![]() Nuclear decay gave the first indication of the connection between mass and energy, and it revealed the existence of two of the four basic forces in nature. Nuclear decay has provided an amazing window into the realm of the very small. Calculate the energy emitted during nuclear decay.By the end of this section, you will be able to: This is simpler than an actual nuclear weapon cobalt bomb, with a smaller range, though it is suggested that it could kill tens of thousands of people in a dense urban area. In the twenty-first century, new attention came to 60Co as a weapon of mass destruction, as the possibility of creating a dirty bomb to disperse this material might produce a swath of death downwind from it, over a significant area, as a terrorist attack. The United Kingdom reputedly conducted a nuclear experiment involving cobalt as a radioactive tracer in 1957, at the Tadje site, Maralinga range, Australia, but it was announced to be a failure. The Damocles, a unique starship found in the computer game Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, is armed with "Cobalt Thorium G" torpedoes.Adventure Comics #250 published by DC Comics featured Superboy deputized to track down a criminal from the future seeking materials to make an outlawed cobalt bomb.The original The Bionic Woman had a two part episode entitled "Doomsday is Tomorrow" where a doomsday device was created by a person who was credited as being the "father of the cobalt bomb.". ![]()
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![]() This replacement better matches the capability of the UH-60 Mike-model, the latest variant of the helicopter. The Victor model converts a Lima-model Black Hawk from an analogue cockpit to a digital one. ![]() The converted version is called the Victor-model. In 2017, Northrop Grumman won a US Army contract to upgrade Black Hawk L-model helicopter cockpits from analogue to integrated, open-architecture digital ones. That event was pushed back by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic and delays in the Instrument Flight Rules certification process (IFR) that would allow the aircraft to fly in national airspace. Army decided to hold a second test for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. The first initial operational test and evaluation was conducted at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State, in September 2019, but due to numerous software reliability issues, the U.S. Army has delayed a second attempt at an initial operational test for the UH-60 Victor-model Black Hawk until software and reliability fixes are made and the aircraft receives certification to fly in national airspace. If convicted, they could receive sentences of up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000.The U.S. The two are expected to go on trial in federal court in Corpus Christi on Jan. Both allegedly did so in order for nonconforming rotor blades would appear to meet specifications when they actually did not. Meanwhile, two Corpus Christi Army Depot employees are facing similar charges.Īlbert Flores, of Corpus Christi, and Samuel Escareno, of Robstown, are charged with one count each of conspiracy and falsifying records related to aircraft parts.Īccording to a federal indictment, the two former supervisors ordered other workers to falsify inspection records for Blackhawk helicopter blades. Blankenbeker remains on bond pending sentencing, facing up to 15 years in federal prison. On July 19, 2019, Blankenbeker pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. Balbin faces up to 30 years in federal prison and restitution to the government. The jury also found that Balbin conspired with Robert Edgard Blankenbeker, a mechanic and his co-defendant, to conceal his crime.īalbin remains on bond pending sentencing. In truth, he signed the form before the repair work was completed and before inspections had taken place. It proved that while Balbin was assigned to conduct maintenance inspections on an Army Blackhawk helicopter, he signed off an official Army maintenance form verifying that all inspections had taken place and work was completed. 28, 2019.ĭuring the trial, federal prosecutors presented evidence from November and December of 2017. Bash said Balbin was a former civilian employee at Fort Bliss who was involved in a scheme to defraud the government with respect to military aircraft maintenance and parts.īalbin was employed at the Corpus Christi Army Depot when he was arrested on Jan. On Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury in El Paso found James Hilario Balbin, of Corpus Christi, guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit fraud involving aircraft parts and one substantive count of fraud involving aircraft parts.Īccording to a press release issued by the United States Attorney's Office- West District of Texas, U.S. EL PASO, Texas - A former worker at Corpus Christi Army Depot is facing up to 30 years in federal prison for signing off on military aircraft maintenance inspections before the inspections had been made. ![]() Yet if you wish to make specific settings for game graphics, you can dig around right here. If the resulting home window looks like a lot of weird things, just click OK. If you have an Nvidia or AMD graphics card, select Pete OpenGL2 GPU core 2.0.0. Next, you’ll see a food selection with a number of different graphics vehicle drivers and some ideas. Our website has rom games and emulators scph1001 bin that are free and easy to use If you are using a 32-bit variation of Windows, it will certainly remain in the Program Data folder. If you did it right, you should see SCPH1001.bin in C: \ Program Documents (x86)\ ePSXe \ biographies. When you have actually downloaded it, draw out the zipped file to the bios folder in your ePSXe folder. Simply run an on-line look for epsxe HLE BIOS as well as get the data called scph1001.bin. If you don’t currently have a PlayStation BIOS mounted, you’ll see a caution as well as need to install it (bear in mind that if you do not have a PSX, the biographies download is pirated). There are a few actions you require to require to get every little thing set up. Eliminate them as well as launch the ePSXe by double-clicking on the application symbol (it resembles a PlayStation controller). When you run the application for the first time, you might see a dialog asking you to extract extra files. If you are utilizing a 32-bit variation of Windows, you can do the same in the Program Documents folder. I developed an ePSXe205 folder in the Program Files (x86) folder as well as unzipped the files there (ePSXe is a 32-bit application, so it remains in the x86 folder). There is no setup data, so you simply require to unload the folder and also relocate the files to anywhere you want. To begin, go to the ePSXe website and also download and install the application. If you have recommendations for different emulators, please share them below! There are a number of various emulators you can make use of, however ePSXe is the most preferred as well as only got updates in October 2016. And also if you can not download your old favorites on PS3 or PS4, you can play them on your computer system! By booting up an emulator, a BIOGRAPHY, as well as a ROM or two, you’ll be a retro video game in no time. ![]() The original Sony PlayStation, now called the PSX, had some amazing video games. (A page is the same thing as a note.) Work with frames on a page IDGĬlick the + icon at lower right to create a new page. This action will open a new page on the next screen. To create a new page, go to the screen that lists pages and tap the + icon on the lower right. In the OneNote mobile app: To create a new notebook or section, go to the screen that lists notebooks or sections, tap the + icon on the upper right, and enter a name for the new notebook or section. Any other notebooks associated with your account will be listed on this pane. Switch to another notebook: Click the name of the currently opened notebook to open the Notebooks pane. IDGĬlick Add notebook at bottom left to create a new notebook. (This name is to the immediate right of the Show/Hide Navigation button.) At the bottom of the Notebooks pane that opens, click Add notebook. When you create a new notebook, section, or page, you’ll be prompted to type in a name for it.Ĭreate a new section or page: At the bottom of the second column, click Add section or Add page.Ĭreate a new notebook: Click the name of the notebook that’s currently open in OneNote. The OneNote Android app showing a notebook’s sections. The screen will switch to another screen that lists the pages that are under it. The screen will switch to another screen that lists the sections in the notebook. In the OneNote mobile app: To see the list of notebooks on your account, tap the Notebooks icon at the lower left. Note that there’s no Save command in OneNote everything you do is saved automatically. The first time you launch OneNote, there won’t be any sections or pages, but it does create a new notebook for you to start with. ![]() Click the Show/Hide Navigation button again, and this column will return.Īlong the top of the OneNote window, clicking View will open a toolbar that allows for other ways to view a page, such as zooming in or out, or launching the page in a new window. When you click the Show/Hide Navigation button, the currently viewed page will become bigger, and the column listing the sections and pages will be removed. And clicking the name of a page opens the page in the large pane to its right, where you can then view the page’s contents, scroll through it, and edit it. (Click image to enlarge it.)Ĭlicking a section name will show in the column to its right a list of the pages under this section. OneNote shows notebooks, sections, and pages in the left columns, with the current page showing in the main window area.
![]() The game has no slow motion scenes, so this option doesn't effect anything in-game.Ĭhanging anything other than the recommended behaviors can cause severe gameplay bugs! The delay in milliseconds before the actual skip occurs. This has no effect in the game.Īllow or deny the ability to skip cinematic cut-scenes (will be discussed later on). (Could be a boolean to determine whether time keeps progressing or not while giving quick commands to your team-mates.)Īllow or deny the acceleration option for cinematic cut-scenes. Unknown function, but should not be touched, regardless. Handles some of the cooldown times of the input devices and should not be altered. ![]() It is advised to leave any line that does not start with the word 'Binding' alone. This section has many behaviors that can be changed. Invert the axis of the mouse / keypad, if you want to change this, do it from the in-game menu.Īdds smoothing to the mouse movement. As Mass Effect does not treat double-clicks any differently than single clicks, changing this should not have any effect. The time between clicks that register as a double-click. Again, probably better to alter this from the in-game menu. It's probably better to alter this from the in-game menu. The same as LookRightScale, but deals with the up/down motion. This can actually be useful when trying to take screenshots. The same as MoveForwardSpeed but controls sideways movement.ĭeals with Shepard's neck, and how much it can be turned for a wider field of vision. If you want to shorten the time of traveling, see the section referring to changing the game speed. Any changes made here could ruin the game experience by giving the player an advantage. This section deals with the way the controls work: This section is used for internal identification. This section deals with the mapping of keys. This section deals with how the mouse or gamepad will operate (sensitivity, movement emulation, etc.) Most likely, you won't need to alter anything in here, but you are free to experiment. More information is in the section about the console. This section defines the Console keys and behavior. The section applies to the editor the developers used. Changes made here could harm your gaming experience. Generally, you don't want to change anything in this section. This file is separated into six sections:īasically, how the game will handle the input device that the player is using. Boolean - a Boolean data type is a true/false variable and can only accept True or False.Ĭonfiguration Files Input File (BioInput.ini).These will be appended with the letter f. Floating points - Any number with decimal point.Strings - Any sequence of letters or symbols (generally enclosed with quotation marks).Generally, there are three types of data used in the configuration files: For example: "GiveBonusTalent 14", "givebonustalent 14", "GIVEBONUSTALENT 14", and "Givebonustalent 14" will all yield the same result. When entering commands in the console, you may use any case, or combination of cases, you prefer. Note, however, that this is merely a writing convention. For example: the 'Caps Lock' key will be written as CapsLock, 'Right mouse button' will be written as RightMouseButton, etc. The configuration files implement the CamelCase writing style for functions and variables names. Installation of a patch will overwrite changes made to the configuration files, and update their version (indicated at the bottom of each file). ![]()
It's not like I can go back there anytime soon. Carol: I think about my big sister sometimes.Do you ever think about your family? I mean, about seeing them again someday? Lilac: It's the least we can do after what happened today.Torque: Are you sure it's okay for me to set up a tent here?.Lilac: Well, we'll give it right back.Lilac: We're gonna steal the Kingdom Stone before they do!.Otherwise I suggest you let us do our jobs. Neera: If you're here to recharge, there's a line over there.Can't be too careful with all these robots runnin' around. Gong: She's protecting our guests this evening.Lilac: Well, what if he's telling the truth? What if the stone really can be taken? You know what'll happen then, right?.Lilac: I'm sorry about running off on you back there.Carol: I can't wait! This is gonna be the best Charge-Up ever!.Regardless, the voice recording for most, if not all, of the removed dialogue for the characters still exists: Dragon Valley In addition, the following dialogue was either removed, altered, or never implemented into the final builds. Hedgehog Lilac's voice recording had much lower audio when compared to Dragon Lilac's. The following unused Voice Clips relate to this Area: Torque in his shellduck disguise along with his tent can be seen in the left of the screen. Nearly identical to Lilac's Treehouse (Day), but at nighttime instead. Talking to her triggers a voice clip spoken by the player ( carol_hililac as Carol and milla_hililac as Milla), with Lilac answering with another voice clip ( lilac_whatsupcarol and lilac_hellomilla respectively). When the area as entered with anyone other than Lilac, she can be seen sitting outside on a bench next to the bridge by the treehouse. It's possible to go inside the treehouse and enter the living room but it's not possible to go upstairs to the bedroom. Originally, it was meant as a hub area in which the player can save their game and look at the special items (most likely the codecs) that have been collected. It's used as the location for cutscenes but isn't normally accessible. (Demo): The Dragon Valley 1, Meanie Boss and Major Boss tracks have been finalised.Ī majority of soundtrack also either went completely unused, or received upgrades and/or overhauls.(Demo): Major overhaul redesigned towards the HUD window, specifically the Health and Stamina meters.(Demo): First public version to feature the Dragon Cyclone. ![]() (Demo): First Version to use Lilac's final design.(Demo): Comet Dash was no longer activates via 'double jump' command and instead is mapped on the Special button.Early build featuring Dragon Valley and Relic Maze, meant for Nordic Game Indie Night 2012, ultimately rejected and instead released to early testers on Sonic Fan Games HQ.Initially, the game only was supposed to have five stages, but they increased to ten finished stage, with five other (known) ending up scrapped. Over the course of the development, Strife changed the names and order of the stages. Zao originally had a darker outfit and shorter ears, he also was originally intended to be the one manipulated by Brevon rather than Dail, other than that he remained unchanged. All Characters eventually received Cel Shadings as well. Over the course of production and development, many characters received huge overhauls in their personal designs and characteristics. ![]() Show waves near the shoreline with pairs of squiggly lines. Sketch some rounded shapes on the sandy beach for coconuts and rocks. Step 2: Shape the trunks of palm trees with two sets of curving lines that taper as they go up. Draw a second, gently curving line below the boat to represent the shoreline. Make the sail using a triangle with two curved sides and a flat bottom. Draw the hull of a sailboat with a long rectangle that has an upturned and sharply pointed end or bow. Step 1: Place a light horizon line in about the middle of the page. Want to expand your artistic abilities? See: Keep reading to learn how to draw this landscape in just five steps. Sand, sun, and fun await you in the Tropical Beach Scene in our next section. Your landscape drawing is finished! Even if you don't get it right the first time, keep practicing until you're happy with your drawing. Shade the stalks of two of the cacti with vertical and mostly diagonal lines. Step 4: Use diagonal lines to lightly shade the bottoms of the rocks. Add curved lines to the rocks to give them shape. Draw a small plant with short, stubby leaves in the right foreground. Add lines following the shape of the cacti to show their riblike surfaces. Above the horizon line, draw an angled and jagged line to show a distant mountain range. Step 3: Draw long, irregular shapes for clouds. Change the straight horizon line to one that is slightly wavy. Draw two more cactus plants using many long, curving ovals. Use wavy lines to show mounds in the sand. Step 2: Sketch in ovals and similar odd shapes for rocks and boulders. Then sketch two more cacti, one in the distance and another between the near and far cacti. Add four upward-curving branches that are slightly narrower. At the left, draw a long, pencil-shaped trunk for one cactus. Step 1: Lightly sketch a line in about the middle of the page for the horizon. Keep reading to learn how to draw it in just four steps. You can almost feel the blazing sun in the desert cacti scene in the next section. Carefully sketch a large number of vertical, slightly curving lines to show the field of wheat in the background. Step 4: Shade the base of each kernel of wheat with very short lines. Create clouds around the sun with irregular ovals. Step 3: Add the sun in about the middle of the sky, midway between the highest wheat tips. Use a combination of straight and crooked lines to draw a long thin fiber at the point of each seed. Step 2: Draw small ovals with pointed tips inside the outline of the wheat stalks for the wheat kernels. Draw the stems so that they lean in different directions. ![]() Add stems to the base of each oval with pairs of narrow curving lines. In the foreground area, lightly sketch long, narrow ovals slightly narrower at the top than at the bottom. Step 1: Draw a horizon line in the center of the page. ![]() The lines drawn in previous steps are shown in gray. Follow the red lines in each illustration to learn exactly what to draw in that step. Here, we'll show you an illustration of each step and then give you a description of how to draw it. Perfect your drawing skills with these landscapes: Then you will be able to display your collection of drawings showing all sorts of vivid landscapes. You may want to cut out your drawings and tape or glue them onto colored construction paper. If you wish, you can add color by using crayons or colored pencils or markers. When you complete all the drawings, you will have 16 drawings showing a wide variety of stunning landscapes. Then gently erase any remaining pencil marks. ![]() When you have finished, use a pen or fine felt-tip marker to darken the pencil marks that make up the finished drawing. This makes it easier to erase mistakes and other marks that change slightly in later steps. The following steps also show the earlier drawings in black and the new marks and shapes in red.ĭraw lightly with your pencil. This shows you how to make step one's drawing look like that in step two. The new shapes and marks you're going to add appear in red. The second step shows the first drawing in black. Then you can practice drawing a sweltering desert scene, a tumbling waterfall, and a path through snow-covered woods.Įach drawing begins with a few simple shapes printed in red ink. 2 pencil, a pencil sharpener, a ruler, and an eraser. Even if you've never seen some of these landscapes in person, learning to draw them will feel like compiling an album of snapshots.Īll you need is a No. With the help of the simple instructions in this article, you can learn to draw some of the most lovely and stunning landscapes in our world. ![]() You can also tell calibre whether to put it at the start or the end of the book via an option in the MOBI Output settings. You can turn this off by an option in the MOBI Output settings. When converting to MOBI, calibre detects the metadata ToC in the input document and generates an end-of-file ToC in the output MOBI file. One can be accessed directly from the Kindle’s menus, the other cannot. Remember that one is semantically a content ToC and the other is a metadata ToC, even though both might have exactly the same entries and look the same. Now it might well seem to you that the MOBI book has two identical ToCs. When you click Goto Table of Contents on your Kindle, it is to this extra content ToC that the Kindle takes you. A MOBI book simulates the presence of a metadata ToC by putting an extra content ToC at the end of the book. This is because the MOBI format, alone amongst mainstream e-book formats, does not have decent support for a metadata ToC. In the MOBI format, the situation is a little confused. How it is represented is up to the viewer program. This ToC cannot be styled by the book creator. For example, in the calibre E-book viewer, you use the Show Table of Contents button to see this ToC. A metadata ToC is a ToC that is not part of the book text and is typically accessed by some special button on a reader. This Table of Contents is part of the main document flow and can be styled however you like. One is the traditional Table of Contents, like the ToC you find in paper books. The first thing to realize is that most e-books have two tables of contents. What’s the deal with Table of Contents in MOBI files? ¶ ![]() This is because the HTML to ZIP plugin automatically converts the HTML files to a standard encoding (UTF-8). Note that when converting HTML files, leave the input encoding setting mentioned above blank. A common encoding for many files from the web is cp1252 and I would suggest you try that first. HTML files from different sources often have different encodings, so you may have to change this setting repeatedly. Now when you add HTML files to calibre they will be correctly processed. To do this go to Preferences → Advanced → Plugins → File type and customize the HTML to ZIP plugin, telling it what encoding your HTML files are in. When adding HTML files to calibre, you may need to tell calibre what encoding the files are in. The command-line tools have an ebook-convert-txt-input -input-encoding option. This can be done in the GUI via the Input character encoding field in the Look & feel → Text section of the conversion dialog. Knowing the encoding of the source file: calibre tries to guess what character encoding your source files use, but often, this is impossible, so you need to tell it what encoding to use. How do I convert my file containing non-English characters, or smart quotes? ¶ There are two aspects to this problem: For a list of the various issues you will encounter when converting PDF, see: Convert PDF documents. PDF is a terrible format to convert from. In order of decreasing preference: LIT, MOBI, AZW, EPUB, AZW3, FB2, FBZ, DOCX, HTML, PRC, ODT, RTF, PDB, TXT, PDF I converted a PDF file, but the result has various problems? ¶ What are the best source formats to convert? ¶ azw3 file extensions.ĭOCX files from Microsoft Word 2007 and newer are supported. MOBI books can be of two types Mobi6 and KF8. These are typically generated by OCR software. calibre supports eReader, Plucker (input only), PML and zTxt PDB files.ĭJVU support is only for converting DJVU files that contain embedded text. ![]() PRC is a generic format, calibre supports PRC files with TextRead and MOBIBook headers. Output Formats: AZW3, EPUB, DOCX, FB2, HTMLZ, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PMLZ, RB, PDF, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ, ZIP Input Formats: AZW, AZW3, AZW4, CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBC, CHM, DJVU, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FBZ, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ It can convert every input format in the following list, to every output format. What formats does calibre support conversion to/from? ¶Ĭalibre supports the conversion of many input formats to many output formats. How do I use some of the advanced features of the conversion tools? The EPUB I produced with calibre is not valid? How do I convert a collection of HTML files in a specific order? What’s the deal with Table of Contents in MOBI files? How do I convert my file containing non-English characters, or smart quotes? I converted a PDF file, but the result has various problems? What are the best source formats to convert? What formats does calibre support conversion to/from? ![]() If your boss is giving you a hard time or your customers are too demanding or, remember that the Bible demands we do our work as unto the Lord. “Whatever you do, do your work heartily as for the Lord rather than for men,”ĭon’t let distractions and temptations keep you from doing the work with which God has tasked you. What work are you here to accomplish? What skills has God given you to do the work? We were made for a reason! Colossians 3:23 - Inspirational Bible Verses About Hard Work Remember that God has had a purpose for 100% of the people He put on earth, starting with Adam. “Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.” ![]() In fact you’re going to see more passages from this wise book soon. Let’s be honest: any time you need inspirational Bible verses about hard work or any other virtue, the book of Proverbs is a great place to start. What are the tasks you need to complete in order to put food on the table? Don’t waste the day on social media or by watching television! When it comes to accomplishing work, you need to focus on the most important things. “He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who pursues worthless things lacks sense.” Here are some of the most inspirational Bible verses about hard work. Even if you are a stay-at-home parent or otherwise unemployed, scripture has some advice about how to live your life. You may be surprised to find out the Bible has a lot to say when it comes to work. Going back to school? Starting a new business? Feeling burnt out at your job? We all know there are days when we need a little pep talk to make it through the day. |
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