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Tonight's (Jan 13) PTA meeting has been cancelled due to the chance of inclement weather.
Instead, please come join us for the PTA social on Wednesday, Jan 28th at 7:00pm. We will be gathering at Elizabeth Worthy's house to discuss the remaining of this year (such as the Spring Fling) and start planning for the 2015-2016. This is a great chance to become more involved in the PTA and to meet some other great parents.
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2019-04-20T02:54:23Z
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http://swiftcreekeswcpssnetptahtml.weebly.com/home/no-pta-meeting-tonight-jan-13
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Environmental Health and Safety Trainings will be held in Room 130 in the General Services Building, and all dates are for calendar year 2019, unless otherwise noted.
Trainings are open only to University of Delaware staff, students and faculty. All trainings are free of charge except the CPR classes.
CPR classes are open to employees, students and community members. Costs for the CPR classes are noted on the class dates page.
All students, staff and faculty will sign up for classroom training sessions via the BioRAFT Program or Google Forms. A UDelNet ID is required in order to access registration. If you do not have a UDelNet ID, contact EHS at 302-831-8475.
Below you will find a list of all trainings EHS offers. Click on the training you need to choose a class date and to register.
For further information on training needs and requirements please visit the Environmental Health & Safety Training Page.
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2019-04-18T19:00:36Z
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http://www1.udel.edu/ehs/training/safety-education-schedule.html
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Arthur Hills designed the beautiful Martin County golf course with four sets of tees to make sure both men and women golfers are suitably challenged, but never faced with the sense of either hopelessness or monotony you find in less imaginative Florida layouts.
From the championship tees that have been used in several US Open qualifiers, the course (located in one of the most welcoming golf communities in Florida) plays to just under 6,800 yards between towering trees and natural wetlands, over unfriendly lakes and around more than 55 all-too-inviting bunkers.
In keeping with the Arthur Hills tradition, Willoughby is a shot maker’s course carved out of the natural surroundings and making abundant use of all available flora, hillocks and swales to create the most picturesque golf course in the area. The resultant varied terrain ensures that shot selection at Willoughby never seems repetitive and with each day’s round the sense of challenge and fascination is renewed. No wonder members are so attached to their home course.
For details on how you can play, learn about our golf and country club memberships in Stuart, FL. If you’re interested in moving to our gated golf community, feel free to browse our Florida gated community homes for sale or contact us directly.
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2019-04-22T04:18:43Z
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https://www.willoughbygolfclub.com/mobile-golf
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Haha! I got Cooper’s monkey!!! Woof! Don’t tell Cooper!
Where is my monkey? Woof! I can’t find him anywhere! Woof! Woof! Daddy says to go check up front. Oh NO! Jesse has him! How am I ever going to get him back? Jesse takes my toys all the time and won’t give them back. Woof! Daddy says I should just take it, but I can’t! Jesse is scary! Woof! Daddy thinks that is funny! Come to Lone Star Bavarian and help me get my monkey back!
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2019-04-25T14:15:38Z
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https://cooperscorner.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/where-is-my-monkey/
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Sophia Cheng began pursing her Ph.D. in Materials Science at Caltech in 2014 after finishing her M.S. and B.S. degrees at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Her previous work includes the researches of thin film transistor (TFT), organic photovoltaics (OPV) and resistive memory device (RRAM) in Professor Jen-Sue Chen’s lab. As a member in the Atwater Group, she will focus on mesoscale design of photoelectrochemical fuel cells with JCAP.
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2019-04-20T04:51:10Z
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https://daedalus.caltech.edu/team-member/wen-hui-sophia-cheng/
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This material is in support of the Reasearch Opportunity in Space and Earth Science (ROSES), 1 Sep 2017 to select the Participating Scientists for XRISM.
The table below contains links to software and support files tar files as well as documentation which allow to simulate events and spectra for the Resolve spectrometer on XRISM. The same files can be downloaded directly from the XRISM FTP.
XSPEC for spectra simulation and XSELECT to extract spectra from event file.
This tar file is required by the software simulation tools. It contains the support files necessary to run heasim , sxsbranch and the responses to simulate spectra with XSPEC.
This tar file contains the scripts, command files, and support files to execute the examples described in the user guide. Note it is not necessary to install or run the software with simulations that do not use the examples in the user guide.
The User Guide contains the descriptions of the software tasks (heasim, skyback, sxsbranch ), of the support files and responses necessary to run the simulations as well as step-by-step examples on how to run the software for specific simulations.
This collection of papers includes a general description of the Hitomi observatory as well as papers describing the instruments. These are the proceedings of the SPIE conference in Edinburgh 2016.
These white papers are representative of the science planned to achieve with Hitomi.
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2019-04-18T12:22:08Z
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https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xrism/proposals/
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eteamz
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The Alamo 2019 Summer Totz Volleyball League will offer Registration for pre-assembled teams, club teams, small groups of players and individuals looking to form a team.
Player Registration: Pre existing teams, small groups or individuals can ALL register and Alamo will place them in the Summer League. Alamo will place 8 to 10 players on all teams.
Coaches: Alamo Volleyball will provide each team with a coach that is trained and has experience teaching and playing the game of volleyball. Pre-assembled teams may provide their own coach or have one appointed from Alamo.
League Cost $180.00 (Reduced Summer Fee) This Fee includes: coach, game shirt, practices, matches, and awards. Refund Policy: No refund (team or player) after June 1st.
for individuals looking to form a team, small groups, and pre-assembled youth teams!
Individual Player Registrants: will consist of individuals that register and Alamo will place them on a team or with a small group. Alamo will place 8 to 10 players on all teams.
Team Registrants: will consist of pre assembled youth teams 3rd to 6th grade (or small groups still needing players) that join as a group. To join as a small group or team you must have a minimum of 2 players and a max of 10. In the comment section please put names of who is in your group that you wish to play with.
Practice: All teams will receive 8 practices and 7 Games on Mondays 6:00pm-8:00pm. The 1st group skills training and formation of teams will be March 25th. Players will have a team practice and scrimmage Monday April 1st through May 13th teams will practice 6:00-7:00 and then play 7:00-8:00.
Matches: All teams will practice 6:00-7:00 followed by a match 7:00pm-8:00pm. Competitions will begin April 1st and conclude May 13th. Awards will be given to all participants.
League Cost: $210.00 includes Team Shirt, Practices, Matches, and Awards.
Rules: Players will play with the Volleylite Ball, modified serving and rotation rules to encourage proper technique and maximize playing time. Every player will play in every game.
The Alamo 2019 Summer Volleyball League will offer Registration for pre-assembled teams, club teams, small groups of players and individuals looking to form a team.
Congratulations to all the girls and coaches in the 2018-19 Winter Totz League.
Cornerstone Totz wins first place in the Winter League.
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2019-04-23T11:51:48Z
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http://www.eteamz.com/alamovolleyball/news/index.cfm?cat=438534
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wlu
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Into the Great Wide Open The A. Paul Knight Internship Program in Conservation, named in memory of a late Washington and Lee student, turns 30 this year. It has provided internships to 132 students and is still going strong.
Paul Knight ’85, who inspired the internship program, was a great lover of the outdoors and fly-fishing. Photo courtesy of the Knight family.
Less than two weeks after Liz Todd ’19 returned to Washington and Lee from her 2016 summer internship with The Nature Conservancy in Idaho, she unequivocally declared her majors in geology and environmental studies. If it hadn’t been for that opportunity through the A. Paul Knight Internship Program, she might still be searching for her calling.
Al Knight ’51L delights in such stories, because he helped establish the Knight program as a tribute to his late son, Paul Knight ’85. In the past 30 years, 132 W&L undergraduate and law students have landed internships in environmental protection and conservation through the program, and many have gone on to work in those fields.
John McDaniel, professor emeritus of anthropology at W&L, first met Paul Knight during a lunch break on an archaeological dig. The men bonded over a mutual interest in fly-fishing, and during the summers of 1983, 1984 and 1985, Paul visited the McDaniel family at their summer home on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, in Idaho, one of the premier fly-fishing spots in the world.
Paul Knight’s high school photo. Courtesy of the Knight family.
Then, in June 1985, Paul went missing during a backpacking trip at Yellowstone National Park. Two days later, rangers discovered that he had suffered a fatal fall. He was 22 years old.
Together, the Knights and the McDaniels created the A. Paul Knight Internship Program at W&L. With generous contributions from Al Knight’s own funds, along with matches from his then employer, Merck and Co., and modest donations from others, the program placed its first intern in 1988. The number of internships has varied over the years, but the program now accommodates two law students and five undergraduates each summer.
Law students secure their own positions, then apply for a Knight stipend. They have worked for a diverse array of organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Southern Environmental Law Center, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Some still work in environmental law, such as Mary Cromer ’06L, who represents coal miners and their families through the nonprofit Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, in Kentucky.
Undergraduates work for one of three organizations located within close proximity in eastern Idaho: the Henry’s Fork Foundation (HFF), The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch, or the Friends of Harriman State Park. Tasks include everything from mending fences and planting water lilies to conducting extensive projects. In 2017, for example, Sam Cochran ’18 created a comprehensive catalog of access points to the Henry’s Fork for the HFF.
Jon Stiehl and Rich Paini, both Class of ’93, were so enamored with the Henry’s Fork that they built a business there, TroutHunter Lodge. It started as a small fly shop and guide service; today it is one of the world’s foremost outfitters. Stiehl credits their internship at the HFF with setting them on that path.
The Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, in Idaho, one of the premier fly-fishing spots in the world, and an area that has benefited immensely from the Knight internship program. Photo courtesy of Chris Brand ’89.
The success of the Knight program over three decades can be measured by the number of young lives changed, and by the impact their work has had on the environment through those nonprofit organizations. None of that would have been possible, however, without the network of people who have lovingly shepherded it through the years.
McDaniel and Murchison have helped to administer the program from Lexington since its inception, as has W&L wrestling coach Gary Franke, who also owns a home on the Henry’s Fork. In a twist, McDaniel now works every summer as a fly-fishing guide for TroutHunter Lodge. Kirk Follo, instructor emeritus of German and Italian, who served as Outing Club adviser during his time at W&L, was also involved.
Al Knight’s involvement in and enthusiasm for the program has never flagged. He and his wife, Gail (Paul’s mother, Betsey, passed away a few years after his death), travel to their own summer place in Idaho every year to meet the interns and see what they are learning. When it became difficult to find summer housing in the area for the interns, the Knights bought a four-bedroom condo to accommodate them.
In 2009, when Al Knight decided to contact all of the alumni who had interned in the program thus far, he was showered with responses of deep gratitude.
Liz Todd, who calls Al and Gail Knight “the most fantastic humans,” feels forever indebted to them. “To offer that scholarship at no cost, in addition to a quite generous stipend, means it is a financially plausible experience for almost any student,” she said.
For Knight, the benefit is clear: “I think it sort of gives me a tie back to Paul, meeting people who are young and vibrant,” he said.
On the 25th anniversary of the program, Chris Brand ’89, a former Knight intern who serves on the HFF board of directors, organized a reunion of interns and their families. The crowd of more than 550 treated the Knights, McDaniels and Frankes to a standing ovation. In 2017, the Friends of Harriman State Park awarded the Turkey Feather Award to Al and Gail Knight for their impact on the organization.
Past Knight interns and their families at a celebration of the program’s 25th anniversary, in Idaho. Paul’s father, Al Knight ’51L, is standing in front, wearing a blue sweater, with his hands clasped. Photo courtesy Gary Franke.
For more information about the A. Paul Knight Internship Program in Conservation, please click here.
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2019-04-24T05:03:11Z
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https://columns.wlu.edu/into-the-great-wide-open/
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uio
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MPharm Ellen Østensen ved Norsk senter for molekylærmedisin (NCMM) vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: «Adrenergic regulation of the Ca2+ homeostasis in the heart - Cardioprotective effects in ischemia-reperfusion injury of targeting the AKAP18γ/δ-PLB interaction».
M.Sc. Bertrand Simon ved Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: "Structural and functional regulation of death-associated protein kinases activity by calcium/calmodulin binding".
MRes Lisa Gerner ved Norsk senter for molekylærmedisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: "An Exploration of the Structure and Function of Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) in Prostate Cancer"
M.Sc. Aleksandra Dukic ved Norsk senter for moleklærmedisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): «Role of protein kinase A and the A-kinase anchoring protein Ezrin in regulation of gap junction communication».
M.Sc. Gry Fluge Vindedal ved Norsk senter for molekylærmedisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): "Molecular and functional aspects of astrocytes at the brain-blood Interface".
M.Sc. Nora Valeska Lieske ved Norsk senter for molekylærmedisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Modulation of Adaptive Immune Responses — Studies in infectious diseases and immune disorders.
M.Sc. Stalin Chellappa Gunasekaran ved Bioteknologisenteret vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Human Regulatory T cells: Suppressive Function and Role in Pancreatic Cancer and Distal Bile Duct Cancer.
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2019-04-19T08:56:50Z
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https://www.med.uio.no/ncmm/aktuelt/arrangementer/disputaser/
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Did Fox Just Create the New Model for Buying Advertising at the TV Upfronts?
For those of us in the advertising industry, everyone is aware that the TV upfronts are going on this week. I’ve been enamored with the TV upfronts the past few years and always interested to hear the latest ideas and offerings coming out of the upfronts. In recent years digital companies have actively participated in the upfronts and the process has morphed into something much bigger than TV.
At first I was thinking what a great way to engage your consumers on all platforms, especially around programming you think is relevant for your consumers. I do think this makes sense when you are looking at shows that have a passionate following around particular topics such as cooking and fitness, but is it really better for an advertiser to target someone who watches American Idol on Hulu?
Let’s use for example Ford who is a large advertiser on American Idol. Assuming all CPM’s are the same, would you rather engage someone who watches American Idol or someone who has actively searched for Ford, Truck or visited Autotrader.com, or looked at trucks or did comparison shopping on Yahoo Autos? I think the answer is pretty cut and dry.
The beauty of digital is the ability to engage consumers with better targeting and ultimately better messaging in a more relevant time frame. Buying TV on digital does not necessarily get you there. The other part of the equation is scale. No one can argue that the ability to offer sight, sound and motion at mass scale to advertisers makes TV a unique opportunity, but that doesn’t always translate online. In a recent post on Video Insider the article talked about how portals continue to own the majority of the video online.
1. Execution of advertising outside of Fox.com and Hulu.com will be difficult to execute. AOL TV and Yahoo TV all are providing viewing opportunities. Does this mean Fox won’t distribute to other partners?
2. Targeting on digital is much more sophisticated and advertisers understand this.
3. Scalability off of TV will be difficult.
I think this is a great attempt and as viewing of shows off the TV set increases it will make more sense. What the networks should be thinking about is how can they work with advertisers help augment through digital. Whether that be things such as actor history, behind the scenes, alternative endings, bloopers and so on, that the consumer can engage with during the show is much more valuable. The evolution will be interesting.
The world is changing and it is changing fast. I’ve been reading all the year in summary and what to expect in the coming year. This year has created rapid change from platforms like tablets and social is exploding and was anyone “Checking In” a year ago.
So where will we be in a year and what will we all laugh about that we were doing a year ago?
Hyper-Local: I started in this industry working for Citysearch selling local advertising. Everyone keeps talking local but the execution has underwhelmed. This is the year the platforms are in place to exceed. Look for local to continue to explode.
Social: Sorry if you thought it was going away. Social will get better at taking the data and using it to really create a conversation with consumers. The data is there today but we haven’t figured out how to do it without creeping people out.
Branded Entertainment: This space is going to continue to explode. We will still struggle with creating good content and getting consumers to the content but advertisers will continue to push into this space.
DSP’s: While this was built for the DR advertisers, brand advertisers are figuring it out quickly. New metrics will be put in place that will allow brand advertisers to “justify” and expand.
Check In: Only 4% of all people actually are using a check in mechanism. I don’t see this increasing. I’ve said in previous post that I check in almost everywhere but I don’t know why I do it. Try explaining to anyone not in the industry the “check in” idea. They think you are crazy.
Ad Networks: Consolidation all around. We used to see ad networks pop up about every other week. The evolution of DSP’s and publishers getting better at valuing inventory will force consolidation.
Do Not Track: It’s coming in some form. Browsers are making it easy to set it up and users are getting smarter. We will start to see some of the effects next year but give it a few more years.
These are the highlights but a lot of activity will happen in mobile, video and 3rd party targeting. All of these will see continued increase.
What do you think the year holds?
This past week I had an opportunity to attend the Shopper Marketing Expo at Navy Pier and heard some great speakers talk about how digital and Shopper Marketing are converging to create some unique opportunities.
In talking with the audience that attended the conference you could see the thirst for understanding digital. Throughout the 2 day expo almost every breakout that focused on digital was entirely sold out.
Shopper Marketing teams, or retail marketing teams as defined by some CPG companies, have been seeking new ways to engage consumers to drive to local retailers to better align with key distribution partners. The proliferation of private label as well as more selection of products has forced CPG manufacturers to put a renewed focus on this area.
3. Share of Shelf – Think of how many line extensions we have today. Did you know that there are over 300 kinds of cereal available to consumers?
4. Competition for Premium Placement in Store. Think about what you see at eye level?
5. Ability to get new products on shelf quickly. Ah the holy grail to a successful launch.
In doing some research for this piece I can see why companies are looking for ways to increase digital investment as 60% of all Gen X and Gen Y shoppers go online before they shop for groceries according to a study done in the spring of 2010. The proliferation of smart phones and easy access to high speed internet are changing the game.
The panel during one of my breakouts I attended consisted of Tyler Murray from Saatchi, Catherine Roe from Google, Laurie M. Clark from Coke and Kat Kozitza from Kroger. The panel was moderated by Matthew Egol,Consumer Media and Digital Practice for Booz Partners.
Each member shared where they are seeing success in digital and shopper marketing. Tyler sharing that the integrating the brand on the retailer website is delivering some of the best success and Laurie shared that value sites such as Coupons.com have worked for Coca-Cola. As one might expect from a retailer, Kat shared that Digital Circulars have been successful for Kroger.
I won’t go into the detail during this blog, as I could dedicate a series to the information that was shared. Something that the group did touch on was why we still see such a delta between digital consumption and digital spend. Everyone seemed to agree that the driving force behind this delta is digital doesn’t show up in the Media Mix Analytics. While I agree that MMA will help get us more aligned on media consumption and investment by media vehicle, I do think that today we can implement strategies that can change this perception. Next week I will touch on the ability to tap into the digital offering to maximize the change in consumer behavior. Here are some of the things to think about when thinking about changing the game and the use of digital in the marketplace.
Next week I will talk about how we can tie all of this together to facilitate greater adoption and accelerate growth in digital in the Shopper Marketing space.
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2019-04-24T10:45:50Z
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https://danbonert.wordpress.com/page/2/
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This major is designed to partially fulfill requirements to sit for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor examination. Current CASAC holders may elect to take some or all of these courses to fulfill the continuing education requirements of the credential. Many of the students who complete this major also elect to complete a second major in psychology, social work, criminal justice and other related areas.
Any undergraduate student can declare an Alcohol & Substance Abuse Studies major.
The healthcare studies faculty has a professional responsibility to deny admission or continuation in any of its undergraduate or graduate programs to any student whose level of performance and/or personal characteristics or dispositions do not adequately meet academic, professional, or ethical standards.
HCS 409 serves as a co- or prerequisite for all other courses in this track.
*Suggested statistics courses: PSH 202, MTH 243, PBH 488, or other.
HCS 497 and HCS 498 are to be taken concurrently at the end of the program, and students should consult the course descriptions for further requirements.
**Students are encouraged to take HCS 404 as an additional elective.
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2019-04-24T05:48:52Z
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https://www.brockport.edu/academics/catalogs/2017/programs/healthcare_studies_alcohol.html
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It became best known…through recordings by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. Both versions were released right before Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s election to the presidency and both became number one hits on the charts. The Brunswick Crosby recording became the best-selling record of its period, and came to be viewed as an anthem of the shattered dreams of the era.
There will be fewer standards covered this time. This is largely because there aren’t as many highly-ranked jazz standards, only three, compared to eight in 1930, in the top 100 (as ranked by jazzstandards.com).
I Surrender Dear (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – this was Bing Crosby’s first solo hit.
Modification of the list might be made.
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2019-04-22T07:20:35Z
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https://songbook1.wordpress.com/fx/si/introduction/notices/2010-2/note-29-jan/
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Share the post "NJAES – Addressing Tomorrow’s Challenges Today: Commercial Agriculture"
New Jersey is an anomaly in U.S. agriculture. One of the smallest states, it is nonetheless a top 10 producer of numerous commodities. Agricultural production per acre is more than three times higher than the national average.
Ensuring a vibrant and robust agriculture means focusing attention on developing novel markets while sustaining a strong showing in conventional commodities. New Jersey’s growing and diverse population offers ample opportunities for expanding into new markets. NJAES’ extensive research on ethnic crops has resulted in the release of the pumpkin habanero from its exotic pepper breeding program.
Meanwhile, on the heels of the state’s thriving development of wineries and wine grape production, New Jersey’s “farm-to-mug” movement is taking off, with a doubling in the number of microbreweries in the last few years. As many craft brewers seek locally grown ingredients, NJAES researchers are examining the best practices for growing and analyzing hops, and conducting trials to evaluate malting barley varieties to meet the demands of this expanding market.
This article originally appeared in the NJAES Annual Report for 2017.
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2019-04-19T01:00:40Z
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https://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2018/02/njaes-addressing-tomorrows-challenges-today-commercial-agriculture/
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American Chamber Players, Live at NPR Miles Hoffman, an old and familiar name on Performance Today, is wearing his viola hat in NPR's Studio 4A today. He's joined by Jean-Louie Hagenauer at the piano, Joanna Mauer, violin, and cellist Alberto Perini, members of the American Chamber Players, for the "Phantasy Quartet" by Frank Bridge.
Miles Hoffman, an old and familiar name on Performance Today, is wearing his viola hat in NPR's Studio 4A today. He's joined by Jean-Louie Hagenauer at the piano, Joanna Mauer, violin, and cellist Alberto Perini, members of the American Chamber Players, for the "Phantasy Quartet" by Frank Bridge.
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2019-04-21T12:55:51Z
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4854064
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The state of Florida is loaded once again on the prep side, as the Jacksonville-based Callihan has an argument to be one of the top hitters in the class. He has a quick lefthanded swing with lots of strength in his 5-foot-11, 211-pound frame. Callihan routinely hits deep, towering fly balls in batting practice and also showed off his raw power during USA Baseball’s 18U trials, homering against an elevated 90 mph fastball. Defense will be the biggest question with the South Carolina commit. He has a chance to stick at third base, but plenty of work needs to be done in terms of improving his hands and footwork for the position.
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2019-04-26T10:43:59Z
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https://www.baseballamerica.com/players/98912/tyler-callihan/
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sfsu
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Jumpstart is a national early education organization that is fueled by the core belief that providing high-quality educational opportunities to all young children contributes to breaking the cycle of poverty. With more than six million children across the country living in poverty, the need for high-quality experiences and educators is at an all-time high.
The Jumpstart/EDvance Child and Adolescent Development (CAD) early teaching experience is a partnership between Jumpstart and San Francisco State University (SFSU) aimed at the development of an early education workforce pathway for college students, many of whom are first-generation college students.
This program is designed to connect students who have an interest in working within the field of education to a professional service learning experience. We seek to prepare the future of education by focusing on developing the future education professionals of tomorrow!
This early teaching experience provides college volunteers, known as Corps members, with a supervised, in-depth, hands-on learning experience, where bachelor’s level coursework and direct teaching experience are paired with periods of observation, reflection, and professional development.
Corps members are provided with ongoing support coaching and mentorship and are guided along the pathway to full-time employment in the community’s early education centers.
Jumpstart Corps members volunteer in a variety of preschool settings in low-income communities such as Head Start programs, community-based classrooms, and public school Pre-K. Corps members typically commit to serving 200 or more hours over the course of the school year and engage children for a minimum of one full-day a week. Corps members receive on-going training and support from coaches and mentors before and during their service on early childhood education research and best practice, citizenship and leadership, and guidance with supporting the classroom curriculum.
Our Corps members reduce the student to teacher ratio in every Jumpstart classroom, allowing children to receive an individualized learning experience and develop nurturing relationships with caring adults. Through the Jumpstart program, we not only help ensure kindergarten readiness for over 11,000 children each year, but also provide our Corps members with the essential training, skills, and practical experience they need for their future careers. Many Corps members choose to pursue a career in teaching after Jumpstart, allowing us to bring more experienced, passionate, and high-quality teachers into the field.
In addition to keeping apprised of the latest research and participating in numerous studies by independent researchers, organizations, and universities around the country, Jumpstart embeds evaluation into our work every day. We document children’s progress towards kindergarten readiness throughout their participation in Jumpstart, and we use this data to continuously improve our program and ensure high quality. On average, 90% of Jumpstart children make gains in the language and literacy skills determined to be predictors of kindergarten readiness and school success.
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2019-04-22T14:09:30Z
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http://edvancesf.sfsu.edu/jumpstart
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Contact the author directly by completing the form below. Talk to you soon!
THE SCION SAGA is an exhilarating young adult series of adversity, bravery, and determination. The adventure primarily chronicles the lives of 16 year olds Adam Rozovsky, Carly Wit, and their clan — all of whom are Descendants of Seven ancient Russian Bloodlines. These bloodlines carry unique genetic markers that, when active, grant the host various supernatural abilities. Descendants can be easily identified by their mutated glowing Limbal Rings. The Descendants are under constant threat of extermination at the hands of The Iksha — an elite, but murderous society of scientists. The series includes a veritable myriad of familial situations that create stronger bonds between the Bloodlines as they band together to fight for their existence.
Cover artwork by Carlos Quevedo.
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2019-04-19T14:37:24Z
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https://caliximplied.wordpress.com/contact/
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Sports
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Saturday, March 10, Noon – 4 pm, Kingsessing Library, 1201 S. 51st StFriends of the Kingsessing Library and Bindlestiff Books are co-sponsoring e program titled Mumia: His Ongoing Legacy.” Come for an afternoon of food, multimedia exhibits, and discussion on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Copies of the book will be available.
A prose reading showcasing local authors and hosted by Philadelphia-based writers Matt Jakubowski and Christine Kendall. Ru Freeman, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and Marc Anthony Richardson will give short readings from their work.
Doors open at 5pm for drinks + snacks; the readings start at 7pm. Come early to secure a seat! Books will be available for sale during the event, provided by Bindlestiff Books.
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2019-04-21T15:10:58Z
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https://bindlestiffbooks.wordpress.com/2018/03/
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Sports
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Idea: Different or even contradictory associations can be detected at different levels of aggregation (e.g., individual, region, nation), but not all influences can be assigned to properties of the individual—Membership in a larger aggregation can influence outcomes even after conditioning on the attributes of the individuals.
Bring one example of an ecological fallacy not in the readings and be ready to explain it to the other students.
Extract one example of an effect that is obscured by focusing only on one level, i.e., all individuals in a population. This example may come from the readings. Be ready to explain it to the other students (and to explain where you get confused, if applicable).
Diez-Roux (2002a) notes in her commentary that “…many of the analytic issues that arise when examining neighborhood effects on health are present throughout the continuum from society to molecules. These analytic issues include, for example, nested data structures, variables and units of analysis at multiple levels, contextual effects, distal causes, and complex causal chains with feedback loops and reciprocal effects” (p.516).
Do you find that the issues referenced above have been successfully addressed in the studies by Balfour & Kaplan (2002) and Coulton, Korbin & Su (1999), Friedman et al. (2016), and Holmes & Marcelli (2012)?
Friedman et al. (2015) propose that "Many of the interventions [re: HIV prevention] are not best conceived of as interventions with individuals but rather with networks, cultures of risks, or communities."
Makes a case that "interventions in one key population affect HIV epidemics in other key populations" and recommends "more research... at metropolitan area, network, and individual levels into HIV bridging across key populations."
Friedman et al. (2014) also advocates attention to networks across key populations.
Describe (and evaluate) the proposed pathway (see p. 26ff) from income inequality to weight gain in the study by Marcelli (2006).
Friedman, S. R., D. C. Perlman, et al. (2015). "The flawed reliance on randomized controlled trials in studies of HIV behavioral prevention interventions for people who inject drugs and other populations." Substance Use and Misuse, in press.
place” have been traditionally emphasized as important interactions in understanding the causes of ill health. Diez Roux argues that modern epidemiology’s disproportionate interest in personhood (individual characteristics) suggests that the effects of “places” can be ignored once individual-level risk factors have been accounted for. Well-established is the fact that health tends to exhibit gradients across geographic locations. The purveying putative explanation for this phenomenon being: the cumulative characteristics of people within a geographic locality giving rise to a distinct neighborhood health profile. Diez Roux notes a resurgent interest, among social scientists, to determine the ways in which neighborhood contexts may affect individual-level health outcomes.
Contextual and multilevel analyses have been the vehicles employed for investigating area effects on health. Diez Roux posits that area itself is consequential to the health of its residents. Previous studies document an independent effect of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics on health, which persists after controlling for individual-level factors. Diez Roux concedes that the magnitude of neighborhood effects and their relative importance did vary. Empirically demonstrating that neighborhood environments are causally related to health is slated to have implications for disease prevention and health policy. However, Diez Roux underscores that determination of whether processes mediated by neighborhood environments are causally related to heath is often impeded by complexities. The principal quandary is establishing whether the derived associations truly reflect causal processes. Thus, they are not simply the artifices of model misspecification at the individual level or residual confounding by individual-level variables. Compounding this matter, analytic approaches commonly used in epidemiology are proposed to be ill-suited for examining complex causal models. In this commentary, Diez Roux critically reviews Balfour and Kaplan’s paper, ‘Neighborhood Environment and Loss of Physical Function in Older Adults: Evidence from the Alameda County Study;’ subsequently endorsing their analytical approaches to addressing several complex issues involved in assessing neighborhood effects.
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2019-04-24T07:06:33Z
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http://www.faculty.umb.edu/peter_taylor/epi/Epi_9.html
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Sports
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Analysis of economic factors affecting decisions made by business firms. Demand and cost analysis, and alternative policies from the firm's point of view. Prerequisite: ACCTG 225; ECON 201; either MATH 112, MATH 124, MATH 125, MATH 127, MATH 134, or Q SCI 291; either IND E 315, QMETH 201, Q SCI 381, PSYCH 315, PSYCH 318, STAT 220, STAT 221/SOC 221/CS&SS 221, STAT 311, or STAT 390; may not be repeated.
Analysis of economy with attention to the business cycle, output of goods and services (GNP), inflation, unemployment, and government's fiscal and monetary policies. How the economy affects individuals and firms and how to deal effectively with the economic environment. Prerequisite: ECON 201; may not be repeated.
Analysis of the structure and functions of the money and capital markets; the saving-investment process and financial intermediaries; supply and demand for lendable funds and the level and structure of interest rates, role of Federal Reserve and Treasury in money market developments. Prerequisite: either B ECON 300 or ECON 300; may not be repeated.
Examines the global environment for business and the challenges facing managers in this environment. Explores the implications of the common phrase "think global - act local." Prerequisite: either B ECON 300 or ECON 300.
Asset choice and institutional operations in international finance, foreign exchange problems, the impact of international financial problems and operations on business, short- and long-term international financing. Prerequisite: either B ECON 300 or ECON 300; may not be repeated.
Study and research on topics of current concern to faculty and students. Only offered when allowed by faculty availability and sufficient student interest. Seminar content to be announced in advance of scheduled offerings.
Research in selected areas of business economics.
Factors underlying the determination of cost and prices for the industry and the firm, demand and supply analysis and firm behavior. The relation of the economic environment to the microeconomic decisions of the firm.
Analysis of real and monetary factors affecting national and international economics, supply and demand for money, interest rates and stabilization problems and policies, in relation to government policy effects on business and individual affairs. Focuses on global macroeconomic issues. Prerequisite: MBA core microeconomics.
In this course, students gain an understanding of how markets work, and learn optimal (profit-maximizing) strategies for managers. Offered: W.
Analysis of the structures and functions of financial markets and institutions; the behavior of interest rates through time; the cross-sectional structure of interest rates; and the roles of the Federal Reserve and Treasury in financial markets. Prerequisite: MBA Core Finance.
Examines the global environment for business and the challenges facing managers in this environment. Explores the implications of the common phrase "think globally - act locally." Offered: WSp.
Study of selected problems in financing, international trade, investment, and foreign business operations; international aspects of money markets; problems of evaluation of foreign investments. Prerequisite: MBA core finance.
Student directed course that requires students to analyze companies and to select stocks to manage a portfolio of public domestic equity under the guidance of the faculty advisor and the UW Investment Office.
Business economics topics of current concern to faculty and students. Offered only when faculty are available and sufficient student interest exists. Seminar content announced in advance of scheduled offering. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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2019-04-22T13:59:23Z
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http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/busecon.html
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Sports
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Q. How do I save a PDF Full Text?
1. Right click within the PDF.
1. Look for a disk symbol or the word "Save." These are usually found to the right of the PDF, but the location may vary depending upon the database you are using.
2. Click on the symbol or the word "Save" and follow the steps to save the document into your files.
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2019-04-22T00:03:35Z
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http://askusatthelibrary.liberty.edu/faq/168604
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Sports
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There are times when the days are full, and there's just not much to say.
So I'm taking a little self-imposed blog-break.
Not sure how long I'll be gone -- but I'll be back for sure by next Monday.
My grandmother always told me it's best not to speak unless I had something to say, and I find that to be a restful thing. I'll be here when you return!
Have a good rest of the week and enjoy.
Enjoy! Looking forward to your return.
This seems ...intentional. :) Good on you.
Hope your week will be filled intential activities.
Please take pictures of your amaryllis and let us know what IT has to say. I'm waiting for my last one (one I nurtured from last year) to show it's blossoms.
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2019-04-23T22:38:29Z
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https://steppingawayfromtheedge.typepad.com/weblog/2019/03/self-imposed.html
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Oh just beautiful! I made some 'dorable spider web frosted cookies for my daughter's 'Harvest Party'. Even tho it will be out of season, I should share a photo with you! I'm getting ready for a craft show, it's really my first as an adult! Yikes I am so nervous!
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2019-04-19T15:26:06Z
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https://humblearts.typepad.com/humblearts_journal/2006/11/happy_thanksgiv.html
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Sports
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IT is doubtful when he wrote a letter to a medical journal about patients in Mumbai afflicted with an untreatable form of tuberculosis that Dr. Zarir Udwadia was seeking to become the source of controversy himself. But instead of provoking an all-out attack on the disease, as he had hoped, the letter set off a global health alarm and, at least initially, prompted a backlash from the government.
Until writing the letter in late 2011, Dr. Udwadia was perhaps best known as the pulmonologist to the elite in Mumbai, where his physician father had become known nationally for saving the life of a Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bachchan. Hardly anyone outside public health circles knew of the free weekly TB clinic that the younger Dr. Udwadia had run for more than two decades.
Dr. Udwadia wrote about four of his clinic patients for whom none of the commonly used medicines worked to combat the disease, a deadly bacterial infection that can be transmitted through a sneeze or a cough. The idea that people could contract such a deadly disease sitting next to someone on a bus or on an international flight aroused concern among global health authorities and created a problem for the Indian government.
TB is so old that it has been discovered in the skeletons of Egyptian mummies, was recorded by Hippocrates and is mentioned in the Rig-Veda, a collection of ancient Sanskrit texts. The disease disproportionately affects the poor because it spreads easily in crowded places among people whose resistance is low from malnutrition or illness. It has been curable for decades with a regimen of several antibiotics taken for six months. But often patients fail to follow the whole course of treatment, and the disease mutates into a more virulent form.
India is of particular concern, having the most TB patients in the world — more than two million of the more than nine million active cases globally. India also has the most drug-resistant patients, about 100,000 with multidrug resistance, in which the two most powerful TB medicines do not work.
Mumbai is especially problematic because of its overcrowded slums, with almost a third of TB patients in some neighborhoods having a resistant form of the disease. Drug-resistant disease is more expensive and even more difficult to defeat than the traditional form, requiring two years’ treatment with such a toxic course of medicines that many patients drop out. Even if they do complete the regimen, studies show there is only a 60 percent likelihood of a cure.
In the media storm that followed Dr. Udwadia’s journal letter, government officials publicly denied the problem and accused him of wrongly setting off a panic. A Mumbai health official seized his patient samples for retesting.
Dr. Udwadia clammed up for a few weeks but then re-emerged even more outspoken than before, vigorously defending his findings and denouncing the government for its complacency. The 55-year-old physician has been extremely vocal ever since, criticizing the government for failing to take advantage of a new generation of medicines to stamp out the disease.
“With the new TB drugs approved by the F.D.A., nobody should be dying of TB,” he said in an interview this month in his small office, where, during his free clinic, he stood by an open window, examining the leather tanners, taxi drivers and maids, in saris, burqas and turbans, who were waiting in the long corridor outside.
“They’re not available here because of government inertia, and it’s unconscionable,” he says, speaking with characteristic speed, enunciating every syllable for emphasis.
JUST a few weeks ago, Rahima Sheikh, 44, one of the four drug-resistant patients he described in his 2011 letter, lay on the table by the window as he listened to her chest and reviewed her test results.
The tall, lean doctor with a halo of black hair refuses to wear a mask to protect himself, even though his wife says he does worry about contracting TB. “How can you connect to a patient that way?” he asks. Instead, he leaves open his window so there is good air circulation, which reduces the chances of infection.
Where many international and Indian public health experts are cowed into speaking in diplomatic jargon for fear of losing government support for their programs, or even their jobs, Dr. Udwadia stands out as the most influential voice demanding better treatment for India’s TB patients and unabashedly criticizing the status quo.
Dr. Udwadia grew up in Mumbai, training in government hospitals, where TB was widespread, and at City Hospital in Edinburgh, where researchers first combined medicines for a cure.
When he returned to India in 1991 to set up his medical practice, he had few patients, so he opened the free clinic to keep himself busy. It is now the busiest outpatient clinic at his hospital.
Within a couple of years, India began seeing its first cases of drug-resistant TB. As more and more drug-resistant patients showed up at his clinic, he became expert in treating them with various combinations of medicines, as well as an influential voice about the dangers of ignoring the spread of those strains.
AFTER its initial criticism of Dr. Udwadia, the Indian government did an about-face and announced increased funding for the country’s TB programs, with a special focus on drug resistance. And the city of Mumbai began seeking out patients with drug resistance and treating them.
Dr. Udwadia notes that the government TB programs still do not identify or treat the majority of drug-resistant patients. Two new TB drugs approved in Europe and the United States several years ago are still not available in India, he says.
Dr. Udwadia began using the first of the new TB drugs with his sickest patients soon after it was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2012. It is still not approved for widespread marketing in India, though the government TB program has promised to make it available next month to 600 patients with multidrug-resistant TB.
Fifteen of his 20 patients who received the new TB drug recovered, which is significant, Dr. Udwadia says, because they were his sickest, having already failed to respond to almost every other treatment.
Where he was not widely known before the controversy erupted over his journal letter, Dr. Udwadia is now a sought-after speaker.
He communicates regularly with the physician who had been his hero for decades — Dr. Paul Farmer, whose work was chronicled in the book “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World,” by Tracy Kidder. This year, Dr. Udwadia addressed immunology students at Harvard University. Next month, he is to speak at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health meeting in London.
But for him, he says, the best times are when a patient with drug resistance whom he has been treating for years is finally cured.
When Mrs. Sheikh, a tiny woman wearing a salwar kameez, showed up for her recent checkup, Dr. Udwadia grinned and reached across the table to shake her hand, unable to contain his excitement as he reviewed her tests. They were negative for TB for the third successive year.
Her lungs are so scarred from the disease that she becomes breathless after walking several steps, but she says she is grateful to be alive. She takes a two-day train ride from her hometown in northern India to Mumbai every six months for a checkup.
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2019-04-25T06:44:25Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/world/asia/zarir-udwadia-india-tuberculosis-tb.html?_r=0
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One of the track in Supercell’s new Album “Today is a Beautiful Day”. An album which all of it was sung by nagi. The album itself is good, it was all of the song that was in Supercell’s single from here and there, and there’s also some new song, including this one. Taken from my friend’s notes in Facebook, and since I haven’t got the album myself, I can’t fix if there is a mistake here and there. Anyway, enjoy.
Track 7 from album solfa heart to heart -from iyunaline to solfa 2-. Sung by yanaginagi or nagi or gazelle. Yes, the singer that tends to be singing supercell’s song. A request from Adlin/minoru. Translation also added.
Taken from Supercell’s latest album, this song was the ending song for all age visual novel from Typemoon, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru that planned to be released in the end of September. Totally another epic song from both artist. Looking forward to the game as well.
p.s: My blog full of Rita!!! NuuuuoooOOOO!!!!! mdaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
New single from Supercell. Sung by Yanagi Nagi (nagi) again, like his single before this. Looks like ryo really like to make a song with school’s time as it’s basis. Oh well, this song was lame at first, but I like it when this song was repeated over and over.
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2019-04-24T18:06:13Z
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https://blacksaber.wordpress.com/tag/nagi/
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Below are a few books I’ve found useful in my quest to be a more mindful parent. Part of this reading was useful for me as I ‘collected data’ so that I am more able to understand my kids’ contexts, and so that I can (ideally!) bring compassion to each situation.
The framework in this book is a life-saver for helping clarify the steps we can take to express our needs and make requests.
You’ll need to put aside some time to practise the steps, to think about how you can change what you’re doing, perhaps watch Rosenberg himself in action (on YouTube), in order to see how effective his method is.
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2019-04-22T16:29:35Z
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https://leadershipparenting.wordpress.com/resources/
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Sports
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On August 25th, the Georgia Dept. of Education broadcast a livestream of author Carmen Agra Deedy reading one of her books. Ms. Deedy read Martina the Beautiful Cockroach. Before she began reading, Ms. Deedy took some time to tell the students a little bit about herself.
I thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to share this broadcast with our students and hear it myself. I am hoping that the Georgia Department of Education will share more author livestreams in the future.
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2019-04-21T06:59:44Z
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http://theliterarycorner.weebly.com/blog/read-aloud-with-carmen-agra-deedy
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ning
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This group is for everyone interested in buying or renting a steel pan.
The first leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition where we learn to rap the first half of the cup moves!
It costs 1400 rhythm credits to begin this expedition.
Ian and members' suggestions for planning parties that include Ian's music.
Begin your snare drum journey! We'll visit snare drum set up, snare grip, snare stroke, single strokes, and single stroke roll.
4 members Latest Activity: Mar 21, 2009 Group to organize rehearsal and performance of Log Cabin Blues by the Interlake Percussion Ensemble #1.
Other web pages for mailing list, booking, etc.
Ian's Music Activities for Summer Vacation!
This group is for those rhythm trekkers who have practiced hard and leveled up through all levels of the cup game.
The fourth leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition, where we learn to rap and play the 2nd half of the cup game!
The second leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition, where we learn to rap and play the first half of the cup game!
The sixth leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition, where we learn to rap and perform the moves of the entire cup game pattern.
The seventh leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition, where we learn to master the cup game!
The fifth leg of our Cup Game Rhythm Expedition, where we learn to rap the moves of the entire cup game pattern.
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2019-04-23T04:22:28Z
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http://iandobson.ning.com/groups/group/list?invalidSlug=1
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Sports
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Games
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utoronto
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It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since we gathered in Toronto for ELPUB 2018. Even if you weren’t able to join us in person, we are pleased to share some highlights from the conference in this newsletter – please check it out below! Be sure to also check out the many tweets, articles and links to resources that participants have shared online through the hashtag #ELPUB2018.
We received many positive comments and constructive feedback about the conference, and look forward to continuing the conversations with you in the coming months. We heard from many people that they left the conference feeling invigorated and hopeful for the future, but there is still much work to be done. Thank you to everyone who participated in the conversations in person and online.
We would also like to express our gratitude to all our Conference Partners who supported ELPUB this year as well as our travel scholarship fund: PLOS, OpenEdition, SPARC, FACETS Journal, UTSC’s Arts Culture and Media Department and Centre for Critical Development Studies, U of T Libraries, ACRL, Arcadia Fund, CARL, CRKN, Creative Commons, eLife, KULA Journal and Ubiquity Press – thank you for making it possible to include more voices in the conversation. A special thank you as well to our colleagues at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information’s Inforum Library for being such generous and welcoming hosts, and our amazing volunteer team for all their help throughout.
Stay tuned for more information about ELPUB 2019, taking place in France with host OpenEdition next year!
This year’s ELPUB Conference proceedings were published by OpenEdition Press and are now available for reading and download at https://elpub.episciences.org/.
We are pleased to share some photos from the ELPUB weekend – Check out our photo album here!
Relive the ELPUB weekend and hear selections from interviews with our ELPUB Travel Scholarship recipients about some of their thoughts about the conference.
Aled Edwards, Open Science and the Public Good.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Open Sustainable Research Communities and the Public Good.
ELPUB programme now available and thank you to our Partners!
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2019-04-21T20:35:29Z
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http://epress.utsc.utoronto.ca/elpub2018/2018/08/09/elpub2018-conference-highlights/
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canadiancyclist
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66 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro all s.t.
70 Niels Scheuneman (Ned) Unibet.Com all s.t.
73 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Credit Agricole s.t.
78 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor-Lotto all s.t.
82 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen both s.t.
98 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe all s.t.
113 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.Com all s.t.
123 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC all s.t.
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2019-04-22T10:04:53Z
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http://www.canadiancyclist.com/dailynews.php?id=11929&title=Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
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nova
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"Long-Term Nonprogressive Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus T" by Thomas C. Greenough, Doreen B. Brettler et al.
Seven long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs) have been identified in a cohort of 128 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infected individuals with hemophilia. Studies included quantitation of virus by polymerase chain reaction, characterization of primary virus isolates in vitro, analysis of lymphocyte surface markers, and measurement of virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). Viruses of LTNPs exhibited slow growth in vivo and in vitro. LTNPs had expansion of CDS T cells with increased expression of HLA-DR. Intermittent HIV- 1-specific CTL effector activity was detected in freshly isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells of most LTNPs. CTL precursor frequencies were higher in LTNPs than in patients with progressive disease. Virus antigen-specific lymphoproliferation was vigorous in some LTNPs. Thus, LTNPs in this cohort have maintained remarkably low virus burdens and vigorous HIV-1-specific cell-mediated immunity over a 15-year period. The presence of expanded, activated CDS T cells with cytotoxic effector function in the peripheral blood suggests ongoing viral replication.
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2019-04-24T08:12:25Z
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https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_bio_facarticles/650/
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wordpress
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I’ve had the pleasure of working with 2 fantastic colleagues, Zach Strother and TJ Edwards, on an Interdisciplinary PBL “Unit”. TJ had the idea of HMW we redesign a bike for an urban commuter that he wants to use in his Tech, Engineering, and Design (TED) class. Zach teaches AP Physics. I teach Algebra 2. As I left our time of collaboration this morning, I reflected on how fortunate I am to work with these guys, how well we work together, and how learning from them is making me a better math teacher, which benefits my students. Part of what works in our collaboration is that we chose the project and each other. We come from similar mindsets to education, though not identical, which probably minimizes the disagreements. Yet, we also feel comfortable enough to push back on certain things and talk through disagreements as we get to unity.
This started when I was at NCTM Boston in April. I noticed a lack of Design Thinking at the conference. I emailed TJ & Zach before I even left Boston asking if they wanted to put together a proposal for the NCTM 2016 conference. And oh, by the way, proposals are due on or before May 1. They both were in and when I returned to the ATL, we got to work. TJ already had the idea of the bike redesign. We worked together as to how we would lead a conference session through parts of the DT process, while also sharing the results of how we implemented the project at our own school. Proposal submitted on exactly May 1 and now we await word if it will be approved.
It was chance that my CP Algebra 2 class is the same period as Zach AP Physics. We don’t have any students in common, and we think that makes it better. TJ’s class will start the DT process with interviewing users (empathy) & 3 bikes, then fill in a project brief to hand off to the AP Physics students.
Zach will have some labs pre-designed, but also have the students design 1 lab from scratch based on the needs of the TED students. The Alg 2 students will do the labs with the Physics students, take the data back to work on in our classroom, and then fill in the project brief with their results. The AP Physics students, who are further along in their math career than the CP Alg 2 students, will give feedback on the math to my students! I love students getting directions and then feedback on the results from other students. After all of our labs, the project brief goes back to the TED students for iteration.
We will each be assessing our students on our specific content learning outcomes, content area processes (for example, in math the Standards of Mathematical Practice), and then we picked two of our school’s Mindsets – Collaboration & Communication. We used BIE’s Collaboration & Presentation rubrics as a guide and merged/changed the pieces we wanted to focus on for this project. So, all students will be self-assessing, peer-assessing, and have teacher-assessing done on the mindsets using the same rubric across all 3 classes. Additionally, we’ve picked 3 times during the 1st semester where we will get all students together so that they can give each other in person feedback, not just on the planning brief.
I’m excited. I’m excited for my students to see how the things we do in Algebra 2 get applied in other disciplines. I’m excited to do physics labs! I’m excited to learn how to bring more science into my classroom. I’m excited for my students to be a part of a project and realize that they don’t have to be involved in every aspect – much like teams in various occupations – they pass the baton. I’m excited that I’m finally doing something like this in my classes.
Thanks MV for giving us the grant to make this happen and trusting us to meet both our content learning outcomes & the MV mindsets.
This entry was posted in Design Thinking, PBL, Teaching and tagged Alg2, Algebra 2, Design Thinking, DT, PBL, PjBL on July 10, 2015 by romathio.
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2019-04-19T03:12:26Z
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https://romathio.wordpress.com/2015/07/
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Sports
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answers
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A Shaman is a head chief who is believed to be a demi-god who also goes on vision quests in search for truth. The Natives (First Nations) of North America believe in Shamans.
Who was the shaman and what did he do?
What was the shaman and what did he do?
What do shamans have to undergo to become shamans?
What is the best evolved shaman or shaman?
Shaman is better (once reached rank 5) ithrows on more damage and energy embrace strengthens it. It also has a higher crit and it can higher it's crit chance.
What is better shaman or evolved shaman?
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2019-04-21T14:05:02Z
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http://www.answers.com/topic/shaman
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Sports
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Games
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weebly
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Picture Day!!! Monday, September 11th.
To get class updates on your phone: text (587) 316-6211 and type @mrhurf in message space.
This website is intended to help keep parents and students updated on what is going on in the 6H Classroom and Redwater School.
Homework, assignment and test dates will be updated daily on this website, so please make sure you are checking it frequently.
Also, important class and school events will be posted here.
Hopefully, you find this beneficial!
Please contact me with any concerns.
Reminder: Your child will be expected to participate in phys. ed. everyday. A doctor's note is needed for them to be excused.
Reminder: We have a student in our elementary section with a peanut allergy this year. Please do not send any products with peanuts in them to school with your child.
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2019-04-19T13:19:06Z
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https://6hredwater.weebly.com/
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File photoCity finance officials say the city's two retirement funds owe $8.9 million in annual expenses.
LANSING, MI – City officials said last week that the Police and Fire Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System owe the city a combined $8.9 million for what they say is an annual expense.
But board members for the two funds said they have no recollection of being asked to approve similar amounts in the past, and voted to suspend any payment until the city turned over an itemized list of what exactly comprises the supposed debt.
"I do not remember approving anything like this before," Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood said Thursday. "I'd like to see documentation that this was done before."
Wood serves on both boards.
At the Police and Fire Retirement Board meeting Tuesday, June 19, board members were told the fund owed the city $4.2 million in "management fees" the city paid to a private company on behalf of the fund.
Since neither board possesses its own checking account, the city pays expenses from the general fund and is reimbursed by each fund.
The board of each fund approves the expenses at its monthly meetings.
The police and fire board approved the expenditure Tuesday, but members expressed apprehension and convened a joint meeting with the ERS board Thursday.
Interim city Finance Director Angela Bennett said both boards approved similar expenditures in April 2011, though no board member present at Thursday's meeting seemed to recall the expenses.
Investment management fees are included in the bills, Bennett said, but contrary to what the police and fire board heard Tuesday, they aren't the entirety of the bill. Of the $4.7 million the city says the employee retirement system owes it, $600,000 is for the investment management fees.
Of the $4.2 million the city says it's owed from the police and fire retirement fund, $800,000 is for investment management.
The balance of the monies due are for "payroll liabilities," Bennett said.
She said that when the boards approve expenditures for pension checks, they approve the gross amount for each retiree.
But what the boards place into the bank account for the city only covers the net amount of the pension checks – leaving the city to cover the cost of withholding income tax, FICA and garnishments, Bennett said.
"Where does the city have the ability to front the retirement board $8.9 million?" Wood asked, noting the end-of-year deficit the city is facing.
Board members also asked why, if they were approving that the gross amount be reimbursed to the city, only the net amount was paid out.
"It's raised a lot of questions," said Brad St. Aubin, chairman of the police and fire board. "That's why we had this meeting. We're trying to work with the city."
ERS board chairman Scott Dedic also indicated that he didn't recall approving a similar expense in his time on the board.
"I'm not comfortable transferring any money out of the fund without documentation for the expenses," he said Thursday. "I don't think it's prudent."
The police and fire board voted unanimously Thursday to suspend a $4.2 million payment it approved Tuesday; the ERS board voted to postpone payment of a $4.7 million debt the city claims until it, too, receives details of the expense.
The ERS board met at noon Monday to review the itemized expense list.
The police and fire board is scheduled to receive its itemized expense report Monday. If no board member raises objections to the report's contents, payment will be remitted Wednesday, June 27.
E-mail Angela Wittrock: awittroc at mlive dot com and follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/AngelaWittrock and Facebook, or reach her by phone at 517.219.7073.
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https://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/2012/06/lansing_retirement_boards_ques.html
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Give it two more months and Alice Springs golf course will be ready, Its just starting to come back from our dormant stage.
This year our course that is rated the 6th best desert golf course in the world will deliver in full.
Come and check out the Alice and all her wonders bring your sticks the course is beautiful.
13 October to Saturday, 20 October 2018.
Played it just a couple of months ago (around May) .... very nice course, and it was in good nick at the time.
I'd go out on a limb and say it's far and away, the best golf course within 500 kms of Alice Springs.
I've played it a few times now over the last 20 years, and loved it each and every time.
Finished my latest round there with a very nice eagle on the par 4, 18th so very happy memories …….
A must play if you're in the area I reckon …..
are there any other golf courses within 500k!
Cracking course and stunning vistas with the Mac Ranges in the background. I spend a bit of time up around Alice and always look for the opportunity to play it.
I'm in Alice for a conference the week before Easter. Wondering if there is an opportunity to join in with a local comp there mid week.
Sorry for the late reply Birdie Blitz I have been in Bali.
Played many a round there in the junior years. Had the opportunity to play it on our Big Lap in 2017 and it was a I remembered it. Complete with the massive Greg Norman poster in the change rooms.
One of the great courses in Australia if you ask me.
Thats a very nice rap for our course, and yep I recon the big Photo of Greg Norman is pretty awesome also.
We have a local lad ( Jake Hughes ) here playing of +4 just won the NT Amateur back to back and made it to the last day of the Australian Amateur this year.
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https://forums.iseekgolf.com/topic/64689-alice-springs-nt/
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This thesis focuses on the mapping of the microphone array’s response to match the characteristics of a human subject’s Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF). The mapping of the response is first explored with a ‘monaural HRTF matching’ that filters the response independent of the arrival angles. For arbitrary array geometry with the listener external to the acoustic, the monaural HRTF matching did not provide listeners with enough spatial information to precisely localize sound sources. To correct this, a preprocessor control algorithm was added to the HRTF matching, a ‘binaural HRTF matching’ process. The binaural HRTF matching increased the listeners’ performance in perceiving the location of a sound source. With the addition of simulated head movement, the listeners’ perception increased by 20%. An issue with this approach is the use of HRTFs other than the listeners’ measured HRTF, creating a psychoacoustic based error in localization, i.e., front/back confusion.
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https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/35361
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Montana Nights Axe Throwing will be open seven days a week. The family-friendly venue is equipped with rustic decorations, arcade games, and a bar. The owner says "it’s all designed to keep people off their phones." The venue will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Saturday. On Sunday, it will open at 12 p.m. and close at 8 p.m.
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I am happy for you. You’ll enjoy those places. Be happy,Kavita.
All my best wishes are for you.
Congratulations and have a wonderful time!!!!!!!
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2019-04-22T14:28:46Z
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https://talkingexperience.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/bucket-list-2013-plan-for-new-year-and-christmas-in-miami-and-los-angeles/
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Grassroots movements occur within a global political economic continuum. Cultural, political, and economic influences determine their occurence. Environmental degradation is often a catalyst for social mobilization. Through the pedagogical process, citizens learn to challenge the power relations which encourage human and natural resource exploitation. Historical, economic, political, and anthropological considerations are therefore relevent to a study of grassroots activism in southern Appalachia (as geographically defined by the ARC). Southern Appalachia is an appropriate source for comparison to other exploited regions.
Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire. We make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change . Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 256 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: LB885 .H64 W4 1990.
Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case . Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins, eds. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978. 370 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HC107 .A13 C68.
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South . John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, and Alex Willingham, eds. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 301 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HC107 .A127 C65 1990.
Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change . Stephen L. Fisher, ed. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 365 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HN79 .A127 F54 1993.
Hinsdale, Mary Ann, Helen Matthews Lewis, and S. Maxine Waller. It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology . Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 400 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HN79 .V83 C645 1995.
Lewis, Helen Matthews. Participatory Education and Grassroots Development: The Case of Rural Appalachia . New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center. 9 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: S544 .L49 1990.
Appalachian Bibliography. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1968, 1972, and 1980. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A6.
Appalachian Outlook. Morgantown West Virginia University Library. 1964 -- present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A55.
Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. Charlotte T. Ross, ed. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1976. ASU APP COLL OVERSIZE: Z1251 .A7 B5x.
Edwards, Everett Eugene. References on the Mountaineers of the Southern Appalachians . Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Library. 148 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 E28 1935a.
Fisher, Stephen L. "Selective Bibliography for Appalachian Studies." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review . Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. v. 1, 1972 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F216.2 .A66. See v. 9: Winter-Spring 1982 issue, pp. 209-242.
Hinsdale, Mary Ann, Helen Matthews Lewis, and S. Maxine Waller. It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology . Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 400 pages. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HN79 .V83 C645 1995. Pages 359-389.
Nelson, Hart M. and Anne K. Nelson. Bibliography on Appalachia: A Guide to Studies Dealing with Appalachia in General, and Including Rural and Urban Working Class Attitudes Toward Religion, Education, and Social Change . Bowling Green: Western Kentucky Univ,, Office of Research and Services, 1967. 73 leaves. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 N35.
Social Sciences Index . New York, H. W. Wilson Co. Bound: v.1-21, 1974-1995; Unbound: v.22, 1995/96. ASU REFERENCE: AI3 .S62.
Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission . Washington, DC: Appalachian Regional Commission. v.1, 1967 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: HC107 .A137 A3. Online Index, May 1996 to present: http://www.arc.gov/infopubs/appalach/magindex.htm .
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review . Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. v. 1, 1972 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F216.2 .A66. Indexed in vols. 7, 18, and 23.
Journal of Appalachian Studies. Morganton, WV: West Virginia University for the Appalachian Studies Associaiton. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F106 .J74 (bound issues). Check current APP COLL periodicals for other issues.
Mountain Life & Work . Berea, KY: Berea College. v. 1 - 64, 1925 - 1988. ASU APP COLL STACKS: GR103 .M5.
Mountain Living. Black Mountain, NC: Mountain Living, Inc. v. 1-14, 1970-1983. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F261 .M62.
North Carolina Historical Review . Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Historical Commission. v. 1, 1924 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F251 .N892.
Now and Then. Johnson City, TN: Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. Vol. 1, 1984 -- present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F217.A65 N68.
Touring . Asheville, NC: Southland Tourist Pub. Co. v.2 #3-4/5, v.5 #1-2, 1934-1938. ASU APP COLL CLOSED STACKS: F261 .T68.
Barron, Hal, et al. WHOSE Bicentennial? Appalachian '76. Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review . Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. Autumn 1976 issue, (v.4:1) pp. 2-48. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F216.2 .A66.
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We currently have a 4-8 month Tax Co-op Student position (starting January 2016) available in the Tax team of the National Finance group, located in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, reporting to the Director of Tax Reporting & Compliance. As the successful candidate, you have a desire to learn and superior attention to detail.
Please note: The preference is for this role to be an 8 month term; however, we are open to the possibility of a 4 month term as well – please specify the duration you are available for in your cover letter.
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a leading Canadian company with a clear vision and focus. We are only accepting online applications and welcome applications from all qualified people interested in this challenge. We will be contacting only those who will be selected to interview.
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Tuition for the Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate is posted on the Cornell Graduate School website as a tier 1 professional MPS-RE degree. For more information on the cost of attendance, please visit the Graduate School Cost of Attendance page.
The Baker Program requires a non-refundable deposit of $1,500 to secure admission, payable at the time of acceptance, which will be credited to your first-fall-semester bursar account.
Most Baker Program students rely on a combination of federal and private loans to finance their educational and living expenses. The university’s Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment is an excellent resource for identifying loans and loan packages to help finance your education.
If you submit your application by one of the Baker Program’s first two deadlines—December 1 and January 15—you will automatically be considered for merit-based funding. During each admission period, an average of one-third of our incoming class receives funding as a part of the admission offer. The amount of the offers varies, with our goal of making your education more affordable.
The Baker Program in Real Estate is committed to enrolling engaged and committed students regardless of financial circumstances. In order to be considered for need-based aid, students must complete the Baker Need-Based Scholarship Application. It is assumed that U.S. students will take out the full amount of the Federal Direct Loan (currently $20,500) before a need-based scholarship will be awarded. Completed applications should be submitted via email to the Baker Admissions Office ([email protected]). Students applying for aid are encouraged to apply early, as aid is limited and consideration is made in the order in which applications are received.
Merit-fellowship recipients are selected by an admissions committee. The same criteria are used to determine merit as are used to evaluate applicants for admission: demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills, prior academic performance, GMAT/GRE scores, the range and depth of work experience, writing skills, interpersonal skills, extracurricular and community involvement, recommendations, previous achievements, focus, and goals.
These appointments allow Baker students to both learn and strengthen their knowledge and skills in a variety of areas, and to support various aspects of the program. Some assistantship appointments are offered during the admissions process, and others in the first weeks of the program. No additional application is necessary; your application will be sufficient.
TAs, as they are known, provide support to a variety of real estate courses. Based upon your first-semester performance, you are eligible to discuss and accept one or more TA appointments. These are typically hourly paid appointments, with selection decisions made by the faculty member responsible for the course.
I obtained my graduate teaching research assistantship as a senior editor for the Cornell Real Estate Review by making it known that I wanted an opportunity to learn more about the complex ideas being discussed in real estate, while providing my own thoughts of how to address them with potential creative solutions. Researching and discussing those ideas with my 2016-2018 classmates and our faculty leaders, Michael Tomlan and Dustin Jones, fully enhanced my thinking, reflecting the adage "iron sharpens iron." Additionally, the work we accomplished remained something that I could reference in interviews, providing potential employers with an awareness about how I think about real estate.
Cornell University has been designated as a direct lender for the U.S. government, which facilitates loan application processing for students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Pleas see the Office of Financial Aid website for more information on federal and private loans.
Non-U.S. citizen students who have a credit-worthy U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident co-signer may also be eligible for private education loans through lenders such as Sallie Mae, Wells Fargo, Discover, and Citizens Bank. Students should research private education loan lenders to determine which option is best for their individual situation. International students may also search for loans through the International Education Financial Aid organization.
Appraisal Institute Education and Relief Foundation: The Appraisal Institute Education and Relief Foundation awards several scholarships for both graduate students and undergraduates majoring in real estate appraisal, land economics, real estate, or related fields.
CREW Network Scholarships: CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Network offers a scholarship for female students who are enrolled full-time in an accredited real estate program or other fields of study with the intent to pursue a career in commercial real estate.
Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) Foundation: The ESA Foundation awards numerous scholarships annually; amounts vary depending on the applicant’s home state or country.
George M. Brooker Collegiate Scholarship for Minorities: The Brooker Scholarship is designed to assist minority students, on the basis of academic excellence, who are committed to a career in real estate—specifically real estate management—upon graduation.
Grossman Graduate Scholarship: Scholarships are available to graduate students who are also International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) members and indicate a preference for a career in retail real estate.
Pension Real Estate Association (PREA): PREA awards scholarships to promising students studying real estate at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
WX Scholarship: The WX Scholarship program is designed to encourage and support young women in their pursuit of careers in real estate and real estate-related professions.
FIABCI Scholarship Foundation: The foundation is a non-profit corporation that provides grants to students who demonstrate an interest in international real estate and who are enrolled in an FIABCI-member university.
California Home Building Foundation (CHF): CHF has distributed over $3 million in scholarships to students enrolled in industry-related programs, such as construction management and architecture.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
Yellow Ribbon Program for Veterans: The Yellow Ribbon Program of the Post-9/11 GI Bill will help make graduate schools and private universities more affordable for veterans.
Illinois Real Estate Educational Foundation: The Illinois Real Estate Educational Foundation (REEF) awards scholarships to students of real estate and related fields of study at colleges and universities both within and outside Illinois.
NIC Senior Housing and Care Scholarship: Through the Future Leader Council’s University Outreach program, NIC offers partial and full scholarships to our Spring Investment Forum and Fall Conference to participants in the NIC internship program and representatives from the universities that participate in those programs. The scholarships are provided in an effort to deepen students’ understanding of the sector.
American Immobiliare Commercial Real Estate Scholarship: The American Immobiliare College Scholarship Program was founded in 2016. Our goal is to support the next generation of Italian-American influencers and innovators in commercial real estate fields. The scholarship is open to graduate and undergraduate students nationally. Recipients receive a scholarship that helps underwrite part of the cost of their college tuition. Our scholarships provide assistance towards tuition but will not cover payment for all school costs.
Organization of American States (OAS) Interest-Free Student Loans: The Rowe Fund is an educational loan program of the Organization of American States (OAS) that helps citizens from Latin America and Caribbean OAS member states finance their studies or research in accredited universities across the United States.
RTOL Scholarship: Rent to Own Labs offers a $2,500 scholarship to help cover tuition, textbooks, or development courses for a student pursuing a career in real estate.
Mortgage Bankers Association of New York: The MBA of NY Scholarship Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit charitable organization formed to provide resources and support students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in real estate.
Congratulations to Emile Schacter MPS-RE ’20 for receiving the 2018 MBAofNY Scholarship!
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What is HOT and what is NOT right now in Montreal : Right now, ONLY the few eateries with artisan Chefs (Chefs REALLY working in their kitchen) worth a detour, in town, namely Le Serpent, La Chronique, Nozy, Marconi. Pay big respect to Toque! as well as Le Club Chasse et Peche! I went to Toque! twice. The 1st time was superb, the second just Ok but Toque! is certainly a destination restaurant by Montreal restaurant standards. LCCP was amazing under Chef Claude Pelletier, not as stellar as in those days, anymore, but it remains a top tier table for Montreal.
BIG UP to the best poutine (but NOT the one at la Banquise…Nah!!)) and smoked smeat (Reuben’s Deli is still one of the very best in town) in the world, their happening is right here in YUL! Ou bagels, our cheesecakes are also the best in the world.
According to the latest local buzz, Manitoba/L’Express/Impasto/Le Vin Papillon/Cadet/Lawrence/Le Mousso/Hopkins/Bar George and Tuck Shop are doing a fine job lately. I have not been to Kitchen Galerie in a long time, but most foodies I know seem to continue to find it good.
Anyways, the Montreal foodie scene is hardly going to be a serious foodie scene for at least another 10 years, easily, as our best Chefs have long abandoned their stoves (Martin Picard) or have simply deserted Montreal (Jean-François Bélair, Hughes Dufour, Jean-Paul Giroux). Of that generation of gifted Chefs, there is Martin Juneau who is still around, especially on TV, but Martin is not the brilliant Chef that he used to be in his heyday at La Montée (in those days, Martin was easily a world class Chef…BUT that was 10 years ago!!!).
When you look at the restaurant reviews on this blog, my reviews have covered restaurants that are mainly abroad . There are actually 10 times more restaurants reviewed on this log that are not located in Montreal than there are from Montreal. On a blog which focuses on what’s supposed to stand out in Montreal, that speaks for itself.
Being a critic is NOT as easy as some may think. Far from that. I am not talking about the common restaurant-friendly food write-ups wildly found online. I am talking about serious ppl who are willing to say things the way they are, and most importantly, who bother about knowing what they are talking about.
1.Are you capable to separate your analysis of the food from your feelings of the dining experience? On MY blog, an amateurish blog, written by someone who is not a food critic, I gave a 9/10 for the food of a restaurant of which I hated the dining experience. In my post, both feelings were clearly expressed while avoiding being unfair to the kitchen (not their fault if the front house is amateurish). If an amateurish food blog like mine can do this, needless to stress that more is expected from a food critic.
3.Do you feel the need to please an audience? Most do. But that is right there the very first sign that you are not a serious critic.
4.Do you really know what needs to be assessed? It is an important question to ask yourself as a critic. As an example, many so-called professional critics do assess classic food as “tired” only because they do not know how to differentiate an average classic dish from its better versions. They basically just associate excitement with novelty, and do not have the proper knowledge to dig deep in anything that is not ..novel. There is also a lot of ignorance about textures/doneness/temperatures: your meat is tender? then it is good. Your meat has a firmer consistency, then it is not, etc. And they do that regardless of the type of cuisine they are assessing, which is the perfect recipe to spread inaccuracies. A good critic SHOULD BE INFORMED about the notion of doneness/textures/temperatures that is proper to the cuisine that he is assessing. Or else. what is he assessing??
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2019-04-26T08:58:28Z
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https://michelinstarfinedinings.wordpress.com/tag/what-is-hot-in-montreal-right-now/
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Please read this short tutorial (PDF) to learn how to use the events system.
This website provides access to talks and other events taking place at the University of Glasgow. It is intended to replace existing department- or school-specific methods for advertising events which make it difficult for staff and students to discover what relevant research may be being presented elsewhere on the campus and provide a single central location where all such event information can be accessed.
On the most basic level, you can use the site as a simple search engine. Navigating to the home page will show you a list of all events taking place during the current week and you can perform various types of searches or browse through the different groups hosting events to get an idea of what is available.
Can I use this site on my phone/tablet?
Yes, the site is built using a responsive framework which should adjust to smaller screen sizes automatically.
For Chrome on Android,browse to the homepage, then select the "Add to homescreen" option from the Chrome page menu.
For Safari on iOS, browse to the homepage, then select the "Add to Home Screen" option from the Safari page menu.
Other browsers should offer similar functionality.
Why does the site have a "Log in" option?
If you find a group that hosts a lot of interesting talks, you can click the "Subscribe" button on any one of their talks (or on the group information page) to subscribe to that group. Upcoming events within the next week from the groups that you have subscribed to will automatically appear on the home page when you are logged in, and you can view all upcoming events by going to your Subscribed Events page. Unsubscribing from a group is as easy as clicking the "Unsubscribe" button.
While subscriptions allow you to register interest in a series of events from certain groups, there may be times when you see individual interesting events from other groups. If you click the "Mark event" button on an event, it will treat that individual event similarly to one from a subscription. It will appear on your home page, and it will be highlighted in any lists of events shown on the site. The number of events you have marked is shown in the nav bar at the top of the screen while you are logged in, and the details of all your marked events can be viewed on the Marked events page. Similarly to subscriptions, just click the "Unmark event" button if you want to unmark an event.
Another benefit of logging in is that you can set up automated event reminder emails. These are sent out roughly 24 hours before and 2 hours before upcoming events. It is an opt-in system, so by default you will not receive any emails. To enable reminders, you can go to your profile page, and click the "Reminders" tab. This will display a table showing all your subscriptions, and allow you to choose whether you would like to receive one, both or no reminders for each subscription. These settings can be modified at any time and the changes will be applied immediately. Marking an event will currently cause you to receive both the 24 hour and 2 hour reminder emails about it, although this could become optional in future.
If you prefer to receive reminders through a calendar application such as iCal, Outlook or Google Calendar, the system can provide an ical calendar feed (compatible with most common calendar apps) that will contain all the events that you have marked. To set this up, go to your profile page, and click the "Ical Feeds" tab. By default your account will have no feed associated with it. To create one, just click the button and you should see a URL appear in the text box. Copy and paste this into your calendar client as a new feed/subscription and your marked events should appear. If your calendar client can be configured to automatically refresh the feed (e.g. every 24 hours) then new events (and updates to existing events) will be reflected in your calendar events too.
How do I add an event or a group?
There is a separate administration interface that can be accessed here. If you are a staff member, you can again simply login with your GUID and password. Student access is currently restricted but can be enabled on a per-user basis for the moment. Once logged in, you should see a short menu with options to create or edit events, groups or locations (where events take place, e.g. a lecture hall or meeting room). Fill out the form on the appropriate page to create a new instance of any of these entities and it will immediately become visible to other users of the system.
Can I integrate this with T4 to show events from my group?
Yes, there is some T4-compatible functionality that will produce an event listing for one or more groups. For an example of the output, see the School of Computing Science events page. For more information, contact andrew dot ramsay at glasgow dot ac dot uk.
Are there other options for integration with non-T4/external websites?
Another potentially useful option is to copy the RSS feed URL for a selected group and use it with an online feed widget generator to produce an events feed for your page.
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There are calls for Niue to make cuts in government programmes before it puts its staff on four-day weeks.
The island is battling to reduce a budget shortfall of about one million US dollars.
The government is planning to put workers on a four-day week, while politicians will also have their salaries cut.
But opposition MP, Terry Coe, says before that happens, stipends for pastors should be wiped and Niue should pull out of regional bodies such as the University of the South Pacific and the Forum Fisheries Agency.
He also says the government could end grants for beautification to village councils and stop ministers from travelling overseas.
"Although they say it doesn't cost anything they still get their per diems and their allowances and for the premier and the ministers this amounts to between four and six thousand [New Zealand] dollars per week when they travel overseas. So if we stopped the travel there would be big savings."
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https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/167702/opposition-call-for-niue-government-cuts
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Those last few hours before the wedding- everything is coming together as planned and excitement is in the air. The bride is glowing with anticipation, and her bridal party are buzzing with all the last minute preparations. There is always so much emotion- sometimes laughter, often tears. I love being there to capture these special moments.
Cassandra and her bridesmaids dressed in the beautiful and historic Woodview Inn, in Gananoque Ontario. She had invested in planning so many precious details including adorable matching robes and slippers.
THE DRESS! One of the most personal details of any wedding, so many of us grow up dreaming of just what style of gown we will wear on our special day. Cassandra’s dress was just perfect for her personality; lovely lacy details, but still light and fun.
Cassandra was overall a pretty chill bride during preparations, even helping one of bridesmaids figure out her lashes!
And she is simply stunning!
Cassandra definitely knew how to work it for the camera….and how to get everyone laughing at the same time! She rocked it on this antique staircase at the Woodview Inn.
The garden at the Woodview is ideal for photos, from the classic brick architecture to the beautiful fountain and surrounding greenery.
Cassandra was a truly beautiful bride.
Her wedding to David was amazing… another post to follow!
For more information about the Woodview Inn click the link.
to contact the photographer, email me at [email protected], or check out my website Another Perspective Photography. Thanks for coming by!
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2019-04-25T18:37:48Z
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https://anotherperspectivephotography.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/cassandra-a-beautiful-bride-preparing-for-her-wedding/
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We had three t-shirt design submissions. You can click on each design below to see it in a larger form and then vote for your favorite in the poll at the bottom of this entry.
I want to know who designed the first one. Amazing!
Why do the chr(#) Python statements create the word “AWESOMO” and not “AWESOME”?
I think it was Andrew Bennett.
I like the yellow shirt, but I think we should remove the “pray”.
If we do one besides the origional, could you change the font to something with a uniform character size?
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2019-04-25T09:43:07Z
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https://csblog.academic.wlu.edu/2012/05/07/t-shirt-design-poll/
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This week in ECS 210, we were asked to think about curriculum and how it is developed. We were asked to give our initial thoughts about how curriculum is developed. Then, we were asked to do a short reading and reflect upon that.
When I think of how school curriculum is developed, I think of a small group of five to seven people sitting around writing the curriculum. Most of the people that I imagine in this scenario are white males. I imagine most of the people sitting at the table are retired teachers that give their recommendations of what they think is important for students to learn, when they will learn the information (grade level), and how students will be assessed at the end.
Curriculum in this reading “is defined as an official statement of what students are expected to know and be able to do”. Most curriculum decision processes depend on the government systems in power. Most processes of creating curriculum involve bringing together groups of experts and sector representatives to draft elements of the new or revised curriculum. This process is directed by government officials. Teachers in the subject area of the curriculum as well as post-secondary experts are the majority of the people that create the curriculum.
The process of reviewing and renewal of curriculum has four steps to it. First, the group will examine the existing curriculum, then they will gather data about the strengths and weaknesses of the current curriculum. The next step is that they will think of multiple ideas for changes to the curriculum. Finally, the group will give recommendations for the new curriculum. Once this process is complete, the curriculum is written up and then released to all of the schools, or it is released on a trial basis and then revised as a final version.
After reading through this article, I am shocked by the process of how curriculum is created. In the article, it discussed a lot of the politics that went into creating educational policies. I knew to a certain extent the politics that went into creating educational policies, but I did not think about what influences the government’s decisions about educational policies. Things such as voter interests, accommodating varying public interests, not having enough time to sufficiently think about an issue in depth, and that beliefs drive people’s votes more than facts.
Governments have a lot of people to please when they create curriculum, and it is unrealistic for governments to believe that they will please everyone. Governments know that they cannot please everyone, so they attempt to please the mass majority of people with policies and their decisions. Since education is public and people’s taxes go towards paying for the education that students receive, education is a public and political act. Every person thinks that they know what would be best for schools because almost everyone has experienced formal education to a certain degree.
Since most curriculum is created by experts, as I stated above, it can be difficult for teachers to implement and teach the curriculum in the manner that the experts want. Most teachers are not experts in the subject that they teach, since not every high school teacher teaches the subject that they studied in university. As a future teacher, I have some concerns when it comes to the way the curriculum has been created and who influenced the curriculum that I am teaching my future students.
When it comes to creating educational policies, everyone voices what they believe should be taught in schools. Post-secondary institutions, businesses, parents, teachers, experts, and many more all want students to finish their high school education with knowledge that they believe is important. As a future teacher, I think it is important for me to recognize the influences that different groups of people have of education. Education is not a neutral act and someone is always influencing the policies that are created that will influence students.
I have some concerns when it comes to how curriculum is created. With the expert based curriculum, I fear that if I am not an expert in the subject matter, I will not be able to implement the curriculum in the way that it should be taught. I am also concerned with this approach to creating curriculum because I am worried that there will be too much information that teachers need to go in depth with for the amount of time teachers have to teach the full curriculum.
As a future teacher, I am surprised that curriculum is typically created by experts in the subject matter. I thought some experts would be creating the curriculum along with some typical teachers that are part of that subject, but I did not realize it was expert based. I think it is important as a future educator to realize who is influencing the curriculum that I will be teaching. As stated in the reading, “curriculum decisions are often part of a much larger public debate that often extends beyond education to larger questions of public goods” and it is important for teachers and all educators to recognize this fact.
Is there anything about how curriculum is created that surprised you? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
I too was surprised by the amount of political involvement that goes into curriculum making. It’s crazy to think how politics influence so many things about our lives, even things we may not be aware of. I really enjoyed reading your post and I found it very insightful.
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2019-04-25T12:39:06Z
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https://ashleyosachoffseducationblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/curriculum/
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Vaccinium corymbosum, Fruiting branch. Family Ericaceae, Subclass Dilleniidae. Origin: Native.
Hugh D. Wilson (2011). Vaccinium corymbosum (Native) 4. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /100373.
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https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/100373
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ADaCGH2 is a web tool for the analysis of aCGH data sets. We focus on calling gains and losses and estimating the number of copy changes.
This version of ADaCGH2 uses, underneath, the ADaCGH2 BioConductor package by R.Diaz-Uriarte (2014) and presents several key changes and simplifications with respect to the original web-based application. Many methods (that are slow for large data sets ---see the 2014 paper and its supplementary material) are no longer provided in the web application (but they are available from the BioConductor pakage) and we do not offer the option to find common regions as those were obsolte (see our review, Rueda and Diaz-Uriarte, 2010).
This web-based application is provided as a convenience. However, you are strongly suggested to use the BioConductor package as it allows you, for instance, to deal with missing values and analyze much larger samples than we can afford to upload via the internet.
To use ADaCGH provide either one or two files. If you only provide one file, that file must contain also coordinates (location information) of each of the genes/clones. If you provide two different files, one must contain the the aCGH data themselves and another one the mapping of those genes/clones to positions in chromosomes.
CBS: Olshen & Venkatraman's circular binary segmentation (CBS).
Click "Submit" to send the data to the server and start execution. If the servers are too busy, you will be asked to try again later.
We ask that, if you use this web application, you give credit both to the original application (Diaz-Uriarte and Rueda, 2007), on which this builds uppon, and the new BioConductor package ADaCGH2 (Diaz-Uriarte, 2014).
Diaz-Uriarte, R. "ADaCGH2: parallelized analysis of (big) CNA data", Bioinformatics, 2014, 30: 1759-1761.
Diaz-Uriarte, R and Rueda, OM. "ADaCGH: A Parallelized Web-Based Application and R Package for the Analysis of aCGH Data", PLoS ONE, 2007, 2 (8): e737.
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http://adacgh2.iib.uam.es/
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Pat began playing season-long fantasy football in 2001 and daily fantasy football during the 2012 season. He has been a daily fantasy football writer since 2013 and vividly remembers the day he became hooked on DFS, Christmas Eve of 2013, when Andy Dalton and AJ Green helped him bink a bunch of tournaments on DraftStreet.
Below you'll find my Week 13 DraftKings cash game and tournament strategies. By offering a general approach to the week, along with a player pool to consider, you should walk away feeling well-equipped no matter your bankroll strategy or game selection process.
Sunday morning update: The waiving of Kareem Hunt changes roster construction quite a bit. Spencer Ware becomes the best value play of the day and a can’t miss free square. Depending on which running back you move off of, I’d recommend keeping two studs with Ware, you can use the extra cap space to upgrade at wide receiver or even try to get up to Patrick Mahomes.
Cam Newton ($6,600) continues to be very consistent, eclipsing 21 fantasy points in six of his last seven games. He adds about six fantasy points per week from his rushing totals on average. The Panthers have an implied point total of 31 points and are facing the second-worst defense in terms of schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. The Buccaneers have allowed the sixth-most passing yards and the second-most points scored in the league, as well. Newton checks all the boxes we want from a cash game quarterback. When I discuss Newton, I often mention the fact that the Panthers like to do a lot of unorthodox play calling in the red zone, like fullback dives and wide receiver reverses. It's only been an issue on two occasions this year, but he is subject to a higher rate of touchdown variance than other quarterbacks.
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2019-04-20T06:54:14Z
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https://www.4for4.com/fantasy-football/2018/w13/draftkings-week-13-slate-breakdown-cash-and-gpp-picks
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Drugs worth more than €200,000 have been seized from a premises in Limerick as part of ongoing garda operation.
Henry Street gardai found the cannabis herb at the Murroe premises in a search at around 9pm on Saturday night.
A man in his 30s was arrested and is currently detained at Henry Street garda station.
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2019-04-21T01:06:36Z
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https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/man-30s-arrested-in-connection-with-200k-drugs-seizure-in-limerick-37092559.html
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This journal is friends only. This entry was originally posted at https://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/5273160.html. If you are not friends on this journal, Please comment there using OpenID.
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https://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/3744086.html
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What an amazing gift you are to my life Jessica.
From the moment I first laid eyes on you in an ultrasound with those big beautiful eyes and adorable face to just last week watching you give your Blue Lion bridge presentation to visiting guests, I have loved you more each day. Watching you blossom over these 21 years has been a privilege and a joy.
And now you are on the edge ready to make one of life's big changes into the so called real world. You have been in the real world since birth, learning from life's challenges and embracing its invitations. But most importantly, you have been loving with your whole heart and soul, caring for yourself and those around you.
I am so proud of you Miss Jessica for who you are and what you have done. I look forward to seeing more unfolding of your life and to being the recipient of your deep love.
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https://gradgrams.alumni.columbia.edu/dear_jessica
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An ethnography of the Uighur community in Yining, this book explores topics from family life to market trading, from informal socialising to forms of religious devotion. It focuses in particular on the formation of identity & the role of masculinity in this process.
This sounds… interesting? The author studied masculinity in Ghulja? What?
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2019-04-26T14:11:20Z
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https://menevere.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/down-a-narrow-road-identity-and-masculinity-in-a-uyghur-community-in-xinjiang-china/
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The Big 12 coach rankings start with Bill Self.
After that, ranking the Big 12 coaches is a chore. Three of the league’s most accomplished career coaches — Bob Huggins, Rick Barnes and Tubby Smith have more than 1,700 wins among them — are coming off of lackluster seasons. Smith was let go from his last job, and Barnes will be under pressure to turn things around at Texas in a hurry.
A decade ago, Scott Drew took on one of the toughest rebuilding projects in the country at Baylor, succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations but still kept the Bears wanting more.
Lon Kruger and Fred Hoiberg are two Big 12 coaches who have impressed. Kruger did at Oklahoma what he’s done everywhere — stay competitive, get into the NCAA Tournament and, well, that’s about it. Hoiberg hasn’t led Iowa State beyond the Round of 32 in the last two seasons, but that still better than anyone else in Ames in the last decade.
Indeed, after the top tier of Big 12 coaches, any of the others in the league could plausibly sit in the second or third group.
The names and faces outside of Lawrence keep changing, but Kansas hasn’t fallen from its perch in the Big 12. Self has won at least 30 games in four consecutive seasons and reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament in six of the last seven seasons. Even when the Jayhawks looked vulnerable for 2013-14 after losing all five starters, they signed the presumptive No. 1 draft pick, Andrew Wiggins, and landed transfer Tarik Black from Memphis. The new faces, including a signing class that ranked only second to Kentucky, will present a challenge for Self. He’s had the luxury of developing players like Cole Aldrich and Thomas Robinson from role players to All-America-type stars. Perry Ellis fits that mold for KU, but he's one of the few players with experience in the Big 12.
West Virginia’s first season in the Big 12 truly was an aberration for Huggin. The 13-19 season was only the second losing season of his career and second losing conference season (the first for both being his first season at Akron in 1984-85). Perhaps Huggins had a mix that simply didn’t jell last season with Deniz Klicli trying to mesh with a handful of transfers and freshmen. Still, Huggins has made things work with wayward souls throughout his career, and he’ll try to do the same in 2013-14. The Mountaineers have regressed each season since reaching the 2010 Final Four, so there’s an element of concern here.
Oklahoma knew what it would get when it hired Kruger, and the well-traveled coach delivered. No coach is more reliable at taking over a tough situation and putting the program on the right track. Kruger went 11-7 in the Big 12 in his second season at OU and became the first coach to take five different teams to the NCAA Tournament (Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and UNLV were the others). Kruger has done his work with a minimal amount of flash — he’s never coached a consensus All-American, hasn’t won a regular-season conference title since 1998 and hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 2008. But programs don’t hire Kruger expecting John Calipari.
Only Iowa State could have hired “The Mayor,” who spent more time in NBA front offices than on the coaches’ bench at any level. Hoiberg returned to Ames to make his alma mater competitive, going 23-13 in the Big 12 in the last two seasons. Iowa State needs to be creative to stay competitive, and that’s what it got in Hoiberg. He’s succeeded with Division I transfers in Royce White, Korie Lucious, Will Clyburn, Chris Babb and now DeAndre Kane. And Hoiberg has beeing among the best in applying advanced statistical analysis and scouting to his program. The Cyclones led the Big 12 in points per possession and effective field goal percentage last year.
Before last season, Barnes had a remarkable streak of 17 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. Then the Longhorns bottomed out at 16-18 capped off with a loss to Houston in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational. Most coaches with Barnes’ raw numbers would be permitted one bad season, but Barnes has had too many recent seasons in which the results haven’t matched the potential. The Longhorns have failed to reach the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament in five consecutive seasons despite having five first-round NBA Draft picks and a handful of other highly touted recruits during that span. With Texas’ in-state recruiting base (which Barnes is losing hold of) and ample resources, these are meager results in a conference with only one true powerhouse.
One thing we can say about Weber: He can win quickly. In his first season at Kansas State, Weber took Frank Martin’s players and won the Wildcats’ first share of a conference title since 1977. In his second season at Illinois, Weber went 37-2 with a national championship game appearance with a team recruited by Bill Self. Weber’s results at Illinois, however, dwindled in his final five seasons, but he will get a second chance for longevity in Manhattan.
Drew not only brought Baylor back from the brink but also brought the Bears to their most successful era since the 1940s and early ‘50s with two Elite Eights in the last five seasons. At the same time, though, Baylor arguably should be even better. Look at the end of last season as an example: Baylor drilled Kansas by 23 points and then won the NIT, but the Bears had a roster that shouldn’t have been in the NIT in the first place. Baylor has had a top-25 signing class in each of the last five seasons, according to Rivals.com, but has reached the NCAA Tournament only twice during that span.
Ford has at least brought Oklahoma State back to relevance in the Big 12. With Marcus Smart returning to Oklahoma State, all eyes will be on Ford to lead the Cowboys to the next steps: Contending for the Big 12 title and making a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. Ford has a potential top-10 team on his hands, and Oklahoma State is hungry for a winner. The Cowboys haven’t reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 2005.
Maybe we’d be more optimistic if Smith were at a job that played better to his strengths. A program with little recent success on an island out in Lubbock, Texas Tech, is in need of an infusion of energy. A fine coach Tubby Smith may be, but he’s not a personality that generates much enthusiasm. On the court, the results have dwindled since his early years at Kentucky. Smith never had a winning conference season in his last stint at Minnesota and hasn’t reached the Sweet 16 since 2005 with the Wildcats.
Johnson has quite the rebuilding job at TCU, but there are glimmers of hope. The Horned Frogs’ only Big 12 wins came against NCAA Tournament teams Kansas and Oklahoma, and TCU signed a top-100 center in Karviar Shepherd. Johnson pulled Nevada out of the depths of the WAC, but rebuilding in that conference is different than rebuilding in the Big 12.
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2019-04-26T14:35:24Z
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https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/college-basketball-ranking-big-12s-coaches-2013-14
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I am receiving many questions on late blight symptoms associated with seed sources vs. aerial spore deposition (from external sources). I’ve included a nice review on this topic from Dennis Johnson, link below. In short, it is tough to identify, with certainty, the source of late blight inoculum in an epidemic. We know potential sources are multiple and include volunteers, cull piles, compost piles, seed, and infected transplants (tomato). We don’t have any evidence at this time that the pathogen is persisting in the soil outside of plant tissues.
We are working on characterizing the strain/genotype of the late blight pathogen in partnership with Dr. Bill Fry of Cornell Univ.. I will keep our growers informed of this information as we learn more.
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2019-04-21T01:06:36Z
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https://ipcm.wisc.edu/blog/2015/06/late-blight-supplement/
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This article is about the Mexican lightweight boxer. For the Mexican heavyweight boxer, see Humberto Soto (heavyweight boxer).
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Soto and the second or maternal family name is Ochoa.
Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa (born May 11, 1980), best known as Humberto Soto, is a Mexican professional boxer. A veteran of the sport for over 20 years, he is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC super featherweight title from 2008 to 2009, and the WBC lightweight title from 2010 to 2011. Additionally, he held the WBC interim featherweight title from 2005 to 2006.
Soto made his pro debut at the age of 17 and accumulated a record of 36-5-2, which included a 14 fight undefeated streak, before challenging for his first major title.
On August 20, 2005, Soto won the interim WBC Featherweight title by beating Rocky Juarez, in a fight which he accepted on two weeks notice.
On January 17, 2006, Soto defended his interim title by knocking out Oscar León in the 9th round. He vacated his interim featherweight title and defeated Ivan Valle in a WBC Super Featherweight title eliminator bout.
On January 22, 2007, Soto defeated Humberto Toledo (30-2-2) by third-round knockout. In his next bout, he defeated Bobby Pacquiao by seventh-round knockout.
On November 17, 2007, Soto fought reigning WBO Super Featherweight champion Joan Guzmán but lost the bout by unanimous decision.
On November 17, 2007, Humberto Soto fought WBO Junior-Welterweight champion Joan Guzman. The Dominican champion dominated the fight based on his speed of hands, reflexes, and superior boxing skills, effectively counter punching the relentless attack of Soto, who showcased tremendous strength, courage and determination. Guzman won the bout by Unanimous Decision.
On June 28, 2008, Soto faced off against Francisco Lorenzo (33-4, 14 KOs) for the vacant interim WBC Super Featherweight title. Soto knocked Lorenzo down twice in the fourth round with a barrage of punches. However, after lengthy consultations with officials at ringside, referee Joe Cortez disqualified Soto for hitting Lorenzo after he was down in what appeared to be a grazing punch. Cortez's decision was widely criticized and the WBC refused to award Lorenzo the title.
WBC president José Sulaimán condemned the decision as a "gross injustice" and one of the biggest he has seen in a long time. Sulaiman also announced that the WBC board of governors will vote on whether to declare the fight a no contest or to declare Soto the winner by knockout. Lorenzo, therefore, was not presented the green WBC belt as its champion, since it, though, opted to ignore the official verdict, and declared the title vacant. Sulaiman stated he wasn’t seeking to overrule the decision, but: "While we respect the authority of the (Nevada commission) for a decision of the fight, we are the only ones to have the authority to decide on the decision relating to the WBC world title."
On October 11, 2008, Soto defeated Gamaliel Díaz to win the interim WBC Super Featherweight title by technical knock out. Soto knocked Diaz down in the first round and dominated him throughout the bout. Diaz was docked two points for excessive holding and his corner refused to send him out for the eleventh round.
On December 20, 2008, Soto captured the vacant WBC Super Featherweight Championship with a 12-round unanimous decision over Francisco Lorenzo in a rematch of their controversial bout. Lorenzo was repeatedly warned for low-blows and headbutting throughout the bout. Lorenzo was docked one point in the 7th round for headbutting and another in the 8th for excessive holding. The final scores were 117-109 from two of the judges and 118-108 on the other card in favor of Soto.
In 2009, Soto successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title 3 times. On December 12, 2009, Soto moved up to the lightweight division and defeated former two-time champion Jesús Chávez by a 10-round unanimous decision.
On March 13, 2010, Soto claimed the WBC Lightweight Championship by defeating David Diaz. Soto dropped Diaz in the opening and final rounds en route to a unanimous decision victory.
On May 15, 2010, Soto made his first title defense against Ricardo Dominguez. Soto won the fight with a 12-round unanimous decision with the judges scoring the fight, 118-110 on two of the scorecards and 117-112 on the other one for Soto.
The lost interest in Saturday's fight card resulting from a canceled main event did not apply to Soto and Urbano Antillon, who staged a stirring world lightweight title bout at the Honda Center. Soto, relying on his ability to strike the challenger with barrages, made his third successful title defense by outlasting Maywood's Antillon in a close unanimous decision.
In July 2011 Soto relinquished his WBC Lightweight Title in anticipation of competing in the junior welterweight division.
A bout between hard-hitting Argentinian junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse and Soto has been confirmed for late April. Soto is riding a 14-bout winning streak that includes six knockouts.
On June 23, 2012 Humberto Soto faced hard-hitting Argentinian junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse. Matthysse dropped Soto in the fifth round. Soto's corner stopped the bout between the rounds.
77 Loss 65–9–2 (1) Antonio Orozco UD 10 Oct 3, 2015 StubHub Center, Carson, California, U.S.
49 Win 41–5–2 (1) Bobby Pacquiao KO 7 (10), 1:48 Jun 9, 2007 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
48 Win 40–5–2 (1) Humberto Toledo TKO 3 (12), 1:50 Feb 22, 2007 Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort, Chester, West Virginia, U.S.
47 Win 39–5–2 (1) Ivan Valle TKO 4 (12), 0:48 Aug 12, 2006 Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
40 Win 33–5–2 Wilson Alcorro TKO 6 (10), 1:23 May 28, 2004 Congress Theater, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
39 Win 32–5–2 Manny Rivero KO 1 (10) Apr 30, 2004 Isleta Resort & Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
37 Win 30–5–2 James Baker UD 10 Dec 12, 2003 Edgewater Hotel and Casino, Laughlin, Nevada, U.S.
36 Win 29–5–2 Luís Fuente UD 10 Sep 12, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
34 Win 27–5–2 Armando Cordoba UD 10 Jun 27, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
32 Win 25–5–2 César Figueroa TKO 7 (10), 2:36 Feb 28, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
27 Win 21–4–2 Marco Angel Pérez TKO 3 (8), 1:16 May 17, 2002 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
26 Win 20–4–2 Mark Burse MD 10 Apr 26, 2002 Spa Resort Casino, Palm Springs, California, U.S.
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teamestrogen
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The Alpine Shop with Team Revolution has set up a series of mountain bike rides for the full year. The rides will explore the various trails around St. Louis. These are women specific rides and will take place once a month on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
Our rides begin this Saturday, January 24. We will be riding Lost Valley. We will meet at the Alpine Shop at 10 am to caravan out to trail. This ride will take place even if it's very cold. The trail conditions (due to wetness) might necessitate a cancellation. If you plan on coming, please call the shop to register (314-962-7715). There is no fee for these rides.
We will have a leader and a sweeper on the rides. These are no drop rides at a pace for the group. You do need to bring your own water/food and have the appropriate gear for the ride.
Our first ride will be tomorrow (Saturday Jan 24). We are meeting at the Alpine Shop at 10am and caravaning to the trail. Hope to see many there. Oh, it will be cold tomorrow (mid 20's) - so dress appropriately.
We did have our first ride today. We had 10 women show up in about 16 degree weather. Our Camelbak hoses froze! This trail is only a 7 mile loop and would be rated a medium in difficulty. With us 5 of the 10 had never been on this trail (a definite reason for this ride series). One of the girls had also never been on a real mountain bike trail - she was awesome.
Now fastdogs could have totally done this trail - no harder than Berryman. Hopefully she'll get out there next month.
Sounds like y'all had a lot of fun, I hope to join you on occasion if weather/schedule permits. Right now it's waaaaayyyy too cold for my stoker, who's a boy, but he's a cute boy so would he be ok?
I didn't see this on the SLAG calendar, just the biking meetup. Might be another good place to advertise it.
I was hoping to hear how this went!! Glad some new people got out. It was very cold today, but I was wishing I was there with you all. At least the trail was frozen! there was still a little surface mud on love friday, and I didn't even go on rollercoaster because I was afraid there would be more mud. Definitely plan on making some of these!
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NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) - Drivers in Cyprus have been told not to abandon their car in motion, or wave their hands and legs out of car windows.
This piece of advice is given in a new road safety code in the first major revamp of guidelines on driving practices in decades, the Phileleftheros daily reported.
With many known for driving with one hand, children bouncing about unrestrained in the back of vehicles and parking on pavements, the new code also sets out guidelines on how to use the much-loved horn.
Beeping will be prohibited in residential areas.
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Absolute Beginner Questions Answered by Hiroko #2 - How often should I use WATASHI WA?
This cartoon animation explains the four different parts of the virus (service proteins, capsid, DNA/RNA, and membrane envelope) using the analogy of a present. The video appears to be a high school project. 2:25 min.
1.2 How does it hurt?
This is a useful question because once we know the mechanism of pain sensation we can do something about alleviating it.
When tissue is injured there follows a rapid release of ‘messenger’ chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings. Electrical impulses are relayed through the nerves to the spinal column and to the brain, which registers the sensation of pain. It usually, but not always, also directs our attention to the site where the damaged tissue initiated the pain message.
ICTs depend on myriad standards in order to provide interconnectivity. If this was a computer science course, you would be learning about standard network protocols which enable computers to communicate with each other or with other devices, whether over the internet or from your computer to a network printer. Standards enable us to send email and browse websites without worrying about the underlying mechanisms (until they fail, forcing us to focus on the tool instead of our work).
We would now like to give you the opportunity to gain some background knowledge of places and regions in the Classical world. The aim is to give you a grasp of this geography so that as you learn more about the Classical world, you will be able to locate the places you study and put them in relation to one another without having to consult a map all the time.
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https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Why%20study%20the%20Didache?start=5220&end=52&start=19320&end=19340
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In general, I really like living in the future. Except for all the car-sized mosquitoes buzzing around. That is not as cool.
Except this time, it really had to do with super soldiers. The problem started with the drones. After drones became commonplace, every country had them and suddenly war became very easy and not that costly. One country’s robots fought another country’s robots and every else sat home and watched it on the evening news. The public began to feel that the government was making war too frivolous, now that they could have a war whenever they wanted to. The military just felt left out.
However, by that point war had progressed far beyond human capabilities, so they turned to super soldiers. Using cloning and genetic manipulation, they made a whole new type of soldier. They were egalitarian about it: there were super cooks, super MPs, super aircraft mechanics, every kind of soldier you could think of.
This was all well and good, but no one really knew what the effects of all this new cloning would be. Some thought that the super infantrymen would go rogue and start shooting up civilians, while the super cooks would take the Food Network by storm. Instead, one super soldier got bitten by a mosquito.
It turns out it wasn’t an ordinary mosquito. Its mother had bitten a cow that had been eating genetically modified corn and being pumped full of steroids, so the blood was a real stew of steroids, hormones and Franken-DNA. Then when the young mosquito took in that sweet super soldier blood, it started to get bigger. And bigger. The first time a monstrous mosquito swooped down and sucked all the blood out of a running back during the Super Bowl, it made quite an impression on people. Stocks in Raid and Amalgamated Swatters, Inc. went through the roof.
It hasn’t really affected daily life much. In the cities, there are anti-aircraft RAID guns set up, and most people have catapult-sized fly swatters on their cars.
What I really miss is hiking and camping. Now, if I want to go camping, I need to bring along a Kevlar tent and a dog I don’t really like, and just hope for the best.
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I’ve known so many gifted people – musicians, singers, writers, painters, actors – whose talents I’ve seen only marginally rewarded, or hardly recognized at all. The unfairness of this vexes me and I’ve sought to explain it to myself somehow. Some people shy away from the spotlight, and that’s okay; most of my own career has been “behind the scenes” as a support person. But we need more art and creative insight for life to make sense, and talent needs to be championed and cultivated for how it enriches and gives meaning to our lives. I’ve noticed among those of my friends who enjoy enduring career success that somewhere along the way, they’ve been blessed by a support team; whether early on, in the form of a nuclear family that made sacrifices, or professionals in the field who were hired and/or inspired to train and encourage the protegé. The “self-made” man or woman is pretty much a Hollywood conceit; in real life, artists need as much or more coaching as athletes.
(It’s no wonder agents, managers, publicists and producers are frequently the first people to be thanked when a celebrity wins an award!) No matter how “rugged self-starting individualist” an artist may appear to be, designing, manufacturing and wearing ALL the hats of Performer-Creator-Manager-Stylist-BookingAgent-etc.-etc.-etc. is exhausting… we’ve each only got one head and there IS such a thing as too much millinery!
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Darick Mead didn't want to propose to his girlfriend of a year and a half while she was pregnant with their first child.
"I didn't want to do it just because of my son. I wanted to do it because it felt good in my heart," he told ABC News.
Still, the proud father couldn't wait to pop the question to Susan Medina, and in fact, did so in the hospital with the help of his newborn son, Ryder.
Mead, 26, and Medina, 20, met on the social network MeetMe.com. They later connected on Facebook and after one date, "we've been inseparable," Mead said.
Darick Mead tapped his newborn son, Ryder, to help propose to his girlfriend of more than a year, Susan Medina.
The Hastings, Nebraska, father said he didn't tell anyone -- including his family -- about his proposal, which he planned to do on the same day as his son's birth.
But he did commission the couple's friend, Katie, to help with the planning, including securing a onesie that she decorated with the words, "Mommy, will you marry my daddy?"
The day didn't quite go as planned, however.
"She was in labor for over 17 hours and she pushed for two-and-a-half hours," Mead said. "Three epidurals later and ... Ryder was born via emergency C-section."
It had been a trying day for the couple, so Mead decided to delay his plan by one day to "give her a break."
For the big moment, Mead had to convince his bride-to-be that the nurses wanted to check on their son outside of their hospital room. That's when he placed the miniature onesie on Ryder and carried him back into the room under the ruse that the nurses wanted Medina to practice changing Ryder's diaper.
Friends and family pulled out their cell phones to "capture the baby's first diaper change," and that's when Medina unwrapped Ryder, dressed in the proposal onesie, and Mead dropped down to one knee.
"I was even waiting for him to say, 'Oh just kidding,'" she added. "I’m pretty sure I asked him, 'Are you sure?'"
Mead was very sure, and now he says he's looking forward to beginning their new life together as a family.
The two haven't begun wedding planning just yet, they say. For now, they're enjoying all of their milestones.
"I've got everything that I could ever ask for right now," the future groom said.
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Several items have been found in the PIC, including a black windbreaker, pink umbrella and scientific calculator. If any of these items belong to you, please come collect them at the PIC Work Study desk ASAP. Otherwise, they will be discarded after one week.
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The travel system was designed with flexibility to accommodate the disparity of needs across the campus. A result of this flexible design philosophy is that many of the travel policies and procedures must be manually enforced by knowledgeable people who are assigned appropriate roles in the travel system.
SAAs must know the appropriate approval authority hierarchy in their units and establish travel routing accordingly. For example, a traveler’s subordinate may not be a final approver, but may be assigned a pre-approval role in iTravel.
Travel Coordinators must ensure that originals of all scanned receipts and other supporting documents are retained in the department for the appropriate amount of time. The Accounting Office is no longer the office of record for backup travel documentation.
Travel Coordinators must know the University’s travel policies in order to ensure that only allowable expenses are submitted for reimbursement; advance requests are appropriate; and advances are cleared via a travel expense voucher.
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Jephcote, Martin John, Salisbury, Jane and Rees, Gareth Meredydd 2009. The learning journey: Students' experiences of further education in Wales. Contemporary Wales 22 (1) , pp. 141-157.
This paper draws attention to the experiences of students in colleges of further education in contemporary Wales, tracing their 'learning journeys' over a two-year period from September 2005 to July 2007. Drawing from an in-depth qualitative study, data confirm that the learning journeys upon which students embarked had their own antecedents rooted in, for example, disparate experiences of schooling and employment and, that during their studies, many learners led and managed complex private lives. Thus, being a learner had to be accommodated within students' wider lives and circumstances and often involved overcoming significant barriers to engaging in formal learning. From the vast array of data collected, here a focus group and two learner vignettes are used to illustrate these matters.
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WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The World Bank plans to limit the financing it provides for coal-fired power plants to “rare circumstances” as part of the global financial body’s efforts to address the impact of climate change.
The move was detailed in a 39-page strategy document seen by Reuters. It came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama - as part of a sweeping package of climate measures - said that the United States would stop investing in coal projects overseas and called on multilateral banks to do the same.
“The World Bank Group will help clients identify alternatives to coal power as they make transitions toward sustainable energy,” the report said.
A spokesman said the World Bank is committed to helping create universal access to electricity and safe household fuels, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the rate of improvement of energy efficiency.
“The World Bank Group’s energy work is aligned with our twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity and the objectives of sustainable energy for all,” the bank’s Frederick Jones said in a statement.
The paper, titled “Toward a Sustainable Energy Future for All,” has been submitted to board members for their review in preparation for a discussion on July 19, and could still be revised.
The report said that natural gas could play an important role if coal is phased out.
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These long hot days are amusing to any foreigner in the UK as the Brits don’t do heat and try and ignore it and carry on regardless. Yet casually watching the world go by, one cannot help but notice we are all heading towards the trees. But it is not just the people, but the very landscape itself which starts to head towards the trees.
The map, doing the rounds on the media, showing the browning rural landscape of the UK from space also highlights where all our trees are and just how few there are left.
Look more closely in the sites where the dry weather continues and for many working with the land there is much to be deeply concerned about. Years of abuse to the soil has led to serious threats to our most basic agricultural and horticultural practice, when we should be able to easily cope following the winter we just had. Our resilience to extreme weather in terms of land management is worryingly poor.
Yet where there is a healthy rhizosphere, (the underground ecosystem attached to the roots of trees), there are fewer problems. This is not just true of our woodlands and despite us not fully understanding, indeed not anywhere close to fully understanding, the importance of the rhizosphere our hedgerows and well planted non woodland and urban trees are coping remarkably well – creating a refuge we all and our animals head to automatically.
The soil beneath a tree has a underground population of microbes and fungi which has through the protection and nourishment provided by the phyllosphere, (the ecosystem of the tree canopy), created a soil that can cope with the dry weather for a significantly longer period, indeed in many of our most naturalised forests and woodlands it can easily survive the worst of predicted heatwaves.
Quite why we see so much spending into climate resilience when the answer is, literally often, tapping on our bedroom windows is not just weird but dangerous.
The use of trees to advance as a civilisation has been forgotten in the 21st century to all our peril. Trees are our greatest tool towards surviving climatic catastrophe to our crops and our way of life in general, and as the sunburnt residents of Sheffield can testify to, we fell them with stupidity.
But without learning how to deal with our soils properly, we cannot truly get to roll out solutions for all. Learning what and how our ancestors constructed and maintained our hedgerows and using skills and knowledge to ensure surface groundwater is fed back into our soils is an absolute necessity.
Handel’s opera commences with an aria sung by King Xerxes in praise of the shade of a Plane tree, clearly a nod towards the large scale remodelling of European cities to incorporate tree lined boulevards for the benefit of all and as huge leap in the progress of civilisation.
We have the trees, tools and knowledge to repair our civilisation – but the fact that this is not on the agenda at all is yet another monumental and perhaps impossible task for our future generations.
Last Friday I did a talk in a Devon seaside town, the evening was beautiful and the door was left open as I ploughed through photos of the arboreal delights of Devon. During a wee intermission I had the misfortune to engage in a conversation with a little old lady who was attending – I was sickened by her comments, which led on from the need to grow local provenance trees into a rascist rant from her, which I cannot bring myself to repeat… The saddest thing is that this is not uncommon – it is what to expect of England now! And this is the direct result of the appallingly crap mainstream media of the UK.
Very belatedly there is talk of finally trying to toughen up border security to prevent the flow of pests and diseases brought in on plants imported from within the EU – with blame firmly attached to UK membership of the EU for a failure to do so up till now! This is pure nonsense! The UK had the right to install suitable measures since 2009. Why it choose not to is probably better answered by the horticultural industry and some of our NGOs! This nonsense was not only spouted on BBC4’s Today programme but also within the RFS journal and is just as much nonsense as the ludicrous claim that there are more ancient trees in Britain than in France and Germany put together.
It all plays rather neatly into the hands of the unscrupulous councils, NGOs, businesses and other organisations that see a carte blanche as a very wonderful way of making lots of money. Indeed Sheffield City Council and its’ brazen ignoring of the Aarhus convention are leading the way with their street trees for biomass scheme in partnership with Amey. Brexit will be abused, no matter what promises are made.
I am, despite being trolled and called some of the most offensive names I have ever been called because my twitter hashtag contains ‘European’ in it, actually no big fan of the EU, which clearly needs some serious work to live up to it’s burgeoning reputation in the UK as a symbol of anti-fascism. Having witnessed first hand the influence Syngenta has within its funded research as well as the poor handling of mass tree felling in Poland, Czech and Romania, one cannot but question its stance on human rights easily, even though it is an area I have no experience or information about.
But this doesn’t excuse the UK seemingly choosing Brexit as an excuse to rip up all the rulebooks and continue to chase the ‘Singapore of Europe’ dream, because this will ultimately have disastrous results on the UK landscape.
The UK is in a position to genuinely lead the world; it is the first country to take the plunge into a world where sustainability has to work and it is best placed to do so having been the first to see the agricultural and industrial revolutions through to their inevitable conclusions. It has the geography, geology and range of landscapes to be able to research and further land management sustainably for the benefit of all.
But it is abundantly clear that ‘for the benefit of all’ is a phrase that is simply no longer relevant in this country that has so much to offer but nothing it wants to give.
The Future of British Trees is Dependent on Those in the Communities in which the Trees Grow.
Our trees are awesome. These incredible, carbon munching, landscape making organisms are much cleverer than we ever thought and much, much older, (proven by 18th century landscape art). Micro- evolution has allowed for site specific growth habits for every possible set of soil and climate variable, indeed trees actually create the soil, stabilise the landscape and can alter the climate.
Trees are the answer to most of our environmental problems, including in the seas, as trees provide the base material for products that can replace plastic.
However in the UK, despite the existence of the largest tree and woodland NGOs in the world, our non woodland trees are being destroyed at an extraordinary rate and any British advances in tree research are simply ignored. The arb industry have tools which make things worse; like Airspades – which blast the rhizosphere away and are yet used in investigating roots?! We are busy destroying trees in the belief that they destroy our infrastructure and landscape features when actually they were often planted as integral elements to the success of such infrastructure and landscape features.
6 fully mature roadside hedgerow trees felled within Dartmoor NPA boundary.
The importance of trees is swept aside with the reasoning more can be planted. But this just isn’t true! Mainly because we are not very good at it, losses are huge of the cheap imported, frankly crappy, trees we are planting.
One, of a whole site, newly planted tree buried, with little chance of survival. Development site within South Hams AONB.
Buried mature trees, at the same development site within South Hams AONB.
We aren’t even planting enough in the first place. Promises of replanting are increasingly rarely carried out.
The Sheffield debacle has exposed, amongst other things, in regards our trees; the lack of legal protection; the weakness of policy and guidance; the dangers of a poorly regulated biomass industry; and, yet again, the extraordinary cost to the taxpayer councils are willing to pay out to prolong protest.
It is all well and good to highlight the ludicrous situation we are in when our Foreign Minister states that there is no tree over the age of 200 in the UK or that elected Councillors are prepared to do ‘Trumpesque’ battles with world renowned tree specialists on social media, but this does little to actually change policy making, but clearly creates even more belligerence from our policy makers.
Meanwhile, people seem to be taking the future into their own hands; hundreds of people will attend a Wassail on a cold January night – numbers that any church, indeed cathedral, or NGO PR event would be ecstatic about.
And I know of at least three local planting schemes where the trees have been grown, (River where the Oak trees), and planted by schoolchildren, taking more care to do so than many of the underpaid, overworked employees of landscaping firms subcontracted for the plethora of unaffordable housing development schemes. There is strictly no PR, no fuss – just doing it for the sake of realising it is important to do so.
The many hugely successful small, local planting projects or one off events ties in nicely with the wave of new research proving the genetic variation tree by tree in our landscapes is so vital in providing an effective barrier against climate change, pests, pathogens and diseases.
The only solution we have left is education, to tell the truth about trees to future generations and highlight good practice (made easier by the huge amount of bad practice we increasingly see in all our landscapes). I hope my generation will be the last to put up with the flooding of disinformation from a lazy media, the abuse of power by policy makers who have forgotten they are there to serve and the money grabbing by incumbent organisations without care about the real issues at stake – including the most awful fact that we are losing more trees annually than any preceding year.
We have failed in regards our trees, it is up to us to provide all the information and tools to enable our children to create the legacy we should have provided for them to provide it for their children.
Britain the Best Place in the World for a Non Woodland Tree Safari – but come quick!
For those interested in large land mammals a safari in the Serengeti would be among the top locations in the world to visit, for those interested in sea-life the Great Barrier Reef would appeal and for those interested in trees Britain is assuredly one of the best sites in the world.
And as the animals of the Serengeti and the Coral and associated fauna of the Barrier Reef are under great threats, not least from climate change, the trees of Britain are also. Britain is a managed landscape, honed into great beauty by humans. There can be no where else on Earth with the variety of species, the uniqueness of each specimen, when you include all the urban, garden and parkland landscapes also.
I have often heard the erroneous claim that there are more Ancient Trees in England, indeed in one park, than in France and Germany put together. Such sheer nonsense betrays what can be celebrated. Particularly if we celebrate all trees.
And this variety, which parallels the extraordinary variety in the geography, geology and therefore soils of this island, means that we must surely have below our feet seething populations of micro-fauna that change metre by metre helping to alter the physiology of trees that are actually the same species. The salt soaked Quercus petraea on the edge of the South West’s Ria Estuaries are simply not the same as the Quercus petraea on the hilltops just behind.
And in our Cities we have planted in private and public land the most extraordinary collections of trees. Even on the streets themselves…. however these trees are heavily threatened by Trumpesque politics as in Sheffield, where the Council are guilty of nothing short of landscape fascism by supporting their PFI partners Amey in felling healthy trees with abandon.
Image from the Sheffield Tree Campaign.
How long before many other trees, in all landscapes suffer the same threat as the biomass industry seeks to swallow as much as it can?
I am shocked and saddened that we have lost the ability to get things right, far too many are merrily planting the wrong trees and felling the wrong trees. The arb and forestry industries are forsaken and usurped by frankly anyone who cares to, and many do.
Is it too late? It does seems so as those prepared to campaigned for the rich, enviable arboreal heritage of Britain now get arrested for doing so.
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Aiming to increase the number of women in tech, as well as female-led start-ups, Google and Motorola Mobility have teamed up to help launch 1871FEMtech in Chicago.
A high-profile launchpad for startups is teaming up with big business to increase the paltry numbers of women working in the technology industry. With a big assist from Google, tech incubator 1871, is launching a new initiative, 1871FEMtech, to foster female-led startups, John Pletz writes at Crain’s Chicago Business.
Based in Chicago's Merchandise Mart — the biggest building in the world when it opened in 1930 — FEMtech, which starts in the fall, will help 10 to 15 women-owned tech start-ups a year and will launch with $500,000 to $1 million in support. Google's involvement in the project is part of a #40Forward, a $1 million effort to boost the number of women in tech by 25 percent and launch 40 incubators.
About 28 percent of the teams or companies at 1871 have a woman among their founders, and Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871, says the success rate of tech startups with women is about 30 percent higher than startups overall.
There is continuing debate over how to include more women in tech, an industry which suffers from a severe gender gap at the highest levels. Getting more women to enroll in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees is a start; only 15 percent of freshman women at American colleges plan to declare a STEM major, compared to 29 percent of men, according to the Association of American Universities and Colleges. Women hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs, which the U.S. Department of Commerce attributes to a lack of female role models and gender stereotyping.
While there are reasons to celebrate female success in tech — Christian Science Monitor’s Karis Hustad lists companies like Goldieblox and Marissa Mayer’s leadership at Yahoo as recent examples — there is still a long way for women to go.
"We know the percentage of women in tech hasn't improved, that it's hovered around 7 to 8 percent," Tullman said. "There are a massive number of companies who want to make this sort of commitment, but we didn't have the mechanism to do anything."
Sharon Schneider, a CEO of Moxie Jean, a Chicago-area e-commerce startup, told Crain’s that Chicago’s startup scene doesn’t have such an “bro-gramming” culture as San Francisco, which some say is one of the "worst places" in America for the healthy development of companies and people.
Motorola Mobility Foundation and the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, the charitable group set-up by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky and his wife, Liz, are also underwriting FEMtech.
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Guest, Bill (2011) "Abandoned," The Prairie Light Review: Vol. 32 : No. 2 , Article 38.
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RE: The tariff classification of a Halloween flashing light from China.
In your letter dated May 13, 1995, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
The sample submitted is the "Twinkle Pumpkin Eyes with Flashing Lights," item number 93729, which consists of a pair of battery-operated, plastic blinking eyes with pegs that are affixed to the electrical wiring of a plastic battery holder with pegs, all designed to be inserted inside a carved Halloween pumpkin for lighting purposes.
The applicable subheading for the "Twinkle Pumpkin Eyes with Flashing Lights," item number 93729, will be 9405.40.8000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for other electric lamps and lighting fittings. The rate of duty will be 3.9 percent ad valorem.
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Tensions between Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns reached a fever pitch Thursday night — when a shouting match broke out between their top aides at a post-election forum on the 2016 presidential campaign.
“If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost,” fumed Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri, who traded verbal jabs with Trump campaign manager-turned-transition strategist Kellyanne Conway and others during day 2 of the Harvard Institute of Politics’ quadrennial Campaign Managers Conference.
“I would rather lose than win the way you guys did,” she said, noting how the billionaire’s campaign chief executive, Stephen K. Bannon, was an alleged racist.
Joel Benenson, Clinton’s chief strategist, disagreed — saying it was obvious that Trump’s campaign was run on hate and bigotry.
During another exchange, Clinton aide Robby Mook unleashed a tirade about the letters that FBI Director James Comey sent in the days before the election about Clinton’s emails, saying the letters ultimately helped the billionaire win.
“If I made one mistake, it was legitimizing the way the press covered this storyline,” Mook said.
While the Campaign Managers Conferences have been known to be quite revealing in the past, they typically have remained civil. Conway went on to blame Thursday night’s spat on the fact that the Clinton camp was still sore about losing.
Benenson made it clear, though, that while the election is over, the tensions it caused over the past year will likely linger for years to come.
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Andrew Lamas joined the faculty in Urban Studies in 1990, and the longstanding focus of his critical pedagogy, research, and writing is poverty, inequality, and alternative economy. He is Core Faculty in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (GSWS) and the Alice Paul Center, he participates in the GSWS Global Gender Group, and he is Faculty Affiliate of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center. His courses are cross-listed with numerous departments, including Africana Studies.
He serves on the board of the Bread & Roses Community Fund (which has distributed more than $11 million to organizations in the Philadelphia area working for access to health care, economic justice, a clean, safe environment, civil and human rights, racial and economic justice, and peace). He is on the editorial board of the Radical Philosophy Review—the journal of the Radical Philosophy Association. He is the website editor and a founding board member of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
He founded and directed (from 2012-2015) Penn’s Social Justice Research Academy. He is the recipient of the Katz Award for Teaching Excellence in Urban Studies (2000), the School of Arts & Science’s CGS Distinguished Teaching Award (2005), and the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2015).
He received the BA (Humanities / Political Science) from Davidson College (Phi Beta Kappa), the MA (Economic Development/Africa) from the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies, and the JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/people/view/andrew-lamas/
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"What's mine is not yours to give."
Brother of Jackie Aprile, uncle of Jackie Jr. and Adriana La Cerva. Itchy Richie is quick to take offense. In a profession rife with big-muscled bigmouths, Richie is comparatively small and taciturn. But what he lacks in stature he more than makes up for in pugnacity. Upon his release from prison, he has a hard time adapting to changes – especially Tony as boss.
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2019-04-21T16:18:43Z
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https://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos/cast-and-crew/richie-aprile
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Please fill out this form to register with the site. It gives you access to adding conferences, groups, jobs and announcements regarding ultracold atoms.
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https://ucan.physics.utoronto.ca/admin/register/
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Connections, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1980 - File 001. 1980-05. University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 21, 2019. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/gcam/item/364/show/352.
Connections, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1980 - File 001, 1980-05, Gulf Coast Archive and Museum (GCAM) Digital Archive, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 21, 2019, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/gcam/item/364/show/352.
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Five former members of Pi Kappa Phi enter plea agreements for the death of fraternity pledge Andrew Coffey.
At the Leon County Courthouse Monday morning, five former members of Pi Kappa Phi plead guilty to two counts of a misdemeanor hazing in connection to the death of fraternity pledge Andrew Coffey.
The 20-year-old civil-engineering student was found unresponsive at an off-campus apartment off of High Road on Buena Vista Drive. After police arrived, Coffey received medical treatment, but he was pronounced dead on-scene.
The five sentenced–Kyle Bauer, Brett Birmingham, Christopher Hamlin, Conner Ravelo and John Ray–will not be allowed to drink alcohol and will be subjected to random testing. The sentence also requires the men to enroll in a hazing awareness course, speak on the dangers of binge drinking and hazing whenever asked and write an apology letter to the Coffey family.
Before the plea hearing, the parents of Andrew Coffey, Tom and Sandra, made a victim impact statement.
Coffey's parents talked about how their son had enrolled at TCC and transferred to FSU. He was thrilled to be a Seminole and planned to go join the Navy.
“An entire community is heartbroken because of the senseless tradition of ‘Big Brother Night,’” Coffey’s mother said. “He was simply the person everyone wanted to be around. Our family wakes up every day with a hole in our hearts and our lives…Andrew died alone in a room full of people and we will never be able to understand that. Last year, four young men died while pledging a fraternity. Fraternity hazing needs to stop.”.
Ravelo, who has been in jail for 22 days, was the first to come forward for sentencing. He was Coffey’s “big brother” in the fraternity. Of all five defendants heard, Ravelo received the shortest jail sentencing due to his cooperation since the beginning of the investigation. He will only serve eight more days in Leon County jail because he will get credit for time already served.
Ravelo explained that he had wanted to apologize earlier, but was told it was not appropriate by police and could not send an apology note for the funeral because of the ongoing investigation. The defendants believe that engaging in speaking engagements will help end hazing and binge drinking–something the Coffey parents explicitly referenced in their victim impact statement.
Bauer is sentenced to 60 days in jail and must turn himself to Leon County jail by this Friday at 5pm, or he would violate his probation. He will get credit for one day served.
Hamlin will also receive credit for one day served and plans to serve his sentence in Hillsborough County jail. The exact date he will turn himself in was not addressed.
Birmingham plans to turn himself in in the next few weeks, but he wants to serve in Santa Rosa or Wakulla counties. The judge urged Birmingham to complete his hazing awareness class prior to turning himself in.
Birmingham's attorney, Fred Cochran, spoke to the Tallahassee Democrat after the trial and questioned why FSU was not being held accountable. Cochran said that a felony charge was a deal breaker for his client and that they did not want to go trial.
Ray said he did not want to put the Coffey family through the trauma of trial. He plans to turn himself into Leon County jail by Monday, April 16 at 6pm.
All five of these individuals were initially charged with a third-degree felony, which could’ve brought a sentence of up to five years. However, they were charged with two misdemeanors because of the plea deal. Each misdemeanor has a maximum sentence of one year.
Afterwards, the Coffey family attorney, David Bianchi, discussed the upcoming trial in June for the other four defendants. Bianchi said it reminded him of a sexual assault case because the main defense is that it was the victim’s fault.
“I have yet to meet a college student who hasn’t drunk alcohol,” Bianchi said. He emphasized that their attempt to blame Coffey is disgusting.
In terms of the civil case against Pi Kappa Phi, Bianchi revealed that a similar case occurred 18 years ago at California State Chico, when Adrian Heideman was killed after a "Big Brother Night." Strippers were brought to both events and the pledges were encouraged to get as drunk as possible.
Bianchi emphasized that the adults running this fraternity should be held accountable for this behavior. Mark Timmis is currently the CEO of the Pi Kappa Phi and held the position at the time of both Heideman and Coffey's death.
The Coffey family is currently bringing a case against the fraternity as a whole, and there will be a case management meeting tomorrow.
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2019-04-21T12:40:54Z
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https://www.fsunews.com/story/news/2018/04/16/five-students-plead-guilty-death-andrew-coffey/521484002/
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The Night Of is an eight-part limited series that delves into the intricate story of a fictitious murder case in New York City. The series follows the police investigation and legal proceedings, all the while examining the criminal justice system and the purgatory of Rikers Island, where the accused awaits his trial.
This also means the pace in the series is slow but doesn’t get boring or doesn’t just play film just for playing film. The story telling is great. The events are taking place in the first episode and after that you are taken through the rest of the story. The audio is amazing. I slowed my faster pace a few times to normal speed to listen to the music.
A good thing about this show is the way they are letting you view the side of the police and the side of the suspect and lawyer in-depth. Normally you see them focus on the good or bad guy and it gets a little bit one-sided from that but not here.
This truly is one of better shows of the last year.
Miniseries, 8 episodes. The first and final episode are a bit longer then the middle pack, total runtime about 9 hours.
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2019-04-23T16:53:30Z
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https://ioblogblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/the-night-of-2016/
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← Florida: Mama Owl is Nesting!
12 Responses to Florida: Epic SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch!
It was great! Everyone there was so excited!
WOW is right! What a thrill!
It was awesome! You had to be there to feel the excitement. And the weather was absolutely perfect.
Thank you! Our family has always loved space too. I was hooked at 9 years old watching the moon landing. Really cool stuff!
Wow, Pam, very cool, what a great day for you and the space program. I could feel your enthusiasm in your article!!
This is so cool! I saw the trails from a launch out of Vandenberg today.
Love it! Space is exciting!
Glad to see that the launch went well! Such a tremendous feat. Thanks for sharing.
It was amazing! The excitement of a launch never grows old.
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Harper College will offer a free, open-to-the-community "Passionately Pink Zumba" class at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 in the Building M Gymnasium on the main campus, 1200 W. Algonquin Road in Palatine.
The one-hour course, offered through the College's yearlong "Wellness Lives Here" initiative, coincides with Breast Cancer Awareness Month and is part of a continued effort to promote a healthier campus and community.
Participants are encouraged to wear pink in support of breast cancer research.
Zumba is a dance fitness program fusing Latin and other international music with easy-to-follow moves for an energetic workout that incorporates cardio moves and muscle toning and strengthening.
Participants are encouraged to RSVP for the Zumba class.
To reserve a spot, email [email protected].
Media Note: Harper first Pink Zumba course, held last fall, drew more than 100 community members, including senior citizens and children, who danced for an hour wearing pink.
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2019-04-26T00:00:54Z
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https://www.harpercollege.edu/about/news/archives/2012/101212b.php
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Zhang, R., Adam, T. J., Melton-Meaux, G. B., Pakhomov, S. V. & Wolfson, J.
Lutsey, P. L., Adam, T. J. & Maclehose, R. F.
Adam, T. J. & Chi, C. L., Jan 1 2019, Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press Inc., p. 255-272 18 p. (Methods in Molecular Biology; vol. 1939).
Lutsey, P. L., Zakai, N. A., Maclehose, R. F., Norby, F., Walker, R. F., Roetker, N. S., Adam, T. J. & Alonso, A., Jan 1 2019, In : British Journal of Haematology.
Roetker, N. S., Lutsey, P. L., Zakai, N. A., Alonso, A., Adam, T. J. & Maclehose, R. F., Jan 1 2018, In : Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 118, 9, p. 1637-1645 9 p.
Westberg, S. M., Yarbrough, A., Weinhandl, E. D., Adam, T. J., Brummel, A. R., Reidt, S. L., Sick, B. T. & St Peter, W. L., Dec 1 2018, In : Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 52, 12, p. 1195-1203 9 p.
Zakai, N. A., Walker, R. F., Maclehose, R. F., Adam, T. J., Alonso, A. & Lutsey, P. L., Dec 1 2018, In : Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 16, 12, p. 2403-2412 10 p.
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https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/terrence-j-adam
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Nguni languages of southern Africa, which include Zulu and Xhosa, are believed to have borrowed their clicks from Khoisan languages. See also Khoisan languages, which contains several audio clips.
The Nguni languages are unique among Bantu languages in that they have imploded “clicking” phonemes. These sounds were absorbed into the language through the Ngunis’ intermarriage with the area’s earlier, Khoisan-speaking peoples, whose languages were characterized by such click sounds.
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2019-04-21T23:12:31Z
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nguni-languages
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So Sunday it rained and it poured - our plans of a day out in sunshine to the Southwell Folk Festival ended up a complete washout unfortunately. Being Scottish I would not normally let the weather bother me that much (we have been known to take midnight walks in torrential rain in summer clothing just for the delight of feeling that freedom of not caring) but with the beginnings of a potential cold, sniffles and the fact that it was so bloomin freezing I whimped out and we ate our picnic in the house amongst the packing boxes and mess. It was a shame as Mark had made a trip to our favourtie deli for lots of nice cheeses and pate and other treats and my other early birthday gift was a picnic set! Still it was fun nonetheless and we played card games, chatted, laughed, talked about 'new house stuff' and listened to music against the background noise of the rain outside. Ho hum - I am sure we will get the full use out of that picnic set during the summer though.
So using the random number generator we have a recipient for the print in return for comments on my new website. Really I cannot thank you enough for all your feedback - not being very creative in terms of internet and graphics and layouts I was so unsure of how my website would be received but really I have had some lovely comments. In particular on the colour scheme, design and ease of use which is encouraging as I wanted the background to be simple in order to show off my work (hopefully) so, really, thank you ever so much.
So the name and number drawn to receive a print is Tricia Scott. Tricia's blog is actually a new discovery for me, but is a peaceful, serene place to stop by and her artwork is beautiful. Tricia I shall email you for your details!
And another discovery is this fabulous store. In my part time job I can end up driving through lots of little villages in Nottinghamshire and stopping for a sandwich I was delighted to find this absolute treasure trove. Packed floor to ceiling with offcuts and vintage furnishing and upholstery fabrics I cannot wait to begin planning the decor of our new home. I do plan to make most of the curtains and blinds (gulp!) and with a limited budget and no real idea of how to even begin this task, this is a find indeed. Once we are moved in I can begin to think about colours and textures and as we cannot paint for at least the first 12 months it will be wonderful to think of personalising the space through fabric - tell me I am not over-optimistic please!! After all, I have not made a curtain or even a cushion cover in my life before - I do figure though that if I can make a costume, I should be able to make a curtain don't you think?
Have fun with your new home! Can't wait to see pic's of your new studio!
Shame about the rain on Sunday. If you want help with curtains just ask. I've made loads.
oh thank you gillian! i am just beyond thrilled!
you picnic among the boxes sounded wonderful, even though.
Gill, With what you can make curtains and cushions will be a doddle!
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https://gilflingsdesigns.typepad.com/gilflings_designs/2009/06/a-wash-out-a-result-and-a-discovery.html?cid=6a00d8341c788f53ef011570e5b125970b
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The Wizards let up a few key offensive boards late to help Boston climb back in.
Markieff Morris fought through a left ankle sprain to play in Game 2 in Boston on Tuesday night.
So when the Washington Wizards let up a six-point lead in the final three minutes and scored just five points in overtime en route to a 129-119 loss to the Celtics, the rugged power forward questioned his team's late-game toughness.
"We're not playing tough enough," Morris, who finished with 16 points and six rebounds in 27 minutes before fouling out in overtime, told reporters in Boston. "We had the advantage late in the game and all we had to do was just play tough. We didn't have to make shots. We didn't have to get stops. All we had to do was play tough. We let them get offensive rebounds late in the game. Guys (were) just walking to the basket and we're just worried about our own personal (expletive). It's about the team.
"At the end of the day it's about winning and we didn't care too much about that tonight. We let them back in the game. We've got to regroup and get the next one."
The Wizards outrebounded the Celtics 44-41 on the night, but late in the game let up some key offensive boards and were outhustled on a few 50-50 balls, helping Boston climb back in to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
"We emphasized (getting 50-50 balls) when we watched film that that's what they do when they go (with a smaller lineup)," Morris said. "They play tough. They've got guys that are going in head first. That's what we've got to do. It's the playoffs. Every possession counts."
Wizards coach Scott Brooks viewed the game a bit differently.
"It was a heck of a basketball game," Brooks said. "Two teams played their hearts out. Two great players (John Wall: 40 points; Isaiah Thomas: 53 points) played well. I thought both teams competed, played their hearts out. Nothing to be ashamed of. We lost both games, now we've got to go home and take care of Game 3. We have to play with the same type of effort. Hopefully we have some things go our way, get some breaks here and there, and maybe we can make it a 2-1 series going into Game 4."
Game 3 — a must-win for the Wizards, no doubt — is Thursday night (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) in Washington.
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2019-04-21T22:25:48Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/playoffs/2017/05/03/wizards-markieff-morris-game-2-loss-celtics/101235252/
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Ascential plc is a global business-to-business information company that informs and connects the business world in 150 countries through market-leading Exhibitions & Festivals and Information Services. Ascential powers the prestigious Cannes Lions festival for the branded communications industry, the world's premier payments and financial services congress Money20/20, Spring Fair/Autumn Fair, the global trend forecasting service WGSN, environmental risk data business Groundsure, e-commerce analytics provider One Click Retail and MediaLink, the strategic advisory and business services firm. Ascential's premium products enable focus, growth and value. The company provides customers with world class content and connections empowering their businesses to be the best informed and best connected.
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2019-04-24T00:19:03Z
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http://investorshares.telegraph.co.uk/quote/ASCL/Ascential.html
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Zugo’s Café is providing the food for the MWTR Pasta Dinner sponsor this year. The dinner, which is open to participants, family and the general public, will be held in Kersting Court from 5:30P to 7:00P. The price will be $7.50 per person, with proceeds given to Sierra Madre Search & Rescue. MWTR souvenirs will be available to purchase at the dinner. Items include clothing, stickers, headwear and previous years’ shirts.
Also on Friday night, you can win some cool stuff by participating in the opportunity raffle. The raffle is open to all and tickets will be sold for $1 apiece or 6 for $5. Proceeds benefit Sierra Madre Search and Rescue.
If you want to get involved with the race, the Mount Wilson Trail Race Committee is still in need of some help in setting up Kersting Court on Saturday morning. Many committee members who are planning to run the race will be out there at 4:00A or 5:00A to drag stuff around and assist with whatever needs to be done. The Committee would love your help, starting at 5:00A and continuing until the time we break down Kersting Court at noon.
To sign up as a volunteer please visit the City of Sierra Madre’s website. All of the race related volunteers opportunities can be found there. If you have any questions please contact Adam Matsumoto with the City of Sierra Madre at [email protected].
RACE DAY ACTIVITIES – OPEN TO EVERYONE!
All activities the day of the race, May 23, are open to everyone. Nothing provides runners a greater boost of energy at the end of the race then a street lined with a cheering crowd. Race day spectators can peruse the wonderful selection of MWTR souvenirs, the various booth sponsors that provide information on health, fitness, history and everything in between. The City’s local bike shop, Centric, has donated a SUB SPEED 40 from SCOTT Bikes that will be raffled off on MWTR Day with proceeds benefiting the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue team.
One of the missions the MWTR Committee has is to promote fitness and wellness in our community, for all ages. To that end, the 10th annual Kids’ Fun Run is on Saturday, May 23, at 7:45am, immediately following the start of the adults’ race. The event is free to register your kids from 3 to 12 years of age. Two different distances will be offered, using the same start and finish line us older guys will be using. The first 250 youth to sign up will receive a T-shirt featuring the artwork of Christine Manoukian, the 2015 Kid’s T-shirt Design Contest Winner.
Registration can be done during the Pasta Dinner on Friday, May 22nd from 5:30-7:00pm or the morning of the race on Saturday, May 23 from 7:00am until race start. All participants must complete a waiver at the registration table prior to participating.
It’s never too early to grab a refreshing beer from the MWTR beer garden in Kersting Court. No matter if you are a runner who’s just completed the race, or a spectator enjoying the festivities the beer garden is open to all! Proceeds from the beer garden support the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue team.
For additional race information, please visit www.mountwilsontrailrace.com.
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2019-04-19T22:31:08Z
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http://www.sierramadrenews.net/?p=20159
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Most people don’t likely jump at the suggestion to explore a garden of grass. But visitors to the Oriental Grasses have the special opportunity to meet a variety of quirky characters. The garden has a pulse, and a sunny evening with a slight breeze seem to bring out personalities in each species.
The Feather Reed Grass shows off in the evening sun with its vibrant golden color and dancing movements. This thin grass is topped with tufts of seeds nearly ready to depart on their own adventures.
Taller and greener across the garden is the Giant Miscanthus. Its dramatic height gives visitors the ants-eye view in grass exploration. These broader leaves create a dense mass of bright green that towers over seven feet upward. Gazing skyward to look at grass is a very different perspective when exploring.
In another quadrant of the garden, three varieties of the Japanese Silver Grass and the purple Switch Grass show off their fashion-forward patterns and colors. Among the four grasses, they represent polka dots, stripes, vibrant color combinations, and fur-like textures.
It’s easy to anthropomorphize these varieties: they dance in the breeze, they proudly shine in the evening sun, and they reach energetically outward and upward. Meeting these grasses face-to-face is a great way to notice their intricate details, observe similarities and differences, and appreciate the species represented in the garden.
Previous Post Prairie: Garden of the Senses!
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2019-04-24T04:01:33Z
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https://arboretumnaturenotes.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/dancing-grasses/
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Laurie Arnold is an enrolled member of the Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes and is Director of Native American Studies at Gonzaga University. Her first book, Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination, was published by the University of Washington Press in 2012. She holds a PhD in History from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in History from Oregon State University.
In 2017, Laurie together with a colleague at Whitman College won a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute award for “The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau.” The institute will be held at Whitman in June 2018. Laurie’s next project, The National Indian Gaming Association and Intertribal Activism: Community Leaders, National Impacts, is a study of Indian gaming told from the beginning, through the lens of leaders who advocated on behalf of tribes and who continue to advance tribal goals three decades later. Laurie previously held positions at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago and at the University of Notre Dame.
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2019-04-26T06:15:34Z
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https://www.gonzaga.edu/academics/faculty-listing/detail/arnoldl
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Incredible Fire Tornado Sweeps through Brazil.
This entry was posted in TV News, Uncategorized, Weather and tagged Brazil, Fire, Nature, Tornados, TV News, Weather. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-19T03:09:13Z
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https://anomalytv.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/incredible-fire-tornado-sweeps-through-brazil/
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So for the past few months, I’ve been attempting to bullet journal the way I do everything–kind of in a spastic free for all sort of way. And today, as I pored over tons of bullet journal layouts on Pinterest, I realized I was doing it wrong. And I was seriously embarrassed.
SO..because I wanted to hide my shame, I threw out the notebook I’d been using as my bullet journal, found another one (I’ve always got at least one laying around somewhere) and started over.
Properly this time, with instruction from a Youtube video posted by the guy who originated bullet journaling in the first place.
Let’s hope THIS time I don’t embarrass myself with a spastic free for all and stick to the rules.
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2019-04-23T18:01:38Z
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https://boldlygoingforwardblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/going-back-and-doing-it-correctly/
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Engineers of the human soul (Russian: Инженеры человеческих душ; Chinese: 人类灵魂的工程师) was a term applied to writers and other cultural workers by Joseph Stalin.
The phrase was apparently coined by Yury Olesha. Viktor Shklovsky said that Olesha used it in a meeting with Stalin at the home of Maxim Gorky, and it was subsequently used by Stalin, who said «Как метко выразился товарищ Олеша, писатели — инженеры человеческих душ» ("As comrade Olesha aptly expressed himself, writers are engineers of human souls").
During his meeting with writers in preparation for the first Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers, Stalin said: "The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul" (Joseph Stalin, "Speech at home of Maxim Gorky", 26 October 1932). It was taken up by Andrei Zhdanov and developed into the idea of Socialist realism.
Writers and artists should conscientiously study Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought so as to enhance their own ability to understand and analyse life and to see through appearances to the essence. We hope that more and more comrades in their ranks will become real engineers of the human soul. In order to educate the people, one must first be educated himself; in order to give nourishment to the people, one must first absorb nourishment himself. And who is to educate and nourish our writers and artists? According to Marxism, the answer can only be: the people.
^ Союз писателей СССР, Воронежское отделение, «Подъëм» (1990), p. 48.
^ Deng Xiaoping, "Speech greeting the 4th Congress of Chinese writers and artists", October 30, 1979. Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Vol. II (1975-1985). Beijing: People Publishing House, 2nd edition, October 1994.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultural revolution in Russia, 1928-1931. Indiana University Press, 1984.
Abraham Rothberg, The heirs of Stalin: dissidence and the Soviet regime, 1953-1970. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1972.
Frank Westerman, Engineers of the soul. In the footsteps of Stalin's writers. New York: Vintage, 2011.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul
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Bill Gates served as Microsoft CEO for nearly 25 years, until he stepped down in 2000.
In that span, he turned a two-man startup into a tech juggernaut worth hundreds of billions of dollars, becoming the world's richest man along the way.
But every great CEO makes mistakes, and according to Brad Silverberg, who's spent 9 years as Microsoft's SVP from 1990, Gates made two critical mistakes that hampered the company's business in some ways: his weak lobbying efforts and failure to take advantage of the internet early on.
"Top of the list for me is that Bill did not engage - either himself or the company - in the political process early enough. When Microsoft's competitors were effectively lobbying the government, Bill's attitude was the government should just go away and leave Microsoft alone," Silverberg wrote in a Quora Q&A session held Friday.
Silverberg writes Gates didn't engage the government and politicians early on because he believed the company was competing fairly and creating enough value for the customers. But that approach was a "disaster," he writes, as it essentially made the US government and the EU to "declare war on Microsoft."
In 2000, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft broke antitrust law by unfairly bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Although Microsoft eventually settled the case with the Department of Justice in 2001, many believe it hurt Microsoft's dominance in the field.
"Bill also had a difficult time figuring out how to respond to the opportunity / threat of the Internet. It's understandable. When you own Windows in the late 90's, life is good and why would you want things to change? Bill's view was to protect Windows, and didn't come up with an approach that kept Windows and Microsoft's systems strategy at the forefront. The result is that Microsoft's strategic position declined in the 2000's. It's now coming to grips with the new reality and making necessary, if belated, changes."
But Silverberg still has a lot of respect for Gates and believes he's one of the greatest CEOs ever.
He writes in another Quora post that Gates had the early vision to build a software empire and a massive platform business, while making important strategic decisions that allowed Microsoft to own both the consumer and enterprise space, which is a rare feat for any tech company.
"Bill is one of the all time great CEOs in American business history," he wrote.
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https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/strategy-and-management/bill-gates-worst-decisions-as-ceo-according-to-a-longtime-microsoft-exec/51973836
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Look up bumper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bumper.
This page was last edited on 27 August 2017, at 19:43 (UTC).
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ASU made the NCAAs so that makes them legit DI.
I think you're still missing this...Arizona State has a CLUB hockey team that plays AHCA Division I Club. That is the team that player is committed to, not the varsity team, which is an Independent team.
The rest of the schools, minus maybe the player heading to Air Force, are all club teams and not NCAA varsity Division I teams.
Yes, very interesting indeed... compounded by the stated fact that they will be playing in the Domes as opposed to First Arena. Back when the Jackals folded I had the discussion with many that I believed the best option for the arena would be a Junior team, for a number of reasons. And now, we have a Junior team moving to the area, and for some reason (or reasons) they are not playing there.
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Strange doings at Norwich. Prezde - snow on the regular field??
I've watched this dozens of times, I can't stop laughing. Norwich should send that AFV. Only way that could be funnier is if the announcer went full Joe Starkey calling The Play.
Since we got the turf field we have averaged playing 4-6 gamesa year on that field due to the softball field never being ready in time with the snow/ice etc.
I don't know, "A soccer field has violated the field" was a pretty good line.
Yes, and not surprisingly the one kid who ended up on a legit D1 roster spent two seasons in the NAHL after the NA3HL before attending Air Force.
The NA3HL is primarily (and was designed to be) a feeder league to better junior leagues.
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https://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?135478-2019-Off-Season&s=de9dbd08f2503c1e927cf5f3d0842860&p=6793661
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Helen is a city in White County, Georgia, United States, located along the Chattahoochee River. The population was 510 at the 2010 census.
Helen was platted in 1912, and named after the daughter of a lumber official. The town was incorporated in 1913.
Formerly a logging town that was in decline, the city resurrected itself by becoming a replica of a Bavarian alpine town, in the Appalachians instead of the Alps. This design is mandated through zoning first adopted in 1969, so that the classic south-German style is present on every building, even on the small number of national franchisees present (such as Huddle House and Wendy's).
Tourism is a key economic activity in Helen, catering mostly to weekend visitors from the Atlanta area and also motorcyclists who enjoy riding the roads in Helen and its surrounding areas. Helen can be crowded in late October, when autumn leaves typically peak. It also hosts its own Oktoberfest during September, October and November. Events and festivals are held throughout the year, including the 'Southern Worthersee', which is a stateside Volkswagen and Audi event that pays tribute to the Worthersee Tour in Austria. An annual hot-air balloon race is also held here on the first weekend in June.
The main road through town is north/south Georgia 75. The Helen stream gauge (HDCG1) is located on its bridge over the Chattahoochee in the middle of downtown. A parallel route to the west is labeled Georgia 75 Alt to identify it as a bypass route around the town and its traffic jams in the autumn and on some weekends.
Unicoi State Park and Lodge, spanning 1,050 acres, is located immediately northeast of Helen on Georgia 356. The park encompasses Unicoi Lake, a 53-acre freshwater lake, offering outdoor activities for all seasons. Among these are a swimming beach, trout streams, wheelchair-accessible fishing docks, seasonal canoe, kayak and paddle boat rentals, seven picnic shelters with charcoal grills, three playgrounds for children, spots for birding, 7.5 miles of hiking within the park (with adjacent trails in the Chattahoochee National Forest), 8 miles of mountain biking trails within the park, and a number of places to enjoy the natural environment of the lake and park. Unicoi State Park also offers lodging in several forms. Access to Anna Ruby Falls, part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, is located through the park.
In 1975, DOCUMERICA photographer Al Stephenson documented the life, recreation, and economy of the Helen area before and during the construction of Alpine Helen.
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) filmed a scene on Chimney Mountain Rd. just outside of Helen.
Helen is located at 34°42′9″N 83°43′39″W / 34.70250°N 83.72750°W / 34.70250; -83.72750 (34.702396, -83.727508).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2), all land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 430 people, 208 households, and 112 families residing in the city. The population density was 203.8 people per square mile (78.7/km²). There were 319 housing units at an average density of 151.2 per square mile (58.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 82.56% White, 5.12% African American, 0.23% Native American, 10.93% Asian, 0.23% Pacific Islander, 0.47% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.02% of the population.
There were 208 households out of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.0% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.7% were non-families. 42.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.83.
In the city the population was spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $32,917, and the median income for a family was $40,781. Males had a median income of $39,107 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,281. About 6.7% of families and 8.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.1% of those under age 18 and 8.8% of those age 65 or over.
Dr. Jeffrey Wilson is the Superintendent of Schools. The district has 233 full-time teachers and over 3,758 students.
^ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 107. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
^ Acts and Resolutons of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. State printer. 1913. p. 893.
^ "Unicoi State Park and Lodge". Georgia State Parks. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
^ "Helen, GA - Fussen, Bavaria, FRD - Sister City Monuments on". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
^ "White County School District". White County School District. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
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Crypto-Jews are defined as Jews who publicly convert to other religions, but privately retain their beliefs and practice Jewish rituals in secret. In recent years, some attention has been paid to ostensibly Catholic families living in the American southwest bearing Latino surnames, who, nevertheless, have family members who light candles on Fridays, eat matzos in the spring, and spend a day fasting in the fall, just like Jews, all in secret. The Longing examines the matter of descendants of South American crypto-Jews and the problems they face in attempting to return to the Jewish faith. The stories of six people are told here: Laily Saltaren, Boris and Maritza Valverde, Flor and Daniela Cortés, and Ortiz Luna. Through the Internet, they contact an American Reform Rabbi, Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn, and explain their desire to convert back to Judaism. For two years, he helps them learn to be Jews, studying Torah and other texts, and consulting by phone, Internet, and the mails. Finally, the rabbi and his pupils meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador for the conversions.
The six explain how they discovered their Jewish heritage: Dr. Saltaren was told her forebears were Jewish by her father; Dr. Luna by his mother; the Cortés mother and daughter and the Valverdes husband and wife by family members. Dr. Luna decides he is not ready for conversion and declines to continue. But they all tell about being rejected when they try to bond with Jews in their communities or attend a synagogue.
Rabbi Cukierkorn talks with men from Guayaquil’s synagogue. He explains that community interaction is essential to the spiritual well-being of his students and asks why they exclude the prospective converts from services. The replies are lame, questioning the validity of Reform conversions and the convert’s knowledge. The synagogue president refuses to speak to Rabbi Cukierkorn or filmmaker B õhm. She speculates that Ecuador’s Jewish community is made up of Orthodox Ashkenazis who fled World War II and their descendants. They are fearful of outsiders and consider the descendants of crypto-Jews to be Christians.
The Rabbi holds serious interviews with each prospective convert. He conducts ritual immersions in the river and rabbinical trials in which two local Jews are persuaded to participate, questioning and challenging each convert. Afterward, the proceedings are concluded with prayers and gifts. A year later, some of the group of converts flourishes, establishing a Reform synagogue to further their faith, while others find the effort of being Jewish all alone, excluded from any communal contact, is more than they can bear.
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Kenneth Bozeman, tenor, holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona. He subsequently studied at the State Conservatory of Music in Munich, Germany on a fellowship from Rotary International. He is chair of the voice department and teaches voice and vocal pedagogy. Mr. Bozeman has received both of Lawrence University’s Teaching Awards (Young Teacher Award, 1980; Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996). He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 1994 for his interest in voice science and pedagogy and is the chair of the editorial board of the NATS Journal of Singing. His former students have participated in opera internships at Sante Fe, Tanglewood, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Central City Opera, and Utah Opera, and have sung with Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado, Washington Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Seattle Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric, the Metropolitan Opera, and Santa Fe Opera.
Mr. Bozeman is a frequent presenter at international voice science conferences (Stockholm, Marseilles, Prague, Zagreb, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Philadelphia) and universities, and written a number of articles on the topic of acoustic pedagogy (Choral Journal, Journal of Singing, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, VOICEPrints). His first book on acoustic pedagogy, Practical Vocal Acoustics: Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers was published with Pendragon Press in 2013. He has presented on voice acoustics—especially as applied to male passaggio training—for venues including the Voice Foundation, the Physiology and Acoustics of Singing Conference, the Pan European Voice Conference, the European Voice Teachers Association, The Pan American Vocology Association, and various NATS venues: the 2012, 2014, and 2018 conventions, the 2015 Winter Workshop, and an online chat in January 2016, and as a master teacher for the 2013 and 2017 NATS Intern Programs. He hosts occasional week long seminars on acoustic pedagogy at Lawrence’s Bjorklunden campus in Door County, Wisconsin (July of 2015 & 2017). His second book, Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy: Motivating Acoustic Efficiency, (Insideview Press, 2017) continues to explore practical applications of acoustic pedagogy with a special focus on language and kinesthetic directives appropriate for studio use. More recently he has been joined by Ian Howell and Chadley Ballantyne for a pedagogy workshop hosted by New England Conservatory (June 2018; July 2019) and as a featured presenter for the Pedagogy Workshop at Boston Conservatory (July 2018 & 2019).
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http://faculty.lawrence.edu/bozemank/sample-page/
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Lead author on the paper is former UW researcher Yu Chen, who is now at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Other UW chemistry co-authors were Fang Yang, Tom Pavelitz, Wen Yang, Katherine Godin, Matthew Walker and Suxin Zheng. Co-authors from the University of Trento include Lorena Zubovic and Paolo Macchi. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Trento and the government of Trento province.
For more information, contact Varani at 206-543-7113 or [email protected].
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2019-04-18T20:56:58Z
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http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/07/21/an-engineered-protein-can-disrupt-tumor-promoting-messages-in-human-cells/?shared=email&msg=fail
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Hi Abigail! This question is actually one that can be answered from resort to resort and is best answered by calling direct. Rollaway beds or cots cannot be added to rooms to exceed the maximum number of guests due to fire regulations. This would not be the case for you as all rooms sleep four or more at Disney.
Some resorts have day beds such as the Yacht, Beach and Contemporary. These are fairly comfortable for an adult. Other resorts offer trundle style type beds such as Port Orleans but these are sized more for children. Finally other rooms include sleeper sofas or chairs such as the Value suites, DVC Villas and the Cabins in Fort Wilderness.
Once you choose a resort and confirm that they will allow a rollaway you will need to understand that it is put down as a request on your reservation but it cannot be guaranteed. Your best bet would be to choose a resort and room that has the third bedding option in it. We have stayed at the Yacht, Beach and Contemporary and love the size of the rooms to accommodate three adults. We also have enjoyed many fun vacations at Fort Wilderness in the cabins for a lower cost. The bedroom has bunk beds and a double bed and the living area has a pull down murphy bed. The bunks are ok but if you have tall or large adults they probably would not be too comfortable in these.
You can get more information on the different rooms and sleeping options by going to the Disney website, www.disneyworld.com, and looking through the resorts under their accommodation and room category. If you narrow down some choices we can certainly check on their current rollaway policy for you.
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2019-04-23T09:57:06Z
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/planning-trip-august-party-contains-people-one-room-183675/
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