian also helped form the Clandestine Laboratory team and lead this team for two years. Brian has been a member of the Fort Wayne Police Department Emergency Services Team for the past 16 years, serving several years as an Assistant Squad leader. He has also worked a temporary duty assignment with the F.B.I. Safe Streets Task Force, with a focus on narcotics and violent street gangs.
Brian holds a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice from Indiana State University


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Q: Can I use the ng-if on a ng-repeater? I'm new to angular and was wondering how to tackle the following situation.  I'm using angular with jquery mobile and am creating a one page app.  When the app loads, I have it create pages or divs inside the body tag.  I have two types of pages, "typical pages" and "video pages" but I want to use one object to create both page types.  I want to use one object because I also use that object to create my menu and I don't want to have to edit multiple objects.
My issue is, I want to create a "typical page" for each element in the object but I only want to create a "video page" for each object that doesn't have "videoPage: false".  I tried using ng-if on the "video page" ng-repeater (see html below) but it doesn't seem to be working.  Can I use the ng-if on a ng-repeater?
I have the following data/object:
function App($scope){
    $scope.pages = [
        {
            id: "intro",
            title: "Intro",
            videoPage: false
        },{
            id: "activeStretches",
            title: "Active Stretches by Area"
        },{
            id: "passiveStretches",
            title: "Passive Stretches by Area"
        }
    ];
}

And the html:

            Back

{{page.title}}

                        {{menu.title}}

                Typical Page

            Back

                        {{menu.title}}

                Video Page

A: ng-if is new as of 1.1.15 so make sure you're using a new (currently unstable) version of Angular.
And, yes, you can mix ng-if with ng-repeat.  Here's a fiddle showing it in action (using 1.2): http://jsfiddle.net/rbQry/1/
Note this line (switch the ng-if to "true" and the repeat comes back):


Wellington, Mar 20(ANI): The composition of the New Zealand batting card is still doubtful despite early indications that Daniel Flynn would play as an opener in the Wellington Test against South Africa.
Kiwi selection manager Kim Littlejohn said it was likely the recalled Flynn would open the batting instead of Rob Nicol, stuff.co.nz reports.
Coach John Wright indicated that there were several options being considered with Flynn as an opener being one of them.
"I've got to sit down and talk with Ross (Taylor) and come up with the best combination for the team," Wright was quoted as saying.
Flynn could also bat at No 5 or No 6, where he has scored most of his runs, with McCullum to open and Kane Williamson promoted from No 5 to No 3.
The regular middle order batsman, who has smashed two tons in the Plunket Shield in the past five weeks, could be asked to bat at No 3, which would push Brendon McCullum up a spot to open with Martin Guptill.
Wright also confirmed they would play six specialist batsmen and admitted "we do have a long tail".
"Dan Vettori has done a reasonable job at No 6 but we need to bat a little lower, particularly against such a quality bowling attack," he added.


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NINJA BLADE!
Written by Jonathan Wojcik, with credit to youtube player ODEB Gaming
I've wanted to review the monsters in this game forever! Developed by From Software just a couple years before Dark Souls, this 2015 title has been called one of the studio's worst for its quicktime-heavy battles, and if you're not a gamer, that means a great deal of the action consists of an on-screen prompt to press a single button that determines the outcome of basically a short video. A lot of games have already stopped doing this altogether or at least cut it down significantly, but for a while, it was everywhere. And yeah, it was pretty terrible.
Ninja Blade, however, is a game in which the antagonists are an outbreak of mind-controlling, mutagenic hookworms, and its bestiary is as magnificent as that could ever conceivably entail. In order of appearance:
POX GIANT
The game's first boss plays it safe, a genre of bloated ogre-like zombie we've all seen before. Not bad, but it barely holds a candle to most of what's to come!
The first arthropod boss is already interesting, because it's clearly more than just a "giant spider." It almost looks more like it's made out of other, smaller insect creatures, the segments of its legs textured more like the abdomens of multiple cockroaches fused together, and I do believe something like that is the principle behind this design, they just aren't really explicit about it.
IMPALER LEECH
So they call this a "leech," but it's clearly a huge snail with quills all over its shell, a gaping round maw full of needly little teeth, and no eyes or even the usual sensory tentacles of a gastropod. Fun design, but even more fun for what makes it the "impaler leech;" when pulled into its thorny shell, it can whirl and spin like a gigantic wheel!
SCOLEX WORM
The next boss is a somewhat standard giant nematode, or would be, except for the lovely little tentacled and feelers that give it an endearing, velvet-worm sort of appearance when it closes its mouth.
A "scolex" is a knot of suckers or hooks constituting the head of a tapeworm, not a nematode worm, but the Scolex Worm does indeed possess one, curiously right on the top of its head like a funny little hat!
SLIME CHOPPER
I love the sheer absurdity of this concept. You are a ninja who not only battles a helicopter, but a helicopter overtaken by snails. Look at them! Pale, wet snails just completely blanket this helicopter's canopy! It also attacks with multiple white tentacles, all textured exactly like the flesh of the snails.
PLAGUE SNAIL
How amazing is it that the enemy motifs for this action-packed ninja game are predominantly big, squishy mollusks and worms?? LOOK at Plague Snail! Look at its dopey floppy mouth! Look how its goofy eyestalks are encased in those cool veiny lattices. What a unique design for a snail creature! It has two interesting secrets, as well; the first is that it's "accompanied" by two Scolex Worms, but I think they might actually be the plague snail's tentacles.
The second is that the Snail's radula is like a needle-covered organic piston that can shoot out of its throat clear across the screen! Look how silly its face is when it does this most excellent thing! It looks so hilariously sickly, like it's really retching that thing up!
CARRION CLAW
CARRION CLAW is a snarling, grouchy looking mutant crab that can move so fast, you battle it at high speed in an underground tunnel. Like, the kind of tunnel for cars to drive though. It has a similar design style to Arachne, too, again as if built out of slightly smaller arthropods.
Not everything created by the "alpha worms" as they're called is a mindless monster; a major pair of villains are a mutated father-daughter duo of Yakuza bosses! The father, Oyabun, has changed into a quadrupedal, hulking beast-man that funny enough retains a tattered suit and cracked glasses.
...The daughter, meanwhile, has remained mostly human in appearance, but somehow, hookworms have turned her left arm into a bunch of giant snakes. Literally just realistic snakes, the same color as her skin. It's a design that feels absolutely nothing like the rest of the game's style, but it adds an interesting dash of almost magical fantasy aesthetic to an otherwise sci-fi body horror bestiary.
Speaking of snake heads, though, you later battle a "hydra" while you ride atop an airplane, and it's a fairly unique looking specimen. It possesses one head at one end of its body, three at the other, each with a face more like a deep sea eel than a reptile. The central body is also a lot of fun, since it's sort of a broad, flattened lump with huge suckers on its underbelly!
As you battle the hydra, you actually destroy the bony armor of its faces to expose raw, red flesh underneath. Gruesome! One side of the creature is referred to as "fire hydra," by the way, while the other side is "thunder hydra," and the center is simply the hydra core!
BLAST MITE
The multiple eyes on this gargantuan isopod really give it a Nausicaa vibe, don't they? This adorable creature is unfortunately just one big, living bomb that can curl up and explode, and there is in fact an entire subterranean nest of them threatening the city. You can even use their babies to blow up other enemies!
STALKER LARVA
The most dangerous thing about the blast mites, however, is that they keep getting preyed upon by this giant antlion...making the "Stalker Larva" an even deadlier bomb! It's otherwise so close to a real antlion that I can't say much about the design, but what a creative predicament!
WINGED CARRIERS
Before we move on to the last boss I'm reviewing, let's look at a few minor enemies. Most of what you battle between bosses are just mutated humans, some with organic gun-like arms, some more traditionally zombie-like, but then there's these flying things with batlike wings and greyish, lumplike heads with sharp, needle-like tongues. Not bad.
These somewhat resemble a mix of cockroach and cicada, if you ask me. The fan wiki calls them "bees," but I don't think they had an official designation that we know of, and there isn't really anything bee-like here. Like the Blast Mite however, these are also explosive!
This is actually our last minor enemy - there really aren't many in this boss-focused game - and unfortunately, I've yet to find a single playthrough of this game in which this particular enemy is ever clearly visible. From what I can glean, it's a bulbous and warty plant, almost gourd-like, with a huge upper bulb strongly resembling the head of a tapeworm, and multiple tentacles ending in fly-trap mouths that actually bioluminesce, including one that dangles off the head like the illicium of an anglerfish! Appropriately, the flying insect enemies tend to swarm around these beautiful beings.
MYIASIA FLY
Finally, we come to the last real "monster design" in the game before the final bosses look basically human, and what a phenomenal send-off. You know flies are my absolute favorite creatures, and this is one of the coolest looking I have quite possibly ever seen in a video game. Even the name is a delight, as it references myiasis, the medical term for an infestation of maggots in the human body!
What, however, is actually going on with this thing's design, anyway? Instead of transparent, membranous insect wings, it flies with enormous, segmented feather-like fronds. Instead of a fly's bulging, multifaceted eyes, its eyes are flat discs of concentric rings, almost like seashells, with a single spine protruding from the center of each. The short antennae are situated between its eyes, as they are on a real fly, but each is shaped like a perfectly rectangular little dish. It also has what appears to be the squirming abdomen of a slightly smaller fly protruding from the center of its underbelly, more evident when seen in motion, and thick spines lining its own abdomen also resemble the rear ends of black and grey wasps. I feel like my hypothesis is correct that the game's arthropod enemies are "fusions" of smaller mutated insects, arachnids and crustaceans, but I'm not quite sure. Aspects of this design even have a bit of a "mechanical" feel as well!
Parasites are a subject pretty special to me, not to mention everything else that slithers and crawls, so this particular monster collection is easily one of my favorites in video gaming, even if the game itself is kind of just a series of interactive cutscenes.
It's also October 12th as I write this, the longest I've ever gone into an October with so few articles. I traditionally have a new one every single day of the Halloween month, but this year is a weirder and busier one than most, as well as the year I finally put up a kickstarter for MORTASHEEN!
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As a parent, I was adamant about curfews for our children. Our kids had a curfew of 10 pm on school nights and midnight on weekends, until they reached age 18 and had graduated from high school. Any variance from the appointed curfew had to be negotiated in advance and wasn't usually approved, unless it was a very special occasion, like a Senior Prom.
When our kids were out at night, I would usually sit on the couch and watch TV until they arrived home. We would exchange pleasantries, and then I would go to bed. When curfew was violated, we had a discussion about how parents worry about their children, why they worry, and a penalty was imposed. The penalty was usually making the curfew earlier for the next weekend. Consistent enforcement seemed to prevent repeat offenses.
Since we had nine children, I played Curfew Cop for over 20 years. These are the reasons that I felt it necessary to wait for my children to come home before I went to bed.
Kids have no good reason to stay out late. Socialization is very important to teenagers but it doesn't need to be done late into the night, when fatigue could impair judgment.
Curfews help guard against serious problems. Crime, alcohol and drug use, auto accidents and teenage pregnancy statistics validate that statement.
Children need help in establishing good health habits. Establishing good sleeping patterns is necessary for learning and proper brain development. It is also an important habit to develop for holding a job.
Curfews teach teenagers to be responsible. Learning how to make and keep commitments is part of becoming a responsible adult. Complying with a curfew can be a difficult choice when friends have more lenient parents, so it is a good testing ground.
Waiting up gave me the chance to assess the condition of my kids when they came home. Knowing that they will be looking their dad in the eye and explaining how their evening went was a good way to help our kids make proper decisions earlier in the evening. Sometimes, teenagers will come home with problems or concerns and want to talk without anyone else around.
Our children are all adults now. I have never regretted the sleep I lost and I am grateful for the chance I had to show my kids that I was concerned about their physical, spiritual and emotional well-being by being there for them when they came home at night.


Carrie married LaRue Jones, and May also married a Jones? Were Carrie Breneman Jones and May Breneman Jones Willey sisters as well as sisters in law? Our ancestors made it very difficult to figure out what was going on.
Hi Claire! Yes, sisters Carrie and May, daughters of Constantine and Salinda (Rose) Breneman married brothers Warner LaRue and Evan Jones. And yes, does make if difficult!


Mixed solutions of konjac glucomannan supplemented with xanthan and alginate were studied using the technique of sedimentation velocity in the analytical ultracentrifuge. Interactions - as manifested by changes in the sedimentation coefficient distributions compared to unmixed controls - were observed for ternary mixtures in the presence of alginate. The complexes observed also appeared sensitive to the presence of the ionic concentration of the supporting solvent, but were clearly significant at low ionic strength. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Okay, I need the help of those who are better with the electrics of these cars than I.
I noticed earlier this summer that my '06 was overheating on hot days in traffic. So I checked and noticed that the cooling fan (passenger side fan, not the AC fan) was not running. The fuse under the dash was good, but the fuse under the hood was bad. Replaced that fuse and the fan worked. Later that day, it wasn't working again. Both fuses were good. So I replaced the relay. The fan worked.
The next day, the fan was not working AGAIN. So I checked the fuses and they were good. I then went through the whole diagnostic in the service manual and the relay was bad. So I replaced the relay again. But this time, the fan still didn't work. And I had decided I might need to get a professional involved.
Fast forward to yesterday. I went to watch the Indy cars at PIR and the car was in a lot all day. When I got back to it, the battery (a 15 month old Optima Yellow Top) was completely dead. A fellow race fan had jumper cables. This is when it gets weird. When we hooked up the cables, the cooling fan immediately went on. The car was coldish (74 degree day, not driven for 6 hours) and the car was not running. And yet the fan was running.
Anyway, I drive home, stopping to buy my own jumper cables along the way, not turning off the car. I get home, into the garage, and shut off the car and the cooling fan is running, with the key out of the ignition. Suddenly, the dead battery made sense. I opened the hood and pulled the relay and the fan shut off.
What is going on??? What weirdness is this silly car doing? Ideas? I hope you guys can help, cause if not, it's off to a shop for more money than I want to spend. But will if I have to.
Sounds like your fan is faulty and burns out your relays and fuses.
It's not uncommon for a relay to fail and gets stuck ON.
Interesting update. Putting the relay back in did not cause the fan to restart. No issues since, though I don't think the fan has come on either. I can replace the fan motor But any other ideas I should check?
RockAuto carries several Cooling Fan Controllers, and the have it listed under Cooling System, but I can't find it in my Honda service manual. I thought it might be that, but now I think it's not really the cooling fan, but the cabin climate control fan. Or am I wrong? Or is RockAuto?
Help. Cooling fan not working.
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Justino Borja's tenacity grows from deep roots. He comes from Mexico, a family of farmers, and a history of working the land. No doubt, that's where Justino developed his determination and his love for family and land.
Since he has been in the U.S., Justino has always wanted to have his own farm. At first, he had the support of his three brothers, but little by little he found himself alone in his desire to farm his own land.
One day, the Schuyler, Nebraska, resident heard about classes the Center for Rural Affairs offers, and he decided to attend. What began with a dream started to take shape as a possibility and a reality.
Justino learned that if he continued going to the classes, he would get the help required to own his farm. He needed land if he was going to grow crops, so he asked people around his community where he might farm. Center staff also helped Justino with the search. Any lead he received, Justino would immediately follow up and investigate.
Around this time, Justino was attending English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. His instructor Virgil was a retired farmer. When Justino learned of Virgil's background, he asked about finding land. By this time, Virgil had learned of Justino's background and strong interest in agriculture. They found that they shared a chemical-free approach to farming, so it didn't take long to negotiate that Justino could farm some of Virgil's land for free if he did not use chemicals on his produce.
After three years of working Virgil's land, Justino is benefiting from Virgil's mentorship. For example, Virgil and his son Frank planted some tobacco plants for Justino. When tobacco leaves are soaked in water and a little soap, the resulting liquid is sprayed on produce to reduce pest damage.
Virgil has allowed Justino to use more land so he can expand his business. Justino added a parcel where he grows green beans and herbs native to Mexico. Following business and marketing advice from Center staff, Justino has developed two marketing avenues for his high quality, specialty produce: local restaurants and his coworkers, who are hungry for flavors from the home country.
"If you have love and knowledge on how to work the land, farming is the right choice," Justino said.
As a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) farmer leader, Justino has grown and benefited from his involvement in learning circles. Hosting peers has helped his confidence and knowledge level increase. What he loves most is working the land alongside his wife, son, and twin daughters.
"I love teaching my children that farming is just as productive as any other profession," he said.
Justino's parents visit every year and encourage him to continue with his farming dream. This coming season, Justino is hoping to grow cantaloupe and watermelon. His brothers are starting to show interest in farming once again, especially after seeing Justino's enthusiasm, positive attitude, and the expansion of his business to include produce other than tomatoes and several varieties of chilies.
He will not give up on finding his own land to farm. He needs tenacity—and he has tons of it.
The Center for Rural Affairs offers one-on-one technical assistance to farmers in networking, education, and leadership, as well as learning circles and group trainings on business and finance, production, and marketing. These services are offered in both Spanish and English.
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FREDERICK N. CHRISTOPHEL SR., 73, of 787 Joy Drive, Greencastle, died at 10:59 a.m. Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, in Chambersburg Hospital.
He was the husband of Shirley E. (Pittman) Christophel.
Miller-Bowersox Funeral Home, Greencastle, will announce arrangements later.


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The Grant's Tomb nest this year hatched three young red-tailed hawks, which have fledged and are delighting everyone in the neighborhood. I've been filming them as they go from crying on the back of the Grant's Tomb monument to hunting bugs at the Claremont Playground to the north. More photos and video will follow!
One of the three Grant's Tomb fledglings, June 21, 2017.
The Chasing the Hawks videos are being doing in parts. I just posted Part 1 of The Grant's Tomb Fledglings, which covers June 13, 16 and 21.
The first seven photos below were taken June 13. The fifth shows a parent (I think Mom) bringing in a pigeon, which she then took to the ledge of the monument, where the kids ate one after the other. The eighth photo was taken June 16, and shows a balcony with a potted red-tailed fledgling.
These photos were taken June 21. Mom brought a pigeon to a tree. One of the kids started eating it there, while another watched and cried. The fledgling with the food carried it to the ground, where the meal was devoured. Sharing is not considered a hawk attribute.
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Granuloma annulare is a chronic skin condition consisting of raised, reddish or skin-colored bumps (lesions) that form ring patterns, typically on the hands and feet.
To rule out a fungal infection, the doctor may recommend a procedure called a KOH test. In this test, the doctor scrapes the patient's skin with a glass slide to collect dead skin cells. The skin cells are mixed with potassium hydroxide (KOH) and viewed under a microscope to aid in singling out a fungal infection.
In most cases, no treatment is needed for granuloma annulare. Most lesions disappear on their own within a few months to two years from the onset. The following may be prescribed by the patient's doctor for the rash: corticosteroid creams or ointments, corticosteroid injections, and freezing lesions.
Granuloma annulare is generally marked by reddish or skin-colored bumps (lesions) that expand or join to form ring patterns, most commonly on the hands and feet. These patterns may resemble ringworm. Another symptoms is mild itching in some people, though the lesions usually cause no pain or itching.
The cause of granuloma annulare is not known. Granuloma annulare is occasionally linked to diabetes, thyroid disease and HIV infection, but most people with granuloma annulare are otherwise healthy.


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The government's assault on higher education
by Jeff Jacoby
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If knowledge is power, why are so many college presidents weak? Why do they bend so easily before every wind that blows across their campuses?
The timidity of those who run the nation's institutions of higher education has become epidemic. Fearful of seeming insensitive, easily daunted, college and university authorities now routinely tolerate the smothering of open discussion, the punishing of innocent people, the adoption of mindless rules, even the teaching of falsehoods.
Who is surprised anymore when a tenured professor fills a course syllabus with Afrocentric mumbo-jumbo or "transgender liberation" theory? Or when vandals shut down a college newspaper and the school's president rushes to meet their demands? Or when university officials, crumpling in the face of protests, un-invite a guest speaker?
The problem is widespread. But not universal. One prominent exception to the trend is Boston University's president, John Silber, who has been attacking academic cowardice throughout his long career. Two years ago, in bracing statements to the university's trustees and faculty, Silber renewed a pledge not to succumb to the "ideological fads" and "epistemopathologies" that are poisoning the wells of academe.
"We have resisted relativism as an official intellectual dogma," he said in part. "We have resisted the fad toward critical legal studies. . . . In the English department and the departments of literature, we have not allowed the structuralists or the deconstructionists to take over. . . . We have resisted the official dogmas of radical feminism. . . . We recognize that Western culture, so-called, is in fact a universal culture."
Silber has flaws, but lack of courage isn't among them. Likewise his protege Jon Westling, BU's executive vice president and provost, whom the trustees have designated to become president upon Silber's retirement.
Boston University's Jon Westling
Westling's mental toughness has impressed me since I first met him 15 years ago, when I had a work-study job in Silber's office. But no one need take my word for it. In a recent address at the Heritage Foundation, the influential Washington think tank, Westling dissected the malign influence of the federal government on higher education with the same bluntness and refusal to equivocate that distinguishes his mentor.
"American higher education is on the verge of losing its most precious asset," he warned. "It is abandoning or being forced to abandon its robust independence, and it will fade into something worse than mediocrity if the government's regulatory assault is not stopped."
Take, he said, guaranteed student loans. The program started out with fine aims: Poor but worthy students could borrow the money to pay for tuition at any institution whose graduates would repay the loans. But gradually the government turned student loans into a wing of the welfare state. One by one, the struts on which their financial viability had depended were kicked out.
The loan default rate was initially held to about the level a commercial lender would tolerate. When it transpired that students at trade schools and "historically black colleges" were defaulting in great numbers, Congress raised the default ceiling. Then raised it again. And again. And again. Today, up to 30 percent of a school's alumni can refuse to pay back their loans before the school is ruled ineligible to participate.
"At the same time," Westling reported, "the government began lowering the minimum academic standards necessary to qualify for loans. Today, neither a high school diploma nor equivalency exam is required for taking out a federally guaranteed loan." On top of that, "the government is unwilling to require 'disadvantaged' members of society to pay back the loans."
Result? Unqualified students are admitted to cheesy schools, where they receive a lousy education, paid for with subsidized loans, on which they subsequently welsh. Your tax dollars at work.
Westling ran the numbers.
"In 1970, the taxpayer's bill for guaranteed student loans was $2.3 million, on a volume of $770 million. In 1993, the bill had grown to $5 billion, on a volume of $ 18 billion. . . . The cost to taxpayers per dollar loaned has risen from about 0.29 cents in 1970 to 27.0 cents in 1993. That is a 9,900 percent increase."
None of this would have happened had the feds been content simply to guarantee the loans, trusting colleges and lenders to select students who would take their debts seriously. The culprit, he said, "was Congress, which insisted that the real decisions about who would receive the student loans would be made by the federal government."
It isn't just student loans. Westling diagnosed ailment after ailment: incompetent accreditation agencies, the stranglehold of tenure, a tidal wave of disabled-rights litigation, choking paperwork. All of these are sources of universities' distress; all have been made worse by government interference.
Most leaders of major universities preserve a diplomatic silence about the destruction Washington is wreaking on the campuses of America. Jon Westling isn't like most leaders of major universities. For which everyone who cares about the fate of higher learning has reason to be grateful.
(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)
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