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Commencing 17:00 CET on 21st July, the live stream will run across four channels, eventually closing with Dimitri Vegas & Live Mike on Sunday 23rd July. Pulling live footage from the Main stage throughout the weekend, the live stream will also focus on curated stages including Paradise, Drumcode, Q-Dance, and breakthrough label Monstercat. Other planned footage includes sets courtesy of Nervo, Axwell /\ Ingrosso, Pan-Pot, Nicole Moudaber, Tiësto, and Krewella.
For those not attending Boom, Belgium, experience the festivities via the Tomorrowland site.
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2019-04-25T02:11:39Z
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https://djmag.com/news/tomorrowland-live-stream-sets-eric-prydz-axwell-ingrosso-steve-aoki-and-more
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A $20 million contract to supply traffic agents with hand-held computers was awarded to a company that had no assets, no engineering staff and no working prototype, according to public records.
Other bidders have complained that the proposal was structured in a way that favored the eventual winner, Citisource Inc., and that the Parking Violations Bureau held other bidders in the competition to more severe standards.
Mayor Koch ordered an investigation into the contract this week after the arrest on extortion charges of the deputy director of the bureau, Geoffrey G. Lindenauer, who was charged with receiving a $5,000 bribe from another company.
But three years later, the company has not made the system work, although it continues to say it will soon, once some final software problems are solved. The company says it is eight months behind schedule.
Under the contract, Citisource is to provide up to 1,000 computers capable of issuing summonses and identifying the license plates of vehicles on the street for which there are overdue parking fines. The project is known as ''Sidney'' for ''Summons Issuing Device for New York.'' The city is required to pay the company 73 cents for each ticket processed.
So far, with no computers in use, the city has not been required to pay. Several members of the Board of Estimate cited this clause in the contract as a reason for going along with a contract with an unproven vendor.
''We are going ahead with everything, we should be on the street by the end of the month,'' said Stanley Friedman, a principal of Citisource. Mr. Friedman, a lawyer and the Bronx County Leader, was given an 18 percent interest in the company for his role in representing it before the city.
Although the contract has not cost the city anything so far, it has brought some potential benefits to Citisource and its principals. On the strength of the city's contract, the company went public and, as a result, Mr. Friedman now owns a 10 percent share, worth more than $1 million. Mr. Friedman said that, under Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, the principals are not allowed to begin selling their shares for two years.
The stock, which was sold to outsiders at $5 a share, has been traded for as much as 14 1/2. It closed at 7 on Thursday, dropped to less than 5 yesterday and closed at 6 1/4.
Data Conversion Corporation, of which Mr. Kaplan is a stockholder, had long held the Parking Violations Bureau data-entry contract. As Citisource has publicly disclosed, Data Conversion could continue to do this work -valued at more than $1 million a year - for up to five years without competition.
* In the final deliberations, Mr. Lindenauer dismissed a proposal for a system proposed by Motorola to use a radio transmitter to send data through the airwaves as unproven and too risky. Motorola's system is now used by International Business Machines service agents, and one unit is being tested in a New York City vehicle-towing program, by Datacom Systems, which is also under investigation.
* Though Mr. Lindenauer told the selection committee in 1983 that ''it works,'' the president of Citisource, Robert R. Richards, said he had shown Mr. Lindenauer little more than a modification made to the head of a standard computer printer. It was only in the last few months, Mr. Friedman said, that problems with the printer, the most difficult part of the project, were worked out.
* Without formally informing the city, as required under its contract -and without the knowledge of many officials outside the parking violations bureau - Citisource subcontracted the design and construction of the hand-held computers.
A letter of agreement with MFM Technology Inc. of Ronkonkoma, L.I., on file with the S.E.C. discusses design, prototype manufacture and manufacture of the completed units.
In an interview last year, Lawrence R. Yermack, then first deputy commissioner of the City Department of Transportation, said he was unaware of the subcontracting and would require Citisource to file a formal notification.
Unlike elected public officials, Mr. Friedman, a former deputy mayor, is not subject to the public officers law, which regulates the conduct of public officials, and he said he was proud of his role in Citisource.
Though the company had no cash assets when it won the contract, he said, it had a letter of credit from Chemical Bank for $3 million. In an interview last year, he said that he pushed the project, in meetings and telephone calls with officials ranging from skeptical budget officials to deputy mayors.
He said that, in meetings with Parking Violations Bureau officials, he proposed many of the requirements that were later written into the proposal, including a key provision that requires the successful bidder to do both key-punching and develop the computer.
Several of the 10 bidding companies were unable to assure the bureau that they could do the key-punching. But they suggested the two contracts did not have to be together.
In interviews conducted a year ago, Mr. Lindenauer and other parking bureau officials, insisted that Mr. Friedman had no special role in suggesting requirements for the bid.
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2019-04-19T00:37:51Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/18/nyregion/parking-unit-vendor-lacked-assets.html
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animationmagazine
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As expected, Sony’s much-anticipated and glowingly reviewed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse landed at the top of the U.S. box office this weekend, bringing in an estimated $35.4 million for what is seen as the largest three-day animated opening of all time in December. Universal/Illumination’s Sing previously held this record with its $35.2 million opening two years ago. Awards season watchers are predicting that the movie has a good chance of beating Pixar’s Incredibles 2 for the Best Animated Feature Oscar in February.
Meanwhile, Universal/Illumination’s The Grinch landed at the No. 3 spot, with an estimated $11.58 million in its sixth week of release. The movie has grossed over $240 million in the U.S. and $133.4 million internationally. Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet was the number 4 movie, with an estimated $9.58 million (and a domestic cume of $155 million and a global total of $285 million). The movie will open in Japan and Hong Kong this coming weekend.
The big disaster of the weekend was Universal’s poorly reviewed Mortal Engines, which cost $100 million to produce. The movie had a weak $7.5 million opening in the U.S., and received a B minus CinemaScore grade from audiences and a 28% fresh rating on Rottentomatoes.com review site. Overseas, the movie took in $11.5 million in 54 markets (with a total cume of $34.8 million).
Warner Bros.’ Aquaman continued its wave of popularity overseas, with an estimated $126.4 million weekend take and a $261.3 million cume. The DC Comics property made another $54.2 million in China this weekend for a cume totaling over $189 million.
This Wednesday, audiences will have the chance to enjoy Disney’s well-reviewed Mary Poppins Returns in 3,800 theaters. Then, on Friday Warner Bros. will open Aquaman in 4,100 theaters, Paramount will premiere Bumblebee (directed by Laika’s CEO Travis Knight) in 3,500 locations and Universal’s CG-heavy Welcome to Marwen will also debut in 1,900 theaters.
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Macute (Višegrad) is a village in the municipality of Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This article about a location in the municipality of Višegrad, Republika Srpska is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This page was last edited on 24 March 2017, at 23:49 (UTC).
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I've never stitched images together before, but last week I was presented with a scene that I found to be absolutely astounding. I thought to myself, "this is really special; perhaps one day I would like to make a big print of it - really big, like 5 or 6 feet across......too big for my 16MP sensor to give me great results from a single frame."
So, I zoomed in and took a series of images by panning across the scene. Just handheld - there was no time to set up a tripod - no time for anything extra - the light was rapidly fading.
Now these images, about a half dozen of them, need to be stitched together. But I don't know where to begin. I bought Photoshop several months ago, but pretty much abandoned using it because I can't just quickly and easily figure out how to do things in Photoshop - doing the stuff I want to do there would require, like, actual research and focus and concentration, and, quite frankly, I just don't have it in me to put forth that kind of mental effort. So I know that if I got stitching software, and it had a learning curve, I would just end up never using it, and I don't want that to happen.
So, is there any image-stitching software out there that will stitch these images together for me - and not require me to do anything - anything - other than dragging and dropping? I mean, I am looking for a program in which all I have to do is to drag the photos into it and it will automatically stitch them all together all by itself without me having to do anything else.
Also, I would like the stitching software to be able to work "by itself". By that, I mean that I don't want something that operates within another program, or as an add-on to another program (I think the term I am looking for is "plug-in" ? ) I want something that will work all by itself and not require me to have any other program in order to use it.
By the way, these are the images I want to stitch, and a pic of the whole scene. I know that for optimal results, I should have shot the frames vertically - but alas, there was no time for that, as that would have required much more careful, precise panning, and like I said earlier there was precious little time to do anything - I am lucky to have been able to rip these shots off freehand before the sunlight disappeared.
Heck, I didn't even have time to set the white balance manually, so I realize that I may have to adjust the white balance in some off the frames so that they match the others (that's no problem for me to do in Photos). I was aware of the potential WB issue, but was literally afraid that if I took the 8 or 10 seconds to adjust WB, that the light would disappear and I would miss out altogether.
Photo from Tom Reichner's gallery.
Image Composite Editor from Microsoft.
I don't use it much, but I tried it out and it's really easy.
I use Microsoft ICE often for pano's.
Just handheld and 'swing around'.
You can even Drag&Drop the cr2 files into ICE.
When exporting to a JPG ICE defaults to 75% quality.
You might want to raise it to 100%.
ICE is only available for the Microsoft Windows platform, no OSX.
Tom runs a iMac, so that puts MS ICE out of the running.
Tom the real issue is that I just don't think that there is a software out there that will necessarily do the job for you, to the standard that you want without the need for some input from you. That would require you to do some degree of learning to get the best results, and I appreciate that your learning difficulties make that almost impossible for you to do. So far the best and easiest to use set of stitching tools that I have found has been those in LRCC, not sure if you get them in the standalone LR6. It seems to do a very good job, better than the version in PS even, though looking at that series of images I would have thought that the PS merge to panorama would do a decent enough job that you would only need to run the merge, which IIRC should auto crop at the end, so that you at least end up with an image that is rectangular, with no blank bits.
What I would suggest is that you try with PS, since you already have it. You would want to export all of the images from Photos as 8 bit TIFF files, so that you can open them in PS, since PS itself doesn't do RAW files. Start PS and this is the bit I can't remember (I don't have PS active at the moment so can't check) there is an option to open multiple files to the photomerge system to create the panorama. Or you may have to open all of the files, then run photomerge. This will start the merging process, which will run and at the end present you with the finished image. As long as you are happy with the result save the file. If not there are a couple of radio button choices that change the way the merged image is projected, spherical would be my first choice followed by cylindrical, I don't think the others are likely to work, but they are choices you can try. Save the final image still as a TIFF and then import it in to Photos, so that you can then export it as you would any other image that you wanted to export for printing. If PS hasn't made the image rectangular with no blank bits around the edges then I would suggest that you don't crop the edges in PS but do that back in Photos too.
I would suggest that the tools in PS are going to be as easy as anything else, and you at least already have it. Tom if you would like to message me I would be very happy to sort out talking you through it over Skype or possibly facetime, but I would have to borrow my daughters iPhone for that.
The pano stitching feature in the latest version of Lightroom does a reasonably competent job - especially for something easy like this.
You're not stitching difficult things like a pano of a room with tile floor, where the grid of the tiles must line up perfectly.
I know you were trying out Lightroom for a little while, I don't know if that was just the trial version.
Use Photoshop's Photomerge feature. Literally, you specify the images you want to stitch and the corrections you would like PS to make in the process and you are done. It works within PS, so it satisfies your requirement in that regard as well.
I can only assume the the panorama feature in LR/ACR uses the same engine, so if you want to access the stitch from those applications/environments, you can do it there as well. Open the sequence of raw files from within PS (the ACR window will appear) - in the filmstrip view of the image thumbnails in ACR, select them all, right-click on one and you can choose to create a panorama from the selected images. This way, you can do your raw conversion and pano stitch all in one go from within the ACR dialog if that's how you would prefer to work.
For an image sequence like the one you posted, this should be pretty easy and straightforward - parallax should not be an issue because the entire scene is far away and lies all in the same plane, more or less. Add files and let the stitch happen. The result will be a layered document in PS - you can flatten and save it as whatever file format you would like for further processing in your workflow.
If you post a link to smallish renderings of your image sequence, I will stitch them in PS to give you an idea of the results. The I start a stitch, I render small versions of the source images and stitch them first to save time and make sure the stitch will work. Once I am happy with the stitch, I feed the application the full-res images.
I usually use PTGui to do my stitching but yesterday I fed PS a bunch of images that were taken looking upward at a tower - the images were taken handheld, from the same position on the ground, but some were zoomed relative to the others, etc. PS did a remarkable job, frankly, at compositing them all together simply by using the AUTO method.
Interestingly, LR's photomerge, when applied to DNG files, generates a new DNG file. I haven't experimented much with raw adjustments on the merged DNG image; I'm used to doing as much correction as possible before the merge.
The benefit of using Photoshop's layered results is that you can mask and unmask in places where the Auto stitch/layer/mask didn't quite get it right. With LR, you have little control.
Yep. I do not use LR and do not use ACR raw panorama unless there is a compelling need for DNG output. Photoshop at least gives you some control over the result - for stubborn merges you can manually arrange the source images on layers in a single large document and then use the auto-align and auto-blend commands to help PS with the initial arrangement of the source images.
Like I said, I usually use PTGui, but for someone who does not want to take on another piece of software, I would suggest PS.
Since this is not something you want to do regularly, and so you don't have the need or motivation to get or learn the necessary software, and you may want to get a huge print done, I suggest you farm out the job.
Find a friend or professional (maybe on this forum), send them the original untouched image files (RAWs if you have them) and let them do it.
I use Microsoft ICE. It's free. Does the job really well, can be done manually or automated and you can output as an uncompressed TIF to continue working on, etc.
I prefer PTGui for these kinds of jobs.
Well, the image stacking in Photoshop is already easy enough IMO, just File -> Scripts -> Load files into stack, Edit -> Auto-Align Layers, Edit -> Auto-Blend Layers and presto, you're done.
If pressing a bunch of buttons is still too hard, you can get AutoPano, which is both super-automated and can do batches, while also offering precision tools in case you run into issues.
I always get 8-bit from ICE, can't seem to save TIFF or PSD in 16 bit. For me it works fine on batch-processed image sets. I haven't tried a windows emulator in ten years, but the one I used back in the day for a particular calculator was called WINE. Also there is the free HUGIN for mac, which, unfortunately, I have never been able to get to work.
My go to stitcher is Microsoft ICE now. It does a great job. I use to use the Photomerge in PS, but I feel ICE does it better.
To do your panos, you don't need a tripod, the computer will figure everything out. Just make sure every image has enough overlap. You can use any lens you want but just know that the longer the lens, the more photos you'll need to take to cover the same area. That's not a big issue unless your computer is lacking. I have a regular HP off the shelf. 14gb of memory, i5 processor. At MOST its taking 15 seconds to do a pretty large image. ICE doesn't do raw, but I just quickly convert all the images I want to stitch in the image processor in bridge. That only takes a few seconds.
This view is 180 degrees and 13 images. Ive done as many was 45 images with no problem in ICE.
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2019-04-24T22:17:47Z
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https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=18162428
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voanews
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In this photo taken Oct. 19, 2015, women walk on farmlands that was destroyed by high salt content due to rising sea levels in Saloum Delta, Diamniadio Island in Senegal. Thousands of people on these tiny islands and villages in this part of West Africa are living on the frontline of climate change.
The World Bank reports Africa will receive the bulk of the $75 billion the International Development Association, or IDA, will spend to finance life-saving and life-changing operations over the next three years mainly in 30 of the world’s poorest, most fragile countries.
The IDA is a part of the World Bank which supports anti-poverty programs in the most poor developing countries through long-term, no interest loans.
The World Bank reports the African region will receive $45 billion of the $75 billion allocated for development purposes. It says other recipients will include small Pacific island states threatened by climate change and fragile countries in the Western Hemisphere, such as Haiti.
The fund, which runs from July 1 through June 30, 2020, also will support specific development projects in 82 additional fragile states, including Guinea, Nepal, Niger, and Tajikistan.
Axel van Trotsenburg, vice president for Development Programs at the World Bank, says the aid package will make a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of people. For example, he says it could deliver essential health and nutrition services for up to 400 million people.
“We will or expect to train up to 10 million teachers to benefit 300-plus million children. We intend to immunize between 130 and 180 million children… and would undertake investments that could improve the access to improved water resources for up to 45 million people,” he said.
While IDA is largely focused on supporting long-term development projects, it does have provisions for helping people in crisis situations. Van Trotsenburg tells VOA that IDA has just announced a $1.6 billion support package for emergencies, with critical support going for famine relief in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and northern Nigeria, where an estimated 20 million people are at risk of famine.
“The financial support will be a combination of recently approved operations that we have been in the last six, eight months that were already started to target, for example, the north of Nigeria to the remaining resources that are still available in our crisis response window,” he said.
Van Trotsenburg says IDA still has about $360 million left over from development projects executed over the past three years. He says that money will be used for famine relief.
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2019-04-20T01:36:32Z
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https://www.voanews.com/a/african-regions-to-receive-45-billion-in-development-aid/3773966.html
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Disgraced former Senator John Edwards was a no-show at the Democratic National Convention last week. His public outings have been scarce, after weeks of slams from colleagues and the media for cheating on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth -- but will the he remain reclusive until the November election?
That's a no! In fact, the one-time VP nominee is slated to make his first public speaking appearance since his infidelity scandal broke -- by giving a speech next Monday at Hofstra University in New York.
Mrs. Edwards will not attend.
FLASH!: Edwards just canceled his appearance, reports AP.
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This is the picture of Ebola Virus zoomed in. You can check out more images from the button down here.
The purpose of this website is to spread the existence of Ebola Virus Disease. You have to be aware of this deadly disease and start to care about it. This virus is the worst disease ever but it is not as much as it should be issued on media. Please spend time on this website, and tell other people of Ebola.
This website was last edited on April 4th, 2014 by JinWoo Kwon (8th grade), from Hokkaido International School.
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2019-04-21T18:47:06Z
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https://jinwoo-ebola.weebly.com/index.html
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If you want to have your heart break, I mean really break into a million jagged pieces, read WaPo’s hideous piece on parents who forget their kids in cars where they die horribly while Mom types 200 feet away.
Think it could never happen to you? Before I had kids, I would have been quite sure my answer would be not just no, but HELL no! But pizza chefs have done it. Rocket scientists have done it. People who spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on foreign adoptions have done it. Two kids later, I have to admit—yeah, it cudda happened to me. Thank god they’re too big and too noisy now for that particular mistake. But God knows which other mistakes could easily befall even the best of us. So why are bloodthirsty DAs going after parents?
We’re not talking here about parents who intentionally leave kids in cars so they can get their hair done and shop unencumbered. They are criminals and deserve punishment. We’re talking about people who, almost entirely, had some change in the routines of their over-stressed lives and simply, honestly, forget their child was in the car. The piece is extremely well done and well researched, so check it out and resolve to look into every back seat you pass this summer. But prosecuting these folks for murder? It’s not like there’s any deterrent factor at play here. Good thing juries are composed of humans and not ambitious lawyers trying to make names for themselves.
Here’s all it took for one jury to do the right thing. The attorney didn’t put the mom on the stand because she refused to grovel and whimper in public. He played the 911 tape instead.
Then, for a few seconds, nothing.
What is happening is that Balfour [the mom] is administering CPR. At that moment, she recalls, she felt like two people occupying one body: Lyn, the crisply efficient certified combat lifesaver, and Lyn, the incompetent mother who would never again know happiness. Breathe, compress, breathe, compress. Each time that she came up for air, she lost it. Then, back to the patient.
After hearing this tape, the jury deliberated for all of 90 minutes, including time for lunch. The not-guilty verdict was unanimous.
These parents have suffered enough.
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2019-04-20T08:34:48Z
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/parents-worst-nightmare-season-leaving-kids-die-cars-upon-us/
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A couple weeks ago for The Weekly Art Challenge, I posted an unfinished drawing of a mother and child. A portrait of a very close friend’s sister-in-law and young nephew. It was far from completion and something I worked very hard on for about three weeks. Finally I completed it and thought I should share the outcome.
When I started the piece I had all sorts of whimsical ideas from floral backgrounds to, what would be for me, a challenging style and painting application; but in the end I choose a more classic style to capture the motherly tenderness I saw in my friend’s photograph. The color in the background is a reference to her auburn hair and fondness of Japanese Maples. I mixed several warm earthy reddish tones together and applied the wash in multiple layers, often using tissues to gently remove color and create a dreamy intimate space for the figures.
The mother in the image will not receive her portrait until the holiday, and I am eager to know if she likes the piece. I sincerely hope she does, at the moment this is my favorite piece in my portfolio.
You can visit my Etsy site if you are interested in commissioning a similar portrait for your loved ones.
Something new I have been working on! A portrait of my niece. It is not completed and there are no other photos except for this one. I had purchased a good sheet of strong watercolor paper ( Arches 300 LB 22×30) and intend to work in watercolors with the tea and graphite. I am wanting to challenge myself with this piece and really hope it turns out as I envision. I will post more when completed.
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2019-04-26T02:03:52Z
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https://ambertravels.wordpress.com/tag/children/
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Suzuki J, Garayalde S, Dodoo M, Rodriguez C. Psychiatry residents' and fellows' confidence and knowledge in interpreting urine drug testing results related to opioids. Subst Abus. 2018; 39(4):518-521. PMID: 29697313.
Weiner SG, Price CN, Atalay AJ, Harry EM, Pabo EA, Patel R, Suzuki J, Anderson S, Ashley SW, Kachalia A. A Health System-Wide Initiative to Decrease Opioid-Related Morbidity and Mortality. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019 01; 45(1):3-13. PMID: 30166254.
Suzuki J, Johnson J, Montgomery M, Hayden M, Price C. Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Review of the Literature. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Sep; 5(9):ofy194. PMID: 30211247.
Friedmann PD, Suzuki J. More beds are not the answer: transforming detoxification units into medication induction centers to address the opioid epidemic. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2017 11 15; 12(1):29. PMID: 29141667.
Suzuki J, Zinser J, Issa M, Rodriguez C. Quantitative testing of buprenorphine and norbuprenorphine to identify urine sample spiking during office-based opioid treatment. Subst Abus. 2017 Oct-Dec; 38(4):504-507. PMID: 28723256.
Twark C, Suzuki J. Fenethylline-Induced Psychosis, Fenethylline-Themed Paranoid Delusions, or Both? Psychosomatics. 2017 Sep - Oct; 58(5):561-564. PMID: 28577859.
Braun IM, Meyer FL, Gagne JJ, Nabati L, Yuppa DP, Carmona MA, Burstein HJ, Suzuki J, Nayak MM, Martins Y. Experts' perspectives on the role of medical marijuana in oncology: A semistructured interview study. Psychooncology. 2017 08; 26(8):1087-1092. PMID: 28040884.
Suzuki J, Valenti ES. Intentional Intra-arterial Injection of Heroin: A Case Report. J Addict Med. 2017 Jan/Feb; 11(1):77-79. PMID: 28027191.
Suzuki J, El-Haddad S. A review: Fentanyl and non-pharmaceutical fentanyls. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017 Feb 01; 171:107-116. PMID: 28068563.
Welsh JW, Rodriguez C, Suzuki J. Bilateral Upper Extremity Cellulitis From Injecting Crack Cocaine Dissolved in Lemon Juice: A Case Report. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2016 Oct 13; 18(5). PMID: 27835731.
Hardaway R, Schweitzer J, Suzuki J. Hallucinogen Use Disorders. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2016 Jul; 25(3):489-96. PMID: 27338969.
Suzuki J. Medication-assisted treatment for hospitalized patients with intravenous-drug-use related infective endocarditis. Am J Addict. 2016 Apr; 25(3):191-4. PMID: 26991660.
Dwyer-Clonts M, Frates E, Suzuki J. Managing Problem Drinking: Screening Tools and Brief Interventions for Primary Care Physicians. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2017 Nov-Dec; 11(6):424-429. PMID: 30202365.
Suzuki J, Dodds T. Clinician recommendation of 12-step meeting attendance and discussion regarding disclosure of buprenorphine use among patients in office-based opioid treatment. Subst Abus. 2016; 37(1):31-4. PMID: 26682722.
Rodriguez CP, Vaidya A, Tishler LW, Suzuki J. INTERACTIVE MEDICAL CASE. A Painful Subject. N Engl J Med. 2015 Dec 24; 373(26):e32. PMID: 26699187.
Mittal L, Suzuki J. Feasibility of collaborative care treatment of opioid use disorders with buprenorphine during pregnancy. Subst Abus. 2017 Jul-Sep; 38(3):261-264. PMID: 26672650.
Minen MT, Lindberg K, Wells RE, Suzuki J, Grudzen C, Balcer L, Loder E. Survey of Opioid and Barbiturate Prescriptions in Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Headache Center. Headache. 2015 Oct; 55(9):1183-91. PMID: 26316376; PMCID: PMC4757493.
Shu J, Huang H, Suzuki J. The Early-Career Consultation Psychiatrist: Leading the Integration of Substance Use Treatment Into the Primary Care Setting. Psychosomatics. 2015 Nov-Dec; 56(6):706-7. PMID: 26674483.
Suzuki J, Ellison TV, Connery HS, Surber C, Renner JA. Training in Buprenorphine and Office-Based Opioid Treatment: A Survey of Psychiatry Residency Training Programs. Acad Psychiatry. 2016 Jun; 40(3):498-502. PMID: 26017618.
Sivashanker K, Mufson M, Mittal L, Ross E, Suzuki J. Challenges in managing acute on chronic pain in a pregnant woman at high risk for opioid use disorder in the general hospital setting. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2015 Mar-Apr; 23(2):157-66. PMID: 25747928.
Suzuki J, Zinser J, Klaiber B, Hannon M, Grassi H, Spinosa M, Ramirez A, Issa M, Chin Feman SP. Feasibility of Implementing Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) for Office-Based Opioid Treatment With Buprenorphine: A Pilot Study. Subst Abus. 2015; 36(2):166-9. PMID: 25738320.
Suzuki J, DeVido J, Kalra I, Mittal L, Shah S, Zinser J, Weiss RD. Initiating buprenorphine treatment for hospitalized patients with opioid dependence: A case series. Am J Addict. 2014 Nov 06. PMID: 25376754.
Suzuki J, Dekker MA, Valenti ES, Arbelo Cruz FA, Correa AM, Poklis JL, Poklis A. Toxicities associated with NBOMe ingestion-a novel class of potent hallucinogens: a review of the literature. Psychosomatics. 2015 Mar-Apr; 56(2):129-39. PMID: 25659919.
Suzuki J, Poklis JL, Poklis A. "My friend said it was good LSD": a suicide attempt following analytically confirmed 25I-NBOMe ingestion. J Psychoactive Drugs. 2014 Nov-Dec; 46(5):379-82. PMID: 25364988.
Suzuki J, Connery HS, Ellison TV, Renner JA. Preliminary survey of office-based opioid treatment practices and attitudes among psychiatrists never receiving buprenorphine training to those who received training during residency. Am J Addict. 2014 Nov-Dec; 23(6):618-22. PMID: 25065457; PMCID: PMC4391742.
Suzuki J, Matthews ML, Brick D, Nguyen MT, Wasan AD, Jamison RN, Ellner AL, Tishler LW, Weiss RD. Implementation of a collaborative care management program with buprenorphine in primary care: a comparison between opioid-dependent patients and patients with chronic pain using opioids nonmedically. J Opioid Manag. 2014 May-Jun; 10(3):159-68. PMID: 24944066; PMCID: PMC4085743.
Huang H, Chan YF, Bauer AM, Suzuki J, Katon W, Russo J, Hogan D, Unützer J. Specialty behavioral health service use among chronically ill medicare advantage patients with substance use problems. Psychosomatics. 2013 Nov-Dec; 54(6):546-51. PMID: 23932530; PMCID: PMC3830673.
Isomura T, Suzuki J, Murai T. Paradise Lost: The relationships between neurological and psychological changes in nicotine-dependent patients. Addict Res Theory. 2014 Apr; 22(2):158-165. PMID: 24719610.
Suzuki J, Meyer F, Wasan AD. Characteristics of medical inpatients with acute pain and suspected non-medical use of opioids. Am J Addict. 2013 Sep-Oct; 22(5):515-20. PMID: 23952900.
Suzuki J, Mittal L, Woo SB. Sublingual buprenorphine and dental problems: a case series. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2013; 15(5). PMID: 24511440; PMCID: PMC3907320.
Suzuki J, Park EM. Buprenorphine/naloxone and dental caries: a case report. Am J Addict. 2012 Sep-Oct; 21(5):494-5. PMID: 22882403.
Park EM, Meltzer-Brody S, Suzuki J. Evaluation and management of opioid dependence in pregnancy. Psychosomatics. 2012 Sep-Oct; 53(5):424-32. PMID: 22902085.
Freedman JL, Crow FF, Gutheil TG, Sanchez LT, Suzuki J. Treating a physician patient with psychosis. Asian J Psychiatr. 2012 Jun; 5(2):193-8. PMID: 22813669.
Park EM, Suzuki J. Treatment of opioid dependence and cancer pain with sublingual buprenorphine: a case report. Am J Addict. 2012 May-Jun; 21(3):283-4. PMID: 22494234.
Suzuki J, Haimovici F, Chang G. Alcohol use disorders after bariatric surgery. Obes Surg. 2012 Feb; 22(2):201-7. PMID: 21188544.
Suzuki J, Chang G. Consultation to the medically ill: a survey of addiction psychiatry fellowship programs. Am J Addict. 2011 Sep-Oct; 20(5):476-7. PMID: 21838848; PMCID: PMC3156615.
Suzuki J, Gitlin DF, Chang G. Survey of psychosomatic medicine fellowships: training in substance use disorders. Psychosomatics. 2011 May-Jun; 52(3):296-7. PMID: 21565606.
Suzuki J, Tyson JW. Misconceptions about the safety of ingesting methanol-based solid fuels: a case report. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2011; 13(2). PMID: 21977352; PMCID: PMC3184589.
Halpern JH, Suzuki J, Huertas PE, Passie T. Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice. Edited by Johnson BA. Hallucinogens. 2010; p1083-98.
Renner JA & Suzuki J. Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice. Edited by Johnson BA. Opiates and prescription drugs. 2010; p463-94.
Suzuki J. Handbook of office-based buprenorphine treatment of opioid dependence. Edited by Renner JA, Levounis P. Logistics of office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine. 2010; pp 253-274.
Halpern JH, Suzuki J, Huertas PE, Passie T. Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Edited by Stolerman IP. Hallucinogen abuse and dependence. 2010; pp569-572.
Suzuki J, Halpern JH, Passie T, Huertas PE. Pharmacology and Treatment of Substance Abuse: Evidence- and Outcome-Based Perspectives. Edited by Cohen LM, Collins FL, Young AM, McChargue DE, Leffingwell TR, Cook KL. Hallucinogens. 2009; pp319-418.
Van Der Kolk BA, Burbridge JA, Suzuki J. The psychobiology of traumatic memory. Clinical implications of neuroimaging studies. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1997 Jun 21; 821:99-113. PMID: 9238197.
van der Kolk BA, Burbridge JA, Suzuki J. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. Current status on the psychobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder. 1995; 7(S):34-37.
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This is the most violent I have ever seen an action film be with a straight face. There are bloodier, more violent films, yes. But they're either horror films or knowingly ludicrous stuff like The Story of Ricky.
That said, it was still energetic and propulsive as all hell. Timo Tjahjanto was Gareth Evans' collaborator on The Raid: Redemption and this has the same fluidity and relentless forward momentum.
Side note: if you've never seen V/H/S/2, Tjahjanto's sequence about a cult is maybe the only reason to see that particular anthology. But it's so worth it.
This is like an entire film pitched like the hallway/elevator sequence from Old Boy.
Correction... I guess he didn't collaborate with Evans on The Raid, but rather on that segment from VHS2.
Anyway, this is good and if you find therapeutic value from people getting punched in the face REAL GOOD, I recommend it. It's also notable that two of the four big badasses are women.
I wanted more time with Bobby. I was expecting a much more extended fight scene from him.
Who is taking all these henchmen jobs!? Or are they independent contractors maybe? What is payroll like at these organizations? I mean, before the "downsizing".
I enjoyed that, but man it was densely, exhaustingly violent. I watched it in segments because I felt I was becoming desensitized over one film and missing out on some amazing fight choreography. Seems like they could have made two shorter movies out of the amount of characters and action scenes they packed in there.
The Raid 2 is my absolute favorite action movie ever and has ruined every hand-to-hand action sequence since. I mention that because I am no lightweight when it comes to violence but holy cow is everyone right about the absurd amount of it in this one.
This is possibly the only film where "relentless action" on the poster actually means it.
It's a good action movie but whew it really goes on.
This is the most violent film I've ever watched. If the Ludovico Technique was real, this would be the film you would forced to watch with your eyelids pried open.
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This survey was completed by 740 new students who entered VCU in the fall of 2014. The goal of the instrument was to determine what computers students were bringing with them or purchased as they prepared to start their academic career at VCU. The survey also explored mobile device usage as well as access preferences for VCU data and services via mobile devices. The survey was administered in November 2014 after students had been on campus for approximately three months.
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I love you baby, I love the way that you talk!
I like your doggie, hey, I even like his fleas!
I really like it, when you tickle me...hehehehehehehe...Stop it!!!
Somebody left a cake out in the rain. OH, NOOOOO!
But now it's all wet and I don't think I want any!
We could get married, just the two of us!
And you could get a job drivin' a school bus!
I love you baby, will you marry me?
Think it over, who's it gonna hurt?
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Rivers continue to fall across the Chicago area. Moderate flooding is occurring at Freeport and Shirland on the Pecatonica River as well as Rockton, Latham Park and Byron on the Rock River. Minor flooding is in progress at LaSalle on the Illinois River, Montgomery and Algonquin on the Fox River and Rockford (Auburn Street) on the Rock River.
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MARQUETTE, Mich.—Northern Michigan University will host a College Fair from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Jacobetti Center. The program is open to all high school juniors, seniors and their parents.
Representatives from more than 40 colleges and universities, including several out-of-state schools, will be present to answer questions about their academic programs, costs, support services and campus life. A number of representatives from the Armed Forces, ROTC and military science programs will also be in attendance. Staff members from NMU’s financial aid office will be available to answer questions about the financial aid process.
Area high schools participating in the College Fair are Superior Central, Gwinn, Ishpeming, NICE, Marquette, Munising, Negaunee, Burt Township and Republic-Michigamme.
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It's one and a half hours before your flight, you're on a diet, and your stomach is growling. What to have for dinner? Here's some tips.
1: The main rule of eating right: get as much vegetables as possible. Salads obviously do, but make sure to avoid dressing, croutons, and bacon bits.
2: If you must have meat, go for grilled or roasted chicken, or seafood like tuna or salmon. Turkey or roast beef also works, but limit how much you consume.
3: For sandwiches, ask for whole-wheat or multi-grain. If they don't have either, don't eat the bread and just eat the veggies and/or low-fat meat.
4: Most likely you'll want a slice of pizza. Ask for whole-wheat crust; this is becoming more popular. If they don't have it, ask for any veggie toppings: onion, mushroom, broccoli, peppers, and even lettuce.
5: Avoid fast-food. Try some healthier alternative eating establishments.
6: If you had something unhealthy (or even something healthy), take a walk around the airport. You're going to be sitting in a seat for at least two hours: this is your last chance for serious exercise.
7: For dessert, have fruit. Fruit cups without syrup can be easily found: if you know where to look, you'll find a place.
Most likely there will be vegetarian options. If there is nothing else, go for those options. Those will be the healthiest in the whole airport.
If you have less than half an hour, don't take your time buying food. Most (if not, all) airlines start boarding 30 minutes before takeoff. For example, if takeoff is 5:00, they'll start boarding at 4:30. Buy a little something quickly (only if you need to), and when you land buy something.
Reserve fifteen to twenty dollars for airport food. You never know what the prices are, you may be thirsty, and you need money to buy fruit (only if you want to).
When ordering, say your order quickly. Other people behind you may not have as much time as you do. If you want a chicken sandwich, for instance, say, "Grilled chicken sandwich on whole-wheat with onions, please."
If you need napkins, take two to four. This is not the place to get ten: hundreds of people are coming through, and some need napkins more than others.
Sometimes you'll have to eat unhealthy. In travel, this is really hard to avoid. When you come home, start your diet back again.
Don't say anything about violence to the servers or anyone in line. There is a fine line between talking about the latest film starring Vin Diesel and saying you have poison in your briefcase.
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DUBLIN, Calif., April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, top poultry experts from the state of California (CDFA), academia (UC Davis) and private industry (Foster Farms) – along with nearly 100 urban farmers and backyard poultry owners – gathered in Dublin, California, to discuss ways to prevent further spread of the highly contagious Virulent Newcastle Disease (VND). Although only a single case was recently diagnosed in Northern California's Alameda County and is no threat to human health, more than 1.1 million birds have been lost to VND in Southern California since May 2018, with additional cases confirmed just this past week. The poultry experts are urging preventative action to limit any further spread of this deadly avian disease. Spread of VND to California's Central Valley could be catastrophic to local economies, farming communities and backyard poultry enthusiasts.
Since 1939, West Coast families have depended on Foster Farms for premium quality chicken and turkey products. Family-owned and operated, the company continues its legacy of excellence and commitment to quality established by its founders, Max and Verda Foster. Foster Farms specializes in fresh, all-natural chicken and turkey products free of preservatives, additives or injected sodium enhancers. Based in California's Central Valley, with ranches also in the Pacific Northwest, the company's fresh chicken and turkey are produced in or near each region served. Foster Farms also produces delicious pre-marinated, ready-to-cook and fully cooked products that meet the quality and convenience needs of today's home cooks, retailers, warehouse clubs and foodservice customers. The company's commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service and people is a source of great pride, and, a longtime family tradition. For more information, visit www.fosterfarms.com.
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In numerical analysis, a branch of mathematics, there are several square root algorithms or methods of computing the principal square root of a non-negative real number. For the square roots of a negative or complex number, see below.
These methods generally yield approximate results, but can be made arbitrarily precise by increasing the number of calculation steps.
These approximations are useful to find better seeds for iterative algorithms, which results in faster convergence.
"Heron's method" redirects here. For the formula used to find the area of a triangle, see Heron's formula.
Graph charting the use of the Babylonian method for approximating a square root of 100 (±10) using starting values x0 = 50, x0 = 1, and x0 = −5. Note that a positive starting value yields the positive root, and a negative starting value the negative root.
is known as the Babylonian method, despite there being no direct evidence, beyond informed conjecture, that the eponymous Babylonian mathematicians employed exactly this method. The method is also known as Heron's method, after the first-century Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria who gave the first explicit description of the method in his AD 60 work Metrica. The basic idea is that if x is an overestimate to the square root of a non-negative real number S then S/x will be an underestimate, or vice versa, and so the average of these two numbers may reasonably be expected to provide a better approximation (though the formal proof of that assertion depends on the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means that shows this average is always an overestimate of the square root, as noted in the article on square roots, thus assuring convergence).
Begin with an arbitrary positive starting value x0 (the closer to the actual square root of S, the better).
Let xn + 1 be the average of xn and S/xn (using the arithmetic mean to approximate the geometric mean).
Repeat step 2 until the desired accuracy is achieved.
This algorithm works equally well in the p-adic numbers, but cannot be used to identify real square roots with p-adic square roots; one can, for example, construct a sequence of rational numbers by this method that converges to +3 in the reals, but to −3 in the 2-adics.
and consequently that convergence is assured, and quadratic.
Rounding errors will slow the convergence. It is recommended to keep at least one extra digit beyond the desired accuracy of the xn being calculated to minimize round off error.
This gives a rational approximation to the square root.
It can be easier for manual calculations.
Every digit of the root found is known to be correct, i.e., it does not have to be changed later.
If the square root has an expansion that terminates, the algorithm terminates after the last digit is found. Thus, it can be used to check whether a given integer is a square number.
The algorithm works for any base, and naturally, the way it proceeds depends on the base chosen.
Napier's bones include an aid for the execution of this algorithm. The shifting nth root algorithm is a generalization of this method.
Now using the Digit-by-Digit algorithm, we first determine the value of X. X is the largest digit such that X2 is less or equal to Z from which we removed the 2 rightmost digits.
In the next iteration, we pair the digits, multiply X by 2, and place it in the tenth's place while we try to figure out what the value of Y is.
Since this is a simple case where the answer is a perfect square root XY, the algorithm stops here.
at any m-th stage. The section below codifies this procedure.
Also, the fact that multiplication by 2 is done by left bit-shifts helps in the computation.
Write the original number in decimal form. The numbers are written similar to the long division algorithm, and, as in long division, the root will be written on the line above. Now separate the digits into pairs, starting from the decimal point and going both left and right. The decimal point of the root will be above the decimal point of the square. One digit of the root will appear above each pair of digits of the square.
Starting on the left, bring down the most significant (leftmost) pair of digits not yet used (if all the digits have been used, write "00") and write them to the right of the remainder from the previous step (on the first step, there will be no remainder). In other words, multiply the remainder by 100 and add the two digits. This will be the current value c.
. We will use a new variable y = x(20p + x).
Note: 20p + x is simply twice p, with the digit x appended to the right).
Note: x can be found by guessing what c/(20·p) is and doing a trial calculation of y, then adjusting x upward or downward as necessary.
as the next digit of the root, i.e., above the two digits of the square you just brought down. Thus the next p will be the old p times 10 plus x.
Subtract y from c to form a new remainder.
If the remainder is zero and there are no more digits to bring down, then the algorithm has terminated. Otherwise go back to step 1 for another iteration.
Find the square root of 152.2756.
Find the square root of 2.
can be replaced with faster bit shift operations.
Here we obtain the square root of 81, which when converted into binary gives 1010001. The numbers in the left column gives the option between that number or zero to be used for subtraction at that stage of computation. The final answer is 1001, which in decimal is 9.
// "bit" starts at the highest power of four <= the argument.
to run one extra time removing the factor of 2 from res making it our integer approximation of the root.
Faster algorithms, in binary and decimal or any other base, can be realized by using lookup tables—in effect trading more storage space for reduced run time.
The denominator in the fraction corresponds to the nth root. In the case above the denominator is 2, hence the equation specifies that the square root is to be found. The same identity is used when computing square roots with logarithm tables or slide rules.
The Vedic duplex method from the book 'Vedic Mathematics' is a variant of the digit-by-digit method for calculating the square root. The duplex is the square of the central digit plus double the cross-product of digits equidistant from the center. The duplex is computed from the quotient digits (square root digits) computed thus far, but after the initial digits. The duplex is subtracted from the dividend digit prior to the second subtraction for the product of the quotient digit times the divisor digit. For perfect squares the duplex and the dividend will get smaller and reach zero after a few steps. For non-perfect squares the decimal value of the square root can be calculated to any precision desired. However, as the decimal places proliferate, the duplex adjustment gets larger and longer to calculate. The duplex method follows the Vedic ideal for an algorithm, one-line, mental calculation. It is flexible in choosing the first digit group and the divisor. Small divisors are to be avoided by starting with a larger initial group.
In other words, to calculate the duplex of a number, double the product of each pair of equidistant digits plus the square of the center digit (of the digits to the right of the colon).
In a square root calculation the quotient digit set increases incrementally for each step.
Consider the perfect square 2809 = 532. Use the duplex method to find the square root of 2,809.
Set down the number in groups of two digits.
Define a divisor, a dividend and a quotient to find the root.
Given 2809. Consider the first group, 28.
Find the nearest perfect square below that group.
The root of that perfect square is the first digit of our root.
Since 28 > 25 and 25 = 52, take 5 as the first digit in the square root.
For the divisor take double this first digit (2 · 5), which is 10.
Next, set up a division framework with a colon.
Put a colon to the right of 28 and 5 and keep the colons lined up vertically. The duplex is calculated only on quotient digits to the right of the colon.
Calculate the remainder. 28: minus 25: is 3:.
Append the remainder on the left of the next digit to get the new dividend.
The zero remainder appended to 9. Nine is the next dividend.
This provides a digit to the right of the colon so deduct the duplex, 32 = 9.
Subtracting this duplex from the dividend 9, a zero remainder results.
Ten into zero is zero. The next root digit is zero. The next duplex is 2(3·0) = 0.
The dividend is zero. This is an exact square root, 53.
Find the square root of 2809.
The number of groups gives the number of whole digits in the root.
Put a colon after the first group, 28, to separate it.
28>25=52 and by doubling this first root, 2x5=10.
. Moreover, the following method does not employ general divisions, but only additions, subtractions, multiplications, and divisions by powers of two, which are again trivial to implement. A disadvantage of the method is that numerical errors accumulate, in contrast to single variable iterative methods such as the Babylonian one.
This method was developed around 1950 by M. V. Wilkes, D. J. Wheeler and S. Gill for use on EDSAC, one of the first electronic computers. The method was later generalized, allowing the computation of non-square roots.
. These iterations involve only multiplication, and not division. They are therefore faster than the Babylonian method. However, they are not stable. If the initial value is not close to the reciprocal square root, the iterations will diverge away from it rather than converge to it. It can therefore be advantageous to perform an iteration of the Babylonian method on a rough estimate before starting to apply these methods.
faster than Newton-Raphson iteration on a computer with a fused multiply–add instruction and either a pipelined floating point unit or two independent floating-point units.
may be used at the end rather than computing it through in each iteration.
is as small as possible.
Taking the first three denominators give the rational approximation of √2 as [1;2,2,2] = 17/12 = 1.41667, correct up to first three decimal places. Taking the first five denominators gives the rational approximation to √2 as [1;2,2,2,2,2] = 99/70 = 1.4142857, correct up to first five decimal places. Taking more denominators give better approximations.
Notice that mn, dn, and an are always integers. The algorithm terminates when this triplet is the same as one encountered before. The algorithm can also terminate on ai when ai = 2 a0, which is easier to implement.
Begin with m0 = 0; d0 = 1; and a0 = 10 (102 = 100 and 112 = 121 > 114 so 10 chosen).
So, m1 = 10; d1 = 14; and a1 = 1.
Next, m2 = 4; d2 = 7; and a2 = 2.
Now, loop back to the second equation above.
which is now [10;1,2, 10,2,1,20,1,2, 10,2,1,20,1,2, ...] evaluated at the third term and every six terms thereafter.
, and as such, is an excellent rational approximation to it.
. This is the hard part; It can be done either by guessing, or by using fairly sophisticated techniques.
is good to an order of magnitude. Next, recognise that some powers, p, will be odd, thus for 3141.59 = 3.14159 × 103 rather than deal with fractional powers of the base, multiply the mantissa by the base and subtract one from the power to make it even. The adjusted representation will become the equivalent of 31.4159 × 102 so that the square root will be √31.4159 × 10.
If the integer part of the adjusted mantissa is taken, there can only be the values 1 to 99, and that could be used as an index into a table of 99 pre-computed square roots to complete the estimate. A computer using base sixteen would require a larger table, but one using base two would require only three entries: the possible bits of the integer part of the adjusted mantissa are 01 (the power being even so there was no shift, remembering that a normalised floating point number always has a non-zero high-order digit) or if the power was odd, 10 or 11, these being the first two bits of the original mantissa. Thus, 6.25 = 110.01 in binary, normalised to 1.1001 × 22 an even power so the paired bits of the mantissa are 01, while .625 = 0.101 in binary normalises to 1.01 × 2−1 an odd power so the adjustment is to 10.1 × 2−2 and the paired bits are 10. Notice that the low order bit of the power is echoed in the high order bit of the pairwise mantissa. An even power has its low-order bit zero and the adjusted mantissa will start with 0, whereas for an odd power that bit is one and the adjusted mantissa will start with 1. Thus, when the power is halved, it is as if its low order bit is shifted out to become the first bit of the pairwise mantissa.
A table with only three entries could be enlarged by incorporating additional bits of the mantissa. However, with computers, rather than calculate an interpolation into a table, it is often better to find some simpler calculation giving equivalent results. Everything now depends on the exact details of the format of the representation, plus what operations are available to access and manipulate the parts of the number. For example, Fortran offers an EXPONENT(x) function to obtain the power. Effort expended in devising a good initial approximation is to be recouped by thereby avoiding the additional iterations of the refinement process that would have been needed for a poor approximation. Since these are few (one iteration requires a divide, an add, and a halving) the constraint is severe.
, and removing a bias of 127, i.e.
. In a similar fashion you get 0.5 from 1.5 (0x3FC00000).
where a is a bias for adjusting the approximation errors. For example, with a = 0 the results are accurate for even powers of 2 (e.g., 1.0), but for other numbers the results will be slightly too big (e.g.,1.5 for 2.0 instead of 1.414... with 6% error). With a = -0x4B0D2, the maximum relative error is minimized to ±3.5%.
, then the reciprocal form shown in the following section is preferred.
instead, was written by Greg Walsh. The integer-shift approximation produced a relative error of less than 4%, and the error dropped further to 0.15% with one iteration of Newton's method on the following line. In computer graphics it is a very efficient way to normalize a vector.
Some VLSI hardware implements inverse square root using a second degree polynomial estimation followed by a Goldschmidt iteration.
is the modulus of S. The principal square root of a complex number is defined to be the root with the non-negative real part.
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This page provides a starting point for students who need to submit their theses or honors work to LITS. You can also find helpful links to formatting tips, where to get tech help and other resources to make the submission process easy.
All students who complete an honors thesis must submit a digital copy to LITS by July 1st of their graduating year (or February 1 if you are graduating mid-year). By archiving your work in the Student Theses and Honors Collection, you are contributing to the continuing legacy of excellence in scholarship at Mount Holyoke College.
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Review the theses and honors work policies.
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Looking to browse the theses collection?
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Browse all theses collections back in time, both paper and digital.
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https://lits.mtholyoke.edu/research/writing-and-publishing/theses-and-honors-work
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The Exercise Science graduate program is designed for students interested in advanced and specialized study in the biophysical aspects of exercise.
You can gain these skills in Georgia Southern’s Exercise Science master’s program (an M.S. in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Science). Explore our program to move forward in your exercise science career.
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2019-04-25T16:53:38Z
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https://chp.georgiasouthern.edu/hk/graduate/exercise-science/
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FerrisWheelShipping [Hilda/Touko x N/Natural Harmonia Gropius]. . Wallpaper and background images in the ferriswheelshipping club tagged: n natural harmonia gropius hilda white touko ferriswheelshipping unova pokemon.
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http://fr.fanpop.com/clubs/ferriswheelshipping/images/34868650/title/ferriswheelshipping-hilda-touko-x-n-natural-harmonia-gropius-fanart
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You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Sepias Pr.
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 E1 Sepias Pr.
BAtlas 55 E1 Sepias Pr.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541097/
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http://miter.mit.edu/mulberry-tree/
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An astoundingly large portion of Pink Floyd’s back catalogue was unceremoniously released into the world in 2016. When I say ‘unceremoniously’, I mean a lavish multi-disc, Blu-ray and DVD boxset which extensively covered their first seven years of life; but when you consider this music one of life’s finer pleasures and these rarities as basically a wellspring of lost gold, the boxset feels a lot less than they deserved. In fact, the not-insignificant price tag of The Early Years would have undoubtedly turned some fans off from digging into material that should be in everyone’s collection.
I mean, just try some out for size – like the brilliantly loopy lost Syd Barrett cuts “Vegetable Man” and “Scream Thy Last Scream”. The former features some of the band’s all-time catchiest melodies against a disturbingly self-reflective lyric from Syd, reportedly blocked from A Saucerful of Secrets for being “too dark”, while the latter boasts Nick Mason belting out a rare lead vocal of surreal rhymes over chipmunk backing vocals ripped straight from your nightmares. Or maybe the half-hour long “John Latham” jam, an extended improvisational soundtrack to an early piece of British surrealism that makes “Interstellar Overdrive” sound pretty tame. Or, moving past the Syd years, you have The Man and the Journey, a legendary live show that combined musique concrete, pastoral folk and explosive psychedelia as the band tried to re-jig songs from their first four albums into an impressionistic concept piece involving pink jungles and temples of light. There are diamonds on every disc of The Early Years, just as there are, admittedly, a lot of duds. But the song I most want to talk about isn’t a near-mythical lost Syd tune or a Meddle outtake; in fact, it’s a b-side from Floyd’s most rightfully maligned album.
More is somewhere in the grey zone between a soundtrack and a full album, and neither half really feels finished. One thing everyone can agree on is that it’s almost certainly the only record in existence to feature long stretches of bird-soundtracked ambience, Pink Floyd doing heavy metal, a bongo solo track, and David Gilmour pretending to be a Spanish alcoholic: your mileage may vary on whether or not any of that is a good thing. The Early Years doesn’t devote major runtime to More, understandably, but it does feature five cuts that didn’t make the original record. Three are basically alternate takes of album tracks, and one is “Embryo”, the creepy being-born saga which is significant as “Echoes” in its, uh, embryonic state. The fifth of those tracks is a little ditty named “Seabirds”, a mere footnote from the soundtrack half of those sessions which, I will argue, represents the key to the entire early history of Pink Floyd.
A fair question at this point is, what do we even need a key for? Psychedelic stoners write songs about cats, lose a lead singer, mess around for a bit and eventually make Dark Side of the Moon – isn’t it simple? When you put it like that, sure, but the fumbling, contradictory nature of those middle years holds something truly wonderful which the Dark Side-and-after eras arguably lack. Pink Floyd didn’t become a functioning unit again until Meddle, so those interim albums have four phenomenally talented musicians essentially – or in the case of Ummagumma, literally – stumbling around on their own trying to understand what their music is or could be. This goes a long way to explaining why A Saucerful of Secrets and Atom Heart Mother are utterly glorious messes, and why there’s no real core sound that can fully tie the music of this period together.
That’s what I thought until I heard “Seabirds”, anyway, which in some ways really does represent the true centre of pre-Meddle Pink Floyd. You have your extended intro of slowly mounting tension, Richard Wright’s droning keyboard as the main player, calling back to some of their first post-Syd successes in “A Saucerful of Secrets” or “Careful with That Axe, Eugene”. But the tone here is less oppressive, even over Nick Mason’s militant rolling drums; a peaceful organ melody ensures that emotionally, the song connects to the place of peace the band briefly found in 1969, calling to the quiet nature walks of “Grantchester Meadows” or “Fat Old Sun”. Hell, even the song title works to signify the song as a lynchpin – you have a decent chance of hearing birds warbling over the quieter moments in any song from this period, including “Cirrus Minor”, “Grantchester Meadows”, and all throughout The Man and the Journey. It could be, like “Embryo”, that this excellent song was put aside due to its similarity to later works; aspects of it evolved into the much more meandering and frustrating “Quicksilver” on More, and I’m fairly certain you can hear a very vague outline of the famous “Echoes” seagull whine as the song rumbles towards its close. Whatever the logic, “Seabirds” is an essential cut for anyone, as the only true microcosm of everything the collapsing neutron star of early Floyd dabbled in.
Well, alright, it doesn’t have the heavy metal. But that might have been asking too much.
I played all four videos at the same time while reading Crowley and now I'm convinced the Mayo apocalypse is looming..
Yeah Saucerful is underrated. I've always really liked the first three songs and See-Saw especially.
Was surprised to find that a lot of this is available on Spotify. It's a lot to dig into but I'll definitely be checking out the ones you mentioned, great job!
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2019-04-25T05:56:38Z
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https://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/2018/01/15/on-pink-floyd-and-seabirds/
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Wilhelm Pischner was born on January 5, 1904 in Offenbach am Main, Germany. He completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter from 1918 to 1922 at D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt and worked there until 1940. At the same time, he studied graphic design at the Master School of the German Trades in Offenbach and worked there as a freelance graphic designer after the Second World War. In Frankfurt, he worked from 1961 to 1969 as a draughtsman at the Archaeological Institute of the University. Pischner died on July 7, 1989 in Offenbach.
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https://www.linotype.com/es/1084292/geometric-706-familia.html
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15 April 2007. Free entry.
Bolivarian Dreamwas developed by Chilean artist collective Hoffmann's House specifically for the South Project's Santiago programme in October 2006. The video compilation features a selection of 24 contemporary Latin American video artists who, in various ways, explore notions of collaboration and unification.
Bolivarian Dream takes as a reference point the utopic vision of Latin American political figure Simon Bolivar, whom aspired to foster a unified pan-America in the early 1820s. The curatorial aim was to show a broad selection of video art from the area, rather than a thematic compilation, and features work by Ivan Navarro (Chile), Pablo Helguera (Mexico), Douglas Rodrigo Rada (Bolivia), and Rolando Vargas (Colombia).
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2019-04-21T13:09:57Z
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http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/events/the-bolivarian-dream-screening
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With the holidays right around the corner, it's about that time to shop until you drop. However, it's not always an easy task to find the right gifts while getting the most bang for the buck.
Rest assured, though, because we've got it covered.
Following is a selection of gift items -- from affordable stocking-stuffers to more pricey items -- sure to please all tastes and budgets. But that's not even the best part -- whether shopping for outdoor activewear or trendy technology items, the following list covers everything you need and more. So here are the top 15 items that are a must-buy this holiday season.
1. Patagonia Women's Nano Puff Vest -- This lightweight, synthetically insulated vest is a perfect gift for the holiday season. Equipped with two secure handwarmer pockets, this piece is ready to deal with winter's chill and will keep you warm from in all types of weather dawn to dusk. Best of all, it goes with any outfit and will become a closet staple for the gift recipient.
2. Osprey Men's Startos 34 Daypack -- This durable backpack is adjustable and ventilated for maximal customization. It features a seamless hipbelt interface and raincover for variable weather conditions and is a must-have for outdoor lovers everywhere. From trekking through the woods to day trips with the kids, this bag cannot be missed when checking off your gift list.
From trekking through the woods to day trips with the kids, this bag cannot be missed. Price is $160.
3. Goal Zero Flip 10 Recharger -- This technology staple is perfect for people who are constantly on the go. Weighing less than 3 ounces, this portable charger works well with phones, GPS, headlamps and fitness trackers. For less than $30, this gift is a steal -- and it makes for a great stocking-stuffer. In addition, the charger operates through USB, so just slip it in the pocket and head out the door with ease.
This charger operates through USB, so just slip it in the pocket and head out the door with ease. Price is $24.99.
4. Wigwam Super Boot Wool Socks -- No need to double up because these socks are the real deal. Whether exploring the wilderness or hanging out by the fireplace, these ultra comfortable socks will keep your feet snuggly at all times. They are extra thick, so they're perfect for work or play and best of all your loved one won't have to worry about getting one of those dreaded blisters.
5. Hobie Mirage Eclipse 12 -- Take on the wind and waves in style with Hobie's first waterboard. Plus, it's never too early to start thinking about the warm weather -- and the kids will thank you when they get this hip and handy watercraft. A unique blend of versatility, stability and control, this board is a must-have for the summer and will provide endless family fun.
This insulated hoodie jacket is a must-get this season with its unique design that provides for double the versatility. With a full reversible hooddie and sherpa fleece, get ready for some stress-free fun in the winter sun -- without worrying about the kids getting cold.
7. Sorel Women's Slimpack II Lace Boot -- The seam-sealed and waterproof boot by Sorel is ideal for every outdoor activity -- from fishing to raking -- and it's a seasonal staple. It's lightweight and a perfect gift that can be used almost year-round. The full-grained leather gives it a rugged, but fashionable look that'll be sure to draw a smile this holiday season.
8. YETI Rambler Tumbler -- Utilizing the latest and greatest in insulation technology, this tumbler keeps drinks icy or hot for hours. From margaritas to hot chocolate, this container is perfect for individuals who are always on the go.
9. Native Eyewear Penrose: Desert Tort/Beige/Orange/Bronze Reflex -- A perfect blend of fashion and function, these innovative sunglasses are a crowd-pleasing stocking stuffer. The N3 lenses block out infrared light and provides excellent UV protection. It delivers crisp definition and high contrast for maximum viewing enjoyment. This is a can't-miss gift-- so make sure it's on the list sooner rather than later.
10. Kuhl Men's Radikl Pant -- This pant isn't radical but it surely is revolutionary. Mixing soft with strength, firmness with flexibility, it gives off the appearance of traditional hiking pants with the comfortability of sweatpants. In addition, the six pockets scattered throughout the pant provide ample space for storage -- a nice touch to the complete pant.
11. Under Armour UA Storm Undeniable II SM Duffle -- Take this bag anywhere, no matter the weather. Using UA Storm technology, this duffle delivers in the toughest conditions. Whether it's raining, sleeting or snowing, the highly water-resistant finish can go up against the worst of mother nature. With its tough, abrasion-resistant bottom and side panels, this bag is sure to impress.
12. North Face Men's Gordon Lyons Vest -- This fashion-forward fleece vest is light, airy and insulated. From cool to cold conditions, this piece blends class with comfort and is already a best-seller this season. Don't miss this updated vest -- it is flying off the shelves.
13. GoPro Hero 5 -- Capture every moment with jaw-dropping clarity with this cool gadget. It's lightweight, portable and compact -- perfect for traveling or even just filming in the backyard. The GoPro is one of the hottest technology pieces out there, and this is a deal that cannot be missed.
14. Coleman Supportrest Air Mattress -- Living the travel lifestyle is not always easy -- but this air mattress makes it a lot more comfortable. The Support Lock reinforced construction provides more stability and comfort for a good night's sleep no matter the location. In addition, the double-high height and soft plush add an element of luxury that is unmatched.
15. YETI Women's Low Pro Trucker Hat -- Stick out in style with this comfortable hat made by YETI. This iconic cap is made from a stretchable, rib-knit fabric and the netted back allows for breathability -- a perfect gift for the lady on your list.
Ramsey Outdoor Store carries all the must-have gifts for this holiday -- and every season. Be sure to check out the store's vast selection of outerwear, fishing and hunting gear, technology and much more for men, women and children.
Visit the Ramsey location at 835 Route 17 South or in Succasunna at 281 Route 10 East. Also, check out www.ramseyoutdoor.com.
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http://blog.nj.com/ramsey_outdoor/2017/11/the_top_10_must-have_holiday_g.html
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crashdown
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Music has always been an important part of Roswell. It just takes four chords of “Here With Me” to think about Roswell.
There are many songs that match so perfectly to the show or even to specific scenes. Old songs. New songs. Songs that just remind you about this amazing show in an instant. Which songs should make it on a “Roswell Tribute” playlist?
When Katy Perry’s single E.T. was released some creative Roswell fans created Roswell related music videos with this electronic ballad at once. Please tell us, which other song(s) should make it on this new fan-made “Roswell Tribute” playlist. Write an e-mail, post a comment or fill out the form below or tweet us your #RoswellTributeMix suggestions @crashdowncom or write a comment on Facebook.
Please just suggest songs that never played on “Roswell”.* Songs that never played on “Roswell” are preferred, but feel free to add your favorites from the show, as well. Of course, you can add more than just one song. You also have the chance to add a little story about the song – why you picked it – as well. Don’t forget to tell us your Name, Nickname or @ Twitter name, that we can give you proper credit.
With the release of the song list we will provide a cover artwork as well.
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http://crashdown.com/news/2012/10/roswell-tribute-mix/
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Pepperoni & mushroom pizza made by a Slovenian immigrant chef named Nikolas, dripping with grease like a New York pizza but with a softer crust.
I've really enjoyed catching up on your Icelandic Journey through reading your blog.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, experiences and Oliver's photos!
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2019-04-20T22:08:56Z
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https://christinasunley.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/06/a-few-icelandic-foods-weve-eaten-in-no-particular-order.html
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to program. Announcer: George Barclay.
Music: Claude Sweeten, Bob Mitchell.
Byron Kane, Thomas Ames, Peter Rankin.
111 "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE" 10 08-20-46 :29:43 Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Tedrow, Bernice Barrett, Tom Holland.
111 "SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR" 15 09-24-46 :29:45 Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
as the "Camera." Host: True Boardman.
Joseph Cotton. Stars: Howard Duff.
Phyl, Guy Kingsford, Ramsay Hill.
111 "VANITY FAIR" 22 11-12-46 :29:44 Author: William Makepeace Thackeray.
111 "MAN WHO SOLD HIS SHADOW TO 23 11-19-46 :29:52 Author: Adlebert von Chamisso.
Kane. Host and Announcer, Lyle Bond.
Music by the Jeff Alexander Choir.
Host and Director: True Boardman.
Fred Allen. Stars: Edmund MacDonald.
111 "JAMIE FREEL" 39 03-11-47 :29:39 Author: From Iriah Folk Legend.
111 "LODGING FOR A NIGHT" 41 03-25-47 :29:33 Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Byron Kane. Host: True Boardman.
CHRIST" President of Johns Hopkins University.
111 "MISTER SHAKESPEARE" 43 04-08-47 :29:58 Authors: Jerome Lawrence, Bob Lee.
Barrett. Favorite of: Van Johnson.
111 "BOTTLE IMP" 59 10-28-47 :30:00* Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
111 "SUICIDE CLUB" 68 12-30-47 :29:57 Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Leed, Herb Butterfield, Ralf Sudan.
51881 A "JEST OF HAHALABA" 98 10-26-48 :29:23 Narrrator and Star: Joseph Kerns.
Favorite Story of Frank Capra.
HOST: Ronald Colman Excellent dramatic Series.
see for this series are completely meaningless.
86996A "JOAN OF ARC" 13 :25:00 Stars: Joan Loring, William Conrad.
86999B "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" 20 :26:54 Favorite story of Irving Berlin.
55786 B "LONG AGO" 101 :28:15 Favorite story of Gene Kelly.
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Sergio Roffo has been inspired by the work of American traditional painters such as Inness and Bierstadt, among others. Roffo's representations of coastal landscapes reveal a luminous, masterful feeling. As you view his art, you will discover a precise sense of value and atmospheric perspective that conveys a relaxed sense of calmness; a characteristic that defines and informs all of his works.
In 1994, Roffo was the winner of the Massachusetts Duck Stamp, winning on his first attempt, where others spend years trying. He holds the honor of being one of the youngest artists to be designated a Copley Master by the Copley Society of Boston. An elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists, Sergio's work is included in many private and publicly owned collections. He has also been selected for inclusion in numerous publications, such as Cape Cod Life and Down East Magazine.
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https://blueheronfa.com/sergio-roffo-paintings.html
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It was a chilly day in September when a small team of bloggers—myself included—strode into the White House up in Montreal. Okay, so it wasn't the real White House, but the makers of this "Die Hard at the White House" movie defy you to notice the difference as they barrel audiences through their high-octane action-adventure White House Down. Director Roland Emmerich is notorious for destroying this particular historical landmark. "(In Independence Day,) he blew it up," Emmerich's longtime producer and composer Harald Kloser offered, "In 2012, we had an aircraft carrier crash into it. And, now, this is actually the best movie for the White House, because it survives." Still, a tour of the sets and a fascinating conversation with production designer Kirk Petruccelli—another frequent Emmerich collaborator—revealed 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will see plenty of damage.
White House Down stars Channing Tatum as Officer John Cale, a character whose name, profession, and preference for white tank tops are just a few of the allusions to his inspiration, Die Hard's John McClane. Like McClane, Cale is a cop trapped in a David vs. Goliath scenario, in his case single-handedly protecting the President of the United States when Washington D.C. and the White House are under attack by a mysterious mercenary force. Jamie Foxx stars as POTUS, while Jason Clarke plays the leader of this invading enemy.
You can see some of the insane action this premise entails in the film's first trailer. But perhaps more extraordinary than its plotline is White House Down's lightning fast path from script to screen in a span of just 14 months! Kloser understandably compared the production's demanding schedule to a race, while producer Brad Fischer says the short lead-time is "a testament to (James Vanderbilt's) script. It's a testament to Sony's desire to work with Roland again, and Channing. It's come together in a great way." But it wasn't just a question of enthusiasm. Pulling the project together this fast was a necessity to score the casting coup that is Tatum, who at the time he was cast was already poised to be Hollywood's newest A-lister.
Sony exec Amy Pascal was the one who contacted Tatum's producing partner Reid Carolin about White House Down. At the time, Magic Mike was in post-production, and Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects (then called Bitter Pill) was close to wrapping. Carolin explains, "(Amy) said, 'Would Channing be interested in meeting Roland?' And I said, 'Yeah, of course!' Roland was literally on his way to the airport to fly to Germany…we're making all these calls so that he could divert his flight, land in New York, meet Channing in like seven in the morning for a coffee at his hotel, and see if they liked each other, and then get back on the plane and keeping going to Germany." The two men hit it off, and then it was up to White House Down's producers to figure out a shooting schedule that could fit into Tatum's fast-filling dance card.
White House Down was eying a shoot in late October, early November. But then Tatum's next project, the Bennett Miller drama Foxcatcher shifted its dates, forcing producers to make a tough decision. In order to make their pre-ordained 2014 release date, they'd either have to dump Tatum or push production forward by seven weeks. That cut the prep time for Petruccelli and his army of craftsman nearly in half! With almost 100% of the production shot on stages, this is herculean task called for Petrucelli's team to build 65% of the White House residence, the South Lawn, pool, West and East Wings, the Kennedy Gardens, a greenhouse, the secretive Presidential Emergency Operations Center, as well as sets for The Capitol, The Pentagon, and two the Oval Offices in just eight weeks. Fischer declared Petruccelli "the hero of our film for being able to pull all these sets together as quickly and well as he did."
By Petruccelli's count, that is 45 sets, constructed by an international crew of 32 designers, and hundreds of craftsmen, who sought to recreate what is known of the White House's interior and exterior down to the finest detail. This army of craftsmen and designers worked around the clock seven days a week, building sets from scratch, then scrapping them and building a new set in its place again as soon as a location was wrapped. Wandering from one stage space to the next, I was astonished as we moved from the roof of the White House, past the remnants of the South Lawn, through the buzz of saws and flurry of sawdust to an in-construction Oval Office. Realizing this is as close to the hallowed room as I'd ever be, my jaw dropped in complete awe to Petrucelli's apparent delight.
Even in its rough state of construction without paint or set dressing, the attention to detail on all its moldings—precisely and individually fitted—was literally breathtaking. Here Petruccelli pointed out some of the specifics of the set's recreation before explaining that some liberties on layout of rooms had to be taken to accommodate the space afforded in the soundstages, but biggest differences from the actual White House were made to better accommodate Emmerich's vision of the place. This meant eschewing its traditional rugs for glossy wooden floors and speaking in depth with Jamie Foxx about his character to decide what touches his president would bring to this hallowed home.
As we toured the sets with the elated designer, I realized that he—as well as everyone else we spoke with—practically radiated with the sheer joy over this project. It reminded me of my days in regional theater, where the air was filled with a contagious enthusiasm of the "let's put on a show" variety. Fischer echoed this ambience, calling Emmerich "one of the most collaborative filmmakers that I’ve ever worked with," adding there's no ego to his decision, "The best idea wins. And it’s pretty great." It was impossible not to be caught up in this stages-wide enthusiasm. Full disclosure: this reporter took the opportunity to skip through "The White House."
"We're anticipating what's possible, what's probable and trying to add a bit of style to it if you want to say that. Just enough to say it's cool. But it's all based in reality. Every question I ask everybody of my team is: 'Why? How? Why would it be that way?' And Roland asks me the same questions…. Everything is the technologies that exist now."
But for all the detail and hard work he and his team have put in, Petruccelli recognizes that if he did his job right, no one will notice his efforts. "If I disappear behind the canvas and no one knows we did anything, my team and I will know that we've done our job well," Petruccelli confessed, "And that's the thing that's somewhat—you just have to understand that because no one will ever pat me on the back because they shouldn't. It should be seamless. (People should think,) 'They shot at the White House! How'd they do that?' To me, that's success."
All this remarkably intricate detail work serves as foundation for Tatum, Foxx and Clarke to unleash themselves in potentially epic action sequences. I visited on shoot day #33 of 82, when Emmerich's team was preparing for a pivotal fight scene, the first face off between Tatum's strapping Capitol cop and Clarke's sneering mercenary. The complicated fight choreography plays out atop a sprawling set made to look like the roof of the White House. Wind machines blared as Tatum—dressed much as he is in the film's promo poster--barrels into Clarke who is aiming a Javelin—a sort of heat seeking missile launcher—at a hovering helicopter—well, where one will be added via CGI.
In the scene, the two must dodge bullets and an explosion's debris while keeping up a rugged cat and mouse chase. Each time "action" was called Tatum and Clarke threw themselves literally full-bodied into the action again and again, burly shoulders hammering elbows into each other's strong jaws. In between takes, Tatum danced or bounced to keep his adrenaline going. With Magic Mike still fresh in my mind, I marveled at seeing Tatum's trademark physicality in action live. It was easy to see why in our interview Emmerich had called him, "The most physical actor I have ever met in my life."
"When you work with Channing, you really realize there’s very few actors working today that can do what he can do. I mean you see when he does Magic Mike, he can move like nobody else in his age group. And you only have so much time when you’re a young actor like that before your body just starts not being able to do it. And you watch him do these stunts, he’s flipping around and doing crazy stuff, like he did a bit in his small part in Haywire. And I just felt like we’ve gotta seize the opportunity and do one of these things because action movies are action movies. They’re super fun and they’ve got a certain formula to make them work. But when you have somebody in the role who can make you believe in them but also do the physical stuff, that’s really rare."
Though he had a stunt double—with a strong square jaw that made him a dead ringer for heroes of the 1980s videogame Contra--Tatum did every take I saw himself. It's a point of pride for him, Emmerich told us, "He did every stunt himself…I mean you have to talk him out of a stunt and the only way you can talk him out of a stunt is like 'It’s really high risk and you don’t see his face.' He’s always very concerned that you see his face, because he’s very proud that he does his own stunts. And it’s a little bit lost in the last ten years that people are proud of doing it. But it’s actually when you see him doing it, it’s like 'Oh yeah, this is the real thing.' There’s no face replacement. It’s Channing and you could not do that many face replacements anywhere, so it’s cool. I like it."
That day a point of contention between the director and his star was over one stunt in particular, one that Tatum told us he desperately wanted to do. "They’re still trying to talk me out of one stunt. I’m going to look at it and if I think I can do it. It’s just a fall, a 25-foot fall, but the way you have to fall is bad because you have to fall on your side or on your back and that’s always dangerous," Tatum admitted. "Yeah, that’s the only one questionable. Everything else will be me. I like doing this stuff though, it’s kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you’re reading it you’re like, 'Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!' So I love doing that stuff."
In a move more common for dance movies than action flicks, Emmerich and his longtime cinematographer Anna Foerster are using wide lenses to better capture Tatum's endless energy and seriously stunning physical prowess. Though the VFX and editing teams were on site, already hard at work to be sure film hits its summer deadline, I didn't get a look at edited footage of Tatum in action. But I am eager to see the wide coverage applied to Emmerich's ambitious adventure. Really, this could be Emmerich's biggest movie yet. I mean, it is the White House after all. As Kloser surmised, "It's like the White House is the one symbol in the world that as a building represents power, freedom, really democracy. This is all embodied in this one house. I mean, I don't know, what other symbol would be there if you wanted to say, 'This symbolizes the Western free world.' I wouldn't know anything else. If you play with those big ideas, you always somehow end up at the White House."
White House Down opens June 28th 2013. For more on the film, check out our interviews with Tatum and Emmerich. You can also see a ton of new images from the film in the photo gallery below.
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My Christmas has been glorious. Even though the “crud” accompanied me this last week, it has still been wondrous. Just thought I’d share some parting thoughts and photos. About these spectacular amaryllis… when I arrived with the flowers, the dining room was all set for the next day’s party guests and it was splendid. I couldn’t resist asking for a photo op. What gracious hosts they are. They could/should write a book!!! It was beautiful!
Want to see more photos? How many can I add here? If you would like to see more, check my Facebook Fan page, too.
More parting thoughts to come.
HELLO WORLD is the truth! I feel like i’ve just been introduced to a new universe! And i can’t wait to share with you! Am just thrilled to think that someone might want to hear what i have to say! So… HELLO WORLD!
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"Heavens! I seem to have outgrown myself!"
The knight took a few seconds to adjust to his new massive self, and verily, was a better target for the fangs of the cat-beast.
"You want a piece of me, beast? There is plenty to go around! You like the taste of my blood? The sword has far more iron, is good for you!"
Sigurd swung at the obtrusive feline, intent to distract it from its master's orders.
Not used to his massive size and restricted by the cave, Sigurd saw the lithe cat eluded his attempts at providing it with highly concentrated iron supplements.
Okay, last spell Sleep on the cat. DC15 to resist.
Duxo rolled past the Orc, putting it between him and Auxali. While the org was distracted trying to watch the both of them, Duxo attempted to bury his knife in the Orc's kidney.
(14:16:35) Minion: Pariah rolls 1d20 and gets 12.
Acrobatics 12+9 vs Korkarr's CMD to move through threatened area without provoking AoO. If I do provoke an AoO, I don't move and I lose the +2 flanking bonus to hit. CMD is equal to 10+STR mod+DEX mod+BaB.
(14:16:48) Minion: Pariah rolls 1d20 and gets 8.
(14:17:22) Minion: Pariah rolls 1d4 and gets 4.
If I hit that's 9 dmg.
(11:24:59) Minion: Shadoweagle rolls 1d20 and gets 13. Resisted!
The giant cat reeled under the spell of Nim, magical sleep lulling it to slumber. However it's fury was too great and it shook off the spell with a snarl!
Korkarr, meanwhile stepped forth to meet the charging Sandwalker, ignoring the acrobatics of Duxo. The scarred Hyparican thrust his dagger at the Orc's midsection, but the combination of the stiffened leathers and the thick, white fur failed to allow the weapon to penetrate!
(11:35:53) Rolls made. Attack on Auxzali!
The Orc swung his arm at Auxzali, but did not attack with his axe! Instead, he thrust the barbed point of the scorpion-tail bracelet which rested on his wrist into Auxzali's upper arm, the glass tip penetrating his skin. Korkarr laughed triumphantly and stepped back a pace, "Enjoy your death, Glassman." He gloated.
Auxzali gasped at the shock of the attack, but within his head, he heard a faint droning of insects; he felt fine!
1 damage for barbed tail. Poison Immunity from Altar saves him. Korkarr believes him poisoned.
Shock spread across Auxzali's face with Korkarr's attack. This orc was using Axtrami's gift of healing to poison people? This would not stand. But it would be best to be crafty in this attack. He pretended to be poisoned, and went weak at the knees, using his ouzala as a support. Falling into a kneeling position, Auxzali bent over and gave his best impression of a diseased cough. He had heard many such in the Bareka, he knew how to make it sound wretched. But suddenly, he jabbed upward with his ouzala, pushing upward with his hind leg, driving it towards the orc's heart.
(20:15:04) Minion: caesar193 rolls 1d20 and gets 15. Wait wait wait, I actually hit someone? Thank Axtrami! Anyway, damage: (20:18:36) Minion: caesar193 rolls 1d10 and gets 2.
Thanks to his bowed head, Auxzali did not pierce the orc's heart, but he still tore flesh, and blood spilt out of orc from his flank as well.
"You dare use Axtrami's gift for killing people?" Yelled Auxzali. "I shall see you dead and the vulture's strewing your innards throughout the desert, like the blasphemous refuse you are!"
"Did I hear blasphemous refuse?" Sigurd bellowed, towering over the orc, his voice far deeper due to his massive size. "Blasphemers deserve wrath divine!"
Possibly, they deserved various other kinds of wrath too.
The nature of blasphemy was alas complicated, as for example opposing the Sen-Rabbim emperor was seen as blasphemous, yet Sigurd could not bring himself to show reverence to a man claiming to be a god.
Alas, there would be enough time to ponder on the nature of blasphemy once this obvious perpetrator thereof was smitten, thoroughly so.
Smite evil. +4 to hit, because Sigurd is such a handsome lad, and +1 to damage.
Rolled 19, threat, attack roll 20 to confirm. I believe it's safe to assume it's a critical, yes?
24 damage to Korky. Smiting at its finest.
With thundering steps, he approached just as Auxzali's ouzala carved a gash across the orc's belly, led with an iron-shod boot against the monster's frothing face, sending it reeling into the corner and brought down the immense sword down upon the reeling villain. It seemed to glisten, dispelling the darkness of the cave even more than his radiant shield did, and sing as it carved the air, the vile blood sizzling around its edge!
"Enough! I think I told you to come forth!
The fury of Zevoah was briefly inscribed in Sigurd's features, to be replaced by his usual cocky grin a second after the bandit leader fell.
Korkarr could but gurgle back, slowly sinking to the ground, the carmine staining his seared fur.
The massive knight picked the dying orc up by his neck, obviously delighting in the adversary being suddenly tiny in comparison, and claimed his amulet.
"I believe we are done here!" he laughed, tossing Korkarr aside - only to feel the panther's jaws close on his behind!
"Nim, I certainly hope when I shrink, that the bite shrinks too."
The panther dodged past Sigurd to get at the spellcaster. The Ralkharan knight took a valiant swing at the animal as it passed, but unfortunately missed! Nim trailed with the knight, keeping his steel between the panther and herself.
The giant cat snarled furiously and padded after the knight and mage, leaping at Sigurd since the woman used him for defense. The cat bit and tore furiously, but found only metal and no soft flesh!
Tar-Sul remained, cowering, where he was.
Seeing the orc down for the count, only the panther remained. With some incantation and gestures, Zelas reached for a magic that never missed. He flung out his hand towards the panther, a missile of glowing force shot forth and struck true, it hit the panther straight in the chest.
"Ser Sigurd, try the amulet! Rein in the beast!" Zelas shouted.
Nim was a bit tired of playing mouse with the cat, so she poked around the Knight and fired off a shot with her crossbow.
The bolt sailed true and slammed into the cat.
Lost track of what round we are in, but she shoots when she can. Rolled 20 (woo!) followed by 19, followed by 4, for a total of 8 hp damage.
It certainly would be rather nice to have a lion of justice to call his own, to ferret out the right kind of mice and rats.
The eyes the knights back at the fort would make! The way ladies with admiration shake and quiver!
Sigurd, though staggered from all the biting his frame had to endure that day, held out the recently acquired token, shook Korkarr's blood off it, and spoke in a firm voice used to command: "Hold, beast! Your master is dead, and I am his better! Hold! To heel! Hold and kneel!"
The ongoing combat and recent wounds stoked the lion's ferocity, its soul uneasy and no trivial task to tame!
Sweat pearled on Sigurd's brow as he sought to calm it.
"Halt, the battle's ceased. Hold, and come to feast!" he kicked at the widening puddle of Korkarr's blood, spraying a fine carmine mist into the air.
pendant enhanced handle animal roll a success: Panther has gone from Hostile to Unfriendly - Korkarr's influence is broken.
Shekzah heard the commanding words of the Ralkharan knight, and paused - this was not her master's voice, yet she could not feel the master's presence anymore!
With a ferocious roar, the panther leapt once more - but this time it leapt to the door leading out! The battle of control was too much for Shekzah and the confused animal chose to flee!
Panther is fleeing. You can still chase it down if you like.
"Harumph. So much for my dreams of panther-assisted glory. Please restore my more humbly-sized self, the height seems to be getting to my head."
Auxzali knelt by the orc's corpse, and stared for one long moment at its wrist. Then, in a quick motion, he removed the scorpion tail bracelet and slipped it over his own wrist. It had the weight of destiny to it.
He looked over at Duxo, and walked over to him. "You, my friend," He said to the rogue, "could use some healing."
He laid his hand on the site of the panther's bite lightly, and said "Axtrami, cover these wounds with new skin, so that he can continue to overcome the obstacles you place before him."
Cure light wounds, I get a (17:31:01) Minion: caesar193 rolls 1d8 and gets 7, so 8 points healed.
Duxo's blood stopped flowing and reversed its direction, returning into the man's skin and leaving behind a rapidly disappearing scar.
Auxzali stood, and looked out over the rest of the party.
"Needing healing? I can stand... but welcoming healing if there's any available? By the Gods yes, for I cannot sit."
"Aye, thanks." Making his way into the room the Orc had just left Duxo relit the torch and began searching it for loot.
Calling back out into the hall, "Now, how 'bout you lot tell me why exactly you're here. I'm making a guess that it was to save Tar-Sul there, but ain't no village round these parts what can wave enough money for it to be worth three mages to go running after it. Don't get me wrong, but my friend there was talking about a key when you sprung us, and saying you could get half. That seems to me like he's worried 'bout something, only I ain't too sure what."
8 puts me at full health again!
"Hmm..." Auxzali examined Sigurd's wound critically. "I believe I can help you, Sir Knight!"
He (however regrettably) laid his hand on the wound and repeated what the prayer he had said to cure Duxo.
The wound closed, but not quite all the way; a thin, shallow cut remained. Auxzali straightened, and said "I apologize, Sigurd. Apparently Axtrami prefers the rogue!"
He turned to Zelas and Nim. "Now, my good wizards. Or is it sorcerer, in your case? Anyway, perhaps you could see what these magical items we have discovered do?"
"Of course, " she said, using her sorcery to discern the nature of the items.
"I will wrap up Korky, in case his orcish tenacity lets him survive the punishment we dispensed."
Not wasting healing on the orc, but in case he stabilizes, he's rolled up nice and proper.
He then turned to the others as they were discussing rewards.
"We were hired to save poor Tar-Sul, that's true. Good coin is hard to come by even for such as us."
"But, I had ulterior motives as well - you may have noticed such from my insistence to question these wretches. As you heard, they have taken a Ralkharan, and such behavior is not allowed to stand."
"Regardless, we may either help Tar-Sul to abscond as suggested, or mislead his fellows as to the fate of the treasure, so that envy cannot take hold. Treasure sinks into the swamp all the time, and they would feel poetically justified that fate has spared Tar-Sul, but cost him his gains. If he is clever and spends slowly, none shall note."
"It seems I was right in my estimate of the pendant. Ser Sigurd let me have a closer look if you please."
Once Nim detects magic on it, I wanna make a spellcraft check to determine how this thing works, specifically I would like to know if a permanent compulsion could be cast on the panthers to keep them away from humans, and how often it can be used.
"If this pendant is powerful enough, there hopefully won't be a need to slaughter those magnificent beasts in there... Though the named one, Shekzah I think he called her, may have to be left up to the villagers to handle if she is foolish enough to seek out humans. Lest we hunt her down and subdue her. "
"Oh, and no healing needed for me my friend." He thanked Auxzali and turned back to Sigurd.
"Does the orc still draw breath? If so, he has much to answer for. As for how we handle the tricksters outside, I would strongly suggest a period of recuperation before we go to meet with them."
"Aye, I believe all of us have ulterior motives besides petty greed," said Auxzali to Sigurd. "Well, except for Zelas. The only reason he's here is to find out what I am doing. Korkarr did say that you were snooping around here, Duxo, which led to your capture, so why exactly were you snooping? And Nim, when you could be anywhere but some small town unlikely even to have the rewards promised us by Demy, why here? I believe it is time to come clean, though by no means will I pressure you to do so.
"I ventured forth from the deserts and into the swamps for this, " Auxzali continued, showing the scorpion tail bracelet. "My god, Axtrami, has given me a challenge. To gather up the five broken pieces of a glass scorpion that... Well, if you want the full story of the scorpion, feel free to ask.
"I am sorry to hear of this missing Ralkharan of yours, Sigurd. But did this person have anything to do with a place known as Runlock in Ralkhara? For that is where the next fragment of scorpion is, and that is where I would like for all of us to go together. Come on," he said, smiling. "There'll be loot and danger. It'll be fun.
"As for the current treasure, and Tar-Sul's missing chest, I feel that perhaps we should find it ourselves, and see exactly what its prize is that made it so precious to a bandit that could get petty gold by other means. And from their make our decision."
"I was passing through and heard them shouting, I was curious. If you want to know why I was in the Muck in the first place, things back on the islands got interesting, and not in a good way, and leaving was the best corse of action, unfortunately there were issues at sea. Anyway, they heard me in the mud."
Duxo shrugged, "Alright, you're all looking for something else and stumbled on this job, still don't answer my original problem, there ain't a village round here that got enough money to pay three mages to go looking for a man, even if they were bored out their ish kalzeen minds, forget the rest of you. I know most of you don't approve of me, but I'm also your best bet on thinking your way out of the double cross I smell coming."
"I'm glad we agree - I mentioned this early on when I saw who we rescued - and asked your friend _who_ would be able to page 500gp. There is no question this is an ambush, and Tar-sul as likely to be a victim as we, if perhaps a tainted one."
"And Sir Knight, your wish is my command. Please keep Tar-sul to himself please."
Nim reached into her robes and produced the small box she had found, along with the key. She watched Tar-sul's reaction carefully.
"Not a chest, but well hidden none-the-less. And no, I have not yet had a chance to open it."
"Yes, our most esteemed Nim-ty-lin has already drawn that conclusion, Duxo. And I agree, no doubt they will fall upon us as we exit this cave, if their greed do not push them to act sooner, which is why I suggest we rest first... I may not always approve of your choice of methods or sometimes barbed tongue, but that can be said about almost anyone in here, myself included no doubt." He gave a self-deprecating grin.
"I for one would like to hear more about this glass scorpion. I suppose it ties into your search for an Axtrami Haiq Ouzala, that this is the quest bestowed upon you? If Axtrami told you of this cave and led you to it, then that is all the proof I need. Though I did not doubt your words, a dream could potentially feel the same as a prophetic vision, and that is an area of expertise that eludes me."
"Duxo, though I may have reprimanded your... straightforwardness, your wits are sharp. Let us help Tar-Sul abscond. Oh, I can imagine the tragic report! 'The poor fellow was stabbed in the throat, there was blood everywhere!' " he pointed to the puddle, provided so kindly by Korkarr. "A dagger ended his life with you, but despair not..."
He patted the rogue on his back. "This will do."
Then, to the sandmen he turned, shrugging: "I would gladly guide you to Runlock, through my king's lands - but you will understand that though both a fragile, while glass does not decay, a human life can. If these outlaws claim she was sent to Esgoloth, then that is where I must go at once. Like you, Zelas, we do not abandon our own."
Looking at the amulet, he added: "You are all welcome to come along; I shall see whether any of the cats is inclined to do so."
With these words, he proceeded to the previous room, to try his luck with the caged beasts. Here kitty kitty, the nice man has a mind control amulet.
Sigurd approached the cage with the amulet. One of the panthers did attempt to maul him, but the iron bars proved strong. Try as he might to use the amulet's magics to control the panthers, all they did was glare sullenly at him, as if reproaching him for trying to command them after killing their Master.
Nim soon put the mystery to rest, however, by using her identifying magics to discover the sorceries behind their new equipment.
details to come in the OOC thread!
Once this act was done, she moved on to more pressing concerns. Namely, the chest. Tar-Sul approached, curiosity etched on his face as Nim inserted the key into the lock, and turned it. A small click was heard, and the lid popped open. Nim raised the lid, and the group looked down, there faces bathed in the reflected light from the chest's contents.
Money. Oh so much money. They were rich! They had struck gold! Or platinum, as the more accurate term would be: heaps of platinum coins filled the bottom of the chest, with a sheaf of papers held to the side by the money. Tar-Sul fell to his knees in a mixture of shock and joy- this was what he had found in the swamps?
Don't worry, you won't need to deal with me long. TPK incoming!
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When bad boys Guns N’ Roses first exploded onto the music scene in the late ’80s, the lyrics of their politically incorrect songs, like “It’s So Easy” and “Used to Love Her” — or of their peers, like Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” and Poison’s “I Want Action” — barely raised an eyebrow.
In today’s #MeToo era, you’d think it’d be a different case. However, the public appetite, no pun intended, for GNR is still as massive as ever. The band’s “Not in This Lifetime” reunion trek is now ranked as the fourth-most-successful concert tour of all time, and the GNR even just released an Appetite for Destruction boxed set with a £899 price tag.
“I’ve never thought of that. It’s never crossed my mind,” he says contemplatively.
“That’s a great question,” muses Slash, whose 16-year-old son, London Hudson, actually drums for a rock band called Classless Act.
Thirty years later, Slash is still Living the Dream, according to the title of his third album with his non-Guns band, Slash, featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. And with songs that tackle topics like modern technology (“Lost Inside the Girl” is about an Instagram stalker; “Call of the Wild” is about social media over-saturation), codependent relationships (“Driving Rain”), and unrequited love (“Read Between the Lines,” “Sugar Cane,” “Slow Grind”), the album mixes GNR’s classic rock riffage with mature themes.
But Slash still harbours some nostalgia for those wild days on Hollywood’s infamous Sunset Strip (he plays two nights at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go this week).
“My fondest memories of the ’80s were the ‘flier wars,’ to romantically look back on how exciting all that s*** was,” the 53-year-old rock legend says with a grin, looking back at the time when Mötley, Poison, and GNR ruled the Hollywood scene.
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Join us for our summer exhibition reception and to welcome Yatika Starr Fields to Bristol. The reception takes place on Tuesday 25 July from 6 – 8pm at Rainmaker Gallery. Everyone welcome!
Hear Native American artist Yatika Starr Fields speak about his art and his life as an artist, an athlete and a traditional dancer. Immersed in cultural practices from a young age, Field’s Indigenous sensibilities are integral to his art in powerful and often understated ways. His pictures are studded with references to tribal traditions, organic forms and aspects of contemporary life.
“My work begins swiftly and intuitively as momentum shapes the composition on canvas. I challenge myself to integrate the physical environment around me with its unseen emotional life. My process focuses on fluidity of form and boldness of palette, bringing the unseen alive.
This year Yatika Starr Fields will be the first ever Native American artist to participate in UPFEST – Europe’s largest Street art and Graffiti festival (29 – 31st July 2017).
If you can’t make it on the 25th, come by the gallery anytime to see the magical paintings of this amazing artist.
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https://www.rainmakerart.co.uk/yatika-starr-fields-%E2%80%A8talk/
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1 Total population includes foreign residents. Maltese residents population estimate at end 2004 was 389,769. All official population data provided by the NSO .
2also .eu, shared with other European Union member states.
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, (also Malta GC) is a small and densely populated island nation consisting of an archipelago of seven islands in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Malta lies directly south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya. The country's official languages are Maltese and English. Roman Catholicism is the most practised religion. The strategically located islands constituting the Maltese nation have been ruled by various powers and fought over for centuries. Malta has been a member state of the European Union since May 1, 2004, and it is currently the smallest EU country in both population and area. Malta is the only nation in the world that has collectively been awarded the George Cross for conspicuous gallantry, and its flag bears a replica of that award.
Ħaġar Qim Temples, Qrendi, Malta.
The islands later came under the control of Carthage ( 400 BC) and then of Rome ( 218 BC). The islands prospered under Roman rule, during which time they were considered a Municipium and a Foederata Civitas. Many Roman antiquities still exist, testifying to the close link between the Maltese inhabitants and the people of Rome. In AD 60, the islands were visited by Saint Paul, who is said to have been shipwrecked on the shores of the aptly-named " Saint Paul's Bay".
After a period of Byzantine rule (4th to 9th century) and a probable sack by the Vandals, the islands were conquered by the Arabs in AD 870. The Arabs, who generally tolerated the population's Christianity, introduced the cultivation of citrus fruits and cotton, and irrigation systems. Arab influence can be seen most prominently in the modern Maltese language, which also contains significant Romance influences, and is written in a variety of the Latin alphabet.
In 1530, the islands were given by Spain to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in perpetual lease. (The Kingdom of Aragon had owned the islands as part of their Mediterranean empire for some time). These knights, a military religious order now known as the " Knights of Malta", had been driven out of Rhodes by the Ottoman Empire in 1522. They withstood a full-blown siege by the Ottoman Turks in 1565. The Turks, at that time, were considered to be a great power. After this they decided to increase the fortifications, particularly in the inner-harbour area, where the new city of Valletta, named after Jean Parisot de la Valette, was built.
Their reign ended when Malta was captured by Napoleon en route to his expedition of Egypt during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1798. As a ruse, Napoleon asked for safe harbour to resupply his ships, and then turned his guns against his hosts once safely inside Valletta. The Grandmaster, knew that he could only allow a few ships at a time to enter the harbour, due to the Treaty of Trent. Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim capitulated, and Napoleon stayed in Malta for a few days, during which he systematically looted the movable assets of the Order, and established an administration controlled by his nominees. He then sailed for Egypt, leaving a substantial garrison in Malta. The occupying French forces were unpopular, however, due particularly to their negative attitude towards religion. The financial reforms and the religious reforms did not go down well with the citizens. Furthermore, the French were arrogant and snobbish in their attitude towards the Maltese. The Maltese rebelled against them, and the French were forced behind the fortifications. Great Britain, along with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, sent munitions and aid to the rebels. Britain also sent her navy, which instigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois, surrendered in 1800, and the island became a British protectorate, being presented by several Maltese leaders to Sir Alexander Ball.
Fortifications of the Grand Harbour, Valletta.
In 1814, as part of the Treaty of Paris, Malta officially became a part of the British Empire, and was used as a shipping way-station and fleet headquarters. Malta's position half-way between Gibraltar and the Suez Canal proved to be its main asset during these years, and it was considered to be a most important stop on the way to India. In the 1930s, due to Malta's cultural and geographical proximity to Italy, the British Mediterranean Fleet was moved to Alexandria. Malta played an important role during World War II, owing to its vicinity to Axis shipping lanes. The bravery of the Maltese people in their long struggle against enemy attack moved H.M. King George VI to award the George Cross to Malta on a collective basis on 15 April 1942, "to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history". A replica of the George Cross now appears in the upper hoist corner of the Flag of Malta, outlined in red.
After the war, and after a short period of political instability due to the Malta Labour Party's unsuccessful attempt at 'Integration with Britain', Malta was granted independence on September 21, 1964 ( Independence Day). Under its 1964 constitution, Malta initially retained Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Malta, with a Governor-General exercising executive authority on her behalf. On December 13, 1974 ( Republic Day), however, it became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President as head of state. A defence agreement signed soon after independence (and re-negotiated in 1972) expired on March 31, 1979 ( Freedom Day) when the British military forces were withdrawn. Malta joined the European Union on May 1, 2004. It intends to join the Eurozone in 2008.
Dr. Edward Fenech Adami has been the President of Malta since 2004.
Malta is a republic, whose parliamentary system and public administration is closely modelled on the Westminster system. The unicameral House of Representatives, known in Maltese as "Il-Kamra tar-Rappreżentanti", is elected by direct universal suffrage through single transferable vote every five years, unless the House is dissolved earlier by the President on advice of the Prime Minister. The House of Representatives is made up of 65 Members of Parliament. However, where a party wins an absolute majority of votes, but does not have a majority of seats, that party is given additional seats to ensure a parliamentary majority. The Constitution of Malta provides that the President appoint as Prime Minister the member of the House who is best able to command a (governing) majority in the House.
Imperium Europa, which promotes White Nationalism and Libertarianism.
Alpha Liberal Democratic Party, which is a liberal reformist party.
Malta is an archipelago in the central Mediterranean Sea, some 93 km south of Sicily. Only the three largest islands Malta Island (Malta), Gozo (Għawdex), and Comino (Kemmuna) are inhabited. The smaller islands, such as Filfla, Cominotto and the Islands of St. Paul are uninhabited. Numerous bays along the indented coastline of the islands provide good harbours. The landscape is characterised by low hills with terraced fields. The highest point is at Ta' Dmejrek on Malta Island at 253 metres (830 ft) near Dingli. Although there are some small rivers at times of high rainfall, there are no permanent rivers or lakes on Malta.
Contrary to popular belief, the south of Malta is not Europe's most southern point, that being the Greek island of Gavdos.
A Maltese worker producing system components for wireless communication.
Some Maltese at a local fish market.
The Maltese people are descended from mixed French, Italian, English, Arab, Spanish, and Greek peoples.
The resident population of Malta, which includes foreigners residing in Malta for at least a year, as at 27 November 2005 was estimated at 404,039 of whom 200,715 (49.7%) were males and 203,324 (50.3%) were females. Of these, 17.1 per cent were aged 14 and under, 68.2 per cent were within the 15–64 age bracket whilst the remaining 13.7 per cent were 65 years and over. Malta's population density of 1,282 per square kilometre (3,322/ sq mi) is by far the highest in the EU, and one of the highest in the world. The only census year showing a fall in population was that of 1967, with a 1.7% total decrease, attributable to a substantial number of Maltese residents who emigrated. The Maltese-resident population for 2004 was estimated to make up 97.0% of the total resident population. Figures for 2005 are still unavailable.
Through all the censuses since 1842 there was always a slightly higher female-to-male ratio. Closest to reaching equality were 1901 and 1911 censuses. The highest female-to-male ratio was reached in 1957 (1088:1000), and since the ratio has been constantly dropping. The 2005 census showed a 1013:1000 female-to-male ratio.
Population growth has slowed down, from +9.5% between the 1985 and 1995 censuses, to +6.9% between the 1995 and 2005 censuses (a yearly average of +0.7%). The birth rate stood at 3860 (a decrease of 21.8% from the 1995 census) and the death rate stood at 3025. Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +888 for 2004, of which over a hundred were foreign residents).
The national language of Malta is Maltese. The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, but uses the diacritically altered letters ż, also found in Polish, as well as the letters ċ, ġ and ħ, which are unique to Maltese. The official languages are English and Maltese. Italian, French and German are also widely spoken and taught in secondary schools, though the latter two less so.
Roman Catholicism is the religion of approximately 98% of the population (CIA World Factbook, 2006). See Roman Catholicism in Malta.
Maltese laws for immigration generally follow EU legislation. Therefore EU nationals require neither a visa nor a passport (an ID card or an expired passport are enough) to enter the country. Citizens of a number of other countries are also not required to apply for a visa and require only a valid passport when residing in Malta for up to three months. Visas for other nationalities are valid for one month. Immigrants are required to apply for a work permit. This exception to EU law was agreed upon before accession to safeguard the Maltese labour market, the growth of which is reaching saturation . In practice though, all work permits to EU nationals are granted, and currently this exercise is only used to monitor the labour market for any needed intervention.
During 2005, a total of 1,800 immigrants reached Malta illegally. Given Malta's high population density, the impact of this figure on Malta is equivalent to that of an arrival of 369,000 illegal immigrants in Germany and other large EU member states. In the first half of 2006, 967 illegal immigrants arrived in Malta – almost double the 473 who arrived in the same period in 2005. The reason for such high numbers is due to the fact that Malta is the southernmost tip of the European Union and is therefore in the front line when dealing with the heavy northward migration of immigrants from Africa. Another factor contributing to the problem is Malta's approximately 250,000 square kilometres of open sea search and rescue region.
Though Malta has historically been generous, just and humane in welcoming illegal immigrants, increase in violence has been spotted during the past years. In January 2005, asylum seekers detained the camp of Safi have been beaten by the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Malta. Another situation is the developping of anti-immigrant movements like Imperium Europa or ANR.
Around 45 % of illegal immigrants landed in Malta have been granted refugee (5%) or protected humanitarian status (40%), which is the highest rate of acceptance in the EU. A White Paper suggesting the grant of Maltese citizenship to refugees resident in Malta for over ten years was issued in 2005. Historically Malta gave refuge (and assisted in their resettlement) to just about eight hundred East African Asians who had been expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin and to just under a thousand Iraqis fleeing from Saddam Hussein's regime.
Presently the problem of illegal immigration has increased, with severe strains on Malta's health, employment and social services, its internal security and public order, its social fabric and on the labour market. Detention costs for the first half of 2006 alone cost Lm320,423 (€746,385). In 2005, Malta sought EU aid in relation to reception of illegal immigrants, repatriation of those denied refugee status, resettlement of refugees into EU countries, and maritime security. In December 2005, the European Council adopted The Global Approach to Migration: Priority Actions focusing on Africa and the Mediterranean; but the deployment of said actions has been limited to the western Mediterranean, thus putting further pressure on the central Mediterranean route for illegal immigration which Malta forms part of. Political tension started developing as the EU persistently ignored Malta's precarious situation: member states party to the legally-binding Cotonou Agreement continued not to fulfill their obligations and East African countries, from which most central Mediterranean illegal immigration originates, were excluded from the Euro-African Conference on Migration and Development held 10-11 July 2006 in Tripoli).
Education is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16 years. While the state provides education free of charge, the Church and the private sector run a number of schools in Malta and Gozo. Most of the teachers' salary in Church schools is paid by the state. Education in Malta is based on the British Model.
Once compulsory secondary education ends, students may enter either in a vocational college such as MCAST or a Sixth Form. Sixth forms provide a two-year course leading to the "Matriculation Certificate", which is the equivalent of the UK Advanced Level Examinations and Advanced Subsidiary Examinations. For students unsuccessful in their SEC examinations, there is the option of attending a Higher Secondary school, a sort of safety net to give students the possibility to catch up, where any core subjects (mathematics, English language, Maltese, and a natural science) previously failed are again taught at ordinary level in preparation for SEC examinations, while also teaching intermediate and advanced level subjects. Students may also choose to attend specialised private institutions leading to diplomas and degrees of foreign examination bodies in careers such as IT ( London University), Networking ( CISCO), Accountancy ( ACCA) and Banking.
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Check out a preview of next week's Archie & Friends: Music Jam #1.
Archie and his friends present a collection of quarterly classic-style stories sure to be music to your ears! Follow Archie from the record store to the recording studio to the music awards in this collection of musical mishaps and mirthful melodies!
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2019-04-22T22:46:28Z
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https://www.newsarama.com/43829-archie-friends-music-jam-1-preview.html
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Committee Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25008.
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Panelists will share their vision on how changes to today’s system of graduate education and early research careers can ensure a future research enterprise that fosters innovation, promotes equity and inclusion, and advances U.S. national interests.
Panelists will share their research on postdoctoral experiences with a focus on the implications on graduate education and early career researchers.
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2019-04-22T22:38:54Z
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Rick Ponting has cast doubt on Alastair Cook's international future beyond the upcoming Ashes, after drawing comparisons with the end of his own career.
Cook, England's all-time leading run-scorer, goes into Thursday's opening Test at The Gabba with 147 caps and a batting average of 46.33, a dip from its zenith five years ago, when it stood at just over 50.
Ponting entered the 2010-11 Ashes with 148 matches behind him and although he continued for a further 18 months after relinquishing the captaincy, it was the beginning of the end for him.
Over his final 20 Tests he averaged just 33.17 - well below his previously stellar mark of 54.68 - with his tally of runs including just two hundreds.
'I know myself having been through it that when you've played a certain amount of games or scored a certain amount of runs - like Cook - trying to find ways to improve on a daily basis becomes really difficult,' said Ponting, a BT Sport pundit.
Ponting, his country's most successful Test captain, says of the Australia Test selections that he would have stuck with the Middlesbrough-born Matthew Renshaw. 'I know his numbers don't really stack up the last few weeks the way he would have liked and the way some of the coaches and selectors would have liked, but we have seen enough - even if he's not batting well,' Ponting said.
Ponting suggests an England side 'who have a few more issues in their line-up than they have had for the last 10 or 12 years', will be placed under severe pressure by Australia's new-look pace attack of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins.
'They are going to cause some real problems to the English batsmen and the reason I say that is they have all been around for a little while now, they are fast bowlers who are just about at their physical peak and on their way up.
'We saw what Mitchell Starc was able to do in the last few rounds of Sheffield Shield cricket, taking two hat-tricks in the one game, so he is obviously in some good touch.
'Cummins has been on the park for six to eight months uninterrupted, and is bowling very quick. And Hazlewood just seems to get better from series to series.
Joe Root's England begin their quest to retain the urn at one of the world's toughest venues for visitors - it is 29 years since a touring team was last successful in Brisbane, when Viv Richards's great West Indies team won by nine wickets.
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2019-04-25T06:42:01Z
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New York Times public editor Byron Calame wrote about accusations of favoritism and personal bias in the New York Times Book Review this Sunday. I thought I read the piece thoroughly this weekend, but it wasn't until I read several emphatic blogger reactions (including separate pieces from both writers at GalleyCat) that I realized I'd missed the article's surprising conclusion: Calame is recommending that the Book Review adopt a new policy of not reviewing books by authors who write for the Times.
1) The most vivid example of perceived reviewer bias is the case of Kathryn Harrison's pan of a new book by Maureen Dowd, a New York Times columnist who had years before harshly criticized a book of Harrison's. This certainly was a mistake on the part of Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, and Calame cites this as if this problem supports his conclusion. However, the fact that Maureen Dowd wrote for the New York Times is completely unrelated to the mistake that was made, which would have been just as serious if Dowd had originally earned Harrison's wrath while writing for the Washington Post or any other paper. Connectivity to the New York Times is not even a factor in the Harrison/Dowd problem, and I'm really puzzled why Calame presents this case as if it supports his suggestion that the Book Review adopt a strict new policy. It doesn't add up. Adopting the policy Calame suggests would not make this type of incident any less likely to happen.
2) The other problem Calame cites -- the fact that six of the sixty-one nonfiction books listed as among Notable Books of 2005 were written by Times staffers -- is relevant to his conclusion, but the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Six out of sixty-one written by Times staffers? Well, considering that the Times stands at the pinnacle of modern journalism and journalists write books, this ratio seems about right to me. To deny Times writers the right to be reviewed in the New York Times Book Review (and to deny readers the ability to enjoy and learn from these reviews) seems like an extreme over-reaction.
I joked in my review of the Book Review this weekend that I'm not worried about favoritism among friends in the journalism business because journalists in New York don't have friends. If anybody is seriously arguing that the NYTBR should adopt a restrictive new policy to address this problem, then I need to clarify my joke. I have several friends who work or worked for the New York Times, and I've been inside the Times building on 43rd Street several times. I was never employed by the Times, but I was an employee of Time Inc. (seven blocks up the street) for five years in the late 90's, and I know the personalities in the field well. In fact, I know journalists do have friends, but I also know that there is no automatic camaraderie among two employees of the same newspaper. They'll smile at each other and do the "hi" thing and maybe even learn the names of each other's kids, but if you're sitting in a cube at the New York Times (any section of the Times) you're looking out for yourself.
It is possible, though regrettable, that an editor at the Book Review might carry out a grudge or deliver a favor by assigning a book to a reviewer who holds a bias for or against the author of a book. But the editor will not make this decision based on the fact that the author of the book is or was a fellow employee of the same newspaper. That is not where loyalty lies.
I once observed a painful moment when a favorite writing teacher of mine -- a novelist who occasionally wrote articles for the Book Review -- published a book that got sniffed at and slapped away by the assigned critic in that publication. My teacher was livid, furious, depressed. I called him and he could barely speak. I remember him saying "I don't think I can ever write for the Book Review again." In fact, as far as I know, he never did. This writer was very much a member of the New York City literati dinner-party circuit, and I believe he thought he had many friends at the Book Review. It didn't help him, and according to what I know of primal human nature, it won't help many others either.
Sam Tanenhaus made a big mistake in the Dowd/Harrison affair, but Calame's conclusion is too far-reaching, and I would be very disturbed if the Book Review acted on his recommendation. A simple re-clarification of basic journalistic principles would suffice instead.
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Tell 'em, LeviI trust that you've made your opinion known to the Times as well as LitKicks, because you have solid, logical reasoning for your position.
Poor NYTIf they stop reviewing their own crap, what will they have left to do? Somehow my outrage button hasn't been tripped.
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2019-04-19T23:19:56Z
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Fired FBI director James B. Comey said President Trump told him at the White House “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty” during their private dinner conversation in January, according to written remarks from Comey offering a vivid preview of his testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But overall, Comey’s testimony portrays Trump as a domineering chief executive who made his FBI director deeply uncomfortable over the course of nine separate private conversations, beginning with their first meeting in early January before Trump was sworn into office. In that conversation, Comey warned the president-elect of a dossier that was circulating with unsubstantiated allegations against him and his advisers.
The details of the conversations as described by Comey are likely to further fuel the debate over whether the president may have attempted to obstruct justice by pressuring the FBI director about a sensitive investigation.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who is leading the Senate probe of possible Russian coordination with Trump associates, said he was not alarmed by Comey’s account.
Comey writes with almost novelistic detail about his interactions with the president, describing a call on Jan. 27 around lunchtime inviting him to dinner.
The president then made his demand for loyalty.
Comey said that once before Trump’s inauguration, and again at the January dinner, he assured the president that he was not personally under investigation. He also told the president later on that he had shared that information with congressional leaders.
In his letter firing Comey, Trump wrote that three times Comey had assured him he was not under investigation. After the firing, Comey’s defenders publicly challenged the accuracy of that statement.
Overall, Comey’s written testimony describes a strained, awkward relationship between the two powerful men, punctuated by exchanges in which the president expressed his displeasure about the Russia probe in ways that alarmed the FBI director. Even the number of contacts between the two were alarming to Comey, who noted that he only spoke twice privately with President Barack Obama.
The written testimony also recounts a face-to-face conversation the two men had on Feb. 14 in the Oval Office, where many senior officials had gathered for a counterterrorism briefing.
After the meeting, the president asked everyone to leave. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and senior adviser Jared Kushner lingered in the room, but the president told them to leave, too, according to Comey.
When the door by the grandfather clock closed, Comey wrote, the president said, “I want to talk about Mike Flynn’’ — the former national security adviser who was forced out after disclosures about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. Flynn had resigned a day earlier.
In that conversation, the president repeatedly complained to the FBI director about leaks, and Comey said he agreed with him about the harm caused by leaks of classified information.
Later, Comey complained to Sessions that he should not have been left alone with the president, and Sessions did not reply, according to the written testimony. Sessions declined to comment.
Then, in late March, Trump called Comey at the FBI. In that conversation, the president called the Russia probe “a cloud’’ hanging over his ability to lead the country.
He also expressed continued frustration that unsubstantiated allegations in a private dossier about him had become public, including lurid claims of sexual activity while in Russia.
“He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he had been recorded when in Russia,’’ Comey wrote.
“He asked what we could do to ‘lift the cloud.’ I responded that we were investigating the matter as quickly as we could, and that there would be great benefit, if we didn’t find anything, to our having done the work well. He agreed, but then re-emphasized the problems this was causing him,” Comey wrote.
After that phone call with the president, Comey said he called acting deputy attorney general Dana Boente to tell him what was discussed and to “await his guidance.” Comey said he never heard back from Boente. A spokesman for Boente did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Then, on April 11, Comey wrote, the president called him and asked him what he had done about getting out word that he was not personally under investigation. The president told him “the cloud” of the probe was interfering with his ability to do his job.
Sari Horwitz and Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report.
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2019-04-25T11:08:56Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/i-expect-loyalty-trump-told-comey-according-to-written-testimony/2017/06/07/46413298-4bab-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html?utm_term=.20d3a7a47688
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:: Campbell, Ted. C., edited with Newport, Kenneth G. C., Charles Wesley: Life, Literature & Legacy (Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2007).
:: Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials (Abingdon Press, 1999; “Sol África” and Portuguese editions, 2011; Spanish edition, 2012).
:: Christian Confessions: A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996).
:: John Wesley and Christian Antiquity: Religious Vision and Cultural Change (Kingswood Books, imprint of Abingdon Press, 1991).
:: Campbell, Ted. C., ed. Albert C. Outler as Historian and Interpreter of the Christian Tradition (volume 8 in The Albert C. Outler Library; Anderson, Indiana: Bristol Books, 2003).
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https://www.smu.edu/Perkins/FacultyAcademics/FacultyListingA-Z/Campbell
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2019-04-24T10:09:26Z
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https://career.berkeley.edu/Info/PreHealthAppt
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The Boston Red Sox don’t know who they’ll face yet in the World Series, but they do know they’ll have to play at least two games in a National League ballpark next weekend. When the scene shifts to Los Angeles or Milwaukee for Games 3, 4 and potentially 5, the designated hitter will be out, which in their case could eliminate J.D. Martinez and his MVP-caliber bat from the lineup.
We say could eliminate Martinez, because Red Sox manager Alex Cora admits the team is considering a bold plan that would allow Martinez to stay in the World Series lineup. But it would force Boston’s other MVP candidate, Mookie Betts, to change positions.
During a workout Saturday at Fenway, Cora admitted that playing Betts at second base could be an option in the NL park.
That plan would open up a corner outfield spot for Martinez, who historically has been a defensive liability. You can’t really hide a defender in baseball, but presumably putting him in left field could limit his exposure.
If Betts play second base, the odd man out would be Brock Holt. Jackie Bradley Jr. and Andrew Benintendi would round out Boston’s outfield.
Betts is a good enough athlete to pull off his end of this plan. In fact, he’s made 15 appearances at second base during his MLB career. Only one of those has come since 2014, but at least he has experience. The bigger problem would be losing Betts’ exceptional outfield defense. He’s made some huge plays for Boston in right field.
Is the plan worth it?
Martinez was arguably the best hitter in the American League this season, posting a .330/.402/.629 slashline to go along with 30 homers and 143 RBI. Yeah, we’d say finding a way to keep his bat in the lineup is a worthwhile endeavor.
It’s not unlike recent Boston teams getting David Ortiz in the lineup at first base during games in NL parks. It’s not a foolproof plan, nor is it one you’d ideally want to use for a full nine innings. But if Cora and the Red Sox are intent on fielding their best offensive lineup, it will definitely feature Martinez in the outfield.
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2019-04-18T14:58:28Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/red-sox-considering-bold-world-series-plan-mookie-betts-j-d-martinez-222645019.html
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Calculations are at the heart of engineering. PTC Mathcad is math software that lets you perform, analyze, document and share your calculations easily.
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2019-04-24T05:49:39Z
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https://www.ptc.com/en/products/mathcad-express-free-download
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libsyn
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Here's the audio recording of our webinar with Dr. Carole Lewis - Breaking Out of the Clinic: Strategies to Become Leaders in Geriatric Care.
We had a blast answering your questions and gaining tremendous insight from Carole. Enjoy!
We're celebrating SRP's 2nd birthday and breaking the 200k download mark by re-releasing some of our most popular episodes.
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2019-04-24T01:48:29Z
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http://seniorrehab.libsyn.com/2017/10
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Arts
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squarespace
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Featured album images on mobile are too small when used on homepage.
I have recently finished a new site here that uses a single image in the featured gallery for the template. The placement of the image on desktop is perfect, however the mobile view makes the image too small as it centers and shrinks the image. Is there a way to achieve this using custom CSS? Ideally I would like the mobile view to have the image 2x as large.
Does this make sense? Thanks!
Do you have a mockup of what you're wanting to achieve? When I look at the site, I'm not seeing an image.
Unsure if the comment below appeared, so I wanted to reach out here just in case. Let me know if the reply is visible!
@mandeep any ideas on how to help?
Hello I wanted to follow up again.
@kveldalf Thanks for replying. I have attached an example of how I would ideally want the image resized on mobile for the homepage on the site (https://heraklesmusic.com/). Please let me know how I can further clarify the goals.
@Paul2009 Can you help here?
Hi @walterego. Pardon my absence. That image is pretty wide. It's hard to see because black on black, but you can scale it using the zoom property but be sure to fuss with the left and top properties pretty heavily too, e.g.
Hope that helps. I'm sure some css wizard might have a diff take, but this's one option.
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2019-04-20T18:19:11Z
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https://answers.squarespace.com/questions/253613/featured-album-images-on-mobile-are-too-small-when.html
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Arts
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jesusfreakhideout
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Do you enjoy music that seems like the sounds of a family reunion? If so, Lenny Smith has got the stuff you've been looking for. His sound is reminiscent of The Welcome Wagon or a weathered Sufjan Stevens with a pinch more of that hometown grit. His latest release You Are My Hiding Place is a conglomeration of heartfelt songs of praise and prayers to the Lord. Musically, the songs are communal with eclectic arrangements that feel like they belong on a Jared Hess film soundtrack. Some might be put off by that but it truly is something unique and strangely special. Songs like "Teach Me My God," "You Are My Hiding Place," and "You Are A Good Shepherd" are rich in affection and Biblical depth; not to mention the instrumentation is reminiscent of Harry Nilsson. "Ask Me Not To Leave You" and "All Things Work Together For Good" are excellent examples of useful and gifted ways of implementing scripture through song – but honestly there is less adaptation and more readings with a melody. The album concludes with the sincere declaration of praise in "With All My Heart." It's a sweet song of commitment to the Lord, and the message is reinforced with the sweet crowd vocals throughout the track. This is music without an apology or fear of radio stations not liking the sound of the artist; and it is that blatant freedom that gives this album more weight than most. Overall, I don't imagine everyone diving headfirst into this album; as a matter of fact, most people may think it's almost not serious – but it is! And in that respect, Smith has made a beautiful work of art. Unfortunately, it will more than likely get overlooked by shiny or newer contemporary music, but I say, "Nay! Give this album a chance!" It may grow on you or at the very least make you wonder if current contemporary artists are actually writing songs inspired by the Word of God and not just really nice things to make the masses feel good about themselves. This reviewer may be drinking the Kool-Aid but Lenny Smith, your art is without a doubt unusual but most definitely special.
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2019-04-18T13:10:52Z
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https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/indiemusic/YouAreMyHidingPlace.asp
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Arts
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nytimes
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They have been together for five bitter decades, and they will stay together, it seems, for the foreseeable future.
As teen-agers in the 1940's, they became Nationalist soldiers in China and followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. As middle-aged bachelors in the 1960's and 70's, they fled to the United States, angry that Taiwan did not have a pension system for veterans. As graying immigrants with no immediate relatives within a hemisphere, they toiled in menial jobs in Manhattan's Chinatown. And since 1989, William Wong, Chi-ching Tung, Tong-yu Yang and Hsi-shan Chang have occupied the same half-bedroom in a dilapidated apartment on the Lower East Side.
It is a story that only Mr. Wong, now a rickety 66, can tell. The ashes of the other three rest in a tea container and two cardboard boxes atop a shoddy bookcase, next to Mr. Wong's bed.
''It's too expensive to put them in a crematorium, a minimum of $50 each month,'' said Mr. Wong, who began storing the remains of his comrades after Mr. Yang died in 1989.
Together, these four men have come to symbolize the penury and pathos saturating the lives of many of the 100 or so Nationalist veterans in Chinatown, and thousands of others scattered throughout the country.
For years, the veterans in Chinatown stayed in Chinatown, unable to speak English, afraid to venture beyond its borders. Loneliness was pervasive, and the men often had only one another, and their memories, as company.
But now, after decades of hiding in the shadows of society's margins, they are seeking recognition and help. In recent months, a growing number of veterans in New York have demanded more retirement benefits from Taiwan's Government -- benefits that they say could mean the difference between life and death. And to press their case, they have staged demonstrations in Chinatown, appealed to politicians and courted the Chinese-language news media.
As with anything broaching Taiwan politics or history, the campaign has elicited polar reactions in New York and abroad. Nationalist loyalists are among the veterans' staunchest defenders. But some ethnic Taiwanese -- particularly those who view the Nationalists as invading outsiders -- have little sympathy, and wonder aloud at what point self-pity stops and self-reliance begins.
For the veterans, though, the goal is not just money. Deep in the sunset of their lives, these men are also struggling to gain respect for what they have been through, and understanding for how they fell through life's cracks.
The story of Mr. Wong and his comrades is typical of those who drifted from China to Taiwan to New York's Chinatown. As young men without much formal education, they joined the army or navy, patriotic and adventurous. But after the Nationalist forces were defeated by the Communists and fled to Taiwan, the men never returned to China or their families.
As the decades passed, they became increasingly disillusioned with the soldier's life. Soldiers earned only a pittance and were not supposed to marry; those who did forfeited their salary, food rations and housing.
They had heard about great jobs and big houses, but instead they found only backbreaking work at restaurants, sweatshops or construction companies, in a neighborhood with a surplus of bachelors. Most remained unmarried and socialized mainly with one another, swapping stories about their misspent youth.
A determined few worked with matchmaking services in China to find wives. But many of those matches ended in divorce, particularly after the wives discovered that their husbands were poor.
Few veterans moved out of Chinatown. Few picked up much English. And over the years, they found themselves being passed by or overwhelmed by the changing landscape. More families moved in, modern buildings went up, and the flow of Chinese immigrants and the dialect they spoke changed.
These days, some veterans collect cans and bottles to survive. Others, Mr. Chang of the veterans association says, take advantage of free bus rides from Chinatown to Atlantic City that are sponsored by the casinos. The casinos offer a free meal and $10 for the day, which the veterans pocket rather than gamble with.
Then there is the story of Tzu-cheng Chang. Mr. Chang, a 76-year-old veteran and bachelor, had worked in a restaurant for more than 30 years before quitting four years ago because of asthma and arthritis. He survived on food stamps.
In July, Mr. Chang's barber in Chinatown noticed that the man had not dropped by for a few weeks. Concerned, he phoned Mr. Chang. No one answered. So on July 30, firefighters entered Mr. Chang's tiny apartment on East 17th Street in Manhattan. There was a foul smell. Mr. Chang had been dead for days.
In September, more than 60 veterans, some in wheelchairs, demonstrated in Chinatown to call attention to the plight of Mr. Chang, Mr. Wong and others, and to clamor for changes to Taiwan's system.
Before 1970, Taiwan offered its retiring soldiers only a lump-sum severance of about $10 for nonofficers, with shoes and a blanket tossed in.
In 1970, Taiwan established a special fund for nonofficers, disbursing the equivalent of about $350 per month per veteran. But there was a catch: except for those who lived in mainland China, overseas veterans had to return to Taiwan twice a year to claim the money in person.
As a result, many veterans in the United States have not received their money, because they are too infirm to travel and because the cost of the trip would exceed the stipend. In addition, some veterans are still in the United States illegally, and would be unable to return if they left.
So instead, the veterans want, among other things, to be able to register at any unofficial consulate to claim their money.
To date, the campaign has largely swirled in the New York area, partly because Chinatown holds the largest concentration of veterans and partly because veterans elsewhere in the country live too far from one another to organize effectively. A small number of veterans, meanwhile, have managed to rebuild their lives, finding spouses and better jobs, and are uninterested in participating.
But there are hints that the campaign may be working. While the United States Government has no official position on the matter, several New York politicians, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, have vowed to help. And Taiwan's Government plans to amend its policy, requiring that the veterans return only once a year, said Mr. Ma of the Veterans Affairs Commission.
But whether this support is based on legitimate policy considerations or just pity for a dwindling group of desperate men remains a matter of opinion.
Some people say that while the veterans' stories may be sad, their lives have not been discernibly worse than millions of Taiwanese who endured economic and political hardship. Moreover, some veterans already qualify for Government assistance in the United States, so for them to receive more from Taiwan would look like double dipping.
In addition, the veterans are viewed by some Taiwanese as relics of another era -- dinosaurs from the authoritarian regime of Chiang Kai-shek who are out of touch with modern Taiwan.
Interestingly enough, if the veterans moved to Taiwan today, they would be eligible for benefits that did not exist when they left, including free housing and medical care. But most do not want to return, afraid to go back to a country that was a backwater when they left, and is now the world's 17th-largest economy.
So they remain in the United States, many living in squalor.
Mr. Wong, for instance, has lived in the same grimy two-bedroom apartment on Essex Street for 30 years. Only the roommates have changed. Four people now live in a crammed two-bedroom apartment of 350 or 400 square feet, paying $175 per person per month.
The bathroom does not have a sink. The kitchen does, however, and that is where all the roommates leave their toothbrushes, along with the dirty dishes.
A tattered white sheet dividing Mr. Wong's bedroom in half gives him the only privacy from his latest roommates, whom he does not count among his friends. Mr. Wong does not have a closet in his half, and hangs his clothes on a coat hanger nailed to the wall. There are no pictures on the cream-colored walls; the paint is peeling.
A bookcase, unsteady, holds the remains of his three colleagues. The ashes of Mr. Yang, who died in 1989, are in a tea container, which is wrapped in a Nationalist flag. Those of Mr. Chang, who died in 1990, are in a cardboard box. And the ashes of Mr. Tung, who died in 1997, are in a similar box, with a framed photograph of him taped to the front.
For years, Mr. Wong shared a bedroom with Mr. Tung, a navy veteran from Sichuan province. But after Mr. Tung died, Mr. Wong rented the other half out to a man who grew up in Communist China. The two men do not get along.
Mr. Wong declined to identify the man. After all, the roommate does not even know that he lives among the ashes of three men, because Mr. Wong covers the containers with an empty Budweiser box whenever he is with strangers.
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2019-04-19T23:40:08Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/18/nyregion/taiwan-s-old-soldiers-forsaken-in-new-york.html
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Arts
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Society
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osu
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High FIVEs and Other Ways to Meet New Buckeyes!
It’s hard to believe that the first week of orientation is wrapping up today…it’s been FIVE days of fun and learning, that’s for sure! It’s also been a week of making connections. One of the most important parts of orientation is just meeting fellow Buckeyes, both new and old. So in that spirit, I want to share with you FIVE ways to meet new Buckeyes at your orientation.
Okay, you may be wondering where I am going with this and if I could be serious. I am! It may not actually be high fives, but you will have the opportunity to interact with a small group of students throughout your program and there is nothing the Orientation Leaders (aka Team Red Polo) loves more than a good icebreaker. Don’t be too cool for the icebreakers — everyone is doing them these days and it gives you a chance to get to know other first-year students and to find some common interests. You never know what you may learn from someone and you could meet your future best friend who also likes that one thing you thought no one else loved like you!
Join the Orientation Leaders and other first-year students in the Ohio Union around 5 p.m. to grab dinner and hang out before the evening session. It’s a great way to relax and meet students outside of your small group. For those of you staying in Morrill Tower for the night, introduce yourself to the other students on your floor and make plans to grab breakfast in the morning. This is all good practice for when you are on campus in the fall — many students find it easy to manage their time and friends by doing things like grabbing a bite to eat and catching up at the same time.
There is nothing like some healthy competition! Stick around for the evening activities, especially RPAC games, in order to reconnect with your small group. This is personally one of my favorite activities as an Orientation Leader because I really get the chance to get to know my small groups better. It’s all good fun and there are activities for everyone to participate in while being cheered on by new friends!
It may seem awkward to turn to a stranger and introduce yourself, but everyone is in the same boat. Many new students are just as nervous about making friends or meeting new people as you may be. Most likely, your neighbor is going to be relieved to have someone to chat with instead of sitting there in silence waiting for a session to start. Furthermore, you are going to find yourself in groups of people who share the same study areas as you — you may find that you’ll see these students in the fall because you’ll be taking many of the same classes if you share the same major. Even if you don’t see each other in class, you are bound to run into each other in the residence halls or walking across the Oval. Why not get started getting to know each other now?
Alright, I might be diverging from the whole “new Buckeyes” piece of this blog challenge, but just hear me out. Plus, these Buckeyes are new to you (that counts, right?!) At orientation you have the chance to meet some great upperclassmen as well as professional staff members at the university who want nothing more than to see you succeed in your first year. From your Orientation Leaders, to Hall Directors, to the Ohio Union staff and everyone in between…start making those meaningful connections! We know that you most likely will still have questions when you leave campus, so make sure you are asking for answers! Everyone is more than willing to give you their contact information so that you can use us as resources throughout the summer and your first year. I’m still in contact with my Orientation Leader and a few people I met at orientation because I remained in contact! Don’t let those resources go to waste.
That’s all I got…I hope that this has been helpful to you as you begin to plan your orientation visit. Orientation is the beginning to a wonderful journey as a Buckeye, and it’s my hope that you use these tips to find some people who will be apart of your journey.
Make sure you check back here on Monday for what I’m sure will be an excellent post from Connor MacDowell. His challenge? To tell you about SIX songs that describe the orientation experience. Get excited…I know I am!
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2019-04-24T01:20:16Z
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http://u.osu.edu/uofye/2014/06/06/high-fives-and-other-ways-to-meet-new-buckeyes/
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Sports
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hku
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The Industrial Engineering Workshop aims to provide advanced manufacturing technologies to support teaching and research, industrial engineering training and technical services on innovative industrial and manufacturing applications. The workshop is equipped with milling machines, turning machines, CNC machines for metal machining, welding equipment for joining processes. It also houses advanced digital manufacturing systems, such as 3D printing systems and laser material processing systems for non-traditional machining and instruments for test and measurement purposes. In addition to providing engineering training for students to gain hands-on experiences in operations of various manufacturing equipment, the workshop facilitates both undergraduate and postgraduate research projects and laboratories.
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2019-04-20T05:00:26Z
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https://www.imse.hku.hk/facilities/industrial-engineering-workshop
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.413469 |
click2houston
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HOUSTON - Houston police are searching for three men following a fatal shooting in northwest Houston Tuesday night. The shooting happened at a car stereo and alarm installation business on Antoine Drive at West Gulf Bank Road.
Police said two employees were shot during a robbery. One man was rushed to Ben Taub hospital where he later died. A second man was taken to Memorial Hermann hospital in critical condition.
Police are currently reviewing surveillance video from the business to gain a description of the gunmen.
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2019-04-19T14:57:39Z
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https://www.click2houston.com/news/crime/two-men-shot-during-robbery-in-northwest-houston
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Arts
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Business
| 0.663901 |
largeheartedboy
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Two of this week's most noteworthy releases are inspired by graphic novels, Watchmen and 300: The Complete Experience (which includes the Blu-ray version of the film, a book, and a digital copy).
The film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline is also in stores tomorrow.
The Criterion Collection releases two classic films by Jean-Luc Godard, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and Made in U.S.A..
Among the television DVD releases, the highlight for me is the final season of Prison Break, and foodies will enjoy the fisrt 5 seasons of America's Test Kitchens. The second season of Pushing Daisies and the seventh season of Monk are also on store shelves tomorrow.
Reel Big Fish Live! In Concert!
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2019-04-24T00:41:06Z
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http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2009/07/this_weeks_inte_295.html
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Arts
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Shopping
| 0.596129 |
d-word
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This engaging documentary chronicles a group of amateur actors living in religion- and football-obsessed small-town Alabama, who bond while producing “Skanks in a One Horse Town,” an original drag musical. “Skanks” follows the cast of amateur performers – some gay, some straight, and all unique – as they bond to form a family of sorts while creating the unconventional show in a conservative Southern city. This heartwarming film explores their humor and the meaning that theater has in their lives.
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2019-04-19T05:14:02Z
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https://www.d-word.com/documentary/763-Skanks
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.987747 |
si
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The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology is the Smithsonian’s historical collection of rare books and manuscripts containing notable works of scientific and technological literature. This world-class collection comprises 35,000 rare books and close to 2,000 manuscript groups, and contains many of the most significant works dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the history of science and technology. The Dibner Library shares this collection with the public through research services, resident scholar programs, exhibitions, loans to other institutions’ exhibits, and public programs.
The collection of the Dibner Library is incredibly rich in its field. The subject strengths are history of the physical sciences, particularly mathematics, astronomy, classical Renaissance natural philosophy, theoretical and experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism), chemistry, engineering technology, transportation, as well as scientific apparatus and instrumentation. The holdings include numerous works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Sacrobosco, Regiomontanus, Apian, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Laplace, Euler, Gauss, Orstead and many others. The core of the collection is the approximately 11,000 rare books and manuscripts that were generously donated by the Burndy Library (Bern Dibner, 1897-1988, founder) to the Smithsonian Institution on the occasion of the nation’s bicentennial.
In a 1979 interview, Bern Dibner—electrical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and science historian—talked about how his interest in collecting these history of science books had started. The origin was economist Stuart Chase’s book, Men and Machines, which contains a chapter on Leonardo da Vinci. Reading it in the 1920s, Dibner was fascinated by Leonardo’s “dichotomy of interest in the arts and the sciences” which embraced art as well as anatomy, mechanics, and engineering, and this similarly satisfied Dibner’s own “dual interests.” In 1936 Dibner allowed a sabbatical year for himself in Europe away from the operations of his business, the by then well-functioning Burndy Co. He matriculated at the University of Zurich, traveled in France, Germany and Italy and bought his first books for reference in the late-1930s. This was the slow beginning of the development of the Burndy Library. Originally books on Leonardo, then the interest spread onto other Renaissance figures and their achievements and the technological and intellectual growth of the age. Furthermore, works were acquired by the scientists of the Scientific Revolution and then the collecting field opened up to the science history of the enlightenment. From there it further developed to a major part of the nineteenth century and selected works from the twentieth. Dibner especially valued these books because in them the new horizons in intellectual development were greatly expanded by the new technologies and inventions.
Soon 40,000 volumes accumulated and the Burndy collection became known because of its research significance and also because the library published a monograph in science history every year. They built a state of the art library building in 1964 in Norwalk, Connecticut where the headquarters of the Burndy Co. had previously moved. Already in the 1930s and during the Second World War Dibner created connections with rare book dealers in Great Britain and in Italy and he developed his collection later as well based on these connections. He acquired entire libraries of famous scientists such as Alessandro Volta and Louis Pasteur, continued to collect the most significant landmarks in the history of science, and published an annotated bibliography, titled Heralds of science, about the two hundred most important books in his collection. These selected Heralds are all in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library now and they comprise one of the first main groups for our digitization projects.
Being an electrical engineer Dibner collected, with great interest, early works about electricity. The debate between Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta about “animal electricity” in the late 18th century is represented in the collection, as well as Benjamin Franklin’s famous treatise, Experiments and observations on electricity: made at Philadelphia in America (London: Printed and sold by E. Cave ..., 1751). This work, as many others in the Dibner Library, is present in its first edition and several subsequent editions as well, which allows that the researcher can follow the evolution of certain ideas published at different times. There are close to eleven hundred titles in the Dibner collection that discuss topics related to electricity and almost five hundred which specializes in electrical engineering. These mostly came from Bern Dibner’s original collection, the Burndy Library.
Other significant parts of the Burndy Library that were acquired by the Dibner collection in 1976 are the 320 incunabula (i.e. early printed books manufactured with movable type between ca. 1450 and 1501), the 1600 manuscript groups/volumes, and the numerous titles with first description of scientific observations and discoveries, often profusely illustrated. When asked in the same 1979 interview about the three greatest books in the history of science, Dibner listed Newton’s Principia (1687), the application of mathematics to the three laws of motion “that is the key how the universe operates;” Copernicus’s book on the revolution of heavenly spheres (1543) announcing the heliocentric world-view; and as the most beautiful book Vesalius’s illustrated anatomy, the Fabrica (1543); all three are Heralds and presently in the Dibner Library. Repository for so many historical treasures, the Dibner Library is not only a prime research institution but also has a significant role in the fundraising efforts of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
In addition to the main collection of the Dibner Library there are other special and rare book collections in its stacks area: the World’s Fairs Special Collection, the Comegy Family Rare Book Collection, and the Alexander Graham Bell – Joseph Henry Collection. These are first-rate resources for mostly nineteenth-century research on a broader scope than the history of science and technology. All Dibner Library holdings are accessible from the SIL online catalog, SIRIS, the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System.
The excellent collection of the Dibner Library serves the historical research needs of Smithsonian curators, researchers and fellows, as well as scholars and the interested public nationally and internationally. As a non-lending library, we provide research possibilities on site by appointment and also reach an increasingly growing audience through reference and outreach work on telephone, via email and social media. Recent inquiries included information about historical book bindings, travel journals about pygmy peoples, early history of photographical processes, late eighteenth century maps, Civil War photographs, an original letter by Galileo, early nineteenth-century American indentures, the manuscripts of Baldassarre Boncompagni (1821-1894), and much more. Dibner Library resources provide information for exhibition development in many museums of the Smithsonian and the library has loaned items to other institutions, such as the National Library of Medicine and the Rubin Museum of Art (New York, NY). Collaborative efforts are frequent in the Dibner, especially with National Museum of American History. Dibner fellows are regularly lecturing at the Tuesday Colloquium Series, and museum curators and the Dibner Curator often consult about new acquisitions.
Since the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has three Resident Scholar Programs established for the use of its Special Collections, the Dibner Library has continuous flow of scholars who are awarded fellowships and conduct research in the Libraries’ collections year-round. The Dibner Library Scholar program offers 1-6 months fellowships for the particular use of the Dibner collections. The research work our resident scholars produce manifests in finished doctoral dissertations, scholarly articles and monographs in various fields of the sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary feature is one of the main advantages of using the diverse special collections of the Smithsonian Libraries, but even within the holdings of the Dibner Library itself, there is a great potential for interdisciplinary research. All Resident Scholar Programs are administered from the Dibner Library: the selection process and the additional logistics are taken care by Dibner staff.
In this description the word ‘primary’ is emphatically important. The “evidence,” the books in the Dibner Library are primary sources: works publishing scientific ideas directly by the authors, and not by the way of someone else’s secondary analyses. They are the most original resources to understand new findings, discoveries, theories, and observations. Going back to these roots make the history of science research authentic and authoritative.
In the general history of libraries—Bern Dibner noted—science libraries are relatively “new” because science, (and here he understood modern science), itself is new compared to philosophy or theology. He emphasized how short a time had passed since Darwin’s Origin of species was first read and none the less, what a great change happened in scientific thinking during this brief time period. Dibner was an enthusiastic witness of a scientific age, that he characterized as “still in the learning phase of how to use scientific knowledge to its best advantage.” He did not believe in “scientific explanation” but in “changing human understanding,” understanding how to look upon the material world. This is what he followed in his collecting and the monument of which is represented in the outstanding collection of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.
Dibner, Bern, Interview [manuscript] by M. Krauss, 1979.
Chase, Stuart, Men and machines (New York: MacMillan, 1929): 61-62.
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2019-04-19T03:01:39Z
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https://library.si.edu/libraries/dibner-library-history-science-and-technology/history
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Arts
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Science
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rug
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An ice road (ice crossing, ice bridge) is a winter road, or part thereof, that runs on a naturally frozen water surface (a river, a lake or an expanse of sea ice) in cold regions. Ice roads allow temporary transport to isolated areas with no permanent road access. They reduce transportation cost of materials that otherwise would ship as expensive air freight, and they allow movement of large or heavy objects for which air freight is impractical.
Ice roads may be winter substitutes for summer ferry services. Ferry service and an ice crossing may operate yearly at the same time for several weeks.
Ice roads provide a flat, smooth driving surface devoid of trees, rocks, and other obstacles. They can be snow plowed, and may comprise a series of short overland portages - overland segments linking lakes. Similar to ice roads, ice runways are common in the polar regions and include the blue ice runways such as Wilkins Runway in Antarctica or lake ice runways like Doris Lake Aerodrome in the Arctic. Ice can also be used as an emergency landing surface.
In general, these roads are built in areas where construction of year-round roads is expensive due to boggy muskeg land and a number of other reasons. In the winter, these obstacles are therefore easier to cross. Ice roads, such as the stretch between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, provide an almost level driving surface with few detours several months of the year.
When frozen in winter, the waterway crossings can be built up with auger holes to flood and thicken the crossing. The act of clearing snow quickly makes ice thicker by exposing the road directly to subfreezing air (temperatures as low as −50 °C (−58 °F)). In the summer, after the ice melts, effects of the roads can still be seen from overhead in a bush plane, as bare strips remain on the lake floor where the ice blocked light and prevented plants and algae from growing.
Often there is a car ferry used in summer time. There are normally periods in spring and fall where there is too much ice for the ferry, but too little for an ice road.
Vehicles crossing the Albany River on the winter road running from Moosonee to Attawapiskat in Northern Ontario, Canada. Edge of road is marked by small trees. Heavy vehicles must maintain wide spacing and low speeds.
While easier to drive across in the winter than land, roads over water present a great danger to anyone using them. Speeds are typically limited to 25 km/h (16 mph) to prevent a truck's weight from causing waves under the surface. These waves can damage the road, or dislodge the ice from the shoreline and create a hazard. Another hazard on large lakes is the pressure ridge, a break in the ice created by the expansion and contraction of the surface ice due to variations in temperature.
The roads are normally the domain of large trucks (e.g. tractor-trailer units), although lighter vehicles, such as pickup trucks, even small cars, can be seen, as are snowmobiles.
Use of ice as the main construction material allows unusual construction techniques: to make a ramp to get the road over a step such as the shore of a lake, for example, lake water is pumped out and mixed with snow to make slush, formed into the shape of the ramp, and allowed to quickly freeze in the intense cold. Worn and damaged roads are repaired by flooding with shallow water that freezes into a new surface layer.
The South Pole Traverse (McMurdo-South Pole highway) is approximately 1,400 km (870 mi) long and links the United States' McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. It was constructed by leveling snow and filling in crevasses, but is not paved. There are flags to mark the route.
Also, the United States Antarctic Program maintains two ice roads during the austral summer. One provides access to Pegasus Field on the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice road between Pegasus Field and McMurdo Station is about 14 miles. The other road provides access to the Ice Runway, which is on sea ice. The road between the Ice Runway and McMurdo Station varies in length from year to year depending on many factors, including ice stability. These roads are critical for resupplying McMurdo Station, Scott Base, and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Some of the first ice roads in history were built in the 1930s in northern Canada, for use by caterpillar sleds pulling heavy loads called tractor trains for mines where loads were too heavy for transport by aircraft and the soil too boggy for standard roads when the land was not frozen. Tractor-freighting was eventually phased out in the north and replaced with truck transport over well-maintained ice roads; in the far north, these were first engineered by Al Hamilton of Grimshaw Transport in the 1950s and later improved by John Denison of Byers Transport in the 1960s, and Robinson's Trucking in the 1980s.
Winter roads and ice roads in Canada are found primarily in northern parts of some provinces, as well as the sparsely-populated northern territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. In Nunavut, while there are a number of permanent roads within the territory, the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, linking Nunavut to Tibbitt Lake in the Northwest Territories, forms the territory's only road access to the rest of North America's road network.
Ice road on Great Slave Lake.
Winter roads in the Northwest Territories, most notably the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, link various isolated communities and mineral exploration sites to the territory's highway network.
Winter roads may also be found in the sparsely populated northernmost regions of some Canadian provinces. Most communities north of Ontario's Albany River are served by winter roads. Most of these roads in Northwestern Ontario are linked to the Northern Ontario Resource Trail, a permanent gravel road which extends northerly from the end of Highway 599 at Pickle Lake, the northernmost community in the province with year-round highway access. In Northeastern Ontario, some communities are linked to Moosonee, a town that has rail access but no road access to the south.
Saskatchewan also has an ice road in the southern part of the province at the Riverhurst Ferry.
Transport links between Russia and China rely heavily on ice roads which link border Chinese and Russian towns/cities. Because winter temperatures in the Sino-Russian border have average January minima between −20 and −25 °C (−4 and −13 °F), border rivers such as the Amur and Ussuri are well frozen by late October/early November. Russian and Chinese border trade heavily rely on the ice roads. Notable examples include the ice road linking the Chinese city of Heihe and the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, and the ice road linking Suifenhe in China and Pogranichny.
Vehicles travelling in the same direction must be at least 250 m (820 ft) apart.
Recommended travelling speeds are under 25 km/h (16 mph) or between 40–70 km/h (25–43 mph). It is advised to avoid the range of 25 and 40 km/h (16 and 25 mph) due to danger of creating resonance in the ice layer (i.e. vehicle speed and water wave speed being the same or nearly, resulting in a large wave under the ice that breaks the ice).
Seat belts must not be fastened and doors must be easily opened, due to danger of drowning if the ice breaks.
The vehicle must not be stopped.
Vehicles are allowed to enter the ice road in three-minute intervals.
Ice roads may only be used in daylight.
On the severest winters ice roads have been privately constructed from the mainland of Finland to the Åland Islands and elsewhere in the Archipelago; using these is unlikely to be within any insurance policy.
Though it is not allowed to stop on these ice roads, it is common to drive off the road, park the car, and go fishing. Some cottages are also accessed during the winter by ice without any actual ice roads.
An example of an ice road was the Road of Life across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the besieged city of Leningrad in the winter months during World War II.
The Lena River has an ice road on its surface for hundreds of kilometres during the winter.
There are several border crossing points between Russia and China via the Amur River. They are ice roads in the winter months, and ferries during summer.
A speed limit of 30 km/h (19 mph).
Prohibition against stopping or parking on the ice.
Minimum distance of 50 m (160 ft) between vehicles.
Restrictions for axle, bogie and gross weight.
The longest ice road in Sweden, at 15 km (9.3 mi), is in the Luleå Archipelago, Bothnian Bay, in the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia. It starts in the port of Hindersöstallarna and connects the islands Hindersön, Stor-Brändön, and Långön with the mainland. The ice roads in Luleå are usually open from January to April and have a weight restriction of 2–4 t (2.0–3.9 long tons; 2.2–4.4 short tons).
There are several ice roads across the lake Storsjön. The roads are usually open from January to April and have a weight restriction of 2–4 t (2.0–3.9 long tons; 2.2–4.4 short tons).
The southernmost ice road in Sweden is on Lake Hjälmaren, to Vinön Island. Due to poor ice it is not open every season.
As with all ice roads there are periods when there is too much ice for the ferry and too little for the ice road. There has been experiments with pipes blowing compressed air to the bottom, which to some extent prevents ice formation. The ice road has to be placed some distance away from the ferry route. In Sweden there is never more than 80 km (50 mi) detour to use a road with a bridge or around a bay instead of the ferry/ice road, except for some island connections, like the Holmön island, which has a ferry with better ice breaking capabilities.
There is an ice road in the continental United States on Lake Superior, linking the city of Bayfield, Wisconsin on the mainland with La Pointe, Wisconsin on Madeline Island. The road is about 2 mi (3.2 km) long and is used for several weeks in the year as replacement for the summer ferry service. When the ice is too thin to allow the construction of the road, but too thick to allow ferry service, a type of hovercraft is used to transport school children from the island to and from the mainland. In Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, seasonal ice roads also connect Mackinac Island and Bois Blanc Island with the mainland.
In Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, there is an ice road over the Arctic Ocean about 25 mi (40 km) long with a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 km/h). It is used a few months during winter to serve an oil field site on the ocean. Another ice road in Alaska is the ice road from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Point Thomson, Alaska. The ice road is 68 mi (109 km) long and is on the Beaufort Sea; this ice road is mainly used by semi-trucks to deliver loads to serve the Point Thomson area.
There is a seasonal ice road constructed from the Kuparuk Oil Field to the Alpine oil field, which is roadless in the summer months. This road also connects to the village of Nuiqsut, on the banks of the Colville River. This road is roughly 31 mi (50 km) long and is used to resupply Alpine with critical supplies for operations as well as to transport drilling rigs.
The 2008 film Frozen River tells the story of two women who get involved with trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States by driving them across the frozen St. Lawrence River in their car.
Canada's and Alaska's ice roads were prominently featured in the History Channel show Ice Road Truckers.
^ Estonia claims Europe's longest ice highway. The Independent. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
(4) On an ice road, the doors of a vehicle shall be easily opened.
(5) Every driver and all the passengers shall have their safety belts unfastened.
^ Daniszewaki, John (5 August 2001). "A New Russian Fear -- Losing Siberia To China". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
^ Lansdell, Henry (2014). Through Siberia. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9781108071222.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ice roads.
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road, Popular Mechanics article.
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As I have written a lot comments about crush from proffesional writers and fans I like to add my opinion here. I think crush is amazing. it's Bon Jovi back to basic, back to were they have starte the early 80' I love the songs like one wild night, captain crash, older, its my life but. I can't wait to hear those songs live I think Bon jovi did a great job, they really made a comback and not just an new album. Bon Jovi is back!!
According to people who say worse and bad Start listing to the words you will see it is great. My first thought was not so good but now I think it's great. You have to learn to like it because it's different but it's bon jovi back from where the started once.
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The Sam Fox School Research Office serves as a catalyst, facilitator, sponsor, and incubator of student and faculty creative initiatives and research projects to generate new knowledge, encourage entrepreneurship, and promote interdisciplinary collaborations in architecture, design, and the visual arts. The office has worked with faculty and students across the School to define projects, seek funding, and identify internal and external partnerships.
Sam Fox School faculty and students interested in submitting grant proposals should notify Enrique Von Rohr at evonrohr@wustl.edu. As director of the Sam Fox School Research Office, he can offer assistance with the development of your proposal and will broadly coordinate School submissions.
In conjunction with the WashU Libraries system, the Sam Fox School Research Office is developing an internal website to help with art, architecture, and design funding opportunities and education: libguides.wustl.edu/fundingresources/samfoxfunding. This website is designed to grow over time, but currently includes links and databases of opportunities. The "Tags" tab has a full list we are developing. Please contribute if you have additional opportunities to share with the community.
If you are thinking about pursuing a research project, please reference the Research Gateway. This site is the largest source of information about University policies and procedures for research and creative activity. It also includes helpful information for planning and pursuing external funding. In addition, we are developing a list of education resources for the design and visual arts community that can be accessed through the Art & Architecture Library at this link. Please contact Enrique Von Rohr before seeking funding, or if you have any questions regarding University research.
We welcome the opportunity for individuals, corporations, or foundations to sponsor specific research initiatives or creative activity, or to sponsor a class, faculty project, or research question. Please contact Enrique Von Rohr at 314.935.6826 or evonrohr@wustl.edu to discuss.
The Sam Fox School Research Office continues to work with all research support entities at Washington University to further the value of design and the visual arts in all of our collaborations. Defining projects or research goals and building relationships both within the University community and beyond is one of our long-term strategic goals. Our core mission is to further research and creative activity through external funding support and collaborative engagements.
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We’re here to support you along the way.
In the School of Computing and Engineering, students are not alone as they enter this academic journey. From advisors to tutors to instructors, students can find support in many different ways.
In Fall 2017, the DST Student Services Center, located in 336 Flarsheim Hall, opened as a central place for our students to get assistance in registering for classes, developing an academic plan, learning about campus resources, and more. The DST Student Services Center is a one-stop shop for incoming and current students alike.
Each SCE student is assigned an academic advisor upon admission. An academic advisor can assist the students in registering for classes, answering questions about school and university policies, referring to campus resources, and preparing for graduation. Advisors can also help students to locate academic supports and ways to get involved in the school.
SCE students meet with their academic advisors each semester to enroll in classes. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisors early and register during their priority registration time to ensure class availability.
If you are experiencing issues with online scheduling through UMKC Connect, or if you are a new transfer student and need to schedule your first advising appointment, please contact the Student Services Center directly at 816-235-2399 or sce@umkc.edu to schedule an appointment. You can also stop by our office in Flarsheim Hall, Room 336, to schedule your appointment with the help of a staff member.
Tuesday mornings from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Walk-in advising appointments are typically 5-15 minutes in length and for quick questions only. We cannot guarantee that you will be seen immediately upon arrival. Your wait time will be contingent on the queue of students in line ahead of you. For more complex issues, please set up a 30 minute appointment with your assigned academic advisor.
If you need to meet with your advisor to discuss course enrollment for the following semester and get your academic advising hold removed, you must schedule an appointment. Appointments must be scheduled in advance, as advisors do not take same-day appointments or walk-ins for enrollment advising.
Please read our Peak Period Advising Policies for more details regarding course registration advising.
If you are running late for a scheduled appointment, please call the Student Services Center at 816-235-2399 to let us know your estimated arrival time. If you are more than 15 minutes late, and do not call to confirm that your advisor will still be able to meet with you despite your late arrival, your appointment will be cancelled and you will need to reschedule.
Our academic programs are rigorous and require the highest level of effort from students. In order to meet students’ needs and support their academic endeavors, we provide free peer tutoring for all students.
For questions or concerns about SCE tutoring, please contact Jason Foster, SCE Academic Advisor.
MaST (Math and Science Tutoring) is also available for tutoring in math courses and science courses such as chemistry and physics. MaST is located in the Atterbury Student Success Center (please note new location) and their schedule is on their website.
UMKC provides many resources for students to be successful in their academic pursuits.
Supplemental Instruction: Provides regularly scheduled, peer-led review and study sessions for certain courses.
Math & Science Tutoring (MaST): Offers tutoring in math and science courses not covered by SCE tutors.
Student Success Seminars: Workshops offered on a variety of subjects to help students become better, more effective students. Topics include study skills, stress management, healthy living, and career preparation.
Student Disability Services: Works with students to establish accommodation plans for documented disabilities.
Counseling Center: Offers short-term counseling for students to manage their personal mental health.
Student Health & Wellness: Offers evaluation and treatment of acute illness and stable chronic illness for UMKC students.
Veteran & Military Resources: A listing of the campus resources for student veterans and active duty military.
LGBTQIA Programs & Services: Provides LGBTQIA students with resources and supports on campus.
UMKC Women’s Center: Provides support services for the advancement of women’s equity on campus.
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But Obama has also praised Reagan, if not for his policies then his rhetorical skills, which shifted the debate in the United States. Reagan came to power in 1980 at the head of a powerful ascendant political coalition—the New Right —that offered a solution to the multiple, cascading domestic and foreign policy crises of the 1970s, and in the process pushed the tottering New Deal coalition to the sidelines.
Reagan did have impressive rhetorical skills. But he also was lucky enough to have the winds of history at his back: a coherent new intellectual class, the neocons, gave his vision focus and legitimacy, and a gathering secular and religious grassroots right backed it up with political power. Most importantly, Reagan could leverage a stagnant but still astronomically capitalized New Deal political economy: tax cuts, privatization, deregulation, the shifting of the government resources away from the Northeast industrial rust belt to the South, Southwest and West, and the breaking of unions combined to unleash the United States’s considerable productive power, leading to impressive growth rates. Underwriting it all was a quickly metastasizing financial sector that helped off set falling wages with cheap credit, putting into place an economy that not just generates successive bubbles but depends on them to generate profit.
Nation contributor and political theorist Corey Robin once pointed out that George W. Bush was to Reagan what LBJ was to FDR. Just as Johnson presided over domestic and foreign policies (the Great Society, civil rights and the Vietnam War) that “heightened the contradictions” of the New Deal, Bush also tried to have it all: extreme neoliberalism at home and extreme neoconservatism abroad. It all came crashing down in 2008, and many did hope that Obama would be a transformative president in the style of Reagan, someone who could not just preside over a political realignment but give voice to a new social compact, a commonsense way of imagining the commonweal—an alternative to the remoralization of the market that took place under Reagan.
That Obama has so far failed is not really his fault. Unlike Reagan, the winds of history are decidedly pushing against him. You can only privatize the New Deal once.
But Obama shouldn’t be let off the hook, for as a student of Reagan he has missed an important lesson. The real Reagan—as opposed to the myth on display today—actually repeatedly disappointed his base, on any number of issues. At one point during his second term, the right was so fed up with his timidity in confronting the Soviet Union that they branded him a “useful idiot” for his willingness to negotiate arms reductions with Gorbachev. There were other conservative criticisms, over judicial appointments, welfare, abortion, prayer in school and high tax rates. But Reagan never lectured his base on the need for pragmatism and compromise. On the contrary, he constantly presented a conservative vision of a world as it should be, not as it was.
Obama and his spokespeople do the exact opposite. Frustrated with a stalled legislative agenda, they lash out at what Robert Gibbs called, last August, a “professional left” that won’t be “satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.” Imagine Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, complaining in 1982 that the “professional right would not be happy until the federal government abolished welfare, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations had the same rights as people, and our top personal tax rate fell below 50 percent”—a wish list that has indeed been fulfilled. Last December, progressives angry at the White House’s tax-cut extension got an earful from the president himself: “This is a big diverse country. Not everybody agrees with us. I know that shocks people.” But Reagan’s skill was exactly to take a narrow conservative vision and translate it into a universal vernacular.
Obama should indeed take a page out of the Gipper’s playbook and keep the progressive vision he claims to stand for as the Tea Party keeps its muskets: clean.
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The fallout continues among the teams England left for dead in the Caribbean as South Africa dropped veteran wicketkeeper Mark Boucher for their Twenty20 series which started in the West Indies yesterday.
Captain Graeme Smith said the selectors wanted to 'look ahead at some new options', with the gloves passing to AB de Villiers.
Ricky Ponting has leapt to the defence of Michael Clarke after Australia's Twenty20 captain came under fire for a below-par performance in the tournament.
Eight Indian players could be in trouble with their board after an alleged brawl in a bar in St Lucia following the side's disappointing exit from the World Twenty20, while a video has been leaked to Pakistan TV exposing the extent of their side's rifts on the tour to Australia.
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2019-04-20T21:15:12Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-1279759/Clarke-Boucher-axed-World-Twenty20-fallout.html
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Cohen, Erik, Cohen, Scott and Li, Xiang (Robert) (2017) Subversive mobilities Applied Mobilities, 2 (2). pp. 115-133.
There has been an inherent bias in studies of ‘mobility regimes’ toward the perspective of the authorities. This article suggests the concept of ‘subversive mobilities’ to offer a novel perspective on the construct of mobilities regimes, by stressing the ways such regimes are penetrated by adversaries through diverse routes and practices, despite the regimes’ various control and defense mechanisms. We investigate how ‘smugglers’ make use of weaknesses in existing mobility regimes to facilitate their subversion, using three case studies of subversive mobilities, smuggling of Rohingya migrants, of Colombian cocaine and of South African rhino horns, to substantiate the potential of our approach. The subversive mobilities of all three case studies reveal some common traits: a multiplicity of routes and means of travel, informal personal networks based on trust and retribution rather than formal organization, and interconnected series of assemblages of differently involved actors. We claim that the continued success of ‘smugglers’ to subvert the existing mobility regimes is their greater flexibility: they tend to be pro-active, initiating new routes and means of movement, and the cooperation of illicit and legitimate role-bearers, while the mobility regimes are mostly reactive, giving the former at least a temporary advantage over the latter. Our approach leads to a more inclusive and dynamic view of mobilities regimes, and enables a better understanding of why the ‘smuggling’ of goods and ‘trafficking’ in people is increasingly successful, despite the efforts of mobilities regimes to block these activities.
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http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842262/
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Abstract: A 60-GHz artificial magnetic conductor (AMC)-based circularly polarized (CP) on-chip antenna has been designed and fabricated using standard 0.18-μm six metal-layer CMOS technology. The design consists of a wideband circularly polarized loop antenna at the top layer M6 and a novel AMC structure at the bottom layer M1. The size of the antenna including the modified AMC structure is 1.8×1.8 × 0.3 mm 3. The circular open-loop structure is employed for antenna design because the gap within the loop can excite traveling wave current and then achieve circular polarized radiation. In addition, it is found that the bandwidth of circular polarization can be significantly increased by introducing one more inner parasitic loop. With the modified AMC structure integrated into the bottom layer, the antenna performance can be optimized and improved as more design freedom is introduced. The proposed antenna can offer a simulated peak gain of -3.7 dBi and a measured gain of -4.4 dBi, respectively, as well as simulated and measured axial ratio (AR3 bandwidth to cover from 57 to 67 GHz. © 2012 IEEE.
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https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/81831
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"$i of $R to go" -Status "Please wait."
# in Match a . is the same as *, so you must put a \ before a period \.
# othewise it will catch every charactor.
without the blank before “sourcecode”.
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2019-04-25T14:24:53Z
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https://theolddogscriptingblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/usingmatch-in-excel/
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June 28, 2004 He's been playing piano and singing at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City since 1968. He's considered one of the great cabaret singers of our time. The 79-year-old song stylist was slated to retire from the Cafe Carlyle this coming New Year's Eve, but he's extended his schedule, and he's not going anywhere for the time being. Short has been named a "living landmark" by New York's Landmark Conservancy and a "national living legend" by the Library of Congress.
June 26, 2004 M. (Matt) Ward's bittersweet lyrics and understated delivery have made him a favorite on the underground music scene. His latest CD is Transfiguration of Vincent.
June 13, 2004 Since the mid-1960s, songwriter J.J. Cale has been writing southern-style rock hits for Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. He talks with NPR's Liane Hansen about his first collection of new songs in eight years, To Tulsa and Back.
June 8, 2004 The Hilliard Ensemble is a Renaissance music group that also applies its talents to modern compositions. The group has a repertoire that spans five centuries. David D'Arcy reports.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/music-interviews/archive?date=6-30-2004
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Khanudih Railway station is situated in Dumra, Jharkhand. Station code of Khanudih is KNF. Here are some trains that are passing through Khanudih railway station like Hlz Anvt Wkly Sf, Anvt Hlz S F Exp, Kgp Gomo Passenger, Gomo Kgp Passenger, Gmo Ckp Passenger, Ckp Gmo Passenger, Adra Knf Local, and many more.
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https://www.ndtv.com/indian-railway/khanudih-knf-station
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The International One Design was developed in the 1930’s by Corny Shields as an affordable club racer. It quickly grew in respect and popularity across the sailing community, and it served as the benchmark for many subsequent designs. IOD deservedly became the first boat recognized by ISAF in it’s ‘Classic Yacht Division.‘ When Trudeau ONE launched in July 2010 I wrote much about the history and legend of the International One Design class, and admiration for those great boats was a big part of the ONE WORLD Regatta that kicked off later that year.
The final version of Craig’s boat hit the water only a couple days ago, so I’m still looking it over. I’ll have a lot more to say in the upcoming weeks, so consider this post just a “first look.” Maybe its just first-date infatuation, but so far I think the Teleri looks pretty nice!
The Teleri follows a classical construction layout that should be familiar to many sailors. It is a single-masted sloop with a 3/4 fractional Bermuda rig and a full keel, and it borrows heavily from the IOD in real life. It’s powered by a highly modified BWind engine, and it can be sailed solo by a skipper or with the assistance of up to two crewmembers. I’ll tell you more about those features below; let’s first look at the build!
Boats with sculpted hulls often exhibit a mismatch in SL between the visible boat you can see and the underlying shape of the sculpted prims that make them up. This isn’t a big deal on a casual cruise, but it can result in confusion and serious problems when sailing in a crowded, “high-performance” race fleet. Invisible parts of the boat can cause collisions, hit marks, or even trigger race lines inadvertently.
In the image below I got distracted and hit the dock in Knaptrackicon. Even that accident makes my point: The arrows below show how closely the hull forequarters line up against the dock and wedge against a moored boat.
This same collision accuracy happens with the boom and sails. The figure below shows side and vertex views of my boat sailing downwind into a wall. The boat comes to rest on contact points located on the jib and mainsail convexity.
Let me make this point once again below. In this example I tried to sail my Teleri through a narrow opening between two barriers.
The boat stops dead in the doorway, with the starboard hull pressed up against the white wall, and the mainsail hitting the purple wall. However, the boat will slide on through if the skipper sheets the sail tightly enough to fit.
In the Solstice Challenge Regatta that just finished, much discussion went into protest disputes over “room at a mark” and problems associated with phantom sails and bowsprints. Mesh construction may help solve these SL-specific issues, and make virtual race boats more realistic. As for the Ktaba Teleri MX, the boat you see is the boat you get when sailing.
Sailing vessels are more than just a hull, though, and Craig took his time with this boat; it shows in the quality of the detailing.
The Teleri MX is built around the BWind engine, but Craig Ktaba’s spent considerable time tinkering with it and adding new features. I’m still going through the list of features and trying them all out, so I can only give you the highlights today.
If you choose WWC, the boat will look for race wind in competition mode; it does not use WWC cruise settings. Once you have the correct wind loaded in the WWC, you’ll need to say ‘race start‘ to have the setter broadcast that wind to your boat.
For its part, the boat has a simple dialog display that pops up when it senses WWC wind, so you’ll always know what’s going on.
Here’s a simple plot of boat speed v. real wind angle, using that ‘default’ wind of 16.5kts.
As you can see, the boat has a fairly smooth response curve. Teleri is dead in irons below RWA 30, but then quickly picks up speed as the boat falls off to close haul and the sails fill. At RWA 40 the boat speed is 60% of real wind speed, and Teleri then maxes out on a beam reach with a boat speed roughly 80% of RWS. On far downwind points of sail (RWA >160) the performance deteriorates, but the spinnaker nicely compensates for that, as shown above.
It’s worth commenting that Teleri has a strong weather helm. If you let go of the tiller on many RL sailboats, the boat will slowly turn to face the wind, and Craig Kbata’s intentionally built that effect into Teleri. The only other boat I’m aware of in SL that has a weather helm is the New York 30; the rest are either neutral or have a Lee bias.
The Teleri has both simple and full hud displays that should be familiar to any Bwind sailor. In this case, the HUD tells you if you are using racing or cruising wind, as well as the essential real and apparent wind parameters.
Since the boat is fully WWC compliant (except for cruise wind), the HUD also displays wave and current information.
When you add crew, the HUD display changes too. The crew can adjust the headsails, so the new HUD includes separate sheeting information for the main and jib (or spinnaker). It also includes a readout of the wind/sheet ratio, so all aboard can keep sails correctly trimmed.
The Taleri comes with three sails: a main, jib and spinnaker. When a skipper is sailing solo, the main and jib move together and the sails autogybe to the apparent wind.
Over AWA 130 a sailor may choose to wing the jib to get an extra boost, and over AWA 145 you have the option to raise the spinnaker. The spinnaker angle is automatic for a solo skipper, and it conveniently auto-douces with AWA <145.
Once you add crew, things change a bit. A single crew member takes charge of the headsails, and they move independent of the main. If you have two crew aboard, one gets the jib and the other gets the spinnaker. There’s no free ride on this boat!
As I just mentioned, the Teleri can carry two crew in addition to the skipper, and the crew control the headsails. They can also switch positions to optimize the heel angle and maximize boat speed under different conditions.
This can get a little complicated, since the boat is fastest with moderate heel, and all sailors automatically switch sides when the boat gybes. I haven’t tested the effect of crew position on boat performance yet, but it will be fun to compare it to the recent Trudeau line and upcoming Quest boats to see how well it works!
The Teleri MX is Craig Kbata’s first production boat release, and it’s a great start. The Teleri is a mesh-constructed BWind racer that pays homage to the great International One Design vessels of the 1930’s. Although relatively small in size, the Teleri detailing is impressive and the feature list is long. It has non-phantom, luffing sails and a spinnaker for an extra downwind kick. The boat is fully WWC compliant (almost), and it has options to share sailing responsibilities with two extra crew.
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What I particularly like is its realistic size. I hope this will make many sailors rethink their avie’s size.
BTW, the boat is available from Craig’s vendor in the TrYC clubhouse!
Will use the Teleri for tomorrow’s LCC cruise. Jane, what would you suggest for cruising: BWind or WWC?
BWind is built-in and easy to use, but it also includes a North-South current of 2.0kt and fixed waves. I like to adjust those things myself, or just take the wind recommended for the fleet. That requires a WCC at the launch site.
Forgot about WWCs depedancy on a windsetter and much too lazy to use my handheld.
I do think this is an example of where ‘realism’ doesn’t always work in SL. I agree with Alain & Qyv that absent modified helm to closer model RL a weather helm in SL is mostly a nuisance. In RL one can hold the rudder at a fixed angle part way between mid-ships and full rudder, and so balance the boats natural weather helm (plus / minus whatever from poorly balanced sail trim). In SL we can’t usually do that.
If Craig was to implement that – Great! But I know how zealous he is to keep the scripts light and this may not be the highest priority.
Regarding wind… “professional cruiser”? Sounds a bit like ” perpetual student”. But seriously, Orca is right, for the solo sailer BWind is great. For races, with all that implies, a more “centralized” approach is needed. Club Cruises, not sure where they fit in the spectrum. And Orca, my goal is to get to a WWC setter that you, and others of your ilk, are happy to use. (/me wonders how long that will take. Lol).
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2019-04-23T09:06:33Z
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https://metaversesailing.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/ktaba-teleri-mx-a-new-one-design-racer/
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Society
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118. Special Topics in Developmental Psychology.
140. Topics in Social Psychology.
194. Advanced Research in Special Topics.
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2019-04-20T14:53:49Z
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https://registrar.ucsc.edu/catalog/programs-courses/course-descriptions/psyc.html
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It's $35 for the Galway Vase and $ 7 for postage.
I'm asking $ 55 for the Belleek Harp Vase plus postage.
hi!! yes well we own some ground here- close tro brookville- i have found- stuff- out here i just love it! turle back scrapers- oh laST SUMMER A -NICE- THEBES - VERY NICE! ITS AMASING HOW YOU CAN FIND THIS ALL IN TACT! lol hit the caps!
a plummet- we have trails- he uses grader box on tractor- then woo hoo- i get to - check it out! people dont realize how to go about it-i guess- plowed fields are good too! nice to meet you!
Hello James, yes my sister is interested because she has had some offers for it but she doesn't know who to sell it to. She knows now that it is worth something because when I posted it before for information, they were offering hundreds of dollars but she didn't know what to do. I thought I would ask again to see if it is really worth more than they were offering before she sells it to someone who will get what it is really worth or more.
I have a vintage rosewood handle corkscrew with original box. It is over 50 years old.
James Thanks for the Friendship invite and the kind words. Visit my booth anytime you like.
Thanks for the information and when you get some time maybe you could email me some of the sites so that we could kind of determine what the cards would be worth. I know that to get the top dollar they have to be in almost perfect condtion with no bent edges etc.
Since you colllect these type of cards maybe you could direct me in the right direction and if you see the cards them maybe you would like them for your collection also. I do not know that much about them because it is hard to find the exact ones that you have on line.
Thanks again and I look forward to talking to you more about these cards.
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2019-04-19T16:20:56Z
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http://iantiqueonline.ning.com/profile/JamesWest
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The autumnal equinox will arrive early Wednesday morning. The shorter days and cooler nights to follow will usher in a new season of vibrantly colored foliage throughout the area. Read about the status of fall colors and see other leaf-peeping opportunities throughout New York. View a quick guide to the fall colors of tree leaves.
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2019-04-26T16:39:38Z
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https://curiousbynature.wordpress.com/2015/09/
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Buttoned Up: Gore and Lieberman -- on the same side!
This button is only eight years old. Really.
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2019-04-19T11:24:03Z
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https://www.westword.com/news/buttoned-up-gore-and-lieberman-on-the-same-side-5886805
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US retailer Target Corporation announced its fourth batch of startups for its accelerator programme through which it mentors start-ups that work in tandem with the retail space relevant to Target’s business.
While the earlier batches focused on themes around retail including, personalisation search and omnichannel evolution, the scope of programme for the fourth batch is broadened to cover the growing wellness sector along with the internet of things (IoT) and technology space in retail.
The startups include, Preksh, which leverages visual merchandising in stores to create better online experience; MintM, an in-store customer engagement platform; Uncanny Vision, a computer vision processing platform; Lechal, an interactive haptic footwear; and Lawbot, which is an automated platform that analyzes legal contracts.
“Our sustained effort to tap into India’s innovation potential has led to the success of our accelerator program,” said Navneet Kapoor, President and Managing Director, Target India.
The fourth batch also includes two internal teams - A versus C, which provides tools to analyze online shopping cart abandonment behaviour; and Hashtag Shopping, to enable shopping on social media through conversational commerce.
“We’re excited to have this latest batch focus on potentially game-changing technologies as well as areas of opportunities for Target like wellness and IoT,” Kapoor said.
The accelerator in Bengaluru was launched in February 2014 and has completed three branches of start-up accelerator programme since. Some of the start-ups that were a part of their earlier batches, include, Findmeashoe.com, BugClipper, Whodat spaces and Twiddly.
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2019-04-22T02:09:46Z
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https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/target-india-kickstarts-fourth-batch-of-startup-accelerator-programme/51904561
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It's not always a smart thing to go into the family business. Axel Merckx knows.
The Belgian, 26 years old next week, is riding in his first Tour de France. At that age, his father, the fabled Eddy Merckx, had already won the Tour three times, including his debut in 1969. Eddy Merckx went on to win it five times and share the record with Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.
His father won more than 400 races and the son has won 2. Nevertheless, the younger Merckx, who rides for the Polti team from Italy, had performed well enough to find himself in 11th place among the 96 riders left before today's 32-mile individual time trial in Burgundy from Montceau les Mines to Le Creusot.
He finished ninth for the day, failing by four seconds to overtake the rider in 10th place over all but moving into the elite when the eighth-placed rider, Bjarne Riis, a Dane with Telekom, dropped to 11th.
Merckx was not the only man moving up on the rainswept, undulating course. Jan Ullrich, the defending Tour champion, the German leader of Telekom, made up the 14 seconds by which he trailed Bobby Julich, an American from Glenwood Springs, Colo., who rides for Cofidis, and rose to second place over all.
Both riders, being realists, thought they had no chance of catching Marco Pantani, the Italian leader of Mercatone Uno, who wore the leader's yellow jersey by nearly six minutes.
They were right. Ullrich won the race against the clock, in which riders started three minutes apart, in 1 hour 3 minutes 52 seconds, a speed of 30.3 miles and hour. Julich finished second, 1:01 behind, as he dropped to third over all. Pantani was third, 2:35 down, and, barring accident, is assured of victory by 3:21 over all when the race ends with a mainly ceremonial stage into Paris Sunday.
Even if Merckx has rarely won as a member of the Telekom, Motorola and Polti teams, he has had such fine results as third in the 1996 Tour of Lombardy one-day classic and fourth that year in the world championship road race.
''He's a serious and steady rider who does best when the race is hardest,'' said Merckx's coach with Polti, Gianluigi Stanga.
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2019-04-25T16:35:13Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/02/sports/cycling-merckx-rides-in-shadow-of-his-legendary-father.html
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The event fee is $150 for your primary team registration and $150 additional for each FRC-legal practice robot brought to the event. Don't forget to bring extra bumpers!
Payment deadline for mail-in payments is Friday, September 13, 2019.
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2019-04-22T12:47:04Z
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https://sites.google.com/a/neofra.com/northeast-ohio-first-robotics-alliance/2019-mvrc/2019-team-registration
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Two cars were waiting at a stoplight. The light turned green, but the man didn’t notice it. A woman in the car behind him is watching traffic pass around them. The woman begins pounding on her steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The man doesn’t move.
The woman is going ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at the man, pounding on her steering wheel and dash. The light turns yellow and the woman begins to blow the car horn, flips him off, and screams profanity and curses at the man. The man, looks up, sees the yellow light and accelerates through the intersection just as the light turns red.
The woman is beside herself, screaming in frustration as she misses her chance to get through the intersection. As she is still in mid-rant, she hears a tap on her window and looks up into the barrel of a gun held by a very serious looking police officer.
The police officer tells her to shut off her car while keeping both hands in sight. She complies, speechless at what is happening. After she shuts off the engine, the police officer orders her to exit her car with her hands up.
She gets out of the car and he orders her to turn and place her hands on her car then handcuffs her and takes her to the police station where she is fingerprinted, photographed, searched, booked and placed in a cell.
After a couple of hours, a police officer approaches the cell and opens the door for her. She is escorted back to the booking desk where the original officer is waiting with her personal effects and says, “I’m really sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping the guy off in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the “Choose Life” license plate holder, the “What Would Jesus Do” bumper sticker, the “Follow Me to Sunday School” bumper sticker, and the chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk.
Created about 14 yrs, 11 mths ago (April 25, 2004). Updated about 8 yrs, 3 mths ago (January 6, 2011).
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2019-04-20T10:23:00Z
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http://www.nedmartin.org/v3/amused/road-rage
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nme
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When will we get a new LCD Soundsystem album?
The statement James Murphy put out on Facebook after their reunion was announced in January said the record would out this year, but that now seems unlikely. While there’s no official release date as yet, the fact the band are reported to be in the studio towards the end of the year suggests it won’t be out until at least summer 2017.
Murphy has remained silent on what the new music sounds like and what has been influencing him, while the band have yet to play any new material at gigs so far.
Have we seen the artwork?
No artwork has been released as yet.
No title has been confirmed as yet.
What has James Murphy been doing since the band split?
Murphy didn’t slow down after breaking up the band – if anything, he got busier. He designed Despacio with 2ManyDJs and engineer John Klett, a project that featured speakers stacked up to eleven feet and whose aim was to go against the “spectacle” nature of what dance gigs had become.
He also revealed plans to try and change the sound the turnstiles of the New York subway make with new, nicer sounds dubbed the Subway Symphony. Murphy wanted each turnstile to harmonise with each other by emitting a sequence between three and five notes long and hoped it would happen during proposed renovations on the transport system. However, the MTA have said it is not possible because the beep used now is necessary under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
The LCD leader has also collaborated with Arcade Fire, having produced their fourth album ‘Reflektor’. He also recorded ‘DoYaThing’ with Gorillaz and Andre 3000 for Converse, and released ‘After You’ with Pulp at Christmas 2012. He is also credited as a producer on Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ third album ‘Mosquito’, and composed the score for Noah Baumbach’s 2015 film While We’re Young.
Murphy was reportedly due to act as a producer on sessions for David Bowie‘s final album, ‘Blackstar’. Those plans fell through, however he is listed in the album credits as a percussionist on the record. He also remixed the track ‘Love Is Lost’ from the album ‘The Next Day’ for an extended release.
In 2014, he “remixed” matches from the US Open. Murphy created an algorithm that generated pieces from things like a fault, point or ace when the matches were happening. He then created 14 remixes out of his favourite pieces and titled them by their match number.
Outside of music, Murphy directed the short film Little Duck for Canon’s Project Imaginati10n. The film was set in Japan and focuses on a young man who travels from Manhattan to help his brother with some problems he is facing. The musician also launched a coffee with company Blue Bottle. His signature coffee is described as a “syrupy, well-balanced and thoroughly accessible” espresso. In 2015, he opened a wine bar in Williamsburg called Four Horsemen, which serves a range of red, white and orange wines.
Are they touring this year?
The group have three upcoming dates at the time of writing. They will headline III Points festival in Miami, Florida (October 7), Austin City Limits festival in Austin, Texas (October 9), and Corona Capital festival in Mexico City (November 19-20). However, the band’s tour of Asia and Australia have been cancelled, as has the festival co-curated by the band that was due to take place in Mexico next January. The former were called off due to “studio scheduling conflicts related to their new album”, while Beach Vibes festival “was not coming together in the way that it was envisioned”.
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2019-04-24T20:01:47Z
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https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/new-lcd-soundsystem-album-release-date-tour-dates-and-everything-we-know-so-far-1188395
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emory
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Collection of materials relating to American poet James Ingram Merrill.
Papers of John Frederick Messick, mathematician and educator, including a dissertation, grade books, correspondence, genelogical and historical material, sheet music, photographs, and printed material.
Contains 613 matted engravings of British Methodist ministers along with additional copies.
Methodist Episcopal Church (Strasburg, PA).
Consists of one 110 page folio manuscript containing the minutes of the Leader's meetings of a Methodist church in Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
Contains a journal of the proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) held in August 1876.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Educational Commission.
The Educational Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was established by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1914 to consider plans for establishing two universities with theology programs to be owned and controlled by the Church. Upon recommendation of the Educational Commission, the General Conference severed ties with Vanderbilt University and supported the expansion of Emory College at Oxford, Ga., to become Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., in 1915. The collection consists of official correspondence of the Commission; three bound volumes containing minutes of the Commission and its executive committee; drafts of resolutions; reports; and other papers concerning the Vanderbilt University case and the establishment of Emory and Southern Methodist Universities. Persons represented in the collection include Warren A. Candler, W. B. Murrah, James Henry McCoy, John Carlisle Kilgo, Plato Tracy Durham, Asa Griggs Candler, William Danner Thomson, Andrew J. Cobb, James Edward Dickey, Nathaniel Edwin Harris, Samuel Martin Inman, James H. Kirkland, and Harry H. Stone.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Illinois Conference.
Contains minutes and statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Illinois Conference.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Georgia Conference. Conference proceedings, 1831-1931.
Contains conference proceedings from the yearly sessions of the Georgia Conference (1846-1865) and the North Georgia Conference (1866-1921).
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Telfair Circuit (Georgia).
Telfair Circuit (Methodist Episcopal Church, South) record book, 1829-1850.
Consists of the record book of the Little Ocmulgee Circuit, the Jacksonville (Georgia) Circuit, and the Telfair Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1829-1850.
Consists of a bound volume listing marriages and probationary members of the church, and a ledger fragment.
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2019-04-22T13:57:59Z
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https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/titles/M/?page=11
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Arts
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Reference
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capestudies
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Kogie Maistry was born in Durban, which is undoubtedly the most beautiful tropical part of South Africa. She moved to Cape Town in 1993, what she likes most about living in Cape Town is the slower paced life, the long summer days and breathtaking sunsets.
She started working at Cape Studies in 2004. She considers herself a part of the school, and isn’t going to find retiring from such a lovable job easy.
At school, science was her favourite subject especially biology. She went on to complete her teaching diploma majoring in biology and physiology. After graduating from Springfield Teachers Training College in Durban, she taught in various state schools. Her first job in Cape Town was teaching at Harold Cressy High School. It was there that she met and worked with different cultures, for one year and found that very interesting.
She loves teaching, meeting and interacting with people and has found Cape Studies to be the perfect setting.
Her other interests are reading biographies, spending time doing Yoga and meditation and meeting friends, especially at coffee shops. She enjoys interior decorating and coordinating formal events. Her motto is “learning can only be accelerated when having fun”.
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2019-04-23T02:17:36Z
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https://capestudies.com/uncategorized/kogie-maistry/
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Recreation
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wordpress
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A Quote From My Husband….
After this past weekend my husband stated this to me in these exact words,”I need to go back to work just to rest and recover.” Ahhhhh, a little tiny part of me felt bad for him but a really big part of me was thinking, what in the world is he going to do this coming weekend when we have three days to play outside?
With all our chores done, it was time to have some fun. We started with a two mile walk on a trail.
We saw so much wildlife and so many wild flowers. All the trees we walked past were in full bloom and the scent was amazing.
After our walk, we headed home for some dinner and then I told him I was not quite done. It was still so beautiful outside that I wanted to savor every second. So he agreed to play a quick game of disc golf with me.
We then returned home once again and he was done. Nothing I suggested he was willing to do or let me do alone for the matter. So the day was over. However, my mind was already working on Sunday plans.
Sunday brought a little sun and some clouds with the possibility of storms in the afternoon. So we put it in high gear, we needed to get in some fun and exercise before the rain. We wasted no time. He loaded up our boat and I packed the cooler and we headed to the water.
We returned from fishing/boating to originally take a hike along the Bay of Green Bay. However, after checking the forecast we decided it would be better just to walk in the neighborhood. We left with the mind set that I would try and make the three mile route we normally walk. I amazed myself by actually completing it without any pain in my ankle at all. This was a great sign for me. This is the same walk that use to put me in pain for hours afterwards due to my ankle injury. I was pretty happy to be pain free.
Upon our return home the rain started and continued for awhile. Which also meant our day was cut a little shorter than planned but we still had fun. I missed my jammed packed weekends of adventure and I am so happy to have them back.
This week will be a week full of walking with my kiddos during the day and working on making my ankle stronger with my therapy exercises and workouts. My hope is that I can possibly attempt my standup paddle board this up coming long weekend. Although, regardless of whether this happens or not, we have enough other events planned that I will not be disappointed either way. Let’s just hope that my husbands employer does not have a lot on his to do list come Tuesday……he will be ready to rest and recover for sure after I am done with him for three days!
Do you prefer relaxing weekends or busy fun weekends?
Saturday morning we awoke bright and early to make the short travel to Wausau, WI for a day of adventure. Our first stop was at Wausau Whitewater.
This is a a great place to try out your whitewater skills, or to learn new skills from some very knowledgeable paddlers. Both my son and husband have participated in this coarse in the past and have learned a great deal of skills here. I also over heard today that we will be returning soon to give this another try.
The portion of the river is very popular when the organization posts that there is going to be a dam release for whitewater purposes. These releases last from 10am-4pm, and in this time you can register for lessons, participate in the recreational release, or you can sit on the edge of the river and just enjoy the show. There is a small fee to participate, although spectating is free. Today,that is what we did.
The nicest thing here for me, as a mom and a wife, is there is medical personnel waiting on the edge, on the rocks mid river, and throw ropes laying all along the edge of the river for spectators to pitch in if needed. Along with the medical personnel, fellow kayakers will also assist mid river when they can.
Here is the river, calm and relaxing before the dam release.
If you would need to exit your kayak anywhere along here and cannot make it to the edge of the river, there is a nice little lake waiting for you at the end of the whitewater. Feet in front of you is the rule, and enjoy the ride on your backside.
Here are some pictures I captured of some experienced whitewater paddlers doing what they do best.
Here is a little trick they all use to get more volume in their kayaks which makes it easier to flip the boat over themselves while in the rapid.
Yes, that is a beach ball. They stuff it between their legs under their skirt that covers the kayak cockpit. Genius!
We also saw a class of mostly women taking their first whitewater lesson today. All looked quite nervous as they made their way down river to learn the basics.
This is an awesome place for paddlers to try their skills, hang out with fellow whitewater paddlers and just have a great time. If you come from far, there is a wonderful little area that kayakers are allowed to camp for the weekend and it is literally right next to the rivers edge.
It’s the one place that you can see a rainbow of colors and you don’t even have to look up to the sky.
Recently the city has made some very nice new walkways in our area and we had some time to go explore them. The walkway takes you out over the locks and very near the city dam.
On the overlooks, you can see many, many pelicans hoping to find their next meal.
I must admit, I was quite impressed with all the improvements. There were alot of people walking on the new overlooks and all the kids were oooing and ahhhing at the hundreds of big fish below, swimming in the river.
While we were walking, I mentioned to my husband that this would be the ideal place for us to live. There are condo’s feet from the waters edge and they even have their own boat slips. How great would that be?
We could stand up paddle, kayak or take the fishing boat out every night. Then he pointed out a big disadvantage. There are always alot of people around and sometimes we really search hard for piece and quiet, especially since we already live in the city. So, I sadly agreed, and besides, this is not our dream body of water to live on anyhow. It was a nice thought though.
On the way back to the recreational trail, I noticed an area restaurant that offers dinner on the outdoor deck, where you could sit and watch the sunset. How beautiful would that be? And I just love how all the old buildings in and around the area have renovated and helped make the area what it is.
After our exploration here we headed toward the recreational trail which is connected a little further down. It is a great paved trail that goes on and on for miles. Along the way we ran into a little boy and his mom. The little boy came to us and asked if we could see all the,”fuzzy flowers,” and we said yes. I told him to see if he could catch one, and so he did. It’s funny how something that normally drives alot of people crazy with allergies can cause such excitement in someone with an imagination. It was cute to see him run around and try to catch the floating cotton puffs.
We walked a little further and my husband surprised me with his offer to buy ice cream along the trail. I would never pass this up, he very rarely will go out for ice cream. He ordered an orange cream drink, and me a turtle sundae, with no nuts(allergy).
We took them back down to the waters edge and ate. Then headed back to end our night.
QUESTION: How did your life change when your last child graduated high school or left for college? Was it good or bad?
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2019-04-25T04:13:07Z
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https://naturalred.wordpress.com/tag/boating/
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Arts
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Recreation
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brainyquote
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Professionalism and punctuality are extremely important, especially in the career path I've chosen. Being on sets, film schedules can be very stringent and tight. They are sometimes at odd hours in various locations. Being there when you're called just ensures that the day starts smoothly.
I am a very hyper person and always get pre-occupied with something.
I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything.
I have never celebrated Valentine's Day in my life.
I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.
When in doubt, always wear black.
Look after all those lovely peculiarities in your face, your body, and yourself.
On certain days, it can get difficult, because acting is about being naked emotionally. There are days when you are feeling empty, but the scene demands you to go through a cathartic experience. That's why I like to know what my schedule for a particular film is beforehand.
Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.
I think jokes on colour or body shaming shouldn't be made. It's not funny to crack such jokes.
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2019-04-18T22:48:20Z
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https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/radhika_apte_959450?src=t_extremely
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Arts
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Arts
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pagebypagebooks
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I saved some images from the traffic cameras so that you can see how many lanes are open on the roads leading in to downtown Bethesda. I saved these pictures at 7 this morning. You can see that most roads are only one or two lanes each direction. Even heavily used roads like Old Georgetown Road and East-West Highway are only one lane each way.
Old Georgetown Rd at Cedar Ln One lane plus two half lanes.
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2019-04-24T00:10:50Z
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http://blog.pagebypagebooks.com/2016/01/what-to-expect-on-roads-in-bethesda.html
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There is something extraordinary happening right now to each and every one of us. Have you heard? Some have said we are "waking up". Others talk of us "raising our consciousness". All the prophecies of every major religion and faith seem to be convening as we come to the close of this millennium. We hear the murmurs and rumors of a planetary shift, one that will shed a bright light on our current state of darkness and confusion. How we each approach this realization of a higher consciousness will add a unique and diverse layer to whatever we are due to experience on this planet in the next few critical years . When 6.8 billion people with 6.8 different perspectives on what it means to be alive are sharing one planet, things are bound to get a little hairy!
Many of us at times, are stressed by the multitudes of energies that vie for our attention on a daily basis. If our time is not taken by our jobs or daily responsibilities, we are probably vegetating (recovering) in front of our television sets, or sleeping. If we are very fortunate, we find some time during our hectic week to give to ourselves, whether it be engaging in a hobby, meditation, or even an hour in therapy. Several of us feel cut off from the outside world of stress, violence and the evening news. We want to insulate ourselves from the chaotic harm we sense occurring always around us. We are all aware that our planet is in danger--and that means the spirits of all life on Earth--human beings, all the creatures and trees are endangered as well. Many of us feel trapped in our worlds, and may feel powerless to affect change in our own life, not to mention the confidence and faith required to take on the job of healing the planet.
Why are we here? Certainly not to be observors of a slow death to all life on Earth. We witness daily the pollution, destruction, and unconscious exploitation of Earth and her inhabitants. How can we allow this to go on? Yet what are we to do? For instance, we must drive our cars so that we can go to work so that we can survive. Even if we take public transportation, we are still polluting the environment with our exhaust fumes. We all create garbage for our land fills; we can't possibly recycle everything. It seems that everything causes cancer. Besides, isn't that the government's responsibility? What's the E.P.A. for, anyway?
I believe we are here to be guardians for our planet. This is surely no easy task. Perhaps this is why God made us so complex. After all, we are still using only about 10% of our brains, not to mention the power of our hearts which so few of us have access to. We have functioned on survival for so long, our fight-or-flight mechanism has surpressed our higher potentials as human beings. Even if our human potential could be fully accessed, how on Earth can we know where to begin to clean up our planet? The powers-that-be have had thousands of years to hold the Earth hostage to their negative spin--now we have only a few years to be like Superman when he turned back time to give Planet Earth a happy ending. YIKES!
Relax...Most of us are doing the best we can under the circumstances. We would most certainly align ourselves with good choices for us and the planet if we were given the chance. We sometimes forget that we always have a chance--our choice.There is a simple way to attract and choose things in life that are good for us and the planet. Simply support and affirm all life. Any choice that hurts any part of life isn't a life-affirmjng choice. If we love all living things, and protect the lives of all living creatures, we begin to be the guardians we were meant to be.
Being an intelligent person today means more than having a high I.Q. The more important question is What's your Earth I.Q. ? What does it mean to be earth-intelligent? Do you make choices that are good for you and good for the Earth? It has become easier to make earth-intelligent choices in our lives because today there are many environmentally-friendly, non-toxic alternatives to meet our needs. We simply have to become informed of them and choose them over unconscious toxic choices.
We all have to meet our basic needs--food, clothing, shelter, the need to love and be loved, the need to feel safe, the need to reach our full potential as human beings. Whenever we can make a choice that supports and nurtures our lives and the lives of others, and the planet, we are being earth-intelligent and making a life-affrming choice. The earth demands nothing less if we are to continue our privelged existence here.
We have arrived. Our intuiton and consciousness are gliding into alignment with the will of our planet that has supported us all along. Many human beings have begun to experience the effortless ease that comes along with "surrendering" to the will of the Unverse. What this really means is that we are able to let the higher will of God work through us, instead of being in opposition to this force. When we commit ourselves to being the special agents for this divine energy, things seem to fall into place for us. We put a request out to the Universe, and it is granted. We speak our desires, only to have each one fulfilled. Our lives become the full expression of the grace and magic we have always known they could be.
It is my dedicated pleasure and duty to inform you of the life- affirming technologies and alternative lifestyle options that I have found thus far. Please be aware that you do make a profound difference in the world--through your own life as a shining example for others, and through all the lives that you touch everyday. Thank you for taking the time to read this and consider the possibilities for exemplary living that the following pages invite you to embrace.
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2019-04-23T12:05:15Z
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http://earthportals.com/techspirit.html
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Health
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emory
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The Emory libraries participate in the following interlibrary use (ILU) programs, which provide Emory researchers with in-house use and/or direct borrowing privileges at many academic and research libraries in the Atlanta/Athens area, North America and even overseas.
Through the Interlibrary Use (ILU) Program of the Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education (ARCHE), Emory students, faculty, and staff can obtain limited direct borrowing privileges at other ARCHE member libraries.
Apply in person at your Emory home library*. You will need your Emory ID.
*Emory College, Laney Graduate School and Goizueta Business School faculty, students and staff may apply at the Woodruff Library Reference/Service Desk. Other professional school faculty, students and staff may apply at their professional school library.
Interlibrary Use cards are issued for a specific ARCHE member library and are valid for a specific and limited period of time. Cards are not transferable and can only be issued to you by your Emory library. You may apply for an Interlibrary Use card whenever the need arises.
Each ARCHE library determines its own borrowing policies, which you are expected to observe. Each library determines how many books you may borrow, and for how long. Renewal of materials is handled directly by each lending library, according to its own policies.
Please note that the ARCHE Interlibrary Use program does not permit the use of another library's facilities for general study purposes.
You are responsible for the good condition and timely return of all materials borrowed with your ARCHE Interlibrary Use card.
You may return materials borrowed from other ARCHE libraries directly to the lending library or via the ARCHE delivery van.
To allow time for transit back to the lending library, please bring books to be returned via the delivery van to the Woodruff Library Interlibrary Loan Office or Library Service Desk (2nd Floor), at least four days before the due date.
Note that the Emory Libraries are not responsible for any loss or damage to these materials en route, and that you are responsible for any overdue fines which may accrue on materials which are returned via the van delivery system.
The lending library will notify and bill you directly for any overdue, damaged, or lost books.
Please be sure to pay any fines, repair or replacement costs in a timely way. Failure to do so could result in suspension of your ILU privileges, transfer of the outstanding amount to your Emory Bursar's record, and/or suspension of your borrowing privileges at the Emory libraries.
The Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program is sponsored by OCLC's Research Libraries Advisory Committee. Faculty of participating universities may borrow (in most cases) another library's materials under the auspices of this reciprocal agreement among many OCLC member libraries in the US and Canada. Each library, through its dean or director, makes the decision to participate in the program and they also decide what services they will offer visiting faculty.
On-site access privileges through the OCLC Research Library Partnership's SHARES program permit students, faculty, emeritus faculty, and academic and professional library staff of partner institutions to use the collections and services at other SHARES libraries.
Please note that this program allows you to enter a SHARES member library, many of which have restrictive access policies, and use library resources on-site; however, it usually does not confer borrowing (check-out) privileges.
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2019-04-22T06:17:23Z
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http://web.library.emory.edu/using-the-library/interlibrary-loan/use-programs.html
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Only THREE more days to get the lowest price of the season at $65, price goes up to $75 on December 1st. Yearbooks will be on sale in the commons this week. Come by the table in the commons and guess the amount of candy canes for a chance to win a free name stamp and cover for your yearbook!
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2019-04-21T12:22:04Z
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https://lolhs.pasco.k12.fl.us/yearbook-sales/
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Effects of Culturally-Responsive Teaching Practices on First Grade Students' Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Gains.
Accumulating research reveals that children's reading comprehension is influenced by a reader's experiences, knowledge, language structure, and vocabulary. Thus, this researcher investigated the construct, culturally-responsive practice, as a way to provide effective learning opportunities for children from non-mainstream cultures, including children living in poverty. Evidence from this study suggests that the most critical component of culturally-responsive practice on students' reading comprehension is the development and implementation of reading comprehension strategies. While this is an important finding, a notable word of caution is that the practices considered to be important for honoring students' cultural backgrounds are also considered to be effective reading comprehension strategies in general. Study results reflect the successful development and implementation of a first grade vocabulary intervention that supported students' reading skill growth. This was the case even though one of the participating schools served many children living in poverty. While the intervention offers a promising approach to support children's vocabulary and reading comprehension more generally, additional research is essential. Exploration of students' language use during language arts instruction in general, and vocabulary instruction in particular may provide answers. At the same time, it should be recognized that as a self-standing construct, culturally-responsive practice may be too limited. Thus, absent effective teaching overall, these results suggest that focus solely on instilling culturally-responsive practices in the classroom will likely fail to lead to stronger student achievement. Many questions remain unanswered, supporting the need for well designed randomized control field trials that incorporate complementary methods – both experimental and observational, examining teachers' culturally-responsive practices (or lack thereof) in the classroom, evidence-based reading comprehension instruction, students' reaction to this practice, and how these practices relate to students' reading skill growth. It may be that culturally-responsive practices enhance other student outcomes, such as social skills and behavior, which were beyond the scope of this study. Implications also exist for pre-service teacher education programs and teacher professional development efforts as well. While training in culturally-responsive practices has a long history, classroom-based research to support these practices has been limited.
Barbara C. Palmer, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Carol McDonald Connor, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; William Doerner, Outside Committee Member; Carolyn Piazza, Committee Member; Vickie Lake, Committee Member.
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2019-04-18T21:51:18Z
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http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A253970
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In cooperation with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the HRS is conducting a series of webinars. Each one-hour webinar provides an overview of study content followed by guidance on where to find that content on the HRS website with Q&A sessions.
Note: The first part of this webinar duplicates the HRS web tutorial by the same name. The second half of the webinar, however, provides a tour of the website that is highly relevant to new users.
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2019-04-24T08:28:37Z
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https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/documentation/archived-webinars
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At Oracle's OpenWorld conference, Michael Dell chides the Lenovo-IBM deal. Also: Oracle chief Larry Ellison' deja vu keynote speech.
Michael Dell, whose namesake company is the top-ranking PC maker, is not a big fan of the acquisition.
During a question-and-answer session at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, the Dell chairman said a deal between Lenovo and IBM would likely follow a pattern seen in many mergers where two very different organizations fail to mesh.
"We're not big fans of the idea of taking companies and smashing them together," Dell said. "When was the last time you saw a successful acquisition or merger in the computer industry? It hasn't happened in a long, long time...I don't see this one as being all that different."
Some of Dell's top executives also disparaged the "big iron" approach of building large, powerful servers--a dig at rivals IBM, Sun Microsystems and HP. Those competitors see expensive, refrigerator-size servers with dozens of processors as a good way to tackle high-end corporate computing tasks.
Dell prefers clusters of lower-end systems linked over a high-speed network. A crucial component in making server clusters useful is a database that can spread across them--a database such as Oracle 10g, Dell touted during a keynote speech.
Dell's partnership with Oracle is aimed at luring customers away from Sun servers running the Unix operating system.
Indeed, few companies were off-limits to Dell, as the executive who oversees the partnership with Red Hat said the Linux seller needs to lower its prices, or risk losing customers to free versions of the open-source operating system.
"We believe Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, for the small and medium-size business market, was out of the price range of these customers," said Judy Chavis, director of business development for Dell's enterprise product group.
And Dell has the marketing muscle to make its opinions clear. Indeed, Red Hat's pricing was instrumental in Dell's decision to sign its October pact to sell Novell's SuSE Linux.
With so many things on his mind these days, coming up with fresh material for a keynote speech didn't appear to be on Oracle boss Larry Ellison's list of priorities. Ellison virtually recycled his speech from last year's conference, warning thousands of tech professionals gathered to hear him speak about the dangers of "data fragmentation."
He also promised that if the takeover attempt is successful, Oracle will finish building new versions of programs that PeopleSoft is now developing and eventually merge those products with Oracle's own.
"We're going to invest more in the product than either company could have done independently," Ellison said. "And we're going to give SAP a good run for their money in this business."
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2019-04-25T14:11:39Z
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https://www.cnet.com/news/this-week-in-openworld-news/
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truth of freedom and the human spirit," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.
Rumsfeld spoke next to a flag-draped casket containing cremated remains from the Pentagon rubble that could not be identified. For five of the victims, the internment in Arlington will be the only burial because no remains were confirmed to be theirs.
The five include a 60-year-old retired Army colonel and a 3-year-old girl killed with her parents and sister aboard hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.
Some 1,000 relatives of victims sat solemnly, some hugging and weeping, others wiping away tears, as the crowd sang "Amazing Grace" and listened to eulogies from military chaplains.
"Know that your country shares your sorrow, mourns your loss and prays that God will comfort you," Rumsfeld told the families.
A five-sided granite marker bearing the 184 names will be placed over a shared grave at Arlington National Cemetery — the nation's most prestigious burial ground — holding the unidentified remains.
The 4-foot-5-inch (1.35-meter) tall marker, with names of the dead inscribed on aluminum plaques, will be placed over the grave next week. The Army oversees Arlington cemetery.
The casket was carried by a horse-drawn caisson to a hill within view of the repaired Pentagon. Hundreds of family members filed past the grave site. Most of the 64 victims from the Pentagon who already are interred at Arlington lie nearby, under simple headstones.
In some cases, as recovery efforts continued, additional remains were identified after a person was buried. Some of their families chose to have those fragments held for the common burial site, Jennifer Lafley, spokeswoman for the Army Military District of Washington said.
Many of the dead, including some who were working inside the Pentagon on September 11, did not qualify for burial at the nation's most famous cemetery.
Arlington is generally reserved for active duty personnel, military retirees, retired reservists who reach age 60, winners of the military's highest decorations, and former prisoners of war. Their spouses also qualify.
Among the 275,000 people buried there are presidents John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft, the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, and veterans of every war the United States has fought.
In a single casket, remains that symbolically represent all 184 victims of the attack on the Pentagon were buried with full military honors Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, the resting place of the nation's unknown soldiers.
He offered special condolences to the families of five victims whose remains were never identified, including 3-year-old Dana Falkenberg, who died aboard American Airlines Flight 77.
"Today, these five join the unknown of past wars even as we pursue the war that is still unfolding,'' Rumsfeld said, standing next to the flag-draped casket.
A granite monument with five sides, like the Pentagon, will be placed over the grave next week. It will stand on a hill with a tree-dappled view of the spot where the hijacked jet smashed into the Pentagon.
Names of all 184 victims are inscribed on the 4-foot-5-inch-tall marker.
"It cries out, do not forget. Do not forget, Americans,'' Brigadier General James T. Spivey Jr. said in his funeral address.
Some 1,000 relatives of victims sat solemnly, some hugging and weeping, many holding pictures of their loved ones, as the crowd sang "Amazing Grace'' on Thursday.
After the funeral, a caisson drawn by six horses carried the casket behind the U.S. Army Band and two platoons of service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
The service marked the end of a year of September 11 burials at Arlington.
Individual funerals from the Pentagon attack began here on September 25; the last was April 9. In all, 64 of the dead had already been buried at Arlington, most of them next to the site of the new monument.
Many other victims, including some who were working inside the Pentagon on September 11, did not qualify for an individual burial site at the nation's most prestigious cemetery, which is limited to active duty personnel and certain former service members.
All the cremated remains buried Thursday were determined to have come from victims, because they did not have a genetic trait shared by the terrorists, said Chris Kelly, spokesman for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
Some of the remains buried could not be linked to an individual victim. Others were identified after a victim had been buried, and were included in the shared grave at the family's request.
The hijackers' remains were turned over to the FBI in February. Any other remains, such as ash, that could not be partially identified as victims were disposed of by the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Kelly said, to ensure that no terrorists were committed to hallowed ground.
Donna Teepe buried her husband, retired Lieutenant Colonel Karl W. Teepe, in a similar Arlington service on October 15, when she was still too dazed to note the bugler playing taps and other ceremonial flourishes.
at the Arlington National Cemetery September 12, 2002.
during a group funeral at the Arlington National Cemetery September 12, 2002.
Hicks (L) listens at Arlington National Cemetery, September 12, 2002.
Rumsfeld extended his condolences to the families of the victims.
year's terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
last year's terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
contained cremated remains from the Pentagon rubble that could not be identified.
will be the only burial because no remains were confirmed to be theirs.
victims of last year's terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
during a committal service for the 184 victims of last year's terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
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2019-04-21T22:27:44Z
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http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/unidentified-091202.htm
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Jon Liles created this scholarship in memory of his mentor, Mr. B.E. Allen, who worked with Union Camp Corporation and served as a mentor to Jon. Jon credits Mr. Allen with his successful career and for providing him with so much support during the early years of his career following graduation from UGA. The purpose of this scholarship is to provide support to an outstanding graduate student in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources who has demonstrated a commitment to the management and utilization of forest resources.
The Warnell School is proud to have a very active group of alumni who support students by giving their time and resources. Each year, Warnell provides several renewable scholarships to incoming professional students who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership. The number of scholarships awarded varies each year, but they are a direct result of annual gifts to the Forestry Fund.
Earl D. Barrs and Wanda Taylor Barrs are 1974 graduates of the University of Georgia; Earl earned a BSFR in Forest Resource Management and Wanda earned a BSHE in Home Economics Education. Both have been avid supporters of their respective colleges, actively participating in their alumni associations and serving as key advisors to the deans of their respective schools. The purpose of this fund is to provide financial support to either an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated interest in developing leadership skills or an entrepreneurial spirit. The recipient has been selected for his/her demonstrated potential as a future leader and entrepreneur and with consideration for his/her demonstrated academic capabilities.
This scholarship was established in honor of the late Judith Fitzgerald Brooks, who earned her BSFR degree in Forest Resources in 1984 and her MFR in 1995 from the Warnell School. Judy was a Warnell staff member from 1988 to 1999. This scholarship was established by Judy’s parents, Richard and Mary Fitzgerald, and her husband, Jeff Brooks, in her memory. The recipient must demonstrate an interest in sustainable forest production.
Named in honor of Robert “Bubba Dawg” Izlar, the director of the Harley Langdale Jr. Center for Forest Business, this scholarship was established in 2015 by Mike Newsome, owner of U.S. Land & Farms, LLC. His company was founded on the vision of providing exemplary brokerage services to financial institutions and organizations that have timberland and rural property as part of their lending or investment portfolios. Mike is a strong supporter of Warnell and appreciates the benefits this one-of-a-kind program brings to the investment community. This award is given annually to an outstanding graduate student studying forest business.
The Burgin Timberland Endowed Scholarship provides support for an undergraduate second year professional student in Forestry. Recipients must demonstrate maturity, academic achievement and commitment to the principles of sustainable forest management. Forestry has been the backbone of the Burgin family for more than 100 years. Through this endowment Burgin Timberland hopes to ensure the quality and capabilities of tomorrow’s forestry professionals by supporting the education of today’s students.
Charles L. "Lee" Cherry Jr. remembered growing up in Myles Standish State Forest in Massachusetts. Lee's father, Charles Sr. was supervisor of this 18000 acre forest. Charles Sr. eventually retired in 1966 as a Regional State Forester for Massachusetts. Lee helped his grandfather log with draft horses on his own property as well as Maine and New Hampshire National Forests. He worked at a local sawmill before joining the Navy in 1943 at the age of 17. He served on the carrier USS Lexington for the duration of World War II. After the war he did crop dusting with helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. As a Naval Reservist, he was called back in the Korean War to fly transport, occasionally bringing stabilized wounded back to the US. In 1952 Lee moved his young family to Walton County, Georgia. He supported them with assorted jobs including managing dairies, building golf courses, farming, and others. He retired from his fleet of over the road trucks after 40 years of hauling for Wellington Leisure Products in Madison, Georgia. For recreation while in Walton County Lee spent many hours at the Walton County Airport. He enjoyed instructing others to learn to fly, as well as towing and flying sailplanes. He loved hunting deer and birds as well as just spending time in the woods. He was amazed at the fast growing southern pines. He managed his trees on his farm in Walton County, also constructing his own sawmill. After retiring to Elbert County, he purchased a moderate piece of pine timber property. He was happiest when caring for and hunting this land.
Edward “Ed” Newsom Cooper was a 1934 graduate of the University of Georgia Peabody School of Forestry. He spent his career with St. Regis Paper Company in positions of increasing responsibility culminating as Forest Manager for St. Regis’ Suwannee Forest in Fargo, Georgia. During his career, Ed worked closely with The Langdale Company and Superior Pine Products Company pioneering flatwoods firefighting techniques around the Okefenokee Swamp. He also participated in the development and silvicultural deployment of the Coulter Disc and the Mathis Fire Plow. His greatest operational challenge was the massive reforestation of several hundred thousand acres of St. Regis’ lease lands following the devastating Mule Tail Fire in the Okefenokee in the winter of 1954-55. Reforestation efforts began in 1956 and were completed by 1960. Ed’s leadership in the first extensive U.S. pine plantation establishment during this period was exceptional not only for his employer but also for the many private landowners he assisted. Ed and his wife Martha Smith Cooper made several gifts of land to benefit the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. This fellowship will support an outstanding Warnell graduate student.
The fund was established in 1984 in honor of late faculty member, Jerome “Jerry” L. Clutter, who was a pioneer in the field of biometrics and quantitative timber management planning. Clutter founded the Biometrics and Operations Research Unit of the University of Georgia. Jerry guided the creation and development of the Plantation Management Research Cooperative, which is still in existence and provides data and information on the pine plantation resource in the South. This scholarship provides assistance to graduate students in Warnell who will be majoring in Biometrics.
Davis-Hollcroft Endowed Forestry Scholarship The Davis-Hollcroft Family Forestry Scholarship provides support for an undergraduate student studying forestry. It was established by Tina Davis-Hollcroft and her nephew, Garret Davis Mack, a graduate of the UGA Warnell School of Forestry. Tina and her late husband, Hal, together built Barefoot Mountain Farms, providing fresh Fraser Fir Christmas trees and wreaths to non-profit organizations for fundraising opportunities. Tina continues this work in addition to serving other philanthropic and civic groups both locally and internationally. Through the Davis-Hollcroft Family Forestry scholarship, they hope to honor Hal’s legacy and the Davis family while touching the lives of future foresters for years to come.
Fred W. Haeussler Scholarship This fund was established to provide support for an undergraduate student studying forestry and to encourage membership in the Society of American Foresters. The fund was named for the late Mr. Fred W. Haeussler, who was very active during his time at Warnell and The University of Georgia. Mr. Haeussler was a member of numerous organizations, editor of the Cypress Knee and associate editor of the Georgia Agriculturist. Mr. Haeussler lettered in track and cross country and was elected as the “Outstanding Male Senior” on the UGA campus. He was inducted in both the Alabama and Georgia Foresters Halls of Fame and in 1999 received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Warnell School.
Elmo C. Hester, Jr. Scholarship Established by Earl N. and Dorothy Hester of St. Charles, Ill., this foundation-endowed scholarship is awarded to a Warnell professional student every other year. This fund was established to provide scholarships to students in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and the Warnell School.
Hogan Graduate Support Scholarship The purpose of this fund is to support a graduate student enrolled in the Forest Business program in the Warnell School. The fund is named for Mr. Leonard D. Hogan, who received his Bachelor of Science in forestry from the Warnell School in 1954. Mr. Hogan returned in 1956, after two years of service in the Navy, to receive his Master of Forest Resources degree in 1957. Mr. Hogan is a charter member of the Presidents Club, the Jayhole Club, and Xi Sigma Pi.
Frederick William Kinard, Jr. Scholarship Fredrick W. Kinard, Jr., one of the first forest industry wildlife biologists in the country, earned his BS in wildlife management from Warnell in 1962 and a master’s degree in 1964. He began his career at Westvaco, with responsibility to integrate wildlife and forest management. He established programs to protect endangered species four years before the federal Endangered Species Act was adopted and is a leading proponent of wildlife ecology programs on industrial forestlands. He is an active member of The Wildlife Society and the Society of American Foresters. His foundation endowed scholarship supports an academically qualified student.
Charles A. and Rose Lane Leavell Scholarship Charles A. Leavell, forester and popular professional musician, is a great supporter of forest resources in Georgia. He and his wife, Rose Lane, own and manage the 1,200-acre Charlane Plantation in Twiggs County, Ga. Leavell was named the American Forest Foundation’s 1999 Georgia Tree Farmer of the Year and was the National Tree Farmer of the Year in 2000. The Leavells provide this foundation endowed scholarship annually to a student majoring in wildlife who has an appreciation for all uses of forest resources.
Arnett C. and Ruth Mace Memorial Scholarship Established by Arnett C. Mace, Jr. and wife, Barbara, in memory of Arnett’s parents, this foundation endowed scholarship supports a graduate student who has an interest in sustainable forest management. Mace served as dean of the Warnell School from 1991 to 2002, UGA senior vice-president and provost from 2003 to 2010, and is now retired. Recipients of this scholarship must demonstrate leadership abilities and be active in professional organizations. Preference is given to residents of West Virginia, where Arnett and Ruth Mace lived.
Barbara J. and Arnett C. Mace Jr. Graduate Support Fund Established by Arnett C. Mace, Jr. and wife, Barbara, this foundation-endowed scholarship supports a Warnell graduate student who has an interest in water resources, forestry, or forest business. Mace served as dean of the Warnell School from 1991 to 2002, UGA senior vice-president and provost from 2003 to 2010, and is now retired. Recipients of this scholarship must demonstrate leadership abilities and be active in professional organizations.
Martha Love May Memorial Scholarship This scholarship was established by the late Jack T. May, a beloved professor of silviculture and forest soils for more than 20 years, in memory of his wife, Martha Love May. Dr. May was sensitive to environmental and social issues and was a leader in soil conservation and reforestation efforts. He believed in diversity and worked to make minority and foreign students welcome in Warnell and at UGA. He served as president of the Georgia Academy of Science, was inducted into the Georgia Foresters Hall of Fame and was a 50-year member of the Society of American Foresters. This foundation-endowed scholarship is provided annually to an outstanding professional or graduate student who is actively involved in extra-curricular activities, both inside and outside of Warnell.
Robert Gooding McAlpine Scholarship The family of Mr. Robert Gooding McAlpine established an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Mr. McAlpine’s 90th birthday. The purpose of this fund is to support students studying forest biology. The first scholarship was awarded in 2012. When Robert G. McAlpine moved to Athens from South Carolina in the 1950s, he began working as a forestry aid with the U.S. Forest Service before enrolling at UGA, where he earned an MFR in 1956 despite not having a forestry-related bachelor’s degree. He was quickly promoted to a research forester, and during his career he maintained close ties with his alma mater, working with Dr. Klaus Steinbeck and Dr. Claude Brown, teaching dendrology, and acting as the faculty advisor for Xi Sigma Pi. He saw the Forest Service build new labs on campus and a nursery at Whitehall Forest before transferring to North Carolina in 1972. In 1976 he became the assistant director for forest research in Georgia and Florida. McAlpine retired in 1979 and now lives in Gainesville.
This foundation endowed scholarship provides scholarship support to an undergraduate majoring in forestry. Arlene and the late Tilden Norris were very active in the forestry community. Tilden was the 1996 recipient of the Paper Industry Management Association’s Ray Cross Community Service Award. Though the Norris’s were originally from West Virginia, they sent two sons through UGA. Their oldest son, Dewaine, graduated with a BSF in 1969 and younger son, Tom, earned a BSF in 1971. The Norris’s commitment to education is evident in their support to Warnell and to community colleges in their area.
J. Reid Parker Memorial Merit Scholarship This scholarship was established in memory of J. Reid Parker, who served the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, its students, and the forestry profession for 32 years as a teacher, advisor, mentor and friend. The purpose of the scholarship is to celebrate and remember Reid’s love for Warnell and, most especially, his commitment to its students. Recipients have demonstrated their commitment to the School through their strong academic performance, aspirations of leadership, ability to overcome challenges and a proven record of commitment to others.
Established in honor of the late Professor Emeritus Archie Patterson, a beloved teacher who taught forest management, history and ethics in Warnell for more than 40 years, this scholarship provides a one-year, full in-state tuition for a professional or graduate student. Recognized nationally as the conscience of the forestry profession, Patterson championed forester registration and urged standardization and continuing education courses that held registered foresters to a high level of professionalism and competency. The endowment was established by the late Lawrence N. “Tommy” Thompson (BSF ‘48), and continues to be supported by the Patterson Family. Mr. Thompson was an innovative forester, civic leader and businessman, who before his death in 1999, was president of T&S Hardwoods, Milledgeville, Ga.
Established in 2005 by former Warnell Dean Richard L. and Rita S. Porterfield, this scholarship is in loving memory of Richard’s parents, Robert and June Porterfield of Marion, Ohio. Robert and June had three children and were happily married for over 50 years. The scholarship is given annually to a married graduate student.
This foundation endowed scholarship was established by Dr. Forest E. Kellogg, Dr. Provost’s first graduate student, and the Warnell Alumni Association in honor of Professor Emeritus Ernie Provost, a wildlife professor remembered for his unique teaching style and commitment to students. It supports a professional student in wildlife or fisheries with a demonstrated commitment to the management and wise use of forest resources. Dr. Kellogg’s wish in establishing this scholarship was to provide the same quality education to future students that Dr. Provost provided to his students.
The N.E. Georgia Quail Unlimited Chapter sought to promote awareness of wildlife habitat for the preservation and education of the quail habitat in Northeast Georgia by supporting the efforts of research, education and service in game-bird management, meeting the challenges faced by threatened quail populations and their habitats, and growing public awareness of this great resource by providing scholarship and research opportunities to students and faculty. This fund supports the game-bird management program in the Warnell School by providing scholarship funds for students with a demonstrated interest in quail management.
William Tyler Ray, a World War II veteran and a 1926 UGA Law School graduate, was a well-known realtor and attorney with HQ Epting and Company. As a student, he was a member of Sigma Delta Kappa legal fraternity and the Demosthenian Literary Society. He was active in the Lions Club, serving as its president, district governor and chairman of the Board of Governors for Lions Club International. Upon his death in 1959, his will included a bequest providing for this scholarship fund. The scholarship provides funds for entering professional students with well-defined goals for a professional career in forest resources.
Clarence Lee "Mutt" Rhodes, Jr. Graduate Fellowship C. L. (Mutt) Rhodes, Jr. was born in 1927 into a sawmill family, graduated from University of Georgia Terry College of Business Administration, and served in the united States Navy during World War II. He returned home after WWII, joined the family business, and is still active (2016) in the day to day affairs of forest management. Rooted in the timber industry, Mutt wants to see the industry prosper for future generations. This fellowship will support an outstanding Warnell graduate student.
Gerald B. and Charlotte Alexander Saunders Scholarship The late Gerald B. and Charlotte Alexander Saunders were enthusiastic supporters of the forestry industry in Georgia and the South. Gerald Saunders was a founder of the Southern Pine Association, and in the early ‘70s served as president of the Georgia Forestry Association. In 1918, he went to work for Alexander Brothers Lumber Company, and there he met and married Charlotte Alexander. Together they guided the company into success, supporting the education of young people along the way. Their son Richard V. Saunders, Sr. and wife, Kay Wike Saunders, helped Gerald and Charlotte establish this scholarship to benefit students of Warnell, since they too are deeply committed to education, young people and forest resources in Georgia.
Nellie Herringdine established this fund to commemorate her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Benjamin Shirey, who gave her the wonderful gift of education. Her parents were determined for her to receive a good education and succeed in the world. Nellie’s father financed her education by cutting and selling timber grown on the family farm. Nellie graduated from Georgia State College and was the first in her family to earn a degree. She went on to receive her Masters in Education from Georgia College. Although Nellie didn’t attend UGA, her fondness grew when her son William Herringdine graduated from UGA and where he also and enjoyed a successful career.
C.M. and Bernice Stripling have been avid supporters of education, agriculture and forestry in Georgia. Mr. Stripling was the 1986 Georgia Tree Farmer of the Year and the 1987-88 National Tree Farmer of the Year. Long-time residents of Camilla, Ga., the Striplings have fought with much success for timber tax relief and have been major contributors to the success of Warnell and the forestry community in the state. Their fund, established in 1987, provides scholarships to a freshman and professional forestry and wildlife student with an expressed interest in the management of forests for sustained productivity.
William M. Oettmeier was president and general manager of Superior Pine Products from 1926-1975. During this time, he founded the Forest Farmers Association. He was also president of the Georgia Forestry Association and the American Forestry Association. He pioneered the use of fire prevention and control in the South. After he retired, his son William M. Oettmeier, Jr. served as president and general manager of Superior Pine Products. He also served as president of the Forest Farmers Association, the Georgia Forestry Association and was a loyal supporter of the Warnell School. He was an articulate spokesman for the forestry community and a champion of fair taxation for timberlands. He was a Fellow in the American Society of Foresters, a GFA Wise Owl recipient and an inductee in the Georgia Forester’s Hall of Fame.
This scholarship, which honors the Oettmeier’s commitment, involvement and contributions to effective management and use of Georgia’s forest resources, supports a professional student. Recipients must demonstrate outstanding academic achievement, commitment to the management and wise use of forest resources and exceptional potential for advancing the forestry profession.
Mr. Hugh M. “Mac” Thompson, of Toombs County, Ga., moved to Pierce County where he and his wife Mary raised their two children. In 1962, Mac purchased Pierce Timber Company and developed it into one of the most important industries in that area. Since that time he has created several thriving businesses and provided a strong job market for Pierce County residents. He served on the Pierce County Industrial Authority, Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club and the American Legion. He was a founding member of the Recreation Board in Blackshear County, and is a proud member of the Georgia Forestry Association, American Pulpwood Association and Forestry Board in Patterson, Ga. This scholarship was founded to honor his commitment to help young people better their opportunities.
This scholarship was established in 1999 by friends and family in memory of William N. (Bill) Thompson, a forest industry leader in Georgia and the South. Mr. Thompson earned his BSF in 1953 at UGA, attending on a full four-year scholarship provided by Union Bag Corporation. After purchasing Hazlehurst Lumber Co. in 1957, he established Thompson Hardwoods, Inc. Mr. Thompson pioneered the harvesting and delivery of pine timber in tree-length form, and was the first to use long-haul truckers to deliver tree-length chip wood into St. Mary’s, Ga. Mr. Thompson’s wife, Barbara, and their children Bert Thompson, Phyllis Johnson, William Nordeck Thompson and Edye Faircloth continue to support this foundation endowed scholarship in loving memory of Bill. It supports an entering professional student majoring in forestry.
Trout Unlimited works for the conservation, preservation and restoration of North America’s coldwater fisheries, and is committed to applying “the very best information and thinking available” in its conservation work. Founded by the Coosa Valley and Oconee River Chapters of Trout Unlimited, this scholarship supports a student who has a demonstrated interest in cold water fisheries. These two chapters of Trout Unlimited have a long history of supporting educational efforts and continue to raise funds in support of this UGA Foundation Endowment. This scholarship shows how organization affiliates can make a great impact in perpetuity by pooling their resources to provide opportunities for promising students.
Oconee River Chapter Trout Unlimited Cold Water Fisheries Student Research Fund Trout Unlimited works for the conservation, preservation and restoration of North America’s coldwater fisheries, and is committed to applying "the very best information and thinking available in its conservation work. Founded by the Oconee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited, this scholarship provides student research support for cold water fisheries in the Southeastern U.S.
The Knox and Kathryn Wyatt Memorial Scholarship Fund provides annual support to an undergraduate student majoring in fisheries and aquaculture, soils and hydrology, or wildlife. This scholarship was created by the Wyatt’s late son, Joseph Eugene Wyatt. Gene, as he was known by his family and friends, lived in Jackson County, Georgia, in a log home located on a beautiful pond, surrounded by native wildlife. He cared deeply about his natural surroundings and traveled the globe to appreciate the diverse beauty of nature. Gene was devoted to his parents and deeply committed to education. He wanted to honor his parents’ memory by providing educational opportunities in forest resources to those who share his love of nature and might benefit from his generosity.
Established in honor of the late Gordie J. Yancey, one of Gwinnett County’s largest private landowners, this foundation endowed scholarship supports a student in the professional program. Mr. Yancey attended a seminar sponsored by Warnell in the 1930s about investing in land and growing timber. That experience led him to acquire and manage thousands of acres of timberland in Gwinnett County well before urbanization. He continued to purchase lands well into the ‘40s and ‘50s for timber harvesting. Mr. Yancey also gave a number of acres to Gwinnett County for roads and development, though at his death, he still held over 3,500 acres. Gordie’s wife, Ruth H. Yancey, established this scholarship as a lasting tribute to her husband and his success after attending that forestland investment seminar so many years ago.
This fund was established to perpetually enhance student leadership qualities for both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. The scholarship provides funds for fees and travel costs for students to attend professional meetings, participate in leadership conferences or attend seminars, or to pay an honorarium for speakers or consultants focused on developing and enhancing leadership skills. The members of the Young Alumni Committee worked diligently for several years to raise the funds necessary to endow this scholarship. The Young Alumni Committee continues to enthusiastically support other leadership initiatives, such as graduate assistantships.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - M&G Investment Management, the biggest shareholder in Dalradian Resources Inc DNA.TO, said on Thursday it was supportive of a friendly cash takeover offer for Dalradian from private equity group Orion Mine Finance.
The C$1.47 per share offer is fair, Jamie Horvat, director of global equities at M&G, told Reuters. M&G owns 12.8 percent of Dalradian.
The transaction also has the support of Blackrock Inc (BLK.N), which owns approximately 10.7 percent of Dalradian, Dalradian said in a statement.
The offer by Orion, a private equity mining firm based in New York, represents a 62 percent premium to Dalradian shares at close on June 20. The miner has a high-grade gold project in Northern Ireland.
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Departments are allowed to sponsor and/or hire non-directly affiliated (not paid or not paid by Kennesaw State University) personnel for up to one year in duration. Sponsors will need to complete a Select a Parking Option (Long-Term Visitors Only) form for each long-term visitor (see below). This form allows the sponsor to identify which campus services the visitor will need, while doing his/her business at KSU (campus services include: ID Card, Email, NetID, Keycard for Building Access, Room Keys, Parking Preference).
Reserved parking incurs a $23 monthly fee, by clicking the link below you are agreeing to setup either a reccuring monthly payment or to pay the monthly equivalent to your tenure at KSU in full, upfont.
Economy parking is available to long-term visitors in a limited capacity. Economy parking incurs a $10 monthly fee, by clicking the link below you are agreeing to setup either a recurring monthly payment or to pay the monthly equivalent to your tenure at KSU in full, upfront.
Please stop by the Talon One Service Center at the Kennesaw or Marietta Campuses to obtain an assigned parking pass.
The University recognizes that there may be occasions when Network Identification (i.e. NetID, part of KSU’s Identity Management System) is required to access electronic services on campus when the individuals or groups needing such access have no permanent or long-term affiliation with the university. The NetID account at Kennesaw State University provides secure access to Web Services like Email, WebCT, Lab Resources, Library Services, and Desktop Login. Setup of a NetID account is a pre-requisite to consideration for any Web Service but does not grant access to any service. NetID’s will be provided on a case-by-case basis for these individuals or groups with no fee assessed; however, these individuals or groups must be sponsored by a full-time KSU employee and the sponsorship supported by that employee’s Department Head. Further, it must be recognized that there may be charges incurred based on access to specific web services or applications.
A NetID for an individual must be requested on a Service Request form for Long-Term Visitors. For sponsored groups, a NetID Request form for Sponsored Groups must be completed.
When the form has been filled out, please submit it to Human Resources via Ricoh Scan Folder "#LTV" or in person.
For authentication purposes, the date of birth (DOB) and last four digits of social security number (SSN) will be required for each person needing NetIDs.
Our off-campus visitors may use guest cards that can be purchased for $2 from any of the KCash machines on both campuses (click here to view the KCash machine locations).
University Dining welcomes campus guests and we want to ensure that all of our diners have an exceptional dining experience in all of our campus eateries. Entry to The Commons or Stingers dining halls costs $12.75 per person.
Students who have an Access Meal Plan can use their swipes for guests. Alternatively, they can pay $9.75 in Dining Dollars for each guest meal. Students with a 5 Day Access plan cannot use swipes for guests; however, they have the ability to use Dining Dollars.
Kennesaw State students that would like to swipe guests in to the dining halls must present their Talon Card (KSU ID) at the time of the transaction. All guests will also be asked to show identification.
We welcome visitors to the University year round for community events, tours for prospective students and parents, and more. To accommodate our guests as conveniently as possible, Parking and Transportation provides pay-by-plate areas for visitors at both of our campuses.You will need your license plate information to register at the pay-by-plate parking station.
Please register your vehicle's license plate information at the pay-by-plate parking station in the Visitor Lot your vehicle is parked in or you will be subject to a citation.
Purchase a temporary KSU permit for Long Term Visitors, Emeritus and Alumni.
Emeritus Faculty are eligible for a parking permit that will allow them to access the faculty/staff parking locations on the Kennesaw and Marietta Campuses. This permit is offered free of charge. Emeritus Faculty are encouraged to visit the Talon One Service Center in order to pick up their permit and register their vehicle information.
Kennesaw State University encourages alumni to remain active within the KSU community. Alumni may pay for hourly or daily parking in the visitor parking lots. Alternatively, alumni who are frequently on campus can purchase an Alumni parking permit, which costs $23 per month and are valid in any visitor parking area on the Kennesaw or Marietta Campus.
All citations and other unpaid fees due to Parking and Transportation must be paid prior to applying for and Alumni parking permit.
After receipt of an Alumni permit request, Parking and Transportation will send an invoice to the customer’s email address on file. Submit payments to Card Services at the Talon One Service Center located at the Student Center on both campuses. Checks should be written out to KSU Parking and Transportation.
Upon receipt of payment, you will receive an email notification of permit activation. Alumni permits are only valid in visitor parking areas. Your permit’s activation length will correspond to the period of parking purchased. Your vehicle license plate number will serve as your permit. Please email parking@kennesaw.edu to update vehicle/license plates and to renew your Alumni Parking Permit.
Parking and Transportation has the right to reserve lots for event parking on campus. Lot restrictions for an event will be posted at the entrance to the lot. Alumni permits are not valid for event parking. Event parking may be sold in advance or at the entrance on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parking and Transportation has the authority to close a lot for construction, maintenance or safety issues. Lot closures will be posted at the entrance to the lot.
On-campus parking is coordinated through Parking and Transportation. All visitors to campus should be instructed to park at one of the pay-per-plate visitor parking areas. Learn more about our current event parking information and policy.
Visitor citations may be paid online at parkingportal.kennesaw.edu. If a vehicle is not linked to a KSU student or employee, the registered vehicle owner is ultimately responsible for a parking citation, including lost, stolen or damaged citations, whether or not the owner was operating the vehicle at the time the citation was issued.
All visitor appeals may be appealed through the Parking Portal within 14 days of citation issuance. If a citation is appealed within 14 days, any associated fines will be frozen until the appeal is adjudicated. Fines will not come due during this period of review. After 14 days, the citation may no longer be appealed.
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'The Fast & The Furious' franchise is expanding into a Cinematic Fury-verse with a spin-off centered on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham.
The Fast & The Furious franchise might be expanding into a Cinematic Fury-verse as Universal is reportedly planning a spin-off film centered on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham’s characters.
The spin-off, which will continue the unlikely union between Johnson’s federal agent Luke Hobbs and Furious 7 villain-turned-Fate of the Furious ally Decker Shaw, played by Jason Statham, would arrive prior to the ninth installment of the box office-shattering franchise, Deadline reports.
The film is still in the development stage, and given Johnson’s upcoming schedule – he’s attached to nearly a dozen projects, including a San Andreas sequel, a Big Trouble in Little China reboot, a blockbuster revolving around DC superhero Black Adam and a film about Forties pulp adventurer Doc Savage – it’s unclear when the actor will even have time to film the spin-off, which would be written by Fate of the Furious scribe Chris Morgan.
However, with the success of The Fate of the Furious – the film smashed Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ record for opening week worldwide box office – Diesel and Johnson have since settled their beef ahead of the inevitable Volume 9 of The Fast and the Furious.
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2019-04-24T10:02:17Z
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https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/dwayne-johnson-jason-statham-to-star-in-fast-furious-spin-off-117437/
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical announces its latest stars.
A scene from School of Rock at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Broadway's School of Rock will welcome a slew of new cast members to the Winter Garden Theatre beginning on July 30.
The 2018-19 class is set to include Katherine McLaughlin as Principal Rosalie Mullins, Layla Capers as Tomika, Duke Cutler as a swing, Darrow Golub as James, Matthew Jost as Zack the guitarist, Jordan Cole as Lawrence the keyboardist, Hudson Loverro as Billy, Nirvaan Pal as Mason, and Theodora Silverman as a swing.
They replace Analisa Leaming, John Allyn, Gabrielle Greene, Jim Kaplan, Ellie Kim, Colin Lauri, Cory Logan, Iggy Rosado, and Zachary Zwelling, all of whom depart on July 29.
Based on the hit 2003 film of the same, School of Rock features music from the movie, as well as original music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, a book by Julian Fellowes, and direction by Laurence Connor.
The story follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. While teaching these pint-size prodigies what it means to truly rock, Dewey falls for the school's beautiful but uptight headmistress, helping her rediscover the wild child within.
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2019-04-19T20:18:46Z
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https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/school-of-rock-to-welcome-a-new-class-of-actors-to_85820.html
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Fox has ordered two new hourlong drama pilots, Variety has learned. “A.P.B” comes from “Person of Interest’s” David Slack, and “Recon” hails from “The Vampire Diaries” writer/producer Caroline Dries.
“A.P.B.” is about a tech billionaire who purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder. The series will explore if the eccentric and enigmatic figure’s cutting-edge approach can fix the broken ways of the blue blooded veterans.
Slack, who’s a co-exec producer and writer on “Person of Interest,” wrote the pilot and will exec produce the project, along with Len Wiseman who is attached to direct. “A.P.B.” keeps Wiseman in the Fox family, as he co-created the network’s “Sleepy Hollow.” 20th Century Fox is the studio.
“Recon” revolves around a rookie FBI agent who embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family. Dries penned the script and will serve as an exec producer on the potential series with Williamson and Plec, co-creators of “Vampire Diaries.” Warner Bros. TV and Williamson’s Outerbanks Entertainment will produce.
For detailed information on all of this year’s pilots, see Variety’s Pilot Scorecard.
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2019-04-20T00:38:37Z
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https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/fox-drama-pilot-recon-caroline-dries-kevin-williamson-julie-plec-1201688440/
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Homework : Homework Booklet Level 3 Programme 3 Page 6 Ex1.
Today we started the circle.
Homework : Finish even numbers for homework.
Today we used laptops to revise for N4 Numeracy test next week.
Homework : Self Study for Numeracy test.
You are currently browsing the Mathsrevision's Weblog blog archives for the day Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017.
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2019-04-22T11:58:46Z
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https://mathsrevision.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/
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